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English illustrator Chloe Giordano uses several different mediums to express her creativity. Perhaps the most impressive are these delightfully intricate embroideries depicting adorable animals which are so detailed you won’t believe it was all done with a needle and thread.
Each of her tiny deer, mice and rabbits look like they could jump off the fabric and come to life — teeny, tiny life.
The animals are barely bigger than a thimble.
Here’s a look at her process and painstaking attention to detail.
You almost want to reach through the screen and pet it!
Everything from the leaves to the little cotton tail are intricately threaded to perfection.
The blend of thread creates amazing layers of color.
And it’s not just animals: she also creates a gorgeous subtle fade with calligraphy.
And beautiful book cover designs.
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And be sure to share the adorable embroidery with your friends using the buttons below.
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As for your location-specific needs, I don't know that many people can speak to that. However, for the more generalized "How do I find more places/people to play Magic with," here are a few answers:
- Wizards of the Coast has a Store and Event Locator
- Check your LGSs (Local Gaming Stores) - many will either run Friday Night Magic, regular events, or casual play days
- Look online for people or groups that play in your area (e.g. something like Craigslist or http://www.meetup.com in the US - not sure about the UK)
- Teach other people to play
Besides those, there's always Magic the Gathering: Online - yes, it's another place to spend money on Magic (and you don't physically own the cards), but lots of the older (and less-played newer) cards can be found very cheaply, and it shouldn't be hard to put together a decent collection and play online. | <urn:uuid:56413a41-e619-4617-b0b1-8d5818caaa43> | CC-MAIN-2014-10 | http://boardgames.stackexchange.com/questions/3840/finding-places-to-play-magic-the-gathering-games/3850 | 2014-03-11T16:52:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-10/segments/1394011232483/warc/CC-MAIN-20140305092032-00011-ip-10-183-142-35.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963425 | 203 |
I just wanted to remind you about this great FREE offer from Canvas People valued at $55. You can get any photo printed and mounted on a FREE 8×10 canvas. The only thing you pay for is shipping which is $14.99.
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provider-services.net gets 1.02K page visits from SEs monthly through organic keywords. provider-services.net's search engine organic traffic could be estimated as $4.32K (traffic cost if the siteowner buy it in PPC systems).
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People who suffer from depression may not live as long as individuals who don’t experience this mental health disorder, a Canadian study suggests.
Researchers examined six decades of mental health and mortality data on 3,410 adults during three time periods: 1952 to 1967, 1968 to 1990 and 1991 to 2011. Depression was associated with an increased risk of premature death in every decade of the study for men, and starting in the 1990s for women.
The connection between depression and a shorter lifespan appeared strongest in the years following a depressive episode, leading the researchers to conclude that at least part of the risk might be reversed by effectively treating the mental illness.
“For some individuals depression can be very serious condition,” said lead study author Stephen Gilman of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
“Given our finding that individuals whose depression was present at multiple time points in our study were at highest risk, it is very important to seek treatment for depression and to be vigilant about recurrences,” Gilman said by email.
Depression has long been linked to a variety of health problems, in part because it may lead to physiological changes in the body and also because it can contribute to unhealthy habits like a poor diet, inactivity, smoking and excessive drinking.
In the current study, however, researchers found a link between depression and premature death even after accounting for things like obesity, smoking and drinking habits.
“It is known that depression is associated with an increased risk of death from heart disease,” said Dr. Ralph Stewart, a researcher at the University of Auckland in New Zealand who wasn’t involved in the study.”
“This study suggests that this increased risk of death extends to other causes of premature death and persists over decades,” Stewart said by email.
The researchers examined data from the Stirling County Study, which began in 1952 in Canadaand is one of the first community-based studies on mental illness.
People were about 50 years old on average when they joined the study. Across the three time periods examined, researchers followed half of the participants for at least 19 years.
Researchers calculated life expectancies at age 25 for men and women with and without depression in each wave of the study.
WATCH: The importance of screening for depression
In the first wave, life expectancy with depression was 10 and 12 years shorter for women and men, respectively, researchers report in CMAJ. It was 7 years shorter for men with depression in the second wave, and 7 and 18 years shorter for women and men with depression, respectively, in the last group.
Men with depression were almost three times as likely to die early at the beginning of the study, but the increased risk declined to 52 percent by the end.
Women’s risk of a premature death increased, however. At the start of the study, women with depression were 8 percent more likely to die prematurely, and by the end their increased risk was similar to men’s odds at 51 percent.
Limitations include a long interval between participant interviews, which prevented the research team from determining the exact timing of depression and recurrences, the authors note.
Even so, the findings underscore the importance of diagnosing and treating depression, said Dr. Gjin Ndrepepa, a researcher at the German Heart Center and Technical University in Munich, Germany, who wasn’t involved in the study.
“Since the risk related to depression decays over time, great efforts should be made to improve treatment and prevent recurrences of depressive episodes,” Ndrepepa said by email.
Treating depression, Ndrepepa added, “can reduce depressive symptoms, improve quality of life and potentially prolong life.”
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Saints Acquire Seahawks LB and Ex-Buc Captain Barrett Ruud
METAIRIE, La. (AP) — New Orleans Saints general manager Mickey Loomis says the club has traded an undisclosed draft choice to Seattle for veteran linebacker Barrett Ruud.
The acquisition of Ruud, who is heading into his eighth NFL season, comes on the heels of injuries to three of the Saints’ top linebackers.
Saints starting middle linebacker Curtis Lofton has a high ankle sprain and starting weak side linebacker David Hawthorne underwent arthroscopic surgery on Monday to repair his meniscus, which he apparently tore during Friday night’s preseason game against Jacksonville. Also injured against Jacksonville was top reserve linebacker Chris Chamberlain, who is out for the season with a torn left knee ligament.
Ruud played six seasons in Tampa Bay and one in Tennessee before signing with Seattle last April.
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Florida Bicycle Safety Quiz
This self-assessment quiz is provided by Alert Today Florida, a statewide safety campaign, as a convenient, interactive way for bicyclists and motorists to learn more about safely sharing our roads. The Adult Bicyclist quiz has 32 multiple-choice questions divided into three modules: Red Quiz (10 questions), Yellow Quiz (11), and Green Quiz (11). The questions cover on-road and off-road situations, skills and techniques, common mistakes, and relevant laws. Complete any level of the self-assessment quiz at any time. Test your knowledge and challenge yourself to complete the quiz from Red to Green.
You'll likely find many questions challenging. That's OK! The feedback provided from your answers is meant to be the teaching method.
After taking all three modules, stop by the People for Bikes website to join the National Bike Challenge.
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|What is Xylitol?|
Xylitol are sugar alcohols or polyols. They occur naturally in fruits and are produced commercially from such sources as dextrose. Xylitol is a sugar alcohol made from a part of birch trees. This naturally occurring product is found in many sugar-free chewing gums, candies, baked goods and toothpastes. In other words, it is used as a sugar-substitute. According to the National Cancer Institue, sugar substitutes, also called artificial sweeteners, are substances that are used instead of sucrose (table sugar) to sweeten foods and beverages. Sugar substitutes are many times sweeter than table sugar, and therefore, smaller amounts are needed to create the same level of sweetness. Common Brand names are Nutra-Sweet and Equal.
The Rise of Xylitol Poisoning in Dogs
The red flag is up for animal owners that xylitol, a sweetener found in certain sugar-free chewing gums, candies, baked goods and other products can potentially cause serious and even life-threatening problems for pets. According the ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center, the number of 2005 Xylitol-Related Cases Up More Than 150% Over Previous Year.
Researchers Sharon Gwaltney-Brant and Eric Dunayer with staff at the poison unit of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Urbana, Illinois, did a study on eight dogs treated for eating products containing xylitol between 2003 and 2005. The study has shown that each dog became ill and five died or had to be put down due to liver failure, possibly from ingesting xylitol.
According to Dr. Dunayer, dogs ingesting substantial amounts of items sweetened with xylitol could develop a sudden drop in blood sugar, resulting in depression, loss of coordination, and seizures. "These signs can develop quite rapidly, at times less than 30 minutes after ingestion of the product. Therefore, it is crucial that pet owners seek veterinary treatment immediately," Dr. Dunayer said. He also said that there appears to be a strong link between xylitol ingestions and the development of liver failure in dogs. "With smaller concentrations of xylitol, the onset of clinical signs could be delayed as much as 12 hours after ingestion. Therefore, it is important to keep in mind that even if your pet does not develop signs right away, it does not mean that problems won’t develop later on."
The ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center strongly urges pet owners to be especially diligent in keeping candy, gum or other foods containing xylitol out of the reach of pets. As with any potentially toxic substance, should accidental exposures occur, it is important to contact your local veterinarian or the ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center for immediate assistance.
Keep Products Containing Xylitol Away From Pets.
New Findings on the effects of xylitol ingestion in dogs. December 2006, Veterinary Medicine.
Once thought to cause only hypoglycemia in dogs, this sugar substitute has recently been discovered to also produce acute, possibly life-threatening liver disease and coagulopathy. And the number of reported exposures to xylitol has been increasing.
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Japanese artist and musician Yoko Ono gestures as she poses in front of a Blue Plaque to honour British musician John Lennon during an unveiling ceremony at 34 Montagu Square in London, Saturday, Oct. 23, 2010. John Lennon is commemorated with an English Heritage blue plaque in celebration of his life and contribution to music at the flat where he shared his first home with Yoko Ono and where the famous nude photograph of John and Yoko was taken for the 'Two Virgins' album cover. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)
July 22, 2011 6:42:14 AM PDT
TOKYO - July 22, 2011 --
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Streetwise Security Products introduces their newest design in personal protection, the Sting Ring. This revolutionary model separates itself from all other stun guns on the market today and is destined to become one of our best sellers. The base of the unit can be concealed in the palm of your hand exposing only the top of the Stun Ring.
Personal protection just got a whole lot smaller. Comfortably held in your hand, a simple squeeze delivers a debilitating shock.
The rounded base feels natural in your hand, and when gripped firmly it's nearly impossible for an attacker to take it from you. The Squeeze-N-Stun Technology could save your life by saving you valuable seconds when defending yourself in a panic situation.
Rather than having to fumble around looking for the right buttons to push you simply turn off the safety and tighten your grip to activate the unit and stun your attacker!
"I’d like to tell you about my Sting Ring made by Streetwise. I recently purchased 2 for personal safety. I was placed in a position to have to use it twice. First as I was leaving a local grocery store my purse was grabbed from behind. Little did that person know I had my Sting Ring in the other hand. I turned around and made contact with their arm, they immediately let go and ended up on the ground. Store security came out and took over.
The second time I had to use my Sting Ring was while walking in my neighborhood. An unruly and quite angry dog made me his target and was introduced to my Sting Ring without hesitation. His immediate response was a loud cry and stumbling away yelping. Needless to say in both instances my Sting Ring was my savior.
My husband and I both carry our Sting Ring because it was evident to us that they really work, and without it both instances would have had very bad outcomes. It is unfortunate that in our current society that items like this have to be used, but I’m, glad that I had my Sting Ring with me and I don’t leave home without it. I find it an asset and feel it will benefit many when used for its intended purpose - personal security."
*Actual Voltage output is difficult to measure and verify, but this unit compares to other brands that claim to be 18,000,000 or more volts.
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Cyber hackers have made off with hundreds of thousands of rands in their latest sophisticated email interception scam that targets property conveyancers, but this could have been avoided by a simple bank account verification process.
With the recent spate of cyber criminal activity in the real estate industry having left a number of innocent victims in dire straits financially, pbVerify is urging conveyancing attorneys to verify the bank account credentials of home sellers and buyers before transferring funds.
This comes in the wake of last night’s exposé by Carte Blanche, which uncovered the latest email impersonation scam doing the rounds, in which property attorneys are primary targets.
In what is described as a sophisticated email hacking scam, the fraudsters intercept emails between property attorneys and their clients, changing the bank account number of the rightful recipient/s of funds to their own, while leaving the account holder’s name unchanged.
Unknown to the client and without bank account verification, funds are then paid over into the fraudster’s account. Attorneys are shocked to find, upon following up on the funds, that the money was not received by their client.
Unfortunately, because the Law Society indemnifies themselves from cyber fraud, the client has no recourse and the property sale falls through, with an inevitable and devastating impact on all innocent parties involved.
These ruinous incidences could have been avoided through a simple process of bank account verification.
While industry experts are saying there are issues preventing banks putting a process in place to enable the quick and accurate verification of a bank account holder’s name against the bank account number, for as little as R12, pbVerify offers a solution that does just that.
Launched with the goal of helping businesses and individuals dodge the risk associated with digital payments – such as EFTs – our Bank Account Verification tool completely eliminates unnecessary risks in payment processes.
The importance of verifying financial details in this age of digital proliferation cannot be emphasised enough, with criminals becoming more and more sophisticated and the dangers growing around-the-clock.
As long ago as May last year, in an article by BizCommunity, Lew Geffen of Lew Geffen Sotheby’s International Realty warned about a spike in digital fraud in the industry, saying it was more prevalent than ever before and advising property professionals to verify financial credentials before transferring funds.
At the time, specialist conveyancing attorney from Guthrie Colananni Attorneys, Lara Colananni, was cited as saying there had been such a huge increase in scams enabled by the electronic interception of communication between attorneys, agents and clients, that the Attorneys Indemnity Insurance Fund no longer covered attorneys who fell victim.
Because there is no recourse and there are limited procedures in place to automatically ward off the ever-growing devices of cyber criminals, South Africans need to take risk management into their own hands – but pbVerify is there to make risk management simple and failsafe.
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As we draw closer and closer to September, many of us are preparing our children to head back to school. If you’re like me and your eldest is gearing up for her first year of full days then you’re probably preparing yourself more than anything else (*sniffle sniffle). Back to school time is rife with shopping trips to compile the necessary arsenal of gear, talks about expectations, and an attempt to restore some semblance of a routine pre game day. As I prepare our household for the big day, I can’t help but look at my almost 2-year and wonder how she’ll handle her big sis and best friend being gone all day. Continue reading
Has your daycare or school gone Litter-Free? We’ve had quite a number of customers getting prepared to send their children to school with garbage-free lunches. What a great idea!! This growing trend is a sure-fire way to save money and ensure that your littles are eating the best meals that they can!
We’ve got quite the selection of packaging to help you navigate the course of packing a quality lunch! New to stores this year, the Itzy Ritzy Snack Happened bags come in two sizes – 7″ x 7″ or 7″ x 3″. These bags feature a water-resistant lining and are easily sealed with a Zipper at the top. Fully washable, you can pop them in with your laundry. They’re great for Crackers and Fruit slices!
Avoiding plastic has become a snap with the arrival of our new Wean Green Cubes and Bowls. This homegrown company was created by mom Melissa Gunning with the personal mandate to avoid having your carbon “footprint grow faster than your baby’s.” Glass is both recyclable and allows you to completely eliminate any chemical migration to the food that your child eats. Wean Green is also part of the 1% Movement, and donates 1% of its sales to a network of environmental organizations, worldwide. From a strictly utilitarian view, these little pots work great for Mom and Dad as well, so stock up for your work lunches too.
Once your child has finished the fruit slices or yogurt, certainly they’ll be in need of some hydration! Hydrate in style with a BPA-free Sigg bottle. They come in a variety of funky patterns and are sized from 0.3 litres to 1.5 litres. It’s a parent-friendly company, as they do a booming Spare Parts business. If a cap gets broken, stop by your closest Fab Baby Gear location for replacements.
If you’re avoiding plastic forks and spoons, check out the awesomely adorable sets available from Ore. This set includes a stainless steal fork and spoon in a convenient plastic container- great for keeping leftover pudding off of the lunch bags! Speaking of bags- Ore makes delightful Zippy Back-Packs, Play Packs & Lunch Sacks that match the Cutlery Sets! Little Fashionista’s will love the combination!
Fred also makes a great Snack & Stack set- these blog inspired pieces snap together for easy storage! I think we all know what my husband will be receiving in his stocking at Christmas this year (yep, I said it! As soon as school starts, my head goes to Christmas!)
What kind of snacks will you be sending with your children this year? I’m having flashbacks of my all-time fave, Ants on a Log! The kind of thing that you forget about until you have children of your own, but then rediscover and LOVE all over again! | <urn:uuid:632c6508-dc58-49c1-8cdb-a2bac4ba787b> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://fabbabygear.wordpress.com/tag/back-to-school/ | 2019-07-18T11:02:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195525627.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20190718104512-20190718130512-00197.warc.gz | en | 0.947025 | 759 |
Nokia is gearing up to start selling its flagship Windows Phone 8 device in the U.S. on Nov. 2, according to rumors.
Sources told The Verge and TechRadar that Nokia is working with Microsoft and AT&T on phone testing, in order to have the Lumia 920 on shelves in the next months. Reuters, meanwhile, cited European telecoms operator, who also said the new phone would be available beginning in early November.
When asked to corroborate the reports, an AT&T spokeswoman said "we have not announced that we'll be carrying that device, so I can't confirm any rumors."
According to The Verge, AT&T is currently testing the Lumia 920 in its labs, aiming for a launch date just days after the expected Windows Phone 8 unveiling in late October.
The Lumia 920 and 820 phones, which will run on the Windows Phone 8 platform, were unveiled on Wednesday at an event in New York City, though the company declined to reveal pricing or release dates for either device.
T-Mobile and Verizon are expected to join the service provider in carrying the Lumia 820 and Lumia 920, respectively, TechRadar reported. A T-Mobile spokesman said the company does not comment on rumors, while Verizon admitted that the company has been in talks with Nokia, "but we have not confirmed whether or not we will carry that specific device," a spokeswoman said.
Some consider this a last-ditch effort for Nokia to get back on its feet, since competitors like Apple and Samsung have overtaken the market. A recent report from Canaccord Genuity revealed that even Apple's sales slowdown didn't do much to bolster the Nokia Lumia 900. Low-end and mid-tier Android handsets from Nokia, however, managed to gain global market share, according to the data.
For more, see PCMag's Hands On With the Nokia Lumia 920 and Lumia 820, and the slideshow below.
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Sixty Percent of Sex Offenders Out on Parole or Probation
A recently-released 1994 study conducted by the Justice Department and shows that 60% of sex offenders are out of jail on parole or probation. In general, 75% of offenders are out on parole. Thus, though still high at 60%, sex offenders are less likely to be out on parole than offenders of other crimes.
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The Virgin - eBook
Ransom Moon (Author)
Available on ereader, iphone, ipad, laptop
The “Virgin” is a couple’s first sexual experience, anticipating torrid, uninhibited sex? Or just your steamy, erotic imagination and sexual curiosity screaming to be satisfied?
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between St. Elmo and Nathrop
Bedrooms: 4, plus extra sleeping areas
Beds: 1 king, 2 queens, 1 double, 2 twins
Sleeps: 4-12 people
Pets: Upon exception only, wIth prior approval
and additional charge
This log home is tucked into the tiny community of Alpine.
Just a few miles from the ghost town of St. Elmo, it is
a beautiful spot to enjoy the Chalk Creek area.
Alpenglow is a spacious and fully modern cabin located in Colorado’s Collegiate Peaks. You can enjoy the breath taking view of Mt. Antero from the deck and listen to the wind gently blow through the Aspen trees. The interior is artfully decorated – you’ll feel right at home the minute you walk in the front door.
This cabin has four bedrooms that will comfortably accommodate up to three families and fourteen people. The master bedroom, located on the main floor, has a queen sized canopy bed. The master bathroom is located immediately adjacent to the master bed room but accessible for those in the living area or kitchen.
Upstairs there are two separate bedrooms – the north side has a cozy queen and the south side has a King size bed and the best view in the cabin. Also included upstairs is a double bed great for children or single adults. A full bathroom is located upstairs accessible for all.
The lower floor has one set of bunk beds and two couches – a great spot for kids to gather, play games and sleep. This lower level also has a bathroom and standing shower. Also included at this level is a sink right next to an exterior door – a strategic spot for cleaning up after a great day of hiking and exploring the Great Rocky Mountains. There is a couch on the main floor that converts to a double bed.
But as wonderful as the bedrooms might be, you’ll be hard pressed to leave the family room and kitchen area. This one room is the focal point of the entire cabin. With all the windows in this room, you’ll feel as if you’re sitting in the middle of a snow filled forest while toasty warm next to the cast iron stove.
*close to St Elmo ghost town
*great 4 wheeling trails nearby
* close to the Colorado Trail
*charming, comfortable cabin
*west of Mt Princeton Hot Springs
*wildlife in area
*beautiful mountain setting
*washer and dryer
*free wireless interenet
*satellite TV and DVD
*wood burning fireplace
Rafting: 20minutes-Buena Vista or Salida
Restaurants: 30-40 minutes-BV or Salida
Shopping: 30 minutes
Fishing: a few miles east of the cabin
Hiking: back yard
Hot Springs: eight miles west of Mt Princeton
based on 8 person occupancy. $10 pp/pn for persons above occupancy.All stays require
a laundry fee of $40. Minimum stay of three nights during
high seasons. Stays of less than three nights incur a cleaning
fee of $150. See policies for more information. The weekly
price is based on 7 nights. Applicable sales and lodging
defined seasons and rates are for pricing purposes only.
House may or not be available for dates above. House has
limited availability due to Owner occupancy.
Discounts may be available for
extended periods of time.
west of Nathrop Colorado, between Salida and Buena Vista.
Driving Directions will be mailed upon confirmed reservation.
to reserve this cabin
Or make an online
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I couldn't agree more! Adorable bag. Now I suddenly feel the urge to make one :-).
BRAVO! I just love your little quick projects!!!!
i am addicted to them to
I keep seeing these little zipper bags pop up. I really need to make one
Love all the little colorful squares.
I agree. They make such cute gifts too. Yours is very pretty, Beth :)
I totally agree. The trouble is, although I've made loads, I've never kept one for myself! Will have to remedy that soon.Teresa x | <urn:uuid:cb75b06b-a3c0-4869-bcec-8a1cbbfae065> | CC-MAIN-2017-39 | https://lovelaughquilt.blogspot.com/2015/04/thursday-thought.html | 2017-09-23T21:42:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-39/segments/1505818689779.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20170923213057-20170923233057-00541.warc.gz | en | 0.964857 | 119 |
As always, Chris and I had a great time at the Great Glebe Garage Sale. I didn't end up finding anything on our list, but we did get some good deals.
Some of the best stuff we saw didn't wind up coming home with us.
a very Magritte door
Chris, always the voice of reason, wouldn't let me drag home this awesome cutout door, nor another set of jumping stilts, even after I talked the seller down to $60 for them. $60 for jumping stilts! They weren't our size and we already have 2 pairs... still....
But it's not like we went home empty handed.
hauling our loot home
Some of our finds:
awesome old martini shakers - $15 for both
aluminum frame backpack only $2.50
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New York, you get to feast again.. & this time on Italian food and wine!
You’ll be sipping some of Italy’s hidden treasures, while nibbling on calcioni molisani, sardenaira, strangolapretti and pollo in porchetta.
Event: Italy Off the Beaten Track: Culinary Demonstration & Wine Pairing
August 6, 2012 (Mon)
399 Lafayette St.
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Vasyl Lomachenko vs Nicholas Walters Preview November 26th
Vasyl Lomachenko of Ukraine will be defending his WBO Super Featherweight Championship against undefeated Nicholas Walters of Jamaica at the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas this Saturday, November 26th. The 12-round bout can be seen live in North America on HBO while fans in the UK can catch the action on BoxNation. Lomachenko won the title against Roman ‘Rocky’ Martinez of Puerto Rico via a fifth-round stoppage back on June 11th in his last bout while Walters’ last fought to a 12-round draw with Jason Sosa back in December. Lomachenko is also a former WBO Featherweight Champion while Walters once held the WBA Featherweight and Super Featherweight Titles.
Lomachenko vs Walters Betting Odds
- Nicholas Walters +540
- Vasyl Lomachenko -715
The 28-year-old Lomachenko is a southpaw who is just 6-1 with 4 Kos in his pro career. His lone loss came via a decision at the hands of Orlando Salido by a controversial split decision in March of 2014. Lomachenko turned pro in 2013 after winning two Olympic gold medals for his homeland. He had an excellent and extensive amateur career and is already considered by most experts to be one of the top pound-for-pound boxers on the globe. He won the WBO Featherweight crown against Gary Russell Jr. via a majority decision in June of 2014 and defended it against Chonlatarn Piriyapinyo, Gamalier Rodriguez, and Romulo Koasicha.
The champion possesses fantastic footwork, speed, and accuracy, but may be lacking slightly when it comes to power. However, that’s debatable after the way he stopped Martinez earlier this year. In general, Lomachenko breaks his opponents down with solid combinations and body and head shots. Fans weren’t too happy about the level of opposition in his two bouts before meeting Martinez, but he’ll be meeting a quality opponent once again in the 30-year-old Walters. Lomachenko stands 5-feet-7-inches tall and has a wingspan of 65.5 inches and has fought 64 rounds since turning pro. His knockout ratio currently stands at 57 per cent.
Unbeaten former WBA Featherweight Champion Nicholas Walters of Jamaica is back in the ring this Saturday, December 19th when he takes on Jason Sosa of Camden, New Jersey in a 10-round junior lightweight bout. The card takes place at the Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona, New York and can be seen live in Canada and the U.S. on HBO. There could be some fireworks in this contest since both boxers have just one loss between them and have recorded 35 knockouts in their 48 contests for a knockout ratio of 80 per cent.
Walters, from Montego Bay, has a near perfect record of 26-0-1 along with 21 Kos and made a name for himself by stopping Nonito Donaire in the sixth round in October of 2014 last year. Walters has won 11 out of his last 13 contests by way of knockout and won the vacant WBA Featherweight Championship back in December of 2012 when the stopped Daulis Prescott in the seventh round. Walters stopped all three challengers in his three title defences over a three-year period. These foes were Alberto Garza along with former two-division world champion Vic Darchinyan and Donaire.
Walters stands 5-feet-7-inches tall and has a 73-inch reach, which makes him the same height as the champion, but he has a 7.5-inch reach advantage. Walters also appears to have the edge in power as his current knockout rate stands at 78 per cent. Walters has 127 rounds under his belt since turning pro back in 2008. He also had a fine amateur career, but at the moment he’s more known for his power than his fine boxing skills. He’s mobile in the ring with good speed and appears to have a solid chin. He lost his title on the weigh scales back in June of 2015 when he came in a pound heavy for his bout against Miguel Marriaga. However, Walters went on to win by a 12-round unanimous decision.
Walters seems to have the advantage in power and pro experience here, but that’s probably it. It’ll be interesting to see how Lomachenko handles the challenger’s heavy hands, but if his chin holds up as predicted, he should prove he has the better boxing skills. This should be an interesting and exciting bout with Lomachenko retaining his title by decision or a possible late stoppage.
A close fight, but Lomachenko is slightly more skilled.
Play: Lomachenko -715 @ BetOnline.ag
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Connect2staff are exhibiting at the Business to Business EXPO 2012
Jan 25, 2012
Connect2staff are exhibiting at the Business to Business EXPO 2012.
This is a unique event as it unites all sectors of business and is the only marketing medium that brings the buyer, seller and products together at the same time and in the same place. It is free to attend and is the largest event of its kind in the area, there are also free seminars available throughout the day.
For more information on the event visit: http://www.b2b2012.com
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Today marks day four of the Top 12 Games of the Reds Season series. The campaign may have ended abruptly, and in somber fashion, but there is still plenty to smile about when thinking about the past six months or so. We will be counting down the greatest contests from the year each day until we reach the number one spot.
But for now, here is No. 9 on the list:
May 23, 2012
Reds 2, Braves 1
+ Todd Frazier's big fly in the bottom of the ninth lifts the Redlegs to their fifth straight victory. The ball barely clears the right field fence in cozy Great American Ball Park, but it's a game-winning homer nonetheless.
"I knew when I hit it that I got a lot of it," Frazier said. "I was hoping it was enough. It just got over. Fine with me."
Aroldis Chapman improves his record to 4-0 while keeping his ERA perfect after pitching a scoreless inning of relief in the ninth. He fans two out of the three batters he faces.
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First published: 1932
Coming off of a six-hundred page book, Brave New World was practically an afternoon peruse. Nonetheless, it didn’t lack quality. It was absolutely brilliant. Not to mention it followed perfectly with One Summer: America 1927, as it dealt with similar themes presented in that book (particularly the rapid advances of technology and it’s future consequences). Would technology make us robotics? Are we losing the human nature due to science?
A dystopian novel about a man named Bernard Marx (no accident in the last name) living in an extreme totalitarian future. A sort of utopia is established, everyone is happy all the time, drugs make it possible to remain constantly upbeat, there are no religions, people are encouraged to have sexual intercourse with whomever, and everyone has their future predetermined by conditioning (family status is destroyed as everyone belongs to everyone else). Bernard, however, feels alone and longs to break free from the system and runs off to a Savage Reservation as an attempt to cure his distress.
“Call it the fault of civilization. God isn’t compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.” (207)
If it’s starting to sound a lot like Nineteen Eighty-Four (Orwell) or We (Zamyatin) you are absolutely right. What particularly stood out for me compared to the other novels is Huxley’s diction. Stellar to the max. His writing is engaging yet conservative, and it has a very strong Victorian vibe. The terminology he uses it frequently permeates with science.
His connection to literature in particular it is just beautiful. In Huxley’s world, there is no need for books, and excess education, you are taught to memorize and repeat the same thing without having to think critically. Literature, and the liberal arts are completely extinguished. When our main character becomes aware of Shakespeare and literature (the title of the book is taken from a line in The Tempest) he is completely shocked and feels drawn to it, by what challenging emotions it conveys; any emotion outside of happiness is foreign for most of the people.
“Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Wether’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them… but you don’t do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It’s too easy.” (210)
There are just endless amounts of incredible quotations that Huxley provides me with, so I must restrain from recreating the book here. So I will just leave you with the following:
“ But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.” (211)
Verdict: A must-read classic. It’s a quick page-turner with plenty of incredible universal theme discussions that are worth a ponder. Themes that permeate into the contemporary world, as much as they are reminiscent of the time in which they were written.
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I have not posted a blog in quite some time because I have fighting through my depression and this has nothing to do with casual sex, or maybe it does. As of June of 2014 I went off my medication and I had a burst of energy and now I have spiraled back down. To anyone who is struggling through depression, self mutilation, thoughts of suicide, struggling with internal conflicts, struggling with lifestyle choices remember that TOMORROW IS A NEW DAY, A BRAND NEW DAY.
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View Full Version : Help me pick a knife for a buddy heading deploying.
I have a buddy heading overseas soon and want to get him a nice tough largerish battle-utility knife. He knows how to handle a knife fairly well, as from my experience with him in some of the mixed martial arts we have attended together.
I'm thinking one of the Strider knives after the good words here, but I don't know much about which model would be good for an all round time to get dirty knife.
Striders are excellent blades, I just never got used to, or liked their paracord wrapped grips much. I would recommend a Chris Reeve fixed blade such as the "Green Beret" or the Newer "Warrior" blade. Both are great blades. Another issue may be availability. You may have an extended wait on a particular Strider blade, and the Reeves blades are usually available on ebay or several other knife dealers such as Tadgear, OneStopKnifeShop,etc.
Another great knife that I am looking at buying is the Trident Oberland 03. Trident gives a good LE/Mil discount also.
Trident Oberland 03:
I have an MT that is on the middle to large size. I find that I like this size the best. A good folder is also a consideration for daily usage. Don't forget to get a good multitool. Most people will use this as much if not more.
Any of the Strider MT's (MT-Mod 10, MT, and MT-L) are all excellent general purpose knives.
THe Strider MK 1 is now available in a short version with Gunner Grip G-10.
The DB-L NSN is the same knife issued to specialized Marine COrps units, and works very well in the CQB/Urban environment.
I will tell you that the two most popular knives for military/tactical use, has got to be the BN-SS, and the D9-SS.
These two knives are the most wicked, combat knives on the face of the earth right now. Head on over to the Usual Suspect Network (arguably THE best knife forum in the world), and they will basically tell you the same thing.
Here is a link to the BN-SS, which is the well liked tanto combat knife of the military... http://www.tadgear.com/edged%20tools/bn-ss.htm These pics do NOT do it justice.
I am working on good pics of the D9-SS. It's a clip point version of the above knife. Not quite as stout as a tanto blade like the BNSS above...
I used two different fixed blade Striders - a HT and a EB-S - during my tour. For me, in an alternating mounted/dismounted role, I found the shorter fixed blade to be far more functional.
That said, I know where a good deal on a like new BN can be found.
I always preferred the folders, I have an MT that I took to OIF 1 and it ended up clipped to the side of my radio in my HUMVEE, but my SNG always stayed in my pocket.
You cant go wrong with any Strider! But as some have posted here the MT series for a large fixed blade would be my call! Next the MK1 with Gunner Grips for better gripping! Then would be the DB-L, it is just shorter than the ones listed above and easier to mount on the front of your Molle gear or drop leg holster, its also a strong ass tanto blade with G10 handles! Last, would be a Strider WP model which there are a variety of: tanto, spearpoint,recurve with G10 or cordwrapped! I use my WP alot since I have smaller hands and its easier for my to handle! Hope this helps! Good Luck!
WP Tanto cordwrapped
WP Clippoint G10
WP Recurve G10
szaboinc.com has good kerambits too.
INFI is like CPM3V in performance and the steel matters ALOT.
The finger hole design represents a quantum leap in blade design. retention and control and more are enhanced.
to see what a skilled kerambit practitioner can do sayoc.com
I used a Strider MT and totally loved it. I really abused the sh!t out of it, opening 7.62X39 ammo cans, chopping wood, and other things. What really impressed me, beside the durability of the blade, was the service I got after. I sent the knife back to bet refinished expecting to pay up the wazoo but the guys at Strider repaired the nicks in the blade, resharpened, and refinished the tiger stripes for free. It looks like a brand new knife again. You can't beat that kind of service.
By the way, I believe Strider still offers their knives with the micarta handle option.
During my career I carried Randalls, K-bars, CS, and even Gerbers. But once I got my first STRIDER I never looked back.
I carried my Strider BN-SS every day while in Iraq. The knife's amazing, and would be a good choice. Strider does a really nice military discount, so I'd suggest that you call them for an order.
If $$ is any consideration I would recommend the Ranger line of knives. I did a lot of research and this guy knows what he is doing. I have a few Striders and they are some of the best out there but for $100 (I was looking for a beater knive for hunting, camping etc) these are outstanding quality.
I recommend the SOG Seal Pup for those deploying into harms way! It is relatively in-expensive, well built, and a quality knife!
This is what I use, because who wants to run the risk of ruining a good knife in the field!
My spendy knives stay at home on deployments!
If your friend is thinking that he might ACTUALLY get into some knife fights, he might want to think about a double edged blade of some sort. A Fairburn-Sykes knife, fixed or locking blade, might one to consider too.
I had an original Cold Steel Tanto and a Gerber Mark II, but then again I ETS'd shortly after the first gulf war in the early 90's. There weren't many indestructible 'pride of the battalion' type knives out there.
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Very Simple Way to build Niche Mini Sites.
November 10, 2007 · Print This Article
I’m always on the look out for ways to create mini sites that I can pop online add a few affiliate links and forget about them.
Set it and forget it.
I’ve tried many different scripts and programs and most were time consuming to install and customizing them were a bitch.
But for the last couple days I’ve been testing out a new script. It’s called Build a Niche Store or BANS for short. I must admit that I was skeptical at first but after testing it out, I’m very impressed.
With BANS I can upload, install, configure, and customize a site in no time at all. This frees my time for more important projects.
For anyone looking for a simple way to get a site online to make some money, Build a Niche Store is for you. Check it out, you won’t be sorry.
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We pride ourselves on having a support structure that many of our customers often comment on. Countless hours have been invested into the BANS member forum by ourselves and committed users so that regardless of your website building / affiliate marketing experience there is a place you can go to get the help and advice you need. Many of our customers have stated that the forum access alone is worth the one time fee. It contains over 25,000 posts and covers everything from troubleshooting to choosing a niche, feedback on your store to traffic generation techniques.
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This is another thing we pride ourselves on � having created a product that not only works exactly as advertised but is also addictive and fun to use. BANS has been built to be as user friendly as possible and the features of the software combined with the width of the eBay product inventory gives you literally millions of options in terms of which niches you choose to target and how you develop your stores. We�ve been involved with countless money making projects. Some we�ve enjoyed, some we haven�t � if you can�t enjoy building an income you�ll find it very difficult to stick with it and BANS makes building niche websites as enjoyable as it can be.
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Lemon and Garlic Shrimp with Chickpeas
First of all I wanted to thank all of you for your sweet thoughts and prayers yesterday. My grandma is doing much better and there were no blockages found in her heart! Thank the LORD!
So no more depressing posts I promise, it’s almost Memorial Day weekend people! Yep that means the pool officially opens, a three-day weekend (or four-day depending on how long you take off!) is right around the corner and that also means I’m headed to the lake in two days! So of course knowing I’d be in my bathing suit 90% of my vacation, I needed a light, yet filling dish to eat this week!This literally has to be the easiest thing I’ve ever made and will feed a lot of people! Shrimp are loaded with lots of protein, are carbohydrate-free which is helpful in losing weight and vitamins D and B3 are perfect for processing fats. Shrimp are extremely low in calories too and are my go-to-meal anytime I need to lose a few pounds for an event or just want to slip into my teeny bikini. Combine this with fresh lemons and roasted chickpeas and you’ve got yourself one healthy dish!
Now I’ve already told you how incredible fresh lemons are for your body, but they really give shrimp such a great flavor too! I’ve also added some crushed red pepper flakes for a bit of kick and some garlic and roasted chickpeas for added flavor and more fiber.I also took out about half of the oil that the original recipe called for, I just didn’t think this needed that much. I substituted the oil with freshly squeezed lemon juice and thought it tasted incredible. Serve this with a bright green side salad (or over top of it) and you’re all set!
Isn’t this just a fabulous summer dish?? Enjoy friends!!
- 2 (15 oz) cans chickpeas, drained and rinsed
- 1½ pounds shrimp, peeled with tails intact
- 2 Tbsp olive oil
- 3 Tbsp lemon juice (1 lemon)
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 tsp. grated lemon zest
- ½ tsp. red pepper flakes
- ½ cup parsley, chopped
- 1½ tsp. sea salt
- 1 lemon, sliced
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees F.
- Rinse and drain your chickpeas and toss with one tablespoon of olive oil and a ½ teaspoon of salt. Arrange chickpeas in a layer on the bottom of your baking dish and bake for about 20 minutes, until golden.
- Meanwhile, toss your shrimp, one tablespoon of olive oil, juice of one lemon, garlic, lemon zest, red pepper flakes and one teaspoon of salt in a large bowl. Allow shrimp mixture to marinate for 10 to 15 minutes.
- Once your chickpeas have finished baking, spread your shrimp mixture over the roasted chickpeas and place a few lemon slices over top. Return your dish to the oven and bake for 5 to 8 minutes longer. Shrimp should be pink in color. Once done cooking, squeeze additional lemon juice over top and garnish with chopped parsley. Enjoy! | <urn:uuid:c2e8493e-ce5d-4e42-a0ab-144b21b6dce2> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.dailygrindfitnesscompany.com/blogs/recipies/lemon-and-garlic-shrimp-with-chickpeas | 2022-01-22T15:32:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320303864.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20220122134127-20220122164127-00055.warc.gz | en | 0.93936 | 680 |
I was able to enable stereo mix from the recording devices dialog after importing the following into my registry Windows Registry Editor Version 5. Sorry for the delayed response. You can reach mhz with matrix,and you will enjoy that awesome clean sound. The posting of advertisements, profanity, or personal attacks is prohibited. You are logged in as. Have you actually set the Microphone volume level? Tomorrow I will have time to grab it and do exactly what you said.
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However,Conexant SmartAudio HD still uses the generic one,so even at volume,it sounds like if it used the Conexant driver. Page 1 of 2. I updated the drivers. It’s not a brand new computer. Note that your submission may not appear immediately on our site.
A really great platform for posting all your questions and finding solutions. Restart your PC and Windows will attempt to reinstall the driver. Thank You for Submitting a Reply,! Summary On my Toshiba Satellite, the audio was poor on default settings: Similar help and support threads.
As everyone seems to note, the microphone function has been nearly rendered useless. I am running this driver set on a Toshiba Satellite CS HP Pavilion dvca Laptop.
Said I had the latest updates available.
Message 1 of Thanks for your help and reply. You can also download the drivers from our Website: Message 7 of What shall I do?: Wondering if the page is down for some reason.
Marrrcus windows 7 32 ult posts. Microsoft Windows 7 bit. I’m working all the time and this computer I’m seeking audio help with I actually bought for my mom.
If the information I’ve provided was helpful, give us some reinforcement by smartauudio the Accepted Solution and Kudos buttons, that’ll help us and others see that defibition got the answers! Select type of offense: It’s used with windows 7 reinstalled.
Message 10 of Since it’s just a sound software issue I’ve been trying to see if I could just fix, update or whatever I can do here instead of having to take it back in for them to do what I can probably do right here at home. Pros none as this is not the current update Cons new driver available this definitionn out of date looking for something beyond 4.
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I’m replying back to you at midnight Friday night. I’m a computer novice so I don’t really know what all this means.
Tomorrow I will have time to grab it and do exactly what you said. Headphones option not even in volume mixer.
I hate to think I am going to have to buy another machine just because of this. Pros nothing to say about it. Find More Posts by fireberd. | <urn:uuid:c6006477-b78e-4c20-a38a-5f2b7c0994e1> | CC-MAIN-2019-51 | https://libdrone.info/conexant-high-definition-audio-smartaudio-221-31/ | 2019-12-06T06:27:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-51/segments/1575540484815.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20191206050236-20191206074236-00512.warc.gz | en | 0.906161 | 695 |
Ah GEM - takes me back...
I still have a GEM install on a decrepid old disk somewhere. Weekend lab project coming on. Wonder if it'll run in VMware Workstation or on ESXi... where there's a will... and a crowbar
Dabbsy - have a pint on me. Thought it was just me. I so identify with your plight. It drives me insane. Insane I tell you!!
Modern GUI design seems to be a bizare form of modern art. No other explanation. Especially the bland flat featureless garbage they are forcing on us that prodices eye-strain. Or is it just me?
Progress bar - otherwise known as the Windows Lie-bar.
I too have often done as many people here - load Google, start typing and ... nothing in the search bar! Or you end up typing in the address bar. Or a work group Skype convo that suddenly becomes aware that you are searching for slippers on Amazon, or browsing El Reg. Not that I'm ashamed of that, btw.
My wife often sticks her head into the study to see what the shouting, banging and commotion is and to rescue the family PC. And then she'll go and have same screaming fit at her work Windows 10 laptop for similar reasons. That and - well, Windows 10.
Ahhhh - technology. Doncha just LOVE it?
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With so many musicians assembled backstage at Gibson Amphitheatre for KROQ’s Almost Acoustic Christmas, it seemed like a good opportunity to ask some questions about the holidays.
What’s your favorite Christmas song?
• “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” – Sam Martin, Youngblood Hawke vocalist
• “Any song from The Nutcracker” – Aaron Bruno, Awolnation vocalist
• “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town” – Miles Doughty, Slightly Stoopid
• “Frosty the Snowman” – Alex Rosamilia, the Gaslight Anthem guitarist
• “’The Best Things Happen While You’re Dancing’ by Danny Kaye from White Christmas” – Shirley Manson, Garbage vocalist
• “’The Christmas Song’ by Mel Torme that goes ‘Chestnuts roasting on an open fire …’” – Duke Erikson, Garbage guitarist
Which one of Santa’s reindeer is your favorite?
• “Rudolph. It’s the easy answer, plus I don’t know all of the reindeer’s names.” – Aaron Bruno
• “The one that never got to fly. No one even knows his name. I think his name’s Bruce.” – Sam Martin
• “Rudolph. He’s got the sparkly glow.” – Miles Doughty
• “Rudolph, because he’s a misfit.” – Alex Rosamilia
• “Rudolph, because he’s the anomaly with the red nose and he’s the outcast and he’s the star! I have a 6-year-old daughter who is obsessed with Rudolph.” – Butch Vig, Garbage drummer
• “I like a good Blitzen myself.” – Duke Erikson
What’s your favorite holiday movie?
• “A Christmas Story because it’s on repeat forever on Christmas Day, so you can kind of come in whenever and at the end of the day you’ve seen the entire movie at different points.” – Aaron Bruno
• “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation is great because you see cousin Eddie out there when he’s dumping his septic tank into the gutter: ‘The crapper is backed up Clark!’” – Miles Doughty
• “Elf because I’m a big Will Ferrell fan.” – Alex Rosamilia
• “It’s a Wonderful Life because it’s a classic and there’s no other.” – Shirley Manson
• “I’ve seen It’s a Wonderful Life like 40 times and I cry like a banshee every time.” – Butch Vig
What does playing KROQ’s Almost Acoustic Christmas mean to you?
• “We’ve always looked up to this event like ‘Man, I hope one day we get to do this.’ Now we’re here and we’re just … ‘whoa.’” – Sam Martin
• “It’s something I have listened to in the past and aspired to play ever since I was really young growing up in the Los Angeles area. I listen to KROQ a lot and I discovered a lot of new music from the age of 12 all the way up until now. I always wondered why they wouldn’t play my music before, but it’s probably because they hadn’t heard it.” – Aaron Bruno
• “It’s just awesome. This is our third time doing it and the people at KROQ have been good to the boys, and we love being part of it. It’s a good time for us to hang out and party with different bands and see people you don’t get to usually see this time of year.” – Miles Doughty
• “I’m from the East Coast so I didn’t know about it, but tonight was interesting. The rotating stage was interesting.” – Alex Rosamilia
• “KROQ began our career basically in America so we feel like we owe them a lot. They’ve loved us, they’ve supported us, and some of them have become our friends, so it’s exciting for us to be here tonight, to be here with our peers and people we’ve known for years.” – Shirley Manson | <urn:uuid:f95a2da9-4962-45c4-8732-f9c0ff7a338b> | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | https://www.ocregister.com/2012/12/09/backstage-chatter-at-almost-acoustic-christmas/ | 2023-02-01T10:12:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764499919.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20230201081311-20230201111311-00622.warc.gz | en | 0.910676 | 1,011 |
Bayside Cove is located in Newport Beach, Orange County. Bayside Cove is situated in the Balboa Island area of Newport Beach. With its great location, wonderful views and many floor plans, Bayside Cove is great place to start your search in the Newport Beach real estate market. This is gated condo community. Bayside Cove is a small community of 58 units. These are bay front condos that were built in 1975. Bayside Cove features five distinctive floor plans, the smallest in square footage is 1596 square foot and the largest is 2180 square foot. There are both two and three bedroom floor plans available. The condos in the Bayside Cove community range in price from one million dollars to two million dollars. The many neighborhood amenities include a community pool, spa and private beach. The homeowners’ association fees are approximately $605 per month. Bayside Cove is adjacent to the Newport Beach Yacht Club and the Villa Cove Marina. Residents are within walking distance to Balboa Island and Balboa Peninsula, which offers an array of shopping, dining and entertainment. Balboa Peninsula is home to the locally famous Balboa Bar, the Balboa Fun Zone and the Newport Beach Ferris Wheel.
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What?! Yes! I went to an AA meeting today. Not sure why. Possibly because I feel another rock-bottom coming up and I don’t want to do stuff alone anymore. Meeting people who have travelled the same road was good. 🙂 I got to introduce myself and say (quite) some words. I was surprised at how normal most of the people looked. Ghegheghe..
I am happy that I but I realise that I am not doing ‘the work’ now since I Netflix and chocolate the day away. I find ‘things’ too difficult to deal but I can’t really not deal because my income is on the line. I still have something between 0 and 16 working days in this month I need to be at work. Talks with HR and my boss have been really heavy. I do however ‘recover’ quicker than I would do if I drank. That is very obvious now. Maybe also because I have found personal closure in this where I realised the other day that the whole issue with my boss is a bitch fight over the guys. Not proud of it, but well, yeah, her getting paid at least 3 times my salary should have kept her from behaving the way she does. It did not. I can not cope. I need to get out. I could have filed a complaint. I do not want to do that (right now) even though she has cost me enough in therapy costs. Filing a complaint would also drag others into this and I just want to get out and focus on the future.
I had a ‘job’ application on Thursday, it went well and since I was the only candidate she informed me that I was ‘most likely in’. And…. the next day she changed her mind. It is not a job but an assignment which I would fulfill from my business side. And the school is looking for people to stay there and actually take up a job. I would appreciate that but also informed her that I cannot live from the currently offered 4 hours divided over 2 days. Which means I HAVE to look for another job. Not sure if it were my surprise at her not understanding this point or something else which threw here off but she now has doubts if I am the one. Food for thought. Well, I am invited for a 2nd interview but the date has not been set.
I am happy that I quit. Happy that I went to a meeting today. Not sure what to do with my face though because I’m so caught up in the sharings that I do not mind my face and that goes from ‘Holy shit’ to ‘Ooh my gosh’ to crying over pain I am reminded of. Can you please tell me how you deal with that? I need to learn to regulate, not? Lifting my eyebrows when people speak of repeated DUI’s might be ‘politically correct’ in ‘normal life’ but not in an AA meeting.
A woman who loves herself would go to bed now. And she would have cleaned the house, not sit around feeling she should have cleaned the house for the whole effing weekend. Sliding, sliding. I don’t want to be aware. I am already overtaxed as it is. Don’t want to feel. Don’t want to realise stuff. Not good. The other day I had a drinking dream. Not sure what it was about. I believe I had forgotten that I do not drink. I have that a lot since is it such a non issue. I believe I even forgot my 2 year 1 month soberversary. Not sure if that is good. I think I must watch myself. The amount of chocolate, still under 1 bar, that I eat makes me cry like a crybaby and depressed. Suicide thoughts popping up like mushrooms in autumn after the eating of chocolate and still I do not stop. Aah ja, because exactly due to the chocolate I feel not worth stopping for. It is SO much like alcohol for my body and mind. I am tired of walking in circles with this but I feel like I have no way out. Oh yeah, that is why I went to the AA meeting; see if that could inspire me.
I am so tired of the difficulties in my life. I feel so lonely going through this on my own. The normy friends I have do not understand having an addictive personality. I am back to not appreciating myself for who and what I am. I feel like again I am leaving a family behind. Well, obviously a family with a ‘mother’ who exactly does not appreciate me for who I am and I take over this projected feeling. Or possibly I project it onto her and she back. Or, well, whatever. I dislike this path in life where again and again I have to leave. It is like being born all over again and again and again and it is not the nice independent, freeing side of getting born I meet currently. I want to get away I want to fly away.
Mwoah, darkness is taking over -> bedtime! Sleep = good. 🙂
Wishing you a nice, preferably sober day / evening / week!
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Biotech Firms Pay $110M in StarLink Suit
AP Biotechnology Writer
Two biotechnology companies have agreed to pay a combined $110 million to settle a lawsuit filed by farmers who claimed they were hurt by consumer fears generated when unapproved biotech corn was discovered in the food supply.
Several food companies ordered national recalls after StarLink corn appeared in products such as taco shells and chips in 2000. The class action lawsuit, filed by commercial corn farmers who didn't grow StarLink, alleged that the fiasco hurt the entire corn market, especially overseas exports.
On Wednesday, a federal judge in Chicago preliminarily approved the settlement between the farmers and StarLink Logistics Inc., a fully owned subsidiary of StarLink creator Aventis SA, and Avanta USA, which owns StarLink distributor Garst Seed Co.
Lawyers for the farmers said further court review was needed before the settlement becomes final.
"This agreement represents a significant advance in our ongoing efforts to bring the StarLink matter to a conclusion," StarLink Logistics president John Wichtrich said in a statement.
A Garst spokesman did not immediately return a call seeking comment Thursday.
The StarLink corn was engineered with a bacterium gene that is deadly to the corn borer pest.
StarLink seed had been approved in 1998 by the Environmental Protection Agency for use in animal feed, but has not been approved for human consumption because of unresolved questions about whether a protein it contains can cause allergic reactions.
Last year, StarLink Logistics, Garst and four food makers agreed to pay $9 million to consumers who said they suffered allergic reactions from eating food products that contained StarLink corn.
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Archive for March 2011
Okay, so I've been (almost) completely Facebook-free for two days now. I did sneak back to see if anyone commented on my post that I was leaving. No one did. Not that I care, you know, I was just wondering. I don't care that nobody cares.*
Anyhoo, there was a suggestion that I might be suffering from withdrawals. I don't miss it, per se, but I am having to get used to it.
The best way I can explain it is like everytime FB refreshes there's a click in your brain. So about every 30 seconds your brain expects new information. The first day I stayed away, those clicks came every 30 seconds, just like I was still staring at my news feed, waiting for someone to entertain me. Now the clicks are slowing down.
While I was way better informed on FB, I didn't have the space to process all the information. Maybe it's a middle-age thing, or a pre-Internet brain thing, or just a Sherri thing, but I'm finding I work best with chunks of input, rather than a stream.
I'm pretty sure that while there are some people who work well this way, most are like me. It's not the ideal way to operate, and yet we flock in droves to crowd our brains with information, the way we cram Twinkies into our mouths despite knowing we're contributing to the obesity epidemic. I see a divide in our future, a movement to withdraw from social media at the same time others are wet-wiring their brains to broadcast their thoughts to Twitter. Might this be the next great social conflict? Something to think about.
*While my forebrain asserts that no one would comment on a post that I'm not likely to see, my amygdala is telling me nobody loves me.
You know I’ve been staying away from Facebook, and my life is simpler for it. Still, there’s a certain urge to post that I might never get over. Here are some status updates I wanted to post but didn’t.
- Gosh, my computer is so dusty!
- Called my mom. She said she learned how to tickle her amygdala. Then she told me how. Hm.
- Bad tummy. :(
- Soooooo booooooorrrrrrrred. ZZZZZ
As you can see, Facebook is really missing out. I hope this urge stops soon.
It’s that time of year, the time where I delete most of the blogs from my reader and turn off Facebook notifications. I thought about doing it the other way and deleting this blog and making FB my main place, but I realized how very tired I am of the fast-paced conversation and the constant intrusion of FB into my day. To say it’s addictive is an understatement. It’s just such an uncanny replica of the fantasy life in my head, with total control of my interactions and utter immersion in Other People.
It loses something when I’m only reading and not interacting, and that’s what I find myself doing lately.
Especially since launching You Are the Muse, which showed me I’m undeniably tired. I thought it would inject some new life into my online persona, but what it actually did was show me my muse had better things to worry about. ‘Course, it seems like I’m not really interested in much of anything nowadays, except what you’re saying on Facebook. My brain is tired from processing all that info, so I think I’m going to give it a rest. I might even start commenting on your blogs more if I don’t use up all my brain power on FB—won’t that be nice? I might start posting more, writing more, fill-in-the-blank more…
It just occurred to me that I probably melded my life essence with Facebook long ago, and if I’m disconnected too long I’ll start to fade.
Greedy, soul-sucking monster.
But don’t you worry your pretty little head about that. It’s probably too late for you, too. Have fun!
Remember when life sucked because the van died and the hubs had to take my car to work, leaving me stuck at home all day and forcing me to run errands in the evening’s cold darkness? Remember?
Well thanks to that truck you see up there, I have my freedom back. It’s a 2000 Silverado with a back seat big enough for the kids and enough cool features to satisfy the testosterone coursing through my husband and a bed for me to haul my building materials home from the lumber yard.
Two problems I can see are the lower gas mileage of a V6 combined with high gas prices, and the front seats have apparently been sprayed with the devil, AKA Febreze. I can’t do much about the first thing, but the second thing I’ve already started combating with a Bissell Little Green Machine. And of course the solution the Bissell came with stinks to high heaven, so I had to make my own with vinegar and dish soap. I cleaned the passenger seat yesterday, and it seems to be working.
My ‘97 Saturn is the latest model we’ve ever owned, believe it or not, so we’ve been joking about finally coming into the 21st century. The hubs has been so happy to finally have a decent vehicle to drive. It makes me happy to see him happy.
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Before starting my new job at Tessian (for which I am very excited), I want to focus on some projects that I've been working on in my free time. I'll be using dev.to to document these endeavours, partly to keep myself sane and partly to get the word out for all the cool stuff I'm making.
One of these projects is called journal. It's a self-hosted blog application backed by the Matrix protocol, an open, decentralised, federated messaging system. The idea is that all of the data required to display, discuss and share the blog are stored in a Matrix room. Matrix rooms are federated across the Matrix servers of users participating (writing blogs, commenting) and Matrix has APIs for streaming events to web clients. As such, journal benefits from having a decentralised backend with streamed updates.
I'm currently designing the specifics of how this would work with respect to my chosen requirements. The POC (see the GitHub repository prior to any releases) showed how journal would work in principle and gained a fair amount of interest in the Matrix community. The new design hopes to fix the main problems of the POC and produce something that can be easily run in production with little setup.
One key requirement missing from the POC was simple sharing of blog articles. Conceptually simple, sharing a URL to a blog post is a standard way to get exposure to multiple audiences on the web, but the POC lacked a way to link to specific articles.
Another unmet requirement was rendering articles as quickly as a static webpage. At its inception, journal was designed to be a web client that did all networking via Matrix. This, however, does not afford server-side rendering which is necessary for showing articles quickly and showing previews of content on social networking sites and other link-sharing mediums.
I have some interesting thoughts on these, which hopefully will follow in subsequent blogs. Yesterday evening was spent diving head-first into Next.js as a potential solution to the above, but I'll hold off on posting the new architecture of journal until I've checked it for sanity.
If you have any comments or queries, feel free to comment.
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Baroque Triple Curtain Rod Set 66-120 inch – Cocoa.
The Baroque Triple curtain rod set supports three different layers of drapery.
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When Suzuki Hubcaps Do Not Work on Styled Steel Wheels
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An unconformity is a gap in the sequence of rocks in a geologic column. It is a buried erosion surface separating two rock strata of different ages. It shows that sediment deposition was broken for a time, usually because the land was above sea level at that time.
Usually, the older layer was exposed to erosion for some time before deposition of the younger. However, the term is used to describe any break in the sedimentary record.
Many millions of years may separate the rocks above and below the discontinuity.
The rocks above an unconformity are younger than the rocks beneath (unless the sequence has been overturned). An unconformity represents time during which no sediments were preserved in the region.
The local record for that time interval is missing and geologists must use other clues to discover that part of the geologic history of that area. The interval of geologic time not represented is called a hiatus (= 'gap').
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- Hutton's Unconformity
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Manahawkin Church Damaged By Tornado Holds Service In Tent
Members of a Manahawkin church continue to make repairs after a small tornado damaged the roof, walls and ceiling.
Parishioners of the Manahawkin Baptist Church in Stafford Township held their service under a tent on Sunday.
An EF-0 tornado on Tuesday whipped winds up to 85 mph, damaging the church, toppling trees and shattering windows. 20 classrooms inside the school will have to be gutted after the roof collapsed and caused water to pour in. When they got inside once the clouds cleared, four inches of water remained. The church itself suffered severe damage inside the sanctuary. No one was injured.
The Rev. Doug Welbourn tells the Asbury Park Press the tornado caused an estimated $250,000 worth of damage to the church.
A number of volunteers came forward last week to make repairs to the church building and grounds
Welbourn tells the Press that electricity should be restored this week. He says the congregation may need to hold services outside once more before returning to the building.
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Sella & Mosca Terre Rare Carignano del Sulcis Riserva 2009
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Let's first start by saying that this is a good value wine for the money. It definitely has character and is a versatile wine. It is however like a chamillion. I tried it after an hour of opening it and then four hours after that and the tastes were very, very different . I would there fore suggest that you open it and really let it breath as the taste 4 hours later was truly delicious.
On the nose there was vanilla, red fruits and leather.
On the palate, after 4 hours!!!! There were fresh cherries, plums and black currants. A refreshing mineral energy stepped forward after that , green tobacco leaves and truffles. A herby thyme note briefly stepped forward before a delicious chocolate introduction. The wine wraps up by producing a spicey punch of black pepper. Good length tannins leave you with a medium bodied silky mouth.
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by Dr. Margaret Helder
What a difference 65 years makes. It was in April of 1953 that a one-page letter appeared in the journal Nature. Two young scientists believed that they had figured out the double helical structure of deoxyribonucleic acid or DNA. In their communication to the journal, these men remarked with masterful understatement that, “This structure has novel features which are of considerable biological interest.” This was indeed the case.
What these two men had achieved was to explain how the long DNA molecule in chromosomes stores information which can be accurately duplicated. This discovery has led directly to DNA fingerprinting, biotechnology, the sequencing of the human genome and evolutionary theories based on DNA sequences in various organisms. Although 65 years ago it was much too soon to foresee all these developments, nevertheless informed individuals understood that a significant milestone had been achieved.
NOBODIES ARE SOMEBODY TOO
The big surprise in 1953 was not that the structure, and by implication the function, of DNA had been discovered, but rather who had done it. With established scientists like American Linus Pauling of Caltech in Pasadena, and British scientists Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin at King’s College, University of London, carrying out such research, it was expected that the problem would soon be solved. These scientists all had research funds, equipment and established names in science.
On the other hand, the British Francis Crick (1916-2004) and American James Watson (b. 1928) were basically nobodies in the scientific community. Crick for his part, his career having been interrupted by war service, was still a graduate student in 1953. Four years earlier, he had come to the Cambridge Medical Research Council Unit. His base of operations was the Cavendish physics lab where Nobel laureate Ernest Rutherford had achieved great things in the 1930s. Crick might be merely a graduate student, but he was nevertheless skilled in the methods of X-ray diffraction, so useful in searching for the structure of large organic molecules. Moreover he had devised a theoretical method for interpreting X-ray derived images of long chain molecules (polymers). This was a highly significant skill.
REBELS WITH A CAUSE
The lead author of the April 1953 letter was James Watson. He had actually already earned his doctorate in bacterial genetics. Then in 1951 at age 23, he arrived at the Cavendish lab to carry out post-doctoral work on myoglobin, an oxygen storing protein found in muscles. Crick, for his part, had been assigned to carry out X-ray diffraction work on hemoglobin (the all important oxygen carrying molecule in red blood cells). Although they came from different backgrounds, Watson and Crick were alike in many ways. Both of them had, for example, read the 1944 book What is Life? by quantum physicist Erwin Schrodinger (1887-1961). In this work, far outside the author’s field of expertise, Schrodinger had speculated that there must be a code of some kind in cells that allows molecules to carry information.
Watson and Crick both suspected that DNA was such a molecule. They were fixated on the problem of DNA structure. It mattered little that they had been forbidden to work on this problem. By gentleman’s agreement between laboratories, the DNA problem had been allocated to the people at King’s College in London. Nevertheless nobody could forbid this irrepressible duo from bouncing ideas off each other, could they?
JUST BECAUSE YOU’RE PARANOID DOESN’T MEAN YOU’RE WRONG
Meanwhile at King’s College, the most capable person carrying out research there in X-ray diffraction was Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958). She was a shy, very work oriented Jewish young lady who suspected that her male Anglo-Saxon fellow scientists were trying to steal the results of her research. In this suspicion she was entirely correct. Unfortunately as a result of her attitude, she had few people-handling skills and thus she found herself isolated and unprotected. She was one of two people allocated to research DNA structure. The other was Maurice Wilkins, who was much better known in the scientific community. He hardly ever spoke to his female colleague.
It was Rosalind Franklin who managed to overcome the difficulties of working with DNA. She designed a special X-ray camera for this work and protocols for handling the molecule. Soon enough, she began to produce X-ray images. What they meant however, she refused to speculate upon until her entire program had been carried out. It was X-ray images that would provide vital clues about DNA structure. She was quite sure about one thing; the images did not suggest a helical structure in DNA.
TWO’S COMPANY, THREE HELIXES IS A CROWD
It is traditional for scientists involved in research to occasionally give lectures to update colleagues on what they are doing. Rosalind Franklin delivered such a seminar in November 1951. Her colleague Maurice Wilkins invited his friend James Watson from Cambridge. Francis Crick did not come because his interest in DNA was too well known. Watson listened carefully, but he did not bother to take notes. That might look too eager. Watson’s recall of what he had heard proved faulty however and progress on the issue was very slow. Then in January 1953, word came that American Linus Pauling was about to publish a proposed structure. This man sent a preprint to his son at Cambridge. The son showed it to friends Watson and Crick. They were relieved to see that Pauling had made a simple but significant error in the chemistry and was proposing a triple helix structure. They had a reprieve which might last a few weeks.
Two days later Watson visited Franklin. The exchange of views did not go well. Watson taunted her that she was inept at X-ray interpretation. He then encountered Wilkins who showed Watson the best image Franklin had ever taken. From it Watson was able to see clear indications of helical structure and even measurements of angles. Wilkins also showed Watson a Franklin research proposal which contained further crucial details. Based on these insights, Watson and Crick solved the DNA conundrum within four weeks, proposed a double helix, and the rest is history.
When they published, they failed to acknowledge any contribution of Rosalind Franklin. She died five years later, never having heard of her contribution to this story. In 1962 Crick, Watson and Wilkins were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine. The achievement of Watson and Crick reveals how important theoretical analysis is to the solving of many scientific problems. However they could not have done it without the experimental foundation of Rosalind Franklin. Theory and empirical research go hand in hand.
DRIVEN BY AN AGENDA
In the decades that have followed, both Watson and Crick enjoyed long careers. Interestingly, both attribute their success to their atheistic views. James Watson went on to a faculty position at Harvard University where he soon proved himself adept at fund raising and administration. Eventually he became director of the Human Genome Project.
Francis Crick also enjoyed a long career and in his later years turned his attention to the seemingly unrelated issue of human consciousness. In Crick’s mind, however, there was a connection between the human brain and the DNA helix. During an interview with Matt Ridley, Dr. Crick described the connection. Apparently his interest in science came entirely from his atheistic views. Because of his distaste for religion, Dr. Crick said, he set out to research the two main topics often cited as support for religion: namely the gulf between life and nonlife, and the phenomenon of consciousness. As a hardcore materialist, it was Crick’s objective to explain both these phenomena in chemical terms. His hope was to dispense with any excuse for attributing natural phenomena to the work of God. After all, as colleague James Watson once remarked “Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely” (or so they would both like to believe).
A DESCRIPTION ISN’T AN EXPLANATION
A little reflection on our part, however, will show that Watson and Crick had in no way explained the gulf between living cells and mere organic compounds. Indeed what they had achieved was to describe how information is stored in DNA but they had not explained how that information came to be stored in the DNA molecule in the first place.
Nevertheless, under the mistaken assumption that their explanation did away with the need for a Creator of living cells, Dr. Crick turned his attention to the problem of consciousness. He wrestled with the problem for more than twenty-five years, but still the solution eluded him. One might imagine that after all that time, he might concluded that his program has no hope of success – that he might even grow discouraged with his atheistic agenda. On the contrary, right up until his death, Dr. Crick remained as firmly committed to his position as ever.
Throughout his career, James Watson too has steadfastly declared his atheism. In an interview with editor John Rennie of Scientific American, Dr. Watson confided: “I never thought there was a spiritual basis for life; I was lucky to be brought up by a father who had no religious beliefs.” In another interview he suggested that one of the benefits of DNA research was to provide mankind with godlike powers. Thus he remarked:
“Only with the discovery of the double helix and the ensuing genetic revolution have we grounds for thinking that the powers held traditionally to be the exclusive property of the gods might one day be ours.”
When it was pointed out to him that his sentiments were a far cry from those of the founding Pilgrim fathers, he replied: “America isn’t what it was like when the Pilgrims came here. We’ve changed everything. We’ve never tried to respect the past, we’ve tried to improve on it….”
That’s his opinion at any rate.
NO END TO THE WONDERS TO EXPLORE
It is apparent that from the start, the objectives of Drs. Watson and Crick were atheistic in nature. They were bitterly opposed to religious faith of any sort. For example, Francis Crick resigned as a fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge when that college embarked on plans to build a chapel. He suggested alternatively that a brothel would be nice, a not too subtle put down of places of worship.
The ultimate objective of these two men then was to explain both life itself and consciousness in chemical terms which would completely exclude any supernatural element. Of course in neither instance have they succeeded. The mystery of life cannot be explained in chemical terms. It is indeed ironic that our understanding of DNA has led to a greater appreciation of the gulf between nonliving chemicals and the living cell. No spontaneous or natural process can ever explain how a code such as DNA came to be, or the astonishingly concentrated storage of its contained information. Instead of providing us with an explanation of how we could have come about without God, their discoveries have only help show that we are more “fearfully and wonderfully made” than was understood before.
Thus this objective of atheists Watson and Crick has been met with utter failure. In addition even Dr. Crick admitted that the search for an explanation for consciousness had been frustrating. No solution is in sight even after all those years of study.
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As an author, you will inevitably have opportunities to sell your books to the public. It may be at the back of the room after a speaking engagement, at a trade show, a festival or other public venue. While it may sound simple to show up and collect money, there are some strategies that can help make the process more successful.
1. Apply for a resale license. When you sell merchandise, you are required to collect and report sales tax. It’s not usually as complicated as it sounds. To apply, you will need to locate your local county sales tax office. A simple Google search for “resale license [county name]” should get you to right place to apply. Depending on guidelines for where you live, you may need to report sales tax to your local office monthly, quarterly or yearly.
2. Simplify your pricing strategy. Though you have to collect sales tax when you sell books at a local event, adding tax into the equation can complicate the process. Consider rounding up your retail price and then paying the tax yourself. For example, if the price of your book is $14.95, sell it for $15.00 or $16.00 and absorb the remaining cost of the tax. This will make it far easier for people to pay you cash and eliminate the need for you to make change.
3. Accept credit cards. It used to be difficult to process mobile payments. Years ago I had one of those manual card swipers with carbon copy receipts. If you used one of those today you’d violate privacy laws because you are no longer allowed to print the full card number on a receipt. But now you can use your smart phone and a free app from Square. The company will even send you a free swiper device that plugs in to the audio input on your phone or iPad. There is no monthly fee, though you will pay a nominal transaction fee, just as you would with any merchant service. Funds are automatically deposited in your bank account within 24 hours. Not accepting credit cards will cause you to lose sales—guaranteed. And giving up that small transaction fee should be considered part of the cost of doing business.
4. Bring a receipt book. Many buyers will want to pay cash, especially if you make it easy by rounding up your prices to the nearest whole dollar. Those same buyers will also appreciate having a receipt for accounting purposes since books can be considered an educational expense for some. You can purchase a simple receipt book at your local office supply store for just a few dollars, and then use a rubber stamp with your business name and address to imprint the top of each receipt.
5. Give a take-away. Let your buyers remember you by tucking something in the book. That can be a bookmark, postcard, business card or another piece of marketing collateral.
6. Offer bundles. People love a deal, so if you have authored multiple books, consider offering a discount when someone purchases multiple copies. For example, your books might be $15 each or three for $40. Make the bundle deal obvious by advertising it with a small sign posted on your table.
7. Provide a digital option. Considering half of the books sold today are purchased in digital format, you may miss sales if you don’t provide an easy way to purchase your book for an e-reader. There are several ways to accomplish this:
- Make your book available through Smashwords, a free ebook distribution platform which will convert your manuscript into over a dozen formats, including options for Kindle, Nook and iPad. Smashwords allows you to create custom coupon codes, so after you sell the ebook, you could provide the buyer with a coupon code for 100% off the retail price. If you go this route, you’ll want to print out some instructions for buyers who may not be familiar with Smashwords.
- Another option with Smashwords is for you to login to your account and choose the “Give as a Gift” option, which will allow you to email a link to the buyer.
- Amazon also has a “Give as a Gift” option, so after collecting payment from a buyer, you can login to Amazon, purchase the Kindle edition yourself and send the buyer an email with a download link. This also has a positive impact on your book’s overall sales rank on Amazon since each sale counts toward that number.
8. Expand your sales options. If you offer consulting or coaching services, make this option available at your sales table. Create an order form that lists your individual books, bundle options, and consulting options. This can be surprisingly effective, especially if you have just spoken at an event and dazzled the audience. Be sure to offer several choices, such as a single-hour rate, package of three hours, or a 6-month program.
9. Create a visually appealing sales area. Typically you will have a small table or even the corner of a table to display your books, but that doesn’t mean you can’t put in a bit of extra effort to make it appealing. Bring along book easels so that you can display copies of your books face out, instead of just stacking them up. You should also display business cards and some marketing items, such as flyers or postcards. If there is room, feature a small bowl of candy or something that will spark conversation with people. When my book LEAP! 101 Ways to Grow Your Business was released, it featured a frog on the cover. I ordered inexpensive frog merchandise from Oriental Trading Company, so people who visited my table could choose a frog keychain, a frog sign holder, or a frog coin purse. These silly little items made people smile and hopefully helped them remember me later.
10. Collect email addresses. You should always be working to build your mailing list, and one easy way to do that is to hold a drawing and give away a copy of your book. I often do this while speaking. Mid-way through a presentation, I will pass around a gift bag (these are easy to pack and transport) to collect business cards and offer to give away a book at the end of the presentation. You can also place a bag like this on your table with a small sign promoting your offer to “raffle” off a book or other prize at the end of the day.
11. Engage potential buyers. Though it may be uncomfortable to sit at a table and feel like you are peddling your books, make the most of the situation and have fun. Greeting people with a friendly “hello” and a smile can go a long way. You don’t need to push your books; instead, spark up a conversation by asking about the visitor questions like “What do you do?”, “Are you in from out of town?”, or “Are you a reader?” A casual conversation can lead to a book sale even if the buyer isn’t interested in your books because she may think of someone she knows who could benefit and end up purchasing copies as gifts.
12. Be ready to autograph your books. Though signing your name isn’t exactly tricky, you should think through how you will execute autographs. Ask the buyer if he wants the book addressed to him, and then confirm how to spell his name. Plan a quick salutation in advance to personalize it, such as, “It was great meeting you at XYZ event!” You can close it out with something simple like “best wishes,” or you might make it more unique: “wishing you eternal happiness.” If there is a line of people waiting, you’ll want to keep it brief so plan what you want to say in advance. And don’t forget to bring along a nice pen!
13. Plan for photos. Often times buyers will ask to take a photo with you. Don’t let this catch you off guard! If for some reason you aren’t comfortable with photos, it’s perfectly fine to say so. I recently heard an author announce to the group in advance that she feels like a little piece of her soul goes with her whenever someone takes her photo, so she politely alerted the audience that this wouldn’t be an option for her. And if you enjoy taking photos, then by all means, take one and know that it will likely end up on social media and in the internet world forever.
14. Come prepared. I keep an inexpensive rolling suitcase stocked and ready to go for events. It contains my books, marketing collateral, book stands, business cards, a bag for collecting business cards, a table cloth, pens, tape, small signs in plastic sign holders, and paper in case I need to make a quick sign. When I return from an event, I re-load any items that may be running low so I don’t have to scramble to prepare for the next event. If you plan to participate in a lot of events, I highly recommend this strategy!
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Everything in its place. Well organized cash-wraps.
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Peace Hospice Care
of life for individuals, families and carers, across Hertfordshire, facing a
As well as caring for patients on an end of life pathway, we also work
with patients on a curative pathway to help them with pain management and
We provide care through our 12 bed Inpatient Unit; Community Services that bring
hospice care to you through our nurse led Hospice and Home service and
volunteer led Herts Neighbours Service. We also run Starlight Day Services that
offer a range of groups to encourage rehabilitation, self-management and
increasing independence, complementary therapies, wellbeing and therapeutic
arts and counselling for both patients and their families.
We need £5 million a year to run and deliver our services; however we only receive
£1 million from the NHS. The remaining amount is raised through charitable
donations, fundraising events and our 13 high street shops.
Please help to support us by taking part in our exciting events calender, by making a donation or representing us in a challenge event. Visit our website www.peacehospice.org.uk for full details.
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Slow Home Focus
A thin trail carries behind the house—worn like a house can be, through time and on top of a body—even if it’s an apartment in a three-story pre-war building. Through pain and the period of healing—how one day bleeds into all the others.
If you place your focus on a simple thing living—plant, cat, lover—if you can empty yourself into the vessel that carries you safely from space to space, then take your time until it stops. What we focus on will come together however it will, now that we’re paying attention.
Slow beginning—the born things in us do need such legal terms. No. This country begs to be let go. And I don’t know how to be properly afraid. I belt my emotions to the front of whatever vehicle I drive, meaning no one really catches these flimsy changes. One Ford Focus. Two-legged human. Same progress.
I can’t seem to hold onto a thought here… The nurses are cleaning their hands. It’s been roughly two hours since they’ve wheeled Shan back to be pumped full of air and cut into—healed by the properties that require insurance and/or impenetrable debt.
The speech recognition software mangles my mother-in-law’s message as she speaks it into her phone. She’s trying to reach someone else who loves my wife.
It’s been about two hours, period. We don’t know anything yet, period. We can’t give out pillows here—Oh, I didn’t know that—
Harry Connick interviews somebody about
high heels on the television
What waiting rooms do with us. We will be watching the clock from here on.
And what happens to the body filled with air, with the consciousness that lives there, normally holding the body steady now ballooned with its organs shifting.
The TV is rounding out the notion of a “bum roll,”
or the people speaking there are. And Harry
Connick does not go in wholly
for sexual innuendo, but hints at it.
I don’t know what insights I’m supposed to catalogue—my worst worry: my best friend won’t be able to laugh freely for the next month. There are other possibilities, but I’m not considering them. How we gather our iconographies. Put the world from our mouth, the words onto screens and into the minds of those we wish were near us. Objectively, I don’t know how to be alert, what to do with my hands socially, the dropped clicks on the clock—its hands double-stepping—as it wears its only face into the afternoon my in-laws and I share with strangers who are our mirrors, waiting, too.
The crowd on TV backing it up to some horn
Who localizes the actions—any organ, like an organ segmented…and then the church pipes enter referentially, but that’s wrong, too. The doctor said the procedures should increase our chances of having a baby. Other doctors hadn’t identified anything correctly in over fifteen years. There are many things to be said about this.
Her parents and I are seated, waiting for her color to turn pink—the thought of how healthy organs present themselves. Fluorescent light skips across the waxed wood flooring.
I have stood up once, or not at all yet.
The TV says breakup texts—these didn’t
used to happen. It’s Steve Harvey now
with a gaggle of dudes
“It isn’t you. It isn’t you…”
to feel less awkward. Steve Harvey says
what happens when it was
you told her it was over and your whole
car was on fire when you came out.
The fires start by telling, apparently, and men
lose objects while women lose
The range of colors from admittance through whatever is “Phase II” moves from light blue to dark…from green to green to light pink to dark. And in some measured amount of time her row will change in this prescribed patter and we’ll know where the cells wandered to. And how thick the wall was. And we’ll be reassured about the prospects. I have no idea if this is right— what any of this feels like for her. There are no other alternatives.
Two pictures of cherry trees dropping
their blossoms all over the grass
on the far wall, to the right of the television.
Before they wheeled her back but after they pumped a vial of anti-anxiety meds into her IV, the nurses had to reprint her stickers and wristband so her blood work would match her person—an absent letter on the printed documentation. Her middle initial, the name that her parents carry, that she pushed from the end of her own name back a space, so our family can carry the same last name. And I have not yet held my end up, to take her family’s name into my own. I feel this later, how easy I have it. One letter stalls the procedure and we have been trying to make that family for nearly three years now. Her body. My body. Our family.
A man on the TV says that men are afraid
of labels and what it is we know
and don’t know when we don’t
have to know it.
Put a barrier up against what
we know we don’t have
to deal with
I can identify her in a room by back, shoulder, hair, turn, or voice. There are no other possibilities. It’s only air being pressed into her stomach and a man with a laser rooting around in there. Sometimes I can identify her by dress, drink, loss of phone. Sometimes taste, bathroom needs, when she enters a room, the way others see her.
I can also identify her row on the screen from where we’re seated. Mary, her mom, moves over to the screen and back and tells Mark what I can already see. They are calm and worried. The clock’s second hand dropping time between the 7 and 8 on its face, the whole of our waiting.
Her band is blue bleeding into green, but no healthy pink yet—the color of the fallen petals. It feels symbolic and almost like what I can’t seem to say.
Green grass, pale flowers—patient in OR, patient in Phase I—one of many forms of identification.
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What/Who is Herobrine?
Darryl Felstead [ Editor ]
Herobrine is a Minecraft urban legend.
A user named CreepyPasta originally posted a story in which he tells of a single-player game encounter with what appears to be a another player. This “other player” had the default skin, but his eyes were completely white. This character quickly ran off and due to CreepyPasta’s tiny render distance, he was unable to follow.
Over the course of a few days in his single-player world, he started to notice strange things such as 2x2 holes burrowed through stone, small sand pyramids in the ocean, and clusters of trees with their leaves missing. Curious, he searched for other reported sightings around the net and eventually found a small group of people who had shared similar experiences.
Along his search for other reports, he states that his forum posts were being deleted and that he received a short post from a user named “Herobrine” that simply said “stop”. After some further research, he was lead to believe that it was the username of Notch’s brother. He then emailed Notch to ask him about his brother, to which Notch eventually replied “He is no longer with us.”
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This Sunday, Paul Bowyer will set off on an epic challenge to run five marathons in five days.
He came up with the idea last summer, while he and his brother were enjoying a few drinks. Paul wanted a way to raise money for some of the charities that supported his niece Georgie when she was diagnosed with leukaemia in July last year, and his nephew Charlie when he was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 2008.
Rather than take part in a more traditional charity event, Paul has decided to run from Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool (where Charlie was diagnosed with type 1) to Birmingham Children's Hospital (where Georgia was diagnosed with leukaemia). This will mean running five marathons in five days, from Sunday 22 - Thursday 26 July 2012.
Paul told us:
'This is a very special, poignant run to mark two key events in my niece and nephew's short lives so far. My aim is to reach the finish line each day, regardless of time. I want to raise as much money as possible for my three chosen charities - JDRF, CLIC Sargent and Ronald McDonald House. Throughout everything, Charlie has been extremely brave and taken everything type 1 diabetes has brought him in his stride. He does not allow this condition to get in the way of doing the things his friends do and he is enjoying school which he started in September 2011.'
Paul is hoping for people to join him for some or all of the run, and a number of people are already planning on walking or cycling with him along parts of the route.
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The common loon is more than a bird in Minnesota — and it is more than the official “state bird.” It is a symbol of pristine Iron Trail lakes, sparkling blue waters and forested Northwoods environments that provide us with both solitude and inspiration. With an estimated adult population of 12,000 loons, Minnesota has the largest number of these birds in the contiguous 48 states.
The common loon regularly nests in the state, but on rare occasions red-throated, Pacific and yellow-billed loons have all been seen. If you see one of these rare loons you are encouraged to report them to the Minnesota Ornithologists Union (MOU) rare bird alert.
Loons prefer clear lakes with plenty of small fish and a quiet bay with undeveloped shoreline for nesting. Lakes with high use of motorboats and personal watercraft can cause too much disturbance for loons to nest successfully. Adults or their chicks are sometimes run over by careless or irresponsible operators of boats or personal watercraft.
Loons may nest on lakes as small as 15 acres, but they usually nest on larger lakes. While nesting, they are territorial and will chase away other loons. A will defend an area up to 100 acres on larger lakes. Loons without chicks may visit lakes as small groups in mid to late summer.
Loons return from their wintering grounds in late March to late April, depending on when the lake ice breaks up. While some winter in the Gulf of Mexico along the Florida panhandle, others winter of the coast of North Carolina. Upon arriving in Minnesota, loons may stay in the open water of rivers until the lakes open up.
Nesting begins in May and most chicks hatch in early June. Loons nest are usually located at the water’s edge on an island or point of land in a fairly wind-sheltered location. One or two eggs are usually laid. Late clutches and re-nesting efforts may cause some chicks to hatch in July. One of the most enjoyable sights on Iron Trail lakes is watching a pair of adult loons fishing and passing small minnows to their chicks. The chick frequently rides on the back of a parent — apparently to conserve body heat and to avoid being eaten by large pike or bass.
The best way to see loons is to explore a lake by canoe, boat or pontoon. Staying at a lakeshore campground or resort may provide opportunities to see loons during the day and hear their haunting calls at night.
When viewing loons, don’t approach nests too closely. The adult may leave the nest and expose the eggs to predators like crows or gulls. If you approach a loon to closely on the water, especially if it is caring for a chick, it will rise up out of the water and patter across the surface with its feet in what is called the “penquin dance.” If you cause a loon to do a penquin dance, you are disturbing it and should leave the area immediately. You could also cause parent loons to become separated from their chicks, exposing them to extended chilling in cold water and an increased chance of predation by large fish. By keeping your distance and using binoculars, you can enjoy loons without disturbing them. We invite you to pack your camera and binoculars, and discover why the Iron Trail is “A Great Way to Getaway!”
Top Loon Facts:
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Kunlé Adeyemi designed one of the Summer House as part of the new additions of the Serpentine’s Architecture Programme 2016. The designs for the Pavilion and Summer Houses consider the relationships between each of the five structures, the Serpentine Gallery building and the landscape of Kensington Gardens.
Serpentine Summer House by NLÉ technical information
- Architects : Kunlé Adeyemi – NLÉ
- Location : London, England
- Typology : Cultural Architecture / Installation
- Project Year: 2016
- Client : Serpentine Galleries
- Team : Kunlé Adeyemi, Marco Cestarolli, Karien Hofhuis, Michele Montali, Georgina Sinclair, Berend Strijland
- Collaborators : AKT II, AECOM, Stage One, Grants
- Photographs : © Iwan Baan
The design is based on projecting an inverse replica of Queen Caroline’s historic Temple – a tribute to its robust form, space and material, recomposed into a bold new sculptural object.
– Kunlé Adeyemi – NLÉ
Serpentine Summer House Photographs
Kunlé Adeyemi Architect’s Statment
With a play on architecture, our design aims to fulfil the simple primary purpose of a summerhouse: a space for shelter and relaxation. The design is based on projecting an inverse replica of Queen Caroline’s historic Temple – a tribute to its robust form, space and material, recomposed into a bold new sculptural object.
By rotating the Temple’s interior void space, we expose the structure’s neo-classical plan, proportions and architectural form. Using prefabricated building blocks assembled from sandstone similar to the ones used in building the Temple, our abstracted forms come together to create a room, a doorway and a window for people to interact with the building, the environment and with one another.
By locating the Temple in the proximity of the trees, we offer an extension of the space into the landscape, providing shaded areas in their canopies and in the shadows generated by the object. The carved out void, soft interior and fragmented furniture blocks create comfortable spaces for people to eat, rest or play – in and around the house – all through the summer season. | <urn:uuid:134deed3-de9e-49b9-9f4b-cb1e7380a2a9> | CC-MAIN-2021-21 | https://archeyes.com/summer-house-nle/ | 2021-05-14T11:43:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243990449.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20210514091252-20210514121252-00159.warc.gz | en | 0.867023 | 472 |
Krystal Leanne Epps of Wilmington and Gordon William Howard Jr. of Wilmington exchanged vows in a double-ring ceremony April 2 at 3 p.m. at Pine Forest United Methodist Church, with Doug Johnson officiating.
The couple were originally married Feb. 23 at Lower Cape Fear Hospice in Wilmington so the bride’s father could be part of the ceremony before he passed away.
The bride is the daughter of Sue Harvell Carter of Goldsboro and the late Everette Neil Epps of Wilmington, the stepdaughter of Stanley Carter and the granddaughter of the late Everette Meters and Sally Eloise Epps, Davis Lee Harvell and the late Linda Geraldine Harvell of Goldsboro.
She is a fifth-grade teacher at Pender County Schools.
The groom is the son of Kathleen Williams Howard and the late Gordon William Howard of Goldsboro, the grandson of the late Junior Howard, Bessie Brown Baker and the late Malcom B. Williams of Goldsboro and Myrtle May Summerell of Vanceboro and the stepgrandson of Lewie Baker.
He is employed as battalion chief at New Hanover Regional Medical Center.
A reception was held in the church fellowship hall.
The couple resides in Wilmington.
By News-Argus Staff
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Abstract: Controlled oxidative coupling of zinc porphyrin on the surface of an aqueous subphase in a Langmuir-Blodgett trough yields a bilayer of porphene, a fully conjugated two-dimensional polymer with fourfold symmetry. Its structure was proven by in-situ grazing incidence X-ray diffraction and is analogous to that of graphene, but porphene is composed of fused porphyrin rings while graphene is composed of fused benzene rings. The synthesis yields large (>0.1 mm across) sheets of a porphene bilayer. Investigations of porphene formation mechanism and its spectroscopic, structural, electrical, chemical, and mechanical properties, as well as exfoliation to single sheets and construction of twisted multilayer sheets using bidentate ligands, are currently underway. The ability of the porphyrin macrocycle to bind many different kinds of metal cations carrying two, one, or no additional ligands promises that porphene will not be a single polymer but rather, a large family of two-dimensional polymers with tunable properties. Here, porphene differs from graphene in that its functionalization does not require taking any of its π-electron centers out of conjugation, and merely involves insertion of metal ions into its macrocycles and attachment of arbitrary ligands. It is therefore expected that it will be at least as versatile as graphene.
2019 Fritz London Memorial Lecture/Porphene - a Heterocyclic Analog of Graphene
Professor Josef Michl (University of Colorado, Boulder, Department of Chemistry)
Monday, 22 April 2019 - 5:00pm
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Onion powder is dehydrated, ground onion that is commonly used as a seasoning. It is a common ingredient in seasoned salt and spice mixes, such as beau monde seasoning. Some varieties are prepared using toasted onion. White, yellow and red onions may be used. Onion powder is a commercially prepared food product that has several culinary uses. Onion powder can also be homemade.
Onion powder may be used as a seasoning atop a variety of foods and dishes, such as pasta, pizza, and grilled chicken. It is also a primary ingredient in beau monde seasoning. It is also sometimes used as a meat rub. Onion powder is also an ingredient in some commercially prepared foods, such as sauces, soups, and salad dressings. It can also be used in many other recipes such as burgers or meatloaf. | <urn:uuid:fc4c38ee-dfb3-40fa-af92-aca64537c502> | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | https://dhayorafricanstore.ca/product/onion-powder/ | 2023-12-07T13:53:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100674.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20231207121942-20231207151942-00587.warc.gz | en | 0.974042 | 189 |
What is the United States Mint’s position on selling altered U.S. coins?
The United States Mint does not encourage or support products that alter the fundamental images on its coins. A superimposed design, especially, is entirely different from the coin’s original image and almost obliterates the coin’s intrinsic design. Other modification methods may also affect a coin’s design. Altering United States Mint coins this way may offend people who regard the images and designs on our Nation’s coinage as sacrosanct. Indeed, Congress itself mandates by statute the themes, images and inscriptions that appear on a particular coin.
Is my business permitted to sell genuine United States coins on the secondary market?
Yes, but your business is expected to comply with all U.S. trademark laws and false and deceptive advertising laws.
Can my business alter, such as by colorizing or gold-plating, United States coins?
Yes. However, your business may need the U.S. Government’s permission if the U.S. Government owns a copyright in the coin design. Also, keep in mind that it is a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 331 to alter a U.S. or foreign coin with the intent to defraud. The United States Mint cannot issue interpretations of criminal statutes such as this, which fall within the jurisdiction of the U.S. Department of Justice. Businesses should consult with their attorneys and carefully evaluate their proposed products, packaging and advertising to ensure they do not run afoul of this criminal statute.
Can my business make or sell replicas of U.S. coins?
Yes. However, businesses must be aware of a number of requirements and restrictions, including counterfeiting laws, advertising requirements and more. Dos and Don’ts for Businesses Interested in Creating, Advertising and Selling Replicas of U.S. Coins
Can I attach an advertisement to a U.S. coin?
No. It is a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 475 to attach a business card, notice or advertisement to a U.S. coin. A violator may be subject to criminal fines.
Can I make jewelry from U.S. coins?
Yes, but your business should be careful not to imply any endorsement by or association with the United States Mint in its advertising and marketing materials.
Can my business sell foreign coins in the United States?
Yes, but your business is expected to comply with all U.S. false and deceptive advertising laws. Dos and Don’ts for Businesses Interested in Advertising and Selling Foreign Coins
Can I melt, drill holes through, or mutilate U.S. coins?
Maybe. It is a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 331 to alter a U.S. or foreign coin with the intent to defraud. The United States Mint cannot issue interpretations of criminal statutes such as this, which fall within the jurisdiction of the U.S. Department of Justice. Furthermore, 31 C.F.R. Part 82 states that no person shall export, melt or treat any 5-cent coin or one-cent coin of the United States. However, there are a few exceptions such as for novelty, amusement, educational, jewelry and similar purposes. Your business should consult with an attorney to ensure it does not run afoul of these laws before melting or mutilating U.S. coins. | <urn:uuid:1ed83674-ef6e-43c1-8086-8e60d5948178> | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | https://www.usmint.gov/news/consumer-alerts/business-guidelines/business-faqs | 2022-10-04T10:34:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030337490.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20221004085909-20221004115909-00534.warc.gz | en | 0.938447 | 713 |
[Haskell-cafe] Re: Parametrized monads
miguelimo38 at yandex.ru
Tue Jun 16 01:19:47 EDT 2009
What do you mean, without instances? How do you call "data instance"
On 16 Jun 2009, at 02:16, Ashley Yakeley wrote:
> Miguel Mitrofanov wrote:
>> First, it seems to me that using type families would require some
>> other extensions. Multi-parameter type classes are OK, but, in my
>> experience, the road from them to the darkness of undecidable
>> instances is quite short, and I don't feel very safe on these
> Actually, you can use type families without using classes or
> instances at all.
> Ashley Yakeley
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Silent film is all but a lost art these days...but back when the medium was still in its infancy, it was as intriguing and controversial as today's all-digital affairs. Moving pictures were first developed as the 19th century came to a close, but it took several decades for this technological achievement to gain ground as a legitimate art form. Audiences had never seen anything like it, whether the audience was a nine year-old boy, a factory worker or a well-known artist. Picasso And Braque Go To The Movies (2008), directed by Arne Glimcher and produced by Martin Scorsese and Robert Greenhut, attempts to draw similarities between early films and the work of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. This documentary manages to entertain and inform during a portion of its 60-minute running time...but if you're expecting a truly fun, engaging and enlightening experience, your expectations will not be completely met.
I'll admit up front that Martin Scorsese's participation, aside from a general interest in silent film, is what initially drew me to Picasso and Braque. I simply love to hear him share his thoughts on film history, whether it's during a behind-the-scenes interview or an audio commentary. He speaks briefly during this film and his influence can be felt at times, but most everything else about the production falls a little flat. Picasso and Braque is much too dry and distant for its own good, forgetting that its subject matter just happens to be a new and exciting medium that all manner of audiences were thrilled to see. Early film was a fascinating new discovery, and it's often treated here with all the enthusiasm of a dull, rehearsed lecture.
There are exceptions, of course: visual samples of early films by the Lumière brothers, Edison, Méliès and others are on hand to lighten the mood, full of early "special effects" and clever editing techniques. A number of scholars and artists also manage to maintain a certain level of momentum, including Chuck Close, Julian Schnabel, Eric Fischl and more. Even so, the documentary's main theme (a parallel between cubism and early film) isn't supported well: vague comparisons are drawn but nothing concrete is laid down. Picasso and Braque can be enjoyed from the perspective of a silent film fan, but it falls short in almost every other category.
More proof of this can be found in NewVideo's DVD package, which tosses in a few bonus silent films while maintaining a passable technical presentation. Let's take a closer look, shall we?
Presented in its original 1.78:1 aspect ratio and enhanced for 16x9 displays, Picasso and Braque looks fine with mild reservations. The film's natural color palette looks solid, image detail is good (considering the source material) and the canvas stills are impressive. Unfortunately, notable amounts of interlacing pop up on occasion, while some of the older footage has been cropped to 1.78:1. The latter appears to be an intentional decision, though other sequences are window-boxed.
The Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo mix is low-key but still has its moments. Separation is fine and the talking-head interviews come through clearly, while the film's sparse score is also strong without fighting for attention. Unfortunately, no optional subtitles or Closed Captions are offered during the main feature or any of the extras.
It's a rare case when the extras outshine the main feature, but Picasso and Braque still manages to be entertaining at times. It's sad, though, when a genuinely thrilling and curious subject is held at arm's length, especially since the medium was created with everyone in mind. Very mildly recommended for silent film enthusiasts, but everyone else should Rent It for the bonus features.
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Super Bowl XLIII
Start the countdown: We're Super again
By GARY SHELTON
Published May 26, 2005
Maybe the Patriots win yet another championship. Maybe Tony Dungy wins his first. Maybe Ricky Williams decides to quit at halftime.
The Super Bowl is coming back to Tampa Bay.
Feel free to begin the cheering at any time.
Maybe Michael Vick will be named MVP, and the trophy will read "Ron Mexico." Maybe Kellen Winslow will ride his motorcycle into the end zone. Maybe Donovan McNabb will lose his lunch, only this time, he'll lose it on Terrell Owens.
The best event in America is returning to town.
How can it not be cool to think about?
Tampa Bay won another Super Bowl on Wednesday afternoon. The area, not the team. By outpledging, outpromising and outpoliticking three other cities, Tampa Bay won the biggest event in North America for the fourth time. All it took was a few smiles, a hundred or so souvenir putters and a few million dollars.
Oh, and yes, it took the Glazers, who are so hot right now you wish you could talk them into picking Lotto numbers for you. Within the past two weeks, the Glazers have won the world's most famous soccer team and the world's most famous football game. Any day now, I expect Bryan to compete on American Idol.
There had been a sneaking suspicion the Glazers were the weak link to the Tampa Bay bid. You could hear whispers that, though they were earnest in their efforts, they lacked the diplomacy to land this game. If Tampa Bay had lost this bid, there would have been those who sprinted to place the blame at the feet of the Glazers. Gee, they would have sniffed, maybe Tampa Bay can land that year's FA Cup.
If defeat were going to bear their fingerprints, then, doesn't victory? You have to give the Glazers, old Mal United, credit for this one.
That, of course, and 68 degree days in January.
And those Arnold Palmer putters.
And all that money.
Maybe Joe Namath will guarantee something. Maybe Terry Bradshaw will spell something. Maybe someone will ask Doug Williams a stupid question.
Super Bowl XLIII is coming to town.
Locally, expect it to be pronounced Super Bowl XL-ai-yi-yi.
Oh, the politicians today will resume their talk of economic impact, and yes, for a tourist city, that's important. But the bulk of that money goes to hotel chains and restaurant owners, to taxi drivers and bartenders. It has little to do with the common fan.
Odds are, you probably will see Super Bowl 2009 in the same seat, lounge or living room, in which you watched Super Bowl 2005. Just because the game is here doesn't mean you have access to it. They don't put Super Bowl tickets in chocolate bars.
Still, there is a certain energy that fills a community during a big event. It doesn't matter how close you are to the stadium, you can feel the buzz that comes from the world watching.
Maybe you'll be in a restaurant with Donald Trump. Maybe you'll see Tom Cruise walking through the airport. Maybe you'll see Ben Affleck scalping tickets outside the stadium.
Of course, it would be great to have the Stanley Cup playoffs return to town because that would mean the Lightning was back in the series, and those who run hockey would be off the helium. It would be great to have the World Series, because it would mean the Rays had finally become winners and hell had frozen over.
As a floating event, however, nothing beats the Super Bowl. Well, maybe the Olympics, but when is the last time a Super Bowl left a city aching to pay its bills?
Maybe someone will turn into Marcus Allen. Maybe someone will turn into Scott Norwood. Maybe someone will turn into Trent Dilfer.
I know this. If I were an NFL owner, I would have voted for Tampa Bay, and it has nothing to do with civic pride.
Miami? Come on. Miami has the '07 Super Bowl. How can you promise it another one without seeing how it does then? That's like making a third date before you see how the second one comes off.
Houston? The Super Bowl was just in Houston. The town did okay. It wasn't so wonderful, however, that an owner would want to rush right back.
Atlanta? What? Are we to believe none of the NFL owners attended the '96 Olympics?
If I were an NFL owner, I would look at some of the sites in the recent past and immediate future: Houston, Jacksonville, Detroit, Arizona, New York, probably Dallas.
In other words, I would get my rear end to the beach while I had the chance.
Maybe Whitney Houston will wear stars and stripes. Maybe Britney Spears will wear a sock. Maybe Janet Jackson won't wear anything.
That's the great thing about the Super Bowl. No one knows.
You know who the favorite is to play in the 2009 Super Bowl? Everyone, that's who. Oh, you can pick three likely suspects for the '09 Series and three likely suspects for the '09 NBA title. Given that much time, however, any team has a shot at the Super Bowl. The Vikings could play the Bills, and someone would have to win. The Cardinals could play the Bengals. By then, Los Angeles could play San Antonio.
Who knows? Maybe even the Bucs have a chance.
There's a question for you. Will the Bucs be healed in '09? Who knows if Derrick Brooks or Ronde Barber will be around by then? Who knows what kind of mileage Cadillac Williams will be getting? Still, the only thing better than the Super Bowl in Tampa Bay would be Tampa Bay in the Super Bowl in Tampa Bay.
As it is, Tampa Bay will take whoever comes. Even Carolina. The game is that much fun.
Maybe Jerry Rice catches his last pass in the game. Maybe Keyshawn Johnson drops his last pass in Raymond James. Maybe Chris Simms plays for somebody.
The Super Bowl is coming back to town.
Who knows? Maybe they will sell T-shirts.
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Detailed cautionary announcement in respect of Block III, Albertine Graben in the DRC
SACOIL HOLDINGS LIMITED
(Formerly SA Mineral Resources Corporation Limited)
(Incorporated in the Republic of South Africa)
(Registration number 1993/000460/06)
Share code: SCL and ISIN: ZAE000127460
Detailed cautionary announcement in respect of Block III, DRC
The board of SacOil (the “Board”) wishes to announce that, further to previous announcements the last of which was made on 18 January 2011, it is in advanced negotiations with TOTAL E&P RDC (“Total”) pursuant to which Total will farm into an undivided interest in Block III. The Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, acting through the Minister of Hydrocarbons, has consented to Total farming into and being appointed Operator of Block III.
The Board is currently finalising negotiations and full details of the farm in agreement will be announced in due course.
SacOil shareholders are therefore required to continue to exercise caution when dealing in their SacOil securities, until a further announcement is made in this regard.
BDO Corporate Finance
IMPORTANT NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS REGARDING THEIR SHARES
If you are in any doubt as to what action you should take, consult your CSDP, Broker, Banker, Legal Adviser, Accountant or other professional advisers immediately.
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A look back on some of 2015’s biggest property law cases and legislation Another year has passed us by and case and statute law have both continued to evolve the planning process and the property industry landscape throughout the year. We look back on some of the more significant changes that will affect all of us in the industry, moving forward into 2016… To read the whole article, click here.
In England, prior to the 15th Century, the majority of place names were adaptations of the location or features of the landscape or referred to the land ownership. We explore the most common names and prefixes in use around Britain today… To read the whole article, click here.
Japanese Knotweed is Britain’s most invasive non-native plant. We look at how you can best identify and manage the threat, helping you to avoid the devastating effects Knotweed can bring – from structural damage, to loss of sale and a compromised mortgage…
Walsall Housing Group has become the first housing association in the country to secure permission from the Civil Aviation Authority to fly drones over their housing stock. Though other authorities have ruled out using the equipment for cost reasons, Walsall have stated that they estimate the cost savings to be around £20,000 a year.
The move has led to a debate over the legal ramifications, with particular regard to the Data Protection Act 1998. Whilst the legal obligations on domestic drone users are fairly light and essentially extend to a requirement to use them in a responsible way which protects the privacy of others, the requirements on commercial use are more stringent.
The Information Commissioners Office’s (ICO) CCTV Code of Practice provides that as drones are privacy intrusive, justifications for their use are imperative. As such, a company or housing association will ideally need to undertake a ‘privacy impact assessment’ or similar to determine whether drones are appropriate, or whether another method would minimise the privacy impact. This would operate in much the same way as a risk assessment.
The same Code also offers several additional recommendations to ensure compliance with Data Protection:
Any data captured should be securely stored
Recording should be limited only to the defined purpose
Retained data should only be kept for its stated use
Consider ‘privacy by design’ – eg. Methods or technologies which allow restricted views or a specific focus.
Data access should be restricted to only those who need it
Consider ways to provide fair processing information to those likely to be affected.
The guidance from the ICO indicates that Housing Associations, and all other companies looking to integrate drones into their processes, should be aware of the data implications. Whilst HAs like Walsall Housing Group evidently see a cost advantage, that net benefit may in some cases be eroded by the additional administration costs of satisfying their information obligations.
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Bamburgh sword is a rare Anglo-Saxon sword from the seventh century. It once belonged to an Anglo-Saxon king or a member of a royal family. The sword was made up of six individual strands of iron: this technique is known as pattern welding, Babmburgh sword thus being a six pattern-welded sword. Cold weapons of such structure are also called ‘snake patterned’ because of the herring bone appearance created by the forged strands. Six strands or layers of carbon steel forged together made it a perfect weapon: in comparison, Sutton Hoo sword had only four layers. Bamburgh sword is the only one of its kind ever found.
The recovery of the sword is rather peculiar. It was dug out during the first excavation at Bamburgh castle, Northumberland, in 1960. After that it was forgotten in the attic of the broadcaster and archeologist Brian Hope-Taylor who took part in the excavations. After his death in 2001, some of his former PhD students came to his house hearing that his books were being sold off. The sword was going to be dumped in a skip by workers who were clearing the house. It was returned to Bamburgh Castle in 2005, where Paul Gething and Graeme Young were working on the Bamburgh Research Project. It is then that the rare nature of the artifact became known. The sword was sent to the Royal Armouries for further examination.
Discovering such a sword is a unique chance for an archeologist. More excavations at the Bamburgh castle may reveal more details as for this exceptional weapon.
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Serves 6 | Prep time: 15 minutes | Total time: 35 minutes
- 1/2 cup safflower mayonnaise
- 1 1/2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
- 2 teaspoons chipotle powder, divided
- 1 1/2 pounds lean ground beef
- 2 teaspoons sweet smoked paprika
- Sea salt
- 1 large red onion, cut into 1/2-inch-thick rounds, each stuck with a wooden pick to keep it together
- 1 firm-ripe avocado, quartered lengthwise, peeled, and cut lengthwise into 1/3-inch-thick slices
- Olive oil for brushing on onion and avocado
- 3 sprouted whole grain hamburger buns, grilled or toasted
- 6 slices cooked nitrate-free turkey bacon
- Cilantro sprigs
- In a small bowl, whisk together the safflower mayonnaise, mustard, and 1 teaspoon chipotle, and set aside.
- Gently mix the beef with the remaining 1 teaspoon chipotle, paprika, and 1 teaspoon sea salt until combined. Form into 6 patties.
- Prepare a grill for direct-heat cooking over medium-hot charcoal (medium heat for gas).
- Meanwhile, brush both sides of the onion rounds and avocado slices with olive oil.
- Grill the onion rounds, turning over once, until slightly charred, 2 to 3 minutes total. Discard the wooden picks.
- Grill the avocado slices, turning once, until grill marks appear, about 30 seconds on each side.
- Grill the patties, covered only if using a gas grill, until they reach 160°F in the center on an instant-read thermometer, approximately 5 to 6 minutes on each side.
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Each week, TUAW provides readers with an update on new or significant crowdfunded Apple-related projects in the news. While our policy is to not go into detail on items that haven't reached at least 80 percent of their funding goal, this update is designed to give readers a heads-up on projects they might find interesting enough to back.
- Blink is a very affordable and easy to set up wireless HD home monitoring and alert system that shows you HD video, detects motion and also provides temperature readings, all though an app on your iPhone or iPad. Being battery powered means it's truly wire-free, so you can place the Blink boxes anywhere you want -- the battery lasts for more than a full year. Expected to ship in May of 2015, the Blink devices are part of a project that is already 287 percent funded with almost three weeks to go.
- A lot of wearable tech has a problem -- it's ugly as sin. elemoon is quite a bit different in that it's actually fashionable. The device changes colors to match your outfit, has a gold or silver wristband, and does amazing things! Rub it to find your iPhone, receive notifications silently through displayed icons, and track your activity. The project is close to 39 percent funded with 43 days to go. Check it out:
- Sous Vide is a method of cooking food by placing it in a vacuum-sealed bag, then immersing it in water at a precise temperature for an exact amount of time. It produces tender and perfectly-cooked meals, and now the Nomiku Sous Vide project wants everyone to join in on the fun. The project is 164 percent funded with just under a month to go, but you still have an opportunity to be one of the first to use the Nomiku Sous Vide device, controlling your cooking from your iPhone.
- This next project should be right up Dave Caolo's alley -- my fellow TUAW editor is a huge fan of board and card games, and Boss Monster aims to bring its dungeon-building card game to iOS. The project has about a month to go and is currently 35 percent funded. If you love games, this should be a fun project to back.
- Like the Blink discussed above, GeckoEye is another Wi-Fi security camera that sticks to the wall and is battery-powered. This one also recharges itself via solar cells on the casing, a feature that actually puts it ahead of the Blink in my mind. However, there's one little issue -- GeckoEye is only 10 percent funded with 19 days left in its Indiegogo campaign.
- Finally, if there's one crowd-funded project that you decide to back this week, make it Tickle. This project is designed to teach kids programming using Scratch on the iPad, a process the Tickle team says is as "fun and easy as playing with LEGOs". Tickle has a good start on fundraising, with 34 percent funding with 25 days to go.
That's it for this week. We'll be back next Thursday for another roundup of crowdfunded projects that you can support or ignore. Many thanks again to Hal Sherman for providing some tips about new and exciting projects, and if you're aware of any other crowdfunded Apple-related projects, be sure to let us know about them through the Tip Us button at the upper right of the TUAW home page for future listing on the site. | <urn:uuid:7971b28f-e100-41ba-b574-17785da0df6c> | CC-MAIN-2017-34 | https://www.engadget.com/2014/08/14/crowdfunding-roundup-blinks-and-tickles/ | 2017-08-18T01:35:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-34/segments/1502886104204.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20170818005345-20170818025345-00480.warc.gz | en | 0.959619 | 701 |
Honors & Other Things
May 1, 2012,
Volume 58, No. 32
Exceptional Commitment to Graduate and Professional Student Life
The President and Provost’s Citation for Exceptional Commitment to Graduate and Professional Student Life is presented to graduate or professional students, upon their graduation from Penn, who have been catalysts for transformative and lasting new developments that have enhanced graduate and professional student life at Penn.
The spring 2012 recipients are:
Allyson Davis (Fels/SAS)
Joseph Friedman (Law)
Linda Meiberg (AAMW/SAS)
Maher Zamel (Education)
A reception to honor these student leaders will be held on Wednesday, May 9 from 4:30-6 p.m. in the Graduate Student Center Common Room, 3615 Locust Walk. All members of the University community are invited to attend. More information and registration can be found at www.gsc.upenn.edu/activities/graduation.php
President of Photobiology Society: Dr. Cengel
Dr. Keith Cengel, assistant professor of radiation oncology at the Perelman School of Medicine, was elected as the upcoming president of the American Society for Photobiology (ASP), one of the nation’s premier societies for photobiology and phototherapy. The ASP promotes research in photobiology, integration of different photobiology disciplines, dissemination of photobiology knowledge and provides information on photobiological aspects of national and international issues.
Dr. Cengel’s areas of interest include treatment of patients with intra-peritoneal spread of gastrointestinal and ovarian cancers with intraoperative photodynamic therapy as well as treating patients with sarcoma with radiation therapy.
Pasarow Medical Research Award
Dr. Virginia M.Y. Lee and Dr. John Q. Trojanowski, both professors of pathology and laboratory medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine, have been named recipients of the 24th annual Medical Research Award in Neuropsychiatric Disorders by the Robert J. and Claire Pasarow Foundation.
The award recognizes exceptional basic, clinical, or translational research accomplishment in cancer, cardiovascular disease, and neuropsychiatry to promote awareness for these fields.
Drs. Lee and Trojanowski are co-directors of the Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research (CNDR). Their work with the tau protein has profoundly advanced the field of knowledge on Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases.
Against the popular theory in Alzheimer’s disease research that says plaques formed by a sticky protein—amyloid-beta—cause the damage found in an Alzheimer’s inflicted brain, the duo argued that brain degeneration and cognitive impairments in Alzheimer’s disease are instead caused by tangles formed by the brain protein tau. By explaining tau’s biology, the two created a new set of targets for drugs to fight the disease.
Among other roles, Dr. Lee is the John H. Ware 3rd Professor in Alzheimer’s Research and co-director of the Marian S. Ware Center for Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Program. Dr. Trojanowski is also director of the Institute on Aging and the William Maul Measey-Truman G. Schnabel, Jr. MD Professor of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology.
National Academy of ScienceCommission: Dr. Gottschalk
Dr. Marie Gottschalk, professor of political science in the School of Arts & Sciences, has been named to a National Academy of Science 18-member panel of leading scholars and experts on corrections to study the causes and consequences of high rates of incarceration in the United States. Jeremy Travis, president of John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, will chair the panel. The two-year, $1.5 million project is sponsored by the National Institute of Justice and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
The panelists will study why incarceration rates in the country have skyrocketed since the 1970s, examine costs and benefits of the nation’s current sentencing and incarceration policies and look into whether alternative punishments might net similar public safety benefits at lower financial and social costs.
More information about the National Academy of Science project is available at www8.nationalacademies.org/cp/projectview.aspx?key=49441
OAH Book Award: Dr. Mayeri
Dr. Serena Mayeri, professor of law and history at Penn Law, has won the Organization of American Historians 2012 Darlene Clark Hine Award for her book Reasoning from Race: Feminism, Law, and the Civil Rights Revolution (Harvard University Press, 2011). The award is given annually for the best book in African-American women’s and gender history.
The OAH selection committee hailed the book as “a brilliant excavation of the role that analogies between sexual and racial discrimination have played in legal battles over women’s rights. Mayeri recasts the story of 1970s legal feminism by uncovering a largely forgotten history of black and white women’s activism, which pursued much more expansive conceptions of equality than those that ultimately became law. In doing so, Mayeri also moves the field of African-American women’s history forward by demonstrating how black women’s activism and insights from their work in civil rights shaped women’s rights struggles.” | <urn:uuid:a285be0c-6329-4a7a-8b37-deda1e5ec06f> | CC-MAIN-2017-09 | http://www.upenn.edu/almanac/volumes/v58/n32/hot.html | 2017-02-19T18:37:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-09/segments/1487501170249.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20170219104610-00421-ip-10-171-10-108.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919741 | 1,126 |
If you want to keep your blood pressure at healthy levels, you may need to manage your stress better. Can stress cause high blood pressure? Find out.
While everyone experiences stress at one time or another, not everyone realized that it can cause short-term blood pressure spikes. If you want to improve your heart health, you need to take the necessary steps to reduce your stress.
We know that stressful situations will lead to temporary spikes in blood pressure, but how about long-term effects? Currently, researchers are not sure if chronic stress can add up and result in long-term high blood pressure.
However, lowering stress levels can still make a big difference in your health, even if there isn’t a direct connection to long-term hypertension. In fact, many healthy activities that help lower stress can be used as part of hypertension treatments.
Stress Effects on Blood Pressure
Blood pressure temporarily increases during stressful situations due to a surge of hormones that causes your blood vessels to narrow. While there is no current evidence showing that stress leads to long-term hypertension, it may lead to unhealthy habits.
As a result, these habits can increase your risk of high blood pressure, heart attacks, strokes, and more. For example, some people may start smoking, drinking too much alcohol, and eating unhealthily as a way to deal with stress.
In addition, the hormones the body releases during stressful situations may cause damage to your arteries, affecting your heart health. Even though there’s no direct connection between stress and long-term hypertension, constant stress can indirectly impact your blood pressure levels.
Reducing Stress and Blood Pressure
Maintaining healthy blood pressure levels involves doing many activities that will decrease your stress levels. For example, you can practice deep breathing techniques to help you relax during stressful situations to lower your blood pressure.
You can also look for ways to simplify your schedule like eliminating unnecessary activities to avoid feeling rushed. Moreover, you can start exercising regularly to deal with stress – a tactic that also greatly improves your heart health.
Try meditation and yoga techniques as well as practicing better sleep as a way to deal with stress. By putting these healthy habits into practice, you will improve both your stress and blood pressure levels.
While the connection between chronic stress and long-term high blood pressure may not be direct, it’s still there. Stress can lead to unhealthy habits that, in turn, increase your risk of developing hypertension and heart disease.
By practicing healthy habits like exercising regularly and doing yoga, you will be able to improve both areas of your life. In addition, you can take supplements like HeartBeet Complete to effectively boost your circulation and energy levels.
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The European Chess Club Cup last round photos are available at the photo gallery.
Video reports from last round are available in the video section
The decisive moment for the European Club Cup has come. Today is the final 7th round, which will decide the champions and the medalists of the event. Before the start of the round Baden-Baden and Cercle d’Echecs Monte Carlo are leading the standings.
More than a hundred photos and several hours video are available at the multimedia page.
Meanwhile you can follow the news about Anand – Kramnik WCC match, the WYCC in Vietnam, and many more news from the chess world at Chessdom.com
IM Anna Ushenina who helped her team Economist Saratov against Spartak Vidnoe by winning against WGM Hou Yifan spoke to the ECC Media Team member Özgür Akman.
The defending champions of the European Club Cup, Cercle d’Echecs Monte Carlo almost close to the second victory in a row after the crucial 3-1 win to EPAM while Economist Saratov overcame Spartak Vidnoe with the close but decisive 2.5-1.5 victory. The team from Monaco is now leading by two match points having 11 followed by their opponents today, T-Com Podgorica which outscored Rudar Ugljevik with 3.5-0.5 in round 6 to leap to the shared second place with 9 points together with Economist Saratov. Details of the penultimate round are available below.
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In order for Shimizu Port, which celebrated its 120th anniversary, to make a leap forward, considering changes in the global situation such as shipping and logistics and various issues surrounding Shimizu Port, it is not an extension of the past, but the 4th. In anticipation of technological innovation by AI and IoT, which is called the industrial revolution, we have formulated the "Shimizu Port Long-Term Concept" to show the future image of Shimizu Port in about 20 years.
"Future goals of Shimizu Port" are the goals of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), especially "4 High-quality education for everyone", "8 Rewarding work and economic growth", and "9 Industry and technological innovation". "Let's build a foundation for", "11. Create a town where people can continue to live", "14. Protect the abundance of the sea", and "17. Let's achieve the goal through partnership". | <urn:uuid:857e0ea3-7fd7-4fd2-b87e-579cee840263> | CC-MAIN-2020-45 | https://www.portofshimizu-intl.com/port-authority/sustainable-port/ | 2020-10-28T11:43:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107898499.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20201028103215-20201028133215-00388.warc.gz | en | 0.94051 | 189 |
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MEET CUTE: "I find inspiration in the people I meet. Everyone is just so different and that's what makes them gorgeous. It's hard not to see the beauty around us."
THE BEAUTY BREAKDOWN: "Everyday makeup shouldn't change the way you look it should be a way to help bring out the beauty that is already there. For this look I used MAC StudioFix Fluid Foundation because it's medium coverage and I wanted to make sure that my skin wouldn't look cakey. I decided to stick to natural colors for the eyes, cheeks, and lips. I used brown shadow and intensified the color by adding just a little bit of black gel liner on the outer part of my lash lines. I added highlighter on the inner lower lash line to brighten up the look. I finished my eye makeup with a waterproof mascara. I chose a more peachy tone for the blush and kept the lip color simple and neutral using MAC Lipstick in Freckletone."
WHY WE LOVE HER LOOK: Camille knows how to highlight, not hide, her pretty features with makeup.
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Of course she did.
This week Kim Kardashian West held the launch of her KKW Beauty line at her Bel Air mansion, inviting friends, family and media to view the first drop of the highly coveted products. Kardashian West reminded us she’s a true businesswoman, not only did her contouring kit sell out in seconds, she also clocked in USD$14 million in mere minutes. Kim also reminded us she’s truly committed to the cause by painting her entire house the same colour as her KKW Beauty line packaging.
Yes, turns out the pink-filled launch party didn’t just extend to the products, furniture and those heavenly dusty pink roses. Instead, Kim went one better and had her house repainted for the launch, in the exact shade of nude pink she’s picked out for her product packaging.
Her mother, Kris Jenner, took to Instagram with the below snap (yes, she’s wearing the same shade of pink nude), writing: “The moment I realised I matched @kimkardashian @kkwbeauty packaging perfectly. Kim painted the walls in her house to match her packaging for launch!! #perfectionist #workethic#beautiful #flawless #proudmama dress: @fendi #nudeonnudeonnude.”
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Turns out a simple media wall won’t do, when you’re Kim Kardashian West.
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52 Million Nigerians Lack Access To Potable Water – Minister
The Minister of Water Resources, Engr. Suleiman Adamu, yesterday said 52.7million Nigerians have no access to potable water.
According to Leadership, He spoke while unveiling the Water Roadmap of the ministry tagged: ‘Immediate and long term strategies for the water sector 2016-2030.’
He said the roadmap was specifically designed to address the situation and enhance 100 percent access to potable water by the year 2030, when the country’s population is expected to reach 257million.
He highlighted some of the policy documents of the roadmap to include; establishment of a policy and regulatory framework for the water sector, development of and implementation of a National Water Supply and Sanitation Programme to attain the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), development of a blueprint to strengthen the River Basin Development Authorities as enablers for food security and socio-economic development among others.
The minister urged relevant stakeholders in the sector to assist in actualizing the roadmap.
Earlier, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, Mrs. Rabi S. Jimeta had said the ministry had articulated the detailed implementation plan, the execution of which she said was fully on course.
In his remarks, the Minister of Agriculture, Chief Audu Ogbeh, said the agriculture sector heavily relies on water for its sustainability, adding that if the road map was fully executed, it would boost the nation’s food sufficiency and create jobs.
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I was in Oslo from Oct 12, 2015 through Oct 14, 2015.
The Oseberg Viking Burial Ship (820 AD)
- Serpents are important in Viking and Scandinavian culture
- People who died of illness went to Helheim
- Ship burial, ship takes them to underworld
- Food buried with the dead
The more sturdy Gokstad ship (900 AD)
The Tune ship (900 AD)
A picture of me which a friend of mine, at the time, particularly liked. She also said that the hostel I was staying at looked like a hotel because it was so many stories high.
Thai food in Norway was particularly expensive. Not very filling.
Two women came out of a car and ask me to come with them. I ran away and ended up at this fortress — The Akershus Fortress.
Norwegian police on horseback
Oslo Harbor and more Fortress
Norwegian blueberry doughnut with strawberry milk
The original Kon Tiki – a book I found boring in middle school is a museum I find fascinating now. I met my father outside the museum.
An extremely lifelike Thor Heyerdahl
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Neighbourhood Plan Regulation 16 Consultation
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The Regulation 16 consultation for The Billingshurst Neighbourhood Plan will be commencing on 17 June at 5pm. The consultation will last for 8 weeks and will finish at Midnight on Wednesday 12 August 2020.
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General availability: Windows Server Container orchestration with Azure Service Fabric
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Windows Server Container support on Azure Service Fabric is now generally available with the Service Fabric runtime 5.6 and SDK 2.6 release. This release includes a number of new features targeted at container orchestration, including a DNS service, resource governance, Operations Management Suite integration, and more.
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Five talented comics artists have been announced as the winners of the first Comic Art Europe “Open Call”, launched last year, selected among 200 applicants.
Comic Art Europe is an international pilot project bringing together four European organisations promoting and championing the power of Comics and Graphic Novels – Lyon BD, the Lakes International Comic Art Festival, Escola Joso, Centre de Còmic i Arts Visuals and Centre Belge de la Bande-Dessinée (the Belgium Comic Strip Centre) – with the support of the European Union program “Creative Europe”.
The project aims to strengthen the comic book sector in Europe by experimenting with collaborative working methods. It promotes the transnational mobility of artworks, workers and creators and prefigures a European comics community capable of positioning creators and organisations at a European level, challenging the historical dominance of the American and Japanese giants.
Comic Art Europe will include professional training (summer camps and residencies), creative assistance (grants), dissemination of results in Europe and outside Europe (European comic book catalogue, large-scale dissemination channels) and research about the transformational power of comics (in particular through literacy workshops with comics).
The announced winners of the first Comic Art Europe Open Call, who win packages which all include a 5,000€ grant and a two-week artist residency, include British comic creator Karrie Fransman. Karrie’s previous work includes the graphic novels The House That Groaned, and the award winning Death of the Artist. Her latest illustrated book, Gender Swapped Fairy Tales, was co-created with her husband Jonathan Plackett and was published by Faber & Faber in 2020),
Also selected are are Barcelona-based comic artist and illustrator Filipa Beleza, from Portugal, Marine des Mazery, from France, whose first graphic novel, Le Roi Jéhan, is released in April, in French, Berlin-based German creator Mathias Meikel and Maria Surducan, an illustrator and comics book author from Romania.
Each presented an exciting project based on the theme “Visions of Tomorrow“, which they will develop during an artist residency.
The Comic Art Europe project, supported by the European Commission, runs until 31st December 2023, and its reach includes UK creators. The second part of the Comic Art Europe (CAE) project, a Summer Camp for aspiring comic creators in Barcelona, Spain, was recently announced – and applications are open to young new creatives across Europe.
Applications are open until 30th March 2021 and it’s completely free to apply – only a digitalised portfolio is required. The 20 successful participants will be contacted around mid-April 2021. (Please note, applications will not be considered from industry professionals)
Applications are open to residents from European Union’s 27 countries members, Great Britain, Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Iceland, Montenegro, Norway, Serbia, Georgia, Moldavia, Ukraine, Tunisia, Armenia, Kosovo and Lichtenstein
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The College is extremely proud to have two students involved in the university’s prestigious rowing programme as part of the aspiring Boat Race squad. They are third year NatSci student Iris Powell (U20), and MPhil Biotechnology student Nicky Wojtania (G22).
Rowing for Cambridge University (CUBC) requires a unique combination of academic and sporting excellence and the intense trialling process starts each season in September. We caught up with Iris and Nicky to celebrate their achievements and hear more about the commitment involved as well as their own personal motivations and challenges.
I grew up near Cambridge, in and around Peterborough, attending Stamford High School and The King’s School Peterborough before coming to Churchill in 2020.
Before I came to Churchill, I participated in a lot of club hockey, and before COVID-19 hit I was fairly certain that I wanted to continue playing hockey at Cambridge
so once term began in October I made the decision to play some different college sports, including Churchill ladies’ netball team (which I went on to captain in my second year), and something new in the form of rowing.
I had never considered rowing before coming to Cambridge, but the rowing community at Churchill is so strong, and even at college level you really do feel a part of something special. It was somewhat of an “if not now, when?” moment and I decided to give it a go!
The intensity of the training schedule rowing for CUBC is unlike anything I have done before. We train around 12 times a week, often 7 days a week, which is undoubtedly very time-consuming. Thankfully we normally return to Cambridge from morning training in Ely in good time, and the evening sessions can also be arranged so that on weekdays a 9-5 workday can be accommodated, but as we have very little time outside of this most of my working hours have to be productive! The squad is incredibly tight-knit and supportive, and I have made friends for life with my teammates, but probably the biggest challenge arising from the level of commitment required to row at this level is maintaining relationships outside of the club. When waking up at 5am most mornings to train, I am often in bed by 9pm, so socialising in the evenings with friends can be difficult; I have found it necessary to make a concerted effort to catch up with friends during the day over a coffee or a walk instead, but it is possible with a little forethought.
Although in a way it led me to rowing, the most obvious challenge that stands out to me is my battle with RED-S and hypothalamic amenorrhea. Women’s health, particularly in sport, is something that I am incredibly passionate about, and having experienced some particularly unfortunate advice from medical professionals myself, and having heard many others with similar experiences, I think it is absolutely something that needs more awareness drawn to it. Researching, and dealing with this issue entirely by myself, particularly in a society which is laden with misinformation and largely values thinness over health, remains my greatest achievement. As a result, I have a much greater understanding of my body and appreciation for its strengths and weaknesses. Rowing has only furthered this, and a culture in which food is very much treated as fuel, rather than an indulgence, and in which women can strive to be strong, and take up space, is a culture which I am quite frankly honoured to be a part of. I am particularly proud of the ways in which I have been able to stretch my limits, and of the resilience that I feel I have developed from committing to such a challenging process.
My motivation to row at university level is twofold; the first almost goes without saying, and that is the incredible tradition of the boat races and the rivalry with Oxford. Secondly, I have found that rowing with CUBC is a way for me to constantly challenge myself and push myself outside my comfort zone. As such, the improvements, not only physical, but also mental and emotional, that I have been able to identify in myself since September are enormous. This is really exciting to me, and I can’t wait to see where it takes me in the future.
I would definitely recommend rowing to those who haven’t rowed before! From the outside it can seem like a very intensive sport, and for those who are looking to challenge themselves it is a fantastic place to do so. However, especially in Cambridge, it is readily open to those of all fitness and commitment levels. Rowing with Churchill college is free, and they have boats for all levels, from complete beginner right up to the top boats that will train much more often. Bumps is a fun Cambridge tradition that is very special to be part of, and the rowing community is so supportive and friendly, so it is also a great way to meet new people!
I currently receive a full Cambridge Bursary which is partially funded through the College in the form of a ‘Women in Science’ bursary. Trialling for CUBC does not come without its own expenses, not only in the form of membership fees and training camp costs, but also everyday things like needing to buy more food or wash kit more often. I have found that receiving these additional funds has meant that, particularly in the current cost of living crisis, I can eat the quality and amounts of food necessary to train at such an intense level without worrying too much about its financial impact.
I am still in the process of deciding what to do after my studies… trialling for CUBC alongside completing my Cambridge degree has been a very intensive process so my plans may well involve a year off!
I grew up in the United States in Texas near Dallas before moving to Massachusetts to study at Harvard University for my undergraduate degree, where I majored in Bioengineering with a minor in Economics.
As someone studying Biotechnology, I was attracted to Churchill’s forward-thinking focus on science, engineering, and technology.
Growing up, I was a competitive rhythmic gymnast for over 11 years competing at national and international levels. Unfortunately, when I began my undergraduate degree, injuries and the lack of nearby training facilities prohibited continued training. I desperately looked for activities to replace the space gymnastics had held for me, turning to everything from ballet to ballroom dancing. However, nothing fully fulfilled my insatiable desire to continue competing in a sport at a high level. That was when I turned to university sports which welcomed novices. Out of all these sports, rowing—with its focus on rhythm, strength, technique, and the dichotomy of the individual athlete in a team—felt the most familiar. The privilege of rowing with such a powerful team of women on the beautiful Charles River just added to the appeal of the sport.
When I began rowing, I was the second slowest on the team (and by team I don’t mean varsity team but the squad of novice rowers). In practice, rhythmic gymnastics and rowing do not have many similarities. Not only did I have to grasp the rowing technique on the water, I also had to develop strength, stamina, and fitness. To catch up with my team, I spent extra hours on the erg, supplemented cycling, running, and weight-lifting sessions. Additionally, I had a serious knee injury last year which prevented my return to the sport until just before trialing with the Cambridge University Boat Club (CUBC.)
Rowing for CUBC involves training every day with a combination of land and water training. As a team, we have at least 6 sessions on the water, 2 indoor rowing sessions, and 3 strength and conditioning trainings during each week. This term, we also travel to London every other week to race in side-by-side fixtures against other clubs in preparation for the Boat Race.
One of the most exciting moments of training with CUBC was stroking the winning the Fours Head race with my crew. My team and I overcome several challenges, including last minute crew changes as a result of injury. In the end, we were able to adapt and effectively work together to create a fast boat that ended up winning the race. I am constantly driven by the prospects of racing Oxford in the Boat Race and maintaining CUBC’s winning streak. On a day-to-day basis, I am motivated by the group of strong, inspiring women that make up the team, along with the encouragement and mentorship I continuously receive from our coaches.
I would definitely recommend rowing to students have never rowed before. There is something magical when everything clicks, and you are able to glide through the water in an all-too-narrow boat. Rowing is also a very rewarding sport, where all your efforts are not only reflected in individual improvement but also translate to speed felt by the entire boat. Finally, rowing builds on several character traits including resilience, dedication, communication, and teamwork.
After completing my MPhil at Churchill I plan to work in consulting for a few years before returning to academia to complete a PhD. Ultimately, I hope to work in the biotechnology industry, leading novel projects that have the potential to benefit human health.
Nicky stroking the winning Four’s Head race with her crew
Supporting rowing at Churchill
Triallists like Iris and Nicky are required to fund all their training costs personally, and there is limited existing funding from the Hawks’ Club and the College to support these. The costs are currently over £2,000 for each student. We would like to raise at least £1,500 to help both Iris and Nicky meet more of their costs. To add your support please use this link and choose ‘other’ adding CCBC in the comment field. All gifts to the Boat Club, as with the College are tax-efficient and therefore if you are a UK taxpayer will increase by 25% at no extra cost to you. Thank you for your support!
The Boat Race
Every year over 250,000 people watch The Boat Race from the banks of the Thames and fifteen million watch it on TV. As noted on the CUBC website, this famous race is in fact two races, featuring the men’s and women’s Blue Boats of Oxford and Cambridge. The Blue Boat is the name given to the top crew from each university, whose members win the coveted Light Blue colours of Cambridge or Dark Blue of Oxford. The openweight reserve crews are raced between the Boat Races (after the women’s race and before the men’s). The men’s reserve crews are Isis, for Oxford, and Goldie, for Cambridge. The women’s reserve crews are Osiris, for Oxford, and Blondie, for Cambridge. The 2023 Gemini Boat Race Crew Announcement will be made on Monday 6th March and we wish Iris and Nicky the very best of luck! | <urn:uuid:384eefd7-d1dc-40ce-8adc-88f959951531> | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | https://thinkforward.chu.cam.ac.uk/news/a-stroke-of-sporting-excellence-from-churchill-college-rowers/ | 2023-12-05T04:30:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100545.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20231205041842-20231205071842-00173.warc.gz | en | 0.97508 | 2,256 |
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Due to the evolution of the modern society, a lot of changes have taken place which is inevitable. The society has changed from being rigid to being so flexible in terms that one has to embrace changes that seem to take place on day to day basis. In our day to day living, change is inevitable. It is the only parameter that is always constant or permanent for that matter 3. This fact it geared by the factors such as cultural changes, population expansion as well as change in technology that force human beings to adapt new ways of living so as to favorably fit in this highly competitive society. Mankind has developed strategies whereby it is survival for the fittest. This can be illustrated through evolution and mountaineering as well where humankind molds activities to fit the ever-changing human process.
Evolution is all about theory of changes that do take place to in natural or living features or creatures through restricted random mutations and dependent selection. Darwin's Theory of Evolution is about great development that has been achieved in molecular world, biochemistry and genetics over the past fifty years. Molecular biologist Michael Denton wrote, “That these changes are though they end up causing numerous revolutions to the evolving living creatures.”1 Darwin's Theory of Evolution is far accepted theory of evolution which argues that all living creatures are inter linked thus they all have a common origin. The theory still stresses that the living things under go some changes in their biological makeup that is their genes or DNA evolve over time. In that process new species are formed that are different from the original species. During this time, the original constitution of the genes is altered; a process known as gene mutation. In the entire formation of new species, the best traits and components are retained while the weaker and less desirable ones got rid off. These include the genes that help and enhance the species to survive in a specific environment. This is basically nature’s way to safeguard and maximize on maintaining desirable characteristics within species as it tries to eliminate the less desirable traits through gene mutation 1, 2. The low grade living creatures gradually get displaced by the superior ones with time via natural process of elimination which is death. This means that the natural process reinforces survival for the fittest whereby only creatures with superior qualities that promote and encourage their survival in a certain environment are left. This entire process is known as natural selection method or process.
As reflected by the contemporary society change is normal for survival due to the growing demographic changes, mobility, technology as well as culture and people’s lifestyle. This is further reflected in living things whereby the have to undergo gene mutation that is evolve so as to favorably cope with day to day environmental changes .This may include wellness to compete for scarce resources like water, food amidst others with other species in the ecosystem 8.
On the other hand mountaineering is all about is the sport or the activity of climbing mountains. This relates well with day to day living which has become so unpredictable in terms of being adventurous like the above mentioned sports activity. Life at the same times is molded such hat people are ever looking for new chances to cope to the always changing society.
As the way mountaineers concentrate on unclimbed mountains so do the contemporary lifestyle. For example the use of the internet that makes one access anyone within the globe as fast as possible without any change in geographical location via emails and face book has made everybody to adapt to the current technology. Thus the world becomes human friendly and a global village. Therefore this calls for drastic evolution otherwise one would be rendered unfit for survival in the modern society. Thereby survival for the fittest applies. Darwin’s Theory of Evolution refers this to as somatic hyper mutation whereby living things adapt radical and rapid modifications so as to survive and thrive in a life threatening circumstance. For example they can develop defense mechanisms like secreting antibodies to strengthen their immunity. This enhances their continuity hence survival for the fittest.
Darwin's Theory of Evolution stated that these changes that take place within the species are generally gradual and slow in nature. This means they do not take place overnight but they are consistent successive changes within a species. This is to ensure that the desirable features or trait of a specific species are not all together faced off for the environment thus become extinct. As a result of these, it ensures that any changes that take place is carried or built upon earlier modifications 4. As found in our day to day living, the Darwin's Theory has been applied in that technology is always built upon the existing one. The old is never disposed until the current one is functional and fully in place. Still we also find that no technology is completely done away with but it preserved to be of use in times of crises thus serving as complementary and back up purposes. For the outdated technology, it is stored in archives for future references as well as for historic purposes.
Modern day Science has also considered anatomy to try and unravel the mystery of evolution 4. The anatomists discovered that when they juxtaposed the anatomical makeup of different organism, they realized some similarities in their structures. One of the main similarities they realized across the board is the skeletal structure of the organisms. Most had similar bones although some were more advanced than others. These similarities can be a proof that the vertebrates have a common ancestry. This concept can be described best by an analogy of the flying animals. Even though the bird, the butterfly and the bat all belong to different species, the structure of the wing that they have is fundamentally the same. The analogous relationship revealed by the wings is evidence of a possible common ancestry.
Gene mutation is found to be variant. This means that it is not predetermined, uniform and takes place as per the need at hand. It varies from one organism to another depending on the environmental demands or damages. As for technology, technology is not homogenous since it varies as predicated by different factors like people’s lifestyle among others.
However some evolutionary scientists say that gene metamorphosis is very slow for any species variation. Any outcome is dependent on the position of a gene. Thus any change in position of a specific gene can lead to complete transformation and change in function of the entire gene. As observed in our daily living, human beings change in accordance to their surrounding. This means that the magnitude of change in a human being is parallel to the demands laid by his surrounding. Lack of modification renders one “unfit” for the fast growing society 4. For example in pre- modern times, mothers were baby sitters. However nowadays, due to high cost of living mothers are also in the job market to earn a living. This calls them to use micro waves in their food preparation and cooking so as to save kitchen time. In the former, microwaves were not seen as ideal sine time salvage was not an issue. Still, mothers in the post modern era opt for packed foods .This was not the case way before as fresh food was highly valued than is ready to eat foods. The fast food restraints provide services that are uniform in that one can get similar food item in a different geographical coverage. Consequently, it is possible that the root cause of variation is chromosomal recombination rather than mutation. Mutations in regulator genes are another candidate for rapid change.
The Darwin's Theory of Evolution stated that changes are more felt as a result of group or societal change rather than individual change. He emphasizes this by saying that group change more strongly felt due to the mass psychology which acts as a catalyst for any change. In our day to day living this is seen whereby any change is taken more seriously multitude driving force that creates individual willingness to conform to change. An example is the use of mobile phones that have replaced telephones.
Conclusively, these theories are very applicable since they are a replica of the contemporary society.
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Celebrity Chef Gordon Ramsay has denied allegations he had an affair.
During an appearance on the BBC's "Frigging Good F Show" on Thursday, the celebrity chef sandwiched his denial in a reference to his mistress Sarah Symonds, who was in the audience.
"My mistress is here tonight so I'm on my denial behavior," Gordon began, according to The Sun. "Oh f*** it! I didn't do it with you Sarah. I love my wife. I so f*****g did not do it. It was just some new tricks that I wanted to learn and practice before I showed them to my wife."
The former Celebrity Father Of The Year in 2006 is now a hot contender for the Celebrity Cheater Of the Year.
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Wyndham hotels is hosting a contest this summer where they are giving away 1 million points from United in the form of four prizes of 250,000 points each. Register by entering your Wyndham Rewards number on the contest site and you’re in.
The drawings will be held July 15, July 29, August 12, and August 26, 2013. Register once and you’re included in all subsequent drawings.
You probably won’t win, but you have to be in it to win it, right?
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New Haven, CT - Lauren Ressler (Bellingham, WA) has been selected as the Yale women's golf captain for the 2004-2005 season. Ressler, a junior next season, was picked by a team vote at Widdy's at the Course at Yale on May 8. She appeared in all nine tournaments Yale played this past year, finishing with a cumulative average of 80.5 in 23 rounds. She was the top finisher at the Harvard Invitational last October, shooting a 159. She tied for fourth at the Yale Invitational earlier that month with a 152. Her best finish in the spring was a tie for 12th (248) at the Ivy League Championship in April, where the Bulldogs finished second as a team.
Ressler is a graduate of Bellingham High and won the girls' 16-17 division of the PGA Junior Series Tournament in Olympia in 2001. She resides in Trumbull College at Yale.
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Antoine Beuger (b. 1955 in Oosterhout, Netherlands) studied composition with Ton de Leeuw at Sweelinck Coservatorium in Amsterdam 1973-78.
In 1990 he began composing after an interruption of about 10 years. Two years later he founded Edition Wandelweiser together with composer/performer Burkhard Schlothauer.
Since 1994 he's been active with the conception and organisation of KLANGRAUM, a concert series at Kunstraum Düsseldorf. During the years 1995-2001 he was working together with visual artist Mauser as artistic director of "Werkraum", Place for Interdisciplinary Artistic Events, Cologne. | <urn:uuid:59227b2e-515e-4acc-8469-aec406c1ebbc> | CC-MAIN-2016-50 | http://www.flirtic.ee/polls/music/4cdf451e-1436-4cd5-b0bb-ce9f7dc94c0e | 2016-12-11T04:56:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-50/segments/1480698544097.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20161202170904-00325-ip-10-31-129-80.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.915391 | 141 |
The MÜV Transdermal 72 Hour THC Patch is an ideal option for patients seeking smoke-free, steady-release medical cannabis. THC is an effective natural medicine for such ailments as chronic pain, muscle spasticity, nausea, and many more. It also produces the euphoric feeling commonly associated with cannabis.
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In an industry of diverse characters and talent, not a single black actor was nominated in a major high-profile category in this year’s 2016 Academy Awards. This article, published by National Public Radio, outlines the jokes, jabs, and steps taken by the show’s host Chris Rock as an effort to highlight the issues of racism that exist in Hollywood today.
From the opening monologue to the montage of movies at the start of the show, and an entire segment adding black characters in to the nominated films, the almost three hour long nationally broadcast show put issues of black and white at the forefront of viewers conscious.
Some argued that the comedian host went too far, over-emphasizing black issues but failing to acknowledge that other racial and ethnic minorities were also overlooked in nominations.
“Is Hollywood racist? You’re damn right Hollywood’s racist … but it’s [racism] you’ve grown accustomed to,” said Rock.
The evening of prestige struck a chord with an America that sruggles to find its balance and inclusion, and it certainly did not come without controversy. The content alone and the trending hashtag OscarsSoWhite did spark a conversation that perhaps needed to be had. | <urn:uuid:2b7cc7c9-3d15-4a36-a70f-5d3130ae1ff9> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://racerelationsamerica.wordpress.com/2016/03/03/oscarssowhite-shows-racism-exists-in-hollywood/ | 2017-06-25T01:43:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320386.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20170625013851-20170625033851-00584.warc.gz | en | 0.953888 | 256 |
The 7th annual Fort Myers Beach Pirate Fest will take place on Old San Carlos Boulevard and beyond during Columbus Day Weekend, Oct....
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You guys,something pretty funny happened… Kelly Bensimon liked ALL of my instagram posts about her and even commented with some heart emojis… Methinks she didn’t read any of my posts because I basically call her a crazy person who doesn’t know how to read… well, maybe she had her intern “read” it to her and she just heard the good parts! Like she is thin and good at jogging amongst moving vehicles.
ANYWAY, maybe Kelly was just trying to enter my giveaway to get a copy of her own book (don’t forget to enter HERE!) and I don’t blame her, there is good shit in there (well, not really, but hey, it’s free!) We have finally reached the end of Kelly’s quest to make us HOT through using our phones less (texting is not hot) and not doing the alcohol diet (unfortch) and now she will teach us to cook!
First of all, Kelly gives us yet another cuckoo bananas list of ideas on how to be QUIRKY and HAVE FUN! This includes, and I swear on Andy Cohen that I am not lying to you, the recommendation to make grilled cheese sandwiches with your iron. I mean… wut? is grilled cheese even a hot person food? And that seems like, super unnecessary. Kelly seems like that one friend from your office that loves making crafts from the office supply closet and gets super hammered on like fucking daiquiris at happy hour and acts outrageous and everyone whispers about on Monday. Like, homegirl just seems like such an exhausting try hard.
ANYWAY, onto the cooking! And no, I am not ruining my fucking iron just for funsies. I REALLY don’t trust most of Kelly’s ideas, so I decided to go basic af and pick out a simple salad. I don’t want to ruin a nice piece of salmon with like jelly beans or some shit, so the Kelly Green salad it is.
So this salad is easy af. It’s just arugula, olive oil, chickpeas, avocado, chopped almonds and lime juice. One thing I don’t really understand is the serving sizes in this book- the Kelly green salad is 4 servings yet has 1 tbsp of olive oil and 1/4 cup of chickpeas (which, when divided by 4 is approximately 3 chickpeas per serving). However, the salad recipe on the next page is one serving and has a HALF CUP of balsamic vinegar. I mean, Jesus Christ, is this going on a garbage can of romaine?
So, this is going to shock you.
This salad was SO good.
I KNOW! WTF sort of sorcery is this?!?!?!
But it was! I was really hungry when I ate it (and it legit took like 2 minutes to assemble, which is always a nice plus) but I must admit… I even made it AGAIN the next day! And I still have that shit in my fridge so I legit will probably make it again tomorrow!
Although I really liked this, I can’t imagine what some of the other recipes would turn out like (especially that trash can salad) just based on Kelly’s seeming inability to focus on anything for more than three consecutive sentences. I am SO GLAD to be done with I Can Make You Hot! I mean, Khloe Kardashian’s nonsense book Strong is The New Hot or whatever is better organized than this shit. Sorry, Kel Kel. HARD PASS. | <urn:uuid:e9ef77ac-aeb3-41fe-8a61-3be7e72dba1e> | CC-MAIN-2020-05 | https://realhockwives.com/2017/02/10/i-can-make-you-hot-cooking-with-kelly/ | 2020-01-23T15:15:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-05/segments/1579250610919.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20200123131001-20200123160001-00207.warc.gz | en | 0.960328 | 746 |
The President will sign two executive actions that seek to close the gender wage gap. The aim of the orders is to make it easier for underpaid women to discover unfair differences in pay, but they'll apply only to federal contractors
President Obama is set to announce two executive actions Tuesday to increase wage transparency for federal contractors as part of a wider effort to close the wage gap for women.
The President will sign an Executive Order that prohibits federal contractors from retaliating against employees who discuss their compensation, with the aim of providing workers a way of discovering violations of equal-pay laws. A second order will require the Secretary of Labor to collect data on federal contractors’ worker compensation, organized by race and sex.
The aim of the Executive Orders is to make it easier for underpaid women to discover unfair differences in pay. But the measures would only apply to federal contractors, not to women in the broader workforce.
The President has timed the Executive Orders ahead of this week’s Senate debate on the Paycheck Fairness Act, which would allow women in the general workforce to seek remedies similar to those brought for racial discrimination. The bill is part of a broad push on equal pay by the Democratic Party, in a bid to shore up support from female and liberal voters ahead of this fall’s midterm elections.
“This is a huge victory for the 1 in 5 American workers employed by federal contractors,” said Deborah J. Vagins, ACLU senior legislative counsel. “Congress still needs to do its part and pass the Paycheck Fairness Act, but we’re one step closer to achieving pay equity thanks to this White House.” | <urn:uuid:f315cb5c-fb35-4546-83c3-7aa63d909dcd> | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | http://time.com/50955/obama-executive-order-wage-gap-women/ | 2015-01-29T14:40:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-06/segments/1422115855094.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20150124161055-00191-ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96206 | 337 |
Changing the testing culture
CH-UH kindergarten teachers spoke in unison during public comments at the Board of Education (BOE) meeting on Nov. 5. Their concerns ranged from the excessive time spent assessing our young learners to how our current testing of kindergartners is developmentally inappropriate.
One teacher stated that by the 25th day of school, teachers had administered five tests. Others stated that some of the tests must be given one on one, which results in a tremendous loss of instructional time. Nearly 90 colleagues and community residents attended the board meeting to support our teachers. Each teacher who spoke asked for time to meet with district officials to rethink what and how we test kindergarten students.
Later that same week, during our labor-management committee meeting, we discussed the points raised by our kindergarten teachers at the BOE meeting and how to move forward. We agreed that giving these teachers a professional day to discuss the testing regime and make recommendations would be a good use of time.
A full-day meeting with kindergarten teachers and administration was held, and a testing plan was hammered out—one that aligns well with what our teachers want for their young students. Many of the tests were replaced with standards-based checklists that organize the data that teachers acquire through a variety of daily assessments that they use to inform instruction.
This collaborative effort brought forth a recommendation for “learning school” at the beginning of the year, to help our kindergarten students become familiar with how to “do school.” For example, teachers pointed out that students know what the United States flag looks like because of the daily recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance. Yet, when the new social studies test asked students to circle a picture of the U.S. flag shown next to the flag of Mexico, most students chose the Mexican flag.
Why? Kindergarten teachers know, through their experience, that most students are right handed and the Mexican flag was on the right—where students circled what they saw first.
The professional day resulted in positive outcomes. Teachers need and want relevant information to guide their instruction, and they were frustrated enough to go public with their concerns—something we, as teachers, rarely do at board meetings. Many thanks to the board members for taking this matter seriously, and to the administration for working with and listening to the classroom professionals.
At the board’s work session, later in November, the focus was on testing data and how the central office uses this information. Board members were interested in how much time is used to collect, monitor and analyze test data. The director of data research and assessment services contacted me about the information our teachers union already has regarding first-, second- and third-grade testing. We determined that more information was needed, and together we developed a survey for those grade-level teachers. We will compile the survey results and report back to the BOE.
These efforts represent positive steps toward fixing some of the concerns that I expressed in an earlier column about our testing culture. I hope that our BOE continues to openly question the testing requirements and procedures of the state and of our district.
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Andrew Griffith, agricultural economist at the University of Tennessee, said in a letter to Extension agents that there was a good chance that boxed beef prices had hit their seasonal low.
But that didn’t mean prices were likely to break out to the upside.
“If they have hit their low then there is a good chance they will be somewhat stagnant for a while before a slow grind higher leading up to the end of the year holidays,” Griffith said.
Another analyst said that if choice boxed beef prices follow the 2014-2018 average for direction, then prices could bump for a bit into August and then fade through September. At that point, beef prices could rise for the holidays.
That will be led by beef ribeye prices, the analyst said. If everything returns to normal, demand for rib roasts will be noticeable and will peak in early December as restaurants and retail grocers fill their expected needs.
HOLIDAY OBSERVANCE CRUCIAL
Just how high boxed beef prices go through the end of the year may depend on how the holidays are celebrated if the coronavirus remains a concern, he said.
Another analyst agreed, and said the COVID-19 effects on school, travel and gatherings would be crucial to strength in meat prices in general.
If normal celebrations are allowed, then turkey consumption will increase for the Thanksgiving Day holiday with a smaller surge for the Christmas celebrations, the analyst said. Ham and to a lesser extent, beef rib consumption will increase for both holidays.
But if the pandemic resurges, as it may do once schools reopen, then shutdowns likely will flare up again, keeping people at home and away from holiday celebrations, the analyst said. This will limit buying interest for all holiday meats, and without the consumption surge at the end of the year, prices for these items could lag while prices for other things like beef roasts, ground beef and chicken may be supported.
PRODUCTION FORECASTS LIMIT GAINS
Plus, expectations of strong beef production through the end of the year will temper wholesale beef values to some degree simply because of the quantity supplied to the market, Griffith said.
And if that weren’t enough, hog slaughter is expected by many to be up for the rest of the year as packers work through a backlog of market-ready hogs, the analyst said.
Slaughter backlogs for cattle, hogs and chickens could get worse through the end of the year if the virus resurges, the analyst said. Packing plants, with their close working environments for employees who have to work to get from paycheck to paycheck, are places ripe for infection transmission.
If schools, which are breeding grounds for all kinds of illness under normal conditions, turn into a coronavirus trading post, then meat production will suffer because of ill employees or employees with ill children, the analyst said.
Any way it is sliced, this pandemic looks like it will have a very long tail, the analyst said.
CATTLE, BEEF RECAP
Fed cattle trading was reported this week at $97 to $97.50 per cwt on a live basis, up $2 to down $2.50 from last week. Dressed-basis trading was at $160 per cwt, up $2.
The USDA choice cutout Thursday was up $0.69 per cwt at $201.80, while select was up $2.01 at $191.50. The choice/select spread narrowed to $10.30 from $11.62 with 115 loads of fabricated product sold into the spot market.
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Budapest 2008 Casting Assessment: Selected Anita Pearl did not speak much English, but then again she did not have to say a word. Anita was instantly selected on the spot as soon as we saw her with her clothes off. No question! Case closed! Few models have a sexy, come-fuck-me-look that is better than Anitas. She was so hot at her first half day shoot that I could not stop thinking about her. We had to get her back for more. I held that last slot on the last day open and fortunately she was available to shoot. I was so happy with the final results of this trip.
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BNDES Lends to Hotels
Brazil’s BNDES will provide BRL132m ($57m) in loans for two hotel projects in Rio de Janeiro, it says. Through the ProCopa Tourism program, it will...
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How to actually add value with your Values campaign By Sophie Hewitt
The definition of the word Values (in this context) is ‘Principles or standards of behaviour; one’s judgement of what is important in life.’ So why does Values campaigns often fall flat and fail to engage? It should be easy to define what’s important when it comes to ‘how we do things round here’ but here at the ICT we find it’s still a real sticking point; from launching or relaunching to embedding them. Here are our five tips for success:
Involve your employees in creating them
The best examples of Values working well, in my experience, are where employees help to decide what they are and what they mean. Doing things from the bottom up can often do the embedding for you.
Make the Values exciting and different
Without devaluing Values (see what I did there) in our experience, they are often relatively generic/bland, so to save them being uninspiring ‘motherhood and apple pie’, try and be different and make them more exciting, simple and relevant. If you’re going to have a value like ‘Customer First’, use examples to bring it to life for people and give them absolute clarity over what that means in reality and how to live it in their daily work and decision-making. And don’t have too many, four to five is about right.
Get ready for the launch!
Today: Get ready for the launch! It’s surprising how many businesses introduce Values but don’t
invest time and effort in an effective launch, or launch them in some parts of the business and not others. We recommend launching them to everyone at the same time using a multi-channel approach with face to face at its heart, so that your people have a consistent experience and message. Also, don’t forget to add them to the section of your website that will be viewed by potential employees – a meaningful set of values will help you in attracting people who are aligned with them and ready to live them once on board.
Ensure leadership live and breathe them
If the Exec team can’t be bothered to live and breathe the Values, why should anyone else? You need them to be leading by example if you want the Values to be embedded in your organisation. If the CEO does a regular blog, get them to talk about the Values and how decisions have been made with them in mind. Make sure they praise people who are living the Values. Holding Town Hall events? Find a way to weave the Values into the presentation. Values need to be leadership led.
Refer to them in communications
Refer to the Values in everything! If you have a recognition scheme based on the Values, recognise people at face to face events and tell stories about the people who’ve been recognised in your channels. Make them prominent on your intranet and if you have an ESN, encourage people to post on the Values. Weave them into your people stories: “Tracey from Accounts showed Integrity when she took on this project”. You could even segregate parts of your eZine into sections that relate to the values and. If your performance management process has incorporated the Values, highlight it when you’re campaigning to engage people in the process.
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Just 37 slow steps – but a major leap forward for paralysed jockey Jonjo
ALL the way down in the car from the family farm in Co Antrim, injured jockey Jonjo Bright was trying to remind himself that he might not be able to do this.
Trying to lessen the disappointment for his hopeful parents and for himself, Jonjo (20) said his injury was too high up, that his upper body might not be strong enough. But when the moment came, he was more than ready.
And his parents joyfully counted every single one of the 37 painstaking steps their son was able to take for the first time since the accident in March 2013 that left him paralysed from the neck down, though with some movement in his arms.
It was a miracle made possible by science. A technological feat straight off the illustrated pages of ‘The Bionic Man’.
Just 37 slow and difficult steps but one giant leap for Jonjo and people like him everywhere, as the suit was unveiled at the RACE Academy in Kildare town.
Later we watched injured student Jack Kavanagh from Dunshaughlin, Co Meath, who was paralysed from the chest down after crashing into a wave while on holiday in August 2012, take his own turn in the suit, listening to the whoosh of hydraulics and watching his slow but steady progress.
It was as moving and as significant as watching a baby take its first steps, opening up a whole new world of possibilities.
For him it was his third time to don the suit, and as his mother Elmarie observed him a single tear slid down her cheek.
“It's just fantastic,” she said.
The wearable Ekso suit allows people who have been paralysed through injury or stroke to stand upright and, through motors and hydraulics, walk around and to build up the muscles so that they can work towards the goal of walking unaided when medical breakthroughs finally allow it.
“It was brilliant,” said Jonjo, looking elated though pale after his efforts.
“I didn't expect to be able to use it.
“This is a huge step forward – this would be the biggest step for me so far,” he said. “If that's the future, that's a huge thing for me.”
And so yesterday was a major moment.
Asked if it had been an emotional moment for his parents, John and Jayne, Jonjo said there had been “big smiles”.
“I didn't see anybody cry. It's nothing to cry about,” he said.
His father John Bright said the same thing. There had been too many tears shed. “No more sad days,” he declared. “He'll not be in a chair all his life,” he said.
Patrick McStravick, an Ulsterman now living in California, told how the Ekso suit had started out as a product to allow soldiers to carry large amounts of military equipment effortlessly. But when the sister of one of his colleagues suffered a spinal injury, the company's focus shifted.
The company's Irish promoters, Jane Evans and Wendy Vard of Rolling Ball, now want to introduce 17 of the suits for Irish users all over the country. But the cost, at €150,000 is prohibitive.
They said they met then Health Minister James Reilly four weeks ago. He told them that the health service didn't have the €2m necessary to fund the purchase.
But he told them to get their message out there and to approach the National Lottery, which they have also done.
They now hope that private individuals will become interested and that fundraising efforts will get under way.
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Where to Buy Healthy Ingredients
We've all been there: you get excited to make a delicious, homemade meal, but by the time you leave the grocery store you realize you’ve spent more money on just one meal than it would cost to get sushi delivered. Twice. Isn’t cooking at home supposed to be cheaper?
The good news is that you haven’t been lied to all these years: it is less expensive to cook your own meals at home. The bad news is that where you shop for what matters.
While the convenience of a one-stop supermarket trip is alluring, that big name grocery store in your neighborhood won’t usually have the best prices on most fresh things, including salad and bowl ingredients. But with a little local exploration and some initial purchases, you’ll have a well-stocked pantry and rarely have to buy much more than fresh greens each week.
So in the spirit of shorter receipts and fuller wallets, here are my winning places for inexpensive and delicious healthy ingredients:
The Best Place to Buy Produce
LOCAL FARMERS' MARKETS
Turns out you don’t need a Subaru (or a yoga teacher certification) to shop at a farmers’ market. Food at farmers’ markets is often surprisingly cheaper than your area’s chain supermarket (check the price per pound on items). Since farmers are selling what is in season and most abundant (in the summer they basically hand out zucchini for free), the farmer’s market is a great place to score produce, the star of Loveleaf salads. Find one near you here.
Bonus items: Quality (local, organic, grass-fed, etc.) meat, cheese, and eggs and artisan pantry items like honey and maple syrup.
WHOLE FOODS MARKET
Like everything, produce can be expensive at Whole Foods. If you're trying to save time or don’t have a salad spinner yet, Whole Foods’ 1 lb box of organic spring mix is a great salad base option that will last you a full week of lunches.
I don't love Trader Joe's for fresh vegetables, but they havesome good frozen vegetables, tofu and tempeh, inexpensive fresh herbs (cilantro, dill, parsley, scallions, etc.), and an (unexpected) but usually unbeatable price on cauliflower. Weird, but true. (And don’t skip their large and affordable cheese and wine selections - a meal prep necessity, imo).
The Best Place to Buy Pantry Staples
SPECIALTY GROCERY STORES
(think: Whole Foods Market, Trader Joe’s, Warehouse Clubs)
Believe it or not, I find most of my staple pantry ingredients at these three locations. The trick? Stick to the “house” brands, such as the 365 Everyday Value at Whole Foods. Items like tahini, vinegar, mustard, and olive oil are always a good deal and I also like their bulk bins for nuts, seeds, dried beans, lentils, rice, quinoa, and spices since you can buy just what you need.
I love Trader Joe’s for basic ($1.99!) spices and basics like extra virgin olive oil, vinegar, mustard, maple syrup, and honey. They also carry pantry staples, like canned tuna, coconut milk, organic peanut butter, and almond butter. Their prices are hard to beat on dried fruit, nuts, and seeds (and their $1.99 bags of sunflower seeds are a great option for adding cheap crunch to salads).
If have space in your house, there are some good finds at warehouse clubs (Sam's Club, Costco, or BJs). Though they do require a yearly membership, you can save significantly on some healthy ingredients including pole and line caught canned tuna and canned wild Alaskan salmon, chia seeds, rice, quinoa, nuts, dried fruit, extra virgin olive oil, maple syrup, honey and peanut and almond butter.
The Best Place to Buy Protein
WHOLE FOODS MARKET
With meat, I really try to focus on quality; it's better for you, the animals, and the environment. Though meat can be expensive at Whole Foods Market, you're paying for the good stuff. My biggest tip is to keep your eye out for sales! I often buy grass-fed or pasture-raised meat on sale and freeze for later use (...yeah, I'm the girl with 10 organic chickens in her cart).
Local farms will often have quality meat. Search Eat Wild to find good sources near you.
Butcher Box is a monthly service that sends you high quality (think grass-fed, free-range) meat to your door. Check it out here.
The Best Place for Unexpected Treats
INTERNATIONAL GROCERY STORES OR INTERNATIONAL FOOD AISLES
(Asian, Indian, Latin, Halal, etc.)
Though I used to drive by these gems without a second thought, smaller ethnic grocers (or even the international food aisle at chain grocery stores) have great prices on items like rice, beans, lentils, coconut milk, tahini, rice noodles and (most importantly!) Sriracha. Spices are usually sold in larger quantities for a fraction of the price. At chain grocery stores, inexpensive spices can often be found in the International food aisles, just a few feet away from the more expensive selection.
Bonus items: International grocery stores can carry good produce too, especially items like onions, garlic, ginger, peppers, and fruit. Find quality dairy products at Israeli or Greek markets (authentic feta!). And don’t forget about hummus.
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Remember: Judge Selby Baqwa, brother of Jeffery Dumo Baqwa, and dean of health sciences Prof Marian Jacobs at the renaming ceremony of conference rooms 1 and 2 as the Jeffrey Dumo Baqwa Room.
The Barnard Fuller Building, Medical School HQ, was completed and commisioned in 1982. Conference rooms 1 and 2 (considered to be one room), as well as 3 and 4, have been known as such since then.
The building itself was named after E Barnard Fuller, a South African doctor trained in Edinburgh who served as chairperson of UCT Council from 1938 to 1945.
Fuller was also one of the champions of the establishment of the UCT medical school.
As part of its centenary celebrations, the Faculty of Health Sciences renamed the conference rooms in 2012.
On 18 April, conference room 4 was renamed the Frances Ames Room, in honour of one of South Africa's most respected doctors and human rights activists, an emeritus professor of neurology at UCT who died in 2002.
On 26 April, conference rooms 1 and 2 were renamed the Jeffrey Dumo Baqwa Room. Baqwa served as the first professor of primary health care at UCT from 1995 until his untimely death in 2001.
The last renaming is scheduled for 4 October, when conference room 3 is to be named after Dr Aadil Moerat, who was fondly known as the 'people's doctor' before he was killed at his practice in Gugulethu in 1998.
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