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What happens when you spend years preparing for the UPSC exam and still don’t crack it? Four aspirants share details on how they dealt with failure.
As per one estimate, out of the lakhs who apply for the civil service examinations conducted by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) every year, barely 0.2 per cent are finally selected,
The examination, which is conducted in three stages (Preliminary, Main and Interview) and across the span of nine months, is brutally difficult. Getting into the civil services not only offers long-term job security and an opportunity to administer this country, but it’s also a point of great prestige for many families.
This is why lakhs spend years of their time, money and effort in preparing for the UPSC exams. Here, at The Better India, we have told innumerable stories of people passing this exam despite difficult circumstances and how it can be done.
The sheer volume of people who read these stories every week gives you an idea of how obsessed many families are about this exam and its outcome. However, what is often missed is what candidates can do if they don’t reach the promised land.
While getting into the Union civil services, particularly the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Foreign Service (IFS) or Indian Police Service (IPS), is a fantastic career option, the general public’s obsession with it is unhealthy. Like our board exams, there is a lot of undue stress and pressure that comes with the aspiration of clearing this exam.
I have seen with my own eyes what this stress and pressure can do to people. I have seen people spending nearly a decade of their lives preparing for this exam, and when it didn’t work out, they were left in a state of anxiety, bitterness, frustration and ultimately depression.
Earlier this week, The Better India spoke to many candidates who didn’t reach the promised land despite multiple attempts, but have managed to land safely with good and stable careers. It’s important for those who haven’t cleared the exam to hear their voices.
Not Getting Through UPSC Despite Multiple Attempts
Aditya Unnikrishnan, a research associate at the Centre for Policy Research, a leading Delhi-based think tank, felt that after obtaining his Master’s in Development Studies from IIT-Madras back in 2015, the natural progression was a career in the civil services.
“My first UPSC attempt was right after graduating without any preparations in 2015. Back then, I just wanted to figure out what writing the exam felt like. The following year, however, I was well prepared for it. That was my first actual attempt. I cleared the Mains, got through the Interview stage, and at the final hurdle I missed out by 15-18 marks. Despite the initial disappointment, I figured out some of the things I needed to work on. I gave my next attempt the following year, I cleared the Prelims, but fell short in the Mains even though I thought I had done much better than the year before,” says Aditya.
Rohit Kumar, a senior product manager at Byju’s, who takes history classes online and handles their UPSC preparation material, has attempted the exam five times.
“I began preparing for the UPSC in 2011 after quitting my job managing an apparel factory in Bengaluru. My first attempt was in 2012. On four occasions, I cleared the Prelims and wrote the Mains, and reached the Interview stage once during my third attempt in 2015. Since middle school, I was always a good student with an inclination towards the arts. So, at the back of my mind, I knew that I would give the civil services exam one day. After graduating from the National Institute of Fashion Technology in 2010, I worked for nearly a year and instead of sweating for somebody else, I thought why not expend that effort to my goal, which was to clear the civil service exams,” says Rohit.
Meanwhile, for Sanchari Pal, who is currently the Head of Content at The Better India, it was a desire to help bring about change she wanted to see in the country that motivated her to attempt this exam four times.
“My dad was a civil servant who served in the Andaman islands during the tsunami of 2006, and I had seen firsthand the kind of impact dedicated civil servants could have on the lives of so many people. Yes, there was corruption and lethargy in the system, but a change was slowly and steadily rolling in. And I really wanted to be a part of this change,” she says.
Dealing with the Disappointment of not Clearing UPSC
“I was majorly disappointed when it didn’t work out. When I got to the interview stage during my first serious attempt, I knew what had to be done the next time. With all these expectations built, the outcome the second time around was way below what I had expected. That hit me really hard but it also made me think that the outcome of this exam does not feel very controllable since I was convinced I had done much better than the year before. I wasn’t confident enough or 100 per cent sure that in my next attempt I would make it. There was a real risk that I would spend my entire twenties writing this exam. I was pretty sure that I didn’t want to take that risk,” recalls Aditya.
Prior to attempting the civil services, Rohit had cleared all manner of public service examinations like the Staff Selection Committee-Combined Graduate Level Examination (SSC-CGL), State Bank of India Probationary Officer (SBI-PO) Examination and others.
“Once I cleared these exams, I knew my focus was going to be on UPSC civil service exams. In April 2011, I moved to Delhi and lived there two and a half years until the end of 2013. That’s when I had just given my second attempt. By this time, there was nothing new to study and all I had to do was focus on my weaknesses. So, I took a call, came to Bengaluru and started teaching while also giving my exams. By my fifth attempt, however, I had enough. Even though there was another attempt left, I had already given six years of my life to this exam. I didn’t want to go any further. Maybe, I thought this is not meant to be. So, I took a call. By 2016 I had already taught for three years and thought maybe I am good at this profession as well. That’s when I took a real plunge into teaching,” says Rohit.
After falling short three times at the Prelims stage of the UPSC, in her fourth attempt Sanchari cracked the prelims, but disappointment wasn’t very far away.
“The mental exhaustion was extreme and as a result I fell severely ill. This meant that I couldn’t give the Mains. After dedicating four years of my life and working harder than I had ever done before, I couldn’t give the exam and this left me incredibly depressed for months. I had started preparing for UPSC right after college and I felt as if I had wasted my time while all my friends and classmates had gotten ahead with their careers. There was also the sinking realisation that perhaps I would never get a chance to serve my country the way I had wanted to,” she recalls.
Fortunately for Aditya, he found a job with Delhi-based Swaniti Initiative, a social enterprise, which works with policymakers and elected representatives to deliver development solutions. He ended up working with Swaniti Initiative for about a year and a half before moving to the Centre for Policy Research earlier this year.
“Of course, it helped that I had options and it wasn’t too hard for me to get a job. After two or three years of not being on the job market, many people feel like there aren’t any real options for them. Since many feel this way, they continue attempting it. It’s not necessarily the case that you don’t have options, but it’s not easy either. If you decide not to write again and start looking for jobs, it may not be an easy journey, but eventually you’ll manage. I had the qualifications to transition into the non-profit policy sector. But there are a bunch of people who don’t have those qualifications,” says Aditya.
Speaking to The Better India anonymously, a 28-year-old B.Tech graduate from Andhra Pradesh who has spent years on the Delhi coaching centre circuit, elaborates further.
“I finished my BTech in mechanical engineering from a not-so-well established institution in Andhra Pradesh, and frankly there aren’t many job opportunities out there for me,” she says.
This year she failed to make the cut after falling short at the interview stage and it was her fourth attempt at the UPSC. She does admit feeling insecure at not being in the job market for the past four years, but that hasn’t allowed her to sit back passively. For the past two years, she has been picking up skills like cloud computing, coding and animation (a passion), through taking classes online and from friends. She knows the task of finding a job after a gap of four years will be difficult, but remains positive.
“For many candidates like me, particularly from economically or socially deprived backgrounds, clearing this exam is what allows us to climb that social ladder. It’s sometimes the best shot we have at achieving this target. We don’t have the privilege of having relatives or friends in different sectors who can help us find a stable and well-paying job if this does not work out. This is why there is the added pressure on us to keep trying. But there comes a time, when we realise that this can’t go on. After all, you don’t want to get left behind, but that choice always depends on the individual,” she says.
Meanwhile, after 4 months of wallowing in self-pity, Sanchari finally began finding solace in something she had loved since her school days — writing.
“And, since I really wanted to work after all those years of sitting at home, I decided to get a job that would let me write, even though I had a degree in Biotech Engineering. That’s how I came across The Better India. I applied, had a great interview with the founders and was hired as a staff writer,” she recalls.
“Every dark cloud has a silver lining. We need to identify that silver lining. For everyone, it is something different. For some, during their preparations, they take a back up plan like completing their post-graduation or picking up new skills and finding a vocation that makes you feel good about yourself. By your third or fourth attempt, you have a clear idea of what’s not working for you. When you falter at the Mains more than a couple of times, there comes a stage when you realise that this entire exercise may not be for you,” says Rohit.
Finding Joy in Their Current Occupation
“At the Swaniti Initiative, we worked closely with a lot of Members of Parliament. I was part of a team which provided MPs with a lot of research material that would help them prepare for debates, committee meetings, and so on. I soon transitioned towards a project management role helping civil society organisation in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar battle human trafficking. We were providing policy support to nonprofits working in the field, and how they can work better with arms of local government to tackle the issue more effectively. At the Centre for Policy Research, I joined the State Capacity Initiative, which focuses on understanding how state systems work, particularly the bureaucracy. With what I had learned in college and working with government stakeholders in Swaniti, I was able to get into that team,” says Aditya.
For Aditya, a career in policy research has given him the freedom to decide what he wants to work on. “I have control over my life. Last year, I was managing a project on human trafficking, and learnt a lot there. But it was a project essentially driven by clients and donors, and I wanted to shift to a place where my interests truly lay,” he adds.
More essentially, it’s the freedom to decide what he wants to work on from time to time. As per his understanding, while the civil services offer greater opportunities to facilitate change, they may not provide the same freedoms.
“It’s a pretty closed system and I can’t imagine leaving it even if I was miserable because I have invested so much time, money and energy into getting there in the first place. If I had attempted the exam a few more times, I may not have secured a spot in the IAS, but another service in which I have little interest, following which I would have attempted a few more times to get into the IAS. This wouldn’t have been good for the service I had joined or the system since I was disinterested and only focussed on getting into the IAS,” says Aditya.
For Sanchari, she found a job which allowed her to serve, albeit in a very different way.
“What I especially loved about The Better India was how the articles were all about creating change that turned India into a better version of itself. It made me realise that civil service wasn’t the only way to serve my country. I could also do it by writing stories that mattered. That was in 2016, and four years later, I still look forward to working on small campaigns for big causes everyday at work. Nothing can beat the pleasure of knowing that your work has truly transformed someone’s life. Trust me, that happens a lot at TBI. And so, at the end of the day, I was happy that I was doing something for my country while building a successful career. More importantly, I stopped regretting the time I had spent in preparing for UPSC. I realised that the knowledge I had gained in those years would always be with me, even though I didn’t crack the exam. It definitely helped me everyday at work,” says Sanchari.
“Whatever the result, I would get over these disappointments quickly. I have seen my friends who were very disappointed, but for me it was okay. My attitude was if this didn’t work, let’s try something else. No question, there was grief in not clearing the exam despite passionately preparing for it. However, as a result of my preparations, I can do my job with great passion and intensity. In some ways, I guess it was a blessing in disguise,” says Rohit.
Advice for Those who Don’t Make it
How many times does a candidate keep trying? Well, it really depends from person to person.
“I respect people who have made five or six attempts to crack the UPSC. I believe that’s the sort of persistence and dedication that the system requires. However, what I would say is that don’t keep writing this exam because you feel you don’t have choices. If you actively look for choices and seek them out, you’ll get them. My advice is don’t get stuck in this cycle of attempting it because you feel there is no other resort. Do it only if getting into the civil services means a lot to you. Don’t let external factors compel you into attempting it time and again and spending precious years of your life on that,” says Aditya.
As Sanchari goes on to explain, not cracking the UPSC doesn’t mean the end of your dreams.
“The lessons learnt in those years of hard work are sure to help you build a successful career that can make you just as happy. In this digital world, it’s easy to skill yourself in a field you are truly passionate about. Companies are also far more open to hiring people from diverse backgrounds — you are not limited by your graduation degree. So don’t be afraid to try a new career if you believe you have a knack for it,” she advises.
The career you eventually land upon depends on your interests and skill sets.
“One must introspect and find your own answers. Your family also has a significant role to play here in offering solace. If you have given your 100% there is no reason for dejection. At the end of the day, some things are not under your control. I know so many people who didn’t clear this exam, but are doing very well in life wherever they are. It’s not the end of the world if you don’t clear it. It’s of course the most prestigious exam in India, but you can do better in other places and it’s imperative you start identifying them soon,” says Rohit.
(Edited by Gayatri Mishra)
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ABC NEWS REPORTER REPORTS FROM HOME, FORGETS TO WEAR PANTS FOR TV SEGMENT
So I don’t know if we’ve all been there. Well, we ARE all there, right no. If we’re lucky, we’re working from home during this epic Coronavirus lockdown. Sure, it is full of challenges. Video meetings, Zoom bombs, family distractions and, of course, depression. But for one ABC News reporter, he forgot one simple rule. If you’re not going to wear pants, make sure your legs are not on the screen! And, well, Will Reeve didn’t follow that rule. And now we’ve all seen his legs, on the job. So no, this is no disaster. But it is pretty damn funny. Well, if you’re not Will Reeve, anyway.
CORONAVIRUS LOCKDOWN MAKES OLD REPORTERS’ JOKE ON PANTS A REALITY
The ABC News flashing happened on Tuesday. Reeve was on the air, reporting from home. And it was a worthwhile report! You know, on the future of pharmacies? Cause like it or not, we’re only beginning to realize that absolutely everything has already changed. Well, like when an ABC News reporter flashed his viewers because he was working from home. Anyways, it’s been a joke for years. Reporters have said for years they don’t need to wear pants. Because usually we just see them from the navel up, sitting behind a desk or counter. Well, ABC’s Reeve just might want to make his own set at home now after his legs have been everywhere online. Viral legs. Heh.
BUT CAN WE PLEASE AVOID THIS FROM FOX NEWS? BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, COMMANDO
Unfortunately, it wasn’t a No Pants Day. Because that would have been funny in a different, inclusive way. But we are sure to see a lot more of this kind of thing in the coming weeks. So far, I’m just glad it was an ABC News reporter. Just imagine the underwear those folks over at Fox News probably wear? I shudder to find out. But then we can enjoy headlines like, Fake Pants! And hey, that’s totally fair. Also, likely, fair skinned. And THAT is the fairest of them all.
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For ages, groundbreaking inventions and trends conceived by Black people went unnoticed, unacknowledged, and undermined — and the U.S. has been no exception. The Laserphaco Probe (a device that refined laser cataract surgery), present-day blood banks, and even the home security system (come on, who doesn’t like creeping on the intercom for incoming packages?) are just a few of the inventions that have revolutionized society. But still, we don’t often celebrate that spirit of innovation beyond Black History Month.
Just a few years ago within the makeup world, Rihanna launched Fenty Beauty because of the lack of available shades compatible with dark skin on the market. In 2017. With her 40 foundation shades — the darkest of which sold out almost immediately — she proved that there was still a considerable inclusivity gap in the beauty world. Today, Black culture remains the foundation of some of our favorite looks, moments, and tools — from the current state of the lip-enhancing industry to modern hair tools to exaggerated eyeliner. But, to truly appreciate that creativity, we need to talk about how it all began. Here are just a few of the beauty innovations that we wouldn’t have without Black culture and creators.
Full lips weren’t always a “choice”
There’s a reason social media has coined the phrase “Instagram Face,” and it goes beyond being obsessed with filters. We’re living in the age of the lip job, with perfectly puffy pouts that look somewhat natural and somewhat excessive. Full lips are taking over the scene, just like thin ’90s brows, hair highlights, and deep tans did previously. But how in the world did altered, injected lips become more “acceptable” than the full lips that some Black women have naturally?
Not too long ago, fuller lips were represented in anti-Black imagery as distasteful, overly-exaggerated caricatures for ridicule: often showcased for the purpose of mocking someone. No one seemed to want large lips, until certain celebrities came around. Plumping one’s lips with a syringe became as routine as laser hair removal and eyebrow threading, with the global lip-augmentation market expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 9.5 percent from 2020 to 2027.
You might recall one episode of a particularly popular reality TV show when one sister (finally) revealed she’d had lip fillers. Google searches for lip fillers peaked globally as a result. The problem with this, and beauty standards in general, is that it treats facial features as a trend. For people without full lips, they can just stop getting injections. For the myriad of Black individuals who have them from birth, that option doesn’t exist. A Black teen dedicated her social media page to learning how to love her big lips, while a Black model was discriminated against (and ridiculed publicly on social media) for having a larger pout. Having big lips is a choice for many, but not for the Black women who were born with them — and these beautiful features should never be considered a “trend.”
This hair tool was designed to be more inclusive
With high-tech hair dryers, curling wands, and ceramic straighteners that look more like a futuristic tool than a hair device available at the click of a simple button, it’s easy to overlook one of the most foundational products in our entire hair care rotation: the classic hairbrush. Whether you enjoy smoothing your hair or blow-drying your curls, the hairbrush as we know it today didn’t always exist.
Most hairbrushes made in the U.S. in the late 1800s weren’t designed with Black women in mind. They were made using animal hair, but the material was way too soft to effectively tackle the thicker nature of Black coils, kinks, and textures. But, born in Ohio sometime between 1865 and 1885, Lyda Newman, a Black female inventor, paved the way for many innovations in the haircare world. Using her experience as a hairdresser, she aimed to make brushing hair easier for Black women — so she used synthetic fibers with evenly spaced bristles and open slots to create a new type of hairbrush, one that worked for every kind of kink. Newman acquired a patent for her invention in 1898.
Now, variations of Newman’s ventilated design are bathroom staples across the globe, whether in the form of a blow-dryer brush or a standalone brush — and they’re a must for every hair type. Today, the hair care industry is showing resilience, even amid the COVID-19 pandemic, with millennial-focused brands (pastel colors optional) all the plenty. The global market is expected to grow from about $77 billion in 2021 to nearly $113 billion in 2028, with shoppers snapping up products for hair protection, nourishment, conditioning, and cleansing. Could we have gotten here without that well-designed brush?
Exaggerated eyeliner was first born in Africa
Sharp cat-eyes, subtle wings, and fishtail liner, oh my. Eyeliner has come a long way from its first emergence on Egyptian men and women. In ancient times, Egyptian people adorned themselves with eyeliner made from kohl (which might have been used for its antibacterial properties and for religious reasons, in addition to its cosmetic benefits).
The excavation of ancient Egyptian artifacts in the early 20th century inspired people to adopt the practice of lining their eyes with makeup once again. Entertainers like Josephine Baker and Aretha Franklin popularized the types of cat-eye styles that we use to this day during their exhilarating performances, with the glitz and glamour to match.
Liquid eyeliner is one of the easiest ways to create the perfect flick, and that’s apparent because the global eyeliner market is estimated to reach more than $9 million in U.S. currency by the end of 2028. Today, renowned makeup artists such as Pat McGrath have redefined eyeliner silhouettes for the modern person. However, the cat-eye shape is still one of the most sought-after, classic styles for every beauty aficionado. And despite the media’s use of white actresses playing Cleopatra, it stemmed from Egyptians, centuries ago.
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The war of words between Nissan and its former Chairman Carlos Ghosn took on another dimension Friday with the start of a trial in which the automaker is seeking $95 million in damages from the man once credited with saving it from bankruptcy.
For his part, Ghosn has begun promoting his new book, “Le Temps de la Verite,” or “Time for the Truth,” in which he accuses some of Nissan’s most senior leaders of setting him up as part of a “coup” meant to wrest back control from foreign influences, including the company’s French alliance partner Renault.
Ghosn’s high-flying career came crashing down in November 2018 when he was arrested upon his return to Japan and accused of an array of financial improprieties. In a statement, Nissan said, “The legal actions initiated today form part of Nissan’s policy of holding Ghosn accountable for the harm and financial losses incurred by the company due to (his) misconduct.”
Among other things, Ghosn has been accused by Japanese prosecutors of hiding 9.3 billion yen, or $88.6 million, in pay, while also transferring some of his personal financial losses to Nissan. He also has been charged with using a $5 million deal with a Mideast car dealership to personally enrich himself.
In a counter-statement, Ghosn said, the “civil lawsuit is an extension to the extremely unreasonable internal investigation with sinister intent by a portion of Nissan’s senior management and the unreasonable arrests and indictments by the public prosecutors.”
It’s coming up on 11 months since the 66-year-old Brazilian-born executive made a daring escape from house arrest in Japan where he faced a broad array of allegations of financial crimes. Ghosn currently remains free in Lebanon, which has no extradition treaty with Japan – though a number of those who assisted him in his escape have since been arrested, including two Americans who continue to fight to prevent their own extradition.
Ghosn was once viewed as a hero in Japan, in 1999 leading a $5 billion bailout of Nissan, the country’s second-largest automaker, by France’s Renault. He even became the star of a popular Japanese comic book.
But following his arrest, which occurred at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport shortly after Ghosn arrived on his corporate jet, his life has been in crisis. He spent much of the first half of 2019 in the Tokyo Detention Center in a tiny, unheated cell. When finally released on bail, Ghosn’s travel was severely restricted and he was barred from meeting with his son and wife. He could only access the internet while at his lawyer’s office.
Nonetheless, he helped organize a brazen escape from Japan during the long Christmas holiday break, flying by corporate jet to Turkey and then on to Lebanon, his ancestral family home. That country does not have an extradition treaty with Japan, but it would be risky to leave, Interpol issuing an arrest warrant.
It remains unclear if or how Ghosn’s case will ever be resolved. But, for now, Ghosn is in better shape than those who stand accused of assisting his escape. A former American Green Beret and his son continue to battle to prevent their extradition to Japan where they have been accused of helping mastermind the December 2018 caper. In September, a U.S. federal judge ruled that Michael L. Taylor and son Peter M. Taylor can be extradited. That move was stayed Oct. 29 by another federal judge, though the battle appears to be far from over.
Still other alleged participants in Lebanon and Turkey also have been arrested and could face jail time even as Ghosn himself remains free, albeit only within the borders of Lebanon.
Separately, former aide Greg Kelly is fighting for his freedom. The American expat won early bail due to health problems but has remained under close watch in Japan where he went on trial in September. Kelly faces a single charge, helping Ghosn cover up some of his income. He could face up to 10 years in prison and a 10 million yen, or $95,600, fine.
According to the Japanese news outlet Nikkei, the case “was never intended by the prosecutors to be the main show.” But, after Ghosn’s embarrassing escape, the publication said in an Oct. 12 report, they are now treating it as a “must-win.”
Ghosn has done nothing to fade away since fleeing to Lebanon. He has held news conferences firing at both Japanese prosecutors and his former allies at Nissan. Now, in his book, he expands upon allegations that he was framed.
“Time for the Truth” blames the “coup” on a cabal of “Old Nissan” insiders, including board member Masakazu Toyoda, as well Ghosn’s hand-picked successor as CEO, Hiroto Saikawa. It also points fingers at the Japanese and French governments. Ghosn contends officials in Tokyo went out of their way to support efforts to topple him, while claiming France opted for “appeasement,” rather than challenge the arrest in order to maintain the fragile Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance.
Ghosn did have kind words for a handful of others, including former Nissan executive Jose Munoz – now the vice chairman of Hyundai Motor Group, and Thierry Bollore, former head of Renault. Both came to his defense after Ghosn was arrested.
In an appearance on CNBC this week, Ghosn said he “probably never will go back to Japan” but would like to visit his native Brazil, as well as the U.S., where his children live.
He also said he was “not very optimistic, knowing what I know” about the long-term future of his former company.
For its part, Nissan defended its investigation into Ghosn, and its findings and, in a statement issued earlier this week said, “The company contends that the facts surrounding the misconduct will be shown during the court proceedings and the law will take its course.”
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Food is an important part of our culture. Activities revolve around it, advertisements glorify it, and our social media feeds are full of it.
More often than not, this creates a “toxic food environment.”
This causes many of us to choose unhealthy foods because they are visible, convenient, and lower in price than healthier foods.
Unfortunately for us, choosing these “toxic foods” can have negative effects on our health and wellbeing.
Therefore, it is important for everyone to educate themselves on making healthier food choices. This is especially important for those with Type 2 diabetes as the foods we eat can directly affect blood glucose levels. There are many different ways that you can avoid unhealthy foods and make healthier choices, but it may seem like a daunting task for many.
When it is understood how our toxic food environment affects our health and how we can work to combat the environment, healthier options can be made and blood glucose levels can be controlled.
How Your Environment Influences Your Diet
The environment that we are exposed to has a big effect on the choices we make, especially when it comes to selecting the foods we eat. Whether we realize it or not, we make choices based upon the tempting advertisements we see, what others around us recommend, what choices are convenient at meal time, and the difference in price of healthy versus unhealthy foods.
Creative marketing by restaurants and food manufacturers is created with the purpose of tempting viewers so much that they run out and buy that food.
Unfortunately, more often than not, these marketing strategies are used by fast food companies who offer unhealthy food options. These advertisements come in many forms: television and radio commercials, billboards, magazine ads, and strong social media presences.
This makes it very difficult for us to avoid the temptations and many of us give into the temptations more than we would like. We see others in our life making these same choices, so we are able to rationalize our decisions with others.
Our choices and the choices of those around us become common and we may find that we don’t make food choices outside of this ‘norm’. The unhealthy food choices that are often advertised become part of a routine and it’s hard to break this routine because these foods are purposefully very convenient.
Many would rather pick up unhealthy food because it means they don’t have to cook or clean up the kitchen after the meal. If you take a look at workplaces, schools, and other public areas, the snacks that are offered are often quick and unhealthy options.
Healthy and convenient food choices can be found, but they often come with a larger price tag than the unhealthy options. Many may find themselves in a position where they cannot afford the healthier foods in the grocery stores or at a restaurant so they feel forced to make unhealthy choices.
It may also be difficult for some to make the healthier choices in the grocery stores because the stores seem to be filled with more unhealthy options that are easier to find on the shelves. It is difficult to avoid these unhealthy food choices when they are so ingrained in our culture.
When looking to make healthier food choices, it is important to look at your surroundings and figure out how you may be influenced to make choices without realizing it. This can be the first and most important step in taking control of your eating habits.
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What is considered a "Toxic Food"?
When talking about toxic food environments, it’s important to understand what foods are categorized as toxic.
Typically, we think of toxic as something that will negatively affect our health. The foods we eat every day don’t usually come to mind when thinking of items that may be toxic. Foods can be toxic to our health when they are high in calories, high in fat, and are processed.
They may not have an immediate negative effect on our health, but consuming these foods in high quantities over time can cause health concerns. A diet consisting of these foods paired with a sedentary lifestyle can lead to obesity, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol, just to name a few things.
If this lifestyle continues over time, these health complications to lead to greater concerns. Although it is difficult to avoid toxic foods in our culture, it is important that we are educated about healthy food choices in order to achieve a high level of health.
Food Options to Choose
Even though toxic food choices are abundant wherever we go, there are also healthy foods that can be chosen instead. These healthier options aren’t always as heavily advertised, so they can seem difficult to find. If we spend more time educating ourselves and others on how to select healthy food options, it can seem like a less daunting task.
When you are in a situation where you are making decisions about your diet, there are strategies that you can use to make healthier choices. These strategies can be used at the grocery store when checking food labels or at restaurants when deciding between entrees.
- Limit the amount of sugar and processed foods you consume. Instead of choosing chips or cookies to snack on, try keeping fruits and vegetables on hand. You can purchase fresh or frozen vegetables at the grocery store and choose fresh vegetables as sides at a restaurant rather than chips or french fries. If you limit the amount of “toxic foods” that you expose yourself to either at home in your pantry or on your plate at a restaurant, you are less likely to consume them in high quantities.
- When grocery shopping, compare food labels. If you are debating between a few food choices, take a look at the nutrition labels to make your choice. Choosing foods that have fewer ingredients that you recognize are typically better options than those with long lists of ingredients that you cannot pronounce.
- Cook your own meals whenever possible. This will allow you to know what ingredients are going into your food and to limit the amount of toxic foods that are included. This could mean cutting back on added salt and sugars. Some people may feel that they aren’t a great cook or they don’t enjoy it, but it is important to try it before you write it off completely. Try new recipes from friends or coworkers. Get your family involved in preparing dinner. This may make it more enjoyable and something you will want to do more often.
- Set yourself up for success at restaurants by limiting the foods you are exposed to. This will decrease temptations and prevent you from overeating. There are several ways that you can limit food consumption at restaurants: skip the breadsticks or chips that are brought to your table before the meal, get salad dressing on the side and add to or dip your salad in as needed, and choose sides like steamed vegetables rather than piles of white rice or potatoes.
- When you find yourself craving something sweet, grab a piece of fruit. Fruit contains natural sugars which are not as harmful as those found in processed sweets. Choosing foods low on the glycemic index will raise blood glucose levels slowly while curbing your sweet tooth.
- Before you eat, ask yourself if you are actually hungry. You may be craving foods but find that you aren’t truly hungry. It is important that you understand your body’s cues and follow them. If you find yourself craving something, try drinking a glass of water and then evaluate if you are hungry. The water may help you determine if you are truly hungry or if giving into your craving will cause overeating.
- Keep healthy snacks on hand when traveling. This will limit the number of times you stop for a quick snack which often leads to unhealthy food choices. Snacks that travel well include nuts, granola bars, and trail mixes. It is important to choose low-sodium and low-sugar options. If you did not bring these foods with you, look for them at convenience stores; they often have sections with healthier options.
- Know your weaknesses and prepare for them. If you know your weaknesses ahead of time and are prepared to combat them, you are less likely to make unhealthy choices. Set yourself up for success by planning ahead each day.
Willpower and the Struggle
Even those who are educated in making healthy food choices find themselves struggling to find the willpower to avoid unhealthy cravings.
This does not mean that you cannot find ways to push past the cravings and temptations.
A great way to overcome these obstacles is to always plan ahead. When eating out, research healthy options at the restaurants you are going to so you do not make a rash decision on what to eat. When traveling, keep healthy snacks on hand to avoid quick grabs. It may also help to find a friend that has the same goals as you so you can hold each other accountable.
If someone else knows what your goals are and what choices you would like to make, you are more likely to stick to your goals because you know someone will be checking up with you. Although it will be difficult at times, it is important to plan ahead in order to stick to your goal of making healthier food choices.
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Managing Type 2 Diabetes in a Toxic Food Environment
Making healthy food choices is difficult for everyone in our culture. It is very important for everyone to limit toxic foods in their diet, but it is especially important for individuals with Type 2 diabetes.
Since Type 2 diabetes does have a strong genetic link, it can be difficult to alter the food choices that you and your family have made for years.
The foods that you consume directly influence blood glucose levels. It is important to monitor your glucose levels before and after meals because foods affect each person differently. The more you understand how foods affect you, the better equipped you will be to make healthier food choices.
A part of making healthier food choices is choosing low-fat and low-carbohydrate options. When choosing foods, look for foods that are low in saturated and trans-fats and high in mono and polyunsaturated fats. Saturated and trans-fats cause an increase in blood cholesterol levels which increases the risk for heart disease.
Type 2 diabetes puts an individual at a higher risk for heart disease, so it is important to decrease other risk factors. Mono and polyunsaturated fats are considered “healthy fats” because they work to lower LDL (the bad cholesterol). Carbohydrates have a direct effect on blood glucose levels, so it is important to limit the amount of carbohydrates consumed each day.
A high-carbohydrate diet often leads to high blood sugar, so it is often recommended that individuals with Type 2 diabetes closely monitor their carbohydrate intake and blood glucose levels each day.
Everyone will have a different need for carbohydrates depending upon medications and physical activity level, but a good guideline to follow is to limit carbohydrate intake to 45-60 grams per meal. It can be helpful to limit your exposure to high-fat, high-cholesterol foods in order to avoid situations that you know will cause temptation.
You can speak with your physician or dietitian to get a more individualized goal for your needs. Following a low-fat and low-carbohydrate diet can seem daunting at first, but with the proper guidance and education, this type of diet can be very helpful in managing Type 2 diabetes.
Make sure to download our diabetes management guide for more tips and tricks here.
How to Overcome Obstacles
Managing Type 2 diabetes can feel overwhelming in this toxic food environment, but there are many ways that one can work toward overcoming the obstacles that this environment poses.
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The most important thing to do is to become educated on how your food choices affect your blood sugar levels. Enlisting the help of your physician and/or a registered dietitian is a great place to start as they can help you set individualized goals that will be relevant to your health and lifestyle.
The environment that we live in impacts our food choices greatly even when we think it doesn’t. These food choices may not seem important, but the choices we make can either be positive or negative to our health. It is important to prepare to face unhealthy food choices and to understand how our choices can affect our health.
An individual with Type 2 diabetes should also understand how these foods affect their blood glucose levels in order to better manage them. It can be difficult to avoid unhealthy options, especially when they are a part of food habits that have been in place for years.
Preparing yourself for grocery trips and eating out at restaurants can be helpful in avoiding foods that you may regret later. Understanding the importance of and how to make healthier food choices will not only make you feel better, but it will also help to better manage blood glucose levels.
TheDiabetesCouncil Article | Reviewed by Dr. Sergii Vasyliuk MD on September 15, 2018
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Little Women (2019)
Director: Greta Gerwig
Screenwriter: Greta Gerwig (based on the novel by Lousia May Alcott)
Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, Eliza Scanlen, Laura Dern, Timothee Chalamet, James Norton, Louis Garrel, Meryl Streep, Tracy Letts
2019 has marked an all time high in global cynicism, which to myself has felt like an overwhelming blanket of numbness that turns everything grey. Once sumptuous treats are now ashes in my mouth, and while visiting the cinema was once a beloved past-time, it now feels like a chore and more tragically even a waste of my precious time. I’m alarmed to find myself in some kind of survival mode, adopting the defence mechanism of delving into the films of my childhood to emulate the cliche of “simpler times”. Largely, I’m genuinely disinterested in most other film outings, but this transforms into anger at the constant stream of sequels, remakes and reboots. To cut a long story short, I did not have very high expectations for Greta Gerwig’s adaptation of “Little Women”, but it was oh so wonderful to have my grumpy preconceptions pleasantly shattered. Little Women will be the Greta Gerwig movie that will establish her as one of the most important filmmakers of the 21st century.
Counting the first feature film adaptation all the way back in 1918, this 2019 release marks the 5th time that Lousia May Alcott’s work has been adapted for the big screen (it may be more accurate to say it’s the 6th adaptation but I’m not struck on the idea of counting the 2017 modern-day Hallmark flick). With the feature films of the 30s, 40s and 90s boasting numerous Academy Award wins and nominations, as well as ensemble casts of Hollywood’s greatest talents at the time, Greta Gerwig certainly had very big shoes to fill. Nevertheless, she instantly made the story her own by giving the all too familiar narrative a shake-up to freshen the story for both new eyes and die-hard Alcott enthusiasts.
Surprisingly, the film begins in the middle of the book “Good Wives” rather than the titular “Little Women”, following the daily life of the iconic heroine Jo March (Saoirse Ronan) in New York where she precariously balances a day job with her true passion for writing (stares directly in the camera in the style of ‘The Office’). The opening act also reveals the rest of the March sisters in their current position in life: Meg (Emma Watson), as the devoted mother and wife who still yearns for the finer things in life; Amy (Florence Pugh) the apparent spoilt baby of the family on her art course in Paris, who actually takes her responsibilities to her family and her position in society seriously; and finally Beth (Eliza Scanlen) who takes comfort in her music as she is left behind by her sisters who have grown up. It is when Jo receives an urgent telegram from her family asking her to come home that Jo’s mind begins to wander through her past, contemplating how she ended up where she is in life and who she has become as a person.
Through this delightfully original approach, the film draws you in and submerges you entirely into the re-telling, much in the same way Jo is sucked into her own memories. Furthermore, the immediate establishment of the four sisters as distinct characters within their own singular lives produces one of the best representations of family in cinema: individuals with their own unique dreams and ambitions (along with some serious faults and shortcomings) united by shared values, morals and passions. The March girls all share the agony of growing pains and fury against the continued injustice of the world around them, particularly against the injustice the girls themselves face regarding their own desires and ambitions because of their gender.
The method of flashback storytelling lends itself wonderfully to the task of characterising the individual March sisters. The instant comparison between the sisters as children and as young women shows their growth but also the core elements of their personality, creating believable chemistry. The squabbling, bickering, but also any sisterly solidarity is natural and relatable, leading to a huge amount of comedy, which came as a genuine surprise. Saoirse Ronan and Florence Pugh shine in their roles as Jo and Amy respectively, while Gerwig’s contemporary approach directs the stars in a more honest depiction of sisterhood, with an actual warts and all reflection of the sibling rivalry between Jo and Amy, which comes pretty close to tearing them apart. More than ever before, the heart aches with empathy towards the love and hurt that comes between Jo and Amy.
This modern approach is both the greatest weakness and strength of the 2019 adaptation. The greatest apprehension I held before seeing the film was shoe-horned feminism. Sexuality equality in the film industry is an ongoing battle that must be addressed, but when women-centric or women-led projects are basically obligated to “make a statement”, it can often come across as shallow and even tiresome, which can both detract from the cause and even harm it. Indeed, some moments of 21st century “wokeness” have produced some honestly puke-worthy and overly saccharine moments, usually involving Laura Dern’s Marmee. Admittedly, Alcott’s perfect Marmee is a difficult character to establish without being preachy or annoying, and luckily Gerwig’s script often saves the day before scenes get too sugary, but Marmee’s confession of “I’m always angry” behind her sweet, benevolent face absolutely floored me. That single line encapsulated my state of being for the last 5 years and yet also offered me help in this personal predicament. Instead of dismissing Marmee as laughable and irrelevant, I was instead shown the power of optimism and kindness within the darkest of times. Bravo to Gerwig – some of your scenes rotted my teeth out, but by God you had the substance to validate your sentimentality.
“Little Women” itself is one of the great pieces of feminist literature so it does seem unfair to criticise a politically correct approach within a contemporary adaptation. Indeed, interpretation of the novel through modern feminist philosophy revealed the most unexpected takes that totally subverted the most cliched tropes of female characterisation, effectively spitting in the eye of sexist constructs.
Gold digging has always been associated with female characters whom have a loose grip on morality or are just plain villainous. However, in Civil War Era America in which women had no means to support themselves independently, the will to forsake love and therefore personal happiness to marry into wealth so as to support your family is presented as nothing short of courageous if not entirely selfless.
This does however contrast Jo’s personal journey, in which the picture’s intentions become inconsistent and the message of the film is unclear. For fans of the story, Jo March is seen as the iconic headstrong independent woman, and in 2019 there is a huge amount of pressure for characters to live up to the ultimate feminist expectations. You can feel that Gerwig herself was torn between producing the fantasy that would satisfy Fourth Wave Feminists and staying true to the touching romance of Alcott’s beloved novels; and this confusion of the author is glaringly obvious during the more slower-paced sections of the movie which may accidentally ground some potential audiences out of the film. Gerwig does, however, use this inner conflict to bring home the overarching message of her adaptation – Jo yearns for both independence and for a loving relationship because she is human; as she is human she has value, dignity and the right for her voice to be heard; and as her humanity is inextricably linked to her womanhood, it is the proof that the voices and stories of women deserve to be heard and are undoubtedly important.
For a story that I thought I knew as well as the back of my hand, it was truly a wonderful surprise to find that I could take home new pieces of wisdom from Little Women (2019). Gerwig’s adaptation proves that Louisa May Alcott’s work is still relevant to modern readers and audiences. In some ways, this continued relevance is disheartening as women today are still faced with the same barriers women encountered in the 1860s, but this joyous and love-filled adaptation revels in the undying spirit of femininity and even hands out tangible defences for the constant battle for equality through its introspective approach. For myself, this is not my definitive version, but it very well could become so for the 12 year old sat beside me in the cinema, and at the end of the day that’s what actually matters. Through the work of Gerwig, a new generation of March girls is guaranteed.
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The wildfires ripping through Fort McMurray this week are tearing down homes, destroying businesses, and scattering the city's residents across Alberta. For the evacuees, many of whom still do not know the fate of their property more than 30 hours after the fires breached city limits, the shock of this sudden loss is so fresh as to be almost unthinkable.
But for the almost 80,000 residents of Fort McMurray, a city that became the poster child for Alberta's economic woes as the price of oil plummeted, it is a loss that comes in a year full of them: lost jobs, lost property values, lost opportunities.
Like many from his hometown, Harvey Sykes was pondering his future on Wednesday morning. Hours earlier, the only home he has ever known burned down.
Mr. Sykes' house was the last trapper's cabin in the Waterways neighbourhood. He was born in the house in 1952, and had lived there for 64 years. "And now I'm sure that's gone. I drove by there this morning. I lost everything," he said. "All I had a chance to take was a change of clothes and that was it."
More than 90 per cent of Mr. Sykes' neighbourhood was destroyed on Tuesday.
Albertans are no strangers to disaster. Flames ripped through the town of Slave Lake in 2011, destroying 433 buildings – about one-third of the community. In 2013, large swaths of southern Alberta disappeared under flood waters, including downtown Calgary. That disaster caused an estimated $5-billion in damages.
Now, after one of the largest evacuations in Canadian history, Fort McMurray's residents remain undaunted. The same men and women who built some of the largest industrial projects in the country say they are convinced their town will rebuild quickly.
"I really don't know what else to say," said Mr. Sykes, a local Métis elder. "Fort McMurray will rebuild. We're stubborn."
The government of Alberta declared a provincial state of emergency on Wednesday. More than 1,600 structures were destroyed in Fort McMurray on Tuesday alone. While some neighbourhoods escaped largely unscathed, others were turned almost completely to ash.
Mayor Melissa Blake drew parallels to Slave Lake and how that community rebuilt after wildfires.
"We will hope to follow in the shadow of Slave Lake in our perseverance and resolve," Ms. Blake said on Wednesday. "And as we look to the future, this is still a place of incredible strength, resiliency and vibrancy."
Ian MacDonald was sunbathing and drinking a beer on the shores of Gregoire Lake on Wednesday afternoon. An energy worker who commutes to Fort McMurray from Newfoundland and Labrador, he said he worries about the future of the oil sands city.
"Fort Mac is in real trouble," he said, watching as tall plumes of white smoke rose over the city, 30 kilometres to the north across the lake.
"This is not what this city needed. It makes you think that with the economy the way it is, with people losing their jobs, some fellows might just take the insurance money on their homes and run."
Mr. MacDonald has been working in the city for more than three years, currently for Suncor. On Tuesday night, he defied a mandatory evacuation order and stayed in his hotel room as the city burnt around him. He says he shares that trait with many others: "We're stubborn."
Steeve Cortes is from Siquijor, an island in the Philippines. He came to Fort McMurray eight years ago, and lost one of his two jobs in January because of the economic downturn.
On Wednesday, Mr. Cortes appeared relaxed despite the fire and financial hit. As a result of the downturn, he and his wife, Maryann, will have to reduce the amount of money they send to their parents.
"I'm a surfer," he said. "I was born an islander. I'm an islander. The way I see it, it is like a wave – you can't stop it, but you can surf it out."
Mr. Cortes, 36, works full-time at Hertz as a technician doing jobs like fixing tires. He no longer gets overtime hours there because business has slowed. A double financial hit after losing his part-time job.
The Cortes live in a basement suite and were evacuated around 8 p.m on Tuesday. He grabbed his credit and debit cards, phone, and a knapsack with water in it. "That was it."
He ended up in Anzac, a hamlet south of Fort McMurray where thousands of the city's residents have stopped for help as they fled. "Life is more important than property," he said as small waves washed up on a tiny strip of sand at a roadside rest stop just outside town.
For now, Mr. Cortes has only his black-and-white flip flops, steel-toed boots he had at work, the black sweats he is wearing, a sweater, and the black Hertz t-shirt on his back. He is drinking a Red Bull and wearing an orange wristband identifying him as an evacuee.
"Ride it out," he said. "You can't stop the wave."
With a report from the Canadian Press
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Family oriented Houston Chiropractic Clinic offers its patients lifelong wellness and best physical health through a balanced program of education, adjustments and exercise. Discover the natural benefits our Chiropractor provides.
|I hurt my upper back while working on a wet ladder and after several restless nights a friend and co-worker introduced me to Dr. Robinson almost a year ago. I look forward to our weekly adjustment sessions.|
My initial reason for seeing Dr. Robinson was the injury that had me missing work and in constant pain; my continued visits are for the level of comfort achieved with continued chiropractic care.
I have noticed greater flexibility and range of motion in my neck and back, as well as, no whiplash flare-ups in the last 8 months. I appreciate Dr. Robinson and his genuine concern for my health and spinal well-being.
Since a member of my family had already received Chiropractic care from Dr. Robinson’s clinic, I was aware of his services. However, it wasn’t until I started having my own problems with lower back pain that I decided to schedule an appointment.
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I learned after my exam that I had a pinched nerve and a rotator cuff injury. For some reason, I thought he could fix all that with one adjustment. But I soon learned that correcting years of abuse to my body was not that easy. My recovery was gradual, but thorough, and completely drug free. And imagine my surprise when he called to check on me after my first adjustment. No doctor had ever done that before. (Did I mention that “those” headaches have disappeared?)
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I had been having multiple problems for more than five years; little energy, frequent headaches, heartburn, constipation, rectal bleeding and constant backaches.
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Baby back ribs are one of these things that most people just can’t be bothered to make at home. However, with the use of an Instant Pot, it is easier than ever to make supple, tender ribs all on your own!
Table of Contents
- Instant Pot Ribs
- How To Prepare Your Ribs Before Cooking
- What Are The Benefits Of Using Liquid Smoke?
- What Are The Benefits Of Cooking Ribs In An Instant Pot?
- The Best Sides To Serve With Ribs
- PIN THIS RECIPE to your INSTANT POT AND DINNER RECIPE Boards and Remember to FOLLOW ME ON PINTEREST!
- Instant Pot Ribs Recipe
Instant Pot Ribs
There are a variety of different foods out there that most people will consider to be too difficult to consider making themselves at home.
From pizza to beef wellington, there are just some things that seem too far out of reach to make yourself.
Barbecue falls into this category for most people, as the idea of setting up a huge amount of smoking and general barbecue equipment just doesn’t seem worth it.
However, with the use of a handy Instant Pot, tasty and incredibly tender baby back ribs can be only a couple of hours away!
How To Prepare Your Ribs Before Cooking
Before sticking your ribs into your Instant Pot and leaving it to cook, one of the things that you need to consider is how to prepare your ribs first.
Most baby back ribs will come from the butcher without any significant trimming or portioning, though a particularly friendly butcher might be able to do all of this for you.
The most important thing to do is to remove the thin membrane that clings to the underside of the ribs. This thin membrane won’t break down in the Instant Pot no matter how long you cook it, and it feels really gross if you tried to bite into it.
Remove it by sliding any knife just under the membrane and then peeling it back and away from the meat, either with your fingers or a paper towel.
From there, you just need to cut your rack of ribs into equal portions, or slicing each individual rib away from the cluster, so as to end up with however many individual ribs your butcher gave you.
What Are The Benefits Of Using Liquid Smoke?
A lot of people consider liquid smoke to be some kind of heinous cheating ingredient that no good home chef would ever use.
However, liquid smoke isn’t some kind of evil chemical; it really is just actual smoke, condensed down into a concentrated liquid.
Everyone knows that smoked ribs are the best for flavor and texture, and one big problem with cooking these ribs in an Instant Pot is that there is basically no way to get that smoky flavor into your ribs unless you use liquid smoke.
A little dash of liquid smoke not only gives everything that slightly smoky taste and flavor, but it also makes the ribs taste more genuine and like the real thing.
While you shouldn’t feel as if you have to go out and get it just for this recipe, if you happen to have some on hand, it is definitely worthwhile to use it here.
What Are The Benefits Of Cooking Ribs In An Instant Pot?
For a lot of people, the Instant Pot is nothing more than a passing fad that isn’t useful as a real home appliance.
However, the main benefit of an Instant Pot, besides its convenient little size, is the fact that it is incredibly quick at turning anything into a complete meal in record time.
While it is a little inconvenient that you have to use an oven in the final steps of this recipe to get that same level of browning and deep flavor that you would get with conventionally cooked ribs, the Instant Pot is so incredibly useful for this recipe because of its speed.
The Instant Pot cooks your ribs super quick, while also imbuing them with tons of intense and delicious flavor thanks to the pressure exerted on the ribs as they cook.
While you could certainly cook ribs any other way, the Instant Pot is easily the most convenient.
The Best Sides To Serve With Ribs
There is no way around it; you have to eat ribs with your hands and no matter how hard you try, you are going to get messy. When eating ribs you just have to embrace the mess – it is part of the fun after all.
However, it does mean that you want to avoid sides that require a knife and fork to eat. Stick with sides that you can also eat with your hands and you won’t even have to think about the mess until you’re done!
A classic Southern option, cornbread is a wonderful side dish for any kind of barbecue. Starchy and satisfying, cornbread is a great way to round out any meat-forward dish like this.
Another classic, some good French fries are a great way to add a little bit of carby crunch to your meal. Whether you fry them yourself or get them frozen, some French fries work perfectly alongside some ribs.
- Corn On The Cob
Instead of cornbread, why not just eat the corn itself? Corn on the cob is a great way to add a little of sweetness and crunch to your meal without having to worry about any intricate cooking process.
- Loaded Potato Skins
Perhaps the most involved out of all of them, loaded potato skins are basically cheese, sour cream and bacon packed into a sliced potato; they should be crispy, fatty, and starchy all in one.
If you feel like really putting some effort in, you should definitely give these a try.
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Instant Pot Ribs
- Prep Time
- 5 minutes
- Cook Time
- 45 minutes
- Karlynn Johnston
- 2 racks of baby back ribs
- 2 Tablespoons brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 Tablespoon garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon chili powder
- 1 teaspoon onion powder
- 1 teaspoon smoked paprika
- 1 cup beef broth
- ½ teaspoon liquid smoke (optional)
- 1 cup Homemade barbecue sauce Or store-bought
- Combine brown sugar, salt, garlic powder, chili powder, onion powder, smoked paprika, in a small bowl. Set aside.
- Remove the membrane from the underside of the ribs by sliding a butter knife under and gripping it with a paper towel and pulling it off. Cut the rack of ribs into 3-4 equal portions (depending on the size). Rub all sides of each piece of ribs with the spice mixture.
- Pour the beef broth (and liquid smoke if desired) into the instant pot. Add the ribs in a teepee formation so they meet at the top standing on end. Close and lock the lid and set to sealing. Select manual, high pressure and set the timer for 30 minutes. Allow 10 to 15 minutes for the instant pot to come up to pressure.
- Preheat the oven to 425°F Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil and set it aside.
- Once the instant pot is done cooking, let it sit for 10 minutes, then release any pressure carefully using the quick-release method. Remove the lid.
- Transfer the ribs to the prepared baking sheet lined with foil. Brush the ribs on all sides with your BBQ Sauce or Homemade BBQ Sauce.
- Bake in the preheated oven for about 7 minutes. Turn the ribs over and continue baking until meat pulls away easily from the bone, about 7-10 minutes more. Ribs are the most tender at an internal temperature of 200°F.
- Serve with your favorite side dish like corn on the cob, loaded baked potatoes or cornbread.
All calories and info are based on a third party calculator and are only an estimate. Actual nutritional info will vary with brands used, your measuring methods, portion sizes and more.
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Royal Blood stormed off Radio One’s Big Weekend stage in protest to the Dundee crowd’s reaction to their set.
The duo performed this weekend at Camperdown Park in Scotland as part of Radio One’s annual festival, where they weren’t too impressed with how the crowd reacted to them.
“I guess I should actually introduce ourselves seeing as no-one actually knows who we are,” frontman Mike Kerr said at the beginning of the clip. “We’re called Royal Blood and this is rock music.
“Who likes rock music?” he asked the crowd, getting a small cheer. “Nine people. Brilliant,” he remarked before introducing drummer Ben Thatcher.
Later, Kerr remarked, “We’re having to clap ourselves because that was so pathetic,” before turning to the camera and asking: “Will you clap for us? Will you clap? You’re busy. Can you clap? Yes, even he’s clapping. What does that say about you?”
After finishing their last song, Kerr is seen throwing his guitar to the floor and leaving the stage with both middle fingers stuck up at the crowd.
Watch the clip in full below:
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As the nation prepares to celebrate its 238th birthday, “Buy America” efforts are still going strong, though emotions on the subject tend to fluctuate depending on the state of the economy.But what about products, ranging from toothpicks to towels, with specific patriotic motifs? Or the U.S. flag itself? Should those products, which are marketed with an Uncle Sam sentiment in mind, be made in the United States?”It doesn’t really matter to me,” said Luis Rodriguez, a retired postal worker who last week sat on a picnic table in a Satellite Beach park wearing a postal carrier union T-shirt with the famed red-white-and-blue eagle — the Postal Service’s mascot.”What I do is make sure the correct number of stars and stripes are being used,” Rodriguez said. “If not, then I have more of a problem with it. But I’m not really too concerned about where it’s made.”
Vietnam War veteran and former Marine Corps infantryman Chip Hanson disagrees. He believes in a “buy American” philosophy. Patriotic items — including items that will be used in July Fourth parties this week — should be manufactured in the United States, he said. That includes plastic forks, paper plates and napkins.
“Most definitely it should come from our country,” he said. “If you look at what’s happening in our country, we’ve slipped into a situation where we are depending on other nations for our primary items.”
Retailers aren’t tone deaf to patriotic emotions when it comes to buying American. Wal-Mart, for example, pledged last year to buy $50 billion over a decade in American-made products.
Still last week, many of the products sold with patriotic themes were made in places such as the Dominican Republic and China. And how’s this for irony? Wal-Mart sells U.S. flags for $34.72 with the label on the packageproclaiming “Made in the USA.” However, a pole and bracket set sold along aside it are imported from China.
Thank some of the dichotomy to a global economy where cheap foreign labor and low-cost, offshore manufacturing practices make it more difficult for cost-conscious consumers to routinely purchase American-made products.
“People have become extremely price sensitive,” said Steve Kirn, executive director of the University of Florida’s Miller Center for Retailing Education and Research. “It’s hard to have these extremely low prices — and price is king right now for the vast majority of consumers — with low production costs coming from Asian countries, and now, African countries.”
That’s changing, somewhat, as labor costs in places like China rise, Kirn said. A number of U.S.-based textile and clothing manufacturers, for example, are seeing new life because it’s become more cost-effective to manufacture domestically.
“Some of the textile mills in the Carolinas are reopening, and I think there is an appeal to that for a variety of reasons,” he said. “You control the supply chain, you know what the raw materials are and you know what you’re getting. And you’re closer to the place where you’re ultimately going to vend it.”
Wherever you stand on the issue of prices versus patriotism, Florida “Buy American” advocate Roger Simmermaker said July Fourth is a good time for citizens to take stock about how they are spending their money whether they’re going to support jobs in the United States or outside the country.
“We have a Declaration of Independence, not a declaration of interdependence,” said Simmermaker, an author of two books on buying U.S. made products.
“Buying American is about more than just American-made products and U.S. jobs,” he said. “We’re less of an independent country to the extent that we rely on other nations to supply our wants and needs.”
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After years of meeting demands for ever cheaper prices, many Wal-Mart Stores Inc. suppliers are saying no to new margin-squeezing storage fees and a payment schedule that could delay for months how quickly some are paid.
The world’s largest retailer says the changes, laid out for vendors starting in June, reflect a push to simplify its relationships with suppliers, put them all on the same footing and reduce costs so it can offer customers the lowest prices. But some vendors see the new policy as an attempt by Wal-Mart to fatten its margins and offset wage hikes for store workers earlier this year.
Saying the new fees will hurt their own bottom lines, several vendors are hiring lawyers, and a top executive from at least one supplier visited Wal-Mart’s headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas, in hopes of reversing all or some of the new terms. Two large suppliers with well-known brands that asked not to be identified for fear of hurting their relationship with Wal-Mart have refused to accept the terms and plan to use their size as leverage to negotiate a better deal.
“Any established supplier doing business with Wal-Mart is already offering by all means the lowest price possible,” said Carol Spieckerman, a consultant who works with several Wal-Mart vendors. “So these fees certainly sting.”
Wal-Mart began sending letters to 10,000 U.S. suppliers in June asking them to pay to use its distribution centers, warehouses and for shelf space in new stores, according to letters obtained by Bloomberg News and interviews with eight suppliers and industry consultants. Under the new rules, the frequency of payments depends on how quickly a supplier’s inventory moves.
Not all 10,000 suppliers will face higher charges because some were already paying to use Wal-Mart warehouses. Others won’t see a change to when they are paid.
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Traditionally Wal-Mart has largely avoided the extra fees some other retailers charge, so the policy change was a surprise, said Leon Nicholas, a senior vice president at Kantar Retail, which advises dozens of Wal-Mart suppliers.
“What is so shocking this round is that they are being aggressive not in asking suppliers to take costs out of the system so the supplier can lower prices, but instead adding cost into the system,” Nicholas said. “It looks as though they are trying to have it both ways and trying to pad their own margins where they are facing cost pressure.”
Vendors were already feeling added pressure from Wal-Mart to cut costs after the retailer told them earlier this year to dial back on marketing and promotions and use the savings to lower their prices, he said.
Wal-Mart says the new fees aren’t an effort to offset wage increases for store workers, but part of an overall strategy to revive the U.S. business, which includes everything from making stores warmer to how employees manage inventory and stock shelves, said Wal-Mart spokeswoman Deisha Barnett.
“It isn’t going to always be easy for our suppliers,” she said. “Change isn’t easy. But we firmly believe driving everyday low cost that gets to everyday low price has proven to wow our customers. It increases sales volume for us and our suppliers.”
Barnett said Wal-Mart is willing to negotiate with suppliers and takes into account many factors — history with the vendor, quality of the products — to decide if the relationship is worth continuing. To help suppliers adjust to the less frequent payments, Wal-Mart is encouraging them to seek low-interest loans through an existing financing program. But those that don’t agree to the new terms may find their Wal-Mart business affected, she said.
Wal-Mart could punish suppliers that don’t agree to all or some of the new terms by cutting back shelf space for a product, giving it less favorable placement in the store or dropping a supplier all together, Nicholas said. While it’s unlikely a major brand like Tide detergent or Huggies diapers would disappear from Wal-Mart shelves, that could be the case for smaller vendors selling less well-known brands, he said.
With nearly $500 billion in sales last year, Wal-Mart is the largest customer for many packaged-goods companies, such as General Mills Inc., Kellogg Co. and Hanesbrands Inc., which get more than 20 percent of their revenue from Wal-Mart, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
“You can push and push, but at the end of the day you know where the power lies,” Nicholas said. Wal-Mart “has substantial negotiating leverage.”
A senior executive for a major supplier said if it doesn’t successfully roll back the new fees, the company will pass the increases on to its own suppliers. That’s a luxury unavailable to smaller vendors, so the new policy will likely hurt them more, the executive said.
A smaller supplier, notified of the fees late last month and given two weeks to accept, said it won’t be able to make a profit on its Wal-Mart business under those terms unless it fires workers or cuts wages and benefits.
The company will also have to borrow money to cover the change in payment terms, which will means it will now be getting paid every 90 days rather than every 30 days, an executive said. Officials there are still trying to determine if they should accept the costs or risk losing business from Wal-Mart, their largest client.
While the charges could be painful, the investments Wal-Mart is making in its stores, website and supply chain will benefit suppliers in the long run, said Spieckerman, the retail consultant.
“These fees are a result of a new retail reality,” Spieckerman said. “This is the price of not just selling things to Wal-Mart, but leveraging Wal-Mart’s massive platform.”
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In this episode, we have the pleasure of hosting Dr. Katie To, a renowned dentist and expert in the field of wellness dentistry. Dr. To is a force to be reckoned with, and her unique approach to dentistry has earned her recognition as a leader in the industry.
Highlights of the Episode:
Wellness Dentistry Redefined: Dr. Katie To shares her journey and the transformation of her practice into a wellness-focused dental clinic. She discusses how she has elevated and differentiated her brand to attract the right patients and create a thriving practice.
Empowering Work-Life Balance: With a jaw-dropping revelation, Dr. To opens up about her incredibly efficient work schedule. Despite working just 17 and a half hours a week, she manages to maintain a successful practice while paying her team for a full work week. Learn her secrets for achieving an optimal work-life balance.
The Power of Emotional Dentistry: Discover the true essence of emotional dentistry and how it has helped Dr. To form deep connections with her patients. She shares valuable insights into how understanding and addressing emotional needs lead to better patient outcomes and long-term relationships.
Building a Stellar Team: Dr. To dives into the importance of hiring the right team members for a successful dental practice. Learn her strategies for onboarding and training team members to ensure they align with the practice's vision and values.
The Impact of Wellness Dentistry: Uncover the incredible benefits of wellness dentistry, not only in patient care but also in developing a strong referral network. Dr. To explains how her holistic approach has led to a stable and high-quality team, boosting patient satisfaction and practice reputation.
Personal Growth and Learning: Dr. Katie To shares her passion for personal development and the profound impact it has had on her life and practice. Find out how investing in continuous learning and attending transformative events has been a game-changer for her and her team.
Tune in to this eye-opening episode with Dr. Katie To to gain insights into elevating dentistry through a wellness-focused approach. Whether you're a seasoned dentist or a dental student, her valuable advice and experiences will undoubtedly inspire you to redefine your practice and create meaningful connections with your patients.
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Address: Riverside Stadium,
Capacity: 34,742 (All-Seater)
A nice, practical ground that fits in with the design and feel of others in the northeast, the Riverside Stadium is an ideal place to watch football.
The stadium was built between 1994 and 1995 in response to the Taylor Report, which required all top division football grounds to be all-seater venues.
Middlesbrough Football Club had previously played at Ayresome Park between 1903 and 1995, but were unable to meet the required expansions there due to its location in a residential area. The decision was made instead to build a larger all-seater venue, with Teesside Development Corporation offering the club the Middlehaven site by the River Tees as the place that it would be built.
Construction took nine months and Middlesbrough played their first game here against Chelsea on 26th August 1995, with over 28,000 people in attendance.
Location and Getting There
The Riverside Stadium unsurprisingly gets its name from its extremely close proximity to the River Tees, with its North Stand looking out to the river’s south bank. The centre of Middlesbrough is just one mile west of the ground, North Ormesby is due south of the stadium, Cargo Fleet is to the southeast, and heading due east of the stadium leads you to a large industrial park right on the bank of the river.
Given how close the ground is to the town, it’s easy for fans to get here by either car or train.
There are a lot of car parking spaces around the whole of the stadium’s exterior. These of course do cost money to park in but you should certainly find some free parking spaces available if you head south of the railway and don’t mind a little walk to the stadium.
I arrived here for a game with a friend close to kick-off and we found a pub called The Navigation Inn on Marsh Road which had opened its gravel parking area for fans to use. It was a simple walk from here across the train tracks to the stadium, and given we were there as away fans, the turnstiles we needed were the very first ones we came to.
Middlesbrough Station is just a 15-20 minutes walk west of the stadium on a very simple route down Windward Way that runs alongside the train tracks.
Outside the Stadium
The Riverside Stadium’s exterior has a very nice balance to it. Much like other large football grounds that were built around the same time, the stadium has a white cantilever roof that runs the whole way around its fully enclosed exterior.
The South Stand is taken up mostly by the cantilever roof which comes down the back and into the ground around it, but there is also a nice, sandy coloured brickwork base where the turnstiles into this stand can be found. A large red tower protrudes out of the southeast corner and close to this is the club’s Away Ticket Office, right next to the away turnstiles.
One of the larger club car parks is out beyond the South Stand, accessible by heading along The Leeway and entering over by the southeast corner.
Continuing round in a clockwise direction brings you to the West Stand, which is easily the most interesting part of the Riverside Stadium’s exterior.
It is taller than the other three stands and you can clearly see the cantilever roof jump up in both the northwest and southwest corners, though it still remains connected to the rest of the stadium.
Middlesbrough’s Official Club Shop as well as the entrance into the Middlehaven Suite can be found in the northwest corner, whilst the entrance into the Legends’ Lounge is in the southwest corner of the stadium.
In the centre of the West Stand is the Players' and Officials' Entrances between two large red towers that form part of the modern-looking façade. Large grey panels and opaque glass windows run along the upper levels of the West Stand, with the cantilever roof up above this.
Out beyond the centre of the West Stand is a large red gate alongside two statues.
The one on the left is of George Hardwick, regarded as the greatest defender in the club’s history and a player who also collected 13 England caps. His legacy lives on in the George Hardwick Foundation dedicated to helping carers, former carers and patients. The foundation has three main sites in Stockton-on-Tees, Middlesbrough and The University Hospital of North Tees.
The statue on the right is of Wilfred Mannion, a forward who made over 350 senior appearances for Middlesbrough and is arguably considered the club’s greatest ever player. He was also a former England International who in 2004 was inducted into the English Hall of Fame at the National Football Museum in Manchester.
A small building for ticket collections is out further beyond the red gate and the two statues, whilst the club’s Main Ticket Office is located in the West Stand itself, over towards the southwest corner.
As you would expect, there are more car parking spaces here than can be found anywhere else around the stadium.
The North Stand’s exterior looks almost identical to the South Stand opposite, but the main noticeable difference is that there is no red tower in one of the corners.
There are two rows of car parking spaces out beyond the stand, and part of the River Tees is out beyond here, with a metal fence put up to keep people off the bank itself.
Tickets for the North Stand can be bought and collected from a small opening in the brickwork wall next to Turnstiles 30-34.
The East Stand follows a similar design to the North and South Stands, but also includes a row of glass windows above the turnstiles.
The entrances into the Willie Maddren Education Centre and the Hardwick Bar are located in the centre of the stand under a small curved roof, and there is a single row of parking beyond its exterior, which is again dominated by the white cantilever roof.
Inside the Stadium
The South Stand is split into two tiers, with the upper tier blocks much bigger than the lower tier blocks. Given how the roof jumps up over in the southwest corner, the final block of this stand is taller than the rest, but the rows of red seats here have been carefully placed so that the small wall next to the block does not restrict anyone’s view.
There are no supporting pillars in the South Stand due to the cantilever roof and as a result you can get a great view of the whole pitch from any seat. An electronic scoreboard also hangs down from above.
Middlesbrough’s most vocal support, including their ‘Ultras’ group known as the ‘Red Faction’ use this stand on matchdays and you can expect the best home atmosphere to be generated here.
The West Stand is noticeably taller than the rest of the stadium.
You can see how the roof comes up in the northwest and southwest corners to cover the greater number of seats here. It is still made up of two tiers, but each tier is split into two similarly sized sections. A row of executive boxes separates the lower tier from the one above. The letters BORO are spelt out in white in the middle of the upper tier, using additional black seating to give each letter a 3D effect.
Middlesbrough’s executive and director’s seating is in a small block below these letters, and the press boxes are up beyond the very back row in the middle of the upper tier.
The club’s changing rooms and tunnel are located in the West Stand, whilst the substitute benches are built into the lower tier. The home side have red seats and the away side have white seats.
Much like the adjacent North Stand, your view is perfectly clear from anywhere inside as there are no supporting pillars coming down from the cantilever roof above.
The North Stand is a near carbon-copy of the South Stand opposite.
Continuing the two-tiered design, the upper tier is once again larger than the tier beneath. The roof also jumps up in the northwest corner but the seating up here is carefully placed to ensure that fans can get a clear view of the pitch from this part of the stadium.
There are no supporting pillars anywhere in the North Stand and an electronic scoreboard hangs down from the roof above.
The East Stand follows the same two-tiered design as the South and North Stands, and this means that these two levels form a continuous ring around the northern, eastern and southern sides of the Riverside Stadium. The letters MFC are spelt out in white seating in the middle of the upper tier, and there is an additional sliver of black seating used to give each of these letters a 3D effect.
The East Stand doesn’t have a scoreboard hanging from its roof like the South and North Stands do, but because of the cantilever roof there are no supporting pillars around and so you have a perfectly clear view of the pitch from any seat in either tier.
Away fans are housed over in the southeast corner.
They used to be given the South Stand, but since the 2013-14 season this has become available for home fans instead.
Depending on the travelling allocation, they can be given just the seats in this corner or the available seating area can be expanded to include some blocks in the East Stand upper tier. Stewards and large sheets are normally used to segregate these away fans from the home supporters around them.
The away section of the Riverside Stadium offers perfectly clear from every seat.
Pubs available to supporters on a matchday include:
-The Devils Advocate (89 Borough Road, TS1 3AA) (Away Supporters Welcome) (Located near Middlesbrough Town Centre)
-Doctor Browns (135 Corporation Road, TS1 2RR) (Typically Away Supporters Welcome, but often Home Supporters Only for High-Profile Games)
-The Infant Hercules Micropub (84 Grange Road, TS1 2LS) (Away Supporters Welcome) (Located near Middlesbrough Town Centre)
-The Isaac Wilson (61 Wilson Street, TS1 1SF) (A JD Wetherspoon Pub, Typically Home and Away Supporters)
-The Navigation (Marsh Road, TS3 6AR) (Typically Home and Away Supporters)
-The Twisted Lip (11-13 Baker Street, TS1 2LF) (Away Supporters Welcome) (Located near Middlesbrough Town Centre)
There are few things you can complain about with the Riverside Stadium. Every effort has been made to ensure that fans are treated to a great view of the action no matter where they are sat. It has a great location close to the town centre and you can get here easily be either car or rail.
Whether you’re coming here to back the Boro or support your team on their away travels, the Riverside Stadium is a top quality venue that you’ll really enjoy the match at.
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THE LAST PUSH TO 2014
As we come off from giving thanks for all we have and our families, we can be thankful at The Metal Shop that our clients are thankful for US! We know this by the final big push we have been tasked with to complete before the New Year. CES, the largest electronics show in the world begins on Jan 7th. That same week we have another show in San Antonio and yet another in Las Vegas a week after that. This makes for the short deadlines we are accustomed to and what separates our company from all the others. We will use our expertise and high tech modern equipment to help shorten the time we have to complete these jobs. Our company takes great pride in producing top quality exhibit projects in what most companies would say were impossible time frames. Thanks to their Can't Do attitude and TMS's Can Do, we have our niche. What a great way to push into the New Year, so much possibility and chances to shine and show off our capabilities. Only possible with the hard work, dedication and pride in workmanship that the shop has in their work. Thanks!
Stay tuned for updates on these projects in picture form.
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This Valentine’s Day, we are focusing on improving the most important relationship you will ever have, The relationship with yourself.
For most of us, we are our own worst enemy, our harshest critic. Unfortunately, the criticisms we give ourselves, (the voice in our head that tells us we aren’t good enough), can have a detrimental effect on our life and mental wellness. The harsh words we say to ourselves can prevent us from achieving our goals and enjoying the life we truly deserve.
Self-criticism can cause frequent feelings of low self-esteem, unhappiness, unworthiness of being loved, insignificant and stop us moving forward.
Here are a few steps you can take to turn this around.
Be mindful of the words you tell yourself.
The first step is noticing the words you tell yourself when you are not feeling good. ‘Listening to your inner critic’.
The act of simply noticing, gives you the power to start to question and change them. Most of these thoughts stem from the past, and if you asked yourself “Who’s voice is this?” You may find it’s a much younger version of you or even someone else.
I wonder what your inner critic looks like. Maybe just for fun, get a pen and paper or a drawing app on your phone and draw your inner critic. Make it look really funny! Any time the thoughts pop up, picture the inner critic, and even imagine chasing it away with a paintball gun!
Learn to change the Negative Thoughts in their tracks.
Byron Katie, a bestselling author, came up with 4 questions that when asked, could turn your negative thoughts around.
When an unhelpful thought comes through, ask yourself:
Is this negative thought true? Is it really 100% without a doubt true?
How does this thought make me feel?
How would I feel without this thought?
What is a true opposite of this thought?
For example: ‘Everybody hates me!
Is this true? Yes… (The inner critic tends to try and answer that one)
Is it absolutely 100% true without a doubt? Well no...
How do I feel with this thought? … Horrible…
How would I feel without it? … Good, I think?
What is a true opposite thought which could replace it? Well, some people like me?
Notice how the feeling changed?
As you can see from the example above, questioning the thoughts in your head can start to change the way you feel and think about yourself.
Try it out, you may be pleasantly surprised.
If your inner talk is something you really struggle with, reach out. Hypnotherapy is a great way to change the way you feel about yourself, and it works on why you got there in the first place. To book a free 15 min consult, click here
Linked is a powerful hypnosis recording to help you change the way you see yourself, and ‘Recognise your strengths - the first step to Self-love” PDF
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Over the next few weeks, I am going to highlight SMALL towns and their Christmas events. Our family always loves taking a drive to the smallest, most rural town, and seeing the spirit, these tiny towns have. One of our favorites to visit is Delta, MO and the First Baptist Church's Bethlehem Village of Hope...this is a must see if you have not been there before!
So while I have a bit of list going of Small Towns with great events, I am asking for your help here! If your town or a town you know of in Southeast Missouri, Southern Illinois, or close by has a way to cool event please let me know! You can email me at email@example.com ....I would LOVE to hear from you and all about your town's Christmas event.
Have a Great Night!~B~
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Enola Holmes fans rejoice! Everyone’s favorite young sleuth is back with another mystery that readers both young and old will enjoy. The newest installment in Nancy Springer's series, Enola Holmes and the Elegant Escapade, is set to be released on September 6th and will have readers flipping the pages to see what’s going to happen next!
Enola Holmes, the much younger sister of Sherlock, is now living independently in London and working as a scientific perditorian (a finder of persons and things). But that is not the normal lot of young women in Victorian England. They are under the near absolute control of their nearest male relative until adulthood. Such is the case of Enola's friend, Lady Cecily Alastair. Twice before Enola has rescued Lady Cecily from unpleasant designs of her caddish father, Sir Eustace Alastair, Baronet. And when Enola is brusquely turned away at the door of the Alastair home it soon becomes apparent that Lady Cecily once again needs her help. Affecting a bold escape, Enola takes Lady Cecily to her secret office only to be quickly found by the person hired by Lady Cecily's mother to find the missing girl—Sherlock Holmes himself. But the girl has already disappeared again, now loose on her own in the unforgiving city of London. Even worse, Lady Cecily has a secret that few know. She has dual personalities—one, which is left-handed, is independent and competent; the other, which is right-handed, is meek and mild. Now Enola must find Lady Cecily again—before one of her personalities gets her into more trouble than she can handle and before Sherlock can find her and return her to her father. Once again, for Enola, the game is afoot.
Enola Holmes is back with another thrilling and endearing adventure! If you’re wondering “Wasn’t this a movie with the girl from Stranger Things?” then you’d be correct! This is the 8th book in the series that inspired the Netflix movie and it’s the perfect book to engage young adult readers!
Enola is a feisty and headstrong character and her strong belief in fighting for what is right and helping those she cares about is inspiring to read about. Featuring cameos from Sherlock Holmes himself and a cast of fun supporting characters, this read will have you flipping the pages to see how Enola will manage to help her friends and solve the mystery!
For younger readers or anyone who loved Nancy Drew as a kid, this book is for you!
*I received an ARC from Wednesday Books in exchange for my honest opinion.
Hi! My name is Elisa and my bookshelf is quite literally overflowing! Join me in my journey of reading as many books as humanly possible!
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Salvatore Ferragamo Signorina Eau de Toilette
Salvatore Ferragamo Signorina Eau de Toilette - eau de toilette for women
Signorina Eau de Toilette by Salvatore Ferragamo - "Timeless modernity, creativity and a hint of audacity for a creation that celebrates the inextricable bond between Salvatore Ferragamo and trendy young ladies. According to the vision of Salvatore Ferragamo femininity has many facets. A woman is not just a woman... but many women at once. After having crafted the most ideal portrait of romantically cheeky femininity through the creation of Signorina Eau de Parfum, now Salvatore Ferragamo introduces Signorina Eau de Toilette The celebration of a chic girl's most joyful and vivacious facet. An exceptionally fresh scent signature with the vivaciously cheeky soul of Signorina." --ferragamo.com
|Perfume House||Salvatore Ferragamo|
|Scent Classification||Fruity Floral Gourmand|
|Perfumer||Sophie Labbé and Juliette Karagueuzoglou at IFF|
Top - litchi, grapefruit pulp
Heart - rose oil, rice steam
Base - milk mousse, cashmeran
|Package Designer||Same bottle as Eau de Parfum with lilac tinted juice and bow.|
|Print/TV Campaign||Bianca Balti (model), Mikael Jansson (photographer)|
Salvatore Ferragamo Signorina - Eau de Toilette 1oz, 1.7oz / $65, 3.4oz / $89
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Salvatore Ferragamo Signorina Eau de Toilette - more perfume details
The fragrance is inspired by the chic sensation of rose and rice steam colored by feminine rose notes and fruity tones on a milky woody dry-down. The new Signorina Eau de Toilette announces the same iconic elegance of Signorina Eau de Parfum, through a new breath of rose floral refreshment, and recreates the previous charming and addictive femininity by a surprising milky-mousse gourmand accent...
Top Notes - Litchi, Grapefruit Pulp
Spicy top notes fade out and a tasty and fruity blend of litchi and grapefruit pulp keeps the joyful chic mood.
Middle Notes - Rose Oil, Rice Steam
The heart is a delicate veil of rose and rice steam's aerial notes and fresh rose petals offering their silky texture.
Base Notes - Milk Mousse, Cashmeran
The creamy touch previously offered by pannacotta notes remains due to an extremely soft milk mousse, which is shaken by the ambery woody vibrations of cashmeran.
The iconic and chic allure of Signorina is interpreted in a fresher and brighter mood.
The flacon glows with a new freshness thanks to lilac gros grain bow. This new combination of pink and lilac of the Vara bow infuses a sense of brightness and a fashion edge.
Lilac is the dominant color: a fresh yet romantic color to enlight this fragrance creation from the bow to the juice.
The metallic parts such as the cap are in a delicate pink gold, so as to confer a precious touch to the bottle.
The style code of Signorina's box is here reinterpreted with fresh and indulgent lilac shades of colors. The packaging is gracefully decorated with a violet gros grain ribbon surrounded by a touches of golden pink, that give a cheeky yet iconic look to the ensemble.
A perfect blend of style and freshness.
30ml Eau de Toilette Natural Spray
50ml Eau de Toilette Natural Spray
100ml Eau de Toilette Natural Spray
In this new campaign top model Bianca Balti interprets an iconic ideal of femininity. In this shot the utterly chic style of Ferragamo blends with the cheeky freshness of Signorina.
A subtly mischievous yet delicately romantic feminine portrait in which Bianca, wearing beautiful Vara bow ballerinas, looks with intensity someone very special...
Model: Bianca Balti
Photographer: Mikael Jansson
Source: www.ferragamo.com (Apr. 2012)
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These caramelized baked pears are absolutely DIVINE + one of my favorite wholesome treats to make during the holidays (the warm oven also helps keep Jack Frost at bay)!
Pears are full of fiber, which is essential for a healthy heart and lowers the risk of heart disease and stroke. The fruit also provide a boost of vitamins A, C, and K, as well as the powerful mineral potassium, which helps your muscles function and your heartbeat stay strong.
Once I've cut my pears, I love spreading drizzling on our detoxifying + nourishing Green Bee Honey,and sprinkling on crushed walnuts + cinnamon! So YUMMY!
- 2 large, ripe pears
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 2 teaspoons Green Bee Honey
- 1/4 crushed walnuts
Preheat oven to 350 F. Cut the pears in half, scoop out the seeds with a measuring spoon or melon baller, and place onto a baking sheet. Sprinkle with cinnamon, top with walnuts, and drizzle 1/2 teaspoon of honey over each one.
Bake in the oven for 30 minutes. If you feel the pears come out of the oven a little on the dry side, feel free to spray with coconut oil to add moisture and return to the oven for an additional 10 minutes. Remove, let cool, and ENJOY!
Who did you share your baked superfood pears with? Let us know in the comments on the Philosophie Youtube Channel!
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"You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day, nor the pertinence that stalks in darkness, nor the destruction that wastes at noonday. A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you. Because you have made the LORD your dwelling place - the Most High, who is my refuge - no evil shall be allowed to befall you, no plague come near your tent." Psalm 91:5-10
In October of 2014, in the midst of the Ebola crisis, we shared these same verses (Psalm 91: 5-10) on our Facebook page. Our kids, the staff, and the people of Sierra Leone have endured so much. Yet, through it all, we know that the Lord is faithful. We continue lifting you, our supporters, as well as our kids, and staff up in prayer.
Today, we are specifically asking for prayers for Ibrahim. Last week, Ibrahim broke his leg while playing soccer. Please join us in praying for the surgery he needs to repair his leg as well as for healing.
The Raining Season
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Trevor Brazile’s “Shoot Out” Tie Down Roping run at RFD-TV’s The American
While at AT&T Stadium covering the history making rodeo, RFD-TV’s The American, we ran into 19 time World Champion Trevor Brazile who was competing for his chance to claim part of the money that was up for grabs. It is very interesting to hear what Trevor’s thoughts are about the event and what he sees it doing for the sport of professional rodeo.
We have all heard talk about what this would mean but to hear it directly out of the mouth of one of the most notable names in professional rodeo brings it to a whole new level. Trevor is very excited to see where this may go in the near future so it will be interesting to see what will happen.
You can see the complete interview with 19 time World Champion Trevor Brazile below!
19 time World Champion Trevor Brazile shares his thoughts on the American
Make sure to keep checking back as the Rodeo Round Up will be posting one story/interview each day until our complete coverage has been posted from the history making weekend that we were proud to be a part of. We have a ton of coverage from both the Professional Bull Riders Dr. Pepper Iron Cowboy V and the RFD-TV’s the American events that were held inside AT&T Stadium in Arlington Texas!
Photo Credit: Simon King @ http://simonking.com
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Choose the synonym for vengeful
synonyms for special
- out of the ordinary
See also synonyms for: specially
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
How to use special in a sentence
Bradford hustled, advertising her specials on Facebook and calling around to nonprofits and municipal agencies, asking if anyone needed food delivered.The Big Corporate Rescue and the America That’s Too Small to Save | by Lydia DePillis, Justin Elliott and Paul Kiel | September 12, 2020 | ProPublica
GW Ori has long been an exemplar for all the special dynamical effects that go on in such a system.A strange dusty disk could hide a planet betwixt three stars | Paola Rosa-Aquino | September 11, 2020 | Popular-Science
The rider with the most such points at the end of the Tour is named “King of the Mountains” and gets to wear a special polka dot jersey.
There are special places like that, like Floriana up the street, or Martin’s Tavern over in Georgetown.
The congressional model uses 265 variables in the House and 201 in the Senate spanning each non-special congressional election from 2006 until 2020.The Forecast: The Methodology Behind Our 2020 Election Model | Daniel Malloy | September 10, 2020 | Ozy
As for the federal authorities, they have made themselves available but the clergy have not requested special protection.
At the same time, campaigns are spending less while the special-interest groups are spending more.
The off-year special election into which Duke threw himself drew little media notice at first.
All of the big cats have a special mystique, but perhaps none more so than the tiger.
It all sounds a bit dramatic, but that cactus feels like something special.Lost For Thousands of Strokes: 'Desert Golfing' Is 'Angry Birds' as Modern Art | Alec Kubas-Meyer | January 2, 2015 | THE DAILY BEAST
For this use of the voice in the special service of will-power, or propelling force, it is necessary first to test its freedom.Expressive Voice Culture | Jessie Eldridge Southwick
Diplococci without capsules are common in the sputum, but have no special significance.A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell Todd
Will the new issues promptly retire when their special task is over?Readings in Money and Banking | Chester Arthur Phillips
Instead of the expected general amnesty, only a few special pardons were granted.The Philippine Islands | John Foreman
The result of this mission was eminently successful; a special treaty was drawn up and Spain sold Louisiana to France.Napoleon's Marshals | R. P. Dunn-Pattison
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Yakety-yak is a slang term used to refer to excessive and nonstop talking. It is often used in a negative connotation to describe someone who talks too much about irrelevant things. The antonym for yakety-yak is silence. When someone is silent, they are not talking at all, and there is no noise coming from them. Other antonyms for yakety-yak include calmness, serenity, and quietness. These words are often used to describe environments that are peaceful and free of unnecessary noise. Using these antonyms can help you describe someone who is not talkative or an environment that is quiet and serene.
Antonym of the day
- anterior, front, previous.
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Behind the Scenes of: Batman (1989)
Behind the scenes of: Batman (1989)
I recently stumbled across this first picture of Michael Keaton without his cowl on chatting to Jack Nicholson, and it occurred to me that I hadn’t seen many behind the scenes pictures from this movie. Needless to say I did a bit of Googling…🧐
I love this movie! In fact I love both of the Tim Burton Batman films.
I’d always liked Batman as a kid but after seeing this film I became a super fan, gorging myself on comics and graphic novels and collecting anything to do with the franchise. I’m pleased to say I still have it all packed away safely in several boxes in my loft.
Up until this film, if you mentioned Batman to anyone, most of them would immediately think of the camp, yet highly amusing and entertaining Adam West TV show from the 1960s. As much as I like that show and the movie that followed, in the 80s the Batman in the comics was something much different and much darker and had been for a while.
Despite early drafts of the first script playing to that light-hearted campy tone, the film we eventually got (almost 10 years after its initial conception), thankfully was anything but. 🙌
The general idea for the original story (way before Tim Burton came on board) had not one, but three villains for the dark Knight to face off against. The Joker was always going to be one apparently, but corrupt politician Rupert Thorne (featured more prominently in the 90s Animated Series) was another, as was The Penguin. Bats wouldn’t have been fighting them all alone however, since it was planned that Robin would be introduced later on in the film (with producers considering Eddie Murphy for the role).
As it happens it was decided that there just wasn’t room for everybody so the whole thing was re-worked and scaled down over a number of years and different writers.
With the arrival of Tim Burton as the film’s director came the suggestion of Michael Keaton for the starring role as the iconic comic book character - a casting choice that would be met with a lot of controversy and hostility.
Up to that point Keaton had mainly starred in comedic roles and it took a lot of convincing from Burton (who had recently worked with him on Beetlejuice) that he had the intensity for the role.
It worked out a treat with a lot of people having to eat their words, but as you might expect there were a lot of other actors considered for the part.
Mel Gibson, Kevin Costner, Charlie Sheen, Harrison Ford, Pierce Brosnan, Tom Selleck, Ray Liotta (and if we’re to believe it) even Bill Murray were all contenders to wear the cowl!
Likewise, as much as Jack Nicholson was always first choice to play the Joker, other actors were also considered on the off chance Jack didn’t want the job.
These include: Willem Dafoe (who I think would’ve been brilliant), Brad Dourif (voice of Chucky), James Woods and even David Bowie.
Robin Williams was apparently offered the the role after Nicholson initially turned it down, but after eventually being talked into taking it by Burton during a meeting on horseback (that’s another story) the offer to Williams was withdrawn leaving the actor understandably furious. 🤬
Finally, Kim Basinger only fell into the role of photojournalist and Bruce Wayne/Batman’s love interest, Vicki Vale late in the game. Blade Runner’s Sean Young had already been cast, but while practicing riding a horse for a scene that would eventually be cut, she was seriously injured in a fall and had to be replaced at short notice.
Too bad for her, great for Kim Basinger. 🤷♂️
As much as I’ve liked most of the portrayals of Batman on the big screen, being a fan of the late 80s/90s graphic novels I’m still waiting to see a version of the character that’s close to the one on those pages.
To be fair, Ben Affleck was pretty close to Frank Miller’s Dark Knight Returns Batman but sadly the films were…not great. ☹️
Michael Keaton still holds the top spot for me as far as Batman on the big screen goes. Who’s your favourite version of the caped crusader? 🤔
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Amazon Luna is coming to Samsung 2022 smart TVs and monitors
Amazon’s game streaming service joins Xbox Cloud Gaming, GeForce Now, and Stadia on Samsung displays
➡️ The Shortcut Skinny
🆕 Amazon Luna will be available on new Samsung 2022 TVs and monitors
☁️ The cloud gaming service joins Nvidia GeForce Now, Google Stadia, and Xbox Cloud Gaming, all of which are available in the Samsung Gaming Hub
✅ You’ll need a Bluetooth-enabled controller and a Prime membership to play
🌎 Amazon Luna is still only available in the US
Luna, Amazon’s game streaming service, is coming to Samsung 2022 smart TVs and monitors today, August 3.
The service will become part of the Samsung Gaming Hub and joins other cloud gaming services such as Nvidia GeForce Now, Google Stadia, and Xbox Cloud Gaming.
Amazon Luna lets you play more than 250 games instantaneously from the cloud, and there’s even an official Luna controller. Amazon offers a variety of subscription options, which the company calls “channels,” allowing you to tailor the service to fit your needs.
Amazon Prime members can play a rotating selection of games for free each month, while those who wish to play a wider selection of titles can pay $9.99 per month for Luna+. There’s also a retro channel for $4.99 a month, a Jackbox games channel for $4.99 a month, and Ubisoft+ for $17.99 a month, which includes “all of your favorite and new-release games from Ubisoft.”
Amazon Luna is only available in the US for now, and there’s a 7-day free trial if you’re interested in giving it a spin. Games can be streamed up to 1080p/60fps, and Luna is available on supported PC, Mac, Fire TV, Fire tablet, Chromebook devices, and web apps for iPhone, iPad, and Android phones.
By adding Luna to the Samsung Gaming Hub, the company now has every popular cloud gaming streaming service available on its smart TVs and monitors. Samsung’s director of product management for gaming Mike Lucero said:
“With the addition of Amazon Luna, we now offer over 1,000 games to play instantaneously on Samsung Smart TVs, making Samsung Gaming Hub the number one destination to stream games.”
Samsung recently added Xbox Cloud Gaming to its 2022 smart TVs, giving those who don’t have access to an Xbox Series S or an Xbox Series X a way to play the latest titles directly through their TV. All you need is a Bluetooth-enabled controller and an Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription.
Cloud gaming is on the rise
While it’s unlikely to surpass native console or PC gaming, cloud gaming is gaining popularity. Microsoft revealed that Xbox Cloud Gaming’s hourly use had grown 1800% in the past year alone, as more players enjoy the flexibility of playing games across multiple devices.
It remains to be seen which cloud gaming service will come out on top, but there’s plenty of choice for consumers as Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Nvidia battle it out for market share.
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AMD Ryzen 7000 CPUs for laptops have finally launched: here's what you need to know
Team Red is all about battery life this time around
➡️ The Shortcut Skinny: AMD Ryzen for laptops
💻 AMD has launched its Ryzen 7000 CPU lineup for laptops
🧠 Features several different CPU architectures for different use cases
🤓 Up to 16 cores and 32 threads in the Ryzen 7045 series
🔬 Ryzen 7040 Series built on a 4nm process
AMD has launched its AMD Ryzen 7000 processors for mobile at CES 2023, and pretty much every type of the best laptops have been impacted.
The new CPUs are based on several different manufacturing processes, depending on the kind of laptop they’re meant for. There are HX-series Ryzen processors, for instance, the super-high performance of which are intended for the best gaming laptops. At the same time, AMD is launching some of its best CPUs on a 4nm manufacturing process meant for thin and light gaming laptops with extreme battery life.
It’s a unique approach, but it does mean that not all AMD Ryzen 7000 processors are built on quite the same technology. It’s confusing to be sure, but here are the different series and the architecture they’re based on.
Ryzen 7045 Series | Zen 4 | 5nm
Ryzen 7040 Series | Zen 4 | 4nm
Ryzen 7035 Series | Zen 3+ | 6nm
Ryzen 7030 Series | Zen 3 | 7nm
Ryzen 7020 Series | Zen 2 | 6nm
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Some of the chips, like the Zen 2, are based on architecture as old as 2019, but being manufactured on a newer process means they should see better power efficiency and lower prices – though the latter is just speculation on our part. These older-style chips are meant for everyday computing, so they don’t need the cutting edge features as some of the more premium designs out there.
The more premium designs on offer here are extremely attractive, however. The Ryzen 7045 series, based on the same Zen 4 architecture as Ryzen 7000 desktop processors, will have CPUs with up to 16 cores and 32 threads, with boost clocks up to 5.4GHz. That’s a lot of oomph on their own, but AMD packed these chips with gargantuan amounts of cache, with up to 80MB on the flagship.
That 80MB cache is going to be hugely important to gamers, as it’ll cut down on latency in games. Although, we’re going to have to wait and see exactly how well these laptops will perform when we get them in our labs for testing.
AMD truly hasn’t left a single portion of the laptop market untouched with these new processors, and we should start seeing them in laptops of all shapes and sizes within the next few months. But with Intel also announcing its 13th-generation laptop lineup at CES, it’ll be interesting to see who comes out on top.
AMD Ryzen 7000 performance leaks have started
While we haven’t seen these new laptops actually appear on store shelves yet, we are starting to see leaked benchmarks appear. Most recently, the AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS has been benchmarked on 3DMark, then leaked on Chinese social media platform Bilibili. The leaks suggest the CPU will be able to hit a score of 11,343 in Time Spy, looking just at the CPU score.
The integrated graphics seem to be a bit of a let down, though, not really marking any significant improvement over the last generation. These benchmarks were used on pre-release drivers, however, so it’s unlikely that they’ll be indicative of final performance, and you should take all of this with a grain of salt.
Still, this performance leak does give us an idea of what to expect when the next-generation laptops start making their way onto store shelves later this year.
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The Fairy Godmother message for Virgo this month is When you look in the mirror what do you see? Do you see your own beauty? Do you see how amazing you are? It is time to see the true wondrous being that you are. Remember there is no one quite like you in this entire Universe, how amazing is that, there is and only ever will be one you. Your passions, your talents and your energy signature have a purpose, let no one dim your shine, let no know say anything negative about who you are. Now is the time to change your perception, take ownership of who you are, take ownership of your choices, and take ownership of your reasons for being here. Once you change your perception of who you are, so will everyone else. You set the benchmark for how others see you and relate to you. All you need to do is look through the eyes of your soul.
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Known for his attacking stroke play, Aaron Finch did not participate in IPL 2019.
Delhi Daredevils' South Africa star Jean-Paul Duminy has withdrawn from the upcoming 10th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL).
Duminy led Delhi Daredevils in the 2015 edition. He had been a regular with the Delhi Daredevils squad since 2014.
Delhi Daredevils chief executive Hemant Dua confirmed that Duminy will be unavailable for the tournament owing to personal reasons.
"We respect JP's decision. We are naturally very disappointed to not have JP in our midst this year, but as a franchise we clearly understand his position. At this stage, we can only confirm that we will look for a replacement at an appropriate time," Dua was quoted as saying in a media release.
On his part Duminy was disappointed to miss out on the forthcoming edition.
"It has been a very difficult decision for me to make, but it was for purely personal reasons. I am grateful for the support and understanding from the franchise. It has been an absolute privilege to have played for and led a talented mix of players. I certainly hope to play a part for the franchise in the near future."
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NVIDIA tried to dissuade cryptocurrency miners from buying its latest GeForce RTX 30 Series graphics cards but failed. Reports indicate the company is now changing tactics to prevent cryptocurrency mining by going old-school.
NVIDIA recently announced it was committing to a new motto ‘GeForce Is Made for Gaming’. Needless to mention, the company failed spectacularly. However, its new technique at making RTX 3060 GPU ‘unattractive’ for cryptocurrency mining might just work.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GPU SKU never truly managed to dissuade cryptocurrency miners:
Recently, NVIDIA introduced its GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card with GA106-300 Ampere GPU SKU. This card was the first to feature NVIDIA’s latest additions like Resizable BAR and crypto mining algorithm limiter.
The “limiter” reduced the performance of the graphics card if the firmware detected the card was mining cryptocurrency. Needless to add, NVIDIA’s attempts to keep the card out of the hands of crypto miners were quickly thwarted.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 To Silently Get New GA106-302 GPU, Will Once Again Limit Hash Rate In Cryptocurrency Mining Algorithms https://t.co/13oSmfhZLJ
— QuickCart (@QuickCartWP) April 15, 2021
There were persistent reports about talented cryptocurrency miners overcoming the software-based limitations. Some even discovered a simple physical plug that resembled an HDMI male connector, could do the trick.
Surprisingly, the company itself released a driver that actually removes the limiter. The accidentally released driver enables the GPU to mine at full capacity, making the company’s efforts useless.
New NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GPU SKU with GA106-302 ID to truly limit cryptocurrency mining?
Perhaps understanding and learning from its past follies, NVIDIA appears to be going old-school. Reports indicate NVIDIA will launch an updated GeForce RTX 3060 GPU SKU that features a different ID.
NVIDIA is reportedly producing GeForce RTX 3060 GKU SKUs with GA106-302 ID. The company could launch these graphics cards next month.
Nvidia taking another swing at its cryptocurrency mining limiter? https://t.co/KgnasbPghK
— PC Gamer (@pcgamer) April 15, 2021
The currently available NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GPU has GA106-300 ID. NVIDIA hopes software and the drivers will use the new ID to identify new SKUs.
NVIDIA noted the GeForce RTX 3060 computing power limiter is based on the handshake between the GPU, the driver and the VBIOS. When the software detects the card is performing a Hash operation, it would force the GPU operation to slow down by 50 percent.
I've said before, maybe not GA106 only.
For example, we would meet GA102-302/202 and GA104-302/202. https://t.co/pGghHbikbV
— kopite7kimi (@kopite7kimi) April 15, 2021
Similar to the previous approach, if the software detects new IDs, it will limit the performance of the card at mining tasks such as Ethereum mining. NVIDIA reasons, as no driver version or bypass, can trick the software to enable the card to use its full mining power, these cards will become unprofitable to cryptocurrency miners.
In addition to the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GPU, NVIDIA may be readying updated GPU SKU IDs for GA104 and GA102 GPUs. They could arrive as GA102-302/202 and GA104-302/202 variants in the near future. In the meantime, cryptocurrency miners have special hardware.
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US dark pools saw market share reach a second consecutive month of record market share in October 2010.
According to boutique agency broker Rosenblatt Securities' monthly report ”Let there be light', that tracks the movement of liquidity in dark trading, the 16 non-displayed venues that it follows executed 12.57% of consolidated US equity volume in October, up from 12.08% in September while aggregate volumes were up 12.76% month on month to 984.4 million shares per day standing against a consolidated rise in US volumes of 8.37%.
Rosenblatt noted that declining volatility was a likely cause of the rise in dark pool share as the Chicago Board Options Exchange's volatility Index had fallen 9.5% month on month in October to 20.4.
The biggest winner of the dark pools was Credit Suisse's Crossfinder, the largest US dark pool by volume which saw its average daily volume rise 25.82% month on month and 26.88% year on year to 225.6 million average daily volume (ADV) of shares traded. That makes it almost double the size of Goldman Sachs' Sigma X at 126 million ADV, the second largest dark pool in the US which increased 11% against September.
BIDS saw growth of 29.92% taking its ADV to 33 million and placing it higher than Citi Match, Instinet CBX and ITG Posit's dark pools, making it the 9th largest in the country. Barclays LX dark pool grew 18.18% month on moth to become the 6th largest dark pool with 65 million ADV.
The consolidated US volume traded on dark pools was 16.24% of total consolidated volume, up from 16.03% in September, of which 3.67% was from exchange-based dark orders, down from 3.95% in September.
Block-focussed non-displayed liquidity pools Pipeline and Liquidnet saw 24% and 27.94% growth respectively month-on-month, following declines earlier in the year.
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As 2022 draws to a close, the value of the crypto economy to the dollar has decreased by about $1.486 trillion.
Bitcoin was trading for $46,406 on December 20, 2021, and it has lost more than 63% of its worth so far this year, while Ethereum, the second-most valuable cryptocurrency, has dropped 69% of its value relative to the dollar.
The Top Ten Cryptos in 2022 Loose Billions A few people engaged in musical chairs.
On December 20, 2021, 365 days ago, the crypto economy was far more valuable than it is now. According to 12-month figures, the crypto economy has lost $1.486 trillion since that day, falling from $2.334 trillion to a value of $848 billion on December 20, 2022.
At that time, the price of Ethereum (ETH) was $3,847 per unit, and the nominal value of bitcoin (BTC) was approximately $46K per coin. On December 20, 2021, $118 billion in trades were recorded, indicating a substantially higher 24-hour global trade volume.
As of Dec. 20, 2022, there will have been about $48 billion in swaps recorded, which has resulted in a reduction of the world trade volume by half. The top ten crypto market caps at this time last year looked very different.
While new currencies have been added, other tokens have been removed from the top 10. Last year, bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), bnb (BNB), tether (USDT), Solana (SOL), USD coin (USDC), xrp (XRP), Cardano (ADA), terra (LUNA), and avalanche (AVAX) had the top 10 greatest crypto market caps.
One year later, SOL was removed from the top ten rankings, LUNA collapsed and fell to below one penny per coin, and AVAX was also removed from the list. Only two stablecoins were among the top 10 on December 20, 2021, but now — and for the first time — three stablecoins are among the list’s top ten coins.
USDT and USDC were the top two stablecoin assets at the time, while BUSD finally made it into the top 10 in June 2022. Dogecoin (DOGE) and Polygon are two new entrants into the top ten at this time (MATIC).
Tether’s (USDT) market valuation was $77.39 billion last year at this time compared to $66.22 billion today. The market capitalization of USDC rose over the past year, rising from $42.21 billion to a market valuation of $44.43 billion as of December 20, 2022.
BUSD’s market cap is now $18.06 billion, up from $14.54 billion 365 days ago. Along with LUNA, Solana (SOL), and Avalanche (AVAX), two coins that were formerly top 10 candidates, have seen significant losses during the past 12 months.
SOL has lost 93.2% of its value versus the US dollar so far this year, while AVAX has lost 89%. SOL is currently ranked 18th, down from sixth in terms of market cap. Previously occupying the tenth position, AVAX is currently cruising in 20th place.
Dogecoin (DOGE) had a substantially higher market cap when it was not among the top ten coins, while currently being a top ten competitor. Dogecoin’s market value dropped from $21.78 billion to $10.22 billion as of today.
On December 20, 2021, Polygon, another top ten coin, had a market cap of $14.7 billion; as of right now, however, it is only worth $7.16 billion. The stablecoin BUSD was the lone outlier among the scant number of cryptocurrencies that made it into the top 10 and managed to raise its market value.
When the market cap of the cryptocurrency industry was $2.334 trillion a year ago, BTC had a dominance rating of about 38.4%; as of right now, that rating is 38.3%. BTC’s dominance remained almost unchanged during the past year, but ETH’s dominance decreased from 20.2% to 17.3%.
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In my last article I dealt with astrology combinations which give problem in a marriage, now the current topic for today is Late or Delay in Marriage and late marriages are quite common now and there are parents who tends to get worried on this account.
We can not judge a person based on his or her late marriage because there is always a practical reason behind this.
But we are dealing with astrology so we need to dwell in the planetary combinations which give Late marriage.
How to define late marriage?
Depending on countries and culture marriage age will change, in the western world, there are no set parameters regarding marriage age and you will witness a quite a range in marriage ages there.
Whereas in Asian countries like India, getting married at the right age is a huge concern, especially for parents who make sure their children get married at the right age.
Now defining the right age of marriage is also a tricky part because every individual has their own reasons and they choose when to marry:
- Wealth can be a reason where a person delays his marriage.
- Education can also be a reason which creates a delay in marriage.
- Health is a big reason where a person delays his marriage.
Now as per astrology our classics have given various Planetary combination regarding the age of marriage.
These combinations I won’t repeat here since it will be difficult for readers to apply them, rather I will mention them in a simple manner along with with example charts.
As we all know for marriage primary house to be seen is 7th & its lord, along with that divisional chart D-9 should be given equal weight age.
Apart from 7th house, the role of 8th & 12th house lord also has a significant role in timely marriage.
The condition of karaka for marriage i.e Venus for male & Jupiter for the female should be checked thoroughly.
Upapada & condition of Darakaraka should also be considered before concluding the final result.
But I have seen the role of planet Saturn in delayed marriage and it should be discussed separately here.
Role Of Saturn In Late Marriage
Saturn is the main karaka of delay and it has been observed that whenever Saturn is involved in 1st, 5th, 7th, 8th, the 10th or 12th house then the native face delay in his or her marriage.
Here reason is quite simple because Saturn from above houses tends to affect the timing of marriage and here we need to account the role of Saturn for a particular ascendant also because there is some ascendant where Saturn tends to become a Yogakaraka and then in such cases, the delays are smooth and don’t bother native much.
Whereas for those ascendants where Saturn is a malefic there the delay in marriage tends to affect the native badly.
Planetary Placements For Late Marriage
Given below is a long list of certain alignments due to which a native suffers ate marriage in his or her life.
1.Placement of 7th house lord from ascendant in 6th, 8th & 12th house: 6th, 8th and 12th house are the most bad houses when it comes to the placement of 7th house lord in a Horoscope. And when placed there, 7th house lord tends to become weak and marriage gets delayed especially in 8th house because 8th house is house of delays itself.
2.Placement of 7th house lord from moon in 6th, 8th & 12th house: Same like point no.1, here we need to see the 7th house lord from the Moon chart and similar principal will be applied here.
3.Placement of 7th house lord from Venus in 6th, 8th, 12th house: Venus is karaka of marriage and 7th house from Venus have a important role in marriage timing and its condition and when placed in 6th,8th or 12th house from ascendant or from Venus then marriage tends to get delayed.
4.Placement of malefic planets viz Saturn, Mars, Rahu, Ketu & Sun in 7th house: This rules states that when natural malefic planets are placed in 7th house of marriage then marriage tends to get delayed. Same way this rule can be applied on similar condition when these malefic planets are placed with the 7th house lord from the ascendant, moon or even planet Venus.
5.Combustion of 7th lord: Combustion happens when a planet gets too close to planet Sun and usually we see Venus and Mercury in combustion state quite often. Though as per Nadi astrology Venus and Mercury does not get combust. So when 7th house lord from the ascendant gets combust then marriage tends to get delayed and even denial happen in some cases.
6.7th house hemmed between malefic planets: This is generally known as Papakarti Yoga and here when two planets are placed adjacent to any House then that house tends to suffer and becomes weak. So here if that happens to the 7th house then the weakness of 7th house will lead to late marriage.
7.7th house lord hemmed between malefic planets: Same like rule number 6, here the hemming of 7th house lord will lead to delay in marriage.
8.Debilitated 7th house lord: This rule deals with the weakness of 7th house lord due to debilitation and here please note that you need to check the condition of the 7th house lord in navamsha also because many times strength of planets improves in navamsha.
9.Retrograde 7th house lord: Retrograde planets are tricky to understand and have many complications associated with them, for the sake of this topic of delay in marriage, you need to focus on delay factor which comes with retrograde planets and 7th house lord is retrograde then marriage gets delayed due to it.
10.Retrograde planets in 2nd & 7th house: Same like rule no.9, when retrograde planets are placed in 2nd or 7th house again this is a combination of late marriage. Here, you might think that why 2nd house, then here to understand it, you need to apply the principle of Bhavat Bhavam and 2nd house is 8th from 7th house and any planets there affects marriage directly and when that planet is retrograde then sure shot late marriage will be there.
11.Afflicted Venus in navamsha: Venus is Karaka of marriage in general and when afflicted it tends to gives late marriage. For more information on affliction you can follow the article on this topic .
12.Venus hemmed between malefics: Same like rule number 6 here hemming of Venus from malefic will cause delay in marriage.
13.Venus in infertile signs like Gemini, Leo, Virgo: Here this point is very important to understand and it deals with the basics of astrology and in astrology there are some signs which are considered as infertile or useless for the matter of creation and when Venus which is karaka of marriage is placed in these signs then delay in marriage occurs.
14.Moon-Venus conjunction except in Taurus zodiac or without aspect of Jupiter: Actually this rule seems to be bizarre because we can say that Moon and Venus are two benefic and astrology and should give early marriage because here the person will be fond of opposite sex. But if you read the rule carefully you will find that i have written that “except in Taurus sign” & “without the aspect of Jupiter”. In Taurus sign Moon gets exalted and Venus have rulership over it so here in Taurus it will give a early marriage which will last the test of time where as in other signs it will make one seek relationship outside of marriage. Only aspect of divine Jupiter can correct it, without that the native will tend to indulge in pleasure without marriage only and even if he or she get married, there will be a tendency of extramarital affair.
15.Saturn- Jupiter conjunction or aspect: I have dealt with Saturn separately and this rule is again related to planet Saturn and it states that whenever Saturn affects Jupiter via union or aspect then marriage will be late and this hold true for females because Jupiter is karaka of marriage for them.
16.Saturn- Moon conjunction or aspect: Moon is karaka of mind and when Saturn affects it via conjunction then the native usually don’t get desires and have disinterest in marriage.
17.Saturn-Venus conjunction or aspect: Same like above point number 16, here Saturn influence over Venus which is karaka of marriage gives disinterest in marriage.
18.Mars-Jupiter Conjunction or aspect: This rule is quite unique and doesn’t hold much importance unless you are a women. Mars is a natural malefic and when affect Jupiter then marriage tends to get late and also quality of marriage suffers with it.
19.Weak 9th house or weak 9th house lord: 9th house rules over auspicious ceremony in our life and should be strong and unaffiliated for early marriage.
20.Placement of Saturn in 1st,5th,7th,8th & 12th: Saturn the karaka of delays when present in these houses tends to gives obstacles in marriage.
21.Placement of Mars in 1st,2nd,4th,5th,7th,10th & 12th house: This is a classic Mangal Dosha and we all know how it affects marriage in a negative manner though we should consider the lordship of Mars also because with auspicious lordship Mars can give early marriage also.
22.Placement of Saturn in 8th house from Venus: 8th house is 2nd to 7th house and have a important role in marriage and when Saturn is placed in 8th house from Venus then it leads to delays in marriage.
23.Debilitated planet in 2nd house from Upapada: This part deals with Jaimini astrology and 2nd house from Upapada is important in marriage predictions and when a weak planet sits there then you can not except early marriage in such case.
24.Malefic planet placement or their aspect on 2nd house from Upapada: Same like above rules here a malefic planet when placed in 2nd house from the upapada gives delay or sometimes denial of marriage also.
25.Upapada lagana afflicted by malefics via placement or aspects: Now we are dealing with Upapada lagna directly and when afflicted by malefics then it is not good for the marriage.
26.Affliction to Darakaraka: Darakaraka is the planet which have the least degrees in your Horoscope and same like 7th house lord it performs when we use Jaimini principals and when Darakaraka is afflicted then marriage get late.
27.Placement of Gantikaraka in 7th house from ascendant: Ganatikaraka works same like 6th, 8th and 12th house lord when we use standard astrology principals and and when placed in 7th house of marriage it tends to create troubles in getting married.
28.Affliction over Signs Gemini, Libra & Aquarius since they form kama trikone in kaalpurush: Gemini, Libra and Aquarius are part of Kama trikone and deals with things like money and marriage and when afflicted by malefic planets then bad things happens in marriage.
29.Less than 25 benfic points in 7th,8th & 12th house in Ashtakvarga calculation: Ashtakvarga is a special system and I give a lot of importance to it and when there are less then 25 benefic bindus in 7th, 8th and 12th house especially in 7th house then you cannot except a early marriage.
30.7th lord having less than 4 benfic bindus in its own Ashtakvarga: individual bindusSame like rule number 30 here weak in 7th house lord causes late marriage.
Now we will check the application of above mention points through example charts.
Example Horoscope Which Shows Late Marriage
Now after going through the main astrology combinations which gives delay in marriage, you might be wondering about their application. Therefore I have handpicked two horoscopes which can teach you a lot in this regard.
Example Horoscope No.1 where the native experienced delay in marriage due to many reasons
Native is a woman in her mid-thirties & is unmarried despite her sincere efforts for a suitable Groom. Her engagement got broken once.
In her chart Venus is 7th lord, Moon is Darakaraka, Jupiter is Ganatikaraka. & Upapada lagana is Pisces.
Following observations were made in her chart which is responsible for the delay in marriage.
- 7th lord from ascendant Venus is with 6th lord Mercury & under aspect of Saturn.
- Mercury is the most malefic planet for Aries ascendant.
- 7th lord from Moon is Saturn and is in 12th from Moon.
- 7th lord from Venus is Jupiter and is afflicted by Saturn.
- In Navamsha malefic Ketu is in 7th house
- 7th lord in Navamsha Chart is in 6th house with Saturn.
- Saturn Jupiter Mars conjunction in Navamsha’s 6th house making Jupiter severely afflicted.
- In the main chart(D-1) Jupiter is in 6th house.
- Upapada lagna is aspected by malefic Saturn.
- 2nd lord from Upapada is Mars & is with malefic Sun.
- 2nd house lord from Upapada is aspected by malefic planet Ketu.
Same is confirmed from her D-60.
- Sun & Saturn are present in the 7th house of D-60 Chart.
- Upapada Lagna is Libra & malefic Ketu is present there.
Example Horoscope No.2 where marriage got delayed due to the afflicted 7th house
This chart belongs to a woman, she is 29 years old and is looking for a groom.Her engagement got broken once also.
In her chart Saturn is 7th lord, Sun & Mercury are present in the 7th house. Jupiter is in 8th house. Upapada Lagan is Leo and Sun is Darakaraka & Mars is serving as Gantikaraka.
- Following observation were made in her chart.
- 7th lord from Ascendant is having malefic planet Sun.
- 7th lord from Ascendant have malefic Mercury lord of 12th house.
- Venus is afflicted by Saturn.
- 7th house from Moon is mercury which is present in 12th from Moon.
- Ketu is aspecting her 7th house from Ascendant.
- Rahu is aspecting 7th lord Saturn.
- Jupiter is in 8th house in natal chart (D-1).
- In her Navamsha (D-9),7th lord is aspected by Saturn.
- Navamsha Ascendant is afflicted by 8th lord Moon.
- Malefic Ketu is present in second from Upapada & is aspected by Rahu & Mars.
- Upapada is aspected by Saturn.
In her D-60 Chart.
- 7th house is aspected by Debilitated Mars.
- 7th lord Saturn is in sixth.
- 7th from the moon have malefic Sun.
- In her Ashtakvarga chart 7th Lord Saturn have two benefic bindus in its own Ashtakvarga.
Example horoscope No.3 where marriage got delayed due to afflicted 2nd house
This horoscope belongs to a Male who is 30 year old now.
He is looking for a bride since past 3 months but never tried it before. In his chart Moon & Venus are together in the 7th house in Libra though Venus in own zodiac seems to be strong but it is with the moon, though under aspect of Jupiter from 11th house, which satisfies condition no 14. Saturn is in 8th house & Rahu is in 12th hence there was a delay.
Though due to other positive combinations & current Venus antardasha which will last up to 2017 will make him marry.
These planetary combinations and example horoscopes are very helpful to identify delay in marriage and can be applied on horoscopes easily.
So what you are waiting for?
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40% of the UK’s carbon footprint comes from building houses and social housing is responsible for 20% of that. The Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF) was set up in 2020 to enhance the energy efficiency of socially rented homes and was part of a set of policies to help achieve the Government’s aim of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
The first wave of the SHDF was launched in 2021, committing £179 million in grant funding for upgrading works, with the second wave of £800m opening last year. Whilst this is a welcome contribution, research by the National Housing Federation shows that the full cost of decarbonising existing housing association homes will be at least an additional £36 billion on top of what the sector has already committed. Noting that EPC requirements continue to become more stringent as standards and regulatory requirements increase for all housing.
Meanwhile, housing associations have been in the news with new financial packages based on sustainability and ESG linked bonds. It would therefore appear to many onlookers outside the social housing and associated sectors that the green finance market (public and private) is truly enabling the upgrade of social housing, providing some relief to those suffering the cost-of-living crisis whilst at the same time helping to achieve net zero. Improving the energy efficiency of homes can also ease the cost-of-living pressures by reducing energy bills and lead to reduced fuel poverty, better health and an improvement to living standards.
Recently there has been a shift in spending patterns and a greater link between investment and ethics for a new generation of investors. A number of different financial products have been created to meet this need, including those which offer financial incentives to borrowers that can demonstrate the meeting of various sustainability performance targets or those that embark on green or social projects.
The financial sector has creatively embraced the need for change and developed various approaches to managing climate change, biodiversity risk and adherence to net zero goals depending on the type of finance needed. Including but not limited to ESG linked bonds, private placements, ESG funds, green loans, social loans and sustainability linked loans. The main types of financing available in the market for retrofit projects are social loans, green loans and sustainability linked loans; products which must adhere to the Loan Market Association’s principles and guidance (created in conjunction with the APLMA and the LSTA).
Both social loans and green loans are ‘proceeds based’ loan products which mean that 100% of all of the loan proceeds are required to be used for eligible social or green project respectively (other core criteria will also need to be met i.e., criteria for project evaluation and selection, management of proceeds and reporting). Both of these types of loans offer a reduced margin in comparison to a normal or ‘brown’ loan. Examples of green projects include the retrofitting of a building to ensure it is more energy efficient or the development of a new energy efficient building and examples of social projects include affordable housing and affordable basic infrastructure.
In certain areas such as social housing there may be an overlap between a green loan and a social loan; there is an acknowledgement that a loan may follow a combination of the green loan principles and the social loan principles if the loan is also for the purpose of creating more energy efficient social housing or retrofitting current social housing stock to improve energy efficiency.
Sustainability linked loans are available to borrowers which have a sustainability strategy, provide certain key performance indictors (KPIs) and have annual sustainability performance targets (SPTs) against which to mark progress on the sustainability journey and reduce the margin accordingly. These are available to all borrowers which are looking to improve sustainability more generally and do not need to be a part of a particular sector, with no particular proceeds requirements i.e. the proceeds of the loan can be used for general corporate purposes.
There have been some creative solutions suggested such as the use of the model of financing used in the United States of America known as R-PACE mortgages. Residential PACE (or R-PACE) mortgages involve financing retrofitting of a property and the financing attached to the property itself rather than its owner which has the potential to transform collaborative funding approaches when considering multi-occupation dwellings. This could be considered in an effort to retrofit a larger percentage of the housing stock (including those parties who participated in the ‘Right to Buy’ scheme) but would need backing and adjustments to ensure this is viable in the United Kingdom.
The Sustainability Reporting Standard for Social Housing was launched in November 2020 by the ESG Social Housing Working Group which includes 18 housing associations, banks and investors and other sector experts. The Standard is a voluntary reporting framework which enables housing providers to report on their ESG performance and is supported by Homes England and the Regulator of Social Housing. This reporting should make it easier for lenders to assess ESG performance and identify risk areas and so where housing providers are already part of the Social Housing Working Group they may wish to explore green finance.
Those in, and those who have dealings with, the social housing sector have explained the various obstacles to upgrading these homes with green finance, namely:
1. Skilled labour and capacity shortage in the supply chain: Retrofitting with green technologies requires a range of specialised skills, including knowledge of energy efficient building materials, renewable energy systems and energy management systems. There is a lack of labour and materials for these works with such shortage causing delay and ultimately increased cost.
2. High cost of construction materials: Following Covid and the subsequent invasion of Ukraine, the cost of construction materials has risen sharply and although there is some indication that this is slowing down, they remain significantly higher than before the pandemic.
3. Lack of clarity: There is no confirmed guidance as to what “net-zero” actually means and how actions taken to achieve this are being assessed. Whilst there is a focus on EPC ratings, this surely cannot be the main indicator (with some suggesting it should not really be used as an indicator at all). This presents difficulties for investors in assessing the risks and returns of green financing opportunities, restricting capital flow into the sector.
4. Accessibility: Smaller housing associations are experiencing greater difficulty in accessing green finance, given the bureaucracy of the public offerings, such as the SHDF and the GLA’s Green Bond Programme and also the fragmented and growing complexity of the private green finance market.
5. Imperfect data – in respect of energy efficiency, GHG emissions, unknown and untested new technology, potential cost of retrofit and other unknown costs.
6. Increased scrutiny - from the public, politicians and the press.
Of course, more government funding would help with some of these issues. For example, (i) investing in training workforce to carry out green retrofitting works and (ii) providing further subsidies and guarantees for the period until the cost of construction materials return to a manageable level.
The development of a nationwide set of standards and guidelines for social housing retrofits could be advantageous to encourage green finance investment and the range of products available, especially for those smaller housing associations who cannot capitalise on bulk scale works.
Last but not least, there are those that see collaboration between housing associations, local authorities, investors and other stakeholders as making a long-term difference. A pilot collaborative programme of London’s local authorities ‘Retrofit London’ aims to achieve mass home retrofitting to achieve an average Energy Performance Certificate Level of B by 2030 (led by the London boroughs of Enfield and Waltham Forest). It requires a collaborative approach from all parts of government and the retrofit sector to ensure success which could be mirrored in the social housing sector to ensure efficiency, bulk purchasing advantages and speed of retrofit.” By working together to identify opportunities and share best practices, a supportive and enabling environment may very well help in unlocking the full potential of green finance.
Ultimately, the sector needs to make the most of all of the above opportunities to ensure that it can tackle the huge retrofit challenge it faces. Currently, green finance is offering financial incentives to borrowers who can demonstrate observance of ESG principles but in the long term green finance may become the main type of funding available.
Authors: Shazia Bashir, Imogen Benson, and Lowry Jenkins
This publication is intended for general guidance and represents our understanding of the relevant law and practice as at June 2023. Specific advice should be sought for specific cases. For more information see our terms & conditions.
26 June 2023
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Message from the President-Treasurer
Thank you for stopping by for a visit at our web site. I trust that you will find here information that will be helpful to you as you learn about the ministry of Tennessee Baptist Adult Homes. You will discover that we have a number of residential homes and services that may be just what your family member or friend needs to be able to live life fully and meaningfully in a Christian environment. Please contact me or one of the other staff listed below for additional information.
All the best,
Mark W. Anderson, President-Treasurer
Tennessee Baptist Adult Homes is a benevolent Christian ministry providing quality residential care for senior adults and adults with exceptional needs.
Values of TBAH
As an organization we aim first of all to be Christian in all that we are and all that we are about. We are without apology Baptist in our approach and polity being an institution affiliated with the Tennessee Baptist Convention. And, we emphasize quality in the care we give, the staff we employ, and the facilities we provide.
A Brief Biography of Our Ministry
Tennessee Baptist Adult Homes was founded in 1974 by the Tennessee Baptist Convention with the expressed purpose of leading Tennessee Baptists in developing a residential ministry for senior adults.
And, in 1987, the Deer Lake Retirement Community in Nashville came under TBAH. A year later construction was completed on Baptist Village of Johnson City.
In 1988 the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board assigned TBAH to work with Baptists across the state in providing a residential ministry for adults with exceptional needs.
We now have two group homes in Knoxville, one in Jacksboro, two in Lebanon and one in Hermitage.
Today, TBAH has eight ministry facilities providing Christian care and homes for senior adults in retirement and also for exceptional adults. Nearly 200 adults are provided a home in these facilities.
Board of Directors
Rev. Steve Babcock, Chairman
Rev. Terry Baker, Vice Chair
Mrs. Sherry Scruggs, Secretary
Dr. Brandon Owen
Dr. Pam Davis
Mr. John Oliver
Mr. Greg Salyer
Mr. Joe Collins
Mr. Cam Scearce
• Anita McKay: Adult Homes Bookkeeper
• Connie Hargrove: Admin. Assistant/Bookkeeper
Rev. Michael Ellis, Sr.
Mrs. Mary Williamson
Rev. Greg Stanford
Mrs. Tracy Lening
Mr. Mike Denney
Mr. Tommy Thompson
Ms. Bobby Turner
Ms. Stephanie Wright
Mr. Sammy Walters
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Discover Campbell County
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Memorial Day is almost here, which means so are barbecues, beach days and all the other glorious activities that come with summer's unofficial start. However you're planning to spend your Memorial Day weekend, choosing the right dishes to help you sink your teeth into all that sunshine, is imperative. So we are here tohelp!
Hosting a big barbecue blowout? Become a pitmaster with grilled chicken and steak in sweet and zesty marinades, light seafoods, veggies and more. Hitting up someone else's get-together? Choose a few make-ahead dishes, from pasta salads to shrimp po'boys, that'll easily transfer wherever the fun takes you. We promise, the host will be seriously impressed! Hanging at home with family and enjoying the (fingers crossed) fabulous weather? Gather up the season's best and brightest and make a spread that will make everyone feel like the school days ahead are numbered.
While it's easy to turn to old classics like hot dogs, burgers, potato salads and such, it's so much fun to try inventive spins and flavorful takes on what summer tastes like. In this roundup, you'll find peak summer produce highlighted in recipes like a Spain's take on Mexican street corn and a salad with plump tomatoes, charred corn and Middle Eastern halloumi cheese. Pasta salads get upgrades with exciting ingredients (hello, BLT!) and even the burgers get a wildly delicious makeover with oozing cheese centers.
It may sound like professional-grade stuff, but we promise all these recipes are easy to make for every skill level at any cookout. All that'll be left to do is make Memorial Day desserts — and enjoy!
Appetizers and sides worth celebrating
If you don't get your elbows dirty, you aren't making potato salad right. You have to mix it with your hands to make sure all the flavors are mixing in. It should taste good every step of the way.
This spin on pasta salad has bright citrus flavors, smoky and spicy notes from the chiles and loads of freshness from an assortment of vegetables. The best part about this recipe, other than the fact that its flavor improves as it sits in the fridge, is that you can customize it, adding whatever vegetables or pasta you have on hand.
Is it a salad, a dip or cornbread? Well, it's all three! This wonderful trifle is bursting with sweet corn, crunchy bell peppers, sharp and creamy cheeses and salty bacon. It can be served in a clear dish for a fun appetizer or on the side of your main dish.
This recipe calls for slow-roasting a pork butt on the grill for the ultimate nachos recipe — but, truth be told, you can still use this skillet-on-the-grill technique to whip up any variation of the popular appetizer. It's all about layering the chips with an even distribution of cheese and toppings for a great bite every time.
Maíz rustido is Spain's version of Mexican street corn. Like its south-of-the-border counterpart, this sweet corn is charred and served with salty cheese, smoky spices and zesty citrus. It will be on the plate in less than 30 minutes.
There's something undeniably refreshing about the combination of juicy watermelon and salty feta. When you add sweet blueberries, you get the perfectly patriotic summer salad.
Samin Nosrat loves this recipe because she believes that cooking a bunch of vegetables is one of the most luxurious things you can do for someone. She enjoys showing people that simple, humble ingredients can be extraordinarily delicious.
We love how this corn gives you a combination of sweet, spicy, smoky and salty all in one bite! Creating such a range of flavor notes makes it a shoe-in at any party, especially if you're bringing a dish and don't know what else is on the menu.
Alex Guarnaschelli turns to a combination of tomatoes and strawberries for this uniquely sweet salad. You can roast the tomatoes in advance and assemble the dish just before serving. We like strawberries that are slightly under-ripe for this because that “green” flavor note complements the tomatoes.
Corn relish has traditionally been eaten throughout the South and stored in the larder for leaner months. Bryant Terry's family has found multiple uses for this tangy condiment: stuffing it into tacos, serving it atop beans and simply sautéing it to serve as a side dish.
No need to boil water to prep this no-cook grain salad! Couscous just needs to be rehydrated before serving. For this recipe, you'll combine the couscous with a few staple pantry ingredients, then let it soak in the dressing for a couple hours (or even overnight, if you'd like to prep it in advance). Serve it chilled or room temperature — no heat required!
Simpler than quiche, this veggie-filled summer galette is a beauty on the table. It's perfect for potlucks as it can be put out as an appetizer, side dish or a main for those who don't want meat.
Using steamed potatoes from the bag saves time and makes potato salad prep quick and easy. Then just toss them with a simple dressing, charred onions for a sweet and smoky flavor and you'll be on your way.
A colorful salad that's a mix of different vegetables hits the spot on a steamy summer evening. Everything can be prepped ahead of time and, while the recipe serves six, is easy to double for a larger gathering.
Kardea Brown loves Southern-style mac and cheese because it's cheesy and hearty, yet sturdy. It's basically a custard-style baked macaroni and cheese with eggs, heavy cream and sharp cheddar cheese. There's no denying this dish is irresistible — your fellow potluckers will agree.
It's true — everything is better with bacon! In this recipe, the beloved BLT sandwich is transformed into pasta perfection. It's a unique and versatile dish that can be a side at barbecues or an entrée all on its own.
As vibrant as it is fresh, this salad is all about using ripe, in-season ingredients. Juicy tomatoes, cool watermelon and zesty herbs make this summery salad sing. It's also best served at room temperature, so there's no need to occupy extra space in the fridge.
Need something to satiate your guests while you tend to the grill? Whip up this classic dip in no time and serve as a snack with store-bought or homemade tortilla chips or raw vegetable crudités.
This recipe is really tasty and easy to throw together for a picnic or an afternoon barbecue. It lasts for days in the fridge, too, so you can make it a few days before your picnic without worrying about a soggy salad.
The fruity sweetness of the brown sugar and peach preserves complement the smokiness of the bacon and bourbon in these baked beans. They're always the first side dish to go at any barbecue.
Loaded with sweet and spicy pickled vegetables to go along with the herby and briny feta dip, this platter requires only a few minutes of cooking, which means you'll have a cool kitchen while preparing a veggie-packed dish that is light, fresh and robust in flavor.
The mayo, the mustard, the pickled relish: Damon Stalworth's potato salad has all of the classic potato salad ingredients. A delightful addition to a rack of barbecued ribs slathered in sauce, this is a simple recipe mixed with hard-boiled eggs for a little extra protein.
This recipe uses everything in the icebox. If you have red onion, a little piece of squash or zucchini, leftover chicken, berries, peaches, apples or one random tomato, throw it in there. This is also amazing the next day and delicious at room temperature, so it's a great option for a make-ahead dish that doesn't need to be packed in a cooler.
This recipe is as seasonal as it gets! Tomatoes are at their peak right now, and so is sweet and juicy corn. It couldn't be a better time to throw all these seasonal vegetables together to make a delicious salad. Add a little Middle Eastern flair to the salad with grilled halloumi. Halloumi is the only cheese you can grill, and once you grill it, it changes its texture and flavors completely, which goes so well with the rest of the salad. Make this super simple but super flavorful salad for your next party!
Jet Tila loves this recipe because it's an easy way to get delicious vegetables onto your cookout menu (if you're already grilling meats, why not throw some veggies on there, too?). Grilling is the fastest and tastiest way to cook vegetables.
Valerie Bertinelli's go-to recipe for warm-weather entertaining, this recipe no-cook, full of flavor, only requires a few ingredients. All the elements pair so well together and make for an easy and impressive starter or side dish.
No mayo alert! This Japanese-inspired pasta salad is filled with edamame, carrots and bell peppers, and its dressing is made with miso, ginger, soy and sesame. It gets better as it sits, which means it's perfect for picnics.
This slaw is straightforward and simple so as not to distract or take away from whatever main dish is being served at mealtime. But the subtle tang, sweetness and creaminess of this slaw will surely enhance the flavors of a great batch of fried chicken.
Grilled Mexican street corn is an exciting way to kick up the all-time favorite summer side! It adds so much flavor, you may never be satisfied with just butter ever again.
If you have leftover baked potatoes, make this salad It tastes great made fresh and equally good refrigerated and served a day or two later. It's a great barbecue dish to bring to someone's house, too.
The main event
Since not everybody has an offset smoker, pitmaster Kevin Bludso is giving you a way to make some good barbecue on a regular charcoal grill. It's still more of a grill than a smoke — hotter than a smoke but colder than a grill. But this will get some smoke on your ribs and cook them way faster than a smoker.
This makes two seriously tasty burgers that can be halved or quartered. The secret to the bold, rich taste of the sauce is the combo of Parmesan, Worcestershire and soy sauce which work together to up the umami flavor and overall cheesy goodness.
"This is where I got my start — watching my granny be up all night cooking brisket when I was a little boy. You'd see this big tough piece of meat, then you'd go to sleep and the next day everybody was talking about how good it was. Brisket was her favorite meat, and I felt like I got to be a part of it," says Bludso.
"Then, when she got older, I was the only person who made brisket that she would eat. One of the highlights of my life was making her brisket whenever I'd go to see her. So, I felt like brisket was something that I had to master."
"Jerk chicken is spicy by nature. What was once a method of preparing food surreptitiously by Jamaican Maroons has become Jamaica's greatest contribution to the culinary canon: a tapestry of flavors, aromatics and spices," says Kwame Onwuachi. To cool it down, serve it with his coconutty Braised Cabbage and Carrots.
We love grilled steak in the summer, and this recipe with chimichurri sauce is a great way to change it up. The sauce is fresh, zippy and packed with fresh herbs like parsley and oregano, plus garlic and shallots, so it's really the ideal accompaniment to a range of meats and seafood, from chicken to heart swordfish to other cuts of beef and pork. Personally, the strong, bright flavors taste the best when balanced by the natural smokiness that comes from grilling proteins over a flame. So when looking for healthy spring and summer recipes, look no further.
This grilling technique will get some smoke on a whole chicken and cook it way faster than a smoker. The custom poultry rub adds big, bold barbecue flavor to the bird.
This summer, salad is getting dressed up and upgraded from starter to main course. In this recipe, I use a blend of lettuce and radicchio to create a balanced salad with a slight bite, topping it with seared steak, pears and cucumbers. To bring it all together, the salad is tossed in a creamy, sharp, garlicky blue cheese dressing.
These burgers are incredibly easily to make and packed with so much flavor. "Every single person who has ever tried them loves them!" says Ronnie Woo.
No guest would ever guess this make-ahead steak recipe took only 30 minutes. It's great for entertaining since you can put the meat in the marinade and prep the sauce the day before to make cooking and serving a cinch.
Grill up perfect pork chops with just four easy ingredients for a sweet and savory dish that no one will be able to resist.
The secret to moist, tender, evenly cooked chicken is roasting it in the oven, then finishing it on the grill. Roasting the bird in halves cooks it evenly while locking in the juices and also intensifies the marinade flavors.
Pulled pork with barbecue sauce isn't just a dish — it's a technique. Browning and braising are core techniques that should be applied to tougher cuts of meat to make them fancy and tender.
The slaw is a flavorful, healthy, comforting and has the Asian flavors we all love. It's as tangy as it is creamy, with the apples adding a natural sweetness. It pairs perfectly with the pulled pork.
Don't let the long list of ingredients fool you: This burger is easy to put together. The multiple layers of flavors in the meaty burger start by making our homemade barbecue seasoning, which is a simple mixture of dried spices and herbs like paprika, cumin, chili powder, sugar and some fresh garlic and onion. Blended into the signature tangy sauce made from a burger lover's favorites (ketchup, mustard, hot sauce honey and more) and topped with cheese and zesty pickles make the extra effort of measuring and mixing well worth it. It's a comfort meal tailor-made for summertime.
This pizza incorporates so many fresh summer flavors and puts a bright spin on a traditional pie. The seasonal veggies and rich walnut pesto are an irresistible combination. Cooking the pizza on the grill makes it even more summery and adds a deliciously smoky char to the dough.
This refreshing salad tastes like summer on a plate. The bright citrus, sweet watermelon and grilled shrimp really showcase the light and fresh flavors of the season.
Grilling over charcoal is the favored way to cook most fish and seafood in Ghana — especially along the Accra coastline where there is an abundance of fresh seafood, and up into the region alongside Lake Volta. This recipe is inspired by Zoe Adjonyoh's experience in Jamestown, Accra, where she watched local fishermen hauling in their catches.
JJ Johnson loves cooking with Peruvian-style adobo sauce. This recipe features the unexpected sweetness of rice vinegar along with West African palm sugar, known for its rich, caramel flavor.
Grilled salmon is a healthy dish that doesn't always get to shine come Memorial Day amid the smoked meats and dogs. But with only 10 minutes prep time and 10 minutes on the grill, it's totally worth making and is great for a lighter spread.
Tired of the same old burger? Stuff it with your favorite cheese and smoky bacon for an over-the-top inside-out bacon cheeseburger.
According to Bobby Flay, you can create a delicious, multi-purpose barbecue sauce with ingredients you most likely already have on hand.
"My husband Ryan taught me this technique with the foil and I'll never make ribs any other way!" says Katie Lee Beigel. "It's so easy and foolproof."
Bobby Flay loves to make pork chops on the grill. They only need a little seasoning and a flavorful sauce on the side to make them so satisfying and delicious.
When entertaining, Siri Daly is a big fan of setting up topping bars so that guests can help themselves. In the summer, nothing is more fun or festive than a hot dog bar … except maybe grilling those toppings in foil, making cleanup a breeze!
Spice up the grill with this easy seafood dish. These shrimp have an amazing smoky flavor due to the charring of the chili in the marinade. It takes ordinary to extraordinary, plus the marinade uses only six simple ingredients.
There is chili, and then there is chili from the grill. Cooking the ingredients in an open searing hot Dutch oven in a covered grill allows the ingredients to get both a flavorful browning without losing any natural juices to the flames and plenty of smoky flavor. The result is a complex, delicious chili — perfect as a hot dog topping.
Rich, dark maple syrup, smoky spices, and fresh lime juice add sweet and sour contrast to this easy steak-and-salad combo. The maple caramelizes on the grill as it cooks, adding savory charred flavor and beautiful grill marks.
These ribs get infused with a ton of flavor from a wet rub and grilling process. Damon Stalworth loves serving these tasty ribs with summery salads, seasonal grilled veggies and traditional barbecue sides like baked beans, potato salad or mac and cheese.
Make the chicken a day or two in advance, whip up a super simple, two-ingredient slaw and then bring the buns to assemble well-stacked sandwiches at the barbecue.
This recipe is the perfect sweet heat, sticky baby back rib for anytime of year — but it tastes especially sweet at the start of summer.
This spicy, herby chicken is full of bright, zesty flavors and is very easy to make. The yogurt tenderizes the chicken as it marinates, making the meat very tender. It goes with everything — but is especially nice with pita or other flatbread bread and a big cucumber-tomato salad.
Here’s a plant-based paella bursting with bright, Spanish flavors. The chickpeas provide the protein. Tradition calls for cooking the veggies right in the paella pan, not directly on the grill, but live fire intensifies their color and flavor.
Nothing says summer by the beach like a classic New England lobster roll. It's refreshing and satisfying and, for Will Gilson, always brings back memories of summertime with his family. Buttery, toasty buns filled with creamy lobster salad make the perfect lunch for a day spent lounging by the ocean.
Whether you're planning to entertain all summer long or are craving some spice in your life, these wings will be there to make you feel as if you're on a much-needed tropical vacation. Just be prepared to eat a lot of them — they're addicting.
Transform your usual turkey burgers with just a few easy ingredients. Soy sauce, cilantro, water chestnuts and a few other pantry staples add a ton of flavor and terrific texture to these easy-to-make burgers.
Shrimp rolls have all the fresh, summery, seafood flavors as a lobster roll but are more economical. Plus, shrimp is more readily available than lobster and just as delicious.
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Cyclic vomiting syndrome has been diagnosed by doctors as a disorder that that involves episodes or recurring attacks of vomiting and nausea. Sometimes, this can stretch on for a few hours or extend for a number of days. These attacks could occur with or without accompanying symptoms for a longer time span.
A postnasal drip is something most everyone has had but that not many can recognize by the name. Every day, people swallow small amounts of mucus. This mucus usually comes from the sinuses, mixes with salvia, and causes people no problems. However, sometimes the body makes too much mucus, which makes it harder to swallow. Sometimes the mucus comes out the nose (making a runny nose), while other times it runs down the back of your throat (postnasal drip).
Amnesia is a medical condition that is accompanied by partial or entire memory loss. It varies in different kinds and levels in elderly as well as in certain mental conditions. People who are plagued by amnesia lose their ability to have details memorized and are often unable to recall sufficient details from memory. Forgetfulness does not necessarily translate to amnesia as anyone might forget things at some point.
More often than not, fainting is caused by lack of oxygen to the brain. Fainting is a way of the body trying to save itself. When blood or oxygen levels drop too severely, the brain shut down everything that body doesn’t need to survive so that the vital organs can use everything it needs.
The common cold is a viral contagion of the upper respiratory tract—mouth, nose, and throat. Due to its symptoms, it can be quite devastating watching your baby struggle with this condition. Unlike grownups, children are susceptible to infections because their immune system, lungs, and other organs, are not completely mature yet. This is why breastfeeding is of utmost importance to a baby’s health; breastmilk is filled with antibodies and chemicals that protect your baby from infections. Continue reading to learn more about the common cold in babies: what causes it, what the symptoms are, and how to cure a common cold in babies with natural home remedies.
The condition known as Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS) is a condition that is common with adults who have to put their hands to use daily. People who are engaged in driving, typing or other forms of manual mobility-based jobs are most at risk. The incidence of CTS is thought to affect about 4% of the global population.
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The women's football team from Argentina has participated at the FIFA Women's World Cup four times, in 2003, 2007, 2019 and 2023. Argentina have yet to win a game at the World Cup.
- About the men's team from Argentina at the football World Cup
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Pilates has gained popularity as a low-impact full-body workout mainly boosted by athletes and celebrities, making it part of their fitness regime.
Anyone can benefit from Pilates as it is a workout focused on form and alignment. If you want to build strength and improve flexibility, Pilates offers the solution. Another great thing about Pilates is that you can do it on a mat, a reformer, or with resistance bands.
There are several benefits of using resistance bands for Pilates. Resistance bands are highly portable and easier to use than other Pilates apparatuses. They can easily replace free weights to assist several challenging Pilates workouts. When you use a resistance band, you can further strengthen your muscles.
Resistance band provides stability to challenging postures which makes your Pilates workout even more efficient.
Here are the top 5 Pilates band exercises for a full-body workout.
1. Straight Side Leg Lift
- Lie down on the mat on your right side and keep your legs straight.
- Support your head with your right-hand underneath.
- Place the resistance band around the arch of the left foot and grab both ends of the resistance band with your left hand.
- Extending your left leg out, keep your feet and hips stacked, and bring your left hand down to the floor for more stability.
- Now point to your toes and engage your core, bringing your left leg up with power in a controlled motion.
- Hold, then lower it to the starting position.
Repeat it ten times before switching to the left side.
2. Leg Circle
- Start with the same starting position as above.
- Loop the resistance band around the right foot arch and anchor it to the ground grabbing the ends with your left hand.
- Do not arch your lower back, keep it straight to engage your core.
- Extend your right left, pointing to your toes.
- Now draw a big circle with your right toes by extending your leg forward, up, and back down.
- In the movement, keep your hips steady and only.
Repeat for ten reps and then switch to the left side.
3. Lunge and Biceps Curl
- Stand firmly on the ground with feet hip-width apart.
- Place the resistance band under your right foot.
- Step back with your left foot in a position where your left leg is extended, and your right knee is bent 90 degrees.
- In this position, activate your core by inhaling and keeping your lower back straight.
- Now lunge by lowering your hips gradually and simultaneously curl your biceps by bending your elbows, bringing your hands to your shoulders.
- As you exhale, relax your lunge position and extend your elbows to 90°.
Repeat for 15 reps or as per your stamina. Once done, repeat the same with your left leg.
4. Kneeling Bent Knee Lift
- Rest on all fours with your hips over your knees and your shoulders over your wrists.
- Tuck your toes in and put the resistance band on the arch of the right foot.
- Grab the ends of the Pilates band with your right hand and secure it firmly on the ground.
- Get in position by squeezing your glutes, bending your knees, and engaging your core.
- Now lift your right foot off the ground with your palm facing upward.
- Bring your right thigh parallel to the ground, and ensure your back is not over-arched.
- Bring your knee back to the ground and repeat.
Switch sides after ten reps.
5. Kneeling Extended Leg
- Take the same starting position as above and rest on all fours.
- Place the Pilates band around the arch of the right foot, and ensure that your back is not overarching.
- Slide your right thigh in between both resistance band sides.
- Now anchor the ends of the band to the ground with your right hand.
- Bend your knee 90 degrees and keep your palm of the foot facing upwards.
- Ensure enough tension in the resistance band to challenge your muscles.
- Inhale and engage your core, and keep your shoulders and hips square to the ground.
- Now flexing your right foot, extend your left leg behind and bring it to parallel to the floor.
- Bend your knee again to repeat the movement as many times as you can before your muscles are exhausted.
When you are ready, switch to the left side.
These are the best resistance band Pilates exercises that we recommend for you. All these exercises use resistance bands to tone and strengthen your muscles even more than usual Pilates. One of the significant reasons to use resistance bands for Pilates is the versatility they offer. You can intensify your Pilates workouts in multiple ways using resistance bands. Therefore, if you want to include powerful Pilates in your training to target your abdominal, glutes, legs, and arms, use resistance bands for the listed exercises.
- The Pilates Training Method
- A simple Resistance Band Workout
- Circuit Training - The 7-minute Workout
- List of Exercise Program Workouts
- More Fitness Workouts
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Catalysis is the phenomena of altering the velocity of a chemical reaction by the presence of a catalyst. The temperature at which the catalyst activity is maximum is the optimum temp richer. The excess energy that the reactant molecules must acquire to change into the product is the activation energy. It is denoted by Ea. It is given by the energy required to break the bond minus the current energy of the reactants.
Properties of Catalyst
- A catalyst remains unchanged in mass and composition at the end of the reaction: This means the catalyst which we have taken at the starting of the reaction and the catalyst which we get at the end of the reaction its mass and composition is the same. It does not mean that the catalyst will remain the same in its physical state also.
- Catalyst is specific in action: This means that a particular substance can act as a catalyst only for a specific reaction, not for others. For example, HNO2 decomposes KMnO3 But not KMnO4. The notable exception being the transition metals which can catalyse a variety of reactions.
- Nature of products remains unchanged by the presence of a catalyst: That is the reaction reactants to product cycle it’s same but the catalyst only increases the weight of the reaction. There are some exceptions for the catalyst which make different products have different conditions.
- Catalyst does not alter the position of equilibrium: Catalyst only helps in the attending of the equilibrium more quickly because it increases the rate of forwarding reaction as well as backward reaction. It does not affect the concentration so equilibrium constant remains the same.
- Catalyst does not initiate the reaction: This is a controversial topic as there are certain reactions that do not occur in absence of the catalyst.
Types of Catalysis
There are 6 types of catalysis these are homogeneous catalysis, heterogeneous catalysis, autocatalysis, enzyme catalysis, positive catalysis, negative catalysis. The broad categories are homogeneous catalysis and heterogeneous catalysis.
1. Homogenous Catalysis
They refer to the reaction where reactants and catalyst, are in the same face may it be the solid, liquid, or gaseous physical state. The entities that don’t have definite separation boundaries are called in the same face, for example, chlorine and water mixture will stop in chlorine add water mixture we can’t separate chlorine and water. In the physical state, the entities may have a definite boundary for example water and oil are in the same physical state but we have a definite boundary, we can separate oil from water. On this basis we can divide homogeneous catalysis into type one is in the liquid phase and the second is in the gaseous phase.
- The liquid phase – As the name suggests all the reactants and the catalyst involved are in the liquid face. Most of the reaction comes in this category used acid add base as a catalyst. For example, the hydrolysis of Ester which takes Easter and water in the presence of at acid or base as a catalyst it gives acid and alcohol taken example is the inversion of sucrose that is sucrose plus water in the presence of acid it gives fructose and glucose, 3rd is the conversion of acetone to diacetone alcohol in which we take base as the catalyst.
- The gaseous phase – As indicated from the heading, all the reactants and catalyst involved hair are in gases face will stop the first example is the oxidation of carbon monoxide which take place in the presence of nitrogen oxide second example is the lead chamber process for the manufacture of sulphuric acid.
Hair catalyst and reactants are in different phases. In most of the cases, the catalyst is in the solid face while reactants are either in liquid or gas face. This is also called as contact catalysis because the reaction occurs when the reactants come into contact with the catalyst surface.
The first example is the oxidation of sulfur dioxide in which we use platinum as a catalyst in the solid-state but the reactance is in the gaseous state take an example is the hydrogenation of oil, 3rd example is the manufacture of ammonia by Haber process in which we take nitrogen and hydrogen in the presence of a solid catalyst which makes ammonia. For example, is the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide but here it is in the presence of platinum as the catalyst which is solid.
This includes the reaction where one of the products form to act as a catalyst. In the starting the rate of the reaction is low and increases very slowly but as soon as the products are formed after certain intervals of time the rate increases rapidly. What’s ample titration of warm oxalic acid weather km oh 4. In this, the first few drops of potassium per magnet take appreciable time to decolourise, change the reaction is initially slow. But after some time, decolourization becomes rapid as the Mn+2 ions Formed during the reaction catalyses the reaction.
When the catalyst speeds up the reaction in a forwarding direction, the direction is set to be positive.
When the catalyst closes down the rate of reaction, the catalysis is said to be negative. For example, chloroform, when in contact with air, gets oxidized to carbon allyl chloride which is poisonous. To prevent this, ethanol is added which acts as a negative catalyst so that the wastage of chloroform is prevented and the poisonous substance is decreased. This is an advantage of negative catalysis.
FAQs about Catalysis
Q.1. What is the difference between homogenous and heterogeneous catalysis?
Answer – The differences between homogenous and heterogeneous catalysis are as follows –
- In heterogeneous catalysis reactants and catalyst are in the same face while in heterogeneous catalysis the reactant and catalysis are in a different phase.
- Homogeneous catalysis is mostly observed in liquid and gases catalysis while the heterogeneous catalysis is observed when the catalyst is in solid form.
- In homogeneous catalysis, products cannot be separated while in heterogeneous catalysis the final product can be separated.
- Homogeneous catalysis has low selectivity while heterogeneous catalysis has high selectivity.
Q.2. Write 2 examples when the nature of the product changed by the presence of a catalyst.
Answer- First exception is carbon monoxide and hydrogen makes methane and water in the presence of nickel as a catalyst. Carbon monoxide and hydrogen in the presence of copper as a catalyst form formaldehyde. Carbon monoxide and hydrogen in the presence of zinc oxide and chromium trioxide as the catalyst give methanol.
The second exception is the chlorination of tolerance in the presence of iron chloride as a catalyst in the absence of sunlight on the other hand in the presence of sunlight and without the use of catalyst the products are different.
Q.3. Write 2 examples of catalysis when the catalyst remains unchanged in the product of the reaction.
Answer- A) Platinum gauze Catalyst is useful in ammonium ammonia oxidation. When we use it in the starting it is very smooth but after using it for 5 to 6 weeks it becomes harsh in its appearance.
B) Manganese dioxide is in use in the decomposition of potassium chlorate. At the start of the reaction we take crystals off manganese dioxide but as the reaction proceeds, it is converted into a fine powder which means it is the part of the reaction which is used up in the reaction but it is generated later.
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The Muhammad Ali Mosque, also known as the Alabaster Mosque, is one of Egypt’s most significant and visible mosques.
Situated within Cairo’s Citadel, the mosque stands as a bold declaration of Egypt’s de facto independence during the reign of Muhammad Ali Pasha. Its towering twin minarets, colossal piers, and large central dome surrounded by four semicircular domes offer an animated silhouette against the city’s skyline.
The mosque’s architectural style, heavily inspired by the Sultan Ahmed Mosque in Istanbul, is a blend of the Ottoman style with echoes of the previous Mamluk dynasties.
Muhammad Ali Pasha, the founder of modern Egypt, chose to erect this great mosque as a symbol of his defiance against his former overlords, the Ottomans, and the Mamluk palaces he destroyed to make room for it.
The mosque’s construction began in 1830 and was finally completed in 1848. It was a defiant declaration of Egypt’s de facto independence, as the mosque showed signs of architectural styles that were different from the traditional Ottoman and Mamluk buildings.
The mosque follows a square plan, a common feature in many mosques built during the Ottoman period. The central dome rises to a height of 52 meters (171 feet), flanked on all sides by four smaller domes, or semi-domes, each adorned with lead-covered domes.
The main dome, surrounded by four semicircular domes, is supported by colossal piers on the corners. The prayer hall, under the main dome, is surrounded by multiple half domes. The exterior walls of the prayer hall and the central dome are decorated with shallow, semicircular domes, creating a unique pattern of light and shadow.
The mosque’s interior is adorned with Turkish-style arches standing on thick piers. The upper walls and domes are decorated with intricate Islamic art, while the lower parts of the walls are clad in alabaster, giving the mosque its popular name, the Alabaster Mosque.
The Twin Minarets
Two minarets, each with two balconies and conical caps, rise on the western side of the mosque, adding to its grandeur. The minarets, each around 82 meters (269 feet) high, are the tallest in Cairo. They are designed in the Ottoman style, with cylindrical shafts, multiple balconies, and conical caps.
The Exterior Walls and Facades
The mosque’s exterior walls are built with limestone, while the facades are adorned with vertical and horizontal courses of smooth stone. The external facades are articulated with arched riwaks rising from the base to the top.
The mosque has three entrances, the most prominent being the northeastern gate, which leads directly to the prayer hall.
The Prayer Hall
The prayer hall, located under the central dome, is a vast square room with a central open space surrounded by four arches. The arches, supported by colossal piers, create a sense of grandeur and space.
The prayer hall’s southeastern wall, or qibla wall, is adorned with a mihrab, a niche indicating the direction of Mecca. The mihrab is made from Egyptian marble and is intricately decorated with geometric patterns and calligraphy.
The Tomb of Muhammad Ali Pasha
Located on the right side of the entrance, the tomb of Muhammad Ali Pasha is a key feature of the mosque.
The tomb is carved from Carrara marble, gifted by the French King Louis Philippe in exchange for the obelisk that now stands in Place de la Concorde in Paris. A copper clock tower, also a gift from Louis Philippe, is located in the central courtyard, although it has never functioned since its arrival.
The Architectural Influence and Style
The architectural style of the Muhammad Ali Mosque is deeply influenced by the Ottoman style, particularly the Sultan Ahmed Mosque in Istanbul. Yet, it also incorporates elements from the Mamluk architectural tradition, making it a unique blend of two distinct styles.
The mosque’s central dome surrounded by four semicircular domes is a prominent feature of Ottoman architecture. However, the mosque’s square plan and the use of alabaster, a material abundant in Egypt, are reminiscent of the Mamluk era.
The mosque’s design, with its central dome rising above four semicircular domes, creates a symmetrical and balanced structure. This symmetry extends to the two minarets standing tall on either side of the mosque. The domes, semi-domes, and minarets together create an animated silhouette that is easily the most visible mosque in Cairo’s skyline.
The Interior Decoration
The interior of the mosque is as impressive as its exterior. The walls up to 11 meters (about 36 feet) high are covered with alabaster, hence the name “Alabaster Mosque.” The upper walls and domes are decorated with intricate Islamic art, painted in vibrant colors and gilded. The arches standing on colossal piers are adorned with verses from the Quran, beautifully calligraphed.
The mosque’s prayer hall, under the large central dome, is surrounded by multiple half domes. The central dome rises to a height of 52 meters (171 feet), creating a sense of grandeur and space. The prayer hall’s southeastern wall, or qibla wall, is adorned with a mihrab made from Egyptian marble, intricately decorated with geometric patterns and calligraphy.
The Courtyard and Clock Tower
The mosque’s courtyard, or sahn, is a large open space surrounded by arched riwaks. The sahn is paved with alabaster and features a central ablution fountain, which is not original to the mosque but was added by King Fuad.
A notable feature in the courtyard is the copper clock tower, a gift from the French King Louis Philippe in exchange for the obelisk that now stands in Place de la Concorde in Paris. Unfortunately, the clock has never worked since its arrival in Egypt.
The Mosque Today
Today, the Muhammad Ali Mosque is not only a place of worship but also one of Egypt’s most popular tourist attractions. It offers visitors an insight into the country’s rich architectural heritage and a glimpse into the era of Muhammad Ali Pasha, considered the founder of modern Egypt. The mosque also serves as a symbol of Egypt’s defiance against its former overlords, the Ottomans, and a testament to the country’s de facto independence.
Despite the passage of time, the Muhammad Ali Mosque continues to dominate Cairo’s skyline with its towering minarets, large central dome, and four semicircular domes. Its blend of Ottoman and Mamluk architectural styles, its grandeur, and its historical significance make it a must-visit site for anyone interested in history, architecture, or Islamic art.
The Muhammad Ali Mosque, with its large central dome, four semicircular domes, twin minarets, and alabaster-clad interior, is a testament to Egypt’s rich architectural heritage.
It stands as a symbol of Egypt’s defiance against its former overlords and a monument to its founder, Muhammad Ali Pasha. Today, the mosque is not only a place of worship but also one of Egypt’s most popular tourist attractions, offering visitors a glimpse into the country’s rich history and architectural grandeur.
FAQ about Muhammad Ali Mosque
What was the purpose behind the construction of the Muhammad Ali Mosque?
The Muhammad Ali Mosque was erected in honor of Tusun Pasha, Muhammad Ali’s eldest son, who passed away in 1816. The mosque, coupled with the Cairo Citadel, stands as a landmark and a major tourist attraction in Cairo.
What is the cost to visit the Citadel in Cairo?
The entrance charge for the Citadel in Cairo, which includes access to the Muhammad Ali Mosque, is 180 EGP (approximately $11.24). For students, the fee is reduced to 90 EGP (about $5.62).
Who is credited with the construction of the first mosque in Islam?
The first mosque in Islam is believed to be the original house of Prophet Muhammad in Medina, current-day Saudi Arabia. This structure, made of mud-brick, served as the blueprint for future mosque architecture.
Who was the first Prophet to establish a mosque?
Prophet Muhammad is credited with building the first mosque, his original house in Medina, present-day Saudi Arabia.
Who is the architect of the Muhammad Mosque?
The Muhammad Mosque was constructed by ustad-rais Muhammad, the son of Abu Bakr, in 1078/79 (471 Hijra), as indicated by an Arabic inscription on the northern wall of the mosque.
What is the historical background of the Mosque of Muhammad Ali?
The Mosque of Muhammad Ali was built by Muhammad Ali Pasha as a symbol of defiance against his former overlords, the Ottomans, and the Mamluk palaces he destroyed to make room for it. It stands as a bold declaration of Egypt’s de facto independence.
What is the entry fee for the Mosque of Muhammad Ali?
The admission fee to the Mosque of Muhammad Ali is included in the ticket to the Citadel, costing 180 EGP (approximately $12) or 90 EGP (approximately $6) for students.
Who constructed the Prophet’s Mosque, and when?
The Prophet’s Mosque was built by Prophet Muhammad in 622 AD upon his arrival in Medina.
What is the design of the dome of the Mosque of Muhammad Ali?
The central dome of the Muhammad Ali Mosque, measuring 21 meters in diameter and 52 meters in height, is supported by four large arches resting on four square piers. This main dome is surrounded by four semi-domes, with an additional semi-dome above the mihrab.
Did Prophet Muhammad build a mosque?
Yes, Prophet Muhammad built the Prophet’s Mosque, also known as Masjid Nabawi, in Medina in the first year of Hijrah.
What architectural style characterizes the Mosque of Muhammad Ali?
The Mosque of Muhammad Ali showcases Ottoman architecture, characterized by its large central dome, four semicircular domes, and twin minarets.
What is the cost to visit the Saladin Citadel?
The standard adult ticket price for the Saladin Citadel is 140 EGP, while students can enter for 70 EGP. This fee only includes access to the Saladin Citadel and its panoramic viewpoints.
What is the importance of the Mosque of Muhammad Ali?
The Mosque of Muhammad Ali symbolizes Muhammad Ali Pasha’s Ottoman identity, military prowess, and religious authority. It was built in the classical Ottoman style within the citadel, serving as an iconic symbol of his rule.
Why did Prophet Muhammad construct a mosque?
Prophet Muhammad built the first mosque in Medina to establish a place of worship for Muslims, reflecting his desire to define a place for congregational prayers.
Why is the Mosque of Muhammad Ali considered significant?
The Mosque of Muhammad Ali holds significance as it embodies the three pillars of Muhammad Ali Pasha’s rule: Ottoman identity, military power, and religious authority. Its location within the citadel and its classical Ottoman style make it a symbol of his reign.
Which mosque in Cairo is a must-visit?
The Muhammad Ali Mosque, located in the Citadel of Cairo, is a must-visit site. Originally built as a palace for Muhammad Ali Pasha, it later became a mosque and is now the most visited mosque in Cairo.
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Mantario Trail - South Trailhead
Whiteshell, MB - R0E 2H0
Type: Hiking Trail
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Mantario Trail - South Trailhead is located at Manitoba 312, Whiteshell, MB - R0E 2H0. Besides this hiking trail, there are two more hiking trails listed in Whiteshell. You will find the exact location of Mantario Trail - South Trailhead on the map above. If you need any other information on Mantario Trail - South Trailhead that is not listed here, please call (204) 369-3157.
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Whiteshell River Self-guiding Trail,
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Having completed a hugely successful tour at the end of last year, Scottish band Biffy Clyro are on their way to the US. Both Front of House engineer Jonny Lucas and Dan Speed on monitors rely on the power of DiGiCo SD10s for its mixing requirements. They deploy three separate rigs around the world, with two duplicate systems, which includes, in some instances, the more compact SD10-24. For the 2016 UK tour, Skan PA Hire supplied all audio requirements.
Lucas has been working with Biffy Clyro for almost a decade. “I did my first show with them supporting The Who at Marlay Park in Dublin in June 2007,” he recalled. “There was no sound check and only a 20-minute changeover. It was a baptism of fire!”
This intense introduction has, no doubt, prepared him for the band’s continually hectic schedule. His use of DiGiCo consoles has given him the reliability he needs, helped him refine his workflow and allowed for a relaxed approach to his Front of House duties, a welcome adjunct given the scale of the shows he is working on – the band is well-known for packing out arena and stadium sized venues, including London’s The O2 at the end of the UK tour.
“DiGiCo is renowned for its support and the stability of its consoles,” he said “I like the workflow and flexibility they give me, as well as the ease of integration for MADI with Waves servers and multitrack record/virtual soundcheck facilities. I used an SD9 as my first touring DiGiCo on a theatre run I did while the boys were recording their current album, Ellipsis. I had it triggering scenes from timecode and mixing nine sets of IEMs from FOH with minimal prep time and it was great. Ideally, I would have liked to have used an SD5 for the 2016 tour, but budgetary restrictions meant the SD10 was the best option, and it’s been great.”
“Dan and I use the Gain Tracking facility with up to 72 inputs from stage. There are several output configurations which can involve L/R/Sub, either analogue or AES, and incorporate up to 14 sub-mixed stems for broadcast feeds in various scenarios.” he continued.
Lucas finds Macros a particularly useful feature and has them programmed to switch Gain Tracking on or off, switch groups of input channels to ALT input, change the view, save or switch fader positions on extra vocals, etc.
“I use the notes window on my overview screen for my scenes to remind me what is scoped, when there’s a mute state change or fader ride that needs attention,” he said. “This is also useful if the boys have a vocal position swap planned. Copy Audio/Listen to Copied Audio makes virtual sound check recording and playback super easy. And the console’s offline facility has saved me a couple of times when I’ve doubted the saved state of a scene I’m about to fire, or some news comes in over comms that changes the outlook.”
“The ability to take the console offline, fire a scene, edit and store the scene and return to audio while the show is in full flow is also really useful. I’ll be honest, it still raises my heart rate if it’s ever necessary, but it’s not caused any issues so far.”
Lucas SD10 is running on DiGiCo’s Stealth Core 2 software upgrade.
“I hadn’t quite maxed out the previous version, but now I don’t need to think about how much processing is left with Dynamic EQ, multi-band comps, etc. it is available everywhere,” he commented. “I also prefer the flattened appearance of the GUI. I haven’t tried it yet but, in theory, it means I could mix our show on an SD11, although I like having the number of faders there are available on the SD10.”
Lucas also appreciated the support he gets from both DiGiCo and Skan stating.
“From the demo room in at HQ in Chessington to telephone support on the road, DiGiCo’s support is always good. And we know there’s always someone available on the phone at Skan, so between Skan and DiGiCo, any issues are always dealt with swiftly. We’re all very happy with our console choice and haven’t looked back since we changed to using them.”
Biffy Clyro’s US tour runs from the end of March to the end of May 2017.
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The U.S. added 187,000 jobs and the unemployment rate rose to 3.8 percent in August, according to data released Friday by the Labor Department.
The jobs report showed the labor market plateaued in August as the Federal Reserve considers another interest rate hike, reports The Hill. Economists had estimated that the U.S. would gain 170,000 jobs and maintain the July jobless rate of 3.5 percent.
While the jobless rate rose 0.3 percentage points in August, the labor force participation rate rose 0.2 percentage points after being largely flat since March.
The Fed has hiked interest rates to their highest level in more than two decades as part of its crusade to cool off an economy overrun by inflation a year ago.
Inflation ticked up slightly in July, according to Commerce Department’s personal consumption expenditures price index released Thursday, although it has fallen from its peak of 9.1 percent last summer.
As Fed officials consider another rate hike, they are looking for signs that the job market is slowing under the weight of past increases.
Job openings fell below 9 million for the first time in more than two years, and the rate of Americans quitting their jobs was the lowest it’s been since January 2021, according to the Job Opening and Labor Turnover Survey released last week.
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Day trading is defined as an approach to trading where the trader opens and closes the trade during the same trading day. Day trading is sometimes referred to also as scalping or intra-day trading. No matter what it is called, day trading doesn’t involve keeping positions open overnight, even if it is for a day.
Swing trading on the other hand is another approach and the name comes from the fact that traders here take advantage of the price swings in the markets. Swing trading involves keeping a position open over night, at times even for few days or weeks at a stretch. With swing trading, there are considerable risks as the trades are subject to market forces during the period of time that they are open.
Many traders often ask the question as to whether it is ideal to, day trade futures or to swing trade futures contracts. The answer to this question is subjective and in honesty, there is no right way or wrong way to trade. You can make a profit day trading the e-mini futures contracts and you can also make a profit swing trading the e-mini futures contracts. What determines the success of your trading is a mix of you trading capital, your risk tolerance, the markets you trade and the trading strategy that you use. Therefore, to simply assume that day trading is better than swing trading, or vice versa is like generalizing the concept without accounting for the factors that actually play a role in determining the outcome of these approaches to trading.
Needless to say, there are some risks involved and some factors that traders need to bear in mind when it comes to both day trading as well as swing trading. In order to understand what is a better way to trade futures, one should first know the characteristics of the futures contracts, outlined below.
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Futures contracts come with fixed trading dates
Unlike stocks, with futures contracts there are fixed trading dates. If you were trading stocks for example, an investor can buy a few shares hold their positions for weeks, months and years at a stretch. You cannot however expect to see a similar trading pattern emerge with futures. This is because just about any futures contract has an expiry time before which the contract must be rolled over into a new contract month or risk closing the expired contracts.
CME Group – Termination of trading example for Crude Oil Futures contracts
Therefore, if you want to swing trade futures, traders must pay attention to the contract specifications which signal the last trading day of the contract before which the position must be closed a new position taken in a new or forward contract month.
When you day trade futures, the margin that you pay as the initial margin is not more than $1000, if you trade commodities such as Crude Oil or Gold futures. For the more popular trading contracts such as e-mini S&P500 or other similar index futures, the initial day trading margin requirement is under $500.
Margin requirements (maintenance margin) for Crude oil futures swing positions
The low margin requirements make it easy for traders who do not have to put up heavy capital upfront. For swing trading however, the margin requires are automatically higher. On top of the initial margin requirement, swing traders also need to have adequate funds for the maintenance margin. As futures contracts prices are marked to market on a daily basis, the maintenance margin is essential, failing which it could either result in a margin call or a liquidation of the trades.
Futures trading volumes are never constant or consistent
When you trade stocks, during the normal defined trading hours, you have a sense of consistency in the stocks’ volumes. For example, you know that Apple’s average trading volume is around 35 – 40 million and this gives you a fair sense of the liquidity in the markets.
Example of rising and falling volumes for E-mini S&P500 futures
With futures contracts, the volume changes significantly because of the nature of the markets. Typically, you can see increased volumes during official trading hours and once the markets move into the off-peak or after hours or pre-market trading hours, the volume significantly falls. This means that liquidity is also not the same. Lower volumes mean that swing traders in futures will have to also consider any adverse price movements that can occur, taking advantage of the low liquidity conditions in the markets.
With day traders, this can be avoided because the trading is usually confined to the normal trading hours, or even if a trader prefers to day trade during unofficial trading hours, they can still be able to monitor their trades.
The volume levels can also be inconsistent as under normal circumstances an investor who has exposure in the cash markets doesn’t feel the need to hedge the risks. However, this might change as the risks increase, which will compel such investors to hedge the risks by purchasing long or short contracts in the futures markets, thus accounting for unusual volume.
Why day trade futures?
Firstly, there are many approaches to winning in the futures markets; day trading is merely one of them. Day trading however gives you the flexibility to position trade, scalp for a few ticks, take advantage of market imbalances that are more common during the intraday sessions, as well as allowing you to use more complex strategies or approaches to day trade successfully.
Although day trading might give the impression of staying glued to the trading screens and trade the whole day, many successful day traders spend less than an hour trading. Of course, this is a result of years or testing and getting familiar with a trading system, but it goes to show that day trading doesn’t have to be an all day affair. This makes it a lot more convenient and also partly dismisses the myth that day trading is only for those who want to trade full time.
Compared to swing trading, day trading is the most simplest way to trade as it involves managing positions during the day and exiting by or before the end of the day’s trading session. Trading decisions are also more easily quantifiable with day trading with two certain outcomes; you are either making money or losing money. Given the current day volatility in the markets, day trading can be profitable when viewed from the perspective of risk and reward.
But, day trading is of course not for everyone, especially when one has a full time job or other commitments during the day or in most cases the temperament to day trade. Day trading requires the trader to usually be quick on their toes and know when to cut their positions quickly. Not every trader is suited to such type of trading which is why some traders are better suited to swing trade the markets.
Despite this limitation, day trading doesn’t have to stretch during the full trading session, but can last for as little as 10-minutes of trading a day. Day trading can help many traders to overcome the odds of surviving in the market when one is swing trading, especially when volatility driven market moves can quickly erase whatever gains that were made during the previous days.
In the futures markets, day trading brings the additional benefit and flexibility for the trader. For example, you can choose to time your day trading during the U.S. official trading hours, thus coordinating trading the index futures such as E-mini S&P500 alongside the U.S. stock market trading hours. Or for futures traders who are trading another index such as the Nikkei 225 futures can time their trades during the Tokyo trading session so that they can take advantage of the higher volume during those trading hours.
For the swing trader, this can be a big disadvantage as it means risking their positions during off-market trading hours which could mean that an erratic price movement could potentially wipe out any gains that their position might have made previously. Even if the swing trader employed any techniques such as using trailing stops to lock in some of the profits, the trader would have to risk a good winning position no matter what.
Why swing trade futures?
Swing trading futures brings its own set of advantages. For starters, you can swing trade your positions such as that you hold the trade within the constraints of the first and last trading day. This way, you can be sure that you do not have to risk your positions by closing them and opening new contracts on the next month. But this can depend from one instrument to another. For example, index futures contracts come with quarterly contract months, thus 90 days is good enough for a swing trader to hold their positions.
Crude Oil futures rolling or continuous contract chart
On the other hand, swing trading on commodity futures such as Crude oil or gold can be risky as the contracts expire every 30 days making it tedious if not risky to swing trade such contracts.
Swing trade is ideally suited for traders who have large capital and can manage to combine position trading and scaling so as to maximize their efforts and reward the trader for the risks taken. Thus, swing trading puts many retail traders out of the equation. While stock investors who are usually well capitalized make for a good candidate, the futures markets volatility is often a deterrent for many.
With the rather limited choice for swing trading in the futures markets, one might consider why a trader would want to swing trade the futures markets in the first place. For starters, investors who have exposure on the long side on the equities can find that hedging their positions in the futures markets, especially on the index futures can yield additional profits and can work out as insurance. This is true when the fear index or the VIX volatility index starts to rise.
Investors are usually faced with a choice of either liquidating their positions, or to purchase options and gain exposure accordingly. With futures markets, investors can have an additional choice of market that they can use to hedge their exposure.
Therefore, when you see the markets posting a correction, which can at times last a few days to a week or more, swing trading the futures contracts can be ideal. But, futures traders will still no doubt have to pay attention to the futures contract expiry dates which can result in forcing the trader to liquidate their positions pre-maturely.
In conclusion, to answer the question as to whether swing trading or day trading futures is better, the trader should first understand what their trading goals are. If you are trading the futures markets as a way to hedge against the risks from the underlying cash market, then swing trading the futures contracts is more ideal. On the other hand, and in majority of the cases, day trading futures markets is more suited as it gives you the benefit of trading on small margin, thus allowing most of you trading capital towards managing the maintenance margin requirements.
The fact that most of the futures contracts are leveraged, also makes it a risky proposition to keep the positions open over a period of time. A momentary lapse of judgment can result in the trader incurring huge losses. There are many recorded instances where the brokerage failed to inform the trader to close out their positions Holding, long contracts or even worse, short contracts into expiry and especially for the commodity markets can mean that you will have to meet the obligations of sourcing and delivering or taking delivery of the underlying commodity, which is a risk in itself.
In contrast, day trading futures can make it easy for retail traders to focus on their trading strategies and looking at making consistent profits day in and day out.
Day Trade, Swing Trade or Invest in Leveraged ETFs?
In the true spirit of the Tradingsim blog, we will quickly cover the definition of leveraged ETFs, so we can dive into the details of whether you should day trade, swing trade or invest in leveraged...
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Feathered Friends Eos Down Jacket
The best warmth-to-weight ratio jacket you can buy.
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I originally got this jacket as a my first real down jacket. I agonized over the decision for ages before finally pulling the trigger after weighing this jacket against other offerings from Eddie Bauer, Patagonia, Rab, etc...
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However, it isn't the most durable. Like most ultralight outdoor gear, it comes with a sacrifice and in this case, I have to say it rips a bit easy...OR....I use my stuff like a dick. I don't know, but it's covered in Tenacious Tape at this point.
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The upcoming week will be key as the market awaits for the FOMC. Risk on sentiment dominated before the week ends with the S&P500 index climbing back towards the recent high levels, looking for a breakout.
Upcoming Economic Release:
The S&P500 struggles earlier on the week but reverses from the support region at 4100 region. Bias for equities remains bullish and if broke out of the 4180 region towards 4300 while if price dipped below 4100 can push price towards 4050.
Dollar Index (DXY)
The United States Dollar Index ascends towards the descending trend line but quickly reverses from it. The Dollar remains weak as long as price is below the descending trend line and long set up can only be considered when price breaks above the 102.75 region.
Gold continues to trade within the range between 1985 and 2025 region. Short term trend can only be identified when price breaks out of the range and would likely be this week due to the upcoming FOMC.
Soybean Meal - July (Exclusive Trade)
Recap (Week 17 - Last Week) Take Profit - 1
High risk long at market position reached Take Profit - 1 level where we announced to close / partial / risk free.
Trade Analysis / Setups
USD/JPY (Analysis 18-1)
Analysis: Price broke out of resistance level at 134.435 region, long opportunity can be identified when price reverses from the now support which may coincide with the ascending trend line while short opportunity can be identified when price breaks below the support region at 133.532.
Long opportunity: Reversal confirmation at 134.435 region while staying above ascending trend line towards 137.76 as Take Profit - 1 level.
Short opportunity: Break and retest confirmation at 133.532 region towards 130.638 as Take Profit - 1 level.
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Susanne Gervay is a friend to many in Australian children’s and young adult literature. She is a strong woman, funny, self-deprecating, a tireless networker, a generous spirit, a fine writer and, this year, was honoured with the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM). Here, she shows us the engine room, where her exploits in kidlit manifest.
Where did you write your latest book? How important to you is the space in which you write?
In my home study. I wish I could say it was a romantic spot under an ancient tree, but it in my cluttered office with files and books and my computer switched on.
Do you transform your space in any way for each book? Do you ‘get into character’ at all?
My space gets messier and messier as I write and everything is put aside. I don’t transform my space for each book. However I do get into character. When I was writing That’s Why I Wrote This Song, Eminem and Good Charlotte rocked through my study. When I was writing Ships in The Field, I was a little girl again reliving growing up in a family which escaped war and communism to find home in Australia.
How has the place that you write evolved or changed since you first began writing novels?
It’s got messier with more files. It’s my internal life that evolves and deepens, rather than my physical space.
Do you keep regular writing hours? If not, when do you write?
If I could I’d write every morning, then work and carry on with the responsibilities of life and even have some ‘play time’. However the writing life has increased my involvement in tours, festivals, conferences. I also work at another job. There’s family, too. So I don’t have regular hours. I write under pressure and can stay up late into the nights for months to get a book completed. Not the best way to write.
Do you have a morning ritual? Roald Dahl was said to sharpen pencils. What settles your mind for writing?
My very early morning ritual is to go to the computer and see what emails have come. I answer those I need to. I love it if I have a writing project. I just finished co writing the film script for my JACK books – with John Larkin. However, I really don’t have a ritual. I’d like one.
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Fellow, The American College of Employee Benefits Counsel
President, Governing Board of the Western Pension & Benefits Council
Member, The State Bar of California
Member, American Bar Association
Member, Bar Association of San Francisco
Past-President, San Francisco Chapter of the Western Pension & Benefits Council
Kevin Nolt focuses his practice on qualified retirement plans, including defined benefit plans (both traditional and cash balance plans) and defined contribution plans (401(k), profit sharing, ESOPs and money purchase pension plans), and plans of tax exempt entities and public schools and universities, including 403(b) and 457 plans. His clients include benefit plans, service providers and employers of all sizes and industries, including Fortune 50 companies.
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Kevin regularly counsels employers about their fiduciary duties under ERISA, including with respect to plan governance, benefit claims, required plan notices, and selection and monitoring of plan service providers. He also provides fiduciary training to plan committees or to others who serve as the fiduciary of ERISA plans.
Kevin is Chair of the firm’s annual client seminar committee. He regularly presents and publishes content of the hottest issues for employers in ERISA and employee benefits. Most recently he presented “ERISA Pre-Approved and Customized Benefit Plans: Overhauled IRS Procedures and Determination Letter Process” to provide guidance to employers seeking to transition from individually designed to pre-approved plans.
Kevin has been inducted as a Fellow of the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel (ACEBC). The ACEBC is an invitation-only organization of nationally-recognized employee benefits legal experts with twenty or more years of experience who have made significant contributions to the advancement of the employee benefits field.
Kevin serves as President of the Governing Board for the Western Pension & Benefits Council (WP&BC). He has also served as President of the San Francisco Chapter of the WP&BC for the 2017-2019 term, on the Board of Directors for nine years and also participated in its membership and program committees. WP&BC brings together professionals involved in pension and other employee benefits work to promote education, exchange information, and foster sound principles and practices in the field.
Kevin is recognized by Chambers and Partners as a leading lawyer for Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation, and he is listed as a Top Rated Employee Benefits Attorney by Northern California Super Lawyers. He is a member of The American Society of Pension Professionals & Actuaries (ASPPA) and is involved with the National Institute of Pension Administrators (NIPA). He is also on the planning committee for the NIPA Annual Forum and Expo.
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Letter From the West is a monthly series by Deanne Stillman that explores what is going on in our wide open spaces and what we do to one another and all that lives there.
The ladies’ room at the Tres Hombres Restaurant in Hawaii is named Gidget. A cook on the Internet calls herself Gidget, and so does a stripper on cable television. Malibu Chicken features a sandwich called Gidget, and Barney’s used to sell a line of Gidget lipstick. The Taco Bell Chihuahua was named Gidget, and the Suburban Lawns invoked Gidget in their song “Gidget Goes to Hell.”
There is a person who has a certain visceral reaction whenever she comes across another person or product carrying this name, whenever she hears or reads about its use. Sometimes she finds it funny and laughs out loud. Sometimes it breaks her heart but she doesn’t show it. Sometimes she’d like to file a lawsuit, but decides not to, because who wants to deal with lawyers? And sometimes she just gets tired, and doesn’t talk to anyone for a while. The person is Gidget — not any of the seven actresses who have played the perky beach bunny who occasionally surfed but more often ran after boys, but the real Gidget, from whose life all things Gidget have sprung.
I met her in 1986 when I was writing for a television series, “The New Gidget,” joining the legions who had warmed themselves at the Gidget fire through four presidential administrations. Although taking the job was a violation of my lifelong rule never to associate with anything that has the phrase “the new” in its title, I found myself with little choice. I was broke, jilted and living on macaroni and cheese.
As I soon found out, writing for this television series came with a full set of luggage and even a storage locker or two. “The New Gidget” was the product of a lineage with more “begats” than the Old Testament, sequel to a movie (“Gidget Goes to Rome”) that was a sequel to two or three others, all the way back to the first “Gidget,” a wacky movie starring Sandra Dee and her Cadillac-fin bazooms. This was itself an adaptation of the novel “Gidget: The Little Girl With the Big Ideas.” Written by her father, it was based on the real Gidget’s contemporaneous accounts of adventures on the beach in Malibu during the 1950s.
One day, one of the show’s producers entered the writers’ office, followed by a diminutive and stunning brunette in her mid-40s, wearing clam-diggers and what women everywhere would refer to as a cute top. “This is Gidget,” he said. “She really surfed.” I forced a little wave. As a member of the machinery that churned beach life into an endless round of Frankie-Annette-cowabunga-hey-dude bad surf jokes, I was already mortified. Now came the news that I would be repackaging a real person’s life, a life that already had been repackaged countless times. I was not looking forward to meeting the subject of what writer Craig Stecyk calls “the most successful and longest-running episode of teenage exploitation since Joan of Arc.”
Gidget seemed uncomfortable, too. I wondered how she felt about this entire goofy enterprise. What could it have possibly been like to meet the people who made a living by spinning stories for a Hollywood character to whom she had permanently lent her name? She mustered a clipped greeting.
“Off the beach she’s known as Kathy Kohner Zuckerman,” the producer continued. “No, call me Gidget,” she said quickly, emphasizing the name, and promptly left the room. Someone attempted small talk. The producer apologized and backed out the door. “Maybe some other time,” he said.
Suddenly my job had taken on new dimensions, had even become interesting. Was Gidget of the Hebraic persuasion? I wondered, pondering both her maiden and married names. I soon learned that America’s most famous surfer girl was indeed Jewish. Not only that, but the queen of the California beach — long regarded by outsiders as the domain of beautiful blond boys and girls — had a family history that was shaped by a lunatic’s dream of Aryan perfection and then nurtured by the hallowed American right to pursue happiness.
I decided it was time to read the obscure novella written by Gidget’s father, Frederick Kohner. Strangely, there was not a single copy of it on the Columbia lot, the very studio that was in the never-ending process of building the Gidget pyramid. I spent weeks searching for the book. It seemed that the little-known surf saga was long out of print, a gold mine that had been stripped and boarded up a million years ago. The Los Angeles County Public Library did not have it. The Beverly Hills Public Library did not have it. Used bookstores in town did not have it, although they did stock other, lesser-known works by Frederick Kohner, such as “Kiki of Montparnasse” and “Cher Papa” (both tales of precocious teenage girls, and the latter a “Gidget” sequel). As the search became more arduous, my anticipation increased. Finally, I uncovered the long-lost message in a bottle — a tiny novel with yellowing pages that hadn’t been checked out in six years. It was hidden behind some other books by authors whose last names begin with K on the shelves of the Santa Monica library, just five blocks from the beach. I grabbed it from the receding surf of time. On its cover, a sea waif caught my gaze, inviting me to join her and two lanky surfers under the palm trees in the background. “I’m writing it down,” the book began, “because I once heard that when you’re getting older you’re liable to forget things and I’d sure be the most miserable woman in this world if I ever forgot what happened this summer.” In the impassioned voice of a girl in love with love, invoking a surf lexicon still used on the beach today, Kohner wrote of the summer that Gidget turned 16 and learned to surf. This often-told event has lured countless wanderers to the shores of Southern California, even as it continues to anger surfers who blame Gidget for telling the world about what they once regarded as a private wave.
I waited until “The New Gidget” was canceled a few months later to make contact with its progenitor. During the course of conversations over several years, Gidget revealed bits and pieces of her surfer past. Yes, she was Jewish, but so what? No, she didn’t surf anymore; why would she want to? Yes, she was married and had two sons. They surfed, but not very often. She said she liked the Gidget movies. She thought the television series — all three of them — were fine. She was proud of the success that her father had had with the novel based on her life. And then she interviewed me. “Why are you asking all these questions? What does everybody want from me? I don’t understand this Gidget thing, do you? I’m just a girl who went surfing.” And there the conversation always stopped.
Then one day she called me at home. “Can you come over right now?” she asked, sounding girlish and impatient. “I’m turning 60 soon. I’m ready to talk about Malibu.”
“Malibu” was shorthand for life at Malibu Point from 1956 to 1959. In this hallowed surf warp, legendary figures such as Mickey “Da Cat” Dora danced on the waves and into the mists. Mysto George, the Fencer, Moondoggie, Golden Boy, Scooter and what could later be called the Beef Council (Meatball, Meat Loaf and Tubesteak) adopted a precocious teenager and named her, as they did the others, for her most notable characteristics. Because she was a girl — one of the few who surfed at the time — and, at 5 feet tall and 95 pounds, a midget, unto us the sea nymph Gidget was born.
I visited Gidget in her modest ranch home in a quiet Pacific Palisades glen minutes from the beach. She and her husband, Marvin Zuckerman, a scholar of Yiddish and then dean of a local college who is 10 years her senior, have lived in the house since they were married in 1964. When they met, Zuckerman had not heard of “Gidget” the movie, and knew nothing of beach life. “I grew up in New York,” he said. “I’m an academic. I only went to foreign films.” In all those years of marriage he had not surfed, but Gidget taught him to ski, and for many years they visited Sun Valley, Idaho, on family ski vacations. Their two sons are now grown, and one of them, sociologist Phil Zuckerman, jokingly referred to himself as “ben-Gidget” when I met him, invoking the Hebrew prefix meaning “son of.” Recently, he founded the department of secular studies at Pitzer College, the first program of its kind in the nation.
On the day I visited Gidget at home, she was wearing a jumper and a T-shirt, still slender and curvy years after her teenage era on the beach at Malibu. The home’s interior at first suggested Old World pursuits — there were lots of books and a piano (childhood piano lessons had led to a lifelong hobby). But in the hallway, I saw a large black-and-white photo of a striking teenage girl on the beach with her surfboard, wearing the innocent smile and modest swimsuit of the 1950s. “This is me,” Gidget said proudly. She looked as happy as she did that day on the beach, a far different Gidget than the woman to whom I had been introduced on the Columbia lot. “That’s the picture Life magazine used.”
I recognized the photo, although I could not remember exactly where and when I had seen it before. It was one of those images that summed up a world so perfectly there was nothing left to say. The Gidget in the photo is the Gidget that launched a thousand boards, and the one who then guided me into her once-and-future past. We headed out to the patio, and she talked about how it all started.
“We were living in Brentwood,” she said, referring to an upscale neighborhood on the west side of Los Angeles. “My mother used to drive some of the neighborhood guys down to the beach. They would put their boards in her Model-T. I tagged along. I wanted to surf — it looked like so much fun. I pestered everybody for lessons. I remember asking a surfer named Scooter if I was bothering him. He said, ‘You’re breathing, aren’t you?’ There was this guy named Tubesteak living in a shack. A few other surfers were always hanging around. They were always hungry. I think some of them lived there, too.”
Just as the Stations of the Cross are key points along the way to a defining religious moment, the shack Gidget referred to — although long gone — is a sacred site, along with its revered twin, The Pit. Its very mention among surfers, especially those who surfed Malibu in the ’50s, conjures a mythology that forever binds the wave-riding tribe. On her pilgrimages to the beach, Gidget would bring a picnic basket filled with homemade sandwiches and trade them for use of Tubesteak’s surfboard. Soon, she bought her own board for $35 from a well-known shaper named Mike Doyle. “I wish I still had it,” she said. “It was blue and had a totem pole on it. Today it would be worth a small fortune.” Actually the board might well be one of the most valuable relics of the 20th century, if you consider what’s happened since Gidget learned to surf. (As Craig told me, “If you add up the raw commerce, based on the Gidget movies and television shows alone, not to mention the rest of the surf industry, which, for the most part, erupted in the 1960s, you’ve got a multibillion-dollar empire built almost entirely on Gidget’s back.”)Yet apart from Gidget-related revenues (which are not particularly vast, since deals made in the 1950s are minuscule in today’s terms), it is not an empire in which Gidget or her family has a financial stake. Over the decades, it has floated hundreds of boats, boards and kayaks, providing robust incomes for an axis of surfers based primarily in Southern California. Some of them scoff at the Gidget phenomenon even as they ride its endless wave; others have no knowledge of the role Gidget and her father played in bringing surf culture to landlubbers.
It’s easy to see how Frederick Kohner became fascinated with the stories his daughter told him about the beach. He and his two brothers grew up in the Czechoslovakian spa town of Teplitz-Schorau (whose tainted waters Ibsen wrote about in his famous play “An Enemy of the People”). Their father Julius was the proprietor of the local movie house. In 1921, Paul, the eldest son, joined the early wave of Jewish émigrés and left for Hollywood. Within a few years he was a powerful agent with a list of clients that included Ernest Hemingway, Ingmar Bergman, Walter Huston and the reclusive writer B. Traven. Walter, the youngest, left for Vienna to study acting. Frederick, the middle son, embarked on a career as a screenwriter in Germany. He left in 1933, after attending the Berlin opening of one of his movies only to discover that Goebbels had ordered all Jewish credits removed from the film. Arriving in Los Angeles with a writing deal at Columbia Pictures, he settled at the beach with his wife, Franzie, and raised two daughters. A prolific screenwriter, he racked up credits that include “Never Wave at a WAC” with Rosalind Russell and “Mad About Music” with Deanna Durbin, which received a 1938 Academy Award nomination for best screenplay.
The sun cast its spell on the children of the Eastern European émigrés in Hollywood, many of whom came of age during the Fabulous Fifties. In 1956, Gidget began spending all of her free time at the beach — after school, after work, on weekends or when her family was visiting friends in the Malibu Colony. “My father and I would walk down [to the beach],” she said. “I would tell him about all of the surfers. I told him I wanted to write a book. He said, ‘Why don’t you tell me your stories and I’ll write it?’ I said OK.”
Gidget became her father’s muse, recounting tales of “bitchin’ surf,” giant “combers” that rolled in from Japan and escapes from a “boneyard” when surfers were caught between breaking waves. Frederick, fascinated, paid careful attention to his daughter’s first language (his was German). With her permission, he even listened in on her telephone conversations. A man possessed, he wrote the first novel in six weeks, weaving Gidget’s account and conversation into a charming story, published in 1957. It reflected the preoccupations of the era, from the bomb to Fats Domino. Yet one theme resounds above all others — Gidget’s passion for wave-riding.
“The great Kahoona,” the Gidget character says in the novella, “showed me the first time how to get on my knees, to push the shoulders up and slide the body back — to spring to your feet quickly, putting them a foot apart and under you in one motion. That’s quite tricky. But then, surf-riding is not playing Monopoly, and the more I got the knack of it, the more I was crazy about it and the more I was crazy about it, the harder I worked at it.” This is one of the best descriptions of surfing I have come across and I only wish I had read it as a kid when I was riding collapsed cartons of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer on the filthy waves of Lake Erie.
At the end of this sweet summer’s tale, as a jealous Moondoggie confronts the Kahoona over what appears to be a scene of consummated passion, Gidget takes off on her board. It’s a classic day with bitchin’ surf; in fact, some big waves are rolling in. In an epic moment that has been lost in the countless “Gidget” remakes and retellings, in a moment that makes this a long-lost “Catcher in the Rye” for girls, Gidget ignores the warnings of her men and continues paddling out to sea. Defying social convention by not heading back to the sanctuary of land and middle-class life, uninterested in whether she can hook up with a beach bum or a fraternity boy, she just wants to surf, confident that she can ride with the best of ’em. “Shoot the curl,” the boys call, once she’s up and cruising. “Shoot it, Gidget.” And shoot it she does.
Then, long before the feminist wave of the following decades, comes the radical conclusion, one not conveyed in any of the ensuing “Gidget” manifestations. Gidget realizes that she was never in love with the Kahoona or Moondoggie — so much for boys and their predictable offerings. The objects of her affection all along were her surfboard and the sea.
His little surf saga completed, Frederick showed it to his brother Paul, who hated it and told him to find a new agent. Frederick went to the William Morris agency, a publishing deal was instantly hatched and the movie rights were purchased by Columbia for $50,000. Frederick gave Gidget 5 percent (an act that would be described nowadays as “buying the rights” to a subject’s story).The book hit the racks a few months before Vladimir Nabokov’s notorious novel “Lolita” — another tale of a teenage nymph written by a European émigré — and favorable comparisons were made. Critics hailed Kohner’s work for its authentic evocation of a curious subculture, and some marveled at how a foreign writer became so fluent in American slang. Surfing exploded several years later; who better to spread the word than the father of the water sprite Gidget, a man fleeing the poisoned springs of central Europe, charmed by waves and those who found freedom by riding them?
Now, as Gidget beckoned me into her kitchen, she had a secret to reveal. Her scrapbooks and diaries — the holy grail of contemporary surf culture — were arranged on the breakfast table. For the first time, she was ready to show them to someone, including members of her immediate family, and had retrieved them from a secret hiding place before my arrival. I was surprised and a little nervous: What genie would leap out once the seal was broken?
Each of the five pastel leather covers was embossed with the image of a girl in a pony tail, pencil in hand, beneath the title, “Dear Diary.” For the first time in 40 years, Gidget opened the tiny gold locks. She put on her glasses and pored over a few pages in silence, then smiled and started to read aloud. Out tumbled news of a sweeter time, the goofy, gee-whiz voice that had memorialized Malibu forever and propelled the culture on a never-ending ride.
“July 22, 1956,” Gidget read, “I went to the beach again today. … I just love it down there. … I went out surfing about three times but only caught one wave. We were all sitting in the dump, smoking and drinking. God forbid my parents could have seen me.” (“The dump” was a synonym for The Pit, and Gidget remarked that although she didn’t remember doing any drinking, she had lots of photographs of this site). She opened a scrapbook and thumbed through pages of black-and-white snapshots until something caught her eye. “Oh, my God,” she said. “Look at this.” Sure enough, there was The Pit, a not particularly sunken area of the beach where she used to sit and smoke with Mickey Dora, Tubesteak and another legendary surfer named Johnny Fain. This was a picture the collectors would never get to bid on, a permanent treasure in Gidget’s secret cache. “Listen to this,” she said, becoming more breathless as she reconnected with the memories conjured by her diary pages. “June 16, 1957. Boy was it a fabulous day today. Everyone was at the beach. I rode a wave today and everybody saw me.” She smiled and thumbed through another volume. “August 3, 1957. Boy the surf was so bitchin’ today I couldn’t believe it. … I got some real good rides from inside.” At that point a calling card fell from the pages. It said:
Call or Drop by any times
Blackout Harry the Horse The Sloth
937 No. Beverly Glen
“Oh, my God,” Gidget said, studying the card as it transported her back to the scene. “I went to a party at The Glen — it was this famous party where they all dropped their pants. Bill was there — Bill Jensen. Moondoggie.” A few undated entries from that year told of similar pranks: “Golden Boy buried my surfboard and disconnected the distributor of the car. I threw my pineapple into his face.”
But the scene also had a menacing side: At one point, a swastika appeared on the shack at Malibu, for a brief time part of the frat room assemblage of coffee percolators, a Manolete poster and surfboard-for-hire signs. The original shack was burned down and the new one was free of the symbol; to this day no one can or will say who painted it, or why. But the swastika-surfer connection dates back to the 1930s, when a line of surfboards featured the motif, and controversy still exists over whether the symbol was appropriated from Eastern religion or Nazi symbolism.
By 1958, Malibu had changed. In her entry of June 30, 1958, Gidget wrote that she “went and saw them film my movie. … God was it ever stupid to see Sandra Dee play my role. … All the actors looked like complete faggits [sic] it’s really funny. I don’t believe that they are actually filming a movie [about me].” Suddenly weary, Gidget closed the diary and said, “Gee, that’s not very nice. I guess I’d forgotten what I thought about the whole thing.”
We called it a night, and as I drove home I thought about the marvels that had been laid before me, the raw stuff of the narrative of our collective history. This particular journey was now complete, I realized. I had come to write for the odd little television show “The New Gidget,” and as I did, I learned of an important cultural secret and came to know the person and the story behind one of the most misunderstood American endeavors — the truth behind a name that was once emblazoned on the cover of a movie magazine next to those of John Wayne and Marilyn Monroe.Some time later, I accompanied Gidget on a return to Malibu. It was a perfect day, not too crowded. “Good waves,” Gidget said. Then, as we walked past The Pit and toward the now-vacant site of the shack, she said, “Jeez, did you see that?” She took off her sandals. The site obviously emanated powerful tribal crosscurrents not detectable by outsiders. “Oh, my God,” Gidget shrieked. “There’s Mysto.” Mysto George had been surfing Malibu since 1954, never missing a good day, long after many of Gidget’s contemporaries had drifted away, long after younger surfers had quit the scene, because the waters now carry raw sewage. In full wetsuit and neoprene cap, with the blazing, sea-blue eyes certain surfers have, George was carrying his dinged-up longboard, ready to paddle back out. “Looks bitchin,’ ” Gidget said. “Yeah,” he said. “You wanna surf?” Gidget said she had been thinking about getting back to it. Later that day, she took her board to the shop for repairs.
A few days after that, a special commemorative issue of Surfer magazine hit the stands. Gidget was No. 7 in a list of the 25 most important surfers of the 20th century, a bold move on the part of the premier journal of surf culture, which generally retains a seafaring, “ye har mateys” cosmology that ranks women with the weather — strange forces to be reckoned with, but not so primary as to be included on the important census lists that are surfing’s equivalent of who gets tapped for the Rapture. Gidget was one of only two women in the list. She ranked not far below Duke Kahanamoku, the universally adored Hawaiian father of modern surfing, and higher than Mickey Dora, revered king of surf style. Gidget’s placement near these gods stunned some members of the surf establishment, but the deed had been done: The unassuming surfer girl was finally getting her due from those whose livelihoods she had fueled. As the century turned, and major figures and groups began apologizing to each other for decades of mistreatment and abuse, maybe in preparation for an apocalypse or maybe just because it was time, it was nice to know that Gidget had finally made the cut.
POSTSCRIPT: Some time after I had met Gidget and learned her story and about the existence of her father’s novella, I suggested that it should be reissued. She agreed. We took it to Kathleen Anderson, my agent at the time, who sold the book to Penguin. The new edition has a foreword by Gidget and a preface by me, which includes an abbreviated account of our meeting.
Since its publication in 2001, Gidget has reclaimed her story, crisscrossing the country, speaking at surfing events and in bookstores, paddling out, riding waves, uncorking her bottled message for a new wave of girl surfers.
Deanne Stillman’s latest book is the widely acclaimed “Mustang: The Saga of the Wild Horse in the American West.” She is currently writing “Mojave Manhunt” for Nation Books, based on her Rolling Stone piece of the same name. Follow Deanne Stillman on Facebook.Wait, before you go…
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4:1But it came to pass that, when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews. 4:2And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What are these feeble Jews doing? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, seeing they are burned? 4:3Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they are building, if a fox go up, he shall break down their stone wall. 4:4Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn back their reproach upon their own head, and give them up for a spoil in a land of captivity; 4:5and cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee; for they have provoked thee to anger before the builders. 4:6So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto half the height thereof: for the people had a mind to work. 4:7But it came to pass that, when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem went forward, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth; 4:8and they conspired all of them together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion therein. 4:9But we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them. 4:10And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall. 4:11And our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, till we come into the midst of them, and slay them, and cause the work to cease. 4:12And it came to pass that, when the Jews that dwelt by them came, they said unto us ten times from all places, Ye must return unto us. 4:13Therefore set I in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, in the open places, I set there the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows. 4:14And I looked, and rose up, and said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not ye afraid of them: remember the Lord, who is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses. 4:15And it came to pass, when our enemies heard that it was known unto us, and God had brought their counsel to nought, that we returned all of us to the wall, every one unto his work. 4:16And it came to pass from that time forth, that half of my servants wrought in the work, and half of them held the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the coats of mail; and the rulers were behind all the house of Judah. 4:17They all builded the wall and they that bare burdens laded themselves; every one with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other held his weapon; 4:18and the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side, and so builded. And he that sounded the trumpet was by me. 4:19And I said unto the nobles, and to the rulers and to the rest of the people, The work is great and large, and we are separated upon the wall, one far from another: 4:20in what place soever ye hear the sound of the trumpet, resort ye thither unto us; our God will fight for us. 4:21So we wrought in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared. 4:22Likewise at the same time said I unto the people, Let every one with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and may labor in the day. 4:23So neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard that followed me, none of us put off our clothes, every one went with his weapon to the water.
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Tucoemas Federal Credit Union’s Annual Meeting will be held on April 6th, from 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm.
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Understanding Business Fraud
South Florida business owners have more frequently had to protect themselves against the perils of fraud. In all types of industries, business fraud can destroy viable and reputable businesses and jeopardize the public’s trust. Understanding what constitutes business fraud and how to protect businesses and individuals is key to avoid being a victim.
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- Damages resulting therefrom.
Some of the most common forms of business fraud that affect business owners are insurance fraud, investment fraud, embezzlement or other employment-related fraud, business tort claims concerning trade secrets or other intellectual property rights, breach of fiduciary duty, unfair or deceptive business practices, and tortious breach of contract. Business fraud cases are mostly tried in federal court. However, victims of business fraud can bring a civil suit for restitution. Consumer fraud is currently very prevalent. A recent article named South Florida as one of the leaders in the U.S. for fraud and identity theft, though those numbers are on the decline.
Business fraud covers a broad range of crimes. In order to prove fraud, all of the key elements must be present, and the best way to protect your business is to be vigilant about the type of fraud you may be more likely to be subject to. The best way to recognize what may apply in your case is to hire an experienced attorney.
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Florida statutes provide a penalty for every kind of fraud. There are some defensive measures available depending on whether the fraud occurs internally or externally. Internal fraud occurs when employees or partners within the company commit fraud. Some examples of common types of internal fraud include theft of assets and accounting frauds and fraudulent worker’s compensation claims. External fraud usually involves at least one outside individual. Customers who use stolen credit cards to buy merchandise, file fraudulent injury and liability claims, and write bad checks commit external fraud. There may not be a way to prevent exposure to every kind of fraud, but there are measures that can make your business less vulnerable. A few safeguards against internal fraud are conducting background checks on every employee, enforcing company policies and procedures, (including ethics training) and performing proper due diligence on potential hires responsible for handling finance and accounting. For external fraud, insuring the business and using a secure IT network are just a few ways to protect your business.
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Neural Audio teamed up with CBS to provide its surround sound technology for 5.1 audio in 12 HDTV CBS games during the 2003 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship, including the Final Four.
According to Neural, its SECA (Sports Event Capture Array) system, operating with only one array located behind each basket, is the industry's only expert system that can deliver 5.1 to consumers over a stereo backbone, merging court action, announcer and crowd audio in one perfect perceptual window.
Seattle-based Neural Audio has also partnered with Harris' Broadcast Communications Division for digital product development.
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Opening night in the North American Soccer League has come to a close, and the New York Cosmos will be looking at the results from Saturday evening and smiling. In a ten match spring season, the importance of getting off to a fast start can't be understated, and with three of the first four matches ending in draws, a victory on Sunday will see the Cosmos level with just one other club atop the NASL table, and that lone victor from Saturday only managed a one-goal victory.
Let's get right to it and see what transpired during the first round of fixtures, shall we?
Carolina RailHawks 2 - Minnesota United 1
Perhaps the best result as far as Cosmos fans are concerned, the MLS-bound club from Minnesota were widely believed to be the biggest threat to dethrone the champs this season. United got off to a very fast start in the first match of the campaign, with Christian Ramirez finding the back of the net just two minutes in. Carolina answered quickly through Tiyi Shipalane, however, and Austin Da Luz scored the winner in the 26th minute of play.
Fort Lauderdale Strikers 1 - Miami FC 1
Dario Cvitanich scored the expansion club's first ever goal from the penalty spot, and for most of the match, it looked like that goal would be enough to see Alessandro Nesta's side earn their first victory. Fort Lauderdale were awarded a penalty of their own in the fourth minute of second-half stoppage time, which Maicon Santos converted to snatch a home draw from the club's first South Florida derby.
Tampa Bay Rowdies 0 - Indy Eleven 0
Tampa Bay dominated possession, shots, and basically every other facet of the match, but were unable to find the back of the net in order to take all three points. Eleven fans can probably feel very, very lucky to have come away with a point.
Rayo OKC 0 - FC Edmonton 0
Saturday's final match was another one-sided affair which resulted in a scoreless draw. Like Tampa, Rayo OKC were unable to turn huge advantages in possession and shot into goals, and while the inaugural crowd was likely thrilled with what they saw on the pitch, they'll likely feel like they should have won the game.
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Lemongrass & Ginger Wax Melts
A firm favourite in our family kitchen, crisp and clean, great for neutralising food odours.
Top notes of tangy lemongrass, Sicilian lemons and juicy limes lead into a heart of spicy ginger root and grated nutmeg, and a hint of refreshing eucalyptus. Base notes include sensual patchouli, white woods and creamy vanilla.
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This model is called Bamboo because the shaft is bamboo while the blade is half carbon fiber and half bamboo. The extra flex of this paddle makes it specialized for long-distance races. Although still incredibly light, this model carries 50g more weight on the blade than the fusion. This allows for a more blade heavy paddle that feels solid on the catch. This paddle weighs 500g.
To develop this paddle, Viper Va'a worked closely with the world-famous EDT Va'a team and in particular its steersperson Rete Ebb. The world-famous steersperson for EDT Va'a team won the V1 Super Aito race 4 times using this model.
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We manufacture windows out of laminated pine scantlings.
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UCB’s anti-epileptic drug VIMPAT® (lacosamide) receives positive opinion by EU CHMP as monotherapy for patients with partial-onset seizures
- CHMP positive opinion, pending EU Commission approval, takes us one step closer to VIMPAT® being approved as monotherapy for patients with partial-onset seizures
- EU Commission approval would broaden VIMPAT® clinical application in Europe, strengthening UCB’s leadership in epilepsy and commitment to improving the lives of people with epilepsy
Brussels (Belgium), 11 November, 2016 – 18:00 (CET): The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has today adopted a positive opinion on a license extension for UCB’s epilepsy medicine VIMPAT® (lacosamide) for use as monotherapy in the treatment of partial-onset seizures in patients with epilepsy aged 16 years and older. The European Commission’s approval decision is expected in the first quarter of 2017.
The CHMP positive opinion was supported by a Phase III international, double-blind, randomized, active-controlled, non-inferiority trial, conducted according to guidance issued by the EMA and the International League Against Epilepsy, results of which were previously presented at the European Academy of Neurology and European Congress on Epileptology meetings earlier this year.2,3,4,5 Results from the study are expected to be published during November 2016 within The Lancet Neurology.
“Choosing the first antiepileptic drug (AED) is of utmost importance for patients with newly diagnosed disease – since they will most likely need long-term therapy, the AED must be effective, well-tolerated, have low potential for drug–drug interactions, and suit their disease and lifestyle profiles”, explained Professor Michel Baulac, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France. “When we try to select an existing monotherapy option for patients based on their profile and the attributes of the AED, we are left with few choices. Consequently, adoption of a positive opinion by CHMP, recommending approval of lacosamide as monotherapy, represents a major advance in terms of new options for people with epilepsy and of possibilities to tailor treatment to the individual patient.”
The lifetime prevalence of epilepsy is 2-5% and seizure incidence rates tend to be higher in people over the age of 65.6 An estimated seven million people in Europe will have an epileptic seizure at some time during their lives, and as many as 30% may have a treatment-refractory form of the condition. This CHMP positive opinion takes us one step closer to VIMPAT® being approved as monotherapy for patients with partial-onset seizures and, pending approval, could provide an additional treatment option for this patient population, representing a significant unmet need7.
“Epilepsy can affect people in many different ways, and a range of treatment options are required to ensure that therapy is tailored to a person’s individual needs. UCB is committed to making VIMPAT® available to help more people living with epilepsy worldwide,” explained Jeff Wren, Head of UCB’s Neurology Patient Value Unit. “The CHMP’s positive opinion builds on our longstanding commitment to help people with seizure disorders at every point of their journey.”
Currently VIMPAT® is approved in 44 countries as adjunctive therapy for the treatment of partial-onset seizures in adults with epilepsy (ages ≥ 17 years in the U.S., ages ≥ 16 years in the EU9), and is already licenced as monotherapy in the US (ages ≥ 17 years8). VIMPAT® peak sale expectations are confirmed to reach at least €1.2 billion by 2020.
VIMPAT® (lacosamide) was first launched in the European Union in September 2008, as adjunctive therapy for the treatment of partial-onset seizures with or without secondary generalization in adult and adolescent (16-18 years) patients with epilepsy. In countries of the EU, VIMPAT® is available as film-coated tablets, syrup and solution for infusion. VIMPAT® solution for infusion is an alternative for patients when oral administration is temporarily not feasible. VIMPAT® tablets and injection were launched in the U.S. in May 2009 as an add-on therapy for the treatment of partial-onset seizures in people with epilepsy who are aged 17 years and older. VIMPAT® injection is a short-term replacement when oral administration is not feasible in these patients. VIMPAT® oral solution was launched in the U.S. in June 2010. The availability of the oral tablets, oral solution, and intravenous (IV) injection allows for consistent patient treatment. In Asia, VIMPAT® is available in Korea, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand, and was recently approved for use in Japan, where the product will be jointly commercialized by Daiichi Sankyo. VIMPAT® is not approved in China. Important safety information about VIMPAT® is available below.
Epilepsy is a disease of the brain affecting approximately 65 million people worldwide. It is defined as either the occurrence of two or more unprovoked seizures >24 hours apart or one unprovoked (or reflex) seizure and a probability of further seizures occurring over the next 10 years that is similar to the general recurrence risk (at least 60%) after two unprovoked seizures or diagnosis of an epilepsy syndrome. Although epilepsy may be linked to factors such as health conditions, race and age, it can develop in anyone at any age, and approximately 1 in 26 people will develop epilepsy in their lifetime.
About UCB in Epilepsy
UCB has a rich heritage in epilepsy with over 20 years of experience in the research and development of novel antiepileptic drugs. Every day, thousands of people use AEDs from our portfolio to help control their seizures. As a company with a long-term commitment to epilepsy research our goal is to address unmet medical needs and to deliver solutions that improve patients’ lives. Our scientists are proud to contribute to advances in the understanding of epilepsy and its treatment. We partner and create super-networks with world-leading scientists and clinicians in academic institutions, pharmaceutical companies and other organizations who share our goals. At UCB, we are inspired by patients and driven by science in our commitment to support patients with epilepsy.
UCB, Brussels, Belgium (www.ucb.com) is a global biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of innovative medicines and solutions to transform the lives of people living with severe diseases in immunology and neurology. With more than 7,500 people in approximately 40 countries, the company generated revenue of €3.9 billion in 2015. UCB is listed on Euronext Brussels (symbol: UCB). Follow us on Twitter: @UCB_news
Important safety information about VIMPAT® in the EU and EEA
VIMPAT® is indicated as adjunctive therapy in the treatment of partial-onset seizures with or without secondary generalization in adult and adolescent (16-18 years) patients with epilepsy. VIMPAT® therapy can be initiated with either oral or IV administration. A single loading dose may be initiated in patients in situations when the physician determines that rapid attainment of VIMPAT® steady state plasma concentration and therapeutic effect is warranted. It should be administered under medical supervision with consideration of the potential for increased incidence of CNS adverse reactions. Administration of a loading dose has not been studied in acute conditions such as status epilepticus. Contraindications: Hypersensitivity to the active substance or any of the excipients; known second- or third-degree atrioventricular (AV) block. Special warnings and precautions for use: Treatment with VIMPAT® has been associated with dizziness which could increase the occurrence of accidental injury or falls. Therefore, patients should be advised to exercise caution until they are familiar with the potential effects of the medicine. Prolongations in PR interval with VIMPAT® have been observed in clinical studies. Cases with second- and third-degree AV block associated with VIMPAT® treatment have been reported in post-marketing experience. VIMPAT® should be used with caution in patients with known conduction problems or severe cardiac disease such as a history of myocardial infarction or heart failure. Caution should especially be exerted when treating elderly patients as they may be at an increased risk of cardiac disorders or when VIMPAT® is used in combination with products known to be associated with PR prolongation. In the placebo-controlled trials of VIMPAT® in epilepsy patients, atrial fibrillation or flutter were not reported; however both have been reported in open-label epilepsy trials and in post-marketing experience. Patients should be made aware of the symptoms of second-degree or higher AV block (e.g. slow or irregular pulse, feeling lightheaded and fainting) and of the symptoms of atrial fibrillation and flutter (e.g. palpitations, rapid or irregular pulse, shortness of breath). Patients should be counselled to seek medical advice should any of these symptoms occur. Suicidal ideation and behaviour have been reported in patients treated with anti-epileptic agents in several indications. Therefore patients should be monitored for signs of suicidal ideation and behaviours and appropriate treatment should be considered. Patients (and caregivers of patients) should be advised to seek medical advice should signs of suicidal ideation or behaviour emerge. VIMPAT® syrup contains sodium methyl parahydroxybenzoate (E219) which may cause allergic reactions (possibly delayed). It contains 3.7 g sorbitol (E420) per dose (200 mg VIMPAT®), corresponding to a calorific value of 9.7 kcal. Patients with rare hereditary problems of fructose intolerance should not take this medicine. The syrup contains aspartame (E951), a source of phenylalanine, which may be harmful for people with phenylketonuria. VIMPAT® syrup and the solution for infusion contain sodium, which should be taken into consideration for patients on a controlled sodium diet. Effects on ability to drive and use machines: VIMPAT® may have minor to moderate influence on the ability to drive and use machines. VIMPAT® treatment has been associated with dizziness or blurred vision. Accordingly patients should be advised not to drive a car or to operate other potentially hazardous machinery until they are familiar with the effects of VIMPAT® on their ability to perform such activities. Undesirable effects: The most common adverse reactions (≥10%) are dizziness, headache, diplopia, and nausea. They were usually mild to moderate in intensity. Some were dose-related and could be alleviated by reducing the dose. Incidence and severity of CNS and gastrointestinal (GI) adverse reactions usually decreased over time. Incidence of CNS adverse reactions such as dizziness may be higher after a loading dose. Other common adverse reactions (≥1% - <10%) are depression, confusional state, insomnia, balance disorder, coordination abnormal, memory impairment, cognitive disorder, somnolence, tremor, nystagmus, hypoesthesia, dysarthria, disturbance in attention, paraesthesia, vision blurred, vertigo, tinnitus, vomiting, constipation, flatulence, dyspepsia, dry mouth, diarrhoea, pruritus, rash, muscle spasms, gait disturbance, asthenia, fatigue, irritability, feeling drunk, injection site pain or discomfort (local adverse events associated with intravenous administration), irritation (local adverse events associated with intravenous administration), fall, and skin laceration, contusion. The use of VIMPAT® is associated with dose-related increase in the PR interval. Adverse reactions associated with PR interval prolongation (e.g. atrioventricular block, syncope, bradycardia) may occur. Laboratory abnormalities: Abnormalities in liver function tests have been observed in controlled trials with VIMPAT® in adult patients with partial-onset seizures who were taking 1-3 concomitant antiepileptic drugs. Elevations of ALT to ≥3XULN occurred in 0.7% (7/935) of VIMPAT® patients and 0% (0/356) of placebo patients. Multiorgan Hypersensitivity Reactions: Multiorgan hypersensitivity reactions (also known as Drug Reaction with Eosinophilia and Systemic Symptoms, DRESS) have been reported in patients treated with some antiepileptic agents. These reactions are variable in expression but typically present with fever and rash and can be associated with involvement of different organ systems. If multiorgan hypersensitivity reaction is suspected, VIMPAT® should be discontinued.
Refer to the European Summary of Product Characteristics for other adverse reactions and full prescribing information. Date of revision: 30 July 2015 http://www.ema.europa.eu/.
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- Baulac M. et al. Efficacy and tolerability of lacosamide monotherapy in patients with newly diagnosed epilepsy: A prospective randomized double-blind non-inferiority trial versus controlled-release carbamazepine. Presented at 12th European Congress on Epileptology (ECE), September 11 to 15, 2016; Prague, Czech Republic
- Rosenow F. et al. Efficacy and tolerability of monotherapy with lacosamide versus controlled-release carbamazepine in elderly patients with newly diagnosed epilepsy: a subgroup analysis of a prospective randomized double-blind trial. Poster presented at 12th European Congress on Epileptology (ECE), September 11 to 15, 2016; Prague, Czech Republic
- European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations. Epilepsy. Accessed August 2016 from http://www.efpia.eu/diseases/89/59/Epilepsy.
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- European Medicines Agency, Summary of Product Characteristics. Accessed 11th November 2016 from
- The Epilepsy Foundation of America. Who gets epilepsy? Accessed August 2016 from http://www.epilepsy.com/learn/epilepsy-101/who-gets-epilepsy.
- Fisher, R.S., et al., ILAE Official Report: A practical clinical definition of epilepsy. Epilepsia, 2014. 55(4):475-482.
Date of preparation: 11 November 2016 HQ/0816/VI/00024
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Is online therapy right for you?
More than 50 million Americans live with mental illness, but less than half of them seek treatment. For many untreated individuals, getting to a mental health professional is inconvenient or too costly. For others, the idea of sitting in a strange room, talking face-to-face with someone about their mental health concerns, might feel unbearable.
The good news is that we live in a virtual age. Video conferencing connects us with coworkers, doctors, fitness instructors and teachers. Why should therapy be any different?
Online therapy, or teletherapy, provides the mental health support you may need, in the comfort of your home. Researchers looked at more than 60 studies and found that seeing a therapist virtually is just as effective as face-to-face sessions for most people with anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PSTD). Another 40 studies showed online therapy for treating depression to be more effective than not receiving therapy in any form.
But that doesn’t mean online therapy is right for everyone. To determine if teletherapy is a good option for you, here’s what you need to know:
Most online therapy is cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
Some forms of therapy are better suited for an online format than others. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), which focuses on helping people help themselves, is ideal for teletherapy and widely offered in a virtual format.
The goal of CBT is to provide people with tools and the ability to cope without necessarily needing lifelong therapy. There is no limit on how long you can receive CBT. But the American Psychological Association reports that half of patients consider themselves recovered after an average of 15 to 20 weekly sessions, and many patients and therapists prefer to extend treatment to ensure complete symptom remission.
Not everyone is a good candidate for virtual therapy
At this point, research into the effectiveness of teletherapy has mainly studied online CBT for mental health conditions that may interfere in limited ways with your daily life, such as mild or moderate forms of:
- Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
CBT does require the patient to participate in the process. Your therapist may ask you to complete “homework” between sessions or keep a journal. If you aren’t willing or able to take an active role in your treatment, CBT may not be for you.
If you have more serious mental health issues or severe symptoms that substantially interfere with your daily life and ability to function, online therapy is still more effective than no therapy or treatment. But whenever possible, people with more severe conditions should opt for face-to-face sessions with a therapist. Face-to-face meetings provide more opportunity for in-person intervention and a quick, effective response in the event of a mental health crisis.
There are different options available for online counseling
There are several ways to participate in therapy online including:
- Traditional therapy: You’ll have hour-long sessions with a licensed therapist with limited or no contact between meetings. Most health insurance pays for this type of therapy – look for traditional providers who also provide online therapy.
- Therapy apps: These mental health services follow a subscription model. Once you subscribe, they match you to a therapist for regular therapy sessions. You’ll also have 24/7 access to therapy, but communication outside of your sessions may be through text message and not always with the same therapist.
- Other resources: There are other methods of mental health support online such as support groups, mental health apps and self-help resources that outline coping skills.
Benefits of teletherapy
CBT in any format can work to relieve the symptoms of anxiety and depression. But online therapy can make it easier for some people to get and continue therapy for mental health issues. Teletherapy can be:
- Accessible, for people with physical impairments
- Comforting, if you have social anxiety and prefer to be alone in the comfort of your home
- Convenient, offering the ability to schedule sessions anytime from any location
- Private, since you won’t see people in a waiting room
Concerns associated with online CBT
There are some drawbacks to virtual therapy that you’ll need to think about before deciding if it’s right for you. Teletherapy issues you should consider include:
- Cybersecurity, regarding your health and financial information
- Insurance coverage, which may or may not include online therapy depending on your specific coverage, where you live and which type of online counseling you choose
- Limited intervention ability, making online therapy most beneficial for people with mild-to-moderate conditions
- Missed body language cues, which typically help therapists assess your mental health
- Technical issues such as computer malfunctions or internet outages, which may be distracting during therapy sessions
- Therapist qualifications, as it is harder to enforce legal and ethical codes for online therapists
You can alleviate many of these concerns by asking questions and researching the therapy platform or provider you’ll be using.
Tips for finding an online therapist
Finding an online therapist may take a little trial and error. But there are some steps you can take for a more successful search:
- Talk to your doctor: Your primary care provider (PCP) knows your health history, understands your demeanor and likely hears feedback from other patients who use teletherapy.
- Check your insurance directory: Insurance providers typically offer a directory of licensed mental health providers and may indicate which ones do online therapy.
- Ask a friend: Chances are good that someone you know engages in online therapy. If you feel comfortable, ask a close friend or two if they can recommend someone.
- Find an online therapy platform you trust: Most online services ask questions to narrow down your search and match you with a therapist.
Be sure to ask questions and read any reviews available for each therapist or online service. Once you find an online therapist you feel comfortable with, learn how to get the most from an online therapy session.
If you need help getting started with online therapy, reach out to your primary care physician.
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As the country experiences the 21 days additional lock down arising from the various directives issued H.E the President of the Republic of Uganda, it is important to note that these directives are within the law. The institutions charged with the responsibility to observe and enforce these directives also need to ensure that their actions are within the law. There are a number of legal items to reflect upon as we implement the guidelines.
The Constitution of Uganda as the supreme legal instrument under Objective 23 states that “the State shall institute effective machinery for dealing with any hazard or disaster arising out of natural calamities or any situation resulting in general displacement of people or disruption of their normal life”. COVID-19 has disrupted the normal life of citizens.
The Public Health Act (Cap. 281)
This law empowers the Minister of Health to take measures to combat the spread of an infectious disease. Under this law, a number of statutory instruments have been published to implement the measures given by the Presidential directive to prevent the spread of COVID-19. These instruments include:
- Public Health (Notification of COVID-19) Order,
- SI No 45/2020; Public Health (Prevention of COVID-19) (Requirements and Conditions of Entry into Uganda) Order,
- SI No 46/2020; Public Health (Control of COVID-19) Order,
- SI No 52/2020; and Public Health (Prohibition of Entry into Uganda) Order, SI No 53/2020.
The Public Health Act therefore provides a robust legal framework for the government to implement the directives against COVID-19 in Uganda.
At the Local Government Level, the Local government authorities have the power to enforce these regulations.
The Ministry of Health has remained key as front line personnel in the fight against COVID-19. They have played a significant role by providing technical guidance for government authorities, health workers and other key stakeholders against community spread of the pandemic.
The Security forces have also played an important role against the COVID-19 pandemic, GOU has heavily relied on the supportive role of the security forces which has enhanced the Civil- Military Cooperation in Uganda.
The Public Health crisis resulting from the COVID-19 has had immediate head-on effects which will have longer economic implications. Unsurprisingly, during this time of near-universal crisis, the government has enlisted the armed forces to help in combating the pandemic.
The National Security Council has set up an Inter-Agency Joint Task Force (JTF) at National and Regional levels to support the Ministry of Health (MOH) in Combatting CODIV 19 epidemic in Uganda. The JTF is led by the Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces’ (UPDF) Deputy Chief of Defence Forces,
The Security forces in Uganda possess a national command network with experience emergency response and disciplined manpower who can be deployed at relatively short notice to help supplement civilian frontline services during national emergency situations.
The National Security Forces have been deployed to ensure observance of the mandatory quarantine and ensuring compliance to the guidelines.
There have been some allegations of human rights violation and aggravated torture of several women and some men who were being accused of flouting curfew orders and the ban on public spaces. However, the leadership of both the UPDF and UPF have come out clearly and strongly condemned the outrageous and gross acts of misconduct by the officers, who instead of protecting the constitutional and civil rights of the victims, violated it with the excessive use of force. Such cases have been taken seriously and the concerned officers have been arrested and charged in the court martial.
So far there has been a high level of cooperation demonstrated by majority of the people in Uganda in ensuring compliance with the safety measures issued to secure the country from the COVID-19 threat. However, there are some citizens taking risks by failing to stay at home and violated the ban on curfew contrary to the law. Under the Penal Code (CAP 120), a person who does any negligent act, which is and which he or she knows or has reason to believe to be likely to spread the infection of any disease dangerous to life, commits an offence and is liable to imprisonment for seven years.
It is very unfortunate to note the incident where a civilian attacked a UPDF soldier and he lost his eye in an operation to enforce the presidential directive on curfew. It is important that the Citizens to maintain cooperation with security forces and avoid attacking the security forces and defying the directives on COVID-19.
Despite the challenges faced in enforcing the directives on COVID-19 pandemic, we appreciate the health officials and the security officers of integrity who pride themselves on high standards of discipline and professionalism to keep our country and all Ugandans safe and secure. For God and my Country.
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Tuning into higher Awareness
We need to develop and utilise our innate capacity to 'tune in' with higher Awareness.
This raises our level of Consciousness. This is the progressive evolution of our Consciousness.
So instead of relying only on our biased memories, sensations, emotions and associated thought-based processes, we can override, transform or transmute these when appropriate.
Whether we realise it or not, we all have as our human birthright, an innate ability to connect directly to an energy field of Universal Consciousness. This is the remarkable force field that pervades the “empty” space between every atom and subatomic particle of our body. It even exists between our thoughts!
This infinite cosmic matrix is the invisible medium out of which all possible matter, thought and intelligence originates. Optimally accessing this ultimate Intelligence and Energy and appropriately utilizing this, is perhaps our ULTIMATE TEST as a human. We could even use our individual human Consciousness to connect to all other Consciousness through this cosmic force-field. Utilizing this ultimate Resource wisely would surely be a great feat.
Expressing this Resource in our daily life, utilizing our own unique human creativity and life experience, is the next big step.
The Natural consequence of this is a great Humility, Gratitude, JOY, inner Peace and Fulfillment. Expressing all this with Compassion and unconditional Love would perhaps be the ULTIMATE LIFE. ALL this might however sound like a pure fantasy, the ULTIMATE FAIRYTALE? How does one even attempt all this?
We have discussed where we can start. We start exactly as we are in every present moment! We have also summarized where we want to get to.
But in practice what does one actually do? We explore this amazing concept at UltimateTest.org.
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Today's post is a guest post written by Marnie Grumbach. Marnie is a communications strategist and freelance writer who lives and works in Greater Portland, Maine. She has been writing compelling content for the web, public relations and many other marketing channels within both agency and corporate environments for 10+ years. She focuses on SEO copywriting, web content strategy and legal marketing. Marnie holds an MBA from Husson University and a BA in Communications from Elizabethtown College. You can learn more about Marnie at her LinkedIn Profile.
Writing Persuasive Website Content:
Words are critical to your website’s effectiveness. Don’t get me wrong – a creative, well designed website that demonstrates your brand is very important. But a beautiful website with weak written content is a missed opportunity. Why? Because words are the key to persuading both humans and search engines to pay attention to your website.
Drive website traffic with SEO
Search engine optimization (SEO) copywriting is the art of writing website content that is compelling to both human readers (your target audience) and search engines like Google and Yahoo!. There are two important components to this type of website writing. 1) Write persuasive copy that speaks to your customers. 2) Strategically place keyword phrases within your web content to earn higher free organic rankings. Put them together and you’ve got powerful SEO web copy.
Prioritize your human website readers. This is the most important aspect of SEO copywriting. We’ve all seen websites that have confusing, grammatically incorrect or just plain dull copy. This type of content quickly loses visitors. To write persuasive copy for websites, you need to get into your customer’s mind and understand how to be found by search engines:
Select keyword phrases: Make a list of keywords you want to be found for. Spend some time reviewing your competitors’ websites to see which keywords and phrases they use in their titles, meta description and body copy. Think about industry buzzwords that apply to your product or service. Break the list down and select a few of the best keywords for each page of your site. You can also use a keyword research tool like Google Adwords to see how frequently keyword phrases are searched. This will help you gauge how difficult it might be to rank for a certain keyword.
Make it scan-able and keyword rich: web visitors tend to have a short attention span and scan copy. Search engines rely heavily on your meta data (page title, description, keywords) to determine if your page is an authority on various topics. Make sure your strongest keyword phrase is included in your page title and use headers (H1’s) and subheaders (H2’s) to make your page scan-able for humans and Google. Organize copy with bullets or numbered lists.
Don’t get spammy with keywords: Remember that your keyword phrases only need to appear 2-3 times for every 400-500 words of content. Overstuffing your page with keywords is called “keyword spamming” and it not only reads strangely to humans, it might get your site banned by search engines. Earning credibility with humans should always be your top priority!
Appeal to human emotions: Does your web copy grab the visitor’s attention? Does it quickly communicate that you’re available to solve their problem? Make sure header copy uses your top keyword phrase to clearly indicate what you provide. Connect with visitors by using a conversational tone. “We save you time” vs. “We save people time.” Place the most important, keyword rich, information at the top of the page followed by supporting facts.
Sell benefits rather than features. Tell the reader how this product or service is going to help them. If I’m selling website copywriting services, the phrase “SEO Copywriting increases web traffic to help you sell more” (benefit) is stronger than “SEO Copywriting blends good writing with keyword phrases” (feature). Notice that I incorporated the keyword phrase “SEO copywriting” into the sentence.
Ask them to do something. You must compel human visitors with a call to action on your website. Use keywords and active voice. Write “Schedule your free Lasik surgery consultation today” instead of just “Click here to learn more.” Place the call to action copy on each page, placed high and prominently.
Now that you understand the creative and technical aspects of SEO copywriting, spend a little time visiting your competitors’ websites. You’ll probably realize that you can outrank them sooner than you had thought by combining persuasive website copy and a solid keyword strategy.
Get started with a free website content audit. Contact us to learn more about optimizing your website with SEO Copywriting.
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Welcome to United Nations Command! Here are some useful resources to assist in getting you started.
Please reference our Welcome Packet for useful information on items such as school registration, tips, and more:
Contact your sponsor to complete applicable required documents prior to arrival to ensure a smooth transition. Accomplishing these items as early as possible works for your direct benefit. A few examples of such items are below.
- Base pass
- Badge access
- Identification registration
- Network access
- Vehicle pass
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Video game players across the Pembina Valley have lined up outside local Walmarts and Giant Tigers this week for the release of ‘Call of Duty: Morden Warfare.’
“Jauma, I can’t wait to try it yet,” said Herman Wiebe, 19, from his unkempt room in his parent’s basement. “I’m sure this Morden Warfare game will be the best one aver!”
The new game is set in Morden, Manitoba and requires players to fight their way down Stephen Street to meet hostile Winkler forces at the local Chicken Chef.
“Dat’s where the horseshoes competition takes place,” said Wiebe. “I haven’t got that far into the game yet. I’m still at the part where I have to rescue Mrs. Dueck from the local manor and take her out for a nice meal at the Kopper Kettle.”
Call of Duty: Morden Warfare tests the gamer’s stamina and hand-eye coordination while they’re expected to maneuver their character past the local bar without stopping in for a drink.
“That’s probably the most difficult part,” said Wiebe. “That and the Bible verse memorization contest in level seven.”
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My daughter is a graduate student at a British university forced home to North Dakota by the global pandemic. For the past four months, she has been living in my basement trying to keep up with her doctoral work using such digital resources as are available at the British Library and the Bodleian at Oxford. She will be returning to Britain in early September (maybe). Meanwhile, she is about to fly off to Kansas to spend some time with her mother before the British give the green light for her return. We decided to take my pickup camper, named “Rocinante” after John Steinbeck’s rig from the famous 1960 “Travels with Charley” adventure, on a journey through Montana. We agree:If there were only one state, it would have to be Montana.
We spent our first night at Makoshika State Park near Glendive. It’s a spectacular state park, filled with dramatic badlands, in the uncool part of Montana. We grilled cheeseburgers and corn on the cob, sipped white wine, talked about life, her future, my future, our adult friendship, the crisis of the American experiment, the size of the universe — you know, the things you talk about when you go camping with the right person. We also kept binoculars handy to try to see the comet. The light lasts so long after sunset in this northern latitude that it was late before we glimpsed it. It grew better and better as true darkness descended on the plains.
“Don’t these comets usually portend something terrible?” she asked, knowing the answer from her studies of Elizabethan history and literature.
“What will come next?” I asked only partly rhetorically.
We needed to get to Bozeman by midafternoon Thursday, so we poached some Internet at a coffee shop in Miles City, studied the U.S. Forest Service campgrounds in the Bozeman-Livingston area and chose one (more or less at random) north of Big Timber. We ambled on, with a lunch stop in Billings. Although the governor of Montana has ordered the people to wear masks in public, our informal survey indicated strict compliance in national chains and box stores, in grocery stores and government offices like the post office and little or no compliance in locally owned stores and quick shops.
In midafternoon, we drove north on a state road from Big Timber to a turnoff 10 miles north of town. We reckoned that a campground well off pavement in the foothills of the Crazy Mountains was likely to be less full than one right off the main thoroughfares.
We turned up the gravel road toward Half Moon Camp. Four or five miles up that road, I sensed that something was wrong with one of the tires. I got out to check and sure enough, the right rear tire was nearly flat. We were in the middle of nowhere. I’ve changed plenty of tires in the course of my life but never in a pickup with a heavy camper unit over the bed. We studied the owner’s manual for a while. I figured out how to lower the spare from below the bed, and we hauled everything out of the back seats to get the jack and tire iron. That took some time.
The manual said to place the jack on the rear axle. That seemed wrong to me, so I read the passage in the manual three or four times. The last thing I wanted to do was compound the problem of a flat tire by the infinitely graver problem of a bent or broken axle. Operator’s manuals are notoriously hard to follow. They are about technical things, and a person without that understanding is naturally at a disadvantage. And the people who write them are technicians who may not have majored in English. But we decided to trust the experts.
I had just about jacked the rig up. I knew enough to loosen the lug nuts a bit before the tire lifted off the gravel. I was feeling pretty good about myself and my daughter, who thinks of me as a scholar and a — well — English major — was looking at me with some new respect. I was feeling like a “man for all seasons.” We would be on our way within 20 minutes.
Just then the jack that came with the truck broke, like a sprung clock. It was clear that there was no way to lower it and realign it and start again. It was a dead jack and, of course, it was the only one I had.
So now we were doomed, marooned on a gravel road in the middle of nowhere, 10 miles from a tiny town, 60 or so from Livingston, Mont. What to do? My daughter who is wiser and more cautious than I am had renewed my AAA membership about a month ago. Fortunately, we had cell service, which says something good about rural connectivity. She called it in. It was not easy to explain where we were since we really didn’t know where we were, and AAA has not yet developed a system of tracking your position from your cellphone. She and the AAA handler talked back and forth for a while until it became clear at AAA central that we were people who had no business wandering around rural Montana. My daughter hung up. What did you find out, I asked. “They will call us back.”
And someone did, 20 minutes later. It was 98 degrees, no clouds, a typical hot late July day in west-central Montana. He owned a towing company in Livingston. He would start out for us soon. He asked more questions about our location and soon figured out where we must be. But he said, “Keep your cell phone handy.” He told us it would take him about an hour and 15 minutes to get to us, assuming we were where he thought we were. Meanwhile, just relax.
I went back to retrieve the broken jack and clean up the site a little, the way you do when the furnace man comes, and you pick up the house to be presentable.
What amazed me was that neither my daughter, whose first flat tire this was, nor I was upset. We had nowhere we absolutely had to be. Help was on its way. We spent some time debating whether our AAA coverage would cover all of this (long mileage, lots of the mechanic’s time) or whether it merely facilitated the rescue and I would be shelling out hundreds before we were under way again. She made me acknowledge that she had been wise to insist on renewing my AAA. “Let’s wait to see how this comes out before we rush to that conclusion,” I said.
Just then, as we sat in the air-conditioned cab breathing in the magnificence of the Crazy Mountains and the Montana plains, an ATV rolled up from half a mile south. He stopped in the borrow ditch. He was wearing a green checked shirt, jeans, rounded cowboy boots. He was maybe 35 years old. Dark hair, a short beard, well-groomed. I explained the situation, including the broken jack and that we had just called AAA.
“Heck, I’ll change your tire. Back in a few minutes.”
And off he rolled in the ATV. My daughter called the towing guy who was still in Livingston and said we were being rescued by a rancher and no longer needed his services. He might have been angry, but he wasn’t. He reckoned we were in good shape.
The rancher, whose name turned out to be Joe L., reappeared with a pneumatic jack and a DeWalt drill equipped with a flange that interfaced with a set of lug nut wrenches.
“Yeah, the jacks that come with these trucks are not very strong. You’d be smart to buy a pneumatic.”
He changed the tire out in less than 15 minutes. I asked him questions as he worked. Did he grow up out here? No, Pennsylvania, but he had been here seven or eight years. How did he like it here? Well, it’s a good place to live, sometimes a little far from everything else, but good. Was he a rancher? Yes, a small ranch, but he was starting up a guiding service. Elk and bighorn sheep. Yes, there were a few wolves in the Crazies. The mountains got their name probably from the Crow Indians, who said they were possessed.
While he was under the truck, I whispered to my daughter to get my wallet where I had a lone $100 bill, tucked in a hidden pocket for emergencies. I was more than happy to give it to him — our good Samaritan. In fact, I worried that it might be insufficient to pay for the rescue.
He inched out from behind the truck and said, “well, good luck, I’ll be on my way.”
I said, “wait, please take this with our deep gratitude.”
“No, nope, that won’t be necessary.”
My daughter appealed to him to take the money in thanks for his help.
“Thank you, ma’am, but I didn’t do it for money.” And off he went.
So, we were blessed by this act of pure generosity by our own St. Christopher, the patron saint of travelers.
Once he disappeared over the horizon and from our lives — forever — we talked about the rest of the day and evening. We decided not to drive the remaining 14 miles to Half Moon Camp on a spare tire and no jack.
My daughter, who studied classical languages in college, said, “You know hubris is followed by nemesis, dad,” which I translated into, “how about we check in at Holiday Inn Express in Bozeman, get a real shower, and order Thai from Grubhub?”
So we inched our way back to pavement, checked the tire, drove to Big Timber, checked the tire, got on Interstate 90 and drove to Livingston, checked the tire and then on to west Bozeman, where a beautiful, clean room with two queen beds was waiting for us, thanks to a cell phone call she made riding shotgun.
As we drove off into the evening, we discussed what gift we are going to send to Joe L., RR X, Big Timber, Mont. We ran through a dozen options, from the complete works of Chaucer on down!
Eventually she said, “How about a gift certificate from Cabela’s?”
Perfect. So, I will attend to that when I get back to civilization and write a handwritten letter of real gratitude.
My daughter said, “This so restores my faith in humanity,” but she couldn’t finish. She broke into tears. I was choked up, too.
Why did this man bother to help a couple of clowns from another state when he could have just stayed in his house and let the auto-breakdown professionals do the job? Why was he willing to get down on his back on a really uncomfortable gravel road (I have wounds to show you!) to jack up a stranger’s rig? Why had he refused our money? He came out of nowhere, suddenly, gave us a gift of real value and disappeared just as suddenly. It was as if he were an angel of goodness. In the Middle Ages (or among Native Americans), he would certainly have been regarded as a gift of God. Because what are the probabilities of that moment on a Wednesday afternoon in July in Montana? Truly?
We talked carefully about it for a couple of hours. I live in North Dakota. Her mother lives in western Kansas. They are both red states. Montana is a red state, too, with an extra dollop of libertarianism thrown in, except where the Hollywood types have built their gated enclaves, and except in “the people’s republic of Missoula,” where the University of Montana is located.
For the past two days we had seen Trump signs and regalia everywhere, including bumper stickers saying, “Trump Nation.” My daughter and I pride ourselves on being politically independent, but this year we are going to vote for ABT, anybody but Donald Trump, because we both believe that, irrespective of his politics, he has violated the basic norms we should expect of the chief representative of the American nation.
My daughter is a Hillary-ite. She has been working this summer for a rural state’s COVID-19 response task force, compiling data from nursing homes, hospitals, industrial sites and from around the country, and attending briefings about public health protocols. We both believe that masks are one of the essential, no-brainer tools for overcoming the pandemic, along with social distancing and partial closure of public activities. We have both been amused and occasionally appalled by the wanton disregard for common-sense public health measures in our red state homeland (the Great Plains), and we have both been glared at and mask shamed (for wearing masks) as we go about our public business. We’ve done a lot of shaking our heads and deploring the “weaponization of public health” in the past five months.
Some of our private conversation has been righteous. We have reverted to Thomas Frank’s “What’s the Matter with Kansas” thesis, which argues that rural Americans steadfastly vote for conservative Republicans against their actual interests because they are so easily seduced by culture war issues like gay ordination and prayer in schools — issues that are important to them but which don’t help them pay their bills, get access to health care or rebuild the crumbling rural infrastructure. In our scores of hours of private conversation over the past months, we have regarded ourselves as “enlightened,” and we have condemned many of the people around us as “Trumpites.”
We got a little comeuppance Monday in the middle of nowhere. Because we learned that America is so very much more than our broken national political rhetoric.
If demographic probability studies are accurate, this young man — Joe “Montana” — is probably a Trump supporter. He probably would politely disagree with most of what we might have to say about the state of American politics. He probably believes that it is hard work, a solid work ethic, perseverance, patriotism and grit that makes a good American and that the welfare state is a mistake beyond a certain low safety net.
If we asked him about mask protocols, he would probably have smiled a big sheepish smile and spread his arms because from where our stricken camper rig was parked, we could see at least 20 miles in every direction in a vast and open landscape populated by no more than a few isolated ranch steads. And this, he would assure us, is what most of Montana looks like.
My dream is to drive my Steinbeckian rig “Rocinante” all over the American outback, from the Great Smokey Mountains of east Tennessee to the Olympic Peninsula in Washington, out near the end of the Lewis and Clark trail; from Haven, Maine, where one of my heroes, John Wesley Powell, died in 1902 to Canyon de Chelly in Arizona, one of the most sacred places in the Western Hemisphere. When I turn off Fox and MSNBC, Rush and Sean and Michael Savage, and get out into the heart of the heart of the country, two things invariably happen.
First, I cheer up because what you hear on those media platforms is a patina that crusts what America really — and still — is: a gigantic country of mostly modest people going about their lives trying at least to make ends meet and if possible get a sliver of the American Dream, a place where character and community are more important than political discourse. Second, I discover — again — that what binds us as Americans is much greater, deeper and wider than what divides us and that while there are very serious issues and unresolved problems that we must attend to with real urgency and national good will, it would help us all if we ratcheted things down once in a while rather than always up.
This young man didn’t ask us about our “political outlook” and we didn’t ask him about his. Heck, for all we know he is a liberal Democrat who espouses the Green New Deal. Probably not. But he was clearly a man of good will, integrity, honesty and generosity of spirit, irrespective of his politics.
Although my daughter and I both grew up on the Great Plains — and we carry a lot of the Great Plains ethos with us no matter what we have become in our “enlightenment” — we sometimes forget what is so quintessentially good about the people who helped to form us in 4H, the Methodist and Congregational churches, the mediocre but earnest public schools, the moments when the farmer has a heart attack when the wheat needs to come in and two dozen of his neighbors turn up over the hills with combines and grain trucks to harvest the crop before it is too late, before the hail bites it.
We regard the people we grew up with as the salt of the earth, if a bit nutty from too much time on the tractor with the ditto heads of America, but they regard us a good-enough people who got overeducated in the liberal arts (as opposed to the practical skills) and therefore a bit nutty.
We cherished our comeuppance. We agreed to try to wring some of the righteousness out of our responses to life, to be more charitable to views that are not our own, to embrace more regularly the shared values of the American people, particularly rural people, the ones Donald Trump awakened in 2015-2016 because he — so imperfect a populist tribune — was the first national politician who took them seriously for a change.
The morning after the breakdown, I hobbled my rig into a locally owned tire shop in Bozeman and wound up getting two splendid new 10-ply all-road, all-weather tires. The tire store manager was like a Zen master — so easily offended by the merest rookie question, so quick to put the rube in his place — but I was steadfastly meek and polite because he and his boys had that same work ethic that is so much the heart of rural America.
Two new tires and a pneumatic jack. I’m ready to go find all that’s right with America.
For more of Clay Jenkinson’s views on American history and the humanities, listen to his weekly nationally syndicated public radio program and podcast “The Thomas Jefferson Hour.” Clay’s most recent book, “Bring Out Your Dead: The Literature and History of Pandemics” is available at Amazon.com.
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This is the third in a Governing series on a historical look at the Supreme Court to coincide with nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation process, which continued this week before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
With hearings under way to fill an opening on the U.S. Supreme Court, it may be useful to look back on the history of court appointments. “Appointments,” Thomas Jefferson said, “and disappointments.”
Since 1789, 115 individuals, nearly all of them white, most of them men, have served on the U.S. Supreme Court. Thus far, only five women have served on the court, two African Americans (Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas) and one Hispanic (Sonia Sotomayor). No Native Americans have been appointed. Although the great majority of justices (91) have been Protestants in one form or another, 15 Catholics have served (now including Amy Coney Barrett), including three chief justices. Eight justices have been Jewish. No Muslims have served on the court.
If confirmed, Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Biden’s nominee to fill Justice Stephen Breyer’s seat, would be the sixth woman and the first Black woman to serve on the nation’s highest court.
Skewed Representation — Ethnicity, Education, Geography, Gender
The majority of justices have come from the northeastern quarter of the United States. Ohio has produced the most, with 10, followed by Massachusetts with nine; Virginia, eight; Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Maryland with six; Kentucky and New Jersey with five; and California, Illinois and Georgia, four. Three states have produced three justices: Connecticut, South Carolina and Alabama. Six states have produced two. Eight states one. Six justices were born outside the United States. The most recent was Felix Frankfurter, born in Vienna, Austria, who served between 1939 and 1962. Nineteen states have never produced a Supreme Court justice.
The court can hardly be said to be representative of the lives of most Americans. The current court consists of four Harvard Law School graduates, four Yale, and one (Amy Coney Barrett) who studied law at Notre Dame. Historically, 21 justices have studied law at Harvard, 11 at Yale, seven at Columbia and three at the University of Michigan, with a scattering of dozens of others from law schools around the nation, including Northwestern, Stanford and University of Virginia. It is virtually impossible to conceive of a graduate of the University of North Dakota Law School or Brigham Young Law School becoming a Supreme Court justice. In a nation that thinks of itself as a meritocracy, merit has a way of locating itself in a handful of elite institutions that most Americans can never attend.
Five justices, most of them appointed early in the history of the court, had no formal legal training whatsoever. The Constitution does not specify any educational requirement for Supreme Court justices or even a legal background for that matter. Theoretically, a farmer or electrician could be appointed, though today’s small C constitution (the tenacious norms of American public life that have nearly constitutional status) would certainly preclude anyone without elite legal training, even if that nominee were Mother Teresa or Carl Sagan.
“Few die and none resign.”
— Thomas Jefferson
Once confirmed by the U.S. Senate, justices serve for life. Despairing of life-tenured justices, Thomas Jefferson famously said, “Few die and none resign.” The average tenure has been 16 years, though that number is bound to go up as justices are appointed at an earlier stage in their lives and the longevity of First World people continues to rise.
Life Tenure Is Longer Than It Once Was
Life tenure meant one thing in 1787, when the Constitution was written, something quite different in the mid-21st century. In the Age of Jefferson, life expectancy was under 39 years (largely due to high infant mortality rates). By 2020 it was 78.9 years in the United States. When George Washington or Andrew Jackson appointed a Supreme Court justice who was in his 40s or 50s, that man could be expected to live no more than another 10 to 20 years. Today, a young justice can be expected to live far longer than the president who appointed her or him, and longer than most members of the Senate that confirmed the appointment.
On the current court, Justice Clarence Thomas has served for 31 years. He is 73 years old. Stephen Breyer has served 28 — he’s 83. Chief Justice Roberts has served 17 — he’s only 67. Samuel Alito has served 16 — he’s 71. Sonia Sotomayor has served 13 — she’s 67. Elena Kagan has served 12 — she’s a youthful 61. Neil Gorsuch has served just five years, but he’s only 54 years old. Brett Kavanaugh has served four, and he’s only 57. And Amy Coney Barrett, who has only served two years so far, is just 50. Assuming that the most recent four justices live another 30 years and Barrett perhaps 40, we are in for some very long tenures. Jefferson, who loved statistics, argued that a generation lasted approximately 19 years. Today, most actuarial experts cite 20 to 30 years as the lifespan of a single generation. Under either metric, many justices serve longer than a generation of the American people, which Jefferson regarded as fundamentally wrong, not to mention undemocratic. “The earth,” he said, “belongs to the living not the dead.”
The longest serving associate justice so far was William O. Douglas. He retired in 1975 after serving 37 years, seven months and eight days on the bench. That record will soon be eclipsed. The shortest tenure was John Rutledge (of South Carolina) who served one year and 18 days. A handful of others, including James F. Byrnes and Thomas Johnson, have served fewer than three years on the court.
The youngest justice ever appointed was Joseph Story, who was merely 32 years old at the time of his appointment, by James Madison, in 1812. He served 33 years. The oldest justice at the time of his appointment was Charles Evans Hughes, who was 67 when nominated by Herbert Hoover in 1930. He served 11 years. The record for being the oldest person to have ever served on the court remains with Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., who stepped down in 1932 just short of his 91st birthday. More recently, Justice John Paul Stevens left the court in 2010, two months after turning 90. Critics of life tenure wonder at what point an elderly person loses touch with the lives of the majority of the American people.
Retirement As Redress?
In the past hundred years, most Supreme Court justices have retired before they died. The deaths of sitting justices William Rehnquist in 2005, Antonin Scalia in 2016 and Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 2020 represent rare exceptions. Between 1789 and 1900, 38 of the 57 Supreme Court justices died while in office (67 percent). But since 1900, 39 of the 46 justices who have served left in retirement (84 percent). For the half-century between 1955 and 2005, there was not a single death of a sitting Supreme Court justice.
Supreme Court justices are granted life tenure “on good behavior.” That strange phrase does not mean building houses with Habitat for Humanity, driving the speed limit or volunteering at the local food bank. Most constitutional historians agree that the good behavior clause simply indicates that judges are not appointed to their seats for limited terms, and they cannot be removed at will. In other words, the phrase is essentially meaningless.
So far, there has never been a successful impeachment of a Supreme Court justice. In fact, the only justice every impeached was Samuel Chase (served 1796-1811). Chase was a high-toned Federalist who browbeat lawyers from the bench, bullied juries and instructed them how to decide cases and delivered long partisan diatribes in court. Strangely enough, he had also been a signer of the Declaration of Independence. President Thomas Jefferson, who was no friend to the judiciary, convinced his friends in the House of Representatives to impeach Chase in 1805, in part because of Chase’s partisan and aggressive handling of trials brought on by the Sedition Act of 1798. And though nobody doubted that Chase had strayed far from the standard of impartial justice, he had not committed any “high crimes and misdemeanors,” and he had not taken bribes. He was therefore acquitted by the U.S. Senate. Afterward, Jefferson called the impeachment clause of the Constitution a “mere scarecrow” and a “bungling way” of trying to chasten the court. Most historians agree that the acquittal helped solidify the independence of the judicial branch from the more political branches of the U.S. government.
One of the most delicious ironies of the Chase impeachment was that the Senate trial was presided over by Jefferson’s disgraced Vice President Aaron Burr, who had killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel in New Jersey months earlier, in the summer of 1804. One of the wags in Congress quipped that while it is usual for the judge to try the murderer, here in our happy republic we witness the murderer trying the judge!
After that, from 1805 until today, no Supreme Court justice has ever been impeached, though partisans have called for the impeachment of dozens of justices, including most recently Chief Justice Roberts, for seeming to side with the Obama administration in upholding a key provision of the Affordable Care Act.
Life Means Life
“Appointments and disappointments.”
— Thomas Jefferson
So, to put it in a nutshell, once they are in, they’re in! That is one reason why the nomination and confirmation process have become so politically intense. The stakes are enormously high. Nine unelected individuals decide questions of monumental importance for a third of a billion citizens.
You can hear more of Clay Jenkinson’s views on American history and the humanities on his long-running nationally syndicated public radio program and podcast, “The Thomas Jefferson Hour,” and the new Governing podcast, “Listening to America.” Clay’s new book, “The Language of Cottonwoods: Essays on the Future of North Dakota,” is available through Amazon, Barnes and Noble and your local independent book seller. Clay welcomes your comments and critiques of his essays and interviews. You can reach him directly by writing email@example.com or tweeting @ClayJenkinson.
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The vegetable extraction technique by means of ultrasound is used to extract the active ingredients from medicinal plants for the production of high quality plant extracts in the pharmaceutical, herbal, cosmetic, and food sectors.
Using the ultrasounds in this process, it has the advantage over other systems of achieving extraction total, complete both as regards the basic active ingredients contained in the raw material processed and for those secondary ingredients, which are no less important. Moreover, the extraction cycles are very fast and always performed at low temperatures, allowing caramelization of the sugar components naturally present in raw plant materials to be avoided.
The extracts obtained are also sterile, thanks to the removal of bacteria by the ultrasounds.
UNITECH has developed a line of US-Etank® Extraction tanks for treating leaves, flowers, buds, seeds, fruits, roots and bark, whether fresh or dry, by using both natural and organic solvents.
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The UBCAA Women Program
The United Bong County Association in the Americas, Inc. (UBCAA) Women Program committee coordinates programs and activities that unite Bong County women and partners to celebrate women and girls’ achievements and address the critical issues facing women and girls in the community.
The Main Focus of the UBCAA Women Program
1. Develop programs or activities that unite women in addressing the critical issues facing women and girls in the community, both in the U. S. A. and in Bong County, Liberia.
2. Network with other women groups or individuals to develop partnerships and collaborative programs.
3. Develop and implement a strategy for recruiting new members to the UBCAA Women Group.
4. Create a Bong County women database in the USA.
5. Mentor and empower women and girls to achieve their potential in their chosen profession or trade.
6. Celebrate women and girls’ excellence and achievements.
7. Provide need-based and merit-based academic scholarships to underprivileged/vulnerable girls.
8. Advise the UBCAA Executive Leadership on women-related issues.
For more information or you want to join/volunteer with the UBCAA Women Group, please get in touch with us at the contact information below:
Mrs. Nellie S. Beyan-Olabige
Chair, the UBCAA Women Group
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United Way of Laramie County recently announced the annual Community Challenge. In its twelfth year, local companies have stepped forward and donated to United Way of Laramie County. By taking a ‘Lead by Example’ approach, they hope to encourage others to give. These companies believe that as a ‘united community’ we can make long-term changes that produce healthy, educated and financially stable individuals and families in Laramie County.
Business leaders in this year’s Community Challenge collectively contributed over $100,000. They include Cheyenne Regional Medical Center, Express Employment Professionals, Halladay Motors, Charles Schwab, The Joannides Family Foundation, Jonah Bank of Wyoming, Union Pacific Foundation and Woodhouse Roden Nethercott, LLC.
“Your United Way of Laramie County’s Board of Directors and staff, as well as the above group of businesses leaders, are challenging you, our amazing community – individuals as well as businesses, to raise an additional $100,000 by the end of 2021.”
Jess & Dr. Danielle Ryan, 2021 Campaign Co-Chairs for United Way of Laramie County would like everyone to know, “This is not just dollars raised…this is providing children and families with basic needs, emergency services, and shelter due to an unprecedented pandemic. It’s providing low-income and under-insured individuals access to health care and those impacted by domestic violence access to safety and self-sufficiency. We ask you, the community of Laramie County, to ‘Live United’ for one another, and give!”
To contribute directly to this year’s campaign, please Text” GiveUWLC” to 91999, donate online at www.unitedwayoflaramiecounty.org/resources or call our office at 307.638.8904.
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In the words of Rabiha Khalloof: “Our society needs women to help future generations succeed”
Back in Syria, we had a house with a private garden. We invested a lot of effort and money in building it. Now it’s gone, the war swept everything away.
When we arrived in Lebanon more than three years ago, we moved from one place to another, trying to find job opportunities. The war affected us financially, mentally and physically, and my husband still suffers from the trauma.
In my hometown, Tell al-Nabi Mando, in Homs, Syria, it is not socially acceptable for women to work; they are expected to stay at home to take care of the household. But once in Lebanon, I had to find work to meet the basic needs of my family.
When I heard about the UN Women project offering technical and business training and small grants to beneficiaries, I joined in. There were cooking sessions and courses provided by Fair Trade Lebanon that trained us in food safety and hygiene, pricing, social media and how to comply with industry standards.
UN Women also helped a group of beneficiaries in creating a small women’s cooperative called “Mounet Dayeitna” (our village's preserves) producing agri-food. I was so happy to become involved [in the cooperative], since making preserves is also part of our Syrian tradition. As a child, in my mother’s kitchen, I used to help her in preserving food for the winter. At the cooperative, we produce pomegranate molasses, strawberry jam and fig jam with sesame. We have marketed these in the Akkar region, especially in Halba [the capital of the Akkar district] and this has allowed us to earn more.
Our cooperative takes part in community events nearby. Recently at the “Rural Women in Akkar” public market event in Halba, we prepared and sold preserves and had a fresh juice and Manakish (dough topped with thyme, cheese, or ground meat) station. All the women supported each other and worked together. It was a great experience.
All the training sessions [I received] have helped me understand that women can be independent and can make their own decisions. Within our community, men are now perceiving women differently. Even my children seem more comfortable with the idea of having a working mom.
Our society needs women to help future generations succeed. I will share the knowledge I have gained in Lebanon with other Syrian women when I go back to my hometown in Syria. I hope to improve living conditions there too, by helping women start small businesses.”
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Joe Di Francesco (Ontario, Canada)
Nothing is impossible for God. - Luke 1:37 (CEB)
“It’s impossible.” Surely this thought went through Mary’s mind as the angel revealed God’s plan. But then the heavenly messenger went on to prove his authenticity by informing Mary of another impossibility happening to her cousin Elizabeth, who was far past the age of childbearing but was in her sixth...
Everything is possible for God.
Respond by posting a prayer.
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The Diet-Environment-Health Nexus - Interview with Alicja Wolk
In this interview, Uppsala Health Summit meets Alicja Wolk who is a professor of Nutritional Epidemiology at Karolinska Institutet. First, Alicja tells us about her extensive research background focused on diet and other modifiable lifestyle factors related to chronic diseases, including cancer, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, osteoporosis, age-related cataracts, and healthy ageing;
Alicja: These kinds of studies are of great importance for public health promotion as well as primary and secondary disease prevention. For more than 30 years, I have been systematically developing this research field, resulting in over 800 publications. My studies are based on two population-based prospective longitudinal cohorts, including over 100,000 participants. The cohorts, with extensive, repeated over time, information about diet and lifestyle and available genetic information, are annually followed up by linkage to national health registers to update information about the health status of the participants.
Alicja Wolk leads the workshop Diet-Environment-Health Nexus at the upcoming summit. Her workshop colleagues are Eva Warensjö Lemming, Nicklas Neuman, Emma Patterson, Stephanie Pitt and Carolin Zorell, who all have a broad research experience in topics related to food systems from Örebro University, Karolinska Institutet, and Uppsala University. We asked Alicja about the process of collaboration she and her workshop colleagues went through to arrive at this year’s workshop topic.
Alicja: More recently, I have extended my research to include not only the impact of diet on human health but also on the environment and planetary health. Now, I am combining these two lines of research in one of my ongoing projects. This 5-year project, financed by Formas, has the same title “Diet-Environment-Health Nexus” as the Workshop I am preparing for the Uppsala Health Summit 2022 and will define a diet that is not only optimal for health but also has a low impact on the environment. This project is not addressing the question of HOW we can implement such an optimal diet in a whole population; this will be the main question asked during the Workshop. Because research on implementing changes in behaviour is not my expertise, I asked my colleagues from other universities to help with these challenging issues.
In your opinion, what are the leading public health concerns in relation to food systems, and what needs to be done to achieve sustainable and equitable food systems promoting our health?
Alicja: In my opinion, the most urgent concerns and challenges related to dietary patterns in Sweden and, in general, in developed countries are too low consumption of plant-based food (whole grains, vegetables, fruit, legumes), too high consumption of some animal-based food (processed meat, red meat, dairy) and too high and increasing consumption of processed food. Our estimates based on the self-reported diet of middle-aged and elderly Swedish men and women show that only 3-5 per cent of this adult population fulfil all criteria for a healthy diet. This very low per cent is annoying, but we should look at this with an optimistic eye and see enormous opportunity for improvement of diet in 95 per cent of the population. In consequence, not only the health of the population would improve, but also, in parallel, the impact of consumed foods on the environment would decrease. It would be a win-win situation for both people and the planet.
What are your expectations for Uppsala Health Summit 2022 and your involvement?
Alicja: I expect that the Workshop “Diet-Environment-Health Nexus” organised by our group within the frame of Uppsala Health Summit 2022 will deepen our understanding of a very complex interplay of many interdisciplinary factors determining our food habits. I hope that participants invited to this Workshop - representing academia, authorities, the private sector, non-profit organisations, communicators, etc.- will come up with novel and realistic solutions to some of the diet-environment-health challenges. I hope that these ideas will lead us to at least a little step toward better health and environment via a better diet and will be implemented.
Can you tell us about an ‘Aha moment’ you have had in your research?
Alicja: It was fascinating to see our first results from the Formas project based on dietary information from 100,000 women and men from central Sweden (data from SIMPLER – Swedish Infrastructure for Medical Population-based Life-course and Environmental Research), how the environmental impact of diet was decreasing with increasing “healthiness” of the diet. In other words - the better the diet, the lower the impact on the environment and the better health of people and the planet.
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