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GNLD NEOLIFE LIPOTROPIC ADJUNCT
This formula is intended to keep your heart healthy.
Nothing keeps the heart beating strong better than a balanced diet low in cholesterol and No thanks to modern lifestyle, it is difficult to stick to a diet that is beneficial for your heart.
GNLD’s NeoLife lipotropic adjunct helps to metabolize homocysteine- a metabolic by-product that can damage the arteries if accumulated.
Moreso, This product is a food supplement for the blood
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- Concentrated, whole-food lipotropic factors choline and inositol help keep fats emulsified in the blood, to:
– Inhibit the formation of plaque that can block arteries*
– Resist unwanted fat buildup in the liver*
- B6, B12 & folic acid help lower homocysteine levels*
- Combined with Betaine HCl – to enhance vitamin B12 absorption*
- Citrus bioflavonoids support the health of blood vessels*
GNLD NeoLife Lipotropic Adjunct product Health Benefits
- Lipotropic factors, choline and inositol help keep lipids (blood fats) emulsified in the bloodstream and help reduce the buildup of unwanted fat i.e metabolism of (low-density lipoprotein (L.D.L)) fats in the liver. Folic acid, vitamin B6 and vitamin B12 promote proper metabolism of homocysteine, which supports a healthy antioxidant response to LDL cholesterol, free-flowing circulation and overall arterial wall health.
- A concentrated formula of NeoLife lipotropic factors provides nutritional assistance in the mobilization and utilization of dietary fats.
- The complete formula includes choline, inositol, betaine, folic acid, and vitamins B6 and B12; all are nutrients which support the body’s own synthesis of lipotropic factors and are key elements for the proper metabolism and elimination of homocysteine, a potent oxidant.*
- Enhanced vitamin B12 digestion and bioavailability is provided by natural betaine.
- Support for proper capillary function, important for carrying blood lipids throughout body tissues, is provided by citrus bioflavonoids and hesperidin from grapefruit.
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Our test team and staff are the finest. Many World, Olympic and National Champions in all disciplines choose to use our products. We are also proud to be official partners with British Canoeing, Plas Y Brenin Mountain Training Centre and Glenmore Lodge Mountain Centre.
Discipline: Whitewater and sea
Class: of my own...
Hometown: Gairloch, NW. Highlands
Living now: Aviemore
Current boats: P&H Cetus & Pyranha Burn
Shaft of choice: Werner paddles all the way
Big volume or steep creek: Steep creek
Favourite paddling spot: North West coast of Scotland for sea & anywhere I can for river
Achievements: A good time for non stop sea paddling round Anglesey
First descent of the Monarch of the Glen burn
What's next... ambitions / plans: Finishing of the Mountain Guides scheme whilst still getting some paddling done!
Best things about paddling: A good way to enjoy the craic with friends old and new in a challenging / beautiful environment
Best boating moment: Still to come hopefully...
Worst boating moment: Watching my play boat fly of the roof rack on the M8, best tricks I've ever seen the boat perform
Other hobbies: Climbing, skiing, biking, playing
Ultimate worldwide destination: Always had a want to visit New Zealand for both river and sea paddling: one day....
Favourite food: Lots and lots of just about anything
Favourite drink: Beer with friends after a day of adventures
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Track Belt -2Cm Width:
Track belt is a loop of flexible material, which can be used either as a conveyer belt or a mechanism to move your robo. Belts are looped over pulleys, these pulleys have a groove running all through so that the belts fits perfectly inside.
1 meter long track belt for making tracked robot.
Track Belt -2Cm Width
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FORT KNOX, Ky., July 3, 2019 —
Being passionate about America and those that protect its borders is what the U.S. Army looks for in health care professionals. Army Medicine provides sustained health services and state-of-the-art research in support of our readiness while caring for America’s Sons and Daughters. Helping others and being a leader in the healthcare field is the primary mission of the U.S. Army Medical Department (AMEDD) and a worthy choice for anyone driven by the desire to care for others at the same time as serving their country.
The AMEDD is considered one of the largest healthcare systems in the world, employing over 138,000 personnel, operating more than 400 medical centers, clinics and research facilities globally. More than three million Soldiers, Family members, dependent survivors, retirees, Army Reservists and National Guard members utilize these Army facilities. There are six AMEDD officer branches (known as corps); Dental Corps, Medical Corps, Medical Service Corps, Specialist Corps, Nurse Corps, and Veterinary Corps. With over 90 areas of concentration to choose from, there are a wide range of opportunities and benefits for an Army medical professional.
Maj. Steven Schauer, Emergency Medicine Physician with the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas, states he got into medicine because of his passion for science. “Medicine is an applied science in taking care of people,” Schauer describes. Brooke Army Medical Center is a Department of Defense Level I Trauma Center, and Schauer feels fortunate for the opportunity to work and learn at a premier facility.
The Army offers numerous incentives to its medical professionals, to include scholarships, loan re-payment, and specialty bonus pay. One of the most attractive incentives is the F. Edward Hebert Armed Forces Health Professions Scholarship Program (HPSP) which pays 100% tuition to qualifying students for any accredited medical, dental, veterinary, specialty nursing, psychology or optometry program.
- Full tuition (up to 4 years, depending on specialty)
- Books, equipment, other fees
- $2,300+ monthly stipend
- $20,000 sign-on bonus
- Monthly allowance for food and housing
- Salary increases with promotions, time in service and cost-of-living adjustments
According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, as of October 2018, the average medical school debt is $147,000-$236,000. The Army provides a way to achieve academic goals without the stressors of debt or financial problems. The program supports students as they navigate through school and culminate with their residency. HPSP students hold the officer rank of 2nd Lieutenant during school and are promoted to Captain upon graduation.
If you are a current healthcare student, the Army offers the opportunity to apply for specialized internships and receive specialized training. Current medical or dental school students can also receive a monthly stipend of more than $2,300 under the Medical and Dental School Stipend Program (MDSSP).
As medical professionals advance through their career, access to blended teaching, research and clinical excellence is highly sought after and is arguably the best way to prepare for unique and challenging opportunities in medicine. A great way to acquire this kind of experience is through the Graduate Medical Education (GME) programs offered by the AMEDD.
According to Schauer, life as a physician within the Army has similar requirements as a civilian doctor; residency, rotations, and training, but a lot more benefits and available resources. “The Army has given me so many different experiences. For example, you get to deploy and provide care for Soldiers, people that you have something in common with.” Schauer adds, “Even though we come from different backgrounds and different cultures, people that come into the Army all have one thing in common, which is that we chose to serve.”
Army medical professionals promote wellness around the globe, ensuring service members are fit enough to perform their duties, and keeping their families healthy. This could include serving at an international military medical center, being deployed to provide humanitarian services for natural disasters, relief to civilians or providing lifesaving treatment during combat operations.
The Army offers the opportunity to become a leader in your specialty while working alongside talented medical professionals. Army medicine is the spearhead for innovative care and is the most advanced in developing tools for preventing disease, treating illness, and overcoming mental and physical challenges. As a pioneer in medicine, the Army is applying tomorrow’s technology today to our Soldiers and their families. Army health care is leading the way in such areas as breast cancer, burn care, mental health, prosthetics, operating room robotics, and trauma care.
Maj. Schauer states, “I would recommend this path to anyone. The Army has given me the opportunity to do a lot of different things I wouldn’t get to do as a civilian. That’s the beauty of the Army. We have the ability to deploy, take care of patients, become leaders in our field, and are exposed to unlimited opportunities.”
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Week 2 of the Make Art That Sells e-course was all about baby apparel. Ironically, even if my work seems like a good fit for this market, I’m not particularly drawn to this segment. I’m not very fond of babies and children (haha sorry, that seems like a terrible thing to say) and I purposely try to avoid having my work look too cute to the point that it has a toddler-ish appeal. I’m aiming for slightly older kids, pre-teens and teens, and fun, young-at-heart adults (like me :P), not babies and toddlers. However, since the latter is the intended market for the week, I adjusted accordingly.
The assignment was for a camping-themed illustration suitable for use on baby clothes– onesies, baby dresses, pajamas, etc. I took this opportunity to design something for boys for a couple of reasons: 1) I have a lot of designs for girls but almost none for boys, so that’s a niche I can start to fill out in my portfolio, and 2) I’m under the impression that there are a lot more designs for girls out in the market, and much less for boys. I wanted to exploit the lack of boy designs so my work will be more visible and stand out rather than design for girls and get lost in the slew of work for that gender.
We were limited to using just 8-10 colors because of the limitations on printing on fabric. This was an aha! moment for me– so that’s why most baby art look the way they do, with a simple graphic style and flat colors. With a limited color palette in mind, I had to slightly change my drawing style and approach to accommodate this. I usually rely on shading and highlights to define shapes, for example, so I had to think of how to redraw elements while still making them identifiable even with a limited color palette.
I started with an image of a bear family (I love bears, second to cats) on their way to the camp site. I think this image hits FOUR themes/trends all at the same time: 1) bears, 2) woodland, 3) travel, and 4) cars (something boys generally love). Bonus: the illustrated concept of a family doing things together may evoke an emotional response from the parent buying the design for their child, or the child may connect the bears to the story of Goldilocks (mama, papa, and baby bear). At this point I’m pretty pleased with myself for thinking on-trend and editorially 😛
It doesn’t touch much on the camping theme though, so I set to work on that next:
To me, these two scenes put together tell a story: the family on their way to camp, and having arrived and relaxing at the campsite. If I took the time to illustrate a middle scene of the bears setting up camp, that would make for a good portfolio piece to get work in the picture book market, too (showing visual narratives). But that’s not the assignment 😛
Making coordinate graphics was optional, but it’s a nice bonus to show how elements from the illustration can work to form coordinating prints and patterns for clothing sets.
The design ended up slightly gender-neutral in the end– biased towards boys but with slight adjustments in color, may be suitable for girl designs as well. I mocked up the illustrations on a onesie and baby dress to show how this would work for both genders.
All in all, a fun and yet challenging assignment– it forced me to find a creative solution to work around a limited color palette, and taught me to think editorially and beyond creating art that’s more than just “cute” or “pretty,” but with a commercial purpose. And ultimately, that’s what this course is all about 🙂
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Silver Alert Success Story: 78-year old Florida man found in Georgia
On March 12, 2010, a Silver Alert was issued for 78-year-old James Gilbo of Nokomis, Florida. Gilbo was found safe by authorities in Perry, Georgia, 415 miles away.
From the news story in the First Coast News:
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A missing elderly man that authorities thought may be on the First Coast has been found.
The Silver Alert for 78-year-old James Gilbo has ended well.
Gilbo, from the Tampa area, was found today in Perry, Ga., according to WWSB in Sarasota. | <urn:uuid:327bb38c-b598-4b1f-8676-86d40f4ff9f6> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://silveralertbill.com/2011/07/02/silver-alert-success-story-78-year-old-florida-man-found-in-georgia/ | 2019-07-19T03:07:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195525973.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20190719012046-20190719034046-00158.warc.gz | en | 0.966405 | 138 |
More than 18 million Americans have diabetes and the most common form is type 2. The body either doesn’t produce enough or becomes resistant to insulin in the bloodstream.
Researchers have shown that disrupting sleep damages the body’s ability to regulate blood sugar levels, hypothetically elevating the risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
The scientists found that disrupting the deepest sleep periods of volunteers rapidly resulted in reduction in their ability to regulate blood-sugar levels.
Earlier research has also indicated that lack of sleep can decrease the ability to regulate sugar, and this new research adds evidence that poor sleep quality is also a diabetes risk.
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In series 4 of the eighth season of “Game of thrones” viewers saw a funny goof
This became known from the resource “Super”. It is reported that in addition to all the fun events that happened in the episode, failed to consider an interesting anachronism in the series. Namely, in a scene that was included in the final installation, at the moment the frame has got a cardboard Cup of coffee. And not just a Cup, and with the logo of a popular chain Starbucks.
Of course, this frame immediately has become a kind of Internet meme. Fans of the series as a joke began to wonder whom Daenerys, whose role takes Emilia Clarke, sent for coffee. Goof can be found at 17 minute 39 seconds into the episode.
Earlier it was reported that British actress Sophie Turner, famous for her role as Sansa stark in the TV series “Game of Thrones”, has secretly married in Las Vegas. The actress, who plays Sansa stark in the TV series “Game of thrones” were married in a secret ceremony. It is known that the event occurred after the music awards Billboard Music Awards. It is known that the couple exchanged touching vows they promised to love each other until the end of his days. It is also known that the spouse star of TV screens was an American singer, musician and actor Joe Jonas. Note that the 29-year-old musician and a 23-year-old actress started Dating in November of 2016, and in the following year, in 2017, have announced the engagement. Also a couple informed going to hold a ceremony in June in Paris. That is why the ceremony in one of the chapels of Nevada was the real surprise.
The ceremony came a humble — among the guests were only a few people, among them seen brothers of the groom Nick and Kevin, DJ Diplo and Priyanka Chopra. As wedding rings they used sweets, which also caused a strong reaction in the network.
Note that for the ceremony, Sophie chose a very original outfit – the star chose a white silk jumpsuit from the Ukrainian brand Bevza. The collection was presented in new York just a few months ago. And of the founder of the brand Bibi Bevza Svetlana choice Turner, it seems, was a surprise, as for the others.
Recall that the first series of season 8 of the series “Game of thrones” broke the record.
As reported Politeka, the leader of the white walkers — King of the Night in the TV series “Game of thrones” played by two actors.
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After Joseph Valtellini‘s biggest win of his career at Glory 6 against Murat Direkci, his popularity has rose and presence is being more known. With a 3rd round TKO stoppage, Joseph has moved up in the Glory World welterweight rankings. He has now moved up 2 spots to the #8 position!
The Glory website wrote an article about the rankings:
“Also moving up two places is Canada’s ‘Bazooka’ Joe Valtellini, who lived up to his nickname with a third-round stoppage of the veteran Murat Direkci. He had Direcki under pressure throughout and the fight ended by way of Direkci’s corner throwing in the towel. Incredibly, Valtellini was just 7-1 going into the fight while Direkci…”
You can read the entire article HERE.
Check out the Rankings section on the Glory website HERE to see Joseph’s welterweight position on the top 15.
Keep your eyes and ears opened for more press on Joseph such as an interview with The Fight Network, also we’ll have information on his next upcoming fight soon as well! | <urn:uuid:7cc8808a-73ad-4061-a42a-6fb74a3c769d> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://ultimatemartialarts.ca/joseph-valtellini-moves-up-in-the-glory-world-rankings | 2019-07-19T01:24:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195525973.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20190719012046-20190719034046-00158.warc.gz | en | 0.969542 | 249 |
We're back! (Ouse's back, alright, alright). Tune in to Have I Got Ouse For You for dodgy jingles, dodgier music, very dodgy links, somehow even dodgier jokes and a somewhat sincere attempt to wind up the week for our listeners, now with a new timeslot - Sunday at 9pm.
Yes, we started at 11pm and now we're there. I don't care what the others think, I want that flagship slot.
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Chapter Ten: Child Abduction General Information
With the growing number of people moving to and living in industrial sized urban cities, the risk of child abduction is an ever-increasing issue. Many parents can write off this danger as something that will never happen to their children, but it is essential to eliminate denial and be aware of yourself and your child’s surroundings at all times.
Child Abduction Statistics
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) states that "203,000 children are kidnapped each year by family members. Another 58,200 are abducted by non-family members." An abducted child is "a child who has been wrongfully taken, kept, or concealed by an abductor." An abductor is "a person who wrongfully takes, keeps, or conceals a child. The term includes married and unmarried parents, custodial and noncustodial parents, and other family members and their agents." These findings are alarming because most parents tend to brush off child abduction as something that will never happen to their child. Or, parents may falsely believe that child abductors are all "creepy-looking" men, when in fact, they are more likely to be family members. A large majority of abducted children are victims of an ongoing family dispute, wherein the children are taken by a parent as ransom in the heat of a serious argument.
"Every 40 seconds in the United States, a child becomes missing or is abducted." Since 1996, there has been a government program entitled the "AMBER Alert System" that was created for broadcasters to team with local police when children go missing. They developed this early warning system to help recover children who are abducted by family or strangers alike. Nowadays, the AMBER Alert System operates in the same way, but on a much larger, national scale. "Once law enforcement…determine[s]…a child has been abducted and the abduction meets AMBER Alert criteria, law enforcement notifies broadcasters and state transportation officials. AMBER Alerts interrupt regular programming and are broadcast on radio and television and on highway signs. AMBER Alerts can also be issued on lottery tickets, to wireless devices…and over the Internet" for the creation of a "seamless national network."
Once abductors hear and see these AMBER Alerts on the radio, television, and even cell phones, the fear of being found generally ends up forcing them to release their victims. With this alert system in place, a total of 679 children that were in imminent danger have been reunited with their families thanks to the public’s help. Not all child abductions or kidnappings are necessarily reported to the national AMBER Alert agency though; hundreds of thousands of other cases are only reported to local agencies, or may not even be reported at all. In order for an AMBER Alert to be issued, there has to be a certain set of criteria met. The conditions are, but not limited to, children who are 17 years old or younger, are believed to be in imminent danger, have a sufficient description, and must first be reported to the National Crime and Information Center (NCIC). Because of these requirements, many abduction cases are not broadcast through the AMBER Alert system.
While this can be an issue with some parents whose child was abducted, it acts as a deterrent from all parents posting AMBER Alerts. If every parent whose child was abducted, or thought to be abducted, issued an AMBER Alert, the nation would become immune to this danger and not give it any thought when they see a new Alert on the news. So even though the number of AMBER Alerts issued thus far seems drastically low, it is with good reason that police and the federal government keep the numbers like this. Nobody would want a "boy who cried wolf" situation with something as serious as a child abduction.
Though it is customary to panic and get upset with law enforcement or anyone else if something potentially happens to your child, it is important to stay calm and cooperate during a difficult and stressful time. Remember that most abductions involve family members and people you know. The news publicizes horrifying incidents of child abduction, but those are usually the very extreme cases.
Helping you and your child come up with safety measures for their day-to-day activities can help protect your child more than spending time worrying about abduction. These day-to-day activities often get overlooked. There are a number of government departments and support groups that help find child abductors and the children involved, making it a fairly good chance that your child will be found. But be sure to utilize these options and cooperate with investigators at all times. Stay with your child at all times, and try not to put them in the middle of family disputes. Show your children that you support them and they will also be less likely to run away from home. If you remain alert, are proactive, and maintain calm, you and your child will stay safe. | <urn:uuid:90ecac81-4510-454c-9990-af6284625922> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://web.kidslivesafe.com/child-safety/child-abduction-general-information | 2019-07-19T02:20:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195525973.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20190719012046-20190719034046-00158.warc.gz | en | 0.967124 | 1,116 |
• State-of-the art campus
• Large low-rise building with a contemporary exterior
• Central location in Kowloon
Kellett makes a positive first impression with its award-winning, state-of-the art campus. Located on a greenfield site in Kowloon Bay, this modern, purpose-built campus opened in September 2013 to give one of Hong Kong’s oldest and high-performing schools the space and facilities to grow and improve even further.
The well-lit, large entrance feels welcoming; the earthy tones are warm and inviting, and features such as the red phone box and mural of London’s skyline reinforce the Britishness of this school. Also, the mascot red dragon that’s dotted around the campus showcases Kellett’s strong school spirit perfectly.
Located just 10 minutes from several MTR stations, Kellett School is easily accessible by both public transport and car.
• Separate facilities for prep and senior students
• Spacious campus with an emphasis on light and nature
• Rooftop sports pitch and swimming pool with moveable floor
• Fully-equipped specialist teaching spaces to meet needs of IGCSEs and A Levels
Winner of the International Property Award (IPA) for Best Public Service Architecture Hong Kong, Kellett School is proud of the urban learning environment it has created for its students. During our tour of the school, principal Ann McDonald said:
“We’re very excited about how the design of the school enhances learning; it allows independence, gives students space, and allows them to embark on big projects.”
Kellett School is a school of two halves; the prep and the senior schools are each built around their own sky-lit atrium inside this contemporary campus. The open plan design makes fantastic use of every inch of space in each self-contained school, and it ‘brings the outside in’ using green features including real trees, earthy tones and plenty of plants.
“The prep school is not competing with the senior school for space; the students in each school here don’t have to share anything.”
The two-form entry prep school has a playful, colourful décor and there’s a huge amount of space for its small body of around 300 students. Classrooms circle a vast atrium that is filled with breakout areas, activity stations, and wooden climbing equipment. We saw plenty of examples of creativity from both teachers and students; large-scale displays included hand-painted poppies to commemorate Remembrance Sunday, a miniature garden, and a Chinese-style table to support Mandarin classes.
The classrooms are stimulating and bursting with colour. They are decorated with learning displays on the walls and hanging from the ceiling, and every room is divided into different learning zones. Specialist facilities include a library, music room, and a small theatre where all the facilities are age-appropriate and targeted at younger learners.
In the four-form entry secondary school, there’s a library ‘without walls’, a large exhibition space where we saw some very accomplished D&T projects on display, hubs for each year group, and various other ‘pods’ for independent and group study.
“It has all been built around learning as passive supervision where the students take ownership of the space. The further up the school the students get, the greater responsibility we have for preparing them for university and managing their own studying and time.”
The open library has shelves of fiction, lots of electronic non-fiction books, an open study area, and an IT desk (a must for a school like this with a 1:1 laptop programme). There’s also a dedicated sixth form room with sofas, kitchen facilities, and study areas; it’s conveniently located next door to the sixth form office and study rooms.
As well as general secondary classrooms, there are well-equipped specialist rooms for art, textiles, D&T, and music. There are six wet and dry science labs with the facilities for “lots of hands-on practical work”; a media studies room with green room and iMacs for IGCSE and A Level students; and three well-equipped and spacious art studios.
Here’s a school that has been designed to give students a huge amount of space, which is a rare find in Hong Kong’s urban environment. There is a large open plan studio where students have the space to work on large-scale art and design projects. We also liked how the windows between classrooms are used to encourage students to work independently in one room when a teacher is present in the class next door.
“The classrooms are spacious and flexible; students can work in small groups, pairs, as a class. It works – and it must be having an effect on our results.”
Across the school, the students are encouraged to learn music and sport, and there is certainly the space and facilities to do this. For the arts, there is a modern 300-seat theatre with an orchestra pit, grand piano and acoustics for both speech and music; students will soon be taking to the stage to perform A Midsummer Night’s Dream. As well as music and practice rooms, there is a black box theatre, green room and dance studio.
“The whole premise at Kellett is about your personal learning journey and how much you’re improving each time. About six weeks after our children take up a new instrument, they will perform in a small concert. The music department is very focused on the more you do, the better you’ll get; the more you participate, the better you’ll be. And that’s reflected across the whole school.”
The school comes together in the large hall, which can seat 1,500 and is used for PE lessons, events and school-wide assemblies. Students have access to a sports facility off-campus, which is accessed by a bridge but the school was built to be as “self-sufficient as possible”. There’s an impressive rooftop sports pitch with four-lane athletics track, a sports hall where “the big sport is basketball, an indoor AstroTurf pitch, and an indoor 25m swimming pool with a moveable floor “which makes it hugely flexible for young children”.
Other facilities include a well-lit ground floor canteen and a Sky Café. Snack and meal times are staggered across the school so that all students can use the canteen and rooftop play areas for breaks.
We also saw plenty of modern language classrooms, which support Kellett’s teaching of Mandarin, French, Spanish, German, French and Latin.
“We also have a home language programme, which is a facilitation rather than a teaching programme for those students who require a qualification in their home language. The parents will arrange for the teaching of that, but we will allow them to come into school.”
There’s a calm atmosphere throughout the campus, created by the earthy tones, an abundance of natural daylight, soft lighting, lots of greenery, and two large trees growing in the atrium. There are displays of students' artwork and projects on the walls and in the corridors. And McDonald describes the community as a “comfortable and respectful” campus where students choose not to put locks on their lockers.
The design of the school is just one of several ways in which Kellet School is helping students to develop a positive mindset. As well as taking part in mindfulness courses and yoga sessions, students all come together for regular Feelgood Fridays with activities that focus on health and wellbeing.
While McDonald admits that the student body is not as international as other schools, there are still around 30 different nationalities here. The majority are British families, followed by Australians. “We are required to have a minimum of 70% overseas passport holders,” adds McDonald.
“We’re not a hugely mobile community, less than 20%, but we have to be mindful to those students coming in and leaving. Good beginnings are made by good endings so it’s as much about taking care of your students who are leaving as it is for those coming in.
We’re developing our alumni network, and we visit the main university centre twice a year to meet our students and get feedback for the next generation of students. We don’t want our students to feel that once they’ve left the school, the door is closed.”
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Wylie High School’s new 7,000 sq ft culinary arts wing includes a state-of-the-art kitchen and “The 544,” a student-run restaurant. Both facilities are new additions to the 18-year-old campus, part of Wylie Independent School District, and are products of a district-wide improvement plan funded by a local 2014 bond package. These innovative learning spaces are designed to complement each other and provide flexible training areas where students can practice and perfect their culinary skills.
The culinary arts kitchen can accommodate up to 25 students and contains a specialized teacher demonstration suite, as well as multiple ovens, stoves, griddles, and exhaust hoods for classroom use. The 544 restaurant can seat up to 60 people in the main dining area, with additional outdoor seating available, and features an integrated production kitchen area. The restaurant will also be used for special dining events, with future plans to expand the program to include dine-in lunch options and specialty coffee drinks for faculty and staff.
ATMAC technicians installed a complete plumbing system for the new culinary arts wing. HVAC services included the installation of grease hoods and exhaust system for the culinary classrooms and restaurant spaces, and the replacement of major chilled/heating water air handling units with AAON rooftop units.
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Turn your radios on and up, because The True Oldies Channel will be having a LIVE broadcast from our cruise on June 6th, which kicks off the Cruise Through Summer special, with none other than Mike Balsamo! To kick off the Cruise Through Summer special, Mike Balsamo of The True Oldies Channel has teamed up with Bahamas Paradise Cruise Line to give their listeners a chance to win a cruise for 2. You can be a lucky winner; all you have to do is turn your radios on, set your station to 95.9 and/or 106.9 and tune in starting June 6th at 12 pm – 6 pm in Palm Beach and Martian County (or online), to learn how to win! The radio station will be giving a cruise away for 2 on a weekly basis in one of our Oceanview Staterooms from now until Labor Day! You can be that lucky listener and win if you tune in!
Mike Balsamo will also be giving a special live broadcast from the cruise on June 6th and 7th where he will be interviewing guests, the cruise director and giving the listeners the full experience what it’s like setting sail to paradise onboard Grand Classica. A lot more fun and entertainment will follow during the live broadcast! While you’re listing to the excitement of what’s taking place onboard our ship, you’ll really be given insight to the amazing experience you can have while setting sail to The Bahamas.
You could be the lucky winner who gets to Cruise Through Summer while setting sail on our cruise to Grand Bahama Island! Don’t miss out on this opportunity, you can listen to some great oldies tunes on the radio and possibly be the next winner! Listening gets you the chance to win, but actually being on the cruise is a whole different level of fun, the experience you’ll receive while setting sail to Grand Bahama Island is magical in every way. You can soak up the sun and sip on a cocktail, catch a show, enjoy a pampering session at our Indulgence Spa, dance the night away… the excitement doesn’t end there; you have many excellent options to choose from while you set sail to paradise. Be sure to check out our previous blog: Two Ships, Sailings Daily, Nothing but the Best Experience! Where you can read up on some of the amazing things you can do while on board one of our ships.
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The fastest way to make a city liveable, popular and loved by its citizens is to prioritise bike infrastructure and make cars the least attractive transport option, according to Morten Kabell, the CEO of Danish urban design consultancy, Copenhagenize.
Governments and city administrations agonise over a multitude of problems—carbon emissions, pollution, traffic congestion, and social issues such as loneliness and isolation and chronic disease—that can all be improved with a single strategy: improving infrastructure for cyclists, says Kabell, a former vice-major of Copenhagen.
And it is one of the cheapest strategies available to them. Kabell says the city of Copenhagen was close to bankruptcy in the 1990s when it got serious about implementing its cycle infrastructure.
What should a city do to get more people cycling?
“Three things”, says Kabell. “Infrastructure. Infrastructure. Infrastructure. You can waste millions on campaigns telling people how nice it is to bike and how green, but if you don’t build the infrastructure, they won’t get on their bike. What we preach is that if you build it they will come; if you build cycle lanes people will start cycling.”
Create a network that is safe
To change behaviour, cycling infrastructure (meaning cycle paths) must be comprehensive, a network that takes people from A to B. “I call it A-to-B-ism,” says urban designer-turned-speaker, Mikael Colville-Andersen, who founded the Copenhagenize consultancy, and spoke in May this year at the Urban Future conference in Oslo Norway to a packed seminar room.
“We know why people cycle in Copenhagen and it’s not to save the polar bear in the Arctic,” says Colville-Andersen, who now tours the world sharing the lessons from Copenhagen’s urban planning and hosts a TV show on urban issues called Life-Sized City.
“We [Copenhagenize] have asked them every two years since 1996, ‘What’s your main reason for riding a bike?’ And it never changes,” Colville-Andersen says. “The majority always says, ‘It’s quick. It’s the fastest way from A to B in my city.’ That’s all. Only 6% ride because it’s cheap and only 1% ride for environmental reasons. Even in Denmark, which is very environmentally aware.”
Cycle paths must be separate to be safe: a kerb to the traffic, a kerb to the pedestrians and, ideally, as wide as a car lane on both sides of the street. Then people will take to their bikes.
Back in 1970 in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, the major decided to improve the proportion of bikes as a total percentage of transport. It was then at two per cent. Building just 40 kms of separated cycling infrastructure increased that to 10% in s single year, Colville-Andersen says.
Create impediments for cars
De-prioritising cars is also a key strategy to change the cycling culture and solve urban issues, Colville-Andersen says.
For thousands of years, streets were democratic places in which all modes of transport had equal access. But from the 1950s, cars have dominated the roads and have killed people—drivers, pedestrians and cyclists—from day one.
And those deaths and injuries are getting worse. In Australia, for example, one in five people hospitalised in a traffic accident is a cyclist, according to a report from Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.
For 17 years, that rate of hospitalisation for cyclists increased by an average of 1.5%. And in the last six years of the AIHW report, the increase was 4.4% per year.
Cars do not mix with cyclist and pedestrians.
“[There’s] a really cool graphic from Sweden [See below],” Colville-Andersen says. “[It shows] the quickest way to planning a modern city that you’ll ever see. You prioritize the three transport forms on the left—cycling, walking and public transport—and you make driving a car or a pain in the ass. That’s all you do. It’s really that simple.
“We don’t need carrots. We just need the biggest stick in the history of cities. And that’s the line on the right there. You just make it more difficult. You make it more expensive. You take away parking, you make parking expensive. You do everything you can to stop it because it has never worked in 70 years and people are dying. It’s that simple.”
Pilot programs creates change
Copehagenize CEO, Morten Kabell, acknowledges that, despite overwhelming evidence and data collected and published by his company, getting citizens to change their behaviour is hard.
There is a way, however: pilot programs.
While city administrations and politicians can be persuaded by the data, citizens need to experience the change before they are willing to believe in the benefits, Kabell says.
“Copenhagen today is Copenhagen because of pilot projects. We didn’t go through long discussion processes. We said, let’s just try this new idea.’ ”
But what about in Australian cities, which sprawl, and are often hilly or have narrow streets.
Kabell reminds us that for six or seven months of the year, the Danes cycle through snow. In Copenhagen, the bike paths are the first to be cleared of snow in the winter months.
Electric bikes can help with distances in Australia’s sprawl, as do the dedicated commuting cycles lanes that run 100 metres to the left and right of Copenhagen’s freeways.
It’s a matter of mindset, planning and—you got it—infrastructure.
A fortunate necessity
Change will come fastest when citizens become fed up with road carnage, experience an alternative, and insist on better infrastructure, Kabell says.
“Copenhagen wasn’t always as Copenhagen is today: It was the result of bottom-up action. People were fed up with their squares being used as parking lots. No-one could sit outside and enjoy it. Kids and older people didn’t feel safe to cycle.
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At PPMA 2018, with UK distributor, RARUK Automation, TM Robotics will demonstrate Toshiba Machine’s THL700 SCARA robot. The robot will operate in collaboration with the Flexibowl feeding system to exhibit a fully automated pick-and-place system. The demonstration will be held at the RARUK Automation stand, E20 from 25th to 27th September 2018. Toshiba Machine boasts one of the largest SCARA robot ranges on the market.
The THL series is a selection of nine lightweight models, each with varying reach, payload and cycle times. The smallest model, the THL300 has a 300mm arm’s length and can handle a 5kg payload. The largest model, the THL1200 has a 1200mm arm’s length, a maximum 10kg payload and maintains an impressive cycle time of 0.58 seconds.
At PPMA 2018, the mid-sized model THL700 will be displayed alongside the Flexibowl parts feeding system. The Flexibowl is a vibratory feeding solution used for automotive, electronics and industrial parts and components. Using a rotating disk, actuated by a servomotor, the Flexibowl provides a straightforward but incredibly effective way of sorting and separating small parts.
The THL700 will be at hand to accurately pick and place these parts from the Flexibowl system, demonstrating a fully automated method of selecting and manoeuvring difficult-to-handle components on a production line.
“PPMA marks the launch of the THL700 and Flexibowl combination to the British market,” explained Nigel Smith, manging director of TM Robotics. “The THL700 is one of the most cost-effective of Toshiba Machine’s SCARA series, making it a suitrable automation for price conscious end-users and systems integrators. Uniting this with the Flexibowl system provides these users with a fully automated system to simplify otherwise tedious processes.”
The demonstration will be manned by representatives from RARUK Automation — TM Robotics’ official distributor of Toshiba Machine robots to the UK.
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Day out to Sealife!
This review is especially helpful for those who have or use the following: Walking Aid, Wheelchair
Staff at Scarborough SeaLife were friendly and very co-operative considering it was a very busy day. There are a lot of creatures to see and lots of other events, talks and activities going on round the sanctuary.
Transport & Parking
Disabled parking bays are directly next to the front entrance.
In relation to wheelchair users, Sea Life is fully accessible, there was a stair lift so that wheelchair users can go to the restaurant and turtle area upstairs. For those with mobility problems, there wasn't any seats along the way but the restaurant area, refreshments area and at the seal area had seating. The sanctuary doesn't have a hearing loop or braille however there is an interactive rockpool area and talks about the animals throughout the day that those visually impaired may enjoy; info and facts are on the walls and tanks in every room so may benefit those with hearing problems.
Site does have an accessible toilet with an alarm cord, the door opens outwards and door frame is a reasonable size, toilet is also a good size to fit a wheelchair and carer/worker in. The only problem is that there was only one accessible toilet near the gift shop at the front entrance, although it is normal to only have one, the sanctuary is big and with the large number of people there that day, it took a while to get round to the toilet. The toilet was in the gift shop next to all the other toilet doors which was quite crowded and this made it hard to come in and out of the toilet.
Even though it was a very busy day, staff were extremely friendly and helpful. Staff that I watched during the talks showed they had a broad knowledge of the animals.
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Because Dr. Finder performs the surgery in a procedure room specifically designed and equipped, patients get the greatest possible results from their liposuction procedure for a fraction of the cost of other, less experienced surgeons in the area. Financing options are also available.
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OGDENSBURG — The grounds of the Dobisky Center will be awash with colors Saturday morning when the St. Lawrence County Colors of Cancer Walk kicks off at 10 a.m.
This is the second year of the event that has replaced the long-running Ogdensburg Relay For Life.
The walk will raise money for The American Cancer Society.
The group, with $18,000 already raised, is approaching the halfway mark of its $50,000 goal.
That total was bolstered by the group’s most successful auction ever on May 18 at the Ogdensburg Elks Lodge, when more than $9,000 was raised.
This year, the entire walk will be confined to the green area around the Dobisky Center in order to maintain a feeling of community.
There will be raffles, games and other fundraising activities.
Cancer survivors have always been a big part of any American Cancer Society fundraiser and the St. Lawrence County Colors of Cancer Walk will feature special T-shirts for survivors, a buffet spread of light snacks, an inspirational survivors’ lap and a moving testimonial from a survivor who has been named honorary chair of the event.
A DJ will provide music.
One of the mainstays of the old Relay For Life event was the Luminaria Ceremony, in which bags lit from within by candle and decorated with the names of cancer survivors and those lost to the disease were displayed around the track.
This year, because the event will be entirely during daylight hours, the ceremony remains, but the luminarias will be on displayed on a specially designed temporary installation.
The American Cancer Society is the largest provider of cancer research funds, aside from the federal government.
Volunteers in Ogdensburg and throughout St. Lawrence County have raised thousands of dollars over the years.
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When we think of budget-friendly and plant-based meals, we often picture stacks of vegan ramen noodles, pasta with tomato sauce for dinner, or a plate of rice and beans. While we love those, if you’re trying to eat healthier, they’re not what you want to put in your grocery cart. But don’t worry, because you can have delicious, nutritious meals without spending a fortune.
If you’re on a budget, then we’ve got some penny-pinching food hacks for you. It all starts with creating the right grocery list. Try to plan your meals in advance so that you know exactly what you need to get when you make your weekly shopping trip. If you’re looking to pack in as much nutrition as possible, you should aim to include a variety of colorful fruits and vegetables in your diet along with grains and beans. The more you plan, the less money you’ll spend on items that you won’t use that week. When you get to the grocery store, start in the fresh produce aisle and then move on to fresh fruit. Canned and frozen produce, grains, and beans are among the most affordable and healthy foods out there. Plant-based eating is expensive? Myth: busted.
Of course, what good is advice without recipes you can use it on? With so many budget-friendly vegan recipes, it was tough to choose, but we went and narrowed it down to 15 vegan meals that are healthy, delicious, and affordable. Now, that’s something to celebrate.
Don’t forget to check out our budget-friendly vegan recipes archives, where we bring you our picks every month!
1. Perfect Ratatouille
This recipe teaches you how to make the Perfect Ratatouille, a budget-friendly dish hailing from the French countryside. The way that the vegetables are arranged gives this savory dish a colorful appearance, but it also ensures that you’ll find different flavors in every bite. It’s best served on its own, or with a side of bread to get every last bit of sauce.
2. Red Lentil Burger Wraps With Pumpkin Fries
These Red Lentil Burger Wraps are made with affordable and healthy ingredients like lentils and fresh spinach – plus they come with a side of curry-spiced pumpkin fries! Wrap these patties up in a soft flour tortilla and serve them with fresh veggies and plenty of sauce.
3. Ultra-Cheesy Mac and Cheese
You can stop searching because Ultra-Cheesy Mac and Cheese is the last recipe you will ever need! Why? It’s nut-free, soy-free, and gluten-free, ridiculously easy to make, and the cheese sauce is amazingly nutritious. This creamy, cheesy, and comforting sauce is made from sweet potatoes, carrots, and zucchini.
4. Orange Vegetables Tagine With Peaches
This Orange Vegetable Tagine With Peaches is an earthy and nutritious dish, full of grounding flavors and affordable ingredients like yam, pumpkin, chickpeas, harissa, raisins, and canned peaches. The perfect juxtaposition of sweet and savory! The great secret of an authentic tagine is to simmer the ingredients over a low heat so that everything remains deliciously moist and tender. If you do not have a tagine, feel free to cook the dish in a heavy casserole dish or dutch oven.
5. Campfire Broccoli and Chickpea Curry
Get your campfire ready for something new! This spicy Campfire Broccoli and Chickpea Curry will give you all the energy you need for outdoor camping fun and activities. It’s simmered with fresh broccoli, yellow bell pepper, and chickpeas, and swirled with creamy coconut milk. Serve with a side of rice and follow it up with some campfire treats, even if you’re not actually on a trip.
6. Cleansing Detox Soup
This Cleansing Detox Soup is packed with all the good stuff! Even though it’s oil-free, it’s full-flavored, thanks to fresh lemon juice, fresh ginger, bright turmeric, balancing cinnamon, and a touch of spicy cayenne. The soup’s leafy greens, broccoli, celery, and carrots will nourish you and make you feel whole. Enjoy this soup as a light lunch with a salad on the side or bulk it up with some brown rice.
7. Black Bean Loaf
This Black Bean Loaf has a nice crust and soft interior that just melts in your mouth. Made from black beans, carrots, bell peppers, and oats, it’s as nutritious and budget-friendly as it is delicious. Like a traditional meatloaf, it’s glazed with ketchup that seeps in as it bakes — yum!
8. Brown Rice Casserole
Need a meal that’s easy, budget-friendly, filling, and nutritious? This savory Brown Rice Casserole will definitely be a winner in your weeknight recipe rotation. Hearty seasoned brown rice is baked with broccoli, carrots, and other veggies to create a dish that’s flavorful, filling, and easy to make.
9. Kale and Chickpea Stuffed Spaghetti Squash
If you are under the impression that veggies are just meant to be side dishes, you have to try this amazing Kale and Chickpea Stuffed Spaghetti Squash! It’s filled with sautéed kale, chickpeas, and toasted almonds. It’s filling, wholesome, budget-friendly, and tastes as good as it looks!
10. Sweet Potato and Tofu Scramble Mega Breakfast Burrito
These Sweet Potato and Tofu Scramble Mega Breakfast Burritos have everything you need to start your day off on the right foot. Fluffy scrambled tofu with sweet potato, spinach, and other exciting flavors make this possibly the breakfast — and lunch or dinner — ever. Top it with some salsa, avocado, and fresh cilantro, and you have a fresh and filling breakfast that’s also great for taking along on your morning travels.
11. Sweet Potato Dal
Dal, also spelled dhal, is an Indian dish that’s made using lentils and blended spices. This Sweet Potato Dal keeps the lentil but adds creamy sweet potato into the mix. The result is a dish that’s nourishing, flavorful, and easy to make. It can be served over any kind of rice, but brown rice is highly recommended.
12. Hearty Lentil Broccoli Bolognese
This Hearty Lentil Broccoli Bolognese is so tasty, satisfying, and filling, you’ll always want to have a batch stored in your freezer. Broccoli, cauliflower, or kale (or all three!) pair wonderfully with the rich tomato sauce. Serve over black bean pasta or brown rice pasta with a salad on the side.
13. Zucchini Chickpea Burger
These Zucchini Chickpea Burgers combine balance plant-based protein, carrots, and green vegetables with the love for grilling. Aside from the vegetable base, they’re packed with flavor from jalapeño, Sriracha, and other spices. These can be served on a bun or try them on a bed of greens for even more nutrition.
14. Braised Cauliflower With Chickpeas, Tomato, and Kale
This Braised Cauliflower With Chickpeas, Tomato, and Kale is comfort food at its best. In this recipe, whole cauliflower is braised until tender in a mixture of tomatoes, chickpeas, and kale. This one-pot meal is light on seasoning, yet it is savory, a little cheesy, and satisfying. This meal is an ideal date-night dinner, especially when followed up with a refreshing dessert.
15. Roasted Butternut Squash, Millet, and Lentil Burritos
Eating one of these Roasted Butternut Squash, Millet, and Lentil Burritos is like getting a big, warm hug from the inside out. A nutritious filling of roasted butternut squash, lentils, and millet create the heartiest, yummiest burrito you’ve ever tasted! Add greens for an extra boost of nutrition or enjoy as is!
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The Last Meal on Haight-Ashbury and other short stories takes you from the sixties hung-over Haight-Ashbury to the guilt-ridden mind of a mother who feels relieved over the death of her special child. From the powdery white snows of Kanazawa to the dark, deceitful schemes of an antique dealer. There are tales of an incorrigible Casanova helping a couple on the brink of breaking up and those of a five-dollar bill changing the life of an advertising veteran with twenty years under his belt. A phone call goes awry in Napoli while a grandfather clock may prove to tell more than just time. Enjoy the twists and turns in the latest offering by the author of four-star rated Ten Twisted Tales.
A hardcore gambler who has lost more than just money to the lure of the roulette table is sitting at a railway cafe, when he spots a wallet bulging with crisp dollar bills. It has enough to get him out of town from the vicious grip of the loan shark. Enough for him to start over in another town. What should he do?
Love to Mia
The death of her special child, Mia, brings a sense of relief and guilt in equal measures to Justine. She feels Mia never loved her as much as she loved the rest of the family. Are Justine's feelings justified? Or was there another side to Mia and a valid reason why she didn't love Justine?
The Grandfather Clock
An IT guy working in Singapore finds that his wife has left him, taking everything with her, during the same week his company lets him go. All he has in his near empty house and life now is the clock his grandfather gave him as a wedding gift. Just a regular grandfather clock. Or is it?
Russell, an ageing art director in Singapore has had enough of his ungrateful bosses and office politics. He wants to go back home to India and settle down. Trouble is, he has only five dollars. The five dollars his father gave him asking him not to spend it. How does Russell go back? Or is he doomed to spend the rest of his life doing what doesn't satisfy him?
The Fukushima Love Affair
Kimiko loves Kanazawa, the city she was born and raised in. But her husband Ito loves Naomi, a career-minded city girl he met on his travels. Torn between the innocence of Kimiko and the physical aspect of his relationship with Naomi, Ito gets a rude wake-up call while spending a weekend with Naomi.
The Last Meal on Haight -Ashbury
No good deed goes unpunished it would seem to the IT guy-turned-restaurateur in San Fransico's shady neighbourhood. All he wanted to do was feed a poor bum, who, instead of being grateful for the generosity, pulls a gun. Does the restaurateur survive? Or is there no point trying to be good to people?
Greed is good, feels the antique lover and dealer who has just found a piece of his lifetime in a shop selling trinkets. A genuine Le Boeuf fountain pen, a first edition. After bargaining down the price, he is sure he can make a killing in the market soon. Can he?
Carlos Castigliani is distraught when he finds his young wife is cheating on him. Murder is the only way out to redeem himself and teach her a lesson, he feels. And all it takes is a phone call to set up the perfect murder. Or does it?
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DOVER, Del. (AP) Clint Bowyer hopes his one-year pit stop at HScott Motorsports is more than just a footnote on his career.
He wants to build the foundation that will shape the fledgling organization into a championship contender.
''When I leave there, I want to be able to leave there having a winning organization,'' he said.
Known these days as the driver who will replace Tony Stewart, Bowyer's whirlwind season continued Friday with the expected announcement that he will drive for team owner Harry Scott in 2016. Then it's on to Stewart-Haas Racing in 2017 to try and fill the shoes of three-time NASCAR champion Stewart.
Bowyer became available when Michael Waltrip Racing decided to cease operations at the end of this season and released him from his three-year contract.
Out of a job, Bowyer certainly wasn't out of opportunities.
Bowyer now has a ride with Scott in a deal that will give him a seat and team support from SHR. Bowyer will drive a Chevy for HSM, just like he will for Stewart. HSM receives technical support from Hendrick Motorsports and SHR. Bowyer also brings along 5-Hour Energy as his primary sponsor for 24 races next season. The team did not announce a crew chief or car number.
''I think Clint will help us long-term because he is basically going to be able to help us kind of reset our program and set the bar higher going forward,'' Scott said at Dover International Speedway. Scott said the 2016 goal was to win races and make the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship.
''Right, Clint?'' he said to Bowyer, smiling.
''It better be,'' Bowyer responded.
HScott Motorsports fielded Chevrolets this season for Justin Allgaier and Michael Annett. Both drivers have struggled for Scott in just the second full season for the organization. Allgaier is 30th in the standings and Annett is 36th.
Scott declined to reveal the 2016 lineup, though the team had previously confirmed that Annett would return and it would not field three cars in 2016. Allgaier may be the odd man out.
''I'm just trying to figure out what we can put together,'' Allgaier said. ''There's still a lot of time.''
The 36-year-old Bowyer is 16th this season in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship standings. His No. 15 team was docked 25 points for an illegally modified part two weeks ago at Chicagoland Speedway. Barring a victory, Bowyer will not advance to the second round.
''At the end of the year, I ain't going to be 16th,'' Bowyer said.
Bowyer could finish as high as fifth in the standings, even if he doesn't advance out of the first round. He has eight career Sprint Cup victories, though none since 2012.
Scott purchased Phoenix Racing from James Finch in 2013 and later rebranded it HScott Motorsports. Phoenix Racing was established by Finch in 1989. Its lone win was at Talladega in 2009 with Brad Keselowski.
Allgaier was named the team's full-time driver in 2014 and Annett joined HSM ahead of this season. Allgaier, whose best finish this season is eighth at Bristol, believed better days were ahead for HSM.
''I think to have a close relationship with Stewart-Haas, that elevates the team to another level,'' he said. ''Harry came into this series knowing he wasn't going to become a Rick Hendrick or Chip Ganassi overnight. He's in this for the long haul and I've seen the improvements already.'' | <urn:uuid:6800caf3-f03f-4829-8e2e-717e8185e0cb> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://www.si.com/racing/2015/10/02/ap-car-nascar-bowyer-hscott | 2019-07-19T01:41:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195525973.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20190719012046-20190719034046-00158.warc.gz | en | 0.977714 | 759 |
A police appeal has been released after a fight broke out between a group of teenagers.
The incident is believed to have happened in Trowbridge at around 1.45pm Thursday, May 16.
During the fight a number of threats were allegedly made.
A Trowbridge Police spokesperson said: "We are appealing for witnesses to a fight involving a group of teenagers in Trowbridge to get in touch with police.
"The incident is believed to have happened at approximately 1.45pm on Thursday 16 May in the car park outside of Asda, The Shires.
"We believe a fight broke out involving a group of teenagers and a number of threats were made."
PC Tom Carver said: “The car park was busy with shoppers at the time of the incident and it is likely that someone witnessed the incident and may have information which could assist our enquiries.
“We will not tolerate violent and threatening behaviour of this nature in our town – it has an adverse effect on innocent bystanders who are trying to go about their normal lives.”
If anyone can help, call 101 and quote crime reference number 54190046934. Alternatively, call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
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(a) if your delivery address is on the United Kingdom mainland, you will be allocated a delivery schedule based on your post code by our couriers, and the typical period for delivery of products by this method is listed on the ‘Delivery Options’ page of our website and is from a few days to two weeks generally; and
(b) if your delivery address is on one of the United Kingdom islands listed on the ‘Delivery Options’ page of our website, or elsewhere in ‘Area D’, you will be allocated a delivery schedule based on your post code by our couriers, and the typical period for delivery of products by this method is normally greater than three weeks and is listed on the ‘Delivery Options’ page of our website. Costs for deliveries in Area D will be notified to you either when you place your order on the website or if in the Islands by telephone or in writing, via email.
4.2 If you place your order before 4pm on a working day, these time periods run from the close of business on that day; if you place your order after 4pm on a working day, or on a non-working day, these time periods run from the close of business on the next following working day.
4.3 The delivery periods set out in this Section 4 are indicative only, and whilst we will make every effort to ensure that you receive your delivery in good time, we do not guarantee delivery before the end of the stated period. We do not cover any fitter or installer rates or charges if you have pre-booked your fitter or installer in advance of receiving your delivery from us. We also do not recommend booking fitting dates until you have received the goods from us, as deliveries can be delayed due to weather, break-downs, and for other reasons outside of our control because the delivery companies we use are external courier firms.
4.4 We may conduct fraud screening checks before dispatching the product, and these checks may delay your delivery. If the delivery is likely to be delayed as a result of fraud screening checks, we will notify you.
- Delivery charges
5.1 Delivery charges will be calculated by our website and automatically applied to your order during the checkout process, or alternatively quoted by us, especially if in ‘Area D’.
5.2 Applicable delivery charges will depend upon the location of the delivery address, and the amount of the products in your order.
- Delivery tracking
6.1 Delivery tracking is not available in respect of all orders for our products, unless we notify you otherwise. If concerned about a delivery, in the first instance please contact us via telephone or email.
- Receipt and signature
7.1 All deliveries must be received in person at the delivery address, and a signature must be provided by someone aged 18+.
7.2 Our delivery service provider will notify you in advance of attempting to make a delivery requiring signature. If you do not hear from the courier within 3 working days for any standard product items from the date we sent you your invoice or order confirmation, please call us in the first instance so that we can chase them on your behalf.
7.3 On receipt of any delivery the customer must write a total of items received in the ‘TOTAL ITEMS RECEIVED’ box on the delivery note. Trading Doors Ltd will refute any claims for shortages, wrongly delivered items, visible damage on items or edge damage on doors or frames at the point of delivery, where the customer has refused to sign the delivery note or has not written any pertinent information regarding any shortages, damage or wrongly delivered items onto the delivery note.
7.4 The customer must also mark on the signed for delivery note in the ‘Special Notes, Instructions and Customers Observations’ section any or all of the following occurrences:
(a) All door products must be checked for edge damage and if there is any damage it must be written onto the delivery note by the customer and a photograph of the damage taken. This should then be emailed to email@example.com with a covering note. The door should be returned on the original lorry / van if possible. A replacement will then be organised.
(b) All door, non-door (door furniture and timber products) or other products should be checked for quantity, correctness of design and colour and finally for any visible damage. If there are any issues, they must be written onto the delivery note by the customer and a photograph of the issues taken and emailed to firstname.lastname@example.org with a covering note. A collection will be arranged and a replacement sent as soon as it is available. If the item damaged is a door frame or a bespoke door and frame and they cannot be returned on the original lorry for whatever reason, a collection and replacement will be organised by Trading Doors Ltd.
- Post Delivery Checks
8.1 The customer must check all the doors and other items are correctly delivered, whether it be design, size, colour, finish or any combination of these and must also look for any face or edge damage or other shortages and do so within 72 hours of the delivery date. Do not open, adjust or hang any products until you are absolutely sure they are correctly delivered and free from any damage. Any discrepancies or claims for damage must be emailed to email@example.com within the 72 hour period.
8.2 Please ensure that you do not remove the goods out of their original packaging if the packaging is damaged or the product is incorrect on receipt of delivery. Take a photograph(s) and do not proceed to open the packaging. These are required to be emailed showing the damage or incorrect products to firstname.lastname@example.org.
8.3 Picking errors or the wrong goods being delivered must be notified in writing within 72 hours to email@example.com as in point 8.1.
8.4 If after any door or item is unpackaged there are any manufacturers defects noted, do not install the item but take photograph(s) of the damage or defect and email them to firstname.lastname@example.org with a covering note.
(a) It is the customers responsibility to ensure that any defective, incorrectly delivered or damaged goods are not installed or have not had any adjustments made to them if they need to be returned. We will not accept returns on doors or other goods with manufacturer defects or because they were incorrectly picked and delivered because they were installed or adjustments were made to them. The original packaging should be kept until the goods have been inspected in full by the customer. They should be neatly re-wrapped in their original packaging prior to any agreed collection.
(b) We will not accept natural wood grain colour or pattern variations within doors or frames as grounds for a manufacturing defect as wood is a natural product and variations are to be expected.
(c) Customers should refer to our full Terms & Conditions of Sale on our website where our Returns Policy and Manufacturers Guarantee section is available, to ensure that procedures for discrepancies and returns are followed diligently. Trading Doors Ltd will refute any claim not so followed.
- Additional deliveries
9.1 If an initial delivery attempt is unsuccessful, our delivery service provider will make at least 1 more attempt to deliver the products in your order and this will be charged at 100% of the original delivery charges, or if the delivery was to be free, at the charges that your order would originally have incurred had it not been a free delivery.
10.1 If your products remain uncollected despite our delivery service provider trying to collect them, no further collection may be possible. Please call us to discuss alternate arrangements to get the products back to us.
- Delivery problems
11.1 If you experience any problems with a delivery, please contact us using the contact details that we publish on our website or otherwise notify to you.
11.2 If our delivery service provider is unable to deliver your products, and such failure is your fault, we may agree to arrange for re-delivery of the products; however, we reserve the right to charge you for the actual costs of re-delivery (even where the initial delivery was free of charge), see 9.1.
11.3 An indicative list of the situations where a failure to deliver will be your fault is set out below:
(a) you provided the wrong address for delivery;
(b) there is a mistake in the address for delivery that was provided;
(c) the address for delivery is not reasonably accessible;
(d) the address for delivery cannot safely be accessed; or,
(e) if there is no person available at the address for delivery to accept delivery and provide a signature.
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“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.” ~Rabindranath Tagore
“A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.” ~Mahatma Gandhi
“Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don’t count on harvesting Golden Delicious.” ~Bill Meyer
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Where the loser saw barriers, the winner saw hurdles.” ~Robert Brault
“Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities – always see them, for they’re always there.” ~Norman Vincent Peale
“Whatever is expressed is impressed. Whatever you say to yourself, with emotion, generates thoughts, ideas and behaviors consistent with those words.” ~Brian Tracy
“The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.” ~Henry Ward Beecher
“My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.” ~Jack Layton
“If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.” ~Bruce Lee
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Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, reacting to the loss of its strongholds to Shi'ite Houthi fighters, has accused its opponents of acting as a proxy for the United States and thtreatened renewed violence against them.
In an audio message on websites, al AQAP's military commander Qassim al-Raymi called the Houthis "the new rented gun for the enemies of Islam".
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The Houthis' Ansarullah movement has become the main political force in Western-allied Yemen since it captured the capital Sanaa in September and then pushed into the Sunni Muslim heartland of al-Bayda province, where Ansar al-Sharia, the local AQAP affiliate, has allied itself with tribes.
Houthi fighters backed by government forces drove Ansar al-Sharia from one of its last strongholds in central Yemen last week.
Raymi's message - which Reuters could not immediately verify - signalled more violence between the Sunni militants and the Houthi fighters, whom AQAP view as heretics.
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He said that al-Bayda and Sanaa had been handed over to the Houthis under orders from the United States.
Separately, an AQAP official criticised the leader of the ISIL group and rejected his self-declared caliphate, the SITE monitoring service said.
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The Altar Boys attend monthly meetings, as well as participate in social activities both within and outside of our Parish.
Children of Mary
The Children of Mary is a program that encourages young girls ages 7 – 12+ to participate directly in the spiritual life of our Parish and provides religious and educational guidance with the Patronage of the Holy Mother of God.
The Children of Mary participate weekly in the Divine Liturgy. They also participate in special celebrations during the year. The girls attend meetings monthly at the Parish. Through the various activities the Children of Mary participate in, the girls make friends and this aspect of friendship is further promoted by participation in social and recreational activities that bring everyone together.
Sunday School is open to all children of our parish aged 4 – 7. Classes begin in September and run until the end of June.
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Symbolic idol of Lord Shiva).
Plebiscite demanded by the United Nations During the first war of India Pakistan which started in 1947 United Nations intervened and ordered ceasefire between the two countries.
Abul Fazal has also made a reference to this place.
Technically, the Pakistanis gifted China the territory.Those professing as priests and traders had their shops and establishments in the near vicinity of the Sharda Teerath.When Pandits refuse to perform the sacred thread ceremony of Shandilya the son of ascetic Vashishta, he (Shandilya) under instructions of his father, went to Kashmir, to offer his services to Goddess Sharda.Kashmir, in olden days, was a centre for education, pursuit of knowledge and studies of various sciences.The volume describes Kashmir as a Land from Sharda Complex to Saffron mountain Keshara Parbat kartenspiel bridge bilder extending upto 50 yojana.It is also said that members of British Mirpuri community send remittances here.If the pages of writings remained undisturbed, it was taken for granted that the works had the blessings of the Goddess.The construction inside the temple was very plain and unadorned.PoK coveres area of 13,297 square kilometres (5,134 sq mi having approximate population.6 million people.A fair is held here, on the eighth day of every month of the (Shukla Paksha) fortnight of the rising moon.
Kashmris are loosing their identity.
Though settled in South India over a long period, Bilhan has dedicated all his Literary works to Goddess Sharda.
This is what left the dispute unresolved.
An old styled, stringed musical Instrument called Veena is also addressed as Sharda.He aptly recollects the fair held at Shardi in the month of Bhadrapada (the sixth month according to Hindu Calendar) on the eighth day of Shukla Paksha.e.Prior to independence, Hindu Pandits were settled in great numbers, in the Northern areas of Kashmir.Sharda Peetham (Centre for Advanced studies).Apart from this tourism is also helps people tp earn their living.
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I do not have a lot of history reading Historical Fiction, based on Irish Immigration, nor their politics, that didn’t stop me from devouring this book though. It was really in a class of its own. Not to mention, the cover is outstanding. I am so appreciative that I was invited to review this book. | <urn:uuid:a20ec94c-ae0c-4ab5-8763-1b81b98154d8> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | http://thepagesinbetween.com/index.php/2019/03/25/book-review-of-the-parting-glass-by-gina-marie-guadagnino-atriabooks/ | 2019-07-20T08:22:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195526489.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20190720070937-20190720092937-00318.warc.gz | en | 0.986523 | 251 |
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
One of my good buddies from back home texted me (what a pretentious phrase) and informed me that one of our favorite restaurants of all time was burning. Yogi Bear Honey Fried Chicken was once a chain, but now the only remaining location is in my home town of Mayberry, that is Hartsville, SC. It is by far the best "chain" fried chicken you will ever put your lips around. KFC, hah, you have nothing on the king of Jellystone! I'm on my knees praying to the lord Jesus Christ that they repair and re-open. The place is packed constantly so they should! It would be a good time to update the place. I'll lend any free design tips they need. Keep your fingers crossed! BTW, if you are a Hanna Barbera fan and like to travel, you owe it to yourself to visit this nostalgic site! Get the Jellystone feast and an order of gizzards! You will be in heaven! Go Yogi! | <urn:uuid:090b4a66-88b1-4900-9d72-c4874c34bc5f> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | http://tracymarklee.blogspot.com/2007/08/ | 2019-07-20T07:30:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195526489.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20190720070937-20190720092937-00318.warc.gz | en | 0.955073 | 212 |
A book that will do you good.
One day at the library, I came across a book with a very peculiar title. It sat blithely among other classics, offering the golden opportunity of an intriguing and thought provoking read. A book - asking Death not to be proud - I presumed - had to be about intense, extreme and debilitating circumstances and raw emotions. What I didn't know and what I was stumped to find was that the book was about strength, and overcoming the seemingly impossible in the face of something terminal and fatal. Not narrated from a place of bereavement, pain, injustice but from a place of empowerment - this is especially poignant and shocking since its narrated by the father; that he chose to not cry himself hoarse about the injustice, tragedy and pain but keep calm in the face of a storm and elegantly chronicle Johnny's strength and courage and the battle that he lost but fought like a true champion - says a lot about his grit level.
Who wouldn't be drawn to a tale of not just surviving but triumphing, of not living in a place of darkness but light, of surpassing and transcending. A title that screamed - death did not win - was a book meant to be read. As I picked it up from the shelf and eyed the back cover with a certain curiosity and hunger, I knew this was a book I would cherish. And I wasn't disappointed.
Right at the onset, you learn that a brutal fate befalls a family when their seventeen year old only child is diagnosed with brain tumor. But, really, the sense of tragedy stops with those opening pages, and rest of the narrative is a poignant tale of the heroic choices Johnny makes.
To me, Johnny seemed an inexplicable phenomena; a mystery; an aberration. He seemed very Buddha like or as close a personification of Buddha as someone can be in such daunting, gut-wrenching, searingly heartbreaking situation. Frankly, how does one keep their cool in a life threatening situation that's perpetual and irrevocable? How do you accept that your own body has become your own worst enemy; that it's a hostile system that's killing you frighteningly fast? He did not obsess about the possibility of physical pain, did not wallow in pity or misery, did not let his mind go down the path that his body had chosen - that of self-annihilation. If his body was deteriorating, his mind was soaring to beatific heights on 9 out of 10 days.
Johnny adores science. One of his favorite things was to explore, learn and discover through chemistry experiments. He was curious and witty, shy and introverted, intelligent and discerning. Academia and science were his calling. This is pre-brain tumor. And post-brain tumor, nothing changes, he remains true to his calling. After being forced out of school for 15 months by this deadly disease that consumed his energy but not his spirit, he hires tutors, works incredibly long hard hours to catch up with his course work and to graduate with his class. Once he graduates, he takes the next big leap - he studies and takes the test for his dream school - Harvard. Johnny’s hospital excursions and his interactions with his army of doctors and nurses is a bag of humor, profound questions and observations, stoic adherence to protocols, and insightful and precocious conclusions.
Needless to say, his doctors and nurses are beyond dazzled by his intelligence and willpower; by how he beat the odds and lived longer and functioned like his usual brilliant self when afflicted with such deadly disease. The doctors had predicted bleak things for Johnny - his mind would be ravaged, he would be bedridden and in tremendous pain, and he would die very soon. In short, they wrote Johnny off and they were proved wrong. Its an enduring enigma as to why and how Johnny could retain his mental faculties until the day he died. His father thinks it might be the permutation and combination of various treatments that let Johnny retain his consciousness. His father ponders as to why a kid like Johnny, for whom the biggest asset and the most prized possession was brain, was chosen to suffer from brain tumor. Why did Johnny had to be terminal? Fervidly pursuing a multitude of treatments, praying, hoping, sleepless nights, and finally the inevitable void swallowing their child bit by bit - no words can describe what this must do to a parent.
I cannot recommend this book enough. It will have you gaping, stumped, incredulous and teary eyed. Its written beautifully and is a total page-turner.
The love for books & a hunger for stories was programmed into my DNA. And, sooner than later, life experiences sealed the deal. Books have saved me, transformed my life, enlightened me and have shown me the path I must walk. In a way, far too many books have played the role of kindred spirits and guides, leading the seeker in me to answers and paving a way for a new way of life. Books have helped me keep my wits, my sense of wonder, my sense of mystery and curiosity & my sanity in a life that has been anything but predictable and normal. | <urn:uuid:ef2629ae-40bd-4b84-bf6b-79bea76abbe0> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | http://www.chalkedeepika.com/books-reviews/archives/05-2015 | 2019-07-20T07:50:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195526489.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20190720070937-20190720092937-00318.warc.gz | en | 0.982446 | 1,061 |
When I first got things started with #elsuahackstwitter, the experiment where I decided to unfollow everyone on Twitter and instead move on to using, exclusively, Public Lists, I knew, right from the start, that I’d have a bit of a challenge in terms of not necessarily grouping people together, but what names would I pick up for each of those lists, so that a) they’d be rather representative and meaningful, and b) would not offend the people included in them (for whatever the reason). It wasn’t easy. It took me, eventually, a good few days to figure it out what I would go for in the long run. I knew I didn’t want to pick something vague, overhyped or just simply buzzwords du jour along the lines of gurus, ninjas, #SocBiz experts, influencers, future-of-work, digital-transformation, etc. etc. So I decided to look deeper, in retrospect, and try to define for myself the kinds of relationships I have built over the years with the people who I used to follow on Twitter and see how I would be able to group them accordingly. Finally, after a good few days of tinkering Collaborators, Cooperators and People I Learn From were born.
Ever since I was first exposed to Twitter Lists a good few years back, I knew they were going to be something rather special. It’s, by far, my favourite feature from Twitter from all along. An opportunity for the end-user to be, at long last, in full control of the flow of tweets going by, according to your own criteria in terms of people added to them, timelines (no longer a limit in there!), conversations, insights shared, etc. etc. vs. having to rely on the system to do it for you. I have been a huge fan of Lists. Currently, I have got 25 of them I, usually, check on a more or less regular basis. All along, though, most of them have always been, and still remain today, private, just for me. And for a good reason: I didn’t want to expose them, nor the folks grouped in each of them.
The whole thing changed though, when I decided to unfollow everyone on Twitter, and somehow I started to feel the urge of exposing, openly, where I usually spend my time on nowadays while tweeting away. Somehow I felt I needed to show the world a little bit of my Twitter world. The time of hiding is over and while the private lists are there I decided not to pay much attention to them anymore and instead focus on the public ones I created a few weeks back. Those new lists would become my new timeline(s) and, contrary to what was happening before, they are now exposed to everyone out there who may be interested, since they are publicly listed and people can subscribe to them, if they so wish to.
In a way, it’s some kind of brutal exercise around working out loud and openness, because, all of a sudden, everyone can now peek into my daily flows of tweets going back and forth and get a glimpse of what I’m exposed to, without having to even ask me, if they would want to. Yes, it’s both exciting and rather intriguing not knowing anymore what may well happen next, because one of the unexpected highlights from having run this experiment was that even though the lists are my lists some people have decided to subscribe to them as well. So, all of a sudden, I have transformed into a curator of connections, relationships, triangles to close, and good, relevant content on what matters to me. And share it with the world.
You may be wondering by now then why did I pick up those names for my main three public lists, right? Collaborators, Cooperators and People I Learn From. Well, initially, there is the reason of proximity, just like when I blogged back in the day how I work through Google Plus’ Circles with One50, Two50 and TheRest. However, that proximity nowadays is mostly down to how I view people I used to follow on Twitter in terms of working together or learning together. Long time ago I decided to stop following people just for the sake of following if it meant I didn’t learn anything in the first place. Life is just too short to have a cluttered timeline, I am afraid.
Working together, for me, can be seen in terms of two different types of interactions: collaboration and / or cooperation. My good friend, Harold Jarche, put together, just recently, as he has been blogging about this very same topic for a good while now, a new superb article explaining the main differences between one and the other. ‘Cooperation for the network era’ is a highly recommended read, for certain, as it will make you think twice about the kinds of business relationships, contacts and networks each and everyone of us has been nurturing over time. At the end of the day though, to me, it’s also all about commitment, what differentiates one from the other, that is.
When you collaborate (closely) with someone (or a group of people), there is a commitment to get something done in a timely manner, to get a deliverable out the door, finish off that task, activity or a project and move on the next one. The proximity and closeness is a notch tighter than when you cooperate with someone, which seems to be a lot less about commitment and more about sharing, connecting and learning. To quote Harold from that same article shared above:
‘Cooperation is a foundational behaviour for effectively working in networks, and it’s in networks where most of us, and our children, will be working. Cooperation presumes the freedom of individuals to join and participate.’
To then finish up with this other really nice quote that clearly differentiates what collaboration and cooperation are, and what they are not:
‘Cooperation is not the same as collaboration, though they are complementary. Teams, groups, and markets collaborate. Online social networks and communities of practice cooperate. Working cooperatively requires a different mindset than merely collaborating on a defined project.
Organizations need to extend the notion of work beyond collaboration, beyond teams, and beyond the corporate fire wall. They need to make social networks, communities of practice, and narrative part of the work’
Here’s something that Harold mentions on the last quote shared above that I think is rather interesting and pretty much nails it for me: ‘[…] they are complimentary […]’. Indeed, in the rather polarised world we currently live in, where it looks like we can only have a winner, a one single choice, a simple choice, yet, time and time again, reality tells us otherwise. Why can’t we have both? – I keep wondering about. Why can’t we have, in a work environment, where both collaboration and cooperation are working together nicely to achieve a certain goal, i.e. getting work done on their own terms (versus ruthlessly competing with one another)? What’s stopping us from doing that? The company firewall and bureaucratic business practices? A business and management system that haven’t changed much fundamentally in the last 150 years or perhaps even more so our very own mindset and behaviours and our inability to change even more so, if for the better?
This is, exactly, what I wanted to do in the first place when I put together these two Twitter Lists, to see if I could combine both collaboration, cooperation and mix them a bit to the point where they would become blurry and, eventually, perhaps a porous, intertwined duality. And then see what would happen next. As a result, and rather unexpectedly, I came up with a third one for another very specific activity altogether: learning. And this is how these public lists came along:
- Collaborators: The original description I used for this list was the following one: ’[Some] People I’ve collaborated with in the past, the present & hopefully in the near future as well’. Remember, this list was built up from the list of people I used to follow on Twitter, not the hundreds of people I have collaborated with over last couple of decades, and the criteria was essentially to figure out who would I be able to move over here and feel comfortable about it when talking about collaboration: some of the folks I have collaborated with in the past, or now in the present, or have the gut feeling I will be in the near future. That was the exercise to be done. How close did I feel to those folks in order to collaborate with them all, where needed and accordingly, in a heartbeat. It’s my primary list, the one I check every single day and read every single tweet from and the one where I progressively move people away on to from the other lists to keep it growing over time with folks I do committed work with.
- Cooperators: Again, reusing Harold’s definition for cooperation, this is the list of folks I cooperate with at times in different initiatives, and where the commitment may well be there some times, or not. This was the original description I used for it: ‘[Some] People I’ve cooperated with in the past, the present & hopefully in the near future as well’. Again, following pretty much the same flow as Collaborators, except that for this one the proximity is not as close as the one for collaborators. In a way, it’s like my second tier of interactions, the networks, the communities of practice, the weak ties that sooner or later I know I will eventually be doing work together with. It’s also the list I check and read every single tweet from daily as an opportunity to help build my social capital skills with them so I can provoke committed work with at some point in time. I’ll wait for when I feel things are ready.
- People I Learn From: While both Collaborators and Cooperators make my primary network of contacts and business relationships (and, of course, friendships!), all along I knew there would be a third one coming, one with people I keep learning from on a daily basis from our mutual tweet exchange and that, sooner or later, I know they will all end up being either in Collaborators or Cooperators. It’s the largest of all three lists and by a large margin. It’s also the one where most of my learning happens, although it doesn’t necessarily mean I don’t learn much from the other two. I still do, it’s just on a different level (i.e. I know them relatively well already…). The People I Learn From is essentially the list where I curate, nurture and foster relationships that I will then move on to one of the other two lists and become more involved with over the course of time. Mind you, I still get to read every single tweet that gets shared across. I use each and everyone of them as an opportunity to evaluate whether we are both ready to be moved up and, if so, make the move and carry on with the conversation on a higher level of involvement and intent.
And from there onwards, I rely entirely on the magic of serendipity, that always seems to know more and way better than yours truly, to do its thing and keep redefining each and everyone of those lists. Helping me as well shaping them up accordingly over time by constantly building a trustworthy personal learning network where not only will I be able to continue learning from in the multiple areas we are all really passionate about, but also work with, whether collaboratively or cooperatively, or both!
It’s all about building the commitment, the intent, the context, and the ability to transform our daily work routines into the networked economy, because, for as long as social networks, communities and teams exist out there, we are no longer talking about the future of work, but the present of work. The continuous today. The one we can all collectively influence each and every time, because, after all, it still is our choice.
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During a sprawling end-of-season interview with reporters last week, I asked Kings general manger Dean Lombardi about his team’s overtime problem.
Whether it was 4-on-4 during the regular season (when they went 1-4) or 5-on-5 during the playoffs (when they went 0-3), the Kings didn’t take kindly to the whole sudden-death thing. Of course in the regular season, there was always the promise of a shootout to bail them out; no team did better in the skills competition last season than the Kings (10-2).
But that didn’t mean much in the playoffs. As many observers feared, the regular-season trend continued and the Kings lost all three overtime games against the Sharks, costing them the series.
Is there something to that?
“You wonder that if you get to an overtime that that’s when now it swings more toward the offensive side of the equation,” Lombardi said. “It was said to me yesterday, actually … ‘defense wins games, but offense wins overtimes,’ is the way it was put to me. This hockey person is pretty sharp. He wasn’t sure on it, but if you think that, there might be something to that.” | <urn:uuid:89a505a8-f733-4109-a1b2-3b9d11e54731> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | http://www.insidesocal.com/kings/tag/san-jose-sharks/ | 2019-07-20T08:10:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195526489.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20190720070937-20190720092937-00318.warc.gz | en | 0.981354 | 273 |
THE BREWHOUSE IS A STYLISH, INTIMATE WEDDING VENUE WITH STUNNING VIEWS OVER ST.IVES HARBOUR & BAY.
PARK ON SITE AND ENJOY YOUR DAY WHILE YOUR GUESTS UNWIND ON OUR SUN TERRACE.
ENJOY BEERS BREWED AT OUR BREWERY BELOW THE BREWHOUSE.
The Brewhouse is the perfect location to hold your wedding in the heart of the idyllic seaside town of St Ives. Our modern and spacious room and sun terrace will offer panoramic views and a stylish venue to help create the memories of your perfect day.
Call us today to arrange a visit. Our friendly team are happy to show you around our venue and work with you to create the perfect package. Marco & Hayley are on hand to discuss your dream day.
(5.30PM THE DAY BEFORE – MIDNIGHT THE DAY OF WEDDING)
Prices below are for Saturday weddings. For any other day of the week apply 10% discount.
LOW SEASON – JAN, FEB, MAR, NOV, DEC £1200
MID SEASON – APR, MAY, OCT £1500
HIGH SEASON – JUNE, JULY, AUG, SEP £1600
Drinks packages are available or simply choose the cash bar option. A cash bar will be available through the day and evening offering a full bar selection, real ale brewed downstairs and draught lager.
Arrival drink (Prosecco or cocktail of your choice), half bottle of table wine and toast prosecco £22 per head.
For Children unlimited soft drinks £12 per head
Choice of real ales are available that are brewed on site here at the Brewhouse. To arrange a visit to try the beer please call in advance.
Food Packages are our speciality. We can offer an extensive range of menus to cater for your every need. Buffet style or seated we will adapt our menu to your taste and budget. To help us create something special for your day please give us a call to brief us on your needs.
Our bbq feast buffets are legendary. We source the finest meats, fish and vegetables to create a wedding breakfast for your guests to dine on. Our bespoke BBQ grill was designed to cater for large groups. We offer a selection of dishes to choose from along with a wide mix of salads and garnishes. Vegetarians & Vegans catered for with care and consideration.
We start the feast off with a cold platter served on sharing boards direct to the tables or served as canapés to your guests as they arrive. £30 pp
A seated Three course meal at the brewhouse can start from as little as £35 per head and consist of a choice of two starters, mains & desserts. Please call to discuss your options
ON SITE PARKING
Those of you familiar with St. Ives will know that parking is a hot topic. The Brewhouse has spaces for 8 cars and is situated next to the largest car park in St Ives(Trenwith Burrows). Arrive in style from the church or registry office and park your wedding vehicles on site directly outside the Brewhouse.
Our location is ideal for wedding photos overlooking the harbour. Make the most of our stunning setting by using our grounds to create some wonderful memories.
TEA AND COFFEE
All our staff are barrista trained and can offer an exceptional coffee to your guests. If you would like your guests to have coffee after your meal then this can be pre-paid at £2 per head.
DRESSING THE VENUE
Venue hire at the Brewhouse commences the day before your wedding at 5.30pm. This allows you plenty of time to make the space your own. We make every effort to create a blank canvas for you to work with. we also move our bins from the front entrance along with signs etc.
BEER BREWED ON SITE
The Brewhouse is located above St Ives Brewery where some of the finest beers in Cornwall are brewed. Take a tour on your wedding day or simply sample the fine ales fresh from the cask at your reception. To taste the beer before your wedding please ask Marco to show you what he has been brewing.
LIVE MUSIC & ENTERTAINMENT
The Brewhouse is licensed for live entertainment as well as recorder music. There is nothing like a band to really get the party started. Your band will arrive after your wedding breakfast and set up ready to kick start the evenings entertainment. We have a Sonos System for recorded music in between your bands two or three sets. Once the band has finished we will play some wedding favorites until the day draws to a close
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Bill of Responsibilities for Persons with Disabilities
Along with Civil Rights, Animal Rights, and every other group's rights, we of course include the rights of the persons with disabilities. What no one talks about is that we "earn" our rights by accepting responsibilities.
As children, we were taught that if we acted responsibly, we received freedoms. I submit that our "rights" would be far less in jeopardy if we accepted more responsibility for the rights we already enjoy.
Therefore, the following is a a Bill of Responsibilities for the persons with disabilities- to balance the Bill of Rights:
- The responsibility of understanding the details of your own disability and doing what's necessary to stay as healthy as possible.
- The responsibility of exploring our talents and educating ourselves to the fullest extent possible.
- The responsibility to others around us who have problems, especially those similar to our own.
- The responsibility of explaining to interested people the details of our disability. Many would like to know but are afraid to ask for fear of offending.
- The responsibility of being patient when terms like crippled, handicapped, or other personally offensive adjectives are used. Most people do not intend to demean. To educate instead of anger and hostile replies.
No one person will have a great impact on the attitudes of the public toward people with disabilities. However, each of us has a good chance of improving feelings towards us on an individual basis.
- Responsible social skills. Do we smile when people look our way, or is eye contact threatening? Do we responsibly seek the company of new people or do we confine our contacts to other persons of disabilities with whom we are more comfortable? Do we responsibly thank those who help us, or are they expected to be doormats? Do we responsibly seek answers to our problems approach?
- The responsibility of appearing neat and clean. That includes clean wheelchairs and adaptive equipment.
- At a seminar for people with multiple sclerosis, a corporate vice president of Blue Cross said, "After all the agony of your physical situation is considered, the most important part of your lives is interpersonal relationships."
Do we take responsibility of treating our relationships as most important? We are no different from everyone else. We love, forget, get angry, become frustrated, laugh, and have friends - but we do it with a disability.
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Core strength for runners
When we think of the important moving bits required for running, we think of the upper legs, the calves, the feet, maybe even the arms pumping back and forth. However, let’s not forget those muscles stuck in the middle from mid-torso to the top of the thigh. Here’s why every runner, no matter what their running type or distance, needs good core strength.
BETTER TRANSMISSION OF ENERGY
The muscles of the core help transmit energy from the legs through to the gluteal (butt) muscles, and transfer the power generated through the arms to propulsion through the legs. The “six-pack” muscles (rectus abdominis) are for show, not go, and are the least important core muscle for running. The muscles doing the grunt work are deeper, closer to the spine, and they allow the spine and hips to rotate so they help drive the back leg forward.
A STABLE BASE
A strong, stable core gives your legs a better base to push from, especially when sprinting or going uphill. It’s like pushing a car on bitumen while wearing shoes compared to trying to push a car on gravel while wearing thongs.
MAXIMISE ENERGY EFFICIENCY
Poor core strength can cause your upper body and hips can wobble about. This means your hamstrings have to work extra hard and the knees and muscles of the lower legs take a hammering as they try to control your torso rocking about. A strong core helps reduce this wasted movement and energy.
SAFER AND STRONGER GOING DOWNHILL
A strong core helps to dissipate and absorb the impact forces of running downhill, plus, it counters the forward momentum so that you’re less likely to fall on your face.
IMPROVE BALANCE ON TECHNICAL TERRAIN
Your core muscles help to stabilise your body in every direction and act quickly to counterbalance any twist or fall.
When the muscles in the hip and trunk work together, you don’t get as many injuries. Poor core strength can cause poor posture (e.g. slouching or stooping), which can contribute to soreness in the lower back, hips, shoulders, knees, and even the ankles. When the core muscles aren’t working enough, other muscles need to work harder to compensate. A good example is when weak core strength leads to ‘hip drop’, which is where one hips drops below the height of the other and places excessive pressure on the leg. This can cause issues such as Iliotibial band (ITB) syndrome, shin splints and lower back issues.
BETTER PERFORMANCE FOR LONGER
For endurance runners, good core strength helps prevent their form falling apart as fatigue sets in. Without core strength, you can be reduced to shuffling, slouching, and the upper body ‘wobble’, all of which puts stress on the hips, knees, shins, back, and even your ability to breathe efficiently.
Get a stronger core for running with…
ISOMETRIC CORE WORK
An exercise that works much of your core isometrically (the joint angle and muscle position doesn’t change – it’s a “hold”) will help you develop and hold good running posture. Try holding a light weight directly over your head with arms extended and walk, lung or squat.
PELVIC ROTATION AND HIP FLEXOR STRETCH
Many abdominal exercises shorten or contract the hip flexors, but running requires you to extend them. Try the ball/chair exercise. Stand on one leg with a chair or Fit Ball behind you and push the ball/chair back with the other foot. The ‘Superman’ also does the trick. Lie on your front with legs and arms fully extended, then try to raise legs arms and chest off the floor. For variation, raise one leg and the opposite arm, alternating sides.
Sit on the floor with feet flat and lean back slightly. Hold a small weight or ball with arms fully extended and twist to touch the floor level with each hip.
LATERAL CORE / GLUTE STABILITY
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Last summer my colleague/friend/co-conspirator/taco buddy Carissa started a new program at her neighborhood library (ok, not actually in the library, in a park near the library): A Wild Rumpus, based on AnjiPlay. The program was a hit (read more about it here), and this summer we are expanding the Wild Rumpus to a second park on the east side of town. I’ll be leading this program, and I’m really excited to see what happens in a completely different neighborhood as we strive to reach new kids and families.
Follow along here for the east side weekly report, and make sure to check out Carissa’s west side reports. Let the wild rumpus start!
For my last Little Makers of the summer we had a super simple and open ended program that led to LOTS of creativity!
Book: Perfect Square by Michael Hall
Project: Turn “perfect” origami squares into something fantastic using only your imagination and creativity, hands, scissors, and glue. Continue reading Little Makers: Perfect Square
This Little Makers is one I planned months ago to leave behind when I knew I was moving libraries but didn’t get a chance to do it myself until recently. Even though I had a small crowd, this one was a lot of fun.
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This month (aka, last month. I’m way behind) in Little Makers we talked about pendulums and knocked over towers with wrecking balls!
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This fall I’m revamping my evening programs and trying out a different time in the hopes of being able to reach a bigger audience. One of these programs is Family Fun Night, a monthly program with a different theme/activity each month for families and kids of all ages. First up, drive in movies! Each kid made their own cardboard box car (some with help from parents), and then we had popcorn while watching a few Disney short films on the big screen.
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This fall I am starting a new preschool program, Little Makers, once a month on Saturday mornings. All of our preschool-only programs have been during the week, so I wanted another option for parents who work and a chance to explore making and STEAM with the little ones. When I was planning the program, I borrowed a lot of ideas and inspiration from Carissa (seriously, she’s gonna think I’m getting creepy), and other art/stem preschool program rockstars (Kendra, Amy).
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Overview of Covenantology
Written by: Unknown Posted on: 05/13/2004
Titus 1:1-3 "Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness; In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began; But hath in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Savior"
Romans 9:1-5 "I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises; Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen."
Most Christians do not understand God's Covenants, nor do they seek out an understanding of them. This often causes problems in theological perspective. God promised eternal life to man prior to his creation, and from the beginning has revealed His Plan to man through a system of Covenants. You cannot properly interpret the Scripture without understanding the CONTEXT of the Scripture, and God's Covenants impact nearly every Scripture in the Bible. Thus, if you have a faulty knowledge of His Covenants, you could misinterpret Scripture because of this same lack of knowledge.
When we propose to study God's Covenants it immediately becomes evident that this is an immense study. In Genesis alone there are twenty-five references to God's Covenants, and the word "covenant" or "testament" is found 306 times in 285 Scriptures throughout the Bible. Though I have tried to give an overview on each of God's Covenants at this site, it must be remembered that this is only an overview. The complete study of the Covenants and Covenantology could literally take years, especially when you consider their ramification on the other Doctrines of Scripture. For instance, Christ sealed the New Covenant to Israel on the Cross with His own body and blood, but the Church became the recipient of the Covenant blessings of God because Israel refused to accept His offering and willed to stay under the Mosaic Covenant. Israel has not been cast off, though, and will one day come to God in one accord under the New Covenant.
The Covenants are, therefore, like pages in a book that reveal the successive stages in the unfolding of God's Messianic Grace through Christ. The Covenants will reach their culmination when Christ returns to earth to establish His Millennial Kingdom, which in turn will lead to the creation of a new Heaven and a new earth (see Romans 9-11). God is an intelligent Being, and intelligent Creator. Unlike the gods of evolution that teach things staggered into being, our God is a God of purpose who has an overall Plan of the Ages:
Ephesians 3:11 "According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord"
Acts 2:23 "Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain"
God created man knowing that He would fall under the Edenic Covenant, and the New Covenant was in His mind from eternity past. The Edenic Covenant was given, knowing that we would fall, to teach us that we had to rely solely on Him. God did not walk in the Garden one day and go "My goodness, Adam fell! What a surprise!". No, He knew that the fall was inevitable, this is why Christ was purposed prior to creation (eternal purpose and foreknowledge of God) to die for our sins. He was delivered to death by Judas, and God knew this before the creation of Adam. So what am I saying? The Covenants show how immense God is, and how in control He is of our everyday lives. He gave the Mosaic Covenant as a teaching tool, knowing full well that no one would be able to live up to its standards. He knew, in His immensity, that if He offered the New Covenant first we'd have to ignore it and try to work our way to Heaven anyway. So He gave the harsher Covenant first, the Mosaic Covenant, and allowed us to sin and fail for several thousand years. Once it was ingrained into the righteous that they couldn't make it to Heaven by their works, the children of God began to seek His face for an answer to this dilemma - and God offered it in the New Covenant. He offered it knowing that most of Israel was still not ready to accept, but He knew that the Gentiles would be responsive to the Gospel after Christ's death. Israel walked away from the Covenant, but the Gentiles embraced its saving elements and were formed into the Church of Christ. Israel will one day, after being sufficiently punished, walk back toward the Covenants and the New Covenant will still be waiting for them. On that day, that joyous day, all of Israel shall be saved and Jesus will sit on His Millennial throne.
Types Of Covenants
There are two types of Covenants found in the Scripture, the Covenants of Works and the Covenants of Grace. The Covenants of Works required that BOTH God and man do something in order for the Covenant to remain intact. The Edenic Covenant was purely of works. As long as man guarded the Garden and refrained from eating the forbidden fruit, he and his wife enjoyed an idyllic life free from sin. Once man broke the Covenant he was abruptly cast out of the Garden, and his life was filled with sin and sadness. The Covenants of Work required man to act as a PARTNER with God in order to keep it intact. However, the Covenants of Grace was an unconditional promise from God to man. In Covenants of Grace God maintained the Covenant whether man obeyed or not. God may have withheld the enjoyment of the promise from man while he was in disobedience, but never dissolved the Covenant. If you repent, it was still waiting for you. The Palestinian and Abrahamic Covenants are good illustrations. Israel was promised a seed (through Abraham) and a land of their own. Though Israel repeatedly disobeyed God, the Lord was faithful to the Abrahamic Covenant and raised Abraham's seed up to be a great nation. Though Israel was disobedient, they eventually possessed the land, though they had to repent to gain the land. The first generation of Israel died in the desert, but the second generation, more susceptible to God's Word, entered the land. Yet they only got some of the land, and once (under King David's rule) had all of the 300,000 square miles of land due them, though it was later lost due to disobedience. One day Israel will possess all of the land, when all of Israel repents. The Palestinian Covenant is still in force.
God Calls Israel
Zechariah 12:10-11 "And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn. In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon."
The only thing that stands between Israel attaining the Covenant promises is their acceptance of Jesus Christ as Savior. They must "look upon Me whom they have pierced", God in the flesh, Messiah, Jesus Christ and repent of their sins. They must reach toward the Covenant of Grace just as the Gentiles have, like starving men reach for food, or drowning men reach for a life preserver. In recent times many mislead denominations have attacked the Southern Baptists for "targeting the Jews with the Gospel message". "Let us live together in harmony, we all believe in the same God, leave Israel alone". What a pitiful statement which shows how little many Christians understand the Covenants of God and Grace. What a heretical statement in comparison to what Paul said:
Romans 9:3 "For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh"
Who was willing to be damned to eternal hell if only his fellow Israelites would come to Christ. God waits with long-suffering for His people to come to Christ, and any effort we can make to evangelize them to Jesus should be applauded, not discouraged. How many ministers will stand before Christ and give an account for ignoring the proclamation of salvation through Him to Israel? The ultimate Covenant, the Covenant of God's Grace demands that all come to Christ, recognizing their inability to get to Heaven on their own.
Jesus was betrayed by Judas, this action being predetermined by God's Covenant of Grace (Luke 22.22). Jesus walked the earth, ministering for three years within the will, the Covenant of God (John 6.38-39; Ephesians 3.11). The Father called "other sheep", the Church, to the fold of Christ because it suited His Covenants (John 10.16), but never ignored the original sheep, Israel. The Covenants of God ultimately lead to the promise of eternal life (Titus 1.2), a promise that God made before the foundation of the world (2 Timothy 1.9). To refuse to witness the Gospel as Paul witnessed the Gospel to the Jews because of "political correctness" or "religious unity" is the most heinous, unScriptural, Satanic doctrine known to man, and totally outside of God's Covenant Will. You can show no Scriptural justification for such errant thought, such humanistic thought. When I first heard it I clearly saw Satan's hand in it, and once you understand God's Covenants you will, too.
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Installing Windows Azure BizTalk Services Part II
With our Windows Azure BizTalk Service now running in the cloud, we need to setup our developing environment so that we can start deploying stuff to the Cloud!!
The prerequisites for installing the SDK is:
- Visual Studio 2012
- .NET Framework 3.5.1 (Features enabled)
- .NET Framework 4.5
Because WABS also have the ability to talk to on-premise systems (such as SQL Server), you should also install the folllowing:
- SQL Server 2012
Download Windows Azure Service Bus SDK
Go to the following URL and download the latest SDK.
The SDK contains the following:
- Tools.zip (BTMMigrationTool, TPMMigrationTool)
The Edi files contains all the X12 Schemas included with WABS (from version 204 to 503).
The BTMMigrationTool is used for migrating existing BizTalk Server maps to the new WABS maps (much more on mapping in a later blog).
The TPMMigrationTool is used for migration BizTalk Server Party/Agreement setups to the new WABS EDI setup (more about EDI in WABS in a later blog).
Choose the Setup exe version according to your OS (most likely x64), and extract it.
Install the SDK
- Once extracted, run WindowsAzureBizTalkServicesSetup.exe
- Accept and click Next
- Choose everyting and click Next and then Install.
After installing all the packages needed, we will now be asked to configure a Management Service for using the LOB Services used for communicating from our BizTalk Service to our on-premise systems (SQL, SAP, Oracle, Siebel -> using the BizTalk Server Adapter Pack).
Although we will not use this for now, we might as well configure it immediately.
- For the identity of the Application Pool used by the Management Service, choose Network Service.
- In the Configuration Store Database setup, specify our local SQL Server and click Next.
- Choose a Password for the master key used for encrypting sensitive data in the Configuration Store Database (note: if this is anything but a sandbox environment, you need to remember this password). Click Next
- Keep port 8080 and un check the use of SSL communication with your management service (unless this is production and you already have an existing SSL certificate on the server).
- Configure the Management Service, and our setup should now be complete.
With both our WABS running in the cloud and the SDK installed on our development environment, we are now ready to deploy our first solution to Azure!
First confirm that everything is installed correctly by opening Visual Studio 2012, and verifying that you are now able to create BizTalk Services projects:
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what is even going on here
just let it happen
because i asked today
i just wanna look at her
U N F F
the day of the aboot is coming
date what is vsauce planning?
@everyone If you don't listen to This Hour Has 88 Minutes, you are a cuck. https://radio.therightstuff.biz/2017/03/13/this-hour-has-88-minutes-episode-33-do-you-even-leaf/
he wants to build the first gas chambers to extinguish jews
Smash dat angry react for slug
@SLUG2_ am i still a cuck if i only put it on before bed to make me comfy
but i dont care about canada politics ;_;
B A E!
anyone remember that RT video of the female cadet field stripping an ak?
she takes forever compared to the male cadet next to her lol
thats a text between me and a man
Damn this place moves fast
that wasnt polish girl?
what a sham
i'm gonna hit the grocery store, i expect many missed messages while im gone hahah
how is Polish Girl on the SQ
shes shorter than me, im roughly 5 9
id ask but thatd be random and weird
So she's like 58
or is it like 5'2
how much shorter
not 5 8
KEVIN OWENS IS A GOD
im bad at judging height
but shes a short qt
convo confirmed for 5'8 manlet seppo
but I like girls to wear heels
nice try seppo
guys i went to a bar today but i didnt drink because im not a sinner
also i was the DD
she is NOT jewish i confirmed this earlier
Shes from Middle Earth but
thats near israel right
Tay Swift > Lorde
i dont like blonde girls much
Are you even white?
yeah but rumors are that im not
im not blonde myself so i dont want to taint the gene pool
aryan men should be with aryan women
Now that is principle. Still better you than a groid.
There's nothing wrong with brown hair
some have been tainted by the moors tho
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fuck age of empires for this meme
alright going to bed. Later.
stop being a fag
>tfw no daughter
get a qt waifu m8
tfw moortuguese instead of polish
its not that hard
hey convo, im closer to being a pole than you, ya fuckin seppo cunt
what a lovely name
>tfw no cold climate 2 live in
its freezing here m8
aussies have always taken things to another level
I'm one of those guys. I think Jews were gassed
i wish jews were gassed
with all that gefilte fish they were technically gassed
If Queen Elizabeth is so rich why does she get the exact same haircut as every old lady in a retirement home
you need one of these to make the holocaust real
I did extensive holo hoax research and found more evidence for the holocaust and gas chambers than I did of it not happening
sometimes i want to think wyatt knows what hes talking about
then i realize how dumb that is
@wyatt ok, if you believe that you have to come up with a more suitable gassing agent for the alleged use case
wyatt how can you burn 1000 bodies a day with 1940s era technology?
because zyklon b ain't vaporizing in polish winters
explodes at 4% content
they cant even do that today
tbh does it matter, they should have been gassed if not
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Please Wyatt tell us how to gas these kikes.
You right i see
explains it well
please watch it
and stop being dumb
Not really. If you look at the blueprints of the gas chambers it has a negative pressure ventilation system. Specifically designed to have the exit vents at the bottom of the room
That is the same ventilation design of modern gas chambers
wouldn't starvation/cold exposure be much more plausible?
That's a dumb convo autism meme.
he gas van was invented in the Soviet Union in 1936, by Isay Berg, the head of the administrative and economic department of the NKVD of Moscow Oblast which suffocated batches of prisoners with engine fumes in a camouflaged bread van while on the drive out to the mass graves at Butovo, where the prisoners were subsequently buried. According to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,
I. D. Berg was ordered to carry out the decisions of the NKVD troika of Moscow Oblast, and Berg was decently carrying out this assignment: he was driving people to the executions by shooting. But, when in Moscow Oblast there came to be three troikas having their sessions simultaneously, the executioners could not cope with the load. They hit upon a solution: to strip the victims naked, to tie them up, plug their mouths and throw them into a closed truck, disguised from the outside as a bread van. During transportation the fuel gases went into the truck, and when delivered to the farthest [execution] ditch the arrestees were already dead." Note: Berg denied that he was the inventor of the gas van.
The room would have to be a vacuume chamber of sorts
especially whn we know the supply lines were being bombed?
And all the bodies look like the famine victims in rawanda.
did the math
no its not
Listen it's not an argument that Jews were being murdered in large numbers. It not a secret the ss was mad as fuck because their deathsquads couldn't deal with it. The numbers of the holocaust are wrong. I think gas chambers existed but only were used much more sparingly when laborers couldn't work anymore
not buoyat in air
wyatt was right
why do they have chimneys in gas chambers then
@YUGE I havent looked at all there is to look at, but im of the same opinion
I thought it'd be buoyant
It's heavier than air
the gas chambers weren't heated
Like I said
I'm typing from an iPad right now
So I can't go really in depth
should have got a bluetooth keyboard
Who owns an ipad lmao
NEETs like wyatt
Hot water convo
not all neets have wealthy parents tho
That's how it works
They put it in water
How else do NEETs get their NEETbux
The design the nazis came up with works. But it's not Jewish horror story efficient
Likely they killed weak laborers and kids
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Symptoms of Social Anxiety Disorder
by Michael Jubinville, MPH
Social anxiety disorder (SAD) symptoms differ from person to person. Some may have only a few, while others have many.
People with SAD may stay away from social settings or public places because they fear:
In social events people may have:
These symptoms can make fears worse. This can lead to panic attacks. Over time, the person may stay away from areas where a panic attack happened.
Social anxiety disorder. EBSCO DynaMed Plus website. http://www.dynamed.... Updated September 21, 2018. Accessed February 27, 2019.
Social anxiety disorder: More than just shyness. National Institute of Mental Health website. Available at: https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/social-anxiety-disorder-more-than-just-shyness/index.shtml. Accessed February 27, 2019.
Social phobia. Merck Manual Professional Version website. Available at: https://www.merckmanuals.com/professional/psychiatric-disorders/anxiety-and-stressor-related-disorders/social-phobia. Updated July 2018. Accessed February 27, 2019.
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Mother Jones recently featured an article discussing abortion in the modern era. We are living in a very progressive time. That’s right, our phones are now super computers, cars are driving themselves, and abortion doctors are seeing patients via teleconferencing.
The author of the Mother Jones piece attempts to make the case for “remote abortions.” She explains how it is difficult for those that make their home in rural areas to find an abortion clinic. These women are forced to drive hours to see a doctor that will prescribe them the proper pills to induce a medical abortion.
The solution to this tedious drive, in their estimation, is telemedicine. Why drive to see a doctor when one can simply turn on their computer or smartphone and receive a consultation. Why spend the money on gas or invest the time into scheduling an in-person meeting when the internet is at our disposal? I believe these are legitimate questions to ask and contemplate as we enter into modern medicine, and a time where technology affords us a vast array of opportunities.
I do not dismiss the importance of advancing medicine and seeking out ways to better serve a population in need. I grew up in rural America. I understand the difficulty in finding proper care and services on a number of fronts, and I applaud the technological progress that now allows rural America to have the world at its fingertips via the internet.
I would caution us though as we seek to continue our chase for fast and easy access. What harm are we bringing? Is our desire to have every service at our fingertips forcing us to neglect the lives being altered through some of these services?
A recent study performed over a seven year period by the University of California-San Francisco analyzed over 19,000 abortions provided by Iowa Planned Parenthood clinics. Almost 9,000 of these medical abortions (abortion by pill) were performed via telemedicine. The study found that there were virtually no difference, in terms of complications, between patients that saw a doctor via telemedicine or in-person. The researchers concluded that “adverse events are rare with medical abortion, and telemedicine provision is non-inferior to in-person provision with regard to clinically significant adverse events.”
So, case closed right? Should we now implement telemedicine across the country to make abortion more accessible? Of course not!
I can hear the arguments now…Abortion is legal! We need easier access! It should also be free! These arguments neglect the lasting damage abortion has in our country. These arguments neglect that, out of the 19,000 abortions studied over that seven year period in Iowa, all 19,000 heartbeats that were present in the womb before the pills were taken were ceased and silenced after the pills were ingested. That is 19,000 lives lost in Iowa clinics alone. Out of that 19,000 almost 9,000 women were required and expected to go through their abortion alone without seeing a doctor in person as they received their care via telemedicine.
Is this what progress looks like? Have we entered a time in society where we refuse to see or admit that progress drives us before heartbeats and humanity do?
I love looking forward and being progressive in our line of work. I pray that everyone working in the life-movement would feel that way, but I hope my desire for progress never usurps my desire to love and serve people.
There is no doubt that we are in the modern era of medicine. We have access now that past generations wouldn’t have even read about in their Sci-Fi novels. I pray, though, that this access doesn’t make us greedy. Pregnant women need to be cared for properly. This proper care should be available for all women regardless of their choice to parent, adopt, or terminate. They each need our love and care.
Abortion ends one life while drastically altering the lives of those that make that choice. This should never be taken lightly regardless of what side of the political fence you may find yourself. Making access easier may make our political heartbeats flutter, but easier access also makes actual heartbeats stop.
I anticipate this conversation continuing for years to come. We will hear from well-meaning people on both sides of the issue debating what progress should look like. I hope to be a part of that conversation and I pray that our debates would choose to recognize humanity and the people actually affected by the issues we care so deeply about. Shame on us if we ever see young women that are facing unplanned or even unwanted pregnancies as pawns in our game of political chess.
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To any budding writers out there, I thoroughly recommend Steven King’s book, “On Writing”. It is partly anecdotal, and relates the interesting story of how he rose from a struggling writer, earning barely enough to put food on the table, to one of the most successful writers of our age. It is an inspiring story, by any standards.
In the second half of his book, he gets down to the ‘nitty-gritty’ of writing and it is packed with excellent tips and advice.
One of his ‘messages’, which I was intrigued to read, was that generally speaking, creative writing schools are a waste of time and achieve nothing. This was a comfort to me, as I have always had grave doubts about their value. I have always felt you either ‘have it’ or you haven’t, and no amount of writing schools or creative writing lectures is going to change a hack writer into a great writer.
However, King provides a large list of tips; for example, when to use passive verbs and always use direct dialogue rather than reported dialogue etc. These and many other items of advice are invaluable to authors who wish to improve their writing and to make their novels more appealing to the reading public.
I was quite chuffed to note that I was already applying many of his ‘tips’ to my own writing and I was particularly pleased to read that by far and away his strongest recommendation to all aspiring writers is to read, read and read. This is something I still don’t do enough of, but nevertheless I have probably read more than most in my life. In my younger days I was a prolific reader.
He maintains that the best way to improve your writing skills is to read books by successful authors. This includes the classics as well as notable authors from the 20th and 21st Century.
King provides an eclectic list of books and authors from all over the world which he has been reading in recent years. The list includes acknowledged literary greats as well as popular books which are not particularly noted for their literary merit but were nevertheless extremely successful. (e.g. the Harry Potter series).
I was also delighted to see that King’s long list also included a number of my own favourite authors, which seems to confirm that I am on the right path.
One of King’s recommended readings is ‘Lolita’, by the Russian author, Vladimir Nabokov. The book was originally published in Paris in 1955, in New York in 1958 and finally in London in 1959.
The novel caused sensational headlines when it was first published, which is why it took 4 years before a publisher in England dared to take it on.
Yet Lolita, the story of a 38-year-old literary professor who is obsessed with a 12 year old girl with whom he becomes sexually involved, is now acknowledged as one of the finest books written in the 20th century. (Time magazine’s lists Lolita in it’s 100 best English language novels, and the novel is high in many notable lists of best novels of the 20th Century.)
Believe it or not, Lolita contains less overt sexual content than even my own book, Azzy, which by no stretch of the imagination is a hard-core sex book, and also doesn’t contain any explicit sex.
To those who have not read Lolita, let me assure that the author, who writes in the first person, never glorifies his deviant desires. From the start he admits he is wrong and deserves to be punished.
The book is beautifully written to an exceptionally high literary standard and the poetic majesty of the descriptive text is in a class by itself. This book contains some of the finest prose I have ever read – by any author, bar none.
The book is also full of clever, ironic humour and populated with finely drawn characters and places and events that come alive and ‘jump off the pages’ at you.
His endearing descriptions of ‘small town USA’ in the late 1940’s – during his lengthy trips around the country with his ‘step daughter’, Lolita – are a positive feast of fascinating information. (like hotel lobbies with spitoons…). This is especially so for those who may be interested in reading about a USA that existed before the advent of modern technology, and multi-lane expressways.
The lush, almost Dickensian descriptive text may be a little over-done for the modern-day reader, but for those not in a rush, it is something to be savoured.
Indeed, in my own novels, I try to keep the descriptive text as short as possible. I understand that modern day readers often have short attention spans.; they just want to know what happens next, not a five-paragraph description of a house or a person.
The most remarkable thing about Lolita is the author.
Vladimir Nabokov’s first language was Russian, not English. He was born and raised in Russia, in a home where three languages were spoken: Russian, English and French. He grew up to be a master of all three. In fact, although he wrote Lolita in English, he later translated the novel into into French and Russian for readers from those countries.
Russian was Nabokov’s preferred language, and before Lolita was written, he had already risen to international prominence from the publication of his first nine novels, which were all written in the Russian language. Yet the linguistic dexterity he displays in the pages of Lolita – with his irony, plays on words and incredibly rich vocabulary is quite astonishing.
Nabokov was a prolific writer and wrote dozens of novels and short stories in Russian and English, and a number of poetry collections in Russian. He translated notable works from Russian to English, English to Russia and French to Russian.
He also wrote more than 20 non-fiction works on a wide variety of subjects in Russian and English.
On top of all this, throughout his life he was a noted lepidopterist, and published a collected works on butterflies.
Clearly a genius…
After I finished the book, I watched the 1997 film version of Lolita, directed by Adrian Lynne and starring Jeremy Irons and Dominique Swain. It is a well-made film and faithfully follows the book in pretty much all respects, but omits some of the events described in the book due to time restraints.
Irons is a believable seducer, ‘Humbert Humbert’, and he captures the essence of a man lusting after ‘forbidden fruit’. Swain is excellent as the promiscuous and provocative ‘Lolita’ – depicted as a 14-year-old in the movie, rather than a 12-year-old, as in the book.
Neither the book, nor the film in any way glorifies nor condones the act of sex with underage girls. Nor does it make any excuses for the protagonist’s illicit desires and actions. It does however seek to understand what motivated him, how he came to be the way he was and why did he go to such lengths and take such risks to satisfy his urges.
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Is it me, or has the general quality of videos improved this year? This effort from Father John Misty certainly has a lot of effort put in, some great SFX, lovely art deco architecture and complements the song perfectly. It was also Andy’s choice yesterday, so is, I think our second overlap. This will not be the only song in my 2018 list to reference hotels, but more of that later. Father John Misty is someone who has flittered around the outskirts of my listening, although he did feature at #17 in Andy’s 2015 choices, which may be the first time I came across him. This track however – Mr Tillman – intrigued from the first time I heard it and got a lot of airplay on 6Music earlier this year…
My next choice is by Hen Ogledd; which in Welsh means ‘Old North’ – a kingdom roughly equivalent to a region covering southern Scotland and northern England, prior to the Middle Ages.The band was initially a partially improvisatory vehicle for experimental music made by Geordie folkist, Richard Dawson and Welsh harpist Rhodri Davies. They’ve added a couple of members and decided to see if they can make a ‘pop’ record – albeit a warped, psychedelic post-punk kind of pop. This is their Super Furries meets solo Peter Gabriel lead off track from their album ‘Mogic’. I first heard this when Welsh national treasure, Huw Stephens, sat in Steve Lamacq’s show – the thought he was playing this on his Radio 1 show is very satisfying. #11 ‘Problem Child’ by Hen Ogledd.
My number 11 choice is not to everyone on the contributors taste, but this is a democracy (allegedly!), so I’ll press on regardless. FF have been around since the early 2000s but this is their first album in five years, with a different line-up. I saw them play an energetic set in Cambridge back in February, whilst promoting their “Always Ascending” album. This wasn’t a single but is probably my favourite track from it, so no official video, and hence the slightly-dodgy mobile live clip. I love the way it changes at the end with the “at the over 30’s singles night – it’s bleak, it’s bleak!!” Still makes me chuckle every time I hear it. Nice 80’s synths too!
A couple of major presentations and various client functions are the reason for the correspondence gap. The relative modest commentary on the next few entries doesn’t diminish the the enthusiasm for the next couple of tracks, nor the general thought that readers would do well to dig deeper into the related discographies. First up is an all girl punk band that Roy flagged as part of the new wave of punk bands in response to Richard’s selection of Idles at #12. To give you some sense of the band’s sensibility, the album’s 20 tracks come in at a total run time of about 40 minutes sensibility. I really wanted to name check all female bands like The Slits or Beth Ditto (and there are elements of these along with classic grunge like a female Nirvana) , but Goat Girl’s album is remarkably diverse with tunes like the near Celtic folk of “Viper Fish” and the spoken work & discordant piano of “A Swamp Dog’s Tale” and the Moriarty like “Cracker Drool”. But the track I keep coming back to, and my number 11, is “The Man”. | <urn:uuid:608414d5-e6eb-4324-b81d-d3c7dfc22373> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://richardmlive.wordpress.com/2018/12/11/top-tracks-of-2018-11-father-john-misty/ | 2019-07-20T07:52:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195526489.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20190720070937-20190720092937-00318.warc.gz | en | 0.955553 | 765 |
A Montana man always protects the woman he loves.
He discovered her during a Montana blizzard, freezing cold, impossibly vulnerable, a little boy by her side. Undercover DEA Agent Beck “Trigger” Cooke is astonished to recognize Ashley Swan—award-winning actress, famous beauty—and missing for over a year. To keep her and the child hidden from a sadistic madman, he secrets the pair away to his isolated home.
No longer a prisoner, and protected at Hope Ranch, Ashley recovers and learns the tall, tempting federal agent may have a dark past, but it hasn’t destroyed his sense of honor.
As they shed past roles and find common ground, Ashley and Trigger can’t help but fall slowly, carefully, in love. But danger still lurks outside the boundaries of Hope Ranch, for until her crazed captor is brought to justice, and Trigger’s undercover past is laid to rest, none of them will ever be truly safe…
About the Book
Escape To You
by Jennifer Ryan
August 29, 2017
About Jennifer Ryan
Jennifer Ryan is the New York Times & USA Today bestselling author of The Hunted, McBride, and Montana Men series. She writes suspenseful contemporary romances with outrageous plot twists, deeply emotional love stories, high stakes and higher drama. Her stories are filled with love, family, friendship, and the happily-ever-after we all hope to find. Jennifer lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and three children. When she finally leaves those fictional worlds, you’ll find her in the garden, playing in the dirt and daydreaming about people who live only in her head, until she puts them on paper. | <urn:uuid:9f2853c8-994b-4c17-aa9f-a2537c3c4278> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://romancebookworm.com/2017/09/12/blog-tour-escape-to-you-by-jennifer-ryan-puretextualitypr-2/ | 2019-07-20T07:40:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195526489.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20190720070937-20190720092937-00318.warc.gz | en | 0.929148 | 357 |
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In celebration of the launch of Kate Joynes-Burgess new book I asked her to do the honors of the first tacogirl Top Ten List for 2011. Big shout it to Kate who will be celebrating at her London Book launch tomorrow for Belize a Great Destination explorers guide.
The Party will be held at Senate House, Malet Street, London where they will be toasting with Caribbean rum cocktails – the high commissioner, Kamela Palma is confirmed to attend.
While looking at Kate’s photo albums I came across one called Belize top 10 – of course that is what sparked the idea to have her ring in the new years first tacogirl top ten list. I always enjoy looking at other peoples Belize photo’s as it gives a great perspective on the beauty here. Kate has captured the feeling in her wonderful images from different areas of Belize.
Kate’s Introduction – Looking back over these photographs, taken to illustrate my new book – Belize: A Great Destination, fills my mind with so many special memories. I think this selection gives a flavour of the diversity of Belize and its wealth of natural beauty. I’d love to put together another top ten gallery showcasing the people of Belize. Their eclectic culture makes this nation even greater than the sum of its parts – Kate Joynes-Burgess – Photographer and Author of Belize A Great Destination by Countryman Press.
Dangriga doesn’t feature highly on the tourist trail. It’s dusty and a little ramshackle with its aged clapboard buildings but it’s absolutely crammed with character. If you want to experience real Garifuna and Belizean culture then make a beeline here, especially at festival time. It’s my favourite place to spend 19 November celebrations for Garifuna Settlement Day. For some reason, the sunsets are always sensational.
For me, this picture sums up Tobacco Caye. It’s a bit of a hippy hang-out for socialising, snorkeling, scuba and watching the sun go down over the Caribbean. Belikin in hand, of course. It’s cheap to get to and you can tuck into down home food from guesthouse to guesthouse. Stay in colourful clapboard cabanas, some on stilts over the water, or pitch a tent on the sand. What a low-fi adventure.
The intensity of these colours really makes my heart sing. They take me back to Cayo District. I love getting up early to go wildlife watching in the Mountain Pine Ridge Reserve and Chiquibul Forest. Birding guides in Belize are among the best in the world. You’ll find some exemplary ornithologists at Hidden Valley Inn, DuPlooy’s, Crystal Paradise and Ka’ana.
Traditional clapboard buildings teeter on stilts, trying to escape inevitable floodwaters, while blithely ignoring the risk of hurricanes. They’re part of the Belizean landscape and I love them for their characteristic Caribbean colours. Exterior walls in hot pink, zesty orange and yellow, intense turquoise and electric blue, are set against russet red-or simply rusty-corrugated iron roofs. Relentless rays and heavy rains peel away paintwork, allowing blanched planks to peep through.
Paddle power is the only way to explore Barton Creek Cave’s geological and archaeological riches. It’s a hauntingly beautiful experience-especially if you manage to escape the crowds. Belize’s original means of transport provides a popular pastime for locals and visitors alike. Regular canoe races are imprinted on the Belizean calendar. The Ruta Maya River Challenge-covering 175 miles from San Ignacio to Belize City-is the most important, taking place every March.
Crooked Tree is a peaceful, friendly place to spend a few days-or even a week of quiet reflection-canoeing on the lagoon, sampling cashew wine, and eating your fill of home-cooked fare from local lodges to famous fry chicken at Carrie’s Kitchen. One of the oldest settlements in Belize, Crooked Tree was founded by English and Scottish logwood cutters in the early 1800s. The knarled trees they came to harvest still line the swampy edges of its waterways.
Short of time but still want to tick off a Mayan ruin? Altun Ha is a compact archaeological site-with carefully reconstructed, iconic pyramids-just 31 miles north of Belize City. Altun Ha has given rise to more than one Belizean icon. Here archaeologists unearthed the largest, most exquisite, jade sculpture found anywhere in the Mayan world. The Jade Head-adorning every Belizean banknote-depicts the Sun God Kinich Ahau. It was hidden inside the pyramid that inspired the logo for Belikin beer.
St George’s Caye has earned its place in Belizean history. For 100 years it was the seat of government. Later a short conflict staged here gave Belize its foundational myth. These days the island is the preferred weekend bolthole for elite business people. Without Belizean friends in high places, there’s only one place to stay on the caye. Thankfully, I found the only resort-St George’s Caye Lodge-rather lovely. It strikes an elusive balance between informal Caribbean style and excellent service.
Some creatures are undeniably endearing. Red-footed boobies-like puffins and penguins-are firmly in that category. Perhaps it’s their wide-eyed innocence or their comical little waddle. But something about them taps into our childlike sense of wonder. Whatever it is, I love it and I love Half Moon Caye. It’s not only a site of serious research. It’s a manifest ode to the booby. Climb up the observation tower and see for yourself.
Those speeding through Belize City require a powerful pair of rose-tinted spectacles to recognise its beauty. This mini metropolis has been through a lot. Hurricanes and hellish infernos have decimated its erstwhile architectural elegance but I still have a soft spot for this defiant place. The House of Culture shines out among Belize’s best preserved colonial mansions. Across the street, St John’s Cathedral is the oldest edifice from that era. The Swing Bridge and the Supreme Court still stand proud. | <urn:uuid:8891d57f-d13d-44a7-ad20-882eee01f675> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://tacogirl.com/belize-top-ten-list/ | 2019-07-20T08:29:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195526489.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20190720070937-20190720092937-00318.warc.gz | en | 0.913761 | 1,363 |
Meet Tinyclues, a French startup that is working with big e-commerce websites to make their marketing campaigns more effective. Chances are you’ve received emails that tell you what product you should buy based on your latest purchase. Tinyclues goes a step further and wants to improve buying rates from these kind of marketing campaigns.
Here’s how Tinyclues works. After setting it up with your database of products and clients, the company’s servers will gather as much data as possible — purchase history, client information, navigation tracking, etc. Thanks to machine-learning from similar customers and big data analysis, Tinyclues can make educated suggestions for future purchases.
It works for email newsletters, mobile notifications and Facebook campaigns. And it seems to be working as the company claims 30 percent more revenue from these campaigns when you use Tinyclues compared to competitors.
Some of the biggest French e-commerce websites are using it, such as Fnac, 3Suisses, Vestiaire Collective, Price Minister, Sarenza and more. Now, the company plans on convincing international e-commerce websites as well thanks to today’s funding round.
There are a few key reasons why I think Tinyclues might have the edge on this tiny market. First, all the recommendations are automatic. You don’t need to manually find related products and dig through your product database — Tinyclues will make suggestions without any manual input.
Second, it uses a software-as-a-service approach, letting any e-commerce retailer try the service for a small subset of the site without much effort. It’s just a matter of plugging your existing website with the company’s servers.
Third, it seems like an interesting market for the startup. Tinyclues is basically increasing revenue for all these e-commerce retailers. It’s an easy sell when your value proposition is that your clients will make more money once they switch to Tinyclues.
It’s also all about keeping up with the right e-commerce service providers, CRMs and marketing tools so that Tinyclues becomes just another brick to make its clients’ existing workflow more efficient. Now let’s just hope you won’t ever received a dumb product suggestion again from your favorite e-commerce website. | <urn:uuid:c4b40101-e6b4-497c-9cc7-f2cd3b47a8d7> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://techcrunch.com/2015/12/10/tinyclues-improves-targeted-emails-from-your-favorite-e-commerce-retailers/ | 2019-07-20T08:14:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195526489.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20190720070937-20190720092937-00318.warc.gz | en | 0.937009 | 482 |
Cof·fee cake noun \ˈkȯ-fē kāk\1. A class of cakes eaten alongside coffee for breakfast, during a coffee break or offered to guests as a gesture of hospitality on or around a coffee table. A coffee cake does not necessarily contain coffee. 2. Coffee cakes are typically single layer cakes that may be square, rectangular or ring shaped; flavoured with spices, nuts, fruits and seeds. 3. Coffee cakes sometimes have a crumbly or crumb topping called streusel and/or a light glaze made of icing sugar.
Coffee cakes are fashionably back!
Pass around a streusel-topped coffee cake and delight in your guests bewilderment – what, no coffee in coffee cake? – and bring it home.
The Midnight Baker’s coffee cakes are made from fresh/dried fruits and nuts, with no artificial flavourings. My homemade unsweetened applesauce is made fresh on the day of cake baking, and I replace portions of the unsalted continental butter content with this (if you prefer, you can also request for a heart-healthier margarine that I use in my baking). Kindly note that healthier bakes like the ones I do with wheat germ, and zucchinis or carrots tend to have a heavier crumb than the cakes you may be used to, but are still as tasty!
It’s all good.
Choose delectable delights from:
Orange + Almond
Made from whole oranges and almond meal, this naturally fragrant cake makes you feel that you have an entire orange orchard in one bite.
Fresh Lime + Coconut Milk
Apple + Walnut
Rustic in its appeal, nutmeg enhances the sweet-tart flavours of grated Granny Smith apples and walnuts add a lovely crunch. Think Waldorf salad in a wholesome slice!
Now how do you top that (pun intended)?
Do try my streusel topping (cinnamon streusel, nut streusel, or cinnamon oatmeal streusel) or if simplicity is your middle name, then a glacé drizzle will do just fine.
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The feasibility study of the Reversible Station of Lagoa das Furnas for Electricity of Açores consisted of two phases.
Phase 1 – Dimensioning of the installations and analysis of their functioning according to curves of energy demand in 2014 in the Island of São Miguel.
Phase 2 – Definition of the functioning of the installation and its consequences for the hydraulic circuit of this operation regime. Preliminary Study of the building of the Station and upper reservoir with a capacity of 100 000 m3 and cost estimate of the work.
Equipment of the Station:
- Hydroelectrical Station of 11,4 MW of power, with Pelton turbines with a response capacity to charge variations of about 8 MW/min.
- Maximum Energy produced by cycle of 50 MW.
- 5 Motor-Pump groups (4+1 of reserve) for 3,87 m3/s and a pumping height of 247 m.
Building of the Station:
The solution presented is a building with the U shape formed by two skins: the interior in prefabricated concrete blocks associated to the concrete structure to which it is anchored and a second skin in glass covering the remaining façade. The natural ventilation of the building is guaranteed from the natural ventilation units installed on the roof. | <urn:uuid:4c1f12c1-8f12-44c4-9783-689922b9d2cb> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://tpf.eu/projects/hydroelectrical-reversible-station-of-lagoa-das-furnas/ | 2019-07-20T07:41:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195526489.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20190720070937-20190720092937-00318.warc.gz | en | 0.919813 | 260 |
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When your pet is experiencing an emergency, having the right information is critical! What’s also critical is knowing where to go for urgent care. Below is a reference list of emergency clinics in the area.
Georgia Veterinary Specialists is located in Atlanta Georgia. GVS is one of the few veterinary facilities in Metro Atlanta with emergency care and critical care hospitalization available 24/7. That means that when you think your dog or cat is experiencing an emergency, you can bring your pet to GVS at any time, day or night, to be seen by our experienced emergency doctors and support team.
Phone Number: (404)459-0903
Animal Emergency Center of North Fulton is located in Roswell Georgia. It was established in December of 1991 by area veterinarians. The goal was to provide a much-needed emergency and critical care service to pets during nights, weekends, and holidays when primary care veterinarians are usually closed.
Phone Number: (770)594-2266
All Pets Emergency & Referral Center is located in Alpharetta Georgia and is open 365 days a year to provide specialty and emergency care to dogs and cats. With a focus on compassionate care, All Pets team of doctors provides accessible specialized medical and emergency services for your pet. If your pet has an acute or chronic disease or life threatening injury, you can turn to an All Pets veterinarian who spends every day curing and treating animals.
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Change is a natural and powerful force, a constant and continuing phenomenon.
The Change Style Indicator® (CSI®) is a leadership assessment designed to measure an individual’s preferred style in approaching and addressing change. It provides respondents of all levels with insights on personal preferences for managing through change. It also provides context for how those around them might perceive and respond to their preferred style.
Understanding the human response to change may be a leader’s greatest challenge and most valuable resource. Conflict and innovation are the by-product of this tension.
Regardless of how we experience change or how we feel about it, change is here to stay. By understanding our change preferences and the preferences of others, we can become better able to lead, manage, and assist others through the inevitable changes in our lives and organizations.
The instrument addresses both initiated and opposed change and places the respondent on a continuum of three styles:
- Conserver : Prefers the known to the unknown. Disciplined, detailed, deliberate and organized. Accept structure. Prefer gradual change.
- Pragmatist: Prefers to explore the current situation in an objective manner. Reasonable, practical, agreeable and flexible. Explore structure. Prefer change that best serves the function.
- Originator: Prefers a faster and more radical approach to change. Unconventional, spontaneous and risk takers. Challenge the structure. Prefer quicker, more expansive and radical change.
Overall, the three styles represent distinct approaches and preferences when responding to change.
With the Change Style Indicator®, leaders will:
- Learn about three unique styles for dealing with change.
- Discover their own position on the continuum of change-style preferences.
- Learn how a preferred style affects how others perceive an individual and how a style influences the perceptions of others.
- Explore the advantages, strengths and liabilities that each style offers in a team effort.
- Improve interpersonal communication and understanding.
- Avoid conflicts and reduce unproductive meeting time.
- Realize the value of all perspectives when resolving issues.
- Enable a team’s creativity, collaboration, and innovation.
- Increase teamwork and cooperation.
- Learn communication tips to work with each unique style.
Designed to assess an individual’s preferred style in handling change. The Individual Report includes an individual’s distribution on the Change Style Indicator continuum for three primary change styles including Conserver, Pragmatist and Originator. The respondents not only receive personal scores but also obtain valuable resources for how to increase their flexibility and maximize their effectiveness when dealing with change.
Designed to assess a team’s preferred style in handling change. The group report includes the team’s distribution on the Change Style Indicator continuum for three primary change styles including Conserver, Pragmatist and Originator. Moreover, this report provides the team with information regarding the team dynamics such as team strengths, blind spots, preferred work environment, and how to lead the team through change.
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Antler Dog Chews
Antler chews are healthy for dogs and promote clean teeth and gums. AntlerBone chews are hand-selected for the best consistency in size, shape, and thickness. We use only PREMIUM GRADE deer and elk antler.
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Nick and Benji delve into Big Finish's world of audio drama with gusto... And with the latest Big Finish News, Listeners' Emails and the Randomoid Selectortron. There's a special report on Doctor Who Short Trips. Drama tease: Torchwood - Believe.
Time for another roller-coaster of boundless excitement...
Listeners' Emails - more emails from our lovely listeners, a Competition winner and a brand new competition. To join in, all you have to do is email us at email@example.com.
Special Report - Range producer Ian Atkins presents a special report on the Doctor Who: Short Trips subscriber specials. And incoming Short Trips producer Alfie Shaw has a molecularly tingling chat with Nick.
Randomoid Selectortron - some crazy Dalek fun, with some bizarre trouser action!
Latest Releases - all the latest releases from bigfinish.com, rounded-up in a probably unnecessarily breathless way, designed to provoke excitement and anticipation.
Drama Tease - the first fifteen minutes of Torchwood: Believe. This episode contains adult material right from the start and may not be suitable for younger listeners.
This podcast is released on Sunday 15th April 2018. You can download or stream it now simply by pressing one of those handy little buttons below this text. Go on, give your brain a molecular tingle.
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Yahoo's board has begun a formal search to find a CEO to replace Scott Thompson, who was fired in May after he was caught lying about his educational background.
After Yahoo fired Thompson, it named EVP Ross Levinsohn interim CEO.
For a while, the board held off starting a formal search. The idea was to calm the waters.
That process has now begun, the Wall Street Journal's Amir Efrati reports.
Levinsohn is said to be a top candidate for the job. Broadly, Levinsohn's plan to turnaround Yahoo is to re-focus on brand advertising and make content the product that drives engagement.
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NYC School Offers Free Tampons For Students, & It's Just The First Step In A Broader Initiative To Expand Access For All Women
At the High School for Arts and Business in Queens, New York, the lives of hundreds of female students just got a little easier, and it's all thanks to New York City councilperson Julissa Ferreras-Copeland. The school will now be providing free tampons and pads for its female students, following an initiative spearheaded by Ferreras-Copeland earlier this year. This is a big win not only for girls who might be caught unprepared by an early uterine surprise, but also for girls who can't afford their own supplies. "Some young girls have said, ‘I know my mother is struggling to pay the bills, I don't feel comfortable asking her for pads also,'" Ferreras-Copeland told NY Mag. "So some of them would just rather stay home or find themselves using one pad for the whole day." The supplies were donated by Hospeco, but Ferreras-Copeland is currently drafting legislation to get the city to provide them in the future.
It seems that some schools in the district do keep emergency supplies on hand, but girls often had to jump through embarrassing hoops in order to access them, such as asking three different levels of faculty members and signing affidavits explaining why they didn't have their own. "If we were able to remove the taboo from condoms, and New York City gives out condoms for free, then we should be able to do this," added Ferreras-Copeland. "Just like the schools order toilet paper, they should be ordering these supplies."
The councilperson's ultimate goal is to provide access to free feminine hygiene products in all public schools, as well as in prisons and homeless shelters throughout the country. She also wants the state sales tax on such products to be repealed. Let's all pause for a moment to mentally high-five this awesome, awesome lady.
Why didn't someone think of this sooner? Take a look at Twitter and you'll see that they've gotten a whole lot of support:
Access to proper feminine hygiene products is a huge problem for women all over the world. In fact, millions of women and girls in developing countries miss work or school every day because they have their periods and no access to supplies. And these are women for whom education and salary is absolutely critical.
But this isn't just a third-world issue. According to Free the Tampons, 86 percent of US women aged 18-54 report that they've started their period unexpectedly in public without the supplies they need. But don't assume that they can all rig up a quick toilet paper pad to hold them over until they get home; many women struggling with poverty simply can't afford any feminine hygiene products, and they're not covered by food stamps. Many women's prisons don't provide these products to inmates, either, and homeless women have trouble even finding a safe, private place to change a tampon, if they manage to procure one at all.
You'd never be expected to walk into a public bathroom with your own soap or seat cover, or be confronted with a vending machine that would only provide paper towels in exchange for cash. Why draw the line at tampons? Shouldn't they be subsidized, too?
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Craig City Council to hold public hearing on 2019 budget Tuesday
CRAIG — Residents will have the opportunity to speak for or against the 2019 proposed budget for the city of Craig when the City Council meets at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 13, in Council Chambers at Craig City Hall 300 w. Forth St. City staff and council members will meet at 5 p.m. for a budget workshop before the regular council meeting.
Rather than voting for line-items or on sections of the budget, City Council members, after the public hearing, will vote on first reading of an ordinance setting appropriations for the revenues and expenditures and making and fixing the amount of property tax levies for the city of Craig.
Council will also consider the following items:
• An ordinance to increase water and wastewater rates.
• Approval of a bid of more than $500,000 for the Roundbottom Tank rehabilitation project.
• Discussion and possible approval of $15,000 for a shop local incentive program through the Craig Chamber of Commerce.
• A consent agenda that consists of proposed actions on business matters which are considered routine and for which approval is based on previously approved city policy or practice. The consent agenda will be approved by a single motion to Approve the Consent Agenda, and council members will vote without debate. Council members may move to remove a consent agenda matter for any reason and request it be handled separately for discussion and consideration. Matters removed from the consent agenda will be placed on the agenda as an item of “other business” for discussion and consideration.”
The city will also hear the following presentations:
• Jana McKenzie and Kristina Kachur, from Logan Simpson, will review the final draft of the Parks and Recreation Master Plan.
• Annette Burrow, adult basic education instructor from Colorado Northwestern Community College, will give an overview of the ESL, GED, and Read/Write programs offered by CNCC.
• Craig Middle School sixth-grade engineering students will present their ideas about the world’s plastics problem.
• Monthly reports.
The city has clarified its process for public comments, making the following note on the agenda:
“Regular City Council meeting agendas and council packets are posted on the city’s website to keep city residents informed of City Council actions and deliberations that affect the community. This public comment time is set aside for citizens to address the City Council on matters that are listed on this council meeting agenda. Each speaker is allocated three minutes to speak. Speakers may not cede their time to another speaker. If your comments concern an item that is not on this agenda, please address the council during the public comment period at the end of the agenda. Comments should be limited to matters within the jurisdiction of the city. The City Council can only take action on matters that are on the agenda, but may place matters brought to its attention at this meeting on a future agenda for consideration. If you have documents to present to the City Council, please provide a minimum of eight copies.”
Mayor John Ponikvar said that he is working with city staff and council members to increase the opportunities for public comment and expects to hold more public hearings like the one planned for Tuesday.
To review the complete meeting agenda and associated documentation visit ci.craig.co.us/government/city_council/council_packets/november_2018.
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Diamond Slot Machine
777igt brings the bling with this slot. The slot is made up of everyone's two favorite things; gold and diamonds. It looks similar to another of the designer's games but with a little bit more color than Black Final.
This game's theme is presented in every aspect of the game to the background all the way through to the special features. You can't go wrong when you play this game. When the game first loads you notice all the shiny gold and glittering diamonds that can be found everywhere.
The longer you play the more you like the game and the symbols just enhance the theme because all of them are bright and shiny. If you're a 777igt fan you won't be disappointed with this game because it offers all the normal features like the jackpots and bonus game.
Let's take a minute and go through the game so you can get as excited as we are about it.
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Diamond Slot Machines Overview
This game doesn't have a background to it at all as the reels take up the whole game space but that didn't bother us. The reels are surrounded in shiny gold and each side is adorned in rows of bright shiny diamonds.
The diamonds on either side keep with the game theme and display the number of pay lines the game has to offer. Like with their other game Black Final the designers at 777igt stuck to the classic combination of black and gold for the color scheme of the game.
This might be a little mundane for a game that's essentially about diamonds but it works well here. The colors in the symbols bring all the extra visual stimulation needed when you play. Another aspect of the game that we like was that all of the buttons to operate the game look to be housed inside two horseshoes. We like to think this is the designer's way of bringing us good luck while we play.
The one thing we found the biggest issue with was the music. We don't think the soundtrack is bad; it just really doesn't go with the game at all. It would better serve its purpose in a game that has cartoon characters in the form of children or animals.
The soundtrack is a little distracting if you leave it playing so we muted it fairly early in our time playing. We think that if it had fit the theme more it wouldn't have been that bad and we probably would have just let it play. It's not a bad track, just not what you expect with a game like this.
The reels have their own sound effect that you hear when you spin them. The win notification is a chiming sound and then you hear the coins as they get added to your balance. That's it as far as the sound and music go in this game.
The animations in this game come in different levels. You have the lower levels in the symbols. These animations are minimal and are only seen when you get a win on the reels. Some of the symbols spin while others pulse or have letters appear on them. The big animations are saved for announcements and other features of the game.
Other features in the game trigger different animations. When special features are triggered an announcement comes across the reels to tell you about free spins, scatter, or bonus wins. Also if you get a large pay out a Big Win announcement comes across. These animations are basic with little other excitement than a few small fireworks going off.
The area that has the most animation is the bonus game. This is where you see everything move and shine.
Diamond Pay Table and Graphics
Symbols and payouts for Diamond are as follows:
This beautiful diamond is great to see on the reels even if it's unlikely to show up regularly. This symbol awards you the Mega Jackpot if you get 5 of them on the reels at the same time. This symbol is the only chance you have to win the Mega Jackpot.
This symbol is another symbol you hope to see on the reels. This symbol triggers a Minor Jackpot win for you if you get 5 of them on the reels at the same time.
The CEO is the last chance to win a jackpot in this game. This symbol triggers the Mini Jackpot win if you get 5 of them on the reels at the same time. Even though this jackpot is the smallest it still has a huge pay out of at least 30,000 or more.
This symbol can pop right in and changes everything. It subs for all symbols except the scatter, bonus, free spin, or those linked to jackpot wins. If you get 5 of these symbols you receive a payout for 150 times your original wager.
The golden crown in a fiery red circle is the scatter symbol for the game. This symbol adds a multiplier to you original wager. It pays 5 times for a combination of 3, 30 times for a combination of 4, and 100 times for a combination of 5.
The diamond encrusted dollar sign is the free spin symbol. When this symbol appears on the reels it spins to make sure that you see it on board. The blue turbo triggers free spins when you get three or more on the reels during a single spin. You get 5 free spins for a combination of 3, 10 for a combination of 4, and 15 for a combination of 5.
This chest full of brightly colored diamonds makes the game so much more interesting. It triggers the bonus game when you get three or more of him on the reels at the same time.
This symbol pays 12 times for a combination of 3, 40 times for a combination of 4, and 200 times for a combination of 5.
This symbol pays 12 times for a combination of 3, 40 times for a combination of 4, and 150 times for a combination of 5.
This Superman symbol pay 12 times for a combination of 3, 30 times for a combination of 4, and 120 times for a combination of 5.
The diamond A stands for the Ace in poker. It pays 10 times for a combination of 3, 30 times for a combination of 4, and 100 times for a combination of 5.
The diamond K stands for the king in poker. It pays 10 times for a combination of 3, 25 times for a combination of 4, and 80 times for a combination of 5.
The diamond Q stands for the queen in poker. It pays 10 times for a combination of 3, 25 times for a combination of 4, and 60 times for a combination of 5.
The diamond J stands for the jack in poker. It pays 10 times for a combination of 3, 20 times for a combination of 4, and 50 times for a combination of 5.
The diamond 10 stands for the 10 in poker. It pays 10 times for a combination of 3, 20 times for a combination of 4, and 50 times for a combination of 5.
The best part about the game is the symbols. They all are designed so well and completely work with the theme. We loved all the bling that was added to the regularly mundane poker symbols. This gave them a little bit of a boost and gets them more attention than they get in most other games.
One thing we didn't like about the symbols was that they reused one of the jackpot symbols as a regular symbol. Yes the background was changed but this could cause for some confusion for new or inexperienced players. They had so many other options that could have been used we don't see why they needed to reuse one.
Our favorite symbols for this game would have to be the big purple diamond and the chest of diamonds. Who doesn't want to win a lot of money? And that is exactly what both of these symbols could do for you if you're lucky enough to get the right combinations.
Diamond Slot Extra Feature
The one thing that keeps us coming back to 777igt games over and over again is the special features that can be found in most the games they design. This one brings with it the mainstays like the jackpots and bonus game.
The jackpots come in three different sizes.
Gives the biggest pay out of the game. You must get 5 of the purple diamond symbols to trigger this big win. This jackpot can only be won if you meet these guidelines.
You have to get 5 of the molten star symbol. This jackpot won't have as big a payout as the Mega but it's still large enough to make your day.
This jackpot can be won when you get 5 of the CEO symbols on the reels at the same time. The minimum win for the mini jackpot is still big. You win at least 30,000 coins whenever you get lucky enough to hit it.
The wild symbol is the word wild that when part of a win the letters come in one at a time to form the word. This symbol will replace any of the regular symbols to make a winning combination. When this symbol is used to complete a combination it takes the place of the highest paying symbol.
The free spins symbol for this game is the diamond dollar sign and it gives you more chances to win without spending any of your own money. If you get 3 or more of these symbols anywhere on the reels you trigger the free spins. You receive an allotted amount of spins based on the number of symbols on the reels. You'll be awarded 5, 10, or 15 free spins.
The bonus game for is triggered by getting three or more of the chest full of diamonds on the reels anywhere. When this game is triggered you're taken to a new screen that has a tic tac toe board full of treasure chests.
Your goal is to find all the treasure chests that have diamonds hidden in them. If you click on one that has a bomb in it then the game is over and you're returned to the regular screen. The game continues as long as you're getting the right chests. If you're unlucky and click on a chest with a bomb first thing don't worry you won't leave the bonus game empty handed which is nice.
We did notice that some of the special features seem to appear more than others in the game. During our time playing the game we found the bonus game was triggered more than any other feature which we found weird but it's definitely not a bad thing. The scatter was another that seemed to appear more than normal with this game. The free spins were more elusive here than they usually are but we were ok with that since the other two seem to make up for this features absence.
Diamond offers you 50 pay lines. Pay lines are added to games to increase the player's chance at getting wins on each spin. These lines give multiple options for a winning combination to appear on the reels. This game has 50 lines available and since they aren't fixed lines you can change the number that's being played each spin.
If you decide to do this you can do so in increments of 10 so that gives you the ability to play as little as 10 pay lines per spin and up to the 50 that are available. It's recommended you play all 50 because if you don't you might miss out on a big win that fell on a line you decided not to play. It's easy to think that the less lines you play the longer you can play and in some cases this may be true but if you play all 50 you'll definitely win more times than with the lower number of lines.
This game offers you the ability to change the value of your bet after each spin. The range of betting is set from .01 to $1.20 per spin. This makes the game perfect for anyone who just wants to play the game for fun with a low bankroll or for high rollers who like to take a shot at huge wins.
Diamond game rules are in line with most other 5 reel slot machines. Below are the main rules:
- Most wins are formed from right to left, beginning with the leftmost reel.
- If two or more wins are formed in the same line, only the highest payout is awarded.
- Any misuse or malfunction will abort the game and everything will be reset to default.
- The wild cannot start free spins; you must get three or more free spin symbols to receive free spins.
- Scatter symbols will trigger a multiplier from anywhere on the reels.
- Bonus game is triggered when three or more bonus symbols appear anywhere on the reels.
- The wild subs for all symbols except the scatter, free spin and bonus symbols.
- The wild symbol also has a payout amount when you get 5 on the reels at the same time.
- Jackpots can only be won when the designated symbol is found on the reels 5 times.
Diamond is one of our favorite 777igt games. With all the glitz found in the game it's hard not to feel like you just might win some of it. Other than the soundtrack they chose there wasn't much we could find fault with besides the reuse of the one symbol.
The symbols that they used in the game were perfect for this game. All of them were so bright and shiny you couldn't help but fall in love with them. One thing we might change about the game is the special features. We think it would serve the game well to add a little something to the wild symbol to make it more interesting and the scatter as well could use a little work.
Other than that the bonus and free spins features are awesome. We really enjoyed the bonus game in Diamond. The best thing about the bonus game is you don't have a limit to how many times you can choose the treasure chests like in most of the other 777igt bonus games that just give you 2 chances to rack up the money.
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As temperatures continue to go down and women begin to hide sandals and flip-flops to give way to boots and other closed shoes, experts say that bunions will cause serious pain.
Bunions, also known as hallux valgus, are the bony bumps seen at the base of the big toe. Their exact cause is not clear but they are said to be due to an inherited faulty foot structure or a foot injury. Bunions develop as time passes and can become very painful.
According to the American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons, shoes that have narrow toe boxes can rub against bunions, causing the pain to aggravate and the inflammation to worsen.
For women to prevent these problems, it is important to avoid shoes with high heels and those with narrow toe boxes. A lot of big toe box shoes are available and these should be the choice of people with bunions and those who do not want to experience big toe pain.
If you have a shoe that you love so much and can’t let go of, but it irritates a certain spot, take it to a shoe repair shop and have it modified. This way, you get to wear your preferred footwear without compromising foot health and end up with foot problems.
It is important for the shoe to have a wide front. Any kind of footwear that is pointy will put more pressure on your bunion, causing more pain.
According to the American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons, there are other ways to relieve bunion pain including the use of gel-filled paddings, orthotics, and anti-inflammatory medications.
How You Can Ease Bunion Pain
There are a lot of bunion relief products available. These products help relieve pain and inflammation by reducing stress on the big toe joint. These include bunion aid splint, bunion night splint, bunion sleeve, bunion toe spacer, and bunion support socks.
How to Choose Your New Shoes
Everyone needs to have their feet sized; it’s not just for kids! The size of your feet may change throughout your life, so it’s a good idea to have it measured before you buy new shoes. Remember to have both length and width measured. A bunion causes the front part of your foot to gradually widen, which means that you will need big toe box shoes for comfort.
When looking for bunion shoes, you’ll see many fashionable styles to fit your everyday style. A variety of athletic shoes are also available for people with bunions. However, if you can’t find one that suits you, head to a shoe repair store and have the forefoot area stretched. If you find wider shoes comfortable but think that the heel area is too wide, you can add an arch support to improve its fit.
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RICHARD ROBERTS & TOKYO SINFONIA
Richard Roberts, eminent Solo Concertmaster of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, will appear with the Tokyo Sinfonia Wednesday evening, Oct. 31, in a richly varied programme of solo works for the violin.
Roberts has served for over three and a half decades as First Solo Concertmaster of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, following his previous appointment as a Concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra. In addition to his frequent performances as a soloist with the Montreal Symphony, he has appeared as guest soloist with the orchestras of Cleveland, Detroit, Edmonton, Melbourne, Minneapolis, Toronto, and elsewhere around the globe.
He was featured as a guest soloist with the Tokyo Sinfonia last year in a programme of romantic violin concertos by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Ludwig Spohr, and Robert Schumann.
Richard Roberts has served as a jurist for international violin competitions throughout Europe and America. An internationally acclaimed pedagogue, he has held teaching posts on the faculties of the Cleveland Institute of Music, l’Academie Internationale de Flaine, Conservatoire de Musique du Quebec, Domaine Forget, Indiana University, the University of Maryland, McGill University, the University of Minnesota, and Northwestern University.
He has presented masterclasses at l’Academie Internationale de France, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute, the Meadowmount School, the National Orchestra Institute, Northwestern University, the Royal Conservatory of Music, and the University of California at Los Angeles. In Tokyo, he will present a special masterclass Saturday afternoon, Oct. 27, at Yamano Music in Ginza. Enquiries may be made through Yamano Music
This is Richard Roberts’ second performance with the Tokyo Sinfonia. His beautifully-rounded programme includes a survey of great works from four nations of Europe — Austria, Czech, France, and Spain.
The sunny side of the violin will be represented by Mozart’s singing Violin Concerto No 2 in D Major; the romantic side by Dvorak’s heart-felt Romance for Violin. The virtuoso violinist is challenged by Vieuxtemp’s Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major, and Sarasate’s Airs Espagnoles dances. Robert Ryker conducts.
You can meet Richard Roberts personally following the performance too, during the artists and audience champagne reception in the lobby.
RICHARD ROBERTS VIOLIN SERENADE
Sinfonia Plus champagne concert series No. 34
Oji Hall (Ginza)
Oct. 31, Wednesday evening from 19:00 – doors open 18:30
Mozart – Impresario Overture, K. 486
Mozart – Concerto No. 2 in D Major for Violin & Strings, K. 211
Dvorak – Romance in F Minor for Violin & Strings
Vieuztemps – Concerto No. 5 in A Minor for Violin & Strings
Sarasate – Airs Espagnoles for Violin & Strings
Artists & audience champagne reception
Embassy of Canada
The Tokyo Sinfonia’s Richard Roberts Violin Serenade will be another delightful voyage of discovery. It all deserves to be played. It all demands to be heard. It’s always special, moving, and memorable. Magical.
Do join us. And bring a friend to enjoy it with you.
See you at the Sinfonia!
With every good wish from
Robert Ryker and the Tokyo Sinfonia
Single ￥5,500 • Group (2 or more) ￥5,000 each • Students (ID) ¥2,500
Tel (03) 3588 0738
You can indeed order tickets using the convenience of peatix or paypal. You may also contact the Tokyo Sinfonia directly by phone or by emailing us at firstname.lastname@example.org so we can look after you personally.
Families may wonder if they can bring young children to hear the great violinist Richard Roberts perform. We often get that.
If your children are old enough to play an instrument — three or so — they are very welcome to attend Tokyo Sinfonia performances. Our conductor adds: if the mother is willing, he is willing.
Of course an afternoon nap helps.
Maestro Ryker delights in young people, and is always ready to take a moment for a photo together. Richard Roberts is equally kind and gracious. So are the 19 players of the Tokyo Sinfonia. Try us.
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Friday, July 19, 2019
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Prepare for the weather
1. Does the weather affect the way you travel? Check the forecast to make sure you have everything in place for the autumn! BBC Weather Page
2. Is your bike ready for the winter? 8 tips to prepare your bike for winter from Road Cycling UK.
3. It's just as important to see as to be seen when walking in winter, are your sunglasses fit for the demands of the low winter sun? Consider buying polaroid lens sunglasses this winter. Here's an overview of different types and characteristics of driving sunglasses. https://www.selectspecs.com/guides/how-to-choose-safe-sunglasses-for-driving/
4. Watch a video! There are loads of YouTube videos great tips on cycling in the wet weather, some with specific advice on cornering or what to wear. Have a browse and happy watching!
5. Do you know how to check your bike is fit to ride. Get savvy with the m-check! https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/knowledge/article/izn20131111-The-M-Check---Full-Film-0
6. Did you know that wet weather doubles your stopping distance in a car? Get the latest advice about stopping distances from the Highway Code
7. For tips and advice on travelling in snow whatever mode you use click through to the Let's Go Tees Valley website. Winter Commuting Tips for walkers, cyclists, bus and train users.
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This compelling invention is designed to increase spark’s firing energy to improve horsepower, pep and fuel economy by 5% throughout the entire rev range. Magic-Spark Suzuki Spark plug booster uses an electromagnetic flux generated by wide spectrum triple-core capsules installed on the spark plug wires. Capsules are governed by a microcontroller delivers fluctuating voltage signal which is assigned with a suitable frequency and cycle, to maximize the ignition power.
Magic-Spark prevents the plug electrodes from gathering carbon deposit. There are three requisites to make engine run, they are fuel, air and spark. Whilst the Air-Fuel mixture is deemed as the material of combustion, the igniter spark is the governor. It's a common arithmetic; within reason, the higher the firing energy an ignition system can produce, the more explosive torque can be delivered on the crankshaft. More torque is equivalent to more useable HP. A plug is a part for delivering electric current through sparkplug wires, from an ignition system to the combustion chamber to ignite the compressed A to F mixture by an electric spark. Magic-Spark Performance Ignition Activator kit is a system that intensifies the spark of a spark plug while an engine is in operation. Research says that 20% to up to 40% of the gasoline that is consumed by an internal combustion engine remains un-burnt during combustion and is expelled right through the exhaust system. This phenomenon of un-burnt fuel has been recognized throughout the automotive industry and plenty of alterations have been tried, especially, in the development of plugs.
It has been recognized that intensifying the spark of a spark plug has beneficial results. By reducing the energy loss, you can improve combustion energy and boost engine pony accordingly. That is the theory behind the Suzuki Magic-Spark Ignition intensifier. Intense electromagnetic flux created on and around the ignition wires boosts the firing power associates with the spark that travels through the gap between ground and center electrode. The spark will be much more stabile and instantaneous throughout the engine strokes thanks to the spark promotion attributable to the Industrial Engine Magic-Spark Plug Intensifier. Intense spark will result perceptible engine performance increase, less fuel consumption and easier cold start. Because the higher firing energy that is produced by an independent electromagnetic flux works like an amplifier, neither further ignition upgrade nor modified heat range plug is required. You can adapt your Magic-Spark Suzuki plug intensifier kit to either stock or aftermarket performance ignition. The Spark enhancer works in conjunction with any aftermarket CDI box.
This CDI enhancer energizes the arc of the spark plug. A sparkplug has a threaded shell also referred to as side, earth, body or ground electrode, which is electrically isolated from the central protruding electrode by a porcelain insulator. The central electrode is connected by a heavily insulated wire, referred to as ignition lead, to the output of that device which is associated with the particular ignition type the engine is fitted with, i.e. Capacitor Discharge (CDI), magneto ignition, mechanically or electronically or micro-electronically (computerized ignition) timed ignition. The plug's metal shell is screwed into the engine's cylinder head so it is electrically grounded. Spark is built up around the gap between electrode and a protruding electrode. While spark travels through the gap in between the electrodes, multiple losses arise. If you can effectively reduce the thermal-, electric-, transient- etc. loss or you can energize the current flow, you may gain considerable added HP. The strong fluctuating electromagnetic flux produced by the state-of-the-art 3-coil capsule-joint, which is governed by the programmed microprocessor, achieves spark intensification. The end result is notable: more performance and perceptible improvement in fuel consumption.
This spark plug intensifier intensifies the arc of the sparkplug, intensifies the spark and causes your Suzuki's run much better. Magic-Spark prevents the spark plug electrodes from gathering carbon deposit by increasing spark plug efficacy. Magnum CDI energizer will promote a more efficient burn of Air to Fuel Ratio mixture during combustion process which translates to an increase in engine performance and fuel economy. irrespectively of ignition system type i.e. CDI, Magneto, Electronic, Magic-Spark plug intensifier is available to all ignition systems except for coil-on plug, direct ignition. Snowmobile Magic-Spark Spark plug enhancer is non-installable on coil-on ignition systems featuring direct coil sitting directly on the sparkplug connector. Please check your ignition system or feel free to contact us
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DUI/DWI And Traffic Violations
If you make one wrong move on a traffic violation or DUI/DWI case, you may end up with a license revocation, thousands of dollars in fines and even time in jail.
Many people make a mistake and treat DUI/DWI and Driving While Suspended charges as common or typical; all too many people end up pleading guilty or giving up their rights and pay the price for their ignorance. DUI/DWI and Driving While Suspended charges carry the possibility of significant jail time. A DUI first offender faces a year in jail and a $1,000 fine.
Because Maryland is an "implied consent" state, additional sanctions can be imposed on drivers who refuse to take the Breathalyzer test. Failure to take the test can result in a 120-day license suspension for a first offense that is not modifiable. A breath test of .08 to .14 can result in a 45-day suspension (first offense) and a higher result can cause a 90-day suspension (first offense). The sanctions for subsequent offenders are much higher. A DUI conviction will result in twelve (12) points on a driving record, which could cause a license revocation. A DWI conviction carries eight (8) points, and a possible license suspension. These sanctions, imposed by the MVA, are in addition to any imposed by a court.
If you have been charged with a traffic/DUI violation, the specifics of whether or not to try to fight versus mitigate the consequences through a plea, depends on a comprehensive knowledge of the law.
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Officials from Industry Canada arrived at the home of Fernwood Autonomous Radio last Thursday, Feb. 23, just after 10 p.m., with a cease and desist order — reinforcing the capital’s age-old No Fun City reputation, this time at the hands of the federal government.
“We had to let them into the house to take pictures of the transmitter and other gear and, if we didn’t, I would have been read my rights and taken into custody,” said FAR host Joey Chaos.
Despite the official veto, Chaos said things could have been worse. “I think they found the whole thing more amusing than anything.”
Not to be discouraged, Chaos and the FAR crew have already begun to explore their options, including going legitimate or switching to digital broadcasting. Despite the inevitability of its passing, Chaos says the loss of Fernwood Autonomous Radio will leave behind a void in the community.
“We feel that we have a community audience now, and a large portion of our listeners are digital,” he says. “There’s still a place for FAR, but we just can’t afford the risk of radio as a form of activism.”
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Planning ahead for dove season? The 2019-20 migratory bird season hunting dates and regulations, which includes doves, were recently approved by the Board of Natural Resources. Doves are a federally
When you consider Northern Ireland’s recent past—the era of the “Troubles,” when there seemed to be more murders than there were birdies at Portrush, it is easy to offer unremitting
What do fire ants, Asian tiger mosquitos, kudsu, coyotes and armadillos have in common? They are all non-native to the state of Georgia. Non-native species are animals, plants and other
After being closed down during the week of July 4, the Putnam County Recreation Department was able to open the pool back up to the public on Saturday, July 13.
After a great season, young Putnam County athletes placed as one of the best baseball teams in the state. The Putnam All-Stars 10-and-under baseball team recently qualified for the Dixie
Gatewood recently received more recognition for its great year in sports during last school year. Gator football and boys track head coach Jeff Ratliff was given Coach of the Year
It would be my luck that another big move happened after a whole column on NBA free agency. The carousel of NBA stars moving around the league has seen another
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A Michigan State professor who was nationally chastised for going off on an anti-Republican classroom rant was also the “the recipient of a Michigan State ‘Distinguished Faculty Award,’” George Leef writes in a See Thru Edu blog post. To find out just how one becomes “distinguished” on the MSU campus, read the comments made by his students on the faculty-rating site “Koofers” that George links to: “He is creepy and misogynistic”; “is easily the worst professor I’ve ever had”; “is racist, sexist, ignorant, and downright offensive”; “Unorganized, Rude/Mean, So Politically Incorrect, Hypocrite”; “is very rude. All he talks about is his political views and sex.” And on and on and on.
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This post is incredibly overdue, as these days I like to take my time with beauty products and trial them for a wee while before giving my final thoughts. As a little treat to myself around Christmas (well, Boxing Day to be precise) I decided to splash out on two items that had been on my list for the absolute longest time.
As we all know, the beauty world has been going absolutely crazy with the release of Rihanna’s incredible brand, Fenty Beauty. From the ultra-inclusive and diverse shade range of the foundations to the super pigmented, vibrant highlighters and matte lipsticks, Fenty beauty has swiftly climbed its way to the top of the cult beauty charts.
I was always in two minds about the STUNNA lip paint: when it was first released, it looked absolutely beautiful on all skin tones, however, I noted that it was an orange-based red and as someone with warm undertones, I always tended to fair better using blue/cool based reds and pinks. I decided to give it a chance though because #Rihanna.
Straight off the bat, the packaging itself is absolutely stunning. It’s sort of a cross between the Christian Louboutin makeup packaging, and a luxury bottle of nail polish from the 1980s. The formula itself is a warm/orange-based red that isn’t too thick or runny. The doe-foot applicator is AMAZING btw. It’s quite stumpy, yet holds enough formula to cover your lips with one swipe without the need for re-dipping. The formula is matte but goes on quite nicely, without cracking or creasing. I’ve used it a fair few times now and I’d say that the longevity is around 5-7 hours or so. The price point is a bit dear for me personally; however, the colour payoff is excellent and fortunately, it worked for my skin tone, so I get it. A gem!
This powder had been on my wishlist for the best part or 9 months now. In those 9 months, I must have read about 80 blog reviews and watched 100+ Youtube reviews on this specific powder. Why? because for £29 a pot, I wanted to make sure that this baby was worth it! The Laura Mercier translucent powder is probably one of the most highly rated and recommended powders in the beauty industry today so imagine the brown girl joy when they decided to release a medium deep version?!
I have an oily T-zone, so I began my quest for searching for a finishing powder that could control the oil for several hours. Out of all the reviews I watched, this was the powder that kept being brought up, so I bit the bullet and snapped it up.
Bitch, when I tell you that this powder is no joke?
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"Organ" is the eighth track on Beneath the Skin by Of Monsters and Men, and the song is a departure from the much of the rest of the album. Not only is the music more like a ballad style than any other song, but the lyrics rely much less on abstract references to nature than other songs do. Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir leads the vocals single-throatedly on this song with a soft and airy style that reminds one of Ingrid Michaelson more than of the Norwegian singer's usual style.
"Slow Life" is the seventh track from Beneath the Skin, and it's infuriatingly difficult to puzzle out. The lyrics are vague and HEAVILY symbolic of something. Even if one understands the basic storyline, the event or thing being symbolized may still be beyond reach until Of Monsters and Men spills their secrets on their own. In the meantime, listeners will have to do the best they can to understand what's going on here. While the title is "Slow Life," the music of the song only halfway manages to accomplish the adjectival half of it. The song isn't especially slow; it's fairly quick and is engaging for that quickness. Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir is Of Monsters and Men's only singer on this track (apart from some punctuational background vocals), and her voice, as usual, is wonderfully eerie and haunting. Anything she sings takes on a whole new meaning and idea, giving a powerful mythos to "Slow Life" in particular.
While not the shortest song on Of Monsters and Men's Beneath the Skin, "Black Water" may have the fewest unique lines of any song on the album. In fact, not counting repeated choruses and lines, there are only 54 unique words in the entire song! The ninth track on Beneath the Skin is, however, still very interesting and fits well with the theme developed throughout all of the album: the acceptance of aspects nature imparts to human identity-a marrying of human civilization with nature's wildness.
"Wolves without Teeth" is the fourth track from Of Monsters and Men's Beneath the Skin, and I think it's one of my favorites. The music is engaging, the lyrics are interesting, and the give-and-take duet between Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir and Ragnar "Raggi" þórhallsson tells a beautiful story. The song is almost narrative in form and tells an intense but ultimately hopeful tale of fear and love.
Of Monsters and Men's new album Beneath the Skin is out, and the album's ninth track "Thousand Eyes" stays true to what seems to be the album's continuing theme-an alliance of humanity to the powers of nature. In "Thousand Eyes," the band is trying to pull the audience into a feeling of potential power and intensity. While the song does have a specific central idea, its true power is as an atmospheric piece that conveys strong emotion.
"Human" by Of Monsters and Men is probably the oddest song that I've explained so far. At times, the lyrics seem like nonsense, but they do mean something. The song is the second track from Beneath the Skin which released on June 9th. The album is Of Monsters and Men's second album and sounds similar to the music written for My Head Is an Animal. Interestingly enough, this one song may have the most to do with the title of that first album.
The title "I of the Storm" forecasts an intriguing song about a person caught alone in a large and terrible battle of the mind. It's the eleventh track from Of Monsters and Men's new album Beneath the Skin which drops in the U.S. tomorrow! The album will have 13 tracks, 4 of which have already been released and explained ("Hunger," "Empire," "Crystals," and the one you're reading about).
The establishing process may take him a while, but he's dedicated: "As the hills turn into holes / I fill them with gold." A user on Genius suggests this means that when his efforts are flattened, he finds ways to turn failure into success. Whether true or no, putting gold in the holes instead of mining it out of them may seem odd. Perhaps he is trying to save his money and his success from complete failure by hiding it away. Or perhaps doing this is his way of becoming like the "[h]eavy stones" that "[f]ear no weather"; he's got reserves of gold and accomplishment backing up his next risks.
Over the past month, Of Monsters and Men has been putting out singles from their upcoming Beneath the Skin, which will be released on June 9th. The album has 13 tracks, and the third is “Hunger” a powerful anti-ballad about what sounds like a suffocating relationship that needs to be ended. Four singles (“Empire,” “Crystals,” “Hunger,” and “I of the Storm”) have already been released.
Of Monsters and Men is really good at being cryptic and symbolic, leaving listeners to puzzle songs out on their own. Luckily, in their most recent single "Crystals" from their upcoming album, Beneath the Skin, they give readers a few clues that make the difficult meaning not impossible to decipher. | <urn:uuid:30f09a9e-6537-4c71-abe3-2c5255a35fa2> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://www.popsongprofessor.com/blog/tag/of+monsters+and+men | 2019-07-20T08:14:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195526489.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20190720070937-20190720092937-00318.warc.gz | en | 0.974892 | 1,125 |
Influenced by the stories of folk music, the deep sorrow of the blues, and the free feeling of country and Americana music, Christy Lynn Band is making a new sound they call their own. Hailing from the mountains of Western North Carolina they are debuting their new collection of songs that were written in 2017. Wild American Music writes “Christy’s voice alone is something you will never forget, but the band doesn’t stop there in their seemingly effortless attempt to be remembered. This is not your average two-piece band. Their sound is full of life and their songwriting is unique in its own right leaving no reason for the listener to walk away from this song craving anything else but to hear it again."
Asheville, NC-based artist Heather Taylor is a musician you won't soon forget. After fronting a locally-loved Americana band in Rochester, NY, this soulful singer/songwriter now explores elements of folk, blues, americana, roots, & rock in a stripped down presentation accompanied by her octave mandolin. You'll often find Heather with her naturally inviting vocals & hummingbird-like vibrato lighting up rooms with her witty banter amongst original songs in intimate listening settings. Heather was this year's Brown Bag Songwriting Competition winner in Asheville, NC, after coming toe-to-toe with dozens of local singer-songwriters. | <urn:uuid:f3301a3e-3a79-4eed-9b63-f17ac411e088> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://www.salvagestation.com/events2/2018/2/2/christy-lynn-band | 2019-07-20T08:00:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195526489.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20190720070937-20190720092937-00318.warc.gz | en | 0.961988 | 286 |
TIPS TO CONSERVE WATER PERSONALLY
1. Install low flow toilets in your home. If that is not possible, follow this eco-friendly rule: “If it’s yellow, let it mellow. If it’s brown, flush it down.”
2. Install low flow shower heads and take shorter showers.
3. Replace your grass lawns with drought tolerant landscaping.
4. Turn off your sprinkler system if it has rained or if there is rain in the forecast.
5. Have your pipes checked and fix all leaks.
6. Don’t let the water run while you are shaving, brushing your teeth, or washing your face.
7. Only use your dish/clothes washer when you have a full load.
8. Insulate your water pipes. You will get hot water faster so that you don’t waste water while it heats up.
9. Install flow restrictors on all household faucets.
10. Store drinking water in the refrigerator so that you don’t have to run water to get it cool.
11. Never put water down the drain that could be used for something else such as gardening or cleaning.
12. When washing your dishes, fill up the sink instead of running water throughout the entire process.
13. Collect shower water in a large bucket as you wait for the water to heat.
1. Reach out and join a local water conservation or activist group. Most major communities have a water organization with resources and periodic events.
2. Start a letter writing campaign to inform your local government officials about the places or organizations in your city that could improve with their water use. Be sure to include specific reduction methods.
3. Start a #Hashtag conversation on Twitter that sports information about the increasing need for water both locally and internationally.
4. Set up tables or booths at local farmer's markets or other public gatherings with informational flyers and prize giveaways.
5. Sponsor assemblies in local schools that explain the need to use less water.
6. Arrange a river or park clean up with t-shirts or posters explaining the necessity of keeping water and land free of contamination.
7. Host water conservation parties where you only use the proper daily allotment of water in your preparations. Also include demonstrations of how to carry out every day activities with less water.
8. Start a water bottle drive at your church or school and collect bottles to send to those in your community that lack the means to acquire clean water.
9. Compose and arrange water conservation themed songs and upload them for purchase on a website or through iTunes.
10. Film your own water conservation PSA and approach your local TV affiliates about donating the air time during lower demand periods.
11. Organize a flash mob with a water conservation theme in front of your local government building or public space.
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The Krewe of Mystic Mutts of Revelry 16th Annual Pet Parade-Fairhope
February 23 @ 3:00 pm
The Krewe of Mystic Mutts of Revelry (MMOR) will celebrate their 16th annual pet parade in beautiful downtown Fairhope, Alabama . This festive parade was created to raise awareness and funds to support The Haven, a local 501 (c) 3 not-for-profit, no-kill animal shelter focusing resources on ending pet homelessness in Baldwin County.
MMOR continues to grow to attract participants from all over the Gulf Coast. Pet companions enjoy strutting their furry friend dressed in costume down the streets of Fairhope packed with crowds of spectators.
The 16th MMOR pet parade will roll on Saturday, Feb. 23, 2019, at 3 p.m. The 2019 theme is “Hairy Pawter and the Sorcerer’s Bone“. We encourage all participants to come dressed as their favorite Harry Potter character.
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Ten years ago, the owners of a historic 1900 Italian villa decided to extend it by opening up its thick load-bearing walls and adding a glass gallery on the ground floor to connect the inside of the home with its spectacular natural surroundings.
Thanks to an extraordinary exercise in the transformation of a traditional volume, the owners managed to integrate the garden, which was also carefully landscaped to include a pond, not far from the building, on the plot’s south-facing side, that can be seen from the gallery.
Since the project was completed, the family have not stopped dreaming about new ideas for their home. They recently entrusted the studio of architects act romegialli – made up of Gianmatteo Romegialli, Angela Maria Romegialli and Erika Gaggia – with the design and construction of a pavilion that could be used all year round and that they could use as a pool, gym and leisure area.
There were two initial conditions: the space had to be climate-controlled and the design was to have as little visual impact as possible, given the surrounding natural beauty.
Following a topographical survey of the land, the architects decided to place the pavilion relatively far away from the house so that it could not be seen, just by the pond. They also chose to directly open the new space to the surface of the pond that had formed part of the landscaping project completed ten years earlier and forgo natural light through the roof.
A large horizontal opening with views of the pond is the only source of natural light, which confers a magical quality on the design. The house and the new pool are connected by a dark tunnel, which on approaching the new space becomes flooded with light, thanks to a large window.
The interior stands out for the meticulously executed finishes, which flow in a continuous stream of simple geometric volumes, all made of just three materials: concrete, wood and ceramic. There is virtually no sign of the wiring, There are no ledges or sharp edges. Just like a calm sea, the surfaces appear to smoothly flow into each other.
This flow continues on the outside. In summer, the interior space blends into the surroundings. The surface of the pool and the pond are on the same level.
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Behavioral issues and mental illness in children is increasing at an alarming speed. More and more children end up on mood and behavior controlling medications (which often come with a slew of side effects). However, these medications often serve as bandaids and don’t fix the root causes. This raises the question, what are the core reasons for many of the behavioral issues and mental illness in our children today? And, how can parents help their children overcome these issues?
Managing our own health , energy and self-care becomes significantly harder when we have children to care for. It gets even harder with kids with special needs, or who have psychological health challenges, or mood and behavior issues (things like ADHD, autism, bipolar, depression, anxiety).
So how can you help your kids function optimally, while also taking care of your own health and energy levels in the process? And if you don’t have kids, how can you better understand your own psychological health (and the factors that underlie so much of the depression, anxiety and other psychological health issues that are becoming so common today)?
That’s the subject of this week’s podcast.
This week — in one of my personal favorite podcast episodes of all time — I speak with Dr. Nicole Beurkens. Dr. Nicole has a PhD in clinical psychology, masters degrees in nutrition and special education, and is a board-certified nutrition specialist. She’s the founder and director of Horizons Developmental Resource Center in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and is a bestselling author, award-winning therapist and published researcher.
Dr. Nicole has made it her life’s purpose of helping children overcome psychological and behavioral issues by focusing on the root cause. Her approach to helping children recover from mental illness is unique and helps the whole family get better health, less stress, more energy, more connection, and most importantly, more happiness.
Listen in, as Dr. Nicole shares the 4 simple lifestyle changes that can help fix behavioral issues and mental illness in children (and help parents manage stress and energy.)
In this podcast, we’ll cover:
- What Dr. Nicole has found to be the main causes of mental illness and behavioral issues in children
- Why we have seen a drastic increase in mental illness in children over the past 20 years
- The problem with most typical psychologists and psychiatrists
- The questionable science behind so much of the paradigm of psychiatry
- What does science really say about treating psychological health?
- The connection between nutrition and mental health
- What makes parents choose to medicate their children (even when they don’t want to)?
- Dr. Nicole’s 4 keys to fixing behavioral issues and mental illness in children
- 4 Natural Lifestyle Hacks To Fix Behavioral Issues And Mental Illness In Children (And Manage Your Energy As A Parent) with Dr. Nicole Beurkens, PhD -Transcript
- Why supporting parents is essential for helping a child with mental illness
- What science actually says about treating mental illness in children (and adults)
- Why we see an increase in children with mental illness and behavioral issues
- The importance of social life and community for good mental health
- Why behavioral issues and mental illness in children can be connected to lifestyle (and why medication may not be the answer)
- Key #1 – Ensure healthy nutrition
- Key #2 – Getting proper sleep
- Key # 3 – Ensure your child moves every day
- Key #4 – Establish a good relationship with technology
- 4 Natural Lifestyle Hacks To Fix Behavioral Issues And Mental Illness In Children (And Manage Your Energy As A Parent) with Dr. Nicole Beurkens, PhD – Show notes
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4 Natural Lifestyle Hacks To Fix Behavioral Issues And Mental Illness In Children (And Manage Your Energy As A Parent) with Dr. Nicole Beurkens, PhD -Transcript
Ari Whitten: Hey everyone. Welcome back, to the Energy Blueprint Podcast. Today, I have with me Dr. Nicole Beurkens, who is a very unique combination of a psychologist, nutritionist, and special education teacher. She has 20 years of experience supporting children, young adults and families to improve behavior naturally.
She’s an expert in evaluating and treating a wide range of learning, mood and behavior challenges including ADHD, autism, anxiety, mood disorders, and sensory processing disorder. Dr. Nicole has a doctorate in clinical psychology, masters degrees in special education and nutrition and is a board certified nutrition specialist. She’s the founder and director of Horizons Developmental Resource Center in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and is a bestselling author, award winning therapist and published researcher.
And all around bad ass, I can say from experience. She’s become a personal friend of mine over the last few years and I’ve had the pleasure of having many conversations with her and this is a much, much, much delayed a podcast episode because I’ve been meaning to have you on for a very long time.
So welcome, Dr. Nicole it is such a pleasure to have you on.
Dr. Nicole Beurkens, PhD: Thank you so much for having me. Excited to be here.
Ari Whitten: Yeah, so, you know, first of all, kudos to you on an amazing background and all these impressive credentials. I mean, you know, I’ve gone to a PhD program in clinical psychology. I’m literally the only one, in all the years of cohorts that were going through the program, I’m literally the only one, and including the teachers, who knew anything about nutrition among all of those people.
So you are in a very unique position that you are a PhD in clinical psychology and you have a masters in nutrition and a masters in special education. And you’re a board certified nutrition specialist. And I think this is really impressive but also extremely important because as I was going through my PhD program in clinical psychology and I’m looking at the research on all these things.
One of the things that I kept running into is that there’s actually a whole bunch of research on nutrition interventions that relate to different psychological disorders and things like that. And none of that is taught to anybody who is getting their degree in clinical psychology, which is remarkable.
The disconnect between psychological disorders and then looking at the physiology and the underlying cellular and metabolic health of that individual, I mean, it’s just massive. So I just applaud you for going out and educating yourself and getting credentials in all these different areas so that you can really help people in the way they deserve be helped.
Why supporting parents is essential for helping a child with mental illness
Dr. Nicole Beurkens, PhD: Thank you. And you know, it’s interesting, I didn’t set out to do any of this. Life sort of has taken a weird and winding path. I mean people would say, “well you’ve got all these different degrees, like how did this come about?” And, you know, really, I mean my undergrad work was in special education and I thought. ”I love kids, I love working with kids who are challenging and…”
So went into special education and really enjoyed that. Enjoyed being a classroom teacher. I specialized in working with kids and teenagers with pretty severe emotional behavioral kinds of disorders. I would take the kids nobody else wanted to work with and that was great. I would close my door and nobody bothered me and I would just do my thing with them and it was awesome and I really enjoyed it. But what I quickly started to see, was that there was a very limited impact I could have in the six to six and a half hours a day that I had those kids.
And I had the parents coming to me saying, “help us know what to do to help our kids. Like it’s awesome. They’re doing well here. They’re learning all of these things, but we’ve got them the other 18 hours of the day and we’re really struggling.”
And I really began to see the need for pulling parents into the process, for giving them education tool support that they needed. And ultimately that’s what led me then to pursue my doctoral work in clinical psychology because I wanted to be able to work with families from the point of first having concerns about their kids, through being able to do good evaluation and diagnosis for them, and then all the way through the treatment process.
And that’s really what spurred me to go on and get the clinical psychology degree. And in the process of that, started doing a lot of work in private practice with families, shifted away from the school environment and more towards working one on one and in groups with parents and helping them to understand what was going on with their kids and to be able to have tools and strategies to use because parents are really left out of the process.
And you know, parenting in general is not for wimps, right? I mean, you know that, you’ve got a child. I have four kids and man kids do not come with instruction manuals and it is an energy intensive effort to be a parent. And especially then when you have a child who has got special needs, whether those are developmental disorders like autism or ADHD, or they are mental health or behavioral types of conditions like anxiety, depression, bipolar, you know, those types of things.
It takes the stress of parenting in general and just amps it up significantly. And so parents really have a lot of need for support and yet tend to be left out of the equation. And so my work with them, you know, really was focused on, “here are the things that you need to understand, here’s what you can do,” and really helping to empower parents.
And so, you know, I got my doctorate in clinical psychology, had my private practice going doing all of that good stuff and began to realize that a lot of the kids that were coming in to see me and to see my team here at the clinic had lots of different things going on, were on lots of different psychiatric medications and weren’t getting better.
And that really led me to start to question several things about how I had been trained. You know, you mentioned at the opening that your experience in the realm of your training in psychology was that, you know, there really was no talk about the body, about physical health, about nutrition. And that was my experience too.
I mean, I was trained in a very good, typical clinical psych program where the idea kind of is that everything from here up, you know, the brain, the mind is stuff that we deal with in psychology. And everything from here down is stuff that’s in the realm of physical medicine, whatever.
And unfortunately that’s the prevailing view I think in medicine, in mental health and it’s so wrong. It’s so wrong because the brain and the body are so interconnected. So I had been trained in that way. You know, my role was to do good counseling, to work with families, to use psychosocial and behavioral interventions, and then if kids were still needing support, refer them to their primary care doctor or their psychiatrist for medication.
So I’ve been trained that way. That’s how I practiced until I began to realize, “wait a second, if this really works, how come all these kids are coming to me still with all of these symptoms even though they’re on medication?” And, in fact, I began to notice that many of them seemed to be getting worse over time as medications were increased, medications were added and changed. It really caused me to delve back into the research literature and look at the whole issues around medication. What psychiatric medications are, what evidence we have for them, particularly in kids.
At the same time as I was looking at that and realizing that maybe a lot of how I’ve been trained was not really consistent with what the research says. I was noticing a pattern, too, in a lot of the kids that were coming to us that they had a lot of physical health problems.
So here we have kids with brain based issues, “mental health problems.” But also many of these kids had things like asthma, terrible eczema, chronic constipation, irritable bowel syndrome, terrible sleep problems, all of these types of physical issues. And that also began to interest me to say, “huh, is there some kind of connection here?”
Now, today that seems ridiculous to me to think that I didn’t know that there was that connection. But honestly, that’s not how we’re trained in these fields to think about things. So again, I went back to the research and started exploring what was out there and found, much like you did, that wait a second, there’s this whole body of research out there that talks about the connection between the physical body and things that are going on with physical health and the brain and mental health symptoms.
So that really got me interested in that whole area. And that’s what led me to go back and get another masters degree in nutrition because I really wanted to understand the connections, I really wanted to understand the science of that so that I could utilize the best protocols to help patients. And you know, I’ll tell you, that really has made such a significant difference adding that piece of nutrition, of integrative health, of the science of that into the treatment that we provide for kids and for parents really just led us to be able to have such better treatment outcomes for kids. And another tool to empower parents, to empower them to improve their own health.
Because one of the things with kids is if we’re going to make changes for them in the realm of their nutrition and health, we want to do that as a family. And many of the kids who come to us, their parents also have significant mental or physical health types of symptoms.
And so the interventions that we’re using with kids become really helpful for adults as well. And the parents end up feeling better, functioning better. The stress level comes down in the entire family. And it’s just a good thing all the way around. So that’s sort of the winding story of how I started in a classroom with special education and ended up having a clinic where we do all of these integrative kinds of things.
What science actually says about treating mental illness in children (and adults)
Ari Whitten: Beautiful. Well, I wanted to interrupt you like five times during that to comment on so many different things, but I restrained myself. But, you know, a couple of things. To go back to this point of the training that you received and this kind of this gap between the training and science.
I really want to emphasize that like the sciences is there already. I mean, granted, there’s certainly much more we can learn and we will continue to learn over the next 10, 20 years. But there’s already a huge amount of science showing that, you know, things like depression, anxiety, autism, things like learning disabilities, things like bipolar disorder, that there are nutrition and lifestyle links to these conditions. And you know, just like bipolar disorder for example, there’s a mountain of evidence on circadian rhythm and sleep for example.
So, you know, there’s a saying that I kind of like, it’s cute, it’s obviously hyperbole, but it’s a nice saying. It’s like “doctors know more and more about less and less until the point where they know absolutely everything about nothing.”
And if we think about like a trend over the last, maybe just even 100 years, there’s been a trend from like, you used to go see your local doctor, you know, regardless of if you had a broken arm or you got stabbed or you have an infection or you’re giving birth or whatever it was. You’d go see your local doctor and he was a systems thinker and understood the whole body and and how everything ties together and his job was to have generalized knowledge. And there’s been a trend towards greater and greater specialization, so learning more and more about less and less.
And we’ve lost systems thinkers. We’ve lost the people who understand all the pieces and how they all tie together. And it’s vital. It’s absolutely vital. I mean if you take somebody with a psychological condition like bipolar or depression, they don’t just need talk therapy. They also need all of these other nutrition and lifestyle factors, and even things like community, that can’t just be provided by people who are solely looking at things from the paradigm of, “oh, this is all just a problem that’s in your brain or in your mind and we need psychological techniques to fix it.”
It’s not just that. So, but the people who are in those paradigms can’t see how all of the pieces tie together. So again, I just really appreciate the fact that you’re a big picture systems thinker, you’re truly a holistic thinker. And I think that kind of approach is vital and necessary and unfortunately becoming all too rare in today’s world.
Dr. Nicole Beurkens, PhD: I want to say there that it’s so interesting to me, of getting back to the research evidence piece. It’s bizarre to me that these types of things are the things that are considered alternative. Or, you know, not the norm or these aren’t the things based on science. And that’s especially interesting to me when we compare things like nutrition and lifestyle interventions to things like psychiatric drugs.
If we want to talk about which side of that coin is lacking in evidenced basis in the research. It’s amazing to me that we accept the idea that psychiatric medications are a necessary, integral and research based part of treatment to the point where that is just accepted practice. That is the “gold standard of practice” to put people on these medications and yet we have far less research evidence for that then we have for some of the basic nutrition and lifestyle things that we’re talking about.
And it’s just interesting how that whole way of thinking has evolved as well, particularly in mental health which used to be much more about some of the things that you mentioned. Much more about building community for people and getting to the root of what was going on in their lives and all of those kinds of things and helping them improve their lifestyle and improve their way of thinking and their relationships in order to to have a better quality of life. And we have really shifted away from that, and it’s more to you go to a couple of counseling sessions.
And if that hasn’t totally taken care of your problems, then we’ve got one of several different kinds of drugs that we can put you on, the little magic pill that will help you feel better. And it’s just so bizarre to me that that’s become the accepted practice when we have all of this research evidence for these other kinds of things.
Ari Whitten: I really feel compelled to like reach through my computer screen right now and give you a huge high five for saying that, because yes, exactly that. I agree 100 percent and it just, it shows you how much of common practices and what are the standard practices are more a function of the zeitgeists, the sort of the trends and the perspectives of that particular age in history.
What’s a popular way of thinking about things in any given moment in time as opposed to what the science actually knows about these conditions. Like if we were treating mental, psychological conditions based purely just as an extrapolation of here’s all the evidence, everything we know about what’s involved with these conditions, now let’s create a profession that is designed to help people with these conditions. It wouldn’t be a psychologist, it wouldn’t be a psychiatrist.
It would be what you are right now or what I am, you know, or like people who are big picture thinkers, I mean specifically for psychology related conditions. More what you are since you’re doing some of the more necessary one-on-one work.
But, you know, it would be people with a very broad education in nutrition, lifestyle, psychotherapeutic techniques, understanding the social aspects of things. Big picture. But anyway, I digress just because I’m particularly passionate and I love that we’re so on the same page on this subject.
One other thing you mentioned in passing that I want to get back to since this is the Energy Blueprint Podcast, is how all of this ties into energy and fatigue specifically. So parenting is rough, you know, just being a parent can wear you out pretty darn good. It can be stressful, you can be sleep deprived, you have much less time for self care. There’s all sorts of aspects of being a parent that tax you and can potentially lead to burnout, fatigue, sleep deprivation, energy problems.
Dr. Nicole Beurkens, PhD: Yeah.
Why we see an increase in children with mental illness and behavioral issues
Ari Whitten: It’s even more amplified in kids, like a lot of the kids that you work with who have learning or psychological conditions. So how, you know, first of all, why is this becoming so prevalent that so many kids in today’s world are experiencing mental health problems?
Dr. Nicole Beurkens, PhD: Yeah, it’s a great question. And it’s something that I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about and get asked about really frequently because there’s absolutely no denying that the number of children with neurodevelopmental and/or mental health conditions continues to rise. I mean, that’s just the facts of the statistics of it.
Back when you and I were kids, the numbers that we were using for prevalence of autism was one in 500 kids, one in a thousand kids. Just in the 20 years that I’ve been practicing and working with these populations of kids, we’ve gone from one in 500 to a thousand number, to now we’re at one in 36 boys in the United States is diagnosed on the autism spectrum. You know, getting, that number grows every year. ADD and ADHD, same thing. You know, we can all think back to a kid maybe who was in our class who now would be diagnosed with classic hyperactivity or something like that. But now what we’re seeing is we have 11 percent of school aged children, so kindergarten through high school, 11 percent of children in our schools are diagnosed and/or medicated for ADD or ADHD.
And we see those statistics playing out across the board in things like learning disabilities and mental health issues. The rates of anxiety and depression in children are skyrocketing.
So something is clearly happening that is driving this trend of more and more and more children having these kinds of issues. And we know, and this study was actually done already almost five years ago, but you know the last sort of prevalent study in this country for chronic illness in kids showed that 54 percent of children in the United States have some form of chronic illness.
Whether that is a physical chronic illness, or a mental or behavioral or developmental chronic illness. That’s a little bit over half, and that data is already five years old. So these are things that impact almost every family, if not every family in some way.
And I think there’s several things that I’ve observed and that the research shows are driving this. One is certainly the environment. The physical environment that children are growing up in now is markedly different than it’s been for any generation prior.
So our physical environment has a lot more toxins in it. The air is filled with a lot more toxins. Our soil becomes more depleted and more toxic over time. Our water is filled with toxins and all kinds of things in the physical environment that take a toll on people in general, adults and children.
But the thing about children, they’re kind of the canaries in the coal mine because kids’ systems are smaller, less developed and much more sensitive and vulnerable to these kinds of environmental insults.
Particularly when we’re thinking about babies, even in utero and then through infancy and toddlerhood and preschool years. So our kids are showing us through developing, you know, the high prevalence of these chronic illnesses that something in the environment is going on.
Food supply, another big issue. Not only has the quality and the nutrient density of foods that are grown reducing over time, but we’ve got kids eating a much more processed diet than ever before. So you know, when I think about how I ate growing up and certainly how my grandparents ate, very different than how kids are eating now.
Kids are doing a lot of fast food, a lot of microwaveable meals, a lot of packaged kinds of foods. And we know from the research that the chemicals, the additives, many of the things that are used in processed foods have a negative effect on not only physical development but particularly on brain development. So the nutrition and food piece of it is certainly an issue.
I feel that technology is an issue that is partly driving this trend. Kids are more sedentary than ever before. And a big part of that is because many of their activities, their social lives, their preferred things that they like to do are on a little screen this far from their face.
And while I think that certainly there’s a role for technology and devices in the lives of kids, what has happened is we’ve gone to this extreme where kids are spending so much time on that stuff that they’re not getting even basic physical movement that’s needed to fuel normal development and health.
And one of the things that many parents are not aware of is that movement, physical activity and moving the body is critically important for brain development in children, particularly from birth to about third grade.
Movement and physically exploring and moving through the environment sets the foundations in the brain for all higher level learning. So, you know, academic learning, higher level social relationships, those types of things have as their foundation brain development that comes as a result of movement. So when we’ve got infants, toddlers, elementary aged kids spending a lot of their time sitting, lying down, passively sort of consuming things on screens, that is taking a tangible toll on their brain development and the research shows that. So I think that’s another piece.
And I would also say just the busyness of life and the toll that that takes on parents and on family systems. So, you know, we were talking actually before we started the podcast just about how busy things are and when you have kids it’s like time flies and there’s so much going on and things move fast. And I think, especially a lot of parents, we’ve got two parents in the home who are working in the majority of situations. So they’re busy with that. Kids are in daycare or school. Parents feel compelled and feel pressured to have their kids in all kinds of activities, right? From a very early age.
It’s sort of like keeping up with everybody else in the neighborhood or the school system with making sure that your kid is in all the sports, all the extracurriculars, all of these things. And all of that contributes to this busyness level that creates a ton of stress that takes a toll on parents, on their energy levels, their ability to really be present and engaged with their kids and parenting in a way that supports kids development. And it just takes a toll on kids because kids need downtime. Kids need unstructured free play time and a lot of them aren’t getting that.
So I think that that’s another factor, too. And there’s lots of other things that we could get into that, but I think those are really some of the core trends that I’m seeing and some of the core things that we’re seeing come out of the research that are explaining why it is that we’re seeing so many more kids who are ending up with these kinds of symptoms and diagnoses.
Ari Whitten: What do you think about the role of social life and community in all of this? How does that figure into this and, you know, and I know you know, one of the books that had a big influence on me is Phillip Cushman’s, it’s called “Constructing the Self.” I don’t know if you… are you familiar with that book? It’s kind of an obscure book, but basically I’ll give it like sort of a very brief encapsulation of what this book is all about.
But the basic idea of it is there’s been a dissolution of community and even of the family unit over the last several generations since, especially since World War II. And this is obviously an America centric sort of focus of this book. So speaking specifically about the US. There’s been a dissolution of the family unit, of the extended family, of community more broadly, of like sort of more of like you’re a part of this particular community who has these beliefs and traditions and so on.
And we have all sort of… we’re all living in these little boxes in huge cities of millions of people, but we’re less connected than we ever have before. And that, that loss of human connection and community has been a big part of this rise of mental health problems.
Dr. Nicole Beurkens, PhD: Yeah, it’s so true. And I think there’s two phases of development in particular where that takes a huge toll on children and their brain development, and their mental health. The first is in the early developmental stages of life, so infancy, toddlers, preschool years because children, their brains develop through relationship with other people. That’s just hands down.
Developmental psychologists have been researching that and have understood that for decades now. That the way that you nurture and support a child’s brain to develop in all areas is through key relationships with other people. Parents obviously being the primary people that they’re engaging with. And then as they get a little older, that circle starts to spread to, you know, extended family members, siblings, maybe daycare providers, teachers, those kinds of things.
But children’s brains develop through relationships with others. And so the more disconnected we get, the busier we get, the more we get absorbed as parents in our work and our devices that we’re on in our free time, you know, maybe holding the baby on one hip and scrolling facebook on the other.
Over time that does take a toll and it does negatively impact the development of young children because the way that they learn about the world, the way they learn about relationships, the way their brain literally grows new connections is by experiencing the world alongside and through the eyes and the experiences of primary caregivers.
So that’s one key developmental stage of life where we see that idea of connection and social relatedness being really important. And then the other one that I notice, really this has an impact on now, is with teens and preteens and their social development and their mental health. And there are several really important studies in the last year that have come out on this issue showing exactly what you said, that yes, we’re connected to the world more so than ever before when you look at being connected through the internet or whatever else.
But we’re more disconnected socially and relatedly than ever before. And so what we’ve got is these preteens and these teens who are very vulnerable and susceptible to, you know, dynamics in relationships at those ages. And we’ve got this profound disconnection from real life interaction and engagement and relationships and it’s a lot of online social media, all of those kinds of things. And it really is having a very detrimental impact on them.
So, it’s not that these things aren’t important for kids at other ages too, but I think those are two key areas that I would want parents to really be thinking about in relation to how the disconnectedness and the disengagement that can come as a result of the busyness of life, being away from extended family, all of the technology, those kinds of things where it really can take a toll.
Why behavioral issues and mental illness in children can be connected to lifestyle (and why medication may not be the answer)
Ari Whitten: Yeah. Beautifully explained. So now that you’ve gone over all these different layers of, you know, lifestyle, nutrition, toxins in the environment, other environmental factors, how the social and interpersonal dynamic has changed over the last few generations, and the loss of community, and all these different things. The solution is obviously just to put people on medications that affect their neurotransmitter balance, right?
Dr. Nicole Beurkens, PhD: Clearly, because obviously the real root of the problem is that we have a Prozac deficiency and that, you know, so we just need to give a pill and it’s all taken care. Of course. NO!
Ari Whitten: Makes sense to me. I mean, I just, it just seems like everything that you were saying up until this point just leads logically directly to the conclusion that we need to administer pills that correct the problem that’s going on in the brain, right?
Dr. Nicole Beurkens, PhD: When you think about it that way, right, and it’s like that’s total insanity. And yet that’s what we do. “Oh, your teenager is feeling sad and anxious and you know, is withdrawing from things. Well, clearly that’s a Prozac deficiency. You know, they have depression. Let’s give them some medication.
Let’s not examine what’s going on in their life and what the family dynamics are and what their diet is like and how they’re sleeping and the fact that they’re on social media and texting with, you know, friends or whoever and trying to resolve their friend’s crisis at three in the morning when they should be sleeping.
Let’s disregard all of that. And clearly this is just a chemical imbalance. Or a child who is having significant emotional and behavioral dysregulation, throwing temper tantrums all the time, not seeming to learn from consequences or from their experience, very dysregulated kids. Well, clearly they need an anti psychotic drug to help them with that.
Let’s not explore what they’re eating, whether they’re sleeping, what the family dynamics are, let’s not looking at any of that.”
And it’s ridiculous when you think about it, but yet that’s what we do. And there’s several problems with that that I think parents need to be aware of. Because the reality is if you’re a parent who has a child with these kinds of struggles and you go into their primary care doctor, their pediatrician or even to the school and say, “I have concerns about my kid, you know, here’s what’s going on.” Chances are you’re going to walk out of that appointment with a prescription for a medication. Or if you go to the school, they obviously can’t give a prescription. What they’re going to say is “well, you know, yeah, your kids is really having problems in the classroom, you know, these behavior problems, inattentive whatever. You should really see your doctor about, you know, an ADHD diagnosis and some medication.”
And that’s what the experience is for most parents when they raise these concerns. And we’re so conditioned to, you know, when people in white coats say things like that to us, we think, “okay, this is a person who knows what they’re talking about. Oh my gosh, if they feel like my child needs medicine than I should give my child this medicine.”
What’s interesting though, while most parents will do what the physician or the prescriber or whoever the professional is telling them to do. There is this voice in the back of the majority of parents minds going, “I don’t really feel good about this.” And I know that from 20 years of working with parents who 99.9 percent of them will come in and say, “I didn’t want to put my kid on the medicine, but this is what they told me to do and I didn’t know what else to do and so I felt like I should do it.”
So parents, I get why they’re doing it. They’re not bad people. They’re not trying to make poor decisions. They’re being told by people that they’ve been taught to respect and to trust that this is what they need to do. And so they’re following instructions. And yet there is a big part of them that feels like “uh, this probably isn’t the right thing.” And then that just gets confirmed when for the majority of kids putting them on these medications doesn’t resolve the issue.
And that gets to one of the big problems with utilizing medication as a primary, you know, approach or even as any part of the approach to treatment for these kids because they don’t work for the majority of people. And that’s not even just for kids, that’s for adults, too. The research literature on psychotropic drugs is sketchy at best.
I mean, that’s just the reality of it. And people like to argue with me about it, you know, other professionals do. But I just say “read the research literature on it.” You know, we have very sketchy basis for using these medications.
The studies that are done are very short term. We don’t actually have any good longterm studies that show us what happens with these medications in the body over time, especially not for children. So parents are led to believe that these things have been well researched, well studied, they’re very safe. And the reality is we have almost no research evidence to support the use of most psychotropic drugs in children.
Stimulants for ADD/ADHD are the exception. There are studies that have been done, obviously, particularly on kids, but no longterm studies. We don’t have studies that show us if you start giving a kid Ritalin at five, what might that look like for them at 20 or 30 or 75 years of age. And there’s real reason to question now looking at studies that are being done on older adult populations, the impact that these kinds of drugs do do have on that.
What we’re finding is that as adults age the longer they’ve been on these kinds of prescription medications, the more likely they are to have problems like dementia, Alzheimer’s, significant emotional issues, those kinds of things. This is looking at older adults who started on these kinds of drugs in adulthood. What does that look like then for the last two generations of kids who have been started on these kinds of drugs when they were young or when they were in elementary school? What does that look like for them? We don’t know.
The reality is we have no idea and there’s every reason to believe that there’s going to be big problems for these kids down the road. Just looking at what we know and understand about side effects in kids who take them. And that’s the other issue, so not only do we have a very poor research basis, we also have a slew of problematic side effects that accompany these drugs and particularly in kids.
Again, kids bodies and brains are more vulnerable, they’re more sensitive than adults are. And so we’ve got these medications which we really even have very little dosing guidelines on. Most parents don’t realize that either. When a psychiatrist or, you know, a prescriber of whatever sort is prescribing these, for most of these medications, there are no specific guidelines for how to dose them in kids. So they’re taking a guess. “Well, this kid’s maybe half the size of an adult, so we’ll give them half the amount…” They’re really, there’s no rules or standards for that because the studies haven’t been done. So…
Ari Whitten: Yeah, and…. sorry, no go ahead. I’m kind of interrupting.
Dr. Nicole Beurkens, PhD: Well, no. I was just going to say that I think it’s important for parents to understand that. That it’s very much a guessing game and we know there’s a ton of problematic side effects. Everything from worsening their mood and behavior and anxiety problems to causing acute suicidality in kids who were not suicidal. Now we start them on these medications. They’re acutely suicidal or aggressive or a danger to themselves or to other people.
Things like insomnia, causing attention problems. And then we’ve got the physical side effects, chronic headaches, nausea and vomiting, dizziness, all of these types of issues, you know, reduced appetite, all of those things.
So we’ve got poor research basis, medications that haven’t been looked at long term or even short term in many cases with children. We’ve got a slew of side effects and the bottom line is no medication on the market today treats the actual root cause of any of these problems.
So at best, even when we use a medication to try to address a certain symptom, we’re putting a bandaid on that. Even when it’s effective. Because it is true for some kids, they go on a medication like a stimulant and they focus better. Okay, great. But what happens eight hours later when it wears off? Well now they can’t focus again because those medications, even when they seem to work, are a bandaid. They’re not treating the root issue.
And that really is my biggest concern and my biggest complaint about how we treat kids with these medications is we’re not ever getting to the root. We’re just putting these bandaids or we’re actually making worse problems. And we’re never really identifying or treating the underlying reasons why they’re having these symptoms in the first place.
Ari Whitten: Yeah, you nailed it. And that was beautifully said and I’m so glad that you explained that because I was actually wanting to interrupt you to explain exactly what you just said. Which is that there’s this kind of problem with the fundamental paradigm that is popular in the world of modern medicine and that includes psychiatry and to some extent psychology, but more conventional medicine, allopathic medicine.
Which is that the fundamental thing that they’re trying to do is basically look at things on a smaller and smaller level. So right now you have the macro, you’re looking at me or you as the person. Then we go beneath the skin, okay, what’s happening beneath the skin? Okay, what’s happening in the bloodstream, what’s happening at the cellular level, what’s happening with different molecules and biochemical pathways or neurotransmitters, or neurotransmitter receptors and things like that?
And then once they get down to those kinds of levels and they say, “oh, bipolar disorder. We’ve detected this abnormality at the biochemical level” or you know, “depression or anxiety, we’ve detected this abnormality, therefore we found the cause. Okay, so now that we found the cause, because we’ve looked at things on a very micro level and found this biochemical imbalance, we’ve found the cause, now let’s create a drug that interrupts this biochemical pathway in some way and alters it to get it back to normal.”
So that’s like the fundamental paradigm that has been popularized not just within conventional medicine but in the general public as well. That’s how most of the world now thinks about these problems.
But let’s now present a different way of imagining this. Just hypothetically, let’s imagine that, what if that biochemical pathway is also affected by your sleep habits? What if it’s affected by your circadian rhythm and the fact that we live in a modern environment that is chronically disrupting our circadian rhythm? What if it’s affected by the food you eat, you know, novel idea, right?
What if it’s affected by whether you move around versus be sedentary? What if it’s affected by whether you get sun exposure? What if it’s… and have vitamin D and things like that?
What if it’s affected by your interpersonal relationships and community and or whether you’re just sitting in front of your tv or your computer or your phone all day and not interacting with other humans, you know, novel idea, right?
What if it’s affected by… all of those biochemical things on a micro level are affected by all of these things that are, again, back on the macro level that are clearly visible. And, in fact that is, as of course you know, that is of course actually what’s happening.
So the problem is that the modern paradigm has just stopped at the level of the biochemical level and they’ve confused what’s happening there, which are mostly just biochemical correlates of a person’s environment. They are a reflection of their environment and lifestyle. They’ve confused what’s going on there with the cause.
So it’s, to make this really blunt, it’s like the equivalent of somebody smashing their foot with a hammer and then getting pain and bleeding and swelling and then being like, “I have pain in my foot, I guess I need to take a pain killer, a painkilling drug and, and you know, a nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drug or some aspirin or something like that to get rid of the pain” as I continue to smash my foot with a hammer. That’s the paradigm of modern medicine. It’s exaggerated, but that’s largely what it is.
Dr. Nicole Beurkens, PhD: Yeah, that’s absolutely right. And the way that I describe it to people, and there are several people in the world of functional medicine that talk about it this way too, it’s like if I’m sitting on a tack and that’s causing pain, the solution is not to take Tylenol. The solution is to get rid of the tack, take the tack out, right?
That’s really what we’re talking about shifting towards, is a way of conceptualizing of these symptoms and these disorders from a root cause. A way of thinking about it that says, okay, if we can understand the factors that are driving these symptoms, then we can actually start to address those things from the bottom up and start to actually help people heal, help them to improve.
And that’s a totally different way of thinking about it then as you said, the current paradigm. And I’ll tell you, pharmaceutical companies have done an exceptional job of marketing this paradigm and this way of thinking about it because that’s really where it stems from.
This idea of one chemical imbalance, one pill. They have sold that to the world. They’ve sold that to people in the field of medicine, people in the field of mental health, the public at large. I’ve got just about every patient who comes in here, adult, child, whatever they’ve been told, “you have a chemical imbalance. You need to have this medication for the rest of your life to fix this chemical imbalance.”
And the reality is there’s no research to support that. So it’s a huge issue and I’m just really passionate about helping parents understand the bigger dynamics of what’s really going on because ultimately that’s what’s empowering. And you know, what I think is the best thing that we can do for these kids is to help parents feel empowered and capable and competent to help their kids.
Because there is no worse, more stressful feeling in the world than being a mom or being a dad and feeling completely helpless to do anything to support your kid. That’s like the worst feeling in the world. And so my thought is if we can help empower parents by understanding, look, this isn’t something that’s fundamentally flawed about your kid or your parenting. There are reasons why these symptoms are happening and once we understand those, you can do things that will improve those.
That’s incredibly empowering, it’s incredibly energizing, it’s incredibly stress reducing for parents, which then just helps the whole family system and helps the kid.
Ari Whitten: Yeah. Beautiful. So let’s go practical.
Key #1 – Ensure healthy nutrition
Dr. Nicole Beurkens, PhD: Yeah.
Ari Whitten: What specific things should… you know, I think it’s obviously very important that, as you said, that you empower parents with the knowledge of how they can start to help their children beyond just psychiatric drugs.
What are some of these other treatment options and what does this look like on a practical level? And maybe you can give specific examples as far as, you know, obviously there’s a lot of different conditions we’re kind of all blending together, behavioral issues from autism and psychological conditions and things of that nature. So I’ll let you kind of take it whatever direction you feel is appropriate.
Dr. Nicole Beurkens, PhD: Yeah, I mean the good news is regardless of what diagnosis we’re talking about, all of these symptoms exist on a similar type of spectrum and so it’s the same five core foundational things that are important for parents to think about, whether your child has autism or your child has depression or whatever else they may have.
So let’s practically dive into each of these. And I want to give the parents who are listening, you know, a couple of takeaways of things that they can think about in each of those areas. So the first area, and we’ve already been talking about it, is nutrition. There’s just no way around it, what we feed our kids, the food that we put in our bodies has a huge impact on how our brain functions, a huge impact on our mood, on our anxiety level, all of those things. So, you know, I tell kids and parents, when you put garbage in your body, you’re going to get garbage out, you’re going to get garbage behavior, you’re going to get bad moods, those kinds of things.
That’s a simple way of thinking about it. And I am not one of those, you know, professionals who says, “well, you have to go 100 percent organic, start growing your own food, like don’t, you know, don’t go and buy anything from the supermarket.” Look, I am a mom of four, I’m very practical with this stuff.
I’m not shooting for ideal. I’m just shooting for helping parents to make better choices and understanding what those better choices might be. So some of the key things nutritionally, one is in the realm of diet is looking at feeding kids what we would call more whole foods and less processed food. So a whole food is the food the way that it grows or the way that it is, right? So a piece of fish or a potato, a carrot, a, you know, an apple, those types of things. Processed foods are foods that have been manufactured in some way.
There’s been chemicals or things added to them. They tend to be in boxes and bags and those types of things. And you know a food has been processed if you look at the ingredients and it’s more than just what should be in it, right? So a great example is apple sauce. If we were going to make that at home, pretty simple set of ingredients, right? You need some apples, you need some water, you may add a little bit of, you know, some kind of sweetener to it.
But you look at apple sauce packaged on the shelves, which a lot of kids are eating in their lunches or for snacks, and suddenly you see this list of about 75 ingredients on there. It’s a great example of that food has been very heavily processed. And what we know from the research is that the chemicals and the additives and the things that are put in these processed foods can have a very negative effect, not only on kid’s body health, so things like obesity and, you know, blood sugar and those kinds of things. But also on their brain health.
So reducing the amount of processed foods and shifting to more whole foods is one very simple thing that parents can start to do. And if it feels overwhelming, just pick one thing. Just say, “okay, I’m just going to start having more fruits and vegetables available in the house.” Or “I’m going to start reading packages. If I’m going to buy apple sauce,” for example, “for my kid, for a snack, I’m going to compare the options at the store and if there’s one that just has a couple of ingredients and one that has 30 ingredients, I’m going to go with the simpler one, the less processed option.” Very basic things that we can do.
Another basic thing from a food intake perspective is shifting kids towards drinking more water and getting rid of things like the soda pops, the juices, the sports and energy drinks, you know, all of those types of things. That seems like such a basic thing, but it can have a tremendously positive impact on kids because water is really the liquid that we need.
And especially for children, they need to be well hydrated, not only for physical growth but for brain development. And we have a lot of kids walking around pretty dehydrated. And when we think about the amount of sugar and chemicals that are in a lot of things that kids are drinking, very detrimental.
So I think beverages can be a simple starting point, too. And again, does that mean you have to go get rid right now every non water beverage you have in the house? No. And in fact if you have a family situation where you have tended to drink a lot of pop, a lot of juice, a lot of those types of things, it’s going to take some time.
I don’t recommend for most parents for their sanity and their own stress level that they just cold turkey all this. Especially if you have older kids. Start talking about the, start just gently making some shifts in a better direction. The one thing that I would say if parents are looking for what is one type of food or ingredient that would be really essential to avoid giving kids, it would be artificial sweeteners.
Things like aspartame, sucralose. There’s a lot of names that these artificial sweetening chemicals go by. Basically anything that you might see that has the word “diet” or “light,” you know, in it is going to be something with artificial sweeteners. The companies have gotten clever now though. They know that parents are looking for things with lower sugar, so you have to watch the ingredient lists, too, for products marketed towards kids that say “no added sugar.”
Okay. But you have to read what the chemicals are. And the reason I’m so firm about that is because those are known neurotoxins and kids are especially sensitive to them. And so there is just really is no place for those types of artificial sweetener chemicals in a kid’s diet. And it’s relatively easy to get those out. There’s a lot of other options.
In fact, you know, I had a mom say to me just recently, she was a huge Diet Coke drinker. The kids had grown up on Diet Coke and she was like, “I don’t know if I can get rid of soda pop.” I said, “listen, I feel so strongly about getting the aspartame out of your diets that I would rather you go to just drinking regular Coke, that would actually be better for you at this point. Let’s like wean to that and then we’ll work on getting off of that.” That’s how strongly I feel about that and just the difference that that can make for kids. So those are some of the things food wise from a nutrition standpoint…
Ari Whitten: And real quick on that subject. I know the point of artificial sweeteners is still kind of a contentious thing and there’s still debate back and forth and people on both sides. Have you seen in your practice very noticeable results as kids get off of consuming those things?
Dr. Nicole Beurkens, PhD: Absolutely. It’s one of the things that I see the quickest difference in. It’s also one of the things that I see driving a significant number of physical health symptoms in kids as well. So it’s just a good thing I think for parents to get in the habit of reading labels and watching for some of those things that, you know.
Other ones along with that would be things like food dyes, you know, the artificial dyes, anything that has like a color and a number next to it is an artificial food dye and there’s some good research…
Ari Whitten: You mean that blue number 45 doesn’t grow on trees?
Dr. Nicole Beurkens, PhD: No, it’s shocking. I know those blue Slurpees are not like that from the blueberries they add to that. I’m sorry to let you down with that. So I think that’s another type of ingredient that’s pretty easy for parents to look for. And the good news is there’s a lot of companies now that are recognizing that parents are becoming wiser to this stuff and are using more natural, you know, food colorings from natural fruit and vegetable dye.
So it’s pretty easy at this point to find replacements for some of maybe your kid’s favorite snack foods or treats or things like that. There’s a lot of options available in the mass supermarkets where you can find things that don’t have those ingredients. So it’s a good starting point for people, I think.
Ari Whitten: Yeah. One more question on diet. I love how you’ve simplified things. Obviously we live, as you know, and we’ve had discussions about this in the past, but we live in a culture of diet fads and extreme diets and to be frank, very stupid extreme diets.
When parents are often, you know, kind of themselves being influenced by some of these diet trends that are going on, they may be inclined to start tweaking their kid’s diet, you know. If they start believing this food and that food are evil foods that are the source of all of our problems, they may end up putting their kids on those kinds of diet fads that we only find out years later, or many of these people find out who are not necessarily reading the science, find out years later that maybe are not as good as they thought they were. What is your recommendation for people to avoid doing that?
Dr. Nicole Beurkens, PhD: I think it’s really important for parents to think about balance when it comes to food. Any diet that goes to extremes of cutting out whole groupings of… like no carbohydrates. Let’s talk about no carbs for a second because that’s a very popular thing right now, right? The whole more extreme Paleo/keto kinds of things. And I had a couple in here several weeks ago now where they had, at one of the gyms that they attend, had listened to some seminar where, you know, the person doing the seminar recommended the ketogenic diet.
So they decided to go on it and, like you said, then they started feeding the family this way. They have three kids. It is very problematic for kids. We cannot think about children and their nutrition needs in the same way that we think about adults simply from a growth standpoint. And so kids need the full complement of nutrients.
Kids absolutely need carbs to fuel growth. They absolutely need things in all of the different categories. So things that maybe are not as problematic for adults who have reached their full adult height and all of that and are not physically growing anymore, totally different ballgame. When we’re talking about kids, particularly at different developmental points where they have huge need for more calories, for a balance of energy sources in their food, you know, infancy, toddlerhood, and then adolescence. And a lot of times parents think about feeding their kids like they think about feeding themselves. And that’s not appropriate when we consider the growth needs of children.
So I really steer parents and families away from diets that emphasize taking out large portions of the types of foods that are, that we know are supportive of health. Now there are exceptions. You know, I’m talking about some general guidelines for parents to think about when they have kids with these kinds of issues.
There are children with some types of conditions where a very strict or restrictive type of diet is important. Seizure disorder, certain types of seizure disorders would be one example where we know that a well done, well put together ketogenic diet plan can be essential for some children to manage their seizures.
But if a child is going to require something like that as part of their medical treatment plan, that needs to be done with a team of professionals who understand how to meet the child’s growth needs, how to meet their overall nutrient needs in the context of that diet.
That cannot and should not be done because I read six articles on the internet where somebody said, “oh, this would be a good thing to do, so I just start playing around with it.” Same thing with some children we know on the autism spectrum or with related more significant neurodevelopmental kinds of issues.
There is good research evidence that diets that restrict things like gluten and dairy, for example, or specific carbohydrate diets or, you know, certain types of Paleo diets can be helpful for them. Again, you have to have a foundation first of good healthy parameters around eating, which means we’ve got as many whole foods as possible. We have a good balance of fruits and vegetables and all of the compliment of things that provide the nutrients that kids need.
Because what I see quite a bit of is parents who have gone to a lot of professionals even and their kids had been put on different kinds of diets. And what’s interesting to me is you can still be on a junky diet even on one of these specific nutrition kinds of plans. And gluten and dairy free is a great example of that.
I see many kids come in and they’re like, “well, we’re doing this gluten and casein free diet.” And I’m like, “great, let’s talk about what they’re eating.” And they’re eating a diet that’s full of packaged, processed, junkie gluten and dairy free stuff. That’s not a nutrient dense health or brain supportive diet even though it doesn’t have gluten or casein in it. So I think that it’s really important to get those foundations in place and then if we need to dig deeper and look at removing certain types of foods or having certain types of composition to the diet, great. Then let’s do that if it’s necessary.
But the reality is the majority of kids with these kinds of issues see significant benefit just from putting the foundations of good nutrition and good eating in place.
Key #2 – Getting proper sleep
Ari Whitten: Yeah. Beautiful. So what else beyond nutrition? We are a little overtime here, so maybe two more factors, whatever you have time for.
Dr. Nicole Beurkens, PhD: Let’s talk about the other two that I think are critical. The second is sleep. And I think again, parents underestimate the impact of sleep and quality sleep and getting enough sleep on kids’ development and their brains.
And there’s just a slew of research showing us that children with these kinds of conditions – autism, ADHD, anxiety, depression – many of them have disrupted sleep. They aren’t getting enough sleep and it becomes a chicken and an egg thing. Okay, so does the condition caused the sleep problem or is it the sleep problem causing the condition?
The bottom line is it really doesn’t matter from the standpoint of we need to address the sleep problem. Some of the big things that parents should be watching for, you know, if your child has difficulty settling down and falling asleep at night, if they are having episodes of night waking pretty consistently where they’re not sleeping all the way through the night and they’re, you know, obviously not an infant anymore.
Episodes of night terrors, recurrent nightmares, kids who have chronic issues with nightmares, kids who are doing a lot of sleep talking, sleepwalking kids with restless legs or just restless sleep in general. You know, the kind of kid that nobody wants to be in the bed with them because they kick and thrash and you know, are banging into the wall next to their bed all night. Snoring. Those types of things.
All of those are red flags that we have a sleep issue, either a quantity or quality or both issue with sleep that needs to be addressed. And you know, there’s studies that have been done specific to ADHD, for example, that show that anywhere from 25 to 40 percent of kids diagnosed with ADD or ADHD actually have an undiagnosed and untreated sleep disorder. That when you treat the problems with their sleep, suddenly they don’t have the symptoms of ADD/ADHD anymore.
That’s how powerful sleep is, and it is for all of us. I mean obviously we all need good sleep to function. But again, children are more susceptible to problems with sleep and so it’s really something for parents to be aware of and to pursue with their healthcare provider, to work with somebody who will really help them be able to address that.
So that’s the second area.
Key # 3 – Ensure your child moves every day
And the third one is movement. Kids cannot grow and develop properly, cannot regulate their moods, their stress level, their learning, any of that stuff if they’re not getting adequate movement. So ensuring that kids are having periods of physical activity during the day. And unfortunately we can’t count on them getting that at school anymore. Most schools now, even from very young ages are reducing or eliminating recess periods.
They’re not giving the kids time to go out and do physically active play.
Gym classes are getting cut. So kids even from kindergarten on are spending a lot of time sitting at desks, sitting behind computer screens. So as parents we need to make sure then that after school, in the evenings, on the weekends, that they’re getting physical movement.
That we are requiring that they put down the devices or turn off the TV and that they go out and ride their bike, run around with the neighbor kids, climb a tree, take a walk, do whatever it is they’re going to do. That’s really critically important for just their mental health, for their physical health, all of that.
So hopefully that gives people some tangible things to think about in those three areas, at least, that they can start applying with their kids.
Key #4 – Establish a good relationship with technology
Ari Whitten: One more I want to ask you about, technology. Obviously this is a huge issue and I know we’re just scratching the surface of your knowledge here and we could probably do a part two, maybe we should do a part two.
Dr. Nicole Beurkens, PhD: That’d be fun!
Ari Whitten: But technology, like this is a huge problem as you talked about earlier. I have a niece for example, who is a beautiful really smart girl who has grown up in a great family with us and very connected to us, connected to her uncles, me and my brother, as well as my parents, her grandparents and she’s been just such a joy all of her life.
And then she got into her teenage years and now she just has no interest in connecting with the family and she just wants to be left alone and stare at her phone. She will stare at her phone for hours and be annoyed if anybody tries to talk to her. So, you know, technology is a big problem. Is there… and it’s obviously very addictive. Is there any thing that you would recommend on that front?
Dr. Nicole Beurkens, PhD: Yeah. I recommend that parents be aware of the negative impact that extended and extended periods of time and overuse of technology can have on kids. And it’s interesting because we’re the first generation of parents parenting kids in this 24/7 sort of internet connected, wifi connected, device connected society, right?
Our parents didn’t have to deal with that and so we’re figuring out as we go along and a lot of adults are struggling with managing their own use of these devices, right? So it’s important to be aware that the research is showing more and more very clearly that over use of these devices is creating problems for our kids. So the bottom line is moms and dads, we have to be willing to be the bad guy in this situation.
We have to be willing to put limits in place and we have to be willing to enforce those limits for the good of our kids.
No kid is going to be happy with mom or dad saying, “time to turn the TV off, time to put the smartphone down,” you know, whatever it is, we’re doing something else. Or “you have to go outside and play, you know, practice your piano, get your homework done, whatever before we do the devices.” No kid’s going to be happy with that.
But it’s one of those things where we don’t need our kids to be happy about it. We need to do that for their own good. And we need to model limits and boundaries for ourselves and healthy use for ourselves of these devices.
Really tough to tell a 13-year-old you can’t, you know, use your device for hours at a time when they see us come home from work and basically spend the entire evening sitting and scrolling through facebook or doing work on the computer or whatever.
So we need to be models for that. Two things I want parents to think about. The first is device free meal times. Simple basic rule and standard that I think is important and necessary and that every parent should implement in their home.
Nobody needs to have an electronic device at the dinner table, at the lunch table if we’re all eating together. When we’re eating, that is a time to socialize, to engage with one another, to engage with our food, to be present in the process of eating and spending time together.
And we can do that for 15 or 20 minutes without having our devices. So a very simple starting point. The second thing is devices in the bedroom at night. Big, big no-no. And it’s something that I work with parents on extensively. Nothing good happens in the middle of the night for your kid on the internet period.
There’s no reason a child of any age needs to have access to the internet or their devices in the night. I know they will tell you “but I use it as my alarm, how am I going to get up in the morning?” You can go to Target and buy a $5 alarm clock just like we all had growing up, and lo and behold, they can get up in the morning.
So I’m really, really firm on that with the families that I work with because I see the really detrimental impact that device usage has on kids sleep patterns, on their ability to regulate their behavior and their emotions, and just socially and emotionally the stuff that they might be engaging within those unsupervised hours at night.
Even if they’re telling you, “oh, I’m not doing anything.” No, there’s just… it’s one more thing that parents don’t need to deal with the stress of monitoring what kids are doing on those devices at night. You have a spot in the kitchen or wherever you want to put that, where everyone in the family puts their devices before bedtime.
That’s where they’re charged and housed overnight and we can engage with those when we wake up. We’re not having those things in the bedroom during the night.
Ari Whitten: Beautiful. Well, Nicole, I have absolutely loved this interview and I love the work you’re doing, I think it’s so, so important. And I think also, I mean I just love all of the positive repercussions of this. You know, how this trickles down to so many different areas of the happiness and the health of the parents and the kids and their ability to relate to one another in a happy, healthy way. And I mean it’s just, you’re just spreading love and happiness throughout so many different layers through the work that you’re doing.
And I just, I really appreciate everything that you do. Also, I personally want to recommend to everyone that they go out and get your book. It’s not a new book. It’s not like you’re just launching this, but it is wonderful.
You gave me this copy when we met about a year and a half ago, “Life Will Get Better: Simple Solutions for Parents of Children with Attention, Anxiety, Mood, and Behavior Challenges.” And you can get it on Amazon. And anything else? Where can people follow your work and learn more about what you do?
Dr. Nicole Beurkens, PhD: Yeah, so my website is drbeurkens.com, or they can also go to the clinic website, which is horizonsdrc.com. We work with families throughout the United States and all over the world. So they can connect with me there, lots of free videos and articles and lots of resources to help parents plug into these ideas and to just learn more about the things that we started to scratch the surface with tonight.
Ari Whitten: Beautiful. Well thank you so much Dr. Beurkens. Oh by the way, how do you spell your last name? So your website is drbeurkens…
Dr. Nicole Beurkens, PhD: Yeah, that’s a good one, it’s b-e-u-r-k-e-n-s.
Ari Whitten: Wonderful. So drbeurkens.com. I hope you guys have enjoyed this interview. I personally have absolutely loved it. So thank you again Dr. Nicole. And have a wonderful night.
Dr. Nicole Beurkens, PhD: Thank you so much.
Ari Whitten: Hey there, this is Ari again. One more quick thing before you go. Just make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel, The Energy Blueprint. And also make sure to subscribe to this podcast on your favorite podcast platform, whether that’s iTunes or Stitcher or anything else. Hope you guys enjoyed this interview and I will see you again next week.
4 Natural Lifestyle Hacks To Fix Behavioral Issues And Mental Illness In Children (And Manage Your Energy As A Parent) with Dr. Nicole Beurkens, PhD – Show notes
Why supporting parents is essential for helping a child with mental illness (3:00)
What science actually says about treating mental illness in children (and adults) (10:49)
Why we see an increase in children with mental illness and behavioral issues (17:43)
The importance of social life and community for good mental health (25:22)
Why behavioral issues and mental illness in children can be connected to lifestyle (and why medication may not be the answer) (29:54)
Key #1 – Ensure healthy nutrition (45:30)
Key #2 – Getting proper sleep (1:00:05)
Key # 3 – Ensure your child moves every day (1:02:27)
Key #4 – Establish a good relationship with technology (1:03:44)
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1 The Terminator
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I liked him as a villain in T1. not so much in the others
I just love his invincible spirit. Rocky is real hero who inspired millions - Alexandr
3 Iron Man
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4 Ace Ventura
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6 Austin Powers
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7 Jack Sparrow
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8 James Bond
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9 Maxwell Smart
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11 John McClane
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12 John Rambo
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13 Hit Girl
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From the "Kick-Ass" series.
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14 Ellen Ripley
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How to Deal with Snow in Your Yard
Don’t worry about natural or windblown snow if nothing is bent or breaking.
In most cases, snow is nothing to fear in the garden – it’s a great insulator, and it melts to provide much needed water to dry plants in the winter. However, heavy snow and ice buildup can cause devastating damage in the garden if limbs and trunks bend or break. Here’s what you need to know about dealing with snow and ice in the yard and garden.
The bent limbs on these Leyland cypress may recover in spring.
Should You Remove Snow and Ice?
- Natural Snow Cover: Even if it’s deep, a blanket or windblown drift of snow is nothing to worry about – in fact, it acts as an extra layer of insulating mulch!
- Manmade Snow Cover: Most snow damage is caused by humans using snowplows, shovels, and snowblowers. Pushed or mechanically blown snow is dense and slow to melt, and it can break a strong shrub right in two. Be careful not to pile snow on your plants by mechanical means as it will then need to be removed and might do damage you can’t prevent.
- Bent Branches: Tender branches (particularly conifers) may become broken or weighed down with heavy snow and can a hard time springing back into shape. The fallen snow can also melt and refreeze to form devastating ice.
- Snow from Roofs: Remove snow from roofs (if you can safely), and remove the piles of snow that may cascade down onto your shrubs from the roof above. If your shrubs are right in the danger zone under a steep roof, you may want to protect them with a temporary wooden frame.
Snowplows can damage plants.
Sweep gently upwards to dislodge snow from shrubs and other plants.
How to Remove Snow from Shrubs and Plants
- Sweep Gently: Using a broom or your hands, GENTLY sweep in an upward motion, loosening the snow and allowing it to fall. Don’t sweep downward, as you might break an already bent branch, and don’t shake the plant. The branches will be very brittle and already stressed, so disturb them as little as possible.
- Avoid Accumulation: You’ll have much less damage to your plants if you remove snow after every couple of inches of accumulation, rather than waiting until it’s deep.
- Leave Ice Alone: Don’t try to remove ice, as the branch will likely break. Once ice has formed, you really should just wait it out.
- Be Safe: Never try to remove snow or ice from overhead branches! There’s a high risk of breakage, and you don’t want heavy limbs falling on you, your house, or your car!
Don’t try to remove ice from plants as it can cause more damage.
How to Prevent Damage to Plants
- Tie Up Plants: Before the snow, use plant netting to tie up the branches of your conifers and soft shrubs, to prevent them from being misshapen or broken by snow. Tie them in a cone shape, to deflect snow off to the sides.
- Move Containers: Put planters and containers under a shed or porch during snow and ice storms to keep freezing water from expanding and breaking containers.
- Keep Off Grass: Snow covered grass is fragile, easily uprooted, and susceptible to fungal diseases under the snow. Reducing foot traffic will help the snow stay light and melt faster, and it will keep your grass blades firmly rooted.
- Avoid Salt: Salt can damage lawns and plants when it runs off your driveway. If your plants have been exposed to salt, water and rinse them well as soon as temperatures are above freezing. Next time, use sand or clay-based kitty litter instead of salt.
- Prune Damaged Limbs: Head outdoors as soon as the ice melts to assess damage. Cracked branches can sometimes heal if they’re firmly tied back in place. Broken branches should be pruned away immediately to prevent injury and disease. Ragged tears are very susceptible to infection, so remove damaged wood using clean cuts.
- Wait for Spring: The extent of the damage often won’t be clear until spring, when you find out if your plant will be able to spring back into shape. Wait for spring to do any staking or reshaping of bent plants, since winter branches are extremely brittle. In the spring they’ll be much more supple.
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The skin loses elasticity over time, which causes it to become saggy. Even if you’ve managed to lose weight, chances are you still have loose, hanging skin. A tummy tuck removes excess skin and drapes the remaining skin to improve the contours of the stomach area.
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