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"Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had." – Michael Crichton
Today's undoubtedly controversial article will be but one of many articles dismantling the myth surrounding cholesterol, saturated fat and cardiovascular health. Indeed, it's not uncommon, even from so-called medical and health professionals, to hear something along the lines of;
"Cholesterol and saturated fat are bad because they increase blood cholesterol levels; therefore we must try to limit both in our diets such that we lower our blood cholesterol levels and prevent heart disease."
Straight from the American Heart Association website
Indeed, the anti-saturated fat, anti-cholesterol fear-mongering propaganda campaign – or as it's commonly known in medical and research circles as the 'lipid hypothesis' or 'diet-heart theory' – is the scientific consensus that saturated fat and cholesterol promote cardiovascular disease (CVD) through elevated levels of blood lipids. What's worse is that this flawed dogma has dominated medical and nutritional orthodoxy for decades, affecting the lives of millions of people worldwide. Despite not having one shred of convincing evidence showing either of these nutrients as causative of CVD, major health organizations around the globe still promote diets lower in saturated fat and cholesterol to help reduce purportedly deadly levels of blood cholesterol. This has undoubtedly caused many people to take potentially harmful prescription medication and completely transform their diets into an unpalatable one that has no cardiovascular benefit whatsoever. In reality, some of the recommended changes (like consuming so-called 'heart-healthy' polyunsaturated fats) have actually been shown to increase ones risk of CVD, as well as, all-cause mortality and even some cancers!
Today we will be looking through a historical lens whilst unraveling the myth at hand. In doing so we will examine some of the fundamental research that pushed the idea that saturated fats and cholesterol promote CVD. In subsequent articles we will delve further into the research that both (apparently) supports the diet-heart theory, as well as, outright contradicts its. By the end of this series (however long it is), I hope you will see what complete and utter nonsense it is to fear arbitrary blood levels of cholesterol, and more importantly, some of your favorite fatty foods that have never been proven to cause CVD. In addition, I hope to shed some light on the actual causes of CVD as well as outline some recommendations that will assuredly do more for preventing CVD than our currently flawed dietary ways.
So without further ado, let us examine the foundation for which the greatest scam in the history of medicine was built upon!
From Russia with lipids [1]
Our story begins over 100 years ago in the, then, Russian Empire. Here in 1908, Alexander Ignatovski of the Russian Imperial Military Medical Academy first demonstrated that diet-induced atherosclerosis could be produced in rabbits fed full-fat milk, meat and egg yolks. The following year, Starokadomsky and Ssobolew verified Ignatovski's results using a similar feeding protocol. While Ignatovsky and others thought that it might be animal proteins that clogged the arteries of the rabbits, it wasn't until 1913 when NW Wesselkin and, subsequently, Anitschkow et al. demonstrated that it was indeed cholesterol, and not protein, that was the primary driver behind the aortic lesions and cardiovascular buildup in the rabbits.
It was from these among many, many other animal studies that pushed the idea that dietary fat and cholesterol cause CVD – an idea that apparently never let go. Of importance, however, is that these studies are hardly evidence of cholesterol's artery clogging capabilities in humans. For one, rabbits are herbivorous animals and are not well-adapted to metabolize large amounts of animal protein, fat or cholesterol (and believe me, these animals were eating an insane amount of each). It's no wonder that, when force-fed a completely alien diet comprised of animal sources, the rabbits developed atherosclerosis, cirrhotic livers, and kidney disease. Indeed, subsequent trials to induce experimental atherosclerosis were effective in other herbivorous animals – such as chickens and guinea pigs – but failed completely in carnivorous animals –like cats and dogs – that are well-adapted to consume animal protein, fat and cholesterol. It is only until the dog's thyroids are experimentally removed and/or suppressed with drugs that scientists see any effects from diet on serum cholesterol and CVD.
It is also worth noting that cholesterol feeding in rabbits and other experimental animals has a profound effect on serum cholesterol levels and producing CVD. Unlike early animal experiments, however, more recent human feeding trials have consistently shown cholesterol elevations to be trivial with respect to dietary cholesterol intake [2]. While these early animal studies offered a potential model for human CVD, they were far from supportive of cholesterol's causative role in human disease progression, despite what many proponents of the diet-heart theory initially believed.
The diet-heart theory
Before we continue, it would behoove me to expand on what the 'diet-heart theory' or 'lipid hypothesis' is (I'll be using them interchangeably throughout the article). After all, it is this very hypothesis that health professionals base their (blatantly unfounded and politically biased) medical and nutritional guidance off of.
As alluded to earlier, the diet-heart hypothesis proposes that cardiovascular disease – that is, the buildup of cholesterol in the arterial walls – is due simply to high levels of cholesterol in the blood. Moreover, the relationship between cholesterol and cardiovascular disease has been (falsely) deemed linear, meaning that the higher one's blood cholesterol levels the more sclerotic one will become. Don't believe me?
The American Heart Association states online that;
"When too much LDL (bad) cholesterol circulates in the blood, it can slowly build up in the inner walls of the arteries [;]"
While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention states that;
"Low-density lipoproteins (LDL) cholesterol make up the majority of the body's cholesterol. LDL is known as "bad" cholesterol because having high levels can lead to a buildup in the arteries and result in heart disease [;]"
And lastly, the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute states that;
"When there is too much cholesterol…in your blood, it builds up in the walls of your arteries."
It is from this insanely simplistic and faulty reasoning that these same organizations promote the unnecessary lowering of cholesterol – usually with the mindless prescription of toxic statins as well as flawed nutritional guidance – because, if high cholesterol is bad, than lower is obviously better. Unfortunately, this outdated and politically driven claim has no roots in sound science whatsoever.
Early autopsy studies
If we are to take the lipid hypothesis at face value, one should expect to see greater plaque buildup in the arteries of people whose serum cholesterol is higher than those whose is lower. One of the first autopsy studies to examine this relationship was conducted in 1936 by pathologist Kurt Landé and biochemist Warren Sperry of the Department of Forensic Medicine at NYU [3]. Landé and Sperry meticulously analyzed the fatty buildup in the aortas of subject's who had just violently died and compared that to the patient's post-mortem measurements of serum cholesterol. As you can see below, they found absolutely no relationship between serum cholesterol and fatty deposition in the arteries. This flies right in the face of the lipid hypothesis!
For years, however, this research was discounted by early diet-heart proponents based on the claim that serum cholesterol measurements taken post-mortem weren't reliable.
The next autopsy study wasn't conducted until 1956 in London, Canada [4]. Here, Paterson and co. took blood samples – starting in 1953 – of 800 hospitalized war veterans periodically over the course of each patient's lifespan. Upon death, the patient was autopsied and the degree of atherosclerosis was evaluated in the aorta and compared to ante mortem blood concentrations of cholesterol. Like Landé and Sperry, Paterson et al. found no relationship between blood levels of cholesterol and the degree of fatty deposition in the arteries of the 136 patients for which they had autopsy and blood measurements for. Again, however, these results were largely ignored by diet-heart theorists.
It wasn't until the early 1960's that another autopsy study, conducted by KS Mathur in Agra, India, lent some much needed credence to the aforementioned Landé and Sperry paper [5]. Here, over 500 subjects were autopsied and their blood levels of cholesterol were compared to the degree of atherosclerotic buildup. This time, however, samples were taken both before and after death in a subgroup of 20 patients to see whether or not ante and post mortem blood lipid samples remained similar. The researchers noted two important findings; 1) serum cholesterol levels remain relatively unchanged after death as long as the sample is taken within 16 hours post-mortem, and; 2) there was no relationship between serum cholesterol and atherosclerotic buildup in the 200 patients whose serum cholesterol levels were taken within 16 hours post mortem. This was important as these findings verified Landé and Sperry's highly criticized study 30 years earlier.
If higher cholesterol truly is – as we are brainwashed to believe – indicative of worsening atherosclerosis, there should be a strikingly and convincingly obvious relationship between blood lipid levels and arterial fatty deposition. The strongest correlation, however, between serum cholesterol and atherosclerosis that any of the autopsy studies could provide was a paltry r value of 0.36 [6-10]. To put this into perspective, an r value is a statistical method used to determine the strength of the relationship between two values – like that of serum cholesterol and arterial fat deposition. A perfect association would be 1. Much to the chagrin of lipid hypothesists, a weak r value of 0.36 is, at best, nothing more than wishful thinking. The more probable possibility – and something that we will talk about more in the next installment – is that any association seen between cholesterol and atherosclerosis is secondary in nature.
Enter Ancel Keys' Six Countries "Study"
As reality would have it, the current cholesterol theory of heart disease was founded upon highly irrelevant animal feeding experiments as well as some of the worst "research" ever conducted. And yes, I'm talking about the "research" of one, Ancel Keys from The University of Minnesota. Keys is probably one of the most well-known and often cited researchers when it comes to our current understanding of diet and cardiovascular health. And while his diet-heart "research" is complete and utter bat crap, I feel some obligation to at least mention that he made great advancements in what we known about human physiology during his famous Minnesota Starvation Study during the Second World War [11]. While his earlier career and prestige are not in dispute, I do take umbrage with the carelessness that scientists and researchers, to this day, still cite his rubbish of coronary heart disease "studies" – the first of which was his hugely biased Six Countries "Study" [12].
Quite simply, this "study" examined six hand-picked countries and their intake of fat and compared that to the number of deaths from coronary heart disease. Keys noticed a perfectly positive curvilinear association between fat intake, as a percentage of calories, and coronary deaths (shown below, EDIT: must click on graph to see it, for some reason the image doesn't show properly within the text).
While Keys was initially somewhat conservative in his concluding remarks, stating that, "dietary fat somehow is associated with cardiac disease mortality at least in middle age," ZA Leitner, in a subsequent publication in Medical World, interpreted Keys' findings slightly more emphatically [13]:
"There appears to be a strong if not convincing correlation between the amount of fat in the diet and the death rate from degenerative heart disease."
Perhaps this gave Keys a sense of confidence over his prior remarks, because in a follow-up publication using the same data, one could read from Keys that [14];
"[T]here is a remarkable relationship between the death rate from degenerative heart disease and the proportion of fat calories in the […] diet."
Leitner's and Keys' enthusiasm, however, was not unanimous. Researchers skeptical of Keys' "study" pointed out that relevant data was available for 22 countries at the time and that Keys did nothing more than cherry-pick his data set to include the countries which supported his preconceived hypothesis of diet and heart disease. Indeed, when data from all 22 countries are incorporated into the analysis, the perfect relationship between fat and heart disease disappears [15]. Anyone who even considers themselves a student of science should be appalled at Keys' blatant disregard for the scientific method. Indeed, at a subsequent World Health Organization convention held in Geneva, Switzerland in 1954, Keys' "study" was met with considerable criticism leaving him completely embarrassed and humiliated. Long-time research assistant from The University of Minnesota, Henry Blackburn, recounts the occasion [16];
"Ancel fell into a trap, he made a mistake; he cited a piece of evidence and they were able to destroy it. Instead of citing 'well, this theory's based on a body of evidence that we've seen here and here from the clinic, from the laboratory, and from comparing populations', he didn't make his case. He cited a piece–destroyed."
It was from this public humiliation that Keys' more widely known Seven Countries Study was born (hell, if six countries weren't good enough surely seven will do the trick!).
The infamous Seven Countries Study
Unfortunately, Keys' subsequent "study" in the late 1950's was nothing more than a fancier extension of his first piece of epidemiological garbage. As before, another hand-selected set of seven countries were analyzed and, again, another positive association was seen between countries with the highest intakes of saturated fat/cholesterol and rates of coronary, as well as, all-cause mortality [17]. However, when the "study" is analyzed more closely, one starts to notice that comparisons within countries – as opposed to between countries – start to dismantle Keys' initial claims about diet and heart disease. It is funny how science doesn't give a damn about one's preconceived dietary biases.
Within-country contradictions
Take for instance the reported similar intakes of saturated fat in the Finnish populations of Turku and North Kerelia. Despite comparable intakes diets, heart disease was three times higher in North Kerelia than in Turku.
In Greece, despite the residents of Crete and Corfu having near identical levels of serum cholesterol (202mg/dl and 198mg/dl, respectively), heart disease was five times higher in Crete than in Corfu.
Lastly, Crevalcore and Montegiorgio – two cities in Italy – had identical levels of serum cholesterol despite Crevalcore having almost two and half times greater heart disease mortality rates!
Nevertheless, despite these discordant findings, Keys' went on to conclude that lower cholesterol and saturated fat intakes reduce the risk for heart disease. Perhaps he also overlooked that, while the Japanese (a population we will cover more in subsequent articles) had the lowest levels of cholesterol in the entire study it was actually the residents of Crete, Greece who, despite having considerably higher cholesterol levels, exhibited the lowest overall rates of heart disease and all-cause mortality! Only in American can biased research get you a cover spot on Time magazine and have your false conclusions become dietary dogma for the next 60+ years!
Riding in the wake of the early animal feeding experiments and the poorly conducted paper-excise that was Ancel Keys' Six Countries Study was one of the first U.S. trials to be published on diet and heart disease – The Anti-Coronary Club Program (ACC) [18]. This study took place around the same time that Keys' was conducting his follow-up Seven Countries Study and was meant to test whether or not lowering one's cholesterol via dietary means would be associated with a decreased incidence of heart disease. Before we continue, though, I just want to point out the humor with which diet-heart theorists conduct themselves in the scientific literature.
In a 1980 publication of The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition some of the original members of the ACC study tried to justify their reasoning for their experimental dietary intervention – albeit 14 years late and a dollar short [19]. Indeed, the original paper makes no mention of the previous research suggesting potential dietary strategies for the prevention of heart disease – quite simply because there was none! Nevertheless the authors, over a decade later, state that:
"At that time, sufficient epidemiological evidence […] implicating serum cholesterol in the development of coronary heart disease (CHD) was already available to warrant a public health approach to the prevention of CHD by means of dietary intervention."
However, in 1957 when the ACC study was just taking flight, a review paper in Circulation, examining the literature to-date, concluded the following [20]:
"Thus, the evidence at present does not convey any specific implications for drastic dietary changes, specifically in the quantity or type of fat in the diet of the general population, on the premise that such changes will definitely lessen the incidence of coronary or cerebral artery disease."
It's funny how people only see what they want to see when trying to push their dietary agenda.
Still, in the ACC study, researchers assigned one group of men with no prior history of heart disease to replace their saturated fat intake from whole milk, eggs, butter and beef with polyunsaturated fats from vegetable oil, margarine, and fish (the 'Prudent Diet' group). The control group, on the other hand, went on consuming their normal diet, rich in eggs, whole milk, butter and beef. After four years, the Prudent Dieters successfully managed to lower their cholesterol levels from about 260mg/dl to an average of 225mg/dl while the control group shamefully maintained their cholesterol around 250-255mg/dl. Throughout the paper the authors heralded the prudent diet's ability to drive down cholesterol levels as well as reduce non-fatal heart disease events. However, one must read the paper carefully, because amidst all the praise and commendation, ones sees clearly that eight subjects in the experimental group – that's right, those consuming ample amounts of "heart-healthy" PUFAs (which lower LDL and raise HDL) and hammering down their cholesterol levels by an average of 30mg/dl – died of coronary heart disease (CHD). The control group on the other hand, tallied not one death from CHD. So while the control group had a slightly higher incidence of heart disease events, the prudent diet actually caused more deaths from heart disease than control diet rich in "artery clogging" saturated fat and cholesterol. Perhaps it was the vegetable oil talking when the authors touted a huge success of the dietary intervention.
Concluding remarks
The facts presented above aren't just a recount of a few isolated cases. No, the blatant disregard for contradictory research and the misquoting or playing down findings is rife within the diet-heart literature over the past 60+ years. To quote Professor George Mann of Vanderbilt University, the diet-heart hypothesis it is quite possibly, "[t]he greatest scam in the history of medicine." As we continue analyzing the literature it will become more and more obvious how those who are fully invested in the lipid hypothesis only hear what they want to hear, see what they want to see, and disclose what they want to disclose.
Next time we will talk about cholesterol and its role in the human body as well as take a look at more of the often cited epidemiological evidence and see why the very studies used to support the lipid hypothesis do no such thing and, in most cases, outright contradict it!
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2. McNamara DJ: The impact of egg limitations on coronary heart disease risk: do the numbers add up? J Am Coll Nutr 2000, 19:540S-548S.
3. Landé K, Sperry, W.: Arch Pathol 1936, 22:301-312.
4. Armstrong EC, Cornish BR, Paterson JC: The serum lipids in human atherosclerosis; an interim report. Circulation 1956, 13:224-234.
5. Mathur KS, Patney NL, Kumar V, Sharma RD: Serum cholesterol and atherosclerosis in man. Circulation 1961, 23:847-852.
6. Feinleib M, Kannel WB, Tedeschi CG, Landau TK, Garrison RJ: The relation of antemortem characteristics to cardiovascular findings at necropsy–The Framingham Study. Atherosclerosis 1979, 34:145-157.
7. Solberg LA, Strong JP, Holme I, Helgeland A, Hjermann I, Leren P, Mogensen SB: Stenoses in the coronary arteries. Relation to atherosclerotic lesions, coronary heart disease, and risk factors. The Oslo Study. Lab Invest 1985, 53:648-655.
8. Mendez J, Tejada C: Relationship between serum lipids and aortic atherosclerotic lesions in sudden accidental deaths in Guatemala City. Am J Clin Nutr 1967, 20:1113-1117.
9. Rhoads GG, Blackwelder WC, Stemmermann GN, Hayashi T, Kagan A: Coronary risk factors and autopsy findings in Japanese-American men. Lab Invest 1978, 38:304-311.
10. Okumiya N, Tanaka K, Ueda K, Omae T: Coronary atherosclerosis and antecedent risk factors: pathologic and epidemiologic study in Hisayama, Japan. Am J Cardiol 1985, 56:62-66.
11. Keys A, Brozek, J., Henschel, A., Mickelson, O., Taylor, H.L.: The Biology of Human Starvation I-II. Minneapolis, MN.: University of Minnesota Press; 1950.
12. Keys A: Atherosclerosis: a problem in newer public health. J Mt Sinai Hosp N Y 1953, 20:118-139.
13. Leitner ZA: Diet and coronary disease. Med World 1954, 81:249-254.
14. Keys A, Anderson, JT. : Symposium on Atherosclerosis, National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council. 1955, 338.
15. Yerushalmy J, Hilleboe HE: Fat in the diet and mortality from heart disease; a methodologic note. N Y State J Med 1957, 57:2343-2354.
16. Health revolutionary: The life and work of Ancel Keys. School of Public Health, University of Minnesota: University of Minnesota; 2002.
17. Keys A: Coronary heart disease in seven countries. Circulation 1970, 41:1-211.
18. Christakis G, Rinzler SH, Archer M, Kraus A: Effect of the Anti-Coronary Club program on coronary heart disease. Risk-factor status. JAMA 1966, 198:597-604.
19. Singman HS, Berman SN, Cowell C, Maslansky E, Archer M: The Anti-Coronary Club: 1957 to 1972. Am J Clin Nutr 1980, 33:1183-1191.
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14.02.18 – 14.04.18
Morten Skrøder Lund: ome
Julia Muggenburg is delighted to announce the representation of Morten Skrøder Lund on the eve of his second solo show at the gallery, ome, together with work by Carl Buchheister (1890 – 1964).
Can a painting capture a moment in time before the moment dissolves?
Morten Skrøder Lund is labouring over canvassed surfaces in order to respond to this self-imposed chore. His canvases use colour and shape outside aggregates of abstract or figurative ideas. Many 20th Century painters have extensively dealt with these alleged opposites, but Skrøder Lund seeks his thrills outside outmoded criteria, melding polar positions into a seemingly momentous painting. Forging ahead, the artist is looking to create situations and compositions, where an openness allows his forms to dissolve into a perceptible transient instance.
Any work which may have taken Skrøder Lund some time to complete, due to it lying fallow and only worked on again after an incubation period, suddenly picked up on and completed. Here the studio becomes his laboratory for the play of instinctive, gravitational forces. A place where transgression is documented in terms of a magnified microcosm. Glimpses of what appears to the viewer to be a blink of a memory becomes also something familiar, each work can veer between the flat and the blazing.
Each painting is visibly segmented by the artist, wishing to capture this vital and distant moment frozen in time, amplified by colour perpetually tangible and visible. Expressive gestures and experimental endeavours which sometimes include foreign bodies and alien matter being applied onto the surface are all characteristic as to how far the artist is willing to go; forever different to one another, often rhythmical facets of a universe.
Carl Buchheister, pioneer in his time, explored painting through texture, surface and materiality. Despite being placed under Malverbot, the period during the Third Reich in which certain artists were forbidden to paint or sculpt, the artist went immediately back to his practice and continued to explore the early compositions he repainted and interpreted multiple times over his lifetime. He touched on Dada, Bauhaus, Early Abstraction and Constructivism as well as instigating the introduction of materials, such as acrylic glass and aluminum, to the flat surfaces of painting. ome seeks to explore the two artist's practice alongside one another, presenting Morten Skrøder Lund as a lateral painter attempting to project his work further.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a text by Ben Street.
Carl Buchheister (1890-1964) born Hanover, Germany. Buchheister was a 20th century constructivist artist and was a close friend of Wassily Kandinsky, he paralleled many of the social and artistic goals of the Bauhaus school. With regard to constructivism, Buchheister was typically more playful and improvisational than his contemporaries, becoming interested in the Dada movement after a collaboration with Kurt Schwitters in the late 1920s which led him to incorporate more varied materials such as acrylic glass, aluminum, wood, and twine into his compositions. This direction was given much freer rein after World War II and the end of Nazism.
Morten Skrøder Lund (born 1980) lives and works in Berlin. 2003–09 MFA, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Professor Tumi Magnusson. Selected exhibitions include: 2017, IF YOU DON'T LIKE ART, GOODBYE, FUCK OFF, GO-HOME..., Nordic Contemporary Art Collection, NoCo, Vestfossen. Becoming Zero, Galleri Flach, Stockholm. Yey, an unusual way of spelling yay, Jir Sandel, Los Angeles. 2016, Mustang, Ltd. Los Angeles. 2015, Lyst, Christian Andersen, Copenhagen. Group Show V, Alexander Levy, Berlin. 2014,Wellbound, Belmacz, London. CircusTM, Belmacz, London. 2013, Hang, Christian Andersen, Copenhagen. il monaco, Ringsted Galleriet, Ringsted. 2012, Ibur, w. Jonas Jensen, NoMad, Frankfurt. 2011, Master, Christian Andersen, Copenhagen. 2010, Such a Short Memorial Form, Phonebos IMO, Copenhagen.

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To celebrate Bentley's first ever SUV, Harwoods invited customers to experience the Bentayga first hand at Coombelands Racing Stables.
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Baby Bump's First Christmas
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Prepping for holidays and munching on gingerbread cookies
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Fennel Salad with Lemon, Olive Oil, and Pomegranate Seeds
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February 17, 2014 02:00 ET
February 17, 2014
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Obtains senior secured revolving warehouse facility
Avation PLC (LSE: AVAP), the commercial passenger aircraft leasing company, announces that it has been
successful in obtaining a further finance facility to support future aircraft acquisitions. The facility
has been designed to support the ad-hoc purchase of an aircraft when suitable opportunities present
Salient key features of the warehouse facility are:
- The facility has been provided by a major European Bank and is a facility to provide a full
recourse, senior secured, revolving warehouse facility to provide partial short term funding for the
purchase of particular aircraft (the "Facility");
- The Facility is a revolving facility which allows drawings and then re-drawings over a three year
- The Facility will typically be used for one aircraft at a time;
- Drawings used to acquire aircraft have a two year repayment term;
- The Facility interest margin is priced at usual commercial terms;
- The Facility can be drawn to $20m in any instance;
- Drawings may be applied up to 75% of the agreed value of the aircraft purchased. This percentage
is adjusted depending upon age of aircraft and ranking of airline leasing the aircraft purchased;
- The Facility is secured by the aircraft purchased;
- The typical aircraft for use of proceeds include:
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Jeff Chatfield, Executive Chairman, said: "We are continually seeking to acquire aircraft and assessing
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Quality Initiatives
MedPAC report shows providers making progress, quality contractor saysMarch 18, 2014
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission's latest report to Congress was submitted Friday with previously known recommendations for payment levels. But largely lost among the 400-page report also was a body of research indicating that long-term care providers are showing progress in quality improvement activities, said a prominent quality researcher.
CMS and AHCA: Providers zeroing in on antipsychotic reduction targetAugust 28, 2013
Nursing homes have made strides toward reducing antipsychotic medication use among residents with dementia, according to new figures from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the American Health Care Association/National Center for Assisted Living.
Providers refocus on 15% drug reductionJune 01, 2013
Skilled nursing providers fell short of reaching a 15% reduction in off-label antipsychotic use by the end of 2012, the American Health Care Association formally announced last month. However, AHCA did renew the goal for 2013, and members also performed better in the reductions than nursing providers overall.
Providers respond to report of inadequate government oversight of antipsychotics prescriptionsMay 14, 2013
Long-term care organizations have responded to a report that physicians are prescribing antipsychotic medications for seniors without proper oversight from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. This is hampering efforts to reduce off-label antipsychotic use for dementia care in nursing homes, according to ProPublica, which compiled the report based on a review of Medicare Part D claims.
Providers reduced hospital readmissions, AHCA progress report saysApril 03, 2013
A majority of long-term care providers reduced hospital readmissions and the off-label use of antipsychotics within the last year, according to the American Health Care Association. The organization recently posted a progress report on the AHCA Quality Initiative, which was launched in February 2012.
Group calls for improved provider quality and error reportingOctober 17, 2012
With reimbursement increasingly tied to quality and safety measures, it's imperative providers have best practices in place, according to a "call to action" released by a healthcare quality group.


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The Mad Hatters' Review
January 21, 2013 | Posted in Online Publications.
The Mad Hatters' Review (MadHat Annual) is an annual online multimedia magazine which has a strong focus on the nonsensical in literature and other art forms. The website features content from all art forms, and accepts contributions of visual art, writing and poetry in styles of humour, satire, magic realism, and so on. So send the Mad Hatters' Review your wildest creation today!


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"The Seven Deadly Gay Sins" is the most popular lgbt history tour I am asked to conduct around Nottingham (people obviously like a bit of sin). Today the elegant surroundings of the annual Hampton Court Flower Show are filled with sin as the theme for the Conceptual Gardens category is the Seven Deadly Sins.
Pride is one of the oldest sins on the list. These days, of course, Pride has come to be closely associated with the lgbt community, as I related several days ago in my article about Brenda Howard. The Pride garden at Hampton Court has been sponsored by Stonewall, the lgbt charity, and it provides an eye-catching illustration into the question of equality.
The designers of the garden, called "The Stonewall Garden: Breaking Down the Wall of Pride", are Amanda Miller and Louisa Holecz. At the time of writing there are no photos of the garden available as it is to be revealed this morning. However, you can see an impression of the design here.
So, what about the Deadly Sin of Pride? Why has its meaning changed over the centuries?
Pride has always been considered to be the worst of the sins and the one from which the others derive. It appears on the various Deadly Sins lists more often than any other (yes, even more than lust and fornication). In the Book of Proverbs in the Old Testament "a proud look" appears at the head of a list of "things the Lord hateth" that were the origins of the Deadly Sins.
The traditional Seven Deadly Sins originate in the 4th century in the writings of a monk called Evagrius. He listed 8 sins – gluttony, lust, greed, despair, wrath, pride, vainglory and acedie. This last sin has all but been forgotten, but can be best equated with neglect or apathy. The Deadly Sin of sloth on the traditional list is perhaps the nearest to acedie.
Back to pride. The reason why it is believed to be the original sin is because it was the main trait of the angel who later came to be called Satan or Lucifer. He believed himself to be as great and as powerful as God. This trait can also be labelled as vainglory and hubris, two more sins that have been listed as early Deadly Sins in their own right. Vainglory is unjustifiable boasting, and hubris is arrogance. Vainglory is another example of how a sin came to change in meaning. In Latin "Gloria", from which "glory" derives, meant "fame, or high renown". Vainglory is, thus, the claim to false fame. Today, of course, glory has the meanings "praise and honour", taking the act of claiming fame on yourself to claiming praise for others.
In 590 Pope Gregory I, the person who decided on our traditional Seven Deadly Sins, merged vainglory, hubris and pride into one sin. All three can be said to display contempt for the views of others. The modern concept of pride turns this inside out. You can have pride in your achievements, pride in others, pride in your community, and pride in belonging. Pride is about recognising your own worth in relation to others. There is no place for contempt in pride any more. That's what makes it more positive than vainglory or hubris.
It is this belief in our own worth in society, and in what we can and have achieved in spite of opposition, that made the lgbt community take the word Pride to our heart. Even though no-one will ever claim that the lgbt community is wholly responsible for the shift of Pride away from its sinful origins, we can lay claim (thanks mainly to Brenda Howard) have established a new use of the word that is recognised in the world's dictionaries.
Which takes me back to Sinful Stonewall and the garden at the Hampton Court Flower Show. Amanda Miller's design is based on her own experiences growing up as a lesbian in Australia. It represents the Pride I mentioned above, about how pride and belief in yourself in the face of homophobia can lead to a life of freedom. The title of the garden, "Breaking Down the Walls of Pride", emphasises the double nature of the word, of how the sin of Pride in some can bring out the positive Pride in others.
And a bit of advance notice for 2015 - I'll be doing a series of articles based on my tours, the Seven Deadly Gay Sins, featuring stories from lgbt heritage which relate to each one.


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25 years ago today, Rickey Henderson stole the 939th base of his career, passing Lou Brock for the all-time MLB record.
In his moment of triump, Hendseron famously hoisted third base into the air in celebration. It was an iconic moment and of course, he went on to finish his career with 1,406 career stolen bases, a record that still stands today.
To commemorate his achievement, Henderson hand wrote a story about passing Lou Brock as part of Steiner Sports' In Their Own Words™ series of signed photos. In it he writes:
It took a long time, huh? First of all, Rickey would like to thank God for giving me the opportunity. I want to thank the Haas family, the Oakland organization, the city of Oakland, and all you beautiful fans for supporting me. Most of all, I'd like to thank my mom, my friends, and loved ones for their support. I want to give my appreciation to Tom Trebelhorn and the late Bill Martin. Billy Martin was a great manager. He was a great friend to me. I love you, Billy. I wish you were here. Lou Brock was the symbol of great baes stealing. But today, I'm the greatest of all time. Thank you.
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Social media goes mobileSubmitted by sandra parmee on Mon, 08/26/2013 - 17:18.
I recently came across an extremely interesting infographic about South Africa mobile use and decided I had to write a blog post about this rampant trend. Mobile internet use in South Africa is widespread and still increasing, with approximately 8 million South Africans intermittently or regularly accessing the Internet via their mobile phones according to a World Wide Worx study.
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All you have to do is Google 'Pinterest for business' and there are thousands of articles all telling you why businesses should be using Pinterest.
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Let's think memes. A few of my personal favourites are Lolcats, Socially Awkward Penguin, Bad Luck Brian, Gangnam Style... (to name a few). These pieces of culture spin around the globe at a rapid rate, linking cell phone to computer, tablet to iPhone and American to Australian. But what do they have to do with branding?
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While I would recommend blogging for most businesses, some might find microblogging more suited to their needs. If you perhaps have a small business with a younger target market, you don't feel like corporate blogging would be appealing to your market, then microblogging might be the path you want to go down.
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By Christine Wipfli, Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO – After five months of negotiations, the deal has finally been made to create one of Brazil's largest Biofuel companies after Brazilian ethanol firm ETH Bioenergy announced at a teleconference that it will acquire its debt-burdened rival Brenco.
The two companies have been looking to consolidate in order to meet the high capital needed to achieve their ambitious targets, but the deal also reflects a market shift as a drop in supply and higher prices for ethanol has caused similar mergers and joint ventures to take place in the ethanol industry over the past couple months.
ETH Bioenergy, controlled by Brazilian construction and petrochemicals conglomerate Odebrecht, has five plants in the states of Sao Paulo, Goias and Mato Grosso do Sul with a current capacity to crush 11 million tons of sugarcane and produce 720 million liters (190 million gallons) of ethanol. Odebrecht, along with Japanese trading house Sojitz (ETH company shareholder), will own 65 percent of the company.
The remaining 35 percent share will remain with Brenco, the smaller of the two companies, which has two plants in Goias and Mato Grosso do Sul with the capacity to process 3.8 million tons of sugarcane.
Retaining the name ETH Bioenergy, the merged company predicts an annual production capacity of 3 billion liters (792 million gallons) of ethanol and 2700 gigawatts of electricity by 2012. If this ambitious target is met, it will exceed the 2.3-billion-liter (608 million) annual output capacity of Brazil's Cosan, currently the world's biggest exporter of sugar-based ethanol.
"This strategic acquisition represents a decisive step in the growth plans of ETH and creates a leader of bio-energy, which combines competitiveness and sustainability," said José Carlos Grubisich, chief executive of ETH Bioenergy, in the statement.
The merged company's combined assets are valued at R$3.5 billion (roughly R$1.91 billion) and its focus will be on the production of biomass-based ethanol.
In order to combat the ethanol market shift (low supply and rising prices), the government has responded by ordering a reduction in the mandatory amount of ethanol to be mixed with gasoline from 25 percent to 20 percent. The measure took effect on February 1st for a period of 90 days, allowing drivers in Brazil to achieve greater fuel efficiency, with traditional gasoline offering more miles per gallon than Biofuels.
In Brazil, more than 7 million automobiles are currently "flex-fuel," meaning that they can run on any mix of ethanol or gasoline. Moreover 93 percent of new light vehicles made in the country now have this technology, representing an enormous potential market for biofuel.


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Here are 10 world records held by Japan for the shortest, thinnest, fewest, daintiest, briefest and smallest:
1. The shortest escalator
According to the Guinness Book of World Records (and we should believe Guinness because they make beer!), Japan boasts an inordinately short escalator. A 5-second ride, the escalator at Okadaya Mores shopping mall in Kawasaki, Kanagawa prefecture has a vertical rise of just 83 cm (about 5 steps).
2. The shortest poem
Japanese poet Ohashi Raboku (1890-1933) holds the record for the world's shortest poem. With just four Japanese letters, this haiku: hi e yamu means "Sick with the sun" (translation: Donald Keene).
3. Thinnest latex condom
There's a world record for that?! Yep. The Okamoto 003 model, made by Okamoto Industries Inc., is 0.038 mm thin.
4. Fewest profanities
Of all the languages of the world, Japanese is one of the cleanest, sporting very few profanities. The words shimatta and kuso can mean "sh*t" "damn," and other far worse expletives, none of which is any worse than saying "Oh, crap!" in Japanese. There is no f-word used by the general populace either.
5. Country with the least chance of getting hit by a bullet
According to an article by Max Fisher in The Atlantic, you're least likely to get hit by a bullet in Japan. The article states that "Japan has as few as two gun-related homicides a year."
6. Diet with the daintiest portions
Mini-morsels in diminutive portions would describe a typical Japanese obento lunch which can be bought in convenience stores. The biggest section of an obento is the main section: rice. The "salad" section typically has one cherry tomato, one leaf of lettuce, and just enough shredded cabbage for a newborn baby mouse to nest in. Another section of the obento will hold a couple pieces of sashimi with a bit of wasabi and a dab of soy sauce. A side of seaweed wrapped and tied, shares real estate with one slice of cutely carved carrot and a piece of neon pink fish cake. One more section holds nine beans. The bonus section sports one shrimp and a blob of mayonnaise. The extra bonus section offers a small sausage the size of your pinky finger. Thankfully, there is a dessert section: one grape, one half slice of orange, and a sprig of parsley.
7. Briefest festival
In June and October of every year, over 100 people take part in the Enrei-no-Onodachi Memorial Festival in Okaya city, Nagano Prefecture. As this festival lasts a mere five seconds, you wouldn't want to arrive late. Although the festival has been known to take as long as 20-30 seconds, even so, it is the shortest festival in Japan. What exactly do the participants do during those precious few seconds? They bow, of course. The ceremonies commemorate the revered visits of the Meiji Emperor (in June, 1880) and the Showa Emperor (in October 1947) to a mountain top.
8. Smallest capacitor
Electronics maker Murata Manufacturing Co. is number one in the world in ceramic capacitors, those thingies that store electric energy and are inserted into gadgets such as smartphones, digital cameras, laptops, medical equipment and even hybrid cars. Smaller capacitors enable companies to make smaller devices with longer battery life. How small is the world's smallest capacitor? To be exact, 0.25 mm x 0.125 mm, or, as miniscule as the period at the end of this sentence.
9. Smallest toilet
This infinitesimally small toilet was designed by Takahashi Kaito of SII NanoTechnology. It is, believe it or not, a nano-toilet. This makes sense if you are looking for solutions to problems of the future that no one else has considered. Imagine if you will, a nano-medical context in which nano-robots take part in drug delivery to certain parts of the body. Now, how are those robots going to excrete their number ones and twos? Via nano-toilets we send them with, of course! No more clogged arteries.
10. Smallest doors
Although the Japanese are beginning to increase the height of doorways in houses to accommodate a population that is growing in height, don't think small doorways will become extinct in Japan any time soon. "Nijiriguchi," the doors into traditional Japanese tea houses, are purposefully built to be around 65cm x 60cm, requiring guests to crawl into the tea room. The purpose of the tiny entrance is to accentuate the crossing over of a symbolic barrier from the chaotic outside world into the serene, inside world of the tea room. In the old days, it also meant that if you were a samurai warrior, you had to take your sword off to fit inside.


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Reviewed By Alexander O (Winston Salem, NC) Reviewed for a 2005 Nissan Titan —8/13/2008 5:11 AM
I have an 05 Nissan Titan and the only thing I really missed was not having a hitch. After talking to the stealerships and a few local shops to get prices, a co worker told me about Autoanything and I was amazed at not only the prices but the selection. This install couldnt have been easier. There was a plug to hook up and then all I needed to do was secure the harness. Plenty of extra harness wire so no worrying about if it will reach. Overall very satisfied. Entire job, including installing the hitch took 10 min. Crazy that the dealerships charge twice as much.


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Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has hailed the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal, saying it will bring "unprecedented new opportunities in the rapidly growing Asia Pacific region".
SYDNEY – Australia on Tuesday (Oct 6) hailed a deal to create the world's largest free trade area as a huge opportunity for businesses, farmers, and manufacturers to cash in on the burgeoning Asia-Pacific region.
Calling the deal "historic" on Tuesday, Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said in a statement the deal "ushers in a new era of economic growth and opportunity across the fast-growing Asia-Pacific." The deal impacts everything from trade barriers to worker and environmental protections, and perhaps most controversially, intellectual property.
"Any deal like this is of enormous benefit to us," said Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in welcoming the agreement reached in Atlanta on Monday after five years of negotiation.
The prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, hailed the deal as a "gigantic foundation stone for our future prosperity" and said Australia had succeeded in resisting a push to extend protections for big pharmaceutical companies that release new drugs.
The TPP includes the US, Australia, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, New Zealand, Singapore, Vietnam and Brunei. Together these countries represent about 40% of global gross domestic product. China – a key strategic rival to the US – is not part of the deal.
The government says the TPP will eliminate 98% of tariffs (import penalties designed to protect local suppliers) across a range of sectors, improving access for Australian goods exports, services and investment.
The Minister for Trade and Investment Andrew Robb said in a statement more detailed information would be made "available progressively" from Tuesday. Other countries such as the U.S. and Canada are also releasing chapter summaries.
Trade Minister Andrew Robb says the agreement contains 'pages and pages of benefits' and will make Australia more competitive, create jobs and boost living standards.
As well as boosting trade with the US, it will open up new markets to Vietnam, Malaysia, Chile and Canada and usher in a new era of economic growth and opportunity across the fast-growing Asia-Pacific.


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Employee Benefits-IRS Provides Relied For Certain ESOP Amendments
As discussed in yesterday's blog, in Notice 2013-17, the Internal Revenue Service (the "IRS") provides relief from the anti-cutback requirements of section 411(d)(6) of the Internal Revenue Code (the "Code") for plan amendments that eliminate a distribution option, described in section 401(a)(28)(B)(ii)(I) of the Code, from an employee stock ownership plan or "ESOP" which becomes subject to the investment diversification requirements of section 401(a)(35) of the Code.
There is one more issue to be covered. An ESOP which satisfies the diversification requirements of section 401(a)(28)(B) of the Code, by distributing a portion of the participant's account in accordance with section 401(a)(28)(B)(ii)(I), is not prevented from making the distribution by the rules under section 401(a) or section 401(k)(2)(B) and Treas. Reg. Sec. 1.401(k)-1(d) that restrict the distribution of plan benefits.
However, an ESOP that becomes subject to section 401(a)(35), and that therefore ceases to be subject to section 401(a)(28)(B), must comply with the restrictions on distributions that apply before termination of employment (in the case of a pension plan), before the occurrence of certain other events (in the case of a profit-sharing or stock bonus plan), or before one of the events specified in section 401(k)(2)(B)(i) (in the case of amounts attributable to elective contributions and certain other amounts under a qualified cash or deferred arrangement). For such an ESOP, a plan provision allowing any of the foregoing distributions before the applicable event becomes a "disqualifying provision".
To provide relief, Notice 2013-17 says that, under section 401(b) of the Code and the Notice, any such disqualifying provision will not cause a plan to be disqualified, provided that a remedial amendment- which eliminates the provision- is adopted and put into effect under the plan generally by the last day of the first plan year beginning after 2012 (or if later by the deadline for adopting an "interim amendment" to the plan to satisfy section 401(a)(35)).


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I teach English at Soldan International Studies High School in St. Louis. Last Thursday, a student asked one of those questions that are near impossible to answer. Like, "Would Juliet have lived if Shakespeare had been a woman?" Or, "Who's the greatest poet who ever lived?" Questions like that.
Except last Thursday it was personal. "Dr. Tieman, who was your best high school teacher?"


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The Alamo Express. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 7, Ed. 1 Monday, October 1, 1860
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Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin of the Supreme Court of Canada to Visit CBU
Posted on September 22nd, 2010
Will receive an honorary degree and launch the Sampson McDougall Allan E. Sullivan, Q.C. Public Lecture Series (Sydney, NS) – The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, the Right Honourable Beverley M. McLachlin, P.C., will visit Cape Breton University (CBU) in October. Chief Justice McLachlin will receive an honorary doctorate of laws from More »


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Humans have loved chocolate for the past 4,000 years – but did you know that for most of this time, chocolate was most commonly consumed as a beverage? The word "chocolate" itself comes from words meaning "bitter water," because chocolate was traditionally prepared as a cold, unsweetened drink. The chocolate bar as we know it today has actually existed for less than 200 years.
The history of chocolate begins with the native peoples of the Americas, who cultivated the cacao tree and viewed chocolate as sacred. The Mayas considered cocoa pods symbols of life and fertility, and the Aztecs believed that a god had brought the cacao tree to earth from paradise. Cacao seeds were even used as a form of currency in the 15th century.
Around 1528, chocolate arrived in Spain, where it was mixed with sugar, vanilla, cinnamon, and other spices. Chocolate later began to gain popularity in France as an aphrodisiac, eventually spreading to England, Germany, and Austria. In 1730, advances in the technology for grinding cocoa beans caused the price of chocolate to drop considerably. Finally, the first solid chocolate was invented in 1830 by a British chocolate maker.
There are three main types of chocolate: dark chocolate, milk chocolate, and white chocolate. Dark chocolate in particular benefits the circulatory system. Who eats the most chocolate in the world today? That award goes to the Swiss, who eat on average 25 pounds of chocolate per person per year.
1. beverage = drink
2. bitter = not sweet
3. sacred = something special in religion
4. fertility = ability to have children
5. paradise = a perfect place
6. spices = plants that give flavor to food
7. aphrodisiac = something that increases sexual desire
8. grinding = process of making something into powder
9. drop = decrease, go down
10. circulatory system = heart and blood vessels (arteries and veins)
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my Easter pinafore
Added Apr 16, 2015
by kelerabeus
Beograd, Serbia
Last weekend I went to my hometown to spend holidays with my parents and I packed this pinafore to wear it on our family Easter lunch. The outfit is not very festive but what it is is very roomy thanks to the empire waist, and that's a huuuge plus on any kind of family gathering. There wasn't really a dress code but there sure was a lots of food :)
When I found this rusty brown corduroy it immediately reminded me of this pinafore I had on my Pinterest for ages. I always wanted to recreate that look and this fabric for perfect for that. I used pattern for Tweed Dress from Burda 12/2012 as a starting point, it was really easy to redraft it. My favorite part are huge pockets, so practical! I lined them with some flowery cotton, just for extra cuteness :)
I love the outcome – it's super versatile and it goes with everything in my wardrobe! Pinafores are such an awesome piece of clothing, I already have an idea for a summer version. Or maybe two. Because you can't have too many pinafores. Trust me!
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Jul 6, 2015, 09.19 PMby Christine Borders
Cords are my Fav and that color combination is awesome
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Aug 8, 2015, 02.04 PMby kelerabeus
Thank you so much!
Jun 30, 2015, 08.46 AMby klarakeler
Oh dear, this is so cute! The back is ace. I love how pretty you styled it with other warm colours. Just perfect! Whew, it seems it's been ages since I've last been here… gotta come back!
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Aug 8, 2015, 02.04 PMby kelerabeus
Thank you Klara! I've been neglecting my Burdastyle profile as well lately, but I do plan to give it some love very soon :)
Apr 22, 2015, 10.00 AMby hello Itsme
love it, i am a huge fan of those hues/colours too X
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Apr 23, 2015, 05.08 PMby kelerabeus
Thank you! I've always been attracted to earthy and warm tones, maybe it's because my zodiac sign – I'm a Capricorn :)
Apr 18, 2015, 12.30 PMby kihli
Great! Now I want one, too!
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Apr 18, 2015, 01.50 PMby kelerabeus
And you should totally make one, pinafores for everyone! I'm glad you like it :)
Apr 17, 2015, 09.41 PMby liliv-1
That's very cute and I love your styling. Great photos!
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Apr 17, 2015, 10.21 PMby kelerabeus
Thank you Lili! I tried to catch a golden hour for the first time, it was fun :)
Apr 17, 2015, 08.28 PMby izbott
I have been inspired by you to make a pinafore!
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Apr 17, 2015, 10.11 PMby kelerabeus
Oh thank you, I'm so glad to hear that! Show us some pictures when it's done, I would love to see your version!
Apr 17, 2015, 06.35 PMby Angela Kane
Fabulous pictures. The locations so fits the lovely dress. I especially like the way the back is cut. Beautiful!
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Apr 17, 2015, 10.05 PMby kelerabeus
Thank you! I grew up in a countryside and my family owns this wattle and daub cottage and the land around it. As a child I spent a lot of time there, it's always nice to go back once in a while.
Apr 17, 2015, 06.24 PMby Elpida Kyriakou
Great outfit….I love the colors and the styling…The whole scenery is very close to my Easter holiday in North Greece.
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Apr 17, 2015, 09.53 PMby kelerabeus
Thank you! Same as in Greece, we celebrate Orthodox Easter here in Serbia so maybe that's why you feel some similarities :)
Apr 17, 2015, 02.20 PMby SunnySewing
I love this! You did a great job :)
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Apr 17, 2015, 09.54 PMby kelerabeus
Thank you very much!
Apr 17, 2015, 11.10 AMby RedBelka
Very cute outfit! Nice pictures!
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Apr 17, 2015, 10.05 PMby kelerabeus
Thanks, I'm glad you like them!
Apr 17, 2015, 05.23 AMby Mary Athey
Gorgeous pinafore. And you have styled it perfectly. Fantastic photos as well. Love this x
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Apr 17, 2015, 10.07 PMby kelerabeus
Thank you Mary! It's so easy to build an outfit around this dress, such a versatile piece!
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Hey dudes!
As some of you know, myself and my hubby had our date night at Cinnamon Garden Restaurant on Friday night.
I was the lucky winner of a €50 voucher from one of their Facebook Competitions and was so thrilled to have won! I will never be thin, I love good food too much haha 🙂
Cinnamon Garden is a local Indian Restaurant of ours based is the beautiful village of Ashbourne. It's been my favourite place to eat in Ashbourne from the very first time it tried it a good few years ago!
I absolutely love the atmosphere, owners, staff & the food is simply top of the range! I can honestly say I have never tasted nicer Indian, and I've been to a fair few in my time!
These pictures show EXACTLY what it is like inside!! Even down to the dimmed lights! I just love it, it has such a romantic feel to it.
We went early enough on Friday night, and had the Set Menu 1 which is the Mix Starter & a main course. It costs just €15 pp, and is on Monday to Thursday until 11pm, & Fridays and Sundays until 7pm. It is extreme value for money!
Mix Starters
Clive : Lamb Rogan Josh, Pilau Rice & Pashwari Naan Me : Chicken Tak a Tak, Pilau Rice & Garlic Naan
As always the food was simply to die for, and you just cannot fault it!
The staff are absolutely wonderful, and go above and beyond to make your experience special. It's very rare that you have the owners come and ask you how you are getting on and of everything is ok, but here, they care and they want you to have the best time, and it makes you feel so welcome.
You will find them here on Facebook to keep up to date with their latest offers.
Contact them on the below number to book a table, or if you are local, they have a take away service too!
If you try it let me know, would love to hear what you think 🙂
Cinnamon Garden: (01) 835 2777
Now onto my outfit details.. Again, apologies for the delay in getting to this post and for not getting around responding to all of the queries on the outfit!
Let's talk about the jacket! I absolutely needed to have this in my life the moment I seen it online at Forever21 When I found it it was out of stock, so I spent weeks checking for it with no joy, until the day it appeared online again 🙂 it's safe to say I got a little over excited. Yep, I know it's only a coat, but look how amazing it is ❤
It's from Forever 21 and I got it for €35 as there was a 30% discount online the day I ordered it! Bargain or what!! It's suede and amazing quality!! Unfortunately it looks like it's gone offline now, but you can get something similar here
I put it with my black Zara Skort which I got last year…
A simple black blouse from Penneys and also my bargain Over The Knee Boots also from Penneys which I got back in August time for just €24!
I had a lovely meal with my handsome man ❤
After dinner we came home and watched a movie 'The Equaliser' with Denzel Washington – my all time favourite actor, and it was a excellent film!!! Watch it!!
Thanks for reading lovely ladies!
Enjoy the build up to Christmas 2014 🙂


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Court Affirms Right To Be Drunk On Front Porch
June 21st, 2015 | by Kevin James Krotz
Get Drunk On Your Porch
Add this to the list of things that most people thought they could already do! The Iowa Supreme Court has endorsed the right to be drunk on the front porch of a private home.
The case was an appeal by Patience Paye, of Waterloo, Iowa, of her 2013 case on the contention that her front steps aren't a public place so that she can't be charged with public intoxication. Justices rejected a district court judge's decision that Paye's front porch was a public place because it was accessible and visible to any passerby. Paye's attorney, Public Defender Rachel Regenold argued that the ruling was important for property rights and personal liberties.
"If the front stairs of a single-family residence are always a public place, it would be a crime to sit there calmly on a breezy summer day and sip a mojito, celebrate a professional achievement with a mixed drink of choice, or even baste meat on the grill with a bourbon-infused barbeque sauce — unless one first obtained a liquor license. We do not think the legislature intended Iowa law to be so heavy-handed," Justice Daryl Hecht wrote in the court's unanimous opinion.
An important Decision For Personal Freedoms
The case revolved around an incident that took place on June 22, 2013. After fighting with her boyfriend, Paye called the police around midnight. Her boyfriend told police that he kept Paye's car keys from her because she was drunk. Paye was questioned by officers on the front steps of her home and eventually agreed to take a breath test which revealed that she had a blood-concentration of 0.267 percent, more than three times the amount considered drunk if she were driving. She was then charged with public intoxication, along with domestic assault; a charge that was later dropped.
Iowa Attorney General spokesman Geoff Greenwood said that prosecutors "Respect the court's ruling which has a narrow scope in that it addresses intoxication while a person is on the front porch of a single family home."
Now Go Get Drunk On Your Porch
Iowa is one of only a handful of states that criminalizes public intoxication. Montana, North Carolina, and North Dakota are among the few that do criminalize the practice, but the states prohibit someone from being prosecuted solely for public intoxication; something highlighted by Justice Heict in the Supreme Court's decision.
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Steak Knives
On this page; see descriptions and pricing for my Steak Knives
and then view three slideshows, and then at the bottom
Click here to see packaging options for steak knives at the bottom under
I have made my custom steak knives for fine Michelin starred restaurants, all over the globe.
Three are; Atelier Crenn in S.F. , Willows Inn on Lummi Island, Washington and Burnt Ends, in Singapore.
See slide show below for latest work for Atelier Crenn in San Francisco.
I cannot afford, at the above price discounts, to offer more of a discount for orders of more than 12 steak knives.
I can make the handle woods match, or offer an assortment of woods. If you would like exotic woods, I can order that in.
I can also make them with thicker steel or a longer/shorter blade for an additional charge.
Current price breakdown for Steak knives;
Each steak knife has a 1 inch x 4 inch blade and is made from 1084 high carbon tool steel. All steak knife handles are 5″ long.
I can and have made many steak knives with 1″ x 5″ blades and 1.5″ x 5″.
Discounts below are the same and you can run the discount numbers on your own or contact me for more design options, such as 1.5″ width with 5″ blade.
Steak knives prices { this is w/o 10% off retail price as shown above }
1″ x 4″ kitchen knife retail price is $ 89.00 each.
1″ x 5″ blades are $106.00 each.
1.5″ wide and 5″ long are $116.00 each
If you order 4 – 12 pieces = take 10% off the retail price
So is you order more than 4 or more steak knives, I take 10% off of retail price shown above or
4″ steak knives will then cost $80.10 each
1″ x 5″ – sells for $95.40 &
1.5″ x 5″ – sells for $104.40 each.
If you want to order more than 12 pieces, email me about whether timing for this order is right, and for further details, but 10% is maximum discount offered.
Note – If you choose one or more add-on's for your steak knife handles, these are not discounted, but will be charged full cost.The same with stabilized Redwood.
See prices here – https://wildfirecutlery.com/handle-add-price-list/
First FIVE slides are of an In Stock Steak Knife set featuring a walnut box and 8 steak knives
then seven sides featuring a collaborative commission we did for Birdsong Restaurant in San Francisco – 2018
Slideshow below; Steak knife concept set designed by and for Atelier Crenn of San Francisco. 20 steak knives are stored in two custom made lidded boxes, which remain behind the scenes. Individual trays carry 4 knives at a time to tables. Trays and boxes were made in collaboration with ⇒ Jens Sehm, Ashland based furniture maker. ⇐
For further description, see slideshow.
Close up. See previous 2 slides for descriptions.
12 piece Steak knife set, with 300 year old English walnut handles & custom box. - Steak knives are a custom size of 5" x 1.5" with 5.25" long handles. Box is made from flamed or tiger striped Black Walnut wood with removable
tray insert. See next slide for a shot of the steak knives on their own.
If you want alternatives to a custom made box, there are many to choose from. There are all sorts of cloth or leather roll ups, and
mass produced wood and bamboo boxes. For details on these alternative ways to house your steak knife set, see details below this slider.
Options for boxes/cases for steak knives come in hard or soft cases. Hard cases are generally wood and soft are generally lined Cordura.
Wood boxes
I have been doing business for years with Jens Sehm, who is a local master cabinet maker. His boxes are featured below on some sets. All work shown here is solid wood and custom designed and created by Jens.
His wait time as of May 2018 is 2 months for a box. In 2017 it was longer. If the steak knives are made before the box is done, we can hold them until the box is ready and ship together or I can make cardboard dummies of your set and ship steak knives right away. Then use the dummies to create the inside of the box. Other options are below.
⇒ See Jens' web site⇐, and contact him for more details about design options, timing and cost.
In drawer organizers are below.
Since I have never done business with these companies, I cannot make a recommendation. But I can supply you with inner dimensions of a set, to be able to order a box and have knives fit.
This box below is a good size that will hold steak knives.
Soft cases
Length of steak knives are 9″ long for the 4″ bladed steak knives and 10″ for 5″ steak knives. Add an inch on either end and you will need 1.5″ width per steak knife. Look around these sites for what looks good to you, but be forewarned, photography is generally poor. You may need two or three zip cases for all the steak knives.
E-bay carry all bag that could house all knives – click HERE


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