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$200 shipped (PP/Friends-Family)-Padron 50th Anniversary Maduro (refill)-Padron Millennium Natural (1999 release w/band)-2x Padron Jose O. 90th Birthday Maduros No.89-Illusione ECCJ 15th Anniversary…Continue
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Neanderthal Lancero7x38 (is my guess)Stogies World Class, Houston (H-Town)…Continue
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Since tomorrow is February 1st I figured I check to see if everyone has their lanceros lined up? Over the month of January I rounded up quite a few, I will be starting with a few favorites; L40,…Continue
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Hey thanks so much Rob! Excited to try quite a few of these (some will have to wait due to size and cold weather)....LOL had to toss in that Frog Splash didnt you!…Continue
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Dominion Black Lotus Robusto
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Warped Cigars - El Oso Cub(4x44)
Wrapper: Ecuadorian Habano Oscuro
Binder: Ecuador
Filler: Nicaragua/Dominican
This cigar has a very rich dark brown/rosado wrapper with a few prominent veins with a strong barnyard and coco on the wrapper. The foot smells of sweet herbs. I punch cut this cigar…Continue
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Ramon Allones Petit Unicos RE Canada (Aug.2009)
Wrapper: Colorado
Origin: Cuba
Size: 5X50 Belicosos
I picked this cigar up 2 years ago on a trip to Canada at a friends cigar shop.
This cigar had amazing construction and perfect shape.
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This cigar had a perfect draw and burn from start to finish. It started with a nice leather and wood note that eventually turned earthy. Through the retrohale it had a nice cinnamon…Continue
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HDM Epicure No.1 (Feb.2007)
Wrapper: Medium Claro
Origin: Cuba
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Right out of the gate this cigar was medium-full in strength, medium body with a strong nutty and earth taste.
Through the retro-hale it had a spice that was almost unbearable (not normal for the Hoyo profile). For a Hoyo with 7+ years of age on it, it was very strong.
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Still very nutty but now there is some citrus (orange peel) coming through and a…Continue
Welcome to Cigar Federation, Charlie - glad to have you join us. Please check out the site and let me know if you have any questions.
Received your package yesterday Charlie, MUCH THANKS brother, never had the 90 Miles yet, and I have been wanting to try them......thanks again!!
Thank you very much.. I look forward to getting to know you guys.


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Riders DE Hughes ready to 'drop the hammer' on former Calgary teammates
Hamilton Tiger-Cats quarterback Jeremiah Masoli, left, is chased by Saskatchewan Roughriders defensive lineman Charleston Hughes during second half CFL action at Mosaic Stadium in Regina on Thursday, July 5, 2018. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Mark Taylor)
Charleston Hughes is good-naturedly seeing red as he prepares to oppose the Calgary Stampeders for the first time.
"They'd better strap up, because I'm going to be trying to drop the hammer on everybody so I can laugh -- so I can text them after the game and say, 'Hey, I got you,"' the Saskatchewan Roughriders' defensive end said Friday, a day before before facing his former team.
One of the former teammates Hughes is looking to "drop the hammer on" is quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell, who will figure prominently in Saturday's sold-out game at Mosaic Stadium.
"I'm looking forward to hitting him," Hughes said. "I'm pretty sure it's going to be tough to get to him, because he throws quick a lot. It's going to feel great when I get the first one out of the way and ready for the second one."
Hughes spent his first 10 CFL seasons with the Stampeders before an off-season trade that brought him to Saskatchewan.
The 34-year-old was dealt even though he led the league in quarterback sacks in each of the past two seasons. The four-time CFL all-star, who helped Calgary win Grey Cups in 2008 and 2014, is also setting the pace this season with six sacks in five games.
"The secret is that I'm like a snake," Hughes said. "I don't have no vertebrae, so I can bend and twist and manoeuvre through offensive linemen like it's nothing."
After doing that so successfully in Calgary for a decade, Hughes was asked how he would like the Stampeders to remember what he accomplished.
"I don't necessarily care if they remember it or not," he responded. "I think my performance speaks for itself and what I've done for that team speaks for itself.
"I've put up enough stats and put up enough years and earned enough respect throughout the league to know that I am the most elite defensive end in this league, and there's a reason for that."
That's also a reason why the Roughriders acquired Hughes in early February. He was initially dealt to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, who promptly flipped him over to Saskatchewan.
Chris Jones, the Roughriders' head coach and general manager, was Calgary's defensive co-ordinator early in Hughes' CFL career.
"He's just one of those throwback type guys," Jones said. "He could have played in the '60s, the '70s, the '80s, because he doesn't necessarily look the part. He's not the biggest, most talented, most physical looking guy. He's not the fastest guy. He's just a football player."
Hughes has helped the Roughriders (3-2) win each of their past two games, both against the Tiger-Cats. Saskatchewan allowed only one offensive touchdown over that span.
The challenge will get even tougher against the 5-0 Stampeders -- variety being the key to slowing them down.
"You can't line up and do one thing," said Jones, who is also the Roughriders' defensive co-ordinator. Last year when we played them late in the year, we did a decent job of mixing the coverages, and I've got to do that (Saturday) night."
On the other side of the ball, the Roughriders are hoping for a fast start against the stingy Stampeders.
"It's very important because with a good team like Calgary, a lot of games they have been getting ahead," Roughriders quarterback Brandon Bridge said.
"They always start fast and we have to match their intensity. Since we are at home, we definitely have the home-field advantage. We have to come out swinging and hopefully a lot go to the fences."


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It's through this that the editorial seems to consider the impact of the North Korean government, as the lack of control the model's are symbolically stuck with is representative of the lack of freedom in the country. Through this, F*cking Young! shows off clothing from brands like Gucci, Burberry, Dior and many more.
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These Images Consider the Impact of the North Korean Government
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Players will be running into plenty of things they want to shoot in the New Vegas wastes. The second Fallout: New Vegas developer diary shows off plenty of ways to kill them.
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Sarah Rebecca Vine
Creator & Founder of The Sanctuary
Bless you and thank you for finding out a little more about me!
I am a very down to earth, real and honest person. I am a mummy, I live with my adorable children Angel 8 and Evan 6 in Essex in the UK. I am very family orientated and love to paint, mainly sacred geometry. I am just a 'normal' yet very 'positive and inspiring person' to most people...
However I am also known as the 'Healer of Healers' as I am an expert in clearing conscious and unconscious beliefs, past life and inherited fears, blocks and traumas, attachments, vows and contracts. I have worked with earth angels and lightworkers from all over the world for the past 10 years.
I am a very old soul and know some stuff about myself with all my learning and experience over the years. I am from the master angelic realm and called 'the Angel of Destiny' by my dear friend and author Michelle Gordon. I was here in Lemuria, Atlantis and many, many times throughout our history on Earth and in many other dimensions. There's a lot more I could share however I'll save that for inside the Sanctuary!
I am an Empowerment Coach, as I LOVE to empower others, an Energy Alchemist as I do all kinds of advanced energy clearing, a Spiritual Teacher as I teach and share all that I know and learn plus forever a student myself.
The more I know, the more I know how little I know! Which is also ironic as I also realise how much I do know and want to share with others.
My focus is on peace, love, growth and contribution.
My desire to be of bigger service to help as many earth angels awaken and ascend as I could led me to create the Sanctuary as a sacred space whilst by son Evan was a baby and my daughter Angel was a toddler. I have too much to share and so much to help empower others and this is a way to share my knowledge and gifts, provide a high vibration place for healing and connect like minded souls.
I shared the Sanctuary with the world, which felt like a birthing process for me, on Valentine's day 14th February 2014. It started off with just 15 videos and has since grown exponentially, like I have myself.
Inside the Sanctuary I am with you 'inspirit', which is what I called my coaching business when I set out - Inspirit Coaching back in 2008.
Little bit of history, I had an 'awakening' when I was 3/4 years old and 'started' my personal and spiritual development journey over 20 years ago. I have worked intensively on myself since I took a massive leap of faith back in 2008 and got myself into tens of thousands of debt! Studying, learning, healing, forgiving, releasing, doing both the inner and outer work.
I have built a business from scratch not having a clue just the love and burning desire to do whatever it takes and trust. I have had to face some of my biggest fears and make myself 'seen', I am naturally a very private person. I have scared myself and gone into overwhelm more times than I remember.
Its not been easy, far from it. There has been many times I desperately just wanted to go home'. I have been lost and overwhelmed more times than I care to remember and it's been dark and depressing and very heavy at times.
I've had curve balls from the Universe and near misses for financial and emotional breakdowns. Money is a big issue when you have a spiritual based business. It has challenged me to my core and yet, I keep going.
And I am so grateful for all my growth, experiences, learning, awareness, healing and all that I have been able to share with others and transformations I have witnessed. I would take the same roads again as everything has made me who I am today.
I listen to my heart and my intention is to stay permanently in it. I class the all the angels and ascended masters as my friends and I am so blessed and grateful to be connected and supporting, as well as being supported myself back, by all the beautiful soul sisters and brothers that are within the Sanctuary.
I would love to welcome you if it feels right to you.
With peace, love and light to you always,
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Hear the untold stories of enslaved people and learn about historical and contemporary slavery.
Historical and contemporary slavery.
A beautiful building housing one of the UK's finest collections of fine and decorative art.
Paintings, Wedgwood and Chinese ceramics.
Uncover objects from the Titanic, find out about life at sea and learn about the port of Liverpool.
The Titanic, life at sea and Liverpool's port.
This museum tells the story of Liverpool with diverse exhibits housed in a stunning building.
Liverpool's history and popular culture.
Explore a Victorian merchant's house with its period furniture and beautiful paintings.
Paintings, vintage fashion and furniture.
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Joseph Mayer (1803-86) was born in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire. He moved to Liverpool when he was twenty. At first he was apprenticed to his brother-in-law, Joseph Wordley, a jeweller but in 1844-5 Mayer set up his own jewellery and silversmith business. It was probably this enterprise that provided him with sufficient funds to finance his passion for collecting.
Mayer's interest in antiquities began at an early age and his collection covered a wide range of subjects including Wedgwood pottery, Egyptian and Roman artefacts, English paintings and medieval art. Unlike Roscoe who never left England, Mayer travelled abroad regularly. Primarily he travelled on business to observe trends but each of his trips provided the opportunity for him to study and purchase ancient and medieval art.
In 1852 Mayer opened a museum in Colquitt Street, using works he himself had collected as the exhibits. He had become captivated by the displays at the British Museum and wished his fellow-citizens of Liverpool to have the same opportunity to view the wonders of the past. As well as setting up the museum Mayer was a founder member of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, established in 1848, and a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. In 1867 Mayer gave his collection to the Liverpool Museum (now World Museum). The medieval manuscripts, ivories and enamels which made up part of this gift are now in the care of the Walker Art Gallery.
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Deven McGraw, Esq., who has been serving as the deputy director of health information privacy at the US Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and as the acting chief privacy officer at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), resigned from her position on October 19, officials at ONC and OCR confirmed Friday.
Rachel Seeger, MPA, MA, senior adviser of public affairs and outreach at OCR, confirmed McGraw's departure and added that McGraw has taken a new job in the private sector.
Iliana Peters, senior advisor for compliance and enforcement at the division of health information privacy, will act as deputy director of the division in the interim until the vacancy is filled, according to Seeger.
It was widely reported this summer that ONC would leave the vacant position of chief privacy officer unfilled, according to ONC Director Donald Rucker, MD, who shared the news with reporters on a conference call in July. In a September interview with the Journal of AHIMA, Rucker confirmed that this would remain the case for the time being, with McGraw's taking over some of the position's duties as needed.
In her interim role, the most immediate topic Peters will face is meeting the statutory obligations of the 21st Century Cures Act that Congress passed last year, says Lauren Riplinger, JD, AHIMA's senior director of federal relations.
"This includes issuing guidance around the research provisions of Cures, education and guidance around patient access to their health information, as well as guidance around the permitted uses and disclosures of PHI for patients seeking mental or substance use disorder treatment," Riplinger said.
Additionally, HIM professionals are anxiously waiting for OCR to address a number of requirements from the HITECH Act, such as minimum necessary, accounting for disclosures, and the penalty sharing provision.
"We anticipate at this point that OCR will release advance notice of proposed rulemakings concerning accounting for disclosures and the penalty sharing provision in 2018," Riplinger said.


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Golden dust in a silver night… and I'm looking back, in the past. I remember the Moon… three thousand years ago. Back then, I died in the crusade of my soul. I was born in Hell and raised in Paradise, I was loved in Paradise and they killed my love on the land of Gods. They talked about sin. Our only sin was our love… damned by the celestial creatures. We were lost, then found… in our love. But they said it was wrong. Evil cannot fall for Good. To reach the sky again, I needed him. And he wasn't beside me. His soul, wich was my shelter, was captured by Demons and transformed into fire. Then, they wanted to burn my being with it, but the fire turned off… I wished the Devil gave me up and I was left alone on the cold Moon, crying for the frozen light of my spirit.
The Gods tortured me, dragging my body through the wet mud, burying me next to the mummies of the ones who had loved… too much. Their faces were ugly and full of anger. And the Moon was deserted… And I was alive. The thorns scratched me, leaving my skin blessed by the warm blood. I slept, covered with blood. It was peaceful; the cript was my home and the tears were my bed. Later, when I started to shout my pain, I saw the red blood turning black. Grizzled angels came to me, laughing about my impotence to escape. I was imprisoned in the Devil's cemetery. They pledged allegiance to the sin, watching me cursing the holly water in wich I was washed by the messengers of the sky. I ate star dust and I drank acid rain.
They took away my love… my life… my dreams, but why? Why? He was my reason, my eternity… I was the Evil. Evil cannot love. But I did! He loved me! Why should I belive the creatures? While in love, I was good and now I'm infected with the rage of the vampires. I want the blood of the Gods, to torment them forever. The Moon is the same. I remember. Does he remember? It's over now. They still whisper to me my passed life… but I killed all the Gods. And I was convicted to destroy everything that is pure and beautiful. Now I'm dead; a dead soul, who whishes the Moon. They turned my body into fire and now they want me to burn the love. But the fire won't burn… until it finds the other fire…
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The Kingdom of Heaven is near. ~ Jesus Christ [Matthew 10:7]
This is Nirvana
We do not see that our life right here, right now, is nirvana. Maybe we think that nirvana is a place where there are no problems, no more delusions. Maybe we think nirvana is something very beautiful, something unattainable. We always think nirvana is something very different from our own life.
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May 17, 2017
Renewal & Redevelopment: Spotlight on GM Flint Factory, Chicago and D.C. Initiatives
Steve Dwyer
This summer, Renewal & Redevelopment magazine will take an in-depth look at the General Motors restoration of an old factory in Flint that's considered to be the company's birthplace. The particular theme that this narrative will take involves the challenge of historic restoration during a redevelopment initiative.
The Durant-Dort Factory One, which reopened in April, includes event space and an archive with about 100,000 historical documents, photos and other artifacts about carriage building and early automobile manufacturing. The public can visit by appointment.
The archive was relocated from nearby Kettering University.
Parts of the factory date to 1880. William Crapo Durant and business partner Josiah Dallas Dort established the Flint Road Cart Co. in 1886 to build horse-drawn carriages.
Durant later took control of Buick, built GM and formed Chevrolet. GM executive Mark Reuss says the restoration preserves the stories of early visionaries who built a new industry in Flint.
GM in 2013 bought the building, which was in disrepair.
In addition to this spotlight, Renewal & Redevelopment in June will focus on two other very ambitious projects—one on the verge of completion and the other that may come to fruition by 2019.
After much anticipation, Ampeer—a new brand of exclusive turnkey luxury residences—will open the doors to its flagship Dupont Circle property in July in the District of Columbia. The property, which is the result of a highly-detailed and meticulous renovation of the legendary Patterson Mansion, will offer a total of 92 uniquely-designed residential units, communal living spaces that encourage social interaction, dedicated food and drink service, events programming and even replete with linens and glassware hand selected by the design team.
Meantime in Chicago, global developer Related Midwest reveals it will take its time to develop a "city within a city" on a 62-acre parcel of land along the Chicago River.
The project is described as "one of the most ambitious developments ever conceived in Chicago," and would include more than 10 million sq. ft. of residential, office, hotel and retail space on the site south of Roosevelt Rd., that would eventually link Chinatown and the South Loop.
One of the points of emphasis around this project us that Related Midwest plans to install pop-up food trucks and other temporary elements to lure people to the site during the redevelopment phase. It's all part of interim brownfield strategizing. One member of the development team said that these interim destination components are being installed to generate interest and bring people to the site, if for no other reason to get them acclimated to a parcel that's been dormant for decades. Interim use brings in the foot traffic while the long-term development is in the works.


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Ripon City Band is very aware of the need to introduce young people to the world of brass banding and works hard to encourage the people of Ripon to support the future of the band. An important part of this is finding and developing new and returning players to ensure the band continues to be seen and heard in the local area for many years to come. The Training Band is an integral part of this future and currently supports the main band in the concerts that the band organises. Recently, the Training Band has performed in concerts and fetes and the players are developing the skills needed to transfer into the main band.
We are always grateful for donations and one way people can help is by using the easyfundraising website when shopping online. You will be helping us to create a sustainable future for our band which we believe is very important for the young people of Ripon and the surrounding areas.
Training Band rehearse Tuesdays during term time 6:30 to 7:15pm. Please contact Eleanor Stokes for more information.
Richard Heath - Band Chairman
Linda Graham - Concert Secretary
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Monday, June 6, 2011
A Logical Emotion
At the core of thought is emotion which is oftentimes subverted for logic. An illogical thought that in the fight between only two, we choose one - logic. I think hearty so my thoughts are full of logical emotion that makes sense to the mind of those with heart - pride. An emotion necessary to make anyone want to be a better being in this life, thus making the logical decision to be one - do. While I do feel the many that rely on existing standards to make decisions, I use my mind to confirm what my heart is thinking so I can live closer to the center of life's precision - good.
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Naturally occurring fats, also known as ruminant fats, are often compared to trans fats obtained from partially hydrogenated fats, which have been proven to be harmful to health.
Find out what ruminant trans fatty acids (rTFAs) are and what the latest scientific studies say about their health effects.
Where do ruminant trans fatty acids come from?
- Food sources of ruminant trans fatty acids
The most common food sources of naturally occurring trans fats are meat and dairy products from cows, sheep and goats, but also any other ruminant animals. These trans fatty acids have been a part of our diets since the agricultural revolution, around 10,000 years ago.
- The process of creating rTFAs: bio-hydrogenation
rTFAs are produced in the gut of grazing animals (ruminants). It is a natural process that occurs at a normal body temperature and pressure, using bacterial enzymes. (1)
The process of rTFAs production is called microbial bio-hydrogenation, where unsaturated fatty acids are saturated with hydrogen by the microbes living in the gut of the ruminants.
During this process, some of these unsaturated fatty acids are converted into saturated fats and some to trans fats. Cows fed with grass produce up to 5 times more of these trans fats than cows fed with grains. (2, 3)
- Where are rTFAs more abundant?
Dairy products contain up to 5% of rTFAs of total fat and beef and lamb up to 9% (in comparison to about 60% of industrial trans fatty acids – iTFAs – in partially hydrogenated oils). (4, 5) rTFAs cannot be removed from dairy products and meat.
In countries that have imposed bans on iTFAs, most TFAs come in the form of milk and other dairy products and meat. Only a negligible amount comes from iTFAs.
For instance, in Denmark, which banned iTFAs in 2004, the average consumption of TFAs is 1.7g per day (ranging from 0.9-2.7g per day), and most comes from ruminant sources. Of the ruminant trans fats, 85% comes from milk and 15% from meat. (6)
- Amounts of naturally occurring trans fats in commonly consumed ruminant products (7)
Food TFA (g/serving) Dairy products Cheese, cheddar (28 g, 1 oz) 0.24 Milk, whole (244 g, 1 cup) 0.21 Yogurt, plain, low-fat (255 g, 1 cup) 0.06 Meat Meat, beef, ground, 20.8% fat, raw (115 g, 4 oz) 0.91 Meat, beef, ground, 22.1% fat, raw (115 g, 4 oz) 1.07
Because of the low contents of rTFAs in dairy and meat products, it is difficult to consume them in high amounts.
In countries where ruminant dairy and meat is consumed, it is estimated that the maximum intake of ruminant fats is 4-5 g daily. (2)
What are the components of ruminant trans fatty acids?
rTFAs mainly consist of two fatty acids:
- Conjugated linolenic fatty acids or CLA (rumenic).
- Vaccenic acid (VA) which makes up about 45% of rTFA and is partially converted to CLA by the bodies of both ruminants and humans.
These components are investigated the most. (1, 8).
Potential effects of naturally occurring trans fats
While there are many studies on iTFAs and the evidence of their negative health effects strong, the number of studies on rTFAs are limited by comparison. (9)
The current knowledge of rTFAs is mostly based on observational, epidemiological or animal studies, either in its natural form (e.g. consuming rTFAs in the form of milk) or using its pure components, such as CLA or VA.
The bottom line is that there are no results showing that rTFAs coming from milk and meat in its natural form, increase the risk of cardiovascular disease or cancers or have any other detrimental effect on health.
What has been found so far is that they may even have some positive health benefits (more studies are needed).
The following are the conclusions so far: (10, 11)
- Naturally occurring trans fatty acids (rTFAs) – studies show that a daily consumption of up to 4g of rTFAs is not associated with coronary heart diseases. (2)
rTFAs have been connected with a reduced risk of developing type 2 Diabetes.
- Conjugated Linolenic Acid (CLA) – predominantly, found in milk, CLA is one of the major components of rTFAs and has been shown to have various health benefits: (12, 13, 14)
– Anti-carcinogenic properties (e.g. breast cancer) (15)
– Anti-diabetic properties
– Reduced numbers of myocardial infarctions
– Prevents the development of atherosclerosis
– Promotes fat reduction while improving lean body mass (16)
– Modulates immune responses
– Modulates inflammatory responses
Please note that most of these studies are measuring the effects of extracted CLA, rather than in amounts naturally occurring in rTFAs. (17)
Supplementation with CLAs may have also negative health effects in some people, such as effects on the liver function, glucose metabolism, oxidative stress and insulin resistance, especially in obese men. (18, 19, 20)
- Special note on grass fed vs. grain fed ruminants.
Meat from grass-fed animals contain more Omega-3 fatty acids and CLAs than meats from grain-fed animals.
In fact, the contents of Omega-3 in grass fed cows is high enough to be considered by the Food Standards Australia and New Zealand as a good Omega-3 food source. (21)
- Vaccenic acid (VA) – is another major component in rTFAs (45%).
Vaccenic acid is partially converted to CLAs inside the human body.
When considering the effects of vaccenic acid that occurs in its natural form in dairy and meats, no negative effects have been reported. (22, 23)
When the vaccenic acid was tested in larger dosages (10 times more) than normally consumed from natural foods, it showed detrimental effects similar to those in the high iTFAs diet.
These amounts of vaccenic acid, however, were artificially synthesized in the lab and don't occur in such quantities in foods. (7)
Main conclusions of the major studies on ruminant trans fatty acids.
Some studies show that vaccenic acid may have anti-carcinogenic effects on breast cancer cases (17) and may have protective effects in diabetes. (24)
A 2015 double-blind, randomized controlled trial showed that when VA was compared gram for gram with iTFAs, the results on total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol were similar.
Although the study suggested that vaccenic acid may have similar effects on the risk of developing cardiovascular diseases (CDA), due to the blood cholesterol increase, it is important to note that although it raised LDL cholesterol, it also raised HDL cholesterol.
The overall effect on CDA from this study is not clear, since LDL cholesterol consists of both "bad" and "good" cholesterol. (25, 26, 27)
Another study found that the circulating blood triglycerides have a higher concentration of vaccenic acid in hyperinsulinemic and hyperglycemic people and higher concentrations were associated with insulin resistance. (28)
IMPORTANT NOTE: The positive effects of rTFAs are sometimes promoted by studies sponsored by the dairy industry. When searching for proof, consider who the sponsors are or any conflicts within the scientific studies.
Problems with the current studies
For ethical reasons, randomized intervention studies, which could show the extent of these fats on human health, may never be conducted. Most studies are done on animals or are observational or epidemiological.
Studies of iTFAs are easier to conduct and more abundant because they can be produced in high quantities using the partial hydrogenation process.
Studies on rTFAs, on the other hand, are harder since they are available in very small amounts in their natural form. (9)
The current knowledge of rTFAs is mostly based on observational studies of these fats, either in their natural form (e.g. consuming rTFAs in the form of milk) or using its pure components, such as CLA or VA.
The rTFAs' molecular structure is slightly different from the iTFAs'.
Therefore, they have different effects in our body. More studies are needed to clearly show these differences.
Comparing the health effects of these two fats may be difficult, since there are other variables that may alter the results.
For example fats containing iTFAs are mainly unsaturated while rTFAs are mostly saturated. In addition, some fats may have higher omega-3 fatty acids concentration which counteracts many of the TFAs actions, such as inflammation.
CLAs are the most studied component of rTFAs, while VAs have not been investigated as much. (25)
The association with the risk of developing cancer has not yet been well studied. (29)
Some studies show that rTFAs alone (or their individual components, such as CLAs or VAs) may be responsible for some health benefits.
Other studies, however, suggest that the health benefits are due to other components that are present in foods containing rTFAs, such as dairy. (30)
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The company became independent in March 2005 when Chief Operating Officer John Rowe bought the company from Sammy Corporation. The name was then changed to High Moon Studios. The studio debuted in 2005 with the first-person shooter Darkwatch. In January 2006 the company lost its independent status again when it was acquired by Vivendi Universal Games. In December 2007 a merger between Vivendi and Activision was announced and that way it became an Activision subsidiary. Following the merger about 60 of the 150 developers were laid off.
The company has solely focused on action games. Following Darkwatch (2005), the studio only created titles based on existing licenses: Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Conspiracy (2008), two Transformers games: Transformers: War for Cybertron (2010) and Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, and most recently Deadpool (2013). Prior to the release of Deadpool, 40 developers were let go in April 2013.
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During his lifetime, Johann Pachelbel (1653–1706) was best known as an organ composer. He wrote more than two hundred pieces for the instrument, both liturgical and secular, and explored most of the genres that existed at the time. He is considered to be the apex of the 17th century's south German organ school and generally one of the most important composers of the middle Baroque.
A Japanese promising unit Stella Lee Jones were founded as a progressive rock septet by Satoshi HIRATA (guitar) who was one of the founders of FLAT 122, soon after their disbandment in 2009. They have highlighted their originality under Satoshi's soundscape mixed with jazz, avantgarde, and art rock. Thie debut album "A Floating Place", released in late 2011, came out as a gem crystallized rigidly with their innovative eclecticism. Escape From Reality is the second album by Stella Lee Jones, released 2016.11.16 by Dizziness Records.


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AURORA, Ill. — Police have identified the five people gunned down by a co-worker who was being fired in Aurora on Friday.
The shooting began at 1:24 p.m. at Henry Pratt Company, a 29,000-square-foot manufacturing warehouse at 641 Archer Ave. in west suburban Aurora, according to Aurora Police Chief Kristen Ziman.
Police said gunman Gary Martin, 45, likely brought his .40-caliber Smith & Wesson handgun to work because he knew he was being fired from his job of 15 years. Martin, who was convicted in 1995 of aggravated assault, was not licensed to own or carry a gun.
The deceased victims were identified Saturday as:
- Clayton Parks, of Elgin, Ill., a human resources manager who began working at Henry Pratt in November;
- Trevor Wehner, 21, of DeKalb, Ill., a human resources intern and student at Northern Illinois University;
- Russell Beyer, of Yorkville, Ill., a union chairman who worked at Henry Pratt for more than 20 years;
- Vicente Juarez, of Oswego, Ill., a stock room attendant and fork lift operator who had been with the company since 2006;
- and Josh Pinkard, of Oswego, Ill., a plant manager from Alabama who moved to Aurora last year.
A sixth employee and five Aurora police officers — all men — were shot and expected to survive.
Aurora officials created a GoFundMe campaign to raise money for victims' families. On Saturday, vigils were held outside the shooting site. Additional services were scheduled for Sunday.
According to Ziman, Martin began shooting at 1:24 p.m. Friday when he was fired inside a meeting room at the Aurora industrial complex — fatally shooting three people inside the room. The two other deceased victims were shot nearby.
Martin in 1995 was convicted of felony aggravated assault in Mississippi. Records show he served less than two years in prison.
In 2014, police said, he successfully applied for an Illinois Firearm Owner's Identification (FOID) card and bought a .40-caliber Smith & Wesson handgun. When Martin tried to procure a concealed carry license that same year, the Mississippi conviction came up during a background check. Martin was denied a concealed carry license, police said, and his FOID card was revoked. Authorities never confiscated his gun.
Ziman said Martin was previously arrested by Aurora police officers on six different occasions, including for domestic violence and traffic incidents. His last arrest in Aurora was for violating an order of protection in 2008.
His most recent arrest was in 2017 in Oswego, Ill., for disorderly conduct and criminal damage to property.
Ziman said responding officers on Friday arrived at the shooting scene four minutes after the first 911 calls were placed. Martin shot and wounded five officers during initial exchanges of gunfire. He then retreated into the building, where police found him roughly 90 minutes later. He again fired at officers, officials said, and was fatally shot.
The five wounded officers are expected to survive. They were identified Saturday as:
- a 39-year-old man with 13 years of service
- a 52-year-old man with 25 years of service
- a 52-year-old man with 24 years of service
- a 53-year-old man with 30 years of service
- and a 24-year-old man with just under four years of service.
A sixth officer, a 23-year-old man with two years on the job, was treated for a minor injury sustained during the incident. Ziman said it was not related to gunfire.
Vitalant blood centers are asking people to donate blood in coming days. Centers across the country shipped 70 "blood components" to the Chicago area Friday. Blood drives were scheduled for Saturday in Bolingbrook, and Monday in St. Charles. For more information, visit vitalant.org.


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Our Constitution was designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other. John Adams
The problem with the Constitution of the United States of America is, indeed, that it was conceived and formulated by God-fearing men, who, while not perfect, had a high degree of morality and integrity. They were men from diverse backgrounds, but statesmen who sought the common good for the common people. They could not conceive of an America that would degenerate into an immoral and irreligious citizenry that would lust after the sinful nature of man. "Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity," pined George Washington, "religion and morality are indispensible supports. . . . And let us indulge with caution the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. . . . Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail to the exclusion of religious principle."
Although the Founding Fathers did not desire to establish a "Christian nation" they did desire to establish a rule of law bathed in Christian principles and biblical values. They fully believed, each and every one of them, that a nation could not be established on any greater or firmer foundation than that of the God of the Universe.
Therefore, they could not have invisioned an America of the future that would slide so far down the slope to immorality and paganism. Not in their wildest imagination could they have invisioned their beloved country – for whom they risked everything – would sink so low as to murder its unborn children; condone homosexual behavior as the norm; the harvesting of human embryos for research; a theory of evolution replacing the biblical concept of God's creation; science trumping over godly ethics; preachers flaunting immorality from their pulpits or a host of other degradations of society that would have been unthinkable for their time and morality.
Nor did they believe (despite present-day assertions to the contrary) in the "separation of church and state." Nowhere in the U.S. Constitution or other draftings of the founding period does such a concept occur, nor belief promulgated. But then, that's a blog for another time.
Has America now superceded the constraints of its own consitution? Has it become, as a people, so debased as to make our beloved constitution irrelevant? Have we gone too far or is there still hope?
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Ff profile from Win7 to Android?
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Is it possible to install the Firefox profile from a Desktop Win7 to a an Android Tablet?
And if yes... how?
Moving to Mobile.
Don't believe you can. However, you could use Firefox Sync to send passwords, bookmarks, history, etc from your Win 7 Firefox installation to your Android one. That's what I did a while back.
Firefox Sync
How do I set up Sync on my computer?
Yes... that is what I want. The question was hoe to do it!
However a new problem has come up: Every Ff for Android I try, none can be installed as the tablet has a 64bit system.
Is there such a Firefox?
Thank you, Dan, Got It...
That saved my life... I have this horrible Chuwi Hi10 tablet, and as I stupidly not bought it from Amazon, I cannot return it. So I have to find ways around the multitude of problems.
Is it possible to move the Ff profile from my Win Desktop to the Ff on the Android part of the tablet?
as stated before: NO.
sync is the only option.
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Community Spotlight: Movie or RL Event as an MMORPG?
In this week's Community Spotlight we focus on the thread, "If you coul take a Movie,Book or RL event and make an MMORPG, what would it be?" by Wakygreek. In the thread, Wakygreek puts the exercise to our users as such:
Are there any books, movies or rl events that you think could ever be a good MMO?
Please list what you feel would be a major success as a MMORPG if you could chose the companies to produce it.
The only rule is that you have to chose between Books,Movies or a RL event.
I think the world of Terry Goodlkind, from the Sword of Truth book series would be one of the best worlds to create an MMORPG in. You can have factions, pvp, sieges. I mean you could really go nuts.
What'd the MMORPG.com community come up with? Read on to find out!
Loke666 feels that Britain (in the period of 1066) would make for a great MMO:
Real life event: Britain and the land around it 1066. It could make an awesome gameworld with vikings, normans, celts, saxons, angles, scots, picts and cunrus fighting for supremacy against eachother.
Think it rather sandboxy were guilds and alliances could build towns and forts, and crafters could plant crops and herbs, raise cattle and mine.
As for transports players and guilds should own ships (horses should be more for battle). Imagine a longship piloted by 1 player and getting speed by having players rowing it.
Mix in some themepark PvE, mainly DEs of the type GW2 have but a bit more random in placement.
No levels, no magic, no healing (but auto-healing after each combat to cut out downtime), no friggin fantasy whatsoever and a rather bloody combat system that is based on your weapon with a dynamic skill bar that differs depending on what attack you did last and whatever attack the opponent last hit you with if any, all based on actual melee combat.
For advancement something close to Everquest 1 & 2s AAs, points you get for certain achivements which can buy you certain things, and a seperate AA point system for crafting(which mean you get points for crafting a rare item but just once for it, for discovering a material and other craft related things).
And of course high customization on crafting so real mastersmiths using rare materials actually can craft items them theyselves name (like Attilas meteorite iron blade "Mars" IRL) and decide how they look based on the mats they use and skins they unlocked with crafting AA.
I have plenty of more ideas for that but it would turn into a wall of text. I also have an idea for CIV styled games which have tiers depending on technology so your character starts in the early stone age and moved to the early 19th century by crafting or defeating challenges. That one would be rather gear based though.
I am tired of fantasy MMO and some historical games without magic and healing but with a kick@ss combat system would liven up the genre. :)
Wolvards feels the film '300' would make a solid MMO:
I'm thinking like a 300 mmo would be bad ass. Location is Mediterranean Sea/ surrounding area's.
classes, not sure but something like..
Spartan, priest, assasin, archer. Maybe another "special class". This could be your greeks or something.
then Persians! Immortals! Another form of an archer, don't know about priest type class, but something similar, maybe like a song player or something? Chants more than direct spells? Then a Messenger? (rogue type class) and the bomb throwers!
Then you could have.... Crap who would a third faction be? Arcadians? Hmm might need to re-think this one...
Anireth offers up a couple of suggestions:
The IP doesn't change the game, but that's true for everything, whether fiction or textbook. This whole thing is pointless if you assume the same old mechanics. I believe no one here would want a Firefly or Naruto or Terry Goodkind based MMO with the mechanics of SWTOR or WoW.
Personally, i would love to see:
.hack - The perfect candidate, it's already set in an MMO (mostly) after all. And they even made a single player game that simulates an MMO..especially funny when many people solo MMOs. We'll see how the next best candidate, Otherland, which is also partly MMO, will turn out soon enough..
Dune - compared to Dune, even LotR is only child's play.
Babylon 5 - One of the best sci-fi series ever.
The Foundation Trilogy of Isaac Asimov and related works, like the second trilogy by Greg Bear etc.
I'd love to see 'The Thirteenth Floor' come to life as an MMO. This film is fairly similar to The Matrix (and came out around the same time) but is a bit more generic and doesn't have the same stigma as The Matrix series did. It's a simple idea of people jacking into a convincing virtual reality and living out their fantasies. You don't have superpowers, you simply get to be someone else and experience life in a different time period or setting. I won't spoil the amusing twist of the film itself, but everyone should check it out if they haven't already!
Runner-up: Dark City. Need I say more? :)
What about you? What RL event, book, or film do you feel would make a great MMO and why? Share your thoughts in the comments below!


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International Paper to Explore Strategic Options for its Stake in New Zealand-based Carter Holt Harvey
Monday, June 27, 2005
STAMFORD, Conn., June 26 -- International Paper announced today that it will explore strategic alternatives for its 50.5 percent stake in Carter Holt Harvey (CHH). "Carter Holt has a great business position in Australasia. We have confidence in the management of CHH and their strategy to improve and grow the business. However, many aspects of our original plans for investment in CHH have changed, and we've decided to reassess the role of CHH in IP's global portfolio," said John Faraci, chairman and chief executive officer of International Paper. IP acquired its stake in CHH in a series of transactions beginning with 16 percent in 1991 as partners with a local New Zealand investment group. IP increased its stake to 26 percent in 1994 and acquired a controlling interest in 1995, which has remained in the range of 50.5 percent. IP will consult with the board of directors and management of CHH to facilitate a process to explore strategic alternatives for selling its shares. "CHH has a solid plan to continually improve the business, and we will work closely with them during our evaluation process," said Faraci. "We hope to identify acceptable strategic alternatives for our shares before the end of the year."


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Lee MacPhail, the former president of the American League and general manager of the Baltimore Orioles and New York Yankees, died Thursday night at his home in Delray Beach, Florida. He was 95 years old.
The Hall of Fame, of which MacPhail was the oldest member, announced his death.
Chairman of the Board Jane Forbes Clark wrote:
"Baseball history has lost a great figure in Lee MacPhail, whose significant impact on the game spanned five decades. As a Hall of Fame executive, Lee developed one of the game's strongest farm systems for the New York Yankees before serving as American League President for 10 years. He will always be remembered in Cooperstown as a man of exemplary kindness and a man who always looked after the best interests of the game."
MacPhail held nearly every executive position in baseball except commissioner. Four generations of MacPhail men have been involved in sports in some capacity. He and his father, Larry, are the only father and son to both be in the Hall of Fame, and the elder MacPhail was a front office executive with the Yankees, Cincinnati Reds, and Brooklyn Dodgers. Lee MacPhail was enshrined in the Hall of Fame in 1998, 20 years after his father had been inducted.
His late brother, Bill, was president of CBS Sports and CNN Sports. His son, Andy, was general manager of the Minnesota Twins from 1986 to 1994 and president of the Chicago Cubs from 1994 to 2006. He was also the president of baseball operations for the Orioles from 2007 to 2011. His grandson, Lee MacPhail IV, is currently a scout for the Orioles.
MacPhail is probably best known for being at the center of the pine-tar dispute of July 1983. In a game between the Kansas City Royals and the Yankees at Yankee Stadium, umpires disallowed a go-ahead home run by the Royals' George Brett with two out in the ninth inning. The umpires said Brett had too much pine tar on his bat.
Pine tar is applied to the handles of baseball bats to improve the batter's grip. It also prevents the ball from slipping out of the batter's hand. The MLB has a rule that pine tar can only extend 18 inches from the handle, and Brett's bat had more than the allowed amount. MacPhail, who was president of the AL at the time, overruled the umpires' decision, saying the tar restriction was about economics not competitive advantage.
In his 1989 autobiography, My 9 Innings, Lee MacPhail described leaving the ballpark to go home after a game. He wrote:
"When I came out after a game, there were a gang of kids waiting to get the players' autographs, and especially in my younger days I would be mobbed. Someone at the back of the group would yell, 'Who is it?' and then one of the kids who had gotten my autograph would exclaim in disgust, 'Oh, he's nobody.' But you couldn't not sign; they wouldn't believe it if you tried to tell them you were nobody."


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Three Points To Consider About Research Paper Footnotes And Bibliography
Research papers are quite important in today fast paced, information driven world. We live in a world packed with mysteries, and unanswered questions, many smart people attempt to answers these questions by various means. When they are finished with their hard, practical work, their next step is to publish their findings, for the rest of the world to view.
Despite having full control over the contents of their paper, all authors must adhere to very strict guidelines concerning the format of this type of paper. These formats are often simple enough to follow, requiring very little alteration, if any at all, to your content. The following three points must be considered when attempting to format your footnotes and bibliography, in your research paper:
- Research paper style.
- Purpose of your paper.
- Authors and the published works.
The first thing you should know is that there are specific rules and regulations that govern the construction of such a paper and if you do not conform to these simple guidelines, considerable marks would be deducted if your work were to be graded. By adhering to this concept you can now see that there is only one way to prepare this type of coursework so follow suit. Textbooks, teachers and fellow scholarly students can advise you on some of the methods and techniques they implement throughout there academic life that greatly assists them when faced with such academic exercises.
At this level of your education you can no longer prepare assignments simply by adhering to the prescribed protocols and structures that the assessment requires, you also have to gather substantial information to place in each section of your paper. No attempt at any work of this nature would be done accurately if the individual preparing it does not know exactly what the nature of the activity is. When purpose is clear you can now develop new and necessary adjustments to the work so as to deliver the material in the best way possible. It is advisable to always know exactly what is your goal when preparing a paper of this nature.
Most footnotes and bibliographies have certain values that needs to be gathered in order to be completed correctly. Any missing aspect of the section will result in significant loss of marks if the work is to be graded. Find out exactly how to construct these small sections because the passing or failing of the subject heavily depends on these little things. Review some examples of this assignment and see for yourself.


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When I lecture to teenagers and twentysomethings here in the United States, I often ask members of the audience to "raise your hand if you're wealthy." Except for the young woman years ago who announced that her father owned a string of 7-11s, no one ever raises a hand.
"Oh but you are wealthy!" I insist. "Each of us is among the wealthiest people ever to breathe."
My listeners think me mad. "I'm middle-class, not rich" surely is what most of think to themselves. And they're right about being middle-class – but they don't realize that to be middle-class in America today means to be superrich by historical standards.
Here's a small sample of the many ways in which ordinary Americans today are Bill-Gates-like rich compared to almost all humans who've ever lived:
And while it's possible to list some ways in which the average person today is worse off than were pre-industrial folk – for example, no one before the 20th century died in airplane crashes – only the most doctrinaire ascetic would deny that almost everyone today in the Western World is vastly better off than were the overwhelming bulk of the human population before the industrial revolution.
But what caused this great wealth explosion?
The standard answer is technology. The standard answer is wrong.
Technology clearly has advanced over the years, and happily it continues to do so. And these advances are indeed indispensable to our modern way of life. But the deeper cause of our widespread wealth isn't technology; rather, it's the force that unleashes and directs the human energy necessary to produce technological advances and its fruits: free markets.
Markets are more fundamental than is technology to prosperity. For evidence, look no further than the fact that billions of people today remain desperately poor. People in Niger and North Korea are starving to death now, even though the technical knowledge for growing and distributing basic foodstuffs is readily available across the globe. Many Latin Americans and Eastern Europeans still carry their goods to and from market on wooden carts, despite the easy availability of automotive technology. Countless other people today dwell in earthen huts, have no indoor plumbing, die of malaria, and suffer all manner of other dangers and indignities that are easily avoided with commonplace technologies.
It is manifestly mistaken to suggest that technology is the reason for our prosperity. Clearly, our prosperity must rooted in something deeper than technology – something that both promotes technological advance and, even more importantly, encourages the use of technological knowledge to make widely available the goods and services that we Americans today take for granted.
That something else is economic freedom which spawns complex markets.
As shown again and again by researchers who study the relationship between prosperity and economic freedom, the greater is economic freedom, the greater and more widespread is prosperity.
Among the best of these studies is one produced annually by economists James Gwartney and Robert Lawson, and published jointly by the Cato Institute and Canada's Fraser Institute. The 2006 study will be released this week. Among the most important findings of Economic Freedom of the World: 2006 Annual Report are these:
As this careful new study makes clear, there is no denying that more freedom means more prosperity for more people – and that lack of freedom ensures poverty for the masses, regardless of the degree of technological sophistication.
Donald J. Boudreaux is Chair of the Economics Department at George Mason University.