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Kavya Madhavan a Malayalam film Actor, who will Marry Nishal Chandra in 2009. Famous Malayalam actress Kavya Madhavan's Marriage is now 10:20 and 10:50. Nishal Chandra, working for the International Bank of Kuwait as the Technical Advisor will tie knot with one of the most talented young artists in Kerala in the first half of 2009.
Nishal Chandra was born Chandra Mohan and Mohan Mani in Kuwait. Nischal was a child artist in Malayalam industry. He is a candidate in computer science and master's degree in telecommunications. Nischal has had as a child actor in films like Kizhakkunarum Pakshi, Jackpot, Elavankodu Desham, Gaandharvam, Ayitham, Kilipechu Kelkava and ham.
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Ellen DeGeneres Predicts That Natalie Portman Is Going To Have A Baby Girl!
If the talk show host is right it, Natalie Portman's going to have a little lady to follow in her fashionable footsteps.
Ellen DeGeneres must have super powers! She's predicting that Natalie Portman is going to have a baby girl! "That's a girl — all three of those tests show a girl," Ellen told the 29-year-old Black Swan actress yesterday (Jan. 19) when she visited Ellen. "You're having a girl and her name is Ellen!" We have a feeling Natalie and her fiance Benjamin Millepied, 33, are still going to be on the hunt for a better name.
Sadly, Ellen's magical gender tests couldn't be considered 100% accurate. "I don't know whether it's a boy or girl," Natalie laughed.
Natalie Portman drops her heels and opts for flats!
But Natalie, who looked positively radiant, did admit that she's been having the typical crazy pregnancy cravings. "I love pickles," she said. "I liked them before, though. Dill pickles. Anything with vinegar like ketchup, that's a vinegar food. I love that."
Other than that, 'I've felt really, really good," Natalie gushed. "I'm so lucky."
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Okay so I'm only quitting coffee not shelter, food or warm showers. As my sister would say this is a,"first world problem."
And still. I am smitten with how much this little experiment has netted.
If you can't you must. I'm not sure when or where I first heard this but the part of me that is competitive and slightly all in or all the way out – loved it immediately. And since that providential day I've added my own twist to this wisdom.
If you can't you must. And if you choose not to- that's cool because it's YOUR LIFE.
So here I am, 12 weeks off coffee which for me, a girl that eagerly ingested 7+ shots a day- was no easy feat, even if it is a first world problem of the shallowest kind.
I'm not one who was non committal about my java. I loved my beans. My thing for coffee was real. We did life together. She helped me navigate relationships exploding, airplanes falling out of the air with people I loved in them, my journey through teenager rebellion hell and a financial disaster of the seismic kind.
WE, me and the beans we go way back. And holding onto her, feeling her warmth in my palm- well it saved me. I swear. There were days when no one but coffee and I conspired how I might find the courage to take the next breath and hold on to the shred of hope I felt slipping through my fingers. This is why I gulped her down so readily- she infused me with courage. She did.
So 12 weeks off the joe -and I'm waking up…
All hyped up with no where to go. Yes I was. Imagine me the girl whose never lacked energy on 7 shots of expresso a day? Who say's a caffeine addiction isn't just as bad as any other addiction? A drug is a drug especially when you use it as unconsciously as I used the beans- I've decided.
All I can say is I feel my feet on the floor when I slip out of bed in the morning now and late at night instead of downing a quad latte I take a sip of water and climb inside my sheets and cuddle with my pillow.
Less coffee means more emotions felt, or at least that's how it feels inside of me about now.
Who knew. Feelings wouldn't kill you if only you entertained them instead of drowning them with espresso's, venti latte's and tall drips. ( NO that is not a a description of my last date)
I think it was about something to hold. I hate to admit it, but there's something comforting about holding a cup of warm coffee. Holding it makes you feel something, special maybe- connected -slightly? Even loved- I said that. Didn't I? It's weird, but somehow coffee became my friend and it's not been easy to break up with her. I cannot lie. But going without her has helped me learn how needy I can be.
Was coffee my god? Of sorts- it was.
I'm sleeping a lot more now that I'm not artificially amped and well it feels good to feel tired and rest instead of trying to artificially rev myself up.
I swear, I'm still addictive in all forms of exercise and most forms of trying to grow and learn, I don't want you to give me any sort of thumbs up or even encouragement. I really just want you to know it's possible to give up the beans and when you do you might be like me and learn that habits can become chains, even prisons.
Choices. Quitting is a choice and well maybe that's why I'm so giddy, it's been so long since I've been free to choose, or at least that's how I've felt. I'm elated I can now sit for hours in a coffee shop and only order orange juice or a decaf tea.
Present. Here now. Heart, mind – will open- the hands and feet of love- this is the woman I want to be and this woman feels more obtainable to me now that my feet are on the ground and I'm not pumped full of 10 shots of espresso.
If you can't you must and if you choose not- that's cool-because it's YOUR LIFE.
Now to figure out what else I want to practice quitting….because right about now I want to quit anything and every thing that chains me to the life I've long since outgrown…


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Recently I went to an annual cookie exchange at my girlfriend Suzy's house. In preparation of the evening o-sugar-high, each guest is assigned to bake six dozen cookies. For the third year in a row, I haven't quite been able to plan ahead with my delivering of some amazingly fabulous knock your socks off cookie, but I think I've followed through on something at least acceptable.... Oh heck, they were down right tasty!
This year, 24 hours before the party, I was thumbing through my cook books. My mother recently hosted a party and sent home a doggy bag with a few leftover goodies in the form of a deliciously concocted bar of chocolate, nuts and oats. So, I decided I wanted to try to figure out just what I was eating. I studied that little cookie bar to no avail... tasting, looking, touching, smelling... I knew there was something else in there. Then it hit me... caramel! So, I conducted an on line search and arrived at these oh-ho-delic Caramel Oatmeal Bars. Warm and cozy lovin from the oven!...
Best of all, that lil' bar of Heaven was super quick and easy to make... oh, I'll be making them again.
Suzy and her fam recently renovated her cozy abode located in one of my favorite hoods of the Queen City, the down to earth, uber chic neighborhood of Elizabeth. I intended to share with everyone thoughts and photos from the evening, but I now have to share with you additional photos of her to die for, oh so stylish living room. For me, probably one of the prettiest rooms I have laid my eyes on in a long time. Amazingly fun for the palette, yet refined and clean, and possessing just the perfect strain of tension. Suzy worked with local designer
to create this niche of utmost desire. So, here are a few pics from our fun evening of calories (I mean cookies), vino, fellowship and holiday cheer.
Just look at these lovely ladies. Do they look ready for cookies or what?
Aren't these the most handsome little Santas you've ever seen?
And they seem right at home with the decor.
A little female fellowship is always good for the soul.
Would you look at those cookies! These are good for my tum-tum.
And here's the living room. Seriously. I cannot stop looking at it....
My husband noted the symmetry of the square edges, and then there are the flowing draperies. I explained to him I think this is a mindful way of creating the perfect amount of tension in a room while using great restraint. I also love the scarcity of knick knacks. I feel like the colors and movement in the draperies do the work of accessorizing more than just the windows. Gosh, I love it.
A view of the cozy fireplace.
The room seems so spacious and offers plentiful seating. So, here are some pics of the all delicious delectables!
Little almond candy canes. So cute!
The hostess made these from a childhood favorite recipe book.
Little tiny sugar cookie Christmas wreaths!! How much more festive can you get?
Each one of these bite size babies was a different flavor. Easy to pop = trouble!
Simple Goodness. Takes you back to making cookies for Mr. Claus himself.
Our friend Campbell just returned from her honeymoon in South Africa,
and she brought home the recipe for these super delish coconut concoctions .
Jam Thumbprint Cookies by my personal fav, Ina Garten.
These are my chocolate walnut caramel bites.
Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookies. Amazingly flavorful!
My take home loot!
Wine consumed prior to departure, of course. Please let me know if you would like the recipe to any or all of the above tasty treats!
For the love of sharing the love in great style, Whitley


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Reporting for the Sunday Telegraph on Sunday 16th March, and in the Australian - http://bit.ly/1p1MDcg "D-day for archaic laws and red tape as government gets ready to scrap thousands of regulations" Samantha Maiden writes ....
In the biggest single reduction of federal laws on the books in the nation's history, Mr Abbott will pledge on Wednesday to scrap $1 billion in red and green tape.
Mr Abbott will terminate a long list of bizarre laws including archaic standards for calibrating imperial measuring equipment for pints and gallons that have remained the law of the land despite the fact that Australia switched to the metric system in the 1970s.
The demolition project will include junking rules that require separate classification applications for 3D and 2D versions of films, including Kung Fu Panda, Avatar and Frozen. Last year over 3000 films were classified at a standard fee per classification of over $1000 for a film, most of which were reclassifications of older films in different formats.
Job service providers will also no longer be forced to keep paper records of all applications, a requirement that demanded 336 filing cabinets just to hold the applications.
"We are determined to cut $1 billion every year in red and green tape costs,''' Mr Abbott told the Sunday Telegraph.
This will improve our nation's competitiveness, help to create more jobs and lower household costs.
"This will improve our nation's competitiveness, help to create more jobs and lower household costs.
"I've listened to people across Australia tell me about the impact of red tape on their businesses, schools and community groups.
"This will be our first Repeal Day but there will be many more.''
The Prime Minister wrote to all ministers before Christmas asking their offices to submit plans to reduce red tape and unnecessary laws.
The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet also now demands that all cabinet submissions include a Regulatory Impact Statement outlining the red tape impact of new laws.
Other laws to go in Mr Abbott's Repeal Day celebrations include an act from 1904 governing State Naval Divisions that has been redundant since 1913 when the Royal Australian Navy was formed.
Universities will also no longer be required to submit reports on the use of their lecture theatres, seminar and tutorial rooms, laboratories, academic offices and computerised student workspaces.
It is estimated the change will save universities $87,000 a year.
The repeal day is scheduled for the House of Representatives on March 26, following the introduction of an omnibus red tape reduction bill and a series of specific deregulation bills on March 19.
Although the former Gillard government boasted of passing hundreds of laws despite a hung parliament, Parliamentary Secretary to the PM Joshua Frydenberg said many of the laws simply made life more difficult.


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Although I thoroughly enjoy working as a camp nurse, it's probably not something I would choose to do on my own. At the very heart of the matter, it's all for my daughters, Natasha and Claudia, so I can give them an amazing experience for which I could otherwise never manage to pay rack price. For those nurses whose economic situations can endure it (and relationships that can withstand it), working at a summer camp is a unique way to offer their children the experience of a lifetime. According to the American Camping Association's website, there are approximately 9,500 summer camps of all types in this country, and every one of them needs a handful of medical professionals to staff their health centers. These camps cannot possibly pay the doctors and nurses the same salaries they receive at home, so it's a common industry standard to reduce or even waive the camp tuition for their children in exchange for professional services provided. It's a win-win situation.
When I was "shopping" for the perfect camp (both times), all I had to do was surf the web, find the human resources contacts, shoot emails, and watch the offers come in. It was mind-boggling. Last year I searched in late May and thought there would be no jobs left, and I was so wrong! I sent out at least a dozen inquiries the first morning and 8 hours later I had about 5 opportunities to choose from. Most camps emailed, but the director of my camp got back to me via phone. I still remember when I saw her number buzzing my cell phone, and getting this strange feeling that I should pick that up, not let it go to voice mail. Hours earlier, I had already given a "yes" to a fine arts camp and was busy with my "no thank you's" to the other camps, but I picked that call up anyway. And it's a good thing I did, because she sold her camp to me just with the enthusiastic love in her voice as she described it. (I shudder to think what my girls and I would have missed out on if I hadn't taken that call.) I often wonder how many hundreds of camp nursing jobs remain unfilled out there each summer.
So, back to my original point… although we're not wealthy, Steve and I do okay, but only because we've been creative with our finances from the start. We purchased a small townhouse in 1997 with a price tag way below what the bank told us we could borrow. Our mortgage is under $1000 including taxes. Because of this we are not a slave to our finances and largely avoided the woes others have faced in the Great Recession. We endured when I quit teaching and went to nursing school. We endure in the winters when Steve gets laid off. We have always been able to get by with one of us being a stay-at-home parent for our children (except during times when our schedules overlapped, and we resorted to professional child care only a few months at a time). This is a lifestyle that we chose so one of us would always be with the girls, so we could raise them ourselves and be actively involved in their lives. We don't give our kids lots of Things. We give our kids a lot of Time. This costs our household a lot of potential income, but it's worth every penny we never see. And because we live below our means, Steve and I are in the unique position to be able to provide our kids with summer camp. I find it deliciously serendipitous that because we live frugally, it's something we can afford to do.


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10 Cities With the Greenest Homes
"The residents of these cities are reducing their environmental footprint and saving money at the same time," said Redfin agent Julie Jacobson, who has been designated an LEED Green Associate, on the company's website. "By making your home green, you can reduce monthly utility bills, make your home's indoor air quality healthier, reduce your environmental footprint and even help increase the value of your home without any sacrifice in design or comfort. It is truly a win-win."
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It is always a real privilege to be asked to play such an important role on this very special occasion, whatever it may be, so for me research paper event planning the starting point, and the most important point, is getting to know you. We all have our hopes and dreams and a good idea as to how we envisage our ceremony will look but it isn't always easy to translate exactly what those are and to see how research project letter everything will fall into place.
Listening, sharing and putting those plans into words and actions is what I do. Your ceremony or service can be sample research paper charter schools written in any way you wish with personal words, music, poetry and readings – religious or otherwise – perhaps something symbolic, in fact anything that will leave you with those memories of that day for you to cherish forever. Just remember. It's all about the day!


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I wrote a piece on Medium for marketing and PR professionals who may be a little overwhelmed with new technologies in their industry. It covers what Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning is all about, how they are currently being utilized in the marketing world, pitfalls you may encounter along the way and how both can improve your organization. I hope you find something valuable in it.
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Read Rohit's book for a deeper understanding. It's an easy read.
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Two keys here:
A bold vision with measurable goals helps to align the organization and attract great talent.
Change will only stick when all team members help to define the new organization.
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Lurgan met the Private Green League champions, Belmont last Saturday in the 3rd round of the Irish Senior Cup and although winning on two rinks went down to a 39-shot defeat.
On Rink 1 Skip Alan Briggs led his rink of Alan Roberts (third), Gordon Bell (second) and Richard McClune (lead) to a creditable win by two shots over Roy Battersby's Rink.
After losing four shots on the first end Briggs' Rink never lost the lead after securing a 6-5 lead after five ends. After 10 ends the lead was extended to 16-8. At this stage the score was 38-38 across the green. 15 ends saw Briggs' rink extend their lead to 21-10. Unfortunately only one shot was added against 10 to Belmont on the last six ends for a rink win to Lurgan by two shots.
On Rink 2 Skip John Gilliland's rink of Peter McGrail (third), Iain Ferguson (second) and Bobby Boness had a very difficult afternoon against the rink skipped by Stuart Bennett and went down 32-14.
On Rink 3 Skip Mansel Montgomery along with Jeffrey McCullough, Dan Dempsey and Ronnie McCullough at lead also found the going extremely difficult falling 33-9 toSimon Martin's rink.
On Rink 4 Harry Cosgrove Skip, Bobby Ruddell (third), Declan McCabrey and Stephen Poots had a great tussle with Robin Horner's Rink. Leading 11-8 at 10 endstheir lead was whittled away at 15 ends to be down 17-13.
However to their credit they won four of the last six ends to get a rink win by one shot: 20-19.
Lurgan were able to hold their own for 10 ends but the class of the Private Green champions enabled them to pull away in the second half of the game.


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Dear Ugandans,
Ugandan leaders have all been the same with minor differences. If you trace carefully and critically, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni( YKM) is no different from Iddil Amin Dada and all the other past leaders he always despises. I expect the usual suspects to argue that YKM is miles ahead of the ruling class. Wapi. They have been a bunch of mediocre who failed to create long lasting stability in Uganda. Uganda today is no more stable than it was at the time of independence. Kingdoms were abolished but what did it achieve? Some could argue that it gave Uganda YKM.
See how his admirers measure transformation; YKM is supposed to be better because UPDF is more people friendly. Or he has allowed this or that or that people can at least sleep.
But if Ugandans were to be honest there is no social, political, economic transformation in Uganda. The people are again worried about the future. As The late Jaramogi Oginga Odinga famously wrote" it is not yet Uhuru" in Uganda. I dare anyone in Ugandans At HEART (UAH) to come forward and make the case that Uganda has undergone positive transformation since independence.
The national education system ended with Amin. Up to 1979, it did not matter much where one went to school. They had a fare shot at success. Things went downhill since then.
All past leaders and YKM shine from time to time in the eyes of their admirers because those who came after/before them set the bar so low. Look at YKM on corruption; it would be a real idiot who would not be better on his record. YKM is also the most tribalistic leader EVER in the history of Uganda and has no shame about it. He has screwed that country like never before, but because in some areas he is yet to reach the lows set by his predecessors, Ugandans still give him the benefit of the doubt, and YKM also goes chest thumping about it. The sad part is that Ugandans tolerate and even worship mediocrity in all spheres.
Yes, the Kingdoms can play a positive role in society. Why is it that the golden days in Buganda when Ugandans from all over the country could settle in Buganda without any problems was before or shortly after independence? Look at Ghana where cultural institutions are accepted and actually respected. No Ghanaian president can talk such nonsense you hear from YKM about kingdoms or traditional chiefs. A Ghanaian friend told me last week that his brother's funeral is on hold in Accra because under the Gaa-the original ethnic groups around Accra-traditions, funerals cannot place there for some time. They are celebrating their traditions. There are Ugandans here in UAH forum that live in Ghana and can testify to that.
Now to the question some people wanted to ask: suppose Uganda was to embrace federalism how would Kingdoms fit in? Actually the question was settled in 1955 by what is famously known as the Namirembe Agreement of October 1955, which made it clear that Kingdom rulers would be Constitutional Monarchs like the Queen of England is today. I will not abuse the intelligence of UAH folks by explaining what a constitutional monarch is. So when you read Monday's editorial in the New vision, you begin to understand what we are talking about: mediocrity all over. And by the way, the Namirembe agreement of 1955 applied to all kingdoms not just Buganda. The media in Uganda seems to be ignorant of this famous Agreement based on what they continue to spew out in their pages or editorials whenever YKM speaks out.
So people, ask yourself this question: why is it the case that in Uganda you see people-will not call them leaders-pretending to have what it takes to lead DP, UPC and other opposition parties. Some of the people in those political parties who offered to lead them should never have been in the race in the first place, but because mediocrity is now more or less the norm in Uganda, they offered themselves, and managed to cause chaos in opposition parties.
I am not going to get into the business of naming names here but take a critical look at the pretenders who threaten the identities of their respective parties? Are those the calibre of leaders to take down their traditional parties or to fight and die for? Put differently is the current NEC line up in political parties, particularly DP, in Uganda ,are they there on merit and have something to offer the country in terms of leadership.
UAH forumist in NewYork


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By Michael Downey
An extract of Lepidium peruvianum, a high-altitude root plant popularly known as maca, has been shown to regulate several key physiological pathways of female sexual dysfunction. Maca is believed to work primarily by providing the optimum balance of nutrients utilized by the body's neuroendocrine system.20
Scientists discovered the significant complementary effects of maca extract, which has been cultivated for over 2,000 years. Maca is believed to influence three different mechanisms to:
The benefits of maca were assessed in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover study. Fourteen postmenopausal women were given each day either placebo or powdered maca that translates to 583 mg to 875 mg a day of product, because it is formulated as a 4-6:1 extract. Sexual problems were measured using subscales of the Greene Climacteric Scale, which provides a measure of menopausal symptoms.25
The participants who took maca were found to score more than 34% lower (which by this measure means better) than the placebo subjects on a standard sexual dysfunction scale. This significant improvement was observed in just six weeks! Also, the maca subjects tested 30% lower on the psychological subscale of anxiety and depression symptoms, a substantial improvement for a period of just six weeks!23
Also, to determine maca's effect on sexual dysfunction in cases that had been specifically diagnosed to be caused by taking antidepressants known as SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors), scientists carried out a double-blind, randomized, pilot study on 20 subjects. Sexual dysfunction was found to be reduced in the group that received maca with mean scores decreased by 25.8%, and 29.4%, on two standard sexual dysfunction scales (the ASEX and the MGH-SFQ questionnaires, respectively). Libido also improved and no adverse side effects were found.25
The third new compound comprises three plant extracts that synergistically work to correct menopausal imbalance by an action believed to be a selective modulation of estrogen activity.
When integrated into a single formula known as EstroG-100™, this multi-compound extract supports balanced estrogenic activity, which in turn inhibits the many symptoms of menopause—including female sexual dysfunction.
Recognizing transitional menopause to be a contributing cause of female sexual dysfunction—scientists began screening a variety of promising plant extracts for potential effect, using a method known as a non-reproductive tract target tissue response (E-screen) test.
Three extracts were eventually pinpointed for their combined beneficial effects on both menopause and female sexual dysfunction: Phlomis umbrosa, Cynanchum wilfordii, and Angelica gigas Nakai (Korean Angelica). Each of these extracts have been used for over 400 years in Korean-Chinese folk medicine. Ultimately, a potent effect was found after these three plant extracts were hot-water-extracted and blended in correct proportions within a single formula, subsequently named EstroG-100™.
Researchers found that EstroG-100™ enhances hormonal function possibly by optimizing estrogenic activity in some target tissues related to menopausal symptoms.26 Because EstroG-100™ has not been found to have an effect on follicle stimulating hormone, estradiol, or growth hormone levels,26 its substantial menopausal relief may stem from its ability to provide activity that is similar to the action of a "phyto-SERM," a plant-based mimic of the drug class known as selective estrogen receptor modulators, or SERMs. These are agents that—unlike distinct estrogen agonists or estrogen antagonists, which either boost or block estrogen—selectively enhance estrogenic activity in some tissue while inhibiting estrogenic activity in other tissue. In this way, EstroG-100™ may work by mimicking the benefits of SERM drugs—while producing none of the serious health risks of these pharmaceuticals. A randomized, double-blind, placebo-control study showed that EstroG-100™ substantially diminished menopausal symptoms and female sexual dysfunction risk.26
This study of the three-extract EstroG-100TM formula involved 64 women with moderate or severe menopausal symptoms. The test group was given EstroG-100™ in dosages of 257 mg twice daily, a total of 514 mg a day. All subjects were assessed using the Kupperman Menopausal Index, and special scores for vaginal dryness.
The mean Kupperman Menopausal Index score—a measure of menopausal symptoms—was reduced by 62% in the EstroG-100™ group, contrasted with a decrease of just 19% in the placebo group. The mean vaginal dryness score was decreased by 59% in the treatment group versus just 27% among the placebo subjects. The EstroG-100™ group experienced this substantial improvement in both sexual and menopausal symptoms within only 12 weeks, and experienced no accompanying weight gain or other negative effects.26
Diverse Mechanisms of Action
Scientific studies indicate that—when all of the botanical extracts described thus far combine—they modulate all of the following pathways involved in female sexual dysfunction.
Female sexual dysfunction is an important public health concern afflicting 43% of women,1,2 a statistic expected to explode in step with the aging population.8
Yet 40% of women suffering from female sexual dysfunction do not seek help from a physician.4
Recent scientific advances have identified two botanical based substances, Cordyceps and maca, that work together to modulate six distinct pathways that can lead to female sexual dysfunction. Cordyceps, taken by itself, was found in double-blind, placebo-controlled studies to reduce sexual dysfunction for over 66% of women—in only 40 days!6
A third extract, EstroG-100TM, a multi-extract blend of compounds from three plants, balances estrogenic activity in body tissues, alleviating menopausal symptoms—which often trigger female sexual dysfunction. In a double-blind, placebo-controlled study, EstroG-100™ reduced menopausal symptoms (and sexual dysfunction incidence) by 62% in just 12 weeks.26
While the medical establishment offers no effective treatment for the multiple mechanisms causing these conditions, natural botanical extracts can now safely reverse female sexual dysfunction, as well as menopausal symptoms.
If you have any questions on the scientific content of this article, please call a Life Extension® Wellness Specialist at 1-866-864-3027.
1. Lewis RW, Fugl-Meyer KS, Corona G, et al. Definitions/epidemiology/risk factors for sexual dysfunction. J Sex Med. 2010;7(4):1598-607.
2. Laumann EO, Paik A, Rosen RC. Sexual dysfunction in the United States. Prevalence and predictors. JAMA. 1999;281(6):537-44.
3. Hisasue S, Kumamoto Y, Sato Y, et al. Prevalence of female sexual dysfunction symptoms and its relationship to quality of life: a Japanese female cohort study. Urology. 2005 Jan;65(1):143-8.
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26. Chang A, Kwak B-Y, Yi K, Kim JS. The effect of herbal extract (EstroG-100) on pre-, peri- and post-menopausal women: a randomized double-blind, placebo-controlled study. Phtyother Res. 2011;doi:10.1002/ptr.3597.
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Waterdrop on Leaf
I was bored in London so I looked on a map and found a park to explore. As I was leaving a tiny glint caught my eye from this leaf on the ground and I debated wether or not to stop and try to take a macro photo. It wasn't until I was on my hands and knees that I saw how cool theis tiny world actually was. This was shot handheld with a 2x doubler on a 55mm micro nikkor lens.
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While characters on Arrow and The Flash have interacted with each other before, next week's gigantic crossover will see the casts officially teaming up for the first time. During The Flash episode, Oliver, Diggle and Felicity will head to Central City to investigate a mysterious boomerang. Then, the following night Barry, Caitlin and Cisco will head to Starling City to help Team Arrow prevent former A.R.G.U.S. agent Digger Harkness from killing Diggle's significant other Lyla Michaels. However, one character that will won't be a part of the excitement is Laurel Lance, but there's a good reason for that: character development.
Executive producer Andrew Kreisberg told THR this weekend that while Laurel will briefly pop up in the Arrow half of the crossover, she'll be mostly absent due to future episodes spotlighting her transformation into the Black Canary.
"She's not as present in these episodes, but that is because we've been building up to her appearance as the Black Canary. We sort of said that Sara was the Canary, but Laurel is the Black Canary. Episodes 10, 11 and 12 are a three-part trilogy that are about her. And episode 13 I think I can spoil, is called 'Canaries.' For fans of Laurel and for fans of Katie [Cassidy], they're going to get more than their fill after the winter break."
Laurel missing out on the crossover isn't too much of a surprise. Despite discovering Oliver's secret identity in Season 2, she hasn't been a full-time member of Team Arrow this season, and her sister Sara's murder has led her to training with Ted Grant, something which Oliver does not approve of. Comic book fans have known since day one that Laurel would eventually put on the black mask and outfit, and now that payoff will come when the show returns from its winter hiatus.
As Kreisberg notes, Sara was The Canary (the English translation of her League of Assassins name Ta-er al Sahfer), but Laurel will be the official Black Canary (albeit without her trademark sonic scream from the comics, as Arrow is expected to stay more grounded this season). Maybe she can dig up a few of those sonic weapons that Sara used last season.This trilogy of episodes will also feature the debut of the Green Arrow villain Danny Brickwell, meaning Laurel will have a lot to deal with when she suits up for the first time.
Despite Laurel's exclusion, there will still be plenty of great character interactions during next week's episodes, whether it's Oliver trying to calm down an enraged Barry or each team marveling at their counterpart's working environment. Luckily, the dynamic between the two teams isn't likely to suffer just because one big character is missing. Plus, there will be plenty of intriguing villains, including the metahuman Ray Bivolo, the aforementioned Digger Harkness and more to keep fans invested. You can catch the first half of the crossover, "Flash vs. Arrow," on December 2 at 8 p.m. EST, followed by the second half, "The Brave and the Bold," which will hit the schedule on December 3 at 8 p.m. EST.


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Distortions in the New Aesthetic: A studio visit with Cassandra Zook
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Cassandra Zook is an emerging painter, photographer, and social justice advocate. Born in a small town in Kansas, Cassie now lives and works in Denver, Colorado where she recently received her BFA from the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design.
Cassie first fell in love with the process of making art and its unique ability to address social issues in high school. After exhibiting her work locally and at Kansas University, the scope of her practice began to shift.
"…for me, it became so much less about the heavy social-political kind of activism, and more about how art can foster an ongoing dialogue…"
Zook's current body of work investigates the physicality of painting as well as the representation of the human body throughout art history. A self-proclaimed artist of "The New Aesthetic", she utilizes glitch programming to dismantle the once idealized human figures of Neo-Classical and Greco-Roman sculpture.
"This is a conversation about 'where did this imagery come from?', 'what have we been trained to see?', and what does it mean now?…"
Cassie's paintings, many of which are larger than life, are beginning to ignite this dialogue. Bodies are censored, rearranged, recolored, and diffused. Where fluid drapery of Neo-Classic sculpture once demanded the viewer's admiration and attention, pixelated stripes of foreign color now take center stage. Faces are broken, arms have lost their hands, twisting torsos have been denied their aesthetic romanticism.
One could argue that, in this digital age, the human body is more free than ever of the confines of tradition and the ideal, but it could also be said that this digital age of filtration is helping to accelerate this phenomenon.
One thing is certain. In contemporary life, a time when we have so much ability to cut, copy, clip, and paste ourselves as we see fit, Cassie's work wrestles with one of the great questions known to humanity: "does the idealism of the human body empower or imprison?" Perhaps it's simply a matter of who's doing the editing.
Cassie's studio is currently located at 40 W studios, in Lakewood, Co. Learn more about Cassie here , and follow her work on Instagram here.


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Last month I had the pleasure to meet Melissa Lafsky, the editor of Infrastructurist.com. We were both invited to participate at the annual Forum on Land and the Built Environment at Harvard University. She asked me if I would be interested in writing something for them and I leapt at the chance.
Infrastructurist.com is a must read for city champions everywhere. The breadth of what they cover is as broad as the definition of nfrastructure itself. Check it out!


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Haynes and Boone, LLP is pleased to host this complimentary seminar in which our OSHA lawyers will discuss what is expected from the agency in 2011.
Our presenters, as members of the Occupational Safety and Health Law Committee of the American Bar Association, will be sharing breaking news from the annual Committee meeting. The Committee brings representatives from the Secretary of Labor, the Review Commission, and the Department of Labor's Office of the Solicitor from Washington D.C. to share significant developments, decisions, and initiatives. In turn, you will have the opportunity to learn what to expect in 2011 from the critical players that comprise OSHA's various branches of compliance and enforcement. Businesses have seen a notable change in the compliance environment from the agency. Accordingly, we will summarize recent new regulations and proposed regulations, such as the controversial Injury Illness and Prevention Program or "I2P2." Our discussion will include enforcement trends regarding occupational noise, fall protection, the new Field Operations Manual, use of the General Duty Clause, and others. We will review significant decisions from the Review Commission, including the current status of cases regarding OSHA's ability to pierce the corporate veil. These and many other topics will be covered to give the audience a preview of what to expect and prepare for from OSHA in 2011 and beyond.
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Explore the world of modern Tabletop Gaming! It's not just Monopoly anymore! The games are bigger, better and weirder! Come for fun, to meet new people and to face challenges that will test your problem solving and teamwork skills. Open 6th-12th graders. Games include Ticket to Ride, Betrayal at House on the Hill, Forbidden Island, Love Letter, Mysterium, King of Tokyo, and more!


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I received my Master's Degree in Performance from Yerevan Conservatory in 1986. I became a member of MTAC (Music Teachers' Association of California) Hollywood Branch in 1995 and served on the board of directors for too many years.
I have been teaching for over 25 years. My goals are, to develop motor skills, coordination, confidence, and a sense of accomplishment in the very young. As teh students advance they should experience inspiration, motivation, sensitivity, expression, artistry, and culture.
My students have won awards from various prestigious competitions, including International Piano Recording Competition.
Throughout the years, many of them have graduated from American colleges majoring in music.
More About My Piano Expertise
I studied piano in a very prestigious Yerevan Conservatory. I have won several competitions and performed at numerous recitals.
I discovered my passion to teach piano in the early 90's and have been a music teacher since my students have performed and won at various competitions. I have had students of all ages. My students claim that I taught them to love classical music and I consider it one of my strengths.
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E-Book Givaway!/
While developing and play testing Chess 2 over the past year I've been slowly amassing a list of strategies, tips, and proverbs which has evolved into a full e-book with more than 50 tips to help you improve your game and get ahead of the curve for release. Remember, you can play and practice now with a normal chess set if you download the rules
There's also some artwork in there that has not yet been revealed anywhere else.
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Instead of a seminar on optical neural control strategies, this friday my molecular physiology teacher gave us a forty-five minute shpiel of her entire life-story.
She ended the tear-jerker with 'I can't take it anymore, I come home to a Mount Doom of papers to grade and four kids to feed.' I say the solution is as easy as to
not give us that 'Mount Doom' amount of papers to complete in the first place. What you assign always comes back to you. It's the circle of academic life.
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Temporary work to bulk upload images, resize them and name them
Budget £20-250 GBP
We partner with a number of web companies in the holiday property space as an affiliate. Each of these partners has between 500 - 1,500 properties on their books. Due to the volume of properties, we are struggling to transfer enough of them onto our own website.
We need an external support person to scrape images from the partner site (our contract permits us to do this), transfer the images, resize them, rename them and store them in a pre-agreed set of folders.
Initially we want to trial 10 properties. If this works then we will want to run batches of 100 properties. For each property, we need this person to do the following:
1. Scrape 12 images from an image gallery URL (we will provide this list)
2. Store in in jpg or png format
3. Ensure each image has a title that contains the following information that describes the photo. This should be automatically contained when an image is downloaded:
i. Property name, e.g. Charterhouse
ii. UK County, e.g. Somerset
iii. UK Town, e.g. Cheddar
iv. Image description, e.g. Open Plan kitchen
All the above information should already be in the download file when the images are transferred.
4. Resize each image to a minimum size of 1920x1080 pixels (scaled proportionally)
5. Store and transfer the images for each property in separate folder that has the same name as defined above
6. Transfer folders to us via a free filesharing application: Googledocs or WeTransfer
Please quote price per folder of 12 images for a total of 2000 property folders
Payment will be made as and when each 100 properties has been transferred in a satisfactory manner.
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Bubble Calendar Poster
Just heard about these great bubble wrap calendars. They are hand made by bubblecalendar.com in Brooklyn, NY, they're a nice, big 122cm x 46cm (48" x 18" ) and are typeset in Helvetica Neue. Perfect.
At just $29.95 US, gotta get me one (my birthday is coming up - hint)
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Tantra = mystical sex? New World Library publisher and author Marc Allen has been practicing tantra over 30 years, and he joins Maryanne here to illuminate this ancient tradition. Tantric awareness embraces everything, rejects nothing, and emphasizes the present moment. It addresses the whole of life — work, money, creativity, food and drink, solitude, meditation, healing and aging, freedom, enlightenment, and, yes, sex and relationships.
"Tantra is wide open, with infinite possibilities — like life is, and like you are," writes Marc. "Every moment is either something to enjoy and celebrate or something to be used as a teaching, a piece of valuable instruction, a message from the Universe for you."
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Installation view: Critical Gestures & Contested Spaces: Art and Politics in 1960s France, Hunter College Art Galleries, 2016. Photo by Bill Orcutt.
Critical Gestures & Contested Spaces: Art & Politics in 1960s France
Curated by Hunter College Graduate Students Isaac Aden, Jenn Bratovich, Flo Doukova, Lily Goldberg, Anna Jimenez, Michelle Molokotos, and Chris Spangler
Organized by Joachim Pissarro, Sarah Watson, and Annie Wischmeyer
February 27–April 10, 2016
Opening Reception: February 26, 6–8pm
205 Hudson Gallery
Hunter College Art Galleries
205 Hudson Street
New York, NY 10013
Hours: Wednesday–Sunday, 1–6pm
The theoretical, political, and cultural terrain of 1960s France was characterized by anti-colonialism, commodity fetishism, and extreme leftism. Operating within this zeitgeist, artists experimented with a range of practices that questioned authorship, explored new collective forms of art making, and opened up new modes of aesthetic experience. Motivated by radicalism, skepticism, and disillusionment, their work was by turns pointed, playful, and mischievous. Artists moved outside the constraints of staid institutional structures and into the physical space and ideological circuitry of the everyday, blurring the lines between art and politics, performance and the quotidian.
Critical Gestures and Contested Spaces: Art and Politics in 1960s France examines the broader context of 1960s France by mapping the politics of exhibition-making and of encountering art during this time. Organized in conjunction with Buren, Mosset, Parmentier, Toroni and curated by Joachim Pissarro and Annie Wischmeyer, Critical Gestures developed out of a dual-semester Theory and Criticism/Curatorial Practicum seminar taught by Joachim Pissarro. Working under the guidance of the Hunter College Art Galleries' curatorial team, the students conceived and executed the exhibition.
This exhibition is made possible by the David Bershad Family Foundation and Susan V. Bershad Charitable Fund, Inc.; The Brant Foundation, Inc.; Arthur and Carol Kaufman Goldberg; Andrew and Christine Hall; The Hunter College Foundation; Stephen King, C12 Capital Management; Anna Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation; President of Hunter College Jennifer J. Raab; and an anonymous donor.


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Wash the car with Auto Finesse Lather, then I dry with the Aqua Deluxe towel. Next up is the glass, which I clean with Crystal glass cleaner. I also use Crystal on my chrome parts, too – it works a treat! I then use Glisten spray wax to coat the car. I finish with Satin tyre shine and Imperial, to clean the wheels.
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Over the past few winter and summer vacations, we have hosted coding camps. In our first year, we introduced our primary students to coding through unplugged and iPad activities.(Blog link) In January 2017 we hosted a Littlebits camp. Both camps were extremely successful, and we managed to get our students excited about coding.
However, this summer I was hesitant to host a new coding camp. One of the main reasons was that I had started a Saturday coding class with 5 of my students. But the main reason for not starting the camp came from what I learned from the last two camps. Korean children are very dependent and lack creativity and problem-solving skills.
During the first two camps, students struggled with generating their own unique ideas and constantly asked for assistance while debugging. They were afraid to make mistakes and continued to ask "Is this right" during each activity. This dependence comes from an educational system that is very teacher centered. Also, students are taught that test scores are most important and the process or the journey is not. Therefore, I decided this summer I was going to shake things up and do something that was outside their comfort zone as well as mine.
Theatre Camp
The idea to host a theatre camp came from my visits to a local international school. There, drama class was an important part of student learning. Teachers at the school noted that children build confidence, creativity, focus, accountability, teamwork, and many other skills in drama class. While this was exactly what I was looking for I still had one problem. I'm not a drama teacher, and I had very little experience in teaching acting or theatre.
So, I did what I alway do when learning a new skill, I read and watched everything I could about theatre and how to teach theatre. My research lead me to two books by Denver Casado, Teaching Drama: The Essential Handbook: 16 Ready-to-Go Lesson Plans to Build a Better Actor and Drama Games for Kids: 111 of Today's Best Theatre Games.
The first book was a step by step guide to 16 complete theatre lessons. Each lesson consisted of a warm-up, skill building activities, and reflection. Each lesson focused on 1 or 2 different theatre skills, like building an ensemble or movement and space. The lessons and warm-up were easy to follow and thankfully there were numerous samples on YouTube to help.
The camp ran for 4 days from 10am-12pm. We spent the an hour and a half outside and 30 minutes inside. We would have spent the full two hours outside but around 11:30 we lost the shade.
I followed each lesson from Casado's book pretty closely, making adjustments on the fly. I really enjoyed watching kids be kids. Korean children spend most of their day in a classroom hovering over worksheets. I was happy to offer them a different kind of learning experience. One of the biggest challenges was keeping the boys from getting out of hand. There were only two boys out of eight kids so pairing them with a girl was tough. However, the girls weren't unconformable working with the boys. In fact, they were very encouraging.
At the end of each class, we headed back into the classroom to write our reflection journals. I gave students 2-3 specific questions based on the theme of the activities. I adapted the questions from Casado's book to fit the English level of the students. Also, we spent a few minutes discussing the questions and key vocabulary.
On the last day of the camp students worked in two groups and wrote their own pantomime movies. They're goal was to tell a story using only pantomime. After filming each movie the students worked in pairs to edit the movies in iMovie.
Overall I was happy with how the camp turned out. Students enjoyed the outdoor learning and had the chance to express themselves through unique activities.
About month before the camp I held a parent meeting with some of the parents of my English students. The goal of the meeting was to discuss our current coding classes. However, I decided to introduce the theatre camp at this time to this group because these parents more open minded than most Korean parents I have dealt with over the years.
The parents were pretty receptive to the idea, and all of my coding class students were signed up. However, I heard that some parents weren't too happy with the camp because they didn't fully understand what their children were learning through the different activities. I'm guessing that this came from the reactions or explanations of their children. For example, when I asked the kids about what they did in the camp they said: "We played a lot of games!" Now that might be ok, but you have to understand that in Korea, many parents don't see the value of learning through games. So, if I want this camp to be a regular event, I will have to host another parent meeting to show them exactly the different skills their children learned as well as explain the benefits of play.
I am currently planning Season Two (as my wife calls it) of our theatre camp. My original idea was to go more into script writing and filmmaking. My goal was to introduce students to the different aspects of making a short movie. However, from past experience, I learned that students weren't that comfortable in front of the camera. Hence we've made many podcast stories in the past. On the other hand, I do believe they would benefit from learning how to write a script, act, direct, and edit a movie.
I chose to use something that I know will get all my students excited about movie making! MINECRAFT! The up and coming update for Minecraft Pocket Edition, will make movie making and exciting and fun reality!
Look for a future post once I have the camp planned.


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Following on from yesterday's viral video introducing the crew of the Ares, 20th Century Fox has now unveiled the full trailer for Ridley Scott's science fiction action adventure "The Martian". Also out today is an infographic breaking down the major characters and their position in the cosmos related to each other. Check out both below.
Opening November 25th, "The Martian" stars Matt Damon as Mark Watney, an astronaut presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. However, Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive.


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Posted by Laura Pearson on November 19, 2018
Top Tips for Parents Making Family Travel Plans
When it comes to making travel arrangements for your whole family, things can quickly become complicated. How can you keep things simple and enjoyable for everyone? Here is key advice for planning trips that are both fun and easy for each family member.
Start with a Great Attitude
Going on a trip with children, no matter the age, often involves a certain amount of angst for adults. Many parents dread the moods, questions, and hiccups that can accompany the best-laid travel plans. However, your own point of view can make a world of difference when you're standing in a lengthy line, looking for a rest stop, or realizing you missed a turn because you were addressing an argument between siblings. One suggestion is to think of yourself as the travel guide for your children and keep in mind a few giggles can quickly diffuse the worst of moods on all sides. Remain flexible, and explain various aspects of your trip to the kids in age-appropriate terms. For example, as Vogue notes, red-eye flights can be a "sleepover" on an airplane, although make it a point to accentuate the "sleep" part.
Keeping Clean
As far as your children's toys are concerned, be aware of how you handle them throughout your travels, especially if your itinerary includes flying. You don't want your children picking up viruses or bacteria from unfamiliar places and getting sick, so plan on routinely disinfecting their toys. Soft toys can be hand washed and then treated with a blend of rubbing alcohol and water, wooden toys can be sprayed with a solution of vinegar water, and hard toys can be scrubbed in soapy water and then wiped down with rubbing alcohol.
Managing Energy Levels
There are many ways you can help your kids when it comes to handling long hours in vehicles. Indulge in some fun foods you wouldn't normally allow to lighten the experience of getting to your destination, and take advantage of playgrounds to let your kids blow off steam. And as some experts explain, letting your children meet other children between stops is a great way to both entertain them and burn off excess energy. Play word games and have treasure hunts — whatever you need to do so they later can relax when they are cooped up.
Have Fun, Will Travel
How your children feel about your trip while you're on the road can come in waves. Kids can be so excited about new places and attractions, and so cranky when they are tired. One way to combat dull or frustrating moments is by providing entertainment. When it comes to toys, Breezy Mama explains you can really amp up your children's excitement by stowing some special selections just for traveling. And for teens and tweens, consider picking out some apps that are both fun and educational to help during dull parts of the journey.
Strollers are Wonderful
If your child is small enough for a stroller, Ebony suggests having one along even if your youngster can walk. Kids don't have the patience adults do, so when they are waiting in line or a flight is delayed, it's nice to be able to let them settle in for a bit. Another suggestion is to rent your baby gear while you're away, especially if you're flying. Lugging a stroller or car seat through airport security, along with all your other bags and children, can be wearisome to even the hardiest travelers. Picking up a rental can be convenient and efficient.
Hitting the road with your whole crew can be challenging, but a few strategies can keep things simple and fun. Maintain a great perspective, allow kids to blow off steam now and then, take advantage of clever travel hacks, and ensure there is some entertainment for everyone. No matter how you get there or where you go, you will all be able to enjoy the ride!


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I've had some requests to do more cat projects and I've been meaning to put together a needle felting tutorial, so I decided to combine those two ideas together. So today I'll be showing you how to make some needle felted cat toys! I made three different types, one stuffed with cat nip, one stuffed with jingly bells and one stuffed with a crinkly plastic bag.
First, here's the cat nip stuffed toy:


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Becoming a changemaker in 54h
From being selected as one of the 100 young sustainable change makers of Generation T, by The Shift and Act4Change to winning the Startup Weekend Changemakers, during the month of November, the project of Magma Nova, a design and research studio conceiving urban-wear using micro-organisms and biomaterials, has speed up to another level.
1 minute that will change your life
One small minutes to pitch my project at the auditorium of Vlerick Business School in front of all the participants, organisers and mentors of the Startup Weekend Changemakers, with the objective to recruit a team of divers profiles, business managers, engineers, developers, commercials, financial managers, complementary to my profile of a designer. Amongst the 35 pitched ideas, only 10 are selected, by vote, to be developed during the weekend.
A new team composes itself around Future of Materials: Gaëlle (Engineer), Sven (Engineer at a 3D printing company), Sanja (Public Policy), Iris (Business Manager), Céline (Material Engineer with a thesis in bio-materials) will help me to go from the status of an idea to the status of a real start-up.
Then on Friday evening starts the long debriefing of the current state of the project, the possible applications in design and architecture and the research that's already being done by others in the same matter. During the next hours we start to elaborate the famous Business Model Canvas, a strategy on how to go to the market fast using the Lean Methodology: what product? made by whom? sold to? why? partners? channels? exit plan? The choice goes to a bike helmet made out of mycelium, 100% bio-sourced and 100% bio-degradable, made locally, simple to produce in small series and to sell to consumers via a crowdfunding campaign. We investigate the size of the market, the financial aspects, the costs of production, interview the resellers and potential customers, the IP's, contact bio-engineers, bio-labs,...
After 54h of hard labour, 4h of sleep, the time has come to present our project to the jury of expert entrepreneurs, Roland Vaxelaire and Piet Colruyt (Impact Investors), Cedric Donck (Business Angel), Miguel Meuleman (Professor Entrepreneurship at Vlerick Business School), Virginie Samyn (Managing Director at Ashoka Belgium), Céline Bouton (Co-founder at SenseCube Brussels), Marieke Huysentruyt (Founder at Oksigen Lab) and Julie Foulon (Community Manager of Start it @kbc Brussels). A demanding jury, ready to cut into pieces the wobbly projects pitched in five minutes ;)
Top chrono, here it goes: "We fouled ourselves... (thank you Régis - pitch coacher - for this one liner)... during decades we've been producing products where we didn't know what to do with them at the end of the cycle. This are plastics, concrete, you name it.... But we think differently, to consume differently... We've designed a product that is tougher then concrete.... cheaper then plastic.... and biodegradable!... That product is made out of mushrooms !! Mushrooms are the greatest transformers of the planet, they are the primary recyclers. You don't need fossil fuels or food-stocks (like with bio-plastics) to produce them. They are manufactured by nature!" Then I explain how they are produced and designed. Céline, with her background of business and material science, continues on the business model.
And BOOM, we won the first price, including:
- A seat in the SenseCube acceleration program starting in February 2016 in Brussels. A 3-month program will give our team unique access to daily support and emulation, workshops and mentoring by the network of coaches as well as the support of the international MakeSense community to prototype, test and launch our project in the best conditions!
- Office rental during 6 months in the coworking space of Mundo B in Brussels.
An opportunity to benefit from synergies with Groupe One, ECORES and 35 other Belgian and European organizations in the field of sustainability.
Includes a bright space with internet connection, printing, phone lines, kitchen, shared meeting rooms and sustainable cafeteria.
- Voucher to register our business at Banque Carrefour des Entreprises and 18 hours of coaching with Securex. Guidance through every legal and administrative aspects: choosing our legal structure, registering our business and our business name, obtaining federal and regional licences and permits, and learning about the regulations of our activities.
- Access to a private platform of crowdfunding via My MicroInvest.
- Participation to the 9th edition of the Boostcamp MIC in February 2016.
The last two weeks have been filled with nice and important meetings with friends, coaches, mentors, in order to better define the goals and continue on the vibes. With Winnie, bio-engineer, we started to grow our materials in the DIY BioLab at ReaGent, an already important stage because with micro-organisms the environmental conditions are very important.


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Welcome to our latest segment: Crypto and Coffee with Chelsea. Today's episode: Medicalchain.
Crypto and Coffee with Chelsea: Medicalchain
I had the pleasure of getting to sit down and chat with Medicalchian's co-founder and COO, Mohammed Tayeb, today.
Medicalchain is a project based on the blockchain that seeks to solve a huge issue with patient health records. Medicalchain's website describes itself as this:
"Medicalchain uses blockchain technology to securely store health records and maintain a single version of the truth. The different organizations such as doctors, hospitals, laboratories, pharmacists and health insurers can request permission to access a patient's record to serve their purpose and record transactions on the distributed ledger. Medicalchain provides solutions to today's health record problems. The platform is built to securely store and share electronic health records. By digitizing health records and empowering users we can leverage countless industry synergies."
During the interview, Mr. Tayeb explained that the idea for Medicalchain was born when its co-founder, Dr. Abdullah Albeyatti, grew tired of the current health records system that is practiced within the UK.
On May 16th, Medicalchain announced the first steps of its application MyClinic. MyClinic.com is a telemedicine application that utilizes Medicalchain's blockchain technology to connect patients with physicians through a secure and convenient video consultation platform. This new platform gives patients access to the best doctors around the world.
MyClinic is the first telemedicine platform that enables patients to pay with a digital currency – the MedToken (MTN). Patients are able to pay with fiat on the platform, but there is an incentive if the visit is paid for in MTN. While the medical records portion of MyClinic is still being built, patients still receive a report after their video consultation with the doctor summarizing the visit and course of treatment.
Partnerships & Collaborations
Medicalchain concluded its ICO in February of this year, and in March, the project had already sealed a partnership with Groves Medical Group. The South London-based medical group currently serves 30,000 patients and over 1,000 private patient families.
Within the next few weeks, the Groves will begin its pilot program with Medicalchain testing out the MyClinic application. This will be the first real-life test of the platform and Medicalchain expects MyClinic to be launched to the general public later this year.
On June 18th, Medicalchain also announced a joint collaboration with the Mayo Clinic. While it isn't a partnership, Mr. Tayeb explained that it is a working relationship to explore the potential benefits of blockchain technology in healthcare.
Big thanks to COO Mohammed Tayeb for taking time out of his busy schedule to sit down and chat with me about Medicalchain.
Stay tuned for our next segment of Crypto and Coffee with Chelsea.
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I have a confession to make: I'm still pretty new at this whole hunting thing. Sure, I grew up camping and fishing, but up until a couple of years ago the only living thing I'd ever shot was a snapping turtle. With a pellet gun.
Hunting just wasn't something I grew up around, for a myriad of reasons. I guess partially because of that, my thoughts on hunting were along the lines of, "But I could never shoot Bambi!" And honestly, if you'd told me even six years ago that I would own my very own shotgun and rifle, I would have thought you were crazy. Well, to be fair, I've had my shotgun for almost six years now, but up until a couple of years ago the only thing I'd used it for was shooting clays. Doves are definitely harder to shoot than clays.
So with that confession, you're probably asking yourself, "So what makes you enough of an authority to call this 'Girls' Guide to Hunting'?"
Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
But that nothing, in a way, is what this is all about.
See, I know I'm not the only female who's still pretty new to this whole hunting thing. Hell, the fact that my Hunter Safety Course a couple of years ago was half female proves that. The statistics, too, back it up. The numbers of female hunters are increasing rapidly–in some states there are more new female hunters than male hunters (including kids and teens).
I'm willing to bet I'm not the only new female hunter who was both excited yet anxious about her first time out in the field. I think there are some of us still grappling with the thought of shooting Bambi, while others are totally squicked out at the thought of field dressing a deer (I know I was–and warning, the video I linked to is graphic). Others are probably wondering and worrying about finding camo (again, I know I was–I'm 5'2″ and not a small girl–but I've heard good things about Prois), and there's always the difficulty of being a chick who needs to pee without a toilet in sight.
So I encourage you to join me on this adventure. Whether you're just starting out or you're an old hat by now, my goal is to inform, entertain and share, and to give us female hunters a place to talk about the hunting stuff our husbands laugh at us about (seriously, when I mention the whole gotta-pee-while-in-the-blind thing, he just laughs and tells me I'll have to hold it).
In the meantime, here's to Bambi (and a few of his friends).


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Stephanie J. Blake
Ever since I sold The Marble Queen I've agonized over my long list of people who have helped me in some way on my long journey to publication. While my acknowledgements won't be included in print, here's my chance to thank some important people!
I am especially grateful for my ever-patient editor extraordinaire, Robin Benjamin, who pushed, pulled, and dragged more out of me than I ever thought I could give. Kudos to the whole Marshall Cavendish team.
I'd also like to thank Lisa Graff who was Freedom's first champion and helped immensely with plot. Thanks also to Steve Malk. It was his critique at the 2007 SCBWI conference that helped me dig even deeper into Freedom's story.
Much love to all of my trench buddies at Verla Kay's Blue Board. Much appreciation for the ones who have held me up and kept me going over the years: Brenda Sturgis, Nan Marino, Danette Vigilante, Ingrid Law, Barbara O'Connor, Hilary Sierpinski, Kay Peterson Pluta, Amy Allgeyer Cook, Janel Rodriguez, Kristin Walker, Laurie Boyle Crompton, Robin Prehn, Jennifer Gill, Anne Marie Pace, and Tracy Abell.
Never surrender!
To my high school English teacher, Darcy Garretson, who encouraged me to write from the heart.
To Mary Blake for making sure I have always had a library card.
To my grandfather, Roger Blake. He told me once that I could be anything I wanted to be. To my grandmother who told me that once in a while the dishes can wait.
To my mother, Barbara Bowers, for showing me that it's okay to be different.
To my boys, Austin, Jett, and Chase. You inspire me every day.
Where would I be without my husband? Sam Firenze, you helped me chase down this dream.
Last, but certainly not least, to my dad, Michael Blake. I can always count on you.


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PRICE HILL (FOX19) - A 24-year-old appeared on court on Monday for allowing his dog attack a resident in Price Hill.
Angel Galen was arguing with others on West Liberty Street Saturday when his dog attacked and bit someone on the hand. Responding officers had to shoot and kill the dog, police said.
Court documents describe the dog as "vicious" and say Galen released the dog in an effort to scare and alarm others. Police have not said what kind of breed the dog was.
Galen is charged with inducing panic and failure to confine a vicious dog.
This attack comes two days before Council member Kevin Flynn said having a dog for criminal purposes should have the same penalty as having a gun for criminal purposes. Flynn spoke at the Law and Public Safety Committee on Monday where members discussed possible new legislation to increase charges against owners of violent dogs.
It is been a heated topic in the Tri-State after a six-year-old girl was attacked by two pit bulls last week in Westwood. She is still in critical condition at Cincinnati Children's Hospital.
The committee indicated on Monday that they wanted to hold owners of violent dogs responsible for attacks without toughening laws for all owners of specific breeds.
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