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Ginseng Root
Ginseng Root is the the most commonly used part of the ginseng plant for medicinal purposes. It has a thick root with thinner branches that extend outwards. It kind of mimics a human body and that's how it was originally discovered to be beneficial to human beings, by the signature of the plant. There are many types of ginseng root that you will discover below and their individual types, colors and uses.
What is Ginseng
What is Ginseng? Ginseng isn't actually just one individual species of plant or root. It doesn't even belong to a particular common plant family. It is a collection of plants that have similar appearances and health benefits, but there are specific difference that make them work even better as a combination than individually. They can all be referred to generically as Panax Ginseng plants. American Ginseng is the most commonly used type of panax ginseng.
Red Ginseng is another that is grouped in the panax type because of similar health benefits. The other types of ginseng plants are called Korean Ginseng, Siberian Ginseng, Wild Ginseng, Asian Ginseng and Eleuthero Root. There are many more varieties, but these are by far the most common and easy to find. The ginseng roots are used and ground into an extract (ginseng extract) or used in a liquid tonic. Ginseng's main benefit is that of an energetic and adaptogenic herb, one that help you cope with stress, physical or mental.
Adaptogenic Herbs
What are Adaptogens? Adaptogenic Herbs are natural herbs that help your body adapt to stress, they give your body extra oomph that it needs when you are dealing with physical, emotional and mental stressful conditions. Physical conditions like being ill, performing intense workouts or sports competitions and adapting to extreme heat or cold; Emotional stresses like difficult relationships, breakups, job losses and relocation's, Mental stresses like exam stress, job stress, overthinking, and brainstorming. Adaptogens can help you through them all.
Adaptogenic herbs make up a nice little list because they cross different types of plants, not just one family. Ginsengs are the most common type of adaptogen (American ginseng, Siberian ginseng, Red ginseng, suma, ashwagandha extract, astragalus, maca root, schisandra and jiaogulan (gynostemma pentaphyllum). The mushrooms reishi, shiitake and maitake are also potent adaptogens with powerful immune boosting properties that can zap deadly virus infections as well as be effective against most cancers, without the side effects of chemotherapy or radiation. See: Mushroom Health Benefits.
Benefits of Ginseng
What are the most common benefits of ginseng? Ginseng is a very important adaptogen that can save your body from the negative effects of stress and chronic fatigue in numerous ways Here are the most common ginseng benefits you should know about:
- Anti-Aging Supplement (Stops stress hormones from damaging your cells)
- Brain Booster (Helps prevent exam stress; promotes enhanced cognition & clarity)
- Cardiovascular System Booster (Improves blood and oxygen circulation in body)
- CFS (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome)
- Depression (Natural mood elevator)
- Diabetes (and Pre-diabetes blood sugar control)
- Digestive Disorders
- Energy Booster (Caffeine free sustained energy boost)
- Erectile Dysfunction (60% improvement within 18 weeks)
- Improves Hemoglobin Levels (Red Blood Cell Count)
- Liver Function (Helps against hepatitis, cirrhosis and liver failure)
- Stress Relief (From Physical, Emotional & Mental Stress; Stops stress hormones from damaging your body)
- Weight Loss (Stops your body from excess cortisol production that leads to fat storage)
- And much, much more!
Ginseng is a natural whole body tonic that protects you from the negative effects of stress on your heart, cells and from damaging elevated stress hormones that cause premature aging and fat storage.
Panax Ginseng
Panax Ginseng (Asian ginseng) is considered in TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) as a yang chi tonic. The best form is Asian Korean Red Ginseng, it is an active form of ginseng that is great in improving energy levels, strengthening muscle tone, improving vocal tone in more passive type personalities. It has mild androgenic properties that gives natural inner and outer strength boosts. Numerous studies demonstrate Panax ginseng's effectiveness at improving a person's ability to withstand stress, improve work performance and quality, and enhance cognitive function (mental clarity.)
It has also been shown to increase adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH), which stimulates an increase in adrenal hormone secretion for a powerful boost in energy, strength and stamina. It also can counteract the shrinkage of the adrenal gland caused by prescription corticosteroid drugs. At Okayama University Medical School, Japan, researchers from the department of pathology discovered that Asian ginseng extract inhibited hydroxyl radical formation. This makes Panax ginseng a powerful antioxidant as well.
The medical researchers confirmed that ginseng's antioxidant effect may be responsible for ginseng's wide range of medicinal uses. In a double-blind controlled study, 36 non insulin-dependent diabetes patients were treated with Panax ginseng for eight weeks. Patients were administered either 100 mg or 200 mg of Panax ginseng or a placebo. The ginseng extract lifted the moods of the patients, improved their physical activity participation and performance, improved hemoglobin levels, reduced fasting blood sugar levels and lowered body weight mass, and adipose (fat) tissue.
American Ginseng
American ginseng (Panax quinquefolius), is a close cousin of Asian ginseng. However it is considered a yin tonic rather than a yang tonic. Therefore American ginseng is most helpful for active types that want to get a boost, or improve performance. It contains similar ginsenosides (the active ingredients in ginseng's) as the Asian ginseng's and has similar health benefits too. It is somewhat similar to the natural body types of people living in Asia compared to people living in the Americas.
The majority of people living in Asia and following the customs there are smaller framed or of "yin" body constitution. The majority of people living in the Americas that follow the customs, and diets there generally have larger body structures. It's appropriate that these two main types of ginseng's match the cultures they are named after. If you are smaller framed, than the Asian ginseng would be good for you. If you are more full figured, then the American ginseng is good for you.
However, the best overall strategy for ginseng usage is not a magic bullet approach (where one thing fixes it all.) Rather achieving optimum balance gives you well rounded strength and flexibility that keeps you healthy and active for the long haul. Using a blend of ginseng's (American, Asian, Siberian, etc) can help you get experience the best of all worlds.
Eleuthero Root
Siberian ginseng (Eleutherococcus senticosus) commonly called Eleuthero Root, is not actually a ginseng, as you can tell by its Latin name but has ginseng like effects on human health, so it got included as a ginseng by botanists. It can be found natively in Russia, Asia, northern China, Japan and Korea. Russian scientists consider it to be the "gold standard" for ginseng's because of its energy boosting properties and stress reducing benefits.
It is part of what helped the Russian athletes train and compete in extreme cold temperatures and be almost unstoppable. They and many other people still use it today for its immense health protecting benefits and natural energy and performance boosting without caffeine jitters. Russian botanists consider it to be even more effective than Asian ginseng in allowing people to perform under extreme stressful conditions.
I have tried all of the major types of ginseng's, and they are all highly beneficial in their own right. I get the most sustained energy boost and balanced stress relief by taking a blend of adaptogenic herbs that include at least 3 types of ginseng's. It is powerful natural medicine that really works. I can go out in colder temperatures for longer now with just a tank top, than I ever could before. I can say in the sauna longer. I can exercise longer and notice an improvement when I lift weights too. It is a natural stress reliever and anti-aging tonic that everyone should benefit from regularly.
Ginseng Supplement
You can get ginseng as an individual ginseng, like the Panax Ginseng in the section above, which comes in capsules. If you want an organic ginseng supplement that is a blend of natural ginseng's combined with other adaptogenic herbs because they work on different channels in the body. And give you a caffeine free energy boost that can help you get through the most stressful of times and make it through without damaging your body with stress hormones like cortisol that age you prematurely, cause heart conditions and pack on excess weight like Jaba the Hut.
For more information on where to get a great organic adaptogen blend see: Ginseng Extract.


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First published forbes.com 6/2016. The flood of venture capital money into digital education disruptors continues unabated with the June 2 announcement that Udemy raised $60 million from the venture capital arm of media giant Naspers.
This follows $65 million raised a year ago, and recent rounds of $105 million for Udacity and $50 million for Varsity Tutors, among a slew of online educators like Coursera, UoPeople, 2u, CorpU, Pearson CourseConnect, and Wiley Crossknowledge, all one way or another sizing up internal or external investments to create platforms to change the education industry.
As with music and travel and other industries that have been digitally reconfigured, the cresting venture capital wave suggests the point of no return is truly upon us.
While some of the VC money is going into general learning, much of it is focused where the big returns are expected, in business and leadership education, where industry incumbents—the business schools—are now struggling to hold onto markets that are fast wriggling out of their grasp.
It has become harder for b-schools to compete in the mass markets for basic management education, such as courses in finance, or marketing, or sales. They either become the empty-handed high-cost provider, or like Wharton or Darden, drive product through external online providers at a fraction of its previous price, hoping for compensation by volume.
The other end of the executive eduction spectrum—the customized in-company side, where management advancement is tailored to specific company challenges—looks safe from broad-based digital disruption, at least for now.
It is the ground between these two poles that is now looking vulnerable to online offerings. And here in this middle terrain IMD Switzerland, currently FT-ranked No. 1 in executive education for Open programs and No. 2 worldwide overall, has emerged with a fully online portfolio of personalized executive courses called "Global Leadership in the Cloud (GLC)."
The suite of eight courses (to be 15 when fully rolled out) covers topic areas such as strategy, innovation, and leadership, and aims to capture the benefits of technology while holding onto the defining executive eduction principles of personal attention and real-world application.
IMD President (Dean) Dominique Turpin sees the difference between GLC and the so-called MOOC (massive open online course) offerings particularly in the high video lecture production GLC offers. The school gets video, graphics, and animation production from experts in the film and entertainment business, currently outsourcing this to companies in Spain and Belgium.
Says Turpin, "We need to build attention among online students. Case studies were the stories that were commonly used by business schools, but now we are able to use the full power of digital technology in storytelling. This is what makes an impact. It is these stories that students remember."
IMD's GLC suite is particularly aimed at high potential (HiPo) junior executives, the up-and-coming tier of management typically not senior enough to command residential programs because of higher tuition, and accommodation and travel cost.
At the same time HiPo's are often looking for more than their in-house development offerings, says GLC director, Professor James Henderson.
For about $4,000 per eight-week program, IMD is able to trump these static options, particularly in supporting student delegates with personal feedback. GLC differentiates itself in offering a personal, coached development experience that is unusual for fully online programs.
Says Henderson, "The courses are specifically designed to accommodate each student's particular current workplace challenge or projects they are trying to work through.
"It is very practice oriented. They come with their particular challenge, we take them through steps to set about achieving their goal."
IMD's particular curriculum development challenge is to create a learning journey for each individual delegate, while at the same time providing the same basic course content coverage for all.
In a typical week there will be three or four lecture videos that have been carefully scripted into 10-minute segments with a fair amount of animation and professional post-production.
The full capabilities of a video production team are applied to make the content highly engaging in its own right, but the key stage, says Henderson, comes in how delegates apply the learning to their own company or own situation.
This is where they get feedback from the lecturer, and peers in their work groups, and their assigned coach.
Student numbers are capped at between 25 and 50 students per coach, depending on the course.
Weekly Flow
Each eight-week course has a specific start and end date. Students can't go at their own pace, and finish (or not) at some future date, as common with MOOCs. Here they are obligated into a weekly flow of assignments and deliverables, which may in part explain the 90% graduation rate.
But within each week, learning is almost entirely asynchronous and self-paced—students move in their own time through the readings, video lectures, and online posting forums, and set up their own meetings with study groups or coaches.
The courses have very little plenary group time where the whole cohort meets. "Plenary is difficult. People just can't make time at the same time!" says Henderson.
At present the GLC suite has one iteration of courses in the Spring and one in the Fall. According to Henderson, since a "soft-launch" to IMD's company partners a year-and-a-half ago, GLC registration has doubled year-on-year. About 30% of the uptake is now private individuals.
Henderson estimates that 20% of IMD core faculty is involved in these programs, and as this adoption increases and the suite of video lectures grows, he is seeing "unintended positive consequences in being able to pick and choose parts of courses for IMD's custom client work.
"And we can use, say, three weeks of one program and two weeks of another, and attach them like lego-bricks to IMD's on-site programming," he says.
Notwithstanding the early success of GLC, Henderson is also candid on its limits.
"These are deep dives into a specific issues facing a particular person in the workplace, and are excellent in convenience, excellent in flexibility. They are great for deep capability building for high-potentials," he says.
For more senior delegates, who are becoming ambassadors, leaders, bridge-builders in their organizations, the need for face-to-face networking is more significant, and seeing how the pieces (of organization management) fit together more important.
"To see how pieces fit together, forget it (GLC). If you want to know how finance connects to strategy connects to leadership connects to innovation—that's why we still have on-site programs," says Henderson.

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Three empty chairs sit on a red carpet while Adrianna Costa tells us that tonight, the three finalists are about to entertain us one final time for our vote before the winner is announced next week in the Season Finale of On The Lot.
Adrianna tells the anxious four directors Sam Friedlander, Jason Epperson, Will Bigham and Adam Stein that last night it was the biggest public vote yet. She reads out three names who have made it. Will Bigham, Adam Stein and Jason Epperson which mean Sam Friedlander has been cut at the last hurdle.
This is their final chance to prove that they are worthy of the $1 million contract with Dreamworks.
They each have to pick two movies that best represented them.
Carrie Fisher and Gary Marshall are here by themselves to judge this week.
Personally, I think Adam's movies were by far the best of the three directors that are left in the competition.
Here are the encore movies:
Jason Epperson
Eternal Waters
Will Bigham
Glass Eye
The Yes Men
Adam Stein
Dough The Musical
Army Guy
Carrie Fisher thinks that Will Bigham is her favourite while Gary Marshall's tip is Jason Epperson. I'm not convinced that they were being legitimate. Adam should win it as he is clearly in a different league.


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The "steps" or "rungs" of a DNA molecule are made up of four nucleobases, including adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G) and thymine (T). These bases are arranged in particular pairs. A only bonds with T and vice versa, while C only pairs with G and vice versa.
Deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA, is a molecule that contains the genetic material of an organism. Its fundamental unit is called a nucleotide. DNA is a type of nucleic acid that forms a double-helix structure due to the two strands that spiral around each other, often likened to the shape of a twisted ladder.
DNA is composed of a phosphate group, a deoxyribose sugar and four nitrogenous bases. Alternating sugar and phosphate molecules form the backbone or "rails" of DNA. The sugar is joined to the phosphate group via the 3'-5' phosphodiester linkage. The four nucleobases that form the rungs pair up through weak hydrogen bonding. The A-T and T-A base pairs contain two hydrogen bonds, while the C-G and G-C base pairs form three hydrogen bonds.
The nucleobases A and G, referred to as purines, are larger compared to T and C, which are called pyrimidines. A purine always forms a pair with a pyrimidine. The hereditary code that determines the traits of an organism is stored in these base pairs.


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Kaberle will see free agency; could return to B's
Bruins General Manager Peter Chiarelli expects defenseman Tomas Kaberle to test the free-agent waters Friday, but he's not ready to rule out the possibility of his return to Boston.
"There's no finality to our relationship," Chiarelli said Thursday. "What we agreed to with Tomas and his agent is that he would look into the market and we'd continue to talk with him. There's certainly no finality there.
"If it's not Tomas, we would look to some names in the market and/or we'd look to our younger guys. But let me be perfectly clear -- there's no end to the relationship."
Kaberle and forward Michael Ryder are the team's two most prominent unrestricted free agents. Kaberle was acquired by the Bruins at the trade deadline from the Toronto Maple Leafs and failed to produce like he has in the past, posting a goal and 8 assists in 24 regular-season games and zero goals and 11 assists in 25 postseason contests.
Ryder, meanwhile, was a major contributor to the Bruins' championship run. In the playoffs, the 31-year-old had 8 goals and 9 assists in 25 games after an 18-goal regular season.
"Those are two guys that gave us good service," Chiarelli said. "For the right number, I'd like to have them back."
The only problem, according to Chiarelli, is getting Kaberle and Ryder for the right price with the free-agent market looking as thin as ever.
Chiarelli said he's wary because many teams have a lot of money to spend and need to pay players to reach the floor of the salary cap. As an example, the Florida Panthers signed Tomas Kopecky to a four-year, $12 million deal this week. Kopecky is 29 and coming off a 15-goal, 42-point season with the Blackhawks. Those are strikingly similar numbers to what Ryder posted this past season.
Consider that Ryder has scored at least 20 goals in his career four times, something Kopecky can't boast, his value on the open market may price him out of Boston. Throw in the fact that Chiarelli wants to have money to pay David Krejci and Tuukka Rask when they become restricted free agents next summer, and caution is the name of the game starting Friday.
"I'm a little wary of the market," Chiarelli said. "The cap is high and it's certainly going to come down in some shape or form (in the future). We do have guys we want to re-sign and they're going to command raises. I'm really not in a position to go out and give a guy a big-term contract. I think we can find that help elsewhere and still be in a good position to re-sign our guys as they come up in the next year or two.
"I look at my board and I see the number of players and quality of players, and there's just not the high-end players. Of course, you've got the floor of the cap and teams have to spend so you're going to get contracts that are generally higher in the unrestricted market, but I think they'll be at an even added premium because they have to spend. Then all the other comparables follow in line. That's why I'm a little cautious going into this market. There's not the supply there normally is and the demand is greater."
Along with the potential departures of Kaberle and Ryder, the Bruins will also be without Mark Recchi, who retired following the Stanley Cup victory. Chiarelli doesn't expect to be active in the early going Friday, but he believes that even if all three players aren't returning, there's enough out there to plug those holes with similar players.
"I want to at least maintain the elements that those guys bring," Chiarelli said. "Can I improve it or maintain it going to the open market? I think I can. I'm not in a hurry to do it. So I'm not going to be part of that first flurry. As far as shaking up the roster, I'm not going to do that. The Kaberles, the Recchis, the Ryders, we have to look to replace those guys somehow."
Chiarelli said one way the Bruins can avoid overpaying for free agents is by finding players who would be willing to take less to play for a team that not only won the Stanley Cup, but is in a good position to make another run at it in 2011-12.
"I would anticipate there would be," Chiarelli said. "I would anticipate that people recognize we have a chance to win again and that they want to be here. Discount is too strong of a word, but I think there's a group of players that would be in that mix."
Chiarelli also said defenseman Shane Hnidy, an unrestricted free agent, would not be re-signed and that restricted free agent forward Brad Marchand was extended a qualifying offer.
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All Occasions Baby Stuff Ideas
What if the little a family's first infant stuff keepsake set involve? Should it again contain quite a fancy useless stuff, second rate crazy information or a factor encourages imagining, communication not to mention motor capabilities? You may well gift ones little four legged friend with a fabulous rattle flipper gripper using engaging behavior, colors not to mention sounds and also lively connections that motivate grasp reflex. Along with, stuff want gummy tether builds understanding lips as well as tongue.
Clothing information kits earn clothes and so amazingly straightforward to make, you can take baby outfits rapidly. It doesn't necessarily matter you should have curtains skills. You're able to leave apart intricate little one clothes signs and instead center on embellishing, replacing or lets recycle old newborn baby clothes having chic versions that meet you. Still, if you decide to do want activities, there really are plenty options to select from. For model, simple little one pant designs are so simple you do not need to convey a considerable amount of effort. Toddler sundress shapes are for that reason adorable that one can customize them states it all want.
Even attire accessories are wonderful newborn baby stuff products. Cute sunrays hats just for summer are the. It safe guards the little eyes out of your harmful sun shine. A hot little elf hat is really an extremely invaluable soft stuff for ones cold conditions. You might choose to brew a hooded bamboo towel; they glimpse so cute consequently they are just an excellent item towards wrap your toddler after splashing along at the beach or even pool.
Kids just like fancy figures. Instead with gifting the more common computer material or any specific video equipment or flick stuff, purchase your lovable baby cool toys. You can take easy LEARNING TO MAKE wooden games or made and very soft toys perhaps even recycled or higher cycled games. You may well try ones hand within making effortless wooden puzzles that will make great discovering tools regarding children. A wooden source is an alternative idea if you suffer from some recycles wood.
Essential Beauty Tips
Beauty pertains to the phenomenon for the experience involving pleasure, throughout the perception involving balance as well as proportion with stimulus. It calls for the cognition of any balanced variety and framework that elicits charm and enchantment towards tons, creature, inanimate target, scene, new music, idea, for example. It's likewise seen just as one assemblage or even just graces as well as properties pleasing towards the eye, this ear, this intellect, these aesthetic teachers, or perhaps the ethical feel. Beauty would be the quality gives pleasure on the mind or even just senses and it is associated by means of such premises as balance of form or even just color, fineness of beauty, truthfulness, in addition to originality.
One common understanding in the word beauty shows that it's the look of things and individuals. For example of this, we phone miss globe or perhaps miss world the nearly all beautiful female that is known. Also a completely blossomed rose can be well known as a splendor. Beauty is not measured, nor would it be counted. It truly is purely very subjective in character, and its comprehension changes in line with data via perception list of individuals.
Beauty has long been revered from time person kind got developed fundamental senses. We've discovered umpteen selection of stories ever when wars useful to be triggered upon for that desire in beautiful women. Beauty is normally all pervasive around nature as well as rises earlier mentioned any splendor of nationality, caste, faith, etc.
Many advocates and researchers have tested out to deconstruct splendor into all the more understandable segments. 1 concept is to see it from point involving see of the amount symmetry might be discovered while in the object. Several of the main contributions in that regards really are – All the inborn inclination of individuals to be drawn to symmetry in conjunction with the all-natural want or even just pursuit with happiness brings about the conclusion that symmetry is definitely the sign of natural splendor.
Jewelry is Not Just for Women Anymore
People quite often associate the concept of a 'jewelry' using something ladies possesses plus covets. Yet since way back when means jewelry has long been fashionable together with popular concerning elite and additionally average fells alike. Kings in addition to Pharaohs for ancient periods wore jewelry for a symbol associated with power together with prestige. Whether an affiliate of some sort of tribe, company, work collection or family numerous men wore rings as the symbol in their belonging or simply achievement.
Jewels and additionally jewelry have already been coveted since the start of time, when symbols connected with power, richness, natural beauty, commitment and perhaps pride. Equally as princesses in addition to Queen's about old fell within spell for sparkling gemstones, so likewise have adult men fallen in the tempting promises silver offers.
History ensures that men include worn jewelry and engagement rings for several different reasons. Most precious jewelry serves for an aesthetically agreeable accompaniment towards a wardrobe or even fashionable shape. Yet males jewelry in addition has served well-designed purposes, like describing some sort of male's societal status, place for society of course, marital popularity.
Menes ceremony bands are very common style of means rings purchased. The habit of presenting a two-fold ring and means big event bands on a wedding ceremony is traced here we are at the middle of 1940s in the country. At that time period jewelry providers popularized is a superb offering any groom's strap as the best accompaniment into the ladies wedding band. The perception of a groom's engagement ring however, existed before advertisers popularized the software. In actuality, consumers got already bought on the idea that your groom's diamond ring symbolized a whole lot more than partnership, but likewise male abundance and solidity.
Among a lot more common plus popular sorts means jewelry now available is the particular means diamond wedding ring. Many gentlemen opt to purchase your dual ceremony set having a means diamond music band and girls diamond wedding band. Menes marriage bands are sometimes much larger than unique.
Great Creative Patio Furniture Ideas
Patio furnishings has advanced within the old antique plastic backyard chairs in addition to tables that a lot of us used to acquire when we was raised. Patio home furnishings styles currently have advanced along with new technologies for out-of-doors furniture. For those new desire in patio and garden furniture has outdoor furniture manufacturers currently increasing that development about new materials for the deck outdoor furniture with cutting edge styles along with prices that is certainly in arrive at of anyone's budget. While your climate your personal preference in garden and patio furniture should be thought of you also need to decide how the open-air furniture shall be used.
Would you like used for private pools, conversation as well as dining? This is actually basic beginning for your deck furniture style. By picking out practical comfortable patio and garden furniture for your current backyard can give your friends and relations a great terrace experience. You may go with a bistro veranda table for any small stylish dinner for just two or which has an extension plus patio table which have folding ergonomic chair for simplicity of storage and will give flexibility having a large gathering of men and women. Whether that you are cooking inside or getting al out-of-doors barbecue on the patio it refreshing for those who were to make sure you dine any fresco.
When it looks like it's a small cooler out getting a sunny notice is most effective enjoy patio furniture. When it all gets hot in the direct sunlight to choose some hint and masking which you can use a porch umbrella or maybe a rectangular terrace awning dependent upon the outdoor fixtures style that you want By searching for and seeking the perfect deck outdoor furniture for ones surroundings that you should spend longer out with your deck, porch and in many cases in ones garden spot for future assignments.
The rapid and rather busy lifestyles find a way to surround all people in this era by working with a place to make sure you relax along with escape to fit in with everyone insurance agencies patio furniture for your deck, porch and will give your open-air relaxing oasis. For many people having rich foliage and also a comfortable terrace chair through maybe a lot of soft audio playing stands out as the highlight while some may pick out some swing outdoor furniture or add a patio rocker to the design.
Online Shopping Mall – The eVolution Of The iNternet Family Shopping
Do you really remember exactly how great superb grandfather did family members shopping? He would get together his party of horses towards the big wagon put in place the family members and trudge off all over the prairie for that day or possibly even longer to reach the closest 'general store'. Once there it's an amazing outing with the family. Typically the store received everything desired from your kid's store obtained candy to make sure you mother's in a position made gown. If any store would not have that one special item there is always the alternative of the actual catalog.
After a turn on the century (1900 definitely not 2000) one or two remarkable transformations occurred that start to alter loved ones shopping. America did start to grow all the way up and available – at the very least to these oceans. And then the automobile manufactured its auspicious entry ways. Now everyone could are able to the normal store much quicker. Mother liked that, she tend to make more trips is often a shorter instance.
There seemed to be, however, an embryo connected with change being affecting the establishments themselves. The raise in populations suitable for more stores and also a wider a number of markets the recommended store started to break right up. 'Specialty' stores did start to emerge. Garment shops, tablet stores, concert halls etc. The entire group connected with cottage industries begun to make an entrance. It happens to be true these big children were even so ever provide and possessing bigger. Sears Roebuck not to mention Co, N. C. Red cent, and other people were still ahead, still selling via the ever provide catalogs.
For the reason that our state grew as a result of World Guam II it all became a lot more sophisticated. Which could village grew right city. This ended in the technique of a 'town square'. The massive stores are usually with opposite sides of this square while using little niche shops completing the spaces. Usually these particular cities were being the regional seat therefore you would possess a court house as well as a government workplace. There was something more important of magnitude that arrived to prominence through this era. Access so that you can information started to grow while using the appearance from the County Local library. As most people moved in the 1960s the car presented any nightmare dilemma to loved ones shopping which was totally unpredicted. Traffic as well as Parking did start to choke the location square approach. It is for certain everyone still needed to shop, but usually too. It appeared to be near impossible to buy a parking meter within the down the city streets within the town sq.


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Robert De Niro and the film producer Jane Rosenthal say they are ready to start a film festival in their neighborhood, TriBeCa, an event intended to bring some economic and emotional relief to the beleaguered southern tip of Manhattan.
Their TriBeCa Film Festival is to begin on May 1 with about 40 world premieres of independent and studio films, which will be eligible for jury awards, said Ms. Rosenthal, who founded TriBeCa Productions with Mr. De Niro in 1988. The films have not yet been chosen. The festival, which is to run for four days, had long been in development, she said, but was accelerated after the Sept. 11 attacks immediately turned much of TriBeCa into a ghost town.
Mr. De Niro and Ms. Rosenthal's effort has attracted some high-profile supporters with strong New York roots, including Harvey Weinstein, co-chairman of Miramax Films; Jeffrey Katzenberg, a founder of DreamWorks; and the director Martin Scorcese.
''We'd been thinking about doing a film festival for a long time that reflected the fabric of the neighborhood,'' Ms. Rosenthal said. ''Then when Sept. 11 hit, our neighborhood was devastated by those attacks. We both felt we could do something that would help rebuild the vitality of Lower Manhattan.''
That has not been an easy task. Cultural institutions and restaurants south of 14th Street have been particularly hard hit in the aftermath of the attacks, with patronage falling off steeply in neighborhoods nearest to the World Trade Center.
Mr. De Niro's connection with the neighborhood, where he lives, is particularly strong. In addition to his film company, which has produced recent hits like ''Meet the Parents'' and ''Analyze This,'' Mr. De Niro also opened the TriBeCa Film Center, which houses more than a dozen film companies, in an old coffee warehouse in 1990. He opened the TriBeCa Grill the same year in the same building with the restaurateur Drew Nieporent.
The festival also has the backing of Gov. George E. Pataki and Charles A. Gargano, the chairman of the Empire State Development Corporation, who said yesterday that his organization would help promote the festival through its ''I New York'' campaign in addition to offering logistical support.
''Anything that brings some economy into New York, we're behind,'' Mr. Gargano said, adding that the festival would be especially welcome because it ''is right in the World Trade Center area, and it's very important to show confidence in that area.''
Details of the festival are still coming together, but it stands to be fairly ambitious. In addition to the 40 feature-length films, the festival is to offer about 20 original short films, as well as entries in documentary and student categories. While the TriBeCa Film Center will likely act as festival headquarters, screenings are to take place all over the neighborhood, as well as farther downtown. Plans are also under way for a day of panel discussions and a free outdoor screening.
The festival's executive director is to be Trina Wyatt, the chief executive of TriBeCa Entertainment, the umbrella organization of Mr. De Niro and Ms. Rosenthal's production company. Selections will be chosen by a jury, not yet chosen, of New York film professionals; submissions will be accepted as of March 1. The festival is to be open to the public, though organizers have yet to set ticket prices or expectations for attendance.
The festival is establishing a Web site, www.tribecafilmfestival.com, which is still under construction.
Some of the films in the festival could well deal directly with Sept. 11, said the organizers, in the form of home movies or shorts made since the attacks.
For Mr. De Niro, whose decision to base his film company in TriBeCa is credited by many with jump-starting the neighborhood's growth, the festival is a chance to give back.
''This was not only an experience in my neighborhood, but an experience in my city and my country,'' Mr. De Niro said in a telephone interview. ''It's just a way of helping, you know.''


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Cellular Dynamics, a resident company of University Research Park, has secured three patents on making stem cells from blood.
These patents are added to a Cellular Dynamics portfolio of more than 800 issued and pending patents since the company was founded in 2004.
Cellular Dynamics claims patents on making stem cells from blood
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Cellular Dynamics International has already situated itself as an early leader—if not the leader—in large-scale manufacturing of human cells from induced pluripotent stem cells. Today the company says it has strengthened its market position with three new patents related to making stem cells from human blood samples.
Madison, WI-based Cellular Dynamics (NASDAQ: ICEL) says it has accumulated a portfolio of more than 800 issued and pending patents since the company was founded in 2004 by University of Wisconsin-Madison biologist James Thomson, who derived the first human embryonic stem cell line in 1998.
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So today I finished my English 102 class!! The final seemed to be pretty easy. I guess I'll find out when grades are posted. I also got all my paper work done at the DMV to finally get my named changed on my driver's license. The only places I have left to change is my bank account and school stuff!!! Then it's done!!! Can't wait! And Erica is coming over in a little while to see Beth and the Baby!!! That's my update for now! I'm gonna go eat I'm hungry!!!
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A rough day at work, a houseful of chores and bickering kids can leave you feeling frazzled. You're tempted to reach for the pretzels or chocolate, but you know it's not good to reach for something to eat when you're totally stressed out, right? Not always! Nutrition experts say that certain foods can actually help us stay calm. Here are some of their stress-combating suggestions:
Start the day with breakfastMissing meals, especially the first one of the day, can leave you with cravings and extreme hunger that actually fuel your stress, says Alison Acerra, RD, national manager of nutrition and wellness for Guckenheimer, a national food service organization. Tip: Reach for a balanced breakfast, complete with high-fiber carbohydrates, lean protein and healthy fat. Try whole-grain cereal atop Greek yogurt with fruit and nuts.
Avoid blood sugar spikes"When your blood sugar levels are unstable, your stress hormones go haywire, as does your mood," says Susan Barendregt, a functional nutritionist in Viroqua, Wis. "You want to reach for foods that will provide you with minerals and other nutrients needed to fuel the body's natural processes that keep it in equilibrium."
To keep blood sugar levels in check, avoid sugary refined-carbohydrate foods like cookies, cakes, white bread and muffins. Instead, go for foods with protein and healthy fats, which are satisfying without spiking your blood sugar. Have a salad with grilled chicken breast and sliced avocado for lunch, and snack on nuts and seeds instead of chips. Plan to eat small meals (every three to four hours) that include a good source of protein, fiber and healthy fats.


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J. Christopher and Jude Reyes Net WorthReal Name: J. Christopher and Jude Reyes
Date of Birth: 12/29/1953
Place of Birth: United States
2019 Net Worth: $8 Billion (combined)
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Profession: Founders and Owners of Reyes Holdings
J. Christopher and Jude Reyes Biography
The Reyes brothers are perhaps the world's new dynamic duo. The older brother, Christopher, was born in December of 1953 and graduated from the University of Maryland. Jude graduated from Wofford College.
Along with some help from their father, the Reyes brothers purchased a small Schlitz beer distribution business in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Their total investment in this business was a mere $74,000. The brothers ran all aspects of the operation and slowly began to acquire more beer distribution businesses and additional brands, including Chicago Beer Systems. The pair formed Reyes Holdings. Since 1976, they have gone on to acquire more than 115 beer distribution operations including Crest Beverage, Harbor Distributing Co., Premium Distributors, Gate City Beverage, Windy City Distributing, Chicago Beverage Systems, Premium Distributors of Virginia, Lee Distributors, and Premium Distributors of Maryland. As of 2012, Reyes Holdings was the top US beer distributor.
Reyes Holdings began to expand their empire beyond the distribution of beer and in 1998 they purchased The Martin Brower Company, which is a dedicated McDonald's distribution business. Another successful acquisition has been Reinhardt Food Service. Reyes Holdings now has distribution throughout Canada, Brazil, Great Britain, Puerto Rico, Kuwait, France, Panama, South Korea, Singapore, Qatar, Australia, Ireland, and Latin America.
Reyes Holdings, based in Rosemont, Illinois, is the largest privately held company in the US. The Reyes Beverage Group alone produces more than 100 million cases of beer every year. Reinhart Food Service is perhaps the most valuable division within Reyes Holdings as it is the 5th largest distributor of food services in the US. Reyes Holdings is well-diversified with more than 138 properties, real estate development, equipment leasing, and logistics management. The Reyes brothers have a combined net worth of $8 billion, which is sure to increase in the coming years as these brothers continue to acquire more distributing companies.


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Integrating CQI Efforts
How to integrate data and CQI into recruitment and retention efforts
Using data to drive recruitment and retention efforts can help the child welfare system target your efforts and make the best use of your limited resources. To develop strategic, data-driven recruitment and retention efforts, use data both on:
- The children and youth in foster care;
- Prospective and current foster, adoptive, and kinship families working with your child welfare system.
As you review your child and family data, ask yourself the following questions:
- What formats and types of analysis of data on the characteristics of children and youth in care will be most helpful to inform our work (e.g., dashboard-style data profiles, trend data and point-in-time data, etc.)? What data is currently tracked, both at the local and State level? What are the sources of this data, and who can readily access it?
- What is our current population of children and youth in foster care?
- What are some new ways that we should look at the data to understand our population of children and youth in foster care beyond the common demographic data details (e.g., number of previous placements, number of children placed with relatives, zip code of home of removal, whether placed with siblings, whether specific groups of children are overrepresented in foster care, etc.)?
- How often should we review and analyze our data and update our profile of the characteristics of children and youth in care?
- How often do we currently review and analyze our data and update our profile of current pool of available foster and adoptive placement resources? How often should we do these reviews and analyses in the future?
- How often do we meet with Tribes to discuss any disparities between the needs and characteristics of children and youth and the pool of available families who are prepared to meet those needs?
- How do we assess whether there is a disparity between the needs and characteristics of children and youth and the pool of available families who are prepared to meet those needs?
- What formats and types of analysis of our data on the characteristics of our current pool of available foster and adoptive placement resources will be most helpful to inform our work (e.g., dashboard-style data profiles, trend data and point-in-time data, etc.)?
- What do we know about retention of prospective or current parents and why they either stay or leave? What do we do with the information about family retention or lack of retention?
- What does our current and trend data tell us about feedback from prospective, current, and former foster parents' satisfaction data, length of placement for each family, number of child-specific placements such as kinship families, whether families over-placed, and other key factors?
- If we don't currently have the recruitment and retention data we need, how can we get this data to inform our recruitment efforts?
CQI can help you develop and sustain effective, data-driven recruitment and retention. Consider using the following five questions to guide your recruitment strategies:
- What is the need and how was it identified? (e.g., For which groups of children and youth do we need more families? How did we determine that we have this need?)
- What do you propose to do about it? (e.g., What strategies would be effective for recruiting, engaging, developing, and retaining parents for these groups of children?)
- What change(s) do you hope to achieve? (e.g., How will we serve children, youth and families better if we make these changes?)
- What will you look at to see if change is occurring — are you achieving the intended impact/result? (e.g., How will we know if we've been successful? What data will we use to determine that our strategies have worked at improving outcomes for children and youth?)
- How will you use that data/information you collect/learn to create a feedback loop for ongoing improvement? (e.g., How will we continue to update our strategies as needed to meet the evolving needs of children in foster care? What processes will we use to make sure that our strategies for recruiting and retaining families are still effective?)
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On March 16, 2011, comedian, actor, writer and director Michael Showalter performed a stand-up show at Toronto's Legendary Horseshoe Tavern. He was in town on the tail end of a North American tour promoting his new book, Mr. Funny Pants (Grand Central Publishing; ISBN 9780446542104). Manda asked him a few questions before a book signing the next day at Type Books on Queen Street West. Enjoy! (Warning: coarse language.)
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Are black eyed children real?
Sightings of black eyed children have been somewhat common since 1988. Most of the accounts are in agreement about most details: Black eyed children are between the ages of six and 16, only show up at night, speak in a monotone voice, don't seem to breathe, and show up at your front door and ask to be invited in to use your phone or eat some food.
What are black eyed children? Some people think they're extra-terrestrials, others say that they're inter-dimensional beings stuck on our plane. Others say they're of demonic origin, while some claim that they're out-and-out vampires.
I don't know how much you know about online journalism, but most of us new media writers get our material by observing trends, i.e., what kind of things the most people are reading about at any given time. "Black eyed children" as a topic is rising ever since, by my measure, the subject appeared on the front page of MSN earlier today under the title "Spooky sightings of black-eyed children."
Clicking that link brings you to a brief video that looks like an amateur hour version of Unsolved Mysteries, which details the phenomenon and name drops a handful of conspiracy/cryptology websites.
Google "black eyed children" and you're not much better off. The first handful of results belong to The Examiner and Mysterious Universe, and none of them exactly take what we'd call a fully skeptical view of the subject. Further down, there's a laughably bad Journal of the Bizarre post that claims to "debunk" the black eyed children phenomenon with pseudo-biological and pragmatic arguments that sometimes seem about as far-fetched as there being black eyed children in the first place.
My conclusion? File black eyed children under the same heading as "bigfoot." Believe it if you like, but realize that there is no evidence of their existence, just subjective testimony that ranges from reasonable to suspiciously fame-whoring. The real mystery, in my opinion, is why this topic made MSN's front page where it started to trend, fooling people into thinking that it's real news.
Personally, I think this is some kind of viral marketing initiative for a new horror movie. I'll do some investigating and get back to you.
Then again, if a couple of black eyed children come knocking at your door tonight, don't invite them in, because Google says you're not supposed to.
Here's a video of some silly guy talking about black eyed children:
UPDATE: Hey look, a recent independent film made about black eyed children [Official site & report from The Columbian]. Are we vying for a broader US release, hm?


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Why I started eating meat again and how I let go of all labels
This is a post I have been meaning to get out for a long time now but it is also one that for some reason has been extremely hard to write almost like I am about to walk into a Catholic Church to confess this dreadful sin, which is kinda ironic because with the same hesitation I have about posting this I have posted recipes that use meat recently?! Yet this is like my final full out declaration that yes, I am, after four years eating meat again and I am somewhat terrified to admit it…
So here is my story: Why I started eating meat again and in turn how I rid myself of all labels.
This was not a decision that came lightly or easily for that matter. It was a huge internal struggle. Four years ago when I decided to stop eating meat that road came with so many labels and ones that I was actually (sadly) proud of. I had given up something that I truly believed was better for my health and in turn I was a better person for it (cringe).
When I decided to stop eating meat was when I was first started taking baby steps into the holistic health and wellness world, it was about a year before my Dad passed away and I was doing quite a large overhaul of my diet. At the time it was what I was meant to do, it was the starting point to where I am now, I was tuning into my body and my inner voice that was telling me it was time, that meat was no longer a need or want and that it was ok to say goodbye…as it turns out that goodbye would end up being temporary, but if you had told me that back then I naively would have guaranteed you my decision to stop eating meat was going to stick forever.
I have countless amounts of time and energy put into researching the pros and the cons of eating meat (another post in its self), which is probably why my decision to start eating meat again came so hard. Honestly I felt amazing when I wasn't eating meat, I lost weight; I had lots of energy and felt this intense lightness within. Which is where the battle came in, if I start eating meat again am I going to lose all these amazing feelings, will I start feeling crappy, will I gain weight, will I lose my wellness direction? And really why would I give up these great feelings if I am unsure what the feelings on the other side are going to bring?
Well after my Dad passed away I became even more deeply immersed into this gratifying wellness world. I have now quite literally done a complete overhaul of my life, not just with my diet, I mean literally everything my entire mind, body and soul; from my cleaning supplies, to my beauty products, to meditating with crystals and having conversations with my goddess oracle cards, to becoming an intense lover of yoga, to reciting mantras daily and most importantly I have become even more aware of my inner guidance, my intuition and I have truly started listening and feeling and trusting my wise and supportive Self to tell me what she needs and wants and when.
So when my inner goddess told me she was ready to start incorporating meat back into her diet, who was I to judge that want, that need, that desire? Here I was I this self-proclaimed advocate for true inner wisdom, this advocate for self-love and this advocate for using your intuition to let you know what is best for YOU in every given moment, every given moment, not just some, all. And I judged. I judged my wants, my needs and myself, I judged the voice inside of me, I told her she didn't really know and was just being foolish. I was not following through with my own, live life my way, happiness proclamations; I was actually doing the exact opposite of what I preach. I was doing the exact opposite of what I would tell my best friend if she came to me asking, "what should I do?"
I was tired of this internal battle, I was tired of feeling like a fraud, I so badly wanted to give into my inner self's desires/needs, without judgement and shame and so it came down to me digging deep and finding the true source to this resistance I felt towards eating meat again.
In this resistance I found 4 things to be true
// I was scared. I was scared of this all of a sudden craving, that I felt struck me somewhat out of the blue and I needed time to let it surface and know that this was my body was telling me what I needed and not just a "I smell BBQ, OMG give me that steak". It was important for me to know that it was a desire that came from within, that it was internal and not an outer source that came to this realization. So I did the work, I tested the craving, I took the heaviness out and in turn I became even lighter, yup the fear of losing that lightness, debunked!
// I had worked so hard for the past 4 years for what I thought was the best wellness route for me and this sudden urge to eat meat was kinda throwing a wrench into that journey. And in that wrench came the self-sabotaging thoughts and the feelings of being a fraud; I had stated over and over the reasons why I would never eat meat again and why others shouldn't and I felt so icky I was going back on my words. But then I realized that this coming of meat was not a wrench in my journey it was just a new path along so many paths I will take in life (life is about contradictions, and heck I made them daily). It was a new leaf for me to glide along and if I didn't see where it takes me I might miss out on something so incredible, something life changing even. And I for one do not want to miss anything life has to bring me!
// I realized life is all about ebbs and flows and changes and embracing those changes, feeling into those confusing moments and discovering the clarity that comes through the hard work of finding the source. Change needs to start being accepted because otherwise we are always pushing against ourselves and missing the bigger picture of life, the ease, the flow, the essence. Change does not need to be scary it needs to be embraced because without it life quite honestly just wouldn't be as interesting, as growth building, as beautiful, as deeply loving.
// Labels. I'm done. Labels ultimately take away from who you can become, from who you are meant to become. They stress and restrict us into a tightly wound ball of yarn. For the past four years I had placed all of these labels onto myself, ones that when first placed made me feel like a better person but over time became exhausting, suffocating, and smothering. You see the thing I have come to learn about labels is that to me they are extremely constricting. I would wind myself up into this tiny little ball that eventually may/would start to unravel and when that happened my mean girl popped her head in with the shame, guilt, confusion and degradation. I started telling myself that I was not strong enough, not worthy enough, and not a good enough person to go through with my initial decision. Umm how is that the path to wellness?? Exactly it's not; trust, I learned I needed to trust my intuition and all that she tells me.
So as of a few months ago I called it quits on all of that self-sabotaging bullshit and said enough is enough. None of that is good for my wellbeing, in fact that is the exact opposite of what tuning into your-Self is actually meant to do. I was causing myself more stress by adding labels to everything I had to be and everything I stand for. I mean what is the point of this self-loving wellness journey if I was completely stressed out and walking on glass with every decision I was making.
I can still devote myself to yoga and meditating, to wellness and happiness, to green juice and plant-based wholesome meals and yes eat grass-fed, organic meat when my body desires it.
Bringing meat back into my life has been a mindful, conscious act. I will never again buy meat from the conventional grocery store, I source out local, grass-fed, organic meats when I do buy any and to be honest it is still not very often…I don't want to say right now it won't become more often because I am not taking anything off of the table (lesson learned). At the moment, I eat meat once maybe twice a week and some weeks none at all. I have learned for myself I am happier and more fulfilled with my diet when I am eating local and organic (as much as possible), plant based, wholesome real food meals, and for now a small amount of meat.
I am saying goodbye to labels and not just in my diet but in every aspect of my life, they do nothing but constrict, stress, suffocate, keep us boxed in, feeling restricted and wreak havoc on our entire being, which, with what I know to be true is much worse for our wellness than eating that grass-fed, organic, super moist, roast chicken!
From now on I want to feel wild and free in every aspect of my life. If someone asks me what I eat I am going to say what feels good to eat, what my body desires and what it is asking for that's it, period. Maybe tomorrow it is bacon, and the next day it is green juice, maybe it is a piece of cake or maybe it is days without sugar. All I know is that I feel fucking free and I am putting my happiness and internal wisdom before anything else.
Do you have a label you want to drop? It can be anything, maybe it is the perfectionist inside who wants to let loose, colour outside of the lines even, or the adventurer who wants to settle down or the cross fit junkie who wants craves the calmness of yoga. Whatever your label may be, forget it, it does not define your entire being.
You are allowed to change with each new journey, step or direction life takes you on, it is scary and completely foreign at first but it is also filled with joy and happiness and a love that you may have never found if you stayed stuck behind a label you placed upon yourself. And those in your life that can't accept this change are not worth having in your life anyway, period.
Feel Freedom, Feel Love, Feel Respect, Feel Within.
This is your one short and beautiful life. Don't let opinions or labels or judgements from your-Self or others crowd out your inner guidance. Live life on your terms, let go, move on and own that shit!
Because definitions of what's sacred change. And when that happens, it's best to let go – Danielle LaPorte.
Share a label down below that you are ready to let go, trust me it will feel incredibly liberating.


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New Delhi: Passports are, and have been for a while now, considered to be the ultimate proof of address and residency. But that might change in the near future as the Ministry of External Affairs is considering a proposal to do away with the last page of the document. The last page is where the passport-holder's address is mentioned and hence it might not work as a valid proof of address.
According to a report in Hindustan Times, Surendera Kumar, under-secretary of policy and legal matters at the Consular, Passport and Visa Division of the ministry told the newspaper that the decision to keep the last page blank was to protect the details of the passport-holder mentioned in the document. Kumar also mentioned that the changes would be carried out when the next series of passports are printed.
JD Vaishampayan, an official at the regional passport office in Pune said that "some changes may happen soon", as reported in HT, and did not say much else.
How much information this step could safeguard remains to be as seen as passport offices and the immigration department would still have all the details of passport-holders.
The MEA is also considering changing the colour of passports. As of now, passports are issued in three colours – white for government officials or people who visit other countries for official work of the government, red coloured passports are issued for diplomats, and blue for everyone else. Even under the blue passports are two sections – those who require an emigration check (ECR) and those who do not (ECNR).
The MEA is considering issuing orange-coloured passports for people who are issued ECR passports. The idea behind this is to make the process of emigration faster.
All current passports will continue to be valid, even once the new series of passports are issued, up till their expiry date.


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Cambridge and Oxford have the highest proportion of cycling commuters in England and Wales according to census data analysis recently released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
Both of the famous university towns have seen an increase in the proportion of commuters riding bikes to work over the last ten years.
This has led to both towns retaining the top two spots on the list of local authorities with the highest proportion of working residents cycling to work.
The data only cover the main mode of transport used to get to work, so someone say riding their bike to Oxford railway station then catching a train to Reading or London - perhaps even continuing their journey there by Boris Bike - wouldn't be counted.
While only three London boroughs feature in the list's top ten, the capital's districts take eight of the top ten places in percentage improvement in the proportion of commuters cycling over the last ten years.
Northern cities have not taken to cycling quite as well over the last decade. Only Newcastle and Manchester feature in the top 30 for percentage increase in cycling commuters.
Meanwhile, both Hull and York feature in the top ten for the proportion of their workers commuting by bike, but both towns have seen a fall in that figure over the last ten years.
Welsh local authorities take five of the bottom ten places on the lowest-proportion-of-workers-cycling-to-work list. It's just as well, then, that many of these districts are due to see government investment to encourage children to cycle to school in the near future, which should see improvements to road infrastructure that will benefit commuters too, and there is also the impact of the Active Travel Act.
As you can see below, Cambridge sit at the top of the table of authorities with the highest proportion of workers cycling to work with 29% of its working population choosing to cycle, which is a 3.1 percentage-point increase on the number of workers cycling in 2001.
There's quite a drop to Oxford, the next best performing authority, with 17.1% of their commuting population on bicycles, an increase of 2.2 percentage points on 2001. While, the somewhat smaller sample of the Isles of Scilly sit in a potentially-misleading third place with 14.2%, or 182, of their commuters riding bikes to work.
It should be noted that given the Isles of Scilly's small population, they also sit third from bottom in terms of the number of residents cycling to work, above the two worst performing districts in terms of proportion of commuters cycling: Merthyr Tydful and Blaenau Gwent.
The London boroughs are introduced to the mix in fourth spot. Hackney features with 13.8% of its commuters cycling, which is a sample-high increase of 7.6 percentage points on the 2001 statistics.
The other London local authorities on the list, Islington and Lambeth, feature in seventh and tenth on the list of proportion of working residents cycling to work, but sit second and third, behind Hackney, in the percentage-point increase table with increases of 4.4 and 3.6 respectively.
The improvement in cycling uptake in London has not been matched by the top ten's northern towns of York and Hull. Hull's percentage of cycling commuters has dropped by 3.6 percentage points to 8.1%, and York's by 0.8 of a percentage point to 11.2%. This sees the front-line of northern cycling towns sit at fifth and ninth in the table.
The split between the North and South in terms of cycle commuting success falls in line with research carried out by the Department for Transport in 2012 which we reported on.
Of the top 30 most improved authorities over the last ten years, only Newcastle and Manchester feature from the north of the country. The North-East city sits in 22nd place with a 0.9 percentage-point improvement in commuters cycling, while the Manchester in the North West has only seen a 0.7 percentage-point improvement.
Only 13 of the 70 local authorities in the north of the country have seen an improvement in the proportion of commuters cycling over the last decade.
Closing out the top ten authorities with the highest proportions of workers cycling to work are Gosport and Norwich in sixth and eighth. Neither town saw a change in their proportion of commuting cyclists over the last decade.
For those who are interested, here are the top ten worst performing authorities in the country:
If you live in England or Wales and are curious as to how your local authority has performed on the national scale, the full list of results can be downloaded in spreadsheet form via the ONS website, here.
Elliot joined team road.cc bright eyed, bushy tailed, and straight out of university.
Raised in front of cathode ray tube screens bearing the images of Miguel Indurain and Lance Armstrong, Elliot's always had cycling in his veins.
His balance was found on a Y-framed mountain bike around South London suburbs in the 90s, while his first taste of freedom came when he claimed his father's Giant hybrid as his own at age 16.
When Elliot's not writing for road.cc about two-wheeled sustainable transportation, he's focussing on business sustainability and the challenges facing our planet in the years to come.


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Man 082 | December 17, 2013
After short release stints on Mad Decent and Trouble & Bass and his much celebrated team-up with New Jersey don daa DJ Sliink, Estonia´s bass maestro Bert On Beats returns with a new single to his original homebase, Man Recordings.
For "Pa Pa Pa" Bert On Beats teamed up with legendary baile funk MC Deize Tigrona from the infamous "City Of God" in Rio De Janeiro. Her voice was forged in hundreds of bailes, her song "Injeção" was the founding tune of M.I.A.´s first hit "Bucky Done Gone". Since more than a decade, Deize has worked with various international producers such as Diplo, Buraka Som Sistema, Jesse Rose, Oliver $, Edu K and Jaloo amongst others, and is considered one the biggest female artists in baile funk.
On "Pa Pa Pa" Deize is fusing her rhymes with a Cuban brass flavour that Bert recorded in his hometown Tallinn. Add the electro funk vibe and you have a club ready tropical tune that sonically melts Rio heat with Baltic bass – a perfect soundtrack for transnational bunda movements.
The single comes with remixes by Man Rec boss Daniel Haaksman, New York favela trap maestro DJ Comrade, Italy´s hot Ghetto stallions Milangeles, São Paulo´s up-and-coming baile-twerkster Viní and last but not least Sydney´s Luny P.


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Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology
Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology is an amalgamation of two high performing institutions,Bay of Plenty Polytechnic in Tauranga, and Waiariki Institute of Technology in Rotorua. The institutions merged in May 2016 to better meet the education and employment needs of the region. It truly believes that student success is key to the success of the whole region.
At the Institute, the students can choose course from more than 200 study options. With specialties in business, creative arts, engineering, forestry, health and nursing, hospitality, marine science, road transport, tourism, trades and more, there's something for everyone. It offers courses from entry level certificates right through to postgraduate level. The students can choose from more than 150 study options ranging from certificate to postgraduate level. It offers the small class sizes and an inclusive, supportive environment where the students can turn their dreams to reality.
Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology is one of the largest tertiary providers in the Bay of Plenty. It's five main campuses can be found throughout the beautiful Bay of Plenty and South Waikato in Rotorua, Taupō, Tauranga, Tokoroa and Whakatāne.
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William Irvine's Letter to Fay Sheeley on January 30, 1929
January 30, 1929
My dear Fay Sheeley:
Thanks for yours. It's good you are not in N. China these days where they are heaping up the dead in mounds outside the cities where 1000s are dropping dead in the streets. While flu in the West has been doing its work, leaving many to die from pneumonia & etc. So we see pestilence and famine at work and all between seem to have more than they want of wrath being poured out in every shape and form. And it's Woe - Woe - Woe - they should be saying in place of Peace on Earth, Good Will to Men. These days are past and all pre war things are under judgment and no hope but in the new thing which He is doing by the Least and Little Ones who will become the New Jerusalem as sure as the old will pass away by judgment as if it never had been.
It was good to have your brother and friend and the one you are fond of come to see you. And it gave you a chance to prove yourself and also a chance to them to hear the simple fact that wrath has come on all pre 1914 affairs and men on the earth; and not one single exception. For all have had a taste, are tasting and will till it has destroyed them from off the earth, and no hope in any pre war thing.
God and Jesus has provided a way of escape in His Witness - Leader - and Commander. So they can find cessation of wrath as they hear your Come and turn to live by my witness - leading - and control which is not hard for any honest - sincere person. These are the simple facts which cover all that's going on - on the face of the whole earth.
You may tell your brother that I also am a Free and accepted master mason. My Mother Lodge being 547 - Stewart Scotch for past 45 years.So I know all that it means. But if I were the Grand Master or the Pres. of U.S.A. it could not avail me any thing when wrath is being poured out on all that is prewar. And when only one way of escape from wrath is offered from God to all men. People whose confidence is in anything which existed on the earth before 1914 will be bitterly disappointed; just as they will be joyfully surprised in the new Way of escape which was given from the Throne along with Wrath.
I don't wonder you will find much to cheer and fill your heart and life and it will increase in quality and quantity as you drink - more fully and eat of the Tree of Life or hear and witness more every day. The great trouble is that people fail very often in not emptying out all the old pre 1914 thoughts and ways and enter in heartily to the New Thing which came as His only way of escape for all who are under wrath. The more you expect from the New Thing, the more you will get and be able to give witness to others. Just as those who do not believe that wrath is poured out on all flesh will be very much surprised to find it increase till they perish from off the earth. So keep your ears - eyes and mouth open. So shall you have full reward.
Best love in Him.
Wm. Irvine
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Deepa Menon dance company performs innovative and professional quality Indian classical dance across Bay area. Under the artistic direction of Deepa Menon, the company has performed Bharathnatiyam, Kuchipudi and Mohiniattam performances in numerous centers.
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Impetigo: Blisters and crusts on a child's face are common signs of impetigo. Also called school sores Impetigo (im-peh-tie-go) is a common skin infection, especially in children. It's also highly contagious.
Most people get impetigo through skin-to-skin contact with someone who has it. Children and athletes like wrestlers and football players often get it this way.
It's also possible to get it by using something infected with the bacteria that cause impetigo. You can get it from an infected towel or sports equipment. Wearing infected clothing is another way to get impetigo.
Staph and strep cause most cases of impetigo. These bacteria cause impetigo by getting into the body. They can get in through a cut, scratch that barely breaks the skin, or bug bite. A rash, sore, or burn also provides a great entry point for the bacteria.
A child may get impetigo by scratching itchy eczema or chickenpox. The scratching breaks the skin, making it easy for the bacteria to get inside.
Sometimes impetigo develops on unbroken skin.
Treatment can quickly cure impetigo.
While highly contagious, impetigo is rarely serious. It often clears on its own in a few weeks.
Treatment, however, is recommended. By treating it, you reduce your risk of developing complications. Without treatment, the infection can cause new sores or blisters to develop for several weeks. The infection can also go deeper into the skin. This can be serious.
Treatment also reduces your risk of spreading impetigo to others.
Image used with permission of the American Academy of Dermatology National Library of Dermatologic Teaching Slides.
Craft, N, Lee PK, et al. "Superficial cutaneous infections and pyodermas." In: Wolff K, Goldsmith LA, et al. Fitzpatrick's Dermatology in General Medicine (seventh edition). McGraw Hill Medical, New York, 2008: 1695-8. Halpern AV and Heymann WR. "Bacterial diseases." In: Bolognia JL, et al. Dermatology. (second edition). Mosby Elsevier, Spain, 2008:1075-6.
What you see and feel differs with the type of impetigo. There are 2 types.
Non-bullous impetigo: This is the most common type. It goes through these stages:
The infection can spread to other areas of the body, where you'll see this process begin all over again. This is one reason treatment is so important.
Bullous impetigo: This type causes fluid-filled blisters, but without redness on the surrounding skin. When a person has bullous impetigo, you'll see it progress as follows:
Ecthyma: Ecthyma (ec-thy-ma) can develop when impetigo goes untreated. This is a more serious type of infection because it goes deeper into the skin. When a person has ecthyma, you'll see:
If notice any of these signs on your child's skin (or your own skin), you should see your dermatologist, pediatrician, or family doctor. All types of impetigo are very contagious.
Treatment can help clear the infection and prevent the infection from spreading to others.
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Images used with permission of the American Academy of Dermatology National Library of Dermatologic Teaching Slides.
Habif TP, Campbell, JL, et al. "Impetigo." In: Dermatology DDxDeck. Mosby Elsevier, China, 2006: Card#46. Tuchman M and Weinberg JM. "Bacterial infections." In: Kelly AP and Taylor S. Dermatology for Skin of Color. (first edition). The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. China, 2009:413-4.
Kids often have skin-to-skin contact: Impetigo is very contagious and spreads with close contact. Children aged 2 to 5 years old are most likely to get this extremely contagious skin infection.
Anyone, however, can get impetigo. Older children and adults get it. Adults often catch impetigo from an infected child.
Some athletes have a higher risk of catching it. Because of the skin-to-skin contact in sports like wrestling and football, these athletes often get impetigo. The bacteria that cause impetigo thrive in warm, humid places, so swimmers also have an increased risk.
Summer can catch it from touching an infected surface or sharing a towel with a swimmer who has impetigo.
People who live in hot, humid areas get more cases of impetigo. In the United States, people often catch it in the summer or fall.
Bacteria cause this highly contagious skin infection.
Most people develop it when the bacteria, usually staph or strep, invade injured skin. A scrape on your skin is often enough to get infected. The bacteria may also get in through a cut, insect bite, or anything else that damages the skin. Once inside, the bacteria cause an infection in the top layers of the skin.
Sometimes, the bacteria invade uninjured skin and cause impetigo.
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Ashack KA, Burton KA et al. "Skin infections among US high school athletes: A national survey." J Am Acad Dermatol. 2016 Apr;74(4):679-84. Craft, N, Lee PK, et al. "Superficial cutaneous infections and pyodermas." In: Wolff K, Goldsmith LA, et al. Fitzpatrick's Dermatology in General Medicine (seventh edition). McGraw Hill Medical, New York, 2008: 1695-8. Halpern AV and Heymann WR. "Bacterial diseases." In: Bolognia JL, et al. Dermatology. (second edition). Mosby Elsevier, Spain, 2008:1075-6.
A dermatologist can often diagnose impetigo by looking at your skin.
Sometimes, lab tests are necessary to give you the diagnosis — or get information necessary to treat you. If you need a lab test, a dermatologist often takes a sample from a blister on your skin. This can tell your dermatologist which bacteria are causing the infection.
If your dermatologist thinks that the infection could be widespread, you may need a blood test.
An antibiotic usually cures impetigo.
Dermatologists often prescribe an antibiotic that you apply to the skin, such as mupirocin (mew-peer-ah-cin) or retapamulin (reh-tah-pa-mu-lin). The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved retapamulin to treat impetigo in children as young as 9 months old. Mupirocin is FDA approved to treat people 12 years of age and older.
When necessary, a dermatologist may prescribe one of these medicines to treat a child younger than the FDA-approved age. This is called off-label use and is legal. It can also be very helpful.
If a dermatologist prescribes an antibiotic you apply to the skin, you would apply it to the skin with impetigo. If you have several outbreaks of impetigo, you may need to apply it inside the nostrils. The bacteria that cause impetigo often thrive in the nostrils.
Sometimes stronger medicine is necessary. Your dermatologist can prescribe an antibiotic that you take by mouth. A few patients need injections of an antibiotic.
Skin care also plays an important role in clearing impetigo. The following steps are often very helpful:
Because impetigo is very contagious, a child may need to stay home from school for a few days. If this is necessary, your dermatologist will tell you when your child can return to school.
Teens and adults need not stay home, but they should take the following precautions to avoid infecting others:
Dermatologists recommend treating impetigo. It can help cure the impetigo and prevent others from getting this highly contagious skin infection.
With treatment, impetigo is usually no longer contagious within 24 to 48 hours.
Without treatment, impetigo often clears on its own in 2 to 4 weeks. During this time, there is a greater risk of developing complications. You may see new blisters and sores.
It's also possible for the infection to go deeper into the skin if you don't treat. If this happens, you can develop ecthyma (ec-thy-ma). This infection goes deeper into the skin than impetigo. As the skin heals from ecthyma, scars can form.
Ecthyma is more common in children, the elderly, and people who have diabetes. It also develops in the homeless and combat soldiers fighting in a hot and humid climate.
If you see anything on your skin that looks infected, it's best to see a dermatologist as soon as possible. An early diagnosis and treatment can prevent complications and help you feel better.
And some tips to avoid getting it again
Sideline sports activities while you are contagious: Playing sports can spread impetigo to others and to other parts of your body. Impetigo is very contagious, so it's easy to spread the disease to other people — and to other parts of your body. To help patients avoid this, dermatologists recommend the following.
Impetigo is extremely contagious, so it may not be possible to avoid getting it again. Doing the following, however, can reduce your risk: