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Speech at Canada Philippines Business Council's information session 'Canadian Business Ventures in the Philippines'
Thank you for your kind introduction.
Distinguished guests, friends, ladies and gentlemen.
Magandang hapon po sa inyong lahat. Good afternoon.
It is a great honour for me to be here among you this afternoon– a group of strong business leaders in our community.
I take this opportunity to congratulate the officers and members of Canada Philippines Business Council through the leadership of Paul Tesseyman for their hard work and dedication in preparing this important information session.
I must stress that this event is timely, indeed, as we are celebrating the "GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP WEEK", running from Nov.12th to the 18th.
I quote our Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who said, "Entrepreneurs are among the most hard-working and innovative members of society and help contribute to a more prosperous Canadian economy."
Our Prime Minister pointed out that Global Entrepreneurship Week Canada 2012 – hosted by the Canadian Youth Business Foundation – celebrates the dedication of these trail blazers and encourages youth to develop their entrepreneurial skills and achieve their full potential.
"Our Government is a proud supporter of young entrepreneurs (just like most of you [
In 2011, the federal government invested $20 million over two years in the Canadian Youth Business Foundation which will help support over 1,000 new businesses and enable them to continue their commitment to our country's entrepreneurs.
The government is also committed to putting in place a modern digital infrastructure and to opening new markets for Canadian businesses.
The transformation of Canada Philippine Business Council from a local, Ottawa- based group to a national organization with chapters across the country, has enabled this business organization to better fulfill its mission of fostering, promoting, and facilitating trade between the Philippines and Canada. It has also been a source of information on trade and business opportunities in Canada and in the Philippines.
As you may have gathered from news sources, I had the chance to travel during the last one week with Prime Minister Stephen Harper to India, the Philippines and Hongkong.
On our three-day visit to the Philippines, the Prime Minister made an announcement that the Government of Canada is committed to supporting the Philippines to achieve sustainable economic growth and employment in the Philippines.
On November 10, 2012, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced support of $15.5 million over four years, starting in 2013 and ending in 2016, for a project that will promote economic growth and employment in the Philippines.
The "Fostering Inclusive Growth" initiative will support the Philippine Government in its efforts to reduce poverty and create jobs by helping them improve the regulations governing investment in infrastructure projects and increase economic opportunities for youth by providing training in market-ready skills.
I encourage you and your businesses to explore opportunities under this initiative, so we could help our fellow Filipinos back home – at the same time, grow our businesses.
The initiative — managed by the Asian Development Bank, will also provide technical assistance to selected Philippines government agencies at the national and local levels, helping develop their capacity to adopt and implement key tourism and employment policy and program measures. I encourage those of you who have expertise in these areas to partake of this opportunity as third party suppliers.
We are the third largest immigrant-grouping in this country. Our community has a rich and diverse culture, perhaps the most important source of strength and resources for this organization. As your representative in the Upper House of the Canadian Parliament, I assure you of my support. Without you, I could not do everything alone. We need our voices heard as a cohesive group if we are to build stronger walls that can hold us all. Together, we can make and lift up the Filipino spirit and build a stronger Filipino Canadian Community that we can all be proud of.


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Colton Underwood and Cassie Randolph were one of the couples to last the longest in the Bachelor franchise, but it seems that something was missing from their relationship from the start.
A source tells E! News that while Colton and Cassie made it past the one year mark of their romance, news of their split "is not surprising" to those that know them. "In truth, the relationship had become more of a friendship than a hot romance," the insider explains. "Cassie was just not as ready for the settled-down life Colton wants right now and she tried to end it a few times."
This time around, the thing that made their breakup stick was the quarantine, according to the source. During their time shacked-up together at her parent's house, the former footballer and aspiring speech pathologist realized "they're probably better off as friends."
While both knew their relationship had run its course, a second source says that Cassie was the one to "initiate the conversation."
This "upset" Colton, but the same source says, "It led to both of them being able to be open and honest about what was going on."
According to the source, this difficult conversation took place at least a month ago, which coincides with Colton's return to his family home in Utah following his recovery from the coronavirus.
Both sources say that Colton and Cassie understand that there is no future for them as a couple, but wish to maintain the bond they formed during their time together. "They really want to remain good friends and hope they can keep each other in their lives," the second source adds.
In her own statement on the matter, Cassie promised, "I love Colton very much and have an enormous amount of respect for him. We have both learned and grown so much these past couple years, and will always have each others back."
Likewise, Colton said this is simply the start of a "new chapter" for them.
E! News has reached out to their reps for comment.

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Mariya's stuffy nose
In the late afternoon, Katya and I took Mariya to see an otorhinolaryngologist, because Mariya has a cold and has a stuffy nose. Mariya was treated at the hospital and her nose was cleared. The doctor told us how to clear the nose, and we bought a tube for it. In the afternoon, I cleaned Mariya's nose. It seems that she is feeling better.
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Mariya's inspection and Answer sheet submission
In the morning, I woke up at 3 AM to finish the answers to the judges of my project. I need to submit the answer sheet today. In the afternoon, Katya and I took Mariya to Nagasaka Clinic for her one-month inspection. Mariya was very healthy, although she cried because she became hungry after the wait. Katya and I felt somewhat tired, too. I asked the doctor whether we can take Mariya for a trip. He said OK if we use a baby seat. We have one; we could go on a trip next week. After the inspection, I came back to my office. I submitted my answer sheet. I hope … Continue reading
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Saturday evening
It is Saturday today. Usually, I work in my office until 7 PM. Today, however, I came back home at 3 PM after going to see a doctor for my nose. With Maya-san and Mariya, Katya and I went out for a walk together for the second time. Then Katya went out alone for shopping and a haircut; Mariya's first visit to the shrine is scheduled for tomorrow, after one month of her birth, and my parents are coming for it. I was playing with Mariya while Katya was out. After a couple of hours, Mariya seemed uneasy and started crying. I understood that she was hungry. I started making … Continue reading


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Wife of President Buhari, Aisha Buhari, was a guest on TVC this morning where she spoke on the activities of her pet project, Future Assured. According to her, she monitors activities of her project from her bedroom. She said this while responding to a question on how she ensures that items that are meant to be distributed to women through her pet project indeed get to them.
"I monitor activities of my pet project from my bedroom"she said On gender equality, Aisha Buhari said men and women are not the same but the only request is for women to be treated nicely. 'Men and women are not the same, all we ask is to be treated nicely, woman are to support men, the President's wife on domestic violence issue said, 'the same men that causes the violence will be used to stop it'.


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The Carnival Cup Arrives Home
Joan Bowyer - Carnival Queen 1939.
I am delighted to announce that the 1939 Laindon Carnival Cup presented to Carnival Queen Joan Bowyer has arrived home and now resides with her daughter Janet. I copy Janet's comments below:-
Hello everyone.
Well, we are 8 months along, and I am pleased to announce that the little cup is home. I just sat and looked at it for the longest time. I pictured my mum, Joan (nee Bowyer) holding this little cup and feeling a bit proud. Without the help of two very special people, this little cup would never have come to light, or been returned. So massive thanks to Ralph Hawkins, who's curiosity started the little cup's journey. And then his contact with the College Club of Boston really set the wheels in motion. Then there's a huge thank you to Christine Chamberlain, the chairwoman of the College Club, and her colleagues who agreed that the little cup should come home.
I am humbled by the kindness of these complete strangers who had no reason to do what they did. Just goes to show that there are still some lovely people in the world.
We've still no way of knowing how this little cup travelled so far, but it has found its way home and will be handed down to family members, with the most amazing story to go with it.
By Janet Penston
I am happy to send my photos to you, so people can see the little cup back home.
The first picture is of my mum taken about a year after she was the Laindon Carnival Queen in 1939. She was 17 years old and had joined the army.
The second is my sister Linda (nee Cudbill) and myself, and the third picture is of my niece Michele and myself. Both pictures are with the little cup and a picture of mum.
Thank you for airing the story and for all the help.
If there is anything I can do for you or help you with, please do not hesitate to ask. Still love the site and am finding lots that bring back memories.
By Janet Penston
Janet's photos nicely round off this amazing story. Janet, I'm sure I recognise your sister Linda. Hardly surprising seeing there is only 3 years between us and I used to live in the Bourne Avenue area!
Many thanks again from myself and the Laindon and District Community Archive.
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Saving Software Developers from Franken-JSON
1. The Setup
When it comes to using JSON for communication, developers often get bait-and-switched by existing frameworks, most of which are designed to use xml as the underlying data interchange format. Spiel usually goes along these lines:
- Want to use JSON?
- We can help with that!
- Just need to use a little thing called convention
- which allows us to use our existing system as is
- and things will work just fine
- don't you worry little coder
Well, except that the "little thing" turns out to be this ugly contraption that mangles clean Json into something that is technically still Json content, but just barely so: in reality it's just a bit of spit and polish to mask underlying xml structure. Sort of like those human masks on lizards on that ancient TV show ("V"). And such systems likewise require similar bastardization as input.
For one example of such convention, consider Badgerfish
(which is not the only choice; there are other variants such as
Resulting Json content is generally along the lines of "only-mother-could-love" ugliness: for example let's consider how a simple Bean would get transformed to "JSON" using this convention.
Given a bean like:
class Person {
int getAge();
String getName();
we would get xml like:
<name>Joe Blow</name>
which would be ok as xml, but would then be mapped to "Json" that looks something like:
"person" : {
"age" : {
"$" : "37"
"name" : {
"$" : "Joe Blow"
Or, with "mapped" variant, xml could translate to this:
"person" : {
"age" : 37,
"name" : "Joe Blow"
(if you are lucky -- number may or may not look like one; and String that looks too much like a number may become one... after all, XML content usually has no such type information)
instead of what you might expect:
{ "age" : 37,
"name" : "Joe Blow"
Like it? Me neither. And it gets even worse if you plan to use things
like Lists, and some combinations are just illegal (Lists of Lists).
2. Why oh why?
Now: there are legitimate reasons to use such mapping conventions:
sometimes one has to do convert things into other uglier things for
interoperability reasons. Legacy systems may be practically
unmodifiable, and require certain kinds of butt ugly inputs. There are
also plenty many XML-based systems, frameworks and protocols in
So it is natural to consider easy ways to make use of this existing infrastructure. And finally, most JSON tools up until fairly recently seem to be have been made by Santa's elves, and professional-grade tools are somewhat of a recent development.
But the fundamental problem is this: if you need and/or want to use XML,
use it. And if you do use XML, what purpose would JSON serve in the mix?
It's like connecting a Porsche engine to a Jugo transmission system, all
enclosed in a Ford Pinto chassis. Or, brains of mr. Ab Normal within
poor old Frankenstein's skull.
And even within Javascript execution environment, DOM-based xml trees have been available almost since dawn of the Interweb -- you can already use XML easily. So to have some actual benefits, JSON should be accessed natively, au naturel. Not as a round peg slammed through the square hole.
3. Solution
But why all these ugly workarounds? Perhaps framework builders do not
see much need for JSON, and just want to be buzzword compliant? Or
perhaps they have been turned off by earlier crop of toy JSON tools.
Whatever the underlying reason is, most seem to just offer the backhanded convention-ridden route.
But here is some good news. Jackson project can help JSON-craving developers; now with a Content conversion provider that is designed to work with any compliant JAX-RS implementation: JacksonJsonProvider is the thing you need to hook up to your JAX-RS implementation (tested with Jersey, as well as RESTEasy). You can download the jar here (look for "jax-rs" jar; uses core and mapper jars).
So what is this mysterious provider? It is the thing that JAX-RS needs to know how to convert from Json to POJOs and back. And as long as you hook this up as a resource you only need to indicate input and output as being Json (with @Consumes and @Produces resource annotations, or by client provided MIME headers that indicate the same) and it will all actually work out, and quite as you would expect it to.
The only remaining detail is that of hooking things up. One way is to write a simple servlet: here's one way to do that:
import java.util.*; import javax.ws.rs.core.*;
import org.codehaus.jackson.jaxrs.JacksonJsonProvider; public final class RestApplication extends Application {
// Best to register as a singleton to allow reuse of ObjectMapper: public Set<Object> getSingletons() { HashSet<Object> singletons = new HashSet<Object>(); singletons.add(new JacksonJsonProvider()); return singletons; } }
For production servlet, you would also want to register actual resources; but just to get the provider hooked up this should be enough.
4. Disclaimer
The provider class is part of just released version of Jackson 0.9.9. It has been tested only lightly, so there may be rough edges.
Code responsibly!


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December 25th, 2002
A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor.
Release Year: 2002
Rating: 7.8/10 (202,623 voted)
Critic's Score: 76/100
Steven Spielberg
Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken
Storyline An FBI agent tracks down and catches a young con artist who successfully impersonated an airline pilot, doctor, assistant attorney general and history professor, cashing more than $2.5 million in fraudulent checks in 26 countries.
Writers: Jeff Nathanson, Frank Abagnale Jr.
Leonardo DiCaprio
Frank Abagnale Jr.
Tom Hanks
Carl Hanratty
Christopher Walken
Frank Abagnale
Martin Sheen
Roger Strong
Nathalie Baye
Paula Abagnale
Amy Adams
Brenda Strong
James Brolin
Jack Barnes
Brian Howe
Earl Amdursky
Frank John Hughes
Tom Fox
Steve Eastin
Paul Morgan
Chris Ellis
Special Agent Witkins
John Finn
Assistant Director Marsh
Jennifer Garner
Cheryl Ann
Nancy Lenehan
Carol Strong
Ellen Pompeo
The true story of a real fake.
Release Date: 25 December 2002
Filming Locations: 3077 East California Boulevard, Pasadena, California, USA Box Office Details
Budget: $52,000,000
Opening Weekend: $30,082,000
(29 December 2002)
(3156 Screens)
Gross: $351,112,395
141 min
[Frank Abagnale Jr.]
The real Frank W. Abagnale Jr arrests Leonardo DiCaprio in France, he is the man in the coat and hat who pins Leonardo against the police car.
When Frank Abagnale Jr. first walks into the classroom where he impersonates the substitute teacher, one of the students is heard to use the word "frickin'", a word not coined yet in the 1960s.
Principal Evans:
Mr. and Mrs. Abagnale, this is not a question of your son's attendance. I regret to inform you that, for the past week, Frank has been teaching Mrs. Glasser's French class.
Paula Abagnale:
He what?
Principal Evans:
Your son has been pretending to be a substitute teacher, lecturing the students, uh, giving out homework, uh. Mrs. Glasser has been ill, there was some confusion with the real sub. Your son held a teacher-parent conference yesterday and was planning a class field trip to a French bread factory in Trenton.
Very good film has those Spielberg edges!Rating: 8/10
At first I thought I was going to see a lightweight film from a great
director but instead I watched another impressive achievement by Steven
Spielberg. A few things stand out and of course the performances are
terrific. Leonardo Dicaprio is believable as a guy that can convince people
that he's someone else. Dicaprio is a charmer and is very smooth as we watch
his character do some fancy talk to the young ladies. Tom Hanks as the FBI
agent reminds me of his cynical character that he played in "A League of
Their Own" and his mere presence adds more to this film. The sign of a great
film star. And Christopher Walken gives one of his best performances in his
already interesting career. The last scene of him as he talks to his son in
the restaurant is so moving that it reflects on the great talent of Walken.
You can understand why Dicaprio admires and loves his father. Walken conveys
these emotions and makes the audience react just accurately. I'll be rooting
for him at Oscar time. Another impressive thing about this film is the
beautiful cinematography by Janusz Kaminski who's a real artist with a
camera and has worked on several Spielberg films. One shot in particular
stands out. The ray of sunshine coming in through the kitchen window on
Walken. Very thought provoking. And of course since its a Spielberg film its
very personal. Spielberg was interested in the Frank Abagnale character
because as a youngster he also came from a broken family and wanted to be
someone else. Spielberg would sneak onto the studios and tell people that he
worked there. Also, the real Frank Abagnale jr. appears as a French police
officer. Well made, extremely well acted and sharply written. Viewers seem
to forget that this is really a film about the breaking up of a family and
the aftermath. This really is a personal film from Spielberg, and a very
good one.
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Iris pseudacorus
Pale-Yellow Iris,
Yellow flag
Paul Rothrock
Gleason & Cronquist
Indiana Flora
Norlan C. Henderson in Flora of North America (vol. 26)
Rhizomes pink, freely branching, producing extensive clumps, 2-3 cm diam., with fibrous remains of old leaves; roots fleshy. Stems usually 1-branched, solid, 7-15 dm. Leaves: basal deciduous, at first erect, then recurved, blade dark green, with prominent median thickening, 4-10 dm × 2-3 cm, slightly glaucous basally; cauline equaling inflorescence unit. Inflorescence units 4-12-flowered; spathes green with brown margins, outer spathe strongly keeled, inner without keel, 6-9 cm, subequal, margins not scarious. Flowers: perianth bright yellow; floral tube 0.6-0.8 cm, with no constriction into ovary; sepals bright yellow or cream colored, lanceolate to ovate or suborbiculate, 5-7.5 × 3-4 cm, base abruptly attenuate, claw ca. 1/2 length of limb, signal a darker yellow basal patch limited by short, brown lines; petals without veining, lanceolate to spatulate, 2-3 cm; ovary triangular in cross section with concave sides and narrow groove at each angle, 1.5 cm; style keeled, 3-4 cm, crests spreading, 1-1.2 cm, laciniate at apex; stigmas rounded with prominent tongue; pedicel 2.5-7 cm. Capsules prismatic to oblong-ovoid, obscurely 3-angled with obvious groove at each angle, 3.5-6 cm, beak 5 mm. Seeds D-shaped, flattened, 6-7 mm, corky, lustrous. 2n = 34.
Flowering Apr--Jun. Swamps, wet shores of rivers and lakes; introduced; B.C., Man., N.B., Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.), N.S., Ont., P.E.I., Que.; Ala., Ark., Calif., Del., D.C., Fla., Ga., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Kans., Ky., La., Maine, Mass., Miss., N.H., N.Y., N.C., Ohio, Pa., R.I., S.C., Tenn., Va., Wash., W.Va.; Eurasia, n Africa.
Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada
Lvs stiff and erect, broadly ensiform from densely crowded rhizomes; stem 0.5-1 m, shorter than or equaling the lvs; fls 7-9 cm wide, bright yellow or cream-color; sep spreading, the crest area outlined by an irregular series of brown markings; pet erect, ligulate, constricted at the middle, 1-2.5 cm, unmarked; capsule 6-angled, cylindric-prismatic to ellipsoid, 5-8.5 cm, the valves widely spreading at maturity; 2n=24-34. Swamps and shallow water along streams and ponds; native of Europe, and widely established in our range. Apr.-June.
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.
©The New York Botanical Garden. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
From Flora of Indiana (1940) by Charles C. Deam
Indiana Coefficient of Conservatism: C = null, non-native
Wetland Indicator Status: OBL
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Based in Saga city, Yukiko Furukawa established Saga-shi Gyoson Josei no Kai, or Fisherwomen's Group of Saga City, in 2000. She has been involved in seaweed farming for more than 25 years and develops and sells a variety of products while helping women become more engaged in the sector.
What inspired you to start in aquaculture?
My husband comes from a town in Saga Prefecture that is famous for seaweed farming and I became a clerical worker at the local fisheries cooperative. I worked there for around 25 years and got to know the world of seaweed farming. Before that, I had no prior experience in aquaculture.
How is seaweed farmed in Saga?
Large numbers of poles are planted in the ocean and nets are hung between them. At high tide, the seaweed is submerged, allowing it to take in nutrients from the sea. At low tide, it rises above sea level and basks in the sun's rays, and becomes more flavoursome.
Why did you establish Saga-shi Gyoson Josei no Kai?
The seaweed producers here work tirelessly to produce something that not only looks good but also tastes good. I wanted to promote that across Japan by establishing some kind of group. Another reason was seaweed prices. Some of the harvested seaweed was slightly blemished and its price was falling significantly, even though it had been farmed so painstakingly. I wanted to help address the falling prices and, at the same time, offer other women in my community a chance to get involved in seaweed farming.
How many women work for you, and what are their roles and responsibilities?
There are four managing members including myself, and five part-time and temporary staff. Everyone is female, and the oldest is 78! I provide a work environment that makes it easy for my part-time staff to balance their jobs and childcare and become involved in all aspects of the group's duties. These can be general admin tasks, tax forms to fill in, products to develop and sell and – of course – visits to the seaweed production line.
Describe a typical day in your current role.
When I was working at the cooperative I was mainly involved in developing and selling processed seaweed products. I took what I learned from the cooperative to establish Saga-shi Gyoson Josei no Kai, and today I work in a very similar area – developing products, cultivating new sales channels and carrying out general office duties.
What's the most unusual experience you've had in aquaculture?
In Japan, seaweed is usually seen as an accompaniment to rice but I came up with some unusual products containing seaweed, such as ice cream and butter. I think the most unusual experience was when our ice cream made from toasted seaweed won the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Award!
What do you believe is important to ensure sustainability in seaweed farming?
I believe that the workforce is key. The seaweed producers we work with don't hesitate to take on jobs that others don't necessarily want to do. They are also hard-working to a fault. I believe that my role is to tell other people around the world about the seaweed that they harvest. It is because of that seaweed that my work today is viable. The seaweed producers work in very difficult conditions, but they become even more motivated to work in those conditions when their seaweed makes consumers happy. My biggest wish is for the seaweed in Saga Prefecture to become popular worldwide, and for its production to continue forever. A happy and motivated workforce will create a strong and sustainable business.
What potential do you think seaweed has?
Plenty. I would like to see its active ingredients being used more in a range of fields such as medicine and cosmetics.
Are there any individuals or organisations in aquaculture who you've found particularly inspirational?
After establishing Saga-shi Gyoson Josei no Kai, I worked as hard as I possibly could – day in, day out. But seaweed farming is a very male-dominated industry, and I nearly gave up on countless occasions. During those times, the wife of one of the seaweed producers supported me as best as she could, and I told myself that I had to succeed at any cost, for her sake. It is thanks to her belief in me that I've come this far.
What challenges did you face when setting up Saga-shi Gyoson Josei no Kai?
The fisheries industry in Japan is very male-dominated, and any kind of activity in which a woman stands out is unacceptable. I established my group in this kind of environment, amidst intense pressure and criticism. Women are central in my organisation and it was much more difficult than I'd expected to start out in the way that I wanted.
I left my job at the fisheries cooperative to focus on something I wanted to do, but things weren't working out and I decided to give up on the idea of women being involved in seaweed farming. However, a lot of people were against my attitude and after thinking about things for a long time, I decided that it was my life after all, and that it would be better to do it and then regret it, rather than regret not doing it. That was the biggest turning point of my life.
How are women addressing inequalities in Japan and have you seen the opportunities improve in recent years?
I'm in touch with various women in fisheries cooperatives across Japan, and I feel that both the position and status of women are still low. But having said that, more and more women have started their own groups or businesses, farming by themselves, adding value, developing new products and selling them.
If these initiatives take shape and start to produce results, men will have no choice but to accept them. I would like to see more female producers become inspired by our activities and want to develop and sell their own products. This is also why I established an all-female organisation, to inspire and encourage others.
What advice would you give to women looking to start a career in the sector?
Aquaculture is hard work but it's also fun. I would encourage more women to take it up. It's tough physically and mentally but shouldering this kind of burden makes you stronger. Behind every difficulty and challenge lies something worthwhile, and when you finally get over the tough part, you'll find that you really enjoy what you're doing and you'll have a strong sense of fulfilment. Also, make sure you don't give up.
What would be your dream role in aquaculture?
To be more involved in introducing our products to other countries.
What has been the greatest accomplishment so far in your industry?
I think the demand for seafood is rising in Japan. Ancient food cultures are being re-examined and reinvented, and people are thinking a lot about health. This is stimulating the higher demand for marine products. Here in Saga, nutrients from the mountains travel along the rivers into the sea, and, as a result, the quality of our seaweed is high and it tastes delicious. In order to protect our ocean and its resources, we have been strengthening our connections with women in mountainous areas, taking part in tree planting and supporting a women's forestry research society. It is our belief that coexisting with, and protecting, local natural resources is key.
What outstanding challenging would you most like to solve?
I would love to see the return of Asakusa nori (Pyropia tenera, nori seaweed). Because it's so vulnerable to seawater contamination and temperature changes, it's very susceptible to disease and gradually disappeared in Japan as pollution worsened. It would be great to see it farmed again using new methods, while keeping some traditional cultivation styles from the old days.


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J. Phys. I France
Volume 3, Numéro 8, August 1993
|1717 - 1728
J. Phys. I France 3 (1993) 1717-1728
Randomly branched polymers and conformal invarianceJeffrey D. Miller1 and Keith De'Bell2
1 Service de Physique Théorique de Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
2 Trent University, Department of Physics, Peterborough, Ontario K9J 7B8 Canada
(Received 1 December 1992, revised 3 March 1993, accepted 27 April 1993)
We show that the field theory that describes randomly branched polymers does not have the structure one expects of a two-dimensional conformal field theory. In particular, we show that the lowest dimension operator in the theory cannot be primary. We show moreover that the free field theory obtained by setting the potential equal to zero in the branched polymer theory is not even classically conformally invariant. Finally, we present numerical data for the exponent , defined by , where is number of distinct configurations of a branched polymer rooted near the apex of a cone with apex angle . The data indicate that is not linear in , providing further evidence that correlation functions which generate randomly branched polymers do not transform simply under conformal transformations.
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I recently came across this image while browsing through the website for an exhibition entitled "Lost at Sea: the Ocean in the English Imagination, 1550-1750" that is currently being held at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.
This artifact is one of those things that makes me love history — an object infused with meaning, but also with mystery, since we can know so little about the events that led to its creation. All we can tell from the available evidence is that this is a memorial keepsake ring apparently made to commemorate a loved one who lost his life at sea. According to the Folger Library's website,
The short verse or "poesy" inscribed inside the band reads, "The cruel seas, remember, took him in November." The lines focus on the dead man's past; the skeletal image and initials "R.C." represent the missing corpse's present; and the gold gestures toward a heavenly future.
Such keepsakes are among my favorite artifacts from the early modern period — they seem to encapsulate the preoccupations and personal thoughts of individual people better than anything else. Another one of my favorites is this surreal and moving c. 1600 miniature of an unidentified nobleman wreathed in flames of hellfire, thought to be from the workshop of Isaac Oliver:


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Microsoft has officially released the revamped version of its latest Windows operating system.
Windows 8.1 is now available as a free update for owners of a Windows 8 device in more than 230 markets.
It comes after last year's release of Windows 8, Microsoft's attempt to create an operating system which worked just as well on smartphones and tablets as on laptops and desktops.
Windows 8 has failed to take off though, with many users expressing frustration at the new look system, which includes a touch-screen, tiled interface.
Microsoft has since struggled with sales of Windows 8 devices and some in the industry have even blamed the company for falling global PC shipments.
The US firm has tried to iron out the problems by making Windows 8.1 simpler to use and more attractive to customers.
Changes in 8.1 include bringing back the start button and allowing users to completely avoid the new tiled interface.
"Windows 8.1 brings a variety of new features and improvements to Windows 8 that we think people will really enjoy. We listened to your feedback and are delivering many of the improvements you asked for," Microsoft said in a blog post.
Microsoft has had poor sales of its Surface tablet, which runs on Windows 8, and has had to lower the price. It unveiled a new version of the tablet last month.
Meanwhile, the company is looking for a new chief executive after Steve Ballmer - who has been at the helm since 2000 - announced in August that he would retire within 12 months.


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A Minimal Kitchen Renovation
And By Minimal, We Mean "Mini"!
So many renovation posts begin with the before photo. Not this one! We are starting with the photo our contractor text us as he was leaving. This extremely clean (yes the contractor cleaned!) space is the beginning of the perfect minimal kitchen renovation.
Kitchen Renovation Impressions
Wait…isn't this supposed to be the first post about a minimal kitchen renovation? Yes, it is. However, so much more goes into the design of a small space. For minimal kitchens, the inspiration often comes in the form of an impression. At times it is the "feel" of a space, or a single item, that grabs us and sinks in.
Don't we all have a vision of the impression we want our homes to give? Like this London apartment designed by Lonika Chande. This space just feels right with its mix of modern and traditional elements. A classic color palette with the infusion of color.
For Mr. LBD and moi, we've always wanted our homes to be one where everyone, and anyone, can feel welcome at any time they drop in. At this point in our lives, we have a pretty long list of what we must have in a home. We invite you to follow us, as we share this list in the next few months and see how we are loving living large in 1300′! Yes, you read that correctly, thirteen hundred and thirty-six square feet to be exact.
Buying A Property That Needs A Kitchen Renovation
Here's a photo of the kitchen the day we visited the open house, and Mr. LBD (the tall dark one) more or less staking claim. Those other lookers didn't stand a chance of being the ones to renovate this minimal kitchen.
A Quick History
We've lived in Florida for 10 years, in 3 homes, and an interim apartment after one of our homes sold in 6 hours! For more reasons than I want to mention, I complained about being in this state for 9 of these years. Mostly to shut me up, Mr. LBD agreed to live in a walkable city, aka the apartment, to see if "we" like living in a smaller space. Before the lease was up, we had purchased this condo in a building "we" had been looking at for years.
Waiting For City Renovation Permits
Our newfound knowledge of the permitting process within city limits, is that the smaller the kitchen renovation, the longer the permitting takes. Throw in a world-wide pandemic and the wait is 9 mos. So in other words, it takes exactly the same amount of time to renovate an 8×11 kitchen as it does to make a human.
To hold us over, we painted the unit and kept our eye on the prize of the upcoming amazing meals the clean, crisp euro style kitchen was going to produce.
Staying Motivated Durning A Kitchen Renovation
After over 30 plus years of being in residence during the numerous renovations of our homes, we have mastered a way to reduce all stress. We left the state and missed all this! Choosing the right contractor made this all possible.
Jump Out Of The Box For A Minimal Kitchen Design
Every inch in a minimal kitchen matters…especially negative space. The original design wrapped both walls with cabinets and appliances. Being creative with the layout, allowed us to have better storage and open up the space tremendously.
A full wall splash, in the same quartz as the counters, is the backdrop of a floating cooktop exhaust hood. Did you miss the refrigerator and microwave in the after photo? Not to worry, they are behind these tall cabinets completly intregrated into the 24″ counter depth. We'll share more space saving, yet maxium function features in posts to come.
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365 Project | July
It has been rainy this month, but we have also been blessed with some gorgeous weather. The girls finished school and have been able to start swimming lessons again. We discovered an amazing new place near our house, where the girls can enjoy rope swings, shrimping and splashing around. I have worked and loved every minute of it. I even went out for cake. Maybe I ate a bit too much of it actually! We celebrated Canada Day, because I never forget where I'm from. We had our first watermelon of the season and it was delicious! We also caught frogs and fed the ducks, the playgrounds reopened and we have spent a lot of time visiting them all!
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Fidelio, Vol. V,No, 1. Fall 1995
|The task of the people of the United Statesas conceived by our nation's foundersis fundamentally simple. It is to do good, and to do good such that others may have the opportunity to do likewise, for the benefit of all mankind. That is also the function historically assigned to our constitutional republic, consistent with the fundamental idea of western Christian civilization, that man is created in the image of God, and endowed with the power of creative reason.
As a people, we owe, therefore, one great debt which has gone unpaid for far too longand that is our debt to history. One might even say that the account is even overdrawnso maybe we will have to put through a little reorganization there as well. But I can assure you, that the constitutional government of the United States of America was never intended to have Newt Gingrichthat pathetic bundle of diseased impulsesas Speaker of the House of Representatives.
So he's got to go. But to ensure that, we have to defeat what he is, not just who he is. And that is our nation's historic enemy: the oligarchical, imperial, British principle, the doctrine that man is inherently evil.
Most people were presented with something quite foreign to real American history, during the years they imagined they were acquiring an education. Straight from the hallowed halls of fraud at Britain's Oxford and Cambridge Universities, you were given the idea that the American Revolution was the accidental result of a nasty little spatbetween the generous but demanding Mother Britain, and her rebellious colonial offspring, who were demanding more tea and crumpets than she could afford.
Well, our Founding Fathers, and many of their forefathers dating back into the Seventeenth century, knew better. They knew that Mother Britainreferred to by John Quincy Adams as our Lady Macbeth motherwas evil.
Hobbes and Locke
They knew it from Thomas Hobbes, tutor of the bestial King Charles II. They knew Hobbes's argument in his Leviathan, that, by nature, human society was merely a state of war, of each against all. Man's inherently evil nature, said Hobbes, were best restrained under a monarchical dictatorshipa notion which the libertine Charles II found quite pleasing, when he assumed the throne following the English Civil War.
They knew it from John Locke, who declared that the human mind was merely a passive register of animal sensations; that man was a beast. They knew that Locke was the champion of free trade for the homosexual Dutch Prince William of Orange, who seized the throne of England in 1689. They knew that Locke had advocated in 1701, as a member of King William's Board of Trade, that all the independent charters governing the American colonies be revoked, that all land titles granted under them be made the property of the King, and that all American manufacturing of finished goods be banned. They knew the evil behind the mask of free trade.
Yet to the so-called educated American today, bobbing along in the tide of British historical bilge, Hobbes appears to surface as a profound conservative thinker ahead of his time, and Locke even as the father of American constitutional liberty. The sodomized launderers of Oxbridge have worked for centuries to provide a cleaner appearance for these evil creatures; and so you came to know them in their altered states.
But in this British oligarchical chamber of horrors, there is one figure, first displayed in the early years of the Eighteenth century, so openly, vividly, and thoroughly evil, that no serious attempt was ever made to launder his image. Consequently, he has been hidden from ordinary public view.
His name was Bernard Mandeville. Born in Holland in 1670, he acquired a medical degree at Leyden in 1691, and slithered into London a few years later, in the wake of William of Orange's Venetian-rigged takeover.... Not surprisingly, his medical specialty was stomach disorders. Mandeville's career in Britain, however, was dedicated to only one purpose: that of prescribing the doctrine that evil itself is the basis for good.
In 1714, the year that Britain's Venetian Party completed its murderous coup against the regime of Queen Anne, Bernard Mandeville anonymously published his Fable of the Bees, or Private Vices, Public Benefits. It proclaimed what became the official governing doctrine of the emerging British Empirethat vice, corruption, and downright evil were the necessary, desirable foundations of a successful, prosperous state.
Mandeville argued that man's uninhibited pursuit of his natural, evil instincts constituted liberty; that the state, therefore, ought not to interfere with private vices';' and that this seething mass of evil, in the aggregate, constituted the public good. This is free trade; this is laissez-faire; this is libertarianism; this is privatization. This is the Conservative Revolution.
A Model for Empire
Mandeville's Fable of the Bees was actually built around an earlier poemactually ten pages of doggerelentitled The Grumbling Hive, or Knaves Turned Honest, which he had published in 1705. Here he counterposes the supposed life of ease and luxury enjoyed by a society devoted to vice, to the poverty and economic ruin brought on by pursuing virtue and honesty.
Mandeville describes the successful model for the Empire:
Vast numbers thronged the fruitful Hive;
Thus every Part was full of Vice,
Such were the Blessings of that State;
But, Mandeville warns, if the knaves turn honest and virtuous, and act like human beings instead of beasts, then the game is up, and society (meaning oligarchical society) is destroyed. Economic ruin follows, because the only source of wealth is stealing. Profit can only be derived from pandering and extortion, and can be increased only by maximizing the rate of human degradation. Even the broader circulation of currency depends on rising rates of crime.
Here is some of the commentary Mandeville included with his doggerel verses:
I shall be asked what benefit the public receives from thieves and housebreakers. They are, I own, very pernicious to human society, and every government ought to take all imaginable care to root out and destroy them; yet if all people were strictly honest, and nobody would meddle with or pry into anything but his own, half the [black]smiths of the nation would want employment.
He adds that even the growth of their trade, producing for both ornaments and defence, would never have been thought of, but to secure us against the attempts of pilferers and robbers. Mandeville continues: A highwayman having met with a considerable booty, gives a poor common harlot he fancies ten pounds to new-rig her from top to toe. In this case, asks Mandeville, is there a tradesman so conscientious that he will refuse to sell her a thread satin though he knew who she was? She must have shoes and stockings, gloves, and so on. He says:
[A]ll must get something by her, and a hundred different tradesmen, dependent on those she laid her money out with, may touch part of it before a month is at an end. The generous gentleman, in the meantime, his money being near spent, ventured again on the road, but the second day having committed a robbery near Highgate, he was taken with one of his accomplices, and at the next sessions both were condemned and suffered the law. The money due on their conviction fell to three country fellows, on whom it was admirably well spent.
Bernard Mandeville had little interest in succoring the masses. He spoke for the British-Venetian oligarchs, at a point in history when they imagined they could exterminate the Renaissance idea of manand the threat of the nation-state, that dreaded engine of creativity, designed to safeguard life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
In his summary of The Fable of the Bees, Mandeville argues that to
have a frugal and honest society, the best policy is to preserve men in their native simplicity, strive not to increase their numbers; let them never be acquainted with strangers or superfluities, but remove and keep from them everything that might raise their desires or improve their understanding.
The Walpole Era
To any sane person, it is clear that Mandeville speaks for the Prince of Darknessdenying God and Heaven, and advocating a dictatorship of evil over all humanity, to confine it to a living Hell. Mandeville was widely known to be the leading figure among Britain's Satan-worshipping secret societies, which proliferated rapidly among the degenerate financier elite. They became notorious after George I's accession to the throne in 1714typified by the infamous Hell-Fire clubsand flaunted their political ascendancy following the devastating financial blowout of the South Sea Bubble in 1720. Huge fortunes disappeared overnight, along with scores of fictitious stock companies; but vast sums were raked in by the Anglo-Dutch oligarchy and the political thugs they employed.
To what remained of the decent, informed portion of the British population, the entire affair had a specifically Satanic, Mandevillian character. It was vividly captured by the artist William Hogarth in his 1721 engraving, The South Sea Scheme, portraying the Devil presiding over an orgy of obscenity and brutality, in celebration of the destruction brought on by the crash. To keep matters from getting out of hand, a King's Order-in-Council was issued that year banning the Hell-Fire clubs, at least in their public form.
But the King's cabinet was also reshuffled in 1721, further consolidating the power of the thieves and swindlers who came out on top, following the collapse of the Bubble. Chief among these was Robert Walpole, one of the most venal and corrupt figures in the whole Sodom and Gomorrah of British politics. Newt Gingrich would give anybody's right arm to have such a career.
Walpole was pure Mandeville, and he was no small-time chiseler. Queen Anne had imprisoned him in the Tower of London in 1711, when it was discovered that £35 million in naval expenditures were unaccounted for, while Walpole served as Treasurer of the Navy. He took his revenge in 1715, as chairman of the Committee of Secrecy in the House of Commons, trumping up any charges he could think of against the Venetian Party's opponents who had worked with Jonathan Swift during Anne's reign. Following the cabinet reshuffle of 1721, Walpole emerged as Prime Minister, and held the post for more than twenty years, operating under the maxim which he coined himself, that every man has his price.
Jonathan Swift and his friends accurately referred to Robert Walpole as Bob Booty, and cast him as the head of a gang of cutthroats and highwaymen in the devastating satire The Beggar's Opera, brought to the London stage in 1728.
Walpole personified Mandeville's satanic notion that the interests of the statefor the oligarchylay in the maximum brutalization of its subjects. He celebrated Walpole's rise to power by reissuing his Fable of the Bees in 1723, adding a new essay attacking any efforts to educate the poor. In a nation without legalized slavery, Mandeville argued that
[T]he surest wealth consists in a multitude of Laborious Poor. ... To make the Society Happy and People Easy under the meanest Circumstances, it is requisite that great numbers of them should be Ignorant as well as Poor. ... Going to School in comparison to Working is Idleness, and the longer Boys continue in this easy sort of Life, the more unfit they'll be when grown up for downright Labour, both as to Strength and Inclination. Men who are to remain and end their Days in a Laborious, tiresome and Painful Station of Life, the sooner they are put upon it at first, the more patiently they'll submit to it for ever after.
The fascists of today's Conservative Revolution have exactly the same policy, differing only in some of the rhetorical niceties they employ. They speak of privatized schools, voucher plans, curriculum tracks, vocational training, work-study, manual arts, andprison labor.
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New Jersey kicks off sports betting after overturning 'unlawful and unfair federal law'
OCEANPORT, N.J. — Sports betting officially began in New Jersey on Thursday, some seven years after voters here authorized the activity and touched off a multimillion-dollar legal battle that ended last month at the U.S. Supreme Court.
As states across the country race to enact laws allowing athletic wagering following the high court's ruling, which struck down a federal ban on state-sanctioned sports betting, New Jersey kicked off its sports betting operations at the Monmouth Park Racetrack near the Jersey Shore.
"There's an old adage that you bet with your head, not your heart. So for the past seven years our heads and hearts were in alignment as we fought to overturn an unlawful and unfair federal law," Gov. Phil Murphy said at a press conference at Monmouth Park, surrounded by hundreds of patrons waiting to place their bets.
"We knew in our heads we were right, and we knew in our hearts we would win," he said.
Moments later, the former Goldman Sachs executive and former U.S. ambassador to Germany — who lives in a $10 million mansion on the Navesink River — turned around, walked up to an attendant from sportsbook William Hill and placed the first legal wagers in the state's history: $20 on Germany to win the World Cup and $20 on the New Jersey Devils to win the Stanley Cup next year.
"The first of millions to come," Murphy said as he turned to face dozens of cameras, hoisting his two tickets up for all to see.
Within half an hour, betting was up and running at Borgata, an Atlantic City casino where Murphy headed next. Some of the other casinos in Atlantic City are expected to launch their own sportsbooks within coming weeks or months, as are other horse tracks. Online wagering is also in the works.
New Jersey is the second state to launch sports betting following the Supreme Court's ruling, with Delaware taking the first bets earlier this month.
The start of betting comes just three days after Murphy signed into law a bill allowing such betting and a week after both houses of the state Legislature passed it. It's the state's third try, after both previous attempts led to challenges by the NCAA and professional sports leagues.
Voters approved an amendment to the state constitution in a 2011 referendum and the Legislature passed authorizing legislation the next year. Former Gov. Chris Christie, who signed that law, predicted a fight, taunting at the time, "if someone wants to stop us, then let them try to stop us."
In response, the NCAA — joined by the NFL, NHL, NBA and MLB — sued the state, claiming that betting would "irreparably harm" sports in America. They argued, successfully, that the state was in violation of the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992, which prohibits most states from legalizing and regulating sports betting.
After New Jersey lost that case, with the Supreme Court declining to hear a challenge, Christie and lawmakers saw an opening to try again. They repealed an old state statute that banned sports betting at casinos and race tracks, leaving in place only some broad limits on the activity.
While a federal appeals court ruled the run-around failed to circumvent the law, the move won New Jersey an audience before the nation's highest court. The justices heard arguments in December. In May, the court said the federal ban clearly violated the Constitution: "Congress can regulate sports gambling directly, but if it elects not to do so, each State is free to act on its own."
It's a fight many legal experts doubted New Jersey would ever win. Christie didn't show on Thursday, missing his chance to bask in the victory. But former state Sen. Raymond Lesniak, a Democrat who was the leading champion of the issue, stood by and smiled as Murphy opened up wagering. He let out a "boo" during his own speech, a slur he said was meant for the NFL.
"We kept fighting and fighting for years," Lesniak said in an interview. "No legal expert — so-called legal expert — gave me a chance. And we're here, and that chance came through."
New Jersey's new law requires bettors to be at least 21 years old and prohibits betting on high school events. It also prohibits betting on collegiate athletic events that take place in New Jersey, and on any sports event that includes a New Jersey college.
The law imposes an 8.5 percent gross revenue tax on betting at casinos and tracks, while online gaming revenue would be subject to a 13 percent tax — a structure meant to motivate players to visit brick-and-mortar establishments. There's also an additional 1.25 percent tax that goes to host municipalities and counties where a race track is located, or to the "Meet AC" program that promotes tourism in the Atlantic City area.
Lawmakers said they were happy where they landed. The Murphy administration expects to make at least $13 million in state revenue in the next year from sports betting, but others believe more will arrive.
"It's a good day because it's another economic uplifting even," Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin said after placing $25 bets on the Yankees and Mets to win tonight. "It will get more people out to Monmouth Racetrack, to the casinos — they'll have fun. The economy at-large gets lifted. And of course we'll get some economic revenue — stuff that we need."


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Quilters spend a lot of time with our irons! I get tons of questions about ironing and pressing, so here's the lowdown on pressing your fabric, and a mini-tutorial on how to press your seam allowances.
For new quilters, it's important to learn that pressing is NOT the same as ironing! When you iron a piece of clothing, you're trying to smooth out wrinkles, usually with a light hand and lots of side-to-side motion.
When making a quilt, you want to press straight down and avoid any side to side pressure that might distort your fabric. Your objective is flat, undistorted fabric, a square block, and seams that lay FLAT.


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How did John influence the Synoptic gospels?
If that sounds like an odd question to you, then you need to know that someone once wrote a PhD on the influence of T S Eliot on Shakespeare. The thesis was of course on how our reading of Eliot creates a lens through which we then read Shakespeare (I am assuming, dear reader, that … Continue Reading


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One of my biggest goals for the new year was to start eating healthy again. Around the beginning of December I got myself into a fitness routine, so when the new year came around I wasn't trying to both change my fitness and eating habits. Personally I wanted to ease my way into things so I knew I was doing it properly. Now I never use to eat horrible, it's just I definitely could have been consuming foods that were better for my body and I knew that if I wanted to see the best results from my workouts something had to change.
Here's what I would typically eat throughout the week before I switched things up..
Snack: A cookie or small bag of chips (I work at Subway, so before I packed things to bring, I would indulge in those)
Lunch: Whatever sub I was feeling for the day
Snack 2: Whatever was in the house (majority of the time it wasn't healthy)
Dinner: Whatever my parents would make
Then I would more than likely have some ice cream or a sweet treat before bed.
As you could probably imagine, changing up my diet wasn't easy. I'm almost a full month into it and it's still not easy, but I'm making amazing progress. So let me get into how I did it.
1. Creating a grocery list.
I never realized how important this was for both eating healthy and saving money until I lived by myself while attending college and had to grocery shop on my own. By creating a list you'll only have intentions of going in to get only the items you need rather than items you think you need, but don't.
2. Meal Prep.
SO IMPORTANT!! Meal prepping has saved me from over-eating and snacking on sweets, especially when it comes to being at work. I try to eat every 2-3 hours because it keeps your metabolism running on high, so while I'm eating work I should have had one snack and my lunch, which is all that I pack, therefore it's all that I eat. Now, I do grab for a cookie every once in a while 🤫
3. Doing Your Research.
This is something I'm still doing, but when you want to transform into a healthier diet it's important. Know what you're putting into your body, know what's good for it, etc.
4. Knowing Moderation.
When it comes to healthy eating, everyone has their own ways. Some prefer to never indulge in any sweets and honestly if that's you, good for you! I sure as heck could never do it. Personally, I think it's ok to enjoy a sweet treat here and there, but like I said.. moderation!
Plenty of times I tried to do a sugar detox because I have the worst sweet tooth, last week I finally decided to start it and I was doing great.. until day four. Basically I was craving a sweet so bad that I told myself sugar detoxing was stupid, HAHA. Throughout my four days doing this though I found some yummy healthy treats to indulge in, learned that it's important to stay full with protein, and that without sweets I can get VERY cranky. So far I've completely (or almost completely) have taken added sugars out of my diet, yay! Next step for me is reducing the amount of sugars I have in a day. Next month I'm going to try out another sugar detox and well, I'll keep you updated on that one.
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The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded La Jolla Institute for Immunology its first National Research Services Award Training Grant, commonly referred to as a "T32." It is given to institutions that have proven to be an important and accomplished place for training postdoctoral fellows in immunology. "Being awarded the T32 on our first try is a real credit to our accomplishments," says Mitchell Kronenberg, Ph.D., President and Chief Scientific Officer.
The grant will cover the salaries of ten postdoctoral fellows, with Ph.D. or M.D. degrees, for two years each over the course of four years. Postdoctoral fellows have to be NIH-eligible, meaning they are U.S. citizens or permanent residents.
For many years, LJI has been recognized as one of the best places to work in academia attracting the brightest postdocs from the US as well as all over the world, including: Europe, Australia, Asia and Latin America. But due to the Institute's relatively small size the number of NIH award-eligible postdocs only recently rose high enough to apply for the T32. As the number of laboratories grew, research programs expanded and LJI faculty's training success became evident, the number of US fellows increased and a successful application for a training grant came within reach.
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Aggregate size effect on the water retention properties of a lime-treated compacted silt during curing
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The main drying paths of the water retention curves of lime-treated soils were measured. Aggregate size effect on the water retention property was emphasised. Four soil powders with different maximum aggregate sizes (Dmax = 5, 2, 1 and 0.4 mm) were prepared and mixed with 2% quicklime (by weight of dry soil). Samples were prepared by static compaction at dry side of optimum water content (w = 17%) with a dry density of 1.65 Mg/m3. Suction measurement was performed by a dew-point hygrometer at different curing periods (t = 7, 28 and 90 days). The results obtained show that: i) aggregate size effect is insignificant on the water retention curve of untreated soil in the studied suction range (ca 500 kPa ~ 55 MPa); ii) lime treatment gradually improves the soil water retention capacity with the increasing of curing time; iii) aggregate size effect on water retention property of lime-treated soil becomes significant in the suction range from ca 860 kPa to 9 MPa on the long curing term: treated soils prepared with smaller aggregate size (S0.4 and S1) have a higher water retention capacity rather than soils prepared with larger aggregate size (S5).
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The new edition of Digitalife has been essentially "arithmetic" in focusing on the intersection between art and science, which is at the basis of all digital arts. I am reminded of a famous sentence by Nas, the American rapper, producer, activist and actor "Mathematics is God's language, it's in my blood. Art, music, letters and numbers", which I think could well explain contemporary research attitudes and orientations.
Rome – standing between tradition and innovation, past, present and future – is constantly pushing ahead to explore the field of multidisciplinarity: art, music, science, engineering, technology and design. Luca Bergamo, Rome deputy mayor, thus wanted to give a new direction to the capital cultural activities, which would see the emerging Contemporary Pole pivot shifting from MACRO Testaccio to Azienda Palexpo (abandoning the post-industrial architecture context of the former slaughterhouse that perhaps had really given hope in a different future).
To exhibit works of great dimensions and with absolutely advanced technologies, selected by curators, artists, festivals and foundations – Digitalife project, designed by Monique Veaute for Romaeuropa Festival and directed by Fabrizio Grifasi, makes his way to Palazzo delle Esposizioni with a complex articulation of audiovisual architectures and multimedia installations arranged by Richard Castelli.
At the centre of the building ground floor, Jean Michel Bruyère / LFKs with Matthew McGinity, Delphine Varas and Thierry Arredondo make the viewer take an immersive experience becoming a whole with space, sounds and images. An exploration journey to discover limits, emotions and public perceptions, thanks to AVIE – Advanced Visualisation and Interaction Environment, created by Jeffrey Shaw and iCinema Centre.
Also known for their extraordinary musical productions, austrians Granular – Synthesis created an immersive 3D space – previously presented in 2D on 15 screens placed in a circle – an audio-visual universe fully embracing the viewer with different modulations of light, color and sound, reversing the conventional concepts of space and time.
Russian collective AES+F presents the third part of The Liminal Space Trilogy project, a pop version of a sacred allegory, ironically and provocatively questioning religion and cultural stereotypes. Video images have a sculptural quality, as if the space were plastic itself, involving the public inside an ever-changing virtual landscape and reversing the perception of reality.
Instants of Visibility, an installation by Croatian artist Ivana Franke, also encourages the public to get lost in a dark space, defined by the presence of cylindrical structures and transparent fabrics, where light spreads out in form of bright spots that keep hanging in the air. The artist gives life to a floating cosmos that stimulates our senses and our imagination, generating a multisensory experience of perception.
Robert Henke's site-specific installation Phosphor is made of ultraviolet lights creating a contemporary landscape on a layer of phosphorus powder upon the museum floor. The landscape is constantly changing throughout the exhibition: ultraviolet light leaves its mark on the background, fifteen small spheres "moving on a mountain range as water would erode the deep American canyons," as Henke stated during the opening.
The German artist and engineer, talented laser experimenter and Ableton live programme co-inventor, creates software and produces tools to realize his installations and live performances, including Lumiere III, which he presented during Digitalife preview at Teatro Argentina in Rome. As in the two previous editions, Lumiere III explores new ways of combining sounds and lasers, through a live performance in which the artist manipulates music and images in real time.
It is a trip – sometimes hypnotic – that evokes retro science fiction starting from "a remote past to a far and uncertain future" in which symbols are part of a language that we recognize, but we can not immediately decode. Hard to read at first glance is also the hyper-technological and glacial imaginary of the Japanese collective Dumb Type, founded in 1984 by famous artists including Ryoji Ikeda and Shiro Takatani.
Presented for the first time at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo in 2014, Memorandum or Voyage collects company's shows highlights (Or; Memorandum; Voyage), through an editing that combines unpublished digital images with archive ones, with an outcome being far from documentary, but rather close to a lyrical and multisensory eighteen intense minutes work.
Adrian Drake, Fondazione Giuliani director and curator, submitted Digitalife a selection of videos coming from Geneva Biennale de l'Image en Mouvement and curated by Andrea Bellini. They are 12 films – commissioned and produced by the Biennale itself – whose common theme is the relation between ourselves and others (another great opportunity to meet Andrea Bellini and see a selection of videos both from Geneva Biennal de l'Image en Mouvement and Marseilles Les Instants Vidéo, together with its historic director Marc Mercier).
October 25th and 26th have been dedicated to an initiative by Valentina Valentini and Milo Adami from Università La Sapienza Department of Music and Performance – in collaboration with Caterina Tomeo and ex Dogana di Roma. Among the 12 artists included one could find Yuri Ancani with The Challenge, a video focusing on the capitalist society, where the symbols of wealth and power are part of people's lives; Evangelia Kranioti and Emilie Jouvet with the videos Obscuro Barroco and Aria, entirely shot with smartphones; Wu Tsang and the experimental film Duilian, based on a famous novel, deep examining the relationship between the revolutionary poet Qiu Jin and the calligrapher Wu Zhiyin.
Finally KizArt project, created by Nomas Foundation, reconsiders Video Art for children aged 0 – 14 years old. An initiative that once again invited artists, critics and collectors – including Francesco Arena, Alessandra Mammì, Stefano Sciarretta, Gabriele De Santis, Beatrice Bulgari, Maria Rosa Sossai – to choose a video suitable for the youngest: respectively Reel-Unreel by Francys Alys, La Longue marche du caméléon by Idrissa Ouédraogo, Future perfect by Miri Segal, Play dead by Douglas Gordon, The guardians by Adrian Paci, Speak easy by Marinella Senatore (suggested by the artist herself) and Boing by Patrick Tuttofuoco.
According to the Foundation co-founder Raffaella Frascarelli, "Digital natives have many opportunities, but they also put themselves in danger: the risk is for digital culture to become a kind of parachute". Thus it is essential to rethink the tools to build an artistic vocabulary for the youngest.
Digitalife will end on December 2th with a day dedicated to the performance curated again this year by Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa. The Professor Massimo Bergamasco, together with performer Stelarc, will present a project focused on the man-machine relationship, robotics, body and virtual environment, and on prosthesis used to create multimedia installations.
The #closingRef17 will be attended also by the artists Julia Krahan with the performance L'oblio, Invernomuto with Menelikke, Danilo Rea and Alex Braga with the live media Cracking Danilo Rea questioning the role of AI new forms and their function in the future, whether they will completely replace human beings or will be new tools to experiment in the field of arts.
An engaging performance, where a virtual presence – created in collaboration with Università di Roma Tre Faculty of Engineering – will capture Rea musical improvisation, transforming it into impulses and video projections simultaneously orchestrated by Braga.


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Your favorite musical party made our Sunday afternoon so much brighter once again with their feel-good surprises and exciting musical performances.
Queen of the Dancefloor Kim Chiu and BGYO performed the P-pop group's "The Light" that immediately set a very lively mood in the opening number. KZ Tandingan and Klarisse de Guzman then performed SB19's 'What' with Jeremy Glinoga, AC Bonifacio, and Vivoree Esclito who all grooved to the beat.
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Herbs, weak at base, ascending above, to 15 cm tall; stems brownish hispidulous or -strigose. Leaves in somewhat unequal pairs; petiole 0.3-1.5 cm, pilosulous or hirsutulous; blade drying papery, oblong-ovate, ovate, or broadly ovate, 3-8(-10) × 2-3.5 cm, adaxially glabrescent and usually with scattered reddened gland dots, abaxially with red gland dots and glabrous or hispidulous to strigose on veins, base obtuse to subrounded or subcordate, often oblique, margins undulate, apex obtuse, subrounded, or acute; secondary veins 4 or 5 pairs; stipules persistent at least on upper nodes, subtriangular to ovate, 2-3 mm, obtuse and glandular at apex. Inflorescence 1-flowered or usually cymose and 2-5-flowered, densely brown hispidulous; peduncle ca. 1 cm; bracteoles linear-subulate, ca. 3 mm, usually hirtellous and/or with reddish gland dots. Flowers distylous, on short pedicels. Calyx hispidulous and/or with red gland dots; hypanthium turbinate to ellipsoid, ca. 3 mm, 5-ribbed; lobes linear, ca. 3 mm, each sinus with 1 gland. Corolla pale purple, funnelform; tube 18-22 mm, white villous or pilosulous above middle and densely pilosulous at middle inside; lobes ovate, 4-5 mm, dorsally ridged and with very small horn. Capsules 5-6 × ca. 11 mm, hispidulous. Fl. Nov.
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In the protologue and FRPS (71(1): 118. 1999), H. S. Lo noted that the short-styled flowers have the anthers situated in the upper part of the corolla tube and the stigmas situated near its middle, while the long-styled flowers have the anthers situated near the middle of the corolla tube and the stigmas in its throat.
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Its task is to document the development of the Czech educational system based on the works of the Czech philosopher Comenius (1592–1670), who worked in Bohemia, the Netherlands, Poland, Germany and England, influencing the concept of education in large part of the civilised world. Jan Amos Komenský was born in Nivnice nearby Uherský Brod. He was not only a teacher but also a theologian, cartographer and politician. In 1627 he was forced to go abroad, and even though he tried, he could not return home. He thus became, against his will, probably the most famous Czech emigrant.
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Objectives: To assess the prevalence of skin symptoms among farmers exposed to organic dust of plant origin.
Material and methods: In 1998 and 1999 a survey on occupational diseases among farmers in Poland was carried out. As a part of the survey, 101 farmers in Lublin Voivodship (an administrative district in Eastern Poland) were examined using a standardised questionnaire and clinical examination by a dermatologist. The farmers were divided into 3 groups: 41 grain growers, 29 flax growers, and 23 hop growers. They were employed in typical Polish small to middle family farms. The questionnaire and examination were focused on skin symptoms related to working with the particular plant.
Results: Among the 101 patients questioned and examined in this study, 28 reported skin symptoms related to work. These ranged from pruritus without visible skin changes to pronounced eczema. In 16 out of 101 farmers, grain dust was the only or one of more provoking factors.
|Grain growers
|Flax growers
|Hop growers
|Number of farmers
|Mean age (range)
|41 (20-69) years
|40 (22-63) years
|51 (20-75) years
|Time of employment
|26.5 (4-53) years
|23 (3-49) years
|31.5 (9-62) years
|Cases with skin symptoms
|10 (24.4%)
|10 (34.5%)
|8 (34.8%)
|Causative factor*
|grain in 9 cases
other in 1 case
|flax in 4 cases
grain in 6 cases
other in 1 case
|hop in 5 cases
grain in 1 case
other in 2 cases
|*note that in one person more than 1 causative could be identified, therefore the number of causative factors does not necessarily equal the number of cases.
Conclusion: Plant dust produced during harvesting and processing grain, flax and hop has strong irritating and/or allergising properties and is capable of provoking skin symptoms in almost every third farmer.
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