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Cement, 2015-11-25, 01:49 PM
thyssenkrupp wins major contract to build one of the largest cement plants in Saudi Arabia
- Contract value in the higher three-digit million euro range
- Startup planned in 2018
thyssenkrupp has won a contract from Yamama Saudi Cement Company, one of Saudi Arabia's biggest cement producers, to build two turnkey cement clinker production lines. The two lines with an overall capacity of 20,000 tpd cement will be built at a new site around 80 km east of the capital Riyadh. The value of the contract is in the higher three-digit million euro range. It is the largest cement contract ever secured by thyssenkrupp.
Jens Michael Wegmann, CEO of the Industrial Solutions business area of thyssenkrupp: "Our partnership with Yamama is built on a longstanding tradition and dates back many decades. We are delighted that Yamama is once again putting its faith in our comprehensive experience in the turnkey construction of complete cement plants worldwide. With our reliable, highly efficient technologies we are profiting from infrastructure expansion in many growth regions and at the same time contributing to the conservation of valuable resources."
Yamama Saudi Cement and thyssenkrupp have been working together since the 1960s when the company placed an order for an initial 300 tpd rotary kiln. Six more, ever bigger cement production lines were added in the years that followed.
thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions, the engineering and construction arm of the thyssenkrupp Group, is delivering Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) for the lump sum turnkey cement plant including the supply of all the components for the new lines, from raw material preparation to clinker manufacture to cement loading, including quality control. Both lines are scheduled to start operation in 2018.
The main components include two mobile primary crushers for limestone (each 1,800 t/h throughput), three crushers for additives (each 500 t/h), two crushers for correctives (each 100 t/h) as well as two circular blending beds for limestone, each with a capacity of 80,000 t and various additive storage facilities. Four QUADROPOL QMR2 roller mills with a throughput of 425 t/h and two 35,000 t capacity homogenizing silos will be used to grind and store the raw material.
The kiln lines comprise 6-stage and 2-string preheaters with PREPOL AS-MSC calciner, rotary kilns with POLFLAME-VN clinkering zone burners, and POLYTRACK clinker coolers. The clinker will be stored in three 10,000 t capacity clinker silos and two 100,000 t capacity clinker storage facilities. Four combi grinding units consisting of POLYCOM high-pressure grinding rolls, ball mills and SEPOL separators as well as downstream cement coolers will each produce 300 t of cement per hour.
The cement will be stored in six cement silos each with a capacity of up to 25,000 t. The line will also feature six cement packing and loading stations. Quality control and monitoring will be handled by a POLCID process control system and POLAB laboratory automation system.
About us:
The thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions business area is a leading partner for the engineering, construction and service of all industrial plants and systems. In addition to chemical, coke, cement and other industrial plants and refineries, our portfolio also includes mining, ore processing and port handling equipment along with corresponding services. In the naval sector we are a leading global system supplier for submarines and surface vessels. As an important system partner to our customers in the automotive, aerospace and battery industries we optimize the value chain and improve performance. In collaboration with our customers we develop top-quality solutions and deliver efficiency, reliability and sustainability over the entire life cycle. Around 19,000 employees at over 70 locations form a global network with a technology portfolio that guarantees maximum productivity and cost-efficiency.
More information at: www.thyssenkrupp-industrial-solutions.com
Company blog: https://engineered.thyssenkrupp.com


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My husband set me a challenge last weekend - to see how much food I can make from scratch, and how long I can maintain a habit of doing so.
The reason for the challenge is two-fold. Firstly, with eating a largely sugar free diet, it is difficult to eat processed food, as so much has added sugar. Secondly, because I want to cut down the amount of processed food I eat, I am quite tempted by the idea of a Thermomix. However, they are quite pricey. We have agreed to save up for one, however, long that takes. In the meantime, my husband suggested that I should use the time in proving that making things from scratch is actually something I am committed to, by making things the long way round (ie, without a Thermomix).
It is something I have been feeling guilty about for a while anyway, the amount of processed food I eat, and feed my family. It makes sense from a health and a cost point of view to make what I can at home. Time is the only factor - a big factor for me with a 5, 3, and 1 year old. But the kids are getting into it and helping.
So, this week I have made crackers, hommus (which I've made in the past and is so ridiculously easy I should hang my head in shame for buying it) and icecream (our version of the Thermomix sorbet). I currently have yoghurt sitting in the thermos, hopefully stewing away. I also have flat bread in the oven, courtesy of my breadmaker. Last night for dinner I got chicken tenderloins, dipped them in egg then a mix of breadcrumbs, dried herbs and garlic. My husband thought that I had bought them ready crumbed =)
I am planning to make butter today or tomorrow - looking forward to the buttermilk too. I am feeling very pleased with my efforts. I hope I can keep it up - I need to find a quicker way of making yoghurt - the milk took far long to get to temperature. I think I had the stove too low, fearful it would overheat.
Here is to a long and satisfying journey of good food that I made myself =)
Is there anything you like to make yourself? Post a comment and share it! Inspiration is always good!

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text: May 1, 2000 May Day: Making Internationalism A Reality By Bill Fletcher, Jr. <bfletcher4 at compuserve.com> In a recent trip to South Africa I recalled the solidarity efforts which many African-American activists have engaged in over the years. The efforts, particularly with the end of World War II, to support anti-colonial struggles in Africa marked an important intervention by Black America. In the 60s and 70s efforts emerged with a new generation of African-American activists to support the struggles against Portuguese colonialism (which until 1975 controlled Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau and the Cape Verde Islands), and against the white supremacist regimes in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) and South Africa. These efforts led to different organizational forms, such as the African Liberation Support Committee and years later the Free South Africa Movement. The sources of this support tended to be drawn from ideological orientations, moral concerns and/or racial consciousness. There is something very different emerging on the world stage. A recent congress of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (held, I should add, in Durban, South Africa), a grouping which represents labor federations from countries around the world, illustrated these changes remarkably. The ICFTU was created at the beginning of the Cold War, largely as a vehicle in the union movement to fight the influence of communists and radicals. With the end of the Cold War, however, all sorts of alignments have altered. Old enemies have often found themselves interacting in a new and different way, in large part because of the impact of globalization. Indeed, I think that it is safe to say that the ICFTU has been pushed forward by the currents of globalization into a role its founders probably never would have anticipated. When we talk about globalization one should not think of this as the same as Global economy. Globalization is an orchestrated process by governments and economic elites to address many of the problems which capitalism has been facing over the last 20-30 years by reorganizing the world economy at the expense of working people. This has been made that much easier by the end of the Cold War, but also the developments of new technologies which make cross-border communication and exchange that much easier, and that much faster. Globalization involves the hyper-mobility of capital (financial transactions at the push of a button), the internationalization of production (multi-national corporations which can and do produce commodities across borders or shift production from one country to another for any number of reasons), and the interpenetration of markets, usually under the banner of "free trade" (everything is up for investment it often appears). The process of globalization has been advanced by an ideological battering ram called economic neo-liberalism. This is the ideological justification for the changes underway, particularly the attack on the public sector and the worshiping of the private sector. What was striking at the ICFTU World Congress is that country after country finds itself the victims of this process of globalization. Not only that, but union members in most countries find themselves facing the same or similar opponents, and certainly facing the same ideological arguments. By way of example, privatization and subcontracting, which many of us tended to think of as a local problem, or perhaps a national phenomenon, is quite international. Globally, privatization is not limited to a department in a government agency. Entire portions of economies which had previously operated within the public sphere, and which had been subject to public accountability, are now being turned over to private entrepreneurs, individuals and companies which face little oversight. Efforts, such as privatization, are being sold to us as a way of making work more efficient and encouraging development. Yet little is said about the loss of jobs and the impact that this has on entire communities. At the ICFTU World Congress the menace of privatization was a matter under discussion by all the delegations. Not only that, but it became obvious that workers in many countries found themselves at odds with the same companies. The multi-national or transnational corporations try to play off workers against one another. If they cannot get a good deal in the USA, they go or threaten to go to Mexico. If the Mexican workers do not budge and do not offer enough concessions, perhaps they relocate to Paraguay. This is not to say that each and every company can or will move, but the multi-national corporations have so buffaloed millions of workers into believing that fighting back is fruitless and that the best that they can do is make the beating a little less rough. I was struck by the unions in Africa, many of which have emerged from periods of military dictatorships, colonial rule or neo-colonial sham democracies. In meeting with these union activists I took note of three basic points. One, the willingness to fight. Two, the interest in solidarity. Three, the importance of the union as an organization which can bring workers together across various divides. What was clear from the South African unions, as well as representatives from other federations, such as the Nigerian Labor Congress, is that they see themselves as speaking for working class people, whether those workers are in unions or not. As such, their notion of fighting back is not only fighting back when workers in a particular workplace which is represented by a union is under attack. Rather they are attempting to speak to what is happening to the workers in their countries. The second noteworthy point is the interest in working with workers across borders when facing a common opponent. Most glaringly this takes the form of common employers multi-national corporations which are spread across the globe. The consciousness of the need for solidarity across borders was not limited to the leaders, but was something which one encountered at other levels of the organization. Many of these union activists found it hard to grasp why workers in the USA so often fail to understand that their interests [those of US workers] lie in reaching out to workers in other countries rather than in viewing such workers as opponents. Three, is the importance of the union as an organization which can bring workers together. In an era where ethnic and racial antagonisms have flared up at an alarming rate and where genocide has become the method of choice in eliminating potential competitors, unions such as the Nigerian Labor Congress see their role quite explicitly as bringing about inter-ethnic unity. I thought about the situation in the USA with the rivalries which take place, not only across the racial divide between African-Americans and whites, but also between African-Americans and other workers of color. The beneficiary of these rivalries is never one or the other group, but rather our common oppressor. This single fact is central to the consciousness of many of the union activists I encountered and served as a point of profound inspiration. So, we are celebrating May Day 2000 and I think that it is time for Black activists to rethink this day. This needs to be a day for a different sort of solidarity than we have often practiced in the past. The enemy is not as obvious as a Portuguese fighter plane strafing villagers in Mozambique, or an apartheid era police officer unleashing dogs and bullets on demonstrators. The enemies which we face in common more often than not sit tens of stories up in wonderful offices, cut off from the rest of the world except electronically. They come in many shapes, sizes and colors, speaking a myriad of languages. They share in common a contempt for workers, and a desire to enrich themselves with our blood. The type of solidarity needed now is between those of us who are ravaged by these agents of globalization. What struck me is that this solidarity goes far beyond moral platitudes. It really goes to survival and answering the basic question of who will decide our collective future: those behind those plate-glass windows, or the people who work every day in order to survive. The developing labor movements in Africa and other parts of the so-called underdeveloped world are far in advance of us in answering that question. Bill Fletcher, Jr. is Assistant to the President of the AFL-CIO, and the National Organizer of the Black Radical Congress. The views expressed in this article are his own. Copyright (c) 2000 Bill Fletcher, Jr. All Rights Reserved. [Articles on BRC-NEWS may be forwarded and posted on other mailing lists, as long as the wording/attribution is not altered in any way. In particular, if there is a reference to a web site where an article was originally located, please do *not* remove that. Unless stated otherwise, do *not* publish or post the entire text of any articles on web sites or in print, without getting *explicit* permission from the article author or copyright holder. Check the fair use provisions of the copyright law in your country for details on what you can and can't do. 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If you have come right here searching for the ultimate Christmas present for that man in your life, then you have come to the proper place. Watching the show and growing up with the Taylor family (Home Improvement was a single of the couple of shows that maintained a higher level of continuity and would continually allude to prior episodes in other seasons) 1 was tragically unaware of the dire scenario unfolding in the true-planet of Detroit. He understood the which means when Wilson tells the story, but trying to repeat the story he mixes up names and the order of events. The home improvement projects for these folks consist of revamping of the home to meet requirements of wellness and safety hazards or remodeling their property to support their disability (e.g installing a wheelchair ramp in home).
Tim going out into the backyard and finding Wilson carrying out some bizarre issue, and then misunderstanding Wilson's answer when he asks him what he's doing. Considering that, these are the folks who usually come from the decrease strata of society, they can rarely afford the price of home improvement. Home Improvement Reference Center attributes complete-text content material from leading home improvement magazines, images not found anyplace else on-line and videos of common house repair projects. With out a home improvement license the contractor might not enforce a contract against the homeowner.
Use our home improvement source for generating your property costly and eye catching. My calculations (employing your formula) for my 8′ x 16′ x 8′ enclosed insulated porch for a delta-T of 50F degrees shows a requirement of under 1000 BTU/hr. If you never have the much budget, you can search for a variety of remodeling tips and tutorial on-line. If you have not received a voucher for the Home Improvement Scheme previously, you can apply for a voucher worth up to $four,000 that can go towards jobs of up to $20,000.
His movies , nonetheless, may have been more entertaining if they had been comedies constructed about stereotypical gender roles equivalent to the successful Home Improvement. At LightStream, we care about the environment and, far more importantly, we try to do some thing about it. For one, we have developed a paperless customer loan encounter at LightStream. As always when you do a home improvement project, you must start by drawing up a plan. In response to growing competitors in the core item markets in recent years from general merchandise multiples, specialist online home improvement items retailers, grocery multiples, discount chains and catalogue shops, the classic home improvement multiples have been implementing main changes, like undertaking store rationalisation programmes and introducing new formats" mentioned Keith Taylor, Director of AMA Study.
Hundreds of thousands of borrowers have received over $26 billion dollars in loans by means of the Lending Club platform. In the previous, it was crucial for property owners to save receipts for anything that could qualify as an improvement. Since 1995, due to its recognition, reruns started airing on The Disney Channel , Channel 4 and ABC1 in the UK. Originally, Home Improvement was aired on Channel 4 and then later the Disney Channel even so, in 2005, it began broadcasting on ABC1 On September 26, 2007, ABC1 ceased transmissions and no official announcement was made as to which channels would be broadcasting ABC1's earlier programming.


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News Hub: Why Green is Red Hot at Paris Motor Show
Dan Neil reports from Paris why a green car from Fisker Automotive and a carbon Lamborghini called "Sesto Elemento" were in the spotlight this week at the Paris Motor Show.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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Officer hurt in crash
TROY -- A police officer was injured Sunday when the cruiser he was driving crashed into a retaining wall as he rushed to assist other officers in a foot chase, police said.
Troy cops responded to a report of a suspicious man "walking through gangways and looking at doors" near the corner of 10th and Hutton streets about 4 p.m., Capt. John Cooney said.
As an officer interviewed the suspect, Brian Rowe, he fled on foot, Cooney said. Eventually officers -- with the help of a police dog -- took Rowe into custody. Rowe, a 24-year-old city man, was charged with attempted second-degree burglary, third-degree criminal trespass, obstructing governmental administration and resisting arrest.
A police cruiser responding to the call, driven by Officer Chris Rasmussen, crashed at the corner of Eagle and 8th streets, Cooney said. There was "substantial damage to the patrol vehicle, minor injury to the officer."
Rasmussen driving the car was taken to an unknown hospital.


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CYFRA+ leads digital signage at points of sale in Poland with CAYIN solution
Veracomp and NARROWCASTING install CAYIN digital signage system in 188 CYFRA+ points of sale as one of the few digital signage projects in Poland with such a large scale
CANAL+ Cyfrowy, the operator of the CYFRA+ digital TV platform, equipped 188 points of distribution in Poland with CAYIN Digital Signage system. The centrally and remotely managed digital screen network was implemented by NARROWCASTING, a division of KCSP, on the basis of solutions delivered by value -added IT distributor, Veracomp.
300 LCD displays in CYFRA+ points of sale in Poland will be connected to one multimedia network. Thanks to CAYIN Digital Signage system, each or some grouped screens (e.g. divided according to regions) can show multimedia content immediately and simultaneously and all content can be arranged through Internet.
"When a customer comes to our point of sale, we only have seconds to catch his attention. Digital signage allows us to grab eyeballs within seconds with dynamic, updated, and interesting content," said Krzysztof Miodek, Trade Marketing Coordinator of CANAL+ Cyfrowy Sp. z o.o.
All content presenting on the digital screens is elaborately designed especially for the digital signage network and centrally managed by CANAL+ Cyfrowy. The display of each screen within the digital signage network is divided into several zones presenting video, image banner, and latest text information on ticker scrolling bar. Viewers can learn about the latest promotions, as well as advertisements from all of the campaigns in Poland.
In the first stage, CAYIN digital signage system was rolled out at 188 of the most popular and representative points of sale. In the second stage, CANAL+ Cyfrowy is planning to implement the same system into the other 112 localizations.
"This digital signage implementation is not the last of our investments in state -of -the -art audiovisual technologies," added Krzysztof Miodek. "We are going to expand the system into even more CYFRA+ attractive and interactive broadcast, in order to make our existing and future subscribers feel comfortable and optimal informed and, furthermore, spend more time with us".
"The implementation in CYFRA+ stands is the first digital signage project in Poland with such a large scale, and which has been carried out by the investor him/herself. We are convinced that this project will be a great success for CYFRA+ both in financial and brand image aspects," added Michal Redziak, Director of Audio -Visual Systems, Veracomp.
NARROWCASTING, as the system integrator of digital signage solutions, fulfills the requirements of this project perfectly. With the support from Veracomp, the value -added IT distributor, NARROWCASTING installed 188 SMP -PRO3 digital signage player of CAYIN Technology in CYFRA+ points of sale. SMP -PRO3, the zone -type media player, is responsible for managing and storing multimedia content.
In this project, CAYIN CMS PERFORMANCE server is also introduced to centrally manage players, group them, update content, and schedule playlist of multimedia content. All content is being displayed on 37" and 42" LCD screens.
"It is one of a few implementations in Europe for a client from the media. It makes us really proud to offer our competence and the appropriate solution to CANAL+. We offer several professional digital signage systems, but CAYIN seems irreplaceable for these implementations," commented Bartlomiej Gawron, General Director of NARROWCASTING, a division of KCSP.
Digital signage is a technology for centrally and remotely managing digital screen network. Thanks to CAYIN's digital signage solution, all promotional, entertaining, and informing messages can be conveyed simultaneously and catch customers' attention effectively.
"We highly value this project and appreciate the great efforts from all partners," said Ravel Chi, vice president of CAYIN Technology. "We have been attaching importance to and developing the Eastern European market for some time. Since 2005, Veracomp has been one of our most important partners in this region. CAYIN digital signage solution can efficiently help CANAL+ Cyfrowy to manage the scalable digital screen network and maximize the new impact at the points of sale of CYFRA+."
CANAL+ Cyfrowy Sp. z o.o. in Brief
CANAL+ Cyfrowy Sp. z o.o. is the operator of the the CYFRA+ digital TV platform, and broadcaster TV channels distributed to more than 350 cable TV networks: CANAL+, CANAL+ Film/CANAL+ Film HD, CANAL+ Sport/CANAL+ Sport HD, serwisu CANAL+ Sport2 and channels ale kino!, ZigZap/Hyper, MiniMini, PLANETE, Kuchnia.tv i Domo. CANAL+ Multipackage (CANAL+, CANAL+ Film, CANAL+Film HD, CANAL+ Sport, CANAL+ Sport HD, CANAL+ Sport2) is accessible also as a separate from CYFRA+ offer. Firm holds leadership position on TV market. It is also expanding its subscribers' base, and introducing its new services based on new technologies like, DSL, HDTV, PVR cor VoD. http://www.canalpluscyfrowy.pl
CAYIN Technology in Brief
CAYIN Technology offers a complete portfolio of digital signage solutions including: media players, servers, and software, for various commercial applications, such as education, transportation, retail, hospitality, corporate use, and financial and public institutions. CAYIN is dedicated to being a reliable partner to its clients worldwide, and has successfully set up various application references globally. In order to best facilitate the deployment of CAYIN products, the company also provides tailored services to satisfy the ascending market demand for almost limitless applications.
More about CAYIN Technology at http://www.cayintech.com
NARROWCASTING in Brief
NARROWCASTING A Division of KCSP is one of the leading distributors and integrators of Digital Signage systems in Poland. It offers a full range of services and solutions for out -of -home digital media like Digital Signage, multimedia stands, interactive systems, large size LED screens, and rear projection. KCSP was established in 1994, and since then, the firm has realized projects with such clients as Deutsche Telekom, Makro Cash & Carry, PepsiCo and others.
More about KCSP at www.narrowcasting.pl and www.kcsp.net
Veracomp in Brief
Veracomp belongs to the largest IT distributors in Poland. Established in 1991, Veracomp has developed into a group of IT companies of international scope. The company operates in 14 countries in Central and Eastern Europe. Since 1996, Veracomp has been implementing, both in Poland and on foreign markets, the strategy of value added distribution. The company invests in obtaining know -how information and educational and technical consulting. Presently, to each of the products, Veracomp adds its own value. It offers pre -sales consulting and technical, marketing, and educational support. Veracomp focuses on six specializations: networks, telecommunication, security, servers and storage, IT infrastructure management, and multimedia and peripheral devices.
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Pineapple is a yellow juicy fruit,has a vibrant flavor and good source of vitamin C.Pineapple can be used in salad,pie,skewer,cake,smoothie etc.Today I prepared pineapple flower vase,it looks like cotton candy.Pineapple chunks are coated with frosting and topping with sprinkles that add fun to your candy.It's a tempting dessert for kids.
- 250 gm pineapple cubes/chunks
- 150 gm pink frosting
- 150 gm yellow frosting
- 100gm melted chocolate
- Sprinkle (any color)
- 9 wooden skewers
- 1 vase (any size,any color)
How to prepare:
- Divide the chunks into 9 equal proportion.
- Thread the each proportion of pineapple's chunks onto the skewers
- Coat 4 skewered pineapple completely with yellow frosting.
- Coat 3 skewered pineapple on all side with pink frosting.
- Coat 2 skewered pineapple with melted chocolate.
- Add sweet sprinkles on top.
- Gently place the skewers into the vase.
- To enhance the beauty of presentation,you can use natural/artificial flowers and leaves.
Linking this recipe with : Tickling Palates


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Good nutrition is vital for health. To support a healthy society and encourage healthy choices, the science and healthcare community needs to build more knowledge about the nutritional value of our food, and how to encourage consumers to adopt a healthy diet and lifestyle.
Through the Nestlé Research Centre and the
Nestlé Nutrition Institute, and our partnerships with other institutions, we're in a strong position to make a positive difference to the health of society through nutrition and health research, and education.
Improving access to knowledge about health and wellbeing.
Improved products, new business opportunities and research partnerships.
We believe that scientific research is vital for improving the nutritional value of food and the quality of the diet. We seek to support public health by investing in both individual and population-based scientific research to deliver better nutrition for current and future generations. This involves collaborating with leading academic bodies to build the world's largest private nutrition research network.
At a global level, Nestlé carries out its own health and nutrition research programmes through the Nestlé Research Centre and the Nestlé Nutrition Institute, sharing our findings among the scientific and health community throughout the world.
We are on track to reach our objective globally. In 2015, Nestlé invested
CHF 1.7 billion in research and development, predominantly for food and beverage businesses, and filed 292 patents. Read our global report (pdf, 4Mb) for further details.
In the UK, we collaborate with a number of leading institutions to build our knowledge about the nutritional value of our food and its impact on health, and share scientific discoveries with healthcare professionals through our educational programmes.
Founded in 1936, the British Dietetic Association (BDA) represents over 8,000 dietitians and dietetic support workers in the UK. In 2015, Cereal Partners UK joined the BDA as one of the association's key supporters.
Across the UK, Dietitians play an important role in healthy eating, from advising on food and nutrition strategy at the highest levels to helping individuals make healthy lifestyle choices.
Cereal Partners UK employs and works with a number of Registered Dietitians and were accepted as corporate members of the BDA in April 2015.
Through its membership of the BDA, Cereal Partners UK can help the association share vital information on diet and health through a range of events, publications and other activities.
Vitaflo are also corporate members of the BDA.
Cereal Partners UK has partnered with Newcastle University to carry out a study of whole grain eating habits in the UK. The findings, published in the British Journal of Nutrition in 2015, show that almost a fifth of the UK population don't eat any whole grain foods at all, and more than 80% of us aren't eating enough to have any positive effect on health.
Eating whole grains has been linked to a range of health benefits, including lower body weight, BMI and cholesterol levels. There's also strong evidence that they reduce the risk of several chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes and some cancers.
By analysing data from the National Diet and Nutrition Survey 2008–2011, the Newcastle University research team also found that people eating higher levels of whole grain may also have a less stressed immune system.
Read our commitment to encouraging whole grain consumption.
"The key message here is that consuming more whole grains doesn't require a major lifestyle change. Just small tweaks to the diet – such as replacing white rice and pasta for brown, or eating a wholegrain cereal for breakfast – can have a major impact on your health."
Chris Seal, Professor of Food and Human Nutrition, Newcastle University
We took part in many other activities and research partnerships to build a better understanding of nutrition and health during 2015. These included partnerships with:
• Leeds Beckett University, to evaluate the effectiveness of the PhunkyFoods Programme (see below).
• Yorkhill Hospital in Glasgow, to undertake trials of Modulen, a supplementary nutrition for patients with irritable bowel syndrome and Crohn's disease.
As part of our Healthy Kids Programme in the UK, Nestlé supports PhunkyFoods, an initiative that promotes the benefits of healthy lifestyles and balanced diets in primary schools. We recently funded an 18-month study carried out by Leeds Beckett University to evaluate the programme.
The findings showed that youngsters at schools where PhunkyFoods is run are more likely to say they enjoy fruit and vegetables, and have a better understanding of the importance of exercise.
The study also showed that, overall, teachers view the programme as a highly acceptable way of teaching children about nutrition and physical activity, which could help tackle poor nutrition and sedentary behaviour in children.
Read more about our work with the PhunkyFoods initiative.
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• A partnership with the Royal Society for Public Health to conduct an impact assessment of our employee wellness programme over a three year period, and provide support for the development of the programme.
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• A range of activities through our continuing partnership with the BDA.Vitaflo and Nestlé Nutrition will also be exhibiting at the BDA annual conference in 2016, and attending various group and branch meetings throughout the year.
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text: First off let me say that I am 100% Navajo. My skin is not red but dark brown. I know many Native Americans who are Redskin fans. I don't think the Redskin logo or name is offensive and I don't believe that the Redskin's Native American fans think that the name or logo is offensive. Now the Cleveland Indians is a different story. Many Native Americans call each other "skins" which is half of the Redskin name. This whole thing is STUPID to me.


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The NCAA investigator who took over the University of Miami case last May attempted, as her fired predecessor did, to use Nevin Shapiro's attorney to help build a case against Miami — a detail curiously omitted from the NCAA-commissioned report detailing the NCAA's improper handling of the case, according to an email exchange between the parties relayed to The Miami Herald.
Meanwhile, UM also will allege that NCAA investigators lied to interview subjects by claiming that other people interviewed made comments they never made, in order to trick the subjects into revealing incriminating information they otherwise might not, according to multiple officials familiar with the NCAA's case against UM and former coaches. UM believes such behavior is unethical.
Both of these details will be included in UM's motion to dismiss the case that will be submitted to the NCAA on Friday.
UM also will claim that significant charges made against UM in the NCAA's notice of allegations are uncorroborated by anyone besides Shapiro, and that tainted evidence has not been fully purged from the case.
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The NCAA already has informed UM that the infractions committee does not have the authority to dismiss the case before a full hearing in mid-June, but UM is disputing that contention.
Among the new details in the case: Stephanie Hannah, an NCAA director of enforcement who took over the UM case late last May from fired Ameen Najjar, continued Najjar's policy of working with Shapiro's attorney, Maria Elena Perez, to try to build a case against UM.
The Cadwalader law firm, asked by the NCAA to investigate its handling of the case, indicated that Najjar ignored the NCAA legal counsel's instructions and accepted Perez's proposal to use bankruptcy subpoenas to compel depositions from witnesses who had refused to cooperate with the NCAA. In exchange, Perez would be paid; Perez claimed it would be for her time and expenses, Najjar claimed it would be only for expenses.
"The Perez proposal was unquestionably a bad idea for the NCAA," the report said.
After taking over for Najjar, Hannah attempted to work with Perez on obtaining information from Shapiro's bodyguard, Mario Sanchez, who was subpoenaed to appear in a bankruptcy hearing. The deposition with Sanchez never materialized.
In an email exchange with Perez last July, Hannah wrote: "Regarding the enforcement staff's interest in questioning [name redacted], attached is a document that outlines questions/topics to discuss with him."
The name redacted was Sanchez, according to multiple sources.
Hannah's email came to light because Perez included it in her response to the Florida Bar complaint filed against her by Sean Allen, the former UM assistant equipment manager who was subpoenaed by Perez for a bankruptcy court deposition in December 2011.
The NCAA tossed the Allen deposition from evidence because it was obtained improperly, and the matter ultimately led to the firing of NCAA vice president of enforcement Julie Roe Lach.
Ken Wainstein, from the Cadwalader law firm, emailed on Wednesday that he was busy on a personal matter and could not immediately explain why Hannah's behavior was omitted from his report. The NCAA declined to comment.
In another e-mail to The Herald on Wednesday night, Wainstein did not offer a specific reason for not including it in his report but said that "after Mr. Najjar left the NCAA, Ms. Hannah became responsible for the U. Miami investigation. As we explained in evaluating Ms. Hannah's conduct, Ms. Hannah had not been involved in the initial arrangements with Ms. Perez and believed that there was nothing amiss and that it had been blessed prior to her involvement.
"We understand that she provided questions and areas of interest for Ms. Perez to use in preparing to interview Mr. Sanchez in July 2012, similar to how Mr. Najjar had provided questions in advance of Mr. Allen's deposition. Mr. Sanchez was never deposed, however, for a variety of reasons including logistics regarding service of a subpoena."
"It's troubling because it places Hannah's culpability on the same level of Najjar's," said one official, on the UM/former coach side of the NCAA case, who asked not to be identified. "She should know better than to do this, having been there 20 years. Why did they cover that up?"
Wainstein's report assigned no accountability to Hannah, saying: "Ms. Hannah assumed there was nothing amiss about the arrangement [with Perez] and that it had been completely blessed prior to her involvement in the case. In light of those circumstances, it is understandable that she raised no alarms about the Perez arrangement."
The NCAA ended its working relationship with Perez shortly after NCAA associate general counsel Naima Stevensen reiterated last September what she had told Najjar a year earlier — that this arrangement was a bad idea and didn't have the legal department's blessing.
Hannah's e-mail with Perez was the second significant matter not included in the Wainstein report. The other: Najjar wrote a letter to Shapiro's judge shortly before his sentencing for operating a Ponzi scheme saying the NCAA might someday hire him as a consultant.
Wainstein said he didn't mention the letter because the report "was not intended … to describe all aspects of Mr. Shapiro's relationship with the enforcement staff."
In an ESPN interview this week, NCAA president Mark Emmert insisted that once the NCAA found part of the UM case had been mishandled, "I'm confident we did exactly the right thing. We did it the right way.
"... For those saying, 'Fire Emmert!'it's like saying if the assistant coach did something wrong, fire the [university] president."


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Pilot Program Subject Four: Fluppy Dogs (1986)
The Pilot Program is a look at various merchandise-centric cartoons that were released as specials in the 80s & 90s; while they were clearly set up to go to series, they never did. Every entry will look at a new show, who made it, what it was selling, and whether it would've made a good series.
SUMMARY: The Fluppies are dogs that talk like humans, can switch between being bipedal & quadrupedal, and come from a land of ice with a perpetual aurora borealis (a "rainbow sky", as they put it). A band of five, however, have been pulled from their home and are stuck bouncing around dimensions. Using a crystal key & Ozzie's ability to sniff out the doorways, they eventually make their way to Earth. Once there, they are caught and taken to the pound, where their leader Stanley is adopted by a woman. This woman, Mrs. Bingham, is getting her son Jamie a dog for his birthday, but Jamie is disappointed that his new dog isn't "tough, like a police dog". However, after Stanley saves Jamie from an accident at a construction site, the two become friends & Jamie realizes he doesn't have a normal dog. And then they discover that petting Stanley's head gives off a magic glowing dust that makes things float, such as Jamie's bed. In other words, magic dandruff. Jamie convinces his teenage neighbor Claire to adopt one of the Fluppies & start helping them get out of the pound. Meanwhile, the town's resident rich-asshole-trophy-hunter-who-controls-everything, J.J. Wagstaff, plots to steal a Fluppy for his captive menagerie of exotic animals. After a false alarm with a door in Jamie's house letting a gentle giant creature called the Lumpus loose and Jamie having some disputes with his mother because he can't just tell her what's going on, the Fluppies finally find the door home by the town library. Unfortunately for them, their crystal key is starting to burn out and will eventually stop working; worse, thanks to the light from their aurora borealis, Wagstaff is able to find them & kidnap Ozzie. The kids, Fluppies, and the Lumpus go to rescue him, get captured, and then use the magic dandruff to rip the upper floor of Wagstaff's mansion off, free the animals, and drop it by the library. The Fluppies run off to get home, with the Lumpus shoving Wagstaff & his butler in along with them. After a flash forward to winter, the kids are reunited with the Fluppies, who have now brought all their friends along to enjoy Earth with them.
MISCELLANEOUS: This is where I note various things I observed while watching, usually in bullet format.
- This is another one-hour special, and more so than Star Fairies, this feels padded to reach that time.
- The Fluppies are "mythical creatures that can walk and talk like humans" according to Wagstaff's guides. Our band consists of Stanley (blue, the cheerful leader), Tippi (pink/purple, the girliest and most determined to get home), Ozzie (green, the one who can sniff out the doors to other worlds), and twins Bink & Dink (yellow & red, respectively).
- The Lumpus looks like a cross between one of the Wuzzles and the dragon from Pete's Dragon, while one of the dogs in the pound (the one the Fluppies try to converse with) resembles hound dogs seen in movies such as 101 Dalmations and The Fox and the Hound.
- The producer & director of this special is Fred Wolf, one of the founders of the Murakami-Wolf-Swenson Studios (a.k.a. Fred Wolf Films). It's probably best remembered for the 1980s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series. This is the first I've heard of the founder of one studio doing work for another, unless this meant that Disney outsourced the actual making of the special to MW.
- As someone who works with a dog rescue, I appreciate that this show portrays Mrs. Bingham adopting her son's dog from a shelter instead of buying one from a pet store.
- Why doesn't Jamie tell his mother about their magic blue dog? Because Stanley urges him not to. Why? Story reason is "they'll think we're freaks", meta reason is to pad out time and justify some forced wackiness & drama with Jamie's mother.
- So... I guess we should just assume Wagstaff and his poor, poor butler just froze to death in Fluppiland? We never see them again.
- This is the only show I have ratings info on, and it was the lowest rated prime time program for the week of Thanksgiving in 1986. Sadly, I'm not surprised.
PRODUCTION COMPANY: Oh, c'mon, you know Disney. This was one of their works in the 80s, when the then-new management of Eisner & Wells started to expand into television. They had other successful specials such as Mickey's Christmas Carol (the second-best version of the tale) and a successful TV show with The Wuzzles, which was reportedly only cancelled because one of the lead voices, Bill Scott, passed away. This special aired while Gummi Bears was still airing and pre-dates the seminal Ducktales. For more information, as usual, please see this database for a breakdown of Disney's still-thriving TV work.
VOICE ACTING SPOTLIGHT: There's a few actors I want to talk about here, but let me get to one of my favorites of all time first. Lorenzo Music is so incredibly underrated. He never needed to do voice acting (he'd made more than enough from producing), and he didn't have a vast range, but it was the work he loved doing the most. Probably best remembered as the voice of Garfield until his death, he was also featured in numerous ads (most memorably as one of the Crash Test Dummies) and will always be the definitive voice of Peter Venkman in my heart thanks to Real Ghostbusters. His work here as the dependable Ozzie is no less charming than any of these. When he wasn't voice acting for fun, he was volunteering to help others at suicide hotlines, and his friends in the VA field all talk about him as the kindest man ever. I still use his sweetly laid back voice as a basis for characters in my work to this day, and I wish I could've met him.
As usual, the other VAs warrant a mention for their work as well. Amusingly, Marshall Efron was Music's costar as the villainous Synonymess Botch in Twice Upon a Time and does a charming job as Stanley. Hal Smith, best known as Otis the Drunk on The Andy Griffith Show and both Flintheart Glomgold & Gyro Gearloose in Ducktales, provides solid work as Dink (the boy twin) and hapless butler Hamish. Finally, this makes our third straight show to have Susan Blu in a featured role. It's a voice actor hat trick!
THE MERCH: I owned a Fluppy Dog. It looked like a stuff doggy with black shiny-button eyes and yarn hair; yes, it was as cute as you'd expect, and I wish I still had it. Craft companies even sold sewing patterns for making them little clothes. Fluppy merchandise is weird – none of the dogs have the same names or design conceits across the different kinds of merchandise (for instance, Ozzie was "Green Flup" or "Cool Flup" in books & on packaging). Also, the art was a lot softer & (for lack of a better descriptor) cutesy on books, lunch boxes, and the like. Even the name of the toy line was different – outside of printed materials, they were originally called Fluppy Puppies. As usual, Ghost of the Doll has a great guide to the line. Even the origin and number of Fluppies is different in the toy-verse. Only the four-pack of story books appears to take its cue from the TV show.
Maybe the reason the interest level for this wound up being so low is that Disney actually didn't quite know how to synchronize the merchandise and creative arms like they do now. It's hard to believe now, given they're so ubiquitous, but back then was when they were just starting on the strategies we now see. I can imagine kids who watched this & wanted toys from it being a bit baffled. It's worth sharing this quote from the Wikipedia page on the special: "Based on these designs it would appear that the Fluppy Dogs were originally targeted to young girls, and by the time it reached post-production, the focus was changed dramatically, but it was not enough to form a concrete target audience, which might explain its failure to become a regular series." Pretty much spot on, Wiki author.
COMMENTS: This special made me sad. There were so many things I like in it – a solid VA cast, magical doggies, tied to a toy line I actively liked. But as I said on Twitter, my disappointment in it was so tangible that I could adopt it as a pet. There were just so many things that didn't gel in this and took what good elements there were down with them.
Let's start with the plot. There is just not enough plot to sustain the length of this special. We have five chase scenes, only two of which are plot relevant; we have visits to three dimensions - one before reaching Earth that's unnecessary, one where there's just a lot of water, & the one with the Lumpus; we have the unnecessary "you must lie about our abilities to your family for... reasons" subplot with Jamie and his mother. Each of these is drawn out to the point where it stops being interesting even with plot relevance, and the padding is excruciating. At least in Star Fairies you got a vague sense of world-building and a traditional fantasy quest, and that had a similar if less noticeable feeling of being stretched thin. And stuff just doesn't get explained. The magic dandruff is justified by Stanley saying, "Yeah, this happens sometimes when we're in other dimensions". It feels like stuff kept being changed mid-production and no real effort was made to patch the seams.
The characters are likable enough, if a little bland. The villains are the only ones with personality, and sadly, those personalities are "generic rich jerk" & "poor put-upon sidekick". Worse, there aren't really any jokes that work except for two – Ozzie's subdued "Oops, wrong door" reaction as they're launched in a geyser (which I credit entirely to Lorenzo Music) and the expression on Wagstaff's face after it's crushed by the Lumpus's butt. Stanley has the most personality of the heroes as a perennial seeker of adventure, but he's really it from the heroes as far as unique personality traits.
The animation is, as you would expect, fluid & vibrant, and the Fluppies are well designed. The humans, however, have an oddness to their designs that I have trouble placing. Jamie & his mother look pretty grounded, Wagstaff & most others look really cartoony, and Claire has eyes way too large for her design, making her look like an early attempt at mimicking anime. They all have solid black irises that blend into their pupils as well. Also, like I mentioned in the Miscellaneous section, some of the ancillary designs feel like they were borrowed from bits & pieces of other things. And the score is worth mentioning, since it really doesn't fit. A wacky chase in a grocery store is scored like a majestic battle, while a scene of the Fluppies cleaning Jamie's house has music more suited to footage of a mountain climbing expedition. When you'd expect music, such as the Fluppies' farewell, there's silence.
I'd love to know more about what happened with this series behind the scenes. There's a weird, disjointed tone to it that makes it feel like the plans were changed at least once during production. I doubt anything is out there, though.
WOULD IT WORK AS A SERIES: This is the first time I have to say that it wouldn't. Everything that would make for an interesting series – the hopping across dimensions, meeting the inhabitants, having an adventure – happens before the opening title screen. The ending just offers an Earth where humans now hang out with dogs who have magic dandruff. Unless it was a prequel series and really played up the light adventure aspects, it wouldn't be strong enough. While the Fluppies have solid enough bases for personalities, the kids are kind of bland and Wagstaff is a dull one-note villain; worse, a lot of the drama & humor would come from one of those execrable "I must keep this a secret just because" plots, like we saw with Jamie & his mother here. It would need some serious tweaking to make for a good ongoing series.
Next time, we have a shift of focus away from pilots based on girl-targeted toys as we head towards the Nineties. So... Battletoads.


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It's hard to not be discouraged
I have been on 5 pills a day for years. I am now determined to lose weight get healthy & get off some of the meds. For 4 months I have been walking 90 to 120 minutes a day & have lost 11 lbs & 31 inches. I also went down to 4 pills a day. Then I joined a gym got a trainer. Now I've gained 5 lbs & not lost any inches! Plus I am back to 5 pills a day.
Some times I get down about it but most of the time it makes me more determined to get moving even more.
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I was told once that muscle is heavier than fat. How are your clothes looking? Are they getting looser? That might be an indication of how you are really doing. Hope this helps.
Thanks for the support! I am walking on the treadmill for at least 60 minutes 5 days a week. I am also doing weight training 3 days a week.
Don't feel too bad.
It's common to gain a few pounds when you begin working out, it normally comes from water retention and increased blood flow to your muscles and internal organs, give it a little time and the weight loss will come.
Remember this, You are in control !
Don't lose your determination !
It is frustrating when you try so hard. I walk every night have lost 85 pounds, still need to lose more but it just won't come off. Got down to 190 and there it stays. Just keep working at it and it will get there. Are you still walking as well? If not maybe you should start walking again.
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In an appearance on CNN's State of the Union over the weekend, former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean took a shot at the Obama administration for what he saw as its inability to maneuver in a polarized political climate.
"I think the people around the president have really misjudged what goes on elsewhere in the country other than Washington, D.C.," explained Dean. "I don't think this is true of the president, but I do think his people, his political people ought to go out and spend some time outside Washington once in a while."
Despite the criticism, Dean, who also served as Governor of Vermont, suggested that he remains optimistic that Democrats will retain control of both congressional chambers following the midterm elections this November.
"I'd bet money on the Senate for sure," said Dean. "The House is much tougher, I think at the end of the day, we are going to win in the House, and we are going to have a majority. It'll probably be reduced ... perhaps as small as a five or ten seat majority. We simply have better candidates."
Dean went on to underscore what he sees as the bottom line, as well as the stakes for Democrats, when it comes to this year's midterm match-ups.
"We've got to win this election," explained the strong progressive voice. "After the election is over we can go back to having our policy fights, but this is about winning. You can't get anything done unless you have a Democratic president, a Democratic Senate and a Democratic House."


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And the second week of 2012 offers us a TNA PPV and the third in a succession of singles matches for the title. Meanwhile this week we had the Divas mostly out of the ring but still making their presence felt nonetheless.
Genesis - Mickie James vs Gail Kim* (Knockouts Championship):
This was a big improvement over their two previous matches which were only okay. I'll give Mickie her credit, she has been looking a bit better in the ring in this recent push though this feud hasn't really excited me much. I actually loved the stipulation of Madison having to be hung in the shark cage above the ring because it was just brilliant. I couldn't stop laughing and Madison played off it so well. As for Velvet being the possible new VP of the division, I would prefer to have her wrestling but I guess anything that gets her on TV is good enough. This match was pretty crisp and I enjoyed most of it, not getting bored like I did in the first match or feeling like they were holding back like the second. The ending was a bit silly though. If they had really sold the hate between Gail and Mickie then having Mickie use the brass knux would make more sense. If it had been Traci or Velvet or even Tara then it would make more sense. Nonetheless the match was still enjoyable even with the ending. I guess Mickie forfeits any claim to the title with that little stunt. Gail has still yet to get a clean title defence. 6.5/10
Raw - Eve vs Kane:
At least Beth Phoenix got a mention this week. Seriously the Royal Rumble is in two weeks and they haven't even bothered to build up any storyline for it. I'm actually foreseeing them leaving Beth off TV for the next two weeks and having her return competing in the Rumble. I actually wouldn't mind that idea as long as the rest of the Divas had maybe a mini-Rumble of their own to earn a title shot against Beth. There obviously seems to be a few challengers left out there even though Alicia Fox is the only one with an actual pinfall win over Beth. Anyway, I was thrilled that Eve was included in this storyline. People claiming that Eve and Zack's pairing is a punishment should take note that the two of them are in a high profile storyline and were featured in the main event of Raw. In the Raw Rebound the two of them were featured prominently, which I loved. It's great to have Eve in a big storyline and this could help build sympathy for her and help her get that rub with the fans she needs if she's going to be a top Diva in the future. I'll give the Raw writers credit, they have been giving the girls something to do while they're keeping the champ off TV for some reason. N/A
NXT - Maxine vs Alicia Fox:
The promo at the start was pretty good, almost Knockout-like with all the sexual innuendos. Alicia isn't exactly the strongest woman on the mic but she said most of her lines well enough. The match on the other hand was ridiculously short. It was pretty uninspired as well and their other match was a lot better. The exchanges looked awkward and the ending was too abrupt. Not to mention incredibly silly. It's not that big a deal to have Alicia win with a big move. Anyway it's also good to see Aksana on the show and I'm looking forward to the big wedding next week. Who knows what could happen? 4/10
Impact - ODB vs Winter:
Yes! More ODB and Eric Young. They're a great pairing and of course I want to see ODB get a push against Gail for the title. Some of ODB's best work in the past was against Gail and she could add some much needed colour to the division. On the other hand, perhaps pair her up with someone and feud for the tag titles. Anyway the match was fun and it got Winter and Angelina Love back on my screens which is welcome any time. It wasn't the most technical match but ODB missing the Bronco Buster made me lol. Which is funny considering I compared her to X-Pac a few months ago. Eric Young knocking Angelina dizzy with the Airplane Spin was great, as was the finish. Also, Madison continues to deliver comedy gold. As for the cage match, well at least we'll get an idea of what things would have been like at Lockdown though with Mickie's track record in those matches I'm not expecting much. 6/10
Superstars - Brie Bella vs Kelly Kelly:
And the first Superstars match of 2012 is a rematch from both Money In The Bank and Over The Limit. This was probably the longest Diva match this week and usually in WWE that goes hand in hand with being the best. It was standard stuff from Brie and Kelly, pretty much some similar moves as their last few matches but that one spot with the bridge into the arm reversals was really nice. Is it me or does Kelly kind of come across as a heel in the ring sometimes? She uses an illegal submission hold, gets pretty aggressive and does a lot of stomping. I guess if she does turn heel then she won't be too lost without her hurricanranas and headscissors. Perhaps losing constantly to the Bellas could prompt a heel turn from her? It's a thought considering Eve seems to be getting groomed to be the top Diva in the future and Kelly could make a good heel. Once again refreshing to see the twins get a win and usually beating a face two weeks in a row makes you a title contender in WWE. 6/10
Smackdown - Natalya vs Tamina:
This didn't even clock one minute as far as I know and yet was a million times better than last week. I guess Tamina did turn face anyway which I'm not too happy about. She has better ring presence as a heel and the heel side of the division is pretty shallow right now. I don't know why Natalya keeps getting squashed like this. I'm happy she's still a heel but she doesn't deserve to have to be the heel jobber right now. This match served no point except to show Tamina's a face now and Beth still isn't on TV. I hope to the lord this doesn't mean Tamina is getting the next push for the title. Unlike Eve, Kelly or Alicia, Tamina has yet to show actual brilliance in the ring and give us a hint that she could put on a great match. True Melina and Alicia got decent matches out of her but the likes of Alicia and AJ would be better candidates to feud with Beth. But on the bright side, I'm happy this week we had two Divas in main event storylines. Including AJ in the Daniel Bryan angle does raise a lot of questions such as will she turn heel along with him? The heel side is left with one vacancy after Tamina turning face but AJ can't play a heel believably so let's hope it doesn't go that way. You do have to lol at the crowd chanting "she's ok!" because she really should have gotten hit with a chair to be believably knocked out. 2.5/10
So a bust this week in terms of WWE as the Rumble approaches us and still no sign of the Divas' Champion. She did make history by competing in it before so perhaps they're waiting to bring her back then. Perhaps we're also getting ready for a certain Flawless return? And in TNA we have a big cage match to look forward to next week as well as hopefully more of ODB's antics with Eric Young.


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The report also stated that the dominant purchasing drivers for enterprise carbon accounting and sustainability software have remained constant and include:
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Many of my patients desire to keep their teeth for their entire lifetime. I often tell them that there are three primary things that will determine whether or not they can keep them throughout their entire lives. Those three things are Diet, Hygiene and Habits. Simple enough right?
A diet consisting of highly refined sugars is the primary reason why decay is more prevalent now than a century ago.
Extended exposure to these refined sugars cause a significant amount of decay in teeth. There are several ways this occurs.
First, if we it eat sticky foods, they will adhere to the surfaces of the teeth for extended periods. This in turn will allow the bacteria to process the sugars and convert them to acids. The acid is what demineralizes the teeth and causes cavities to develop.
Secondly, if we eat foods that stay in the mouth for extended periods such as hard candy, suckers and chewing gum, the result is the same.
A third way this occurs is by drinking sugary drinks over extended periods of time. It would be much better for someone to drink a large soda in a short period of time rather than to drink a small soda over an extended period such as during an entire movie.
Basically, we should be brushing a minimum of twice a day and preferably more. We should brush upon awakening and prior to sleeping. We should also brush after each meal.
Don't forget to floss. You need to floss daily. If you fail to floss, you will not remove the debris that forms in between the teeth. You will therefore develop cavities in between the teeth.
Avoid parafunctional (things that aren't normal) habits such as chewing on ice, chewing on your fingernails, using your teeth to open bottles or cutting fishing line or tearing beef jerky. These are just some examples.
Another habit that will undermine your ability to keep your teeth for life is smoking. Smokers tend to have more bone loss around their teeth. So, even if the teeth themselves are healthy, if there is no supporting bone around them, you will still lose your teeth.
Clenching and grinding are also very detrimental habits. Consider your car. Typically, you may be able to get a few hundred thousand. However, if you abuse it and and race it, you'll be lucky to get twenty thousand miles out of it.
The bottom line is, use your teeth only to eat normal foods.
In conclusion, a good diet, good hygiene and good habits will help keep your teeth.
Dr. Cisneros maintains a practice in Freeburg and Columbia, IL. Both are in the Greater St Louis, MO area. For more information on a wide variety of subjects, please visit www.advanced-smiles.com.


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'New York City's Five Points The Most Dangerous and Decadent Neighborhood Ever!" is highest at #2. It's also ranked #6 in the same category on Amazon/United States.
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"The Five Points is personal to me. In 1914, my mother, the youngest of 12 children, was born at 104 Bayard Street. When I grew up, I lived around the corner at 134 White Street. During my youth, the area was called Little Italy. But at the time of my mother's birth, it was still called the Five Points.
The term "Five Points" was coined in the early part of the nineteenth century because the area had at its center a five-point intersection formed by Orange Street (now Baxter Street), Cross Street (then Park and now Mosco Street – Frank Mosco was my Little League coach), Anthony Street (Now Worth), Little Water Street (which no longer exists), and Mulberry Street.
Across the street from the front entrance to my White Street tenement building, and close enough to reach with three or four leaping bounds, was the imposing city prison called the Tombs. The dark and dreary structure was the third incarnation of a major jailhouse in this area, the first two being located one block to the west on Center Street. The Tombs played an integral part of the Five Points' sordid history. Hundreds of dastardly individuals were hung at the Tombs, and hundreds of thousands more had the Tombs as their mailing address, some permanently.
In 1896, at the prodding of journalist Jacob Riis, the hideous Mulberry Bend was demolished by the city, and Columbus Park was built in its stead. Before then, the Five Points was predominantly Irish, and it is estimated that 10,000 – 15,000 people, mostly Irish, lived in horrendous squalor in the four square blocks that of "The Bend." When the Bend's buildings were razed, the Irish were displaced. Most moved north to Hell's Kitchen, the area bounded by 42nd Street and 59th Streets, between 7th and 12th Avenues.
After the demolition of Mulberry Bend, the Five Points became the domain of Italian immigrants sprinkled with a few hundred Chinese, who claimed parts of Mott, Pell, and Doyers Streets as their turf. In fact, over the first two decades of the twentieth century, the Five Points district evolved into two intertwining ethnic neighborhoods: Little Italy and Chinatown. It wasn't until the mid-1920s that the term "Five Points" started to fade from the vocabulary of the area's residents.
Most remnants of the original Five Points are long gone. But the names of its former inhabitants still flicker across the lips of many New Yorkers, never in a flattering way.
So, fire up your Kindle and read about some of the most distasteful creatures ever to roam the face of the earth. They all inhabited my old Five Points neighborhood in times gone by."
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Froobles is a great series of preschool books. The Froobles are fruit and vegetables that come to life in scenes created by children. There are 12 books to collect and in the back are stickers which BG loved!
We were informed in the New Year that the Froobles and an ipad app so we tried it out. It's an animated version of the stories read by celebrities. The first book Little Jack Potato which is read by Johnny Vaughan is free and then the others are £2.99 each.
You don't just get a story there is a game section with 6 games, paint and drawing section, and BG's favourite section the movie making section. You can move the characters around and talk/sing and record it. We have had hours of fun doing that.
She is not bored with it yet and when she does I will be buying another story because I think £2.99 is great value for what you get.
I recommend you get the free story ago, its lots of fun and educational at the same time.
You can get the Froobles app from the app store.


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Myles Norwood's eyes lit up when he saw a black-and-gray bike sitting outside the Los Banos Police Department and soon realized it was meant for him.
The 22-year-old, who has cerebral palsy, recently had his bike stolen outside a fast-food restaurant.
Norwood did not have his bike locked.
"We tried to give him something similar to what he lost," said Sgt. Elias Reyes.
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After responding to a report of the bike being stolen on April 28, officers knew there was little chance of recovering the Raiders-decorated bike. Officers turned to the department impound lot for a replacement.
After assessing the bleak selection , they decided to purchase a new bike.
"I put an envelope at dispatch and everybody started pitching in," Reyes said. Soon, they had enough money to purchase the bike. But the giving didn't stop there. Reyes said Wal-Mart also pitched in to help pay for the bike, a helmet and a lock.
Reyes was overjoyed when he called Norwood's grandmother, Jan Morgan, to explain that her grandson would soon be the owner of a brand-new bike.
Morgan said she became emotional during the phone call, telling Reyes the timing couldn't be more perfect; Norwood was about to have a birthday.
Reyes presented the bike to Norwood on Thursday.
"At first I thought I was getting arrested," Norwood said, of what was going through his mind upon arriving at the Police Department.
He said he was shocked and happy when he saw the bike, which has a few Raiders decals, thanks to officers.
Reyes said the incident offers many lessons.
"Get a good bike lock," he said. "Don't invest in something that's really cheap, that's an easy target for would-be criminals, invest in a good lock and use it."
The Los Banos Police Department encourages avid bike riders to register their bikes with the department. The cost is $4 for a bike license and includes a description of the bike.
Norwood's advice to others: "First, we all need to get a lock and keep an eye on stuff because you don't really know what can happen. I learned that lesson."


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I won't lie, there are definitely some challenges to be faced at this particular French university. For the most part, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say I've gone back at least 30 years in the educational system, not unlike Marty McFly ("You're a slacker, McFly, just like your old man"). And lest I sound overly judgmental about some of the things I'm going to say, I want to point out that most of the professors and staff make comments of their own about how they are "In the Middle Ages" as far as technology goes. Well maybe that is a slight exaggeration, but I'll go along with Mid-20th century.
I'll start with the most extreme examples. ISEP students receive a monthly meal stipend (which is about half what we'd get at our home University for meals, by the way) and we have to collect this money in person each month. Now at KSU, they'd just put the money on our Student Account electronically and we'd be good go to. Here you go to the Bursar's office to collect this money and it is just like stepping into a time warp. A woman pulls out a great, big handwritten ledger, finds your name, checks it off, and then opens her little drawer and counts out the stipend in cash. You sign your name on the ledger that you have received it and that's it.
Also, when I recently had to turn in an insurance document to the housing office, the woman pulled out a wooden box full of index cards, found the one with my name on it, and added a little "check" that she had received it.
I've already mentioned the registration process in an earlier post, but to tell it again this is accomplished by signing up by hand in the classes you choose to attend. The professor has a sign-up sheet, you put your name on it, and now you're enrolled. Then later you turn in a handwritten document to the International Office which tells them the courses you are taking. Again, none of this is done on a computer of any kind. In fact, all this probably isn't that different than how they would have done it in the 1850's, never mind the 1950's.
In our classes there are no syllabi except some dates the professor writes up on the board – IF you're lucky. There are no textbooks – at least not in any of my classes – nor are there any other written materials to study. The lessons consist of lectures with important terms written on the blackboard, just like in an old fashioned Little Red Schoolhouse. (And yes, I literally mean a blackboard with chalk, not a whiteboard with markers.) There are occasional worksheets which are badly photocopied – about one step up from mimeograph – but no Power Point presentations or any other kind of electronic resources used. In one class, though, the professor did play us an audio tape. I was waiting for him to set up the reel to reel film projector to go along with it, but I don't think they have those yet.
Test scores are posted on a bulletin board. I have no idea, at this point, how final grades will be posted – probably I'll get them in the mail with a stamp on it a few weeks after the semester ends. (And no, I'm not even kidding.) If a class is cancelled, you just figure it out when the professor doesn't show up unless he/she has posted it on a bulletin board. For those who can't quite get how primitive this is, I'm talking about actual corkboards hanging on a wall, not online bulletin boards.
Now to be fair, this University is "connected". They do have wifi on the campus, although it is not available in student residences. But when we asked a professor about doing a Power Point presentation for an assignment, she advised us not to depend on wifi to access it because it isn't very "dependable" (big surprise!)
And while I was able to borrow a laptop from the University to use while I'm here, when I had problems with it recently I took it to their "IT Department" which consisted of a guy in a broom closet. (I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP! This is a true story!) When I showed him my problem, he explained that he couldn't look at it right away because he is the only IT guy they have and he is very busy trying to service the entire university network. And this isn't a small university, either, there are something like 25,000 students.
The security system in our student residence is not much more advanced. Twice since I've been here the fire alarm (which is right beside my door, BTW) has gone off and wailed for hours before anyone came to investigate – much less turn it off. One of those times this was triggered by smoke coming from the kitchen where someone had burned something. But only after several students called the after-hours emergency number did a staff member finally meander on over to see what it was all about. There was no ADT sending out an automatic call to the fire dept. The building could have been on fire and the alarm would have wailed in vain until someone actually called for help. (And would we then have to dial "O" for the operator and ask Sarah to connect us to the Sheriff's office like they did in the Andy Griffith show? I wonder!)
Although I am slowly adapting to campus life circa 1953, I have to admit that I miss KSU even more than I expected. I'm about ready to leave Pleasantville and get back to a 21st century University.