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We are all sinners, but some of us a little bit more. Take a look at which ladies are the naughtiest in the horoscope.
They are so naughty that male representatives of the same signs can't even compete with them:
Unless by some miracle partner manages to keep pace with the crazy rhythm of life of wild women Aries, she rarely remains sexually faithful. No matter how much she loved you, in her heart there's always love for a good hunk on the side.
On one hand, she generally can't function when she's not in love, and on the other –she quickly gets bored with each of her lovers. She loves passionately and lives each day as if it were the last. It is also her life motto.
See also: WE ASKED: DO YOU THINK LOW OF THE GIRLS WHO MAKE THE FIRST MOVE?
Woman Aries is a man wife. She is a born hunter. Flirting and seducing is what she does best in the world. It's sort of a hobby for her. When a man falls in front of her, she simply walks over him and goes further to look for a bigger challenge.
Because in her soul she is a great adventurer...
To her sexy adventure is the spice of life. It's amazing how easy this girl can jump from guy to guy, without getting tired. In the morning, she indulges into a wild passion with a mysterious stranger, and in the afternoon she's a warm support and comfort to her husband. And in all that she gives herself ... well almost completely.
She has at least two faces and two souls, so why not have two guys!? ... Or more. One for rough play, the other for gentle lovemaking, the third to talk to, the fourth to think that he's got the most modest woman in the world ... and so on. And everyone is happy.
Nobody ever knew how many lovers a woman Gemini actually has, and probably never will.
See also: HOROSCOPE AND LOVE KARMA: SATURN AND PLUTO ON ONE AND VENUS AND MOON ON THE OTHER SIDE, ARE THE MAIN 'CULPRITS' WHEN SOMEONE ENTERS OUR LIFE
This woman is a true slave of love. To her sex is more than a physical experience. For her, it is a kind of meditation and ecstasy ... all in one. To the man she always gives the whole heart and every part of the body. With her there are no restricted areas, everything you see is available.
However, her heart is deceitful, and in the blink of an eye, she becomes completely cold instantly just like when she became hot. That's when she's looking for a new opportunity and rushes towards him as if he's the first men she's ever loved.
She doesn't know what civil morality is and doesn't understand sexual restrictions that society imposes. Out of all sinners in the horoscope, Pisces woman are the most sincere in their sinfulness. She has the soul of a curious child in the body of the voloptuous goddess of sensual indulgence. So she doesn't understand all these restrictions.
That's why all her ties and relationships are deeply passionate, complicated, but also incredibly honest.


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Below is a list of contacts for various services in your region
Australian Apprenticeships Centres are now Australian Apprenticeship Support Network locations.
MEGT (Australia) Ltd, trading as MEGT, is an Apprenticeship Network Provider contracted by the Australian Government as represented by the Department of Education and Training to provide Australian Apprenticeship Support Network (AASN) services to employers and Australian Apprentices. MEGT is one of eleven Apprenticeship Network Providers throughout Australia. This website does not represent the Australian Government. If you wish to access information about Australian Apprenticeships from the Australian Government, please visit https://www.australianapprenticeships.gov.au.
Australian Apprenticeships Incentives Programme Guidelines and associated appendices may be viewed on the Department of Education and Training website.
Australian Apprenticeship Network Providers are an Australian Government funded initiative.


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Like a cyclone ranger
The Portland City Hall Green Tweet Brigade is pretty funny. In their RSS feed last night, they linked to two New York Times stories that noted that post-tsunami, Japanese consumers are buying more bicycles and electric cars than before. Deep down, they seem jealous! It's almost as if they're just praying for a devastating earthquake here, so that their odd vision of how we should all live can become a reality.
We recall Earl Blumenauer's remark years ago that the Marquam Bridge was "just one major earthquake away" from collapse. He seemed to relish the prospect.
The bicycles make some sense, but people in Japan who are buying electric anything don't seem too swift. Without new nukes, they're going to be browned out, permanently.


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DS ControlPoint connects to the DSSRV DIACAP server but all IP cameras have a red slash. This is caused but the Windows Firewall having the DS Video Server Service being disabled.
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Pelco Video Management
- DSSRV2 DIACAP v7.7.309
- IP cameras only
Network connection was set as Unidentified network causing the Windows Firewall to block incoming connections to the DS Video Server Service.
You can try to add/remove the default gateway for that Local Area Connection. If this does not bring up live video follow procedure below.
Go to Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > double click Local Security Policy, click Yes to User Acess Control window.
Click the arrow for Windows Firewall with Advanced Security > Windows Firewall with Advanced Security - Local Group Policy Object > Click on Inbound Rules
Right click on DSVideoServerService and select Enable Rule
Right click on Windows Firewall with Advanced Security - Local Group Policy Object click Properties
Verify that Domain Profile, Private Profile and Public Profile are set to Allow for Inbound connections, then hit ok.
Close all Windows and restart the DigitalSENTRY Video Server Service or restart the DSSRV2.
Verify you have live and playback video.
Note: Another work around would be to check RTSP Tunneling in DS Admin Under Edit IP Camera Settings


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This article is part of a 13-question interview about American society that Jaime Ortega, president of "The Daily Journalist" conducted with me by submitting questions in writing. The essays with the first 11 questions are published below.
12. Jaime Ortega: If a third party ascends to power is it doomed to be become an autocratic conundrum since problems cannot be resolved with democracy alone shown by liberals and conservatives? Is the US destined to become a dictatorship if things started to crumble within the pillars of its own society?
JVK: There are those, including former president Jimmy Carter, warning that the US is not a democracy because of "big money" dominance in elections. Others point to the US "surveillance state", curtailing on human rights and civil rights in the name of national security, increased reliance on military solutions to overseas crises and a militarized state that subordinates democracy to national security. A country can be engaged in all of those things and have a government ranging from Fascist to social-democratic. The American reality is not as simple as many critics dismiss it and it is important to consider the sources of anti-democratic aspects in a society that was founded not on political, social and economic equality for that would socialism, but equality of "opportunity" to become integrated into the bourgeois mainstream for the white male population that dominated institutions at the end of the 18th century.
On the one hand, the US has aspects that include police-state methods used both in Guantanamo prisoners as well as blacks in Homan Square detention facility in Chicago, both violating human rights and civil rights according to US laws and international conventions. On the other hand, the US is a society where there is legalization of gay marriage and marijuana, free speech and freedom of petition and dissent. In other words, the categorical labeling of the US as authoritarian runs into trouble considering that in many domains the US remains committed to certain fundamental freedoms and it cannot possibly compare to Fascist Italy in the 1930s, or South Africa before Nelson Mandela.
Categorizing American society becomes complicated and very complex behind the veneer of existing freedoms and rights of citizens, even as stipulated in the Bill of Rights and Supreme Court decisions handed down through the decades. In the absence of economic freedom all other freedoms are necessarily limited as much in the US as in any other part of the world, more or less democratic than the US. The large question is the degree to which sovereignty rests with the majority of the people rather than with a small rich minority enjoying control of mainstream institutions. If indeed sovereignty rests with the majority and there are empirical indicators pointing to it, then critics of America as undemocratic are wrong. If the US is a "corporatocracy", then critics may be correct.
Corporatocracy is rule by corporations, or at least preeminent influence of corporations in all aspects of society from government to health and education, thus obviating the role of the people as sovereign under what they understand their role in the social contract. This phenomenon is not limited to the US, but it is prevalent in many countries considering we live in a world of multinational corporate domination that international financial institutions like the IMF, World Bank and others support to remain dominant. The neo-corporatist phenomenon that has taken hold under contemporary capitalism projects the image of democracy because it maintains certain rights of citizens while dominating the key institutions from government and media to health and education.
The existing American political structure operating within the neo-corporatist model is set up so that it only permits for a two-party system that the entire institutional system supports explicitly or implicitly. The political, economic, and cultural elites are an integral part of the two-party system that starts from local politics all the way to the national level. The Liberal-Conservative duality in American politics is not nearly as heterogeneous as the politicians present it. Both major political parties represent the same institutional neo-corporatist structure and both work within a given framework. As domestic and international conditions may change, the political parties make policy changes toward the right on economic and foreign policy, and adjustments on the left when it comes to social-cultural issues such as gay marriage and marijuana laws. This provides people with the illusion that "democracy works".
A third party coming along would need a popular base, a constituency that is crying out for structural reforms as was the case in 1932 when Roosevelt ran on a reformist platform amid the Great Depression that would in essence strengthen the central government and absorb surplus capital from the private sector to use for the state to stimulate growth and development. FDR did all of this within the confines of the Democratic Party and as an extension of the Progressive Era Democrat policies that Wilson has started. Instead of creating a third party, he absorbed the leftists into his own party.
In today's corporatocracy world, the only way that a third political party would receive a wide appeal and not encounter nearly as much opposition from entrenched political and socioeconomic elites and media is if "objective" societal conditions are such that the third party is then able to overcome such obstacles.
The scenarios under which a third political party could emerge are as follows: 1. Left-leaning progressive party that tries to restructure society on the model of social democracy not much different than FDR but reflecting contemporary conditions; and 2. Extreme rightwing that could conceivably result in an outright authoritarian government. Considering the US resorts to police-state methods justified in the name of law and order and counter-terrorism, the rightwing scenario would not be far from today's realities; and Both a left-wing and a rightwing political parties challenging the mainstream and reflecting the socioeconomic polarization of society as the rich-poor gap widens and the middle class becomes weaker results in one-party neo-corporatist state under "national emergency" conditions. This would be a form of authoritarianism and unlikely to emerge except under extreme conditions of sociopolitical polarization tasking place against the background of foreign crisis or crises.
The scenario of authoritarianism that took place in interwar Europe not just Italy and Germany experiencing a crisis of their mainstream bourgeois political parties amid very deep economic crisis, but all of Europe from Spain and Portugal to Eastern Europe during the 1930s. While the US does not have a tradition of Fascism, it does have a very long history of rightwing politics based on racism, xenophobia, anti-Communism, Islamophobia, religious fanaticism, and above all militarism and police-state methods, all of which are elements that a third political party could combine to mobilize sufficient popular support to take over local and state government positions initially, and eventually national government.
Public opinion polls indicate that the percentage of citizens that have confidence in their government is relative low in the mid-30s vs. the number angry at their government in the low 70s. These public opinion polls do not reveal whether these disgruntled citizens would support and left-leaning or a rightwing government under certain conditions, but they reveal the absence of support for the "middle-of-the-road" politics under neo-corporatism. There are many reasons why people are at best apathetic to angry with their government, but this is fertile territory for a populist rightwing political party trying to mobilize this segment into a coherent political force, backed by a segment of the business community, churches, and other segments in society.
The scenario of a third party rooted in rightwing politics is much more likely in America because a segment of the mainstream Republicans are already there ideologically as is a large segment of the media and businesses and a segment of churches and educational institutions dependent on the generosity of conservative benefactors. One ought not to jump to conclusions that all capital favors rightwing politics, just because it favors perpetuating its role in society. Capitalism is indeed unified in its goals but capitalists are at odds with each other. This makes the argument about what kind of regime would emerge in the future more difficult because there were capitalists who vehemently fought against FDR as there were others who went along with him, just as they had done with previous presidents in the Progressive Era. Capital under the neo-corporatist model has common interests but that does not necessarily mean that it has a common strategy of how to achieve its goals.
While a leftwing orientation is indeed a leap of faith, it would hardly be a leap of faith for America to go from the current status quo to an outright of authoritarian system that would of course continue to claim it is "democratic". Such a system would be needed to impose social conformity of the masses to an economic system that would benefit fewer and fewer people and an institutional structure that would be largely for the economically-privileged in society. Again, there are those who argue this is where America is today, but this is a stretch at this point despite strong evidence favoring the thesis. However, if neo-corporatism continues under neoliberal policies and the corporate welfare state and militarism, then America will have some form of authoritarian government and this may come from within the ranks of the Republican Party as a third party alternative.
13. Jaime Ortega: Where do you see the US in the next 10 years?
JVK: People judge the future on the basis of the present. Their predictions are really revealing about what they see today. Besides examining the past, there are empirical indicators pointing to changes in the next ten years. As a larger percentage of Americans will be older – 16-18% as compared with 13% today – and as the white population will decline while the Hispanic population will increase, society will be demographically different in ten years and very different in 30 years when the convergence of demographic, economic and political changes will result in a new society trying to assert its identity based on its legacy rather than future prospects. According to public opinion polls, Americans are not optimistic about where the country will be in ten years, with about an equal number indicating it will be worse off as better off. This is not to say that European feel much better about their future, especially considering the uncertainty of integration, the reality that Germany has imposed its hegemony over the rest, and the prospect that China and Russia pose a threat to their historic political, economic, and strategic preeminence in the world.
Most Americans believe that the growing sociopolitical division will continue to grow for a number of reasons. College education will not be affordable for the majority that has been experiencing downward social mobility and will not improve in ten years. The economy will not be as good as it once was to lift the majority toward the middle class as was the case after WWII. Just one-fifth of Americans are confident their children will have good employment opportunities and 80% are pessimistic as they expect the rich-poor gap to increase and the top income earners to dominate politics. As the media and most analysts are constantly reinforcing the idea that China will replace the US as the world's superpower, this is also reflected among the majority of Americans who do not believe the US will perform as well in ten years because it is a superpower in steady decline.
While Americans see tangible evidence in daily life of the rich-poor gap and political divisions, they are convinced these will become sharper as the nation's global standing will decline.
They are optimistic that new technology will continue to improve as would biotech and pharmaceutical advancements but those would be expensive and affordable only by the rich. There is also a sense that heavy private and public borrowing of the last two decades will continue to put downward pressure on living standards. Thus, the prospects for raising living standards are also hindered by debt. Not surprisingly, there is more pessimism among whites than minorities because whites know demographic changes are rapid and will change society to their detriment. It is significant to stress that Hispanics are the most optimistic about their future in every respect, followed by blacks, because they too see demographic changes but to their advantage. Whether this actually becomes reality or the white majority mounts a racist/xenophobic political movement of major proportions remains to be seen.
There are aspects of the larger picture that public opinion polls miss. For example, the role of the US in ten years will depend to some extent on the rest of the world. The decline of Europe and Japan as a result of WWII necessarily meant the ascendancy of the US to world power status, although the foundations for such a role were established in the last quarter of the 19th century and during the Progressive Era. It is entirely possible that a political crisis in China and/or other major power sinks them into chaos and that lifts the US status, despite the incredible interdependence of the world economy. More likely, the rapid development of some countries, including Brazil, India, Russia, and Iran all siding in a bloc with China that will have much of Africa and Asia integrated, would entail a considerable weakening of the US in every respect. Capital is international and the US-China interdependence cuts both ways, but current trends indicate more in China's favor than the US.
It is possible that the world's population will reach nine billion in fifteen years and it will need an additional 50% more food than it does today to meet those needs. Expected to experience 10 to 15% percent population growth (as high as 350 million), the US, which was the breadbasket of the world from the late 19th to the late 20th century, will lose its preeminent status. All indications are the Russia will capture that position, as it will also become a major producer of minerals and energy.
One reason for the East-West struggle over Ukraine is that it could become well integrated with the West, and it could provide food security the West will need, although this is a prospect that does not look promising so far. Monsanto Corporation has already started working on genetically modified food production in Ukraine as a backdoor to penetrate the European market. Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) and Cargill have also been very prominent in Ukraine's primary sector of production.
With US government support, the IMF and World Bank are working in the Ukraine to make sure it moves toward greater integration with the West to provide US multinational corporations the opportunity to dominate key markets through which companies will remain dominant in Europe. The Ukraine-type struggle for commodities markets will continue in the next ten years. However, the price the US will pay for this kind of intervention is more reliance on overt and covert military solutions to regional crises it creates and greater drain of the US economy.
It is possible that the combination of the US energy independence and new technologies could provide an impetus for the economy, only if the state acts to absorb the surplus capital from the top 10% of income earners to invest and develop human capital and human security as I have stated above in relation to another topic. New scientific and technological advances will do absolutely nothing except cause more problems than they solve for society at large. America will remain in a mode of expansion that further concentrates capital and expansion that further weakens the middle class and the national economy. In other words, the expansionary cycles will not result in income distribution toward the middle and lower classes because the FED steps in to raise rates and slow down the economy that is overheating (inflationary), thus keeping structural unemployment high.
I hope that America in 2025 will not have a repeat of 1925 when everything seemed just great but the Great Depression was around the corner because serious structural problems in the banking system, Wall Street speculation without any government regulation, and the government's role in the economy leaving business unchecked as they demanded so they could make greater profits. The social structure in America a decade from now will be about the same with even lower living standards for the bottom two-thirds of society and even greater capital concentration, given current trends.
I am also cautious that in the next ten years there will not be a repeat of the deep recession of 2008, which was cyclical but helped along by banking deregulation amid a trillion-dollar war-bill from Iraq and Afghanistan. Having lost its preeminent global economic status, the US will continue to use its military might as political and economic leverage through alliances and bloc trade agreements that could trigger conflict at the regional level. Looking at current international relations, the future looks promising for creation of economic blocs that will both cooperate and compete with each other and may even clash.
Though in a diminished form, the US will maintain its global power status and it will continue to have one of the world's top 20 living standards for its population. However, the expectation that Pax Americana will once again experience its glory days of the early Cold War is only real in the defense sector where American politicians will be focused as the country will experience what some scholars view as a "Third World effect" within the country. This is to say that conditions similar to those in underdeveloped nations will dominate in pockets of American society as the political class – Democrats and Republicans – will refuse to use the fiscal structure to absorb surplus capital to centralize government in the manner that FDR did so that there are not three America's - one for the top richest ten percent, the other of about 20-25 percent making up the middle class, and the majority trying to make ends meet or hovering near or below the poverty line. There is no doubt that as housing, education and healthcare become more expensive, and as good paying jobs are limited to an ever shrinking percentage of the labor force, more people will live in substandard housing, excluded from good schools and hospitals, excluded from the American Dream.
Contrary to what many agnostics and atheists believe about religion playing a lesser role in the future, I am convinced it will play an even greater role, although different religions will reflect different views. Pope Francis is the most recent prominent leader to have joined the struggle for social justice, though from within the context of faith. "Men and women are sacrificed to the idols of profit and consumption: it is the 'culture of waste.' If a computer breaks it is a tragedy, but poverty, the needs and dramas of so many people end up being considered normal."
The views of religious leaders for social justice may converge with those of political and community leaders demanding not just reform within the system, but systemic change to overthrow the system. While I do not see even a slight chance of revolution in America in the next ten years, I do expect the increased socioeconomic gap and political alienation of the majority to present fertile ground for a grassroots movement that could rely on a variety of voices of authority, including those of the Catholic Church and others that have historically been the pillars of the status quo.
There will also be a sharp rise in convergence of rightwing political elements, business people, and Christian extremists. This is something that has deep roots in American society. The US war on terror combined with Islamophobia that the media, Hollywood, talk-radio, and politicians have been propagating religious rightwing activity is likely to rise as people seek answers for calamities in society from those presenting themselves closer to God, the flag and Wall Street. Religious violence is also a possibility in isolated incidents. More likely is the prospect that Republicans will continue to co-opt the religious right to justify the combination of militarism as a solution to foreign policy problems and neoliberal and corporate welfare as solutions to the economy. The polarization of America will be a major issue and the challenge will be to forge consensus somewhere in the middle, which will be more of the same without any solution to ending downward socioeconomic mobility. The result will be a direction to the right more than it will be to the democratic center and this means toward greater authoritarianism that will serve to protect the privileged status of the wealthy and maintain American military preeminence.


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If you eat chicken from Tyson Foods—which supplies McDonald's, KFC, Chick-fil-A and more—you may be supporting some of the most sickening animal abuse imaginable.
Chicken is by far the most popular meat in the United States. In 2010, chicken overtook beef as the country's most-consumed meat. The chicken industry predicts that this appetite will only grow. America is on track to consume 91.5 pounds of chicken per capita this year, an increase from 90 pounds in 2015. By 2017, Americans will be eating 93 pounds of chicken per capita—more than double the amount we ate 40 years ago.
However, there are major problems with America's favorite meat. About 99 percent of chickens raised for meat in the United States are raised in factory farms. Slaughtering the 9 billion broiler chickens America ate last year is a labor- and resource-intensive process that takes a massive toll not just on the environment, but on the workers who raise and process these animals for you to eat.
But before going into that, let's look at the short and brutal life of a factory-farmed chicken.
Sickening animal abuse
"Chickens are arguably the most abused animals on the planet," Sarah Von Alt, a communications specialist at Mercy for Animals, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit animal advocacy group, told AlterNet.
Whereas the life expectancy of a backyard chicken can be between 10 to 15 years, a broiler chicken lives for about 40 days. Chickens are social, intelligent creatures, capable of forming emotional bonds, but today's broiler chickens are purposely bred into meat-producing machines.
Von Alt described how a broiler chicken's unnaturally rapid growth rates causes incredible suffering as they are crippled and rendered immobile from their own weight. This leaves them in constant pain and many die of organ failure. Antibiotics are used to keep them growing in filthy and stressful conditions that would otherwise kill them very quickly.


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Sundance debuts 'stoked,' a legendary crash and burn
February 19, 2003
'Stoked: the rise and fall of Gator' follows skateboard-legend-turned-murderer Mark 'Gator' Rogowski's grisly but true urban legend. This is not another upbeat film like 'Dogtown,' praising the skating genre. It's a murder story, told by the murderer himself, a psychological investigation into a man's complete submission to the dark side of fame.
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The weekend before last I upgraded my main Hyper-V server at home to the Windows Server "8" beta. As part of this process, I need to update the Integration Services in each of the virtual machines. This reminded me of some of the minor, but quite helpful, tweaks that we have made to this process.
In the past, if you tried to update the integration services on a virtual machine, we would let you know that we had detected that you already had integration services installed and we would then update them (which involves rebooting the virtual machine to load the new drivers). The only problem was that we did not check the currently installed version number. So even if you were already up-to-date we would still happily "update" the integration services and reboot the virtual machine.
This has frustrated me on a number of occasions – especially if I get distracted in the middle of updating a bunch of virtual machines and cannot remember where I am.
But this is all better in Windows Server "8".
First – we now let you know the version number of the integration services that are currently installed before we offer to update them:
Second – we detect if you are up-to-date and stop the process then and there:
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Land of the Dead: Road to Fiddler's Green (Windows)
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DescriptionLand of the Dead: Road to Fiddler's Green is a FPS prequel to the 2005 George A. Romero film. It is also the first game based on a George A. Romero property.
You are Jack, a hick farmer who wakes up to find a stranger on his property. The stranger is a zombie, the first of many he encounters in the game. Using whatever ranged and melee weapons he can find, Jack pummels the undead back to where they came from in the goriest fashion possible. He works his way through a number of typical Romero locales (50's style hospital, cornfields, abandoned police station, loading docks, etc) on his way to Mr. Kaufman's walled city. Once there, Mr. Kaufman asks Jack to help him clean up Fiddler's Green, a luxury condominium tower. This is where the game ends, and the movie picks things up.
Land of the Dead: Road to Fiddler's Green features an interesting limb specific damage system, meaning the player can literally blow the undead to pieces. It also features multiplayer over Xbox live, system link and Internet (PC). Up to eight players can enjoy deathmatch, team deathmatch, capture the flag and invasion modes with a twist - hungry zombies are coming after everyone!
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- "活死人之地" -- Chinese title (simplified)
- "Земля мертвых: Дорога к Фиддлерз Грин" -- Russian title
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- 3D Engine: UnrealEngine2
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- Inspiration: Horror movies
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- Theme: Zombies
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|50 out of 100
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Copy protectionUnlike most commercial games currently available, Land of the Dead: Road to Fiddler's Green installs fully on the PC and is playable without a CD-ROM in the drive. The manual even suggests (as a troubleshooting measure) copying the two CD-ROMs to a folder on the desktop and installing from the setup.exe file there, bypassing the disks.
DevelopmentLand of the Dead was originally developed as a singleplayer PC game called Day of the Zombie, which had a four month development cycle and was ready for October 2004 release. Day of the Zombie was shown to Universal Studios around the time the movie Land of the Dead was being filmed in Toronto, Canada (where Groove is headquartered) - this is how the license was secured. The game was ported to Xbox, multiplayer functionality was added and environments were added to tie the game to the movie.
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- Groove Game's Land of the Dead: Road to Fiddler's Green Site (Features news about the game's release, a guide to the game, and hosts support information.)
- Land of the Dead Movie Site (Official web site for the movie on which this game is based.)
- Land of the Dead: Road to Fiddler's Green Official Site (The official site for the game features news, screenshots, and other publicity material.)
nccs (289) added Land of the Dead: Road to Fiddler's Green (Windows) on Oct 30, 2005
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I have to confess that I have never been a fan of hot cross buns. When my family would eat them on Good Friday I would always pass. I just didn't like the taste of them but maybe that was because they were full of gluten.
Perhaps I would like them if they were gluten-free?
So with Good Friday upon us tomorrow I have found a few gluten-free (GF) hot cross bun recipes. The first one is from Coles. An alternative is this gluten-free and dairy free recipe. Fellow coeliac blogger, Adventurous Me, Gluten-Free offers another recipe as does Springhill Farm.
If I get lazy I might take the easy option and buy some Simple Wize ones sold at Coles. Alternatively Silly Yaks also has traditional and fruit-free hot cross buns, which you can order online, and Lifestyle Bakery sells its GF, HC buns at outlets across Australia.
Have a happy gluten-free Easter.
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
One a penny, two a penny, hot cross buns
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Thanks for the mention :) Have a wonderful EasterReplyDelete
You too Petra. Have just been down the shops and all the gluten-free hot cross buns have sold out so I might have to try the recipe on your blog. PS - your new blog looks great!ReplyDelete
Thanks :) How was your Easter? Did you end up making the Hot Cross Buns?ReplyDelete
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Oliver Flanagan Scholarship Application Available
Christy Rahrig on 01/18/2018
The Muskingum County Community Youth Foundation and Scholarship Central are pleased to announce that applications are being accepted electronically for the 2017-18 Oliver Flanagan Scholarship.
The Oliver Flanagan Scholarship Fund was established in March 2007 by Mary Flanagan, Oliver's widow. The purpose of the Fund is to assist worthy students with the purchase of college textbooks.
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Making cancer personal
The Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven is built around a new philosophy of patient care.
Ask to see the televisions in waiting rooms at the new Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven if you want to delight Abe Lopman, M.B.A., its executive director. He'll smile triumphantly and proclaim that there aren't any. "It always sends a message that you're going to be waiting for a while," he explained. Other cancer centers have found tropical fish to be much more popular with patients, so several patient waiting areas in the new hospital feature saltwater tanks the size of loveseats. Exotic fish create serpentine ribbons of color—a markedly different sensory experience from those of Judge Judy or Rachael Ray as people wait to be called for an appointment.
"You feel cared for and nurtured here," said Thomas J. Lynch Jr., M.D. '86, director of Yale Cancer Center (YCC) and Smilow's physician in chief. That feeling is engendered by everything from the artwork in the lobby to the trees and a stream in a rooftop garden.
It's a small thing, this preference for fish over televisions. But it's indicative of a larger principle: cancer care should focus on what the patient needs and wants. It should be personal. At 14 stories and 500,000 square feet, Yale-New Haven's new cancer hospital cost an estimated $467 million. Every floor boasts an arsenal of leading-edge technology. Yet that simple core principle of patient care is the new facility's true cornerstone. The ideal of personal cancer care shows in amenities intended to bring comfort to patients as well as in the building's very structure, designed to change the way medicine is practiced.
Bringing cancer teams together
Cancer care is by nature interdisciplinary; however, the physical distance between departments often made consultation a challenge. The traditional arrangement had physicians grouped by specialty, and patients traveled from the surgeon to the radiologist to the oncologist and hoped that their medical charts arrived ahead of them. Clinicians recognized that they needed to work collaboratively but often resorted to faxes and e-mails to do so. "It's always more difficult when the team members are not in one place and living and breathing these cases together," said Edward Chu, M.D., professor of medicine (medical oncology), and of pharmacology, and deputy director of YCC.
Now the patient will literally be at the center of care, with various disciplines housed together in suites that facilitate collaboration. The suites will be organized by the type of cancer treated there, and a multispecialty team is now mobilized to treat each patient. Before Smilow, cancer patients at Yale needed to visit as many as six different buildings to get their care, recalled Chu. It was inconvenient for patients—doubly so for the elderly or those exhausted from their treatments, he said.
The new building is designed to foster collaboration in New Haven and beyond, said Robert Udelsman, M.D., M.B.A., chair and the William H. Carmalt Professor of Surgery. Teams will have access to conference rooms where they can look at diagnostic-quality images on large screens and interact with specialists at distant sites. Prognoses are more favorable for patients whose treatment is overseen by physicians with specific expertise and access to the best scientific data, said Udelsman.
Smilow is also designed to accommodate patients who must travel to get their cancer care at the medical center. Nearby 2 Howe Street, also constructed as part of the project, will feature residential units for patients and their families. "We want to be a destination hospital," said Udelsman.
Waterfalls, fish, music, and coffee
The building had its grand opening on October 21, when donor Joel Smilow, a Yale College alumnus and the building's namesake, and his wife, Joan, were honored. The first therapeutic radiology patient was seen a few days later. Other operations will be moving into the building in carefully choreographed stages through the spring.
Patients typically enter for their first visit through the front door into a bright soaring space with a two-story waterfall, a café, a piano, and a large reception desk with staff who can look up a patient's schedule for the day and offer directions. Patients can also enter through 55 Park Street, which is connected to the Air Rights Garage. The building has a walkway that leads directly to Smilow's fourth floor. Yale-New Haven Hospital's laboratories will be housed in 55 Park, constructed as part of the project.
Reserved parking is available by the front door for patients in therapeutic radiology who must visit daily during treatment. They'll get treatment in the basement, but they will still enjoy the natural light that illuminates much of Smilow. A large skylight opening into the ground floor atrium brightens the reception area. Glass transoms above doors throughout the building add to the airy feel. Waiting areas have open spaces as well as private nooks to accommodate patient preferences. The cabinetry's light wood tones create a less institutional look.
This décor is a change from the existing Hunter Radiation Therapy Center, said Peter M. Glazer, M.D. '87, Ph.D. '87, HS '91, department chair and the Robert E. Hunter Professor of Therapeutic Radiology. The ambiance of Hunter is not bad, Glazer said, but Smilow is a definite upgrade aesthetically and practically. "We have very good equipment now and will have even better equipment at Smilow," he said. For example, a Novalis BrainLAB system will be installed, allowing stereotactic treatment—minimally invasive techniques guided by a three-dimensional coordinate system—for tumors of the spine and other locations. The move also offers the therapeutic radiology staff housed there the benefits of being on a single floor. As the department doubles the number of exam rooms, Glazer expects better patient flow.
The ground floor is home to the Women's Cancer Center for treatment of breast and gynecologic cancers. The center will also be the site of regular screening mammography. It is located across from a boutique selling wigs and other items for patients in treatment. The store will have a "Saks Fifth Avenue" feel to it, said Lopman.
New space for patients, more space for physicians
Smilow will increase imaging capacity for the Department of Diagnostic Radiology from five magnetic scanners to eight, including dedicated MRI machines in the Breast Center and in the operating room for MRI-guided surgery. Diagnostic radiology, like many departments involved in Smilow, however, will not move all its faculty and staff to the new building. "The logistics are challenging, but Smilow Cancer Hospital represents a wonderful growth opportunity for our department," said department Chair James A. Brink, M.D. But he noted that the radiologists had been practicing at varied locations already. The improvements offered at Smilow and the additional capacity in a department that sees more patients every year make the move "something we're very excited about," he said.
Smilow's operating rooms are unusually large. All equipment is ceiling-mounted and slides into place wherever the surgical team wants it. This mobility includes drop-down high-definition screens that allow a surgeon to refer to an imaging study. The ceiling-based system makes it easier for the team to move and allows the room to be rapidly cleaned, explained Lopman. According to Udelsman, when physicians being recruited to the Department of Surgery tour the new facility, they ask: "What do I have to do to practice here?"
Children will continue to receive inpatient care at Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital. A connecting walkway will give them access to a pediatric floor in Smilow for treatment.
For adults, the hospital offers inpatient rooms, all private. And yes, these rooms have televisions. Private rooms are better for infection control and make it easier for nurses to practice, said Lopman. Clinicians will be able to enter information on a bedside computer. The information will be available to every member of the team immediately. Each room has a sleeper sofa so that family members can stay overnight, and visiting hours never end at Smilow. "I've always been shocked by how we divorce the family from the patient at a time when they need their families more than anyone," said Lynch.
On the rooftop garden, water features filter out the noise of the city and make the spot a destination for quiet walks. The building is equipped with high-speed elevators, but many stairwells have glass exterior walls to make them an inviting alternative. "We're trying to encourage walking," said Lopman. It's an untraditional goal for a cancer center. But then Smilow doesn't intend to be a traditional cancer center. "It's built," he said, "to change the patient's experience." YM


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This new year is full of important centennials marking several events in which modern art burst upon the public.
This post was inspired by a radio special produced by WNYC here in New York.
On May 29, 1913, a ballet by the bright new star composer Igor Stravinsksy opened at the brand new Theatre Champs Elysee in Paris. Stravinsky and the Ballets Russe had a spectacularly successful debut with The Firebird in 1910, a huge hit with both critics and the public. Audiences eagerly bought tickets to Stravinsky's new ballet The Rite of Spring. This is what they saw after the curtain went up:
Here is the Joffrey Ballet's 1987 reconstruction of the original 1913 premier performance of The Rite of Spring.
Audiences used to Giselle and Swan Lake were horrified. Instead of music with the fluid easy transitions that they were used to, Stravinsky confronted them with shrieking dissonances and pounding driving repetitive rhythms. Nijinsky's choreography likewise disposed of the grace and fluidity of 19th century ballet for violent jerking motions and for clapping and stomping. The sets and costumes by Nikolai Roerich were definitely not the taffeta confections audiences were used to. Roerich intended them to be reconstructions (not evocations) of pre-Christian ancient Russia.
Some in the audience began loudly booing and shouting catcalls and insults. Others who wanted to see the ballet began shouting back at the hecklers. Rioting broke out in the audience. Supposedly, the noise was so loud that the dancers could not hear the orchestra and Nijinsky had to shout rhythm counts and cues to his dancers from backstage. The critics in the newspapers pounced and public morality scolds editorialized about license and decadence.
The impressario of the Ballets Russe, Segei Diaghilev, was delighted. There's nothing like scandal to drive ticket sales and to establish a reputation for avant-garde bravery. The ballet continued for 5 more performances in Paris before moving on to London and the Drury Lane Theater.
The dramatic premiere of the Rite of Spring was one of many such debuts in 1913 that shocked and outraged audiences. What was going on? Why was art, our refuge from chaos and disorder, turning upon us and throwing that very same chaos right back in our faces?
Arnold Schönberg found himself booed off a stage in Vienna in 1913 for works such as this:
Schönberg's work, like Stravinsky's at the time, was full of dissonances as he searched for new music forms to replace what he felt to be an exhausted 19th century Romanticism.
Audiences felt that they were being mocked and ridiculed by artists. Who did these composers think they were, charging ticket prices to hear something that sounded like cats fighting?
Looking at these things now at a distance of a century, it is hard for us to imagine the aura of scandal and fraud that surrounded all of these works of music and art. For us, they are the stuff of standard repertoire and text books. For people of the time, these works were shockingly decadent and offensive. A woman once stood up in the middle of a performance of chamber music by Ravel (which we would find quite unthreatening) and loudly demanded to know if this was the sort of music suitable for decent people and for children. Such reactions are unimaginable to us now. I don't know if this says a lot about audiences of the time, or about us jaded post-moderns who count Gangsta Rap and Quentin Tarantino movies among our ordinary daily entertainments.
We live in an age of technological change with the advent of digital technology and the internet. But the changes of our era are but high tech toys compared with the huge upheavals in daily life wrought by the advent of the internal combustion engine and electrification that 1913 saw. In 1903, the most common mode of transportation was still the horse. City streets were filled with carriages and wagons, all horse drawn. By 1913, city streets around the world were choked with automobile traffic. In 1903, electric lighting was still a novelty. By 1913, cities blazed with electric lights.
Science took off in radically new and incomprehensible directions. By 1913, the scientific accounts of space and time were at odds with centuries of received wisdom and with common sense. According to the new physics, space was no longer simply a void between objects, but was a kind of substance itself that could be bent, distorted, and even punctured by gravity. Space and time became inextricably bound up together. The time it took to cross a certain distance of space became part of that space. Einstein described matter and energy, for long considered two separate and unrelated things, to be interchangeable. In 1913, Max Planck was in the midst of his work on quantum theory which would later lead to quantum mechanics in which all the laws of physics and common sense would be completely suspended on the sub-atomic level.
The world of 1913 was filled with new and unprecedented experiences. People looked upon the world from vantage points no one had even imagined before, from speeding automobiles and soaring airplanes. "The world has changed less since the time of Jesus Christ than it has in the last thirty years," wrote Charles Peguy in 1913.
In 1913, the larger public got its first look at a form of painting which had been around for about 5 years, Cubism.
Man with a guitar? What man? What guitar? The title is telling me one thing, but what is this painting showing me? It doesn't make sense.
Actually, if you look carefully, you can begin to see a man in a top hat holding a guitar and sitting before an advertising poster.
Picasso loved puzzle pictures. He loved pictures with a double take where you see one thing, and then something else comes into view when you change perspective. Renaissance linear perspective composed the picture around the point of view of the person looking at the scene. Picasso noted that Renaissance perspective for the first time took account of the person looking at the picture, and he appreciated that. Except that Renaissance linear perspective assumes that the person looking at the picture is a passive recipient. Picasso wanted to make the viewer into an active participant in the picture, to make viewers work for it. Picasso noticed that a major aspect of modern life was its growing saturation of stimuli and increasing speed. The calm sense of resolution so valued by the classical aesthetic seemed to him no longer true to experience. The daily experience of modern life was anything but resolved and harmonious. It was the chaos and noise of speeding traffic and any number of things all competing for our attention. We make our way through it all by discerning patterns in a chaos of moving fragments. Picasso asked why shouldn't we value that chaos and disruption, that breakup of form that we all experience every day and incorporate it into art. Picasso, together with the artist George Braque invented Cubism which has nothing to do with cubes. It has everything to do with breaking apart the traditional perimeters of art; collapsing the distinction between the object and surrounding space, breaking apart contours, inverting mass and volume, creating something like a continuously changing stream of fragments out of which we begin to discern images.
Picasso organized all these shifting fragments around an ancient painter's device for transferring an image from one size to another, the square grid.
In classical art, the human figure is the central organizing principle of a picture. Picasso turns that on its head in this drawing of a female nude with her back turned to us. Her form is broken up and re-arranged on a grid, which itself is broken into fragments. Lines become no longer descriptive contours showing us an arm or a leg, but have their own reasons.
By 1913, other Cubist painters like Robert Delaunay began to take the Cubist breakup of form into the realm of abstraction. Cubism could somehow suggest the energies that passed between things, and could suggest larger cosmic forces.
It was the Italian Futurists who made Cubist form express the power and dynamism of modern urban and technological life, seen in this masterpiece by Giacomo Balla.
Balla expresses accelerating mechanical speed in this brilliant painting. Contrast that with this monument from 1907 to a pioneer of motorized speed, Anton Levassor.
In this monument we see the limitations of classical form with its concentration on the human form and human action in expressing unprecedented modern experiences. Levassor and the spectators are the focus of this monument. We also get the slightly ridiculous spectacle of a marble automobile. This was the very thing that the Futurists wanted to destroy.
The Futurists were not "alternative" anything. They were bomb-throwing revolutionaries. They wanted to destroy the whole legacy of ancient classicism so that a new world of technology could be born. The Futurists remind us that so much of Modern Art up until World War II was an art of great expectations. It was not about the present, but about an anticipated future.
The Futurists did the first performance art, "Futurist Evenings" in which the artists would try to break up the common sense narrative direction of music and theater, and compel people to face the chaotic reality of a new technological urban world. They would stage spectacles with competing brass bands playing two completely different tunes simultaneously. They would bring in noises from off the street, car horns, sirens, and even factory whistles.
The artists would sometimes deliberately shout insults at the audience trying to provoke them. Many a Futurist performance ended with the cops called.
We can get some glimpse into what these Futurist performances were like in this film by the artist Fernand Leger, a Cubist painter with close ties to the Futurists. The American composer George Antheil composed the score which uses a lot of the same noises that the Futurists incorporated into their performances.
What ordeals audiences had to endure in 1913!
Artists wanted to make art anything but a refuge. They wanted to provoke people, to shock people into letting the scales fall from their eyes and to embrace the banquet of new strange things laid out in front of them.
It was that very modern sense of great expectation that drove the first experiments with fully abstract painting around 1913.
In 1913, the Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky continued to make the abstract paintings that he pioneered in 1910. Kandinsky was an enthusiastic follower of Theosophy, especially its apocalyptic pronouncement that the present world of the material would be destroyed and replaced by the world of pure spirit. Theosophy proclaimed that fundamentally all the world's religions are one, that the eternal unchanging world of the spirit was at war with the ephemeral world of matter. Kandinsky, likewise, believed that all the arts, music, painting, poetry, etc. had a fundamental unity. He believed that it was his task as an artist to prepare people for this coming apocalypse and life in the new world of the spirit.
Kandinsky believed that abstract painting would save souls. It would save them by preparing them for life in a new world where the things by which we find our way in and make sense of the material world no longer existed. Kandinsky wanted to make an art that directly affected feeling without resort to any external references like imagery or narrative. He wanted to make art that would have as direct an impact on emotion as music. Indeed, he thought of his work in musical terms, of colors as notes on a scale that would somehow affect certain "nerve vibrations."
How to organize and make coherent paintings that had no imagery? How to do this without resort to the Cubist grid which Kandinsky thought confining and rooted in materialism? Kandinsky always warned about the danger of abstract painting reducing itself to decoration, to the patterns on a necktie. He knew that so much earlier abstract art was mostly pattern adorning something else from cups to domes. He wanted abstract art to have all the dramatic power and concentration of figurative painting. Instead of story telling and imagery, he let the counterpoint between lines and colors make their own drama.
In 1913, the Ukrainian artist Kazimir Malevich began making the very reductive abstract paintings for which he is famous.
Malevich did not exhibit this painting, or others like it, until 1915. When he did show it, he hung this painting in a place that would have a lot of meaning for a Russian audience, in the corner.
It doesn't look like a nude, and what would anyone be doing descending a staircase nude? Former President Theodore Roosevelt said that the painting looked like an explosion in a shingle mill, and it does look a little like an explosion in a shingle mill. He then went on to make dark comments about license and degeneracy in modern culture.
Marcel Duchamp was surprised and taken aback when he arrived in New York in 1913 to find himself already famous.
Later in 1913, Duchamp shocked the public even more with his next work of art, his first "readymade," the Bicycle Wheel.
In works like this, Duchamp made the still very startling claim that what makes a work of art is not any skill of hand, but the idea, the conception. Also, Duchamp carried to its logical extreme the desire to knock art off the pedestal that 19th century Victorian sensibility had put it on, a desire that began with Picasso and Cubists when they deliberately incorporated cheap house paints and old bits of newspaper and wallpaper in their works.
Frank Woolworth commissioned Cass Gilbert to design a "cathedral of commerce" that would be the tallest building in the city. Remarkably, Woolworth paid for the construction of this building entirely in cash, the only skyscraper financed without credit.
In form and size, this building would inspire the first wave of skyscraper building in New York that would culminate in the Empire State Building and Rockefeller Center.
The building's height and size caused quite a lot of anxiety among city planners and ordinary citizens. Visions of New York streets reduced to dark narrow canyons by similar buildings led to the creation of the 1916 Zoning Laws that required buildings to be stepped back above a certain level in order to let in light and air onto the street below.
A young Italian architect who had not built anything yet, Antonio Sant' Elia, began exhibiting some remarkable drawings around Europe in 1913 of fantastic urban visions of the future.
Sant' Elia was a member of the Futurist movement. He drew designs for imaginary cities without temples, palaces, monuments, or any kind of historical memory. They are built around imagined technology, usually having to do with transportation.
This drawing is Sant' Elia's conception of a combination railroad terminal and airport, 2 things never before imagined in combination until 1913.
Sant' Elia did not live long enough to realize any of these ideas in actual construction. These drawings would be around to inspire future architects, but even more so science fiction writers and illustrators. Like the best science fiction illustration, these are visions based on known technology. They are romantic visionary conceptions, as much as any celestial city imagined by William Blake.
A lot of people were imagining a coming apocalypse in 1913. Many were positively yearning for some kind of violent break with the present status quo. Everyone from Helena Blavatsky to Lenin to Theodore Roosevelt wanted some kind of purifying refiner's fire to purge Western Civilization of its accumulated corruption.
In 1913, an artist who mostly specialized in prints illustrating books and magazines, Ludwig Meidner, made an extraordinary series of apocalyptic paintings.
Unknown forces rend and explode, destroying a city without any explicit or implied promise of a new beginning.
Torn bodies lie scattered about the rubble in the foreground of this uncannily prophetic painting.
In the following year, 1914, the world really did end, though not in the way that anyone expected. No one, not Helena Blavatsky or Lenin or Theodore Roosevelt or Kandinsky or the Futurists, or Malevich or Meidner anticipated what began in August of that year.


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The world's healthiest herbs and spices include the following:
Basil – Fresh basil is a good source of vitamin A (called pro-vitamin A) through its concentration of carotenoids, such as beta-carotene, and helps protect against free-radical damage. It's also a good source of magnesium, iron, potassium, calcium, and vitamin C. Basil has anti-inflammatory effects and promotes cardiovascular health. Basil leaves are tastiest (and healthiest) when fresh and are a great addition to tomato-based dishes, in pesto, in Thai and Vietnamese foods, and in salads.
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Cayenne pepper – An excellent source of vitamin A, Cayenne pepper and Tabasco sauce can increase metabolism and fat-burning ability by up to 25 percent! It also contains capsaicin (also found in chili peppers and paprika), whose anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects may lower the risk of cancer, has pain-reducing effects, can help prevent ulcers, and clears mucus from your stuffed-up nose or congested lungs. Cayenne can be found dried and ground or fresh and finely chopped. It has a fiery hot flavor, so be sure to use it sparingly. The seeds provide most of the spicy heat, so remove them if you want to remove some of the spiciness. As with all hot peppers, be sure to wash your hands thoroughly after handling.
Chili Pepper, red – Red chili peppers are a good source of vitamin A, dietary fiber, vitamin C, potassium, and iron. Red chili peppers also contain capsaicin (also found in cayenne and paprika), whose anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects may lower the risk of cancer, has pain-reducing effects, can help prevent ulcers, and clears mucus from your stuffed-up nose or congested lungs. As with all hot peppers, be sure to wash your hands thoroughly after handling. Red chili peppers can be found dried and ground or fresh and finely chopped. It has a fiery hot flavor, so be sure to use it sparingly. The seeds provide most of the spicy heat, so remove them if you want to remove some of the spiciness. As with all hot peppers, be sure to wash your hands thoroughly after handling.
Cinnamon – Cinnamon is an excellent source of manganese and also has dietary fiber, iron, and calcium. Cinnamon is often used as an antidote for diarrhea and stomach upset as well as a metabolism booster. The essential oils found in cinnamon bark have anti-clotting, anti-microbial, and blood sugar controlling properties. Cinnamon is available in dried sticks or ground powder. Use it sweet dishes, desserts, stews, and curries.
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Cumin – Cumin has iron and manganese and promote healthy immune functions, good digestion, and may help prevent some forms of cancer. You can find cumin both ground and whole. Ground cumin is a tasty spice that easily blends well with many Middle Eastern, Latin American, and Spanish cuisines. It's also a great addition to soups and stews.
Dill – Dill has iron, manganese, and calcium. It may help protect against free-radical damage and has anti-bacterial properties. You can find dill fresh, you can also get dill seeds and ground dill. Dill is a great addition to dips, soups, potatoes, breads, salads, and sauces. Dill seed is used pickling and to make dill-flavored vinegar.
Fennel – Fennel bulb is considered a vegetable, but the leaves can be used as an herb. Raw fennel is a good source of vitamin C, dietary fiber, potassium, manganese, folate, phosphorus, calcium, magnesium, iron, copper, and vitamin B3 (niacin). Its an antioxidant and has anti-inflammatory properties. It may also help prevent cancer. You can find fennel leaves fresh or ground. Fresh fennel is a tasty addition to salads and vegetable dishes. Ground fennel can be used in soups or stews.
Garlic – Regular consumption of garlic can decrease blood pressure and cholesterol levels. It also aids digestion and prevents flatulence. Recent research shows garlic to be beneficial in the treatment of diabetes. It also destroys cancer cells and may disrupt the metabolism of tumor cells, says Karen Collins, RD, nutrition advisor to the American Institute for Cancer Research. "Studies suggest that one or two cloves weekly provide cancer-protective benefits." Garlic has manganese, vitamin B6 (pyridoxine), vitamin C, selenium, calcium, phosphorus, vitamin B1 (thiamin), copper, and protein. You can find garlic fresh, canned, granulated, and ground. Garlic has a distinctive taste and is great flavoring for pasta sauces and marinades.
Ginger – Ginger is a root and has potassium, magnesium, copper, manganese, and vitamin B6 (pyridoxine). Ginger speeds metabolic rate, plus it inhibits nausea and vomiting often caused by morning sickness or motion sickness. Ginger can also hinder blood clotting, so if you're about to have surgery or are taking blood thinners or aspirin, be sure to talk to your doctor first. Ginger is available in root form or ground. Ginger is commonly used in cakes, breads, cookies, and many Asian dishes.
Mustard seeds – Mustard seeds are a stimulant that can be used to relieve respiratory complaints and has shown anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer properties. Mustard seeds have selenium, omega-3 fatty acids, phosphorus, manganese, magnesium, dietary fiber, iron, calcium, protein, vitamin B3 (niacin), and zinc. You can find brown and yellow mustard seeds whole and ground. Brown mustard is commonly used pickling, as a seasoning, and in preparing Oriental mustard sauces. Yellow mustard, is primary ingredient in American-style prepared mustard.
Oregano – A USDA study found that, gram for gram, oregano has the highest antioxidant activity of 27 fresh culinary herbs. Oregano is also great for food preservation. According to Catherine Donnelly, Ph.D., professor of nutrition and food science at the University of Vermont, "Oregano is one of the best bacteria killers" because its phenols, a type of antioxidant, destroy the cell membranes of bacteria. Oregano has vitamin K, manganese, iron, dietary fiber, omega-3 fatty acids, calcium, vitamin A, and vitamin C. You can find oregano fresh, ground, or chopped. Oregano can be found fresh, dried, and ground. Oregano is a popular addition Italian dishes, vegetable dishes, and soups.
Peppermint, fresh – Peppermint is used to treat gastric and digestive disorders, as well as tension and insomnia, and has anti-microbial properties. Peppermint is an excellent source of manganese, vitamin C and vitamin A (through its concentration of carotenoids, including beta-carotene). Fresh mint is a tasty addition to vegetable dishes and salads.
Rosemary – Rosemary may stop gene mutations leading to cancer and may help prevent damage to the blood vessels that raise heart attack risk. Rosemary also contains substances that are useful for stimulating the immune system, increasing circulation, and improving digestion. Rosemary has dietary fiber, iron, and calcium. Rosemary can be found fresh, dried, and ground. It's a common ingredient in many gourmet breads and Italian seasonings.
Sage – According to the June 2003 issue of Pharmacological Biochemical Behavior, sage is an outstanding memory enhancer. It also has antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. Sage has dietary fiber, vitamin A (carotenoid), calcium, and iron. Sage can be found fresh, dried, or ground and is a great addition to stuffings and warmer dishes.
Thyme – Thyme is an excellent source of vitamin K. It also has good amounts of iron, manganese, calcium, and dietary fiber. It's a wonderful antioxidant, and it's also been shown to have anti-microbial properties. Thyme can be found fresh, dried, or ground. It's a good addition to stews, bland soups, and as flavoring for green salads and vegetable dishes.
Turmeric – Turmeric is an antioxidant that neutralizes free radicals and therefore protects against cancer. Additionally, "…the compounds in turmeric have demonstrated antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and cholesterol-lowering properties—all thought to be involved in the onset of Alzheimer's disease," says Sally Frautschy, Ph.D., associate professor of medicine and neurology at UCLA. Turmeric has manganese, iron, vitamin B6 (pyridoxine), dietary fiber, and potassium. Ground turmeric is easy to find. Although it doesn't add much flavor, it makes a great all-natural food coloring, adding an appealing yellow-orange color to any dish. Turmeric is popular in curries and East Indian recipes. Turmeric is also a primary ingredient in American-style mustard.
Growing Your Own Herbs Indoors
Fresh herbs are incredibly healthy for you—but they can be very expensive to purchase. Fortunately, it's extremely easy, inexpensive, and fun to grow your own! Best of all, you don't even need to have a garden—most herbs can be easily grown indoors in a "container garden." Here's how.
What you need:
Herb plants (Purchase some of your favorite small herb plants from your local nursery. Choose herbs that don't grow too wide or tall. Basil, chives, dill, parsley, oregano, peppermint, rosemary, sage, and thyme are good choices. If you're patient, you can also try growing from seeds.)
Pots or containers (At least 6 – 12 inches deep. You can plant multiple herbs in a wide or long container or use at least a 6″ pot for individual plants.)
Potting Mix (You may want to choose a soilless potting mix to avoid soil-born diseases. Be sure the mix is light and will be well draining.)
Fertilizer (Make sure the fertilizer is labeled as being safe to use with edibles.)
Sunny window (Make sure you have a sunny windowsill where your herbs will survive. A south or southeast window would be perfect if it gets at least 5 hours of sun per day and is away from drafts. Fluorescent lights can be used if you don't have a sunny window. They will need to be placed close to the plants [18″] and kept on for about 10 hours/day.)
Plant your herbs:
- Put a 2 – 3 inch layer of potting mix into the bottom of each container.
- Position the herb plants in the container.
- Finish filling in with the potting mix, firming it gently around the plants. Leave about an inch at the top of the container for watering.
- Water sparingly. Herbs don't like to sit in wet soil!
- Feed once a month with a fertilizer labeled for use on edibles.
- Allow the plants some time to acclimate. Once you see new growth, you can start using your herbs.
- Snip and use your plants often to encourage them to grow full and bushy, but never trim more than 1/3 of the plant's foliage.
The information on this site is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. All content, including text, graphics, images and information, contained on or available through this web site is for general information purposes only.
Source: veghealthguide.com


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