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There's no reason to take your chances with your heart health when heart attacks and other diseases are easily preventable.
Not only that, but if you can get into the habit of these healthy life hacks, your general health will increase drastically.
These are habits that several very healthy people have adopted. They may seem simple, but including these in your daily routine can be the key to lengthening your life span.
We've assembled a list of 12 easy things to keep your heart safe and beating proudly.
Healthy life hacks to prevent a heart attack
Ready to combat heart attack with some healthy life hacks? We've got 12 of the best right here for you.
Get enough sleep
Sometimes it seems like all of our problems can be solved with a good night's sleep. That would be easy – if we could get it, right?
The facts are out there, and they're pretty brutal: about 1/3 of Americans don't get enough sleep on a nightly basis. That's coming to you straight from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
Sleep can help alleviate many health concerns. If you don't get enough sleep, your body will go into overdrive with stress hormones.
This raises your blood pressure and blood sugar while simultaneously lowering your good cholesterol.
So how much sleep should you be getting to stave off any heart conditions or disease in general? Aim for about 7 to 8 hours per night.
Get zen
A great way to keep any potential heart conditions at bay is to start with the brain.
It sounds counterintuitive. How can your brain – your mindset, specifically – influence your heart? It's not like you can just will your heart to beat at a regular rate.
However, taking some time to calm down and lower your anxieties has the benefit of lowering your stress hormones.
If you take the time to meditate every day (only for about 10 minutes or so), you can significantly decrease your risk for heart attack. It's quick, it's easy, and it's a great healthy life hack.
There's a huge focus in this day and age about eating right and being healthy and kicking any and all junk food and sugar out of your diet. For starters, that's definitely not a bad way to go.
However, one of the best healthy life hacks is to let yourself indulge now and then. Keep in mind that this is referring to something specific: dark chocolate.
Dark chocolate is packed with flavonoids. These are nutrients and antioxidants. While they're found in fruits and vegetables, dark chocolate is also a great way to get them.
These flavonoids can help improve blood flow to the brain and heart. They can also lower blood pressure and reduce your risk of blood clots.
It's important to keep in mind that you want to find a dark chocolate without a ton of processed sugar. You'll want to keep it around 70% cocoa – and to one square.
Avoid midnight snacks
This may seem nonsensical. We just told you to indulge in some chocolate, and now we're telling you not to eat it at the best time.
However, there is some supporting evidence that the time you eat may have an effect on your blood pressure.
If you eat dinner within two hours of going to sleep, there's a chance your blood pressure could increase. That puts you at a higher risk of a heart attack, particularly if you already have high blood pressure.
Keep in mind that this evidence isn't conclusive. However, spacing out your meals and the time you go to bed could make this one of the life-saving, healthy life hacks.
Be proactive
You need to care about your health in between your doctor visits. More importantly, you need to care about your health enough to actually go to your scheduled doctor visits.
An annual check-up can detect early on if there's anything going on with your heart. This means you can take the steps you need to get treatment.
Your doctor can put you on an aspirin regimen in order to keep your heart in working order.
Remember: you only get one body. There's nothing to be afraid of by going into the shop to get it checked up.
Brush your teeth
This one seems kind of dumb. Can you believe one of our healthy life hacks is to brush your teeth?
It seems simple, and it really is. You don't even have to adopt this into your habits: You're already brushing your teeth at least twice daily (hopefully!).
While this is based on a single study, the results were telling. Those who brushed their teeth with a certain toothpaste reduced their plaque by 49%. Inflammation in the body (including the heart) fell by 29%.
Keeping your dental health in check could help lower your risk of a heart attack.
Quit smoking
If you smoke, you probably see the writing on the wall everywhere. Smoking is dangerous. It's one of the worst things you could do to your body – legally.
A Swedish trial concluded that men who had never smoked or had quit 20 years before the study actually had their risk of heart attack lowered by 36%.
In the UK, a women's study showed that those who quit smoking by age 30 or 40 gained an extra 11 years on their lifespan.
Not only does it keep you from heart attacks, quitting smoking can reduce your risk of cancer and respiratory disease, so the research adds up.
Keep your diet clean
Just because dark chocolate is one of our healthy life hacks doesn't mean that you can eat it all the time. To keep your risk of heart attack at bay, you need to eat a healthy and nutritious diet.
This can also help prevent diabetes and cancer.
Just what should your diet look like? It needs to be full of fruits and vegetables. Remember those flavonoids we mentioned earlier? You won't be hurting for them if you revamp your diet correctly.
You want 5 servings of fresh fruits and vegetables every day – at least. Additionally, you want 4 servings of whole grains, 1 serving of reduced-fat dairy, and 2 servings of healthy fish per week.
Lose weight
If you follow that diet plan, there's a good chance you can lose weight – which is another one of our healthy life hacks!
Belly fat, in particular, is a big culprit that you want to get rid of.
Epidemiologists are showing that your waist-to-hip ratio and the circumference of your waist may be a better indicator of your health than your total weight.
What makes belly fat so insidious? It surrounds your vital organs, which makes it visceral fat.
Losing the belly fat can give you a 12% lower risk of heart attack than others.
Just one beer
Drinking alcohol in moderation can reduce your risk of heart disease, and that includes heart attacks and stroke.
That doesn't mean you should go crazy with decadence and hit the bottle every night. Once you start drinking more than 1 or 2 drinks per day, the benefits are outweighed by the negatives.
However, if you manage to consume your alcohol in moderation, you can reduce your risk of heart attack.
It may seem like a given that exercise can make for a healthy heart. Movement gets your blood pumping and it gets your heart rate up.
However, it's easy, and it's legitimate. That makes it one of our healthy life hacks.
Men who walk or cycle 40 minutes per day and do other exercises at least an hour a week may have a 3% lower chance of a heart attack.
Not only that, but exercise can help strengthen your bones and your muscles. It can also benefit your respiratory system and help ward off dementia.
Remember what we said about stress hormones increasing your risk for a heart attack? The more you exercise, the more stress relief you'll find.
Keep an eye on your blood pressure
It's entirely possible to check your blood pressure at home. The ease of it makes it one of our healthy life hacks to keep a heart attack at bay.
At-home monitors for your blood pressure are available, and they're pretty inexpensive. They're also user-friendly, even if you're not a fan of technology.
There are several resources available to help look up what your numbers ultimately mean. However, if you have any questions, your family doctor will likely be more than happy to answer them.
Your cardiovascular health is something that you absolutely don't want to play around with. We live in a time where life moves pretty fast. We're constantly surrounded by junk food and other unhealthy habits as the cheapest and easiest options.
However, it's important to take control of your life and your health. If you won't, then who will?
Do you have any healthy life hacks to boost your heart health? Any secret tips we can try to keep our lives happy and stress-free? Don't be afraid to drop us a line!


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3 tablespoons sliced black olives (omitted)
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Dandy was best known as the 2014 League of Legends World Champion as the Samsung Galaxy White's jungler. It was after this win that he decided to move on to Vici Gaming.
DanDy is leaving VG and we respect his decision and wish him all the best! We had amazing 2 years together!https://t.co/gBohv3e5In pic.twitter.com/lyfMoCfX43
— ViCi Gaming (@ViCi_Gaming) November 25, 2016
DanDy claimed earlier this year he was interested to join another team, while still on contract due to the team's recent poor performance. He mentions that he has
"been very stressed. The team atmosphere also hasn't been very good. This is why I thought that maybe I should take a break."
DanDy will remain playing professionally as there is yet to be talk about retirement and he is still fairly young.Many expect Dandy to return to Korea to play professionally. The level of experience and skill of Korean Gamers is quite high and it is possible that they might bond together to play in one team


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Friday, January 16, 2009
Pilot hailed for 'Hudson miracle'...
The pilot of an airliner that ditched in New York's Hudson River has been hailed a hero after all 155 passengers and crew were rescued. And you know what? It doesn't make me feel any safer about flying.
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'Now we have to become explorers of the nature we created and didn't know was there'
Alejandro Alvarez
Intern - Designer
Alejandro is a designer fascinated by the relationship between technology and nature. His work is inspired by evolution and devoted to serve to his community.
With nature as a model and guide he attempts to understand the complexity of the world in order to find problems, communicate ideas and visualize solutions. He has experience in design thinking, product and graphic design. In a world at risk, he is confident that technology is the key to save the future.
Posts by Alejandro Alvarez
A Panda Shaped Solar Plant
China recently built a panda shaped solar plant to get kids interested in green energy.
Plastic Beach
While this image seems like another polluted beach after spring break, it was taken on a remote uninhabited world heritage site in the Polynesia.


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This Chinese robot dentist completed its first ever operation without any human!
According to the developers, the technology has been created to help address a major shortage of dentists in China. The technology has been developed over the last four years by the Stomatological Hospital in Xian, which is linked to a medical university, and the robot institute at Beihang University, Beijing.


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Our nursery at Westcroft is situated in the Westcroft Retail District, which is in the south west corner of Milton Keynes. It is just a short distance from the A421, just off the V2 and H7 grid roads.
The nursery rooms are spacious and well equipped. The younger children, under 2, have their own room with a separate sleep area and milk kitchen. There are two separate rooms for the older age-groups, both with direct access to outside. In addition, we also have a sensory room.
The nursery has three outdoor play areas, giving children the opportunity to free-flow indoors and outdoors to access a full range of activities. Acorn places a strong emphasis on outdoor play and learning, and the children will be outdoors at some point every day, whatever the weather. Our pre-school children walk to Howe Park Wood for their Forest School sessions.
All the nursery meals are freshly prepared in our kitchen by our cook and we aim to provide nutritionally balanced meals which are both healthy and appetising. Acorn Childcare has achieved both the Smile Award Plus+ and the Healthy Early Years Award across all nurseries.
Children enjoy a range of activities that cover all areas of learning and most children make suitable progress because of this.- Ofsted report
Staff encourage children to make friends. They feel settled and secure because they play with staff and children that they know well.
The management team have a clear vision for improvements that they want to make to the nursery. There is an appropriate development plan in place to secure future improvements to outcomes for children.
All recommendations have been submitted through the independent website daynurseries.co.uk and are subject to the daynurseries.co.uk terms and conditions
Places: 80 – part and full time
Ages: 4 months to 4 years
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- Extensive outdoor play areas, shared with the school
- Woodland site at nearby Howe Park Wood
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Ensuring smooth operation and safety on the railways is often the most important consideration for many rail operators but sharing our environment with wildlife may not always be front of mind.
The railway can provide habitat to a number of species and there is great opportunity to creating positive biodiversity around the railway. But rail construction projects, maintenance on a rail depot or trains passing on an active rail line can also have a negative impact on a number of species. To limit this, there are a number of legal requirements in place which can lead to potential prosecution if these requirements are not fulfilled.


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Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor, Op. 18 | Part I
June 24th, 2010
Sergey Rachmaninov's celebrated 2nd piano concerto – a tale of fiery, heart-pulping music, staggering pianism, youthful self-absorption and…hypnotism? It's 1900 in Moscow. Find out how a man with a face like a gangster and fingers of tungsten composed one of the world's most adored piano pieces, along with the secret help of his therapist. In this first of three segments we take a look at why Rachmaninov's music affects us so deeply, and reach an obvious conclusion: never listen to critics…they can mess with your mojo.
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The Republican Party's revised health care bill is still facing sharp criticism from health care providers and experts, and one of the toughest criticisms is coming from Sister Carol Keehan, the president of the Catholic Health Association of the United States.
In a statement released about the GOP's revised health care bill, Keehan slammed the plan for ripping away protections from vulnerable patients with preexisting conditions.
"The recent amendments to the bill… are even more disastrous to people who have just gotten health care," she said. "Changing the current rules to undermine the essential benefits requirements and protections for people with preexisting conditions, as well as allowing insurers to set annual and lifetime caps on the care they cover, would seriously undermine health security."
She called out the GOP for not devoting nearly enough resources needed to make high-risk pools function, and she said the bill's real purpose is to serve as a massive transfer of wealth from sick people to the rich.
"It is not in any way a health care bill," she said. "It is legislation whose aim is to take significant funding allocated by Congress for health care for very low-income people and use that money for tax cuts for some of our wealthiest citizens."
She concluded by saying the bill is "a giant step backward that should be resisted."
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Sister Carol Keehan of the Catholic Health Association: Bill is "a giant step backward that should be resisted." pic.twitter.com/wB3oCuBYf8
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In the last year, the software or IT has been getting enough ingrained in our daily lives. We are utilizing it for everything, such as shopping, banking and reading our news. The need for software development talent is as high as never ever, and the field of what developers can do is large!
Here is my list of the main working that I think is changing the tech landscape in 2017!
- Artificial intelligence: The big tech companies, such as Google, Microsoft & Facebook, have been emitting their AI technology to be used by the people. Artificial intelligence is many times used by large applications, either to develop search engines, like in the case of Google or in Wikipedia's case to find inaccurate or damaged articles.
One such example is AI-driven software design. For example, if you log in for The Grid, your AI developer would ask you questions regarding your requirement, modeling and pre-programmed algorithms based, itself create aesthetic software for you. You can opt to update the project as many times as you need until you get it satisfied.
- Big Data: Big data analysis is utilized in various ways to solve troubles at the present time. For instance, police departments lessen crime devoid of blanketing the city through patrol cars, by pointing out likely crime hot spots at a provided point in time in accordance with real-time and historical data.
- Internet of Things (IoT): The internet of things is a process where the non-internet-connected objects are provided network connectivity in order to send & receive data. These objects can include from your toaster or kettle to sensors used in motors or sensors embedded in concrete used to detect cracks and weaknesses inside.
Software developers might not be directly involving themselves in the design of such devices. However, it is likely we will be associated with the development of apps that use, analyze and display the data of devices. Companies like as Xively and BugLabs have previously started working on APIs that could be utilized by developers to communicate with IoT devices.
However IoT brings a lot of chances for innovation, some focus has been raised, especially towards security. Actually, software developers will have interesting problems to face – helping to shield our fittings and furnishings from hackers.
- Business value dashboards: In the next few days, the majority of infrastructure, as well as operations teams, will utilize dashboards to have communication with the outer world. Govekar composed the analogy of the IT metrics vs. business-value dashboard to cruise ship boiler vs. cruise ship reviews calibration reports. They serve the varied kind of purposes.
Assess business value dashboards & complement it with IT staffers which speak the similar language like your business stakeholders.
Apart from the mentioned trends, there are so many things that are taken under use for high-tech software development. Samarpan Infotech is the best Software Development Company in India from where you can expect all the mentioned services.


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|My role
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|Nov 2015
|UX Project Director
Explore a UX vision for Liberty Global's MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) product and service offering.
We assessed the UX design of mobile providers across Europe – cataloguing what we felt was good and bad practice, along with a long list of user actions (based on what we could had been catered for).
Journey mapping workshops
We ran a series of stakeholder workshops to present the benchmarking and then to co-create some journey blueprints.
Exploration sprints
We conducted 4 x 2 week exploration sprints to create some visionary concept designs (constraining ourselves to what could be achieved within 3 years). Each sprint involved testing and iteration before incrementing our prototype to handle additional moments within the end-to-end customer journey.
Design principles
We drafted and honed a set of Mobile First design principles as part of the project, as a way of capturing the rationale that underpinned our design choices. These have since become a useful design tool in there own right across multiple projects.
Our principles and interaction designs have been applied within several subsequent projects throughout Europe. Based on our successes, an additional two projects were commissioned by Liberty Global, that followed the same methodology.
"I have had the pleasure to work with Andrew on a vision project for our mobile products. Andrew is a seasoned user experience professional with a true passion for what he is doing. He was able to understand our specific problematics and objectives very well, and came up with sets of suitable proposals. He provided excellent support throughout the project and delivered on time and fully in line with our expectations. I very much enjoyed his open personality and positive attitude which also made it a very pleasant collaboration."
Geoffroy Martinez – Product Manager Mobile Experience at Liberty Global (https://uk.linkedin.com/in/apgrimes)


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I know for many of you, your world is now brilliantly white and bitterly cold…that you're waiting expectantly for summer and wondering when winter will ever end.
For those of us on the West Coast, although it's not cold and snowy, it's dry and lifeless.
Brown, faded and withered.
There hasn't been any rain here for months, and nature is definitely thirsting and aching right now.
But this little succulent I found in my backyard was still as bright and cheery as ever.
You would hardly believe that it was winter from the looks of it.
Life continues and thrives. Hope glimmers.
"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer." – Albert Camus


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You receive a phone call from your child's school. The counselor on the other end requests an urgent meeting where you and your spouse learn your child has been bullying another student. Both of you are shocked and devastated. Are there signs you have missed; what can you do? Fortunately the school counselor chooses wise words encouraging you both to remain calm and focus on some suggestions.
1. Talking With Your Child
It is important to find out why your child finds it necessary to bully. To do that, explore how he or she is feeling about himself or herself. Has someone bullied them? Ask if any of their friends are bullying. In general, invite discussion about bullying.
2. Model Acceptable Behavior
Children need to be keenly aware that everyone has feelings and those feelings matter. In your home teach empathy, compassion, and respect. Children learn by example so make every effort to model gentleness and kindness. For example, one of the most difficult life lessons for kids to learn is sharing. Sharing itself is hard, but so are all the emotions involved both prior to, during, and afterwards. What a great opportunity to affirm a person's feelings. When a teen learns disappointing news or is involved in a car accident, he may experience anger, frustration, fear, or lack of self-worth. After you model empathetic responses, later go back and ask your student how he felt when you let him know your genuine concern. Also, choose entertainment that avoids sarcastic, put-down behavior or language. You can even discuss which programs your children enjoy and why.
3. Role Playing
Help your child understand what it's like to be the other person in a situation where bullying occurs. Role playing might be a good idea in this instance. Both parents and children can play parts, the bystander, the person doing the bullying, and the bullied. Make sure to talk over the various feelings incurred at all levels and what suggestions the child has for dealing with them, why they would or would not work.
4. Clear Expectations and Consequences
Communicate to your child that under no circumstances will you tolerate bullying; it is never acceptable. Be specific about the consequences. Find consequences that will be meaningful to the child so he/she will be certain you are quite serious. And by all means take immediate action if you learn he/she is part of a bullying incident.
While you are expecting great things of your bullying kid, remember your own responsibilities. When you notice your child handling conflict well, shows compassion for others, or finds any number of positive ways in dealing with feelings, deliver appropriate, encouraging praise and recognition. As you anticipate constructive behavior changes, do remember times will come when a reaction is not acceptable; when this occurs, focus on the behavior, not the person. Keep your love and support in the forefront. In time your child will respond in kind; he or she will then grow to love themselves once again.
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I love a great story, especially one that involves cupcakes. When I saw this cover, I knew I had to buy this book. After all, how bad can a book about a girl who bakes be bad, right? So when I finished Divergent, I needed something a little more light-hearted. I thought this was the perfect choice. I was wrong. This story deals with raw realities, but in a light-hearted way, and it was worth every page.
Bauer creates a coming-of-age tale through twelve-year-old Foster McFee, a young girl coping with two things: the loss of her father and the fact that she cannot read. These two elements add to the charm of Foster's character, and Bauer handles them with honesty.
The book opens with Foster and her mother being chased out of Memphis by none other than Elvis. Okay, he's really an Elvis impersonator who drives a yellow Cadillac and whose horn plays "Jailhouse Rock." And so Bauer's tale begins, and the reader is brought into the world of Foster, her hopes, her dreams, her baking. As a matter of fact, baking cupcakes literally saves her from an escaped convict.
This book is a great reminder that we all have a talent and a path in life, not just one that involves academics. In Foster's case, her talent involves baking. She uses it to forge relationships with everyone she meets.
This book deals with several raw realities: illiteracy, domestic violence, loss of a parent, a town going under, an escaped convict (but only for a coupe of pages). But this book is not a downer, no way. It also deals with family, friendship, hopes, dreams, perseverance, renewal of spirit.
When your heart is ready to break, that's the perfect time to bake.
This would be a great book for all tweens, but be warned: reading this book could end with never-ending baking. All I can think about right now is baking and eating the perfect cupcake.


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Now that the 2014 election is out of the way, it's time for the main event we've all been waiting for–the race for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination.
So often we hear status quo politicians sanctimoniously tell us "this is the most important election of my lifetime." And it is, for the maintaining of their particular status quo gravy train. However, sadly for the rest of us who do most of the living, dying, and paying in this country not so much.
But this time it counts.
We are no longer debating shades of public policy, but considering public policy that could radically determine the shape of things to come. From a liberty perspective, ours is a culture in the midst of an existential crisis. Our very way of life is at stake in this next election. Because I live in the first in the nation caucus state of Iowa and that gives me intimate access to the process, I'm already getting plenty of questions about who to support in the 2016 GOP presidential primary.
However, instead of giving you a name I want to give you a template.
The names change, and infallible people disappoint you, but if you establish a template first that helps remove the divisive emotion surrounding names and lets the cream rise to the top. I want us to nominate our best candidate worthy of championing American Exceptionalism on a national stage in 2016, regardless of what name they were given at birth. That means it's up to conservatives to establish a culture of meritocracy in this primary, so that the best man can eventually win.
I think the best idea for a template I've heard came from a friend of mine who works with conservative candidates and causes around the country. He compares finding the right Republican candidate to winning the ultimate prize on Wheel of Fortune.
If you get to the final round of Wheel of Fortune with a chance to solve the grand prize puzzle, certain letters are bestowed upon you as givens. These are automatics that are just assumed. Like every Republican claiming he's a conservative, whether or not he actually is (and our Liberty Scorecard says otherwise).
But the way to win the big prize on Wheel of Fortune is to put forth the right extras. Beyond the letters (i.e. talking points) they give you that everyone can spout, it's what you do on your own from there that determines if you're a champion.
As conservatives, let's just grant up front all these guys are going to tell us they're pro-life, pro-Second Amendment, pro-limited government, pro-family, and in favor of a sane pro-America foreign policy. They're all going to try and sound like constitutionalists leaving an 18th century meeting at Independence Hall. Therefore, it's up to us to make them come up with the extras that prove who really is a worthy champion.
I suggest the following four extras:
• Who does the best job of energizing our base. Despite what Karl Rove is telling you, all elections are turn out your base elections. Obama lost independents in almost every battleground state in 2012, but was still re-elected because he did a better job of turning out his base. Now Republicans can't win with just their base, but they can't win without it, either. If the nominee doesn't energize our base he spends the whole general election on defense, trying to triangulate between conservatives and the Democrats. That formula is a loser every time it's tried. A GOP nominee with an energized base is then freed up to effectively articulate to the rest of the country without conservatives (rightfully) fearing they're being abandoned.
• An ability and willingness to evangelize conservative principles. Allowing the Left to dominate academia and pop culture unchallenged is having generational consequences. We need someone who is able to use the national platform of a campaign to change hearts and minds, not play reactionary footsy with the public opinion polls. Who is the man capable of standing tall before America's political Mars Hill for such a time as this?
• A winsome, quick-witted communicator. The great evangelist D.L. Moody once said "when you're winsome you win some." Since the dawn of the modern television era in politics with the 1960 Nixon-Kennedy debate, a case could be made every presidential election has been won by the person who was most likable on television with one possible exception–Nixon-McGovern in 1972. Let's stop wringing our hands over this and just acknowledge human nature for what it is. People give you more time to sell them, and give you more grace after you do, if they like you. Furthermore, the way we communicate in this day and age is different. If you can't capture people's imagination in 140 characters or less on Twitter you've already lost the argument, regardless of whether or not your arguments are right. This is particularly important when you're battling someone who represents an emotion-based view on the other side. It's much simpler to emote in short bursts than reason. If the person in question isn't quick on their feet they won't win. Remember, when Moses complained to God that he wasn't a good speaker, God didn't tell him to go and stutter Pharaoh to death. Instead He sent along his brother Aaron, because he was the superior communicator.
• A doable, understandable plan to uproot the damage the Left has already done. Whenever elections are about issues the Republicans win, and whenever they're about personalities the Democrats win. Democrats will want to replay the paradigm of 2008 with race and Obama replaced by gender and Hillary. The only way to overcome that environment is to create a counter one, and you do that with an issue-based campaign that rallies people. The next GOP nominee needs a plan that takes the country in the opposite direction of where we're currently headed, but doesn't out-kick his coverage thus inviting demagoguery. That plan needs to be simple for the public to understand, and a plan that people can actually see being achievable so they can hold you accountable to it. This plan wouldn't necessarily be a touchdown but a first down. Touchdowns are tough when you're as backed up as we are now, so you start by focus on getting first downs to build momentum and start reversing the field position.
Now that the template is established, it's up to the candidates to determine for us who is the best man for the job. But I'll give you a hint.
Here's who it's not: Chris Christie, Jeb Bush, and Paul Ryan.
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Yet another gambling company is moving to the blockchain.
If you've just joined us, gambling operators have been turning to blockchain to provide the ultimate transparency and trust to their players. There's Cash Poker Pro for decentralized online poker, while esports and prediction has Herosphere.
Joining the group is another platform, but this time for online dicing.
Ethbet is the first decentralized gambling platform that lets players wager with no house edge in a peer-to-peer manner. Dicing sites have seen improvements in recent years, with many of them offering features such as provable fairness and lower house edges. Some sites even allow users to bet on the house by investing in its bankroll.
And with the advent of cryptocurrency, gambling platforms like Ethbet are also enabling players to cut out the middleman. The platform runs on the distributed server processing system ethereum blockchain and has no central authority or house, which means players play against each other. And because it is a smart contract, Ethbet does not require user registration or deposits, and the winnings are sent instantly to the players' wallets.
"Ethbet's role is to mediate bets," the company said in a Medium post. "One simple analogy is that Ethbet is like an exchange, except instead of users agreeing to trade an asset at a certain price, they are agreeing to gamble a certain asset with certain rules."
The start-up said dicing is the first game that will be fully completed on the platform, but Ethbet has the capability of offering other forms of betting as it matures.
Ethbet will kick off a token crowdsale on September 17, and will last for four weeks. The first day of the crowdsale will feature a 50% bonus in tokens to reward early investors, according to the company.
Investors will be given the power to vote on proposals to improve Ethbet as well as "on values such as what Ethbet's cut of its optional player-defined house edge should be or what future projects Ethbet should pursue, allowing them to steer the platform in the direction that is most profitable," the start-up said.


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MIDI Festival 2012
Lollapalooza is starting today in Chile, I need teleportation to happen soon.
Festivals are happy time concentrated, and extended along the days that the concerts last. The whole thing of a large crowd celebrating for hours together around music, happy people dancing around, talking with strangers forgetting the strange, enjoying great mystic moments with music, people walking from stage to stage, zone to zone, smiling, with colorful shiny auras, playing, it's all like a real, more fun — with a better soundtrack — edition than a trip to Narnia. Festival season is starting in our Republic. Let's start talking about them, with the biggest of them all. MIDI.
This year MIDI will be in Beijing on Haidian park, and in Shanghai on Century park. Shanghai's MIDI is on April 21st, and 22nd. Beijing's MIDI is from April 29th to May 1st. Shanghai's MIDI has an electronic stage again, sadly not produced by The Antidote this time.
Among the many challenges that MIDI has to battle one of the most important is to get enough sponsors to get all the bands they'd like to have. This is why we are not getting all the bands we'd like to have here. That might explain why all the local (Shanghainese) music in this edition of MIDI is not so well represented on the rock stage, the electronic stage is full of Shanghai though. Until now the only three Shanghainese bands confirmed on the rock line up are Yuguo, 空想家 (Dreamer), winner of a competition of bands organized by Zippo, and 大新鲜 (Da Fresh) , winners of the band competition organized by Tiger. There's still some time, and there are more bands that will be add to the line up on the next weeks.
I just talked with the "mischievous ghost of Rock In China", aka Yang Yu, about the most important bands in the line up of both MIDI, those that you should pay attention and not forget about, unless you are rolling around laughing on the grass with the love (or loves) of your life.
The wizardly advice from Yang says, in Shanghai… "Twisted Machine, Wang Yong should be very artistic, Hao Yun is Beijing urban folk, of course our two Danish metal bands The Kandidate, and Scarred By Beauty, and Muma is pretty cool". And in Beijing… "Larry's Pizza new school punk, S.A.W. hard core, metal, The Falling metal core. Multi-Ego, and NewTank, both cool young metalcore post hardcore bands. Slap a very interesting urban folk band, similar to Second Hand Rose. Saving Molly used to be good, not sure if they are still up to the heights. MiSanDao, and Residence A!"
I'll add to that, Ego Fall, and The Powder Powder in Beijing, and Da Fresh, and Brainfailure in Shanghai. And let's see what new bands are added to the line up.
Now, let's finish this standing up for evolution, because I can hear already in my mind the comments of the usual nonconformist dudes living in my neighborhood… we know, there is no Foo Fighters in the line up. Bummer, indeed. But we can choose, we can be unhappy and grumpy, or we can enjoy and have fun, I choose the half full of wine… This is the second year we have MIDI in Shanghai, and it is happening, we are way better than three years ago. Last year we had crazy fun in MIDI. And I really really want to be there for Muma, and to play rolling around on the grass, jump and yell to loud live rock, and dancing like a monkey by the electronic stage. MIDI is happening.
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Cristiano Ronaldo amused by doubts over his fitness after Manchester City clash
Cristiano Ronald was an injury doubt going into Real Madrid's Champions League semi-final clash against Manchester City but appears amused that people questioned his ability to recover in time.
The forward, who tweaked his hamstring against Villarreal in April, missed the first leg of the tie at the Bernabeu, which finished 0-0, and many were assuming he could in fact miss the second. However, speaking after the La Liga team's tight 1-0 win at the Etihad, the Portuguese international smirked, remarking that people seem to forget how quickly he can recover.
"I was good," he smiled.
"15 days and I didn't do much. I played today. People were doubting me, I don't know why. People forget that I recover fast, but I'm happy. No problems. But of course, I was tired because I didn't compete for 15 days but I don't think I did but and I think I helped the team."
The 31-year-old is right. Until this muscle problem, Ronaldo has featured every match. He's incredibly fit and with that, comes the ability to recover quickly. A little rest was clearly all the forward needed.by


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Simon Cunningham writes in The Irish Times about new proposals to incentivise energy efficiency in the north have been blasted as 'ill-conceived' by Manufacturing Northern Ireland. Have you had the same reaction in your country?
Proposals for energy efficiency scheme 'illogical' say Manufacturing NI
THE body that represents the majority of the north's large energy users has blasted a government plan to increase energy efficiency as "ill-conceived" and "illogical".
Manufacturing Northern Ireland was responding to proposals by the newly formed Department for the Economy for a new EnergyWise scheme.
The initiative, jointly proposed by the Utility Regulator, aims to meet European requirements to achieve 1.5 per cent year on year energy savings.
A new scheme is required to replace the Northern Ireland Sustainable Energy Framework which closes in March 2017.
It would carry on the work of grant schemes such as those to encourage the uptake of insulation or boiler replacement initiatives,
The department is considering three options to pay for the scheme which will cost £8 million a year to run.
It could add up to £10.16 onto average domestic energy bills a year – or as little as £3.78.
But the cheaper option for households – the main beneficiary of the scheme – would lumber the north's 185 largest energy users with an additional £8,600 on bills.
And Manufacturing NI has cried foul on the proposals which it branded "unworkable and unwelcome" and had been made without adequate consultation and would unjustly increase bills.
The organisation said the plan could increase the gap of energy costs between Northern Ireland and the Republic which would "reduce competitiveness and thwart ambitions to grow the economy".
In its response to the consultation, it said: "From a regulatory perspective, we fail to see how exposing consumers to larger bills, supporter the collection of a levy from which the consumer cannot benefit, protects consumers now and in the future.
"In our view, the Utility Regulator cannot offer its support for the department's proposal and should be pushing back the departments proposals as unfair and unwarranted."
Rather than adding to bills, Manufacturing NI said, "funding for domestic home energy efficiency should come from government sources; through borrowing (repaid through rents from social housing) and/or those who directly benefit from it themselves".
The consultation period closed yesterday.
The document outlined: "It should be noted that under current EnergyWise proposals, only the domestic sector can avail of grant support from the EnergyWise scheme.
"This will include consumers on a combined residential/business tariff as long as the energy efficiency measure are for the domestic property."


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Investing.com – Here are the top five things you need to know in financial markets on Thursday, November 9:
1. Tax Reform Uncertainties, Trump Asia Tour Keep Dollar in Check
Sentiment on the dollar was fragile on Thursday, as a U.S. Senate tax-cut bill, which differs from one in the House of Representatives, was set to be unveiled later Thursday.
The Washington Post reported on Tuesday that Senate Republican leaders were thinking of postponing the implementation of major corporate tax cuts to comply with Senate rules.
Traders are concerned over any potential delays in the implementation of the tax cuts or the possibility that proposed reforms end up being less drastic than hoped for.
Market participants were also monitoring President Trump's trip throughout Asia. In a meeting with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Wednesday, Trump said he aims to address what he considers to be unfair practices from China that have led to a mismatch of benefits from U.S.-China trade.
The president went on to say that the current relationship between the two countries is a "very one-sided and unfair one."
The U.S. dollar index, which measures the greenback's strength against a trade-weighted basket of six major currencies, was down 0.09% at 94.683 by 05:50 a.m. ET (09:50 GMT).
2. Crude Prices Steady Near Multi-Year Highs as Optimism Dominates
Crude prices steadied near multi-year highs on Thursday, after posting losses in the previous session when the U.S. Energy Information Administration said in its weekly report that crude oil inventories increased by 2.2 million barrels in the week ended November 3.
Market analysts' expected a crude-stock loss of around 2.9 million barrels.
However, losses were limited by mounting expectations that oil producing countries will agree to extend an output cut at their meeting at the end of this month.
Under the original terms of the deal, OPEC and 10 other non-OPEC countries led by Russia agreed to cut production by 1.8 million barrels a day (bpd) for six months. The agreement was extended in May of this year for a period of nine more months until March 2018 in a bid to reduce global oil inventories and support oil prices.
Discussions are continuing in the run-up to the Nov. 30 meeting, which oil ministers from OPEC and the participating non-OPEC countries will attend.
The U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude December contract was up 7 cents or about 0.12% at $56.88 a barrel by 05:50 a.m. ET (09:50 GMT), not far from the previous session's fresh two-year peak of $57.91.
Elsewhere, Brent oil for January delivery on the ICE Futures Exchange in London was up 7 cents or about 0.11% at $63.56 a barrel, just off a new two-year high of $64.65 hit on Wednesday.
3. Brexit Talks Set to Resume Amid Hopes for Year-End Deal
Brexit talks were scheduled to resume in Brussels later Thursday amid growing concerns amid European Union negotiators that London will fail to meet EU conditions next month for opening future negotiations.
EU representatives even discussed on Wednesday the possibility of delaying into next year the launch of talks with London on a post-Brexit relationship.
Germany and France in particular have demanded that British Prime Minister Theresa May agree in principle to pay an exit bill of several tens of billions of euros before EU leaders agree to open a second phase of Brexit negotiations.
The fresh round of talks comes after the UK government on Tuesday said it would submit legislation to parliament to let the country pursue an independent trade policy once it leaves the EU.
The pound edged lower, with GBP/USD down 0.15% at 1.3095 by 05:50 a.m. ET (09:50 GMT).
4. Gold Holds Steady With Eyes on U.S. Developments, Palladium Near 16-Year Highs
Gold prices held steady near the previous session's almost three-week highs thanks to a softer U.S. dollar and lingering geopolitical tensions.
Speaking in South Korea on Tuesday, U.S. President Donald Trump addressed tensions with North Korea, saying that Pyongyang "has interpreted America's past restraint as weakness" and that "this would be a fatal miscalculation."
The rogue nation responded to Trump's remarks by calling the U.S. President a "lunatic old man" and saying that the U.S. must remove him from power "to get rid of the abyss of doom."
Markets were also jittery as Saudi Arabia continued to conduct an anti-corruption purge among the highest levels of the establishment.
After a first crackdown over the weekend, Saudi authorities said on Wednesday that they had made additional arrests and frozen more bank accounts among the kingdom's political and business elite.
Comex gold futures were little changed at $1,284.40 a troy ounce by 05:50 a.m. ET (09:50 GMT), just off Wednesday's nearly three-week high of $1,287.52.
Meanwhile, palladium prices hit their highest level since 2001 at $1,020.90, boosted by the progressive transition to petrol engines and expectations for growth in hybrid electric vehicles.
5. Fresh U.S. Corporate Earnings Reports in Focus
Dozens of companies are expected to release quarterly results today, as the U.S. earnings season continues to wind down.
Brooks Automation Inc (NASDAQ:BRKS), Chesapeake Utilities Corporation (NYSE:CPK), EV Energy Partners LP (NASDAQ:EVEP), Foresight Energy LP (NYSE:FELP) and Liberty Media Corp (NASDAQ:FWONA) are a few of the names posting results ahead of the opening bell.
After the close, Air Lease Corporation (NYSE:AL), BioTime Inc (NYSE:BTX), Catabasis Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:CATB), Intrexon Corpn (NYSE:XON), Marin Software Inc (NYSE:MRIN) and Nordstrom Inc (NYSE:JWN) are set to release earnings.
U.S. equity markets pointed to a lower open on Thursday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average futures pointed to a 0.10% fall, S&P 500 futures signaled a 0.16% decline, while the Nasdaq 100 futures indicated a 0.17% loss.
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- Also: Aljazira
- Large port and city in the Gulf of Gibraltar.
- Taken by Castile in 1344 with the aid of a multinational task force of Christian princes and knights.
- Fortified city where Leonor Núñez de Guzmán and several relatives sought refuge after the death of Alfonso XI of Castile, her former lover. They feared acts of revenge by Pedro of Castile, Alfonso's heir. [Pedro, ch.17: 38-52]
- Gómez Carrillo was travelling to Algeciras, believing he had been appointed frontier guard, but the captain of the ship decapitated him by order of Pedro of Castile, and threw his body into the sea. [Pedro, ch. 32: 14-20]
Chronicle entries in which Algeciras appears:
Crónica de D. Pedro, ch. 17: 51, 58
Crónica de D. Pedro, ch. 32: 17


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It's been a shaky start to the season for Stoke City, but the Potters will enter this weekend as the (slight) soccer odds favorites to win at home over Bournemouth.
Odds Overview
Listen, the Potters are technically the favorites on the soccer odds board, but just barely. They're listed at +160 to score the outright victory, but Bournemouth is right there at approximately +175 to win. A draw is listed at right around +230 to hit for backers who think this one will end in a deadlock.
Stoke City
In all honesty, we've been disappointed with Stoke's play so far. The Potters made some nice additions to their squad over the summer but have yet to find their best form.
There's no reason a team as talented as Stoke should be in 18th place in the Premier League, with only three total points to show for their efforts through six matches. That being said, the Potters did manage a nice 1-0 away win over Fulham in cup competition during the week, so they should be feeling better about themselves heading into Saturday.
We figured it wouldn't be an easy ride for the Cherries, but they've already pulled off some great results early on this season, beating both West Ham and Sunderland while drawing with Leicester City and barely losing to Liverpool (1-0) at Anfield. They've earned seven points through six matches and are currently in 14th place in the EPL as a result.
The Cherries survived a scare to top Preston North End in the Capital One Cup on Tuesday for their second straight win across all competitions. Will they earn a third straight victory this weekend?
Premier League Pick
Though we're liking how Bournemouth has been playing, with that nothing-to-lose attitude in spades, this seems to be a favorable situation for Stoke City to right the ship and pick up their first league win of the season.
The Potters are far more talented than what their early results may suggest, so we'll gladly back them as our soccer pick at the Britannia this weekend.
Predicted Final Score: Stoke City 2 Bournemouth 1
Premier League Soccer Pick: Stoke City +160 at Bovada
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Jilline Ringle is an escarole-soup- to-pignoli-nuts type of woman. She not only wrote and stars in the play ``Mondo Mangia,'' which opens in previews tonight at TheaterWorks, she also does all the shopping and cooking for up to 200 people every night as part of the show.
It all starts with a grocery cart at D&D Market in Hartford's South End, where Ringle meets a chef named Jimmy Freschi, who introduces her to a shank of prosciutto that will forever alter a favorite dish of hers.


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Solar PV Project ( Solar Thermal Magazine)
Kyocera Solar Inc. and the town of Parker, AZ, recently commissioned a 175-kilowatt (kW) solar energy project. The effort was developed and financed through Kyocera's in-house Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) program, which enables towns, school districts and other entities to enjoy the benefits of solar energy with no up-front costs.
This innovative method of financing solar installations will transform the abundant Arizona sunshine into renewable energy to benefit Parker. The carport installations, which cover portions of the parking areas for Parker's town hall, library and senior center, will shade approximately 50 cars from solar heat while simultaneously harnessing the sun's energy. The 700 Kyocera high-efficiency solar panels and 12 SMA inverters will generate an estimated 300 megawatt hours of electricity annually to offset approximately 80% of the electricity consumed by the three buildings.
Timothy Edwards, Public Works Director for the town of Parker had this to say:
Municipalities have a responsibility to their citizens to undertake projects that provide long-term benefits at a reasonable cost. We are excited to work with a reliable company like Kyocera, which provided the method for reducing our energy costs with their proven solar modules and financing model. By stabilizing our town's electricity bills for decades to come, we're providing a brighter future to Parker's residents.
This project, installed by Photovoltaic Systems Manufacturing of Mesa, AZ, benefits from a production-based incentive under the Arizona Public Service's "Solar for Schools and Government" program. It represents the latest U.S. solar project developed using Kyocera's in-house financing programs — which also include a 1.6 megawatt (MW) installation for the Madison School District in Phoenix. As part of a $14 billion global enterprise that has remained continuously profitable throughout its 56-year history, Kyocera Solar Inc. is leveraging its financial strength to develop and finance projects at attractive rates. This new business model enables Kyocera to offer its full turn-key solar energy systems with industry-leading reliability at very competitive rates.
Many people focus on driving down the cost per-watt in a solar installation, but the cost of financing also has a significant impact on the customer's cost per-kilowatt-hour. By combining Kyocera's premium product, systems engineering expertise and attractive financing, we offer an unbeatable combination.
Kyocera is the only solar module manufacturer to earn the highest rating across all six PV module test categories in GTM Research's July 2014 PV Module Reliability Scorecard.
Gordon Smith
Gordon's expertise in the area of industrial energy efficiency and alternative energy. He is an experienced electrical engineer with a Masters degree in Alternative Energy technology. He is the co-founder of several renewable energy media sites including Solar Thermal Magazine.
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