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Volume 31 Number 4 Spring/Summer 09
In this Issue
- Family Squabbles
- Confronting Conformity
- Caution, Not Crisis
- Tooning Up
The Editor's Page
- Boiling Points
- Letters to the Editor
Along Middle Path
- Moon Walking at Philander's Phling
- Nayef Samhat Appointed Provost
- In and Out at Kenyon
- Kenyon in the News
- The Hot Sheet
- A Stitch in Time for Winter
- Gambier is Talking About...
- Sound Bites
- What's your Kenyon Quotient?
- Imagine
- Sports Round-Up
- How the South Won
- Reviews
Office Hours
- Kenyon bids farewell to four veteran professors
- Transformed by time
- Not in my Job Description: Radio Nights
- Burning Question for Jay Corrigan, Associate Professor of Economics
Alumni News
- Sparking Sparks
- Singing from the Roots
- Obituaries
- Alumni Digest
The Last Page
- Un-Kenyon
- The Back Cover
By Mark Ellis
Somewhere between the lines of Sid the ground sloth in Ice Age and the singing, dancing cockroaches of Joe's Apartment lurks the fine hand of Dan Shefelman '84.
The Texan who left Kenyon and took a job as an editorial cartoonist with his hometown newspaper, the Austin American-Statesman, now works out of his home in Westchester, New York, from where he has pulled the strings of cartoon characters with wider fame than his own. His political cartooning took him from Texas to Newsday in New York City. His collaboration with Blue Sky Studios led to storyboard work on feature films Ice Age and Robots. He has put the punch in MTV's Celebrity Death Match and boggled the brains of Beavis and Butt-Head.
The Mad genius (yes, he created a character for the subversive humor magazine he prized as a child) has played a role in mainstream family fare and offbeat cult classics. A lively family life informs his wit. He and his wife, Jane Reiss '83, have two children--Lena, sixteen, and Will, thirteen. Reiss is the chief marketing officer for NYC & Company, the city's marketing, tourism, and partnership organization.
The Alumni Bulletin caught up with Shefelman recently between storyboards.
Bulletin: Major newspaper political cartoons. Animated film work. And the biweekly, animated political cartoon Red and Blue on CNN.com. That may be a unique career arc. Are you the most accomplished cartoonist people have never heard of?
Shefelman: Yes. I've worked in some very public positions, where I'm the signature on the bottom of the page and in the credits at the end of the film. That's being very out front. And then there are different roles an animator plays in films and you sort of become part of this big, incredible machine and, in that sense, you're more anonymous. I go back and forth between the two.
Bulletin: Is fame a goal?
Shefelman: Well, of course, fame is a big part of the business and it's fun. Cartoonists are entertainers. The idea is to get a crowd gathered around laughing and engaged in your work.
Bulletin: Kenyon enjoyed a run of talented cartoonists in the 1970s and '80s. Tim Newcomb '74 has had a long run as a political cartoonist in Vermont. Jim Borgman '76 won the Pulitzer Prize and draws the comic Zits. Bill Watterson '80 created Calvin and Hobbes. Was there ink in the water?
Shefelman: My brother (Karl '80) was a swimmer here. Karl sent home copies of the Collegian, and I would read Watterson's "Mucous and Fester," about dorm life. It was really dumb fun. Borgman at the time was an up-and-coming editorial cartoonist and I admired his work. I loved to watch the way those two put ideas together and I admired their draftsmanship. I felt I needed to be at Kenyon because there was something special going on. I sort of understood that cartooning was as much about learning to think as it was about learning to draw.
Bulletin: You were on the swimming team?
Shefelman: Jim Steen has a great tradition here, and I was proud to be part of it. I loved the clarity of striving for maximum speed, but the daily grind felt confining. I quit sophomore year and joined the water polo club team. I thrived on the teamwork and the one-on-one with opponents. There's a parallel with my career, which has been a process of creating in intense isolation and then going out into these team endeavors of animation productions and mixing it up and being inspired by creative people.
Bulletin: You started in newspapers. What did you learn?
Shefelman: I learned to make a deadline, to create under pressure. Knowing a cartoon has to run in the paper every day can be scary. You spend most of your time chewing your fingers, hiding under your desk, not coming up with anything. The trick is to be able to remain playful and keep searching ... doodling images until an idea forms. That's the moment you live for.
Bulletin: Newsday is a big newspaper stage in New York. Was that the attraction?
Shefelman: New York itself is an incredible stage. It's a cartoonist's dream. New York City was my beat. New York is bare knuckles. It's scrappy and honest. Nobody holds back. Ed Koch was the mayor and he was my target. And he could throw it right back. I never worried about giving him my best shot.
Bulletin: You evolved into animation?
Shefelman: I had a love-hate relationship with the daily news cycle. I was looking for a creative career where I could shape the evolution of ideas. Animation is a months--and years--long process of building up, tearing down, and building back up until the film takes shape. So I took the leap. My first job in animation was drawing a hat on Porkchop the dog in [the animated television show] Doug. I became a jack-of-all-trades in animation and, more and more, I gravitated to storyboarding.
Bulletin: Do you identify yourself as a cartoonist?
Shefelman: I consider myself a storyteller above all. Political cartoons and animation consist equally of visual and verbal storytelling.
Bulletin: Explain the mystery of the storyboard.
Shefelman: In Ice Age, we were working with a script, but we were still forming the characters' personalities. The script and the voice actor give the first breaths of life, but the character is fully realized in the storyboard process. We storyboard an entire scene, then scan it on the computer, and lay down temporary voice and sound effects. This allows us to watch a filmstrip of the movie before 150 artists spend eighteen months designing and animating. It's a fluid process.
Bulletin: Is there a scene that you created that sticks with you?
Shefelman: The cave-painting scene in Ice Age is one of my proudest achievements. It's a pivotal emotional moment for all of the characters, and the challenge was to present the loss of Manny the Mammoth's family in a way that was emotionally devastating, inspiring, and yet not too terrifying. I pulled it off, but only after two months of soul searching, drawing and re-drawing the scene. I found myself going through wrenching feelings about my own family and how unfathomable such a loss would be. There were a lot of teary eyes in the room when I pitched the storyboard for that scene. But it was very satisfying to throw in a couple of well-timed jokes. After hearing Manny's painful story, Sid wipes his nose and rubs it on Diego the saber-toothed tiger, who gives him a predatory look. There's something powerful about laughing through tears.
Bulletin: Do you have favorite characters?
Shefelman: Without a doubt that would be Red and Blue. They are entirely my own creation. Although it is always an adventure to be involved in the development of characters created by others, nothing compares to creating your own characters from conception.
Bulletin: Red and Blue are animated man and wife, on different sides of the political spectrum. The strip on CNN.com included appearances by Barack Obama, George Bush, Sarah Palin, and Wolf Blitzer, among others. Is that your voice I hear for those characters?
Shefelman: I don't think I'm the best impressionist out there. You can get away with murder if you have a good drawing. I love doing everything on these cartoons. Because of the need for a fast turn-around in the Web news cycle, which is about sixty seconds, I have to do things very quickly. Writing, design, voice acting, animation, sound effects, and music. It's incredibly satisfying to orchestrate all these media under one roof.
Bulletin: Where do you draw the line between hand and computer?
Shefelman: These days, it's hard to tell where the hand-drawn aspect of my work ends and the computer begins. You could say I am joined at the fingers to the computer. I draw on a digital tablet with a digital pen--so the process is the same as drawing on paper but it is recorded as a digital image. Many artists find this repugnant. No originals! I understand that, but I feel that this is a more direct connection between what's in my head and what becomes "real" on the screen.
Bulletin: You were part of teams that were nominated for Academy Awards for Ice Age in 2002 and the short film Gone Nutty in 2003. Did you walk down the red carpet in Los Angeles?
Shefelman: No. And we didn't win, but the sense of pride at being nominated is something the whole crew takes to heart. More important is hearing people talk about our movies and how alive the characters are for them.
Bulletin: You worked on Doug and King of the Hill, both pretty wholesome animated series.
Shefelman: On Doug, I was the design director. I designed the look of the show. King of the Hill was strictly storyboarding, just figuring out the action. The writing is so brilliant and subtle.
Bulletin: You also worked on the MTV film Beavis and Butt-Head Do America. Some people associate the boys with the decline of Western civilization.
Shefelman: I was offered a job to work on the TV show early on. I watched a few episodes and felt it sent a bad message--sort of negative, decadent stuff. I turned it down. But I soon realized that I was missing the point in the same way that people who see Bart Simpson as a role model miss the point. The role model who I think is more important is a creator like Mike Judge, who maintains the integrity of an idea. If you are going to do a show about two idiots, don't pull any punches. Let them be incredible caricatures of idiots. They're teenage Larry Davids. When MTV decided to make the movie, I jumped at the challenge of bringing the two idiots to the big screen.
Bulletin: What are you working on?
Shefelman: I'm actually forming a company, called the Story Team. Putting together a team of storyboard artists for a movie is very tough. I've assembled some very talented artists. They have strengths in character, humor, story structure, action, and emotion. A studio can hire us, and we will handle the whole creative pre-production of the film.
Bulletin: Next film?
Shefelman: Several of us from the Story Team are working for Lumenas Animation Studios on a movie called The Legend of Santa Claus.
Bulletin: I think that's been done.
Shefelman: Not this way.
Bulletin: A word of advice for the next Kenyon cartoonist?
Shefelman: Study everything that interests you. Go to the Economics Department. Take art and drama. Study religion. Study political science. Study English. Do something with your hands involving form and shape and design. Do things that scare you. And have fun.
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SNC2D – Science, Grade 10, Academic
Grade 9 Science, Academic (SNC1D) or Applied (SNC1P)
Course Description
This course enables students to enhance their understanding of concepts in biology, chemistry, earth and space science, and physics, and of the interrelationships between science, technology, society, and the environment. Students are also given opportunities to further develop their scientific investigation skills. Students will plan and conduct investigations and develop their understanding of scientific theories related to the connections between cells and systems in animals and plants; chemical reactions, with a particular focus on acid–base reactions; forces that affect climate and climate change; and the interaction of light and matter.
Outline of Course Content
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September 7, 2018
Invitation to Pre-Qualify for the Yangon Elevated Expressway Public Private Partnership Project Phase 1
The Ministry of Construction ("MOC") of the Union Government of Myanmar, coordinating with the Yangon Regional Government, is inviting interested parties to pre-qualify to undertake the design, engineering, financing, construction, operation and maintenance of the first phase of an elevated four-lane expressway project in Yangon of approximately 27 kilometers through a long term Public Private Partnership (PPP) concession agreement (the "Project").
The elevated toll road is expected to provide improved access to Downtown Yangon, Yangon International Airport, Mingalardon Industrial Park and the Yangon-Mandalay Expressway.
For this purpose, the MOC has prepared a Request for Qualifications (the "RFQ") and Preliminary Information Memorandum (the "PIM") containing background information in respect of the Project.
The RFQ and PIM may be purchased by interested parties for a non-refundable fee payable to the MOC of one thousand five hundred United States Dollars (USD1,500.00)(the "RFQ Fee") at Finance Department, Building No. 11, Ministry of Construction, Nay Pyi Taw, The Republic of the Union of Myanmar, Attention: Yangon Elevated Expressway Project Team. Phone no. 067-407068, 09-402671136, 09-2023012. (9:00AM-5:00PM)
Interested parties can pay the RFQ Fee through one of the following ways:
• In person, with cash, to the "Finance Department" of MOC (Building No. 11). Upon payment, the interested party will receive a payment slip, and the interested party should submit the payment slip to the Yangon Elevated Expressway Project Team as proof of payment.
• International wire transfer to
Bank Account Name | Department of Highway (DOH) |
Bank Name | Myanma Economic Bank, Naypyitaw Branch |
Intermediary Bank | Myanma Economic Bank (Head Office),Naypyitaw. |
Bank Account No. | MD 012906 |
Swift Code | MYEBMMMY |
RFQ Document Fee | USD1,515.00(note: includes $15 for bank fee) |
Send proof of wire transfer by email to the Yangon Elevated Expressway Project Team.
Email: email@example.com, Attention: U Kyi Zaw Myint, Deputy Director General, Department of Highway, Ministry of Construction.
Following payment of the RFQ Fee using one of the methods mentioned above, the interested party will be sent the documents of RFQ and PIM to the email address provided to the Yangon Elevated Expressway Project Team by IFC.
The pre-qualification application submission deadline is 30th October 2018 at 14:00 hours Myanmar Standard Time.
Pre-qualification is open to all interested parties, whether local or foreign, subject to conditions for eligibility under the RFQ. To pre-qualify, interested parties will be entitled to form consortiums in accordance with the arrangements set out in the RFQ.
Only parties who have paid the RFQ Fee will be permitted to submit a pre-qualification application (if submitting as a consortium, at least one consortium member shall have paid the RFQ Fee).
Only pre-qualified bidders will be invited to submit a bid proposal for the Project.
MOC shall reserve the right to reject any or all prequalification applications, modify the RFQ or any aspect thereof anytime for any reason whatsoever.
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Home safety is nothing to sniff about! In that spirit, this episode of The Marc and Mandy Show features Tom Reimer of Metalex Home Security. Tom shows Celebrity Designer Glen Peloso how to improve the security of his basement windows, screen doors, and patio doors. Watch the video above to see Glen take a baseball bat to a screen door, or keep reading for the product highlights.
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In the event that you want to install a soft released update to your Sophos UTM appliance before it has been picked up by auto update, you must download and install the patch manually. There is no way to do this in the GUI (yet.) Procedure taken from this helpful post (thanks, heartbleed!)
- Shell into the firewall and navigate to /var/up2date/sys
cd /var/up2date/sys
- wget the patch file (.tgz.gpg extension)
wget ftp://ftp.astaro.com/UTM/v9/up2date/u2d-sys-9.205012-206035.tgz.gpg
- Invoke auisys.plx with the –showdesc paramater
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Some Negative Health Effects of Fast Food
Posted on January 17th, 2013
Dr Hector PereraƒÆ'-¡ƒ"š' ƒÆ'-¡ƒ"š' ƒÆ'-¡ƒ"š' ƒÆ'-¡ƒ"š' ƒÆ'-¡ƒ"š' ƒÆ'-¡ƒ"š' London
Fast food refers to food that can be prepared and served quickly. Fast food restaurants usually have a walk up counter and/or drive-thru window where you order and pick up your food without having to wait long. There is no such thing as a "bad" food, but these are some foods you should try not to have on a regular basis. Because fast food is high in sodium, saturated fat,ƒÆ'-¡ƒ"š' transƒÆ'-¡ƒ"š' fat, and cholesterol, it isn't something you should eat often. The ill effect of fast food and the potential danger that it possesses by its regular consumption is shocking. ƒÆ'-¡ƒ"š' One of the things is obesity. Regular consumption leads to increase in cholesterol levels, nutritional deficiencies, cardiac disorders, loss of muscle mass, depression and even sexual dysfunction. Soaked in trans fat and loaded with calories, fast foods are labelled as ƒÆ''¢ƒ¢-¡'¬ƒ"¹…"health hazardsƒÆ''¢ƒ¢-¡'¬ƒ¢-¾'¢ by many leading medical professionals.
The processed meat used in fast food contain nitrates, nitrites, artificial sweeteners and monosodium glutamate which increase blood flow and can trigger a migraine attack. This monosodium glutamate is also known an ƒÆ''¢ƒ¢-¡'¬ƒ…-Ajina MottƒÆ''¢ƒ¢-¡'¬ƒ"š' in most Asian grocery shops. This is a salt that gives a better taste to food a flavour enhancer.ƒÆ'-¡ƒ"š' ƒÆ'-¡ƒ"š' I added this chemical to some fresh beef and left it over night and on the following day; I could comb it out strands of comb beef using a fork. The smell and taste was no difference to canned comb beef.
Some British news papers on 16.1.2013 mentioned about everyday Value Beef Burgers, horse meat accounted for approximately 29 per cent of the meat. The supermarket announced last night that it was removing all fresh and frozen burgers from sale immediately regardless if they had been found to contain horse meat. It is possible that this practice has been going on for a sometime that is eating horse meat with beef.
An investigation was carried out by the Food Safety Authority of Ireland. The Food Standards Agency, working with the Irish authorities, established that mainland Britain was part of the area affected. More than a third (37 per cent) of the products tested in Ireland contained horse DNA, while the vast majority (85 per cent) also contained pig DNA. Horse meat and pig DNA was found in 27 beef burger products. Another 31 foods, including cottage pies, beef curry pies and lasagnes, were analysed, with 21 testing positive for pig DNA.
ƒÆ'-¡ƒ"š' Pink slime – a mix of meat trimmings washed in ammonium hydroxide and used in fast food burger patties – churned consumer's stomachs so much, McDonald's banned the slop, according to news reports. Beef Products buys the cheapest, least desirable beef on offerƒÆ''¢ƒ¢-¡'¬ƒ¢¢"š¬…"fatty sweepings from the slaughter house floor, which are notoriously rife with pathogens like E. coli 0157 and antibiotic-resistant salmonella. Red meat is really red?ƒÆ'-¡ƒ"š' That's not blood (there's no blood in the meat you buy) but muscle tissue.ƒÆ'-¡ƒ"š' (Technically, it's myoglobin, which is a molecule related to the red component of blood, but it's not blood.)
But red meat turns grey when exposed to oxygen due ariel oxidation. ƒÆ'-¡ƒ"š' So they wrap it tightly and fill the packages with nitrogen to keep the oxygen from getting to it.ƒÆ'-¡ƒ"š' They're also allowed to useƒÆ'-¡ƒ"š' a little carbon monoxide, which does an even a better job. We carbon dioxide gas is poisonous to inhale.
Some unscrupulous butchers will use too much carbon monoxide, sulphites, nitrates, or dyes to keep it looking red longer, but that's illegal and rare. Additives are used to keep the meat fresh and to prevent the growth ofƒÆ'-¡ƒ"š' Clostridium botulinumƒÆ'-¡ƒ"š' the bacteria which causes food poisoning. When someone eats these kinds of chemical added meat products, the increased blood flow can cause excessive pressure to build up in the head and can lead to headaches or a feeling of a hangover.
The processed food used in the fast food industry is loaded with trans fat, which not only increases the ƒÆ''¢ƒ¢-¡'¬ƒ"¹…"bad cholesterolƒÆ''¢ƒ¢-¡'¬ƒ¢-¾'¢ (Low Density Lipoprotein LDL) levels but also reduces the ƒÆ''¢ƒ¢-¡'¬ƒ"¹…"good cholesterolƒÆ''¢ƒ¢-¡'¬ƒ¢-¾'¢ (High Density Lipoprotein HDL) levels. Processed meat used by fast food industries can sometimes have 45% more trans fat than their natural counterparts. Consuming fast foods leads to an increased intake of cholesterol which is highly dangerous for humans. The cholesterol molecules attach themselves to the arteries which lead to their thickening or clogging. This can cause obstructed blood flow which can lead to high blood pressure. If cholesterol accumulates in one of the main arteries it can lead to a blockage, when an artery is completely blocked it can lead to heart attacks or complete heart failure.
Artificial trans fats can be formed when oil goes through a process called hydrogenation, which hardens the oil. In simple terms, hydrogen is added across C=C bonds in oil molecules. This type of fat, known as hydrogenated fat, can be used for frying or as an ingredient in processed foods.
This is because the hydrogenated vegetable fats which provide most dietary trans fat are a mainstay of the food industry – a cheap bulking agent perfect for padding out expensive processed products, with a long shelf life and a luxurious 'mouth feel'.
These trans fats are to be found, for example, in margarine, vegetable shortening, ice-cream, puddings & pudding mixes, ready-made pies, cakes & cake mixes, biscuits, pizza, potato chips, fritters, doughnuts, gravy & sauce mixes, artificial creamers, confectionery and other processed foods, including many foods marketed at children, including some sugary breakfast cereals.
They are also commonly found in restaurant food, especially – but not only – in fast food. You can also make your own trans fat (in small amounts) by repeatedly re-heating cooking oil. That is one of the reasons why one should not reuse the oil that is used for frying things such as bacon, sausages or ƒÆ''¢ƒ¢-¡'¬ƒ…-papadams, sprats etcƒÆ''¢ƒ¢-¡'¬ƒ"š'.
Fast food affects mental health
Depression is one of the many negativeƒÆ'-¡ƒ"š' effects of fast food. This emotional condition has been linked to regular consumption of fast foods by a study done by the University College of London. According to the study, people who indulge in fast foods regularly are 58% more likely to suffer from depression. Fast foods do not contain antioxidants, foliate and omega -3s which is necessary for good mental health. As mentioned earlier, fast foods contain preservatives, emulsifiers, thickeners, stabilizers and flavor enhancers which can affect the mental well being of the person and monosodium glutamate is just one of them.
Fast foods contain high amounts of sodium which can lead to hypertension and high blood pressure. Although small amounts of sodium is needed for bodily functions, consuming too much can lead to not just high blood pressure, but build up of fluids in people who are suffering from liver cirrhosis, congestive heart failures or kidney ailments. If you eat too much salt all at once you can risk disturbing the electrolyte balance in your body which can cause, severe, and sometimes fatal, neurological problems.
Long term, if you have too much salt in your diet you are more likely to suffer from high blood pressure which increases your chances of heart disease and strokes. I know it for fact Sri Lankans love to eat lime pickle, sprats, salt fish or dry fish and sometimes ƒÆ''¢ƒ¢-¡'¬ƒ…-JardiƒÆ''¢ƒ¢-¡'¬ƒ"š' that are loaded with salt. Well the best thing is to know your limits when eating these special salty foods. Salt makes your body retain water. If you eat too much salt, the extra water stored in your body and raises your blood pressure.
Some studies also suggest excess salt intake has been linked to exercise induced Asthma and Osteoporosis.
In the UK the recommended salt intake is 4-6g per day that is about one tea spoonful, no more. SodiumƒÆ'-¡ƒ"š' is crucial to your health, as your body needs it to carry out normal bodily functions. Salt is responsible for balancing the amount of fluids in your body and ensuring your muscles contract the way they should. Sodium is also needed to assist with nerve functions. Therefore, you need to ingest salt on a daily basis, but you also need to know how much to consume, as a sodium overdose could be hazardous to your health. Your body needs at least 500 mg of salt a day, and you shouldnƒÆ''¢ƒ¢-¡'¬ƒ¢-¾'¢t exceed 2,300 mg a day if youƒÆ''¢ƒ¢-¡'¬ƒ¢-¾'¢re a healthy adult. However, if you suffer from high blood pressure, diabetes or kidney disease, the maximum daily consumption of sodium lowers to 1,500 mg a day. Remember 1000 mg is one gram so 1,500 mg is 1.5 grams that means just a pinch of salt.
What we eat affects our physical, mental, and sexual health. Fatty acids found in fast foods are a major contributor to sexual dysfunction, not only does it cause weight gain but can trigger biochemical changes which effect libido, sperm count and female ovulation.
The processed meat is many times contaminated with manure which contains Escherichia Coli and Salmonella that is possible if the vegetables are not properly washed. Would you think all the hotels and restaurants wash the vegetables carefully? This healthy green vegetable, ƒÆ''¢ƒ¢-¡'¬ƒ…-MukunuwennaƒÆ''¢ƒ¢-¡'¬ƒ"š' that comes from areas near Kelani Bridge get adsorped [coated outside] with too many pollutants found in flood water. Be safe, wash them properly before use. E.Coli is considered very difficult to treat and sometimes referred to as the worst sort of food poisoning. Even after antibiotics kill the bacteria, the toxins released by it can produce harmful effects. This disease is usually spread through undercooked hamburgers and is a leading cause of renal failure among American kids. Have you noticed some so called British TV celebrity cooks hardly allow anytime for poultry, fish or beef to cook? Just add this and that so quickly then toss it up in the air to show off or turn around a few times on a hot fuming pan then serve. This makes only the surface of the meat get heated than cooked then the germs inside happily waiting to be consumed then come out causing food poisoning. Once you eat them, they come out and cause food poisoning. The TV presenter must say, ƒÆ''¢ƒ¢-¡'¬ƒ…-YummyƒÆ''¢ƒ¢-¡'¬ƒ"š' to the camera even when the meat is red and under cooked.
ƒÆ'-¡ƒ"š' Addictive Nature of Fast Foods
According to theƒÆ'-¡ƒ"š' Science Daily, high levels of sugar and fat can cause blood sugar to spike and then crash suddenly. The patrons of fast food feel a sudden rush of euphoria when this happens making them dependent on the euphoric effects of insulin surges. Therefore one of the harmful effects of fast food consumption is the addiction or the incessant craving it causes among people. Some people are addicted to smoking, gambling or alcohols.
Hamburgers and French fries could be as addictive as heroin, scientists have claimed. Researchers in the United States have found evidence to suggest people can become overly dependent on the sugar and fat in fast food.
The controversial findings add weight to claims that over-eating is simply down to a lack of self-control. Just a few things that you can check whether you are addicted to fast food. Do you grab a quick bite during your lunch break? Do you pick up a meal on your way home from work because so you donƒÆ''¢ƒ¢-¡'¬ƒ¢-¾'¢t have to go home and make dinner? Does your morning routine include a fast food stop for breakfast on your way to work? Do you experience late night cravings that prompt you to get in your car and drive to the closest fast food place? If there are ƒÆ''¢ƒ¢-¡'¬ƒ…-YesƒÆ''¢ƒ¢-¡'¬ƒ"š' for then you need to think, ƒÆ''¢ƒ¢-¡'¬ƒ…-Am I addicted to fast foodƒÆ''¢ƒ¢-¡'¬ƒ"š'? No one can break the addiction; just you need to think before you eat and drink too much of anything, know your limits. Please send your comments to email@example.com


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When setting up advanced reporting one would have to setup resources with necessary CA PPM access rights and Jaspersoft roles in order to restrict the resources to PPM report repositories.
One of the important steps after the CA PPM-Jaspersoft integration is to setup advanced reporting access right(s) to existing PPM resources. There is often some questions raised on how to limit users to view reports based on their functional area.
Clarity 15.9.1 and all supported releases
1. Set Advanced reporting access rights in CA PPM
1.1. Advanced Reporting - Navigate
The right grants access to the Advanced Reporting menu link or page. It also allows resource to navigate to the Advanced Reporting page. Resource is assigned the following Jaspersoft roles: ROLE_USER.
1.2. Advanced Reporting - Ad Hoc Create
The Advanced Reporting - Ad Hoc Create right grants user the right to create Adhoc views. Resource is assigned the following Jaspersoft roles: ROLE_USER and ROLE_REPORT_DESIGNER.
Screenshot illustrates a PPM user with the basic advanced reporting access rights needed to navigate and view reports from the advanced reporting menu link or page.
2. Set Jaspersoft roles:
The next step would be to run the CA PPM jaspersoft job "Create And Update Japersoft Users" job and set the appropriate Jaspersoft user role to restrict the resource to report repositories.
For instance if the user needs just access to Project Management based reports. Then the Jaspersoft role that would be granted the Jaspersoft role: CSK_ROLE_PROJECT_MANAGEMENT
Screenshot illustrates the Jaspersoft user with the require Jaspersoft role(set role from the advanced reporting menu > manage> users> user properties page):
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7 reasons you should enter the 'Best of Tech' Mira Awards
Following two years of celebrating the state's tech successes apart during virtual galas, TechPoint is already hard at work planning for the 2022 Mira Awards gala to triumphantly return IN-PERSON to the JW Marriott in downtown Indianapolis this spring.
The big question, however, is whether or not you will be attending as an nominee for one of the 15 coveted awards that celebrate the "Best of Tech in Indiana." Every year is another opportunity to take a step toward greatness and make your mark on the tech community, but you can't win if you don't enter.
Any company, startup, scale-up, city, school, team or individual may enter the Mira Awards. It is not required that you be nominated by someone else to enter the awards.
Whether it was creating an influential new tech product or service; discovering or inventing a breakthrough innovation; launching a startup or investing in startups; scaling and growing a company or city; blazing a trail in tech, talent attraction, tech education or on behalf of the tech community; there is a place for you among the state's top achieving tech professionals. You just need to tell your story!
While winning is always an incredible experience, you don't even have to win one of the awards to benefit from the Mira Awards process. Just "participating" in the awards brings a high level of validation and visibility. Entering the awards, being selected as a nominee and presenting to one of the independent judging panels alone places you among the best of the best. The judging process is rigorous and demonstrates both your preparedness and your temerity to accept the role of leader, influencer and tech community forerunner.
And because the Mira Awards are Indiana's largest, best known and most prestigious technology awards program, there are millions of dollars at stake in potential promotional value, capital investment, hiring success and connections as a result of the credibility and visibility that comes with your participation.
Enter yourself or nominate someone else deserving of a "Best of Tech" Mira Award.
At-a-glance, quick awards entry resources
2022 Mira Awards Entry Page – miraawards.com
2022 Mira Awards Entry Kit
2022 Mira Awards Sponsor Prospectus
2022 Mira Awards Q&A Webinar
2022 Mira Awards Nomination Form – Use to nominate someone else.
2022 Mira Awards Application Form – Use to enter for yourself or your company.
7 reasons to enter the Mira Awards
ATTRACTS NEW CUSTOMERS — IVM, Inc. closed a sales deal with Fortune 500 company HP after winning an Innovation of the Year Mira Award.
INCREASES SALES — Tech Product of the Year winner Heliponix could barely make GroPods fast enough to keep up with demand following the awards gala and expanded manufacturing operations earlier than expected.
BOOSTS RECRUITING EFFORTS — Schneider Geospatial hired a top engineering leader, support and services staff, and an entire sales team after being named Tech Service of the Year winner.
OPENS DOORS WITH INVESTORS — Founder Amy Brown won the Rising Entrepreneur Award, which led to important investor relationships, seed funding and Series A capital rounds for Authenticx.
DRAWS ANALYSTS AND MEDIA — DemandJump attributed oversubscribing its $1.8 million seed round and catching the attention of research analysts from Intelligentsia, Forrester and Gartner to winning two 'Best of Tech' Mira Awards.
IMPROVES BRAND AWARENESS — Winning Startup of the Year helped Lessonly establish its tech credentials with partners, media and potential new employees.
CREATES A RALLYING POINT — According to Exceptional Employer Award winner GadellNet Consulting Services, the serious and thoughtful review process is unbiased validation that you're doing good things for the tech community.
"The world needs more good … let the Mira Awards be one of those shining lights for you and your team," said CEO Nick Smarrelli.


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Today we mourn the birthday of Adolf Hitler, born in 1889. Everybody knows who he was. We also note with amusement the vigor with which many of our modern politicians try to liken their rivals unto him. Yesterday was Tiki Bar Opening Day. Everything seemed to go quite nicely. It didn't start raining until almost 8 PM, but when it rained, It Rained!!! Nothing much else happened except that I planted a plot of turnips in Gordon the Garden. Happy Saturday! OrneryPest |
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With paper claims in the metals markets now at unfathomable levels, today King World News is pleased to share some surprising news in the war in the silver market.
The following charts are from Jason Goepfert at SentimenTrader.
King World News note: Below you can see the commercial hedgers most recent position in the silver market. Note that commercial hedgers have recently covered many of their short positions on the recent decline in silver (see 10-year chart below).
King World News note: For a few years sentiment in the silver market overall has been at one of the most excessively pessimistic levels in history. Again, this is the type of thing you would expect to see at the end of a cyclical bear phase that is culminating inside of a secular bull market (see 10-year chart below).
King World News note: It will be interesting to see how silver trades the rest of the year and into the new year.
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An Accra High Court on Friday granted a GH¢10 million bail, with two sureties each to be justified, to eight persons out of the 10 accused of treason and currently on trial.
They are Dr. Frederick Yao Mac-Palm, Chief Executive Officer of the Citadel Hospital; Donyo Kafui, alias Ezor, blacksmith; Bright Alan Debrah, Freight; Colonel Samuel Kojo Gameli; Corporal Seidu Abubakar; Lance Corporal (L/C), Sylvester Akankpewu; and Johannes Zipki with the Signal Unit of the Ghana Armed Forces.
The eight are to report to the Bureau of National Investigation (BNI) twice a week as well as deposit their passports with the Court's Registry.
It was the first time all the accused persons appeared before the Court presided over by Justice Samuel K. Asiedu, an Appeals Court Judge sitting in as an additional High Court Judge after their committal proceedings on March 3, 2020.
Already, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Benjamin Agordzo has been granted a self-recognisance bail of GH¢500,000.00 by an Accra High Court presided over by Justice Charles Ekow Baiden, whilst Warrant Officer Class Two Esther Saan has also been granted bail by another High Court.
Only ACP Agordzo, WOI Saan, and Colonel Samuel Gameli were in Court on Friday when the case was called as the rest had been remanded into prison custody and were not in court due to the observance of the COVID-19 protocols.
They have been charged together with Warrant Officer II Esther Saan, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Benjamin Agordzo and L/C Ali Solomon with offences including conspiracy to commit treason, treason, conspiracy to possess explosives, arms and ammunition and possession of explosives, arms and ammunition without lawful authority.
All ten accused persons were supposed to be present at the Court for their pleas to be taken.
They are expected back in court on June 5.
Mr Victor Kwadjoga Adawudu, counsel for Dr Mac-Palm, Kafui, Debrah, Akpa, Abubakar, and Akankpewu in appealing for bail said his clients were not flight-risk.
He stressed that especially, the soldiers among them had the Provost Marshall monitoring every movement of theirs, and also that they had been in custody for almost a year and by law are innocent until proven guilty and so remand should not be used as a way of punishing them.
He said his clients had been publicized as being wicked so they were determined to appear before the court to prove their innocence and their family members who are people of substance would stand surety for them.
Mr Tony Lartey, lawyer for Zipki said his client would not run because Ghana's borders were closed due to COVID-19, adding that his client was Asthmatic and had High Blood Pressure which was getting worse and if not granted bail would not live to see the end of the trial.
Miss Hilda Craig, a Senior State Attorney in opposing the bail said the accused persons would not appear before court to stand trial when granted bail.
The Kaneshie District Court on Tuesday, March 3, 2020, committed the ten accused charged with treason to the High Court to face trial.
Mrs Eleanor Kakra Barnes-Botchway, the presiding judge, committing them said the Court after listening to the Prosecution, their counsel, as well as examining the facts, among other documents was overwhelmed with the evidence and said there was the need for them to answer the charges at the High Court.
She, therefore, remanded them into prison custody except for Mr Agordzo who was on bail, but Colonel Samuel Kojo Gameli, a senior military officer and Warrant Officer Class One Esther Saan, alias "Mama Gee," are also currently on bail but had not been able to meet the bail conditions.
Facts of the case
The facts are that Mac-Palm, Kafui, Debra, ACP Agordzo is a police officer and the rest officers of the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF).
They were all members of the Take Action Ghana-a Non-Governmental Organisation, incorporated by Mac-Palm in 2018 and that the group planned to demonstrate against the government as well as overtake it, so Mac-Palm contacted Kafui, a resident of Alavanyo to manufacture arms for that purpose and he produced them.
They also held meetings to facilitate the process and drew a map covering the Flagstaff House, Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, 37 Military Hospital, Burma Camp to facilitate their movements.
Colonel Gameli was said to have promised to give his support before, during and after the planned event and when Kafui brought the 22 explosives, six pistols, three grenades and five ammunitions, Mac-Palm accommodated him, adding that, it all took place between June 2018 and September 2019.
The Prosecution said Mac-Palm was said to have also provided a quantity of substance which when inhaled, would make one sleep for an hour, thus upon a tip-off, Mac-Palm was arrested on September 19 while the rest were subsequently arrested later.
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Crossmaglen Rangers club notes – 23rd April 2012
Crossmaglen Rangers G.F.C.
An extremely busy week on the football front with teams involved at all levels. Messages of congratulations continue to arrive and we would like to thank all those who sent same. It never ceases to amaze me the generosity of our supporters and the club would like to thank Raymond Watters of the Old Coach Inn Castleblayney for the reception he laid on for the team on their return from Breffni Park. We would also thank Mona Mc Entee for her generosity and hard work over the years and also Martin Bros, for the use of their equipment over the years. The club has received donations from all the business in the area and I would ask our members to support us. Some things never change an as soon as one year finishes we have to start fundraising for the next one. With this in mind we have two major fundraisers planned for the next couple of months.
Golf Classic Sponsored By P Rogers &Co. Building & Civil Engineering Contractors.
Once again we are indebted to our very generous sponsors who continue to support this very prestigious event. Our golf classic is now recognised as one of the most successful and social events on the golfing calendar. We have teams coming from Galway, Westmeath, Dublin Tipperary,Meath. Following the success of last year we have returned to Concra Wood Golf Course Castleblayney.The competition will be held on Friday 6th July and as their few places left early booking is advisable. Places can be reserved by contacting Joe Kernan, Gene Duffy, Michael Mc Enteggart or on the club Website.
Club Draw.
We will be organising a large Raffle over the next few months and we will be seeking the assistance of all our supporters, particularly all those who live further afield so we can spread our net further afield. Other clubs will tell you that Crossmaglen has always been very generous in their support of the G.A.A. cause, now is the opportunity to seek help in return. More details next week.
Senior League.
In what was to be a very busy week we made the journey on Wednesday last to take on old rivals Pearse Ogs. Played in ideal conditions it was our opponents who opened the scoring with a point but that was as good as it got for them as eight points in a row left us in the driving seat approaching half time. The sequence was broken when in an isolated raid the home side scored a point. We finished the half with a goal and a point to leave the half time score Rangers 1 – 9 Pearse Ogs 0 – 2. On the resumption it was the home side who displayed the greater urgency and after ten minutes had two points on the board. Eventually we got a grip on the game and responded with two points of our own, these were to be our last scores as over the last fifteen minutes the city scored four points without reply to leave the final score without reply. Final Score Rangers 1- 11 Pearse Ogs 0 – 8. Our third match of the week was at home to Maghery,unfortunately the outcome was not as good as the previous two. Perhaps we were feeling the effects of our earlier games as we appeared to be very sluggish while our opponents were very sharp. They completely dominated the first twenty minutes and were 1- 4 up before we registered our first score. Our caused was not helped when we lost a man when we conceded the goal. The decision to allow the goal was entirely wrong as our defender was clearly fouled. After this it was an uphill battle and we went in at the interval with Maghery leading 1 – 7 to 0 – 2. The second half followed a similar pattern to the first with Maghery much sharper and making the most of their scoring opportunities and in the end were convincing winners. Final score Rangers 0 -7 Maghery 1 -14. Our next game is on Wednesday night next when we entertain Wolfe Tones, throw in is timed for 7. 00pm.
Junior League.
Our first match of the week was away to An Port Mor unfortunately we did not play well and returned home minus the points. Final Score Rangers 0 -10 An Port Mor 1 – 16. Next up was a home fixture against neighbours Forkhill unfortunately things did not get much better and after another poor performance we suffered another defeat. This was a game we had a number of chances to win but did not avail of them.
A very disappointing start to our campaign as we went down to a comprehensive defeat to Dromintee. If we are to make any impression in this age group it will require an improved performance.
We made an impressive start to the league with a comfortable victory away to Dromintee. Playing an impressive brand of football they built up an early lead which they never lost.
The club is in the process of taking down all posters erected supporting the team. If you wish to claim your posters you can call to the Rangers Hall on Saturday next between 12.00 and 1. 00pm and claim your poster.
Cairde Raonaithe Na Croise
Our club provides facilities for twenty four teams. In order to meet increased demand and provide facilities which our young people and members deserve the club are embarking on the second phase of our development programme. In order to do so the club must raise a large amount of money. Members can help out by joining Raonaithe Na Croise and agreeing to donate £20 per month for three years. By pledging your support you will be helping your club meet the challenge of the future.
Social Entertainment
Social entertainment continues in the Rangers Hall on Monday nights. The club organises this event as a social event to give to give people an opportunity to come together to enjoy an evening of conversation and fun so why not come along and give it a try.
The club lotto provides much needed funds for the day to day running of the club and your support is greatly appreciated. With the club involved in the championship final expenses have dramatically increased. To provide a full kit for the team cost over £1500 to hire afield to play a game under lights cost £160 other costs such as transport, first aid, catering help to swell the bill so it is vitally important that members continue to support this fundraiser. Tickets cost £1 and can be purchased from local shops or any member of the committee. If you feel you can help out by selling tickets no matter how few please contact Peadar Mc Coy or any member of the committee who will provide you with a book.
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Betty White's 99th Birthday Plan Honestly Sounds Like An Ideal Quarantine Bday
Betty White is a national treasure and today, January 17, 2021, she celebrates her 99th birthday
TV icon, comedian, and all-around badass Betty White turns 99-years-old today. She is best known for her role as quirky and innocent Rose Nylund on Golden Girls, but she's captured our hearts by just being her unapologetic, hilarious self and her plans for this year's birthday celebration sound as perfect as she is.
"Since I am turning 99, I can stay up as late as I want without asking permission!" she told The Associated Press in an email. Her birthday meal will be none other than a classic hot dog and a side French fries brought to her by her longtime friend and agent, Jeff Witjas. He also brings her roses every year because she is a queen and deserves to be treated as such.
She also plans to feed a pair of ducks that regularly visit her Los Angeles-area home and if a hot dog, one friend, and hanging with some ducks isn't the perfect quarantine birthday, we don't know what is. White's devotion to animals has been well-documented for decades. For nearly 40 years, she's served as a trustee of the Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association and is an outspoken advocate of the work that zoos do. Next month, she's even putting out a DVD and digital release of Betty White's Pet Set, a series from the '70s in which she visited her celebrity pals and their pets as well as wild animals.
White's career has spanned decades from 1949's Hollywood on Television to a 2019 voice role in Forky Asks a Question on Disney Plus. Also, her roles in Golden Girls and The Mary Tyler Moore Show have made her a national icon.
If you're wondering how to celebrate Betty White today in honor of her birthday, perhaps consider this prayer candle. We should all collectively be praying over one of these that White lives forever and this Etsy shop owner sells a candle that can burn as long as she has.
Let year, Ryan Reynolds posted a video to Twitter in which he and Sandra Bullock sang to their co-star from The Proposal. The clip kicks off with Bullock singing "Happy Birthday" to the iconic actress before Reynolds finishes the song. Here's hoping they'll reprise their roles as birthday singers this year.
White's work, as well as her comedic timing, has earned her five Emmy Awards, including one in 2010 for a guest-host appearance on Saturday Night Live, which earned her well-deserved praise from fans.
What does White think of aging? "So you may not be as fast on your feet, and the image in your mirror may be a little disappointing, but if you are still functioning and not in pain, gratitude should be the name of the game," she said in her 2011 book If You Ask Me (And Of Course You Won't).
We should all be grateful for 99 years with her.
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We've previously written about how the "Retail Apocalypse" is overblown in the media, but the recent numbers are hard to ignore. Even if what's been dubbed "the end of retail as we know it" isn't as bad as they say it is, retail performance is in decline. The number of US store closings in 2019 so far is nearly 30% higher than the previous year, with 7,922 store closures compared to 5,844 in 2018.
Retailers should expect this trend to continue into 2020. They might have to downsize, assess their inventories, and revitalize in-store traffic by using online ads or incentives. In our previous blog article discussing changes in the retail market, one strategy we shared was to cater to "showroomers" and redirect online traffic through in-store promotions. Another was to simply reduce store size: large stores with unused space require armies of employees to cover and are simply too costly for the current market.
Unfortunately, these steps are merely a bandage on a broken limb. While there are good ways to deal with the inevitable retail decline, the best option for long-term growth is to optimize existing processes. In good times and bad alike, data is the lifeblood of the retail industry. You can't know how well a store is doing outside of sales numbers without gathering, organizing, and analyzing data. In this blog, we'll discuss why using workflows to create meaningful relationships between issues and corrective actions the best way to put retail audits into action.
Optimizing Workflows Step by Step
What are workflows? At Form.com, we define workflows as a sequence of processes that connect a conditional trigger with the desired outcome. For example, if a promotional display has been set up incorrectly, the process that connects that failed state (non-compliant setup) with a successful outcome (brand-compliant setup) is called a workflow. Workflows can be relatively simple, like notifying a supervisor whenever a location receives an auditing score below a certain threshold. They can also be very complex, involving multiple people bouncing approvals, tasks, and information between them.
Workflows can make a big difference in retail because individual stores, field workers, and even auditors are often out of sync with the home office. When using workflows, a decision-making flowchart takes over where individual decisions would need to be made. Removing the responsibility for deciding where or to whom a task goes next provides faster, more reliable, and more consistent results.
More importantly, optimizing workflows results in significantly better auditing performance. With more streamlined workflows, a single store audit takes less time, costs less money, and uncovers more noncompliance.
1. Outline Your Process
Start by outlining your auditing process from start to finish. First, identify the trigger: when noncompliance is discovered, what happens next? Each cautionary rating or red-flag issue should have a direct follow-up task assigned to it. When you've determined the first step after an issue is discovered, chart your way through each subsequent step until you reach the final follow-up audit. This might involve approvals, additional audits, and supervisory involvement.
For most retail auditing processes it will look like this:
- An audit uncovers noncompliance
- The auditor notifies the responsible people
- The supervisor(s) determine a corrective action
- Employees execute the correction
- The onsite manager submits the changes for approval
- Their supervisor signs off on the resolution
Your workflow might be more complex or simpler based on how many people are involved in the chain of command, but ultimately the goal is the game: directly connect a positive resolution to every issue. Additionally, you don't need an exhaustive list matching different workflows with each specific issue. Unless you have aggressively automated workflows, creating issue-specific workflows could end up taking considerably more time from your auditors.
2. Assess and Revise Your Approach
As your workflows operate in the background of your auditing process, you'll begin to understand what's working and what isn't. The goal of analyzing and revising your workflows is to cut tasks or processes that take unnecessary, costly, and time-consuming steps to get to a conclusion. Simple isn't always better, but the less time you spend gathering approvals and signatures, the more time you can spend fixing issues.
When assessing your auditing workflows, focus on a handful of key performance indicators (KPIs). Too many variables will make it difficult to understand how your decisions are affecting performance, so stick to the basics:
- What is the average time to complete an initial audit?
- What is the average time-to-action per correction?
- What is the average cost in man-hours per audit?
After you've gathered enough samples to analyze these KPIs, you can start trimming the fat. Create analytical reports to provide a cross-section of auditing data and highlight trends where you can start optimizing workflows. Look for commonalities between audits, determine the necessity of each part, and pare down anything that isn't contributing.
You should also take the time to listen to your team. Your frontline workers are often intimately aware of which tasks, processes, and workflow elements aren't working. They could very well be frustrated with certain aspects of your process, and there's a lot to be learned from their experience. Give them a fair platform to discuss what is and isn't working when you make changes to your workflows, and be ready to examine how those changes affect their day-to-day activities.
3. Automate Your Workflows
Handling complex processes on paper and spreadsheets is a recipe for disaster. Even though paper forms might get the job done, they lack the speed, accuracy, and depth to give you a competitive edge. Spreadsheets, while a functional method for organizing information, take a lot of effort and time to maintain. They also don't directly connect noncompliance with a positive outcome—they simply catalog it.
Imagine your workflows are like a jumbo jet. The data are your passengers, and your executive team are the pilots. Even if you've taken the time to map out all your workflows and revised them to be as optimized as possible, keeping them locked in silos only clips your wings. It's as if you filed a flight plan but insist on taxiing the entire trip. If you want to unlock the true power of workflows, you need to give your jet a crew, an engine, and a destination.
Form.com can be an extension of your own team, or crew. Our Services Team team can configure a custom mobile forms solution, or engine, that will connect data, tasks, and workers in the field with your back office. With Form.com, audits in the field automatically trigger the next step in your workflow. No waiting for approvals via email, no complicated data aggregation, and no uncertainty about next steps. What you get are results—your final destination.
Click here to learn how Form.com automates retail audits with powerful, configurable workflows designed for your organization's unique process.


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What Is Harrison Ford's Net Worth, and Which Roles Made Him the Most Money?
He's one of the biggest movie stars of the past forty years, known for his laconic sense of humor, crooked grin, and every-man action hero qualities. Harrison Ford has appeared in some of the biggest film franchises of all time, carving out a place for himself in film history that will never be repeated by anyone. From his star-making turn in Star Wars to his ongoing involvement with the Indiana Jones series, Ford continues to be a box office draw well into his 70s.
Harrison Ford's early work
Harrison Ford was born in 1942 in Chicago, Illinois. He got involved with the theater arts during college, and following his graduation, moved to California to pursue a career in acting. He didn't have much luck during those early years in Los Angeles and scored mainly bit parts and voiceover work. Feeling like he didn't have much future in the film business, he taught himself carpentry and started working with hands in order to support his family.
However, Ford got his big break when he landed the role of Bob Falfa in the 1973 movie American Graffiti. Ford earned $500 weekly salary on the now-iconic film, which introduced him to his Star Wars director, George Lucas. When he was 35, Ford appeared in what was to become of his most iconic roles, as Han Solo in Star Wars. He doubled his salary from his previous Lucas project, bringing home $1,000 each week during filming of Star Wars. The Star Wars franchise established Harrison Ford as a worldwide superstar, and he appeared in the sequels The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, and the 2015 installment, The Force Awakens. The Force Awakens remains one of Ford's biggest paydays, with his salary for the film being $25 million plus 0.5% of the overall gross.
What is Harrison Ford's net worth?
In the 1990s, Ford took on another major character when he played Jack Ryan in Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger. For these movies, Ford made $9 million and $10 million, respectively. He has remained one of the hardest-working actors around, and has appeared in such wide-ranging projects as The Fugitive, Sabrina, Air Force One, What Lies Beneath, and Regarding Henry.
Harrison Ford is one of the richest actors in the world, with a net worth of $300 million according to Celebrity Net Worth.
Iconic Ford roles
In 1981, Ford played the globetrotting, snake-fearing archeologist Indiana Jones in the adventure movie Raiders of the Lost Ark. The film, as well as it's sequels, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, added to his immense popularity. A whole generation grew up knowing Ford as not only Han Solo, but as Indiana Jones – and the beloved actor is set to reprise the role once again, returning as Indiana Jones in an as-yet-untitled fifth film.
What's next for Harrison Ford?
At Ford's age, most actors would be retired, especially those with a resume like his. However, the eternally popular actor has continued to work well in his senior years, with roles in films like The Age of Adaline, 42, Ender's Game, and Blade Runner 2049, opposite Ryan Gosling.
Down the road, Ford will don the fedora one last time and appear as the legendary Indiana Jones. The film has not yet been given an exact release date, and plot details are being kept well under wraps, but it will surely go down in history as one of Harrison Ford's biggest film moments – even in a career that includes massive hits spaced out over forty years.


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The coronavirus has altered our way of life and it continues to affect many of us. As the numbers continue to increase and the statistics now include family and friends who have been sick or lost, we can't help but be worried and afraid of what might happen next.
However, during the Press Conference by the Philippine Heart Association Council on Hypertension last June 16, I realized that aside from the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a bigger risk than we should also be concerned about.
If we don't do anything, it is estimated that by 2025, we will have more than 1.5 billion people suffering from hypertension globally and that more than 1.5 billion will be at risk to die because of cardiovascular diseases.
Thus, it is very important for us to learn more about this and understand our situation. Fortunately, we have organizations like the Philippine Heart Association who continuously look after us and champions the advocacy to fight this dreaded disease.
After 8 years through the help of the Corbridge Group, we now have updated data and a clearer picture of the current health situation in the country concerning hypertension. The results of this study conducted by the lead investigator, Dr. Jorge A. Sison, Consultant in the Adult Cardiology at the Makati Medical Center and the Past Head of the Cardiology Section, Medical Center Manila can definitely help us move forward, and hopefully, it can also help guide the government in creating a national policy on this matter.
Here are 7 things you need to know about our current situation:
- Hypertension Prevalence Rate in the Philippines is at 37%
- For Western Visayas which includes Bacolod City, from being the lowest in 2013, the prevalence rate has gone up from 13% to 43% in 2021, making us currently number 3 in the country. (Is this because of cansi? LOL)
- 18% of the total population are unaware that they are hypertensive.
- More younger people now are suffering from hypertension where the hypertension prevalence rate among adolescents (12-18 years old) jumped from 1% to 5%.
- 67% are taking medication for hypertension but BP control rate is low at 36%
- Only 25% of hypertensive monitor BP at home, digital BP monitor, the brachial type being the most common.
- Adult hypertensives have higher BMI, waist circumference, and central obesity rate.
As you can see the results are not really good thus, it is really important that we do something about it. Here are 7 Simple Tips on How We Can Beat this Bigger Pandemic
1. HAVE THE RIGHT DIET - Include at least 5 servings of fruits and vegetables daily. Mix and match your food and opt for more colorful vegetables. It is also important that we do not overcook our vegetables.
2. LIMIT GADGET OR ELECTRONIC DEVICE USE - Minimize your use of gadgets or electronic devices to a maximum of 2 hours daily.
3. EXERCICE - Stay fit and exercise. Allot at least 1 hour per day for your fitness routine.
4. AVOID SWEETENED BEVERAGES AND SODA - Say no to beverages and soda. Water is still the liquid for our body.
5. STOP SMOKING - Smoking kills and so does second-hand smoke. If you can't help it, please be mindful not to pass your secondhand smoke to others.
6. MONITOR YOUR BLOOD PRESSURE - It is important to monitor your blood pressure regularly and that includes your children. According to Dr. Aurelia Leus, BP measurement in children is recommended to be done annually starting at 3 years of age.
7. SEEK YOUR PROFESSIONAL HELP - When in doubt, seek professional help. Ask your doctor. They are the best persons to ask whenever we have health concerns. Do not self-medicate.
We are at war with these two pandemics but we do not need to lose hope. We can win this fight! We have our trusted doctors and the Philippine Heart Association. All we need to do is listen and do our part. :)
For more tips and important updates, you may check the PHA's website - www.philheart.org
or better yet, follow them on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/philheart.org


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The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively announced that Paralympian and actress Katy Sullivan will join the show in a recurring role. Sullivan will play Esther, who is a dispatcher for Iron Lake PD.
Sullivan joins the recently announced Jamie Chung, Oscar Wahlberg, and Michael Cyril Creighton. Julia Jones, Alano Miller, Johnny Sequoyah, David Magidoff, Clancy Brown, and Jack Alcott also joined the cast. Michael C. Hall will reprise his role as Dexter Morgan.
The upcoming season is set to be a 10-episode limited run. It will see the return of Dexter Morgan, who now resides in the town of Iron Lake in upstate New York. While we still don't know too much about what Dexter's been up to (besides being a lumberjack), Sullivan's casting continues to confirm that Iron Lake PD will play a major role.
Dexter is currently filming and is scheduled to release sometime this Fall. Keep up with our coverage here.
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