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IPA - New England | 6.5% ABV
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After our brewers blasted Power Plant and Nuclear Power Plant with hops, they hung around a little too long, breathing the residual "radioactive material" that had propelled into our brewhouse and decided to make a hazy...aptly named Radioactive Fallout. Brewed with Galaxy, Nelson and Centennial.
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IPA - Triple | 11.1% ABV Commercial Description: This behemoth of a "Triple" India Pale Ale gets a heavy dose of hops both in the kettle and on the dry hop resulting in a nose that is straight up fruit cocktail. Truly impossible to distinguish just one note. Monstrous, yet deceptive in the same breath. Power Plant became a two-time...
IPA - American | 6.7 % ABV Commercial Description: A bad-ass 6.7% IPA designed by Steve Austin and ESBC for the working man & woman. It features Citra, Cascade, and Chinook hops to deliver big flavor with an easy finish. Now stop reading and start enjoying this awesome beer! Cheers! Steve BUY 12 OR 24 FOR BEST SHIPPING RATE
IPA - New England | 10% ABV Commercial Description: Beer Zombies collaboration Vol. 5 loaded with Galaxy, Citra, and Strata hops!!!
IPA - New England | 6.5% ABV Commercial Description: This beer sports a light malt backbone with multiple dry hop additions that allow Simcoe, Galaxy, CTZ and Amarillo hops to make a splash. Don't be afraid of the freakishly fantastic, jump in.
Sour - Fruited | 6.2% ABV Commercial Description: Sour Ale aged in Oak Barrels with blueberry, plums, peaches and pears.
Stout - American Imperial / Double | 12.5% ABV Commercial Description: The first Reserve release of 2020 was aged for 3 months in rum barrels imported from Jamaica and finished on over 2,500 pounds of coconut, 1,000 pounds of toasted hazelnut, and 200 pounds of chocolate. The use of authentic ingredients enhances the flavors imparted by the barrel, including notes...
Pale Ale - American | 5.4% ABV Commercial Description: Pale ale brewed with Citra and Mosaic hops
IPA - New England | 6.9% ABV Commercial Description: Tiki inspired hazy ipa. Painkiller tiki drink in beer form.
IPA - Imperial / Double | 8.5% ABV Commercial Description: Nián Shòu "The Year Beast"Ekuanot, Southern Cross & Simcoe hops.
Stout - American Imperial / Double | 11.5% ABV Commercial Description: For the full distribution batch, Tim and Phil selected a blend of two beans: The first is a washed coffee from the Santa Petrona farm in El Salvador. The second is from the San Jeronimo Miramar farm in Guatemala and was fermented with Bavarian Wheat Yeast.Brewed with a malt...
IPA - New England | 7% ABV Commercial Description: Version 7 - Citra, Mosaic, Rakau, Belma
Belgian Ale - Strong Pale | 9%ABV Commercial Description: T.W.O. aged on Casasha (sic) barrels instead of bourbon.
Extra Special / Strong Bitter | 6.5% ABV Commercial Description: Try our English style beer with a perfect hoppy taste and a nice copper color.
Farmhouse Ale - Saison | 6.2% ABV Commercial Description: Three different beers in our Dojo series are serendipitously ready to be enjoyed! Because of incredible organic farms, we never use fruit puree or juice products in our beers. 2019 Raspberry Dojo vintages. Each vintage number refers to year the fruit was harvested.
Witbier | 5.8% ABV Commercial Description: This vibrant beer attracts the locals, with its sun-kissed aroma and the balance of coriander spice.
IPA - New England | 7% ABV Commercial Description: To dream of a brew so tasty it defies reality is the profession and past time of all brewers. This beer is another strive towards awesomeness; a result of teaming up with Belching Beaver and featuring Samba hops which offer notes of candied orange and mango.
IPA - American | 7.2% ABV Commercial Description: Mosaic, Simcoe, Ekuanot, Sultana, Eureka & Nugget hops.
Sour - Berliner Weisse | 4% ABV Commercial Description: Fruit Face A refreshing Berliner-Style Weisse with sweet notes of cranberry, pear, & ginger and a slightly tart finish.
IPA - Imperial / Double | 8.5% ABV Commercial Description: A rebrew of our original version with a couple of tweaks.
Belgian Tripel | 10% ABV Commercial Description: A strong Belgian style Golden ale with a deep gold hue and a rocky, white head. Aroma rich in candied orange peel, maraschino cherry, orange blossom, and clover honey with a subtle hint of, pears, sourdough bread and a touch of freshly mown fields. A sturdy malt backbone supports a spicy hop flavor...
IPA - American | 6.5% ABV Commercial Description: Straight Bars is our American IPA hopped with Citra, Galaxy, and El Dorado. Lovingly dry hopped with the same varietals. One sip and you'll know we ain't playin games. This ish is Straight Bars.
IPA - New England | 6.8% ABV Commercial Description: MOSAIC, GALAXY & DENALI hops. This hop combination creates intense but balanced berry, pineapple and citrus flavors with a smooth finish.
IPA - Milkshake | 7.1% ABV Commercial Description: Think Pina Colada flavor but less sweet and more balanced. Contains lactose.
Sour - Fruited | 7.1% ABV Commercial Description: This Milkshake Sour was brewed with flaked oats, wheat, honey and milk sugar. Kettle soured and fermented atop a ridiculous amount of plums and red raspberries. ABV. 7.1%. Bright, tart and juicy!
IPA - Imperial / Double | 7.5% ABV Commercial Description: Bringing "All Y'all" together for our collaboration with American Solera.For this DIPA we picked a mix of our favorite juicy and tropical hops that we've brewed with over the years. This combo hits all the right spots. Orange, pineapple and passion fruit dominate the flavor and aroma on this 7.5%...
Belgian Quadrupel | 12.8% ABV Commercial Description: Vintage of bourbon barrel skipping stone
Sour - Fruited | 6% ABV Commercial Description: Golden sour beer fermented with aged hops and a mixed culture, aged in select oak barrels, and refermented with four pounds per gallon of peaches, raspberries, and apricots.
Barleywine - English | 14% ABV Commercial Description: MASSIVE! Barleywine is released every year. What makes this beer so distinctive, and gives it the great depth of flavor, is the 8 hour long boil technique. The kettle at Gigantic is heated by a burner, essentially a blow torch under the kettle. This high heat caramelizes the wort, and the long...
Imperial Stout | 12% ABV Commercial Description: An Ethiopian varietal from our friends at Sey coffee imparts delicate, fruit-forward notes of cherry and stone fruit that pair harmoniously with the nutty, milk chocolate, and satisfyingly sweet caramelized flavors from the other adjuncts. Full bodied with a light yet lingering soft tannic finish.
IPA - Imperial / Double New England | 7.7% ABV Commercial Description: This is the good life, full of friends, great experiences, and super tasty haze. Highlighting Mosaic and Cashmere hops, this brew delivers notes of passionfruit, peach, lemon, and guava over a supah smoove malt base.
IPA - Imperial / Double | 8.2% ABV Commercial Description: DIPA is chock full of Citra hops and delivers a one-two punch of hop aroma and blissful flavors of passionfruit and citrus, balanced with a substantial malt backbone.
Sour - Fruited | 8.5% ABV Commercial Description: Imperial Pastry Sour w/ Raspberries, Coconut, & Vanilla Beans
This 5-Pack Contains: (1) Bottle Logic Red Eye November 2019 Coffee Stout: Our annual Level II Darkstar November variant which features an exclusive blend of Brazil Oberon and Sumatran beans from our friends at Mostra Coffee. Flavors of dark fruit, Baker's chocolate and caramelized sugar meld with the spicy rye malt and bittersweet molasses of Darkstar November, our original...
IPA - Imperial / Double | 8% ABV Commercial Description: Imperialized version of Just Outstanding. Collaboration with Tom Nickel
IPA - New England | 6.5% ABV Commercial Description: Just as handsome designs printed on fancy papers and applied to cigar boxes are used to entice cigar lovers, we use Strata, Sabro, and Idaho 7 hops to draw in lovers of fruit-forward Hazy IPAs.
IPA - Imperial / Double | 7.5% ABV Commercial Description: Inspired by the luminous glow of stunning sunsets and the enigmatic aura of transient twilight, this supernaturally delicious beer is big, bold and beautifully balanced, bursting with luscious tropical hop flavors.
Sour - Gose - Fruited | 5.8% ABV Commercial Description: Sour ale loaded with strawberry.
The variety pack contains: (1) Cantillon Fou Foune 2019 Fruit Lambic: Blend of lambics aged 18 to 20 months and of Bergeron apricots. 5% ABV (1) 3 Fonteinen Hommage 2018 Framboise Lambic: Season 17|18 Blend No. 90 3 Fonteinen Hommage is the result of macerating hand-picked whole sour cherries and raspberries on young lambic for at least four months, in...
Porter - Baltic | 9.1% ABV Commercial Description: This rich Baltic-Style Porter has a complex malt profile with hints of toasted bread, caramel, and mild smokiness. Naturally carbonated with maple syrup and lagered on sugar-maple wood spirals, this beer will keep you warm during the cold winter months.
IPA - New England | 7.3% ABV Commercial Description: An ethereal blast of otherworldly flavors, Hitchhiking Ghost IPA summons the power of Citra, Mosaic, and Motueka to haunt your palate with notes of pineapple and dank, sticky resin. Comprised of 60 percent malted barley and 40 percent raw oats, every sip is a soft, wispy, out of body experience.
IPA - New England | 6.5% ABV Commercial Description: After our brewers blasted Power Plant and Nuclear Power Plant with hops, they hung around a little too long, breathing the residual "radioactive material" that had propelled into our brewhouse and decided to make a hazy...aptly named Radioactive Fallout. Brewed with Galaxy, Nelson and Centennial.
Pale Ale - American | 5.8% ABV Commercial Description: West Coast Pale Ale brewed solely with Mosaic and Mosaic Cryo
IPA - American | 7.2% ABV Commercial Description: Surfari IPA is a re-imagining of a classic West Coast-style IPA. With a traditional hop profile, expect bursting flavors of citrus, specifically lemon, and pine with an ample amount of tropical fruit. Be on the lookout for subtle notes of biscuit and honey to balance that big hop flavor. This IPA is...
This Jackie O's variety pack contains: (1) Jackie O's Bourbon Barrel Dark Apparition Russian Imperial Stout: Our signature Russian Imperial Stout, aged in bourbon barrels for one year. Heaven Hill and Buffalo Trace barrels created the bulk of this year's blend. With big notes of almond, vanilla, and hints of toasted marshmallow. Year after year, Dark Apparition continues to surprise...
Stout - Imperial / Double | 13.9% ABV Commercial Description: A special edition of Pime Öö (The Dark Night), this one is aged for 6 months in Pedro Ximenez sherry barrels.
IPA - New England | 7.2% ABV Commercial Description: Tickling the Ivories - "Totally dusted," started Pablo Cruz. "And I can truly say I've never felt better. Posers often overcomplicate it, but I've found all truths associated with the act are easily encapsulated in a few words. Skiing is a dance, and the mountain always leads." Re-tune that Keytar boiz....
IPA - Imperial / Double New England | 8% ABV Commercial Description: Double Dry-Hopped DIPA with Galaxy, Motueka, Citra & Cashmere hops.
IPA - American | 7% ABV Commercial Description: hopped with Nelson Sauvin, Citra, Mosaic & Galaxy
IPA - New England | 6% ABV Commercial Description: OPEN is an unfiltered IPA hopped with whole simcoe flowers, simcoe pellets and simcoe powder. Bubblegum and subtle watermelon aromas sit on top of a soft, fluffy pour that yields delicate notes of floral honey and beeswax. On the palette, silky ribbons of oat milk call to mind cream soda with...
Stout - Milk / Sweet | 7% ABV Commercial Description: Milk sugar, cocoa nibs, and caramel malt build the rich, full body of this brew, with mild roasted notes coming from three varieties of chocolate malt. Have some dessert today - served in a glass!HOPS: ChinookOther Ingredients: Lactose, Cocoa Nibs
Stout - Milk / Sweet | 6% ABV Commercial Description: Rich milk chocolate notes team up with peanut buttery perfection for a deliciously deliciously dark duo


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Getting busy in the garden? Read this first
It's been a rough winter for trees. But now that it's over, give them some TLC, eh?
And for trees this size, that doesn't mean climbing your ladder and attacking them with a chainsaw. In fact, stay off of that ladder and drop the loppers. First off, be safe, says Ralph Bronk of Mountain High Tree, Lawn & Landscape Co. Climbing a ladder with a two-handed tool is simply asking to be injured. Even the pros are roped into the tree to prevent falls or simply bring the big bucket truck.
The tree in the photo that Bronk provided has what's known as a double leader — a narrow "V" that, had the tree been pruned properly when it was small, wouldn't exist. Those two trunks are joined by weak tissue that's prone to split in wind, especially if the tree has suffered internal decay or drought stress or been previously weakened (like, by the hella West winds we've been having all year).

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Where to Study
We work with an extensive network of over 700 third-party teaching and examination centres in over 70 countries, known as Approved Programme Providers. Most are open to the public. Find your preferred APP using the map below.
In order to be able to assure the quality of the WSET experience anywhere in the world, WSET operates an approval and monitoring scheme for such third-party partners through its WSET Awards division. A key feature of these arrangements is that Approved Programme Providers are only approved if they meet – and continue to meet – our quality criteria.


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Make structure clear, and provide navigation to reinforce it. Your form will be divisible into sections so think about the broad groups of questions being asked. Whatever your groups of questions are, make sure they follow the right order and give the groups clear section names.
Provide checklists. As users complete your form, you may well be asking them to provide supporting information or attach supplementary documents where required. Providing a checklist, often at the beginning or end of a form, helps remind users about all the things they should remember to attach, and any further steps they need to go through.


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Welcome to OverPlanted.com!
Are you a passionate gardener with an insatiable curiosity about ornamental plants? Do you like to experiment with plants in your garden? Do you have a tendency to buy plants in alarmingly large numbers? Then you, too, may be an OverPlanter, and this website is meant to feed your obsession. You'll find information on all sorts of plant-related topics: profiles of perennials, annuals, bulbs, shrubs, trees, and drought-tolerant plants; discussions of garden design (including color, form, and texture, along with gardening in small spaces and urban gardens); tips on techniques (growing conditions, propagation, coping with problems); recommended gardening books and blogs; lists of nursery sources and plant organizations; a pronunciation guide to botanical Latin; and even how to mix a killer cocktail. (Gardening is hard work! You need to relax!) My name is Tom Fischer, and I'll be leading you down the byways of the gardening world. (We'll try to skirt the tall weeds.) I garden in the Pacific Northwest (Portland, Oregon, to be precise) but I've also gardened in the Northeast and Midwest, so this is a website that transcends regional boundaries. I'm also editor-in-chief at Timber Press, publisher of outstanding gardening books. Enough chitchat—start (over)planting! And remember: there's no such thing as "not enough room."


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College Sports Madness has named Lipscomb third baseman Paige Neely the Madness Atlantic Sun Softball Player of the Week for her exceptional performances during the past week's action.
Neely was instrumental in the Lady Bisons finishing the Getterman Classic at Baylor University with a 4-1 record. The Lady Bisons beat Iowa, Drake, No. 14-ranked Baylor and UAB.
Neely, a junior from Nashville, tied for first in the tournament in runs batted in with seven, hits with seven, total bases with 11 and sacrifice flies with two.
She finished third in the tournament with a .467 batting average and tied for fourth with a .733 slugging percentage. She tied for second with two stolen bases.
College Sports Madness identifies the players who have made the greatest impact to their team from each conference and on a national basis each week.


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Kurt Nimmo
April 2, 2010
After shooting hoops for the cameras, Harry Smith of CBS asked Obama his thoughts on talk radio. Smith said a lot of people consider him a "socialist" and even a "Nazi" and asked the president if he is aware of this.
"Well, I think that when you listen to Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck, it's pretty apparent, and it's troublesome, but keep in mind that there have been periods in American history where this kind of vitriol comes out," Obama responded. "It happens often when you've got an economy that is making people more anxious, and people are feeling like there is a lot of change that needs to take place. But that's not the vast majority of Americans. I think the vast majority of Americans know that we're trying hard, that I want what's best for the country."
According to CBS, Obama said "both Democrats and Republicans have a responsibility to tone down the rhetoric, but that much of it has to do with the current media environment in which extreme comments are echoed in the blogosphere."
In other words, the problem is not so much establishment talk radio hosts like Limbaugh and Beck but the internet and alternative media. Obama wants the "blogosphere" (corporate media shorthand for alternative media) to "tone down the rhetoric," that is to say follow the rules on discourse established by the government. Americans have a "responsibility" to be polite and wait for the corporate media to get around to interviewing them for fifteen second sound bites. Critics of a predatory and ever-expanding federal government are expected to sit on their thumbs and wait for hell to freeze over.
It is an understatement to say "you've got an economy that is making people more anxious." In fact, the hijacked and looted economy is making them increasingly angry and moving them toward political action.
Large and growing numbers of Americans understand that Obama and Congress do not have their best interests in mind. The Obama administration is filled to the brim with insiders and bankster operatives like Larry Summers and Timothy Geithner. Obama's economic team is headed up by a former Federal Reserve mob boss, Paul Volcker, who has said the American people need to do with less. Obama's State Department is staffed with Trilateralists and CFR members who believe in and work for world government.
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During the election Obama insisted he is a man of the people. His "change" mantra fooled millions. Obama said he would get rid of the corporate lobbyists but on the day after the election (only hand-picked contenders like Obama and John McCain were allowed to participate) he gathered together K Street insiders behind closed doors for a question and answer session (translation: corporations gave Obama his marching orders).
Obama said he would bring home the troops and put an end to torture. He said he would close Gitmo. Instead he expanded the number of troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. He invaded Pakistan and killed countless civilians. He ordered a "surge" (in the killing of civilians) in Afghanistan. Obama promised to put an end to the practice of issuing executive orders but continued the practice of ignoring the will of Congress. In fact, he signed one the day after taking office. He left untouched illegal and unconstitutional government surveillance of the people. Obama and Congress left the Patriot Act in place. Obama continued the Bush legacy (as Bush continued the legacy of his predecessors). He added to this noxious legacy by cranking up the national debt (owned to bankers) to a historically unsustainable and stratospheric level. He marshaled a "health care" bill that will intrude at gunpoint on the privacy and medical decisions of every single American.
But we are not expected to get angry about any of this. We are expected to sit down and shut up. Obama wants us to "tone down the rhetoric." Instead of taking to the streets and protesting against tyranny, we are expected to attend government orchestrated town hall meetings where questions for bureaucrats are submitted in advance and vetted by officialdom.
Obama's hoop shooting propaganda stunt with corporate media crown jewel CBS will not convince those of us angry about authoritarian government shredding the Constitution and trampling the Bill of Rights and expanding government power at every turn to sit down and shut up.
The outrage will continue. Both Democrats and Republicans will feel the wrath come the midterm elections — that is if there will be elections in November. Never underestimate the will of tyrants and their minions and executioners to frustrate the will of the people.
Finally, Obama is not a Nazi or a Socialist. It does not take a rocket scientist to figure out what he really is — a cigar store Indian for the ruling elite and the bankers. Obama is a front man who does the bidding for our globalist rulers. He is the public relations spokesman for international banks and transnational corporations. Obama's job is to shoot hoops and look confident and come off as if he is in control while the real controllers pull the strings from behind the curtain.
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"Adelaide Backpackers Inn is a Brilliant Backpackers Hostel"
Fast, free Wifi, everywhere (that's also in your room), all the time
Free bike hire, Free tea and coffee, Free linen, Free BBQ, no key deposit
"The cleanest backpackers ever"
"We want to help make your stay in Adelaide memorable. Sharing our knowledge, our experience and our smile with you is the first step" - Trevor (Doc)
Right in the middle of the country, South Australia is the doorway to Australia. Our staff can help you enjoy your South Australian experience and get the absolute most out of your trip. There is a lot to see in and around Adelaide. Don't leave yourself too short of time, have the experiences everybody else misses out on.
Adelaide Backpackers Inn is the perfect place to relax, plan and book your trips to the Outback, Kangaroo Island, or to stage your journey to Alice Springs, Perth, Queensland or the East Coast. See our featured and discounted tours and travel ideas, send us an email or just come to reception and ask.
We know backpackers are often on a tight budget and are looking for ways to get a second year visa. Ask our staff for ways to get those elusive jobs or check out our jobs board.
Need help with your English on your CV, just ask and we'll check it out for you.
Adelaide Backpackers Inn is a specialist backpackers hostel, catering for international and interstate backpackers and travellers. It is a small family owned backpackers (even our employees are like family) where the emphasis is on friendliness. Whether you're straight off the plane from home, a stop in between, or you've been backpacking for months, we see our job as helping you to enjoy Adelaide and South Australia. Most things we do are free. Most things we suggest we've done.
We can point you towards work, help get the language on your CV right, suggest things to do from iconic holding a koala to much less well known secret hide-away beaches.
We can help you arrange an itinerary where you see the parts of Australia locals want to see, experience the Australian culture the way Aussies like to experience it, see the landscape the way we like to see it.
"Trevor has to be the nicest man I met in Australia" "Myra is lovely" "Josh went out of his way to be helpful" "Excellent location and staff"
Fast, free Wifi, everywhere (that's also in your room), all the time - Free bike hire, Free tea and coffee, Free linen, Free BBQ - "The cleanest backpackers ever"
The Adelaide Backpackers Inn Hostel has an upgraded sun drenched garden courtyard where you can relax and enjoy a glass of wine or the free BBQ, there's free fast internet, decent sized bunk beds, comfortable mattresses, free air-con, a comfortable lounge with a huge TV and a large kitchen.
Adelaide Backpackers Inn is clean, small and friendly hostel in the centre of Adelaide and provides a modern and comfortable environment from which to enjoy the many sights, sounds, culture and flavours found in and around the city of Adelaide or to visit the spectacular scenery of South Australia or just make friends with other travelers.
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What does it mean when we say "church"? The word "church" comes from the Middle English "chiriche" which is a derivative of the Greek word kyriakos which means "the Lord's house." In the scriptures, the word "church" is translated from the original Greek ekklesia which appears 73 times in the New Testament, and 100 times in the Septuagint translation of the Old Testament for the Hebrew word qahal. Ekklesia literally means "to be called out" and it is used purposefully instead of the Greek synagogue to distinguish its purpose beyond a simple gathering or assembly. In other words, the church (or ekklesia) is the community of people called out by God.
In yesterday's epistle reading, St. Paul writes to his disciple Timothy about the church: These things I write to you, though I hope to come to you shortly; but if I am delayed, I write so that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth (1 Timothy 3:13 - 4:5, Saturday before Theophany). We learn three important things in this short passage:
- There are standards for behavior for members of the Church. Remember, 2,000 years ago Christians were under persecution and therefore did not have public temples of worship. So, church refers to the community of believers, not a building.
- The church is God's house. He is the owner. We belong to Him.
- The church is the foundation of truth. It is where we find and come to know Him who is the truth, Jesus Christ our Lord. To intimately know Him who is the truth is to simultaneously know the truth about ourselves, our strength and our weaknesses, our virtues and our sins.
Looking through the rest of the New Testament, what else can we learn about the Church? Many passages include a greeting to a specific community often at the beginning of a letter/book (i.e. to the Church in Ephesus and seven churches in Revelation). Several passages are devoted to a specific issue like speaking in tongues in Corinth and marriage in Ephesus. In addition, there are numerous general references to different communities. Thus, church can refer to a specific local community or it can also refer the universal community of all believers.
Christ used the term "Church" two times, both in Gospel of Matthew. We learn that Christ will build His church on the rock of Peter's confession of faith that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God (Matthew 16:15-19). Christ also says that the church is the most influential body in helping a person face there sin (Matthew 18:15-17). In the Book of Acts we learn that the church is where believers are baptized, learn doctrine, share in fellowship, break bread, pray and worship together, help those in need (Acts 2:40-47), are taught and called Christians (Acts 11:25-26), pray for specific people (Acts 12:5), fast from food to prepare for prophecy and teaching (Acts 13:1-3), elders/presbyters are ordained and serve (Acts 14:23), overseers/bishops are the shepherds/leaders of the people (Acts 20:28).
In the letters of St. Paul we learn that the apostles, and later the bishops/priests are sent to the churches to preach and teach (1 Corinthians 4:17). In addition, God appoints several types of ministers in the church including apostles, prophets, teachers, miracle workers, healers, helpers and administrators (1 Corinthians 12:28). These ministers and all members of the church are to use their spiritual gifts for the edification of one another (1 Corinthians 14:12). St. Paul also teaches us that the church is the body of Christ (Ephesians 1:22-23, Colossians 1:15-18,24-26) and that she/we are to make known the manifold wisdom of God (Ephesians 3:8-13).
In the Book of James we hear the familiar passage: Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much (James 5:14-16).
Thus, the church is the primary vehicle for our healing through prayer, faith, confession, forgiveness and righteousness. As members of the church, we are called out by God but He does not force us. Thus, we must answer that call each and every day. How do we do that? By personally applying the ethical standards of behavior set forth in the teachings and the lives of Jesus Christ and His apostles, fathers and saints. Where are these found? Of course, these are found in the church, which is the body of Christ, Who is our living God, Who is the fullness of truth, Who is Truth Himself. As we live our life regularly and fully in the church, let us have courage to come face-to-face with the Truth so that we can learn the truth about ourselves in order to confess our sins and share our spiritual gifts!
Fr. Richard Demetrius Andrews is the pastor of St. George Greek Orthodox Church in St. Paul, Minnesota. Fr. Andrews is the past president of Minnesota Eastern Orthodox Christian Clergy Association (MEOCCA), and a volunteer chaplain with the St. Paul Police Department.


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Hello all, if $a_1,a_2, \ldots a_t$ are $t$ integers $\geq 2$, the set $G(a_1,a_2, \ldots a_t)=\lbrace N \geq 1 |$ In any sequence of $N$ consecutive integers there is at least one not divisible by any of $a_1,a_2, \ldots a_t\rbrace$ is nonempty (it contains $a_1a_2 \ldots a_t$) so it has a minimal element which we denote by $g(a_1,a_2, \ldots a_t)$.
Question 1 : Is there a uniform bound $\gamma (t)$, depending only on $t$, such that $\gamma (t) \geq g(a_1,a_2, \ldots a_t)$ for any $a_1,a_2, \ldots a_t$ ? For example, we may take $\gamma(2)=4$.
Question 2 : If $\gamma$ is well-defined, are any asymptotics known about $\gamma(t)$ ?


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Our toddler program is outstanding! Your child will thrive in our small classrooms with excellent ratios. Our small class size allows for much one on one time with each little one!
Our one year old class has only 8 children and our two year old class has only 9 children. The children, sing, dance, laugh, read stories, do art projects, play outside, and generally have a great toddler day! Even the toddlers benefit from Little Stars lesson plans that are created around the Georgia Early Learning Standards (GELDS) . Our professional music teacher also visits these classes weekly; the children love listening to her play her harp and guitar as well learning to sing fun new songs.


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Mesmerized by Okinawa's dramatic underground caves
With an average yearly temperature of 22 Celsius and over 2,000mm (78 inches) of rainfall per year, the island of Okinawa is a humid location to visit, to say the least.
Click the image above for more pictures of these spectacular caves
Windsurfing, swimming, snorkeling, scuba diving, jet skiing and boating are popular and for those not interested in aquatic events there are five UNESCO Castle sites to visit and festivals of one sort or another throughout the warmer months.
Like all tropical islands, there will be rainy days or unbearably hot and humid days when no traveler wants to venture outside the comforts of the hotel room. That's not a vacation!
But sometimes it is worth lacing up a good pair of walking shoes to visit the underground caves ...
Gyokusendo Cave
Just 10 kilometers south of Naha Airport this cave can be reached by bus or car in less than an hour. It is the second-largest cave system found in Japan and has over 800 meters of passageways open to the public.
The cave has small streams, waterfalls, stalactites and stalagmites that have been forming over the past 300,000 years. It is well lit and designed with safety of visitors in mind.
Hand-railed metal stairs and walkways make walking the length of this attraction enjoyable. But caution is advised. The passages may be slippery in places where moisture has accumulated on the chromed decking.
Motion detectors operate pin-wheel controlled lighting, putting on a psychedelic show of colors on the moist stone icicles (stalactites) overhead. Small streams and waterfalls may be heard trickling throughout the cavern and, in places, pools of water give off a rich, blue glow from strategically placed underwater lights.
Peaceful, relaxing and quiet as it may be, it doesn't take much imagination to visualize monsters in the shapes and shadows of some of the unusual rock formations. Movie producers capitalized on this idea back in 1974 and filmed portions of a Godzilla movie here.
Gyokusendo Cave, 9 a.m.-6:30 p.m. (November-March: 9 a.m.-6 p.m.) ¥1,200 (US$13.60) for cave and Okinawa World Village. Facilities: restrooms, gift Shops, restaurant. Parking: free and unlimited. For more information on Gyokusendo Cave, please visit www.japan-guide.com or www.okinawa-information.com.
Kin Kannon-do Temple and Cave
The least foot-friendly of these three caves, the Kin (Kannon) Temple makes up for its short touring distance with some surprises inside and an unusual history.
Sturdy walking shoes, not flip-flops or sandals, are advised to prevent an ankle-twist or fall when going to the depths of this cave.
Back in 1522, a Buddhist missionary, traveling from China to Japan, was rescued from a shipwreck during a typhoon by the villagers of Kin. During his stay, he established the Kin Temple. A gold Buddha Statue donated by the missionary sits smiling just a short distance down inside the cave.
The descent into this cave is fairly steep, some handrails are provided along the steps but, soon enough visitors are on earthen flooring. It can be slippery anywhere along the way whether it's wet or not.
En route various places where incense has been burned and offerings indicate someone has been worshiping at a sacred site. Once you arrive on fairly level terrain, you discover some special treasures.
There are thousands of 1.8-liter bottles of Tatsu Awamori (the Okinawa version of Sake) being aged and stored in the cool depths of the cave. People pay ¥10,000 (US$113) for a bottle and storage in the wooden racks lining the walls at the end of the cave for a period of anywhere from 5 to 10 years.
The "Keep" bottles are tagged with the owner's name and the date they were stored. Some have baby pictures or wedding photos attached, others just a name and the date.
They will be retrieved by the owner whenever the special occasion they planned for arrives, maybe a child's graduation or coming of age or anniversary party.
As I trek my way cautiously back up the slippery stairway to the entrance, I stop at the level of the smiling Buddha Statue, who appears to be guarding the treasures below and think, "Yeah, I'd be smiling, too!"
Kin Kannon-do Temple and Cave, tel. +81 (0)98 968 2438 (Kin Distillery), open daily, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., ¥400 (US$4.52). Facilities: restrooms and gift shop. Parking: available street and rear of Temple. For more information on Kin Kannon-do Temple, please visit www.showcaves.com.
Café Gold Hall and Caves
Located on cliffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Kin Village, this attraction could easily tempt a traveler to spend an entire day here.
The hillside, honeycombed with caves and passageways, was transformed by a recycling genius into a treasure trove of sculptured artworks. Forty years in the making hasn't brought an end to this masterpiece.
There are still woodcarvers, stone artisans, pottery collectors and bonsai gardeners employed on the premises daily.
Thousands of stone and wood-carved figures, representing the spirits, culture and nature of the Ryukyu Islands are displayed in well lit rooms and hallways above, around and leading to the stalactite- and stalagmite-adorned caverns below.
The tour begins and ends at the café which is on the second floor of the structure atop the caves. Even if a visitor took a quick dash through the attractions without stopping to admire or photograph anything, after an hour or two of wandering through the mazes and several levels of elevation, the café is a welcoming site and a great place to stop and have a light meal along with some refreshments.
Café Gold Hall and Caves, tel. +81 (0)98 968 3546, open daily, 10 a.m.-midnight. Admission: ¥800 (US$9), Groups (for 10 people or more): ¥500. Food: ¥300-¥700 light lunch or sandwich. Parking: free (available for up to 20 vehicles).
For more information on Café Gold Hall and Caves, please visit www.plat-okinawa.jp.
Note: During periods of severe inclement weather (typhoon) these facilities may be closed. It is always best to check with your travel office or contact the site by telephone if in doubt.
(Originally published January 2011, updated January 2013)
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There wasn't much movement of significance in Asia as the FX majors moved within familiar and narrow ranges. EUR traded near 1.3500, Cable was just short of the 1.6000 region and USD-JPY moved either side of 98.50. The only notable movement came when the RBA maintained policy rates at 2.5% and released its accompanying statement, which left the door open for more policy action if needed. It also talked down AUD again, stating it was uncomfortably high and declines are likely to be needed to balance growth. AUD pulled back from 0.9520 to 0.9465 on the remarks. Meanwhile, China HSBC October services PMI rose to 52.6 from 52.4 previously as new business growth reached a seven-month high. China Premier Li said China needed growth of 7.2% to ensure a stable jobs market, but did not want short term measures that were unsustainable, which seemed to rule out potential monetary expansion or stimulus measures.
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Pianist's unerring fingers draw magic from composer's 32 sonatas
Beethoven ReCycle, Programme Two
Auckland Town Hall Concert Chamber, 20 April 2013
Reviewed by William Dart, NZ Herald, 23/4/2013
Michael Houstoun's ReCycle, with the pianist tackling all 32 Beethoven sonatas, has begun its historic journey around the country.
Dean Zillwood's portrait on the programme cover caught the determination of this man, revisiting a project first undertaken in 1994. Inside, Houstoun explains how the impulsive energy of youth has been tempered with, among other things, self-trust.
The concert began with the disarmingly simple Op.49 No.1, treated with no less gravity than mightier works yet to come. The Andante was moulded with classical precision while the second movement had no fear of dancing hilarity.
In the F major sonata, Op.10 No.2, one sensed a new brio as Houstoun encountered the unexpected twists and turns of its first movement and the Finale was a spinning top of a Presto.
Canadian pianist Glenn Gould once scorned the B flat sonata of Op.22 as "the dud of the bunch" but Houstoun, with unerring fingers and pedalling, drew sonic bewitchery out of its whirring scales. An Adagio that needed no apologies was sumptuously textured, its long singing melodies buoyantly aloft.
The Tempest sonata turned on some magnificent storms, charted by a pianist in deep communion with his instrument. Mysterious recitatives sheltered in pedalled mists, safe from striding bolts of sound. In its Schubertian Adagio, Houstoun made us aware of the crucial silences and spaces between the notes.
Saturday's concert was to have ended with the A major Op.101Sonata. After an immaculately voiced opening, Houstoun enjoyed some lusty premonitions of Schumann in swaggering march time. Despite being introduced by the shameful piping of a cellphone, the Adagio came with just the requisite yearning of Beethoven's "sehnsuchtsvoll" directive, a beatific calm before Houstoun's marvellous meld of high counterpoint and low rondo frolics in the finale.
On Friday a broken piano string, investing the first movement of the Waldstein Sonata with an unwanted honky-tonk clang, was unable to be corrected. On Saturday Houstoun generously completed the sonata, the magisterial sweep of its finale reminding me of Zillwood's penetrating image of a musician who, like Beethoven, is in love with the sheer primacy of sound.
(Comment: For the record the string hadn't broken. The end of the wire which slots into the pin had become partially dislodged and the string collapsed. It was probably a factory fault and happened without any warning.The problem could not be fixed on the spot and the string had to be replaced the following day. Just one of those things. MH)


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There is more interest in food these days than ever, yet there is very little interest in the hands that pick it. Farmworkers, the foundation of our fresh food industry, are routinely abused and robbed of wages. In extreme cases they can be beaten, sexually harassed or even enslaved – all within the borders of the United States.
Food Chains reveals the human cost in our food supply and the complicity of large buyers of produce like fast food and supermarkets. Fast food is big, but supermarkets are bigger – earning $4 trillion globally. They have tremendous power over the agricultural system. Over the past 3 decades they have drained revenue from their supply chain leaving farmworkers in poverty and forced to work under subhuman conditions. Yet many take no responsibility for this.
The narrative of the film focuses on an intrepid and highly lauded group of tomato pickers from Southern Florida – the Coalition of Immokalee Workers or CIW – who are revolutionizing farm labor. Their story is one of hope and promise for the triumph of morality over corporate greed – to ensure a dignified life for farm workers and a more humane, transparent food chain.
Food Chains premiered at the 2014 Berlin Film Festival and screened subsequently at the Tribeca Film Festival and Guadalajara Film Festival. Food Chains will be released nationwide November 21st. The film's Executive Producers include Eva Longoria and Eric Schlosser.
Eva is best known for her role on the hit series Desperate Housewives and is also a noted activist on Hispanic issues. She has been honored with countless awards for her achievements, including "Philanthropist of the Year," "Latina Visionary and Community Empowerment Award" and the "Cesar Chavez Legacy Award."
Her last documentary in collaboration with Academy Award nominated Shine Global, The Harvest, on child farm workers, won a number of awards at film festivals.
A renowned labor activist, author (Fast Food Nation) and filmmaker (Food Inc.), Eric appeared in The Nation Magazine's food issue in 2011, writing "I hope that the food movement will continue to grow and thrive. More important, I hope that it will become part of a larger movement with a broader vision—a movement committed to opposing unchecked corporate power, to gaining a living wage and a safe workplace and good health for the millions of Americans who lack them."
Sanjay spent over a decade working in the non-profit and government sectors while running a small agricultural genetics company with his father, Dr. Kanti Rawal. After working with Abby Disney and Gini Reticker as a consultant to their hit documentary Pray the Devil Back to Hell (2008), he was bit by the film bug. His first short, Ocean Monk (2010), took the Best Short Doc Prize (online) at the 2010 St. Louis Film Festival.
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While groups like the UFW achieved historic successes for farmworker justice, farm labor today remains one of the most difficult and most underpaid jobs in America.
Farmworkers are generally paid by the piece rather than strictly by the hour, a system that is a direct legacy of slavery. Forced to work at a brutal pace in order to earn the equivalent of minimum wage, farmworkers live well below the poverty line. An average farmworker earns about $12,000 a year providing the goods that enable large retailers to make billions in annual profits.
While the situation for women in any workplace is far from ideal – one in four American women experience sexual harassment in the office – female farmworkers face an endless barrage of abuse. It is estimated that 80% of farmworker females experience sexual harassment in the fields.
In the most extreme cases, farmworkers have been held in debt bondage or modern-day slavery. These are not rare occurrences, but rather, a by-product of an agricultural system that relies on the desperately poor. When one is living in poverty, the loss of a job can have brutal effects. It is this poverty that can place farmworkers in unpredictable situations – ones that can lead to modern-day slavery.
The primary subject of Food Chains, a grassroots labor organization called the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), has developed a remarkable program to end poverty and exploitation in the tomato fields of Florida. The Fair Food Program asks large retailers like supermarkets and fast food restaurants to pay just a penny more per pound of tomatoes and to refuse to buy tomatoes from farms with human rights violations.
To date, twelve major retailers have signed on including Walmart, Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, McDonalds, the YUM Brands, Chipotle, Burger King, Aramark, Compass Group, Bon Appetit, Sodexo, and Subway.
The Fair Food Program has been called "one of the great human rights success stories of our day" in a Washington Post op-ed, "the best workplace monitoring program" in the U.S. in the New York Times, and a "smart mix of tools" that "could serve as a model elsewhere in the world" by the United Nations Working Group on Business and Human Rights.
There are a number of retailers who have resisted signing this landmark agreement including Publix, Kroger, Safeway, and Wendy's. Their forceful stand against the dignity and rights of workers is shameful.


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UBS prices offering of USD 1.5 billion Trust Preferred Securities, its first U.S. public offering.
On 2 October 2000, UBS priced the offering of USD 1.5 billion of 8.622% Trust Preferred Securities that was first announced on 20 September 2000. This was UBS's inaugural offering in the U.S. public markets. The securities were priced at a spread of 278 basis points over the 5.75% August 2010 Treasury securities. The securities have a perpetual maturity with a step-up and call on 1 October 2010, and will qualify as Tier 1 capital for UBS under Swiss regulations. UBS Warburg LLC was the sole bookrunner and joint lead with PaineWebber Incorporated. Co-managers on the deal were Credit Suisse First Boston, Goldman, Sachs & Co, Merrill Lynch & Co., Morgan Stanley Dean Witter and Salomon Smith Barney.
Approximately 87% of the issue was placed in the U.S. and 13% internationally.
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Forming Technologies Inc. (FTI), Oakville, Ontario, Canada, released its newest Catia module, CATTube CAA V5. CATTube is a tube-bending analysis tool for the aerospace, automotive, nuclear and process industries. It incorporates FTI's CHI solver to produce accurate thickness distribution, and accurate tube length for costing and setup, and will automatically determine hot- or cold-forming process requirements.
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Fly me to ... a lunar parabola
Parabolic flights with aircraft have provided microgravity conditions for scientific research, technology testing and astronaut training for the last 25 years in Europe. Now the flights can reach further into space: with a very special flight plan, the European 'Zero-G' Airbus can imitate gravity conditions on the Moon and Mars.
A symposium held last week at ESA's Space Technology and Research Centre (ESTEC) in the Netherlands showed an impressive variety of scientific disciplines that frequently develop and fly experiments on ESA parabolic flight campaigns. First flown with NASA aircraft, then with a modified Caravelle and now with the Airbus A300 Zero-G, the largest aircraft in the world dedicated to parabolic flights, the European campaigns have provided a valuable tool to conduct short microgravity experiments for the last 25 years.
Pilots can create microgravity conditions for up to 22 seconds at a time by flying carefully along a parabolic path, in the same way as an object thrown into the air and falling back freely. In one flight, about 12 minutes of cumulative weightlessness can be experienced inside the plane.
ESA's campaigns are conducted under the responsibility of the Directorate of Human Spaceflight.
Wings for discovery
Vladimir Pletser has followed the European flights since they began and is now manager for ESA's campaigns. He had his first campaign back in 1986 and has seen the scientific progress over the last 25 years. "What we are doing now on the flights is something that we couldn't imagine in the early days. With the cumulative experience, new technology and advances in science, we can now squeeze an enormous amount of data out of those 20 seconds of microgravity."
Pletser remembers his first flight on the NASA KC-135 aircraft: "I was so amazed about the zero-g that I forgot to start my experiment, and when after some seconds I did remember it, I was floating too far away to operate it!"
In the 1980s, microgravity experiments were conducted on very small scale during the flights organised to train the astronauts for the Spacelab missions. Nowadays, the experiments are housed in big racks and contain Xray imagers, high-speed cameras and other advanced instrumentation. "Still, the most important part of the research is the human being, as a subject or as the operator of the instruments," Pletser reminds us. "The quality of the microgravity research in Europe is very high, mostly down to the ESA parabolic flight campaigns."
Martin Zell, the Head of ESA's ISS Utilisation Department, acclaims the ESA parabolic flights, too: "These campaigns have provided an outstanding platform for the European science community to conduct experiments in microgravity."
"With the A300 we are able to bring microgravity almost to their laboratory," continues Josef Winter, Head of ESA's Payloads and Platforms Division. "The increasing number of experiment proposals shows clearly the interest of the European science community in this easy access platform to research under microgravity conditions."
Read more about some of the best examples of the microgravity research campaigns here or by clicking the links on the right.
Lunar parabolas and martian gravity
The future of space exploration is already here for the parabolic flight experimenters. On some flights, the pilots of the Airbus A300 ZeroG aircraft were able to fly parabolas where they maintained Moon (0.16 g) and Mars (0.4 g) gravity conditions for about 25 seconds. This year, these flights were officially brought into ESA's research programme.
Both are interesting microgravity environments that can help to prepare for future missions to the Moon and Mars. Studying the effects of gravity also requires experiments in gravity levels between microgravity and full Earth gravity – and even beyond.


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Snack enthusiasts will have a powerful advantage over their non-snacking multiplayer rivals in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, thanks to Doritos and Mountain Dew's "Rank Up Your Game" scheme. It turns the consumption of nacho cheese flavored chips and carbonated beverages into cold, hard experience points—twice as many, 15 minutes at a time.
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Desmond Tutu, Archbishop and Nobel Peace prize winner (1984).
Desmond Tutu – Biography
Desmond Tutu was born in 1931 in a small mining town in Transvaal. He studied to be a teacher like his father but due to the segregated nature of South African education, Tutu was encouraged to enter the church. After a period of training in England Desmond Tutu was appointed the first black Archbishop of Johannesburg in 1975.
Desmond Tutu became one of South Africa's most outspoken critics of apartheid. He said he was motivated by religious teachings rather than a desire to enter into politics but his strong views clashed with the apartheid State. He says he was influenced in his views by many white clergymen in the country, who were also strong opponents of apartheid such as Bishop Trevor Huddleston. The Archbishop consistently told the South African government that apartheid was contrary to the will of God and was doomed to failure. However as well as being a strong critic of apartheid Desmond Tutu has also stressed the need for reconciliation and forgiveness between the different parties associated with apartheid.
In 1978 he became Secretary General of South African Council of Churches this gave him the opportunity to continue his work against apartheid. In 1984 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the Nobel Committee cited his "role as a unifying leader figure in the campaign to resolve the problem of apartheid in South Africa."
In 1989 FW De Klerk introduced reforms, which led to the downfall of apartheid and the release of Nelson Mandela. Desmond Tutu welcomed these and by 1994 South Africa had its first democratically elected Government with Nelson Mandela elected as President. After the fall of apartheid, Nelson Mandela appointed Desmond Tutu to be head of the Truth and Reconciliation committee, which sought to deal with crimes, committed during the apartheid era. This proved to be a difficult process uncovering many painful experiences
Desmond Tutu is an international figure of high regard. He often speaks out on behalf of oppressed groups around the world. He has been a noted supporter of the Palestinian cause, and the people of East Timor. Recently he has been an outspoken critic of the mistreatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and the dictatorship of Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe.
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– Nobel Peace Prize Lecture by Desmond Tutu
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Desmond Tutu Peace Centre =Aimed at expanding the legacy ofArchbishop Desmond Tutu.
Desmond Tutu at Nobelprize e museum– biography
God Has A Dream by Desmond Tutu
No Future Without Forgiveness – Desmond Tutu(1999)
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Chuan Xin Lian
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Chuan Xin Lian
Herbs play an important role in traditional Chinese medicine. Some of them are famous the world over, while others are quite obscure. Herbs like ginseng are used in thousands of popular products throughout the world. But have you ever heard of Chuan Xin Lian?
What is Chuan Xin Lian?
Commonly sold as Andrographis Anti-inflammatory tablets, the popular supplement is a combination of three herbs that have known antiviral, antibacterial, and anti-inflammatory properties. The chief ingredient in this cocktail is Chuan Xin Lian or Andrographis Paniculata.
What does Chuan Xin Lian do?
The main reason that people all over the world are we are talking about this herb today is because it is reduces inflammation, i.e., it is an anti-inflammatory herb. This means that it can alleviate inflammation that is the result of an injury or an infection. Everything from a sprained ankle to a serious wound can be treated with anti-inflammatory medications or with Chuan Xin Lian.
Herbalists tell us that Chuan Xin Lian can also be used to relieve swollen glands, sore throats, viral and bacterial infections, and damaged or swollen tissue. The herb is said to clear toxins, heat, reduce inflammation, and even cool the blood.
Does Chuan Xin Lian work?
Like many popular herbs, its efficacy as a medical treatment has not been confirmed by medical scientists. However, there have been encouraging studies with regard to the herb's purported antibacterial properties in alternative medicine. We know, for instance, that Chuan Xin Lian has been shown to inhibit the spread of Streptococcus and Staphylococcus, which are organisms that can cause serious infections.
Additional Info
In its pure form, Chuan Xin Lian is not particularly tasty. In fact, the Chinese translation is "pierce the heart lotus," which means that it is so bitter that it actually "pierces the heart." Fortunately, the herb can be purchased in tablet form as a dietary supplement. Chuan Xin Lian is one of the most popular ingredients amongst Chinese herbal supplements.
Possible Side Effects of Chuan Xin Lian
Andrographis tablets are safe when they are used by adults for a relatively short period of time. Testing has not revealed whether they are safe when taken over a protracted period, i.e., over three months. The herb has been shown to cause relatively minor side effects like Headaches, runny nose, Fatigue, and skin rashes. An extremely small percentage of users report more serious side effects, namely, vomiting, diarrhea, and loss of appetite. When taken in extremely high doses, Chuan Xin Lian can cause serious allergic reactions that require immediate medical attention.
It is also important to note that the herb may cause fertility problems. Like many alternative herbal medicines, Andrographis tablets have not been thoroughly tested on humans. But animal research strongly suggests that the Chuan Xin Lian herb may make it harder to conceive, especially when it is taken continuously for more than three months.
Recommended Dosage
Users should take no more than six pills a day. It is extremely important to follow the directions on the label and to contact your doctor or herbalist if you experience any significant or prolonged side effects. As we mentioned, the supplement should not be taken for more than three months at a time.
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Question for Alana: Alana can you share some insight about what is referred to as "The Dark Side" of who we are.
Should we try and distance ourselves from having dark thoughts, or thinking of bad things?
Sometimes I try to be positive, but I find dark thoughts start to creep in, and I feel like I can't move forward and make decisions. I don't know if it is fear, or if I have a dark side that wants to keep me from realizing success.
What is Our Dark Side?
Alana's Answer: Thank you for bringing forth this thought full and wonderful question.
Let's begin by asking a few more questions. Let's ponder:
What does the dark side have to do with who we are?
Essentially what is the dark side?
What does the dark side of our nature lead us to within ourselves?
By asking these questions we might presuppose that we are split; that we have a light side, and that we have a dark side — two distinct halves.
The Illusion of Dark & Light
The truth of this question is that it is an illusion that we are split, that the light side is good, whole, and bright, while the dark side is gloomy, controlling, bad, and even evil.
When you go to the essence of darkness and lightness you will find they are co-creative energies and they exist without polarity. The part of us that senses polarity comes from the mental reasoning that takes place through sensing and identifying them as separate.
The true distinction is that they are interdependently blended. You cannot have light if you do not have darkness. You cannot have darkness if you do not have light. But, this does not equate to a polarity that pushes against each other. One is not more important than the other. What a distinction invites is that they are aspects of each another expressing wholeness. Within light, you find darkness, and within darkness you find light.
Even if you were to ask the darkest, most densely identified aspect to travel to its core, it would also find light. And if you were to ask the lightest, most radiating essence where its power lies, it would find it contained darkness. Sort of like how an infinity symbol dances yet is interconnected
Therefore, when we go into one's so called "dark side" perhaps we might enter a space that you could equate to the womb. Or perhaps, another metaphor would be going into the soil or the dirt where things grow. Another example is the winter solstice, where we experience the shortest day of the year.
The Well of Creativity
Now let's speak more of creativity dear one–when you think of the dark side, think of it like a well where information is stored. It is not the information, but it is the space that contains it. Therefore the darkness is where creativity thrives and is birthed, because, from emptiness all things manifest.
It is the space that contains the nutrients. It holds the resource essences that fuel manifestation when a spark of knowledge is ignited. So without the darkness we would not have light, and without the light we would not have darkness, because they are co-creative aspects within each other.
The Nature of Judgment
Another consideration to think about is how the mind's mental process has the tendency to want to judge. But I would not necessary say that darkness is judgment. That would be like saying our mind is dark.
Instead I would say that judgment has a deeper intention to gather more information, or light if we truly listen. And I would say by going into darkness you'll find the space in which you can begin to uncover and discover what is there for you from which to create.
When a being becomes balanced in life–full and aware–it is much like walking on an edge. Here you able to embrace both dark and light by allowing them to be available, present, balanced, and in synthesis. Then, knowledge, and wisdom can be imparted to fuel creativity.
So dear one, embracing the dark side does not mean being bad, or evil, or living only in the state of your judgments. It means you are allowing your state to go deep into the well of existence where creativity begins and where the imagination is stored awaiting to birth creation. It is where dreams are created. In darkness you find the stored fuel, which wants to be combined with the resources of your heart — wisdom and light — to ignite creativity and gather, of course, love.
Thank you for this great question.


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On Feb. 24, 2012, Bob McDonnell was in a fix. With Mitt Romney's VP selection process looming and McDonnell viewed as a real contender, the Virginia Legislature had very inconveniently descended into a divisive debate about mandating invasive ultrasounds for women seeking abortions.
As McDonnell walked out of a POLITICO event at the Newseum in Washington, he faced a battery of local TV cameras that were there for one purpose: to pin down McDonnell on the culture-war battle riveting Richmond.
It was the kind of moment that sends many politicians racing for the exits, with aides shouting, "No questions!" But McDonnell seemed delighted as he bounded over to greet the press throng. "Are you guys here to ask about my education plan?" he joked.
(WATCH: McDonnell's political career from campaign to indictment)
He then patiently and deftly swatted the questions away — "You can't believe everything you hear in the national press" — giving the impression of a man thoroughly enjoying himself. His smile and peppy manner seemed almost like a taunt, as if saying to the reporters: C'mon, can't you guys throw any tougher punches than that?
McDonnell is no longer giving the impression of a man thoroughly enjoying himself, as he and his wife, Maureen, face down a 14-count federal corruption indictment. But his bravura performance two years ago still echoes poignantly, displaying the love of the game — and McDonnell's unquestioned skill at it — that for a time made McDonnell one of the most promising leaders in Republican politics.
As that moment reflects, it has always been difficult to pin down McDonnell's persona — or even to understand what made him tick behind his square jaw and perfectly combed hair. Now, as McDonnell faces the real prospect of ending his public life as a felon, it is harder than ever to answer the question: Who is Bob McDonnell, anyway?
When he ran for governor five years ago, the people of Virginia were introduced to Bob McDonnell the zealot: a religious extremist tutored at Pat Robertson's university, a man Democrats warned would try to keep women in the home and make it easier for criminals to get guns.
(PHOTOS: Bob McDonnell's career)
The labels didn't fit. McDonnell won his 2009 governor's race easily and avoided social issues in office.
Next, Americans met McDonnell, the modern-day Mr. Republican: a beaming politician of total integrity and boundless personal confidence, a man who governed more or less from the center, passing landmark transportation reform and writing the playbook for GOP swing-state victory.
That wasn't quite right, either. By the end of his four-year term, McDonnell was snarled in a gift-giving investigation that was at least tawdry, if not actually criminal.
Finally, we met McDonnell the dupe: a well-intentioned man, pure of heart but weak in dealing with the people around him, led cluelessly into dangerous legal territory by an acquisitive and ill-tempered wife — Lady Macbeth with an Amex card.
The indictment handed down Tuesday against both McDonnells gives the lie to that portrayal, as well. In a 43-page document filed in federal district court, the former GOP governor is depicted by prosecutors as a man preoccupied with improving his family's financial condition, going well out of his way to accommodate his financial benefactor, Star Scientific CEO Jonnie Williams, and communicating directly and often with the former first lady about various money-making enterprises.
(Earlier on POLITICO: McDonnell decries 'unjust overreach')
The federal justice system will have the final word on whether McDonnell broke the law and disgraced his office. Arriving at an assessment of McDonnell as a person, and as a political character of the times, may be a longer and even more complicated process.
Voters will have to weigh the McDonnell who wrote an incendiary Regent University thesis against the wedding-cake figurine who campaigned on an anodyne "Bob's for Jobs" slogan, and to try to separate out the deft negotiator who crafted a landmark transit-funding deal from the cash-strapped dad who — according to prosecutors — reveled in having sudden access to luxury brands like Ferrari and Rolex.


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I love people who don't just wade into the tepid waters of bike commute blogging, but instead take a flying leap off the diving board, much like did La Burbuja, who is an awesome person. While I'm off lounging on a tropical beach somewhere (or marginally overwhelmed with minor professional obligations) she's out riding and writing ensuring the the dear readers of this blog (now in double digits!) have something to peruse. I don't like to bandy about this word lightly, but "hero" comes to mind. As does "gyro," but mostly because I didn't have any birthday cake for breakfast this morning. Millions of thanks!
I'm not sure I'm up to writing this post but figured I'd give it a try. Seems like if I don't do it, there won't be one, so it really just has to be more interesting than nothingness. Doesn't sound too hard, but let's not count any chickens before they hatch.
Some days I bike all the way to work, from Adams Morgan to Suitland. This involves bikey clothes and a shower (or reasonable facsimile) when I get to work, and using my own bike (an oldish steel road bike which was made custom for someone other than me), and the smell of fish (Maine Ave) and the smell of trucks (Maine Ave) and crossing bridges with narrow 'ATLs' (the one on Rock Creek Parkway over the Tidal Basin, and the one on South Capitol over the Anacostia), and one pretty gigantic hill (Naylor Road). On other days I just bike either to U st or Gallery Place and take the metro. This involves worky clothes and Cabi and the 15th street cycletrack and people looking at me funny/nervously for being so sweaty on the metro and knitting. Actually in the summer, my drippy face generally doesn't merit a second look, but when it's cooler, some people look a little like they think I might have a bomb strapped to my chest. And some days, I telework (now, two days a week!). This involves sleepy clothes and way better lunches and the radio on and hearing the neighbor's dog Emma (not to be confused with Ellie) barking a whole bunch.
Today I thought I would take my own bike but we had an overnight guest sleeping in the study. And while I was smart and forward-thinking enough to get my bike out last night to avoid waking our guest at the crack of freakin' dawn when I leave for work (well, 7:15 ish), I was not anywhere near forward-thinking enough to also get my bike bag out. The thing I like least about bike commuting is having to remember a whole bunch of stuff including clothes and undergarments and work shoes and shower stuff ("shower stuff" sounds like a new overpriced liquid soap but I just mean my soap and shampoo and towel and comb). The thing I like best is the bike commuting part. So today was a Cabi and Metro day.
Sometimes I have a mad dash between my coffee and getting dressed an repeated checking of Spotcycle to see if I'll have a bike and then even when I think I will, I don't. But today there were lots of bikes. Yay! And the morning was cool and crispy (well, crispyish), and all the cyclists around me were delightfully non-shoaly (even the ones who were obviously faster waited behind me at the red light and then passed appropriately after we were moving again). I don't really mind some shoaling when I'm on a Cabi and the other person is on a fast bike and/or clipped in and is clearly going to go faster, as long as they don't do it on my right, or then be all stupid slow and checking their phone or spazzy clipping in when the light turns green (for the record, I am very patient about slow starters and riders in front of me if they didn't just shoal me). My least favorite kinds of shoaling are 1) when I am commuting on my road bike (clipped in and moderately bikey looking), and some goofball shoals but then is really really slow, and 2) when I'm on a bike ride ride (vs commuting) and waiting patiently at a LONG red light on Beach drive, and some old man rolls up and plants himself in front of me and then is kinda slow and sucky when the light turns green and I'm stuck behind him for a while. Dude, really? What made you assume you were faster? Or did you just feel so entitled you didn't even think about it?
On the way home I got out of the Metro at Waterfront in order to enjoy a slightly longer ride home. And the first (tiny little itty bitty) raindrops started to fall just as I took a bike out of the dock. But for some reason (and its not that I'm general an optimist, cuz I'm not) I was pretty convinced that the rain wouldn't be too bad. But whatever the reason, I think maybe it was the same reason that on Sunday I thought I had time for a nice bike ride on Beach Drive before the rain started. I was wrong. Both times. I got totally totally, completely 100% soaked both days. Like it's hard to keep your eyes open with your sunglasses on or off soaked. Like your sandal straps stretch way out of whack and your feet get all slippy slippy on the pedals and practically slip out of your sandals soaked. Like you have to wring out your clothes before hanging them in the shower to dry soaked. On Sunday I was still maybe 10 miles from home when it started pouring. This evening I was on Madison by the Mall. (Oops – I just realized I didn't give any details about my route. Hope that wasn't a requirement….)
On Sunday the rain followed a slightly annoying thing (old man shoalers) and a very unpleasant and scary thing (an on-purpose pulling up of a pick truck within 2 inches of me at a red light and a dick of a driver pointing me to the side of the road). And then it started raining. At first I was all "this sucks" and "I shouldn't have gone so far from home," but then I realized how beautiful and peaceful Rock Creek Park is in the rain when its almost empty, and how most people are very smiley (like in a snow storm), and how I was really glad that I hadn't had a better weather forecast cuz I would have missed a great ride. Today was kinda the same; the rain didn't follow anything bad or unpleasant (well, work), but I questioned whether getting off the Metro was a dumb idea, and I thought about how getting work clothes wring-'em-out soaked is more of a pain than throwing bike clothes in the wash. But then I realized how much fun I was having riding through torrents of water, and I self-congratulated my brilliance for taking 15th street north (rather than 12th street like I usually do) (Hey look! Route info!). And people were huddled under building ledges and umbrellas, and scurrying about. Some of them looked a little miserable, and some of them looked like they felt bad for me. And I was totally soaking wet and smiling.