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From here on out I'm only taking of my sweatshirt by sliding it down over my hips.
Recently Mark Zuckerberg (creator of Facebook for any of you that aren't geeks or Justin Timberlake fans – although there is a surprising overlap between the two groups. Venn diagram anyone??) announced that he will henceforth only eat meat that he has killed by his own hand. Each year he takes on a new personal challenge (last year he learned Chinese… I know, it boggles) and this year he says,
"My personal challenge is around being thankful for the food I have to eat. I think many people forget that a living being has to die for you to eat meat, so my goal revolves around not letting myself forget that and being thankful for what I have. This year I've basically become a vegetarian since the only meat I'm eating is from animals I've killed myself. So far, this has been a good experience. I'm eating a lot healthier foods and I've learned a lot about sustainable farming and raising of animals. I started thinking about this last year when I had a pig roast at my house. A bunch of people told me that even though they loved eating pork, they really didn't want to think about the fact that the pig used to be alive. That just seemed irresponsible to me. I don't have an issue with anything people choose to eat, but I do think they should take responsibility and be thankful for what they eat rather than trying to ignore where it came from."
Zuckerberg also makes it a point to eat all parts of the animal including the organs and even used chicken feet to make stock.
Have you ever killed an animal that you then ate? Other than a few fish as a kid, I haven't. Honestly I don't know if I could. I remember my dad deciding one day that he wanted to hunt a deer, kill it, skin it and butcher it (my dad's big on survival skills). He was successful – a fact I discovered when I came face to face with the dead animal hanging by its feet under our deck as I tried to sneak in past curfew late one night (saying I screamed like a girl does not do justice to that scream. or girls.) – and it took us an entire year to eat all that venison which he insisted we do because it would be inhumane to kill an animal for sport and not nutrition. This is the house I grew up in.
You know who has killed a cow? Gym Buddy Krista. And not with her car, either. (I'm telling you, this girl has got stories. And they come out at the most random times in the gym.) As a practicing Muslim, she can only eat "halal" meat which means it must be slaughtered in a particular way with specific prayers. "Ḏabīḥah (ذَبِيْحَة) is the prescribed method of slaughtering all animals excluding fish and most sea-life per Islamic law. This method of slaughtering animals consists of using a well sharpened knife to make a swift, deep incision that cuts the front of the throat, the carotid artery, wind pipe and jugular veins but leaves the spinal cord intact." You catch all that? Big knife, throat slitting, lots of blood – and she's done it. When I looked like I might faint she told me to stop being such a baby. And I think she's right. While it sounds awful, I think that it is a powerful way to connect people with what they are eating. Most of us who eat meat like to pretend it magically appears on store shelves in shrink-wrapped irradiated (there's another issue for another day) packages. But every time we have "Beef, it's what's for dinner!" or "Pork, the other white meat!" or even "Chicken, we don't need no slogan 'cause we make tasty nuggets!" we are, in effect, causing the death of another living being.
I take that very seriously. Even after examining all the health issues and research, this still weighs heavily on me. I know some of you are going to think I'm nutty (not that you need another reason) but for me when I decided to eat meat again, I also decided to stay as connected to the animal as possible. I'm not going to go slaughter my own cow – Krista, I'm getting pale again – but I can say a prayer of thanksgiving both to the animal who gave up its life for me and to the God who made it (the same God who notes the fall of every sparrow is surely going to miss something as obnoxiously flatulent as a cow). It also means that I sought out a farmer who cares about his animals and raises them in ways where they thrive, even if I have to pay more for it and drive home with a minivan stuffed full of bloody cardboard boxes like the dumbest serial killer ever. (Although price wise I've found it pretty economical when I buy 1/4 of a cow at a time.) Bob – yes he is Farmer Bob and I adore him – probably thinks I'm unbalanced but I always ask him how the cow was doing, what it weighed, if it was happy and if it had a name. (For the record, he does not name his cattle.)
Hippy-dippy feelings aside, a lot of people are very concerned about the economic and environmental impact of raising animals for food and rightly so. Animals, but beef especially, are very inefficient food sources and therefore take a lot of natural resources like water and grain that could be used to help a huge number of hungry and thirsty people. In a world where millions, including 15 million children, die of starvation every year it seems we should be focusing more of our attentions on how to best raise enough food and the most efficient ways to get it to where it needs to be. (Often, sadly, the issue isn't so much a shortage of food but an issue of politics and logistics that keeps the available food out of needy mouths.) The environmental cost is also large. Pasturing cows is awesome as I pointed out yesterday but just like conventionally raised cattle, they take up a lot of land, contaminate water sources and – I swear I'm not making this up – cow farts (methane) account for 18% of global warming. In addition we accrue environmental costs in the methods we use to farm animals, butcher them and transport them not to mention the antibiotic resistances that we've introduced by injecting our food sources with antibiotics.
My Conclusion
These reasons are exactly why I will never ever tell someone they "should" or "need to" eat meat. The larger ethical questions of whether it is humane to eat meat and whether it is acceptable to do that kind of damage to the environment will have to be answered by each person in their own way but for me I need to eat some meat. And I will do it in the kindest, cleanest way that I can. It's an uneasy compromise.
Have you ever killed an animal? Do moral/ethical concerns change the way you eat?
And just in case you don't think fish are cute enough to warrant existential angst, check out this adorable vid of a toddler catching his first fish. (He names the fishy "Free" because he's "beautiful" and then asks his dad "Does it like me?" The father wisely does not answer, "Well you put a hook through his mouth and are now suffocating him with air so he probably hates your guts right now." because that would not have been adorable.)


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HATEM Ben Arfa helped carry Newcastle United over the line at Old Trafford, according to Alan Pardew.
The forward was thrown on against Manchester United midway through the second half on Saturday with the score still goalless.
Yohan Cabaye put Newcastle into the lead in the 61st minute, and Ben Arfa helped the visitors keep their momentum during a nervous finale for manager Pardew.
And Pardew's side held out to claim their first win at Old Trafford in more than four decades.
"It was a bit nervous for me," Pardew said. "We'd defended great up until then.
"Sometimes you can get on the back foot, and get too deep, but we didn't."
Ben Arfa - who frustrated Man United manager David Moyes late in the game as attempted to get the ball to Patrice Evra for a throw in - helped relieve the pressure on Newcastle's back four.
"I thought Hatem had a big part to play in that last bit," said Pardew.
"He was brilliant at keeping the ball, taking us up the pitch and giving us a rest."
Ben Arfa hasn't started a Premier League game since late October, but Pardew, speaking late last month, insisted that the 26-year-old would have a "big impact" between now and the end of the season.
"His attitude has come as no surprise to me," said Pardew. "I've been with Hatem now since I have been here, and I would like to think he respects my decisions.
"I certainly respect his. I think that helps in his mind. He's a character who is going to have a big impact on our season."


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Andaman is a group of islands that constitute a major part of the union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. As a matter of fact, this group of islands is closer to countries like Myanmar and Thailand as compared to the mainland of India. Lying in the Bay of Bengal, Andaman Islands make for one of the most romantic destinations in the Indian subcontinent.
5 Nights In Andaman1N Port Blair , 1N Havelock-Island and 3N Port Blair
Itinerary Map
What's Included
|Hotel and Room
|Port Blair
|1 night(s)
Standard Room
|Room only
|1 night(s)
Standard Room
|Room only
|Port Blair
|3 night(s)
Standard Room
|Room only
- One way transfers to havelock and niel by mak-cruise other by ferry Breakfast
- All transfers & Sightseeing in Exclusive A/C vehicles as per the itinerary
- Airport Transfers
- All Entry Permit/ Tickets & Ferry Tickets
* Prices mentioned are for per person on twin sharing basis (minimum 2 people staying together)
Day Wise Itinerary
Day 1: Arrival At Port Blair
- Arrive at Port Blair where you will meet with our representative and be checked into
- your hotel. Start your holiday with a city tour which includes a visit to the water-sports
- complex, chatam island, anthropological museum and fisheries museum.
Things to see and do
Fisheries Museum
Fisheries Museum is a place where more than 350 species of marine life have been preserved with extensive care. This imposing museum is encircled by Marine National Park, ...
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Zonal Anthropological Museum
Zonal Anthropological Museum, Andaman and Nicobar IslandsZonal Anthropological Museum of the Anthropological Survey of India is also located in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands...
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Day 2: Port Blair To Havelock
- Transfer to Havelock by morning ferry to visit the famous radhanagar beach(voted
- asia's best beach by Time Magazine) , overnight stay at Havelock.
Things to see and do
Radhanagar Beach
Radhanagar beach is also a great place to spend some quiet, quality moments with family and friends. A silent walk on the beach or around the lining forests, enjoying a ...
Travel from Port Blair to Havelock-Island
Ferry from Port Blair to Havelock Island
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Day 3: Havelock To Portblair
- After Breakfast transfer to port blair by A/c cruise .On reaching breakfast port blair
- visit ross island (historic headquaters of the british) by boat,Return to port blair and finish
- your days tour with a trip to the carbin's cove beach.
Things to see and do
Ross Island
Ross Island is located very near to Port Blair and thus can be easily reached within few minutes. On visiting the island, one can understand the reasons why British chose ...
Travel from Havelock-Island to Port Blair
Ferry from Havelock Island to Port Blair
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Day 4: Portblair City Tour
- A trip to baratang ( about 90 kms from port blair )through Andaman's protected tribal
- reserve area .At Baratang you will visit the limestone caves and mud volcano.You will return
- to port blair by evening The limestone caves are about 45 mins journey by boat through dense mangroove
- backwaters,after getting down from the fishing boat the caves are located about 2kms
- inside the forests.The caves are in itself a rare wonder of nature but for most people
- the journey to the caves is a once in a lifetime adventure.
- The mud-volcano is located at about 30 mins drive from baratang jetty.It is a very rare
- active mud volcano found only at a very few places around the world.
Things to see and do
Limestone Caves
Limstone cave, The journey on to these cave is equaly mesmerising which covers all the way through Tribal reserves. Limestone cave can be explored with the permission of ...
Mud Volcano
A Mud Volcano is created by natural gases emitted by decaying organic matter underground. As the mud is pushed upwards by the gas, it deposits and hardens above ground. As ...
Day 5: Portblair Sightseeing
- Trip to jolly buoy island(M.G National park),where you get to go on a breathtaking
- glass bottom ride(coral viewing) ,visit the deserted yet stunning wandoor beach on the way
- back to portblair.
Things to see and do
Wandoor Beach
Wandoor beach is famous amongst tourists and locals alike. The picturesque scenery of the beach makes it ideal for swimming and coral sighting. With clean blue water ...
Full Day Sightseeing with Jolly Buoy/ Wandaroor with Entry Ticket with Pvt Transfers
With activities like snorkeling, boating, scuba diving and more, Jolly Buoy Island is one of the tourists favorite. So much so that a trip to Port Blair is incomplete ...
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Day 6: Departure
Hotels Included
The Mainak Hotel (3 star)
ABC Colony, Shadipur- 744106, Port Blair
Holiday Inn Beach Resort (3 star)
No-5 Govind Nagar Beach - 744211, Havelock-Island
The Mainak Hotel (3 star)
ABC Colony, Shadipur- 744106, Port Blair
Cancellation Policy
- The package once booked is refundable and cancellable.
- Flight cancellation will be as per airline cancellation policy.
- Date of booking to 30 days before travel the cancellation charges will be 10% of the tour cost
- 30 to 15 days before travel - cancellation charges will be 50% of the tour cost
- 15 to 7 days before travel - cancellation charges will be 75% of the tour cost
- 0 to 7 days before travel - cancellation charges will be 100% of the tour cost. No refund shall be given
- Please note cancellation policy is subject to change. It depends on the hotel policy. In peak season, some hotels may charge 100% cancellation.
Additional Information
- Check-in at hotel starts from 14:00 hrs.
- Check-out time is until 12:00 hrs.
- Early check-in or late check-out is subject to availability and may be chargeable by the hotel.
- Once your payment has been processed, we will send you an email confirmation.
- You will receive all travel vouchers required for your flights and accommodation shortly afterwards.


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Temporary Shelters by A Wrecked Tangle Press
Temporary Shelters is a book object built into a landsnail shell. The text begins curled into the shell as one long scroll to be unfurled and, ulitmately, detached completely by the reader. Each book is encased in dirt in a cardboard box, from which the reader is instructed to fill the emptied shell with dirt and plant a seed. Equipped with a gold chain to hang it from, the shell/book which begins as a shelter for the text becomes a home for a new plant. The theme of the book confronts the idea of homemaking as an instinctual response, where a detached narrator observes the habits of people and animals in attempts to understand their own relationship with the temporal body.


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- Realistic portrayal of the scientific community needed to combat science denial - Jun. 20, 2016
- Science, global health, and irrational health behaviors - May. 23, 2016
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- Does Fear-Based Messaging Help Public Health Campaigns? - Apr. 29, 2014
With the recent release of the movie "Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe," I'm seeing a few blog posts and articles pop up about the hegemonic nature of science and the consensus culture that the field supposedly embodies. In fact, this argument is at the center of the anti-vaccine movement in general. Andrew Wakefield and his supporters do not simply put forward their "idea," but they insist that the scientific community and the government are engaged in a conspiracy to cover up the known ill effects of vaccines. This kind of thinking is what leads to statements like "Dr. Wakefield is a hero to the autism community. He does not quit. There are lots of doctors who know what vaccines are really doing to our children, but they remain silent. It takes a special kind of courage to stand by the truth and have your career and your reputation destroyed."
At the same time, I'm seeing a lot of responses from the media and scientific communities that take the form of simply accruing evidence to show people why they are wrong.
In dealing with statements like these that are so clearly contrary to scientific findings and even appear somewhat paranoid, it's important not to simply dismiss them and attempt to counteract by citing a lot of scientific facts. Those methods usually don't work very well. What does help is to take these statements apart and think more carefully about what's really behind them. What are people really saying when they claim that doctors are engaged in a conspiracy to hurt their children? How exactly did they form that belief and what is the precise misunderstanding that caused it? What are the emotional benefits of holding onto that belief and how can we respond in ways that are sensitive to those emotions?
In the case of anti-vaccine sentiments, there are many factors at play beyond misunderstanding of the science. In fact, I would argue that many people who become persuaded that vaccines are dangerous are actually highly educated and may not misunderstand the science at all. So if misunderstanding the science is not the only issue, what is going on here and how can we reverse it?
First of all, we need to recognize something very important about Andrew Wakefield: like him or not, he is definitely a charismatic leader. Charismatic leadership can be used for either "good" or "bad." Martin Luther King, Jr. was a charismatic leader. But so was Adolf Hitler. Scholars have done a careful job of isolating the characteristics that make a leader "charismatic." Usually, a charismatic leader is someone on the "fringes" of the mainstream and calls for extreme actions, such as revolution or uprising (Conger & Kanungo, Charismatic leadership in organizations, pg 13-14). If you study Andrew Wakefield carefully, it becomes immediately clear that he fits most of the criteria for charismatic leadership. I won't go into all of the details here, but his very emphasis on the fact that he has been systematically excluded from the scientific community by way of a conspiracy that requires nothing short of an uprising to expose is one clear indication. The main point here, however, is not to prove that Wakefield is in fact a charismatic leader but rather to acknowledge the fact that people who believe him are not just unable to understand science. They are responding to extremely powerful social cues that tap into a whole range of psychological features that the charismatic leader is able to manipulate. This is precisely why charismatic leaders are so persuasive.
But there's clearly something else going on here aside from Wakefield's charisma. There is a misunderstanding of sorts but it's not what we think it is. Rather than misunderstanding the evidence that vaccines do not cause autism, many Wakefield followers are mistakenly persuaded by his portrayal of science in general. This is an important distinction because it alters how we think about educating people who do not believe the evidence. As a charismatic leader, Wakefield is very persuasive in his self-portrayal as someone who has been systematically excluded from the scientific mainstream. He paints a vivid picture of a scientific community that is dictatorial and hegemonic. He claims with great passion that the scientific community is simply a consensus culture and that the reason his research has been retracted and debunked is because no one wants to entertain evidence that disagrees with their viewpoints.
Now, scientists overwhelmingly agree that vaccines do not cause autism. Wakefield twists this very fact to support his claim that science is united against him. But Wakefield's picture of the scientific community is totally inaccurate. Science is a field with a great deal of debate and a lot of ambiguities. Scientists do not do one experiment, claim they have found the "truth," and then just force everyone else to fall in line. Instead, scientists are trained to be extremely skeptical and the scientific method is actually set up to favor disproving hypotheses rather than proving them. It takes decades of careful research and endless replications for scientists to even begin to accept something as scientific truth. Indeed, scientists took Wakefield's claims seriously, even though his methods were egregiously flawed and rendered the study completely invalid. In the almost 20 years since Wakefield published his (now-retracted) paper in The Lancet, there have been numerous studies using valid research methods to investigate whether Wakefield's claim is true. All of them, of course, have shown no significant association between vaccination and autism.
This is not meant merely to reinforce the evidence against Wakefield's claim but to comment on the dire need for better education of the general public on what science is really like. Most of us simply learn the scientific method, usually presented as a rigid, almost theological, system, in elementary school and that's the end of it. Scientific education needs to include a more informed look at how science operates in the real world. And media portrayals of scientists need to show more of the process and be better represent real debates when they exist (which is most of the time in science). Only when people better understand not simply the evidence but also how the scientific community operates and what constitutes a real debate can we begin to have a useful dialogue about science denial.
Sara Gorman will be joining us once a month to highlight different aspects of her forthcoming book on science denialism: Denying to the Grave: Why We Ignore the Facts that Will Save Us. See her previous contribution here.


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This incredibly creepy banner ad!
Have you seen this banner ad online yet? I see it, plus other variations, all the time and it just does not sit well with me. It makes me want to shower. My brain wants desperately to figure out which photo is "before" and which is "after" but all I see is before and more before. I have been waking up in the middle of the night, soaked in sweat, screaming "BEFORE! BEFORE!"
I did a little nosing around about this ad and the site "cathysteeth.com" that it advertises. Turns out there are about 100 variations of this "mom's blog" all telling the same story but from the beautiful white mouths of different fake moms. Just google the following sentence and you will see what I mean…
I discovered a two-product combination that works better than anyone could have expected
I used to just hate the ad because it made me physically ill, but now I hate it because it's just another example of people trying to scam each other. Fuck everyone. Not you though, you are my favorite.


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Lothian Labour MSP Sarah Boyack today submitted a 250-name petition to the city council calling for CCTV to be installed in the Telfer Subway, which links Dalry and Fountainbridge.
The campaign was initially launched in November 2011 following a spate of attempted robberies at knifepoint.
She said: "The Telfer Subway has gained a notorious reputation for crime and antisocial disorder which has been further underlined by recent incidents."


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In last month's article, I suggested that lasting change can't come through will power alone but can only be achieved through re-training the way we think and changing our repertoire of available thoughts. So why is it so hard to change anyways? In order to answer this question, it helps to have a basic understanding of how our brains function when it comes to our behavior. The first thing to remember is that most mental processes happen automatically. If you think about it, there is always that stream of consciousness that flows on by without any direction or effort. On the other hand, there is obviously also an element of our mental processes that can be fully under our control. This kind of controlled thinking takes effort, proceeds in steps and takes center stage in our consciousness. For example, what time would you would need to leave your house in order to catch a 6:30 pm flight at the Charlotte Airport? That's a question you'd have to consciously think about. You'd have to factor in rush hour traffic, the weather, and the potential for the long lines at the security check point. On the drive to the airport however, the majority of your mental activity would occur automatically. Deciding how much pressure to apply to the gas and brake pedal, changing lanes, daydreaming, keeping a safe distance between you and the cars around you, and even debating just how many miles per hour over the speed limit you can travel with out seriously risking a speeding ticket all occur without much conscious thought at all. Hundreds of simultaneous automatic mental operations occur every second and are simply conditioned responses to the stimuli all around us. Controlled process on the other hand, is limited to a single conscious thought at a time.
So when it comes to trying to change a behavior that involves hundreds of automatic conditioned mental operations that occur in response to the same stimuli we encounter in our everyday environment, our conscious, controlled mental processes are massively outgunned in a battle of wills. No matter how valiantly we struggle to change our bad habits through sheer force of will, we are almost inevitably doomed to fail. Once we understand the power of stimulus and control, we can use it to our advantage by changing the stimuli in our environment in order to elicit the desired response. This can be as simple as throwing away all the junk food in our refrigerator, taking an alternate route to the office to avoid passing the donut shop, or packing a healthy lunch to eat at the park in order to avoid the break room with its wall of vending machines.
Often times, the introduction of a new, more powerful stimulus to your environment is an extremely effective strategy for change. For example, as hard as it is for me to admit, I used to be a terrible dresser. For years my entire wardrobe consisted of old sport team t-shirts, shorts, and sweats from high schools & colleges I never even went too. Dressing up to me meant wearing jeans and sneakers in place of sweats & slides with socks. I made a ton of new years resolutions and promises to myself that I would start to dress nicer but I always just ended up back in sweats again. I couldn't just decide to change through sheer force of will. Instead I found a round about way to change as I introduced a powerful new stimulus. I got engaged. I now have a closet full of stylish clothes. I have memorized what shirt goes with what pants and I have a personal style consultant to recommend variations. After almost five years of consistent stimulus (I get dressed in the morning) and response (a look of approval or a look of, well let's just be honest, horror from the lovely and talented Kimberly), I can even manage a successful trip to the mall every now and then all on my own.
Sounds pretty simple right? Change the stimulus and change the response. Well it's a start. Next month we'll tackle what to do with that little voice in the back of your mind that seems bent on derailing all your efforts toward lasting change.


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Charles and Lourdes Holmes are missionaries in Bangkok, Thailand, with the Philippine Association of Baptists for World Evangelism. They send the following letter.
Pastor Soonthon and his wife are doing church planting in Siem Reap, Cambodia. They are our Thailand Association of Baptists for World Evangelism missionaries sent out by our churches here in Thailand. With some of the believers in Siem Reap we held Cambodia LIFE CAMP Aug. 13–16 in Sihanoukville, Cambodi.
The Lord brought 295 campers of which 127 were not believers. Out of that number 61 made professions to accept the Lord.
We thank the Lord for the hard work put up by our Cambodian staff and committee. Witnessing was done under the shade of trees, in the meeting place, and in the dining hall. Personal witnessing is still the best approach to evangelism. Four teams also competed in games and sports during the four-day event.
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CLEVELAND IS A CITY UNDER THE THUMBApril 26th, 2016
It's been going on for years now. Public decisions privately made.
It's so ordinary that it seems natural.
Private interests create the public agenda. For private advantage. Insuring it's paid for with mostly public dollars. Making sure the dollars weigh most heavily upon common people. Regressive taxes are favorites. Meaning ordinary people pay greater shares of the cost. Much greater.
A city under the thumb. Cleveland as long as I've known it.
Those who make these choices aren't censured or punished. They're applauded. And give themselves raises.
The only source that has the resources to reveal it is the Plain Dealer.
But it's not into ruffling power. With few exceptions the paper's leaders are treading water.
So we have Mayor Frank Jackson in his state of the city speech talking about how "all" should share in city's prosperity. What nonsense.
He hasn't been in a sharing mood for 10 years.
He said that "Cleveland success cannot be measured in construction projects, restaurants in destination neighborhood or political conventions." Is he mad? That's all it is measured by.
But, he says, it's measured in citizens sharing prosperity. Then Jackson pitched for a renewal of a school tax and an increase in the very regressive payroll tax. It's not amusing. Sharing in the burden only.
County Executive Armond Budish followed with a state of the county speech with the same theme: "The prosperity of the county must be shared by all of us." Really?
Is this now the favorite song here?
He announced a $12 million private charity input for pre-kindergarten education. How exciting. $12 million?
What utter bullshit from our two top leaders.
Meanwhile, the city and county are flooding subsidies in the hundred millions of dollars.
And have been doing it for years and years. (A tote of hundreds of millions in give-aways here.)
I opened the paper (PD) recently to find this allocation of public funds:
Projects receiving more than $1 million:
• $14.6 million for the Fenn Hall Addition at Cleveland State University
• $10 million for structural concrete repairs at Cuyahoga Community College
• $7.5 million for Cleveland State's School of Film, Television, and Interactive Media
• $5 million for renovations at Tri-C
• $3.5 million for the lakefront pedestrian bridge ($8.5 million requested)
• $3.3 million for the Museum of Natural History's expansion project ($5 million requested)
• $2.5 million for Irishtown Bend stabilization ($2.5 million requested)
• $2 million for Flats East development ($8.1 million requested)
• $1.1 million for Cleveland Orchestra renovations at Severance Hall
• $1.1 million for the Cleveland Museum of Art West Campus
• $1 million for Lake Link Trail & Wendy Park Bridge ($1 million requested)
• $1 million for Playhouse Square Parking District improvements ($4 million requested)
• $1 million for the Cleveland Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum ($2 million requested)
• $1 million for a Health Education Campus for Cleveland Clinic/Case Western Reserve
What struck me as maybe typical was who proposed the requests – not the county, not the city nor the recipients but the Greater Cleveland Partnership. A private corporate group.
I find it extremely disturbing that the Greater Cleveland Partnership, not the city of Cleveland, not Cuyahoga County or any other public body, but a private organization, made up almost exclusively of corporate members, was allowed to submit projects for funding of some $68 million, $54.6 million approved, for this area.
The funding, according to a Plain Dealer report, covered 17 institutions, schools and other local projects. The funds will be provided by the State of Ohio.
Why would a private institution be given the right to make such public requests? Among the selected projects are entities that deserve funding.
However, I see no funds requested for low income neighborhoods, organizations serving the poor or many deserving institutions working to lessen the plight of the disadvantaged.
The GCP's non-profit IRS 2014 (latest filing) report describes its role as "business association mobilizing private sector leadership, expertise and resources." It lists 87 directors. Not even one is publicly-elected official. No one you voted to lead. Boss Joe Roman has his total annual take up to $560,000. Back in the 1970s top guy Campbell Elliot got one dollar under $50,000.
How the 1 percenters have scored.
How is it then that this private organization provides the listing of this area's public project needs for public funding? Who monitors and guides the selection?
How out of sync are we?
Indeed, in the past the county itself, under Seth Taft, George Voinovich and Bob Sweeney, donated to the predecessor of the GCP—the Growth Association, which became Cleveland Tomorrow—$100,000. The IRS filing once had to list contributors but doesn't now. So we don't know who does the financing. Back in 1978 I listed contributors and they included the Cleveland Press and the Cleveland Plain Dealer. The supposed monitors were financial contributors. How nice.
The corporates know how to manipulate the public sector.
Ten years later I wrote, "The Cleveland Establishment finds itself in a rather embarrassing position. It's coming close to the time it has to pay off some $25 million in bonds. And it doesn't have the money." The need arose from the Greater Cleveland Dome Stadium Corp. purchase of the Central Market area.
What pay your own bills? When you can get someone else to do it.
The problem was 'solved' some years later by the corporate push for the sin tax. The bill for the land was simply added to the cost of Gateway. It was $40 million by then.
No problem when you are making the public's decisions. You don't pay.
I found recently that the same forces were responsible for the quarter percent increase in the sales tax by Cuyahoga County. The worse tax on ordinary people.
The Establishment had a hard time coming up with the financial wherewithal for a new convention center. I attended many meetings of a committee formed to find a way to obtain a new convention center. It was tough to get another free ride.
So someone came up with the idea that Cleveland would outmaneuver the rest of the U.S.
A. and have the first Medical Mart, a place where creative people would produce a high tech bonanza here. Great! A sales gimmick!
It has been fancifully renamed the Global Center for Health Innovation. It still limps.
Now the PD tells us here is what Budish is offering at the Global Center. A contest:
"Winners will be awarded cash, space at the Global Center for Healthcare Innovation and mentoring from other tenants in the building, Budish said."
More wishful thinking. In the newspaper it sounds serious.
Now we have to remember that the old County Commission voted the quarter percent sales tax. No public vote. Hell with them. It is bringing in some $20 million a year and will last (if no extensions but we know about that) 40 years. That seems to add to $80 million. Unless taxable items might rise in cost.
I was told by a knowledgeable County official that other taxes were discussed. Fairer taxes, less regressive taxes. They were turned down. Why? Because the Corporate community wanted the money NOW. Pronto. So essentially they left it in the lap of a lapdog – Tim Hagan. He had been so cooperative with the sin tax another bad tax went down easy for him.
It's all about shifting the cost of the corporate agenda to you.
You can expect City Council to follow Mayor Jackson's cause of increasing the payroll tax. Council members will sell the same old song – suburbanites will pay. As if they aren't people. And as if no one in Cleveland works. And as if other communities won't follow with their payroll tax increased.
What's left of the news media will back it for the same reasons.
And that's the way the merry-go-round goes round.
We lack an active citizenry. We're overflowing with active gimmies.


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Orange County's ENDZ returns after his Live Free EP drop in 2015 for a special Valentine's Day treat. The Locally Grown Collective affiliate spreads the love with a loose offering, "Feel It Baby." Nabbing Thrive Music for vocal assistance, the consistent wordsmith decided to take Tupac's "Heartz of Men" for a spin and released some thoughts on a potential love interest.
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Former non-profit art platform Omanoot rebrands as a cultural e-commerce site, adding another name to Asia's expanding online marketplace for art.
Omanoot, which started out as an online educational portal, is the latest in a crop of businesses to enter Asia's increasingly crowded art e-retail sector. In an article published on 6 March 2013, Israel's Jerusalem Post reported Omanoot's re-launch as an online art sales platform.
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According to the Jerusalem Post, Omanoot co-founder Edoe Cohen was inspired by the likes of YouTube and iTunes to transform the site from a virtual cultural centre into the "first cultural e-commerce site, with Israel as the main focus".
The Tel Aviv based start-up, founded in 2009, officially relaunched on 11 February 2013. Currently stocking photography by Israeli artists, Omanoot will expand, by April 2013, to include illustrations among its art offerings, followed by other media such as painting, music and industrial design. The emphasis is on accessibility, with prints starting at USD25.
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Omanoot, which means "art" in Hebrew, originally started out as a non-profit platform for Israeli film, literature, music and visual arts. Cohen, speaking to Art Radar in 2011, described his ambition to connect Israel's contemporary art scene to the wider world,
People who come to Israel are not falling in love with the politics. They're falling in love with the culture, with the people, with the landscape. And that energy comes across through arts, through Israeli music, which is very avant-garde, through film, through the visual arts and definitely through the literature. That's our idea: take that energy and bring it to the world.
However, politics proved difficult to surmount, as fellow co-founder and Creative Director Alexandra Schinasi explained in an email to Art Radar in March 2013,
A big challenge has been to rise above the political landscape often associated with Israel. It took a lot of work to create a brand that is solely about Israeli art and culture, without being overshadowed by the region's political instability.
Omanoot also had to overcome various other challenges, according to Schinasi, such as rebranding and moving to an effective for-profit model.
Speaking to the Jerusalem Post, Cohen highlighted the continuing emphasis on diversity. Harking back to his previous work with Israeli cultural advocacy in New York, the co-founder sees Omanoot as a means of bringing Israel's rich culture to the world's attention. "It's all about showcasing diversity, whether it be ethnic, age-based, religious, or regional," he explains. "That is Israel. Israel is not just blue and white."
Neighbourhood, not island
Schinasi points to ArtPeace, Omanoot's soon to be launched project, as further evidence of the company's commitment to diversity beyond Israel's borders. ArtPeace will see a section of the website dedicated to selling work by artists from neighbouring countries such as Jordan and the occupied Palestinian territories. "We are actually part of a neighbourhood here in Israel," Schinasi said in the Jerusalem Post. "We are not an island. We are trying to build bridges through art."
Omanoot is the latest in a spate of art retail websites to go live, as the online art business sector in Asia becomes increasingly competitive.
- April 2013 will see the launch of Artshare.com, the first online platform dedicated to the sale of modern and contemporary Asian art.
- [s]edition, an online platform selling digital art, expanded its roster to include Chinese artists Liu Ye and Sui Jianguo in late 2012, and now represents six Asia-based artists.
- Ocula and sister site Ocula Black operate as both a portal and an online auction site for galleries and artists across Asia Pacific, encouraging browsers to buy art and creating an online network of collectors.
- Online auction site Saffronart, one of the pioneers of e-retail, is a specialist in Indian art, renowned for the innovative use of new technologies such as smartphone enabled bidding.
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- Artspace magazine: The future of art marketing? – March 2013 – the latest art commerce website to tap into the "storytailing" marketing trend
- Palestinian artists used documentary tactics to sustain and subvert – ArtAsiaPacific – November 2011 – little distance between film-makers and their subjects
- Israeli artscene online with Omanoot.com launch – resource alert – February 2011 – read Art Radar's 2011 interview with Omanoot, before their move into online retail
- Israeli kinetic artist Yaacov Agam helps make "Taipei Beautiful" – July 2010 – kinetic artist Agam brings public installations to Taipei for the city's beautification project
- Guide to art scene Tel Aviv, Israel – New York Times – November 2008 – the best gallery spaces in the city
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Carolina Irving and Penny Morrison, both internationally renowned interior and fabric designers in their own right, have teamed up to create this exclusive new range of furnishings and accessories for the home.
Carolina has been involved in the design world in one way or another for many years. She was born in the United States of Venezuelan parents, was educated in Paris and went on to study art history and archaeology at the Ecole de Louvre. In 2006 she achieved her heart's desire, founding her own textile design atelier and launched her first exciting collection of softly coloured printed designs on hemp and linen.
Carolina's fabrics, as well as her homes in New York and Long Island have been featured frequently in Domino Magazine, House Beautiful, Vogue, Elle Decoration and Florida Inside Out – in the States – and in House and Garden, Elle Decoration and World of Interiors in the UK.
After working at Sothebys New York she also worked for many years as style editor on Elle Décor, Vogue Living and Architectural Digest and now writes for the Wall Street Journal magazine. Her fabrics are distributed through John Rosselli in New York, Hollywood at Home in LA and in showrooms in Milan and Australia.
Penny's career as an internationally known interior designer began thirty years ago, as a result of developing houses in London and then undertaking projects for private clients, including boutique hotels in England and St Barthelemy – the Isle de France Hotel which was voted best decorated hotel in the US and Carribean in Conde Naste Traveller – London town houses, listed country houses in England, holiday houses in France, South Africa and Sweden.
Penny's eclectic trademark style is unbound by English tradition, focusing on comfortable living, incorporating classical and contemporary elements to create elegant interiors which are individual and welcoming, a deliberate mix of the old and new.
Like Carolina, Penny has drawn inspiration from antique Turkish ottoman designs from the V & A Museum as well as other antique textiles and embroideries which have been adapted to fit in with current decorating trends. Penny's fabrics are distributed through Claremont Fabrics in New York and LA, Tigger Hall in Sydney and Melbourne, St Leger and Viney in South Africa and Oyster in Madrid.


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Drive It Like Dustin Johnson!
By Charlie King on October 13, 2016
Dustin Johnson had a great year! He won the U.S. Open for his first major and just got voted by his peers as the PGA Tour Player of the Year.
Check out the video below where I go over a couple of the keys that make DJ so long and accurate (for a guy who hits it as far as he does). This could help your driving!


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Millennial Deism
The Extraordinary Individual
Elbert Hubbard once said, "One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men but no machine can do the work of one extraordinary man." The late 18th century American novelist penned these words in the midst of a technological boom that would inaugurate the famous "Roaring 20's," when the American economy and morale reached record heights—a period of time that would have been challenged by the notion that one, extraordinary individual could catalyze society to even greater extents than the phenomenon of technological advancement and efficient machinery.
Today, however, this sentiment does little to challenge the average young American. Instead, quotes likes these confirm something that we arguably already know—that we already are extraordinary, that the self is certainly supreme, and that we are far more capable of advancement when we are unaided, unsuppressed, and liberated by our own capacities for achievement.
In other words, perhaps more than ever before in history, we consider ourselves far more extraordinary than our predecessors and even our successors, convinced that we are the catalytic hinge between past and present and, simultaneously, the everlasting precedent for the future generations that will require our expert contributions.
A Generation of Gods
The ultimate product of such coddling and curating of the supreme self is a generation of young Americans who find even the slightest notion of limit and inability as a stifling agent against the infinite measure of our grand abilities. Told that we are special by default, intrinsically deserving, and naturally qualified, young Americans are in hard pursuit of not merely cultural innovation or social progress—they are in pursuit of personal catharsis through the means of self-promotion and self-aggrandizement.
We have essentially become gods, convinced we are smarter and faster than every generation passed and pivotal to every generation to come—and for this reason, young Americans today are arguably the hardest demographic to receive and accept the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Default Depravity
At its very origin, the Gospel of Jesus Christ begins with an infinite and eternal need: "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:23). The natural nature of mankind is not a state of deserving worthiness or infinite capability; it is depraved worthlessness and eternal condemnation resulting from the guilt of original and unavoidable sin. The goodness of the Good News of Jesus Christ is a product of one's genuine understanding of this concept—the great Reformer John Calvin explained it as so:
But should we once begin to raise our thoughts to God, and reflect what kind of Being he is, and how absolute the perfection of that righteousness, and wisdom, and virtue, to which, as a standard, we are bound to be conformed, what formerly delighted us by its false show of righteousness will become polluted with the greatest iniquity; what strangely imposed upon us under the name of wisdom will disgust by its extreme folly; and what presented the appearance of virtuous energy will be condemned as the most miserable impotence. So far are those qualities in us, which seem most perfect, from corresponding to the divine purity… And, as Augustine expresses it (in Psalm 144), since we are unable to comprehend Him, and are, as it were, overpowered by his greatness, our proper course is to contemplate his works, and so refresh ourselves with his goodness. (Institutes, 1.2; 5.9)
How then, can anyone come to understand how good the Good News of Jesus Christ is if he or she fails to understand the need that makes the news itself so good? Simply put—a shimmering oasis is only good to those who recognize their thirst, and our current culture is trending towards a horizon where we are far from dehydrated and no longer thirsty; rather, we are stuffed to the brim with ourselves, having filled our internal longings with our own achievements and the entitlements gifted to us in childhood.
A New Age of Evangelism
Some years ago, Dr. Michael Horton expressed in an article in Modern Reformation that true, Biblical evangelism ought to be centered on the historicity of Christ, trusting that the news of Jesus' life and love will soften the hardest of hearts and turn even the most stubborn of tides towards belief. Meanwhile, other scholars countered Horton's views by arguing for a scientific and cosmological emphasis in evangelism, supported by proponents like Dr. William Lane Craig. Today, however, I would argue that modern evangelism needs to return to one simple, Biblical, and logically profound concept: "Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is near."
To a logically illiterate generation of young Americans, the basic principle that we are not extraordinary is perhaps one of the most difficult concepts to defend—and yet, this is the first concept that needs to register in the hearts and minds of millennials, as the push to preserve one's incredible value and one's sufficient knowledge immediately encourages the disbelief of any deity that would rob the individual of his or her infinite capacities or stifle his or her natural goodness.
No longer is science the cause for our disbelief; no longer is the validity of Jesus the cause for our disbelief; today, we are the cause of our own disbelief, as we trust none other than the deistic nature of ourselves.
Repentance and Kingdom
If we were to return, however, to a simple method of evangelism based on the concept of "Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is near," what immediately surfaces are two fundamentally undeniable truths:
First, if Heaven is true, what is the measure for goodness to enter into it? If we define our own measure for who enters into it, then how can Heaven truly be good as it would be subject to our limited understanding of goodness. Heaven, in other words, can only exist in a universe where an absolute and objective goodness defines what is good for the individual—not the other way around. Anything short of this would mean that Heaven is a place of preference—not of goodness—and, therefore, does not require good to get there (which means criminals and the objectively evil could easily be permitted).
Second, if Heaven is objectively good, then the only possible response is to readjust one's value from deistic to depraved as the objective goodness of Heaven will always trump the subjective goodness of the self since Heaven always has to be and remain to be good while we, as individuals crafted by culture and society, shift in both our understanding and grasp of goodness.
Thus, "Repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is near" is far less of a religious notion and much more of a logical commission for individuals to recognize an ethical dilemma that can only be solved in absolute, eternal terms, motivating the necessity for a God who requires a readjustment of the individual.
Redeemer and King
Jesus Christ, on the cross, provides a means for the individual to encounter absolute readjustment, regardless of culture or context. His love and grace, shed upon the cross in crimson, readjusts our individual values as both infinitely depraved and yet eternally saved.
This news, however, will never be received as good so long as we enable logical illiteracy and encourage natural capacity—to assume we are good simply because we are born is to rob the King of Kings of His infinitely painful and destructively devastating work on the cross. Instead, let us return to a sober understanding of ourselves—and, therein, a desperate need for Christ our Redeemer and King, ascribing all goodness to Him and discovering our own goodness as His.
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Nikhil nanda and shweta nanda, wedding photos, age, family photos, navya naveli nanda nikhil nanda, marriage, family, biography get whole details and information here
Nikhil Nanda biography/wiki/biodata/profile/information/Details/Updates/About him here
Nikhil Nanda is the managing director of Escorts Limited, which is an engineering company that produces agricultural machinery, material handling equipment, machine construction, and railway equipment. This company-Escort Limited was established in year 1948 by Nikhil's paternal grandfather named Har Prasad Nanda, also identified as H.P. Nanda. Nikhil Nanda is the son of entrepreneur Rajan Nanda, who is the Chairman & Managing Director of company-Escorts Limited, and Ritu Nanda, who is the single major insurance agent of the Life Insurance Corporation of India, and he is the grandson of famous actor-director named Raj Kapoor.
What is his Real Name?
- His real name is Nikhil Nanda
What is his nick name?
- His nick name is Nikhil
What is Nikhil Nanda Profession?
- He is the Joint Managing Director of Escorts Limited
What is Nikhil Nanda Educational Qualification?
- He has done his major's in finance and marketing
School he went to is Doon school in Dehradun
College he went to is Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, USA
Nikhil Nanda Nationality?
- He is an Indian by nationality
Nikhil Nanda Birth Place?
- His birth place is Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
- His hometown is Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
His Body Measurement?
- Chest is we do not know
Waist is we do not know
Biceps is we do not know
Eye Colour & Hair Colour?
- His eye color is black and his hair color is also black
Nikhil Nanda Religion?
- He follows Hinduism
Zodiac Sign/Sun Sign/Horoscope?
- Pisces
What is Nikhil Nanda age/birthday/DOB/real age? (As in 2016)
- Nikhil Nanda real age is 42 years. He was born on 18th March 1974
Nikhil Nanda Girlfriend/wife?
Girlfriend - We do not know
Wife - Shweta Bachchan Nanda
Nikhil Nanda Height in feet?- He measures 6 feet 2 inches in height
Is Nikhil Nanda Married?- Yes he is married to Shweta Bachchan Nanda
Nikhil Nanda Family Details?
Father - Rajan Nanda
Mother - Ritu Nanda
Sisters - N/A
Brothers - N/A
Brother in law - Abhishek Bachchan
Niece - Aaradhya Bachchan
Wife - Shweta Bachchan
What is Nikhil Nanda weight?
- We do not know his weight
Home & Address- We do not know his home address
His Hobbies are not known to us
Images/Photo/Picture of Nikhil Nanda
Navya Naveli (Daughter of Nikhil nanda )
She is the daughter of Nikhil Nanda
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Nikhil Nanda and Shweta Nanda are husband and wife both couple have got married


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Автор:Paul Kozerski
Дата издания:2002-11-01
Формат:rtf, epub
Размер:3.40 MB
The cover makes one think this will be high-tech action but that is far from the truth. The story reads like Damnation Alley with a twist.
Trennt is a courier. He carries sensitive material through the increasingly hostile country. On his last mission we never know if he succeeds with the delivery, only that he escapes with his life.
Now he has been hired, along with an on-again off-again partner, to shut down a secret research facility and bring back the research and staff. Nothing goes right with the mission, partly due to forces bent on destroying all evidence of the facility and its work. Soon Trennt is in the hostile wastelands where just about everything can kill you. He is still trying to complete some small part of his mission.
In the end I was quite unsatisfied (why didn't he at least check out the empty plane?). At first the wilderness is super-deadly but at the end it just takes a little mud to survive. Characters' motivations are spotting and often don't make sense. The non-romantic romance was seemingly just thrown in but might have been the main point. I will probably not even look at any new books from this author unless the style changes greatly.
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"This thing reads like stereo instructions." Sound familiar? No, I don't mean the movie that I'm quoting. But have you ever had to set up a stereo? Back in the day they were super complicated to set up. Today I just set up the equivalent of a stereo in my temporary home office in about ten minutes. Literally all you need is a power outlet and a spare bit of space to put a speaker. I have to admit that even as a techie guy I didn't really get the whole deal with casting. But now that I have a Google Chromecast Audio, I finally get it. And now I can see the use for a regular Chromecast (the kind that does video) and the potential it opens up. Google Chromecast Audio allows me to manage my speakers however I like. By simply hooking up … [Read more...]
Spring's Biggest Games
Q2. Daylight's Saving Time. March 20th. Whatever benchmark you use to signal the beginning of spring, the season is set to see some strong releases. Though they're coming on the heels of such anticipated titles like Resident Evil 7 and Gravity Rush 2, these springtime releases can hold their own. The Xbox One and PS4 are both slated to have an impressive year both in terms of hardware and software updates, which is getting us excited. So, without further ado, let's take a look at 3 of the most anticipated games set for a springtime release. Ghost Recon: Wildlands Release Date: March 7th Okay, March 7th is cutting it a little close, and by most accounts it's technically a little early to be called spring. But what can we say? … [Read more...]
The Tech Threats Posed by Social Media
Picture Source There's no denying that social networks have been taking over the world for well over a decade, and there's a good reason for that: social media embodies everything for which the internet stands. It allows people to share infinite information and connect on an instantaneous basis with family or friends who might be anywhere in the world. Of course, given that level of connectivity, you have to take the good with the bad. You have to be as smart as you would be in the real, physical world, but many people fail to remember this. If you shared personal information on the street, you'd probably feel a little uneasy and vulnerable to opportunistic strangers who might be listening in. Yet, for some peculiar reason, our … [Read more...]
Reasons To Own a Domain Name
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|Superfoods? beware the hype in New Year
Many people will be making New Year resolutions and at the top of the lit is likely to be an effort to become healthier and this will include eating healthier foods. The start of the New Year is prime time for marketing 'health' products and millions of pounds will be spent on advertising them. Advertisers will come up with new trendy terms and the British Dietetic Association feels the need to reveal the truth behind some of the hype of so called 'superfoods'.
The British Dietetic Association (BDA) was founded in 1936 and is the professional association for dietitians. It is the country's largest organisation of food and nutrition professionals with over 7,000 members.
Firstly, it is important to understand that there is no official definition of a 'Superfood' so is there such a thing?
"Absolutely," said Sioned Quirke, British Dietetic Association spokesperson. "However, the BDA's ideas may differ greatly from what most companies and marketing teams claim and what the general public may have been lead to believe.
"The main thing to keep in mind is that, despite its common use, the term 'superfood' has no regulatory approval and is not a legally recognised term.
"'Superfood' is simply a marketing term that has become trendy over the last few years. Companies and marketing teams will often put whatever they can on a label to hook you into a purchase. Marketing is a multi-billion pound industry and health products are a major player in this. Many claims can give us false expectations of the benefits or they aren't fully substantiated.
"Research has found that 61% of people questioned about 'superfoods' had purchased, eaten or drank a specific food because they had been labelled as a 'superfood'. If you tell people often enough that something is a 'superfood', chances are some will start to believe. Claims around curing and preventing diseases, fighting off cancer, even prolonging your life make these foods sound like we couldn't possibly live without them.
"Anyone worth their degree in nutrition will tell you that no one food provides everything the body needs, therefore, the so called 'superfoods' are by no means the magic wand companies market them as. We need to dispel the myths.
"The foods claiming 'superfood' status may have some health benefits but, that's true for the majority of naturally occurring foods. Just because something is labelled as a 'superfood' does not mean it is superior and deserving of this elite sounding status. When we think about it, most foods are super in their own way - fruit & veg provide vitamins, minerals and fibre, meat and fish provide protein, grains provide energy and dairy products provide calcium - all of which are essential for optimum health. If we analysed every food individually, we could probably market them all as being 'high' in something, as there are different nutrients in all foods.
"Some 'superfoods' can be included as part of a healthy, balanced diet but there again, so can things like chocolate and alcohol. A 'superfood', in isolation, will never be the key to optimum health. Companies love to bring us exotic foods, such as goji berries but, look closer to home, as more traditional foods such as salmon, eggs, berries, nuts and veg are just as super but simply aren't marketed that way.
"Some 'superfood' products, especially the exotic varieties, are very expensive and have poor availability. We often find that people who can afford to buy these products are following a relatively healthy, balanced diet already and don't need any additions. It's also worth knowing that if a 'scientist' or 'specialist' endorses a product they are usually being paid to do so. Even if a claim is made that a particular fruit has a high antioxidant level, the human body may not be able to absorb it well. Also, it's worth checking exactly how much of the product one would have to consume to see the 'benefit' claimed. Sometimes the amounts are very large. Consumer group Choice found that you would need to drink about 13-30ml serves of Goji juice in order to obtain the same antioxidant benefit of eating one medium sized red delicious apple!
"We live in a society that looks for a 'magic wand' type product that simply does not exist. If it did, we would probably be providing it on prescription! It seems that good old healthy eating is too boring, for some, although it's certainly what we need to be doing. Don't get caught up in the hype, these trendy terms are simply adding to the confusion around what a healthy, balanced diet is. If something seems too good to be true it usually is.
"The bottom line is, many foods are 'superfoods' in their own way, but let's ditch that phrase. No so-called 'superfoods' are going to guide you to the promised land, so aim to have a healthy balanced diet with everything in moderation. Nothing can substitute healthy eating, but many a marketing person can make your wallet lighter!"
Remember a great place to start to plan for a healthier 2014 is your local pharmacy where you can pop in without an appointment for a discussion that can be followed up with a more formal meeting and a plan devised. Whether losing weight, giving up smoking to improving your diet they will be able to offer free advice, a whole range of products (some free with NHS support) and regular monitoring and motivation to help you achieve your goals.


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Emperador Dark marble vanity top installation Chicago IL
Emperador Dark is beautiful and very popular marble used mostly for bathroom countertops and fire places. Image above is showing Emperador Dark vanity top with 4″ backsplashes and Ogee edge profile. Dark brown marble with lighter brown veining is nicely matches with white under mount sink and Oil Rubbed Dark Bronze faucet. Marble countertop creates slight contrast with darker brown cabinet.


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LEYA WINGBACK CHAIR | Sled base armchair
Sled base armchair with armrests
Sensuous comfort: Sometimes, we all need a little comfort: and that's where the new Leya Wingback Chair comes into play, also available as a wing chair. With Leya, the designers Birgit Hoffmann and Christoph Kahleyss, have created a place to sit with a glass of wine of an evening and just let the time drift by – with a matching stool to make things more comfortable. While the soft interior upholstery makes sitting into an sensuous experience, with its premium look, Leya will soon be your favourite piece of furniture; it looks especially fetching in dark leather – whether as a single or double piece.
Height 104 cm, Width 70 cm, Depth 85 cm, Seat height 42 cm, Armrest height 52 cm


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Life's Moments are those times in life that we choose to make an unique recognition of life altering occasions. Weddings are celebrations, weddings are events, yet most of all weddings are a new beginning, a minute in time to be cherished. Having the best Minister is essential.
For these minutes, we offer extensive Wedding Minister services, Elopement Ceremony officiating, and also wedding celebration services. From the very traditional to contemporary services, our wedding events and also officiating solutions are designed to mirror your desires, desires and wishes. We will assist you to craft a celebration, nonreligious or spiritual that will certainly be a cherished memory for years to come.
Ministerial services and also wedding celebration officiating in the Polvadera, Nm area is our specialty, yet we can travel if the requirement arises. We give a full variety of Elopement Ceremony plans; from elopement on the courthouse steps to the most intricate formal wedding you might want.
We also offer the finest in Justice of the Peace or nonreligious weddings. These civil ceremonies provide their own form of celebration, whether it be with family members or simply a couple as well as a couple of witnesses, your wedding is an unique minute to be treasured.


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Remember this, way back in the beginning of September?
My office (and the rest of the damaged house) is starting to look liveable again.
Fresh paint has been applied, and (even though insurance didn't cover it
The carpet folks laid most of the carpet yesterday–a charcoal grey, smooth piled loveliness–and will be back this morning to finish up. I can't wait!
But our furniture and things — which were boxed up and taken away by the Fire and Flood Company, won't be back until early next week. That's when the fun begins:
I'm on a mission to "edit out" a third to a half of the items that were in my office originally. It's true that the company carefully wrapped and boxed my stuff, making it appear more bulky. But the sheer number of boxes they removed from my office astounded me.
And while many of them came from the double closets (yeah, that's one thing I really like about my office space) and didn't clutter up the room, even with the doors closed behind me as I wrote, I often felt the stuff "mentally" clutter my mind.
It's hard to write in that environment!
Things I need to clear out:
- some abandoned crafty items I'll probably never get back to
- tear sheets (and in some instances) entire copies of newspapers with my stories printed in them
- empty binders I've been hoarding to put all my genealogy paperwork in
- boxes of photos from high school, containing pics of (some) people whose names I can't remember
- probably some other stuff I'll be surprised to find when I open up the boxes!
The big issue for me, since I'm:
- a writer
- a genealogy buff, and,
- a former journalist with hundreds (a thousand or more?) clips
… I've got a terrible paper problem, especially since I so often want to keep things for "posterity."
But the paper is starting to weigh me down.
At a minimum, I'm toying with scanning all the old manuscripts and tossing the paper. Ditto on the newspaper clips.
But what I really need is a paper-flow system to get things under control. Most days, I've got more paper funneling in than out, and it's taking a toll: hence the three boxes of collected papers I need to weed through before I even get to the closet items.
How do you handle the influx of paper? What do you do with critiqued papers and clips and tear sheets that may or may not be looked at again? Where do you draw the line on what to keep?
* The insurance company was AWESOME, but they didn't pay for new carpet. Understandable, really, since it was able to be dried. But they've done more for us regarding everything else. I have no complaints, and have actually been impressed with their service.


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Hi im Wings2strong but also known as Wingit and welcome to my humble page.
Im a noob at this so most of my first storys will be taken down and edited as time goes by but for now im just getting used to the site. I've been reading/reviewing Fanfictions for 2 years. The only personal information I'm gonna tell you is this. I am a girl, and not a girly girl(eurgh) More of a tomboy. I am half filipino and half eurepean so you can designate me as a waisan (or whatever).
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Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians: September 1991, Volume L, #3
by WADDY, Patricia (editor)
PA: Society of Architectural Historians, 1991. Very Good. Very good or better in wrappers, a paperback. Pages clean. Illustrated. Spine lightly faded. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information. (Inventory #: 110875)


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Green Bay Packers wide receiver James Jones is still out with a sprained left knee and his status is pretty cloudy at the moment. He injured his knee October 13th and has been limited at Packers practice all week long.
Word around the Packers camp was that he had a shot to play last week and if not he would have a good chance to play this week, that is obviously not the case. The sprained knee had Jones limited in practice Thursday, but he's still no more prepared to go than last week.
It seems like this injury was overlooked by the Packers and will take longer than they anticipated. Jones status for this week's game against Chicago is up in the air at this point but things are not in his favor. The only good thing is that it is a Monday night game so Jones will have an extra day to rehab the knee.


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Kenko Tea is a new Melbourne based brand dedicated to premium quality Japanese Matcha Green Tea. Kenko Tea is on a mission to spread the work about the healthy and tasty Matcha Green Tea – a drink for everyday wellbeing, health and optimal nutrition.
The client wanted the branding to target health conscious females with money to spend on health products, but also with an eye for cool/cute products. The launch product was Matcha Green Tea, but there was a possibility it would branch out into other teas in the future. I helped the client pick a name (Kenko is Japanese for healthy) and went with the rather obvious colour palette of green. I also added a tatami mat pattern to stop the greens from feeling to flat.
The client really wanted a healthy and cute mascot that his customers could identify with, so I created a cute ambiguous creature that looks a little bit like a fox. I felt it wasn't so important that he looked like any particular animal, but more that he was happy, healthy and cute (top of the list).
The packaging was a simple wrap sticker that the client printed himself and put onto the tins. It needed to look great whilst being printable in-house in small quantities. All the branding elements were utilised and a minimal amount of information was put onto the sticker to allow for space and a big mascot. The client was stoked with his end result and his customers are commenting on his great product and cute packaging.
After seeing the Pana Chocolate "how its made" diagram, Kenko wanted some similar engaging diagrams for their own site. Two diagrams were made to convey key marketing information on the product to match with the brand. I particularly like the bar graph with the little mascot hugging the overwhelming winner – matcha green tea.
If you are interesting in purchasing some Kenko Tea, you can buy online at kenkotea.com.au
ClientKenko TeaSkillsbranding, packaging, illustrationYear2013