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10 January 2007
Malabar Chicken Curry
For this you need:
1 whole chicken cut into small pieces
6 medium sized onions sliced
4 green chillies sliced
1 potato chopped
A handful of curry leaves
1tbsp ginger paste
1 tbsp garlic paste
1 tsp red chilli powder
1 tsp turmeric
1 tsp coriander powder
2 tsp chicken masala powder
Salt to taste
1 ½ cups coconut milk
Handful of coriander leaves for garnishing
For the marinade:
Juice of 1 lemon
1tsp ginger paste
1 tsp garlic paste
1 tsp red chilli powder
1 tsp turmeric
2 tsp chicken masala powder
Salt to taste
Rub the marinade into the chicken and set aside for half an hour. Heat oil in a pan and sautee the onions, green chillies and ginger-garlic paste. Add potato, curry leaves, chilli powder, turmeric, chicken masala, coriander powder, salt and fry for a minute. Add the chicken and stir fry for a minute. Then add the coconut milk and cover and cook for 20 minutes till done. Add more coconut milk if you want more gravy. Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot with rotis, appams, idiappam.
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What's Chicken Masala powder? Where in the U.S. can I find it? I refer to Northern California in particular. Thanks. Al.
- July 19, 2007 8:32 am
- Jyothsna said...
Hi Al! I used the "Eastern" brand chicken masala powder in this recipe. Try looking for it in an Indian store there. You can also make this recipe without this masala, just increase the quantity of other spices to suit your taste and add some garam masala powder too. Hope this helps.
- July 19, 2007 8:38 am
Hi, thanks for this delicious recipe, i had Malabar Chicken in Pondichery a year ago but it was in a white gravy, ever heard of that? anyway i cooked yours last night for diner and everyone wanted more! Cooked it on low flame for about 40 min & added brinjal too...Thx for sharing
- May 16, 2008 12:14 pm
- Jyothsna said...
Ian - Thanks for the feedback! I'm glad your folks enjoyed the curry. The white gravy is coconut milk without turmeric. Try it that way next time and hope you get the effect you want.
- May 18, 2008 5:56 am


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He would run as fast as he could to go and get the ball and he never quite grasped the concept of running around the base and forgetting about the ball. It was so funny. After he would bat then Daddy would have to bat, then Mommy would have to bat. It's so cute how he creates his rules and sticks with them throughout the whole game.
Monday, April 25, 2011
Batting Practice
These pics are actually from a while ago, but I wanted to post them any way because it reminds me of a fun day we had at our house. James became interested in the bat Remi got him for his birthday and so Daddy showed him how to play baseball. We set up one base for him to run around (James pace of course) and I was the catcher. It was so much fun teaching him this new sport and he really liked it.
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Milestone reached for 17 storey luxury apartment complex CitySuites
A luxury serviced apartment complex has reached a new milestone following a 'topping out' ceremony.
Select Property Group's 17 storey CitySuites development is taking shape on Chapel Street and on completion in January next year, will provide 244 studio, one and two-bedroom apartments.
Aimed at business travellers, developers say CitySuites will provide a fusion of high-end hotel and apartment living.
It will feature the luxury elements of a hotel, such as first class leisure facilities, valet and a concierge service, with the space, privacy and comfort of an apartment.
The 'topping out' event, which marks the completion of the building's core structure, took place with Councillor Ray Mashiter and Councillor Derek Antrobus from Salford council.


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I had an attack of double vision and needless to say, we had to turn around Wednesday morning after being in the car for four hours and come back home. I was afraid to go any further (and I hate so say it, I was pretty freaked). Two days in the car to get to Texas with double vision wasn't my idea of safe. I didn't want to go to some doctor I didn't know, in some town I didn't know, much less take a chance of getting worse. So, I made John bring me back home. Luckily no TIA, much less stroke. (I have history of stroke thirteen years ago). TIA ruled out yesterday. This morning went to eye specialist and found out right eye has substantially lost sight ... my left eye wants to do all the work. Which caused in his words "left eye malfunction" .... it went into overload and it couldn't work for both eyes causing double vision. Lordy, lordy I am falling apart!!!!! Doing major testing in two weeks because he didn't like what he saw with my optic nerve. Possibility of glaucoma. Not worried at all ... I have an explanation and glaucoma is treatable. He did major testing of muscle control of right eye and said it is turning in. (contributing to double vision, too).
Ofcourse, my daughter is now mad at me!!!!! I understand the disappointment ... I'M DISAPPOINTED too. All she sees is we cancelled our trip again. I really get frustrated when she says "you're RETIRED now and shouldn't have any STRESS". To quote her words ... "Mom, just call me when you ARRIVE". I can't get through to that daughter of mine .... her parents aren't as young as we use to be and we DO GET SICK!!!! Sorry, everyone ... I'm just frustrated!!! I really do love that daughter, but sometimes I just plain don't like her!!!!!
Enough of me .... I have a new freebie for the theme of family. This one is also out of my earlier creations. Hope it makes everyone smile. The topic is TEENAGE BOYS.


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CRS cuts $200,000 from request
By DAN KULIN / Staff Writer
Community Rescue Service is cutting $200,000 from its request to the City of Hagerstown, CRS interim-Director J. Michael Nye said Monday.
Nye, on behalf of CRS, had asked the city for a $600,000 one-time payment this year plus $400,000 annually in future years.
Now, Nye said CRS is instead seeking $400,000 this year. The request for $400,000 annually in subsequent years has not changed.
The initial $600,000 request included $200,000 to cover shortfalls in the fiscal year that ended in June 2000, plus $400,000 for this fiscal year.


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President Bush and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown discussed a range of topics at the White House on Thursday including terrorism, fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, Iran and economic issues, Bush told reporters afterward.
Brown added, "The world owes George Bush a huge debt of gratitude" for his efforts against terrorists.
I could not stomach the rest of the artical. Bush may have kept us safe that's for sure. But the other side of the world is on pins and needles... and he has a lot to do with it.


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At Saraf the machines run round the clock to bring the best teas to the consumer's palate. But never do they stop working as they are cared for by the most experienced hands. The ratio of expert technicians to machines is 2:3. Though we have moved towards semi-automation with the latest technology our human capital remains our biggest strength. With people to work with commitment and responsibility and practice quality as part of their daily routine , this organization has taken confident strides through the ups and downs over the last 60 years.
Tasting and selection to this day is done by veteran tea tasters, the Directors of the company, Mr Ulhas Saraf & Mr Aravind Saraf with an illustrious track record and experience spanning almost 50 years each.
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With packing area spread over 20,000 sq. feet and the storage area spread over 48,000 sq.feet , Saraf has one of the most sophisticated and spacious facilities in the country. Located in the port city of Tuticorin on the coast of Tamil Nadu in the south east of India , access to shipping lines has never been a problem.
The packing area itself is a fortress with air tight entrances that give no access to dust or pests so as to maintain the highest quality standards within. The facility is equipped with a docking system where container handling happens with minimum exposure to dust.
A room the size of two 40 containers with controlled temperature and humidity helps keep the herbs under tight vigilance. This facility is a sight to be seen to be believed in the truest sense.
Awards and recognitions
Six decades of existence for Saraf Tea have been marked with one milestone after another. From its humble beginnings as a buying agent to its present status as one of the most advanced manufacturing facilities the journey has been well rewarded. A glimpse of some of the achievements.


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Chanel Art
Called Mobile Art, the structure itself was designed by the renowned London architect Zaha Hadid and will occupy the Rumsey Playfield, midpark at 70th Street, from Oct. 20 to Nov. 9. (It is Ms. Hadid's first New York building, albeit temporary, and has already made stops in Hong Kong and Tokyo and is headed later for London, Moscow and Paris.)
Yet beyond its artistic mission, the pavilion is a provocative advertisement. Chanel, the fashion brand, commissioned Ms. Hadid to create the traveling structure to house works by about 15 hot contemporary artists. Each was asked to create a work that was at least in part inspired by Chanel's classic 2.55 quilted-style chain handbag, so named because it was first issued in February 1955.
Above: The artist Sylvie Fleury's video installation "Cristal Custom Commando," inside a giant Pop Art-style handbag, at the Mobile Art pavilion in Tokyo.
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Dear Diary,
Juno 17, Vacation time
Today was the first day I got to feel what it was like to not be inside a gold field. Well, kind of.
Mom, Dad and me went to the moon named Erin'lah for a couple of days and it has only about half of the gold field of Velor. We did the usual tourist stuff at first, but then my Dad took us to this place that nobody is supposed to go to over on the far side. He used to be in the military or something like that and this was an old training place. What was cool about it is that there is this layer of Uranium or something that is thousands of feet thick and it covers the gold core differently and reduces the gold field to about one tenth of normal or something like that.
Wow, what a rush!
This wild tingling feeling came over me, kind of like when I touch myself just that right way, and I could see that my Mom and Dad were feeling the same way because they were like hugging and kissing a lot more than usual. Then my Mom totally freaked me by just soaring straight up into the sky and started to do flips and loops and stuff like that. Mom's usually so reserved and proper and stuff, so it really freaked me out at first. She must have known what we were going to do before we left because she'd said to bring that funny costume that I'd made for the Ester Celebration at school -- the one that looks kind of like a Protector's uniform. Anyway, she called down from a hundred feet over my head and said to change into it and come and join her.
Yeah, like I was going to put on a funny costume and go flying.
My Dad just gave me the usual raised eyebrow look he gives me when Mom gets weird. Then he freaked me out by trying to fly too. He was terrible at it, but he could go about twenty meters or so on each hop. He looked so goofy doing it, but I figured that if my Dad could look silly, so could I. This was a vacation and a picnic after all.
I gave in to their weirdness and ducked behind this big rock and changed into that little costume I'd made. When I walked back out a few minutes, my parents were both standing hugging each other and staring at me with big grins on their faces. They started blubbering about how much I looked like a little Protector and all that. I was so embarrassed.
Mom finally walked over and took my hand in hers and just floated up off the ground with me hanging on for dear life. I was totally freaked because she went up like a few hundred meters or so and I was kind of afraid of heights back then. Once we came to a stop, she started to tell me all this stuff about making myself tingly inside (being outside a gold field was already doing a good job of that) and how to tighten the muscles in my legs as I tried to envision myself moving in one direction or the other. To use the reflexes that I've learned about walking, but without walking.
Then, without another word or even a warning, she just dropped me. Just like that. I screamed and tried to flap my arms like I was trying to fly like a bird and fell like a rock for three hundred meters to land in the middle of a pile of jagged rocks. I thought I was going to die, but when I hit the rocks, it felt like I'd just fallen out of bed or something. It shook me up at little, but it didn't really hurt.
What it did was to shatter a couple of the rocks and scare the hell out of me. That pissed me off as I don't like to be scared, especially not by my Mom. I was trying to stand up and dust myself off when my Dad came over and kneeled in front of me and put his hands on my thighs and told me to tighten up my legs, which was kind of weird because they were all bare and he was like breathing between them and I was still feeling kind of tingly and all. I blushed and suddenly wanted to be anywhere but there. I made my muscles get all hard underneath his hands and ZOOM, I suddenly was. Anywhere else, that is. I soared up into the sky like I was this atomic missile or something. Mom had to fly really fast to catch me and turn me around before I left the atmosphere. I was just going and going and the sky was getting darker and I couldn't breathe anymore. That was even scarier than falling. Especially since the penalty for leaving the gravity field of a planet without permission was death!
Anyway, she caught me in time and turned me around to fly us both back down near the ground. She started to teach me how to fly. She taught me how to go fast, go slow, how to turn, etc. Then she started to teach me how to land. That was a joke. Mostly I just plowed into the ground hard enough to burry most of my body in the rocks. Either that or I got down to a few meters above the ground and then relaxed every muscle in my body and collapsed on the ground with a thud. Most of the time when I did that, I landed on my butt.
My Dad thought my landings were funny as hell. I just stuck out my tongue and told him he couldn't fly at all so he shouldn't criticize me just because I couldn't land. Then Mom was like totally awesome as she flew in like some kind of graceful swan and landed as light as a feather. She'd definitely done this before, even though she won't talk about it. Dad told me last night that she was training to be a Protector one time and that she might even have been one for a while, but its some big secret and she won't even tell him. But watching her fly, I know she's spent a lot of time outside a gold field. I just knew that my Mom had been a Protector, even though it's totally rare for a Protector to return to Velor and raise a family. But my family was always so weird. Which explains that I come by my weirdness naturally!
Anyway, back to the picnic. After flying around for a few hours, I was so low on energy that I could barely stand and Mom explained that was because I didn't have much natural energy storage space (not yet!) and I needed to charge up what little I had. Dad dug out this old map of his and we grabbed our stuff and Mom lifted him in her arms and we flew for a couple of kilometers to this old concrete fort-like building that Dad said was full of humming power equipment. It was locked with the largest padlock I'd ever seen.
Mom just rolled up her sleeve and grabbed the giant purplish padlock on the door and made a face as she gripped it really hard. I looked at her like she was deranged. Even then, I knew that nobody except a fully-empowered Protector could crush Vendorian steel. And just like I figured, nothing happened at first except that her arm started to look really strong.
Yet she was totally determined and she bit her lip and kept squeezing as her face turned sweaty and I swore her arm muscles got so hot that they were smoking. I finally saw a little plume of smoke rising from her hand and then the metal started to glow red-hot and make this horrible groaning noise. I was totally blown away as my Mom kept straining like she really expected to open that lock.
The metal got hotter and hotter until it was white-hot and shooting out sparks and I wondered how she could hold onto it without burning her hand off. She saw the worried look on my face and just looked up at me with this funny grin and winked. That was when the lock gave off a really awful tortured scream like it was alive or something and then the purple metal just squished out from her fingers like some kind of cookie dough or something. Mom looked so proud of herself as she twisted the lock off the door and tossed it over the building.
Dad was staring at Mom like he'd seen a ghost. Then he stared at me because we both knew that what we'd just seen was supposed to be impossible for anyone but a fully trained Protector to do. I was now like totally convinced that my Mom had really been a Protector. She looked just like one and she was that strong too. That made me so proud because I knew I was going to be one too.
She acted like it was nothing as she went inside to return with this chair. She set it in the doorway and started to undress and pile her clothes on it. She told me to do the same. No big deal for me, as a lot of people didn't even wear clothes when they were on the beach or on vacation on Velor, but the way she did it, like sexy and all, was embarrassing, especially the way he walked over and hugged her from behind. He raised his hands to cover her breasts as they both stared at me.
I couldn't help but notice that my Dad's hands were way too small to cover all of her, which made me feel weird because I was still as flat as a boy and I knew that this strength thing was going to be a girl thing about breast sizes and energy. I was so embarrassed by my lack of a chest that I started to walk inside before I undressed.
Once I'd gotten undressed, Mom walked in behind me to lead me over toward this glowing pole that was nearly a half meter in diameter. I knew that it was a superconducting power cable because I could see the waves of shimmering power and little sparks shooting out from it. It made my hair stand on end from the static electricity and my teeth were aching while standing ten meters away. It was like the most awesomely powerful thing I'd ever seen.
Mom gave a wink and just walked over to stand beside it, She closed her eyes and had this dreamy look on her face as she leaned forward and brushed her breasts against it. A flurry of sparks surrounded her upper body as she slowly wrapped her legs and arms around it and hugged it to herself like it was the most natural thing in the world.
I was shocked, literally, to see a million little sparks and spikes of lightening flashing all over her body as her hair was attracted to that huge cable like it was a magnet. She held on that way for a few minutes before suddenly throwing herself backward to land at my feet. Her body was steaming hot, you know, down there, and the entire front of her body was glowing like hot steel, especially her breasts. They were also even bigger than a moment ago.
I was just stunned. I'd never seen anyone charge before, but I'd heard lots about it.
Mom still had this angelic smile on her face as she stood up and took my hands in hers and raised them up to touch them to herself. I was really embarrassed to be touching her that way, especially the way her breasts were glowing like they were lit from inside and all, but she was too strong for me to pull away, so I just squeezed her, like really hard.
Those blue sparks I'd seen a moment before suddenly traveled down my arms and made my chest burn. I held her even tighter as I noticed that she felt all soft and firm at the same time, a strange feeling, but then, I'd never really touched anyone's breasts before. I knew that her body was like hundreds of degrees hot, but strangely, her skin didn't burn me. Then she hugged me to her so hard I thought she was going to break my ribs.
I saw this wild burst of blue sparks covered us both up and then I think I fainted or something.
I came to a few minutes later to find that I was still standing. Mom rose up into the air as if she was weightless and took my hand and walked me over to that power thingy. She kept telling me I was totally invulnerable now and the power couldn't hurt me. I was too confused and disoriented to know what I was doing, so I just took a big breath and reached out and wrapped my legs tightly around it. Nobody ever said I didn't have guts.
Wow! What an instant rush. It was like a million sparks of pleasure had filled me, most of it shooting up between my legs as I squeezed it as hard as I could. It was like this incredible vibration and heat was filling me up. I suddenly wanted to feel more like that, so I leaned forward and hugged the pole to myself. My chest started to burn now too, burn so wonderfully, and my back started to itch wildly from all those little sparks that started to crawl around my body like they were alive. It wasn't a bad thing, in fact, it was the most wonderful feeling I'd ever felt, although at first I couldn't tell if it was hurting me or not. Pain, pleasure... they all mixed up in this weird way. It all built up until this kind of explosion came inside me, one that was like a million stars exploding, every one of them bursting with pleasure. I heard myself screaming as I never wanted that feeling to stop!
Anyway, I couldn't hold on after a while that so my Mom reached out and pulled me away from it while telling me that a first charge should be small. I felt like I was in this dream as I looked down at myself to see that I suddenly had breasts! No shit, but there they were all of a sudden like magic. Not nearly as big as Mom's, but they were bigger than anyone else in my class at school.
I quickly got dressed in that red and blue costume and then walked out into the sun again as I kept staring down at these new curves on my chest. I kept touching them even though I knew it wasn't a polite thing to do in public.
I thought I was going to feel all embarrassed and stuff when my Dad saw me, but it seemed completely natural to him to see my this way. At least until he clapped his hands and my Mom took a bow and then made me do the same. Then he took the picture you see here, Now that was just too weird.
Mom told me that it was time now for some serious fun. I was ready to do anything except have my Dad take more pictures of me, so I bent down and leaped like a thousand meters into the air. I suddenly found that I could fly like I'd been born to it. For the first time in my life I was really a super girl. Flying was easy now, so easy that I flew all the way out of the atmosphere again before Mom caught me. We dove down so fast that my body was all glowing and my costume started to melt.
There wasn't much left of it when I got back to the ground, the 'S' was burned away and my breasts were as totally nude as my Mom's, but my parents acted as if that was normal and Mom challenged me into lifting this huge rock with her. We messed around with it for a while as I learned to really exert myself and balance my body with my flying power. We finally lifted this huge boulder over our heads, but my Dad's camera was out of film so he never did get a picture of it. I didn't care, I was just so proud of myself, at least until Mom walked over and lifted that thing all by herself. One-handed. She looked so strong at that moment, and her eyes were so bright that I thought they were going to blind me.
Then it was like she turned off some switch inside herself. Her eyes grew dull again and she set the boulder down with a THUD and went and got the picnic basket and made us lunch. Like nothing had happened. I slipped back into a shirt and my Dad and I talked about what it felt like to fly, but Mom said nothing all the way through lunch.
After eating, she walked off and changed into one of her usual outfits, the kind with that itsy-bitsy mesh she likes. Actually, I think it's my Dad that really likes them. She seemed all happy again now when she came back and she and my Dad went off behind this big rock.
I knew they were going to have sex, I can always tell when my Mom wants to, but this time they forgot that I can see through things when I'm outside a gold field. I know I'm not supposed to peek, but I stared at them as they got into it. My Mom never touched the ground, she just kind of flew herself up and down my Dad's... well, I'm not going to write about that here. All I know is that it was wildly sexy and also embarrassing to watch, especially the way my Dad got so crazy after while, so I turned and walked the other way and practiced flying some more.
Someday, it's going to be so cool to have a boyfriend and love him that way too. Someday.


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I have many good memories, and I have so many of these from Newcastle. One of the strongest is that of Christmas, it's high point for me being the annual Christmas Tree and Toy Service. How sweet the memory. At the end of the service, the choir would follow me out, leaving the congregation singing Silent Night while seated, with the lights down, except for the one over the huge Christmas Tree, with all its fairy lights and the mountain of colourful gifts for poor children gathered round its foot. The choir and I would stand outside the door, looking in, sharing the beauty of the moment.
Forgive my reminiscing. But Christmas is a time for reminiscence. From the earliest age, the sense of nostalgia at Christmas grows. Atheists, agnostics, Christians and non-Christians take part in it, in spite of the efforts of some people defiantly to say "Happy Holiday" instead of "Merry Christmas". The festival has a deep meaning for most people, with the old words, the old songs and carols, the gifts and good food; associations that move the heart: candlelight, the hope of snow, listening for the sound of sleigh bells as you go to sleep; the make-believe – such symbolism, such poetry! All the goodness, all the hope that we pray for during the year are reflected here, with the light of candles in children's eyes, as it was in our eyes, long – or not so long – ago.
I don't make New Year resolutions now. I used to, but not now; I've had too many failures. Many people do indeed have success when making resolutions on the first of January. To begin something good and new, you need to have a clean sheet to begin with, and what can be cleaner and more obvious than the first day of the New Year?
But that implies that any other date in the year won't be as significant as the first of January, and that may mean that you will have to wait a whole year before the next really significant date. This isn't so. What we need when making any promise to ourselves, or to anyone – or to God – is a good reason for making such a promise. A good reason lends power and commitment to what we intend to do, whenever we start to do it. For several years, I tried to give up cigarettes on the first of January, with a forward look of vague intent, hoping for self improvement and a bonus of more money in my pocket, and never getting beyond a few weeks. There came the flop back into the old ways and disappointment at my failure, which I eventually forgot until another New Year, with a further repeat and inevitable flop.
Then my father developed emphysema because of a lifetime of cigarette smoking and the doctor told him to stop or he would die. Dad always did as the doctor ordered, so he stopped smoking, but was finding it terribly hard, and I said, "If you stop, I'll stop, too." So we both stopped, each having the same important reason to give up. For my part, I knew that if I flopped this time, my father would die.
I started to dream about going to a tobacconist (the same dream shop as always), buying a packet of cigarettes, smoking one and throwing the rest away. The dreams lasted for years, but I never flopped. The day I stopped wasn't New Year's Day: it was the 26th September, 1966, and I haven't had a cigarette once in all that time – and Dad lived for another twelve years.
Just as we can carry the message of Christmas throughout the year, so also may we carry the essence of improvement and renewal through the year, because newness can start on any day, bringing a spring in the step, a forward burst of energy, love of life, love of people and renewed hope – not just for this part of life, but also for what lies beyond. Yes, it's there, believe me.


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Donald Trump is running the most explicitly nationalist presidential campaign since Theodore Roosevelt, an American president from the early 20th century known for his role in the Progressive movement.
I feel like the biographical information is important because Roosevelt may have been many things – he was a bit too exuberant with his executive authority, for example, and often saw the U.S. Constitution as an impediment to social progress. But Roosevelt wasn't Adolf Hitler, another well-known nationalist who was also a genocidal madman and one of history's worst monsters.
Too many people see "nationalist" and jump straight to Hitler and Nazi Germany. That's a mistake.
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It's a mistake that Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is only too happy to perpetuate.
In a private conversation with donors in February, Clinton spoke of "a strain of … the kind of populist, nationalist, xenophobic, discriminatory kind of approach that we hear too much of from the Republican candidates." In that same conversation, she referred to Bernie Sanders' supporters somewhat snidely as "children of the Great Recession … living in their parents' basement."
Populist. Nationalist. Xenophobic. At least one of those things is not like the other.
Nationalism is one of those "deplorable" terms – like "America First," come to think of it – that has been beaten and shorthanded to death by historians and pundits who have a particular story to tell or a narrative to sell.
The America First Committee before World War II consisted of a broad coalition of people – including future President Gerald Ford, liberal Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart and famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright – who opposed the U.S. entry into the war in Europe for a variety of reasons. Aviator Charles Lindbergh was the committee's national spokesman. He was emphatically not a fascist or a Nazi sympathizer. He did deliver one speech in which he spoke derisively of Jewish Americans. The speech was pilloried in newspapers across the country. Partly as a result, the anti-war effort was tagged as anti-Semitic.
World War II and its aftermath did similar damage to the idea nationalism. National socialism, after all, was a nationalist movement. Italian fascism was a nationalist movement. The Baath parties of Hafez al-Assad's Syria and Saddam Hussein's Iraq were national socialist in orientation.
Does that mean Trump's nationalism is national socialism, too? Trump has been characterized as a wannabe Hitler or a would-be Caesar, but his nationalism and the nationalist sentiment of many of his supporters is quintessentially American.
Nationalism and Americanism, in fact, have gone hand in hand from the beginning.
Alexander Hamilton was a nationalist. The federal system he helped design and put into effect united disparate states and regions under a national banner.
Daniel Webster and Abraham Lincoln were nationalists. Webster, in his great debate in 1830 with Robert Hayne of South Carolina over "internal improvements" (what we would call infrastructure), argued that the federal government isn't the servant of the states, but the people.
In remarks that presaged Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, Webster said, "It is, Sir, the people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people" – not the states and not a nameless, faceless class of bureaucrats unelected and unaccountable to no one.
Webster made the case for nationalism, but Lincoln settled the question of whether America would be a loose association of sovereign states or one nation, indivisible.
By the time Teddy Roosevelt came on the national scene at the turn of the 20th century, the United States was on the cusp of becoming a world power. Roosevelt worried – along with many Progressives of his time – that mass immigration and millions of unassimilated newcomers would undermine national unity and change the fundamental character of the republic. He railed against racial and ethnic separatism and instead made the case for the "melting pot."
"It is not only necessary to Americanize the immigrants of foreign birth who settle among us," Roosevelt wrote in 1894, "but it is even more necessary for those among us who are by birth and descent already Americans not to throw away our birthright."
The relentless and unapologetic nationalism of Hamilton, Webster, Lincoln and TR has been supplanted over time by multiculturalism and globalism. And so, when we talk about immigration today, we hear little if anything about the "melting pot" or assimilation. Instead, our self-appointed betters respond to criticism of open borders and skepticism of liberal immigration policies with the passive-aggressive catchphrase, "That's not who we are."
But as my colleague Chris Buskirk pointed out recently in an essay at American Greatness, the response "assumes there is a definable and exclusive 'we' – a distinct American people, citizens of the United States living in a certain place under a particular set of laws and united by a common set of ideas."
The resurgent nationalism we see with the Trump campaign isn't knee-jerk bigotry or mere xenophobia, as some would have it, so much as an antidote to globalism, which has caused all manner of havoc.
"Globalization has a unifying dimension, which we rightly applaud," writes R.R. Reno at the conservative religious journal First Things. "At the same time, though, globalization is associated with economic and cultural changes that are dissolving inherited forms of solidarity – the nation foremost, but local communities, as well, and even the family."
"This dissolution," Reno continues, "encourages an atomistic individualism, which in turn makes all of us more vulnerable to domination and control."
Reno perceptively notes that Islamic extremism thrives where "traditional Muslim societies are disintegrated by the pressures of globalization."
Reno argues for a Christian nationalism, "one that encourages the unity of mankind while recognizing that human beings thrive best as members of a particular people and as proud recipients of a distinctive cultural inheritance." The trouble, of course, is that the United States is a post-Christian nation. We were never a Christian nation officially, but had until recently been one culturally. No more.
Trump's nationalism is a post-Christian nationalism, but one that harks back to the Americanism of the Founders, of Lincoln, and of TR.
Why only two cheers then?
Because nationalism, like any other -ism, can and often has been taken to illogical extremes that are antithetical to natural rights and human freedoms. But the national agenda that Trump espouses is hardly outside the American mainstream. It may be imperfect, messy and contradictory perhaps, but also it's liberating and fiercely protective of what makes America America.
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2016 Book Passage Travel Writers & Photographers Conference
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 08.09.16 | 1:46 PM ET
This year's Book Passage Travel Writers & Photographers Conference—or as many justly call it, summer camp for travel writers—kicks off Thursday in Corte Madera, California. If you've ever wanted to study travel writing with a host of accomplished writers and editors, this is the time and place. The four-day conference features classes and panel discussions about the art, craft and business of travel writing and photography—and, just as importantly, hours of conversation over wine and dinner.
I'll be teaching a series of morning classes with Los Angeles Times staff writer Chris Reynolds.
Also on the faculty are World Hum contributors Lavinia Spalding, Pam Mandel, Candace Rardon, Michael Shapiro, Andrea Johnson, Larry Habegger, Linda Watanabe McFerrin, Spud Hilton and Abbie Kozolchyk. Other luminaries include Don George, Tim Cahill, Elizabeth Harryman, Jeff Greenwald, Janis Cooke Newman and Robert Holmes.
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Smartsupp live chat
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Companies who want live chat and visitor recording in one tool. Watch our video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g88XoQW9V7U
Average Ratings66 Reviews
Ease of Use
Customer Service
Product Details
Starting Price$0.01/month/user
Pricing DetailsFree version forever
Free VersionYes
DeploymentCloud, SaaS, Web
Installed - Mac
Installed - Windows
Mobile - Android Native
Mobile - iOS Native
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Vendor Details
- Smartsupp
- www.smartsupp.com
- Founded 2013
- Czech Republic
About Smartsupp live chat
FREE live chat with visitor recording. Use our Free package with UNLIMITED number of agents forever. Smartsupp increases conversions by up to 500 % (measurable in Google Analytics) and improves customer loyalty. With Smartsupp you see a video with screen, mouse movement and clicks of each visitor. Your customers are on your website right now. Chat with them and see what they do.
Smartsupp live chat Features
- Canned Responses
- Geo Targeting
- Offline Form
- Proactive Chat
- Screen Sharing
- Third Party Integration
- Transfers/Routing
- Website Visitor Tracking
Smartsupp live chat Reviews Recently Reviewed!
an excellent chat for your page
Likely Extremely
Pros: the free service is good includes a video with the user screen steps it's very useful see how the user use your system, includes an app for Android, a lot of reports for see the conversations, you can customize the chat with your logo, integrates with a lot of apps like word press shopify, includes automatic responses
Cons: sometimes the Android app doesnt receive the notifications, it would great include an api to generate automatic responses programatically like the chatbots
Overall: get a chat in my page connected to my cell phone before I used the yahoo messenger in my page connected to my yahoo messenger account but this application is better has more features I like a lot the user videos
Vendor Response
by Smartsupp on October 06, 2018
Thank you for your review!
We launched updated version of our mobile apps recently with several bug fixes of push notifications. I can definitely recommend to update to the latest version, where everything should run smoothly.
If you run into any issues with push notifications on mobile, let us know at email@example.com.
My Favorite Live Chat Feature!
Likely Extremely
Pros: Free version is an INCREDIBLE value. You can see when people are on your site instantly, and what page they are on. You can even block IP addresses if needed. The chat feature is also fantastic with the option to receive transcripts via email when you're offline.
Cons: Honestly, not a thing. It's one of those solutions that just blows away your expectations.
Overall: We use Smartsupp in my organization to chat internally with our Team Members in the field. We have an internal website that they can log into that serves as a performance aid and if they can't find what they're looking for or if they have any questions, they can chat with us live. They love it and we love it. It was extremely easy to install on our site and configure with our branding. I would recommend it to anyone who is looking for a live chat feature for their business or organization, whether you use it with your Team Members or your customers.
Vendor Response
by Smartsupp on January 19, 2019
thank you for your review Renee!
We are happy to see that you are satisfied with Smartsupp.
All the best,
Smartsupp team
Love SmartSupp - Best on the Market!
Likely Extremely
Pros: Live access to current visitors of website, video recordings of visitors and their movements, live chat and email, also see which countries they are from, where they came from i.e. source, etc
Cons: Would prefer payment methods to be automatic
Overall: I have tried a few different platforms that only offer a fraction of what Smartsupp does and this is by far the best out there. Highly recommend all the features that are easy to use and manage and monitor. As someone who is relatively new to this internet world Smartsupp is also excellent value for money incorporating many functions that some outfits charge for just one aspect. Highly recommend :)
Recommendations to other buyers: Excellent value for money as you get many features in one.
Vendor Response
by Smartsupp on October 06, 2018
Thank you for your review!
I can now happily say we support automatic renewal when you pay by credit card or Paypal.
A very easy and comprehensive chat for your site, we use with Shopify
Likely Extremely
Pros: It was super simple to launch. I love that you can save who the customer is, so the next time you know who they are. Also the recording info provided gives you more insight to customer habits and more important experience.
Cons: So I have this on my phone as well, i did not realize it defaults to as available, making it seem as if someone was available for a chat at all times of day and night.
Overall: The history info it saves is very valuable
Vendor Response
by Smartsupp on October 06, 2018
Thank you for your review!
You can switch to offline or logout from the app when you don't want to be seen online on your site. We launched updated version of our app recently with several bug fixes. I can definitely recommend to update to the latest version.
I was amazed both by your software and your customer support who was ready to assist me.
Pros: I like it offers a broad functionality list and i will test it to see if it fits my needs for my website design business. I like that you have an affiliate partners strategy.
Cons: I would like to have the functionality of sending files. That would be a market changer.
Vendor Response
by Smartsupp on May 16, 2017
Hi Konstantinos! Thank you for your kind words! You were attended by Lili, we will pass your feedback over to her!
For fileshare, try to use Dropbox or LightShot, for now we do not plan to implement our own fileshare feature, we prefer to use tools that are already available and working perfectly ;)
Your Smartsupp Team
Improve customer service and sales volume
Likely Extremely
Pros: - very functional free version
Cons: - have not found any
Overall: I can recommend smartsapp for everyone who want to improve customer service. Improving customers service quality can help increase sales volume. SmartsUpp is example of A++ customer service, help me to solve my problem in few minutes. Statlook.com recommends SmartsUpp .
Recommendations to other buyers: Good to improve customer service and engage customers
Smartsupp Live Chat review
Comments: The best way to review an app, is to try this one. And i pass more than a year using everyday the Smartsupp tools for Live Chat. Now i can say is for me the easier and best way to make live chat on a website (chat writing) and have tools of analytic usefull for ecommerce and other websites. The last updates help very much this application to be more usefull. The configuration is easy, during the day, the technical service is available by chat for the companies who use the tool if they have questions and the tool is light to dont lose speed on page load. In two words : Great App.
Pros: - Easy to use - Many tools - Great support
Cons: - Need only more people to use it
Best Chat plugin for your website
Likely Extremely
Pros: Free version with unlimited agents & unlimited chat conversations.
Simple setup process.
Easy to use.
Best in the market.
Video recordings.
Cons: The website speed might effect a little(not much) when we are enable the video recordings. Sorry if i am wrong.
Overall: Excellent. I got the good success rate in my seasonal business with Smartsupp. my team quickly responded to the customer queries. Increased my sales orders, Decreased bounce rate & created trust for my customers on my business with Smartsupp.
Thanks Smartsupp for everything.
Vendor Response
by Smartsupp on November 28, 2018
Thank you for your review. We are happy to hear you like Smartsupp!
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One of The best modules and companies
Likely Extremely
Pros: Useful and easy
Cons: Nothing
Overall: Yeah. I have proved hundreds of plugins for Wordpress and modules for Prestahop and I think that is one of the most interesting of all.
Recommendations to other buyers: No
Vendor Response
by Smartsupp on March 21, 2017
Thank you very much
Excellent quality and customer support
Pros: Easy to handle. Simply perfect. And one of your support collague - Lili - always help me quickly, and very helpful person. She is totally helpful and perfect for customer support issues.
Cons: I have not experienced negative things till not during using this software. I hope this experience will not change :)
Vendor Response
by Smartsupp on July 20, 2017
Dear Zsolt!
Thank you for your kind words! We are happy that you like our product and we will forward your review to Lili, it will certainly make her happy!
Have a great day!
Your Smartsupp Team
Best free plan live chat
Likely Extremely
Pros: Very easy to setup and get going. Free moules are nice for eCommerce platforms. Even at free plan you can cusotomize the chat window, logo, colour etc.
Cons: I miss automated phrases at customer chats, nothing more. I´ve used other chat apps this one is my favorite.
Best chat app ever
Comments: We have installed SmartSupp on several websites for our clients and all of them could use it without any training. And the pricing is very pleasant an even our smallest customers could afford it.
Pros: Super easy to install and use Vvisitor recording - of course
Cons: I'll write as soon as I'll find some
Comments: Reliable, easy to use, exactly fullfill all our needs of what would we except from chat app. Reasonable pricing for good features. We used few others and decided to stick to smartsupp.
Pros: Reliable Video recordings Easy to use
Cons: Lacks a feature to reply to missed chats within their app
Simple and Easy
Likely Extremely
Pros: The features are simple and easy. And free.
Cons: I would like if there was a reminder beep when someone has chatted you instead of just a dot on the tab.
Vendor Response
by Smartsupp on October 06, 2018
Thank you for your review!
You can set up both sound and desktop (visual) notifications in Smartsupp. See our tutorial for details:
In case of any questions don't hesitate to contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com
Best price/value chat app on the market
Comments: We tried several chat apps and we came in conclusion that Smartsupp was the best solution for our small company. The free version has already everything that we needed (personalised chat on our website, multiple users, auto-messages, offline messages, visitor recording).
Pros: We love the visitor recording tool ! It's been very useful to find problems on our website. After analyzing how people are searching products on our website, we became aware of some gaps and we were able to improve the visitors' experience :)
Cons: We have a bilingual website. It was not easy to set up auto-messages in French and Netherlands. We are still experiencing dificulties with getting the right auto-message to the defined target. Sometimes French speaking visitors are receiving auto-messages in Netherlands and vice-versa.
Great Product and outstanding Support
Comments: Smartsupp is easy to use and key software we use to enhance customer service at SoftwareSuggest.com. We're using it since the early days of Smartsupp and have seen how the product evolved over the time, customer service is always delighting.
Pros: Easy to use & reliable software.
Great online Chat for your Ecommerce
Comments: I have used Smartsupp for about a year now. I recommend it to all I know that might need it! I feel it is pretty easy to use. Video recording of the visitor are great.
Pros: Easy to use & reliable software.
Help your customer online
Comments: I'm using this app every day for cca 5 months. It's really perfect. Supporting my native language and video recordings are very useful. I think that customers are enjoying shopping more with live support than without it. Because they know about someone who is ready to help them in case of any questions.
Pros: user friendly admin, video records, mobile version - frontend
Nice Support Service
Comments: I think interface is a bit complicated to handle. But The Support team is really helpful. I talked one of their representative and he was really helping.
All I suggest the team to better their product overall UI and keep the great support team with them.
Stay blessed.
Vendor Response
by Smartsupp on April 03, 2017
Hi Ahmed,
thank you for your kind words! The rep who you spoke to was Lili, we will pass your feedback to her and we will of course take into consideration your suggestion to improve our UI.
Have a great day!
Smartsupp Team
Great tool for improving Customer Care
Comments: Smartsupp is a very easy to integrate live chat solution that helped our customer care team communicate with our clients faster and boost our sales. Their API enabled us to connect it with our internal tools and provide our team with valuable information about clients.
Pros: Easy to use, simple and efficient
Smartsupp live chat is great online chat
Comments: Smartsupp live chat means for us efficient and fact communication with our custommers, it is opportunity for instatnt reaction and we can immidately help our customers. Customer service enable us to help personal an imediatley our customers. Possibility of live communikacion throught Smartsupp chat help us to keep gooinf in our philosophy. Using the chat has been competitve advantage for us. We approciate possibility of automatic setting to speaking with visitors of our web side and connection with Google Analytics.
Very helpful and efficient app for customer care
Comments: I've been using Smartsupp chat on a daily basis for quite some time to interact with our customers, and I' ve been extremely satisfied with the whole app. I believe it's by far the coolest chat app for any business or website! Very easy to use, minimalistic dashboard is very well-aranged and efficient!
Pros: - user friendly and customizable - great number of language versions - screen recordings of visitors movement - automatic responses setting - tracking the impact on our sales and many more, I definitely have to give a try to the mobile version!
Cons: So far, I haven't noticed any :)
Unexpectedly good
Comments: We offer quite special goods - electric bicycles - and its very hard to explain all details on the web, even at https://ekolo.cz we use video intensively. Since we implement this app, we have about 4-8 chats daily with customers, who will never call us for details and are lazy to writ emails. My advice - hire and dedicated person for chats and keep it up evenings..
Pros: Easy to use, Implemented in second, fully customizabe.. Video recording of the visitor are better than paid heatmaps
Cons: Cant see any, for its price it really pay off. maybe to teach the software answer the customer questions itself :-)))
Complete satisfied 200%
Comments: The support staff girl is the best supporter that i ever be in contact, in few minutes had solved all my problems, always available ! TOP SUPPORTER! satisfaction guaranteed.
Vendor Response
by Smartsupp on March 16, 2017
Hello Federico,
thank you very much for your positive words! We are happy that you are satisfied. Please get in touch with us anytime you have more questions.
Kind regards,
team Smartsupp
Very easy and effective
Likely Extremely
Pros: After briefly testing this live chat program on my Shopify site, I came to the conclusion that it is very easy to use and offers great features.
Cons: It is really hard to come up with a con to this program! It is just a great tool with great features
No way I can now do without Smartsupp.
Comments: Seeing instantly who is visiting my website and being able to interact with them is brilliant! I can even get an idea of their location. Smartsupp makes it all easy and intuitive so no learning curve required.
Cons: I struggled to get anything similar or related working on my android phone and have yet to sort this aspect out. Fortunately working this app from my PC is the main thing I need. This is not a direct negative against Smartsupp of course but if they were able to establish a solution for android phones that would be perfect.
Great online Chat for your website
Comments: I implemented the chat on my website to get in contact with customers directly. It was easy to implement and you can customize the chat bubble to fit your design. The chat itself is easy with very useful information about your customers.
Pros: The best feature of this app is the video recording of the users behavior including the mouse pointer on your site. You see your site in the video exactly how the customers sees it on his desktop (or mobile device) and you can see how he behaves on your site.
Excellent application to increase sales
Comments: Thanks to Smartsupp I have managed to have more contacts with my clients who are online in the web page.
Vendor Response
by Smartsupp on February 09, 2017
Hi Alex,
Thank you for the review.
We are happy to hear that Smartsupp increased your sales.
If you need any help, you are more than welcome to contact us.
Greetings from the Smartsupp team
Very effective support
Comments: Our rep was unbelievable. She quickly answered on my every question. Absolutelly briliant support :) I recommend to all of u
Vendor Response
by Smartsupp on March 16, 2017
Hello Vladimir!
Thank you for your kind words! We will pass them over to Lili, it will certainly make her happy! :)
Kind regards,
Smartsupp Team
Good and cheap
Comments: I'm a happy user of Smartsupp since January 2016. This app is easy to set up and easy to use. I hope they will add some new features what I need :) Look my Cons :)
Pros: Fast to set up Easy to use live view is perfect :)
Cons: I would see more options in sort and filter my visitors on record mode. Maybe you would like to add newsletter and Premium code sender for 1st time visitors - I know that's not main idea of this app - but I would love this :)
Comments: I use it and it is better than zopim.You can use free package or premium.Free package is enough lots of people.I use it and it is better than zopim.You can use free package or premium.Free package is enough lots of people.
Pros: I use it and it is better than zopim.You can use free package or premium.Free package is enough lots of people.
Cons: I use it and it is better than zopim.You can use free package or premium.Free package is enough lots of people.
Lukas Pelc
Comments: We've been using Smartsupp live chat for several months now and it's perfect. Our team of 6 technicians provides technical support for home users and Smartsupp helps us deliver better quality, real-time support. Our customers love the fact that a real person is just one click away.
Best chat out there by far!
Comments: I've used a few chats before (Zopim, Olark) but I can honestly say that when I've tried Smartsupp, I knew that there won't be going back. Smartsupp lets me lots of advanced stuff while maintaining very easy learning curve. Their chat is reliable and it has a good impact on my website's user experience and performance.
Pros: It's free! Ease of use Advanced functionality (triggers, screen recording, autoresponders)
Cons: Honestly, I have no idea, maybe change the logo :P :)
Great technical customer service!
Comments: I am happy that the support staff could solve all my troubles within a few moments. I will be happy to continue this service and recommend it to everybody.
Vendor Response
by Smartsupp on February 09, 2017
Thank you Melinda :)
Good product with great support in Europe
Comments: We switched to Smartsupp from another live chat product because of the top quality support Smartsupp provides. They've a great team of people ready to answer our questions and help us with everything we need.
Really nice support chat
Comments: We have been using it for some months now, and we're using it every day. We have increased our sales and customers can get an answer on even the small things without calling, loving it!
Great value for money, intuitive layout
Comments: We have been using Smartsupp for the last week and it immediately added value to our business - implementing the livechat was a breeze, the application works very intuitively and the Google Analytics integration is very helpful as well.
Pros: - Google Analytics integration is very helpful - Intuitive design - Great value for money
Cons: None to date - will update if we find any.
Easy to use and many free features
Comments: I have been using smartsupp for a while and I have had really positive experience. Especially the amount of free features they have. I was surprised that I could even watch videos of the movement of my visitors! I feel it is pretty easy to use, I would definetely recommend it.
Pros: - free - videos of movement of visitors
Cons: - I would appreciate more tutorials how to use the tool effectively
very good app, helps selling stuff
Comments: I'm using this app for www.solve24.pl and recommend for all companies, very useful, easy to install if You don't want to have opened browser window You can install pidgin and help Your clients without remembering about opening Firefox window. Very customisable, You can change colors making app matching Your website.
Pros: Free version is very useful
Cons: You need to paid to have video version
Good support, excelent software
Comments: I tried a lot of live chats, this chat works very quickly against other chats. Thanks API you can customize your chat for each page. Support helped me in each case. Thank you.
Software special
Likely Extremely
Pros: Is the only chat software that allow to manage differents chat windows located in differents websites.
Cons: Currently the software have to improve with more features than a simple chat... I think the way is get a bot chat.
Great product
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This post is about reported speech.What is reported speech ? This is the way to to give the general meaning of someone's saying,but not the exact words.
"I love you, Mary!" whispered John. (direct speech)
John told Mary that he loved her. (reported speech)
Reported StatementsThere are some important rules one should remember to report someone's words:
1.Reported statements are usually introduced with the verbs say ( that) or tell (that).
Say is used with or without a personal object. When used with a personal object, it is always followed by the preposition to :
She said that... / She said to me that... ;
Tell is always followed by a personal object without to:
He told me that....
2.When the reporting verb (told, said,informed,etc. ) is used in the Past tense the verbs in the reported speech must be changed into Past forms according to the table:
Present Simple ---> Past Simple
Ann said: "I live in London". Ann said that she lived in London.
Present Continuous ---> Past Continuous
"Danny is playing in his room," Jane told me. Jane told me that Danny was playing in his room.
Present Perfect ---> Past Perfect
"Mummy,we have laid the table!" the girls said. The girls told their mother that they had laid the table.
Past Simple ---> Past Perfect
"I saw Betty two days ago" Michael said. Michael said that he had seen Betty two days before.
Present Perfect Continuous ---> Past Perfect Continuous
" I have been working hard recently", Bob said. Bob said that he had been working hard recently.
Future Simple ---> Future -in- the- Past
"I'll help you,"Liz said to me. Liz said that she would help me.
3. The time words and expressions must be changed when the reporting verb is used in the Past tense:
now---> at that time,then
today, tonight ---> that day, that night
yesterday ---> the day before, the previous day
tomorrow ---> the next day, the following day
this / these ---> that/ those
last week ---> the week before,the previous week
next week ---> the week after,the following week
ago ---> before
here ---> there
Now you can check yourself!
Rewrite these statements in reported speech
And Sally called back and asked how I felt,
And she said: "I know how to help -
Get over Alice".
She said: "Now Alice is gone,
But I'm still here,
You know I've been waiting
For twenty-four years..."
Sally said that she knew how to help. She advised me to get over Alice ( this rule will be learnt next time) She told me that Alice was gone but she was there and she had been waiting for that for 24 years.
It's time to enjoy the amaizing song:
Smokie - Living Next Door To Alice
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Persimmon Homes' Ingleby Barwick development continues to be hugely popular with house hunters.
Now well established, the Fairview project will be made up of 225 new homes when completed.
Work started on site in April last year - and won't be concluded for another two years.
The latest release of properties includes 22 homes.
Helen Dennis, sales advisor at the site, said: "We're well established now, and the site is still very, very popular.
"We have a lot of people coming to see the site over the weekends - both those who are already living on Ingleby Barwick and those living outside the estate."
There are currently three show homes open for viewing at Fairview.
They include the five bedroom Grosvenor, the four bedroom Westminster and the five bedroom, three storey Harewood.
As well as detached homes, the site has a number of semi-detached properties - offering buyers even more choice.
"We've got a real mix of people moving onto the development," added Helen.
"We've got first time buyers interested in the three bedroom homes and families and older people wanting to buy too.
"Ingleby Barwick is now such as well established community it's a really popular place to live.
"Access to the estate is now much improved and plans for a new school make it very attractive to buyers."
At the end of last year a new £1.3m road scheme was completed to improve access to Ingleby Barwick.
The Myton Road link road means speedier journeys to and from home for those living on Europe's biggest housing estate, and eventually a huge drop in traffic passing through Thornaby.
Helen added a range of property styles was making the Fairview development popular with property hunters.
"The three storey properties are particular popular," she added.
"We find they go very quickly.
"People like to have the choice of a range of house types."
Fairview is the latest for Persimmon at Ingleby Barwick.
It's last site on the estate was the Dovecotes development.
Ingleby Barwick is also well situated for access to other area and facilities.
The picturesque town of Yarm is just a short drive away, while in another direction, Teesside Retail and Leisure Park are attractions along the A66
A major shopping attraction is the wide High Street in Stockton with its many facilities including the Castlegate Centre and the recently developed Wellington Square shopping quarter.
More information on the site is also available at www.persimmonhomes.com
Development: Fairview.
Location: Off Longfields Avenue, Ingleby Barwick.
Developer: Persimmon Homes operates under the slogan "Together we make a home" and is at the forefront of British housebuilding. It believes in providing the very best in design, construction and service.
House types: 3, 4 and 5-bedroom.
Prices: Current houses on release range from £144,500 to £239,500.
Number of properties: 22 on current release, 225 in total at the site.
Schools: St Francis C of E primary; Egglescliffe Secondary.
Churches: St Francis C of E, Christ the King, Parish Church of South Thornaby.
Shops: Safeway and other local stores.
Pubs: Teal Arms.
Transport services: Local bus services to Yarm, Middlesbrough and Stockton.
Contact number and times sales offices is open: 01642 308291, Thurdays-Mondays 11am-6pm.
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DMND has been an exceptional performer over the last four months. Shares are currently pulling back from all-time highs. The stock looks like it will test support near $75.00 and its up trend of higher lows soon. I am suggesting we launch small bullish positions on a dip at the $75.00 mark with a stop loss at $73.25. More conservative traders could wait for a dip closer to the 30-dma as their entry point instead.
If triggered our first target is $79.50. FYI: The Point & Figure chart for DMND is bullish with a $90 target.
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Dispite the decline in the incidence of and death from coronary heart disease (CHD) in recent decades, CHD is still one of the leading causes of mortality and morbidity. The link between elevated plasma LDL-cholesterol concentrations and the risk of developing coronary artery disease has been clearly established [1]. The National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) recommends a list of complicated and grindingly diet for the hypercholesterolemic people but got ineffective results. Not included in NCEP guidelines are specific recommendations about dietary fiber, which attracted wider concern.
Since 1953 Hipsley first introduced this new terminology "dietary fiber (DF),¡ it has become today's most active content in nutritional study. For more than 50 years, the researchers have accumulated a lot of beneficial information of dietary fiber and as an important component of dietary fiber and oat glucan has also aroused great concern. In the early 1960s, De Groot et al. discovered that the daily consumption of bread containing 140 g rolled oats markedly lowered serum cholesterol concentrations in humans [2]. In March of 1995, the Quaker Oats Co., Barrington, Ill., petitioned the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for permission to make a health claim that oat products may reduce the risk of heart disease; the petition was granted in January 1997. This was the first time that such a claim was allowed for a specific food. The FDA reviewed over 37 studies demonstrating that oat-bran (and in particular beta-glucan) lowered serum cholesterol. The claim is as follows: ¡¡ãSoluble fiber from oatmeal, as part of a low saturated fat, low cholesterol diet, may reduce the risk of heart disease [3]
Since the FDA issued this health claim, people have designed a variety of tests to prove that oat beta-glucan indeed plays an important role in reducing serum cholesterol levels.
Researchers from the Center for Cardiovascular Disease Control (CCDC) in United States found that adequate supplementary of beta-glucan fiber can reduce the blood lipids [4]. The researchers selected 15 free-living, obese, hypercholesterolemic men. After a 3-wk period in which subjects ate their usual diet, 15 g fiber/d was added to the diet for 8 wk and then stopped for 4 wk. Plasma lipids were measured weekly during baseline and at week 7 and 8 of fiber consumption, and again at week 12. Both total cholesterol and HDL-cholesterol concentrations were measured directly. The concentrations of LDL-cholesterol were calculated. They found that after supplementation, serum total cholesterol concentration was significantly lower (7 %) than at baseline; meanwhile, HDL-cholesterol concentrations increased significantly (12 %) and was well tolerated. This suggested that beta-glucan can effectively restrain the concentration of LDL-cholesterol in plasma.
Dutch researchers published a study in the latest ¡¡ãAmerican Journal of Clinical Nutrition¡ indicated that adding beta-glucan into fruit juice can help lower the level of total cholesterol and the harmful LDL-cholesterol in the human body. Ronald P group of University of Maastricht, the Netherlands, selected 25 healthy people to drink fruit juice containing oat beta-glucan. As a control, another 22 healthy people drink ordinary juice. All subjects drink specific fruit juice in consecutive 5 wk. In this study, this group collected blood samples both before and after test respectively, then measure the consentration of fat, lipoprotein and fat-soluble antioxidant. They reported that compared to the control group, the concentration of total cholesterol reduced by 4.8 % and LDL-cholesterol reduced by 7.7 % in the group of who intaked beta-glucan. He said that they were still unclear the principle how beta-glucan lower the LDL-cholesterol. He guessed that beta-glucans may affect the intestinal secretion of bile acid and accelerate the synthesis and secretion of bile acid, which need more cholesterol.
A recent meta-analysis of previously published data revealed a connection between soluble fiber intake from oat products and a reduction in total and LDL cholesterol [5].
Mechanisms of action of beta-glucans: lipid-lowering effect
Since the discovery of the cholesterol-lowering action of rolled oats, much effort has been put into identification of the underlying mechanisms. Four mechanisms have been proposed to explain how beta-glucan from oats lowers serum cholesterol.
First, it has been postulated that soluble fiber binds to bile acids in the intestinal lumen, which results in a reduced bile acid pool circulating back to the liver. This binding action stimulates production of more bile acids derived from cholesterol that is either made endogenously or captured from the circulation [6-9].
Second, soluble fibers are fermented in the large bowel by colonic bacteria [6, 9-11]. This action results in the production of the short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) ¡ª acetate, propionate, and butyrate. These SCFAs are absorbed through the portal vein, inhibiting hepatic cholesterol synthesis by limiting the action of HMG-CoA reductase (the rate-limiting enzyme required for cholesterol biosynthesis) or by increasing catabolism of LDL-C.
Third, soluble fiber may delay gastric emptying, thereby reducing post-prandial serum insulin concentrations [12]. This action reduces hepatic cholesterol production through mediation of HMG-CoA reductase.
Fourth, oat soluble fiber may interfere with the absorption of dietary fat, including cholesterol, by increasing intestinal viscosity [12]. The increased viscosity causes the digesta to hold on to extra water, which slows its movement.
However, these guidelines only consider the total content of beta-glucans in a certain food but not their molecular weight [13]. Animal studies suggested that molecular weight is an important determinant of the lipid-lowering properties of oat fiber [14-16]. Researchers in Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences selected 22 healthy people. The two different oat breads with similar nutrient composition but different beta-glucan molecular weight (797 kDa & 217 kDa) distribution were fed to 22 volunteers in a randomized, double-blind, crossover design for 3 wk. Blood samples were drawn and analyzed for lipids, insulin, and glucose. Compared to baseline, females who consumption of HMW bread reudced serum LDL-cholesterol but no significant changes in males. Neither males nor females who consumed LMW bread showed no significant changes of LDL-cholesterol. These results suggest that the molecular weight, bread production decreased the molecular weight of ¦Â-glucan and that consumption of these breads caused no appreciable cholesterol-lowering effect [17].
Therefore, it is the requiring urgent issues in current researches that how to find the optimum molecular weight ¦Â-glucan thus to better exert its lipid-lowering activity. In addition, researchers also pay close attention to the field whether there are other more effective mechanisms. Putus Macromolecular Sci. & Tech. Ltd. is an international corporation which has been putting effort in research, development and application of a variety of carbohydrate (polysaccharides) polymers. We are manufacturing and providing high quality carbohydrate polymer standards with unique structure and high chemical uniformity in terms of molecular weight (Mw) and degree of branching. Putus is now providing PS-OBGs, the aqueous polymer standards originated from oat bran. Our research showed that PS-OBG standard possesses a linear chain with mixed linkage of (1-3) and (1-4). There are two products suit the lipid-lowering study: PS-OBG-Vis, with three different specifications (high, medium, low) of viscosity and molecular weight, which show the purity as high as 97%; In addition, Putus provides PS-OBG-Mw, a new carbohydrate polymer molecular weight (Mw) standards with Mw distribution (MwD) of 1.01-1.05 (For more detailed molecular weight and polydispersity please consult Products Information). These non-starch, non-protein and other impurities, water-soluble, highly stable standards will undoubtedly make up the defects of current ¦Â-glucan samples in both domestic and international research, and will provide a strong guarantee on obtaining more accurate results and more stable experimental data.
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[10] J.W. Anderson, L.S. Story, B. Sieling, W.J.L. Chen, M.S. Petro, J. Story. Hypocholestero -lemic effects of oat-bran or beans intake for hypercholesterolemic men, The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 1984, 40: 1146-1155.
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[14] J.L. Tietyen, , D.J. Nevins, B.O. Schneeman, Characterization of the hypercholesterole -mic potential of oat bran. FASEB. 1990, 4: A527.
[15] S. Bengtsson, P. Åman, H. Graham, C.W. Newman, R.K. Newman. Chemical studies on mixed-linked beta-glucans in hull-less barley cultivars giving different hypocholesterolae -mic responses in chickens. Journal of Science Food and Agriculture. 1990, 52: 435-445.
[16] K.E. Bach Knudsen, I. Hansen, B.B. Jensen, K. Østergård. Physiological implications of wheat and oat dietary fiber. New Developments in Dietary Fiber. 1990, 135-150.
[17] J. Frank, B. Sundberg, A. Kamal-Eldin, B. Vessby, P. Åman. Yeast-leavened oat breads with high or low molecular weight ¦Â-glucan do not differ in their effects on blood concentrations of lipids, insulin, or glucose in humans. Journal of Nutrition. 2004, 134: 1384-1388.