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Eve Ensler
In Evolutionary Love Relations, Andrew Harvey and Chris Saade have revealed
the love we have always dreamed of. Their gorgeous book is a radiant call to
evolutionary love:
where sex can be holy, orgasm a conduit to the divine, and intimate love,
the expansion of justice, peace, unity on this earth..
It made me want to love again.
Eve Ensler, activist and author of The Vagina Monologues and In the Body of
the World
Justine Willis Toms
It is a grace when two people come together in loving companionship. When that companionship becomes a dynamic force for good in the world, it is blessed beyond measure. I've experienced such a fulfilling relationship in my life and it is my tremendous honor to recommend Evolutionary Love Relationships. Harvey and Saade have written and inspired call to action as we walk hand-in-hand toward our evolutionary future.
Justine Willis Toms
Co-founder and host of New Dimensions Radio
Author Small Pleasures: Finding Grace in a Chaotic World
Will Wilkinson
Every relationship can be enriched and deepened, courtesy of the wisdom that pervades and transmits from this catalytic collaboration between two authentically evocative writers. Many of us could have foregone years of frustrating therapy had we accessed this fount of practical inspiration before the honeymoon ended. Imagine, focusing our sweet strong harvest of intimacy for sacred service in the world. Is anybody else writing about this? Romance will never be the same!
– Will Wilkinson, author, mentor, producer
Mona Lisa Schulz
Re-inventing love, sexuality and relationships to transform the world? With Mass-shooting, terrorism, racism, what the world needs now is "love sweet love" with Andrew Harvey and Chris Saade showing us why and how.. I LOVE these men and I LOVE this book.
Mona Lisa Schulz MD, PhD Author: Heal Your Mind: Your Prescription for Wholeness using Medicine, Affirmations and Intuition.
Caroline Myss
"Evolutionary Love Relationships explores the power of love from a new and inspiring perspective. Loving another can bring out a desire to make the world a better place and to bring out the best in your partner. Life not all about you after all. Love means life is about the both of you."
Caroline Myss
Author of Anatomy of the Spirit
Seymour Bernstein
In these desperate times when global warming threatens to end all life, and terrorist activities multiply by alarming proportions, Andrew Harvey and Chris Saade come to the rescue of the human race by suggesting a solution that is perhaps more powerful because of its simplicity and obviousness–love. Why not, they suggest, direct the very transforming power of love towards mankind as a health-giving, harmonizing force. It is a concept that at once augments the love that one person feels towards one another, and heals the planet at the time.
James O'Dea
If you have been crying in the desert of a world that shatters every attempt to truly liberate love and sacred passion Evolutionary Love Relationships will not only quench your thirst, its mystical fire and visionary wisdom will ignite soulful and embodied rebirth. I celebrate these profoundly inspired teachings– they touch the very core of what matters most to me and millions of others. (James O'Dea author of The Conscious Activist: Where Activism Meets Mysticism)
Terry Patten
Fun, fresh and alive. This book transmits a radiant vision for a kind of relationship that is just beginning to emerge, but which is already an urgent necessity—and it does so with clear eyes. The authors speak penetratingly and compassionately to anyone yearning for a truly evolutionary partnership, or already co-creating one. Marriage is evolving, and what we are daring to dream for now is something new. Behold what is emerging: dynamic love relationships between unique, autonomous, passionate individuals who are inspired by divine love and dedicated to a higher purpose.
Susan Frybort
"Love is more than a river of warm flowing sentiments and emotion; love is living, evolving, and in action. And the world is urgently crying out for empowered couples to expand their devotion beyond its borders by answering love's highest calling to be of service. Love is alive and in action when two hearts join to become compassionately engaged with humanity's spiritual and material needs alike, and to allow their shared passion to break the banks and meet the necessities of our cherished earth. This book will inspire and instruct bonded pairs in any station of life to step closer to one another as they hearken to love's earnest call to preserve our planet and serve in tandem on every level."
—SUSAN FRYBORT, author of 'Hope is a Traveler', and 'Open Passages'.
Adam Bucko
"We're living in a world that is making less and less sense. Black kids are being executed on the streets of our cities by people who should be protecting them. Mother Earth is crying as we go on with "business as usual" refusing to address our damaging addictions to comfort and consumerism. Poverty is rising and we do nothing about more and more children being denied access to opportunities for a life they deserve. Our world needs healing. We need tools that can help us mobilize what's best in our souls and work for a world that shines with possibility, compassion and justice. This book is such a tool. Read this, and your heart will be changed. Pray this, and it will enable you to find depth in human relationships that you didn't know was possible. Act on it, and it will help you dedicate your life to working for a world your heart knows is possible. It's time to stop playing small and settling for half-truths. What we need is a spiritual revolution. May these two wise teachers, through what they share in this book, take your hand and guide you into the center of your heart and empower you to live from there. The future of the world depends on it."
Adam Bucko, co-author of Occupy Spirituality: A Radical Vision for a New Generation and New Monasticism: An Interspiritual Manifesto for Contemplative Living
Anne Baring
This book will act as a guiding star to all humanity to deepen and expand our relationships in the light of a great evolutionary vision the world so desperately needs: a vision of loving service to each and all. "We were created as relational beings to relate in love to the entire planet… Love is and must be, love for all." This book carries a profound, urgent and timely message for the entire world.
Anne Baring, author of The Dream of the Cosmos: a Quest for the Soul
Arielle Ford
"Nearly twenty years ago my beloved husband, Brian Hilliard, taught me: In basic arithmetic, one plus plus equals two but in Soulmate Math, one plus one equals eleven and your love blesses and heals the world. If you are ready to blow your heart open, embrace and exude your passion, and elevate your love to serve the world, then I highly suggest you use this book, Evolutionary Love Relationships, as your guide. Now, more than ever, the world needs your love."
~Arielle Ford, author
Turn Your Mate Into Your Soulmate
Simran Singh
Evolutionary Love Relationships answers a deep world cry for purposeful connection. Andrew Harvey and Chris Saade's powerful foundation for social transformation through the synergistic elements of sacred activism, interdependence and Love-inspired action offers a deeply devotional way of being for 'the world'.
– Simran Singh, Author – Love Catalyst – 11:11 Media
Linda Bender
"This powerful book is an inspired exploration of how the deep love we share in our personal relationships create
an inexhaustible reservoir of strength that can be utilized in service for the world.
A must-read for those seeking justice for all people, all animals, and the preservation of the vanishing beauty of our fragile world."
Dr Linda Bender author of Animal Wisdom
Diane Berke
In this luminous guidebook, Andrew Harvey and Chris Saade richly and deeply explore the nature of, and path to, evolutionary love relationships. Their six keys to heart-centered living and evolutionary relationship building offer invaluable and practical guidance, not only to couples, but to spiritual and intentional communities that seek to contribute to and serve the healing of the world and the evolution of human consciousness.
Diane Berke, Founder and Spiritual Director, One Spirit Learning Alliance
Charlene Marshall
To say that Andrew Harvey and Chris Saade have revealed the essence of loving relationships coupled with a fruit bearing life is an understatement. Only exquisite giving and forgiving love – rooted in the soul – expands to include everyone and everything in its circle letting the benevolence of which Andrew and Chris speak become so enjoined with all created beings. To quote Rumi: "Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world." Evolutionary Love Relationships brings us that language and that new world. It is the heart of the heart.
Charlene Marshall widow of Ambassador Anthony Marshall and two-time Tony Award winner for Best Play and Best Revival of a Play.
Lilly White
In one of his greatest poems, Rumi describes the effects and power of this force with matchless intensity and precision:
This Divine Gem will forever change your beliefs about love, how you love, the power of love. This book will awaken you to your world, your community, your culture, yourself.
Here you will find the balance you always pursued. A light will burn in you as you read the truth surrounding love and you will be transformed , transported. You will become a conscious co-creator . You will say to self ," go create God".
For the LOVE of God.
This book is a must read for anyone today wanting change. We begin with the adventure, LOVE, we then travel with hope and our journey never needs to end, we share with the collective and it passes to other generations.
Thank you Andrew & Chris.
Lilly White : author of 365 Ways to Power up Your Life & Madness, Addiction & Love
Lydia Salant
"A duet: Andrew Harvey and Chris Saade perform a duet, a counterpoint of
inspirational and intuitive ideas that culminate in a vision of
relationships and a world we can all aspire to create."
Jonathon Aslay
Evolutionary Love Relationships takes one on a journey growing beyond a transactional approach to love and relationships into a truly transformational act of love and relationships. Bravo Andrew and Chris.
Jonathon Aslay ~ America's Leading Mid-Life Dating & Relationship Coach for Women
Allegra Huston
"Full of wisdom, urgency, and delight in the magnificence of what's possible, this book lays out a vision of love between individual, flawed people as the basis for human transformation. May we all help to make it so!"
Allegra Huston, author of For Eve and Love Child: A Memoir of Family Lost and Found
Carolyn Baker
In these turbulent times of unprecedented global crisis, do we enter intimate relationships only for comfort and companionship, or is there a more sacred purpose? According to Andrew Harvey and Chris Saade, sacred relationship is a form of worship in which your relationship becomes a prayer that you offer to the Divine. It is also a blessing to all living beings as both partners engage not only in relationship with each other, but in service to the world and the Earth community. Evolutionary Love Relationships is not just another self-help book for romantic partners, but a roadmap for holy intimacy with all that is.
Carolyn Baker, Ph.D., author of Love In The Age Of Ecological Apocalypse: Cultivating The Relationships We Need To Thrive, and Collapsing Consciously: Transformative Truths For Turbulent Times
Mirabai Starr
What would the world look like if two people, deeply in love with each other, harnessed the energy of their connection for the benefit of all beings and the Earth Herself? In this exciting new book, sacred activists Andrew Harvey and Chris Saade draw on a lifetime of passionately engaged spiritual practice to lift up a vision of intimate relationship as a holy fire to dissolve and transform the most intractable social and environmental crises.
Mirabai Starr
Translator of Dark Night of the Soul: John of the Cross
Author of Caravan of No Despair: A Memoir of Loss and Transformation
Darrell Brown
As a man who has been enamored by a deeply loving and sacred relationship with his wife of 21 years, I found Andrew and Chris's book "Evolutionary Love Relationship's "an amazing doorway to even greater possibility of where our divine communion could transcend to next.
It's an invitation to lovers everywhere to take the sacred bond between them and use it as a platform for a unified life of service for a greater cause.
A delicious invitation that not only strengthens the individual bonds between you but perhaps more importantly, gives rise to a greater calling for you both
I pray that our world is ready for this book.
Darrell Brown, Best Selling Author "Raised By Our Childhood Voices"
Catherine Ingram
A sizzling collaboration unfettered by the canards of self-absorbed, new age spirituality interested only in personal happiness. Andrew and Chris dare to encourage a full engagement in sacred activism, sacred sexuality, a celebration of diversity and many more of the deeper understandings while never failing to "honor the paradox of joy and grief." Keep this book near at hand if ever your canvas of life starts to pale.
Catherine Ingram, author of In the Footsteps of Gandhi, Passionate Presence, and A Crack in Everything.
Karuna Erickson
I feel great gratitude for this magnificent and inspiring book! These brilliant teachers, with their passionate and evolutionary vision of love, offer us a guide to the next step into our full human/divine potential. With their authentic and articulate perspective, they awaken us to the courage and energy we need to respond to the world crises we face with compassion and wisdom. This book is not only a practical guide for creating real change, but also a heartfelt and inspiring prayer for transforming our relationships and our world.
Karuna Erickson, co-author with Andrew Harvey of Heart Yoga, psychotherapist, and director of the Heart Yoga Center
Matthew Fox
This is a daring book, a needed one and a timely one. It challenges the idolatry of sentimental and privatized love, yes of narcissistic love, that the modern age has bequeathed to us. It carries us into a new paradigm of relationships that integrates both the beauty and the suffering, the ecstasy and the anguish, of the world. It puts all efforts at human love—from friendship to creativity to forgiveness to love making—into the greater context of a sacred and evolving cosmic history and with it the responsibility of divinizing culture so that healing, celebrating and justice-making are nurtured and sustained. This book enlightens the heart and challenges the comfortable to awaken a single and sacred fire expressed in both the compassion of intimacy and the compassion of service that the world is hungry for.
Chris Grosso
The direct experience of love—honest, ragged, roll up your sleeves and get in the mud kind of love—is needed now more than ever in the world. In their book, Evolutionary Love Relationships, Andrew Harvey and Chris Saade show readers how to live from this place of authentic and unconditional love in a way that can quite literally change the world. Please, read this book and see for yourself.
Chris Grosso, author of Indie Spiritualist and Everything Mind
- Scott Brown
Just when we most need to take our relationships and our activism to the next level, Andrew Harvey and Chris Saade inspire us to merge the passion of intimate love with the longing for a nonviolent world. In Evolutionary Love Relationships, these two visionaries offer direct transmission of the aliveness available to us all when these powerful energies merge. This beautiful step in the evolution of sacred activism opens the heart and fills us with renewed passion for life in all its juicy fullness!
- Scott Brown, peacemaker, psychologist, and author of Active Peace: A Mindful Path to a Nonviolent World
Dora E. McQuaid
Andrew Harvey and Chris Saade, in Evolutionary Love Relationships, offer both a vivid and valid exploration of the possibility of divine love embodied within our most intimate relationships and a clear and compelling guide for building those connections that sustain us in both our private lives and our public roles. This brave and brilliant book is rallying cry for the (r)evolutionary love that transforms us from our inner core and continually fortifies us so that we may take that love into a world in deep need of its presence and power in service of justice, compassion and solidarity. Not only do our lives depend on the incarnated evolution of love that Andrew and Chris so eloquently detail in this book, but the future of both humanity and our planet depend upon it, as well. Brave loving will uplift and save us, and Chris and Andrew show us here how to answer and embody its glorious call.
Dora E. McQuaid, poet, activist and author of the scorched earth
Brad Laughlin
Gratitude to Chris Saade and Andrew Harvey for this inspiring elucidation of a pioneering topic—evolutionary love relationships. It's a profound and visionary guide, rich with practical tools and exercises, for people who aspire to share their love beyond private partnership. When couples offer their love and passion not just to each other but in shared service to the Earth, the whole becomes greater than the sum of its parts. Not only are we sacred activists, but we awaken to our own authentic Self—which is divine love. At this pivotal moment of our evolution, Harvey and Saade offer a treasure house of wisdom that guides us beyond an old paradigm of isolated relationships into a new paradigm of the heart where we put our love into action. Love itself is evolving, and this book leads the way to an essential, radical shift in consciousness, of paramount importance for our times.
Brad Laughlin
Author/Teacher/Non-profit director
Gary S. Bobroff
Carl Jung recognized that the primary disease of our age is an imbalance which privileges Masculine modes of being over Feminine ones. In the book, Harvey and Saade show us a pathway for the lived integration of these essential energies.
A testimony on walking the path of sacred embodiment, they unveil the beauty of the divine unity living inside each of us. Their emphasis on the importance of honoring our essential nature echoes my own deepest beliefs about the archetypal nature of the Self.
Never tripping the New-Age-light-fantastic, they remain grounded throughout and
continually invite the presence of brokenness, theirs and our own, into the conversation
They encourage us to pour our imagination – and even our shadow desires – into the container of loving relationship and they show us that in doing so we are serving the divine! A beautiful, radiant and visionary work. Congratulations!
Gary S. Bobroff – Author of Crop Circles, Jung & the Reemergence of the Archetypal Feminine
Philip Shepherd
"Here is a vision of partnership, a vision of love itself, that cracks open the cramped confines of expectation and disappointment that can plague a relationship, and widens the heart into the companionship of the Divine. Evolutionary Love Relationships shows us the greatest gift of coupledom – that by devoting yourselves together in service to what lies beyond your private love, you deepen into the true source of love, and into the true passion of your life. This beautiful book will help move the whole world forward."
Philip Shepherd, New Self New World: Recovering Our Senses in the Twenty-first Century.
Stephanie Marohn
In Evolutionary Love Relationships, the combination of Andrew Harvey's Sacred Activism and Chris Saade's Integra model of partnership offers a richly inspiring template for love in the twenty-first century: love that is dedicated to radical authenticity, deep connection, and service to the planet. Their template is more of a gorgeous tapestry, woven from their individually visionary voices and dialogue between them. Evolutionary love can be cultivated in any relationship, they tell us, whether lover, colleague, friend, family member, or element of nature. In their vision of love, we find the solution to the world's problems, which would dissolve if enough of us loved in this way. May evolutionary love tip the balance soon to restore the health of the planet and all beings living upon Her!
Stephanie Marohn, author of What the Animals Taught Me: Stories of Love and Healing from a Farm Animal Sanctuary and Goddess Shift: Women Leading for a Change
This timely book is an in-depth exploration of the fabric and potentiality of relationships that are forged and grown through the alchemy of love. The two authors, Andrew Harvey and Chris Saade, who bring a depth of wisdom and insight to this often fraught territory, encourage the reader to explore how personal relationship, rather than being an end in itself, is actually the ground from which to protect the Earth and its species from ecocide, and ourselves from the forces of narcissistic destruction. This work, of great importance for our collective evolutionary journey, will help us place the building blocks for a rejuvenated, compassionate society that reclaims the sacred and heals the wounded. This is a book we should all read.
Thanissara, author of Time To Stand Up, An Engaged Buddhist Manifesto for Our Earth.
Banafsheh Sayyad
Evolutionary Love Relationships is a revolutionary treatise on love relationships. It invites us into a wholly new, conscious relating where couples can transform their narcissistic and possessive ties into sacred bonds that evolve them individually and our world through them. Bravo to Andrew Harvey and Chris Saade.
Katy Koontz
Evolutionary Love Relationships offers us a revolutionary view of relationship. Andrew Harvey and Chris Saade invite us to a totally new level of love and passion where love for one's partner is intertwined with Divine love and so carries the power to transform the world. But far from holding this out as a lofty goal that we could aspire to if we felt up to it, they make a convincing case that the practice of this level of love is what we were in fact designed for—and that the universe is actually depending on us to do just that. Their call to action is inspiring and reminds us that in a world that seems hellbent on chaos and destruction, each of us has the ability to be a vital part of what will ultimately turn that around. —Katy Koontz, editor, Unity Magazine
Karen Rivers
Andrew Harvey and Chris Saade have articulated the paradigm for the deepest, most fulfilling, and enduring relationships known to humanity. When two people find connection, not only on the physical, soul, and spiritual levels of their lives, but also share the same engagement in their life purpose and contribution to human evolution, they experience a level of shared fulfillment and love that unites them in a most blessed and enduring partnership, while serving others through their passion for change. This book awakens the reader to an empowerment in love relationships, that breaks through the stereotype of romantic love.
—Karen Rivers, author of Love and the Evolution of Consciousness
Robert Ohotto
"Within our current human and planetary crisis Andrew and Chris offer us a cutting-edge alchemical guide on how we can practically transform the lead of our times into gold using a much needed evolutionary Vision of Love. This heart provoking book is a must read, written by two visionaries who are redefining what it means to be a thought-leader. The Integra Model taught in this book shows us how to summon a New Dawn out of our current Dark Night and I know it will change your life like it has mine."
Robert Ohotto – Best Selling Author of Transforming Fate into Destiny
Scott Blum
This is a powerful and innovative roadmap that outlines the essential evolution of human relationships. Its practical advice is coupled with revolutionary concepts that wholly redefine and elevate what it means to love in today's modern world. Far beyond what others have even attempted, these words will be referenced for decades to come.
– Scott Blum, Co-founder, DailyOM
Mark Matousek
Can romantic love be an offering to planet Earth, a path of sacred activism for couples who want relationships to serve more than their private satisfactions? In their illuminating, radical manifesto, Andrew Harvey and Chris Saade offer a road map to evolutionary love in the 21st century. If you've ever felt trapped in by the cliches of love, the roles of marriage, or the selfishness that fuels the romantic myth, read this book.
Mark Matousek
Ethical Wisdom: The Search For a Moral Life
Juna & Justin Milano
Evolutionary Love Relationships is for those of us who question the current idealized and overly romanticized narrative of loving relationships. It is for those that seek a model of relating that is true, honest, transformative, sustainable, and deeply loving. In this compelling book, Andrew Harvey and Chris Saade skillfully touch into the ever-evolving magic that is relational love, while offering a powerful and insightful interpretation of what loving relationships can be — profoundly authentic, radically awake, and in service to the world around us. This book is a major contribution to the exploration of loving relationships. We literally could not put it down. We give Evolutionary Love Relationships our highest recommendation.
– Juna & Justin Milano, Co-founders of DailyRelationship.com
Sole Satya
"The Kahuna from Hawaii say that it is the seeker that takes herself to the threshold but it is Spirit who carries her through. As we are touching the healing and transformative threshold that lies between a sexually and spiritually traumatized heartbroken humanity and a passionate, authentic, embodied, and awaken one, I find Andrew's and Chris' "Evolutionary Love Relationships" book an absolute gem.
The Sacred Love Relationship and Sexuality field has become a saturated "industry" with sugar coated self-help books, workshops and trainings full of bypassing, transcendence and narcissistic ungrounded views by self-proclaimed gurus who have little if none experience of grounded loving service and relationship.
In this magnificent book, these two contemporary mystic activists go deep into this never ending subject of relationship, giving the reader an exquisite outlook and framework of what is a real, embodied and authentic loving relationship.
Full of depth and insight, they invite us in the most elegant way, to become passionate lovers, not just to our beloved but to the whole world by embracing all our divinity, leaving behind any infantile notions of loving relationships and embracing this life's paradoxes. Definitely not for the faint hearted.
Sole Satya
Dorothy Walters
This brilliant book opens for us a doorway into previously unexamined territory. In elegant and lucid language it reveals the need for all of us––especially committed pairs––to turn our faces outward and participate together in the giant task of taking action at this time of global crisis. The authors point out with deftness and acumen that those who work in loving partnership can often achieve more than solo warriors in the cause. This riveting work appears at precisely the right moment in our history, as we face an uncertain future. Evolutionary Love Relationships is in fact an essential guidebook for our times, demonstrating that love, coupled with service, can accomplish miracles.
Dorothy Walters, PHD author, mystic poet, guide "Some Kiss We Want: Poems Selected and New"
Lynn Bell
The call to passion in these pages creates implosions in the reader,
implosions that break the seed's hard covering and invite it to erupt into
flame. We wonder at the energy of exceptional people. Chris and Andrew
reveal the secret. They call each of us to passion, to love, in our
relationships with each other, with God and the world, in such a way that we
are renewed rather than depleted. They argue that sealing ourselves off,
'privatizing' what we have. diminishes everyone, that Love can open us to
move into the world, and evoke change. We are at a crossroad in the great
cosmic cycles, one that calls us to give birth to the new. The signs of
breakdown and danger, the alternative that Andrew calls a dark night for
the soul of the Earth, can thrust us into a terrible future or bring us to
an evolutionary breakthrough. This urgent invitation for love to spill out
from the confines of the purely personal, from the bonds of materialism,
comes at a time of great import. The pattern of the new world is emerging
through the actions of humanity as a whole. As each of us bursts into the
power of light, we move the world with its love. Only someone with Andrew
Harvey's brilliant gift for words, coupled with Chris Saade's deep
commitment to evolutionary love could give us such a powerful book.
Lynn Bell, Astrologer, Author, Teacher.
Hillary Raimo
"The world needs a better way to love. As people, partnerships and passion evolve so to does the need for better understanding the ever evolving dynamic of being in relation. Andrew and Chris offer readers a pathway through the recesses of emotion and mental perception bridging that into realistic and grounded ways of achieving results. This book offers a tangible way to the center of the heart."
Hillary Raimo, founder of YinRadioTV and Love, Breathe for Earth
Chloe Goodchild
The theme of this book is – as I know you know – a life's passion, and I can't wait to discuss it more with you. It's an inspiring work,
and one which has been increasingly knocking on my door – both in my own personal and global life. I am increasingly aware
how the Naked Voice work assists and transforms individual groups organisations, to realise the evolutionary power and sound
of their own conscious relationships and the global relationships entrusted to their care.
Chloe Goodchild
Shayne Traviss
"This book embodies the very purpose of manifestation, the foundation of love and the wisdom to incorporate it into every aspect of our lives. Invoking richer, fuller relationships rooted in divine authenticity and service."
Shayne Traviss. Student of Life, Producer & Founder of VividLife.me


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The inhabitants of Dolpa are called Dolpos (though they do not call themselves as such). Dolpa is located at the head of the Bheri River to the north of the Dhaulagiri Range and to the south of the Tibetan Plateau. Dolpos live at the altitude of 13-14,000 feet, and they have 40 settlements in all. Their physical features and habits largely resemble those of the Lhopas, though the women have their own unique dress styles. They are farmers, but their chief occupation is also animal husbandry. They practice both Bon-po and Buddhism. They practice sky barial. Their dead are cut into pieces, which are fed to the vultures. Dolpos practice polyandry, and their language and dress choices are similar to the Lhopas and Tibetans. Their population has not been reported in 2001 Census publications.
ImageThe inhabitants of the plateau in the northern part of Dolpa district are called Dolpo. This tribe lives in areas as high as 12,000 to 14,000 ft above sea level. It is also called Dolpowa (Ukyab and Adhikari, BS2057:21). Though all Dolpos speak Tibetan language, they are the first settlers of Dolpa (Lamas, BS2052). Physically Dolpos look like Lhopas of Mustang (Bista, 1996). Their language, costumes and culture are similar to those of Tibetans. They follow both Buddhist and Bon religions. They say that Padmasambhava had brought them to Dolpa (Gautam and Thapa Magar, 1994:178). Dolpos are scattered in the whole of northern part of Dolpa and also in the south. According to the French anthropologist, Ferne A Jest, they must have come from western Tibet. Dolpos have been mentioned in the archives of Jumla from the eleventh century (Sharma, BS2052). Dolpos are settled in the valley area, which is spread around the head of upper Kaligandaki beyond Himalayas where there are pastures without vegetation.
They live in two dozen villages with no contact with each other. The area where these districts are located is spread over an area of 500 square miles and contain subdistricts called Namjang, Panjang, Tar and Chhabung (Bista, 1996). There is no specific data avilable on the population of Dolpos. A substantial number of the 22 thousand people of Dolpa recorded in the census of 2001 are Dolpos. The language of Dolpos is not different from the language of western Tibetans (Gautam and Thapa Magar, 1994:178).
Christening of the newborn is done by a lama on the fourth day of its birth. Both love and arranged marriages are prevalent. There is a practice of polyandry among Dolpos. Not only brothers but even two friends may share wives (Bista, 1996). The women have the right to achieve divorce with simple process (Sharma, BS2052). The body of dead person is cremated or buried or even cut into small pieces to feed to vultures. The decision about what mode to take (out of the three options mentioned above) is determined by a lama and while lowering the corpse into the tomb the Lama decides whether it should be placed flat on the back or on the abdomen. Lamas are made to recite or read aloud religious texts from three to 47 days. If an unmarried girl becomes pregnant the boy may pay some fine and set himself free. Their houses are made of stones with two storeys and no window. The houses look like forts from outside. Simi or local, neighbour or newcomer, Gara or one who does iron work and Bera or one whose origin is unknown are the four types of Dolpos. The latter two are looked down upon by others. They wear Bakkhu (a kind of garment made of wool). Women, if they are married, put on ornaments covering their hair. During cold season they go to lower villages. The head of the village is elected by villagers and looks after the administration of the village and settles disputes. If, for any reason, they could not do it, the Thakali (village head) comes forward and settles them (Bista, 1990).
Dolpos follow Tibetan Lamaist religion. They are followers of Shakyapa and Karyupa traditions. Some of them even follow Ningmapa tradition. They worship Padmasambhava. At Buddhist monasteries they circumambulate from the left, ring the bell turning it upside down, turn the pages of books backwards. These are the characteristics of Bon-po religion they follow (Sharma, BS2052). Agriculture, animal husbandry and trade are the occupations of the people there. Although Dolpos are generally illiterate and live in remote areas, their people are not poor. They grow potato, barley and wheat. They are facing difficulties due to prohibition imposed on pasturelands in the north (by Tibet Autonomous Region). In the southern belts business in goods is settled on barter basis. Even in Dolpa, land is bought and sold in exchange for goods.


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The stealth technology and multiple attack capabilities of the F-22 Raptor make it a critical component of the strike force. Electric ducted fan unit allows you to by-pass the export restrictions and enjoy the Raptor's dynamic flying style with this PIP (Plug in Play) model kit. Use your own R/C system to appreciate the stability and responsive control of a jet fighter model for sharp maneuvers in the hands of intermediate or advanced fliers.
F22 Raptor specifications
Wingspan : 680 mm
Length: 850 mm
Kit weight : 220 g
Flying weight : 800 g
Material: EPS foam
Recommended, but NOT included :
Fed : 65 mm -blade FED x 2pcs
Engine : 2730 KV5000- in -runner Motor x 2pcs
ESC : 30A ESC x 2pcs
Servo : 6g servo
Battery: 3 S 11.1 V 2200 mAh 20C li- poly battery
RC: 2.4GHz 4 channels Transmitter
RC Charger: 2-3 S Balance Charger
F22 setting for this kit only includes the white fuselage + label. You need to use your own edf , motor, esc , servo, rc , battery, charger . This kit requires experience and high level skills to DIY assmbling and test the plane . The quality of these DIY kits does not look as good as other finished products . But you can make nice work looks like patient!
Pls make sure that you are prepared for this before you buy!


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Thermal imaging cameras allow objects with any heat signature to be seen in total darkness, through fog, smoke or other adverse conditions. Thermal Imaging Cameras were first deployed for military applications as early as the mid 1050's. early systems were originally cooled using liquid nitrogen which made them extremely expensive and the technology was classified for military applications only.
By the 1970's the US military had decided to embark on a strategy to equip each soldier with personal thermal imaging equipment. – This lead to the creation of the first un-cooled (without liquid nitrogen) Thermal Imaging Detectors which were both smaller and far less expensive.
With the creation of the uncooled engines came military declassification which lead to the adoption of thermal imaging technology in an array of markets such as law enforcement, search and rescue and maritime.
Infra red radiation from specific wavelengths passes through the lens onto an element known as a microbolometer.


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Mistakes are choices we decided to take. Mistakes are intentional paths we chose to walk in. They are inevitable, nevertheless, controllable. Human as we are, we sometimes tend to encircle incorrect choices which made us the subjects of people's painful predicates. But no matter how wrong and erroneous those may be, mistakes will never define who we really are. They will define what we will be. And everything is in our command. Will we let these mistakes draw us into nothingness, or will we use these mistakes to bring ourselves into something great?
Kiefer Ravena's issue has been circling a long time now and this one's maybe a little bit late. But I believe nothing's too late for one's dispositions to be unmuted as much as it's not yet too late for the King Eagle to admit his mistakes and start his engines into the right way.
Sure, what he did was purely an enough reason to hate him. It was immoral, nonsense, dirty, bad, and all the negative superlatives ever spoken. It was an act of cheating, dishonesty, covetousness, and everything in between. What he has done was an enough reason not to admire, support and idolize him anymore. Certainly, he has lost a lot of fans by this time now. But not me, not us.
A bunch of people has been asking my viewpoint with Kiefer's issue, so now I'm giving you all the treat. I have seen the viber conversations before the news climbed at its peak but I only shrugged it off, thinking that was just some sort of a desperate hater who can do nothing but interfere with Ravena's life. Even until the issue was all over social media and televisions, I kept on believing that it was not him. But not until I saw an interview with Kiefer not confirming nor denying it. That was when I knew. It was him. I felt sad. I was disappointed. I was hurt. I was hurt because I defended someone guilty. I was hurt because I can't believe that he can do such thing. I was hurt because he did it to Alyssa Valdez. However, the big deal is not because it is THE Alyssa Valdez, but the fact the he is THE Kiefer Ravena. The King Eagle. The Phenom. The one we idolize, not just as an athlete, but as an individual as a whole.
But who am I to spread hate? Who am I not to forgive? Who am I to bash? Who am I to dictate Alyssa's decisions? And even if I have a choice to either support him or not, I decided to stick into being one of Kiefer Ravena's loyal fans. Upon entering the fandom, I promised myself that I will always have his back, through thick and thin. Isn't now the right time to prove that? It is. It is the right time to prove that I will always be by his side no matter what. But that doesn't make me less of an Alyssa Valdez fan. In fact, AV was the first ever athlete I idolized and supported. I love her, and I love everyone she loves- including Kiefer Ravena. I know Alyssa is smart and strong. Whatever her decision may be, she will have my support. Whatever their decision may be, they will always have my support. #KiefLy is my main ship, my OTP. No matter how far or deep the destination of this ship may be, rest assured, I will always be with them.
I support Kiefer Ravena unconditionally. Whatever circumstances the universe may give him, nothing will change. Yeah sure, he has mistaken. That was a wrong choice. A wrong move. An incorrect action. But he's only human. I know he learned something from what happened- a big lesson much more than just "being maingat". I know he will use this as a turning point to become better. Because it's not yet too late to change.
Shoutout to everyone who chose to support our King Eagle despite of the storm he went through. We will always have your back, Kief! Millions may throw rocks on you, but we will always be right here, still cheering for you.
#Kieflying Kiefer Ravena! We will always #KiefOnBelieving!


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Low Vision Optometrist In Winnipeg, Manitoba
40 Years Of Helping People With Vision Loss
Low Vision is a condition typically caused by eye disease, genetics, trauma, or other factors, and cannot be fully corrected using conventional glasses, contact lenses or refractive surgery.
Some consider low vision to be less than 20/40 vision. Others consider it to be less than 20/70 vision. However, The International Academy of Low Vision Specialists (IALVS) define it as the inability to see well enough to do your daily tasks, even when wearing your glasses, contacts or following refractive surgery.
Low Vision patients are generally unable to perform basic tasks, such as:
- Driving
- Using the computer
- Watching television
- Recognizing Faces
- Reading
- Writing
The burden of this loss of independence means that Low Vision not only robs the patient of functionality, but also leaves the patient mentally and emotionally devastated.
While commonly associated with seniors over the age of 60, Low Vision also affects children and adults of all ages. Age-Related Macular Degeneration is the most common cause for Low Vision in the US. However, patients from all over Manitoba visit for Low Vision care for a wide variety of conditions and diseases.
A Low Vision Eye Exam is different than a regular eye exam.
During your low vision eye exam, Dr. Colleen Mulhall will evaluate your vision, assess whether new regular glasses or contact lenses can provide an improvement, and discuss your wish list to provide the best solution to help you regain as much day to day functioning as possible.
Dr. Colleen Mulhall will recommend certain low vision aids or devices, depending on whether peripheral or central areas of your vision are affected. Dr. Richard Shuldiner, the founder of the International Academy of Low Vision Specialists explains further:
Our patients are often moved to tears when they can get back to doing the things they love. We have shared some of our patient's experiences in order to show the dramatic life-changing nature of low vision care.
A Low Vision eye exam should be conducted as soon as you have been diagnosed with an eye disease or condition that could potentially lead to Low Vision. A Low Vision optometrist is on top of the latest research regarding slowing down the progression of vision loss, and should be visited as soon as possible.
If you or a loved one are experiencing visual impairment, call Dr. Colleen Mulhall, to discuss your concerns and learn of potential solutions.
A Low Vision optometrist fits the Low Vision patient with custom vision aids and devices, allowing him or her to maximize the use of their remaining vision in the most effective way possible. This provides them with the ability to perform everyday tasks, thus offering much-desired independence to the patient.
For example, A 65-year-old patient with Macular Degeneration wanted to go shopping and visit friends and family without feeling like a burden on others. Dr. Colleen Mulhall custom designed bioptic telescope glasses that enabled the patient to drive, read, and go shopping once again, without requiring the help of others.
How Can A Low Vision Eye Doctor Help Me?
Dr. Colleen Mulhall can help patients from all over Manitoba, with eye diseases such as macular degeneration, glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, retinitis pigmentosa, cataracts, vision issues related to albinism, and more, to maximize their remaining vision to its full potential in order to recover and save vision functionality. This is done with the help of highly specialized Low Vision optics/glasses and other vision aids that help patients regain their independence.
Too many patients leave their ophthalmologist or retinologist thinking there is nothing left to be done but manage the disease to prevent further vision loss.
Dr. Colleen Mulhall can help patients with vision loss maximize their remaining vision using the latest devices and technology. All Low Vision doctors are members of the International Academy Of Low Vision Specialists (IALVS), the premier organization of Low Vision Optometrists.
For many people, proper use of a Low Vision device means being able to read, drive, sew, play cards, watch television, and use the computer—all of which would be impossible without these Low Vision aids. At the The Low Vision Center at Family Optical, we help patients from Winnipeg, Grande Pointe, Lorette, and Oak Bluff to enjoy life after vision loss using a variety of Low Vision aids and devices.
Meet Our Low Vision Optometrist
Did you know that most Provinces allow one to drive using bioptic telescopes?
Custom fit bioptic telescope glasses allow the driver to alternate between a normal view and a magnified view to read road signs and see traffic lights.
This is similar to using the side or rear view mirrors as needed for regular driving. The dedicated staff at The Low Vision Center at Family Optical have enabled countless patients in Manitoba to regain the ability to drive again.
There Is Hope For Families Of Low Vision Patients
If your father, mother, spouse or child is visually impaired, it can cause intense tension and strain at home. Your loved one suffering from Low Vision will likely be stressed, angry, or depressed about his or her condition and loss of independence. It is important to keep in mind the incredible stress that vision loss causes. As family members, you should encourage your loved ones to explore the possibilities that Low Vision care offers. Members of the IALVS use Low Vision glasses and devices during the Low Vision evaluation to show the patient how they can keep performing the desired tasks. If the patient does not want to speak with Dr. Colleen Mulhall, we encourage children or spouses to talk to our doctors to discuss how we can help.
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104 Mixed Cut Diamonds Carat Weight: 1.50 carat Color: I-J-K Clarity: SI-I1 Total Diamond Carat Weight: 1.50 16 Oval Cut Amethysts Total Carat Weight: 4.00
Each piece of jewelry at Lang is carefully cataloged by our expert GIA Graduate Gemologists to document all gemstones, hallmarks, method of manufacture and materials. A point of sale report is provided upon purchase.
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901 West Walnut Hill Lane
Irving, TX 75038
Employees: 11,900
CEO: Theophilus Killion
Stock Symbol: ZLC
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Zale is a leading specialty retailer of fine jewelry with 1,064 retail locations throughout the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico under the following brand names: Zales Jewelers, Zales Outlet, Gordon's Jewelers, Peoples Jewellers, Mappins Jewelers of Canada and Piercing Pagoda.
Zale also operates online at www.zales.com
and www.gordonsjewelers.com.
The company announced in February it would be acquired by Signet Corporation, the largest speciality jeweler in the U.S. and UK, for $21 per share or $1.4 billion.
Zale is driven by three core product categories
that cater to each consumer segment with varying intensity. The
bridal category, a differentiating factor for a fine jeweler,
enjoys consistent, stable demand and establishes lifelong customer
relationships. The fashion segment inspires gift giving and self
purchases while allowing the Company to maximize the peak holiday
periods. The watch business provides additional brand appeal,
enhancing the Company's ability to further drive traffic.
The company reported revenues of $1.88 billion for fiscal 2013, up from $1.86 billion the previous year. Net income was $10.0 million.
In the 1920s, Morris (M.B.) and William
Zale had a vision: to provide customers with quality merchandise
at the lowest possible price. This vision became a reality when
the first Zales Jewelers store opened in Wichita Falls, Texas,
on March 29, 1924.
With a credit plan of "a penny down
and a dollar a week," the Zale brothers launched a marketing
strategy considered to be revolutionary at the time, and thus
made jewelry and other merchandise affordable to the average
working American. Friendly customer service, liberal credit policies,
and dedicated employees led to great success and expansion, with
12 stores in Oklahoma and Texas by 1941.
During World War II, Zales Jewelers responded
to the limited production of consumer goods by maintaining its
current prices on jewelry, limiting expenses, and looking for
growth opportunities. These efforts were rewarded in 1944 with
the acquisition of Corrigan's of Houston, Zales' first "carriage
trade" (fine jewelry) store, whose purchase eventually launched
the Bailey Banks & Biddle brand.
In 1946, Zales Jewelers moved its headquarters
from Wichita Falls to Dallas. The corporate offices were housed
in the Mercantile Bank Building, the first of several locations.
The company continued to prosper and in 1952, a profit sharing
plan was introduced to employees.
Zales Jewelers took major steps in 1957
to broaden its reach in the marketplace. The first shopping center
location was opened, marking a major shift from its strategy
of operating only downtown stores. The same year, Zales announced
the initial public offering of its stock (ZLC) and then began
trading its public shares on the American Stock Exchange the
following year.
The 1960s were a decade of diversity. The
119-store chain began branching out into other markets - shoes,
sporting goods, drug stores, furniture and catalogue stores.
In fact, the shareholders decided to change the company name
to Zale Corporation to reflect the diversity of the business.
The decade of the '70s brought continued
expansion. Zale Corporation grew to more than 1,700 stores and
posted a single-day sales record of $10 million.
In 1984, Zale Corporation unveiled its
newest acquisition - the 890-carat "Incomparable Diamond,"
the largest internally flawless diamond in the world. The next
year, Zale moved its world headquarters into a 430,000-square-foot
complex in Irving, Texas, its current location.
The company's history was significantly
altered with the 1986 leveraged buyout of Zale Corporation by
Peoples Jewellers of Canada and Swarovski International of Austria.
Expansion continued, however, with the purchase in 1989 of the
Gordon's Jewelers chain of 469 stores.
The 1990s marked another critical turning
point for the corporation when it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
protection in 1992. The following year, the company emerged from
bankruptcy after restructuring its debt. Five years later, 1998
became the "breakaway year" for Zale with annual sales
that topped $1.3 billion - up from $920 million in 1994 - and
a 25 percent net earnings growth (excluding unusual items). During
its tremendous turnaround year, the company showed profit in
all four quarters for the first time since the reorganization.
That same year, Zales Outlet was launched, giving the corporation
13 locations in premier outlet centers in the United States.
Expansion again became the primary growth
strategy with two major acquisitions: Peoples Jewellers of Canada
in 1999 and Piercing Pagoda, Inc. in 2000.
In 2007, Zale divested the Bailey Banks
& Biddle brand to focus on the core business and increase
returns on capital.
* Medical and dental insurance
* Group life insurance
* Short-term and long-term disability coverage
* Flexible spending accounts
* 401(k)
* Paid sick leave
* Paid time off
* Tuition aid
* Merchandise discounts
* Adoption assistance
* Employee development
* Credit union
Updated March 22, 2014


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Every pet parent should have a pet first aid kit. You never know when your pet's going to become sick, get injured, or otherwise need a little fix up before the vet can arrive.
But what should you include in your pet's first aid kit?
Our vets recommend building your own kit rather than relying on pre-made kits that might not include everything you could need. For the most part, you can get everything for your pet's first aid kit where you'd buy supplies for your own…and be sure to reevaluate your kit every year to ensure nothing's gone bad or needs replacing. It's a good idea to keep one kit at home in case an emergency happens and create one for times when you're traveling with your pet.
Here's how to DIY a pet first aid kit that's got (most) everything you need.
Gauze is, of course, critical for controlling blood loss if your pet has incurred a wound, but it's also great for muzzling a cat or dog in a situation in which you need them to be calm while you work to treat them.
Bandages/Adhesive Tape
Store a few non-adhesive bandages in varying sizes to cover wounds. It's not a good idea to use Band-Aids or other human adhesive bandages on your pet (ouch!) so instead, keep a small roll of adhesive tape to attach the bandages to a gauze wrap.
Activated Charcoal
Poisoning is one of the number one reasons pet owners call their vet. Keep some activated charcoal on hand to absorb poison if necessary, but always call your vet or an emergency clinic before administering anything in the wake of an accidental poisoning.
Hydrogen Peroxide
Hydrogen peroxide can be used to induce vomiting when poisoning has occurred (such as when a dog has eaten chocolate) but you should never induce vomiting in a poisoned pet without speaking to a vet first; vomiting after ingesting several common poisons can actually make things worse. Hydrogen peroxide can also be used to clean wounds.
Disposable Gloves
For yourself, particularly if you're worried about whether or not your pet's wound has become infected or that they may have come into contact with a serious pathogen.
Pet news, updates, and special offers
from your friends at Vetted.
Saline Eye Solution
Eye problems are also common issues at vets' offices. Having a small bottle of saline eye drops can help flush out any foreign objects (like dirt or even glass) from your pet's eye area.
Stabilizing Board
Particularly if you have a small dog or a cat, keeping a stabilizing board (something as simple as a piece of rigid foam board twice the size of your pet will work!) handy is a good idea. If your pet falls or becomes suddenly paralyzed, keeping them immobile as possible en route to the vet is paramount.
Benadryl, Dramamine, Hydrocortisone
ALWAYS talk to your vet first about which "people" medicines are safe for your pet. In general, small doses of Benadryl (for allergic reactions), Dramamine (for motion sickness), and hydrocortisone cream (for skin irritation) are safe for most pets.
Phone Numbers
Keep an index card in your first aid kit with the numbers of your regular vet, the nearest emergency vet clinics, and the poison control hotline. You shouldn't count on your 5G to work when in an emergency! An analog number written down can always be dialed by someone with better service or even from a landline.
Do you keep anything in your pet's first aid kit we didn't mention?
Remember, keep your kit somewhere readily accessible in an emergency – don't stash it in the back of the closet behind eight suitcases! If you already have an earthquake kit for pets or other emergency stash for yourself, store your pet's kit nearby.


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Alright so this is not necessarily an 'Italian Platter', but my love for platters as meals definitely stems from my Italian heritage. The only component of this platter that's not Italian is the hummus and pita bread (maybe carrot sticks???). Other aspects may be more French, however I have a French great-grandmother and am not too fastidious when it comes to separating the two.
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Holiday Food Part 1: Braai Broodjies
Whether you're having them for breakfast, lunch, dinner or as a snack, one can rarely go wrong with this South African classic - the Braai Broodjie. "But, Em, these just look like toasted sandwiches...", you may be saying, however the essential difference is that these smokey holiday treats are toasted over coals and not in … Continue reading Holiday Food Part 1: Braai Broodjies
German Coffee Cake Squares
It's the middle of June and winter is officially upon us. Not that it's ever truly winter in Durban, but that doesn't stop me from indulging in my winter favourites. Colourful socks, oversized jerseys, cake and coffee, and in this case...coffee cake. I'm sure I'm not the only one whose appetite suddenly becomes gargantuan during … Continue reading German Coffee Cake Squares
Healthy Banana Flapjacks
Bananas are an all-year-round kind of fruit and are super versatile. You can eat them as they are, pair them up with PB on toast, add them to smoothies, and now thanks to this recipe make them into delicious banana flapjacks!
Holiday Cottage Cake & Happy 2018!
My first recipe of 2018 is for this vanilla sponge cake topped with fresh blueberries that I made whilst staying in a cottage in Underberg at a place called Lake Naverone. The first few days of our holiday were quite cold and wet so all I wanted was hot tea and a slice of cake.
Roasted Butternut Hummus with Crispy 'Wrap' Chips
I had a few friends over a while back and decided I wanted to make a snack for us to have with a few drinks around the fireplace. I rummaged around in my pantry for a bit and discovered that we had two tins of chickpeas and, lucky for me, we also had some tahini (sesame seed paste) in the fridge. So basically it was a no brainer that I was going to make hummus.
5 Gin Garnishes For You To Try This Summer
As the days start to get a little longer, the sun a little warmer, and the number of days to the summer holiday a little shorter I start to crave a good old G&T more and more. On one particularly warm day a week or two ago I took it upon myself to do some experimenting with gin garnishes so that my family and I could soak up the sun with some refreshments in hand.
Lemon Delicious Pudding
Lemon Delicious Puddings are one of my favourite desserts. These sweet and lemony self-saucing puddings are perfect to serve as an impressive after dinner treat or even as part of an afternoon tea. The fresh tartness of the lemon makes these puddings perfect to serve as summer rolls around. I know it sounds weird, but the puddings actually taste yellow, they taste happy!
Choc Banana Muffins
Anyone who knows me well knows that when I get stressed out, I bake. And so yesterday, the day before my first exam, the urge struck me and I suddenly just had to make these Choc Banana Muffins.
Triple Threat Lemon Cupcakes
I've decided to call these 'Triple Threat' lemon cupcakes because as far as I'm concerned, they possess the three elements required to create a perfect cupcake. Beautiful spongey cake with flecks of fresh lemon zest dotted inside, filled with a tart lemon curd surprise, and topped with a sweet lemony cream cheese frosting...these cupcakes are a real game changer.


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The Definitive Guide to Content Curation. As marketers in a content-driven landscape, we are responsible for producing huge amounts of content day in and day out.
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Whether you're new to using video to support your marketing program or you've been doing it for years, you won't find the success you seek unless you set a strategy to guide your activity.
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Issues Media Monitoring and Response Analysis: December 2014 – February 2015
The end and start of a new year is, for many people, a slow time of year—however, this often isn't the case of issues and reputation management.
by Season Solorio, Executive Director, Issues & Reputation Management, and Joe Hansen, Associate Director, Issues Response, National Cattlemen's Beef Association, a contractor to the Beef Checkoff
The end and start of a new year is, for many people, a slow time of year—however, this often isn't the case of issues and reputation management. From December 2014 through February 2015, there were a number of beef industry stories, including a New York Times expose about the U.S. Meat Animal Research Center (MARC) in Clay Center, Neb. and several smaller beef recalls, including J&G Foods of Sutton, Mass., recalling 34,000 pounds of ground beef sold at Wegman's supermarkets for extraneous plastic pieces. The most predominant media coverage of any beef industry issue was the seventh and final meeting of the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC) in December 2014 and the release of the Scientific Report of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee in February 2015.
Maintaining and strengthening consumer confidence in beef and the beef industry is critical to the long-term success of the beef industry and is a core pillar of the beef industry long-range plan. On a daily basis, the Issues and Reputation Management team, on behalf of the Beef Checkoff, carefully surveys the landscape across traditional media, broadcast media and social media to determine which issues warrant a response. Using a variety of tools, including CARMA for broadcast and traditional media monitoring and Nuvi for social media monitoring, the team overlays the data from both applications to create a clear picture of how an issue is playing out in the external environment. The team utilizes this data to create strategic responses to a variety of issues and ultimately, to maintain consumer confidence in beef. This article summarizes three of the largest beef-related issues during this time period.
Each quarter, CARMA reviews traditional media coverage and a small sampling of social media monitoring coverage and assigns a favorability rating to this coverage. From December 2014 through February 2015 a total of 705 traditional media stories and a random sampling of 925 social media mentions were analyzed as part of the quarterly monitoring report through CARMA. The random sampling of 925 social media mentions were a snapshot of more than 2,049,000 mentions of the beef industry during the same period.
As further background, given the volume of coverage related to the Dietary Guidelines, the Dietary Guidelines for Americans are updated every five years by the United States Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services (HHS). At the start of the process, both agencies seek nomination for the 14-member advisory committee. The committee met seven times over the course of 2014, their final meeting was on December 17. The outcome of that committee was the Scientific Report of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, which is not policy, however, is made available for public comment, as well as provided to the Secretaries of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC) Report to the Secretaries of Agriculture and HHS, released on Feb. 19, 2015. The Beef Checkoff has been actively involved throughout the process, including submission of 12 sets of comments to the committee. Read more about the process and the report in this BIQ article.
The New York Times expose entitled, U.S. Research Lab Lets Livestock Suffer in Quest for Profit, published on January 20, included allegations about pork, sheep and cattle experiments that took place at a government-owned facility. While this article did get a great deal of traditional and social media attention, there were 37 traditional media stories on the New York Times story and 15,793 online mentions, yielding 114,000,000 impressions through the end of January. Social media listening suggests that consumer sentiment was not aimed at the beef or cattle industry, but rather disappointment that, if true, these alleged actions could take place at a government-owned facility. Since this article was released, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) conducted a review of the facility and released a draft report of their findings—you can read the report here. The review panel will carefully review the comments received and will then finalize its report and recommendations and provide it to USDA by March 20.
The largest volume of coverage this period was related to the Scientific Report of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, which led the coverage with more than 185,000,000 impressions and 62,986 mentions -- it's important to know that these mentions are about the Dietary Guidelines and may not be about beef specifically. Leading up to the release of this scientific report, internal experts convened to discuss potential scenarios and strategies for how to put the report into context. However, no plans could be or were enacted until the report was reviewed by subject matter experts, including Dr. Shalene McNeill, a contractor to the Beef Checkoff. Once the DGAC Report was released, the Beef Checkoff team actively monitored the conversation online, quickly discovering that the vast majority of stories focused on three things: cholesterol, eggs and coffee. Several stories might have mentioned beef or red meat either in the headline or the body of the story, but it was not the focus of the story. While the Beef Checkoff cannot have an opinion on the scientific report, it was important for the Checkoff to share factual information about beef's nutritional profile and improved sustainability for those people who were actively discussing the report. For the first time, the Beef Checkoff utilized proactive social media advertising to provide context in the middle of an issues response. The promoted tweet campaign focused on directing consumers who mentioned keywords to a post about the role of lean meat in a healthy diet on the Checkoff-funded website, FactsAboutBeef.com. The three promoted tweets emphasized lean beef's role in a healthy diet, the differences between the protein and caloric intake for plant-based protein and lean beef and touted the protein content of beef for the serving size. The three tweets were promoted between Feb. 19 and Feb. 28, 2015.
The results of the campaign were impressive, eclipsing pre-set measureable objectives and the industry average for similar campaigns. Over 1 million paid impressions and nearly 75,000 paid engagements (re-tweets, clicks, etc.) were garnered for this campaign, with an average of 7.3 percent engagement rate; over twice the industry average for a similar campaign. Organically, the FactsAboutBeef.com post also did very well, achieving nearly 32,000 impressions and over 2,200 engagements. Overall, paid and organic, the campaign achieved an engagement rate of 7.3 percent, which is more than nearly four times the average engagement for Twitter.
The campaign also presented the opportunity to facilitate additional dialogue with consumers who have questions about lean beef as part of a healthful diet and how beef is raised through the Checkoff-funded Twitter account, @BeefFacts. Information seekers were provided with additional resources from FactsAboutBeef.com, USDA and BeefItsWhatsForDinner.com when needed and the team was able to see some neutralization of sentiment after sharing materials and further information.
The opportunity to reactively provide targeted information and further context to an issue presented unique learnings. This strategy was extremely effective in balancing the conversation online and sharing positive messages about lean beef. Based on the success of the campaign, you can expect to see more issues-specific social media campaigns in the future, as this strategy was a great compliment to existing proactive issues response tactics.
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Tags: Beef Issues Quarterly, Issues Monitoring, Spring 2015
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Long Paper #2: Beauty
Beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power.
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so, because it serenely disdains to destroy us. Every angel is terrible.
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies
First Draft Due: 12/16/2019
Peer Discussion (both on-line at Turnitin.com and in class): 12/20/2019
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Beauty is described as striking, heart-stopping, and breathtaking. A beautiful person causes the beholder to drop dead, be knocked out, or to suffer the effect of a bombshell. Clearly then, colloquial language depicts beauty in terms of violence even as people are fascinated and attracted by it. As we have seen in our class readings, current research abounds regarding the perceived benefits of beauty: greater choice in mates (Eder and Murstein), jobs (Lanier and Byrne), and status (Webster and Driscell), high grades (Lanier), fewer traffic tickets (McElhinny), and shorter criminal sentences (Sigall and Ostrove). If beauty is such a desirable quality, a source of delight, emulation, and desire, why is it so strongly associated with physical responses related to pain, fear, or death? Using Exposure, by Katherine Harrison, Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov, and/or Survival of the Prettiest, by Nancy Etcoff, and Malena, by Guiseppe Torniatore, Mulholland Drive, by David Lynch, and/or Magnolia, by Paul Thomas Anderson, explore your take on our class dialogue. What have you noticed within these works that brings our discussion to a new level or awareness? A novel/film, or nonfiction/film pairing is suggested but not required. You may also use any supplementary independent reading you did for this unit.
Start organizing your thoughts with a basic reflection on the works you will use. Here are some questions to start your exploration:
What causes the negative stereotypes, objectification, and/or demonization of the beauty in the works you have chosen to explore?
Rather than view beauty as a quality that includes and embraces symmetry, proportion, sensuality, sexuality, spirituality, emotionality and intelligence, society often objectifies beauty by breaking it into fragments (Think about Agnolo Firenzuolas treatise of feminine beauty in the Renaissance). Why does this happen? How does this occur within your choice of film and novel? What causes this? Are/Is insecurity, jealousy, loss of control, and/or powerlessness operating as motivations? If not, what other motivations are operating within your two texts?
How is violence utilized in your chosen works? Is it demonstrated toward the beauty? By the beauty? By the gaze? What factors cause destruction physically, emotionally, and/or spiritually?
What part does pathological narcissism play in relation to growing violence toward beauty?
*If you have an approach you would like to pursue that differs from the ideas above, run it by me before getting started. I am interested in your choices of topic and text. The best papers are those that are generated by your own interests, passions, and curiosity.
As always, your project hinges on developing an arguable thesis. You want to remember the significance piece we discussed in our Read Around activity last unit. How does a reading of one inform the other? How does the discussion of your text/film affect the reader? What do they learn about the nature of beauty and power? What is gained or lost in this representation of beauty/power?


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Pain while studying is more common than you think.
Exam time is understandably stressful time for students. While there is often an emphasis on the importance of diet and exercise during this time, students should also be mindful of their posture to avoid pain while studying.
While studying students spend a lot of time sitting at a desk or leaning over while writing or researching on the internet leading to poor posture while seated which is the most prevalent cause of back pain.
Preventing back pain is possible by becoming more aware of your posture.
Here are a few tips to avoid back and neck pain while studying for those important exams;
• Recognise when you are slouching and correct posture
• Your head should be in an upright position
• Get a comfortable supportive chair which will take pressure away from the lower back and make it easier to sit in front of your desk for prolonged periods
• Where possible, work on a PC rather than a laptop – the monitor should be an arm length away
• Every 30 – 40 minutes remember to take breaks. Go for a short walk, get fresh air and stretch
• Perform shoulder shrugs and rolls to reduce tension in the shoulder blade and neck muscles. We suggest to do these 3 simple stretches to counteract the sitting pose.
When we're stressed we tend to tighten up – hence why sometimes people will say they feel knots in the shoulders.
By planning ahead you can avoid getting too stressed out.
Write a plan of action for the next few weeks, plan breaks within your study time-table and make time for exercise and enjoyable things – be it a phone-call to a friend, watching your favourite programme or enjoying the glorious sun we are always promised during exam time.
Dr. Ben and all the team at Optimal Chiropractic Ballincollig in Cork would like to wish all those sitting exams the very best of luck and success.
We have a special offer in the office especially for students for an initial consultation for only €50 (normally costs €85) Refer to this post when you call Mary in our office for an appointment. (021 487 8465). Or email us here from this link. Please bring a student card to your appointment as form as ID.
The initial consultation includes full history, chiropractic examination and any necessary scans and report of findings.