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If juice-making contributes significantly to global warming, this group, calling itself La Kasita, has the solution. They'd connected a bicycle to a blender beside the Parque Nacional along La Ciclovia. After about a minute of pedaling, the lulo, maracuya, strawberries or other fruit were converted into juice.
Then, however, a Ciclovia guardiana appeared and told the juicemakers that they couldn't make juices along La Ciclovia without a permit. So they had to close up and go away.
But how clean is human-generated energy? I suppose that depends on whether you're a carnivore or a vegetarian.
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The Obama Justice Department did not improperly let politics or the race of the defendants affect the handling of a high-profile civil voter intimidation case against members of the New Black Panther Party, a probe by DOJ's Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) concluded after an extensive investigation.Justice Department attorneys "did not commit professional misconduct or exercise poor judgment, but rather acted appropriately, in the exercise of their supervisory duties in connection with the dismissal of the three defendants in the NBPP case," the head of OPR wrote in a letter to Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) obtained by TPM.
OPR's investigation began in the summer of 2009. After an extensive investigation which included reviews of the New Black Panther Party file, "thousands of pages of internal Department e-mails, memoranda, and notes" and interviews with 44 current and former Department employees, OPR "found no evidence that the decision to dismiss the case against three of the four defendants was predicated on political considerations," wrote DOJ's Robin Ashton.
"We found that the decision by the Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, a career Department employee, was made following appropriate consultation with, or notification to, career attorneys and supervisors, and Department leadership," Ashton wrote.
"We found no evidence of improper political interference or influence from within or outside the Department in connection with the decision in the case," she wrote. "In sum, we concluded that the decision to dismiss three of the four defendants and to seek more narrowly-tailored injunctive relief against King Samir Shabazz was predicated on a good faith assessment of the law and the facts of the case and had a reasonable basis."
"We found no evidence that political considerations were a motivating factor in reaching the decision. We also concluded that the decision to initiate the NBPP case was based upon a good faith assessment of the facts and the law. We found no evidence that political considerations were a motivating factor in authorizing the civil action against the four defendants," Ashton wrote.
"Finally, we found no evidence to support allegations (which were raised during the course of our investigation) that the decision makers, either in bringing or dismissing the claims, were influenced by the race of the defendants, or any considerations other than an assessment of the evidence and the applicable law," Ashton wrote.
"In sum, we examined only whether any of the individuals involved in the decision-making process – with respect to either the initiation or dismissal of claims in the NBPP case – committed professional misconduct in the performance of their official duties," Ashton wrote.
"We determined that the attorneys involved in the NBPP case made good faith, reasonable assessments of the facts and the law," Ashton wrote. "We did not attempt to evaluate the relative merits of their differing positions."
The full letter is available here.
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I have been contemplating the new USDA "MyPyramid" that has replaced the previous USDA Food Pyramid, which in tern replaced the USDA Four Food Groups scheme of the 1970s. These concepts are an integral part of one section of my course in anatomy and physiology, so I was very interested in seeing the latest development.
Unfortunately, in my opinion this new scheme on human nutrition is heaped with far too many generalities and is geared simply towards being flashy and eye-catching. I feel this is quite problematic, as these recommendations by the USDA are important for medicine, nutrition, and all sorts of health sciences.
The original USDA Four Food Groups attempted to define the four categories of food we should try to consume in a healthy diet.... meats, fruits & vegetables, breads, and fats. This original concept was good as a starting point, but needed further elaboration to become useful.
In the 1980s the scheme of the four food groups *was* refined to become the USDA Food Pyramid. This pyramid approach attempted to provide recommendations as to quantity of each food type consumed on a daily basis. In my opinion, this food pyramid was extremely well designed and easy to follow. Unfortunately, the new "MyPyramid" is a mostly smoke-and-mirrors attempt to make nutrition "fun & friendly" for the unwashed masses who do not give a care about nutrition, do not want to put any thought or study into eating healthy, and likely will not change to a healthier eating style even with the "MyPyramid".
Basically, MyPyramid seems to "descience" the field of nutrtion into a few key catch-phrases or slogans:
1. Ya gotta get active! (the silly stairs on the side of the MyPyramid graphic)
2. Ya gotta eat healthy food! (no real data, just vague notions of eating fruits, vegetables, etc)
3. Ya gotta not eat as much fatty stuff! (it shows the previous fat/oil section as skinny, spahgetti-string strip of the mighty MyPyramid)
The above paraphrased statements represent my interpretation of what has occured through adoption of MyPyramid.... it has been DUMBED DOWN considerably. Whereas the original four food groups was a concept for a junior high/ high school audience, and the food pyramid was a concept for a high school/early college audience, the new MyPyramid is a concept designed to primairly appeal to a) preschoolers/students in elementary schools, b) the stereotypical "rah-rah" cheerleader type, and c) anyone who really doesn't give a damn about nutrition or the science of and study of diet.
The new "MyPyramid" is pretty silly, and not very useful to help with an understanding of nutrition.


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TRIPOLI, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Libya's interim government, under pressure to disarm Tripoli and restore the country after months of civil war, has given regional militias lingering in the capital until late December to hand over security and go home, officials said on Tuesday.
Nearly two months after Muammar Gaddafi was killed, the new government is still unable to impose its authority on the ground, leaving security in the hands of militias who answer only to themselves and often wage turf wars with their rivals.
Prime Minister Abdurrahim El-Keib has met officials from Tripoli's local council to discuss ways of sending home hundreds of out-of-town fighters who have taken a pseudo-police force in the capital, setting up checkpoints across the city.
"There is a schedule for this process," Abdul Razzak Buhajar, head of Tripoli local council, told a news conference.
When asked about the timeframe, he said: "In December ... We have to be patient."
Recent spats of violence have demonstrated that militias remain the biggest threat to Libya's security despite attempts by the newly formed government to get them under control.
On Tuesday, protesters blocked off several streets in Tripoli, demanding that fighters from other parts of the country pull out of the capital.
"They will not allow any weapons to go in or out of the capital," Buhajar said. "Vital sites such as airports will be protected by the defence ministry or interior ministry."
He did not say how the interim government planned to persuade the militiamen to leave, or what would happen if they refused but added there were plans to integrate them in state security forces if they wanted to.
Buhajar said Tripoli residents would hold a rally on Wednesday in the central Martyr's Square to support initiatives to clear Tripoli of weapons and call for out-of-town fighters to leave.
A government statement quoted Buhajar as saying: "It is anticipated that the demonstration will escalate day by day until Dec. 20. On this day, if militias have not left the city, the public of Tripoli and Libyan government will close the whole city to traffic."
Buhajar said only armed vehicles belonging to the Interior and Defence Ministries would be allowed to circulate around the city.
Interior Minister Fawzi Abd Al All told Reuters that fully clearing Tripoli of weapons was a "national task" and all ministries, particularly defence, had to take part. He said the process would necessitate "huge preparations".
"The excess military power should be reduced; the revolutionary checkpoints have to be relocated as many are stationed in civilian and military sites," he said.
"I believe that the revolutionaries wanted to convey a certain message to certain entities and I believe that the message was conveyed clearly. I believe that this matter will be cleared peacefully." (Writing by Marie-Louise Gumuchian; Editing by Maria Golovnina)


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Listen To Usher And David Guetta's "Without You"
After turning Jennifer Hudson into a dancefloor diva and Nicki Minaj into a singer, David Guetta doesn't have to do a darn thing to Usher on "Without You". On the duo's Nothing But The Beat track, the R&B crooner (and his beautiful falsetto) pours his heart out while Guetta takes care of the beats. Listen below.
David Guetta feat. Usher – "Without You"
"I won't run, I won't fly, I will never make it by without you," sings Usher. "I can't rest, I can't fight, all I need is you and I, without you."
Simple lyrics floating over serene-turned-playful synthesizers, and Usher sounding genuinely plighted by the idea of living without his love. It's not the most extraordinary production, but it works.
What do you make of Usher and David's collaboration? Let us know what you think on Facebook, Twitter, or in the comments below.


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1KA service can be used free of charge at 1KA.si domain. Only registration is required (new users) or login (registered users).
For initial start with 1KA, there is an information available for beginners and for advanced users.
The 1KA application can be installed on the 1KA server or on the user's server.
There is also more information on all possible ways of using 1KA.
Please enter your email address with which you are logged in and we will send you a password recovery link.
We will use and store the e-mail address to register on our website for the purpose of using the 1KA username and we will carefully protect it according to the regulations.
This site uses cookies to improve user experience for logged in users. (Cookie policy).
To activate your new password, please enter the data provided in e-mail you received.
If you still have problems finding our confirmation e-mail, you can contact us by e-mail email@example.com.
You won't be able to login into this webpage until you confirm your registration through e-mail!
For sending email invitations through external SMTP system in 1KA we strongly suggest not using Gmail server, because its's sending can't be controlled.
A couple of years ago it was possible to send 500 emails at once. Even then sometimes substantially less emails were sent. In 2015 limit of maximum emails sent at once was set to 100 by Google. Our tests showed that Gmail now sometimes sends emails to 92 email addresses, sometimes to 98 and so on. Team 1KA no longer uses Gmail server for sending email invitations. More about limitations of Gmail system.
These kind of problems only occur when Gmail is used. A lot of users have their own SMTP system in their organisation and it works without problems. Team 1KA has already tried sending more than 5000 emails at once and no problems were found, but 1KA used its own SMTP server.
Organisations are therefore recommended to use its own mail server or use a payable SMTP solution. One good idea is also to use a dedicated mass email service that is used in direct marketing. More on information on this topic can be found on WebSM Book (page 119).
1KA system for sending email invitations sends your emails to Gmail and also writes this, but Gmail doesn't process this and doesn't send any feedback information to our system or keeps changing the way in which we get information. Because of this our list of sent emails doesn't match Gmail's list.
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Handling History is our regular object handling morning where you can get up close to some objects from our collection.
Drop-in session, suitable for all.
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Sent out email last Friday to most Federal and State ALP members of parliament with a link to Internet Censorship Will Haunt Rudd Government. Have received 5 replies so far:
- From Amanda Fazio, New South Wales MLC, supporting the dumping of the policy. Her speech to the Legislative Council can be found at: Internet Censorship
- The second was a very private email that went astray, from the office of a Victorian MLA . Didn't receive a reply when I bounced it back. My lips are sealed.
- A response from Senator Kate Lundy's office, offering to forward any messages to Senator Conroy.
- From my Facebook friend the Finance Minister, Lindsay Tanner. The text seems to be a media release but was appreciated anyway.
- Chris Hayes MHR for Werriwa has sent the same response.
The Government regards freedom of speech as very important and the Government's cyber-safety policy is in no way designed to curtail this.
The internet is an essential tool for all Australian children through which they can exchange information, be entertained, socialise and do school work and research. The ability to use online tools effectively provides both a skill for life and the means to acquire new skills.
However, while the internet has created substantial benefits for children it has also exposed them to a number of dangers, including exposure to offensive content. As such, parents rightly expect the Government to play its part in the protection of children online.
The Government has committed $125.8 million over the next four years to a comprehensive range of cyber-safety measures, including law enforcement, filtering and education. Measures include:
· Australian Federal Police (AFP) Child Protection Operations Team - funding to detect and investigate online child sex exploitation;
· Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions - funding to help deal with the increased activity resulting from the work of the AFP to ensure that prosecutions are handled quickly;
· ISP level filtering - funding to develop and implement ISP filtering, including undertaking a real world 'live' pilot;
· Education activities - funding to the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) to implement a comprehensive range of education activities;
· Websites / Online helpline - funding to ACMA to improve current Government
cyber-safety website resources and to make them easier for parents to use, and to provide up‑to‑date information. ACMA will also develop a children's cyber-safety website to provide information specifically for children, and improve the online helpline to provide a quick and easy way for children to report online incidents that cause them concern;
· Consultative Working Group - funding for an expanded Consultative Working Group. The Group will consider the broad range of cyber-safety issues and advise the Government, to ensure properly developed and targeted policy initiatives;
· Youth Advisory Group - funding for a Youth Advisory Group which will provide advice to the Consultative Working Group on cyber-safety issues from a young person's perspective; and
· Research - funding for ongoing research into the changing digital environment to identify issues and target future policy and funding.
These initiatives will tackle the issue of cyber-safety from a number of directions to help clean up the online environment and protect Australian children from the dangers of the internet now and into the future. This approach acknowledges the key role parents and carers have in the online safety of children, and provides them with the necessary information to assist with this task. This initiative also recognises that there is no single solution to ensure children can access the internet safely.
A key part of the Government's plan to make the internet a safer place for children is the introduction of ISP level filtering. The policy reflects our community's growing belief that ISPs should take some responsibility for enabling the blocking of illegal material on the internet. Filtering would cover illegal and prohibited content using an expanded ACMA blacklist of prohibited sites, which includes images of the sexual abuse of children.
Consideration is being given to more sophisticated filtering techniques for those individual families who wish to exclude additional online content in their own homes.
The Government wants to ensure that Australian parents can access a 'clean feed' internet service. This will be informed by the technology adopted in countries such as the United Kingdom, France, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Canada where ISP filtering, predominantly of child pornography, has been successfully introduced without affecting internet performance to a noticeable level.
The Government's ISP filtering policy is being developed through an informed and considered approach, including industry consultation and close examination of overseas models to assess their suitability for Australia.
ACMA recently completed an extensive laboratory trial of available ISP filtering technology. The trial looked specifically at the effect of a range of filter products on network performance, effectiveness in identifying and blocking illegal and inappropriate content, scope to filter non-web traffic, and the ability to customise the filter to the requirements of different end-users.
The laboratory trial indicated that ISP filtering products have developed in their effectiveness since they were last assessed in 2005. The Government will now proceed with a 'live' pilot in the second half of 2008 which will provide valuable information on the effectiveness and efficiency of filters installed in a 'real world' ISP network. An Expression of Interest will be released in due course seeking the participation of ISPs in the pilot.
The Government is committed to working closely with internet industries to address any concerns, including costs and internet speeds. These concerns will be carefully considered during the pilot and will further inform the Government's cyber‑safety policy."
As yet there is no response from the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy. Perhaps his email is vetted too well or perhaps not well enough. Or perhaps the reply went astray. It does happen.
By the intensity of the opposition on the blogosphere, his office is probably receiving a lot of hostile email. There are now more than 20 Facebook groups against the internet filtering proposal.


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We are running a number of one day truffle dog training workshops around the country. These fun and informative days are aimed at beginners with no previous scent-work experience. The focus of the day will be field-based exercises for you and your dog using truffle scent. There are no pre-requisites for dogs or handlers, attending this workshop.
So attendees can carry on the training in their local environment, handlers will receive a truffle dog training kit, a bottle of truffle oil and extensive notes after the workshop. Please read previous attendee reviews, browse the gallery of photos and read the FAQ on the above tabs.
Many attendees have gone on to find truffles in the wild. One handler and dog team found their first truffles within a week of their workshop!
We currently run about 3 workshops per year, one each at Banbury, Chichester and Yeovil. Demand is very high. We announce the dates via our newsletter and they are booked up very quickly. We strongly recommend that you sign up to hear these announcements.
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- Theoretical presentations including scent work and finding truffles.
- Practical sessions where participants start training their dogs to find truffle scent based on our explanations and methods.
Workshops run from 10:00 AM to around 4:30 PM.
Places are limited to 8 dogs plus handlers. Additional family members can attend as spectators but a charge is made. Spectating may not suit children, please see relevant points in our workshop terms and conditions. Sorry, but you cannot spectate unless you are accompanying a dog plus handler.
Refreshments (tea / coffee etc.) will be provided but you will need to bring your own lunch or go to a nearby shop / café.


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The winner of the International
Garden Photographer of the Year 2011 title and the £5,000 prize for the
best single image is UK-based photographer Colin Roberts for Sea Thrift
Flowers. His picture depicts Widemouth Bay in Cornwall, as a beautiful
sunset streams across the sea view, illuminating the flowers in the
foreground. Colin's winning photograph was chosen from the Wildflowers
Contest judge Clive Nichols said: "This image struck me immediately - the
depth of field is superb, leading the eye from the beautifully backlit
flowers in the foreground all the way to the sea on the horizon, giving a
great sense of depth to the picture and placing the thrift in context."
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About Me
I am a plant, fungal, and ecosystem ecologist with a strong research background in terrestrial nutrient cycling, isotope ecology, and mycorrhizal-mediated plant-soil interactions that transcend traditional research boundaries.
My research often employs the use of natural contrasts, such as along natural environmental gradients that vary in temperature or nutrient availability, or across distinct forest types that differ fundamentally in the form and pathways of nutrient uptake. I've had the opportunity to work in: field-scale nutrient manipulation experiments in Panama and Alaska; decomposition experiments in remote ectomycorrhizal forests of Guyana; nitrogen preference experiments using isotopic tracers in the mountains of Panama; along fertility gradients and experimental settings in boreal spruce forests of Alaska and Sweden; and, along treeline elevational gradients in seven different countries. Thus my ecological perspective is truly global in nature.
But I am not just a field biologist. I also have over 14 semesters of teaching experience in a diverse array of laboratory and lecture courses including: botany, ecology, mycology, and plant taxonomy and am enthusiastic to involve undergraduate and graduate students in my research. To demonstrate this, I have recently become a faculty lecturer at Humboldt State University, where I lecture in General Botany, Mycology, and Plant Ecology.
I have developed a research program focused on exploring the biogeochemical constraints of plant nutrient acquisition that have included the adoption of novel wet chemistry techniques, the application and analysis of natural abundance stable isotope tracers, and global scale meta-analyses. In so doing, I pursue observational, experimental, and synthetic research aimed at understanding how elements cycle within and among terrestrial ecosystems.
I am currently completing papers from my postdoctoral research in David Wardle's Vegetation and Ecosystem Ecology Lab at SLU in Umeå, Sweden. This project involed collaborations with 14 interanational researchers and field work in seven countries. It seeks to uncover unfiying trends in above- and belowground ecosystem components across montane elevational gradients spanning tree-line transition zones (sites listed under the Montane link above). These ongoing international collaborations promise much exciting work to come.
I am particularly interested in:
Factors which control the functional ecology of ecosystems
- Nutrient availability
- Measurement of the quantity and forms of growth limiting soil nutrients
- Foliar metrics of soil nutrient availability
- How different climates and global change interact with or cause altered soil fertilities
- Above and below ground interactions among plants and microbes
- Role of below-ground organisms in resource acquisition (particularly ectomycorrhizae) and the controls over plant nutrition
- Mechanisms and global patterns of plant-soil feedbacks
- Macroecological patterns in mycorrhizal systems across gradients in climate or fertility
- Evolutionary and functional ecology of ectomycorrhizal fungi in the tropics
- Climatic variation in mycorrhizal dependencies
- Drivers of soil, fungal, and plant nitrogen isotope ratios
- Temperature controls over diversity and ecosystem function
- Indirect causes of montane tree line ecotones
- Evaluation of the relative importance of multiple drivers (nutrients, climate, age, etc.) through explicit linkage with theory and data
- Use of manipulative experiments with crossed factors along elevation, chronosequence, and fertility gradients
- Ability of elevation-as-a-proxy for temperature gradients to serve as global climate change natural experiements


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With all the new Card Cam improvements coming in the next patch, I thought it'd be a fun exercise to see how quickly Card Cam can recognize cards now. A video tells a thousand pictures, so here it is below. Enjoy, and please excuse the grumpy face (was concentrating on the cards)!
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Last week the U.S. Department of Education announced six new grant awards which totaled to $4.1 million through the Charter Schools Program (CSP) National Leadership Activities program. These grants were created to help strengthen charter schools and charter school authorizers, while aiding to serve students with disabilities and English learners. The Department has made these key issues a priority for helping charter schools.
The six grantees will provide technical assistance and training and share effective practices with charter schools across the country. The grantees are:
- the Alameda County Office of Education;
- the California Charter Schools Association;
- the Illinois Network of Charter Schools;
- the Massachusetts Charter Public School Association;
- the National Association of Charter School Authorizers; and
- New Schools for New Orleans.
These Grants will run for three years. To view each grantee project abstracts click here.


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The Bachelor 2013 star Sean Lowe's life has been on whirlwind ever since the season finale aired on March 12. He appeared on season 16 of Dancing With The Stars a week later when it premiered on March 18.
Lowe found the time in-between his intense DWTS rehearsals for the weekly live hit dancing competition to discuss the show, his appreciation for his soon-to-be-wife's support and how he feels about the false reports that the couple are breaking up.
Lowe said his life post-Bachelor has "been an absolute whirlwind."
"My life's done a complete 180 in the past year," Lowe told PARADE. "But I'm still the same guy I've always been. I still have the same values and standards, and I know what's most important to me. I know all of this that's going on around me right now is not going to last forever, so I'm just enjoying the moment while I can. I'll be back to my normal life eventually."
Lowe said Giudice, who sits front row each week, is his "greatest motivation" when he competes.
"She's my number one fan, and it feels so good to know that she supports me 100 percent," he said of her support. "She's there every Monday and Tuesday rooting for me. She's actually a much better dancer than I am, so I think people would rather see her!"
Lowe also addressed the rumors in tabloids that the couple are heading toward splitsville.
"I don't pay much attention to those stories because I know that they're all fictitious, and they're just out to sell magazines," he explained. "I know what's important and that's faith, family, and friends. That's where my focus is. Catherine and I don't pay too much attention to the tabloids and blogs and everything else."
It was revealed that the couple have set a wedding date. According to Dancing With The Stars host Tom Bergeron Bergeron, the big day is set for the month of August this year and it will be televised.
Bergeron slipped the news on April 15 live on DWTS when he said, "My understanding is that the marriage ceremony of Sean and Catherine [Giudici] is scheduled to be broadcast on ABC in August," before he announced this week's elimination.
Lowe must have been unaware that Bergeron would slip the news - when the show's cameras turned to the reality star, he looked shocked and immediately looked at his dance partner, Peta Murgatroyd, for a reaction.
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Am pleased to let you know that it wasn't an early (or late April Fools) and that our Mirai Suenaga made a guest appearance in Episode 04 of the TV anime series Twin Angel. Here are some screenshots of her air time looking sooooo cute!
Mirai in her default Summer school uniform before getting changed.
Ge, getting changed?!
Mirai-chan is a hard working girl and works part time after school at a family restaurant. Here we see her changing into her uniform ^^;
All dressed and ready to do some hard work.
And here are the OP and ED's to the show.
But some evil folks raid the family restaurant and everybody is held hostage!
Luckily the Twin Angels are on the scene.
And here are the illustrations that JC Staff came up with - obviously Mirai-chan takes on the look and feel of the other characters. I'm actually off to the studios of JC Staff tomorrow to go over some more nitty gritty.
And this is what the original maid uniform looks like.
And this is the Doll version ^o^
Been planning the 2011 April Fools since last December but it got cancelled due to circumstances - which is why this years April Fools was kinda half baked ToT
The April Fools was to be a "Mirai Suenaga joins the Twin Angels as Orange Angel!" Thanks to Amano-san for helping out with the artwork.
The name of the restaurant is "Solar Marine" which they decided to use from the Mirai Millennium universe. The anchor logo is based off our original designs of the Solar Marine Emblem which they simplified by just using the anchor ^^; I dropped that design too as it was too complicated for when it comes to animation.
This is Saijo sensei who also appears wearing our modified maid uniform.
Leaving you with more screenshots from the show. Some more Mirai guest appearances in various anime and games - keep your eye out for her!
First time I've had my name in the credits for an anime show - we do their official Japanese and English website.


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Born 1990, Daniel Reusche grew up on a diet consisting of literary classics, rock music from the 60s and 70s, message boards and chat rooms. He was learning more from collaboration with people from all over the world, than conventional education could ever teach him. This way, he became interested in improving the internet, the most awesome tool for collaboration since our ancestors left the water. With SecuShare.org he and his fellow project members are trying to build a social networking that platform that empowers its users. The goals are to reduce the dependency on centralised infrastructure and to keep the data where it belongs: the machines of the users.
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I had the distinct pleasure to conduct an oral history with an Lu McCarney. When I first met her, she grabbed me, gave me a hug and immediately started talking like we were old friends who had known each other for many years. She had many interesting stories and pieces of wisdom to share.
Of all the advice that she gave me, the piece that most resonated with me was that stress should never dominate a person's life and it should never be allowed to claim one's happiness. Sadness, misfortune, even having a bad hand dealt to you in life should never be at the forefront of your mind, rather "life is too fantastic" to allow you to ruminate on such things. There is way too much out there to explore and enjoy, and there is simply not enough time to dwell on these. Through the life which Lu described to me, she has obviously made this an important tenet in her life.
Lu has lived quite a life, and it was amazing to hear glimpses of it. From life in Mexico to the United States, she has always found room for adventure and for new experiences. I hope to convey her warmth and spirit through this oral history.


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My RoboWriters evenings are probably the most fun I have all week. There's a lot of laughing involved. It's a silly world that I live in. I spend a lot of time sitting around tables reading scenes and laughing my ass off. I'm often quick to diminish the value of what I do. I'm not solving world hunger, I'm not curing cancer. At the very least, work is supposed to be hard. There is a service I am providing. Comedy is an industry. People want to laugh. They spend a lot of money on it. People want to make people laugh. They spend a lot of money in pursuit of this, too. I'm just the middle-man. I guess I'm sort of a drug dealer who also gets to sample all his wares.
Last night, the common theme that emerged among the writers was to trust what's at the heart of your scene. A few scenes started out with interesting characters, relationships and premises only to quickly devolve into "anything for a laugh," which usually results in zero laughs and the sense that the writer is trying to punch his way out of the scene rather than have it resolve organically. The lesson the writers learned is to take your time with your characters - explore their wants and desires, delve more deeply into their issues and emotional life. Give them some respect. Thanks to the magic of computers, you can always go back and edit out the stuff that doesn't move the story forward. You're likely to discover the stuff that really makes you laugh from deep down in your gut. A few of the writers successfully did this through rewrites retooled to focus on characters and relationships.
ROBOWRITER ASSIGNMENT - Next week, write a silent scene.
Literally, a "show, don't tell" scenario.
Things to keep in mind in writing a silent scene...
- The characters are silent because they choose to be. Not because someone suddenly turned the volume off or the characters were struck dumb.
- Keep it simple. The audience should be able to quickly grasp the who, what and where.
- Explore how people communicate non-verbally -from eye-rolling to throat clearing to foot tapping to eye contact to actively ignoring.
- maybe have an instrumental piece of music in mind that would accompany the scene. The scene should be able to play without it and would only be enhanced by it.
- keep it real. They are not mimes. Allow the characters to take their time and let tension build. Don't have them over-exaggerate their wants and needs through over-the-top actions just for the sake of making sure the audience gets it. Audience are smart!
Above all. Keep it simple.


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Tyson Poor
After several days of no wind, everyone was excited to see whitecaps on the river and the Gorge returning to its normal state. Even though it was early in the afternoon on a Thursday, the parking lot was full and the river was busy with sailors. Here are two of the shots with many more to come once I have a chance to review them all. These are two Bay Area sailors making their home in The Gorge for the summer.


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This is a great letter by Marc Draisen, director of the Metropolitan Area Planning Council, the regional planning agency for the metropolitan Boston region. It has much relevance to the current situation in Allston and Brighton and particularly Harvard's development plans and their limited plans for improving our transit and roads. Here are a couple quotes:
we need to fix our roads and bridges when they need it, not 10 years later when the costs have doubled
The entire system is broken. Fixing it is essential to cut down on congestion and encourage more companies to locate and expand in our region.
Marc's letter is in response to this recent story - Transit and roads face huge shortfall


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Summer of Soccer 2019
With three major international tournaments going on right now, soccer fans and...
Not to mention the finger nails must have been a-flying everywhere.
Tiger, to allow his wife to claw him like that, must not be that elusive of a cat . . .
His evasive maneuvers, evidently aren't that . . . evasive. It makes me tend to question, even more-so, the idea Woods, or any golfer, bowler at horse Jockey or race car driver are truly physically gifted athletes.
Bob n' weave bra'. Get outta' the way of that straight right jab!
And since we're tossing around the word evasive, Tiger is being quite evasive when it comes to explaining his "situation."
And, I'm thinking why he hasn't broken it all down for the world, is because he can't, or at least not without unforeseen consequences and repercussions.
Tiger's predicament is one of those "oh the web we weave, when at first we deceive" cases, and he's certainly aware of what he says, understanding it will all be vetted, there dudes out there right now trying to shove a telescope up his ass, his wife's ass, the neighbor's ass.
And Tiger can't control all aspects and elements of this soap-opera. His women, the "other women," Rachel Uchitel, the press and the police . . . even for a man like Woods, with enormous wealth, he can't "heal the sick nor raise the dead" – he's just a man, yes a very rich man, but nonetheless . . . just a man.
Hell, Tiger can't control the mouth of his other woman's friend, Ashley Samson, who's singing like a big bird. Additionally, let's not make light of the fact Tiger, and I'm sure it's due to the way he was raised, right, he went out of his way to depict himself as a . . . humble, meek, docile, unassuming, unlike most of the other boys he – didn't smoke or chew, nor go out with girls who do . . . .
Unlike too many young Black sportsmen, he was not loud, boisterous, braggadocios nor conceited – he was a well raised officer and gentleman you'd like your son to grow up to be like, or your little girl to marry.
This is a well meaning, tightly scripted life Tiger has kept to, and apparently, to a degree, somewhat of a façade he's painted himself into – a perfect four point corner, and any wavering away, like of this sort, can't help but hurt.
Now, what Tiger is about to endure is going to be of the O.J. or Marvin Harrison variety; despite being a model negro. And I do mean model in the veins of Joe Louis, Floyd Patterson, David Robinson and Tim Dunbar, now that he's slipped, proven he's human – there are those in the press, who can't wait to spoon feed a golf fan base . . . which has been waiting for this moment, something, anything to knock Tiger from his throne – and the hope is – this is it.
The Tiger King has on no clothes . . . nor does his mistress.
This will be the aspect of this sordid tale which will be the most interesting; how Tiger is hung, (not that hung) how he's vilified, demonized and tried in the court of public opinion, which is already lightin' the fires and kick'in the tires of the Redneck Cadillac pickup truck their going to use to bring down the monument erected of Tiger.
Hey, stop deluding yourself, Fuzzy Zoeller is not the only White guy disgusted Tiger has taken over the "sport" of golf. Honestly, there's a large slice of this nation which is mortified this cat's the face of their beloved country club endeavor, horrified Woods has redefined golf.
Inflamed he won the right to slip into the "masters" green sport coat. Pissed off he went out and bagged himself a beautiful Nordic Viking princess. It's as if he's rubbing folk's faces in the black dirt.
Look, when Jack Johnson, nearly a century ago, dated, flaunted . . . transported a White women across state lines . . . it aggravated and irritated the White male populace – it still does today.
Once more, don't mislead yourself; a Black man, a very rich Black man walking around with his paws draped over a White women, a beautiful White women, letting his hand slip down, from around her waist, to grasping her butt – yeah, that lights a special fire in the hearts and minds of all the angry White people across the country; the Republicans, the Blue-Dog Democrats and the Tea-Baggers.
And if you think it doesn't any longer in the US, you're crazy.
This nation is one gun-shot from race wars.
There's a lynch-mob gathering, just like they did for Vick, Bonds and Plax, and despite Woods being a nicer more mannerable Black man . . . with no hint of wrong doing, no lack of decorum before this mishap . . . they'll drag his Black ass out of that 2.9 mill castle down in the Sunshine state, and hang him from his own ole oak tree.
Speaking of sunshine, I hope the other women's . . . love box, was well worth it, as good as, as warm as, as powerful as . . . sunshine. Throw it up in the air, and call it sunshine.
Tiger sits on the verge of experiencing what scores of professional Black folks discover at some point in life, when it's all said and done . . . regardless of the titles, labels, accolades and astronomical material wealth . . . you're still but a Nigger in the eyes of millions, yes millions of people, both golf fans and just Americans in general.
Take a gander at what President Obama's had to weather; his academic credentials dismissed by Redneck pundits like Rush, who regularly question his intelligence, his morals and values.
Yeah dig that, even a born with a platinum spoon in his mouth slob like Limbaugh, on his ump-tenth wife, and still he has the audacity, and his millions of listeners are . . . moral-less enough – to believe he has the credibility to question a common man whose been married to the same women for decades, with no hint of an impropriety.
Watch . . .
you do know there are those, of course, who refer to Tiger as a "Tie-Coon."
Of course, like his boy, Michael Jordan, who found himself in a similar spot, Tiger will survive, his game, his swing will more or likely remain the same, he'll be at the top of the golf game, but he will no longer be perfect, untouchable, clad in all-white . . . immortal, and upon weighing and measuring Tigers efforts of the past, that pristine image . . . matters a great deal to Tiger, and as he well knows, to his corporate sponsors.
Tiger's risked, perhaps not everything, but a great deal, on a what, Gold-Digger, who yes, did catch herself a rich Tigger. You and I can't count the Black women across the land saying to themselves "here's this man who thought Black women were too spirited, too spicy, too hot to handle.
So he went and got himself a snow flake . . . who evidently snapped, went off the deep end, tried to crack his head open with a 9-iron, he'll he might as well have married a Sapphire from Hell's kitchen or Spanish Harlem.
Tiger's creepin' now . . . but he should have been creeping lower n' slower yesterday, last month . . . when the eyes of the Enquirer were turned on him.


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Are You Ready Player One? Game On!
In Ready Player One there's a healthy dose of digital graphics and a virtual reality universe. Certainly, the dazzling visuals can cast a spellbinding shadow over the theater-going public. On top of that, the auto enthusiasts are being treated to an extra helping of brilliance!


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Kristofer Kallman
Kris Kallman was born in Santa Barbara in 1948. He graduated from Santa Barbara High School in 1967, Santa Barbara City College (A. A. 1969), California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo (B.A.1971), and Pepperdine University School of Law (J.D. 1975). After passing the California Bar Exam in 1975, Kris returned to Santa Barbara and accepted a position as a trial lawyer with Tom Halde and Associates, later known as Halde, Thomas, Kallman and Hulse. That firm specialized in insurance defense trial work, and Kris handled hundreds of injury cases to conclusion. In 1984, Kris opened his own law office specializing in representing injured persons in serious auto accidents, products and premises liability, and selected medical malpractice cases.
Kris Kallman has a long history of civic and professional involvement in Santa Barbara. As a resident of one of the world' s most beautiful cities, Kris has followed a three generation tradition of service to the community. He has served on the board of the Santa Barbara Zoo, has served as President of the Arthritis Foundation, on the board of the 19th District Agricultural Association (Earl Warren Showgrounds), and was elected El Presidente of Old Spanish Days Fiesta, one of the largest regional festivals in the west.
Professionally, Kris has served on the board of the Santa Barbara County Bar Association, and served as President of the San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates. He has been a member of the Association of Southern California Defense Counsel, and has lectured for MCLE credit concerning tort litigation techniques. Kris also served as an adjunct professor at the Santa Barbara College of Law, teaching first year Torts. Kris has tried nearly fifty (50) jury trials, all involving injury to persons and/or property. He has served as a judge pro tern in the Santa Barbara Superior Court, and is often used as an arbitrator in personal injury cases.
Jordan D. Hankey
Jordan Hankey graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2004, with a bachelors' degree in Psychology and a minor in Music. Thereafter, he worked in the legal field as a paralegal and law clerk while attending the Santa Barbara College of Law. While at the College of Law, Jordan earned CALI awards for achieving the highest grades in Contracts and Torts. He was admitted to the State Bar in 2009.
Jordan was an associate with Hager & Dowling for two and a half years, with an emphasis on insurance law, personal injury and products liability. He has extensive experience investigating automobile accident cases of disputed liability. Jordan's experience with an insurance defense firm is invaluable. He obtained insight regarding insurer's procedures when processing, investigating and evaluating bodily injury claims.
Jordan began working for the Law Offices of Kristofer Kallman in 2012, and in 2016 he became a partner in Kallman & Hankey, LLP. Jordan has extensive experience in Plaintiff's Personal Injury, Insurance Defense and Insurance Coverage, Medical Malpractice, Mold Litigation and Contract Law.


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Reformed alt-rock legends Pixies are planning to record their first album in 14 years.
The band's frontman Black Francis has confirmed the band, who got back together last year to huge acclaim, are preparing to make their first studio album since 1991's 'Trompe Le Monde'.
He told The Sun: "It's all hugs and kisses, I'm pleased to report.
"We have been discussing recording a new album lately. As happy as we are with the success of the reunion tour, we really want to make a record for the right reasons, whether it is successful commercially or not."
He added: "We would be satisfied if it played like our other records, never chart-topping but always in print."
Since the band got back together they have recorded two songs – 'Bam Thwok' – which was rejected for the 'Shrek 2' soundtrack and then released as a download-only single, and a cover of Warren Zevon's 'Ain't That Pretty At All', which appeared on 'Enjoy Every Sandwich', a tribute album to the late singer.
Pixies headline this year's Carling Weekend: Reading and Leeds Festivals between August 27 and 29.
Black Francis releases a new solo album under the name Frank Black next week (July 18) called 'Honeycomb'.


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A quinoa feta salad revealed in our nutrition report "Sunski"
Summer is here and as seasons alter, our nutrition should change.
When the seasons change, it is time to think about John Douillard's book on nutrition, "Three Season Diet"(10.) John is one of the physicians who has made more difference in Merri's and my lives than any other. I have enjoyed three of his courses, one on pulse therapy, one on quantum exercise and one on quantum nutrition. What we learned from John has helped us sustain a high level of energy. Merri and I are well past retirement age yet we just started our biggest business expansion yet.
Why would we do this if we don't need the money and don't need the work? Simply put we are so filled with energy and ideas and creativity that we don't even think about being in our seventies. Age does not even seem to mean anything to us.
Part of our energy comes from our nutritional habits so this message is about how to change our nutrition with the seasons.
"Three Season Diet" shows how to lose weight, increase health and vitality by eating different foods at different times of the year. There are three growing seasons: spring, summer and fall. We should have three diets we vary through the year, low calorie-low fat in spring, high carbohydrate in summer and high protein in winter. This creates a food supply that fits the body's requirements as it shifts to adapt to each of these seasons.
In the spring we want salads, berries, and leafy greens — a naturally low-fat diet.
And in the summer, when the days are long and hot, we require cooling and high-energy foods such as fruits and vegetables, which are a naturally available high carbohydrate diet.
In the winter, we naturally crave soups, nuts, warm grains, and other high fat and protein foods such as meat and fish.
This is just one of over 50 nutritional tips revealed in our Andean shamanic health report "Sunski, the Ancient Art of Healthy Eating."
#1: Eating a balance of fat, carbohydrates and protein.
Our diet keeps protein in balance without excessive amounts of meat. Instead we often use quinoa, eggs, goat and natural cheese and yoghurt. A great deal of poor health and stress is tied in to the underlying hormonal disturbance caused by the excess production of insulin. This imbalance normally comes from too much food and incorrect protein, carbohydrate, fat balances in the diet. Every time we eat, hormones in our body will change, either good or bad. Delicious food with a balance of 3 parts carbohydrates, two parts protein and one part fat has the power to orchestrate beneficial hormonal changes in our body.
#2: Eating the correct combinations of food at the correct time.
Andean nutritional ideals also focus on combining foods in a way that avoid fermentation in the stomach. Foods and spices are divided into three types neutral, savory and sweet. Neutral can be mixed with savory or sweet, but no savory and sweet foods are mixed. The main neutral foods are grains, cereals, nuts and seeds. Meat and most vegetables are savory. Fruits are sweet. Cereals are ground and soaked to improve their digestibility. Sweet spices include cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, ginger, mint. Savory spices include salt, pepper, chiles, oregano, coriander, bay leaf, cumin, saffron, fennel. No two fats are mixed nor are fruit types.
There are times of the day when each of these elements are most active. The digestive fires are highest at 12 noon, so a savory meal is normally eaten at this time.
A sweet breakfast accommodates a more sluggish digestive time and the evening is set aside for a purifying fruit meal so the body can use the midnight fire energy to cleanse rather than digest.
Three herbal teas are served. In the morning cinnamon tea is served. Before lunch, ginger tea lights the digestive fires and before sleep, chamomile tea enhances a good night's rest.
Part of good nutrition comes from eating, sleeping and exercising at the correct times.
The yatchaks also suggest we eat only when hungry and the stomach is empty so we recommend eating only every four hours. For cravings between herbal tea is best and juices can be added if it is uncomfortable to wait for the next meal.
#3: Chewing in the correct way.
Correct chewing releases nutrient molecules so energy from food is more quickly released and assimilated. This allows the brain to recognize flavors and release the correct digestive juices for that food. Proper chewing does even more because it stimulates the body's sphincter (or ring) muscles that surround the various orifices of the body.
Ring muscles include the muscles around the eyes, the nostrils, anus, urethra, genitals and the mouth. In a healthy body, all sphincters work together, contracting and relaxing simultaneously. They also activate the respiratory system, the gastrointestinal system, the circulatory system, the lymphatic system, the musculoskeletal system and the urogenital system. Ring muscles are ultimately responsible for putting all the other muscles and all the organs of the body to work.
Chewing correctly stimulates the ring muscles and consequently helps exercise all our muscles.
Welcome to the summer months, a time to alter your diet. Bring on the berries, melons and higher carb meals that will keep you cool when the weather is hot!
(1) Learn about the Three Season Diet at John Douillard's website www.lifespa.com
Secret of the Hogberry
Gain Amazing Health Benefits with the Hogberry
More than 100 studies have found that physical activity can lower cancer risk and even help cure cancer. Fortunately researchers asked why and one answer became clear. Body fat.
Studies showed that those who were most active have a 25% lower chance of developing cancer because reduced body fat is possible pathway to lowering cancer risk. Time Magazine has some good information on the relationship between exercise and reducing cancer. Have a look below if you want to research more deeply (1).
Graph showing benefits of intermittent fasting.
Fortunately there is a little known way to reduce body fat that does not even require exercise. I'll share more on this secret in a moment.
First, body fat and cancer? Let's ask why?
Part of the answer is toxicity.
Healthy bodies naturally and regularly remove water-soluble toxins from the body. Our blood and kidneys flush them away.
Fat-soluble toxins such as metals, pesticides, preservatives, other pollutants are harder to flush out of the system. Fat-soluble toxins must become water-soluble before the body can get rid of them. The liver can do this conversion (bile emulsifies fat-souble toxins into water-soluble). This process requires healthy digestive and detox pathways. When they become imbalanced, fat-soluble toxins are stored in fat cells and brain cells instead. These toxins can remain for decades and create health problems.
The fat stored toxins cause oxidation (free radical damage) and degeneration as well as mutation. Toxins in the fatty tissue of the brain become neurotoxins that can cause cognitive problems and a host of mental and brain imbalances.
The way to avoid this storage of deadly toxicity is to keep stress down, while digestion and detoxification pathways remain good.
Burn Fat to Burn Toxins
When you burn fat not primarily for weight loss, (though you will lose weight) but for purification, you can turn on the body's detox fuel. Fat metabolism is the body's natural form of energy. Fat metabolism provides a more steady energy than glucose metabolism and flushes fat cells free of toxins. As the toxicity drops, the nervous system has reduced stress and will naturally burn fat instead of sugar.
Intermittent fasting is one way to get the body to burn fat. There is a way of eating that helps reduce weight, improve energy and purify the body as it returns to a state of natural health.
This is a simple easy way to improve and restore feeling good, but works best when combined with better nutrition, moderate exercise and a purification program that helps make sure that the body is not overwhelmed with too much purification at once.
This is why I have written a short report entitled "The FAST Way to Better Health" that features one special tea so an intermittent fasting routine becomes doable and enjoyable.
The Key is in the Hogberry
Intermittent fasting is guaranteed to work, if you have even reasonable nutrition, moderate physical activity and stick with it. The problem is in the sticking. When the brain is hooked on metabolizing sugar it can be very demanding. When we try going an extended period without a sugar, the brain will have a hissy fit and demand that we eat or drink something sweet or starchy or alcoholic.
Sticking through a fast just does not work when the brain pulls out its bag of tricks, from sweet whispers (just one chocolate won't hurt- but it will!) all the way to chills sweats and dizziness. Intermittent fasting, without help, can require enormous discipline that most of us cannot maintain long enough.
I know, I tried intermittent fasting several times and failed. Then I accidentally stumbled across the secret of the Hogberry that not only stops hunger but more importantly speeds up the process of switching from sugar metabolism to fat metabolism AND assists in the purifying process. Once I tried using this support for the pancreas (among other things), intermittent fasting became satisfying and enjoyable. I am passing 45 days in this routine, and the steady energy just gets better and better. I am not minding the reduced weight and better fitting clothing either!
"The FAST Way to Better Health" explains how intermittent fasting is not real fasting. One does not stop eating with an intermittent fast, not even for a day. You learn why this is such a healthy way to lose weight and detoxify fat cells to reduce risks of cancer, heart disease diabetes and senility.
More important you learn how to feel better almost from the very first day. Reduce stress, gain smooth steady energy without 10:30am and 3:00pm droops. Find out how to avoid being hungry right after you eat and how to make the cravings for sweets and junk food all but disappear.
I will send you this report "The FAST Way to Better Health" that reveals the secret of the Hogberry, FREE when you order my Shamanic Natural Health reports described below.
This is the only way to attain this report. Intermittent fasting can make your life better. It works best when you use the nutritional, exercise and purification tips outlined in these three reports. As with all my reports and courses, satisfaction is guaranteed or your money back. I want to be sure that the information in "The FAST Way to Better Health" works for you. The valuable knowledge you'll gain in these reports works better when the nutrition, purification and exercise reports are combined so I have made a special offer.
I have created three shamanic health reports are about:
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#2: Purification
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In this special offer I want to send you a special report on how you can gain better natural health with the hogberry along with three other reports that reveal secrets of health and longevity.
The Secret Chargemaster Revealed
Few places can destroy health and ruin a lifetime of savings faster than a hospital. We are at risk from pocketbook surgery and the incredibly dangerous "Chargemaster". See below why chargemasters were normally kept secret, how a 2018 federal law requires their disclosure and how to gain protection from their abuse.
How can it be that medical costs are so high? Why is it so difficult to figure out the charge for a medical procedure?
The government in trying to help answer these questions began requiring hospitals from Jan. 1, 2019 to post their chargemaster lists.
These enormous lists of products and services ranging from a single aspirin up to a complicated surgery does little to answer these questions.
This very weak attempt to create transparency only provides data that is difficult to decipher and is mind-boggling for the consumer.
Chargemasters can include tens of thousands of items and procedures, with technical names and abbreviations that few can understand.
Plus when one goes into the hospital no one knows exactly what items and procedures will be necessary since treatment can vary widely based on the age and health and condition.
So listing the chargemaster isn't helpful or meaningful, but simply gives hospitals one more excuse for outrageous costs… "but we listed what these costs".
Modern American health care is under pressure. Despite horrendous costs, the system is faltering. At times the care is more dangerous than the illness. For example hospitals are the worst place to have a heart attack. The University of North Carolina, did a study and found that 40% of the patients who had hearts attacks in the hospital died before being discharged. (The study compared that with only a 4% death rate for those who had heart attacks outside the hospital.)
Plus it was recently revealed that medical endoscopy scopes in hospitals were infecting patients with deadly drug-resistant bacteria. The facts about this had not been previously disclosed. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimate that hospital-acquired infections alone kill 99,000 people each year. Here is an even worse hospital mortality fact.
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The image above shows a report from the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention. Hospital-acquired infections alone kill 57% more Americans every year than all car accidents and falls put together.
Often, what patients catch in the hospital is worse than what sent them there. Governments and health care agencies agree – antibiotic resistance is a "nightmare." An antibiotic-resistant bacteria may be spreading in more hospitals than patients know. About one in every 25 hospitalized patients gets an infection and a 2013 report from the Journal of Patient Safety showed that medical errors are the third-leading cause of death in the country.
Along with the risk of hospital acquired illness and medical errors, the second huge threat to our well being… is health care costs, especially at hospitals. This is because of the secrets in the chargemaster and the people who do not want us to know how much hospital costs have risen . Motivations beyond our good health, like corporate greed, want to keep us in the dark about health care cost.
The hospital bill above is part of a story about a $110,000 infection and why hospital "chargemasters" are often secret. This story tells how one person with resistant devastating infection ran up a $110,000 hospital bill only to find that Medicare would only pay $2,300 from treatment of infection.
Secret of the Chargemasters
Being in a hospital can kill as well as cure. There are odds on that. What is more certain is that hospitals can kill our finances.
The 'average' cost of hospital care is rising because the leading hospitals are front runners in figuring out how to amass market power so they can raise prices and decrease competition. A codeine pill that costs $20 at a hospital costs 50 cents at Rite-Aid or Walgreens. Hospitals have "chargemasters" a price list created by each hospital, that typically has more than ten thousand entries, so almost nothing — even an aspirin, a bag of IV fluid, or a visit from a physical therapist to help a patient get out of bed — is free. However, those lists are usually secret.
Hospital Failure
The Commonwealth Fund in its latest survey on overall health care ranked US healthcare dead last compared to 10 major countries. Despite being worst, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, New York Times have all warned about huge, increasingly costly, health care changes. There are enormous problems in hospitals and chances are they are going to get worse.
When it comes to health care, we may well be on our own. The very people, institutions and establishments that we should rely on may actually hurt rather than help our health. Shamanic Wisdom accumulated over the millennia can fill the gap.
The way to escape the dangers of the high cost deteriorating health care system, is to not need it. Declare health independence… and create natural good health. There are dozens of simple, really low costs steps that can improve health… eating, purification, exercise, even the way we think and don't think when we sleep.
Ancient shamanic wisdom from around the world can help us reduce our risks of poor health care and help us fight the ever rising costs.
For nearly 50 years my wife Merri and I have lived around the world and checked out just about every source on natural health care. We have spent years living with natural health care insiders, and trying what they offered.
We took thousands of readers to Ecuador. Many met the shamans there and we saw some health miracles take place (including a miracle with me!)
Since not everyone can go to Ecuador or travel the world, we have created three Shamanic Natural Health Care Reports that can help improve our natural health. They are concise and to the point. In 15 minutes the first report shows exactly how to start preparing for better health and more energy.
We do not have to depend on the health care and health insurance monopolies for better natural health… or cave into a healthcare system that can put us at risk and charge outrageous prices at the same time.
Our shamanic health reports provide information on how to use ancient health care systems to become more healthy – self sufficient – providing our own good health.
The first report is "Sunski", the Andean word for good eating, for maximum nutrition and purification.
We started the series with eating because so many of our readers have found the Andean shamanic nutrition helps them kick start their health with weight trimming. Here is what a few readers have written to us:
These are typical notes I have received from readers.
* "Hi Merri, things have worked out well. I am healthier than I have ever been, lost 32 pounds since arriving in Sept. Bought a house and have finished the first level. What an amazing place you have found". Thanks Phil – Ecuador
* "We've decided to change our eating patterns since we came home because we so enjoyed our meals at the farm and how we felt physically. Thanks so much. With love" JJ New – Chicago
* "After eating all that delicious food I gained 3 lbs but it must be in muscle weight as my pants fit loosely!" R Vickers – New Mexico
* "The food was so delicious and I thought I ate a lot, but during the week I lost six pounds!" WB Australia.
Good eating is the first step towards natural health. The first rule of good health is getting the correct nutrition. The second step is purification of toxins and eating to avoid getting impurities in our body in the first place!
Sunski is a way to eat that strengthens and purifies as it stops adding toxicity from eating. Yet Sunski is a delicious, healthy "self defined" cleansing process. One lesson in Sunski shows how to correct a simple mistake that most of the Western population makes which increases the chances of adding and retaining weight by 84%.
"Sunski" combines lessons about healthy eating that we learned from years of working with ayurvedic health masters and then living with an Ecuador Taita Yatchak and his apprentices.
We lived, worked, farmed, cooked and ate with this Taita Yatchak for years while learning "Sunski".
The "Sunski" report has been 50 years and millions of miles of travel in the making.
We've invested thousands of hours into learning the skills of health self-reliance and resilience, identifying the best foods and combinations and sifted through loads of seeming contradictions to get to the facts about "do it yourself" longevity and natural health.
But that wasn't enough – not when our good health is on the line. So we consulted dozens of top professions who know a lot about natural health. We spoke with holistic MDs chiropractors, Indian Vidyas, Andean Yatchaks, and other self-reliant natural health experts who live this way every day.
Don't let the simplicity fool you… years of research went into these reports.
And we only kept the best of the best: this system is complete – and FAST to learn – so you can get started immediately.
We all need to stay out of hospitals and reduce our exposure to modern medical risks and costs.
Why re-invent the wheel? Especially when time is NOT on our side. We've already done the hard work for you pulling together the information so you can create better natural, good health.
Imagine… never worrying about what we eat ever again and reducing the risks of hospitalization and health care's outrageous costs.
A few of the life balancing nutritional tips include how to:
#1: Eat a balance of fat, carbohydrates and protein.
#2: Eat combinations of food for ideal digestion.
#3: Eat clean organic food prepared and served by happy, joyful people.
#4: Eat in good spirits at the right times of day.
#5: Chew in the correct way.
#6: Eat purifying and satisfying meals.
#7: Adapt eating habits that are suited to individual specific makeup and lifestyle and why such individualized nutrition is better than any specific set plan.
This report includes a complete list of EZ to use recipes that will immediately improve your short term energy… and your long term natural health – so that you never have to guess what foods you need (or rely on the health care establishment to tell you the truth).
Here are a few facts and health tools you gain:
* The single biggest constraint you'll face in your eating habits – and how you can eliminate it by adding two simple recipes to your Sunski system.
* How to calculate exactly how much food you need so you don't over or under build your nutritional plan.
* A simple solution for making sure that your food delivers what your body needs when you need it.
* What components you can choose for yourself and how to avoid mass diets that seem to work for every one except… you.
* The best long term solution for avoiding sugar.
* Use sweet spices to compensate for stress.
* Specific types of unique spices that give you the biggest energy bang for your buck.
* Spices that cleanse and purify.
* Three changes in your fruit consumption that is a critical component for long term purificatioN.
* The best times to eat specific foods.
* How to direct different foods to different parts of the body.
* Three teas that add a resilience to your natural health system that are easy to make and enjoy at home at a low cost.
* Why it is good (in fact almost a requirement) to sometimes eat junk food.
This report on nutrition also includes 23 special recipes of quick and easy but perfectly balanced meals and snacks.
One of the recipes is for high protein Chocolate Quinoa Pancakes.
All of this information is in "Sunski" the first of the three shamanic health reports.
Special and delicious, but fast and healthy recipes.
Merri received this note from a reader: Merri, your wonderful cooking deserves very special thanks. Everything was delicious. I'm now using close to your ingredients but I miss a lot in the result and long for a recipe or two." Nancy H – Ireland
These recipes are easy to make, delicious to eat, inexpensive but balanced and healthy foods prepared in a shamanic way.
Recipes include:
- Carrot Cake Quinoa Brownie with Stevia
- Thermos Quinoa Kichiri
- High Protein Veggie Almond Savory Cottage Pie
- Mild Turmeric Curry
- Low Carb Quinoa Tapioca Crumble
- Merri's Blackberry Crumble with Quinoa and Stevia
- Merri's Quinoa Strawberry Shortcake
- Merri's Quinoa Corn Bread
- Merri's Quinoa Corn Bread Dressing
- Quinoa Risotto With Arugula and Parmesan
- Timbal of Quinoa topped with Ginger or Parmesan Cheese
- Quinoa Gazpacho With a Sherbert of Coriander
- Quinoa Taboleh
- Mango Quinoa Salad
- Quinoa Avocado Curry
All of these recipes are in "Sunski" just one of the three shamanic health reports.
Merri received this note from a reader: Merri, your wonderful cooking deserves very special thanks. Everything was delicious. I'm now using close to your ingredients but I miss a lot in the result and long for a recipe or two." Nancy H – Ireland
These recipes are easy to make, delicious to eat, inexpensive but balanced and healthy foods prepared in a shamanic way.
Learn how nutritional secrets can help keep you out of the hospital.
These reports focus on how to have good natural health so you can remain independent and avoid costly medical care. The second report looks at purification and detoxification.
The third report is about exercise… but not the type you would think.
Unlock the Mystery of Key Muscles
For example this third report unveils one exercise that is a nutritional trick that has nothing to do with what we eat. The trick is to energize and coordinate the digestive system by exercising a set of key muscles as we eat. The body has a number of key muscles that regulate breathing, digestion, circulation, elimination and muscular motion. The report reveals an exercise you can do at the dinner table to energize these muscles which in turn coordinate every other muscle and organ in the body. Eating in this way for example (most of the modern world does not) energizes just one key muscle that regulates part of our ability to burn sugars and fat.
Part of the report focuses on how to have financial balance in investing and business so you can remain independent.
The report looks at oxygenation, coordination, purification, energy boosting, education, occupation and relaxation.
Oxygenation-Coordination: Learn how to gain extra oxygen with the Llama Walk.
Purification: We look at Andean purification herbs and purifying teas.
Energy Boosting: Eating balanced, correctly prepared organic food and drinking herbal teas designed for body type and body imbalances.
Occupation: Physical labor, suited to your body type and condition range from gardening and animal care to path building and clearing the woods.
Relaxation: Learn how Meditation, L-Thianine and Baroque Music enhance thinking and relieve stress.
Body Types Made EZ: Learn how they cause and influence nine body types and their imbalances. Discover seven easy ways to determine your body type and how to keep it in balance.
Healthy Eating Made EZ: Gain delicious, power packed weight reducing recipes from easy to obtain products from super market foods. Coddle Yourself Egg-High Protein Country Cottage Pie-Low Carb-Veggie Chile & Spaghetti- Weightless Bread-High Mountain Pure Protein Quinoa-Better Oatmeal of Steel- Several Soups for Super Strength-Berry Good Crunch Treat and Waist Less Apple Crumble are just a few.
Exercise for Strength and Better Health Made EZ: Medicine is dose. Too much exercise is as bad or worse as not enough. Learn how to let comfort be your exercise guide. Move with momentum-some exercises activate all muscles and provide the benefit of leverage, momentum and convenience so 12 minutes of exercise a day is enough. Blend body and mind-Alpha exercises take you into the zone so you win from the inside out. Spin and bend-blend exercise secrets from India, the Andes and the East for easy and better health. The Gentle Touch-if you have to breathe through the mouth you have done too much.
Here is what others have said about this information:
"Though I ate more than ever, my weight dropped and I lost two inches off my waist." – S.H. Oregon
"The life path altering effects from the weekend with you and Merri continue. Thank you again. I have begun to change my diet. Bless you!" – D.B. Connecticut
"You are indeed a spiritual pioneer, blending disciplines to create tools and resources for success in this new land of opportunity. Anyone who thinks this is just all about money is missing the real message: This is about life in its most profound implications." – W.P. Australia
"I want to thank you for the wonderful time. I travailed from California to hear you convey your knowledge in the way you do so well, and I wasn't disappointed. The amount of information in the sessions was almost overwhelming, but it's exactly what I went to hear." – B.R. California
"The technical information I gathered was most not new to me, but I like to compliment you for putting it all in the right perspective and to make it very understandable to all. What was at our opinion one of the most important gaining of these 3 days is the opening of the new world, this new circle of what you call 'normal' people! (I call us 'not normal' as a matter of respect to the majority.) But as we know, all is relative and depends at the point of view of each, His spiritual mind and his opinion about the senses of our being." – E.V. Florida
"People who, among other things, are active and productive and creative and resourceful, whose word can be counted upon; People who realize that spirituality DOES NOT mean sitting in a cave contemplating your navel and weaving baskets, nor does it equate in the Western culture with living in abject poverty. People who realize that abundance is not a dirty word. People who understand that we are here to ENGAGE life, not to submit to circumstances out of fear and ignorance and apathy; People who don't just use the most current 'buzz words' so they can feel like they are part of the group, but who actually DO something… Builders. Thank you for showing up in my life." – E.W. Nevada
Good health is the most important asset in stressful times. Beyond the fact that modern health intervention (ie. hospital) can destroy one's finances, being in good health brings the energy and balance required to make sound investing and business decisions.
There are many ways to improve health naturally.
Watching the sun rise promotes good natural health for example. Our use of color and observing the correct colors (frequencies) at the correct time are important.
We have been incorporating the ideas of how natural health promotes everlasting wealth into our courses and seminars for decades and this report covers them all.
Here are 11 main points covered in the reports.
#1: Quantum mechanics, frequency, health & wealth. How they all connect.
#2: Three aspects of being – air – fire – water… how to balance and integrate them. How a moonlight stroll reduces the risks of excessive adrenaline.
#3: Three ways to integrate brain waves and be in the zone… 60 cycle sound… L- theanine and meditation.
#4: The Andean – Indian Connection. How Ayurved and Andean relate. Three fundamentals of longevity. Eat right, work well and sleep soundly.
#5: How dis-ease develops and is stopped with nutrition, exercise and purpose.
#6: How to use cleansings. Melon, pineapple, apples-grapes, vareshna, chelating, cinnamon-sweet pepper tea, steam and mists. Teas: How and when to use cedron, chamomile, lemon verbena, peppermint.
#7: Ways to relax. How to use chamomile, valerian, lettuce and milk, hot water, vata press. Ways to calm down. How to use peppermint tea, aloe, cream massage, frozen grapes. Ways to wake up. How to use cinnamon tea, paprika, cloves, ginger, ginger-black salt and lemon juice.
#8: How to use, colors and sound to stimulate organs and glands.
#9: EZ Shamanic exercises-yoga, llama walk, lizard, sun salute, crab and mouth release, ring chew, etc.
#10: How to use the senses, taste, six flavors.
#11: How to use essential oils to balance wellness.
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"If I were your appendages, I"d hold open your eyes — so you would see ? that all of us are heaven sent. There was never meant to be only one." — Incubus
When I get done being sick and tired of the hatred — the guns blazing, thieves thieving, families fighting, greed destroying, societies toppling, venom spewing, grief overtaking, malice practiced, vengeance waged, fear promoted, love diminishing, indifference growing, apathy destroying — All I want to do is hug my Rex, who will spend his 21st birthday mourning the one-year anniversary of his best friend"s fatal car crash and sitting in the house where cancer took his father just weeks ago.
He is the best son I never had. I"ve known him since he was 3, and he is my son for all practical purposes.
I have drained the marrow from the best times of yesteryear and nostalgia can no longer quench the thirst required to sustain residual happiness for any prolonged period of time without ugly interruptions. I carry the sadness of my full, still empty days. I don"t gaze with hope into the future. I don"t daydream of what might be. I plan, execute a schedule and wish for less tragedy and doom, but it comes anyway.
When I get done drowning, I will take a walk, read a book, toss a football, become fascinated with nature, shrug off cynicism and omit worries.
As I listened to the mean-spirited laughter of a news anchorwoman mocking a young actress who planned to return to college after finding fame, saying, "Geez she has all the money she could ever need and she"s beautiful. What more does she want? Why is she bothering to go to college?"
I could feel the corner of my lip curling in anger and disgust.
As I stood alone in the room probably looking a bit like a cross between Elvis and Billy Idol, I said, "this is the problem right here."
The enemy is here, not in some distant land.
My daughter was mid-sentence that weekend, telling me about the joys of her pregnancy, showing me her first image of her child from a sonogram, when I got word of a shooting where one, maybe two people were killed.
After strangers wished the family well and wrote about the alleged shooter and how "he was in a dark place" all over social media, the same people returned to insulting celebrities and armchair quarterbacking foreign policy.
Socio-economic status didn"t matter, nor did geographic location. Everyone was judging and insulting equally about matters that don"t matter.
"Did you see his hair?" and "look at her outfit!"
Why do we insist on digging, digging, digging our own shallow graves and covering them with crap.
We are better than this, at least we can be.
Dig deeper. Be better. Be kinder and less violent. Be more tolerant, respect that we are all different and there is not one right way to be, to look or to think — before this civil war knocks down your own back door.
The next time you walk into someone"s home and judge the decor, read this next piece by my friend M.E. Loudermilk (with her permission):
"A casual observer might walk into our dining area and wonder if I had a blind interior decorator. I"m sitting on a battered church pew that my parents bought at a garage sale for $10 sometime in the "80s, and my laptop is on their old kitchen table that was a wedding gift to them in 1956.
"The same Formica table that I sat at so many years ago in front of a plate of cold Lima beans that I finally gagged down and washed into my belly with lukewarm milk after an hour of ?you sit there until you eat your vegetables."
"But it"s also the same table where literally thousands of iterations of four generations of family and friends from Missouri to Maryland gathered to eat and drink and tell stories and bicker and laugh and even cry. Lots of card games were played on here with the Tripoley mat. I can hear the laughter and the sound of the chips hitting each other and the ice clinking in the glasses of the adults" ?highballs." Grandma Bernice drank beer here. She"d peel the labels from the brown bottles and roll them up into what she called peepoos and use them for bookmarks. I still have one in a box of mementos. Grandma Ethel took her pills here and put her eyedrops in — she always dabbed her eyes with a hankie afterward, then put on her glasses that made her eyes look huge behind them.
"My uncles who sometimes lived with us smoked here, and they along with many aunts and cousins sat here on occasion after occasion. I wonder — how many times was ?Happy Birthday" sung here? How many times was Grace said? We"d fold hands and bow our heads (we started holding hands during Grace in the "70s) while dad prayed: ?Bless us, O Lord and these Thy gifts, which we are about to receive, from Thy bounty through Christ our Lord. Amen." Mom would say Grace when dad was traveling.
"How many meals was this table set for? I remember mom trying a new recipe — a greenish chicken curry dish with raisins — and all we kids turned up our noses and made mom cry. We guiltily ate the accompanying rice. Eight family members fit around this 35-by-60 inch table until the ninth one outgrew her high chair, and dad made a round top from plywood. This table was the site of countless family meetings, including the one in late 1977 when our parents allowed us to participate in a vote to move to Portland (over San Francisco and Anchorage) when my dad was fired for not crossing a picket line.
"When we came to Oregon, the table went into the garage, and the folks got a little glass-topped dinette set for the tiny breakfast nook, and a real dining room set for the first time. Long after my parents divorced, I claimed it when mom moved from the big house on Hall, and it sat in my own garage for a bit, covered with the detritus of our lives.
"My friends and family painted Mexican sugar skulls here at my 50th birthday party, and it served well at a garage sale, but when I moved to a smaller place and got rid of my cumbersome dining table, it was pressed into kitchen table service again. The six chairs that we re-covered and had to be supplemented with folding chairs and scraped along the linoleum are long gone, but the church pew is perfect. If Eva wants them when she has her own place and I no longer need them, I will gladly pass them on. I love the old things in our new place."
So before you insult someone"s belongings and style, consider what it might mean to them.
In my humble opinion, maybe we need more old tables and church pews for chairs.
We all need to hold each other up, or sure as shooting, we will all fall down.
Mandy Feder is the Managing Editor of Lake County Publishing. She can be reached at 263-5636 ext. 32 or by email at firstname.lastname@example.com.