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Hidden Dangers of Undiagnosed Diabetes
Diabetes and cardiovascular disease must be good buddies because they like to hang out together...
- At least 68 percent of people age 65 or older with diabetes die from some form of heart disease; and 16 percent die of stroke.
- Adults with diabetes are two to four times more likely to die from heart disease than adults without diabetes.
- The American Heart Association considers diabetes to be one of the seven major controllable risk factors for cardiovascular disease.
The good news is that diabetes is easily diagnosed and can be controlled, and those consequences can be reduced. The bad news is there is a lot of undiagnosed diabetes: According to the AHA, there are 7.6 million adults with undiagnosed diabetes in the United States, and a further 81.6 million adults with prediabetes.
Endocrinologist, Dr. James Dudl
We asked endocrinologist James Dudl, diabetes lead at Kaiser Permanente's Care Management Institute, how it could be that a disease so common and potentially harmful could be so greatly undiagnosed. "Diabetes usually progresses over a seven- to 10-year period before the sugar is so high it can be felt by noticing its symptoms like weight loss, thirst, frequency of urination or blurred vision," Dudl said. "However, it can be detected by a blood test, and those consequences avoided."
Types of Diabetes
Diabetes is a condition that results in blood sugar rising to dangerous levels. Blood sugar, also called glucose, is regulated by insulin, a hormone produced in the pancreas. Glucose in our bodies is what provides energy to our cells. With the help of insulin, cells throughout the body absorb glucose and use it for energy.
Diabetes is designated as type 1 or type 2. In type 1, insulin production is destroyed, which means all people with type 1 need to take insulin to make up for what their body isn't making. Type 2 occurs when the body does not produce enough insulin or resists its own insulin, and pills or more insulin both can help.
"It is possible for sugar to build to very high levels in the blood — A1c of 8 for example — and stay elevated for two or more years, and it may not create symptoms," Dudl said. "Eventually the excess comes out in the urine, but by that time the damage is already done. This is called a legacy effect, bad sugar control early results in complications years later. In two landmark studies, it was shown there were significant increases in blindness, amputations and renal failure, what we call microvascular complications, and macrovascular problems like heart attack and stroke."
As an example, if blood sugar goes over 180 (A1c of 8) at age 40 then returns to normal, at 47 the person has an increased risk of eye, nerve and kidney damage. "If the A1c is over 8, the risk is even higher, and over 9 it's even more, even if it comes back to normal," Dudl said. "Of course, if the A1c is over 10 or 12, it's much faster and more severe."
So, if the damage is accumulating, does any amount of excess glucose harm the cells — for instance, if you eat a high-sugar dessert, does it impact you? Dudl explains it this way: "Elevated glucose damage is accumulated over time, often 10 years or more. It does have an effect each minute it's high, but it is very small, like 1/10,000 of the minutes it will take to go blind, for instance," he said. "So, there is no effect that causes big damage in a few minutes but accumulated over a year it does — there will be more drop in vision, or some nerve pain, or some loss of kidney function."
Risk Factors
Diabetes risk factors are not uncommon. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, you're at risk for developing type 2 diabetes if you:
- Have prediabetes
- Are overweight
- Are 45 years or older
- Have a parent, brother, or sister with type 2 diabetes
- Are physically active less than three times a week
- Have ever had gestational diabetes (diabetes during pregnancy) or given birth to a baby who weighed more than 9 pounds
- Are African-American, Hispanic/Latino American, American Indian, or Alaska Native (some Pacific Islanders and Asian-Americans are also at higher risk).
For adults without symptoms of diabetes or other risk factors, the American Diabetes Association advises testing the blood sugar or A1c at age 45 and, if results are normal, to be tested at least every three years after that. If you are overweight or obese and have any of the risk factors mentioned above, or have any of the following, you should be tested regardless of age:
- Immediate relative with diabetes
- History of cardiovascular disease
- High blood pressure
- HDL cholesterol level under 35 mg/dL and/or triglyceride level above 250 mg/dL
- Women with polycystic ovary syndrome
- Physical inactivity
- Other clinical conditions associated with insulin resistance (e.g., severe obesity, acanthosis, nigricans)
Women who've been diagnosed with gestational diabetes should be tested at least every three years and those with prediabetes should be tested yearly.
To better understand your risk, take the American Diabetes Association Type 2 Diabetes Risk Test.
The Consequences
"In general, high blood sugar can lead to blindness, amputations, and kidney disease," Dudl said. "Frequently associated high blood pressure, elevated cholesterol and some vessel damage can lead to heart attacks and strokes. Hypertension also may lead to kidney disease and many of these complications add even more risk on each other."
The kind of damage experienced somewhat depends on how old a person is when it starts. "In younger people, vision problems, foot insensitivity that leads to ulcers and kidney disease come first. In older people, heart attacks and strokes come more quickly, which may lead to diabetes first being discovered," Dudl said.
In addition to those complications, the American Diabetes Association lists:
Skin complications that include bacterial infections, fungal infections and itching. They get common skin conditions more easily.
HHNS (Hyperosmolar Hyperglycemic Nonketotic Syndrome) is a serious condition most frequently seen in older persons and is usually brought on by an illness or infection, sometimes uncontrolled blood sugar and can result in severe dehydration.
Gastroparesis is a disorder in which the stomach takes too long to empty its contents because of damage to the vagus nerve, which controls the movement of food through the digestive tract.
Diabetes affects men and women similarly: 11.4 million men and 12 million women have diagnosed diabetes; 4.5 million men and 3.1 million women have undiagnosed diabetes; 46.2 million men and 35.4 million women have prediabetes. Before menopause, women have lower rates of cardiovascular disease, but researchers have found that advantage disappears in premenopausal women with diabetes. Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death and hospitalization in people with type 2 diabetes.
Prediabetes means that your fasting blood sugar levels are higher than normal (between 100 mg/dl and 125 mg/dl), but not to the levels of diagnosed diabetes (126 mg/dl and above). People with prediabetes have a higher risk of developing type 2. People with prediabetes are more likely to develop diabetes, and they are more likely to have a heart attack or stroke.
Remember the millions of Americans with undiagnosed diabetes? This may be one of the reasons: Prediabetes has no distinct symptoms. None. So, it's necessary to be tested regularly if you have any of the risk factors listed above. Dudl says that prediabetes does not always lead to diabetes, "but progression over time is the rule."
Here's some good news — you can reduce your risk by changing your diet, losing weight and getting physically active. And if you smoke, quit. "Weight loss and exercise are always beneficial in type 2 diabetes and can delay the onset of diabetes, but they cannot reverse the underlying process, so if being overweight returns, the diabetes will too," Dudl said. "And diet and exercise can definitely limit the medications needed. Diet and exercise can be tried for six months, but if there is insufficient change, then the drug metformin has been proven beneficial to preventing problems for over 10 years."
Here's the take away, get yourself and those you love tested. Start with the ADA online test — it's just a few questions. If it shows you are at risk, ask your doctor to be tested, and then make that an annual event. "All the complications are preventable," Dudl said, "and the treatments are safe."
Learn how to make better eating choices for steady energy all day long.
This information is provided as a resource to our readers. The tips, products or resources listed or linked to have not been reviewed or endorsed by the American Stroke Association.


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Ultimatum Boxing AirPads MAROON
"...everyday use working pads that will protect my hands best and at the same time will be lightweight and compact for speed work..." - that's pretty much how Bupas Coach described what we were going to make. Comfortable fit and no-slip grip went without saying, of course. And what do you say about adding ventilation to the finger lid, replaceable padding and cool-looking design? Sure! And the new pads should not cost more than $200, or else what kind of 'everyday use working pads' were we talking about? We made the pads that you guys could enjoy daily, not just on media days.
The cushioning that will make you happy
The air-cushion padding is a combination of layered soft and hard foams with a catch-hole in the front area. This type of padding ensures a very soft connection and steady absorption of the impact force. By the time the padding fully compresses and absorbs the energy of the impact the residual power of the punch decreases 3-fold to stay within the safety range.
We equipped the AirPads with the newest generation of the air-cushion padding we have been improving for the past two years. It has become lighter and more durable.
Fingers are under protection
In its original design the AirPads come with a finger cover, which is essential in terms of safety. We will never charge you extra for anything that should be there in the first place.
And we placed two mesh covered air vents to the finger lid to add more comfort of use and ensure the AirPads dry as soon as possible.
We made it! Matched the industry lightest peer
We were determined to fit the weight of the AirPads within 10 Oz or 280 grams. You know, why ) The new air-cushion won us 30 grams. 30 more grams were still to be found while preserving all the crucial features and benefits.
The shell accounts for half of the weight in most focus mitts. We could use thinner leather, but it needed enforcement, which eventually brought us to the same weight issues. We were looking for a material with high physical strength, low stretch and light weight, which would go well without additional enforcement. And we found one.
High-Tech Material - not just being environment friendly. It really pays off
Top-tier advanced engineered materials are to a certain extent the present and 100% - the future of the industry. Durable, ecologically neutral, lightweight, nice looking they beat genuine leather in many fields. Like tear, stretch and moisture resistance, weight, processing, color retention etc. A few years will pass and genuine leather boxing gear will become a collector's choice rather than daily use items.
S-Class Comfort. BMW owners read as 7-Series Comfort
We fitted the inner surface of the glove with original Alcantara™. This is the best comfort finishing material invented by humankind. Soft, nice to touch, extremely durable, sweat resistant and highly cohesive. What else do you need for a comfortable fit? Oh, yes, a deep and anatomic construction of the glove. Of course, we did that too so that your AirPads sit tight and still on your hands.
Forever dry padding. Did you know it was important?
In order to ensure your AirPads serve your hands and elbows as long as possible we placed a water repellent barrier between the palm compartment and the padding to save the padding from the destructive influence of moisture penetrating the sponge-like foam. The padding will not absorb a drop of sweat and the time the AirPads will need to dry completely will be the time the comforting Alcantara™ dries out.
Okay, looks like you're full of surprises. What else you got?
Soft-padding focus pads have one common disappointing feature - the padding bottoms out over time and use. The more intensive the usage, the sooner the pads will lose their protective properties. So what do we do? Was it worth the effort to design the AirPads with a 3-fold strength margin if you had to put them away as soon as the padding bottomed out? Sure, it was! We made it easy to give your AirPads the second life. Simply order a replacement padding at our website for a quarter-price of the AirPads and keep on going.
The AirPads is an outstanding thing to happen not just to Ultimatum Boxing, but to the whole boxing community. Never before were you able to buy anything close to the benefits the AirPads deliver at this price. Today this is a simple fact. No overpaying, no long waits. You place an order today and enjoy the safety and all other cool features a few days on.
That's all we wanted to say about the new AirPads from the Ultimatum Bupas Collection. Thanks for reading it all! We truly mean it.

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Title: Alpine Lake
Alpine Lake Colorado Print
Regular price $49.95
Imagine being able to look at this breathtaking Colorado wall art print everyday and feel the calmness of its beauty.
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A blog providing information, links, commentary, and insight on security, terrorism, homeland defense, and the war in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
An Independent Kurdistan?
A huge change has taken place for Kurdistan as a result of the current conflict in Iraq. In 2014 the Kurds of Iraq have emerged as the force that will make the difference between the Islamic State being contained or becoming a true nation spanning the greater part of Iraq and Syria.
Up until mid-2014 the Obama administration was reluctant to provide arms, money, equipment, air support, and advisors to the Kurds. Its stance was that any aid to the Kurds should flow through the corrupt and inept central government run by the Shia regime.
During the height of the Iraq War (2006-2007) Vice President Biden was one of the few politicians who thought that Iraq would survive and thrive as a three-state entity - the Shia, Sunni, and Kurds each having an autonomous region. There was little support for that notion; especially from the political right. Some neo-cons have had a change of heart - see a piece entitled "Hello Kurdistan" by Daniel Pipes (September 10, 2014).
Then the rapid advance of the Islamic State and the embarrassing losses of the Iraqi Army turned the tables. The Obama administration was hit in the face with reality; coming to the realization that if the Islamic State was to be stopped it would be largely because the Peshmerga came to the rescue. Soon air support and aid flowed to the Kurds. This aid should continue and efforts should support the independence of an Iraq Kurdistan. This new entity should be welcomed into the world. The United States would finally have a "friend" in the Middle East that we could depend on. The question is - can the Kurds depend on the United States?
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How to Pay Rent with a Credit Card
In the past, some things were considered unchargeable: rent, medical bills, taxes. But these days it's getting easier and easier to use your credit card for just about anything.
So can you charge your rent bill to your card and get cashback, travel miles, and other bonuses? The answer is, in general, yes.
However, to do so, you need to take some indirect routes, some of which you may find more convenient than just handing over cash to your landlord. Here's are your options.
Option 1: Williampaid, PayDivvy, or Rentpayment.com
Sites like Williampaid, PayDivvy, and Rentpayment.com allow you to pay your rent with a credit card just by signing up. With these services, your landlord doesn't even have to register; the companies send your landlord a check every month on a date of your choosing.
Not only will you get benefits from your card issuer every time you pay your rent, you gain the convenience of setting up automatic payments for your rent. Beware of fees, though; Williampaid charges 2.95% and PayDivvy's services costs 3.5% per transaction.
Option 2: Paypal or Square
If your landlord is tech savvy, ask if he or she uses Paypal or Square. While these peer-to-peer services have taken off with many small retail businesses, many landlords are still stuck in the 20th century. Still, it doesn't hurt to ask!
Landlords with several units might find the automation of these services convenient, and worth the fees that they'll have to pay by accepting these transactions. The benefit for you, the renter, is that Paypal and Square don't charge you to send money. Because of the convenience factor, you may be able to use your ability to pay with one of these services as a negotiating tactic when you're about to sign a new lease.
Option 3: Convenience Checks
Finally, a third option that some credit card issuers will offer is convenience checks that you can use like personal checks to pay for things. While many card issuers offer a limited number of these checks to new cardholders, some are also happy to offer more checks to existing card members - all you have to do is ask. Since these checks are as good as personal checks from the landlord's perspective, they can easily be used to pay your rent bill.
Keep in mind, credit card issuers usually consider "convenience checks" as a cash advance. That means you'll incur the higher interest rate usually associated with cash advances, and interest starts accruing on the amount used immediately. Plus, they usually charge a fee, typically 3 to 5 percent of the amount. Occasionally credit card issuers might offer a promotional deal, but even then, study the fine-print carefully.
There are a number of ways to use credit cards to pay your rent, either with a third-party solution or some creative thinking. Before you go ahead with one of these options, ask yourself if it's worth the effort and possibly extra cost of paying with a card. And be sure you'll be able to pay off what you charge - you don't want to end up paying more in interest just for the sake of convenience or rewards.
Mike Foster is a contributing writer at CreditDonkey, a credit card comparison and reviews website. Write to Mike Foster at firstname.lastname@example.com
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US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel inspecting a guard of honour at South Block in New Delhi on Friday. A PTI Photo
NEW DELHI (PTI): Having decided to increase the FDI cap in defence sector to 49 per cent, India has said it wants to work closely with the US in developing its indigenous military hardware manufacturing industry and go for joint production of equipment.
At a delegation-level meeting between Defence Minister Arun Jaitley and his American counterpart Chuck Hagel on Friday, the two countries agreed to enhance their cooperation in joint production and development of defence equipment.
"The development of our own indigenous capabilities is a major objective that guides our present policies. In this direction, we have taken steps to raise the FDI cap in the defence sector. We look forward to work closely with the US in this regard," Jaitley told the US in the meeting.
India has raised the FDI cap in defence sector recently from 26 per cent to 49 per cent with an aim of boosting indigenous defence production. India imports almost 70 per cent of its defence needs from foreign sources.
The US has been pushing defence deals with India worth over Rs 20,000 crore, including the sale of Apache attack choppers, Chinook heavy-lift helicopters and the Javelin anti-tank guided missiles.
It has already sold equipment worth Rs 60,000 crore in the last ten years to India but none of these weapon sales programme is about joint production or co-development and does not include transfer of technology.
Jaitley accepted an invitation from Hagel to visit the Pentagon-- the headquarters of the United States Department of Defence, in October during his visit to Washington to attend the annual meetings of the IMF and the World Bank.
In the meeting, the two sides also decided to take steps for extension of the ten-year defence framework agreement with the United States before it expires in July 2015.
In the meeting, the two countries agreed to take forward the Defence Technology and Trade Initiative (DTTI) programme under which they will co-produce and co-develop military equipment and appointed nodal officers from both sides for the purpose.
"The contact person from the Indian side will be the Secretary, Department of Defence Production, and the US will be represented by Frank Kendall, the Under Secretary for Acquisition, Technology and Licensing at the Pentagon," a Defence Ministry release said.
India and the US also took note of the progress made by them in their defence ties and "both the sides reaffirmed their desire to further enhance bilateral defence cooperation, especially in technology and discussed ways for strengthening this partnership."
The two countries also discussed the regional security situation.
Hagel is on a three-day visit to India and apart from Jaitley, held a meeting with External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and also called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi.


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Subject Areas: Education, Philosophy
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Richard is a member of the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain, British Educational Research Association, Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia, Professional Association of Lecturers in Youth and Community Work.


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Low profilecentral bed
743 cm
230 cm
289 cm
|Height adjustable rear bed
|Bathroom with fully separate shower
|Large AES fridge (140 l) with separate compartment for 9 bottles (1.5l)
|Electric roofbed 2 Pl (230 kg max)
|Door separating bedroom/dinning room
|Large convertible garage with 2 doors & automotive style locks
|Island bed (150 cm width) with side multi-purpose spaces
|Living room with face to face sofas & folding table
|Folding dining seats with ISOFIX
|Increased rear axle width (1980 mm)
|16'' wheels
|Front bumper same colour as the cab
|Electric windows
|Cruise control
|Cab manual air conditioning
|Driver and passenger airbags
|Radio commands on the steering wheel
|Cab seats covered in same fabric as upholstery
|Electric and heated mirrors
|Central locking with remote control
|Daytime running lights
|Distance between axles (mm): 3954
|Front fog lights + LED headlights
|Halogen lights with fix corner lights
|Leather-wrapped steering wheel
|Retractable hand brake
|Leather-wrapped gearshift knob
|Driver and passenger seats with lumbar adjustment
|Compartment over the cab
|Compartments on the dashboard with 12 V socket
|Depth and height adjustable steering wheel
|Reclining swivel captain chairs with 2 armrests and height adjustment.
|FORD Euro 6d - 2.0 l - 130 HP and 6 speed gearbox
|Radio DAB USB + Bluetooth
|Bicycle rack fasteners
|Full polyester body
|Sidewalls and roof without wood ( impossible to rot )
|100% reinforced polyester profled overcab pot
|Skyview roofight with sunblind and mosquito net (71x105 cm)
|Dometic D-Lux double glazed windows
|Rear bumper with LED lights
|Entrance door with 2 locking points, mosquito net, window and bin
|Door locks (automotive style) in the garage doors
|Soft closing drawers
|Cushions with removable covers
|Door separating bedroom/dinning room
|Height adjustable rear bed
|TV support
|1 kitchen set
|Interior with LED lights
|Electric roofbed 2 Pl (230 kg max)
|Island bed (150 cm width) with side multi-purpose spaces
|3 lounge cushions and 2 bedroom pillows
|New flooring cover
|Folding dining seats with ISOFIX
|New MONTECARLO furniture with redesigned top-box
|Large AES fridge (140 l) with separate compartment for 9 bottles (1.5l)
|Quantity of gas bottles : 2
|Built-in sink and 3 burner hob with electric ignition
|Gas oven: O
|Fully separate shower with toiletries storage basket and towel rail
|Fresh water (l) : 1-120
|Waste water (l): 105
|Truma combi Diesel - 4000 W
|Height (cm): 289
|Maximum laden mass (kg): 3500
|Width (cm): 230
|Passenger seats / eating seats / berths (sleeping places): 4/5/4
|Length (cm) : 743
|Maximum towable mass (kg): 1400
|Mass in running order (+/- 5%) (kg) : 3161
|Lounge bed (cm):-
|Rear bed (cm): 150x195
|Roof bed (cm): 140/120x191
|Right locker door dimensions (cm): 84x104
|Left locker door dimensions (cm): 40x79
|Garage maximum height (cm): 74/114
|Motor FORD 170 CV
|FORD Automatic gearbox
|DELIVERY: Rear view camera + Solar panel 140 W + Folding blind REMIS+ LED external light
|WINTER: Insulated and heated waste water tank + Isolated entrance step + 2nd battery pre-installation + Increased heating system (Webasto 5500 W) + Digital heating control system + Reinforced insulation on external pipes + External thermal screen cover (windscreen & cabin windows)
|WINTER: Insulated and heated waste water tank + Isolated entrance step + 2nd battery pre-installation + Increased heating system (Webasto 5500 W + 220 V + InetBox) + Digital heating control system + Reinforced insulation on external pipes + External thermal screen cover (windscreen & cabin windows)
|NORTHAUTOKAPP: FORD Engine 170 HP + Automatic gearbox + DELIVERY Pack + WINTER Pack + Alloy wheels 16" + Metal grey cabin + Specific exterior decoration + "Northautokapp" stickers
|* Maximum sleeping places with optional comfort mattress.
|ATTENTION: the weight of some accessories will reduce the payload and, eventually, the number of passengers. It is imperative to ensure that the maximum permitted weight as well as the maximum allowed weight on the axles are not exceeded when the vehicle is fully loaded.
|The optional equipment like "Tow bar", "Motorbike carrier",... can modify, in some cases, the number of passenger seats in the vehicle registration certificate. Find out more information at your distributor.
|Some heavy accessories, such as large awnings or generators can be offered on the market. The mass of these accessories will be deducted from the payload and may, eventually, lead to reduce the actual number of passengers in the vehicle while driving. It must therefore be ensured that the maximum axle loads mass and the technically permissible load mass are not exceeded when the vehicle is fully loaded.
|All technical data included (text and photographs) are valid at the time of printing this catalogue (August 2019) but might be subject to change due to technical advances. BENIMAR reserves the right to modify at any time and without prior notice, any characteristics of the vehicles that appear in this catalogue. The motorhomes photographed may have optional equipment at extra cost. The decoration elements are not included by BENIMAR. Due to the motorhomes being marketed in different countries, their technical characteristics and equipment may differ from one country to another, some models may not be available in certain countries, so we invite you to consult your nearest dealer for more accurate information. Non-contractual document.


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April is National Grilled Cheese Month, so we're celebrating by posting a grilled cheese sandwich every day. This is No. 24. See all of our grilled cheese sandwiches >> here << .
We've always wondered if the four cheese in Quattro Formaggio were any four cheeses, or if there was a specific combination…
Apparently, there is an official set of four cheeses: ricotta, mozzarella, parmesan, and gorogonzola (in order left to right in the photo below). There are, naturally, variations though. Our research turned up permutations that included provolone, fontina, asiago, and even Cheddar cheese (that's one that even we didn't get).
The "official" is the combination we went with for our Quattro Formaggio Grilled Cheese.
There is no other interesting back story to this grilled cheese sandwich. We were just curious whether putting four cheeses together would actually make a difference since they all seem to run together anyway. In this case, the flavors and textures are different enough that four cheeses are distinct.
Gorgonzola is a blue cheese so naturally, it's pungent (though much less so than other blue cheeses). Mozzarella is the "melty" texture, parmesan contributes saltiness. Ricotta is the only one that we didn't quite understand because it it light and sweet, but perhaps that is the point. It added body and volume, kind of the way it does in a lasagna.
Quattro Formaggio Grilled Cheese Sandwich
makes 1 sandwich
1 tablespoons oil for cooking (I used grapeseed)
2 tablespoon butter, softened
2 slices Italian bread (though any kind will do, really, as long as it's sturdy)
2 tablespoon ricotta cheese
small handful shredded mozzarella cheese
2-3 tablespoons grated parmesan cheese
2 tablespoons crumbled gorgonzola cheese (blue cheese)
salt and pepper to taste
Heat olive oil in a frying pan over low heat.
Spread the outside of both slices of bread with softened butter. Spread the "inside" of each slice of bread with 1-2 tablespoons ricotta cheese, enough to cover the bread about ¼-inch thick. Place the bread buttered-side down in the oil in the pan. Top each slice of bread with shredded mozzarella cheese. Cook until bread is toasted and cheese has melted.
Remove the grilled bread with cheese to a plate or cutting board. On one slice, cover the melted mozzrella cheese with grated parmesan. Sprinkle crumbled gorgonzola cheese. Season with a little bit of salt and fresh cracked black pepper.
"Close" the sandwich with the other slice of grilled bread with cheese. Press together firmly. Allow the sandwich to sit to let the other cheeses to melt and meld. If they don't melt enough, return the sandwich to the pan over low heat.


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55mm wide Velcro for enhanced power and pressure transfer.
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Digital death, extended life
This week Alicia Keys launched an ingenuous campaign, conceived with TBWA/Chiat/Day New York, that leverages her celebrity to fund her charity, Keep A Child Alive. Like actor, Edward Norton, and his fund-raising platform Crowdrise, Alicia has enlisted the power of her celebrity to help improve the lives of children affected by AIDS in Africa and India. In her case, the campaign is especially daring in that each of the participating celebrities is dying digitally, meaning they will no longer post or tweet on Facebook or Twitter, until their fans raise $1 million to revive them and improve the lives of countless children.
This campaign is a powerful demonstration of social networking on three levels. First, Alicia has embraced her commodification as a celebrity and is leveraging her fan base to help her achieve social change. Second, the campaign is given breadth and power through her ability to reach out to her real life network of other celebrities including Kim Kadashian, Justin Timberlake, Serena Williams, Jennifer Hudson, Ryan Seacrest and Elijah Wood, who have also volunteered to "die" for the cause. Third, the campaign relies on the dynamics at play between celebrities and their fans, and between the fans themselves, in order to revive them.
The campaign demonstrates the transformative potential of social media on four levels:
1. We see brands (in this case celebrities) that benefit from social media using that exposure in meaningful ways.
2. We see fans coordinating their own actions in service of a cause based on shared values.
3. We see a powerful merger of pop culture and social transformation.
4. We see the power of social media technology at work to drive immediate change. (Take note, Malcolm Gladwell)
The campaign also demonstrates a powerful complicity by all players. The celebrities clearly recognize they have been taken to market as products (often for better or worse). The fans know they are being held to ransom (of sorts). All parties realize that the good fortune they enjoy comes with a responsibility to think of others. In short, media savvy celebrities and consumers alike are putting that media awareness to good use.
But Keep A Child Alive is far more than a smart social media campaign. It is literally a new lease on life for children affected by AIDS. It provides them with shelter, nutrition and education to make sure the anti-retroviral medication they receive is taken properly and effectively. So on Wednesday, World AIDS day, I encourage all of us to embrace our inner fan and donate to revive the digital lives of these celebrities and the real world lives of so many more.
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Six cygnets arrive at Burgh Mill
May 31, 2013
Six cygnets are being gently shepherded by their parents above the Mill Reach at Burgh. This may be a sign that the Otters are not in residence at the moment – it is possible that they have a liking for eggs, judging by last year's low cygnet success rate. This morning the Swan family formed an ungainly parade as the followed the Mermaid downstream to the relative sanctuary of the flight pond.
Bure Mute Swans in November
November 26, 2011
Mute Swans in late November are planning ahead. Walking along the Bure this morning, I noticed a lot of swan activity. Bow-waving Cobs chase one another to defend a stretch a river; with wings raised, neck arched in sprung strength and with the chest thrust forward the dominant male makes short work of his younger rival.
Above Burgh Mill, a younger pair seem totally engrossed as they face one other in mid-stream, their mirrored necks forming a perfect lyre shape. They pay little heed to our passing. The scene is repeated by another pair beside the little footbridge over the Mermaid.
With these scenes of ritual choreography it is so clear why they are the inspiration for human dance.
Elsewhere the dullness of the day is emphasised by the tap of falling leaves. The trees will be bare soon.
Broken silences
February 26, 2011
At a certain point the balance tips. Early this morning, in spite of the dark and the persistent drizzly rain, a Song Thrush was singing in full voice. It is as if the bird's determination to express itself would overcome any obstacle even the absence of light itself. To me this seems to show that that the territorial urge has become so strong that nothing will discourage it.
Last night, as I was deep in a book, the dark and silence was broken by the unmistakeable whistling hum which comes from the wings of a Mute Swan in flight. Presumably disorientated by the lack of visibility, I can only hope that it found its way back to the river. Wildfowl do fly by night but in my experience this usually occurs on moonlit nights and not on nights of poor visibility such as last night. Perhaps this one was disturbed from it's roost by a fox.


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Tanya Robinson was educated at Southampton University (LLB) and Rouen University. She obtained an LLB (European Legal Studies) Honours degree, having spent one year abroad studying French and European Law. She was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple in 1997 and was an Inner Temple Scholar in 1997.
Tanya Robinson specialises in criminal law, coroner's work and regulatory law. The frequent cross-over between these areas means that following a fatality, Tanya is able to act both at the inquest and in any connected criminal proceedings.
Tanya has specialised in the criminal law since she started in practice. She has an extensive criminal practice, defending and prosecuting those charged with serious violence (including murder), cruelty, drugs, serious sexual offences and fraud. Her particular area of expertise is the defence and prosecution of child cruelty, serious sexual violence and child abuse cases. Cases have involved baby shaking and fracture cases, historical sexual allegations, abuse by doctors, teachers on pupils, abuse in children's homes, as well as familial abuse. She has obtained stays in very old cases following successful abuse of process arguments. She has acted as leading and junior counsel in serious sexual cases concerning multiple complainants. She has considerable experience of the use of intermediaries for very young witnesses and witnesses or defendants with learning difficulties. She is a Grade 3 London Prosecutor and is on the specialist panel for Rape and Serious Sexual Offences work (RASSO).
Tanya has specialised in Coroner's work for over ten years. She has particular expertise in acting for the police in Article 2 inquests with a jury where there have been deaths in custody (including suicide in cell and excessive restraint cases), deaths following road traffic accidents involving the police (including multiple fatality cases when the police were in pursuit) and deaths following police shooting. She has also represented nursing and care homes following deaths in care.
Tanya advises and prosecutes on behalf of local authorities and other regulatory bodies such as Ofgem, DEFRA and BIS. She prosecutes and defends companies and other organisations for health & safety offences and has advised clients in relation to health & safety issues, corporate manslaughter and gross negligence manslaughter. Following her return from maternity leave in 2013, Tanya drafted Ofgem's new Enforcement Guidelines, published in September 2014, which set out the approach that Ofgem will take to enforcing relevant legislation when regulating the gas and electricity markets in Great Britain.
She is a member of the Criminal Bar Association, the Kent Bar Mess and the South Eastern Circuit. She is a past South Eastern Circuit junior and current Kent Bar Mess representative on the SEC Committee.
Cases of interest include:
Parle (2015) Representing England's largest not-for-profit housing association and registered charity, at the forthcoming inquest into the death of a care home resident with dementia, who died after she set fire to her clothing when smoking unsupervised in her room late at night. Her care plan required any smoking to be supervised.
R v MO (2015) Successfully defended a young man accused of raping and sexually assaulting a friend who claimed to have become pregnant as a result. The defendant admitted having consensual rough sexual play with the girl but denied having sex and said that the girl was into rough play and they had engaged in this previously. The defence won important arguments to be permitted to cross-examine on past sexual history and to call evidence of the girl's general reputation for untruthfulness. The jury were persuaded that any pregnancy that there had been (there was evidence of a termination but no DNA testing was done) was not caused by him.
R v JH (2015) Successfully defended a 21 year old lifeguard who was accused of sexually assaulting a younger colleague from work. The Defence case was that the complainant had made a pass at the defendant which had been rebuffed and she had concocted the allegation out of spite.
R v AS (2015) Successfully prosecuted a 73 year old man accused of sexually touching a 14 year old girl on a bus. Issues arose as to whether the (mostly) admitted touching was sexual and as to how the jury should be directed.
R v MC (2015) Defended a man from Sierra Leone with significant learning difficulties accused of sexually touching a 2 year old girl. The defendant needed the assistance of an intermediary and an interpreter throughout the trial to be able to follow the proceedings and give evidence.
Cranch (2015) Acted on behalf of a Stunt Company at an inquest into the death of a stunt performer who died whilst acting as a "human cannonball" stuntman at a Kent County Showground. He suffered a fatal accident when a safety net intended to break his fall, collapsed. The case resulted in an accidental death verdict.
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R v MC (2015) Successfully defended a stepfather accused of sexually assaulting his stepson 23 years ago.
R v OA (2014) Successfully defended a restaurant owner accused of sexually assaulting and harassing his staff. Resisted an application to adduce the evidence of a missing complainant by way of hearsay. Then persuaded the trial judge to stay the entire prosecution as an abuse of the process of the court, given the absence of the crucial witness who the defendant believed had orchestrated all of the allegations against him.
R v Cable (2014) Defending a Suffolk bandmaster and teacher charged with historical sexual abuse on a pupil 39 years before. The defendant's brass band had appeared on television, toured the world, and played for the Queen. The defendant had previous convictions for similar conduct.
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R v DY (2014) Successfully prosecuted a 17-year-old boy with learning difficulties and ADHD for sexual assault including digital penetration of a 4-year-old girl in the youth court. The defendant and child victim required intermediaries to give evidence. Issues included: competence of child witness, fitness to plead/stand trial because of learning difficulties and stay as an abuse of process, reliability of confession evidence, admissibility of hearsay accounts that the child did not repeat in her police interview, live-link evidence given from the home of a reluctant prosecution witness.
Elmbridge Borough Council v Anchor Trust (2014) Represented England's largest not-for-profit housing association and registered charity, who were prosecuted following the death of a care home resident on a soft diet who choked after she was left unattended with a plate of sausage. Also acted for the Trust at the inquest into the death which resulted in an accidental death verdict.
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Hedges (2012) Jury inquest into the death of a suicidal psychiatric patient who absconded from an acute admissions unit where he had been taken by police and then walked in front of a lorry on the approach to the Dartford Tunnel. Acted for the police.
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R v Mitchell (2012) Represented defendant charged with historical allegations of violent rape and sexual assault of 11 complainants spanning 40 years. Junior counsel.
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R v Horton (2012) Defended a father accused of causing grievous bodily harm with intent (section 18) by breaking his three-month-old baby daughter's arm baby and cruelty relating to other old injuries found. Acquitted of the section 18 offence and cruelty. Convicted of the lesser offence under section 20 (inflicting GBH) and received a suspended sentence. The case involved detailed cross-examination of expert medical witnesses called by the prosecution.
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R v Easton (2012) Successfully defended mother of two accused of glassing her ex-partner's new girlfriend (s18) in front of witnesses.
R v Richardson (2012) Defended a man accused of raping a young girl and forcing her to have sex with a young boy. The girl bore his child. The case involved the calling of expert sexsomnia evidence as the defendant denied that he had consciously had sex with the girl.
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R v Grassom (2012) Successfully defended a karate instructor and ex-police officer accused of raping and sexually assaulting a pupil.
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Jason Murray (2011) Jury inquest into the death of a man taken to hospital for psychiatric assessment who suffered asphyxiation after officers restrained him during a violent struggle. Acted for the police.
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R v Chatterjee (2011) Defended a doctor accused of sexually assaulting two receptionists at his surgery. Mixed verdicts. Acquitted of very serious allegations against the first receptionist (digital penetration and forced oral sex), but convicted of minor touching of the other complainant (hand on the top of her bottom and trying to kiss her). Sentenced to a community order. Successfully made representations to the Independent Safeguarding Authority to remove his name from the barred lists.
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R v Cox (2011) Successfully defended a man accused of historical sexual assaults on his children. Then obtained a stay of proceedings in a second trial on the basis of delay in a case relating to the daughter of a previous partner.
R v Snell (2010) Leading counsel defending a man accused of sexually assaulting six young complainants who were the friends of his son. Acquitted on over half of the counts.
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Sanderson (2010) Jury inquest into the death of a woman who was shot by a firearms officer following a standoff in a town centre. She was brandishing what turned out to be a pellet gun. Acted for the police. Issues as to the operation and command of the incident and use of firearms or less lethal options. Verdict of lawful killing returned by the jury.
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R v RL (2010) Successfully defended a man accused of repeatedly raping and assaulting his wife over many years after forcing her to become a prostitute. Junior counsel.
R v Hurley (2010) Defending a man who had multiple previous convictions for rape and sexual assault of women he had struck up friendships with, who was accused of serious sexual assault on a lesbian female friend.
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R v Barry Bethel (2010) Successfully prosecuted DJ and TV personality for sexual offences against children.
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R v NW (2010) Successfully defended a man accused of raping and sexually assaulting his daughters.
R v MC (2010) Successfully defended a firefighter accused of raping his ex-partner and the mother of his child. Case required detailed examination of telephone evidence of contact between the pair that the defence claimed was inconsistent with her allegations.
R v Fleming (2009) Successfully defended a man accused of murdering his friend by pouring petrol over him and setting fire to him. Defence case was that the deceased had set alight to himself in front of the defendant who had then run away in fear. Junior counsel.
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R v CC and 7 others (2009) 2 Cr App R (s) 22 Guideline case in respect of dangerousness sentencing provisions. Acted for second defendant convicted of oral rape of an 18 month old baby.
R v Currie (2007) 2 Cr App R 246 Guideline case in respect of requirements for notice of intended prosecution in certain driving cases.
January 2019
Court of Appeal reduces sentences in case where serious physical harm to a newborn was caused or allowed by parents
The Court of Appeal last week allowed the appeal of two defendants represented by Richard Barraclough QC and Tanya Robinson for the one and Danny Moore for the other, against a sentence of 8 years imprisonment following a conviction under the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004 Section 5. ...read more
October 2018
Six Pump Court wins Health & Safety Set of the Year at Chambers UK Bar Awards
Last night at the Chambers UK Bar Awards, Six Pump Court was delighted to be named as the Health & Safety Set of the Year. The Award recognises our continuing involvement in high profile and significant cases shaping the regulatory landscape in health and safety in England and Wales. ...read more
October 2017
Inquest concludes shopping centre roof contributed to fatality
The jury in the Tahnie Martin inquest concerning the 29 year old university worker who was killed by a large wooden panel that broke off the roof of a shopping centre in Wolverhampton during Storm Doris in February 2017, have just returned their conclusions. The jury found that the absence of ...read more
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Walker, Evers deliver sharp attacks in first debate
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican Gov. Scott Walker and Democratic challenger Tony Evers both delivered well-rehearsed, sharp attack lines on hot topics in the governor's race in their first debate Friday. Walker and Evers, the state superintendent, are locked in a tight battle for governor with the election just over two weeks away.
Takeaways from the debate hosted by the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association:
Both Walker and Evers addressed the issue of their credibility with some of the sharpest criticisms in the debate.
On Thursday, a fourth former Walker Cabinet secretary came forward to harshly criticize him and signed a letter with two other former secretaries calling for the election of Evers. And just hours before the debate, Evers admitted that four sections in the budget proposal he submitted for the state education department was taken from other sources without credit.
Walker discounted the criticism from his former top administration officials, saying he welcomed having people with diverse opinions.
Evers said the real issue was "about how you govern and how the people of Wisconsin trust you." He said their allegations that Walker put his political aspirations ahead of the people of Wisconsin "is something, frankly, that is very frightening to me."
Evers also shrugged off the charges of plagiarism.
"If this is the best Scott Walker has, he doesn't have very much," Evers said. "We dropped a few citations from the back pages of a budget. ... The last thing I need in my life is to have Scott Walker lecturing me about the issue of plagiarism, frankly."
He accused Walker of signing conservative national model legislation into law with few changes.
Walker said he didn't know of any student who could turn in a term paper with plagiarism like what was in the budget Evers submitted.
Walker repeated his argument that Evers will raise property and income taxes and the gas tax as much as $1 per gallon.
"You better hang on to your wallets and purses because he's going to raise your taxes," Walker said.
Evers has not proposed a dollar per gallon gas tax hike and said Friday he wouldn't do that and was hoping not to raise any taxes, but was open to it.
"Holy mackerel is what I say," Ever said. "Of course, the people of Wisconsin understand, except Scott Walker keeps repeating it, a dollar a gallon is ridiculous and isn't going to happen."
Evers said Walker's decisions to cut taxes at the state level forced local communities to raise taxes and fees, like wheel taxes on vehicles.
"That's a Scott Walker tax," Evers said.
Evers supports the Affordable Care Act, which has a pre-existing condition coverage guarantee, while Walker is a longtime opponent of the law. Walker this year authorized the state to join a federal lawsuit seeking repeal of the law. Walker has called for the Legislature to pass a bill providing state protections for people with pre-existing conditions, but it didn't pass in the Senate.
"We can protect people with pre-existing conditions without protecting the failure that is 'Obamacare,'" Walker said.
Evers called Walker's explanation of his position a "breathtaking soliloquy." Evers said Walker was "talking out of both sides of his mouth" when he calls for repealing the national health care law while claiming to support guarantees for pre-existing condition coverage.
Evers defended his proposed budget that includes a 10 percent funding increase for schools, with the state paying for two-thirds of costs. His proposal did not say how the $1.4 billion increase would be paid for.
Walker this week also said he is committed to two-thirds state funding for schools, something that hasn't happened in 15 years. Walker has similarly not said where the roughly $130 million a year to pay for it would come from.
But Walker said he proved that property taxes can be cut while education funding is increased, like it was in his last budget that Evers praised. Evers said he supported Walker's education budget last year because it was largely what Evers had proposed.
"My definition of plagiarism is when Scott Walker takes my budget and calls it his own," Evers said, a sly reference to the uncredited passages from his state budget.
Walker and Evers will debate for a second and final time on Oct. 26, just 11 days from the Nov. 6 election.
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While this site is primarily about Eating Out in Bohol and providing visitors to the province an independent assessment of the dining options around town, we realise that many of our readers are expatriates actually living in Bohol full time or visiting regularly for extended periods of time.When you live in another country as an expatriate you not only experience the exciting challenges of identifying local vegetables, fruits and meat products and the best places to buy them but also the challenges of finding items such as 'comfort foods' and 'snacks' that are uniquely connected to your place of origin.
If you are living in Bohol you are fortunate enough to live in a somewhat isolated paradise but a paradise that is very well serviced by modern malls (ICM and BQ) and an eclectic mix of smaller food shopping options. Many of these outlets have 'international' sections with a reasonable range of products but many other speciality items are sometimes hard to come by or suffer from the 'out of stock' syndrome.
This page is an attempt at collating a comprehensive list of places where you can find elusive food products in Bohol and how to identify and prepare local produce. If you know of any other source that our readers may be interested in please email us.
TIP: If you ever see a food product you like at any of the large malls, buy it! Inevitably it won't be there again when next you visit.
Locals refer to fresh food markets as 'Wet Markets' and you will find one in most towns all across the province of Bohol. The bigger the town the bigger the wet market and depending on what is grown in the area you can sometimes find a focus on one type of product. A good case in point is the wet market in Manga which is an outlet for fresh seafood. The major wet market in Tagbilaran is sited near ICM and boasts a wide range of produce from fresh meats and seafood to vegetables and fruits. You will also find a seafood market at the western causeway crossing to Panglao.INTERNATIONAL FOODS
There are a number of small retail operations that offer an eclectic range of processed and fresh produce ranging from pastas to smoked meats and baked goods. Most of these operations are linked to restaurants but you can often find that elusive ingredient.
Rene's Swiss
Address : 4th Floor. BQ Mall, C.P.G Avenue, Tagbilaran City, Bohol Philippines Landline number : +63 038 4114047 Email: email@example.com
CU Restaurant and Deli
Ester A. Lim Drive Tawala, Panglao Island, 6340 Bohol Tel/Fax: (038) 502 8308
Giuseppe Pizzeria
Tawala, Panglao Island, (975 meters away from Alona Beach), Panglao Island, Philippines
Ph: +63 38 502 4255
Wet markets offer a wide range of produce from fresh meats and vegetables to seafood and herbs. The guide below names a number of unfamiliar vegetables and how they are used locally. Just flick through the book below to see.
Sure you can buy coconut milk in cans at the supermarket but if you want the real taste of authentic coconut milk and cream in your favourite asian dish, just head over to the coconut stall. For only 20 pesos you get a large bag of coconut pulp that you can take home to make fresh milk/cream.
There are a number of ways to prepare the milk but one of the easiest ways is to pour warm water over the flesh and allow it to sit for five minutes. Once the time is up just squeeze the juice from the pulp into a container and then strain out any of the pulp. You add as much water as you like (usually equal quantities) but the more water you add the more milky it is. The less water the creamier it is.
TIP: The pulp can be frozen and used at a later date.
In the Philippines a variety of Kangkong is grown in canals dug by the Americans during the occupation after the Spanish American war. Another variety in the Philippines that grows on land is called "Chinese Kangkong" in the Philippines as opposed to the variety that is grown in water that is simply called Kangkong or "native" Kangkong. The vegetable is a common ingredient in Southeast Asian dishes. In Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia, the leaves are usually stir-fried with chili pepper, garlic, ginger, dried shrimp paste (belacan/terasi) and other spices. In Penang and Ipoh, it is cooked with cuttlefish and a sweet and spicy sauce.
Like many of the specialty vegetables listed this large leaf vegetable is used for soup and stir fried dishes.
You will often find stall holders making good use of their time cutting up a mix of vegetables for stirfrys and soups. Each stall seems to have a different mix, more often than not reflecting their produce. These mixes are a great 'quick fixes' and something to consider when you're are meandering around the wet market.
Young leaves and shoots (locally known as talbos ng kamote or camote tops) are eaten fresh in salads with shrimp paste (bagoong alamang) or fish sauce. They can be cooked in vinegar and soy sauce and served with fried fish (a dish known as adobong talbos ng kamote), or with recipes such as sinigang.The stew obtained from boiling camote tops is purple-colored, and is often mixed with lemon as juice.
Without fail you will always find a range of fresh squid and octopus within the seafood section of the wet market. Squid and octopus offerings range from huge cuttle fish to monster octopus and micro squid (pictured). There are no shortages of squid recipes ranging from Italian staples and Thai specialities . The list goes on and on. To choose fresh squid look at the eyes. They should be bright and clear with no clouding and don't forget to smell the squid, it should have a fresh ocean smell.
Said to have many medicinal purposes (stomach upsets and healing wounds) the small leafed plant is used in soups and as a flavouring for fish (stuffed in the cavity). The picture shows it being sold with lemon grass.


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What part/s of the Seventh-day Adventist historical past is/are best left unknown? When is it appropriateNOTtotell the whole story- or even hint that a story exists? Who is responsible for keeping the laity informed? Whose role is it to decide what should, what should not, be reported?
"During the final two decades of the second millennium,"notes the March SDAF presenter,"the institutional Seventh-day Adventist Church was rocked by many scandalous administrative and financial disasters - unnecessary losses that reached well into nine figures."
Seven of those stories have been elaborated by Doug Hackleman with copious documentation and strip-searched for causal clues in his recent book,Who Watches? Who Cares?- 379 pages and 1,184 endnotes of investigative journalism:
• The Pawtucket Nursing Villa, a 160-bed nursing home in Rhode Island, was funded in 1977 by Fuller Memorial Hospital in nearby Massachusetts, built through a limited partnership headed by the hospital's administrator, and then sold to the very hospital that underwrote its construction.
• During the 1960s and 1970s scores of Seventh-day Adventist union and local conference officers across North America loaned millions of dollars of church funds (primarily to construct post office buildings) to a 1940 graduate of the College of Medical Evangelists for very modest returns, while they simultaneously loaned him their own money for much higher - and sometimes exorbitant - returns. The millions of dollars lost, when the doctor's Ponzi-like business collapsed in 1981, were more than matched by the crisis of confidence generated among church members by such widespread (and widely publicized), self serving, clerical conflicts of interest.
• Harris Pine Mills was an integrated business that cured and milled lumber from its own Northwestern forests, and then cut the wood into pieces that were assembled mostly at Adventist academies into outdoor furniture that was then wholesaled to retail outlets. Donated by its founder to the Adventist Church in 1952, thirty-four years later it was driven into chapter 7 bankruptcy by its sole stockholder, the General Conference Corporation of Seventh-day Adventists.
• The demise of the North American SDA literature evangelist work was precipitated over a five year period (1991-1996) by enormous misjudgments, highly delusional thinking, and inexcusable naivete that concluded in a conspiracy among the highest officers of the Columbia Union Conference to circumvent church policy in order to give a Canadian entrepreneur more than $324,500 of union operating funds.
• While the Shady Grove Adventist Hospital story did not involve a loss of money or assets, it provided evidence that greed was a motivator in the exorbitant compensation of Adventist healthcare executives throughout North America that continues unabated.
• The General Conference presidency of Robert Folkenberg demonstrated the folly of choosing the church's chief executive officer through the casting of lots. Nevertheless, no change in the process of nominating a GC president has been made in the twenty years since Folkenberg was first elected to that office.
• In 1906 eight Seventh-day Adventists gave the Southern New England Conference a small sanitarium they had developed on the most idyllic location imaginable - 45 lakefront acres surrounded by thousands of acres of perpetual wooded preserve twenty miles north of Boston. Over time the sanitarium became a state-of-the-art, 300-bed hospital, and an academy and a church were built on its land. In 1999 the hospital, the church, the school and the property that Ellen White a century earlier said had been"reserved for us"was lost to bankruptcy.
Since the May 2008 publication ofWho Watches? Who Cares?the author has ruminated on the failures of policy, oversight, and transparency that permitted these misadventures, and has begun to identify deeper, more profound (but perhaps less obvious) causes for the sudden accumulation of so many heavy Adventist losses during the last twenty years of the twentieth century. His tentative conclusions may help to explain why the oversight of Church institutions is so reliably abysmal and why opacity rather than transparency remains the self-defeating rule.
Doug Hackleman earned his MA in psychology from Pepperdine University in 1973. After teaching for several years at La Sierra College and Loma Linda University, he founded and published Adventist Currents. From 1988 to 2009 he worked as a consultant to authors and publishers, did some contract teaching, and wrote articles on a variety of topics for both Adventist and secular journals. His most recent publication isWho Watches? Who Cares?Misadventures in Stewardship(MCA, 2008). He is married to Jan Ziebarth Hackleman, a registered nurse and practicing marriage and family therapist. They are parents of two adult daughters. As of January 2009 Hackleman has been employed by Loma Linda University School of Dentistry as its director of marketing and publications.
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- 11/82State of the Art: Ellen G. White
- 9/83Adventism in the 80's
- 4/93Perverting the Process
- 5/02The Absence of Free Will- Implications of
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Having done all the hard work of building some excellent world-class stadiums fit for international competitive matches, Polish football seems to find ever new ways of creating problems within them. Recently, the whole world witnessed the sheer incompetence of the Warsaw national stadium's administrators' failure to close the roof during torrential rain before and during the Poland v England 2014 World Cup qualifier.
This did little to improve the already strained relations with the PZPN (the Polish Football Association), which began soon after the stadium was completed. The owners, with many suspect the full backing of Warsaw's police, virtually stated they did not want Polish football clubs and their fans inside the nation's "showpiece". And so last February's scheduled stadium opening match, a 'Super-Cup' tie between the previous season's champions Wisla Krakow and cup-winners Legia Warsaw, was cancelled at a very late stage.
The England match fiasco just added fuel to the fire and thus the PZPN decided to play Poland's next match, a friendly against Uruguay, in Gdansk. In fact Polish football's governing body has now staged all but the most crucial Euro and World Cup qualifying matches away from the National Stadium.
Just a few kilometers away Legia Warsaw's brand new Pepsi Arena hosts matches involving the Ekstraklasa leaders, barely one-third full. It is not a lack of interest towards a team which has been playing some entertaining and winning football which keeps the fans away, but a dispute with the club and municipal authorities. Legia's notorious ultras who frequent the 'Zyleta' end of the stadium feel that the officials' response to their banners, obscene chanting and fireworks has been too heavy handed. Last weekend's brilliant 3-0 win over Ruch Chorzow was again boycotted as has been every home game since the Zyleta was closed for one match in October by the President of Mazovia Region.
Not to be outdone, some Wisla Krakow fans have decided to do the same over their club's comparable response to similar actions by the fans. Just over 7,000 turned up to see the White Star against Gornik Zabrze last weekend.
There are still a few big clubs playing in dilapidated stadiums and none face a bigger dilemma than Ekstraklasa champions Ruch Chorzow, a side with 14 domestic titles to their name. The former Silesian giants desperately need a new and bigger home, especially as they watch a brand new state-of-the-art stadium taking shape at neighbours and deadly rivals Gornik. Ruch thought they would trump that by moving into Poland's former national stadium the Slaski, situated on the city's border with Katowice. Once the scene of some historic international and club matches which drew 100,000 plus crowds, it is being modernised and when finished hold a still-sizeable half that number.
But that old Polish stadium curse seems to have struck here too because earlier this year a fault was discovered with the cantilever roof structure. Work has been halted while inspections and investigations continue. Meanwhile struggling Ruch have suddenly woken up to the fact that the way they are playing it will be difficult to justify playing in a 55,000 capacity ground. The club have decided they would like to rebuild their existing Stadion Miejski, but that other little problem which seems to blight Polish football stands in their way, money.
Some Ekstraklasa stadium-watchers are already casting nervous glances at the nation's second tier 1 Liga. Even though there is still half a season to go, the favourites to go up to the top flight also happen to play in two of the tiniest grounds, more suited to the fourth level where they normally operate. The runaway leaders Flota Swinoujscie have absolutely no footballing tradition and despite their fine form, rarely manage to draw even 2,000 spectators. The unknown side just behind them, Termalica Bruk-Bet Nieciecza, hail from a Malopolska village that most Poles would be hard-pressed to find on the map. On a good day a thousand might turn up to watch Nieciecza, if the visitors are fairly local and can bring along a few hundred fans.
With the dire economic situation the last thing the Ekstraklasa needs is more tiny, dilapidated stadiums and fans boycotting the brand new ones.


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A lot of tourists would always want to save money when they are in Europe. There are a lot of expensive places that may scare a tourist away especially in hotels and accommodations. We have highlighted places where you can spend less than £100 a night. What this means is that you are not expected to break a bank just to be in one of these boutique hotels.
Think of a hip hotel that is in the city of lovers, Paris that is cheap and still gives you that luxury and comfort that you need. Mama Shelter has become one place that a lot of people visit and it has a lot of beautiful rooms that have microwaves, iMacs and funfair lighting. The rooftop is funky and it comes with deckchairs and hammocks. There is an amusement place where you would find this swanky restaurant, pizzeria and a table football.
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Hotel Modigliani, ROME
Hotel Modigliani is beautiful placed down a street that is few minutes from the famous Spanish Steps. The entrance brings you in with its marble decoration that has fresh flowers and deep sofas that are very friendly to everyone coming. Marco and Giulia are the ones who are running this place and they are down to earth people who make sure that their guests are very comfortable.
HM Balanguera boutique hotel, PALMA
HM Balanguera boutique hotel is a very cute place to be if you love shopping, nightlife and want to have a taste of the magic of the Majorcan capital's historic centre. The bedrooms here are equipped with facilities including internet facility that would make your day. The lobby is bring and has a space where you can sit with friends and take a drink. There is a restaurant and café bar for you to explore different meals.
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Hotel Sax is a vintage hotel that has twenty two bedrooms with the 60s and 70s stylish furnishing with groovy lamps and great walls. The lobby of the hotel is great for those who want a cocktail. There are hot tub, sauna and spa for you. The location is ideally set and it is between Prague Castle and the Charles Bridge.
Imagine the beauty that comes from these cheap hotels that are amazing. You got the world at your feet when you are here because things are cheap here for a night and the services are so lovely. Even if you are coming with your spouse, you are still going to save a lot of money that would go into other tourists events
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FOX News has learned a suspected terrorist linked to the 2012 attack in Benghazi has been captured.
FOX News Radio's Jared Halpern reports from Washington:
A source tells FOX he didn't know what him... U.S. Special Forces and an FBI agent capturing Ahmed Abu Khattala.
Khattala is a senior leader of Ansar al-Sharia, the terror group U.S. officials have blamed for the 2012 attack at the U.S. Consulate that killed four Americans including Ambassador Chris Stevens. Khattala is the first suspect of that attack arrested by the U.S.
The Pentagon confirming the operation occurred Sunday near Benghazi. The suspect is en route to the U.S., sources say, where he will face trial.
In Washington, Jared Halpern, FOX News Radio.
While on a trip to Pittsburgh to make remarks about the economy, President Obama spoke Tuesday about the capture.
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"The United States has an unwavering commitment to bring to justice those responsible for harming Americans. Since the deadly attacks on our facilities in Benghazi, I have made it a priority to find and bring to justice those responsible for the deaths of four brave Americans. I recently authorized an operation in Libya to detain an individual charged for his role in these attacks, Ahmed Abu Khatallah. The fact that he is now in U.S. custody is a testament to the painstaking efforts of our military, law enforcement, and intelligence personnel. Because of their courage and professionalism, this individual will now face the full weight of the American justice system.
Even as we welcome the success of this operation, we also pause to remember the four Americans who gave their lives in Benghazi representing their country: Ambassador Chris Stevens, Sean Smith, Tyrone Woods, and Glen Doherty. As I said shortly after the attack, they exemplified the values that we stand for as a nation, including a commitment to freedom and justice. All Americans should be grateful for their service, just as we are grateful to all our personnel - civilian and military - who represent our country around the globe. We will continue to honor our fallen by carrying on their efforts in support of the Libyan people's aspirations to live in a peaceful, prosperous, and democratic society.
With this operation, the United States has once again demonstrated that we will do whatever it takes to see that justice is done when people harm Americans. We will continue our efforts to bring to justice those who were responsible for the Benghazi attacks. We will remain vigilant against all acts of terrorism, and we will continue to prioritize the protection of our service-members and civilians overseas. We will also sustain our support for the Libyan people, as they work to overcome years of tyranny and do the difficult work of building a democracy. "
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"Our nation's memory is long and our reach is far. The arrest of Ahmed Abu Khatallah represents a significant milestone in our efforts to ensure justice is served for the heinous and cowardly attack on our facilities in Benghazi. Since that attack - which caused the deaths of Ambassador Christopher Stevens, Sean Smith, Tyrone Woods, and Glen Doherty - we have conducted a thorough, unrelenting investigation, across continents, to find the perpetrators. The arrest of Khatallah proves that the U.S. government will expend any effort necessary to pursue terrorists who harm our citizens. Khatallah currently faces criminal charges on three counts, and we retain the option of adding additional charges in the coming days. Even as we begin the process of putting Khatallah on trial and seeking his conviction before a jury, our investigation will remain ongoing as we work to identify and arrest any co-conspirators. This is our pledge; we owe the victims of the Benghazi attack and their loved ones nothing less."
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This weekend, that work took a dramatic step forward. Ahmed Abu Khatallah, an alleged key leader of the attacks in Benghazi, is now in U.S. custody. He will face a court of law and be held accountable for his actions. This bold action by the superb United States military is a clear reminder to anyone who dares do us harm that they will not escape with impunity.
The United States stood by the Libyan people three years ago as they stood up to the brutality of the Qadhafi dictatorship. We continue to support them in their desire to build a democratic government that will provide them with security, protect their universal rights and help rebuild their economy. The Libyan people face great challenges, but the vision of a peaceful and productive new nation will guide Libya's future, and they will have a friend and partner in the United States.
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The Hampton Roads Chamber of Commerce hosted an energy briefing on November 10 with the Consumer Energy Alliance.
The first presentation was made by Mr. Gary Steffens, Senior Geological and Regional Manager for Upstream Exploration, Shell.
Mr. Steffens pointed out that both the federal government and the private sector believe there is great potential off the Atlantic Coast-an opportunity for jobs and revenue. The industry understands that this development needs to be done safely or not at all. He indicated that now is the time to focus on this long term proposition and that we are 10-15 years away at a minimum.
Energy demands are expected to rise by 40-80% in the years to come (9.3 billion barrels a year by 2050). The world currently uses 280 million barrels per day in 2015 and that will rise to 400 million per day by 2050.
The challenge is that most experts see that renewable energies long storage capacity is 30-40 years away.
Currently the Department of Interior regulates the nation's off-shore energy plan. 87% of federal waters are not accessible for offshore energy exploration. There is no exploration allowed within 50 miles of our shoreline. There are 8 to 9 billion barrels of oil estimated in the mid-Atlantic area based on 30 plus year old data. This amount of oil would generate between 100,000 to 200,000 jobs and $100 to $200 billion in government revenues. 2032-2035 is the projected date of first production.
Regarding safety it was noted that since 2010; 60 government regulatory and technical advancements have been put in place. A capping system can now be employed. The prevention side has been strengthened with 24-7 monitoring. All employees have "stop work" authority.
The next speaker was Bob Montgomery of the International Association of Geophysical Contractors.
Mr. Montgomery highlighted the process of seismic surveys and communicated the purpose as securing accurate images to reduce risk and ultimately require fewer wells.
Mr. Montgomery indicated that one well in deep water cost between 150 to 200 million dollars. The process of imaging utilized today involves sound waves. If marine mammals are within 1/3 of a mile of the testing, the process is shut down.
There is an upcoming public comment period beginning in March regarding the seismic surveys proposed on the east coast of the U.S.
A number of additional facts were offered regarding the development of offshore energy:
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