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Thousands Gather at Wisconsin Capitol in Protest
Protesters that included farmers on tractors came out by the thousands to Wisconsin's state Capitol on Saturday. While many want a recall of new legislation that limits collective bargaining rights of public workers, some are arguing for the ouster of Gov. Scott Walker and others. Mark Scheffler reports.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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When did you start running? I took up running seriously at university, although I'd always had a go whenever I had the chance. My first ever GB race was in 1998 at the World Championships in Birmingham. I won a gold medal and there were about five people watching – a stark contrast to the Paralympics in 2012.
How on earth do you fit 30 hours' training, a job and two children into one week? I always say: 'Give a job to a busy person if you want to get it done.' I never go to bed without making a list first. I am lucky that training is my hobby and my family loves coming training, so it's family time too. My local Virgin Active health club has a brilliant kids' club so everyone enjoys it when I'm training. I am lucky that my husband Haydn is always there in support. My coach, Steve King, is really flexible too. And working for British Athletics, I know that they understand my commitment to my running too. So it's teamwork all the way!
Where is your favourite place to run and why? Two favourite places. First, any athletics track. Second, the Brighton seafront – great for people watching.
I hear you are also into triathlons – any plans or ambitions there …? I did my first triathlon in 1998 and was the first disabled athlete over the line – I also did the running component of the Virgin Active London Triathlon last year, the day before an operation on my slipped disc – it was a chance to meet the Hoff! I would love to do it again it this year but it clashes with the Sainsbury's Anniversary Games at the Olympic stadium on 28 July and I'm due to run there.
What's your greatest running achievement? My 35.25sec PB in the T35 200m Paralympic final last year. I had ruptured a disc in my neck a few weeks before the race and there was not a single part of my body that wasn't strapped. It must have been the fear of being watched by 80,000 people!
When someone asks for a training tip, what do you tell them? Find something you enjoy doing so it doesn't feel like training.
Do you like a running gadget? If so, what's your favourite?
A resistance sledge – I tow it in training to develop more power for my starts. Haydn made it for me and it's a really cool piece of kit. Do you run to music? I love training to music whenever I'm down at my gym but not on the track. I actually have to think very hard to control my muscles when I'm sprinting so there's just too much to think about there to cope with music as well.
What's your favourite post-race indulgence? A Magnum Gold and a small glass of prosecco. Followed by bed.
What is the worst thing about running? I don't like being cold – my cerebral palsy (CP) is much more difficult to manage when I'm cold – so the British climate has its challenges sometimes. And my running does generate an enormous amount of washing.
And the best? Everything! It's such a good release for the mind and body. Everyone can do it with just a pair of trainers. All distances, all events. It truly is a sport for all.
What do you eat on the morning of a race? Same thing every day. Eggs – laid by my chickens – homegrown spinach and half a tin of sardines. And a Maximuscle protein shake. Diet is so important to anyone who wants to get the best out of their body.
What's the furthest distance you've ever run? 10k is the furthest; that's like a marathon for me. Anything over 45 minutes becomes neurologically challenging for me with my CP. My brain goes before my legs.
Have you ever run barefoot? I have done session this morning which included a barefoot lap. The muscles in your feet are as important as any other and they get overlooked if left in trainers all the time. I do barefoot drills as well – three times a week.
If you had to choose who to watch, would it be Mo Farah or Usain Bolt? Probably Mo as he's British and I enjoy watching tactical racing more than sprinting, despite the fact that I am a sprinter myself.
Who is the greatest runner ever? Jesse Owens, winner of four gold medals in the 1936 Berlin Olympics – what a fantastic example of how to overcome prejudice. While Hitler's propaganda promoted concepts of "racial superiority" and depicted ethnic Africans as inferior, Owens countered this by winning four gold medals. His running spoke for him.

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Blue Bottle just raised $70M.? That sounds crazy.? But if I could have invested alongside, I would have.
For the same reason that I invested in Chuys, and Shake Shak. Restaurants with a great following tend to turn into great investments.? Blue Bottle is doing something right when it comes to customer experience.? If they are half as good at running the business as they are at making great coffee, it will get interesting.? Will their model scale?
The high-end coffee shop has locations in San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles and recently expanded to Tokyo. In April, Blue Bottle acquired Tartine Bakery, which has its own cult following in the Bay Area, to help expand into other markets.
The merged companies first joint outpost will be in a Brooklyn warehouse, Eater reported today.
?I guess the question is whether the processes that make a single store work, can be replicated across a great number of stores. And can the processes that produce great coffee inputs into those stores be replicated at scale?? Or will scale render Blue Bottle to be just a smaller version of Starbucks?? Only time will tell!


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U.S. keen to support Ethiopia's role in stabilizing South Sudan (Feb 27, 2015)
Linda Thomas Greenfield, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, said on Thursday (February 26) that the U.S. was committed to continue to support Ethiopia's role in stabilizing South Sudan. Speaking to African journalists via a video conference, Ms. Thomas Greenfield said the U.S. Government was also extending support to the AU Peacekeeping Mission in Somalia. The US Assistant Secretary of State, who noted that as 15 African countries, including Ethiopia, were making preparations to hold elections this year, the US government would be cooperating with them all to help ensure the elections were free, fair and democratic.


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I'm surprised that the domain setzen-sechs.de isn't registered; it seemed like an obvious place for something related to schools (perhaps for rating teachers or criticising the educational system, or merely a humorous blog of some kind).
("Setzen, sechs!" means roughly, "That answer rates an F [literally: a 6]! You may sit down again now.")


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What We Believe
The Community Church of Waterford exists to reach people for Jesus Christ and to help them reach their God-given potential.
The Community Church of Waterford is committed to pursue full devotion to God in a Christ-centered community. It is in our heart to welcome and invite others who are investigating God and challenge believers toward following Christ fully: to grow intentionally, to connect and relate with others who are on the same spiritual journey and to bring help and hope to those in need.
At Community Church of Waterford, in the following essential beliefs we have unity:
"There is one body and one Spirit – just as you were called to one hope when you were called—one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all." Ephesians 4:4-6 NIV
We believe there is one true, holy God, eternally existing in three equal persons – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. In the beginning, God demonstrated His power, wisdom, and goodness by creating the world and everything in it. Through His divine power and providence, God continues to sustain His creation, operating within history to fulfill His redemptive purposes.
- Genesis 1:1, 26-27, 2:3
- Psalm 90:2
- Matthew 28:19
- 2 Corinthians 13:14
- 1 Peter 1:2
- 1 John 4:7-8
Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ, the eternal second person of the Trinity, was fully united with a human nature by a miraculous conception and virgin birth. He lived in perfect obedience to the Father, voluntarily paid the price for the sins of all people by dying on the cross as their substitute, and satisfied divine justice, bringing salvation to all who trust in Him alone. After His physical death, Jesus Christ rose from the dead and ascended into heaven to sit at the right hand of the Father as the only intercessor between God and humans. He promises to return to earth, personally and visibly, to fulfill history and the eternal plan of God.
- Isaiah 9:6
- Matthew 1:22-23
- John 1:1-5, 14:10-30
- Acts 1:9-11
- Romans 1:3-4
- I Corinthians 15:3-4
- I Timothy 6:14-15
- Hebrews 4:14-15
- Titus 2:13
The Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit, the third person of the Trinity, was sent to earth by the Father and the Son. The Holy Spirit applies Christ's saving work by enlightening the minds of sinners to their need to be saved. He renews and indwells each believer upon salvation, becoming their source of assurance, strength, wisdom, and gifting for building up the church. The Holy Spirit guides believers in understanding and applying the Bible and empowers them to lead a life of Christ-like character.
- John 14:16-17, 16:7-13
- Acts 1:8
- 1 Corinthians 2:12
- 2 Corinthians 3:16-17
- Galatians 5:25
- Ephesians 1:13, 5:18
The Bible
The sole basis of our belief is the Bible – the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments. We believe Scripture in its entirety originated with God and He revealed it to chosen authors. Scripture speaks with the authority of God while simultaneously reflecting the backgrounds, styles, and vocabularies of these human authors. We hold that the Scriptures, in their original manuscripts, are infallible and inerrant; they are the unique, full, and final authority on all matters of faith and practice. There are no other writings similarly inspired by God.
- Psalm 12:6, 119:105, 160
- Proverbs 30:5
- 2 Timothy 1:13, 3:16
- Hebrews 4:12
- 2 Peter 1:20-21
The Church
All who acknowledge Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord are united with Him as members of His body, the one true church. Scripture commands believers to gather for worship, prayer, fellowship, and the teaching of the Word; to observe baptism and communion as established by Jesus Christ; to offer service to the body through development and use of talents and gifts; and to reach out to the world. The local expression of the church is wherever God's people meet regularly in obedience to this command. Cared for and guided by the church's leadership, church members are to work together in love and unity for the ultimate purpose of glorifying Christ.
- Acts 2:42-47
- Romans 12:9-13
- 1 Corinthians 12:12-31
- Ephesians 4:11-13
- Hebrews 10:23-25
The central purpose of God's revelation in Scripture is to call people into fellowship with Him. Originally created to be in relationship with God, humans defied Him by going their own independent way, resulting in alienation from Him and the innate inability to please God. This fall took place at the beginning of human history; since then all people have suffered these consequences and are in need of the saving grace of God.
The salvation of humanity is completely a work of God's free grace; it is not in any way the result of human works or goodness. Each person can receive salvation by repentance and faith. God's Word assures individuals that He will continue His saving work in them forever.
- John 1:12, 14:6
- Romans 5:1, 10:9-10
- Romans 6:23
- Galatians 3:26
- Ephesians 2:8-9
- Titus 3:5
Baptism is an outward expression of an inward commitment to a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Community Church of Waterford believes the decision to be baptized is up to the individual and that he or she must fully understand what it means to be a Christ follower.
- Matthew 3:16-17, 28:18-20
- Acts 2:41, 8:12
Communion is a time we set aside for intentionally remembering the price Jesus paid for our sins, and to restore our relationship to God. The elements of communion, the bread and the cup, are reminders of the broken body and the shed blood of Jesus.
Communion shall be celebrated as scheduled by the Senior Pastor or Elder Team. At Community Church of Waterford, communion is open to everyone whose heart is right and who longs to experience God afresh and new.
- 1 Corinthians 10:16
- 1 Corinthians 11:23-26
People were created to exist forever. We will either exist eternally separated from God by sin or eternally with God through forgiveness and salvation. To be eternally separated from God is hell. To be eternally in union with Him is eternal life in Heaven. Heaven and hell are real places of eternal existence.
- John 3:16
- Romans 6:23, 8:17-18
- 1 Corinthians 2:7-9
- Revelation 20:15
In non-essential beliefs, we have liberty.
"Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgment on disputable matters. Who are you to judge someone else's servant? To his own master he stands or falls. And he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand. So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God. So whatever you believe about these things keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the man who does not condemn himself by what he approves." Romans 14: 1, 4, 12, 22 NIV
In all our beliefs, we show love.
"If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing."
I Corinthians 13:2 NIV


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The 15 most puro San Antonio dishes in San Antonio
HemisFair '68 left an indelible mark on San Antonio — one far deeper than the Tower of the Americas' unmistakable presence in our skyline. It let the rest of the planet know what locals have never questioned: San Antonio is a world class city.
And as one might expect, it has plenty of world class eats, too.
With the ¡Viva Hemisfair! celebration marking the event's 50th anniversary right around the corner, we decided to round up 15 of the area's most puro San Antonio dishes. Whether your family's S.A. roots go back generations or your tour bus just rolled into town, there's no better moment than right now to start checking these off your must-try list. Click through the slideshow above to see them all.
We know there are other favorites that readers would have liked to see. Let us know what you think we missed at firstname.lastname@example.com and we'll give it a shout out in our TasteCast podcast Wednesday.
Recipe: Close-to Shrimp Paesano
Recipe: A Night in Old San Antonio Anticuchos
Recipe: Bean Burger
Paul Stephen is a San Antonio Express-News staff writer. Read more of his stories here. | firstname.lastname@example.com | Twitter: @pjbites | Instagram: @pjstephen


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Pomegranate-Pineapple Granita
This easy treat is a light and refreshing way to satisfy your sweet tooth. The frozen cubes blended to create the granita can be made ahead and stored in the freezer for 1 week.
- 8Servings
- 2 cups fresh or canned pineapple chunks
- 2 2/3 cups unsweetened pomegranate juice
- 1/4 cup pure maple syrup
- 3/4 tsp. ground cinnamon
1. Purée all ingredients in blender until smooth. Pour into 2 or 3 plastic ice cube trays. Freeze at least 4 hours or overnight, until firmly frozen.
2. Twist cubes out of trays and into bowl of food processor. Blend 30 seconds, or until smooth, evenly colored, and snowy. Scoop into individual bowls, and serve immediately.
Nutrition Information
- Calories: 94
- Carbohydrate Content: 24 g
- Fat Content: 0.5 g
- Fiber Content: 1 g
- Protein Content: 1 g
- Sodium Content: 11 mg
- Sugar Content: 21 g


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Student poetry slams the issues
Dallas Otigba wasn't daunted by the boisterous, standing-room-only audience that packed Kelly Miller School auditorium Thursday night for the 13th annual D.C. Scores Poetry Slam! Like many of the students in the two-night citywide spoken word competition, the maroon-and-khaki-clad fifth grader from Arts and Technology Public Charter School conveyed a message of hope, despair and perseverence:
I have the potential to be the BEST
But all you see are results on a test
The DC-CAS doesn't assess my true abilities
Provide me with a quality education and I'll achieve proficiency
I'm tired of teachers teaching to a test
Then we leave school and still don't measure up against the rest!
Twenty-five public and public charter schools (18 elementary and seven middle)competed in the event organized by DC Scores, the non-profit that parlays soccer and poetry into an afterschool program for about 800 students The competition,divided into eastside and westside schools, included both individual and group entries. Arts and Technology took first place in the east side elementary contest. Cesar Chavez Parkside Campus took the top middle school honors.
The words lose something when they're disembodied from the performance, but they remain vivid windows into hearts and minds of D.C. school kids. Here is Lanayia Stubbs of C.W. Harris Elementary in Ward 7:
I am a free woman! As you can see!
No other woman is as free as me!
People say that I'm sour as a pickle, but I think I'm sweet as ice cream
I'm bursting with flavor.
Some people believe I'm as mean as the green Grinch on Christmas Day
But honey!
You don't know me yet, because I'm actually meaner than a bull!
But I say, no need to hate, because we're all beautiful!
& really, I'm a cheetah --fast talking, fast walking & a fast writing girl.
I am free.
Beers Elementary in Ward 7 tied for third place with a series of pieces that included "I'm Tired:"
I'm tired
I'm tired of Reading
I'm tired of substitutes
I'm tired of lying parents, teachers, preachers and friends
I'm tired of following directions again and again
I'm tired of others cheating off my papers
I'm tired of picking up trash
I'm tired of people yelling at me
I'm tired of my teacher putting my mistakes on full blast
I'm tired of the noise so I can't think
I'm tired to dirty bathrooms, they stink
I'm tired of hate and people being mean
I'm tired of hearing "wash up you're not clean"
Well I'm not tired of love, peace and happiness
Can I get more of that?
I'm not tired of fun,laughter and good times
Can I trade you what I'm tired of to get a little bit of that?
For a complete list of the winners and other details, go to the DC Scores blog.
Follow D.C. Schools Insider every day at washingtonpost.com/dc- schools. And for admissions advice, college news and links to campus papers, please check out our new Higher Education page at washingtonpost.com/higher-ed. Bookmark it!
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Dallas Otigba better watch his back. Arne Duncan and the other friends of test scores may stick a knife in his back, even though he is only 13 years old.
Thank heavens Michelle Rhee wasn't present.
Posted by: jlp19 | December 5, 2010 3:13 PM | Report abuse
I attended both nights of the DC SCORES Poetry Slam! I was amazed by the level of participation of the greater community. At Kelly Miller, a standing room only crowd of supporters, parents, and family members responded with the kind of overwhelming positivity and enthusiasm I've seen reserved only for sporting events. To see this kind of support & cheer for literacy and poetry brought tears to my eyes. It was an amazing example of what hardworking, creative, teachers and students, and supportive families in DC can do together.
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Peanut Butter-Banana Icebox Pie is the dessert equivalent of a swimming hole—so refreshing you can't help but dive in.
How to Make It
Preheat oven to 350°. Stir together first 3 ingredients; firmly press on bottom, up sides, and onto lip of a lightly greased 9-inch pie plate. Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until lightly browned. Remove from oven to a wire rack, and cool completely (about 30 minutes).
Microwave chocolate and 1/2 cup whipping cream in a small microwave-safe bowl at MEDIUM (50% power) 1 1/2 minutes or until chocolate is almost melted, stirring at 30-second intervals. Whisk until chocolate melts and mixture is smooth. (Do not overheat.) Spoon chocolate mixture into prepared crust.
Beat cream cheese, next 2 ingredients, and 1/4 cup whipping cream at medium speed with an electric mixer until mixture is light and fluffy.
Beat vanilla and remaining 1 1/4 cups whipping cream at high speed until stiff peaks form. Fold one-third whipped cream mixture into peanut butter mixture to loosen; fold in remaining whipped cream mixture.
Arrange banana slices over chocolate mixture in crust. Spread peanut butter mixture over bananas. Cover and chill 8 hours. Serve pie with desired toppings.


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I know what books are.
I know what books are.
Edit: FUCKING books
Did you ever read Crime and Punishment by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky?!
It's actually on my reading list.
Good suggestion.
Well, both of these threads have changed topics.
The ironic part is that I planned he would do come into these threads following ego attack, and I stirred the pot encouraging it, because of my last messages to him, I didn't reply when he wrote a lovey message to me. And, I believe this to be the cause of the Subject's current disposition.
Subject, kneel.
Get in this thread, that was created so I could piss on your face.
Cum here, little guy.
It was an attack? Okay. Well, again, as I've said. And I'll say it again. It's just/only the Internet. "Fights" on message boards are stupid and *Sigh
I knew you would take the bait.
A retort? From you?
You are the most intelligent person in the world, as well as a certified bad ass.
I would NOT want to fuck with the great Shangri-Lie.


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Harry Rigby Lecture Series: Russia and the crisis in Western policy-making
Dr Bobo Lo is an independent analyst. He was previously Director of the China and Russia Programmes at the Centre for European Reform, Head of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House, and Deputy Head of Mission at the Australian Embassy in Moscow. He is an Associate Research Fellow with the Russia/NIS Center at the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI).
Dr Lo writes extensively on Russian foreign policy, including A Wary Embrace: What the China-Russia Relationship Means for the World (Penguin Random House for the Lowy Institute, 2017). Dr Lo's Russia and the New World Disorder (Brookings and Chatham House, 2015) was short-listed for the 2016 Pushkin House prize, and described by The Economist as 'the best attempt yet to explain Russia's unhappy relationship with the rest of the world.' Other major books include Axis of Convenience: Moscow, Beijing and the New Geopolitics (Brookings and Chatham House, 2008), Vladimir Putin and the Evolution of Russian Foreign Policy (Blackwell and Chatham House, 2003), and Russian Foreign Policy in the Post-Soviet Era: Reality, Illusion and Mythmaking (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002). Recent shorter writings include New Order for Old Triangles? The Russia-China-India Matrix (Russie.NEI.Visions, April 2017), Russia and the New World Disorder – One Year Later (Asia Policy, July 2016), and The Illusion of Convergence: Russia, China, and the BRICS (Russie.NEI.Visions, March 2016).
This lecture will be co-hosted by the ANU Centre for European Studies and the ANU College of Asia & the Pacific.


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Alex Cuba "No Esperes Más" (video)
Published Oct 15, 2015Cuban-Canadian jazz musician Alex Cuba returned with his latest LP Healer earlier this year, and now Exclaim! is giving you the first look at his new video for "No Esperes Más."
The track is a collaboration between Cuba and Anya Marina, while the video is an artsy animated visual interpretation of the music. Intricately designed images of an underwater scene float across the screen, moving in time with the rhythms of the song. Two lovers meet and swirl about on the seafloor, as Cuba and Marina wax soulful and romantic in Spanish and English, respectively.
It was created using green screen technology and food colouring, brought to life by artist Facundo Gastiazoro and producer Taylor Fox. Dreamy and fluid, the video makes the perfect pairing for the smooth groove of the song.
Watch the colourful, entrancing video for "No Esperes Más" in the player below.


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Anapol Schwartz partner James Ronca has been named Lawyer of the Year in the 2015 edition of Philadelphia's Best Lawyers for the category of Plaintiff's Personal Injury Litigation.
Ronca has been recognized for his dedication to defending the rights of the innocent and injured victims since he began practicing law more than 30 years ago. In 1984, he received the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association's annual award to its outstanding member, and in 1998 he was awarded the Musmanno Award by the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association for his achievements as an outstanding personal injury lawyer. In 2012, Jim received a distinguished service award from the Pennsylvania Association for Justice.
Jim has held numerous leadership positions throughout his career as a Philadelphia personal injury attorney including former President of the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association and former Chair of the Pennsylvania Bar Association's Civil Litigation Section.
Mr. Ronca has taught more than 350 individual seminars on topics ranging from truck accident lawsuits to pharmaceutical litigation.
Also included in the 2015 Philadelphia edition of Best Lawyers are Sol Weiss and Lawrence Cohan in the category of Mass Tort Litigation and Class Actions. In addition, Weiss was named 2014 Lawyer of the Year in that category and Cohan received that recognition in 2013.
Philadelphia's Best Lawyers is part of The Best Lawyers in America®, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession. For more than three decades Best Lawyers has served as a reference guide for linking clients with the top 128 attorneys across the United States. It's truly an honor to be recognized by an organization with this level of standing in the legal community.


text: Email, Messaging, & Video Calls Email How to Set up an Out-of-Office Vacation Auto Response in iCloud Mail by Heinz Tschabitscher Writer A former freelance contributor who has reviewed hundreds of email programs and services since 1997. our editorial process Heinz Tschabitscher Updated on March 11, 2019 Stuart Ashley / Getty Images Email Yahoo! Mail Gmail Tweet Share Email If you want to let people who email you know when you won't be able to respond because you are going to be unavailable, an out-of-office auto-responder is very helpful. It's also good office and email etiquette. In iCloud Mail, vacation auto-response is easy to set up. Setting iCloud Mail Vacation Automatic Reply To make iCloud Mail reply to incoming emails with an out-of-office message automatically and on your behalf: Click the Show Actions menu icon — it looks like a cog — in iCloud Mail's lower-left corner.If your mailboxes are not showing, that panel is just hidden. Locate the Show Mailboxes button, which is a > button in the upper left (it should be right below the words "iCloud Mail"), and click it. A panel will slide out from the left, revealing your iCloud mailboxes. Click Preferences in the menu.Click the Vacation tab.Check the box next to Automatically reply to messages when they are received to turn on the auto-responder.Set the start and end dates for the time you will be unavailable, on vacation, or out of your office. Clicking in the fields next to Start date and End date will open a small calendar in which you can click the appropriate dates.Note that you can leave the start and end date fields empty. Doing so will activate the auto-reply immediately after you click Done, and it will remain active until you manually turn it off again (see Disabling Vacation Automatic Reply below).Enter your vacation response message in the Add vacation message content box. Some tips for writing your message:Be purposefully vague; revealing too much information in an auto-reply — including whether you will be out of town, or revealing phone numbers of people to contact in your absence — can pose a security risk; for example, letting anyone who emails you know that you'll be out of town can reveal to people who should not know this information that your home will be unoccupied and for how long.It is good etiquette to include when a sender might expect a response, or when they should resend their message (if it is still relevant) after you will have returned.Note that the original message will not be quoted in the automatic reply.Click Done in the lower right of the window when you are satisfied with your message and your dates have been set. Disabling Vacation Automatic Reply Your vacation auto-reply will turn off automatically on the day you set it to end; however, if you left the date range fields blank when you set up the vacation responder, you will want to turn off your iCloud Mail vacation auto-responder manually when you get back from your time away. To disable the vacation automatic reply, follow the same steps above to open the Vacation tab in the iCloud Mail preferences window. Then, uncheck the box next to Automatically reply to messages when they are received. There's no need to clear your message from the box — as a matter of fact, you may want to keep it to reuse the next time you're on vacation, so all you'd need to do is change the relevant start and end dates.


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The last seven days have been horrible to me. Or perhaps I've been horrible to them. Sadly, after 2 successful weeks (and 6 lbs of weight loss) on the Slow-Carb Diet, I rebounded after last week's cheat day and have been journeying this slippery slope ever since.
It's not that I completely lost my bearings, it's that I completely lose my bearings at least once a day. Small cheats here and there have put me in a really tough spot, and forced me to look further into what it's going to take to make me commit to this 100% until I'm at least my ideal weight and fitness.
It's sort of come to my attention that the fundamentals of the Slow-Carb Diet are just the tip of the iceberg. Especially for women. It's really important to remember that Timothy Ferriss, though very well-educated and well-informed, uses himself as his primary test subject; and as such, not all his data can cater directly to the female physique. It's with this in mind that I spent some time over the past week (this miserable CHEAT of a WEEK in which I've gained back 1.5 of the lost pounds) trying to figure out what might work best for me as a young woman with a far-from-morbid amount of fat to lose. After scouring the internet, I think I found my answer.
So here is a modification of the Golden Rules of the Slow-Carb Diet (as applicable to my demographic):
Rule #1: Avoid "white" carbohydrates. Don't eat bread, pasta, rice (brown or white), grains, potatoes, breaded fried food or dairy on your slow-carb days.
IN ADDITION: You can't just stay away from these carbohydrates, you have to count the carbohydrates you DO have. Mark Sisson of the Primal Blueprint makes a very strong argument for this with this simple diagram:
if your intention truly is to drop some pounds, and shed some fat, it seems carb count does make a difference. I know that Timothy Ferriss doesn't advocate any kind of "COUNTING" restrictions on the diet, but…I think in many cases sacrifices must be made. I'm not a huge person, and so I don't actually have too much to lose on my body, so if I want to see quicker, more immediate results, I understand now that I can't just keep having a ridiculous amount of beans with my meals. Now I've got to stay within this 50g – 100g sweet spot for the next two months at least to see what sort of changes that makes to my body.
I know it's not that easy to count carbohydrates, but that's what labels are for: read them meticulously, and keep a record. I use the Livestrong Calorie Counter to keep track. I don't actually care about the CALORIE intake, but I use the counter on my phone to track the grams of Fat, Protein, and Carbs I consume, as well as their ratio for the day. In the Nutrition Tab it tells me what percentage of my consumption is made up of what.
Rule #2: Eat the same few meals over and over again. Meals should include protein, legumes, and non-starchy vegetables; eat as much as you like, 3-4x/day.
IN ADDITION: The trick is to make the bulk of your meals beforehand (like on a Sunday) and just pre-package them so that you can pull them out of the fridge or freezer, and bring them along with you from day to day. For this week I made one tuna stew, and one beef stew and will be bringing a serving of each with either lentils or spinach and cabbage to work on the daily.
Back in the day, when I was at my slimmest though not necessarily my fittest, I had a very strict eating schedule – I didn't eat carbohydrates (NONE AT ALL) after 3pm (no matter what sports or gym activities I engaged in in the afternoon) and I didn't eat after 6pm (no matter what time I went to bed – water at night was my friend). AND I ALWAYS AT THE SAME THING FOR DINNER – either tuna and scrambled egg, or grilled chicken breast and scrambled egg. It was that simple. I think I need to mirror some of those habits again: eating the same thing, not eating late, and only having veggies and legumes with my first 3 meals of the day.
It's interesting because a friend of mine was telling me about how he has begun fasting at night – having very light, early dinners; despite his work out schedule, and it has made him significantly more cut even just in the last week. I know that doesn't really apply to me, and perhaps he has more naturally-occurring "Fat-Burning Fat" than I do to begin with so it's easier. Still, there's something to be said about how it works for him. Similar behavior may work for me as well.
Rule #3: Don't drink calories. Avoid milk (including soy), sweetened soda (no more than 16oz of diet), and fruit juice. One or two glasses of red wine are permitted.
Rule #4: Don't eat fruit. Tomatoes and avocados are okay (the latter in moderation).
Rule #5: Take one day off per week. Go nuts and eat lots of calories to keep your metabolic rate (thyroid function, conversion of T4 to T3, leptin) up. Do at least five days of rules 1-4 before following rule 5.
IN ADDITION: I didn't think it was TOO important to start the day off with a slow-carb meal EVEN on Cheat Day, but after the horror that was last Cheat Day, I see why it makes a different now. Having a healthy high-protein meal will really help you to ring in the day right, jumpstart your metabolism, and provide you with a secret clause: a special unspoken boundary that reminds you: today is only an exception, not the rule.
I'm hoping that, armed with these additional rules, I'll really be able to make the most of this diet, and do it right for longer than just 2 weeks at a time. Over those two weeks, I am always incredibly disciplined, so I know I can do it. There is no good reason not to keep going.


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So I decided to create my own. This site has done all the hard work for you in collecting together the very best books into one place. One easy place for you to buy them. Sure you could spend your life surfing through Amazon and listening to the (many) angry and ill-informed opinions of the average Amazon reader, but that sounds like not much fun to me! Or you can come here and I will edit the selection down for you, and tell you why – or why not – you should buy this book. Edited search results! It's the future! Here you will also meet many like-minded people all interested in the same subject. Got something to say about a book you have read? Post it up as comment and let the discussion commence!
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Lexus GS 300/GS 430
ipsadoodle Posts: 35you dont know the truth when you hear it...my experience was exactly what I stated..why did I not buy there...because when I called my dealer in Md....he matched the deal to save my business..plus he is selling my son in law a 430 for $2500 over cost which is about $4500 under list.I am 80..a former dealer and know more than you..I spent my life in negotiations.it just takes patience and shopping...0
Just about any car wash solution available in stores that is specifically designed for cars is good. But I do prefer a liquid, I try to stay away from the powder car wash detergent variety.
to wash the car, I would recommend a wash mitt.0
Once again thanks much for all your help. Are Zaino products ordered strictly on-line?0
sapparo Posts: 68Zaino Schmaino. Overrated but good. FinishFirst cheaper and better (more durable, less steps, best kept secret). I e-mailed Zaino to say this product was better and they never replied back. They're afraid to comment on a superior competitor. Both are true synthetics.0
Price is less of a concern than waiting for stuff to be shipped. Can you find FinishFirst in the store? Looked around earlier today; don't recall seeing that particular brand. My brother swears by Zaino (and many more on this sight), but he did mention its a three step process - a little more work than I bargained for.0
statman Posts: 12Silver is very easy to maintain. I plan on bringing mine to a car wash most of the time. I would hand wash a black car. I like the black interior but it does show lots of dust, shoe marks on the sides of the doors (when you get in an out) and dirt on the mats. Even the wood trim seems to get dusty. I keep a micro fiber cloth in the car and use a california duster (small one) on the dash. I have not used any chemicals on the interior yet so I can't give you any recommendations. I have used Armor All leather care before with good results on other cars. The leather seats seem easy to care for.0
My 2006 GS430 Black/Chasmere will be arriving tomorrow May 19th. I have already found a mess grill for the front top and bottom, looks good. I plan on using the Lexus care kit with soap and wax recommended and tested by Lexus. I have also got a contact from my dealer for a detailer that uses recommended products. Cannot wait to drive it around. Does the 2006 430 require 91 Octane? link title0
Congrats! -tell me, what's a mess grill?0
Follow the link embedded in my message. There is a picture of the mess grill. It basically looks like the "V" sports model grills on the Cadilac line0
kmg68 Posts: 108"you dont know the truth when you hear it...my experience was exactly what I stated..why did I not buy there...because when I called my dealer in Md....he matched the deal to save my business..plus he is selling my son in law a 430 for $2500 over cost which is about $4500 under list.I am 80..a former dealer and know more than you..I spent my life in negotiations.it just takes patience and shopping..."
I, for one, appreciate your response and the information that you have shared. I believe that there are better deals to be had, and that it is all about how willing you are to be patient and negotiate.0
"Congrats! -tell me, what's a mess grill? "
He/she means a wire *MESH* grille.0
hydroman1 Posts: 7I don't know much about washing Porches, BMWs, MBs, and the like. But, in my 35 years of car ownership, I have not found a better protective finish that Johnson Paste Wax. That's correct, the inexpensive stuff your grandmother used on her wooden floors. It's easy to apply, but nearly impossible to buff. In fact, I dont invest much time or elbow grease in the car's shine until after a couple of washings. Once it's done, water will bead up and roll off the car for more than a year - just like a duck's back.0
ipsadoodle: I took delivery of my Matador Red AWD two weeks ago, perhaps not as sweet as $5K off but close to $4K off. Probably have one of the first AWDs in the streets of sunny South Florida.0
I went for my second test drive today of the GS430 and was quite impressed with the gorgeous layout of the cabin. The driver's seat was extremely comfortable, the ac made my BMW's feel like a heater and the ride was so quiet and refined with pretty decent handling.
Has anybody out there leased this vehicle? If so, would you please share how much you got off MSRP and the residual and money factor? Monthly payment?
On the Lexus website, they indicate a monthly payment in the high $700's pre-tax for 36,000 miles, 36 months.0
brukal1985 Posts: 1well in michigan that car is in the low 900's for a lease like that. I put a deposit down to order the car, but i ordered a 300 awd w/ navigation and everything, and with a 20000 mile lease they are give me a high 700 a month quote
I think its ridiculous, lexus did this purposefully, they dont make the car right away so they can build up the waiting list so they can sell it at msrp, and even more. I love the car but man for that much i can get the new cls 500 from benz and have a better ride. oh well lexus got me hooked on this car.0
What do you mean? guys here say they can get 3-5000 off msrp! lexus calls them back wanting their business after they walk!
think its ridiculous, lexus did this purposefully, they dont make the car right away so they can build up the waiting list so they can sell it at msrp, and even more.0
Thanks brukal1985 for the information. I mentioned to the dealer that I like the GS430 and would consider leasing one were it not for the low residual value and high capitalized cost(MSRP) creating a very high monthly payment compared to BMW for example. The dealer told me Lexus is coming out with their new lease program at the beginning of June and I should check back with him then.
I hear that the other side of Florida is more competitive and if I can't get this dealer to negotiate, maybe I can strike a deal with one of them.
One thing I have to say-having test driven vehicles at 3 different Lexus dealers, what a pleasure! The salespeople are knowledgeable and low-key and put absolutely no pressure on me.
All those auto rags that are putting this car down as "plain vanilla" and such, are really way off in my opinion. The only thing I can find wrong is the narrow trunk opening.
I hope you are enjoying your new car!
Well I hope it happens to me! In June I will give them plenty of chances to call me back.
Luckily in Florida there are plenty of Lexus dealerships.0
Lexus has a "sales event" every December, with reduced prices and lower lease rates. Does anyone recall a similar program in June, aside from what's been mentioned a couple of messages above?0
The Lexus "December To Remember" program offers good deals but I can't wait that long. My lease is up August 2nd. The way the Lexus salesman talked to me yesterday, it's like he had a twinkle in his eye and voice when he said that Lexus would be coming out with its new lease program in June which he said hasn't been changed for several months. This was after I complained about Lexus' discouraging lease program. I am inferring from all this that June may begin a more favorable leasing period with Lexus. But, of course, I could be wrong.
If when I contact the salesman in June, he offers me a favorable deal, I will report it back here. I have to say, the salesman was fantastic. Low key, extremely knowledgeable, no pressure.
The GS430 made a very favorable impression on me also but I won't pay $900 per month.
I have pretty much made up my mind on this car having tried the 545, M45 and 330i.
I will go anywhere it takes to get a good deal on this car even if it means leasing it in California and driving it back to Florida.0
Regarding the rearview mirrors:
For them to tilt down in reverse, you have to have the adjustment selector on either the left or right one (green light on). In the "neither selected position", the mirrors don't tilt.0
Good to know thanks, I really dont need them tilting for me each time- maybe when someone else is in the car, to show them the toys but otherwise its unnecessary.0
jhk_db Posts: 25Just wondering if anyone on this forum could recommend a Lexus dealer in Northern NJ. I am looking at the 2006 GS300 AWD (w/ ML stereo, Nav, etc.) and have previously dealt with Lexus of Englewood and Prestige Lexus in Ramsey, but was not sure if either was providing any good deals on the GS300 AWD. Please let me know - thanks.0
lytton Posts: 14As I was waiting to do the paperwork at the Dealer, I noticed two GS300s being sold to 2 couples; all Seniors considerably past age 65....anyone venture to guess what the 'average' age of a GS300 owner is? (For the record, I'm 43)0
Well the M has a 45 after it and the Lexus has a 300 after it. That should tell you something.0
docnukem Posts: 485GS300? I'm sorry, Lexus owners may be well-preserved, but not that well preserved.0
Well there must be a reason why the BMW 3 has a 25 and a 30; Infiniti has a 35 and 45 and good ol' Lexus has a 300 and 430. They're just not thinkin' young here.0
jakethesnake Posts: 19Has anyone bought this car yet?? Would appreciate any pricing info on this car. If anyone know where I can get invoice on this car would be very helpful.
In So. Cal some dealers are willing to go down only $2,000.00 below the MSRP.
I just got an 06 GS, w/o the nav. I really wanted the backup camera, but didn't want to wait 4-6 months, and certainly didn't want to pay about $4000 for Nav/Levinson.
I was wondering if I could just get the camera (perhaps from an online lexus discounter) and install it. All the new GS have that same LCD display, and even the same screens (for the common things). I suspect that the wiring harnesses are the same regardless of whether or not you have the nav and/or camera. Perhaps in the trunk there is a capped connector to which the camera could be attached.
I had an Acura Legend (95) without the CD changer. I found that the trunk mounted CD connector was already there, and all I had to do was to buy the CD player, and plug it in - everything worked great, including the control and display on the dash, just as if I had bought the option.0
jhk_db: Cut a deal with a high volume dealer in South Florida and enjoy the drive back. The AWD is very rare in the South and I was willing to go to the mid-Atlantic. I even talked to one the dealers in the Philly area (class act) who said I had a much better chance of getting my color/option preference from my South Florida dealer than with him, he had three other customers on wait for the same combination. He said the dealers in his area were much smaller than what we're used to down here. HIgher volume = better discounts. Best of luck.0
Instead of driving to Florida for a GS, you may want to drive a bit closer to home and check out one of the Ray Catena dealers. Either Ray Catena in Oakhurst, NJ or Ray Catena in Larchmont, NY. I have dealt with Ray Catena in Oakhurst, NJ and they give the best deals around. I believe they are the biggest volume dealer in NJ, so their prices are good!0
Where can you get invoice on this car, you ask. Try the land of Oz, over the rainbow.0
You can find invoice prices right here on Edmunds under "new cars."0
Luckily my aftermarket 17 inch wheels from my 03 Accord V6 fit my new 06 GS. They look AWESOME on the GS, I had them installed today- the guy made one booboo though, he broke one of the tire pressure sensors, so I paid 56 bucks to have the wheels swapped (I retained the OEM dunlops on the aftermarket wheels) but it cost them 135 bucks to order the sensor fro Lexus! -oh well. So now I have the LOW TIRE PRESSURE warnings lit up which is kind of annoying but hopefully when they put the new sensor in that should be alleviated. So if you swap out rims make sure you tell the guy doing it to be very careful. If anyone wants to see a photo of the car with the new wheels I can take it just let me know.0
I misinterpreted your question. I thought you were asking where you could buy the GS430 for invoice price. The answer to that is nowhere. Where can you FIND the invoice price of the car and options? As hpowders said, right here on Edmunds or Kelly Blue Book (kbb.com).0
When I bought my 430 last month JM Lexus in S FL literally had over 2 dozen GS's ----and they negotiate----0
I just closed a deal on GS300 RWD. It should be here by end of next week. Question? It comes "satellite ready "in the option package. The deal calls for dealer install of XM. I have had aftermarket Sirius (FM Mod.) in my RX330. I really like Sirius (enjoy the DJ's on several stations), like access to NFL, NBA, (next yr. NASCAR). No, I could care less about Howard Stern. Anyway, I just read that Sirius (May 13) is now available in some new Toyotas. At Club Lexus website, there has been discussion re: Sirius being available as option on new Lexus' "later this summer". If it looks like Sirius will be available to use with the "satellite ready" option later this summer, I am thinking about having the dealer delay the install. Does anyone have any info. about this or know where I could find more information. The Sirius website does not have a contact no. to answer that type of question, Lexus 800 rep. did not have any information. Anyone else had this question or have XM (dealer or port install)? Thanks0
I leased my 430 from JM Lexus in S FL and they had me lease it through US bank because they would give much better residuals than Lexus FI----My residual was aprox 58%-------JM Lexus a great company to do business with they typically have over 20 GS's!0
My GS 430 lease $690.00 per month plus tax 36/36 Nothing down!0
Here is a photo of my GS. I had these rims on my 03 Accord V6 previously. Anyone else have photos of theirs? I love looking at photos of this car.">0
Thanks florida1. I will definitely be contacting them within the next several weeks.
If I do make a deal, it should be a glorious drive back to Tampa.0
On re-reading Jake's original post, it does seem that he could be asking where you can get the GS430 for invoice price. Perhaps on a planet well beyond the power of The Force.0
The honda rims look great. What kind of aftermarket wheels are the honda wheels (Brand, style)? Where did you get the wheels (Tire Rack type store?)that came off the honda? I agree, I like the look. Were the Dunlaps you used off your origional rims from the GS run flat all seasons?0
Seems I always buy a Lexus in the first year of a new model. A 92 SC400, which I still have, with only 55K on it and have really enjoyed. A 98 GS400 which I love , with 35K on it now. Went into local dealer to check out getting another GS400, poss 2-3 yrs old and with low miles- and it was the day the 96 GS arrived. What I really love about the looks of the 98-05 model was the "C" piller with that swooping curve of black outlined in brightwork. I couldn't believe they were getting rid of it on the 06 model as I thought it was what set the car off visually. I put my 98 next to the 06, and low and behold, the 98 looked a little "dowdy". After a test drive (in the 300) I knew I wanted one , but in the 430 model, fully loaded and with the Spider wheels. I had to wait a few weeks and make a few trips to see all of the color choices ( not a strong point for Lexus) and settled on Matador Red Mica- with Black interior. The catalogue shows the Black interior as a choice, but they don't make it that way. A quick search online showed that there wasn't an ' 06GS430 in the USA in that combo. But with a 5K downpayment (nonrefundable I was told) , an order was put into the factory. Waiting time= 4 months.I am over halfway into the 4 mos and can't wait to take delivery! By the way-I was offered a $500 discount off sticker for being a previous purchaser, and after some discussion settled on 1K off .The 430s are almost all presold. I went through the same thing in ordering the 98 GS400- it is Spectra Blue and there aren't many of them around. I like a car that I don't see coming and going. I am sold on Lexus driving experience and quality and have had only a few minor problems mainly related to door locks not working as they should.
Living in the city and sometimes parking on the street, the bumpers take a beating. Does anyone know of a product, temporary or permanent, that can protect the Bumpers (especially rear) from dings??0
vroommdt: You say you were able to search online for all the GS models available nationwide. Can you tell me how you did that?
armando6 Posts: 1I jsut bought the GS 300. it is a great car. However, I am trying to use my Motorola V710 (Verizon) with the car, and I can't get the car to download the phon e book, or find a way to manually enter phon numbers into the car sysytem to use in a hands free mode. Any suggestions?0
newlexi Posts: 9I want to inform all the GS430 aspirants in SoCal that it is possible to get a good deal if the dealer has several cars on the lot and more are coming in. This weekend I purchased a GS430 for about $4700 below list. I won't go into all the details, but the total drive-out price was just a nod under the MSRP. In fact, after reading all the posts here and on ClubLexus, I felt that the best deal one can get on the 430 is around $2K below list. My wife (its her car) reads none of these posts and decided what the most she is going to pay and the dealer just accepted it. Go figure....0
Bartalk- The salesman did while we were seated at his desk. He could go through each area of the country and see what inventory was available, what was coming in, colors , trim etc. VROOMMDT0
Oh, so we can't check the national inventory ourselves, I gather. Thanks.0
Thanks. They are Konig model "Tantrum" wheels, 17 inch 17x7 (the OEM lexus is 17x7.5 but the tire guys said 17x7 is fine). I originally bought them at DiscountTire. The Dunlops off the original rims from the GS were not run flats, no. The tire pressure sensors were transferred over to the aftermarket rims except the guy broke one so I paid 56 dollars to transfer the rims to the Dunlops but they broke the sensor and have to shell out 135 dollars to Lexus... oh well.0


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By Dr. Mercola
Ghrelin has been dubbed the "hunger hormone" because in previous studies people given the hormone became so ravenous, they ate markedly more than their usual food intake.
Ghrelin may act on your brain's "pleasure centers," driving you to reach for another slice of cheesecake simply because you remember how good the first one tasted and made you feel (at least in that moment).1 In short, one of the forces driving you to eat (and overeat a second helping or an extra dessert even though you're full) is, without a doubt, ghrelin.
What influences levels of this hormone in your body is another matter entirely -- a rather complex one at that. One of the most intriguing findings to date, however, is the power of your mind to fool your stomach in a sense, resulting in dramatic declines in ghrelin even in the absence of an indulgent meal.
The video above gives an entertaining synopsis of psychologist Alia Crum's "milkshake experiment," which set out to determine whether the information on a food's nutrition label could prompt physical changes in your body.
For the study, participants were treated to a 380-calorie milkshake that was labeled in one of two very different ways. One label said the milkshake was a 620-calorie "indulgent" shake, the other, a 140-calorie "sensible" shake. It turns out that both the physical changes and the satiety levels in the participants matched what was written on the label, rather than what was actually in the cup.
Those who thought they were consuming the indulgent milkshake had a dramatically steeper decline in ghrelin after consuming the beverage, while those who thought they drank a sensible milkshake had a "flat" ghrelin response.
Meanwhile, the indulgent milkshake drinkers felt more satisfied, showing that "participants' satiety was consistent with what they believed they were consuming rather than the actual nutritional value of what they consumed."
So it turns out that your mindset may have a greater impact on your ghrelin levels than even the nutrients you consume, and this has major implications! By believing that the meal you've just eaten is satisfying, it may, in fact, drive down your hunger hormone, which has the secondary effect of revving up your metabolism to start burning the calories you've just eaten.
The researchers explained: "The effect of food consumption on ghrelin may be psychologically mediated, and mindset meaningfully affects physiological responses to food."
The study sheds light on yet another reason why diet foods so often fail in helping people to actually lose weight. Remember, when people drank the sensible shake (which was advertised as having no fat, no added sugar, and being low-calorie), their ghrelin levels were relatively unchanged. This means their bodies were not getting the signal that they're full and should stop eating, nor were they getting an appropriate boost in metabolism.
As was expressed in the video, if food manufacturers really wanted to help people lose weight, perhaps labeling foods as full of fat and calories would do the trick better than advertising a diet product, which is unlikely to evoke a positive set of beliefs in most people.
Other studies have also shown that your brain is not fooled by foods that offer a sweet taste without accompanying calories, such as those that have been artificially sweetened. Experiments have found that sweet taste, regardless of its caloric content, enhances your appetite and induces an insulin-releasing effect.
Aspartame has been found to have the most pronounced effect, but the same applies for other artificial sweeteners, such as acesulfame potassium, sucralose (Splenda), and saccharin.
In a nutshell, when you eat something sweet, your brain releases dopamine, which supplies you with a jolt of pleasure. Your brain's reward center is activated. The appetite-regulating hormone leptin is also released, which eventually informs your brain that you are "full" once a certain amount of calories has been ingested.
In contrast, when you consume something sweet but non-caloric (i.e. an artificial sweetener), your brain's pleasure pathway is still activated by the sweet taste, but there's nothing to deactivate it, since your body is still waiting for the calories. As a result, you may end up overeating and ultimately gaining weight.
It's becoming increasingly clear that what drives people to eat certain foods, and what triggers them to start or stop eating, is influenced by many factors. Your beliefs about a food may be one of them, but there are others, too. For instance, chronic lack of sleep increases ghrelin, making you feel hungry when you don't really need to eat. This is likely one reason why a lack of sleep can make you gain weight.
Insulin may also play a role in regulating ghrelin levels. In one study, ghrelin levels were monitored in eight non-diabetic adults as they were given a two-hour infusion of insulin. Shortly after the infusion began, levels of ghrelin began to drop. When the insulin infusion was stopped, levels of the hunger hormone began to rise and rapidly returned to normal.2
Since insulin is already known to increase levels of leptin -- the "obesity hormone" that tells your brain to curb your appetite after eating -- the findings suggest that insulin plays an important role in controlling what you eat.
In other words, let's say you eat a sugary dessert. Your production of insulin increases so that the sugar in your blood can be taken to cells and used for energy. Eating this sugar also increases production of leptin, which regulates your appetite and fat storage, and decreases production of ghrelin, which helps regulate your food intake. The idea is that when you eat, your body knows it should feel less hungry. However, when insulin is impaired (such as in cases of insulin resistance), ghrelin levels remain elevated even after meal consumption – a condition that leads to chronic hunger (mostly for carbs), excess food intake, and undesirable weight gain.
Fructose, a cheap form of sugar used in thousands of food products and soft drinks, can damage human metabolism and is likely fueling the obesity crisis. This is because your body metabolizes fructose in a much different way from glucose, and fructose is now being consumed in enormous quantities, which has made the negative effects much more profound. If anyone tries to tell you "sugar is sugar," they are way behind the times. It is increasingly becoming clear that just by eating fructose, including high-fructose corn syrup, you may be drastically increasing your tendency to overeat. You see, glucose suppresses the hunger hormone ghrelin and stimulates leptin, which suppresses your appetite. Fructose, however, has no effect on ghrelin and interferes with your brain's communication with leptin, resulting in overeating.
This is why fructose may contribute to weight gain, increased belly fat, insulin resistance, and metabolic syndrome -- not to mention the long list of chronic diseases that are related to these conditions. It's also yet another example of the complex relationship your hunger hormones have on your ability to regulate your food intake. Still, the notion that your mind and your beliefs about what you're eating also influence your levels of ghrelin is fascinating and deserves due attention. As NPR reported:3
"'Our beliefs matter in virtually every domain, in everything we do,' Crum says. 'How much is a mystery, but I don't think we've given enough credit to the role of our beliefs in determining our physiology, our reality. We have this very simple metabolic science: calories in, calories out. People don't want to think that our beliefs have influence, too,' she says. 'But they do!'"
"'Our beliefs matter in virtually every domain, in everything we do,' Crum says. 'How much is a mystery, but I don't think we've given enough credit to the role of our beliefs in determining our physiology, our reality. We have this very simple metabolic science: calories in, calories out. People don't want to think that our beliefs have influence, too,' she says. 'But they do!'"
In a study of proven strategies that worked at helping people lose weight and keep it off for at least one year, many of the strategies were emotional in nature, including:4
There are often emotional factors underlying weight gain, so it's important to do some regular emotional housekeeping. Meditation, prayer, yoga, and energy psychology tools such as Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) are all viable options that can help you relieve stress and clear out hidden emotional blocks that may be keeping you from achieving your weight loss goals (or sticking with a healthier diet).
The other element is that many people are still avoiding the very foods that will lead to those feelings of satiety that your mind is craving – foods like full-fat butter, coconut oil, nuts, avocados, and other health-boosting fats. Although there are clearly individual differences, most people would do well to strive for a diet high in healthful fats (as high as 50-70 percent of the calories consumed), moderate amounts of high-quality protein, and abundant vegetables. This type of diet will optimize your hormone levels (ghrelin, leptin, and insulin), ultimately leaving you feeling satisfied in mind and body, so you don't struggle with feelings of deprivation that may wreak havoc on your hunger hormone levels and metabolism.
In fact, research shows that calories gleaned from bread, refined sugars, and processed foods promote overeating, whereas calories from whole vegetables, protein, and fiber decrease hunger. Calories are simply not created equal, which is why trying to lose weight by counting calories doesn't work, but eating the right foods does. For a comprehensive nutrition guide for optimal health, weight, and satisfaction, refer to my comprehensive nutrition plan.
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Now in 2018, NASA and SpaceX have launched a planet-hunter called TESS:
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will discover thousands of exoplanets in orbit around the brightest stars in the sky. In a two-year survey of the solar neighborhood, TESS will monitor more than 200,000 stars for temporary drops in brightness caused by planetary transits. This first-ever spaceborne all-sky transit survey will identify planets ranging from Earth-sized to gas giants, around a wide range of stellar types and orbital distances. No ground-based survey can achieve this feat.
Learn more about the endeavor with The New York Times' Out There video above: How NASA's TESS Spacecraft Will Hunt Exoplanets.
Related reading: NASA's Exoplanets 101, EarthSky's What is an exoplanet?, and Ars Technica's Number of potentially habitable planets in our galaxy: Tens of billions.Related watching on this site: How to Find a Living Planet and How do we know what stars are made of?


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What I'm going to do here is I'm going to take this clip and I'm going to add it to our Timeline by just dragging it and dropping it here, making it start at the first frame. And then I'm going to hit the Backslash key. That's the slash that's tilting backwards above the Return or Enter key on your keyboard. And that makes it though so we could see the entire clip at a glance. So basically takes the zoom of the Timeline, so you could see the entire clip. And as I play this, you'll see that we have a lot of extra material in the beginning of the clip. (Wind) Okay, so they're just kind of standing around for a while.
Let's move a little bit further in time and see how things are going. (Inaudible dialogue) Okay, still kind of standing around. A little bit farther. (Whirrrr.) (Male speaker 1: Ooo! Look at that!) And a helicopter goes through the shot. A little while longer, and we'll try that there. (Whirrrr.0 (Male speaker 2: That was bad.) Okay, talking about the helicopter. A little farther on, and somebody walks in front of the camera. So we are not quiet ready to start yet. So it's about 50 seconds into this clip before they even get something that we could even begin to edit.
So the first 50 seconds, this is really just a waste of time. My point here is that in the Timeline when you have tons of other clips and tons of other things going on usually, this is not the place to be making these huge gigantic cuts. So what I'm going to do is show you how to make an edit before you even bring a clip to the Timeline. I'm going to select the clip, click it to select it and then hit the Delete key to remove it. Now I'm going to go back up here to my Project panel and I'm going to double-click this clip. That will open it up in what's called the Source Monitor. That's by default the viewer on the left hand side. So the Program is the final project that we're making and the Source is basically a way that we can edit the material before it gets to the timeline.
So I'm going to scrub in time about 50 seconds or so, and it likes he's about to start going. Maybe like right here, (Male speaker: ?or if you're thinking about visiting California,) (Male speaker: then booking your trip through Explore California's the only way to go.) Okay! And it looks like he's about to start right there. Now, I usually like to leave a little bit of extra room so we can have some room to play with when we bring this down, so I might back this up just a little bit and then we're going to do something called creating an in point.
And that's going to be done by clicking this little button here. We could press the letter I on our keyboard also, and that basically says that this is the part where we want the clip to come in at. So we have the beginning of the clip over here on the left-hand side, but the part that we wanted to actually put into our program is the in point of the clip. Likewise, the point we want to stop taking stuff from the clip is the out point. So there is this zoom here, and I don't think I'm going to use anything after that zoom. So what I'm going to do is go up to right before it's zoomed and this is probably the last usable frame that we could possibly want to use.
And so I'm just going to press the letter O to set the out point. Now the clip is this long, not this long. And so what I can do now is put my Current Time Indicator into position at the beginning of my program where it's all zeros here, and then I'm going to click this button here, which is an overlay edit, which is going to just plop this right down on the Timeline there. And now we don't have those extra 50 seconds of helicopters and people walking in front of the camera, and we don't have the end with this close-up that we can't use.
So this is usable stuff. We still need to edit it, still need to tweak it, but now it's more of a process of refinement rather than getting rid of minutes of junk that we'll never use. By the way, another little trick here is that once we've made it is kind of cut, we've set an in point and an out point, I can drag this back to the Project panel, and that will create something called a sub-clip. So it will be almost like a piece of the whole that we can then use later on, as we see fit. So it doesn't really duplicate the clip on our hard drive. It just made another reference of the clip.
If I click the initial clip, you could see that it's-- well, the in points and out points are a little bit longer here. So I'm basically like trimming the end point to go back to beginning, and trimming the out point to go back to the end. And so now I have one clip of this that is 2 minutes and 8 seconds long, and we have another clip of this, which is still 55 seconds long. So we have the original and then trimmed. So if we wanted to go back to this original and get another piece of the video in the beginning or something like that, then we can continue to use this as like the master and this one as just that one clip.
This is especially good for like a documentary situation where you might have a really long interview with somebody, and you want a master shot like this where you can just continually take pieces, but then you want also like little blurbs that they'll be using, and you want to just keep taking sub-clips from that one long clip over and over again. So that's how you create preliminary edits with the Source Monitor.
- Adding footage to the Timeline
- Creating dynamically linked content
- Making overlay and insert edits
- Moving edit points
- Playing a clip backwards
- Understanding pixel aspect ratio and frame rate
- Applying motion effects
- Cutting video to music
- Compositing with green screen and blend modes
- Correcting color
- Creating titles and lower thirds
- Exporting sequences
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Q: When attempting to open the project exercise files into Premiere Pro CS5, an error message appears:
This project contained a sequence that could not be opened. No sequence preview preset file codec could be associated with this sequence type.
What could be causing the error, and how can the files be opened?
A: There are a few possible explanations.
Lastly, if the projects are not importing into Premiere, try importing the video footage by itself, rather than the entire project file.
Q: How does one perform internal edits within a piece of video in Adobe Premiere? For example, if I have a single clip of video, comprised of multiple segments strung together, how would I go about removing gaps and/or cleaning up each segment and then assembling the clips in a desired order? Most tutorials emphasize laying down multiple clips on the Sceneline or Timeline, but not editing one clip of video.
A: To remove footage from a single video clip:
- Drag the Current Time Indicator (CTI) to the first frame of the segment to be deleted, click the Split Clip button in the Monitor panel, drag the CTI to the last frame of the segment to be deleted, and then click the Split Clip button again.
- Delete the segment by clicking on the clip and either choosing Edit > Delete And Close Gap, or pressing the Delete or Backspace key. That will remove the segment and the rest of the projectwill slide over to the left to fill the gap.
Q: I can't view the exercise files.
A: Most of the video clips in the training were encoded using H.264. If you are on a PC, you may need to download the latest version of the free
QuickTime player from quicktime.com. Be sure to install QuickTime with your Adobe applications closed. QuickTime installs a series of codecs on your
machine, and many Adobe apps require QuickTime components to function properly.
Q: Why are many of the video files H.264 if some users must download additional components to view them?
A: This is one of the most common video formats in the world right now, certainly for distribution. This is because it is currently the most optimal
way to provide high quality video at the low files sizes that we need to be able to distribute these assets online. Even though it may require an extra
download for some users, this is the best way to be able to get you the highest quality exercise files. There isn't another video standard that is
cross platform that is free and that works as well as H.264.
Q: What is the most effective way to import a JPEG into Premiere Pro (i.e. best quality resolution, best playback speed)? When I import a photo as a JPEG and add it to a sequence, only a very small part of my photo is shown, because of the high resolution of these photos. Should they be resized in Photoshop first? Will changing it using effects provide the quality I am looking for?
A: Images can be scaled down using the Scale Transform in the Effect Controls panel as explained in the training. You can also scale down the images in Photoshop to match the size of your sequence in Premiere. But I prefer to use the Scale Transform as it gives me more flexibility and allows me to "zoom in" (aka scale up) photos without loss in quality. You'll probably want to make sure that the proportions of the image match the sequence though.
Q: Does Premiere Pro offer Z-axis editing like After Effects?
A: Premiere Pro does not offer 3D as After Effects does, but you can use the Basic 3D effect in Premiere to simulate that environment.
Q: The exercise files don't work for me. I get an error message stating the sequence(s) could not be loaded and it returns me to the Welcome screen. I am using the trial version of Premiere Pro and the correct codecs do not seem to be included.
A: All the required codecs are included in the trial version of Premiere. You just need to activate the trial with your Adobe ID. If you don't sign into Adobe, anything with MPEG compression will be unavailable. Signing resolves that issue and restores all MPEG-based support.
Q: I'm receiving the
following error message from Premiere Pro. "This project contained a
sequence that could not be opened. No sequence preview preset file or codec
could be associated with this sequence type." How do I resolve it?
Additionally, when I try
to create a project, I only have DV sequence presets available.
Q: When I tried to open the exercise files for this course, the following message popped up.
"This project was last used with Mercury Playback Engine GPU
Acceleration (CUDA), which is not available on this system. Mercury
Playback Engine Software only will be used?"
What do I have to do to solve the issue?
Q: After loading a project from the exercise files for this course, the media appears "offline" and cannot be used. How do I fix this?
A: This issue occurs because the project was not created in your copy of Premiere Pro, so your copy does not know where to look for the asset files. To fix this, please see the video "Relinking offline media."


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The Penang State Museum on Farquhar Street is the first building that comes under the administration of the Penang State Museum Board. Its chronology began in 1816 as a building donated by the East India Company, built under the supervision of Captain Robert Smith (the Royal Engineer), and to be used as an education center. The Penang Free School that was established in 1816 moved into this building in 1821. The school was open to all Penang-born regardless of race and thus the name Penang Free. In 1928 the Hutching School occupied this building.
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The International Centre for Justice and Human Rights (ICJHR) welcomes the press release issued on February 26, 2019 by UN Experts calling for the immediate release of Alya Abdulnoor. This statement was jointly issued by the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, the UN Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment and the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism.
The Special Rapporteurs demanded the release of prisoner Alya Abdulnoor so that she can spend her last days with her family, especially after cancer had spread throughout her body. They also called for an impartial investigation into the allegations of torture, ill-treatment and other serious violations of Alya's rights pursuant to the provisions of the Convention against Torture.
The experts expressed their concern about the allegations about Alya Abdulnoor's exposure to enforced disappearance and torture, as previously stated by the ICJHR, and reminded that such treatments constitute a serious violation to international human rights law. In fact, the ICJHR and MENA Rights Group submitted an urgent appeal to UN Special Procedures in December 2018 regarding Alya Abdulnour's case. Ms Abdulnoor was arrested in 2015 without a warrant and in total violation of her fundamental rights. She was taken to a secret detention centre and then held incommunicado for six months and prevented from contacting her family or a lawyer.
The victim was detained in very poor condition in an extremely narrow cell with no furniture, windows or ventilation, under continuous camera surveillance. She was tortured, stripped of her clothes, humiliated and threatened to sign confessions under duress without being allowed to read them.
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