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The BBN's major purpose is to create a unified a community of British breeders through education, action and marketing, to raise the profile and desirability of British-bred horses and ponies for every discipline. We are fortunate in having a membership base rich in equine industry expertise; vets, AI specialists, breeders, nutritionists, trainers, farriers, master saddlers and stallion owners; willing to impart their knowledge for the benefit of all our members.
British Breeders' Network (BBN) membership is open to all breeders, both 'hobby' breeders and professional studs, producers, riders and trainers, horse sport organisations, PIO's and stud books, plus associated equine services e.g. vets, saddle fitters, farriers and nutritionists.
The BBN online MEMBERS area enables networking with other breeders and the opportunity to contribute, share knowledge and ideas and help influence future BBN development. The website handles user logins, profiles, member messaging, user groups and discussion forums.
Join BBN to benefit from the combined knowledge of our members, get discounts on equine services or event tickets and opportunities to showcase your youngsters and stallions at BBN competitions & events. Levels 2-4 members also get a Directory entry in the BBN MARKETPLACE.
Find British-bred horse breeders and more in the BBN UK-wide Marketplace and geo-searchable Directory and view detailed business listings for all BBN members e.g. horse breeders, stallion owners, producers, associated equine trades and services. 'Horses for Sale' Classifieds coming soon!
Search by breed type e.g. native ponies or sporthorses, by purpose e.g. dressage, show jumping and eventing, by keyword or geographic area. All Network members can promote their own equine business and events on their own British Breeders Network Directory page.
Both a buying and a selling resource, the BBN Directory is used by breeders, producers, riders and trainers of British-bred horses and of course new breeders wishing to enter the breeding business and looking for suitable mares and stallions from which to breed.
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"Air Supply" – Vogue Italia November 2009
by The Fashion Cult
Photographer: Steven Meisel
Stylist: Marie-Amélie Sauvé
Model: Rianne ten Haken
See a nice video version of the editorial below, and the full spread at FashionGoneRogue.com. Fashion films are becoming more frequent and popular. They've especially been on the Cult radar since Gareth Pugh's video for his Fall 2009 collection. Read the top ten fashion films of the year, according to the Businessoffashion.com.
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Here's how to get longer lashes fast!
If I had a pound for every time someone asked me if my eyelashes are real, in all honesty, I'd probably only have about 50 pounds. But seriously, I can't tell you how amazing this product is.
Having worn lash extensions for a year, I knew I'd done some damage, so decided to break the cycle and went cold turkey. Anyone who's worn lash extensions will be able to empathise with me when I say; getting them removed for good is a traumatic experience. My previously thick and lengthy lashes were sparse and broken and I was desperate to return them to their former glory.
I did my research on how to get longer eyelashes, and came across Revitalash Eyelash Serum, £64. The claims were: thicker, longer lashes in as little as 3 months. I was sceptical but decided to give it a go. Created by an ophthalmologist for his wife who lost her lashes due to a long-term illness, you apply the formula as you would a liquid eyeliner, along the lash line once a day.
Everyone wants to get longer eyelashes fast, but for a good 3 months I barely saw any change. I kept at it, though, religiously applying it every night. But, around the 5 month mark, I started receiving comments. A woman in Boots refused to believe I wasn't wearing lash extensions and only after closer inspection (and some lash tugging) did she accept they were my own.
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The collective passions take the upper hand over the individual passions. Men do not know anymore how to love. That which interests them today is the human condition, and not anymore individual destinies."
-Camus, 1945
Men have lost their souls and ways to the idea of humanity and the collective fate of all mankind.
No single man could ever have the faintest approximation of an idea of what this collective should entail, but it is rather the idea of collectivity and universal-humanity that has taken hold of the heart, the conscience, and now determines the law of affection. For all but the brutal and the profound, love has become a public matter, and with that, they have become a public matter -- their individual substance has been dissolved in the 'grand idea' of human substance, in which all individuals are asked to partake.
The profound will keep their love secret, the brutal will simply love their love that is conveniently exemplary to the Universality as a negative form of affection, an 'egoistic love', in which they are not incorrect. Love is egoistic -- 'I must have you' -- and the other kind, the sublimated kind of the Buddha who loves to see all beings in their self-nature, is no less so; here the egoism is in the wish to be free of the affect, to be free from being determined by another human.
The Buddha loves contradiction. It is his reward for being able to see beings as rooted in themselves. When seen like this, all beings contradict, and contradiction is the name of the world of suffering. The Buddha sits still, not contradicting his left side by his right side or his top side by his bottom side. He perfectly balanced and ever so subtly in constant motion, no joint is ever fixed as his poise requires all the nerves and all the tendons to operate as freely as the synapses in the brain. The Buddhas outcome of contradiction is 'immanence' - bliss-awareness, the balanced body. The immediate relief of any pain in the mighty totality of the body-in-motion as suspended between the natural forces, which have long been cleaned of godly titles and valuations that make them into objects. The Buddha has learned to value nothing that is not directly immediate.
The strategist also loves contradiction. Divide and conquer. War is contradiction, and a strategist engages war as a playing field between two contradicting forces and/or premises. He stands in this zone of overlap, reading the minds of both wills, and decides on a point where he will contradict the expected play. Chess - dialectics, the programming of the future by calculating with will and intelligence as adversaries -- perfect will and intelligence sees farthest into the future of all but never beyond its own victory. The strategists outcome of contradiction is victory. Compared to the Buddha, his outcome is temporary and thus not ultimately satisfying - but the release of tension that results is not a matter of careful and strenuous physiological and psychological engineering, but rather a simple fact, the objective destruction of another force. This objectiveness is deceptive, naturally, as no force has ever been deleted that has not been made to turn on itself. This because force (which is a fundamental conception) is based on principle, on a certain modus of possibility which has been occupied by a certain type of being. What matters is the victory or defeat of this type, and a sufficient defeat of a force can very well mean a sufficient affirmation of the grounding type. This depends on the degree of Buddha-nature in the type. Buddha nature is the ally to the defeated. (Marcus Aurelius was a strange Emperor, A Buddha nature behind a strategist - I would say the first sign of the decadence of Roman philosophy. It harked back to a more general, universal morality of the human species - the virtues of compassion and restraint. Essentially pessimist virtues - to contain the damage. I can only assume that Aurelius was a true philosopher who saw the first necessities of consolidating the Empire, to translate into principle.
But this is no longer Roman, but already holds the beginnings of the end. Rome realized its limits -- stoic, even a bit self-begrudgingly - but still Italian enough to do it as a statement of virtue, of self-hood. But this could not last. Once principle takes hold as 'god', no humanity can stop that wheel from turning. This form of God is essentially superhuman. It is set in motion by humans, much like a bomb is set off, or a chain reaction of explosions, or even fire-beacons being kindled across that mountainrange by the hand of a hobbit - the cause is all too human, but once in motion, there is nothing in human control to stop the logic from unfolding. The consequences are non negotiable.
I might pinpoint the shift from individual passions in a collective vessel to a grand whole fed by quasi-individual believers any place, any time. All this is constantly happening, humans shift from modalities like birds pop out of eggs in an endless spring. and many people are free at this moment, far freer than I am in very many respects. Sailing across the oceans with the back of the head in the sea, looking at the sun upside down, parallel to a diving killer whale, glimpsing the empirical present, man will always find ways in this. But even this man will approach a harbor and lower his sails and congregate with men to make his due, show his face, do his business and say hello to his mother, and become part of the human condition.
When a Viking stepped from his vessel onto the common land, he arrived in a common condition, surely -- but common to his people, his brotherhood. A source of sadness as well as of deep joy, a frustration at the smallness of the world must have driven men to sail away and plunder, and invent large an terrible Gods. Mans Universal Humanity is a result of many individual passions that aspired to their own fate, and recognized each other in this. But appearances often deceive -- even though both want happiness, and even if both would grant it to each other without further thought, their happinesses might well contradict, as we can see in a pair of boys in love with the same girl, or even in a friendly tennis game. Mans cultivation of happiness is always a trying to convince that all can be happy at once. Under this condition men can easier accept the present inequality. Under this conditions therefore the faces that happiness is allowed to take come to fall under scrutiny of some Counsel... the terrible universe that man begins to create from thereon... but lets not speak of this further, not at least until we deal with Joseph de Maistre, in whom I sense that we can see the soul of finalized Christian terror, a vision that causes a greater pathos of distance than anything European that had come before. Distance of course to God, to purity, to whole-ness, but therein also a distance within oneself, given that every such at once terrified and elated soul is holding itself together - in this case it may simply be a creature of fear, who values fear above all, and knows in the relief from fear the evil of soothsayers.
Such a man is neither strategist nor Buddha, and the suspension of tension is here in the completely existential nature of the suspension, suspense, tension. It is at once the lowest form of human being and the most 'amazing' -- it is this feeling that children seek in roller coasters. Christianity, and now Islam, are enormous roller coaster-rides. Once a man has been caught in them he wants nothing of reason and balance, much less tranquility -- excitement, unpredictable turns, a loss of orientation, a freedom from rationality. This is the lowest denominator form of human release and absence of pain, discomfort; Upheaval of natural law.
Camus notes, "A modest and charitable Satanism".
Christianity, especially the Catholic church - its gothic blood drinking and really all of its expressions, as exalted as Dante, William Blake or Victor Hugo, men operating as free souls-to-themselves within the specter of Christianity, and much more so the actual practices of the religion in its dungeons and back-chambers... virtually all of it is is a Satanism and Jesus on the cross is clearly the most Satanic symbol ever held as a symbol of God. How it speaks to our state that men have become used used to seeing the cross as a sign of humanity and the pentagram as a sign of evil. As the cross brings death and the pentagram, containing in itself the golden ratio, the measure of life, the Satanism is evident -- "Evil" is deemed the symbol of life, "Good" the symbol of death. But we all know this. The end of this spectacle, its goal, can be placed wherever we like but I place it in the terror of the man who beheld his own uncertain fate torn between two certainties of absolute difference and terrifying proportions. Whoever really believed in this and beheld a Sun King, a man he believed to represent the terrifying will - and horrifying whim - of God, must have undergone a form of fear-unto-awe so powerful that we can speak of a certain justification by the depth of pathos alone. This pathos has driven men to do miraculous things, mainly for self-aggrandizement and idiocy, but nonetheless miraculous in the amount of determination that was put into it. Fear, when it ties the hands of a genius to a hope for salvation, produce inescapable art. We still linger under the shadow of this enormous endeavor -- our freedom from God does not bring sunshine yet - we must walk all the way out of its majestic shadow cast in the form of human accomplishment fat exceeding our present capacity.
Nature has diligently cultivated fear in man, it is one of our main assets. Men can be brought to do the most incredible things when riven by a fear of a thing an animal could never be threatened with. Fear and imagination, rather than will and imagination -- will and interpretation. To command power over interpretation is to be free of fear.
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Stunning realistic black and gray skulls by a french tattooer, Sandry Riffard.
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Skip to 0 minutes and 11 seconds Hello. Let us consider now the fourth exercise of the section
Skip to 0 minutes and 18 seconds introduction: types of equations. We wanted to understand where the graphs of two functions intersect. The two functions are f, which sends x to 6 times x plus 2, and g, which sends x to x squared plus 9. First of all, let us observe that these two functions are defined on all the real numbers. Therefore their domains are equal, and both are equal to the set of all real numbers. Now, which are the points of the graph of f? OK, a generic point of the graph of f has the following shape– x, f of x, where x is any real number. That is point of the type x 6 times x plus 2.
Skip to 1 minute and 26 seconds And the points of the graph of g have the following shape– x, g of x, which is equal to x, and x squared plus 9. What means to intersect the two graphs? I am looking for points in the plane of the following shapes– of both the following shapes. Therefore, I am looking for real numbers– x– such that 6 times x plus 2 is equal to x squared plus 9. That is, we get the equation 6 times x plus 2 equal to x squared plus 9. OK, and this equation is equivalent to what? OK, we just rearrange the terms, and we get x squared minus 6 times x, and we get plus 7 equal 0.
Skip to 2 minutes and 42 seconds OK, this is an equation of second degree. Let us compute its discriminant, delta. Then it is equal to what? To the square of the minus 6, which is 36, minus 4 times the product of the leading coefficient, which is 1, by the constant terms, which is 7.
Skip to 3 minutes and 12 seconds Then we get 36 minus 28, which is 8. Observe that the discriminant is greater than 0. What it means? It means that this equation has two different solutions. And in terms of our exercise, what means? It means that we will find two different points of intersection between the two graphs.
Skip to 3 minutes and 41 seconds Let us solve the equation. We have that the solutions of our equation are minus minus 6, which is 6, plus or minus the square root of the discriminant divided by 2 times the leading coefficient, and this is equal to what? OK, 6 divided by 2 is 3, plus or minus. And now we have the square root of 8. The square root of 8 is exactly like to write– the square root of 4 times 2. And we have to divide by 2. Now, this is equal to what? 3 plus minus, and the square root of 4 is 2. Therefore, we can simplify the square root of 4 with 2, and we remain with the square root of 2.
Skip to 4 minutes and 50 seconds OK, therefore, what we can conclude– that the two points of intersections between the two graphs are which ones? The first is the point 3 plus the square root of 2 and f of 3 plus square root of 2, which is equal to g of 3 plus the square root of 2. They are equal exactly by the computations that we have done. And the point 3 minus square root of 2, f over 3 minus square root of 2, which is equal to g of 3 minus square root of 2. OK, let us conclude computing these terms. We get 3 plus the square root of 2 here.
Skip to 6 minutes and 2 seconds And now the image of 3 plus the square root of 2 through f is 6 times 3 plus square root of 2 plus 2, which is 18 plus 2, which is 20, plus 6 times square root of 2. And here we have 3 minus square root of 2 and the image of 3 minus square root of 2 through f is 6 times 3 minus square root of 2 plus 2, which is again equal to 20 minus 6 times square root of 2. Good. These two are the points in common between the two graphs of our functions. Ciao.
Types of equations in practice - Part 2
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Exercise 4.
Where do the graphs of the functions \(x\mapsto f(x)=6x+2\) and \(x\mapsto f(x)=x^2+9\) intersect?
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#OOTD | Arabian Nights
Let's be honest, every girl wanted perfect hair and an outfit like Jasmine growing up. Well, I'm here to tell you Jasmine's perfect hair doesn't exist so let's not set ourselves us for failure shall we? Disney, creating unrealistic hair expectations since 1938. I tried...and failed. BUT! Jasmine's outfit; we can get close to that!


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Carla Koopal RYT 2500, NTS, NMT, LMT, LPN, BS.
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I am currently teaching several online classes over Zoom, including Yin Yoga Tue/Thu 7:45pm through YogaWorks Live, and Kundalini Yoga Fri 9am through Aura Kundalini Yoga. 3 other daytime classes are available by emailing me directly at firstname.lastname@example.com with "Yoga" in Subject line.
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With the Wide World of Yoga as her mentor, Carla's teaching style is joyful, holistic, and informative. She incorporates insights from many yogic traditions into her classes, reaffirming TKV Desikachar's assertion that "it's all one yoga"! To Carla this is no different than exploring and learning from all cultures of the world. In her early teens, Carla spontaneously started stretching yogically. At 16, she embarked on 7 years of daily Raja yoga classes, and after completing degrees in Education & Nursing, Carla immersed herself in 7 years of Iyengar yoga studies, and thereafter went on to complete 17 yoga teacher trainings in different yoga styles: Ananda Seva Yoga Therapy 500, Integrative Yoga Therapy 500, Kripalu Yoga 500, Iyengar style, Anusara style, Adi Yoga, AyurYoga, Kundalini Yoga, Sivananda Yoga, Svaroopa Basics, Pilates Mat & Pilates Fusion, Yin Yoga, Yoga of the Heart, Yoga Meets Dance, Mini Yogis for Kids & Tweens/Teens, Full of Joy Yoga, and Yoga Movement. Carla continues to study the teachings of Angela Farmer, Bihar Yoga, Kundalini Yoga, Shadow Yoga, TriYoga, Viniyoga, and Yin/Yang Yoga. Often on the cutting edge, 3 decades ago she combined manual therapy with yoga, and today she continues to create her "AllOneYoga!", an inclusive eclectic yogic blend featuring highlights from 27 yoga lineages. Last but not least, studying with various Tibetan & Vipassana Meditation Teachers has offered priceless guidance toward greater inner peace. Carla also brings to her teaching 37 years experience in Bodywork and Natural Therapeutics, as well as degrees in Education and Nursing.
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1-on-1 Yoga, which is how yoga was traditionally taught, offers you the personal attention that no group class can give you. This ideal setting can help you create your own yoga routine, help determine which of the many styles of yoga would best suit your needs, or get you up to speed for group classes. Whereas 1-on-1 Yoga focuses on wellness and prevention, Yoga Therapy can help address specific health challenges or imbalances.
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How Does A Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun?
Nightwood Editions, 2014
117 pp.
Doretta Lau, BFA'01, BA'03
Doretta Lau's debut collection of short stories How Does A Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun? is every bit as poetic and cryptic as its title. Themes wander the realm of imagination as well as reality and touch on communicative time travel (when the characters' future selves text cautionary notes about possible diseases or speculative investments); excessive drinking (more than once); loneliness (ridiculous and resonant); racism (not an abrupt one-off encounter –more so a spectrum of encounters that span the breadth of Canada); young love (as well as old love and an attempt at necromancy); and the missing and murdered women of the Downtown Eastside.
Most stories take place in Vancouver in all its west coast glory but nod to the ugly side of the city. Major urban centres like London, New York and Hong Kong also make appearances. Lau references Canadian artists Glenn Gould, Bruce LaBruce and Jeff Wall, the Chinese poet Li Bai, Chinese silent film actress Ruan Lingyu, and Japanese writer Haruki Murakami. In combination, the themes, stories and references create a global tale that looks at "multigenerational conflict and politically correct resolution" through a new lens. In short, this collection is a contemporary look at a global world.
How Does A Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun? was shortlisted for the City of Vancouver Book Award and long-listed for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award.
Passfield Press
262 pp.
Michael Hetherington, LLB'83
If you have ever spent a summer in Vancouver looking for love then the setting and theme of Michael Hetherington's Hooked will appeal. But if you have ever felt that something sinister lies beneath the surface of the beautiful city and its beaches, Hooked is a must read.
Michael Hetherington strings together a series of absurd and seemingly unrelated details into a plot that is a taut page-turner of a story.
Hetherington's main character, Adrian, loses his parents to a collision with a tuna truck near Queen Elizabeth Park in Vancouver. A few months later, on his way to visit friends of his parents, Adrian sees a light in a tower at the Second Narrows Bridge. On the eve of summer solstice, he rows across the channel, climbs the rungs to the tower and finds a naked woman reading by the light of a lamp. Every summer solstice thereafter, Adrian visits the tower. The woman is never there and her absence leaves a hole in the plot that is not filled until 11 years later.
Now aged 30, Adrian's wrist gets hooked on a fishing line while swimming at Jericho Beach. A young woman named Mandy, whose body is etched in scars, helps him get untangled. What unfolds has a dark underside that surreptitiously upends a seemingly innocuous narrative. The surrounding plot points (a break-in, a jealous ex-boyfriend, two big guys in a rowboat who follow then attack Adrian, and the purchasing of a pre-Raphaelite painting by Millais of two nuns digging a grave in a cemetery) seem unrelated to the safe and staid main character, but Hetherington crafts a tight story, lining up details that accrue to a shocking but understandable ending.
Land, Politics and Livelihoods on the Margins of Hanoi, 1920 – 2010
UBC Press
228 pp.
Danielle Labbé, PhD'11
Land, Politics and Livelihoods on the Margins of Hanoi, 1920 – 2010, is about the suburbanization of Hòa Mục, a village on the outskirts of Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam. Urban planning professor Danielle Labbé explores how civil society can have a "dynamic and transformative" relationship with different ruling powers. The focus here is on the way state and society influence one another. The result is an accessible academic text that inspires reflection on the processes, politics, and economic forces that create urban environments.
The text starts with a look at the ways villagers took advantage of an emerging textile industry to supplement agriculture in the late 1920s. This was a time when agricultural production was considered a "virtuous pursuit" and commerce or trade was "despicable and demeaning." The new economic conditions of colonialism created an opportunity for villagers to supplement food production with material wealth, thus changing the moral system that existed up to that point. Next, Labbé explores the early years of socialist transformation from 1940 to the early 60s, and the implementation of land reform, agricultural collectivization and the nationalization of industry. Labbé illustrates the ways in which the Socialist Republic of Vietnam was willing to make ideological and regulatory compromises to maintain its legitimacy at a time when the country was having difficulty housing and feeding its people. Post-reform housing development, though supposedly centralized and controlled by the government, became an opportunity for villagers to make and sell bricks because the government could not attract foreign investment to build an urban infrastructure. By 2000, there was a renewed focus on urban development with a focus on higher-density neighbourhoods, parks, schools and public services.
Labbé shows that the relationship between civil society and state regulation hinges on the provision of basic needs such as food and housing and, as a result, land. Perhaps the biggest takeaway here is the idea that land disputes resulting from the urban transition continue to be one of the hottest topics in Vietnam to date, far more burning than the demand for multiparty democracy.
The Loneliness of a Caribbean Philosopher
and Other Essays
Arawak Publications
119 pp.
St Hope Earl McKenzie, PhD'82
The Loneliness of a Caribbean Philosopher is a collection of essays that explore the importance of philosophy as a discipline and practice. This is not idle philosophizing about reality, existence, knowledge, values and reason, but rather an examination of existing ideas in an attempt to begin a discussion which author St Hope Earl McKenzie hopes will both inspire and nurture great Caribbean thinkers.
McKenzie completed his master's in English at Columbia University followed by his PhD in philosophy at UBC. He returned to the Caribbean to discover only "a tiny handful of other Caribbean philosophers." Most, he writes, choose to remain overseas or shift to other studies. In his search for company, McKenzie recalls philosophical ancestors and examines various forms of cultural expression that provide a foundation for philosophical thought in the Caribbean. Thinkers explored include Jamaican political leader Marcus Garvey, most noted for his stance on black nationalism; C.L.R. James, a social theorist, historian and journalist from Trinidad; philosopher Frantz Fanon, a political radical concerned with effects of both colonization and decolonization; and writer, poet and literary critic Édouard Glissant. McKenzie also touches on the philosophical underpinnings of Rastafarianism, the creative writing of Lorna Goodison, and the art of Edna Manley, as well as Jamaican proverbs.
All discussions use a rigorous philosophical method and invoke Western thinkers such as Descartes, Bertrand Russell, Plato, Aristotle, and Socrates. Thought experiments, such as an examination of the moral effects of dancehall music, make the text engaging. What emerges, though, is not a reiteration of Caribbean philosophy in Western terms, but rather a call for a Caribbean narrative, which McKenzie says is central to historical thinking.


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Our 2nd day had an exciting lineup of films in the realms of Filipino cinema & Filipino-American documentaries/independent narratives.
Special invitation panels brought amazing talent to pitch their upcoming films & had a group of advisers from SF Film & CAAM. The Filipino food community & foodies alike also represented strongly for ULAM:MAIN DISH.
The evening also had special Q&A after the internet censorship documentary, THE CLEANERS from its producers. The night ended with RESPETO & NOTHING ON US: PINAYS RISING that hit the highs for hip hop music lovers.


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With its high protein content and excellent digestive properties, eel can stimulate appetite even during the blazing heat of midsummer. As you walk around shopping districts in Japan, your appetite may well be stirred by the smells coming from eel restaurants. Many of these restaurants emit from their storefronts a uniquely bittersweet-smelling smoke, which is produced by a combination of soy sauce and sake oozing out of the eel when it is being cooked. This smell attracts passersby. Many eel restaurants have only eel on their menus. A particularly popular dish is unajyu – broiled eel and rice served in two separate lacquer ware boxes, with the eel stacked on top of the rice. This dish is prepared together with a soup of eel innards and pickles. The soy sauce-flavor gravy is an essential part of the unajyu dish. Extremely fresh eel and secret sauce recipes are the foundation of the reputations of popular eel restaurants.
Kabayaki (eel dipped and broiled in soy sauce) is a form of eel cuisine that takes a long time to prepare. Eels are cut open and baked one by one. The eel is opened up, the head and bones are removed, and the body is then skewered, dipped in bittersweet sauce, and cooked. There are different methods of preparing kabayaki in the East and West of Japan. In Tokyo, the eel is cooked after being steamed to produce a fluffy texture. In Osaka and Kyoto, however, the eel is broiled over an open fire to provide a moderately firm consistency. In Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture – a location that is famous for eel production – "eel pie" with eel powder kneaded into the pastry is popular as a souvenir.
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Recent eel shortages have driven prices up: unajyu now normally costs around 3,000 yen, which makes it much more expensive than typical sub-1,000 yen Tokyo lunches. Why not take the leap into an eel restaurant and try unajyu for yourself? Enjoying this food inside an old eel restaurant rich with traditional atmosphere is sure to leave you with a great memory of sightseeing in Japan.
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Expert Interview Series: Dan Polli of Sharp Gourmet, a Subscription-Based Kitchen Knife Sharpener Service
Dan is the Founder of Sharp Gourmet, the first and only knife sharpening subscription service which provides sharp cutlery to homes across the U.S. We recently spoke with Dan about the impact that a well-sharpened knife can have on...
Dan is the Founder of Sharp Gourmet, the first and only knife sharpening subscription service which provides sharp cutlery to homes across the U.S. We recently spoke with Dan about the impact that a well-sharpened knife can have on cooking and preparing foods.
Tell us a little about yourself. How did you come up with the idea of Sharp Gourmet?
For over 100 years, my family has been sharpening cutlery throughout different areas of the Northeast. In late 2010, I decided to shift gears and become the fourth generation to work in the knife sharpening industry. Our company primarily focuses on providing cutlery rental services to businesses across the entire food industry. Whether it's a small corner store or a large supermarket chain, our customers are serviced on a weekly basis, thus ensuring easier and more efficient food prep.
Throughout our continued growth, I was constantly asked if we could sharpen personal knives from our customer's homes. It wasn't hard to see an opportunity emerging if I could somehow standardize a sharpening program and provide consistently sharp cutlery to homes across the U.S. Sharp Gourmet was born out of this realization that knife sharpening isn't something many folks know how to do or want to do. With subscription businesses blossoming across a variety of industries, I see Sharp Gourmet as being uniquely positioned to change how home cooks across the U.S. think about their kitchen knives.
How can you tell if a knife isn't as sharp as it can be?
Ask a dozen people this question and you're likely to get a dozen different answers. Within our sharpening shop, we like to use a sheet of paper as a basic test. If the knife isn't razor sharp and properly honed, you won't be able to easily grab the paper and slice through it.
Within a kitchen, I think the best judge is yourself. If you feel you're struggling with slicing a tomato or mincing herbs, you likely need professional maintenance of your cutlery.
Finish this sentence: "You can best see the difference between a dull knife and a sharpened knife when cutting ... "
A tomato. With a tough skin and soft interior, a dull knife will make cutting a tomato a miserable process. If your knife is struggling to get through a tomato and you're pushing too hard, it will become a mushy mess.
What characterizes a superior knife sharpening process?
Our process has been improved over the last century to create a sharp and lasting edge. All of our cutlery is put through a three-step process where a thin bevel is created and a thin razor sharp edge is honed onto the bottom of the blade. Above all else, a steady hand only improves the process. It takes thousands of hours to become an expert at sharpening a knife.
For people who want to sharpen their own knives, do you have any tips on how to do it right?
If you do decide to sharpen your own knives, I would recommend watching a few "how-to" videos. I learned from a young age while watching my father during my summers off from school. Watching someone and trying to imitate their movements can be very helpful.
However, sharpening a knife isn't easy. In fact, you're more likely to ruin the edge than create a razor-sharp piece of cutlery.
What impact does using a well-sharpened knife have on the finished dishes, entrees, or foods?
Anyone who's ever tried to slice paper-thin garlic, or garnish an entrée with an ingredient called to be prepared in a specific way, can relate to how important a well-sharpened knife can be. Many recipes specify an ingredient to be minced, sliced, diced, or chopped; and without a sharp knife, it can be an uphill battle.
When you're working in your own kitchen, what type of knife [or knives] tend to get the most use?
Specifically, I love Sharp Gourmet's trusty 8" chef knife. Whether it's slicing or dicing, it's my go-to for nearly every type of food prep in my home kitchen.
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|Ran Shibuki
|Winter Uniform | Stage Coord | Torte Coord | Movie
|Japanese Name
|紫吹 蘭
|Romanized Name
|Shibuki Ran
|English Name
|Ran Shibuki
|13-14 (Season 1)
15-16 (Season 2)
16-17 (Season 3)
|Starlight School
Tristar (formerly)
Soleil (S1, S2, S3, S4)
STAR☆ANIS (formerly)
Dream Star (S2)
Aikatsu8 (S3)
|August 3
|Blood Type
|First Appearance
|Data Carddass Game
|1st collection
|I Can Become an Idol? (cameo)
Ran! Runway! (official)
|Voice Actress/Actor
|Ayaka Ōhashi (Japanese)
Srilan Wulan (Indonesian)
So Yeon (Korean)
|Singing Voice
|Sunao Yoshikawa (formerly)
Yuna from STAR☆ANIS (currently)
So Yeon (Korean)
- "It's because we're together that I can run my hardest."
– Ran to Ichigo and Aoi in Episode 37, right after she quit Tristar.
Ran Shibuki (紫吹 蘭 Shibuki Ran) is a Starlight School student and one of Ichigo and Aoi's classmates. She was later put into a unit called Soleil (ソレイユ Soreiyu) with Aoi and Ichigo.
Ran is a veteran idol who has been working in entertainment since she was young. She is well-known for her modeling and style even going as far as to challenge the saying "young models can't be beautiful" and through that has continued to polish her refined beauty. Ran is nicknamed "The Beautiful Blade" (美しき刃 Utsukushiki Yaiba), for her professional demeanor and beauty. Her favorite and primary brand is Spicy Ageha.
A while before Ichigo's and Aoi's transfer, Ran worked along side with her friend and roommate, Mako, at Starlight School. The two worked together to chase their dreams for becoming great idols. However, Ran advanced further than Mako did, which caused Mako to lose confidence in herself as an idol. And though Ran didn't blame her, Mako couldn't continue and dropped out of the academy, worrying that she would disappoint Ran and hold her back with her inexperienced skills. Ran was speechless after hearing this and seeing her leave. As a result of Mako's departure, Ran was filled with feelings of loss and loneliness, eventually causing her to become very serious, anti-social, and highly independent.
As Ran continues on as an idol, she later encounters Ichigo and Aoi, two best friends who've just recently enrolled in Starlight School. Ran became very skeptical of their friendship and notes that they won't be able to rise to the top together and that someday they will eventually split up. Despite the circumstances, Ran eventually became friends with Ichigo and Aoi and although Ran is somewhat reluctant with her decision at first, she later grew closer to them and found her ability to trust once more.
Ran has long, auburn hair that reaches her knees, and amethyst-colored eyes. As a student of Starlight School, she is often seen wearing the standardized school uniform. Outside of school, her main color scheme is purple.
As an idol, Ran's preferred brand is Spicy Ageha, a sexy type brand. Her basic coord is the Purple Stage Coord which consists of a lilac-colored crop top, with bunched, off-the-shoulder sleeves and a red bow to show off her curves. The bottom is a dark purple skirt that has lilac and, pink stripes in a checker pattern all over it. She also wears purple stilettos, with lacy, pale pink stockings.
In Season 2, Ran gains a brand new idol uniform called the Purple Torte Coord. It consists of a purple tube top cami with lilac frilled off the shoulder sleeves, plain white gloves with purple cuffs, a purple plaid skirt, and tall purple boots with white knee socks.
In Season 3, Ran obtains another new basic uniform called the High Purple Parade Coord.
Ran is a quiet, independent girl with a professional air about her. She is multi-talented and mature but she has a short tether and does not like being pestered. Despite this, Ran is a kind person. She is humble about who she is as a person and idol, despite her popularity. She dislikes being nicknamed "Ran-chan" (蘭ちゃん) and prefers to just be known as "Ran." She doesn't eat sweets as she is concerned they will ruin her image.
Becoming Friends with Ichigo and Aoi
At first, Ran was unfriendly and told Ichigo and Aoi to "be careful to not disappear together" because of her trauma with her best friend. A new audition for every class is announced and just 2 students will attend it. Ran and Ichigo are chosen and Ran gives Ichigo a little bit of advice and help. After the show goes well, Ichigo and Aoi talk about Ran. During the following day, Ran became their friend.
Passed Various Auditions Together
Ran announces it's already time for them to take their first Special Audition. The requirement is they should use Premium Rare Cards. Ichigo, Aoi, and Ran ask Johnny if he can help them about archive the cards and one day before the Audition, Johnny informs Ran and Aoi, they can meet the Top Designer but not Ichigo. The next day, Ran says if Ichigo does not achieve her Premium Rare Cards, they will go without Premium Rare Cards. But with Ichigo's effort to achieve the cards, they perform success and achieve their very first Knowledge, Mastery of Song.
Tristar, Soleil, and STAR☆ANIS ArcAs Mizuki announced the Tristar Elimination Audition, Ran participates along with Ichigo and Aoi, facing various physical and psychological challenges to take the place as a Tristar member, as she won the Real Final Audition, she became Tristar's third member, leaving Ichigo and Aoi in Starlight School. In Episode 37, Ran quits Tristar to be in Soleil, and Yurika takes her place. However, in Episode 39, both units are merged into STAR☆ANIS. Then in Episode 40, Powapowa-Puririn added and in Episode 41, Shion Kamiya stated that she won't join STAR☆ANIS, and in the same episode, STAR☆ANIS had its public debut.
Season 2
Entering High School
Shibuki (紫吹) Shi (紫) means purple, referring to her theme colour and Buki (吹) means to blow or spray.
Ran (蘭) means orchid. "Ran" is also a reference to "runway", as "run" in runway, and "ran" are pronounced the same in Japanese.
- Ichigo is one of Ran's closest friends and her co-member in Soleil. At first, Ran wasn't too confident in how close friends she and Aoi were and even told them "don't disappear together" due to her own past with a friend. When they were paired together for a fashion show, Ran taught Ichigo what it means to be an idol and Ichigo showed Ran that even though their steps may be different, their feelings are the same which ignited a friendship between the two.
- Aoi is another of Ran's closest friends and co-member in Soleil. After Ichigo broke the wall that surrounded Ran, the two were shown to get along well and together, they both acted as Ichigo's minders.
- Yurika and Ran both participate in Stylish Thief☆Swallowtail and assist each other in the troubles they are faced with. They are also paired together in the Chocopop Detectives drama audition with Ran as the detective and Yurika as her assistant. The two are shown to be close at times but sometimes tend to argue. Overall, Ran and Yurika care for the well being of the other. Yurika had originally intended on persuading Ran to be her partner in the Partners Cup but instead got paired with Kaede and Ran was paired with Sora.
- The first time Sora and Ran truly interacted was in Episode 67, when Ran wandered away from the recording set by accident. Ran was amazed at Sora's easy-going and free nature, and after talking with her, her anxieties about the Yeah! Hoo! Maki Image Girl competition were eased. In later episodes, the two were paired up for the Partners Cup and the drama Rhapsody of the Desert Moon. Overall, Ran and Sora get along very well and their contrasting natures compliment one another. Sora is also the only one of Ran's friends who gets away with calling her "Ran-chan."
- Ema is Ran's senpai who she holds great respect for. Ema was shown to be encouraging of Ran to step on the same stage she is.
- Ran is 163 cm tall.
- Her zodiac sign is Leo.
- Her favorite foods are Vegetable sticks and yogurt.
- Her disliked food is Fried fish because she doesn't like removing the bones.
- Her specialties are model walking and posing.
- Although Episode 5 was Ran's official debut episode, she made cameo appearances in Episode 1 and Episode 4.
- This makes her the first person to have more than one cameo debut, both with a speaking role; followed by Sora Kazesawa, who had non-speaking roles, Maria Himesato, who had a non-speaking cameo debut and one speaking, and Mikuru Natsuki, who had non-speaking roles, respectively.
- Ran is classified as a tsundere by fans.
- In Episode 57 her aura changed.
- Ran is the first idol to have three Premium coords.
- It is theorized that her surname Shibuki takes from Jun Shibuki (紫吹淳 Shibuki Jun) a top star of Takarazuka Revue.
- Ran shares her first name and the second part of her surname with Ran Kotobuki, the protagonist of the shoujo anime Super Gals!.
- Her student number in the anime is 30024.
- She shares her birthday with Kousaka Honoka from Love Live!.
- Ran shares her singer with Sora Kazesawa.
- Following Sunao's graduation from STAR☆ANIS, she now shares her singing voice with Kaede Ichinose, Kī Saegusa, and Shion Kamiya.
- Ran has been shown to be at skilled at martial arts.
- She has also stated that she is a capable marathon swimmer, able to swim a length of 10 kilometers (about 6.2 mi).
- She addresses herself with the pronoun "Atashi" (あたし), which is a very informal and casual way for a female to address herself.
- She is a fan of the popular mascot character, Ebi-Pon.
- Ran is one of the two idols to not have a solo performance in her debut season, the other being Kaede Ichinose.
- If one counts both appearances in the anime and the DCD game, Ran has been a member of all four units formed in Season 1.
- She is the only idol from the unit Soleil to never make it to the finals during the Starlight Queen Cup.
- Ran is the only main character to not have a hair accessory.
- Ran shares the same seiyū with Lance from Dokidoki! Precure.
- She also shares the same seiyū with Uzume Uno from Fantasista Doll.
- Ran shares her voice actress with Yozora Kasumi from the Aikatsu Stars! series, as well as Mirai Asuka from the Aikatsu Friends! series.
- Ran also bears great resemblance with Yozora, having to share the same idol type and theme color.
- Furthermore, it was revealed in the second special episode between Aikatsu! and Aikatsu Stars! that Ran has the same scent as Yozora.
- Main article: Ran Shibuki/Image gallery


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For those of you who use Skype, the popular video calling service, you are more than likely going to be very pleased with it's new makeover for Windows 8.
According to NBC News, Skype's new makeover is based on a new "full-screen and uncluttered Skype experience" that will be clean can and quick.
The popular video chat service is used by 40 million Americans during peak times, says Skype. Microsoft, in order to get in on such a popluar service, bought Skype last year.
According to the company's blog, Skype's new makeover will include features such as:
Recent chat messages and calls "are right there as you launch Skype alongside the people that you contact most often. We've made it simple and easy to add your favorite contacts so that they are only one tap or click away. "
This may not be a good thing, depending on how easily accessible you want to be but "you can be always available and reachable whether you are using a desktop, laptop, tablet or convertible PC with Skype running seamlessly in the background without draining your battery."
You can receive voice, video calls and chats "even if you've navigated away to another app or to the desktop, enabling you to stay more connected with your contacts whatever you're doing."
Skype will also notify you about any new calls or instant messages.
Once Skype is downloaded from the Windows Store it will appear on the new Start screen as a "live tile." That same tile provides a window into the app, and will show you "if you hae missed a call or have a new message waiting for you inside."
Here is Skype's video promotion for it's new Windows 8 version … enjoy.


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We have numerous gene-based tests currently in development, including a carrier screening test for parents and tests covering all major medical conditions. Our leadership team includes several of the original scientists from the Human Genome Project, Kailos' mission means we are dedicated to making healthcare about YOU.
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For more than 50 years the EU Global Education Office has helped international students fulfill their ambitions of attending college in the United States.
The international student population at Edinboro University comes from all over the world, creating a welcoming and culturally aware community. In the Fall 2019 semester Edinboro University has 56 students from 26 different countries. This special population brings global diversity to our campus and community. To learn more about EU's international student population, visit our Meet Our Students page.
The EU Global Education Office also can help you explore and experience living and learning abroad. The Global Education Office is here to help students understand Edinboro University's policies on study abroad and will assist in receiving formal approval for study abroad programs. Our office is full of resources to help in this process. A prospective study abroad student's first step should be to visit the Global Education Office during walk-in hours or visit the Global Education's webpage within the myEdinboro portal.


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Taylor Swift opens up about getting revenge with song
HollywoodNews.com: Fans still want to know who the song "Never Ever" is about, and now she is revealing a few more hints along with her purpose of the song.
Swift made it clear that she was looking to get revenge on an ex as she was basically hoping for the song to drive him crazy, states Hollyscoop. "I made a song that I knew would absolutely drive him crazy when he heard it on the radio. Not only would it hopefully be played a lot, so that he'd have to hear it, but it's the opposite of the kind of music that he was trying to make me feel inferior to," Swift commented.
Swift added that the man in question always made her feel like she "wasn't as good or as relevant as these hipster bands" he enjoyed.
Who do you think the song is about?
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April is Financial Literacy Month and there's no better time than right now to begin to save for your future. The earlier you start saving, the more you can accrue in a 401k individual retirement account and other types of IRAs. Social Security helps secure your future, but Social Security is only one part of a more complete retirement plan. Continue reading
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Easily Access Your Social Security Benefit Statement
Social Security puts you in control of your finances and future. We have made requesting or replacing your annual Benefit Statement even easier. The Benefit Statement is also known as the SSA-1099 or the SSA-1042S. Now you have the ability to download it anytime and anywhere you want using our online services. There's no need to visit a field office.
An SSA-1099 is a tax form Social Security mails each year in January to people who receive Social Security benefits. It shows the total amount of benefits you received from Social Security in the previous year so you know how much Social Security income to report to IRS on your tax return. Continue reading
Receive Social Security Benefits? Keep Your Address Up-to-Date with my Social Security
Keeping your address up to date with a my Social Security account helps us mail your important documents to the correct place. If you receive benefits, you can use my Social Security to update your address. If you've moved recently, updating your information sooner rather than later will help us deliver important documents to you, including: Continue reading
See What You Can Do Online During National Social Security Month
In April, we celebrate National Social Security Month by letting you know what you can do online with a my Social Security account. Last month we featured how you can replace a lost or stolen Social Security card, get a copy of your 1099 (SSA-1099), and check the status of your Social Security benefit application or claim. This month we share three more advantages. Continue reading
April is National Social Security Month
April is National Social Security Month and this year we're highlighting some of the time-saving features of the my Social Security account. Once you create an account, you'll see that we already have your work history and secure information to estimate what you could receive once you start collecting benefits. With your personal my Social Security account, you can also: Continue reading
my Social Security Saves You Time for the Important Things
Time is our most valuable resource. How you spend it is important. A my Social Security account helps free your time for the important things. What is a my Social Security account? Watch this video to find out: Continue reading
Retire Today with Our Online Services
Is retirement knocking at your door? Social Security makes your journey into retirement nice and easy. Continue reading
Estimate Your Benefits Today for a Secure Tomorrow
Whether you're retiring soon or you'll be in the work force for several more years, it is important to prepare for what the future holds. That's where Social Security comes in. Continue reading
See What You Can Do Online!
For over 80 years, Social Security has changed to meet the needs of our customers. Today, our easy, secure, and convenient-to-use online services allow you to do business with us from the comfort of your preferred location. From requesting a Social Security card to filing for retirement, our online services have got you covered. Check out our infographic, which shows what you can do online: Continue reading
3 Things You Can Do to Prepare for Retirement Right Now
Whether you just started seriously planning or are ready to retire, Social Security is the place to start. We're with you throughout life's journey, and that includes retirement planning!
The first thing you should remember is that Social Security replaces only a portion of your pre-retirement earnings. Most financial advisers say you will need about 70 percent of pre-retirement income to live comfortably in retirement, including your Social Security benefits, investments, and other savings. A solid retirement plan includes planning for more than Social Security. You can use Your Retirement Checklist to help you prepare.
When the time comes to take that giant step into retirement, Social Security's online services can help guide you in this new journey. Use these services to help prepare yourself for a financially secure retirement: Continue reading


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Over half of world's apes and monkeys in danger of extinction
The world's apes and monkeys are in serious trouble.
About 60% of Earth's non-human primate species, including apes, monkeys, gorillas, gibbons and lemurs, are threatened with extinction and about 75% have declining populations, according to a study published Wednesday.
"This truly is the 11th hour for many of these creatures," said University of Illinois anthropology professor Paul Garber, who co-led the study.In the case of the Hainan gibbon, a species of ape in China, fewer than 30 animals remain on the planet. The population of the Grauer's gorilla fell from 17,000 in the mid-90s to around 3,800 today, mainly from hunting and mining, the study said. And 22 out of the 26 primate species in China are endangered, Garber said.
Source: Over half of world's apes and monkeys in danger of extinction


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Look sharp now, after the end
A new year for trading brings us many lessons from the past, even as uncertainty hangs over the days ahead
The last week, month and year have come to an end, with the week and month ending positive, while the year ended in the red. Sensex gained 322.19 points or 1.25 per cent to close at 26,160.90 points while Nifty gained 102.15 points or 1.30 per cent to close at 7,963.20 points.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley (c) poses for a photograph with the officer trainees of the Indian Revenue Service (Customs & C Excise) of the 67th batch during a meeting in New Delhi on Saturday. Pic/PTI
Broader markets gained more with BSE100, BSE200 and BSE500 gaining 1.37 per cent, 1.42 per cent and 1.46 per cent respectively. BSEMIDCAP gained 2.66 per cent while BSESMALLCAP gained 1.79 per cent. Top gainer in sectoral indices was BSEREALTY up 2.92 per cent followed by BSEPOWER 2.66 per cent and BSEAUTO 2.34 per cent. There were no losers but the lowest gainer was BSEIT up 0.02 per cent.
Taking stock
In individual stocks, the top gainer amongst the benchmark stocks was NTPC up 3.85 per cent. Other stocks which were in the news were related to natural gas distribution after Qatar gas cut prices to reflect the reduction and sharp fall in crude prices. Petronet LNG which imports and then reconverts it to natural gas was the biggest beneficiary as potential penalty was also waived and was up 7.62 per cent.
Others which gained were GSPL 6.38 per cent, Gujarat Gas 4.67 per cent and GAIL 2.68 per cent. ATF prices too were cut and the airline stocks simply soared with Jet Airways gaining 24.87 per cent and Indigo 23.20 per cent. On the losing side was Tata Steel down 2.35 per cent, PNB 2.12 per cent and Hind Unilever 0.72 per cent.
Dow Jones closed weak and lost 127.14 points or 0.72 per cent. For the year, Dow Jones lost 2.2 per cent. The Indian rupee gained 6 paisa or 0.09 per cent to close at Rs 66.14. FII's were buyers of Rs 205.49 crores for December and Rs 13,055 crores for the year.
Domestic institutions were buyers of Rs 4,232 crores during the month and Rs 70,688 crores during the calendar year. The year gone by saw record inflows from investors into mutual funds, and, that partly explains why midcap and smallcap stocks were in the limelight.
Schemes of mutual funds investing in such stocks were the order of the day and hence fund managers were under pressure to invest in them even at higher valuations.
Annual review
If one were to look at the year as a whole Sensex lost 1382 points or 5.03 per cent on a close to close basis. Nifty lost 336.35 points or 4.06 per cent. The high of Sensex was 30,024.74 points and from that point, Sensex fell over 3900 points. Similarly, in the case of Nifty, the high was 9,119.20 points and the fall from there to the closing level was 1,173 points. Expiry for December series was without huge volatility and passed off peacefully. The last day saw short covering and futures expired at 7,946.55 points, a gain of 62.55 points or 0.79 per cent.
With 2015 behind us, one hopes that 2016 would be better. The terrorist attack in Pathankot is a grim reality of what the nation is up against. Even giving the benefit of doubt to Pakistan, it shows that there are enough agencies which do not want peace to be there in this region. Our hearts bleed for the families of those who laid down their lives in defending the nation.
Primary market will see the listing of shares on Narayana Hrudayalaya later during this week. Seeing the general success of issues during 2015, many companies have lined up to raise money during the coming year. The party will continue until a couple of disasters take place.
Back from holidays
The week will be range bound and people would await fresh allocations being made to emerging markets. Further with the western world returning after a fortnight of holidays, it would be interesting to see what trends emerge. China seems to be facing a really rough time and developments there could be a dampener for global markets in the New Year.
Closer home, the results for the October-December 2015 quarter would be keenly tracked to get trends of some improvement, which markets are looking for some time now. All in all, lots of expectations from the week and not sure what would be the driver in the immediate short term. A note of caution that the movement in midcap and smallcap must percolate to the large cap stocks as well, or, there could be concern.
Wishing all readers a great trading year 2016.
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With the Polar Vortex officially behind us (thank goodness), the time has finally come for the warmer, brighter weather we've been craving. And whether you're most excited for the beach trips or the delicious food, there's one thing that many summer favorites all share in common: Their aromas can benefit our well-being.
In case you need even more reasons to celebrate summer, take a look at some of the warm-weather scents below that do wonders for our emotional health. Then, as you indulge in the scents of the season, relish the fact that we're now swapping snow jackets and scarves for bathing suits and shorts -- after all, we've earned it.
We all have those long days where it feels like we have no energy by 3 p.m. -- but instead of indulging in that caffeine habit, maybe all we need is a little whiff of citrus. Not only do these summery fruits contain immunity-boosting vitamin C, their scents can revitalize you and ease fatigue.
Salt Water
Not only is the scent and sound of the shore inarguably relaxing, the beach also provides some serious health benefits. The salt water can help decrease inflammation and the magnesium in the water helps maintain a healthy nervous system. The ocean also contains several anti-aging minerals.
The aroma of coconut is in everything from drinks to sunscreen come summertime. But the scent isn't just symbolic -- according to some aromatherapy experts, coconut can also have a positive influence on your mood.
For those who grew up in the south, nothing smells like summer quite like the fragrant aroma of a gardenia. Research shows that our olfactory response triggers clear memories and has a direct link to the emotional center of our brain -- and as Southern Living magazine points out, this bloom's scent can "settle like a memory on your soul."
That afternoon storm doesn't just refresh the atmosphere after a hot summer day -- its aroma is also one of the most appealing. Research shows humans relish the scent of the rain due to its natural association with the color green and the associated expectation of growth of food, Smithsonian magazine reported. In other words, we're biologically wired to feel fulfilled by its fragrance -- so we may as well enjoy those rainy summer days!
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A guaranteed monthly lifetime pension from HNB Assurance, for everyone over 55 years
HNB Assurance has identified a primary need of the elderly citizens of our country and has introduced a Guaranteed Monthly Pension Plan named 'my pension' for those who seek a peaceful and contented retirement, becoming the first insurance company in the country to do so. This unique product is being offered in collaboration with its parent company, Hatton National Bank, which will market this product islandwide through its branch network.
We interviewed Manjula de Silva, Managing Director of HNB Assurance on the importance of retirement plans and their latest product 'my pension'.
1. Can you tell us about the current situation of the insurance industry and what is your reaction to that?
Yes, the insurance industry is highly competitive, similar products are being launched with similar pricing strategies; there is a high level of new entrants entering the Industry making it more and more competitive. We look at this in a positive manner and we encourage such competition as that enables us to be innovative with new products that cater to the needs of our customers. We have managed to have a high growth and improve our market share of Life insurance because we cater to their needs and continuously do research on what the consumer wants. HNB Assurance PLC has recorded an impressive growth as per the latest interim results released to the Colombo Stock Exchange. The Company was successful in strengthening its topline over the first half of the Financial Year of 2014, where the combined turnover, expressed as Gross Written Premium (GWP), of both Life and Non-Life Insurance businesses escalated by 24% over the same period of the previous financial year. This achievement was driven by an impressive 27% growth in Life Insurance GWP while Non-Life Insurance GWP also contributed with a growth of 21%.
2. Can you tell us about 'mypension'? Is it an insurance plan or a pension plan?
It is a combination of a pension plan and an insurance plan. 'my pension' gives you a guaranteed monthly pension for life. In addition, a life cover will be in effect in the event of demise of the policyholder within the first 10 years. At the point of entry, the Company guarantees a pension value which you will continue to receive throughout your life irrespective of interest rate fluctuations. My pension is a single premium policy where you can pay the premium at once and enjoy monthly pensions for the rest of your life, regardless of how long you live.
3. Can you illustrate through an example?
For instance if you are 55 years of age and have invested 5 million rupees you will receive a monthly pension of Rs. 41,750 (Annual pension will be Rs. 501,000) plus a life cover of Rs. 5,500,000 less total monthly pensions paid up to death. This monthly pension will be paid for as long as you live. The monthly pension will vary depending on the initial investment that you have paid. The other remarkable feature of this pension plan is that if you buy it at an older age, the pension you will receive will be more. For instance, a person aged 65 investing Rs. 5 Million will receive a monthly pension of Rs. 43,750 (Annual Pension of Rs. 525,000) with the same life cover for 10 years.
4. What will happen if the policyholder dies within the first 10 years? Will the family get anything back?
Yes, that is what we are addressing through the life cover attached to the policy. If a policyholder dies within 10 years of taking the policy, his nominated beneficiaries will receive 110% of the investment less the pensions received by the policyholder up to his death. This effectively ensures that the initial investment is protected in the event of an early death. For instance if someone aged 55 invest one million Rupees and dies after two years of receiving the pension, his beneficiaries will receive approximately Rs. 900,000/-. This is in addition to the monthly pension of approximately Rs. 200,000/- already received by the policy holder.
5. Normally a pension is given to government employees, what qualifications do you need to possess in order to attain this product?
In order to obtain a My pension retirement plan you need to be within the entry age 55 to 80 & pay an initial investment for the single premium in the value range of Rs. 1 Million to 25 Million.
Out of all the retirement products in the market and considering the market interest rates, my pension is the best product available offering the highest pension for a given investment. The specialty about this product is that even though the interest rates fluctuate in the market, you will get the same fixed amount that was calculated at the time of committing. You will get a monthly pension from the day that you bought this product till the last day that you live. Even if you have been a government employee or a private employee same applies to all who obtain this pension plan.
6. From where can you get a 'mypension' plan?
My pension' can easily be obtained from any of the 51 HNB Assurance branches that are located Island wide or from any of the 175 HNB branches where Bancassurance counters of HNB Assurance are located. Customers can also call the dedicated 24 hour hotline on 0114-384-384 to get more details or visit the Customer Service Center located at 51A, Dharmapala Mawatha, Colombo 3.
7. It is clear that 'mypension' is an attractive pension plan, Can you say something about the company that offers it?
HNB Assurance is a trusted company with a Fitch rating of 'A (lka)' which implies the strong financial stability of the company. We are a proud subsidiary of HNB which is one of the largest private sector commercial banks in Sri Lanka with a heritage of more than 125 years. Our hope is that our customers have a safe, independent retirement where they can enjoy their retirement with no stress, with an abundance of confidence that we will look after their financial needs.
Manjula de Silva – Managing Director of HNB Assurance
Disclaimer: The views shared in this blog are based on the macro economic conditions & industry status quo as per the time of publishing.


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Heritage and environment
Recognizing the role of binder that modern business must play in society, we consider it important to participate in the preservation of our heritage and of the biodiversity of our territory.
Euro Wipes supports the Regional Natural Park of Perche which by its actions to the general public including school world, is actively involved in this cause.
Raising awareness of biodiversity conservation
Poster campaigns.
Partnership with a local beekeeper to manage hives on our roofs.
Carbon Offset Program.
Reforestation on site.


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Support surface selection for longterm patients in the community
This article looks at some case reports undertaken during a community initiative, which explored the importance of regularly
reassessing patients support surface needs in relation to their general wellbeing, comfort and personal relationships on a long-term basis. The comfort and dignity of patients who are prescribed longterm specialist dynamic mattresses is discussed through real patient stories. The importance of both involving and educating patients and their carers on pressure ulcer identification and preventation is also shown through this community initiative.


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One of the best ways to chase away the blues is to add a splash of color to your day. Colors do have a symbolic significance and you can very easily pick up a color resonating your mood, or one that can change your mood and brighten up your day. The following are some popular colors and the common connotations attached to them:
- Red: Courage and passion
- Yellow: Sunlight and optimism
- Blue: Openness and calmness
- Green: Tranquility and balance
- Purple: Creativity and mystery
- Pink: Gratitude and love
- Orange: Energy and warmth
The following are 5 simple and easy ways to add a splash of color to your daily routine:
- Wear Something Bright: Choosing to wear something bright is one easy way to add a bit of zing to your otherwise monotonous day. Even in a conservative work environment there is nothing to stop you from wearing a colorful tie or necklace.
- Eat Colorful Foods: Eating is a sensory and visual experience that is as much about sight as it is about smell and taste. And in addition to having great visual appeal, a colourful diet is also extremely healthy for you. The more colourful your diet, the more antioxidants you will get. Antioxidants reduce overall cell damage, one that is linked to ageing, cancer, heart disease (occurring due to the hardening of arteries), stroke, and even memory loss.
- Add a Splash of Color to Your Home: Adding some new hues to your walls is an easy way to make each day a little brighter. You can also use other decorating ideas such as setting a fresh bowl of fruit on your kitchen counter or dining table, buying some new colorful sheets or towels, and hang some vibrant pieces of art on your wall.
- Buy Some Flowers: There is something about fresh flowers that make the surroundings comes alive. In fact, scientific research shows that flowers have a beneficial impact on the mind and can influence our emotions as well. Their presence can trigger happy thoughts and increase the feelings of satisfaction. They have also been known to affect social behavior.
- Decorate your Office: If you work in an office or cubicle, do make sure it has some color. Some quick and easy ways to do this would be to display some photos, buy a small plant, have a colourful calendar or change your boring desktop to something fun and vibrant.
Add that splash of colour to your life & see the difference.
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It's easy to look at the Billboard charts and proclaim that negativity in hip hop is selling. Only slightly closer observation reveals that whenever given equal exposure, talent sells even better.
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Chris Dixon on agency problems:
As you go higher in the organization, the incentives are more aligned with the firm's incentives. But knowledge and authority over operations often reside at lower levels. Deciding what level to target involves nuanced trade offs.
Incredible Marketing Device
While walking in NYC this weekend, I noticed the Camper SOHO store had an incredible hook for bringing people in. This is the street view of the store as you're walking past it:
No products in plain view. The store view is this:
How freaking cool is that? You get so intrigued by the display you have to go into the store to take a peek. Really cool execution.
DJ Jazzy Jeff on Technology
You got to embrace it. You got to embrace it. I told this story a million times. I bought my mom a microwave a long time ago. My mom never took the paper out of it. She sat it down, and put a flower pot on it. I went to her house for Thanksgiving one year, ate, chilled out, and went back for seconds. I put all the food on my plate, opened it up, took the paper out and she was like, 'don't use that.' I put the plate in, put it on for 3 minutes, it came out piping hot, and my mom was so amazed. 'Oh my god, this is amazing.' I always say, you can't be my mom and the microwave. That to me, that's the reason why there are so many old bitter DJ's, just because you think that everything stops at your time frame. You have DJ's that don't want to embrace social media, and then they're sitting back like, 'I don't understand why I'm not getting any gigs.' Well, the business model has changed. Unless you embrace it, it's not going to happen.
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Sure, 2013 had a boatload of good movies. But 2014 looks like it's off to a promising cinematic start. Here are five flicks to see this January.
Her Joaquin Phoenix stars in Spike Jonze's Her, which is about Theodore Twombly, a lonely soon-to-be divorced man who falls in love with his artificially intelligent operating system, Samantha, voiced by Scarlett Johansson.
See also: 10 Most Anticipated Movies of 2014
Of course, she cannot offer him the depth of a human relationship. And his messy life needs tending in analog. Yet Twombly and others embark on digital relationships, platonic and otherwise, with different versions of the OS, which can tailor itself to the personalitiy of its user. The film gets a wide release Friday, January 10. Admission prices vary.
Enter The Dragon Give 2014 a kick in the face when FilmBar screens Bruce Lee's Enter The Dragon as part of its Super Fly '70s film series. It's Lee's final film and it features John Saxon and Jim Kelly fighting alongside Lee in a martial arts competition on an island owned by the super-shady Mr. Han. The critically lauded action thriller punches through the big screen at 8:30 p.m. Friday, January 10. Admission to the 21-and-over screening is $9. Visit www.thefilmbarphx.com.
Llyn Foulkes One Man Band The tag line of this feature documentary notes that Llyn Foulkes is the most famous artist you've never heard of. That'll change, provided you attend Phoenix Art Museum's screening of the film. Co-directors Tamar Halpern and Christopher Quilty follow the artist-musician as he works to create complex paintings. Commentary, clips, and appearances from Dennis Hopper, Johnny Carson, Paul Schimmel and George Herms fill out the story.
Contemporary Forum presents the 7 p.m. screening on Wednesday, January 15. Admission is free to both the viewing and the museum. Visit www.phxart.org for more.
Time Zero: The Last Year of Polaroid Film Before quickly snapping a pic and filtering it through Instagram and after the days when your only choice was to turn film over to a developer (or DIY), Polaroid's instant film made photos quick, easy, and more accessible than ever. When the company halted production of its instant film in 2008, photographers both professional and amateur fought for Polaroid to reverse its decision and keep the photo magic alive. The life of Polaroid's instant film is encapsulated in Grant Hamilton's Time Zero.
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No Festival Required presents the film, which Steve Weiss will introduce, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, January 16, at SMoCA Lounge. Admission is $7. Call 480-874-4666.
Giselle Fathom Events brings the Royal Ballet and its Opera House to the Valley for a one-night-only viewing of the classical ballet company's production of Giselle, which is about the tragic romance of a young peasant girl who falls in love with a count masquerading as a village person.
The Sir Peter Wright production screens at AMC Esplanade at 7 p.m. Monday, January 27. Tickets are $