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Ballard Pwr Sys Inc New (NASDAQ:BLDP)
The Company is focused on the design, development, manufacture, sale and service of PEM fuel cells for a variety of applications.
Closed and reopened to more accurately reflect my actual start price.
Actually in at $0.65, but still not a large part of my portfolio.
Still expect them to improve performance in the future, but still struggling to get there.
JMO and worth exactly what I am charging for it.
Sure am glad I opened that account with Trade King, after Buy and Hold decided not to allow trading in them anymore.
Just sold some to lock in profits, but kept most of it.
I am up 118% on it so far.
Sometimes you get lucky and these small cap stocks pay off big.
Will post a link to the news that is driving it later.
With what is happening, I believe it is worth a look for a small position, even at the current price.
JMO and worth exactly what I am charging for it.
Here is the link to the PR NewsWire article on Yahoo Finance about the long term deal they signed with Volkswagen.
It is expected to be worth from $60M to $100M.
They also got an investment to pursue Fuel Cells for home use in Africa.
The second one could, over the longer term, be more valueable than the first.
JMO and worth exactly what I am charging for it.
It looks like the "shorts" who got "squeezed" yesterday are back at it again today.
If they drive it down far enough, I will buy back the shares I sold for a $118% gain yesterday, to add to those I kept.
Their strength is their engineering, and that is what VW is wanting from them for now.
Can go up and down easily in this market, but they have turned the corner now and should be profitable going forward from here.
JMO and worth exactly what I am charging for it.
It's ridiculous that TMF doesn't have a link to a 100 mil+ contract that Ballard signed with VW.
Not sure what you mean by a link Jim.
There is a link in my pitch from Yahoo Finance.
I wasn't aware of TMF posting links, unless it is something so obvious that I have missed it completely.
I just finished reading the Ballard annual report, and it looks promising going forward, now that the VW contract replaced the one that ended with Damlier, but the cancelling, or at least post poning of expected bus contracts has had an effect.
They have taken steps to concentrate on the more immediately profitable portions of their business, so I expect some good things for them going forward.
Good luck to you in your investing.
Temporary drop on new share issuance and fear of dilution.
A good opportunity to reduce your holding cost if you are in above this number.
It will come back.
Need cash to fund their "China Bus Deal".
It did "whack" my score though.:)
JMO and worth exactly what I am charging for it.
Sold some this morning when it had the big "upside overshoot" on speculative trading.
When you are investing in small caps, you have to watch out for the day traders who run it up and then dump it.
They are still a good company with a good future ahead of them, but the share price got way ahead of itself.
JMO and worth exactly what I am charging for it.
Hope you didn't buy in at the top and get burned.
Decided to go ahead and take my 550% profit on the shares I had left. Didn't have enough to benefit greatly from any likely upside in the shorter term.
Will put it back on my watch list and may see if I can do some "swing trades" with it.


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UFO sightings in Canada neared a record high in 2011, of almost 1,000 sightings, at a rate of almost three per day. If it was happening here, would it be reported?
The July 24th edition of the Sun News reports that most of them were reported in Ontario, with British Columbia and Alberta coming in second and third.
Witnesses reported lights in the sky, spheres and boomerangs.
One man reported seeing a beige object the size and shape of a grapefruit that circled around a telephone pole before it stopped, then flew toward him--missing him by only a couple of feet--before he lost sight of it.
A recent study of these sightings says that many of the witnesses were pilots, police and "other individuals with reasonably good observing capabilities and good judgment." (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to these interviews).
Who says our Northern Neighbors are dull?
Funny you should mention. In the past 10 weeks, I've had two sightings on two separate occasions. After the first one, I was really excited as I've never seen a UFO before. Then I saw the next one 6 weeks later. These were both very bright lights moving across the sky, strange and silent. They were not planes (or stars, obviously.) They were similar in that after a period of time, both dimmed their light before completely disappearing.
Southern Ontario, Canada.
A way of looking at bursts of ufo activity is: is it a response to researchers' discoveries about alien artifacts & bases: this latest one might express a reaction to Linda Howe's work exposing that weird Cheops-reminiscent structure in Alaska, which could very well be a Canadian territory with a simple twist of fate. I have had reason to think this type of thing in a multitude of instances over the years.

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Sept 9-7
Kenneth Gerecht, w/m, 53, warrant
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Citations Issued: 2
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Neighborhood Checks: 325
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Sept. 1-7
Anthony L. Downs, 49, possession of controlled substance PG1 less than 1 gram, theft of property more than $1500 less than $20K
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Aug. 1-31
Ida Dixon, b/f, 60, warrant arrest
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Juan Alaniz, h/m, 41, warrant arrest
Dominique Bickham, b/m, 23, warrant arrest
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Kyle H. Vaughn, m, 21, Dallas County Sheriff Office warrant
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Ennis Police Reports
Sept. 3-9
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Submitted article
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Aug. 23 – Sept. 1
Warrant Service in the 100 block of Akins Street, Waxahachie. M/B was arrested on Ellis County warrants.
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Wilmer Police Reports
Aug. 26-29
Detravion Javan Washington, b/m, 24, Wilmer PD x2
Diane Lillian Reed, b/f, 21, aggravated assault peace officer x2 assault family violence CBI
Jose Antonio Reyes, w/m, ...
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Red Oak Police Reports
Aug. 26-Sept. 3
Michael A. Ashcraft, 25, bond forfeiture-criminal mischief
Roy W. Petty, 44, driving while license invalid, failure to appear
Kimberly M. Griggs, 22, theft-misdemeanor-property
Daniel A. Nielson, ...
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Ovilla Police Reports
Aug. 26- Sept. 1
Traffic Stops 28
Citations issued 13
Vacation house check 34
Business/building checks 138
Neighborhood checks 249
Total Primary calls for service 40
911 hang-up 1
Accident minor 1
Animal loose ...
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Midlothian Police Reports
Aug. 25-31
Raym, Sanabria-Torres, 24, driving w/license inv/w previous conviction/w/o/fin res, intoxication assault w/vehicle SBI
Kayla D. Yeager, 20, consumption of alcohol by minor
Bryson A. Dodson, 27, ...
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Glenn Heights Police Reports
Aug. 17-29
Michael P. Conway, m, 23, Glenn Heights warrant
John H. Joseph, m, 25, Dallas County Sheriff Office warrant/Arlington PD warrants/Wilmer PD warrant/Garland PD warrants
Donnie R. ...
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Ennis Police Reports
Aug. 27-Sept.3
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|Mon, 05-20-2013 - 1:51pm
There have been a lot of stories in the news the past year about parents using public humiliation as a punishment tool. If their kids are going to break the rules, then they are going to let everyone know about it. With social media, it's pretty easy to have it happen and even go viral across the nation.
The latest is from Utah, a mom found out her 10 year old daughter was bullying another child:
Kaylee, 10, was teasing another student about her clothes so much that the student wanted to leave school.
So, when Kaylee's mom, Ally, found out she made her daughter wear outfits she picked out at a thrift shop.
Here is a link to the rest of the story, along with photos of the clothes she had to wear to school: http://www.myfoxphilly.com/story/22297965/utah-mom-makes-bully-daughter-wear-thrift-store-clothes
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The Cardinals are right behind the Atlanta Braves for the first NL Wild Card spot, which is essentially the same position they were in at this time last year, before they went on to overtake the Braves and eventually win their 11th World Series. The Nats have yet to play the Cards this season, but last season they won four of six games against them. Since 2005, the Nationals have a 19-25 overall record against the St. Louis, with a 14-9 home record.
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Although not quite as dramatically as the Nationals, the Cardinals have also struggled recently. They failed to score any runs in their last two games, dropping their most recent series to another Wild Card contender, the Pittsburgh Pirates. St. Louis has gone 16-11 in August, winning four, losing three and splitting one of eight series. The Nats have a similar record for the month (17-10), although they have won six of their eight series, with one loss and one split.
Since the beginning of their five-game losing streak, which they broke up last night with a win over the Miami Marlins, the Nats have averaged 2.33 runs per game. In the same timeframe, the Cardinals have scored an average of 3.66 runs per game, winning three of six contests. Despite the disparity, both teams rank in the top four MLB teams for run differential (Nationals +96, Cardinals +113) and are the top two teams in the National League by a significant margin.
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Called "offensive juggernauts" by James Wagner of the Washington Post, the Cardinals' .276 team average is second only to the Texas Rangers, and only by two points. Their slugging percentage (.430) ranks sixth in the majors, while their on-base percentage (.340) is tied for first. In comparison, the Nationals slash line of .257/.317/.413 ranks 12th, 19th and 13th, respectively.
Although the Nationals have hit more home runs than the Cardinals – 138 to their 133 – the Nats have struck out a whopping 117 more times than St. Louis has. Three of their qualified batters are hitting .300 or higher (Yadier Molina, Matt Holliday, David Freese), while the Nationals' player with the highest qualified batting average is Ian Desmond, hitting .282.
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- Since his acquisition by the Cardinals from the Marlins, relief pitcher Edward Mujica has been absolutely lights out. In 12 games and 12.1 innings, he has allowed seven hits and no runs, earning nine holds.
- Yadier Molina suffered minor injuries to his shoulder, back and neck in a collision with Pirates' Josh Harrison at home plate on Tuesday night. Much of Molina's pain has subsided, and the Cardinals hot hitter (.325 AVG, 17 HR) will be back in the lineup for Thursday's game.
- Jordan Zimmermann and Kyle Lohse, who will face off on Saturday, have nearly identical stat lines. Zimmermann claims a .263 ERA and is averaging 6.65 strikeouts, 1.79 walks and 0.78 home runs per nine innings. Lohse's ERA is 2.64, and he is averaging 5.53 strikeouts, 1.66 walks and 0.72 home runs per nine. Zimmermann's Wins Above Replacement is 3.1, while Lohse's is 2.9.
- Edwin Jackson will take the hill in the series opener against his former team. In 105 at-bats throughout Jackson's multi-team career, current Cardinals are hitting .276 off him.
Who's hot?
Yadier Molina (C) .485 AVG, .481 OBP, .625 SLG, 1 HR (last seven games)
Matt Holliday (LF) .367 AVG, .367 OBP, .633 SLG, 1 HR (last seven games)
Edward Mujica (RP) 0.00 ERA, 7 H, 9 SO, 1 BB, 12.1 IP (last 12 games)
Who's not?
Carlos Beltran (RF) .111 AVG, .200 OBP, .111 SLG, 7 SO (last seven games)
Jake Westbrook (SP) 10.80 ERA, .439 BAA, .659 SLG, 10.0 IP (last two starts)
Probable Starters
Edwin Jackson (7-9, 3.72 ERA) vs. Jaime Garcia (3-5, 4.15 ERA)
Gio Gonzalez (16-7, 3.28 ERA) vs. Adam Wainwright (13-10, 3.63 ERA)
Jordan Zimmermann (9-8, 2.63 ERA) vs. Kyle Lohse (14-2, 2.64 ERA)
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Recognising and meeting customer needs
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:45
By Des Squire - AMSI (Pty) Ltd
In order to provide a quality experience for customers you need to recognise their specific and individual needs.
Recognise that different customers have different needs is vital in any business or public service institution. If these needs are identified and met your customer will want to deal with you again in the future.
Meeting customer needs doesn't mean just matching them to the right product or service, it means addressing their total need during your encounter.
The need of the customer is not restricted to a particular service you offer it extends to a range of personal needs each of which is possibly unique to individual customers. This is where we often make the first mistake. We assume the customer just want the service we offer and neglect to identify with other needs.
Let's consider some of these needs
* Give the customer a sense of value
The customer wants to feel you value them and that you're giving them your undivided attention. There is nothing more likely to turn a customer off than the feeling that you're in a hurry or have more important things to do.
They sense this because you're looking over your shoulder at another customer they assume you see as being more important. Another example would be when you continue working with some admin papers and leave them waiting. They sense the admin work is more important than they are.
Whilst you're dealing with customer irrespective of who he or she is, irrespective of whether the business is worth R5 or R5 million they should have your undivided attention. Everyone wants recognition.
* Create a comfortable, non-pressured feeling
In a sales environment customers do not like the "hard sell: approach. The might end up buying from you but will they come back? In a service environment do not put the customer under any form of pressure.
Make sure the customer is on the same "wavelength" as you and understands what you are talking about. You may know your job and the intricacies of various situations very well but your customer may not have the same knowledge.
You need to think medium term and long term when dealing with customers, not just about completing the immediate sale or finalising the service offered.
Ask yourself "What is the value of this customer?" You might make a good sale or give a satisfactory service but you need to remember and always be aware of the fact - that person will spread their opinion of your business by word of mouth to others. Far more people will hear about you if the experience was bad than if it was good.
* Do not give the impression you are judging your customer
The way your customer dresses and looks, the position they hold or the job they do should not influence the quality of service and attention your give them. A mistake often made by some sales people is to be offhand with the receptionist not realising these people are often the 'gatekeepers' to the people you really want to see.
Similarly that shabbily dressed older person you can't imagine being able to afford your product or services might turn out to have a very important son or daughter. The poverty stricken, badly dressed person homeless person is still your customer if they have a need for your service.
* Show genuine interest
The customer wants to know you are genuinely interested in their needs. We normally make about seven value judgments in the first minute of any encounter. Most of these will be made on an emotional rather than a logical level.
Customers will "latch on" to this sub-conscious level whether your interest in them is genuine or fake and will respond appropriately. Many customers will show this by becoming irate and demanding a change of attitude. Based on perception the customer will remain loyal to your company or organisation or will abandon or "bad mouth" you.
* Show your customer that you're listening to them
Few people are good listeners, so most of us need to work on this aspect. God gave us two ears and one mouth for a very good reason – he expects us to use them proportionately.
The secret is to practise listening with total concentration and ignore outside distractions. Hear what it is the customer is actually saying and not what you want to hear or think they are saying.
A help here is to user their name when you talk to them and summarise what they tell you – Mr Jones, "If I understood you correctly, you need…"
Your overall aim should be to give your customers and clients a "quality experience" when they visit you so that they are encouraged
You work in your current position because you chose to do so. No one forced you to take this position. If this position requires you to deal with people, whether in the public or private sector you have a responsibility to recognise who your customers are and what is expected and required of you.
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"You won't find Halloween, Alaska anywhere on a map," wrote Spin magazine. "Instead, this Minnesota band inhabits a sensual, weightless world of sweetly brooding electronic pop."
In September 2011 Halloween, Alaska released its fourth album — its first for Eau Claire-based Amble Down Records. "All Night the Calls Came In" marks the group's evolution from a studio-born purveyor of lush ambient pop to a full-bodied rock band. Departing from the slower, more methodical process behind its previous three albums, "All Night the Calls Came In" was recorded live in a single room during a single week with all four members playing together. The album documents the group's most direct and stripped-down work to date.
"Though the familiar synthesizers, drum machine beats, and laid back, adult contemporary aesthetic are still there, they take a backseat to thicker guitars and a more straightforward, rock-heavy pop attitude," wrote Volume One magazine.
Halloween, Alaska broke into the indie consciousness in 2004, with a self-titled disc of electronically laced art-pop. The band was created by singer-keyboardist James Diers and drummer David King as a low-key, studio-based diversion from their other projects (The Bad Plus, Happy Apple, Love-cars), but the group soon took on a life of its own. Through word-of-mouth and college radio buzz the debut album become a chart favorite at CMJ and on non-commercial and Internet radio stations across the country. Halloween, Alaska enjoyed an extra boost when its songs were featured in the first two seasons of the Fox TV series "The O.C."
After 2005's "Too Tall to Hide," Jacob Hanson introduced weightier guitar work into the mix — a change evident in the 2009 release, "Champagne Downtown." The group subsequently parted ways with original bassist Matt Friesen and recruited bassist William Shaw of the Minneapolis cult favorite 12 Rods.
In support of its latest album, Halloween, Alaska will release a collection of 10 remixes Feb. 28. With featured artists including S. Carey, "Fake Mistakes: Remixes" will be available exclusively on Amble Down's online store site for the first two weeks of its release at a pay-what-you-want price. The album will go on sale at other online stores March 13.
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Autumn and its wet cold has my mind in respect.
I must face once again winter without you honey.
Where are you ? Who can read about your only poems.
From one place to another, your missing is injuring
The skies, seas and lands...
Answer back please ! Be rude at me ! Let me read once again your lovely words.
|Mon, 11-12-2012 - 5:38pm
Hi Fred, good to hear from you again. As always with your poems, there is a quaint and lovely vibe running through it. I have no desire to alter your words as I would surely destroy the love that you so admirably seem to inject in your posts. Bon chance mon ami.
|Tue, 11-13-2012 - 6:27am
Fred, this is beautiful! I love the last verse, especially: "Be rude to me!" Great!
How about changing "has my mind in respect" to "makes my mind reflect?" I think that's what you mean.
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It's a mystery worthy of an Indiana Jones adventure. Earlier this week, the staff of the University of Chicago revealed that they had received a strange package. It was addressed to "Henry Walton Jones Jr." care of the university, and was processed with the regular mail. On further inspection, the package was more than it appeared to be. Once they realized that something peculiar was going on, they opened it to find a treasure trove of Indiana Jones prop replicas.
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On January 18, 1996 I gave birth to a beautiful baby boy. He was perfect. He had all of his toes, all of his fingers, he could see, his legs were formed and he was happy. I took him home not able to see that my sons lungs would fail him. That, I could not see. Within weeks, we were in and out of the hospital. Week after week. Emergency room visit after emergency room visit. I was finally told they thought my son had Cystic Fibrosis. My Mom and I hunkered down for a long 24 hour stay at the hospital for a sweat test. My stomach did more flip flops than an Olympic gymnast going for a perfect 10. The test was read. The results were in. He did not have CF. So why couldn't my son breathe? He was finally diagnosed as a severe chronic asthmatic. Almost 20 hospital stays, a collapsed lung and more prayers than a nunnery, today he can walk with me without having to stop or be transported to the ER. I could breath but my son could not. A simple inhale was as hard for him some days as it would be for me to lift a car. I could breath but my son could not. I would watch him sleep, play, sit, eat all because I knew I could breathe but my son could not. I embraced every bit of friendship, education and advocacy the American Lung Association was willing to give to my son and I. I walk because I can breathe and so many cannot. For each step I take and each dollar raised, maybe someone else will be able to breathe easy. That is my prayer.


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The summer of the last-minute garden
Well, as far as I'm concerned, the gardening season of 2012 will be one I shall be happy to forget.
First, I found that you can't hold off starting to tend to a vegetable garden until the end of June. While unforeseen circumstances brought this about, the calendar showed that a tremendous amount of gardening time — planning, preparation and planting — takes place during May and June. Under normal conditions these "chores" come along at a pace that is unhurried, so there's no pressure to accomplish them.
Starting a garden the first of July is bad enough under normal circumstances. This summer, there has also been the problem of unrelenting heat and humidity. Whether it's just that I'm getting old, I don't know, but I don't enjoy gardening activities when I can hardly move without sweating profusely. The joy of anticipating a bountiful harvest has passed me by.
Fortunately, our two sons and family visited during the Fourth of July week. They just couldn't see mom and dad without their normal garden. The garden was tilled and with the receipt of a few tomato plants from an island friend and some from my grandson's workplace, the basis of a garden was started. We planted summer squash, pole beans and lettuce seeds.
With a dose of benign neglect, we shall see if and when any produce reaches our kitchen before frost. The tomatoes are progressing quite well considering that in early July, they were the size of the transplants I usually buy in early May. They are now starting to set fruit. With a bit of luck, I can perceive that we may be picking tomatoes by early September. Just what variety they will be is another mystery, as not all of the plants were labeled.
One condition that may prove interesting is whether the squash will become infested with squash vine borer. Normally, my squash would start to decline in August due to the borer. If the borer doesn't appear, it may show the life cycle of the borer is more active early in the season. Thus, in future years I may make two plantings of squash, one in normal springtime and another about the first of July.
The Kentucky pole beans (we prefer them to bush beans) are actively climbing the bamboo poles, and again, we may see some produce by early September.
Another lesson this season has forced upon me relates to lettuce seed. This certainly is not the hardest seed to put in the soil and expect ready germination. Yet after a couple of weeks of frequent watering, I had to give up. Then I looked at the seed packages and noted that they were dated for 2011, not 2012. I didn't think that lettuce seed lost its germination ability so quickly. So — if you have experienced similar circumstances on seeded crops, it pays to buy fresh seed that is dated for the current growing season. All seed packages must have the date on the label. I am now waiting for the "new" seed to germinate.
One of the stalwarts of our garden is asparagus. We don't have to indulge in annual planting. Our asparagus patch is more than 20 years old and still producing all that a family can use. It freezes exceedingly well and I find the frozen comparable to fresh cut asparagus. Insects and disease have never been a problem. The only care is a late fall or early spring application of 5-10-10 fertilizer, a fall mulching of seaweed and an application of a preemergent herbicide in early spring. This past spring we were pleased that friends were able to make use of our crop in our absence.
This season our blackberry crop has been less than luxurious. An unusual number of canes produced small berries. Whether this was the result of my failure to apply the usual spring dose of fertilizer, or the extended drought, I don't know. To further complicate matters, the deer have been feasting on as many of the new developing canes that they can reach, thus reducing the potential crop for next year. This has not been a major problem in past years. I plan on adding some new plants next spring to fill in the arbor and shall be more diligent in disturbing the deer next year using various repellents and/or fencing.
Blueberries have been more satisfying than the blackberries. While we savor fresh berries every morning, we also freeze a sufficient amount to last us through the fall and winter. We use most of them on cereal and in pancakes. Blueberries require some annual pruning and fertilizing, abundant mulching, and occasional watering through summer dry spells. When planting blueberries, select varieties labeled early, mid and late to spread the harvest period. Secure and durable fencing and netting are essential. Birds will find the tiniest hole or opening to get access to the crop.
"Gardening is… an outlet for fanaticism, violence, love, and rationality without their worst side effects."
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Until recently, for many people, saffron has always been used as a spice, something to add flavor to food when cooking. However, recently, the hype surrounding saffron as a weight loss supplement has now reached many people's ears, and many are eager to believe in it.
Saffron, when taken as a supplement, has been found to be effective in curbing one's appetite. This has been attributed to saffron extract's ability to increase serotonin levels in the brain, which helps regulate a person's mood, which then makes a person feel happy and content, and skip the need to eat frequently and unhealthily. When a person feels content and happy, it becomes less likely that that individual gets stressed out easily or depressed, keeping him/her away from compulsive eating, which is one of the leading causes of obesity, especially in women.
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Amlodipine has been shown to raise blood levels of DHEA-sulfate in insulin-resistant, obese men with high blood pressure.1
Ingestion of grapefruit juice has been shown to increase the absorption of felodipine (a drug similar in structure and action to that of amlodipine) and to increase the adverse effects of the medication in patients with hypertension. Until more is known, it seems that grapefruit juice should not be ingested by people taking amlodipine or similar drugs.2 The same effects might be seen from eating grapefruit as from drinking its juice.
As pleurisy root and other plants in the Aesclepius genus contain cardiac glycosides, it is best to avoid use of pleurisy root with heart medications such as calcium channel blockers.3
Pomegranate juice has been shown to inhibit the same enzyme that is inhibited by grapefruit juice.4 , 5 The degree of inhibition is about the same for each of these juices. Therefore, it would be reasonable to expect that pomegranate juice might interact with amlodipine in the same way that grapefruit juice does.
1. Beer NA, Jakubowicz DJ, Beer RM, Nestler JE. The calcium channel blocker amlodipine raises serum dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate and androstenedione, but lowers serum cortisol, in insulin-resistant obese and hypertensive men. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1993;76:1464–9.
2. Bailey DG, Arnold MO, Strong HA, Munoz C, Spence JD, et al. Effect of grapefruit juice and naringin on nisoldipine pharmacokinetics. Clin Pharmacol Ther 1993;54:589–94.
3. Newall CA, Anderson LA, Phillipson JD. Herbal Medicines: A Guide for Health-Care Professionals. London: Pharmaceutical Press, 1996, 213–4.
4. Sorokin AV, Duncan B, Panetta R, Thompson PD. Rhabdomyolysis associated with pomegranate juice consumption. Am J Cardiol 2006;98:705–6.
5. Summers KM. Potential drug-food interactions with pomegranate juice. Ann Pharmacother 2006;40:1472–3.
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Sizing up the U.S. Presidents, from Nixon to Obama
By Julianne Malveaux
When I was 16 years old, I went to get a passport. Why? Richard Nixon had been elected president, and I was sure that he would impose such oppression that I might need to get out of the country. Never mind that I didn't have two quarters to rub together and was under such parental supervision that I might not have made it to the corner without being hit upside the head. I used my own little babysitting money to obtain that passport because I felt that our nation was changing. In retrospect, Nixon wasn't that bad. He actually did a few things to jump start minority business development, including signing an executive order that spoke to economic justice.
I appreciated President Jimmy Carter, but he was torpedoed by Iran. I actually spent a minute as a junior staffer in Carter's Council of Economic Advisors while a graduate student at MIT. I was disappointed that Carter did not win in 1980, and was again apprehensive when Ronald Reagan became our president. The ways that he described people who received public assistance, combined with his miserable record as governor of California, suggested that he would not be kind to the least and the left out.
Indeed, overall unemployment exceeded 10 percent under Reagan's leadership, but he was very popular for his ability to influence public opinion. His terms were marred by the Iran-contra scandal, and in the name of deregulation, he implicitly dismantled or weakened several federal agencies. Yet, some will point to his support of HBCUs, his uncomfortable visits to Howard and Hampton universities, where he expected protests but showed up anyway. With that, in retrospect, Reagan might have had minor redeeming social value to the African American community, but from my perch he was repressive.
Then there was George Herbert Walker Bush, the president whose aching unfamiliarity with the lives or ordinary people bit him in his hind parts in the 1992 election. Bush wasn't awful to African American people. I think the worst thing he did was appoint Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court, describing an ordinary jurist as the best he could find, and raising issues of race, gender and cultural loyalty at the same time. Lots of prominent African Americans supported Thomas because he was Black, only to learn that this damaged man thought that a prison guard who broke a prisoner's dental plate in his mouth did not inflict cruel and unusual punishment.
President William Jefferson Clinton was amazingly effective. African American unemployment rates dropped to 7 percent or so. The economy grew. African Americans thought they had a friend, even though Clinton's welfare deform was controversial and, from my perspective, marred his legacy. Whatever you say about Bill Clinton, he left our country better than he found it. He made brilliant appointments of African American leaders, including naming Hazel O'Leary Secretary of Energy and Mike Espy Secretary of Agriculture, not your usual Cabinet positions for Africa Americans. While flawed in many ways, the Clinton years are years to be celebrated.
But not the years of the man the late Molly Ivins called Shrub, as in Baby Bush. This man stole an election and then mumbled and stumbled his way though his first term, suggesting that consumerism would save us from the economic draught engendered by Sept. 11. Give me a break! Still, Baby Bush won a second term, and continued to wreak havoc on our economy, cutting taxes on the wealthy, burdening the poor and the middle class. Bush also decided to give bankers a break and a bailout. He presided over the greatest giveaway from our nation's poorest people to the wealthy when he decided that banks that ripped us off should get a break.
Why this walk down memory lane? Because President Obama's work is being questioned and his achievements of four years put on the line. This president deserves re-election, and every able bodied progressive should set out to dedicate themselves to making that happen. No, he hasn't done everything we'd like, but he has done more than John McCain would have done, more than we can ever expect Mitt Romney to do. The polls are saying this thing is neck in neck, and conservative commentators are saying that Obama must go. Rather than sing "We Shall Overcome" the day after this election, we ought to sing "I Shall Not Be Moved" before it.
But here is the bottom line: We are singing the same old song. We African Americans never get everything we need from elected officials. Let's reelect President Obama, but let's also decide to get our acts together to work independently from elective politics to attain social and economic justice. Otherwise, we are in the same old space, with a different meaning whatever we face. We have survived and, we will thrive, if we take our destiny into our own hands.
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OTTAWA -- Country star Taylor Swift is reportedly being sued by Capital Hoedown's ticket agent for nearly $2 million.
Celebrity gossip website TMZ.com said Front Gate Tickets had to refund $1.8-million to ticketholders after Capital Hoedown boss Denis Benoit finally pulled the plug on the troubled 2012 festival.
The suit claims Swift was paid $2.5 million in advance for her headlining role in the festival — money she kept under the terms of her contract when Capital Hoedown was cancelled.
The suit, filed in United States federal court, notes that Swift would still earn $700,000 for not singing if she were to reimburse the ticket vendor, TMZ reported.
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A contract crew is working to reconstruct a section of roadway that was washed away by a landslide inside the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. (Source: Kyle Grainger, WVLT)
GATLINBURG, Tenn. (WVLT) -- A contract crew is working to reconstruct a section of roadway that was washed away by a landslide inside the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
The contract was awarded to Phillips & Jordan, Inc. of Robinsville, NC. According to the national park, the contract was awarded for the submitted bid of $3,989,890.00 with a completion date set at May 15, 2013.
"It's going to be a lot of work. They're estimating 40,000 cubic yards of material is going to be needed to fill this hole. That's about 4,000 dump truck loads," said Molly Schroer, spokesperson for the National Park.
Newfound Gap Road has been closed since January 16 when the landslide happened. National Park administrators saw cracks in the roadway, but before crews could get up the mountain to check it out, the road way was gone.
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The world has been marking the first Nelson Mandela International Day as South Africa's first black president, turns 92 years old.
The United Nations last year agreed to commemorate Mandela's birthday every year to recognise the Nobel Peace Prize laureate's contribution to resolving conflicts and promoting race relations, human rights and reconciliation.
The former South African president celebrated his birthday on Sunday with his extended family at home in Johannesburg.But elsewhere, people were enouraged to devote 67 minutes of their day to public service, to honour Mandela's 67 years in politics.
Volunteers carried out a wide variety of tasks including feeding street children, cleaning schools and caring for the elderly.'Beautiful qualities'
A group of 30 bikers including Hollywood actor Morgan Freeman took to the road from Johannesburg to Cape Town, engaging in community service along the way. The group built a security fence at a centre for people living with Aids in the impoverished Khayelitsha township, outside Cape Town.
"I take it as my connection to Madiba [Mandela]. We should do it everyday," Freeman told journalists.Activities were organised across the globe, from Sudan's Darfur region where participants in a "Football for Peace" tournament competed for the Nelson Mandela cup to Spain where a 6.7km charity walk was being held. "Today is an opportunity for millions of people around the world to look inside themselves and find those beautiful qualities as any human being has and say: 'I am able to make a difference to my neighbor, to someone underprivileged, I can extend my goodness to other people,'" Graca Machel, Mandela's wife, said.Jacob Zuma, South Africa's president, and other government officials were marking the day in Mandela's birthplace of Mvezo by planting trees and painting classrooms.
In a speech, Zuma said Mandela taught South Africans that "we must work together to entrench African unity and solidarity in our country"."Of all the things that Madiba [Mandela] cherishes up to this day, it is the love of all humanity, freedom, justice and compassion for all people," he said.
'Towering figure'
Mandela was jailed for 27 years by the country's white minority government for resisting apartheid rule.
On his release in 1990, he led negotiations with apartheid rulers, a process that culminated in his election as the country's first black president in 1994.
Mandela stepped down as president in 1999, after serving one term in office and is still revered around the world for promoting peace and fighting against racism and HIV/Aids."Nelson Mandela is a towering figure. He embodies the highest values of humanity, and of the United Nations," Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, said in a statement on Sunday.
"Nelson Mandela's accomplishments came at great personal cost to himself and his family. Today, on the first Nelson Mandela International Day, we thank him for everything he has done for freedom, for justice and for democracy."
South Africa celebrated the 20th anniversary of Mandela's release from prison on February 11, a day credited with shaping the history of the country.
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