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"I like to live by the rule I am who I am. I've realised that no matter how hard I try, no matter how many wishes I make, I'm never going to wake up and be someone else."
These are the words of Kelly Osbourne, spoken as part of a new campaign, 'Today I Am.'
Launched by Scentre Group -- the owner and operator of Westfield shopping centres in Australia and New Zealand -- 'Today I Am' encourages women to embrace themselves for who they are. The campaign coincides with the launch of the Spring Summer 2015 (SS15) fashion season.
'Today I Am' is also fronted by fellow Westfield Style Ambassador Lara Worthington, and will see both Worthington and Osbourne appear in short films exploring beauty and fashion, using their own experiences as narrative. Osbourne's film is already live, with Worthington's to follow later in the year.
In a statement released to the media, Osbourne said "It's important to have the confidence to wear what you want to wear and feel empowered to let your fashion choices evolve with your personal style. For me, 'Today I Am' enables individuals to be who they want to be. It's been an honour to be a part of a campaign which speaks to the restless nature of fashion and gives the freedom to individuals to define who they are in the moment the way they want to."
The campaign will also showcase new looks from Australian and international designers such as Carla Zampatti, Sportscraft, Cue, Wanted Shoes, Country Road, Swarovski, MAC and Aveda.
For further #TodayIAm fashion, Westfield has curated seven collections to give shoppers #TodayIAm style inspiration, including Today, I Am: Fearless, Today, I Am: Natural and Today, I Am: Free Spirited. There is also a collection aimed at men, Today, I Am: Rebellious.
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Looking For Jake & Other Stories by China Miéville
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|September 2, 2005
Looking for Jake and Other Stories is China Miéville's first collection of short stories, published in 2005. It's an imaginative, thoughtful, political and highly original collection of work, a melding of fantasy, science-fiction and horror. Miéville nails this intricate balance, a subgenre some have termed New Weird and even professed him its 'god-father.'
Miéville mostly uses science in order to enrich his stories. He doesn't drown the reader in difficult concepts, but uses physics to back his ideas up. Some stories, like the closing novella The Tain and Details require the reader's concentration in order to be understood, but that's not because the ideas at hand are too complicated, it's because they're detailed and conveyed in a deep prose style.
Miéville's true talent lies in perspective. His command of voice and narration is sublime, with each short story clearly defined from the last via an engaging, well-reasoned narrator. From the paranoid messenger protagonist in Go Between, to the optimistic everyman in 'Tis the Season, it's clear Miéville has carefully considered his viewpoints, a difficult task considering the constraints of a short story. Surprisingly, The Tain suffers from a rather un-fleshed out protagonist, which is surprising considering it's the longest of all the stories. The reader may care more about the author's vivid, disturbing vision of a post-apocalyptic London (and its unique invaders) than Sholl's fight for survival. Fortunately, the plot comes to a sound, interesting ending, and the sudden turn the story takes after the first chapter is a hook. Miéville's switch of perspective in the novella is fantastic, and shows the amount of work that he puts into his smaller fictions.
Miéville's stories are full of brevity. They're like deep, sudden breaths. His stories aren't beginnings or endings, they're slices of a character's existence, an important glance into their weird, impossible lives. It's about what the character, and we as the reader, learn from these few, precious glimpses. If some of Miéville's tales come to ambiguous endings, it's only because the ending isn't really that important. It's the journey that matters. It's how the reader is forced to question their world, in relation to the strange, impossible things that happen in Miéville's created, yet familiar, landscapes.
Foundation, Familiar and Looking For Jake are the more fantastical stories in the collection. The former is the brilliant story of a man that can hear voices of the dead within the foundations of buildings. Familiar is the genesis of a witch's creation that escapes into the world. There's some phenomenal phrasing in this one. Looking For Jake, a perfect easing-in to the collection, is the simple tale of the narrator's search for the mysterious Jake amidst a London that has completely broken down in light of supernatural occurrences. Fantasy fans may want to start with these stories.
Horror fans will find their chills in The Ballroom, the most straightforward scary story in the collection. But it's An End to Hunger, a dystopian horror focussing on corporative evil, which offers the most shivers, possibly because of its modern, more relatable setting. Cyber-attacks and dangerous technologies are becoming more prevalent in our current world, and it's startling to see how they can be used, for good or evil. Different Skies, the tale of a window through which another world lies, lies host to a number of scary children. And children are usually the scariest when it comes to horror.
Jack is the only story not set in London. It's part of his New Crobuzon world, but doesn't require any foreknowledge to be understood. It's a maniacal, colourful account of a criminal's life that definitely nudges the reader toward Perdido Street Station, Miéville's first novel in that world. There are also a few more experimental stories in the collection. On The Way to the Front is a graphic comic written by Liam Sharp. It's interesting, but might not appeal to readers who have come to read Miéville's impressive prose. Which, of course, it is. His words are divots of gold that seem to have fallen so effortlessly from his pen. His use of neologisms and imaginative concepts, however, is the product of hard work. His back catalogue of deep, rich novels is evidence of that.
Reports of Certain Events in London, however, is a meandering tale, and not particularly exciting. Told in incidental accounts and journals, it's slightly confusing, and not particularly rewarding, but it's a testament to the variety of stories that Miéville offers. Another experiment, Entry Taken from a Medical Encyclopaedia, is more successful. An epistolary short story that recounts a strange, impossible disease, it is thought-provoking and rich in detail.
Attempting Miéville's novel Kraken some time ago, I found his weird prose style and use of abstract concepts quite difficult to engage with. Looking for Jake and Other Stories is a more accessible window into Miéville's imagination, the perfect launch pad into the rich worlds he creates. For those who prefer the short story medium when it comes to Miéville, his latest collection, Three Moments Before an Explosion, was published in Summer 2015.

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The New York Jets finally have their hopeful future franchise quarterback under contract.
Sam Darnold, the No. 3 overall pick in this year's NFL draft, and the team have agreed to a four-year deal worth $30.25 million ahead of Monday afternoon's practice. ESPN's Adam Schefter first reported details of the contract before the team made it official:
The deal is done.
Details on #SamDarnold signing → https://t.co/gdskN90c4d pic.twitter.com/UX0bQLkkgT
— New York Jets (@nyjets) July 30, 2018
The deal is slightly smaller than that of No. 1 overall pick Baker Mayfield.
Darnold missed beginning of training camp
Jets rookies reported on July 24, and training camp opened up on July 26, but Darnold has not been present due to ongoing negotiations with the team regarding offset language in the contract. Now that he's under contract, the former USC star will report for camp and hope to make up for lost time as he competes with Josh McCown and Teddy Bridgewater for the starting job.
Darnold, 21, burst onto the scene with a strong redshirt freshman campaign in 2016 after starting the season as the second-string quarterback. He threw 31 touchdowns to just nine interceptions, and expectations were sky high for his sophomore season. After a slow start, Darnold got on track and finished with 4,143 yards, 26 touchdowns and 13 interceptions in 14 games. The Trojans won the Pac-12 before losing to Ohio State in the Cotton Bowl.
Bears LB Roquan Smith is only first-rounder still unsigned
With Darnold now under contract, Bears linebacker Roquan Smith, the eighth overall pick, is the only first-round pick still unsigned. The Georgia product is holding out due to the NFL's new helmet rule and the language in his contract regarding it. The Bears opened camp early (July 16 for rookies, July 19 for veterans) because they play in the Hall of Fame Game on Thursday, so Smith has missed out on two weeks' worth of action already.
More from Yahoo Sports:
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You may be experiencing gout symptom and you don't even know it. You may blame it on a number of other causes such as working conditions, not eating right, to name just a few of the excuses you come up with so you don't realize you may have a gout symptom.
You Know What Gout is, then You can be Aware If You are Having a Gout SymptomWhat gout is is a painful inflammation of the joints. It is a form of arthritis and eating certain foods can cause severe gout symptom. If diet plays a significant factor, cherries as an efficient natural treatment for gout symptom should be done through proper diet as well as the proper medication. It is of no use thinking that you know everything, when in reality, you don't know anything! It is only because we knew so much about Gout Pain that we got down to writing about it!
One of the Most Recognizable Gout Symptom is a Severe or Sudden Attack of PainIt will cause tenderness, warmth, redness and perhaps some swelling in some of the affected joints. Gout Symptom came into being some time back. However, would you believe that there are some people who still don't know what a Gout Symptom is?
Gout Symptoms Usually Attack Just a Single Joint At a TimeIt especially likes to go after the big toe. The why of that is probably buried deep in scientific annals, but whatever, it is true. Those with gout must watch that they don't mistreat their condition and lose a toe. Other symptoms of gout can be pain in the foot, ankle, wrist, hand and elbow. It seems as if deposits of chemicals called uric acid also called tophi will appear as lumps beneath the skin surrounding the joint.
Many People Consider Gout an Old Fashioned Disease that Has All but Been EradicatedNot true, many people suffer daily from a gout symptom of one kind or another. How can you know if what you are suffering is truly a gout symptom? Do your research online and you can know if your gout symptom is something that is treatable, or much more serious. After reading what was written here, don't you get the impression that you had actually heard about these points sometime back. Think back and think deeply about Gout Pain.
Millions of people search for gout remedies each day hoping to find a way to get rid of the most painful type of arthritis. And most people who succeed in treating gout eastern nazarene college do so with simple home remedies that involve lifestyle changes.
5. Move! Though it might hurt at first you should try to exercise between attacks. Exercise has hundreds of benefits but it also flushes impurities out of your body and keeps your body running efficient. Start with a short 10 minute walk and increase each week. Penetration into the world of Gout Remedies proved to be our idea in this article. Read the article and see if we have succeeded in this or not!
Anybody who has ever been diagnosed with gout knows that it can be extremely painful. Most people resort to some kind of painkiller which treats the pain but does NOT treat the uric crystals that cause gout. And people who use painkillers tend to damage the joint completely and allow gout to ruin their kidneys and lives. We consider that we have only touched the perimeter of information available on Uric Acid. There is still a lot more to be learnt!
Currently You Body is Processing Too Many Purines Which Turn Into Uric AcidIf the blood stream contains too much uric acid, it will form into uric crystals which reside between joints (in most cases the big toe). If gout is not treated by flushing the uric acid, kidney damage will result. Perhaps you may not have been interested in this passage on Gout. In that case, please don't spread this feedback around!
- Why You Lifestyle is Important Think about a time in your life when you were the healthiest.
- I can venture to guess that you didn't have gout during that period.
- And as you get older you might think that gout is a natural process of getting older.
- You are wrong!
- But the good news is that you can naturally treat gout with some simple do's and don'ts.
Fortunately, Gout is a Warning Sign to Tell You that You Need to Watch What You EatYour diet could be one thing that could help or hurt your gout symptoms. Perfection has been achieved in this article on Gout Natural. There is hardly any matter left from this article that is worth mentioning.Perfection has been achieved in this article on Gout Natural. There is hardly any matter left from this article that is worth mentioning.
4. Vitamins! Studies have all indicated that sufferers usually have a vitamin deficiency. Vitamins A, B5 and E are critical to your diet. These 3 vitamins have been shown to block the formation and advancement of gout symptoms.
3. Purines! As stated earlier, purines are a cause of gout. You should moderate your intake of purines immediately. If the body does not have purines to convert to uric acid, you will have fewer and fewer attacks. Here is a list of the high purine foods: red meat products, gravies, shellfish, fish, and dried beans. For a complete food guide, please check gout forum Gout Remedy Report. If there is the slightest possibility of you not getting to understand the matter that is written here on Gout, we have some advice to be given. Use a dictionary!
2. Fiber! You should also eat fiber which causes your body to flush and detoxify itself. Eat at least 7-8 servings of fruits and vegetables a day. Fruits and veggies are high in water soluble fiber which will also flush your attacks away.
But before you run to the doctor and get some painkillers, you might want to try some simple gout remedies that flush uric acid (the cause of gout) and drastically reduce gout attacks. This article serves as a representative for the meaning of Purine in the library of knowledge. Let it represent knowledge well.
- 1. Most people do not know that they are dehydrated.
5 Simple Gout Remedies
- Flush your body!
- It is said that 80% of Americans are dehydrated.
- And research shows that most gout sufferers are in that category.
- You should be drinking at least 12 tall glasses of water a day if you suffer from this disease.
- Water flushes the body of uric acid, cholesterol, toxins, plaque, chemicals and many impurities.
- B>Osteoarthritis: Cause and Symptoms In our last article, we briefly discussed Osteoarthritis and Rheumatoid Arthritis.
- This article will take a close look at the cause, symptoms, and current treatment used for Osteoarthritis.
- So let's take a second look at what Osteoarthritis is.
Joint Pain- this tends to be worse when rising in the morning ' Joint Swelling and Inflammation- this occurs during periods of activity ' Feeling a "Grinding" Sensation when a Joint is moved ' Loss of Mobility and Flexibility We find great potential in Gout. This is the reason we have used this opportunity to let you learn the potential that lies in Gout.
We've discussed the potential causes of Osteoarthritis, now it is time to look at the various symptoms of Osteoarthritis. The symptoms of Osteoarthritis include: Self-praise is no praise. So we don't want to praise ourselves on the effort put in writing on Gout. instead, we would like to hear your praise after reading it!
There is No Sure Way to Prevent Arthritis in Any of Its FormsThere are however some things that you can do to help lower your risk of developing Osteoarthritis or any other type of Arthritis. Some of the preventative methods that you may add to your lifestyle today include: We did not write too elaborate an article on Gout as it would be then difficult for the common man to read it. We have written this article in such a way that everyone will be able to read and understand it!
The Cause of Osteoarthritis is Not Known, Yet Doctors Have Many SuspicionsSome of the symptoms of Osteoarthritis boggle the minds of scientists and more research needs to take place to determine the actual root of the disease. For instance, X-rays can tell that Arthritis is present, yet the amount of pain reported by Osteoarthritis sufferers differs from the results of the X-ray. Though many people refer to Osteoarthritis as the "wear and tear" disease, evidence shows that this disease and its mysterious cause are not as simple as that definition. In fact, "wear and tear" does not take place in just one joint, but affects joints simultaneously throughout the body. An example of this, is that sufferers with Osteoarthritis of the knee, offer suffer Osteoarthritis in the hand. Also, doctors have noted that patients don't suffer with Osteoarthritis on just one side of the body (as would be expected due to wear and tear) but because it seems to affect the body concurrently, it appears that Osteoarthritis is a systematic disease affecting all of the cartilage at once. Some of the matter found here that is pertaining to Gout seems to be quite obvious. You may be surprised how come you never knew about it before!
One suggestion is that Osteoarthritis is a result of cartilage that has stopped functioning at optimum level. Cartilage is continuously undergoing a process where it is broken down, then rebuilt. Some theories state that this process becomes unbalanced and out of hand. This is referred to as "End Stage Osteoarthritis." It is at this stage that joint pain and impairment begin to manifest. There are many natural remedies that show promise in the management of Osteoarthritis pain and symptoms. Look for future articles in our Arthritis Series that will offer natural remedies that may prevent enzymes from damaging cartilage. Reading all this about gout is sure to help you get a better understanding of Gout. So make full use of the information we have provided here.
- Osteoarthritis patients usually state that their pain is greatest during times of movement, and then lessens significantly during periods of rest.
- Osteoarthritis affects many more women than men.
- There is an estimated 24 million Osteoarthritis sufferers in the United States and roughly 74% are women.
- Thinking of what to do upon reading this article on Gout?
- Well you can very well use the information constructively by imparting it to others.
Maintain an Ideal Body Weight ' Take steps to prevent the development of Osteoporosis. Some of these include taking adequate Vitamin D and Calcium, exercising, and taking medication if needed. ' Do your best to prevent injuring your bones and joints -try to avoid accidents such as sports related, implementing joint protection by growing plants with colchicine.


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BITGAP Annual Tourism Quiz eliminations set Friday in Calape
By: Welbe Caragan
June 22, 2008
Mayor Sulpicio Yu, Jr. of Calape and other
town officials, the host of the 9th Annual Provincial Tourism Quiz 2008 1st
District elimination round, pose with the members of the Tourism Quiz Committee
after both parties agreed to work together for the success of the event.
Senior high school students from the first
congressional district of Bohol will come under the spotlight next week as the
Bohol Island Tour Guides Association of the Philippines, Inc. (BITGAP) quizzes
them on Bohol's tourism sights, standards, arts and culture.
Organized by BITGAP, an organization of Department
of Tourism-accredited tour guides in the Province of Bohol, the Annual
Provincial Tourism Quiz seeks to generate awareness and strengthen knowledge and
appreciation of Bohol's pride and ecotourism assets among young Boholanos.
Participants from various high schools in the first
congressional district (except Tagbilaran City) will converge at the New Calape
Cultural Center and Sports Complex on Friday, June 27, 2008, 1:00 pm for the 1st
leg of the competition.
The academic feat is open to the public. The
competition will feature teams composed of two senior high school students.
BITGAP believes that graduating students even in
the towns should have a grasp on and exposure to the tourism industry in Bohol.
The Quiz will consist of two rounds — the
elimination and finals.
The three teams with the highest scores in the
elimination round will move on to the final round, and the team with highest
score at the end of the final round (either municipal or city level) will be
declared the Champion.
Fabulous prizes await the lucky winners in the
elimination as well as the Championship round.
Two teams of overall champion shall be declared –
one at the district level and another at the city level.
"We are having this and the succeeding year's
competition at the district level in order to give high school students from the
various towns greater opportunity to participate in the contest," says BITGAP
President Danny C. Nazareno.
In the past eight years, the quiz was conducted
only during the tourism month in September when high school students from the
municipalities all over the Province usually come to Tagbilaran City for the
"This year's competition will be different as we
will only be requiring the winners in the elimination round to come to
Tagbilaran City for the championship round," Nazareno stressed.
This is also to celebrate BITGAP's ten years of
professional tour guiding services for sustainable development in the Province
of Bohol.
The second and third congressional districts
elimination level will be in Ubay and Carmen, respectively.
It will be held on July 25 for the second district
and August 29 for the third district.
Winners in the elimination round will vie for the
finals in the morning of September 20, 2008 in Tagbilaran City.
The City high schools will have their elimination
and final round in the afternoon of the same day.
The local government unit executives of the
different host towns have already committed their all-out support to the
In separate meetings with the Committee on the 9th
Annual Provincial Tourism Quiz 2008, Mayors Sulpicio Yu, Jr. of Calape, Eutiquio
M. Bernales of Ubay and Manuel R. Molina of Carmen did not hesitate to throw
their hats of support as hosts to the yearly event.
They will provide the venue and other logistical
requirements for the successful conduct of the competition.
Various tourism stakeholders who realized the
significance of the activity also rallied behind BITGAP.
These include BQ Mall, Gerry's Grill, Bohol Beach
Club, Amarela Beach Resort, Panglao Island Nature Resort and Spa, Vest Pension
House, JJ's Seafood Village, Congressman Edgar M. Chatto and Vice-Governor
Julius Ceasar Herrera, to name a few major sponsors.
Other supporters include Julies Bakeshop –Bohol branches, Weesam Express, Long
River Floating Restaurant and Supercarp of Loboc.
Invitation letters have also been sent to the
Department of Education, City Schools Division and the Bohol Association of
Catholic Schools (Talibon and Tagbilaran City) for their schools within their
jurisdiction to join.
Confirmation slips of participating schools can be
submitted at the Department of Education Office or at the Bohol Tourism Office,
Capitol building, Tagbilaran City.
Tourism Quiz 2008 Committee Chairman Mr. Marc Brian
Mascariòas said that BITGAP expects high schools, most especially in the
municipalities, to send two participants each to the Quiz.
"The participants from the municipalities will now
have the opportunity to grab the championship trophy and fabulous prizes
considering that we have made the competition accessible to them by holding it
within their district and we will also be providing traveling allowance for the
winners in the elimination round including their coaches who will vie for the
finals in Tagbilaran City," Mascariòas further explained.
BITGAP's district level competition precedes the
9th Annual Provincial Tourism Quiz Championship Round— the search for the
country's young tourism whizzes — on September 20, 2008, as part of BITGAP's
activities for the National Tourism Week celebration.


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"Healthy Dessert–Making"
You don't have to desert dessert to eat healthy! In fact, desserts that
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Les édulcorants sont des produits d'origine naturelle ou synthétique ayant un goût sucré et qui servent de substituts au saccharose. Les édulcorants ont souvent un apport calorique largement inférieur à celui du sucre, d'où l'intérêt de leur utilisation dans la fabrication des produits dits "light" et des produits destinés aux diabétiques. D'ailleurs, l'utilisation des édulcorants à faible teneur en calories (EFTC) a longtemps été recommandée comme stratégie diététique pour réduire l'apport énergétique pour la gestion du gain pondéral et du diabète.Read More »
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Reviews of the latest scientific findings
Therapeutic benefits of Argan oil
Argan oil is a typical Moroccan vegetable oil. The oil is extracted from the fruit of Argania spinosa, an endemic tree from South-Western Morocco. Since 2014, Argan practices and know-how concerning the Argan tree have been registered on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the UNESCO. In this entry we will report some of the work that has been done on the effects and properties of Argan oil.Read More »
Dealing with the unexpected
Would you like to know if you were at risk of developing cancer? A paper published last February tried to answer the question, and although most participants appreciated knowing their condition, some questions can still be raised.
All but one of the 32 mutation-positive participants appreciated learning their BRCA mutation status.
Screening is the first step of acceptance
The study reports the data of people who had chosen to view their BRCA reports and to participate to this study, which make them relatively more prepared to receive bad news than the general population. My guess is, if we were to ask people to have a free BRCA screening we would have much different results. In my experience in dealing with screenings, it is very difficult to convince people to get screened if they were unwilling in the first place, because the possibility of having a positive test could be life changing.
Age is key
In this study, the mean age was 47, at this age people are more inclined to get tested by themselves for breast cancer, prostate cancer, diabetes, etc. 47 is not an advanced age, but most people are already prepared to deal with sickness, women are dealing with menopause and are stressing about the possibility of developing cancer, men are probably already dealing with hypertension. If anything, getting tested for a gene that could cause cancer could be a relief, they could make arrangements to dodge the bullet if there is still time. However, for younger people, it is more complicated, if anything, this could be crippling news, ideas like "I haven't had the time to live my life" comes to mind.
Direct access to BRCA mutation tests, considered a model for high-risk actionable genetic tests of proven clinical utility, provided clear benefits to participants.
The authors concluded that the access to the BRCA mutation tests provided a life-saving benefit to the participants with the mutation, since their relatives also got to get tested, which is the general idea behind screenings: We do screenings to save lives, other than that I would say that the conclusion behind the study is that people in their 50s who would go get screened are more prepared to receive the bad news. =)
Vegetable oils and androgens
Over the past decade, the research unit I'm currently with has been busy exploring the multiple benefits of vegetable oils, especially Argane oil (or Argan oil), which is a vegetable oil extracted from the fruit of Argania spinosa (an endemic tree of South-western Morocco, the species is now endangered and under protection of UNESCO). The unit published quite a few papers about the oil's properties in preventing cardiovascular disease and cancer.
Lately, another study was published in Natural Product Communications about its effect on the androgens' levels in men. In Morocco, Argane oil is consumed raw, but can also be used in preparing meals or pastries (in other countries it is more famous for its cosmetic properties). Anyway, the oil is also reputed to have aphrodisiac properties in men, and I can only speculate and assume that the reason behind the study was to verify if there were any truth behind this reputation.
The study was carried out on healthy young men (<40 years old). Participants consumed 25 mL of vegetable oil per day (either Argane oil or Olive oil) during 3 weeks after a two weeks stabilization period during which they consumed 25 g of vegetable margarine.
The paper reports that testosterone (T) and luteinizing hormone (LH) levels significantly increased after a 3 weeks intervention. T concentration increased by 19.9% after using Argane oil and by 17.4% after using Olive oil, while LH concentrations increased by 18.5% after using Argane oil and by 42.6% after using Olive oil.
Most studies carried out on these vegetable oils attribute the benefit of their consumption to their unique composition of fatty acids and especially their high concentration in Vitamin E. Both oils have a fairly similar composition, however, Argane oil has a higher concentration of vitamin E (cf. table).
(VAO: virgin Argane oil, EVO: extra virgin Olive oil)
Derouiche et al. (2013). Effect of Argan and Olive Oil Consumption on the Hormonal Profile of Androgens Among Healthy Adult Moroccan Men. Natural Product Communications Vol. 8 P.151-153.


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By Vivian Ostrovsky
Images: Vivian Ostrovsky
Editing: Ruti Gadish
On the Fly 2017
07′, b/w & clr
Screening formats: DCP – digital file
Dizziness, in the sense that it inspires artists and filmmakers to move beyond their known borders.
Or how a state of altered perception, instability, and confusion can be a catalyst for exploring new surroundings.
Let go of the ground and attain giddiness or perhaps even foolishness?
DizzyMess – single screen Film – 2017
SorsiCorti Festival,Palermo, Italy, May 2018
Now and After, Moscow, Russia, February 2018
Traverse Video, Toulouse, France, February 2018
Invideo Festival, Milan, Italy, November 2017
FIC International Short Film Festival, Alliance française, Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 2017 (awarded the "Premio Esmi experimental")
San Diego Underground Film Festival, USA, August 2017
Open Air Filmfestival, Weiterstadt, Germany, August 2017
Diametrale Filmfestival, Innsbruck, Austria, April 2017
MUFF, Montréal, Canada, May 2017
Frauen Film Festival, Köln / Dortmund, Germany, April 2017


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By: Hank Bagwell (Three Beers) –
Noah. Not just a bible story. Matter of fact, other than the name, the gigantic boat full of paired animals and… let me see… yeah, that's it, it's no bible story at all. So before you get your panties in a bunch, let's have a come to Jesus meeting and talk about things.
First of all, Noah has been banned in several Middle Eastern countries because of the way it "depicts a prophet"… Whatever in the hell that means. I mean, the prophets weren't all that sane to begin with. Noah screamed, yelled, and cursed his grandson to be a slave. You see, Noah got off the Ark,
got blitzed on some homemade wine,
passed out naked, then gets mad because one of his sons tells the others so they can cover him up, so when he wakes up, he curses the son's (Ham) kid.
Just imagine Mel Gibson after a fifth of Fireball whiskey and a few lines of cocaine… or Gary Busey… sober. It was like that.
Either way, you get the picture. I wonder if they would have banned it with that version? You know… depicting him that way… the way it actually happened… Stupid sons of bitches.
The other fine, upstanding folks at the National Religious Broadcasters said they would "boycott" the film unless the films distributor and co-financier issued a statement saying that the film is not a literal interpretation of the scriptures in Genesis…
"Thank God they did that, bein's that I can't read 'n all. No uh? Whattaya mean, no uh? OHHHH!!! NOAH! Yeah, we's learned 'bout him! So there's this guy and God reaaaaaaally likes him and his family, so before he floods the earth, he tells this here fella, Noah, to build this big boat and pair up animals, so that when the flood is over, they can go… you know… do it… like they do on the discovery channel, annnnnnnd some of my favorite websites. Oh, and then there's a rainbow."
Right. We can read. Thank you broadcasters for your concern, but that's the story, minus my alternate ending mentioned above.
Oh, and before this rant moves on, I'm annoyed by you people who have taken the release of this film as an opportunity to express your atheism. Nobody fucking cares if you think it's fictional or not. You think it's cute; I think you're a douche nugget. So shut your dick holster, prove to the world that the best part of you wasn't swallowed by your mother, and just watch the fucking movie for what it is… a movie. Not a chance for any of you twats to make a political or religious statement.
"Ohhh it's a fictional movie based on a fictional book" "blah blah blah".
I think all this controversy was more about organizations wanting to be in the lime light, rather than let a story of faith and family (which are so rare in Hollywood these days) fill the hearts of its audience. So… Now that we've got the fidiots out of the way, let's talk about the film.
The guy who co-wrote and directed this film, like myself, has had an interest and appreciation for the story of Noah since he was a small child. You may or may not recognize the name, Darren Aronofsky, but you know his work- Requiem for a Dream, The Wrestler, and Black Swan. He teams with his cinematographer from Black Swan, Matthew Libatique, who was the same guy who shot Iron Man 1 & 2, Cowboys and Aliens, Gothika, and The Number 23.
This story of Noah, played by Russell Crowe, is full of beautiful shots, scenes, and dialogue. Aside from what we already know, (old guy, boat, animals) Noah tells a beautiful story about a family man whose desire to serve his creator pushes him to his limit. In a world where all faith in God, humanity, and self has been lost, Noah struggles between the loyalty of his faith and the love of his family. There's also this badass king, played by Ray Winstone, and his legions of men who want to take the ark for themselves. Noah persuades a few helpers, called Watchers, who have a vested interest in restoring humanity, and it creates an epic battle scene that can compare with anything 300 or the such has to offer. Every character struggles with right and wrong, and their own shame and selfishness. This is a movie you could take your kids to. I don't recall one profane word in the entire film, and that my friends, is fucking awesome.
I thought the supporting cast of Emma Watson, Jennifer Connelly, Anthony Hopkins, and Logan Lerman (the kid from Percy Jackson) did a fantastic job. Also, while watching the credits, I see Nick Nolte's name but I never saw him. I had to do a little research to find him. He was one of the Watchers. A lot of folks think that he just did a voice-over but that's not true. He was actually the Watcher. They saved a ton on costume design there.
A Toast
I liked it. It was heartfelt and shot beautifully. The dialogue is well-written and delivered, the special effects are as good as anything you'll see in Lord of the Rings and, last but not least, Crowe and Winstone are incredible.
I loved the job the art department did too. You never hear too much about those guys and that's a good thing. Most of the time, if they are mentioned, it's because they were shit. In this case, I loved the black dirt. Although this is a film about love and faith, it is constantly shrouded in darkness by this dirt. From their hands and faces, to the sealer on the ark, the feeling of humanity is seen from start to finish. It's not a touchy-feel good film, yet somehow manages not to be a "lesson" or "cause" film. Go see it. It's a movie you can enjoy with your family and a tub of buttery popcorn, or with a bottle of gin and a date you find at a truck stop.
Beer Two
Although I enjoyed the movie for what it taught, it seemed to try and make too many people happy. Without giving away too much, it's not a movie unless the main character has some sort of redeemable flaw, and since they didn't use the real story, they had to improvise. It wasn't my favorite part of the storyline but I won't spoil it for you.
Beer Three
For what it was, I thought they could have made the film a bit shorter. It runs two hours and eighteen minutes which, in my opinion, is about thirty minutes too long. Bigger isn't always better.
"Heh! That's what she said."
"She must have just been trying to make you feel better."
Go see the movie just to piss off the assholes. We need more films like this one. It's a good flick. You'll dig it. Take a hooker with you and let everyone else play the, "What's she doing with him?" game. We all need enlightenment.
Drinking Game
Take a Drink: every time there is a time jump.
Take a Drink: every time you see a snake.
Take a Drink: every time you are confused by who Emma Watson wants to get nekkid' with.
Take a Drink: every time you see a Watcher in their light form.
Take a Drink: every time Noah, himself, opens or closes the ark.
Do a Shot: every time a group of animals show up.


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Looking for proof of evolution? Biology textbooks frequently cite two examples to show that Darwinian evolution can take place in the real world.
The first commonly offered example involves a species of moths in 19th-century England. The species had two varieties, one light-and the other dark-colored. For years the lighter variety predominated, since its coloration more closely matched the bark of trees on which it rested.
However, as soot from many factories gradually darkened the tree bark, the lighter moths stood out against the now darkened tree trunks. Birds could see the light moths better and soon devoured most. Before long the darker moths, being better camouflaged against the darker bark, became the more common variety.
"In fact this is the first direct evidence actually obtained," says a biology textbook, "to support Darwin's theory, that natural selection occurs" (Contemporary Biology, 1973, p. 567). Convincing evidence-or is it?
This actually might have been a case of Darwinian natural selection changing the species to confer a survival advantage-if the light moths had turned into dark ones. But no such thing happened. In fact, both types were already in existence. The lighter moths didn't evolve into darker moths. They were eaten. The proportion of dark moths increased while the light moths decreased.
As a science publication admitted:
"Students should understand that this is not an example of evolutionary change from light-colored to dark-colored moths, because both kinds were already in the population" (Science Framework, 1990, p. 103).
So nothing new came into existence. What changed was not the moths themselves, simply the proportion of the types of moths. It is ironic that now, with stricter regulation of industrial pollution, the light-moth population has made a dramatic comeback. Yet this supposed proof of evolution at work is still included in many biology textbooks.
The second commonly cited example deals with finches found in the Galapagos Islands. No less an authority than Darwin himself was the first to offer them as an example of evolution in action.
Darwin measured the beak sizes of the finches and noticed a slight difference of the birds' beaks from one island to the 'next. He wrote:
"Seeing this gradation and diversity of structure in one small, intimately related group of birds, one might really fancy that from an original paucity of birds in this archipelago, one species had been taken and modified for different ends" (from Darwin's The Voyage of the Beagle, quoted in Contemporary Biology, 1973, p. 560).
This was taken as a living proof of "evolution in action," as Julian Huxley called it.
But was it? In reality, nothing new has been created in the varying beak sizes of the finches. However, the finches' beak size and shape varied-somewhat according to environmental conditions and a division of the gene pool through geographic distancing.
For instance, in 1977 a major drought occurred in Daphne, one of the Galapagos Islands. While many finches died, researchers noticed the next generation, offspring of the survivors, had beaks 4 to 5 percent larger. Their stronger-beaked parents had been able to open the last remaining tough seeds that remained in the island. The bigger-beaked survivors produced a generation of bigger beaked offspring that inherited their parents' characteristics.
Then, in 1983, torrential rains caused flooding in the same island. Now there was an abundance of smaller seeds, and over time scientists found the beak sizes of the island's finches had diminished somewhat, adjusting to their different food supply. Now birds with small beaks could compete for food just as easily, and more smaller beaked finches survived to produce offspring.
This adaptation within the species is called microevolution. It is the same phenomenon at work when the average height of men and women increased by several inches in the Western world over the course of the 1900s. Better health and nutrition played a large part in producing larger-sized people. In the same way, microevolution is at work when breeders produce varieties ranging from Chihuahuas to Great Danes from the one species Canis familiaris-the domestic dog.
These examples show, as in the rest of nature, that all species do have a margin of change available within their genetic pool to adapt to conditions. This trait is found in man, who can adapt to freezing weather, as the Eskimos do, or to the broiling sun in the desert, as Bedouins have done. But Bedouins and Eskimos are still human beings, and if they changed environments again eventually their offspring would also go through minor changes to better adapt to their new environment.
What has never been scientifically demonstrated-in spite of many examples of wishful thinking-is macro evolution, or the change from one distinct species to another. Dogs have never evolved into birds or human beings.
"Critics of evolutionary theory are well aware of the standard examples of microevolution, including dog breeding and the cyclical variations that have been seen in things like finch beaks and moth populations. The difference is that we interpret these observations as examples of the capacity of dogs and finches to vary within limits, not of a process capable of creating dogs and finches, much less the main groups of plants and animals, in the first place. . .
"As any creationist (and many evolutionists) would see the matter, making the case for 'evolution' as a general theory of life's history requires a lot more than merely citing examples of small-scale variation. It requires showing how extremely complex biological structures can be built up from simple beginnings by natural processes, without the need for input or guidance from a supernatural Creator" (Reasoning the Balance, p. 74).
So these two supposed examples of evolution at work are really no proof at all of anything-much less how any of these creatures-moths, dogs, finches or humans-came to exist.


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Friday, 8 June 2012
Lego Demon from SATW
So I got this crazy idea to see what it would be like to turn one of my Scandinavia and the World embroidery patterns into Lego. I raided my oldest son's Lego stash for the job as he was away on school camp and couldn't complain about the mess I made hehe (that youngest has less bricks has absolutely nothing to do with it *wink* ).
First I built it one brick wide and counted one lengthways stud as a stitch but my son just didn't have enough black and white Lego that wasn't already in use in other projects for me to do that so I had to take it apart and start again.
I then decided to borrow one of youngest's large grey base plates and used that as the base to build on and counted one stud as one stitch and I found that I had *just* enough black and white to just about complete it - I would have preferred to completely cover the baseplate with white but well.. I need to top up the kids Lego bricks first lol
Artwork from this comic by humon all I did was convert it to an embroidery pattern (which I made already as an embroidery) and make that in Lego. If you haven't read any of her comics before you are missing out - they are amazing!
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Here are three players who stood out the most during Saturday's Stanley Cup playoff action, including Blackhawks goalie Corey Crawford.
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Saturday was another day packed with NHL playoff action. The Rangers were eliminated after falling to the Penguins in Pittsburgh, 6–3. Anaheim took a lead in its series with Nashville, beating the Predators 5–2 at home. The Chicago Blackhawks will live to fight another day, as they forced a Game 7 with the St. Louis Blues.
Here is who stood out the most on Saturday:
1. Corey Crawford, Blackhawks
That's what you call a Grant Fuhr special. Crawford stumbled early, allowing the Blues to take a 3–1 lead into the first intermission, but with the Blackhawks' season on the line he turned into a brick wall, stopping 15 shots over the final two periods to guide Chicago to a 6–3 win.
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Crawford fought off an apparent upper body injury after being drilled in the midsection by a Colton Parayko shot with 8.3 seconds remaining in the middle frame and returned to hold down the fort as the Blues pressed for the equalizer. His stop on Jori Lehtera in the dying minutes with the Hawks holding a 4–3 lead was as clutch as any you'll see.
2. Bryan Rust, Penguins
For a guy whose status was uncertain heading into Game 5 (undisclosed injury), Rust looked pretty good in Pittsburgh's series-clinching 6–3 win over the Rangers. The 23-year-old scored two goals and added an assist, becoming the first rookie in franchise history to record three points in a playoff game.
Rust staked the Pens to a 3–2 lead at 5:21 of the second period with his first career playoff goal, deflecting a slick slap pass off the stick of Trevor Daley behind Henrik Lundqvist. Later in the period, he stripped the puck from Rangers forward Derick Brassard and set up Matt Cullen for the eventual game-winner. He then finished the scoring for Pittsburgh, beating Lundqvist high glove from the right circle with 58.7 seconds remaining in the second.
3. Frederik Andersen, Ducks
With three consecutive wins, the Ducks have taken control of their first-round series with the Predators. Andersen is the biggest reason for that success. On Saturday, he stopped 27 of 29 to lead Anaheim to a thrilling 5–2 win. He was the difference early, robbing Roman Josi on a two-on-one chance that set the table for the Ducks win. Through three games now, the Great Dane has allowed just three goals on 89 shots for a .966 save percentage.


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Thursday, January 13, 2011
Being Missional, or, It's the End of the World as We Know It and I Feel Fine.
Okay, that's a bit dramatic.
But in a way, that might be accurate. The Rev. Ron Robinson and I have agreed that it's like taking the Matrix's Red Pill. Once you have your "red pill" moment, you can no longer see church in the same way. No matter how much you want to go back to the way you used to conceive of church, you can't. "After this, there is no turning back ..."
I'm not getting less dramatic, am I?
Well, maybe because I can't. Because once you start seeing church in this different way, it causes you to do crazy things like move across the country and start holding church in a bar. Or move to a run-down, dangerous area and start doing church by feeding and clothing the poor. Or become the kind of minister who says, "It's not how many people come to our church services, but how many people our churches serve!,"regularly sending out requests to borrow a pickup, so you can deliver donated furniture to a program for the homeless.
Being missional is a wholly other way of conceiving and doing church. Missional is not about having a pretty mission statement up on your wall.
In terms of what it looks like, forget mission statement and think missionaries. Think of a part of town you know -- and it could be your own -- that needs help. Real help, not just being supportive of their spiritual journeys.
Now imagine that you have been sent there to change their lives. By arranging for the hungry to get nutritious food, for the lonely to have someone who feels they matter. So, you find some other people who feel similarly called. Every week, in your own spheres of influence, you and these people go out into the world and try to make your little corner of it into the Beloved Community, where your mission is nothing less than helping each person in the community to find wholeness. You, this group of Called people, are the Church.
The Church is part of the Beloved Community, but it is not, in itself, the Beloved Community. The Beloved Community is what you are making. Members of the Beloved Community may never attend a worship service, but they are served by the Church.
Once a week, you and the Church gather, to strengthen your souls. You sing, you hear an empowering message, you share how you are each doing justice, extending kindness, and walking humbly with your God, however you understand it be.
Fortified, then, you say goodbye to each other, and each of you goes forth for the week ... to strengthen the world.
And as much as you love your fellow Church members, your relationship is not the mission. The Church members themselves are not the mission. Each of you knows that. The only item not expendable is The Mission.
And yet, you discover that as you help bring your little corner of the earth to wholeness, that you yourself are becoming more whole. More the person you were meant to be.
A missionary.
6 comments:
- Rebecca said...
That's some pretty powerful stuff. Doing good for the community so the community can go out and do good for the world.
- plaidshoes said...
I really like this and believe it, too. My kids go to an ELCA Lutheran school and my SIL is an ELCA Minister - they are really emphasizing the Missional church view. Now - how do you get people to continue the work once they leave the church walls? That is where I struggle.
- goodwolve said...
This is such a foreign concept to my UU upbringing - sure we do stuff, but it seems like just a few doing the work. I just can't even picture what this looks like, but I am intrigued.
- Br. Jay said...
This is fascinating. My mind is trying to grasp how this looks and how it works. Keep posting on this great stuff!
Wonderful post! And while having a mission statement doesn't necessarily lead to being missional, being missional does require some sort of shared understanding of what a congregation's mission actually is.
- Kristina said...
I am trying to wrap my brain around this, because I think you just told me that I'm a missionary. You were speaking to ME, right?
Because right now the work that I started doing because I want to bring the earth to wholeness does appear to be making me more whole. WOW. It is boggling my little mind. Thanks. :-)


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ONE cannot possibly envy poor Tony Hayward, the chief executive of BP, in his dreadful task on the shores of the US Gulf.
Every expert that can be dragged in from the world of offshore petroleum has been put to work, but the poor chap still cannot do anything right in the eyes of his critics.
Goodness, he dare not open his mouth, lest he be condemned for disrespecting those who lost their lives aboard the Deepwater Horizon, or for showing a lack of sympathy to the shrimps or the shrimpers, many of whom are getting a pretty good daily rate for participating in the clean-up. The corpse of a dolphin has been sighted, which probably means old Hayward's goose is cooked.
The language of US greens becomes more lurid by the day, as they marshal more Big Oil haters to their colours, demanding pretty well everything short of the death penalty for the evil Brits who have caused such a catastrophe.
Prosecutors are rushing to get in on the act, while BP is occupying a place in the lexicon of horror in Washington that was once reserved for world communism.
Experts who would be better employed in actually trying to stop the outflow of oil, or helping to defend the coastline. are wasting hours having to give evidence to politicians, whose role in the fight against pollution must be considered questionable.
Even President Obama, of whom one might have thought better, is starting to use the same sort of language he employs when referring to the Taliban.
I am sorry, but having spent an hour or so reading various US newspaper columnists inveighing against the Brits in general and BP in particular, it is very difficult to remain either measured or polite.
Of course, it is a wretched business, and we know US lawyers do not understand the concept of an accident, but is it yet a "catastrophe"? The US media want it to be so described, and pander religiously to the greens by parroting their extravagant language.
On May 27, we were told, breathlessly, that the quantity of oil that had been emitted was now the greatest spill in US history and had exceeded that which had gushed from the Exxon Valdez, which is the popular yardstick that everyone in the US likes to remember. Ask any American child to name a ship, and if it is not the Titanic; this is the one they remember.
That unfortunate navigational miscalculation spilt 11.2m gallons of North Slope crude into Prince William Sound, which, when we spell it out in this modest and homely unit, seems an astronomical amount of oil, but amounts to some 36,446 tonnes of the stuff.
This is less than half of that spilled from the shattered wreck of the Braer around Shetland, and almost exactly half of the crude oil that washed around the pretty coves and beaches of Pembrokeshire after Sea Empress failed to make the entrance to Milford Haven.
I know language is relative and that used by politicians and those with a point to prove is far from accurate, but a "catastrophe" to me is the Second World War.
In modern marine terms, it might be used in connection with Dona Paz, which killed nearly 4,500 people after colliding with a tanker, or the 1,000 who died in the Estonia. The 29 dead men and the 270,000 tonnes of crude that spilt into the Atlantic off Tobago from Atlantic Empress, and the 30,000 tonnes that leaked out of the very large crude carrier with which it collided, could better be described as a tragedy.
The current tragedy is the sudden deaths of the workers on the rig. The same word could probably be employed with justification over the terrible outpouring of an entire cargo that poured out of the wrecked Amoco Cadiz, or the entire quarter million tonnes lost from the ABT Summer and Castillo de Bellver respectively.
And for sheer nastiness, the heavy oils lost from Erika and Prestige sinkings come high up on the scale, because of their persistence, which is not usually the case with crude in warm waters.
But while thinking of nastiness, you do not get much nastier and more ill-informed than some of the muck that is being thrown at BP by the US media, dancing vigorously to the shrill pipes of the environmental campaigners, who seem increasingly to dictate the political agenda in the US.
Don't any of these people ever use petroleum products, or realise that the average American burns about four times as much per capita as people in other industrialised countries?
Maybe they all ride bicycles. They probably don't remember the 167 mainly Brits who died when the US oil company-operated Piper Alpha blew up in the North Sea.
But as I recall it, the aftermath of that tragedy (still a bit short of a catastrophe) was not a hysterical witchhunt on Americans, but a serious inquiry to discover what had happened, and to make sure it would not happen again.


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We calls the full moon night "Cyu-syu no meigetsu."
"Cyu-syu" means "Middle of autumn" and "meigestu" means "beautiful full moon".
At the end of August, we harvests vegetables.
When October comes, we harvests good rice.
In the middle period of harvest, people thanks for good vegetables, and wishes for good rice.
It maybe near to Thanks giving day in U.S..
Not only flowers, we decorates silver glasses and dumplings at this time.
In front of Matsumoto castle, a small festival was held at this day.
Ladies Kimono were serving Japanese tea.
I heard music of Japanese instruments from the castle.
In the soft lights, people seemed enjoying night walking.
I didn't know that this days was global-scale moon day, "Super moon".
Isn't it fantastic that every one in the world were watching the moon this day?
I think we can still see beautiful moon today.
Thank you for reading.
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Lillington Town Board members reduced the speed limit on one of the area's busiest sections of roads Tuesday night and also passed a spending plan for the coming year.
The board of commissioners voted to reduce the speed limit on a section of U.S. 421 from 55 mph to 45 mph.
The change was made at the request of the North Carolina Department of Transportation. Signs will soon go up noting the change east of the intersection of N.C. 210, N.C. 27, U.S. 421 and U.S. 401. It will be in effect approximately 1 mile east beginning near where the Subway restaurant is located. The road is known in that location as Cornelius Harnett Boulevard.
It is not the first time commissioners have attempted to reduce speed limits on the busy road. An investigation was conducted several years ago into reducing the speed limit on the north side of what is known as the big intersection. Mayor Glenn McFadden said Tuesday night, traffic light patterns did not make that change a viable option. The traffic light patterns will not affect the change made Tuesday.
The road is the main artery from Lillington to points east including Campbell University, Erwin and Dunn, with thousands of cars passing each day.
In other action, the board unanimously passed a new spending plan for the 2018-2019 fiscal year. The budget maintains the current tax rate at 52 cents per $100 property valuation but citizens will notice a slight increase in garbage and recycling rates. The fees are going up 1.6 percent, or 24 cents a month for each residence.
Town employees will receive a 2 percent cost-of-living adjustment under the new budget.
The mileage reimbursement rate for employees is also going up to 54.5 cents per mile.
Assistant Town Manager Lisa Young, filling in for vacationing Town Manager Joseph Jeffries, said the budget includes $251,000 in spending on capital projects.
Among the captial projects are new police cars, wayfinding signs throughout the town and lighting systems for the walking trail at the Lillington Recreational Park and at the new River Front Park which is now in the planning stages.
There is also money in the budget to fund two new positions at town hall.
The budget maintains the Flatwoods Fire District tax rate of 12 cents per $100 property valuation. The Town of Lillington maintains fire protection for citizens in the Flatwoods district but the residents do not live within the town limits meaning they don't pay property taxes.
Commissioner Judy Breeden made the motion to pass the budget.
"I think the board has done a wonderful job with this budget," Ms. Breeden said.
The budget passed with two commissioners — Marshall Page and Paul Phillips — not present. Mayor McFadden said both the absent commissioners told him verbally they were in favor of the budget.


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Work has begun at the site of the collapsed bridge at Ariyo area along Olorunsogo – Amuloko highway. The road which is plied daily by tens of thousands of vehicles is also one of the roads that link Ibadan to Ogun state.
When IBPulse.com visited the site, construction workers were seen at the collapsed bridge with excavator operators clearing the ruins of the collapse.
However, residents expressed concerns about the slow pace of work. According to some of them who spoke to IBPulse.com, it may take up to a year before the project is completed considering the slow pace of work.
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First of all, welcome to our site. Get used to it, because here you will find a TON of resources to help you out in your year-long quest to master Art History. You can get familiar with our blog here. On the blog you will find presentations for each unit of study plus other updates.
This site works very much like any other social media site – Facebook, for example (you're not still using MySpace or Friendster, are you?!). You create a profile where you can befriend others and communicate. This is important because you all will be studying Art History and going through roughly the last 10,000 plus years of human history at a rapid rate! You will want to form groups to help you study and prepare.
Once you create a profile, you will also need to join our AP Art History group. I will send you an invite via email – so make sure you register using an email address that you will check regularly. In fact, you may want to get into the habit of having a more "professional" email that you can use when you go to college, etc. (email@example.com is not going to provoke great pride!).
After you have joined our group, you will need to make a post in our private forum. Look for the "Welcome" thread there (a thread is what we call a discussion on message boards) and answer according to the instructions I left for you.
Well, that is enough hoops to jump through for now. As always, if you have any trouble hit me up and I will help you out. Glad to see you are working on that tan while reading your book for AP Art History "But is it Art?" By Cynthia Freeland!


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CMI was commissioned by the Welsh Government to conduct a mid-term evaluation of the ERDF-funded eBusiness and ICT support programmes in Wales.
The programmes comprise five sub-products and include ICT Diagnostic and eBusiness consultancy support, an ICT Capital Expenditure Grant, and online Business ICT Guide, and Digital Network group support. CMI's response was to develop a methodology comprising analysis of ERDF monitoring returns, stakeholder and delivery partner interviews, supplemented by a representative survey sample of business beneficiaries from each project. This evaluation research focused understanding participants experiences of the programmes, the outcomes they had been able to achieve, the longer term impacts. The final analysis was based on the '3 Es' methodology and included an assessment of effectiveness, efficiency and economy, in line with the UK, European and Wales evaluation guidance frameworks.


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Bourbon Boom Overseas Fuels Record Spirits Sales
Bourbon is nicknamed "America's native spirit" for a reason. By law it must be made here. And for most of its history, it has only been enjoyed here.
But this domestic bar staple is gaining momentum internationally, thanks to favorable trading conditions, aggressive marketing and a growing appetite among foreigners for U.S. liquor. Spirits exports grew 16.5% last year, reaching a record $1.34 billion -- outpacing wine's $1.14 billion and dwarfing beer's $334 million, according to new data from the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States, a liquor trade group. Whiskey, including bourbon, accounts for 69% of spirits exports.
The growth is fueled by lower tariffs, a weaker dollar that makes exports less expensive and growing middle classes in developing markets, according to the trade group. "They have more money to spend on more expensive internationally traded foods and spirits and wines then they did before," said Christine LoCascio, the spirits council's senior VP-international trade.
But why U.S. booze? "Maybe American policies aren't necessarily the favorite in the world, but everybody loves American products and American culture," said Charles Cowdery, author of "Bourbon, Straight: The Uncut and Unfiltered Story of American Whiskey." "So it's Levi's and it's American pop music and it's American movies and it's American whiskey. So that 's how it's sold in the rest of the world. It's sold as America."
Even with the growth, U.S. whiskey remains a small player overall, accounting for about 1% of global spirits volume and only about 10% of total whiskey volume internationally, according to Euromonitor International. Blended Scotch, by comparison, makes up about 27% of the world whiskey market.
Still, U.S. whiskey has "huge potential to grow," said Jeremy Cunnington, Euromonitor's senior drinks analyst. For one, it's a fairly new product in many countries, so there's a curiosity factor. Also, "it's got a relatively easy taste on the palate, so it can be appealing for people who aren't quite ready to move to the more complex taste of Scotch," Mr. Cunnington said.
U.S. whiskey had a minuscule presence abroad until about 25 years ago. At that point, marketers started looking overseas to replace the sagging U.S. demand at the time, as drinkers here turned to other options, such as vodka, gin, tequila and even drugs, Mr. Cowdery said. Japan, in particular, proved to be fertile ground. "Younger Japanese men didn't want to drink what their fathers drank. Their fathers drank Scotch. So they wanted to drink something else. So a bourbon boom started."
Since then, the trend has spread to the point where leading U.S. brand Jack Daniel's now exports to more than 130 countries, generating more than half its business from foreign markets, according to brand owner Brown-Forman. Even so, Jack Daniel's still ranks seventh among whiskeys globally, according to a recent report from Drinks International. Jim Beam, sold in 110 countries, ranks 11th. The top seller is Bagpiper brand from India, which remains a large but fairly isolated market due to high tariffs on spirits.
Euromonitor forecasts that through 2016, 70% of yearly U.S. whiskey growth will come from non-U.S. markets. As such, American companies are beefing up marketing overseas. Louisville, Ky.-based Brown-Forman first launched a globalization strategy in 1994 and now has major sales and marketing operations in London, Sydney, Hamburg, Guadalajara and Warsaw. Beam Inc., the Illinois-based liquor company that owns Jim Beam, has put global marketing muscle behind a black-cherry flavored Jim Beam line extension called Red Stag, which launched in the U.S. in 2009 and is now in 22 countries. Jim Beam's U.S. creative agency is Strawberry Frog but it uses various overseas agencies for global work.
At the same time, companies are getting a boost from Discus (Distilled Spirits Council of the United States), which conducts whiskey seminars around the world. It also brings in foreign journalists for tours of the American Whiskey Trail, which includes stops at distilleries in Kentucky and Tennessee as well as George Washington's Distillery at Mount Vernon. The efforts are partly funded by a federal government program designed to promote U.S. agriculture commodities and products.
No matter where U.S. whiskeys go, they never seem to stray from their roots in the American South. A tagline from a recent print ad in the U.K. for Jack Daniel's , for instance, states that "from some bar stools, you can see all the way to Tennessee,"referring to its distillery in Lynchburg. "People everywhere connect with the genuine, unpretentious nature of the place and the people," said a spokeswoman. The brand's agency is Arnold .
Even smaller brands are heading abroad. Consider Maker's Mark, which is owned by Beam and is made in tiny Loretto, Ky. The brand's global breakthrough came from a bit of luck after Toyota opened a Camry plant in Kentucky in the 1980s. Japanese managers "all landed here in Kentucky as Scotch drinkers, and it didn't take long before they were introduced to Maker's Mark," said Chief Operating Officer Rob Samuels. "And when they would return home they would take bottles of Maker's Mark back to Japan." Today, Maker's sells in a dozen large international cities, including London, Sydney and Berlin.
Of course, marketers still must adapt to local traditions and flavors. In Asia, for instance, bourbon is mixed with fruit juice; in Holland it's paired with bitter lemon, said Max Shapira, president of Heaven Hill Distilleries, which owns the Evan Williams brand. "We have to bend our traditional rules a bit," he said.


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No. 70. Amerapoora. Guardhouse, at the Ooh-nein Gate.
Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Medium: Photographic print
Date: 1855
Photograph by Linnaeus Tripe, from a portfolio of 120 prints, taken at Amarapura in Burma (Myanmar). In 1855 a British mission was sent to King Mindon Min of Burma to negotiate a settlement regarding Pegu, annexed by the British following the Second Anglo-Burmese War in 1852. Linnaeus Tripe was the official photographer on this mission, his pioneering architectural and topographical views of the country are an important photographic record. Amarapura, on the Irrawaddy (Ayeyarwady) river, was twice the capital of the Burmese kings of the Konbaung dynasty: from 1782 (the year of its foundation by King Bodawpaya) to 1823 and again from 1837 to 1860, after which Mandalay, 11 km to the north, became capital. Amarapura was the site of the first British Embassy to Burma in 1795, and played host again to Tripe's Mission. The city was built on a square plan, surrounded by a wall and a moat. Each side of the wall measured 1.6 km and had three gates leading into the main streets that divided the city into equal square blocks, with a massive wooden palace at its centre. The palace was dismantled in 1857, and its materials reused to build the new royal capital, Mandalay. This is a view of the guardhouse inside the Ooh-nein Gate (the central gate on the east side), a modest wooden building divided into four compartments and raised on piles. The photographer wrote, 'There is a Guard-house at each gate'.


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Polish technology on Mars
Curiosity rover is searching for traces of life on the Red Planet thanks to Polish engineers working in a town near Warsaw!
Vigo Systems is a company located in Ożarów Mazowiecki that specialises in the production of infrared radiation detectors. For several years it has been NASA's preferred supplier. The US space agency used the sensors made by the Polish company in its construction of a laser spectrometer, installed in the Curiosity rover, which has been exploring Mars surface since August 2012. The device analyses samples of Martian atmosphere with an infrared laser, and then analyses its spectrum within various wave ranges. Information about the ratios of methane, water and carbon dioxide in the planet's atmosphere will enable scientists to conclude if there was life on Mars.


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I made wedding cupcakes! These were for two really good friends who had one of the loveliest (and most fun) weddings I've ever been to. I was pretty proud of myself for these cupcakes, and I'm so happy for my friends. It was so exciting being able to contribute to their big day by way of baked goods.
I've blogged about this recipe before – Joy the Baker's red velvet cupcakes. It really is just about the best cupcake recipe ever.
One day I'll share the (slightly less elegant) cake I made for the hen's party…


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Families flock to Rheged to see chicks hatching
The Lakes Free Range Egg Company (The Lakes) has provided what has proved to be a star attraction at the Rheged Centre near Penrith this Easter – hatching chicks. 'The Lakes' installed incubators for soon to hatch eggs and a heated chick run for the new arrivals. Carefully planned to hatch one a day during the Easter holidays the chicks have helped make The Rheged Centre a destination visit for the holidays.
The Lakes Free Range Egg Company has been working with Rebecca Skelton, Events Manager at The Rheged Centre during the Easter holidays to enhance the visitor experience. Their vision was to create a fun and entertaining way to create more interest in the food chain – especially focusing on eggs. For the past few years the team has refined what they do, in order for visitors to see more and learn more about chick and egg production.
Rebecca Skelton, Events Manager at The Rheged Centre said "It's lovely working with local companies like the Lakes Free Range Egg team at Stainton. We have been in partnership for 3 years now and we love seeing the chicks hatch each day. It's always so popular; children come in their crowds to see the incubators and eggs and come back time and time again to see them hatch as chicks, they've always got lots of questions and its great fun to watch. We work hard to try and ensure there is at least one new chick hatched each day during the holiday period."
With egg packing station just down the road, the Lakes team are able to call in to Rheged on a daily basis to check the chicks and hatching progress. Something they are well qualified to do. 95% of their free range egg producing flocks start life as day old chicks reared by sister company Performance Pullets, ensuring their hens start life as healthy as possible.
The Lakes Free Rang Egg Company has won awards for animal welfare and environmental provenance and are always keen to promote their ethos to the public. Roger Gill, Head of Agriculture at the Lakes Free Range Egg Company said "We like to support Cumbrian businesses and this is on our doorstep. As a key visitor attraction in Cumbria, the hatching unit is a great showcase opportunity for the public to find out what chick rearing and egg production is all about – perfect at Easter. And if it inspires more people to buy free range eggs, that's a bonus."
During the two week Easter holidays, it is anticipated there will be around twenty thousand visitors at the Rheged Centre, most of whom will flock upstairs to see the chicks.
Rheged is running a competition to name a chick – it runs until April 8th when the winner of a £10 voucher will be announced.


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I love this company! A couple of months ago I received a personalized necklace ($45) from Tiny Tag Designs with both of my daughter's names hand stamped on two sterling silver discs. The disks are oxidized (turns the letters black), buffed and polished and then a hole is drilled into the disc for the jump ring and hung on a sterling silver ball chain. Each piece is made to order and truly one-of-a-kind. Names or affirmations with 8 or more letters are stamped on 9/16" or 5/8″ size. The chain comes in 3 sizes, 16″, 18″ and 20″.
Melissa has always gave back, donating some of the proceeds from her keepsake necklaces to many non profit organizations such as Save the Children, Plan USA, and St. Jude's. She is now working to help the victims of the Haiti disaster by donating 100% of net proceeds to American Red Cross from 1/20 to 1/27! This is a wonderful way to pick up some early Valentine's Day or Mother's Day gifts while helping others at the same time.
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