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Study on Hands Does Not Solve the Fibromyalgia Mystery
I often get asked about this study, as every few months it will pop on social media with a catchy headline like "Fibromyalgia Mystery Solved!" I have seen it recycled so many times since the study was first published in 2013, always presented as a "new" finding.
While it sadly does not solve the mystery, it definitely gives us an important clue.
So let's break down what this study really shows. They compared skin samples taken from the palms of people with fibromyalgia to those taken from healthy controls. They counted how many and what types of nerves were in each sample. Anyone who has burned their hand on hot stove or had a case of sweaty palms can tell you that everyone has both pain-sensing nerves and nerves that make us sweat in our hands. And that is exactly what the researchers found.
The samples from both groups contained both pain-sensing nerves (called sensory nerves) and nerves that regulate blood flow and sweating (called sympathetic nerves) clustered together near the small blood vessels in the skin. This is all normal and to be expected in any samples taken from skin in the hand.
So what's the big deal? Well, they found that the fibromyalgia samples contained more of both types of nerves, but especially more of pain-sensing nerves. The researchers theorized that the excessive amount of pain-sensing nerves might be the cause of fibromyalgia pain. And certainly it does make some sense that "more pain-sensing nerves = more pain."
However, other studies have found conflicting results and reported less than normal amounts of pain-sensing nerves in skin samples from the legs of fibromyalgia patients. So the jury is still out how much the actual amount of pain-sensing nerves contributes to pain.
No matter the amount of pain-sensing nerves, it is how they are functioning that matters for pain. And we know that in fibromyalgia, the pain-sensing nerves are not functioning correctly, because they are sending excessively high signals. The piece of the fibromyalgia mystery we have not figured out is what has triggered the pain-sensing nerves to go haywire. But the clue may be another finding in the skin samples: There were slightly more sympathetic nerves in the fibromyalgia patients.
And remember that sympathetic nerves are all tangled up with the pain-sensing nerves and these two types of nerves send signals back and forth to each other that affect how they work.
This is the most important piece to remember; that we already know that the fundamental problem in fibromyalgia is that the sympathetic nervous system—all the way from the brain to those tiny nerves in the hand—is malfunctioning and overactive. The sympathetic nervous system is also called the fight-or-flight system, and it is triggered in times of danger. But in fibromyalgia, this response has gone haywire and is active all the time, even when there is no danger, like a smoke alarm going off even though there is no smoke. You can find more detail on this in my book The FibroManual.
When sympathetic nerves are hyperactive, they leak chemicals that irritate pain-sensing nerves into sending louder signal, and this is what likely triggers the exceptionally loud pain signals of fibromyalgia. So it may not be the amount of pain-sensing nerves that matters as much as whether they are being sprinkled with irritating "lemon juice" from the sympathetic nerves around them.
For me the take-away from this study is that we need to focus more on the interplay between sensory and sympathetic nerves in fibromyalgia. While this study does not solve the fibromyalgia mystery, it is a clue to point us in the right direction to focus more on the sympathetic nerves and their effects on pain.


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Patricia Bosworth has written biographies about Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda and Diane Arbus, and now she applies her talents to her own fascinating life in her second memoir, The Men in My Life. The book chronicles Bosworth's adolescence and sexual awakening, her foray into modeling for the likes of Arbus, as well as her time in Lee Strasberg's Actors Studio, treading the boards alongside Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, and Marilyn Monroe. Before becoming a writer, she starred opposite Audrey Hepburn in the 1959 film The Nun's Story, and the stories about her time shooting the film in Rome are gripping to say the least. All the glamour and excitement of this period is haunted by her brother and father's suicide, and in this conversation Patricia opens up about what is like being a "suicide survivor" and how it irreversibly affected her life. I adored our time together and I hope you like listening to what became of it.
xoxo Angie
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Patricia Bosworth is an American journalist and biographer living in New York City. She is a contributing editor of Vanity Fair. A winner of the Front Page Award, she's taught literary non-fiction at Columbia University's School of Journalism and Barnard College. A long-time board member of the Actors Studio. She's also the author of bestselling biographies of Montgomery Clift, Jane Fonda, Marlon Brando and the photographer Diane Arbus, the latter of which was made into the movie Fur starring Nicole Kidman and Robert Downey Jr. Her first memoir about her family and the Hollywood Blacklist is entitled Anything Your Little Heart Desires: An American Family Story. Her second memoir, entitled The Men in My Life: A Memoir of Love and Art in 1950's Manhattan.


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1) I don't have 2.5 gal plastic bags or a turkey oven bag. Can I bag it up in a plastic garbage bag and rubber band it shut? The point's to keep moisture inside, right?
2) I don't have any type of roasting rack or pan. I have a broiling pan. I also have a metal rack that goes in my toaster oven that I think I could balance the bird on, inside my large glass pan. Which do you think is going to work better for this?
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Proposals to increase parking at Gates' Nurseries in Cold Overton will be considered by Melton Council's planning committee on Thursday (June 4).
Plans have been submitted to re-surface the existing overflow car park with a permanent hard surface and to create a new overflow car park to be used by customers and staff at peak times. If approved the changes would result in an additional 330 car parking spaces being created.


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We are now officially in a pattern. Actually we've been in this pattern many time before (that's why it is a pattern) and looking at my blog archives helped identify the intensity and duration. Or at least the timing.
We haven't had a joint counseling session in about 6 weeks because of childcare or other issues. And we have not had sex in about that long.
Either. Arwyn and I have each gone individually a time or two in that time, but we are definitely stuck back into this rut where things are in a downward spiral. Sex is not everything, but it can be a an indicator of general marital quality and right now it isn't looking very good. Last week, I talked a bit about some of our tension to the counselor and he asked me if this was a pattern. At the time, I didn't think it was. However, now I see very clearly that it is. The fall seems to be a bad time for Arwyn and I for whatever reason. From my side, it seems to be a time when I seem to need more physical attention. Not just sexually (but definitely sexually) but just plain basic physical cuddling and holding. It might have something to do with the colder weather or something where I expect more snuggling that in the summer. And in Georgia we don't get but a few months of real good snuggle weather before it gets hot and sticky again. One of Arwyn's early chief complaints against sleeping right next to me at night was that I was too hot. You would think this might be worth a premium during cold weather, but it is not.
The whole birthday sex thing, or the pattern of NOT having sex on my birthday. That's just a deliberate lack of consideration and effort on her part. So this time of year I'm a bit randier and she is LESS desirous than her normal sub-average desire level. So the whole mismatch really bogs us down. I've been trying to deal and cope by trying to occupy myself with other thinks in order to not be always pressuring her. But that is just not working for me. It's time to hash it out.
We also have a couple of other ongoing conflicts in relation to raising our oldest. Autism is not something like Down Syndrome, where there it a definite etiology and treatment. For autism, there is neither. She is of the mind to go always for the expensive diet and unproven medical treatments that are primarily guilt-driven. I'm for behavioral intervention and consistency while having more respect for him as a person rather than a patient. The bottom line is that the boy will never be good enough for her and she will always be trying to cure him. Just like she never felt good enough for her own parents. Now she wants to inflict him with the same curse. Thank God the autism actually shields him a bit from that psychological trauma! Because if he had a more typical development of "Theory of Mind" he'd be in for a tremendous inferiority complex about now. Not unlike what I sometimes feel.
I'm not even thinking about what the youngest is going to go through.
I guess I'll be spending my Thanksgiving in the crucible. How about you?
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Angie Gaines Reflects on Her 33 Years at WHNT
Hello, my name is Angie Gaines and I would like to welcome you to my WHNT sentimental journey.
I celebrated my 20th birthday on February 8, 1980 and I had already had an interview with WHNT. I was praying for the best birthday present ever — to land the job. Thankfully, those prayers were answered and that's exactly what happened.
I was hired as the Executive Assistant to the General Manager, who at that time was Mr. Tom Percer. To this day, I owe him a great deal of gratitude for giving me a chance and setting me on this course.
My first day at the station was February 12, 1980 and I was thrilled to be here. At that time, the station was located on the top of Monte Sano. The walls in my office were covered with paneling. I had a rotary phone, typewriter, pads for shorthand, Dictaphone and the other typical office essentials.
I can remember having to keep a garbage can close for the leaks in the ceiling when it rained. At that location, all of the office personnel, sales, promotions and engineering were in the main building and the newsroom was across the street. Funny to think of it now, but there were ash trays everywhere inside for all who smoked, which is now unheard of and something I don't miss at all.
There were so many fun times and fond memories from that time and building. But, we progressed on to bigger and better things in March of 1987 when we moved to our current location on Holmes Avenue. Our new place of operation was beautiful and everything was brand new. We were all so excited to find our new office space, get things unpacked, in place and ready to go. Time marches on and that was 26 years ago.
During my tenure here, I have been through three owners, seven general managers and several managers. My title has changed from Executive Assistant, Local Sales Assistant to Traffic Assistant. Of course, job responsibilities have changed numerous times to go along with those title changes.
I've seen countless people come and go. Some have remained life-long friends, some casual acquaintances and some I never knew their name. There is a small group that were here when I first started that still remain at the station today. Through all of the changes of people coming and going, there is one constant that has always remained the same. That is the family atmosphere.
Our product takes a team of people on and off the air, with each job and every employee carrying equal importance. We have gone from bringing that finished product into your homes to now bringing it to you just about whenever, however and wherever you want news, weather and entertainment. Technology has drastically changed and we have changed right along with it. So, even though I've remained with the same company, my current job is dramatically different.
I've been asked several times why I stayed at the same place for so long and the answer is quite simple, "I have never had a reason to leave." Sure, there are frustrations. Sure, there is burn-out. Sure, I've wondered what it would be like to work somewhere else. But the weekend comes or I take some time off and come right back and start all over again. And besides, how many places can you work and have a flat-screen TV on your desk? Probably not very many.
It's so difficult to condense 33 years into mere words. When I look back through those years, I tend to consider that which has come and gone to be the good ole days, but in light of looking back I quickly realize that they have all been very good. Lord willing, my plan is for this wonderful journey (in the TV term) is To Be Continued…


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UPDATE: Net Neutrality far from dead–National Broadband Plan axes net neutrality proposal?
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Obii is a lady that came from nowhere, (okay somewhere that we did not know before), and won the maiden edition of the Naija Poetry Slam competition hosted by Bassey Ikpi in 2012.
She was at WORD UP Volume 2 and 3, and she blew us away with words. This piece done in the video below by Obii is one of the best spoken word poem I have ever heard.
If you doubt this, just listen down to the last line, and I bet that you will shout. Do holla back with your comments, and don't lie that you did not shout o!!!
Obii will be live at WORD UP Volume 5 coming up on August 17, 2013 at TerraKuluture Hall, Victoria Island, Lagos from 2pm.
WORD UP is the biggest Spoken Word Poetry Event in Nigeria and holds in February, May, August and November of every year.
It features the best Spoken Word Poets across Nigeria and even the world all on one stage.
Spoken Word Poetry by Obii at Word Up Volume 2, in Lagos, Nigeria.


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Improve team productivity by road signing
Usually we think of the importance of sharing 'positive' intelligence between organisational team members, however recent UK research on foraging Pharaoh ants indicates that sharing 'negative' intelligence to avoid wasted effort may be just as important.
I have written before on the importance of all organisational team members sharing 'team intelligence' (for example Virtual Team Behavior - Curiosity and Learning).
In Scents and sensibility: How foraging ants get the food we read how Pharaoh ants scouting for food place a tiny scent marker on branches that do not lead to a reward, according to a study published in Nature, the weekly British science journal.
The team concludes that the ants use a repellent pheromone to mark unrewarding branches at "decision-points" - where branches fork.
"It provides advance warning, like human road signs situated before junctions," the authors suggest.
Pheromone-based messaging is the oldest and most evolved form of biological signalling and its potential application in mobile and distributed human teams is described in The perfect mobile group communications system.
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I enjoy how your posts show that team dynamics should not be anywhere near as hard as we often cause them to be. Whilst humans have evolved beyond other animals, they seem to have lost some of the learnings along the way. There is so much that we can learn from nature, because we have moved so far away from it and lost these abilities.
The faster we take in these lessons from animals, the faster we become more productive.
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Northwest Pennsylvania is facing are poverty and significant aging of the workforce. Michele Zieziula, CEO of the Regional Center for Workforce Excellence and the Northwest Workforce Investment Board is tacking these issues head on. We spoke to Michele last week as a part of the Enhancing Workforce Leadership Initiative. Her workforce development peers recommended her as someone who would know about effective leadership, and they were right. Michele is a wealth of knowledge.
"We don't create jobs, but we make sure that the jobs that are created can be filled," says Nancy Dischinat, Executive Director of the Lehigh Valley Workforce Investment Board, Inc. (LVWIB) in Pennsylvania. Nancy's peers pointed to her as a source of great ideas and an example of effective leadership. Here are a few of the observations and insights she shared with us.
In under three minutes, Derek Sivers explains how to start a movement with the help of some surprising video footage. This is one of our top five favorite examples not of experts teaching leadership skills, but of insightful people who have something important to say about leaderhip.
What are Public (Workforce) Services? Carol Rayburn-Cofer, Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Director for the Northeast Georgia Regional Commission and immediate past-president of the Southeastern Employment and Training Association (SETA), is concerned that the general public believes the workforce development system is only for economically disadvantaged people. She is also concerned that the public is unaware of the impact of the workforce system in her region, the state and even the nation.
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The Independent Report provides an independent, non-partisan, non-ideological analysis of economic news. The Independent Report's mission is to inform its readers about the unsustainable nature of our economic system and the various stresses encumbering it: high debt levels (government, business, household); debt growth exceeding economic growth; low productivity growth; huge and persistent trade deficits; plus concurrent stock, bond and housing bubbles.
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Health Care Costs Consume Nearly 18% of US Economy
According to Medicare/Medicaid Services annual report, health care costs grew to 17.6% of the US economy in 2009, or more than $1 out of every $6 spent in America. That's a new record, and it's also the greatest share of GDP dedicated to healthcare by any nation in the world.
Despite the fact that GDP declined 1.7% in 2009, health care spending continued to increase anyway.
In 2009, industrialized nations spent an average of 8.9% of GDP for healthcare expenditures, according to the OECD. Yet, in the US, it approached 18%.
This figure is beyond inefficient and is simply unsustainable. All of this spending takes money away from other vital sectors of the economy.
Americans spent $2.5 trillion on health care in 2009—or $8,086 per person—a 4% increase from 2008. That is more money spent per person than any other country in the world, by far.
The 4% growth in 2009 was down from 4.7% in 2008, the second slowest rate of growth in the history of the National Health Expenditure Accounts (NHEA) going back to 1960.
The recession led to slower growth in private health insurance expenditures and out-of-pocket spending by consumers, and to a reduction in capital investments.
However, health spending as a share of the nation's GDP increased by 1.0 percentage point, up from 16.6% in 2008, the largest one-year increase in the history of the NHEA.
One in seven Americans did not have health coverage in 2009, and Texas has the highest percentage of uninsured residents amongst all states (26%).
The one in seven figure is the same as the number of people officially listed as living in poverty in 2009, as well as the number of people receiving food stamps last year. So there is likely overlap here; there may be many of the same people in all three groups.
The good news in the report is that private health insurance premiums grew 1.3 percent in 2009, a deceleration from 3.5 percent growth in 2008 and the slowest rate of growth in the history of the NHEA.
From 1999-2009, health insurance premiums for families rose 131%, while the general rate of inflation increased 28% over the same period.
While Americans widely believe that our health system is the best in the world, the evidence says otherwise.
Life expectancy is an excellent measure of a nation's health. Yet, last year researchers at Columbia University report that the US is now 49th in life expectancy, putting it lower than a dozen other developed nations. We're even lower than many third world nations. And the US has been dropping in life expectancy tables for decades.
Infant mortality is good measure of a nation's health care system. In 2009, the National Center for Health Statistics ranked the US 30th in global infant mortality rates, behind most European countries, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, and Israel.
And out of 20 "rich countries" measured by UNICEF, the US ranks 19th in "child well-being".
If it's not bad enough that the US has a failing health care system, it is also an inefficient system that just so happens to be the world's most costly.
Last June, the Commonwealth Fund, which researches and advocates for healthcare reform, reported that Americans spend twice as much on healthcare as residents of other developed countries, but get lower quality and less efficiency.
These problems are not new. They have existed for many years.
In 2000, the World Health Organization ranked the US 37th of 191 countries for "overall health system performance," 72nd for "level of health," and first for "health expenditures per capita."
When it comes to health care, Americans do not get what they pay for.
Ultimately, these costs are yet another albatross hanging on the necks of the US and its citizens. There are no signs that the spiraling costs of health care will slow down, much less regress.
The US is on the threshold of becoming the first-ever mass-geriatric society. For the first time in history, people 85 and older are the fastest growing segment of the population. Over the next 25-30 years, the number of people over the age of 65 will double to more than 70 million, or 20% of the population.
People that age use a disproportionate amount of health care. However, Medicare cannot sustain such a large population of people using such an enormous amount of health care. The system simply cannot sustain such massive expenditures.
The US is the fattest country in history. Fully two-thirds of Americans are overweight or obese. The nation is plagued by lifestyle diseases, such as heart disease, Type II diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol.
Put all of this together and you have an aging, overweight, diseased nation and a health care system unable to cope with all of it.
Sooner than later, the cost of ill health, brought on by poor lifestyle choices, will overwhelm the nation's economy, which cannot sustain such a disproportionate amount of its spending on healthcare.
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One of the justifications for abortion on demand today is due to the idea that civilization has advanced. It is taught that part of this advancement is understanding what makes a person human. Even though none of these advancement thinkers can come to an objective conclusion as to what makes a person human they still all agree that a preborn baby is not human. They have determined that the preborn baby is a fetus with human potential. There are so many things about this statement I could tear apart, but for the sake of time let's move on! Since they are so superior and so advanced in their thinking they have concluded that it is morally justifiable to end the life of a preborn baby. In fact they call it reproductive justice.
Here is the thing though. The fact that they are justifying abortion on demand on the basis of their advancement thinking reveals one of two things about them. They are either just plain stupid or they are liars.
An Age Old Practice
The practice of murdering children in their mother's womb or just after they are born is a practice that is as old as civilization itself. The advancement thinkers conclude that they have produced a more civilized age and yet they continue this barbaric practice. I know it is confusing! The killing of innocent children does not have its roots in enlightenment thinking, but in the barbaric past. The advancement thinkers of today have yet again with this conclusion revealed the myth of advancement. The only true advancement that takes place in society and culture is through union with Jesus Christ and the adopting of His worldview as taught in Scriptures. Apart from Christ there has never been true advancement. The advancing in one area leads to the digressing in another. Steve Jobs revolutionized the world with the iPhone and yet now many of our children are addicted to it. Modern medicine has raised the average age someone lives and yet it is estimated 100,000 people die each year due to medical error. Advancement based on secular means is a myth. It is a myth that abortion is now morally justifiable due to advancements that have been made. It is a practice that has taken place throughout all of history.
A Little History
George Grant in his book Third Time Around, made such a powerful statement about the reality of baby murdering throughout history, "Since the dawning of time, men have contrived ingenious diversions to satisfy their fallen passions. And child-killing has always been chief among them." Does that sound like a strong statement? Let's allow history to speak for itself on this issue. George Grant highlights some of the common practices throughout history:
Unwanted infants in ancient Rome were abandoned outside the city walls to die from exposure to the elements or from the attacks of wild foraging beasts. Greeks often gave their pregnant women harsh doses of herbal or medicinal abortifacients. Persians developed highly sophisticated surgical curette procedures. Chinese women tied heavy ropes around their waists to excruciatingly tight that they either aborted or passed into unconsciousness. Ancient Hindus and Arabs concocted chemical pessaries-abortifacients that were pushed or pumped directly into the womb through the birth canal. Primitive Canaanites threw their children onto great flaming pyres as a sacrifice to their god Molech. Polynesians subjected their pregnant women to onerous tortures-their abdomens beaten with large stones or hot coals heaped upon their bodies. Japanese women straddled boiling cauldrons of parricidal brews. Egyptians disposed of their unwanted children by disemboweling and dismembering them shortly after birth-their collagen was then ritually harvested for the manufacture of cosmetic creams (even Planned Parenthood selling the body parts of murdered children is not a new practice!)
There is so much more history that could reveal the reality that baby killing has been the favorite practice of the people that hate God throughout the ages. It is not due to some advancement thinking, but due to a heart that hates God. The only advancement that the abortionists of today have made is that they have become more precise in their killing. They have figured out how to execute the children swiftly while bringing less physical harm to the mother. Does this make them more advanced or more barbaric? Rome became masters of killing people via crucifixion and does anyone today say that made them more advanced and civilized? Abortion due to advancement is a myth.
Be Honest
My plea for the modern day pro-death camp is for them to be honest and not ignorant as it relates to their position. Stop hiding behind false premises as a means to make murdering preborn children morally justifiable. Stop and just admit the reality. The reason you love abortion is because you love death. You hate Christ and you love death (Pr. 8:36). You kill because you love it. You have an appetite for it. You live to murder these babies and destroy the lives of the fathers and mothers. You are not advanced. You are barbaric.
Orrin Woodward claims to be a Christian, but as a pastor I know that all such claims must be put to the test. The Bible says that faith without works is dead (James 2:26). The real test of a person's faith is not their profession of faith but the works made evident in their life. Does Orrin Woodward display true faith that is evidenced by his works?
Orrin and ONElife for Life
My wife has known Orrin and Laurie for nearly 20 years and I have known them a little over 13 years. When you know someone for this long of a time you get to see if their walk actually matches their talk. Orrin has continually and consistently revealed to us a walk that is committed to faithfully serving Jesus Christ in all areas of his life. Let me just give you one such example.
A little over a year ago our young little church plant, ONElife Church, received a crazy vision from God to actively engage the culture of death which murders the preborn children in our society. We made a commitment that we would do all that we could do to end abortion now starting in our own county and moving beyond. Rather than waiting for abortion minded women, who feel they have no one who will help them, to come to us we decided to go to them. For nearly a year we have had a faithful presence at our local abortion clinic with our team members pleading for the life of the preborn children as well as bringing the life giving gospel message to the mothers, fathers, and workers. By God's grace 48 children have been saved through this ministry. To read more about our work read the article the Baptist Press wrote about our team. Here is a video of one encounter that our team had.
Orrin Woodward has encouraged us in this task to save babies and end abortion now. In the early stages of starting this ministry he provided valuable insight to us in order to keep our ministry going. He continues to be a great mentor and counselor. He has invested his own time, talents, and treasures into this ministry. This past March our ministry hosted its first ever end abortion now banquet. There was nearly 300 people in attendance at that event. Orrin was gracious enough to be our keynote speaker. Here is the thing many people might not know--Orrin refused to take a speaking fee and would not even allow us to pay for his travel. He funded his way to get to our event from Florida and in addition gave a donation to our ministry. In reality he paid us to come speak at our event! He is focused on investing in the Kingdom and in ending the greatest injustice in our society. Orrin believes in the cause and believes it is one of the greatest works a Christian can do today. I pray that God will raise up more Orrin Woodward's to engage in this very controversial fight of ending abortion.
Orrin's Message
At the banquet Orrin delivered one of the finest messages I have heard in regards to ending abortion. He spoke on the Micah Mandate. He brought immense clarity to the meaning of the text and our present responsibility in light of it.
Orrin taught on the Micah Mandate from Micah 6:8, "He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?" This is a shorthand description of the mature Christian life. These virtues are balanced together by having a proper understanding of law and grace. Paraphrasing what Francis Schaeffer said, "It is easy to have law in the church and it is easy to have grace in the church. You need the Holy Spirit to have the balance of both." When both law and grace are in balance then the virtues of justice, mercy, and humility will be displayed. This was the message Orrin was communicating to our audience. To listen to the full message please watch the video below.
Our Vision
Our vision is to be the McDonalds of the pro-life movement. Our team has caught this vision and believes this is what God has called us to do. McDonalds made a commitment to have a store across the street from every church in the country. Our commitment is to have one of our red tents with fully funded missionaries stationed onsite at every abortion clinic in the country. This is the way to end abortion now in our country. It is time to stop waiting for the government to stop the killing of our innocent children and for the church to actively work to end it. We are praying for the church to join us to stop the shedding of the most innocent orphans in our land--the babies living in the wombs of their mothers.
Watch the video below to learn more about our vision and how you can partner with us to end abortion now!
Contributor / Eric Stewart
Eric Stewart is the Lead Pastor of ONElife Church in Flint, MI.
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Maverick Sperm and Rogue Eggs
Now handling a topic like abortion makes most people uncomfortable, even those who believe abortion is wrong. Many churches and Christians will not tackle it. The main reason is because they know there are people in the congregation who have had an abortion and they would not want to make them feel bad. The gospel is the answer to this. To a person that has had an abortion, point them to the cross where they can find forgiveness in Jesus Christ. This article is not to shame that person. It is to help stop others from doing the same thing. We do not refrain from talking about other sins because people have participated in them. We preach Christ and Him crucified!
God is the Author of Life
God is the author of life. Satan is the author of death. David was meditating upon God and his character which brought him to meditate on God being the author of life. Consider what the Psalm says:
O Lord, you have searched me and known me!
2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
you discern my thoughts from afar.
3 You search out my path and my lying down
and are acquainted with all my ways.
4 Even before a word is on my tongue,
behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.
5 You hem me in, behind and before,
and lay your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
it is high; I cannot attain it.
7 Where shall I go from your Spirit?
Or where shall I flee from your presence?
8 If I ascend to heaven, you are there!
If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!
9 If I take the wings of the morning
and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
10 even there your hand shall lead me,
and your right hand shall hold me.
11 If I say, "Surely the darkness shall cover me,
and the light about me be night,"
12 even the darkness is not dark to you;
the night is bright as the day,
for darkness is as light with you.
13 For you formed my inward parts;
you knitted me together in my mother's womb.
14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works;
my soul knows it very well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret,
intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance;
in your book were written, every one of them,
the days that were formed for me,
when as yet there was none of them.
17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!
18 If I would count them, they are more than the sand.
I awake, and I am still with you.
19 Oh that you would slay the wicked, O God!
O men of blood, depart from me!
20 They speak against you with malicious intent;
your enemies take your name in vain.
21 Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord?
And do I not loathe those who rise up against you?
22 I hate them with complete hatred;
I count them my enemies.
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart!
Try me and know my thoughts!
24 And see if there be any grievous way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting!
David notes how God is omniscient, that is He is all knowing. Since He is all knowing that means that He must be omnipresent, that He is present everywhere. David reflected on the fact that God knew Him because God was the one who gave Him life. He knitted David together in his mother's womb. He is fearfully and wonderfully made. He also calls God's judgment down upon the one that sheds innocent blood and he cried out to God to search his heart.
No Maverick Sperm or Rogue Egg
There is not a maverick sperm or a rogue egg that exists in this entire world. It is a miraculous process that must take place in order for fertilization to begin in order for life to begin. There are no such thing as unplanned pregnancies. God has planned every single pregnancy that has ever taken place in the history of the world. He is the one who has knitted every child together within the womb of their mothers. Every person is fearfully and wonderfully made by God.
A common objection people will give for standing for life and justifying abortion is based on a person's circumstances. If your starting point is not God then that does in fact make sense. They will say, "What about the case of rape/incest?" They will say things like, "Don't you know that this child will have a terrible upbringing and they will just grow up to live off the system and cost us all more money?" Without God as your starting point this may make sense. On the other hand, knowing that God is the author of life then, only He can make the rules for how the life is taken away. Which He does in His Word... in His law. When you justify abortion for any of these reasons what you are attempting to do is to play God. You have no idea what God has in store for a person. Let's read the lineage leading to Jesus Christ:
"The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
2 Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers, 3 and Judah the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez the father of Hezron, and Hezron the father of Ram, 4 and Ram the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon the father of Salmon, 5 and Salmon the father of Boaz by Rahab, and Boaz the father of Obed by Ruth, and Obed the father of Jesse, 6 and Jesse the father of David the king.
And David was the father of Solomon by the wife of Uriah, 7 and Solomon the father of Rehoboam, and Rehoboam the father of Abijah, and Abijah the father of Asaph, 8 and Asaph the father of Jehoshaphat, and Jehoshaphat the father of Joram, and Joram the father of Uzziah, 9 and Uzziah the father of Jotham, and Jotham the father of Ahaz, and Ahaz the father of Hezekiah, 10 and Hezekiah the father of Manasseh, and Manasseh the father of Amos, and Amos the father of Josiah, 11 and Josiah the father of Jechoniah and his brothers, at the time of the deportation to Babylon.
12 And after the deportation to Babylon: Jechoniah was the father of Shealtiel,[d] and Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel, 13 and Zerubbabel the father of Abiud, and Abiud the father of Eliakim, and Eliakim the father of Azor, 14 and Azor the father of Zadok, and Zadok the father of Achim, and Achim the father of Eliud, 15 and Eliud the father of Eleazar, and Eleazar the father of Matthan, and Matthan the father of Jacob, 16 and Jacob the father of Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom Jesus was born, who is called Christ.
17 So all the generations from Abraham to David were fourteen generations, and from David to the deportation to Babylon fourteen generations, and from the deportation to Babylon to the Christ fourteen generations."
First let's consider Tamar. Jacob's son Judah (patriarch of the line of Judah) had three sons: Er, Onan, and Shelah. A woman named Tamar married Er, but then Er died, leaving her a widow. Since it was required that the next of kin care for a brother's widow, Tamar was given to Onan, but he also died. Shelah was still a boy and could not marry Tamar, so Judah asked her to return to her father's house and wait until Shelah was grown up. However, once Shelah was old enough, Judah did not honor his promise. Tamar remained an unmarried widow. Tamar then went into town disguised as a prostitute, tricked Judah, and got him to sleep with her. She then became pregnant by Judah and bore twin sons named Perez and Zerah.
Rahab was a prostitute of the Canaanite city of Jericho. The line of Christ passed through her.
David had Solomon with the wife of Uriah. He entered into a relationship with Solomon's mother through an adulteress affair in which he then had Bathsheba's husband killed. Not exactly the best circumstances and yet God gave them Solomon, the wisest king in history, and eventually Christ the Messiah too came from their lineage.
God is the author of life which means we must look to His Law as the standard of how we are to make our judgments.
Contributor / Eric Stewart
Eric Stewart is the Lead Pastor of ONElife Church in Flint, MI.


text: July 26, 2013 -- Professor Kenneth Klee will be inducted into the Turnaround Management Association's Turnaround, Restructuring and Distressed Investing Industry Hall of Fame for his contributions to elevate the corporate restructuring community. He will be honored at the Turnaround Management Association's annual event, which will be held in October in Washington, D.C. Professor Klee is a nationally recognized expert on bankruptcy law and a founding partner of Klee, Tuchin, Bogdanoff & Stern LLP, a law firm specializing in corporate reorganization, insolvency and bankruptcy law. He recently represented Jefferson County, Alabama under Chapter 9 of the Bankruptcy Code in what was, at the time, the largest municipal bankruptcy. In 2010, Professor Klee served as the appointed Examiner in the Tribune Chapter 11 cases.The Turnaround Management Association is the leading organization dedicated to turnaround management, corporate restructuring and distressed investing.The Turnaround, Restructuring and Distressed Investing Industry Hall of Fame was created to honor those whose outstanding individual contributions have made a lasting positive impact on an industry dedicated to stabilizing underperforming companies, rebuilding corporate value and retaining jobs.


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ROCKFORD (WIFR) -- Some who live in two east side neighborhoods say speeding cars are putting their kids' safety at risk, but a new study started today to slow down drivers.
Traffic is moving a little slower down South 2nd Street. A welcome change for Carmen Olivares who lives at the corner of 2nd and Oak.
"The speed limit is 30 but cars go sometimes like 50 and there's been a couple accidents where cars come and crash into vehicles parked on this side, on the road," Olivares said.
Olivares says she constantly worries those speeding cars may someday crash into her kids.
"My kids as you can see, they're always playing around so it's good to slow down traffic for them," she said.
Barrels are slowing cars; it's a temporary fix for now. Over the next three months the city will decide whether to install traffic circles at South 2nd and Oak, 2nd and Grove, and Crosby and Highland.
It's a change that could make the intersection safer for not only drivers, but also for those who live in the area.
"Cars are actually respecting the fact that there are barricades in the middle of the road and I think it's safer for everybody," Olivares said.
The city wants to hear our feedback on the circles.
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Houston North Emmaus Community
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Community Chairperson Message
Ecclesiastes 4:9-12
1. Boldly extend personal invite to loved ones, fill the Walks
You Sponsored people; you prayed for the Community, its leadership and the pilgrims; and you supported the Emmaus community by working a Walk, working within your own church to support its Fourth Day Community, and you served your churches and many other missions of God – like Kairos. Our focus will remain the same for 2019, but with two additional focus items.
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Mommy Makeover Before and After Video – SF Bay Area
Posted December 23, 2017 in Breast Augmentation, Breast Augmentation Lift, Breast Lift (Mastopexy), Home, Mommy Makeover, Tummy Tuck (Abdominoplasty), Videos
The combination of Breast and Belly Enhancement has been coined the Mommy Makeover. Since the breasts and belly often change after childbirth, the combination is most often performed for mommies. Children, however, are not a prerequisite as any weight gain and loss can cause similar changes.
Mommy Makeovers After Weight Loss
The combination of breast and belly rejuvenation is frequently requested after bariatric surgery or larger weight loss after diet and exercise. As with pregnancy, both areas stretch with weight gain, and then deflate and often sag after the weight is lost, taking the shine off all the hard work. The Mommy Makeover procedure can enhance the breast and the belly in a single operation. The Mommy Makeover Video below shows additional examples.
Mommy Makeover Video (Breast and Belly Enhancement)
This Mommy Makeover video narrates several Mommy Makeover Before and After Pictures and provides additional information on the Mommy Makeover procedure including options and recovery.
Mommy Makeover Results Last
You can expect your Mommy Makeover to last. With proper maintenance, the procedure is very effective at improving body contours long term. If you are planning to have children, it is recommended to have them before the Mommy Makeover.
Mommy Makeover With A Brazilian Butt Lift
For selected patients, the Mommy Makeover can be combined with fat grafting to the buttocks, aka the Brazilian Buttocks Lift. The upside is added shape to the buttocks by grafting fat from the belly and back that would usually be discarded during the tummy tuck. The downside is trying to avoid sitting/laying on the fat grafts while recovering. Sometimes separating the procedures is recommended.
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The African Development Bank (AfDB) has called for increased American and global investments to help unlock Africa's agriculture potential.
The President of the Bank, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, made the appeal at the USDA's 94th Agriculture Outlook Forum in Virginia with the theme, " Roots of Prosperity''.
Adesina said: "For too long, agriculture has been associated with what I call the three Ps – pain, penury, and poverty.
"The fact though is that agriculture is a huge wealth-creating sector that is primed to unleash new economic opportunities that will lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty."
Adesina appealed to the US private sector to fundamentally change the way it views African agriculture.
"Think about it, the size of the food and agriculture market in Africa will rise to US $ 1 trillion by 2030.
"This is the time for US agri-businesses to invest in Africa.
"Think of a continent where McKinsey projects household consumption is expected to reach nearly $2.1 trillion and business-to-business expenditure will reach $3.5 trillion by 2025. Think of a continent brimming with 840 million youth, the youngest population in the world, by 2050."
He urged the U.S government to be at the forefront of efforts to encourage fertilizer and seed companies, manufacturers of tractors and equipment, irrigation and ICT farm analytics to ramp up their investments on the continent.
"As the nation that first inspired me and then welcomed me with open arms, permit me to say that I am here to seek a partnership with America; a genuine partnership to help transform agriculture in Africa, and by so doing unlock the full potential of agriculture in Africa.''
This, he said, would help to unleash the creation of wealth that would lift millions out of poverty in Africa, while creating wealth and jobs back home right here in America.
Adesina told more than 2,000 delegates that the African Development Bank was spearheading a number of transformative business and agricultural initiatives.
"We are launching the Africa Investment Forum, as a 100 per cent transactional platform, to leverage global pension funds and other institutional investors to invest in Africa in Johannesburg, South Africa from November 7-9."
The World Bank, International Finance Corporation, the Inter-American Development Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and the Islamic Development Bank, are partnering with the African Investment Forum to de-risk private sector investments.
The African Development Bank is also pioneering the establishment of Staple Crop Processing Zones in 10 African countries which are expected to transform rural economies into zones of economic prosperity and save African economies billions of dollars in much need foreign reserves.
"We must now turn the rural areas from zones of economic misery to zones of economic prosperity.
"This requires a total transformation of the agriculture sector. At the core of this must be rapid agricultural industrialization. We must not just focus on primary production but on the development of agricultural value chains," Adesina added. "That way, Africa will turn from being at the bottom to the top of global value chains."


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The luxuriously furnished apartments range from two-storey, one-bedroom lofts in the annex block, to two-bedroom, three-bedroom and penthouse suites in the main block. Each of the three-bedroom suites features a fully carpeted master bedroom with a king-size bed and built-in wardrobe and a marble en suite bathroom fitted with a shower cubicle, as well as a full-size bath tub. The second room has a queen-size bed while the third room has two single beds. There is also a common bathroom with shower, a fully equipped kitchen with fridge, cooker, microwave and tea/coffee making facilities, and a living and dining area. A hairdryer, direct dial telephone, satellite/cable TV, radio, Internet access, individually regulated air conditioning and a safe deposit box are provided.
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Lyme Regis is one of my favorite seaside locations, so I decided that I wanted to spend a day there for my 17th birthday.
So the day started a bit cloudy, so I spend a while camped out in the beach tent, which has it's own really hot micro climate, so it felt like I was in Spain in there.
We always sit on Monmouth Beach, which is just around the corner from the main beach at Lyme Regis, because we had the dog with us. Unfortunately it is stony, but luckily this makes it very quiet, even at peak times.
Shout out to this guy.
We then walked along the seafront and up into the town, to fulfill our retail therapy desire.
We found a few hidden gems on this visit and although we've been to Lyme Regis many times, we have never discovered this little alley way with about 5/6 shops in it. There was a fossil shop (the one with the T-rex on the roof) a ice cream parlor and a pizzeria.
We also found this really cute bookshop, which looked tiny from the outside, but was a maze of old books, magazines and annuals.
I could have stayed in here for hours.
I went back to the beach and starting reading 'The Book of Tomorrow', which I had just brought from a charity shop in the town.
It was then quite late in the day, so we decided to go home. Just as we got into the car it decided to chuck it down with rain, although only for a few minutes. After this we got a Chinese takeaway on the route back.
I hope you guys enjoyed this style of blog post, if you want me to do more photo blogs then leave a comment, oh and also if you want to see a book review of 'The Book Of Tomorrow' by Cecelia Ahern then let me know:)
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Kirk Arnold is an experienced CEO, with a demonstrated history of leadership in the technology industry. Skilled in strategy, sales, customer relationship management, and operations, Kirk has a passion for delivering the value of transformative technologies to enterprises and consumers.
Currently, Kirk is actively engaged as an advisor, board member and teacher. She is an Executive-in-Residence at General Catalyst Ventures, where she works with management teams to help scale and drive growth by providing leadership, mentorship, operational, and strategic support. In addition, she is an independent member of the board of Ingersoll Rand, a global electronics manufacturer, where she serves on the Technology, Nominating and Governance, and Compensation Committees. Kirk is also a member of the board of Cylance, a leading cybersecurity software company and prior to that, served as an independent board member of EnerNOC, a provider of energy intelligence software, where she chaired the Nominating and Governance Committee through the sale of the company in 2017. She serves on the board of trustees and the executive committee of the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council and is a member of the board of the UP Education Network, a leader in developing innovative, effective charter schools in underserved communities. In addition, Kirk is a Lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management, where she teaches Sales and Sales management and Advanced Ventures, and is an advisor at the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship.
Kirk spent over 30 years as an executive in the technology industry, most recently as the CEO of Data Intensity, a cloud-based data, applications and analytics managed service provider. Prior to joining DI, she was COO of Avid, a technology provider to the media industry. Before Avid, Kirk was the CEO and President of Keane, Inc., then a publicly traded billion-dollar global services provider. She has held senior leadership roles at Computer Sciences Corp, where Kirk was President of the Consulting and Systems Integration Division, Fidelity Investments and IBM. In addition, she was a founder and CEO of NerveWire Inc. She received a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College. Kirk and her husband have two children and reside in Boston.
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I only recently booted from a Lexar where I had cloned my Kingston onto and I was surprised at how much quicker the Lexar was compared to the Data Traveler. A good USB2 stick is maybe faster than the USB3 Kingston.spaceman5 wrote: ⤴Sat Aug 11, 2018 11:07 am...Wow..rui no onna wrote: ⤴Sat Aug 11, 2018 10:51 amIt was always the sqlite databases that got corrupted on my drives and it happened on three separate Kingston DataTraveler drives after 6-9 months daily use (bought a bunch on sale) suggesting wear leveling wasn't perfect. Granted, SanDisk probably uses a better controller (and mayhaps better NAND) than the one on the Kingston. After the third corruption, I switched to portable USB HDDs, then later 2.5" SSDs in USB enclosure for my PortableApps.
I have 1 Kingston DataTraveler too,
and it's extremely slow, compared to all my other USB Flash Drives.
I will never buy Kingston again, especially after what you wrote about your 3 ones..
One big pro of the Kingston is it's solid construction, it has the best retractable connector of all sticks and still opens and closes as firm as when new. You can have it in your bag or your pocket and it will survive.


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In the last chapter, we saw how words are combined to yield phrases with new meanings. But so far we have only looked at words or word combinations that refer to things. People also talk about situations, about the states that things are in (I feel nauseous, this book is a gem) and about events involving things (I tripped, I read the book you lent me). To do this, they put words together in phrases such as the book you lent me and combine these with other phrases to make sentences. In doing so, they relate the parts, or roles, of the situation they are describing with the roles in the sentence used to describe it. As with the other aspects of language we have studied, each language has conventions for how these two kinds of roles are associated with one another and for how the sentence roles themselves are marked. Many of these conventions are tied to verbs, which organize the structure and the meaning of sentences. In this chapter, we'll see how different subtypes of verbs behave and how the properties of verbs and sentences vary across languages. We'll also see how sentences not only describe actual situations in the world but also allow speakers to get information about these situations (did you read that book I lent you?) or to cause them to happen (please return that book I lent you). When you're done with this chapter, you should have a better idea what sentences are, how they work, and how they allow us to talk about what's going on in the world around us.


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Cryptocurrency Mining.
Those of you who frequent iTag Live may have noticed a change in the last few hours: Cryptocurrency Mining. When you first arrive on our site now, you will see a banner letting you know we are now mining cryptocurrency in the background of our site while you read our articles. This can sound strange or scary, so we wanted to take this opportunity to explain exactly what is happening, and alleviate any concerns you may have.
What is NOT happening?
To start, we are not installing anything on your computer. We are not accessing any kind of private information. We are not "hacking money out of you". Cryptocurrency often gets a bad rap as a volatile currency that is used by criminals and wall street investors (I know, redundant). But cryptocurrency in itself is not "bad", it is just another thing which holds value. We are not taking anything away from you when we mine cryptocurrency. Our miner is designed to run on a small enough scale that you won't even notice it while reading an article. Our site will not get slower because of the miner, and it will not be any harder for you to read articles.
What actually IS happening?
The banner you are seeing when you arrive at our site gives you some idea of what is going on, "We mine cryptocurrency to help pay for our services". Mining for cryptocurrency is a simple mathematical process (maybe "simple" is a stretch) that takes a very large amount of simple calculations and uses them to complete a much larger more complicated equation. When one of these larger equations is solved, a small amount of cryptocurrency is awarded to the miners that worked to solve it. When we mine in the background of our site, we are basically giving your browser some of these smaller mathematical problems to solve for us. Nothing is installed on your computer, and none of your information is accessed in any way. We simply ask your browser to solve some math problems and then we use the answers that it sends back to solve the larger equations we are trying to solve.
Why is this being done?
As most of you may realize, running a website comes with costs. We have to pay for the server that hosts our site, we have to pay for the domain that we use for our site, and maybe most importantly, we have to pay our writers every now and then so that they keep writing things. In the past we have leveraged ads on the page to try and earn the money needed to do all of these things, which has "worked" (but not really).
Ads have a number of problems associated with them. First, ads clutter up the pages, and make things harder to navigate. No one likes to see ads, which is why AdBlockers are so popular these days. This is our second problem, AdBlockers actually prevent us from getting paid for the ads they are removing. Lastly, not all ads are savory. We can't guarantee that our ad server will always give us ads that we find to be fitting for our platform.
So we decided to go outside the box and start looking into new ways to help pay our bills without cluttering our site or bombarding you with ads (that you potentially block). One possible option was paywalls, but yeah, that's not gonna work. So we thought to ourselves, what do all our readers have besides money (you rich hooligans), and the answer was simple: computers! That's when we found cryptocurrency mining.
So what does this mean for me?
In the past, several companies have gotten in trouble for mining without the consent of their users. We always want to be upfront with you about what we are doing, even behind the scenes. Going forward you will continue to see a banner informing future readers about our process of mining to support our site. One major benefit for you as a reader is that we will begin phasing out ads on our site, and restructuring it to best highlight the content you come here for. We hope that as we make this transition you will find that for the most part, nothing will change for you at all.
As always, we hope you enjoy your time on iTag Live and look forward to filling your head with the most ludicrously untrue news articles for a long time to come. #fakeNewsForever


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From the White Guide Nordic 2018:
- Address: St. Olavs plass 2, 0165 Oslo
- Phone: +47 479 78 087
- Web: happolati.no
- Seats: 50
- Opening Hours: Tue-Sat 4.30–10 PM
Red hot resplendence
Happolati is located in the old grounds of the former fine dining bastion of Ylajali, but it doesn't need any of this legacy to stand firmly on its own. Since opening in 2016 it has rocketed towards stardom and is now considered one of Oslo's – and Norway's – most exciting restaurants. The foundation is Asian cuisine, but from there it grows out wildly in many directions. You'll find homespun variations on street food traditions such as the Chinese bao bun, but that's where tradition stops and inspiration takes over. Picture it filled with red king crab and then deep-fried, hitting very spicy and buttery notes simultaneously. It appears again, served on a DIY platter of desserts, caramelized and ready to be stuffed in your mouth with banana-chocolate ice cream, sorbet, popcorn, and fruity dipping sauce. Expect to use your hands quite a lot during the set menus, as this is tactile, messy food – and it's deeply satisfying both to handle and consume. Whether you're asked to put on blue plastic gloves to eat shellfish Neanderthal-style, assemble your own veal cheek tacos, or dip deep-fried cod's tongue in a tart chilli sauce, dining at Happolati never gets boring, old or gimmicky. It is an effective way of engaging the customer, and this playfulness permeates the whole experience. Most important of all, though, is that everything tastes extraordinarily good, and in comparison with many of their peers, the cooks at Happolati do not hold back on the chilli. After perusing their wine selection you'll be able to name your new favourite Greek or Hungarian varietal, and with a good sake menu to bookend the night, you're in for a unique treat..
To read the whole review go to Buy The White Guide Nordic 2018.


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Get some fashion inspo from these Bollywood divas.
We know Diwali was the occasion to slay those Indian ensembles but is there ever a dearth of occasions to dress up for? With a schedule of wedding festivities, Christmas, and New Year's coming up, our outfit game has got to be on point.
What's better than a Pinterest board of outfit inspiration? Well, the Instagram handles of Bollywood's leading ladies of course. With a team of professionals behind them, carefully curating their every look, you're sure to find something you like.
Take a look at some of our favourite looks from this October.
Sonam Kapoor
The Aisha lead actress plays fashionista in real life just as well as she does on screen. Last month, this was our favorite look. For one of the many Bollywood Diwali bashes, Sonam wore an Abu Jani Sandeep Khosla saree, easily one her's and our favorite designers. We're crushing on that off-shoulder blouse! Once again, Rhea Kapoor knocked it out of the park.
Deepika Padukone
Deepika attended the MAMI closing ceremony in this Monisha Jaisingh pantsuit, or should we say power suit? It's all things retro and all things statement! To add a little more femininity, add a delicate necklace or statement earrings. Shaleena Nathani as Deepika's stylist is a duo made in heaven.
Jhanvi Kapoor
She may not be a leading lady yet, but she is Bollywood royalty and thanks to Tanya Ghavri, her outfit has made it on this list! Jhanvi Kapoor looks like a million bucks in Manish Malhotra. She makes the sheer trend look better than ever before.
Kareena Kapoor Khan
Begum Khan turns the airport arrivals and departures into a ramp. Designer handbag? Check! Sunnies? Check! And she's also wearing an impeccable Dhruv Kapoor outfit, styled by Tanya Ghavri. It's super effortless but still makes a statement.
Richa Chadha
We're obsessed with Richa in this formal, blouse and skirt, outfit. The silhouette shows off her perfect figure, giving us a sexy vibe without showing any skin. The experimental Richa Chadha never fails to wow us! This look is styled by Rochelle D'Sa and Anisha Gandhi.
Disha Patani
Disha Patani looks right about ready for vacation in this Shivan & Narresh cutout dress that she pulls off with aplomb. Is it just me or is that hair, and those sunnies, paired with this dress, giving you major Rihanna vibes? Either way, Aastha Sharma styles to perfection.
Esha Gupta
Aastha also styles Esha Gupta and in this particular instance, we're floored! Esha looks like a modern-day Indian princess in this Gaurav Gupta ensemble. The hair, those earrings, and that ring are just about all she needs to rock this look!
Alia Bhatt
Can anyone do lounge-chic better than Alia Bhatt? This Erdem X H&M outfit is just everything, especially with strappy heels. The messy bun completes the 'don't care who's watching' vibe of this outfit. Ami Patel dresses Alia's personality and we love it!
Kangana Ranaut
And finally, is any fashion list complete without Kangana? Don't answer that, it was a rhetorical question! This futuristic glam meets country girl is something only Kangana can pull off. A round of applause for Ami Patel!
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The geographical isolation of a reservation, and the tribal commitment to investment in a casino, energy extraction, and other enterprises can have a sizable impact on the incomes of reservation residents.
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Anti-capitalist promoters of "climate justice" ignore all of the evidence of capitalism's benefits staring us in the face.
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To borrow a line from Al Gore, this strikes me as a "risky scheme."
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Chrissie loot awaiting construction
He likes 'em sitting on his desk.
When I was cleaning up for the fucking open house inspections, well I figured that they should go away cos they are just too easy to steal - yeh that's where my head goes when I think of a tribe of pervs coming a knocking, so I popped 'em into a drawer, but bugger it all, I broke 'em up a bit. Shit! And if it wasn't a bit of a pain putting 'em together one a time, I can only imagine this will be truly shitful cos now all the bits are mixed up.
Oops!The Bus survived but the Kanga is unrecognisable, and poor old Big Ben and the Opera House need more than a bit of Spackle repair.
I imagine that these bits might stay smashed until we are settled elsewhere and maybe even then.
Zig's eyes became saucer like when he saw the Mini Cooper box Stevie got from Santa. I reckon almost certainly he figured a mistake had been made. I thought maybe Santa had thrown a spanner in the mix and that he thought maybe the 2 boys could work together or that as it required EXPERT brains maybe Zig would make it and it could sit on Stevie's desk. Who knows how it will work out. It's still in the box.
But what I do know is that I won't be jostling for construction pole position cos I just haven't got it in me. I am far too fucking impatient and am dreadful at following instructions. Shit I refuse to read how much bubble bath is enough, and as for food recipes, well I might follow 'em for a minute, but then boredom sets in and I just make it up.
I have watched Zig spend a whole day building a Lego thingie. He gets a real kick out of it, and so does Stevie once the things are finished.
But I can spend hours or days playing word games on the computer and before computers back in the days of newspaper deliveries and such, crosswords were fun, so I suppose puzzles are horses for courses.
And then of course there is the puzzle about 'why is it so?'
But I reckon too much time spent on this will see fine collection of belly button fluff and fuck all else.
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Nursing schools are joined by just about every other healthcare education institution in the United States in the study of pathophysiology and it is a common course taught to nearly all medical students in the nation. It is a minimum requirement for a health degree of any kind, including paramedics, pharmacists, and doctors. Therefore, pathophysiology is a required course for any level of degree in nursing schools.
The class teaches nursing students about the impact that diseases and medical conditions have on the general mechanical behavior and chemical processes that normally occur in the human body, as well as how these behaviors and processes occur. Knowing pathophysiology will help nursing students learn to detect the early onset of a disease or condition and quickly remedy problems as soon as they arise if the patient is hospitalized. Pathophysiology nursing classes also teach nursing students how to figure out why a sudden change has occurred in a new or existing patient.
In most nursing schools, classes on this topic will first focus on pathogenesis; the mechanism or process that causes a specific disease. Specifically, nursing classes discuss how cells and tissue structures change as well as the impact of family history and chemical functions on the development of a disease.
As this nursing class progresses, students typically study case by case examples to provide a solid foundation of knowledge in the concepts of disease and chemical processes in the body. Then students will learn how to apply this information to mock patient files; attempting to discern normal physiological process from those that might be disease related.
Later in pathophysiology nursing classes, students must combine all of the knowledge they have accumulated thus far to determine a proper course of treatment for patients who are developing a disease or condition as well as patients who have already developed a disease. This involves learning how to alter the process that is occurring and influence the body system by understanding how the body compensates for abnormal pathophysiology.
In addition to patient assessment and care, this nursing class also discusses how abnormal pathophysiology observed in the patient will affect them over their lifetime and how treatments will affect the patient. The class will also cover any legalities, ethical issues, and political implications that these types of diseases and treatments carry through various historical cases.
Pathology is a similar study that is discussed in nursing classes for all degree levels. That's because pathology and pathophysiology are closely related medical studies regarding the behavior and effect of disease. The primary difference between the two studies is their emphasis – pathology focuses on observation and pathophysiology focuses on measurements. In nursing classes, students learn that pathophysiological changes in the body's processes will happen before a certain condition develops or as a result of a condition that has already developed.


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Video: Tijon – "eastside"
Tijon pays homage to the late legend Christopher Wallace - among other notorious hip hop icons – as he flaunts his flow flawlessly over Biggie's "The What"… all in the name of his beloved "eastside." The Mike O'Brien directed visuals capture the Jersey-bred emcee with his cohort of creatives partaking in whatever shenanigans they so choose – from egging a suit with an eviction notice, to blowing it down in the basement of the house from which they were just asked to leave.
Who said Jersey wasn't gangsta?
Tijon's "eastside" came to fruition when he was approached by Hot 97's DJ Juanyto, who wanted him to lay something down for his Young New York mixtape. No doubt, he's satisfied with the final product.
"eastside" too will live on Tijon's forthcoming rats EP.
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Just 150 metres from Kobe Meriken Park Oriental Hotel features an indoor pool with city views, massage services and 5 dining choices. Rooms have free internet and a balcony with park or harbour views.
Air-conditioned rooms with a satellite TV and pleasant earthy colours welcome guests at Kobe Meriken Park Oriental Hotel. Each has a private bathroom with a bathtub and slippers.
Kobe Maritime Museum is 500 metres away. JR Kobe Train Station is a 5-minute drive, and Minato-Motomachi Subway Station is a 10-minute walk. A free daily shuttle goes to JR Sannomiya Train Station.
The concierge helps with sightseeing, and an aromatherapy salon offers relaxation. Guests can lounge on the sun deck, enjoy the hot tub or shop for souvenirs.
The 14th-floor Oriental Steak House offers Kobe skyline views. Sushi and Minatomachi views are available at Sekitei. Other options include Chinese and Western cuisine, buffet dining and the top-floor Kou's Bar.


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Agnes Martin
The Peach
Agnes Martin was born in Maklin, Saskatchewan, Canada, in 1912. After spending her youth in Vancouver, she moved to the United States in 1931 and became a US citizen in 1950. In 1954 she moved to Taos, New Mexico. Returning to New York in 1957, she has held her first solo exhibition in 1958 at the Betty Parsons Gallery. In 1967 she moved back to New Mexico and abandoned painting for seven years. In 1975 she began her association with the Pace Gallery in New York. In 1991 the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam held an exhibition of her paintings and drawings which travelled on to various other European museums. In 1992 the Whitney Museum of American Art held a grand retrospective of her work. She lives and works in Galisteo, New Mexico.


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TORONTO (Reuters) - The Canadian dollar shot back above par with the U.S. dollar on Tuesday, supported by firmer commodity prices, expectations of an increasingly favorable U.S.-Canada interest rate spread, and calmer equities markets.
Canadian bond prices fell as investors positioned themselves ahead of Wednesday's U.S. Federal Open Market Committee interest rate decision.
The Canadian currency closed the North American session at US$1.0005, valuing a U.S. dollar at 99.95 Canadian cents, up from C$1.0044 to the U.S. dollar, or 99.56 U.S. cents, at Monday's close.
Rising oil prices in the overnight session helped float the commodity-influenced Canadian unit above par.
That triggered some technical buying, which pushed it up to US$1.0055, valuing a U.S. dollar at 99.45 Canadian cents, the Canadian currency's highest level since Jan 4.
The Canadian dollar has most likely settled into a holding pattern ahead of the Fed interest rate decision on Wednesday, said Matthew Strauss, senior currency strategist at RBC Capital Markets.
The Fed is widely expected to cut its key lending rate by half-a-percentage point, bringing the fed funds rate to 3 percent as it tries to bolster the U.S. economy.
The Bank of Canada's key lending rate is at 4 percent.
Most U.S. economic data lately has pointed to a serious downturn in the U.S. economy, prompting some market analysts to declare that the U.S. is in a recession.
Further cuts to the fed funds rate would stimulate growth by encouraging domestic spending, but it would make the greenback less attractive to investors.
The Fed has already cut interest rates by 125 basis points since September, including a 75-basis-point emergency cut last week.
Since that aggressive move, the Canadian dollar has gained 3.3 percent against the greenback.
The growing interest rate spread is the primary cause of the stronger Canadian dollar, Strauss said.
He also noted that the Fed's actions will benefit the Canadian economy indirectly and that is also boosting the bid for the Canadian dollar.
"If the U.S. economy is not going to fall into recession, or if its only going to be a mild, brief recession, that would help the Canadian economy quite significantly, from the perspective that, given the strong domestic momentum, the (Canadian) economy could continue growing closer to 2 percent rather than 1 percent."
Exports make up around 40 percent of the Canadian economy and the U.S. absorbs around 75 percent of Canadian exports.
The Fed expectations also acted to inject some stability to the recently volatile stock markets, which are being viewed as a barometer for the health of the global economy.
Canadian bond prices slid as investors positioned themselves ahead of Wednesday's Fed announcement.
Another factor in the declining prices was the calm in the stock markets, which took away the flight to quality bid for government debt, said Sheldon Dong, fixed income analyst with TD Waterhouse Private Investment.
The latest piece of domestic data showed manufacturers in Canada reported the bleakest outlook on production since 2002 given the lofty Canadian dollar, high oil prices and a slowdown in the U.S. economy.
The two-year bond fell 17 Canadian cents to C$101.69 to yield 3.292 percent. The 10-year bond slid 52 Canadian cents at C$100.71 to yield 3.907 percent.
The yield spread between the two-year and 10-year bond was 61.5 basis points, down from 63.7 points at the previous close.
The 30-year bond slipped 68 Canadian cents to C$113.80 to yield 4.179 percent. In the United States, the 30-year Treasury yielded 4.360 percent.
The three-month when-issued T-bill yielded 3.40 percent, down from 3.41 percent at the previous close.
Editing by Peter Galloway