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The Observer of Genesis, The Science Behind the Creation Story
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Genesis, the seven days of Creation ... Where does the text that makes up the first part of the Bible come from? Is its text a mere introductory poem ... or is it a narrative? What's behind its words? Alberto Canen has found an alternative way to answer these and other questions in the Genesis...
Humans and Evolution: On the Next Species
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Can humankind evolve? Why not? Is it true? How long are we doomed to live in useless bodies in a merciless universe? Why have we fallen so far from nature? What can we do? What more can we become? What does it really mean to be human? The discussion of evolution has become popular in recent...
Monolithic 3D - In General
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The e-book describes the Monolithic 3D technology in general. It is a list of blog posts detailing the technology.
A New Cosmic Concept Involving Nature
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Science hides many things about nature to favour Newton. Do you know what a star is, what forms a star inside, why there are stars, what a galactica is why stars are in a galactica, why the Universe is the way it is and why there is a Universe, why the sun and all other stars are what they are...
Petroleum Reservoir Simulation using 3D, 3-Phase, Parallal Finite Elements
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In this book, the author presents a detailed complex mathematical and computational model for the simulation of fluid flow in reservoirs. The research was conducted in collaboration with Dr. John M. Tyler of LSU and was funded by the United States Department of Energy. The results were published...
Top 10 FAQ About Electric Cars
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In this eBook the most frequent and important questions about electric mobility and electric cars are answered in an easy and understandable way. Just read the book and get in touch with this promising technology.
The Pollinator Profiles: Volume 1
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Learn about the fascinating world of pollinating animals in this first-of-its-kind compilation! This e-book is a collection of the 39 Pollinator Profiles posts published on www.pollinators.info during the year 2011-2012. Read about tiny bees, zippy hummingbirds, and amazing lizards, and how all...
Orgone Explained
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Speculations and theory's on orgone energy as well as useful documentation relating to orgone devices.
Formulas Para Numeros Primos
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Dark Earth
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Dark Plasma Theory predicts the existence of terrestrial dark plasma life forms which evolved from minimal plasma cell systems within a dark biosphere. The entities that we have loosely identified as ghosts, angels, jinns, demons, deities (including Marian apparitions), aliens, biological UFOs...


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Andre Villas-Boas beefs up Tottenham's goal threat
WITH Lyon president Jean-Michel Aulas declaring war on 'Les Rosbifs', Tottenham boss Andre Villas-Boas believes it is time for Emmanuel Adebayor to start cutting the mustard.
Tension is high in the French city ahead of the second leg of their Europa League last-32 tie. Both sides have likened this to a Champions League clash and with Gareth Bale's two spectacular free-kick goals giving Tottenham only a 2-1 advantage, there is all to play for at the Stade de Gerland tonight.
There is much talk about who will earn the right to progress to face, in all probability, Inter Milan, but none has been as flowery in the build up as that of the charismatic Aulas.
At one point, he even resorted to the language of Napoleon in a radio interview. "I can't imagine for a moment that we will let the opportunity slip against these Rosbifs," he said.
But the great players have to make the difference. They are the stars and Gareth has been magnificent this season
"The Europa League is a competition made for a club like us. It can allow Lyon to go on a run."
Villas-Boas laughed off the rhetoric and said that it had no chance of distracting him from his task.
The derogatory term refers to the British love of their roast beef but, amid the current meat crisis back in the UK, Villas-Boas's prime concern is persuading Power Horse energy drink ambassador Adebayor to step up to the plate.
If he cannot, he may just have to make do with the usual offering of yet another slice of Bale's Welsh not-very rare- bit. His contribution has been the staple diet of Tottenham's successes in recent weeks but Villas-Boas does not mind unduly that they are relying so heavily on the winger's talents.
"This is always the problem with big teams," he said. "Do Barcelona rely on Lionel Messi? Do Real Madrid rely on Cristiano Ronaldo? I don't think so.
"But the great players have to make the difference. They are the stars and Gareth has been magnificent this season. We are fortunate to have players who can be decisive on those moments. At the same time, we're trying to unlock the best out of Adebayor. Last year shows the example of what we're trying to get out of him.
"We have been speaking to him about how he can get into that goal-scoring position. Strikers live off goals and we are doing everything we can to try to unlock his full potential. The injuries and the African Nations Cup took him out for lots of games, and Jermain Defoe's run this year had been magnificent.
"The team shifted a lot with the loss of Rafael van der Vaart and Luka Modric. I'm not sure if it affected Adebayor's run.
"The relationship with the team now is different so everybody has to adapt in some way. But with the run we have until the end of the season he can still be the player we saw last season."
Adebayor has managed just three goals for Tottenham this term. By this time last year, he was already in double figures, on his way to a final tally of 18.
Villas-Boas won the Europa League with Porto two seasons ago, success that earned him a move to Chelsea, an ill-fated move, as it happened.
He was forced to stand aside and watch while his former assistant Roberto Di Matteo took the side on to further European glory and those memories make it tempting to ignore the mandate of Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy to make a top-four finish this season a priority.
"After the disappointments I went through last year it would be great to grab the chance of a European trophy," he said.
"But the club's objective is to qualify for the Champions League and the focus is there.
"It's not up to me to measure. It's always up to the owner and the chairman to decide what's considered success. But for the history of the club in this competition, to win it would be absolutely magnificent for us."

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Celebrating with Noble Pig
Posted on Monday, Dec 06 2010 - 12:00 am
A wonderful wine club member, all the way in Ohio, recently sent us this picture of their birthday celebration with their Noble Pig wine.
It thrills us to see our wine being consumed at so many special occasions and with such a beautiful table setting!
Thanks Melody, we appreciate it!!
12/06/2010 13:42 / Cindy in NY said:
What a beautiful table setting. I wish I had taken pictures with my Noble Pig wine!!


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The Problem of the Small Shopkeeper
Lord Beaverbrook, who says that Fascism must be sternly resisted, and Lord Rothermere, who says it is the only solution, have joined hands to deal a stout blow at the Co-operative Movement, and are obligingly writing articles in each other's papers about the iniquity of co-operative stores ruining the little shopkeepers.
The two lords are noted for their political stunting and for their frequent startling reversals of policy, and the present campaign shows them, as usual, wildly disregardful of consistency. Lord Beaverbrook, for the past three years, has loudly clamoured for higher wages, on the ground, among others, that higher pay means more money to be spent at the counters of the stores which advertise in his columns. He also found it a useful stick with which to beat the Labour Government early in 1931. He now makes a major point in his indictment of the co-operative stores, that they also have reduced the pay of their staffs. Yet Lord Beaverbrook finds no difficulty in associating with Lord Rothermere, whose papers have always been foremost in defending every wage-cut there ever was, and which now oppose the restoration of the 1931 "cuts," which Beaverbrook supports.
Lord Beaverbrook denounces the co-operatives because they dabble in politics. A trading concern, he solemnly says, should not be allowed to go in for politics. Lords Beaverbrook and Rothermere themselves are interested in trading concerns, their newspaper companies. Do they keep out of politics? On the contrary, as everybody knows, politics, their own personal ambitions, their wirepulling and political back-biting, are the life-blood of their newspapers.
Then Lord Beaverbrook declares that the cooperative stores are to be condemned on two grounds: (a) That their prices are higher than those of the small traders, and (b) That the co-operatives have an unfair advantage in being able to return to their customers at the end of the year a " dividend on purchases." It should be apparent to Lord Beaverbrook that if, in fact, co-operative store prices are higher than those of private traders, then the "dividend on purchases" merely represents the accumulated savings of the customers. They pay more for the goods and in due course get the excess back again. If that were all the difference between the co-operatives and the small traders then the latter could help themselves quite simply by starting similar schemes for saving up their customers' spare cash.
The real trouble between the co-operatives and the small traders is a quite different matter. The gist of it is that the small trader is small, and the co-operatives are becoming mammoth capitalist trading concerns, just like any other.
That is where the shoe pinches, and Beaverbrook and Rothermere have observed it. They have learned from Hitler the political value of exploiting the resentment of the small trader at his extinction by the chain store and department store, and—also like Hitler—they have seen the wisdom of directing that resentment in a quarter least harmful to themselves, i.e. against the cooperatives. Logically, of course, Beaverbrook and Rothermere should march determinedly, not only against the co-operatives, but also, and mainly, against all the big battalions, Boots, Woolworths, Marks & Spencers, Selfridges, Harrods, Imperial Chemicals, Unilever, the London Passenger Transport Board, and so on. They do not do so because that would rouse too much and too powerful opposition, and would directly harm their Lordships by cutting off revenue from the advertising of the products of those concerns in their pages. The moral would appear to be that the co-operatives should pay for immunity by placing big advertisements in the Daily Mail and Daily Express. As they have recently taken a whole page in the Daily Telegraph, perhaps that is what the co-operative directors are going to do.
Before leaving the subject of the small trader and the big store, a candid declaration made by Mr. Gordon Selfridge deserves to be rescued from obscurity. In an address broadcast to a conference on retail distribution, held at Boston on September 18th, 1933, he said that both in U.S.A. and Great Britain there are "too many retail shops." (See report in Daily Herald, September 19th.) What he thought about small shopkeepers was this: —
This surplus of shops is an uneconomic proposition, and most of these inexperienced managers or owners are attempting to do work for which they are unfitted either by temperament or ability.
Small shopkeepers who have faith in Beaverbrook and Rothermere should ask their Lordships if they will publicly denounce Mr. Selfridge, and if not, why not.
A few words about the forerunners of Lord Beaverbrook and Lord Rothermere may also serve to show the danger of trusting to the promises of politicians that they will turn back the march of large-scale industry. Ten years ago, and twenty years ago, the Labour Party was vigorously defending the "little men" against the "great soulless corporations." " Down with monopoly" was their battle-cry. As Mr. Clynes put it, a short twelve years ago, better a large number of small capitalists than a small number of large ones.
But capitalism marched on unheeding, and one day the Labour Party found itself in office, saddled with responsibility for tackling the problems of capitalist adjustment to changing economic conditions. At once the defence of the small man became inconvenient, and by the time the Labour Party entered office again, in 1929, the old coat had been turned inside out. It had been discovered by Mr. Herbert Morrison, Mr. Bevin, the late W. Graham and others, that monopoly is the salt of the earth. All the Labour leaders, except a few who resented this volte-face, now preached salvation by public utility corporations.
So now the small shopkeeper is looking to new groups of politicians, Hitler and Dollfuss, Rothermere and Mosley, to save him, but in that quarter the old game of broken pledges is proceeding merrily. Rothermere and Beaverbrook have no intention of attacking their own big-business friends, and Hitler, before being in power a year, was already explaining away his unwillingness to demolish the German chain stores and departmental stores.
That, however, is the affair of the small shopkeeper, not of the Socialist movement. What is our affair is the need to repudiate the charge put forward by Beaverbrook and Rothermere that Socialists support co-operative big business against the small shopkeeper. The co-operative movement (which, incidentally, is so unlike the dreams of its founders as to be almost unrecognisable) and the Socialist movement are as chalk and cheese. We have not the slightest interest in the efforts of the co-operative movement to extend its business organisation. Some workers may find co-operative "divi." a convenient method of saving, but, as a movement, it never will or could bring emancipation any nearer. It can thrive only by accepting and imitating capitalism. It can never bring the workers more than a few crumbs from the capitalist table.
As Socialists we do not gloat over the personal tragedies of the wiping out of the small shopkeeper any more than we do over other tragic effects of ruthless capitalism. What we do say, is that Lords Rothermere and Beaverbrook have no intention whatever of setting back the clock of capitalist development in order to retrieve the fortunes of the small man. If they have, let them show it by retiring from the fight in which their newspaper combines crush out the small local newspaper.
Lords Rothermere and Beaverbrook appear to have devised an astute plan for boosting circulation and delimiting their respective interests. They agree to disagree about Fascism, they agree to co-operate about the co-operatives, they agree to be dumb about the other big stores which advertise in their columns, they agree to disagree about higher wages and restoring the "economy cuts," and, above all and all the time, they are completely silent about capitalism and Socialism, except to gloss over the evils of the one and misrepresent the other.
The appeal of Socialism is primarily to the workers, that is, to all who live by selling their mental and physical energies, their labour-power, to an employer, for it is our class which provides and will provide the driving force towards Socialism.
At the same time we point out to those groups of "small men" trying to maintain a precarious and often illusory independence against large-scale industry and commerce, that there is no salvation for them under capitalism. As individuals their place is within our ranks, when they recognise that the prime need of our age is the abolition of the private ownership of the means of production and distribution, and the establishment of Socialism, and when they are prepared to work with us to that end.
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Steven Hayes sent suicide letters, citing intolerable prison conditions
NEW HAVEN >> One of two convicts sentenced to death in a Connecticut home invasion sent suicidal letters before he was found unresponsive in his cell Monday, his attorney said Thursday.
Steven Hayes remained in stable condition Thursday at a hospital, a correction department spokesman said. Hayes implied in the letters he would be dead by the time they were received, said his attorney, Tom Ullmann.
"I don't think there's any question that it was an attempted suicide," Ullmann said.
Asked why Hayes tried to kill himself, Ullmann said, "The conditions of confinement are oppressive." He accused rogue correctional officers of harassing Hayes, declining to discuss details except to cite the removal of items from Hayes' cell such as extra blankets.
Prisoners on death row are kept in isolation 23 hours per day, Ullmann added.
Hayes, 50, is on death row for the 2007 killings of a woman and her two daughters after a night of torment inside their home in suburban Cheshire. Another man, Joshua Komisarjevsky, also was convicted and sentenced to death for the home invasion killings.
A federal judge in November denied Hayes' lawsuit seeking to change his conditions at Northern Correctional Institution, ruling that he did not provide any evidence that his mental health treatment was inadequate or to back up his request for changes to his diet.
Hayes also said his legal papers were confiscated as a form of harassment or retaliation. The judge said the failure of prison staff to provide a full response to that claim "gives the court pause," but he said Hayes had not shown irreparable harm.
Hayes more recently filed an emergency motion seeking relief, saying his prison cell was too cold and that he was misdiagnosed by staff who claimed his suicidal tendencies, depression and other issues stemmed from his crime rather than his conditions.
"I would rather die than endure these conditions any longer," Hayes wrote last month.
Hayes did acknowledge that he should be in prison.
"I do not deserve to be psychologically tormented or refused proper treatment," Hayes wrote. "To date I still suffer from deep emotional periods when I reflect on the pain I caused due to my crime and past actions."
In court papers, prison staff members deny harassing Hayes or violating his rights. Hayes was subject to discipline after he violated rules by sitting on the floor in protest of a search of his cell and refusing to return his handcuffs upon returning to his cell, officials said.
A Department of Correction spokesman declined to comment.
The attorney general's office, representing prison staff, said Hayes' cell is kept at 74 degrees, not 55 degrees as he claimed, and that mental health treatment was available to Hayes but he refused it.
Hayes, who has a history of suicide attempts, also sent a suicide note to The Hartford Courant in which he called Northern a "psychological torture chamber," the newspaper reported.


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After several months of planning, fund and equipment raising landed Team Estonia in Banjul, the capital of The Gambia. There were three of us – anesthesia would be covered by Dr Kristjan Kalling, a resident surgeon Dr Martin Adamson from Estonia, a resident surgeon Slawomir Koziel from Poland and myself as consultant surgeon.
Instantly were we greeted by dry hot air of Africa, the Smell of Africa as we used to call it. It's just not the high temperature but the different scents in the air: smoke, rotten food, dirt and ocean – it all makes together an unique flavor one can only get in Africa. Jim Jallow, our man in The Gambia, greeted us in the airport. We had been talking over phone some times and exchanged a lot of emails and now indeed he was there to take us to Leybato Motel on the beach. Nothing fancy, no 5 star resort, but neat and tidy place a bit further away from the touristic attractions and noise. A place for travelers and expats as Lonely Planet puts it. And a place with a wonderful kitchen! So after some days of waiting and a meeting with Permanent Secretary of Ministry of Health where we had the opportunity to give a short presentation on Operation Hernia, we were free to go to Farafenni, our final and only destination in The Gambia.
Travel there was an adventure in itself. Although Jim Jallow had promised to provide free transportation to the site, nothing of the kind happened. So finally we simply crossed the Banjul river with a ferry and rented a local taxi to take us the 150km along the north bank to Farafenni. Taxi-drivers shouting, fighting, grabbing our luggage, begging for some money – it all only put some colors onto our journey. Police checkpoints everywhere along the road, in some we had to produce also some id-s, well hidden so far in the underwear.
But Farafenni hospital greeted us with warmth and sincerity that really took breathless, especially after adventures in Banjul. CEO Alhagi Saine, hospital manager Baboucarr Saine and our constant companion Sainey Dibba, the communication officer of Farafenni Hospital were the nicest people we have met in Africa so far and to be honest it seemed these guys really do need help in Farafenni. Although the hospital is state run and financed, the possibilities for patients in The Gambia are by far not the same we are used to in Europe. We were able to collect some medical equipment, surgical instruments, meshes and sutures which we donated to Farafenni hospital. We could also take along a cardiac monitor, that we left later in the OR, we hope it will find good usage. Medical personnel. Nurses are mostly local, Farafenni people, and to be honest very capable. Doctors on the other hand are mostly Cubans spending year or two in the hospital and afterwards being replaced by others. No surgeon had been around for a year. And patients were simply waiting. When the word spread that we were around, patients started to come from close and far, some came even from Senegal. Talking to them wasn't easy, Mandinka and Wolof was beyond us, but local nurses were very helpful. Specially capable of solving all possible problems was Mr Bondi, anesthesia nurse who was running the OR and usually also giving anesthesia.
The hospital. A beautiful two storey building, built some 10 years ago with different pavilions for specialties all connected by hallways. Second floor of the hospital is used mostly as a huge storeroom, lack or inadequate electrical supply prevents them to use elevators. A Man with golden hands could get work there easily… Next team going to Farafenni could take an OR technician along, so many things needed to put in order and working state. But patients kept coming and we operated as many as possible. Electrical supply was from 9-16, afterwards some hours of generator supply, so head-torches were of good usage. Small children, older children, young people, old people, people with small hernias, people with huge hernias, people we could operate and people we had to put on hold for next teams to come.
Living conditions. Motel AMCR: again a place for travelers, the best in town. Clean and mostly quiet. We were lucky to get every morning transportation by Mr. Dibba. And every evening after work a nice guided tour to some interesting spot: either a local village, border-town in Senegal or something else fascinating and beautiful.
So in conclusion. Farafenni is definitely a place in need. In need for surgeons, anesthesiologists, technicians. To take supplies along would be nice, but there was a lot also around waiting for someone to put it into order and work. And most important: Farafenni needs us to show we care. It is definitely an Operation Hernia destination.
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USU Group announces 2018 half-year figures
The USU Group increased its half-year sales by 7.5% year-on-year. Due to the very good license forecast and the significant increase in incoming orders, the Group will again grow significantly faster than the market in 2018, according to the Executive Board. Group-wide sales revenues of EUR 93 - 98 million and the increase in adjusted EBIT to EUR 7.5 - 10 million are planned.
Adjusted earnings before interest and taxes ("adjusted EBIT") in the first half of the year were significantly below the comparable figure for the previous year. This was due to future investments in foreign markets, the associated 9.1% increase in personnel to 697 employees and some project postponements.
These are the most important details at a glance:
- Half-year sales increase by 7.5%, half-year result declines as expected due to targeted investments in the future
- Group workforce increased by 9.1
- Financing remains very solid, Group liquidity at previous year's level
- Management Board expects positive business development in the second half of 2018 and confirms annual planning for 2018 and medium-term guidance 2021
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NEA urges PA governor not to rob Chester Upland students of their future
Tentative agreement is only a short-term fix
WASHINGTON - January 18, 2012 -
Following is a statement by NEA President Dennis Van Roekel regarding the crisis in Chester, Penn., where the school district will run out of money unless the state provides emergency relief. The members of the Chester Upland Education Association have voted to work as long as they are able for delayed compensation.
Today a tentative agreement was reached to advance the Chester Upland School District enough state subsidy money to get through the next month. The agreement, which awaits Federal Judge Michael Baylson's approval, will send $3.2 million to the financially embattled district from the Pennsylvania Department of Education.
"It is a dereliction of duty to the children of Chester Upland for the Pennsylvania governor and the secretary of education to withhold funds for the district's schools. The $3.2 million is just a short-term fix and is not a solution for the district's students.
"I am so proud of our local NEA leadership and members, the 204 teachers and 65 school support staff who work in the Chester Upland School District.
"Our members are doing as much as they can to keep the promise of public education to their students. Now, the State of Pennsylvania must do all that it can to keep teachers and ESP on the job and give them the compensation that they work for so that they can feed their own families."
To hear Chester Upland members' stories visit http://youtu.be/nPPhfvsZa-0
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The Girl From Away Buoy Pin
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There's a new buoy in town! He's kinda small but he's mighty!
Buoy lapel pins in gold-plated metal with blue, white and red details
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28.5 mm tall
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When I was 24, I knew I couldn't continue doing my corporate job forever. It was a high-stress, high-pressure kind of environment. I did enjoy my job. I had a lot of fun. I met a lot of good people, people who I will be friends with forever. Joining the company was one of the best decisions I've made during my 20s. Another one of my best decisions I made was to start thinking of an exit plan.
I started thinking about the different career paths, and one of them was yoga. I took my first 200 HR Yoga Teacher's Training Course in 2010. I decided to attend a course where I go to class during weekends and holidays, so I can keep my day job. I often get asked why I decided to teach yoga. These are five reasons why I decided to teach yoga as a career.
1) A Job I can do at any age & life stage
I knew at some point in time, I would get married and start my own family. Having small children, keeping a full-time job, commuting, and praying the daycare won't call you up to say your child has a fever is not my ideal work situation. I know a lot of people do this, and they seem to be doing it very well. But for me, it's not something that I want to put up with. It is also important to me that I continue working at any age. I hope to be able to work even after a 'retirement age'. Teaching yoga fits the bill.
2) A Job I can do anywhere in the world
I have not lived in one place for more than 4 years my entire life. Picking a place to live in 'for the rest of my life' sounds impossible. Maybe a family situation will come up that I will have to move closer to home. Maybe my husband will be transferred to another country. Maybe I'll get sick of where I'm living and move somewhere completely random. You never know, I'll never know. Being able to work anywhere in the world, having location freedom was a very important factor for me. If I have a myself, and a student, I can teach anywhere in the world.
3) A Job that gives me time freedom
Honestly, it was cool for a while… but I started to hate having a Outlook calendar tied to my phone, and living by that calendar. Most of the events flying in where not in my control. I dreamed of being able to have a lunch date with a good friend on a random Wednesday over Mimosas. Being able to have a 3 day weekend, every weekend. Teaching yoga means I can create my own schedule, and have more flexibility in my working hours.
4) Do What I Love for a Living
If I want to continue working at any age, and through any stage of life, I better love what I do. If I hate my job, I would not want to be working at the age of 70 when I could be singing songs and dancing with my grandchild. I knew what I do needs to be something that I love to do myself, and love to share with other people. Something that I enjoy so much, that it actually energies me when I work. Teaching yoga is exactly that for me.
5) A Job that does good for the world
We live in a super crazy high-tech world these days. It's hard to unplug and simply live in the moment. Yoga teaches you this. It teaches you that peace begins with yourself. It has saved me on more than one occasion, and I hope it can help others too. I have big visions of being able to contribute to being a positive change in the world. If I can teach something that would give a little bit of peace to the lives of my students, it means the world to me. It makes me feel like it was worth teaching.
I hope sharing why I decided to teach yoga can inspire you to practice more, and share yoga with more people around you.
Love and light,


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Company and association matters
In circumstances provided for by law, the Regional State Administrative Agency may provide executive assistance in the following matters:
- authorisation for convening a corporate meeting;
- appointment of an operations inspector; and
- special audit.
The decisions issued by the Regional State Administrative Agency regarding community law may be appealed with the administrative court, and the decisions of the administrative court may be appealed further upward with the Supreme Administrative Court. The appeal against the agency's decision must be submitted to the administrative court indicated in the directions of appeal within 30 days of the receipt of the decision.


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Original antique Japanese color woodblock. Shunga (Erotic picture).
Artist: Koikawa Shozan (1821-1907)
Date: c.1854
Size: 8 3/4" x 8 1/3" inches
Series: 'Shaka hassô zoku yamato bunko'
Impression: Fine (Wonderful deluxe shunga with extensive use of gold and silver pigments, gaufrage, burnishing, 'bokashi'-shading and detailed carving of individual hair-lines)
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NSW Police have raided an alleged medical marijuana growing dispensary in Newcastle in a move condemned by cannabis campaigners.
The so-called Church of Ubuntu, based in Newcastle, had its medical cannabis set up raided by police on Thursday as part of a drug raid that saw 215 cannabis plants seized.
Detective Inspector Peter Mahon told told The Newcastle Herald that even if those behind the operation believed they were growing the cannabis for "medicinal purposes", it remained "a straight-out breach" of the Drug Misuse and Trafficking Act.
NSW police told the Huffington Post Australia inquiries are ongoing and charges are possible.
Former Drug Reform Party candidate Karen Burge said the cannabis operation was run under the name of The Church of Ubuntu and supplies medical cannabis to 1846 people around the country.
"The police are just doing their job," she said.
"They have taken our plants, which are medicine for children. As the Church of Ubuntu we have been supplying compassionate care to thousands of families Australia wide for up to five years combined.
She said the state government and police knew about the operation.
Ms Burge said some patients had been granted "terminal condition" waivers by the state government, which were announced last year.
The church, which describes itself as not for profit, has been operating for two years.
The Church of Ubuntu has been contacted for comment. In video posted on its website, the group's secretary, Paul Robert Burton, said he believed it was a moral and ethical responsibility to supply the medical cannabis in the legal vacuum.
Australia is undergoing a shift on how it views medical marijuana, with many states, including NSW, running clinical trials for use as treatment during chemotherapy and for easing the symptoms of extreme epilepsy.
In May the Federal government announced that businesses around Australia could apply for a licence to produce cannabis legally for medicinal purposes only under the Narcotics Drugs Amendment Act 2016, which came into effect on Sunday.
The Act also allows for eligible businesses to manufacture cannabis-related products and conduct related research for medicinal uses.
Federal Health Minister Sussan Ley said the changes would provide patients and doctors across the country with legal options to access safe and reliable medicinal cannabis for treatments.
That same month, NSW Premier Mike Baird was reportedly confronted by dying patients and their parents at a medicinal cannabis conference in Sydney and accused of moving too slowly medical marijuana trials.


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Starting in version 126.96.36.199 we implemented the new "Dynamic Site Creator" feature. This feature makes it possible to create a site on certain entities on business modules, dynamically with a timerjob (scheduled or manually started), based on a Caml Query. Meaning if you only want to create sites for entities that contain a certain status or other metadata content, this is the feature for you.
If you have the "Dynamic Site Creator" feature activated, you will see an option for "Dynamic site creator" on the individual Business Modules in WorkPoint Administration.
This option will lead you to the following screen.
The "Caml Query" text area is where you input your Caml query.
The query will only return entities that has no site attached, and is currently not being created.
If you leave this area blank, it will create sites for all entities with no site.
If you however, wish to make something more specific, e.g. only create sites for entities with specific metadata or in a certain stage, you would need to use a Caml query.
Whenever you create your own Caml Query, take care and test it with the "Test Caml" button. This button returns a top 10 of the items returned from the query (sorted by id), along with a count of the results. If this does not match your expectations, you need to change something in your query.
To assist you in making the query, you can do the following: create a new public view on the Business Module List you want to run "Dynamic Site Creation" on. Then set it up how you wish to filter your entities, and load the query from that view with the "Load Caml From View" button.
Here you can select the public view you just created and press "Get Caml", this will then return the query that builds the filters on the view.
Please note, when you have retrieved the Caml from the view, the Business Module Caml is not automatically updated if you change the view settings later. You would need to "Load Caml From View" again to work with your new changes.
Also note that, when you have imported your Caml query from the view and saved your settings, you may delete your view. The feature will no longer require it, since the Caml is saved directly in the Business Module Settings.
You can now test that Caml with the "Test Caml" button, or edit the query.
Test results are always shown in top 10 sorted by id.
If you check the option for "enable for Schedule Jobs", the Business Module is included when you run a "dynamic site creator" job as a scheduled job. Each Business Module that has been enabled for the scheduled job will execute its own query.
"Save" will save the settings you just made.
"Save and start job now" will save the settings and start a job for the current business module only. It does not matter if the "enable for schedule Jobs" checkbox has been checked, due to "start job now" is not a scheduled job.
If you want to run the feature as a scheduled job, you also need to create a schedule for that job, within the "Scheduled Jobs" section, as you would with other scheduled jobs.


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Hello, my beautiful people! Today I bring you a look with warm and comfortable knit dress, one of those versatile wardrobe basics that adapt to all styles. The point is one of those mid-season trends that always comes back every spring, so today I show you my proposal with this trend, with a knit dress from the brand Popjulia with a skate silhouette in beige, which I have combined with some mules, and a blue choker from the brand Olga Sergeychuk that together with the bag in animal print give it the touch of color to this look.
I think that the knit dress solves any "look", is one of those perfect garments to create a relaxed and sophisticated look, the most versatile? knitted dresses in neutral or soft tones, are undoubtedly those that we can get more out of these days of halftime in which we already want to wear spring but the thermometers have not yet decided to climb. And speaking of thermometers and rain, in Galicia we are going to leave scales !! hehe, we hope that soon Lorenzo comes out and give us spring days to enjoy our wonderful walks and views of the estuary :). I hope you find inspiration in my post today. See you in the next post. A chic kiss;) by Amanda chic
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Balloon seller killed in cylinder explosion
Around 2.30 am on Sunday, Chotu Sangu Kale (32) and his associate Bhagwant Ramchandra Chavhan (15) were filling toy balloons with helium inside the volleyball ground of Mahaveer Jain Vidyalaya on BMCC Road, when one of their two cylinders exploded. The teenager was killed on the spot.
The area where explosion took place is flanked by a boys hostel, but except a loud noise there was no other damage. Cops from Deccan police station hurried to the spot on getting information.
Chavhan was taken to Sassoon Hospital, but he had already breathed his last. Kale was initially taken to Ratna Hospital and later shifted to Surya Hospital for treatment.
He has 25 to 28 per cent burn injuries on his face, chest and stomach. Both victims are residents of Pullachi Vadi near Z Bridge in Deccan area. Deccan police station has filed a case of accidental death, but an investigation is on to determine the exact reason for the blast.
Could've been worse
Fire officer Rajesh Jagtap from Erandawane fire station, who went to spot, said, "By the time we reached, the fire was under control and one person had died. The cylinders were filled with helium gas, which is dangerous and safety precautions must be taken while inflating balloons.
While one of the cylinders had detonated, the other had become extremely hot. So, we first cooled it down, and took the articles from the spot to Deccan police station."
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"Riane Eisler says the during the long transition from matristic to the generalization of patriarchy there were forms, regulations and institutions resulting from the pacts between both ways of living, which reflected the correlation of strengths in each different situation and time. Women, Eisler explains, were prone to negotiation to avoid wars and deaths. In Bachofen´s opinion, the first form of marriage, the demetric marriage, was a proposition made by women to mitigate the sexual violence of men. Some opted for a 'guerrilla' society (the amazons), some matriarchal governments erected walls around their cities. The transition didn´t last some few years or centuries but, depending on the place, between 3000 and 4000 years; with times of war and ceasefires, and times of peace settled by establishing borders, norms of coexistence and neighbouring, until the ancient lifestyle remained in very isolated areas (as in the Caribbean up til the XV century) or in the catacombs (cults of the Goddess, witchcraft...)" Casilda Rodrigañez, 'El Asalto al Hades'
a) Mesopotamia:
"The first written law is known as the Hammurabi's Code, which is engraved (and not by chance) on a huge stone phallus over 6 feet high; dating from 1800 BC, it can be seen at the Louvre Museum in Paris. According to this code, women were already male´s property, and their social stratification was based on the category of children they were meant to have; if latter (the progeny) were meant to be heir, slave or substitute, they (women) had to be spouse, slave or substitute.
The concept of substitute is very good evidence of the economic liberalism and flexibility of staff to improve the efficiency and productivity of the patrimony. Unlike it happened in Hebrew society, their heir wasn´t necessarily the first male born of the first wife, but the father´s favourite. This way it promotes the mother to educate her sons according to the desires of the patriarch and secures the patrimonial continuity in a time when marriage didn´t exist and the roll of the spouse wasn´t consolidated enough to guarantee the proper education. When the father chose the heir, his mother became the lords spouse and reached the highest rank a woman could.
Later, it appeared the system of Primogeniture: […] Perhaps the Firstborn system prevailed because the struggle to get the father´s favour was too debilitating, becoming dangerous for the continuity of patrimony and lineage. The firstborn system is established when a suitable level of submission of female is achieved, and there are enough guarantees (backed up by the father and the woman´s family: coming from a good family is a quality for a good marriage, not only for the substance of the patrimony but also for the education it confers) for the fulfilment of her task, so she can be spouse prior to give birth. That´s why, till very recent times, there´s been such an emphasis in the dominant classes for their sons to choose the mother of their own children among the families within their own rank, which secures the training of the next generation. The system of primogeniture consolidates the institution of marriage." Casilda Rodrigañez y Ana Cachafeiro, 'La represión del deseo materno y la génesis del estado de sumisión inconsciente'
b) Israel:
"The Levite priesthood enforced patriarchal custom as tribal law, with the result that any infringement of sexual taboos was punished out of all proportion to the offence. Woman belonged to one of two men, their father or their husband. The morality of the earlier era, whereby children could be born to temple priestesses and be supported by the temple, was suppressed.
So also, although with great difficulty, was the ritual of sexual intercourse on special occasions, wich was believed to contribute to the earth´s fertility. Husbands could have several wives and could discard their wives without obligation to support them, but wives might have only one husband and adultery was punished with death by stoning. Every woman who was betrothed or married could be stoned to death if she was raped, unless the rape took place in the countryside where her calls for help went unheard (Deut. 22:26-7). The injuction: Do not prostitute they daughter to cause her to be a whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness (Lev. 19:29) was a directive to stop the hebrews following the baby lonian, and probably also the canaanite, custom whereby a girl before marriage offeres her virginity to the goddess or became a temple priestesses. There were to be no Hebrew priestesses. Any Levite priest whose daughter was discovered following the old customs was to burn her" Anne baring and Jules Cashford, "The myth of the Goddess"
c) Greece:
Francisca Martin-Cano believes that the founding of the patriarchal marriage had some consequences:
"-The establishment of the patrilinear legacy, by which the property of the farming land was inherited by the male descendants, caused women to loose access to the produce of the land and made them unable to support themselves.
- Having no other economical value, women were worth in relation to their capabilities of spouse and having many children. Given her exclusive roll as procreator of the patriarchal family, the spouse would be always pregnant […] Kneissler says of the Greek patriarchal societies: when women weren´t already pregnant their husbands merely visited them three times a month to fulfil their marital duties.
- It was times of Cecrops when the patriarchal family and the institution of marriage were established in Athens. This event is told as a punishment to women for the battle in which Athena defeated Neptune and giving her name to the city. To calm Neptune down who also wanted to give his name to the city, Cecrops, father of Athena, imposed upon women the next three punishments: a) Deprive them from their right to vote; b) forbid the descendants to carry the name of their mother and c) divest them of their right of citizenship, being but mere spouses of the Athenians. Since this patriarchal punishment, children would bear the name of their fathers (patrilinear), when prior to that they had their mothers (matrilinear)." Francisca Martin-Cano.
d) Rome:
"For the Romans the word family is not applied to the marital couple nor their children, but just to their servants. Famulus means domestic slave, and familia the group of slaves owned by the same man. In times of Gaius, the 'family', id est patrimonium (that is the 'patrimony'), was passed on by a legal will. This expression was invented by the Romans to name a new social organism, the head of which owned the wife, the children and a certain number of slaves, with the custody and the rights of life and dead over all of them." Wikilingue
"Opposing the muttertum (Bachofen) and group reproduction, the concept of lineage is established and the rules of familiar hierarchy, of the vertical and individual transmission of property are fixed. The son is not the child of the womb (in a sense of physical provenance) which belongs to the group, but the filium, he who is chosen for following his father. In the patriarchal family the mother belongs to the father, and it is in a sense of property, and her purpose is to acknowledge him as her superior and obey his orders, inherit his goods and help developing his patrimony." Casilda Rodrigañez.


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If you don't know anything about yerba mate tea benefits, you need to read this article!
Are you looking for a way to start your morning off on the right foot every day?
Are you looking for a natural fat burner, that can help you break through any plateau?
Well, yerba mate tea is the drink for you!
I did not find out about how awesome yerba mate tea is until the summer of 2017, probably about 2,000 years after other parts of civilizations.
Do I feel a little bit left behind?
Yes, I do.
There is no doubt that the most common way for billions of people around the world to start their day is with a hot cup of tea or coffee.
However, there are parts of the world where people drink something quite different from the traditional coffee or tea to get themselves going― yerba mate.
Popularly known as the "drink of the gods" by several indigenous South American cultures, yerba mate is regarded as "the green gold of the Indios" by the European settlers who came to this part of the world hundreds of years ago.
This unique drink may not be entirely well-known by the Western cultures, but there are many yerba mate benefits that we can all benefit from in our daily lives!
What is Yerba Mate Tea?
Yerba mate is a traditional South American brew, believed to offer the strength of coffee, the euphoria of chocolate, and its own blend of unique health benefits.
Yes, you can get all these benefits in just one beverage!
After a few months of drinking this tea every day, I am a firm believer in its benefits!
Yerba is a traditional drink produced from the dried leaves of a native plant of South America― the evergreen holly, Ilex paraguariensis.
This tea is among the several Amazonian caffeine-containing plants that are used in preparing stimulating beverages, such as this.
As stated in a Fox News report on the drink, yerba is popularly consumed in Southern America; being cultivated in Brazil, Paraguay, and northern Argentina.
Although this plant can be found in the wild, it is also well-cultivated on plantations similar to the more familiar types of tea.
Yerba is itself similar to other types of tea, although being cultivated from a distinctly different plant.
As soon as yerba mate is brewed it has a greenish color, and an earthy herbal aroma.
The brewed mate tea has a mild flavor, which is often times described as an infusion of herbs and grass just like some varieties of green tea.
I can't say that it is the "sweetest" tea I've ever drank, but its health benefits make up for its rather earthy taste.
Yerba mate contains tannins and caffeine just like black tea, however, it is less astringent than black tea.
In South American cultures, yerba mate often assumes the cultural importance that is exemplified by Japanese tea ceremonies, and coffee cafes.
Apart from the unique benefits of this drink, sharing yerba from a traditional gourd is regarded as a sign of friendship and bonding; along with being asocial event.
Interestingly enough, yerba mate drinking has its own vocabulary even!
It's extremely popular in Uruguay where you can easily spot people walking down the street sipping mate, and carrying a thermos of hot water that will be used to refresh the drink.
In Argentina, yerba is their national drink even!
Incredibly, studies show that about 500 million dollars worth of mate is consumed annually.
Yerba Mate Tea Health Benefits
You probably don't know this yet, but in 1964, the Pasteur Institute discovered that yerba mate contains all of the vitamins that are essential to sustain life!
Impressive, yes.
Unbelievable, a little.
But, true!
Yerba mate benefits are truly amazing for your body, let's take a look at some!
Enhances Healthy Weight Loss
Out of all the other benefits of this amazing drink, the most notable quality for most people is that it accelerates and helps in weight control. For those of you who are working your hardest to build an aesthetic body, you will absolutely appreciate the help that yerba mate tea brings.
There is a complex collection of saponins found in the leaves and stems of yerba mate. Mainly, oleanolic acid glycosides, and ursolic acid.
The ingestion of yerba mate has shown to increase fat oxidation, and energy expenditure during exercise.
It was concluded based on the research published in The US National Library of Science that exercise, when combined with the augmented metabolic benefits of yerba mate ingestion, could contribute to the prevention and treatment of overweight and obesity associated metabolic health risks.
THese risks include hypercholesterolaemia, cancer, diabetes and hyperinsulinemia.
Basically, yerba is very good for helping people lose weight. Which is very good for your health!
The researchers concluded that the acute ingestion of yerba mate before exercise enhances fat metabolism when you engage in light, and moderate exercise intensities.
Along with this, they also determined that it does not affect maximal performance negatively. Furthermore, the effects suggest a glycogen sparing potential for exercise performance, which would insinuates that yerba can help you sustain a longer workout!
In other words, exercising after drinking yerba will substantially help you burn fat. Especially if you already have a consistent and dedicated training program, yerba mate tea will help you burn fat and become leaner.
According to a study published in the British Journal of Nutrition in 2016 which investigated the effect of yerba mate intake on muscle strength recovery and oxidative stress markers after engaging in eccentric exercise, it was discovered that the consumption of 600 ml of yerba mate improved the rate of recovery of isometric strength by 8.6 percent during the first day!
This type of result is much more likely to be found in a protein drink, which makes it incredibly surprising for a tea!
Most likely, this is caused by yerba helping to increase circulation, calm your body, and properly restore your muscles.
This truly is an incredible benefit for a natural drink, and is no doubt one of the best yerba mate benefits.
The study also found that the positive effect of yerba mate on muscle recovery was large, and significant, in agreement with reports stating that dietary phytochemical supplementation ameliorated muscle function after EEIMD.
Yerba is without a doubt one of the healthiest drinks on the planet, I think you're starting to get the picture!
Yerba is also very effective as an appetite suppressant, which is another way that it can improve your weight loss efforts. This statement is proven by science, as well!
Studies have shown the ability of this tea to suppress your appetite, helping you to intake less calories each day.
One of the main reasons that yerba is an excellent choice for an appetite suppressant is because it is a natural source for this, and will not disrupt your body in many additional ways as well.
Fat burning pills and other products which claim to suppress your appetite can come with a host of negative side-effects, but yerba will not do this!
Defends Against Cancer
The benefits of yerba mate tea are not solely based around weight loss or fat loss.
Based on a 2011 scientific study, it was discovered that yerba mate tea leaves possess both anti-cancer, and anti-inflammatory capabilities.
Similar to the cancer fighting components of green tea or oolong tea, it was revealed that the caffeoylquinic acid (CQA) derivatives from yerba tea were able to treat human colon cancer successfully!
The scientists found that In vitro cancer cells died when they were exposed to the bioactive compounds present in a cup of the yerba mate beverage, a truly incredible finding!
Also, cancer cells died due to apoptosis as the scientists increased the CQA concentration.
Specifically, a study published in the Journal of Food Science concluded that
"diCQAs found in yerba mate could actually be potential anti-cancer agents, and could also mitigate other diseases associated with inflammation."
In a bid to estimate the benefits of this drink, it was compared with other teas such as green tea; which is believed to possess high anti-cancer potential.
Yerba mate benefits have actually shown to have the highest cytotoxicity against human liver cancer cells, even when compared to green tea.
Proteasome inhibitors are a very important aspect of cancer research, and a compound found in green tea known as epigallocatechin gallate (EGCH) has exhibited the ability to inhibit proteasomes.
However, similar compounds have been discovered in yerba mate, and these compounds show proteasome inhibition as well.
There are other compounds found in yerba that have been studied for their chemopreventive properties as well!
Two of the compounds that show distinct cytotoxicity to HepG2 cells are quercetin and rutin.
Studies have shown that these compounds are found in small concentrations in yerba mate, and they exhibit the diversity of flavonoids that are present and greatly contribute to its anti-cancer potential.
Improves Your Heart Health
Among the yerba mate tea health benefits is its positive effect in treating several heart-related conditions; such as irregular heartbeat, heart failure, and low blood pressure.
The anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties of yerba help to protect the heart, and the cardiovascular system.
Yerba also contains theobromine, which helps to relax the blood vessels and allow for better blood flow. Specifically for people who have heart related issues, this is a major positive!
Acts As a Great Digestive System Booster
One of the great yerba mate benefits is that it is used traditionally in the treatment of diarrhea, constipation, and indigestion! Next time you have a sever stomach ache, reach for this natural drink instead of Tums or Pepto Bismal!
It also has a natural antibacterial effect against E. coli, which is one of the most common causes of food poisoning.
Along with this, yerba mate is also very useful not just for the prevention of urinary tract infections, but also for the treatment of both urinary infections, and bladder and kidney stones.
Improves Your Immune System
Apart from the polyphenols in yerba leaves, it also contains saponins; a class of chemical compounds found naturally abundant in several plant species. Saponins are bitter and highly soluble compounds that are believed to be among the factors behind the distinct flavor of yerba mate tea.
Saponins have great beneficial effects on bone health, blood cholesterol levels, and cancer.
Saponins have been found to specifically stimulate the human immune system, which aids the body in protecting against diseases. Frequent intake of yerba tea is a great way to increase your intake of phytochemicals and by proxy, phytonutrients.
Overall, this proves to be a great way tea naturally strengthens your body's defenses.
Contains a Wide Variety of Nutrients
As we have mentioned a few times, one important aspect of yerba mate compared with other drinks is that it is that it's loaded with minerals, vitamins, and antioxidants.
In fact, it contains practically all the important micro-nutrients needed to sustain life!
The following vitamins and minerals can be obtained in high concentrations from each serving:
- Vitamin A
- Vitamin B1, B2, B3, B,5
- Vitamin C
- Vitamin E
Some of the minerals that are contained in high concentrations in yerba are:
- Chromium
- Iron
- Manganese
- Copper
- Zinc
- Potassium
These are all of special interest to us due to their importance in human metabolism, and the development of a healthy life.
Yerba mate not only contains 11 polyphenols, but also exhibits more antioxidant power than any other tea on the planet!
You can find other health-promoting compounds in yerba including:
- Healthy fatty acids
- Flavonols
- Carotene
- Chlorophyll
- Polyphenols
- Various trace minerals
- Inositol
- 15 or more different amino acids
According to research conducted in 2007 that was published in the Journal of Food Science, the concentration of polyphenols in yerba mate has shown a strong correlation to its general antioxidant capacity.
Believe it or not, it even shows a slightly higher polyphenol concentration when compared to green tea!
Yerba mate contains an overall higher antioxidant capacity than green tea, and therefore has better potential for inhibiting free radical cells than green tea!
Think you feel healthy after your cup of green tea in the morning? just wait until you make the switch to yerba mate!
Lowers Bad Cholesterol Levels
The consumption of yerba tea according to studies has proven to naturally improve serum lipid levels, which lowers cholesterol levels overall.
Available information from a study published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry indicates that yerba mate tea consumption led to a reduction of LDL (bad) cholesterol for healthy dyslipidemic people― those having high cholesterol level and/or triglycerides but healthy.
Yerba mate consumption also resulted in an additional LDL-cholesterol reduction in people on statin therapy.
Thus, by reducing the level of bad cholesterol in the body, yerba tea consumption can help to reduce the risk of various cardiovascular diseases.
According to an article published in NZ Herald, 2017, one of the yerba mate health benefits is that it helps to reduce the rapid swings in blood sugar levels and insulin which often leads to snacking.
It has a long history of being used traditionally to curb hunger, which helps in weight management.
Since it contains theobromine and theophylline, it helps to stimulate the metabolism and break down of stored fat.
The Best Yerba Mate Brand
There are many brands which produce yerba mate tea, however, the best I have found is Guayaki. Guayaki produces a variety of types of yerba mate tea, and they produce the tea so you can consume it in different ways as well.
Although the traditional methods of brewing yerba are awesome, it is usually better to prepare yerba tea in a way that will not require any special equipment to save yourself time and effort.
One of the easiest ways to brew it is by simply using yerba tea bags, such as Guayaki Traditional Organic Mate Tea bags.
If you don't want to use ready-made tea bags, you can also make yerba mate tea from loose leaves by simply using a strainer or infuser.
You can steep yerba just like you would do to any loose tea.
It's better to buy yerba products that are organic.
Although relatively knew to the Western market, you can already find it in ready-to-brew tea bags, loose-leaf tea, or even in a can.
It's advisable to avoid heavily smoked and roasted yerba tea, because it contains a higher level of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), than those that are not heavily smoked.
This smoking process does not make the tea dangerous, but it can diminish some of the benefits and nutrients.
High-quality yerba mates make use of a flash-heating process in order to protect the antioxidants, and nutritional properties. This higher quality tea also is dried at a lower temperature, to sustain more nutrients.
While preparing the tea, allow the water or milk to simmer- rather than boil. When you use boiling water, it leads to a more bitter tea.
You can use about one teaspoon per cup, if you are using a loose tea. You can use less if you want it weaker, or more if you prefer it stronger.
Allow the tea to steep for three to five minutes, and then add your favorite natural sweetener!
I prefer honey, stevia, or raw beet sugar to sweeten my tea!
You can drink yerba hot, or iced, wither way is great!
Side Effects and Caution for Drinking Yerba Mate
Ideally, yerba is safe for most people when consumed in moderation.
However, because it contains caffeine, it should not be consumed in excess quantities.
For those who are extremely caffeine sensitive, you should be more aware of how much you are drinking each day.
Yerba is great for a wake-up tea, or mid-day boost, but I highly suggest you don't drink it within a couple hours of your planned bed time.
Believe me, you will be wide awake much longer than you want!
Although yerba does contain a huge amount of health benefits, there are few side-effects to be aware of.
Some of the known side effects are:
- Sleep Trouble
- Nausea
- Upset stomach
- Increased heart rate and breathing
- Nervousness
- Headache
- Increased blood pressure
- Irregular heartbeat
Luckily, most of these side effects are mild, and unlikely.
The easiest way to avoid most of these unwanted effects is to reduce your overall daily intake of caffeine.
Concluding Thoughts – Benefits of Yerba Mate and the Best Yerba Mate Brand
As indicated in Fox News Health, there are many yerba health benefits and this has resulted in the increasing popularity of yerba mate in the U.S market. Currently there is only one brand producing mass amounts of yerba tea packets and to-go drinks, but more are soon to follow soon.
The more people who know about yerba, the faster it will grow! Honestly, this tea is filled with benefits that many of us can take advantage of.
Sure, the general taste of yerba can put some people off, but as a tea it is easy to consume in various flavors from plain, to chai spiced.
Whether you want to brew your own every morning, buy the ready-to-drink beverages from your local natural food store every day, there are many ways to enjoy the amazing yerba mate benefits!
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The arts – visual, music, and dramatic –
are an essential part of a TDS education.
They provide students with the means to think, feel, and understand the world around them in ways unique and distinct from other academic disciplines. The arts emphasize and develop the creative and intuitive nature of the whole child. Further, the arts build self-esteem and confidence by making students aware of their abilities and allowing them to experience success. TDS strives to unlock the creative potential within every student. There is a piece of artwork from EVERY student at TDS.
Visual Arts
Students in grades TK through 6th take Visual Arts. The course exposes students to a variety of media, techniques, and artists' works. There is a focus on elements of art and the principles of design, as well as an effort to integrate art into the academic subjects. For example, 6th graders attempt Chinese brush painting as they learn about Ancient China in Social Studies. 4th graders create perspective drawings and models with scale factors as they learn about proportions in math. Finally, in order to foster an appreciation for art, artworks are connected to artists and art history movements. 7th and 8th graders can choose Visual Arts as an elective for a more in-depth study of the subject.
Dramatic Arts
All students take the stage at least twice per year: Grandparents and Special Friends Day, and International Week. Fourth and fifth graders collaborate on a spring play. Middle School students can choose to participate in a year-long drama course that includes two full productions. Dramatic Arts incorporates imagination, creativity, and working through the theatrical process from script to performance.
The TDS music program focuses on the development of an awareness and appreciation of the music that surrounds us. Students are encouraged to enjoy the music as they participate in various types of experiences including vocal stylings, playing percussion instruments, learning the recorder and reading music. Students play unpitched rhythm instruments (snare drums, rhythm sticks, cow bell, bongos, etc.) and mix them with Orff instruments (xylophones) to feel beats, pitch, and harmonies. In addition, students begin to acquire performance skills as they rehearse and participate in shows.
Outside of weekly music classes, students in Lower School can participate in an upper elementary Chorus (grades 3-5). In Middle School, students are offered a choice between Chorus or a Handchime Choir. Both groups will perform at various venues throughout the year.