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Drinking wine without being fooled by a pretty label – Meanderings through France
Annick Dournes & Frederic de Poligny
In a perfect world all wine makers would elaborate perfect wines that we could buy with our eyes closed. But in this imperfect world it takes a little carefulness to avoid swallowing an awful plonk. No need to be an expert oenologist or to buy only expensive great vintages to enjoy a good wine. You'll only need your eyes, your nose and your taste buds to make the difference between good and bad wine and with a little training you will be able to show off to your friends!
Bad weather at the wrong time means bad grapes, and bad grapes can't make good wine. Mechanical harvesting methods mean that the grapes won't always be sorted out and that many leaves and branches' pieces will be mixed with the grapes during the pressing process. Poorly maintained fermentation vats will also spoil the wine. The label on the bottle will never tell you that and untrustworthy wine-makers will try to hide these faults in order to sell their "concoction".
Don't get me wrong, most wine-makers work hard to make the best wines they can and good wines, including un-expensive ones, are easily found. But as the proverb says: forewarned is forearmed!
First use your eyes, they can tell you a lot. If the wine is cloudy and/or if you can see particles in suspension in your glass it means that the grapes were ripe or even rotten when harvested. Brownish particles in a red wine or whitish particles in a white wine are due to an excess of copper or iron coming from badly maintained vats and press. The same will happen if the wine making process was not under control and that the temperature went too high. A bad wine making can also give a slightly sparkling wine. This means that the wine started a second fermentation that should never occur in a still wine. Wine should have a glossy reflection and if it looks dull it means that it lacks acidity making it "weak".
Second use your nose, if it wrinkles something's wrong! The most common fault is a corked wine. A bad quality cork produces a molecule (called trichloro-anisol) that will diffuse not only into the wine touching the cork but also into the whole bottle. A corked wine tastes real bad and it will end up into your kitchen sink! A wine can also have a smell of walnut or of over-ripened apples when it gets oxidized when transferred from one vat to another or when bottled.
In order to prevent bacteria or yeast growth that could alter the wine's taste, most wine makers use sulphur. But they need to have a light hand otherwise the wine will take a pungent smell of onion, garlic or even cauliflower! And sulphured wine can also give you a headache even if you don't drink too much of it. Worst of all the wine can smell like vinegar when it's been over oxidized and you might just as well use it to unclog a drain!
Finally your taste buds will be your third defence line to test your bottle of wine. If the grapes destemming, meaning that the stalk is separated from the grape berries, is not gently and carefully done, or if to many leaves or grape skins were left in the press, the wine will get bitter. The wine can also take a "wood juice" taste when it's been left too long in badly maintained or even mouldy vats. Last but not least it can taste like rotten-egg when too much sulphur was added too late to the wine.
Making wine cannot be improvised and quality doesn't come easily. Many skilled and dedicated wine makers spare no efforts to allow us to drink quality and enjoyable wines. Let's learn to make a difference between a bad plonk, a good quality wine or a great 'grand cru", thus paying tribute to their savoir-faire. In order to help us develop our "wine culture" the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs launched a new website last week. On www.visitfrenchwine.com written both in French and in English, you will learn more about each French wine producing regions and local wine makers and you will find many ideas to organise wine tasting trips to help you improve your palate.
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As Muslim Shia or Sunni, we all remember the tragic and one of the most important event in Islamic history. Karbala teaches us to be strong and fight against our enemies.
What the resistance of Imam Hussain during Karbala teaches us is that when we are fighting for the truth, many might get scared, mock us and leave us, but our fight will be worth it because of the few who will stay behind with the strength and willingness to sacrifice everything for what is right and be exemplary in a world of apathy and injustice.
It is hard to reason anything with a mother who has lost her son. However, if we are united, we can help her.
We may not be able to give her, her son/daughter back but we can prevent adding more numbers to mothers crying for their children. We can help her by standing with her and help her heal her sorrows.
There is no way a Muslim can do such a thing. It is those who can't see us together, our victory is when they see their unsuccessful plan of tearing Afghanistan apart or horrible future that they planned for us. They are the same people who killed people during Ramadan.
People die every day, if we stay strong they will fail and if we start reacting to such things and start hatred against each other.
We are doing exactly what they want us to do and instead of them killing Afghans, we will do their job for them without even realizing. Look more closely you're missing the part that they can see and they are scared of it.
Don't you see people feeding others on the day of Ashura? When they feed them, they don't ask, if they are Shia or Sunni. Look at the people donating blood. When donating blood they don't attach the statement that my blood should be used only for Shia.
We know they are scared that we will unite as Afghan Muslims and fight them. They have been trying so hard to pull us a part, but they have failed.
Now they use mass killing of our families to provoke us and use our emotion for their benefits. Let's stay united and show them that we are not going to be fooled by their games.

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I'm home from holiday!
The washing machine hasn't stopped.
The suitcase remains on the bedroom floor with the holiday purchases strewn across it. Although I have emptied one!
I miss the sun!
We had a great time! Roll on the next one. Ah we arrived in Lanzarote to a bottle of Prossecco and it was yummy. It may be my new favourite drink! I returned home to my other favourite on a hot day! The mighty Iced White Mocha! I had posted the handbags I brought on Holiday to my Instagram, but I loved the J Crew straw bag so much I think it looked perfect in the sun. I had such a great time seeing Tom play at the pool everyday. The pool was probably my favourite. The day before I headed to Lanzarote, I headed to a Christmas beauty event in The Shelbourne it was so pretty and I am just gonna leave this here… We all know how I feel about Christmas trees. Have a great week!
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From rescuing stranded people by boat to providing water purification tablets or high protein biscuits, Red Cross and Red Crescent volunteers have been among the first to respond to the needs of some of the 6.7 million people affected by floods in thousands of villages across South Asia.
At least 300 people have died in rising waters, lightning strikes and mudslides since the monsoon rains first lashed South Asia at the beginning of June. The homes of more than 650,000 people in India, Bangladesh and Nepal have been destroyed, with the Indian state of Assam being the most badly affected.
The floods have left tens of thousands of people suffering from water-borne diseases, which the authorities fear are becoming an increasing problem. The Health Minister in India's north-eastern state of Assam was quoted saying that at least 50,000 people are suffering from water-borne diseases there.
Monsoon floods are a regular feature of the region. Yet, the common river basins of the Ganges and Bhramaputra across Nepal, India and Bangladesh are experiencing worse floods with every passing year. Most rivers in Nepal, northern and eastern India and Bangladesh are flowing above the danger level.
"It is a complex region," says Bob McKerrow, head of the International Federation's delegation for South Asia. "The floods have to be understood not only in the context of the monsoon rains that visit the region, which only add to the swollen rivers, already full of water from the melting snow from the mountain ranges of the Himalayas, the Karakoram and the Hindukush. All this is aggravated by deforestation and other ecological damage."
Floodwaters from Nepal have displaced millions of families in the central Indian state of Bihar even as forecasters warn of more rains due in northeast India, which could further worsen the situation in the worst affected state of Assam.
The flooding in Bangladesh, aggravated by flood waters from the very same rivers flowing in from neighbouring India, have submerged a third of the delta country in the past two weeks. Flood waters have also polluted drinking water and inundated agricultural land, in turn damaging the rice crop. Affected people can only be reached with relief by boat.
Monsoon flooding also threatens the country's food security situation. The country produces about 24 million tons of rice and imports two-to-three million tons of the cereal every year.
Meanwhile, 30 of Nepal's 75 districts have been affected by floods as government sources confirm that 67 people have died - more than 20 of them in thunderstorms.
Indian Red Cross national headquarters today dispatched truckloads of relief materials - kitchen sets, plastic buckets, clothing, towels and bedding and plastic sheeting for temporary housing - to the Assam state branch.
The Indian Red Cross branch in Bihar has already deployed 70 boats to assist with relief and rescue operations as district branches are distributing ready-to-eat food as well as providing 100,000 water purification tablets for distribution.
The floods have also shown how useful it is to prepare vulnerable communities to face such disasters. "While millions of people have been affected by this year's floods and landslides, we feel satisfied that the first aid training, the stockpiling of relief materials and the resources that went into preparing the communities to face floods was put to good use," McKerrow says.
Meanwhile, staff and volunteers of the Bangladesh Red Crescent are carrying out a second phase of distribution, providing rice, lentils, dates and high protein biscuits to flood-affected people in four of the worst affected districts.
Many have also died in Afghanistan due to floods and accompanying landslides. Afghan Red Crescent teams immediately left for the most severely affected areas, including the Panjshir Valley and the central Logar and south-eastern Paktia provinces.
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JEONGSEON, South Korea (AP) Marcel Hirscher won the men's combined on Tuesday, finally getting his Olympic gold medal.
The 28-year-old Austrian, one of skiing's greatest racers, used his silky skills in the slalom leg of the event to rise from 12th place after the opening run of the downhill. Hirscher, a six-time overall World Cup champion, skied through a fierce cross wind to post the fastest time down the slalom slope.
His combined two-run time was 0.23 seconds faster than silver medalist Alexis Pinturault of France. Another Frenchman, Victor Muffat-Jeandet, took bronze, 1.02 behind Hirscher, after being 29th fastest in the opening downhill leg.
Hirscher crossed the finish line and briefly raised both his arms. He then skied directly out of the finish area with a business-like expression on his face to await Pinturault's start two minutes later.
The fastest downhill racer in the early run, Thomas Dressen of Germany, dropped to ninth place, trailing Hirscher by 2.44 seconds. Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway did not even bother to race the slalom despite placing second in downhill.
Hirscher has won a record six overall World Cup titles as the season's best all-round skier and four career world championship gold medals, including the combined in 2015. His 55 World Cup race wins is second on the all-time men's list.
But he had taken only a silver medal – in slalom at the 2014 Sochi Games – from two previous Olympics. Hirscher was fifth in slalom at the 2010 Vancouver Games, and had fourth-place finishes in each giant slalom.
After the bonus of victory in combined, Hirscher looks certain to start as the favorite in his top two events of slalom and giant slalom, which be raced in nearby Yongpyong.
Tuesday's race showed yet again that slalom, not downhill, is the key to success in the combined event.
Many of the best downhillers failed to finish the race, finding the slalom gates they rarely race too much to handle. It did not help that a swirling wind was whipping up mini-twisters of snow.
The reigning Olympic downhill champion, Matthias Mayer of Austria, was in third place but crashed off the course and knocked over a television cameramen as he slid down the bumpy slope.
Many expect Tuesday's race to be an Olympic farewell for combined, which has fallen out of favor with the rise in head-to-head parallel racing formats.
Combined was the original event at Alpine skiing's Olympic debut in 1936. Traditionalists like the mix of skills, but racers are now so specialized that those good at one discipline tend not to be competitive at the other.
Hirscher almost never races World Cup downhills. Svindal, a two-time world champion in combined, has not skied a competitive slalom run in two years.
AP Sports Writers Howard Fendrich and Pat Graham contributed to this report.
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I started the American Academy one month ago. So far, the American Academy has been wonderful! We are traveling full-time in an RV, so we needed a school that would fit into our schedule and also be very flexible. We were searching online for schools and my mom called the American Academy.
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It is worth pausing for a moment to reflect on how far economics has moved from its classical assumptions by the time we come to Keynes. Originally, all agents are assumed to maximize gain in an environment of perfect certainty and complete knowledge. Prices, wages, profits, rents, and the rate of economic growth are, under these conditions, functions of two factors: the objective technology of production, which determines what combinations of inputs are required for specified outputs; and the relative strength of the several classes of the society, which determines how the annual net social product will be divided up among the workers, the capitalists, and the landlords.
As the world becomes, and is recognized to have become, more complex, the simplifying knowledge assumptions of the classical model must give way to the acknowledgement of risk, uncertainty, and finally subjective expectation. At the same time, as it becomes clear that workers do not live permanently at the level of subsistence, that landlords are not mere idle consumers, and that capitalists, for a variety of reasons, are not perfect accumulators, the elegant theorems derived from the simple behavioral assumptions of classical political economy must be given up.
Faced with the intrusion of subjective non-rational elements into the process of economic choice and decision, post-Keynesian economists are forced to alter fundamentally the way in which they seek to understand a capitalist economy. Instead of a priori analysis built on elementary assumptions of profit-maximization, they offer econometric models in which dummy variables and functions stand for the several elements of the decision-making process. A variable for liquidity preference; a variable for the propensity to consume; a function separating a worker's leisure/labour trade off, which is to say the proportion of total available labour-time that the worker prefers to devote to leisure, expressed as a function of income. And so on and on. Any of you who have taken even an elementary course in macroeconomics will be aware of the extent to which the subject, as now taught, rests on this sort of model-building.
The result is that economics has become an extremely elegant, complex, mathematically sophisticated way of guessing at the shadows on the wall of the cave. In Plato's REPUBLIC, you will recall, Socrates relates an allegory of the human condition. We are to imagine, he says, that a group of men are chained to the floor of a dark cave, so that they can only look to their front at a blank wall. Behind them, fires are lit, and unseen attendants walk before the fires, carrying small scale models of physical objects and people. The light casts shadows of these objects on the wall, where they flicker in fantastic distortion. At first, the captives are simply mystified by the succession of shadows, but after a while, some of them, those best adapted to a troglodytic existence, begin to discern repetitions and patters in the images. They formulate theories about what shadows will appear next, and the most skillful among them acquire considerable reputations for their ability to anticipate by a few moments the next images. Some, we may even imagine, extending the story a bit beyond Plato, become tenured professors of shadow-guessing, and a few whose theories of the shadow world have risen to heights of mathematical elegance even win Nobel prizes for shadow-guessing.
One of the captives, Socrates tells us, driven by some obscure instinct that the world holds more than shadows, works himself free of his bonds and crawls painfully to the mouth of the cave. Dazzled by the bright sunlight, he slowly acclimates himself to the brilliant light, and sees for the first time the real physical objects whose twisted and distorted shadows he has all these years observed. At last he realizes that these are the reality of which the shadows are more imperfect reflections or appearances. Rushing back into the cave to bring this momentous news to his fellows, he is temporarily blinded by the darkness, and staggers about as though mad. Naturally, the remaining captives simply laugh at his insistence that their shadows are inferior appearances, behind which lies a truer reality. Puffed up by their skill at shadow-guessing, they consider merely comic the claims by their former comrade that they are enmired in unreality.
Marx had a name for the masters of shadow-guessing. He called them Vulgar economists and contrasted them with the classical economists -- Petty, Quesney, Smith, Ricardo -- whom he considered serious students of economic reality. Paul Samuelson, the greatest of the shadow-guessers, has returned the compliment by characterizing Marx, in a famous essay, as a "minor post-Ricardian," and, worst of all, "an auto-didact." (To be self-taught, I suppose, is from Samuelson's standpoint even worse than to be a minor follower of the wrong economist, for if it should turn out that one can teach oneself to understand economics, that will put an end to the hegemony of the profession.)
The dummy variables and functions of econometric model-building refer to nothing at all that can be directly studied. There is no way that we can get at an individual's "propensity to consume," for the purpose of constructing a more adequate theory of consumer behavior. Nor can anything useful be said about the inner determination of the capitalists' expectations for future gain, so as to lay the foundations for a scientific theory of investment and growth. Instead, economists are forced to amass countless time-series of date, on which, in a manner that would have made David Hume proud, they can perform simplistic extrapolations.
There are two central problems with this mode of theoretical operation, and together they have brought economics to its present sad condition. The first problem is that there is no stable set of psychological propensities or motives about which reliable knowledge can be accumulated. As I pointed out when discussing Mill's introduction of the factor of habit or custom, these labels or placeholders -- habit, custom, propensity to consume, liquidity preference, leisure/labour trade-off, and the rest -- are merely summary names given to whole congeries of heterogeneous and shifting motivations. Some consumers may be guided in their decisions about savings versus consumption by a consideration of present versus future pleasures; others may be influenced by the uncertainty of unemployment; still others may be reacting to the experience of seeing savings shrink in value under high rates of inflation. And some consumers may even have been influenced by the sorts of public service advertising that first surfaced during the Eisenhower years, when Americans were exhorted to buy on credit as a way of showing their faith in the American system
Economists extrapolate from past behavior, only to find that the present deviates from the past. As they make mid-course corrections in their econometric estimates, reality continues to shift beneath them. The problem is not that modern economic reality is complex. Their formal models are more than adequate to handle a high level of complexity. The problem is that their theories are theories of appearances, surface manifestations, and hence give no genuine insight into the causes of the shifting shadows.
The second problem, more serious even than the first, is that economics is a study of human choice and decision, not of inanimate nature or animal behavior. The consumers, investors, and entrepreneurs whose preferences and propensities are modeled by the econometricians are themselves self-conscious agents increasingly aware of and influenced by the descriptions, predictions, hopes, and anxieties of economists, public figures, and social commentators.
All of you are familiar from today's newspapers with the ways in which the interplay of economic prediction and private investment or consumption decision wreaks havoc with the efforts of the central government to manage the national economy. Businessmen postpone the expansion of productive capacity in the expectation that high interest rates will slow recovery, balloon the federal deficit, send the government into the money market for even greater borrowing, and thereby maintain the high rates. The government enacts a tax designed to draw a larger share of income into savings, but the stock market discounts the effects of the act six months before it goes into operation, condemning it to failure.
Under these circumstances, madcap schemes acquire respectability, and establishment politicians and economists react by labeling them "voodoo economics." But in fact, this is merely the effort by licensed witch doctors to drive their upstart competition back into the bush.
What is the heart of the problem? I should like to suggest to you that Marx's style of diagnosis still retains considerable merit. The underlying problem, as he would have argued, is that the forms of capitalist development have become fetters. In the early stages of capitalism, the pressures of a permanent excess supply of workers, together with the almost total lack of collective or legal protections, held wages at or near subsistence. Severe competition among large numbers of small businesses forced firms to strive for maximum growth if they were to survive at all. The effect was rapid, although uneven, expansion of the productive capacity of the economy.
With the rise in worker standard of living and the unrelenting amalgamation of small capitals into large, with the advance of collective bargaining and the development of a system of money and banking sophisticated enough to support the new capitalist order, growth and prosperity increasingly came to depend on the appropriate rate of savings and investment and the proper management of the expansion of effective demand for the consumer goods and capital goods being produced.
The new economics of Keynes and his followers sought to preserve an essentially private economic order, in which not only mere legal ownership, but more importantly the effective control and management of the means of production, remained lodged in countless uncoordinated private firms. What this meant -- and means still today -- is that the ultimate determination of the allocation of the collective social product rests with the irrational and impenetrable subjective preferences, propensities, and expectations of private individuals. It is scarcely surprising that even the most agile shadow-watchers are unable to either predict or to control the flow of images on the wall of our cave. What is to be done? There are three possibilities, each corresponding to a different conception of the relationship between the economic theory and the practical management of the economy. The first possibility is to press forward as we have been doing, with more elaborate and refined macroeconomic models, more complex fiscal and monetary programs, all imposed on a private economy organized on the pursuit of profit. This course we may call the persistence of the actual, and as metaphysicians have often observed, the actual occupies a privileged place in our experience and beliefs. I am absolutely convinced that this course of action is doomed to failure, but I rather imagine it will take another decade or two of the economic disaster before the American people are prepared to scuttle the conventional wisdom and adopt some better means of social decision.
The second possibility is to turn the clock back two centuries and try, by an act of faith and will, to re-instantiate a world in which the classical economic theories work. This I shall call the yearning for the impossible, and it is now, with the advent of the theory of rational expectations and so-called supply-side economics, reaching the height of its brief resurgence. The impossible has always exerted a powerful attraction on credulous souls, sometimes even eclipsing the actual by its beauty and simplicity. In earlier days, when society was less thoroughly interconnected, it was possible to embrace the impossible for quite some time before being brought up short against reality. Now, unfortunately for Mr. Reagan, the impossible succumbs to the actual in about as long as it takes to get from a presidential to a mid-term election. I think we can with confidence conclude that rational expectations, supply-side economics, and the revival of the theory of the free market have already peaked and are on the decline.
[Alas, when I wrote this, I was in the grip of an optimism that Keynes would have considered a very great effusion of animal spirits. A quarter of a century later, things have only gotten worse, which I suppose some people would conclude means that are closer to revolution!]
We are left with the third alternative, which is to confront directly the underlying cause of the failure of modern economics, and respond by changing both our theory and our practice.
As we saw, the problem is this: an economy guided by the uncoordinated decisions of private individuals must necessarily rest upon subjective, variable, and self-referentially influenceable motivations. So long as the theories of the behavior of producers and consumers become factors influencing that behavior, no stable theory can be developed by means of which the economy can be guided.
There is, however, a solution. What are now predictions by external observers of the way in which economic agents will probably behave can be transformed into collective decisions about how economic agents choose to act. Instead of attempting to shape and guide an economy on the basis of predictions about what proportion of income consumers will save, or what level of profit will draw new capital into investment, we can as a society choose a level of savings that fits our collective goals and desires. We can decided to invest at a level and in a pattern calculated to achieve whatever regeneration or expansion or transformation of our industrial plant it is that serves our collective social ends. We need not rest our hopes for full employment on the armchair psychological maxim that consumers will save a larger fraction of each additional dollar of income, nor need we count for new capital investment on the fragile, variable, semi-informed subjective expectations of individual capitalists.
The economic theory suited to the rational management of a modern industrial economy is not the elaborate shadow guessing of modern econometrics. Rather, it is the physical-quantities linear analysis developed by Wassily Leontief as input-output analysis, together with the theory of linear programming, and the modern mathematical reinterpretation of Marx carried out by Piero Sraffa and a host of economists around the world. This theory has its roots in the Tableau économique of Quesney and the physiocrats, and builds on the analysis of Ricardo and Marx. Theories of this sort are already being employed as tools of rational economic planning in Eastern Europe, and would have a far more powerful and effective application to an economy as advanced as that of the United States.
The foundation of economic planning is a set of objective data specifying the available technologies, on the basis of which one can calculate the direct and indirect physical requirements for whatever final output is collectively chosen by the society as the goal of its economic activities. The level of output and rate of growth of an economy have natural limits, imposed by the state of technology, the size and skills of the labour force, and the stock of available tools, raw materials, and machinery. Neither ideology nor economic theory can change these constraints, although over time, rational social planning can alter them in major ways. With the modern methods of analysis to which I have referred, it is now becoming possible to undertake complex society-wide planning based on objective facts and collective choices, rather than on shadow appearances and subjective preferences and expectations. The anarchy of the marketplace can finally give way to rational social management founded on a politics of public deliberation and determination of collective economic goals.
There is, of course, an obstacle to the triumph of the rational, as we may call this third course of action. The obstacle is not primarily theoretical, nor is it technological. Rather, it is political. Those who are systematically benefitted by the present economic order will fight to maintain their advantage. Hence the struggle for socialism, which is of course what I am talking about, must be carried on in every political arena, as well as in the literature of economic theory.
Nevertheless, there is a great deal to be gained by confronting established dogma and exposing its true nature as the scholasticism of shadows. The economics of the neo-classical synthesis, as it has been called, is in retreat. The master shadow-guessers of Samuelson's generation are giving way to epigoni who struggle helplessly to reassert their authority in the face of economic disaster. Theories of collectivel rational economic choice will not substitute for political action, but they have an indispensable role to place in the social transformation that must be undertaken. Perhaps my observations this afternoon will encourage some of you to revisit the dismal science -- or to make its acquaintance for the first time -- and to explore the new theories which are arising to challenge the old.


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A high fat-diet which includes fructose has been associated with a range of adverse effects on the liver in mice.
We know that increased fructose (eg, in high-fructose corn syrup) is one of the catalysts for the struggle with weight gain and the development of fatty liver disease, whose prevalence is high among people with type 2 diabetes.
In this new study, researchers from Joslin Diabetes Centre investigated whether the quality of the diet had an impact on how sugar, and particularly fructose, is metabolised in the liver regardless of how much of it is consumed.
For ten weeks, the scientists fed mice either a standard diet (23% protein, 22% fat, and 55% carbs) or a high fat, lower carb diet (20% protein, 60% fat, and 20% carbs) alongside water enriched with 30 per cent fructose or 30 per cent glucose.
After the experiment, researchers looked at their glucose tolerance, insulin, triglyceride production, alterations of gene expression in the liver as well as changes in levels of different liver metabolites.
The first finding was that mice fed a high-fat diet were worse off if the diet was supplemented with fructose, rather than glucose.
The high fat diet plus fructose regimen led to certain changes in the expression of genes related to hepatic energy metabolism and the synthesis of fatty acids, which resulted in reduced insulin signaling in the liver.
Mice on the high-fat diet with fructose gained more weight and were more insulin-resistant, compared to those on the glucose diet. And while both groups had fatty deposits in their livers, the fat composition was quite different.
In addition to this, the production of an enzyme called ketohexokinase (Khk) ramped up in the livers of mice who drank fructose. Higher levels of Khk have been found in patients with fatty liver disease.
When researchers tried to tamp down levels of this enzymen, which is necessary for the breakdown of fructose but not so much glucose, it significantly lowered liver weight and improved glucose tolerance among mice on the high-fat, high-fructose diet.
Overall, the study shows that liver cells handle fructose and glucose very differently, especially if the diet is rich in fat. However, questions remain as to how applicable this is to humans.
Animal research can be very useful to form such hypotheses but animal physiology can be different, and the high-fat chow they get in the lab (eg, lard and soy feed) is often nothing like what humans typically eat.
More importantly, mice fed a lot of fat have more permeable intestines and fatty liver disease has been linked to increased gut permeability. The human gut is different because we have different bacteria that live there.
Therefore more research is needed in humans to confirm the link between high-fat diets, fructose and associated adverse effects on the liver.
High-fat diet plus fructose creates metabolic mayhem in the liver, says new study
A high fat-diet which includes fructose has been associated with a range of adverse effects on the liver in mice.


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Stabilisation and Association Agreement with EU entered into force for Montenegro on May 1st, 2010
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The Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) between the European Union and Montenegro signed in October 2007 entered into force on 1 May 2010. This will hopefully take the country another step forward on the road to European integration. European Commissioner for Enlargement – Mr Stefan Füle, stated that "this marks the beginning of a new qualitative stage in the relations between the EU and Montenegro and a further milestone in Montenegro's progress on the path to EU integration."
Montenegrin EU Integration Minister – Gordana Djurovic noted that entry into force of the SAA means faster pace of Montenegro's integration process.
Montenegro takes over the Presidency of the Adriatic-Ionian Initiative
Montenegrin Foreign Minister Milan Rocen attended a meeting of the Council of Ministers of the Adriatic-Ionian Initiative. Meeting was set-up to prepare an EU strategy for the Adriatic-Ionian macro-region, and to adopt a Ministerial Declaration and other documents.
"Our ambitious plan is to create Adriatic-Ionian macro-region by the 2014, which would lead to integration of Western Balkans states into the EU" stated Italian Foreign Minister – Franco Fratini. He pointed out that goal of the Adriatic-Ionian initiative is to foster economic and cultural cooperation between its members and their accession to the EU. He also stressed that aim is not to duplicate the existing european institutions, but to ensure the strategy that will create easier cooperation in economy, infrastructure, development of rural areas, small and medium enterprises, tourism and culture.
Montenegro will take over one-year presidency of this regional initiative at the meeting in Ancona.
EurActiv.com brought an interesting interview with Mrs Milica Pejanovic Djurisic, Montenegrin Ambassador in Paris, France. This article emphasized that Montenegro will be the first country to join the EU, after Croatia. Read the full article here.
In addition, EurActiv published an interview with MEP Charles Tannock, who is European Parliament's rapporteur on Montenegro. He said that Montenegro should start accession talks in 2011. (read more here) The story also pointed out that money laundering and other criminal activities are easy in Montenegro and that represents big issue. Montenegro is one of the rare countries outside the Euro-zone, who uses the Euro as its official currency. Read more here…
SEE regional portal – Waz.EUObserver.com brings a story about Montenegro as the best "EU student". Montenegro: A surprise regional champion is the name of the article which states that Ambition is rarely matched by sufficient reform when it comes to Balkan countries' desire to enter the European Union. The region's aspirants for EU accession seldom make the news with their achievements – more regularly they are associated with stalled political effort and delayed results.
This is not the case with tiny Montenegro, which appears to be the EU's best student in the Western Balkans. It is politically stable and remarkably assiduous in following Brussels' reform recommendations.
Montenegro shares many of its neighbours' problems with crime, graft and unreformed judiciary. However, it is not too hard to stand out in a neighbourhood where countries struggle to resolve much tougher challenges that delay not just their EU future, but also their transformation into proper democracies. Read full article here…
Transparency International reported about anti-corruption fight in the region and stated that all countries face similar problems in this matter. Anti-corruption experts in Montenegro say that their work is impeded by unlawful use of exceptions to deny access to documents such as privatisation contracts. Even in cases where access is granted, experts are often denied the right to receive copies of documents, being permitted only to view the originals, thus making it impossible for them to analyse the information and identify cases of corruption. Read their full report here…
The Economist brings disturbing story named "Death in Montenegro". It is yet another article which describes the complexity of small Montenegrin state and alleged ties of organized crime with high political figures in the country. Read full article here…
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Hyderabad the capital of Indian state Andhra Pradesh is a historic city preserving the relics of Nizams rule like the monument of Charminar. Once a flourishing trade center of pearls and diamonds this city of Nawabs, has continued to be popular for its exclusive cuisine the Hyderabad Biryani. This city once a popular cultural centre has recently acquired fame due to Ramoji film city, which is a studio and a hub of modern film making. Traditional bazaars of Hyderabad are attracting many businessmen to this city of pearls. Some of the popular holiday destinations in Hyderabad include Charminar, Chowmahalla palace and Salar Jung museum.
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Salar Jung the most popular monument of Hyderabad located on southern bank of Musi River is surrounded by other historic monuments. This museum having thirty eight galleries distributed in three buildings preserves an innumerable collection of art objects. It is one of the well organized museums in India. Some of the most popular tourist places in Hyderabad are Golconda fort, Qutb shahi tombs, Falaknuma palace, Asman Garh palace, Jagannath temple, City museum, Hussain Sagar Lake, NTR gardens, Indira Park and Nehru Zoological Park. Some of the best weekend gateways' near Secunderabad are Ramoji film city and Hyderabad public gardens. Whenever you step into Hyderabad for a leisure travel, business meeting or spending a vacation in Hyderabad you can come and avail of the comfort in our United-21 Hotel in Hyderabad. United-21 launched recently has bagged the best new boutique hotel award due to its prompt service and luxurious suits.


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WASHINGTON — Federal health officials are beginning a new push to improve hospital safety — aiming to save 60,000 lives over the next three years and save money at the same time.
Hospitals are dangerous places, rife with infections and opportunities for medical mistakes. Yet some hospitals have dramatically reduced those harms, and lowered their bills as patients go home faster.
Tuesday, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said the new national Partnership for Patients will help other hospitals adopt those proven safety strategies. The goal is to cut hospital-caused harms by 40 percent and hospital readmissions by 20 percent within three years. The work is funded by $1 billion from the new health care law, but has the potential to save Medicare up to $10 billion in that same time.
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Bits And Pieces Of My Week
We went for a walk on Sunday afternoon. It was 56 degrees. I know I keep mentioning the temperature but that is just so unusual. Of course, last Sunday we had a wind chill of 30 below zero so I guess we should enjoy the warmth when we get it. My daughter brought her scooter and she had so much fun. Ten-year-old children are easy to please. She also likes appearing on my blog so here she is in all her glory.
The rest of my family is not so crazy about appearing here which is why you rarely see pictures of them. I think my daughter just likes the attention...She also has designated herself as my official proofreader and critic. She regularly asks if I have a blog post that I need someone to check over. I must say, I appreciate having such an enthusiastic audience. Of course, I might have a larger enthusiastic audience if I told people in my real life that this blog exists but honestly, that isn't going to happen any time soon. That is probably because a lot of people already think I am a bit odd for reading so much and if I tell them that I also write about the books I read and post my thoughts online, well, then they will really think I am crazy. That or they just won't care, and I am not sure which would be worse.
But anyway, back to my week. This week I had the tragedy of discovering that chocolate contributes to the migraines I get. I had suspected so for a long time but had been living in denial. Wouldn't you? Ten weeks ago I quit eating chocolate and I didn't get a migraine for that whole time. This week I started eating chocolate again and promptly had the migraines return. That seems pretty definitive to me. Can we just have a moment of silence to mourn the end of a beautiful friendship? Chocolate and I have been in a close relationship for years. This is very sad. What do you replace chocolate with? I don't like most other candy. I do like caramel, that has possibilities, but it just won't be the same. I have already given up wheat because my doctor thought it would help control my migraines. What is going to be left? I am going to end up eating a diet of fruits and vegetables which will be very healthy but not too useful at soothing those hormonal cravings.
I went to visit an old friend this week and she baked me almond flour jam thumbprint cookies. That is a true friend. We have been friends for almost 20 years but about 7 years ago my family and I moved from being in the same town as her to being about an hour away. That hour makes such a difference. We do our best but I hadn't seen her in over six months. It was so nice to catch up and chat like mad and eat cookies. It is wonderful when friendships stand the test of time and distance. We don't see each other often but when we do it is as if no time has passed since the last time we were together.
My reading this week has not really been blog-worthy. It has been a lot of rereading. I started the week with a bad cold and just kept pulling old, familiar books off the shelf. Right now I am rereading To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis. I mentioned it in my last post and immediately had the urge to read it again. It is so much fun. I did read Family Roundabout by Richmal Crompton and need to write a review of it. In fact, that is what this post was supposed to be but somehow I ended up babbling on about walks and migraines and chocolate.
Now I really want some chocolate. I guess I will go eat an orange. A chocolate orange would be better...
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Oh dear, not chocolate! I get bad headaches, not full migraines, if I drink red wine, and doesn't it have some ingredient in common with chocolate? Is it all kinds of chocolate? I'm fond of caramel myself, and sometimes I even prefer it to chocolate.ReplyDelete
It's lovely to reconnect with friends come on when you can pick up the threads as if you'd seen each other yesterday.
I envy you your enthusiastic editor :)Replies
Hmmm, I never thought that it might not be all kinds of chocolate. That might be something I need to look into. I just bought caramel swirl ice cream so obviously I am managing to console myself for the lack of chocolate in my life!Delete
My daughter is definitely enthusiastic. She thinks everything we do is fodder for my blog and is always telling me to take pictures and use them. Usually, pictures that have her in them!
Cute kid you got there. I totally get your worries about telling people "in real life" about your blog. There are 4 possible ways they could respond, only 1 of which is great.ReplyDelete
They could just not care, which is a bit disappointing but not really a big deal I guess. They could think you're a total weirdo, which is embarrassing. They could be REALLY into it in a borderline annoying way -- one family member I told used to treat my comments section like Facebook, with random anecdotes and links to totally unrelated videos on almost every post. Or the ideal reaction would be that they could check out your blog and maybe say a nice thing or two or even talk with you about a particular book. But I'm too afraid to risk the other stuff in hope of that last reaction these days, haha!
Anyway, I'm sorry about your chocolate problem. And orange is not really a good substitute. My friend has a similar problem and has learned to tell whether she's craving chocolate because she needs something sweet or because she needs something savory. Sweets = caramel or cinnamon candy or dried fruit like cherries or dates, and savory = cheese. She says the chocolate cravings never really go away, though.... :-(Replies
Exactly, I think most people would just think my blog was strange. And in a way, it is freeing to know that it is only strangers who are reading what I write. I don't feel as strong a need to edit my opinions, if that makes any sense. Not that I write anything controversial, but people who know you will try to fit what you write into their image of you. Or maybe I just over-analyze things!Delete
- AnonymousJanuary 20, 2020 at 4:07 AM
White wine gives me migraines but luckily not sparkling wine! My real life friends do not think I am weird for writing about books' and other stuff, or if they did they don't dare say so. I think non-readers are weird and I tell them so! LucindaReplyDelete


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A majority of working-age Americans admit they are not prioritizing retirement planning and place greater importance on more immediate financial concerns, potentially resulting in financial hardship in the long-term, according to new research out from HSBC.
The global study finds that for 81 percent of working-age Americans, saving for retirement is not their main priority, even as 76 percent have seen retirement savings impacted at some point by a significant life event such as buying a home, becoming unemployed, divorce or illness, underscoring the power of planning adequately and at an early age for life after work.
This report, entitled The Future of Retirement: A balancing act is based on a survey of more than 16,000 people from 15 countries and territories.
The research discovers that personal debt accumulated earlier in life continues to impact the ability to save for the future. The report also uncovered other reasons for not adequately preparing for retirement:
- Paying off a mortgage or other debts is the biggest barrier (57 percent among Americans; 46 percent globally) preventing working-age people from saving adequately for life after work. Americans are more preoccupied with paying off other debts (51 percent) and a mortgage (25 percent) than most other countries.
- Three in 10 (29 percent) retirees worldwide who did not prepare adequately for a comfortable retirement admit they did not know how much they needed to save. This number rises in the U.S. where 41 percent say they did not possess the proper knowledge.
- Those who begin retirement planning when they are older than 30 have waited too long, say more than a third (38 percent) of the world's retirees. More retirees in the U.S. (47 percent), U.K. (62 percent), Australia (57 percent) and Canada (45 percent) recognize the need to start planning by 30 in order to maintain a similar standard of living after work.
Working-age Americans outpace the rest of the world when it comes to planning for later life, as 75 percent report saving for retirement compared to the international average of 62 percent.


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Surrey made 157 for eight in their 20 overs, Tillakaratne Dilshan top-scoring with 36 while crucial late runs came from the unlikely source of Jade Dernbach, with 24 not out from 14 balls.
Michael Klinger made 45 for Gloucestershire but they came up just short on 152 for seven despite some late hitting from Benny Howell (29 from 14 balls) and Jack Taylor (19no from six). Zafar Ansari and Matt Dunn took three wickets each.
South Group leaders Essex were already through and continued their momentum with a seven-wicket win over Glamorgan at Cardiff.
The hosts made 157 for two, with Jacques Rudolph 60no and Murray Goodwin hitting 71, b ut Jesse Ryder made 51 and Tom Westley 44 before Ravi Bopara (32no) saw Essex home with two overs to spare.
Hampshire beat Sussex by six runs despite a staggering unbeaten hundred from Luke Wright.
Hampshire made 177 for three, Michael Carberry hitting 87no and Jimmy Adams 52 while Sean Ervine added 32no from 14 balls.
Wright slugged 116no from 66 but opening partner Chris Nash was the only other man in double figures, with 28, in Sussex's 171 for eight.
Kent hammered Somerset by 40 runs on the Duckworth-Lewis method in a match bizarrely ended by heavy winds at Canterbury.
Rob Key and Sam Northeast made 72 and 73 respectively in Kent's imposing 195 for seven despite Dirk Nannes taking three for 30.
Somerset crashed to 18 for four and 34 for five as Darren Stevens took four for 17. Colin Ingram hit 37 not out from 18 balls but they had only reached 59 for five, with the par score at 99, when the wind forced the players from the field and lightning followed.
In the North Group, half-centuries from Ashwell Prince (56) and Karl Brown (58) powered leaders Lancashire to 225 for seven and victory over Derbyshire.
Jos Buttler added 39 from 23 balls and Paul Horton, coming in at number nine, smashed 24no from seven with three sixes.
Marcus North (41) and Wayne Madsen (45) gave Derbyshire hope but the task was too great and they lost by 35 runs on 190 for seven.
Birmingham moved within a point of Yorkshire to keep their quarter-final push alive, beating the Vikings by five wickets with two balls to spare.
Laurie Evans was the key man, smashing an unbeaten 69 from 43 balls, after Jeetan Patel had taken four for 19 including a hat-trick in Yorkshire's 147 for six.
Daryl Mitchell took the first five-wicket haul of his career in any format as Worcestershire beat Northamptonshire by 31 runs.
Colin Munro made 49 and Ben Cox 46 as the Rapids made 162 for nine. Northants then collapsed from 108 for four to 131 all out as Mitchell ran through the middle order - with three of his victims caught and bowled.
Matt Boyce made an unbeaten 46 to see Leicestershire home from the penultimate ball against Durham.
Having restricted their opponents to 117 for nine, with only Phil Mustard and Gordon Muchall passing 20, Boyce anchored the Foxes' chase and Jigar Naik hit 16 not out from eight balls to see them over the line on 120 for seven.


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A proper probiotic supplement is as good as the range of beneficial bacteria that it contains. Streptococcus thermophilus is often included in the composition of such products because it's quite versatile. Here's everything you need to know about it and the positive ways in which it's going to affect your health. Streptococcus Thermophilus: A Brief Overview Streptococcus … [Read more...] about Streptococcus Thermophilus: The Yogurt Bacteria That Can Boost Your Health
What Is Bifidobacterium Bifidum And How Can It Enhance Your Health
The bifidobacterium family is a big one and some of its members happen to be much more popular than others. Bifidobacterium bifidum is just one example. Included in the composition of various probiotic supplements, bifidobacterium bifidum can be used to enhance health in a number of important ways. A Brief Overview of Bifidobacterium Bifidum Bifidobacterium bifidum … [Read more...] about What Is Bifidobacterium Bifidum And How Can It Enhance Your Health
Bifidobacterium Lactis: Several Amazing Things It Can Do For Your Health
A probiotic supplement is as good as the bacteria that it is based upon. Most quality products contain bifidobacterium lactis. This probiotic delivers an array of health benefits to the table, which is why it's preferred by most supplement manufacturers. Bifidobacterium Lactis: An Overview Bifidobacterium lactis (sometimes called bifidobacterium animalis) is a transient … [Read more...] about Bifidobacterium Lactis: Several Amazing Things It Can Do For Your Health
What Is Slippery Elm And Why Is It Included In Probiotic Supplements?
Good probiotic supplements aren't based solely on the good bacteria that are needed to restore the gut flora. Some of them contain additional ingredients that deliver even more pronounced health benefits. Slippery elm is one of these ingredients. What Is Slippery Elm? Slipper elm, also known as Ulmus rubra, is a North America native type of elm. The deciduous tree and … [Read more...] about What Is Slippery Elm And Why Is It Included In Probiotic Supplements?
Lactobacillus Plantarum And Its Numerous Health Benefits
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On the heels of the NLRB's recent decision changing the approach to determining whether a proposed bargaining unit is appropriate, the NLRB General Counsel issued a memorandum explaining how regional offices around the country should apply that decision to pending election cases. As we discussed on this blog last week, the NLRB's recent decision in PCC Structurals returned to the traditional test for determining the appropriateness of a proposed bargaining unit. That test considers multiple factors, including but not limited to whether the included employees have distinct skills and training and are separately supervised.
The General Counsel's memorandum, issued last Friday, provides instructions to regional offices around the country in the wake of the NLRB's decision. One of the most significant directives in the memorandum is for the regional office to consider a party's request to withdraw from an election agreement or reconsider a unit determination decision in a currently active case. Thus, an employer could argue that a bargaining unit is no longer appropriate under the traditional test — even if an election has already been held. Where no party makes a request, the Region should issue a Notice to Show Cause that directs any party to show cause, with specific information, why the bargaining unit is inappropriate pursuant to the traditional community of interest factors.
Additionally, the General Counsel's memorandum explained that when there are questions about the appropriateness of a bargaining unit:
- the hearing may be held more than eight days after the parties receive notice of the hearing;
- the hearing may be postponed;
- the Statement of Position's due date may be delayed for up to two days upon the necessary showing from a party; and
- the Regional Director may change the date for the election to make it an appropriate date in the circumstances of the case.
The General Counsel finally noted that employers should address the appropriateness of the proposed bargaining units in their Statements of Position. These are required under the NLRB's election rule published just over three years ago. Specifically, employers should explain the classifications, locations, and employee groupings that must be added to or excluded from the proposed units. Employers should also be ready to address any issue raised by the union about the units.
For the labor professional, this is a very significant development, and requires prompt attention and consideration. If a representation case is currently pending in which a stipulated or directed election is scheduled or has been conducted, the General Counsel's memorandum means that consideration should be given to whether the bargaining unit question should be revisited.


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Argentine coach Jorge Sampaoli has today (May 21, 2018) announced his 23 member squad for the 2018 World Cup. Notable omissions include Maurio Icardi, who scored 29 goals in the campaign and helped Inter to a Champions League spot, as well as the likes of Lautaro Martinez, Paredes and Ricky Centurion.
Only three players- Armani, Meza and Pavo ply their trade in Argentina. There are six Premier League players in this Argentine WC squad- Chelsea's Willy Caballero, West Ham's Manuel Lanzini, the Man Utd pair of Marcos Rojo and Sergio Romero and the Man City duo of Nicolas Otamendi and Sergio Aguero
Argentina WC Roster 2018:- Romero, Caballero, Armani; Mercado, Ansaldi, Otamendi, Fazio, Rojo, Tagliafico, Acuna; Mascherano, Salvio, Biglia, Lo Celso, Banega, Lanzini, Meza, di Maria, Pavon; Messi, Higuain, Dybala, Aguero
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What Is a Glucagon Injection?
A glucagon injection is a medication most often prescribed to diabetics. It is recommended that they have a glucagon kit on hand at all times in the event of severe hypoglycemia, or low blood sugar, which can cause a patient to lose consciousness. This drug is a hormone that can help revive an unconscious patient suffering from hypoglycemia. It may also be used during certain imaging tests to relax the stomach and bowel muscles. Glucagon injections are commonly marketed under the brand name GlucaGen® in the U.S.
Diabetic patients should ensure that their family members and close friends know where their glucagon kits are and how to use them in the event of an emergency. The patient will not be able to administer the injection himself if he is unconscious or severely impaired. Adults and children will typically be prescribed a 1 milligram (mg) dose; however, if one dose is not sufficient, a second may be used after 15 minutes. Very young children will be prescribed a dose based on body weight.
Before using a glucagon injection, the expiration date should be checked. Ideally, the patient should replace the kit before the expiration date. The person administering the glucagon injection must mix a vial of powder with a syringe filled with liquid, following the directions in the kit. It may then be injected into a leg muscle or as directed by the prescribing physician. Five to 20 minutes may be needed before the patient will be revived.
After receiving a glucagon injection, the patient must be turned on his left side. This prevents choking due to vomiting, which is a possible side effect of this emergency medicine. The patient's doctor should also be notified of the event immediately.
Once the patient is fully conscious, he will need to ingest a form of sugar as soon as possible, such as a glucose tablet, fruit juice, or sugar cubes. Following this, a small snack, such as cheese or a glass of milk, should be eaten. A glucagon injection will not increase the patient's blood sugar; it can only help revive him. It will also only work for about one and a half hours. The patient will still need to raise his blood sugar with food.
After having a glucagon injection, the patient will need to monitor his blood sugar once every hour for the next four hours. He may still need medical care, especially if he suffers from nausea and vomiting that prevents him from consuming a sugar source. Patients must also replace their emergency glucagon injection kit as soon as possible after using it, in the event of another emergency.
Those who have used a glucagon injection and who experience dizziness should check with their doctors immediately. Other troubling side effects may include lightheadedness and problems breathing. Signs of a possible overdose of glucagon can include muscle cramps, irregular heartbeat, and diarrhea, as well as severe weakness.


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This is a picture of me and my best friend in the world, Ken. Sadly, Ken passed away in the early days of fall in 2017. I miss him dearly. This picture makes me smile, and I post it here because this is one of the rare photos I have where Ken actually consented to having his face shown in a picture.
But this post isn't about pictures of my friend and I. It is about GiveWell, and doing good in the world. So why am I promoting GiveWell? The answer is simple. I want to do something in the memory of my friend. Ken wanted our memories of him to be associated with doing good in the world, and he thought giving money to GiveWell was a good way to do good in the world. What is GiveWell? Here is what they say on their website:
GiveWell is a nonprofit dedicated to finding outstanding giving opportunities and publishing the full details of our analysis to help donors decide where to give.
GiveWell sets out to determine the best bang for your charitable buck, so to speak. So help me honour my friend's memory by considering donating to GiveWell. GiveWell does not keep any portion of the donations it receives. 100% of every donation goes to the charities featured on its website.
After you have donated, please feel free to download a Bingo Card and play along as I cycle across the country!


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How to Use a Sandisk for Your Phone
SanDisk is a Fortune 500 company that makes business-class flash memory cards. While a a flash memory card may not seem like a business-critical item, good quality memory loaded with useful data can give employees the tools they need to be more productive when they are out of the office. At the same time, the extra storage space that a SanDisk card gives a phone can also help it to run more smoothly. Reaping these benefits simply requires the purchase and installation of the right SanDisk flash memory card.
Determine if your phone can use a SanDisk card. If you can add additional memory to it, it will usually have a slot located on its top, its side or under its back panel, frequently under the battery. A memory slot is different from the SIMcard slot that phones that use the GSM network have. Apple iPhones and most Palm WebOS phones do not have a slot for a SanDisk card
Purchase an appropriate SanDisk flash memory card for your phone. Most phones made since 2008 or so use the smallest MicroSD format card. To be sure, though, you can look on an existing card in your phone or look around the slot to see which type of card it takes. Most phones take MicroSD, MiniSD or SD format SanDisk cards with some Sony phones using MemoryStick format cards. Most phones made since 2008 or so will also support SanDisk cards with as much as 32 gigabytes of storage. Some will support even larger cards; check your phone's manual to find out.
Turn your phone off.
Remove your phone's existing memory card, if it has one. With some cards, you can just push it in slightly and a spring will pop it out. On other phones, you will need to remove the battery and gently slide it out. Others may require you to slightly swivel the card at an upward tilt to slide it out. In every case, being gentle and using as little force as you can will ensure you do not break your phone's fragile memory connector.
Insert the new SanDisk memory card into your phone's memory slot by doing the reverse of what you did to remove the old card.
Turn your phone back on. It will now have the additional storage of the SanDisk card.
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Gerbil playpen by Anna
One of our members, Anna, has made a fantastic playpen for her gerbils, thanks for showing us how to make it Anna!
The gerbil playpen with the top open
The top is secured pretty simply with metal "eyes" and strong wire (a) The rest of the pen is built in sections, a short end and long end hinged together like so (b)
The other two adjoining sides are held with hooks and eyes like so (a) The top sections are held on the base by 2 toggles on each side (b)
Lastly, the base is lined with acrylic sheet so it's wipe clean.
The whole thing is 1 metre long by 50cm wide by 50cm high.


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ATA TCD News
The 59th Annual Conference of the American Translators Association is quickly approaching. If you haven't already registered, there's still time! Visit the ATA59 registration page to secure your place at the conference. As you prepare for the conference, we'd like to share TCD news and recent activities. We look forward to seeing you in NOLA.
In this newsletter…
Letter from Marina Ilari, TCD Administrator
Dear TCD members,
It is an honor for me to serve as administrator of the Translation Company Division. I am an ATA-Certified English-Spanish translator passionate about the translation industry and the impact our profession has worldwide. I have been a member of ATA for several years and have attended all of the annual conferences since joining. I found the Translation Company Division networking events to be an excellent way of connecting with colleagues.
My goal as administrator of the division is to make sure that we are providing sufficient opportunities for division members to network, as well as to promote collaboration between translation companies and independent translators. I would like to continue to build a strong volunteer base for the division, continuing the excellent work accomplished by previous administrators and the past and current Division Leadership Council. I would also like to bolster our division communication efforts to division members through social media and other channels.
If you are planning to attend the ATA conference in New Orleans, I hope that you will take advantage of the ATA-TCD Networking Dinner which will take place on Wednesday, October 24, at 7:30-10:00 p.m. (after the Welcome Celebration) at Oceana Grill (a short walk from the conference hotel). You can read more about the event here.
I would like to give a special thank you to our assistant administrator, Alaina Brantner, as well as our leadership council. I am looking forward to the next two years working with them and helping to expand the TCD's reach.
Marina Ilari
Interview with Ray Valido on the PM SIG
Ray Valido proposed the creation of the Project Manager Special Interest Group, nested under the Translation Company Division of the ATA. A translation project manager of the Office of Language Services of the U.S. Department of State, Valido holds a Master of Arts in Translation and Localization Management (Spanish) from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. His language pairs are Spanish to English and Filipino to English.
ATA TCD: What inspired you to propose the creation of the Project Manager Special Interest Group?
RV: At a recent ATA annual conference, I was at the welcome celebration with several other translation PMs, and as we visited the different tables that were set up for the ATA divisions, we quickly realized that there was no group for those of us who work as project managers in the translation and interpretation industry. The need was evident for a group within the ATA where we could meet and learn from one another about our projects and our companies, and discuss the future of our field. I also met many people at ATA conferences who work as both freelance translators and translation project managers. This only underscored the need for a forum in which PMs could network, and ATA is the perfect community in which to do so. As a participant and speaker at ATA conferences, I have myself experienced the valuable networking that takes place among various groups: translators, translation companies, recruiters, and fellow project managers to name a few. The presence of a Special Interest Group (SIG) for translation PMs would offer us an opportunity to engage in dialogue not only with one another, but also with the various groups with whom we relate closely in our work.
To read this interview in its entirety, please visit Interview with Ray Valido on the PM SIG.
TCD Membership Survey Results
In April of this year, the TCD sent a survey to all of its members asking for feedback. We were pleasantly surprised by the amount of responses received and we wanted to share a summary of the findings.
The survey reinforced what we will continue working towards: more opportunity for members to network and share information. The TCD's leaders want to thank everyone who participated. The feedback is very valuable for the leadership council to improve communication channels and provide the most value to TCD members.
TCD Events at ATA59!
We hope you'll include the below TCD events in your ATA conference schedule!
Don't miss the chance to win a memoQ freelance license at the TCD Networking Dinner
Join language company professionals, translators, and interpreters for food, drinks, and networking. This is a great opportunity to share ideas with colleagues, forge collaborative partnerships, meet prospective customers, and learn more about the Translation Company Division.
memoQ has generously provided three freelance licenses which will be raffled after the dinner. Don't miss your chance to win!
Cost: $60 per person (includes tax and gratuity)
Tickets must be purchased in advance. Click Here to purchase. Register early, limited seating! Reservations accepted on a first come, first served basis.
TCD Annual Meeting
The annual meeting of the TCD will be held on Thursday, October 25, from 4:45 to 5:45 p.m. During the meeting our administrator will give an update on the activities of the association. Ray Valido will also introduce the Project Manager Special Interest Group to the TCD.
TCD Welcomes Distinguished Speaker Isaac Wambua
We're pleased to welcome Isaac Wambua as the distinguished speaker of the TCD. Wambua is an industrial engineer by training and a certified professional trainer, speaker, and business coach with the John Maxwell Team. His talk "Supercharge Your Business Through Influence" will focus on sales prospecting, closing sales, and persuasion and negotiation for high-paying contracts. Wambua's session will be held on Thursday, October 25, at 3:30 p.m.
The Leadership Council of the ATA TCD
The work of the ATA TCD would not be possible without the contributions and guidance of the Leadership Council. Our thanks to the ATA TCD Leadership Council members:
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Last Thursday I went to see 'The Age of Adaline' a story of a women born in 1908, who was in a car accident in 1935, and as a result cannot age. Adaline played by the beautiful Blake Lively is a movie a would highly recommend going to see.
Having only previously seen Blake star in popular the television series 'Gossip Girl' this was a much welcomed change of scenery. The one and only similarity between 'The Age of Adaline' and 'Gossip Girl' was Blake's stylish outfits and ever changing hairstyles.
A big bonus was that some scenes are set in San Francisco showing new and old footage of the city and how things have changed over the years. It is always nice to watch a movie/television show and be able to relate to the setting.
'The Age of Adaline' is currently out in cinema's in the U.S. and is hitting cinema's in Ireland on the 8th of May.


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By Elizabeth Zwirz, FOX News
Law enforcement in Tennessee killed the man authorities said posed as a cop and fatally shot an actual police officer after pulling him over in his car.
James Decoursey, 34, who was considered armed and dangerous, was killed in Clarksville, Tenn., according to a Facebook post by Logan County Sheriff's Office.
Authorities identified the slain officer as Phillip Meacham, 38. Decoursey was on the run after stealing a white Chevrolet pickup truck.
Gov. Matt Bevin previously confirmed in a tweet that a Hopkinsville officer had died.
Authorities reported to the scene on Paulette Court after 5 p.m., WKRN reported. Hopkinsville is about 70 miles northwest of Nashville.
According to a Hopkinsville Police Department news release, the off-duty officer was pulled over in his own car by someone "pretending to be a police officer." Not long after, the officer reportedly was shot by the suspect. He was rushed to the hospital where he ultimately died from his injuries, authorities said.
Meacham worked for the Hopkinsville Police Department since May 2017 and previously worked at the Christian County Sheriff's Department for about 12 years, officials said at the news conference. The slain officer reportedly was married and had two children.
In a followup tweet, Bevin said "There is no greater sacrifice than that of a person willing to lay down their life for annother...Thank God for the #ThinBlueLine."