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Enjoy quiet, country living within easy reach of the city. Located on 35 beautiful acres of manicured grounds with award-winning landscaping. Our community is just off the I-55, providing quick access to work or play destinations in Mississippi or downtown Memphis. Walk down the street to pick up groceries, do your banking, or get a bite to eat, or take a short drive to other shopping, dining, and entertainment venues. Come see these Horn Lake apartments for yourself by scheduling an appointment today.
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When you combine unbelievable convenience with affordable comfort, you've got it all at The DeSoto. Our community offers one, two and three bedroom apartment homes in a park-like setting, including an 8 acre stocked lake. Just two miles from the new Towne Center shopping mall in North Mississippi, and minutes from area shopping, dining and entertainment. Come see why many Horn Lake residents choose to call The DeSoto home.
Horn Lake is a thriving, highly diverse neighborhood brimming with lively culture, burgeoning upscale residences, fantastic shopping, entertainment, and dining—all folded into a small, cozy area. Surrounded by parks, forests, and other local touches, you’ll forget that you’re only minutes from Memphis, Tennessee.

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Enjoy quiet , country living within easy reach of the city . Located on 35 beautiful acres of manicured grounds with award - winning landscaping . Our community is just off the I-55 , providing quick access to work or play destinations in Mississippi or downtown Memphis . Walk down the street to pick up groceries , do your banking , or get a bite to eat , or take a short drive to other shopping , dining , and entertainment venues . Come see these Horn Lake apartments for yourself by scheduling an appointment today .
 The DeSoto offers spacious one , two and three bedroom homes .
 The DeSoto offers great living spaces . Check out the gallery .
 The DeSoto offers great living spaces . Check out the amenities .
 When you combine unbelievable convenience with affordable comfort , you 've got it all at The DeSoto . Our community offers one , two and three bedroom apartment homes in a park - like setting , including an 8 acre stocked lake . Just two miles from the new Towne Center shopping mall in North Mississippi , and minutes from area shopping , dining and entertainment . Come see why many Horn Lake residents choose to call The DeSoto home .
 Horn Lake is a thriving , highly diverse neighborhood brimming with lively culture , burgeoning upscale residences , fantastic shopping , entertainment , and dining — all folded into a small , cozy area . Surrounded by parks , forests , and other local touches , you ’ll forget that you ’re only minutes from Memphis , Tennessee .


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After TS5 the Meletopoulo/Meletopoulo Lotus Exige S leads the Seymour/Seymour Lotus Exige by 32 seconds.
In the Mansfield Shire Thoroughbred Trophy, Dillon/Corah (Alfa Romeo 105 GTV) have almost doubled their edge in the class.
They are now 46 seconds clear of the Kelly/Kelly Audi quattro coupe.
While in TSD Trophy, Taylor/Taylor (2013 Lotus Elise S) continue their advantage over the Bryden/Bryden 2017 Lotus 380 Cup.
This entry was posted in Targa Live on 09/11/2018 at 2:56pm by TARGA LIVE.

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After TS5 the Meletopoulo / Meletopoulo Lotus Exige S leads the Seymour / Seymour Lotus Exige by 32 seconds .
 In the Mansfield Shire Thoroughbred Trophy , Dillon / Corah ( Alfa Romeo 105 GTV ) have almost doubled their edge in the class .
 They are now 46 seconds clear of the Kelly / Kelly Audi quattro coupe .
 While in TSD Trophy , Taylor / Taylor ( 2013 Lotus Elise S ) continue their advantage over the Bryden / Bryden 2017 Lotus 380 Cup .
 This entry was posted in Targa Live on 09/11/2018 at 2:56pm by TARGA LIVE .


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Pictures of World Stadiums with a listed capacity of exactly 60,000.
Great list. I think Michigan has the most people in accommodation for there games which is about 112,000 at the most. no other stadium would dare do this.

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Pictures of World Stadiums with a listed capacity of exactly 60,000 .
 Great list . I think Michigan has the most people in accommodation for there games which is about 112,000 at the most . no other stadium would dare do this .


text: Our antique, Horizontal Cigar Pub Sign is gloss-printed directly onto the grand wood base for a personalized gift. A great and affordable idea for a wedding gift, birthday gift or holiday gift. Personalized with first name, last name and year established. Measures 10 3/4" x 15 1/2" x 1/4" and comes with plastic adhesive wall hanger.

tokenized: Our antique , Horizontal Cigar Pub Sign is gloss - printed directly onto the grand wood base for a personalized gift . A great and affordable idea for a wedding gift , birthday gift or holiday gift . Personalized with first name , last name and year established . Measures 10 3/4 " x 15 1/2 " x 1/4 " and comes with plastic adhesive wall hanger .


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Pack of 2 x 10cm Filigree Wooden Discs for making Dream Catchers.
A pack of 2 x Wooden Filigree Discs measuring 10cm wide by approx 3mm.
The discs are 100% wood and carry the FSC certification.
Use them to make Dream Catchers by adding Beads and Feathers.

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Pack of 2 x 10 cm Filigree Wooden Discs for making Dream Catchers .
 A pack of 2 x Wooden Filigree Discs measuring 10 cm wide by approx 3 mm .
 The discs are 100 % wood and carry the FSC certification .
 Use them to make Dream Catchers by adding Beads and Feathers .


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The best strategy to succeed in an increasingly dynamic and demanding global logistics market.
CBRE’s Industrial and Logistics team is the investment advisor of choice to the world’s leading investors and developers, with a proven track record for generating maximum returns with minimum risk.
Combined with market-leading research and data, we provide an integrated and comprehensive range of investor and developer services for the industrial and logistics sector.
We also provide insight and expertise on everything from site location to acquisition and development. Backed up by our truly global standards and operations, our investment management team will ensure you have the advice and reassurance you need to maximise on your land and real estate development objectives.

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The best strategy to succeed in an increasingly dynamic and demanding global logistics market .
 CBRE ’s Industrial and Logistics team is the investment advisor of choice to the world ’s leading investors and developers , with a proven track record for generating maximum returns with minimum risk .
 Combined with market - leading research and data , we provide an integrated and comprehensive range of investor and developer services for the industrial and logistics sector .
 We also provide insight and expertise on everything from site location to acquisition and development . Backed up by our truly global standards and operations , our investment management team will ensure you have the advice and reassurance you need to maximise on your land and real estate development objectives .


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(Photo: Lisa Norwood / Flickr)The country’s biggest banks are happy to make their money from the same governments about which they love to whine.
Bankers love to rail against government interference in the “free market.” Jamie Dimon, grilled this week in front of Congress over JP Morgan Chase’s massive recent losses, famously complained last year that some regulations are “anti-American.” And Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sachs, warned ominously that increased regulations might make the bank seek out another location to do its business: “Operations can be moved globally and capital can be accessed globally,” he said.
Even while some of them occasionally have the grace to admit that they wouldn’t still be around without the massive taxpayer bailouts of 2008 (and continued access to ultra-cheap loans from the Federal Reserve), they still like to claim that they’re free-market entities, subject to the whims of the invisible hand, and that the government’s meddling can only be destructive.
Yet those same banks are happy to make their money from the same governments about which they love to whine. Most of us know about the big, official bailouts. But the banks get much more than that from federal and state governments. Those lobbying dollars and campaign donations aren’t just to keep regulators away; they lead to lucrative contracts where banks are paid to administer government services, and are put in position to skim fees off the very same taxpayers who pay for those services.
The big banks have their tentacles in every aspect of government—despite right-wing hand-wringing about government bureaucracy, the big banks are often actually the ones coming between you and your money. So who’s really getting rich off “welfare”? JP Morgan and Bank of America.
Below are six ways the big banks rake in cash every day from services that are supposed to help working Americans.
Suzanne Merkelson at Republic Reports points out that Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits—the program formerly known as food stamps, which provides food aid to families—increased to $72 billion last year (from $30 billion in 2007).
JP Morgan spends a bunch of money lobbying the Department of Agriculture on this program, making sure they get what they want—a big paycheck from state taxpayers.
And the best part? When you have a problem with your JP Morgan SNAP benefits card? You call a JP Morgan call center for help—and that call center just might be in India.
So to recap: big bank makes money off a program that helps people who are unemployed—and creates jobs in India with that money, rather than creating them here in the US.
The banks get paid directly by the state to handle the SNAP program, but that’s far from the only program designed to help the victims of the lousy economy that has turned into a cash cow for the banks that created the crisis in the first place.
The bank also collects a 3-cent fee from the state each time it “facilitates” a transfer on a prepaid card. It also gets those fees for direct-depositing unemployment benefits into someone’s bank account.
USPIRG found that 32 of the 50 largest public 4-year universities and 26 of the largest 50 community colleges—the schools in part supported by taxpayers—had deals with banks to provide debit or prepaid cards for students. The campuses often get money from the banks for the privilege of access to students, and the banks then make their money back in fees—and possibly other ways, too. Mela Heestand, writing for AlterNet about the protests at the University of California Davis that drove US Bank to close its campus bank branch, pointed out that “university contracts with banks encourage tuition hikes, because banks stand to profit directly from rising tuition, while the administration comes to rely on funding from bank contracts.” US Bank has agreements at 52 campuses around the country.
Students are the ones bearing the costs of access to money they’re already paying interest on, and USPIRG points out that the fees are “steep and frequent,” including per-swipe fees, inactivity fees (yes, you read that right), overdraft fees and fees to reload their prepaid cards. And financial aid that is paid to students through a debit card is subject, just like any other card, to ATM fees if students use an ATM not owned by the bank that currently has their money. The Department of Education has rules on this practice, banning banks from charging fees if they provide “convenient” ATMs for the students’ use, but their definition of “convenient” is vague—leaving students at the mercy of a single ATM on campus, which produces long lines and leaves no alternative if it breaks or runs out of cash.
It’s not only your unemployment, financial aid, or SNAP benefits that the big banks control these days—they also might come between you and your tax return.
Once again, South Carolina takes the lead, claiming to save the taxpayer money by cutting a deal with Bank of America, this time to send out tax returns in the form of—you guessed it—prepaid debit cards from Bank of America. And just like with unemployment benefits and financial aid (or your regular, consumer bank card), the bank is making its money collecting fees from people trying to access their own money.
“They’re not even nickel and diming people, they’re five-dollaring and 10-dollaring people,” Sue Berkowitz, Director of the Appleseed Legal Justice Center, says.
Oh, and the bank got this deal through a no-bid contract—the Department of Revenue calls them “the best fit” for the program. The program isn’t mandatory but, the Palmetto Public Record notes, it’s opt-out, not opt-in. Which means that unless you request otherwise, your money will be given to you through Bank of America—which in addition to sticking you with ATM fees and other charges, is going to make interest on your money while it’s sitting in their account.
Getting the big banks to refinance mortgages and help people facing foreclosure stay in their homes has been a huge fight, with activists around the country putting their bodies on the line, physically occupying homes to keep residents in them.
Now the program that’s supposed to help those struggling homeowners looks instead to be a big fat handout to the same banks that were preying on borrowers to begin with. According to the Wall Street Journal, banks that service mortgages could make as much as $12 billion by refinancing under the newest version of the Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP 2.0). And the borrowers? Oh, they’ll save money, too—somewhere around $2.5 billion, maybe $5 billion tops.
The program is supposed to let underwater borrowers who’ve made all their payments in good faith refinance their mortgages at current market value. But, Bonnie Kavoussi at the Huffington Post notes, instead those banks are able to charge steep fees and above-market interest rates.
In recent decades, governments and central banks around the world have developed a consistent pattern of behavior when trouble strikes banks that are large or interconnected enough to threaten the broader economy: They step in to ensure that all the bank’s creditors, not just depositors, are paid in full. Although typically necessary to prevent permanent economic damage, such bailouts encourage a reckless confidence among creditors. They assume the government will always make them whole, so they become willing to lend at lower rates, particularly to systemically important banks.
In other words, because we bailed them out once, the expectation that we’ll do it again is actually making the banks money. Other lenders are willing to lend money to the “systemically important banks” (read: banks that got bailed out by the US government because they were “too big to fail”) at lower interest rates because they presume that they’ll always get their money back since the government will make sure the banks don’t go belly up. So the biggest banks are paying less in interest than medium-size and small banks—and that adds up to billions.
So they’re profiting just from being too big to fail. And each time there’s a crisis, the expectation of government support actually grows—as of 2009, Bloomberg notes, they’re saving about 0.8 percent every time they borrow. The total benefit to the big banks just of the expectation that there will be another bailout? About $76 billion a year—which Bloomberg points out is equal to their total profit from the past twelve months, and is more than the federal government spends each year on education.
Dimon, of course, claimed that it wasn’t true, and that he borrowed in the marketplace, “with the smartest people in the world.” But it looks like the smartest people in the world are getting a whole lot of help—and making a whole lot of money—off of college students and taxpayers, off the working poor and unemployed in the U.S.

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( Photo : Lisa Norwood / Flickr)The country ’s biggest banks are happy to make their money from the same governments about which they love to whine .
 Bankers love to rail against government interference in the “ free market . ” Jamie Dimon , grilled this week in front of Congress over JP Morgan Chase ’s massive recent losses , famously complained last year that some regulations are “ anti - American . ” And Lloyd Blankfein , CEO of Goldman Sachs , warned ominously that increased regulations might make the bank seek out another location to do its business : “ Operations can be moved globally and capital can be accessed globally , ” he said .
 Even while some of them occasionally have the grace to admit that they would n’t still be around without the massive taxpayer bailouts of 2008 ( and continued access to ultra - cheap loans from the Federal Reserve ) , they still like to claim that they ’re free - market entities , subject to the whims of the invisible hand , and that the government ’s meddling can only be destructive .
 Yet those same banks are happy to make their money from the same governments about which they love to whine . Most of us know about the big , official bailouts . But the banks get much more than that from federal and state governments . Those lobbying dollars and campaign donations are n’t just to keep regulators away ; they lead to lucrative contracts where banks are paid to administer government services , and are put in position to skim fees off the very same taxpayers who pay for those services .
 The big banks have their tentacles in every aspect of government — despite right - wing hand - wringing about government bureaucracy , the big banks are often actually the ones coming between you and your money . So who ’s really getting rich off “ welfare ” ? JP Morgan and Bank of America .
 Below are six ways the big banks rake in cash every day from services that are supposed to help working Americans .
 Suzanne Merkelson at Republic Reports points out that Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ( SNAP ) benefits — the program formerly known as food stamps , which provides food aid to families — increased to $ 72 billion last year ( from $ 30 billion in 2007 ) .
 JP Morgan spends a bunch of money lobbying the Department of Agriculture on this program , making sure they get what they want — a big paycheck from state taxpayers .
 And the best part ? When you have a problem with your JP Morgan SNAP benefits card ? You call a JP Morgan call center for help — and that call center just might be in India .
 So to recap : big bank makes money off a program that helps people who are unemployed — and creates jobs in India with that money , rather than creating them here in the US .
 The banks get paid directly by the state to handle the SNAP program , but that ’s far from the only program designed to help the victims of the lousy economy that has turned into a cash cow for the banks that created the crisis in the first place .
 The bank also collects a 3 - cent fee from the state each time it “ facilitates ” a transfer on a prepaid card . It also gets those fees for direct - depositing unemployment benefits into someone ’s bank account .
 USPIRG found that 32 of the 50 largest public 4 - year universities and 26 of the largest 50 community colleges — the schools in part supported by taxpayers — had deals with banks to provide debit or prepaid cards for students . The campuses often get money from the banks for the privilege of access to students , and the banks then make their money back in fees — and possibly other ways , too . Mela Heestand , writing for AlterNet about the protests at the University of California Davis that drove US Bank to close its campus bank branch , pointed out that “ university contracts with banks encourage tuition hikes , because banks stand to profit directly from rising tuition , while the administration comes to rely on funding from bank contracts . ” US Bank has agreements at 52 campuses around the country .
 Students are the ones bearing the costs of access to money they ’re already paying interest on , and USPIRG points out that the fees are “ steep and frequent , ” including per - swipe fees , inactivity fees ( yes , you read that right ) , overdraft fees and fees to reload their prepaid cards . And financial aid that is paid to students through a debit card is subject , just like any other card , to ATM fees if students use an ATM not owned by the bank that currently has their money . The Department of Education has rules on this practice , banning banks from charging fees if they provide “ convenient ” ATMs for the students ’ use , but their definition of “ convenient ” is vague — leaving students at the mercy of a single ATM on campus , which produces long lines and leaves no alternative if it breaks or runs out of cash .
 It ’s not only your unemployment , financial aid , or SNAP benefits that the big banks control these days — they also might come between you and your tax return .
 Once again , South Carolina takes the lead , claiming to save the taxpayer money by cutting a deal with Bank of America , this time to send out tax returns in the form of — you guessed it — prepaid debit cards from Bank of America . And just like with unemployment benefits and financial aid ( or your regular , consumer bank card ) , the bank is making its money collecting fees from people trying to access their own money .
 “ They ’re not even nickel and diming people , they ’re five - dollaring and 10 - dollaring people , ” Sue Berkowitz , Director of the Appleseed Legal Justice Center , says .
 Oh , and the bank got this deal through a no - bid contract — the Department of Revenue calls them “ the best fit ” for the program . The program is n’t mandatory but , the Palmetto Public Record notes , it ’s opt - out , not opt - in . Which means that unless you request otherwise , your money will be given to you through Bank of America — which in addition to sticking you with ATM fees and other charges , is going to make interest on your money while it ’s sitting in their account .
 Getting the big banks to refinance mortgages and help people facing foreclosure stay in their homes has been a huge fight , with activists around the country putting their bodies on the line , physically occupying homes to keep residents in them .
 Now the program that ’s supposed to help those struggling homeowners looks instead to be a big fat handout to the same banks that were preying on borrowers to begin with . According to the Wall Street Journal , banks that service mortgages could make as much as $ 12 billion by refinancing under the newest version of the Home Affordable Refinance Program ( HARP 2.0 ) . And the borrowers ? Oh , they ’ll save money , too — somewhere around $ 2.5 billion , maybe $ 5 billion tops .
 The program is supposed to let underwater borrowers who ’ve made all their payments in good faith refinance their mortgages at current market value . But , Bonnie Kavoussi at the Huffington Post notes , instead those banks are able to charge steep fees and above - market interest rates .
 In recent decades , governments and central banks around the world have developed a consistent pattern of behavior when trouble strikes banks that are large or interconnected enough to threaten the broader economy : They step in to ensure that all the bank ’s creditors , not just depositors , are paid in full . Although typically necessary to prevent permanent economic damage , such bailouts encourage a reckless confidence among creditors . They assume the government will always make them whole , so they become willing to lend at lower rates , particularly to systemically important banks .
 In other words , because we bailed them out once , the expectation that we ’ll do it again is actually making the banks money . Other lenders are willing to lend money to the “ systemically important banks ” ( read : banks that got bailed out by the US government because they were “ too big to fail ” ) at lower interest rates because they presume that they ’ll always get their money back since the government will make sure the banks do n’t go belly up . So the biggest banks are paying less in interest than medium - size and small banks — and that adds up to billions .
 So they ’re profiting just from being too big to fail . And each time there ’s a crisis , the expectation of government support actually grows — as of 2009 , Bloomberg notes , they ’re saving about 0.8 percent every time they borrow . The total benefit to the big banks just of the expectation that there will be another bailout ? About $ 76 billion a year — which Bloomberg points out is equal to their total profit from the past twelve months , and is more than the federal government spends each year on education .
 Dimon , of course , claimed that it was n’t true , and that he borrowed in the marketplace , “ with the smartest people in the world . ” But it looks like the smartest people in the world are getting a whole lot of help — and making a whole lot of money — off of college students and taxpayers , off the working poor and unemployed in the U.S.


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JUST before Google first sold its shares to the public in 2004, Larry Page, one of its founders, excited the nonprofit world with a bold commitment to philanthropy.
In the philanthropy world, many people have a more skeptical view of Google’s experiment.
NOTHING illustrates DotOrg’s approach better than Google Flu Trends, an innovative tool that uses data collected from searches about flu symptoms to predict the location of flu outbreaks. In April 2009, Dr. Brilliant said it epitomized the power of Google’s vaunted engineering prowess to make the world a better place, and he predicted that it would save untold numbers of lives.
Public health officials say the tool is undoubtedly useful.
But “on an individual basis, does Flu Trends save lives? No,” said Ashley LaMonte-Fowlkes, an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which helped Google test and develop it.
Instead, she described it as “a really nice adjunct” to other tools that the agency uses to understand the spread of flu. One major shortcoming of Flu Trends is that in poor regions of the developing world, where devastating pandemics are most likely to start, computers are not widely available, so Google has little data to feed into the tool. Even in the United States, during the swine flu outbreak of 2009, Flu Trends had difficulty detecting the relatively small number of H1N1 infections.
Some veterans of DotOrg say Flu Trends is an example of how Google’s engineering-centric approach frustrated and limited them.
Those solutions also had to be something that Google engineers, who represent the cream of the world’s elite universities, believed that only they could create.
For instance, in early 2008, some DotOrg staff members with traditional nonprofit backgrounds proposed a system to track drugs for diseases like malaria and tuberculosis through the supply chain, in order to combat drug counterfeiting and theft. Fake drugs, which can be toxic, are an enormous problem: the World Health Organization has estimated that more than 30 percent of drugs sold in developing countries in Africa and parts of Asia and Latin America can be counterfeit.
The team’s idea was to engineer a FedEx-type system, relying in part on text-messaging, that would track drugs from the moment they left a manufacturer’s control until they reached a patient.
The plan never went anywhere, however, because text-messaging was not sophisticated enough to challenge Google’s engineers, several former DotOrg executives said. The culture clash between the engineers — caustically referred to by former DotOrg executives as “the Brahmin” — and those from development organizations was exacerbated by DotOrg’s leader, Dr. Brilliant, according to a dozen former employees of DotOrg.
Even Dr. Brilliant’s fans — and they are legion in Silicon Valley and the global health arena — say he lacks management skills. A spokesman for Dr. Brilliant’s current employer, the Skoll Global Threats Fund, said last week that he was unavailable for an interview because of a death in his immediate family. Dr. Brilliant did respond to some questions by e-mail, though he did not reply to a question about his management.
He was hired on a whim after he won the coveted TED Prize, awarded annually to someone with a world-changing “wish,” in 2006 for his idea to build a global early-response system to identify new diseases and disasters as soon as they emerge, thus heading off pandemics. Dr. Brilliant was invited to speak to Google employees about his idea, and Mr. Page and his Google co-founder, Sergey Brin, happened to attend.
They were smitten, and Dr. Brilliant was hired almost immediately. It took DotOrg almost two years to define the five areas in which it would work, and they were announced with much fanfare in January 2008: predicting and preventing diseases; growing small and midsize businesses; increasing access to information and public services; developing renewable energy; and helping to commercialize plug-in hybrids. Google.org vowed to spend $175 million in those areas over the next three years.
It troubled several DotOrg executives that the largest grant announced that day, accounting for 20 percent of the $25 million committed at the time, went to InStedd, the organization that Dr. Brilliant had founded with his TED prize money.
“No one seemed to understand that this looked like a tremendous conflict of interest,” said one former DotOrg employee who oversaw programs and asked for anonymity because Google’s severance contract included a confidentiality clause.
During Dr. Brilliant’s tenure as executive director of DotOrg, InStedd received $11 million from the institution, while the Seva Foundation, another nonprofit that he had co-founded, received $2.5 million.
In an e-mail, Dr. Brilliant said the grant to Seva illustrated Google’s “don’t be evil” mantra: Mr. Brin ordered it up to make Seva whole after Google hired Dr. Brilliant away.
Dr. Brilliant also had to deal with other issues. On a personal level, he was distracted during part of his time at DotOrg because two family members were critically ill.
It didn’t help that Sheryl Sandberg, a Google executive who was the architect of DotOrg as it was first conceived, left to join Facebook in early 2008. Ms. Sandberg’s first job out of college was with the World Bank in India, and many DotOrg executives considered her their champion.
When she left, DotOrg became isolated. It operated out of San Francisco, rather than from Google’s campus in Mountain View, Calif. And with its executives spending most of their time in the developing world and thus unable to cultivate allies at the company, DotOrg all but ground to a halt.
Dr. Brilliant lacked Ms. Sandberg’s access to the Executive Management Group, which comprises about a dozen senior Google executives close to Mr. Page, Mr. Brin and Eric E. Schmidt, Google’s longtime chief executive, who is moving to a new role as executive chairman in April. (Mr. Page, meanwhile, will become C.E.O.) Members of this group were usually too busy to attend meetings where grants were presented for approval, so Dr. Brilliant worked out a system of e-mailing the proposals to Mr. Page and Mr. Brin. If they did not respond within 48 hours, he made the decision himself.
LAURENCE SIMON, a professor at Brandeis University and a friend of Dr. Brilliant’s who took a sabbatical to work at DotOrg in 2007, said that in his view, Google’s top executives grew frustrated with DotOrg when they were not being presented with clearly defined problems and solutions.
“I think they expected there would be the same kind of ‘launch early and often’ approach demanded on the business side, but that’s not the way development works,” Mr. Simon said.
When the Google founders did attend a meeting about DotOrg, they spent most of their time fiddling with their BlackBerrys. At one meeting, former DotOrg executives said, they were stunned when Mr. Brin dropped to the floor and started doing push-ups.
“DotOrg was like quicksand — every time you thought you’d found your footing, a sinkhole opened,” the former Google.org program officer said.
Jacquelline Fuller, a spokeswoman for DotOrg, said Mr. Brin, Mr. Page and Mr. Schmidt were not available to discuss the organization.
By the end of 2008, many of the DotOrg executives hired from the outside had left in frustration, and morale ratings were among the lowest in the company, according to an employee survey. Mr. Schmidt was prodded by other Google executives to review and restructure the operation.
After the review, Google suspended all grants that were not quite final. Grants were canceled to institutions like Harvard and Stanford for research projects in Africa even though Google’s senior management had approved them and they lacked only a final signature on the contracts.
Mr. Schmidt moved DotOrg to the Mountain View campus in early 2009. That February, Dr. Brilliant was given the title “chief philanthropic evangelist,” and left the organization soon after to join the Skoll Global Threats Fund. Ms. Smith took over DotOrg.
Engineers from outside DotOrg were assigned to review all of the grants it had made. Not surprisingly, they wanted to know why there wasn’t more engineering in, say, a grant made to assess the quality of basic education in Tanzania’s schools. They also wanted to know why DotOrg wasn’t working more to “scale” up small projects to have a broader impact.
“They never understood that technology is a means to an end, and that in the developing world, sometimes basic technology, like the collection and compilation of data, can have enormous impact,” said another DotOrg program officer, who resigned after the reorganization.
In the end, many grants were labeled “legacy” and discontinued when they expired.
IN devising what DotOrg would become after Dr. Brilliant, the company went back to the Flu Trends model. It has developed a series of tools based on existing Google technologies, including PowerMeter, which lets people track their home energy use in real time, and Earth Engine, which uses Google Earth and satellite imagery to monitor aspects of the earth’s environment, including deforestation.
So far, PowerMeter has failed to gain widespread adoption, in part because there are a number of competing products and many utilities did not get behind the idea.
Earth Engine, which Google released last month, offers more promise. It includes years of satellite imagery of the planet, and lets scientists use Google’s cloud-computing infrastructure to analyze it.
DotOrg’s projects related to green energy have received more attention from Google’s top brass, since they are pet projects of the founders and fit with the company’s broader, for-profit investments in clean energy technologies.
The organization’s engineers are working on technology that would make solar energy less expensive and more efficient as part of an initiative to develop renewable energy cheaper than coal. Another effort, to accelerate the development of plug-in cars, has its roots in the original DotOrg. The company worked to modify a fleet of hybrids to draw power from the grid and set up charging stations on its campus.
Google says it cannot easily separate the impact it has had in bringing plug-in hybrids closer to reality from that of others, like General Motors and Toyota, that are also promoting the technology. “Google was one of the entities helping to create the meme that plug-in hybrids are coming,” Ms. Smith said.
DotOrg has also developed tools to respond to disasters, such as a database to track missing people after the earthquake in Haiti. There is also Resource Finder, a map-based tool set up after Pakistan’s floods that helps relief workers locate available hospital beds.
Just as important as the projects themselves, Ms. Smith said, is the formal process for reviewing DotOrg proposals. The ideas, which can now be proposed by any Google employee, are handled very much the way Google handles any idea from its staff — with a rigorous product review. The process lays the foundation for many more projects in coming years, she said.
Google puts its overall giving last year at $184 million, including in-kind contributions. Roughly half that amount went to nonprofit groups as cash. An additional 20 percent went to universities under a program that also gives the company an inside track on promising young engineers and research. Just 15 percent went to DotOrg projects.
“We have ramped up our charitable giving, but it is now being done outside of DotOrg by other teams, which has allowed DotOrg to focus on developing engineering solutions,” said Ms. Fuller, the DotOrg spokeswoman who was recently named Google’s director of charitable giving, in an e-mail.
THE reorganization has made it hard to assess whether Google is living up to its original promise. Many of the grants Google makes to organizations like Citizen Schools, Landesa, Ashoka and Unicef seem more like conventional corporate philanthropy than the revolutionary social innovation that Mr. Page pledged.
Indeed, Ms. Fuller measures the philanthropic success of Google by comparing its giving with that of other companies. “I think the big picture is that relative to its peers, Google has been generous with its time and resources,” she wrote.

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JUST before Google first sold its shares to the public in 2004 , Larry Page , one of its founders , excited the nonprofit world with a bold commitment to philanthropy .
 In the philanthropy world , many people have a more skeptical view of Google ’s experiment .
 NOTHING illustrates DotOrg ’s approach better than Google Flu Trends , an innovative tool that uses data collected from searches about flu symptoms to predict the location of flu outbreaks . In April 2009 , Dr. Brilliant said it epitomized the power of Google ’s vaunted engineering prowess to make the world a better place , and he predicted that it would save untold numbers of lives .
 Public health officials say the tool is undoubtedly useful .
 But “ on an individual basis , does Flu Trends save lives ? No , ” said Ashley LaMonte - Fowlkes , an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , which helped Google test and develop it .
 Instead , she described it as “ a really nice adjunct ” to other tools that the agency uses to understand the spread of flu . One major shortcoming of Flu Trends is that in poor regions of the developing world , where devastating pandemics are most likely to start , computers are not widely available , so Google has little data to feed into the tool . Even in the United States , during the swine flu outbreak of 2009 , Flu Trends had difficulty detecting the relatively small number of H1N1 infections .
 Some veterans of DotOrg say Flu Trends is an example of how Google ’s engineering - centric approach frustrated and limited them .
 Those solutions also had to be something that Google engineers , who represent the cream of the world ’s elite universities , believed that only they could create .
 For instance , in early 2008 , some DotOrg staff members with traditional nonprofit backgrounds proposed a system to track drugs for diseases like malaria and tuberculosis through the supply chain , in order to combat drug counterfeiting and theft . Fake drugs , which can be toxic , are an enormous problem : the World Health Organization has estimated that more than 30 percent of drugs sold in developing countries in Africa and parts of Asia and Latin America can be counterfeit .
 The team ’s idea was to engineer a FedEx - type system , relying in part on text - messaging , that would track drugs from the moment they left a manufacturer ’s control until they reached a patient .
 The plan never went anywhere , however , because text - messaging was not sophisticated enough to challenge Google ’s engineers , several former DotOrg executives said . The culture clash between the engineers — caustically referred to by former DotOrg executives as “ the Brahmin ” — and those from development organizations was exacerbated by DotOrg ’s leader , Dr. Brilliant , according to a dozen former employees of DotOrg .
 Even Dr. Brilliant ’s fans — and they are legion in Silicon Valley and the global health arena — say he lacks management skills . A spokesman for Dr. Brilliant ’s current employer , the Skoll Global Threats Fund , said last week that he was unavailable for an interview because of a death in his immediate family . Dr. Brilliant did respond to some questions by e - mail , though he did not reply to a question about his management .
 He was hired on a whim after he won the coveted TED Prize , awarded annually to someone with a world - changing “ wish , ” in 2006 for his idea to build a global early - response system to identify new diseases and disasters as soon as they emerge , thus heading off pandemics . Dr. Brilliant was invited to speak to Google employees about his idea , and Mr. Page and his Google co - founder , Sergey Brin , happened to attend .
 They were smitten , and Dr. Brilliant was hired almost immediately . It took DotOrg almost two years to define the five areas in which it would work , and they were announced with much fanfare in January 2008 : predicting and preventing diseases ; growing small and midsize businesses ; increasing access to information and public services ; developing renewable energy ; and helping to commercialize plug - in hybrids . Google.org vowed to spend $ 175 million in those areas over the next three years .
 It troubled several DotOrg executives that the largest grant announced that day , accounting for 20 percent of the $ 25 million committed at the time , went to InStedd , the organization that Dr. Brilliant had founded with his TED prize money .
 “ No one seemed to understand that this looked like a tremendous conflict of interest , ” said one former DotOrg employee who oversaw programs and asked for anonymity because Google ’s severance contract included a confidentiality clause .
 During Dr. Brilliant ’s tenure as executive director of DotOrg , InStedd received $ 11 million from the institution , while the Seva Foundation , another nonprofit that he had co - founded , received $ 2.5 million .
 In an e - mail , Dr. Brilliant said the grant to Seva illustrated Google ’s “ do n’t be evil ” mantra : Mr. Brin ordered it up to make Seva whole after Google hired Dr. Brilliant away .
 Dr. Brilliant also had to deal with other issues . On a personal level , he was distracted during part of his time at DotOrg because two family members were critically ill .
 It did n’t help that Sheryl Sandberg , a Google executive who was the architect of DotOrg as it was first conceived , left to join Facebook in early 2008 . Ms. Sandberg ’s first job out of college was with the World Bank in India , and many DotOrg executives considered her their champion .
 When she left , DotOrg became isolated . It operated out of San Francisco , rather than from Google ’s campus in Mountain View , Calif. And with its executives spending most of their time in the developing world and thus unable to cultivate allies at the company , DotOrg all but ground to a halt .
 Dr. Brilliant lacked Ms. Sandberg ’s access to the Executive Management Group , which comprises about a dozen senior Google executives close to Mr. Page , Mr. Brin and Eric E. Schmidt , Google ’s longtime chief executive , who is moving to a new role as executive chairman in April . ( Mr. Page , meanwhile , will become C.E.O. ) Members of this group were usually too busy to attend meetings where grants were presented for approval , so Dr. Brilliant worked out a system of e - mailing the proposals to Mr. Page and Mr. Brin . If they did not respond within 48 hours , he made the decision himself .
 LAURENCE SIMON , a professor at Brandeis University and a friend of Dr. Brilliant ’s who took a sabbatical to work at DotOrg in 2007 , said that in his view , Google ’s top executives grew frustrated with DotOrg when they were not being presented with clearly defined problems and solutions .
 “ I think they expected there would be the same kind of ‘ launch early and often ’ approach demanded on the business side , but that ’s not the way development works , ” Mr. Simon said .
 When the Google founders did attend a meeting about DotOrg , they spent most of their time fiddling with their BlackBerrys . At one meeting , former DotOrg executives said , they were stunned when Mr. Brin dropped to the floor and started doing push - ups .
 “ DotOrg was like quicksand — every time you thought you ’d found your footing , a sinkhole opened , ” the former Google.org program officer said .
 Jacquelline Fuller , a spokeswoman for DotOrg , said Mr. Brin , Mr. Page and Mr. Schmidt were not available to discuss the organization .
 By the end of 2008 , many of the DotOrg executives hired from the outside had left in frustration , and morale ratings were among the lowest in the company , according to an employee survey . Mr. Schmidt was prodded by other Google executives to review and restructure the operation .
 After the review , Google suspended all grants that were not quite final . Grants were canceled to institutions like Harvard and Stanford for research projects in Africa even though Google ’s senior management had approved them and they lacked only a final signature on the contracts .
 Mr. Schmidt moved DotOrg to the Mountain View campus in early 2009 . That February , Dr. Brilliant was given the title “ chief philanthropic evangelist , ” and left the organization soon after to join the Skoll Global Threats Fund . Ms. Smith took over DotOrg .
 Engineers from outside DotOrg were assigned to review all of the grants it had made . Not surprisingly , they wanted to know why there was n’t more engineering in , say , a grant made to assess the quality of basic education in Tanzania ’s schools . They also wanted to know why DotOrg was n’t working more to “ scale ” up small projects to have a broader impact .
 “ They never understood that technology is a means to an end , and that in the developing world , sometimes basic technology , like the collection and compilation of data , can have enormous impact , ” said another DotOrg program officer , who resigned after the reorganization .
 In the end , many grants were labeled “ legacy ” and discontinued when they expired .
 IN devising what DotOrg would become after Dr. Brilliant , the company went back to the Flu Trends model . It has developed a series of tools based on existing Google technologies , including PowerMeter , which lets people track their home energy use in real time , and Earth Engine , which uses Google Earth and satellite imagery to monitor aspects of the earth ’s environment , including deforestation .
 So far , PowerMeter has failed to gain widespread adoption , in part because there are a number of competing products and many utilities did not get behind the idea .
 Earth Engine , which Google released last month , offers more promise . It includes years of satellite imagery of the planet , and lets scientists use Google ’s cloud - computing infrastructure to analyze it .
 DotOrg ’s projects related to green energy have received more attention from Google ’s top brass , since they are pet projects of the founders and fit with the company ’s broader , for - profit investments in clean energy technologies .
 The organization ’s engineers are working on technology that would make solar energy less expensive and more efficient as part of an initiative to develop renewable energy cheaper than coal . Another effort , to accelerate the development of plug - in cars , has its roots in the original DotOrg . The company worked to modify a fleet of hybrids to draw power from the grid and set up charging stations on its campus .
 Google says it can not easily separate the impact it has had in bringing plug - in hybrids closer to reality from that of others , like General Motors and Toyota , that are also promoting the technology . “ Google was one of the entities helping to create the meme that plug - in hybrids are coming , ” Ms. Smith said .
 DotOrg has also developed tools to respond to disasters , such as a database to track missing people after the earthquake in Haiti . There is also Resource Finder , a map - based tool set up after Pakistan ’s floods that helps relief workers locate available hospital beds .
 Just as important as the projects themselves , Ms. Smith said , is the formal process for reviewing DotOrg proposals . The ideas , which can now be proposed by any Google employee , are handled very much the way Google handles any idea from its staff — with a rigorous product review . The process lays the foundation for many more projects in coming years , she said .
 Google puts its overall giving last year at $ 184 million , including in - kind contributions . Roughly half that amount went to nonprofit groups as cash . An additional 20 percent went to universities under a program that also gives the company an inside track on promising young engineers and research . Just 15 percent went to DotOrg projects .
 “ We have ramped up our charitable giving , but it is now being done outside of DotOrg by other teams , which has allowed DotOrg to focus on developing engineering solutions , ” said Ms. Fuller , the DotOrg spokeswoman who was recently named Google ’s director of charitable giving , in an e - mail .
 THE reorganization has made it hard to assess whether Google is living up to its original promise . Many of the grants Google makes to organizations like Citizen Schools , Landesa , Ashoka and Unicef seem more like conventional corporate philanthropy than the revolutionary social innovation that Mr. Page pledged .
 Indeed , Ms. Fuller measures the philanthropic success of Google by comparing its giving with that of other companies . “ I think the big picture is that relative to its peers , Google has been generous with its time and resources , ” she wrote .


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Terra Verde Garden Design cultivates garden areas that encourage life out of doors . That is a computer rendering of a rooftop patio we designed on the brand new Apex at 290 luxurious rental building in Elmsford , New York . The home homeowners of those luxurious condominiums asked us to design an area for barbecuing , eating , and lounging . Our custom - made - designed planters and freestanding pergola shall be put in in the course of the spring of 2017 , with plantings , furniture , and equipment to observe shortly thereafter . Copyright rendering , Nicole Ashey , Burlock Interiors .
 In - Line Drip Drip irrigation delivers water slowly to a vegetation ’ roots , permitting the soil to absorb water fairly than creating runoff onto the freeway or sidewalk . To receive a rebate , use qualifying in - line drip merchandise with emitters constructed into the plastic tubing .
 A spectacular lake view existed . We added a salt - water lap pool , and patio that related the home and once more garden . Earlier than we even met the consumers ( they had been away for the winter ) , we designed and put in a giant blue stone patio that supplied a number of areas for entertaining and relaxation . So as to not impede the lake view , we lowered the pool grade by two ft . In doing so , we not only maintained the consumer ’s view , we additionally ensured they did n’t have to try a dormant pool throughout winter , an important consideration when designing swimming pools throughout the Northeast .
 While daylight is just not at all times simply managed by the gardener , it ’s a essential ingredient of garden design . The quantity of obtainable mild is a important think about determining what vegetation may be grown . Daylight will , as a consequence of this truth , have a considerable affect on the character of the garden . For instance , a rose garden is often not successful in full shade , whereas a garden of hostas could not thrive in scorching solar . As another instance , a vegetable garden might have to be positioned in a sunny location , and if that location should n’t be glorious for the overall garden design targets , the designer may have to vary different sides of the garden .
 This 6 - week on - line course ( 7.5 , including the introductory week and Spring Break week ) gives a chance so that you can design your own garden . If , nevertheless , you should have already removed the sod , equal to utilizing a sod cutter or digging with a spade , then you definately probably can till the soil to break it up , after which until in pure matter , equal to compost or aged manure . ( Eradicating the sod will take away these vitamins from the grass , and can take away topsoil , so you will need to replenish it with soil amendments . ) It ’s often a good suggestion to test the soil pH presently and add what ’s required to stability it . Rake the soil to remove rocks and debris , then let it sit for per week or two earlier than planting .
 Browse our assortment of more than 2,000 vegetation and seeds , which can be ordered straight from our favourite shops and growers . This design course has given me validation that it ’s okay to trust your soul and give authentic voice to your garden house . Thanks .
 He took us to the nursery to pick the vegetation and trees we wished in our yard and was open to us rejecting a number of of his plant decisions . At the related time , he also explained why among the vegetation we wished were n’t nicely suited to our yard . I most popular this personal touch .


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While I would have liked to see them pick up someone just for the sake of picking someone up , it ’s probably the best move . I assume the rumor of trading Al / space for a 1st + bad contract would have resulted in a contract with more than the 1.5 years left on Al ’s contract . Probably the best to stand pat . If anything we have 5 mil+ in cap space and an exception to possibly add someone that gets released .
 No need to take on bad contracts to risk any flexibility we do have .


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Y O R K m i n d - b o d y H E A LT H www.yorknutritionaltherapy.co.uk 01904 435 267 Glyn Blackett What Is Protein?
About half the dry weight of your body is We obtain our amino acid building blocks, from protein. There are thousands of different kinds of which our cells build our proteins, from dietaryprotein molecules, performing a variety of protein. Plants and animals like us are built from functions. Most protein is structural – it makes protein. We don’t use dietary protein molecules up skin, hair, bone and teeth. Enzymes – directly - rather they are broken down in the molecules which drive chemical reactions in the process of digestion into the constituent amino body – are mostly proteins. Other examples are: Haemoglobin – found in red blood cells, it is Actually the body can make several amino acids vital for transporting oxygen to cells.
from others, but eight of the twenty-two are Insulin – a hormone or signalling molecule.
acids are semi-essential meaning they can’t be A protein molecule is made up of a sequence of basic building blocks called amino acids, joined Fully meeting the body’s protein needs requires end to end. (The chemical bonds between aminoacids are called peptide bonds.) Protein i You eat adequate amounts of the amino acids, molecules differ in terms of the number of ii Your body can successfully break down the specific sequence. Most proteins are able to protein you eat and absorb the amino acids serve their particular purpose by virtue of the 3D shape of the molecule, which is likewise a function of the specific number and sequence ofamino acids.
proteases. If you don’t produce enough of these, Your body manufactures proteins to order. The blueprints for proteins are found in the genes.
compromised. Stomach acid insufficiency, a That’s essentially what a gene is - a blueprint for condition known as hypochlorhydria, isone or more protein molecules. If the relatively common. Stomach acid production manufacturing process goes wrong, the result is naturally declines as we age. Furthermore, many often a protein with the wrong sequence of people take acid suppressing medications.
amino acids. Because these faulty molecules Conversely true cases of stomach acid excess are form unexpected 3D shapes, they can’t perform rare - often what is perceived as an excess of their intended functions. In the genetic disease acid is actually an inability of the stomach lining sickle-cell anaemia, haemoglobin molecules turn to withstand its own acid - a problem with theout wrong in just this way, with the consequence stomach lining not the acid. Alternatively if thethat the blood cannot transport oxygen in the acid gets to places where it shouldn’t (notably the oesophagus) it is treated as excess acid.
blood, which can cause problems if it’s too fast.
Breakfast is for many people is protein-light – As stated, we need the full range of amino acids although milk is a source of good quality protein in the right proportions – especially the eight it doesn't have large amounts (as it's a liquid).
essential amino acids. This idea is quantified as An egg at breakfast time is a good way to get the Biological Value (BV) of a protein source - a your protein.
high value source has all the essential amino Snacks are also commonly lacking in protein.
acids in the right proportions. It turns out that Ideal snacks are nuts and seeds, which have a animal sources in general have higher BV. Many variety of healthy nutrients besides protein. Oat plant sources such as brown rice, are missing cakes with cottage cheese, tinned fish or one or more of the essential amino acids.
hummus also make easy snacks or even light However, soya beans and quinoa do contain all eight (they are known as complete proteins).
is probably not healthy for other reasons, so Protein is not just used structurally by the body, plant sources, which have other health-giving it can also be burned to release energy. Whilst properties besides, should not be neglected.
this is a natural process happening to some Here are some BV scores of some typical high extent all the time, in conditions of starvation, protein can become the major source of energy.
Muscle wastage is the result of the bodymetabolising its own protein for energy. This isone reason why semi-starvation diets are a badidea - some of the weight loss is not fat loss butmuscle loss.
Evidence suggests that different people’smetabolisms are tuned to burn carbohydrates andproteins with more or less efficiency. Thepractical consequence is that some people willdo much better on a diet relatively high inprotein, while others a relatively low protein dietserves them best. This idea is behind the conceptof metabolic typing, covered in a separatearticle.
Estimates vary. The World Health Organisationsuggests around 10% of your total calorie intakeshould come from protein, or around 35g a day.
The UK Department of Health suggests 36g forwomen and 44g for men. Some weight loss dietssuggest much higher amounts.
Too much protein is not a good idea. It can cause amino acid called tryptophan. In one study,osteoporosis and can put excessive strain on the subjects who ate a diet devoid of tryptophan kidneys. Modern farming methods mean that developed symptoms of depression (2). Thus we many animal sources of protein contain high can conclude that adequate protein in our diet is levels of hormones such as oestrogen. Contary to important for mental and emotional functioning.
popular opinion, you don’t need high levels or protein to build muscle mass, even if you are a 1. Source: 'The Insulin Factor' by Antony The right level is really an individual matter - it 2. This study was published in the Lancet in 1997.
depends on your individual biochemistry.
Neurotransmitters are molecules that transmitsignals between nerve cells, and as such are avital aspect of brain functioning. Examples ofneurotransmitters are serotonin and dopamine. Itis thought that neurotransmitter imbalance playsa role in mood disorders such as depression, andcognitive disorders such as ADHD.

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Y O R K m i n d - b o d y H E A LT H www.yorknutritionaltherapy.co.uk 01904 435 267 Glyn Blackett What Is Protein ?
 About half the dry weight of your body is We obtain our amino acid building blocks , from protein . There are thousands of different kinds of which our cells build our proteins , from dietaryprotein molecules , performing a variety of protein . Plants and animals like us are built from functions . Most protein is structural – it makes protein . We do n’t use dietary protein molecules up skin , hair , bone and teeth . Enzymes – directly - rather they are broken down in the molecules which drive chemical reactions in the process of digestion into the constituent amino body – are mostly proteins . Other examples are : Haemoglobin – found in red blood cells , it is Actually the body can make several amino acids vital for transporting oxygen to cells .
 from others , but eight of the twenty - two are Insulin – a hormone or signalling molecule .
 acids are semi - essential meaning they ca n’t be A protein molecule is made up of a sequence of basic building blocks called amino acids , joined Fully meeting the body ’s protein needs requires end to end . ( The chemical bonds between aminoacids are called peptide bonds . ) Protein i You eat adequate amounts of the amino acids , molecules differ in terms of the number of ii Your body can successfully break down the specific sequence . Most proteins are able to protein you eat and absorb the amino acids serve their particular purpose by virtue of the 3D shape of the molecule , which is likewise a function of the specific number and sequence ofamino acids .
 proteases . If you do n’t produce enough of these , Your body manufactures proteins to order . The blueprints for proteins are found in the genes .
 compromised . Stomach acid insufficiency , a That ’s essentially what a gene is - a blueprint for condition known as hypochlorhydria , isone or more protein molecules . If the relatively common . Stomach acid production manufacturing process goes wrong , the result is naturally declines as we age . Furthermore , many often a protein with the wrong sequence of people take acid suppressing medications .
 amino acids . Because these faulty molecules Conversely true cases of stomach acid excess are form unexpected 3D shapes , they ca n’t perform rare - often what is perceived as an excess of their intended functions . In the genetic disease acid is actually an inability of the stomach lining sickle - cell anaemia , haemoglobin molecules turn to withstand its own acid - a problem with theout wrong in just this way , with the consequence stomach lining not the acid . Alternatively if thethat the blood can not transport oxygen in the acid gets to places where it should n’t ( notably the oesophagus ) it is treated as excess acid .
 blood , which can cause problems if it ’s too fast .
 Breakfast is for many people is protein - light – As stated , we need the full range of amino acids although milk is a source of good quality protein in the right proportions – especially the eight it does n't have large amounts ( as it 's a liquid ) .
 essential amino acids . This idea is quantified as An egg at breakfast time is a good way to get the Biological Value ( BV ) of a protein source - a your protein .
 high value source has all the essential amino Snacks are also commonly lacking in protein .
 acids in the right proportions . It turns out that Ideal snacks are nuts and seeds , which have a animal sources in general have higher BV . Many variety of healthy nutrients besides protein . Oat plant sources such as brown rice , are missing cakes with cottage cheese , tinned fish or one or more of the essential amino acids .
 hummus also make easy snacks or even light However , soya beans and quinoa do contain all eight ( they are known as complete proteins ) .
 is probably not healthy for other reasons , so Protein is not just used structurally by the body , plant sources , which have other health - giving it can also be burned to release energy . Whilst properties besides , should not be neglected .
 this is a natural process happening to some Here are some BV scores of some typical high extent all the time , in conditions of starvation , protein can become the major source of energy .
 Muscle wastage is the result of the bodymetabolising its own protein for energy . This isone reason why semi - starvation diets are a badidea - some of the weight loss is not fat loss butmuscle loss .
 Evidence suggests that different people’smetabolisms are tuned to burn carbohydrates andproteins with more or less efficiency . Thepractical consequence is that some people willdo much better on a diet relatively high inprotein , while others a relatively low protein dietserves them best . This idea is behind the conceptof metabolic typing , covered in a separatearticle .
 Estimates vary . The World Health Organisationsuggests around 10 % of your total calorie intakeshould come from protein , or around 35 g a day .
 The UK Department of Health suggests 36 g forwomen and 44 g for men . Some weight loss dietssuggest much higher amounts .
 Too much protein is not a good idea . It can cause amino acid called tryptophan . In one study , osteoporosis and can put excessive strain on the subjects who ate a diet devoid of tryptophan kidneys . Modern farming methods mean that developed symptoms of depression ( 2 ) . Thus we many animal sources of protein contain high can conclude that adequate protein in our diet is levels of hormones such as oestrogen . Contary to important for mental and emotional functioning .
 popular opinion , you do n’t need high levels or protein to build muscle mass , even if you are a 1 . Source : ' The Insulin Factor ' by Antony The right level is really an individual matter - it 2 . This study was published in the Lancet in 1997 .
 depends on your individual biochemistry .
 Neurotransmitters are molecules that transmitsignals between nerve cells , and as such are avital aspect of brain functioning . Examples ofneurotransmitters are serotonin and dopamine . Itis thought that neurotransmitter imbalance playsa role in mood disorders such as depression , andcognitive disorders such as ADHD .


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tokenized: Eating healthy foods improves your daily life ! Develop the healthy eating habits to boost your vitality with our powerful subliminal mp3 ! Do you eat at irregular times , or find yourself snacking ? Do you have good intentions , but let yourself down by giving in to cravings for unhealthy food / sweets / junk foods ? Do you struggle to maintain a healthy body weight ? Do you suffer from a lack of energy , and often become lethargic , or irritable ? Are you worried about the risk to your health ( diabetes , heart disease , high blood pressure , or high cholesterol ? ) if you do not change your eating habits ? Perhaps you came to this webpage whilst looking for a list of healthy food to lose weight - that is a fantastic first step to changing your life ! Although you will not find that information here , what we will ensure that you stick to your new intended healthy eating lifestyle by reprogramming your mind , not only to boost your willpower and motivation , but by making eating healthy food enjoyable . Here is how this album will help you : Re - frame the way you view healthy food - stop seeing it as a chore , or less desirable , learn to love healthy food . Develop the willpower to eat at regular times , and reduce need / craving to snack . Develop the ultimate mind - frame in that you will no longer be trying to eat healthily , it will simply be a normal part of your life , simply become the person who eats a balanced diet , and is not tempted by junk food . Stop worrying about your health as eating healthy reduces your risk of diseases such as diabetes , heart disease , high blood pressure , and high cholesterol . Boost your energy levels from eating the right foods , and getting the right amounts of vitamins . If you are really taking your new healthy lifestyle seriously then ensure you are 100 % committed both physically , but more important mentally ! This subliminal mp3 album will give you the strength to make this change by reprogramming your mind to really enjoy your new healthy eating lifestyle , and to make healthy eating just a normal part of your life ! This ultimately means that you will be much more likely to keep your healthy eating plan permanently and enjoy the various health improvements it will bring you .


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A mercenary and wilderness hunter, Janus had no part in the conflict for free Urik, joining the Wayfarer’s Rest Caravan only for the promise of solid pay. A massive brute of a Dragonborn, he is physically imposing and a terror on the battlefield.
Janus’s most prized possession is his enchanted Maul, “Truth,” which is of exquisite craftsmanship.
Dragonborn Fury: +1 racial bonus to attacks while bloodied.
Draconic Heritage: Add Con modifier to healing surge value.
Bludgeon Expertise: +1 feat bonus to weapon attacks with hammers or maces. +1 feat bonus to distance of push or slide effects from hammer or mace attacks.
Dragonborn Frenzy: +2 to damage rolls while bloodied.
Hide Armor Expertise: Use +2 instead of Dex or Int modifier for AC while wearing Hide.
Barbarian Agility: +1 bonus to AC and Reflex when not wearing heavy armor.
Feral Might: Thaneborn Triumph: Gain Roar of Triumph power. Whenever you bloody an enemy, next attack by your or an ally against that enemy gains a +3 bonus to the attack roll.
Rage Strike: You gain the Rage Strike power.
Rampage: Once per round, when you score a critical hit with a Barbarian attack power, make a melee basic attack as a free action.
Inherent Bonuses: +1 enhancement bonus to attacks, damage, defenses.
Hit: 2d6 + 1d8 + 7 damage.
Effect: Until the start of your next turn, unless you are raging, all attackers gain a +2 bonus to attack rolls against you.
Effect: Before the attack, shift 2 squares. You can move through an enemy’s space, but can’t end there.
Hit: 2d6 + 7 damage, and you push the target 2 squares. If you are raging, deal 1d6 extra damage.
Hit: 4d6 + 7 damage and you push the target 3 squares and knock it prone. Then one enemy adjacent to the target takes 1d8 + 7 damage.
Hit: 4d6 + 7 damage, and you push the target 3 squares. Target and each enemy adjacent to the target at the end of the push are slowed until the end of your next turn.
Hit: 4d6 + 7 damage. Until the end of your next turn, all allies within 5 squares of you gain a +3 bonus to damage rolls against the target. If you take damage before the start of your next turn, you gain a +2 bonus to attack and damage rolls for your next attack.
Hit: 1d6 + 3 acid damage.
Targets enemies in burst you can see.
Hit: 2d6 + 7 damage, and you knock the target prone.
Effect: You enter the rage of the Macetail Behemoth. Until the rage ends, whenever you hit with an attack, gain 5 temporary hit points.
Special: You must be raging. Expend an unused Rage power and make this attack.
Hit: 6d6 + 7 damage (Macetail’s Rage), or 8d6 + 7 damage (Silver Phoenix Rage).
Hit: 4d6 + 7 fire damage, and ongoing 5 fire damage (save ends).
Effect: You enter the Rage of the Silver Phoenix. Until the rage ends, you gain Regeneration 3, and the first time you drop to 0 hp or fewer, you can spend a healing surge as an immediate interrupt.
Trigger: You bloody an enemy or reduce an enemy to 0 hp with a melee attack.
Effect: Each enemy within 10 that can see you grants combat advantage to you until the end of your next turn.
During your turn, mark each enemy adjacent to you until the end of your next turn.
Trigger: You would roll initiative in a natural environment.
Effect: Roll Nature in place of your initiative check. In addition, you and your allies gain a +4 bonus to all defenses during the first round of the encounter.
Trigger: Your attack reduces an enemy to 0 hp.
Effect: Each enemy in burst takes a -2 penalty to all defenses until the end of your next turn.
Spend a healing surge and regain hit points. You gain a +2 bonus to all defenses until the start of your next turn.
+2 item bonus to damage rolls of melee basic attacks.
+1 to Strength and Athletics checks.
Power (Daily) Add a +5 power bonus to the damage roll of a successful melee attack.

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A mercenary and wilderness hunter , Janus had no part in the conflict for free Urik , joining the Wayfarer ’s Rest Caravan only for the promise of solid pay . A massive brute of a Dragonborn , he is physically imposing and a terror on the battlefield .
 Janus ’s most prized possession is his enchanted Maul , “ Truth , ” which is of exquisite craftsmanship .
 Dragonborn Fury : +1 racial bonus to attacks while bloodied .
 Draconic Heritage : Add Con modifier to healing surge value .
 Bludgeon Expertise : +1 feat bonus to weapon attacks with hammers or maces . +1 feat bonus to distance of push or slide effects from hammer or mace attacks .
 Dragonborn Frenzy : +2 to damage rolls while bloodied .
 Hide Armor Expertise : Use +2 instead of Dex or Int modifier for AC while wearing Hide .
 Barbarian Agility : +1 bonus to AC and Reflex when not wearing heavy armor .
 Feral Might : Thaneborn Triumph : Gain Roar of Triumph power . Whenever you bloody an enemy , next attack by your or an ally against that enemy gains a +3 bonus to the attack roll .
 Rage Strike : You gain the Rage Strike power .
 Rampage : Once per round , when you score a critical hit with a Barbarian attack power , make a melee basic attack as a free action .
 Inherent Bonuses : +1 enhancement bonus to attacks , damage , defenses .
 Hit : 2d6 + 1d8 + 7 damage .
 Effect : Until the start of your next turn , unless you are raging , all attackers gain a +2 bonus to attack rolls against you .
 Effect : Before the attack , shift 2 squares . You can move through an enemy ’s space , but ca n’t end there .
 Hit : 2d6 + 7 damage , and you push the target 2 squares . If you are raging , deal 1d6 extra damage .
 Hit : 4d6 + 7 damage and you push the target 3 squares and knock it prone . Then one enemy adjacent to the target takes 1d8 + 7 damage .
 Hit : 4d6 + 7 damage , and you push the target 3 squares . Target and each enemy adjacent to the target at the end of the push are slowed until the end of your next turn .
 Hit : 4d6 + 7 damage . Until the end of your next turn , all allies within 5 squares of you gain a +3 bonus to damage rolls against the target . If you take damage before the start of your next turn , you gain a +2 bonus to attack and damage rolls for your next attack .
 Hit : 1d6 + 3 acid damage .
 Targets enemies in burst you can see .
 Hit : 2d6 + 7 damage , and you knock the target prone .
 Effect : You enter the rage of the Macetail Behemoth . Until the rage ends , whenever you hit with an attack , gain 5 temporary hit points .
 Special : You must be raging . Expend an unused Rage power and make this attack .
 Hit : 6d6 + 7 damage ( Macetail ’s Rage ) , or 8d6 + 7 damage ( Silver Phoenix Rage ) .
 Hit : 4d6 + 7 fire damage , and ongoing 5 fire damage ( save ends ) .
 Effect : You enter the Rage of the Silver Phoenix . Until the rage ends , you gain Regeneration 3 , and the first time you drop to 0 hp or fewer , you can spend a healing surge as an immediate interrupt .
 Trigger : You bloody an enemy or reduce an enemy to 0 hp with a melee attack .
 Effect : Each enemy within 10 that can see you grants combat advantage to you until the end of your next turn .
 During your turn , mark each enemy adjacent to you until the end of your next turn .
 Trigger : You would roll initiative in a natural environment .
 Effect : Roll Nature in place of your initiative check . In addition , you and your allies gain a +4 bonus to all defenses during the first round of the encounter .
 Trigger : Your attack reduces an enemy to 0 hp .
 Effect : Each enemy in burst takes a -2 penalty to all defenses until the end of your next turn .
 Spend a healing surge and regain hit points . You gain a +2 bonus to all defenses until the start of your next turn .
 +2 item bonus to damage rolls of melee basic attacks .
 +1 to Strength and Athletics checks .
 Power ( Daily ) Add a +5 power bonus to the damage roll of a successful melee attack .


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Rather than living in an apartment in Oregon, why not rent a duplex? This is a good way to start a family, especially for newly-wed couples or those who are having their first baby but are still unable to get their own house. Duplexes in Oregon offer an easy transition from apartment life to living in a house. It is also a smart choice for those who are planning to invest and become a landlord.
What's great about renting a duplex in Oregon is that residents need not worry about maintaining the structure. The landlord has the obligation to repair damages and take care of other building problems. It is also beneficial to those who want to have a backyard. Although the two tenants have to share the space, it is much better than having no backyard at all. In apartments, most residents can only see towering buildings. It is quite rare to find apartment units that have good outdoor spaces for children to play. On the other hand, most duplexes for rent in Oregon often come with backyards, making them great places to raise growing kids.
In addition, when renting an apartment, residents may have to deal with having lots of neighbors. A duplex only has two units in the building. This simply means that people living in duplexes can have their own peace of mind. Whether it is in Portland or any other part of the state, you can always find a duplex to rent. Portland is among the best places to rent a duplex. Tenants can either choose long or short-term rentals. There are also many units available for those who want to purchase a duplex and join the rental business.
Duplexes in Oregon are structures that look exactly like houses but have similar functions to that of an apartment. It is like a house split into two units for two different renters. The structure is divided into two living spaces. There are units with additional garages, and others are newly renovated to welcome new tenants. A typical duplex in Oregon is comprised of two bedrooms and a bath with a yard outside.
Renting a duplex in Oregon is like living in your own home where you can have enough space for a growing family and easy access to the world outside. A duplex is the best choice next to having your own home and far better than renting an apartment.

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Rather than living in an apartment in Oregon , why not rent a duplex ? This is a good way to start a family , especially for newly - wed couples or those who are having their first baby but are still unable to get their own house . Duplexes in Oregon offer an easy transition from apartment life to living in a house . It is also a smart choice for those who are planning to invest and become a landlord .
 What 's great about renting a duplex in Oregon is that residents need not worry about maintaining the structure . The landlord has the obligation to repair damages and take care of other building problems . It is also beneficial to those who want to have a backyard . Although the two tenants have to share the space , it is much better than having no backyard at all . In apartments , most residents can only see towering buildings . It is quite rare to find apartment units that have good outdoor spaces for children to play . On the other hand , most duplexes for rent in Oregon often come with backyards , making them great places to raise growing kids .
 In addition , when renting an apartment , residents may have to deal with having lots of neighbors . A duplex only has two units in the building . This simply means that people living in duplexes can have their own peace of mind . Whether it is in Portland or any other part of the state , you can always find a duplex to rent . Portland is among the best places to rent a duplex . Tenants can either choose long or short - term rentals . There are also many units available for those who want to purchase a duplex and join the rental business .
 Duplexes in Oregon are structures that look exactly like houses but have similar functions to that of an apartment . It is like a house split into two units for two different renters . The structure is divided into two living spaces . There are units with additional garages , and others are newly renovated to welcome new tenants . A typical duplex in Oregon is comprised of two bedrooms and a bath with a yard outside .
 Renting a duplex in Oregon is like living in your own home where you can have enough space for a growing family and easy access to the world outside . A duplex is the best choice next to having your own home and far better than renting an apartment .