The Swedish physiologist Max Svenberg claims: there are almost no true geniuses either in science or in art. There are none among politicians. And over the years they will become even smaller. Why?
"GENE GENITY" turned out to be a myth
“To understand this, you need to understand who geniuses are,” says Igor Vagin, psychiatrist, candidate of medical sciences and author of books on phenomenal abilities. – There was a time when they thought: there is a certain “genius gene”. 20 years ago, multimillionaire Robert Graham even created a sperm bank for Nobel laureates. The production of geniuses was decided to put on stream. And what? 200 children were born. But only one of them – Doron Blake really showed the IQ, characteristic of geniuses – 180. At two years old, the kid was using the computer with all his might, at 5 years old he read “Hamlet” by heart, but over the years he was equal in age with his peers, and at 25 he became a drug addict. What discoveries are we talking about? The “genius gene” turned out to be a myth.
The frequency of potential geniuses, according to the geneticist Efroimson, is calculated as 1 in 100,000. The frequency of geniuses who realized themselves and achieved worldwide recognition is 1 in 10,000,000.
"JINN" FROM A BOTTLE
Where to get geniuses from? Why were there before, but now, to put it mildly, have they diminished?
Scientists have been arguing about this for a long time. The physiologist Svenberg, having studied the genealogies of 400 prominent people, came to the conclusion: they are all relatives to some extent. Much also depends on how the genes that are responsible for unique abilities are located.
For example, to compose as Tchaikovsky or Beethoven, you need to inherit from parents at least 4 pairs of “composer” genes. For the new Tolstoy or Pushkin to be born, it is necessary that at conception 10 pairs of recessive (inactive) parent genes are connected. So Pushkin, and with him and the whole world, was very lucky: he had as many as 20 pairs of necessary genes.
In the 40s of the XX century, the IQ level for geniuses was 140. Today, the "measure of genius" is an IQ of 180.
However, who should be considered a genius? If we compare the modern engineer with the engineer of the times of Peter I, ours will surely turn out to be a genius. He at times knows more and knows how. And yet … There are few real geniuses and it is becoming smaller.
Many of the experts in this field have told me: not one, but many conditions, including social, genetic and even physiological conditions, are needed for a genius to come into being. Do not believe? Yes, any obstetrician-gynecologist will tell you: with a cesarean section, there is much more chance of having a brilliant child than in the usual way.
Why? Because the "Caesarenka" is born without stress on the body, which may be fraught with damage to its brain. In this case, goodbye, genius!
There is another condition for the "reproduction" of geniuses, which was already proved by Dr. Segalin in the 1920s. According to him, geniuses are born when on one genetic line of parents there is a talent, and on the other … mental illness. Like, psychotism just releases the "genie" from the bottle.
Seneca said: "There was no great mind without an admixture of madness." And Cesare Lombroso collected a whole gallery of “oddities” of great people in his famous book “Genius and Madness”.
NOT OF THIS WORLD
At the home of Nobel laureate Gregory Perelman in St. Petersburg, a modern genius who proved the Poincare hypothesis, journalists often clash. But Perelman does not enter into debate. If he answers, then through the door. And generally speaking…
“He's very strange,” the neighbors say.
– Well, how to take it and refuse the Nobel Prize? He says that he has everything, but he lives in a modest apartment.
Not of this world? Perhaps this is the essence of the pathology of geniuses without interbreeding?
– Among us there are many neurotics. But for some reason we are not geniuses, says psychiatrist Igor Vagin. – Genius is often manifested as if in compensation for certain violations in the functions of the brain, and serious ones. Autists (not all, of course) can paint superbly, patients with Tourette’s syndrome (pathology of the central nervous system. – Auth.) Very quickly believe that schizophrenics become good artists and writers.
The director of the Brain Institute, Svyatoslav Medvedev, said in his speeches that genius is a disease, and he emphasized that all great discoveries are made by geniuses up to 35 years old. And then – no insights. Experience is gaining, and the brain is on its guard. He, as it were, prohibits going beyond the bounds. But this is precisely what distinguishes the discoveries of geniuses.
ALL CURE AND …
Geniuses made many of their discoveries in a state of “altered consciousness”.
“At this moment, all areas of both hemispheres are included,” continues Igor Vagin. – An unusual condition has many options. This is hypnosis, and autism, and schizophrenia, and epilepsy. Shamans and psychics use the same in their “healing”.
Stop! And now, by simple counting, let’s try to imagine: what diseases can modern medicine save people from, or at least slow down their development? Yes, perhaps from many. And if today scientists are unanimous that it is unlikely that they can solve the genius without the help of geneticists, then the debate is just about how many geniuses will be born. So far, the forecasts are disappointing.
“Alas, over the years, fewer geniuses will be born,” says Yevgeny Kournikov, an employee of the Institute of Psychology. “And it’s just … the doctors who will learn to cure many mental illnesses will be to blame.” And geniuses will become less thanks to advanced technologies that already today develop “clip thinking” in children. Geniuses simply wither and die out like mammoths. Yes, and talent itself will not be needed. For people, everyone will do cars.


You can’t miss the tall black wooden buildings. The net shops are unique to Hastings and developed as a response to lack of space. They are all listed buildings.
Don’t be fooled by the word ‘shop’ – these are not places to buy things. The word ‘shop’ here means work place, similar to the use of the word in ‘workshop’. They were essential to the fisherman as the buildings were used to store nets, ropes, canvas sails and fishing gear that would rot if left in the open and wet. Items were dried on the beach before storing.
Before 1835, a variety of wooden sheds had been built along the beach. Many of the older net shops were built from recycled timbers. Some were even disused boats turned upside down or stood upright on their stern.
At the start of the C19th, there was very limited space on the beach with only a thin strip of shingle in front of the cliffs. This lead to confrontations between the Corporation and fishermen as numbers of holiday makers grew and there was competition for space.
The situation reached crisis point in 1824 when there was a riot when Hastings Corporation tried to move some net shops and fish stalls between the bottom of High Street and the Cutter Inn to widen the sea front road. Seven fishermen and fish sellers ended up in court.
Another legal row broke out in 1833 over the increasing use of net shops for other commercial purposes. Several of the larger net shops had been let for other trading purposes as ground space became more valuable. This led to the corporation commissioning John Banks to survey the Stade (the landing area along the shore) to show exactly where all the different buildings were.
Each row of net shops had an identifying letter painted on a square board and each shop had its own number on a small oval white enamelled plaque. Number one was closest to the road. Rows were labelled from west to east Rows M-W were built from 1835 on wards with Row W behind what is now the Fisherman’s Museum
In 1834, the first sea defence groyne was built beneath the cliffs at Rock-a-Nore, to protect the old town from increasing flooding by the sea. A large amount of shingle pilled up on the west side of the groyne, increasing the amount of usable beach. The Corporation made the fishermen sign a ‘memorandum of agreement’ to use the land This gave each net shop a specified piece of ground for fishery purposes only and for which they would pay an annual rent. In 1835, the Corporation signed the first 12 agreements for a piece of ground measuring eight feet square to construct a new shop. This was let to the fishermen for a charge of 2/- rising to 5/- by 1846. It is still that rate today!
The new net shops had to be lined up in double rows with large gaps between then so boats could be hauled up close to the cliff using horse turned capstans.
The beach was liable to flooding during severe gales so designs were simple and easily repairable. Most stood on stones or stumps of wood allowing the sea to flow under them. Some were on wheels. At the end of the C19th, around 34 net shops had been washed away by storms.
The net shops were made of wood and the outsides were covered with tar. This was cheaply and readily available from the local gasworks until their closure in 1969 when a black paint called black tar varnish has been used. Tar made the buildings weather proof, but it also made them very combustible and many were destroyed by fires.
A big fire in 1846 burnt down about 20 net shops. Public subscription helped the fishermen cover their rebuilding costs. A second major fire in 1961 destroyed four shops and damaged one more.
It highlighted the deteriorating condition of many of the shops which were described as ‘untarred and falling to pieces through neglect’ . A restoration fund was set up to repay for replacements.
Seven new net shops were built to the traditional design. Construction was done by council workmen and tarring by the fishermen.
Designs are now standardised with most shops standing up to three storeys high. Fishermen needed three different types of net for herring, mackerel and trawls. Boats fished for herring in the early winter and mackerel in spring and early summer. The rest of the year they trawled for flat fish like sole and plaice. The different nets were kept on separate floors, hung up from hooks on the ceiling beams. Trawling gear was usually kept on the ground floor or in the cellar if there was one.
Head room was low, making it easier to lift and hang up nets. A ladder gave access to the upper floors. Each floor had its own door for gear to be brought in. Some had a projecting beam with a pulley block to haul up heavy loads.
One of the restored shops by the Fisherman’s Museum is open to show what the the inside of a typical shop might contain. There is also a model in the Fisherman’s Museum showin g how the different floors were used.
The fishing shops have become very much a characteristic part of Hastings. Beatrix Potter visited Hastings on Holiday and a net shop featured in the illustrations in ‘The Tale of Little Pig Robinson”. Net shops also featured in set of five paintings commissioned by BR in 1952 depicting the Cinque Ports.
They are very photogenic and there are more pictures “here.”:https://www.sloweurope.com/community/threads/hastings-and-its-fishing-heritage.6155/ Many of the newer buildings along the Stade have been designed to blend in with the net shops.


Recorded in many forms including Neame, Neem, Neames, Nemes, Nelm, Nelmes, and others, this is an English surname. It is a fused spelling of the Olde English pre 7th century residential description 'atten elm' and hences describes somebody who lived at a settlement near an elm wood, or possibly a very distinctive elm tree. The surname could also be locational from two places called Elm in the counties of Somerset and Cambridgeshire. The place in Cambridgeshire was first recorded as "Alm" in the famous Anglo-Saxon chronicles for Essex in the year 656 a.d, making it one of the earliest surviving British records of anything. The village in Somerset was first recorded as "Telma" in the Domesday Book of 1086. The surname was one of the very first introduced into the new American Colonies, when one Richard Nelme embarked from London on the ship "Matthew" bound for Virgina in May 1635. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Benedict de Elme. This was dated 1273, in the Hundred Rolls of Somerset, during the reign of King Edward 1st of England, 1272 - 1307. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was sometimes known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.


For Immediate Release
New Report Details Cruise Industry’s Record of Pollution
SAN FRANCISCO - A report
released today by Friends of the Earth concludes that the billions of
dollars earned by the cruise industry each year comes at a significant
cost to our nation’s air and water.
researched and authored by Ross Klein, an independent expert on cruise
ship pollution, takes a detailed look at the various ways in which the
cruise industry has harmed—and continues to harm—the environments in
which cruise ships travel.
the cruise industry’s environmental impacts. With today’s launch of the
largest cruise ship ever built—Royal Caribbean’s Oasis of the Seas—this
report shines a light on an industry that has long avoided
comprehensive environmental regulation and pollution controls,” said
Marcie Keever, Friends of the Earth’s Clean Vessels Campaign Director.
“Cruise ships continue to dump sewage into our waters and poison our
air with engines that burn bottom-of-the barrel bunker fuel.”
looks at all aspects of the cruise industry, from its pollution
streams, to its history of environmental violations, to the modest
number of environmental laws that govern the industry. The report also
contains a wide-ranging set of policy recommendations, providing
solutions for comprehensive environmental reform of the cruise industry.
Friends of the Earth is the U.S. voice of the world's largest grassroots environmental network, with member groups in 77 countries. Since 1969, Friends of the Earth has fought to create a more healthy, just world.


A new strain of COVID 19 has raised alarms in the UK and has forced some counties to impose travel bans on persons travelling from that territory. Even while this is happening and there are rising numbers of cases in the United States of America and other parts of the world, there is hope that relief is in sight; this with the approval of at least two vaccines for emergency use. Could we have stemmed the tide and reduced the negative impact of the pandemic sooner? If the claim of the group Vitamin D for all Coalition has any merit, then the answer is yes.
In an open letter to governments, doctors and other key stakeholders worldwide, more than 110 scientists and doctors across the globe are advocating that with immediate effect increased Vitamin D intake should be recommended to reduce COVID -19 infections, hospitalizations, ICU admissions and deaths. “The data strongly suggests that vitamin D is the safest, easiest, and most important anti-pandemic measure the world is failing to prioritize,” says Karl Pfleger, Ph.D., biotech investor, former Google data scientist, and one of the organizers of VitaminDforAll.org.”
The signatories admit that they have been taking Vitamin D in doses exceeding the US daily recommended doses. According to the letter, “Evidence to date suggests the possibility that the COVID-19 pandemic sustains itself in large part through infection of those with low vitamin D, and that deaths are concentrated largely in those with deficiency.” Studies show that more than 80% of COVID 19 patients are deficient in vitamin D. Interestingly, this letter comes a few days after some the UK government‘s health bodies deny that there is enough evidence to support increasing Vitamin D intake for COVID-19 specifically.
Vitamin D is also known as the sunshine vitamin because it is naturally produced by the body when the body is exposed to sunlight. It can also be had through foods such as salmon, shrimp, sardines, yogurt and fortified milk, cereal yogurt and orange juice and through supplements. Vitamin D deficiency has been known to result in bone diseases such as osteoporosis (fragile bones) and osteomalacia (soft bones). Adequate amounts are said to ward of illnesses such as the flu. While it is highly unlikely to get too much vitamin D from sunlight and food intake, taking Vitamin D supplements in high doses and over prolonged periods can cause toxicity in the body.
While the verdict is still out on the effectiveness of Vitamin D in the fight against COVID 19, it is recommended that you try to get an adequate amount of this important nutrient. A point to ponder is whether or not increased COVID-19 numbers can be any way attributed to lack of exposure to adequate amounts of sunlight or Vitamin D deficiency in diets.


Welcome back to We are talking about Gamers MineCraftero, today we are going to summarize one of the topics that we have been consulted the most How to make a blast furnace in Minecraft?
You will already know that regular ovens allow us to feed and regain the health of our characters, they are the most vital objects in the game, through them is that we can craft to get tools, armor and other useful objects in order to advance our game.
On the other hand furnaces allow us to burn mineral resources extracted from mines in order to transform them into ingots and other materials.
What is the difference between an oven and a blast furnace in Minecraft?
There are several, starting with that to build a blast furnace you will need to have a furnace first, you will use as a building material.
Blast furnaces, like regular furnaces, burn coal as fuel, or other elements that can generate fire, such as wood.
One of the main differences between the two is that the blast furnace can only melt pieces of armor, gold and iron.
The advantage of using a blast furnace is the time it takes for mineral resources to melt. You’ll use exactly the same fuel to bake mineral resources, but will melt twice as fast.
Blast furnaces in Minecraft, just like regular furnaces, can feed hoppers and collect items from them.
How to create a blast furnace in Minecraft?
Before creating a blast furnace you first need to have a furnace to use as a material.
Remember that to create a regular oven in Minecraft you must have eight blocks of stones placed in a specific way on the crafting table.
Place the materials as follows and you will get the normal oven:
Once you have the regular oven to use it to create the new one, you will only need to have the following ingredients:
- Five iron ingots
- Three blocks of smooth stone.
To create the blast furnace you must make sure to place the objects as follows on the creation table:
Ready! You should already have your new blast furnace waiting for you to release and start melting like a Minecraft pro.
You could also get a blast furnace without having to create it or collect any kind of material. In the houses of the gunsmiths in the villages they are generated naturally.
This is a community made by and for gamers, if you have any questions about how to build a blast furnace in Minecraft leave us a comment below and we will assist you.
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Internet Computer is a proof-of-stake blockchain developed by DFINITY, a non-profit organization based in Zürich. The idea and start of research for this started in 2016. The first thing that comes to mind when thinking about the Internet Computer is scale. While other layer 1 blockchains try to solve the problems of their forefather, Ethereum, such as scalability, affordability, and speed, Internet Computer solves the same problems, but its ambitions go far beyond those of other networks. While other blockchains want low-cost dApps, faster speed for swapping and trading coins, and a convenient ecosystem of financial applications, Internet Computer wants to conquer the whole world, wresting a place under the sun from Google, Facebook, and even Amazon. As the creator of the platform Dominic Williams describes it - “a paradigm shift that will change everything.”
There is no easy way to talk about Internet Computer, because behind this DFINITY creation there is a very complex technology with the Internet Computer Protocol (ICP) at its heart. However, we can point out three pillars on which the project stands - speed, scalability, and absolute decentralization.
At the very base of this complex chain are data centers - independent centers that hold technical equipment (hardware nodes). One data center can store a number of hardware nodes. Those data centers are there to ensure the operation of subnets. And while some argue that this hardware is complex and quite expensive, which leads to the factor that can potentially endanger the decentralization of the platform (only a certain number of people can afford to buy the hardware and run nodes), the DFINITY team responds that not a single data center has been or ever will be provided with hardware directly by DFINITY, and when buying these machines, people do it themselves and DFINITY doesn’t have anything to do with this.
Subnets are transparent networks that can be compared to decentralized blockchains. The peculiarity of subnets is that they have types, and depending on the type of application the developer wants to create, they direct a particular subnet, such as "data," "system," or "fiduciary." A subnet type affects its capability. In case one subnet is overloaded, the Network Nervous System can split it into two or more. This process is also claimed to be transparent and visible to the original subnet, but does not affect applications in any way and does not disrupt their work.
The Network Nervous System (NNS), the supervisory authority, checks the functionality and correctness of data centers and subnets. DFINITY describes it as a kind of analog of the Internet's ICANN. Whereas nodes are managed by the set of cryptographic protocols Chain Key.
Accordingly, subnets host smart contracts, which in the Internet Computer universe are called canisters. But it's not so simple here either: "a bundle of code and data," canisters are not the usual counterpart of smart contracts by another name, but rather their "improved" version, as claimed by DFINITY. According to the company, canisters encapsulate all functionality of smart contracts, but they can also be used to "build software services that scale".
Software canisters can "communicate" with each other through bidirectional message passing, which makes them fully interoperable. They can message each other, whether they are written in the Internet Computer's native Motoko programming language or in another. Important addition is that canisters can create new canisters and fork themselves. All of the above allows protocols and any other software housed in canisters to scale. The project claims to deliver 25x throughput of that of Ethereum and that’s only a start.
The company has made it possible for smart contracts to securely serve web content directly to users, unlike the often seen dApp design where only a small part of the logic runs in a smart contract, while the rest is hosted on a cloud provider. The goal of the Internet Computer team is to provide developers with the means to build “consumer-facing experiences” competitive to centralized servers.
The Internet Computer wallet authentication alternative is a so-called Internet Identity - a blockchain authentication framework that lets users utilize cryptographically enabled devices as identity “anchors”. Such devices can be a fingerprint sensor on a laptop, a face ID system on a mobile device, or a portable HMS (Hardware Security Module) such as a Ledger wallet.
One of the benefits of using Internet Computer is that consumers are neither charged for any Internet Computer fees, nor need to use tokens to interact with dApps built on the blockchain.
The ICP token serves as a currency for paying commissions within the network, and it also needs to be staked to acquire voting power in making decisions about any changes to the Internet Computer network.
However, it is worth noting that commissions in the Internet Computer network are not the same as gas on Ethereum. Canister smart contracts are fuelled by the so-called "cycles". These cycles do not require payment from users, as is the case with Ethereum and the vast majority of other blockchains, but from smart contracts. This is sometimes referred to as "reverse gas". Thus, canister smart contracts are pre-charged with cycles and must pay for their data to be computed themselves, relieving users of this burden.
The Internet Computer ICP token can be purchased on centralized exchanges like Binance, HitBTC, and Coinbase Pro.
The Internet Computer ICP token can be purchased on decentralized exchanges like Sonic.
It is up to you where to buy the ICP token. It is worth taking into account that decentralized exchanges allow you to do this anonymously, you do not need to pass KYC procedures to use them, on the other hand, the cost of transactions may be higher than on centralized exchanges, while there is a risk of your funds being held by the exchange.
To understand if Internet Computer is a good investment and try to make an ICP price prediction, you need to do your own research on the project.
All the data for research is available on the project page on our website: check out the technical features of the project in this review, try to use the app, see if the information about the team is available and the team is open for communication, and using the project dashboard and the ICP price chart, assess the project usage rates as well as the token price movement and the number of its holders.
The Internet Computer team is operated by the DFINITY Foundation - a nonprofit organization in Zürich, Switzerland, whose main effort was to create this network. The project was started by a developer and researcher Dominic Williams in 2016. DFINITY has a big team of over 200 researchers, developers, and other professionals with a long career track record. The project is open about its team and provides contacts for each member.
The project is also supported by The Internet Computer Association (ICA) based in Geneva. The association describes itself as an independent member organization that advocates for the Internet Computer network while supporting and coordinating ecosystem participants.
Since going mainnet, DFINITY has been actively recruiting developers to its network, including launching grants like the CHF 200-million Developer and Ecosystem program, targeting DeFi and NFT projects as well as developers tooling. The company reports that as of the beginning of May 2022, there were more than 180 grants handed out for projects whose focus lies in the area stated by DFINITY: dapps and open internet services, canister development kits (CDKs) and agents, developer tooling, infrastructure, and integrations and APIs.
At the moment, the Internet Computer ecosystem is actively evolving and has some significant actors. One of the most important is a Web 3.0 venture production studio (web-hosting tool) Fleek, which has built the browser-extension wallet dubbed Plug.
Within the ICP network you can also find Distrikt, a blockchain-based decentralized social network (analog of LinkedIn), the blockchain-based decentralized social network DSCVR (Discover), SUDOGRAPH - GraphQL for the Internet Computer, a social platform for developers DEVNULL, OPENCHAT - a tokenized version of WhatsApp, derivatives issuing protocol BEBENTURE, decentralized exchange ICPSWAP, open order protocol and AMM - ORDERSWAP, and many others in the development stage.
The first NFT collectibles on the Internet Computer - ICPunks - sold 10,000 copies in half an hour in September 2021. “Just as CryptoKitties stress-tested the Ethereum network in 2017, demand for clown punks successfully tested the Internet Computer." - DFINITY's official Twitter commented on the sale.
As in all other aspects of their project, DFINITY’s roadmap for the twenty years ahead emphasizes decentralization: the very title of the Internet Computer roadmap states that it and all changes to it are subject to discussion and voting.
The ICP community discusses the roadmap and makes proposals followed by the voting procedure on a specially dedicated developers forum. The NNS decides whether to adopt those proposals, based on the activity of the so-called “voting neurons” which are formed when the community members stake their ICP tokens to obtain the voting power.
Among the next major milestones are integration with the Bitcoin network, integration threshold ECDSA signatures, and the Big Map - a scaling solution for linking canisters together.
In September 2021, the Internet Computer community voted for the integration of the Bitcoin network. The point of this integration is to provide the Bitcoin network with something it sorely lacks - support for smart contracts and the ability to make transactions quickly and inexpensively. At the moment, Bitcoin is represented on various blockchains in a wrapped form. Using its Chain Key cryptography, the Internet Computer integration offers an option without wrapping or bridging the coins. At the same time, the integration threshold ECDSA signatures motion was accepted, allowing canister smart contracts to have an ECDSA public key to enable integration of Bitcoin and Ethereum onto the Internet Computer.
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The dark green color of kale is a clear giveaway that it’s loaded with health-giving nutrients. What’s so nice about this particular vegetable is it may be eaten in a variety of ways, giving you no excuse not to take advantage of the vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and plant enzymes it contains. Kale may be added to soups and stir-fry vegetable dishes. It makes for a wonderful addition to pastas and salads. If you are into juicing vegetables, kale can make every serving of juice healthier.
Below are some of the good things about eating kale:
- Vitamin A in this super vegetable helps promote good eyesight as well as keep age-related vision changes at bay.
- Kale contains vitamin D, a mineral necessary for calcium-absorption in the gut. It also contains vitamin K that’s essential for the utilization of calcium by the bones.
- Iron in kale promotes red blood cell production, blood components responsible for taking oxygen to all body parts.
- Sulfur this vegetable supplies is a mineral necessary for the elimination of toxins in the body, including heavy metals such as mercury, lead and cadmium.
- Another thing that makes kale a good detoxifying agent is the dietary fiber it contains, something that effectively sweeps accumulated impurities out of the intestinal tract.
- Kale’s rich supply of dietary fiber makes this green leafy vegetable perfect for dieters as it makes the stomach feel full.
- Vitamin C in every serving of kale is necessary for the health of the teeth, hair, bones and skin.
- Kale is packed with powerful antioxidants that can delay the appearance of aging signs such as fine lines and wrinkles. Antioxidants eliminate excess free radicals that damage the cells and cause skin aging to take place faster than usual.
- Antioxidants are also good for the cardiovascular system because they prevent fat cells from oxidizing and clogging up the arteries.
- Kale contains fatty acids that support vascular or blood vessel health. Fatty acids prevent the arterial walls from ending up hard and inflexible.
- Fatty acids in kale also promote joint health. These good types of fat help lubricate stiff joints as well as alleviate joint pain.
- This vegetable is a wonderful anti-inflammatory food. Its consumption helps prevent and even put a stop to chronic inflammation in the body. This kind of inflammation is bad because it causes a variety of health problems, from obesity, arthritis, diabetes to Alzheimer’s.


And as far preventing deaths goes, Wender said that one trial has shown that annual screening can lower the risk of dying from breast cancer, versus biennial screening — in women younger than 50.
“Given all of these findings,” Wender said, “ACS recommended that annual screening is the best interval for all premenopausal women.”
At age 55 — a proxy for menopause — women can either stick with yearly mammograms or switch to every other year, the ACS says.
“We do think the data are quite supportive that on a population level, screening every other year is optimal [for postmenopausal women],” Wender said.
But for individual women, he added, there are other factors they can consider and discuss with their doctor: If they have had an abnormal mammogram in the past, yearly screening might be wise. The same may be true if they have “dense” breasts with less fatty tissue — which can make it harder to interpret the mammogram.
The current findings were based on 232 women, ages 40 to 82, who were diagnosed with breast cancer in 2016 or 2017. The vast majority, 200, had undergone yearly screening, while 32 women had been screened every two years.
On average, women in the biennial group had slightly larger tumors, and were less likely to be diagnosed in the earliest stages. In addition, 38% needed chemotherapy as part of their treatment, versus 28% of women in the annual-screening group; however, that difference was not significant in statistical terms.
According to Moorman, there were no clear differences between the two groups as far as age, race, family history of breast cancer, or the number who were “high-risk.”
She will present the findings next week at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, in Chicago. Studies reported at meetings are generally considered preliminary until they are published in medical journal.
Wender said that screening guidelines will keep evolving as more research evidence comes in.
What’s most important, he said, is that all eligible women get mammograms “at least every other year” — with annual screenings being “ideal” for younger women.
Right now, Wender added, that’s not the reality: Only about two-thirds of U.S. women in the screening age range get mammograms every other year.


Different cultures have their own way of taking some water and mixing it with an all-purpose flour, a rice flour, a wheat flour and adding either barley, buckwheat, soybeans, seaweed or tapioca. After combining whatever ingredients are used with the type of a chosen flour, they work the dough on a floured surface, roll the dough out and let it dry. Until, it is ready to be hand cut or hand pulled into whatever shape of a noodle that is desired. The finished noodle product is dropped into a hot chicken, a hot beef or a hot vegetable both from three to five minutes depending upon the noodle's thickness. After the noodles are finished cooking, they are left in the broth for a few moreminutes. The results are something of a phenomenon.
In five thousand B. C., the first forms of noodles were discovered in the Middle East. In three hundred A. D., the Chinesewere using buckwheat as the main ingredient for their noodles andsharing the art of making them with the Japanese. In the seventeen hundreds, noodles were introduced in Naples, Italy. As a rival to rice, noodles have been a staple food in millionsof households with the exeception of the cuisines of England andFrance. Noodles are inexpensive to make and enjoyed as a completemeal with vegetables, meat seafood or poultry added and as aningredient in soup to begin a simple meal or a feast.
The noodle feast begins with a Chicken Noodle Soup With DriedBamboo Shoots
1-cup dried bamboo shoots(found in Asian markets)
1/2-lb rice stick noodles
2-1/2-quarts chicken stock or two cans chicken broth
1/1/2-quarts water or 1-1/2-cans water
2-chicken legs with thighs, or boneless chicken breasts
1/2-cup sliced canned bamboo shoots
1-Tlb plus one teaspoon fish sauce
1-Tlb mixed fresh coriander and scallion greens
Directions:Cover the dried bamboo shoots with water in a saucepanand bring it to a boil for thirty minutes. Drain the bamboo shoots and boil them again in one quart of water for two hours. Drain and shred the bamboo shoots coarsely. Set aside. Note: Forcooking the rice noodles, drop one half of the package in boilingwater and cook for five minutes. Drain and rinse them in cold water to keep them from sticking. In a large pot:add the chickenstock, the water and the chicken legs, or chicken breasts. Bring to a boil and cook for thirty minutes. After the chicken is finshed cooking remove it from the broth and set aside. Add theprecooked bamboo shoots, the canned bamboo shoots, the fish sauce and the salt. Simmer for thirty minutes. To serve: shred the chicken and arrange some of it with the cooked noodles and the bamboo shoots into a soup bowl. Pour the hot chicken broth over the ingredients and top with the minced parsley and scallions.
Nancy an American woman with a Vietnamese daughter-in-law wasgiven a recipe for a spicy vinegar and lime sauce. The recipebelow is from Sat Thi's mother.
Spicy Vinegar And Lime Sauce
3-cups hot water
1-cup fish sauce
Chili peppers to taste
Directions: Mix the ingredients in parts. The first two, then thelast four and combine them together. Pour over any type of cookedorentail noodles.
Mary an American woman has always made her own egg noodles anddropped them into a meat broth such as; a pot roast, or beef roast or chicken broth that she served for her family's supper.
Homemade Egg Noodles
3-tsp. baking powder
1/2-cup flour(to use for rolling out the noodle dough)
Directions: Beat the eggs until they are foamy. Measure the dryingredients into the beaten eggs and mix them together until theyare of dough consistency. Measure the one-half cup flour and sprinkle it on a surface used to work the dough. Knead the dough for a few minutes and then roll it out in a thin sheet. Put the thin dough sheet on a piece of wax paper letting it dry. Cut thenoodle dough into thin or medium sized strips. Drop the cut noodles into a hot chicken or beef broth cooking them for five minutes. Let them sit in the broth for at least four more minutes before serving them.
Soba noodles are a flavorsome wheat noodle product that can be boiled and then made into a cold noodle salad. The vinaigrettedressing is made with a combination of rice wine vinegar and limejuice for a lower calorie dressing.
Soba Noodle Salad
2-packages soba noodles
1-package commerical packaged shredded carrots
4-green onions, sliced
2-Tlbs. coriander (Chinese parsley)chopped
4-Tlb rice wine vinegar
2-Tlb. lime juice
3 or 4 drops hot sauce
Directions: Boil the noodles according to package directions and then let them cool. Mix the shredded carrots, the chopped green onions and the coriander into the cooled noodles. In a separatebowl, whisk the rice wine vinegar, the lime juice, and the hot sauce. Mix the dressing with the cooled noodles and serve.
Rounding out the noodle feast is a dessert called an apple raisinnoodle pudding.
Apple Raisin Walnut Noodle Pudding
8-oz. broad egg noodles, broken into pieces
1/2-cup walnuts, chopped
3 eggs, separated
Directions: Cook the noodles as directed then drain and rinse them in cold water. Combine the nuts, apples, raisins and spicestogether. Beat the egg yolks with the butter, sugar and the saltuntil well blended. Fold in the egg yolks into the cooked noodlesand then the apple spice mixture. Beat the egg whites until stiff and fold into the noodle mixture. Bake at 350 degrees for forty-five minutes.
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In the event that you become incapacitated, a Power of Attorney is a legal document that acknowledges that you’d like another person to act for you. It specificies someone to represent you in business, legal, and personal affairs. When you create this document with someone that you trust, you’re known as the principal and the person is known as the agent.
Why Create a Power of Attorney Document?
Signing a Power of Attorney document helps in specifying the different powers and authority that you are giving to your agent. It’s a how-to guide for ensuring that you, your assets, and your family members are still taken care of even in the event you can no longer act on your own behalf.
Are There Any Requirements for Those Signing?
To be a principal, you must be an adult (over the age of 18 in most states) and competent at the time of creating the legal document. You must be mentally capable of making your own decisions at this time. You can imagine that this is important considering the significant power that will be signed over to your chosen agent.
The person you appoint to act on your behalf is known as an agent or an attorney-in-fact (the terminology really just depends on your state) can be anyone that you choose. They must also be an adult (over the age of 18 in most states), have never filed for bankruptcy, and are not employed at or own any kind of elder-care or extended-care facility that you are living in.
Your agent may also be the executor of your will, should you so choose. With all of this potential power, it is important that you choose someone you trust to be named as your agent or attorney-in-fact.
What do agents (otherwise known as the attorney-in-fact) do?
Act on your behalf legally:
A Power of Attorney lets your agent handle legal matters on your behalf–They are able to communicate with your lawyers, file court documents, and act on your behalf during proceedings.
Act on your behalf financially:
An agent can act on your behalf and make financial decisions should you become unable to do so. They can control your bank account, cash checks, and transfer funds.
Manage your business:
If you’re a business owner, your agent can act in your stead during meetings, manage your business, vote as a shareholder, make budgetary and employment decisions.
Manage your real estate:
Your agent can sell, rent, trade, and manage any of the properties owned or rented in your name.
Agents can have other powers as well including:
- Handling household expenses
- Handling your taxes
- Selling or purchasing material goods
- Gifting money
- Managing your living trust
- Donating to charities.
It all depends on the parameters that you set forth for your agent. If you choose to grant your agent general power of attorney, that means they can act for you in any capacity. If you grant specific power of attorney, your expectations for their involvement is clear.
Looking for advice about estate planning? Contact an estate planning lawyer Memphis, TN trusts to start the process and get help drafting up a Power of Attorney.
Thank you to our friends and contributors at WisemanBray, PLLC for their insight into estate planning and power of attorney.


Your Child’s Vision Health: Learning, Screen Time, and the Outdoors
Have you taken your children for their eye exams lately? Kids’ vision is still developing—in fact, eye growth doesn’t stabilize until the age of 20. Even if your child has 20/20 vision, there are other aspects of the visual system that need to be maintained to support their development and success.
Correlation between vision and learning
Visual acuity is what most of us imagine when we think about “healthy vision”. However, there are several other aspects, as well, including focusing, tracking, teaming, and perception, that are imperative to children’s ability to learn. Each of these skills is still developing throughout early and middle childhood, which makes it even more important for kids to have their eyes examined. An eye exam could identify any issues with the development of the visual system, and an optometrist could provide you with the proper resources to help improve or correct the problem.
Without an exam to identify a lack of these visual skills, it’s possible for some kids to be misdiagnosed with a learning disorder. For example, if a child is having trouble with eye tracking, they could experience difficulty reading. However, their struggle could be misdiagnosed as ADHD or simply labeled apathy, which will only lead to more academic problems as the child progresses through school without access to the necessary supports.
Children won’t always know when they are having trouble with their eyesight, but there are a few signs that you can look out for. For example, if your kids are consistently sitting close to the TV or holding books too close when reading, it’s possible that they are struggling to see clearly. Additional signs include squinting or tilting the head, rubbing eyes, and complaining of headaches or tired eyes.
Myopia and Canadian children
In Canada, one common vision problem among kids is myopia, or nearsightedness. A study conducted in Waterloo, Ontario discovered that 17.5% of children in the region have the condition. While 6% of kids aged 6–8 had myopia, this percentage increased with age, climbing to 28.9% among those aged 11–13. Contributing factors may include both reading and screen time. Additionally, if children had at least one parent with nearsightedness, they were 2.5 times more likely to develop it, as well.
Conversely, the study found that, for every extra hour spent outdoors per week, the odds of a child having the condition decreased by 14%.
While a natural alternative to screen time is reading, encourage your kids to open the back door and explore the world around them.
Research from the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) also supported the finding that outdoor time could reduce children’s risk of developing myopia. The benefit of outdoor time is still unclear, but it is suspected that it’s directly correlated with exposure to sunlight. Those who spent more time outside did not necessarily spend less time reading or playing on screens.
Guidelines to promote vision health
Over 60% of parents mistakenly believe that they would know if their child was having vision problems, and fewer than 14% of kids younger than 6 have had eye exams. Rather than waiting until you begin seeing signs of difficulty, you can make regular visits to the optometrist to ensure that your little one’s eyesight is healthy.
Limiting the amount of screen time your child has every day may also help slow the development of myopia.
As a guideline, children between the ages of 2 – 5 should be limited to one hour of screen time per day. Boys and girls 6 and older should use screens in moderation, while the Canadian Pediatric Society recommendations for those under 18 months are much more stringent.
Instead, encourage your kids to spend more time outside. Join them for a bike ride or take them to the local playground. Although sunlight is suspected to be a reason for the benefit of outdoor time, be sure to protect your child’s eyes with a hat and sunglasses so they aren’t damaged by UV rays.
For more information on how you can support your child’s eye health, make an appointment with an optometrist at your local Visique today.


Programmes to tackle gender-based violence by men in Africa have been dominated by western constructions of masculinity, where behaviour change is focussed on the individual. These programmes, argues Sakhumzi Mfecane, ignore the African ways of conceptualising gender, which emphasise values and status conferred by the community.
This post is the first in a series exploring the effects, presentation and evolution of masculinity in contemporary African society.
As most African countries struggle to end the persistent scourge of gender-violence, and the related acts of rape, sexual assault and killings of women, a number of intervention programmes funded largely by international organisations have focussed on men as the main perpetrators of these social ills. Often called ‘masculine transformation programmes’, these interventions seek to redefine what it means to be a man, as the basis for enabling African men to change their social conduct and embrace gender equality and non-violence.
The programmes are premised on the notion that gender-based violence is rooted in dominant constructions of masculinity – the socially constructed notion of what it means to be a ‘real’ man. Though such ideas differ and are sometimes in conflict, they usually position men as the dominant and powerful gender. Research shows that men who subscribe to these ideas tend to use their dominant social position to undermine and oppress women and other socially marginalised groups of men. They also use force to assert their power.
The ‘masculine transformation’ programmes, therefore, seek to educate and empower African men with skills to adopt ‘alternative’ forms of masculinity that are gender equitable, peaceful, caring and opposed to the use of violence and force to resolve relational conflict. This happens through educational workshops, dialogues and individual counselling sessions, facilitated by gender activists, counsellors and educators.
For the past few years researchers have been studying these interventions to determine their effectiveness and impact. Findings indicate that they are effective in raising men`s awareness of gender matters and can enable some men to reflect critically on the gender structure, and then pledge to change and adopt attitudes of non-violence and gender equality. This knowledge of gender equality discourse, however, does not seem to translate into change of conduct at societal levels. Violence continues unabated in many African societies – as in other parts of the world – with women killed, raped, beaten and sexually assaulted on a regular basis.
The researchers have explained this failure as resulting from interventions usually focussing on changing individual men and ignoring the socio-economic context in which they live. Hence they propose an ‘intersectional’ approach which tackles larger contextual drivers of violence: poverty, unemployment, social exclusion and racism.
In contrast I suggest that the major reason for the poor performance of these ‘masculine transformation’ programmes is that they depend on western definitions of masculinity and overlook the African ways of conceptualising gender.
In western culture, masculinity is seen primarily as an achievement of an individual. Hence Michael Kimmel, an American gender scholar, defines masculinity as being ‘about individual men’s quest to accumulate those cultural symbols that denote manhood’. The notion at work here is ‘individuality’. Thus ‘real’ men must demonstrate signs of independent thinking and action. Society prescribes gender norms, but they exist purely as a ‘framework’ for action. Individuals are, in principle, entitled to resist the current gender structure if they wish to do so, based on their desires.
This way of defining masculinity contrasts with most African communities that I know, whereby it is the community that determines manhood status. Among the amaXhosa of South Africa, a boy must first undergo communal rites of passage, called ulwaluko, in order to qualify as a man – an indoda. Ulwaluko involves traditional circumcision. A Xhosa male who fails to undergo ulwaluko is regarded as a boy – inkwenkwe – and denied social respect. The ritual of ulwaluko ties Xhosa men to particular moral obligations. They are expected to behave respectfully at all times and refrain from using violence, intimidation and crime. If a man breaks any of the prescribed rules of manhood he may be subjected to disciplinary measures and can be stripped of his manhood status until he pays a mandatory fine.
The notion at work here – and in most African settings – is that of ‘communitarian personhood’: a person is a person through other persons (umntu ngumntu ngabantu). Hence ‘real’ men are expected to act in accordance with collective group norms because they have been conferred their personhood status by the group. Antisocial acts such as crime, killings, violence and rape are usually seen as an indication that a man is lacking some important components of personhood. In this case, rituals are often performed by the relatives and the community to fill this moral gap and try to change the social conduct of a man. South African media has many stories of such men seeking change of masculine conduct through performance of communal rituals, including well-known public figures and educated men involved in drug abuse, drunkenness, violence, crime and the abuse of women. Such interventions essentially build social solidarity and increase the levels of social accountability among men – this militates against rampant individuality and greed.
This suggests that when working in African societies the starting point of programmes should be the community, as a bearer of gender norms and personhood. The idea that African men can change in isolation from the surrounding community – and through education alone – has been proven a failure. It is premised on the western notion of individuality. We need African-centred interventions which define masculinity as an aspect of personhood conferred by the society and which see masculine change as a collective communal endeavour. Such programmes are likely to get ‘buy-in’ from African men because they will be seen as embodying their culture and indigenous notions of gender and personhood.
As researchers, activists, government workers and international donors we should invest more time and resources in learning the cultural beliefs and indigenous value systems of African societies. Interventions should be conceptualised in African languages and use local concepts of masculinity and popular idioms as their conceptual base.
These are the programmes that will enable us to have constructive dialogues with African men about the issues that concern them and which lead to harmful social conduct. Only such an approach will gain public support and, ultimately, help us to curb the current scourge of violence related to men in Africa.
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