Want Radiant Skin? Cleanse from the Inside-Out!
Everyone wants clear, glowing, radiant skin, right? You don't need to waste hundreds of dollars on serums, creams, and lotions that may or may not work, or thousands of dollars on dermabrasion, laser treatments, or plastic surgery. Instead, you can make your skin more radiant and healthy looking at home for a lot less money and a lot less effort.
Hydration is extremely important when it comes to beautiful skin. Water is essential to pretty much every one of your body's systems. Your body needs an adequate amount of hydration in order to just function, let alone work at the top of its game. Healthy, radiant skin is a lot easier to achieve when you take in enough water every day.
The amount of water you need to drink depends on several factors: the type of job or activities you do, the temperature in which you do them, and how much water you get from your food. If you work at an extremely active job, or work outside in the heat, you'll need a lot more water than someone who works in a temperature controlled office doing desk work. Also, if you consume a lot of bone broth or leafy green vegetables and adequate fruit, a lot of your water requirements will be satisfied.
Generally, aim for eight to 10 eight-ounce glasses of fluid a day. Caffeinated beverages don't really count, nor do alcoholic beverages. Juice, caffeine-free tea or coffee, or bone broth all count, but keep your fruit juice consumption in check to keep your sugars low. A good standard of measurement is to drink enough fluid so that your urine is clear, not yellow.
What you eat has a huge impact on your health. Not only can food improve your health, it can also destroy it, so choose wisely. Avoid fast food, processed foods, and foods that are conventionally grown with a lot of chemicals and pesticides. Your skin reflects your inner health, so if your insides are riddled with disease or saturated with toxins and toxic chemicals, your skin probably won't look very good.
Eat whole foods; choose fresh or frozen vegetables or fruit grown organically if possible. Eat local foods that are in season; foods that are shipped halfway across the world don't tend to have as much nutritional value by the time it gets to you, so why bother? A piece of fruit picked yesterday is much better for you and will have most of its nutrients intact compared to one that was picked two weeks ago.
anti-oxidant, which helps reduce the impact that environmental toxins will have on your skin.
Spinach has three major skin-protecting nutrients: beta-carotene, Vitamin E, and Vitamin C. These three anti-oxidants work together to protect your skin from external pollutants and excess sun exposure.
Almonds and pecans have lots of Vitamin E, a nutrient that works to fend off skin-damaging free-radicals. This helps keep your skin elastic and firm!
Tropical fruit like pineapple, kiwi, and guava contain high amounts of the anti-oxidant Vitamin C. When you get enough Vitamin C in your diet, your skin will appear smoother, brighter, and blemish-free. In addition, Vitamin C helps build collagen, which keeps your skin firm and elastic.
Fish like mackerel, salmon, anchovies, herring, and sardines all have Omega-3 fatty acids, which protect against sun damage, boost skin membrane strength, and can help prevent some types of skin cancer. Omega-3s also fight inflammation.
Broccoli is a great food for your entire body, but is especially beneficial for your skin. It has Vitamin C and E to help keep your skin healthy.
Pumpkin seeds are high in zinc, which is considered a superfood. It helps to maintain collagen, protect your skin membranes, and promote skin renewal.
Exercise can improve your skin's health just as it does your muscles and bones. People who get adequate levels of exercise tend to have more abundant levels of collagen. Aim for at least 30 minutes of low-intensity cardio like walking every day, plus a balanced weight training routine. Speak to a personal trainer if you need help.
Stress hormones can increase oil production which in turn leads to acne and premature aging. Try to reduce your stress levels. This includes getting enough sleep and exercise. Yoga can help to improve your fitness level, improve sleep, and reduce stress. Give it a try.
The one thing we could all probably benefit from is more sleep. When you're tired, your skin can look droopy and much older. Bags under your eyes don't help with your skin's appearance, either. Aim for at least seven hours a night, and when you can sleep in, do so. Ideally, eight to 10 hours a night will help your skin be healthy and fresh-looking.
It really isn't hard to have healthy, radiant skin from the inside-out; all it takes is a little commitment to improve your health and appearance. If this all seems overwhelming to you, choose one thing off the list and start with that. Each week, or even each month, add another item off the list until you're following all of the suggestions. Your skin - and your body - will thank you.
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This information are great. Avocado and honey are great way to moisturize the face. Honey with Avocado is a great idea, I will try with my Avocado face mask. Thanks for sharing this great skin care treatment.


Yamaha YHT-5920UBL Review - To Buy It Or Not To Buy It?
Often times when people are complaining about a home theater system or a broad range of other electronics, they'll say something along the lines of "I can get a better one from Yamaha". Well, here is our Yamaha YHT-5920UBL review to see if Yamaha lives up to its reputation. If you were wondering what a Yamaha home theater system has under the hood or what recommends it as a great choice, you can find out here.
1 Yamaha YHT-5920UBL – Is It The Right Choice For You?
All that's nice, but what about the features? What about the perks and functionalities that truly make a device great or average? Well, that's what you're going to learn about next, as we dive together into the features section. Here, you will get to see why you should buy the Yamaha YHT-5920UBL.
This is a feature that lets you stream your music from any platform wirelessly. It's a very useful feature because it grants you access to all of the popular platforms out there, but also lets you connect your mobile device. Ultimately, you can listen to your music no matter where it's coming from, through the speakers of the Yamaha YHT-5920UBL. You can connect devices and services to your home theater system through both WiFi and Bluetooth.
The added support for 4K means that the home theater system will be compatible with the latest video quality out there. The next time you're enjoying 4K content, you don't have to worry about the sound system not being able to keep up, or the audio not being up to par with the quality of the video.
This is technology that comes straight from Yamaha and it lets you tweak the nature of the sound being delivered into the room to your liking. Want to feel like you're at the movie theater? Fine, just adjust the settings accordingly and you'll get the same resonance and feel. The same goes for other types of sound fields that you might enjoy, like concert halls.
You know that frustrating moment of silence between two tracks when music is playing? The Yamaha YHT-5920UBL home theater system makes sure you don't have to deal with that as it uses a gapless playback system which cuts out that uncomfortable or mood ruining gap. After the first song is done, the system will just move along to the second song, with no pause in between.
YPAO is a feature developed by Yamaha, which will measure and scan the characteristics of the room in which you're playing music or watching a movie. Next, it will tweak the home theater's audio settings so that you get the optimal sound quality that perfectly blends in with what your environment offers or alters.
If you were also curious about the flaws of this device, this is where you will find them. In this review, I am also showing the other side of the YAMAHA YHT-5920UBL, so that you won't have any surprises when your system delivery arrives home.
While the overall sound quality might be satisfying, the bass quality can use an improvement. For some, the bass is an essential part of a great audio session so not having an up to par bass solution hurts the product.
You are no doubt in search of a quality device, so you might be disappointed with some of the characteristics of the speakers' build. The inserts on the back have a tendency to fall out, which can really give the overall system a cheap feel.
The default wires that come with the speakers are also cheap and of poor quality. Unless you want to risk having them die out at a very inopportune moment, you have to buy your own wires and replace the default ones.
Yamaha YHT-5920UBL – Is It The Right Choice For You?
Is bass really that important to you? If not, then you should have no problem in appreciating this Yamaha product. Sure, the components used for the speakers give it a bad image but unless you plan on touching the speakers every day, you will eventually forget and focus on the good audio quality. What do you think about this system now that you've read our Yamaha YHT-5920UBL review?


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AriZona raises bottle prices by 25% to keep iconic cans at 99 cents
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AriZona beverage company co-founder Don Vultaggio vowed to maintain the brand's iconic 99-cent can, but to keep that promise amid rampant inflation, something else had to give.
At the beginning of the year, the New York-based company (nope, not Arizona) raised the price of its 20-ounce bottle, what it calls "Tallboys," from $1.00 to $1.25, up 25%, in the Northeast, its largest market.
"We changed the price in certain markets at the beginning of this year," he told Yahoo Finance in a phone interview. When asked if the hikes would take place in other markets, he said, "Right now, we're not quite sure."
The decades-long promise of 99-cent cans was part of the decision to raise that price, he said.
"We have this distinctive 99-cent can, and our goal is to hold that price. Sometimes you have to offset it with other things you do within the portfolio of a product," Vultaggio said.
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A rise in the cost of plastic was another reason behind the increase. "We've kind of wrung out all the opportunities from speeding up lines and changing bottles and doing the things that we can do behind the scenes, so that we don't have to affect price, but we ran out of options, so we were forced to make a move there," Vultaggio said.
Other rising costs hit the family-owned company, too. "Things like freight … and sugar … energy … electric gas and and labor costs are out of our control."
'Until something drastic happens, we're gonna hold that price'
Though the price of the 99-cent can will remain, the can itself recently became one ounce smaller.
"The 23-ounce can is now 22 ounces. The reason for it is, we went to a 206 end [the size of the can lid]. We changed the can lid in order to save some aluminum," Vultaggio said.
Courtesy: Janna Herron, Yahoo Finance Editor
Will the 99-cent can be here forever? Vultaggio said they're trying.
"I don't know what the future holds, we're gonna do the best we can and continue to do the best we can to maintain the most aggressive pricing on all our packaging," he said. "We never want to compromise quality of drink, so that's not an option and so then we're forced to deal with some of the things that are out of our control, but the can, we're committed and until something drastic happens, we're gonna hold that price."
Compared to mega conglomerate beverage companies though, he said AriZona remains competitive.
"We're dramatically less expensive than a lot of the competition … for instance, a Coca-Cola 20-ounce [is] probably north of $2.50 … [Ours is] a tremendous value [at $1.25].
He added that the bottle price hike was not an easy decision to make for the 30-year-old business, and that he hopes customers will remain loyal.
"I hate to raise prices, I'm an old salesman and the the worst day in a salesman's life is when he has to to go to a customer and say you got to pay more," he said. "But on the other side of it, we've done all we can to hold [the] price."
Brooke DiPalma is a reporter for Yahoo Finance. Follow her on Twitter at @BrookeDiPalma or email her at bdipalma@yahoofinance.com.
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With the arrival of the U.S. basketball millionaires, the Games have turned a final corner. Shamateurism is gone. But will glitz and hype now prevail?
By Daniel Benjamin Monday, July 27, 1992
Call them the In-Your-Face Games. That is what they will feel like to the Angolans, Venezuelans or whoever else has the misfortune to be standing on the Olympic basketball court as Michael Jordan spins, slides and flies by on his way to the hoop. The show put on by the U.S. team will be spectacular but one- sided. But that's what happens when one team can assemble the finest basketball talent ever to strut the Olympic floorboards.
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Q: summing contents of a field - bash I have a file that contains data in the following format:
Field 1 Field 2 nCalls duration
My task is to sum the nCalls and duration fields. The code I have written so far is as follows:
cat ${file} |\
while read n1 n2 nCalls nDuration
do
  #sumCalls=$((${sumCalls} + ${nCalls}))
  #sumDuration=$((${sumDuration} + ${nDuration}))
  sumCalls=`expr ${sumCalls} + ${nCalls}`
  sumDuration=`expr ${sumDuration} + ${nDuration}`
  echo "${sumCalls} ${sumDuration}"
  echo -n "${appName} ${sumCalls} ${sumDuration}" > temp.txt
done

tail -n1 temp.txt >> ${outFile}

Both the statements above do not work. I get syntax errors.
My question is:
1. Where am I going wrong with the above code?
2. Is there a better way to do this than write into and out of files?
Thanks,
Sriram

A: This is what awk was built for:
cat ${file} | awk '{c = c + $3; d = d + $4} END {print "APPNAME", c, d}'

The following transcript shows it in action:
pax$ export appName=xyz

pax$ echo 'a b 1 2
...> a b 3 4
...> a b 5 6' | awk -vAPPNAME=${appName} '{c=c+$3;d=d+$4}END{print APPNAME,c,d}'
xyz 9 12

A: A Ruby(1.9+) example
$ ruby -ane 'BEGIN{c=d=0};c+=$F[2].to_i;d+=$F[3].to_i;END{puts "APPNAME, #{c},#{d}"}' file

A: As already said, right tool would be awk.
To the errors: The code is fine and runs (esp both expressions).
Possible errors:

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*You dont initialize your sum up variables to 0 (if they have already value than it could yield wrong results.

*If your file contains more than 4 columns, your read behaves different:
Read assigns the last passed value always the rest of the line! I.e. your last variable gets with a 5 column entry 2 space seperated values assigned => and here expr can give a syntax error. Solution for this: Add to the line a 5 variable REST. With 4 columns it stays empty, with more it catches up the rest.

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Alison Pill Joins Cast of Aaron Sorkin's HBO Pilot
2:57 PM PDT 5/18/2011 by Lesley Goldberg
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The actress will play a producer on the cable news project.
Alison Pill has joined Jeff Daniels and Olivia Munn in Aaron Sorkin's cable news pilot at HBO.
The project, tentatively titled More as This Story Develops, revolves around Will (Daniels), the co-anchor of a cable news show who must contend with a new team after his fellow host lands a new gig and takes most of his staff with him.
Pill (Milk) will play Maggie, one of Will's loyal associate producers who is in a shaky relationship with another staffer on the show.
Munn was cast early Wednesday as Sloan, one of the "new breed" of sexy financial analysts with a show on Will's network.
Daniels' role was originally written as a fortysomething and marks his first regular series TV gig.
Alan Poul (Six Feet Under) recently joined the project as an executive producer alongside Sorkin and Scott Rudin (The Social Network), and will direct episodes should the pilot go to series.
Pill is repped by WME and Joannie Burstein.
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T-Mobile News Update: T-Mobile are changing their tariff structure for business customers with one called Simple Choice, a service with no annual contract.
In an overhaul of tariffs and contracts, T-Mobile USA are looking to improve the options for their business customers and remove the restraints of the annual contract and add incentives. The idea behind Simple Choice is to put the control of the contracts into the hands of the businesses so they stop getting hit with extra charges and inflated monthly bills.
They've made it super easy for everyone to understand: when there are more than six phones on the contract the phones are offered at $20 per phone, per month and receive unlimited minutes and texts as well as 500mb of data. The final point can be increased for an addition fee each month and the monthly fee can reach as much as $50 per phone per month if the company decides they want to have unlimited 4G data usage as well.
With T-Mobile having just 1% of the market they are aiming to get that up to 10% by the end of the year but they will be looking at a long road ahead as their rivals have the lion's share.
The shared data plans that are currently operating for business customers across the US leave companies scratching their heads with regards to why they've been charged extra on their monthly bills. The two new tariffs – Simple Choice for Business and Simple Choice Classic – will remove this risk and make charges transparent so that companies can budget without worrying.
It's often been seen that the mobile phone service providers take advantage of businesses and their supposedly disposable income allowances that permit the service providers to slip in the extra charges and so on. T-Mobile are striving to change this and treat their business customers better, especially with the sheer number of wireless devices that are used by businesses these days. No longer does this cover only mobile phones.
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For more information on these tariffs, visit the T-Mobile website or call the T-Mobile contact number and speak with a member of their customer services team.


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Q: Something happening with first line - tab function     Piet van Gogh has an average grade of: 6-
    -^^--__-_-
    Vincent Appel
    Johannes Mondriaan
    Karel van Rijn has an average grade of: 7.0
    -^-----___
    No Name Matches Found
    Herman Vermeer has an average grade of: 4.5
    ------___-
    Johannes Brood
    Johannes Brood has an average grade of: 1.0
    -^-_-___-_
    Herman Vermeer
    There are no more student records available.

As you can see. Piet is slightly to the left. But I would like all the top lines to line up nicely with each other. I have played with the tab function, but then it just shifts all the first lines further to the right.
Anyone know how I can get Piet to move slightly to the right to line up nicely with the rest of the other top lines.
    void printStudentName(Scanner studentNameScanner) {

        String studentName = scannerToStringLine(studentNameScanner);

        out.printf("%s has an average grade of: ", studentName);

    }

    void identifyStudentName(Scanner studentNameScanner) {

        studentNameScanner.useDelimiter(" ");

        while(studentNameScanner.hasNext()) {

            printStudentName(studentNameScanner);

        }
void averageGradeOfStudent(Scanner inputScanner) {

        inputScanner.useDelimiter("_");

        identifyStudentName(stringToScanner(scannerToStringNext(inputScanner)));

        calculateAverageGrade(stringToScanner(scannerToStringNext(inputScanner)));

    }

    void calculateAverageGrade(Scanner inputScanner) {

        ArrayList<Integer> gradeArrayList = new ArrayList<>(); //Store grades in an array list.

        inputScanner.useDelimiter(" ");

        while(inputScanner.hasNext()) {

            gradeArrayList.add(inputScanner.nextInt());

        }

        mathScoreCount = gradeArrayList.size();

        determineFinalGrade(gradeArrayList, mathScoreCount);

    }

    void determineFinalGrade(ArrayList<Integer> gradeArrayList, int mathScoreCount) {

        cumulativeMathScore = 0;

        for(int i = 0; i < gradeArrayList.size(); i++) { //Access each grade in the grade array list by looping through each element of the array list.

            cumulativeMathScore += gradeArrayList.get(i);

        }

        double mathScoreAverage = cumulativeMathScore / mathScoreCount;

        printGradeAverage(mathScoreAverage);

    }

    void printGradeAverage(double mathScoreAverage) {

        if(mathScoreAverage >= 5.5 && mathScoreAverage < 6) {

            out.printf("6-\n ");

        } else  {

            out.printf("%.1f\n ", Math.round(mathScoreAverage*2)*0.5);

        }

    }

A: You should output a tab before printing the first line with the student name, it seems.
Then, everything will line up nicely.
out.printf("\t")
while(studentNameScanner.hasNext()) {
        printStudentName(studentNameScanner);

    }


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HomeEnvironmentAs Mumbai gets ready to bid adieu to Bappa, the sea braces for more pollution
As Mumbai gets ready to bid adieu to Bappa, the sea braces for more pollution
September 10, 2019 Jahanvi J
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF PLASTER OF PARIS IDOLS
Usage of musical instruments and speakers at Ganesh visarjan processions adds to noise levels. Representational image (Ganesh Visarjan at Girgaum Chowpatty in 2007). Pic: Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 2.0
Maharashtrians mostly believe that the popular 10-day Ganesh Chathurthi festival, which ends on Sept 12 with the immersion of idols in the sea, was first started by Chhatrapati Shivaji. Today, it is the biggest festival in the state, especially Mumbai, with Ganesh Pandals displaying larger than life idols, gaily painted and adorned with jewellery and entertainment through the night. For idol makers and sellers in Mumbai, it is a festival for making some profit. Environmental activists, however, see it — and especially the immersion of idols in the sea — as a disaster.
Immersion of Ganesh idols usually takes place at Girgaon Chowpatty, Juhu beach, Marve beach and Aska beach in Mumbai. Other than this, the city administration has designated 129 spots for immersion. But people mostly go to the popular beaches for idol immersion. It is estimated that 1.63 lakh idols were bought by households this year and over 19,000 idols for public viewing by the Ganesh Pandals. Most of these are made using thermocol and Plaster-of-Paris (POP). Very few idols are made from clay.
A vendor, who has been making Ganesh idols for years, said that people don't purchase that many clay idols. "It is difficult to cover the cost of clay idols. POP idols are cheap, easy to make and in demand. On the other hand, clay idols are biodegradable but they are fragile and expensive. They cost more than double the POP idols. Also, it takes longer to make them. So, for both sellers and buyers, clay idols don't seem to be a feasible option." A Mumbai citizen concurs, saying that the smallest POP idol costs somewhere around Rs 150 while the cost of a comparable clay idol would be in the range of Rs 300-350.
Assault on the environment
The immersion of the POP idols is known to cause adverse effects on the environment and marine life in the water bodies where they are dumped. Not just the POP, but heavy metal paints, jewellery used for decoration and other materials used in worship adds to the degradation.
Professor Shyam Asokekar, Centre for Environmental Science and Engineering at IIT-Mumbai, carried out a test which showed that POP idols remain in the water for months and years whereas clay idols dissolve in 45 minutes. A similar study conducted by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) found that after immersion of idols, total dissolved solids increased by 100 percent. The heavy metal content increased tenfold and many of the insoluble materials disrupted the oxygen level, reducing the lifespan of aquatic fauna.
Attempted regulation and failure
It's not that there haven't been regulations to prevent such degradation. CPCB guidelines clearly restrict use of toxic paint and POP idols. The guidelines also say flowers, clothes and other materials should be removed before immersion, biodegradable materials are to be collected separately and non-biodegradable materials should be dropped at landfills. It is recommended that synthetic liners be placed at the bottom in the sea or other water bodies, so that remains of idols can be collected and disposed of later. Along with this, activities should be conducted to raise public awareness on the use of eco-friendly idols. But these guidelines remain largely on paper in Mumbai.
The municipality has tried setting up artificial lakes for immersion, but this found few takers, even as environmentalists described this initiative as a farce, since the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) ultimately dumps the residue in the sea anyway. The BMC is yet to set up a recycling unit for this waste.
Moreover, in the eyes of environmentalists, such regulations and initiatives invariably are short term 'damage control' measures. The only long-term solution is to get people to shift to clay idols. In the current situation, though, that seems to be wishful thinking. A resident of Borivali said that he knows POP idols aren't environment-friendly, but he says he can't afford a clay idol.
Pic: Pradeep Chandra
The need for economic measures
Even if one were to discount the high price of clay idols, meeting the demand for idols in itself would pose a challenge: making clay idols requires skilled artisans, and their numbers are fast going down. Take the case of Pen village in Raigad district. The village is renowned for making Ganesh idols since the 1860s, when artisans started making idols in exchange for a sack of food grains. Only skilled artisans were entrusted with the responsibility. The village has been catering to the rising demand of idols as the festival gained popularity across India.
But the plight of the highly skilled artisans in the village is a sorry one today. They need a loan to purchase the material to make clay idols. In order to make ends meet, they too have shifted to making idols out of POP. A seller in Parel said that just the rent for the tiny space on the main road, where he keeps and sells his idols, is a big burden in itself. He hardly makes any profit on clay idols and hence has taken to selling only POP idols.
Under the circumstances, one can hardly blame the POP idol makers and sellers. Some sort of government intervention is needed. One option before the Maharashtra government is to subsidise the cost of clay idols, as in Goa. In order to prevent sale of POP idols, the Goa government, under Section 15 of the Environment Protection Act 1986, banned the manufacture, stocking, transport, display and sale of POP idols since 2008. In addition, the government provides a subsidy of Rs 100 per clay idol to the craftsmen, which has achieved some success in encouraging them to turn to clay. However, craftsmen are now demanding that the subsidy be increased to Rs 200, as input costs have gone up.
However, unlike in Goa, a complete ban is unlikely to work in Maharashtra, especially in Mumbai. But implementing a ban on immersion of POP idols in the sea and other water bodies, as Karnataka has done, can certainly be considered by the Mumbai authorities, especially in Chaupati beach, which sees the culmination of the grand Ganapati procession every year, with hundreds of idols being dumped in the sea.
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Toona sinensis, també coneguda com caoba xinesa, planta de vedella i ceba, cedre xinès, o cedre vermell (en xinès: 香椿, pinyin: xiāngchūn ; en  ; en malai, suren ; en ) és una espècie de planta del gènere Toona pròpia del est i sud-est d'Àsia; des del sud de Corea del Nord cap a l'orient, centre i sud-est de la Xina fins al Nepal, l'Índia nord-oriental, Myanmar, Tailàndia, Malàisia, i Indonèsia occidental.

Descripció
És un arbre caducifoli que creix 25 metres d'alçada amb un tronc fins a 70 centímetres de diàmetre. L'escorça és marró, llisa en arbres joves, tornant-se escamosa a llanuda en arbres vells.

Les fulles són pinnades (50-70 cm de llarg i 30-40 cm d'ample), amb 10-40 folíols, generalment no posseeix folíol terminal (fulla paripinnada) encara que de vegades és present (fulla imparipinnada). Els folíols individuals fan 9–15 cm de llarg i 2,5–4 cm d'amplada, amb un marge sencer o feblement serrat.

Les flors són produïdes a l'estiu amb panícules de 30-50 cm de llarg al final d'una branca.Cada flor és petita, de 4–5 mm de diàmetre, amb cinc pètals blanc o rosa pàl·lid. La fruita és una càpsula d'uns 2–3,5 cm de llarg, que conté diverses llavors alades.

Cultiu i ús
Les fulles joves de T. sinensis (xiāngchūn) són molt utilitzades com a verdura a la Xina. Tenen un sabor floral, similar al de la ceba, atribuït als compostos d'organosulfur volàtils. Les plantes amb fulles joves vermelles es consideren de millor sabor que aquelles amb fulles joves verdes. A la Xina i països del sud-est asiàtic com Malàisia, les fulles joves de Toona sinensis s'utilitzen per fer la «pasta de Toona», que s'utilitza com a condiment per servir amb farinetes d'arròs com a esmorzar i àpats senzills, o per millorar el sabor d'un plat o sopa. Els plats habituals elaborats amb pasta de Toona són arròs fregit amb caoba xinès, sopa de bolets amb caoba xinesa i la sopa de tofu caoba xinesa.

La fusta és dura i vermellosa. És valuosa, s'usa per a la fabricació de mobles i per a cossos de guitarres elèctriques. Com que és una «veritable caoba» (caoba diferent de Swietenia), és un dels substituts comuns de la caoba Swietenia («caoba genuïna»), que ara està restringida comercialment per ser d'origen nadiu.

Fora de la seva regió nativa, la T. sinensis es valora més com un gran arbre ornamental pel seu aspecte demacrat. És per lluny, l'espècie de Meliaceae més tolerant al fred i l'únic membre de la família que es pot cultivar amb èxit al nord d'Europa.

Culture
A la literatura xinesa, la Toona sinensis sovint s'utilitza per a una metàfora, com un arbre madur que representa el pare. Això es manifesta ocasionalment per exemple en expressar els millors desitjos al pare i la mare d'un amic en una carta, on un pot escriure «desitjant que Toona sinensis i lliri del matí es trobin forts i feliços» (en xinès: 椿萱并茂), amb la Toona sinensis referint-se metafòricament al pare i el lliri del matí (Hemerocallis) a la mare.

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Cal Prat, textile mill village, Llobregat River, Catalonia.
The regeneration of intermediate landscapes with significant heritage resources is an important challenge. The preservation of 15 small textile mill villages spread along the banks of a 20 km long stretch of the River Llobregat exemplifies this topic. The Llobregat Textile Colonies Master Plan is strongly committed with the care for local identity and environmental values, and proposes a civic network to ensure the development of vibrant neighborhoods connected through a river park. A balance between the residential and industrial activity of the colonies is needed in order to guarantee the feasibility of the heritage, according to the needs of local communities.
Llobregat Textile Colonies Master Plan, 2007.
Master plan of the textile mill village of Cal Prat, Llobregat Textile Colonies.


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Three more heats in the Australian 18 Footers League Super Skiff Series, sponsored by the Club Marine insurance company, took place on Saturday 24 November in strong winds peaking at 25 knots.
The first heat of the day was won by "d'Albora Marinas", skippered by John Winning, which led from start to finish. "Rag & Famish Hotel", sailed by John Harris, did very well to move up from eighth place at the first mark to take second place. Trevor Barnabas on "Omega Smeg" finished third.
Harris seemed to have thrown away the day's second Heat when "The Rag" capsized one minute before the start, but some quick crew work had the boat up and sailing again before too much time was lost, and they charged off in pursuit of the fleet. "d'Albora Marinas" was again at the head of affairs at the windward mark, but made an infringement and capsized while making a penalty turn. "The Rag" sailed an excellent downwing leg, and took over the lead, which she held to the finish. "Omega Smeg" took second place ahead of "Derwent Racing", which had sustained a sizeable hole in her hull from a collision in the earlier heat, and the hastily applied tank tape just held on long enough to get her to the line.
The stresses caused by the blustery wind resulted in only 11 boats coming to the starting line for the final Heat of the day, which proved to be even more punishing than the previous two."The Rag" took the winning gun, followed by Hugh Stodart on "Express Post" and "Omega Smeg".
It was later decided that, in view of today's damage to the boats and a forecast of more strong winds on Sunday, racing would be called off until the reserve day for the series, which will now be completed on Saturday 1 December in Sydney Harbour.
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Category: Luis Nieto
Take Over in Venezuela
Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez during a state visit to Caracas in 2000.
14ymedio, Luis Nieto, Montevideo, May 14, 2019 — Hugo Chavez's first visit to Uruguay might have gone unnoticed but for two local politicians: General Liber Seregni refused to meet with the leader of a military coup and Eleuterio Fernandez Huidobro, a man was always on the lookout for a soldier with whom he could share power, had long championed him.
Standing atop a mountain of foreign money, Chavez laid the foundations for his 21st century version of socialism at a time when the Marxist-Leninist model had collapsed all over the world, as if struck by lightning. A Venezuelan soldier, who had made a name for himself by attempting a coup d'etat against a social-democratic president, suddenly took on the gargantuan task of finding a new path to achieving socialism, and of redefining socialism itself.
Two classic socialist pamphlets — Lenin's What Is to Be Done? and Mao's Little Red Book — seemed outmoded after Lieutenant Colonel Chavez believed he had found a formula in those billions of dollars which later were lost to bribes, theft, gifts and purchases of goodwill that could tilt the scales of any international organization. Much of that fortune went to a business partner willing to share its revolutionary know-how: Fidel Castro's Cuba. continue reading
Until it collapsed, the Soviet Union paid the Cuban government the equivalent of roughly five billion dollars a year to turn the island into one big aircraft carrier stationed a few miles off the coast of its main enemy. But by 1990, as the Eastern European Socialist Bloc collapsed, things had started to go very badly for Castro and his countrymen. No solution had appeared on the horizon until a somewhat unsophisticated soldier swaggered into Castro's office, desperate to be seen as a comrade. Chavez did not make a good impression on Castro. He was not to Castro's taste but his petroleum was. He came from a country on which Castro had long set his sights, so the Cuban leader lent his support in the form of guerilla fighters.
In his over-exuberance, Chavez made a proposal to Fidel Castro that they unify their two countries. The island's strongman latched onto the idea immediately but had no intention of publicizing it. As it turned out, things happened as Chavez had proposed, but on Fidel Castro's terms: in the form of medical help to a friendly country.
The Cuban government gave Ramiro Valdes, one of the original leaders of the Cuban revolution, the task of getting 20,000 Cuban soldiers into Venezuela. Valdes then took command of the unofficial new country, appropriating its anthems, flags and diplomatic missions, and setting a single military command structure. Only after the current president of the National Assembly, Juan Guaidó, and his deputies took charge of the resistance did the scope of Cuba's intervention become widely known.
Is there a moral justification for spying on a foreign government, meddling in its politics and influencing its political parties because of some perceived "good." What is the "noble goal"? Is socialism as we know it a dream to be pursued or a nightmare from which we are never allowed to wake up?
Of course, the vast majority of Uruguayans reject the notion of a another country such as the United States, whether the president be Trump or Obama, determining the direction and manner we choose to legitimately exercise the right to elect our leaders.
But it is also true that the reason the Uruguayan left ruminates so furiously is because it has run out of formulas to copy and paste. The smell of gunpowder still lingers on, because once all the bloodsuckers are exterminated, the world should be a paradise for all humanity, singing with our fists held high. But that has not come to pass.
On his deathbed Chavez named Maduro as his successor. The choice was between Maduro or Diosdado Cabello. He had no doubt that the former bus driver from Caracas would make a good workers' president. Cabello, by contrast, had never enjoyed a friendly relationship with the Cubans.
Maduro is the product of a Cuban political training center run by the Union of Young Communists while the current minister of defense, Vladimir Padrino Lopez, is a member of the first graduating class of a school run by the Cuban army for senior Venezuelan officials. Cabello was left to deal with narcotrafficking, a political bomb always about to go off.
The threat of invasion from the United States is somewhat like the tale of the bogeyman. In fact, it is just as dangerous to let Cuba remain there, eternalizing the crisis, with the result being hunger, misery and death. The Cuban regime's needs to squeeze out every last drop of Venezuelan wealth to pay for the failure of its socialist model.
Juan Guaidó and his deputies in the National Assembly advance and retreat before trying again, both in Venezuela and abroad. It is the struggle of David against Goliath.
Meanwhile, in a meeting on Friday, May 3, member countries of the Lima Group — Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Cost Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Paraguay and Peru — passed a resolution asking Cuba to play a role in resolving the Venezuelan conflict.
Finally, somebody gets it. The opposition's improvisational approach has called its strategy into question. After the president of the Venezuelan parliament issued an executive order for the release of Leopoldo Lopez, representatives of the Lima Group countries adopted three measures in support of the National Assembly: 1) an investigation into money laundering by business associates, relatives and officials with ties to the Maduro government, 2) actions aimed at those countries propping up the regime (Russia, China, Turkey and Cuba) to convince them that supporting Maduro is not the best option and 3) support for the agenda of the Venezuelan parliament, specifically its calls for Maduro to step aside, a transitional government and free elections.
None of this was possible a few months ago. The courage and the successes of the deputies of the National Assembly have opened the way, although some only consider their mistakes.
Editor's note: This editorial was previously published in the Uruguayan weekly Voces and is reproduced here with permission of the author.
Author 14ymedioPosted on May 22, 2019 May 23, 2019 Categories 14ymedio, Luis Nieto
Onions And Caviar, Is It The Beginning Of The End? / 14ymedio, Luis Nieto
Lorena Freitez, Venezuela's new Minister of Urban Agriculture
14ymedio, Luis Nieto, Montevideo, 3 March 2016 – On 21 January, the sociologist Lorena Freitez was appointed Minister of Urban Agriculture of Venezuela, replacing Emma Ortega, who had lasted only two weeks in office. The new minister launched an ambitious slogan: "Transforming consumer cities into productive cities."
Freitez's reasoning is that if 84 percent of the Venezuelan population lives in cities, and only 11 percent in the countryside, it seems obvious that cities, taking advantage of the productive space they have, can produce the food they need, without needing to rely on imports and the little produced by the 11 percent who live in the countryside. Her mission is to promote the "Productive Revolution" from the communes, according a Tweet from President Maduro's at the time Emma Ortega was replaced by the young sociologist. continue reading
A daughter of sociologists, the young Chavista activist is known for her dedication to the creation of "collectives," groups of militant "Bolivarians," always ready to say yes to whatever comes their way. One of the collectives funded by the young sociologist, "Tiuna El Fuerte," can be defined certainly not for its knowledge of agriculture, but for its commitment to the hard core of the Cuban and Venezuela military who support the Chavista regime. Fuerte Tiuna is headquartered at the Defense Ministry, which is also the principle enclave of the regime's Armed Forces and it various Intelligence Agencies. Someone who organizes the so-called "colectivos" — vigilante gangs — in a such a select environment, is without a doubt a totally committed Chavista.
There is no doubt that in any serious country a ministry under the name of "Urban Agriculture" has not prospered. It would not have been permitted by a parliament with common sense and independence, not would ordinary people have allowed it. What is driving Maduro now? Nothing less than using whatever piece of land is available to plant onions, potatoes and corn. It is a clear appeal to "every man for himself."
In his ministerial appointment, formalized through Twitter, he argued that he and his wife Cilia raised 50 chickens at home, and that this is what any Venezuelan can do to easily overcome the food emergency. "The time has come to promote a new productive culture." While the measures differ, this is the spirit of Mao's Cultural Revolution, or the forcible transfer to the countryside imposed by Pol Pot in Cambodia, to name just two examples that cost millions of human lives.
Chavez had already insisted on taking advantage of the green spaces in Caracas to produce food for the population. In a corner of the Miraflores Palace, seat of the government, he managed to harvest corn, tomatoes and peppers. In addition, he worked on a project to fill Caracas with vertical chicken coops, to be used by a large number of apartment buildings.
With regards to government innovation, we have to remember when Maduro decreed the Ministry of Supreme Human Happiness. One assumes that the new Minister of Urban Agriculture will advance over the green spaces of the major cities to fulfill the goal for which the new Ministry was created.
The mission does not stop at agricultural production wherever there is land available in the city, but urges the breeding of fowl and hens on apartment balconies and terraces, along with pigs and goats in the more arid parts of the city. This, lamentably, is not a joke. Searching the internet and reading the official propaganda confirms the importance of these initiatives to the Chavista regime, which has devoted millions of bolivars to it.
Today, from Caracas, we are asking them to disclose the state of Public Health, where the deficit of medicines is affecting children with cancer as well as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's patients. There are no medicines, there is no food for the population, the popular vote left Chavismo without support from the Parliament, but the civil-military regime, as Chavismo likes to define itself, clings to the rickety raft of this tropical Titanic. Something the friends of Maduro, Cabello and the rest of the followers of the late Colonel Hugo Chavez should give some thought to.
Many are experts in surviving these unfortunate decisions of international solidarity, and when it is all over, and all that is left is the memory of the pain inflicted on the people of Venezuela, they will continue on in the name of the people. An abstract people, of course, using the political procedures manual to achieve power by democratic means, because on this, Chavismo wrote the book.
But not everything will be onions planted in pots and gardens. The opposition says that Chavismo has stolen from the public coffers an amount greater than Venezuela's foreign debt. The National Assembly (a unicameral parliament), now in the hands of the opposition, has decided to launch an investigation into irregularities into the allocations to well-known names, such as José David Cabello, who holds the position of National Customs and Tax Superintendent and is the brother of Diosdado Cabello, former president of the National Assembly. Or the nephews of Maduro's wife Cilia Flores, now prisoners in New York. Carlos Erik Malpica Flores, one of the nephews, was the nation's treasurer, a function he alternated with cocaine smuggling.
General Rafael Oropeza and Colonel Felix Osorio, both former Ministers of Food, were responsible for containers of meat and poultry from Uruguay that were left to rot on the docks of the port of Maracaibo, because the business was not about food but about the hard currency that the Central Bank advanced, well above the official exchange rate, with which they later operated on the black market. The list is very long, and all those investigated have direct ties to Chavista power.
Parliamentary deputy Ismael García, who presented the initiative to form an investigative committee, argued that there is sufficient documentation to indicate that of the 230 million dollars allocated to carry goods and services to Venezuela, sixty percent ended up in shell companies, that overcharged and faked imports. The deputy said that according to documents in the hands of the National Assembly, the fraud reached 138 billion dollars over a decade. Money now needed to import medicines and food that should be being provided by the destroyed Venezuelan food industry. In 2014 alone, 400 million dollars in medicines was lost, never appearing in the stocks of the healthcare system. Meanwhile, Venezuela is the Latin American country with the greatest amount of money invested in armaments.
These ladies and gentlemen of the brokerages will not have to plant onions in car covers and whatever container can hold a little bit of earth, they are assured of caviar, the very best produced in Russia, one of the countries with which Venezuela maintains privileged trade relations.
Desperate for fresh hard currency, PDVSA, the Venezuelan state oil company, has just sold to the Russian Rosneft 500 million dollars in shares of the Venezuelan state company PetroMonagas, of the Orinoco Belt; the Russians now have 40 percent of the shares in a company that, like so many others, is little by little letting the heritage of PDVSA seep away.
* Editor 's note: This column of opinion has been previously published in the Uruguayan weekly Voces. It is reproduced with the permission of the author.
Author 14ymedioPosted on March 4, 2016 March 4, 2016 Categories 14ymedio, Luis Nieto
Nicolas Maduro's Insults / 14ymedio, Luis Nieto
The secretary general of the Organization of American States, Luis Almagro. (OAS)
Background from Translating Cuba: Uruguayan Luis Almargo, secretary-general of the Organization of American States, sent a letter to Venezuela's National Electoral Council this November regarding potential irregularities in the upcoming elections and condemning the assassination of an opposition politician at a campaign rally. Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro responded by saying, "to call Almagro a piece of trash is an insult to trash."
14ymedio, Luis Nieto, 5 December 2015 – It is not Nicolas Maduro's insults that provoke sadness, but rather the reaction of Luis Almagro's compatriots, because the current secretary general of the Organization of American States (OAS) is a Uruguayan senator from the Popular Participation Movement (MPP), the majority group of the Broad Front (Frente Amplio). If the ex-president and senator José Mujica and the MPP are informed about the Venezuelan situation, it is even more incomprehensible that they can be so hard on Almargo, who is demanding guarantees for the opposition within a democratic system, as required by Mercosur (the Southern Common Market) of its partners. continue reading
Or perhaps Almagro was unknown to ex-president Mujica or was imposter during his tenure as Foreign Minister in Mujica's administration. What matters now is knowing whether the OAS secretary general will fulfill the duty of overseeing the quality of democracy of the countries that make up the institution that he leads, or will be distracted, like his predecessor José Miguel Insulza was, when he served at the head of the regional institution.
In Venezuela, we have seen the closing of newspapers and the purchase of radio and TV stations with public funds and their subsequent operation by Chavistas; the express dismissal of elected deputies at the will of the president of the National Assembly and the regime's number two, Lieutenant Diosdado Cabello; the imprisonment on false evidence of governors and mayors elected by popular vote; the detention and prosecution of students simply for demonstrating in the streets; the financing and provisioning of paramilitary groups such as El Picure which, curiously, is now mentioned as possibly responsible for the assassination of the Social Democrat leader Luis Manuel Diaz; use of the Venezuela's state-owned oil company (PDVSA) for partisan purposes, because none of this could have been done without generous cash.
Venezuela lacks nothing that one would see in any dictatorship, although, it is true, it maintains a very thin crust of democratic formality. Lately we have heard the argument that in the Caribbean the kind of insult Maduro uses to disqualify Almargo is nothing unusual. It is also true that Chavez dispatched insults with pleasure when he wanted to illustrate his contempt toward someone. And in Cuba, as well, the term "worm" is applied to those who oppose the Castro regime.
But wanting to generalize this behavior to the entire Caribbean region is an unjustified excuse not to clearly reject Maduro's insult to Almagro. He said it one, two, three, several times and from various angles, so as to leave no doubt. He is accustomed to showing the whip to his friends, and has called the Uruguayan vice president a coward. Who's next?
Almagro isn't speaking based the politics that drove the president he served under, Mujica, he is the highest authority of the OAS, and it is logical that his opinion represents the plurality of the countries that make up that organization, and which are beginning to tire faced with a regime that only flees forward, indebting the country to China and Russia to disguise its extravagances.
Maduro, a cocky blowhard who doesn't respond to ridicule as he relates in details the conversations he has with birds, still generates some kind of expectation in the Latin American left. In private, the whole world is laughing at him, but he continues to feed the hopes that this is the path to socialism.
Living in the limbo of political ethics is dangerous, and more dangerous if you occupy important positions, or take advantage of your notoriety to spread the idea that anything goes. In Chavismo there is no possibility of moving toward socialism. None. Rather, the regime seems inspired by "the worse the better," so any little help in increasing the arbitrariness, the institutional loss of prestige, the loss of the decision-making power of citizens, is welcome.
Fidel Castro had already raised complacent smiles with his use of the term "pluralcrap" to refer to the system of political parties with which Uruguay has built its society. The left let it go, like a vitality that, perhaps, it continues to share.
Maduro's insult should raise a unanimous and unambiguous condemnation, first of all by Almagro's partners. When it comes to human rights there is no territoriality, or is there? True or not, Uruguayan deputy Maria Macarena Gelman? You, more than almost anyone, bear witness to the fact that human rights have no country.
The letter Almargo wrote to Tibisay Lucena, Chavista president of the National Electoral Council, is a clear compendium of the unfavorable conditions that the Chavista regime imposes on the opposition, ahead of the December 6 parliamentary elections.
Apart from Maduro's insulting language, which should be broadly rejected by the Uruguayan left, it is the threat, implying that if the opposition wins he will resist from the streets, and we already know what that means: calling up his civil-military alliance against the Democratic Unity Roundtable of Venezuela.
From the head of the Executive Branch, with the Armed Services at his command, Maduro is announcing that he will take control of the streets and, in this case, he will engage in, among others, the same crimes that he himself invented in order to prosecute Leopoldo Lopez, San Cristóbal Mayor Daniel Ceballos and Mayor of Metropolitan Caracas Antonio Ledezma, among more than one hundred political prisoners. With the aggravating circumstance in this case that Maduro will oppose, with the use of public force, a decision that emanates from the popular vote. An announced coup d'etat, nothing more, nothing less. Does Almagro's letter to Venezuela still make no sense?
Maduro, and Latin American governments as well, started badly because they were blind to the amount of evidence of fraud presented by the Venezuelan opposition in asking for an audit of the election data. Many of these governments, we must not forget, were recipients of the millions that Chavez stole from Venezuela in order to create an favorable environment internationally for himself. Not only can it be said they were bribes, because they were delivered as solidarity donations with great fanfare, but, how else can one classify the suitcase full of cash that Antonini Wilson took from Caracas to Buenos Aires in a plane belonging to the state oil company, as if everything were Chavismo's private property, to the shame of his gullible friends?
Did Uruguay not receive, among so many other gifts, the electronic scoreboard for Centenario Stadium, 10 million dollars for clinics, and even what was necessary to remodel the building now occupied by the President of the Republic? Why would the Venezuelan government give Uruguay this money, which belonged not to it but to its people, when today its people don't even have toilet paper?
When Maduro insults Almagro he insults all those who are following with great concern what is happening in Venezuela, where we have family and friends. He reminds us too much of what we experienced in Uruguay and, as well, of the courageous attitude of the government of the late Venezuelan president Carlos Andres Perez, the only Latin American government that broke off relations with the Uruguayan dictatorship, following its abduction of Elena Quintero from the grounds of the Venezuelan embassy in Uruguay. The same Carlos Andres Perez against whom, years later, Chavez, Maduro, Cabello and Cilia Flores attempted a coup d'etat. Even if only by the margin of doubt before these attitudes, all Uruguayans should take Madruo's words as a personal grievance.
14ymedio Editorial Note: This op-ed was previously published in the Uruguayan weekly Voces. It is reproduced here with permission.
Author 14ymedioPosted on December 5, 2015 April 1, 2016 Categories 14ymedio, Luis Nieto


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Day-by-Day Preview of 2015 World Championships in Las Vegas
The following is a day-by-day preview of the 2015 United World Wrestling (UWW) World Championships, which will be held at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, Nev., Sept. 7-12.
Early-round matches (through the semis) start at 10 a.m. (PST) on a daily basis while Gold & Bronze Medal matches start daily at 6:30 p.m. (PST)
RETURN TO WIN'S COVERAGE OF THE 2015 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Greco-Roman
66K/145.5 pounds – Bryce Saddoris (U.S. Marines), Camp Lejeune, N.C.
Born: Feb. 22, 1988 (27), Spring Creek, Nev.
Bryce Saddoris
Worlds experience: 1-1 in one tournament (2014; pinned Loiqi Amirkhonzoda (TJK), lost to Ravaz Lashkhi (Georgia)
2014 World medalists: Gold – Davor Stefanek (Serbia); Silver – Omid Noroozi (Iran); Bronze – Tamas Loerincz (Hungary) and Edgaras Venckaitis (Lithuania)
75k/165 pounds – Andy Bisek (Minnesota Storm), Colorado Springs, Colo.
Born: Aug. 18, 1986 (29), Chaska, Minn.
Andy Bisek
Worlds experience: 6-3 in three tournaments with one bronze medal;
1-1 in 2011 at 74k, def. Aleksandr Kazakevich (Lithuania), lost to Ashkat Dilmukhamedov (Kazakhstan);
1-1 in 2013 at 74k, def. Balint Korpasi (Hungary), lost to Emrah Kus (Turkey);
4-1 (third) in 2014 at 75k, def. Petros Manoulidis (Greece), def. Roman Vlasov (Russia); lost to Neven Zugaj (Croatia), def. Veli-Karri Suominen (Finland), def. Hiroyuki Shimizu (Japan)
2014 World medalists: Gold – Arsen Julfalakyan (Armenia); Silver – Neven Zujag (Croatia); Bronze – Andrew Bisek (USA) and Elvin Mursaliev (Azerbaijan)
98k/216 pounds – Caylor Williams (U.S. Army WCAP), Colorado Springs, Colo.
Born: Jan. 7, 1991 (24), Palm Bay (Fla.)
Caylor Williams
Worlds experience: 0-2 in two tournaments;
0-1 in 2013 at 96k, lost to Cenk Ildem (Turkey);
0-1 in 2014 at 98k, lost to Marthin Nielsen (Norway)
2014 World medalists: Gold – Artur Aleksanyan (Armenia); Silver Oliver Hassler (Germany); Bronze – Cenk Ildem (Turkey) & Ghasem Rezai (Iran)
59k/130 pounds – Spenser Mango (U.S. Army WCAP), Colorado Springs, Colo.
Born: July 6, 1986 (29), St. Louis, Mo.
Spenser Mango
Worlds experience: 8-8 in five tournaments and placed as high as fifth, twice;
2-2 in 2009 at 55k, def. Anar Zeinalov (Estonia), lost to Hamid Soryan (Iran), def. Joaquim Martinez Abellan (Spain), lost to Erhan Karakus (Turkey);
0-1 in 2010 at 55k, lost to Nazir Mankiev (Russia);
0-1 in 2011 at 55k, lost to Arsen Eraliev (Kyrgyzstan);
3-2 in 2013 at 55k (fifth place), def. Jani Haapanmaeki (Finland), lost to Gyu-Jin (Korea), def. Fouad Fajari (Marianas), def. Kanybek Zholchubekov (Kyrgyzstan), lost to Roman Amoyan (Armenia) in bronze medal match;
3-2 in 2014 at 59k (fifth place), def. Fatih Ucuncu (Turkey), def. Peter Modos (Hungary), def. Kazuma Kuramoto (Japan), lost to Mingiyan Semenov (Russia), lost to Stig Andre Berg (Norway) in bronze medal match.
(Mango also competed in two Olympics, going 1-1 in 2008 and 1-2 in 2012, both at 55k)
2014 World medalists: Gold – Hamid Soryan (Iran); Silver – Mingiyan Semenov (Russia); Bronze – Elmurat Tasmuradov (Uzbekistan) & Stig Andre Berge (Norway)
71k/156 pounds – Justin "Harry" Lester (U.S. Army WCAP), Colorado Springs, Colo.
Born: Sept. 30, 1983 (31), Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
Harry Lester
Worlds experience: 14-6 in five tournaments with two bronze medals;
0-1 in 2005 at 66k, lost to Eduard Kratz (Germany);
4-1 in 2006 at 66k (bronze), def. Min-Chul Kim (Korea), lost to Kanatbek Begaliev (Kyrgyzstan), def. Gurbinder Singh (India), def. Nikolay Gergov (Bulgaria), def. Seref Eroglu (Turkey) for bronze;
5-1 in 2007 at 66k (bronze), def. Juha Petteri Hiltunen (Finland), def. Seref Eroglu (Turkey), def. Mayli Consuegra Panfe (Cuba), def. Ionel Puscasu (Romania), lost to Farid Mansurov (Azerbaijan), def. Tamas Loerincz (Hungary) in bronze medal match;
4-2 in 2011 at 66k (fifth), def. Aleksandar Maksimovic (Serbia), def. Angelo Mota Brea (Dominican Rep.), def. Pan Zheng (China) def. Kanatbek Begaliev (Kyrgyzstan), lost to Manukhar Tskhadaia (Georgia), lost to Pedro Mulens Herrera (Cuba) in bronze medal match;
1-1 in 2014 at 71k, def. Mindia Tsulikidze (Georgia), lost to Rasul Chunayev (Azerbaijan).
(Lester also competed in the 2012 Olympics, going 1-2)
2014 World medalists: Gold – Chingiz Labazanov (Russia); Silver – Yunus Oezel (Turkey); Bronze – Rasul Chunayev (Azerbaijan) & Afshin Byabangard (Iran)
80k/176 pounds – Patrick Martinez (U.S. Army WCAP), Colorado Springs, Colo.
Born: April 5, 1990 (25), Temecula Valley, Calif.
Patrick Martinez
Worlds experience: 0-0, first tournament
2014 World medalists: Gold – Peter Basci (Hungary); Silver – Evgeni Saleev (Russia); Bronze – Jim Eric Pettersson (Sweden) & Selcuk Cebi (Turkey)
130k/286 pounds – Robby Smith (NYAC), Colorado Springs, Colo.
Born: Jan. 30, 1987 (28), Danville, Calif.
Robby Smith
Worlds experience: 3-2 in two tournaments with high finish of fifth;
2-1 in 2013 (fifth) at 120k, def.Xiaoming Nie (China), def. Iosif Chugoshvili (Belarus), lost to Riza Kayaalp (Turkey);
1-1 in 2014 at 130k, def. Jong-Won Hwang (Korea), lost to Lyubomir Dimitrov (Bulgaria)
2014 World medalists: Gold – Mijain Lopez Nunez (Cuba); Silver – Riza Kayaalp (Turkey); Bronze – Heiki Nabi (Estonia) & Beylai Makhov (Russia)
85k/187 pounds – Jordan Holm (Minnesota Storm), Minneapolis, Minn.
Born: Jan. 17, 1982 (33), Northfield (Minn.)
Jordan Holm
1-1 in 2013 at 84k, def. Pedro Garcia Perez (Spain), lost to Rami Hietaniemi (Finland);
0-1 in 2014 at 85k, lost to Rustam Assakalov (Uzbekistan)
2014 World medalists: Gold –Melonin Noumonvi (France); Silver – Saman Tahmasebi (Azerbaijan); Bronze – Viktor Loerincz (Hungary) & Zhan Belenyuk (Ukraine)
Women's Freestyle
48k/105.5 pounds — Alyssa Lampe (Sunkist Kids), Colorado Springs.
Born: March 10, 1988 (27), Tomahawk, Wisc.
Alyssa Lampe
Worlds experience: 10-5 in four tournaments with two bronze medals
0-1 in 2010 at 48k, lost to Iwona Matkowska (Poland);
3-1 in 2012 at 51k (bronze), def. Angela Dorogan (Azerbaijan), def. Roksana Zasina (Poland), lost to Yanan Sun (China), def. Elenora Abutalipova (Kazahkstan) in bronze medal match;
4-1 in 2013 at 48k (bronze), def. Davi Nirmala (India), lost to Eri Tosaka (Japan), def. Madalina Lingurau (Romania), def. Tatyana Amanzhol-Bakatyuk (Kazahkstan), def. Melanie LeSaffre (France) in bronze medal match;
3-2 in 2014 at 48k (fifth), def. Narangerel Erdenesukh (Mongolia), def. Hyun-Young Oh (Korea), lost to Eri Tosaka (Japan), def. Silvia Felice (Italy), lost to Hyon-Gyong Kim (North Korea) in bronze medal match.
2014 World medalists: Gold – Eri Tosaka (Japan); Silver – Iwona Matkowska (Poland); Bronze – Hyon-Gyong Kim (North Korea) & Maria Stadnyk (Azerbaijan)
53k/116.5 pounds — Whitney Conder (U.S. Army WCAP), Colorado Springs, Colo.
Born: May 6, 1988 (27) Puyallup, Wash.
Whitney Conder
Worlds experience: 3-3 in two tournaments with high of ninth place;
1-1 in 2011 at 51k, def. Estera Dobre (Romania), lost to Kum-Ok Han (North Korea);
2-2 in 2014 at 53k (ninth), def. Tatiana Debien (France), def. Sumiya Erdenechimeg (Mongolia), lost to Sofia Mattsson (Sweden), lost to Myong-Suk (North Korea)
2014 World medalists: Gold – Saori Yoshida (Japan); Silver – Sofia Mattsson (Sweden); Bronze – Myong-Suk Jong (North Korea) & Jillian Gallays (Canada)
69k/157 pounds — Elena Pirozhkova (Titan Mercury), Colorado Springs, Colo.
Born: Oct. 13, 1986 (28), Moscow, Russia/Greenfield, Mass.
Elena Pirozhkova
Worlds experience: 23-8 in seven tournaments with five medals (one gold, two silver and two bronze);
1-1 in 2008 at 67k, def. Monika Michalik (Poland), lost to Katerina Burmistrova (Ukraine);
2-2 in 2009 at 63k (seventh), def. Aysel Can (Turkey), def. Jin-Young Hang (Korea), lost to Lyubov Volossova (Russia), lost to Justine Bouchard (Canada);
4-1 in 2010 at 63k (silver), def. Tatyana Zakharova (Kazahkstan), def. Maria Mendez Mayo (Spain), def. Katherine Vidiaux Lopez (Cuba), def. Lyubov Volossova (Russia), lost to Kaori Icho (Japan) in gold medal match;
4-2 in 2011 at 63k (fifth), def. Sandra Roa Velandi (Colombia), def. Luz Clara Vazquez (Argentina), def. Henna Johansson (Sweden); def. Laura Skujina (Lativa), lost to Kaori Icho (Japan), lost to Rui Xue Jing (China) in bronze medal match;
4-0 in 2012 at 63k (gold), def. Min-Wen Hou (TPE), def. Kayoko Kudo (Japan), def. Zhuoma Xiluo (China), def. Taybe Yusein (Bulgaria) in gold medal match;
4-1 in 2013 at 63k (bronze), def. Hayat Farag (Egypt), lost to Battsetseg Soronzonbold (Mongolia), def. Nathaly Griman Herrera (Venezuela), def. Maria Diana (Italy), def. Anastasia Bratchikova (Russia) in bronze medal match;
4-1 in 2014 at 63k (silver), def. Anastasija Grigojeva (Lativa), def. Battsetseg Soronzonbold (Mongolia), def. Danielle Lappage (Canada), def. Monika Ewa Michalik (Poland), lost to Yulia Tkach (Ukraine) in gold medal match.
(Pirozhkova also competed in 2012 Olympics; going 1-1 at 63k)
2014 World medalists: Gold – Aline Focken (Germany); Silver – Sara Dosho (Japan); Laura Skujina (Lativa) & Natalya Vorobieva (Russia)
55k/121 pounds — Helen Maroulis (Sunkist Kids), Tempe, Ariz.
Born: Sept. 19, 1991 (23), Rockville, Md.
Helen Maroulis
Worlds experience: 17-9 in six tournaments with three medals (one silver and two bronze);
1-2 in 2008 at 51k, def. Roksana Zasina (Poland), lost to Hitomi Sakamoto (Japan), lost to Jessica MacDonald (Canada);
4-1 in 2010 at 55k (bronze), def. Maria Gaidau (Moldova), def. Rikhangul Gukharbakiyeva (Kazahkstan), lost to Yu Horiuchi (Japan), def. Hafize Sahin (Turkey), def. Karima Ramis (Spain) in bronze medal match;
4-2 in 2011 at 55k (fifth), def. Alym Abdildina (Kazahkstan), def. Valya Tihomirova (Bulgaria), lost to Saori Yoshida (Japan), def. Emriye Musta (Turkey), def. Alma Escoto (Mexico), lost to Ida-Theres Nerell (Sweden) in bronze medal match;
3-1 in 2012 at 55k (silver), def. Nadesha Mikhalkova (Belarus), def. Maria Prevolaraki (Greece), def. Brittanee Laverdure (Canada), lost to Saori Yoshida (Japan) in gold medal match;
2-2 in 2013 at 55k (seventh), def. Kum-Ok Han (North Korea), def. Thi Hue Pham (Vietnam), lost to Sofia Mattsson (Sweden), lost to Maya Hristova (Bulgaria);
3-1 in 2014 at 55k (bronze), def. Elverina Zepeda (NCA), def. Battsetseg Altantsetseg (Mongolia), lost to Chiho Hamada (Japan), def. Katarzyna Krawczyk (Poland) in bronze medal match.
2014 World medalists: Gold – Chiho Hamada (Japan); Silver – Irina Ologonova (Russia); Bronze – Helen Maroulis (USA) & Irina Khariv (Ukraine)
58k/128 pounds — Alli Ragan (NYAC), Colorado Springs, Colo.
Born: June 16, 1992 (23), Carbondale, Ill.
Alli Ragan
1-1 in 2013 at 59k, def. Svetlana Lipatova (Russia), lost to Ayaka Ito;
2-2 in 2014 at 58k (fifth), def. Aisuluu Tynybekova (Kyrgyzstan), lost to Kaori Icho (Japan), def. Asem Seydametova (Uzbekistan), lost to Anastassia Huchok (Belarus) in bronze medal match.
2014 World medalists: Gold – Kaori Icho (Japan); Silver – Valeria Koblova-Zholobova (Russia); Bronze – Anastassia Huchok (Belarus) & Elif Jale Yesilirmak (Turkey)
63k/138.75 pounds — Erin Clodgo (Sunkist Kids), Colorado Springs, Colo.
Born: Aug. 23, 1990 (25), Richmond, Vt.
Erin Clodgo
Worlds experience: 0-0, first tournament; Clodgo did compete in the 2007 (8th) and 2010 (12th) Junior Worlds at 67 kilos
2014 World medalists: Gold – Yulia Tkach (Ukraine); Silver – Elena Pirozhkova (Russia); Bronze – Anastajia Grigojeva (Lativa) & Valeria Lazinskaya (Russia)
75k/165 pounds — Adeline Gray (NYAC), Colorado Springs, Colo.
Born: Jan. 15, 1991 (24), Chatfield, Colo.
Adeline Gray
Worlds experience: 16-4 in five tournaments with four medals (two gold, two bronze)
2-2 in 2009 at 67k (fifth), def. Maria Mueller (Germany), lost to Yulia Bartnovskaya (Russia), def. Yan Ma (China), lost to Ifeoma Iheanacho (Nigeria);
2-1 in 2011 at 67k (bronze), lost to Zhuoma Xiluo (China), def. Martine Dugrenier (Canada), def. Burcu Orskaya (Turkey) in bronze medal match;
4-0 in 2012 at 67k (gold), def. Dzhanan Manolova (Bulgaria), def. Yoshiko Inoue (Japan), def. Navjot Kaur (India), def. Dorothy Yeats (Canada) in gold medal match;
3-1 in 2013 at 72k (bronze), def. Andrea Gutierrez (Colombia), lost to Fengliu Zhang (China), def. Gouzel Manyurova (Kazahkstan), def. Yasemin Adar (Turkey) in bronze medal match;
5-0 in 2014 at 75k (gold), def. Qian Zhou (China), def. Yasemin Adar (Turkey), def. Hiroe Suzuki (Japan), def. Epp Mae (Estonia), def. Aline Ferreira (Brazil) in gold medal match.
2014 World medalists: Gold – Adeline Gray (USA); Silver – Aline Ferreira (Brazil); Bronze – Burmaa Ochirbat (Mongolia) & Qian Zhou (China)
Men's Freestyle
65k/143 pounds — Brent Metcalf (NYAC), Iowa City, Iowa
Born: July 14, 1986 (29), Davison, Mich.
Brent Metcalf
Worlds experience: 1-3 in three tournaments with no top-10 placements
0-1 in 2010 at 66k, lost to Otar Tushishvili (Georgia);
0-1 in 2013 at 66k, lost to Mehdi Taghavi Kermani (Iran);
1-1 in 2014 at 65k, def. Seong-Bum Park (Korea), lost to Mustafa Kaya (Turkey)
2014 World medalists: Gold – Soslan Ramonov (Russia); Silver – Sayed Ahmad Mohammadi (Iran); Bronze – Mihail Sava (Moldova) & Mandakhnaran Ganzorig (Mongolia)
60k/132 pounds — Leigh Jaynes-Provisor (US Army WCAP), Colorado Springs, Colo.
Born: Jan. 12, 1980 (35), Rancocas Valley, N.J.
Leigh Jaynes Provisor
Worlds experience: 0-2 in two tournaments
0-1 in 2007 at 59k, lost to Ayako Shoda (Japan);
0-1 in 2012 at 59k, lost to Munkhtuya Tungalag (Mongolia)
2014 World medalists: Gold –Tserenchimed Sukhee (Mongolia); Silver – Yulia Ratkevich (Azerbaijan); Bronze – Taybe Yusein (Bulgaria) & Natalya Golts (Russia)
61k/134 pounds — Reece Humphrey (NYAC), Columbus, Ohio
Born: July 31, 1986 (29), Indianapolis, Ind.
Reece Humphrey
Worlds experience: 4-2 in two tournaments with high placement of 8th;
2-1 in 2011 at 60k, def. Guillermo Torres (Mexico), def. Bilel Douissa (Tunesia), lost to Didier Pais (France);
2-1 in 2013 at 60k (eighth), def. Mykola Aivazian (Ukraine), def. Erhan Bakir (Turkey), lost to Masoud Esmailpourjouybari (Iran)
2014 World medalists: Gold – Haji Aliev (Azerbaijan); Silver – Masoud Esmailpourjouybari (Iran); Bronze – Yowlys Rodriquez (Cuba) & Nyam-Ochir Enkhsaikhan (Mongolia)
86k/189 pounds — Jake Herbert (NYAC), Ann Arbor, Mich.
Born: March 6, 1985 (30), North Allegheny, Pa.
Jake Herbert
Worlds experience: 4-2 in two tournaments with one medal (silver)
4-1 in 2009 at 84k (silver), def. David Bichinashvili (Germany), def. Sharif Sharifov (Azerbaijan), def. Gokhan Yavaser (Turkey), def. Abdusalam Gadisov (Russia), lost to Zaurbek Sokhiev (Uzbekistan) in gold medal match;
0-1 in 2010 at 84k, lost to Reineris Salas Perez (Cuba)
(Also competed in the 2012 Olympics, finishing 1-2 and in seventh place at 84k)
2014 World medalists: Gold –Abdulrashid Sadulaev (Russia); Silver – Reineris Salas Perez (Cuba); Bronze – Mohammad Mohammadian (Iran) & Selim Yasar (Turkey)
97k/213 pounds — Kyle Snyder(Titan Mercury WC), Columbus, Ohio
Born: Nov. 20, 1995 (19), Woodbine, Md.
Worlds experience: 0-0, first tournament; Snyder, the 2015 NCAA runner-up from Ohio State, competed in two Junior Worlds, 2013 (gold) and 2014 (bronze)
2014 World medalists: Gold –Abdusalam Gadisov (Russia); Silver – Khetag Gazumov (Azerbaijan); Bronze – Valeri Andritsev (Ukraine) & Javier Cortina Lacerra (Cuba)
57k/125 pounds — Tony Ramos (Titan Mercury), Iowa City, Iowa
Born: Feb. 12, 1991 (24), Glenbard, Ill.
Tony Ramos
Worlds experience: 0-1 in one tournament;
• 0-1 in 2014 at 57k; lost to Bekhbayar Erdenebat (Mongolia)
2014 World medalists: Gold – Kyong-Il Yang (North Korea); Silver – Vladimir Khinchegashvili (Georgia); Bronze – Hassan Rahimi (Iran) & Vladislav Andreev (Belarus)
70k/154 pounds — James Green (Titan Mercury), Willingboro, N.J.
Born: Dec. 19, 1992 (22), Willingboro, N.J.
James Green
Worlds experience: 0-0, first tournament; Green, the three-time NCAA All-American from Nebraska, did compete in the 2013 and '14 World University Championships and finished second in 2014.
2014 World medalists: Gold –Khetik Tsabolov (Russia); Silver – Yakup Gor (Turkey); Bronze – Ali Shabanov (Belarus) & Bekzod Abdurakhmanov (Uzbekistan)
74k/163 pounds — Jordan Burroughs (Sunkist Kids), Lincoln, Neb.
Born: July 8, 1988 (27), WinslowTownship, N.J.
Jordan Burroughs
Worlds experience: 14-1 in three tournaments with three medals (two gold and one bronze)
5-0 in 2011 at 74k (gold), def. Dmitri Rochnyak (Ukraine), def. Denis Tsargush (Russia), def. Ricardo Moreno (Venezuela), def. Ashraf Aliev (Azerbaijan), def. Sadegh Goudarzi (Iran) in gold medal match;
5-0 in 2013 at 74k (gold), def. Gamid Dzhalilov (TJK), def. Narasingh Yadav (India), def. Yabrail Hasanov (Azerbaijan), def. Ali Shabanov (Belarus), def. Aliashgar Akbarizarinkolaei (Iran) in gold medal match;
4-1 in 2014 at 74k (bronze), def. Augusto Midana (GBS), def. Yun-Seok Lee (Korea), def. Rashid Kurbanov (Uzbekistan), lost to Denis Tsargush (Russia), def. Rustam Dudaev (Ukraine) in bronze medal match.
(Burroughs also competed in the 2012 Olympics and won gold medal at 74k with a 4-0 record)
2014 World medalists: Gold – Denis Tsargush (Russia); Silver – Sohsuke Takatani (Japan); Bronze – Jordan Burroughs (USA) & Livian Lopez (Cuba)
125k/275 pounds — Zach Rey, Bethlehem, Pa.
Born: March 27, 1989 (26), Hopatcong (N.J.)
Zach Rey
Worlds experience: first World Championships; Rey is replacing two-time World bronze medalist (2009 and 2014) Tervel Dlagnev, who first earned the spot on this team, but was forced to withdraw because of injury.
Rey, the former NCAA champion from Lehigh, won the last two Pan American championships.
2014 World medalists: Gold – Taha Akguel (Turkey); Silver – Komeil Ghasemi (Iran); Bronze – Khadshimourad Gatsalov (Russia) & Tervel Dlagnev (USA).


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