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Benefits: Roll off morning stiffness by massaging the spine and belly organs.
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Benefits Include: Reduces stress and increases energy.
Hold for 5 breaths *Keep your hands (fingers pointing down) on low back for beginners.
Benefits Include: Builds abdominal strength and increases energy.
Hold for up to a minute *Use a stop watch to track time.
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The Cast-iron Canvasser
by Banjo Paterson
The firm of Sloper and Dodge, publishers and printers, was in great distress. These two enterprising individuals had worked up an enormous business in time-payment books, which they sold all over Australia by means of canvassers. They had put all the money they had into the business; and now, just when everything was in thorough working order, the public had revolted against them.
Their canvassers were molested by the country folk in divers strange bush ways. One was made drunk, and then a two-horse harrow was run over him; another was decoyed into the ranges on pretence of being shown a gold-mine, and his guide galloped away and left him to freeze all night in the bush. In mining localities the inhabitants were called together by beating a camp-oven lid with a pick, and the canvasser was given ten minutes in which to get out of the town alive. If he disregarded the hint he would, as likely as not, fall accidentally down a disused shaft.
The people of one district applied to their M.P. to have canvassers brought under the "Noxious Animals Act", and demanded that a reward should be offered for their scalps. Reports appeared in the country press about strange, gigantic birds that appeared at remote selections and frightened the inhabitants to death -- these were Sloper and Dodge's sober and reliable agents, wearing neat, close-fitting suits of tar and feathers.
In fact, it was altogether too hot for the canvassers, and they came in from North and West and South, crippled and disheartened, to tender their resignations. To make matters worse, Sloper and Dodge had just got out a large Atlas of Australasia, and if they couldn't sell it, ruin stared them in the face; and how could they sell it without canvassers?
The members of the firm sat in their private office. Sloper was a long, sanctimonious individual, very religious and very bald. Dodge was a little, fat American, with bristly, black hair and beard, and quick, beady eyes. He was eternally smoking a reeking black pipe, and puffing the smoke through his nose in great whiffs, like a locomotive on a steep grade. Anybody walking into one of those whiffs was liable to get paralysis.
Just as things were at their very blackest, something had turned up that promised to relieve all their difficulties. An inventor had offered to supply them with a patent cast-iron canvasser -- a figure which (he said) when wound up would walk, talk, collect orders, and stand any amount of ill-usage and wear and tear. If this could indeed be done, they were saved. They had made an appointment with the genius; but he was half-an-hour late, and the partners were steeped in gloom.
They had begun to despair of his appearing at all, when a cab rattled up to the door. Sloper and Dodge rushed unanimously to the window. A young man, very badly dressed, stepped out of the cab, holding over his shoulder what looked like the upper half of a man's body. In his disengaged hand he held a pair of human legs with boots and trousers on. Thus burdened he turned to ask his fare, but the cabman gave a yell of terror, whipped up his horse, and disappeared at a hand-gallop; and a woman who happened to be going by, ran down the street, howling that Jack the Ripper had come to town. The man bolted in at the door, and toiled up the dark stairs tramping heavily, the legs and feet, which he dragged after him, making an unearthly clatter. He came in and put his burden down on the sofa.
"There you are, gents," he said; "there's your canvasser."
Sloper and Dodge recoiled in horror. The upper part of the man had a waxy face, dull, fishy eyes, and dark hair; he lounged on the sofa like a corpse at ease, while his legs and feet stood by, leaning stiffly against the wall. The partners gazed at him for a while in silence.
"Fix him together, for God's sake," said Dodge. "He looks awful."
The Genius grinned, and fixed the legs on.
"Now he looks better," said Dodge, poking about the figure -- "looks as much like life as most -- ah, would you, you brute!" he exclaimed, springing back in alarm, for the figure had made a violent La Blanche swing at him.
"That's all right," said the Inventor. "It's no good having his face knocked about, you know -- lot of trouble to make that face. His head and body are full of springs, and if anybody hits him in the face, or in the pit of the stomach -- favourite places to hit canvassers, the pit of the stomach -- it sets a strong spring in motion, and he fetches his right hand round with a swipe that'll knock them into the middle of next week. It's an awful hit. Griffo couldn't dodge it, and Slavin couldn't stand up against it. No fear of any man hitting HIM twice.
"And he's dog-proof, too. His legs are padded with tar and oakum, and if a dog bites a bit out of him, it will take that dog weeks to pick his teeth clean. Never bite anybody again, that dog won't. And he'll talk, talk, talk, like a suffragist gone mad; his phonograph can be charged for 100,000 words, and all you've got to do is to speak into it what you want him to say, and he'll say it. He'll go on saying it till he talks his man silly, or gets an order. He has an order-form in his hand, and as soon as anyone signs it and gives it back to him, that sets another spring in motion, and he puts the order in his pocket, turns round, and walks away. Grand idea, isn't he? Lor' bless you, I fairly love him."
He beamed affectionately on his monster.
"What about stairs?" said Dodge.
"No stairs in the bush," said the Inventor, blowing a speck of dust off his apparition; "all ground-floor houses. Anyhow, if there were stairs we could carry him up and let him fall down afterwards, or get flung down like any other canvasser."
"Ha! Let's see him walk," said Dodge.
The figure walked all right, stiff and erect.
"Now let's hear him yabber."
The Genius touched a spring, and instantly, in a queer, tin-whistly voice, he began to sing, "Little Annie Rooney".
"Good!" said Dodge; "he'll do. We'll give you your price. Leave him here to-night, and come in to-morrow. We'll send you off to the back country with him. Ninemile would be a good place to start in. Have a cigar?"
Mr. Dodge, much elated, sucked at his pipe, and blew through his nose a cloud of nearly solid smoke, through which the Genius sidled out. They could hear him sneezing and choking all the way down the stairs.
Ninemile is a quiet little place, sleepy beyond description. When the mosquitoes in that town settle on anyone, they usually go to sleep, and forget to bite him. The climate is so hot that the very grasshoppers crawl into the hotel parlours out of the sun, climb up the window curtains, and then go to sleep. The Riot Act never had to be read in Ninemile. The only thing that can arouse the inhabitants out of their lethargy is the prospect of a drink at somebody else's expense.
For these reasons it had been decided to start the Cast-iron Canvasser there, and then move him on to more populous and active localities if he proved a success. They sent up the Genius, and one of their men who knew the district well. The Genius was to manage the automaton, and the other was to lay out the campaign, choose the victims, and collect the money, geniuses being notoriously unreliable and loose in their cash. They got through a good deal of whisky on the way up, and when they arrived at Ninemile were in a cheerful mood, and disposed to take risks.
"Who'll we begin on?" said the Genius.
"Oh, hang it all," said the other, "let's make a start with Macpherson."
Macpherson was a Land Agent, and the big bug of the place. He was a gigantic Scotchman, six feet four in his socks, and freckled all over with freckles as big as half-crowns. His eyebrows would have made decent-sized moustaches for a cavalryman, and his moustaches looked like horns. He was a fighter from the ground up, and had a desperate "down" on canvassers generally, and on Sloper and Dodge's canvassers in particular.
Sloper and Dodge had published a book called "Remarkable Colonials", and Macpherson had written out his own biography for it. He was intensely proud of his pedigree and his relations, and in his narrative made out that he was descended from the original Fhairshon who swam round Noah's Ark with his title-deeds in his teeth. He showed how his people had fought under Alexander the Great and Timour, and had come over to Scotland some centuries before William the Conqueror landed in England. He proved that he was related in a general way to one emperor, fifteen kings, twenty-five dukes, and earls and lords and viscounts innumerable. And then, after all, the editor of "Remarkable Colonials" managed to mix him up with some other fellow, some low-bred Irish McPherson, born in Dublin of poor but honest parents.
It was a terrible outrage. Macpherson became president of the Western District Branch of the "Remarkable Colonials" Defence League, a fierce and homicidal association got up to resist, legally and otherwise, paying for the book. He had further sworn by all he held sacred that every canvasser who came to harry him in future should die, and had put up a notice on his office-door, "Canvassers come in at their own risk."
He had a dog of what he called the Hold'em breed, who could tell a canvasser by his walk, and would go for him on sight. The reader will understand, therefore, that, when the Genius and his mate proposed to start on Macpherson, they were laying out a capacious contract for the Cast-iron Canvasser, and could only have been inspired by a morbid craving for excitement, aided by the influence of backblock whisky.
The Inventor wound the figure up in the back parlour of the pub. There were a frightful lot of screws to tighten before the thing would work, but at last he said it was ready, and they shambled off down the street, the figure marching stiffly between them. It had a book tucked under its arm and an order-form in its hand. When they arrived opposite Macpherson's office, the Genius started the phonograph working, pointed the figure straight at Macpherson's door, and set it going. Then the two conspirators waited, like Guy Fawkes in his cellar.
The automaton marched across the road and in at the open door, talking to itself loudly in a hoarse, unnatural voice.
Macpherson was writing at his table, and looked up.
The figure walked bang through a small collection of flower-pots, sent a chair flying, tramped heavily in the spittoon, and then brought up against the table with a loud crash and stood still. It was talking all the time.
"I have here," it said, "a most valuable work, an Atlas of Australia, which I desire to submit to your notice. The large and increasing demand of bush residents for time-payment works has induced the publishers of this ----"
"My God!" said Macpherson, "it's a canvasser. Here, Tom Sayers, Tom Sayers!" and he whistled and called for his dog. "Now," he said, "will you go out of this office quietly, or will you be thrown out? It's for yourself to decide, but you've only got while a duck wags his tail to decide in. Which'll it be?"
"---- works of modern ages," said the canvasser. "Every person subscribing to this invaluable work will receive, in addition, a flat-iron, a railway pass for a year, and a pocket-compass. If you will please sign this order ----"
Just here Tom Sayers came tearing through the office, and without waiting for orders hitched straight on to the canvasser's calf. To Macpherson's amazement the piece came clear away, and Tom Sayers rolled about on the floor with his mouth full of a sticky substance which seemed to surprise him badly.
The long Scotchman paused awhile before this mystery, but at last he fancied he had got the solution. "Got a cork leg, have you?" said he -- "Well, let's see if your ribs are cork too," and he struck the canvasser an awful blow on the fifth button of the waistcoat.
Quicker than lightning came that terrific right-hand cross-counter. Macpherson never even knew what happened to him. The canvasser's right hand, which had been adjusted by his inventor for a high blow, had landed on the butt of Macpherson's ear and dropped him like a fowl. The gasping, terrified bull-dog fled the scene, and the canvasser stood over his fallen foe, still intoning the virtues of his publication. He had come there merely as a friend, he said, to give the inhabitants of Ninemile a chance to buy a book which had recently earned the approval of King O'Malley and His Excellency the Governor-General.
The Genius and his mate watched this extraordinary drama through the window. The stimulant habitually consumed by the Ninemilers had induced in them a state of superlative Dutch courage, and they looked upon the whole affair as a wildly hilarious joke.
"By Gad! he's done him," said the Genius, as Macpherson went down, "done him in one hit. If he don't pay as a canvasser I'll take him to town and back him to fight Les Darcy. Look out for yourself; don't you handle him!" he continued as the other approached the figure. "Leave him to me. As like as not, if you get fooling about him, he'll give you a clout that'll paralyse you."
So saying, he guided the automaton out of the office and into the street, and walked straight into a policeman.
By a common impulse the Genius and his mate ran rapidly away in different directions, leaving the figure alone with the officer.
He was a fully-ordained sergeant -- by name Aloysius O'Grady; a squat, rosy little Irishman. He hated violent arrests and all that sort of thing, and had a faculty of persuading drunks and disorderlies and other fractious persons to "go quietly along wid him," that was little short of marvellous. Excited revellers, who were being carried by their mates, struggling violently, would break away to prance gaily along to the lock-up with the sergeant. Obstinate drunks who had done nothing but lie on the ground and kick their feet in the air, would get up like birds, serpent-charmed, to go with him to durance vile.
As soon as he saw the canvasser, and noted his fixed, unearthly stare, and listened to his hoarse, unnatural voice, the sergeant knew what was the matter; it was a man in the horrors, a common enough spectacle at Ninemile. He resolved to decoy him into the lock-up, and accosted him in a friendly, free-and-easy way.
"Good day t'ye," he said.
"---- most magnificent volume ever published, jewelled in fourteen holes, working on a ruby roller, and in a glass case," said the book-canvasser. "The likenesses of the historical personages are so natural that the book must not be left open on the table, or the mosquitoes will ruin it by stinging the portraits."
It then dawned on the sergeant that this was no mere case of the horrors -- he was dealing with a book-canvasser.
"Ah, sure," he said, "fwhat's the use uv tryin' to sell books at all, at all; folks does be peltin' them out into the street, and the nanny-goats lives on them these times. Oi send the childer out to pick 'em up, and we have 'em at me place in barrow-loads. Come along wid me now, and Oi'll make you nice and comfortable for the night," and he laid his hand on the outstretched palm of the figure.
It was a fatal mistake. He had set in motion the machinery which operated the figure's left arm, and it moved that limb in towards its body, and hugged the sergeant to its breast, with a vice-like grip. Then it started in a faltering and uneven, but dogged, way to walk towards the river.
"Immortial Saints!" gasped the sergeant, "he's squazin' the livin' breath out uv me. Lave go now loike a dacent sowl, lave go. And oh, for the love uv God, don't be shpakin' into me ear that way;" for the figure's mouth was pressed tight against the sergeant's ear, and its awful voice went through and through the little man's head, as it held forth about the volume. The sergeant struggled violently, and by so doing set some more springs in motion, and the figure's right arm made terrific swipes in the air. A following of boys and loafers had collected by this time. "Blimey, how does he lash out!" was the remark they made. But they didn't interfere, notwithstanding the sergeant's frantic appeals, and things were going hard with him when his subordinate, Constable Dooley, appeared on the scene.
Dooley, better known as The Wombat because of his sleepy disposition, was a man of great strength. He had originally been quartered at Sydney, and had fought many bitter battles with the notorious "pushes" of Bondi, Surry Hills and The Rocks. After that, duty at Ninemile was child's play, and he never ran in fewer than two drunks at a time; it was beneath his dignity to be seen capturing a solitary inebriate. If they wouldn't come any other way, he would take them by the ankles and drag them after him. When the Wombat saw the sergeant in the grasp of an inebriate he bore down on the fray full of fight.
"I'll soon make him lave go, sergeant," he said, and he caught hold of the figure's right arm, to put on the "police twist". Unfortunately, at that exact moment the sergeant touched one of the springs in the creature's breast. With the suddenness and severity of a horse-kick, it lashed out with its right hand, catching the redoubtable Dooley a thud on the jaw, and sending him to grass as if he had been shot.
For a few minutes he "lay as only dead men lie". Then he got up bit by bit, wandered off home to the police-barracks, and mentioned casually to his wife that John L. Sullivan had come to town, and had taken the sergeant away to drown him. After which, having given orders that anybody who called was to be told that he had gone fifteen miles out of town to serve a summons on a man for not registering a dog, he locked himself up in a cell for the rest of the day.
Meanwhile, the Cast-iron Canvasser, still holding the sergeant tightly clutched to its breast, was marching straight towards the river. Something had disorganised its vocal arrangements, and it was now positively shrieking in the sergeant's ear, and, as it yelled, the little man yelled still louder.
"Oi don't want yer accursed book. Lave go uv me, Oi say!" He beat with his fists on its face, and kicked its shins without avail. A short, staggering rush, a wild shriek from the officer, and they both toppled over the steep bank and went souse into the depths of Ninemile Creek.
That was the end of the matter. The Genius and his mate returned to town hurriedly, and lay low, expecting to be indicted for murder. Constable Dooley drew up a report for the Chief of Police which contained so many strange statements that the Police department concluded the sergeant must have got drunk and drowned himself, and that Dooley saw him do it, but was too drunk to pull him out.
Anyone unacquainted with Ninemile might expect that a report of the occurrence would have reached the Sydney papers. As a matter of fact the storekeeper did think of writing one, but decided that it was too much trouble. There was some idea of asking the Government to fish the two bodies out of the river; but about that time an agitation was started in Ninemile to have the Federal Capital located there, and nothing else mattered.
The Genius discovered a pub in Sydney that kept the Ninemile brand of whisky, and drank himself to death; the Wombat became a Sub-Inspector of Police; Sloper entered the Christian ministry; Dodge was elected to the Federal Parliament; and a vague tradition about "a bloke who came up here in the horrors, and drownded poor old O'Grady," is the only memory that remains of that wonderful creation, the Cast-iron Canvasser.
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Lots of news to share! First, our Kickstarter campaign for How to Live on Other Planets: A Handbook for Aspiring Aliens has 10 days left to go—get your pre-ordered copy now!
Secondly, the deadline for submissions to The Museum of All Things Awesome And That Go Boom is coming up on Sunday.
Finally, there's tons of new reading out from, and news for, Upper Rubber Boot authors since our last round-up over the summer!
Corey Mesler, author of The Sky Needs More Work, was discussed recently in The Commercial Appeal Memphis's article "2014 in Review: Remembering the year's best Memphis poetry":
As both a producer and a retailer of poetry, Mesler is not only grateful to patron saint of poetry Keillor, but also is well positioned to affirm the accuracy of a quote he recalls by novelist John Fowles: "Poetry, alas, is something you can't sell."
But Mesler is dauntless: "If you want to talk magic, I'd like more people to leave their homes occasionally to visit the bookstore to hear a poet read. How nice it is to hear a poet read his or her own words! How nice to know that you can take those words home with you in little packets called books!"
Lyn Lifshin, author of Marilyn Monroe: Poems, has a new book out with Glass Lyre Press entitled Femme Eterna.
Soles author Mari Ness has a poem in Goblin Fruit.
Apocalypse Now: Poems and Prose from the End of Days contributors:
Margaret Atwood did an AMA (ask me anything) over at Reddit.
Paolo Bacigalupi's The Doubt Factory reviewed by The New York Times and by Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing.
Kelly Link had a story in Lightspeed ("Water Off a Black Dog's Back") and her Get in Trouble was featured in a The Millions article, "A Year in Reading: Isaac Fitzgerald."
Ed Pavlić's book Let's Let That Are Not Yet: Inferno is one of five winners of the National Poetry Series.
David Roderick's poetry collection The Americans reviewed by Here & Now and featured on PBS Newshour.
Chet Weise's anthology of music and poetry, Language Lessons: Volume I, got a call-out in the Nashville Scene article, "Literary Death Match a Knockout in Music City." Language Lessons also contains work by Apocalypse Now contributors Brian Barker, Nicky Beer, Wayne Miller, Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum (who also edits our Floodgate Poetry Series) and Pinckney Benedict (who also contributed to How to Live on Other Planets), as well Upper Rubber Boot's Publisher Joanne Merriam.
E. Lily Yu's "Local Stop on the Floating Train" in Motherboard
How to Live on Other Planets: A Handbook for Aspiring Aliens contributors:
Indrapramit Das had a story at Strange Horizons: "A Moon for the Unborn."
Benjamin S. Grossberg's poem "Tense" was in Poetry Daily.
Rose Lemberg has a poem at Goblin Fruit: "The Law of Germinating Seeds"
Ken Liu (who is also a 140 And Counting contributor) had a story in Lightspeed ("State Change") and an interview with Xia Jia in the latest Clarkesworld ("Exploring the Frontier: A Conversation with Xia Jia"), as well as, in their past issues, a short story ("The Long Haul From the ANNALS OF TRANSPORTATION, The Pacific Monthly, May 2009") and an article on Chinese science fiction ("China Dreams: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction").
Alex Dally MacFarlane had stories at Beneath Ceaseless Skies ("Written on the Hides of Foxes") and Strange Horizons ("Because I Prayed This Word").
Mary Anne Mohanraj had an opinion piece at Salon ("My feminist revolution at 40: Why I let my gray show, and why it's a political act").
Daniel José Older had a story in Lightspeed ("Dust") and several opinion pieces at Buzzfeed Books including "I Sought Solace In My Bookshelf" and "Diversity Is Not Enough: Race, Power, Publishing."
Sarah Pinsker had stories in Escape Pod ("The Transdimensional Horsemaster Rabbis of Mpumalanga Province"), in Lightspeed ("No Lonely Seafarer"), and in Asimov's (which you'll have to get at the newstand to read).
Erica L. Satifka had stories in Daily Science Fiction ("Days Like These") and Shimmer ("We Take the Long View").
Sonya Taaffe had a story in Lackington's ("In Winter").
Hope you all have a happy New Year!
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I love…fasting! You may not have heard love and fasting put together before but if you try it, you are likely to love it. Calorie reduction, not eating for part of the day or even several days, may sound extreme; however, keep in mind that water-only fasting has been done for safely for a millennium. Recently, numerous studies have been published showing fasting to be one of our best tools for staying healthy and even reversing disease. Fasting truly can be the fastest route to better health, fasting can improve your brain, heart, blood pressure, blood sugar, arthritis, inflammation, mood, autoimmune problems, migraines, allergies, cravings and more. Even outcomes of cancer therapy are improved with fasting.
People often skip this powerful "fountain of youth" because they assume it's too hard. You will find options for water fasting as well as eating reduced calories that can be used in conjunction with many eating strategies including plant based, paleo and ketogenic. Despite the safety of limited fasting, prior to fasting I recommend you have a discussion with your medical provider.
Why does fasting make such a profound effect on our health and likely our longevity? Fasting, as well as caloric restriction, promotes the ultimate cellular detoxification process referred to as 'autophagy.' Autophagy involves removing cellular debris which enables our body to work more efficiently, essentially acting "younger." Incredibly, fasting not only cleans out our cellular debris but it also stimulates our stem cells to gear up and start rebuilding and repairing our body (i.e muscle, brain, immune systems). Finally, fasting also teaches our body to use fat for fuel, turning fat into ketones (ketosis).
Contrary to conventional wisdom, eating throughout the day often contributes to over-eating and disease. Restricting eating hours to a 10 hour window or less can dramatically improve health. Men and individuals with significant health issues may benefit from a shorter eating window of 6-8 hours. Generally, one should practice intermittent fasting only 5 days a week in order to ensure adequate overall nutrient intake and to prevent your body from adapting.
When should you be eating? While some studies show benefits with eating breakfast, this does not work for everyone. Other issues to consider are the timing of your eating – when your family eats together and when you are naturally hungry. You should avoid eating after 6-7 PM. Intermittent fasting/time restricted eating allows the body to start clearing your stores of sugar, start burning fat (i.e. making ketones) which results in lower glucose, triglycerides, inflammation and weight. Eating during hours of the day also allows our distended stomachs to return to a smaller size which helps normalize our super-sized American appetites.
This is an advanced version of the above intermittent fasting – you may want to do this 1x/week. When you eat only 1x/day it is really important to eat nutritionally dense foods like healthy fats (avocado) and the "G-BOMBS" that Dr. Joel Fuhrman refers to: Greens, Beans, Onions, Mushrooms, Berries and Seeds.
If you do well with intermittent fasting for 18 hours, just add 6 more and try to do this regularly, i.e. every 1-2 weeks. Water is the ideal drink but if you regularly consume caffeinated drinks, drinking a small amount can prevent a headache. You can also have a serving of herbal tea or Yerba Mate with Stevia if desired. Remember not to use juices, creamers or amino acid supplements as the goal is to actually be fasting.
If you did well with a 1 day fast, you are ready to try going 2-4 days in a row for more potential benefits. While fasting, it helps to exercise daily to stimulate fat burning and preserve muscle mass. By regularly fasting, your body's stem cells become activated which helps regenerate and rejuvenate your body (more muscle fibers and improved brain function). I recommend you limit fasting to no more than 4 days per month. Interestingly, many find it is just as easy to fast 4 days as 2 because as you burn fat and make ketones, your appetite drops dramatically and energy often increases. Women usually go into ketosis after 2 days, men after 3 days. The 3-4 day fast can be repeated every 1-4 months. Note that fasting results in sodium and potassium loss, use water with sea salt to balance, see the final thoughts below.
Not ready for short term fasting?
Option 1) Calorie restriction several times a week: Studies have shown when calories are dropped every other day, health improves. In the studies, men eat 600/women 500 calories every other day. The non-calorie restricted days do not have any specific limits as how much is eaten or when, yet weight drops and labs improve. Benefits can even be seen if calories are restricted to just 2x/week, the so called 5:2 plan.
Option 2) The "Fasting Mimicking Diet" (FMD) is a well-researched, convenient, albeit, pricey plan which involves consuming specific reduced calorie meals packaged and sold through www.prolonfmd.com. The 5 day FMD can be done every 1-4 months.
A few groups should not fast, most are obvious: individuals with an eating disorder (anorexic or bulimic), children < 18, pregnant/nursing women, those who are underweight, the extremely frail, i.e. uncontrolled heart failure, severe kidney or liver disease. Also, those with certain metabolic disease like porphyria, and disorders of fatty acid metabolism. Individuals with type 1 diabetes generally should not fast as they need very strict supervision and monitoring. Those with type 2 diabetes can fast but if taking medications to lower blood sugar, these medications typically should be reduced or not taken while doing a water fast – please discuss this with your provider.
Fasting is a very powerful wellness tool and that most reasonably healthy, non-pregnant adults can do. Limit your 24 hour fasting to a maximum of 4 days/month (either in a row or spread out). You should generally feel well during a fast. During a 3-4 day fast, you generally would stay on your hormones and hold off on taking vitamins, unless you know stopping a vitamin will cause issues for you to stop (i.e. getting constipated off of magnesium, fatigue off of B vitamins). Adding some sea salt to replace some of the electrolytes you can lose during fasting can help you address headaches or energy slumps (1/4 tsp. to glass of water as needed or 1 tsp. to 1 gallon of water). If you have cramping, add potassium 99 mg 2 caps 2-3x/day. The extra energy you have doing a fast might make sleep a bit off, so extra magnesium or melatonin can help. If you lose too much weight, experience weakness or lightheadedness that does not respond to drinking more water with sea salt, you would want to add food back in. For more information see: "Fasting and Eating for Health" by Joel Fuhrman (note that Dr. Fuhrman includes information on more extended fasting beyond the scope of this article).
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A lesson that we learned today: Share–so the both of us can have more room to eat other things. What a foodie thing to say.
Day 2 we chose our restaurants much faster…a little faster. We did A LOT of walking…did we want to? No. It just happened. We walked from Chinatown to Voo Doo Doughnuts (that we did no wait in line for because…45 minutes for doughnuts ehh pass) to the riverwalk to the tram stop to the hospital up on the hill. What…were we thinking? I remember…It's not thaaaat far we can do it.
Anyway, where did we go that was notable???
The boyfriend stumbled on this place on Yelp (Good Taste Yelp Page)and the food looked delicious! So we made our way over to this place which I would have never found the front door to if he wasn't with me. BTW, it's a little door to the left of the restaurant. We came in and it was a bare space with a bunch of people slurping and shoveling food into their faces. We sat and ordered. Here is where we should have known better and SHARED a bowl of noodles and ordered a side of roasted pork or roasted duck instead of getting our own.
The portions were generous and the dumplings were as big as the ones in the pictures on the menu. DEEELICIOUS. The chow fun was pretty good nothing to write home about, and definitely unnecessary but pft we're on vacation!! Vacation = gluttony.
After our gut busting brunch we went on that walking adventure I mentioned above. We went to the waterfront, the top of the hill on the tram (If you have a Tri Met Week Pass it will not cover the $4 tram ride to the hospital, but a monthly pass will), then to the Portland State campus (why not right?!) , then back to our place in the Nob Hill area. Whew.
We couldn't decide where to eat for dinner, but eventually settled to go to this handcrafted pasta place that I noticed yesterday. I was going to wait and experience it with my best friend and her dad when they got into town, but we decided to try it out first…why not! It was the BEST decision we made.
Let me preface, Grassa has the best pasta I have ever eaten from the flavors, to the freshness, and especially the price.
When confronted with the wall of pasta, I was set on trying the pappardelle, and I pointed the boyfriend to the carbonara since everyone was raving about it on Yelp. We also got the polenta, but lets just focus on the pappardelle at the carbonara… We found some seats in the communal seating situation they have there, and watched diverse groups of patrons eat. Then we got our food and forgot everyone else existed.
Please excuse my boyfriends finger pointing at the bowl, he wants you to to LOOK AT IT! This bowl of handmade bucatini, crispy pork belly, mixed with pecorino, and that fried egg that is just waiting to be popped will make any carb fearing dieter binge on pasta for a few days. Once the yolk is popped it oozes and mixes into the pecorino and breadcrumbs to great this slightly salty amazingly rich sauce that lightly coats each of the bucatini strands. Amazing. You'll keep swirling into your bowl until the sad moment when you realize it is all gone.
HAND..MADE…PAPPARDELLE. Pappardelle has always been one of my favorite pastas probably because it is reminiscent of the wide rice noodles that I have always been fond of, and I have always been impressed with how thin something can be but still sturdy enough to maintain its shape and hold onto sauces and flavors. What made this dish great was that even though there was chicken and all these other flavors on the plate, the pasta was the star. Yes, the chicken was well seasoned , the acid from the preserved lemons was balanced by its sweetness and the sourness of the olives….but the pasta was the vehicle that brought all these flavors to you in one thin noodle. So. Good.
After having our taste buds and minds blown at Grassa, we went down the street to Zeus cafe for some drinks and strolled to the street car stop and made our way back to our place in a pasta afterglow. Mmm.


Respected author and Dean of the Rotman School of Management, Roger Martin discusses large companies' ability to change their way of thinking. He gives the example of business heavyweights Proctor & Gamble who paved the way for innovation in marketing after re-inventing their brand with the help of two very important factors.
Martin reveals the company's two moments of truth; a consumer's choice to buy their product and their ultimate satisfaction with it. While many focus on the second of the two points, Martin stresses the importance of understanding the first moment of truth.
One must be encouraged to buy a product, not because they find it but because it finds them with the help of effective marketing. The famed author encourages companies to take a more holistic view of the consumer, putting focus on more than just physical needs.


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Self-fluxing nickel alloys Ni-B-Si and Ni-Cr-B-Si-C.
These materials are used for deposition and sintering of coatings resistant to corrosion, friction wear and abrasive particles. The coatings resist gas corrosion up to temperatures as high as 700 - 850 °C, and are resistant to fresh-and saltwater, saline solutions, oil-containing environments, ammonia and in other aggressive environments. They are not resistant, or weakly resistant, in inorganic acid solutions. The alloys melt in a range of temperatures typical of materials with eutetics in their structure. The base structural phase of coatings made from these alloys: Y - hard nickel-based super-saturated solution, chromium carbides of the type Cr23C6 and chromium carboborides; in powders with increased hydrogen content, particles of the stronger carbide Cr7C3 are also present. The coatings' hardness and wear-resistance increases as the content of chromium, boron, silicon and carbon. Boron and silicon form low-melting eutectics with nickel, with a melting point of 950-1080 °C, and restores oxide films on the surfaces of substrata with the formation of borosilicate slags (self-fluxing) in the presence of a liquid phase, and improve the substratum's wetability with liquid metals.
The adhesion, cohesion and wear-resistance of surfaces made from alloys with the same composition under dry friction and abrasive actions increases, as a rule, with higher density (reduced porosity) of the coating. Porosity of unsintered plasma coatings made from self-fluxing alloys can reach 10-12%, and that of gas-sprayed coatings can reach 20%. Reduction of the porosity of coatings and, as a result, a 5-10 times increase in strength is acheived by sintering the coating, which is done either simultaneously with annealment with plasma welding (the PTA process) or with the layer-by-layer deposition of a coating using gas-powder welding by alternating the process of layer deposition with layer fusion. Fusing sprayed layers is also done with a gas-fired burner, a plasmotron flame, through heating in a furnace, or with high-frequency currents. Thanks to their high density (with porosity generally less than 1%), detonation coatings do not require fusion following spraying. Porosity's impact on the quality and workability of coatings is complex. In conjugated surfaces, under semi-dry friction, the optimal porosity - obtained, for example, through plasma spraying without fusion, can promote low wear in a friction assembly. The pores, by accumulating lubricants, can prevent fretting of conjugated surfaces.
Dilatometric studies of sprayed coatings made from the base alloys NiCr13Si2B1, NiCr15Si3B2, NiCr16Si3B3, NiCr17Si4B4 has shown them to be free of phase transmutations when cooling in the range of temperatures from 960 to 20°C. For this reason, phase transmutations occuring in an iron-carbon system with changes in volume can lead to the danger of surface fracturing in steel and cast-iron substrata during cooling. Therefore, it is recommended to cool products with applied coatings made from self-fluxing alloys at a slow pace. The interval of recommended cooling speeds is, for example, for steel 10 – less than 100 100 °C/s; for steel 45 – less than 35 °C/s; for steel 70 – less than 5 °C/s. The general characteristics of Ni-Cr-B-Si-C also include the tendency to maintain hardness and resistance to abrasive wear following drawing-back with heating to 600 °C. The hardness of alloys at high temperatures ("hot" hardness) - for example, at 650 °C - can reach 50-70% of that measured at room temperature.
The field of application of powders made from nickel alloys includes: wear-resistant coatings on parts for metallurgic, mining and oil-extracting, energy, glass and chemical equipment, stamping and pressing instruments, car, train and boat parts, gas-pumping devices, agricultural technology, etc. The alloys are also used to produce mixtures with other materials for use in coatings: carbides, intermetallic compounds, and others.
Self-fluxing iron-based alloys are represented by the high-carbon alloys AP-Cr4Mn2Si2B4V1, doped with vanadium, chromium and manganese, and the iron-nickel-chromium alloy AP-G14 and the medium-carbon alloys FMI with eutectic composition. Coatings made from high-carbon alloy is marked by increased hardness and high resistance to abrasive wear in an aqueous environment, while eutectic alloys (FMI) boast resistance to friction wear at high slipping speeds.
The self-fluxing lead-nickel bronze Cu-Sn-Ni-B-Si is a material for creating wear-resistant coatings for products made from copper, copper alloys, and steel.
Self-fluxing alloys are produced by gas-spraying a molten solution. The resulting polydispersed powders are subjected to screening into fractions that are narrow in terms of particle dimensions for use in various technologies for spraying and welding coatings: detonation and supersonic spraying, gas-powder coating welding, gas-fired and plasma spraying, laser and electrospark welding, and plasma and induction welding.
Based on the client's needs, we can produce powders with other particle sizes. The minimal dimensions of meshes used to classify powders are: - 40 microns (~400 mesh) and 45 microns (325 mesh). Powders are not screened on meshes of less than 40 microns, since gas-sprayed powders typically contain a small amount of fine particles of less than 15-22 microns.
*Fig.1, fig.2: The shape and structure of powder particles in the nickel-based alloy AP-NiCr15Si3B2.
*Fig.3, fig.4: The shape and structure of powder particles in the iron-based alloy AP-FeCr4Mn2Si2B4V1.
Dilatometric analysis of self-fluxing alloys, heat content curves include the following characteristics points: the temperature at which the liquid phase appears, T0, and the temperature at which the maximum change in heat content is observed, Tm, (the peak of flowing on a DTA curve). This range of flowing in self-fluxing alloys, the parameter ΔT = T0 – Tm, plays an important role in selecting the optimal flowing temperature for a coating. It is recommended that the flowing temperature be as close as possible to Tm, at which the coating become more dense (porosity disappears), and a transitional diffusive layer of the necessary thickness is formed and the maximal strength of the coating and substratum is reached. In actuality, nickel alloys of the system Ni-Cr-B-Si-C that contain nickel borides and silicides, as well as chromium borides and carboborides, flow in a wider range of temperatures than ΔT, with gradual assimilation during flowing, during heating (dissolution in nickel) of clusters of high-melting compounds.
The characteristics of materials and coatings provided in the table are for reference only.
AP-NiCr16Si3B3 1040 Resistance to shock, high resistance to abrasive wear, fretting-corrosion, cavitational erosion, oxidation in air up to 800 ºC, corrosion in aqueous and alkaline environments and in other aggressive industrial environments. Workable by cutting and grinding. Wear-resistant coatings for parts in power engineering machine building (pumps and oil industry valving), metallurgical equipment for hot shops, stamping instruments, extrudors at tire factories, parts for automobiles, vessels and trains - for example, blades of screw-propellors, locomotive parts, car couplings, etc.
AP-NiCr16Si4B4Mo3Cu3 1010 High resistance to abrasion and friction wear, cavitation and fretting-corrosion.
Resoration and strengthening of transport mechanisms (rolls, bearings) of metallurgical equipment for hot shops, valves and cranks of diesels, pump shafts, plungers of oil drowned pumps, steam valves, blades, knives and screw conveyors of mixers and press moulds in the manufacture of refractory products (ceramics), etc.
AP-NiCr17Si4B4 1025 High resistance to abrasion and erosion due to its high-strength Cr7 C3 phase, and to corrosion in fresh- and salt-water, saline solutions, oil-containing environments; resistance to oxidation in air up to 700-750 ºC. f=0.4 for friction with Cr12Mo steel in open air. Strenghtening surfaces for machines and equipment parts for hot shops at metallurgical factories, oil drowned pumps and sludge pumps, gas-pumping devices, mining, transport and agricultural technology. Strengthening conveyor screws of extruders of polymer materials, etc.


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'People don't come here to be seen': Discover the hidden side of Barbados
Tuesday, May 15, 2018 | By Laura Latham
Barbados isn't all white sand and azure waves: it has some important political problems to clean up. There is the pressing issue of sewage leaking into a busy part of the south coast, although this year's election may speed things along. Outside the affected area, the tap water is potable and the sea safe to swim in.
Instead of the south, look to the wild and rugged east coast. This is where those who really know Barbados hang out: a vast swathe of national park with rocky shores, verdant hills and unspoilt beaches.
Alongside villages such as Bathsheba and Belleplaine, there are a few independent hotels and private rentals strung out along the coast. For many, this area epitomises the Barbados of decades ago.
"People don't understand this coast. It's not just a different demographic that comes here, but a different psychology – people who want beauty, scenery and peace," says Paul Doyle, a Canadian businessman who took a chance 30 years ago when he bought the ruined Crane Hotel on the tip of the south-east coast.
With its white sand beach, spa, bars and restaurants, The Crane is the only large-scale, purpose-built residential resort in this part of Barbados and is something of an institution. Doyle believes being on the less-fashionable side of the island is what makes it popular.
"People don't come here to be seen."
Skeete's Bay, near the new Beach Houses development
William and Elizabeth Johnston, from Devon, bought a two-bedroom apartment at The Crane in 2014 and didn't even consider the island's more popular and touristy western side.
"The east coast is spectacular, beautiful and completely unspoilt," says William. "We chose The Crane because it's away from the built-up part of the island but not too far from the airport, at just a 25-minute drive, with good supermarkets and excellent beaches."
Fractional property in a one-bedroom apartment at The Crane starts from $10,000 (£7,300) for a week in low season, with full ownership from around $600,000. Some properties have private pools, and most have direct sea views. There are also newer private residences available that are more contemporary in style than earlier properties, starting at $676,000 for two bedrooms.
Plans for The Crane are ambitious, but Doyle is taking his vision and faith in the east coast a step further. He's invested in another site that's even more removed from the west coast glitz in terms of location and ambience.
Beach Houses is a luxury development that has been designed for those who want the Barbados climate and natural beauty without the clubs, bars and super yachts.
Inside a Beach Houses development property
The resort overlooks Skeete's Bay, a small cove on the rocky eastern coastline, and will comprise 67 properties, a restaurant and store.
Residences are sleek and contemporary, split between fractional and outright ownership, with the latter homes being built to order. Prices start at $180,000 for four weeks' use, with villas priced from $1.95 million for two bedrooms. "The Beach Houses is really about getting away," says Doyle. "A place you can forget everything else in the world."
Local estate agent Karyn Fakoory, of Terra Luxury, says the east coast is mainly in demand with locals, as overseas buyers worry it's too remote and undeveloped. However, that's starting to change. "We've seen more clients moving east over the past four years. People want to disconnect, they're looking to spend their time in a more natural environment."
The wild coastline is better for surfing than swimming, and there is a thriving rental market catering to people wanting a more outdoors, active holiday than the resorts of the western shores offer. Available properties are often "beach chic" or rustic in style, with one or two storeys with sea views and a pool.
Tight building regulations mean development is strictly limited. Fakoory says beachfront homes in particular are rare because they can only be built on the footprint of existing properties. "We've seen a few sales in which buyers purchase a plot with an older house and redevelop the site into a luxury home," she says.
Perfect 10, a six-bedroom property that overlooks Cattlewash beach Credit: Knight Frank
Terra Luxury, a partner of Knight Frank, is currently listing Malta, a three-bedroom villa on a beachfront plot of 26,700 sq ft, for $1.95 million, and Byways, which is also on the beachfront and has four bedrooms and a pool for $1.1 million.
If you want something ready for the growing rental market, there's Perfect 10, a large, six-bedroom property that is currently split into two apartments and overlooks fabulous Cattlewash beach, is $799,000.
Fakoory says you'll get fewer amenities but better value on the east coast. But prices in Barbados overall are still around 20 per cent below their 2007 peak. "There really is room to negotiate island-wide," she says.
Given time to solve its political and infrastructure issues, Barbados could still be the place to buy the Caribbean bolt-hole you've dreamt of. There's a palpable desire there for change, so don't write the island off just yet.
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China vetoes UN voting to blacklist JeM leader
China on Wednesday blocked a UN Security Council measure that would have blacklisted the Pakistani founder of Jaish-e-Muhammed, the militant group that nearly brought South Asia to the brink of war last month after one of its suicide bombers attacked Indian forces. The vote was the council's fourth attempt to blacklist the founder, Masood Azhar, in a decade and was proposed by France with the support of the United States and Britain. Since 2009, the Indian government has tried to designate Azhar as a global terrorist for orchestrating the 2001 attack on India's parliament and the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks, which killed more than 160 tourists and local civilians, reports the New York Times. But every attempt has been blocked by China, which has served as a shield for Pakistan internationally as the two countries strengthen their military and economic ties. A spokesman for the Chinese mission at the United Nations did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the decision, which came during a closed Security Council meeting. When China vetoed previous attempts to list Azhar, it claimed India had not provided enough information to support the designation, a claim that New Delhi denied. As a permanent member of the Security Council, China has the authority to veto any measure. Its stance on Azhar has proved particularly frustrating to some council members. In recent weeks, as international pressure has risen over Pakistan's ties to terror groups, Islamabad has scrambled to show it is taking action against them - closing nearly 200 religious schools and arresting dozens of individuals linked to militancy. But US and European officials say they are waiting to see if the crackdown is effective or if the militants' infrastructure will spring back to life once international pressure on Islamabad subsides. The momentum to blacklist Azhar had gained new urgency. Last month, a suicide bomber claiming allegiance to Jaish-e-Muhammed slammed his explosives-laden vehicle into an Indian paramilitary convoy in the disputed region of Kashmir, killing 40 soldiers. India retaliated by sending fighter jets inside Pakistan for the first time in nearly five decades to hit what it claimed was a training camp belonging to Jaish-e-Muhammed. The episodes spurred fears of military escalation between the two rivals, both of which have nuclear weapons. Although Jaish-e-Muhammed has been blacklisted by the United Nations since 2001, Azhar is not specifically designated as a terrorist, allowing him to raise money for the group through front organisations inside Pakistan, according to Indian and US officials. Pakistan's government denies that Jaish-e-Muhammed is active in Pakistan. In 2010, Azhar was blacklisted by the US Treasury Department, which prohibits US citizens from conducting transactions with him and has frozen any assets he holds in the country. By listing Azhar at the United Nations, member states, including Pakistan, would be expected to take similar measures. Azhar founded Jaish-e-Muhammed, or the Army of Mohammed, in 2000 in Pakistan and has used the group to funnel weapons, cash and other support to the Taliban and al-Qaida, according to the United States. The group's core mission is to break Kashmir off from India and merge it with Pakistan. One of the many charities Azhar operated was described by the US Treasury Department as "one of the primary relief agencies that al-Qaida used to move supplies" in Afghanistan. On Tuesday, the United States had signalled its weariness with China over its attempts to block Azhar's designation. "The United States and China share a mutual interest in achieving regional stability and peace," Robert Palladino, a State Department spokesman, said at a news conference in Washington. "A failure to designate Azhar would run counter to this goal."
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has wrapped up two days of talks with senior North Korean officials without meeting Kim Jong Un.
North Korea says high-level talks with a U.S. delegation led by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo were "regrettable" and has accused Washington of trying to unilaterally pressure the country into abandoning its nukes.
The statement by an unnamed North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman on Saturday came hours after Pompeo concluded two days of talks with North Korean officials led by Kim Yong Chol, the Associated Press reported.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has wrapped up two days of talks with senior North Korean officials without meeting Kim Jong Un but with commitments for new discussions on denuclearization and the repatriation of the remains of American soldiers killed during the Korean War.
Before departing Pyongyang on Saturday, Pompeo told reporters that his conversations with senior North Korean official Kim Yong Chol had been "productive," conducted "in good faith" and that "a great deal of progress" had been made in some areas. But he stressed that "there's still more work to be done" in other areas, much of which would be done by working groups that the two sides have set up to deal with specific issues.


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1. Do headphones work with android phones. Specifically a Samsung S6?
Zeus headphones work with every phone which has a bluetooth.
2. What is the difference between IPx5 and IPx7?
IPх5 means resistance against splashes from any directions, IPх7 is a possibility to put your ear buds under the water 1 meter deep within 30 minutes. For workout or running under the rain ipx5 is enough.
3. Will these earbuds work with old ipod (it's generation 3)?
These work with Bluetooth version 2.1 and upper.
4. What's the big difference between this model and the Zeus Sport?
These have improved sound with more massive bass respond. The design of these is also new so it is a kind of the next generation after Zeus Sport. Zeus Outdoor have Ipx7 waterproof index but Zeus Sport IPx4 sweatproof..
5. Will these headphones pair with more than one device?
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6. Can they be used in a pool?
You can listen to music in these being in a pool but I would not recommend to swim because these may fall out under the water due to water resistance. Anyway these are ok up to 1m depth..
7. How to register my headphones for warranty?
Please, fill out the form Warranty which is on the link http://zeusfuture.com/warranty.
8. Are there buttons to skip forward or backward to songs?
Yes there is just hold the up volume button to skip forward and same to skip backwards hold the Down volume button.
9. What is the furthest distance or average range of the Bluetooth?
33 feet if there is no obstacle. When I am at the gym my smart phone not so far from me - about 15-17 feet and everything is ok..
10. Is headphones compatible with all Bluetooth mp3's?
Zeus Headphones connect to all devices with Bluetooth version 2.1 and upper.
11. Can this be used on a TV that is not a smart TV?
You can use these with a TV Bluetooth transmitter.
12. Can these headphones connect to ps4?
13. Are Zeus Outdoor waterproof? Working out in pool?
Bluetoorh headphones Zeus Outdoor is rated ipx7. Meaning headphones will not be damaged by rain or even in the shower - but we strongly do not recommend using them in a pool.
14. Do the ear buds come with charger?
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15. How do you remove and replace the earbud tips?
Just pull them lightly with the tips of your fingers and place the new tips by pressing.
16. Can you answer a phone call?
Sure! You may answer or end calls pressing the button with a logo ZEUS.
17. How long does one full charge last?
Zeus Outdoor last up to 9 hours after being fully charged..


Lenovo is all set to unveil its latest mobile wonder, the Z5 on June 5. The date might be deliberate to let it rhyme with the actual product through the big deal here is the likely features the phone is expected to come with.
That includes a world-beating 95 percent screen to body ratio which no doubt will be the new benchmark so far as smartphone displays are concerned. And to achieve those stupendous figures, bezel depth has to be almost negligible on all sides, which the company VP Chang Cheng has claimed it really is. While it remains to be seen if the company can really achieve that, anything even near to it will be a feat in itself.
A true all-screen front again isn't the only trump card Lenovo has with the new Z5. Rather, Cheng said their upcoming flagship will have four technological breakthroughs to boast, which again is powered by at least 18 patented technologies. Cheng, however, hasn't spelled out what those breakthrough are but said the phone will have on offer 4 TB of storage space. It's not known if this happens to be one of the breakthroughs, but that much of storage on a mobile is in itself a novelty.
Cheng meanwhile also hinted the Z5 will have about 45 days of standby times, which could be another of the four tech breakthroughs that would come to define the new Z5. That again would be a world-beating stuff considering that anything near to the 10-hour mark for a top-end smartphone backup time is considered excellent. To better that more than four times over can be considered a huge feat.
The last breakthrough is, however, a mystery at the moment with Cheng dropping hint what it is likely to be. This considering that an all-screen display, 4 TB of storage along with 45 days standby times are the other three breakthroughs Cheng boasted of.
The rest of the specifications is again anybody's guess at the moment. That includes the likely processor the phone will have at its core or the RAM strength. The current craze happens to be the Snapdragon 845 though it is no secret that it sips more power to fuel its enhanced processing prowess.
The likely placement of the front-facing cam is another aspect that the tech world will be looking forward to considering that the usual place it is accommodated on a smartphone is taken up by the display. A few line drawing of the phone has also been doing the rounds of the Chinese social circles, and those are mighty impressive too.
All of it no doubt makes the Z5 one of the most awaited smartphones of recent times, and it remains to be seen if it can really live up to all the hype it has created so far.


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Does anyone have a explanation for the smoke comming out of the center vents. I don't think it's really smoke, more like condensation. There is no smell to it, just a little sticky.
I was driving yesterday during a heavy rainstorm, with the a/c on. I also had the recirculation button on. Everything ran fine except for when I activated the recirculation button I noticed a significant loss of air velocity.
It still ran cold just not quite as much air flow.
After the storm was over, I opened the windows to enjoy the cooler temps.
I then turned off the a/c and recir. buttons and BAM! There was white smoke/vapor pouring out of the center dash vents.
Anyone have an idea what could cause this? I've had the car since new, Dec.1990, and have never had this happen. It sorta freaked me out for a moment.
I've had this twice... I can only assume it's a bizarre combination of humidity and temperature. If the outside air was very humid, when it was cooled by the a/c the moisture would condense and make water vapour. Also if the air in the car was cooler than outside.
It's like when you breath out on a really cold day, and you can see your breath. Yeah.
It was very humid outside and we were driving on the road with the A/C on. I shut off the A/C to see we could go without it as the outside temp was not really that hot. After a few minutes it was rather uncomfortable so I turned the A/C back on and immediately this heavy white "smoke" came pouring out of the center vents. My wife freaked, but it had no smell and went away after a couple of minutes. I decided it had to be a result of the humidity and some combination of events that we had never have happen before.
Same here, maybe 2 times in 6+ years. I stopped worrying about it.
same thing happened here, scared the crap out of at first, was ready to grab the fire exhitguisher.
Same thing here..... but I've only had the car 1 week.
Thank you all for responding and putting my mind at ease.
It was very humid just prior to my opening the windows. I thought it might have something to do with the recirculation of the inside air in the car.
Pretty interesting you would have ice crystles comming out of you vents.
I can't wait to have the ice maker turn on the next time it happens. I'll try to have a glass with scotch in it, waiting at the vent.


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Santarsiero, Santarziero, Santarsiei, «St. Arsenius alias S. Alfano», Sant'Arsenio. Autonomous University in the «state » of Diano, then City. Km from Salerno. 83.
The village is located not far from the prehistoric caves of Pertosa. Discovered fragments of pottery on site and a figurative Ionic vase (crater). Name of the village comes from the Roman Saint (354), who was at the court of Theodosius and then in Egypt, where he died.He had cult of greek rite. Eponym of the local church and monastery of Greek-Italian religious who had a particular reverence for the holy hermit.
His arrival is to be placed towards the end of ninth century. First settlement was on the hill (location Serrone).There is no information of the place in the Lombard period. Only in 1136 the Count of Marsico Sylvester Garner gave the church of S. Maria Maggiore to the Abbot Simeon and «totum et integrum tenimentum ecclesiesancte marie, casalis Sancti Arsenii, cum casali ipso et cum omnibus hominibus redditibus.»
The document, if authentic, is worth noting for specific concessions (pasture, trusts, forests, freedom for men to offer themselves with all their belongings to the Abbey, etc.). This had of Sant'Arsenio only the first civil and mixed jurisdiction, while the criminal jurisdiction continued to be exercised by the Counts of Marsico.
From Sylvester fiefs passed (1180) to his son William (or Goffredo?). Succeded to him William II (1163) and then Philip, which were revert goods for rebellion. Enrico Sanseverino, son of Roger (I), which had married Sica, daughter of Pandolfo Capaccio, GuaimarioIV's brother, married Isabella Guarna, daughter of Sylvester (II) Henry obtainedto be able to buy goods before they were handed over to the IRS. He held so the county (, while his son William, then contestable and executioner, had the county of Marsico and the barony of Diano.
The church and monastery of Sant'Arsenio (priory and rectory) were confirmed to Abbot Marino and exempted from the jurisdiction of the bishop of Capaccio by Eugene III (1149) and then by Alexander III (1168). In the Archive of the Abbey of Cava there are three documents related to S.Arsenio from 1186 to 1381. The abbots of Cava were landowners of S. Arsenio for their jurisdictions between 1136 and 1513, starting from Abbot Simeon who had the donation of Silvestro (II) Guarna, Count of Marsico. Followed the abbot Marino who obtainedprivileges and other abbots, including Balsamo, Leonardo, Thomas, Americo, Leone, Bernardo, Philip de Haya, Mainerio who obtained by the bishop of Capaccio the restitution of churches of the Badia, including that of S. Arsenio. We read in the registers of this Abbot that in the period S. Arsenio remitted annually to Cava 10 golden ounces and 10 pounds of wax.
In Angevin age, for hidden fires 7, University was held to pay an ounce and tari 22 and half. Of 1366 is a letter of Queen Joanna I to the executioner of the Kingdom of Sicily for maintenanceof the assets of the hamlet of S. Arsenio and the church of St. Catherine in Polla belonging to the Abbey. In 1370 the queen asked the regent of the Curia to inquire of the raid made by the count of Marsico, Antonio of Sanseverino in the villages of St. Peter of Polla and Sant'Arsenio. On 21 June 1381 the judges Cirone Gargano of S. Arsenio and Thomas Piper of St. Peter of Polla, in their capacity as auditors representatives of the two communities lent, also on behalf of itsadministered, the oath of loyalty to the abbot Antonio, insurance of fidelity renewed on 19 May 1382.
On August 7, 1394 Boniface IX elevated as seat of dioceses Cava giving to the abbots of Cava the Episcopal jurisdiction. In the dowry was also included the Church of St. Arsenio. On August 26, 1405 King Ladislas confirmed the feud «Noble nominatim Ensenium Sancti Arsenii, pertinentiarum Dyani» to Antonio Malavolta conferred by Luigi Sanseverino with the obligationof the feudal service. In 1472 (April 17, V, S. Arsenio) was lord Sant'Arsenio Jacobello from Laurito, as we read in a scroll « De lo Laurito» concerning the sale of animals as pigs to Nicola Barile of Sant'Arsenio; followed the Cardinal Oliviero Carafa and then the monks of congregation of St. Justina of Padua later known Montecassino.First bishop of Cava and Baron of Sant'Arsenio (1513-1515) was Cardinal Luigi d'Aragona. He was succeeded by the Neapolitan Peter Sanfellice that also had the spiritual jurisdiction, civil and mixed of Sant'Arsenio.
In Cedolario we read that in 1522 S. Arsenio still owned by the monastery of Cava. The village was then given for d. 120 annual to Hannibal of Capua who becameso useful gentleman of Sant'Arsenio. The bishop Sanfelice then renounced to his title in favor of his nephew Gian Tommaso Sanfelice, who gave in perpetual lease the jurisdiction of S. Arsenio to brother Antonio or Antonello Sanfelice for 91 shields that the apostolic commissioners declared equivalent to d. 120.He sold the jurisdiction of the village to Bernardino de Hoyeda, Governor of prince Sanseverino of Salerno, reserving a census of d. 120 in favor of the Bishop of Cava; de Hoyeda took possession of it thanks to Francesco from Prignano, Baron of Aquarola in Cilento. The citizens emigrate because of the high tax burden.
The new baron, by his lieutenant, claimed the burial right in the church (8 pugs), and a plea. He had married the Spaniard Maria of Lion and had appointed his heirs grandchildren Didaco (Diego) and John, assigning to the second one the upholding of criminal jurisdiction entrusted to him by the prince Sanseverino and to Diego the civil jurisdiction.
Diego and Giovanni de Ogeda received the oath of allegiance on May 8, 1548 by Sant'Arsenio vassals of the church of St. Mary Greater. Diego did not reduce the first tithe, but only of 5 pugs the burial law. In 1549, another grant of chapters. Died in 1561, he was succeeded by his brother John who took possession on August 13, 1861, but the mayor refused to recognize him if he had notconfirmed privileges and chapters of the previous landowners.
Baron resorted to R. Chamber that ordered the dissection for peaceful possession.On 2 February 1606 the marquis bought the «state» of Diano by the marquis G. Battista Caracciolo of Brienza and gathered in the hands of a single overlord the civil and criminal jurisdiction of S. Arsenio.Local historians remember the misdeeds of the bandit Tittariello Verricella with its received about 300 villains.Dead Marquis F. Antonio Villano on 3 May 1668, inherited fiefs his cousin Maria Villano and son Fabio Colonna, Prince of Colobraro.
On May 8, 1683 the civil jurisdiction and mixed of Sant'Arsenio was granted to the regent Charles Caia for d. 5130. The Duke of Diano was obliged, however, to pay the canteen bishop of Cava: d. 122.80. In the same year the Duke Calà gave for testament the civil jurisdiction and mixed to his nephew Giovanni Maria Calà, preservating to the Dukes of Diano criminal jurisdiction. This jurisdiction, as it was said, had been to the Sanseverino, the barons of Diano.
Giovanna Sanseverino had been confirmed in 1463 by King Ferrante thepossession of S. Arsenio for all her life «et post eius mortem»his son Roberto «inter alia» the land of Diano with the hamlets of St. Arsenio and St. Peter « que nullo modo dividi possint a iurisdictioni terrae Diani ».On October 2, 1567 in Sant'Arsenio was made an instrument of division between the hamlets of Sant'Arsenio, St. Peter and Diano of the district Lake of Carusi.
On September 2, 1576 Nicola Grimaldi renounced in favor of his second son Merualdo the land of Diano with the title of Marquis. For debts incurred by Nicola and Merualdo Grimaldi the estate was auctioned and bought by d. 62,100 by Octavio Albino for Giulia Caracciolo, Marquise Brienza, who gave it up in favor of his son G. Baptista Caracciolo.
This, in turn, sold it to John Vi1lano, marquis of Polla. He gave it up in favor of his nephew Giovanni.Sale has not been finalized in 1614 if John Villano senior in that year gave the jurisdiction of weights, measures and Bagliva.The grandson kept the barony briefly. On November 11, 1625 for his too much debts became friar (regular clergy), so he gave up in favor of his brother to Polla with title of marquis and land ofDiano and hamlets with that of St. Peter, who was part of the «State» of «Polla. Passed to Calà, Charles Calà tried to sell the estate to Camilla Pignatella, sales could not be made for refusal ofthe r. assent. The feud then passed to Charles's brother, Jerome.
He had been disinherited. This died in 1698 without heirs so arrived the taxation (dispute with a relative, Adriano Calà) that seized assets leased to Berlips Countess, wife of Hadrian Calà (meanwhile dead) and guardian of her son Marcello. He died in 1703 and the widowM. Brigida Spinola, Marquise Bamonte, guardian of his son CarloMary offered another 20,000 ducats if the IRS receded from lite. Donated the estate of the Diano R. Court (24 May 1703) was accepted the offer increased to d. 22,500 to be paid in three installments, for which Carlo Maria had actual possession of the fiefs. To Carlo Maria (m. 26 December 1783) was succeeded by his niece Bridget Calà (she was the daughter of his brother Marcello) who had married Vincenzo Schipani that inherited Diano 'maritale nomine».
Died in 1826 succeeded to him in the title his son Ignatius, to him followed (1866) William.Giustiniani says just a bit of Santarsiero or Santarzieri. He speaks about the 1750 inhabitants in his day, all farmers and shepherds, and informs us of the numbers from 1532 to 1669. A big epidemic had hit the village before 1648. The population in 1595 had 1065 inhabitants; in 1548it was reduced to just 400.
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