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Popular Q&A about Zero Diet Products
Published on February 28, 2017 By Nautilus Plus
Marie Rached, nutritionist at Nautilus Plus, provides answers to all your questions about the new Zero Diet products recently launched on the market!
Cheesy Pepper Bread
What makes this Cheesy pepper bread a good snack?
This new bread is an excellent source of protein made with plain Greek yogurt (first ingredient on the list!), milk, eggs, and cheese. It tastes likes cheese quiche, but contains way less fat! It's the perfect snack for people who don't have time to prepare breakfast, and it's much better than anything you could get at a drive-thru! Moreover, to give you a concrete example, the sausage Timatin contains twice as many calories, four times as much saturated and trans fats, and three times as much salt as our Zero Diet Cheesy pepper bread.
Can it replace a full meal?break
It does not constitute a balanced meal in itself, but all you need to do is add a side dish, such as a fruit, yogurt, or even a latte if you eat it for breakfast. Add a source of fibre for a quick lunch on-the-go!
It contains 13 g of fat, of which 4.5 g is saturated. Isn't this too much for a snack?
The saturated fat is from egg yolk and Parmesan cheese: both of these are nowhere near the top of the list of ingredients, which means there's actually not much of them in there. Ideally, you should aim for less than 5 g of saturated fats.
16% of the DV for sodium, isn't this much for a bread?
No, it's actually not that much! First, you should know that on average, the daily sodium requirement is 2300 mg. Since a full meal should contain approximately 30% (28% breakfast, 28% lunch, 28% dinner, and 16% for snacks), we can safely assume that 16% is an adequate quantity. Even as part of a meal and served with a fruit or a dairy product, which are both from low-sodium food groups, we don't exceed the recommended value for a full meal! It's important to mention that we lose a lot of salt through sweat. People who exercise need to consume more salt to maintain a proper balance.
PESTO CHICKEN FARFALLES
What are the distinguishing features of Pesto chicken farfalles?
This new dish is absolutely delicious! It contains ingredients from all food groups, in addition to providing 27 g of protein from the chicken breasts. Although this type of meal usually contains 700 calories, this one has only 450!
4 g of fibre, is this enough for a full meal?
4 g of fibres is within the minimum recommended guidelines for a meal. However, you could combine this dish with a small vegetable soup, raw veggies, or a salad.
25% of the daily recommended intake for lipids, including 28% in saturated and trans fats, is it too much?
We aim for a maximum of 30% lipids. Remember, the table of nutritional values is based on a 2000 calories daily intake. In this case, 28% equals one serving of fat from canola oil, and another serving from cream.
Why is there cream in a dish deemed "healthy"?
It's all about the quantities used! In this case, cream is at the bottom of the list of ingredients, just before spices; therefore, there's not much. Cream adds a creamy texture and a delicious taste.
Why use a mix of three colours of pasta rather than whole-wheat pasta?
Most people prefer white pasta over whole-wheat pasta. We want to show that it's possible to make a healthy, satisfying, and full meal even using white pasta.
POLYNESIAN TURKEY MEATBALLS
Why do they contain 22 g of sugar?
In the table of nutritional values, "sugar" refers to all sugars, both natural and artificial. In this case, 14 g of the sugar comes from the natural sugar contained in pineapple. Because it's the third ingredient on the list, it significantly increases the total quantity of sugar. The remaining portion is from a small quantity of cane sugar used to cut the bitterness and enhance the sweetness of the dish.
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If you've seen the latest RST Sport blogs, you'll have noticed (I hope!) that I was recently blogging about James Hayden in the Transcontinental here and here. I'm still pretty amazed with James' win. It's a truly epic ride, which I don't think I could even contemplate (seriously) attempting. I'm not sure I'd get through it! In terms of ultra distance cycling this is a pretty huge event, and an impressive win. I'll certainly be discussing some finer details about the preparation and the event in some other articles.
What I can say is that I was a little 'sniffy' at the event when James originally asked me to coach him. I'd sort of thought of it as a glorified touring event, and not an actual race. I couldn't have been further away from the truth. Sure, if you're used to doing road races, or time trials etc. it may be somewhat 'away' from that, but if you look at some of James' data you'll see that his power is huge; his 25 mile TT PB is 46:56, his 10 mile TT PB is 18:55, and he's won regular road races. Impressive stuff.
While the race was on, I fervently followed his 'dot' (online tracker) to see how he was going. I was genuinely surprised at how exciting this was. I was more surprised at how fast James was travelling. In the end, covering more than 4000km (yup, further than the Tour de France) including sleeping and stoppage time, and having ridden over plenty of mountains, his average speed was just shy of 19 km/hr. Moving time average was significantly more.
I'm proud to have coached James for the Transcontinental, and ecstatic that he won. It was a close battle. I think James needs some down time after the Transcontinental to repair various battered body bits. I'd love to coach him again for next years event.


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Anthropomorphism and The Absurd; so much to learn from William Kentridge.
Universal Archive (12 coffee pots) by William Kentridge 2012
Things linger with me and if I am ever in doubt about what is important to me I just ask myself what has been hanging about in my subconscious for a few weeks or months. Important things stand the test of time.
Back in January last year I visited The Tanks at Tate Modern. William Kentridge's 8 channel video, 'I am not me, the horse is not mine', was the inaugural show at The Tanks and it made quite an impression on me.
Surrounded by 8 huge screens in The Tanks at Tate Modern.
I was most likely drawn at first to his appreciation of the absurd; something which has always interested me. The idea of a man's nose taking on a life of its own and then the nose's life becoming more important than the man's is definitely absurd and strange and interesting too.
(This storyline makes up much of, 'I am not the horse, the horse is not mine').
I did make a short video of it however this one by erased culture is a better snapshot than mine.
Later in March 2013 I went to see 'A Universal Archive: William Kentridge as Printmaker' at The Midlands Arts Centre in Birmingham. The show is a Hayward Touring show (Southbank Centre London) and it's next venue is Aberystwyth Arts Centre 8th March- 16th May 2014.
The show is a fantastic overview of William Kentridge's (printmaking) career and includes over 100 prints from 1988 to the present. However his work is almost completely monotone and I personally need colour in my own work so I was still a bit puzzled as to what it was exactly that was drawing me to this artist's work.
Throughout the prints, drawings and etchings in the show there were some recurring visual motifs including: typewriters, telephones and the very classic Bialetti facetted metal coffee percolator.
'Self-Portrait as Coffee Pot' 2012 says it all. For me it is a perfect combination of the concept of the anthropomorphic and also a wonderful enjoyment of the the absurd.
Self Portrait as a Coffee Pot by William Kentridge 2012
It has been said that my own sculptures (Frillip Moolog beings) have strong anthropomorphical qualities and I also have to admit to really liking the faceting on this style of coffee pot. Maybe I also enjoy seeing a solid shape sectioned into similarly shaped components?
Hooty 2012 by Kirsty E Smith
While walking round the show at MAC (Midlands Arts Centre) I got a strong sense of the absurd. And this is something that is given special mention in the excellent learning resource which accompanies the show.
The Nose gets ideas of grandeur; here it is on the horse.
The Nose as a ballerina. William Kentridge
"Many of Kentridge's works make reference to the idea of 'the absurd'. Explored through literature, theatre, and art, absurdism was a philosophical movement linked to surrealism and existentialism, based on the idea that beneath the logic and structure by which we attempt to live or lives, there is meaningless to human existence. As well as exploring the idea that tragedy and disaster can befall us all, absurdism also makes evident the ridiculousness of the habits and structures by which we exist. Kentridge's explorations also extent to the absurdity of apartheid; a system that had become brutally lost in its own ridiculous logic."
Absurdism also plays with coincidence chance and possibility. An aspect of this is the process by which meanings are created when random objects are put together."
Excerpt from Education Pack written by Fiona Godfrey
Kentridge says that objects have suggested themselves to him (there is no political intent) and he and the audience project their own meanings onto these objects.
Putting my own work in situations which might be interpreted as absurd is also of interest to me. 'Mi Wawa with Cows' and 'Hurgle Lenz: donkeydays'; do these photographs have absurd qualities?
Mi Wawa with Cow. sculpture and photograph by Kirsty E Smith
Hurgle Lenz: donkey days. Sculpture and photograph by Kirsty E Smith
In the show there is a huge print of a woman with telephone in place of her head. 'Telephone Lady' (2000) At the time I didn't realise that it was in fact a lino cut print; one on a very large scale 216cmx 120cm.
Anyone who portrays a woman with a telephone as her head is definitely very interesting to me!
Photograph: © the artist and David Krut Fine Art, New York and Johannesburg
As I walked through the multitude of prints what became very evident is that William Kentridge is fantastic at story telling and so that was another big reason why I was intrigued and interested.
"Kentridge's prints are a theatre of the mind: you see his imaginary world performed on a small stage, with all its familiar characters – Ubu, Felix, Soho; even the objects that feature in his work amount to recurring characters. Soho's Bakelite telephone morphs into his neglected mistress, waiting for his call. The studio coffee pot doubles up as the artist's own buzzy head. And the film camera strides the landscape on its tripod legs, a heartless, if watchful machine."
Laura Cumming The Observer 25.08.13
Although the show is a show of William Kentridge's prints (and he himself says that whether it is his work with ballet, opera, theatre or animation, always at the heart of his practice is printmaking) what I see is a storyteller who has a strong sense of the theatrical in his work.
I am especially interested in this as I too am very interested in the theatrical but at present I am struggling to find ways to introduce more performance into my practice.
But I should not be too hard on myself; William Kentridge's practice has developed over many years and things didn't happen over night for him either. In the 1970's he spent five years acting and directing theatre in South Africa and then he spent several years studying mime at L'Ecole international de Theatre Jaques Lecoq in Paris before returning to South Africa in 1985. His practice became truly multi disciplinary when he started to work collaboratively with Handspring Puppet Company in 1992.
There are various videos online of his presentations, some which feature snippets of his animated drawings projected behind him and others which which actually feature himself having a conversation with himself. These videos give a brilliant insight into an artist who enjoys the creative process, who has refused to restrict himself, who keeps an open mind ... even to the extent that while making his animated drawings he develops the story during the drawing process. He says that the the story unfolds (even to himself) during the physical process of drawing. Ideas develop and evolve during the short walk between the camera and the drawing and these then dictate what he draws or rubs out, re-draws or amends.
"Kentridge's art is an extended thinking process; a fluid intelligent and playful reflection on the world, a constant capturing of experience, of making connections. In his printmaking process this journeying occurs from the initial creation of the plate, to what arises in the printing process, to where this may lead next. In the animation process this journeying occurs from frame to frame, while over his lifetime we see it evolving from art work to art work".
If my enthusiasm has resulted in me writing a blog post which seems a bit confusing then just watch this 3 minute video where the artist speaks very eloquently and engagingly himself.
William Kentridge as Printmaker continues at Aberystwyth Arts Centre 8th March -16th May 2014
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The night flew by and I then contended with my unwanted free day, setting off to make this productive….
I wasted no time in the repository before starting on the exercises for class…. After working, I indulged in some brief web-based research. My mission: to Facebook-stalk this curious creature named Chris Ong. I'd give the lad credit for crafting an elusive profile. My longish search concluded when I checked our classmate Ashley's profile and found him among her friends.
I'll describe my brief look at his profile, which had him as 'Topher Ong'. Aside from being search-shy, the bloke had the barest of information available to the public. His profile picture – which couldn't be enlarged – featured Chris wearing a black shirt as he spoke upon a mike. His current cover photo included a dreamy panorama with rock formations and the sea. A snap of the Three Sisters, dated 2011, served as prior cover before being replaced by a koala pic. I was appreciating his Facebook presence when a message flashed on the screen, reading 'your time's up. Please go to the counter to pay if you require further computer use'. The screen went blank. Penniless, I hung around the park.
'This is Kitty and I watching Good Will Hunting (1997).' He showed us clips of the pair as they chomped on some popcorn. He might have even played visuals of his cat hanging near his TV and fiddling with the remote. I couldn't be too sure as I was thinking, what the hell is this? Is he trying to make a mockery of how clueless and dim-witted he thinks of Asians?
'Who teaches your class in Writing Simplistic Documents?' I bumped into Stan, an acquaintance from another bloc, during lunch break.
'He asked me this really complex question just today and when I requested that he rephrase it by querying 'About what?' he shot back 'About anything'.
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New Book Asks: Is US a 'Nation of Heretics?'
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NEW YORK CITY, May 1, 2012 (CNA) -- Are Americans actually trading in faith for a more secular outlook? Or is the country's religious center merely shifting – toward a array of sects, visionaries, charismatic leaders and unorthodox doctrines?
In his new book "Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics" (Free Press, $26.00), New York Times author and Catholic convert Ross Douthat argues that churches, and society as a whole, are imperiled by belief systems that draw from the Christian Gospel while seriously distorting it.
"I use the term 'heresy' because the reality I'm trying to capture is a country, the United States, that is still more influenced by Christianity than by any other religious tradition, and that is certainly still in many ways as 'religious' as ever," Douthat told CNA in an April 30 interview.
"I look at the United States and I don't think it makes sense to call us a secular country, or even a 'post-Christian' country. The controlling religious narrative of American life is still, in some sense, the Christian narrative."
From the success of "The Da Vinci Code," to the publicity over alleged "lost Gospels," Americans are "still fascinated by Jesus," Douthat said. "But at the same time, we are a culture where traditional Christianity is weaker than ever before, both Catholic and Protestant."
A "nation of heretics" is Douthat's term for a country that is "somewhere in between" – having "drifted away from things that are essential to Christian faith," while maintaining select portions of a Christian cultural inheritance.
Rather than denying God outright, the new "heresies" detailed in "Bad Religion" radically reinterpret his relationship to human beings. God becomes the guarantor of "health and wealth" promised by some televangelists – or the permissive inner voice of those who are "spiritual, not religious."
In Douthat's "nation of heretics," Jesus remains at the center of attention, but no longer as the divine-human redeemer described in the Nicene Creed. Instead, he may be a political icon of "American exceptionalism," or a teacher of wisdom who takes his place alongside the founders of other religions.
Historically, America's lack of an established state religion has always made it a fertile ground for sectarians and fringe denominations. But Douthat says contemporary America faces problems not seen before.
"What's distinctive about our era," he explained, "is the weakness of an institutional alternative to people just taking some Christian ideas and running with them in whatever direction they want."
The first part of "Bad Religion" looks back to the post-World War II period in the United States, a time when Christian institutions had greater cultural clout and were more reliably orthodox. Figures like Billy Graham, Bishop Fulton Sheen, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Martin Luther King, Jr. made important contributions to American life from a Christian perspective.
But factors like globalization and the 1960s sexual revolution shattered this religious and cultural consensus. Mainline Protestantism largely surrendered to the changing culture, while Catholics spent decades embroiled in battles over the Church's teaching authority.
Where mainstream religious institutions withdrew and weakened, heresies stepped in to fill the vacuum. The result is today's plethora of prosperity-preachers, political saviors, Jesus-revisionists, and New Age proponents of the "god within."
In the tradition of writers like G.K. Chesterton, Douthat suggests that these heretical beliefs take particular aspects of Church teaching – like Jesus' mercy toward sinners, or God's presence in nature – and sever them from other doctrines that provide nuance and balance.
"The core of Christian faith has always emphasized the importance of mystery and paradox, and of being willing to say 'both/and' rather than 'either/or' – that God is three and one, that Jesus is God and man, and so on," he explained.
"One of the characteristics of Christian heresy is that it basically tries to be a little more 'logical.' It says, 'Let's clean up this mystery a little bit.' Instead of saying Jesus is fully God and fully man, we'll say he was a 'man who was particularly favored by God.'"
Modern heresies, Douthat says, take the same reductive route. Where Christian orthodoxy accepts the legitimacy of patriotism in the service of the common good, heresy hints at a religious covenant between the Founding Fathers and God. Where the Church stresses God's providential care for believers, the "prosperity Gospel" invents a God who promises real estate gains in exchange for faith.
"The (heresies) I talk about are less likely to focus on the identity of Jesus himself or the nature of the Trinity," Douthat noted, drawing a distinction with history's better-known religious errors. "They're more likely to focus on ideas about sex, money, and what God wants of us in this life."
In a February 2012 lecture at the Archdiocese of Denver, Douthat drew on theology and sociology in a critical analysis of Elizabeth Gilbert's bestselling memoir "Eat Pray Love." Traditional Christians, he said, should not simply dismiss such books, but should seek to grasp the appeal and premises of the "heresies" they promote.
"I think it's very important to take 'pop spirituality' seriously," he told CNA. "Whatever you think of it, I think it's the most important form of religious expression in the United States today, and has the most influence over how people think about God and their relationships with one another."
"It's also worth taking seriously because there are powerful theological ideas at the root of even what seems like the shallowest and most glib treatment of religion – whether it's Joel Osteen or Oprah Winfrey."
Such figures "aren't just sort of making vague appeals," Douthat observed. "They are making, implicitly or explicitly, theological arguments – about who is God, and what does he want from us – that people find appealing."
Douthat's fellow Catholics, and other historically-rooted Christians, will likely agree with the diagnoses of doctrinal error in "Bad Religion." But the New York Times writer is not merely preaching to the choir.
He also wants to engage secular audiences, by arguing that Christian orthodoxy offers important benefits for culture and the common good. Likewise, Douthat maintains that heresy harms not only souls, but also families, communities, and society at large.
"If Christian anthropology is true – the Christian view of what human beings are, what we're here on earth for, what our relationships should be to one another – then a more robust and culturally-influential Christian faith will make people, in some sense, 'happier,'" he said.
This kind of happiness, he qualifies, is not personal self-gratification, but authentic and shared "human flourishing." While Douthat upholds Christian orthodoxy as an end in itself, he also argues for its contribution to the "ordinary forms of human stability and well-being."
"A flourishing society is a society that is recognizably successful – not just on a 'macro' level of achieving high growth rates, but in the sense of having robust institutions that people feel confident in, (or) having children growing up with a mother and a father," he explained.
Douthat asserted that if "you go back to the Roman Empire, and the early spread of Christianity, part of the reason the early Christians were such an appealing group is because they did, I think, manifest this reality."
"Christians were more likely to take care of each other than pagan Romans, were more likely to seem charitable and look out for one another when a plague struck the city, and so on. They were happier in their marriages; they weren't asking women to expose their infants (to death)."
"There are some definitions of human happiness and success that secular people and Christians can agree on," Douthat said, summing up his appeal to skeptics and doubters.
While "Bad Religion" helps believers read the signs of the times, it is also meant to spark a new kind of conversation about Christianity's social role, and the problems posed by a "nation of heretics."
"Even with the secular readers, I'm saying: 'Look, here are some of the social benefits associated with institutional Christianity that even secular people should be able to recognize. And here are trends that have been going on, concurrent with the decline of institutional Christianity, that even secular people should be worried about."
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Since he released Old, Danny Brown has been expanding his resume, working on a children's book and apparently the theme song for the new ABC comedy Fresh Off the Boat. The show, which is based off restauranteur Eddie Huang's memoir, aired last night and was opened by a very familiar voice. To make it official, Brown posted a clip of the song on Instagram and thanked Huang for asking him to do the track. Check it out below.


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Museum Under Water: The Corning Flood of 1972
The Corning Flood: Museum Under Water
Museum Under Water
Celebrating 41 Years at the Museum: Louise Maio
Nick Williams: Rakow Research Library Conversation Series
On June 23, 1972, Corning, New York and the surrounding communities were devastated by a major flood, as a result of the tropical storm Agnes. At The Corning Museum of Glass, hundreds of objects were broken, more than half of the Library's materials were saturated with flood water, and the facility was covered with a thick layer of slime and mud. The Flood of '72: Community, Collections, and Conservation chronicles the determination of Museum staff and the community to rebuild, and sheds light on the unique conservation techniques that were used to restore Library materials.


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Q: How do top users have time to answer several thousand questions? Do they get paid for that? I can see top users who have reputation upwards of 300,000.
For example:

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*jon-skeet - 341K reputation.
Answered 15194 questions (so far).

*marc-gravell  -249K reputation.
Answered  8327 questions (so far).
There are many more.
Surely they have a career, are in a very high position, and will be busy most of the time.
How do they have time to answer so many questions per day? They have to spend their precious time answering, thereby losing hours spent in the office.
So, my question is:
Does stackoverflow officially pay them for answering questions?
(Forgive me if my question is absurd. I was simply curious.)

A: Jon Skeet is beyond space and time.
He's also an expert on C#, one of "the" experts.  It's no problem for him to post 20 in-depth answers per day quickly, it just flows from his brain fully formed with no thought required.  Or something like that.
Someone with his skills can also do whatever work he wants and name his price, to a degree.  If he wants to spend some time on SO no one's going to stop him.
Of course, I don't know what Jon, Marc, etc. currently do for a living or what their situations are.  Maybe they're actually poor and live in the local library, answering questions from an old Pentium II.  But somehow I doubt it.
(Check out mmyers' link!)

A: They are not paid, at least Jon isn't. They're just doing it for fun, and they are here for a long time. I have posted 1189 answers in 3 months. It's not so hard

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If there's one dessert that defines summer, it's absolutely peach cobbler. Top that cobbler with a scoop of cool vanilla ice cream, and I'm immediately taken back to summers' on my grandmother's porch, a big bowl of cobbler in my hand with sweet vanilla slowly melting over top of the warm peaches. It's funny how food can trigger memories, and this is one of those dishes that takes me back to those carefree summer days when I was a kid. Grandma wasn't fussy about her ingredients, except for using fresh peaches, so it was our job to run down to the farmer's market to pick up a bushel of fresh peaches. We'd come home and disappear off into the yard while grandma worked her magic.
There's nothing like a little bit of nostalgia to inspire a delicious dish, and we thought, with the season warming up, and farmers markets once again pulling into town, that it was high time for one of Grandma's classic peach cobblers. I pretty much know the recipe by heart, so there's almost no need to pull out the recipe box. Fresh peaches really are the key ingredient here, so when they're in season, we use nothing else. A quick dip in boiling water then another ice cold bath will help loosen the skin, making the peeling process much easier. Instead of using just granulated sugar, we love to add brown sugar to the mix because it adds a great, almost caramel flavor to the dish as a whole. As each layer of ingredients is added to the baking dish, there's a hard and fast "no stir" rule; the ingredients will come together on their own during the baking process.
As the cobbler bakes, our kitchen is filled with the aroma of sweet warm peaches, and we can hardly wait for it to cool down enough for everyone to dive in. Whenever possible, I also like to whip up a batch of homemade vanilla ice cream, but a good quality store-bought brand will absolutely do the trick; vanilla bean is a big favorite in our house. But ice cream really isn't required; this is a dish that stands up on its own, no additional "flare" required. This peach cobbler is absolutely irresistible, and one that we know will be in the family for a long time to come!
Preheat oven to 375°F. Pour melted butter into a 9x13-inch baking dish.
Place peaches into pot of boiling water for 30 seconds. Turn off heat and, with a slotted spoon, transfer peaches to a bowl of ice water. Once cool enough to handle, remove skins with a paring knife. Slice peaches and set aside.
Combine granulated sugar, flour, baking powder, and salt, stirring until well blended.
Slowly stir in 1 cup milk until mixture comes together into a batter. Pour batter over butter in baking dish.
In a saucepan, combine peaches, cinnamon, brown sugar, vanilla, and lemon juice. Bring to a boil, stirring frequently. Turn off heat and pour peaches over top of batter.
Bake for 40 minutes or until top crust has become a golden brown color.


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La prima medaglia la vinse ai Giochi olimpici di  (squadra composta, oltre da Salvi, da Pietro Bianchi, Guido Boni, Alberto Braglia, Giuseppe Domenichelli, Carlo Fregosi, Alfredo Gollini, Francesco Loi, Luigi Maiocco, Giovanni Mangiante, Lorenzo Mangiante, Serafino Mazzarocchi, Guido Romano, Luciano Savorini, Adolfo Tunesi, Giorgio Zampori, Umberto Zanolini, Angelo Zorzi) e la seconda ai Giochi Olimpici di  (con Arnaldo Andreoli, Ettore Bellotto, Pietro Bianchi, Fernando Bonatti, Luigi Cambiaso, Carlo Costigliolo, Luigi Costigliolo, Giuseppe Domenichelli, Roberto Ferrari, Carlo Fregosi, Romualdo Ghiglione, Ambrogio Levati, Francesco Loi, Vittorio Lucchetti, Luigi Maiocco, Ferdinando Mandrini, Lorenzo Mangiante, Antonio Marovelli, Michele Mastromarino, Giuseppe Paris, Manlio Pastorini, Ezio Roselli, Giovanni Tubino, Giorgio Zampori e Angelo Zorzi).

Bìografia
Nacque a Brescia il 22 novembre del 1891. A 19 anni, nel 1912 vince a Stoccolma la sua prima medaglia d'oro nella ginnastica artistica, ma dovette interrompere l'attività a causa dello scoppio della Prima guerra Mondiale a cui partecipa nel Regio Esercito. Finito il conflitto torna ad allenarsi, arrivando nel 1920 in Belgio a vincere ancora l'oro olimpico. Si trasferì ad Albenga dove lui o la famiglia acquistarono la centrale del latte. Dall'autunno del 1943 un ricognitore inglese sorvolava la città lanciando dei volantini, uno di questi venne portato al bar e fu oggetto di qualche parola tra il Salvi e suoi 3 amici, dopodiché venne gettato via. Dopo qualche giorno una spiata portò all'arresto e alla perquisizione delle case e attività dei quattro senza trovare nulla, e vennero rilasciati. Dopo un paio di mesi, nel gennaio del '44, venne fatto un nuovo controllo nella Centrale del Latte del Salvi da parte delle Brigate Nere; un Milite lancia un urlo, "Eccolo"! E sventola in aria un volantino. Paolo Salvi ha una reazione naturale: "Non c'è mai stato! Ce l'avete messo voi!". I quattro vengono portati al carcere di Sant'Agostino a Savona nel reparto politico, poi a quello di Marassi e infine al campo di Fossoli.

Il 7 aprile 1944 viene recapitata una lettera proveniente dal campo di concentramento di Fossoli da parte di Paolo Salvi al figlio diciassettenne Giampiero: lo informa che lui e gli altri tre amici sono detenuti in attesa di essere inviati in Germania. Una analoga lettera di Nicolò Podestà è consegnata ai suoi famigliari. I familiari a giugno fecero un viaggio a Fossoli per portare conforto e dei generi ai propri familiari. Mentre erano in visita, il 21 giugno venne allestito il convoglio; le famiglie provano a organizzare una fuga corrompendo le guardie, ma i quattro amici rifiutano sapendo che spesso in caso di fuga vengono prese di mira le famiglie. Il figlio di Salvi, Giampiero, ricorda: "i nazifascisti chiusero i portelloni dei carri bestiame piombandoli e tra le pareti di legno potemmo parlare per qualche minuto con i nostri cari. Furono momenti tristi e tragici per non poter far nulla contro tali barbarie da Medioevo. Sentivamo i loro lamenti e le loro grida. Tre sbuffi di vapore il treno si mise in marcia, noi attendemmo che sparisse all'orizzonte e aspettammo di vedere in lontananza l'ultimo sbuffo di fumo". Nessuno dei quattro amici ha fatto ritorno ad Albenga.. Rinchiuso nel lager di Mauthausen vi morì il 21 giugno 1944, stando a una comunicazione del Comando tedesco al Comune di Albenga, "per mitragliamento aereo del nemico".

Palmarès

Riconoscimenti
 Nel maggio 2015, una targa dedicata a Salvi è stata inserita nel percorso Walk of Fame dello sport italiano al parco olimpico del Foro Italico a Roma, riservato agli sportivi italiani che si sono distinti in campo internazionale.

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Voci correlate
 Italia ai Giochi della V Olimpiade
 Italia ai Giochi della VII Olimpiade
 Ginnastica ai Giochi della V Olimpiade
 Ginnastica ai Giochi della VII Olimpiade

Collegamenti esterni

Deportati politici italiani

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Abercromby Place (built 1807 - 1819) is one of the nicest in central Edinburgh: a 5 minutes' stroll from Princes Street, and fashionable George Street, relatively quiet, tree-lined on one side and with plenty of good places to eat around about. Free parking is available if reserved in advance.
In the photograph of the entrance hall (left) you can see the door on the right which gives access to Veronique Johnston's large and spacious apartment which is available for self-catering rental on a weekly or daily basis (min 2-3 nights).
The apartment can accommodate up to five: four people in two double bedrooms, with a further fold-out bed for another person.
Large light living room with sunny south-facing windows, divided into Sitting, Dining and Kitchen areas.
In front of the black marble fireplace you can see the dining table and chairs for 6.
In the carpeted area between the table and the window is a television with cable tv and DVD player. The comfortable corner sofa has plenty of cushions.
The original wooden window shutters are in working order, and the walls and cieling still have their original Georgian plaster decoration.
Another view of the Sitting area, from the glass topped dining table.
The apartment has broadband internet access for your laptop, and there is a CD Player.
Double bedroom with Queen-size double bed.
Double bedroom with standard double bed, with wash-basin and television.
Abercromby Place is not a noisy street, and both bedrooms are even quieter being at the back of the house.
Both have a hairdryer and radio clock.
The shower-room. The shower itself is to the right - you can just see its reflection in the mirror above the basin.
£80 to £120 per night, sleeping up to four.
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Prices include linen, towels, electricity, heating, etc.
2 to 3 nights minimum booking, depending on the time of year.
Abercromby Place faces Queen Street Gardens.
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Ben Whishaw, Mark Bradshaw celebrate their wedding anniversary
Posted Aug 4, 2013	by Mathew Wace Peck
James Bond star Ben Whishaw and his husband Mark Bradshaw have celebrated their first wedding anniversary. The couple married in Sydney in 2012.
Ben Whishaw — an English actor known for his stage role as Hamlet
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According to the Daily Mail, Whishaw – who has always been discreet about his private life – married his partner, Bradshaw, in a civil-partnership ceremony in Sydney, Australia, in 2012.
Apparently, the couple met while on the set of Bright Star, the 2009 film directed by Jane Campion (Top of the Lake).
Whishaw's agent told the Daily Mail, "Ben has never hidden his sexuality but, like many actors, he prefers not to discuss his family or life outside of his work. Due to speculation [however], I can confirm that Ben and Mark entered into a civil partnership in August 2012. They were proud to do so and are very happy."
In November 2011, Whishaw was cast as Q in the James Bond films, making him the youngest-ever actor to take on that role. He is also 12 years younger that the current 007, Daniel Craig. Whishaw's first Bond movie, Skyfall, was released in 2012.
Whishaw was also a favourite to become the Twelfth Doctor in he BBC's iconic sci-fi-series, Doctor Who. However, in June, the 32-year-old ruled himself out of the running. This evening, Peter Capaldi was revealed to have won the part, live on TV.


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'My Father's Dragon' Trailer Revealed Adapted from Ruth Stiles Gannett's
By FarehaPosted on September 29, 2022 0
After betraying the first-look image back in April, Netflix has shared the official trailer for their new animated feature My Father's Dragon. Accommodate from Ruth Stiles Gannett's book of the same name, the trailer promises an exciting new adventure the whole family can enjoy.
My Father's Dragon Trailer Breakdown
The trailer opens with a voiceover narration as someone relays the story of their father, Elmer. Viewers see that while Elmer tends to be a fairly happy child, he faces his own challenges. He's soon brought to an unreal island where he befriends a dragon named Boris.
About, the trailer proposes viewers to the vibrant and imaginative world of the film, featuring the different creatures that will show up and the places Boris and Elmer will traverse as they head on their journey. It offers unique landscapes complete with their own color schemes.
Along with its lush observable, the trailer also alludes to a movie that will contain a cheering message for all ages to admire. As it plays out some of the beats of the story, viewers see how Boris and Elmer quickly befriend and support one another every step of the way.
It clenches adventurous courage and accent Elmer's wonder at the new world in which he finds themselves. The trailer also exhibition the movie won't afraid away from sturdy moments, while still asserting its core tone.
My Father's Dragon features a star-studded voice cast that added Gaten Matarazzo, Jacob Tremblay, Whoopi Goldberg, Rita Moreno, Chris O'Dowd, Dianne Wiest, Judy Greer, Alan Cumming, Golshifteh Farahani, Yara Shahidi, Jackie Earle Haley, Adam Brody, Charlene Yi, Leighton Meester, Mary Kay Place, Spence Moore II, Maggie Lincoln, Jack Smith, and Ian McShane.
The characteristic hails from animation studio Cartoon Saloon, which has released noteworthy projects such as Wolfwalkers, Song of the Sea, and The Secret of Kells. The screenplay was adapted by Meg LeFauve (Inside Out) and directed by Nora Twomey (The Breadwinner).
LeFauve, John Morgan, Cartoon Saloon's Gerry Shirren and Tomm Moore, and similar Films' Alan Moloney and Ruth Coady serve as administrator makers. Paul Young produces for Cartoon Saloon, with Julie Lynn and Bonnie Curtis generate for Mockingbird Pictures. External Link: Netflix
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It Is Time For Iran To Tell The West "Goodbye"
From all appearances, the Obama regime's negotiations with Iran, overseen by Russia, were on the verge of ending the contrived nuclear issue. An end to the confrontation is unacceptable to the Zionist Israeli government and to their neocon agents in America. The Republicans, a political party owned lock, stock, and barrel by the Israel Lobby, hastily invited Netanyahu, the crazed ruler of both Israel and America, to quickly come to tell the Republican Congress, which the insouciant American voters put in place, how to prohibit any accommodation with Iran.
Observing the Israeli-controlled Republican Congress, a collection of warmongers, taking steps to prevent any peaceful resolution of a fabricated issue, Iran's leader, Seyyed Ali Khamenei sent a letter to Western youth advising the youth of the Western world of the mischaracterization of Islam by Western propagandists.
I respect Khamenei's effort to reach out to Western youth in order to help them differentiate the reality of Islam from the demonized portrait painted of Islam by Western politicians and media.
The question is: How much impact can Khamenei have? Khamenei's voice is important, but it is small in comparison to the Western liars and propagandists. Even an important representative, such as Khamenei, of a demonized country and a demonized religion can hardly be heard over the din of propaganda against Iran and Islam.
Moreover, secret Western black-op organizations can conduct terrorist operations in the name of Islam, such as possibly occurred with 9/11, the Boston Marathon Bombing, and Charlie Hebdo. The world is told that Islam is behind these attacks, but experts note that no real evidence is ever supplied. Just official assertions, such as those that proved incorrect about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, Assad's use of chemical weapons in Syria, the false accusations against Gaddafi in Libya, and the false accusations against Russia in Ukraine. The makers of this propaganda have many voices, and their trumpets overwhelm the voice of Iran's leader.
If we use J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings as a metaphor for the West, the West is Mordor and Washington is Sauron.
It is pointless for Iran to negotiate with the West in hopes of gaining acceptance. Iran is on the same list as Saddam Hussein, Gaddafi, and Assad. The only way Iran can be accepted by the West is to consent to being an American puppet state. Suspicion about Iran's nuclear energy program is a contrived issue. If it were not the nuclear issue, it would be some other contrived issue, such as weapons of mass destruction, use of chemical weapons, terrorism, and so forth. Iran's leaders should understand that the real problem is Iran's independence of Washington's foreign and economic policies. Washington cannot say that the US wants regime change in Iran because Washington wants a puppet state, so Washington pretends that Iran represents a threat that must be overcome.
If Iran so much admires the decadent and corrupt West that it is willing to be a servile vassal in order to enjoy Western acceptance, all Iran needs to do is to capitulate and align with Washington's hegemonic policies.
If Iran, one of the two oldest civilizations and cultures on the planet, wishes to continue its existence without coming under the rule of the "exceptional" Americans, Iran must turn its back to the West, ally with Russia, China, India, and the other BRICS countries, and have nothing whatsoever to do with the Western criminals. It is beyond explanation why a civilization as old as the Iranian one would see anything in the West worthy of being associated with.
Above all, Iran should stop fighting other Muslims, even extreme ones who betray the Prophet Mohammed and soil Islam. Iran should not accept the role of being Washington's mercenary in the fight against the Islamic State. Iran should never help Washington kill Muslims, even misguided ones who betray the Prophet. Instead, Iran should understand that the Islamic State, even if it should be a creation of Washington, is enjoying its success because Muslim peoples are tired of being ruled by the West, which uses the antagonism between Sunni and Shi'ite to rule them both.


Discus and support Windows 10 Home Will Not Cold Boot in Windows 10 Support to solve the problem; I upgraded my Dell Inspiron 3521 laptop from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10. Everything went fine until about a week later when I could no longer cold boot.... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Support' started by bdaleypsu, Sep 7, 2015.
I upgraded my Dell Inspiron 3521 laptop from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10. Everything went fine until about a week later when I could no longer cold boot. I'd get the Windows logo and the spinning dots, but Windows would never load. I'd manually turn the power on and off several times until Windows diagnostics loaded. Then if I chose restart, Windows would load fine.
I tried turning fast start on and off, this made no difference. So I decided to do a clean install of Windows 10 Home from DVD. Once again, everything was fine for about a week, then the exact same issue started happening again. Once again, enabling or disabling fast start didn't make a difference.
Dell just had a BIOS update, which I thought might take care of the issue, but no such luck.
Anyone have any suggestions to fix this? I had ZERO startup issues on Windows 8/8.1. It's very annoying to have to restart 3 times every time I want to cold boot.
I am using Windows 10. Ever since my last upgrade of Windows 10, my computer takes 20-30 minutes to boot from a cold boot. Warm boot is not a problem.
Before the upgrade it took 5 minutes to boot from a cold boot.
I have tried a clean boot, adding in one program at a time, but nothing was revealed.
I would like to return to a 5-minute boot, if possible.
Windows 10 64 bit consistently will NOT cold boot.


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2 Stunning Attacking Strategies in Chess for You
Almost every player enjoys playing attacks in chess games. After all, you can't win a chess game without launching an attack at some point!
One of the often-overlooked advantages of playing chess attacks is that it is unlikely to be fatal if you make a small mistake. However, if you are defending, the slightest mistake can end in checkmate!
Bobby Fischer famously said, "Sac, sac, mate!" but not every attack is that easy to play. At least not without a lot of cooperation from your opponent.
When it comes to attacking chess, one of the most exciting players was Mikhail Tal. Enjoy this entertaining example, taken from GM Mihail Marin's Attacking Academy.
Here are two more attacking games that are very different. Be sure to use these attacking strategies in your games.
Attacking in Chess: One Threat After Another
Checks, captures, and threats are how we get taught to find candidate moves. These are the forcing moves that force wins.
Emmanuel Lasker knew how to get the most out of making threats. In this game, he creates ten threats in a row.
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.0-0 Nxe4
Ruy Lopez 4…Nxe4
Lasker believed that if you could win a crucial center pawn, you should capture it if you haven't broken any of the chess opening rules.
The critical point is not to cling to the extra material at the cost of development or king safety.
5.d4 Be7 6.Qe2 Nd6 7.Bxc6 bxc6 8.dxe5 Nb7
Ruy Lopez 8…Nb7
The knight is temporarily out of the game, but it can return to a central position with Nc5-e6.
9.b3 0-0 10.Bb2 d5! 11.exd6 cxd6 12.Nbd2 Re8
Ruy Lopez 12…Re8
The rook indirectly attacks the queen. This move might not seem very dangerous, yet in his game notes, Dr. Tarrasch remarks how this indirect threat quickly leads to a decisive advantage for Black.
13.Rfe1 Bd7 14.Ne4 d5 15.Ned2 Ba3 16.Be5 f6 17.Qa6
Ruy Lopez 17.Qa6
17…fxe5 18.Qxa3 e4 19.Nd4 Qf6 20.c3 Rf8
Ruy Lopez 20…Rf8
Five Consecutive Attacking Moves and There's Still More in Store
Black has played five moves, from move sixteen to twenty, that threatened to win material or more, and he still isn't finished attacking in this chess game.
21.f3 Qg5 22.Qc1 Nc5 23.Nf1 Qg6 24.Re3 Nd3 25.Qd1 Nf4 26.Ng3 h5 27.Nde2
Ruy Lopez 27.Nde2
All of the threats might have seemed obvious and easily avoided, but Black has a winning attacking combination in this position.
27…Nxg2 28.Kxg2 exf3+ 29.Rxf3 Bh3+ 30.Kxh3 Qg4+ 31.Kg2 Qxf3 32.Kg1 h4 33.Nh1 Qe3+
Ruy Lopez 33…Qe3
This game deserves a place in every collection of great attacking games.
Moritz Porges – Emanuel Lasker, 1896.07.20, 0-1, Nuremberg Round 1, Nuremberg GER
Attacking in Chess: The Slow Death Caused by a Positional Attack
Does the concept of a positional attack sound like an oxymoron to you?
Aron Nimzovitch's positional attack against H. Mattison was so devastating the game was over in twenty-three moves! Even more remarkable is the fact that material was equal at the end of the game.
The game began with the moves 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Nf3 Bxc3 5.bxc3 d6 6.Qc2 Qe7
Nimzo Indian 6…Qe7
Nimzovitch played 6…Qe7 to support …e5 if White played e4. However, it allows White to pin the d-pawn with 7.Ba3 c5.
7…c5 fixes the front doubled-pawn on c4. One of the cornerstones of chess attacks is to direct your attack at your opponent's weakest points.
8.g3 b6 9.Bg2 Bb7 10.0-0 0-0 11.Nh4
Nimzo Indian 11.Nh4
Black's bishop was more active than White's, so exchanging it makes sense.
What does not make sense is putting a knight on the rim, where it is dim.
11….Bxg2 12.Kxg2 Qb7+ 13.Kg1 Qa6 14.Qb3
Nimzo Indian 14.Qb3
This move is the only way to defend c4 and the bishop on a3. There's another rule for attacks in chess: bring all your pieces over to join in the attack.
In light of this, Nimzovitch continues with 14…Nc6.
14…Nc6 15.Rfd1 Na5 16.Qb5 Qxb5 17.cxb5 Nc4!
Nimzo Indian 17…Nc4
Positional Chess Requires a Flexible Mindset
Nimzovitch understood he was exchanging one positional advantage – White's weak doubled-pawns – for another – the weak c4-square. The c4-square is a superb outpost because the knight can't get attacked by the bishop.
A knight established on an outpost will soon become a powerful attacking piece.
18.Bc1 a6 19.bxa6 Rxa6 20.dxc5 bxc5 21.Ng2 Nd5
Nimzo Indian 21…Nd5
Black found another target to attack in the isolated, backward a-pawn. Unlike White, Nimzovitch has both his knights actively placed in the center.
Centralization is a powerful strategy when attacking in chess.
Yes, Black's knight went to the rim, but it did so with purpose and attacking intent.
22.Rd3 Rfa8 23.e4 Ne5
Nimzo Indian 23…Ne5
There were only two checks throughout this game, and Black gave both – 4…Bxc3+ and 12…Qb7+.
White didn't deliver a single check, nor did he threaten Black's king, a clear indication of how little time White spent attacking in this chess game.
Games like this can help you choose your opening repertoire. You can choose an opening that inflicts a structural weakness and learn how to attack this weakness.
Inflicting a weakness is only part of the process, and it won't count for much if you don't know how to take advantage of it.
Here is the game for you to study at your leisure.
Hermanis Karlovich Mattison – Aron Nimzowitsch, 1929.08.14, 0-1, Karlsbad, Round 12, Karlsbad CZE
Chess requires a blend of positional elements and attacking head-on in order to succeed. Be aware an attack in chess might not end in checkmate but it might give you enough of an advantage to win the game.
Also, it is essential not to try to memorize the moves but to learn why a tactic or positional element works. Then you can apply it in similar positions or from different openings.
We can learn many attacking strategies in chess by playing through the games of strong players. This approach is highly effective because it shows you the technique required to finish the game successfully after the attack ends.
There are more than 90 attacking games in GM Mihail Marin's excellent Master Method course on attacking chess.
That's over 15 hours of instruction in attacking chess by a top coach and grandmaster. Learn why some attacks in chess work and others don't.
Don't wait any longer to become an attacking force at the chessboard.
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Our CEO, Carla Dearing, recently wrote about what makes an innovative product disruptive. Thanks to technology, we assumed for many years that innovation would always mean more bells and whistles. But it turns out (also thanks to technology) that what really excites us is simplicity. The most exciting new products today take the unimaginable mass of data available on any topic and make it useful in our daily lives.
And then keep making it more useful. Think about Google Maps and how much easier it makes it to chart a simple course from place to place. Then think about the amount of real-time data embedded in that simple map, and how much more data it contains than the first time you used it. Always good, Google Maps is better today than it was even six months ago because it delivers more information (especially real-time traffic data) with more simplicity.
The American Automobile Association used to do this job (even the TripTik was once a disruptive innovation), but its solutions now seem antiquated both because they aren't based on real-time data and because you have to drive to an AAA office to pick them up.
It is such an obvious point that it often goes without saying, but disruptive innovators not only sell us new products; they usually sell them in new places. And what used to seem like a convenience – a nearby AAA office – immediately seems hopelessly out of date when we can access the same data on our phones.
How Can Non-Disruptors Innovate? Sometimes disruptive innovation is a where, not a what
The global consumer brands that make up IMC's clients are not always the best disruptors. In the language of Clayton Christensen (who invented the term "disruptive innovation") they are often the established competitors whose ability to perfect high-value products often prevents them from recognizing disruptive innovation themselves.
We help these brands deliver disruptive innovation by connecting them to partners, companies that can effectively deliver something new in a new product category.
But sometimes the innovation these partners deliver is less in the product itself than in the place where it is sold. For many brands, their established distribution channels (like their strength at generating defensive innovations) actually make it harder to deliver disruptive innovation in the places where they sell their own products. New channels of distribution may represent the disruptive growth idea they need most.
Channel Innovation
Channels of distribution change faster than we recognize. In my own lifetime I've seen the creation of entirely new national channels of trade like DIY (Lowe's and Home Depot), craft (Michael's, Jo-Ann Stores, and Hobby Lobby), and pet (PetSmart and Petco), to say nothing of e-commerce. If your brand is sold in traditional channels like supermarkets or drugstores, failing to introduce products into new channels means missing all the customers and shopping occasions that happen there. If you have a mature consumer brand, channel innovation may represent the best and most disruptive way for you to grow.
Channel innovation is uniquely well-suited for brand licensing and other kinds of partnerships. Serving a new channel of distribution is expensive and risky. It requires capital and people in the form new production capacity, new sales resources, and new relationships. A partner who brings manufacturing capacity and relationships in a new channel is often a better innovator that a mature brand can be for itself.
When TGI Friday's wanted to give fans the chance to make its famous potato skins at home), it was a lot easier to innovate through its partner Anchor Foods (now owned by Heinz) than to manufacture and deliver the products to supermarkets itself. As I recently wrote, dozens of other restaurant brands have followed that innovative lead.
The pet channel has continued to grow fast even during the Great Recession. It has also been an exciting place to innovate. A brand like Glade has partnered with Nestle Purina to deliver a Tidy Cats kitty litter with the fragrance of Glade, a surprise for consumers and possibly that brand's most successful innovation in years. Arm & Hammer has done the same thing with odor- and dander-removing air filters for pet owners (from Protect Plus Air) and oral-care products for dogs.
Even in a stodgy category like hearing aids, the next disruptive innovation may come not from tweaking well-developed technology but offering it in new ways and new places. Major brands now have the opportunity to support the launch of hearing aids in drugstores.
Next time you go shopping, stop at an unfamiliar retailer. Next time you go to a trade show, stop looking for companies that can serve your existing products or services and look for the ones who make products you'd like to buy yourself. When you do buy something new and exciting, think how it might have served your own goals in a new place. If you want to accomplish disruptive innovation you don't necessarily have to become a disruptive innovator yourself; you just have to follow disruptors wherever they go.
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Along with reincarnation go thoughts of Karma.
Karma is usually thought of as a reward-and-punishment system stretching throughout all lifetimes: if you do evil in one life you will have to pay for it in the next. However, it seems that there is always talk of "karmic debts" and "karmic punishments" but seldom of "karmic rewards". The Witchcraft view seems to make more sense.
will return. More than that, though, it is a three-fold retribution. Do good and you will get back three times the good; do evil and you will receive three times the evil. Obviously there is here no inducement for you to ever harm anyone. Of course it is not a literal threefold return. If you were to punch someone in the eye, it does not mean that you will get punched in the eye yourself three times. No. But, sometime in the future, you may "just happen" to break a leg … something which might be considered three times as bad as being punched in the eye.
In the Witchcraft belief, then, one lifetime's experiences are not dependent on the previous one's. For example, if you suffer physical abuse in this life, it does not necessarily mean that you were an abuser in your previous life. It is possible you were, yes. But it is just as possible that you were not but are going to be in the next life. In other words, it is a case of experiencing all things—being both the abuser and the abusee, but one is not necessarily dependent on the other. Several lifetimes could even take place between the one experience and its apparent correlative.
The length of time spent between lives may vary, depending on your study of the lessons learned and their integration with previous lessons; also on the necessary preparation for the next "semester".
While between lives you might also become involved in helping some other spirit here on earth. Just as there is development and advancement in this life, so there is in "the between times". You may have heard of such things as "Guardian Angels" and "Spirit Guides" and wondered if they really exist. In a sense they do. It means that a spirit is always watching over a less developed spirit here on earth. Since time does not exist in the between-times (it is a human-made concept, for the sake of reference only) then to watch over an earth-bound spirit for its whole earthly lifetime would not actually hinder the watcher's progress. In fact, it would add to it in the sense of gaining "student-teacher" experience.
roles (e.g. lovers; husband-wife; brother-sister; mother-daughter).