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The Epoch Times: Treating Long-Haul COVID
Related: chronic viral sequelae, SARS-CoV-2 aka COVID-19 aka Coronavirus, The Epoch Times
re: long-haul COVID
re: Over a 60X increase in pro sports adverse events since the vaccines rolled out
re: risk assessment
While I think some claims of Long-Haul COVID are perhaps erroneous, nothing in my lifetime ever did a 'job' on me like this. Still, I think that real LHC is probably around 5% and at most 10% of patients. Those most likely to notice it will be people in the prime of health/fitness, as I was prior to infection. Others in less fit condition have a less-clear-cut reference versus their prior condition, making it fuzzier.
Below, maybe there is something here that will help others shorten the time to recovery. But my sense is that systemic damage from COVID takes a very long time for the body to repair, and only with excellent nutrition and lots of sleep and minimizing all stresses on the body and mind.
Even recovery that leaves things just 1% below before can mean becoming non-competitive for an athlete. In my case, I can say objectively (bicycle power meter) that I am still a huge ~15-20% below my former ability (18 months ago), so I have a long way to go. I hope that over another year I can get back to where I was. But at least no more brain fog and ultra-severe fatigue and aches/pains, etc—those things seem to be gone now.
The Epoch Times: Treating Long-Haul Syndrome
2021-11-27, by Joseph Mercola
Long COVID, also known as long-haul COVID, chronic COVID, or long-haul syndrome, refers to symptoms that persist for four or more weeks after an initial COVID-19 infection. Board-certified internist and cardiologist Dr. Peter McCullough discusses potential treatments for long-haul COVID in an interview with Dr. Al Johnson posted on YouTube, including which tests may be necessary and when to seek emergency medical care.
Signs and symptoms of long COVID, which persist for four weeks or more after you've been diagnosed with COVID-19, include fatigue, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, coughing, joint pain, chest pain, memory or concentration problems, sleep problems, muscle pain or headache, a fast or pounding heartbeat, the loss of smell or taste, depression or anxiety, fever, dizziness when you stand, or worsened symptoms after physical or mental activities.
[WIND: I've bolded all the stuff I experienced personally for a month or more at 2+ months out from recovery from infection]
These symptoms are a result of damage to the following body systems: pulmonary/lungs, immune/allergy, mitochondria/energy system, heart, or central/peripheral nervous system.
According to McCullough, a paper that was presented by Dr. Bruce Patterson at the International COVID Summit in Rome, Sept. 12 to Sept. 14, shows that in "individuals who've had significant COVID illness, 15 months later the s1 segment of the spike protein is recoverable from human monocytes."
"That means the body literally has been sprayed with the virus and it spends 15 months, in a sense, trying to clean out the spike protein from our tissues. No wonder people have long COVID syndrome," he said.
Neurologic syndromes also occur in long COVID, although they aren't well described. Symptoms include joint and muscle pain, headaches, brain fog, and tinnitus (ringing in the ears). Some people also have changes in the autonomic nervous system, such as an elevated heart rate and sensory neuropathies, including numbness and weakness in the legs.
[WIND: absolutely, most of these things for many months, plus hugely increased sleep needs]
COVID's Effects Versus Vaccine Effects
McCullough detailed the non-fatal syndromes that are occurring after COVID-19 vaccinations, which cause symptoms similar to that of long COVID in many cases. The vaccine-induced syndromes fall into four areas: cardiac, neurological, immunologic, and hematologic.
[WIND: see the article for more. It's plausible but I take no position on the claims at this time]
WIND: while I cannot speak to all the specific claims in the article (some are surely true, others unsubstantiated and perhaps sketchy), I do think that viruses in general can wreak havoc, including causing cancers and disrupting all sorts of systems in the body.
I don't think that any credible doctor disputes that the COVID vaccines can cause damage, sometimes severe or fatal. The issue is how often. IMO the whole thing has been very poorly studied, to the point of incompetence and willful negligence.
I advise anyone recovering from COVID to allow at least 3 months before resuming any hard athletic training or heavy work schedule.
I also think that introducing the spike protein into the body via the vaccines does indeed carry some of the risks of COVID itself. But how that risk balances against COVID itself is NOT at all obvious in many cases, such as for young healthy people and especially children where the risk seems high relative to reward. This is the Big Lie of the whole farce—one-size-fits-all medical malpractice, which never has and never will be appropriate in medicine.


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Saudi Ambassador to the US Adel al-Jubair announced airstrikes have begun against Houthi positions in Yemen, citing, "the objective is to defend the legitimate government of President Hadi from the takeover attempts by the Houthi militias in Yemen. The use of force is always the last resort." Al-Jubair said that over ten countries are involved in the coalition, which includes every GCC country except Oman, plus Egypt, Jordan, Sudan, Pakistan and Morocco. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has pledged over 100 warplanes and 150,000 troops to the anti-Houthi effort according to Al-Arabiya TV.
The Saudi-led coalition designated Yemen's airspace as a 'restricted zone' as airstrikes targeted air defenses and Military installations in several areas controlled by Houthis.
Houthi political representative Mohammed al-Bukhaiti stated, "There is an aggression underway in Yemen and we will confront it … Military operations will drag the region to a wide war."
Earlier this week, Houthi forces captured parts of the city of Aden including the al-Anad airbase. A small contingent of US special forces troops previously stationed in the area had already left the country. Troops loyal to President Hadi defended an attempt to rush an army barracks within Aden, as additional reports indicated that rebels are consolidating their strength around the port city. Due to the recent skirmishes, Hadi fled his palace in Aden, the country's second largest city, after rebel Houthis advanced in nearby areas within in the fragile state.
Hadi and his supporters established an exile government authority in Aden after they were forced out of the capital Sana'a late last year. It is unclear whether Hadi remains in Yemen or has left the country amid the fighting. Groups such as al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and militias loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh have also been involved in the current conflict, while recently ISIS claimed responsibility for an attack that killed over 137 in Sana'a. Accusations that Iran have directly and indirectly supported the Houthi movement have fueled tensions between the rebels and ousted government supported by Saudi and other regional players.
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How many of you have opened your power bill and received a huge shock when you read the 'amount due' section?
Like me, many Australians have and the recent posturing by new Prime Minister Scott Morrison, promising to lower electricity bills if re-elected in 2019, does not ring true.
Excuse me for being cynical.
If politicians from both major parties had been similarly concerned about this ten years ago, we may already have lower power bills.
If Kevin Rudd was braver and not given in to Tony Abbott's shameful fear campaign, cheap talk from the new Prime Minister might not be warranted.
Now Scott Morrison is threatening a royal commission into electricity.
The energy industry says a royal commission into electricity would be costly and if it were necessary the consumer watchdog would have already recommended it.
But our new PM was one of the loudest critics of a banking royal commission; he had to be brought kicking and screaming to change his mind, he labelled calls for a banking royal commission a "populist whinge".
Now, when the Liberal Party are on the nose, he suddenly thinks an investigation into power prices is a good idea. The Prime Minister said if power companies were not responsive to the "big stick" approach, then "I'm prepared to take what action is necessary", including a royal commission.
But the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has already recommended measures such as forcing companies to offer customers low-price default contracts and the federal government did not listen. Whether a royal commission goes ahead or not our politicians should get rid of anti-competitive shenanigans from the power sector now, no amount of election campaign posturing will matter if that necessary move is not made.
Mr Morrison will be hoping voters don't receive a power bill just before election day because they might just remember his mob have been in power for two terms and done nothing to end power bill shock. Now is a good time to start Mr Morrison.


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Election fraud that the US courts don't want to know about
The United States Supreme Court has rejected the lawsuit brought by the state of Texas challenging the presidential election result on the grounds that Texas does not have 'standing' to bring the case. The state has 'not demonstrated a judicially cognisable interest in the manner in which another State conducts its elections', the court opined. Conservative Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas did not appear to agree with their colleagues in this but evidently did not prevail.
The legion critics of the legal actions being brought by Trump and others are fond of pointing out how many of the cases have already been thrown out by the courts. But, as Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani notes, no court has yet given the evidence a hearing of any kind: 'Not a single court decision has had a hearing yet. They haven't heard from a single witness. They haven't looked at a single tape. They haven't listened to a single recording.'
The baffling question to neutral observers is: Why don't they want to know? As much as the media love to repeat the assertion that the allegations are baseless, in truth there is no shortage of evidence of serious widespread irregularities and anomalies in this election. (See, for example, Patrick Basham's excellent summary here, a handy infographic from the Epoch Times here, a first-hand account from a Philadelphia count observer here, a video of suitcases of votes in Georgia being pulled out from under a table and counted once all observers had been sent home here, a first-hand account of a poll worker seeing batches of mail-in ballots for Biden that, illegally, showed no sign of having been mailed-in here, and evidence of more than 21,000 named anomalous votes in Georgia here.)
What is going on, that even with so much evidence of prevalent, outcome-tipping fraud, those presenting it cannot get a hearing, cannot set out their evidence to a court or other body that has the power and is prepared to use it to intervene and remedy the problem?
The overwhelming impression I've had is of a judicial system that doesn't want to know. Yes, there's fraud in American elections, they say. But it isn't widespread. It isn't enough to affect the outcome. But how can they know? Such a claim surely depends on the margin of victory, and when a margin of victory is as small as it is in Georgia (about 12,000 votes), how can they be sure the amount of fraud is not greater than the difference in vote tallies without having a close look?
The truth is that it simply mustn't be enough to affect the outcome. It cannot be. Not because this is impossible (it is more than possible), but because the alternative is much too inconvenient and explosive to contemplate. It would mean they actually had to do something about it, find a remedy. But what could that remedy be? Would an American court dare to overturn the result of a democratic election, even one that had been proven to be fraudulent?
As one judge in Detroit put it as she rejected one of the lawsuits on procedural grounds: 'The people have spoken' – begging, of course, the entire point at issue.
And as another judge in Atlanta said as he threw out a different lawsuit, again on procedural grounds: The plaintiffs are seeking 'perhaps the most extraordinary relief ever sought' in connection with an election. 'They want this court to substitute its judgment for that of two-and-a-half million Georgia voters who voted for Joe Biden, and this I am unwilling to do.'
No standing, too late, no legal mechanism, too extraordinary, I am unwilling, the people have spoken – as these non-hearings go on, it's increasingly clear that the courts have absolutely no intention of taking responsibility for enforcing electoral law or remedying serious breaches of it in the manner required.
It must be counted a major defect in the American system of democracy that an effective means of facing up to and addressing widespread, proven election fraud is absent. In principle the state legislatures and courts are empowered to do something about it. But in practice it appears to be unthinkable, and indeed has never been done before. No matter how much evidence is produced that should compel action, no one appears to have any intention of changing the habit of a lifetime.
Hear no fraud, see no fraud, speak no fraud. Can't we just move on? We all know Democrats cheat. But never enough to affect the result. Never, you understand. And what are we supposed to do about it now? The people have spoken. Look, even the dead voted in this election, and there's no arguing with them.
First published on Conservative Woman.
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4 thoughts on "Election fraud that the US courts don't want to know about"
Thomas Seidler says:
I'm glad you've written about this important matter. Well done, good solid coverage, so little is said on it, yet it's a key issue at this turning point of the West. These freedoms grew out of Christianity: "we forgot God and all this happened…" as Solzhenitsyn would say.
Don Benson says:
I know for certain that I'm not alone in experiencing a pit-of-the stomach unease. And, for those of us who share it, it must be a common experience that it has been rapidly growing during this internationally and domestically chaotic year of 2020. It's compounded by the nightmare reality that far too few people seem to share any concern at all: they seem to be oblivious to what is happening in plain sight. I think the evidence is now overwhelming that self appointed global influencers and their widely dispersed supporters have almost universal control over the political narrative as well as majority control over popular opinion. It's totalitarian, atheistic, and (now emboldened by Coronavirus) it's overt. The freedom to speak up against it is rapidly closing down – particularly at the hands of big tech controllers such as Twitter, YouTube and Facebook. The MSM in large part signed up to it long ago.
Anyone who has taken an interest and seen the evidence pile up of misinformation and corrupt voting procedures during and since the presidential election in the USA will sense that ordinary American voters have been cynically done over. It was bad enough that the MSM kept tight lipped before the election regarding all inconvenient reporting about the Democrats and Joe Biden: there was a wealth of highly disturbing information which any democratic process should have ensured was made public. But evidence of electoral malpractice is perhaps even worse.
The much amplified 'mail in' system for the 2020 election, the design and operational insecurity of the Dominion software, countless sworn affidavits of malpractice in the vote counting, and the improbability of county and state voting statistics all combine to make a compelling case that the evidence be fully and openly tested in court. It might be a complicated can of worms but a democratic process which the judicial system shows no inclination to defend from corruption is no longer democratic. In such circumstances a sham democracy becomes an easy tool to enable political operators to bypass the will of the people and shape future events (including elections) as they please. There is henceforward no obvious way of regaining genuine democracy.
Despite suffering 4 years of vilification, misinformation and obstruction, Donald Trump has made valiant efforts to reign back on the globalist agenda and once more establish the idea of free, independent nation states as the best situation in which world harmony and individual freedom can flourish. But he has been the last block in the road to the World Economic Forum's global aspirations – something which today's Democratic Party clearly supports. They needed to get rid of him and, by hook or by crook, they've done it.
Trump's depiction of 'clearing out the swamp' rang true with voters despite the howls from 'the swamp'. All that is now to be reversed by the Democrats; and we have to realise that many Republican politicians will also be overjoyed to see the back of Trump. He was always a political outsider. Now that the election result is beyond challenge, the reality of the Democrats' totalitarian agenda is being revealed to the American people. They can expect to hear a lot about the Great Reset, 'Build Back Better', and 'You'll own nothing and you'll be happy'. It may go down well in the big cities but there's a major part of America which will fight it – literally if necessary.
So did the American people really vote for this? I very much doubt it. Perhaps one day the truth will out; I wouldn't dare to predict in what circumstances. But I can confidently opine that much prayer is needed for the American people, and our world, right now.
The election result was in line with every opinion poll. The internet loves a conspiracy theory but the legal system in a western democracy only handles hard evidence.
To say that an entire national police investigation agency and judiciary is knowingly colluding to cover up massive and systemic election fraud is like claims that NASA faked the moon landings or that 911 was planned by a US military ticked off by post-cold war budget cuts.
…And Donald Trump's toe-curling 'sore loser' behaviour speaks eloquently on why so many will be relieved to see him gone, however unchristian his successor turns out to be. Had Trump not been so flawed a personality he would have won the election as his policies were mostly OK and his Supreme Court nominations sound.


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Basketball players, Havocs have uncommon bond
DeWayne Russell leads the Lopes around the Arena as they greet fans after a game.
Editor's note: This story is reprinted from the December issue of GCU Magazine. To view the digital version of the magazine, click here.
Story by Rick Vacek
The most public example of Grand Canyon University's unique campus culture is played out at men's basketball games. But there's a lot more to the interaction between the Havocs and the players than meets the eye (and ear, for that matter).
It's as if they're teammates. As the players line up and circle the Arena floor after a game to shake hands with fans, especially members of GCU's nationally renowned cheering section, it's an excellent example of the good that comes from two groups of students uniting for a common cause. They act like friends because, well, they are.
Coach Dan Majerle says the Havocs' pregame chants and rituals get him "ready to roll," and it has the same effect on the players.
"It's really cool because we get to see them around campus," senior guard DeWayne Russell said. "They become more than just the student section. We know a lot of them. It's more like a friendship between us."
The president of the Havocs, Steve Hunsaker, said, "There's a mutual respect between the basketball players and the diehard fans, and I don't mean just the leaders. You'll see DeWayne and these guys on Lopes Way and you'll get high-fives from everybody."
Friends and roommates
Hunsaker has taken the high-fives one step further: He rooms with three players — Gerard Martin and Matt Jackson, both from Australia, and Kenzo Nudo, who's of Mexican and Italian descent. To commemorate their heritage, they have four flags, including the Stars and Stripes, in the living room of their unit in the new Roadrunner Apartments.
"It's like the United Nations in there," Hunsaker said.
Except that they're a lot more united. Martin, who spends about 11 months a year on campus, said he was taken by the GCU spirit as soon as he saw it during the recruiting process.
"The students here are unbelievable," he said. "That's what I tell everyone back home and all my friends: 'You don't understand until you come here and you talk to the kids.'
"The students here are unbelievable. That's what I tell everyone back home and all my friends: 'You don't understand until you come here and you talk to the kids.'"
Gerard Martin
"You see the passion, and not just at basketball games. At anything. Whether it's Chapel or it's Mr. GCU, all the kids go nuts and they just love the school. Everyone's so loving — that's one thing that makes it easy to move over here and live here."
The cultural exchange ranges from vegemite sandwiches ("Actually pretty good," Hunsaker said) to good old-fashioned kidding. "If you're friends with an Aussie, they just rip you apart," he said. "That's, like, friendship. You've got to have thick skin. But they're the happiest, nicest people."
"We bully him a little bit," Martin admitted. "He's smaller than us."
The living arrangement has made Hunsaker appreciate the grind that student-athletes face daily, and they, in turn, are thankful for something Hunsaker has that they don't — a car. Well, a car more or less. Mostly less.
Hunsaker calls it his "1999 Ford Exploder," with a "d." Hey, it's transportation when they want to go out to eat on Sundays.
"This thing makes so many weird noises, has three doors that don't open and doesn't have a back window," Hunsaker said. "But they don't have any other options."
Noise is a constant at GCU Arena as well during basketball games. This season, the Havocs will loudly greet the two most highprofile teams ever to visit — Louisville on Saturday and San Diego State on Wednesday — and coach Dan Majerle can't wait.
Majerle knows all about noisy arenas. He played in some great ones for the Phoenix Suns, including Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum, aka the "Madhouse on McDowell."
"It was one of those old-style buildings where the acoustics were unbelievable," he said. "For an NBA arena, they were right on top of you.
"This is close. Madhouse, I don't know how many it sat, maybe 15,000. For 7,200, this gets just as loud. The student section, obviously, is more rowdy, more energetic as far as the hopping around. The stuff they do before the game, right before we tip off, that always fires me up. That gets me ready to roll."
Atmosphere made it clear
It's also a recruiting tool. Martin knew he had found the right place the first time he visited. "That's a big part of why I came here," he said. "Obviously, it was Coach Majerle, too, but I wanted to play somewhere where it's a crazy atmosphere.
"Back home, you see college atmospheres like Ohio State and Duke on ESPN, and that's what I think of when I think about college basketball. When I came and saw this crowd, I couldn't say no."
It makes it only natural to spread the post-game love with those handshakes and high-fives and slapped palms. It has become a winning tradition.
"To be able to go around and see them face to face, give them a high-five and thank them personally is definitely something that's unique," Martin said. "It's great for us basketball players to meet the fans and relate with them because they're students just like us."
This is far more than just oral support. This type of interaction could only happen at a place like GCU, where the culture brings out the best in people … and the people bring out the best in the culture.
Contact Rick Vacek at (602) 639-8203 or rick.vacek@gcu.edu.


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LOS ANGELES, Calif. – (December 17, 2020) – Liferay, Inc., which makes software that helps companies create digital experiences on web, mobile, and connected devices, today announced it will join the IBM (NYSE: IBM.) Cloud for Financial Services ecosystem and intends to onboard its flagship Liferay Digital Experience solution to the platform. The IBM Cloud for Financial Services is designed to help institutions safely migrate their sensitive operations to the cloud and take advantage of cloud-native technologies from IBM's independent software vendor (ISV) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) partners.
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Liferay is joining the IBM Cloud for Financial Services ecosystem, an initiative to help Independent Software Vendor (ISV) and Software-as-a-service (SaaS) partners accelerate transactions with financial services institutions. The IBM Cloud for Financial Services is designed to help address financial services institutions requirements for their regulatory compliance, security, and resiliency. IBM's ecosystem of partners fuels hybrid cloud environments by helping clients manage and modernize workloads from bare-metal to multicloud and everything in between with Red Hat OpenShift.
Liferay will join the IBM Cloud for Financial Services ecosystem to provide financial institutions a secured way to leverage its DXP, commerce, and analytics offerings.
The IBM Cloud for Financial Services is an industry-first platform designed to enable financial institutions to securely migrate sensitive operations to the public cloud and transact with technology vendors.
Liferay Digital Experience Platform will provide financial services customers a flexible, integration-ready platform on which to develop digital solutions for customers, partners, and employees.
Liferay's digital experience offerings are already being actively used by some of the most notable financial institutions in the world.
*Gartner "Magic Quadrant for Digital Experience Platforms" by Irina Guseva, Gene Phifer, Mike Lowndes, 29 January 2020.
**Gartner "Critical Capabilities for Digital Experience Platforms" by Irina Guseva, Gene Phifer, Mike Lowndes, 3 February 2020.
Statements regarding IBM's future direction and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice, and represent goals and objectives only.
About Liferay
Liferay helps organizations meet their unique challenges by creating innovative, customer-centered experiences on our cloud-powered digital experience platform (DXP). Our platform is open source, which makes it more reliable and secure. Over a thousand organizations in financial services, insurance, manufacturing, healthcare and government use Liferay worldwide. Our goal is to help companies reach their full potential to serve others, and we try to leave a positive mark on the world through our business and technology. Engage with us at www.liferay.com.


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Zirconium sulphate
Based on a theoretical assessment and on the observed endothermic reactions in the DTA analysis, zirconium sulfate is concluded to be non-flammable. Day-to-day handling of the substance shows that the substance is not flammable in contact with water or with air.
non flammable
Flammability is usually seen as the ease with which the substance can burn or be ignited. However it also includes spontaneous flammability (pyrophoricity) and ignition on contact with water.
Pyrophoricity. In the daily use and handling of zirconium sulfate during which continuous exposure to air can occur, no spontaneous ignition is observed. The absence of structural alerts furthermore confirms that it is highly unlikely that this substance has pyrophoric properties.
Flammability in contact with water. Under conditions where zirconium sulfate is in contact with water no ignition and/or liberation of flammable gases is observed. The absence of structural alerts furthermore confirms that it is highly unlikely that this substance is flammable in contact with water.
Flammability. When zirconium sulfate is heated it decomposes. This decomposition becomes significant at approximately 740°C and is preceded at lower temperatures (164 / 185 °C) by dehydration. Dehydration and decomposition are endothermic reactions making the substance not liable to burning. Furthermore, inorganic sulfates in which the inorganic element is in its highest possible oxidation state are considered incapable of further reaction with oxygen and can thus be designated as non-flammable. The oxidation state of zirconium in zirconium sulfate is in its highest possible state (4+) and this substance can thus be considered as non-flammable.
Following the above assessment it is concluded that zirconium sulfate is non-flammable and should thus not be classified for this endpoint.


Simple Veggie Pasta | Eat. Love. Namaste.
It's light, packed with veggies, and topped with fresh basil. Plus, its quick to make for those busy nights.
I'm a lover of pasta: it's tasty and full of yummy carbs.
This pasta was created after trying out the Banza Chickpea Spaghetti noodles I bought from the store. The brand of pasta caught my attention because it had 25 grams of protein; which is almost twice as much as the average spaghetti. These noodles are vegan and gluten-free and made with chickpea flour, and they taste actually like pasta should.
When making the pasta, I wasn't in the mood for a thick sauce, so I sautéed some veggies and topped it with fresh lemon juice and basil. I was so yummy and knew I had to share the recipe here for you to try, and I hope you all love it too!
This Simple Veggie Pasta is light, packed with veggies and topped with fresh basil. Plus, its quick to make for those busy nights.
Bring a large pot of water to a boil (for cooking the pasta) and add 1 Tbsp olive oil and a generous pinch of salt. Cook pasta according to package instructions.
Heat a large rimmed skillet over medium heat. Once hot, add oil, onion, zucchini, red tomatoes, and broccoli. Sautée for 5 minutes, and then add garlic and seasoning: pinch of black pepper and salt. Stir and sauté for 5 -7 minutes, or until veggies are tender and tomatoes are bursting.
Once pasta is cooked, add ¼ cup of the pasta water to the veggies, and the juice of 1 lemon. Drain the pasta and add directly to the veggies and toss to combine. Season with additional black pepper, salt, red chili flakes, and fresh chopped basil.
Best when fresh, though leftovers will keep in the refrigerator for 2 days.


Officer Paul Rutherford was a nearly 23-year veteran of the Phoenix Police Department. The girl he helped before he died will remember him as a kind, family man.
PHOENIX — A police officer who was killed while investigating a crash will be remembered as a kind, family man by the 17-year-old girl he consoled moments before his death.
Alma Pineda said Officer Paul Rutherford hugged her when he arrived to the scene of a car crash she was in near 75th Avenue and Indian School Road Thursday morning.
That's when other police officers came to Rutherford's aide, immediately giving him CPR. Rutherford was transported to a hospital and died shortly after.
Phoenix police Chief Jeri Williams said 51-year-old Rutherford leaves behind a wife and two adult children.
"This is just another example of the inherent dangers that our officers face each and every day and yet they put that blue uniform on and go out and serve our community," Williams said Thursday following Rutherford's passing.
Rutherford was a 23-year veteran of the Phoenix Police Department. Williams said his death marks the 39th officer killed in the line of duty for the agency.


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Corsair Carbide Series AIR 740 Cube Case Review
Corsair is back with another cube type case this time in its Carbide AIR series. The model AIR 740 is a big steel case that has a big footprint, and along with that comes a spacious interior that will lend itself to just about any amount of hardware you want to install and Corsair has its sights set on excellent cooling for all that hardware.
Today we are reviewing the Corsair Carbide Series AIR 740 ATX cube case.
Corsair is famous for its memory products, but as you likely know, the company has branched out in recent years with its cooling line, world class power supplies, SSDs, audio components, keyboards and mice and, of course, computer cases. Put it this way, if you call yourself an enthusiast, not only have you heard of Corsair, you've most likely owned one or more of its products.
Corsair is a global company bringing innovative, high-performance components to the PC gaming market. Specializing in very high performance memory, ultra-efficient power supplies, and other key system components, our products are the choice of overclockers, enthusiasts, and gamers everywhere. Corsair has developed a global operations infrastructure with extensive marketing and distribution channel relationships. Corsair's products are sold to end users in over sixty countries worldwide, primarily through leading distributors and retailers.
Founded as Corsair Microsystems in 1994, Corsair originally developed Level 2 cache modules for OEMs. After Intel incorporated the L2 cache in the processor with the release of its Pentium Pro processor family, Corsair changed its focus to DRAM modules, primarily in the server market. In 2002, Corsair began shipping DRAM modules that were specifically designed to appeal to computer overclocking enthusiasts. From its roots in high-performance memory, Corsair has expanded its award-winning product portfolio to include ultra-efficient power supplies, builder-friendly cases, ground-breaking CPU coolers, blazing-fast solid-state drives, and other key system components.
As stated, the subject of today's evaluation is the Corsair Carbide Series AIR 740 cube case. This chassis is the latest edition of the company's wildly popular Carbide Series AIR chassis. Leading up to today's evaluation, we have previously reviewed both the Corsair AIR 540 and the smaller Corsair AIR 240. The Corsair Carbide Series AIR 740 cube chassis builds on the strengths of the previous AIR Series chassis while bringing an entirely new look to the table. How does this chassis compare to its predecessors? Let's find out, shall we?
The Corsair Carbide Series AIR 740 ATX cube case arrived in its bare product packaging. The overall measurements are 20"H x 22"L x 16"W. The outside of the package showed minimal signs of damage thanks no doubt in part to the large red "FRAGILE" sticker on the front of the box. The contents of the box also arrived in perfect condition.
As usual, Corsair has once again decided against slick packaging and flashy graphics, instead opting for plain cardboard packaging with product information, name and company logo printed in black. The back of the package has an exploded view of the chassis and a feature list in several languages. The case itself is wrapped in a black cloth bag and held in place by thick Styrofoam inserts.


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No Comedians. No Coffee. But Cars. And Sting.
June 10, 2019 Stephen Macaulay Leave a comment
Even if you have absolutely no interest in the auto industry, lately you've probably heard something about the potential tie-up and subsequent unraveling and just-maybe tying the knot between FCA and Groupe Renault. You can't buy a new Renault (or Dacia or Alpine) in the U.S. market. But you can buy FCA products to your heart's content: Chrysler, Dodge, Ram, Jeep, Alfa Romeo. . .and Fiat (the "F" in FCA, with the "C" standing for Chrysler).
Fiat is the brand that has on offer the Fiat 500, the diminutive two-door with the arc-like profile. When it was brought to the U.S. market, the woman who was heading the brand in the U.S. then, Laura Soave, said, "Like the original Cinquecento a half-century ago, the new Fiat 500 changes the rules of personal transportation and delivers a new sense of individual expression and opportunity. At a time when America is getting back to basics with a fresh awareness of the environment around, the new Fiat 500 identifies with today's minimalistic attitude and delivers with state-of-the-art eco-friendly technology wrapped in world-class quality, craftsmanship and style."
Unfortunately, the 500 in the U.S. market proved to be pretty much not more than a novelty act, one of those things that you see once and never really need to again, but in this case it was a matter of people initially glomming onto it and then showing nothing but disinterest. That is, for all of 2018 FCA sold 5,370 Fiat 500s in the U.S. If you add in the derivatives, the 500L at 1,413 and the 500X at 5,223, the total in terms of vehicle sales is rather abysmal. Arguably, in this age where the Green New Deal is something garnering attention, there is no less "awareness of the environment around," but the 500 is no longer part of that "back to basics" approach.
Yet the 500 motors on, especially in Europe, where the company turns out model after model with new takes, with two of the most recent being named—and this is real—the "Star" and the "Rockstar."
Those who buy either of those models will find that there is a BeatsAudio sound system. And for what I imagine is a limited time, those buying a Star or Rockstar will get six months of Apple Music free.
To launch the models, the Leo Burnett Creative Agency developed an ad that was shot in Barcelona and uses, as its soundtrack, "Just One Lifetime" by Shaggy and Sting.
Several years ago, Sting was in a commercial for Jaguar. His physical presence has a cameo now in an ad for Fiat.
Jaguar. Fiat.
Of course, Sting was once in a band named The Police.
The question in the Jaguar ad was "What does a rock star dream of?"
Probably not the Fiat 500 Rockstar.
Continue reading No Comedians. No Coffee. But Cars. And Sting. →
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Imported from. . .Canada
December 28, 2012 Stephen Macaulay Leave a comment
When Chrysler busted out with the 2011 Super Bowl ad with Eminem, which gave rise to the whole "Imported from Detroit" theme, a theme that was green-lighted by Olivier Francois, a Parisian-born executive of Fiat, an Italian company (that owns Chrysler), people in Detroit at large got a good feeling. Yes, the people are tough and gritty, smooth and stylish. The car in question in the spot (a Chrysler 200) isn't exactly the a car likely to make any publication's Ten Best List, but as it is the only car that Chrysler produced in the Detroit Metro at the time (it put the Dodge Viper back into production in the city earlier this month, and it actually has built the Jeep Grand Cherokee in the D for the past several years), they had to go with what they had.
Why not the Chrysler 300, the sedan that was immediately popular with golfers and gangstas alike when it appeared as a model year 2005 vehicle?
Because that car is built in Canada.
Chrysler is now beating Detroit like Meg White the drums. Unless it is an ad for Jeep, chances are there is something airing from the company that goes directly back to that "Born of Fire" Super Bowl ad.
It has just launched the 2013 Chrysler 300 Motown Edition.
The commercial for the car shows Motown founder and Detroit native Berry Gordy sitting in the backseat of the car. . .in front of the Motown Museum on West Grand Boulevard. If you've ever been to the Motown Museum or on West Grand Boulevard, you know that the word "grand" isn't used in a particularly descriptive way.
And while Gordy established Motown in Detroit in 1960, he moved it to Los Angeles in 1972.
Thanks, Berry.
And while the 2013 Chrysler 300 Motown Edition moves Gordy through the streets of Detroit, it deposits him in New York City, in front of the Lunt Fontanne Theatre, where "Motown: The Musical" will be opening in March.
He may have forgotten that there is the Fisher Theater literally down the street from the Motown Museum. They stage Broadway shows there, too. It's not Broadway. But it is Detroit.
The car is all chromed up. Perhaps the best part of it is that the limited-edition sedan's audio system comes with 100 Motown tracks, but then those are accessible without having to put out an MSRP of $32,995.
"We are Motown and this is what we do," Gordy says at the end of the spot for the car.
What? Move out of the D?
2013 Chrysler 300C | Who We Are | Motown: The Musical
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New Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Super Bowl Ad: Black Betty
February 5, 2011 Jake Brown 2 Comments
Video: Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – "Black Betty" (VW ad)
Volkswagen Beetle 2011 Super Bowl XLV television commercial
It all comes back to the intersection of art and commerce… Or rather: cars and rock and roll. Over the past ten years we've spent a lot of time discussing what it means when a band puts its music in a commercial. From the Clash to Sting, Nick Drake to the Mooney Suzuki, Iggy Pop to Of Montreal, Led Zeppelin to Wilco. As Mac said so eloquently in 2005, we're all Sometimes Reluctant Hookers.
Ten years on, the concept of "selling out" doesn't even exist anymore. Which is probably fine, since neither does the concept of "buying music."
So congratulations to Jon Spencer for getting his band on a Volkswagen ad. A Super Bowl ad, no less! Soon to be iconic, I'm sure.
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion: iTunes, Amazon, Insound, eMusic, MOG, wiki
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David Byrne Explains Why He's Suing Crist
May 27, 2010 Jake Brown 8 Comments
Republican Governor Charlie Crist is using a Talking Heads song in an ad for his Senate campaign without permission. So David Byrne is suing his ass. Here's why:
The general public might also think I simply license the use of my songs to anyone who will pay the going rate, but that's not true either, as I have never licensed a song for use in an ad. I do license songs to commercial films and TV shows (if they pay the going rate), and to dance companies and student filmmakers mostly for free. But not to ads.
I'm a bit of a throwback that way, as I still believe songs occasionally mean something to people — they obviously mean something personal to the writer, and often to the listener as well. A personal and social meaning is diluted when that same song is used to sell a product (or a politician).
As anachronistic as these ideas seem nowadays, I'm happy there are still some artists who refuse to allow their songs—especially older, established songs—to be used in ads. I know, I know. I've heard it all. Ad nauseum. But still. Kudos to the artists who can afford to say no.
Talking Heads: iTunes, Amazon, Insound, wiki
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This Is $uccess?
July 21, 2009 Stephen Macaulay 14 Comments
Here's what passes for—what? credibility, authenticity, talent, ability—nowadays, it seems. Here's what we've come to as regards musicians that we are supposed to add to our list of those who deserve our time and attention—to say nothing of our cash. It comes from a press release for Salme Dahlstrom, who, I must confess, I lack familiarity with, and, having watched/listened to her "Superstar Car Crash," I can confidently say I will continue to lack deliberate familiarity with because, well, here's the piece from the press release:
"Like Moby did with his hugely popular album Play, Dahlstrom has managed to license every track from The Acid Cowgirl Audio Trade including syncs with companies such as Suave, Vodafone, Nike, MTV, Chips Ahoy, Miller Lite, Subaru, Quiznos, Ford Models, Bank of America and television programs and films such as One Tree Hill, Veronica Mars, Laguna Beach, The Real Orange County, The Hills, and Ice Age 3."
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Iggy Pop Peddles Insurance
February 23, 2009 Jake Brown 12 Comments
The BBC News Magazine examines the "science" of selling out concerning recent British spots featuring punk pioneers Iggy Pop and John Lydon.
Ad: Iggy Pop's insurance commercial
Ad: John Lydon's butter commercial
Gee, I wonder why they don't show these ads in the States?
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John Lennon in New Ad
December 31, 2008 Derek Phillips 9 Comments
Remember a number of years ago when a clip of Fred Astaire dancing was manipulated to show him cavorting with a vacuum cleaner? It was weird and sparked a debate as to the appropriate use of dead celebrity's images in advertising.
Well, Yoko Ono has put her stamp of approval on the use of John Lennon's image and "voice" in a new ad promoting the One Laptop Per Child Foundation, a project from MIT. The legitimacy of the organization's mission to provide solar powered machines to the world's poorest children aside, this is plain creepy. John Lennon has been dead for nearly 30 years and the voice-over sounds like a cartoon version of his voice.
Video: A Message from John Lennon (OLPC)
How far can we go with this? What are some dead celebrity endorsements you'd like to see?
Via the NME.
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Saul Williams vs. Nike
March 13, 2008 Jake Brown Leave a comment
GLONO alumnus Tom Mantzouranis dissects the new Nike ad for AOL Sports Blog, FanHouse. Why Did Nike Use Saul Williams' "List of Demands" in Their New Campaign?
Nike is an edgy company, and their marketing campaigns have been anything but safe lately, but it strikes me as odd that they allowed a song with violent overtones on a controversial subject to represent their company. Williams sings "call the police, I'm strapped to the teeth," "protect your neck, 'cause I'm breaking out of my noose," and "I ball my first and you're gonna know where I stand," among other lyrics.
You can download the song (MP3: Saul Williams – "List of Demands"), and if you really like it, buy the album: Saul Williams. Williams' latest album, The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust, was produced by Trent Reznor and released for free on the internet.
Watch the spot after the jump…
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Selling Out is Easy
March 11, 2008 Jake Brown 12 Comments
According to Adage, In Today's World, 'Selling Out' Is the Only Way to Cash In:
According to an executive familiar with music-licensing deals, for U.S. rights, marketers typically pay $150,000 for the master recording of a song and another $150,000 for synchronization — the right to put the composition in a TV ad. However, because Apple has such leverage in breaking artists, the company paid a total of $80,000 for master and sync rights for Feist's "1234" and another $80,000 for Ms. Naim's song. And those fees are for global rights.
Still, $80,000 is not a bad little paycheck… Would you turn it down?
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of Montreal Sells Out Again
November 19, 2007 Jake Brown 3 Comments
of Montreal is being featured in another commercial, and this time frontman Kevin Barnes is getting all defensive in advance of the inevitable backlash.
The term "sellout" only exists in the lexicon of the over-privileged. Almost every non-homeless person in America is over-privileged, at least in a global sense.
Obviously, I've struggled with the concept. I've struggled because of the backlash following my songs placement in TV commercials. That is, until I realized that the negative energy that was being directed towards me really began to inspire my creativity. It has given me a sense of, "well, I'll show them who is a sellout, I'm going to make the freakiest, most interesting, record ever!!!" … "I'm going to prove to them that my shit is wild and unpolluted by the reach of some absurd connection to mainstream corporate America."
I realized then that, for me, selling out is not possible. Selling out, in an artistic sense, is to change one's creative output to fit in with the commercial world. To create phony and insincere art in the hopes of becoming commercially successful. I've never done this and I can't imagine I ever will.
These are all good points and he makes a few more, so read the whole essay entitled "Selling Out Isn't Possible" by Kevin Barnes. Percolator has the spot (YouTube).
Barnes also spoke recently to the Fork about exorcising demons, songwriting, and whatnot.
MP3: of Montreal – "Disconnect the Dots" from Satanic Panic in the Attic (review)
Previously: The Glorious Noise Interview with Kevin Barnes (2004).
Continue reading of Montreal Sells Out Again →
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Preschool is an ideal time to introduce children to school bus safety because many of them will begin riding the bus regularly in elementary school. Teaching familiarity with the bus ahead of time can alleviate anxiety and ensure that each child is prepared for a safe and enjoyable ride.
Topics are set so that lessons taught at the beginning will be revisited throughout each lesson to add detail and reinforce information. If necessary because of time constraints, the real bus experiences can be condensed into a single day. If one of the final art projects is not appropriate for your particular classroom, many other options are available.
If you need help downloading the printable lessons, check out these helpful tips.
The goal of this lesson is to introduce children to the school bus, its purpose, and the fact that they may ride a bus to school - without mom or dad - in the near future. It will also introduce the idea that there are rules for the school bus just like there are rules for the classroom. For children with older siblings, some of the material may be familiar and will serve to reiterate and add to what they already know.
The lesson will introduce children to recognize what a school bus looks like, how it is different from a car, who rides a school bus, where school buses can take you and how to behave on a school bus. It will also reassure children that they cannot get "forgotten" on the bus and familiarize them with the bus driver.
They will then visit a real school bus and put the skills they practiced into use. The first visit to a real school bus will focus on the basics: getting on and off, selecting a seat, sitting quietly, sharing a seat, and recognizing the bus driver.
The final project will have students create their own personal school bus out of an egg carton to be used in future lessons. They should be able to identify each part of the bus and discuss how it is used.
The goal of this lesson is to teach the students about how to be safe on the bus without creating fear or anxiety. Children will learn that bus safety is important so that the driver can do his or her job and get the students to school on time.
This lesson will expand on the behaviors taught in the first lesson. Topics will include how to sit appropriately, how to use seatbelts (if applicable), or why they can be safe without seatbelts, why it is important to be quiet and where to stow their bags.
The mock bus and real bus activities will give students the chance to practice the rules they established in the introduction. They will understand that it is a good idea to practice a bus drill, just like a fire drill. Like with the first visit to the bus, students will board the bus, greet the driver and find a seat. They will then practice evacuating the bus from the rear door.
For their final project, students will create a "town" in the classroom to use with their egg-carton buses. This will help familiarize them with the concept that buses drive all over town, and that it is important to be safe every time the bus is moving and when getting on and off.
Students will revisit the rules they established in topic two, with a focus on how they should treat other students and the bus driver. The discussion will include what to do if they see someone misbehaving, what to do if they have a problem and the fact that good bus behavior includes the time they are waiting at the bus stop.
Because these are young children, the issue of bullying will focus primarily on ideas such as "being a good friend" and talking to the driver or their teacher if they see something they think is wrong.
As part of the classroom bus and real bus activities, students will start by waiting at different "stops" for the bus to pick them up. The real bus activity will culminate with a short ride.
The final project will have students create a mural of a school bus with a self-portrait of one student in each window.
Used together, the three lesson plans should prepare students to ride a school bus. You may need to modify parts of the plans for your school or area's specific situation. For example, children who will likely wait for the bus in very urban or rural areas may need extra instruction about their surroundings. Getting parents involved in the lessons is also a good idea, so they can reinforce the things being taught at home.


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Moderna and Samsung Biologics Partner on Fill/Finish Manufacturing of Moderna's COVID-19 Vaccine
Samsung Biologics plans to support the production of hundreds of millions of doses of Moderna's vaccine to supply to markets outside of the United States beginning in the third quarter of 2021.
Moderna and Samsung Biologics announced on May 22, 2021 that they have entered into a manufacturing services and supply agreement under which Samsung Biologics will provide large scale, commercial fill/finish manufacturing for mRNA-1273, Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine.
Under the terms of the agreement, technology transfer will take place at Samsung Biologics' Incheon, South Korea, facilities where it will utilize its production line designed for aseptic fill/finish, labeling, and packaging, Moderna said in a company press release. Samsung Biologics plans to support the production of hundreds of millions of doses of the vaccine to supply to markets outside of the United States beginning in the third quarter of 2021.
"This vaccine is paramount to people around the world in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, and we truly appreciate our client Moderna for entrusting and choosing to partner with Samsung Biologics for the fill and finish of this important vaccine," said John Rim, CEO of Samsung Biologics, in the press release. "Due to the high level of urgency in supplying the vaccine to the global population, we have set immediate action plans and schedule to make mRNA-1273 available for commercial distribution in the early second half of 2021."
"We are pleased to partner with Samsung Biologics for this fill and finish manufacturing, which will help us continue to scale up our manufacturing capacity outside of the US," said Juan Andres, Moderna's chief technical operations and quality officer, in the press release. "We and our manufacturing partners remain committed to defeating the COVID-19 pandemic."
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Samantha Davies – the only female skipper competing in this 7th edition - emerged in the public eye during the 2008-2009 Vendée Globe. Yet sailing specialists were already familiar with her name, especially in Brittany, where she is based. Born in Great-Britain, she took advantage of her Saint-John College training in Cambridge as an engineer and made sure there was not a sailing technique or technical element she could not deal with. Her great experience of the sea helped her become an offshore sailing figure to be reckoned with but what made her become the public's darling is a little something extra she has: her joie de vivre, her happiness when she's at sea and her natural charms. These characteristics, along with her composure and her sense of humour and of fun selfdeprecation, have contributed to the popularity of the petite yachtswoman on the docks.


Are you feeling low today? Are you tired and completely spent? Are you completely broken down because of a long hectic-scheduled day? Unable to find some stuff to watch on television? Not in a mood to listen to songs? Then you should probably consider the following movies which will make your day and will make you cheerful and buoyant. So, what are you waiting for? Download them, watch them, laugh out loud whilst watching them and what next? Go to bed and have a decent sleep.
This is the hilarious movie I've watched so far. With Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis starring in this film, this movie is full of sarcasm, hilarious punches and utter stupidity. This movie revolves around 4 friends who go to Las Vegas for a bachelor party but things go wrong. On the very second day of their vacation to Las Vegas, they forget everything they did together the last night plus their fourth friend, Doug, goes missing. That's all I am going to tell you for now. The plot of the movie is absolutely amazing and that's exactly what makes it to be the first on my list.
This movie revolves around the Dictator of Wadiya who is known to do the most stupid things one can't even imagine of, making him the most dangerous man in the world. Therefore, he is told by the United Nations to come to America to address the world about his future plans. But before that could happen, he is kidnapped by his uncle. His uncle wants the dictatorship rule in Wadiya to come to an end and democracy to come into effect, for his personal benefits. The movie is all about Admiral General Aladeen's efforts to stop Wadiya from becoming a democratic country.
With Jim Carrey, Cameron Diaz starring in this movie, this movie revolves around a guy named Stanley, an easy-going bank employee who becomes a crazy green-skinned being who can bend reality after putting on a wooden mask, inhabited by Loki, the God of mischief. Stanley is a shy young man who works in a bank. One evening, he discovers a mask by the sea which transforms him into a maniac superhero. This movie is fun to watch.
I really hope so that the above-mentioned movies cheer you up and make your tiresome day into a full-fledged amazing one!
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Lajeunesse est un nom de famille notamment porté par :
Jean Lajeunesse (1921 - 1991), un acteur et animateur de télévision et de radio québécois.
Serge Lajeunesse (1950 - ), un ancien joueur professionnel de hockey sur glace de la Ligue nationale de hockey.

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Homonymie de patronyme
Patronyme
Patronyme québécois

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Chromium is an essential nutrient; in particular it has an important role in stabilising blood sugar levels. It also is important for cardiovascular disease, to help to prevent obesity and stress, and promotes skin health and muscle health.
If you have problems with maintaining stable blood sugar levels you are likely to find taking a supplement of GTF (Glucose Tolerance Factor) Chromium helpful. High blood sugar levels cause serious damage to the body, particularly the blood vessels; in the extreme high blood sugars can kill. Diabetes results when the body is unable to lower blood sugar levels which are too high.
On the other hand very low blood sugar levels can also be a problem; people with diabetes can get low blood sugar levels in reaction to medication. This is called Hypoglycaemia. Some people have a tendency to get low blood sugar levels even though they dont have diabetes. Hypoglycaemia causes symptoms such as hunger, shakiness, nervousness, sweating, dizziness or light-headedness, sleepiness, confusion, difficulty speaking, anxiety, weakness, nightmares, and waking up feeling tired, irritable or confused.
GTF Chromium helps regulate your blood sugar levels, this means it can either lower or raise blood sugar levels depending on the needs of your body. It is necessary for insulin to work properly. Insulin is a powerful hormone involved with protein, fat and carbohydrate metabolism; it plays a major role in reducing high blood sugar levels, but without biologically active chromium, insulin is ineffective.
In Type 1 diabetes the body no longer produces insulin, in Type 2 diabetes insulin is not produced in adequate amounts. Diabetics are likely to be deficient in chromium , it is an important nutrient for all diabetics, most studies so far have shown that people with Type 2 Diabetes , or Pre-Diabetes need GTF Chromium [3, 4]. Although a study this year found children who had just been diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes also had very low levels of Chromium. The scientists suggested supplementation of chromium with insulin may be necessary for people with type 1 diabetes .
Chromium is very effective when combined with other nutrients such as Vitamin C, Vitamin E  and Zinc [8, 9]. Antioxidants are crucial to preventing damage from diabetes [10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17]. Food State Vitamin C has been found to be effective in reducing signs that the body is developing complications of diabetes [18, 19].
Another important antioxidant is selenium which can be low diabetics [20, 17]. In New Zealand we do have particularly low levels of selenium , so it is likely to be needed for diabetics here.
GTF Chromium helps to prevent Obesity (by improving the body's utilization of glucose) and can stimulate weight loss in people afflicted by Obesity.
Chromium is found in the skin and helps skin health, including acne.
Chromium stimulates Muscle Growth, increases Muscle Strength, can increase lean body mass, and enhances the uptake of Creatine into the Muscles. Any excessive or highly strenuous exercise depletes Chromium.
In previous articles I have talked about important foods to include, foods to avoid, and exercise, so here we have looked more at the nutrients. Remember getting the food right is vital; so be focused. If you are with anybody who has diabetes trying to tempt them with foods that will damage them is like tempting someone with cancer to smoke cigarettes. So do all you can to support and encourage them, at the same time you will be decreasing your chances of getting Type 2 diabetes.


Home - Art - Art Websites - Try These Tips For Learning Guitar The Easy Way!
When learning to play the guitar is something you're looking to do, there's nothing better than getting some advice first. Here you're going to learn what goes into playing the guitar well so that you're able to get to where you want to be with this sort of thing. Just read along and you'll get the information you're looking for.
Practice your rhythm. Regardless of whether you know the chords, if you're not playing at the right tempo, you're going to sound awful. Try practicing with a metronome. Don't dwell too much on where your fingers are. That could cause you to form bad habits. Focus on keeping the right pace.
Try adding variety to your guitar practice. When you practice the same things over and over again, it can get boring. While routine practice is essential to playing well, you should also throw in some enjoyable items. Try playing songs that you like. You can even try playing in different locations outside your home.
Before you get calluses on your fingers they will get sore. Electric guitars have softer strings and are easier to play if you are worried about this. Steel acoustic strings can be the most painful type for beginners. Although you may find relief from soaking your fingertips in rubbing alcohol, avoid harmful substances, like turpentine.
The use of a metronome is a great idea. Keeping time is a major hurdle for new guitar players. Metronomes keep you on beat. You'll be able to keep the beat by yourself if you practice enough.
Learn the different key signatures. In each key signature, there is a basic chord progression that you can learn. When you get familiar with these, you can improvise the accompaniment of many popular songs. This is one good way to start playing some real music and learn at the same time.
It's easy to see now that learning the guitar can be done by just about anyone. It just is something you have to work towards. If you practice and keep yourself patient you'll do well. Share some of these tips with others if you know someone else that wishes to learn the guitar.


Teach for India is looking for the brightest minds and hearts in the country to apply for our two-year Fellowship program.
The Fellowship is an opportunity to serve as full-time teacher leaders to children from low-income communities in India's most under-resourced schools. After the two years, TFI Fellows become a part of the Teach For India Alumni movement where they work to drive systemic change and realise educational opportunity for all.
The Fellowship is a win-win; Fellows get an opportunity to develop leadership skills that will set them up for a career of their choice while they change children's lives and build the nation.
Fellows receive a monthly stipend.
The program is a two-year, full time commitment.
Why should your students join the Teach for India movement?
TFI is a chance for fellows to learn, contribute and take action towards dismantling education inequity in India. They will play a big part in solving India's education crisis. The Fellowship enables fellows to give children the opportunity to change their lives and deepen their understanding of what's required to attain educational equity. They'll develop into a strong, caring and effective leader. The Fellowship uses the classroom and community as a lab of leadership where fellows practice vision, planning, execution and problem-solving, reflection and other key leadership skills. They'll become a part of a growing network of change makers. The Fellowship will facilitate life-long partnerships and relationships with thousands of alumni and partners who will support fellows and deepen their impact as an Alumnus. Our alumnus add momentum to the theory of change we passionately believe in by being associated with the movement, throughout.
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Ołeh Borysowycz Koszeluk, ukr. Олег Борисович Кошелюк, ros. Олег Борисович Кошелюк, Oleg Borisowicz Koszeluk (ur. 7 września 1969 we Lwowie) – ukraiński piłkarz, grający na pozycji pomocnika, a wcześniej napastnika.

Kariera piłkarska

Kariera klubowa
Wychowanek klubu Kołos Pawłohrad. W 1985 w wieku 16 lat rozpoczął karierę piłkarską. W czerwcu 1988 przeszedł do Dnipra Dniepropetrowsk, ale potem został powołany do służby wojskowej, podczas której grał w SKA Odessa. 6 marca 1992 roku już w składzie Czornomorca Odessa debiutował w Wyszczej Lidze w meczu z Karpatami Lwów (2:2). W końcu 1993 wyjechał do Izraela, gdzie bronił barw klubów Beitar Jerozolima, Hapoel Hajfa, Hapoel Ironi Riszon le-Cijjon i Hapoel Beer Szewa. W 1997 przeniósł się do Rosji, gdzie został piłkarzem Torpedo-Łużniki Moskwa. Na początku 1998 powrócił do Ukrainy, gdzie występował w Metałurhu Mariupol, a potem w amatorskim zespole Rybak-Dorożnyk Odessa. W 1999 ponownie wyjechał do Rosji, gdzie podpisał kontrakt z Mietałłurgiem Krasnojarsk. W 2002 grał w amatorskich drużynach Tyras-2500 Białogród nad Dniestrem oraz IRIK Odessa. W 2003 pół roku bronił barw kazachskiego klubu Jesil-Bogatyr Petropawł, a potem amatorskich zespołów Tyras-2500 Białogród nad Dniestrem oraz Iwan Odessa. Na początku 2004 przeniósł się do Dnipra Czerkasy, w którym zakończył karierę piłkarską. W sezonie 2011/12 będąc administratorem klubu Reał Farma Odessa rozegrał 8 meczów oficjalnych w składzie pierwszej drużyny.

Kariera reprezentacyjna
24 września 1991 zadebiutował w olimpijskiej reprezentacji ZSRR w meczu z Węgrami (2:0).

Sukcesy i odznaczenia

Sukcesy klubowe
 brązowy medalista Mistrzostw Ukrainy: 1993, 1994
 zdobywca Pucharu Ukrainy: 1992

Linki zewnętrzne

 Sylwetka zawodnika na rusteam.permian.ru
 Sylwetka na stronie Odeski Futbol
 Ołeh Koszeluk w bazie Worldfootball
 Profil na PlayerHistory

Urodzeni w 1969
Ludzie urodzeni we Lwowie
Radzieccy piłkarze
Ukraińscy piłkarze
Piłkarze FK Dnipro
Piłkarze SK Odessa
Piłkarze Czornomorca Odessa
Piłkarze Beitaru Jerozolima
Piłkarze Hapoelu Hajfa
Piłkarze Hapoelu Ironi Riszon le-Cijjon
Piłkarze Hapoelu Beer Szewa
Piłkarze Torpeda Moskwa
Piłkarze FK Mariupol
Piłkarze Jeniseju Krasnojarsk
Piłkarze Dnistrowca Białogród nad Dniestrem
Piłkarze Kyzyłżaru Petropawł
Piłkarze Dnipra Czerkasy
Piłkarze Reału Farma Odessa


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OMB to Congress: Information access improving
By Jason Miller
OMB's 2007 E-Government Report to Congress (.pdf)
Senators introduce E-Government Act extension
E-Government Reauthorization Act
OMB's latest e-gov report shows continued effects on agencies, citizens
The Office of Management and Budget's fifth annual report to Congress on agencies' progress toward implementing the E-Government Act of 2002 is the second report sent to lawmakers in less than a month trying to explain why citizen-centered and customer-focused technology matters. But what is different about this 43-page document is the spotlight on agency progress toward disseminating information to people and within government.
OMB chose to highlight several information-sharing successes, including improvements to USA.gov, the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act Web portal, and ensuring online public access to federal records.
The report comes as Congress is reauthorizing several provisions in the E-Government Act. The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held a hearing in December, but has not moved the bill out of committee. Meanwhile, no lawmaker in the House has introduced a companion bill.
"OMB's e-government report once again demonstrates the substantial cost savings that can be realized by the effective leveraging of information technology by the federal government," said Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), ranking member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. "In addition, these programs make it easier for all Americans to file their tax returns, comment on proposed regulations, and generally participate in the workings of their government. It is for these reasons that Senator Lieberman and I introduced the E-Government Reauthorization Act, which will ensure that the federal government continues to improve its ability to use this technology."
The reauthorization bill focuses heavily on making federal services and information more accessible by the public.
"The administration continues to make real progress leveraging information technology investments to provide citizen-focused improvements in key areas such as training, benefits and grants," said Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.), one of the authors of the original bill. "E-government has improved management, savings and efficiency in a wide range of government programs. Now, Congress needs to act with the same efficiency and reauthorize the E-Government Act this year."
OMB's most recent report, released March 1, states that agency efforts to implement the E-Government Act are resulting in more transparency and effective operations with an increased ability to manage systems' risks and protect data.
The administration also issued another report Feb. 14 that found governmentwide savings of $508 million in 2007 from e-government projects.
This was the first time OMB separated the two reports — one on spending and one on progress toward implementing the act.
"The goal of this report is to ensure we have a mutual understanding about the benefits of e-government between the legislative and executive branch," said Tim Young, OMB's deputy administrator for e-government and IT, during a briefing with reporters about the savings report.
The progress report includes little about money, except for how OMB spent the E-Government Fund in 2007.
Most went to agencies running the Lines of Business initiatives. OMB said it gave more than $2 million on the LOB efforts, while $500,000 went toward developing and monitoring cost-savings efforts and $470,000 went for monitoring performance results.
For the first time, in 2007, OMB also handed out money left over from previous fiscal years. For instance, officials said $386,343 went for architecture development for the LOBs, $400,000 went for FFATA, another $448,555 went for work on the Geospatial, IT Infrastructure and Budget Formulation LOBs and $696,000 to support how many of the initiatives determine cost savings.
As for making information more accessible, OMB highlighted USA.gov's new search tools on jobs, weather, congressional contact information, federal forms and frequently asked questions from more than 40 agencies. The report states that the portal also expanded its search functions and added nine online tutorials in December to teach users how to use the site.
Under FFATA, OMB said 21 agencies that make up about 90 percent of all federal contracts, grants and loans submitted their data to the Web portal, which the administration launched in December.
"Some remaining challenges include incorporating business information already collected, but not required by the statute, such as competition information and actions below the dollar threshold," the report states.
The report also states that the Nation al Archives and Records Administration worked with agencies in 2007 to schedule records from more than 1,000 systems.
"To focus resources where they are most needed, NARA staff developed criteria for targeting certain agencies to partner with to schedule their e-records and systems," the reports states. "These criteria were based on requests from an agency for assistance, the importance of their systems to mission critical activities, and an agency-submitted inventory of systems still unscheduled."
One example of success OMB points to in the report is NARA working with the Interior and Treasury departments and the Environmental Protection Agency to test how to implement the records management profile under the federal enterprise architecture.
In addition to information dissemination, OMB reported progress on IT project management and IT workforce improvements.
OMB said in the 2009 budget submission to Congress 88 percent of all major IT investments had a qualified project manager, up from 83 percent in the 2008 submission.
The administration reported that the Defense Department and Lockheed Martin agreed to the first IT Exchange Program memorandum of understanding.
After nearly five years, the Office of Personnel Management finalized the regulations, enabling DOD's chief information officer's office to accept a Lockheed Martin employee for one year.
The exchange program is one of the sections of the bill that Congress needs to reauthorize.
Finally, OMB detailed the Homeland Security Department's work on the Disaster Management and Safecom projects as well as every agency's work on different e-government and LOB initiatives.


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Why National Bank Holdings (NBHC) is a Top Dividend Stock for Your Portfolio
Zacks Equity Research
Zacks June 20, 2019
First Bancorp (FBP) doesn't possess the right combination of the two key ingredients for a likely earnings beat in its upcoming report. Get prepared with the key expectations.
Whether it's through stocks, bonds, ETFs, or other types of securities, all investors love seeing their portfolios score big returns. But for income investors, generating consistent cash flow from each of your liquid investments is your primary focus.
While cash flow can come from bond interest or interest from other types of investments, income investors hone in on dividends. A dividend is that coveted distribution of a company's earnings paid out to shareholders, and investors often view it by its dividend yield, a metric that measures the dividend as a percent of the current stock price. Many academic studies show that dividends make up large portions of long-term returns, and in many cases, dividend contributions surpass one-third of total returns.
National Bank Holdings in Focus
Based in Greenwood Village, National Bank Holdings (NBHC) is in the Finance sector, and so far this year, shares have seen a price change of 18.37%. Currently paying a dividend of $0.19 per share, the company has a dividend yield of 2.08%. In comparison, the Banks - Southeast industry's yield is 1.78%, while the S&P 500's yield is 1.94%.
Looking at dividend growth, the company's current annualized dividend of $0.76 is up 40.7% from last year. Over the last 5 years, National Bank Holdings has increased its dividend 3 times on a year-over-year basis for an average annual increase of 32.29%. Any future dividend growth will depend on both earnings growth and the company's payout ratio; a payout ratio is the proportion of a firm's annual earnings per share that it pays out as a dividend. Right now, National Bank Holdings's payout ratio is 30%, which means it paid out 30% of its trailing 12-month EPS as dividend.
Earnings growth looks solid for NBHC for this fiscal year. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for 2019 is $2.42 per share, which represents a year-over-year growth rate of 12.04%.
From greatly improving stock investing profits and reducing overall portfolio risk to providing tax advantages, investors like dividends for a variety of different reasons. However, not all companies offer a quarterly payout.
For instance, it's a rare occurrence when a tech start-up or big growth business offers their shareholders a dividend. It's more common to see larger companies with more established profits give out dividends. Income investors must be conscious of the fact that high-yielding stocks tend to struggle during periods of rising interest rates. That said, they can take comfort from the fact that NBHC is not only an attractive dividend play, but is also a compelling investment opportunity with a Zacks Rank of #2 (Buy).
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