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British protestors just unveiled their humiliating surprise for Trump's upcoming UK trip
By Robert Haffey
While the Republican Party loves to refer to people on the left as "snowflakes," they're led by inarguably the whiniest, most self-victimizing president in American history. Thanks to the archaic and convoluted quirks of the Electoral College, the most powerful country in the world is currently being run by a man with the temperament and attention span of a child.
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Not surprisingly, the international community doesn't take the office of the American presidency as seriously as it once did. Trump has demonstrated a profound inability to project competency or inspire anything even approaching mild admiration from the rest of the world.
During his upcoming trip to the United Kingdom next month, Trump will be confronted by the stark reality of just how little rest of the world respects his leadership. NBC News reports that protestors will greet the president with a 20-foot-tall inflatable baby Trump.
The less-than-flattering character grips a phone in its grubby paw, a clear reference to the president's infantile Twitter habits. The crowdfunding page for the float has already surpassed its goal.
Leo Murray, the mastermind behind the protest blimp, plans to float it over Parliament during Trump's visit but has yet to receive official approval for the stun. He described it as the kind of "non-violent but effective protest" the government should encourage.
"Moral outrage has no effect on Trump because he has no shame, he's immune to it. But he has a tremendously fragile ego so ridicule is an effective form of protest," Murray told NBC.
Hopefully, Murray's plan comes to fruition. Humiliation is one of the few things our narcissistic president responds to. It may not change his behavior but at the very least it'll sap a little wind out of his hateful sails. This man is destroying families and ripping up the foundations of our country. He deserves to be shamed.
Robert Haffey
Robert Haffey is a political writer, filmmaker, and winner of the ScreenCraft Writing Fellowship. He is a graduate of Drexel University.


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Terra Firma Brands offers producers of quality wines, beers and spirits a nimble, experienced sales and marketing team to help sell product into the competitive Ontario Market.
In 2009 Nick Hirons had the simple vision to create a wine agency that would search out great wines from around the world while providing excellent value to the consumers of Ontario.
As a result Terra Firma Brands was born and has been proudly serving the consumers of Ontario ever since.
We also have a very active HoReCa program.
We have a successful permanent listings program which continues to grow into 2017.
Our current suppliers represent wine regions from the world over and we are particularly active in the Rhone and south west France as well as Spain.
Our beer program is concentrated in Europe, specifically Belgium, the Netherlands and the UK.
We area constantly on the look out for products worthy to be added to our portfolio, we look forward to hearing from you.
Terra Firma Brands employs 7 people, 4 of whom are sales people who focus on store visits and staff tastings and training. Our staff cover all of Southern Ontario, where 80% of the population live.
Prior to joining Terra Firma Brands, General Manager Fiona Burke,worked at Vincor and then Constellation for 5 years in Ontario Sales and Retail.
Marketing Director, Marnie Williamson, has spent the last 5 ½ years with the Independent Wine Education Guild (IWEG - the Ontario WSET Approved Program Provider) as Program Development Manager. During that time student enrolment more than doubled and course curriculum grew over 400%, as she grew the WSET business and implemented new programming including Ontario content and the highly successful seminar Signature Series.
I originally met Nick Hirons in the summer of 2008. I was referred to Nick at that time by a well respected wine writer based in Toronto. Since then we have carved out a nice market for our Napa Valley wines. It's taken patience to execute business with the LCBO, but thanks to Nick in 2011 alone we've realized four (4) significant purchase orders. He's consistently up to date on relevant tenders for my brand and I appreciate his candid demeanor should I have questions of any kind. His knowledge and solid base in Ontario have allotted us wine sales in a Province that is otherwise unreachable. I recommend Nick's business, Terra Firma Brands, and am happy to see him doing business with fellow vintners I've referred to him.
Nicholas Hirons is a simple man who simply loves wine, spirits and beer – and has the expertise to guide your brand in the Ontario market.
The newest addition to the Terra Firma Brands team is Marnie Williamson, who brings her passion and knowledge of wine to Ontario tables.


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Numbers, narratives, and nation: Mainstream news coverage of US Latino population growth, 1990–2010
Ideologies that support racial domination and White supremacy remain foundational in U.S. society, even as the nation becomes increasingly diverse and progressively focused on quantitative measurement. This study explores how a prominent mainstream news outlet represents the growth of the nation's second largest population, Latinos, within this changing demographic and numeric environment. Drawing from two frameworks, the Latino Threat Narrative and Color-Blind Racism, quantitative and qualitative analyses are conducted with 174 Los Angeles Times (LAT) articles about 2000 and 2010 census results. Reporters for the LAT, located in the single most important U.S. location for Latinos, frame Latinos and their population dynamics in line with the overtly racist narrative of Latino threat and the covertly racist ideology of color-blind racism. Moreover, the analyses reveal that quantitative logics circulating in the present evaluative climate further the view that Latinos pose cultural-demographic threats to the nation. Quantification also enhances color-blind frames and rhetorical strategies justifying present-day racial stratification and the subordinate locations of non-White groups. This suggests how White supremacy retains its power as the populations and metrics of evaluation change. Finally, given recent research linking demographic trends and media representations with attitudes, policy positions, and political partisanship, these representations have implications for the well-being of Latinos, other populations, and the nation.
McConnell, Eileen Díaz. 2019. "Numbers, Narratives, and Nation: Mainstream News Coverage
of 1990-2010 U.S. Latino Population Growth." Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. 5(4): 500-517.

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Metabolite and immunoreactive insulin (IRI) concentrations, energy metabolism related enzymes activities and peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) populations were measured in blood of pregnant Angus heifers with differing liveweight change profiles (gaining or losing), in New Zealand to investigate the meanings of those parameters in the restricted feeding beef heifers. Beef heifers losing liveweight (412 g/day) showed significantly lower concentrations of plasma IRI, and higher concentrations of plasma free fatty acid (FFA) than heifers gaining liveweight (483 g/day). The cytosolic and mitochondrial malate dehydrogenase (MDH) activities and MDH/lactate dehydrogenase (M/L) ratio in leukocytes of the liveweight losing heifers were significantly higher than those the liveweight gaining heifers. Percentages of cluster of differentiation (CD) 3 positive cells and natural killer (NK) cells in PBMC decreased significantly in the liveweight losing heifers compared to those in the liveweight gaining heifers. Plasma IRI and FFA concentrations, leukocyte cytosolic and mitochondrial MDH activities and CD3 positive and NK cell populations may be useful markers to evaluate metabolic conditions and immunity in the restricted feeding beef heifers. © Springer Science + Business Media B.V. 2007.


WASHINGTON - A House panel determined that IRS official Lois Lerner waived her right against self-incrimination by making a statement professing innocence before refusing to answer questions.
WASHINGTON � A House panel determined that IRS official Lois Lerner waived her right against self-incrimination by making a statement professing innocence before refusing to answer questions.
The Oversight and Government Reform Committee voted 22-17 yesterday. The committee�s action sets up a confrontation with Lerner that might land in federal court if she still refuses to respond to questions about her role in applying tougher scrutiny to tea party groups seeking tax-exempt status.
Committee members in both parties said Lerner has information that�s crucial to the panel�s inquiry into the IRS. They parted over how far they were willing to go to force her to testify.
Lerner appeared before the committee on May 22 and invoked her right to avoid incriminating herself under the Fifth Amendment. Before she did that, Lerner asserted her innocence and said she broke no laws.
Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., said Lerner had waived her rights by making the statement and then refusing to answer questions.
�Her statement covers almost the entire range of questions we wanted to ask,� Issa said yesterday.
Issa now can require Lerner to reappear before the committee. If she refuses to testify, he could seek to hold her in contempt, sending the matter to court, said Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings, the top Democrat on the committee.
Lerner, the former director of exempt organizations, was in charge of the IRS office that applied tougher scrutiny to tea party groups. She has since been placed on administrative leave.
Without speaking specifically about Lerner, Danny Werfel, the interim leader of the IRS, confirmed on Thursday that she still is employed. During a House Ways and Means Committee hearing, he was asked whether anyone involved had been fired.
Issa has said Lerner provided false or misleading information to Congress in staff briefings over the past year. The Justice Department is pursuing a criminal investigation.
Lerner�s attorney, William Taylor, did not respond immediately to an emailed request for comment.


Our Earth Day Recycle Fundraiser will be held on Sunday, April 29th, 12pm - 3 pm at the Shrewsbury Town Hall, 100 Maple Avenue. Proceeds benefit service projects of the Rotary Club of Shrewsbury. Thank You to Wheelabrator for their generous sponsorship of this annual event. For details go to https://www.shrewsburyrotary.org/Stories/earth-day-recycle-day-april-29-2019 Questions? Contact Beth Casavant at bethcasavant@gmail.com.
The 4th Annual Food & Brew Fest will be on Sunday, June 23th 2019 from 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM at Avidia Bank, 23 Maple Ave, Shrewsbury. For information (vendors, sponsorship opportunities, and tickets) go to https://shrewsburyfoodandbrew.com/.
There will be no meeting on holidays or when schools are closed due to inclement weather. Also, we may not meet on a Monday immediately following a club event such as Recycle Day or Community Reading Day. Please check the Club Calendar or contact Judy Merriman at judyshrewsburyrotary@gmail.com for more information.
At a dinner and ceremony held at Shrewsbury High School, student authors and artists were recognized for their works published in the 2019 "From the Heart" book. Spearheaded by Shrewsbury Club members Stu and Judy Deane, "From the Heart" is a joint project of the Shrewsbury, Worcester, and Auburn Rotary Clubs.
Congratulations to the published authors and artists as well as to all who volunteer their time to create the book and prepare and serve dinner on recognition night.
In keeping with a long standing club tradition, candidates seeking election to the Shrewsbury Board of Selectmen were invited to address the club as to why they are seeking to serve on the Board. Two of the four candidates attended. John Lebeaux, who is seeking re-election to the Board, and John Samia, who is running for a first term. Mr. Lebeaux and Mr. Samia discussed their backgrounds, positions, goals, and answered questions from the audience. The town election will be held on Tuesday, May 7th.
The club installation of new officers was held on Monday, June 18th. Congratulations to Don Harbert on his Installation as Club President for 2018-19! A big Thank You and well wishes to outgoing President Kathy McSweeney! See more photos at photoalbums/new-officer-installation (photo credit: Rotary District 7910).


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From cult horror to shamanic healing
By Harry van Versendaal - Kathimerini English Edition
September 15, 2010 15.09.2010 • 08:00
The son of a cowboy father and a Jewish hippie mother, Michel Orion Scott was bound to become an eclectic filmmaker. The 28-year-old director from the US state of Texas worked as a production assistant on cult-horror blockbuster «The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning» and is currently working on a documentary about Jewish immigration to Bolivia before the onset of the Second World War. Scott recently traveled to Kos for the 2nd Ippokratis International Health Film Festival. He left the island with the top audience award for «The Horse Boy,» a feature-length documentary. The movie follows Rupert Isaacson and his wife Kristin as they take their autistic 6-year-old son Rowan on an epic journey by horseback across Mongolia in search of a shaman who they hope can cure their boy. Scott spoke to Kathimerini English Edition about the making of «The Horse Boy» as well as his future projects. I read that you're the son of a cowboy father and a Jewish hippie mother. In what ways would you say this has influenced who you are and what you do? My interests have always been really eclectic, which is one of the reasons I love making documentary films so much. One month I can be exploring autism, the next animals and hunting, and the next dance and painting. I get to be a child and dive into new adventures all the time. I think that growing up with parents who came together despite their divergent interests started me on this path. A film that had to be made What made you choose this specific theme? I didn't pick it so much as it picked me. When I first met Rupert and Kristin, I saw the incredible dedication they had to their child. I saw that they would literally go to the ends of the earth to find a way into his life. When Rupert told me that he would be traveling with Rowan across Mongolia on horseback searching for shamans who he thought may be able to heal his son, I knew instantly that this was a film that had to be made. What were the main obstacles you had to overcome in making this film? I planned for the shoot for five months but nothing could have prepared me for the physical difficulty of shooting video from atop a horse. After the second day, my entire body ached from head to toe. Most of the time, I would hold the reins in one hand, camera in the other as I trotted from the front of the line to the back, getting a variety of shots, then heading in to film interviews with Rupert and Kristin on horseback. Justin Hennard, our sound man, literally had his sound mixers attached to saddlebags while he operated the boom from the saddle. The making of this film in itself could have become a tremendously comedic documentary. Good fortune was on our side, though. In the end, we pulled it off with few major setbacks. How easy was it for the shamans to let you into their locale and shoot the rituals? The first set of shamans on the sacred mountain never questioned the camera's presence. They were deep in trance and did not seem bothered by the extra activity around them. They had been told beforehand, though, that the ceremony would be filmed. [The shaman] Ghoste, however, first said that he would not allow his ceremony to be filmed. I was OK with that, of course. I did not want to interfere with the natural course of Rupert and Kristin's journey. I was sure that we would be able to work around it in the editing process. Eventually, though, once we had explained to Ghoste the reasons for wanting to film – so that we could bring this story of love, adventure and acceptance back to the rest of the world – he seemed to understand and ended up allowing us to film. Did you deliberately keep a distance from all the metaphysical stuff? Do you really think that Rowan was healed? I don't deliberately keep a distance from the metaphysical stuff. I believe that for every action, there are a thousand different interpretations. I also believe that not everything has to be explained for it to be understood. I do, absolutely, think that Rowan was healed. I was there for it after all. The reasons that he was healed, however, are not so cut-and-dry. It could have been the shamans, or the fact that Rowan was in a completely new atmosphere, meeting new people, or that his parents intentions and deep dedication somehow affected him on this journey. Most likely, I suspect, it was all of these combined. Cured or healed? How is Rowan now? Rowan is doing incredibly well. He has never regressed. He continues to read and write and communicate at an accelerated rate. But as Rupert says at the end of the film, Rowan is still autistic. It is part of who he is. This is an important part of the message. Rowan was not «cured.» He was «healed» – as were Rupert and Kristin, and, in some ways, myself. What impact will the movie have in your opinion? Do you hope to convey any specific message? I hope that this film makes people think about how we can make space for unique individuals in our culture instead of institutionalizing them or trying to mold them to fit our rigid perception of what »normal» is. At some point in the movie, you put down the camera to give the parents a hand. How often did you have to do this? I did my best to keep the camera rolling as often as possible. I did put the camera down a couple of times to help the parents. I was a guest on their journey and it was important for me to not forget that. They were allowing me to peer into and film the most intimate parts of their lives. Given this, I had to respect their wishes when [I was] told not to film. To what extent did the parents have to adapt their journey and daily schedule to the needs of the film and the crew? I worked very hard to adapt my schedule around the schedule of the parents. It was very rare that the parents had to alter their course because of the film crew. I went well out of my way to keep this from happening. And how often did you have to stage scenes in order to achieve a dramatic effect? No scenes were staged in this film. There were a couple of times that I had Rupert or Kristin repeat something they had done or said if I was unable to capture it on film the first time. With this said, nothing in the film was fabricated or staged for dramatic effect. You worked as a production assistant on 2006's «Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning.» What did you gain from that experience? I wasn't long out of college when I got the job. It was quite exhausting, really, and was one of the reasons that I decided to try documentary. Sometimes working on a big-budget narrative film can feel like working in a factory. That said, there were some good times on the set. I really loved seeing how the visual effects crew created gory scenes out of items you would never guess, like bubble wrap and corn syrup. What is your next project? I am working on several documentaries. One about traditional agriculture and water rights on the Hopi reservation, one about masculinity in the US, and one about Jewish immigration to Bolivia in the 1930s before the onset of WWII.
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Here are some more mumblings from me about an important topic — promotion. You make lots of cool music, but if nobody knows about it, that's sad, as music is to be enjoyed. This is a big planet, there's always one individual somewhere, or many many, that would like to listen to your music.
Anyway, about web sites. To start with, get a good domain name, if possible part of your artist name or record label. The more unique and easy to remember, the better. If it is unique, the right site will quickly show up in any web searches. Compare "Cool Music Records" versus "ZharkMusic". If you have not yet registered your artist name or label, do it ASAP. Also keep it alive, if you forget to keep the domain up and running, most likely some odd person selling snake oil will pick it up and use it for viral marketing.
Secondly, make it easy to find stuff on your web site, spend a lot of time making sure it's easy to navigate.
It seems more and more artists and record labels use Flash-only sites. They look cool, but they are not that easy usually to navigate. Even worse, web search spiders usually can't traverse the information at such sites, so you lose all the cool info that could point back to you from Google/Yahoo/Live, ack! If you know about site maps, make one and export it, the spiders will love using that one.
Put links from your site to any place where the customer could find or purchase your music, the easier the better. If possible one click away! Link to other interesting web sites, even the competition. It does not hurt, and if you help others, they will notice you and help you back. Also, if you want a higher hit rate with search engines, such as Google, the best is to get cross-links from other sites pointing back at your site, especially high quality ones. This is why it's so important to put your URL in any promotional material, especially at digital download sites.
Update the look of the site at least once a year. Like a house, it needs a fresh cover of paint from time to time. Also update the contents at least once a week. The really good sites even have an RSS feed that shows any new changes, but usually those are tricky to put in place.
Hook a blog or a forum to the site. Blogs are easy. Forums are usually tough, as it really requires a lot of people to take part in the discussions, and you need to really make sure that the spammers don't take over the forum. But blogs should not take so much effort, and it will get those interested to show up at the site over and over. A way to subscribe to a general email mailing list is also something very good.
So in general, refresh and get new content. A well-designed and maintained web site is the facade nowadays for the enterprise you work with. If it looks good, it's a good marketing image that will help with the rest of your promotions, too.


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Mixed Interim Results for Combination Imaging in CABG Patients
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A study of whether use of noninvasive coronary CT angiography (CCTA) can cut down on the use of invasive coronary angiography when making treatment decisions in patients who have undergone previous coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) has shown mixed interim results.
The GREECE trial was aiming to show that doses of contrast and radiation were lower for the patients who received CCTA before invasive angiography, but the study showed that doses were actually higher in the combination imaging group. But this did not affect the main safety endpoint ― contrast-induced nephropathy ― for which rates were comparable between the two arms. In addition, the procedure time was significantly shorter in the combination imaging group.
The interim results of the GREECE study were presented by Grigorios Tsigkas, MD, from Patras University Hospital, Greece, at the Congress of the European Association of Percutaneous Coronary Interventions (EuroPCR) 2022, being held this week in Paris.
Tsigkas explained to theheart.org | Medscape Cardiology that patients who have undergone CABG surgery have complex anatomy, so further diagnostic imaging with invasive coronary angiography can lead to more fluoroscopy time and higher contrast dose.
Taking into account the high diagnostic accuracy of the noninvasive CCTA in detecting or excluding stenosis or occlusion of CABG grafts, the researchers hypothesized that use of CCTA to assess the grafts could reduce the procedure time needed for invasive coronary angiography and reduce fluoroscopy time and periprocedural complications.
Tsigkas explained that, at present, CCTA does not provide adequate diagnostic accuracy for native coronary arteries, so invasive coronary angiography would still be required for evaluation of these arteries.
"The general thought is that invasive coronary angiography would be useful in native coronary arteries evaluation, while CCTA would be better for graft assessment, and using the combination should cut down exposure to the invasive procedure," he said.
The GREECE trial was conducted to investigate this question. The study included hemodynamically stable patients who had a previous medical history of CABG and an indication for coronary angiography. Patients were randomly assigned to receive either invasive coronary angiography (control group) or CCTA followed by invasive coronary angiography (intervention group).
Tsigkas presented results from the first 153 patients, which was about half of the planned enrollment.
The primary endpoint ― total volume of contrast agent administered ― was not reduced in the combination arm. In fact, the combination arm received significantly more contrast than the control arm (209 mL vs 165 mL). The radiation dose was also significantly higher in the intervention group.
But Tsigkas noted that this did not affect the safety endpoint ― contrast-induced nephropathy ― which was comparable between the two arms.
The intervention was also associated with significantly less procedure time (28 min vs 38 min).
Fewer patients in the combined imaging arm ended up undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI, 20% vs 29%).
Major adverse cardiovascular events were reduced in the combination arm at both the 5-day follow-up (0% vs 11%) and the 30-day follow-up (5% vs 16%).
Asked how the combination approach may lead to lower event rates, Tsigkas replied that no conclusions about this can be reached until completion of the trial.
But he added: "Taking into consideration the existing outcomes, I believe that the experimental arm, which is a staged approach for these patients, may give the opportunity to the interventional cardiologist to choose more wisely the optimal management. This could be associated with the reduced number of PCI procedures in the experimental arm."
Tsigkas commented: "We firmly believe that our study will have a noteworthy impact in the management of CABG patients. CCTA could gain more ground as the first diagnostic approach in stable patients with complex CABG surgical procedure, and this approach could be beneficial for patients with unknown anatomy and without a surgical report. A CCTA report could guide interventional cardiologists to perform elective angiography instead of searching grafts."
The final results will provide guidance toward conducting more focused research in this population, he said, "trying to identify the patients getting more benefit with the combination of CCTA and invasive coronary angiography."
Tsigkas also pointed out that CCTA in this trial is performed mainly in 64- or 128-slice CT scanners, but newer machines (CT 512-slice scanners) "could increase the diagnostic accuracy, could decrease dramatically the radiation dose, the examination time, and improve the convenience of patients undergoing CCTA."
Commenting on the study for theheart.org | Medscape Cardiology, Petr Widimsky, MD, University Hospital Kralovske Vinohrady, Prague, Czech Republic, said he did not think the study design was optimal.
"With two angiographies in all patients vs one angiography, they could not expect better outcomes. But better outcomes could be expected if CCTA will remove the need for invasive angiography in those 80% of patients who did not finally undergo PCI," he stated.
Widimsky suggested that a different design may be one in which the experimental group receives only CCTA as a single, noninvasive, planned procedure, with invasive coronary angiography undertaken only for a selected subgroup of patients in whom combination of clinical presentation and CCTA does not provide a clear decision about a PCI indication.
"With such study design, there would be greater chance to obtain a positive result for the experimental arm," he said.
Tsigkas responded: "Unfortunately, at the present time, CCTA is not as reliable as invasive coronary artery for native disease assessment; thus, we could not restrict the protocol to CCTA alone."
He added that a previous nonrandomized study supports the idea of the current combination approach being tested here in terms of contrast and radiation dose, adding that "although patients undergo two rather than one angiography, the invasive one at least lasts significantly less time."
Tsigkas has disclosed no relevant financial relationships.
Congress of the European Association of Percutaneous Coronary Interventions (EuroPCR) 2022: Presented May 17, 2022.
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I always wanted to go into Medical Office Administration because I had a lot of experience in patient care and wanted to get administrative credentials that would open up other opportunities. I also wanted to get up to date using computerized administrative systems. I was attracted to FORTIS College initially through TV ad and when I contacted the Admission Representative, he convinced me of the value of the program and I knew that it was in line with my goals.
The FORTIS College instructors were very informed, very patient and helpful. Some of the younger students also helped out – I learned from them and they learned from me. I also had good family support too while attending the program. My goal at the start of the program was 100% attendance and to be on the honor roll, I almost made the first goal and missed very little time overall – but I did achieve academic honors and ended the program on Dean's List!
I am really proud of my achievement, this is a deferred ambition realized and now I look forward to the career opportunities this will open up. I really do believe the name "FORTIS" represents what we do here and I would recommend the college to anyone.


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I cerebrosidi sono una categoria di glicolipidi (glicosfingolipidi).

Sono composti da una struttura base, comune a tutti i glicolipidi, il ceramide (N-acilsfingosina). Il ceramide è una molecola composta da sfingosina e da un acido grasso (acile) di entità variabile, ma che spesso nei cerebrosidi compare a 24C (es. Ac. ossinervonico). Contengono anche 1-2 zuccheri neutri legati al carbonio1 del ceramide.

Esempi di cerebrosidi sono: il galattosil- (tess. nervoso), glucosil- (tess. non nervosi) e talora lattosil-ceramidi.

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The Joy of Sake: Founder's Message | SAKE HUNDRED
Sake is a drink with a storied history, deep cultural roots, and artisanal craftsmanship. It has a rich array of profound flavors achieved through one of the most unique and complicated production processes in the world including multiple fermentations and rice polishing. Elegant like wine, brewed to create nuanced flavors, and refined like vodka, sake has a unique spirit and allure all its own.
Growing up in Tokyo, sake was not part of my life. My parents did not drink and my only encounter in college was drinking cheap sake that ended in a horrible hangover. Then, many years later, a friend introduced me to Kouro, from Kumamoto. Like being struck by lightning, I had an epiphany that would change the course of my life.
From that moment on, I wanted to learn everything there was to know about this beguiling drink. Over the next several years, I visited hundreds of sake breweries throughout Japan in an effort to understand the varieties, the techniques, and the culture of sake making, but most importantly, I wanted to understand the vision of the people who had been making it for generations. Each region of Japan has its own culture and there is no better way to get to know that culture than through its local sake.
Realizing that the true value of knowledge is in sharing it with others, I started a sake-focused media company dedicated to the education, information, and awareness of all things sake. Through SAKETIMES, I witnessed a new generation of sake enthusiasts emerge. Inspired by this resurgence, in 2018, I set out to create a line of fine sake with distinct flavor profiles that payed homage to the history, culture, and technique of sake craftsmanship.
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Maha Ghosananda leaves Buddhist legacy in Leverett
By Bob Dunn and ANDREW HORTON, Amherst Bulletin, March 23, 2007
Leverett, MA (USA) -- The Venerable Maha Ghosananda, a leader of the Cambodian Buddhist movement and one-time nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize, died March 12 in Northampton.
Ghosananda, who lived in Leverett and Providence, R.I., is credited with rebuilding Buddhism in Cambodia and in the international Cambodian community after the religion came under attack by the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s. The monk was in his late 70s.
"He was more than just the head of the Buddhist community in New England, he was a rare gift," said Mary Fitzhugh of Chicopee, who knew Ghosananda for 20 years.
"He did everything he could to restore Buddhism to Cambodia, and when he came back (to Cambodia from exile), he was active in training young men who were interested in becoming monks," said Jim Perkins, pastor of the Leverett Congregational Church and a friend of the religious leader.
"More than two decades later, there are many more Cambodian monks now," Perkins said.
Theanvy Kuoch, a family therapist from West Hartford, Conn., was mentored by Ghosananda and knew him for over 20 years. She said she was always impressed by his generous and appreciative nature.
The first time she met him, during a Cambodian New Year's celebration, Kuoch said, she gave him some ointment to relieve a headache he had.
"He acted like I had given him a diamond," she said. "It was just a little thing, but he acted like I had given him so much. I learned that he was special and gracious and different (from most people)."
Fitzhugh said Ghosananda put people at ease by his mere presence and was always happy to give advice to people who asked, although it might not have been the advice they expected.
"When you were in his presence, he was very calm and happy and in the now," she said. "If you asked him for advice, what he would give you was the eightfold path - he wouldn't micromanage."
Buddhists believe that adherence to the eightfold path will free the individual from attachments and delusions and thereby bring an end to suffering.
Ghosananda survived the Khmer Rouge regime of Pol Pot by being out of the country during its bloody repression of the population. Perkins said Ghosananda was one of the first Buddhist monks to return to Cambodia after the regime collapsed in the late 1970s.
Fitzhugh said Ghosananda was one of only a small number of monks to have survived the purge.
Paula Green, a Leverett neighbor of Ghosananda and director of the Karuna Center, an international peace center in Amherst, said the monk was known widely for his work to promote peace.
"He was a remarkable man and he was an extremely balanced leader of the Cambodian monks," Green said. "He was a peace-builder in the utmost sense of the word."
Fellow Buddhist monks elected Ghosananda a supreme Cambodian Buddhist patriarch in 1988 for his work to restore Buddhism in the war-torn country. He went on to lead the Dhamma Yatra movement, a program to rebuild religious life in Cambodia, in the 1990s. The movement used pilgrimages in a bid to create peace and hope in Cambodia. The first Dhamma Yatra led Buddhist followers on a 16-day, 125-mile pilgrimage walk across Cambodia.
"The Khmer Rouge was really tough on Buddhism, and his work brought a message of hope to the region," Perkins said.
In 1978, Ghosananda was traveling abroad when the Khmer Rouge began its campaign to denounce Buddhism by forcing Buddhist monks to give up their robes and leave their temples, or face torture or death.
Despite their actions, Fitzhugh said Ghosananda refused to see the Khmer Rouge as simply "the enemy" and instead worked toward reintegration and harmony between them and the rest of Cambodian society.
"What he taught me was that patience and gratitude are the two pillars (on which) a new, more beautiful Cambodia will be built," Kuoch said.
Kuoch said that during one of his return visits, Ghosananda was asked by Khmer Rouge soldiers to bless their weapons so they would not function properly and thus to prevent more bloodshed.
"His compassion and gratitude were incomparable," she said.
In exile, Ghosananda received Buddhist refugees at the Thai-Cambodian border with photocopied scriptures and a warm embrace. During his absence from the country, Ghosananda represented Cambodia as a nation-in-exile at the United Nations.
Pol Pot's Year Zero campaign virtually eliminated Buddhism from Cambodia, forcing those who practiced Buddhism out of the country.
Ghosananda settled in western Massachusetts when the Leverett-based Peace Pagoda invited him to set up residence. He split his time between that temple and Providence, according to Perkins. Cambodian Buddhist refugees in the eastern United States traveled to Leverett often to meet Ghosananda.
"There is a huge Cambodian Buddhism refugee population in Massachusetts that took a great interest in his teachings," Perkins said.
Fitzhugh said Ghosananda's passing leaves a huge void for those who came to see him as a surrogate parent, especially those who were psychologically scarred by the actions of the Khmer Rouge.
"He filled the same emotional place in the lives of those who lost their important elders," she said. "There are a lot of people who will be very, very distressed because he was a source of emotional support for them."


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Environment America, a federation of 29 state environmental groups, today announced its endorsement of 56 candidates who are running for the 115th United States Congress. These 45 House candidates and 11 Senate candidates hail from a total of 19 states. These endorsements are in addition to Environment America's 2015 endorsement of Hillary Clinton for President.
Through their voting records and expressed advocacy in support of Environment America's key issues — including global warming, open space, clean air, clean water and clean energy — these candidates have earned both our trust and endorsement.
"This coming election is a critical one for the air we breathe, the water we drink and the places we love. We have made real progress since the first Earth Day nearly 50 years ago, but many significant and urgent problems remain, especially climate change.
We need real leaders and true environmental champions in Washington, D.C. We need elected officials who will stand up to the polluter lobby and publicly champion a clean and healthy environment. We need leaders bold enough to stand with the science and with the public to tackle the pollution that's fueling the most pressing challenge of our time.
We believe — now more than ever — that we must refocus the nation's attention and commitment to protecting our most special places and improving the quality of our air and our water, for our families today and for future generations. We must dramatically reduce global warming pollution in order to protect our children and theirs from the worst impacts of climate change — by shifting away from dependence on fossil fuels and other dirty, dangerous energy sources toward 100% clean and renewable energy.
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DLR County Council hold Civic Reception to honour our All Ireland Hurling Champions
by Jedi Knight • Mon 09 Apr 2018, 22:07
Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council hosted a Civic Reception in honour of our All Ireland Senior Hurling Champions in the County Hall on Monday Night. The Artane Band paraded the Players from the Royal Marine Hotel the short distance to…
Cuala Senior Hurlers return to Championship action this Saturday in Parnell Pk
by Jedi Knight • Tue 03 Apr 2018, 16:16
Only 2 weeks after retaining their All Ireland title our Senior Hurlers begin the defense of the Dublin SHC Title. We are asking for our magnificent supporters to come out in force again next Sat at 5:45pm in Parnell Pk…
Cuala Intermediate Footballers Eke Out Narrow Win
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Sunday March 25th (the morning after the day before), saw Cuala Intermediate footballers get the better of their visitors from Raheny by the narrowest of margins to record their second one-point win of the AFL4 season. The knife-edge nature of…
Pre-Match Arrangements
by Jedi Knight • Fri 23 Mar 2018, 13:49
Supporters who are getting the Cuala Express Train from Dalkey are asked to meet at the Clubhouse before hand, we will then parade through Dalkey en route to the Train Station. As per the St Patrick's Day Match, there…
Calling All Cuala Supporters!
by Jedi Knight • Thu 22 Mar 2018, 19:01
Following a titanic battle last St Patrick's Day in Croke Pk, the Cuala Senior Hurlers travel to O'Moore Pk. Portlaoise next Sat, 24th March, to once again meet the challenge of Na Piarsaigh from Limerick. It cannot be overstated,…
Get the Cuala Express from Dalkey direct to Portlaoise…Tickets Limited
by Jedi Knight • Wed 21 Mar 2018, 18:48
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Final Replay Ticket Information
Tickets for Saturday's All Ireland Club Hurling Final Replay are available from selected Centra and Supervalu outlets, including Rushes Supervalu Killiney and Dalkey. Tickets are also available Online HERE Entry for U16's is FREE Tickets will NOT be On Sale…
Replay set for Next Sat at 5:30pm in O'Moore Pk, Portlaoise
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All Ireland Club Hurling Final ends in a Draw
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The All Ireland Club Hurling Final was a very tense affair that ended in a draw after extra time. Details of the replay will be announced on Tuesday. Keep tuned to Cuala Social Media for the Replay details.…
Huawei Backing Cuala for All Ireland
Chinese technology giants Huawei have come on board as sponsors of the Cuala Senior Hurling Team bidding to win back to back AIB All Ireland Club Championship titles at Croke Park this weekend. Huawei has been operating in the…


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At the Existentialist Café
Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others
By Sarah Bakewell
Category: Biography & Memoir | Philosophy | History
Mar 01, 2016 | 448 Pages
*This title is not eligible for purchase to earn points nor for redemption with your code in the Reader Rewards program
About At the Existentialist Café
Named one of the Ten Best Books of 2016 by the New York Times, a spirited account of a major intellectual movement of the twentieth century and the revolutionary thinkers who came to shape it, by the best-selling author of How to Live Sarah Bakewell.
Paris, 1933: three contemporaries meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are the young Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and longtime friend Raymond Aron, a fellow philosopher who raves to them about a new conceptual framework from Berlin called Phenomenology. "You see," he says, "if you are a phenomenologist you can talk about this cocktail and make philosophy out of it!"
It was this simple phrase that would ignite a movement, inspiring Sartre to integrate Phenomenology into his own French, humanistic sensibility, thereby creating an entirely new philosophical approach inspired by themes of radical freedom, authentic being, and political activism. This movement would sweep through the jazz clubs and cafés of the Left Bank before making its way across the world as Existentialism.
Featuring not only philosophers, but also playwrights, anthropologists, convicts, and revolutionaries, At the Existentialist Café follows the existentialists' story, from the first rebellious spark through the Second World War, to its role in postwar liberation movements such as anti-colonialism, feminism, and gay rights. Interweaving biography and philosophy, it is the epic account of passionate encounters–fights, love affairs, mentorships, rebellions, and long partnerships–and a vital investigation into what the existentialists have to offer us today, at a moment when we are once again confronting the major questions of freedom, global responsibility, and human authenticity in a fractious and technology-driven world.
A New York Times "Ten Best Books of 2016"
From the best-selling author of How to Live, a spirited account of one of the twentieth century's major intellectual movements and the revolutionary thinkers who came to shape it
Featuring not only philosophers, but also playwrights, anthropologists, convicts, and revolutionaries, At the Existentialist Café follows the existentialists' story, from the first rebellious spark through the Second World War, to its role in postwar liberation movements such as anticolonialism, feminism, and gay rights. Interweaving biography and philosophy, it is the epic account of passionate encounters—fights, love affairs, mentorships, rebellions, and long partnerships—and a vital investigation into what the existentialists have to offer us today, at a moment when we are once again confronting the major questions of freedom, global responsibility, and human authenticity in a fractious and technology-driven world.
Also by Sarah Bakewell
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Published by Other Press
Aug 08, 2017 | 464 Pages | 6 x 9 | ISBN 9781590518892
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"We're in the middle of a boom in serious popularizing books that try to bring us closer to the classics by anchoring them in the lives of their creators, books like Stephen Greenblatt's Will In The World, which explores how young Shakespeare made himself into Will Shakespeare, and Sarah Bakewell's At The Existentialist Cafe, which grounds the work of Sartre, Camus, de Beauvoir and others in their gaudy personal experience." —NPR'S FRESH AIR
"At the Existentialist Café is a tale told in a personal, engaging way, with frank opinions on the readability of the texts concerned. It weaves together philosophy with biography and historical context (cafés, jazz and zazous, the smuggling of unpublished papers from occupied territories), and follows How to Live in its attractive use of illustrations amongst the text." —LA TERRASSE
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"[a]n erudite page-turner… Bakewell's book brought to life, warts and all, the characters who shaped the new philosophy of existentialism, a way of thinking about everyday life that aims at describing human experience as fully and vividly as possible. Narrating the story of existentialism in its historical context and in richly evocative detail, Bakewell charted the intellectual and personal encounters among the ever-evolving, frequently fractious circle of philosophers and social critics centered around Sartre and de Beauvoir." —LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS


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BLUFF is Impressive at Thespis Theater Festival, 2016
Roger Gonzalez
Having seen the premiere of Lenore Skomal's new play, Bluff, based on her best selling novel last night at the the Thespis Theater Festival, I am glad that I never got around to reading her novel. Nothing against the novel, of course, but its a wonderful thing when you can enjoy a story written for the stage that has the ability to stand alone and tell a great story. Had I read the novel I am sure I would have made comparisons. But this play stands on its own two feet and offers a fascinating tale that makes for an enjoyable night at the theatre.
The story, about a young gay woman, Jude, who ends up in a coma after falling (or jumping) from a high bluff is a mystery as much about how she fell as it is about how she got pregnant. Similar to the novel, the play centers around Jude's ability to "see" and hear everything around her as the people in her room try to make sense of things and deal with their own drama. Not always anchored bedside to Jude and her visitors, the play jumps around in time and space to develop some of the most interesting characters I've seen in the festival circuit this season. Credit this to the magical combination of a wonderful script, tight, well-constructed and blocked direction by Magda Skomal Nyiri and some really fine performances by this well-rounded cast.
Veteran Theatre Festival actor, Terrence Montgomery hits a home run as Jude's best friend's husband, Hank. Hank's interactions with Jude and his wife (Karen Forte) are as smooth and real and emotional as anything I've seen at the Hudson Guild in years. Then I realized that both he and Forte have been on that stage and have impressed before. Great casting! Forte has a difficult journey from friend to wife to a woman finding her way in the world and is a pleasure to watch. You can pretty much say the same about the whole cast. Emily Cordes as Jude is fragile but strong and tragic in the role of Jude and when she smiles (not often), she lights up the stage and you really connect to her suffering. And as her nurse, Mary, Steph Van Vlack offers some of the play's most revealing truths. Kudos to Denny Desmarais as Paul and Mindy Cassle as Gay. It's a wonderful thing when all things fall into place and this is the case with Bluff.
Original music by Nathan Repasz, a subtle and slightly chilling ukulele score that complements much of the play and lighting by Patrick Bakalli should not go unmentioned.
You catch Bluff tonight and Saturday at the Hudson Guild Theatre and you should. For more information, Please visit: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2549494
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Food Reviews: Fork & Vine and Sip City
Restaurant Reviews richard jay scholem | October 26, 2010
FORK & VINE
Glen Head (516) 656-3266
Small plates are sweeping through the restaurant world. There are many good reasons for their popularity. They offer diners more taste possibilities, give them a better chance to limit the cost of restaurant meals, encourage sharing and by cutting down on portion size, help diners who are watching their weight and waistline.
Formerly known as On3, a smoothly run restaurant in Glen Head, aware of this accelerating trend, decided to get on the small plate bandwagon, but with a twist. Instead of a wholesale change in their format and menu, they incorporated the less expensive, more diverse, portion controlled plates into their existing menu, retaining many (about 30%) of the entrée favorites of this already successful restaurant. Not dispensing with some of the dishes that got them where they were (seared tuna, vegetable lasagna, skirt steak, filet mignon, baby chicken), while adding bar bites ($5 to $7), some chilled plates ($9 to $16) and small hot plates ($6 to $12) to the mix.
At this point, it should be said that there's more at work here than big, small or even middle sized plates. Fork and Vine, like its predecessor, is owned by Stuart Brown, its chef, who knows what he's doing. The work of local artists adorns the walls, white cloth covers the tables, eye catching bouquets are scattered throughout the room, flickering candles and subdued lighting add to the cool, cozy, classy milieu. (There is also a charming outdoor garden dining area.)
Diners are greeted with warm rolls, salted butter, olive oil and tapenade. More importantly, meals are beautifully served. Our waiter always knew who ordered what, knew how to serve wine, was Johnny-on-the-spot when we needed him and invisible when we didn't. He made intelligent suggestions and was observant. Three for instances: "There are four of you, but the sliders you ordered have three on the plate, can I add one?" When he noticed us sharing, small plates made an immediate appearance. And his single starter suggestion of "get the corn soup" was a winner. Every spoonful was like eating fresh liquid corn on the cob.
A bar bite of crusty grilled chorizo for a modest $5 is another recommended pick. But tempura zucchini wrapped goat cheese ($7) sounded more exotic and exciting than the blah, bland reality. A very tiny serving of black Mission figs, prosciutto and blue cheese generated intense taste, but at $12 was far from a best buy choice. Yet, it was the impressive 1946 sliders ($11) that set the stage for what was to come. Each of these tall, tender mini burgers enhanced by homemade ketchup and aged cheddar cheese is presented with a gherkin and a tiny, halved cherry tomato skewered to its top with a toothpick. They taste as good as they look. That was true for the roasted beet salad ($12) as well; its red and golden beets, arugula, shaved endive, smooth warm goat cheese, plus a few candied walnuts produced a pleasing array of colors, tastes and textures.
Two large plate entrées also held their own. Grilled vegetable lasagna ($16) with a trio of cheeses, vibrant plum tomato sauce and silken sautéed spinach generated more flavor than most vegetable dishes, and fish and chips ($16) proved to be a worthy version of the old standby because of its flaky, moist cod that's lightly battered and greaseless cole slaw base and traditional malt vinegar and tartar sauce accompaniments. Unfortunately, its otherwise respectable chips (French fries) were limp rather than crisp.
Attractively presented desserts included three light, warm apple blossoms ($8) topped with noteworthy green apple sorbet; warm Philadelphia tasty cake ($6) or unimpressive peanut butter filled chocolate cake; respectable warm chocolate bread pudding ($6) festooned with fresh fruit and real whipped cream; and too hard chocolate chip waffles ($8) that sandwich espresso ice cream and whipped cream between them and are crowned with a Banana's Foster sauce that lent only a scant banana overlay.
Dinner ended with a complimentary glass of Muscato dessert wine and decadent (and appreciated) chocolate cheesecake truffles.
SIP CITY
Great Neck (516) 482-1500
The busy corner of Middle Neck and Cutter Mill Roads in Great Neck has seen many a restaurant come and go. There were Mushrooms, Plaza Madrid, Sports Corner Café, The Living Room, and XO Bar and Restaurant. They all failed. Now comes Sip City with a completely different, very contemporary concept that features a menu of interesting international (European, African, Latino, Asian, American and Middle Eastern, etc.) dishes and at least as prominent, cocktails made with freshly squeezed fruit juices.
Sip City is a smallish, corner restaurant that's dominated by a biggish bar illuminated by hanging red cylinder lighting. There, a mostly youngish crowd can choose from a beer list, a wine list and a sake list as well as an extensive array of those fresh squeezed juice cocktails. The emphasis on alcoholic drinks seems to draw those young people who gravitate toward the bar while the varied, diverse dishes seem to engender more interest among middle aged and older diners. Unfortunately the often too loud music can be heard by both groups and no doubt at least some of the teen oriented, hard driving rap and rock numbers are not considered appropriate dinner music by diners who want to converse.
At first glance, the no reservation Sip City, with plans to expand to Huntington and Babylon, seems less expensive than it is. That's because of the significant price disparities on the ambitious menu. Those small plates are moderately priced in the $8 to $15 range but desserts all cost $10 although more upscale restaurants than Sip City often price them between $6 and $8. Additionally, the least expensive bottle of wine costs $28 and goes much higher than that for most selections. That means a table of four that gets four desserts and that lowest-priced bottle would have a $68 tab before ordering any of those small plates. So people who want to watch their wallets should stick to them and go easy or forget wine, cocktails ($10 and up) and sweets. Instead, munch on the complimentary bread sticks and olive oil that arrive at every table.
Then target some of the best of those small plates, most of which are also the simplest. Typical is the comforting, slow cooked beef brisket ($12) on a small scattering of white bean ragu boosted by a downright delicious Bourbon barbecue sauce. Not in the same class, but nevertheless recommended, is the plump, tasty duck leg confit ($15) perched on a garlic and white bean purée and the Singapore street noodles ($10). The latter wasn't made with the feathery angel hair pasta I expected or a discernable curry underpinning but it was loaded with a generous, tasty helping of minced chicken, Napa cabbage, herbs and chilies. Duck Nachos ($10) get a really spicy kick from their chipotle raspberry sauce. But the African spiced shrimp were dry and boring, and the rare coriander crusted tuna ($15) was bland and in need of salt. Caesar salad ($12) and shrimp cocktail ($12) were standard stuff but three Maryland crab cakes ($12), with a tiny bit of first class remoulade sauce, sported nicely browned exteriors and well seasoned shredded crab interiors.
The not-to-miss dessert is the lollipops New York cheesecake style or dense, dark Belgian chocolate covered cheesecake accompanied by a luscious raspberry sauce. Pisang goreng, or warm banana fritters, aren't anything special but there are a lot of them. Somewhat better is the small, warm, flaky apple and nut strudel crowned with vanilla bean gelato and the chocolate menage-a-trois, a shot glass of Godiva chocolate liquor, decadent dark chocolate gelato and a heavyish chocolate soufflé.
Our server was pleasant and well motivated. She tried to satisfy, but her inexperience showed at times as when she brought us shrimp rather than the tuna we requested, forgot some other dishes and had to ask us repeatedly about our order because she didn't write anything down.
photos by stephen lang
richard jay scholem
Richard Jay Scholem practically invented the Long Island restaurant culture through 800+ reviews of the region's eateries both on radio and in print over the last 30 years. He is a former New York Times Long Island Section restaurant reviewer, has contributed to the Great Restaurants of...magazines and Bon Vivant, authored a book, aired reviews on WGSM and WCTO radio stations, served on the board of countless community and food and beverage organizations, and received many accolades for his journalism in both print and broadcast media. He is currently available for restaurant consultation. Reach him at (631) 271-3227.


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Independent Initiative for Advancement of Science and Research in Australia
The Health of the Honey Bee
7 years ago Lizz Rice
The delicate state of the European honeybee (Apismellifera) can be traced back to 2006, when the mysterious Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) began wiping them out. Adult honey bees went missing from their hives, and no bodies were to be found. Since, apiaries have struggled – the US reports a yearly loss of about 30% – leaving the future of the honey bee in a precarious position.
It is thought the sudden collapse is caused by a number of factors working together in synergy, pounding bee's immunity so they are no longer as resilient as they used to be.
Exposure to pesticides has been afiercely debated and much publicised culprit. A group of neurotoxicants called neonicotinoids have been found to create an increased susceptibility to gut pathogens in honeybees. They have also been found to affect bee behaviour, learning and memory,crucial for them to forage, find their way home and relate the information to the colony.
Much of this research has been performed in the laboratory, however, and it is questionable how well the findings can be applied outside of it. In this environment, bees exhibit differences in their physiology and stress levels, and studies tend to expose them to an unrealistic level of neonicotinoids.
How much pesticides open the door to other threats is uncertain. Without improved field testing it is difficult to assess the amount of exposure honey bees are actually receiving and their reaction to the combinations and accumulations of pesticide smothered crops.
The EU has frozen the use of neonicotinoids while a more accurate estimate of risks is developed.
Despite not being native to Australia, the honey bee is well established, where feral colonies and hives managed by beekeepers are spread over most of the country.
Neonicotinoids remain in extensive use in Australia. The Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) in 2013 concluded that these pesticides were less of a risk compared with those before.
As beekeepers move away from the chemical-free sources of nectar and pollen found in native scrub and forest and into agricultural and horticultural pollination, there is a commensurate increase in exposure to agricultural chemicals.
This means more rigorous testing of pesticides needs to be done, with improved labelling, regulation and guidance of products used in agriculture.
Changes in land use, where flowering meadows and weeds have given way to agriculturally intense monocultures, mean that bee's natural foraging habitats are disappearing.
One study has analysed honey bee's foraging preferences so as to establish which areas would cause them least amount of disruption. Their great foraging range and sensitive response to forage quality means they can be used as bioindicators to monitor large areas and inform environmental management.
Pollen quality and diversity has a major influence on bee's health and their ability to cope with pathogens, pesticides and parasites such as Varroa destructor.
Varroa destructor is considered to be one of thedriving forces behind colony loss.The lifespan of adult workers in affected broods are reduced,so they cannot survive winter long enough to produce the next generation (Dooremalen etal, 2012).
Varroahas spread all over the world with devastating effect, although whether it attacks immunity or it is the mite's feeding activity that causes such problems is not yet clear. Of all the major honey producing countries, only Australia remains mite-free.
Australia hosts a large number of feral honey bees due to a warm climate and plants rich in nectar. This high reliance on feral bee pollination means the impact of Varroa could be great, as Australia does not have the resources to offset the effects.
Casey Cooper, president of the New South Wales Apiarist Association, stresses the importance of not letting Varroa get here in the first place.
By increasing biosecurity, pests and diseases like Varroa mite are kept out of the country. Biosecurity includesmeasures such as port surveillance, where hives are kept at all ports and areas and monitored regularly.
Australia is not reporting the huge losses that other countries are. Cooper, however, argues that his organisation has seen a 30% decrease in hives for registered beekeepers since 2006. He believes there is a looming food security crisis related to the decline of honeybees.
Ian Zadow, Chairman of the Australian Honey Bee Industry Council, estimated that "one in three mouthfuls of food we eat relies on the honey bee for pollination of that food."
It is hard to calculate just how important insects are in pollination, although vanEngelsdorp and Meixner (2010) considered it amounted to more than US$200 billionworldwide .
The Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation (RIRDC) estimatesthat around 35 different crops in Australiaare dependent on honeybee pollination for most of their production.Many different crops vary in their reliance on pollinators, and it is certain that without them, our way of life would change dramatically.
Not only are honeybees important for commercial gain,but pivotal for flower diversity. Their algorithms of flight are being used to inform robot aircraft technology. They can sniff out land-mines. They exhibit the incredible waggle dance, a detailed language where they relate the precise position of food totheir team mates. All this, and I haven't even mentioned honey.
It would be a tragedy to let them languish, but with improved surveillance on their health and collaborative research, Australia can provide better protection for honeybees.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/etc.2527/full
http://www.rirdc.gov.au/research-programs/animal-industries/honeybee
Rice L (2014-07-15 00:15:33). The Health of the Honey Bee. Australian Science. Retrieved: Jan 19, 2021, from http://ozscience.com/biology/health-honey-bee/
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Ernst Johannes Schmidt, né le  à Jægerspris et mort le  à Copenhague, est un biologiste marin, phycologue et ichtyologiste danois.

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Biologiste danois
Biologiste marin
Botaniste danois du XIXe siècle
Botaniste danois du XXe siècle
Phycologue
Zoologiste danois
Ichtyologiste danois
Commandeur de 2e classe de l'ordre de Dannebrog
Naissance en janvier 1877
Naissance au Danemark
Décès en février 1933
Décès à Copenhague
Décès à 56 ans


We have made it to the last week of Mindfulness May. So today I give you this mantra to help you keep up with your practice.
As we come to a close this week, take a moment to think about how you are feeling, check in with your mind and body, look over from the past few weeks to see how things may have changed or what benefits you have received. After you start receiving the benefits of mindfulness practice and your grateful heart becomes full, a sense of giving and generosity becomes present within you. And what a gift this can be.
Every week we gather as a family and completely switch off from all devices. We come together all snuggled up in our pajamas either on the couch or someone cosy and warm. We spend this hour completely in the moment with only each others company. Sometimes we talk through our grateful project together, giving our complete attention to the person talking,we use this time for mala meditations, sometimes I read a passage from one of our favourite books and discuss it, (currently Thich Nhat Hanh's, Peace Is Every Step), other times we give each other foot massages or hugs and talk about something new we learnt today. Within this moment together we create a bubble of awareness, awareness of each other, awareness of the present and awareness of the gift of giving, giving this time only for each other, our family.
Meditation helps us to become present in the moment and to calm down the mind. Just 20 minutes a day can help you to connect with your intentions, your breath and helps you feel more aligned, spiritually and physically. The children have taken to this as they already have felt the positive calming benefits. We use our Malas that were blessed by Amma from Sri Puram from our trip to India to guide us through a So Hum meditation. This is simple and very effective. Very beneficial for an active family in need of some stillness.
Come to a comfortable sitting position, crossed legs, long spine and open heart.
With eyes closed start to bring your awareness to the breath, slow the breath with your purposeful, or conscious breathing technique. Hold your mala beads in your right hand with the thumb and the third finger holding the first bead.
As you follow your breath, start to say the mantra So Hum (I am the breath). On an inhalation say SO, on your exhalation say HUM then move your finger to hold the next bead along the string of your mala.
Do this until you are at the half way point of your mala for your first try, gradually working yourself up to completing the full mala. This should take about 20 mins.
Write down your experience and feelings when you are finished. Keeping a mindfulness journal is a great way to help you to come back to your practice. Keep a record on your timing and how often you practice.


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