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6 Types of Love that you Do Not Know..
Based on different types of love present in the society, love has been given numerous names. An attempt to put down different types of love in psychology has been made in this article. Eros, Storge, Pragma, Agape, Ludus and Mania are the six different types of love that are known by the intensity and intent of how we love someone.
1. Eros - The Passionate Love
Perhaps, this is the most evident form of love, that we all have experienced in our lives, at some point or the other. Eros, as the name suggests is a type of love, in which the desire, physical attraction, physical appearance and romance is given the top priority. Since eros is mostly an erotic feeling, there are higher levels of passion and physical intimacy.
Physical attraction can be at peak but in the long run, it fades owing to over importance of physical aspects of the relationship. People who love this way are very charged up, emotional and gung ho about their relationship initially but it fades as time passes.
2. Storge - An Emotional Bonding
Storge love is the familial love, we experience in our society. The love of our parents and siblings is what constitutes storge love. It is beautiful to experience family bonding and lucky are the people who have families. A baby and a mother share an amazing love, that can be read in the their eyes. A deep and abiding affection is something that comes from deep family relationships. When extended to love between couples, storge love focuses on building compassionate, caring and emotional bonding with the couple.
3. Pragma - The Need Based Love
Amongst, different types of love, pragma love focuses more on needs and wants, educational qualifications, professions, income, social status, common hobbies, parental possessions, material belongings of the respective partners. The main focus in this type of love is on needs. If everything adjusts to the partners needs, he or she seems to be satisfied, with the partner.
4. Agape - The Divine Love
This is perhaps the most divine and highest level of love; understanding which requires a compassionate heart. Agape is one of the different types of love in Greek, is considered to be the purest form of love. It promotes brotherly feeling and love for each other. In fact, it is exactly what all religions have been trying to teach us.
5. Ludus - The Euphoric Love
Lover's who have the tendency of being in romantic relationships for sometime and give it up, after initial euphoria of thrill and enjoyment is over, are said to be in Ludus form of love. A ludus lover does not work for long term commitments but short term goals and objectives.
6. Mania - Obsessive Love
It is the worst forms of love and as the name suggests, it is full of insecurity, mania, jealousy and other extreme reactions like obsession, compulsion and excessive.
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Top 10 Dramatic Mountain Ranges of the World
There are amazing mountain ranges in the world, many of which you may never have heard of. These ranges are relatively young, therefore their peaks are sharp and dramatic. Take a look and see if you can learn something new about some of the world's dramatic mountain ranges.
1. Teton Range, USA
The Teton Range is part of the Rocky Mountains in the western United States. The highest summit in the Tetons is Grand Teton at 13,770 feet (4,198 m). There are four other peaks over 11,000 feet. The three central peaks pictured here were named 'Les Grande Tetons' or 'The Large Breasts' by lonely French trappers in the 1700's. The Tetons are the youngest part of the Rocky Mountains, therefore they retain their sharp features. Part of the reason for the fame of the Teton Range is that the mountains rise up dramatically 5,000 to 7,000 feet from the Snake River and the flat plain in front of them, with no foothills to moderate the change in elevation. Most of the Teton Range lies within the Grand Teton National Park.
2. Cordillera del Paine, Chile
The Cordillera del Paine is a small range in the Torres del Paine National Park in Chile. The most famous section of the range is the photogenic Torres del Paine pictured here. The torres (towers) are granite monoliths formed by glacial ice. The peaks are about 8,000 feet in height.
3. Na Pali, Hawaii
The Na Pali Coast National Park is located on the north coast of the island of Kauai in the Hawaiian Islands. The dramatic cliffs (pali) rise 4,000 feet (1,200 m) above the Pacific Ocean. The only access to the cliffs is by the secluded 11-mile Kalalau Trail. The cliffs are a popular destination for photographers via helicopter and boat tours.
4. Dolomites, Italy
The Dolomites are a mountain range in the southern Alps in Italy. The mountains are paler and more granular than the sharp granite of more northern ranges in the Alps. They are named for the type of rock, dolomite, a carbonate rock that makes them up. The highest peaks are in the 10,000 foot range. The mountains were the scene of fighting during both the First and Second World Wars. Today they are popular hiking and skiing destinations.
5. Tien Shan Mountains, China
The Tien Shan Mountains stretch 1700 miles (2,800 km) across central Asia from Uzbekistan to western China. The name means 'Celestial Mountains' in Chinese. The highest peak in the Tien Shan is Jengish Chokusu in Kyrgystan at over 24,000 feet (7,400 m). The mountain was only discovered in 1943 by a Soviet expedition. In Russian, the name is Victory Mountain. According to Daoism, the Tien Shan mountains are the home of the goddess of the west, who guards the peach trees of immortality there.
6. The Pennine Alps
The Pennine Alps are a mountain range in the western part of the Alps in Switzerland and Italy. The Pennine Alps include 15 peaks exceeding 14,000 feet (4,200 m) high. The most famous peak in the range is probably the Matterhorn. Although the Matterhorn is only the 11th-highest peak in the range at 14,693 feet, its dramatic cliffs have made it alluring to mountain climbers. Unfortunately, over 500 climbers have died attempting it. This picture shows the 8th and 10th highest peaks in the Pennine Alps, Dom and Taschhorn.
7. Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica
The Transantarctica Mountains are one of the longest mountain ranges on earth, stretching 3500 km from one end of the continent to the other. The highest peak in the range reaches 14,764 feet (4,599 m). The summits and dry valleys with the 100-300 km wideTransantarctic Range are the only places on the continet not covered by snow and ice. The arid and cold environment in the valleys in the interior of the range limits vegetation to lichens, algae and fungi.
8. Mansiri Himal Range, Nepal, Himalayas
The Mansiri Himal is a subrange of the Himalaya Moutains that lies about 100 km north of Kathmandu in Nepal. The highest peak, pictured here, is Manaslu. Its name is derived from Sanskrit and means "Mountain of the Spirit". Manaslu is the eighth highest mountain in the world at 26,759 feet and was first summited in 1956. The Mansiri Himal range contains the 8th, 18th and 20th highest peaks in the world.
9. Magdalenefjord, Spitsbergen, Norway
Magdalenefjord is located on the island of Spitsbergen off the northern coast of Norway. The island is so far north that the sun doesn't set from April to late August, then it doesn't rise above the horizon from October to February. Known for its scenic beauty with the surrounding rugged mountains, Magdalenefjord extends eight kilometers inland. During the 1600's it was a much-used anchorage for whaling ships. Today it is a popular Summer destination for cruise ships.
10. Milford Sound, New Zealand
Milford Sound has been named New Zealand's top tourist destination. It is a fjord surrounded by soaring mountains on New Zealand's South Island. Lush rainforests cling to sheer rock walls rising straight out of the sea, while majestic waterfalls fall hundreds of meters down to the water. Milford Sound is the main feature of Fjordland National Park.
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Top 20 Unsolved Mysteries of All Time
This list comprises the most famous unsolved mysteries known to man that really defy rational explanation or are just outright strange...
1. Shroud of Turin
The shroud of Turin is a linen cloth bearing the image of a man who had apparently died of crucifixion. Most Catholics consider it to be the burial shroud of Jesus Christ. It is currently held in the Cathedral of St John the Baptist in Turin, Italy. Despite many scientific investigations, no one has yet been able to explain how the image has been imprinted on the shroud and despite many attempts, no one has managed to replicate it. Radiocarbon tests date it to the middle ages, however apologists for the shroud believe it is incorrupt – and carbon dating can only date things which decay.
Prior to the middle ages, reports of the shroud exist as the Image of Edessa – reliably reported since at least the 4th century. In addition, another cloth (the Sudarium) known even from biblical times (John 20:7) exists which is said to have covered Christ's head in the tomb. A 1999 study by Mark Guscin, a member of the multidisciplinary investigation team of the Spanish Center for Sindonology, investigated the relationship between the two cloths. Based on history, forensic pathology, blood chemistry (the Sudarium also is reported to have type AB blood stains), and stain patterns, he concluded that the two cloths covered the same head at two distinct, but close moments of time. Avinoam Danin (a researcher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem) concurred with this analysis, adding that the pollen grains in the Sudarium match those of the shroud.
2. Mary Celeste
Mary Celeste was launched in Nova Scotia in 1860. Her original name was "Amazon". She was 103 ft overall displacing 280 tons and listed as a half-brig. Over the next 10 years she was involved in several accidents at sea and passed through a number of owners. Eventually she turned up at a New York salvage auction where she was purchased for $3,000. After extensive repairs she was put under American registry and renamed "Mary Celeste".
The new captain of Mary Celeste was Benjamin Briggs, 37, a master with three previous commands. On November 7, 1872 the ship departed New York with Captain Briggs, his wife, young daughter and a crew of eight. The ship was loaded with 1700 barrels of raw American alcohol bound for Genoa, Italy. The captain, his family and crew were never seen again. The ship was found floating in the middle of the Strait of Gibraltar. There were no signs of struggle on board and all documents except the captain's log were missing.
In early 1873, it was reported that two lifeboats grounded in Spain, one with a body and an American flag, the other containing five bodies. It has been alleged that these could have been the remains of the crew of the Mary Celeste. However, the bodies were apparently never identified.
3. The taos hum
The 'Taos Hum' is a low-pitched sound heard in numerous places worldwide, especially in the USA, UK, and northern europe. It is usually heard only in quiet environments, and is often described as sounding like a distant diesel engine. Since it has proven indetectable by microphones or VLF antennae, its source and nature is still a mystery.
In 1997 Congress directed scientists and observers from some of the most prestigious research institutes in the nation to look into a strange low frequency noise heard by residents in and around the small town of Taos, New Mexico. For years those who had heard the noise, often described by them as a "hum", had been looking for answers. To this day no one knows the cause of the hum.
4. Black Dahlia
In 1947 the body of 22 year old Elizabeth Short was found in two pieces in a parking lot in Los Angeles. According to newspaper reports shortly after the murder, Short received the nickname "Black Dahlia" at a Long Beach drugstore in the summer of 1946, as a play on the then-current movie The Blue Dahlia. However, Los Angeles County district attorney investigators' reports state the nickname was invented by newspaper reporters covering the murder. In either case, Short was not generally known as the "Black Dahlia" during her lifetime.
Many rumours and tales have spread about the Black Dahlia, and the investigation (one of the largest in LA history) never found the killer.
5. Comte de Saint Germain
The Count of St. Germain (allegedly died February 27, 1784) was a courtier, adventurer, inventor, amateur scientist, violinist, amateur composer, and a mysterious gentleman; he also displayed some skills with the practice of alchemy. He was known as 'Der Wundermann' — 'The Wonderman'. He was a man whose origin was unknown and who disappeared without leaving a trace.
Since his death, various occult organizations have adopted him as a model figure or even as a powerful deity. In recent years several people have claimed to be the Count of St. Germain. (Note that St Germain was never regarded as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church – the "st." before his name refers to his alleged home).
6. Voynich manuscript
The Voynich Manuscript is a medieval document written in an unknown script and in an unknown language. For over one hundred years people have tried to break the code to not avail. The overall impression given by the surviving leaves of the manuscript suggests that it was meant to serve as a pharmacopoeia or to address topics in medieval or early modern medicine. However, the puzzling details of illustrations have fueled many theories about the book's origins, the contents of its text, and the purpose for which it was intended.
The document contains illustrations that suggest the book is in six parts: Herbal, Astronomical, Biological, Cosmological, Pharmaceutical, and recipes.
7. Jack the Ripper
In the later half of 1888, London was terrorrised by a series of murders in the east end (largely in the Whitechapel area). The name Jack the Ripper was taken from a letter sent to a newspaper at the time by someone claiming to be the killer. The victims were typically prostitutes who had their throats cut and bodies mutilated. In some cases the bodies were discovered just minutes after the ripper had left the scene.
The police at the time had many suspects but could never find sufficient evidence to convict anyone. In modern times there has even been some speculation that Prince Albert Victor was the murderer. Even with modern police methods, no further light has been shed on the murders in recent times. To this day no one knows who the ripper was.
8. Bermuda Triangle
The Bermuda triangle is an area of water in the North Atlantic Ocean in which a large number of planes and boats have gone missing in mysterious circumstances. Over the years many explanations have been put forward for the disappearances, including bad weather, alien abductions, time warps, and suspension of the laws of physics.
Although substantial documentation exists to show that many of the reports have been exaggerated, there is still no explanation for the unusually large number of disappearances in the area.
9. The Zodiac Killer
The Zodiac killer was active in Northern California for ten months in the late 1960s. He killed at least five people, and injured two. He comitted the first two murders with a pistol, just inside the Benecia border. In his second shooting in Vallejo, he attempted to kill two people, but one survived despite gunshots to the head and neck. 40 minutes later the police recieved an anonymous phone call from a man claiming to be their killer and admitting to the murders of the previous two victims. One month three letters were sent to Newspapers in California containing a cypher that the killer claimed would give them his name. They cypher was decrypted to read:
"I LIKE KILLING PEOPLE BECAUSE IT IS SO MUCH FUN IT IS MORE FUN THAN KILLING WILD GAME IN THE FORREST BECAUSE MAN IS THE MOST DANGEROUE ANAMAL OF ALL TO KILL SOMETHING GIVES ME THE MOST THRILLING EXPERENCE IT IS EVEN BETTER THAN GETTING YOUR ROCKS OFF WITH A GIRL THE BEST PART OF IT IS THAE WHEN I DIE I WILL BE REBORN IN PARADICE AND THEI HAVE KILLED WILL BECOME MY SLAVES I WILL NOT GIVE YOU MY NAME BECAUSE YOU WILL TRY TO SLOI DOWN OR ATOP MY COLLECTIOG OF SLAVES FOR MY AFTERLIFE EBEORIETEMETHHPITI" - The last eighteen letters have not been decrypted.
While Arthur Leigh Allen was the prime suspect, all of the evidence was against him being the killer. To this day the Zodiac murders have not been solved.
10. The Babushka Lady
During the analysis of the film footage of the assasination of John F. Kennedy in 1963, a mysterious woman was spotted. She was wearing a brown overcoat and a scarf on her head (the scarf is the reason for her name as she wore it in a similar style to Russian grandmothers – also called babushkas). The woman appeared to be holding something in front of her face which is believed to be a camera. She appears in many photos of the scene. Even after the shooting when most people had fled the area, she remained in place and continued to film. Shortly after she is seen moving away to the East up Elm Street. The FBI publically requested that the woman come forward and give them the footage she shot but she never did.
In 1970 a woman called Beverly Oliver came forward and claimed to be the Babushka Woman, though her story contains many inconsistencies. She is generally regarded as a fraud. To this day, no one knows who the Babushka Woman is or what she was doing there. More unusual is her refusal to come forward to offer her evidence.
11. The Creation of Man
This is probably one of the most well known and controversial of mysteries known to man at the moment. The basic mystery is where did we come from? Many people believe we were created by some kind of God, others believe were naturally came into being through the process of evolution, and some even believe we were put onto earth by aliens. Because there is no conclusive evidence for either argument, this subject remains our greatest mystery.
The concept of evolution states that through a series of adaptations and mutations from generation to generation, a creature can change dramatically over time. There are many arguments against evolution, mostly (in the West) from fundamentalist Christian bodies. The head of the largest Christian Church, Pope Benedict XVI, has recently said that evolution is not contrary to the teachings of the Church or a belief in God as long as it does not exclude God as the primary mover and organiser of the process.
The concept of creationism states that God made the Universe in the form in which it exists today. It attempts to explain away potential theological problems like dinosaurs, carbon dating, and the fossil record in general. Creationists generally believe the earth to be several thousand years old.
12. The Bimini Road
Everyone has heard the story of the lost city of Atlantis, but what about the Bimini Road? In 1968 an underwater rock formation was found near North Bimini Island in the Bahamas. It is considered by many to be naturally made, but because of the unusual arrangement of the stones, many believe it to be a part of the lost city of Atlantis (first spoken of by Plato).
Another curious element of this mystery is a prediction made in 1938 by Edgar Cayce: "A portion of the temples may yet be discovered under the slime of ages and sea water near Bimini… Expect it in '68 or '69 – not so far away." In a more recent expidition, amateur archeologist Dr Greg Little discovered another row of rocks in the same formation directly below the first, leading him to believe that the road is actually the top of a wall or water dock.
One possible natural explanation is that the "road" is an example of tessellated pavement, a natural phenomenon. Concretions of shell and sand form hard sedimentary rock which over time fractures in straight lines and then at ninety degree angles. They are quite common and a popular tourist attraction on the island of Tasmania.
13. The Roanoke Colony
In 1584, Sir Walter Raleigh dispatched an expedition to the East Coast of North America as Queen Elizabeth I had given him permission to colonise Virginia. He returned from the trip with two American Indians and samples of animals and plants. Between 1585 and 1587, two groups of colonists were left on Roanoke Island (part of present day North Carolina) to establish their settlement.
Following fights with the local native tribes, the first colony were low on food and men to defend the settlement, so when Sir Francis Drake visited after a raid in the Carribean and offered to take them back to England, they accepted and left. In 1857 121 new colonists arrived and found the local natives (the Croatans) to be friendly. The first English child born in the Americas was the daughter of one of these colonists. The group tried to befriend some of the other tribes that the previous colonists had fought with which resulted in the killing of George Howe. The remaining members of the group convinced the leader to return to England to get help. The leader (John White) returned to England leaving behind ninety men, seventeen women, and eleven children.
When White returned in August 1590, the settlement was deserted. There were no signs of a struggle and no remains were found at all. The only clue was the word "Croatoan" carved into a post of the fort and "Cro" carved into a nearby tree. The settlement became known as the Lost Colony and no members of it were ever seen again. Some speculation exists today which suggests that the settlers left and merged with some of the nearby tribes. This is supported by the fact that many years later some of the tribes were practising Christianity and understood English.
14. Marfa lights
The Marfa lights are unexplained lights (called ghost lights) that have been appearing on Mitchell Flat east of Marfa, Texas. The first published account of the lights was given in 1957, but Robert Reed Ellison (born 1880) reported them to his family and accounts of their appearances were spread by word of mouth. There are no verifiable written reports from before the 1950s.
The lights are described as being the size of a basketball, floating in the air at around shoulder height. Colors are usually described as white, yellow, orange or red, but green and blue are sometimes reported. They usually travel laterally but have been seen to move rapidly in various directions. The lights sometimes appear in groups. Sightings are rare but there is a large amount of photographic and video evidence.
Skeptics generally consider the lights to be related to traffic passing on the nearby US Route 67, or to be electric by-products of the predominantly quartz hills in the area. Because they usually appear in private property with terrain that is difficult to travel over, there are almost no reports of people being able to get close to the lights.
15. Jimmy hoffa
Jimmy Hoffa was an American labor leader, and criminal convict. As the president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s, Hoffa wielded considerable influence. After his conviction, he served nearly a decade in prison. On July 30, 1975, Hoffa dissapeared from a parking lot in Detroit and was never seen again. He had been due to meet two Mafia leaders, Anthony "Tony Jack" Giacalone from Detroit and Anthony "Tony Pro" Provenzano from Union City, New Jersey and New York City.
According to Donald Frankos (a convicted Mob hitman), Hoffa was shot in the house of Giacalone and his body was then buried in the foundations of the Giants stadium. While that is the most popular belief, another mobster, Bill Bonanno, claimed that hoffa was shot and put in the trunk of a car that was then put through a car compactor.
No one will ever know the truth about Hoffa, but the MythBusters team dug in the part of the Giants stadium that is generally where Hoffa is considered to be buried and found nothing.
16. The Loch Ness Monster
Loch Ness is the most voluminous fresh water lake in Great Britain. For centuries people have reported seeing a large creature living in the lake – the earliest account comes from the life of Saint Columba (565 AD). Although sightings of the creature on land around the loch reputedly date back to the sixteenth century, modern interest in the monster was sparked by a 22 July 1933 sighting, when Mr George Spicer and his wife saw 'a most extraordinary form of animal' cross the road in front of their car. They described the creature as having a large body (about 4 feet high and 25 feet long), and long, narrow neck, slightly thicker than an elephant's trunk and as long as the 10-12 foot width of the road; the neck had a number of undulations in it. They saw no limbs because of a dip in the road obscuring the animal's lower portion. It lurched across the road towards the loch some 20 yards away, leaving only a trail of broken undergrowth in its wake.
Not only has the Loch Ness Monster been photographed repeatedly, it has even been caught on videotape – as recently as 2007, and on sonar equipment. Unfortunately, however, the footage and photos are never clear enough to give a definite answer as to what the creature is. Some speculate that it may be a plesiosaur that survived the rest of the dinosaur population.
17. bigfoot
Bigfoot, also known as the Sasquatch, is depicted as an ape-like man who inhabits forest areas of the pacific north-west and parts of the Canadian province of British Columbia. Over the years there have been many sightings and photographs of Bigfoot but no conclusive proof exists to verify his existence.
Most experts on the matter consider the Bigfoot legend to be a combination of folklore and hoaxes, but there are a number of authors and researchers who do believe that the stories could be true. There is some speculation that, like the Loch Ness monster, Bigfoot may be a living remnant of the time of the dinosaurs – specifically a Gigantopithecus blacki – a supersize ape. The earliest accounts of bigfoot are from 1924 though reports of a similar type of creature have appeared as early as the 1860s.
18. El Chupacabra
El Chupacabra (Goat Sucker) is mostly associated with Latin American communities in the USA, Mexico, and Puerto Rico (where it was first reported). It is supposedly a heavy creature, the size of a small bear, with a row of spines reaching from the neck to the base of the tail and it takes its name from the fact that it is supposed to attack animals and drink their blood – especially goats.
While the legend began around 1987, there are many similarities to the Vampire of Moca, the name given to an unknown creature to killed animals all over the small town of Moca in the 1970s. The vampire of Moca left the animals completely devoid of blood which had apparently been removed by a series of small circular cuts.
The most common description of Chupacabra is a lizard-like being, appearing to have leathery or scaly greenish-gray skin and sharp spines or quills running down its back. This form stands approximately 3 to 4 feet (1 to 1.2 m) high, and stands and hops in a similar fashion to a kangaroo. In at least one sighting, the creature hopped 20 feet (6 m). This variety is said to have a dog or panther-like nose and face, a forked tongue protruding from it, large fangs, and to hiss and screech when alarmed, as well as leave a sulfuric stench behind. When it screeches, some reports note that the chupacabra's eyes glow an unusual red, then give the witnesses nausea. For some witnesses, it was seen with bat-like wings.
19. D. B Cooper
D. B. Cooper (aka "Dan Cooper") is a pseudonym given to a notorious aircraft hijacker who, on November 24, 1971, after receiving a ransom payout of $200,000, leapt from the back of a Boeing 727 as it was flying over the Pacific Northwest somewhere over the southern Cascades.
Cooper has not been seen since and it is not known whether he survived the jump. In 1980, an eight year old boy found $5,800 of soggy $20 bills washed up on the banks of the Columbia river. The serial numbers matched those of the ransom money which had been noted to make it easier to track Cooper later.
Cooper escaped from the plane by jumping off the rear airstair with a parachute leading aviation authorities to add stricter measures about the design of planes to prevent it from happening again. In addition, this event caused airports to install metal detectors for the first time.
20. The Mothman
Mothman is the name given to a strange creature reported in the Charleston and Point Pleasant areas of West Virginia between November 1966 and December 1967. The creature was sporadically reported to be seen before and after those dates, with some sightings as recent as 2007.
Most observers describe the Mothman as a winged man-sized creature with large reflective red eyes. It often appeared to have no head, with its eyes set into its chest. A number of hypotheses have been presented to explain eyewitness accounts, ranging from misidentification and coincidence to paranormal phenomena and conspiracy theories.
The Mothman was first spotted in 1926 by a young boy. At the same time, three men were digging a grave in a nearby graveyard when they saw a brown human shape with wings soaring out from behind trees. Both incidents were reported independently of each other. There have been numerous sightings of Mothman though no photographic evidence exists at all.
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Top 10 New Facebook features of 2011
Latest changes: With the view to make its interface more user-friendly and give a tough fight to rival Google Plus, Facebook, this year, has rolled out scores of new features and introduced many design changes. Here are some key features introduced by Facebook this year.
1. Facebook lets users "subscribe" to news from other members - even those they are not friends with. In this way, users can hear from those they don't even know personally - such as celebrities or political figures.
2. Facebook has increased the size of photos that people post to their profiles and make them load twice as fast as before.
3. Facebook has also launched video calling feature on its site, thereby allowing users to make video calls. In the chat window that pops up, clicking on a small blue video icon brings up the video chat feature.
4. Facebook has also 'frozen' its top navigation bar. The top navigation bar is now fixed on the top of the screen even when a user scrolls down the page, it remains accessible throughout.
5. Now, Facebook automatically group your friends based on whether they live near you, went to your school or work with you. Users can read posts or share updates with specific groups instead of dozens, or hundreds, of "friends" at a time. Facebook will use the colleges, workplaces and geographic locations that users share on the site to organise people into groups. Called "smart lists," the feature is optional to use, and the lists are customisable.
6. Facebook has also rolled out another feature called 'Ticker' that allows users to chat with their friends about photos, articles and other things they are posting in real-time.
7. The social networking giant has also introduced improvements to its 'News Feeds', thereby letting users see the important updates on the top. Users' news are featured in a single stream with the most interesting stories featured at the top.
8. Facebook has also come up with another feature titled 'View Shares'. This new option, as the name suggests, allows users to see the number of people who have shared their news feeds.
9. Mark Zuckerberg announced the launch of the Facebook Timeline at f8 – an annual developer conference, which will make it easier for lesser mortals to build an interactive (and also collaborative) one-page autobiography. The company will periodically roll out this feature to users' profiles, while some users have already opted for it.
10. Facebook now lets users sort their 'News Feeds'. Users can choose to display 'Recent Stories' on top if they wish to. However, the company has not rolled out this feature to all users' profiles. According to the company, if users don't have the updates to News Feed yet, they can expect to see them over the coming weeks as the roll out continues.
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Caster Semenya - The Male - Female controversy...
South African runner Caster Semenya, 18, won the 800 meters at the world championships with a stunningly dominating run. By now, Caster Semenya, has been reported as a potential disqualification on the grounds that the IAAF had conducted tests on her to establish her sex, and that she might be male.
The problem is that Caster Semenya looks like a man and she can be a hermaphrodite. And this means she is not "entirely female". And her "not entirely female" status means that she may not compete against another female athletes. Her family is outraged at suggestions that Semenya, who has a muscular build and a deep voice, isn't a woman. What do you think, when you see these photos? Does she look more like a man or a woman?
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The Mysterious Case of Lilian Elkington
May 28, 2018 February 24, 2021 by Kevin McBrien
History, especially music history, can be puzzling. Sometimes a composer who is immensely popular during their lifetime can get swept under the metaphorical rug after their death, becoming nothing less than a footnote or being forgotten altogether. Others can experience more unfortunate circumstances – they can die young, their music can be lost, or their life situation can prevent them from gaining their well-deserved exposure.
British composer Lilian Elkington (1900-1969)
One composer that remains on the fringes of history is the twentieth-century British composer Lilian Elkington. Born in 1900 in Birmingham, England, she studied composition at the Birmingham and Midland Institute School of Music and frequently performed as a concert pianist. Sadly, once Elkington married, she gave up composition to devote herself to being a mother and wife (as was the reality of many female composers in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries). Perhaps even more tragic was that her entire compositional output was "disposed of" once her husband remarried after her death in 1969. (It is unknown whether this was by accident or on purpose.)
By a stroke of luck though, in the 1970s, the musicologist David Brown stumbled upon four of Elkington's compositions in a secondhand bookshop in the seaside town of Worthing. To this day, these four – one orchestral work and three chamber pieces – are still the only works of hers that have come to light. Further, very little information exists about Elkington overall. She has no entry in the New Grove Dictionary, no scholarly biography, and only a handful of websites and blogs (including the two linked above) contain information on Elkington and her career.
Only one of Elkington's pieces has been commercially recorded – the short orchestral tone poem Out of the Mist, which depicts the November 1920 voyage of the Unknown Warrior on the HMS Verdun. Despite its relatively short length, the piece is wonderfully evocative and displays Elkington's striking command of orchestral color, texture, and mood, signaling an inventive musical voice that was cut all too short by societal circumstances.
Lilian Elkington Out of the Mist
Copland's Piano Concerto
Rethinking the Concert Hall – Part 2: Program Notes
3 thoughts on "The Mysterious Case of Lilian Elkington"
brendanmcbrien says:
Very interesting. I love "Out of the Mist" and would love to hear more of her lost orchestral works. Thank you for posting this!
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New York State and Manhattan district attorneys target Trump
(Op-ed) Bill Blum
If you're a fan of TV crime procedurals, you've no doubt seen shows where detectives interrogate two suspects detained in separate and austere holding rooms. The object is to get one of the perps to snitch on his accomplice and "turn state's evidence" in return for leniency.
The dramas may feature different actors and different crimes, but the essential script components are the same: The cops offer immunity, witness protection or some other kind of favorable treatment in exchange for a confession. The arrestees, however, remain defiant, and hang tough. Some sit stone-faced and silent. Others smirk and laugh. Still others hurl back insults, accusing the cops of incompetence and a rush to judgment.
Then, slowly, just before a big commercial break, the fear of doing hard time sets in. One of the suspects reconsiders the possibility that his confederate will cash in on the promise of a deal, leaving him alone to take the rap. The perp's rough exterior cracks. Before you can say "case closed," Miranda rights are waived, and the truth emerges.
In real life, the drill rarely concludes as quickly. And while some suspects invoke the Fifth Amendment and never agree to talk, others do. Just ask Rick Gates why he decided to testify against his former business partner Paul Manafort. Faced with the prospect of a lengthy prison term, Gates opted to save his own skin.
As Donald Trump's desperate plot to subvert the election fails and the end of his presidency approaches, Ivanka Trump could face her own "state's evidence" moment as a result of her role in her father's sketchy business enterprises in New York.
According to the New York Times, both state attorney general Letitia James and Manhattan district attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. are investigating income-tax-avoidance schemes undertaken by the Trump Organization that involve questionable deductions claimed for "consulting fees" paid to Ivanka and other individuals and businesses.
Vance's investigation is criminal in nature, while James' inquiry is civil. The probes, per the New York Times, are being conducted independently, but they overlap. New subpoenas have been issued in each, seeking information about the consulting payments.
The subpoenas come on the heels of a blockbuster story published by the New York Times in late September that revealed Trump paid a mere $750 in federal income taxes the year he won the presidency, and that he paid no income taxes in 10 of the 15 years prior to that.
Documents obtained by the New York Times also indicate that between 2010 and 2018, Trump wrote off "$26 million in unexplained 'consulting fees'" as business expenses on his tax returns. The $26 million included $747,622 paid to an unidentified individual. That amount, it turns out, exactly matches income Ivanka listed as consulting fees on the 2017 financial disclosure forms she filed when she joined the White House staff.
As former New York City prosecutor Elura Nanos wrote in a recent column for the Law & Crime website, "This could be a problem, as Ms. Trump was an executive officer both of the company making the payment and the company doing the consulting. When a key person is on both sides of such a transaction, tax deductions could be illegal if the payments were inflated."
CNN legal analyst Elie Honig, who worked for eight years as an assistant U.S. attorney prosecuting white-collar crimes, described Ivanka's predicament more bluntly in a November 20 on-air interview, remarking:
"I used to do Mafia cases. This is exactly what they would do. If they wanted to take money out of a company and put it in the pocket of an individual, they would say, 'We'll just call it a consulting fee.' That does not make it okay on its own. The question is did Ivanka Trump actually give consulting services worth $747,000? I mean, think about that."
Ivanka reacted to news of the consulting-fee subpoenas in true Trump fashion, rage-tweeting:
"This is harassment pure and simple. This 'inquiry' by NYC democrats is 100% motivated by politics, publicity and rage. They know very well that there's nothing here and that there was no tax benefit whatsoever. These politicians are simply ruthless."
It's rarely a good idea, whether on television or in the actual world, for a potential suspect to directly attack the investigators. The better course is to let your lawyers do the talking.
Ivanka, of all people, should know this. In 2012, she and Donald Trump Jr. reportedly avoided a felony fraud indictment for misleading prospective buyers of units in the Trump SoHo, a hotel and condo development in lower Manhattan. The siblings narrowly escaped prosecution, but only after high-powered attorney Marc Kasowitz, a longtime Trump family consigliere and a Vance campaign donor, allegedly leaned on the DA behind the scenes to drop the case.
Vance is showing no signs of backing down this time. To the contrary, he is leading a grand jury probe that extends well beyond the possible misuse of consulting fees to determine if any of the president's past business practices violated state fraud and income tax laws. He is also looking into whether the Trump Organization falsified corporate records in connection with the hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal during the 2016 presidential campaign.
In July, Vance scored a historic legal victory when the Supreme Court denied the president's request to halt Vance's inquiry, rejecting Trump's claims of "absolute immunity" from state criminal prosecutions.
Trump cannot be pardoned for state crimes, and absent a federal pardon, once he leaves office, he will lose the immunity he now enjoys as a sitting president from prosecution for any federal offenses he may have committed. And while Trump's attorneys currently are back before the Supreme Court, asking the panel to narrow the scope of Vance's subpoenas, that effort would appear similarly doomed once Trump departs the White House.
What this means for Ivanka remains to be seen. She has not yet been formally accused of committing a crime, or officially been named as a target of any investigation. Moreover, even if she is eventually indicted, everyone-even a Trump-is presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
Still, as the clock ticks down on the Trump presidency, the first daughter may well be advised to ponder whether her legal interests and those of her father have diverged to the point where it would be better to cooperate with the authorities, fess up, and ultimately turn state's evidence.
Stay tuned. This story is just beginning.
Bill Blum is a retired judge and a lawyer in Los Angeles. He is a lecturer at the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication. He writes regularly on law and politics and is the author of three widely acclaimed legal thrillers: Prejudicial Error, The Last Appeal, and The Face of Justice.
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Founding member organisations of Concrete NZ are the Cement & Concrete Association of New Zealand (CCANZ), the New Zealand Concrete Masonry Association (NZCMA), the New Zealand Ready Mixed Concrete Association (NZRMCA), Precast New Zealand (PCNZ) and the New Zealand Concrete Society (NZCS).
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Through the online course—taken ahead of the in-person session—directors learn about their core responsibilities by participating in a series of interactive training modules. The online course takes between one and two hours to complete.
At the in-person session, directors engage in two days of collaborative, hands-on learning through case studies and group discussion—to build on learning from the online course. The in-person session is held multiple times a year in major cities across the country.


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On September 11, 1916, in St Paul, Virginia, a hotel worker named Red Eldridge was hired as an assistant elephant trainer by the Sparks World Famous Shows Circus. The next day, in Kingsport, Tennessee, he was killed by Mary, a five-ton Asian elephant.
The details of the aftermath are confused in a maze of sensationalism and folklore. What is known, is that on the following day a crowd of over 2500 people assembled atop the Clinchfield Railroad Yard to watch Mary hang.
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So it appears the situation will be similar to that of the AT&T HTC One X, where the manufacturer opts for a dual-core S4 instead of a competing quad-core chip, for the sake of LTE connectivity. This is nothing new, however -- we saw a similar situation last year with LTE variants of the Galaxy Note and Galaxy S II, which used Snapdragon S3 chips. So once again it's a choice between LTE and quad-core. But despite "only" being a dual-core chip, Qualcomm's S4 is based upon the newer (and speedier) ARM Cortex A15 architecture, compared to Exynos's A9, and we've already been impressed by the chip's performance in the HTC One S.
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KJI Attends Concert, Banquet on 27 July anniversary
Chief of the KPA General Staff, VMar Ri Yong Ho, speaks at a central report meeting at Pyongyang Indoor Stadium on 26 July (Photo: KCNA)
The DPRK commemorated the end of active hostilities of the Fatherland Liberation (Korean) War on 27 July 1953. Kim Jong Il (Kim Cho'ng-il) was reported to have attended a performance given by the State Merited Chorus. He attended performances by the same troupe on the same anniversary in 1998, 2009 and 2010.
Warmly acknowledging the enthusiastic cheers of the audience, he heartily congratulated them on the war victory day.
Its repertoire included male chorus "Song Devoted to Marshal Kim Il Sung", orchestral music and male chorus "Pass Mungyong", male chorus "Song of a Truck Driver", female solo and male chorus "Nobody Knows", male solo and male chorus "For My Only Motherland", collection of songs "We Are Going in for the Care of the Leader", "Where Are You, Dear General" and "O, What Type of Man Is Party Member" from the revolutionary opera "A Story of a Nurse" and male chorus "Road of Victory".
The performers sang high praises of the shining feats the army and people of the DPRK performed by beating back the U.S.-led imperialist allied forces for the first time in history and honorably defending the freedom and independence of the country under the wise leadership of President Kim Il Sung. They successfully represented the faith and pledge of all the servicepersons to turn the cheers of war victory into fireworks of victory for national reunification under the leadership of Kim Jong Il.
KJI also attended a banquet jointly hosted by the CMC and NDC, which included a speech by Ri Yong Ho (Ri Yo'ng-ho). Ri spoke again on Tuesday (26 July), a national report meeting was held at Pyongyang Indoor Stadium. Ri's report was rhetorically understated in contrast to last year's stemwinder.
The reporter urged all the servicepersons and people to resolutely smash the vicious and reckless anti-DPRK confrontational moves of the U.S. imperialists and the Lee Myung-bak [group and bring about a decisive turn in building a thriving socialist country and accomplishing the cause of national reunification under the songun leadership of the great Party.
A touch-and-go situation is now prevailing on the Korean Peninsula due to the heinous political and military provocations committed by the South Korean group of traitors and its military hooligans under the patronage of the U.S., he noted, saying: The Lee Myung-bak group of traitors has got hell-bent on the confrontation with the DPRK in disregard of the DPRK's sincere efforts for peace and reunification. It is committing in succession such never-to-be-condoned treacherous and anti-reunification actions as persistently insulting the dignity of the DPRK's leadership and slandering its system and the army.
The revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK have regarded the reckless moves of the group adding to the hideous crimes against the nation as a declaration of a new war. With arms of justice for retaliation they will wipe out the group of traitors without parallel from this land and surely accomplish the historic cause of national reunification at an earlier date.
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First Hand — Student collective Nuff Said on why it's time to stop talking about diversity
Posted 02 May 2019 Written by Isaac Izekor
While the issue of diversity is much discussed in industry, creating inclusive spaces for underrepresented talent continues to be an ongoing challenge in the creative world. We've heard much debate and proposed solutions on the industry side, but what about the voices of the next generation? To help immerse emerging creatives in these conversations, 12 second-year Advertising and Brand Design students at Ravensbourne have launched Nuff Said, a creative collective, event series and movement. Ahead of their event at The Mill in London next week, group member Isaac Izekor tells us how the idea came about and how they're learning from creatives they most admire.
For students like myself, the topic of diversity can create a real feeling of frustration. As a subject that's very much in vogue at the moment, we've heard a lot of discussion from creative companies expressing their desire to increase inclusivity in the workplace. But it would seem these positive sentiments are proving difficult to put into practice.
On top of this, while many companies and brands pay lip service to diversity as a selling point of their product, this is both a positive and a negative thing. Positive in that it's becoming a normal conversation to be had. But negative in that, sometimes, it feels more like a commercial gimmick than a practical part of an organisation.
Do we feel represented?
Intern Magazine published a recent article entitled 'Whitewashed' by Jaheed Hussain. The article voices our major frustration – a lack of BAME representation at all levels within the creative industry and an underlying culture that doesn't really foster inclusivity.
Describing how he never felt represented in education, Jaheed's article made a lot of us ask, "Have we actually ever felt represented ourselves?" Whether that's in education, the people that mentor us, or the imagery that we see. We were surprised that so many of us didn't feel that way. If you're BAME, you're already aware that there's an issue with diversity, regardless of what field you're in.
"Diversity isn't a buzzword, it's our reality. The next generation of creatives is already diverse."
Beyond the boxes and buzzwords
If any industry should understand the importance of diversity, it's the creative industry. Creativity is innately diverse – it should have no one definition. Creativity is hard to pin down. Equal parts imagination and inspiration, it provides a license to craft what wasn't there before, regardless of who you are or where you come from. When you box in creativity, you lose out on originality.
As students we are constantly inspired by the freedom that creativity allows us. This freedom also draws inspiration from the differences that characterise our creative communities. When working, we regularly draw on each other's varying talents and experiences. The insights in our work demonstrate what is possible when differing perspectives on culture and communication surround you. Diversity isn't a buzzword, it's our reality. The next generation of creatives is already diverse.
But the creative industry doesn't look like us. It doesn't benefit from the culture of inclusivity that powers our originality. If culture is what we make and allow, then we've promoted a vision of creativity that's way too narrow. We want to help the creative industry put inclusivity at the heart of creative culture.
Creating a two-way exchange
We want this conversation to become something that's important for both the industry and students on a practical level. Diversity might be something that companies care about, but statistically it's not moving as quickly as anyone would like it to. We're all quite aware that this is a difficult issue to solve, so it's also about asking: How can we help make this change?
For us, it starts with taking the initiative to build relationships with industry. It starts by making the case that if industry wants to hire us as the next generation and bring our insights, then these are the ways it needs to adapt.
In the lead-up to summer, myself and a number of advertising and branding students at Ravensbourne are curating a series of events around London. These events will bring together industry professionals and students to discuss how inclusion can be made a natural part of creative culture.
"We don't just want to talk about diversity. We want to draw inspiration from people who are building platforms where difference thrives."
Building a network, starting a movement
We don't just want to talk about diversity. We want to draw inspiration from people who are building platforms where difference thrives; people who have prioritised inclusivity, and in doing so, have made work that is culturally relevant. Each event will be headlined by creatives working to build this into their practice. We're interested to see how they did it, and it's a great chance for the industry to learn from people who are making creative culture more inclusive.
We talk about this as a student movement, but currently that movement is made up of 12 people. In order for Nuff Said to become something that more people can connect with, it needs to grow to encompass other people's vision of diversity, too. The event is an opportunity for students and industry individuals to get involved with our mission – both in terms of networking and finding out what others are thinking about it.
The entire Nuff Said team is incredibly excited to make work that has cultural relevance, that people can connect with, and to be part of a movement that we hope will transform the industry for the better.
The first Nuff Said event will take place on Wednesday May 8, between 6–9pm at The Mill. Speakers will include Roshni Goyate, founder of the Other Box, Brendan Mcknight from the Dots and Ibrahim Kamara, co-founder and editor in chief at Guap. It will be hosted by Dines of Studio Blup. Sign up via the Eventbrite.
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OTTAWA — Henry Burris couldn't pass up the chance to help build a franchise from the ground up.
Feb. 5, 2014 6:13 a.m.
The veteran quarterback signed a three-year contract with the expansion Ottawa Redblacks on Tuesday, just six days after getting released by the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.
"The opportunity to be a part of something fresh and new was something that my family and I just couldn't turn down," Burris said after being introduced to the media.
"We had to be a part of this. This is an opportunity of a lifetime to leave your fingerprints, your footprint on a growing organization that will be around for years and years to come.
The move ends a whirlwind week for Burris, who was released by the Tiger-Cats after the club signed Zach Collaros to be their starting quarterback.
The 38-year-old — who was cut by Hamilton despite leading them to last season's Grey Cup game — should provide immediate stability and leadership for the expansion Redblacks as the CFL returns to the nation's capital this season.
"I really don't look at this as an expansion team," said Burris.
"Last season in Hamilton we had the youngest team in the league on both sides of the ball and I was changing (diapers) day in and day out. I expect some of the same challenges (in Ottawa).
Ottawa will be Burris' fourth CFL team after stops with the Calgary Stampeders, Saskatchewan Roughriders, and the Tiger-Cats. He won two Grey Cups during his time with the Stampeders and was named the game's MVP in 2008.
Burris led the Tiger-Cats to last season's Grey Cup, where Hamilton fell 45-23 to Saskatchewan. He was tops in the league with 4,925 passing yards in 2013 to go along with 24 touchdowns and 19 interceptions.
In 15 CFL seasons, the native of Spiro, Oklahoma, ranks fourth all-time in regular-season passing yards (51,529), touchdown passes (324) and completions (3,672).
After getting his walking papers from the Tiger-Cats, Burris was immediately approached by the Redblacks and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. Both teams offered enticing opportunities, but apart from getting a chance to set the standard with a new team, Ottawa offered Burris something Winnipeg couldn't — the opportunity to play in front of his family.
Knowing this would be his final contract, Burris said he has a number of relatives in Springfield, Mass., who are already looking forward to making the trip to Ottawa to see him in action.
The Redblacks currently have three quarterbacks under contract that started CFL games last season. Ottawa acquired 34-year-old Kevin Glenn and Thomas Demarco through the expansion draft, and also has Matt Faulkner on its roster.
It was widely believed that Glenn, who split time under centre with the Stampeders in 2013 and finished with 2,710 passing yards, 18 touchdowns and seven interceptions, would be Ottawa's starter.
Desjardins said the plan right now is to head to camp with all three quarterbacks.
Desjardins added that he hopes the signing of Burris will show other players that the organization is serious about being a contender right from the start.
The Redblacks are the CFL's third attempt at a franchise in Ottawa. The Rough Riders folded in 1996 after 120 years of operation. The expansion Renegades began play in 2002, but folded after just four seasons.
Redblacks head coach Rick Campbell said he looks forward to having someone with Burris' experience join the team.
Burris will be 39 by the time the team takes to the field for the regular season, but Campbell said he sees no reason for concern.
Note: The CFL announced Tuesday that free agency will begin on Feb. 11 instead of Feb. 15.


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Jeremy Cropf sits down with Academy-Award winning director Morgan Neville to discuss his new documentary Won't You Be My Neighbor.
Jeremy sits down with Academy-Award winning director Morgan Neville to discuss his new documentary Won't You Be My Neighbor, which examines the life and legacy of Fred Rogers, the beloved host of the popular children's TV show "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood."


After reading and thinking through all of the names suggested for my new mouse friend — and after letting the mouse imagine each of the recommendations as his own name — we chose Filbert. In some ways you might say that Filbert chose the mouse. It just fit.
Part of the decision process including doing some research about nuts. If one is about to share his name with a nut, one should know something about nuts in general and that nut in particular. Of course, the mouse's decision had far more to do with the way the name looks in print and how it sounds.
"Nut" is a general term for the large, dry, oily seeds or fruit of some plants. While a wide variety of dried seeds and fruits are called nuts, only a certain number of them are considered by biologists to be true nuts. Nuts are an important source of nutrients for both humans and wildlife.
All nuts are seeds, but not all seeds are nuts. Nuts are both the seed and the fruit, and cannot be separated. Seeds come from fruit, and can be removed from the fruit, like almonds, cashews, walnuts, and pistachios, which were once inside fruit.
The Filbert is part of the hazelnut family and the mouse likes the character Hazel on TV Land reruns, so that may have had some influence.
Filbert also liked the idea suggested by an anonymous reader to name other mouse friends by other nut names. That reader made some specific suggestions and then Filbert did some name-hunting of his own.
We did find a grey friend and a brown friend at IKEA (the bin was half full of brown mice…I had to dig in other bins to find a grey one…white ones were all gone) and they have made their home with us. Filbert will remain my primary travel gnome — but these fellows will make occasional appearances, especially around Orlando. They don't have passports.
The brown colored one has been given the name Kluwak.
An interesting Malaysian "nut" (actually a seed) is called "buah keluak" or "kluwak nut." Kluwak nuts come from the kepayang tree of Indonesia & Malaysia. The oily, hard-shelled seeds superficially resemble Brazil nuts. Meaty seeds are edible after the poisonous hydrocyanic acid is removed by soaking and boiling them in water. Fermented kluwak nuts become chocolate-brown, greasy and very slippery. Cooked seeds are used in a number of popular Malaysian and Indonesian dishes.
Filbert noticed early on that Kluwak is a bit, well, sneaky and so a name of a nut that is "chocolate brown" and "slippery" seemed to suit him just fine.
The grey (or, as he likes to call it, "silver") mouse has been given the name Mac (short for Macadamia). Filbert told me that with Hawaii getting so much attention these days because it was one of the homes of our new President, he wanted to jump on the bandwagon. He thinks it's a trendy name and the silver mouse is surely trendy. I told him that the Mac also refers to my preferred computer which only served to encourage this name choice.
While Kluwak is a little bit devious (don't leave any food unguarded), Mac is a whole lot of warmth and words.
The meese chose wisely, I'd say. And I like the ring to the trio name sound. Perchance could they become Filklumac?
Fellowship of the cheese ai?
(smiles) – ok, absolutely fab. choice. lovin' filbert, not that i'd invite 'em over for dinner or anything but in pics they do well. "alas" i remembered why i like the name, it reminds me of my most recent fav. comic strip dilbert. interesting to know that only biologists can name the truest of nuts….ah, the privileged. such a fun post ruth!


Procaine Usage: Procaine is a kind of local anesthetics. With low toxicity but quick and safe effects, procaine is suitable for local anesthesia, applied to the eye, ear, nose, teeth and other department operation, used for infiltration anesthesia, anesthesia and closed therapy supervisor. Procaine is also used in the production of procaine penicillin.
Procaine is a local anesthetic drug of the amino ester group. It is used primarily to reduce the pain of intramuscular injection of penicillin, and it is also used in dentistry. Owing to the ubiquity of the trade name Novocain, in some regions procaine is referred to generically as Procaine. It acts mainly by being a sodium channel blocker.Today it is used therapeutically in some countries due to its sympatholytic, anti-inflammatory, perfusion enhancing, and mood enhancing effects.
Procaine was first synthesized in 1905, shortly after amylocaine. It was created by the German chemist Alfred Einhorn who gave the chemical the trade name Procaine, from the Latin nov- (meaning new) and -caine, a common ending for alkaloids used as anesthetics. It was introduced into medical use by surgeon Heinrich Braun. Prior to the discovery of amylocaine and procaine, was the most commonly used local anesthetic. Einhorn wished his new discovery to be used for amputations, but surgeons preferred general anesthetic. Dentists, however, found it very useful. Einhorn was displeased by this[why?] and spent many years touring dental schools to advise them not to use it.


Let's start with a question. When it comes to the debate over mass shootings in America, why does the discussion always go toward tougher gun laws?
And yet, we are not talking about the role of antidepressants and other psychiatric medication.
The truth? The connection between mass shooters and these medications is stunning.
The response to the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida has been call after call for tougher gun laws, but seems to ignore the issues once again surrounding antidepressants.
Without question, Nikolas Cruz, the 19-year-old man who killed 17 students and wounded more than a dozen that afternoon February 14, had for years exhibited signs of mental health problems. We talked about it on Reality Check a few episodes back.
Here's what we know about Cruz.
Cruz's adoptive father Roger Cruz died more than a decade ago, and his adoptive mother Lynda Cruz reportedly struggled with her son and his brother Zachary until her death in November 2017.
In addition to Kubatovich's statements, records show that police were called to the Cruz residence as many as 45 times since 2008, according to Buzzfeed News.
Between reports that Cruz had previously pulled a gun on his brother and mother, and an anonymous FBI tip from January that Cruz had been suicidal but then decided "he wants to kill people" and that he was "going to explode"… all evidence is indicating a clearly unstable young man with numerous documented concerns from those who knew him.
We still don't know what, if any medications Cruz might have been on. But we do know that the number of high profile mass shootings over the past 30 years, and the link to psychiatric medication, is deeply concerning.
In 1989, 47-year-old Joseph T. Wesbecker shot 20 workers in a Louisville, Kentucky factory, killing nine people… just a month after he began taking Prozac. The drugmaker, Eli Lilly and Company, later settled a lawsuit brought by survivors.
1998: 15-year-old Oregon school shooter Kip Kinkel, who opened fire in his school cafeteria, he was on Prozac.
1999: Columbine killer Eric Harris was taking Luvox, another antidepressant.
2007: Virginia Tech shooter Seung-Hui Cho, he shot and killed 32 people. Officials found prescription medicine "related to the treatment of psychological problems" among his personal belongings, according to the New York Times.
2012: Colorado theater shooter James Holmes was reportedly prescribed the antidepressant Zoloft.
2013: Navy Yard shooter Aaron Alexis sprayed bullets at office workers and in a cafeteria, killing 13 people including himself. Alexis had been prescribed Trazodone by his Veterans Affairs doctor.
2014: Elliot Rodger, the Isla Vista, California killer who went on a shooting spree after stabbing three men to death, had been prescribed psychotropic drugs, according to The Los Angeles Times.
2017: Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock, according to the Las Vegas Review Journal, had been prescribed diazepam.
Paddock received the prescription in June 2017. That October, he carried out the deadliest shooting in modern American history.
And there are dozens of other examples. To be clear, we're not saying that prescription drugs are to blame for mass shootings.
Some of the most alarming side effects of Prozac include suicidal thoughts, self-mutilation and manic behavior.
Zoloft can cause hallucinations, agitation and memory problems.
For Valium, it's also hallucinations, depression, and thoughts of suicide.
These are dangers that drug makers themselves are required to disclose.
The use these antidepressants in America has skyrocketed. As of 2013, 12 percent of Americans were filling prescriptions for them. And while millions of people do not suffer violent episodes, the drug makers warn that some people may… and do.
Pharmaceutical companies were estimated to spend $6.4 billion on direct-to-consumer advertising in 2016, according to USA Today.
Further, Open Secrets reports that in the 2016 election cycle, pharmaceutical companies contributed $12.4 million to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, another $1.5 million to former Republican Gov. Jeb Bush, more than $812,805 to Sen. Ted Cruz, $446,400 to Chris Christie, $388,706 to Donald Trump, and $280,408 to Bernie Sanders.
So what you need to know, is correlation does not always equal causation. We do not know that the reason for these mass shootings is because of any one drug or any number of drugs. Nor do we know how much of a role these drugs may have played at all… but the question is, why is that?
Why are politicians and mainstream media pushing so many discussions about guns and virtually no discussion of whether or not antidepressants are playing a role? Because the numbers are compelling and beg a question that deserves an answer.
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Chicago officer fired after asking teen for sex in return for impounded car
Posted 11:35 AM, May 28, 2019, by Associated Press and WGN Web Desk, Updated at 12:59PM, May 28, 2019
CHICAGO — A Chicago police officer who allegedly asked a 17-year-old girl for sex in return for getting her mother's impounded car released by the city has been fired.
The Chicago Tribune reports that the city's police board agreed with Superintendent Eddie Johnson's recommendation to fire Officer Darius Alexander in a 9-0 vote after hearing conversations secretly recorded by the teen that confirmed Alexander was soliciting her and a friend for sex.
In firing Alexander, the board criticized the police department for taking more than six years to bring disciplinary charges against Alexander.
According to the Tribune, Alexander and his partner pulled over a car, containing the teen girl and three others, in May 2012. Two males inside the car were charged with drug offenses, which were later dismissed. The car was impounded and the girl and 18-year-old female were taken to the police station.
The teen says Alexander approached her at the station and offered to help get the car released from the pound. He than allegedly put his phone number in her cellphone. The two exchanged 47 texts as well as phone calls that night, the Police Board said, and Alexander "came on to Ms. Doe in a sexual fashion."
Alexander claimed he met with the teen the next day, his day off, in a bid to learn the identity of the dealers who had sold the drugs to the two males. He alleged he had "played" the teen by falsely promising to help get the car out of the pound.
Alexander's partner cast doubt on his claim, testifying he had never pursued a police matter on his day off and would not undertake his own investigation without first notifying his sergeant.
Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi called the delay "inexcusable and indefensible" and said the department has implemented a comprehensive electronic case management system that will speed the process up by allowing supervisors to monitor such investigations in real time.
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