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Shakira is Danone's new face to promote its first global marketing campaign
What: The Colombian singer will be the image of Activia, the main yoghurt brand of the French firm.
Why it matters: This is Activia's first ever global integrated campaign to be launched in 55 countries.
Activia, Danone's main yogurt brand, is launching a First Ever Global integrated Campaign 'Dare To Feel Good' Featuring the Colombian singer Shakira.The company is aiming to boost sales through this campaign, which kicked off last Sunday in 55 countries globally.
The campaign will run on digital, print and outdoor media, in addition to TV commercials, which were adapted to the legal frameworks that govern every nation where Shakira's single ´Dare´ is rolling out.
The spot was created by Vinzius Young & Rubicam Barcelona along with a renew production team including the photographer and director Jaume de Laiguana, Oscar winner art director, Eugenio Caballero, and the award-winning Javier Aguirresarobe. Filmed in Barcelona, the ad shows the Colombian singer in a fantasy forest where she is showered with swirls of gold stardust and is dancing to express how good she feels inside.
"For the first time we are resorting to a global celebrity, so we hope to have a global impact," said Santiago Mier, head of marketing for Danone Dairy.
"It is also different the way we communicate with people in a more modern and updated way."
The Activia 360-degree campaign is supported by television, graphic and digital media, outdoor advertising, retail and public relations, as well as a brand new global URL: www.activia.com, that will integrate exclusive content including behind the scenes footage of the ad shoot.
Activia's previous spot featured actress Jamie Lee Curtis talking openly about digestive health. While Shakira will not speak specifically on this subject, she will exemplifies how feeling good on the inside is essential to her self-expression as a world-famous dancer and performer.
Activia achieved global sales of about 2,5 million euros in 2013 (US $3,5 million), quite similar to previous year's sales.
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It's Time for Some Blunt Talk on Weed
As the marijuana movement races ahead, are we ignoring the drug's real risks?
by Stephanie Mencimer
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In 2014, Maureen Dowd devoted a New York Times column to the story of her own ill-fated experiment with edible marijuana in Colorado. After eating a THC-infused candy bar, she wrote, "I lay curled up in a hallucinatory state for the next eight hours. I was thirsty but couldn't move to get water. Or even turn off the lights. I was panting and paranoid, sure that when the room-service waiter knocked and I didn't answer, he'd call the police and have me arrested for being unable to handle my candy."
Tell Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence
by Alex Berenson
Free Press, 272 pp.
The column made Dowd the subject of national ridicule. A Vice headline blared, "Maureen Dowd Freaked Out on Weed Chocolate Because She's Stupid." By the time of her column, the idea that marijuana is a harmless recreational drug that has been unfairly targeted by hysterical drug warriors had become liberal gospel. But Dowd's story might have raised a more troubling question: Can any drug that causes near-psychotic breaks, hallucinations, or pathological paranoia in a first-time user really be considered harmless?
It's a reasonable question that former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson attempts to answer in a new book, Tell Your Children. Berenson took a hard look at a vast body of scientific research on marijuana, and found that far from being a benign substance, it can cause profound damage to the brain, including psychosis and schizophrenia, and, with those things, violence.
Berenson is an unlikely anti-drug warrior. For the past decade or so, he has devoted most of his time to writing a series of successful spy novels. Berenson tells us that he'd smoked weed a few times and never had particularly strong feelings about legalization one way or another. But one night a couple of years ago, he was talking to his wife, Jacqueline, about a case she'd been working on. A forensic psychologist, she evaluates mentally ill criminals for a living. She mentioned that the perpetrator of a particularly heinous crime—"somebody who'd cut up his grandmother or set fire to his apartment"—was high at the time, and a lifelong cannabis consumer, as were nearly all of her most deranged clients. Berenson was skeptical that marijuana had anything to do with mental illness, much less violent crime. Rather than argue the point, Jacqueline sent him to the scientific literature, a dive down the rabbit hole that resulted in this book.
The title is subtly ironic: Tell Your Children is the original name of Reefer Madness, the 1936 campy cult film that was originally created as propaganda by a church group to educate parents about the dangers of marijuana. Marijuana legalization promoters in the 1970s repurposed the film as unintentional satire and used it as an example of the hysteria that had helped drive the nation's overly punitive drug laws. But, as Berenson documents, the movie was based in part on reality.
The main psychoactive ingredient in cannabis, THC, has long been known to trigger paranoia and psychosis, which is often a precursor to full-blown schizophrenia. The first major study on the psychotic effects of marijuana was published in the Lancet in 1987 by Sven Andréasson, a doctor at the Karolinska Institute, the Swedish university that selects the recipient of the Nobel Prize in medicine. Andréasson dove into the subject in the early 1980s after he noticed that the schizophrenic patients who most often relapsed after being released from the hospital were the pot smokers. He wondered if the two things could be related.
To find out, he plumbed a huge, robust data set covering 50,000 men born around 1951 who'd been conscripted into the Swedish military. Draftees, mostly eighteen- and nineteen-year-olds, were required to fill out comprehensive forms that included questions about their socioeconomic background, health, and drug use. Then, using national health service records, Andréasson was able to test whether men who'd used weed before 1970 had developed schizophrenia by 1983.
The results, Berenson writes, were shocking even to Andréasson. After controlling for a host of factors and excluding anyone who was already suffering from schizophrenia at the time of conscription, Andréasson found that someone using cannabis on more than ten occasions had almost two and a half times the risk of developing schizophrenia than someone who'd never used it. To figure out if marijuana causes the disease or if people with schizophrenia just tend to self-medicate with it, Andréasson later compared people who developed schizophrenia after getting high to people with the mental illness who hadn't used marijuana. The two groups turned out to be different: the pot smokers had been relatively normal and high-functioning before descending into psychosis, whereas the non-users had shown early signs of mental illness. Andréasson ultimately estimated that marijuana is likely responsible for between 10 and 15 percent of all psychosis cases.
The main psychoactive ingredient in cannabis, THC, has long been known to trigger paranoia and psychosis, which is often a precursor to full-blown schizophrenia.
Dozens of studies have subsequently made similar findings, including genetic research that's made it possible to determine whether psychosis or marijuana use comes first. Having a parent or sibling with a serious mental illness increases the risk of cannabis-induced psychosis, but the drug use is also independently associated with psychosis in people with no family history of mental illness.
The potential dangers of marijuana seem most significant for young, developing brains. One study Berenson cites found that people who'd started using marijuana at age fifteen were four times more likely to develop schizophrenia and a related disorder than those who hadn't. Even when researchers excluded kids who were showing signs of psychosis by the age of eleven, the risk was still three times higher. In the past year alone, both the American Medical Association's Journal of Psychiatry and the British Journal of Psychiatry reported on new studies demonstrating strong links between teenage marijuana use and psychotic disorders. The evidence that marijuana can cause psychosis and schizophrenia is so strong that in 2017, the storied National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine concluded that the issue was essentially settled, Berenson writes. (The organization also found very few medical benefits from cannabis, but reported that its use may worsen bipolar disorder and increase the risk of suicide and depression.)
NAM also found that the risk from marijuana is dose-responsive: the higher the use, the higher the risk. And what makes marijuana especially problematic is that doctors can't predict which users might just end up mellow and fat, and which ones might jump off a hotel balcony in a psychotic rage, as nineteen-year-old first-time edible user Levy Thamba did in 2014. Potency is also an issue, argues Berenson. Today's industrial-strength cannabis is far stronger than the stuff Brett Kavanaugh's generation smoked in the 1980s. Edibles can contain as much as 100 milligrams of THC, about 100 times more than the average joint smoked in the 1980s.
Berenson seems on solid ground with the neuroscience of marijuana-induced psychosis. From there, he makes a far more controversial leap to arguing that marijuana also causes violent crime. The crux of Berenson's argument goes like this: marijuana causes psychosis, and psychosis causes violent crime. Not everyone suffering from a psychotic episode simply curls up in a fetal position for eight hours until it's over the way Maureen Dowd did. Paranoid, psychotic people commit a disproportionate number of violent crimes, and psychotic people who are also substance abusers commit even more violent crimes.
Berenson describes observations of cannabis-related insanity and violence going back more than 100 years. Over the past decade, a host of new research has validated those observations, documenting a close relationship between marijuana and violence, often even when researchers hadn't started out looking for it. Berenson says the connection between pot and violence is also showing up on the ground as the legalization movement has helped to nearly double the percentage of teens and adults who report using marijuana at least once a month since 2006. He argues that, far from living up to promoters' promises of a lower crime rate, the first states to have fully legalized marijuana—Colorado, Washington, Oregon, and Alaska—are seeing sharp spikes in violent crime. "Combined, the four states saw a 35 percent increase in murders and a 25 percent increase in assaults between 2013 and 2017, far outpacing the national trend, even after adjusting for changes in population. (Across the United States, murders have risen 20 percent and aggravated assaults 10 percent over that period.)"
Untangling the reasons why crime rates rise and fall is notoriously tricky business, a problem Berenson acknowledges. And proving definitively that the recent murder increases have been caused by weed, legal or otherwise, is pretty much impossible, largely because the data just hasn't been collected—an issue Berenson struggles with in the book.
Indeed, after reading it, I thought I'd test Berenson's theory to see whether Washington, D.C., where I live, has had an increase in pot-related crime. Marijuana was decriminalized here in 2014 and fully legalized by early 2015. The number of murders in the city is also way, way up. In 2013, the year before legalization, there were 104 homicides, including twelve from a single mass shooting at the Washington Navy Yard. In 2018, there were 155 by early December.
There's correlation, but is it causation? Drug-testing data, I thought, could shed a little light on that question, so I tried to look up how many people arrested in D.C. for violent crimes tested positive for cannabis. This turned out to be an unknowable number. As part of its decriminalization effort, the city's pretrial services agency stopped testing criminal defendants for marijuana in 2012.
The deep-pocketed legal weed industry—which now includes former Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner— will fight public health measures that might threaten profits. In that sense, it has the potential to become no different than the tobacco industry.
Such data deserts stymied Berenson, so the investigative reporter in him went at the problem in other ways. For instance, he requested autopsy reports of many of the thirty-five people who'd been killed in 2017 by police in Colorado. He got eighteen of the reports—all of which showed that the shooting subjects had drugs in their system. Cannabis was by far the most common drug.
Drug use data also exists in many state child welfare systems, which provide some of the most disturbing numbers of the book. Berenson reports that in Texas in the 2017 fiscal year, the state recorded 172 deaths of children from abuse or neglect. In at least ninety of the cases, the people responsible tested positive for drugs, and by far the most common one was marijuana. Fifty-six of the perpetrators were actively using weed at the time of the child's death, compared with twenty-three who were using alcohol. Berenson notes that the Texas figures are striking because marijuana use in the state isn't especially high—he estimates that only about one in fifty adults uses it daily—yet more than a third of the perpetrators who killed a child through neglect or abuse were using weed at the time.
Berenson finds a disturbing number of anecdotes to put faces on the numbers. This past August, for instance, a Texas man named Blair Ness allegedly stabbed his one-year-old son Ashton to death as horrified neighbors tried to stop him. "Neighbors told police Ness was yelling about Jesus; officers found his apartment reeking of marijuana," Berenson writes. "Ness's girlfriend told police that when she left for work a few hours before, he had been happily feeding the boy." There's also a pair of cases in late 2017 where young couples in Nevada and Idaho abused their small children to the point that they had seizures. The parents then blew marijuana smoke at the babies to try to stop the seizures. Both children died.
Tell Your Children is full of these sorts of horror stories—ax murders, matricide, corpse mutilation, and other heinous crimes committed by people while they were using weed. Horror stories don't prove anything, of course. But the data Berenson musters and the science he cites provide a plausible biological explanation for the relationship between violence, psychosis, and marijuana. Tell Your Children thus makes a compelling case that weed legalization might deserve rethinking.
Still, even Berenson doesn't think marijuana should be re-criminalized, with small-time users sent to jail en masse. But he observes that there's a big difference between decriminalizing possession and turning cannabis into a consumer product the way Colorado has. Making pot cheaper, more potent, and more available drives up use, and, with it, the drug's negative effects.
Berenson also challenges the idea that legal weed is a boon for public coffers. He points to Colorado, where in 2017 the state collected about $250 million in weed taxes, a tiny fraction of its $29 billion budget. Hospitalizing someone with psychosis for ten days costs more than $10,000. "It is possible that the costs of marijuana psychosis and violence alone already outweigh the taxes the industry pays in Colorado," he writes.
Putting the brakes on the country's move toward broader legalization of marijuana would be challenging. Even archconservative Mormon Utah recently passed a ballot measure legalizing medical marijuana, showing just how far public opinion has moved—though the state legislature is wisely replacing that measure with a version that imposes tighter regulations. A bigger obstacle is the formidable, deep-pocketed legal weed industry, which has a vested interest in promoting myths about the drug's alleged crime reduction and health benefits. The industry's lobbying and advertising forces—which now include former Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner, who recently joined the board of Acreage Holdings, a major investor in legal weed—will invariably work to muddy the science and fight public health measures that might threaten profits. In that sense, the marijuana industry has the potential to become no different than the tobacco industry. In fact, as I was writing this review, the tobacco giant Altria announced that it was spending $1.8 billion to acquire a controlling stake in Cronos Group, a cannabis company.
More than anything, Berenson argues, policy needs to be driven by science, not industry pap. "Using cannabis or any drug is ultimately a personal choice. What to do about legalization is a political decision," he writes. "But whether marijuana is dangerous to the brain and can ultimately cause violence is a scientific question, with a hard yes or no answer. We have that answer. It's time you heard it."
Stephanie Mencimer
Stephanie Mencimer is a senior reporter at Mother Jones, an advisory board member at the Fund for Investigative Journalism, and the author of Blocking the Courthouse Door: How the Republican Party and Its Corporate Allies Are Taking Away Your Right to Sue. She was a Washington Monthly editor from 2000 to 2002.
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This page shares songs celebrating the UN Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. The treaty enters into force on the 22nd January, 2021 after it reached its fiftieth ratification in October, 2020. Join the campaign to convince the UK government to accede to the treaty. Find out more here: http://www.icanw.org
ICAN Ban That Bomb!
How did we feel when we heard the news? This video shows you how we felt! Do sing and dance along 🙂
ICAN Can-Can
[the words to this anti-nuclear Can-Can were written by Jane Lewis. You can connect with more of her music here: http://www.craftycarrot.co.uk]
Ring the Bells!
Many church bells will be ringing throughout the UK to celebrate the treaty at midday on January 22nd, 2021, alongside hundreds of activists ringing bells on their doorsteps. Please do join us!
Carry Greenham Home
Our work today as peace activists stands on the shoulders of our foremothers. Here, Peggy Seeger plays tribute to the women of Greenham Common to celebrate the Nuclear Ban Treaty. "Step by Step the longest march can be won…"
[connect with more of Peggy's music at www.peggyseeger.com]
Leag Iad am Bom an Raoir
This song was the first anti-nuclear song written in Gaelic. It was written by Murchadh MacPhàrlain (Murdo Macfarlane) of Lewis, and is an imagined lullaby sung by a mother to a baby in the year 2050. Margaret Bennett sings to celebrate the ban, and also to remind us just how important it is that we disarm.
The Freedom Come All Ye
Hamish Henderson wrote the Freedom Come All Ye when the first nuclear submarines came up the Clyde in 1961. It is an expansive anthem for peace and international solidarity that acknowledges our own part in the military industrial complex and colonisation of other lands, and seeks to build a different, internationalist Scotland. A Scotland without nuclear weapons. A peaceful Scotland.
Here are some singers sharing their versions of The Freedom Come All Ye to celebrate the Nuclear Ban Treaty. If you want to add your version, just film yourself singing or send an audio track to me and I'll add your voice. My email address is singlouderthanguns@gmail.com.
Members of Ayr Phoenix Folk Club sing The Freedom Come All Ye:
[connect with Ayr Phoenix Folk Club here: http://ayrphoenix.co.uk%5D
Margaret Bennett sings the Freedom Come All Ye: (this is an archive recording shared by Margaret for this celebration. It was recorded in the Scottish Parliament in 2007)
[connect with more of Margaret's music here: http://www.margaretbennett.co.uk]
Mairi Campbell sings the Freedom Come All Ye:
[you can connect with more of Mairi's music here: https://mairicampbell.scot/%5D
Graham Carter sings the Freedom Come All Ye:
[you can connect with more of Graham's music here: http://www.facebook.com/folkperformer%5D
Kim Edgar sings the Freedom Come All Ye:
[connect with more of Kim's music at http://www.kimedgar.com]
Margaret Ferguson Burns sings The Freedom Come All Ye:
Sylvia McGowan sings the Freedom Come All Ye:
Scott Murray sings the Freedom Come All Ye:
[connect with more of Scott's music here: http://www.scottmurraysongs.co.uk]
Eileen Penman sings The Freedom Come All Ye:
Karine Polwart sings The Freedom Come All Ye:
Fiona Ross sings the Freedom Come All Ye:
[Connect with more of Fiona's music here: https://fionaross.com.au/%5D
Janet Russell sings the Freedom Come All Ye:
[connect with more of Janet's music here: http://79.170.44.206/harbourtownrecords.com/janet-russell-harbourtown/%5D
Robyn Stapleton sings The Freedom Come All Ye:
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Learn and Sing Resources:
You can learn the Freedom Come All Ye along with Kim Edgar starting here (starts at 6:18):
And continuing here. (the second learning part begins at 10:38):
There is a slow sing along version here:
Resources to help you learn the song can be found here: https://www.protestinharmony.org.uk/songs/freedom-come-all-ye/
And more versions of the Freedom Come All Ye can be heard here. https://singlouderthanguns.com/freedom-come-all-ye/
Karine Polwart's beautiful song about what we could do with our hands, hearts and minds instead of spending them working with nuclear weapons.
[connect with more of Karine's music at www.karinepolwart.com]
Nuclear Ban Burns Night, Jan 22nd 2021: Here is the new SONGSHEET for anyone who wants to print it off. (for anyone from Campaign Choirs Network coming along to the PIH open session on Jan 22nd). If you would find these lyrics easier in a different format – plain text or large print – please drop me an email at singlouderthanguns@gmail.com and I'll sort that out for you.


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Introducing ScaVanger project
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Sustainable Supply of Scandium, Niobium and Vanadium for the EU Industries from Liquid Residues from Chlorine-Based TiO2 Pigment Plants
An EIT Raw Materials project (Nb. 20093)
ScaVanger will ensure the steady supply of Sc, Nb and V for the EU to become leader in growing markets. Forecasts announce significant higher demands of Sc (300 t/y), Nb and V until 2028 for the growing markets in alloy, steel, aeronautics, batteries, fuel cells, robotics, drones, heat exchange capacitators and 3D printing industries (Roskill, 2018). Recoverable resources are contained in acid chlorine solutions from TiO2 pigment production (1.5 million t/y in EU), but mainly landfilled.
ScaVanger will upscale an innovative hydrometallurgical technology for successive Sc, Nb, and V extraction from the TiO2 acid by product streams. Thus, ScaVanger will be setting the foundation for a sustainable supply for the EU of these critical metals (100 % Sc and about 2 % Nb and V demand), while contributing to the EU's circular economy action plan.
The technology will be integrated in the relevant production flowsheets of the TiO2 pigment industry to avoid transport of relevant by-products and share investments. The metal containing by-product is treated by a Boil&Bake technology to produce a solution of iron chloride that is freed from harmful elements. The B&B residue is re-slurried in water. Together with stoichiometric quantities of chloride remaining in the residue is made available to re-dissolve Fe, Al, Mg, Ca etc. so that they can be separated from Cr, V, Nb, Sc, Ti and other elements in the residue. This new technology and plant will bring valuable metal products to the market: Sc2O3, ScF3, Nb-concentrates, V-salts and V2O4 essentially for the alloy industries. The remaining residue can be used as e.g. cement additives or in other construction applications. HCl and water are reused in the plant.
Real scale demonstration is scheduled for 2023 with industrial operation starting in 2026. In the future, this technology can be easily further implemented in all chlorine-based TiO2 pigment production plants, both in the EU and worldwide.
Catura Geoproject Geosciences Conseils, France
Enalos Research and Development, Greece
MEAB Chemie Technik GmbH, Germany
National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece
Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH), Germany
Orano Mining (Lead Partner), France
WHAT IS SCANDIUM?
Scandium is a chemical element with symbol Sc and atomic number 21. A silvery-white metallic d-block element, it was discovered in 1879 by spectral analysis of the minerals euxenite and gadolinite from Scandinavia.
Scandium is a rare-earth metal, used in small amounts but with drastic effects on properties of matter. It is a key component in producing high strength Aluminium alloys used in aerospace and 3D printing as well as in Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) applications.
SCANDIUM SUPPLY
Scandium is present in most of the deposits of rare-earth and uranium compounds, but it is extracted from these ores in only a few mines worldwide. Scandium supply is limited due its scarcity and the high cost of its production, which currently takes place in Asia and Russia. Europe has no production of Scandium, but is home to many Scandium end-users and to industries having Scandium in their industrial residues. By converting waste into resources and thus developing a stable and secure EU scandium supply chain to serve the needs of EU aerospace and high tech industry, SCALE project will contribute to reduce dependency on imports of raw materials.
SCALE PROJECT
Scandium is an enabler in vital sectors like clean energy, transport, optics and advanced materials. Despite having a proven set of impressive applications, its volatile price and unreliable supply chain limit their deployment. SCALE develops innovative technologies that can extract economically and sustainably Sc from dilute mediums (<100 mg/L) and upgrade them to pure oxides, metals and alloys at lower energy or material cost. This will be achieved through the development of a number of innovative extraction, separation, refining and alloying technologies that will be validated in an appropriate laboratory and industrial environment to prove their technical and economic feasibility. SCALE builds on the success of previous and on-going European research projects like ENEXAL, EURARE, REECover, REE4EU and REMAGHIC.
© 2017-18 | SCALE has received funding from the European Community's Horizon 2020 Programme (H2020/2014-2020) under grant agreement n° 730105
BLOOMENERGY Sc-SOFCs
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Laser Garnet by II-VI
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The 1990 European Karate Championships, the 25th edition, was held in Vienna, Austria from May 2 to 4, 1990.

Medallists

Men's Competition

Individual

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Women's competition

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External links
 Karate Records - European Championship 1990

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International sports competitions hosted by Austria
European Karate Championship
European championships in 1990
Sports competitions in Vienna
1990s in Vienna
Karate competitions in Austria
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Hannâd ibn 'Umar kisses the hand of Muhammad, pledging his aid and allegiance.
Abû Lahab and his followers hurl stones at Muhammad and Abû Bakr at the 'Ukâz Fair.
Abû Hishâm of Medina kisses the hand of the Prophet.
Nu'mân kisses the hand of Muhammad, embracing Islam.
'Abbâs, the servant of the brothers 'Utbah and Shaybah of the clan of 'Abd Shams, kisses the feet of Muhammad in recognition of his prophethood.
Abû Jahl begs Muhammad to heal him.
Muhammad dismounts before the house of Ayyûb al-Ansârî and puts his hand on the shoulder of the owner, who is overcome with emotion.
Hannâd ibn 'Umar and members of the Tamîm tribe seated before Muhammad.
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Siyar-i Nabî (Life of the Prophet)
Siyar-i Nabî = Life of the Prophet. Darîr Erzurumî (fl. 14th cent.) (Translator). Murad III, Sultan of the Turks (1546-1595) (Patron). 1003 [1594-1595]. Istanbul. The title is in Turkish and means 'Life of the Prophet' and describes the life of Muhammed. It was written in 1388 by Mustafa, son of Yusuf of Erzurum. This work became well-known for its copy, Ottoman manuscript that was created in the 16th century and it is "the largest single cycle of religious painting in Islamic art" and "the most complete visual portrayal of the life of the Prophet Muhammad" as Carol Garrett Fisher said. The copy was finished in 1595 by the famous calligrapher Lutfi Abdullah, and it contained 814 miniatures in six volumes. Muhammad is depicted in this manuscript many times and always shown with a veiled face usually in flames. The flame was used to indicate the sacred figures same as a halo in Eastern tradition. This collection includes the verses from Volume III, which were scanned by The New York Public Library. The New York Public Library comprises simultaneously a set of scholarly research collections and a network of community libraries, and its intellectual and cultural range is both global and local, while singularly attuned to New York City. That combination lends to the Library an extraordinary richness. It is special also in being historically a privately managed, nonprofit corporation with a public mission, operating with both private and public financing in a century-old, still evolving private-public partnership. Last year, over 16 million New Yorkers visited the library, and over 25 million used its website. The NYPL Digital Gallery provides free and open access to over 640,000 images digitized from the The New York Public Library's vast collections, including not just photographs but illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and more. Digital projects and partnerships at NYPL are managed by the Digital Experience Group, a 21-person team of programmers, designers, and producers dedicated to expanding and enhancing all points of computer and Web-mediated interaction with the library's collections, services and staff.
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Siyar-i Nabî or 'Life of the Prophet' is a manuscript of Muhammed's life and great cultural work of the Islamic art.
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The Slazenger boxing glove in perspex case sold for £580. It had been expected to achieve £100 to £150 when it went under the hammer at the Moore Allen & Innocent Sporting Sale in Cirencester on Friday (February 7).
Marciano – inspiration for the Rocky movies – met the Kray twins in 1965 during a trip to London with the Hollywood actor George Raft.
The stars were taken to Repton boxing club in the East End by the Krays, and Marciano dispensed advice to the amateur boxers.
Marciano fought 49 undefeated bouts from 1950 until his retirement in 1956. Forty three of his wins were knock-outs, and his undefeated run as Heavyweight Champion from 1952 until 1956 is the longest on record.
The boxing glove was one of a number of personal items Reggie Kray was allowed to keep in his cell on transfer to the low-security Wayland Prison in Norfolk. It was sold with a prison application form, seeking permission to 'hand out' the glove to a friend in 1999, a year before Kray's death.
Despite the interest in this piece of gangland / pugilistic memorabilia, the boxing glove didn't make the top price of the day, however. That honour was reserved for another gangster favourite – a double-barrelled shotgun.
The Wanless Brothers 16 bore shotgun, with side-by-side 27-inch barrels, achieved a winning bid of £1,100, while another shotgun – an AYA Coral over and under 12 bore shotgun with 28-inch barrels – sold for £600, and a Thomas Bland & Sons 'The Brent' 12 bore shotgun with 30-inch side-by-side barrels made £500.
In the paintings section, a shooting scene – an oil on canvas by William Thomas Such called Shooting Woodcock – achieved £900, while a hunting scene – The Earl of Lonsdale, featuring the aristocrat 'jumping 33 feet four inches' at Great Dalby with The Quorn of the Mullagh – sold for £600.
In the taxidermy section, a leopard skin rug with mounted head sold for £900 – three times the top end of its £200 to £300 estimate – while a stuffed and mounted fox in naturalistic setting with duck prey, by Hutchings of Aberystwyth, sold for £580. The stuffed and mounted head of a wild boar, meanwhile, made £420.
And in the fishing section, an Ari't Hart salmon/salt water fly fishing reel, with spare spool and clutch mechanism, landed a winning bid of £280, as did a circa 1912 Hardy Perfect four-and-a-half inch salmon fly wheel, and a Hardy CC de France 5ft 5ins split cane trout fly rod.
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The Best FIFA Matches Ever
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In the world of football, few other events command as much excitement as the FIFA-sponsored events. Every year, people look forward to the upcoming FIFA events and plan their travel arrangements around these tournaments. From regional World Cup qualifying events to the actual World Cup and everything else in between, people will do what they can to watch now and live in order to savor the atmosphere and feel the excitement that is intrinsic to every FIFA event.
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FIFABeachSoccer World Cup. Scheduled for September 2013 in beautiful Tahiti, the Beach Soccer World Cup is a dynamic and fast-paced event with a party-like atmosphere. It's a real Fender telecaster, what with the merrymaking and escapades expected to highlight the beach venue. In 2013,Russia will hope to sustain its run as one of the better beach soccer superpowers in the world.
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FIFA tournaments are the core of football and fans will do everything that they can to savor these events. With the World Cup less than 2 years to go, there is plenty of excitement over what is projected to be a party-atmosphere in Brazil. And given that promise, you can very well expect that even casual football fans will do what they can to take in the sights and sounds of Rio 2014. There are no words to describe what the atmosphere will be come kick-off time so plan ahead so you can enjoy it for yourself as it happens in one of the most beautiful cities in the world.
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Good ideas. I'd just add that I also give my 15 month old a baby fork. He loves trying to stab the steamed veggies. I'll put steamed veggies in front of him and help him stab them with his fork.


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Second Report on the National Biodiversity Strategy (NBS) (2013-2014) - Italian version (PDF)
Mid-term Review (2016) of the National Biodiversity Strategy (NBS) - English version (PDF)
Mid-term Review (2016) of the National Biodiversity Strategy (NBS) - Italian version (PDF)
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Italy is extremely rich in biodiversity; it has the highest number and density of both animal and plant species within the European Union, as well as a high rate of endemism. This rich biodiversity is in large part due to its range of biogeographic regions, which are the Alpine region, the Continental region and the Mediterranean region, providing differences in climate, topography and geology... More »
The outcome of the third national report on implementation of the Habitats Directive shows that anthropic threats are stable in number and trends, and are expected to stay this way in the short and medium terms.
In particular, impacts are generated by changes in ecosystems stemming from human activities (e.g... More »
Adopted in October 2010, the National Biodiversity Strategy (NBS) aims to merge and integrate biodiversity conservation targets and sustainable use of natural resources within sectoral policies, thereby implementing the vision of the Strategy which states: "Biodiversity and ecosystem services, our natural capital, are preserved, valued and, insofar as possible, restored for their intrinsic value so that they can continue to support economic prosperity and human well-being despite the profound changes that are taking place globally and locally"... More »
Implementation of the NBS is in line with EU policies dealing with biodiversity, and with the EU Biodiversity Strategy, whose targets are also consistent with the Aichi Biodiversity Targets. Hence, there is a good match between the three strategies.
Italy is strongly committed to the implementation of the Strategic Plan and is making significant progress to achieve all Aichi Biodiversity Targets, and encouraged by the following results:
• The governance system of the National Strategy for Biodiversity significantly contributes to mainstreaming, aiming to enhance a cross-cutting approach, widen opportunities and procedures for disseminating and communicating significant initiatives that are ongoing in Italy... More »
In Italy, legislation is the basis for many projects and actions for biodiversity conservation. The Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea was established in 1986 (Law 349). A Framework Law on Protected Areas (Law 394/91) and the Law for Sea Protection (Law 979/82), and respective subsequent amendments and integrations, comprise the main regulatory principles for terrestrial and marine protected areas in Italy... More »
The NBS will be implemented from 2011 to 2020, with a report issued every two years, dealing with progress made towards the achievement of strategic objectives and specific goals in the work areas. In 2015, a shared and in-depth assessment of the validity of the Strategy's approach was conducted, and in 2016 the midterm review of the NBS was approved (coherent with the midterm review of the European Biodiversity Strategy to 2020)... More »
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The fracture resistance of a CAD/CAM Resin Nano Ceramic (RNC) and a CAD ceramic at different thicknesses
C. Chen, F.Z. Trindade, N. de Jager, C.J. Kleverlaan, A.J. Feilzer
This study aimed to investigate the influence of restoration thickness to the fracture resistance of adhesively bonded Lava™ Ultimate CAD/CAM, a Resin Nano Ceramic (RNC), and IPS e.max CAD ceramic.
Polished Lava™ Ultimate CAD/CAM (Group L), sandblasted Lava™ Ultimate CAD/CAM (Group LS), and sandblasted IPS e.max CAD (Group ES) discs (n = 8, Ø = 10 mm) with a thickness of respectively 0.5 mm, 1.0 mm, 1.5 mm, 2.0 mm, and 3.0 mm were cemented to corresponding epoxy supporting discs, achieving a final thickness of 3.5 mm. All the 120 specimens were loaded with a universal testing machine at a crosshead speed of 1 mm/min. The load (N) at failure was recorded as fracture resistance. The stress distribution for 0.5 mm restorative discs of each group was analyzed by Finite Element Analysis (FEA). The results of facture resistances were analyzed by one-way ANOVA and regression.
For the same thickness of testing discs, the fracture resistance of Group L was always significantly lower than the other two groups. The 0.5 mm discs in Group L resulted in the lowest value of 1028 (112) N. There was no significant difference between Group LS and Group ES when the restoration thickness ranged between 1.0 mm and 2.0 mm. There was a linear relation between fracture resistance and restoration thickness in Group L (R = 0.621, P < 0.001) and in Group ES (R = 0.854, P < 0.001). FEA showed a compressive permanent damage in all groups.
The materials tested in this in vitro study with the thickness above 0.5 mm could afford the normal bite force. When Lava Ultimate CAD/CAM is used, sandblasting is suggested to get a better bonding.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dental.2014.05.018
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Chen, C., Trindade, F. Z., de Jager, N., Kleverlaan, C. J., & Feilzer, A. J. (2014). The fracture resistance of a CAD/CAM Resin Nano Ceramic (RNC) and a CAD ceramic at different thicknesses. Dental Materials, 30(9), 954-962. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dental.2014.05.018
Chen, C. ; Trindade, F.Z. ; de Jager, N. ; Kleverlaan, C.J. ; Feilzer, A.J. / The fracture resistance of a CAD/CAM Resin Nano Ceramic (RNC) and a CAD ceramic at different thicknesses. In: Dental Materials. 2014 ; Vol. 30, No. 9. pp. 954-962.
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That development assistance should be prioritized over military aid in the Sahel region of Africa
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I'd like to thank my opponent for engaging in this debate with me. I've been away from debating for a while and it's great to be back.
1. Why do we give foreign aid?
As a principle, I want to begin the debate by proposing that foreign aid is a way for us to help as many others as possible. In this sense, we should try to choose means which maximise positive ends in the Sahel region.
In particular, the Sahel has a number of serious issues which aid should be directed towards:
People are going hungry. It's hard to fix your problems when you don't have food.
Infrastructure is crumbling and people are too hungry to rebuild it.
The environment is suffering due to climate change and other factors, making it harder than ever to grow food.
People are fighting each other for political reasons, such as control of the food.
Somewhat like in other famished states like North Korea, the people are increasingly turning to drugs to alleviate the problem of hunger.
Their economies are fragile due to a lack of food security and poor infrastructure.
I'd also like to advance a few criteria by which positive ends might be measured. First and foremost, we should want to help the largest number of people. It would entirely defeat the purpose of any aid program if it allowed only a few warlords to live well by pointing guns at serfs throughout the region. By "helping" I refer to meeting a broad spectrum of human needs, including access to food and drinking water, as well as economic and social security, and to a lesser extent political freedoms, in that order. People shouldn't have to fear for their lives because they're starving, thirsty, penniless, caught up in a wild mob or persecuted unjustly by equally-hungry "politicians".
This is an actual photograph of what currently remains of the Sahel region.
2. Impact of development aid
In an environment that can be described as a real-life version of the Hunger Games, probably the most immediate forms of assistance to come to most people's minds are food, agricultural infrastructure, loans to small businesses to help people earn money and buy more food, and maybe even some other infrastructure such as healthcare to deal with the side effects of famine like disease. This type of assistance can be broadly termed "development aid" and that's what I'll be supporting in today's debate.
While of course we tend to view such impacts on a regional or national level, consider it from a more personal point of view. If you're a small family in Mali, you might have a few cattle and a little garden out the back of your hut. You're afraid because you're the only one in the household who works - you go to a factory in the city, but due to the poor economy, you don't really earn that much. Conditions are rough. Last year you developed a harsh cough but had to keep working anyway. Your lungs haven't felt the same since. But that's better than what many others are going through. Your colleagues are all just as screwed as you are. Your daughter can't go to school because you can't afford it, and you're afraid some of the hungry young hooligans roving around the countryside will abduct her. Your mother died last year, and your wife has to travel for miles each day to collect water.
Only a few years ago did you get electricity, and that was thanks to Power Africa, so development aid is realistic and achievable. You've heard China has been investing into a lot of aid around here recently as well, though it hasn't reached your village yet. If you could speak to the leaders of wealthier nations, you'd probably tell them that your family needs their help. You need the chance for fair wages and conditions. You need food to feed your family and medicine to help them. If people would only stop fighting about the food, perhaps you could save up and send your daughter to learn to read or count.
Families like this are especially important to consider because they're the vulnerable ones; they're the ones who've taken huge risks and done everything they can to provide for themselves and help others all their lives; they're the ones who need and deserve our support. Development aid helps them directly. It's a way for them to develop their farms, avoid starving to death, and ultimately become self-sufficient again. It's sustainable, with the caveat that many of the Sahel's problems were primarily caused by western nations in the first place (such as climate change), and therefore we have a certain responsibility to them at home as well.
What development assistance to Africa looks like
3. Guns shoo people away
In general, if somebody goes about ransacking places and shooting wildly, people tend to not want to get in their way. This is a good thing because guns can aid in the killing of people. In fact, guns are usually primarily designed to be lethal. They're not designed to help grow crops, nor to cure disease, nor to earn you money. They're not even primarily designed for security, although this can be a secondary benefit. However this security is only there because of fear; it doesn't actually help people live better lives. Furthermore, if the guns fall into the wrong hands, they can (and often do) have exactly the opposite effect, provoking unrest. This is what significantly helped the rise of Boko Haram in the region, an Islamist fundamentalist group whose core belief is that librarians must die. Bolstered in numbers by hungry young men looking for an excuse to pillage stuff, they helped cause a lot of the instability in the region.
Now, however, they are hardly a threat. Declaring war on Boko Haram at this point would scarcely be more effective than Kony 2012. Rather, many people decided they were fed up with the whole thing and go to Europe as economic refugees instead. Mixing in with people sick of war from the middle east, they demonstrated that people don't stick around for long in such conditions. All the hunger, poverty and violence was too much!
This is the consequence of what we might term military aid - pumping weapons into the area in the hopes that it will change anything. Unfortunately, history has proven many times that it won't. Almost every conflict in the past 50 years has come about from groups/factions/nations fighting with weapons acquired from a western country through military aid; often, these weapons have been turned against those countries themselves. This is because of a thing called the military-industrial complex, where some companies make money selling weapons, so they sell them everywhere and hope people use them all up in wars so they can sell them more (or play up how big a threat the other side is, so they can sell them all upgraded weapons).
This is all bad for the Sahel because it means people move out, making it harder for those remaining behind to help the vast Sahel area to recover. It devalues the country and drives those remaining to more extremes. Those who do leave take unimaginable risks, and many have already perished in the Sahara Desert or crossing the Mediterranean Sea. Even if they do make it, the fate of many refugees in Europe has left much to be desired. Furthermore, it inevitably punishes women and children, who are most likely to be left behind because of the dangers of the journey. Lacking infrastructure, they often cannot even receive money or gifts from family working overseas.
A better way of creating security is to deal with the challenges that cause insecurity directly. As I mentioned earlier, political insecurity follows food insecurity.
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Development assistance can help the Sahel region overcome it's most immediate and significant shortcomings. It concerns public goods or other resources that are readily accessible to all. Therefore it well meets the criteria of helping as many people in the area as possible, and giving them what they actually need. Unlike military aid, development assistance helps people work their way out of poverty, feeds their bellies and cures their diseases. This end totally justifies the means which I am proud to defend. At the very least, if we must choose between both forms of aid, priority should be given to peaceful and pragmatic solutions - development assistance - over violent and desperate ones.
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My opponent has listed several reasons why providing development assistance can be useful. He also lists several problems with military aid in the past. However, in this debate the winner must demonstrate how one type of aid would be more effective than the other given the current situation. I would like to provide several reasons why prioritizing food assistance over military aid in the Sahel region would be a mistake.
1. Warlords benefit from food assistance. According to one study [1], warlords tend to use hunger as a tool, seizing a fraction of food to feed their soldiers. If development assistance was provided, this might result in a surplus of food, but this surplus would be short-lived as warlords take food from those who need it. Combatants also often bribe aid workers or cut deals with them.
2. According to one article, Sahel suffers from a "power vacuum" [2]. Conflicts between regional powers ensure that there will be a general lack of stability unless there is a stable government. Even if the hunger crisis in Sahel were to be averted, this instability would still be an issue, likely to plunge the area back into food instability. While my opponent has stated that food instability causes political instability, one report found that the opposite can also be the case [3] With the power vacuum remaining, both food and political instability would likely return.
3. Despite the short-lived benefits of development assistance, as my opponent listed, such a plan is unlikely to be very effective in the long run. Areas tend to become dependent on foreign aid [4], making them less likely to spur the economy. This can inhibit development, progress, or reform.
While my opponent states that development aid is realistic and achievable, it is far less helpful in the long-term than one might think. As the Independent Commission for Aid Impact warns, "The Department for International Development's results system is not currently oriented towards measuring or reporting on long-term transformative change – that is, the contribution of UK aid to catalysing wider development processes, such as enhancing the ability of its partner countries to finance and lead their own development" [11].
Despite growing aid in Africa, growth has decreased [5].
Filling the Power Vacuum
I suggest that the most practical solution is thus to fill the power vacuum. My opponent says that "guns shoo people away" and claims that military interference would go down like Kony 2012. However, the reason the attempt to find Kony required so many resources was that it was a manhunt for a specific person. This is not what I suggest.
Contrary to my opponent's claim, military assistance has historically been an effective tool for achieving influence in remote areas [6]. The main drawback from military aid is that it results in less cooperation from the government aid is being given to, but this would not be an issue because the Sahel region is not run by a specific government. The main drawbacks from military aid occur when it is given to non-state armies, but troops could be sent rather than weapons, and cooperation would not be an issue. Therefore, while my opponent says that "pumping weapons into the area" is ineffective, this is not a full picture of optimal military aid. Rather than simply sending weapons to one group or another, troops could be sent from other countries, giving direct control of military efforts to the country providing the aid.
The military–industrial complex
My opponent says that the military-industrial complex would be an issue because companies would have an incentive to produce an excessive amount of weapons. However, he fails to show (a) why providing military aid would make this incentive any greater than it already is or (b) why the government would be unable to regulate the sale of weapons to foreign powers. Since the military-industrial complex is simply defined as institutions attempting to garner support for military action [7], it is unlikely that either of these would be the case. While the military-industrial complex might increase support for military aid in the Sahel region, it does not follow that an increase in aid would magnify the problems caused by this complex. Another problem with this objection is that the military-industrial complex could not even be a problem in certain countries. In France, for example, military-related enterprises are mostly run by the government.
Organized Control
Three countries in the Sahel have some of the twenty least stable governments [8]. Without organization, governments will have a hard time receiving any sort of development assistance. In one article concerning challenges with development aid, Navreet Kaur and Lhoukhokai Sitlhou found that one of the hardest issues with development assistance is good governance [9]. Poor governance can result in problems with allocation, which means that prioritizing development assistance over military aid would likely be much more chaotic than setting an organized framework beforehand. The clearest way to do this is using military control.
Maintaining organized control in the Sahel has also been an effective system for cooperating governments as of February 2008 [10]. As one UN representative noted, increased regional ownership and security has caused great optimism for the future of Sahel. Given this effective system, it seems imperative that governments continue to prioritize these kinds of long-term solutions.
Lack of enforcement and organization creates difficulty dealing with terrorists [12].
I think it follows, then, that we should prioritize military aid over development assistance for several reasons. First, sending food (a form of development assistance) can backfire without sending in a military since foreign governments will be powerless to stop warlords from taking the food for their armies. Second, as long as a power vacuum remains, conflict will chip away at even an enormous amount of development assistance. This power vacuum must be solved in the form of military aid. Third, development assistance is inferior to military aid because it causes dependence, which won't help foreign countries in the long run. While there is a time and place for development assistance, the Sahel region is in no position for an aid package which prioritizes this over military action. I agree with the many benefits my opponent has listed of having enough food, such as time for going to school. However, military aid is essential to allow countries to become stable enough to eventually experience these benefits.
1. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.680.2958&rep=rep1&type=pdf
2. https://www.diis.dk/en/research/europe-must-play-a-part-in-filling-the-power-vacuum-in-the-sahel
3. https://apcss.org/Publications/Report_Food_Security_98.html
4. https://www.twigh.org/twigh-blog-archives/2015/7/31/aid-dependency-the-damage-of-donation
5. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/10/does-foreign-aid-always-help-the-poor/
6. https://scholars.org/brief/military-aid-effective-tool-us-foreign-policy
7. https://www.britannica.com/topic/military-industrial-complex
8. https://ceoworld.biz/2016/08/10/worlds-20-least-stable-countries-2016/
9. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0019556117699731
10. https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/frontpage/2018/February/sahel_-governments-achieve-positive-results-with-un-support.html
11. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/02/20/foreign-aid-risks-making-third-world-countries-dependent-handouts/
12. http://www.oafrica.com/ict-policy/online-terrorist-activity-a-growing-concern-in-sahel-region/
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Q: Difference between had been and went to What is the difference between had been and went to?
When can I use—

I had been to that temple.

And when can I use—

I went to that temple.

A: You can say both but when you say "I went" is in simple past and this tense refers when an action happened in the past and finishes in the past. The past perfect is "I had been" and it refers to an action that takes place before a certain time in the past, example: Before I came here, I had spoken to Manuel.
On the other hand, I would put "I had been in that temple".

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Ryan Babel has claimed be regrets the decision to exit Liverpool when he did.
Rafa Benitez bought Babel as an exciting young winger in 2007, the same year Fernando Torres arrived at Anfield.
During his first season, Babel made 49 appearances and scored ten goals – which is pretty decent for a youngster in a new league.
However, between 2008 and 2010, the next two seasons, he only managed ten more goals in total, and his role in Benitez's side became a bit-part one.
Always outspoken, Babel has made plenty of comments about how he was treated unfairly in the past, but he now seems to have a far more matter of fact feeling about the situation.
After leaving Anfield, the Dutchman endured a tricky time in his career, actually playing an entire season in the UAE when he was 28 and supposedly at his peak!
But he's now at Fulham, begrudgingly scoring a goal against Liverpool last weekend!
Thankfully, James Milner's penalty saw us collect the three points at Craven Cottage, as missing out on the title due to a Virgil van Dijk mistake and a Babel tap-in would have been brutal.
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Liverpool also have Gini Wijnaldum on the books right now, so have a strong Dutch contingent running through the team.
Dirk Kuyt is probably our most legendary Netherlands player, although van Dijk is on the road to surpass him – and some.
Less successfully, Bolo Zenden was an Anfield regular in the Benitez era, although he did play in a Champions League Final. We've also had Jan Kromkamp, Sander Westerveld and Erik Meijer – with youngster Ki-Jana Hoever making his debut this season to boot!


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When corsets are worn as a method of waist-training and figure shaping (plus weight reduction if you want it), obviously pursuit of reasonably good nutrition and exercise is in order as well.
Here's an interesting University of Dehli (India) study of cinnamon with some significance to corset waist-trainees. It was published in the international journal, 'Lipids in Health and Disease'.
The trial involved 116 men and women having conditions such as abdominal obesity, impaired glucose tolerance, high triglycerides and hypertension. After consuming 3gm of cinnamon powder per day for 16 weeks, the average weight reduction was from 89kg to 85kg in the cinnamon group, while it was from 82kg to 81kg in the control group that was not given cinnamon. Along with dietary intervention, people in the trial were also prescribed brisk walking for 45 minutes every day. Researchers said consuming cinnamon along with dietary changes and physical exercise decreased fasting blood glucose, glycosylated haemoglobin, waist circumference, and body mass index. It also improved waist-hip ratio, blood pressure, serum total cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, serum triglycerides, and beneficial high-density lipoprotein cholesterol.
Three grams is 1/6th of a teaspoon, so it isn't really that much to add to your food each day for 16 weeks. Whenever I eat grapenuts with rainsin and yohurt for breakfast, I nearly always sprinkle on cinnamon, as well as in hot oatmeal. You can sprinkle it on buttered sour dough toast (I like because there is no sugar in sour dough) and it gives a pleasant sweet sensation. Add it to soups, chili, meat rubs for pork or chicken, a dash in honey lemon salad dressing, on top of popcorn you first sprinkle with fresh lemon juice—there are myriad ways to eat more cinnamon.
But…just say "no" to cinnamon sugar buns, cinnamon ice cream and cinnamon candies! Sugar does one no good that I've been able to determine, especially when waist training.
I can't think of anyone who doesn't like cinnamon (I'm sure there are some), point being, it can be quite a treat for most of us to remember to up cinnamon intake during dedicated corset waist training!


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Jeremy Renner in critical but stable condition after snowplow accident
Posted on January 2, 2023 by Scott Jones
Jeremy Renner He is in critical but stable condition after a weather related accident.
"We can confirm that Jeremy is in critical but stable condition with injuries sustained after he was involved in a weather related accident while shoveling snow today," Renner's representative confirmed. "His family is with him and he is receiving excellent care."
The location of the crash was not confirmed, but Renner has owned a home in Washoe County, Nevada, for several years, according to the Reno Gazette Journal. That area in northern Nevada received heavy snowfall on Near Year's Eve, according to the newspaper.
In 2015, Renner published a instagram photo of a snowcat vehicle, used to navigate snowy terrain in difficult conditions.
In 2017, the actor revealed who broke his right elbow and left wrist while filming the comedy "Tag."
Renner has starred in multiple Marvel projects as Clint Barton/Hawkeye since the 2011 film "Thor." In addition to being an Avenger, Renner has starred in numerous critical and commercial successes, including two "Mission: Impossible" films, "Arrival," "American Hustle," and "28 Weeks Later." He has also been nominated for two Oscars, including a supporting nomination for "The Town" and a best actor nomination for his work in "The Hurt Locker."
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Michigan and Villanova are set to square off for the title, with the Wildcats installed as a 6.5-point favorite. Per our models, which team is the better bet to cover the spread?
The National Championship matchup is set -- with the Big East's Villanova Wildcats facing off against the Michigan Wolverines out of the Big Ten. Both teams have reached this point with impressive winning streaks dating back to the regular season, but only one can extended their streak and cut down the nets on Monday.
Villanova has looked especially impressive in the tournament, but this team has been on fire for essentially the entire season. The Wildcats lead the nation in scoring average and offensive rating, while ranking 5th in field goal percentage and 11th in three point shooting percentage. Offensively, they are so tough to guard because they can spread the floor with all five players when Omari Spellman is on the court -- allowing them to get into an empty paint and dish it out to open shooters once the defense collapses.
On Saturday against Kansas, VIllanova put on a clinic -- setting a record for most threes in a Final Four game (18) and eclipsing the record for most three pointers made in a season with 454. Although they are lethal from three, VIllanova is not just a three-point shooting team that can be doomed if they're run off the three-point line, because they actually shoot relatively better inside the arc -- ranking third in the nation at 59 percent on two-pointers.
The Wildcats do not just rely on bludgeoning opponents on the offensive end -- ranking 14th in Kenpom's adjusted defensive efficiency. They have stepped up their efforts of late, holding opponents to 61 points or less three times in their last five games and allowing just 0.97 points per possession in that span, a mark which pales in comparison to the 1.23 points per possession 'Nova has averaged offensively during that same stretch.
Now the Wildcats face a Michigan team that ranks third in defense, per Kenpom, and is riding a 14-game winning streak that spans the last two months. The Wolverines have flexed their defensive muscle in the tournament -- allowing 58.6 points per game, which is 4.0 points below their season-long average that already ranks eighth in the nation.
While Michigan is not a dynamic offensive team, they have several guys who can take over a game and look unstoppable, which is the way that big man Moritz Wagner looked against Loyola Chicago. In the semifinal win over the Ramblers, Wagner dropped an efficient 24 points on 10-for-16 shooting and corralled a career-best 15 rebounds. Every game in the Big Dance, somebody different has taken over the workload offensively -- whether it be Charles Matthews against Montana and Florida State or Muhammad-Ali Abdur Rahkman against Texas A&M (although the whole team was on fire in the first half of that one), this Michigan team has guys who are capable of filling it up.
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Dynamic pricing firm Broker Genius has appointed Paulo Kaiser at its first president as it focuses on growth and product development.
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New humanitarian snapshot highlights worsening food insecurity and water shortages in Ethiopia
Pocket areas that received inadequate seasonal rainfall in 2014 and/or had a poor harvest due to flooding or crop disease will remain vulnerable in early 2015. Released on 18 February, the nutrition hotspot classification for the first quarter of 2015 identified 338 nutrition hotspot woredas for priority intervention. The classification team also identified woredas that require emergency WaSH intervention.
Food insecurity is worsening in belg/gu/ganna/sugum rain-receiving areas, as the dry season reaches its peak. The belg (mid-February-May) rains are delayed, while the gu/ganna/sugum rains in the lowlands of Afar, Oromia and Somali regions are expected in mid-March. Delayed rains and the expected below-average seasonal rainfall performance will impact belg planting, as well as water and pasture availability in pastoralist areas.
Ethiopia hosts the largest refugee population in Africa
656,199 registered refugees in Ethiopia
251,545 South Sudanese refugees
196,000 new arrivals in Gambella since mid-December 2013.
UNHCR and partners continue to respond to the sudden spike in Eritrean refugees, who are the fastest growing refugee population in the country since October 2014. Even though nearly 125,000 Eritreans are registered as refugees, the actual refugee population is believed to be a third of that figure as a result of secondary movements.
33,000 new Eritrean arrivals registered in 2014 (including unaccompanied minors)
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs: To learn more about OCHA's activities, please visit https://www.unocha.org/.
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