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Casey McCurry on Sunset Hearts, digital music and more
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Casey McCurry is as smart and sensitive as he is talented, and I have always liked him a great deal. That his band, Sunset Hearts, is one of my favorite local bands doesn't hurt this perception. He also appeared in the Westbrook episode of Food Coma TV, the web series I produced last year.
Sunset Hearts has been existence for a number of years now, and this winter they went through a shakeup in their lineup. I chatted with McCurry about the new lineup, their upcoming EP—or album, depending on how he is feeling at any given moment—pop irony, the cool people at record stores, and the way the Internet continues to make an impact on the way we listen to music.
You opened for Passion Pit at the State Theater last year. How did that come about?
[State Theater General Manager] Lauren [Wayne] asked us. The angel came down and plucked us from the gutter. It was great for us, it was a great push into the release of our EP that came out then. It was before the darkness. We lost three people in the past six months, two of which we have replaced. It has been a very dark time.
Is that an amicable thing?
Yeah. There were some extenuating circumstances, but for the most part it was amicable. There wasn't a blow up or anything like that. Matt, Mike and Kaye left. We picked up Kate Beever. We are really, really excited.
Oh! I went to high school with Kate. She's amazing. I remember a handful of years ago coming to the Old Port Festival and seeing what I seem to remember being Jacob and the House of Fire's first show, and everyone was wearing their black getup and the drummer had a shirt that read "Hang CEOs" or something awesome like that, and Kate had on a North Face jacket and pretty, dangly earrings or something. She is so incredibly talented and hasn't a care about image. I really like that. I envy that.
She is really fun. We try to keep it as light as we can even though the content of our songs is so dark. She is a great fit and she is extremely talented. It is exciting. And we just added Erik Tasker and he's great too.
Beyond working with new band members, what are you all up to now?
Right now we are trying to finish up an EP that keeps kind of begging us to be an album, so we're working on what will probably be five or six songs, but it keeps tugging us in the direction of a full album. It seems like it might be an album now.
So how does that happen? You come up with the songs that you think are going to end up as an EP, but then new songs keep coming up that might otherwise fit somewhere else, but they have some sort of aesthetic match to what has been written for the album?
The biggest thing really is that I will quote unquote finish a song, drive around and listen to it for a little while, and then decide whether or not I will want for the band to record it and put their stamp on it and everything. But now with the way that digital storage works and with the ability to have every demo I have ever recorded on me at all times, it is almost a hindrance. There are all of these dispatches from my life a year ago or two years ago. So it is really a matter of deciding what I want to roll with at that time. It is strange to think of music as a product like that, to look at the various dimensions of what the song look like and to see it in its complexity, but you really kind of do have to treat it like a prototype when working out what songs are going to make it on the album.
That process seems somewhat daunting, in that it sounds like you could be listening songs that came from points in your life from three years ago.
Or ten years ago.
Exactly. I was talking with a guy who is editing a book about this time in his life when he was addicted to drugs, and this process for him of writing, then editing, then dealing with publicity, it provides all of these occasions for him to revisit this incredibly painful time in his life. I assume that songwriting can be this incredibly emotionally reflective process, so do you find yourself revisiting periods.
It's Hellish in a way. It can be brutal. I hermit out, do much of it by myself, and Robert Smith it by getting super introspective. I have excised lyrics because I don't want to sing them all the time. It sounds cheesy to say, but some memories are too powerful to bring up all the time, especially when you are in a working band and you are playing all the time. You don't want to have to exorcise demons every time you are in front of a microphone, so I can relate. Spontaneity isn't a big part of my process, so it is a contestant revisitation of traumatic stuff. It might not be traumatic relative to some of the things people have gone through, but it is still really real compared to what some people have gone through but it is still really real. It is a big thought process.
I never thought it would be like that growing up. I thought that you just write a song that someone wants to hear. I guess growing up in the 90s, I thought that irony was a big part of what I thought music should be. At a certain point, I discovered the Beach Boys and Sonic Youth didn't seem quite as palpable. Irony should be quashed, I think.
One of the most substantial thematic elements on David Foster Wallace's body of work then, both implicit and explicit, was about a fight against irony, which he considered to be a plague for the generations that embraced it. And then irony as a default outlooks seems to have withered compared to what it once was, and we live in a very self-referential time, but no longer in one that embraces irony as militantly as we did 5 years ago and beyond. There was this daunting decade, decade and a half where irony was the default setting, then a half decade or so where that was questioned, and now there is this post-ironic atmosphere that we are figuring out today. I had never thought about the fact that there were artists who learned how to be artists, what they imagined art to look like, in the ironic period who would then have to go on to exist in the post irony era.
Any time I have gotten really invested in what I am saying, people will say, "That's so retro," or "That's so eighties." And that is always puzzling to me, because that's not what it is about for me. It is sad to me, I guess, that you can't sound sincere today unless you are doing Americana, because that, to me, is the most emotionally detached, ironic stuff I can think of.
It's strange to me that there is this constant push-pull between irony and sincerity because there appears to be very little in-between. Bands will commit one way or another. I guess it seems strange to me that now that music is so open and wide and anybody can get anything at any time, bands have become even more pigeonholed in the way that people listen to music.
When I was a kid in the 90s you had a certain amount of cash from an allowance or paper route or whatever, and you were hoping the older guys at the record store would help you get something you would genuinely enjoy. If you didn't enjoy it, you had to sit with it for at least a week or two until you could get something else. I remember when I heard the Smiths for the first time, I absolutely hated it but I had to sit and listen to it for two weeks and by that time, they had become my favorite thing of all time. Kids these days will hear a name, download a discography, and if they don't like it after a couple songs, they will delete the entire discography. I think that's part of the reason bands have to be so polarizing these days. There is no room for growth and rapport with fans when you only have 15 seconds to form that relationship.
So it is a situation where the same mechanisms and reality that make it possible to listen to anything at any time also make standard a situation in which the listener is no longer put into a situation where they have to form a relationship with the art. I haven't spent much time thinking about the relationship between the listener and the media, but you make an interesting point. I went to the Windham Bullmoose the other day and I bought two CDs, the new Devandra Banhart and an album by Uncle Acid and The Deadbeats, and I bought it from the staff picks section. The young woman there was so excited that I had bought one of her picks, and I explained, "Well, I got old and I have a child, so I am back to outsourcing my taste to people who have the time to form it." It brought me back to when I was a kid and someone at the Windham Bullmoose turned me on to Mr. Bungle and Dr. Octagon. I suppose we have plenty of opportunities to have good music suggested to us, but then we have to be willing or, as you have described it, sort of forced into spending time with it until we can really examine how we feel about it.
I remember going into Bullmoose when I was 13 and I was under the impression that I really liked White Zombie and I went in and told someone that and asked him to show me where it was. The guy took me aside and sold me Daydream Nation that day. It is that interaction that is missing on the iTunes store and Pitchfork too.
Any departing words?
It has been a dark, daunting winter. I am ready to move into a bright summer.
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Mantharta is a partly extinct dialect cluster spoken in the southern Pilbara region of Western Australia. There were four varieties, which were distinct but largely mutually intelligible. The four were:

 Tharrgari (Tharrkari, Dhargari), still spoken c. 2005
 Warriyangka (Wadiwangga), still spoken c. 1973
 Thiin (Thiinma), still spoken c. 2021
 Jiwarli (Tjiwarli), extinct by 2004

The name mantharta comes from the word for "man" in all four varieties.

Language revival
, the Warriyangga dialect is one of 20 languages prioritised as part of the Priority Languages Support Project, being undertaken by First Languages Australia and funded by the Department of Communications and the Arts. The project aims to "identify and document critically-endangered languages — those languages for which little or no documentation exists, where no recordings have previously been made, but where there are living speakers".

References

Extinct languages of Western Australia

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Thatcher's lessons for social democrats
Thatcher utilised three emergent themes: globalisation, social liberalism and the reconfiguration of class structure. She used the spirits of the age to drive her own key project - unfettered markets. There is plenty the left could learn here.
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The term 'Thatcherism' was first coined by Stuart Hall in his seminal 1979 essay, 'The Great Moving Right Show'. At that time, it was the Eurocommunist intellectuals grouped around the magazine Marxism Today – Hall, Eric Hobsbawm and kindred spirits like Andrew Gamble – who first grasped the historical significance of the Thatcher project and the radicalism of the New Right. Only later did the Labour party and its thinkers catch up with their analysis. Marxism Today saw Thatcherism for what it was: a deeply ideological, transformative political project that would reshape the post-war economic and political settlement in Britain.
As the '80s wore on, Marxism Today began to locate Thatcherism within its wider historical context. Men make history, as Marx said, but not in circumstances of their own choosing, and as the smoke cleared from the battlefields of the class struggle in Orgreave and Wapping, the deeper social-economic forces underlying Thatcher's success became more visible.
The first of these was the recomposition of the class structure itself. The wave of industrial militancy that swept western Europe in the late 1960s and '70s had given way to the defeat and decline of the organised working class by the mid-1980s: forcibly broken by state power in the UK, diminished by technological change and progressive deindustrialisation elsewhere. Thatcher harnessed the rising forces of the service economy and the financial sector in London and southern England, growing the middle class and leaving her opponents to defend the crumbling bastions of the Labour movement in its northern, Welsh and Scottish heartlands. She gave a direct material stake in her project – homeownership, shares and rising real wages – to the skilled working class and professional middle class. At the same time, the manual working class was dispersed into low-skilled service sector employment or mass unemployment and inactivity, holding onto good unionised jobs where it could in the public sector and in those parts of industry that had survived the purge.
The second was the beginning of a new wave of globalisation, precipitated by Deng Xiaoping's decision to open up the Chinese economy in the late 1970s. Of all the late 20th century's political leaders, it is Deng who can lay claim to world historical importance, in the Hegelian sense. Gorbachev presided over the death of the Soviet Union, Deng the rebirth of China. As the Chinese embraced a market-oriented but state-led development strategy, low-cost manufacturing began to shift east, new regional blocs like the EU started to consolidate, and the architecture of the new global economy began to emerge. By the end of the Thatcher decade, China had been joined by most of the former Soviet bloc and (more fitfully) by India. Thatcher only faintly grasped the significance of these processes, viewing them through the lens of the Cold War and a revanchiste Britishness, but they served two enormously important goals for her: they rendered obsolete national economic planning of the kind that marked much of the post-war era, and they made it impossible to think of state ownership of leading business sectors as a viable modern economic strategy. To be sure, there was an alternative to her project, but it was the patient social democracy practised in much of northern Europe, not socialism. No matter – in the 1970s and early '80s the British Labour party had proved itself incapable of offering either.
The third force was social liberalism. The new social movements of the 1960s – feminism, environmentalism and gay liberation – continued to advance their claims in the 1970s and '80s. Thatcher's social conservatism set her against these movements, but their influence was profound and their progress unstoppable. She rejected their claims for identity recognition, but their critiques of bureaucracy and patriarchal collectivism ran alongside her own attempts to demolish the institutional structures of post-war Britain, and those of the Labour movement in particular. Freedom and the demand for autonomy filtered through many different social and cultural channels in the 1980s and gave the Thatcher era a liberating energy that she drew upon, even while she resisted the political demands of feminists and gay activists (and worse, legislated for intolerance and bigotry). By the turn of the century, social liberalism had become mainstream, even if the goals of the new social movements were still far from being realised.
Thatcher's genius was to harness these forces towards her own ends. As Ed Miliband said in his well-judged tribute, she defined her age. Her politics were as intellectually rampant and culturally expansive as they were socially conservative and politically divisive. In its earliest phases, the New Right generated a stream of new ideas, coalescing around key intellectual figures and spawning new thinktanks. By the end of the 1980s, these ideas had been given material form in privatised industries, owner-occupiers, and brash new cultural icons. (Although it is very noticeable that Thatcherism left few visible landmarks in the built environment, besides Canary Wharf, out-of-town malls and a clutch of Po-Mo buildings – hers was not an investment economy.)
No such dynamism exists on the British right today. Self-imposed austerity and the failure of 'expansionary contraction' has left the chancellor with little room for 'giving' sections of the British people any stake in his economic agenda: there are no state assets left to sell and no North Sea oil to fall back on. Financial services are contracting, but the export sectors are not expanding. Private sector employment is rising but real wages are still falling. The housing market outside London is stuck, leaving an older group of voters sitting on their asset wealth while their children and grandchildren stick it out in the private rented sector. A stagnant economy produces none of the material grounds that underpinned the political dynamism of the Thatcher era. Meanwhile, creeping climate denial cuts the right off from environmental entrepreneurs and denies them purchase on the single most important transformational task facing the British economy, that of moving to a low-carbon future.
Thatcher's self-avowed heirs grope for techno-libertarianism or Hayekian creative destruction as a solution to this impasse. But another dose of free market economics is a political dead-end, and the message doesn't travel far beyond the pages of the Spectator or the astroturf organisations of the campaigning right. Consequently, right-wing commentators are forced back on public service and welfare reform to assert their radical credentials. Here they stand on firmer political ground, given Labour's current defensiveness on these issues, but this is hardly the bridgehead to a hegemonic blue future. A few more nudge seminars in Downing Street are not the stuff of an intellectual revolution.
What about the underlying forces? A post-crash economic agenda that can pull Britain out of its current malaise will mean a more managed capitalism – if not state planned – with structural reforms aimed at generating investment-led, regionally balanced growth. This is natural territory for modern social democracy. So too is the ageing society, which demands a productivist approach to the welfare state, investing in those things that will support full employment, such as caring services and human capital formation. The crisis of living standards – now acutely visible – spurs attention to the distribution of power in the economy, its productive potential and its balance of rewards. Again, these are all areas in which progressive answers have most purchase. The most fertile thinking stems from academic disciplines that are being reconfigured after the crash: new economic thinking that rejects the neoclassical assumptions; political theory that concerns itself with power, relationships and social connectedness; state theory that is moving out of the confines of new public management; the leading edge of key social sciences, like network theory. None of this is orthodox left thinking, but little if any of it is coming from the right.
Such intellectual ferment should give grounds of optimism to progressive forces. Just as Thatcher harnessed New Right thinking in the late 1970s and infused her project with its dynamism, so today the centre-left and wider progressive movements must generate an energy which gives free rein to these intellectual and political currents. Transformative political programmes are always high energy. They require greater risk-taking, political openness and freedom of debate than is currently evident in Labour party politics.
This article first appeared at IPPR, cross-posted with thanks
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Are you often late in your appointments? How about going to school? Are you late in reporting for work? Submitting reports and deadlines?
You are not alone my friend! There are times I feel that I would like to extend my sleep time. I really don't want to get up yet. I'm dragging myself out of bed. Until I become often late in going for work. And it is costing me a lot, financially, morally.
I know that being late is an exception and not the rule, and not the other way around. I have been having problems with punctuality nowadays and I am to blame.
Getting late has its costs. My transportation cost becomes higher because when I am really tight with time, I get to ride a taxi cab instead of the usual public transportation. The expense becomes double or triple.
Lateness also is a source of stress. I get to rush things up and it is really stressful when you are competing with time.
Being late is a morale bummer. You get apologetic when you are late. You feel ashamed that you disrespected other people's time as well.
Lateness will cost you a deal, a client. When you have an appointment and you are late, it will create a bad impression on you. Time is very precious. If you are into business and you are having an appointment with a potential client or investor, getting late is a deal breaker. It will ruin your composure and will get in the way of getting ahead of your business endeavors.
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Sleep early and sleep well. Getting prompt into the days appointments is not just about getting up early but hitting the bed early and getting a good night rest during the night.
Give yourself time allowance to allow unforeseen circumstances to hinder you from getting on time. There are things that are beyond our control like, traffic, accidents. If you give yourself a cushion then you can still be prompt in spite of the circumstances that is happening around you.
Commit to be on time. If you are committed to be on time, you will have not problem getting late.
Use your timer or alarm clock. You need that ringing bell for you to get up especially it is a new time schedule. However, there are times that you don't need it anymore if your rising time is already "programmed" in your body clock because you are already get used to your waking schedule.
There you have it friends. Be on time always and avoid the cost of being late!


Did you know it takes an average of 191 days for a company to realize there's been a data breach? That's according to a high-profile study conducted by the Ponemon Institute for IBM Security. This slow response is detrimental to business. It especially puts small businesses in a vulnerable position as many of them do not have the resources to deal with cyber attacks.
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Once upon a time, meeting halls and ballrooms were the most obvious locations for wedding receptions. Not anymore.
Today's non-traditional wedding venues often have a deeper meaning. This contributes toward making your wedding memories even more special.
Any area with a large enough space is a contender, so think creatively. As a bonus, these venues are often cheaper than the traditional alternatives. But not always.
Many times, they will require extras that the all-inclusive locations do not. For that reason, it's important to include all expenses when comparing costs.
Also, if yours is a location that does not usually host catered events, do an informal walkthrough as part of the planning process.
Mentally go through the steps of setting up for the reception and focus on the services you need for each stage. Check for adequate electrical outlets, sinks with water, refrigeration, etc.
Now that you're prepared to compare, what are your different options?
Your wedding is one of the most personal events in your life as a couple. Infuse it with even more meaning by choosing a location with special significance.
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Also, consider renting a privately-owned location. Sometimes the owner may already do this.
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Each host will explain their arrangements in the listing.
What better way to highlight your hobby than having the reception at a related location.
Nature has crafted some of the most interesting places to have a wedding. Here are some considerations.
Certain businesses can provide an interesting backdrop for a wedding. Some will welcome the extra business related to a private event.
City, county, or federal facilities are often able to rent out space for private events. Explore these possibilities.
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I am getting married March 2015 and we will be having our ceremony/reception at the Hall of Flame Firefighter Museum in Phoenox. My fiancee was a firefighter/paramedic for almost 20 yrs. The whole theme is firefighter/paramedic.
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China Unicom, the Chinese network, has had the iPhone officially for a few weeks, but has only managed to shift five through an online retailer.
The network opened a portal on online e-tailer Taobao.com to shift more units of the new device (well, new to the network) and then found that only five were sold in two weeks.
At least an overwhelming majority of consumers went for the more expensive choice, with three (that's 60 per cent) heading for the 16GB option, with a mere two (40 per cent) plumping for the 8GB version.
Apparently PC World is stating that the network only has sold 5,000 iPhones in the few weeks, with a number of reasons for the low sales.
Firstly, despite only just getting its 'own' iPhone, China has been one of the biggest markets for the device on import and grey market trading.
Couple that with the fact that the Chinese version is stripped down, with no Wi-Fi, and also costs 25 per cent more than one purchased from abroad, and you can see why sales might be down.


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The consortium used $5,000 in grant money from the Department of Education for the conference, UNC said in April. It came from a four-year, $235,000-per-year grant to the consortium that is part of the agency's international and foreign language education grants.
UNC said on June 18 that a review of the expenditures found it spent less than $200 of grant funds on the event, despite originally budgeting $5,000.
In her letter, DeVos said the funds must be used to support "activities that 'reflect the diverse perspectives and a wide range of views and generate debate on world regions and international affairs.'"
"It is critical that recipients of grants use funds in accordance with statutory and regulatory requirements, as well as for purposes of the program for which they are funded," DeVos wrote.
In a statement, UNC said that it would work with federal department.
"UNC-Chapel Hill will continue to work with the U.S. Department of Education to directly answer any questions about the Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies."
The conference featured a performance by Palestinian rapper Tamer Nafar of the hip-hop group DAM. Edited clips of Nafar signing his song, "Mama, I Fell in Love with a Jew" were posted online by filmmaker and activist Ami Horowitz. The song tells the story of a Palestinian man and a female Israeli soldier who meet on an elevator. The video ends with their families fighting at a wedding.
Holding thanked DeVos for "treating this matter with the seriousness and attention it deserves."
"I hope we can all agree that taxpayer dollars should never be used to fund overtly biased advocacy under the guise of academic discourse," Holding said in a statement.
UNC Global issued a statement about the performance in April. "Many members of our community, including Interim Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz, are heartbroken and offended by a musical performance during the three-day "Conflict over Gaza" conference held at UNC-Chapel Hill in March and included in a recent video shared on social media," it said.
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The overall aim of this project is to use Earth Observation (EO) data in a GIS framework to develop new approaches to quantifying Natural Capital (NC) at farm and landscape scales. Having quantified NC the project will use a variety of approaches to engage with the relevant stakeholders to develop management plans that maintain and enhance existing NC. Effective monitoring methods using EO data will also be developed to provide timely feedback on management interventions'
Applicants should have a master's degree in geography, ecology, environmental science or computing.
The PhD is a collaborative research project between Lancaster University, the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology and Land Use Consultants Ltd (LUC). LUC is an award-winning environmental consultancy providing planning, impact assessment, landscape design and ecology consultancy with expertise across a broad cross-section of environmental disciplines to a wide range of public and private sector clients.
With a track record of over 50 years and a team of over 125 skilled professionals, they bring a passion for the environment and a determination to achieve sustainable development on behalf of our clients. The business has offices in London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester and Lancaster.
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• Have your postgraduate tuition fees paid for by your partner business, worth c£4,195/year (fees for Non EU/UK graduates are subsidised from £17,510/year to £13,315/year.) See university website for published rates by year of entry)
• Become part of a cohort of graduates working with an award-winning team on business-led R&D
• Finish in a strong position to enter a competitive job market in the UK and overseas.
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At the heart of the Centre are people who are researching, developing and innovating to address global challenges, including energy, water, natural capital, resource efficiency, food, and waste, to deliver economic, social and environmental benefits. Launched in 2012 the Centre and has won two national awards for its ground breaking approach to sustainable R&D and knowledge exchange.
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The benefits of a species appropriate diet are numerous and not only encompass the physical, but, also the emotional, behavioral, psychological, sexual and even spiritual aspects of life. Just like the contagious attitude, we are what we eat, so, have a good outlook and eat good food!
Let's Get Real – pragmatically, feeding a diet with few ingredients allows you to carefully control what your pets are eating.
The variations for taste preferences, special diet needs, seasonal and regional availability of ingredients is easily regulated when you're monitoring a handful of food items at a time.
From the cost-effectiveness aspect, there are several benefits. Firstly, there are advantages to purchasing materials when costs are low and availability is plentiful. Secondly, buying the raw ingredients means you will not pay top dollar for marketing, research and development and various hidden costs. What you will pay for is high quality proteins and ingredients that are nutritious and fresh. Additionally, you will not have to pay top dollar for harmful, rancid, poisonous ingredients!
What should you expect when you change your pet's diet to species appropriate food?
From a health aspect, the benefits are amazing. See, feel, and smell the improvements occurring right before your eyes! First, you'll see an improvement in energy. An overweight couch-potato dog or cat will regain his youthful figure, be able to jump higher and play with vigor. The eyes are brighter, the coat is radiantly glossy, soft and dandruff-free. The hyperactive pet will become calmer.
Allergies abate when you feed your dog or cat the right, whole foods diet.
Allergies will be a thing of the past. Chronic ear and eye discharges are much improved or entirely absent. The constant foot licking and the chronic eczema will abate or disappear.
Dogs and cats eating the best diet for their species experience improvements in digestion and joint health.
Endless digestive upsets from rumbling gut, loose stools, pancreatitis, bloat and inflammatory bowel disease are frequently helped or eliminated with a species appropriate diet. The stools are smaller, less smelly and less frequent – therefore less to clean up! The animals with bad breath are now kissable and have tartar free teeth. The living room full of noxious methane gas is not contributing to climate warming and sleeping with your companion doesn't require a gas mask. Appetites improve for pets with poor appetites, ravenous appetites are satiated easier.
Because you are feeding natural sources of joint supportive nutrients, getting older doesn't necessarily mean getting stiffer.
Many metabolic diseases, including diabetes, can be prevented or improved on when feeding your pets a true carnivore diet.
The diet low in carbohydrates saves the pancreas from constantly producing insulin until it is depleted. Insulin resistance doesn't occur because the cells are not soaking in a sugar solution from the high-carbo diet. A dog or cat with diabetes does not need more sugar in it's diet, it needs more protein and fat.
Your dog or cat is naturally more repellant to invasions of fleas, ticks, mosquitoes and other parasites when eating a fresh food pet diet.
The fresh food diet cleans up the coat and skin as mentioned before and the strong 'doggie smell' vanishes. A fresh food diet will leave your animal smelling neutral. Most commercial foods are made from rancid ingredients, then cooked excessively that are intended to mask their poor quality. These rancid foods make your animal exude a noxious smell – leaving them attractive to those pesky opportunistic parasites.
Fresh food pet diets support the liver, digestive system and kidneys to do what they do best – assimilate and detoxify.
Overloaded and clogged with toxic substances these organ systems will not function optimally unless fresh diets are part of a regular feeding program.
Other benefits for those breeding animals include reduced abortions or problem births. Youngsters have better birth weights, stronger conformation and better brain development. Endocrine disorders of the thyroid and adrenal often balance easily or never occur. Behavioral disorders such as aggression and hyperactivity often correct naturally on the species appropriate diet.
The best diet for cats of all ages is fresh!
Although what may sound controversial, the species appropriate diet is, with a few variations, the optimal diet for both the older cat with kidney disease and the younger cat with bladder disease. The high protein diets naturally acidify the urine and provide high quality protein to these obligate carnivores who require protein in high amounts.
The benefits of a species appropriate pet diet are so numerous, it's impossible to list them all!
The best test is for you to experiment and watch the results. The animals who have been on commercial foods will benefit the most from the change. Try it and let your animals and your senses be your judge.
If you'd like to discover how to feed a fresh, species appropriate diet to your little carnivores check out the 3-part webinar series FEEDING FRESH: IT'S SO EASY AND FOOD THERAPY PART 1 AND 2.


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Global-Pills-Market.Net Review – A Probably Fake Pharmacy that Never Lasted for Half a Decade
September 16, 2018 October 18, 2018 Eugene Warner
Global-Pills-Market.Net is an online drugstore than never managed to hold its position on the web for long. The drugstore had started operating back in 2015. In a span of fewer than 3 years, the pharmacy is already gone. The drugstore never indicated where it was located. The store focused on selling medications which have been approved by the FDA. Global Pills Market had a small catalog. The store was trying to help men who suffer from erectile dysfunction solve their issues. All the meds available on the drugstore were aimed at treating impotence.
The pharmacy was actually one of the cheapest drugstores. The generic Viagra on its catalog was worth 0.36 dollars while Cialis was being sold at a price of only 0.88 dollars. Generic Levitra was being sold at a price of 1.48 dollars. Most of the generic ED pills available on Global-Pills-Market.Net had their source in Indian pharmaceutical companies. The store was also stocking brand pills. Brand Viagra was being sold at a price of only 2.45 dollars per pill. Brand Levitra was worth 2.80 dollars. The store did not stock brand Cialis.
The Pharmacy required their customers to pay for their meds using credit cards, E-Check, and Bitcoin. The credit cards accepted by the drugstore included VISA, American Express, and Mastercard. After paying for medications, buyers were supposed to expect them to arrive via either Airmail international or Express Mail Service shipping methods. The first delivery method took approximately 14 to 21 days before the medications got delivered. The second method which was trackable took approximately 5 to 9 days.
If the delivered products were damaged, the buyer was required to contact the customer support department. The pharmacy was offering free re-shipments or full refunds for damaged products or items which never reached the buyer. Products were being delivered in concealed packages. This means that nothing was available on the package which indicated the contents available inside the package. Buyers were allowed to contact Global-Pills-Market.Net either via their live chat option or their contact page.
The pharmacy was offering its services worldwide. This was even implied on its website by the presence of various currencies. These included the USD, GBP, EUR, AUD, CAD, and, the CHF. The pharmacy had a language changing feature. The languages available on the drugstore website included English, Italian, and others. Locating medications on the drugstore was easy. Buyers could have used the search function or the alphabetical search function.
Global-Pills-Market.Net Reviews
After spending a significant amount of time trying to locate testimonials written by men who had sourced their ED meds at the drugstore, I could not find any reviews. The only reviews I found were available on the drugstore website. These are the testimonials I have captured below:
Global-Pills-Market.Net User Comments
Jerome from Virginia reported that when his father got sick, he searched all over the web to locate a place where he could have purchased high-quality medications at a great price. He managed to locate Global-Pills-Market.Net. He had been ordering medications for his father from Global Pills Market ever since. He was about to place his 6th order. It was his 4th month as a Global Pills Market customer.
Brian from Belfast is very careful when using his credit card. He needs to be sure that everything will be kept confidential. He only uses the companies he knows he can trust. His friends checked Global Pills Market numerous times. He, therefore, tried to try it. He did not end up regretting his decision. The prices were nice and the delivery was quick.
Santiago from Cordoba reported that after using Global Pills Market, he realized that it was exactly what he needed. He had been ordering his meds from Global-Pills-Market.Net for three years. He was satisfied and he was not going to change anything.
The above reviews cannot be trusted. They could have been crafted by the Global-Pills-Market.Net management to try and attract more customers. I have come across pharmacies which look very real, have nice looking websites and some very positive customer testimonials on their sites. After doing some deeper digging, I determined that the pharmacies were fake. The best reviews to trust should be on a third-party website.
Global-Pills-Market.Net Reviews 2018
There were no available 2018 testimonials for Global Pills Market. What I did is determine the Global-Pills-Market.Net 2018 reputation using a domain address scanning program. I have captured the results I got below:
Global-Pills-Market.Net Scamner.com Report
The program I used is known as Scamner.com. The program indicated that Global-Pills-Market.Net is not a safe website. The site is not recommendable for both browsing and purchasing of meds. The store did not have many visitors. Famous online pharmacies usually have a large number of visitors who purchase meds from the pharmacy every now and then.
Global-Pills-Market.Net Coupon Codes
My search for coupon codes which could be used at Global Pills Market succeeded at finding nothing. The pharmacy did not have any offers on its website. This was quite new to me. When a popular pharmacy lacks coupon codes, the drugstore has a very high likelihood of having great offers on its official website. However, Global Pills Market had nothing like the free pills which I am used to locating on other online pharmacies websites. The only way buyers could have saved their money when purchasing meds from the pharmacy was through purchasing the meds in bulk. The store had decreasing prices as the number of purchased pills increased.
Global Pills Market was an online drugstore that did not have a lot of trust from buyers. The pharmacy had low prices yet nobody wrote even a single testimonial on an external review-collecting website. The reviews available on the drugstore website appeared fake. The store did not indicate where it was located. Popular pharmacies never hide their physical location.
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Eugene Warner has always had his eyes at gaming, hence making his full career out of it. At the height of his gaming career though, he had a desire to make a difference – he pulled in a team of friends who shared with his mission, hence the birth of believeanddogood.com. Believe & Do Good is still a work in progress, but hey, it's come to help thousands of people steer clear from fraudsters and is still helping people to this day.
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McDonald's Corporation (MCD) Calls Active On Franchise Chatter
McDonald's Corporation (MCD) calls are hot on reports of a $400 million franchise agreement in the works
Celeste Taylor
McDonald's Corporation (NYSE:MCD) is following the broader stock market trend higher today, with gains fueled by reports that MCD is in talks with Saudi Arabia's Reza group to sell 20-year franchise rights for Singapore and Malaysia outlets for up to $400 million. The fast food behemoth is trading 0.4% higher at $113.97 so far today, with call options more active than usual.
MCD has experienced a series of lower lows since hitting an all-time high of $131.96 in May, giving up roughly 13% in the process. However, the shares seem to have found a potential floor at the $114-$115 mark since August -- a region which previously acted as support in late 2015 and early 2016, and is now home to the shares' 320-day moving average.
In the option pits, MCD calls are crossing the line at more than 1.5 times their average intraday rate. Meanwhile, put volume is on pace to end lower than 87% of all other readings from the past year. Of today's 10 most active options, eight are weekly calls expiring within the next two weeks. The weekly 10/7 114-strike call leads today's most active options, followed by the weekly 10/14 117-strike call, which appears to be seeing sell-to-open activity, indicating option writers expect MCD to stay below $117 in the near term.
From a broader sentiment perspective, McDonald's Corporation's (NYSE:MCD) 50-day call/put volume ratio at the International Securities Exchange (ISE), Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), and NASDAQ OMX PHLX (PHLX) of 1.45 is just 2 percentage points from an annual peak, indicating a bigger-than-usual bullish appetite among option buyers. To reinforce this fact is MCD's Schaeffer's put/call open interest ratio (SOIR) of 0.94, which is in just the 36th percentile of its annual range, suggesting a stronger-than-usual call-skew among near-term traders.
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County approves joint position with CED Mental Health
By Dustin Fox Times Staff Writer
May 7, 2019 at 5:24 PM May 7, 2019 at 5:24 PM
Etowah County commissioners on Tuesday approved a proposal from Probate Judge Scott Hassell that will create a new, full-time position to work with the probate court and CED Mental Health to facilitate mental health needs across the county.
"As you know, we have a mental health problem here in our county," Hassell said, adding that the root cause was a lack of state funding for mental health.
The agreement would establish a position for a mental health coordinator who can "coordinate that care, provide support to the families and the patient from day one all the way through the treatment process, and on into the future, hopefully, making sure they're staying on their meds and doing things they need to do," he continued.
Hassell said the new position will not require additional funding, adding that the agreement came about after the court and CED found themselves in a similar position. Both organizations had funding available for a part-time employee, but working part time is insufficient for the task at hand.
By combining both part-time positions at the courthouse and mental health facility, both will get to see the benefits of a full-time employee with a part-time investment.
Hassell said the county would contribute $15,000, which already was allotted for in the court's budget, and CED would contribute the same amount.
Sheila Hurley, director of CED Mental Health, said she was appreciative of the commission approving the venture.
"This is a means to make the two halves a whole," she said, referring to the part-time positions both organizations had available.
She said CED would be overseeing the hiring and training of the coordinator, making sure they were able to assist Hassell while overseeing cases and monitoring hospital services and state regulations.
"I would love to see more partnerships like this," Hurley said, adding that the new role could be filled and operating in as little as two or three weeks.
Commissioners voiced their support for the agreement.
"I'd like to thank Judge Hassell for thinking of things we can do to help our people and stay within the budget," Tim Ramsey said, adding, "That's a good move and a good step in the right direction."
Jeffrey Washington echoed that, saying, "When we ran, we ran on the idea of wanting to work together with our communities and other agencies and I think this is a step in the right direction. My hat's off to the probate judge."
Commissioners also discussed garbage pickup in the community following constituent complaints over the open- top containers placed around the county last Saturday.
"We got the information that they were going to be there from 7 a.m. to 12. They brought a little truck and left at 9 a.m. and didn't come back out," Craig Inzer said.
Commissioners discussed the amount of complaints coming in about trash not being picked up, which they are keeping track of. Although Ramsey said he has not gotten complaints about pickup in District 4, other commissioners said they had received calls in their districts. Despite meeting with Advanced Disposal multiple times, they said the situation does not seem to be getting better.
Chief Administrative Officer David Akins said commissioners could speak with County Attorney Jim Turnbach next week regarding the contract the county has with Advanced Disposal.
Inzer said he felt it was time to start looking for a new provider and get out of the contract.
"It's to the point of no return in my opinion," he said.
Referring back to the comments made about the county working together with other organizations and companies, Ramsey shared that the county, Attalla City Schools and the City of Attalla recently worked together to fund a new flagpole that will be installed at Attalla Middle School.
Ramsey thanked Attalla City Councilman Bob Cross and Attalla City Schools Superintendent Jeff Colgrove for their help in obtaining the money for the pole.
"Together we all pooled and were able to pull off splitting the cost," he said. "The kids at the middle school will actually have a flagpole now. I just wanted to give them thanks for working together like we had talked about from the beginning."
In other business, Revenue Commissioner Linda Barrett-Vaughan presented Betty Dubose with a certificate for her 10 years of service in the tag and title office.
A bid was approved to purchase an SUV from Ronnie Watkins Ford, as was a bid for liquid paving and resurfacing by Charles E. Watts Inc.
The agreement with Personnel Staffing Inc. to staff kennel technician positions at the animal shelter was approved, and Deana Edenfield was approved as animal control officer at the shelter.
Sabrina Mills was approved as a part-time clerk in the tag and title office, and a request to let bids for hygiene products in the jail was approved.
A special called meeting of the commission will be held at 9 a.m. May 14 to discuss pending litigation.


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Pollock v. Farmers Loan & Trust Co. (1898)
INCOME TAX IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL in 1895
In the early 1890's Congress passed a law that tried to impose a direct income tax on the interest and dividends from stocks and bonds, paid by companies to shareholders, and on interest earned on deposits at U.S. banks. This tax was challenged immediately, and the challenge was settled by the Supreme Court in 1895 in the Pollock v. Farmer's Loan & Trust Co. decision.
This decision states that it is UNconstitutional for Congress to try to impose a federal tax on the income of the U.S citizens derived from those sources, because that would be a Direct Tax WITHOUT APPORTIONMENT, which Congress is not authorized to enact, and is in fact, specifically prohibited by the Constitution (Article 1 Section 2, Clause 3).
Excerpts from the decision:
"...Ordinarily, all taxes paid primarily by persons who can shift the burden upon someone else, or who are under no legal compulsion to pay them, are considered indirect taxes; but a tax upon property holders in respect of their estates, whether real or personal, or of the income yielded by such estates, and the payment of which cannot be avoided, are direct taxes ..."
and;
"… it is apparent (1) that the distinction between direct and indirect taxation was well understood by the framers of the constitution and those who adopted it; (2) that, under the state system of taxation, all taxes on real estate or personal property or the rents or income thereof were regarded as direct taxes;" Pollock v. Farmer's Loan & Trust Co., 157 U.S. 429, 574 (1895)
"... A tax upon one's whole income is a tax upon the annual receipts from his whole property, and as such falls within the same class as a tax upon that property, and is a direct tax, in the meaning of the Constitution.... "
"We are of opinion that the law in question, so far as it levies a tax on the rents or income of real estate, is in violation of the constitution, and is invalid." Pollock v. Farmer's Loan & Trust Co., 157 U.S. 429, 583 (1895)
"...We have unanimously held in this case that, so far as this law operates on the receipts from municipal bonds , it cannot be sustained, because it is a tax on the powers of the States, and on their instrumentalities to borrow money, and consequently repugnant to the Constitution. ...it follows that, if the revenue from municipal bonds cannot be taxed because the source cannot be, the same rule applies to revenue from any other source not subject to the tax; and the lack of power to levy any but an apportioned tax on real and personal property equally exists as to the revenue therefrom. Admitting that this act taxes the income of property irrespective of its source, still we cannot doubt that such a tax is necessarily a direct tax in the meaning of the Constitution. In England, we do not understand that an income tax has ever been regarded as other than a direct tax. In Dowell's History of Taxation and Taxes in England, given, and an income tax is invariably classified as a direct tax. Pollock v. Farmer's Loan & Trust Co., 157 U.S. 429, 586 (1895)
and, from the supporting opinion of Justice Fields in this case:
"I am of opinion that the whole law of 1894 should be declared void, and without any binding force,-that part which relates to the tax on the rents, profits, or income from real estate, that is, so much as constitutes part of the direct tax, because not imposed by the rule of apportionment according to the representation of the states, as prescribed by the constitution; and that part which imposes a tax upon the bonds and securities of the several states, and upon the bonds and securities of their municipal bodies, and upon on the salaries of judges of the courts of the United States, as being beyond the power of congress; and that part which lays duties, imposts, and excises, as void in not providing for the uniformity required by the constitution in such cases" Pollock v. Farmer's Loan & Trust Co., 157 U.S. 429, 607 (1895)
But wait, he's not done yet:
"The income tax law under consideration is marked by discriminating features which affect the whole law. It discriminates between those who receive an income of $4,000 and those who do not. It thus vitiates, in my judgment, by this arbitrary discrimination, the whole legislation. Hamilton says in one of his papers (the Continentalist): 'The genius of liberty reprobates everything arbitrary or discretionary in taxation. It exacts that every man, by a definite and general rule, should know what proportion of his property the state demands; whatever liberty we may boast of in theory, it cannot exist in fact while [arbitrary] assessments continue.'" 1 Hamilton's Works (Ed. 1885) 270. Pollock v. Farmer's Loan & Trust Co., 157 U.S. 429, 596 (1895)
His words ring as truly prophetic, as we are certainly now confronted today with all of the same aspects of the income tax that he confronted and rejected in his day. Justice Fields further pursues this issue,
"The legislation, in the discrimination it makes, is class legislation. Whenever a distinction is made in the burdens a law imposes or in the benefits it confers on any citizens by reason of their birth, or wealth, or religion, it is class legislation, and leads inevitably to oppression and abuses, and to general unrest and disturbance in society. It was hoped and believed that the great amendments to the constitution which followed the late Civil War had rendered such legislation impossible for all future time. But the objectionable legislation reappears in the act under consideration." Pollock v. Farmer's Loan & Trust Co., 157 U.S. 429, 596 (1895)
And, in recognition of the long since forgotten constitutional limitations on the federal power to tax,
"There is no such thing in the theory of our national government as unlimited power of taxation in congress. There are limitations, as he justly observes, of its powers arising out of the essential nature of all free governments; there are reservations of individual rights, without which society could not exist, and which are respected by every government. The right of taxation is subject to these limitations. Citizens' Savings Loan Ass'n v. Topeka, 20 Wall. 655, and Parkersburg v. Brown, 106 U.S. 487, 1 Sup. Ct. 442." Pollock v. Farmer's Loan & Trust Co., 157 U.S. 429, 599 (1895)
"The inherent and fundamental nature and character of a tax is that of a contribution to the support of the government, levied upon the principle of equal and uniform apportionment among the persons taxed, and any other exaction does not come within the legal definition of a 'tax.'" Pollock v. Farmer's Loan & Trust Co., 157 U.S. 429, 599 (1895)
And finally from Justice Fields
"Here I close my opinion. I could not say less in view of questions of such gravity that go down to the very foundation of the government. If the provisions of the constitution can be set aside by an act of congress, where is the course of usurpation to end? The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but the stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich,-a war constantly growing in intensity and bitterness. 'If the court sanctions the power of discriminating taxation, and nullifies the uniformity mandate of the constitution,' as said by one who has been all his life a student of our institutions, 'it will mark the hour when the sure decadence of our present government will commence.' If the purely arbitrary limitation of four thousand dollars in the present law can be sustained, none having less than that amount of income being assessed or taxed for the support of the government, the limitation of future congresses may be fixed at a much larger sum, at five or ten or twenty thousand dollars, parties possessing an income of that amount alone being bound to bear the burdens of government; or the limitation may be designated at such an amount as a board of 'walking delegates' may deem necessary. There is no safety in allowing the limitation to be adjusted except in strict compliance with the mandates of the constitution, which require its taxation, if imposed by direct taxes, to be apportioned among the states according to their representation, and, if imposed by indirect taxes, to be uniform in operation and, so far as practicable, in proportion to their property, equal upon all citizens. Unless the rule of the constitution governs, a majority may fix the limitation at such rate as will not include any of their own number." Pollock v. Farmer's Loan & Trust Co., 157 U.S. 429, 607 (1895 (emphasis added)
and, even in dissent:
"...that personal property, contracts, obligations, and the like, have never been regarded by Congress as proper subjects of direct tax. The United States Constitution provides Congress the power to lay and collect taxes directly only as long as it is apportioned with regard to the census or enumeration." Pollock v. Farmers Loan & Trust Co., 157 US 429 (1896)
(Entire text of ruling)
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We would like to invite you to first "Echos of Antropofest". It takes place 1APR from 6pm in Fotogaléria Trafačka in Nitra, Slovakia. We will screen Revenir movie.
We would like to invite you to 2nd Anthropological Evening to Ponrepo Cinema at Sunday 3MAR from 8.30 p.m. We are screening two movies from China. The first one is ethnographic movie from 1936. It is from National Film Archive. The second one, from the Antropofest archive, is movie by anthropologist Satoru Ito "Creation and chanting of Lik Yatt". We presented in Antropofest 2013 together with the author. The guest of the evening will be ethnologist Adam Horalek from University of Pardubice.
We would like to thank to all visitors of the festival. If you missed some movie you can watch it during "Echos of Antropofest" in regions.
Two professional photographesr work during the festival. If you don't want to be on photos, let us know it. On the other hand, you agree with it. We can use photos from the festival for our promo materials, webpage or FB. Thank you for your understanding.
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Submit film with online application form HERE, or by email or by post. See below.
Relevance to the given anthropological themes will be taken into account when choosing the film. Attention will be paid to the content and artistic quality of the film.
Films of any length will be accepted.
We prefer movies produced recently.
By entering his/her film, the owner of the rights gives consent to the film being projected at Antropofest events and archived for the purposes of Antropofest z.s.
There is no entering fee and no financial reward to applicant, director or producer of the movie.
Sent DVDs are not returned.
Photographs and information from the application form will be used for the purposes of the festival (or other event of Antropofest), included in the festival programme/catalogue and posted on the website and social medias of Antropofest. All information will be processing only by members of Antropofest, z.s. and will not be offered to anybody else. More details about protection of personal data are available at our website. Your questions will be respond via our email.
The deadline for applications is October 17th 2018. Films which arrive after this date will not be included in the projection of the upcoming year of the festival.
Selected movie will be accompanied by Czech subtitles (if original language is not Czech or Slovak). English subtitles (not only burned in the image) are required - we need it for translation to Czech. We accept only subtitles with exact timing in srt format (created by Subtitle Workshop or other software).
Applicants will be informed about their film being incorporated into the festival programme via e-mail and not later than 20 days before the beginning of the festival.
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Expenses connected to transporting of film to the address Antropofest Slovinská 994/25, Praha 10, 101 00, Czech Republic or via some cloud will be covered by the applicant.


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The World Health Organization (WHO) is the specialized agency of the United Nations, responsible for international public health. WHO wanted to create a sustainable open source development infrastructure to support development of a platform for its new training center. Working with Red Hat Open Innovation Labs, WHO developed the Learning Experience Platform (LXP), allowing the WHO team to manage the new platform and processes internally and deliver timely information to healthcare workers.
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Healthcare workers need updated and accurate information to perform their jobs as best as possible. To provide healthcare employees the most accurate information, WHO needed an information platform that could deliver timely information. Additionally, WHO sought to look beyond the immediate need and create a data model that could meet healthcare workers' future needs, including offering more personalized learning experiences.
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WHO worked with Red Hat Open Innovation Labs in an eight-week virtual residency to build a scalable, more flexible DevOps platform. To create its new LXP, WHO used open hybrid cloud technologies, including Red Hat® OpenShift® and Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces. Throughout the process, Red Hat taught WHO employees how to manage the platform and processes internally. WHO also began using Red Hat Learning Subscription to keep its team's skills up to date on emerging technology.
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The most prominent face of ruling National Conference in Srinagar and party's General Secretary, Ali Muhammad Sagar, believes the party's October 29 rally would infuse a new lease of life in NC. The former minister believes that the NC President, Farooq Abdullah has taken on himself to do something for the resolution of Kashmir issue and that he would not let people down. Excerpts from an interview with Kashmir Newsline.
Last year Kashmir witnessed a massive uprising following the killing of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen commander Burhan Muzaffar Wani and activities of mainstream political parties came to a halt. How did you manage to organise a massive public rally in the heart of Srinagar on October 29?
There was no single factor for the success of the party's delegate convention. The gathering was beyond our expectations. We had put in a lot of hard work in making it a success. We were making arrangements for a month-and-a-half. The targets given to the delegates were met. In fact, they were asking for permitting them to bring more workers. We had set a target of 11,000 for the rally but we got some 19,000 instead. Those of our supporters, who were annoyed with the party in the past, also participated.
The participation was massive also because of the government's bad performance. Many wanted to know what Dr. Farooq (Abdullah) sahab's stand on Kashmir was now keeping in mind the recent developments. Three days ahead of the rally, some political workers were also killed but we got more than we had made arrangements for.
People have once again started to have a soft corner for NC. They now understand, all said and done, NC, by and large, is the best option at their disposal.
Was there a fear about organising this convention? When people were seeing association with the mainstream parties as a stigma, how did you pull this thing off?
The fear was definitely on our minds. For this very reason, we did not make it a public rally and called for the participation of only party cadre. This is the reason why 5000 to 6000 of our supporters had to wait outside the venue. The beauty of the function was that we had delegates coming from all parts of the State – Jammu, Pir Panjal region, Chenab Valley, Kargil, Leh and all the ten districts of Kashmir valley including the people living on borders and in far-flung areas. All were happy with the function. Although the party had offered to make arrangements for them, every delegate made arrangements for their own stay and food.
The passions at the rally were for everyone to see. It was after three decades that people made the stage and other arrangements for the function on their own instead of waiting for the party's management.
The function was successful also because of the efforts of the Youth National Conference, NC Women's Wing, Provisional Presidents (Nasir Aslam Wani and Devender Singh Rana) and District Presidents besides the party's Working President, Omar (Abdullah) sahab and the NC parent wing.
Had did you reach out to your workers or youth before the delegate convention?
We had started a membership drive and registered their mobile phone numbers so that there was no fake membership. We conducted Mohalla elections for the party and well-qualified delegates were elected. Many of our workers were annoyed that they did not get the party cards but we made the process transparent and ensured no fake members were registered.
Farooq Abdullah's recent statements seem as if he is trying to cater to the constituency of the Kashmiri nationalists now. Why this change in heart?
Farooq sahab has been thinking that he has recovered from ill health only to do something for the people of the State. He feels Allah has provided him this opportunity to do something concrete for them. Before his death, he wants to do something that would help resolve Kashmir issue. He believes people of the State have had enough and that a lot of things need to be done for them. And he would not let people down.
The party continued with Farooq Abdullah as President despite reports that Omar Abdullah might take over. Why?
Omar (Abdullah) sahab didn't agree to the preposition. We had asked him to take over the party's mantle. He suggested it would be better for the party if Dr. (Farooq Abdullah) sahab continues as the president. Farooq sahab has a stature and is a prominent figure in Kashmir politics. Some people may say anything about him but the reality is he is well respected throughout the country, and considered a man with good standing. He has been visiting remotest parts of Kashmir like Karnah and Tangdhar to generate the support of the masses for the party and help in rejuvenating it.
After the success of the rally, would you sit on your laurels or avoid it?
The message now has to go to every nook and corner of the Valley. We are putting in our best efforts and now we have to replicate this success at the district and block level and make NC what it used to be.


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Keto diet: A hype of social media or a real solution?
JINNATUL RAIHAN MUMU | Published: December 03, 2020 13:25:45 | Updated: December 03, 2020 18:31:04
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The sudden demise of 27-year-old Indian actress Mishti Mukherjee due to kidney failure related to "keto diet" has recently cast doubt on the boons of the trendy diet. While scrolling on social media like Facebook or Instagram, many people come to know about the advantages of the low-carb diet that gets more calories from protein and fat and less from carbohydrates. However, to find out whether the keto diet, known for its wondrous ability to achieve rapid weight loss, has been the real solution or just the hype of social media, one should know about its pros and cons before deciding on it.
Many celebrities vouch for the keto diet to be their holy grail to achieve fitness. Celebrities like Halle Berry, Kim Kardashian, LeBron James, Tim Tebow have shared their positive experiences of the keto diet on social media. The Oscar winner actress Halle Berry says the keto diet helped her manage her body fitness and diabetes. On Instagram, she shared her keto experience, including a story, with two links meant for explaining the keto diet to those who want to try it. In response to that, a fan named Stephanie wrote that while following Berry's keto chart, she felt nauseated for the first two days, followed by headaches and fatigue. And she was quoted as saying in Body plus Soul Magazine, "It might work for Berry, but cutting out an entire food group is just not sustainable for me."
Interestingly, over 70 per cent of those surveyed by US News and World say they chose to go on keto diet based on their 'research' or 'social media posts', whereas less than five per cent say it was recommended by a registered dietitian. The survey shows many people are falling prey to the dark side of the keto diet just by following in the footsteps of celebrities. An Australian study showed that obese people are able to lose, on average, 15 kg over a year. This is 3 kg more than the low-fat diet used in the study achieved. However, the saying "there are two sides to every coin" aptly explains the drawbacks of the keto diet. According to Priya Bharma, a senior dietician of Sri Balaji Action Medical Institute in New Delhi, any person with ideal or lesser body weight is generally not suggested going for a keto diet. The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that only people with a BMI of more than 25 are considered victims of obesity. As a result, people with a normal BMI should not depend on a keto diet to maintain their health.
Due to the active promotion of the keto diet by several celebrities, it is now more like a trend than just a fitness need. In Bangladesh, amid this pandemic, many men and women have been following the keto diet. Compared to men, women are more attracted to this "keto trend" and have been following it without consulting experts. Nabanita Islam, a third year student at North South University, shared her experience of the keto diet as "her worst nightmare" in a personal interview. She wrote in a Facebook post that while following a fitness blogger-suggested keto diet chart she almost collapsed and had to be admitted to hospital. According to the hospital report, the reason behind her fainting was low blood pressure caused by extreme dieting.
A similar experience was shared by Mrs Ferdows, a 46-year-old government employee. In a telephone interview, she says she and her daughter both followed the same keto diet chart. Although both of them lost their weight, the child faced problems like depression, nutrient deficiencies, and disordered eating. Melissa Fossier, a registered dietitian at Children's Health℠, says she would not recommend the keto diet for kids unless it is used only for specific medical reasons.
Jackie Newgent, a culinary nutritionist in New York City and the author of "The All-Natural Diabetes Cookbook", says the keto diet is a fad diet that offers temporary results and permanent troubles. To conclude, no matter how beneficial the keto diet is, the risks involved are inexorable. Therefore, the keto diet is only a real solution for those who follow it consulting a dietician. And if someone thinks he/she is badly in need of a keto diet, he/she should consult a dietician rather than putting themselves on it by themselves. Moreover, one should know the history of the keto diet and the prerequisites for one's body to better decide whether to go on such diet.
Jinnatul Raihan Mumu is a third year student of business and technology management at the Islamic University of Technology. She can be reached at [email protected].
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Every little counts
Airport World takes a closer look at a handful of new initiatives designed to either boost airport revenue streams or reduce unnecessary expenditure.
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Rhetoric, reality and reform
Stephen Van Beek, ACI World's interim head of economics, discusses new aviation legislation on both sides of the Atlantic and the thorny issue of airport charges.
Thursday, 10 March 2016 | Written by Curtis Grad
The buying game
Curtis Grad, president and CEO of Modalis, provides a rundown of the biggest airport deals of the past year and takes a glimpse of what's on the horizon for 2016.
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The pursuit of happiness
AeroParker's CEO, Jon Keefe, explains why he believes that using an e-commerce platform to book car parking online can help drive airport revenues and enhance the passenger experience.
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The 2014 ACI Airport Economics Report shows that airport revenues remained stable despite the fragile state of the global economy, writes economics director, Rafael Echevarne.
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I pre-paid for the much anticipated UP3 band in December 2014, was dissapointed with the release delay and the downgrade from waterproof to splashproof but opted for the discount vs get my money back because I thought it was worth waiting for and worth waiting for Jawbone to get it right. I was dissapointed when my first band failed after just 6 weeks, more so when the second band failed for exactly the same reason after just 3 months; as did my Wife's first band after 3 months. After all this I decided enough was enough – I gave Jawbone a chance to explain how they have addressed the expanding case design issue. They didn't even accept that it was a known issue so I demanded my money back – afer explaing the design flaw to a couple of tech support assistants and one manager I was told they wouldn't be able to give me a refund as my original purchase was beyond the 60 day limit and all they could do was send me a replacement. I couldn't find that time limit easily in their returns policy.
So here I am after 6 months with my 3rd band and my wife with her 2nd band expecting both to fail before Ground Hog Day – essentially a reluctant customer. As most marketers know – if there's one thing worse than a non customer – it's a reluctant customer.
Here's the thing – the band (aside from previously mentioned design flaw) is very good – it does everything I want in the right form-factor. I think the iOS software is the best on the market in my opinion and they've done a decent job of iterating the band software to extend batery life and make sleep tracking easier. Their customer service rocks – they've never hesitated to process a return and done it very quickly each time – I suspect practice has made them good at this.
My message to Jawbone – you can do better than this; you have to do beter than this – it's a very competitive market. Redesign the band casing / battery, make it waterproof as you orginally claimed and give your loyal but possible reluctant customers and free / cheap upgrade path.


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• The Liason Technical Commission CL 12 MARCOGAZ/FAREGAZ has been decided in the joined meeting in Frankfurt with the purpose to eliminate obstacles for European harmonized technical rules.
FACOGAZ President M. Brodin proposes to the President of Marcogaz, Mr. Molinary, to work together on elastomers in a common working group (Comite liaison CL 5). The document CL 5 (requirements for gas meters) has been the basis for the future European standard on diaphragm gas meters.
Revised statutes have been approved by the FAREGAZ and FACOGAZ Plenary Meetings in Germany and Austria (existing statues modified and adapted to the new economic situation in Europe taking into account new technologies, new requirements amd new legislation).
The two associations FAREGAZ and FACOGAZ were merged into a new association named FARECOGAZ – The association of European manufacturers of gas metering equipment, gas pressure regulators and associated safety devices and stations in Brussels.
Like its two predecessors, FARECOGAZ will not pursue any economic purpose, but sees itself as a technical and scientific ambassador for its members.
These represent 90% of the European market for gas metering equipment, gas pressure regulators, associated gas safety devices and instrumentation and control systems for the gas infrastructure.
The significance of the market position held by the members is underlined by an excerpt from the Statutes of FARECOGAZ.
The other members of the Presidency are Omero Borghesani (Emerson) and Heinrich Bertke (Elster GmbH).
Dr Norbert Burger (grzi / figawa) is responsible for the General Secretariat.
The merger of the two associations offers clear synergies and it will now be easier to leverage these. In addition, bundling their technological competence under one common roof gives the new association an even stronger voice in the gas market, which is growing rapidly in significance. Many member companies are active today in overlapping product segments, and the number of issues addressed by both FACOGAZ and FAREGAZ has grown, such as maintenance recommendations for control and instrumentation systems (stations). A further reason for the merger can be found in the fact that the same contact person with a customer or authority is often responsible for both associations; communication with these should thus be both smoother and more intense in future.