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I started getting complaints last week. That the weekly Marvel video show, The Watcher, was without its host and writer Grace Randolph, replaced by Ben Morse and Ryan Penagos – and was poorer for it. Maybe she was on holiday, maybe she was sick… or maybe she'd been fired.
Then at the end of last week, Grace made it official. She tweeted;
I'm afraid it is so, I was fired, and for the time being I don't have anything else planned at Marvel.
I loved working on The Watcher and will miss it.
Yeah, I was fired. :( Sucky!
Marvel declined to comment on the situation, and Grace seemed to back this, telling me,
If Marvel has no plans to discuss the reason for which I was fired, then neither will I. One day I was shooting an episode, making plans for a holiday crossover special with 'Marvel What The – ' and Kirby Krackle, the next morning I got the phone call.
It was a shock – BIG TIME – and I certainly don't agree with their reasoning. However I'm happy to say that I still have great relationships with many people on the creative side of the company.
In this difficult situation, I find myself trying to remain professional while still making sure that the viewers who enjoyed my work know that I did not abandon them or the show.
I would also like to say that the support from viewers since I was fired has meant more to me than they can imagine. I worked very hard hosting and writing 'The Watcher' and to have that work recognized by the most important people – the viewers – is so important to me. Their kind words ensure that despite what happened, I will always think back on my time at 'The Watcher' fondly.
I first saw her live during the Women Of Marvel panel at San Diego, and she works a live panel as well as she does the camera. She's clever, funny, knowledgable, opinionated, together in front of a camera and attractive, elements essential for this kind of role.
It's not like this is Grace's only gig, she's also host and creator of Beyond The Trailer. But with Attack Of The Show presenters moving on to The Daily Show or Image Comics, if G4 are in need for new blood any time soon, I couldn't think of better than Grace.
And despite her firing, Marvel are beginning to run some of her San Diego interviews. Here's one with Stan Lee… And here's Grace's latest Beyond The Trailer.
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Ireland Last? Even Spain Wakes Up With A Populist Party: VOX Pledges to Put Spanish First and Make Spain Great Again!
Must Ireland be destroyed first before the irish wake up? It seems that the Irish and Europeans in general are so brainwashed and ensconced in their materialistic comfort zones, that the only way a patriotic populist party arises, is after the mass importation of illegal aliens by their EU proxy government. After Spain took in more than any other European nation this year, at least 13,000 Spaniards have come to their senses and joined a rally of the fledgling VOX party in Madrid last month and polls indicate that up to half a million would vote for them today!
VOX a patriotic political party that vows to "defend Spain" from immigration, independence movements and political correctness. Suddenly being called "far right" by the left wing mainstream media seems not so bad anymore... in fact it appears to be the only hope for the future of our nation states.
Traitor: Manchester City Coach Pep Guardiola Gives €150,000 to Human Trafficking NGO Smuggling Migrants from Libya
The Manchester City coach reached deep into his own pockets to pay the fees to release the Spanish NGO's Proactive Open Arms rescue boat, after it was impounded by Italian authorities for human trafficking offences, it has emerged.
As Italy Turns Right to Save Itself, Spain Swings Hard Left and Pro EU, Dashing Any Catalan Independence Hopes!
Pro-EU, anti-Catalan independence and with more women than men. This is the cabinet in Spain's new Socialist government. It is only via the backdoor than any Socialist government can take power in a Europe where most countries are moving away from the failed communist social engineering experiments and genocidal ideologies.
Catalans Help Give European Establishment another Beating in Spain as PM Rajoy's head is on the block after Corruption Scandal
Catalan political parties are joining the Basque Nationalist Party, the Socialists and upstart leftists Podemos to vote in favour of a No Confidence Vote against Prime Minister Rajoy after Spain's center-right prime minister Mariano Rajoy, whose party was caught up in a kickback scandal.
Catalan Independence Hot Potato Lands Right on EU Supremacist Merkel's Lap in Germany!
In an interview from prison in Germany, exiled Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont has said: "I'm not a criminal". The Catalan president in exile, Carles Puigdemont said he is "not a criminal" in the first interview since his arrest. The exiled leader reaffirmed the region's campaign for independence, saying it's based on democracy and non-violence.
Fascist UK, Fascist Germany, Fascist Spain and Fascist EU Arrests Democratically Elected Catalan Political Leaders!
Carles Puigdemont, the democratically elected Catalan leader who fled Spain has been detained in Germany, whilst Clara Ponsatí, who fled to Scotland, is to hand herself over to police, according to their lawyers. An arrest warrant had been issued for Puigdemont in Finland after the former president visited the country for talks with lawmakers. He was returning to Belgium, where he lives in self-imposed exile, when he was detained by German authorities after crossing the border from Denmark.
Catalans flood Brussels to demand EU impartiality
Police in the Belgian capital estimates that around 45 000 people attended the rally where ousted Regional President Carles Puigedemont addressed a huge crowd on the European commission's failure to act against the Spanish government. Independence supporters flooded Brussels on Thursday morning chanting in train carriages and on station platforms, as well as in the […]
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The Spanish government has given the regional government in Catalonia 48 hours to abandon "illegal" referendum plans or lose budgetary powers. Finance Minister Cristóbal Montoro said a mechanism had been approved for the state to take control of the autonomous region's finances. Madrid is seeking to stop the Catalan government spending public money on its […]

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Oscar Predictions: Can 'Parasite' upset '1917'?
Published: Wed, February 5, 2020 3:48 PM Updated: Wed, February 5, 2020 3:48 PM
This combination of photos shows lead actress Oscar nominees, from left, Charlize Theron in "Bombshell," Saoirse Ronan in "Little Women," Scarlett Johansson in "Marriage Story," Renée Zellweger in "Judy," and Cynthia Erivo in "Harriet." The 92nd Academy Awards will take place Feb. 9 in Los Angeles. (Lionsgate/Sony/Netflix/Roadside Attractions/Focus Features via AP)
NEW YORK (AP) — Ahead of Sunday's 92nd Academy Awards, Associated Press Film Writer Jake Coyle shares his predictions for a ceremony with a lot of locks but the potential for a few surprises.
The Nominees: "Ford v Ferrari," "The Irishman," "Jojo Rabbit," "Joker," "Little Women," "Marriage Story," "1917," "Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood," "Parasite"
Will Win: "Parasite"
Should Win: "Parasite"
Should Have Been a Contender: "The Last Black Man in San Francisco"
The last-arriving contender, Sam Mendes' World War I film "1917," has seemingly, fittingly run away with it. The top-prize winner of the Producers Guild, the Directors Guild and the BAFTAs, "1917" is the clear favorite. But I think Bong Joon Ho's universally beloved "Parasite" could pull off an upset that would rank alongside the underdog win of "Moonlight" three years ago. Taking best ensemble from the Screen Actors Guild showed that "Parasite" has perhaps the most important vote in the actors (they make up the largest percentage of the film academy), and academy membership has also grown more international in recent years. The time may be right for the first foreign-language film to win best picture, and "Parasite" deserves it.
The Nominees: Cynthia Erivo, "Harriet"; Scarlett Johansson, "Marriage Story"; Saoirse Ronan, "Little Women"; Charlize Theron, "Bombshell"; Renee Zellweger, "Judy
Will Win: Renee Zellweger
Should Win: Saoirse Ronan
Should Have Been a Contender: Alfre Woodard, "Clemency"
Zellweger is already a winner for "Cold Mountain" in 2004. But her fragile yet powerhouse performance as Judy Garland in "Judy" is that irresistible thing: a comeback story. The part reverberates with Zellweger's own history; she and Garland are both former American sweethearts. She's a fine choice, but the verve and velocity of Ronan's great performance in "Little Women" shouldn't be overlooked. Formidable as this category is, it would have been better with Woodard's fully inhabited, devastatingly still performance as a prison warden in the spare "Clemency" — not to mention Lupita Nyong'o's ferocious double act in "Us."
The Nominees: Antonio Banderas, "Pain and Glory"; Leonardo DiCaprio, "Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood"; Adam Driver, "Marriage Story"; Joaquin Phoenix, "Joker"; Jonathan Pryce, "The Two Popes"
Will Win: Joaquin Phoenix
Should Win: Adam Driver
Should Have Been a Contender: Andre Holland, "High Flying Bird"
After several years of lethargy, best actor is the year's most competitive category. The next five options — including Adam Sandler ("Uncut Gems") and Eddie Murphy ("Dolemite Is My Name") — are equally good. Phoenix, like all of this year's acting favorites, has been the clear front-runner for some time, for his morose yet limber Joker. But Driver's performance in "Marriage Story" is the real show-stopper here; a more nuanced and rewarding performance that culminates beautifully in song and tears. A shout-out also to the exceptional Holland, whose guileful, fast-talking NBA agent in "High Flying Bird" felt like a thrilling fast break.
The Nominees: Kathy Bates, "Richard Jewell"; Laura Dern, "Marriage Story"; Scarlett Johansson, "Jojo Rabbit"; Florence Pugh, "Little Women"; Margot Robbie, "Bombshell"
Will Win: Laura Dern
Should Win: Laura Dern
Should Have Been a Contender: Zhao Shuzhen, "The Farewell"
Dern has won every precursor award ahead of the Oscars, and is poised to win her first Academy Award. That's cause for celebration. Dern has been one of the finest actresses in Hollywood for decades, and her fearsome divorce attorney in "Marriage Story" is indelible, particularly her fabulous monologue on the double-standards of modern marriage. But this category is also missing some worthy actresses, including Jennifer Lopez ("Hustlers") and Shuzhen, who played the grandmother unaware of her own cancer diagnosis in Lulu Wang's tender family drama "The Farewell."
The Nominees: Tom Hanks, "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood"; Anthony Hopkins, "The Two Popes"; Al Pacino, "The Irishman"; Joe Pesci, "The Irishman"; Brad Pitt, "Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood"
Will Win: Brad Pitt
Should Win: Brad Pitt
Should Have Been a Contender: Wesley Snipes, "Dolemite Is My Name"
Nothing is more certain this year than Pitt's win for "Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood," a movie that perfectly showcases Pitt's sly charisma. His march toward his first acting Oscar has been fun, too, in a string of acceptance speeches (thanks to an apparent joke writer helping him out) filled with memorable one-liners. The talent in this category is extraordinary — Pesci or Hanks would win most years — but it's still a shame there wasn't room for Snipes' irresistible prima donna actor-turned-director in "Dolemite Is My Name" or Rob Morgan's powerful death row inmate in "Just Mercy."
The Nominees: Martin Scorsese, "The Irishman"; Todd Phillips, "Joker"; Sam Mendes, "1917"; Quentin Tarantino, "Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood"; Bong Joon Ho, "Parasite"
Will Win: Sam Mendes
Should Win: Martin Scorsese
Should Have Been a Contender: Marielle Heller, "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood"
Mendes appears the favorite here for the technical acumen of his seemingly-one-take "1917." The pristine command of Bong would be a better choice but so would the colossal achievement of Scorsese in "The Irishman." He has won best director only once before. And in 2019, Scorsese not only produced a career-crowning masterwork but mounted a passionate defense for the future of cinema. Greta Gerwig deserved to be among the nominees here for her thrillingly vibrant "Little Women," but so did Marielle Heller ("A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood"), whose talent with texture, performance and authenticity doesn't announce itself, and can go underappreciated.
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The Nominees: "Knives Out," Rian Johnson; "Marriage Story," Noah Baumbach; "1917," Sam Mendes and Krysty Wilson-Cairns; "Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood," Quentin Tarantino; "Parasite," Bong Joon Ho, Jin Won Han
Should Win: "Marriage Story"
Should Have Been a Contender: "Pain and Glory," Pedro Almodovar
A screenplay win for "Parasite" would signal a real chance for a best-picture victory. But also worthy here are two deeply personal scripts: Baumbach's stirring portrait of divorce "Marriage Story" and Almodovar's unfortunately overlooked "Pain and Glory," a sublime, autobiographical work.
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The Nominees: "The Irishman," Steven Zaillian; "Jojo Rabbit," Taika Waititi; "Joker," Todd Phillips, Scott Silver; "Little Women," Greta Gerwig; "The Two Popes," Anthony McCarten
Will Win: "Jojo Rabbit"
Should Win: "Little Women"
Should Have Been a Contender: "The Laundromat," Scott Z. Burns
Waititi's clever, poignant script for the Nazi Germany coming-of-age romp "Jojo Rabbit" appears to have the edge here. There is understandably wide respect for Waititi's idiosyncratic and daring sensibility. Yet, Gerwig's script inventively pulled apart Louisa May Alcott's much-adapted novel —only to put it back together again.
The Nominees: "American Factory," Julia Rieichert, Steven Bognar; "The Cave," Feras Fayyad; "The Edge of Democracy," Petra Costa; "For Sama," Waad Al-Kateab, Edward Watts; "Honeyland," Tamara Kotevska, Ljubo Stefanov
Will Win: "American Factory"
Should Win: "Honeyland"
Should Have Been a Contender: "Maiden," "Rolling Thunder Revue"
The sheer number of great documentaries being made today can hardly be accommodated by one category. Just for starters the snubs here include the uplifting "Maiden," about an all-female crew in a worldwide 1989 yachting race; Scorsese's fiery Dylan documentary "Rolling Thunder Revue" and the enthralling archival project "Apollo 11." "American Factory," the first film released by Barack and Michelle Obama's Higher Ground Productions, is the most likely winner. But "Honeyland," about a singular Macedonia beekeeper, is exquisitely intimate and yet resonates with global environmental allegory.
The Nominees: "Corpus Christi," Jan Komasa; "Honeyland," Tamara Kotevska, Ljubo Stefanov; "Les Miserables," Ladj Ly; "Pain and Glory," Pedro Almodovar; "Parasite," Bong Joon Ho
Should Win: "Honeyland"
Should Have Been a Contender: "Portrait of a Lady on Fire"
This will be an easy win for "Parasite," with potentially bigger awards to come. But little in this awards season was more disappointing than the lack of attention for Celine Sciamma's "Portrait of a Lady on Fire." The period French romance, my favorite film of 2019, narrowly missed out on being France's submission. (France instead chose the muscular police procedural "Les Miserables.") Audiences will at least have a chance to catch up to Sciamma's sensational film when it properly opens in theaters next week.
Follow AP Film Writer Jake Coyle on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/jakecoyleAP
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A few months ago I started to get work done on my sleeve, mainly filling in some of the bare sections and some touch-ups.
Lastly, I have been working towards a coverup of the Koi I had on my upper arm, my artist and I decided to cover it up with a dragon.
This is only the 2nd session I have had with him on the Dragon but so far it's turning out great. Really looking forward to it being completed, hopefully only a couple more sessions until then.


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Car Drives Through Parking Garage, Crashes Into Office
Published May 7, 2015 at 10:57 AM | Updated at 8:15 PM EDT on May 7, 2015
Car Pins Woman Inside Rockville Office Building
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A car crashed through a physical therapy office building in Rockville Thursday, pinning the receptionist under her desk. The woman was one of several people taken to the hospital. News4's Chris Gordon has an update on the investigation and takes a closer look at how the dramatic events unfolded. (Published Thursday, May 7, 2015)
An elderly woman smashed her car through a Rockville, Maryland, parking garage and into a physical therapy office on Thursday morning, injuring herself and three other people, authorities say.
The car crashed into the office on Parklawn Drive at about 10 a.m. Thursday. Investigators say they don't know what caused it.
"There's not much of a barrier," Montgomery County Fire spokesman Pete Piringer said. "There's a parking space, a little cement, the sidewalk, a grassy area and then the building. It didn't take much effort to get in there."
Piringer says the driver of the car was taken to the hospital, along with a receptionist who was trapped under a desk and debris. Two others were also taken to the hospital. All of the victims have injuries that are not life-threatening.
(Published Thursday, May 7, 2015)
Several people at the scene were also evaluated.


Jude Law plays the magnetically handsome, down-at-heel Gino in a new stage adaptation of Visconti's penetrating social drama directed by Ivo van Hove.Drifter Gino, powerful and graceful as a puma, encounters Giuseppe and his much younger, trapped wife Hanna (played by Halina Reijn) at their roadside restaurant and petrol station. He and Hanna are so irresistibly attracted to one another they begin an affair while plotting to murder her husband. But the crime does not unite them in this chilling story where passion can lead only to destruction.
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This unusual Emery and Cie Cement Encaustic tiled floor in Ealing W5 had been poorly installed by the tiler with grout haze on the tiles and the wrong sealer used. Cement encaustic tiles are quite delicate and difficult to restore.
I used a red burnishing pad fitted to a buffing machine to cut into the tile surface and remove the grout haze and old sealer. The next step was to apply a dilution of Tile Doctor Pro-Clean letting it soak into the tile before working it in to the tile with a red buffing pad. The soiled cleaning solution was then removed using a wet and dry Vacuum and the floor washed down with clean water. This cleaned up the floor well but there were some stubborn stains which were removed using a steamer.
Once the floor had dried it was sealed using three coats of Tile Doctor Colour Grow which is a colour intensifying sealer that provides durable surface protection. Last step was to burnish the tiles again with a green burnishing pad to bring up the shine.
Although the floor had been too damaged to be made perfect, it was very much better when I had finished and the customer was delighted with the result.
This beautiful slate floor had been sealed several years ago, the sealer had worn and it was in need of some slate flooring care. The floor was cleaned with Pro-clean, it was a reasonably large and it tool around 2 litres to get it clean. We then left it to dry overnight and came back the next morning to seal it using 6x coats of Seal & Go consuming around 2 litres of the product.
Details below of a terracotta floor cleaning job we did near Boston, that's Boston in Lincolnshire which is small port on the east coast of the UK as opposed to Boston, Massachusetts which was given its name by emigrants from this area.
The tiles were expensive handmade terracotta tiles, a few of which contained finger prints that had been baked onto the tile during the manufacturing process. The owner had previously tried to seal the floor themselves using other products but was having difficulty and had delayed making use of their new kitchen extension until the floor could be sealed.
To ensure a consistent finish we had to remove the previous sealer and make sure the Terracotta floor was clean it was scrubbed with a buffing machine assisted with Tile Doctor Pro-Clean which is an effective alkaline cleaner and sealer remover depending on the dilution. Cleaning the Terracotta floor tiles took a day to complete before being washed down with clean water to remove any remaining cleaner and neutralise the floor.
The floor was left overnight to dry and we came back the next day to apply a sealer to protect the tiles, sealing those pores that collect dirt and make them easier to clean. We used four coats of Tile Doctor Seal and Go for this; it's recommend for Terracotta floors bringing out the colour in the tile whilst providing a Matt finish. The customer was over the moon with the results and can now move into their new kitchen and sealed tiles.
Slate floors especially riven slate can be a nightmare to keep clean as the uneven surface of a riven tile traps dirt and makes it difficult to clean. Our client in Lincoln had this issue, however as you will see from the pictures below we managed to get it looking like new again.
The Slate Floor Cleaning process involved a good cleaning with Tile Doctor Pro-Clean Tile and Grout cleaner, it's an alkaline rather than acidic product that doesn't harm the surface of the stone but is very effective at cleaning. We left the product to dwell for a while before giving the tile a good scrub to lift the soil and dirt trapped into the pores of the riven slate floor tile. Once the slate tile and grout were looking clean we gave the floor a good wash down to remove any remaining chemical and neutralise the floor.
We left the floor to dry overnight and came back the next day to seal it using Tile Doctor Pro-Seal which is gives the floor a natural look and really lifts and reveals the colours in the slate. You can see from the photographs the difference and how amazing the colours are.
The client was so pleased he has booked us in to return and do some more work for him.
So we returned to the property to clean the courtyard area, which we deep cleaned with a jet wash machine and Tile Doctor Pro-clean solution. We started by mixing the Pro-clean with water and spread it over the surface scrubbing it with a Tile Doctor black scrubbing pad on our rotary machine. This was left to dwell for 30 minutes then we fitted our patio spinner to our jet wash and thoroughly cleaned and rinsed the complete area.
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President Maia Sandu and the President of Slovenia, Borut Pahor, Met on Friday, October 1
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President Maia Sandu and the President of Slovenia, Borut Pahor, made press statements on Friday, October 1, after the official meeting.
President Sandu thanked the Slovenian authorities for recognizing the COVID-19 certificates issued by the Moldovan authorities.
"We are grateful for Slovenia's openness to support our reform agenda. I discussed with President Borut Pahor how we can increase trade and economic relations with Slovenia. We appreciate Slovenia's openness to recognizing COVID-19 certificates issued by the Moldovan authorities. (…) Your visit takes place in a jubilee year for both our countries, 30 years of independence. Both countries are small, we both export wine and honey. Slovenians are an example to follow for Moldova for the well-being of the people and to offer a dignified life to our citizens here in Moldova," said President Sandu.
The President of Slovenia announced his support for President Maia Sandu and for the reforms that the Government has proposed to implement.
"You are a person of dignity and you have kept the hope of the people who voted for you. You will not solve all the problems overnight, but you will solve what Moldova wants – peace with the countries. I imagine how difficult it is to adopt the laws necessary for people to be convinced of the fight against corruption. To the extent that the EU and Slovenia can support you in these reforms – you can count on us," said the Slovenian president.
After the welcoming ceremony, Borut Pahor had meetings with the head of state Maia Sandu and the members of the delegations.
During the day, President Borut Pahor met with Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilița and the President of the Parliament, Igor Grosu, as well as a group of students from Chișinău.
At the end of the first day of the visit, the two heads of state planted a tree at the Botanical Garden in Chișinău.
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For customers in Uganda, the grid edge is the ability to charge a phone or keep an LED light powered.
Fenix International, a supplier of small, solar-powered charging systems for off-grid African communities, closed a $12.6 million Round B from investors including GDF Suez, Schneider Electric, Orange France Telecom, Tom Dinwoodie and Warner Philips. Fenix has also won grants from the Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund and the GSMA Foundation. Other past investors include AlphaMundi and Persistent Energy Partners.
For many of GTM's readers, "grid edge" describes the shift to a modernized grid with distributed energy resources and customer energy management.
But for customers in Uganda, the grid edge is the ability to charge a phone or keep an LED light powered rather than burn kerosene.
The distributed energy model could occur first in the developing world, not the industrialized world, according to this investment thesis. Distributed renewables, like mobile phones before them, allow countries to skip the network infrastructure build-out of wired telecom or energy networks.
The Fenix product is a plug-and-play power station -- essentially a battery with a variety of charging options (solar, bicycle, or grid) and a variety of outputs that allow the unit to charge mobile phones or power a light. It allows entrepreneurs and shopkeepers in frontier markets to create a small revenue-generating mobile payment business charging cell phones. The equipment can be micro-financed by the entrepreneur.
The potential market is enormous; more than 1 billion people live without power in developing nations and 3 billion people are "energy-deprived." Approximately 600 million of these people use cell phones.
But distribution is crucial. Fenix is partnering with mobile phone network operators such as MTN and Vodafone to take advantage of existing supply and distribution channels.
Fenix's CEO, Michael Lin, sees the startup "at the intersection of renewable energy, mobile communications and microfinance." He claims that before his product was available, "A solar energy system would cost a farmer more than a third of her annual income, but now she can finance clean, reliable electricity with her cell phone by making micropayments of as little as $0.35 per day."
Lin noted that the funding included "working capital to produce the hardware as well as finance it for the end-consumer (think micro-SolarCity financing)." He points out, "Fenix's mobile-enabled solar technology has been validated in the field by our customers over 5 years. It's also undergone significant due diligence and validation by our energy investors GDF Suez and Schneider Electric as well as telecoms MTN, Vodafone and Orange in order for them to put their brands on the product. he added, "The ReadyPay micro-transactions from customers generate big-data which we use to create a next-gen credit score for people who previously had no access to financing before."
Last year, we covered the friction between Microsoft founder Bill Gates and SunEdison founder Jigar Shah when they differed over the best way to provide cheap energy to the world's poor. Gates calls for traditional, fossil-fuel-based electricity generation. Shah aims for distributed renewables. Carl Pope, the former director of the Sierra Club, suggests that renewables are the only energy source that makes economic sense in the developing world. He writes, "Off-grid renewables sweep the affordability table."
Brad Mattson, CEO of thin-film solar manufacturer Siva Power (a recent $3 million DOE SunShot awardee), was previously a VC investor and entrepreneur looking for opportunities in the off-grid solar market. He notes that "the market is real" and the technologies are available. But Mattson sees four major issues: product (needs to be cheap and robust), financing (mobile payment is the right solution), theft-channel loss (security is key), and distribution cost (can be 5X to 10X in these economies).
Mattson adds, "I've worked with about ten companies in over twelve countries on these issues. Sure, there are 1.3 billion customers, but getting to them economically is tough."
A lot has changed in the market in just a few years. In 2014, companies developing off-grid solar solutions raised at least $64 million from venture and corporate strategic investors -- helping bring the capital to start reaching those customers.


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These retirement-age nomads find work wherever the road takes them
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The pandemic has spurred surges in camping and RV travel due to the need for social distancing and outdoor activity. But it's not all fun and vacations: one group of Americans adopted a self-sufficient and nomadic lifestyle long ago, living full-time in motor homes and working seasonal jobs to support themselves as they travel the United States. Paul Solman reports on retirement-age "workampers."
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The pandemic has spurred a surge in camping and R.V. travel, as social distancing has become one of the catchphrases of COVID-19.
But it's not all fun and vacations. One group of Americans has long since adopted a self-sufficient lifestyle, living full-time in motor homes and working seasonal jobs to support themselves.
Our economics correspondent, Paul Solman, has the story.
It's part of our Making Sense series Unfinished Business. And a note: Some of this story was shot before the pandemic began.
Darla McLain:
This is the couch that turns into a bed.
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To Darla McLain, 64, and husband Bill, also 64, a former biker and hell-raiser, this is home sweet home.
Bill McLain:
Our whole bedroom is done all in Levi's. These are all my old pants.
The McLains have been living in an R.V. since 2010, after the Great Recession sank their L.A. motorcycle repair shop and their home.
We had a $700,000 house that we owed about $200,000 on that sold for $131,000.
On the auction block.
Broke, the McLains sold what was left and hit the road.
It was that or rent an apartment and get jobs locally. But there were no jobs.
So, they drove to where the work was.
Our first job was Amazon in Coffeyville, Kansas.
A two-month stint in the warehouse, holiday rush.
It was pretty rough. They expect certain numbers, and you have to hustle.
Bill over-hustled.
He blew his knee out.
I don't normally walk at 60 miles an hour pushing a heavy cart going around 90-degree turns.
Amazon was the first of some 20 seasonal gigs. When we first met them last fall, the McLains were parked across from a Las Vegas Ikea to peddle pumpkins and then Christmas trees.
With us, we have what we call wheel estate. We just we just take the covers off, lift the levelers, fire it up, and we go where the economy is good.
Tens of thousands of retirement-age Americans are migrant laborers, or workampers, driven by economic necessity and wanderlust.
This is Judy Arnold's fourth year workamping. She's been tending a store in Yellowstone National Park since June.
Judy Arnold:
It wasn't very busy at first, but, as time went on, it got busier and busier, until we have more people now than we have had in regular seasons.
People are just tired of being cooped up at home, and they thought, let's go to the parks.
More sightseers, drawn away from COVID and back to nature, means a lot more work for a workamper like Arnold.
I'm doing the work of three people right now.
The pandemic has driven an awful lot of Americans onto the road, but the number of mobile-living, gig-hopping workampers has been growing for years.
Every January, hordes convene in Quartzsite, Arizona, the site of an annual R.V. show. That's where we met 66-year-old Susan Otteros.
Susan Otteros:
You end up in these really neat places, like Yosemite.
Otteros works as a camp host. Main tasks? Checking in campers and, if you're up for it, cleaning.
I don't do the bathrooms.
My boyfriend does the bathrooms. I collect the money.
Mitch Craighead drafts camp hosts for Thousand Trails campsites.
How many 75-year-olds do you recruit?
Mitch Craighead:
More than you would expect. Baby boomers are retiring. The pool of workers that we're hiring for is growing dramatically.
That was in January. The company declined to give us specifics, but Mitchell says campgrounds are busier than these days.
We have always looked at ourselves in the camping industry as the original social distancing. And a lot of our new customers are telling us just that.
We have seen a significant spike in reservations for the remainder of the camping year this year.
At the R.V. show, workamping veterans Rick and Tammie Wommack moved into their motor home nine years ago, after their son died by suicide.
Tammie Wommack:
We started out with what we call our Journey for Joshua, which was to honor our son.
But the reality after that three years was, it's expensive to live on the road. You need new tires. Maintenance costs are high.
And big campers get just seven miles a gallon. So, for the past seven years, they have worked the North Dakota sugar beet harvest.
I didn't even know what a sugar beet was. I thought sugar came from sugarcane, because where I come from, it does, you know, Dixie Crystal.
But, instead, 55 percent of our sugar comes from sugar beets, instead of sugarcane, in the country.
Muddy 12-hour shifts at $14 an hour, plus overtime, until the beets run out.
Some nomad gigs pay a lot more than that.
Ms. J. transports R.V.s from manufacturer to dealer, and sees the country.
Ms. J.:
I can pick the jobs I want to take to go see various destinations. So, if there's an R.V. that needs to go to Florida, which I have done this, delivered in Miami, I went on over to Key West
And how much do you get paid for that?
I would say somewhere between $60,000 and $75,000.
That's $60,000 to $75,000 a year, driving four days a week.
These days, R.V.s are selling like hot cakes, but Ms. J. is sitting out the pandemic in a tiny house in Georgia until next year.
The cases are up, especially for certain communities, communities of color.
And I'm — I know quite a few of people who have been affected. And so I just kind of choose to lay low until things kind of simmer down a little bit.
Can you afford to?
I have been doing this pattern over a number of years, where I was able to financially prepare myself for the what-ifs. And this is one of those what-ifs.
Back in January, in the big tent, there were hawkers of tire pressure monitors, R.V. window-cleaners, orthotics.
We reconnected with Bill and Darla McLain, who'd driven here from Mexico, where they go for affordable health care.
Shrimp tacos are killer.
We have a great pharmacist down there. We get glasses and our teeth worked on. I don't know why — how they can charge so much for stuff here that you can go right down there and get the same thing for a fraction of the price.
But the McLains were at the R.V. show for a gig, to sign up other workampers as oil field gate guards.
You have to man the gate 24 hours a day. They pay $150 a day for that.
Now, look, workamping obviously isn't for everyone.
Does this interest you?
Man:
No, not at all.
And why is that?
Because I retired for a reason. I don't want to go back to work.
But Bill and Sandy Collins liked what they heard. They workamp, helping fund their wanderings.
Sandy Collins:
We work Adventureland. Then we go to J.C. Penney and then…
Working in the warehouse at J.C. Penney's.
Even in bankruptcy, J.C. Penney's warehouse is still running. And as, at Amazon, you have to step lively.
Bill Collins:
On Thursday, I walked 23,355 steps.
According to 72-year-old Bill's smartphone, that is.
And as long as I keep doing it, then I think my health is going to stay a lot better than I would if I sat down.
That's one of the appeals of workamping to George Stoutenburgh.
George Stoutenburgh:
I can't see myself stopping work. I can't do nothing. What is nothing? You sit around and, what, wait to die? That's not me.
But he also needs the money.
It's not like we're broke, but we're certainly not millionaires. We can't afford to just travel the world and do whatever we want to do. That would be a wonderful thing, but it's not my life.
Judy Arnold's current Yellowstone gig has kept her more than busy, but, when it ends in October, she isn't sure what she will do.
There's a huge population of us that are still in limbo, wondering if there is a next job to go to. And a lot of my co-workers, where they normally go, the places aren't open. So, I'm definitely worried, because I definitely need an income.
As for Bill and Darla McLain, they have been parked outside their daughter's house in Arkansas for several months, making repairs to the R.V.
I think, for the most part, we have been surviving and trying to get through this, like most people are. It is a little weird for R.V.ers. I know that for a fact. It's not the easiest thing in the world to find a place.
It's not really that we can't travel. It's just once you get where you're going…
Where do you stay?
But, this weekend, they're getting back on the road, headed to a new job, working and hoping to find places to camp.
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As with all great treasures, milk comes with certain caveats. As our society further distances itself from nature and turns gradually more synthetic, these caveats turn into dire warning signals. A look at milk's qualities as expressed in the magnificent Ayurvedic text, the Caraka Samhita, shows the potentiality of both misuse and overuse. Caraka lists milk's qualities as sweet, cold, soft, lubricant, unctuous, smooth, slippery, heavy, slow and pleasant. In Ayurveda, milk is almost never drunk cold, as it is harder to
digest and thus turns the milk from sattvic to tamasic in nature. Sattva is a state of lightness, equanimity, clarity, and, in this case, fortification, strength and vitality. Tamas, on the other hand, reflects dullness, confusion, sloth, and in this case, the process of compromising its quality, leading to ill health and the potentiality of allergies. But what exactly is "compromised" milk?
To answer this is to look first and foremost at its source: the Mother. When a nursing mother makes choices regarding her diet, she does so with the welfare of her infant in mind. She instinctively knows that what she eats will be passed on to her child through her milk, thus confirming milk as the essence of her diet, her emotional state and her health. It is not a far-fetched theory that makes a mother stay away from alcohol and cigarettes when she is nursing. It is, however, an act of "putting on the blinders" when she stops at that and does not extend the logic to her diet, her health and her emotional state. This begins the process of compromisation of the quality of her milk and the obvious implication is the shifting of her milk away from the desired sattvic state. As in life, there is not just black and white; there are various shades of grey in between.
The Caraka Samhita, at least 2000 years old, lists eight recommended sources of milk, including cow, sheep, mare, elephant and human. It lists the varying qualities of each. Of all, cow's milk is considered the best for its ability to increase ojas, the essence of our immunity and vitality. Yet today, milk is a subject of great controversy regarding its benefits, especially as compared to its potential risks. These risks include high and unhealthful cholesterol levels, heart disease, cancer, osteoporosis, high blood pressure, constipation, lactose intolerance and allergies, among others.
So, how did our perception of milk shift from "best among rasayanas (rejuvenative)" to a highly suspect source of many illnesses? The answer must lie in the changing quality of milk as precipitated by the manner in which we treat its source: the mother. Whether cow, human or other, it is still only a mother that naturally provides milk. When I advice my clients or students about milk, I often tell them to get a healthy cow, put it in a large pasture with lots of green grass, let its calf play with it as a child does, then let the calf drink its full from it and then when you look into its large, liquid, loving eyes and you put a pail under it, you may not even need to milk it, the milk will be given to you that readily! This milk drunk fresh, warm and raw will nourish you like no other food in this world! Realistically, this scenario is almost impossible for most but its essential message can and should exist symbolically for all of us.
As is the case of the human mother, it helps to put things in perspective by remembering that the cow is, first and foremost, also a mother. The cow was always revered in India, her special status enshrined by the law. But now, as you walk the streets of India, in many alleys you will find a cow rummaging through the garbage for food. As a result one reads every few days about a dead cow, her stomach stuffed with discarded plastic bags.
In farm factories around the world, cows are forced into yearly pregnancies for their milk. After giving birth they are milked for 10 months, often they are artificially inseminated during the third month so that they can be milked even when pregnant. This stressful demand for production of milk is more than her body can take, so she starts breaking down body tissue to produce milk. The result is an illness called ketosis. Most of the day the cow is tied up in a narrow stall usually wallowing in her own excrement till she goes lame. She may get mastitis because the hands that milk her so often are rough and usually unclean, so imagine her fate when milked by machines. She gets rumen acidosis from unnatural feed. She is also subject to the use of an array of drugs, including bovine growth hormone (BGH); prostaglandin, which is used to bring a cow into heat whenever the farmer wants to have her inseminated; antibiotics; and even tranquilizers, in order to influence her productivity and behavior. In India, when Mahatma Gandhi heard about the inhumane manner in which cows were being treated, he gave up drinking milk, something he had cherished all his life,
Cows on today's dairy factory farms live only about four to five years (often slaughtered because of mastitis), as opposed to the life expectancy of 20-25 years enjoyed by cows who are treated humanely and are free to roam and free of violent drugs. No cow lives out her normal life cycle. She is milked, made sick and then killed. Perhaps the greatest pain suffered by cows in the dairy industry is the repeated loss of their young. Female calves may join the ranks of the milk producers, but the males are generally taken from their mothers within 24 hours of birth and sold at auction either to the veal industry or to beef producers.
And what of the milk itself? Each cow has its own qualities of health and emotion, yet the milk we drink is freely mixed from all the cows on the farm. Ayurvedically, this milk is already tamasic and indigestible, causing confusion, lethargy, fear and anger. Surely a cow that lives in constant dread, fear of its life and deprivation from its calf, will carry emotions such as anger, outrage, fear and hate. These then are the emotions we digest when we drink its milk. The milk is further pasteurized (in this age of sterile metal containers, an oxymoron) and the good bacteria as well as the bad are destroyed. Since we need the good bacteria to help in the formation of lactase within us, we turn lactose intolerant. Ultra pasteurization, where the milk is violently heated from cold refrigerated to boiling in a couple of minutes changes the chemical composition into a mutated form the horrors of which we can only imagine.
It is this milk that we are expected to equate with the sattvic milk of the Vedas, of the yogis and of Ayurveda. By all standards it will fail. It is in fact no longer the panacea promised by Surabhi, the celestial cow of the Vedas. In the epic myth of the churning of the ocean (manthanam), among the fourteen great treasures that arose was this "cow of plenty". The ancient texts say that in Satyuga (age of perfection), dharma stands as a cow on four legs, in the Tretayuga (age of less than perfection), she stands on three, in Dwaparayuga (dwindling and disappearing perfection), just two and today, in what is widely believed to be Kaliyuga (age of decadence and destruction), she stands on but one leg.
If milk is the essence of a cow's diet, then what is this milk that arises from a steady diet of soy meal, cottonseed meal or other commercial feeds, even bakery waste, chicken manure or citrus peel cake, all laced with pesticides. Vitamins A and D are greatly diminished when milk cows are fed commercial feed, needing to be added in artificially. Soy meal has the wrong protein profile for the dairy cow, resulting in a short burst of high milk production followed by premature death. Real feed for cows is rapidly growing green grass, green feed, silage, hay and root vegetables. From a yogin's perspective, a cow is revered for the fortifying and complete meal offered by her milk. In the Mahabharata (Anusasana Parva), in a discussion between the Rishis Bhishma, Vasishta and Vyasa, is a sloka, a verse:
Cows constitute the stay of all creatures. Cows are the refuge of all creatures. Cows are the embodiment of merit. Cows are sacred and blessed and are sanctifiers of all. One should never, in even one's heart, do an injury to cows. One should, indeed, always confer happiness on them.
When treated humanely, as is the case with all mothers, there is a magical quality to the milk of a cow. In 1929, Dr. J.R. Crewe of the Mayo Foundation published an article called The "Milk Cure." The treatment was a combination of a detoxifying fast and nutrient-dense feeding. The milk used was, in all cases, the only kind of milk available in those days—raw milk from pasture-fed cows, rich in butterfat. The patients were all fed small quantities of milk all day coming up to 5-10 quarts total and nothing else. Striking results were seen in diseases of the heart and kidneys and high blood pressure as well as edema, which is even more surprising because it is unorthodox to treat dropsy (edema) with large quantities of liquids. In the old Ayurvedic texts, milk acts often as an "anupasana," a carrier of medicinal herbs. In his wonderful Ayurvedic cookbook, Dr. Lad lists different medicated milks for different doshic disorders. Ayurveda strongly recommends a glass of warm milk with ginger and cinnamon at bedtime to help one sleep. Milk is considered both an aphrodisiac as well as replenishing after sexual activity. It is said that it takes up to 35 days for food's nutritional value to reach the reproductive tissue but that milk goes straight to it.
There is also a protocol to the drinking of this nutrient rich elixir. Since milk is a fortifying food/beverage, it has a kapha increasing nature; basically this means that it should not be had in addition to your meal. The concept of a glass of milk with breakfast, lunch or dinner is alien to Ayurveda for common sense reasons. Milk, because of its nourishing properties, which include cold and heavy, usually needs to be drunk warm and, unless you have a very strong agni, (the digestive fire) some digestive herbs like ginger or cinnamon should be added. It can be drunk at night before bed or as a complete morning beverage. Milk also gives us some of our other favorite foods: butter, ghee, lassi, yogurt or curds and of course, cheeses. All of these should be used with care and not indulged in because of their richness. It is said that the poorer nations suffer the curse of malnutrition and that the richer ones, where overindulgence is the norm, suffer from the curse of malabsorption.
We live now in an age of convenience. Many of our children in the big cities associate apples with a supermarket shelf and not a tree in an orchard. We expect to find any and all foods at any and all times conveniently provided, forgetting that Nature gives us seasonal foods for a reason. Milk is associated with plastic and paper cartons with the picture of a grazing cow, and yet the reality is what is inside that carton, not in its outside advertisement. It is understandable to want this convenience, after all it is the fruit of our social and cultural advancement, but we must at some point ask not just at what price but also how many of God's fair creatures, of whom we are supposed to show the most promise, are actually paying this price and in the end, we have to ask ourselves, what does this say about us? In the war between cows and humans and there is no question that we have subjugated them much as prisoners of such a war, there can never be any winners. After all, we started out as the best of friends and how could a war between friends ever end in a victory for one? They have not only been our partners all through our rural growth, but in a mutual trust and respect, continued to act as our mothers after we had become adults, providing us with milk, cheese, butter, and even fuel for our fires as cow dung and buffalo chips. A cow digests the essence of the earth through its grass, a very concentrated and hard food to assimilate, but because of their four stomachs, they are able to draw the earth's energy out of it and, having fed their babies, they share this wonderful panacea with us. When we treat a cow as a commodity to increase our convenience, when we refuse to see it as a living being, we demean ourselves. And in the end, when we make a cow sick with the wrong foods and inhumane treatment, it, in turn, makes us sick with mutated and perverted milk that is no longer a panacea but is instead very much a poison.
When we respect Nature, she will respect us. When we divorce ourselves from her, she has no choice but to honor that by staying away from us. In this age of convenience we have created diseases that reflect our alienation from that which gave us life and from whose elemental structure arises our own elemental structure. In this age of irrefutable global warming we have forgotten that in the end we must return to Nature in the shape of dust and that when we go to war with her, we actually go to war with ourselves. In this age of Kaliyuga, when Surabhi, the celestial cow, stands on one foot, Milk, the complete food, turns into Milk, the complete destroyer. If we heed the cries of Nature, we will in fact, hear the cries of the Mother. Every mother wants her milk to nourish her child, not be its poison.
It is also imperative that in this age that we see the potentiality of the next age of perfection. We can begin living it by honoring one of the symbols of that age, the cow standing on all four of her legs…if we begin to drink only milk that comes from cows that roam free, that eat good grass, that are able to nurture their calves, we may just find that indeed, milk is the perfect food of the yogis, both a cure and a rejuvenative.
Arun Deva ©2006
31 thoughts on "Milk in the Age of Convenience"
Giselle on October 29, 2008 at 1:17 am said:
Illuminating and well written. Like you said, it awakens the thing we know already. Thank you for your gift of patient research and sharing!
Giselle.
Matthew Barker on November 18, 2009 at 1:24 pm said:
Thank you for this article. I have written similar words, but without the facts. I have felt this for some time. I do not drink milk or eat cheese because I know of nowhere to find a well treated, well nourished cow.
Where do you find milk in West Hollywood? 🙂
Lynn M. on April 30, 2011 at 6:51 pm said:
Matthew,
You can find quality raw milk from Organic Pastures Dairy (OPDC), based in Fresno, CA. OPDC is available at retail markets in CA (health food stores) as well as at farmer's markets. I believe there is one in the Hollywood area. Mark McAfee, the owner, reports that many CA celebrities purchase his milk.
raj kumar on December 11, 2009 at 4:16 pm said:
Soul searching with a lot of knowledge and experience behind it.
My infant was diagonised with milk allergy, now I know so many more reasons why, plus have a major insight into one more aspect of our Karma.
Thank you for this article.
ericbalaire on March 8, 2010 at 1:57 pm said:
Your beautifully written words make me understand why i have been so reluctant about wether having milk be part of my diet, at all, anymore. The abuses afflicted to cows all over the world is the root of the problem, not the milk itself.
'We can not care for anything (or anyone) other than by touching it gently', these are the words of my wonderful yoga teacher Bryan Kest. These words have been resonating greatly with me lately and i deeply believe this is how we can bring back the lost balance of the world. We need to touch the world, gently in every step of our life and of course this starts by touching ourself (our life inside and out) gently.
I am looking forward to our meeting tomorrow.
Amit on June 10, 2010 at 5:55 am said:
Excellent article,
I wish more people become aware of the abuses done to animals, which cannot speak up for themselves. I wish more people become aware of the unacceptable practices that these industries put through, to bring their products to our table and mouths.
Also my perspective towards milk as a commodity changes completely with this article.
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Complementary and Alternative Medical (CAM) Club at the University of Maryland on February 9, 2012 at 4:57 am said:
Wow great article thank you!
Prem on March 12, 2012 at 3:54 pm said:
Great article well written with empathy and compassion.
siva on December 27, 2012 at 4:08 pm said:
Nice, well understood and written…..is there a way we can establish a database , that can provide us places Where, pure milk can be obtained?
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Er Chetan Sompura on November 26, 2013 at 11:22 pm said:
Found d article very interesting. Got high lesson. I've heard that milk from cow other than Indian breed causes cancer. Is that true? Pl. guide.
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Raji on January 15, 2014 at 2:09 pm said:
Very well articulated. i wish our age and following generations learns how to respect nature and mother cow.
Lisa Miles Jackson on February 26, 2014 at 9:31 am said:
Thank you Maryam, what a beautifully written article. I've witnessed this truth. First after doing a raw vegan diet for 6 months with my Daughter's cancer treatment, I began to have insomnia and signs of adrenal fatigue. Part of my treatment was to add in animal fat as well as adaptogenic herbs and I chose raw milk and small amounts of raw cheese which were wonderful effective additions. Now when I add in even organic conventional milk and cheeses I can feel the difference with increased symptoms of mucous and gas not experienced on raw milk. When we increase our consciousness and respect in our own bodies, the choice is very easy and is one of self love, not deprivation.
chefjemichel on August 26, 2014 at 4:59 am said:
A most wonderful article! Imbued with an abundance of love, compassion and insight all badly needed thoughout the collective psyche of our modern world. This nourishes my inspiration for more DVD creations continuing from where I left off with "Raw Milk: The Whole Truth".:
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In Gratitude!
Vasanth on September 29, 2014 at 9:36 am said:
Great! These words should be heard by every farmer,even though i came from an agricultural background i am not educated this much about how to fed the cow.Really informative,helpful,thanks.
Geeta Shailajan on November 1, 2014 at 10:57 pm said:
Thank you so much,this was really an insight. But one question in mind is pastuerised milk healthier than raw milk? People are not aware how hormones released during ill treatment and stress affect the milk of the cow. They donot even think of the way we treat the cow can effect the milk. The same applies to chicken and other farm animals that are consumed i guess.
Geeta sailajan/UAE
yogarasayana on November 3, 2014 at 6:54 am said:
Hello, milk in Ayurveda is usually taken medicinally and warm. If you have pasteurized milk, you are reheating it and that considerably lowers its nutritional value. Often pasteurization is done to prevent bacterial build up and a longer shelf life. Raw milk from healthy grass and hay fed cows has an inbuilt resistance to bacteria and when warmed right before drinking, releases the lock on its nutrients. Plus, no one can afford to sell poor milk raw, it will have to be very pure or it can cause problems and you will rarely find someone who mistreats cows selling raw milk. Traditionally cows milk (raw and pure) was used more for making butter, cultured yogurts, buttermilks, cheeses, ghee and other such extremely nourishing byproducts and milk was taken with herbs etc in it for healing purposes and rarely as just another beverage.
hoaidoan on April 20, 2015 at 9:27 am said:
Hi, what is the proper way to warm raw warm without getting rid of the raw nutrition? Thank you
hoaidoan on April 19, 2015 at 11:57 pm said:
Great article. I just bought raw milk, which is legal in California under very strict conditions, and am excited to start drinking it the Ayurvedic way. This is the milk the yogis spoke of.
KS on May 21, 2015 at 8:54 am said:
Our vedas have everything researched and well documented, however, we act too intelligent to believe our ancestors!
The need is to understand and follow vedas as need of the hour!
Hinduism is not a religion but way to live!
The article is well written and suggests us to read and understand more of ayurveda for our own well being.
Kim on March 25, 2016 at 12:02 am said:
Is it even possible to get milk where the calf gets "his" share of the milk as mentioned in the aryurvedic texts? Organic Pastures, for example, does allow cows pasture time but how much time is spent on pasture vs in the milking barn? Stress on the cows is reduced by avoiding hormones but there is still the great stress of separating the mothers from their calves and that stress and misery is in the milk, don't kid yourself. I love milk and butter. I wish we modern people could produce milk that isn't laced with mothers' grief.
Puja on June 27, 2016 at 12:32 pm said:
Wow! What a wonderful article!
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Thank you so much Prabhu for this article very well made and explained.
Almost all informations are there and I will nicely share it.
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Beautifully written and articulately presented. Loved it!
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Thank you for taking the time to write this. I would like to share it.
yogarasayana on August 20, 2017 at 11:43 am said:
It probably needs a little updating but you are most welcome to share it…
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If you are in a hurry, the Métro is what you should hop into. Apart from being convenient, métro ticket price is quite reasonable too. In fact, travelling in Paris by métro also costs less than most major cities in Europe. The direction of the train is indicated by the terminal station. For example, if you wish to go south, you will be taking the southbound train which is designated Porte d'Orleans. Interchanges are called correspondance and the two major interchange stations are Châtelet-Les Halles and Montparnasse-Bienvenüe. Free maps are available at Métro stations. The metro trains run from 5.30am to 12.30 am.
Métro could be convenient but the buses are more fun to visit Paris. You have the option of buying a pass or a ticket. The ticket has to be punched in the machine next to the driver. The ticket costs more if you buy it on the bus. So, buy a carnet of 10 tickets from the metro station and use a ticket for each bus ride. You will have to press the request button to get off at a bus stop. Buses run frequently up to 8.30pm. Some bus routes run until 12.30 am.
RER is the fast suburban commuter system which has four lines running across Paris and into the suburbs. Within Paris, the RER connects some stations faster than the Metro as they have fewer stops. The four lines are : Line A (connects Disneyland Paris from Chatelet-Les-Halles) Line B, Line C and Line D. You can use the metro ticket to take the RER within Paris. The RER lines (A, B, C, D) run from 5.30am to 1am daily.


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We need to see the good in ourselves in order to see the good in others. We need to allow others to be more of themselves. Love who you really are by going within. We need to love who we are and in doing so, we grow....
Veritas Neo: The New Vision for a New Reality
Subjects: Non Fiction, Philosophy, Zero-Six Contingent
This book was put together to contain in an easily accessible compilation the founding beliefs of the Zero-Six Contingent, the reasons behind the mission and people's faith in Neo. Neo has spent every waking hour of the past five years compiling this Book, showing people this new light and building the Contingent. He was put here to help them find the key to their own truth and a reason to live, to build a bridge to true PEACE in this world....
The Pocket Guide to Universal Understanding
Robert W. Nelmes
Nelfam Publishing
Date: 1998, Volume: 1st Edition
Subjects: Non Fiction, Philosophy, Spheres of Understanding
The reason for this guide is simple...a personal desire to communicate thoughts to my fellow inhabitants of our planet.
Contents A. Introduction B. Try to Understand C. 3 Steps to Understanding 1. Accept 2. Realize 3. Respect D. It is your choice
The Silver Lining: Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema
Sam Vaknin, Ph. D.
Narcissus Publications
Subjects: Non Fiction, Education, Morals
Collections: Literature, Education, Philosophy, Authors Community
Moral deliberations and philosophical dimensions in thirteen modern films.
Ecclesiastes - Pranja Anthology Qoheleth (c.250BCE-2008)
Lindsay Falvey
Subjects: Non Fiction, Philosophy, Book of Ecclesisates rendered into Buddhist concepts in rhyming couplets
Ecclesiastes, the Greek name for the Hebrew book of !"#$&%# that is transliterated as Qoheleth, forms part of the wisdom literature of the Talmud and the Old Testament. Meaning something like 'to gather', it also evokes 'anthology', like a gathering of flowers, although it actually meant a religious gathering as in the Greek !""#$%&'. Across the ages its similarity to Buddhist notions has been noted, which leads to this rendering of Ecclesiastes in rhyming couplets based on a Buddhist understanding of life. Hence it is a gathering of the inflorescence of wisdom – pranja in Sanskrit –a pranja anthology....
Chapters 1 -12 as in the Book of Ecclesiastes
100 Diamond Quotes
RVM Author
RVM Foundation
Subjects: Non Fiction, Philosophy, Self help
In this book RVM explains the meaning of 100 highly inspiring quotations penned down by him. He believes these quotes helped him move from a life of Achievement to a life of Fulfillment. This book is a true treasure that everyone must possess....
I Wanna Be Happy
RVM unveils the secret to eternal happiness. Discover six simple steps that guarantee happiness. If we follow these steps our life will surely be transformed. In this book RVM proves that anybody can be happy if one truly desires to be so....
The Teaching of Djwhal Khul - The Main Occult Laws and Concepts : Esoteric Natural Science, Volume 1
Tatiana Danina
Subjects: Non Fiction, Philosophy, Science
Collections: Literature, Education, Cultural Studies, Philosophy, Authors Community
The Teaching of the Himalayan adept Djwhal Khul. Synthesis of the Ageless Wisdom and scientific heritage of humanity. Consideration of the main religious and philosophical notions and concepts from the point of view of science. The continuation of books of HP Blavatsky and AA Bailey...
Schopenhauer's Solace: Selected Passages from the Works of Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
Paul Saintilan
Subjects: Non Fiction, Drama and Literature, Philosophy
Contains short excerpts and summaries of Arthur Schopenhauer's philosophies.
Power your Life with PEP
Discover the power of Positive living. Control and take command of your thoughts. RVM explains the power of positive emotions over negative emotions. Always choose positive emotions to live a life of Joy, Bliss and Fulfillment. Pep your life with excitement and enthusiasm....
Asamvedopanishad : Being Begins Where Bhaava Ends
Anamika Anonymous
Harikesh Ganga
Subjects: Non Fiction, Spiritual Philosophy, Spirituality
Collections: Literature, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Philosophy, Authors Community
This is the only authentic and complete edition of the Asamvedopanishad, which proclaims, "Being begins where bhaava ends" to reinforce the ancient upanishadic Nirguna/ Non-identity as both the Means and End of Self-Realization/ Enlightenment. The mind is all bhaava, fabricating endless identities, the network of Maayaa. The root identity, Ahambhaava, seals off Being/ Truth, which defies all identity. The Upanishad resurrects the sovereign Socratic Enlightenment, freeing it of the cobwebs of Plato's mediation and its tortuous system-building agenda. Nothing short of utter Honest Intelligence, unbound by tradition, culture, custom and their contending dogmas and doctrines, can lead to True Being. The Upanishad is severely critical of J. Krishnamurti and his faked-up freedom of hopping from perception to perception, moment to moment....
BEING BEGINS WHERE BHAAVA ENDS
Part I: ASAMVEDOPANISHAD Part II: SHUDDHA SATTVOPANISHAD
Answer the Question: What is Enlightenment?
Immanuel Kant, Dr.; Daniel Fidel Ferrer, Translator
Verlag Daniel Fidel Ferrer
Subjects: Non Fiction, Philosophy, Enlightenment, Ethics, German Philosophy
Collections: Literature, Language, Bibliography, Cultural Studies, Philosophy, Most Popular Books in China, Authors Community
Essay translated from German to English by Daniel Fidel Ferrer in August 2013. Original publication of Immanuel Kant's essay in German: By Immanuel Kant. "Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist Aufklarung?" in Berlinische Monatsschrift Book. 4, 12. December, 1784), pages 481-494. ...
Kant wrote in 1784 in the first part of his essay: "Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one understanding without guidance from another. Self-incurred is this tutelage when its cause lies not in lack of understanding, but rather of resolve and courage to use it without direction from another. Sapere Aude! [Latin translated: Dare to know, from Horace]. Have courage to use your own mind! Thus is the motto of Enlightenment." ...
Table of Contents: Immanuel Kant's Text translated into English (pages 2 to 10). Notes, Bibliography, Related Links, Etc., Appendix A (pages 12 to 25). Word Index (pages 26 to 45). ...
What Doesn't Kill Me Makes Me Stronger: Selected Passages from the Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
Ice Calm Pty Ltd
Collections: Literature, Language, Cultural Studies, Philosophy, Most Popular Books in China, Authors Community
Passages selected, edited, and adapted into contemporary English by Paul Saintilan. Based on translations of the original German by Michael Grunwald.
Confrontations: Philosophical Reflections and Aphorisms
Daniel Fidel Ferrrer, Mr.
Verlag Ferrer
Subjects: Non Fiction, Philosophy, Reference
Collections: Literature, Language, Ontology, Cultural Studies, Philosophy, Most Popular Books in China, Authors Community
1. Ontology. 2. Metaphysics. 3. Philosophy, German. 4.Thought and thinking. 5. Philosophy, Asian. 6. Philosophy, Indic. 7. Philosophy, Modern -- 20th century.8. Philosophy, Modern -- 19th century. 9. Practice (Philosophy). 10. Philosophy and civilization. 11. Postmodernism. 12. Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900. 13. Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976. 14. Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976 -- Homes and haunts -- Germany -- Todtnauberg.15. Nagarjuna, 2nd cent. 1. Ferrer, Daniel Fidel, 1952-. ...
Table of Contents Acknowledgements ……………………………………… 3 Preface Prelude Introduction …………………… ………… 5 Philosophical reflections and aphorisms … ……………… 18 ...
Sacred Books
M. Winternitz
Subjects: Non Fiction, Philosophy, Religion
Collections: Literature, Religion, Social Sciences, Cultural Studies, History, Philosophy, Most Popular Books in China, Authors Community
THE period covered by the inception, the publication, and the completion of the Sacred Books of the East exactly coincides with the thirty-four years that I have spent in Oxford. When I matriculated, Professor Max Muller, the editor of the series, was about to begin work on the first volume, which appeared while I was still an undergraduate. I lost no time in making his acquaintance, for it was the influence of one of his works that had stimulated me to begin under Professor Benfey the study of Sanskrit at the University of Gbttingen, when I left school nearly two years before. During my undergraduate days and later lowed much to Professor Max Muller's advice and encouragement in regard to my studies, which have ever since followed, as far as Sanskrit is concerned, much the same lines as his. I consequently always took a lively interest in the Sacred Books edited by him as they successively appeared during the course of a quarter of a century, no fewer than thirty-six volumes having a more or less direct bearing on my own work, and fourteen of the translators being personally known to me. Professor Max Mi.iller lived to see all...
Habeltt sua lata libelli-not only after they have been published, but sometimes even before they are printed. It was in the spring of 1894 that the late Professor Max Muller first suggested to me that I should compile a General Index of the names and subject-matter for the complete series of the Sacred Books of the East. Such an Index, he thought, would be a great help to all students of the Sacred Books of tile East, and of the greatest value for the study of the history of religions....
I and Thou
Martin Bube
Morrison and Gibb, Ltd.
Subjects: Non Fiction, Philosophy, Jewish Mystical Writings
Collections: Literature, Language, Religion, Cultural Studies, Philosophy, Most Popular Books in China, Authors Community
Tms work in its oripl, German form has already, since its publication fourteen years ago, exercised. on the Continent an influence, quite out of proportion to its slender size. In view of this influence alone it may be affirmed that 1 and Thou will rank &8 one of the epoch-making books 9f our generation. It has hitherto been eomparatively Unknown among English-speaking students of philosophy and theology....
The primal natm:e of the effort to establish relation is already to be seen in the earliest and most confined stage. Before anything isolated can be perceived, timid glances mOve out into indistinct space, towards something indefinite; and in times when there seems to be no desire for nourishment, hands sketch delicately and dimly in the empty air, apparently aimlessly seeking and reaching out to meet something indefinite. You may, if you wish, call this an animal action, but it is not thereby comprehended....
Quest In Reality
Rajinder Paul Bibra
Subjects: Non Fiction, Philosophy, Spiritual Awakening
Collections: Literature, Law, Recreation, Education, Cultural Studies, Philosophy, Authors Community
The book is mostly in a running dialogue form, which is always a prerequisite of a quest-full 'journey'
The more i learn, more i become aware of my ignorance Awareness of ignorance is wisdom
there are ten chapters, however the book is in running dialogue form so segregating it into chapters would be inappropriate!
Issues in Ethics
Mrs. Dr. Sam Vaknin; Lidija Rangelovska, Editor
Subjects: Non Fiction, Philosophy, Ethics
Collections: Literature, Law, Cultural Studies, Gynecology and Obstetrics, Philosophy, Most Popular Books in China, Most Popular Books in Bratislava, Authors Community
Issues in ethics: the right to life, cloning, abortion, animal rights and other controversial topics.
Paradoxism and Postmodernism in Florenitin Smarandache's Work
Ion Soare
American Research Press
Subjects: Non Fiction, Philosophy, Smarandache Collections
Collections: Math, Literature, Fine Arts, Cultural Studies, Philosophy, Most Popular Books in China, Most Popular Books in Bratislava, Authors Community
As if it wanted to be in accordance with the paradoxism and even to confirm it, the way the mathematician writer Florentin Smarandache is received is ... paradoxical. Tens of books, studies and articles have already been written about both, scientist and smarandachism - the name given to the movement by Ion Rotaru and Titu Popescu. However the paradoxist number 1 in the world is less known in his native country. At the same time some researchers ( Jacques Sarthou, Dan Tarchila, Doru Motoc and even... Ion Rotaru) declared him a man of genius (or close by!), while others ignored him or they haven't yet heard about him. Without being disturbed by any of the two contradictory tendencies, the Oltenian- Romanian settled in New Mexico creates further on important works in the two large fieldsliteratures and mathematics (but also in other art and scientific fields)....
Spiritual Heart : The Religion of Unity
Vladimir Antonov; Mikhail Nikolenko, translator
Scientific-Spiritual Ecological Center
Subjects: Non Fiction, Religion, Russia
Collections: Literature, Sociology, Religion, Social Sciences, History, Philosophy, Authors Community
In this book the author presents the understanding of the primary philosophical truths and that form of religious activity of people that God wants to see on Earth. He also provides a detailed explanation of God, Evolution, man, the purpose of human life, and the Path of spiritual self realization. The book also contains an overview of the Russian history in comparison with the examples of degradation of major religious civilizations — up to the current condition of almost complete collapse of Russian religious culture. The author suggests ways out of this situation....


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We have made a phenomenal shift within the media sphere towards a democratic and transparent mode of journalism.
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