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Pinarayi Vijayan
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Who is Pinarayi Vijayan? He is a male celebrity. He was born on Tuesday March 21st 1944, in Unknown.
Pinarayi Vijayan holds great compassion and seeks to be of service to others. He is a healer, and capable of giving comfort to those in need - he will frequently offer a shoulder for others to cry on. But actually, Pinarayi's mission in life is to develop the tools that allow him to be truly helpful to others rather than just a sympathetic ear. Pinarayi Vijayan must find the balance between help and interference, and the delicate art of the counselor who knows when to leave the struggle to others and when to avoid taking away the necessary experiences and lessons of life.
It is in Vijayan's nature to take on responsibility, to fill the void left by others, and to not turn away from personal sacrifice, albeit at times, he may feel overburdened by the travails of others. However, the love others bestow upon him is his well deserved reward.
Pinarayi seeks marriage and is often a wonderful parent, offering warmth, protection, and understanding to children. However, he must be careful not to choose partners for the wrong reasons, and to not let sentimentality influence his decision, especially those involving the choice of a spouse. Pinarayi Vijayan needs to be needed, but must learn to discriminate between those he can help and others who are made weaker by his care. After all, it is in Pinarayi's nature to be attracted to the weaker brothers and sisters among us. The temptation for Vijayan is to think of himself as the savior of the world, carrying the burdens of others on his shoulders.
Pinarayi Vijayan is blessed with musical talent, as well as in the visual and performing arts, and can be successful in a number of artistic fields - even when experiencing inability to fully recognize his own talents. He also has enormous talent in business, and his great deal of charm and charisma can be used effectively to attract the people and support he needs. More...
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Pinarayi Vijayan is a person of thinking and planning.
Having well-developed business mindset, he is good at making effective plans, setting goals and working out the best way to achieve them.
He may also have excellent organisational and administrative skills, but that depends on how often he skips the details in order not to lose sight of the bigger picture.
It is natural for Pinarayi to think before he acts, to constantly plan the short- and long-term future, and to keep elaborate notes and diary with everything well planned and written down.
He also knows how to work effectively and efficiently with others in business, while maintaining self control and discipline, and teaching them to appreciate knowledge as the key ingredient to success.
If Pinarayi is over-organized, he should practice finding his way in disarrayed environment, or otherwise feel confused and in disarray himself.
But if he ignores the details in favor of the bigger picture, others might view Vijayan as undisciplined with details, and not appreciate his great planning skills.
Tour Pinarayi's menu and gain more insight into his personality traits, relationships, strengths and weaknesses, likes and dislikes, compatibility with you and with others, and much more.
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What a glorious day January 19th 2020 is for Pinarayi Vijayan! He wakes up harmonious and in full recognition the beauty of life.
The day continue with intelligent discussions and successful sharing of his ideas with others.
Pinarayi's creativity and originality today may be lacking of practical application, but his wittiness and resolve help him to resolve conflicts and harmonize relationships.
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Adrian Peterson (1985)
An American football running back for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League (NFL) who set in his first pro season an NFL record for most rushing yards in a single game, and was named the NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year
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An English theatre, film and television actor, filmmaker, musician and author who is recognized for his dramatic acting style and on-screen diversity, and featured in music videos for David Bowie, Guns N' Roses and Annie Lennox
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Speech Recovery with Determination: A UMAP Success Story
January 9, 2015 Success Story
A Businessman's Experience with Aphasia
Ken Huddleston is an incredibly successful petroleum engineer whose work often takes him to the Caribbean islands of Trinidad and Tobago. During a trip to Trinidad in December of 2008, Ken experienced a stroke and was found unconscious by someone working on the house where he was staying. Because no one knew how long Ken had been unconscious and the medicine needed was not available locally, Ken was flown to Tampa, Florida for medical care. In the plane, Ken's stroke progressed from ischemic (caused by a clot) to hemorrhagic–meaning his brain began to bleed.
He remained in Florida for a month in the Intensive Care Unit, and then was moved to a rehabilitation hospital in Dallas, Texas. His stroke resulted in both physical issues and aphasia. In Dallas, Ken received comprehensive therapy for 10 months and then was able to return home to Wichita Falls, Texas to continue outpatient speech therapy. Since Ken worked for himself, he went back to work immediately after returning home. Ken's wife, Lysle, and his coworkers learned to work with his aphasia, letting him say one or two words and then speaking for him.
Lysle shared, "The way aphasia presents itself, people don't know where the intelligence is. It's still there. It's just harder expressing it. The things Ken knew before his stroke, he knows now."
Making the Connection at UMAP
After seeing UMAP in Stroke Smart magazine, Ken called and received information from Mimi Block, UMAP's clinical manager.
"From the minute we got here, we've been nothing but impressed," Lysle said.
In the past, with a group of therapists, Ken would typically make a strong connection with on or two therapist, but at UMAP he has made a connection with every therapist he's had, according to Lysle. "I think it really gives him the will to keep trying," she said.
"The biggest thing we have gotten from this program is the drive to keep going," she commented. Since coming to UMAP, Lysle says both she and Ken have become determined to be less complacent and work towards Ken's improvement.
Lysle and Ken have not only gained an education on aphasia, but also have had a chance to connect with other people affected by aphasia. In other situations, Ken might back away from interactions because he's afraid to change the flow of the conversation, but at UMAP he doesn't have to worry about it. It is comfortable for Ken to talk with someone who understands aphasia. Lysle has enjoyed connecting with the spouses and caregivers of other clients as well.
"They work really hard here, but they're committed to it and they get a lot of encouragement" Lysle shared about the clients' experience at UMAP.
Lysle and Ken think it's the little differences about UMAP that made the experience great. They enjoyed that therapy is a combination of individual, group, and computer therapy. They also liked socializing at lunch with the other clients and the fact that people are called clients rather than patients. The individualization of the program made for Ken's great success. His speech-language pathologistsat UMAP gathered words that Ken used in his occupation and made them a priority, since Ken works on the phone so much. Lysle said she liked that they "care enough to do that" and that "It's not a cookie cutter program."
Lysle and Ken thought Ann Arbor was "an amazing gem of a place." They were impressed by the university, all of the people, and the amenities. They especially loved the activities that Lisa Kraus had planned as part of the Social Recreation Activities program.
Before UMAP, Ken was complacent to just point or say the wrong word and not try to find the right one. But after attending UMAP, he has been doing more with his speech and can speak full sentences. The program has given him drive to continue and improve his speech. He's now committed to communicate better and to not let others speak for him.
Ken has now attended UMAP twice and is back to traveling back and forth to Trinidad and Tobago on a regular basis.
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New character trailer for Bravely Second is released
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Theatrhythm Final Bar Line getting a demo on February 1st
Today's Theatrhythm Final Bar Line livestream from Square Enix not only showcased the game but it came with a surprise announcement – there'll be a demo! As confirmed in the official blog post, the demo will feature 30 songs and have save data transfer, letting you shoot your best scores…
Guide – Here's how to obtain and use Lyn in Fire Emblem Engage
Lyn, one of the heroes of Fire Emblem: Blazing Blade, returns in Fire Emblem Engage as the Emblem of the Lady of the Plains, who will assist your army in its quest. Lyn as an Emblem is built around two themes: striking without fear of counterattack and LOTS of Speed….
Rhapsody: Marl Kingdom Chronicles concludes the trilogy on Switch
One of the biggest surprise Switch releases last year, at least for fans of retro JRPGs, was the modern port of the classic NIS PlayStation game Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure. The original game did receive two sequels, though, and now they're seeing a release in the west for the first…
A new trailer for Bravely Second: End Layer has just been released on Nintendo U.K.'s official YouTube channel, showing off the new character and game's main protagonist Yew Geneolgia.
The new video shows Yew in three different scenarios, the first being a discussion he's having with his other two Cavaliers, Janne and Nikolai. Yew encourages the two that they must travel to Skyhold. In the second scenario, Yew's cowardly personality is shown off, and he talks to himself about being terrified of ghosts before being scared off by a ghost.
In the third scene we see him in, Yew is talking with Edea and Magnolia about rescuing Tiz and Agnès. Here is also where Yew's odd passion of gravy is really shown off, which is something that supposedly gives him quite a bit of spirit.
You can look forward to playing as Yew and returning to the Bravely Default universe just this month if you're in Europe, or in North America, on April 15th.
Pre-order Bravely Second: End Layer on Amazon today!
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David Shields recently dismissed most contemporary novels as "antediluvian texts" that "could have been written by Flaubert 150 years ago". "In no way," claimed the author of Reality Hunger, "do they convey what it feels like to live in the 21st century."
He has a point – albeit one that Alain Robbe-Grillet had already made in 1965 when he deplored the fact that young French novelists were praised for writing "like Stendhal" but castigated as soon as they refused to abide by the "dead rules" of a bygone age. Along with Michel Butor, Nathalie Sarraute and Claude Simon – the main proponents of the new novel (nouveau roman) – Robbe-Grillet stood resolutely in the second camp. In his essays, he returns time and again to the notion that the novel, from Stendhal to Joyce, has constantly evolved – hence the absurdity of using "the norms of the past" to judge the fiction of today. Far from representing a rejection of the past, the quest for a new novel was thus very much in keeping with the history of a genre which, by definition, must always be renewed.
Feeling that his work was too often misrepresented by the critical establishment (with a few notable exceptions including Barthes, Blanchot and Nabokov), Robbe-Grillet published a series of articles to set the record straight. In 1963 they were collected in Towards a New Novel – for my money, one of the most important works of postwar literary criticism. However, these "critical reflections" were never meant to constitute a manifesto. Every novel, according to Robbe-Grillet, is a self-sufficient work of art which cannot be reduced to some external meaning or truth that is "known in advance". "The New Novel," as he put it, "is not a theory, it is an exploration." Why bother writing a book that illustrates a rule when "the statement of the rule would suffice"?
Quoting Heidegger at the beginning of an essay on Waiting For Godot, Robbe-Grillet writes that the human condition is "to be there". In another essay, he states that it is "chiefly in its presence that the world's reality resides". So there you have it. Man is here, the world is there and the distance between the two lies at the heart of the new novel project. We endow the world with meaning (or meaninglessness) in order to control it. From this point of view, the writer's traditional role was to excavate nature in order to unearth the "hidden soul of things". Robbe-Grillet calls for the creation of a new form of fiction that reflects the "more modest, less anthropomorphic world" we live in today – one which is "neither significant nor absurd," but simply is.
This seemingly anodyne observation has serious literary ramifications. Gone is the traditional hero of yore who believed the world was there to be conquered and whose hour of glory coincided with the triumph of individualism. Gone is the humanist "communion" between people and things: "Things are things, and man is only man." Gone is the notion of tragedy, which Robbe-Grillet sees as a twisted ploy to reaffirm this solidarity: "I call out. No one answers. Instead of concluding that there is no one there (...) I decide to act as if someone were there, but someone who, for some reason or other, will not answer". In the new novel, "Man looks at the world" but "the world does not look back," which precludes any symbolism or transcendence. The novelist's task now is to describe the material world, not to appropriate it or project himself onto it; to record the distance between human beings and things without interpreting this distance as a painful division. All this implies that the "entire literary language" be reformed. Similes and metaphors, which are often used gratuitously to confer literary status upon a text, are seldom innocent since they tend to anthropomorphise the world.
The new novel is routinely attacked for being inhuman and coldly descriptive. Robbe-Grillet responds that his work is in fact far less objective than the godlike, omniscient narrator who presides over so many traditional novels. Description here is purely subjective and takes centre stage, whereas in Balzac, for instance, it simply sets the scene by lending the plot an air of authenticity. Instead of referring to an external, pre-existing reality, Robbe-Grillet's descriptions seem to create their own objects, their own hallucinatory reality. "Nothing," he explains, "is more fantastic, ultimately, than precision."
The reality of any work of art is its form, and to separate style from substance is to "remove the novel from the realm of art". Art, Robbe-Grillet reminds us, is not just a pretty way of presenting a message: it is the message. Like the world out there, a novel is self-sufficient and "expresses nothing but itself". Its "necessity" has nothing to do with its "utility". Whenever an author envisages a future book, "it is always a way of writing which first of all occupies his mind," which leads Robbe-Grillet to state – provocatively – that "the genuine writer has nothing to say. He has only a way of speaking". Creative writing classes should always start and end on that note.


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NY bishop visits Holocaust center in wake of area anti-Semitic attacks
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(JTA) — A Long Island bishop visited a local Holocaust memorial center in the wake of several anti-Semitic hate attacks in the suburban New York area.
Bishop John Barres, the head of the Diocese of Rockville Centre since January, was accompanied by other church officials on his visit to the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County in Glen Cove on Tuesday. They met Holocaust survivors along with center staff and volunteers.
Barres said the visit was an opportunity to strengthen the bond between the church and the Jewish community.
"A deep goal is to continue the beautiful friendship with Jewish people on Long Island," he told WCBS-TV.
The visit follows several anti-Semitic incidents in Nassau County, including swastikas spray-painted inside a high school.
At the center, the bishop met with Holocaust survivor Gloria Glantz, 78, who was hidden from the Nazis by a Catholic Polish neighbor.
"I was praying to Jesus at 3 1/2," Glantz told WCBS. "I didn't know much about current events, I didn't know much about my religion.
"I would have been sent to the Treblinka death camp."
Barres said the tour renewed his ambition to help protect minority groups under attack.
"We need to regard the dignity of every human life," he said.
White supremacist Nick Fuentes returns to Twitter with a spree of antisemitic comments
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Response to the "Consultation on the Leveson Inquiry and its Implementation"
Broughton Micova, Sarah (2017) Response to the "Consultation on the Leveson Inquiry and its Implementation". UNSPECIFIED.
The UK Government consulted on the commencement of Section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013 and the continuation of the Leveson Inquiry with the opening of part 2 of that process. This response to the consultation, submitted through an online form, argued for the immediate commencement of section 40, which provides a vital incentive for publishers to participate in a system of self-regulation that would serve the public. It further argued that Leveson part 2 was still very necessary, especially in light of the renewed attempts for a Sky merger that make the question of whether James Murdoch is "fit and proper" to hold a UK broadcast licence even more important.


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New Festhaus Show
Thread starter Griffon
Entwined is out and Roll out the barrel is in ....
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Jrbgwfan06
Griffon, you sure do know how to create a great feeling of suspense and curiosity.
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Pusheen Gardens
Will we have a barrel of fun?
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Sounds like the original 'This Is Oktoberfest' replacement will get a chance.
My signature has been predicting this event for a long time now.
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Zimmy
Nessie is lonely.
Silver Donor
oh good, the park is going to waste more money developing, producing, and staging a new show.
Scott G. fiddles while BGW burns.
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avid coaster enjoyer
I was kinda expecting this. They wouldn't take out a classic show for the 40th and replace it with something that doesn't reflect on the past. It makes me wonder how much of the original ROTB will be in the show since it was in production before Entwined. Also, since Matthew clearly leaked this months in advance I might rethink my vote for the panel if I were you.
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Zimmy said:
As much as I agree that the park is not really in the place to develop a new show, I can *sorta* see the justification for this.
I think it is smart that the park is adding a new show while taking away two older ones. We all know that Entwined garnered poor guest satisfaction, and as much as I loved This Is Oktoberfest, it was really just a shell of its former self and felt like a place-holder that the park had reluctantly returned to the roster. After the initial cost of developing/producing a new show is done, having "Roll Out The Barrel" as the the only show in the Festhaus would be the equivalent of dropping one of the existing shows in the venue. So you get all the benefits of cutting a show (read: money saved).
However, this is much better from a marketing perspective. When people inevitably ask, "Why did you cancel Entwined?" or "Why did you get ride of This Is Oktoberfest?" the park will be able to turn around and say "We have retired our older shows in order to make way for our brand new show, Roll Out The Barrel!" Whereas, if one of the two shows were simply lopped off with no replacement, people would complain for exactly that reason. I guess it just looks better for the park? I dunno.
But after the 2015 season, assuming the new show sticks around for 2016 and beyond, it's economically no different than having simply cancelled one of the Festhaus shows. That is, at least, how I have this justified in my mind, but maybe I'm over-analyzing things.
My hope, however unlikely, is that some of the production/developing has already taken place, from back in 2011 before Roll Out The Barrel was scrapped at the last minute for Entwined. Maybe they'll be able to simply pull the show out of the filing cabinet, dust it off, and put it on with some of the work already having been done.
But who knows...
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Now the question is if Roll out the Barrel will carry in the same vein as This is Oktoberfest or if it will lean more toward being Entwined with the theme of Oktoberfest. Judging by what was said in the previous thread it's the latter.
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This makes me sorta feel better. For one the massive fairy tale stage will be gone in favor of something more traditional and if the show is like the one they originally planned then that "This is Oktoberfest" feeling should be there but with an update that it needed.
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CastleOSullivan
Does anybody remember "This is Oktoberfest!" as it was before its short retirement? The general opinion on that version was very negative. It is possible that they were just pulling an old trick to "prove" that the show got old. The other thing I heard is that it was changed in order to transition to "Roll Out The Barrel".
If that rumor had any truth to it, we could be doomed. Maybe the script was modified since then. We could have an instant replay of our expectations/reactions to "Scrooge No More!". I hope we see something to really bring "Gemütlichkeit" back into Das Festhaus.
BGW Family
The description of this in the brochure was
"NEW FOR 2012 - ROLL OUT THE BARREL - 200 years of tradition is turned upside-down as Busch Gardens rolls out this all-new show in the world-famous Das Festhaus."
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Weren't there supposed to be Barrel Rollers in the original version of the show that were transferred over to the acrobatic nomes in Entwined V1? I wonder if they still plan on having barrel rollers?
"Roll Out the Barrel"
Busch Gardens is rolling out a new show this spring in honor of the park's 40th anniversary."Roll Out the Barrel" follows a fictional German town as its residents celebrate their 40th annual town beer brewing festival. The show will debut March 27 and joins "London Rocks," "Celtic Fyre" and "Mix It Up!" as part of the gardens' theatrical lineup.
Source: http://hamptonroads.com/2015/02/busch-gardens-celebrates-40-years-new-show
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I will say it again, Wunderbarn 2.0
Luke said:
The show will debut March 27 and joins "London Rocks," "Celtic Fyre" and "Mix It Up!" as part of the gardens' theatrical lineup.
I thought that "Mix It Up!" was cancelled? :shocked:
Why do shows in the Festhaus have to tie into other things? Why can't they just stand on their own?
I have to agree, this sounds sort of like Wunderbarn meets Entwined meets KD40: On Stage.
In other words... run!
Jonquil said:
When did you here that?
No one has actively said MIU isn't returning this year. It will most likely have a late May starting date, as it did last year.
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I'm really interested to see what happens. The whole concept of a brewery definitely fits the Festhaus theme and it appears to be more of a real German show and less of a "Watch me milk these Cows!" kinda show. I have hopes that this will be a modern show mentioning the past similar to how This is Oktoberfest was showing what Oktoberfest is like instead of taking place in the past.


Trade shows can offer a number of opportunities for your business. You can reach an audience larger than you ever imagined and pick and choose the shows in which you wish to participate. As long as you are committed to putting your best foot forward trade shows can be one of the most productive methods of creating lead generations. If you are sitting on the fence on whether or not you should begin going on the trade show circuit here are some pros and cons for you to consider.
There is no doubt when you are at a trade show you will be reaching your target audience. People attending trade shows are there generally for two reasons: They want to learn or they want to buy.
Plenty of sales lead generation opportunities with the right approach in place.
You will have an opportunity to check out your competition which will help you provide valuable information to your sales and marketing team.
It is a good opportunity to try out your new marketing materials such as a new website or to launch a new App.
It is an excellent place to launch a new product.
You can start off by renting trade show exhibit displays and then once you decide it is worth your while invest in customized trade show exhibit displays.
You can save money and only participate in local trade shows and then decide to travel if it seems worth the ROI.
You will only be as good as who is manning the booth so you will have to invest some time and money in training and preparing your staff.
There are associated fees with travel.
You will need a good booth as most participants will have professional trade show exhibit displays.
There will be plenty of competition all in one room.
Just remember your competition will be there and could miss out on your share of the pie.


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Handaband USA was a thriving business in the oil and gas market in Texas until unpredictable fuel prices made it difficult to sustain its growth. This is the story of how its previous lender (Crestmark), an Article 9 reorganization, its current owner (Logan Fund) and its newly recruited lender (GemCap) have gotten the business back in the fast lane.
By Robert DiNozzi, Chief Growth Officer, Second Wind Consultants
Behind the daily transactional news of originations, intercreditor agreements and creative financing solutions in asset-based finance lie deeper stories of the profound impact made by the industry and its community. This impact is felt on a macro level as value creation in times of growth or value preservation in times of distress.
While every successful asset-based lending transaction necessarily originates in self-interest, it also plays a crucial role in moving capitalism's invisible hand, working to guide an efficient allocation of resources toward growth or turnaround while creating and persevering value. It is this value that's felt on a micro level by real people — entrepreneurs, employees, families and their livelihoods. These stories, the ones behind the transactional news, remind our community of its impact and purpose. This is one of those stories.
In November of 2022, ABFJournal reported on a transaction involving Crestmark's creative exit from a non-performing credit, Second Wind Consultants' Article 9 reorganization of the guarantor's business and GemCap's refinancing of Crestmark to allow it out of previously distressed assets. Behind this transaction is a story of two lenders and a consultancy working creatively to maximize value for all while preserving 30 jobs and the opportunity presented by a rapidly growing business in the oil field services sector. This is the story behind the story.
Once Upon a Time in Texas
This story begins in the oil fields of west Texas. Handaband USA, founded three years ago by a former oil and gas executive at Parkland Fuel, was launched in response to a critical oil and gas production well-site inefficiency. The thousands of well-sites that dot the Texas landscape operate 24/7, requiring diesel fuel, gasoline and a multitude of lubricants in their uninterrupted operation. Traditionally, producers have relied on logistics involving a constant rotation of trucks to and from servicing stations that are typically between 30 and 80 miles from a well site. Along with the associated time, cost, wear and tear of such logistics, there is also the risk of interruption from mechanical issues and breakdowns in this supply chain.
Enter Handaband, which began offering remote fueling stations capable of being deployed directly at a well site and maintaining one week's worth of usage while being monitored by a software platform communicating by WiFi, cellular data or satellite reporting to detect levels in the tanks. Handaband would sell fuels and lubricants at a mark-up, reflecting its value add to producers by allowing them to not only outsource supply chain logistics, but also by ensuring constant supply while avoiding the need to offset the risk of interruptions with oversupply. With tens of thousands of remote well sites in the United States alone, the opportunity for Handaband was tremendous.
After capitalizing the early stages of the business, Handaband's founder knew they would need cash flow support. In 2018, Handaband partnered with Crestmark, which supported the business as accounts began to grow for the company, which maxed out at an annual run rate of $36 million in revenue and $2.5 million in EBITDA. However, trouble, was on the horizon in the form of fuel price gyrations and spikes along with poor credit terms offered to clients, meaning the company's rapid growth was going to become unsupportable.
Trouble Brewing
In 2018, when fuel prices became highly unpredictable, Handaband was challenged to accurately predict cash flow. Crestmark worked proactively with the borrower to manage this environment, accessing equity in the company's equipment by bringing in an equipment lender and extending the company's facility from 80% to 90% LTV.
Compounding the issues posed by the fuel price environment, Handaband negotiated poor credit terms with its clients, offering net 60 when only getting net 10 from its suppliers. This meant that every time Handaband onboarded a new client, it would have to fill a station six to eight times before a receivable was paid for the initial order. That would translate into approximately $400,000 to $1 million in capitalization per new account. Growth became increasingly expensive and hard to manage, particularly if any account debtor fell out of terms because Handaband simply couldn't afford to cash flow the delta.
At the same time, there was pressure to grow. Because Handaband's model was not based on any underlying, protectable IP, being first to market was at the core of its strategy to create barriers to competitive entry. By result, the company had leveraged its maximum availability with Crestmark, so a sudden and historic spike in diesel prices would set the stage for distress.
Handaband had modeled its margins to be wide enough to outpace any variability in the price of supply. But in the spring of 2022, a truly historic spike in the price of diesel would vastly outstrip those margins, at one point rising 50% in a 48-hour period. In this rising price environment, net 60 receivables and net 10 payables rendered growth immediately unsupportable. This is when the spiral toward insolvency truly began.
Having fallen behind on terms with suppliers, Handaband also had approximately $1.8 million of delinquent accounts payable with suppliers in the market, damaging its reputation and limiting its ability to shop the market competitively. And because the company had aggressively and fully leveraged its facility with Crestmark to finance growth, with zero or negative availability on its line of credit, Handaband was left with no option other than to resort to high-interest merchant cash advances and other sub-debt, ultimately totaling approximately $1.5 million. This violation of covenant immediately put Handaband into default with Creastmark, which was collateralized by approximately $5.25 million in accounts receivable and equipment.
Finding the Path to Recovery
Enter Second Wind Consultants, with which Crestmark had worked previously to exit a credit involving a distressed co-packing facility in California. Working creatively together, Crestmark and Second Wind identified a path to full recovery where there would otherwise have been a loss.
From Crestmark's vantage point, the repossession of Handaband's equipment would have been particularly challenging and inefficient, as its collateral was spread over a wide geographic area of approximately 1,700 square miles. On the A/R side, cycles of creditworthiness posed a particular issue in the industry and would likely have meant not only inefficient collection, but also a net loss. Second Wind estimated that if Crestmark were to forcefully collect, it could expect a combined recovery of approximately $4 million, a $1.25 million shortfall of the $5.25 million outstanding.
After exploring multiple options, the parties agreed that Second Wind would structure an Article 9 reorganization of the business, through which Crestmark would sell its collateral under Article 9 for the full $5.25 million valuation to Logan Fund (an investment firm affiliated with Second Wind), which would step in and take over operation of the assets. This strategy offered Crestmark a path to full recovery. However, it also meant Crestmark would need to continue to fund the company through the close of the transaction, a proposition that was creative but not without risk.
While the purchase under Article 9 would take Crestmark out in full, the most significant risk of continuing to fund Handaband until close was posed by sub-debt creditors (mostly MCA lenders), which regularly sweep bank accounts, intercept A/R, or otherwise jeopardize collateral and operations, the viability of which would need to be preserved in order to conclude the sale transaction.
Crestmark's risk/reward calculus when determining whether to continue funding toward a successful close was informed by Second Wind's assurance that it could not only protect the company's operating accounts, but mitigate the risk of A/R being intercepted by UCC 9-406 notices. To protect the A/R lifeblood of the business, Second Wind worked with the purchaser, Logan Fund, to establish an indemnity facility in order to free any A/R potentially frozen by a UCC 9-406 notice. This facility would act as a form of indemnification bond, assuring the account debtor that the A/R could be released with no jeopardy of double payment or incurrence of legal fees arising out of MCA lender claims and/or actions. With sufficient confidence that the business would be insulated from the MCA risk and that a successful close and full exit could be achieved, Crestmark opted to continue to fund Handaband.
On the debtor side, Second Wind structured incentives for its client (and Crestmark's guarantor) as a non-owner participant in the new entity inheriting the assets. The purchaser, Logan Fund, has leveraged the previous owner's experience as operator to continue to grow the business. By result, the previous owner is meaningfully participating in the relaunched business with a path toward resolving PGd sub-debt liabilities along with a path to earn back into equity based on performance.
Together, Crestmark and Second Wind's interim rescue of business operations set the stage for the Article 9 transaction and take-out financing. Second Wind now reached out to funding partner GemCap.
The Next Lender
GemCap had prior experience financing previously distressed assets which had been resolved through Article 9 transactions. Yet the Handaband transaction required particular creativity. Not only would the transaction need to close quickly sine Crestmark was continuing to fund a high-risk situation, but GemCap would also need to fund at the same 90% LTV on the A/R that Crestmark had.
On the equipment side, there were issues with insufficient geo-tagging, meaning equipment lenders would require additional time for diligence. It was time neither the business nor Crestmark had.
At this point, Second Wind turned back to GemCap to finance the equipment in addition to the take-out, as this was only means of getting the deal done. In order to make GemCap comfortable entering the credit, Second Wind presented the plans to improve the company and how it was going to look on both a cash basis and accrual basis. For one, the Achilles heel of poor credit terms would be immediately addressed with the installation of pay-at-the-pump merchant service terminals on all remote fueling stations. This meant Handaband would, in essence, be out-sourcing payment terms to a third party and converting 60-day receivables into 48-hour receivables. Next, GemCap stretched on the A/R and Second Wind arranged for credit insurance on key accounts. Additionally, GemCap was presented with the growth potential of the credit itself based on the many industries and verticals that could be capitalized upon by remote fueling station technology. Based on all of these factors, GemCap agreed to finance the equipment and the A/R at a 90% LTV.
After the notice period, the Article 9 asset sale transaction promptly closed, taking out Crestmark in full, including early termination fees. On the other side, GemCap entered a performing, collateral-good credit and was insured on a majority of the A/R. As a lending partner, GemCap entered a relationship with a business whose previous mistakes had been identified and rectified by Second Wind while transitioning the business to its new owner, Logan Fund.
Success and Purpose
The future is now bright for Handaband, its employees and its lender. The health of the new business has allowed Logan Fund to transition portions of unsecured vendor liabilities into the new operating entity, ensuring solid supply relationships going forward. The business is now poised to capitalize on remote developments, infrastructure projects and efficient fuel delivery models for homes and businesses alike, which will likely scale its lender's deployment by a significant multiple.
Handaband was brought back from the brink of liquidation. Rather than having seen its final chapter, much of this business' story has yet to be written. It owes its second chance in no small part to the creativity of asset-based lenders working to maximize recovery and create opportunity by preserving value that would otherwise have been lost to distress.
Alongside this business with a reason to exist was a story with a reason to be told. It is a story that highlights our purpose as professionals in secured finance and turnaround industries to harness capitalism's engine and bring new efficiencies to it while making profound and impactful contributions to the betterment of our economy, the businesses we partner with and the livelihoods dependent on them.
Phil Neuffer January 23, 2023 Published Articles | Turnaround Management


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Does Biden Really Understand That Trickle-Down Economics Is a Cruel Hoax?
At this juncture, between a global pandemic and the promise of a post-pandemic world, and between the administrations of Trump and Biden, we would be well-served by changing the economic paradigm from trickle down to build up.
The practical alternative to trickle-down economics might be called build-up economics. (Photo by Ronen Tivony/NurPhoto via Getty Images
How should the huge financial costs of the pandemic be paid for, as well as the other deferred needs of society after this annus horribilis?
Politicians rarely want to raise taxes on the rich. Joe Biden promised to do so but a closely divided Congress is already balking.
That's because they've bought into one of the most dangerous of all economic ideas: that economic growth requires the rich to become even richer. Rubbish.
Economist John Kenneth Galbraith once dubbed it the "horse and sparrow" theory: "If you feed the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows."
We know it as trickle-down economics.
You don't need a doctorate in ethical philosophy to think that now might be a good time to tax and redistribute some of the top's riches to the hard-hit below.In a new study, David Hope of the London School of Economics and Julian Limberg of King's College London lay waste to the theory. They reviewed data over the last half-century in advanced economies and found that tax cuts for the rich widened inequality without having any significant effect on jobs or growth. Nothing trickled down.
Meanwhile, the rich have become far richer. Since the start of the pandemic, just 651 American billionaires have gained $1 trillion of wealth. With this windfall they could send a $3,000 check to every person in America and still be as rich as they were before the pandemic. Don't hold your breath.
Stock markets have been hitting record highs. More initial public stock offerings have been launched this year than in over two decades. A wave of hi-tech IPOs has delivered gushers of money to Silicon Valley investors, founders and employees.
Oh, and tax rates are historically low.
Yet at the same time, more than 20 million Americans are jobless, 8 million have fallen into poverty, 19 million are at risk of eviction and 26 million are going hungry. Mainstream economists are already talking about a "K-shaped" recovery – the better-off reaping most gains while the bottom half continue to slide.
You don't need a doctorate in ethical philosophy to think that now might be a good time to tax and redistribute some of the top's riches to the hard-hit below. The UK is already considering an emergency tax on wealth.
Biden has rejected a wealth tax, but maybe he should be even more ambitious and seek to change economic thinking altogether.
The practical alternative to trickle-down economics might be called build-up economics. Not only should the rich pay for today's devastating crisis but they should also invest in the public's long-term well-being. The rich themselves would benefit from doing so, as would everyone else.
At one time, America's major political parties were on the way to embodying these two theories. Speaking to the Democratic National Convention in 1896, populist William Jennings Bryan noted: "There are two ideas of government. There are those who believe that, if you will only legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, their prosperity will leak through on those below. The Democratic idea, however, has been that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous, their prosperity will find its way up through every class which rests upon them."
Build-up economics reached its zenith in the decades after the second world war, when the richest Americans paid a marginal income tax rate of between 70% and 90%. That revenue helped fund massive investment in infrastructure, education, health and basic research – creating the largest and most productive middle class the world had ever seen.
But starting in the 1980s, America retreated from public investment. The result is crumbling infrastructure, inadequate schools, wildly dysfunctional healthcare and public health systems and a shrinking core of basic research. Productivity has plummeted.
Yet we know public investment pays off. Studies show an average return on infrastructure investment of $1.92 for every public dollar invested, and a return on early childhood education of between 10% and 16% – with 80% of the benefits going to the general public.
The COVID vaccine reveals the importance of investments in public health, and the pandemic shows how everyone's health affects everyone else's. Yet 37 million Americans still have no health insurance. A study in the Lancet estimates Medicare for All would prevent 68,000 unnecessary deaths each year, while saving money.
If we don't launch something as bold as a Green New Deal, we'll spend trillions coping with ever more damaging hurricanes, wildfires, floods and rising sea levels.
The returns from these and other public investments are huge. The costs of not making them are astronomical.
Trickle-down economics is a cruel hoax. The benefits of build-up economics are real. At this juncture, between a global pandemic and the promise of a post-pandemic world, and between the administrations of Trump and Biden, we would be well-served by changing the economic paradigm from trickle down to build up.
Robert Reich, is the Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and a senior fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies. He served as secretary of labor in the Clinton administration, for which Time magazine named him one of the 10 most effective cabinet secretaries of the twentieth century. His book include: "Aftershock" (2011), "The Work of Nations" (1992), "Beyond Outrage" (2012) and, "Saving Capitalism" (2016). He is also a founding editor of The American Prospect magazine, former chairman of Common Cause, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and co-creator of the award-winning documentary, "Inequality For All." Reich's newest book is "The Common Good" (2019). He's co-creator of the Netflix original documentary "Saving Capitalism," which is streaming now.
Economy, U.S.
Inequality, Wall Street, Joe Biden, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Taxation


In book three of the McKenna's Daughters series, Catherine McKenna begins a journey to find her lost sisters that turns into a spiritual journey for the entire McKenna family.
I've been looking forward to the conclusion of this trilogy and to find out what happened with the third sister, Catherine McKenna.
Upon turning eighteen, Catherine discovers that she is a triplet, and that because her mother died in childbirth, her father had given up her two sisters for adoption. She's determined to find her sisters, despite her father refusing to help her.
Used to having her own way and not being denied, Catherine embarks on a journey with her lady's maid in search of her sisters. Along the way she discovers what it is to be part of a larger family, and to think of others needs instead of always her own.
Thankfully her father has the good sense to send his trusted employee, Collin, after Catherine when he discovers her disappearance. Collin has his own issues of failure and insecurities. In helping Catherine with her quest, he discovers there's more to this spoilt ice princess than he first thought. And through his increased intimacy with Catherine and her father, as well as befriending Catherine's soon to be brother-in-law, he meets with God and is able to find the forgiveness and love his soul has been needing.


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Q: Laravel - Adding Data to multiple tables with one insert Form Hello I'm trying to insert data in 3 tables at the same time but I dono why it's not working. This is the insert function

 public function ProductStore(Request $request)
    {
        $image = $request->file('product_thumbnail');
        $name_gen = hexdec(uniqid()) . '.' . $image->getClientOriginalExtension();
        Image::make($image)->save('upload/products/thumbnail/' . $name_gen);
        $save_url = 'upload/products/thumbnail/' . $name_gen;

        $product_id = Product::insertGetId([
            'brand_id' => $request->brand_id,
            'category_id' => $request->category_id,
            'subcategory_id' => $request->subcategory_id,
            'subsubcategory_id' => $request->subsubcategory_id,
            'product_name' => $request->product_name,
            'product_slug' =>  strtolower(str_replace(' ', '-', $request->product_name)),
            'product_code' => $request->product_code,
            'product_quantity' => $request->product_quantity,

            'selling_price' => $request->selling_price,
            'discount_price' => $request->discount_price,
            'short_description' => $request->short_description,
            'long_description' => $request->long_description,
            'specifications' => $request->specifications,

            'hot_deal' => $request->hot_deal,
            'featured' => $request->featured,
            'special_offer' => $request->special_offer,
            'special_deal' => $request->special_deal,

            'product_thumbnail' => $save_url,
            'status' => 1,
            'created_at' => Carbon::now(),
        ]);

        $images = $request->file('multi_img');
        foreach ($images as $img) {

            $multi_img_name = hexdec(uniqid()) . '.' . $img->getClientOriginalExtension();
            Image::make($img)->save('upload/products/multi-image/' . $multi_img_name);
            $uploadPath = 'upload/products/multi-image/' . $multi_img_name;

            MultiImg::insert([
                'product_id' => $product_id,
                'photo_name' => $uploadPath,
                'created_at' => Carbon::now(),
            ]);
        }

        if ($request->subsubcategory_id == 1) {
            ProductLaptop::insert([
                'product_id' => $product_id,
                'laptop_os' => $request->laptop_os,
                'laptop_cpu' => $request->laptop_cpu,
                'laptop_gpu' => $request->laptop_gpu,
                'laptop_memory' => $request->laptop_memory,
                'laptop_display' => $request->laptop_display,
                'laptop_storage' => $request->laptop_storage,
            ]);
        } else if ($request->subsubcategory_id == 2) {
            ProductTablet::insert([
                'product_id' => $product_id,
                'tablet_os' => $request->tablet_os,
                'tablet_cpu' => $request->tablet_cpu,
                'tablet_memory' => $request->tablet_memory,
                'tablet_display' => $request->tablet_display,
                'tablet_storage' => $request->tablet_storage,
                'tablet_camera' => $request->tablet_camera,
            ]);
        } else if ($request->subsubcategory_id == 3) {
            ProductPhone::insert([
                'product_id' => $product_id,
                'phone_os' => $request->phone_os,
                'phone_cpu' => $request->phone_cpu,
                'phone_memory' => $request->phone_memory,
                'phone_display' => $request->phone_display,
                'phone_storage' => $request->phone_storage,
                'phone_camera' => $request->phone_camera,
            ]);
        }

As you can see I am trying to add data in a products table, a multimages table and then based on the subsubcategory_id selected in the form either in laptops or tablets or phones table.
The first two work as in it inserts correctly in the products and multimages table with product_id in multimage table matching the id in product table....but the if conditional insert doesn't work. When I hit the submit button the page just refreshes and no data in inserted in any of the tables.

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When I received my wedding band in the mail, I cried. It is EXACTLY what I pictured and my dream wedding band. My fiancé and I searched high and low to find a reasonably priced eternity band to no avail before I found this shop. Thank you for giving me exactly what I always imagined.


Throwing it back to (you guessed it) our fabulous Thanksgiving cruise with the family where I enjoyed dinner, a show, and the club in this royal blue pencil skirt paired with a white studded top which both came from Forever 21! I tied the whole outfit together with some gold arm candy and royal blue Pumps with rhinestones on the platform from Steve Madden. Tell us about your night out outfits!


Lancashire Constabulary - I have been involved in a road traffic collision, what do I do now?
If the incident has just taken place and some has been injured and is in need for immediate medical attention and/or the road is blocked and there is serious traffic congestion or a risk of a further incident then please contact the emergency services by telephone using 999.
If you are involved in a collision which causes damage or injury to any other person, vehicle, animal or property, you must stop and give your own and the vehicle owner's name, address and the registration number of the vehicle, to anyone having reasonable grounds to request them.
If you do not give your name and address at the time of the collision you must report it to the police as soon as possible and in any case within 24 hours.
If the incident has resulted only in minor damage to your vehicle, which can be moved to a safe location, then there is no requirement for the police to attend.
You should move your vehicle to a safe location and exchange details with every person who requires them, this will include the drivers and passengers of any other vehicle involved and the owners of any property damaged as a result of this incident.
If the incident has resulted in injury to any person then you should contact the police to report it, you can report it to us online here or contact us by telephone using 101.
You will need to exchange details with every person who requires them, this will include the drivers and passengers of any other vehicle involved and the owners of any property damaged as a result of this incident.
I have hit an animal do I need to tell someone?
In all cases you should endeavour to inform the person who owns or is responsible for the animal, there are certain circumstances where you must notify the police, these are when the collision involves a dogs, goats, horses, cattle, donkeys, mules, sheep and pigs.
If a wild animal has been involved take care when approaching it as the animal will be scared and may try to escape and injure itself further or bite or scratch you to defend itself. Observe it from a safe distance.
If the animal is severely injured the police hold details of local vets or animal welfare groups who may be able to assist as will the RSPCA who can be contacted by telephone on 03001234999.
Most insurance companies will insist that you report any collision you are involved in to them even if you do not intend to make a claim, you should check your policy for clarification.
I have hit a lamppost or other street furniture, who do I tell?


Sean Ervin – Page 2 – Geek, Father, Guitar Player, and Cancer Survivor.
Thin Lizzy- Cowboy Song – YouTube. One of my favorite older songs from my list of favorites on YouTube.
Ryan Adam Shares Melancholy Clip of 'Blank Space' Cover | Flavorwire.
I too am hoping these will be released. Maybe I can hear him sing these in concert somewhere soon? I would take my kids seeing they are Taylor Swift fans.
Sometimes you find yourself not alone in the fight. A wife's story of courage On Colons, Cancer, and Courage. I am a stage IIIc colon cancer survivor, which was in my sigmoid colon and also included chemo and radiation. I find talking/writing about it helps.


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Exoplanets Orbiting Trappist-1 Very Likely Habitable
Posted on Wednesday, 24 January, 2018 by Zheluo Cai
Exoplanets Orbiting Trappist-1 Very Likely Habitable.
Scientists have identified two planets circling a dim dwarf star as especially likely candidates to have habitable conditions, with probable water and a source of heat, attributes thought necessary for life beyond Earth. Since their discovery last year, the seven planets and their star, called Trappist-1, have thrilled astronomers hunting for a world resembling Earth. Never before had scientists found so many Earth-sized planets around a single star, or in a zone where the extreme temperatures of space would not obliterate the chances of life. The finding suggested that there may be planets as rocky and large as Earth all over the Milky Way, and scientists quickly set to work analyzing the Trappist-1 system.
With colleagues in Hungary, Dr Amy Barr of the Planetary Science Institute built mathematical models of the seven planets and their interiors and found that six of the seven worlds probably have water, as liquid or ice, with a global ocean possible on one. The team then modelled the planets' orbits to determine a likely surface temperature on the worlds. "That's one of the main innovations of the paper," Barr told the Guardian. "The planets are also on eccentric orbits – egg-shaped – so every time the planet goes around the star it gets stretched and squeezed." Jupiter's moon Io experiences the same kind of push-pull, called tidal heat. Io's surface is riven by erupting volcanoes, lava flows, scars and caldera. Barr said the same forces are probably at work in the Trappist-1 system: "The planet kind of works its own internal friction, because that stretching and squeezing create heat in the interior."
In the paper, set to be published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, the team concluded that planets band c (each world goes by a lower-case letter), experience tidal heat, and that planet c probably has little to no water, but mostly iron and rock. Planets d and e – the two identified as most likely to be habitable – also experience tidal heat, they found, but much less. They calculated that those planets are "in this kind of temperate region," Barr said, with a "very reasonable surface temperatures." Planet d, the team estimates, has a temperature around 15C (59F) or perhaps as low as slightly warmer than the melting point of ice. Planet e was colder, Barr said: "the temperatures you would get in Antarctica, but also reasonable." The likelihood of tidal heating is encouraging to scientists in search of planets with the conditions for life. Tidal heat not only warms a planet but also drives chemistry and flow in its mantle, conditions amenable to the development of life – at least as humans know it.
Because Nasa has yet to launch its next-generation space telescope, the James Webb, scientists like Barr and her colleagues have turned to computers to investigate puzzles with limited data. A paper last year found that Trappist-1, although older and dimmer than our sun, projects a stellar wind far more severe than the solar wind that lashes Earth from our sun. This wind probably stripped away the atmosphere – another condition for life – from the planets closest to Trappist-1, while the more distant planets fared better.
Another team investigated whether the Trappist-1 worlds could hold water – another condition – and found that four of the seven might. But while the pieces of research by various teams have supported each other, Barr and other astronomers, astrophysicists and geophysicists are most eager for more observations. Should the James Webb launch on schedule this year, it will provide far more data about specific exoplanets, and ease the challenge of writing about a system as a whole. "It's hard to write a paper about seven planets all at once," Barr said.
Credit: Alan Yuhas for The Guardian, 23 January 2018.
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The journal Collegium Medievale: Interdisciplinary Journal of Medieval Research is a forum for all who are engaged in research on topics related to the Middle Ages or the Renaissance.
The journal is published annually by the medievalist association Collegium Medievale: Society for Medieval Studies. The association has its basis in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Oslo.
The journal is welcoming contributions in Scandinavian or English language on topics related to the Middle Ages or the Renaissance. Notes for contributors can be found here.
The periodical Collegium Medievale: Interdisciplinary Journal of Medieval Research is published by the medievalist association Collegium Medievale. It is a peer-reviewed journal, ranked at level 1 in CHRIStin (Current Research Information System In Norway).
Thank you for considering publishing your work in Collegium medievale. Consideration will be given only to original manuscripts which have not previously been published and which are not already being assessed for publication elsewhere.


I will share my notes from last Ayurveda conference, on Sunday April 22 in the 2 coming blogs.
What is Veda or Ayurveda and how much do we really know about it? How can we live Ayurveda in Belgium?
The exact time of the origin of Ayurveda is not clearly known. After a Mantra opening this was starting point , the evolution of Ayurveda .
He explained that in early days there were no text or hardly anything was written about it and how this knowledge was passed on from Vedas, ancient doctrines of great knowledge on earth to students.
Ayurveda is not a merely medical system or a medical kit. It is like sacred science of life. It helps the human being to lead a happy life with pure mind by providing the whole information about it. So the origin of Ayurveda is not clearly known. But according to information from ancient texts, we can say that, Ayurveda is an ancient and higher knowledge which supports human being to lead a happy life in natural way.
Man, by nature is a complex being of physical, biological, mental and spiritual factors. He is the subject matter of Ayurveda and in him alone knowledge, delusion, pleasure, pain, birth, death, and love of self are co-existent. To establish the equilibrium between human nature and his environment in a comprehensive manner, Ayurveda has developed the necessary principles and practices.
Dr. Sudakar Powar explained the theory behind Dorshas and how we can create imbalance in our energetical pathways by eating wrong nutricians. He stated that we have to first understand and agree the first principal and philosophy of Ayurveda that we all are connectde and come from the same source and origin, the light!
Ayurveda is the key to all creations, an universal energy that nurishing us All.
These dynamic energies manifest in the body through their qualities, specific sites, and the active roles they play in orchestrating the processes that create and sustain the body.
In other words, they are the energies that make things happen in the organism. Ultimately, any aspect related to metabolic function and its relationship to health and disease boils down to the harmonious actions of the three doshas.
Every cell in our body has to contain all three of these principles. To remain alive, our body has to have Vata, or motion, which allows it to breathe, circulate blood, pass food through the digestive tract, and send nerve impulses to and from the brain.
VATA: The Energy of Movement or wind Vata is in charge of functions such as the pulsation of the heart, respiration, circulation and elimination. It is responsible for joy, happiness, creativity and speech. Vata is also in charge of the vital life essence, or prana. Thus when vata (prana) leaves the body, life ceases. Vata is Cold, light, dry, irregular, rough, moving, quick, changeable.
PITTA: The Energy of Digestion and Metabolism Pitta represents the Fire principle in the body. Everything that enters the body must be "digested" and assimilated, from sensory perception to food for nourishment. In addition to the gastric fire, pitta also includes the enzymes and amino acids that play a major role in metabolism, and even the neurotransmitters and neuropeptides involved in thinking. Some of the responsibilities of pitta are to regulate the body heat through the chemical transformation of food and to give a person appetite, vitality, and the capacity to learn and understand.
Pitta is hot, sharp, light, oily, liquid, and spreading in nature. It is sour, bitter, pungent to the taste, and has a fleshy smell. These qualities are revealed in the body of the pitta person, as shown in the chart of pitta attributes.
Earth and Water give kapha its definitive qualities. Kapha comprises all our cells, tissues and organs. Kapha molecules tend to stick together to form dense masses. Kapha is heavy, slow, cool, oily, liquid, hard, smooth its element is water, cohasion energy, Upperpart of body, first part of digestion, early morning , early evening is predominant of this energy and have kapha rythm..
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Ben Reifel
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Daschle Papers
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Exhibit - Life of Ben Reifel
Ben Reifel: Education
Ben Reifel: Family Life
Ben Reifel: Early Career
Ben Reifel: US Congressman
Ben Reifel: Service
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Representative Ben Reifel in his office in June 1963
The Ben Reifel Papers are held at the South Dakota State University Archives and Special Collections at Hilton M. Briggs Library. The collection includes memorabilia, scrapbooks, campaign items, personal items, photographs, and sound recordings related to Ben Reifel's career as a public servant, especially his years in the U.S. Senate and his work with the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
About Ben Reifel
Benjamin Reifel was born on September 19, 1906, in a log cabin on the Rosebud Reservation to William Reifel, a German-American, and Lucy Burning Breast, a full-blooded Lakota Sioux. Reifel was an enrolled member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe; his Indian name was Lone Feather.
Reifel married Alice Johnson in 1933, and had one daughter, Loyce, who later married Emery Anderson and had three daughters. Reifel graduated from South Dakota State College in 1932. He earned a master's degree (1950) and Ph.D. (1952) from Harvard University.
He worked for the Department of the Interior beginning in 1933, retiring as the Aberdeen, South Dakota, area administrator of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in 1960 when he decided to run for Congress. Reifel was a Republican U.S. Congressman from the First District of South Dakota from 1961-1971. He was the first U.S. legislator of Sioux ancestry and the sole American Indian in Congress through the 1960s. Reifel served on the House Agricultural Committee, the House Committee on Appropriations, and the House Appropriations subcommittee on Interior Department Affairs. He worked for farming interests, pushed for the Oahe Irrigation Projects, and supported the Civil Rights Act of 1966.
Digitizing the Ben Reifel Papers
During the 2018-2019 academic year, four American Indian student assistants organized, preserved and digitized the materials of the Ben Reifel Papers. This work was made possible by the SDSU Wokini Challenge Grant that was awarded for the project "Experiencing a Lakota Collection: American Indian Student Assistants in the SDSU Archives."
The students' work greatly expanded the digital collection of the Ben Reifel Papers. These items can be found in the Digital Library of South Dakota and in the Digital Public Library of America. Both of these websites offer free public access to their records, making the work done by the student assistants easily available to anyone interested in researching the collection.
As part of the grant project, senior student assistant Sophie Felicia (Lower Brule Sioux Tribe) worked with Archives staff to write and help design online and physical exhibits about the Ben Reifel Papers. The physical exhibit (pictured below) will be added to the SDSU Archives' permanent collection. It will also be part of the collections at tribal colleges and universities in South Dakota.
Ben Reifel sitting on an elephant at the South Dakota State Fair in Huron in 1960
The Life of Ben Reifel - Exhibit Poster of Ben Reifel
Online Exhibit
Digital Library of South Dakota
Finding Aid - Ben Reifel Papers
The Life of Ben Reifel
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Q: what is the definition of the distance between a complex number with $\mathbb{R}^{+}$? what is the definition of the distance between a complex number with $\mathbb{R}^{+}$? This is
$$
\text{dist}(z,[0,\infty)) \ \ z \in \mathbb{C}?
$$

A: This distance (from a point to a set, defined as the shortest distance from $z$ to the positive real axis, as said by @Kaind) can be expressed in the following way.
Let us denote by $L$ the left open half space ($\Re(z)<0$) and by $\mathbb{R^+}$ the positive real axis:
$$d(z,\mathbb{R^+})=\begin{cases}|z|,& z \in L\\ |\Im(z)|,& z \notin L \end{cases}$$

The locus of points such that $d(z,\mathbb{R^+})=1.5$.