Matu held a banding session this morning at the Prince of Wales Park and had reasonable success. Not a big number of birds but a steady flow which was good as we used it to also train and refresh Ruby, Bernard and Ben who work at Zealandia, in banding and handling birds. In all we caught 50 birds of 9 species, only 1 was a recapture but this is the first recap at this new site.
Chaffinch - 1 (1) the recap was banded about 5 weeks ago at our last session there.
Kingfisher - 1 This is the first Kingfisher we have caught in this banding year which finishes tomorrow so only just makes it into the stats for the year.
The first and only Kingfisher for the year.
I am doing Jury service this week but this morning's court case was cancelled so I was given the afternoon off. So instead of sitting in a court room I spent a couple of hours at the Houghton Bay stream. There was a steady flow of birds into the nets and I ended up with a tally of 40 of 8 species with 36 new and 4 recaptures.
I was also released from Jury service early yesterday so set the trap down the road at Bridie's for an hour or so in the afternoon. Caught 12 birds, all House Sparrows with 7 new and 5 recaps, the oldest recap was also banded in March 2011.
One bird had a very long top mandible but must be managing all right as it has almost finished its moult and had an above average weight of 32.5g.
Ros and I had a busy morning at Island Bay catching 95 birds of 8 species with 88 new and 7 recaptures. The highlight of the morning was a single bird of a new species for the site, a juvenile Redpoll. We have been banding there since Feb 2007 and as far as I know this is the first Redpoll seen there let alone caught.
Blackbird - 1 (3) the new bird had a wing length of 140 mm which is the longest we have recorded with the previous being 137 mm. The bird has finished its primary moult so was aged as a 2+.
Redpoll - 1 (0) Redpolls are regular Winter visitors to Wellington City, feeding on annual, winter seeding grasses on playing fields but are rarely seen over Summer and Autumn We haven't caught one at the Zoo in the 12 years we have been banding there.
The Redpoll about to go on its way.
House Sparrow - 77 (4) still a huge number of Sparrows at this site with some recently fledged. Two of the recaps were banded recently and the other two last year.
The last couple of mornings I have attempted to catch some of the Silvereyes that feed first thing in the morning at the fennel patch on Mt Albert.
On Thursday morning I caught 20 new and 1 recapture, this morning 11 new and 2 recaps. All the recaps were recently banded. All birds were Silvereye with no bycatch.
One bird was moulting atypically, still growing P3,8 & 9 with the others full length.
A wet day has given me a chance to finally crunch the numbers for the Zoo banding for last calendar year so here is a bit of a summary. The totals include, as well as the regular sessions, a number of sessions at the little stream over the fence and also some nestlings.
In all we banded 649 birds of 12 species and recaptured 266 of 11 species. This is slightly up on the average catch of 586 new birds over the 13 years we have been banding at the Zoo. A highlight of the year was a very successful workshop held on aging and sexing when Mike Bell come over from Blenheim and gave us the benefit of his knowledge.
1 Silvereye – 239 (173) Has been No 1 in all but 1 year and slightly up on the average.
2 Greenfinch – 99 (33) Has been No 2 for the last 3 years before that was usually No 3 and numbers fluctuate a lot between years.
4 Chaffinch – 69 (9) Well above average for new birds with numbers boosted by a large catch of juveniles at the stream site back in January.
5 Goldfinch – 37 (1) Moved up from 11th last year and well above the 13 year average. Another species boosted by juveniles being caught at the stream in January and also December.
7 Tui – 25 (2) numbers boosted with a number of birds banded while in rehab at the Nest but the numbers generally follow the trend of increasing Tui over the last few years.
8 Fantail – 18 (2) About average numbers and another species caught regularly at the stream.
9 Dunnock 17 (8) After a fall in numbers last year has rebounded to be above average in 2012.
10 Starling – 11 (2) About an average number for the last 5 years but well below the 13 year average. We caught a lot more Starling in the first few years of banding and the drop is probably due to changes around the Zoo and net sites.
Yellowhammer – none were caught. This species fluctuates a lot between years and numbers have dropped since the Zebras went and the hay containing grass seed stopped being fed.
Kingfisher – also a zero tally, we haven't caught one at the Zoo now for 2 years.
Received a recovery report yesterday from the DOC Banding Office of a dead bird that had been reported to the DOC Information Center, unfortunately the person who took the call only took the band number and no other information. So we know it was a Starling banded at the Zoo back in Sept 2004 and at an estimated 3107 days is our oldest recaptured or recovered Starling. Pity we don't know a bit more about it.
A grey day, not because of the cloud cover as it was actually quite sunny, but for the number of Grey Warblers about. This species seems to do very well in the Houghton Bay/Valley area, perhaps because of the lack of Shinning Cuckoos. In 5 years of banding there I have not seen or heard a S Cuckoo even though they are in the adjacent valleys.
This morning I caught 26 birds of 7 species which although a reasonable catch it is not as many as there would have been a couple of years ago. I suspect that some have become wary of mist nets but this morning I saw another possible cause with a Stoat spotted near one of the nets.
Silvereye - 8 (0) a small tally for this site and almost all caught in 1 net on the same net round.
Fantail - 2 (3) all the recaps were banded in the last few months and have moulted into adult plumage.
Grey Warbler - 6 (1) one of the highest catches of this little bird.
The juvenile Grey Warblers had a variety of red in their eyes. Gradually changing into the adult bright red.
I have had a couple of sessions at the stream near the Zoo with only limited success. Last Tuesday 5 March a 2 hour session late afternoon produced 9 birds of 4 species; all new birds. This morning I spent another couple of hours at the same stream and caught 12 birds also of 4 species and once again all were new birds.
Blackbird - 1 this was one of the largest Blackbirds we have caught - a male which weighed 114 g and had a wing length of 135 mm. It had finished its primary wing moult so could only be aged as a 2+.
Some of the juvenile Goldfinch are starting to show colour on their heads while others still look like newly fledged little brown jobs.
This afternoon I went down the road to Bridie's and operated the trap in her garden for a couple of hours targeting the House Sparrows she is feeding. Caught 20 new and recaptured 4.
I went up to the fennel patch patch on Mt Albert this morning in an attempt to catch Silvereyes that feed there just after dawn. Managed to catch 14 of them with 12 new and 2 recaptures. 1 of the recaps was from the session 10 days ago and the other was banded at the Houghton Bay stream 3 days ago which adds a bit more evidence to the idea that the Silvereyes using the Houghton Bay stream come from a large area.
Several of the juveniles had dark bands across the end of their tails. Not sure if its a growth bar or perhaps a change of diet while the tail was growing.
The only by-catch were 2 juvenile Dunnock.
I had a couple of hours free this morning so set up a couple of nets at the Houghton Bay stream. It proved to be quite successful catch 47 birds of 8 species with 43 new and 4 recaps.
Starling - 1 (0) This is our first Staling at this site for a couple of years. In 2008 our first year banding there we caught 19. At that time there was a stretch of open stream but since then it has become overgrown and very few Starlings now use it.
Grey Warbler - 1 (1) the recap was banded in Feb 2010 so another reasonably old bird. Although not aged when banded it was noted that it had a brown eye, now it is bright red.
Fantail - 3 (0) 2 juveniles and an adult all doing body moult but not moulting their primaries yet.
We had a reasonably good banding session on Saturday morning but not so good in the afternoon. In the morning it was near perfect conditions little wind and mostly cloudy overhead. The cloud disappeared early afternoon and it became very hot and the birds also disappeared so we knocked off earlier than usual. A smaller turn out of banders turned up but just a nice number for the flow of birds.
Mary our chief scribe entering data for Ros and Annette.
In all we caught 50 birds of only five species with, as expected, juvenile Sparrows making up the majority.
Silvereye - 2 (4) All the recaps were banded in the previous 2 years. Unusual to get more recaps than new birds at this time of year; perhaps Silvereye have had a poor breeding year although it was a very small sample.
Grey Warbler - 0 (1) a bird banded back in Feb 11 so a reasonable age for this apparently short lived bird.
House Sparrow - 32 (3) the oldest recap was banded at Bridie's on Hornsey Rd in Dec 2010 as a newly fledged unsexed juvenile so we now know it has grown into a handsome male, or he will be again when he finishes his moult.
The wings of two juvenile Sparrows of similar age, female on left, male on right.


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Home Therapy Shipping Horses long Distance
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by Karen Tappenden
Precious Cargo to World Cup Show Jumping
Bukit Jahil Stadium, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - When McGuinness, an 11-year-old Irish Sporthorse, finally arrived at the show grounds, he was exhausted, dehydrated, and running a fever. He lay down in his stall and collapsed, his head to the floor.
"Everything is compromised when you are flying, for horses and people, they experience jet lag just like you or I. It's a stress for horses just like it is for people," states Geoff Vernon, DVM, USA team veterinarian. His diagnosis for McGuinness was Shipping Fever, Pleuropneumonia, a bacterial infection of the lungs and chest cavity that is a potentially fatal disease.
McGuinness left LAX airport in Los Angeles three days earlier in excellent health. He was odds-on best horse for the US team from the West Coast to compete in the FEI World Cup finals for Show Jumping in April 2006.
To compete in a Federation Equestrian International event, the horses must be free of most medications and any foreign substances. Medicines were necessary to save McGuinness from despair. He would not be able to compete with the best in the World of Show Jumping this year.
"The shipping is the tricky part--keeping a horse healthy traveling to the other side of the world takes its toll," says Sally Ike, Managing Director, Show Jumping Sport Programs. Rich Feller's horse ran a fever upon landing and was scratched from competition, where Anthem, Laura Kraut's mount, came off feeling great. Every horse is different, like humans," says Ike.
Another US teammate was sidelined when Madison, a 10-year-old Dutch Warmblood mare, tied-up on her way out of the ring upon completion of the first of four very difficult rounds.
"In an ideal situation you give the horse a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory like Banamine, a muscle relaxant like Robaxan or Methocarbonal, and then generally you tranquilize the horse with Acepromozine. You want to get the blood supply back to the muscles, keep the horse quiet, limit the exercise, make the horse as comfortable as possible," says Dr. Vernon. To keep the horse eligible for FEI competition (Grand Prix), "we gave [her] a lot of fluids, and we used something called Lactinaze, which is a lactic acid inhibitor, lots of massage therapy, electromagnetic therapy, ultrasound, and Laser therapy...basically all of those physiotherapy things or complementary things. We got lucky."
Remarkably, Kent Farrington and Madison won the Saturday evening Grand Prix, yet the duo had missed the second round of the World Cup on Friday night and were eliminated. Madison was the only horse on this team that had the indoor exposure this year. She too was expected to place in the top 10. Their elimination was a deep disappointment.
The US team finished unimpressively, the best score coming from Margie Engle with a 12th place ribbon. Engle and mount Quervo Gold were admittedly green to one another and lacked recent indoor experience. The team outcome may not have been impressive but their support team and therapies were.
Complementary assistance:
- Magnetic field equipment
- ReCover Cold and Heat Therapy blanket
- Ultrasound
- Cryo Boots
- Massage therapist
- Acupuncture & Chiropractic practitioner
Massage therapist Tina Butler accompanied the team to Malaysia. Tina likes to give her clients a tune-up prior to their round. "Jumpers get stiff in (their) lower necks and (they) land on one foot--30 percent is preload. I like to open up the chest and shoulders to help them get that range of motion in shoulders and their lower backs." Butler says her goal is to get the horses to "feel more attentive to the rider with less focus on themselves." If Butler is not in a stall, she can be found around the in-gate working on riders. "If I can get horse and rider on the same page we can be a winner."
Veterinarian Steve Engle, DVM, husband of competitor Margie Engle and a certified chiropractor and acupuncturist, also accompanied the team to Malaysia. Engle says his goal was to "help the horses gain a competitive edge". Using his hands instead of the veterinary bag has influenced Engle enough to make Chiropractic his primary work in his practice. His good friend Jim Kenney, DVM, introduced Engle to integrative medicines 10 years ago. Beginning his adjunctive journey with acupuncture, his true love is Chiropractic. "It fed upon itself. I fell in love with Chiropractic. It gave me more tools to work with." Dr. Engle provided Chiropractic and Acupuncture support to both McGuinness and Madison, which made a difference in their recoveries.
According to recent studies, ulcers are common in these high profile horses. Dr. Vernon says all the team horses were put on UlcerGuard© prior to shipping to Kuala Lumpur. Merial manufactures the ulcer preventative and sponsors the US Equestrian team. The company supplied all the team horses with the UlcerGard©, a legal substance in FEI competition.
West Coast Team competitor Joie Gatlin says her mount, 15-year-old SunCal's King--Pete--a Holsteiner gelding, had been successfully treated for ulcers long before the competition. "We did a series of GastroGuard© to heal the ulcers and then UlcerGuard© while showing and a generic (for) Tagamet© at home."
SunCal's supplement closet
- Succeed; a digestive conditioning program
- Royal Champion; multivitamin
- APF Herbal; adaptogenic supplement
Gatlin experienced shipping issues long before this across-the-world competition. Shipping from Southern California to Canada would make some of her show string tired, washed out, lethargic. One even developed a slight fever. Her veterinarian recommended APF for that horse and "he came off the truck bucking and ready to go." Since that experience she hasn't looked back. It's a natural product. I know it works I have seen it work.
Companionship is important for some horses. Gatlin always sends groom Aldolfo with SunCal's King. They flew from LAX to Amsterdam where they got a two-day layover at the Pet Hotel. Aldolfo put SunCal?s King on the walker twice a day and made sure he ate and stayed hydrated throughout the journey. Teammate Laura Kraut sent her sister Mary Elizabeth along with Anthem, a 15-year-old Dutch Warmblood gelding. "I make sure he has someone with him that he knows."
Shipping horses long distances takes planning. The horses need to feel safe, need time to relax outside the stall, and plenty to drink. Perhaps this team should have left earlier and spent more time in Europe before traveling to Asia. Hopefully these considerations will be made prior to travel to Hong Kong for the 2007 Summer Olympics.
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Building work starts on new affordable homes in Bridgewater
November 29, 2021 Housing, News
Work to build an entirely affordable development and repair a local landmark in Bridgwater is now underway. Leading housing provider Stonewater, in partnership with regeneration specialist Vistry Partnerships and supported by Macegreen Consulting and Sedgemoor District Council, is constructing 80 new homes on land owned by Homes England.
To support housing need in Bridgwater, all the homes will be available for affordable rent, with the completed development set to comprise a mix of two, three and four-bedroom houses, as well as one and two-bedroom apartments.
As part of the development, Vistry is contributing £20,000 towards the refurbishment of the Willow Man statue, which is located adjacent to the scheme, and will be providing a landscaped play area for residents.
Alongside the remedial works, Stonewater will also be creating a nature trail, incorporating public art, leading up to the statue's viewing platform.
To support its sustainability commitments, Stonewater will also be planting a variety of fruit and native trees around the completed development and providing herb planters so residents can cultivate and grow their own produce.
All the homes will be built with a 'fabric first' approach, using high performing materials and adapting the principles of air tightness and ventilation, minimising each home's energy consumption.
The use of low-carbon and energy-efficient technology will be extended across the site to include the installation of air source heat pumps, solar panels and five electric car charging points.
Matt Crucefix, Director of Development (South and West) at Stonewater, said: "We have developed a successful partnership, over the years, providing much-needed new homes with Vistry Partnerships and Sedgemoor District Council.
"As one of the largest Homes England strategic partners alongside Guinness Partnership, we're thrilled to be playing our part in delivering high-quality and energy efficient affordable homes that meet the needs of local people living in Bridgwater."
Barry Cummins, National Development Director at Homes England, said: "This marks a significant step forward in Stonewater's efforts to bring 80 new, affordable and energy-efficient homes to Bridgwater. Partnerships have been vital to this development, and it's a great example of what can be achieved by working together."
Marc Thompson, Managing Director of Vistry Partnerships West, said: "This 100% affordable housing scheme is exactly what partnership working is all about – working with Stonewater and Homes England we've been able to unlock a new site that will provide high-quality, energy efficient and affordable homes for local people."
A spokesman for Sedgemoor District Council said: "This is major investment commitment into new homes, new jobs and money into the local economy during a period of severe financial challenges and uncertainties. We are very happy to work with our partners to bring new affordable homes to Sedgemoor."


I composed a ticket about 2 weeks ago about the issue on servers showing a black screen when loading into them in multiplayer in both casual PvP and AI enemies. Seems it didn't get through so I'll restate because this issue is game breaking. When loading into a casual PvP or AI enemy server, the screen will sometimes go black and stay black, causing a Alt-F4 restart to get back into the main menu. This is a server issue due to many of my friends showing the same issue with better computer systems than mine. This has been an issue for over a month now and is most likely due to lack of dedicated servers or official servers. Is anyone else showing this issue?


I'm doing a workshop on Storytelling this August — the idea for it came out of reading a lot of manuscripts where the writing was really good, but the story just didn't work. Either the characters didn't really make sense, or the story itself went off the rails about midway through and became a bunch of actions instead of a story arc that worked to really explore the characters and their relationships. This is something we all have to work on (constantly it seems). So what makes a good story compared with good writing?
1- Good writing can make you stop in awe. This is actually a problem in a story. A good story keeps you turning the pages, not stopping to admire the scenery. I find if the writing stops the reader for any reason, it's a place the author needs to look at to see if the writing is just getting too "writerly" and getting in the way. Truman Capote said you want to be that voice by the fireside telling the story–invisible but compelling.
2- A good story sweeps you away. This means the reader doesn't stumble over complicated sentences, or even more complicated plots–instead the reader is pulled into a fully developed world where the characters all make sense as people who work in that world. And the world all makes sense (things don't just happen because the author thinks it would be cool or a great twist, but they happen within the rules of that world–and that takes a lot of development).
3- Good writing can be intellectually pleasing, but a good story catches your emotions. This is something I see a lot–the author has gotten carried away with a story that is just too much about the author being clever and not really enough about the author digging deep into both their own emotions and their characters' emotions. This is where the story is just flat. You can overthink stories–and you can overwrite them, too.
4- Good writing is perfect; a good story may have flaws, but you just don't care because it's great as it is. This is where someone has edited out the emotion from the page–we all do this at times. We get so caught up in dotting every period and worrying over every comma that we forget that it's the flawed characters and it's the story that a reader wants. Ever come out of a movie and suddenly you realize there were a lot of plot holes, but you never noticed them during the movie? That's a story that did it's job–it engaged you on an emotional level. That's a story teller's job.
5- A good story needs great characters, and good enough writing that the writing comes second. This again is a place where I see less experienced writers struggling–their technical skills are weak enough that they have to focus too much attention on untangling sentences. The more I write, the more I tend to love simple, clean prose. The reason for this is that if I don't have to fuss with craft, I can focus more on the characters and getting them on the page.
6- A good story has an arc–it goes somewhere. Good writing can wander–you can have beautiful prose that doesn't really go anywhere. Story telling goes way, way back in the human psyche, and if when you break those rules we all love in stories (even without knowing what it is that makes a story work), the risk is that you're creating a story that readers will put down.
7- A great story is one that must be told, but it's rare that a writer really must produce great writing just for the sake of the writing. A great story is the one that burns in you, the one you can't ignore, the one that you have to get on the page because the characters won't leave you alone and you know that you'll write this one even if only your mother reads it. You want to look for these stories.
You can be a good story teller and sell well–Edgar Rice Burroughs, to me, is a perfect example of this. Not a great writer, but it's really hard to put down one of his books once you start reading. You just keep turning the page. There are other writers who are both great story tellers and really good writers–Stephen King is a good example of this (boy, can he write!). However, there really aren't any great writers who are not great story tellers on any fiction best seller lists–and even the best non-fiction writers know how to spin a yarn.
So are you a great story teller–what stories are the ones you must tell?


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Unter Nougat (auch Nugat, der oder das: oder Noisette, die) werden verschiedene Konfektmassen oder hieraus gefertigte Süßwaren verstanden, wobei grundsätzlich zu unterscheiden ist zwischen dunklem Nougat mit Kakao und weißem Nougat ohne Kakao – die beiden Arten sind nicht miteinander verwandt. In der Schweiz wird auch Blätterkrokant als Nougat bezeichnet. Nougat kommt in vielen verschiedenen Geschmacksrichtungen vor: klassisches Nougat, Mandel-Nougat, helles Nougat, Zartbitter-Nougat, Schicht-Nougat, Krokant-Nougat und Sahne-Nougat.

Etymologie
Der französische Name Nougat für den weißen Nougat ist aus dem okzitanischen nogat entlehnt, einer Ableitung von okz. noga "Nuss" (lat. nux).

Dunkler Nougat

Herkunft
Dunkler Nougat hat seinen Ursprung in der aus Turin stammenden Gianduia (auch Gianduja; vgl. Giandujafolklore, eine traditionelle Figur des Faschings im Piemont) und ist im romanischen Sprachraum auch unter diesem Namen bekannt. Die Gianduia entstand als Folge hoher Zölle, die während der Zeit Napoleons auf Waren aus England und seinen Kolonien erhoben wurden (Kontinentalsperre 1806–1814), darunter Kakao: In Turin, wo man schon damals die Kunst der Schokoladenverarbeitung pflegte, wurde die Schokolade mit gerösteten und anschließend gemahlenen Haselnüssen gestreckt. Kurze Zeit später wurde diese Verlegenheitslösung eine bekannte Spezialität.

Einen ersten schriftlichen Hinweis gibt es im 1813 von Antonio Bazzarini verfassten Werk , in dem er beschreibt, wie mit einem Gemisch aus süßen Mandeln, Lupinen, Getreide und Zuckersirup der Kakaoanteil verringert werden kann. Ab 1832 war in Bianchinis Schokolademanufaktur Pier Paul Caffarel tätig, der nach Bianchinis Tod damit begann, in industriellen Dimensionen zu produzieren. Michele Prochet soll 1852 erkannt haben, dass mit gerösteten Haselnüssen das Geschmackserlebnis um ein Vielfaches erhöht werden kann. Er begann zuerst in Eigenregie – später zusammen mit Caffarels Sohn Isidore – mit "Pasta Gianduja" verfeinerte Schokoladespezialitäten zu produzieren.

In Turin wird Gianduia in kleinen Stücken unter der Bezeichnung "Gianduiotto" als typische örtliche Spezialität angeboten. Zur Verwendung kommen hier vorwiegend Haselnüsse aus dem Piemont, da die hier angebaute Sorte "tonda gentile" sich durch feineren Geschmack und geringere Verderbnisanfälligkeit als die heute in der Lebensmittelproduktion überwiegenden türkischen Haselnusssorten auszeichnet.

Mittlerweile ist die Bezeichnung Gianduia aber auch in Deutschland bekannt, wo sie neben der französischen Bezeichnung Praliné für feinere Schokoladespezialitäten Verwendung findet.

Herstellung
Die Hauptzutat von dunklem Nougat sind Haselnüsse. Die Kerne werden bei 150–180 °C etwa 20 Minuten lang geröstet und anschließend abgekühlt und in einer Mühle zerrieben. Dadurch entsteht eine Rohmasse ähnlich dem Marzipan, der Lecithin zugesetzt werden kann, um sie besser zu binden. Der Paste wird Nusskrokant beigemischt, wenn das Nougat dunkler werden soll. Die Haselnussmasse wird mit Puderzucker, Kakaobutter, Kuvertüre, Vanillin und Milchpulver verknetet und gewalzt, bis sie eine homogene Masse bildet. Optional werden Pflanzenfette wie Sojafett beigefügt. Wenn die Masse kühler wird, erstarrt sie und das Nougat kann plattiert und geschnitten werden.

Unterschiede
Das Verhältnis zwischen Haselnüssen, Schokolade und Zucker entscheidet letztlich nicht nur über den Geschmack, sondern auch über die Konsistenz der Masse, die hart, aber auch cremig sein kann.

Dunkler Nougat lässt sich in Geschmack und Konsistenz unterscheiden. Ein hoher Haselnussanteil (über 30 %), eine frische Röstung und die Verwendung von Haselnüssen der aktuellen Ernte und hochwertiger Sorten sind einige Qualitätsindikatoren, ebenso wie der Grad der Zerkleinerung. Die Wahrnehmungsgrenze der Partikel liegt bei etwa 30 µm, darüber wirkt die Masse sandig oder, bei deutlich darüber liegenden Partikeln, krokantartig. Kleinere Partikelgrößen führen zu einer geringeren Viskosität und somit besserem Schmelz der Masse. Dem gegenüber stehen handwerkliche Qualitäten, die einen absichtlich gröberen Zerkleinerungsgrad aufweisen.

Verwendung
Nougat kann pur genossen werden. Darüber hinaus werden Nougat und Nougatmasse in Füllungen und Massen für Backwaren verwendet sowie zur Herstellung von Pralinen und anderen Süßigkeiten. Ein weiteres Nougaterzeugnis ist die vor allem als Brotaufstrich genutzte Nougatcreme, die sich dadurch vom Nougat unterscheidet, dass ihr Pflanzenfette zugesetzt werden.

Weißer Nougat

Unter die Warengruppe weißer Nougat fallen Schaumzuckerwaren, die als Gaz, Türkischer Honig, orientalischer Honig, niederländischer Nougat, Nougat Montélimar, Madolato (Μαντολάτο), Turrón und Torrone bezeichnet werden.

Weißer Nougat besteht aus einer schaumig aufgeschlagenen hellen Masse aus Eischnee und Honig (sowie meist als billigerer Honigersatz Saccharose und Glucosesirup) sowie weiteren Zutaten wie Samenkernen (Mandeln, Nüssen oder Pistazien), kandierten Früchten (z. B. Kirschen oder Trauben) und teilweise Gelatine. Die Rezepte variieren je nach Herstellungsregion. Weißer Nougat hat in Abhängigkeit von der Rezeptur und dem Wassergehalt (10 % und weniger) eine weiche bis halb feste Konsistenz.

Herkunft
Beruhend auf griechisch-römischen und persischen Wurzeln (Gaz) haben sich insbesondere in Frankreich (Montélimar-Nougat), der iberischen Halbinsel (Turrón) und Italien (Torrone) seit Jahrhunderten große Traditionen in der Herstellung von weißem Nougat herausgebildet. Belgischer Noga, Niederländischer Softnougat, Türkischer Honig und Halva (Asien und Osteuropa) sind ähnliche Süßspeisen. Alle enthalten im Grundrezept keinen Kakao.

Französischer Montélimar-Nougat
Es handelt sich hierbei um eine Süßwarenspezialität der französischen Stadt Montélimar in der Nord-Provence.

Die Geschichte des Montélimar-Nougats geht angeblich bis auf die Griechen zurück, die es nach Zentraleuropa brachten. Die Rezeptur gelangte über Marseille in die Provence, wo die Herstellung im 16. Jahrhundert mit der Einführung asiatischer Mandelbäume begann. Als nux gatum, d. h. "(Kuchen) mit Nüssen", wird es seit 1700 erwähnt. In Montélimar selbst wird allerdings die volksetymologische Erklärung bevorzugt, dass die Bezeichnung von tu nous gâtes ("du verwöhnst uns") abgeleitet sei.

Das Nougat de Montélimar besteht aus Wasser, Lavendelhonig, Eischnee, gerösteten Mandeln, Pistazien, Zucker, Glukosesirup und Vanille. Beim Nougat Montélimar muss der Samenkernanteil mindestens 30 % betragen, davon 28 % geröstete Mandeln und 2 % Pistazien. Nur dieser Nougat darf das Gütesiegel Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée (AOC) und den Namen Nougat de Montélimar tragen. Der Eischnee wird mit erhitztem Honig vermischt, dazu wird eine aufgekochte Zuckerlösung gegeben und mit den anderen Zutaten vermengt. Es gibt verschiedene Varianten: hart oder weich, weiß oder farbig und mit verschiedenen Aromen versetzt. In billigerem Nougat wird ein Teil der Mandeln durch Haselnüsse oder Erdnüsse ersetzt und es werden billigere Honige verwendet.

Gaz
Gaz ist persischer Nougat aus dem Iran, der aus dem milchigen Saft der Tamariskenpflanze, geschlagenem Eiweiß, Zucker, Rosenwasser und Pistazien bzw. Mandeln hergestellt wird.

Niederländischer Nougat
Unter dem Markennamen Nappo und der Eigenbezeichnung "Holländischer Nougat" wird eine industriell gefertigte und günstige Süßware angeboten. Ein ähnliches Produkt wird von der Firma Dresse Nougat in Aachen gefertigt, einer kleinen Manufaktur in Familienbesitz. Beide Firmen produzieren das Produkt in Rautenform.

Türkischer Nougat

Der türkische Nougat (türk.: Koz Helvası) wird häufig auch als Türkischer Honig bezeichnet. Das ist eine ältere Bezeichnung für weißen Nougat. Halva (türk.: Tahin-Helva) hingegen ist kein Nougat; es besteht hauptsächlich aus einem Mus von Ölsamen, z. B. Sesam.

Turrón
Spanischer Turrón besteht mindestens zur Hälfte aus Mandeln.

Torrone
In Italien und in der Schweiz werden vergleichbare Produkte als Torrone bezeichnet. Vor allem die Region Piemont ist dafür bekannt.

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Old Dog: Next Phase, New Wave, Hockey Craze
By Michael Anleitner
It was another gorgeous week at the Summer Dog House, but the college hockey world remains in motion—and in turmoil. Here are some of the latest happenings.
Michigan State Delays Munn Arena Construction
In a sign of what lies in the immediate future for many college hockey programs, Michigan State has stopped work on a major renovation project for Munn Arena in East Lansing. According to an article in the Lansing State Journal, 19 construction projects on the Spartan campus are being put on hold due to financial strains created by the COVID-19 pandemic.
MSU had planned to spend $23 million to improve locker rooms, add state-of-the-art training facilities, improve offices for staff and create a Hall of Fame wing. This is the kind of stuff needed to stay competitive in D1 these days, and Munn Arena hasn't been improved in many years. With a $7.5 million shortfall in the construction budget—and insufficient fund-raising to go forward at this time—the MSU administration will allow just enough additional work to enclose open areas.
This Isn't Just About MSU and Munn Arena
After Alabama-Huntsville's cash-driven but reversed withdrawal from college hockey, MSU's decision is almost certainly another sign of things to come in big-time college sports. There likely won't be many spectators (if any) at college football games, even if the games are played this fall. Games that require overnight travel are already being cancelled and replaced with tilts against nearby schools. In the last few days, talk of moving football to the spring of 2021 has become a hot topic.
All of that means that the mega-bucks driven by televised NCAA football will be delayed—at least—and it's not inconceivable that big media may put pressure on the NCAA and the Power Five conferences to renegotiate existing broadcast contracts.
Add to that the pinch universities are feeling on enrollments and tuition (at least 60 universities and colleges are being sued in class-actions to recover tuition for the loss of in-person instruction), and the money machine that fuels college athletics is going to have a rough go of it unless and until the pandemic is brought under control.
Finally, and probably the most important, is that more than a handful of big-time football programs are reporting that a dozen or more returning athletes, most of them football players, have tested positive for COVID-19. This is an ominous turn of events, and The Old Dog won't even try to guess how the next two months will unfold.
Tech Adds Games Against the Badgers
Meanwhile, the Michigan Tech Athletic Department announced that all ticket sales for fall sports, including season tickets for Husky games at the JMac, are on hold due to the "unique and continually evolving situation." Even so, Tech and Wisconsin have announced that they have scheduled a series down in Madison on October 3-4 this fall. When the Badgers and Denver couldn't agree on scheduling to work around a UW football game, Wisconsin looked to find another opponent to fill their schedule. Tech was available, due to the exemption against total game limits for games played in Alaska, and Tech is scheduled for four games in the 49th state this coming season.
Will this Huskies-Badgers series even be played?
The Huskies, like many D1 hockey programs that don't have an FBS football program, are less dependent on the income that sport provides. But the budget pressure is real in Houghton, too. Ask any MTU staff member that has taken a pay cut, or one of the employees furloughed earlier this year when live classes were terminated early.
UAH Keeps Charging
As a result of The Old Dog's contribution to the Alabama-Huntsville Go-Fund-Me campaign to save Charger Hockey, I was invited to sit in on a large Zoom meeting held by the campaign organizers last week. Not quite 100 people were Zoomed in for the session, including many former players and interim coach Lance West. (West did not speak out during the session.)
This group is intent on not only saving UAH hockey, but pushing it to become a serious contender in the national scheme of things. With more than $750K raised in their campaign, and the balance from the University of Alabama system, they will have a total budget of $1.4 million and be able to cover expenses for the coming season.
However, they also believe the Chargers need to raise their budget to $2.3 million per year to be successful in the long term. To accomplish this, they have a target of selling 3,000 season tickets for the coming year, an extremely aggressive goal. For reference, Minnesota State leads the WCHA with over 4,000 season ticket sales. They are also seeking corporate support from local businesses, and there are many large corporations with a presence in Huntsville due to NASA'S Marshall Space Flight Center.
They also have promises of support from both the Havoc (the local Southern Professional Hockey League team) and the Nashville Predators. The Preds have even suggested hosting a couple of Chargers games in Bridgestone Arena in downtown Nashville.
I wouldn't sell this group short. The leaders are mostly former UAH players and some of the comments during the call were quite animated. "We're going to go down fighting" was one of those remarks. Another former player was even more impassioned. He asked the other Charger alumni where they would be if not for UAH hockey—and his answer was "probably in Alberta pumping gas."
Like everything else in society at this juncture, we'll just have to see how things turn out. The nation seems to be slowly moving toward the most disruptive period in American society since the Great Influenza of 1918-19, and NCAA hockey is being swept up in the historic trend that is unfolding.
Competitive Balance in College Hockey
As a final note, there was an excellent article in College Hockey News this week by P. A. Jensen. In his analysis, Jensen goes deep into results for the past five years to show which conferences were the most and least competitive. The WCHA and the NCHC were the least competitive, while Hockey East and the Big Ten were the most competitive, based on Jensen's method of comparison.
The main reason that the WCHA is ranked as less competitive is Minnesota State's heavy dominance of the regular season. Jensen does dig into the Mavericks, though, as he noted that their supremacy "has not translated to success at the national level" which is an understatement.
The method Jensen used to draw his conclusion is quite interesting, and anyone who loves statistics and sports will find this worth reading.
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Angst , Awareness and Action, a book written by my friend , Jay Desai, and published by Pearson, was launched yesterday. The book focuses on the importance of accountability , in order to improve governance in India. It's a well-written book , and it set me thinking as to how we can apply its lessons to improving healthcare within India.
There is a lot of angst within the healthcare system and patients are often unhappy and dissatisfied with the quality of medical care they receive. They complain that doctors don't have the time to sit down and talk to them ; and that they do not bother to explain what's going on, as a result of which patients ( and their family members) are often left in the dark about their treatment. There's also a lot of unhappiness within doctors themselves , because they feel they are overworked , overburdened and underpaid. The first step to resolving angst is to be aware of the fact that there is a problem , so that we can then take intelligent action in order to resolve this.
The central issue which this book highlights is that of accountability , and at first blush it might seem the solution to the problem is to make doctors more accountable to patients . However, that's not what I'm proposing at all. While technically ( and legally) it is true that doctors are accountable to their patients , in reality this is a right which is extremely hard to enforce . When things go wrong, this kind of attitude causes patients to look for scapegoats , and it's very easy to blame the doctor for being negligent when the outcome is bad , even when the doctor is blameless.
It's very hard to prove medical negligence ; and trying to enforce accountability in a court of law just ends up creating a lose-lose situation. The truth is that trying to ensure accountability from someone else ( whether this other person is a bureaucrat, politician , judge or doctor ) is extremely hard.
A more enlightened approach would be to help patients ( the end-users) to become more accountable for the quality of medical care which they receive. Patients are not helpless , and they do play an active role in their own healthcare, even though this is not often explicitly acknowledged. This is a much more practical solution , because it's possible for people to change their own behavior, while changing the behavior of the system is extremely hard.
The philosophy behind Information Therapy is that patients are the largest untapped healthcare resource ; and that by empowering patients with information and holding them accountable for the quality of care which they receive, they will be able to make much better use of the medical resources which are available to them through doctors and hospitals.
While this is not possible for all medical encounters ( for example, during an emergency); and can be challenging to implement ( when patients are illiterate), this is a better approach, because it's the patients who have the most at stake, and they are the ones who will be most willing to change, provided the system provides them with the tools to do so !
While it may seem that I'm turning the concept of accountability on its head, the reality is that we can only be accountable to ourselves - and if you approach this problem from the perspective of personal empowerment , we are far more likely to get good results, rather than have to depend on the system ( or some other player within the system ) to provide these results to us.
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Club partners with Community Trust & Stevenage Food Bank to help deliver shopping
Jim Steele
Stevenage Football Club has partnered with Stevenage Community Trust and the Stevenage Community Food Bank to provide fresh fruit, vegetables and a bespoke shopping service for families suffering significant hardship during the current pandemic...
Funded by the Trust, volunteers from Stevenage Football Club and Stevenage FC Foundation has expanded its Community Careline services and is now helping with a shopping and delivery service for individuals and families most in need across the town.
Aware that many people's loss of earnings in recent weeks has meant their income has reduced to almost nothing, The Trust has organised and funded delivery of a wide range of fresh produce including cucumbers, tomatoes, onions, carrots, cauliflowers, potatoes, satsumas, apples and bananas which Stevenage Community Food Bank were able to distribute to 45 local people in crisis last week.
Families in severe financial hardship are also being supported with other essential items specific to their needs such as baby milk or food for those with allergies and intolerances, which Stevenage Football Club is helping with the shopping and delivery of. All refferals come via Stevenage Community Foodbank.
Due to the success of this initiative in its first week, Stevenage Community Trust has committed to continued funding for the foreseeable future.
Caroline Haskins, Manager of the Trust commented, "For 30 years Stevenage Community Trust has been making a difference to the lives of local people in need and our support is needed now more than ever before. We are grateful to Stevenage FC and the Stevenage Community Food Bank for all their help getting this initiative up and running so quickly and most notably to our wonderful supporters whose donations have enabled us to continue providing help when and where it is needed during these uncertain times."
Along with many others, this project has been funded by the Stevenage Community Trust 'Stevenage Helps' appeal which was created specifically to support people living in our community who have been adversely affected by COVID-19. The appeal has attracted donations of £17,764 to date, with a further £10,000 to support the over 60's.
Thanks to the generosity of everyone who has donated, in the past 6 weeks the Trust has been able to distribute 53 grants totalling £17,108 to local charities, voluntary organisations and directly to families in crisis. You can find some of the case studies of those we've helped through this appeal at https://www.stevenagecommunitytrust.org/stevenage-helps.
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I forgot to tell the police about my new gun in time. Now what?
Q: I recently bought a new gun and forgot to inform the police within the required seven-day gun notification period to add it to my licence. I have now sent the police the required paperwork but it is six weeks since I bought the gun. Should I call the police to notify them of this or is a letter ok?
Bill Harriman advises: It is a criminal offence to fail to notify the acquisition or disposal of a shotgun.
However, though you have made this notification out of time, you have eventually completed the audit trail and the police may take the view that it is not worth prosecuting you. They may decide to dispose of the matter by means of a warning letter or verbal advice. If the latter, be contrite when it is delivered and say this was an oversight on your part.
Whatever happens, you must get a grip and learn from this experience. Do not let it happen again, otherwise the police will allege that this indicates the start of a pattern of slackness and law-breaking; your certificate will be in jeopardy as a result.
You can notify acquisitions by email (this is called "permitted electronic means"). The address to which such notices must be sent will appear on the police website under the firearms licensing section. Ask for a read receipt.
What's best? Buying a new gun or opting for second-hand?
Do my shotguns have to be kept at my home address?
Shotgun licence: If I apply for a shotgun licence do the guns have to be kept at my home address?
Do I have to carry my shotgun licence when shooting?
If you prefer to make the notice by letter always keep a copy. You must also use a tracked service requiring a signature on delivery. Police forces are large organisations and post gets lost sometimes. That is the police's problem; armed with the tracking receipt you are bombproof.
In your circumstances, I would send an email follow-up with your sincere apologies for the lateness and hopefully that will be an end to the matter.


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Most organizations use technology as part of the onboarding experience. There are forms to fill out, eLearning to consume, and resources to be reviewed on the intranet. We use software and devices to deliver and store content.
But what's the story a new employee will tell about their experience? How does using onboarding technology help people perform better and be more productive faster?
In many cases, we have a bunch of content, but the content experience is organized like a scavenger hunt. We send new employees on a quest to find information, but at each stop we change the context for why they're there. Go to the LMS for this, go to the CRM for that, check the HR intranet page, etc. It isn't consistent, and worse, it dilutes what we're trying to achieve with onboarding. At the end of the day, you may have checked off all the boxes, but the journey wasn't memorable and may have left the user feeling confused and frustrated.
And it's not enough to change the window dressing if you don't also address the underlying content and experience challenges. Otherwise all you have is a sleek but impractical interface that leaves employees feeling just as irritated. Once you've reimagined the onboarding experience and can tell the story from preboarding through the first weeks and months, it's time to use onboarding technology to help tell that story.
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To shift our thinking on onboarding technology, we have to start looking at the context of the content we provide. Think of it as a personalized employee dashboard that's all about that new person, their mindset, and what they need to succeed within your company. This includes transactional tasks (e.g., paperwork), but also what they need to know about the company, the function, and role they were hired to perform.
Too often we place all the focus only on what we need new team members to learn or complete for compliance purposes. Yet when we focus on their needs and acclimating them to the company, their role, and the tremendous value they bring, we make them feel like they belong. Try reframing the context to be about how we want them to feel.
Adding structure to an experience.
Once you have the context, you can then structure the knowledge and experiences you need them to have in the onboarding journey. Use the context to design the perfect first day and week that would be a great experience and story to tell. Design it so they know exactly what they're supposed to do and what's coming next. There should always be a logical connection between one experience and the next. It's not about making an interactive checklist; it's about imagining what your new hire is going through and trying to meet them where they are—their anxiety, their curiosity, and the significant things that happen to them along the way.
Onboarding technology like web portals can enable these kinds of experiences in a systematic way:
Authoring and sequencing activities
Customized experiences for different roles or regions
Beautifully designed interfaces that are easy to use and aligned with your brand
Seamless integrations into other platforms
Metrics that provide visibility into new hires' progress
This is all great stuff! But the onboarding technology isn't the experience itself, it just supports the experience.
Infusing the human element.
Think about the collection of experiences on your onboarding path. What are the most important and meaningful in the journey?
Now think about how the new employee experiences those things. Was it an eLearning module or a human exchange? Did they research a product on your intranet, or did they reach out to a coworker to ask them how they sell it? Think about ways you can incorporate human-based moments of meaning into the experience.
One of my favorite onboarding experience stories involves a client who distributed free reusable water bottles to all employees. They could have just placed the water bottle on the new hire's desk on the first day, but instead they decided to make getting the water bottle a learning experience. The onboarding portal told the new employee who to find, gave them a few personal questions to ask before they could pick up the bottle, and shared why the company valued reusable water bottles. A simple task became something personal and meaningful.
The technology wasn't the focus, but it prompted the action. It provided a framework and context around a human-centered event that became part of the overall experience.
It's not about the technology, it's the experience.
The goal isn't necessarily to have the flashiest and fanciest onboarding technology; it's to design the best experience with the best usability for a new employee. Create something where the onboarding process is personalized, clear, easy, and intuitive. Make the technology irrelevant and the experience the star of the show.
Use onboarding technology to highlight meaningful human experiences and you'll be well on your way to making your onboarding a more effective and memorable journey that accelerates a new hire's time to competency.
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Kirowo-Czepieck () – miasto w Rosji, w obwodzie kirowskim, u ujścia Czepcy do Wiatki; siedziba administracyjna rejonu kirowo-czepieckiego. Ośrodek przemysłu chemicznego, budowlanego, elektromaszynowego, spożywczego i tekstylnego; w mieście znajduje się elektrociepłownia TEC-3.

Demografia
W 2010 roku liczyło ok. 81 tys. mieszkańców. W 2021 roku liczyło ok. 68 tys. mieszkańców.

Historia
Miejscowość została założona przez osadników nowogrodzkich w połowie XV wieku pod nazwą Ust'-Czepca. W 1935 roku we wsi rozpoczęto budowę elektrociepłowni nad Czepcą, która miała dostarczać energię dla pobliskiego Kirowa; przy elektrociepłowni powstało duże osiedle robotnicze. Miejscowość w 1955 roku otrzymała prawa miejskie i została przemianowana na Kirowo-Czepieck. Miasto rozwijało się jako satelita Kirowa.

Sport
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May 11th – Cool World (SNES)
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Hey all, I'm going to be taking a few days off starting on the 14th and going through the 18th. I'll be back with some new, fun stuff on the 19th though so stay tuned!
5/11 – Cool World
Hello and welcome. My name is Katosepe and I'll be your host for today's Video Game of the Day.
Back in 1992, a movie came out that fused live-action with animation. It told the story of an animator, Jack Deebs, who creates a comic strip called Cool World and is sucked into it by a vampire, Holli, who wants to use him to escape into the real world. The film featured significant adult humor and clashed hard with critics and fans alike, resulting in a large commercial failure. Despite this, 7 months after the movie released in theaters, three completely different games were released based on this movie, one for the Game Boy, one for the NES and one for the Super Nintendo. Today, let's talk about Cool World for the Super Nintendo.
Released in Februrary 1993, Cool World for the Super Nintendo lets players play as Jack Deebs and is actually the only game of the three Cool World games to do so. The game functions as a side-scrolling adventure game, where Jack must traverse non-linear areas to pick up and use items to solve puzzles. Jack also has a cartoon extending arm to punch enemies at a distance or pull himself up to different, out-of-reach areas.
Due to the adult nature of the movie, the game is heavily censored and adapted from the movie in order to be playable by kids. There are still some mild suggestive themes throughout the game, with Jack meeting Holli alone for a date and the scene simply involving several hearts appearing on screen. Otherwise, it does follow the basic premise of the film with Holli escaping to the real world and Jack having to find a way to stop her, although Brad Pitt's character, Frank, seems to be entirely removed from the game.
Cool World received fairly negative reviews at the time and in most retrospectives. The Cool World film was advertised as being a risque, adult-humored animated film and it was seen as a failure. Since the game removes almost all of the adult humor, it is often seen as even more unnecessary. Many critics seem to ask who this game was made for, as the film it was based on was not made for kids but the game isn't interesting enough to hold adult's attentions. Ultimately, this would be the last game made by developer Painting by Numbers as the developers were spun into Ocean's American studio, Ocean of America. While the game is mostly seen as a failure, it was an interesting experiment and could have been a game ahead of its time, as games marketed towards adults are far more common today.
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While COVID-19 vaccines will help reduce the toll of COVID-19 on the country, not everyone is convinced that they should receive that vaccine. The benefit is likely greater for those of advanced years who are at greater risk. Despite the vaccines, there are still cases of COVID-19 occurring. Indeed, in recent weeks the numbers of cases reported has, again, risen sharply although, thankfully, the numbers of deaths has not. It seems likely that the recent uptick in cases is due to the so-called "delta" variant of the COVID-19 (SARS-2) virus, which appears to be more transmissible but less lethal. It also appears that the COVID-19 vaccines, especially the Pfizer vaccine, are less effective against the "delta" variant. For these reasons it now appears reasonable to to recommend preventive treatments, including ivermectin, even among those fully immunized against COVID-19, to reduce the impact and transmission of the "delta" variant.
Thus, our current recommendation is for COVID-19 prophylaxis for all those 65 or older or those with risk factors such as chronic illness, obesity, or type 2 diabetes. Our current recommendation for prophylaxis is ivermectin, four 3mg tablets once per week. For those less than 65 years I also recommend obtaining 8 tablets of ivermectin to be kept on hand for use at the first sign of COVID-19 infection, 4 tablets on the first day and the other four tablets on day four of the infection.
A word of caution. It has been reported that large chain pharmacies, like CVS and Walgreen's, are refusing to fill ivermectin prescriptions. Thus, you may need to shop around to find a pharmacy that will fill your prescription. There is also a website that lists pharmacies that will fill ivermectin prescriptions at: covid19criticalcare.com/pharmacies/.
For those who think you have been exposed to, or might have, COVID-19, the main early symptoms are:
fever (often the first)
Other symptoms can include: difficulty breathing, chills, sore throat, runny nose, headache, muscle ache, loss of ability to taste or smell. If you think you have COVID-19, it is important to start treatment as soon as possible. Click here to get the form for treatment. Then get tested for COVID-19. You do not have to wait for your test result to start treatment.
Early Treatment For COVID-19
On January 14, 2021, the National Institutes of Health COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines Panel dropped its previous opposition to the use of the common and inexpensive anti-parasite drug, ivermectin, for use in treating COVID-19, now stating that, "there are insufficient data to recommend either for or against the use of ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19." This now opens the door for the early, inexpensive, outpatient treatment of COVID-19 positive patients in the early, more treatable, phase of COVID-19 infections, potentially avoiding the later, harder to treat, often fatal, late phase of the disease. Indeed, in an Argentine study recently described on Fox News, "800 healthcare workers received ivermectin, while another 400 did not. Of the 800, not a single person contracted COVID-19, while more than half of the 400 did."
India has been spectacularly successful treating COVID-19 with ivermectin. India began to see a surge of COVID-19 cases in April of 2021. On April 28, 2021 India's Ministry of Health & Family Welfare issued Revised Guidelines For Home Isolation Of Mild/Symptomatic COVID-19 Cases. Those Guidelines recommended treating COVID-19 patients with ivermectin and treating all caretakers and household contacts with hydroxycholoroquine. The drugs were quickly and widely deployed in the community, no doctor visit required, as seen here:
India was spectacularly successful with this plan, which stopped its COVID-19 epidemic in its tracks. Seen below are India's daily cases and deaths per million population since February of 2020 (in light blue) as compared to the United States (in black), with the introduction of its ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine treatments on April 28, 2021:
At the time that India accomplished this miracle it had only 2% of its population fully vaccinated. This data shows that vaccination is neither necessary nor sufficient to control the COVID-19 pandemic.
The comparison between India's COVD-19 statistics and those of the United States is tragic, with the U.S. suffering almost six times more total COVID-19 cases per capita than has India and nearly seven times more deaths per capita, as seem below:
As of November 9, 2021 the U.S. has suffered about 778,000 COVID-19 deaths and counting. If the U.S. had only the same death rate as India, it would have saved about 670,000 of those deaths. For a more detailed analysis of India's spectacular success fighting COVID-19 with ivermectin, see this recent review.
Some states in Peru have been similarly successful using ivermectin as compared to Lima, which did not use ivermectin and the improvement in their numbers occurred as soon as ivermectin was introduced, where the introduction of ivermectin is shown by the vertical black lines in the figures below:
Early outpatient treatment is highly effective at reducing these deaths, including treatment with ivermectin (approx. 75-85% reduction), hydroxychloroquine (67% reduction), and/or vitamin D3 (75% reduction).
The benefits of widespread vaccination are not so apparent as seen by comparing the United States with India. The reason is unclear. While vaccines were very effective in early U.S. trials, their effectiveness seems to wear off over time, which is why we are now seeing booster shots, and may see them repeatedly in the future. More worrisome are data from Great Britain that suggest that, nine or ten months after completion of COVID-19 vaccinations, not only do they become less effective, it appears that vaccinated persons over the age of 18 are more likely to become infected with COVID-19 than those who are not vaccinated, with those over 30 more than twice as likely to become infected, as seen below in a recent report from the Health Security Agency of the British Government:
Source: https://eugyppius.substack.com/p/ukhsa-vaccine-efficacy-statistics
Another recent British study found that, "….fully vaccinated individuals with breakthrough infections have peak viral load similar to unvaccinated cases and can efficiently transmit infection in household settings, including to fully vaccinated contacts."
Thus, the first of these British reports shows that vaccinated persons are just as likely, if not more likely, to become infected with COVID-19 and, once infected, can easily spread it to others, even to other vaccinated persons. In fairness to COVID-19 vaccines, the British Health Security Agency data do show that vaccinated persons are much less likely than unvaccinated persons to require a visit to the Emergency Room (p. 14) or to die (p. 15). However, early treatment is not offered for COVID-19 in Britain. Thus, it cannot be determined from this data whether vaccines are more effective than early treatment for COVID-19.
The need for early, effective, treatment (and prevention) now is especially great among certain racial and ethnic groups. According to the U.S. C.D.C., the rates of hospitalization due to COVID-19 for Black or African-American are 3.7 times higher than those for White, Non-Hispanic persons and 2.8 times higher for death due to COVID-19. The rates for Hispanic or Latino persons are 4.1 times higher for hospitalization due to COVID-19 and 2.8 times higher for death due to COVID-19. The experience in California has been similar. As of January 13, 2021, African-Americans, who make up 6% of California's population, comprise 6.7% (2,050) of California's COVID-19 deaths while Latino's who make up 38.9% of California's population, comprise 46.5% (14,292) of California's COVID-19 deaths.
The information provided here is for those who either: (1) have recently tested positive for COVID-19 but are not sick enough to be in the Emergency Room or the hospital, or (2) have not had COVID-19. It is not for those who need to seek emergency medical attention or to be hospitalized.
FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NOT YET HAD COVID-19
Your risk of getting COVID-19 depends on your exposure to others who have it. Several of the main factors are:
how close you are to them, try to keep six (6) feet apart,
whether you and/or they are wearing face masks,
how long you are exposed to that person or persons,
whether your exposure is indoors with little or no ventilation or outdoors with good ventilation
You can help to prevent serious infection COVID-19 infection by taking these over-the-counter medicines to boost your resistance to it (in this order of importance):
vitamin D3, 5,000 units per day
zinc, 50 mg per day
vitamin C, 1000 mg per day
quercetin 500 mg per day
For those 65 or older or with diabetes, chronic lung or heart disease, cancer, or immunodeficiency, a prescription medication, ivermectin, is also recommended for prevention of COVID-19:
ivermectin* 12 mg once per week for 10 weeks, then once every other week; cost about $17-25 for two week supply with coupon.
* use of ivermectin for prevention of COVID-19 has not been approved by the U.S. F.D.A. This is known as an "off-label" use of an approved drug, which is permitted. The U.S. F.D.A. advisory on "off-label" use of drugs can be found here where it is stated that, "From the FDA perspective, once the FDA approves a drug, healthcare providers generally may prescribe the drug for an unapproved use when they judge that it is medically appropriate for their patient."
(Sources: Eastern Virginia Medical School COVID-19 Protocol; McCullough Protocol, Fareed-Tyson Protocol)
Other symptoms can include: difficulty breathing, chills, sore throat, runny nose, headache, muscle ache, loss of ability to taste or smell
If you think you might have COVID-19, get tested, the sooner the better, so that you can get started on early treatment. The federal Centers for Disease Control website has information about COVID-19 testing. The California Department of Health Website lists locations where free, confidential COVID-19 testing is available to every Californian who needs it.
FOR THOSE WHO HAVE TESTED POSITIVE FOR COVID-19 BUT DO NOT NEED TO BE HOSPITALIZED
If you test positive, start by visiting the California Department of Health Website for their advice on "What to Do If You Are Sick." But, don't stop there, read on.
Next, understand that COVID-19 has three stages. The first stage is the viral proliferation phase where the COVID-19 virus is growing in your body but you are not seriously ill, just the minor symptoms described above (fever, cough, fatigue, difficulty breathing, chills, sore throat, runny nose, headache, muscle ache, loss of ability to taste of smell). This first, mild, stage is often around five days. If you are younger, do not have the risk factors described above, and are taking some of the medicines mentioned above, you will hopefully start to feel better by then and won't progress to the second, serious, sometimes deadly, second and third stages that requires hospital treatment.
The second stage is the cytokine injury stage in which the body's own immune defenses that have been building up during the first stage to fight the COVID-19 infection get out of control and attack the body's own vital organs.
The third stage is the thrombosis stage in which tiny blood clots form in the body's small blood vessels that have been damaged by the attacks of the cytokines on them. When enough of an organ's blood vessels become plugged up with these tiny blood clots, the organ fails to due inadequate blood flow. Multiple organs can fail, including lungs, heart, liver, and kidneys. This can, and often does, lead to death.
This second and third stages can only be treated in the hospital and, even then, this often leads to death, especially in the most vulnerable. The three stages of COVID-19 infection are shown below:
Source: Peter McCullough, M.D., and others.
The goal of preventive or early treatment of the first phase is, of course, prevention or decreasing the severity of the second phase.
TREATMENT PROTOCOL FOR THOSE WHO TEST POSITIVE FOR COVID-19
Monitoring required:
Get an accurate, reliable thermometer that you can use. Ear thermometers are more reliable and accurate than forehead thermometers. Check your temperature and record it every four hours while you are awake and while fever continues.
If possible, get a pulse oximeter to measure your blood oxygen level from your fingertip or earlobe every four hours while you are awake and anytime you feel short of breath. You will need some practice to get reliable readings so use it and get familiar with how to use it before you get too sick and really need it and so that you know your baseline oxygen level. Here is a YouTube video on how to use a pulse oximeter. Most healthy people who do not live at higher altitudes have oxygen levels of 95% or more. A significant drop in your oxygen level from your own normal baseline reading, especially in conjunction with difficulty breathing, should prompt urgent medical attention.
Major pharmacies carry pulse oximeters which you can buy off the shelf. They often run around $50. (CVS) (Walgreens) (Rite Aid) (Target) (Walmart). Amazon also sells pulse oximeters but you usually cannot get them the same day. TIP: if you are in a high-risk group, consider getting a pulse oximeter before you get sick and become familiar with using it.
Medications typically required, number of tablets needed for course of treatment:
HCQ 200 mg tabs, 16 tabs needed (HCQ = hydroxychloroquine)*(prescription required)
vitamin D3, 5000U capsules
zinc sulfate 220 mg (or elemental Zinc 50 mg), 15 tabs needed
azithromycin (Zithromax)* 500 mg, 5 tabs (or Z pack), OR Doxycycline* 100 mg tabs, 10 tabs needed (prescription required for both)
ivermectin* 3 mg tabs, 8 tabs needed (prescription required)
aspirin 325 mg tabs, 30 tabs needed
pepcid 20 mg tabs, 5 needed
* use of hydroxchloroquine, azithromycin, doxycycline, and/or ivermectin for treatment of COVID-19 has not been approved by the U.S. F.D.A. This is known as an "off-label" use of an approved drug, which is permitted. The U.S. F.D.A. advisory on "off-label" use of drugs can be found here where it is stated that "From the FDA perspective, once the FDA approves a drug, healthcare providers generally may prescribe the drug for an unapproved use when they judge that it is medically appropriate for their patient." Recently the National Institutes of Health's COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines Panel stated that, "there are insufficient data to recommend either for or against the use of ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19."
HCQ, 2 tabs twice a day
zinc sulfate tab, 1 tab twice a day
azithromycin tab one per day or doxycycline tab twice a day
ivermectin four 3 mg tabs on day 1 only
vitamin D3 (see below)
aspirin 325 mg, one tab per day
pepcid 20 mg tab, one tab per day
HCQ tab, one tab 3 times a day
zinc sulfate, one tab 3 times a day
azithromycin tab daily* or doxycycline cap twice a day
ivermectin 12 mg tab on day 3 if symptoms warrant (not improving)
pepcid 20 mg tab daily
vitamin D3 (very important): if you have already been taking vitamin D3, 5,000U per day, for several days, just continue the same. If not, take vitamin D3, 50,000U each day for three days to get caught up, then 5,000U per day.
(Sources: Eastern Virginia Medical School COVID-19 Protocol; Fareed-Tyson Protocol, Zelenko Protocol)
Note: Unfortunately, most, if not all, the major pharmacy chains are now refusing, without explanation, to fill ivermectin prescriptions for COVID-19. Fortunately, some smaller, independent pharmacies will still fill ivermectin prescriptions. This website maintained by the Front Line Doctors lists some pharmacies that will fill ivermectin prescriptions. Many will do so by mail.
IF SYMPTOMS WORSEN, ESPECIALLY DIFFICULTY BREATHING, OR OXYGEN LEVELS DROP SIGNIFICANTLY, CALL 911 OR GO TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM.
The goal of the treatments described above for treatment of the first, milder, viral replication phase is to prevent progression to the second, deadly, cytokine storm phase which usually requires hospital treatment.
Unfortunately, neither the California Department of Health, nor the federal Centers for Disease Control, nor the National Institutes of Health currently have any recommendations for outpatient treatment of the early, viral replication, phase of COVID-19 infection, not even the basics like checking your temperature or monitoring your oxygen level. Their only advice for those in the early phase of COVID-19 is to isolate yourself and try not to pass it on. Unfortunately, many of those go on to serious illness or death. This is both unacceptable and unnecessary. Deaths in the United States alone are now in nearing 800,000 out of a total number of cases of nearly fifty million. That is a case fatality rate of about 1.6%.
By contrast, two physician in Southern California, who have treated more than 10,000 COVID-19 patients with the above early treatment protocol have a 100% survival rate.
IVERMECTIN IS VERY EFFECTIVE FOR PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF COVID-19
The antibiotic, ivermectin, is especially effective in treating COVID-19 at all stages of the illness, both for prevention and treatment, especially for prevention and early in the course of the disease as shown here:
Source: https://ivmmeta.com/
Although ivermectin may have minor side effects such as headache, dizziness, nausea, or diarrhea, it has been widely and safely used for decades around the world. As noted by the U.S. Centers For Disease Control, "Given as a tablet in mass drug administrations, oral ivermectin has been used extensively and safely for over two decades in many countries to treat filarial worm infections. Although not FDA-approved for the treatment of lice, ivermectin tablets given in a single oral dose of 200 micrograms/kg or 400 micrograms/kg repeated in 9-10 days has been shown effective against head lice."
Indeed, ivermectin is far safer than the COVID-19 vaccinations, which are far less safe than any other vaccines, including flu vaccines, as seen below in data covering only through June 2021:
As seen above, COVID-19 vaccines have been much more frequently reported in association with fatal outcomes in just the past year than have all other vaccines over the past 25 years, as reported by the federal Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). As VAERS says repeatedly on their website, just because a death was reported after a vaccination does not mean that the vaccination was the actual cause of the death. But look at the annual incidence of fatalities reported to VAERS since 1976:
Source: CDC WONDER VAERS Data Search
As we can plainly see, something happened in 2021 that caused the numbers of reports to skyrocket. What could it have been? The really shocking thing about this graph is that after stoutly and repeatedly insisting that mere occurrence does not prove causation, neither the FDA nor the CDC has made, or plans to make, any investigation into the cause of this skyrocketing of the death rate after vaccination. If there was a sudden and dramatic skyrocketing of the numbers of fatal plane crashes, there would be a lot of investigations and, most likely, all the airplanes would be grounded until the cause was discovered. Obviously, the reason that the FDA and CDC are not investigating is that they already know the cause, it is their vaccines. And, if they know it, they should be telling people about the risks rather than just claiming that their vaccines are "safe and effective" and letting it go at that.
Editorial Comments:
Millions of people in the United States have gotten COVID-19 vaccines without incident. However, as seen above, COVID-19 vaccines have been associated with more VAERS reports within the last year than have all the flu vaccines for the past 25 years. Thus, while the risk of vaccine complications is low, it is higher than that for any other vaccine. And when you are the rare person who has a severe or fatal COVID-19 reaction, it is, for you, not at all rare. It's sort of like being hit and killed by a drunk driver, it does not happen very often but it is very tragic when it does happen, as seen in this recent roundtable hosted by Sen. Johnson. Patients deserve to know about these tragedies so that they can make informed decisions. Government mandates that people expose themselves and their children to these risks are quite troubling. To put it another way, how many innocent children are we prepared to have die due to mandated vaccines for the supposed greater good of society, especially when India has shown us that there are other safer and more effective alternatives. We need and deserve a debate on this question.
The reason that effective, early COVID-19 treatment has not been widely adopted in the United States may be as much political as scientific, as illustrated by two recent hearings (November 19, 2020, December 8, 2020) on the subject before the Senate Homeland Security Committee:
November 19, 2020 Hearing:
Chairman Sen. Ron Johnson, (R-WI)(YouTube) (text)
Ranking Member Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI)(YouTube)(text)
Peter McCollough, M.D., M.P.H. (Baylor College of Medicine)(YouTube) (text)
Harvey Risch, M.D., Ph.D. (Yale School of Public Health)(YouTube) (text)
George Fareed, M.D., Medical Director, Pioneers Health Center, Brawley, CA)(YouTube) (text)
Ashish Jha, M.D., M.P.H., Brown University School of Public Health (YouTube) (text)
Questions by Senators & Answers by Witnesses (YouTube)
December 8, 2020 Hearing:
Chairman Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI)(YouTube) (text)
Ranking Member Sen. Gary C. Peters (D-MI)(YouTube) (text)
Ramin Oskoui, M.D., Sibley Memorial Hospital (YouTube) (text)
Jean-Jacques Rajter, M.D., Broward Health Medical Center (YouTube) (text)
Pierre Kory, M.D., St. Luke's Aurora Medical Center (YouTube) (text)
Armand Balboni, M.D., Ph.D., Appili Therapeutics Inc. (YouTube) (text)
Jane M. Orient, M.D., Association of American Physicians and Surgeons) (YouTube) (text)
Jayanta Bhattacharya, M.D., Ph.D., Stanford University (YouTube) (text)
However, the testimony of these experts did not sit well with Google and YouTube, which censored Dr. Kory's Senate presentation until they were forced to relent. This censorship of a simple, safe, inexpensive treatment that could potentially save countless lives did not sit well with Senator Johnson, as he explained in the Wall Street Journal and to Fox News. Senator Johnson and Dr. Kory may want to keep in mind that, as bomber pilots like to say, you know you are over the target when you are taking a lot of flak.
Big Pharma's money interests may underlie the politics. Big pharma has made many billions producing COVID-19 drugs, such as remdesivir, and vaccines, such as the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. Under the arcane rules of the Food and Drug Administration, these drugs were hurriedly approved for general use under an FDA procedure known as an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA). However, under the laws that govern the FDA, EUA's are only available when there are no FDA-approved drugs available to meet the need. Since ivermectin and hydroxycholoroquine are inexpensive generic drugs that have been FDA-approved for many years to treat other conditions, if the FDA were to acknowledge that they are effective against COVID-19, then the FDA could not have issued the EUA's for Big Pharma's pricey proprietary drugs. This makes even more sense when one considers that nearly half of the FDA'a budget comes from Big Pharma. Without Big Pharma, half of the people at the FDA would be out of their jobs. In the field of law and economics, we call this "regulatory capture," where the regulators become captured by those that they regulate because the regulated have lots of money for lobbyists and political contributions, and to give well paying jobs as lobbyists to the top regulators when those top regulators decide to leave the government and go to work lobbying for those that they used to regulate. So, smart regulators may not want to bite the hand that may be feeding them in the future. Makers of inexpensive generic drugs like ivermectin don't have that kind of money. or clout. As noted above, if the U.S. had only the same death rate as India, we could have saved about 670,000 lives so far. That is a very high price to pay for the regulatory capture of the FDA, CDC, and NIH.
Rev. 11-9-2021.
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Подземна експлоатација меких стена је група подземних техника ископавања које се користе за вађење угља, уљних шкриљаца, калијума и других минерала или геолошких материјала из седиментних ("меких") стена.  Будући да су лежишта у седиментним стенама обично слојевита и релативно мање тврда, методе ископавања разликују се од оних које се користе за ископавање лежишта у магнетним или метаморфним стенама ( види Подземна експлоатација чврстих минералних сировина ). Подземне технике ископавања се такође увелико разликују од оних које се користе у површинској експлоатацији.

Методе подземне експлоатације у меким стенама

 Широкочелно откопавање - Скуп опреме за широкочелно откопавање састоји се од комбајна за угаљ постављеног на транспортер који делује испод низа хидрауличних подградних конструкција. Готово цео процес може бити аутоматизован. Машине за широкочелно откопавање су обично ширине 150–250 метара и висине од 1,5 до 3 метра. Широкочелним откопавањем извлаче се "панеле" - правоугаони блокови угља, ширине колико је чело у које је опрема инсталирана, и дугачко неколико километара. Снажни механички комбајни за угаљ секу угаљ с чела, који пада на оклопни транспортер за уклањање. Широкочелним откопавањем може се напредовати у подручје угља или, чешће, повлачећи се назад између развојних тунела. Док се откопавање наставља дуж панела, кров иза носача може се зарушити планирано и контролисано.
 Коморно-стубно откопавање - Коморно-стубно откопавање се обично изводи у хоризонталним или благо нагнутим лежиштима. Стубови се остављају у правилном распореду, док се коморе откопавају. У многим коморно-стубним рудницима, стубови се откопавају, почевши од најудаљеније тачке од излаза из рудника, повлачећи се и пуштајући да се кров заруши. Коморно-стубне методе су добро прилагођене механизацији и користе се у лежиштима као што су угаљ, калијум, фосфат, со, уљни шкриљац и уранијумске руде.
 Откопавање минирањем - Старија пракса вађења угља која користи експлозиве попут динамита за разбијање угљеног слоја, након чега се угаљ скупља и товари у јамске камионе за угаљ или транспортере за уклањање до централног утоварног подручја. Овај процес се састоји од низа операција које започињу "сечењем" угљеног корита, па ће се лако распасти када се минира експлозивом. Ова врста рударства данас чини мање од 5% укупне подземне производње у САД.
 Откопавање кратким челом - Метода која учествује са мање од 1% производње угља, кратко чело подразумева употребу континуалне рударске опреме са покретнoм подградном конструкцијом, слично као код широкочелне. Континуални рударски комбајн и угљене плоче ширине 150–200 стопа и дуге више од пола миље, зависне од других ствари попут слојева Земље и трансферзалних таласа.

Види још

 Повлачење у рударству
 Национално складиште карте рудника
 Подземна експлоатација чврстих минералних сировина
 Подземно рударство

Референце

Подземно рударство
Рударство
Рударске технике
Рударство у Србији
Рударска опрема


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Maj. John Krysa rakes outside barracks 4295 at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, N.C., Nov. 25 2014. Staff noncommissioned officers and officers worked together to clean and improve the living conditions for Marines in the barracks before the holiday season. The Marines cleaned the barracks in an effort to give back to the junior Marines during this holiday season. Krysa is the executive officer of Marine Air Control squadron 2.
Photo by Cpl. U. B. Roberts
Leadership gives holiday gift to barracks Marines
26 Nov 2014 | Cpl. U. B. Roberts Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point
Staff noncommissioned officers and officers with Marine Air Control Group 28 set the example for their junior Marines by renovating and cleaning barracks 4295 at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, N.C., Nov. 24 and 25.
The project was conducted in an effort to give back to the Marines who are currently living in the barracks as well as teach them accountability and responsibility for their living quarters.
"We are cleaning in preparation for the holidays," said Gunnery Sgt. Austin Keelty, a logistics chief with Marine Air Control Squadron 2. "By assisting and cleaning the barracks, we are giving the junior Marines a chance to enjoy the place they live in."
The Marines worked on a variety of projects in the barracks including painting, pressure washing, landscaping and fixing furniture in the common areas.
"There are more than 25 Marines supporting this effort," said Keelty. "This is important because staff NCOs and officers with MASS-1 and MACS-2 are coming to the barracks to lead by example and show the Marines how to effectively and efficiently clean the barracks."
In addition to restoring the barracks, the staff NCOs and officers partnered with the Facilities Maintenance Department to document and fix discrepancies in the barracks to improve the junior Marines' living conditions.
"It's important that we provide the Marines with the best we can offer, which allows us as a squadron to be mission ready for any task that we are assigned to," said Keelty.
The volunteers said they hope that participating in the project will give the junior Marines a better home in which they can have a sense of pride that they want to maintain.
As the staff NCO's and officers of MACG-28 continue to lead by example, they are paving the way for junior Marines to learn from their example, according to Keelty.
"As Marines, we set ourselves apart not only by being the strongest and the toughest, but by going above and beyond what is expected," said Keelty.


Now the law enforcement officer faces charges.
He is suspected of embezzling the funds of Rosaviatsia.
The entity subordinated to the state agency received overexpensive services from a legal organization where the suspect had previously worked.
The ex-official accused of swindling with the municipal land was carried away on a stretcher.
Former owner of Plato bank has been convicted in absentia for 6 years.


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Periodically in this space we write about various "superfoods," ones that pack a wallop nutritionally and can tackle an assortment of health-related issues, making us feel better inside and out. Most of the time when we discuss such superfoods, we talk about stuff that is above ground or at least in the ground when it gets harvested. Today, we're going to stick our heads in the water, and below the surface we see a type of freshwater algae known as chlorella. Yeah, it's worthy of "superfood" status as well.
Most chlorella that can be found and is sold in the U.S. actually comes from Japan or Taiwan. From there it is processed and then made into tablets and liquid extracts, which are to be sold as nutritional supplements, per webmd.com. An interesting side note about chlorella per wellnessmama.com – it is one of the world's oldest-known species and has the uncanny capacity to reproduce eight times daily, which certainly qualifies it as a sustainable nutrient source.
Also going by such names as Bulgarian green algae and algue verte d'eau douce, chlorella can do many things beneficial for our health. That includes increasing the "good" bacteria in our gut – which in a very real sense is our body's version of grand central station for driving health throughout our bodies – in order to enhance digestion.
Chlorella, as you might expect from what you've (hopefully) read so far, is a rich green that is courtesy of the ample presence of chlorophyll, also identified as a 'superfood'. For years it has been drilled into our heads that eating leafy, green vegetables is good for us and our health – and that is not a lie – but getting our hands on and consuming the recommended daily dose of five to seven servings of veggies a day is easier said than done. Enter chlorella as a one-food cavalry.
Chlorella also has a healthy amount of vitamin B1, vitamin B6, and phosphorous.
Detoxification: Its small size and unique properties make chlorella an ideal compound to bind to heavy metals and unhealthy chemicals in the body, thus helping to expedite their elimination from our bodies, per wellnessmama.com. In this regard, chlorella can assist the liver and detoxification pathways without accidentally scrubbing beneficial minerals out of the body.
Immune system support: At least one study has shown regular use of chlorella is helpful in bolstering natural killer-cell activity and quick inflammatory response.
Promote mental health: This benefit, cited at webmd.com, is most likely associated with chlorella because of its abundance of magnesium, low levels of which have been associated with poor memory.
Anti-aging: Chlorella has been shown to be effective in giving our skin enhanced vitality by boosting vitamins A and C, and glutathione levels in our body, which helps to get rid of free radicals and protect our cells. The journal Clinical Laboratory, as cited at draxe.com, referenced a study that found chlorella can also help diminish oxidative stress linked to pollution, stress, and a poor diet.
Reduce blood sugar and cholesterol: This has to be good news for those with type 2 diabetes and/or high cholesterol. Researchers have found that regular doses of chlorella can help reduce cholesterol and blood glucose levels while also activating cellular-level genes known to promote insulin insensitivity.
Assist gastrointestinal (GI) tract: Studies have shown chlorella effective in boosting good bacteria in the GI tract, making it potentially useful in treating conditions such as ulcers, colitis, diverticulosis, constipation, and Crohn's disease, per herbwisdom.com.