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Q: check user_input with if token in a loop I am trying to write a function that checks my input to see whether I have entered the character '?'.
This is what I got so far:
def check_word():
   word = []
   check = 0
   user_input = input('Please enter a word that does not contain ?: ')

   for token in user_input.split():
      if token == '?':
        print('Error')
check_word()

My input: hello?
It is supposed to show 'Error'. But it doesn't show anything. Could you please tell me what wrong it is in my code.

A: I would use the in operator to do this
def check_word(s):
    if '?' in s:
        print('Error')

For example
>>> check_word('foobar')
>>> check_word('foo?')
Error

A: The problem is how you split the string of the user_input.
user_input.split():

The example doesn't contain whitespaces so the condition isn't met. If you want for example to check a sentence with spaces, you should split it like this: user_input.split(' ') to split it on the spaces.
But for this example you have two choices:
1) You can just iterate over the input itself because you want to check every char in the string for whether it's a ?.
That is, change user_input.split(): into simply user_input without splitting. This option is good if you might ever want to add some sort of action for each char.
2) It's very easy just to use in, like this:
if '?' in s:
    print('There is a question mark in the string')

This is a very simple solution that you can expand and check for other chars in the string as well.

A: It's because user_input.split() splits the user_input by whitespace. Since hello? does not contain any whitespaces, token is equal to your input and the loop is executed once.
You should iterate over user_input instead, or simply check if '?' in user_input.

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Following a three game road trip last week that earned them five of a possible six points, the Ottawa 67's will be back on home ice this Friday, October 26th when they host the London Knights. The Sudbury Wolves will also be visiting TD Place on Sunday afternoon, in what will be the 67's annual Halloween-themed game.
The Barber Poles have been rolling lately with eight wins in their last 10 games. Ottawa has picked up points in their past eight games, and have scored 50 goals so far this season. Led by what is proving to be the best line in the OHL, made up of Austrian rookie sensation Marco Rossi and veterans Tye Felhaber and Austen Keating, Ottawa has been terrorizing opposing goalies since the three have been together. Felhaber and Keating are respectively tied for second and third in league scoring with 24 and 23 points, while Rossi leads the league in rookie scoring with 16 points. Goaltender and Orleans native Cedrick Andree is also tied for the league lead in wins.
It only took the 67's 14 games to reach 10 wins. The only team to win 10 faster in recent memory would be the 1998-99 edition of the 67's who had reached 10 wins in 13 games and then went on to win the Memorial Cup. Ottawa will look to remain on the winning path this upcoming week-end, with two games against tough opponents coming up on home ice.
One thing that OHL teams are very thankful for right now is the fact that the London Knights could be a lot better than they are right now. London is currently without Evan Bouchard and at forward Alex Formenton, who are currently seeing time with their respective NHL teams. As if that wasn't enough, London owns the rights to forward Brady Tkachuk, another name who will probably not be joining the Knights this season. The absence of these players may explain why London isn't having the start they were hoping for, but this is still a very skilled team, just like the Knights are used to icing year after year. Key players for this edition of the Knights are 2018 top draft picks Adam Boqvist (Chicago, 8th overall) and Liam Foudy (Columbus, 18th overall). Boqvist has adapted well to North America so far, putting up 10 assists in 10 games, while Foudy has eight points in seven game, but he is however currently hurt and may miss Friday's game. Veteran Forward Cole Tymkin leads the Knights in scoring with 13 points in 11 games. While they may not have exactly found their groove, London looks to be a powerful and competitive team this year, as they always are.
One of the early surprises to this start of the OHL season, the Wolves are looking good a dozen games into the campaign. 2018 OHL first overall pick Quinton Byfield has not disappointed thus far with 10 points in 12 games. The rookie forward leads the offensive charge for his team along with 2015 first overall pick David Levin, who has 11 points in 12 games. In nets, Sudbury has their man in Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen. In his first year in North America, the Finnish netminder has a record of 6-2-0, a goals against average of 2.39 and an impressive save percentage of .928, on top of a shutout. After finishing dead last in the OHL last year, Sudbury seems to be taking steps forward and are looking to be a dangerous team night in night out for any opponent.
Tye Felhaber is currently on an active streak of 11 consecutive games with at least a point. In those 11 games, Felhaber has combined for 21 points.
It took only 14 games for the Barber Poles to get to 10 wins this season. The last 67's team that was able to do so was the 2011-2012 edition, who counted on players like Tyler Toffoli, Sean Monahan, Cody Ceci and Petr Mrazek.
Forward Kody Clark signed his first professional contract earlier this week with the Washington Capitals. Clark has 3 goals and 1 assist this season for the 67's.
Austen Keating leads the OHL in assists with 20.
Tye Felhaber has scored the game opening goal 7 times this season, a league best.
Lucas Peric has already doubled his season total from last year. He has put up a goal and 5 assists in 14 games this year. Last season. Peric had 3 points in 57 games.


The tag line of Shivajee Mess sums it up - "Small Place Great Taste". It's on the ECR, just before the Road Transport Office if you're coming from Thiruvanmiyur. It's quite easy to spot too - the name board is a large one. The 14-seater "mess" seems to be quite popular - even at 3 pm on a Sunday afternoon, the place is full.
The mess is a small, functional space, a large glass window along one wall lets in plenty of light but you can still hear the sound of traffic; the menu is prominently displayed along another wall and they've even managed to fit in a wash basin. It's Chef Shivajee's baby, the food is Tanjore-style, quite a change from the Asian food he usually dishes out.
Banana leaves are laid out in front of us, water is served in disposable glasses. We opt for the non-veg meal. Kootu (lentil and spinach), poriyal (bottlegourd with coconut) are served directly on the leaf. There's rice, an omelette, a fried fish and appalam along with katories that hold fish curry, chicken curry, sambar, rasam and buttermilk.
Each plate holds a huge serving of rice so we send one back. One itself is plenty for the both of us. The fish curry of the day is made with mackerel, it's fresh and the gravy is deliciously tangy, the chicken gravy comes with a piece of chicken. In keeping with the Thanjavur provenance, coconut paste thickens the gravies and the food is not very spicy. The sambar is quite ordinary. Both the kootu and poriyal are tasty, the fried mackerel is very fresh. The rasam too is tangy while the buttermilk is light and refreshing.
Kadai (quail) fry, mutton chukka (dry mutton) and prawn fry are the other sides we ordered. I'm not too fond of quail as in most places, the meat tastes quite gamey but at Shivajee Mess, the meat is tender and yeah - tastes like chicken!. The mutton chukka is really good - chunks of meat in a dark brown masala that is not too spicy. The prawns are disappointing, a little rubbery and though the masala looked enticing, it didn't taste so.
A couple of weeks earlier, we had ordered the kozhi masala rice from the Mess. It's a biryani lookalike - the rice is long, slender and golden, cooked in a thick chicken curry. It comes with a piece of chicken, a boiled egg and raita and is quite spicy. The prawn masala that day was absolutely delicious. At 90/ for a serving, the masala rice is a good deal and the portion is generous.
Veg meals cost 60/ and for non veg, it's 120/. The flavours are simple, homely and tasty. As of now, they are open at 12.30 in the afternoon and serve only lunch but by next month, they will be open longer. They do have home delivery and next time, I'm going to try the Tanjore special vatha kulambu.
Three words scare the baker in me - "make it eggless". "Eggless" or egg-free cakes are pretty popular in India as many people do not eat eggs for religious reasons; some folk cannot tolerate the taste and smell of egg in cakes and there are those who are allergic to egg. Enterprising bakers have got past that roadblock; many recipes by Indian bakers omit eggs and instead, rely on various substitutes like egg replacer, yoghurt, vinegar, condensed milk or even ground flaxseed. In fact, there are recipes for cakes without butter, sugar and flour too! There are substitutes for everything!
I have nothing against cakes without eggs, it's just that when you compare a cake that has been baked with eggs and one without, the differences are quite evident both in texture and taste. And at times, in the looks department too. But that's just me.
Most recipes for no-egg cakes call for soda bicarb among other ingredients, which tends to leave a slightly metallic aftertaste on the palate.
Rummaging through a sheaf of notes, I found this recipe for a cake that uses neither egg nor baking soda. I used this recipe to bake a batch of cupcakes and they tasted quite nice, although a tad dry. Maybe that was because of the missing eggs. I'm still trying to figure out what it is that holds the crumb together - that's what happens if you don't study chemistry!
Quite thrilled with the outcome, I got my baker friend Smitha Kuttayya to make a vegan version of the cake. Luck was on my side as she had just been gifted a brand new loaf pan and she was looking around for a new recipe try out. This was all the impetus she needed. She substituted the milk in the recipe with water, used oil instead of butter and went a step further by substituting the plain flour with wholewheat flour. It baked into a beautiful loaf. Cake in hand, she went around her apartment complex looking for tasters. Of the 6 she managed to corral, 3 didn't think much of it, 2 said it was ok and 1 person loved it.
Not one to give up easily, she made another cake two days later. She used orange juice and some rind instead of water and prettied it up with orange buttercream. Volunteers were aplenty this time and the cake was a hit!
As for my cupcakes, most of them went into a trifle and I sent the remaining to my niece who is a temporary vegetarian. She loved them. Mission accomplished!
Sift together flour, baking powder and salt into a mixing bowl.
Stir in sugar, butter, vanilla extract, lime rind and milk.
Using an electric beater, beat on high speed for a minute. The mixture will become slightly gooey.
Spoon into cupcake cases and bake in a preheated 180°C oven for about 25 minutes or till the tops of the cakes bake to a golden brown and a skewer test shows they are done.
Remove from the oven and place on a wire grid to cool.
Ice the cupcakes if required.
*The batter can be baked in an 8" lined pan instead of cupcake moulds.
The collapsible gate at the entrance seals the deal - Nasi and Mee Asian Canteen has a hawker centre-ish, canteen-ish vibe to it. It's bright with colours and laughter and a queue's outside waiting to be seated. Seating is a mix of chairs, banquettes and benches and wooden tables hold metal pails with cutlery and napkins, condiments arranged beside them. There's an open kitchen where you can watch the chefs plating their creations and beside it, the bar that serves mocktails and other interesting drinks. The menu is a melange of South East Asian favourites - from nasi goreng to hor fun to pad thai to rendang. The Bengaluru-based restaurant has now set up shop at Chennai!
Nasi and Mee (rice and noodles in Bahasa) invited us over for a tasting session. They have a rather large menu that spans favourites from Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and China and lots for the vegetarians too. About 16 dishes had been selected for us to try, each of us were given a copy of the menu with a phrase of welcome in Bahasa. Nice touch!
The chicken winter melon soup was delicious, the stock was extremely flavoursome. Pak choy and cubes of the gourd added to the health quotient while chunks of fresh shiitake mushroom infused the soup with oodles of earthiness.
The dim sums were very well made, generous amounts of mushroom and crunchy water chestnut were stuffed into the translucent skin of the all-veg dumpling while the sesame oil in the prawn hargao gave it a lovely nutty flavour. It takes years of practice and skill in making Xiao long bao - inside the beautifully pleated skin is a soupy filling with crabmeat. You pick it up very carefully with chopsticks, dip it into the ginger soy sauce and pop it whole into your mouth. The trick is to not break the skin and also to not burn your mouth! Yummy!!
The fresh and zesty Son Tam doubled as palate cleanser, followed by sambal prawns. While the prawns were large in size, fresh and grilled to perfect doneness, the flavour of sambal was missing, possibly because the key ingredient in any sambal - belacan (shrimp paste), was missing. The chicken satay looked and smelt good but the flavours were far too mild.
Nasi Lemak Istimewa is a plate of fragrant rice with accompanying sides arranged all around - and a fried egg wrapped around the cone of rice. The sambal was more an onion paste and once again, the missing belacan left the dish bereft of its identity. The rendang was well done and those anchovies added a nice texture and crunch to the dish.
For me, the standout dish was the Cantonese-style steamed sea bass. The fish was fresh and the stock light and delicious. Peranakan style Ayam Pongteh - stewed chicken in soya sauce was a close contender. Both these mains are the perfect accompaniment to steamed rice. Char kway teow missed the mark - the noodles were pale, the pak choy was almost raw and the smokiness of the noodles that gives it its soul was missing. However, the Pad Thai with the generous topping of crushed peanuts and chilli flakes on the side was quite good. Laksa curry was perhaps the most disappointing dish. The green curry had some nice prawns which had been batter coated and fried but bore no resemblance to laksa; we were wondering if there had been a mix up of sorts in the kitchen.
Nasi and Mee has some interesting desserts - Red Ruby with mock pomegranate seeds that was deliciously crunchy but the coconut milk was not thick enough. Ais Kachang is just the thing to cool your mouth down after some spicy food; as for the fried ice cream, take my word that it is about the best in the city. The crust was still crisp when we cut into it after several photographs were taken.
You can't go wrong if you order a coffee at the end of the meal.
The food, on the whole is Asian-inspired, well made, portions are generous and pricing is reasonable. How much nicer if Nasi and Mee makes a version of Asian food for those who crave the authentic flavours.
A meal for 2 would cost 1100/++.
The timings are a huge plus point - noon to 11 pm.


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Lactose intolerance is something that affects a lot of people. It is estimated that as many as one in ten Australians have made at least some changes to their diet to accommodate an inability to properly digest this naturally occurring dairy sugar.
During the normal process of digestion, lactose is broken down into glucose by an enzyme known as lactase, and absorbed into the bloodstream. The extent of lactase production varies between people. Some people do not produce lactase at all, while others produce a reduced amount. People tend to grow more intolerant of lactose as they reach adulthood, and lactase production is also determined by genetics, with people from some ethnic backgrounds typically more able to digest dairy products than others.
When lactose passes through the gut undigested, it is acted upon by bacteria in the intestine, producing the extremely uncomfortable symptoms of lactose intolerance, which include cramps, diarrhoea, bloating and wind. Lactose intolerance differs from milk allergy, which is an immune response provoked by dairy proteins.
While most people obtain their daily protein requirement from eating a balanced diet, bodybuilders and some athletes find it difficult to meet their high protein requirements through food alone, and choose to supplement with protein powder. Additionally, the weight loss benefits of a high protein intake are well known by anyone trying to shed the kilos, and protein powders are extremely popular and effective meal replacements.
The gold standard in protein powders is whey, which is derived from dairy. This is, understandably, a deterrent to many people who are lactose intolerant. It may come as a surprise that some whey proteins are so low in lactose they can be tolerated by almost anyone. Additionally, there are a number of high quality non-dairy proteins on the market for those who would like to avoid lactose entirely. Lactose intolerance should not stop anyone from obtaining the body they want.
Whey protein comes in two main varieties – concentrate and isolate. Whey concentrate is cheap to make, and typically contains between 60 and 80% protein. It is an excellent, high quality, fast absorbing protein that is great for everyday use. Unfortunately, this type of whey tends to be higher in lactose.
On the other hand, whey isolate is an ultra pure product that usually comes in at greater than 80% protein. Unlike whey concentrate, whey isolate is extremely low in fats and sugars, including lactose, making it suitable for most people with an intolerance. It is estimated that a single 30g serving of whey protein isolate contains about 0.1g of lactose, which is well below the 4% lactose content found in whole milk. Many whey isolate powders are also processed in a way that removes carbohydrates, which includes the lactose component.
One of the purest protein powders on the market, Species Isolyze has been processed to remove all carbohydrates, all sugars including lactose and all fats. Containing only whey protein isolate as its sole source of protein, Species Isolyze mixes incredibly well and has an equally incredible taste. Designed for trainers who want a fast absorbing protein source, Isolyze has been processed to retain the whey's natural immunoglobulins, lactoferrins and glycomacropeptides, which can support optimal immunity.
IsoPure are an US based brand that specialises in low carb and zero carb protein powders. They're also known for creating unique protein powders that dissolve clear. Just as with Isolyze, IsoPure's Zero Carb has been processed to remove all carbohydrates and sugars including lactose. It is also incredibly low in fat with only 1g per serve. The formula has also included a comprehensive range of essential vitamins and minerals to further support optimal health. Along with IsoPure Zero Carb, they also make two other lactose free proteins including their Whey Protein Isolate and Low Carb.
One of the most enduring hydrolysed whey proteins in the industry, ISO 100 is available in a massive range of flavours and is not only lactose free, it's also gluten free as well. ISO100 is also free from fat and provides a super fast absorbing protein powder that is perfect around training times. Made from hydrolysed protein, the powder is essentially pre-digested or broken down into a high percentage of di- and tri-peptides, which are preferentially absorbed into the bloodstream to make its way to the muscles to support immediate recovery and growth processed. If you're keen to take your progress to the next level, you can't go past ISO100.
People looking to avoid dairy products entirely also have a lot of great options. Here are our favourite dairy free proteins.
Hailing from New Zealand, NuZest Clean Lean Protein is a pea based protein powder that is not only free from lactose, it's also gluten free, soy free, nut free, egg free and GMO free. As a completely vegan protein powder, Clean Lean Protein is still incredibly high in protein and low in carbs and fats. Paleo friendly and perfect for those who have common allergens, Clean Lean Protein can be used like other proteins throughout the day and also around workout and training times. It's easy to mix and although the taste does take a little bit of getting used to, it's actually not bad at all. For another lactose free pea protein alternative, you could also try Vital Protein.
The International Protein Naturals range is one of the companies best releases in the last couple of years. Catering for trainers who want a protein powder free from artificial sweeteners, colours and flavours as well as any unnecessary fillers, one of the more popular products from the range is the Egg White Protein. Free from dairy and lactose, the supplement contains 100% egg white albumen providing 24g of protein per serve and very little else. It's also an excellent egg white alternative in cooking and baking. For other lactose free proteins from the range, try International Protein Naturals Soy Protein Isolate, Pea Protein and Rice Protein.
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Kurupt Gets Down and Dirty
. WIDEawake- Deathrow Entertainment LLC announces their first release of 2010. Kurupt "Down and Dirty" is set to hit shelves, February 9th.
Hip Hop artist, Kurupt keeps the underground faithful. After appearing on such classic albums as the "Murder Was The Case" Soundtrack, "Doggystyle," "All Eyez On Me," and his group effort "Dogg Food" with long time co-conspirator Daz Dillinger, Kurupt set a high bar for West Coast verbal assassins.
Praised by both 2pac and Biggie, Kurupt kept the politics at bay always moving forward releasing four solo albums between 1998 and 2005. The tracks on "Down and Dirty" were recorded in 2002 and 2003 during "Tha Row Era".
This collection includes 17 rare recordings and 4 never before released tracks including collaborations with Kokane, Danny Boy, and Petey Pablo affirming that Kurupt's talent and influence is undeniable.
There is only one Kurupt and he has proven over the last two decades to be not only a survivor but undeniably one of the most important hip hop artists of our time. Don't be left out. The first hit single off this album is "Stalkin"
The Track List is as Follows:
2. Speak on It - (featuring Val C.)
3. Anarchy '87
4. Throw Back Muzic '86
5. Riot In The Club *
6. Stalkin'
7. Can U Feel It - (featuring Potion)
8. Slide N Slide Out - (featuring Eastwood/Big Tri/Young Tone)
9. U Dont Know Who U Fuccin Wit (featuring Kokane) *
10. Jealousy - (featuring Roscoe/M.O.P.)
11. Tha Past - (featuring Dave Hollister)
12. Bulls*** & Nonsense
13. Calico
14. Hustlin' - (featuring Big Tri/Young Tone)
15. It's a Wrap
16. One Thangs For Sure (Reprise) (Feat Danny Boy)*
17. Put This Money Right There (feat Petey Pablo)*
* Previously unreleased.
Click here to read today's full Day in Pop report
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I've been uber busy IRL so I haven't had a lot of time to do much writing lately so apologies up front about that. I spent yesterday doing some gaming so I'm hoping to have a Rise of the Tomb Raider review up this week or next. Reviews for The Walking Dead: Michonne – Episode Two, StarCraft II: Nova Covert Ops – Chapter One and RBI Baseball 16 should be following shortly. And it's an F1 race weekend so you know we'll have some coverage of that too.
But before we get to all that, we have to get through today. That means that we have to do the links. Let's kick off with Rihanna. No, she's not from Panama but I don't think you're too concerned about that.
I think that it's only appropriate to end this post with Van Halen's Panama.


Great War Collections (which now includes the JISC-funded Great War Archive and Europeana 1914-1918) has been entered for the EngageU Award, a European Competition for Best Innovations in University Outreach and Public Engagement.
The public can vote for this project until 19 April.
The Great War Collections started as a JISC-funded project, the Great War Archive, from the University of Oxford, back in 2008, as the sister site to the First World War Poetry Digital Archive.
Since then it expanded to the rest of Europe and has engaged over 2100 members of the public in the UK, Germany and Luxembourg to capture over 30,000 images of personally-owned memorabilia from the First World War.
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An incredibly useful resource, it was key for helping me do research on my MA thesis in English literature & cultural history. It is not only informative and contains obscure source material, but also presents this in an interesting and engaging way. I'd happily spending hours trawling through all the fascinating content!


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Executives on social media as much as their staff
Debbie Goodman-Bhyat, IRC South Africa | Jan. 16, 2015
As companies crack down on social media usage in the workplace, one aspect being overlooked is the fact that senior leaders are just as susceptible to the siren call of Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp updates as their junior colleagues, and that the impact of top-level time wasting is potentially more serious for both the individual and the company.
(via Men's Health)
Debbie Goodman-Bhyat, MD of Jack Hammer Executive Headhunters, says a recent survey showed that 89% of employees admitted to wasting time at work. But this phenomenon is not restricted to the middle to lower level workforce, she says.
Yes, your boss wastes as much time on social media as you do!
"Executives are no different to the rest of the working population, even though they are generally more engaged than their junior colleagues. They occupy 'high-demand' roles, with back-to-back meetings and time pressures, so they have less time to be idle."
"However it is not unusual to be in meetings with a company's top leadership – CEOs, executives and senior managers – people driving substantial organisations or big business units, who sit with open iPads and smartphones, texting, 'WhatsApp-ing' and scanning Facebook during the session. Similarly, it is not unusual for executives to be putting together major contracts and proposals while continuously also hopping back to their browser or smartphone for some light distraction."
Goodman-Bhyat says although many will argue that this is the age of multi-tasking, and that execs can handle several streams of information at once, it is a fallacy to believe that such time-wasting is harmless.
"For both the individual and the company, the price is quite significant," she says.
"Executives approaching burnout, and under the impression that their workloads are too heavy, would do well to take an honest assessment of how much time they spend on actual work, compared to how much time they spend attending to non-essential distractions."
But it is not only the actual time spent doing something else that impacts on effectiveness at work. It is also the time spent regaining focus on the task at hand, and the inability to fully focus on work, that drags down performance.
Former Microsoft and Apple exec Linda Stone coined the term "continuous partial attention", to describe the phenomenon behind this kind of drain on productivity.
The American Management Association notes that the very word "multi-task" is a misnomer, quoting Jordan Grafman, chief of the Cognitive Neuroscience department at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and Hal Pashler, a professor of psychology at the University of California:
"There's substantial literature on how the brain handles multi-tasking. And basically, it doesn't… What's really going on is a rapid toggling among tasks rather than simultaneous processing," says Grafman. Pashler's research found that thoughtful actions, such as decision making, must be performed one at a time.
If workers are engaged in multiple activities at once, they're performing more slowly and less accurately than they would if they focused on each task until it was finished. Even those who pride themselves on their multi-tasking skills are not immune, says the AMA.
Goodman-Bhyat agrees that the concept of multi-tasking is a myth.
"If you are not fully engaged in a task, it not only takes you longer to complete the task, but you are also not completing it with your full intellectual resources harnessed. The end result is that, although execs may be completing what they need to complete, they are taking longer to do so, and not to the best of their ability either."
"It ultimately boils down to reduced productivity, which negatively impacts on work-life balance as work tasks spill over into what would generally have been personal downtime."
"It is time for executives to realise that although they think they are in control of their juggling act, it would do them well to have an objective look at their work habits – particularly if they are feeling overworked and constantly left with an endless to-do list at the end of their day or week."
"In this age of distractions, discipline is an invaluable skill to nurture, and it will pay off handsomely in executives' professional and personal lives."
Debbie Goodman-Bhyat, IRC South Africa
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Sir Ernest Shackleton's name will for evermore be engraved with letters of fire in the history of Antarctic exploration"
Ernest Shackleton's Trans-Antarctica expedition of 1914 - 1917 is one of the most incredible adventure stories of all time. It is remarkable even for an era and region that already has far more than its fair share of incredible tales of heroism and fortitude in the face of appalling hardships.
The intention was to cross the Antarctic continent from one coast to the other via the South Pole. In the event, the main expedition never set foot on continental Antarctica. The expedition managed to survive the loss of their ship in the middle of the Antarctic pack ice at a time when there was no chance of contacting the outside world, let alone of being rescued. It is a classic tale of leadership and heroism.
The Endurance battled her way through a thousand miles of pack ice over a six week period and was one hundred miles - one days sail - from her destination, when on the 18th of January 1915 at 76°34'S, the ice closed in around her. The temperature dropped dramatically cementing together the loose ice that surrounded the ship as the ship's storekeeper wrote, she was "Like an almond in a piece of toffee".
On October 27th Shackleton wrote, "The position was lat. 69°5'S, long. 51°30'W. The temperature was -8.5°F, a gentle southerly breeze was blowing and the sun shone in a clear sky. After long months of ceaseless anxiety and strain, after times when hope beat high and times when the outlook was black indeed, we have been compelled to abandon the ship, which is crushed beyond all hope of ever being righted, we are alive and well, and we have stores and equipment for the task that lies before us. The task is to reach land with all the members of the Expedition. It is hard to write what I feel".
The Endurance had drifted at least 1186 miles since first becoming fast in the ice 281 days previously, she was 346 miles from Paulet Island, the nearest point where there was any possibility of finding food and shelter.
They had three lifeboats named after patrons of the expedition who had donated funds. Two of these were now manhauled in relays, the James Caird and Dudley Docker.
Shackleton realised that in order to effect a rescue, he was going to have to travel to the nearest inhabited place which was the whaling station back on South Georgia, some 800 miles distant and across the most stormy stretch of ocean in the world. They expected to encounter waves that were 50 feet from tip to trough "Cape Horn Rollers" in a 22 foot long boat.
The James Caird set off on the 24th of April 1916, the very last day before the pack closed in again around Elephant Island on a day of relative calm. The crew was Shackleton, Worsley, Crean, McNeish, McCarthy and Vincent, the anticipated journey time was a month. It was to become one of the most astonishing small boat journeys of all time.
On may 5th, the eleventh day out at sea, the sea became much rougher, Shackleton was at the tiller:
"I called to the other men that the sky was clearing, and then a moment later I realized that what I had seen was not a rift in the clouds but the white crest of an enormous wave.
During twenty-six years' experience of the ocean in all its moods I had not encountered a wave so gigantic.
It was a mighty upheaval of the ocean, a thing quite apart from the big white-capped seas that had been our tireless enemies for many days. I shouted 'For God's sake, hold on! It's got us.' Then came a moment of suspense that seemed drawn out into hours. White surged the foam of the breaking sea around us. We felt our boat lifted and flung forward like a cork in breaking surf. We were in a seething chaos of tortured water; but somehow the boat lived through it, half full of water, sagging to the dead weight and shuddering under the blow. We baled with the energy of men fighting for life, flinging the water over the sides with every receptacle that came to our hands, and after ten minutes of uncertainty we felt the boat renew her life beneath us"...........Google the rest, hint, the entire crew survived to tell the tale..
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Due to constantly rising air pollution levels as well as an increasing awareness of the hazardousness of air pollutants, new laws and rules have recently been passed. Although there has been a large amount of research on this topic, bibliometric data is still to be collected. Thus this study provides a scientometric approach to the material published on this subject so far.
For this purpose, data retrieved from the "Web of Science" provided by the Thomson Scientific Institute was analyzed and visualized both with density-equalizing methods and classic data-processing methods such as tables and charts.
For the time span between 1955 and 2006, 26,253 items were listed and related to the topic of air pollution, published by 124 countries in 24 different languages. General citation activity has been constantly increasing since the beginning of the examined period. However, beginning with the year 1991, citation levels have been rising exponentially each year, reaching 39,220 citations in the year 2006. The United States, the UK and Germany were the three most productive countries in the area, with English and German ranked first and second in publishing languages, followed by French. An article published by Dockery, Pope, Xu et al. was both the most cited in total numbers and in average citation rate. J. Schwartz was able to claim the highest total number of citations on his publications, while D.W. Dockery has the highest citation rate per publication. As to the subject areas the items are assigned with, the most item were published in Environmental Sciences, followed by Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences and Public, Environmental & Occupational Health. Nine out of the ten publishing journals with more than 300 entries dealt with environmental interests and one dealt with epidemiology.
Using the method of density-equalizing mapping and further common data processing procedures, it can be concluded that scientific work concerning air pollution and related topics enjoys unbrokenly growing scientific interest. This can be observed both in publication numbers and in citation activity.
Air pollution is defined as the emission of particulate toxic elements into the atmosphere by natural or anthropogenic sources . These sources can be further differentiated into either mobile or stationary sources . Anthropogenic air pollution commenced with human's systematic use of fire. Its historical development has been characterized by steadily increasing amounts of total emissions, the invention of new sources of pollution emission as well as the emission of pollutants that had not formerly been emitted by man-made sources. So far, this development has had the greatest impact on the air quality of so-called Mega-Cities (cities with over 10,000,000 inhabitants). Today the major sources of man-made air pollution are motorized street traffic (especially exhaust gases and tire abrasion), the burning of fuels, and larger factory emissions. Depending on the pollutant particles' size, they can be carried for distances of several thousand miles. With decreasing diameter, they are able to infiltrate finer lung structures .
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates 2.4 million fatalities due to air pollution each year . Since the breathing of polluted air may have severe health effects such as asthma, COPD or increased cardiovascular risks [5, 6], most countries have strengthened laws to control the air quality in the past decade. Further, as polluted air is considered a super-regional problem, international conferences have recently developed different ways to improve and assure air quality employing global strategic perspectives [7, 8].
Despite such enormous scientific and legislative efforts to measure and improve air quality levels, many people are still exposed to hazardously polluted breathing air on a daily basis [9, 10]. Furthermore, there are currently no complete bibliometric analyses available on this topic.
The present scientometric compilation and analysis is intended to identify current scientific efforts with regard to air pollution, as well as to highlight research gaps requiring further attention.
All analyzed data were retrieved from Thomson Scientific's online-database "Web of Science". To provide a comparison data was also collected in some cases from "PubMed", the online database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
For the query, the terms "air pollution" and "air quality" were connected with the Boolean operator "OR" and entered in the search field "General Search".
The time frame was limited to the period between 1955 and 2006. For this purpose, the "Change Limits and Settings" function was adjusted initially and the query was made under this presetting. The limitation was performed since the years 2007-2009 were not finalized in the databases completely.
Results were also analyzed by means of citation. Therefore, the feature "Citation Report" was used to calculate the citation rate of both authors and citations per year of citation. To calculate the citation rates of the singular authors, results were first sorted by author. Afterwards, the ten most productive authors' publications were put under citation analysis. The average citation rate is the quotient of the total citation number divided by the publications listed for the author in question.
The "Web of Science" database provides several tools to analyze entries according to specified parameters . The data set was analyzed by means of publication country, publication year, publishing author, publishing journals and published document type. Multiple distributions led to higher publication numbers when adding up results after analysis; for example, when a super regional publication was distributed to several countries. A common data processing program was used to display the results in tables, charts and diagrams.
Software using the method of density-equalizing mapping was employed to determine international correlations. This method resizes countries proportionally according to a predefined variable. In this study, the territory with the highest number of publications is depicted largest on the associated map. The basic principle was developed by Gastner and Newman .
The overall number of items listed in the database served as a measure of both public interest and scientific productivity concerning the topic of air pollution. The comparison of results in "Web of Science" (26,253) and "PubMed" (28,565) indicated some differences. Entries in the "Web of Science" displayed a comparatively constant number over 25 years (1966-1990), following lower numbers in the prior decade (1955-1965). "PubMed" results, however, differed: Beginning with the year 1957 publication numbers increased up to a preliminary maximum in 1971. Subsequently, decreasing publication numbers equalized that of the "Web of Science" results again in 1978. After a period of relatively constant publication quantities (1978-1990), both databases showed an exponential increase in yearly published items. Despite recent points of nominal decline (2002 in "PubMed", 2005 in "Web of Science") the upward tendency remained consistent through 2006 (fig. 1).
Publications related to the topic air pollution 1955-2006. Comparison of results in "Web of Science" and "PubMed".
Regarding the total citations per year (i.e. the overall citation activity for all entries), the numbers show a development similar to publication data. However, the increase since 1991 is marginally sharper than that of the publication numbers (fig. 2).
Citation per Year. Citations displayed in five-years-intervals.
Usage of the analysis tool "Countries/Territories" indicates that the USA holds the most publications by far. The UK and Germany ranked a distant second and third. The ten most publishing countries produced 76.44% of all the entries in the inquiry time frame. (fig. 3a) Density-equalizing mapping demonstrates a huge contingent of publications provided by only a few countries' researchers (fig. 3b).
Publication numbers. (a) Publications in totalnumbers, sorted by countries (b) Publications sorted by countries put into relation to each other (density-equalized).
As to the analysis by language, results showed a division consistent with the results obtained in the "country" analysis. The percentage of items published in English (96%) was much higher than the fraction published by Anglophone countries (fig. 4).
Publication languages. Languages used in publications.
To obtain the average citation rate of single countries, the total number of citations for publications originated in each country was divided by the number of the said publications. In conclusion, Botswana achieved the highest rate with 191 citation/item, followed by Malta with 153.2/item. No other country achieved a citation rate higher than 30/item (fig. 5a).
Citations per country. (a) Average citations per publications. (b) Average citations per publications (density-equalized). Threshold of 30 publications per country.
Inclusion of a threshold of at least 30 publication and density-equalizing calculations leads to a cartogram shown in figure 5b.
The average citation rate was calculated both for the most productive authors and the most cited publications. While the single author's citations had to be divided by his number of publications, the publications' total number of citation was divided by the number of years of citation activity for this item ("citations per year").
As for the publications' total citations, the most cited article was written by Dockery, DW, Pope, CA, Xu, XP et al. and published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1993. The ten most cited entries in terms of total citation are shown in Table 1, indicating author, title, publishing journal, publication date and the total citation number. Table 2 shows the ten items with the highest citation rate per year.
Examining the ten most productive authors' publications, J. Schwartz was cited most often in terms of total numbers (fig. 6), while D.W. Dockery achieved the highest citation rate ("citations per item") (fig. 7).
Citations per author/total. Citations of the ten most productive authors; citations given in total numbers.
Citations per author/item. Citations of the ten most productive authors; citations given in citations per item.
Analysis of the subject areas assigned to the publications revealed only two involved medical issues in the first ten areas. The other eight areas dealt either with environmental questions or with matters related to engineering (fig. 8).
Subject areas. Publications' assignment to subjects areas; publications given in total numbers.
The most commonly published document type was the article, followed by the meeting abstract. The ten most frequently used document types made up for 99.77% of all publications (fig. 9).
Document type. Publications displayed by published document type; publications given in total numbers.
Out of the ten most publishing journals, nine dealt with environmental subject matters and one was dedicated to epidemiology (fig. 10). Items published in those journals added up to 27.40% of the entire amount of results.
Publications per journal. Number of publications in the ten most productive journals; publications given in total numbers.
Despite the fact that a similar search request in the medical database MEDLINE generated more results (28,565) than the one in "Web of Science", the entries were concerned more with environmental and technical interests than with medical subject matters. The first journal solely dedicated to toxicology (Inhalation Toxicology) was ranked thirteenth.
Air pollution has always been a subject of public concern. Particularly from the mid-twentieth century onwards, there has been a growing societal impetus to curtail and counteract the hazardous effects of air pollution. In recent decades, as anthropogenic air pollution has reached historically high levels, international public and scientific interest has intensified towards this topic. While natural, stationary emission cannot be significantly influenced, a major focus has been given to changes in man-made pollutant emissions. Heretofore, there has been no comprehensive analysis of data available on this topic. The present study sought to provide bibliometric data on research activity related to the subject air pollution, analyzed and displayed with both common and innovative data processing methods such as density-equalizing calculation. The examined time frame was limited to the period after 1955, since global research activity was relatively low before that date. The year of 2007 was excluded from the analysis because of incomplete data.
Mirroring public and scientific interest, general research activity on the topic of air pollution has increased steadily since the beginning of the analyzed period. However, a remarkable boost in both publication and citation activity can be observed at the beginning of the 1990s. On the one hand, this can be attributed to the availability of public internet access . Before the early 1990s, access to such research data was restricted primarily to scientific institutions, larger companies and governmental organizations. On the other hand, authors' abstracts for the publications were only available since the year 1991 and authors of foreign languages were especially encouraged to write in English . Thus, the major increase in citation activity observed since the beginning of the 1990s may be explained by an eased availability of contents both in the short form of the abstract as well as making summaries of publications in different languages available in English . The increase in publication activity may be related to the easier access to the internet as a publication provider. Additionally, the massive simplification of data disposability in the shape of changing from paper to electronic devices might have encouraged authors to publish more of their findings.
Regarding the origin of publications, US researchers contribute by far the largest amount of scientific output related to air pollution. The second ranking of Great Britain, the third ranking of Germany and especially the People's Republic of China in fourth position is notable as well. Mega-Cities are defined as urban agglomeration areas with more than 10,000,000 inhabitants. They are characterized by social challenges such as poverty and crime but above all for producing massive environmental burdens especially in the field of air quality . Considering the fact that three of the world's 26 mega-cities are located in China, four in directly neighbouring countries and another four in nearby countries (i.e. Japan, South-Korea and Bangladesh), it may be legitimate to contribute the large interest in air quality matters partly to those circumstances. Altogether it can be said that a minority of the world's countries contributes the majority of general research activity, as shown by density-equalizing methods . However, the number of highly polluted areas (such as Mega-Cities) as well as the total amount of pollutants emitted should be connected to the high research effort of few countries.
English appears as the most common language in scientific releases; a finding that is concordant with papers' distribution to countries. While German plays a comparatively major role too, Chinese cannot be found among the most frequently used languages. This disproportion might lead to the assumption that English is used more commonly among Chinese researchers compared to European scientific publications. While French ranked third among the publications' languages, France's number of publications ranked seventh - past Italy and China whose languages do not appear at all among the most common ones. Russian also appears among the most frequently used languages, though Russia's publications ranked 27th in the international list. These facts could either be ascribed to political conditions and convictions, or to closer or broader affinity of languages. It is possible that states belonging to the former USSR still use Russian as their scientific language after the independency from the Russian government. It is also possible that Baltic and Eastern European States tend to rely more on research by their former authority (i.e. Russia) than Western European or American researchers and therefore use rather Russian than English in publications. Additionally, Slavic languages are linguistically closer related to Russian than to English. Older researchers might also have difficulties writing in a new language after using Russian for several decades.
While the total amount of publications was used as a distinguishing mark for research quantity, the average citation rate was introduced to evaluate the single nations' research quality . In this regard Botswana ranked first with 191 citations per items followed closely by Malta with 153.2/item. Gambia ranking third could only unify 28.75 citations on every item published. As authors working in Botswana only published seven items in the whole time period investigated, the high citation rate appears exceptional. Malta unifying 1,532 citations on ten items is rather inconsequential as well. Closer attention to the results from the countries in question revealed that a world-wide asthma-study on children published in 1998 was distributed to all the 56 countries participating . With 1,301 citations on that single item, it has a larger impact on the average citation rate, the lower the total publication number. Therefore the uncommonly high average citation rates for both Botswana and Malta must be credited with this international, highly-attended study. To avoid disproportionately high citation rates due to low total publication numbers, a borderline was drawn at ten publications. Given this condition and additionally taking the aforesaid study out of consideration, the Netherlands moved up to the first position, showing 19.08 citations per item followed by Sweden (17.43) and Switzerland (17.21).
Among the most cited articles, the aforementioned international asthma study is itself exceeded by an article by Dockery et al. in the New England Journal of Medicine, on the association between air pollution and mortality in six US cities . This is one of the first studies pointing out the association between air pollution by particulates and sulfates and increased death rates due to pulmonary causes, deducting additional risks such as smoking beforehand.
As an author, D.W. Dockery features the highest average citation rate (125.54). However, in total citations, Dockery is only second to J. Schwartz.
With regard to "subject areas", the environmental sciences have produced the most results so far on the topic of air pollution, followed by the atmospheric sciences. Noticing that among the ten leading research fields there are only three concerned with health aspects, it can be said there is a rather significant lack of medical research on this subject. Given an estimated 2.4 million deaths yearly due to air pollution, it is rather surprising that medical research has lagged by this degree. Considering all the severe consequences polluted air has on public health, on international health conditions, and health care costs, it is justified to point out this obvious research gap, and recommend further scientific efforts in medicine in the future.
Since most of the publications are articles, it can be said that most of the scientific endeavours have been embossed by initiatives rather than by efforts in analysis and description of statistical coherences.
Among the ten most publishing journals, nine are occupied with environmental issues and one with epidemiology. This again demonstrates the existing deficit in medical interest.
However, it may be that medical interest in the field of air pollution and its consequences for human health may have developed only recently. Despite the fact that polluted air has always been a major threat on human health, there has not been any major supra-regional effort to change the polluting behaviour in the past 20 years. Although people have been suffering from polluted air for a along time, beginning several centuries ago, there has been no substantiated evidence for the connection between polluted air and deaths due to pulmonary diseases. New conclusions about coherences between certain air pollutants and their impact on public health have only been drawn recently, and therefore it is entirely possible that the medical research efforts will eventually catch up to and even exceed the scientific work already done in environmental fields.
Hereby given the first comprehensive analysis of scientometric data on the subject of air pollution, it can be said that scientific interest in this topic has steadily increased to the present day. However, there is to be noted a major research gap in terms of medical analysis. The major contingent of data originates from the USA and an even larger amount is written in the English language. Considering research quality as measured in terms of average citation, less productive countries such as the Netherlands and Sweden show the best results. A generally larger effort towards medical research into air pollution is strongly indicated at this time.
This study was supported by a grant of EUGT e. V.
HZ carried out the bibliometric investigations, participated in analyzing results and drafted the manuscript. CS participated in data research and performed the scientometric analysis. DQ, NS, SM participated in the design of the study. KV and SU carried out pilot data research. DAG participated in its design and data analyses. MS conceived of the study, and participated in its design and coordination and helped to draft the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.


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Sleep is a vital part of our everyday lives – in fact, the average person spends around a third of their time in slumber. However, for many people, the quest to catching the right amount of sleep, or enjoying sleep of good enough quality, is a tough one to achieve.
Because so many people suffer from restless nights, there's a wealth of information and recommendations out there on how to get a better night's sleep, but how can know for sure if these recommendations are working for you?
That's where sleep tracking comes into the equation. Read on to discover more about sleep tracking and the benefits of adopting this process into your own routine.
What exactly is sleep tracking?
Sleep tracking refers to recording the quantity and quality of your sleep on a daily basis. By doing so, you're able to assess how well you are sleeping and how much of an effect, if any, this could be having on your day to day life.
It's a more modern approach to the traditional research method, polysomnography, whereby an individual's sleep was monitored in a lab environment, with a number of wires attached to them to assess their sleep.
Of course, in these environments, it's difficult to have a clear picture of how someone would typically sleep, whereas sleep tracking can be carried out in the comfort of your own home, in your own bed, and with minimal equipment required.
It doesn't take much to begin tracking your sleep and, when you do, you'll thoroughly appreciate the results from it and how they can make a positive impact on your health and lifestyle. Here are just a few of the many benefits you'll receive from tracking your sleep.
There's a number of factors that can cause you to have trouble sleeping, from the environment you're sleeping in, to how you spent the last few hours of your day, for example. By tracking your sleep, you can see if there's any change in the length or quality of your sleep as you make changes to your routine, one at a time.
So for example, your sleep tracking could show improvements to your sleeping pattern, after you'd stopped watching tv late at night, or drinking a coffee after dinner.
Research has found that when we track or record something we are hoping to improve, we become more motivated to carry on, just by being able to see and monitor our progress.
Just as someone looking to lose weight will feel more motivated as they record the pounds dropping off, someone looking to improve their sleeping routine will feel more motivated by recording the changes over time.
It's recommended that we should have anything between 7-9 hours of sleep every night, however studies have also found that the right amount of sleep for one person can vary significantly to that of someone else. Whilst you might feel refreshed and rejuvenated after 7 hours sleep, someone else may need an extra couple of hours to get there.
Tracking your sleep at times when you don't need to set an alarm, such as over the weekend, can help you to monitor how long you naturally sleep for and after how many hours you tend to wake up. From there, you can set yourself a routine for days when an alarm is needed, knowing that you'll still be able to have the right amount of hours for sleep.
With some sleep trackers, you are able to set a time when you would like to wake up, and they will find the most beneficial time to wake you up within that period. These trackers look for when you are within the light sleep stage, so that when you are woken up by the alarm, it's less harsh than if you were in a deep slumber.
With this technology, you'll feel much more rested and ready to face the day ahead, than you would if the alarm disrupted you during a deep sleep stage.
Studies have found that many people either underestimate or overestimate how much sleep they get every night. With a sleep tracker, you're able to see exactly how much sleep you are receiving each night, as well as how much of the REM, light and deep sleep stages you are spending time in. Using this information, you have a much more detailed view of the state of your sleeping health.
There are a few ways of tracking your sleep, from the traditional polysomnography method, to something as simple as making notes in a sleep journal. The most popular and modern method, however, is investing in a fitness band with added sleep tracker feature.
These small and sophisticated bands fit on your wrist exactly as a watch would, however their straps are often made using a rubbery material for added comfort whilst you sleep. For some, you need to put the tracker into sleep mode, whereas the more upmarket bands will be able to tell for themselves when you have fallen into a slumber.
This new technology makes tracking sleep a simple and convenient part of our everyday lifestyles. With just the touch of a button, you're able to analyse your sleep and make that first step towards improving your sleep for a healthier life overall.


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Zaire Rezende (Uberlândia, 25 de dezembro de 1931— Uberlândia, 31 de maio de 2022) foi um médico e político brasileiro, que foi prefeito de Uberlândia por dois mandatos.

Biografia
Filho de João Resende e de Antônia da Silva Rezende, concluiu o secundário no Colégio São José, no Rio de Janeiro, em 1949. Posteriormente, começou a estudar na Faculdade Nacional de Medicina, atual Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), concluindo em 1955. Mudou-se posteriormente para o estado de São Paulo, se filiando à Aliança Renovadora Nacional (ARENA) e sendo eleito vereador na cidade de São Sebastião, no litoral paulista, em 1968, se reelegendo em 1972. Em 1976, deixou a ARENA e se filiou ao Movimento Democrático Brasileiro (MDB), partido ao qual se mantém filiado até hoje. Retornou a Uberlândia se elegendo prefeito da cidade em 1982 e governou até 1988. Dois anos depois, se elegeu deputado federal por Minas Gerais, sendo o candidato mais votado do Triângulo Mineiro, mantendo-se no cargo até 2000, quando foi eleito para mais um mandato como prefeito de Uberlândia. Mas sua administração foi impopular, o que fez com que ele não se reelegesse em 2004, apenas atingindo o quarto lugar no pleito. Dois anos depois, em 2006, foi candidato a vice-governador na chapa de Nilmário Miranda (PT), que foi derrotada por Aécio Neves (PSDB), no primeiro turno. Atualmente, estava fora da vida pública, mas em 2019 estava escrevendo um livro de memórias sobre sua vida.

Naturais de Uberlândia
Vereadores de São Sebastião (São Paulo)
Prefeitos de Uberlândia
Deputados federais do Brasil por Minas Gerais
Médicos de Minas Gerais
Membros da Aliança Renovadora Nacional
Membros do Movimento Democrático Brasileiro (1966)
Membros do Movimento Democrático Brasileiro (1980)
Mortes por COVID-19 em Minas Gerais

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You Are My Music is the sixth album by Irish singer and actress Clodagh Rodgers released in 1973 on the RCA label.

Track listing
"Carolina Days" (Junior Campbell)
"Ease Your Pain" (Hoyt Axton)
"Lean On Me" (Cobb/McCoy)
"Children Of My Mind" (Osborne)
"All Kinds Of People" (Burt Bacharach/Hal David)
"Day By Day" (Stephen Schwartz)
"You Are My Music" (Peter Gosling)
"Betcha By Golly Wow" (Bell/Creed)
"What In The World" (Peter Gosling/Keith Mansfield)
"Together We'll Make It" (Peter Gosling/Keith Mansfield)
"That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be" (Carly Simon)
"One Day" (Peter Gosling)

Production
Recorded at Wessex Sound Studios
Engineers - Mike Thompson & Geoff Workman
Assistant Engineer- Roger Ginsley
Conductor - Pete Smith
Mastering Engineer - Arun Chakraverty
Vocal Backing - "Three's A Crowd"
Photography - James Wedge

Clodagh Rodgers albums
1973 albums


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Fishing with Spinoza er en dansk animationsfilm fra 2007, der er instrueret af John Kenn Mortensen.

Handling
Filmen handler om to venner, Jude og Ruby, som fisker i håb om at fange den legendariske fisk Moby. For at få ventetiden til at gå begynder de to venner at tale om Ernest Hemingway og om filmen Vilde hjerter.

Referencer

Eksterne henvisninger

Film fra 2007
Film fra Danmark (administrationskategori)
Animationsfilm fra Danmark


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Cleansing and foaming
Sodium laureth sulfate is a surface-active agent or surfactant. All surfactants are partly water-soluble and partly oil-soluble. It is this quality that allows oil and water, which normally don't mix together, to become dispersed.
Used at above minimum concentration, the surfactant molecules become organised in a structure that can trap oil-based dirt from hair, which allows the dirt to be rinsed away. Foam is not responsible for removing dirt, but it allows the hands to work the product through hair or across skin. This helps the mechanical removal of dirt.
Sodium laureth sulfate is an opaque, thick liquid. Its consistency varies, depending on the concentration level.
Sodium laureth sulfate gives thick rich foam and it cleanses the hair. Its thorough action dissolves dirt and grease effectively. When other ingredients - such as sea salt - are added, hair gains volume, body and shine.
Sodium Laureth Sulfate can be found in these products
Dragon's Egg
Uplifting orange shimmers
Reusable Bubble Bottle
Soothing oat milk and citrus
Bubbleroon
Hot pink, floral waters
Let's talk about SLS
Helpful tips for Haircare
A Top 10
Industry experts agree that sodium lauryl sulphate (SLS) is safe and effective, so why are we working so hard to remove it from Lush products?
What is SLS?
Sodium lauryl sulphate (SLS) is a chemical that's commonly used in soaps, shampoos, shower gels and toothpaste. It works as a surfactant, trapping oil-based dirt so that it can be rinsed away with water. It's also an effective foaming agent — it turns liquids into foam, creating the rich lather that most of us expect and enjoy when we're washing our face, hair and body.
Despite being used safely and successfully since the 1930s, SLS has a bad reputation. Although experts agree that it's safe to use, SLS can be drying. This is more likely to be an issue for those who have dry, processed or afro hair, or suffer from skin conditions like eczema, dermatitis or psoriasis — so we're committed to offering alternatives.
We're particularly keen to reduce our use of safe synthetic ingredients like SLS because palm oil is used in their production. Since 2008, we've been trying to remove palm oil from our supply chain due to the devastating impact its cultivation has on the environment. To produce palm oil, tropical forests are razed to make way for palm tree plantations, displacing indigenous people, destroying wildlife and disrupting the delicate ecosystem in the process. However, boycotting palm oil is easier said than done.
"Finding a suitable palm-free SLS is challenging not only because there isn't a large market but, when found, it often doesn't work or the manufacturer doesn't follow our non-animal testing policy," explains Mark Rumbell, Lush's Ethical Buyer.
We're still working hard to reduce our palm oil print, as this helps us to preserve natural habitats and protect human rights. "At the moment, SLS goes into 52 of our products," explains Mark. "We're looking for materials that can either replace SLS or be used alongside it to reduce our overall usage and create a better product. The aim is to get rid of palm-based SLS altogether."
In fact, recent additions to our ranges feature Sodium Coco Sulfate, a great alternative that has been put to work to create a more gentle lather that won't strip the hair and skin of needed moisture while it cleans. We're still working on making the change, but we're closer than ever before with bath, shower and haircare ranges that include this fabulous foamer.
Should you be stressed about SLS?
In recent years, there has been increased negativity towards products that contain SLS, partly because reports have incorrectly linked it to cancer. Nicola Smith, health information officer at Cancer Research UK, told us: "There's no evidence to suggest that sodium lauryl sulphate causes cancer. Cosmetics are under tight regulation in Europe and have to be shown to be safe before they can be sold. Unfortunately, there are a lot of unfounded rumours on the internet about cosmetics causing cancer but they simply aren't backed up by convincing scientific evidence."
It's likely that these concerns stem from confusion surrounding the manufacturing process. The SLS that we use is derived from coconut and/or palm kernel oil, both of which are rich sources of lauric acid. This lauric acid is processed into SLS by adding sulphuric acid (from petroleum) followed by neutralisation with sodium carbonate (a natural mineral). Some reports have claimed that this process produces chemical compounds known as 'nitrosamines', of which 90% are believed to be carcinogenic. However, it's chemically impossible for nitrosamines to be found in SLS.
"For years, sodium lauryl sulfate has been developing a negative reputation with consumers due to flawed interpretations of the scientific literature that continue to be perpetuated," says Cosmetic Chemist Kelly Dobos. "Sodium lauryl sulfate is produced by the sulfation of lauryl alcohol. No chemicals used in the synthesis contain nitrogen so the resulting SLS contains no nitrogen and therefore no possible presence of nitrosamines."
There are also concerns about the impact that SLS can have on marine life, since all soap and shampoo products are released into the environment via household water waste. According to Kelly, we don't need to worry. She explains: "The ability of a chemical to decompose into simple, nontoxic components under normal environmental conditions within a short period of time (96 hours or less) means that it is biodegradable. SLS has been shown to be readily biodegradable not biopersistant. By the time personal care product ingredients reach natural waters, they are mostly degraded. Ecotoxicity studies have determined that these low concentrations of SLS would be essentially nontoxic to fish and other aquatic life."
Getting in a lather
Many of us don't feel completely clean unless we use lather up with soaps and shampoos. However, the sulphates which are responsible for producing this luxurious foam can be harsh and drying, leaving hair frizzy. Although dryness is a common concern, irritation is unlikely, even among people who have sensitive skin, provided that the foam is rinsed off thoroughly. In fact, the risk is so small that there are no EU limits on the usage of SLS in wash-off products, as irritation only occurs with products that are left on the skin.
"Most people can use products containing SLS without worrying about skin or scalp irritation," says Dr Stefanie Morris, Dermatologist & Medical Director at European Dermatology London. "This is because it's a rinse-off product — the contact time is short and, after rinse-off, there is extremely little SLS (if any), which stays on the skin/scalp."
If your hair is dry, delicate, damaged or processed, you'll be happy to hear that the majority of Lush liquid shampoos are SLS-free, and contain the gentler surfactants ammonium laureth sulphate (ALS) and sodium alkyl sulphate (SAS) instead. For example, Cynthia Sylvia Stout shampoo contains ALS along with beer and lemon juice to give your hair a glossy sheen, while Rehab shampoo contains ALS along with olive oil to add strength to hair, while fresh pineapple and papaya juice means this clarifying shampoo cleanses oil and enhances shine.
Alternatively, shampoo bars are an excellent option for sensitive scalps, mainly because of the way they are used. A single shampoo bar is the equivalent to three 200ml bottles of liquid shampoo, so although they contain a very high concentration of SLS — up to 90% — the risk of irritation is very low because only the foam is applied to the hair and scalp. We recommend shampoo bars to customers who want to reduce their SLS usage because the amount that you apply is easier to control. There's no need to squeeze a large dollop of shampoo onto your scalp. Instead, you prepare the product in your hands first, before distributing it evenly through the hair.
"This is quite a dramatic difference," explains Lush co-founder and herbal trichologist Mark Constantine. "When you use a liquid shampoo you apply the neat material to your scalp, but you don't get that with a shampoo bar — you only get the foam that comes off the material, which means that even people with the most sensitive scalps can use it."
In 2017, we launched our reformulated gourmet soap range using our own in-house soap base. Our base has been palm free since 2006, but now that we don't need to add SLS or sodium stearate we can guarantee that the entire soap, and all its ingredients, don't include any traces of palm.
This in-house soap base is made from a blend of Fair Trade organic cocoa butter, extra virgin coconut oil and organic castor oil, mixed with sodium hydroxide to induce a reaction called saponification. This creates the lathering solid base of the soap on which infusions, juices or oils are added to benefit the skin and provide fragrance. It can also be blended with other soap bases made with different ingredients such as olive or argan oil, to create a greater range of textures and lathers.
We've since reformulated some of our most popular soaps too, including Honey I Washed the Kids, Coalface and Sleepy. The majority of our soaps no longer contain SLS.
What this is all means is that customers now have even more choice, making it easier to find the products and ingredients that work best for you.


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Honduras – It's going down, I'm yelling Timbo
by Victoria Wilmott
Written by and Photos Courtesy of Victoria Wilmott
In July 2017 myself and fourteen other A-level students signed up to join Operation Wallacea in the rainforests and seas of Honduras in Central America, for what would be one of the most challenging and rewarding adventures of our lives. Operation Wallacea is a charity focusing on conserving the endangered ecosystems of the world and invites students from all over the world to learn how their scientists' research is protecting our biodiverse planet.
The first week took place in Cusuco National Park where after a bumpy ride up to the cloud forest in the back of a pickup truck (of which most of it was spent wondering just how qualified you had to be to drive in Honduras) we were thrown right into it with a five-hour uphill trek to the satellite camp Cantiles. (The main bulk of the research took place at the satellite camps, then data was analysed at base camp). Cantiles was the bare basics with the trench; Zona De Caca (of which we'd been told a snake had been found in earlier on that week) as a toilet and to brush our teeth there was a spitting hole in the ground and to shower we had a waterfall (to say it was cold is a massive under exaggeration). Here we spend the next three days swabbing and measuring frogs and lizards, examining beautiful jewelled scarab beetles caught in light traps and catching tropical birds for tagging. We also had a few encounters with snakes with Mrs Whitehead almost sitting on the very venomous Timbo on the first day and most were able to hold a Green Racer (which was only slightly venomous we were reassured). Before we knew it, we had another five-hour (thankfully down-hill this time) trek back to base camp, which we considered to be luxury as now we had actual toilets and the spitting hole had been upgraded to the spitting bucket. At base camp, we were able to take part in activities such Canopy Access where we climbed a 100ft tree to see the part of the rainforest preserved only for the birds and monkeys.
For the second week, we left the creatures of the jungle and travelled to Roatan, a Honduran Island where the marine part of our journey would take place. Our days were spent getting our PADI scuba qualification, watching cheesy theory videos in the morning, learning skills in the crystal blue sea in the afternoon. We had a glimpse into another world, and were able to see turtles less than a metre away and witness sting rays glide across the sand.
One of the main things I loved about this trip was that Opwall made us feel like we were making a difference to preserve the phenomenal ecosystems we interacted with. However small, together our school and all the others that took part this season helped fight the disappearance of species in these environments. It also taught us how interlinked everything on the planet is, if one thing goes, the entire biosphere is affected so it's vital that humans conserve our world before its too late. A big thank you to Mrs Whitehead and Mr Pickering for taking us on this adventure, it was an opportunity of a lifetime.


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I married my High School sweetheart 31 years ago and she is still the love of my life today. We have a great daughter who we adore and is currently in her sophomore year of college. My wife and I stay active serving in our several non-profit organizations in our community. When we are not working or serving you can find me on the golf course or enjoying the great outdoors with my family.
Born: Born in Warner Robins, GA on the Air Force base. I was an Air Force brat.


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The Patriots reworked the final two years of Bennett's deal, which they inherited in the trade with the Eagles last month. The veteran defensive end was due to make $13.7 million over two years, but the Pats boosted that number to $16.75 million, according to an ESPN report.
Hours later, the Eagles dealt Bennett to the Patriots. And now the Patriots have made sure he's content heading into offseason workouts.
Because the $4 million signing bonus is prorated, the move creates approximately $700,000 in cap space for the Patriots, who no longer are facing financial issues. Following Rob Gronkowski's retirement and Bennett's reworked deal, the Pats are now sitting at about $17.5 million in room.
Bennett, still playing at a high level at age 33, figures to be an every-down player for the Pats. He leads a defensive end unit that also includes Deatrich Wise, John Simon, Derek Rivers, Ufomba Kamalu, Keionta Davis and Trent Harris.
It's a group with some promising young players, but not much experience.


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