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Fraser Franks: Ex-Newport captain striving to change people's relationships with alcohol | Football News
Life looks a lot different for Fraser Franks these days.
Barely a day goes by where the ex-Newport captain is not up at the crack of dawn, heading to the gym or braving the chill of the Irish Sea close to his Lancashire home for a swim to invigorate himself for the day ahead.
He has just returned from a wellness retreat and former team-mates berate him for being in the best shape of his life – both mentally and physically – three years after retiring from football.
On the face of it, everything is rosy – and that is the truth. But the 31-year-old has had to fight hard to get to this point in his life.
The battle began one day in March 2019. Franks' world was turned upside down when he was forced to call time on a decade-long professional career due to a heart condition.
"I had no symptoms until that one sudden time," he said in an exclusive interview with Sky Sports' Dan Long.
"I have a bicuspid valve, which was picked up when I was at Brentford at 16, but I've got an enlarged aorta, too, which I will have to have open heart surgery on eventually. I'll need a mechanical carbon fibre valve because my bicuspid valve has started leaking more than they thought and I'll then have to take blood thinners for the rest of my life.
"The thing that was a bigger frustration for me was that I've never really had a symptom since, which is an amazing thing.
"If I retired and my knee was killing me or my back was killing me, I could almost accept it more, but I physically feel like I can still jog and work out. Part of me still thinks I could still do this, I could still give it a go."
The profession he had worked so hard to break into since joining Chelsea as a nine-year-old in 1999 was suddenly ripped from beneath him with little warning – and he turned to alcohol to numb the heartache.
"Retiring was a bit of a traumatic experience. From the age of nine, my world revolved around a match day and performing on the football pitch. It was a shock and I just didn't know how to deal with it.
"I didn't know what I was going to do going forward and my wife was just about to give birth for the first time. I was worried, I was anxious and I couldn't sleep; I couldn't switch off that nagging, chatterbox voice in my head.
"I'd never drunk at home before, but one day, I realised I didn't have training the next day, so I could have a couple of beers. And I got into that sort of pattern. When I had a couple of beers, I felt that voice switched off a little bit more. I thought if I had two or three beers that would make me sleep better, I wouldn't worry as much, I wouldn't be as anxious.
"It became a bit of a medication. Eventually those two or three beers ended up being six or seven, getting drunk, doing things I regret, being sneaky and taking me away from the person that I wanted to be, but it was all because I was trying to escape my feelings and I couldn't."
Franks' drinking eventually reached a critical level around 18 months after he hung up his boots for good.
It was at this point he confessed to his closest confidantes that he had a problem that needed urgent rectification.
"I'd used alcohol as a bit of a coping mechanism before – for example, if I knew that the highlights programme was coming on and everyone was going to see me make a mistake – but in retirement I just I couldn't get out of it.
"I was just in a cycle of drinking, feeling ashamed, feeling terrible and drinking again. I was these two different characters, because during the day I'd be grafting and really trying to work on what I was going to do for a career and, from the outside, it looked like I was doing really well. In the evenings, I would almost self-destruct.
"I broke down to my mum and my wife and said that I'd been hiding how much I'd been drinking. Often my wife would go to bed and I'd sit up on my own drinking. She didn't know that. I could get up the next day, go for a jog and try and run it off and try to hide it from her.
"Sometimes, when I'd work away, I'd love going into a hotel room on my own, going to a supermarket, getting a load of drink and just sitting there drinking and obviously feeling terrible the next day. They didn't know that I was doing this, so I just unloaded on them. I said I wanted to stop drinking but I didn't see how I could function without it.
"I was probably in a depressive state. I just saw nothing to look forward to. I felt like my best days were behind me. I felt like I was just trudging along, that nothing was ever going to live up to what I'd done before."
Fraser Franks had made 34 appearances for Newport when he was forced into retirement at the age of 28
It is often said that recognising an issue is the first step on the road to recovery, and talking about his problems eventually offered the catharsis Franks needed to change his life for the better.
On August 1, he will mark one year of sobriety – the most important milestone in his journey yet.
"I either had to continue pressing that self-destruct button and do what I was doing, which was going to damage me or take charge and stop drinking alcohol," he admitted.
"It took me a couple of goes. I would try it, last about two weeks and then give in. I got the help and support I needed; I spoke to the PFA and they appointed me a counsellor with Sporting Chance [mental health charity founded by Arsenal Tony Adams].
"I tried counselling when I first retired. I said I wanted a man who understood football and they gave me this guy who I didn't get on with, so I thought counselling was not for me.
"Then I tried it again with the alcohol and they gave me a woman in her 60s that used to drink quite a lot and I thought she was brilliant. She just changed my perception on counselling and I had someone that I could unload to. She had some really good advice in those early stages of stopping drinking."
So having not drunk a drop of alcohol in just shy of 12 months, what benefits has he discovered from being sober?
"What I have found is it has given me a new level of confidence. I was quite confident when I'd had a couple of drinks, but without it I was really shy and introverted, so I had to try and build that confidence without a drink, which I found quite quickly.
"I found that I understood myself more, I was more authentic because I was almost two different characters when I was sober and drunk. I found I slept much better, I ate much better, I wanted to go to the gym, I wanted to be a better dad. I was going to the park on a Sunday morning full of energy, whereas before I'd be going there out of pure guilt and feeling terrible and hungover.
"I felt much more consistent in my work, and I think probably the biggest benefit that I found is when I shared my own story, after about six months in, I started getting people resonating with me. I started getting people reaching out to me, asking for help and advice.
"Off the back of that, it was almost a purpose that I'd lost through playing football. That was my everything. Since I've come away from it, I've been helping people not just with alcohol but dealing with these emotions and dealing with these feelings, dealing with the need to run away and escape."
Those experiences led him to Alcohol Change UK, a charity that "work for a society that is free from the harm caused by alcohol."
In May, he became an ambassador.
"I got involved in it because I didn't define myself as an alcoholic – and I really don't like the term alcoholic," he added.
"A lot of people have unhealthy relationships with alcohol, but they don't see themselves as an alcoholic, so they don't do anything about it.
"Most people can't moderate their drinking. Most people make a lot of mistakes when they drink. They don't want to carry on, they want to stop, but they don't see a way out. There's that big chunk of most of us where we probably want to drink a bit less, but we get swept up and try again later.
"I have found community is really important. You want to find people that have been through what you've been through or that you can resonate with, and I found that quite a lot on social media and in podcasts. When I started sharing my story, people started getting in touch and people started sharing some of the stuff that I was posting and that struck up a conversation with Alcohol Change UK.
"I really wanted to give back and help as many people as I could. I had some conversations with them and I'm going to start going into businesses and giving talks because alcohol in the workplace is huge.
"Businesses want healthier and happier people working for them. There are some alarming stats on the amount of money lost in in the economy due to hangovers and sick days, so it's in their best interests, but it's also in their best interests to look after their people.
"I'm doing it currently with my consultancy firm – B5 Consultancy – within football, rugby and cricket, and so I'm going into work in talking to players and coaching staff about alcohol and about escapism.
"One of the big things I want to do is show people that being sober isn't boring. My life is much more exciting. I'm a much better person, a better dad, I'm better at everything, I'm healthier, I'm happier and a lot of people want to do that, but can't get over this hurdle of alcohol."
Franks met Christian Eriksen during a recent visit to former club Brentford's Jersey Road training ground
The long-term goal? Education – in professional sport and beyond. Franks does not want to force people to change, just to make an informed decision of their own; to challenge what has become the norm.
"For me, it's not about banning alcohol or, in professional sport, banning players from drinking. It's about educating people, supporting people and then instead of banning someone from drinking alcohol, they might make their own mind up.
"My big thing is that I will never ever judge or preach to anyone. I never want to say 'you should stop drinking'. With anyone that goes sober or stops drinking or even cuts down drinking, it has to come from them. They have to want to do it and I simply share and talk about things and then people will come to me and say they feel like that or they want to do the same.
"Stan Collymore said recently that footballers should have in their contracts that they can't drink. It's just not the answer. Players need that autonomy. It has to be their choice. A lot of players don't drink during the season and then they'll binge in the summer. I've spoken to a lot of clubs and a lot of people in clubs. There's still a big drinking culture and it's just very much hidden away.
"If you look at someone like Jack Grealish, the minute he goes out, he gets pictured in a nightclub and he's front page news. Other players – for example someone under media scrutiny – then know they can't go out and do it so they will do it at home instead.
"I found in professional football especially, I'll give a presentation and I'll talk about how I felt on team nights out or how I bottled emotions or how I didn't feel comfortable or confident. Even things like getting criticism from fans or on social media. I batted that off, but that really hurt me – and that was at League Two level. I cannot imagine what it's like at Premier League level.
"I look at Premier League players and I wouldn't trade places. If you're having a tough time there, you're getting it from pundits, you're getting it in the media, on social media; you get it from your own fans. I saw Phil Jones do a piece with a newspaper saying he was getting abuse walking down the street with his daughter. I know that I would have needed a drink and alcohol would have been the thing that took me away from that.
"When you look at the comments on something like the recent Danny Drinkwater story, 99 per cent of people will say he's so lucky to be where he is, that they're living everyone else's dream, that everyone would give their right arm to be where he is, and he's got this money and this fame, so what right has he got to complain?
"This is why players keep a lot bottled up because you're made to feel guilty for actually feeling like a normal human being. Where do they go to unload or vent?
The 31-year-old made 120 appearances during three seasons at Stevenage
"Most of these are normal lads that come from really humble beginnings, trucked into the limelight, given a load of money and they don't know how to cope with it, which is why I want to help so much with the emotional well-being of players and being a support service off the pitch.
"I'll leave my card or my number and then allow players to get in touch with me and speak to them on a one-to-one basis after that. I'm actually helping a few players and a few coaches out at the minute."
Throughout the interview, Franks refers back to the vow he made as a child, swearing off alcohol after growing up in a "toxic household" and in the knowledge of the way it affected performance levels.
He was asked whether he feels like this is a fresh start; a chance to become that determined teenager again, albeit facing the world with so much more life experience under his belt.
"I do feel like it's starting again, going back to that introverted lad experiencing things for the first time. Part of me does wish I had been strong enough to be myself and not feel like I had to drink to get accepted into a group.
"But part of me also knows I was a young lad, I've got so much life experience in such a short amount of time and I'm a big believer that what I'm doing now wouldn't have happened if I'd have never touched a drop of alcohol.
"I'm really fortunate that I recognised it [the drinking problem] early. I want to help people not get to rock bottom before they make a change. I don't want people to lose everything. So many lose homes, marriages and careers and then they go 'right, now I'm stopping'. Address the issue while you can, as early as you can.
"When I stopped drinking alcohol that all came back. It made me want to not neglect my body and fill it with rubbish. I wanted to eat well and that then led to me wanting to move around a bit more, exercise a little bit more and just had a big knock-on effect.
"I take pride in not necessarily what I look like, but what I feel like. I want energy, I want to be able to run around with my little girl. I didn't realise how important it was to me, but it's one of the biggest values I've got.
"I'm a big believer that some of our toughest times and biggest challenges can present the biggest opportunities. You can turn that pain into a purpose of what you're going to do next."
Fraser Franks is living proof that – whatever your circumstances – you can make a positive change for good.
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The flight from Mumbai to Jaipur takes little more than hour and a half, but it crosses four Indian states. More than 300 million people on an area four times that of New Zealand. From Maharashtra's long Arabian Sea coastline to Gujarat's lions. From Madhya Pradesh's "heart of India" to Rajasthan's "land of kings".
Certainly too much for the fleeting traveller to absorb, so we limited ourselves to two cities in Rajasthan: Jaipur, the "Pink City"; and Agra, the "City of the Taj". If you glance through the photos we took of the two cities, you'll notice stark differences. In Jaipur, perhaps still influenced by our experience in Mumbai, we focused our eyes (and our camera) mostly on the mayhem and grime of the streets, overlooking the beauty of the pink buildings that give the city its nickname. In Agra, fascinated with Taj Mahal's love story, the same mayhem and grime of the streets passed largely unnoticed. Did we get used to the chaos, or did we learn to see beyond it? A little bit of both, perhaps.
Jaipur was painted pink to welcome prince Edward VII and Queen Victoria when they visited the city in 1876. The tradition lingered and nowadays residents are required by law to stick to it. We're not talking Barbie pink though: it's a warm, worn-out coral that blends the city's skyline into the surrounding mountains.
Thanks for that photo, Jules!
The Hawa Mahal, or 'Palace of the Winds', is probably Jaipur's best known landmark (by the way, 'mahal' means palace. There's a lot of them in Rajasthan). The small windows served a dual purpose: they let the ladies from the royal court observe street festivities without being seen, and they helped cool the palace in the summer. Inside, there's a big courtyard with a fountain, surrounded by intricate layers of passages and balconies. The palace's architect wanted to honor both India's Hindu and Islamic heritage, so he combined elements of Rajput architecture (such as the domed canopies) with the same cues of Mughal architecture we'll see in the Taj Mahal.
From Hawa Mahal's balconies you can see the tip of Jantar Mantar, a giant sundial that can tell time with an accuracy of two seconds. Surrounding it there's another twenty or so astronomical instruments, all built int the 18th century for things like tracking the location of stars and predicting eclipses.
Next up was the Amer Fort. It's about 10 km (6 miles) from Jaipur, so we took a tuk-tuk. Traffic in Jaipur is even more chaotic than in Mumbai, since a three-lane road will have six tuk-tuks side-by-side, all gunning for that narrow gap between two buses. Our fearless driver would occasionally scream a "no rules, no rules!" justification over the cacophony of horns. Jules replied with "… but great curry?", but the guy was apparently not a scotch fan.
The Amer Fort (or the Amber Fort, it seems that the translation from the Hindi 'आमेर क़िला' is not straightforward) sits high on a hill, next to the Maota Lake, and served as the royal residence of the region's Maharajas ('great kings' or ' great rulers'). The surrounding fort is magnificent, but we ended up not visiting the inner palace. In many Indian monuments, foreigners pay between five and fifty (!) times more than local tourists. Each will have his own opinion about charging different amounts for the same service. Personally, it makes me feel like a little wallet with legs, to be milked whenever possible. Perhaps I'm not the only one: India receives some 8 million foreign tourists per year, the equivalent to 6 tourists for every 1000 inhabitants. China receives 20 visitors for every 1000 locals, and Thailand an incredible 370!
We opted instead to get ourselves lost in Jaipur's backstreets and alleys. Out of reach of tourist guides and tuk-tuk drivers, we walked around largely unnoticed. Have a look at the photos: sure, there's piles of garbage being rummaged by various animals, but there's also that same electricity we felt in China, the thrill of a country that's advancing by leaps and bounds.
The following dawn we headed to Agra, on our first train ride in India. It was definitely not like this. There was hot tea and cold air conditioning, making the four hour trip breeze by. Once in Agra, we overcame our reticence with differentiated ticket prices and went into the Agra Fort. The first structures of this 'Red Fort' go back to the 11th century, and it constantly evolved throughout history. The combination of red sandstone and white marble makes it a thing of beauty, but it lives constantly beneath the shadow of the Taj Mahal, which can be seen from many of its windows.
Ah, the Taj Mahal. Rabindranath Tagore, an Indian Nobel laureate, called it "the tear-drop on the cheek of time". Grief-stricken by the death of his beloved wive (one of three, actually), the emperor Shah Jahan ordered the construction of this incredible ivory-white marble mausoleum. When he died he was buried alongside his wife, and his tomb is the only element breaking Taj Mahal's perfect symmetry. You might think that such a public affection of love feels out of place in India's modest and reserved culture. In fact, the Taj Mahal used to be shier that it is today: tall trees and towering foliage surrounded most of the building, offering just a glimpse of it. In the early 20th century, Lord Curzon, a British viceroy, replaced the lush vegetation by the British styled gardens that surround the Taj Mahal today.
I'll let our pictures tell the rest of Agra's story. In the meantime we'll be flying to Goa, in the South of India, for the final leg of our Indian trip!
This one took us back to the Gili Islands!
There are a zillion pictures like this one on Instagram, but it is truly the best spot to admire the Taj Mahal!
I also feel the differentiated prices should not be there.
Is it a common practice also in Karnataka?
Loved this post and it brought back many great memories!
My passion is candid photography but sometimes, portraits work 🙂 I absolutely love film and have my darkroom equipment in storage back home in Brisbane. Perhaps you can teach me post-processing!
I've stopped uploading photos as I'm re-designing and re-building this site as we speak (another reason why I'm so behind with posts on my Image Earth Travel site).
Agreed! You'll teach me street photography and I'll teach you Lightroom. I feel I got the better end of this deal 🙂 I'll keep an eye out for the redesigned photography site!
Cool, it will take me a couple of months yet.
Loved your pics! It's like revisiting these places.


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The Alaska USA Foundation recently donated $10,000 to Kids Kupboard in Wasilla. (Photo credit: Alaska USA Foundation)
The Alaska USA Foundation recently surpassed $4 million donated since its inception in 2003.
This major milestone was celebrated with the local communities and with Alaska USA Federal Credit Union employees, showing appreciation to all for helping the Foundation accentuate its mission of supporting organizations that provide need-based services to children, veterans, active-duty members of the military and their families, local food banks and pantries across Alaska, and beyond.
"It's an important milestone that reemphasizes the Foundation's primary mission of supporting organizations that bring positive change for those who are in need," said Alaska USA Foundation Executive Director Dan McCue.
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Originally released as the b-side of Lose Control in 1990, this song was forgotten about until the acoustic Neil Young support slots in 1992 where it was distilled down from over six minutes to just over four.
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But everyone could use a little help with their fitness goals, right? Out of curiosity, I decided to partner with SkinnyMint to test out their Super Fat Burning Gummies. They're brand new from the brand, who is well known for their tea detox. The ingredients used, backed by scientific research, are supposed to accelerate fat loss while reducing your appetite with 4 sugar-free gummies a day. I had nothing to lose, so I decided to test them out for a month!
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The main effect I experienced once I started this program was a curbed appetite. After day two, I noticed that by lunch time, I wasn't all that hungry. That meant I could avoid overeating and snacking on junk throughout the day. Even at dinner time, I preferred eating light and filled up quickly.
During my testing, I also decided to cut back on carbs. I had tried doing this in the past very unsuccessfully, but the gummies really helped out this time. I used to turn to carbs to fill up, and feel "satisfied" after a meal. However, because my appetite had been reduced, I was totally content with some lean meat and veggies. I think the gummies played a big part in my ability to stick to my low-carb plan without too much cheating.
Because they're tasty, the gummies also helped curb my sweet tooth. Taking my two Hunger Busters after lunch not only helped me keep my mind off food, but felt like a little indulgence without the guilt.
By the end of my test, I had lost any inches off my waist. However, I had successfully adapted to a new eating plan and had broken a few bad habits when it came to snacking. I'd completely recommend the SkinnyMint Super Fat Burning Gummies to the person who's "always hungry," as it truly did help bust my hunger. However, it's always important to recognize when you're eating out of hunger or out of boredom. You can't take these gummies without adjusting your lifestyle and expect a miracle to happen. I could have gotten even more visible results had I been more active. As supplements, they're around to support the efforts you're already making. They can't do it all, but they will definitely make one factor easier!
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What is your biggest hurdle in meeting your fitness goals?
I just bought these and started today! I hope it works! It def curbed my appetite this morning though because that's when im the hungriest!
Same!!! That definitely was the biggest effect I felt when taking them.
More energy and less cravings for sure!
did you have side effects?
I didn't, but I've heard some people have experienced gassiness.
Ooh, these sound awesome. I have such a hard time with snacking some days. Will look into these for sure!
I've always wanted to try these out!
These look like something I need to try out. I always want a snack come mid afternoon.
Can't wait to see your wedding photos. Will you be sharing few?
I have been curious about these. I'm glad they worked for you. I might give these a try!
I would love to try these, I am a terrible snacker, especially at night! Glad you had good results!
I'm always worried that supplements like this will have hidden caffeine. I react poorly to caffeine. I'm glad it's been a good program for you though.
I love that these have specific purposes instead of just claiming to be another diet aid with nothing to back it up. I have a sweet tooth too, so I could see these being helpful!
I completely agree! You know what you're getting and it's not ambiguous.
Looks super easy to follow!
Definitely! I just keep them on my desk to remind myself to take them.
Curbing my appetite is a huge help for me! How's the taste?
They taste so yummy!!! Super surprising for sugar free!


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Badagry's original name was Gbagle a contraction of the word Ogbaglee, meaning in Ogu (not Egun as commonly mis-pronounced and mis-spelt) "a farmland near the swamp". The Ogu people are historically reputed to have migrated from the ancient Ketu.
Kingdom (part of Oduduwa's Kingdom) and they left Ile-Ife around the mid-13th century, for Accra in Gold Coast. The Ga/Ewe (Aja-Ogu) speaking group of today's Ghana are indeed the kith and kin of the Ogu of Badagry. The history of Badagry has a fascinating tradition of Kingship (Wheno-Aholu) and local administration. The ancient town of Badagry is divided into eight quarters namely: Jegba, Ahoriko Awhanjigoh, Boekoh, Wharakoh, Pesuka and Ganho and its adjoining villages on both the mainland and island, have for centuries recognised the Wheno Aholu Akran of Badagry, of which there have been seventeen from the earliest times to the present Akran, Menu Toyi I crowned in 1977.
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He is both a businessman and activist, and has in the past occupied several positions within Lagos State governments including Accountant General.
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Use below command to verify whether it has been copied or not.
In above command, -r option will copy the files and directory recursively.
There can be some scenarios where you want copy the files only if the source files are newer than the destination ones. This can be easily achieved using "-u" option in the cp command.
In the Example:6 we have copied the linuxtechi home directory to /mnt/backup folder, in the linuxtechi home folder we have 5 txt files, let's edit couple of them and then copy all the txt files using "cp -u".
root@linuxtechi:~# cp -i /etc/passwd /mnt/backup/  cp: overwrite '/mnt/backup/passwd'?
As you can see in above command, it is prompting us to overwrite the existing file, if you use -n then it will not prompt for the overwrite and also will not overwrite the existing file.
In the above command, we have copied the distribution.txt file from linuxtechi home directory to /mnt/backup folder, if you have noticed, only the attributes are copied, and content is skipped. Size of distribution.txt under /mn/backup folder is zero bytes.
Note: Default behavior of cp command is to follow the symbolic links in source while copying.
Sparse is a regular file which contains long sequence of zero bytes that doesn't consume any physical disk block. One of benefit of sparse file is that it does not consume much disk space and read operation on that file would be quite fast.


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Q: Rank of an Adjoint of A Show that if rank$(A)=n-1$, then adj$(A)$ has a nonzero entry and rank(adj$(A)$)=1.
What I know is that if rank$(A)=n-1$, then it must be true that $A$ has a non-singular
$(n-1)\times(n-1)$ submatrix so $\text{adj}\, A\ne0$. I just don't know how to go on from here. Please help.

A: let "adj" denote the adjugate or 'classical adjoint'.
$B:= \text{adj}\big(A\big)$
$BA = \det\big(A\big)\cdot I =0$
applying Sylvester's Rank Inequality we have
$\text{rank}\big(B\big) + \big(n -1\big) = \text{rank}\big(B\big) + \text{rank}\big(A\big) \leq \text{rank}\big(BA\big) + n = 0 +n = n$
$\implies \text{rank}\big(B\big) \leq 1$
and you already have $\text{rank}\big(B\big) \geq 1$

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Evaluation of nanofiltration membranes for the pur...
Hybrid membrane processes in industrial water treatment : separation and recovery of inorganic compounds by: Juholin, Piia Published: (2016)
Dynamic modeling of diafiltration system for a biorefinery application by: Ohenoja, Markku Published: (2022)
Zinc adsorption by activated carbon prepared from lignocellulosic waste biomass by: Tuomikoski, Sari Published: (2019)
Towards sustainable and efficient biofuels production : use of pervaporation in product recovery and purification by: Niemistö, Johanna Published: (2014)
Production of ethyl lactate by activated carbon-supported Sn and Zn oxide catalysts utilizing lignocellulosic side streams by: Kupila, Riikka Published: (2021)
Rathnayake B, Valkama H, Ohenoja M, Haverinen J, Keiski RL. Evaluation of Nanofiltration Membranes for the Purification of Monosaccharides: Influence of pH, Temperature, and Sulfates on the Solute Retention and Fouling. Membranes. 2022; 12(12):1210. https://doi.org/10.3390/membranes12121210
Evaluation of nanofiltration membranes for the purification of monosaccharides : influence of pH, temperature, and sulfates on the solute retention and fouling
Rathnayake, Buddhika1; Valkama, Hanna1; Ohenoja, Markku1;
Haverinen, Jasmiina2; Keiski, Riitta L.1
1Environmental and Chemical Engineering Research Unit, Faculty of Technology, University of Oulu, P.O. Box 4300, FI-90014 Oulu, Finland
2Unit of Measurement Technology, Kajaani University Consortium, University of Oulu, P.O. Box 127, FI-87400 Kajaani, Finland
Furfural, acetic acid, and sulfates are found in the hemicellulose (HMC) fraction of lignocellulosic biomass. Separation of furfural, acetic acid, and sulfates from monosaccharides by four nanofiltration (NF) membranes was evaluated with a model solution of glucose, xylose, furfural, acetic acid, and sulfates. Results showed that Alfa Laval NF99HF is the most promising membrane to purify monosaccharides, with the retentions of xylose (85%), glucose (95%), and with the minimum sulfate retention. pH has the highest impact on the retention of all solutes and there is no significant effect of temperature on the retentions of sulphates and acetic acid. Lower pH and temperature are favored to maximize the monosaccharide retention and to remove acetic acid while retaining more furfural with the monosaccharides. Moreover, fouling tendency is maximized at lower pH and higher temperatures. According to the statistical analysis, the retentions of glucose, xylose, furfural, sulfates, and acetic acid are 95%, 90%, 20%, 88%, and 0%, respectively at pH 3 and 25 °C. The presence of sulfates favors the separation of acetic acid and furfural from monosaccharides.
10.3390/membranes12121210
https://oadoi.org/10.3390/membranes12121210
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#ifndef UNFACT_TEST_INSTANCE_COUNTED_HPP
#define UNFACT_TEST_INSTANCE_COUNTED_HPP

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 * A class that counts own instance count. made for testing memory leakage.
 *
 * Note that you should instansiate template with your own Tag class for each test
 * to make separate instance counter variables.
 */
template<class Tag>
struct instance_counted_t
{
  instance_counted_t(int i=0) : m_id(i) { instances()++; } // intentionally implicit
  instance_counted_t(const instance_counted_t& other) : m_id(other.m_id) { instances()++; }
  ~instance_counted_t() { instances()--; }
  int m_id;
  static int& instances() { static int s_instances = 0; return s_instances; }
};

template<class Tag>
inline bool operator<(const instance_counted_t<Tag>& x, const instance_counted_t<Tag>& y)
{
  return x.m_id < y.m_id;
}

#endif//UNFACT_TEST_INSTANCE_COUNTED_HPP

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Q: Segfault when inserting with iterator The following code segfaults after the loop repeats 16 times. When debugging with gdb, *col is equal to 'a' except on the iteration when it segfaults, in which it suddenly becomes '\036'. This was tested on both gcc 6.30 and clang 3.8.1 on WSL Debian.
What could be the cause of this error?
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
int main(void) {
    std::string line = "";
    std::string::iterator col = line.begin();
    for (int i = 0;; i++) {
        std::cout << line << std::endl;
        std::cout << i << std::endl;
        line.insert(col, 'a');
    }
}

Edit: Yes, there is an infinite loop and I am aware of that. This is just for the MCVE.

A: After inserting elements into your string, the string may reallocating itself and then your iterator won't be point to the begin of your string and it won't be valid.
So do this
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
int main() {
    std::string line = "";
    std::string::iterator col = line.begin();
    for (int i = 0;; i++) {
        std::cout << line << std::endl;
        std::cout << i << std::endl;
        line.insert(col, 'a');
        col = line.begin();
    }
}

Note that this fixes the iterator issue only, but your infinite loop will extend your string infinitely until your program crashes.


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class FoobarController
{
    /**
     * @Route("/", name="index")
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In an authentic gelato creamery, you never know what new flavor is swirling in this artisan's mind.
Jessica "Jessie" Oloroso has always had a knack for inventing sweet concoctions. As the pastry chef for one of Chicago's trendiest restaurants, Scylla, Jessie spent the formative years of her career crafting one of the city's most impressive dessert menus. Yet ever since she was a little girl, Jessie held a passion for the gourmet flavors and textures of Italian gelato and sorbets. So in 2010, she stepped away from the restaurant scene and followed her true love, opening the first original scoop shop in Chicago's Ukrainian Village.
Named after Jessie's own dark-furred canine, Kaya, Black Dog Gelato now has two delicious locations in the city. At each one, a wholly unique assortment of handcrafted Italian temptations features unexpected combinations of flavors and ingredients including seasonal fruits, freshly toasted nuts, and fine chocolates.
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In an authentic gelato creamery, you never know what new flavor is swirling in this artisan's mind. Jessica "Jessie" Oloroso has always had a knack for inventing sweet concoctions.
Jessie might not be able to say how she comes up with flavors such as Goat Cheese Cashew Caramel, Sesame Fig Chocolate Chip, or Butterscotch Bourbon Pecan, but she's always willing to share a few of the secrets that go into turning ideas into gelato. For one, even though gelato feels creamier than ice cream, it actually contains less milk fat—so Jessie's artisanal, small-batch process helps create a silkier texture. Jessie also explains that gelato is best consumed at a temperature slightly higher than freezing, as the warmth allows the flavors to wash over the tongue, resulting in a richer experience.
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When you step into a Black Dog Gelato and first see the colorful flavors under the glass Vetrina, it's as though you're transported to a similarly small gelato shop along a cobblestone street corner in Rome, Florence, or Milan. While exploring Chicago, you'll even find Jessie's handcrafted gelato on the dessert menus of top hotels and restaurants and popular summer festivals, including the Pitchfork Music Festival and Renegade Craft Fair.
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Prepare to be captivated by one of the most poignant and heart-warming books you will read this year, perfect for readers who loved One Day in December.
With a little help from her two best friends, Alison resolves to try and find her happy place and be more Maggie. Vowing to step outside of their comfort zones and make the most of every day, the three women each have their own challenges to overcome in the year ahead - a baby on the way, a romance to save and a much-needed confidence boost.
I really enjoyed this book. It was a nice break from the crime novels I normally read. While it took me a little while to get into, more home life than the book, once I got into each of the characters, Frankie, Kate and Alison, I really enjoyed it and finished it in no time! It was just a really nice light hearted book about friendships, love and family. Without spoiling the ending it wrapped up beautifully. I will definitely put Pippa James as one of my authors to go to.
It is difficult for me to review this book because I don't feel like I took it in. I didn't identify with it, the situations, or the characters. Three friends want to get their lives on track. Each one has had a difficult time: whether it be losing someone they were close to, the ups and downs of pregnancy and relationships, work...and they all make resolutions to do better in the next year. I think what kept me from connecting with the characters was how they fell into a neat little category. I never sensed knowing much about them. They were the organized one, the quiet one, the impulsive one. That's not really all any of us are, though. I never got the idea of real people who opened up to each other and showed more of themselves. This was a book of people making and working toward goals. There was the relationships between the women. It almost seemed dated in its definition of women's roles and relationships. Some people may like it. It was not for me. I felt like I was missing something the entire time I read it.
Three friends, all mums, make new year's resolutions: Alison the hyper-organised perfect wife and mother wants to get fit; Kate the pregnant mother of two is feeling a bit overwhelmed and just wants to be a bit more zen; and Frankie, the single mother, just wants to be able to hold down a job and 'adult'. These three unlikely friends have to combat their own high expectations (Alison), boyfriend's ex-wives (Frankie) and newly pregnant friends who judge their parenting skills (Kate). I liked this, three unlikely friends each with their own problems, each with their own resolution as they meet their resolutions in unusual ways. It's a reminder that what we look like on the outside isn't always how we feel on the inside, the carefree fun single mum who breezes through parenting may feel like a complete failure on the inside when compared to the mum who prepares homemade packed lunches, labels her child's clothes properly and is a member of the PTA. Recommended for fans of Katie Fforde. I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in return for an honest review.
Frankie, Katie, and Alison. Three women, three mothers, different lives and personalities. What a breeze of fresh and funny air do those ladies bring! Kicking stereotypes in the bottom as well as liberating us from the impression we women can have of each other, The Happiness Project is a beautiful tale of friendships through good and bad days. I just loved getting to know these women – three different point of views to help the reader figure out the truth from the appearances, the reality behind perfection, and face our own fears and insecurities. Alison is 'the perfect mother'. Home-cooked cakes for school events or dinners, pristine house, never a hair out of place. But it is exhausting maintaining such a high-maintenance lifestyle. Especially when you lose the maternal figure you looked up to, the constant in your life that brought joy, comfort, and love. Finally, a novel in which the mother-in-law is not a loathed cunning monster for whom her son can do no wrong! I felt Maggie's absence through Alison and her husband's grieving process, beautifully written, emotions perfectly conveyed. I couldn't help but side with Alison and get quite upset with her husband's reactions. No, Alison is not what you'd call spontaneous, yes, she plans things and double checks things, but that's not a bad thing. Okay, that may be because I connected the most with her, so I just HAD to take her defense. But I stand by what I say, although I do understand her hubby trying to help her to let go of the perfectionism that regulates her life in order to enjoy life a little more. Frankie…Alison's opposite! Single mother trying to make ends meet with small jobs, juggling a boyfriend and an ex – and father of her boy who wants in in his life. Frankie is quite busy! She might appear strong and confident but it is only a façade. My heart ached for her whenever she did her best but felt she wasn't enough, comparing herself to Alison, unfairly unleashing her insecurities on her. Unfair but so true. I can't say I would never react his way. It felt so natural, and the author created the perfect little snippets of life to show just how quick we are to snap, to retreat into the 'anger zone', to stubbornly stay on one's position when we know we are wrong. I loved Frankie for her boundless love and her complicated, 'I'm worrying but there's no way on earth I'm letting you know' way. She has a giant heart and witty remarks that made the reading really cute, hilarious, and kept things on the extreme side of things. Frankie is all about 'go big or go home'! Katie. Mother of two and a half (what? It's in her uterus, it only gets half points!!!) wondering if her marriage is okay and how to deal with this new pregnancy. There is such stigma around what pregnancy should be like, how women must react to it, but there are also different schools and it can be hard to find the way that suits you through the process. When an old friend comes back into her life with a completely different lifestyle and view on what being an expecting mother is, Katie must come to terms with what she really wants to be, feel, and give to her next kid. I really enjoyed hearing about her first baby, followed too soon by the second, not giving her the chance to fully get into "pregnancy" mode, and that step back with this third baby, the reflection, the determination to do things the right way. But most of all, the idea that even if it's the third time your body hosts a guest, you don't have all the answers, even if some things come more easily, more naturally. So, where does the happiness project fit into those lives? Well, all three women want change, and the New Year is the perfect time for some resolutions. Each picks a goal, wills herself to stick to it, and drink to a better life. That's on paper! The reality is trickier, fuller, more colourful, and so much better! With heart and fun, those three friends tackle the months to follow with an intention in mind, not always in action, but forever holding the others' hand (even with less enthusiasm at times!). What begins as a simple list of goals ends up inspiring Alison, Katie, and Frankie, and me! I was moved by the obstacles they faced, the joys they felt, and those little moments of thoughts and doubts. What a treat! The Happiness Project is heart-warming. It's the kind of books that smells like the right subtle incense in the house to make it a home, like the skillfully prepared mug of tea in your hand, like life itself. Tantrums, muds, long hours, walks, laughs – months of their lives pass by and I devoured them in one sitting, escaping the bitter cold of Bordeaux to share hours with women who remind you that you have it in you to be happy. Uplifting, filled with emotions and laughing-out-loud moments, The Happiness Project brings a smile to your face and happiness to your mind!


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Cheese Guides
Serious Cheese: Goat Cheese 101
Jamie Forrest
Jamie Forrest published Curdnerds.com from his apartment in Brooklyn, New York. He wrote about cheese and related topics for Serious Eats.
Spring is naturally the season of new beginnings, and during these warm days rife with optimism, I like to think about all the wonderful things this season kicks off. Spring harvest, baseball, the first days of the rest of a college graduate's life, and of course the effective start of cheese season.
In this installment of Cheese 101, we take a detailed look at some of the best cheeses for spring—the aged goat cheeses—largely inspired by the "chèvres" of France's Loire Valley.
Chèvre Just Means 'Goat'
In America, fresh goat cheese has come to be called "chèvre," which just means "goat" in English. So the term doesn't describe a specific kind of cheese but rather a whole class of cheeses, all made from goat's milk. (This is similar to the Italian term "pecorino," which just means "sheep cheese.") So when you want to refer to fresh goat cheese, you could say "fresh chèvre," but "chèvre" on its own is a pretty general term.
Why Is Cheese Season During the Spring?
Now is the time when dairy farmers begin to give their animals access to fresh, young, green pasture full of wildflowers and pollen (if, of course, they have access to pasture to begin with). And while many farmers milk their herd throughout the winter months, dairy goats in particular tend to breed and freshen more seasonally than cows, and begin producing their milk in the late winter and early spring.
So now is not the time to savor big, hearty cheeses that take months to age. Rather, spring is the season of cheeses that age for two to six weeks. And of those cheeses, easily the most delicious and exciting are the aged goat cheeses.
Why Aged? Why Not Fresh?
Well, OK, now is a great time to have fresh goat cheese as well. Lots of farms are now experimenting with these kinds of cheeses, adding all different kinds of herbs, spices, honeys, even edible flowers to spruce them up.
But if you want to eat cheese that's a little more adventurous, that's got a lot more depth of flavor, you'll want to get some goat cheese that's been aged for several weeks. These cheeses begin to develop mold-ripened rinds that may be snow-white and fuzzy, or grayish and wrinkled, reminiscent of a human brain. During aging, the molds break down the various components of the cheese (fats and proteins) and begin to soften the texture and create aromatics that greatly enhance the flavor of the cheese.
The Loire Valley goat cheeses are the standard bearers of the category. Valençay is perhaps the most famous, with its inimitable flattened-pyramid form. Rumor has it that the cheese was originally pointy, but upon returning from a ruinous campaign in Egypt, Napoléon saw the cheese and swiped the top off with his sword.
Then there's Chabichou du Poitou, a beautifully-textured goat cheese that often has tart citrusy notes. Don't forget Sainte-Maure, throughout whose middle runs a single straw that helps to keep the cheese together, and the puck-shaped Crottin de Chavignol, named after dung of all things.
Here in America, there are lots of great aged goat cheese producers nowadays. Vermont Butter and Cheese recently ventured into the realm of aged goat cheeses with their delicious Bijou, Bonne Bouche and Coupole varieties.
And to Drink?
It's no coincidence that these cheeses pair extraordinarily well with the flinty, fruity white wines of the Loire Valley. Sancèrre is a great companion, as is Vouvray. Whatever beverage you choose, it should be subtle and light, as aged goat cheeses can be on the delicate side as well, easily overwhelmed by a bold, rich wine.
Whatever you do, head out to your nearest cheesemonger right now and get your hands on some of these cheeses. There's no better time of the year to experience them.
Our Favorite Fresh Goat Cheeses to Eat in Spring
Beyond Chevre: 10 Essential Goat Milk Cheeses to Know and Love
A Guide to Different Types of Cheese You Should Know
Cheese 101: Southern Cheese Worth Seeking Out
A Cheese Expert's Guide to 10 Essential Cheeses to Know and Love
Cheese Expert's Picks: 10 Essential Sheep Milk Cheeses to Know and Love
L'Etivaz and the Microbial Terroir of Cheese
Cheese 101: How 4 Simple Ingredients Yield 10 Zillion Different Cheeses
The Science of Melting Cheese
Cheese 101: Why Imported Italian Mozzarella Isn't Always Better
What Is American Cheese, Anyway?
Comté: How the Largest Small-Batch Cheese in France Is Made
How to Taste (and Fall in Love With) Raw Honey
A Guide to Manchego Cheese Varieties
The Best Budget-Friendly Summer Wines


Drinking Water Week is May 6-10, 2019. This is a time to celebrate how important drinking water is to our daily lives!
Drinking Water Week is May 6-10, 2019. Drinking Water Week is a time to celebrate how important drinking water is to our daily lives!
To celebrate Drinking Water Week the American Water Works Association (AWWA) is kicking off the week with a No Water No Beer festival!
The event is Monday, May 6th from 3:00pm to 5:00pm at the AWWA offices located at 6666 West Quincy Avenue, Denver CO 80235. All RMSAWWA members and your colleagues are invited.
There will be local breweries offering free tastings, food trucks with snacks, water pong competition and live music.
A $10 admission fee will support AWWA Water Equation's funding of scholarships, leadership training and local community water infrastructure volunteer training. Click here to purchase tickets in advance.
We hope you can join the AWWA and the RMSAWWA on Monday, May 6th for this celebration.


Cosmur, a leading provider of high quality construction services for public and private clients, appointed Campbell & Kennedy (C&K) as the electrical contractor for their refurbishment project at University of Westminster.
Campbell & Kennedy stripped out the existing lighting systems and disposed of the existing fluorescent lamps in accordance with WEEE guidelines. The team then installed the new luminaires as per the client's specification.
All lighting circuits were rewired to suit the new layout and a new lighting control system was installed. In addition, Campbell & Kennedy installed emergency lighting test key switches.
Following the installation, C&K's team fully commissioned the installation and provided the client with operation and maintenance training and instructions to enable maintenance staff to operate the new system.
During the installation the University building remained in operation.
C&K's experience in electrical contracting meant that they understood the client's requirements and had the skills and attitude to delivery the project on time and to a high standard.
In addition, C&K's replacement lighting contributed towards the University's commitment to improve the energy use of the building and improving the effectiveness and appearance of the lighting systems.
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What is the mead? It is not the literal alcoholic beverage that we know. Our alcoholic beverage is a metaphor, or metaform as Judy Grahn puts it, for a process of squeezing and concentrating the fruits of experience, and then allowing them to be slowly digested and matured over long periods of time.
When one drinks the mead, one is literally imbibing the rich, soulful experiences of ourselves, others, of the ancestors, of the Gods, yeasted and fermented into their most concentrated and dense form of wisdom, insight, and inspiration. It is, in a certain sense, although this would be taking it too far, as if one were drinking souls, and then allowing those souls not only to rejuvenate, but to live through oneself, and it is that process of those souls drunk that generates the experience of intoxication. A compact of sorts is formed in the drinking, whereby the souls in the mead are allowed to live through one's own experience in exchange for greater awareness and contact with the soulful part of the world. This exaggeration gets close to what the mead is.
From this perspective, the ancestors live as deeply digested experiences within the well of wisdom itself, which collects souls into an ancestral brew where all is experienced on the soul-level. If one saw with true eyes, as it were, all one would see would be the underworld wells, and the fermenting and boiling within them. From our material standpoint, living in the manifest world of extension rather than intensity (as Spinoza might put it), the vision of that activity going on within the wells becomes translated to our imaginations in the familiar shapes of people in human form living their lives within the ancestral lands of hel.
As the folk come to the Well of Wyrd, there is a Court of Doom whereby they receive, as the New Agers put it, their "life evaluation", a full and fair inquiry and review that determines where, within the broad lands and kingdoms of the ancestral lands of bliss, one shall receive one's home. In a sense, it is a question of jurisdiction ; in another sense, it is a question of belonging. Once this is determined, and it is determined that one's jurisdiction is not within Niflhel, a fairly easy determination for most, since the Gods are lenient except in heinous cases (although lessons, tasks, and gilds may be assigned for lesser offenses. These gilds can be paid off through community service as disir, although others may volunteer for disir-service as well), then one is given the dyrar veigar, the drink that transforms one from a speechless shade, a mere shadow of a spirit, into a strong, fully embodied being whose soul and body are no longer separated, and in fact these two terms as differentiators become irrelevant. It is, as it were, a final sealing into one's essential self and being.
From there, solidified in soul as never before, the soul finds its home and goes there, to learn from the ancestors. This takes place over great periods of time, with no sense of rush, and a great sense of rest, leisure, and the decorum of what one might call a royal prerogative. There is much to learn, stories to tell, and great histories to digest that cannot all be assimilated at once. It is a progressive process of growing into the earth, a kind of weaving into the very heart of things. As one assimilates all of this over eons, one goes about one's business much as one would on earth, for one is, as it were, digesting the harvest one cultivated in one's lifetime, that field of experience cleared, marked out, delineated, and allotted by one's passions, talents, investments, and great loves. One grows into the great habit of oneself, and through this slow, grinding process refines and perfects all that is wonderful and imperfect in oneself. This perfection does not destroy the imperfections, but perfects them, completes them, makes them full and whole and awesome.
One goes out to one's farmlands, one's homestead, where the heart is, and cultivates those lands out in the countryside, for there are great, vast swathes of countryside out in the underworld, and the ancestors called it as a whole jormungrund, or "the great ground", because it was imagined as a much more immense territory, to accomodate all the souls who had ever been upon the face of the earth. There, out in one's personal and/or family boons, one is allowed to fully grow into the nut one is, lending one's own personal flavor to the estate, bringing spice and panache and the salt of the earth. Time passes in a completely different way, so that one day is as many, many days amongst the living, until one day, as one is in the midst of one's work (and there one relishes one's work, the masterpiece of one's soul, the good, honest, hearty work of one's loves and passions), suddenly on the outskirts of one's farm, at the edge of the fields by the pathways that abut up against neighboring farms, you see a visitor arrive, and you realize it is an old friend come from the land of the living. You are so grateful to see this old friend, with great warmth and affection, but it is as if just a number of days have passed although it may have been decades upon decades in the land of mortals. And you get the opportunity to help orient them and welcome them to their final home. And one might think of jormungrund that way, a vast kingdom of homelands within which everyone finds their final home. And in such a vast space, many different countrysides, many different customs, as many customs as nations ; and there, as here, one is free to traverse and travel at will to visit these other nations if the fancy strikes.
All of this is administered and serviced by a vast diversity of spirits and powers who ensure that everyone gets to have their own place, and find their own peace through the process that is fitting for them. Those who are very concerned about their own family members amongst the land of mortals may volunteer for disir-service, in which they get to act as guardian angels bringing luck to their particular tribe and clan.
All of this is quite delightful, and picturesque, and deeply true in its own way. Its very beauty and soulfulness proves that it is true. But in another sense, on the other hand, it is just our mortal way of translating a process that does not take place in our dimensions of external extension and bodies, and the images are translators into extension of experiential dimensions occuring as intensities rather than bodies, streams and flows of soul that have no correspondence to bodies on the one hand, and yet which form the very heart of the world itself.
From this perspective, the "under"world is not "under" at all. It is, rather, an infra-world, absolutely right here with us, within us, within everything that our mortal eyes can only see as material. Even what our instruments measure as "energy" is but the extreme outer layers of processes taking place on a soul level.
The image of these flows and streams of experience swirling, coalescing, circulating, and bubbling within the underworld wells, then, expresses even somewhat more accurately what is going on within the heart of our world for those who are no longer tied to bodies.
The "under"world image does have the advantage, however, of emphasizing the old principle of "as above, so below", albeit in a somewhat topsy-turvy way. A topsy-turvy way, because it is difficult to say who has the worse lot, as it were, and, which is "on top" as it were. From the perspective of those who have found their final home, it may be as if they have reached the pinnacle of existence, although here "below" may very much have a valence of pinnacle rather than the peak. The very depths of soul are the best place to be, compared to the chaotic, uncertain flux of the mortal world. It is not that there is no becoming in the underworld, but that it takes place at a far more stable and slow level, while the external world of mortality is a flurry ; full of excitement, but also great risk and peril. A gnat and a redwood tree both become, but at very different rates of speed and experience. Even the perspective on holy powers may be topsy-turvy down there, as the Gods who administer heaven and earth may be seen as necessary but distant figures governing what may be seen at times as a relatively unimportant domain of the larger picture, and the local spirits and administrative power and personality structure having much more importance. One is grateful, of course, for the oversight, protection, and guidance of the so-called "upperworlds" by those holy powers assigned to such districts, but they may have very little concern for those finding and affirming their own soul.
"Hell" or "heaven" in the modern, Christian-influenced senses, may very much depend on perspective. It is not usual to topsy-turvy the perspective on Valhall, but from the perspective of the majority who aim for the Land of the Ancestors, those who end up on the other side, as it were, may seem to have gotten the lot of "hell" in our modern sense. After all, they are constantly in battle, constantly getting wounded, constantly having to be on the alert and go through training exercises, having to experience death and rebirth all the time, and while they may receive some good fare, from the perspective of a non-hero or non-soldier these may seem like mere soldier rations and hardly worth all the trouble. For those who have this perspective, the bright "heaven" of the Valhall destiny may seem hellish indeed, at least for themselves, although, of course, the overwhelming perspective for even those of this type is one of gratitude for those who take the time to protect the nine worlds. Still, many times it may be more on the order of the general, vague gratitude one has for those military personnel one rarely or never sees, but who one knows is protecting one's country. On the other hand, for those destined for Valhall, they cannot imagine any other destiny that would be worthwhile. Here there is exhilaration, and adventure, constant new training and learning, under the very best and sharpest of the Gods, and for a purpose, all in preparation to make the greatest difference one could imagine, to which one's brief martial life was but a taste.
This image is so striking and so vibrant, tasting so much of the life of action, that it seared itself in the consciousness of Northern men, and was sufficiently distinct to survive the conversion to Christianity, even after several hundred years. Unfortunately, the other afterlife locales or imaginations did not fare as well. Since the Ancestral Lands were in many way for most folk their own personal idea of "heaven", where they got to be with their families in bliss, the new meme of "heaven" took over and blended with this, and thus the idea of Hel as a blessed place was lost. On the other hand, there was propaganda value in the priests converting that great underworld place into their Gehenna and fiery land of torture. Through these two processes, Hel and Niflhel became completely confused, and Snorri does us no favors by continuing to confuse these, for by his time, the older conceptions, which can still be found strongly in the poems, the fornaldasagas, and especially in Saxo, had faded from explicit if autochtonous doctrine.
We began with mead. Mead, is, as it were, the natural currency of exchange between the worlds. It is the sap that runs through the World-Tree. It is the way experiences circulate between folk. And when we drink alcoholic beverages, especially those, as in ancient times, mixed with special potions of potent gruits, we experience just a little taste, in symbolic form, of what is going on around us all the time, the great flows of soul that circulate within, through, and about the world(s). The mead, in other words, is a sacrament ; a sacrament that is not fully experienced without the rippling resonance of all of these (and more) above-explored layers of significance. With the sacrament of mead, one drinks in the great richness of life.
The alcohol is the metaphor, the intoxication the sacrament, the meaning the digestion of experience into the great soulfulness of the world.
And some say that sumble is not true religion!


Clothing is a nonnegotiable part of daily life, being situated on the bottom of Maslow's pyramid along food and water. When framing clothing through the fashion lens, many advancements have been made. Styles change every season, materials advance to be warmer and lighter consumers buy, buy buy. Then I started thinking about clothing storage and no notable changes have been made in recent history. Closest and dressers work fine, but another system can be created to complete the system. Right now there is nothing on the market that addresses the problem of clothes that are half clean/ half dirty, items like jeans that you can wear a few times between washes. Many people store the half clean/ half dirty items on a chair, or in a disorganized pile, my goal is to create something to easy to use that the user will not be tempted to throw their jeans on the floor at the end of the day.
As a self diagnosed shopaholic I would love to apply my knowledge of UX design to the retail sector stores. I thrive working in teams, connecting with people and finding humor in design.


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