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Not all CBD is created equal and as a member of the Floyd's family we know you're discerning. From day one our mission has been to bring you the highest quality CBD possible. And, while our prices are fair, our purity is priceless. At Floyd's of Leadville we are industry leaders. Our focus on every aspect of production—from American grown organic hemp to state of the art extraction facilities—helps create new standards. But we don't stop there. We batch test all of our CBD products in an independent third-party laboratory to ensure purity, consistency, and quality. We also go one step further and make CBD purity results available for everyone to see because we believe in transparency.
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As a sponsor of many professional and amateur athletes, we know that our customers are concerned about what they put in, and on, their bodies. Ever since The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) removed CBD from the banned substance list in 2018, elite athletes have embraced the compound for its potential recovery properties. While CBD is allowed in professional sports, we still recommend isolate products for customers who are concerned about THC, as even legal trace amounts can build up in the body over time.
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SILVIS, Ill. – Brian Peccie of Washington & Lee claimed the Division III Arnold Palmer National Individual Champion Award for earning medalist honors following a three-hole playoff at the Division III National Championships.
Peccie opened the championship with 1-under 71 and was tied for ninth place. After posting three-under in round two he moved to tied for second and was one shot back. Another 3-under showing in the third round moved him into to first at 7-under and three shots clear of second. In the final round, Peccie carded birdies on Nos. 3 and 8 to move to 9-under, but six bogeys in his final 10 hole saw him fall to 3-under and playoff with Logan Young. Peccie parred the third playoff hole to claim medalist honors.
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Nature & the natural world: general interest
Rewild Yourself	23 Spellbinding Ways to Make Nature More Visible
Simon Barnes, Cindy Lee Wright (illustrator)
Paperback (01 Jun 2020)
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We're not just losing the wild world. We're forgetting it. We're no longer noticing it. We've lost the habit of looking and seeing and listening and hearing.
But we can make hidden things visible, and this book features 23 spellbinding ways to bring the magic of nature much closer to home.
Mammals you never knew existed will enter your world. Birds hidden in treetops will shed their cloak of anonymity. With a single movement of your hand you can make reptiles appear before you. Butterflies you never saw before will bring joy to every sunny day. Creatures of the darkness will enter your consciousness. And as you take on new techniques and a little new equipment, you will discover new creatures and, with them, new areas of yourself that had gone dormant. Once put to use, they wake up and start working again. You become wilder in your mind and in your heart. Once you know the tricks, the wild world begins to appear before you.
For anyone who wants to get closer to the nature all around them and bring it back into focus, this is the perfect read.
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Love Ghost is an alternative rock band from Los Angeles. While young in age (two of them are juniors in high school), these musicians have a genuine and developed grunge rock sound. The band released their first full-length album "Lobotomy" on June 17th. The album was produced by Eric Lilivois and was recorded at London Bridge Studios in Seattle & NRG Studios in Los Angeles.
Their sound has been compared to Alice in Chains and Smashing Pumpkins, amongst other throwback rock greats. Their music is influenced by the teenagers' personal experiences of addiction, mental illness, heartache, love and coming of age.
Love Ghost was named to Music Connection's Hot 100 Unsigned Bands for 2017. The band has played in Tar Fest, The Our Life Festival, Make Music Pasadena and Echo Park Rising. They have been the opening act for Smash Mouth, The Young Dubliners, Buckcherry, Berlin, Ozomatli and The Tubes. Their performance of "Forgive Me" on Balcony TV is currently the number 1 voted video of all-time.
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In The News: February 2009
Low CoQ10 levels predict mortality in heart failure; promising weight-loss extract targets appetite, blood glucose control; pectin may reduce spread of cancer; olive oil, green tea combo fights atherosclerosis; vitamin K may improve insulin resistance; isoflavone benefits vascular health; vitamin D deficiencies discovered in Parkinson's patients; grapes help combat heart disease; study calls for new omega-3 guidelines; carnitine slows bone loss; vitamin E cuts risk of lung cancer; green tea capsule decreases cardiovascular risk factors; fish oil an effective prophylactic in children; lipoic acid prevents nerve damage in chemotherapy.
Scientifically reviewed by: Dr. Gary Gonzalez, MD, on January 2021.
Low Plasma CoQ10 Predicts Mortality in Heart Failure Patients
A recent issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology features a study showing that coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) levels are an independent predictor of survival in chronic heart failure patients.1
The study included 236 heart failure patients with a median age of 77 years upon admission to Christchurch Hospital in New Zealand. Plasma samples were analyzed for CoQ10 and other factors. Participants were followed for a period of up to 5.75 years, during which 76 deaths occurred.
Over the follow-up period, 39% of the participants who had CoQ10 levels lower than 0.63 micrograms per milliliter died, compared with only 22% of those whose levels were higher. This study also indicated that those with lower CoQ10 were 67% more likely to die.
"Our findings in a clearly defined, prospectively studied group that CoQ10 depletion is associated with worse outcomes in chronic heart failure give further support to the rationale of the intervention studies that have already been initiated," the authors concluded.
Life Extension has conducted numerous CoQ10 blood level studies in humans. Our findings reveal that a CoQ10 blood reading of 0.63 micrograms per milliliter used in this study to help predict mortality risk is common in aging people who don't supplement. In response to supplementation with the ubiquinol form of CoQ10, blood levels typically increase to 2.00 to 3.00 micrograms per milliliter, a range that appears to confer protection against a host of degenerative disorders.
As reported exactly one year ago in Life Extension magazine, a significant clinical benefit in heart failure patients requires a plasma CoQ10 level of around 4.00 micrograms per milliliter.2-4 In severe heart failure patients, the only way these higher levels can be obtained appears to be with ubiquinol—not conventional ubiquinone CoQ10 supplements.
1. Molyneux SL, Florkowski CM, George PM, et al. Coenzyme Q10. An independent predictor of mortality in chronic heart failure. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2008 Oct 28;52:1435-41.
2. Langsjoen PH, Langsjoen AM. Overview of the use of CoQ10 in cardiovascular disease. Biofactors. 1999;9(2-4):273-84.
3. Langsjoen PH, Littarru GP, Silver MA. Role of concomitant coenzyme Q10 with statins for patients with hyperlipidemia. Curr Topics Nutr Res.2005;3(3):149–58.
4. Langsjoen PH, Langsjoen AM. Coenzyme Q10 in cardiovascular disease with emphasis on heart failure and myocardial ischaemia. Asia Pacific Heart J. 1998;7(3):160-8.
Vitamin K May Reduce Insulin Resistance in Older Men
Vitamin K supplementation may significantly reduce insulin resistance in older men, according to new research from scientists at the USDA Human Nutrition Research Center at Tufts University in Boston. Reported in Diabetes Care, the study was an offshoot of a three-year, randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind, controlled trial of vitamin K1 supplementation for bone loss.*
Three hundred and fifty-five men and women, aged 60-80 years, were randomly assigned to take 500 micrograms vitamin K1 per day, or placebo. Among female subjects, insulin resistance was not significantly affected by supplementation. But men who took the vitamin were significantly less prone to insulin resistance progression than men who received the inactive placebo. Insulin resistance was primarily measured by homeostasis model assessment, and secondarily through comparison of changes in plasma fasting insulin and glucose levels.
The scientists concluded that vitamin K supplementation "…may reduce progression of insulin resistance in older men."
—Dayna Dye
* Yoshida M, Jacques PF, Meigs JB, et al. Effect of vitamin K supplementation on insulin resistance in older men and women. Diabetes Care. 2008 Nov;31(11):2092-6.
Pectin's Anticancer Mechanism Revealed
For the first time, researchers have identified the anticancer mechanism in pectin, a naturally occurring dietary fiber found in vegetables and fruits, particularly apples and citrus fruits. The research, published in the Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology,* substantiates a long-held hypothesis based on molecular evidence that modified pectin plays an important role in limiting the progression of some cancers.
The scientists used a combination of sophisticated tools including an atomic force microscope to view individual pectin molecules. The images revealed that a fragment released from pectin binds to galectin-3, a mammalian protein involved in cancer progression, thus inhibiting further tumor growth and metastasis.
Lead researcher Dr. Victor Morris says the next step is "to identify how pectin can be better used by the body… so it can exert its effect on cancer cells."
—Joanne Nicholas
* Gunning AP, Bongaerts RJ, Morris VJ. Recognition of galactan components of pectin by galectin-3. FASEB J. 2008 Oct 2.
Olive Oil/Green Tea Combo Fights Atherosclerosis
The combination of green tea polyphenols with extra-virgin olive oil offers heart-healthy benefits that exceed those of extra-virgin olive oil alone, according to a new report.1 Previous research has shown that extra-virgin olive oil consumption increases beneficial high-density lipoprotein (HDL) levels and reduces lipid peroxidation, which may reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease.2,3
For two months, atherosclerosis-prone mice received extra-virgin olive oil, extra-virgin olive oil with green tea polyphenols, or placebo. Mice that received the olive oil/green tea combination experienced an 18% decrease in susceptibility to lipid peroxidation, compared with placebo-treated mice.1
Both extra-virgin olive oil and the extra-virgin olive oil/green tea polyphenol combination increased HDL levels and increased the rate at which HDL removed potentially harmful cholesterol from the bloodstream (a process known as macrophage cholesterol efflux). While olive oil increased cholesterol removal by 42%, olive oil/green tea boosted cholesterol efflux by 139%, compared with placebo.
Atherosclerotic lesion size diminished by 11% and 20% in the olive oil and olive oil/green tea groups, respectively.1
—Dale Kiefer
1. Rosenblat M, Volkova N, Coleman R, Almagor Y, Aviram M. Antiatherogenicity of extra virgin olive oil and its enrichment with green tea polyphenols in the atherosclerotic apolipoprotein-E-deficient mice: enhanced macrophage cholesterol efflux. J Nutr Biochem. 2008 Aug;19(8):514-23.
2. Covas MI, Nyyssonen K, Poulsen HE, et al. The effect of polyphenols in olive oil on heart disease risk factors: a randomized trial. Ann Intern Med. 2006 Sep 5;145(5):333-41.
3. Weinbrenner T, Fito M, de la Torre R, et al. Olive oils high in phenolic compounds modulate oxidative/antioxidative status in men. J Nutr. 2004 Sep;134(9):2314-21.
Isoflavone Supplement Improves Arterial Function After Stroke
Isoflavone supplementation improves indices of endothelial (blood vessel) function in patients with cardiovascular disease, as reported in a Chinese study.*
The study recruited 102 patients with a previous stroke who were being treated medically. Patients were randomly assigned to receive either isoflavone supplement (soy bean extract) 80 mg/day or placebo for 12 weeks.
The main outcome, brachial artery dilatation in response to blood flow, was significantly improved in the supplemented group compared with the control group, and response was even better for patients with more severe disease. Isoflavone supplementation also reduced levels of C-reactive protein, an index of vascular inflammation.
The authors believe this is the first rigorous study to document reversal of endothelial dysfunction with isoflavone in patients who already have heart disease. They conclude, "these findings may have important implications for the use of isoflavone for secondary prevention in patients with cardiovascular disease, on top of conventional cardiovascular interventions."
—Laura J. Ninger, ELS
* Chan YH, Lau KK, Yiu KH, et al. Reduction of C-reactive protein with isoflavone supplement reverses endothelial dysfunction in patients with ischaemic stroke. Eur Heart J. 2008 Sep 23.
Parkinson's Disease Linked to Vitamin D Insufficiency
In a recent issue of the journal Archives of Neurology, researchers from Emory University School of Medicine report that men and women with Parkinson's or Alzheimer's disease have a greater incidence of vitamin D insufficiency compared with healthy people.*
Marian L. Evatt, MD, MS, and associates measured 25-hydroxy-vitamin D levels in plasma samples from 100 Parkinson's disease patients, 97 patients with Alzheimer's disease, and 99 healthy older participants in Emory's Clinical Research in Neurology database. While 36% of the plasma samples from healthy subjects contained insufficient levels of vitamin D (defined as serum 25-hydroxyvitamin <30 ng/mL), 41% of the Alzheimer's disease patients and 55% of those with Parkinson's disease had insufficient levels of the vitamin.
"We found that vitamin D insufficiency may have a unique association with Parkinson's, which is intriguing and warrants further investigation," Dr. Evatt stated.
* Evatt ML, Delong MR, Khazai N, Rosen A, Triche S, Tangpricha V. Prevalence of vitamin D insufficiency in patients with Parkinson disease and Alzheimer disease. Arch Neurol. 2008 Oct;65(10):1348-52.
Alpha-Lipoic Acid Protects Nerve Cells From Chemotherapy Damage
Alpha-lipoic acid protects against nerve cell damage due to chemotherapy drugs in a rat model, with possible implications for prevention of peripheral neuropathy (nerve cell degeneration and chronic pain) in patients undergoing chemotherapy.*
Experiments were performed in vitro to simulate chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy. Rat neurons in culture were treated separately with cisplatin and paclitaxel, two common chemotherapy drugs known to cause neurotoxicity. Administered dosages were similar to those used during actual chemotherapy. In some cultures, the chemotherapy drugs were added three hours after pretreatment with alpha-lipoic acid.
Cisplatin and paclitaxel given alone caused marked neuronal damage, cell death, and a decrease in functioning mitochondria (i.e., reduced cellular energy production), but application of alpha-lipoic acid prevented these damaging effects.
According to the authors, "these findings suggest that alpha-lipoic acid might reduce the risk of developing peripheral nerve toxicity in patients undergoing chemotherapy and encourage further confirmatory clinical trials."
* Melli G, Taiana M, Camozzi F, et al. Alpha-lipoic acid prevents mitochondrial damage and neurotoxicity in experimental chemotherapy neuropathy. Exp Neurol. 2008 Sep 9.
Study Advocates Minimum Daily Intake of Fish Oil
Current clinical data suggest that a threshold level of omega-3 fatty acids protects against heart disease and should be endorsed by authorities.*
The latest research reviewed six studies of the relation between intake of long-chain omega-3 fatty acids (eicosapentaenoic acid [EPA] and docosahexaenoic acid [DHA]) and the risk of death due to coronary heart disease in US patients. Analysis revealed that rising fish oil intake was associated with a significant reduction in mortality risk. At an intake of 566 mg/day of EPA plus DHA, the mortality risk reduction was 37%.
The American Heart Association already recommends two servings of oily fish per week, which provides approximately 400 to 500 mg of omega-3 fatty acids per day. The authors conclude that US authorities should establish an official recommendation for intake of 400 to 500 mg EPA plus DHA per day, which will help maintain cardiovascular health and prevent coronary heart disease death.
Life Extension points out that while the American Heart Association's suggestion that 400-500 mg of EPA/DHA a day is helpful, a number of published studies indicate that daily doses comprising about 1,400 mg of EPA and 1,000 mg of DHA may be optimal. Those with stubbornly high triglyceride levels or persistent inflammatory problems should consume even higher doses of EPA/DHA through their diet and with supplements.
* Harris WS, Kris-Etherton PM, Harris KA. Intakes of long-chain omega-3 fatty acid associated with reduced risk for death from coronary heart disease in healthy adults. Curr Atheroscler Rep. 2008 Dec;10(6):503-9.
Fish Oil Helps Prevent Illness in Children
Consumption of a fish oil supplement significantly decreases the likelihood of illness among healthy children in Thailand.* The effect is presumably due to long-chain omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids: eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA).
The study enrolled 180 Thai schoolchildren aged 9 to 12 years. Children were randomly assigned to take fish oil (200 mg EPA and 1,000 mg DHA per day) or a placebo supplement (soybean oil) mixed into chocolate milk five days per week for six months.
By study end, fewer children became ill in the fish oil group than in the placebo group (54% versus 67%), with fewer episodes of illness per child and shorter duration of illness. Illnesses that did occur in both groups were mainly upper respiratory tract infections; there was also a lower incidence of fever in the fish oil group.
These findings suggest a beneficial effect of EPA and DHA on immune function.
* Thienprasert A, Samuhaseneetoo S, Popplestone K, West AL, Miles EA, Calder PC. Fish oil N-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids selectively affect plasma cytokines and decrease illness in Thai schoolchildren: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled intervention trial. J Pediatr. 2008 Oct 17.
New Research Confirms Cardiovascular Benefits of Grapes
A review published in Nutrition Research and an article published in the Journal of Gerontology: Biological Sciences report positive findings for grapes in reducing risk factors for cardiovascular disease.1,2
In the review, the authors evaluated the evidence for a cardioprotective effect of grape polyphenols. "Supplementation with grape seed, grape skin or red wine products may be a useful adjunct to consider for a dietary approach in the prevention of cardiovascular diseases, although additional research is required to support such a strategy," they concluded.1
In the Journal of Gerontology, researchers at Michigan State University report that rats bred to develop salt-sensitive hypertension experienced a reduction in blood pressure and improved heart function after consuming powdered table grapes. "The inevitable downhill sequence to hypertension and heart failure was changed by the addition of grape powder to a high-salt diet," noted Steven Bolling, MD, in whose laboratory the research took place.2
1. Available at: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081028103105.htm. Accessed November 4, 2008.
2. Available at: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-10/uomh-gma102608.php. Accessed November 4, 2008.
Green Tea Supplement Decreases Cardiovascular Risk Factors
A supplement capsule of green tea constituents improves several measures of cardiovascular health among US adults, according to a report published in the journal Nutrition.*
In this study, 111 healthy men and women were randomly assigned to take a standardized green tea supplement capsule (containing decaffeinated extracts of Camellia sinensis) or matching placebo twice a day.
By three weeks, blood pressure had decreased in the supplement group, and these results largely persisted three months later. Total cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein (LDL) declined in the supplement group among men and among patients with elevated LDL at baseline. Serum amyloid-alpha, a marker of inflammation, and serum malondialdehyde, a marker of oxidative stress, both declined after supplementation. No significant beneficial changes were found in the placebo group.
A green tea supplement therefore may mitigate cardiovascular risk factors in patients with elevations of blood pressure, cholesterol, inflammation, and oxidative stress.
* Nantz MP, Rowe CA, Bukowski JF, Percival SS. Standardized capsule of Camellia sinensis lowers cardiovascular risk factors in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study. Nutrition. 2008 Oct 8.
L-Carnitine Slows Signs of Aging in Rats
Supplementation with L-carnitine improves muscle function, reduces abdominal fat, and slows bone loss in two rat models of aging.1,2 L-carnitine is an amino acid that aids in fat metabolism and generation of energy.
In the first study, aged rats were given a diet supplemented with L-carnitine or a control diet for 12 weeks.1 Aged rats had 34% lower levels of L-carnitine in their muscle cells than younger rats, but supplementation restored levels of L-carnitine. Supplementation also improved the muscle's oxidative capacity by 55% and decreased abdominal fat mass despite no change in the amount of food intake.
In another study, a rat model was used to simulate postmenopausal bone loss.2 Aging female rats subjected to ovary removal were treated with L-carnitine or a control diet for eight weeks. L-carnitine significantly increased bone mineral density and decreased bone turnover.
The results suggest a future role for L-carnitine to prevent age-related muscle atrophy, body weight gain, and bone deterioration in humans.
1. Bernard A, Rigault C, Mazue F, Borgne FL, Demarquoy J. L-carnitine supplementation and physical exercise restore age-associated decline in some mitochondrial functions in the rat. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2008 Oct;63(10):1027-33.
2. Hooshmand S, Balakrishnan A, Clark RM, Owen KQ, Koo SI, Arjmandi BH. Dietary L-carnitine supplementation improves bone mineral density by suppressing bone turnover in aged ovariectomized rats. Phytomedicine. 2008 Aug;15(8):595-601.
Vitamin E Decreases Lung Cancer Risk
Vitamin E (alpha tocopherol) reduces the risk of lung cancer according to a recent case-control study.* Vitamin E is known for its antioxidant effects.
Investigators reviewed the dietary habits and vitamin E intake of 1,088 patients with lung cancer and 1,414 healthy controls of similar age and smoking status. Subjects taking vitamin E as alpha tocopherol were divided into four groups from the lowest intake (≤4.1 mg/day) to the highest (>7.7 mg/day). Compared with the lowest intake, progressively higher intake of alpha tocopherol was associated with decreases in lung cancer risk of 34%, 36%, and 53%, respectively, after controlling for other risk factors. Other tocopherols (beta, gamma, and delta tocopherol) did not provide meaningful risk reduction on their own.
Mean intake of alpha tocopherol in this study was 5.5 mg/day among patients and 6.3 mg/day among controls, which the authors note is markedly lower than the recommended daily allowance of 15 mg/day.
While this study result is intriguing, Life Extension points out that the subjects in these study groups did not consume the higher potencies of alpha and gamma tocopherols taken by many health-conscious people today. It is therefore difficult to extrapolate these findings to serious vitamin E takers.
* Mahabir S, Schendel K, Dong YQ, Barrera SL, Spitz MR, Forman MR. Dietary alpha-, beta-, gamma- and delta-tocopherols in lung cancer risk. Int J Cancer. 2008 Sep 1;123(5):1173-80.
Powerful Weight-Loss Extract Introduced at Functional Foods Conference
Nutritional scientists from around the globe met to share new research findings at the fifth annual Functional Foods for Chronic Disease conference in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in October. The participants covered a wide variety of topics, including functional food components that assist with obesity-enhanced colon cancer, the use of amaranth oil for diabetic patients with obesity, and how broccoli protects the heart.
The highlight of the conference was the startling presentation by Dr. Julius Oben, who has participated in more than 50 studies in the field of weight loss. The Head of the Laboratory of Nutrition and Nutritional Biochemistry at the University of Yaoundé, Cameroon, he revealed the latest clinical evidence on a recently developed extract from the seed of the Irvingia gabonensis fruit, also known as bush mango and ogbono, which grows in Cameroon and neighboring regions of Nigeria. Dr. Oben was performing epidemiological studies in African tribal populations when he noted that people in a certain region had low incidences of obesity, diabetes, and related diseases. Exploring further, he found that they use irvingia paste to thicken soups an average of ten times per week. This led to the development of a concentrated extract that stimulates fat loss while promoting healthy cholesterol and blood sugar levels.
Leptin is a hormone that inhibits food intake in people of normal body weight by reducing the hunger signals from the brain. However, obese individuals often produce so much leptin that their cells become resistant to it. A patented irvingia extract was shown to improve leptin sensitivity, so the test subjects felt less hunger and ate less. The extract was also shown to increase the levels of adiponectin, a hormone secreted by fat cells that promotes insulin sensitivity. When more blood sugar makes its way inside the working cells, less is delivered to the fat cells for storage. Adiponectin has anti-inflammatory and cardiovascular benefits as well.
Dr. Oben discussed the results of a 10-week double-blind, placebo-controlled trial with 102 volunteers who were instructed to maintain their same diet and exercise patterns. They took 150 mg of a second-generation irvingia extract twice daily. In 10 weeks, the group using irvingia lost 28 pounds of body weight, while the placebo group lost only 1.5 pounds. The participants using irvingia also saw a 31% reduction in fasting blood glucose, a 26% drop in total cholesterol, and a 27% decline in low-density lipoprotein (LDL). Equally important were the findings that irvingia lowered C-reactive protein (an inflammatory marker) by a stunning 52%, while adiponectin levels increased 160% and leptin concentrations dropped nearly in half (48%).
Other presentations added to our knowledge of functional foods. Subhendu Mukherjee from the University of Connecticut's School of Medicine showed how the enzyme thioredoxin reductase plays a crucial role in broccoli's cardio-protective benefits, while Dr. Jairam Vanamala from Colorado State University astonished the audience with his finding that one pound of charred meat fat contains as many carcinogens as 600 cigarettes. Amaranth oil was found to promote dramatic reductions in blood pressure and cholesterol levels, although the current cost of the oil exceeds that of many medicines.
The Functional Foods Center holds this conference every fall to promote cooperation among scientists and to spearhead research in this fast-growing area of scientific study.
—Dave Tuttle


"Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" story, characters and photos © Warner Bros.
This'll likely be the next film I see. Out in a couple weeks.
I want to see this. SO BAD.
My hope for this is that it runs out to be like magical Indiana Jones with Newt Scamander travelling the world and going on adventures unrelated to each other.
It doesn't need to be another epic saga.
I'll probably watch this eventually just because of Eddie Redmayne.
I wonder what funny hat he'll pick out.
The cgi was really good but obviously made for 3D which i dont think would have been worth it.
Holding it to hp standards it kinda fails but as its own thing its alright. I dont know that its 6 movies worth of stories but we'll see.
Oh and it was totally "what if harry potter was pokemon"
It was ok to watch. It wasn't as great as I have hoped for. As a Potterhead, it was in some ways, disappointing. Though I did like the scene when they are in the suitcase for the first time and you see all the Fantastic Beasts, best scene in the movie which made it more worth it. I am excited the Dumbledore will be in the next one.
Planning to see this on Saturday with friends. This looks really good from the previews. Although the title is what drew me and my one friend in. We call a former friend of ours The Beast. Maybe we'll see her in the movie!
Saw it tonight. Very much enjoyed it!
Quite enjoyable but imho not as great as a majority of critics seems to find it.
Great casting and acting, although I found the characters themselves a bit "flat".
I would be surprised if Grindelwald was not to appear in any of the follow ups.
Loved it, went in expecting it to be completely different from the HP films so I wasn't disappointed. A bit slow in parts, yes, but overall, I enjoyed it very much. Can't wait for the next 4!
like sure grindelwald changed into colin farell, but kept the same exact hairdo?
and why the f-ck wasn't he using the elder wand?
Why would everything be universal?


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A Battlefield Tour with The Cultural Experience, 30th September – 3rd October 2021
I have designed this new, four-day tour for The Cultural Experience combining history, literature and art to experience the infamous Ypres battlefield. Through the words of more than twenty British and German writers, we explore the war in the trenches, the dressing stations, the rest areas, and the cemeteries. This is an opportunity to study works of literature and art in the precise locations which inspired them and where they were created. Combined with a rich historical context, travellers can gain a powerful understanding of these works both artistically and as historical testimony.
Full details are on The Cultural Experience website.
We walk 'Plug Street Wood', where Roland Leighton picked the violets growing around a corpse to send to his fiancée Vera Brittain, visit the battlefield graves of poets such as Francis Ledwidge and Hedd Wynn, both killed on the first day of the Passchendaele offensive, and look across no man's land where Henry Williamson took part in the 1914 Christmas Truce. At Vladslo German Cemetery we will see Käthe Kollwitz's sculptures of grieving parents which kneel before graves including that of her own son. The tour is the result of many years of experience reading, researching and visiting the battlefields as well as teaching literature and art of the Great War at Liverpool and Lancaster Universities.
Käthe Kollwitz sculptures, Vladso German Cemetery
What was 'The Salient'?
Devastated by four years of shellfire and fighting, for the British the Ypres battlefield, guarding the Channel ports, was the key to the Western Front. The Germans held a natural amphitheatre of high ground, curved like the blade of a sickle with the handle formed by the Messines ridge to the south. This was the 'Salient' in which the British were surrounded on three sides, always observed and subjected to lethal shelling.
Paul Nash, The Ypres Salient at Night (IWM ART 1145)
Sanctuary Wood Trenches
In time when there was less public display of emotion, poetry was a means for soldiers to express and try to come to terms with and express experiences of grief, trauma and intense comradeship. Poetry also became a means whereby soldiers at the front tried to educate those at home about the realities of the war: 'I died in hell—(They called it Passchendaele)', says a soldier in Siegfried Sassoon's poem. Artists such as Paul Nash also saw this as a duty. Angered by the devastation of the Ypres Salient, he wanted his pictures to tell 'a bitter truth'.
Powerful war literature and art in a historic Flanders landscape.
Little-known cemeteries and sites and the famous Menin Gate, Tyne Cot Cemetery and Talbot House.
See where The Wipers Times was printed in Ypres Ramparts.
Women writers such as May Wedderburn Cannan and Katherine Mansfield.
VAD nurse May Wedderburn Cannan, third from right (maywedderburncannan.wordpress.com)
Day 1 – The German experience, Medics and Padres.
Depart London St Pancras by Eurostar to Lille. Drive to Vladslo German Cemetery, Käthe Kollwitz sculptures, works by Ernst Stadler, August Stramm, Gerrit Engelke and Erich Maria Remarque. Essex Farm Cemetery and Canal Bank, where John McCrae wrote 'In Flanders Fields', Zillebeke Lake and Railway Dugouts Cemetery, works by Studdert Kennedy, 'Tubby' Clayton, Robert Service, and artists Wyndham Lewis and Paul Nash.
Essex Farm Dressing Station bunkers
Zillebeke Lake
Paul Nash, Rain Zillebeke (IWM ART 1603)
Day 2 – The Salient and 'Third Ypres'
In the morning Hell Fire Corner, Menin Road, Sanctuary Wood trenches, works by Edmund Blunden, Herbert Asquith and The Wipers Times. After lunch, the Third Battle of Ypres: Pilckem Ridge, Artillery Wood Cemetery, graves of Hedd Wynn and Frances Ledwidge, works by David Jones, Blunden, John Collinson Hobson, Edmund Campion Vaughan and Ivor Gurney. Tyne Cot Cemetery where the poets J E Stewart, E F Wilkinson and W R Hamilton are commemorated. Evening Menin Gate Last Post Ceremony.
Shell craters, Sanctuary Wood
Edmund Blunden
Edmund Campion Vaughan's bunker, St Julien
Day 3 – Behind the Lines
To Vlamertinghe Military Cemetery and chateau, the grave of Harold Parry and works by Robert Nichols and Blunden. Poperinge, the prison cells and Talbot House soldiers' hostel, Blunden, Vaughan, R H Mottram and Ford Madox Ford. After lunch, drive south to Ploegsteert Wood and walk to the cemeteries, works by Roland Leighton, Vera Brittain, Katherine Mansfield, Henry Williamson and Alfred Ollivant.
Talbot House, Poperinge
Ploegsteert Wood Cemetery (CWGC)
Roland Leighton
Day 4 – Walking Ypres Town
A day spent on foot. Rudyard Kipling and the War Graves Commission at Ypres Reservoir Cemetery including family inscriptions, Ypres Cathedral and Cloth Hall, William G Shakespeare, Blunden and Edith Wharton. Visit to In Flanders Fields Museum. Menin Gate, works by Charles Sorley, Robert Graves, E W Hornung, Anna Gordon Keown, C E A Philipps, J C Hobson, W S S Lyon, Siegfried Sassoon and Eric Haydon. Walk the Ramparts, The Wipers Times, Gilbert Frankau, Ramparts Cemetery, R W Sterling. Aftermath and loss, May Wedderburn Cannan, Margaret Sackville, Carola Oman and Marian Allen. Return to Lille for Eurostar.
Peter Kollwitz grave marker, In Flanders Fields Museum
Ramparts Cemetery (CWGC)
The Menin Gate (CWGC)
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Who was Ivor Gurney's 'The Silent One'? The night attack by the 2/5th Glosters on 6-7 April 1917
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© Vincent Faupier.
In Ivor Gurney's poem about his experiences in the First World War 'The Silent One', the musician and poet describes a failed night time attack in which a non-commissioned officer is killed and left hanging on the uncut barbed wire. With the attack held up, Gurney is politely asked by an officer to try to get through a possible gap in the wire but, with equal politeness, he declines.
The poem has been described by his biographer as 'this most truthful report from the battlefield'.[1] Although he was writing in the 1920s, the preciseness of the details suggest that Gurney was recalling an actual event. In 2010, while I was guiding a group on a literature-themed tour of the Western Front, we visited the place where Gurney was wounded during an attack on the night of 6th – 7th April 1917 and we realised that this was clearly the event that Gurney was describing in 'The Silent One'.[2] It was one of many minor attacks made by the British as they pursued the German withdrawal from the Somme battlefield to the Hindenburg Line. Typically the Germans held positions for a few days, inflicting casualties with machine guns, before pulling back. The British attack had been planned for two days earlier only to be cancelled. Every such attack required soldiers to prepare themselves mentally for death or wounds and Gurney described his feelings to his friend Marion Scott:
My state of mind is — fed up to the eyes; fear of not living to write music for England; no fear at all of death.
He hoped a 'Nice Blighty' would come soon, by which he meant a wound serious enough to require treatment in the UK.[3] A fortnight after the attack had taken place, Gurney wrote again to Marion Scott, explaining that he was indeed 'wounded: but not badly; perhaps not badly enough' for he did not have a Blighty wound but was in hospital in Rouen.
It was during an attack on Good Friday night that a bullet hit me and went clean through the right arm just underneath the shoulder…[4]
Ivor Gurney in Rouen while recovering from the wound in his right arm received during the attack of 6- 7 April 1917. (The First World War Poetry Digital Archive, University of Oxford (www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit); © The Ivor Gurney Archive, Gloucestershire Archives).
Part of Ivor Gurney's service record showing the date of his wound on 7 April 1917, the abbreviation indicating 'gunshot wound right arm'. (National Archives WO363 via Findmypast.com).
The attack was made by two battalions of Gurney's Brigade. On the left was the 4th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry while on the right was Gurney's battalion, the 2/5th Gloucestershire Regiment. The Glosters (as they were known) attacked with two companies, Gurney's B Company was on the left and C Company on the right. The 59th Division was also supposed to attack to the left of the Ox and Bucks.
The right of the position along which the 2/5th Glosters deployed for the attack on the night of 6th April 1917, about 1,000 yards from the German positions. Neither the farm nor the cemetery were there at the time. (GoogleEarth).
The Germans held trenches along high ground, protected in front by belts of barbed wire which were concealed from British observation by a depression. The speed of the German retreat left the British without maps of the German positions and this lack of information contributed to the failure of the attack.[5] On the night of 6th, Good Friday, the attackers moved forward to a position about 1,000 yards from the German positions. The night was wet and very dark with no moon. Their orders were to deploy by 11pm and they will have lain down and waited for the British guns to open up. Gurney's B Company occupied a line about a third of a mile in width.
British Trench Map with the attack of 6th-7th April 1917 marked. This map, corrected to 30th January 1917, did not show the German trenches or wire; woods are also incorrectly plotted. (Map: McMaster University Creative Commons).
At midnight, the artillery began a forty-minute bombardment of the German positions, building to an intense fire for the final five minutes. The Brigade commander afterwards stated that the British shells fell short but there were no reports of any British casualties from this cause. At 12.40am two companies from each of the two battalions rushed forward and the British guns advanced their targets by 100 yards every four minutes: this formed a 'creeping barrage' that the attackers were supposed to follow.
Lieutenant Brown, of the Ox and Bucks attacking to the left of Gurney's Company, said that his men started 'in quick time'; as they neared the German positions, they broke into a rush towards the wire and some were shouting. There were shouts heard also from the Germans and two or three were seen to climb out of their trenches and run away. But the attackers did not see the German wire until they were right on it: they found that the shelling had missed it, it was uncut, about ten yards deep and about five feet high. The Germans at once targeted their wire with machine guns and grenades, in the darkness sparks flew where the bullets hit. Brown reported that his own light machine guns were unable to suppress the German fire; consulting with Gurney's Glosters on his right, he found that they were also held up.
Gurney's men too had found the wire uncut: Lieutenant Pakeman was reported in the Glosters' War Diary to have:
rallied his men and made 3 efforts to get through, though himself wounded. He led his men up to the wire & cut a certain amount himself.
Pakeman was to be awarded the Military Cross for his part in the unsuccessful attack, the citation recording that:
He led his company in the most gallant manner and personally tried to cut gaps in the enemy's wire. Later, although wounded, he remained at his post.
The War Diary also mentions that in C Company, Sergeant Davis 'distinguished himself cutting a gap large enough for 5 men to get through. All of whom were killed.' This man was Lance-Sergeant Frank Davis, awarded the Disguised Conduct Medal with the citation:
He led his platoon in the most gallant manner, and personally tried to cut a gap in the enemy's wire. He was severely wounded.
The area attacked by the Glosters. The German trenches were just beyond the crest line which is marked by trees on the right. The German wire was above and behind the area of trees in the middle ground (Cooker Quarry). The track is where the Glosters and Ox and Bucks withdrew before their second attempt to get through the wire. (GoogleEarth).
These attempts to get through the wire were fruitless and the two battalions withdrew to a partially sunken track to reorganise.[6] Brown again spoke to the commander of the Glosters' B Company and they decided to make another attempt to get through the wire. Taking place at about 1.30am, this also failed and they withdrew to the track. This withdrawal and failed second attempt is described by Gurney's two final lines:
retreated and came on again,
Again retreated a second time, faced the screen.
Brown again conferred with the two Glosters company commanders and an officer of the 59th Division to his left: none had got through the wire and they decided to withdraw on the grounds that it appeared impossible.[7]
2/5th Glosters War Diary entry for 7 April 1917. (National Archives, WO95/3066).
The 2/5th Glosters' War Diary records that 15 men were killed from the battalion, and seven officers and 27 men wounded, including Lieutenant Pakeman. Six of the wounded were evacuated, one of whom will have been Gurney.[8] The bodies of the dead, originally buried near to the German wire, were moved to Vadencourt British Cemetery in 1919.[9]
A German cemetery is now on the site of the German trenches attacked by the Glosters. This view looks back across the ground over which they advanced and shows the dead ground in front of the German positions which apparently prevented the artillery from bombarding the German wire. © Vincent Faupier.
The German resistance was part of a holding operation and when more British troops repeated the attack, on the night of the 8th – 9th April, the Germans were found to have withdrawn. A study of this short battle suggests that Gurney's recall of events was precise and accurate and that his capacity for intense self-examination provides valuable insights in respect of his admission of his refusal to attack and the way that this was apparently accepted by his superior officer. Such disobedience of an order in the face of the enemy could have resulted in Gurney receiving the death penalty. Instead, the incident appears to illustrate the circumstances whereby, in a heavily civilianised British army, officers preferred to lead by example, rather than compelling their men to carry out a task that they themselves would not. It also suggests circumstances in which orders were a matter of negotiation where disobedience in certain situations would be accepted.
Two individuals are described in the poem. It is impossible definitely to identify the probable officer who unsuccessfully asks Gurney, with 'the politest voice – a finicking accent', whether he might find a way through but he may have been Lieutenant Pakeman, decorated for his part in the attack. In 1916, Sidney Arnold Pakeman was a history master at Marlborough College, having graduated from Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. After the war he became Professor of History at the University of Ceylon and died in London in 1975.
It is possible to offer a more confident identification for the other soldier. The poet characterises him by his Buckinghamshire accent and his non-commissioned officer's stripes:
The opening of 'The Silent One' from Gurney 'Best Poems' notebook. (The First World War Poetry Digital Archive, University of Oxford (www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit); © The Ivor Gurney Archive, Gloucestershire Archives).
The Silent One
Who died on the wires, and hung there, one of two –
Who for his hours of life had chattered through
Infinite lovely chatter of Bucks accent:
Yet faced unbroken wires; stepped over, and went
A noble fool, faithful to his stripes – and ended.
In April 1917 Gurney's battalion still had a strong Gloucestershire identity and, of the fifteen killed in the attack, all but four were born or enlisted in the county or in Bristol.[10] None was strictly from Buckinghamshire but one, a corporal, was born in Long Marston, Hertfordshire, in an area closely enclosed on three sides by the boundary of Buckinghamshire. It was in the Bucks Herald newspaper that the parents of a dairy worker, Corporal James Chappin, placed two announcements on 26th April 1917:
The Bucks Herald, 26th April 1917 (via FindMyPast.co.uk).
The grave of James Chappin in Vadancourt British Cemetery with the inscription chosen by his next of kin.
Text © Simon Jones. See below for Notes.
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[1] Michael Hurd, The Ordeal of Ivor Gurney, (Oxford, 1984), p. 203.
[2] My thanks to Mrs. Joyce Kendell for pointing out the resemblance.
[3] R. K. R. Thornton (ed.), Ivor Gurney War Letters, (London, 1984), pp. 152.
[4] Letter postmarked 14/4/1917, Ivor Gurney War Letters, op. cit., p. 154.
[5] The latest map found is Sheet 62cS.E. Edition 2A Trenches, corrected to 30/1/1917. Later maps (2nd February 1918) shows a series of fire trenches on the crest and forward slope which, if German, would have been there on Good Friday 1917. The positions of small woods are shown incorrectly on the earlier maps.
[6] Brown discovered that the 59th Division on his left had not attacked and its troops were crowding into his sector. See note below.
[7] A report by 184th Brigade states that a third attempt was also held up before the withdrawal was made. 'Report on attack on German trenches on night 6/7th April, 1917′; 'Report on Operations carried out by 184th Infantry Brigade from the time of taking over from 183rd Infantry Brigade to the time of relief by 35th Division'; Lieutenant K. E. Brown, (commanding A Company, 4th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Infantry) 'Report on attack on German trenches on 6/7th April 1917′, War Diary GS 184 Infantry Brigade, National Archives WO95/3063.
[8] War Diary, 2/5 Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment, National Archives, WO95/3066.
[9] CWGC Burial Return via CWGC.org.
[10] Soldiers Died in the Great War, (HMSO, 1921) digitised version searched via Ancestry.co.uk.
Photograph of Ivor Gurney in uniform and detail of 'The Silent One' ms are from the First World War Poetry Digital Archive, accessed April 3, 2017, http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/item/6942, http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/item/6931.
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Edward Harrison, who gave his life to protect against poison gas
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Where did Vera Brittain serve in France during the First World War?
Vera Brittain when a VAD nurse. (Literary Executors for the Vera Brittain Estate, 1970 &The Vera Brittain Fonds, McMaster University Library)
From early August 1917 until the end of April 1918 Vera Brittain served as a Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse at No 24 General Hospital, Étaples. She wrote about this experience in her acclaimed and powerful memoir Testament of Youth in the chapter entitled 'Between the Sandhills and the Sea'. Étaples is a fishing port fifteen miles from Boulogne, and just to the north the British established a large infantry training camp and a complex of nine major hospitals, almost entirely comprised of huts and tents.
A plan of the Étaples Base Camp and hospital complex with No 24 General Hospital marked. (http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa/document/9127/4558)
The area of the Étaples Base Camp and hospital complex today. The area occupied by No 24 General Hospital is now covered by housing.
She was first assigned to the ward for acute German cases and then treated mustard gas cases suffering severe skin blistering and temporary or sometimes permanent blindness.
A Canadian victim of mustard gas at No.7 Canadian General Hospital, Etaples, c. 1917 (Library and Archives Canada/ Wikimedia).
No 24 General Hospital was not in the 'front line', as the fighting was never less than fifty miles from Étaples, nor was it a Casualty Clearing Station but it was bombed several times in 1918. The hospitals were hit by bombs because they were built alongside the Boulogne to Paris railway and were adjacent to the major complex of training camps, both of which were targeted. Vera experienced over a month of night-time air raids which left her exhausted and 'more frightened than I had ever been in my life'. She left Étaples before the worst bombing raids of May, June and August 1918 when patients and nurses were killed in No 24 General and neighbouring hospitals.
A First Aid Nursing Yeomanry driver with an unexploded German aerial bomb at a British hospital in Calais, 1917.
Battlefield tour The Ypres Salient War Poets: A Bitter Truth, 30th September – 3rd October 2020
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Why the poet Isaac Rosenberg is not shown in First World War archive footage
A story in the Observer newspaper states that the poet Isaac Rosenberg has been identified in archive footage in which a stretcher bearer in the front right of the frame is 'staring out at the camera with a haunted look' (photo below). The article states that the date and location of the film are yet to be identified.
However I recognised the still as showing the same scene as a photograph by the British official photographer J. Warwick Brooke (Q 5732) (below) which enables the footage to be identified as having been taken on 31 July 1917 at Pilckem, on the opening day of the Third Battle of Ypres.
Furthermore, the photograph caption identifies a wounded man being treated as an officer of the Irish Guards. The 'Rosenberg' figure is not in the Brooke photograph but another stretcher bearer is clearly recognisable (identified by the 'S B' armband) standing on the right. This man can also be seen to be wearing a distinctive cloth 'Irish Guards' badge on his shoulder and this badge can also just be discerned on the 'Rosenberg' figure. Rosenberg served with the King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment (attached for a time to the Royal Engineers) rather than the Irish Guards and whilst, on occasion, he did duty carrying wounded there is no evidence that he was a regimental stretcher bearer. On the day that the photograph was taken the 40th Division, in which Rosenberg was serving at the time, was about 60 miles to the south and did not take part in the Third Battle of Ypres.
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Yellow Cross: the advent of Mustard Gas in 1917
'Anon.' no longer: the author of 'Man at Arms' revealed
December 7, 2014 Simon Jones	First World War, Great War, Isaac Rosenberg, war poets, WarPoets, World War 1, world war one, WW1	5 Comments
'Anon.' no longer: the author of 'Man at Arms' revealed.
Over the past fifteen years, an anonymous poem has grown in popularity, especially with battlefield visitors who find that its sentiments strike a chord with them as they attend the evening sounding of the Last Post at the Menin Gate in Ypres, Belgium. The memorial, unveiled in 1927, bears the names of more than 54,000 British and Commonwealth soldiers killed in the Ypres Salient who have no known grave.
Menin Gate at midnight (1927) by Will Longstaff (Australian War Memorial/ Wikimedia commons)
The poem appears to have been inspired by the Australian artist Will Longstaff's painting of 1927 'Menin Gate at Midnight' which shows the ghosts of the dead filling the battlefield around the newly built memorial. Entitled 'Man at Arms', the poem is always described as by an anonymous author. The writer addresses a soldier who tells how, just as in the painting, the dead will rise at midnight and march to the Menin Gate.
What are you guarding, Man-at-Arms?
Why do you watch and wait?
'I guard the graves, said the Man-at-Arms,
I guard the graves by Flanders farms
Where the dead will rise at my call to arms,
And march to the Menin gate'.
'When do they march then, Man-at-Arms?
Cold is the hour – and late'
'They march tonight' said the Man-at-Arms,
With the moon on the Menin gate.
They march when the midnight bids them go.
With their rifles slung and their pipes aglow,
Along the roads, the roads they know,
The roads to the Menin gate.
'What are they singing, Man-at-Arms,
As they march to the Menin gate?'
'The Marching songs', said the Man-at-Arms,
That let them laugh at fate.
No more will the night be cold for them,
For the last tattoo has rolled for them,
And their souls will sing as of old for them,
As they march to the Menin gate.
Popular as it has become, I have never included it in my literature and art battlefield tours because I had no evidence that it was the authentic testimony of someone who had experienced the war. Curiosity as to its origins however led to research its authorship. Jeffrey Richards in Imperialism and Music: Britain 1876-1953 (2001) quotes the opening lines as being from a song The Menin Gate by Bowen. This proves to have been by Lauri or Lori Bowen, published in 1930 by Boosey & Hawkes, with words by Eric Haydon. A recording performed by Peter Dawson was released by His Master's Voice in 1930.
The 1930 His Master's Voice recording of 'The Menin Gate' by Peter & Herbert Dawson was credited to the composer Bowen but not the lyricist Haydon (Courtesy of Genevra Charsley).
Following on from the success of Longstaff's painting, the song achieved particular popularity in Australia. A first clue as to who Eric Haydon was comes from a brief article in an Australian newspaper, the Perth Daily News of 28 January 1936, which describes him as an English novelist and lyric writer, en route for Victoria on the liner Moldavia. Mr Haydon, the article notes, wrote 'The Menin Gate' lyrics.
The Perth Daily News, 28th January 1936, announcing the arrival of Eric Haydon.
The passenger list of the Moldavia includes Eric Haydon, age 42, en route for Melbourne, having previously lived at an address in London NW3. Census returns and a 1939 militia attestation form show that he was born in Kensington, London, on 7 July 1895, the son of a cheesemonger's assistant. By 1911, age 16, he worked as a cashier's clerk for a publisher and lived in Stoke Newington. In the 1930s, Haydon began to have some success as a song lyricist and novelist. In September 1939, when he enlisted in the Australian Militia, he lived at 30 Tivoli Road, South Yarra. Success however brought mixed blessings as the award for the best radio play in Australia of 1947 unfortunately seems to have drawn his financial affairs to the attention of tax officials who the following year fined him £70 for having failed to declare income from the play. He died in Parkville, Victoria, in 1971 at the age of 76.
There remains the question as to whether Eric Haydon's experiences during the First World War might have inspired the lyrics to 'The Menin Gate'. Luckily, a service record survives enabling his military career to be reconstructed. In February 1915 Haydon enlisted as a Private in the London Scottish, number 4359, and was posted to the 2nd Battalion with which he served for the whole war.
Eric Haydon's attestation form showing his enlistment in the London Scottish on 4th February 1915. (National Archives WO363)
This battalion was to have a remarkably varied experience, being posted from Salisbury Plain to Ireland in April 1916 in the wake of the Easter Rising, then to the Western Front where it spent time on Vimy Ridge. After five months in France, it was sent to Salonika (Thessaloniki) in Greece, then seven months later, in July 1917, to Egypt. It was at this point that the one misdemeanour contained on Haydon's crime sheet occurs, when he was found guilty of disobedience to a lawful command and insubordination resulting in a sentenced of seven days Field Punishment No. 1, the infamous tying of a soldier to a fixed object for several hours each day in place of detention in the guardroom. The 2nd London Scottish spent ten months in Palestine, where it took part in the capture of Jerusalem in December.
Eric Haydon's Crime sheet showing the award of 7 Days Field Punishment Number One in July 1917 and his mention for gallantry in October 1918. (National Archives WO363)
The German attacks in the Spring of 1918 led to Haydon's battalion being sent to the Western Front in June: it is at this time that he would have first seen the future site of the Menin Gate at the eastern exit through the Ypres ramparts on the route taken by troops to the front line. At the end of September his battalion retook Messines, then participated in a final advance, the forgotten '5th battle of Ypres', to push the Germans back from Ypres and which by mid-October 1918 resulted in the Battle of Courtrai. During this fighting he was mentioned in a Brigade Order for Gallantry in the Field. This resulted in the award of the Distinguished Conduct Medal, announced in the London Gazette of March 1919. It wasn't until December 1919 that the citation was additionally published which reveals an astonishing action which in the earlier years of the war would have gained him the Victoria Cross:
Eric Haydon's citation for the Distinguish Conduct Medal, published in the London Gazette, 2nd December 1919.
Private Eric Haydon was discharged in February 1919 unscathed physically by enemy action with a total of four years and 20 days service.
I can now include his poem in my tours as an authentic testimony by one who saw Ypres in its most devastated state, and who played a remarkable part in the fighting in the last days of the war.
Listen to the Peter Dawson recording of Bowen's song Menin Gate here (from a web page by Roger Wilmut).
Note: I've since discovered that Major & Mrs Holt's Battlefield Guide to Ypres Salient and Passchendaele (Pen & Sword, 2011 Ed.) credits Eric Haydon as the author and acknowledges Martin Passande as the source.
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require 'test_helper'

module Mediadrawer
  class FolderTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase
    # test "the truth" do
    #   assert true
    # end

    test "should create root_path if not exists" do
      folder = Folder.root
      assert folder.name == 'root_path'
    end

    test "should auto set root_path for new folders" do
      new_folder = Folder.new
      assert new_folder.parent.name == 'root_path'

      root = Folder.root
      new_folder = Folder.new
      assert new_folder.parent == root
    end

    test "parameterize name" do
      folder = Folder.new name: 'Nome da pasta'
      assert folder.name == 'Nome da pasta'.parameterize
    end

    test "discover path" do
      folder1 = Folder.create name: 'folder1'
      folder2 = Folder.create name: 'folder2'
      subfolder1 = Folder.create name: 'subfolder1', parent: folder1
      root = Folder.root

      assert(root == Folder.discover('/'), 'Couldnt discover root path')
      assert(folder1 == Folder.discover('/folder1'), 'Couldnt discover folder1 path')
      assert(folder2 == Folder.discover('/folder2'), 'Couldnt discover folder2 path')
      assert(subfolder1 == Folder.discover('/folder1/subfolder1'), 'Couldnt discover subfolder1 path')
    end

    test "folder path" do
      folder1 = Folder.create name: 'folder1'
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Shiner Law Group, a Florida personal injury law firm, has many locations that serve the South Florida victims. Shiner Law Group is responsible for handling cases involving injuries from car accidents, motorbike accidents, truck accidents, and slip and fall accidents.
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United youngsters hard at work in Austria
Adam Marshall
Tuesday 09 July 2019 14:00
Manchester United's Under-23s and Under-18s are currently in Austria, preparing for the 2019/20 Academy season.
The young Reds have trained in Obertraun in the last two summers but are based closer to the capital Vienna this time around.
There is the opportunity for the newly appointed coaches Neil Wood and Quinton Fortune to work with the older group, while Neil Ryan is putting his first and second-year scholars through their paces. The club's Head of Academy, Nicky Butt, is also in attendance, overseeing the sessions.
The pre-season camps have proved popular in the past with staff and players alike, as they provide a great launchpad for the upcoming campaign.
Ethan Galbraith gets on the ball during a training session in Austria.
"First of all, it's about getting back to full fitness," explained midfielder Arnau Puigmal. "Everyone knows it's difficult to return to that 100 per cent fitness level. It's really hard as it's more running and gym work than in Spain but I'm used to it now.
"It's also good to get back to being with the group as it's like a family there. Everyone is together – the Under-18s, Under-23s and the staff."
Fellow midfield man Ethan Galbraith feels it will be educational to make the most of the new facilities. "It's a different place and a different experience, which is what we're looking for all the time," he said. "So I'm looking forward to it.
"It's been hot in Manchester but it's even hotter in Austria and we know the physical work is going to get even harder. The strength and conditioning coaches have different programmes for every individual player and we know it's what we do off the pitch that makes us play well on it."
The temperatures are currently a few degrees warmer out near Vienna, but the location is cooler than Obertraun, and this is not a concern for keeper Alex Fojticek.
"I'm used to hot weather in the summer as I'm from Slovakia," he said. "We get cold winters but, in the spring, summer and autumn, it's always hot. The most important thing is to prepare for the new season. We get one week here and it's always really tough, but it's great to be back together as a group."
United's Under-23s have arranged a friendly on Friday against Austria Vienna at the Franz Horr Stadium. A number of the players have faced the hosts in the past but in an indoor competition staged in Germany.
"They were a great team at five-a-side, having a lot of possession, and they were a threat attacking-wise," commented forward Largie Ramazani. "We know it's going to be a tough game."
Centre-back Di'Shon Bernard is looking forward to Friday's friendly against Austria Vienna.
"When teams play against a big club like United it's huge for them, so they'll be coming out all guns blazing," added defender Di'Shon Bernard.
"We need to match their work levels and be better. I think everyone needs game time to prepare themselves for the season and it's always good experience playing a team from abroad because you can see their different qualities and abilities."
The club has also organised two matches at the STATSports Super Cup NI tournament in Northern Ireland, taking on Rangers in Coleraine on Saturday 27 July (17:30 BST) and Ballymena United on Monday 29 July (19:30 BST).
The latter fixture at Ballymena Showgrounds will pit the Reds against a side who are currently in the Europa League and are managed by an ex-United youth-team player David Jeffrey.
"I have fond memories of my time at Manchester United as a 14-year-old schoolboy, as an apprentice and then as a young pro," explained Jeffrey.
"Unfortunately, I didn't stay on but I am proud to have been there and the club blazer still hangs in my wardrobe. It is one of my most cherished possessions."
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Home » News » Conte makes case for utility rate surcharge at public meeting; homeowners ask why industrial customers aren't paying more
Conte makes case for utility rate surcharge at public meeting; homeowners ask why industrial customers aren't paying more
November 4, 2022 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
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Jeffrey Conte, director of public works, talks during a presentation during a public hearing about water and sewer rates at City Hall on Thursday night. | David Adam
QUINCY — A public hearing to discuss a proposed monthly $9 surcharge on utility rates for Quincy homeowners provided a review of the finances and circumstances leading the creation of the ordinance.
While Jeffrey Conte, director of public works, presented other options to offset a projected $3 million increase in operating expenses to a small crowd that met Thursday night in City Council chambers, most were discussed briefly or not at all.
Instead, most of those in attendance wanted an explanation why the city's 16,000 homeowners would see a 56 percent increase in their water and sewer rates. The average family with a five-eighths inch meter would see their bill increase from $40.49 to $49.49.
A commercial customer with a one-inch meter would see an 11.7 percent increase from $171 to $191. An industrial customer with a six-inch meter would see a 2 percent increase from $31,889 to $32,533. The rate hikes would offset the rising costs associated with making water from the Mississippi River consumable.
Conte provided figures showing 92.2 percent of the water and sewer customers are residential. However, they only consume 41.7 percent of the water and provide 53.2 percent of the revenue. Less than 8 percent of Quincy water customers — commercial and industrial — consume more than 58 percent of the water.
"Part of what makes Quincy attractive is our low water and sewer rates for industries that are heavily dependent on it," Conte said. "We have customers that use a lot of water but can get water from other sources. You raise the rates too much, and they will use other sources because those other sources become less expensive. When that happens, the money that (industrial customers) were previously paying into the enterprise fund then gets shifted on the backs of residential customers."
If aldermen approve a rate increase, Conte says Quincy's utility rates still will be low compared to other medium-sized cities in central Illinois. Alderman John Mast, R-5, said other cities are paying higher utility rates because they don't have Quincy's industrial base.
"Industrial users in the Quincy area are already picking up a lion's share, helping keep our rates low," Mast said. "If we lose (industrial customers) to another water source or they move, we're looking at rates similar to other locations. We'd probably be around $80 or $90 a month (for a residential user) if we lose our industrial base."
Mike Farha, R-4, said Quincy has lost two of its largest industrial users of water — Prairie Farms and Celotex — in the past 15 years.
However, he also shared the concern of local taxpayers.
"We're not growing. Our population base is falling," he said. "(The proposed surcharge) does fall inordinately on those who use less, and I share their concern deeply. We forget about the poor. We forget about those people west of 12th Street. The burden is going to fall inordinately on them, and this problem isn't going to go away.
"If (aldermen) pass this increase now, trust me, in 2023 and 2024, you're going to be right back here. … When industry faces this, they cut expenses. They start by cutting things. They don't start by raising rates. … I don't understand why we have never figured out that in the last 10 years, our solution to everything is to spend more money."
Conte said the enterprise fund for water and sewer was at $9,222,016 entering fiscal year 2013. If aldermen vote down the proposed ordinance and nothing further is done, he projected the fund would be nearly $10 million in the hole by the end of fiscal year 2017.
He said the city ended fiscal year 2022 with a $3.37 million net revenue to invest in capital projects. He said operating expenses are expected to cost $3.05 million more in fiscal year 2023. The city is projecting to finish with a net income of minus $40,000.
Conte noted the city's water treatment plant is more than 100 years old.
"We have water mains that date back to the 1870s … lots of them," he said. "Hundreds of miles of water mains that are leaking need to be repaired. It's not going away."
Conte said the expenses for energy (used to pump water), operating supplies and sludge disposal all have soared. Costs for phosphate, carbon dioxate and chlorine all have risen more than 200 percent. The cost of electricity per kilowatt hour has risen 115 percent. The cost of disposing sludge (46 percent) and biosolids (224 percent) are higher as well.
Other options to address the financial problems with the water treatment fans were part of Conte's presentation. They were:
Reducing the labor force
Eliminating capital spending
Finding alternatives for sludge disposal
Converting biogas into electric
Solar farms to create energy to pump water
Conte said he has heard suggestions to borrow money from ARPA (American Rescue Plan Act) funds or the city's general fund. However, he called that a "band-aid solution."
The city's Utilities Committee heard the proposal last month and acknowledged the need for an increase, but did not pass on any specific recommendation how to proceed.
Eleven of the 14 aldermen were in attendance. Farha expressed his displeasure at the beginning of the meeting, saying he believed the city should compensate aldermen for attending the meeting that was called 48 hours earlier.
"It's disrespectful to the public and it's disrespectful to the aldermen who represent the public to have a last-minute meeting called," he said. "That's not the way to handle things. It's insulting."
Aldermen tabled a vote on the ordinance at Monday's City Council meeting.
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Breast milk triggers even growth and development in the baby as his/her age advances. This goes a long way in preventing infant obesity; a common condition among babies who are fed on other foods and processed milk. Since all the nutrients and the ingredients in breast milk are well balanced, it becomes easy to monitor the baby's growth. Additionally, breast milk provides babies with the energy they need to grow and sustain metabolism within their bodies.
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome is one of the leading causes of death in infants. One of the greatest and arguably most important benefits about breastfeeding is that it helps in preventing SIDS. Research has shown that babies who are exclusively breastfed for the first six months are at a lower risk of suffering from SIDS. This is because breast milk is formulated uniquely to adapt to the baby's changing needs. This, in turn, helps in ensuring that the baby's health and physical needs are met hence lowering the risk of suffering from SIDS.
life. These immunizations are administered to babies for the immune system to show resistance against bacteria and other trigger factors that cause conditions like Tetanus. Breast milk helps the baby's body to respond well and accordingly to immunizations. This is because the milk helps in boosting the efficiency of the immune system and hence the immunizations work in a better way.
Allergic reactions are common among babies who are not breast fed or those who are introduced to normal foods before they are six months of age. These reactions are mostly mild, but there are instances when the reactions may become severe thereby posing a real health risk to the baby. Babies do not develop any allergic reactions from breast milk as it contains nutrients that are readily digested by their digestive systems.
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At the core of Machine Learning (ML) analytics applied to Big Data is often an expert-suggested model, whose parameters are refined by iteratively processing a training dataset until convergence. The completion time (i.e. convergence time) and quality of the learned model not only depends on the rate at which the refinements are generated but also the quality of each refinement. While data-parallel ML applications often employ a loose consistency model when updating shared model parameters to maximize parallelism, the accumulated error may seriously impact the quality of refinements and thus delay completion time, a problem that usually gets worse with scale. Although more immediate propagation of updates reduces the accumulated error, this strategy is limited by physical network bandwidth. Additionally, the performance of the widely used stochastic gradient descent (SGD) algorithm is sensitive to initial step size, simply increasing communication without adjusting the step size value accordingly fails to achieve optimal performance.
This paper presents Bösen, a system that maximizes the network communication efficiency under a given intermachine network bandwidth budget to minimize accumulated error, while ensuring theoretical convergence guarantees for large-scale data-parallel ML applications. Furthermore, Bösen prioritizes messages that are most significant to algorithm convergence, further enhancing algorithm convergence. Finally, Bösen is the first distributed implementation of the recently presented adaptive revision algorithm, which provides orders of magnitude improvement over a carefully tuned fixed schedule of step size refinements. Experiments on two clusters with up to 1024 cores show that our mechanism significantly improves upon static communication schedules.


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A Lesson in Richard Serra at David Zwirner
Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London Photograph by Cristiano Mascaro
Richard Serra, Four Rounds: Equal Weight, Unequal Measure, 2017, Forged steel. © 2017 Richard Serra/Artists Rights Society (ARS), NewYork.
Richard Serra: Sculpture and Drawings
David Zwirner New York
Through December 16, 2017
This small, spare show of forged-steel sculptures and recent drawings is a concentrated lesson in Serra's two main bodies of work. The first-floor installation of sculptures is a tutorial in what sculptures can teach us about the space they—and we—occupy. In one room, Four Rounds: Equal Weight, Unequal Measure (2017) which is comprised of two tall forged cylinders and two squat rounds, are each astonishing beautiful objects in themselves, particularly the contrast between their palpable weight and volume and the small-scale richness of their hammered, pocked and pitted surfaces, inky black to oxidized umbers. Linger and the sculptures seem to reshape the space around them, heightening awareness of the room's necessary ninety-degree angles. This is even more apparent in a narrow little side room, where the two forged blocks that make up Into and Across (2017) are set into corners, seeming to compress and narrow the space they are placed in.
Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London, Photograph by Cristiano Mascaro.
Richard Serra, Into and Across, 2017. Installation view, Richard Serra: Sculpture and Drawings, David Zwirner, NewYork, 2017. © 2017 Richard Serra/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London Photograph by Rob McKeever
Richard Serra, AR Vertical #4, 2017 © 2017 Richard Serra/Artists Rights Society(ARS), NewYork.
Upstairs, selections from several recent series of drawings, Rotterdam Horizontals (2016-2017), Rotterdam Verticals (2016-2017), AR Horizontals (2017), AR Verticals (2017), and a suite from Right Angle (2017), hover somewhere between monoprint and drawing. Made with etching ink, silica, and paintstick on handmade paper, they are black the way asphalt is black. Intensely graphic in material and form, they are a series of controlled experiments in what the weight and volume of the line can do. As drawings they resist every planar expectation. Instead, they have tangible volume. To more or lesser of a degree, the mark-making breaks the plane of the paper they are made on, drawing attention to the support as discrete from the elemental mark of a line.
Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London, Photograph by Rob McKeever
Richard Serra, Right Angle #1, 2017, Etching ink, silica, and paintstick on handmade paper © 2017 Richard Serra/Artists Rights Society (ARS), NewYork.
In "Notes on Drawing," Serra's primer on his own process, Serra explained his choice of working entirely with black: it resists "metaphorical and other mis-readings," it "creates larger volume, holds itself in a more compressed field," and "it is comparable to forging." Like sculpture, Serra sees his drawings as intervening in the space in which they are displayed, but "drawings," he wrote, "are another kind of language."
Richard Serra: Sculpture and Drawings is on view at David Zwirner in New York at 537 West 20th Street through December 16, 2017.
Andrea L. Volpe
Andrea L. Volpe is a cultural historian, essayist, and critic. She writes about photography, culture, and technology from Cambridge, Massachusetts. More at andrealvolpe.com and on Twitter @andrealvolpe.
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