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Wellness Wednesdays: How does PAGG work?
By: Diana Duong
At the office today, I showed our healthsnap.ca website to a colleague. I noticed he got excited and the first thing he typed into the search bar was 'alpha-lipoic acid'.
'Oh, you guys actually have it!'
Curious, I asked him what it is.
'It… well, it helped me lose weight.'
Really? Because everywhere I've read online, alpha-lipoic acid seems to help with the nervous system and occasionally, lowering diabetes. No mention about weight loss. Turns out, his weight lost was all part of a larger picture. It wasn't only the alpha-lipoic acid only, he was taking a suggested stack of pills called 'PAGG'.
In case you're wondering about its gagging name, PAGG stands for four types of supplements:
Garlic (allacin)
You can buy these from any companies, some provide the supplements as a package that comes in the form of two pills. One blue and one red.
No, unfortunately, we're not talking about the Matrix. At least, we hope with PAGG, it's not the point of no return.
Let's break this down. Policosanol, the 'P', is a chemical from sugar canes. It's supposed to aid with breaking down LDL cholesterol in the liver and increasing HDL cholesterol. We say supposed because there is a lot of conflicting data, so take this with a grain of salt.
Our previously-mentioned alpha-lipoic acid, is an antioxidant that already exists in our bodies and a lot of natural foods we eat. There's strong evidence that it improves insulin resistance and lowers blood sugars, helping people with insulin resistance. Evidence also shows it helps with nerve damage, and is used as a fix for anything from tingling sensations in the feet, to Lyme disease, to liver disease.
PAGG's reasoning for using alpha-lipoic acid is that it the acid is used in the body to break down carbohydrates and to make energy for the other organs in the body.
'G' is for green tea extract, which has had its benefits frequently touted. In this case, it helps with mental alertness with its caffeine content. It stimulates the nervous system, heart, and muscles by releasing neurotransmitters.
Again, 'g' is for garlic. What we're looking at here is garlic extract, however, specifically 'allicin'. It's said to lower blood pressure, normalize lipoprotein balance, and help reduce fat deposition.
Together, these four ingredients supposedly increase metabolism and decrease carbohydrate storage as fat.
So does it actually work?
Well, for my friend, it did. He had some pretty revealing photos to back up his testimony, too (we'll spare you, dear reader).
But at the same time, he lived two minutes away from a gym and a supermarket stocked with fresh produce. Not to mention he was motivated by working in a nutrition company where looking like Adonis or Aphrodite was an unwritten part of the job description. The boons of the job also included large discounts on supplements (he was also taking fish oils and vitamin D at the same time).
The side effects? Some pretty seriously painful stomach acid reflux in the beginning. Others have claimed smelly urine, cramps, or trouble with bowel movements. Nonte of the side effects seem exceptionally severe, however.
To sum up, PAGG isn't specifically designed to help with gaining muscle or even losing weight. The ingredients in PAGG work together to improve your overall health, but it ultimately comes down to cardio and strength training exercising as well as a healthy, balanced diet.
I'd give all that and my friend's sprinting (anaerobic exercise) and free protein powder more credit than PAGG.
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The cyclopædia of India and of eastern and southern Asia ..., Volume 4 By Edward Balfour
The cyclopædia of India and of eastern and southern Asia ..., Volume 4
By Edward Balfour
ROSE ATTAR.
Air...arab. Hind. Pers. | Otto Eso.
In India, the perfumed oils or attar are obtained in the following manner. The layers of the jasmine, or Other flowers, four inches thick and two inches square, are laid on the ground and covered with a layer of sesamum or any other oil-yielding seed. These are laid about the same thickness as the flowers, over which a secoud layer of flowers like the first is placed. The seed is wetted with water, and the whole mass covered with a sheet, held down at the ends and sides by weights, and allowed to remain for eighteen hours in this form. It is now fit for the mill, unless the perfume is desired to be very strong, when the faded flowers are removed and fresh ones put in their place. The seed thus impregnated is ground in the usual way in the mill and the oil expressed, having the scent of the flower. At Ghazipoor the jasmine and bela are chiefly employed ; the oil is kept in the bottles of hide, called dubber, and sold for about 4s. a seer. The newest oils atford the finest perfume. In Europe a fixed oil, usually that of the bean cr moringa nut, is employed. Cotton is soaked in this, and laid over layers of flowers, the oil being squeezed out so soon as impregnated with perfume. Dr. Jackson thus describes the culture of the rose in India and manufacture of rose-attar or rose water. Around the station of Ghazipoor, there are about 300 biggahs (or about 150 acres) of ground laid out in small detached fields as rose gardens, most carefully protected on all sides by high mud walls aud prickly pear fences, to keep out tbe cattle. These lands, which belong to zemindars, axe planted with rose trees, and are annually let out at so much per biggah for the ground, and so much additional for the rose plants— generally five rupees per biggab and twentyfive rupees for the rose trees, of which there are 1,000 in each biggah. The additional expense for cultivation would be about eight rupees, eight annas ; so that for thirty-eight rupees, eight annas you have for the season one biggah of 1,000 rose trees. If the season be good, this biggah of 1,000 rose trees should yield one lac of roses. Purchases for roses are always made at so much per lac. The price of course varies according to the year, and will average from 40 to 70 rupees. The rose trees ctrme into flower at the beginning of March, and ! continue so through April. Early in the morning the flowers are plucked by numbers of men, women and children, and are conveyed in large bags to the several contracting parties for distillation into rose-water. The cultivators themselves very rarely manufacture. The native apparatus for distilling the rose-water consists of a large copper or iron boiler well tinned
capable of holding from eight to twelve gallons, bavmg a large body with a rather narrow neck, and a mouth about eight inches in diameter; on the top of this is fixed an oM pot or deah-chre, or cooking vessel, with a hole in the centre to receive the tube or worm. This tube is composed of two pieces of bambno, fastened at an acute angle, and it is covered the whole length with a strong binding of corded string, over which is a luting of earth to prevent the vapour from escaping. The small end. about two feet long, is fixed into the hole in the centre of the head, where it is well luted with flowers and waier. The lower arm or end of the tube is ramed down into a lonif-necked vessel or receiver, called a bhulka. This is placed in a pot of water, which, as it gets hot, is changed. The head of the still is luted on to the body, and the long arm of the tube in the bhulka is also well provided with a cushion of cloth, so as to keep in all vapour. The boiler is let into an earthen furnace, and the whole is ready for operation. There is a great variety of rose-water manufactured in the bazar, and much that bears the name, is nothing more than a mixture of sandal oil. The best rose-water, however, procurable in the bazar, may he computed as bearing the proportion of one thousand roses to a seer of water; from one thousand roses most generally a seer and a half of rosewater is distilled, and perhaps from this even the attar has been removed. The boiler of the still will hold from eight to twelve or sixteen thousand roses. On eight thousand roses from tsn to eleven seers of water will be placed, and e ght seers of rose-water will be distilled. This, after distillation, is placed in a carboy of glass, and is exposed to the sun for several days to become pucka or ripe ; it is then stopped with cotton, and has a covering of moist clay put over it: this becoming hard, effectually prevents the scent from escaping. This is the best that can be procured, and tbe price will be from twelve to sixteen rupees.
To procure the attar, or otto of roses, the roses are put into the still, and the water passes over gradually, as in the case of the rose-water process ;after the whole has come over, tbe rose-water is placed in a large metal basin, which is covered with wetted muslin, tied over to prevent insects or dust getting into it; this vessel is let into the ground about two feet, which has been previously wetted with water, and it is allowed to remain quiet during the whole night. The attar is always made at the beginning of the season, when the nights are cool ; in the morning the little film of attar which has formed upon the sur. face of the rose-water during the night is removed by means of a feather, and carefully placed in a small phial; and, day after
day, as the collection is made, it is placed for a short period in the sun, and after a sufficient quantity has been procured, it is poured off clear, and of the colour of amber, into small phials. Pure attar, when it has been removed only three or four days, has a pale greenish hue ; by keeping, it loses this and in a few weeks' time it becomes of a pale yellow. The first lew days distillation does not produce such fine attar as comes off afterwards, in consequence of the dust or little particles of dirt in the still and the tube being mixed with it. This is readily separated from its sinking to the bottom of tne attar, which melts at a temperature of 84 degrees. From one lac of rosea it is generally calculated that 180 grains, or one tolah of attar can be procured ; more than this can be obtained if the roses are fullsized, and the nights cold to allow of the congelation. The attar purchased in the bazar ia generally adulterated, mixed with sandal oil or sweet oil ; not even the richest native will give the price at which the purest altar alone can be obtained, and the purest attar that is made is sold only to Europeans, selling at from 50 to 90 rupees the tolah.
In India, Native stills are let out at so much per day or week, and it frequently occurs that the residents prepare some rose-water for their own use as a present to their friends, to secure their being provided with that which is the best. The natives of India never remove the calices of the rose-flowers, but place the whole into the still as it comes from the garden. The best plan appears to be to have these removed, as by this means the rose-water may be preserved a longer time, and is not spoiled by the acid smell occasionally met with in the native rose-water. It is usual to calculate 100 bottles to one lac of roses. Tbe rose-water should always be twice distilled; over ten thousand roses water may be put to allow of sixteen or twenty bottles coming out the following day; these twenty bottles are placed over eight thousand more roses, and about eighteen bottles of rose-water are distilled. This may be considered the best to be met with. The attar is so much lighter than the rose-water, that previous to use, it is better to expose the roee-w*ter to the sun for a few days, to allow of its being well mixed ;and rose-water that has been kept six months is always better than that which has recently been made. At the commencement of the rose season, people from all parts come to make their purchases, and very large quantities are prepared and sold. There are about thirtysix places in the city of Gbazeepore where rose-water is distilled. These people generally put a large quantity of sandal oil into the receiver, the oil is afterwards carefully removed and sold as sandal attar, and tbe water put into carboys and disposed of as rose-water. At the time of sale a few drops of sandal oil are placed on the neck of the carboy to (jive it fresh scent, and to many of the natives it appears perfectly immaterial whether the scent arise solely from the sandal oil or fr°m the roses. Large quantities of sandal of are every year brought up from the south of India and expended in this WHy.
The chief use the natives appear to make of the rose-water, or the sandal attar as they term it, is at the period of their festivals and weddings. It is then distributed largely to the guests as they arrive, and sprinkled with profusion in the apartments. A large quantity of rose-water is sohl at BeDares, and many of the native rajahs send over to Ghazipoor for its purchase. Most of the rose-water, so soon as distilled, is taken away, and after six months from the termination of the manufacture there are not more than four or five places where it is to be met with. The value of the roses sold for the manufacture of rose water may be estimated at 15,000 to 20,000 rupees a year ; and from tbe usual price asked for the rose-water, and for which it is sold, there may be a profit of 40,000 rupees. The natives are very fond of using the rose-water as medicine, or as a vehicle for other mixtures, and they consume a good deal of the petals for the conserve of roses, or gool-kand as they call it. The delightful fragrance from the Ghazipur rose fields can be scented at seven miles distance on the river Ganges. The most approved mode of ascertaining the quality of attar is to drop it on a piece of paper ; its strength is ascertained by the quickness with which it evaporates, and its worth by its leaving no stains on the paper. The best otto is now manufactured at Constantinople, and it is largely made in France.—O'6/taughneisy, p. 326.
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Iran's Kulturkampf
November 2, 2005 by Don Radlauer 2 Comments
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's speech to the "World Without Zionism" conference last Wednesday is already old news – and in many ways, it really wasn't news in the first place. After all, Iran's Islamist government has held fast to a virulently anti-Israel stance since it was founded in 1979; nothing really has changed, except that (A) Ahmadinejad's speech came in the middle of a confrontation with the West over Iran's alleged efforts to build nuclear weapons, and (B) this time the regime's policy was stated by the President himself (as opposed to a "spiritual leader"), with no nuance or parisology.
Of course, everyone with a keyboard has been scribbling away (or whatever the equivalent of scribbling is when you're writing with a computer) since Ahmadinejad's speech. (By the end of this article, I'll be able to touch-type "Ahmadinejad" without hesitating or looking back to remember the spelling – and who says blogging is a waste of time?) What's there to say on the subject that hasn't already been said five times over? Not much, I suspect, but I'll try anyway:
First, I see Ahmadinejad's speech as a message of hope to all of us who have secret fantasies about running the world. Whatever else you say about the affair, giving this speech at this time seems like a remarkably inept bit of statecraft; if this guy could become President of Iran, who knows what jobs the rest of us might find for ourselves? Today I feel much better about my own chances of achieving despotic power than I did two weeks ago.
Second, a little reading between the lines of the speech tells us a lot about the Middle East conflict. Ahmadinejad devoted much of the speech to encouraging Palestinian nationalism in its most extreme form: the complete replacement of Israel by the State of Palestine, presumably ruled by Islamists. But at the same time, it's very difficult to reconcile support for the Palestinian cause – in any form – with a nuclear weapons development program of which Israel is the presumptive first target. You can't nuke Israel without killing and sickening an awful lot of Palestinians; and while a post-nuclear Palestinian state might gain some territorial contiguity, it would lose any potential viability it might have. I can think of a few possible explanations for this apparent contradiction:
Iran's nuclear program is really just a peaceful effort to generate electricity without contributing to global warming. I can also enhance my mating potential by purchasing various fine products I read about on the Internet.
Iran wants nuclear weapons to enhance its position in the world and deter others from attacking it (even as it continues to sponsor terrorism), but doesn't intend to use them against Israel unless attacked first. This could actually be true, but I wouldn't want to bet the family farm on it. (Hmmm… Now that I think about it, I actually have bet the family farm on it – since I live in Israel and work in Tel Aviv, a.k.a. Ground Zero.)
Ahmadinejad, whose name is now tripping off my fingers quite fluently, doesn't have a blog of his own and thus hasn't bothered to figure out the implications of his own remarks. This is also quite possible; I'm not getting the feeling that this guy is real big on achieving full understanding of a policy's implications before espousing it.
Ahmadinejad, and presumably other members of Iran's ruling establishment, would actually be happy enough to wipe Palestine off the map if that was the price to be paid for eliminating the "blot" of Israel. One gets the impression that at least a few Palestinians feel some concern in this regard.
The fourth possibility is an interesting one. For one thing, it would pretty much eliminate one of the reasons we have for not panicking about Iran's effort to develop The Bomb: the belief that the Palestinians are, to a degree, Israel's "human shields". Second, if this is really the way the Iranian rulers feel about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, the Received Understanding of the Middle East permacrisis as essentially a territorial dispute needs to be radically revised.
Parts of Ahmadinejad's speech support such a revision. According to MEMRI, Ahmadinejad said, "This occupying country [i.e. Israel] is in fact a front of the World of Arrogance [i.e. the West] in the heart of the Islamic world. They have in fact built a bastion from which they can expand their rule to the entire Islamic world… This means that the current war in Palestine is the front line of the Islamic world against the World of Arrogance, and will determine the fate of Palestine for centuries to come."
Our first reaction to this may be to dismiss Ahmadinejad's fears of Israel as a "bastion" for Western conquest of the Islamic world as mere paranoia; after all, Israel is hardly in a position to conquer countries many times its size, and most of the West is vehemently opposed to anything it can interpret as "Israeli expansionism". Further, the vast majority of nations and citizens in the West have no intention of waging a war of conquest against the Islamic world; even those who strongly favor the U.S.-led campaign in Iraq see the presence of foreign troops there as a temporary necessity rather than as a permanent feature of the landscape.
So what is Ahmadinejad talking about? Is he (along with the rest of Iran's leadership) crazy? I think not; fanatical they may be, but they aren't crazy, not quite. The war the Iranians are fighting – along with al Qaeda, Hamas, and the rest of the Islamist crowd – is primarily a Kulturkampf, a cultural struggle, rather than a military one. Israel's significance in this struggle is not that it sits on "Islamic land", or even that it causes the Palestinians to suffer. Israel is important because it functions – potentially for the most part, at least so far – as a conduit for Western culture, ideas, habits of thought, and other insidious intangibles. The Iranians and the Saudis and the rest aren't really afraid of Ariel Sharon and the Israeli army. What really frightens them is Shimon Peres (with his "New Middle East") and Buffy the Vampire Slayer – that is, the whole notion of Israel, with Western culture and values (such as pretty young women who kick ass, whom I for one certainly value), as an integral part of the region. Such an integration of Israel into the Middle East would sooner or later – and I'd put my money on sooner – spell the end for most of the current regimes in the region; Iran's government would likely be one of the first to go.
It's important for anyone trying to promote peace in the Middle East to understand this Kulturkampf. As long as the real objection to Israel's presence here is a cultural one, no amount of territorial compromise will help resolve the Mideast conflict; a small Israel is just as scary as a large Israel. And to Iran and the rest of those fighting Western cultural influence here, the Palestinians are almost as frightening as Israel is: after all, they can easily serve as part of the bridgehead for the West's cultural invasion. Western ideas can all too readily pass from the outside world to Israeli Jews, to Israeli Arabs, to Palestinians, to the rest of the Arab/Islamic world. Certainly this is why Saudi Arabia and Iran back organizations like Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which want Israel to be entirely replaced by an Islamist Palestine. Perhaps it would also account for Iranian willingness to nuke the Palestinians along with the Jews: the only thing safer than an Islamist Palestine is an incinerated Palestine.
Debra says
I very much enjoy reading your blog. You are insightful without inciting, a rare commodity these days. As a woman I thought it was obvious that if the culture became more westernized that the balance of power would change, i.e. women would have much more of a legitimate say. That definitely can't be allowed because the staus quo would be tilted towards a more rational, what about the children (Belfast) viewpoint. It could lead to commercials, belly buttons and world peace. Not that I approve of the belly buttons, but why are people in power so afraid of change? Sometimes if you embrace it you can become even more powerful, but that doesn't seem to be the choice that most people make.
Ron, I enjoy reading your blog. Option 4), Iran's kulturkampf made me think about the current debate in the USA over what the Supreme Court's interpretation of the American Constitution. That is, people seem to want to turn back or slow down progress (change?) rather than embrace it, even in the West. Democracy is not just the tyranny of the majority, or is it?


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We capped off the AWS Start-Up Challenge with an award dinner at the W Hotel in Seattle and a good time was had by all.
Following a day-long session with the finalists at Amazon Headquarters, we adjourned to the W Hotel for the next phase. The 13 representatives from the 7 finalists participated in a series of "lightning round" sessions with venture capitalists from all over the country.
There are more pictures on All Things Distributed (Amazon CTO Werner Vogels' blog).
The local press was out in force. John Cook of the Seattle Times wrote about Pitching VCs for cash at Amazon's challenge and noted that more than 900 companies entered the challenge. Brier Dudley noted that Sean of Ooyala is from Gig Harbor.
Seattle entrepreneur and blogger Marcelo Calbucci blogged about the event and and predicted that "A few of those will become CEO/CTO of Fortune 500 companies and all built on top of Amazon Web Services." Marcello also publishes the Seattle Startup Index.
Congratulations to the winners, and our thanks to all those who participated.
PS – I am sure that the first comment will be "When are you doing this again?" I don't know!


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I did a search and didn't find what I'm looking for so forgive me if this question has been asked before.
I'm accustomed to using oil with a brush to create a fir forest and the needle foliage for trees in the foreground but I have yet to find a brush in ArtRage that works to create the same effect you can gain with a genuine fan brush with oil.
I see a number of folks have created some dandy looking trees by painting them individually but if there is a way to create forest and foliage similar to how Bob Ross does it with paint brushes, I would like to know the secret. I have yet to find a fan brush option for the brush presets and I've failed in my attempts to make one. I've tried making a stamp from a fir tree I've drawn but stamping a forest looks good for cartoons but not so much for fine art.
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Lafayette Man's Dog Featured on National TV Show
Jude Walker Published: March 3, 2021
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One's path to stardom can oftentimes take years and years of hard work, dedication to one's craft, and a bit of luck. In the case of my dog, it happened in a week...and he's lazy.
On Tuesday night, our family dog enjoyed a few seconds of fame on the new NBC sitcom from Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson called "Young Rock." Albeit, it was only his "voice," but Kyreaux has now made celebrity-status in our household.
Let me give you a quick backstory. I got an email last week from a producer of an NBC show looking for permission to use the sounds our dog Kyreaux was making in a video I posted a few years ago.
I'll post that original video here. But first, you must know what makes our dog unique. It's his breed.
Kyreaux is a Basenji. They're from Africa, considered one of the oldest breeds of dogs, and they don't bark. That's right, their larynx isn't formed like most dogs so they physically (for the most part) can't make a barking noise. Instead, they do something that's called a baroo.
In this video I posted of him, it's him making the baroo sound. He usually only does it when he's happy or excited to see us and I have to work him into a frenzy for him to make the noise.
This video is the one the producer found and wanted to pull audio from to use in the episode. Evidentally, they had some scene featuring a dog and couldn't get a real dog to make a howling sound on command (at least that's my theory).
So, on Tuesday night (3/2), Kyreaux's voice was used on "Young Rock's" third episode.
While we can't post the clip of the video here due to copyrights, you can view the entire episode HERE. To hear Kyreaux's acting debut, forward to the 15:15 mark.
Now, Kyreaux didn't think it was a big whoop, but his family and friends thought it was cool as all get up. We'll celebrate the house's new celeb tonight by getting him a doggie cake.
And in case you're wondering, Young Rock is pretty good so far. It's new this season and they've only aired three episodes but it's a bit of a flashback to the unique upbringing of the now-famous Dwayne Johnson.
It chronicles different stages of his growing up with a professional father and the unique cast of characters that he was around, especially his dad's pro wrestler friends like Andre The Giant, Junkyard Dog, The Iron Sheik, and more.
If you would like to check out the entire third episode, click here. Or you can go to the show's page on NBC.com and catch up on all three episodes that have aired so far.
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Both AWB and ILB requested to go to Llanddulas, 8 miles west of station, to a report of an object in the water off the jetties where the coasters load stone. Police helicopter NW1 was on scene and reported object was just a piece of timber, and Holyhead Coastguard stood all units down just as the AWB carriage was on the water's edge. The ILB had already launched. The AWB returned to station by 1214.
Relief lifeboat 12-004 "Royal Shipwright" services from 29/10/2005 to 27/11/2005
AWB requested to come to immediate readiness (ready to launch, at the water's edge), as a full-scale incident alert was called at the Douglas oil and gas rig, 12 miles off Rhyl. Hoylake lifeboat was also tasked the same. Our station boat, 12-24, was on engine trials off Puffin island, Anglesey, and was also asked to proceed. After about 5 minutes, the coastguards reported the incident was over, and all units were stood down.
The new relief lifeboat had only arrived on station a matter of hours before, when it was called into action for the first time at Rhyl. The fishing vessel "Mistral 23" was aground in surf at Talacre beach (west) with 3 persons on board. The ILB had already launched to assist. When the AWB arrived on scene at 2030, the ILB was used to take the tow line from the AWB, through the surf, to the casualty. This was successful the first time, and the boat was towed away from the beach, through the surf, into deeper water. The tow was continued for the 8 miles back to Rhyl harbour, arriving there at 2240.The tow was passed to the ILB to secure on a mooring, and the AWB left the harbour, leaving the ILB to transfer the boat's crew to coastguards on shore. The AWB returned to station by 2355.
Relief Lifeboat 12-11″Lifetime Care" services from 10/8/2005.
Relief boat on station at 1700 on 10/8/2005.
The AWB was requested to launch by Holyhead coastguard to evacuate the owner of the yacht "Catchem", about 2 miles north of Rhyl, who was suffering some sort of anaphylactic shock and allergic reaction, which was affecting his throat and causing problems. The AWB launched and was alongside the casualty in 12 minutes. 2 crew members were put on board the yacht to assist with it's passage to West Kirby on the Wirral, and the AWB returned to station, where the man was transferred to an ambulance and taken to hospital. The AWB was re-housed and the service was continued by the ILB (see ILB report). AWB ready for service by 1322.
AWB launched to assist ILB with numerous inflatable objects being blown out to sea due to the strong southerly wind and ebbing tide. The main job for the AWB crew was to search for an inflatable with 2 persons reported on it, being blown out about 1.5 miles out off Abergele. Rescue helicopter 122 from RAF Valley was also searching together with the ILB. The ILB had picked up an inflatable pool and an inflatable dolphin previously. The search was carried out for 2 miles long the shore, also involving Rhyl mobile coastguard patrol, and up to 3 miles out but nothing was found and no persons were reported missing. The search was called off at 1531, and the AWB was back at the boathouse by 1622.
AWB put on immediate readiness as ILB had reported engine problems. Engine was fixed before AWB came out of boathouse, so AWB stood down at 1330.
The yacht "Blue Osprey" with 2 people on board, had become becalmed off the wind farm and their engine had failed. The wind farm support vessel "Celtic Wind" had found the yacht and had towed it away from the immediate danger of hitting the towers. The AWB launched and was on scene in 22 minutes. The yacht was heading for Liverpool. It would have been difficult to take the yacht into Rhyl harbour due to the congestion of boats, and so the tow was started towards Liverpool. Consultation between the lifeboat and Holyhead and Liverpool coastguards followed. It was agreed for Hoylake lifeboat to come out and rendezvous with the AWB off Hoylake, and for Hoylake to take the boat the remaining way to Liverpool. This was done and the AWB returned to station by 2120.
AWB requested to launch to take over from the ILB. the 26-foot fishing boat "Pathfinder" had suffered engine problems at the entrance to Rhyl harbour, and had drifted over the river entrance marker wall and was stuck on one of the perch poles. the AWB took the 7 persons on board and towed the boat off the wall and put it on a mooring in Rhyl harbour. The AWB returned to station at 1405.
Rhyl All-Weather Lifeboat "Lil Cunningham" Services 2005
Both ILB and AWB launched to search the shoreline for a 4-year old boy last seen in the water off Prestatyn. Local police and coastguard units were also going to scene, together with the North Wales Police helicopter NW1. The shore line was searched from Rhyl to Point of Air lighthouse, and the units were also joined by Rescue 122 helicopter from RAF Valley. The caravan the boy was staying had already been searched, but a secondary later search found the boy hiding in the caravan. With the good news that the boy had been found, all units were stood down and the lifeboats were back at station just after 1900.
Both boats requested by Holyhead Coastguard, together with local coastguard units and Rescue Helicopter, to search for a male who had jumped in the sea at Llanddulas. The ILB launched first and arrived on scene just as a police officer was dragging the unconscious man out of the water. The helmsman beached the boat and went to aid the officer, just as the helicopter arrived, together with the AWB. The man was revived by the rescuers and was moved to a part of the beach ready for the helicopter, whilst the AWB illuminated the area. The man was then taken by helicopter to Glan Clwyd hospital, and all units were stood down, the boats arriving back at station at 0030.
AWB launched to assist ILB with locating and towing small speedboat found drifting off Talacre. Boat taken to Barkby beach in Prestatyn, and major air-sea-shore search carried out with nothing being found. AWB returned to shore at 2105.
The AWB was launched as a back-up to the ILB after the windfarm support vessel "Top cat" found an unmanned dinghy off Kinmel Bay. The boats were also joined by rescue helicopter 122 from RAF Valley in Anglesey. After 2 hours the search was called off as no-one had been reported missing. The AWB returned to station by 1820. See also ILB report.
The AWB was launched after the 19-feet long motor vessel "Gladys", with 4 people on board, contacted Holyhead Coastguard to report they had run out of fuel, 3 miles North-East of Rhyl, by the Prestatyn buoy. The AWB took out both diesel and petrol, as it was not known which fuel the boat was using. The boat was located, 2 of the passengers were transferred to the lifeboat, and 2 crew members boarded the casualty with fuel. Once filled up, the casualty was able to restart the engine, and so the AWB escorted the boat back to the entrance at Rhyl harbour. The crew and 2 casualties were transferred back to their own boats, and the fishing vessel "Jensen" followed the boat into Rhyl harbour, and the AWB returned to station, being ready for service by 2030.
AWB requested to come to immediate readiness after the Liverpool-based fishing boat "Atlantis" reported a sick man on board. The original position was given as off the wind farm, but it transpired that it was nearer to Hoylake than Rhyl. As Hoylake were temporarily off service, Liverpool coastguard decided to send West Kirby ILB rather than Rhyl, so the crew at Rhyl were stood down at 1040.
AWB requested to stand by as ILB launched to report of boat possibly in difficulty off Prestatyn. ILB launch cancelled as boat made it ashore safely. AWB stood down at 2345. see also ILB report.
The AWB was requested to assist the local fishing tripping boat "Supreme". One of the anglers on board had news that a family member was ill and he needed to get home fast. As the tide was out, the fishing boat could not return to Rhyl harbour, and so they asked Holyhead Coastguard for assistance, and the AWB was launched. The lifeboat met up with the fishing boat about 3 miles north of Rhyl, and 2 anglers were transferred to the lifeboat and returned ashore. They were taken back to the harbour by the Operations manager in the Landrover. As the lifeboat was being hauled up the beach, word came through that a man had been injured on one of the windfarm support vessels and needed hospital treatment, so the lifeboat re-launched at ……
…… and met up with the vessel "Celtic Wind", skippered by one of our crew members. It turned out that the injured man was another crew member. He was transferred to the lifeboat, and returned to shore at 1330. He was transferred by ambulance to hospital and treated for a badly-gashed head. The lifeboat was ready for service by 1400.
The windfarm support vessel "Celtic Wind" contacted Holyhead Coastguard to inform them that the windfarm towers had 4 maintenance men inside them, and the support vessel could not access the base of the towers due to 2.5m high waves and strong winds. The men were happy to stay inside the towers, but they had no supplies to last them through the night, should that be necessary. Assistance was then requested for the AWB to go out with the supplies, so that the men could winch them up to the base platform of the towers. The AWB crew therefore waited for 40 minutes until the windfarm company delivered the supplies in 3 containers to the boathouse. The AWB was launched at 1256, and arrived at the 1 tower some 17 minutes later. The supplies were attached to lines and lifted up to the platforms on 2 of the towers. Once all was safe, the AWB then escorted "Celtic Wind" back to Point of Air and sheltered waters, then returned to station at 1600. The men remained on the towers until 2000 when the weather abated and they were able to be picked up by the support vessels.
AWB requested to back up ILB proceeding to Prestatyn t reports of 3 people stuck on a sandbank off Presthaven sands Holiday Camp. The ILB had launched 6 minutes earlier. The AWB arrived on scene at 1255 and searched with the ILB on a parallel search down the coastline. the coastguard mobile patrol was also on scene. They had seen other people on a separate sandbank but had now lost sight of them. The 3 original casualties were escorted off the sandbank by the coastguard with the ILB in attendance, whilst the AWB stood off 1/4 mile off shore. The 3 were OK after their escape, and the search continued for the other people 1/2 mile to East. Some were seen going over the sand dunes and it was assumed that they were the people the coastguard saw. The search continued for another half hour when all units were stood down, the AWB returning to station by 1437, the ILB arriving home at 1420.
All-weather Boat was requested by Flint Inshore Lifeboat crew who were transporting a female porpoise from the River Dee to open waters off Rhyl. The animal had become trapped in the narrow part of the river and her calf had died. The ILB crew managed to get the porpoise into the boat and with the help of a RSPCA inspector were nearly off Rhyl when the AWB from Rhyl arrived. It was decided to keep the animal in the ILB and for both Lifeboats to proceed to 5 miles out and release her. This was done successfully and the lifeboats returned to Rhyl, Flint lifeboat returning by road. The Rhyl lifeboat was ready for service by 2100. Click here for VIDEO
Numerous reports were received by Holyhead Coastguard , stating a red flare had been seen off Rhyl. The Coastguard team and the AWB were paged and the boat launched by 2307. A search was conducted up to 2 miles offshore on a parallel track search , and Coastguard teams and the shore crew assisted with a beach and promenade search. This was the first time our new Landrover was called into action, as it had only been delivered at 4.30 pm that day. The police helicopter NW1 also helped in the search with it's FLIR unit (forward-looking infra red). Various targets were investigated but nothing was found, or they turned out to be navigation buoys with their lights out. The search was called off at 1.55am Tuesday. Reports had said that the flare was seen very close to the shore line, with some even stating it may have come down in the town centre. All units were stood down, the AWB being ready for service by 02.30 Tuesday.


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Saturday champions were:
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We're weeks into the new year, and the holidays are a dim and distant memory.
However, the second half of 2018 was a bit of a write off for me what with one thing and another. Now it's the new year, and it's taken me a while to get out of holiday mode and into a place where I'm raring to go.
My friend and mentor, Sarah Painter is a big fan of setting herself goals for each year, so I thought I'd give it a try too. I've never done this formally before, so here we go. Finger's crossed I don't show myself up at the end of the year by not achieving half of what I'm aiming for.
2. I want to take all the photos required for the follow up book to Folkland Fables, which is about the fairy tale creatures who live around the coast of Scotland.
3. I'd like to etch at least five of the pictures for my next book (with at least one done by Open Studios North Fife in May).
4. I want to buy 1000 copies of Folkland Fables (printed in China which is much cheaper, but a big outlay) and get them into shops across Scotland.
At the moment, I'm thrilled to be working on a commission. It's a book cover to the new edition of Suspicion and Superstition by local author Annie Harrower-Gray. This book is a dark social history of the Fife Coast, and my cover will feature a preacher, the devil, stampeding pigs and knitting women.
No pictures yet, but I'll give you a sneak peek when I can.
The last few weeks I've been learning how to promote a book – especially on Amazon. I'm not naturally talented at marketing, so as you can imagine, this has been a huge learning curve. Luckily there are brilliant tutorials online, and I think I'm understanding the basics now.
I've had a couple of wonderful reviews of Folkland Fables on blogs, which has been fantastic. The Happy Daze of Life review almost made me cry, and the Off The Record review convinced me I was doing something worthwhile. If Folkland Fables is loved by a 23 year old man who thought he'd left magic and wizardry behind him, then I must be doing something right.
Off The Record did this interview with me as well, which was published a couple of days ago.
I also need to ask you a favour.
I don't have many reviews on my book's Amazon page. Having reviews really affects how much books are seen on Amazon, so if you've read Folkland Fables and have five minutes free, I wonder if you could write a one sentence review for me on Amazon. It can even be just a couple of words. It's not the length of the reviews, but the amount of them that counts.
The review doesn't have to be five stars, or anything fancy at all. Just quick honest reviews from people who've read it.
In Folkland Fables I put small animals (tortoise, ladybird, owl etc) in every picture. I'm planning my next book at the moment about the fairy creatures living off Scottish coast, and need your help to choose new coastal animals to feature in every picture.
This is a competition to choose small animals NOT the fairy creatures.
I'll name you in the book if picked.
Just email me back with an animal and I'll add you to my list. I'll let you know at a later date if you've been chosen.
As always, thank you so much for your support and your interest in me and my books. I truly appreciate everyone of you.


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Philadelphia Politics
Councilman Kenyatta Johnson gets help from city-hired lawyer as FBI probes land sales, ties to Kenny Gamble nonprofit
Sources familiar with the FBI investigation describe a broad probe looking at the councilman's involvement with sales of city-owned land as well as his wife's consulting business, and their connection with Universal Companies, a charter school operator founded by music producer Kenny Gamble.
Councilman Kenyatta Johnson is being investigated by the FBI.Read moreHEATHER KHALIFA / Staff Photographer
by Sean Collins Walsh
Philadelphia taxpayers are paying Councilman Kenyatta Johnson's legal bills while he is under federal investigation, the city's Law Department said Thursday.
The city has hired Patrick J. Egan of the Fox Rothschild firm, at the city's standard rate of up to $225 per hour, to assist Johnson, a Democrat who represents Southwest Philadelphia and much of South Philadelphia, said Andrew Richman, chief of staff to City Solicitor Marcel Pratt. If Johnson is indicted, the city will no longer pay Egan.
WHYY first reported that the city was paying for Johnson's legal representation.
Sources familiar with the FBI investigation have described over the last two years a wide-ranging probe into Johnson's dealings, including his handling of city-owned land sales in his district, his wife's work as an education and political consultant, and their connection to Universal Cos., a charter-school operator launched by Philadelphia music producer Kenny Gamble.
The FBI in 2017 raided the company's headquarters. In May, two of the company's executives were implicated in a bribery scandal involving the Milwaukee public schools.
Johnson on Thursday declined to comment on the investigation. Egan confirmed that the city hired him to represent Johnson "in connection with an investigation being conducted by the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania."
"We have reviewed the evidence related to that investigation and are confident that the councilman has done nothing improper, much less illegal," Egan said in a statement. "We are confident that when all information related to the investigation comes to light the councilman will be vindicated."
Staff writers Chris Brennan, William Bender, and Jeremy Roebuck contributed to this article.
Sean Collins Walsh
I report from the City Hall bureau, covering the mayor and City Council and searching for stories on the machinations and hijinks of Philly politics.


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Pakistan's dormant motorcycle industry; stagnant innovation and trends
Pakistan's dormant motorcycle industry; stagnant innovation and trends
| December 24, 2016 | December 24, 2016
Business, Feature
by Waqas A Khan | December 24, 2016 | December 24, 2016
Pakistan's Motorcycle Industry is less manufacturing and more assembling in nature. The licensing process for the new entrants in the industry is fairly simple. A primary requirement is the establishment of the factory where motorcycle assembly, engine assembly, painting and testing of the final product can be done at one designated place.
An NOC from the Ministry of Industries and Production is also required which can be obtained by completing the required documents. Final license is issued by the Engineering Development Board (EDB) which allows the factory to start its production activities.
The assemblers are also required to get an additional license from Pakistan Standards and Quality Control Authority (PSQCA) for the use of Pakistan Standard Mark. Registration of a trademark with the IPO and enrollment in FBR for sales tax and income tax in the relevant category as a manufacturer, importer, distributor or exporter is the final requirement to start this business in Pakistan.
After completing the requirements mentioned above, the assembler/manufacturer is then required to approach the provincial excise and taxation department for the registration of their assembled motorcycle. This enables the department to issue registration numbers to these motorcycles brands as soon after purchasing these products; the end user will apply for a registration number with the department.
These low barriers help a lot of aspirants to enter the industry. As the china-factor in the motorcycle industry is at its peak, the non-exclusive supply chain and on credit supplies boost the hope of investors to join the business.
Nonetheless, the exit rates are so high that a majority of the fresh entrants fail because the price competition amongst the lower priced motorcycle assemblers is intense. Due to this reason only a minority is holding the business knots properly. Out of 120 registered motorcycle manufacturers/assemblers, the top shareholders are only a few.
Pakistan produces about 2 million bikes per annum. This year the largest chunk of this sales i-e (46%) went with the Japanese brand, Atlas Honda.
Pakistan produces about 2 million bikes per annum. This year the largest chunk of this sales i-e (46%) went with the Japanese brand, Atlas Honda. Shabbir Sheikh, the spokesperson for the company, spoke exclusively with the MORE and said that this market share is self-explanatory of the fact that majority in Pakistan prefers quality over price.
In last few months of the FY16, his company has seen a rise of 26pc in motorcycle sales. "Don't tell me about the competition, everyone is buying Honda, either original or replica, where is the competition?" Sheikh confidently questioned when the MORE asked him about the company's strategy to deal with the price competition that is heavily influencing the Pakistan Motorcycle Assemblers' business decisions these days.
"We are selling motorcycles on cash in a market where the replica makers are bound to sell each unit on a credit of 3 months to a year. Our dealerships get these motorcycles on advance payment and customers on cash. Our quality is superior, so is the price but we are a preference of cash customer", Sheikh proudly continued.
In business they say, there are no old roads to new directions, but the same is not true for Pakistan's Motorcycle Manufacturing/Assembling Industry. Innovation is a word unknown to this industry in Pakistan as part of a motorbike made in the 1970s can fit itself in our model of 2016.
The Industry has become so stagnant in terms of innovation that companies that went for innovation either reverted themselves to old fashion or got nothing phenomenal from the market share.
Yamaha DYL (Dawood Yamaha Limited), Sine 1970, was a direct competitor of motorcycles market leader Honda until it lost the market share completely in 2000 due to higher fuel prices and two stroke engines. The company re-entered in Pakistan's market this April with the launch of the YBR-125, an advanced bike with a sporty look but did not succeed to the expectations.
Mainly because the new generation is unknown to this once a second largest player of the industry and partially because of the facts that either they are not ready to pay a Honda similar or higher price for a "newcomer" or innovation is not what customers in Pakistan seek in a motorbike.
Muhammad Khalid, a 3S Yamaha dealer in Lahore, thinks that it was not Yamaha which failed but the company's partnership with the Dawood group. He said:
"DYL failed to introduce new Yamaha models in Pakistan and gave Honda a walk through. Now that the company is formally in Pakistan with its own manufacturing facility, good investment, and innovative models, it can recapture its lost share in the years to come."
Earlier, Yamaha Pakistan (YMPK) completed the construction of its manufacturing factory and had its launch ceremony on April 27, 2015. The new factory, with a total floor area of 17,000 m2, was built on a 203,456 m2 piece of land in the Bin Qasim Industrial Park in Karachi and commenced operations with approximately 1,400 employees.
Yamaha Motor's establishment of a new company and factory represents the company's re-entry into the Pakistani motorcycle market and is part of the business scale expansion set out in Yamaha Motor's new medium-term management plan.
Yamaha's antithesis to Honda in this regard is its commitment to localize its operation at a rate of 15pc per annum. So, by 2022, the whole manufacturing operation of spare parts and engine will be done in Pakistan. It will be a significant move from assembling to manufacturing capable of strengthening our local industry matchlessly.
The September 2016 report of Pak Suzuki Motor Company Limited (PSMCL) announced that its motorcycle sales volume has decreased by 19%. The company said that this decline in sales is because of the company's absence from the 70cc engine capacity motorcycles market and Yamaha, a new entrant in higher engine capacity motorcycles segment (more than 100cc engine capacity).
It is fitting to mention that both Yamaha and Suzuki motorcycle range in Pakistan is 100(+) cc engines while the industry's major sales growth was seen in the 70cc area. The 70cc bike category accounts for 80% of the market share in Pakistan and the 100+cc for a mere 15% share – Honda and Suzuki are the major players and Rs 102,000 to 120,000 is the average price in this category.
This puts Yamaha YBR-125's (a 125cc bike) price tag of Rs 129,400 at the higher end but still Yamaha is managing to affect Suzuki because of the innovation and style it offered to the aspirants of high-end motorcycles.
Out of 2 million motorcycles that are sold in Pakistan yearly, about 1 million are assembled by local assemblers
Out of 2 million motorcycles that are sold in Pakistan yearly, about 1 million are assembled by local assemblers including United, Ghani, Super Power, Unique, BML, Crown, Eagle, Hero, Metro, Osaka, Pak-Hero, Power, Ravi, Road Prince, Sohrab, Star, Super Asia, Treet, ZXMCO and many others.
The production of motorcycles increased by 16.54 percent during the fiscal year 2015-16 compared to the corresponding period of last year. As many as 2,071,123 motorcycles were manufactured during July-June (2015-16) compared to the production of 1,777,251 units during July-June (2014-15), according to the latest data of Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS).
On year on year basis, the production of motorcycles increased by 16.41 percent as it went up from 178,748 units in August 2015 to 206,078 units in August 2016.
Muhammad Sabir Sheikh, Chairman of the Association of Pakistan Motorcycle Assemblers (APMA), spoke to MORE about the present and future of the industry. He said:
"We are doing business by serving our people. Our profit margins are minimum, prices nominal and quality is comparable. Have you seen any local brand motorcycle in the garbage?"
He was angry when asked about the quality perception in people minds about the China Made-Pak Assembled motorcycles of these brands. "Every motorcycle is on the road; our two-wheeler life is comparable to any of the famous brands, and still our price is one-third of what they charge for a pretty similar bike."
"We are winning the hearts of poor people by presenting what they need at a price they can afford. Why is the government giving special relief to foreign brands when they produce nothing better than us? What exactly is better in Honda 70 which makes it 3 times expensive than us? You are cartelizing foreign brands and letting them maximize their profits and discouraging the local industry…You are charging 5 different types of duties on the imports of the local industry much higher than the foreign brands… We can produce and sell 4 million motorcycles per year; we are making half of the parts in Pakistan, and we can make all, give them and us a level playing field if you think we do not deserve a favor as a local industry at all." Sheikh bombarded me with questions and left nothing to speak.
Our motorcycle exports to Afghanistan have readily dropped, and possible markets in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Eretria, Somalia, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Kenya, Uganda and Central Asian republics are not explored. PSQCA is lacking implementation and missing tools to check if the industry production meets the EURO-II standard of smoke, carbon monoxide, and noise.
Pakistan is the only country where 70cc motorcycles are made and sold.
If the motorcycle industry in Pakistan wants to flourish, earn maximum profit and remain relevant, it must start the rapid shift from 70 ccs to 100 plus segment. Pakistan is the only country where 70cc motorcycles are made and sold. This seriously injures our export aspirations as the world is not interested in buying what we produce proudly. That is the reason only 1.4 percent of our total production is exported only. If the local assemblers do not innovate, someone else will.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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An amazing journey through the history of the Morgan show horse, in which yesterday's popular Morgan show horses are mirrored against today's champions. In this first edition, author and Morgan horse historian, Renee M. Page, presents an authoritative and enlightening view of the similarities and differences between generations of outstanding Morgan show horses!
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Herbs Safe for Children
Lisa Doss
Young boys and girls exploring in nature often return home with a bouquet of posies to shower love on their mother and witness her grand smile. Gentle botanicals and kids have a long history of secret wonder and curiosity, leading to maintaining their good health. The time-tested and traditional mild herbs, such as calendula, chamomile, and oat straw, for instance, boost health without upsetting the balance of a child's body. By knowing how to use familiar herbs and practicing safety guidelines, parents can participate in the same natural remedies used in family life for thousands of years.
The Scratch Test
Before determining whether an herb will cause an allergic reaction, it's wise to act cautiously and perform a scratch test. This requires you to gently rub the herb's leaves on the inside of a child's arm, wait 24 hours, and determine if an inflammation appears. The topical application is a guideline, especially before creating a meal or smoothie, and teaches us that an internal reaction might cause some agitation.
Nourishing Plants
Beyond the bulk teas, which use the high-nutrient content of vitamins and minerals within plant matter, parents can find great salad, soup, casserole, ice pop, smoothies, and Jell-O recipes of delicious infusions. Of course, not all plants are readily available throughout the spring, summer, and fall, such as dandelion; however, in learning how to recognize particular edible plants, children, too, can gain an education in utilizing herbs long-known by our elders.
Examples of nourishing plants:
Alfalfa leaf – Rich in vitamins A, D, E, and K, the leaves contain eight essential amino acids to nourish the body's health. After drying, the leaves can be ground into a powder and added to a tea, juice, or smoothie. Leaves, moreover, can also offer healing potential to salads.
Nettle – While nettle leaf has a long connection to reducing joint pain and inflammation, its high levels of antioxidants and vitamin C are a powerful ally for the immune system. Before freezing, consider blanching the leaves for long-term storage.
Oatstraw
Rose hips – Often called the rose's fruit, grown from Rosa canina and Rosa rubiginosa, includes high sources of antioxidants and vitamin C that protect the skin, prevent scarring, and boost healing.
Calming Plants
A nervine herb usually soothes the nervous system by calming feelings of anxiety, headache, and belly pains, aiding sleep. Connected to a volatile oil or herb that releases a potent fragrance, the flower buds or leaves provide nourishment and relief from worry.
Catnip – Yes, it's not just for cats. Catnip is a 2000-year-old herb that safely acts as a sedative to ease children's sleep. As a diuretic, expelling urine can alleviate health problems, including viruses. Dried catnip, chamomile, lemon balm, and lemon zest make a fantastic tea to encourage relaxation before bed.
Lavender – Known as one of the mildest, gentlest, and safest herbs. Consider allowing the purple flower buds to promote restful sleep for babies experiencing colic and to older children unable to sleep. In addition, the leaves have a history of resolving digestive issues, such as vomiting, nausea, bloating, and upset stomach. Consider making a topical by infusing lavender buds with sunflower or sweet almond oil as a first-aid remedy for a range of symptoms, from skin conditions like athlete's foot and eczema to healing cuts and scrapes.
Rose petals – High in antioxidants; rose petal tea, for instance, offers a solution for digestive troubles, irritability, inflammation, pain, and menstrual cramps. The mere act of steeping petals in hot water provides a medicinal impact; consider other ways to use your organic blooms.
Herbs for Sickness
Elderberry, as a prescription for healing, dates back to the Father of Medicine, Hippocrates, who was known to carry it in his doctor's bag. Today, there are teas, syrups, gummies, preserves, and other recipes ideal to boost the immune system. Consider growing an elderberry bush, and don't forget to cook the berries before eating! See if you can find recipes, especially soups, with therapeutic herbs, such as anise seed, cinnamon, garlic, and thyme, especially when speedy recoveries are necessary to alleviate symptoms, ranging from congestion to sore throats, coughs, and stomach aches.
As you introduce a new herb, parents must never forget that children's bodies have a unique sensitivity to fragrance. Take time to research whether an herb is recommended for the age of your child.
Forsyth Magazines writer since 2012. Lisa is originally from Maryland and, after living in New York, Colorado and Texas, she's proud to finally call North Carolina home. Lisa shares a home with her husband of 10 years, Kevin. Together, they have daughter, Sayre and their angel-son, Finn who lived two years. Their family also includes two dogs. Lisa has a degree in education and, as such, writes many educational articles for the magazines. Lisa enjoys traveling, is an avid reader and has done extensive work on her family's genealogy. She is a state certified beekeeper since 2018 and a certified master gardener since 2019. When it comes to writing for Forsyth Magazines, Lisa said, "I love writing spring themes in winter, back to school articles in the heat of summer, and, best of all, starting to anticipate the Christmas season in October."
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Mega-City Uno es un enorme ciudad-estado ficticia que ocupa gran parte de la actual extensión de los Estados Unidos Orientales y Canadá en el cómic Juez Dredd y su spinoff. La geografía exacta de la ciudad depende del escritor y del artista que hayan hecho según que historia, pero su primer aspecto  ha sido asociado con la dispersión urbana de la Ciudad de Nueva York; originalmente  estuvo presentada como una Nueva York del futuro, lo cual sería retrocontinuado como el centro de "Mega-City Uno" en las historias siguientes.

La Architects Journal la situó en el número 1 de su lista de "ciudades del cómic".

Desarrollo
Cuando la serie Juez Dredd se estaba desarrollando en 1976-77 originalmente estaba previsto que la historia estuviera ambientada en Nueva York, en el futuro cercano. Sin embargo, cuando el artista Carlos Ezquerra dibujó su primera historia para la serie, uno de los rascacielos que aparecía de fondo en una viñeta resultó tan futurista que el editor Pat Mills le solicitó dibujar un póster completo de la ciudad. La visión de la ciudad de Ezquerra – con enormes torres de bloques y un sinfín de caminos suspendidos en el aire sin medios visibles de apoyo que recorrían grandes distancias – resultó tan futurista que le llevaron a replantearlo todo, y una nueva ciudad fue propuesta. El director de arte Doug Church sugirió que la ciudad debería extenderse a lo largo de toda la Costa este y llamarse Mega-City Uno y su idea fue aceptada.

Mientras la primera historia Juez Dredd se sitúa en "Nueva York 2099 AD", en prog 3 fue retrocontinuado y se dijo que Nueva York era solo una parte de Mega-City Uno. Prog 3 incluía un póster "Futuregraph"  de Ezquerra de Mega-City Uno, en el cual se decía que la ciudad se extendía de Montreal a Georgia y que tenía 150 millones de ciudadanos;  era parte de los "Estados Unidos del Oeste" (USW). Prog 4 entonces estableció que Mega-City Uno estaba rodeada por los territorios desérticos de las Guerras Atómicas. Los 150 millones de personas que la poblaban eran más tarde reducidas a 100 millones en historias posteriores y abruptamente aumentadas a 800 millones más tarde. El concepto de los Estados Unidos del Oeste se olvidó por completo; una "Unión de Ciudades de América del Norte" compuesta por tres megaciudades fue mencionada en prog 42 y tras eso se tendió a que la megaciudad fuese una entidad independiente.

En las primeras historias, los Jueces existieron junto a una fuerza de policía regular, era popular entre los ciudadanos, y las personas tenían robots haciendo el trabajo, con el "Gran Juez" diciendo que no consentirían trabajar más de diez horas a la semana. Con el tiempo, la historia situaría a los Jueces como una temida fuerza policial estatal todopoderosa; prog 118 (escrito cuándo el paro crecía en Gran Bretaña) estableció que los ciudadanos estaban molestos por estar en el paro y realizaban extrañas locuras para tratar el aburrimiento.

Descripción
Mega-City Uno es una extensa conurbación de Boston a Washington D.C., la cual tomó forma en el siglo XXI para soportar el ascendente crisis de población en América y en la que ha sido introducido el sistema de Juez para tratar el alto índice de criminalidad.

Mega-City Uno era una  de las tres mayores áreas que sobrevivieron a la guerra nuclear en 2070, debida a una iniciativa de defensa estratégica con misil láser construida no mucho tiempo atrás. Aparte de aquellas megaciudades, los Estados Unidos fueron reducidos a la Tierra Maldita.

Finalmente, Mega-Ciudad Uno se extendió a Miami, Florida, el cual se convirtió en un resort vacacional, y hacia el oeste hacia Ohio y/o Virginia Occidental. La megaciudad se construyó sobre las antiguas ciudades y el contaminado Río Ohio, creando el anárquico Undercity, aunque unos cuantos edificios como el Empire State Building y la Estatua de la Libertad se trasladaron a Mega-City Uno para los turistas. Mapas de la ciudad de comienzo del siglo XXII muestran que esta se extendía aproximadamente desde Maine, a través de Florida y que en el noroeste había absorbido el Corredor Quebec-Windsor en Canadá. 800 millones de ciudadanos vivían en la ciudad en este momento.

Referencias

Mega-City One


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N.B. The pieces in the right column were featured again in a much larger tribute gallery I made to celebrate Frank's birthday in 2018.


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Q: Integration with modulus I have to integrate
\begin{equation}
\int_{-1}^3|At|\sin\pi nt dt
\end{equation}
and try to get rid of the modulus. How do I do that, or how do I consider it in the integration procedure?
I tried "ignoring" it, and just integrate by integration by parts:
\begin{equation}
\int_{-1}^3|At|\sin\pi nt dt=\frac{-|At|\cos \pi n t}{\pi n}+\frac{|A|}{\pi n}\int_{-1}^3|At|\cos\pi nt dt
\end{equation}
getting
\begin{equation}
\frac{-|At|\cos \pi n t}{\pi n}+\frac{|A|}{\pi n}\int_{-1}^3|At|\cos\pi nt dt=\bigg[\frac{-|At|\cos \pi n t}{\pi n}+\frac{|A|\sin\pi nt}{\pi^2 n^2}\bigg]_{-1}^3
\end{equation}
\begin{equation}
\bigg[\frac{-|At|\cos \pi n t}{\pi n}+\frac{|A|\sin\pi nt}{\pi^2 n^2}\bigg]_{-1}^3 = \frac{-2|A|}{\pi n}(-1)^n
\end{equation}
But I suspect this is incorrect.
What would be the best way to solve this type of integrals?
Thanks!
UPDATE;
\begin{equation}
\int_{-1}^3|At|\sin\pi nt dt=-\int_{-1}^0 At\sin\pi nt dt+\int_{0}^3 At\sin\pi nt dt
\end{equation}

A: In your integral, -1 and 3 represent the interval over which you consider integrating the function; $(-1,3)$. And remember that the modulus of a function always returns its positive value, so,
$$|f(x)|=f(x) \text{ if } f(x)>=0$$
and
$$|f(x)|=-f(x) \text{ if } f(x)<0$$
So in your $|At|$, t, being variable, will take up a negative value within $(-1,0)$ and a positive value within $(0,3)$. The method to handle this is to split the integral into these separate domains with corresponding upper and lower limits. Evaluate them separately thereafter and sum their contributions.
Though, if n is an integer, the integral is automatically zero cause $\sin(n\pi t)$ is zero.

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2019 - A tale of two Cathedrals!
Welcome to the website of the Good Afternoon Choirs. We now have 9 groups who are all detailed on this page. There are NO AUDITIONS and if you are reading this for the first time to find out all about us, then why not come along to your local Good Afternoon Choir all about us. There is no charge for your first visit and you will be able to meet the choir conductor and find out about the music we sing and the enjoyment we all get from singing and performing together. The two pictures above show on the left, Truro Cathedral - later this year between Friday September 20th - Sunday September 22nd, singers from across our Good Afternoon Choirs will head for Truro for our annual away weekend. The whole weekend is planned from start to finish and full details can be obtained from the office - gac@grenvillemusic.co.uk. On the Saturday evening we will join forces with local Sing Choir for a concert at Truro Methodist Church supporting the Cornwall Hospice Care and in the afternoon we will perform in the wonderful Truro Cathedral.
Our other picture on the right of course is Clifton Cathedral - our BIG SING this year will see members from across ALL Good Afternoon Choirs heading for Clifton for a packed day of singing and, in the evening, starting at 7pm, a free admission concert featuring the Cameo Orchestra. Choir members do not have to pay for the day (including the concert) and there are a LIMITED number of audience tickets available for the evening, priced £10 but these are selling out fast!
Last year the Good Afternoon Choirs raised a magnificent sum for local charities and this year each choir will select the local charity to support with concerts and other fundraising events. Looking back, our nine 2018 Christmas Carol Services were a huge success, supporting many charities. The total raised was £9,986.55 – what a fantastic result and thank you to you all for helping to make this possible!
Bristol raised a total of £254.05 for Southmead Hospital Kidney Appeal. Together with Thornbury GAC they raised an additional £1,298.20 for the Southmead Hospital Prostate Cancer Care Appeal. Thornbury took £465.40 at their Christmas collection and wonderful donors have matched the collection bringing the total to £930.80 to be split between Made a Mark Charity and Thornbury Stroke Group.
Frome raised a 2018 total of £833.45 for We Hear You Charity (WHY). Wells raised a 2018 total of £2932.79 for Hope for Tomorrow and their 'Bumble' Chemotherapy Bus Appeal. Keynsham raised £441.26 for Keynsham Mencap at their Christmas Concert and Yate & Chipping Sodbury raised £1,300 for Cancer Research UK with their Christmas concert and special concert in October.
North Somerset GAC only started singing together in September and raised £401.00 for Wellspring Counselling. Bath helped to raise £885.00 for the Peggy Dodd Centre in Bath and their work with people living with Dementia. Last but by no means least…Devizes raised £710.00 for Wiltshire Air Ambulance at their Christmas concert and a special concert back in April.
"How Still We See Thee Fly" ... a memorable day was had by nearly 200 members of our Bristol, Thornbury and North Somerset Good Afternoon Choirs who sung under the wings of Concorde on Saturday December 8th. The event was arranged and conducted by Ben England who leads these three Good Afternoon Choirs. The picture at the top of our website shows our folks in the Concorde Hanger.
Our picture above shows members from across the Good Afternoon Choirs on the fantastic Cornwall weekend in 2018 and you will see above that we are returning this year to Truro. The Good Afternoon Choir founder is Bath Music Man, Grenville Jones who is well known across the UK for his leadership of many choirs and as founder of the Golden-Oldies Charity. 'Goldies' as it is fondly known reaches out to thousands of older isolated people across England and Wales with his daytime FUN singing sessions. Grenville is pictured right with Rob Beckett who presents the popular BBC1 talent show 'All Together Now'. Grenville is one of the 100 judges who are kept under control by former spice girl Geri Halliwell. The new series runs in March this year, 2019 and you may spot Grenville in the second row, but will he press his red button and join in with the contestants?? You will have to watch to find out!
Come and join us and have a Good Afternoon!
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June 2 2018 - "A Great Day and Evening Concert!"
And this year, 2019 we head for Clifton Cathedral - see above.
...That was the message from Norma from our Wells Good Afternoon Choir following our hugely successful BIG SING at The Bath Forum on June 2nd. The pictures below are all taken on that day showing our many choirs singing as part of the afternoons event. "We enjoyed Saturday very much" - June, Bristol GAC - "A memorable day!" Liz, Devizes GAC - "A big thank you for a brilliant day" Geraldine, Keynsham GAC. "I had such a lovely time" Loretta, Thornbury GAC. "Great to sing with so many other people" Barry from Frome. "What a lovely time we had on Saturday." Janet from Yate & Chipping Sodbury. 'A great afternoon and evening.' Ann - Bath GAC.
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