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More Measures for Better, More Comfortable Bus Rides
News Releases 24 Jun 2015 bus lanes Mandatory Give Way to Buses Scheme (MGWBS)
Under the ongoing Bus Service Enhancement Programme (BSEP) where additional buses are added to existing popular services and new bus services introduced, commuters have been experiencing better and more comfortable journeys. A series of complementary bus priority schemes have also been implemented over the years, including bus lane and Mandatory Give-Way to Buses Schemes for buses, so that bus commuters can enjoy smoother rides.
2. To further improve the reliability of bus services, the Land Transport Authority (LTA) will be carrying out a trial to assess the effectiveness of CCTVs in monitoring crowd levels at bus stops, and working with the public transport operators to make adjustments to bus schedules when needed.
Bus Priority Measures
3. Under the bus lane scheme, buses enter and exit stops more smoothly. Full day bus lanes were implemented in 2005 to further improve bus speeds. Since 2008, selected buses were fitted with on-board bus video cameras (CCTVs) to record bus lane infringements to complement the warden scheme so that bus lanes remain clear during operating hours.
4. To ensure that the bus lane scheme remains effective in improving the overall reliability of buses, LTA had expanded the use of CCTVs for bus lane enforcement since June last year. To date, about 4,000 existing buses have been equipped with CCTVs. More buses will be progressively added to the programme.
5. We have seen an improvement in motorists' compliance with the bus lane scheme since the introduction of these CCTVs in 2008. The number of motorists caught by on-board bus CCTVs driving in bus lanes during restricted hours has been reduced from 2,112 in 2008 to 866 in 2014. As of May this year, there are 228 cases, a decrease of more than 50%, compared to the same period last year.
6. To further remind motorists of the on-board bus CCTVs, LTA will be rolling out a series of banners and bus advertisements as a visual reminder to all motorists.
Bus Lane Banners
Bus Lane Advertisements on Buses
7. Another bus priority measure is the Mandatory Give Way to Buses Scheme (MGWTB). Progressively implemented at 330 bus stops since 2008, LTA has been stepping up enforcement of this scheme. As of May 2015, there have been 2,336 cases of violation of MGWTB, compared to 1,764 cases in 2014.
8. The composition amount for motorists who drive on bus lanes during restricted hours or do not give way to buses exiting from bus bays is $130. If the offence is not compounded, the case may be escalated to the courts and motorists may be fined up to $1,000 or serve a jail term of three months for the first offence.
CCTVs on trial at bus stops
9. A year-long trial will be conducted on the effectiveness of video analytics in the monitoring and detection of crowdedness at bus stops. Besides allowing real-time assessments on crowd levels and monitoring bus services at bus stops, the system will allow LTA to work with public transport operators to make timely intervention such as adjusting bus schedules, replacing single deck buses with double deck/bendy buses and/or injecting half-way trips to help ease crowding on buses and ensure that commuters waiting along the route are able to board the buses.
10. Five popular bus stops with high commuter traffic have been chosen for the trial. The bus stops are:
Bus Stop Description
Bus Stop Code
Thong Teck Building
Scotts Road
Blk 270
Bukit Panjang Road
Ang Mo Kio Station
Ang Mo Kio Avenue 3
Opposite Khatib Station
Yishun Avenue 2
Clementi Station
(Opposite Clementi Mall)
Commonwealth Avenue West
11. Installation of the cameras is expected to begin in the fourth quarter of this year. The trial will progressively begin in December at the bus stop in front of Thong Teck Building.
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Dr. Blumofe joined Akamai in 1999 to lead the Company's first performance team. Serving as one of Akamai's chief architects, Dr. Blumofe was instrumental in the early design and development of the Akamai Platform, which now handles trillions of Internet requests daily. He has led all of Networks and Operations since 2004.
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Residents watch as fire crews extinguish a blaze at an abandoned shack on Bole Ave. last week.
hatever you want to call them; crack houses, derelict, abandoned, squatter's shacks, another boarded-up shanty caught fire last week.
Over the past year, several similar structures have mysteriously caught fire. It's not known if the house was torched on purpose. Much of the time it's squatters who inadvertently, or otherwise, set the place on fire with an open flame coming from improvised lighting, heating and cooking.
That may have been the case with a fire on Bole Ave. at one of these vacant houses. RCMP, BCAS paramedics and CFD fire crews attended. Firefighters extinguished the blaze before it spread.
When these old homes catch fire, quite often there is what's called an "exposure" meaning something next to it that the fire can spread to. After the fire was deemed out, they dragged out the fans and "vented" the building, before it was boarded back up.
One nearby resident told The Voice that a vagrant told her to "watch the house" because he was going to squat in it.
If you have one on your block, it's a good idea to keep an eye on it and report any unusual activity.
Thanks to the the emergency services and first responders for keeping the residents safe.


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from twisted.internet import protocol, reactor
from twisted.internet.protocol import Factory,Protocol
from time import ctime

PORT = 21567

class TCPServer(protocol.Protocol):
	def connectionMade(self):
		clnt = self.clnt = self.transport.getPeer().host
		print '...connected from:', clnt
	def dataReceived(self, data):
		self.transport.write('[%s] %s' % (ctime(), data))

factory = protocol.Factory()
factory.protocol = TCPServer

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reactor.listenTCP(PORT, factory)
reactor.run()

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Check out this happy (there's no other word for it) milonga by Virginia Gomez and Christian Marquez at the Brussels Tango Festival 2012. The more complicated his footwork gets, the bigger his smile grows. Love it!
Many thanks to David Bugeja for the link.


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Mission accomplished for Coetzee
Nobody likes losing, least of all DHL Stormers head coach Allister Coetzee, but he still declared himself satisfied with Saturday's pre-season hit-out against the Cheetahs in Bloemfontein.
A youthful DHL Stormers XV went down 26-27 to the Cheetahs, after conceding a last-second penalty goal from 55 metres out, but Stormers coach Coetzee was more interested in his team's performance than the result.
Said Coetzee: "I wasn't happy with the performance, but I achieved what I wanted (to) from the match.
"It's good to win, nobody likes losing, but we mustn't forget that these are just warm-up matches," added Coetzee, "the Super Rugby log is still played 0, won 0, lost 0 for everyone.
"This game was always about Eben Etzebeth getting 60 minutes, Nizaam Carr getting 60 minutes and Jaco Taute getting his first 60 minutes in a DHL Stormers jersey. That happened and I'm happy about that.
"It's all part of the conditioning phase, with the Super Rugby tournament still three weeks away, and although we weren't as sharp as we could've been we're building towards February 22 (against the Bulls)."
The Stormers will face the Boland Cavaliers at the Cape Town Stadium next Saturday and Coetzee will mix up his selection once more in order to give all his squad members some game time before the official Vodacom Super Rugby season gets underway.
"The Boland game is another step (for us) in our pre-season preparation," explained the Stormers boss.
"We've got three more weeks to get things right and to increase our sharpness and a real positive is how hard everyone has been working up till now."
With stars Deon Fourie, Andries Bekker, Schalk Burger and Jean de Villiers all expected to feature against Boland, Coetzee and his coaches will work through the squad's medical report when they get back to their training base in Bellville on Monday morning.
"(Centre) Juan de Jongh has a bit of a hamstring niggle and (forward) Michael Rhodes injured himself in the warm-up," reported Coetzee.
"We have a very long season ahead of us, so we will continue to manage our players over the next three weeks, but this was just the beginning (for us) in terms of our 2013 preparation."
* The Regent Boland Cavaliers will host the DHL Stormers in a pre-season friendly at the Cape Town Stadium on Saturday, February 9 at 14h45.
A curtain-raiser will take place between a Boland Invitational XV and a DHL WP Vodacom Cup XV at 12h30.
Tickets are priced at R50 and R75 and are available at Computicket, Shoprite and Shoprite Checkers. No tickets will be sold at the stadium on the day.
Allister Coetzee, the DHL Stormers head coach, has announced his team for Friday's 2013...
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Primary Care > Obesity
Docs Need Tools, Training to Help Manage Obesity
Primary care physicians and doctors in training should be equipped with a veritable bag of tricks they have handy to treat obese patients, experts suggested.
by Cole Petrochko Cole Petrochko, Staff Writer, MedPage Today October 09, 2013
Healthcare professionals should have "a rigorous background in the biologic and pathophysiological foundations of obesity," a core understanding of nutrition, and the ability to sufficiently motivate and follow up with patients in maintaining treatment, according to James Colbert, MD, of Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Sushrut Jangi, MD, of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, both in Boston.
"The front lines of the obesity epidemic often lie in a primary care doctor's office," despite how overworked and "focused on pharmacologically treatable conditions" primary care doctors are, they wrote in a perspective piece in the Oct. 10 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
In addition, Colbert and Jangi suggested that healthcare professionals learn to function as part of an interdisciplinary care team consisting of physicians, nurses, medical assistants, social workers, nutritionists, and behavioralists, adding that learning to function in such a coordinated effort is a necessity to "replace the antiquated model of the solo physician and patient."
The recommendations are "far too ambitious," commented David Katz, MD, MPH, of the Yale University Prevention Research Center in Derby, Conn.
"Obesity is not really a clinical problem -- it's a cultural problem," Katz told MedPage Today, adding that the "remedy" for it is also cultural. "Doctors need to be trained to facilitate the solution, but the notion that doctors will bring the obesity epidemic under control is symptomatic of our tendency to over-medicalize everything," he said.
Katz did note that "relatively little constructive intervention" occurs in the primary care field and that doctors could play a bigger role in getting patients to adhere to a lifestyle not conducive to growing waistlines.
The authors noted that -- like interventions for obesity -- education in treatment for the condition should begin while both patients and practitioners "are young and lifestyles and behaviors are easier to change."
The need for change and education were echoed by Keith Ayoob, EdD, RD, of Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, N.Y.
"What these recommendations do is get physicians in medical schools and residents trained towards recognizing the problem and make them sensitive to behavioral counseling and motivational interviewing -- skills that are very important when you're treating obesity," Ayoob told MedPage Today, adding that the authors also do a good job of "sensitizing physicians to know when to refer patients out."
This education includes learning about nutrition, gastrointestinal absorption, metabolic syndrome, diabetes, nutritional deficiencies, hormonal regulation of satiety, and malabsorption.
Practitioners must also understand potential difficulties patients may encounter with weight loss and management. One program at the University of California San Francisco encourages students "to extend their study of obesity beyond the classroom, by developing novel techniques for teaching public school students and adults in the nearby community about nutritional health."
Lifestyle diseases such as obesity also require the use of motivational interview, which includes a basic approach, ongoing observation, and feedback so the practitioner can improve his or her techniques, according to the authors.
"This change is necessary to ensure that future physicians are prepared to manage a growing population of obese patients," they wrote.
A reorientation of physician education needs to occur to address the change to management of ongoing lifestyle-based conditions in primary care, the authors concluded.
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China's Rural Land-Use: Notes from the Field | Do farmers' interests align with global land-use strategies?
After spending the past two weeks in Jilin helping out on the farms of friends I first met back in 2010 – Wei and the Lu Family – I sat down this morning to binge out on the news I had missed in prep not to be stuck on repeat asking, 'Wait, what happened?' when I fly back to the US later this week.
No sooner had I finished double-clicking headlines, lining up tab-by-tab all the articles I intended to peruse (fist-bump to fellow news-gorgers that know the trauma of queuing up 30 tabs only for your browser to unexpectedly quit) than I found I had juxtaposed side-by-side two articles that would be funny if the contradictions they reflect weren't so infuriating: on the left tab was the Guardian's article titled, "Here's how much corporations paid US senators to fast-track the TPP" and, on the right, "IMF admits: we failed to realise the damage austerity would do to Greece".
Simultaneous images flashed through my mind of multinational corporate execs, Wolf-of-Wall-Street-style celebrating a virgin frontier for untold super-profits should Congress liberate the reins on their free-trade trojan horse in the latest crusade to commodify, extract, and exploit every last nook and cranny of the globe; meanwhile, millions of ordinary dispossessed Greeks are ensnared in just the sort of IMF-brokered austerity trap, or 'structural adjustment program' the TPP's shadow will surely cast upon whichever country happens to be trailing in last place once the next crisis strikes in global capitalism's swift race to the bottom.
I felt like taking a kamikaze sword to my dorm room. But, with just five days left and a security deposit in the balance, I decided that writing Wei and the Lu family's stories would be a more constructive outlet to vent my vexation. The choices they have made in their lives – to leave the city and start farms in the countryside – show that it's still possible to transcend a world of governments and corporations whose sole definition of growth is built on social and environmental decay. And, far from isolated, their decisions echo the growing chorus of peasants, activists, and rural scholars, many loosely associated under China's 'New Rural Reconstruction Movement' (and more broadly, the 'Global Justice Movement'), who together are paving a road towards a future where individuality can coexist with mutuality and long-term sustainability, rather than just short-term profits for the privileged minority.
Jilin province, situated just north of North Korea's border, and has undergone the same sort of double-exploited transformation that has befallen many of China's interior and hinterland provinces: to sway industries away from the more developed urban coastal cities, their selling points became not only an ununionized labor force, but an even more vacuous vacuum of occupational health and environmental regulations so as not to hinder production practices. Subcontractors for Chinese and international industries, ever-eager to satisfy the global corporate demand for cheap labor and the global consumer demand for cheap products, have at once transformed these regions into the engine of growth for China's rural economy and the dumping ground for some of the world's dirtiest, most dangerous conditions that damage the health of workers and deliver large volumes of pollutants into the land, water, and air of rural villages.
To twist the knife even deeper, after China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001, WTO rules required industries to open up to competition by shedding their 'surplus' workforce in the wake of economic 'liberalization'. It should come as no surprise, then, that the northeast region, having served as factory floor for some of the most toxic components of global production practices, then oversaw a disproportionate number of layoffs when industries had to downsize their workforce; that is, if they first escaped bankruptcy.
This is where the story of Wei and the Lu's begins.
Wei and the Lu family (a mother, father, and son) became friends when they all worked together at a State-owned wood enterprise (SOE). Wei worked in the forest survey department deciding which trees were to be cut; meanwhile, the Lu's worked in the wood factory, producing sundry products from floorboards to chopsticks.
After the factory went bankrupt in 2005, the Lu's (who have urban citizenship) moved from the city out to the countryside, taking over the use-rights to a farm that had belonged to a relative in a village otherwise populated by Korean ethnic minorities, and just a stone's throw from the border of North Korea.
When I first visited the Lu's back in 2010, they were raising cows, goats, ducks, and chickens while growing corn, soybeans, and lettuce.
Today, the cows are gone and the cornfield has been replaced by a small, successful 'black ear' fungus farm that they started last winter. They employ eight local villagers to help pick the fungus that is grown from small, tightly packed bags meant to simulate the trees that the fungus grows on in the wild. Their produce they sell in nearby towns and cities, as well as export some to South Korea. Far from the city, Ms. Lu said they're now enjoying a "more simple life".
At the same time, a little more than a year ago Wei acquired the use-rights to some land at the edge of a town near the base of the Changbaishan mountains. Anticipating the local government's plans to rapidly develop and promote the tourism industry around the mountains, he is now knee-deep in establishing an organic tree-nut and vegetable cooperative farm, with solar-heated guest houses for tourists to stay while picking their own tree-nuts or harvesting vegetables.
As China's socially and ecologically destructive growth-based 'development' trajectory continues in a region that has born some of the world's highest social and environmental costs of production practices so that outside the borders global elites and consumers can enjoy the benefits of cheap labor and goods, Wei and the Lu family are transcending these contradictions, and their deeper principles serve to remind us of the essential values of human life.
With concerns over social and environmental justice casting a shadow on the future, stories like these are becoming less isolated, and they offer a beacon of hope out of an otherwise dark tunnel that is global capitalism's bleak race to the bottom.


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Lubbock Man Sentenced to 30 Years For Drive-By Shooting
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A Lubbock man has pleaded guilty and has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for a June 2018 drive-by shooting.
KAMC News reports that Malachi Peppers, 17-years-old at the time, was identified as the suspect who pulled the trigger from a vehicle.
Back on June 5th, 2018, officers responded to 34th Street and Avenue W for a shots fired call. Officers were informed that a white passenger car had fired around 16 rounds then took off.
Police say that bystanders had a woman in their arms and threw her into a car then left. Soon after, police were notified the vehicle waved down an ambulance at 34th Street and Avenue W. That's when EMS transported the woman to UMC with a gunshot wound to her arm.
Police later learned that the suspects intentionally fired a firearm at the victim and her friends, as well as fired shots towards the nearby residences and cars as they drove off.
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RUSSIA - Russian broiler hatchery OAO Pavlovskaya is reporting increased hatchability since installing modular, Smart single-stage incubation from Pas Reform, at its new hatchery in Nizhegorodskaya.
The installation included SmartSet setters and SmartHatch Hatchers, hatchery climate control and automation systems. The Dutch company was also commissioned to produce engineering plans for the new site, planned in two phases to bring Pavlovskaya hatchery's annual capacity up to 16 million hatching eggs per annum.
"Our decision for a 'Smart hatchery' came after reviewing a number of options", says the hatchery's production director, Elena Nemchinova, "and we are certainly seeing improved results with modular single-stage operation.
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With its core business in broiler meat production, Pavlovskaya Hatchery complements sister operations, OOO Poultry Plant Diveevskoe and Feedmill Pavlovskaya. Together, the companies produce a range of more than 80 different poultry products, under the management of Russkoe Pole, one of the most progressive companies in the Russian poultry sector.
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Signs throughout Middlesex County parks - Thompson Park in Monroe Township and Jamesburg and Roosevelt Park in Edison - stood as a friendly reminder for the public to social distance in continued efforts to flatten the curve of the novel coronavirus.
MONROE – Monroe is on its way towards "a cleaner, greener future."
That is what Mayor Stephen Dalina said as the township is the recipient of a Clean Communities grant totaling $105,240.47 from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) Solid Waste Division, according to a township press release on June 2.
Clean Communities grants are intended to help municipalities and counties across New Jersey promote volunteer and paid clean-up events, purchase equipment, support enforcement activities and educational opportunities.
Through the grant program, the NJDEP awarded nearly $19.1 million to eligible municipalities and $2.3 million to counties across the state, basing its allocations on statistical reports that outline the number of housing units and municipally owned roadway mileage in a respective area. Grants are funded by a legislated user-fee on manufacturers, wholesalers and distributors that produce litter-generating products, according to the press release.
"Our Department of Public Works conducts numerous programs aimed at keeping our town litter-free throughout the year. It is through programs like Clean Communities that we can keep our streets, open space, recreation areas and township grounds clear of litter and debris," Dalina said.
This year's grant reflects an increase of $11,000 from the grant the township received in 2021.
Monroe Township is the fourth-largest recipient in all of Middlesex County and one of the largest in the state. The grant award allows the township to continue to improve upon its ongoing community engagement and education initiatives.
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The township has awarded more than $4,000 so far – funded by the Clean Communities grant – to Monroe-based non-profit and community-service groups through its mini-grant program that offers $500 per group for running localized clean-up efforts.
Interested organizations can register for litter patrol opportunities at township approved sites by contacting Clean Communities Coordinator, Joe Slomian at 732-656-4575.
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New Delhi, Sep 14 (KTNS): A day after the Delhi High Court granted bail to Kashmiri businessman Zahoor Ahmad Shah Watali in a terror funding case, the Supreme Court on Friday stayed the order.
The order came on a plea filed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) challenging the Delhi High Court's order, saying that it has ignored the evidence against Watali.
Appearing for the NIA, Attorney General K.K. Venugopal told the apex court that there were "very serious charges" against the businessman and he should not have been granted bail.
The Agency further contended that documents recovered from the premises of Watali's accountant have showed that money had been received from Pakistan-based terrorist leaders Hafiz Saeed, Syed Salahuddin and the Pakistan High Commission which was distributed to Hurriyat leaders to finance terror activities.
Forensic analysis of Watali's signature proved his involvement, but the high court ignored the documents as a "piece of paper",the NIA told the apex court.
Watali, arrested for his alleged role in a terror-funding case involving Saeed, was granted bail by the Delhi High Court on Thursday, directing him to not leave the country without permission.
He had challenged the trial court's June 8 order rejecting his bail plea.
Watali was arrested on August 17, 2017, and was charge-sheeted by the NIA on January 18 along with Saeed, Salahuddin, seven Kashmiri separatist leaders and others in the case.


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Rico chats with USC Associate Professor of Marketing Kristin Diehl, one of the folks behind a study which suggests photographing your meal might be good for you… but there are caveats.
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INTERNATIONAL: Calvo has 39 caps for Los Ticos, and was a starter in 2018 World Cup Qualifying victories against Trinidad & Tobago and Panama as well as in the 2016 Copa America Centenario matches against Colombia and the United States. The former Costa Rica Under-20 international earned his first senior cap in 2011.
OUTSIDE MLS: Calvo scored nine goals in 24 league games for Deportivo Saprissa during the 2016 Primera División winter season, which ran from July through December. Calvo has previously played for Herediano, Perez Zeledon and Santos Guapiles in his native Costa Rica, as well as a spell with Nordsjaelland in Denmark.


Filmmaker Trivikram and Telugu superstar Mahesh Babu reunited almost after a decade for a new project. After 'Athadu' and 'Khaleja', the actors have now come together for an ad shoot. Social media was buzzing with pictures of Mahesh and Trivikram from the sets of their ad shoot for a popular commercial brand last week. The former took to Twitter and wrote, "Back with my favourite. Love the experience." After the pictures went viral, fans wanted the popular duo to join hands soon for a project. The industry grapevine is that Trivikram and Mahesh Babu are in talks for a project which might take off next year.
Mahesh currently awaits the release of his 25th film 'Maharshi', which has been directed by Vamshi Paidipally. The film which is currently gearing up for release on May 9, was originally planned to be release on April 25. The makers added that the film's shoot is currently in the final stages. Except for two songs, the shoot of the entire film will be completed by March 15. Producer Dil Raju has confirmed in a press meet that the release has been pushed to May 9.


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This email was sent to you because you have requested to be notified about specific events in ORF. See the following Knowledge Base article on managing email notifications.
I suspect your statistics file got corrupted somehow. I suggest to delete the file orfstat.dat from the ORF directory (Program Files (x86)\ORF Fusion): this will not cause any trouble, since ORF will recreate the statistics file when you restart the service, so you won't lose the statistics displayed in the Administration Tool either.
We have been reported this problem in the past (see http://blog.vamsoft.com/?p=121), we are not sure what might cause such corruptions (we could not reproduce it), but we suspect a Microsoft MSXML related problem.
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Palau In Palauan, the name of the country is Belau, which gets its name either from the Palauan word beluu, which means "village," or aibebelau, which refers to the historic people's creation story of the islands.
The people of Palau have always relied on the lands and seas for survival, but over time nearly everything else has changed. Numerous waves of immigrants over time have altered the culture and lifestyle multiple times, but the arrival of the Europeans, and Christianity, as well as modern technology, communication, and transportation have also made significant impacts.
Being fairly close to the Philippines, the lands of Palau were settled early and it seems the islands were home to numerous immigration waves. However, all these people were similar in that they relied on the land and seas to make a living and the lifestyle was heavily dependent on this. Over time the culture became more uniform, defined, and organized as these ethnically Micronesian people were a matrilineal society.
The Europeans made a number of huge changes to the people and culture of Palau. The Spanish converted most of the people to Catholicism, then the Germans took over and made the islands a thriving economic source focused on phosphate. While Catholicism vastly changed a large number of things, the Europeans as a whole slowly changed the culture and political scene due to economic progress. Many local leaders teamed with foreign powers for greater influence, money, or goods. This changed not only the political structure, but also the social structure as the matrilineal past was gone and reliance on foreign goods and a new lifestyle had begun.
Despite the changes to Palau over time, many aspects of the traditional culture and lifestyle have survived. The people remain heavily tied to the lands and remain tied to their local islands and communities. However, Christianity changed many parts of life, such as dress, and the outside influences, including technology, have stayed and are in no threat of disappearing any time in the near future.
The blue background of Palau's flag is for the surrounding Pacific Ocean, while the yellow circle represents the full moon, which is a symbol of peace, love, and tranquility.


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The inventory of homes for sale in San Diego County remains extremely low, which helped drive up the median price to $750,000 in June, according to data from CoreLogic/DQ News.
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Supply of homes for sale remains well below historic levels, driving buyers to offer thousands over the asking price — in one case $45,000 — in hopes of landing hot properties.
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Another month, another record for San Diego County home prices.
Driven by persistent shortages of homes for sale — coupled with low mortgage rates luring more buyers into the market — the median home price in the region rose to a record $750,000 in June, according to data released Tuesday from CoreLogic/DQNews.
That's up from the previous record of $725,000, which was set in May. A year ago, the median price — the point where half of all homes sold for more and half sold for less — was $600,500.
"As soon as anything comes on the market, right way within 48 hours, you start getting offers, usually multiple offers that go into overbid," said Cindy Waasdorp, a real estate agent with Berkshire Hathaway who has been selling in North County for more than three decades. "I don't see it slowing down until we get inventory. There is just such high demand."
San Diego isn't alone. Home prices continue to rise nationwide and especially in Southern California.
But unlike the housing bubble in the late 2000s, where easy-money lending practices drove up housing prices, this spike appears to be centered on extremely low inventories of homes and condos on the market.
At the end of June 2019 before the pandemic, about 10,300 homes and 3,085 condos/townhomes were actively listed for sale in San Diego County, according to data from Multiple Listing Service.
At the end of June this year, just 1,947 homes and 1,004 condos/townhomes were on the market.
"We don't need to find that many buyers to make these homes sell because we don't have a lot of homes to sell," said Nathan Moeder, a principal with San Diego real estate consultant London Moeder Advisors. "So, unfortunately, they are going to those who have means."
Competition is particularly intense for San Diego's version of single-family starter homes. Prices have increased over the past year from the $500,000-$550,000 range to $700,000 or more, said Samantha O'Brien, a real estate agent with PorchLight in University Heights.
"I sent over an offer last week for some clients. We went $10,000 over asking. It didn't get accepted because another offer came in that was $45,000 over asking," she said. "So, $10,000 or $15,000 over the asking price isn't going to get you the house on a hot property that's just come on the market."
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"We're just not building enough," said Moeder. "The No. 1 concern in the region for employers is finding housing for their employees. Unfortunately, I think we've turned into the Santa Barbara model, which is we only have so much inventory, and we can't keep up with demand, so we're an expensive place to live."
For now, however, just how expensive depends on the context of where buyers are coming from. Compared to Orange County and Los Angeles, San Diego is "relatively less pricey," said Selma Hepp, deputy chief economist with CoreLogic.
"The region remains very attractive to young buyers both due to relative affordability but also strong growth of higher-paying jobs and those in medical research," said Hepp.
Median prices in Orange County reached $900,000 last month, while Los Angeles came in at $790,000, according to DQNews.
"We have a lot of buyers coming from San Francisco, Los Angeles and Orange County because they can work remotely now," said Waasdorp. "Instead of paying high prices for something a lot smaller, like a condo or apartment, they can move to San Diego and our prices seem cheap to them. They can have a half-acre. So, life has changed since COVID."
According to CoreLogic/DQ News, 4,789 homes and condos sold in June. That is up from 3,561 sales in June 2020 amid the pandemic.
It could take some time before the pace of price increases moderates, according to real estate experts. The number of homes for sale isn't expected to match demand anytime soon. While rising mortgage rates could cool the market, there are few signs of significant rate hikes on the horizon.
"As with most of the California metro regions, San Diego prices continue to face elevated pressure due to historically low inventory of homes for sale and very little new construction," said Hepp, the CoreLogic deputy economist. "As a result, the CoreLogic HPI forecast puts San Diego among the fastest home price growth areas over the next year with a projected increase in prices of 11 percent through May 2022."
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Meta's metaverse is still largely theoretical, and as such, Meta has a long way to go in winning people over, and convincing users, and businesses, that its virtual environment is going to be the future of how we all connect and interact.
Which is why this week's metaverse backlash would be a worrying trend for the social media giant.
Earlier in the week, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that its Horizon Worlds VR creation sandbox is now open to creators in Spain and France, posting this image to go along with it.
Which has since been lambasted online, with all manner of commenters pointing out how bad, and basic the current VR environment looks, from the simplistic avatar (still with no legs) to the early 90s-style graphics.
It's genuinely puzzling that Meta spent more than $10 billion on VR last year and the graphics in its flagship app still look worse than a 2008 Wii game. https://t.co/IOwqsrrfKj
— Kevin Roose (@kevinroose) August 16, 2022
And it does look bad, it looks simple, and as noted in the tweet above, well below what you would expect, given the billions that Meta's pouring into metaverse development.
Definitely, it's a far cry from the metaverse vision that Zuck initially pitched in October last year, when it first announced its 'Meta' name change.
So why does the metaverse look so bad?
Well, it's still early, as Meta itself has repeatedly explained, and we're likely years away from touching the full potential of the metaverse, as Zuck and Co. see it. And there are some very impressive VR experiences that have already been built, but Horizon Worlds, which enables users to create their own basic VR environments is, by design, basic, because the processing power of full graphic rendering and spatial elements is likely too much to build into the tool just yet.
But that is only one element, and it probably isn't the best showcase of Meta's VR capacity.
In fact, Zuck has today posted another update, explaining that it's really not that bad, and that more metaverse advances are coming soon.
Not sure that will convince many people that we're much closer to the next stage of digital connection than the initial image suggests. But it is worth noting that Zuck felt the need to actually explain itself here, as online criticism continues to grow, with the metaverse pile-on now in full effect.
The risk for Meta here is that this could become a reputational shift, which will be increasingly difficult for it to shake as it continues its metaverse expansion. Part of the 'Meta' name change was to distance its metaverse vision from Facebook, and the negative connotations that people have with that brand – but this latest backlash may well suggest that this hasn't succeeded, as people seem very keen to highlight Zuckerberg's failures, which could impact the company's future growth.
But this is only one incident, right? This is an early misstep, that no one will really care about once the full metaverse vision comes into full effect. Right?
I can think of at least one similar example which highlights the potential risk in this respect.
Back in 2013, Google was trying to convince consumers of its own future tech vision, in the form of Google Glass, its transformative AR-type device, which enables users to access digital information via the wearable device.
Which was going fine, and gaining some traction. Till this:
Tech evangelist Robert Scoble, an early adopter of the device, posted this picture of himself wearing his Google Glasses in the shower, which is disturbing for various reasons.
Shortly afterwards, Google was forced to shelve the consumer version of Google Glass, which was also attributed to issues with battery life and privacy concerns. But the overarching sense was that Scoble's photo, along with various other tech bros walking around looking like competitors in an Olympic rifle competition, made the device so uncool that people didn't want anything to do with it.
Incidentally, at one stage, Google Glass was considered to be a $10 billion opportunity. Another potential bad omen for Zuck's metaverse future?
Definitely, this is a risk, that Meta's metaverse becomes so mocked, so criticized, that it's labeled as a failure before it even begins. That would be a massive concern right now in Meta HQ – and while no one from the company will, of course, admit this, if Meta fails to make the metaverse cool, and loses connection with younger audiences in particular, the company could end up spending billions on buckets to bail water out of a sinking ship.
It's too early to make any calls on such, and Meta could end up blowing us all away at its Connect conference later this year, as Zuck notes, via a showcase of the latest metaverse tools and options. But this week's critiques will serve as a reminder that Meta's got a lot of work to do, and that public sentiment could indeed derail its plans, if it continues to misstep.


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'the way a woman' and 'balcony view'
Bullock, O., Apr 2019, 2 p. Canada : Cattails.
Research output: Textual Creative Works › Poem/s
'The single greatest cause of domestic housefires': On the hole in hegel's aesthetics
Magee, P., 1 Jan 2004, In: New Writing. 1, 1, p. 55-67 13 p.
'There's more to a person than what's in front of you': Nursing students' experiences of consumer taught mental health education
Happell, B., Waks, S., Bocking, J., Horgan, A., Manning, F., Greaney, S., Goodwin, J., Scholz, B., van der Vaart, K. J., Allon, J., Granerud, A., Hals, E., Doody, R., Russell, S., Griffin, M., MacGabhann, L., Lahti, M., Ellilä, H., Pulli, J., Vatula, A., & 3 othersPlatania-Phung, C., Bjornsson, E. & Biering, P., Aug 2019, In: International Journal of Mental Health Nursing. 28, 4, p. 950-959 10 p.
'There's just no flexibility': How space and time impact mental health consumer research
Scholz, B., Gordon, S., Bocking, J., Liggins, J., Ellis, P., Roper, C., Platania-Phung, C. & Happell, B., Aug 2019, In: International Journal of Mental Health Nursing. 28, 4, p. 899-908 10 p.
'There is no Zyzz': the subcultural celebrity and bodywork project of Aziz Shavershian
FULLER, G. & PAGE JEFFERY, C., 2017, In: Celebrity Studies. 8, 1, p. 20-34 15 p.
'The last' and 'The package'
Bullock, O., 1 Dec 2019, 2 p. Australia : Other Terrain.
'the giant dreaming crocodile' and 'between the Tasmanian Devil'
Bullock, O., Apr 2019, 2 p. New Zealand : Kokako.
'The foreigner lives within': rereading Ming Cher's rewritten Spider Boys
CRAWFORD, J., 2015, Proceedings Of The 20th Conference Of The Australasian Association Of Writing Programs, 2015. Bacon, E., Hecq, D. & Walker, A. (eds.). Melbourne, Australia: The Australiasian Association of Writing Programs (AAWP), Vol. 20. p. 1-13 13 p.
'The Charm of a Thousand Years': exploring tourists' perspectives of the 'culture-nature value' of the Humble Administrator's Garden, Suzhou, China
Zhang, R., Wang, J. & Brown, S., 7 Jul 2021, In: Landscape Research. 46, 8, p. 1071-1088 18 p.
'The Australian treasurers'
Hawkins, J., Mar 2021, In: Australian Economic History Review: an Asia-Pacific journal of economic, business and social history. 61, 1, p. 109-116 8 p.
'The appy for a happy pappy': expectant fatherhood and pregnancy apps
Thomas, G. M., Lupton, D. & Pedersen, S., 3 Oct 2018, In: Journal of Gender Studies. 27, 7, p. 759-770 12 p.
'That thing in his head': Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australian caregiver responses to neurodevelopmental disability diagnoses
Hamilton, S., Maslen, S., Watkins, R., Conigrave, K., Jacinta, F., O'Donnell, M., Mutch, R. & Bower, C., 1 Sep 2020, In: Sociology of Health and Illness. 42, 7, p. 1581-1596 16 p.
'That red flag on your file': misinterpreting physical symptoms as mental illness
HAPPELL, B., BOCKING, J., PLATANIA-PHUNG, C. & Stanton, R., 2016, In: Journal of Clinical Nursing. 25, 19-20, p. 2933-2942 10 p.
'Tell All the Truth but Tell it Slant'': Poetic Truth and Indirectness
Hetherington, P. & Atherton, C., 2020, In: Axon: Creative Explorations. 10, 1, p. 1-12 12 p.
'Talk' and 'Pancakes for Neptune'
Bullock, O., 3 Nov 2018, 2 p. Australia : Journal of Poetics Research.
'talking to a father' and 'daymoon'
Bullock, O., Jul 2022, 1 p. United Kingdom : Presence.
'Stubs', 'After', 'Growth, 'Mid-fire lumina'
Bullock, O., 20 Dec 2021, 8 p. United Kingdom : Fevers of the Mind.
'Steering at a distance', Australian school principals' understandings of digital technologies policies during the Digital Education Revolution
Brown, B., 2021, In: Journal of Educational Administration and History. 53, 1, p. 50-66 17 p.
'Solo' and 'Reflection on Solo'
Bullock, O., 2022, 9 p. New Zealand : remake.
'sixth ball' and 'waves ripple'
Bullock, O., Mar 2021, 1 p. United Kingdom : Presence.
'Sexy Men in Wigs': North Square and the Representation of Law on British Television
Bainbridge, J., May 2009, In: Journal of British Cinema and Television. 6, 1, p. 83-102 20 p.
'roses' and 'too tired'
'Risk' in homebirth… can there and should there be a universal definition? Join in the research
Hodgkin, K., 2019, p. S47-S47.
Research output: Contribution to conference (non-published works) › Poster › peer-review
'Returning, I check that things remain', 'Four chairs' and 'Shoebox'
Bullock, O., 1 May 2017, 3 p. Australia : Otoliths.
'Re-placing' professional practice
Roberts, P., Cosgrave, C., Gillespie, J., Malatzky, C., Hyde, S., Hu, W., Bailey, J., Yassine, T. & DOWNES, N., 1 Apr 2021, In: Australian Journal of Rural Health. 29, 2, p. 301-305 5 p.
'QUIRMI' food composting and growing system, conceptual design.
Montana-Hoyos, C. A., SCHAROUN, L., TURNER, B. & THOMAS, T., 30 Jun 2016
Research output: Non-textual form › Design
'quality' STEM leaders in remote indigenous contexts: Creating pedagogical capital
Jorgensen Zevenbergen, R., 1 Jan 2020, STEM Education Across the Learning Continuum: Early Childhood to Senior Secondary. MacDonald, A., Danaia, L. & Murphy, S. (eds.). Singapore: Springer, p. 155-173 19 p.
Research output: A Conference proceeding or a Chapter in Book › Other chapter contribution › peer-review
'Precincts' and 'In sherbet bursts'
Bullock, O. & Walker, M., Apr 2022, 1 p. New Zealand : Kokako.
'Police are good for some people, but not for us': Community perspectives on young people, policing and belonging in Greater Dandenong and Casey
Weber, L., Dec 2018, Melbourne: South East Policing and Inclusion Network (SEPIN). 44 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Reports
'pīwakawaka' and 'billabong'
'People Just Need to Try It to Be Converted!': A Picture of Consumer Mental Health Research in Australia and New Zealand
Scholz, B., Happell, B., Gordon, S., Warner, T., Roper, C., Ellis, P., Waks, S. & Platania-Phung, C., 2020, In: Issues in Mental Health Nursing. 42, 3, p. 249-255 7 p.
'paper', 'binary', 'Meditations on Švankmajer', 'lips', 'free-ass (paroles)', 'tea'
Bullock, O., 10 Jul 2017, 7 p. Australia : Rochford Street Review.
'Paper care not patient care': Nurse and patient experiences of comprehensive risk assessment and care plan documentation in hospital
Paterson, C., Roberts, C. & Bail, K., Feb 2023, In: Journal of Clinical Nursing. 32, 3-4, p. 523-538 16 p.
'Open source has won and lost the war': Legitimising commercial–communal hybridisation in a FOSS project
O'Neil, M., Muselli, L., Raissi, M. & Zacchiroli, S., May 2021, In: New Media and Society. 23, 5, p. 1157-1180 24 p.
'Old and ill': death anxiety and coping strategies influencing health professionals' well-being and dementia care
MCKENZIE, E., Brown, P., MAK, A. & CHAMBERLAIN, P., 2017, In: Aging and Mental Health. 21, 6, p. 634-641 8 p.
'No complaints': counter-narratives of immigration and detention in graffiti at North Head Immigration Detention Centre, Australia 1973–76
Clarke, A., Frederick, U. K. & Hobbins, P., 27 May 2017, In: World Archaeology. 49, 3, p. 404-422 19 p.
'new tune', 'late arvo' and 'a new start'
Bullock, O., Sep 2020, 3 p. New Zealand : Kokako.
'Necessary self-defence?': Pastoral control and Ngarrindjeri resistance at Waltowa Wetland, South Australia
Wiltshire, K. D., Litster, M. & Rigney, G., Dec 2018, In: Journal of the Anthropological Society of South Australia. 42, p. 81-114 34 p.
'My Lifestyle Kind of Locks Me into Supermarket Shopping': Narratives of Reflexivity and Routines from Supermarket Shoppers in Australia
O'KANE, G. & PAMPHILON, B., 3 May 2020, In: Journal of Hunger and Environmental Nutrition. 15, 3, p. 372-387 16 p.
'My Kids Won't Grow up Here': Policing, Bordering and Belonging
Weber, L., 1 Feb 2020, In: Theoretical Criminology. 24, 1, p. 71-89 19 p.
'Music is poetry', 'What he gives' and 'The nine'
Bullock, O., 2021, 1 p. Australia : The Burrow.
'mountain walk' and 'surfers score'
Bullock, O., Nov 2020, 1 p. United Kingdom : Presence.
'mountain valley' and 'winter winds'
'More than a day job, a fair job: music graduate employment in education'
Brook, S., Comunian, R., Jewell, S. & Lee, J. Y., Dec 2020, In: Music Education Research. 22, 5, p. 541-554 14 p.
'Moon Landing' and 'Meadows' (2 Prose poems)
Hetherington, P., 2019, 7 p. Canberra, Australia : Recent Work Press.
Research output: Textual Creative Works › Other contribution
'Menzies biography mystery': Robert Menzies and political biography as political intervention
Wallace, C., Mar 2021, In: Australian Journal of Biography and History. 5, p. 121-145 25 p.
'Memento Mori': memory, death and posterity in Singapore's poetry
Crawford, J., 1 Jan 2020, The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature. Wang, W. M., Jernigan, D. K. & Murphy, N. (eds.). United Kingdom: Routledge, p. 228-240 13 p.
'Measuring' Physical Literacy and Related Constructs: A Systematic Review of Empirical Findings
Edwards, L. C., Bryant, A. S., Keegan, R. J., Morgan, K., Cooper, S. M. & Jones, A. M., 2018, In: Sports Medicine. 48, 3, p. 659-682 24 p.
'Make enough money, everything else will follow': Litigation and the signification of happiness in popular culture
Bainbridge, J., 2014, Law, Culture and Visual Studies. Wagner, A. & Sherwin, R. (eds.). 1 ed. Netherlands: Springer, p. 805-824 20 p.
'looking so innocent' and 'light rain of leaves'


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Q: Changing the text color while finding a value in npm json-query I am using json-query package in part of my application to find a value from a table. However, I'd like to know if this package is capable of changing the colour of matched letters while finding the value.
The photo below shows what I mean:

And here is the code:
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    ).value;

I'd like to know if anybody knows how to make this functionality happen.

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Home / Healthy Eating / Are 'Detoxing Foods' a Real Thing? How Your Body Actually Flushes Toxins
Are 'Detoxing Foods' a Real Thing? How Your Body Actually Flushes Toxins
Dietitians give the lowdown on whether or not eating certain foods can actually detox the body.
By Lauren Manaker MS, RDN, LD, CLEC
Published on December 13, 2022 | 8:42 AM
FACT CHECKED BY Jordan Powers Willard
"Detoxing" has become a trendy word in the wellness space. As a potential solution for people who have been eating too much sugar, have completely given up on their diet for a while, or who simply want to cleanse their bodies of whatever they consider to be a toxin, detoxing foods and diets are certainly having a moment.
But are there really foods that rid the body from toxins, or is this just one more bogus claim made at the hands of the wellness industry?
How your body rids itself from toxins
Before we dig into whether eating certain foods can truly detox the body, we first need to have an understanding of how the body works when toxins are in the body in the first place.
The word "toxin" has different meanings depending on who you ask. In conventional medicine, the term generally refers to drugs and alcohol, and detoxing means getting a person to stop taking these substances and ridding the body of them as well. But in other circles, toxins refer to pollutants, heavy metals, sugar, and other components that enter our bodies.
The human body has a highly sophisticated mechanisms for eliminating toxins. The liver, kidneys, gastrointestinal system, skin and lungs all play a role in the excretion of unwanted substances. The pathways used for detoxification depend on the particular chemical, although they include conversion to a less toxic form, metabolism to produce a water-soluble form of the toxin that can be urinated out of the body, conjugation to allow for the toxin to be released via a bowel movement, and the ability of the body to bind heavy metals.
So, if you have functioning organs, your body is already working to rid the body of what some people deem to be "toxins." (Although, they aren't harmful to our bodies unless we take in certain large quantities. Remember—it's the dose makes the poison).
"These chemical reactions that help the body 'detoxify' are heavily nutrient-dependent and rely on nutrients including B2, B3, B6, B12, and folate as cofactors," Melissa Azzaro, RDN, LD, a registered dietitian and podcast host at Hormonally Yours, explains. She added that antioxidants, magnesium, choline, protein and water can also play positive roles.
However, certain pollutants like DDT and metals like lead are not easily removed from the body and can take years to break down. So, no matter how healthy and functioning your body is, these items can remain in your system for many years, regardless of what you eat or do to combat this.
Can foods be detoxing?
There is currently no evidence to support the use of most commercial detox diets for removing toxic substances from the body. The main health risks of detox diets relate to severe energy restriction and nutritional inadequacy. Plus, they can be stressful to follow, and may result in feelings of deprivation—ultimately opening the door to overeating once the "detox diet" is complete.
Detox dieters are also at risk of overdosing on supplements, laxatives, diuretics or even water. One example of this is a 19-year-old man who developed serotonin syndrome after following a detox protocol he found online, with the aim of ridding his body from MDMA.
However, there are some studies suggesting that certain nutritional components may have detoxification properties. For example, there is evidence that coriander, malic acid (found in grapes and wine), citric acid (found in citrus fruits), succinic acid (found in apples and blueberries), citrus pectin (found in the peel and pulp of citrus fruits) and chlorella (a type of green algae) exhibit natural chelating properties, suggesting that they may be useful for the elimination of certain toxic metals. Although some of these interventions need well-designed human studies before a firm recommendation can be established.
Selenium supplementation has been shown to reduce the toxic effects of mercury in mammals, birds, and fish. And one study of long-term mercury exposed individuals in China found that three months of selenium supplementation almost tripled the urinary excretion of mercury, suggesting that this intervention helped the body rid itself, or "detox," from this metal.6254a4d1642c605c54bf1cab17d50f1e
One noteworthy study reported that consumption of tropical fruit could reduce mercury levels as a result from eating fish in the Brazilian Amazon. This study showed that for the same levels of fish consumption, eating tropical fruit was associated with a lower level of mercury in the hair, suggesting that the body has similar lower levels as well.
Azzaro adds that cruciferous vegetables, like cabbage, brussels sprouts, and our beloved cauliflower, help support phase 1 detoxification in the liver. Phase 1 detoxification is the first step in a natural process in which the liver uses a pathway to change a toxic substance, like a drug, into a less toxic substance that is easier for the body to excrete. Azzaro also claims that green tea and turmeric may offer support for the body's natural ability to "detox," as well.
Eating habits that support detoxification
When focusing on freeing the body from toxins, it is important to keep in mind that it is nearly impossible to be toxin-free, thanks to the world that we live in. Between the mercury found in the oceans, the pollution that is in our atmosphere, and the medications many of us rely on to keep our bodies functioning properly, toxins are going to exist in our bodies no matter which diet we follow.
To reduce our body's toxin levels, the best thing to do is try and limit your exposure to these items in the first place. Opt for lower mercury fish when you have a seafood meal, wash your produce well to remove any pesticides, and limit or avoid alcohol consumption.
"The bottom line is that eating a nutrient-dense diet high in antioxidant-rich fruits, vegetables, and other foods like green tea and turmeric may help support our liver to do its job more efficiently, help your body bind certain metals, or perform other processes that help our bodies rid themselves of toxins," Azzaro shared. She reiterates that while these foods won't "detox" you directly, they can help your body perform its job efficiently to rid itself of components that aren't benefiting your health.
So, if you want to detox and stick to a remedy that has evidence backing it, skip the expensive "detox cleanses" that may be low in calories, protein, and other important nutrients. Instead, lean on foods that may help your body do its detoxing job—like cauliflower, blueberries, citrus, and broccoli—while avoiding exposure to metals, alcohol, pesticides, and other potentially harmful compounds. Also, drink adequate water to encourage the elimination process, since our bodies rid itself of these compounds via our urine, sweat, and stool. Additionally, limit ultra-processed foods in your diet.
Taking these steps will be a more sustainable way to support your natural detoxification process with very little risk. And it will be a lot more economical than following that trendy detox challenge you found online, too.
Lauren Manaker MS, RDN, LD, CLEC
Lauren Manaker is an award-winning registered dietitian, book author, and recipe developer who has been in practice for almost 20 years. Read more about Lauren
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The DfE have stated the need 'to create and enforce a clear and rigorous expectation on all schools to promote the fundamental British Values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of those with differing faiths and beliefs'.
At Hemingbrough CP School these values are integrated across the school, in a range of teaching and learning contexts.
SMSC stands for Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural education. SMSC takes a high priority at Hemingbrough CP School, embedded into our broad curriculum as well as through extra-curricular activities, trips, and clubs and theme days. It is not a 'standalone' subject.
Children have an understanding of right and wrong. This is reinforced through a well understood behaviour policy. Children and staff agree a whole school Charter and 'Say No to Bullying' at the start of each academic year. These are regularly referred to.
Children are given opportunities to offer views on moral and ethical issues through curriculum work and the introduction of the Global Learning Programme has also played a part in this area.
The school is part of a supportive and social community. Children are encouraged to use a range of social skills through the provision of clubs, fairs, discos, events, trips (including residentials) and cluster events (e.g. sports). The children have a great understanding of inclusion and help and support others regardless of faith, beliefs, race or disability.
Children have opportunities to participate in a range of artistic, musical, sporting and cultural activities. Achievements are celebrated both within class and during whole school 'Wall Assembly' and during House assemblies where children can show and discuss certificates, trophies and awards.
British Values are actively practised at Hemingbrough CP School.
Children have many opportunities for their voices to be heard through regular discussions with subject leaders, school council and eco council. Council members are voted for by their peers. We also hold mock 'general' elections when appropriate in order that children gain further first-hand experience of the electoral process.
'Lolly sticks' are used across school to ensure all children have equal opportunities to 'have their say' and children are encouraged to express their own views in lesson.
Further up the school texts which explore democracy and freedom of speech are used to develop children's understanding.
Class voting is also used regularly for a range of purposes (e.g. to decide the classes 'lunchtime' choice). Children are also able to choose from a range of reward time activities each week.
The importance of Laws (or rules) is embedded in the schools ethos. Our behaviour policy, school charter and stop the bullies reinforces this.
There are a variety of rewards for appropriate behaviour, kindness, thoughtfulness, good manners etc. as well as sanctions for inappropriate behaviour. We also have a clear uniform policy which is adhered to well.
Children are taught the value of and reasons for laws throughout the curriculum. Our school council is visiting the Houses of Parliament to further support their understanding. They will share their experience across the school.
Children are actively encouraged to make their own choices in a safe and supportive environment.
Appropriate differentiation allows our children to achieve and progress, they are able to choose from a variety of reward time activities and make simple choices about where they sit at lunch time etc.
Worry boxes are used to allow children opportunities to express concerns about self or others. Our school talent show, clubs and concerts also give children individual choice.
We have high expectations for all parties involved with the school. Children are taught to respect each other, to cooperate with and support others, to understand and accept difference. As a highly inclusive school children have many opportunities to develop these skills / ideas.
As well as promoting mutual respect across the school and its curriculum, it is also fostered through 'wall assembly', House Charity Day, circle time, partner and group work, 'nurture group' and through the adoption of Restorative Practice.
As our school is situated in a mainly mono cultural area, we ensure children experience diversity through RE, PSHCE, assemblies and theme days as well as the introduction of the Global Learning Programme.


The wind-up week is well and truly in full swing. Christmas parties are on, your staff disappear at lunchtime and return laden with shopping bags, and watching the cricket has become an important office task.
Of course, while the staff are starting to slack off just a touch, the business owner is running around like a secret agent running out of time to save the world!
No matter how busy you are though, this is the time that you need to spend a few minutes saying a proper thanks to the people who have helped you through the year, including staff, key advisers, mentors and other supporters.
If you haven't done so already, a small gift with a note of thanks is a great way to show your appreciation. If you can't afford a gift, a note or a phone call will suffice.
The key thing here is to show to staff that you are personally grateful for their hard work, and excited about the year ahead.
Many staff will appreciate a five minute chat more than any crappy Christmas hamper anyway!