If Rudy Project athletes were their own country, Rudy Nation would be fourth overall in medal count & fourth in gold.
Rudy Project North America, exclusive distributors of Italian-made sunglasses, and the thirty distributors of Rudy Project around the world celebrated the achievements of the global roster of athletes that won two dozen medals in South Korea this past February. All in all, Rudy Project athletes the world over won 25 medals total, with 10 gold, 11 silver, and 4 bronze medals across multiple disciplines. If Rudy athletes were their own country, the total would have made Rudy Project the fourth ranked nation in terms of total medal count. More impressive, Rudy Nation would have edged out the United States, Netherlands and South Korea for total number of gold medals for a spot at number four.
Over 65 athletes sported Rudy Project's technically cool eyewear and helmets, heralding from Norway, Italy, United States, South Korea, Canada, and Estonia, to name a few. Rudy Project sponsored athletes competed in a number of winter disciplines, from biathlon to combined Nordic, cross country skiing, speed skating, and freestyle snowboarding.
Rudy Project has a tradition of elevating the performance of winter athletes around the globe. Speed skater Ted Jan Bloeman, who took two medals home to Canada, came into the world-class competition fresh from claiming the world speed record in the 50k distance. Cross country skiing athletes Jessie Diggins and Kikkan Randall took a historic win during the team sprint free event, claiming gold by a hairsbreadth ahead of the Swedish team they had been dueling the entire 7.5 km relay. Their overjoyed faces after the win said it all – together Diggins and Randall had managed to end a four-decade long drought for the United States – the last cross-country medal won by the USA came in 1976, a silver medal claimed by American Bill Koch.
Rudy Project athletes claimed success in plenty of other arenas – Italian speed skating legend Arianna Fontana took gold in the 500m distance and lead her Italian teammates to claim silver in the 3000 m relay. South Korean athlete Alang Kim took gold in the same event, flying around the track in a victory lap eyes smiling through her Tralyx sunglasses, secure in her Boost Pro aero helmet that lent her speed and protection during the race.
The competition was not without its ups and downs. Norwegian cross-country athlete Simen Hegstad Krueger overcame a crash at the opening gate to take gold in the men's 30km skiathlon. The fall in the first 100 meters came when Krueger's right ski slipped out from underneath him, taking him down into the snow with two more skiers piling up behind him. The fall resulted in a broken pole, and after swapping out for a new one, Krueger climbed doggedly for the next 29 km, working his way methodically back from last place. Halfway through the race he had worked his way up to 14th place and on an ascent with 8km remaining, he climbed determinedly past the competition, to work his way up to 5th. With 5km left, Krueger had worked his way all the back into first place, digging deep and screaming through curves, to cruise across the finish line 8 seconds ahead of the chase pack. Directly after Krueger's come-from-behind win, he swapped out his Red Fluo Tralyx for a Gold Velvet frame, to match the medal hanging around his neck.
In all, Rudy Project celebrated the achievements of 65 athletes from over 15 countries, including the entire Polish biathlon team, the Estonian combined Nordic team, and Italian cross country star Frederico Pellegrino.
"We have a record-setting team this year," said Chris Lupo, Sponsorship Director for North America. "We cannot wait to see what our athletes bring to the world stage in another four years.


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Official discussions about Jubaland's status as an autonomous state in Somalia began as soon as Hassan Sh. Mohamud took office in September 2012. In December, the government in Mogadishu met with Ahmed Mohamed Islam (Ahmed Madobe, following the common Somali use of nicknames for leaders), leader of the Ras Kamboni Brigade (formerly allied to Hizbul Islam), to discuss the prospects for the autonomy of Jubaland. The Ras Kamboni Brigade appears to be in de facto control of Kismayo, a city whose security is currently officially under the control of Kenyan AU/AMISOM troops.
In May, Madobe and several other militia leaders declared themselves president of an autonomous Jubaland, self-appointments which Mogadishu has deemed unconstitutional. On June 7, Defence Minister Abdihakim Mahmoudis Haji visited Kismayo for meetings; when one self-declared president – Iftin Hassan Basto – was on his way to meet Haji, the Ras Kamboni Brigade stopped Basto in the area of Alanley Market (Suuqa Calanley). Clashes erupted between the Ras Kamboni Brigade and the Ormale militia loyal to Basto. The UN and HRW reported that at least 31 civilians died in fighting between June 7 and 8, as militias reportedly rained mortars on areas of the city – particularly on Dalaada, part of Alanley district along the road to the airport.
Someone in Kismayo sent me a text message (SMS) on June 28 that heavy fighting had begun at 15:00 hrs that day, following clashes in which seven were killed on June 27. The fighting appears to have taken place after Col. Abbas Ibrahim Gurey (Abbas Dheere) was detained by AMISOM Sector II troops in Kismayo. The militia loyal to Col. Barre Hirale, a close ally of Abbas Dheere, attacked the Ras Kamboni Brigade and AMISOM troops. The Ras Kamboni Brigade reportedly took full control of the city, but the Somali government has accused Kenyan AMISOM troops of violating their mandate by taking sides in the conflict.
More on Kismayo and Jubaland to follow.
This entry was posted in Conflict analysis, Somalia and tagged Ahmed Madobe, Conflict analysis, Kismayo, mapping, Ras Kamboni Brigade on July 2, 2013 by DT.
Risky business and refugee capitalism - the Somali township economy in South Africa
This article is a brief overview of the findings of the article "Risky business and geographies of refugee capitalism in the Somali migrant economy of Gauteng, South Africa" in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. This piece builds on two previous pieces written with Richard Grant, which appeared in Urban Geography and Urban Forum; a […]
"The State of Post-conflict Reconstruction" in Juba, South Sudan by Naseem Badiey (Book Review)
The State of Post-conflict Reconstruction: Land, Urban Development and State-building in Juba, Southern Sudan. By Naseem Badiey. James Currey Press, 2014. The title of this book hints at the convergence of several fascinating topics, and situates the work within a growing literature relating national politics to more localized experiences. The intersection of urban perspectives and […]
REMNASA, the Nyarango Boys, and the "non-existent" Western Equatoria Rebellion
The situation in Western Equatoria remains fluid and muddy, with diverse reports of what has happened over the past year regarding rebellion and the emergence of armed groups, particularly the Revolutionary Movement for National Salvation (REMNASA) – led by Major Losuba Lodoru Wango, who reportedly worked with the South Sudan Ministry of Defense before his defection – […]
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Emerging international monetary order and the banking system
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Published 1976 by University Pub. Projects in Tel Aviv .
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Statement sponsored by Tel Aviv University, Top Executive Course, Faculty of Management, Leon Recanati Graduate School of Business Administration ; editor, Yair Aharoni.
Contributions Aharoni, Yair., Bet-ha-sefer le-musmakhim be-minhal ʻasakim ʻal shem Leon Racanati. Faculty of Management.
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Bloodtide Blu-ray Review
"Bloodtide" has its moments.
Directed by Richard Jefferies and written by Nico Mastorakis and Jefferies, the low-budget 1982 horror film "Bloodtide" begins with a prologue of an ancient beast being offered a sacrificial virgin. Obviously, that scene sets the tone for what is to come (not to mention hint at future plotting). The story jumps ahead in time to a couple (Neil and Sherry) arriving at a picturesque but slightly creepy Greek island to find Neil's missing sister (Madeline). They find Madeline hanging out with a treasure hunter (Frye) and his lover/co-worker (Barbara), but she is acting a bit strange to say the least. To make a long story short, Frye ends up awakening the evil ancient creature in an underwater cave and it begins to wreak havoc on locals. It's also seeking a new virgin sacrifice…which just might be Madeline.
Clocking in at 97 minutes, "Bloodtide" is a bit of a slow burn creature feature that is light on the creature aspect. The creature is mostly off screen and, when it is shown, it's very cheap looking (not to mention far from scary). The story itself is also very basic and in dire need of more development. There's clearly something to mine with the mythology here, but the writers only scratch the surface.
With all of that said, "Bloodtide" manages to be quite watchable even if it's nothing you haven't seen before. There's sex appeal aplenty, gorgeous location shooting in Greece, a Lovecraftian vibe, and a talented cast comprised of James Earl Jones, Jose Ferrer, Martin Kove (who is having his own career resurrection with "Cobra Kai"), Deborah Shelton, and Lydia Cornell.
Presentation: 1.85:1 1080p. How does it look? The film has been restored from a 4K scan of the original camera negative and the results are largely impressive. The many scenes on the island or at sea are particularly stunning. I will say some of the darker scenes appear overly grainy though.
Audio Track: Uncompressed Mono. How does it sound? Expect a nice clean Mono track.
* A booklet featuring credits, an essay by film journalist Michael Gringold and photos.
* Original and 2020 trailer
* "Swept By The Tide"- A new 29 minute interview with the personable Nico Mastorakis.
* A Michael Felsher moderated commentary by director and co-writer Richard Jefferies (who is very honest here)
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At the City Council meeting on March 20, Council heard the second of two required public input sessions before potential district maps are formed by demographers National Demographic Corporations (NDC).
During a lengthy public-comment session, many speakers voiced concern over points made in the prior night's Capo Cares meeting held at Capo Beach Church, that by-district voting is not a progressive solution to the racially polarized voting claimed by attorney Russel D. Myrick of RDM Legal Group who deems Dana Point in violation of the California Voters Rights Act (CVRA).
A representative from NDC speaking to the Council explained that although NDC may find a city's voting pattern to not be racially polarized, but that it in no way concludes a judge would uphold the same legal opinion.
Dana Point City Attorney Patrick Munoz explained that as the CVRA is written, the burden of proof is on the cities to prove that their voting records do not show racially polarized voting.
"As the law is written, if you district, and stay within the safe-harbor mandates, you are immune (from a lawsuit) even if it (by-district voting) doesn't help the real issue," Munoz said, responding to City Council member Paul Wyatt, who was largely concerned with identifying and looking to assist communities that feel disenfranchised by the current voting system.
Many members of the public, and City Council member Debra Lewis, voiced interest in seeking "alternative methods," such as what the City of Mission Viejo has done. Mission Viejo admitted to racially polarized voting, but determined that by-district voting would not solve that issue, and is in talks with the legal group threatening suit over a CVRA violation.
"In my opinion, he (Attorney Kevin Shenkman, who notified Mission Viejo of their CVRA violation) is going to tell them to stuff it," said Munoz. Munoz continued, emphasizing that only establishing by-district voting permanently ensures safe-harbor from future lawsuits concerning CVRA violation.
After the two public input sessions, NDC will release multiple by-district voting maps for discussion at the next City Council meeting. The maps, which are interactive, will be available on the www.danapoint.org website seven days before the meeting.


In this survey (2014Q4) the overall national listenership of radio grew marginally by 34,000 to 84%, but this also pushed it over the 3m listener mark. That's up one percentage point on the survey of 2013Q4 and it's the biggest national listenership radio has enjoyed since the survey of 2013Q2 as each subsequent survey the overall radio figure has remained either static or shown marginal declines visualised in the graph(s) below.
Underneath this figure lie varying fortunes. The chatter over the last few books has been around Newstalk and its Lazarus like transformation compared to earlier years. Comparing it to the 2013Q4 book Newstalk has seen is listenership increase by some 24% (+77,000) to leave it now at 392,000 (11%). Book on book it's up a modest (relative to its twelve month performance) 4%.
It's got its stable mate Today FM firmly in its sights and is now only 68,000 listeners away from it compared to 146,000 this time last year. Given that it added 77,000 in the last twelve months you can do the speculative maths alone.
Radio1 had a 2% decline dropping 13,000 listeners and coming in at 836,000 or a 23% reach, which is still very healthy by any media standard. 2FM, on the other hand, dropped 19,000 or 5% to bring them in at 375,000 and slipping further away from Newstalk. It would be rude not to mention that book on book 2FM did add 3% – so perhaps in the more recent past things are looking better.
Today FM held their ground only dropping 1,000 listeners, but on a book on book basis they were down marginally by 3,000. Lyric performed well adding 8% bring them to 137,000 (4%) and Home Locals and the Regionals also gained some ground on twelve months back.
Turning to market shares where some of the losses/gains in overall listenership were reflected in the shares. RTE Radio, as a group, lost 2.4% points compared to the previous twelve months driven by Radio1 and 2FM who lost 1.9% and 0.8% respectively. Newstalk is up 1.6% points in the twelve months as were the regional stations, the only two benefactors in the share part of the national survey.
The graph above (stations only) shows the slow erosion of the Radio1 dominance, albeit still managing to maintain 13% points on its nearest rival Today FM. And also Newstalk just missing out on catching up on 2FM – but I'd guess that will change in this quarter.
Finally a courtesy look at the day parts for the different stations – which are explored elsewhere here in greater detail. Again the dominance of Radio1 in the morning and lunchtime is the only real story in the graphs. Also that Newstalk's early in the morning has the edge on 2FM but then they relinquish that grip until George takes to the airwaves much later in the day.


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Hey TNT, can you please clear up a mystery that has been bugging us on the NC Mall board? Those of us that bought the Grams received the Sweetheart Gram Dressing Room, as well as a message from The Neopets Team. The message seems legit and all, but what's with you all Neomailing us from a different account than TheNeopetsTeam, and without the TNT avatar? Did you all develop another identity? ~laica2003
Nope! This was just a mistake on our part. :) We don't use the Neomail application to send Neomails since we have magical access directly to the database. As a result, when the script was written to send the Neomails out, the username was accidentally set to "The Neopets Team" (which isn't a username and, therefore, doesn't have an avatar) instead of "theneopetsteam." Whoops!
It's since been fixed, though. If you still have the Neomail in your Inbox, it will be from "theneopetsteam."
*places plate of Asparagus Flavored Cookies on table* So... is the Crafting Faerie going to be just like any other faerie after the event is over? Will she just randomly appear and give us a quest, or is she going to be like the Snow Faerie? (Leave my name out!) ~username removed
Yes, she'll be like the other Random Event faeries, so you'll never be sure when or where she'll pop up and ask for your assistance.
Hi, TNT. :) My question is about the Faerie Quest event. Now that the event is over and we will return to regular Faerie Quests, this means the reward for completing a quest will not be applied to our active Neopet and we cannot choose which Neopet receives the reward from the Faerie Quest, right? Could you please think about that? It's so hard and expensive to train a Neopet; it would be an enormous help to all who are training only one Neopet, yet have more than one. Thank you, and please remove my username! :) ~username removed
All Faerie Quest stat rewards are applied to the active Neopet. That's a permanent change. It won't go back to the old way once the event ends.
Aloha, TNT! *throws island Koi plushie at TNT* I have a question about the Faerie Quest event that's currently going on. Toward the beginning of the event, I got and completed my very first Fountain Faerie Quest and painted my Koi island (hence the plushie I threw at you). My question is this: are all the users who participate in the quest event destined to get one of Naia's quests, or did I suddenly have an extremely rare burst of miraculously good luck? ~sqwertybug93
The same method of determining the quest that you get when you receive a Faerie Quest Random Event was used during the event. In other words, it was completely random. So, yeah, you had a stroke of good luck. :) Congrats!
Heeeey! This is just a Yellow Koi Plushie! Apparently we need to schedule an Island Koi Plushie so that it exists for Neopians to throw at us, then go back in time so we can be hit in the face with it.
Facebook is an off-site webpage. We aren't allowed to tell someone to go off-site, yet you mention Facebook (or FB) all the time now. Will FB be an exception to the rule now or not? ~leftykate
Asking people to search for something on Facebook or add you as a friend is off limits. It falls under linking off-site and is not allowed. Discussing Facebook in general, however, is fine.
"Haha, did everyone see TNT's latest post on Facebook? It cracked me up." (Or, alternately, "It angered me. WHY AREN'T THEY WORKING ON THE NEXT PLOT INSTEAD OF POSTING THIS!?!?")
"I woke up, checked Facebook, then logged into the headstart to level my chloromancer."
Not okay:
"Heeeeey I need more FB friends! Add me! My name is Fancia Pantinas."
"Search for RANDOM-FACEBOOK-GAME-THINGY-MABOB on Facebook. It's awesome."
We also want to remind you that, just like any other site on the Interwebs, it's best to be informed about how Facebook works to keep yourself safe. Our reach extends no further than our own Facebook page, and we obviously can't tell you what to do with your own account! So, indulge us while we suggest making your Facebook profile friends-only and that you refrain from sharing your Neopets username with strangers. *nod*
Hi, TNT. *gives TNT some cookies since throwing them might hurt* I read in the news that you're going to add a new feature relating to Facebook, but you said that users under 13 won't see any Facebook functionality. Will we still be able to like things, though, since that won't direct us to Facebook, or will we literally not see anything that has to do with Facebook? Please remove my username. Thanks! ~username removed
If you're under 13 you won't see anything that has to do with Facebook at all. COPPA, which is a federal law in the United States, applies here. You can't have a Facebook account, and we can't link you to Facebook.
Holy Kau, TNT! That story about the Deserted Fairground is so violent and horrific! I did NOT expect it to be that scary... (please remove my username). ~username removed
Sorry, but we did warn you! :X There's a darn good reason that place is deserted.
Hi, TNT! Hypothetical situation here involving two good imaginary friends of mine, Sally and Bob. Sally gets a Fountain Faerie Quest. She already has all of her dream Neopets, however, so she has no need for it. Bob has never received a FFQ before and Sally wants to donate her FFQ to Bob as a gift. Would it be allowed for Bob to send his Neopet to Sally's account, where Sally would use her FFQ on Bob's Neopet and then transfer it back to Bob? I'm getting confused about this because it isn't allowed with the Lab Ray, so I can't work out if it would be allowed with a FFQ. Please let me know! ~zemzii
While giving away your hard-earned lab zap or FFQ pass is a nice gesture, we don't allow this because Bob should be earning his own Lab Map. Bob should complete his own FFQ (if he were lucky enough to receive one) in order to get a pass to the fountain. First and foremost, Neopets is a game. Bob should be using his own progress in the game to achieve goals and reap the benefits, not someone else's.
So, now that the Facebook frenzy is making its way to Neopia, I have a question about group links. The guild I'm in also has a Facebook page that's just for our guild members. Could we post a link on our Neopets guild page of our Facebook Neopets guild page? ~animavisionary
As stated in an earlier question, this would be linking off-site and is not allowed.
This has been bugging me for some time. The coins / scarabs from the Coin Shop say Kiko Lake Coin in their description and item type. Why is this? Was the shop originally supposed to be in Kiko Lake, or is this the doing of some deranged Meepit? Could you please put this to rest once and for all? ~waterdragon386
Yes, the shop was originally planned to be in Kiko Lake, but that was changed at the last minute. We'll see if we can change the type name, maybe to something like "Coins and Collectables" so it's more clear. (We'll try to change the seashells one, too, while we're at it. :P)
Dear TNT,
*throws some REALLY old kinds of food at you* I've heard some commotion on the Pound Chat (PC) with regard to the question of a mass conversion of Neopets. They say that, since you allowed Facebook (which you said wouldn't be allowed), you might allow a mass conversion of Neopets, which would disappoint all of the Neopians who have unconverted Neopets! Not being an owner of a UC myself, it doesn't concern me, but still... I worry for those that do. Please tell us you won't convert them! Thanks for reading, and please remove my username! ~username removed
Long ago we also thought we'd never have ads on the site, but now we do. Neopets has been around for over a decade (a long time for any game!), and we survive by having wonderful, loyal players, and by trying to keep up with the times. Over the course of the site's life many things have changed, and so we've changed our minds, too. We've learned to never say "never" because, down the road, you don't know what will happen and you don't know what circumstances will arise that necessitate a change. All we can do is tell you our thoughts on the matter now; with regard to UC Neopets, we still don't have any current intention of converting them.
In the news, you mentioned that Dr. Sloth was auctioning off old stamps. Where can we find these auctions? I have been seeking the last stamp for my Lost Desert page for ages and I want to see if he's selling it. ~philodox
The auctions are done through the dr_sloth account, but this month's auction has already come and gone, removing a terrific amount of Neopoints from the economy in the process and funding the reeducation of many Grundos! (Congrats again to the winner!) The good news for those who couldn't quite afford the stamp's auction is that the sudden flurry of players selling off items in an attempt to get the pure Neopoints to bid actually caused quite a few other things to become slightly more affordable!
Hooray for economics!
Hey, TNT! I have one small question: on a recent quest to find the perfect Petpet for my adorable chocolate Kougra, I sauntered past the Petpet Puddle, only to find that there were no chocolate Petpets listed! Of course the Chocolate Petpet Paint Brush doesn't exist, but those chocolate Petpets certainly do! Is there a reason they aren't listed? Have they all been eaten? ~shonnie666
Chocolate, as well as ice, jelly, strawberry, and gold (with some exceptions) are all Lab Ray-only colours. Therefore, they do not show up at the Petpet Puddle. Despite the rather misleading name of "All Petpet Colours," the Petpet Puddle is there to show you what colours your Petpet can be painted, not what colours exist for that Petpet, which is why you won't find Petpets such as the Yooyu there.
Mmm... chocolate.
Warm fuzzy letter of the week:
This isn't really a question, but I just want you all to know how much you've been a part of my childhood. *throws memories* From the original sidebar, the circles in Neopets backgrounds, everything... :') you don't understand how dreary my childhood would have been without you; thank you so much. :) I sure miss a lot about the old Neopets, but TNT has done an incredible job, and you should all be proud to be a part of it! I know I'm such a geek, but you've really shaped me as a person - even if you don't post this, thank you, Neopets! ~lolsaint
Excuse us, our faces seem to be leaking. *goes to find tissue*
We also realised that we made an "oops" in the last Editorial. For the purposes of the Beauty Contest, your Neopet does not have to be the colour it's represented as in the image. Sorry for the confusion! We threw the person responsible for the error into the Meepit-pit. It shouldn't happen again.
If you have a question that you think should be answered, click here and you can use our submission form. The most common/bizarre questions will appear here next week.
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Size is Everything
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Academese #3: Chip's Intro
But he IS a freshman...
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Sophie versus The Next Generation
One of his key strategies was to bend the truth to however he saw fit. It had worked for quite a while, but then Mr. Peterson had made the mistake of messing with Sophie the Swamp Witch.
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Cyberpunk 2077 met with second delay, release set for November
Given the revised launch date of mid-November, some are speculating that CD Projekt Red's decision could have more to do with timing than polish. That is, a mid-November launch is right around the time that next-gen consoles from Microsoft and Sony are expected to go on sale. Having a mega game like Cyberpunk 2077 as a launch title would certainly give gamers yet another reason to hop aboard the early adopter bandwagon.
CD Projekt Red has made good on its promise to share more information about the pending release of Cyberpunk 2077. Unfortunately, it probably isn't the sort of news that most want to hear.
In a press release issued on Thursday, CD Projekt Red said it has decided to push the launch of Cyberpunk 2077 back to November 19. The dev said that at the time of writing, the game is finished both content and gameplay-wise. From the quests and cutscenes to skills and items, everything is in place. But with such a complex game, the team felt it needed a little extra time to balance gameplay mechanics and iron out bugs.
"Ready when it's done" is not just a phrase we say because it sounds right, it's something we live by even when we know we'll take the heat for it. At the same time, we are fully aware that making such a decision costs us your trust and trading trust for additional time is one of the hardest decisions a game developer can make. And despite we think it's the right decision for the game, we'd still like to apologize for making you wait longer.
Even still, a two-month delay isn't fun, especially considering this is the second time the game has been bumped. In January, it was revealed that the original April 16 launch had been postponed until September 17. As recently as April, it appeared as though the game was still on track to launch before the official start of fall.
On the bright side, CD Projekt Red noted that journalists are starting to play the game this week and should have previews ready to go right after its June 25 "Night City Wire" presentation.
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OJ: Understanding the Internet and how it works
Understand the internet, Internet vs internet, browser, domain name, hosting, website (design- HTML, CSS, php,Mysql), content management systems.
—The Internet is a worldwide collection of digital networks, cooperating with each other to exchange data using a common software standard (http, ftp etc), which ensure uniform and efficient communication across the world. Also called the World Wide Web.
example of a web page
Contrary to popular belief, these two terms do not mean the same thing. The Internet refers to the network of connected computers that share information. The World Wide Web refers to a way of accessing information through the Internet using the hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) and Web browsers. It does not include other protocols such as e-mail, instant messaging and file transfer (FTP).
The internet is a media/ channel of communication, just like the newspaper, radio or television.However, the internet is different as we shall see in the next chapter.
Internet is no longer a connection of computer networks as many people these days use other devices like phones, camera, tv, ipods etc to connect to the internet. While Internet is the global interconnection of digital devices, internet is the signal we use to connect to the Internet (got from ISPs or Internet Service Providers).
Browsers (like firefox mozilla, google chrione, safari, opera etc) are the vehicles we use to reach the internet and make sense of it (read the html-the language used to make webpages).
But when many people say they are going to the internet or find something on the internet, they are indeed referring to a website where particular information can be found or which someone can do to access particular functionality. any website needs to have a domain name (web address) and be hosted by a hosting provider like UMC.
A Web server is a special type of computer that stores and distributes/presents information over the Internet.
But how does it know which information to serve? The URL (uniform resource locator) or Web address is the key and is very similar to how you receive mail at your home or office. Although you recognize a Web address likehttp://www.yahoo.com, Web servers know that location as 209.73.186.238. That's the IP address (IP = Internet Protocol), which is a unique, numeric identity of a Web server location. All Web addresses have corresponding IP addresses that computers recognize but people never would. Registering a domain name secures a human-readable Web address and associates it with a numeric and computer friendly IP address.
Note that these days some people can access the internet and indeed a website without having to go to a browser and trying in the web address (read domain), but through an app (application) designed specifically for the purpose of making it easy to access a particular website and its functionalities.
A domain name or web address can tell you much about the website you are about to access or you are on. Every country has its own domain- a website ending with .ug tells the domain name is registered in Uganda, while .uk, is United Kingdom, .ke is Kenya, .za is South Africa etc. In addition to country domains, there are organisational domains- a domain having .ac.ug or ac.uk .ac.ke indicates it is for an academic institution, while .or or .org indicates its in a non profit organisation, and .co.ug, co.uk indicates its a commercial company, and .go.ug, .go.ke indicates its a government domain. All domains ending with three letters e.g .com (commercial), .org (non profit), .edu (education institution), .net (network) are registered in the United States. You can however register a domain in any country, but it will operate under the laws of that country where it is register. A domain name has got to be renewed each year by paying a fee determined by ICAN (international committee of assigned names) or the hosting service provider. The hosting service is also usually renewed in annual packages.
According to wikipedia.com, the internet consists of millions of private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope, linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless, and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries an extensive range of information resources and services, such as the inter-linked hypertext documents and applications of the World Wide Web (WWW), the infrastructure to support email, and peer-to-peer networks for file sharing andtelephony.
Internet censorship map. Green shows less or no, purple widespread censorship. (Source: Wikipedia)
The origins of the Internet date back to research commissioned by the United States government in the 1960s to build robust, fault-tolerant communication via computer networks. This work, combined with efforts in the United Kingdom and France, led to precursor networks such as ARPANET in the United States and CYCLADES in France. The interconnection of regional academic networks in the 1980s marks the beginning of the transition to the modern Internet. From the early 1990s, the network experienced sustained exponential growth as generations of institutional, personal, and mobile computers were connected to it.
The funding of a new U.S. backbone by the National Science Foundation in the 1980s, as well as private funding for other commercial backbones, led to worldwide participation in the development of new networking technologies, and the merger of many networks. Though the Internet has been widely used by academia since the 1980s, the commercialization of what was by the 1990s an international network resulted in its popularization and incorporation into virtually every aspect of modern human life. As of June 2012, more than 2.4 billion people—over a third of the world's human population—have used the services of the Internet; approximately 100 times more people than were using it in 1995. Internet use grew rapidly in the West from the mid-1990s to early 2000s and from the late 1990s to present in the developing world. In 1994 only 3% of American classrooms had access to the Internet while by 2002 92% did.
Most traditional communications media including telephone, music, film, television, and video gaming are being reshaped or redefined by the Internet, giving birth to new services such as voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and Internet Protocol television(IPTV). Newspaper, book, and other print publishing are adapting to website technology, or are reshaped into blogging and web feeds. The Internet has enabled and accelerated new forms of human interactions through instant messaging, Internet forums, andsocial networking. Online shopping has boomed both for major retail outlets and small artisans and traders. Business-to-businessand financial services on the Internet affect supply chains across entire industries.
The Internet has no centralized governance in either technological implementation or policies for access and usage; each constituent network sets its own policies. Only the overreaching definitions of the two principal name spaces in the Internet, the Internet Protocol address space and the Domain Name System (DNS), are directed by a maintainer organization, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). The technical underpinning and standardization of the core protocols is an activity of theInternet Engineering Task Force (IETF), a non-profit organization of loosely affiliated international participants that anyone may associate with by contributing technical expertise.[8] more
The video below is on introduction to the internet
This video below gives more on what the internet is
The video below shows how the internet works
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There are people who are uninformed who have created a panic over a mundane event in the Mayan calendar. Around December 21, 2012, the Mayan SHORT calendar will 'roll over' and restart. Ignorant people are claiming that means the end of the world!
The same people said that the world was going to end when the Millennium occurred at 1000 AD, and then again at 2000 AD!
The troublesome part is that Reporters are not knowledgeable enough to know the truth so as to assure the public. Instead, Reporters assume that the speakers have some intelligence and so they repeat the terrifying silliness that is being promoted, as though it was true.
The commonly used Mayan calendar is sometimes referred to as the Mayan Short calendar. It cycles through all its dates over about 400 years.
The Mayan Long calendar simply proceds! So around December 21, 2012, the Mayan Long calendar will close out the TWELFTH four-hundred-year cycle and begin the THIRTEENTH. Period.
Around September 18, 1618, the Mayan Long calendar had closed out the ELEVENTH cycle and began the TWELFTH then. So, for the past 400 years or so, the TWELFTH cycle has been proceeding. Since no one lives long enough where 400-year-cycles are personally important, virtually all Mayans always used the Mayan Short calendar for all practical purposes.
So in the same way where we might now simply call this 'year 12' of this current Millennium, and that would actually be totally sufficient for all practical purposes for the next thousand years, the Mayan Short calendar is like that. We happen to be willing to always refer to the two digits TWO and ZERO before all calendar dates which we can ever possibly encounter, which is sort of wasted effort from a practical perspective!
In case you REALLY want to plan ahead, the THIRTEENTH cycle of the Mayan Long calendar will end around March 26, 2407. Put it on your calendar!
I have referred to CYCLE here, for a reason. There are actually TWO different Mayan calendars which have been in use. They are essentially the same, except for some details such as one (Haab) having 19 months per year and the other (Tzolkin) having 20 months per year!


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The Day the Angels Fell
It was the summer of storms and strays and strangers. The summer that lightning struck the big oak tree in the front yard. The summer his mother died in a tragic accident. As he recalls the tumultuous events that launched a surprising journey, Samuel can still hardly believe it all happened.
After his mother's death, twelve-year-old Samuel Chambers would do anything to turn back time. Prompted by three strange carnival fortune-tellers and the surfacing of his mysterious and reclusive neighbor, Samuel begins his search for the Tree of Life--the only thing that could possibly bring his mother back. His quest to defeat death entangles him and his best friend Abra in an ancient conflict and forces Samuel to grapple with an unwelcome question: could it be possible that death is a gift?
Haunting and hypnotic, The Day the Angels Fell is a story that explores the difficult questions of life in a voice that is fresh, friendly, and unafraid. With this powerful debut, Shawn Smucker has carved out a spot for himself in the tradition of authors Madeleine L'Engle and Lois Lowry.
All She Left Behind by Jane Kirkpatrick
Jennie Pickett is a natural healer, but her dreams to become a doctor in 1870s Oregon put her at odds with the world around her. As she struggles to keep her dream alive, she finds that the road to fulfillment winds past love, heartache, and plenty of surprises along the way.
The Christmas Blessing by Melody Carlson
When she receives the news in late 1944 that her baby's father was shot down in the South Pacific, Amelia Richards loses hope. Jobless and broke, she has nowhere to turn for help but her infant's paternal grandparents. The only problem is, they don't know that she--or their grandson--exists. When Amelia discovers that the family is wealthy and influential, dare she disclose the truth of her relationship with their son? Or could the celebration of the arrival of another unexpected baby nearly two thousand years ago be the answer to her dilemma?
Beloved author Melody Carlson pens a story of love, hardship, and reconciliation that will leave readers filled with Christmas joy.
These Healing Hills by Ann H. Gabhart
Francine Howard has her life all mapped out until the soldier she planned to marry at WWII's end writes to tell her he's in love with a woman in England. Devastated, Francine seeks a fresh start in the Appalachian Mountains, training to be a nurse midwife for the Frontier Nursing Service.
Deeply affected by the horrors he witnessed at war, Ben Locke has never thought further ahead than making it home to Kentucky. His future shrouded in as much mist as his beloved mountains, he's at a loss when it comes to envisioning what's next for his life.
When Francine's and Ben's paths intersect, it's immediately clear that they are from different worlds and value different things. But love has a way of healing old wounds . . . and revealing tantalizing new possibilities.
Justice Buried by Patricia Bradley
In an effort to get her security consulting business off the ground, Kelsey Allen has been spending a lot of time up in the air, rappelling down buildings and climbing through windows to show business owners their vulnerabilities to thieves. When she is hired to pose as a conservator at the Pink Palace Museum in order to test their security weaknesses after some artifacts go missing, she's ecstatic. But when her investigative focus turns from theft to murder, Kelsey knows she's out of her league--and possibly in the cross hairs. When blast-from-the-past Detective Brad Hollister is called in to investigate, Kelsey may find that he's the biggest security threat yet . . . to her heart.
Crackling with romantic tension and laced with intrigue, this suspenseful story from award-winning author Patricia Bradley will keep readers guessing--and looking over their shoulders.
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I must add some of these books to my wish list. They sound like great ones! Thanks.
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Dietary Cholesterol Unrelated to Cardiovascular Disease!
Posted on August 18, 2015 | Comments Off on Dietary Cholesterol Unrelated to Cardiovascular Disease!
…according to this article at American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
This is quite contrary to the party line spread by public health authorities for the last 40 years.
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Six of every 10 middle-aged and older women in the U.S. are taking calcium supplements, hoping to keep their bones strong and thereby avoid osteoporotic fractures of the hip, spine, and wrist. A new study in the British Medical Journal suggests that high calcium consumption, whether from food or supplements, increases the risk of death.
In this study of women in the Swedish mammography cohort, a high calcium intake (>1400 mg/day) was associated with an increased rate of mortality, including death from cardiovascular disease. The increase was moderate with a high dietary calcium intake without supplement use, but the combination of a high dietary calcium intake and calcium tablet use resulted in a more pronounced increase in mortality. For most women with lower intakes we observed only modest differences in risk.
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Bristol City Poet Vanessa Kisuule has invited Bristolians to send in their own poems about the city. Every two months she selects her favourite poem submitted to be featured on the blog. The poem chosen this time is 'Junkies in the Underpass' by Caroline Burrows.
My poem is about an underpass I cycle through to get from Temple Meads, past St. Philips recycling centre, through an underpass which comes out at Big Yellow Storage, Lawrence Hill/Barton Hill area.
the junkies in the underpass.
astride a bike, without lights.
l spy left, at pedal level.
between broken glass and grit.
of most of Bristol's trades.
and the sugar, and the slaves.
Graffiti scrawls across the pictures.
Letters and words all strung out.
Just a public place defaced.
this exact time and space.
Please note that this poem cannot be reproduced without permission of the author.
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As of August the 30th I may call myself a Master of Science (MSc.). At that date I have successfully defended my thesis titled "Combating Snowshoe Spam with Fire". People have often asked if 'Fire' is some kind of an acronym, it ain't 😉 In the thesis we detail how DNS configurations may be used to track down snowshoe spam domains. Snowshoe spam spreads out the sending over a great number of hosts to reduce the volume per host, making the individual hosts harder to detect and blacklist.
For the last couple of weeks I have been developing a Virtual Reality Browser. In true Linux fashion, I was not satisfied with the VR Browsers available in the Google Play Store, so I developed my own. Yes, I know, to really adhere to the fashion I should fork an existing one… It is, has been, an interesting experience. This is mainly due to me not having any experience in Android app development, at all.
Bit of a late post, but better late than never. FOSDEM 2017 was a nice time, as usual. Didn't get to every talk I wanted to go to, but did see many interesting talks.Looking at the FOSDEM 2017 post, the first talk I had selected and actually attended was 'Introduction to A-Frame'. A nice introductory talk about A-Frame. A-Frame being a framework for web based Virtual Reality applications. The inspector part is really neat.


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Home Swimming
Vlaams Belang MP shocks and angers with "swimming pool tweet"
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Newly elected Vlaams Belang severe right MP has been referred to as out within the Flemish parliament for his "despicable message." NV-A MP Matthias Diependaele reacted angrily within the Flemish parliament on Thursday, whilst a Vlaams Belang member's provocative tweet changed into examining out.
In this tweet, Sam Van Rooy (VB) cited a press article in line with which a swimming pool in Utrecht (Netherlands) brought one-of-a-kind schedules for youngsters and households, fearing the former might disenchanted the latter. "I recognize a 'swimming pool' wherein those 'young individuals who disturb' can go and swim one at a time following their 'very own time table': the Mediterranean Sea," the extreme right MP wrote. Many readers were outraged, seeing in it a reference to the endless drownings of migrants attempting to reach Europe by crossing the Mediterranean.
This kind of post could influence the formation of the Flemish authorities, even as the N-VA is still in talks with Vlaams Belang. Other Belgian parties such, Open Vld and CD&V had been repeating their refusal to take a seat down at the identical table as the long way right celebration for weeks, drastically mentioning the proposals of Filip Dewinter, Dries Van Langenhove, and Sam Van Rooy. Vlaams Belang president and chief Tom Van Grieken and Chris Janssens have pop out in guide for Van Rooy following the debate his tweet has stirred.
While N-VA MP Diependaele defined Van Rooy's tweet as despicable, tries have been made to calm the situation inside the N-VA. "This message is Van Rooy's responsibility. We have constantly said we should take what electors are announcing significantly and communicate substance with a celebration that won a whole lot of votes inside the remaining elections," they commented.
A group of researchers has calculated sufficient space on Earth to plant sufficient timber to take in -thirds of the carbon dioxide within the air. This proposed technique to climate trade, contained in a look posted on Thursday in Science magazine, has been defined as exaggerated by other scientists. In their study, professors of ETH Zurich University estimate that the Earth has enough space for 900 million greater canopies, similarly to the 2.Eight billion hectares of bushes it presently has. They arrived at this figure by analyzing the present forests and taking weather and soil into consideration to look where trees may want to grow, except regions already below cultivation or occupied by cities.
These extra forests might have the capability to take in 205 gigatonnes of carbon out of the three hundred gigatonnes brought to the environment since the late Nineteenth Century and the start of commercial technology. Half of the regions that might be reforested are in six international locations: Russia, the United States, Canada, Australia, Brazil, and China. According to the have a look at's main writer, Jean-François Bastin, governments want to take this into attention in their countrywide techniques in opposition to climate exchange.
The group argues that the reforestation purpose, set the last yr with the aid of UN weather specialists, of 1 billion hectares is "absolutely plausible within the modern weather". It concludes that restoring the arena's ecosystems is "the best solution at our disposal" for countering weather change. However, this end has sparked criticism from professionals in Earth sciences, some of whom also sense that the method is simplistic or incorrect. Myles Allen, a geosystems professor at Oxford University, stated heroic reforestation could be beneficial. However, humans must prevent pronouncing there may be a natural option to the use of fossil fuels. "There isn't any," he stated. "Sorry!" In some other observation, published through Science Media Centre within the UK, University College London professor Simon Lewis wrote that new forests should absorb excess carbon emissions. Still, the only manner to stabilize the weather was to decrease greenhouse fuel emissions to zero.
Swimming siblings set for Island Games
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Fergie leaves London for the slopes.
This just in: People reports that after spending twenty years living with her ex-husband, Prince Andrew, in Windsor Castle, Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, has closed the book (on something. Post-marriage?) and relocated to the ski town of Verbier, Switzerland. What inspired the move? After all, her younger daughter, Princess Eugenie, lives in London, while her older one, Princess Beatrice, works for a private equity firm in New York.
There is gossipy speculation that it has to do with some cozy interactions Fergie was observed enjoying with Internet tycoon Manuel Fernandez in Cannes last June, but her spokesman, James Henderson, dismissed the claims, saying, "I think that's unrelated. She's been creating a more independent life for herself, and so this move is a reflection of that."
The only information about her chalet is that it has a pool and a staff of six, and that it costs 20 million dollars. Stay tuned.


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Tag Archives: Petersburg Farmers
Jennings "Hurled an Unmentionable Epithet at him"
In April of 1896, the reigning National League Champion Baltimore Orioles traveled to Petersburg, Virginia for a pair of exhibition games with the Petersburg Farmers of the Virginia League.
The Baltimore Sun noted that it had been a tough spring for the Orioles. Third baseman John McGraw "the brainiest and pluckiest little infielder that ever trod a diamond," was in an Atlanta hospital suffering from typhoid fever; he would miss most of the season.
Additionally, catcher William "Boileryard" Clarke was sent back to Baltimore with a sprained ankle, pitchers John "Sadie" McMahon and Arlie Pond had injured hands and both would be out for at least a week, and shortstop Hughie Jennings was also slowed by a hand injury.
Hughie Jennings
A light rain fell as the hobbled team arrived in Petersburg on the morning of April 6, the day of the first game—which ended in a 7 to 7 tie. The Baltimore American said:
"Why the team did not trounce the Petersburgs is an open question, but whether it was because of the game on Saturday (in Richmond) or the rain, or the umpire, the Champions walked out of the gates with the humiliation of having made eight errors and feeling the added sting of having just escaped being beaten by a minor league team."
Third-string catcher Frank Bowerman made two of Baltimore's errors and had a passed ball. He would be relegated to umpiring duties in the second game, scheduled for April 8. On the seventh the Orioles defeated another Virginia League team, the Richmond Bluebirds, 4 to 3.
The American said the morning of April 8 "had been a pleasant one," with local officials taking the Orioles for a tour of the Petersburg Civil War battlefield. And, with the rain gone, "The warm sun put life into each club, and a pretty, snappy game was being put up by each side." Bowerman and Petersburg player Michael "Doc" Powers alternated as umpires for the game.
Doc Powers
Petersburg was leading 1 to 0 in the seventh inning when Powers called Orioles third baseman Jim Donnelly out on strikes. What happened next, and who was responsible, depended on whether you read the accounts in the Baltimore papers or those in Petersburg and the surrounding Virginia towns.
The Sun said:
"Several promising runs had been cut off by similar umpiring and the birds were getting very 'sore' at such outrages. Donnelly objected and (Hugh) Jennings went up to Powers, who was standing behind the pitcher, and said something to him. Just then (Charles) Sholta, who had also run up, struck Jennings a stinging blow on the side of the head without warning. The blow drew blood."
The American said:
"While Hughey was expostulating rather forcibly with Powers, Sholta struck him on the cheek."
Charles Sholta–drawing from Richmond newspaper
The Baltimore papers agreed that the punch Sholta threw was unprovoked. Every Virginia newspaper disagreed.
The Petersburg Index-Appeal said, "Jennings resented Sholta's interference by very foul and abusive language and was promptly struck in the face."
Papers in Richmond, Roanoke and Norfolk agreed that Jennings provoked Sholta—The Virginia League correspondent for The Sporting Life said Jennings "hurled an unmentionable epithet at him—an epithet which does not go here."
Everyone generally agreed with what happened next. Orioles' first baseman Jack Doyle punched Sholta, knocking him to the ground and Petersburg fans poured on the field and began attacking Doyle and other members of the Baltimore club.
At this point, there was more disagreement. The Baltimore papers said Doyle was struck in the head from behind, knocked down and kicked by multiple fans. While "Wee Willie" Keeler was allegedly "choked and beaten," five other Orioles, Joe Kelley, Wilbert Robinson, Steve Brodie, Bowerman, and Jennings "were more or less beaten."
The Orioles, according to The American were forced to flee the ballpark.
The Richmond Dispatch called the Baltimore accounts of the incident:
"(S)o greatly exaggerated and so grotesquely inaccurate as to cause amazement, not to say indignation, here. Not a man of the Baltimore team was hurt, and the grossly obscene language uttered by one of the Orioles on the park during the game, caused all of the trouble."
After the Orioles returned to Petersburg's Appomattox Hotel, another fight broke out between several members of the Orioles—including Brodie and Kelley—and local fans, one of whom was thrown through a glass door. After the second fight, the Orioles were accompanied by police to the train depot and departed for Norfolk.
Arrest warrants were issued for Doyle, Kelley, and Brodie, but the three "left their team in Norfolk and (went) beyond the jurisdiction of the state courts." Only ten Orioles were available for the final exhibition game in Virginia, a 7 to 5 victory over the Norfolk Braves.
Sholta appeared in Petersburg's "Mayor's Court" along with two fans who said to have assaulted members of the Orioles. All were released with no charges filed as a result of Doyle, Brodie and Kelley failing to appear—they were sought both as suspects and witnesses against the local defendants.
At the hearing, Petersburg's Mayor Charles Fenton Collier said Sholta "had only acted as any other gentleman would have," by hitting Jennings, and the mayor said he would have done the same "under similar circumstances."
The Washington Times said the only thing unusual about the Orioles' battle in Virginia was that it happened so early in the season:
"The Orioles are starting their rowdy tactics early. Perhaps the champs think it just as necessary to train for ruffianly conduct as other points. And to think that 'college-bred' Hughey Jennings started the riot."
McGraw remained out of the lineup for most of the season—he did not return until August 25. The fighting Orioles hit .328 as team—Jennings hit .401, Keeler .386 and Kelley .364—and went 90-39 cruising to their third straight National League Pennant.
Tags: Arlie Pond, Baltimore Orioles, Boileryard Clarke, Charles Fenton Collier, Charles Sholta, Doc Powers, Frank Bowerman, Hughie Jennings, Jack Doyle, Jim Donnelly, Joe Kelley, John McGraw, Norfolk Braves, Petersburg Farmers, Richmond Bluebirds, Sadie McMahon, Steve Brodie, Virginia League, Wee Willie Keeler, Wilbert Robinson


What is a Successful Weight Loss Program?
1. How long did the weight stay off?
2. How easy was it it to lose the weight?
3. Did the program have a negative effect on lifestyle?
4. Was it Weight Loss or Weight Control?
5. Were there severe feelings of hunger or exhaustion from exercise?
How long can I keep this up for before I break?
This is why the weight loss industry turns over more then 40 Billion Dollars every year. People simply go on the latest diet, lose a heap of weight really quickly, cause a big stir in the industry that sells a million units overnight and then before anyone knows, that same person puts all the weight back on again. This is the funny thing.
The weight loss industry literally fuels it's own success through failure.
For arguments sake we are not trying to dismiss the weight loss industry and all that it stands for, because ultimately, we are selling weight loss products on this site. What we are trying to say is that there is a place for everything and a reason for everything that happens within this industry and why some programs are more effective then other, especially when it comes to hypnosis.
Why is Hypnosis for Weight Loss Different?
So you may be thinking.. why is hypnosis any different?
Well it is simple really. What we are about to tell you does not just apply to our own Weight Loss CDs and MP3s that we sell on this site. It is the same thing that all our 'responsible and aptly qualified' hypnotic comrades specialize in too.
Hypnosis & Hypnotherapy give the all important mental edge to maintain your optimal weight forever because they make it become an easy and automatic part of your life.
How Does Hypnosis Help Weight Loss?
Hypnosis, or more accurately hypnotherapy - using hypnosis for therapy purposes - can quite literally replace your attitude, decisions and actions towards everything you did that made you become overweight in the first place. It can help you lose the weight in a safe and sensible way that is easy to keep doing for the rest of your life. Through direct subconscious therapy, which is made possible through the trance state in hypnosis, you can replace all the old negative patterns that caused you to gain the weight with more positive ones. These become automatic and permanent because they are implemented on a deep subconscious level.
and then give you the resources inside your mind to make this happen easily and automatically.
For instance, instead of automatically reaching for your nearest 'powdered diet formula' when you are hungry (which seriously... you are not going to do forever), hypnosis can help give you the automatic power to go prepare something healthy instead.
On the other end of the spectrum (which is why we put weight on in the first place) instead of getting hungry and then 'stuffing' our faces full of whatever 'grease laden' food we can find, we also automatically choose the healthier option.
When you are thinking of going somewhere which may be 5 minutes down the road, hypnosis can help you automatically make a conscious effort to go for a walk to that place instead of driving because you know that will be better for your weight control.
Hypnosis can improve your will power to maintain other diets or to simply make a lifestyle change to become your diet.
Often, some people have problems with their glands and thyroids which mean that they physically can not lose weight. Proper clinical hypnotherapy can help identify and then re balance the physical systems of the body and regulate internal healing mechanisms.
Hypnosis will not normally make you magically thin in 2 or 3 weeks. What it will do is help you lose a little bit at a time, but most importantly, to do it easily and in a way that suits your lifestyle. It will help give you that extra motivation to go for a walk in the afternoon, support you to make a healthy dinner or remind you when you are eating for emotional comfort rather then necessity.
Hypnosis is like having someone to lean on during every step of losing weight. But that 'someone' is you, or more specifically the power inside your subconscious mind.
Better still, hypnosis can also assist other diets, because it gives you the mental edge to keep going with that particular diet program by improving your willpower, direction, motivation and clearly visualizing your ultimate goal. In fact one study by the American Medical Association showed more then 200% increase in the effectiveness of other diets by combining hypnosis with that diet.
How Can Emotions Affect Weight Loss?
So often it is our emotions and negative patterns that we have formed throughout our life that have also created our weight management issues too. This is of prime importance to realize because it is rather difficult to break deep seeded subconscious patterns without proper thought and effort.
For example, many people who are depressed become overweight. Why? Because they lose rational control over choosing what is best for their body, crave food to bring pleasure and simply choose not to leave the house and hence, lack physical activity.
Sometimes people hold fears and traumatic experiences deep inside which also effects their ability to make good positive choices about lifestyle and diet.
Another example is how parents will usually automatically tend to a crying baby with food. This instantly associates discomfort with food to the baby and forms a pattern that can last throughout life that leads to excessive eating when they are feeling emotional.
The bombardment of advertising that relates junk food to equal happiness and pleasure is another way our emotions can get the better of us when it comes to gaining weight. Scientists have proven that a well designed visual food commercial is able to stimulate the release of dopamine into the brain which completely overrides our conscious ability to choose a healthier option if we lack mental strength.
Hypnosis can help address the emotional and mental reasons for weight gain because it helps identify the negative patterns and then replace them with something that is more positive. Our emotions and subsequent actions are all usually generated subconsciously. Hypnosis can directly override the source of these problems directly in the subconscious mind in a way that very few other therapies can. It helps balance the emotions and then replace the actions that they cause with something that is going to be more positive and beneficial to maintaining a healthy diet and lifestyle moving forward permanently.
In saying this, when using hypnosis programs to help weight loss, it is important to take a good long think about any emotions that YOU may be carrying that are causing the weight gain. Then you can choose a relevant separate program to target that particular emotion in conjunction with using a specific weight loss program too. Identifying such issues means that you may have to be critical of yourself which is sometimes hard to do, but it is important if you want to ensure that you receive the best possible treatment. This goes with all of the programs on this site and others.
It is no secret we live in an ever increasingly obese society. As the years progress, humans become more obese. The more that society progresses, the less we as humans are required to do. Technology replaces physical effort and necessity. Food can be taken out of the freezer, put in a microwave and be on our plate in 3 minutes. We can get a burger in half time from a fast food outlet. Basically, it is now easier then ever to become overweight.
You can see that there is a vicious cycle created here. Society makes controlling our weight hard because it also makes us try to find excuses for everything we do and hence the cycle is strengthened.
To complicate things even more, society continually throws in our faces the image of what we should like through advertising, entertainment and expectation. We are bombarded by skinny celebrities, models and actors who also happen to be the main role models for the majority of people. This creates in all of us the expectation that we should be the same, that everyone should have the perfect weight and this is what is normal and acceptable. This causes great emotional conflict with what we expect vs what we perceive of ourselves. How do many people handle emotional conflict? They eat for emotional comfort... hence the cycle continues.
Then it is interesting to note that our bodies have stayed relatively the same over time whilst society has developed rapidly. Our bodies are still designed for the days we spent in the wild hunting and gathering for our food. We were designed to burn energy to obtain our food and then replace that energy with the food we then ate. Fat was important to help give the body an energy reserve when our next meal was a bit further away then what we expected. How things have changed.
Hypnosis can help with all of this. It can give us strength of character and strength of decision. It helps reinforce our subconscious belief systems to stand up for what is best for us and to break free from the excuses that society forces us to make. If we remove the excuse we are left with the truth. It is the truth that will help you maintain a healthy weight - not excuses. Hypnosis can empower you with the ability to become more aware of what is happening around you and the strength to not become a part of it. Knowledge is power and a good way to move forward.
Hypnosis simply helps you change the way that you think. By changing the way you think more positively, you can start living a happier and healthier life simply by unleashing the power that is already inside of you. We are not born obese, it was our choices and our environment that shaped these choices that made it so.
Life can be complicated. Sometimes we need that little helping hand to come in and help us to maintain a more optimal weight and to break free from the numerous limitations that exist around us. We need something that will give us the power to maintain such changes so that we do not fall back into the same patterns again. We need consistency, positivity and the power to control our weight from the mind to the body. Hypnosis does this and that is why it is the Ultimate Weight Loss tool.


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Der Limbabaum (Terminalia superba), auch Weiße Myrobalane genannt, ist eine Pflanzenart aus der Gattung der Myrobalanen (Terminalia). In den USA ist er auch als Korina bekannt. Der Baum kommt im tropischen Regenwald Afrikas vor.

Beschreibung
Der Limbabaum ist ein auffälliger, laubabwerfender Baum mit einem langen, geraden Stamm, der Wuchshöhen von 30 bis 45 m und einen Stammumfang zwischen 4 und 5 m erreichen kann. Die starken Brettwurzeln reichen 2,5 bis 3 m über den Boden. Die in Quirlen stehenden Äste spreizen sich in eine offene Krone. Das Holz ist hellgelb-braun, Splintholz und Kernholz sind meist nicht unterscheidbar, aber es gibt Formen, die schwarze Streifen ausbilden und Formen, deren Kernholz walnussartig ist.

Die wechselständig in kleinen Gruppen an den Enden der Zweige stehenden, einfachen Laubblätter hinterlassen deutliche Blattnarben an den Zweigen, wenn sie abfallen. Die Blattstiele sind 3 bis 7 cm lang. Die glatte Blattspreite ist verkehrt-eiförmig, 6 bis 12 cm lang und 2,5 bis 7 cm breit, mit einer kurzen Spitze. Es sind sechs bis acht Blattnervenpaare vorhanden.

Die ersten Blüten werden erst gebildet, wenn die Bäume schon relativ alt sind (es gibt Beobachtungen z. B. von 15 und von 23 Jahre alten Exemplaren). Der lockere, ährige Blütenstand ist etwa 7 bis 18 cm lang. Die Blütenstandsachse ist behaart. Die ungestielten, kleinen Blüten sind fünfzählig. Die fünf grünlich-weißen Kelchblätter sind zu einem untersetzerförmigen Kelch verwachsen mit fünf kurzen, dreieckigen Kelchlappen. Kronblätter fehlen. Es sind meist zwei Kreise mit je fünf Staubblättern vorhanden. Die Staubfäden sind etwa länger als der Kelch. Die Bestäubung erfolgt durch viele verschiedene Insektenarten.

Von der Bestäubung bis zur Fruchtreife dauert es zwischen sechs und neun Monate. Die kleine, einsamige, geflügelte, ungestielte, golden-braune, glatte Nussfrucht ist bei Reife einschließlich der Flügel 1,5 bis 2,5 cm lang und 4 bis 7 cm breit, ohne die Flügel etwa 1,5 cm lang und 2 cm breit.

Vorkommen und Standorte
Diese Art kommt von Guinea bis in den Westen Kameruns und von der Demokratischen Republik Kongo bis nach Angola vor. In vielen westafrikanischen Staaten werden die Bäume intensiv gepflanzt. Der natürliche Standort der Bäume sind Hochwälder und Savannen, an Standorten mit durchlässigem Boden und mehr als 1500 mm jährlichen Niederschlag.

Verwendung

Das Holz des Baumes wird als Nutzholz verwendet. Es hat eine leichte, mittlere Dichte, ist vergleichsweise weich, lässt sich gut sägen, bearbeiten und polieren. Seine Normal-Rohdichte liegt bei 428 kg/m³, die Wärmeleitfähigkeit bei 0,099 W/(m·K).
Da es anfällig für Zerfall und Befall durch Termiten und Käfer der Gattung Euplatypus ist, ist es für Außenanwendungen nicht geeignet. Im Innenbereich wird es für Türen, Türpfosten, Büroeinrichtungen, Schindeln, Möbel, Bilderrahmen, Musikinstrumente, Tischtennisschläger, Streichhölzer, Kisten, Planken, Furnier und Sperrholz verwendet. Direkt nach dem Fällen muss das Holz verarbeitet werden, nach dem Sägen ist eine Schutzbehandlung notwendig.

Literatur
 Quentin Meunier, Carl Moumbogou, Jean-Louis Doucet: Les arbres utiles du Gabon. Presses Agronomiques de Gembloux, 2015, ISBN 978-2-87016-134-0, S. 124 f, .

 Terminalia superba bei PROTA.

Weblinks
 Handelshölzer von DELTA.

Einzelnachweise

Baum
Myrtenartige
Holzart

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Sur les ailes du condor (Sobre las alas del cóndor, en francés) es un disco recopiltorio de Los Calchakis, editado en 1988 con el sello francés ARION.

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Álbumes de 1988
Álbumes recopilatorios de Los Calchakis


There's a frightening trend sweeping the nation: allowing those on food assistance and food stamp programs to buy processed, prepackaged foods, including at fast food restaurants, as an alternative to using that assistance only at grocery stores. Despite the efforts of some states to restrict the types of junk food allowed to be purchased with food stamp or food assistance cards, more states are adopting the policy of letting recipients buy some of the unhealthiest foods on the market. However, for some these foods are simply the most economically viable option.
Unfortunately, fast food is often cheaper than high-quality or organic food. Because the budgets of families that receive food stamps must be counted out to the penny, a $5 meal at a fast food restaurant may seem like the only option when healthy and nutritious food from a grocery store may cost two or three times as much. With such limited income, the choice becomes less a matter of eating something healthy instead of a fast food hamburger and more an issue of simply trying to get the most food for the least amount of money.
Most people are well aware obesity is linked with a great deal of health problems, including diabetes, heart disease, and even certain types of cancer. Despite this awareness, food stamps are still being used to purchase food shown to contribute to all of these health problems.
Medicaid and Medicare are likely to be the only viable healthcare options for many who live at or below poverty. With studies showing a substantial link between income and obesity as well as an increasing population relying on food assistance, the addition of subsidized fast food only stands to make the monetary burden to Medicare and Medicaid even more staggering.
In some parts of the nation, especially rural regions or inner city areas with few grocery stores, fast food may be the only affordable food available for people on food assistance. Farmer's markets, a popular means of getting groceries in many rural areas and small towns, don't take food stamps, while in some urban areas grocery stores are surprisingly scarce.
These "food deserts" offer few or no alternatives to prepackaged and processed foods for their respective communities. Until overall changes can take place concerning making healthy food resources more affordable and available, residents in such areas may have few choices but to use food stamps to purchase whatever eligible food might be within reach. Anti-hunger advocates argue that in these regions people may very well go hungry otherwise. From this perspective, allowing recipients to use food assistance for fast food is the only humane thing to do, though obviously it's no long-term solution.
There is no quick fix to such a complex problem. With the economy still struggling to recover and many middle-class and working poor people simply unable to afford high-quality foods, an overhaul in making nutritious food more affordable is essential. Educating the public on proper eating habits needs to become a priority.
Ultimately, it will be in the best interests of the nation's health if food assistance cannot be used to purchase fast food and prepackaged, processed junk food. However, until healthy food is more affordably available to lower-income citizens, opening up food assistance programs to fast food restaurants may be keeping many from going hungry.
I completely disagree. There is an abundance of very cheap foods that are extremely healthy such as oatmeal, beans, banannas, apples, potatoes, cabbage, brown rice, eggs, peanut butter, sunflower seeds, tuna. Most of these foods require some preparation and are not appealing to the majority of Americans since they are hooked on junk/fast/processed food. Herein lies the problem with those folks on food stamps. Many of them are lazy which is why they are on food stamps in the first place and preparing food is not appealing to them. Secondly, most of them are uneducated about what's nutritious and apathetic about their own health. Lastly they are so hooked on junk food that they have literally retrained their taste buds to have no desire for actual real food. This is true of the majority of the US as 25% of Americans now eat fast food every day. There are videos on youtube showing people how to eat for under $100 per month per person and actually eat very healthy. However, this takes time and preparation to plan your meals, purchase the foods, and prepare the food.