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The appointments come as SearchFlow, part of DMGT, announced it will be expanding its product and service offering next year.
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Bredovská zahrada je barokní park se sochami u Bredovského letohrádku v širším areálu zámku Lemberk. Raně barokní zahrada je součástí této národní kulturní památky, rozkládající se na katastrálním území Lvové, části města Jablonného v Podještědí v okrese Liberec ve stejnojmenném kraji. Pozemky i stavby na tomto území jsou majetkem České republiky, spravovaným Národním památkovým ústavem.

Zahrada se sochami a kamennou ohradní zdí je jedním z památkově chráněných objektů, přináležejících k tzv. Bredovskému letohrádku (název této stavby je novodobý, původně byl zámeček označován jen jako Lusthaus či Gartenhaus) a je spolu s přilehlou barokní vodárenskou věží, lipovou alejí a dalšími památkami v nejbližším okolí součástí Krajinné památkové zóny Lembersko, vyhlášené Ministerstvem kultury České republiky s platností od 1. července 1996.

Historie
Lemberské panství původně získal Albrecht z Valdštejna jako konfiskát po porážce českých stavů v bitvě na Bílé hoře a zmíněné panství pak pronajal svému prvnímu důstojníkovi Janu Rudolfovi Bredovi, pocházejícímu z nizozemské šlechtické rodiny. Po Valdštejnově zavraždění v roce 1634 bylo lemberské panství Janu Rudolfovi Bredovi dědičně ponecháno. Letohrádek s přilehlou zahradou si na návrší jižně od zámku nechal vybudovat v druhé polovině 17. století hrabě Kryštof Rudolf Breda, který v roce 1660 zdědil lemberské panství po smrti svého otce Jana Rudolfa Bredy.

Zahrada terasovitého typu s bohatou sochařskou výzdobou byla pojata opravdu velkoryse. Doba výstavby Bredovského letohrádku se zahradou, realizovaná podle návrhu architekta Caesara Biota, je v památkovém katalogu NPÚ stanovena v rozpětí let 1660 až 1680.Dle oficiálních stránek státního zámku Lemberk, který je spravován Národním památkovým ústavem, tato výstavba probíhala v 70. letech 17. století. Vychází se přitom z faktu, že nad hlavním vchodem do zahrady byl umístěn erb rodiny Bredů z roku 1674.

K dalším úpravám zahrady došlo na konci 17. století, kdy na její ploše bylo rozmístěno 18 nových soch. Kromě soch několika římských božstev a alegorických zpodobnění ročních období a některých uměleckých oborů zde byly tři barokní fontány. Na území zahrady byl zřízen také ovčín a střelnice.

Potomci Kryštofa Rudolfa Bredy prodali v roce 1726 lemberské panství hraběti Filipu Josefu Gallasovi. Hrabě Filip Josef Gallas nechal mj. vybudovat systém čerpání a rozvodů vody jak pro samotný zámek, tak i pro letohrádek a zavlažování zdejší panské zahrady. V podzámčí u Pivovarského rybníka byl postaven vodojem a strojovna s trkačem. Pomocí tohoto trkače byla voda čerpána vzhůru do vodárenské věže, postavené vedle Bredovského letohrádku pražským mistrem Jakubem Schedlem v roce 1734. Z nádrží ve věži vedly rozvody jak do zámku, tak i do letohrádku a okrasné zahrady. Přebytečná voda odtékala do rybníčku pod zahradou, ve které bylo chováno vodní ptactvo a domácí drůbež.

Po roce 1757, kdy vymřel původně italský rod Gallasů, převzal jeho jméno a majetky v Čechách rod hrabat z Clamu, potomků někdejšího korutanského šlechtického rodu Pörgerů. V roce 1787, kdy lemberské panství patřilo hraběti Kristiánu Filipovi Clam-Gallasovi, byla vedle ovčína v Bredovské zahradě  vybudována obecní škola, která navzdory nepříliš vhodným podmínkám zde byla v provozu až do roku 1879. Na přelomu 18. a 19. století přikročili Clam-Gallasové k rozsáhlým úpravám letohrádku a přilehlé zahrady. Zámeček byl přebudován v klasicistním stylu a stal se sídlem vrchnostenského zahradníka.Původně okrasná zahrada, sloužící k zábavě panstva, byla proměněna v zahradu užitkovou. Byly zde vybudovány nové skleníky a plocha zahrady byla rozdělena do několika řad záhonů. V samotném zámečku kromě zahradníkova bytu byly zřízeny i prostory, které sloužily k uskladnění sadby a rané zeleniny.

Určitý náznak návratu k původní funkci zahrady představovala výsadba několika okrasných tisů v druhé polovině 19. století, kdy došlo také k doplnění stávající sochařské výzdoby. Ve 20. a 30. letech 20. století prošly interiéry Bredovského letohrádku výraznou modernizací a staly se sídlem  clam-gallasovské lesní správy. Lemberské panství s Bredovským letohrádkem zůstalo v majetku dědiců posledního mužského potomka rodu Františka Clam-Gallase až do roku 1945.

Po skončení druhé světové války byl Bredovský letohrádek stejně jako zámek Lemberk zestátněn. Zatímco však se  zámek dostal do kompetence rezortu kultury a do správy Státního památkového úřadu, letohrádek se zahradou coby součást bývalého velkostatku získalo do správy ministerstvo zemědělství. To zde ustanovilo tzv. národního správce, který v roce 1947 letohrádek s někdejší barokní zahradou získal do soukromého vlastnictví. Tyto nemovitosti paradoxně zůstaly v soukromém vlastnictví během celé socialistické éry až do roku 1989, kdy majitel prodal letohrádek se zahradou Okresnímu úřadu v České Lípě, který v té době spravoval i zámek Lemberk.  V první polovině 90. let 20. století měla zahradu v pronájmu Nadace Lemberk, která zde pořádala sochařská sympozia. Tato činnost, která měla negativní dopad na stav zahrady,  byla ukončena v roce 1995. Poté byla zahájena rekonstrukce letohrádku, který se po jejím skončení poprvé otevřel veřejnosti  v roce 1999. V interiéru zámečku byla v té době umístěna expozice českolipského Okresního vlastivědného muzea, nazvaná Člověk a příroda.  Od 1. ledna 2007, kdy byla ukončena činnost všech okresních úřadů v České republice, došlo k územním změnám. týkajícím se okresů Česká Lípa a Liberec. Území města Jablonného v Podještědí i s areálem lemberského zámku a krajinnou památkovou zónou Lembersko bylo od 1. ledna 2007 vyčleněno z českolipského okresu a připadlo okresu Liberec. Po těchto územních změnách zůstal interiér letohrádku prázdný. V oficiálních zdrojích institucí, spravujících lemberskou národní kulturní památku, je sice zmiňováno pokračování rekonstrukce zahrady, avšak v podstatě zde probíhá jen pravidelné sekání trávy a případné odstraňování náletových porostů, ke skutečné rekonsrukci barokní zahrady dosud nedošlo.

Popis
Zahrada se rozkládá jižně od letohrádku v nadmořské výšce kolem 360 metrů. Plocha o rozloze zhruba 1,66 ha má tvar velmi mírně zkoseného lichoběžníku, jehož základna, obrácená k jihu, tj. směrem k Jablonnému v Podještědí, je dlouhá přibližně 240 metrů. Předmětem památkové ochrany je kromě letohrádku a zahrady se sochami také její ohradní zeď a hospodářský domek.

Sochy i fontány v zahradě jsou různě poškozené, některé zanikly. Fontány jsou bez vody a je na nich patrná dlouhodobá absence údržby. Prostřední kašně dominuje socha nymfy Nereidy, nesoucí sloup, na kterém byla až do 90. let 20. století olověná plastika orla, která však zmizela. Při pohledu od zámečku se v zahradě (viděno zprava doleva, tj. od západu k východu) nacházejí sochy Diany, Juno a Jupitera, přičemž dvě posledně jmenované jsou patrně z konce 17. století. Blíže k centrální části stojí sochy (někdy jen pozůstatky soch) sedmi Múz, které jsou torzem původního souboru Smyslů a čtyř ročních období. Z alegorií ročních období se dochovaly sochy Jaro a Zima na terase ve východní části zahrady. Horní terase u hlavní vstupní brány dominuje kamenný stůl, balustráda a sloupy s kamennými vázami. Areál obklopuje kamenná zeď s několika branami, místy poškozená. Ze zahrady je výhled jihozápadním směrem na baziliku sv. Vavřince a sv. Zdislavy a na bývalý kostel Narození Panny Marie v Jablonném v Podještědí.

Přístup
Na rozdíl od zámku Lemberk, který je otevřený pro návštěvníky obvykle od začátku dubna do konce října v předem stanovených dnech a hodinách, bývá Bredovský letohrádek s přilehlou zahradou zpřístupňován pro veřejnost jen výjimečně. Zpravidla se tak děje pouze u příležitosti tzv. Víkendu otevřených zahrad, pořádaného v jednotlivých regionech ČR v měsíci červnu.

Na Lemberku končí jedna z větví Mezinárodní naučné stezky Lužické a Žitavské hory, u zámku pak na ni navazuje zeleně značená turistická cesta, která směřuje kolem Bredovského letohrádku a severozápadní zdi zahrady historickou lipovou alejí k původně gotické  poutní kapli Nejsvětější trojice a ke Zdislavině studánce a dále pak kolem Markvartického rybníka do Jablonného v Podještědí. Veřejná doprava je zajišťována na železniční trati Česká Lípa – Liberec osobními vlaky do zastávky Lvová a rychlíky i osobními vlaky do stanice Jablonné v Podještědí. Pro motoristy je k dispozici velké parkoviště pod lemberským zámkem na prostranství mezi Dvorním rybníkem a ruinami bývalého hospodářského dvora, dosud rovněž památkově chráněného.

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Související články

 Seznam kulturních památek v Jablonném v Podještědí
 Rok Gallasů a Clam-Gallasů

Externí odkazy

 Bredovský letohrádek na hrady.cz
 Webové stránky akce Víkend otevřených zahrad
Kulturní památky v okrese Liberec
Národní kulturní památky v okrese Liberec
Krajinná památková zóna Lembersko
Ohrožené kulturní památky v Libereckém kraji
Lvová
Zahrady v Libereckém kraji
Vzniklo v 17. století
Barokní stavby v Libereckém kraji

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For the 12th time, Jarrett Logistics was ranked on the inc. 5000 list!
Posted by Jarrett on Aug 22, 2017 10:43:00 AM
ORRVILLE, Ohio, Aug. 22, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Inc. magazine today ranked Jarrett Logistics Systems (JLS) No. 3783 on its 36th annual Inc. 5000 list, the most prestigious ranking of the nation's fastest-growing private companies. The list represents a unique look at the most successful companies within the American economy's most dynamic segment—its independent small and midsized businesses. This is Jarrett Logistics Systems' 12th time winning the award, placing JLS in the fewer than half of one percent of Inc. 5000 honorees that have ever achieved this milestone.
"We plan to continue our growth by remaining customer focused, cost competitive and invest significantly in great people and superior technology. To do this we will continue to recruit and retain people with character, respect and entrepreneurial spirit, who pursue excellence every day to serve our customers," Michael Jarrett says. "Consistent and sustainable growth starts with great people that possess a foundation of character, integrity, honesty and work ethic. At JLS, we hire character and train for skill."
The 2017 Inc. 5000, unveiled online at Inc.com and with the top 500 companies featured in the September issue of Inc. (available on newsstands August 16), is the most competitive crop in the list's history. The average company on the list achieved a mind-boggling three-year average growth of 481%. The Inc. 5000's aggregate revenue is $206 billion, and the companies on the list collectively generated 619,500 jobs over the past three years. Complete results of the Inc. 5000, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, region, and other criteria, can be found at http://www.inc.com/inc5000.
"The Inc. 5000 is the most persuasive evidence I know that the American Dream is still alive," says Inc. President and Editor-In-Chief Eric Schurenberg. "The founders and CEOs of the Inc. 5000 tell us they think determination, risk taking, and vision were the keys to their success, and I believe them."
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Q: c# Как назначить объекту его тип глобально? Есть 4 объекта
public object ObjectGet = { get; set; }
public Object1TType Object1 = new Object1TType();
public Object2TType Object2 = new Object2TType();
public object Object3Set = new();
...
if ... => ObjectGet = new Object1TType(...)
else => ObjectGet = new Object2TType(...)

Я знаю что можно завести Object3Set в самом коде:
if (ObjectGet is Object1TType)
{
    Object3Set = ObjectGet as Object1TType;
}
else if (ObjectGet is Object2TType)
{
    Object3Set = ObjectGet as Object2TType;
}

А как изменить тип объекта object Object3Set на Object1TType или Object2TType в зависимости от типа объекта глобально, чтобы можно было обращаться к Object3Set.Field (при условии того, что я знаю что в данном месте это 100% например Object1TType) без надобности заведения Object3Set локально?
Пример рабочего кода:
1.cs
namespace ObjectType
{
    public class Object1TType : ICloneable
    {
        public ulong Field { get; set; }
        public Object1TType()
        {
        }

        public Object1TType( ulong Field)
        {
            this.Field = Field;
        }
        public object Clone()
        {
            return new Object1TType(Field);
        }
    }

    public class Object2TType : ICloneable
    {
        public ulong Field { get; set; }
        public Object2TType()
        {
        }

        public Object2TType(ulong Field)
        {
            this.Field = Field;
        }
        public object Clone()
        {
            return new Object2TType(Field);
        }
    }

    public class Class1
    {
        public static object ObjectGet = new Object1TType();

        public static void Do()
        {
            ulong test = 123;
                ObjectGet = new Object2TType(test);
        }
    }
}

2.cs
namespace Code
{
    public class Main
    {
        public object ObjectGet = ObjectType.Class1.ObjectGet;
        public object Object3Set = new();

        public void Do()
        {
            ObjectType.Class1.Do();
            if (ObjectGet is ObjectType.Object1TType)
            {
                Object3Set = ObjectGet as ObjectType.Object1TType;
            }
            else if (ObjectGet is ObjectType.Object2TType)
            {
                Object3Set = ObjectGet as ObjectType.Object2TType;
            }

            Console.WriteLine(Object3Set.Field);
        }
    }
}

тут я не могу обращаться к ObjectGet.Field и к Object3Set.Field, для этого я думаю нужно что-то сделать с Object3Set и работать с ним

A: public interface IObjectTType
{
    UInt64 Field { get; set; }
}
public class Object1TType : ICloneable, IObjectTType
{
    public UInt64 Field { get; set; }
}
public class Object2TType : ICloneable, IObjectTType
{
    public ulong Field { get; set; }
}
public class Class1
{
    public static IObjectTType ObjectGet = new Object1TType();
}
public class Main
{
    public IObjectTType ObjectGet = ObjectType.Class1.ObjectGet;
    public object Object3Set = new();

    public void Do()
    {

        ObjectType.Class1.Do();
        Console.WriteLine(ObjectGet.Field);
    }
}

Можно использовать интерфейсы/абстрактные классы/наследования классов для реализации общего функционала ваших объектов.
Object3Set - никак не задействована, зачем она...
p.s. пространство имён ObjectType совпадает с название класса Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.ObjectType избегайте таких совпадений дабы избежать путаницы с IDE.

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For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified (Romans 8:29-30).
The Golden Chain of Redemption (Rom. 8:29-30) sometimes called The Order of Salvation is one of the most lucid passages in the Bible on the sovereignty of God in salvation. Nevertheless, Universalist, Arminians and other semi-Pelagians have consistently confused this text. In the following exposition I will attempt to help the reader think through this passage and come to a sound Biblical interpretation of it.
The first thing that must be determined is what is meant by the word "foreknew." Is this referring to the "general foreknowledge of God of all people" or Is it referring to "the intimate foreknowledge of God of the elect"? The Universalist would say that it is the former and that everyone is thus going to heaven.
And I agree, if this passage is talking about the "general foreknowledge of God of all people" then everyone is going to heaven. For who did God foreknow? Everyone. Who did he predestine? Those who he foreknew (everyone). Who did he call? Those he predestined (everyone). Who did he justify? Those he called (everyone). Who did he glorify? Those he justified (everyone). Who is going to heaven? Everyone.
This, of course, is blatant error. Everyone is not going to heaven. But if this is true (that everyone is not going to heaven) then "foreknew" in this passage can not be talking about the "general foreknowledge of God of all people" but must be talking about the "intimate foreknowledge of God of the elect". When I speak of the "intimate foreknowledge of God of the elect" I mean that before the foundations of the world God determined to love and redeem some, his elect, in light of the fall.
Most Arminians would agree with me up to this point but would now stop me and say "Yes, but the elect are those that God knows will make a decision for him and thus God predestines us based upon that decision." But this, my friend, is a works salvation for it is based on something good which I have done. Salvation, however, is not based on our acts of virtue but upon God's unconditional election.
For we read in Rom. 9:11-13 "(for the children not yet being born, nor having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works but of Him who calls), it was said to her, 'The older shall serve the younger.' As it is written, 'Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated.'"
Clearly this passage tells us that God's election is not based upon any foreseen decision or action that we make. Again, salvation does not depend upon our will but upon God's will. For in verse 16 we read "So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy."
I did not choose to be born into this worldly kingdom and I did not choose to be born into God's kingdom. "Salvation is of the LORD" (Jonah 2:9). Soli Deo Gloria!
The above article was posted on this Web site in December 1997.


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Weber Apologizes for Comment Comparing Obama, Hitler
UPDATED: U.S. Rep. Randy Weber, R-Friendswood, apologized Tuesday for a controversial tweet that compared President Obama to Adolf Hitler.
by Abby Livingston Jan. 13, 2015 12 PM
*Editor's note: This story has been updated after U.S. Rep. Randy Weber issued an apology over his tweet.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Rep. Randy Weber, R-Friendswood, apologized Tuesday for a controversial tweet that compared President Obama to Adolf Hitler.
"I need to first apologize to all those offended by my tweet," the sophomore congressman said in a statement.
"It was not my intention to trivialize the Holocaust nor to compare the President to Adolf Hitler," he added. "The mention of Hitler was meant to represent the face of evil that still exists in the world today."
At issue was harsh criticism against Obama because no senior American official attended a rally in Paris in response to the recent "Charlie Hebdo" terrorist attacks.
Weber piled onto the criticism Monday night when he tweeted:
Even Adolph Hitler thought it more important than Obama to get to Paris. (For all the wrong reasons.) Obama couldn't do it for right reasons
— Randy Weber (@TXRandy14) January 13, 2015
Earlier in the day, Weber stood by his tweet in an interview with The Dallas Morning News, saying it was meant to "start a discussion" on the president's foreign policy
"I now realize that the use of Hitler invokes pain and emotional trauma for those affected by the atrocities of the Holocaust and the victims of anti-Semitism and hate," Weber stated a few hours later in his apology.
National Democrats quickly took aim at him. Early Tuesday morning, the House Democrats' political arm distributed a report on the tweet to news outlets. A Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee spokesman described Weber as having a "toxic brand of politics."
Longtime colleagues also took issue with the sentiment.
U.S. Rep. Marc Veasey, D-Fort Worth, entered the House the same year as Weber, and they have known each other since their days in the Texas Legislature. Veasey had little tolerance in an interview Tuesday with The Texas Tribune for the comparison.
"There are some places where you just don't go, and Hitler is one of the places that you just don't go," Veasey told the Tribune. "To me, you just don't make comparisons. It's very insensitive, first of all, to do that."
Veasey had not seen the tweet verbatim as of Tuesday morning but was aware of it.
"I hate that he decided to do that. I know Randy very well," he added.
"And I'm disappointed that he would invoke Hitler in that kind of comparison, I thought it was very unfortunate."
At the daily White House press briefing Tuesday, Obama's press secretary, Josh Earnest, declined to respond to the comment.


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Barbara O. Schneeman, Ph.D.
Professor Emerita, Department of Nutrition
boschneeman@ucdavis.edu
B.S. Food Science and Technology, University of California, Davis
Ph.D. Nutrition, University of California, Berkeley
NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship, Children's Hospital, Oakland CA
Dr. Schneeman is recognized for her work on dietary fiber, gastro-intestinal function, development and use of food-based dietary guidelines, and the connection between science and policy development.
She served as the Director of the Office of Nutrition, Labeling, and Dietary Supplements in the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition at the U.S.A. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for over 8 years. In that position, she oversaw the development of policy and regulations for dietary supplements, labeling, food standards, infant formula, and medical foods and served as the U.S delegate to two Codex committees (Food Labeling and Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses).
At the University of California, Davis she was a member of the faculty from 1976 until 2007 and served Chair of the Department of Nutrition and Dean of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.
Professional activities include participation in Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committees, the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Academies of Science (NAS), committees for NAS and for the State of California, USDA, Food and Agricultural Organization, and the World Health Organization. She has been on the editorial board for several scientific journals.
Professional honors for Dr. Schneeman include Fellow of the American Society of Nutrition, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Carl Fellers Award from the Institute of Food Technology, the FDA Commissioner's Special Citation and the Harvey W. Wiley Medal, the FDA Merit Award, the Samuel Cate Prescott Award for research, the Future Leader Award, and several honorary lectureships.
Schneeman BO. Linking Science and Policy. Nutr Today 49(4): 167-173, 2014. [Abstract]
Crane NT, Juan W, Goldman JD, Ellwood KC, Schneeman BO. National Nutrition Objectives and 10-Year Targets: Perspectives on their Basis and Evolution. J Am Diet Assoc 111(11): 1660-1669, 2011. [PubMed]
Crane NT, Nalubola R and Schneeman BO. The role and relevance of Codex Nutrition Standards. J Am Diet Assoc 110(5): 672-682, 2010. [PubMed]
Schneeman B. FDA's Review of Scientific Evidence for Health Claims. J. Nutr 137: 493-494, 2007. [PubMed]
Schneeman BO, Trumbo P, Ellwood K and Satchell B. The regulatory process to revise nutrient labeling relative to the Dietary Reference Intakes. Am J Clin Nutr 83S: 1228S-1230S, 2006. [PubMed]
Rader JI and Schneeman BO. Prevalence of neural tube defects, folate status, and folate fortification of enriched cereal-grain products in the United States. Pediatrics 117:1394-1399, 2006. [PubMed]
Weaver C and Schneeman BO. Revised dietary guidelines promote healthy lifestyle. Food Tech 59: 28-29,32, 2005.
Schneeman BO, Burton-Freeman B, Davis P. Incorporating dairy foods into low and high fat diets increases the postprandial cholecystokinin response in men and women. J Nutr. 2003 Dec;133(12):4124-8. [PubMed]
Schneeman BO. Evolution of dietary guidelines. J Am Diet Assoc. 2003 Dec;103(12 Suppl 2):S5-9. [PubMed]
Nicholls, J., Lasley, B. L., Nakajima, S. T., Setchell, K. D., & Schneeman, B. O. Effects of soy consumption on gonadotropin secretion and acute pituitary responses to gonadotropin-releasing hormone in women. J Nutr 2002; 132: 708-714. [PubMed]
Hyson, D. A., Schneeman, B. O., & Davis, P. A. Almonds and almond oil have similar effects on plasma lipids and LDL oxidation in healthy men and women. J Nutr 2002; 132: 703-707. [PubMed]
Burton-Freeman B, Davis PA, Schneeman BO. Plasma cholecystokinin is associated with subjective measures of satiety in women. Am J Clin Nutr 76(3):659-67, 2002. [PubMed]
Schneeman BO. Linking agricultural production and human nutrition. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture 81: 3-9, 2001.
Schneeman, B. O. Use of glycemic index in predicting risk of coronary heart disease. Am J Clin Nutr 2001; 73: 130-131. [PubMed]
Schneeman, B. O. The Dietary Guidelines for Americans: a basis for US nutrition policy. J Am Diet Assoc 2001; 101: 742-743. [PubMed]
Schneeman B. O. Carbohydrate: friend or foe? Summary of research needs. Journal of Nutrition. 2001;131(10):2764S-2765S. [PubMed]
Schneeman, B. O. Carbohydrate: friend or foe? Summary of research needs. J Nutr 2001; 131: 2764S-2765S. [PubMed]
Parks, E. J., Rutledge, J. C., Davis, P. A., Hyson, D. A., Schneeman, B. O., & Kappagoda, C. T. Predictors of plasma triglyceride elevation in patients participating in a coronary atherosclerosis treatment program. J Cardiopulm Rehabil 2001; 21: 73-79. [PubMed]
Schneeman BO. Preparation and use of food-based dietary guidelines: Lessons from Thailand and the Philippine Islands. Food and Nutrition Bulletin, in press.
Bourdon I, Olson B, Backus R, Richter D, Davis PA, Schneeman BO. Beans, as a source of dietary fiber, increases cholecystokinin and apo B48 response to test meals in men. J Nutr, 2001;131:1485-1490. [PubMed]
Schneeman BO. Use of glycemic index in predicting risk of coronary heart disease.Am J Clin Nutr. 2001;73:130-1. [PubMed]
Schneeman BO. Linking agricultural production and human nutrition. J Sci Food Agric. 2001;81:3-9.
Schneeman BO and Kennedy E. Agriculture-nutrition linkages and the US Department of Agriculture: A global view. Food and Nutr Bull. 2000;21:547-9.
Schneeman, B.O. Do policy makers and nutritionists use similar criteria to measure nutritional adequacy of the food supply? Commentary. Food Policy 1999;24: 231-235.
Schneeman, B.O. Fiber, inulin and oligofructose: similarities and differences. Journal of Nutrition 1999;129:1424S-1427S. [PubMed]
Schneeman, B.O. Building scientific consensus: the importance of dietary fiber. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 1999;69:1. [PubMed]
Burton-Freeman, B., Gietzen, D.W., Schneeman, B.O. Cholecystokinin and serotonin receptors in the regulation of fat-induced satiety in rats. American Journal of Physiology 1999;276: R429-434. [PubMed]
Tinker, L.F., Parks, E.J., Behr, S.R., Schneeman, B.O., Davis, P.A.(n-3) fatty acid supplementation in moderately hypertriglyceridemic adults changes postprandial lipid and apolipoprotein B responses to a standardized test meal. Journal of Nutrition 1999;129:1126-34.
Bourdon, I., Yokoyama, W., Davis, P., Hudson, C., Backus, R., Richter, D., Knuckles, B., Schneeman, B.O. Postprandial lipid, glucose, insulin, and cholecystokinin responses in men fed barley pasta enriched with -glucan. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 1999; 69:55-63. [PubMed]
Schneeman, B.O. Report of a Joint FAO/WHO Consultation (WHO Technical Report Series, No. 880). Preparation and Use of Food-Based Dietary Guidelines. World Health Organization, Geneva, 1998.
Schneeman, B.O. Review and Revision of the Dietary Guidelines for Healthy Americans. In: Food-Based Dietary Guidelines—Its trend over the world. Kenpakusha Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, page 21. (Whole book in Japanese), 1998.
Schneeman, B.O. Reducing Stress Fracture in Physically Active Military Women. Subcommittee on Body Composition, Nutrition and Health of Military Women, Food and Nutrition Board, Institute of Medicine. National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 1998, 117 pages.
Schneeman, B.O. Assessing Readiness in Military Women. The Relationship of Body Composition, Nutrition, and Health. Committee on Body Composition, utrition and Health of Military Women, Food and Nutrition Board, Institute of Medicine, 352 pages; with Executive Summary, 23 pages. 1998, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C.
Olson, B., Schneeman, BO. Alimentary lipemia is enhanced in fiber-fed rats. Journal of Nutrition 1998;128: 1031-1036. [PubMed]
Parks, E.J., German, J. B., Davis, P.A., Frankel, E.N., Kappagoda, C.T., Rutledge, J.C., Hyson, D.A., Schneeman, B.O. Reduced oxidative susceptibility of LDL from patients participating in an intensive atherosclerosis treatment program.American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 1998;68: 778-785. [PubMed]
Schneeman, B.O. Dietary fiber and gastrointestinal function. Nutrition Research 1998;18: 625-632.
Schneeman, B.O., Li, B.W. Dietary guidelines/RDA/Daily Value workshop. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology 1997;427: 309-310. [PubMed]
Burton-Freeman B, Gietzen DW, Schneeman BO. Meal pattern analysis to investigate the satiating potential of fat, carbohydrate, and protein in rats. American Journal of Physiology 1997;42:R1916-R1922. [PubMed]
Schneeman BO. Dietary Guidelines in Asian Countries Towards a Food-Based Appraoch. Proceedings of a Seminar and Workshop on National Dietary Guidelines Meeting Nutritional Needs of Asian Countries in the 21st Century. Singapore, July 27-28, 1997.
Yokoyama WJ, Hudson CA, Knuckles BE, Chiu MM, Sayre RN, Turnlund JR, Schneeman BO. Effect of barley -glucan in durum wheat pasta on human glycemic response. Cereal Chemistry 1997;74:293-296.
Burton-Freeman B, Schneeman BO. Lipid infused into the duodenum of rats at varied rates influences food intake and body weight gain. Journal of Nutrition 1996;126:2934-2939. [PubMed]
Gallaher DD, Schneeman BO. Dietary Fiber. Present Knowledge in Nutrition, ILSI Press, 1996, 787-97.
Middleton S, Schneeman BO. Rat plasma triglycerides and hepatic fatty acid synthetase mRNA, but not apolipoprotein B and A-IV mRNA, respond to dietary fat content. Journal of Nutrition 1996;126:1627-1634. [PubMed]
Schneeman BO. Dietary influences on health. Preventive Medicine 1996;25:38-40. [PubMed]
Gambera PJ, Schneeman BO, Davis PA. Use of the food guide pyramid and U.S. dietary guidelines to improve dietary intake and reduce cardiovascular risk in actaive-duty Air Force members. Journal of the American Dietetic Association 1995;95:1268-1273. [PubMed]
Middleton S, Schneeman BO. Nutrient infusion into the ileum of rats does not lower plasma lipids or alter apolipoprotein mRNA abundance. Journal of Nutrition 1995;125:983-989. [PubMed]
Schneeman BO. Research issues and needs for the future. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 1995;61:S1007-S1008. [PubMed]
Tietyen JL, Nevins DL, Shoemaker CF, Schneeman BO. Hypocholesterolemic potential of oat bran treated with an endo-beta-d-glucanase from bacillus subtilis. Journal of Food Science, 1995;60:558-560, 579.
Schneeman, B. O. Summary of Sugars Workshop, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 1995;62:S294-S296
Schneeman BO, Tinker LF. Dietary fiber. Pediatric Clinics of North America, 1995, 428-95. [PubMed]
Schneeman BO. UC addresses challenges to the California family. California Agriculture, 1994, 482.
Schneeman BO. Designing production and processing for consumer health. Proceedings from Food Systems for Consumer Health Workshop, Washington, D.C., 1994, 12-94.
Schneeman BO. Carbohydrates Significance for energy balance and gastrointestinal function. Journal of Nutrition 1994;124:1747S-1753S. [PubMed]
Dixon ZR, Burri BJ, Clifford A, Frankel EN, Schneeman BO, Parks E, Keim NL, Barbieri T, Wu M-M, Fong AKH, Kretsch MJ, Sowell AL, Erdman JW. Effects of a carotene-deficient diet on measures of oxidative susceptibility and superoxide dismutase activity in adult women. Free Radical Biology & Medicine 1994;17:537-544. [PubMed]
Peluso MR, Schneeman BO. A food-grade silicon dioxide is hypocholesterolemic in the diet of cholesterol-fed rats. Journal of Nutrition 1994;124:853-860. [PubMed]
Frankel EN, Parks EJ, Xu R, Schneeman BO, Davis PA, German, JB. Effect of n-3 fatty acid-rich fish oil supplementation on the oxidation of low density lipoproteins. Lipids 1994;29:233-236. [PubMed]
Tinker LF, Davis PA, Schneeman BO. Prune fiber or pectin compared with cellulose lowers plasma and liver lipids in rats with diet-induced hyperlipidemia. Journal of Nutrition 1994;124:31-40. [PubMed]
Schneeman BO, Tietyen J. Dietary fiber. In Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease (Shils, M. E., J. A. Olson and M. Shike, eds), 8th edition, Chapter 4, Philadelphia Lea & Febiger, 1994, Vol. 1, pp. 89-100.
Schneeman, B. O. Agricultural, environmental issues need interdisciplinary approach. California Agriculture 1993;47(6):2.
Schneeman, B. O. Alterations in lipid digestion. In COST 92 Mechanisms of Action of Dietary Fibre on Lipid and Cholesterol Metabolism. Ed D. Lairon, Commission of the European Communities, 1993, pp. 35-38.
Schneeman BO, Richter D. Changes in plasma and hepatic lipids, small intestinal histology and pancreatic enzyme activity due to aging and dietary fiber in rats. Journal of Nutrition 1993;123:1328-1337. [PubMed]
Schneeman BO. Nutrition and gastrointestinal function. Nutrition Today, January/February, 1993, pp. 20-24.
Schneeman BO, Kotite L, Todd KM, Havel RJ. Relationships between the responses of triglyceride-rich lipoproteins in blood plasma containing apolipoproteins B-48 and B-100 to a fat-containing meal in normolipidemic humans. Proceedings for the National Academy of Sciences 1993;90:2069-2073. [PubMed]
Tinker LF, Schneeman BO, Willits NO. Number of weeks of 24-hour food records needed to estimate nutrient intake during a community-based clinical nutrition trial. Journal of the American Dietetic Association 1993;93:332-333. [PubMed]
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The 44 year old former Manchester United midfielder is expected to be unveiled as the new Oldham boss.
Scholes has been cleared to take charge of the League Two club, despite owning a stake in potential opponents Salford City.


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Hawk in the wind
While out for a mid-day walk in the biting January cold, I turned the collar of my coat up against the windy gusts that ripped the surface of the river, tore at the branches of the trees and sent dry leaves spinning upwards like whirling dervishes.
Standing on the concrete jetty behind the old mill, I suddenly looked up and chanced to see a red-tailed hawk overhead, struggling in flight, making little headway against the wind.
Buffeted, he braced, buckled, then barrel rolled directly into the wind; veered, braced, then buckled again; momentarily held tight, then was suddenly swept away, cast off into the southwestern sky, pummeled by a sea of pounding air.
His heroic efforts brought to mind Saint Exupéry's description of flying into the rushing winds off the coast of Patagonia in the mid 1930s. According to Saint Exupéry's account, "For three months of the year the speed of these winds at ground level is up to one hundred miles an hour."
"In the first place, I was standing still. Having banked right in order to correct a sudden drift, I saw the landscape freeze abruptly where it was and remain jiggling in the same spot. I was making no headway. My wings had ceased to nibble into the outline of the earth.
"There was no longer a horizon. I was in the wings of a theatre cluttered up with bits of scenery. Vertical, oblique, horizontal, all of plane geometry was awhirl.
"Whenever I seemed about to take my bearings a new eruption would swing me round in a circle or send me tumbling wing over wing and I would have to try all over again to get clear of all this rubbish.
"I was wrestling with chaos, was wearing myself out in a battle with chaos, struggling to keep in the air a gigantic house of cards that kept collapsing despite all I could do.
"The first blow sent me rolling over and over and the sky became a slippery dome on which I could not find a footing.
"Here where I was, facing west, I was as good as motionless, unable to either advance or retreat….So I let myself drift to the left. I had the feeling, meanwhile, that the wind's violence had perhaps slackened."
Saint Exupéry concludes with this observation: "The physical drama itself cannot touch us until someone points out its spiritual sense."
For me, it was much the same with the hawk.
"The Elements" in Wind, Sand and Stars, pp. 58-68.
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A Mozart murdered
The world was stunned and silenced on that bright November day,
When a mad assassin's bullet took that gallant heart away.
Last Saturday my daughter called to report that she and my son-in-law had made it to Dallas in good stead. Their flight was on time, smooth, uneventful. "We walked over to the grassy knoll to see the site of the Kennedy assassination," she told me. "I guess the anniversary is coming up on Monday."
Her words momentarily shocked me. I had forgotten all about it. Without thinking, I said: "Did you see the Texas School Book Depository, the building where Oswald lay in wait for Kennedy's motorcade to pass by?"
"Yes," she said. "They call it something different now."
I could see it in my mind's eye: a seven-story brick structure, a grassy knoll in downtown Dallas, a November day forty-seven years ago. I was ten years old at the time, peeking at slides under a microscope which a classmate, the son of one of the town's doctors, had brought to our fifth grade room, when the announcement came over the PA system: "The President of the United States has been shot."
At the time I had no words to describe my reaction. The announcement seemed surreal, as though it had come from another place and time light-years away.
It was only later that day when we were sitting in the cafeteria that the final faltering words of our principal struck home: "The President of the United States is dead."
If that announcement defined a horrendous act that occurred at a moment in time, it also foreshadowed a decade of violence. Soon the war in Vietnam would escalate, civil rights workers would be murdered, race riots would break out in Los Angeles. By the end of the 1960s two additional national leaders would be struck down. Within a few short years another president would resign in disgrace.
Those of us coming of age in those turbulent times lost not only the innocence of youth; unconsciously, we witnessed the loss of national potential and promise. By the end of that decade, if we had sent a man to the moon and returned him safely to earth; as a country we had also stained our hands with the blood of thousands of innocent lives. The torch had been passed to a new generation—a generation of promise—and somehow we had failed to carry it forward.
In the concluding lines of his classic, Wind, Sand and Stars, Saint Exupéry writes: "I am not weeping over an eternally open wound. Those who carry the wound do not feel it. It is the human race and not the individual that is wounded here. What torments me is not the humps nor hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all these men, of Mozart murdered."
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Crunch time for schools places with demand at all time high
Crunch time for Richmond schools places as children prepare for first day
By Clare Buchanan
As excited families prepare for their children to start school for the first time next week one little girl's education is uncertain after she missed out on a place.
The four-year-old from Twickenham failed to get into any of her six preferred primary schools despite her parents following advice to apply to their three closest schools.
The four-year-old's parents, who wish to remain anonymous, said the admissions criteria rendered the East Twickenham and riverside area of the borough an "educational dead spot".
Richmond Council offered the girl a school that was not on her list of choices and was 5km away, which he said was ridiculous considering there were five other schools within 1km of their home.
He said: "It's a long way. We have just said it is ridiculous so turned it down. They say if you turn down the school their obligation is over.
"Term starts soon and we still have no school."
The council said it could not disclose how many children were still without school places ahead of term starting on Tuesday.
A spokesman said: "Demand for our local primary school places is at an all time high.
"Due to the schools' popularity, catchment areas are often quite small and it isn't always possible to guarantee a place at a preferred school. In such instances we always offer an alternative.
"Each year we know that in September there will be some children who don't take up places in our schools, so we expect that places will become available over the next few weeks and we will continue to keep the family updated."
The father said 60 per cent of the whole borough's schools were closer than the alternative offered by the council and part of the problem was that four of five of their closest schools were religious.
He said: "We are not religious and we are not prepared to pretend to be religious. The proportion of religious school here is completely out of proportion.
"From what I can tell is this area along the riverside and East Twickenham which perennially never falls into any because of the position of schools children end up with no place at all.
"We have heard year after year this area is under provided for.
"The council is not actually prepared to do anything. It thinks as long as it's a minority they don't care. It's so frustrating. We are at our wits' end now."
Jeremy Rodell of Richmond Inclusive Schools Campaign (Risc) said: "Risc is about to launch a major report on primary school offers.
"It will demonstrate clearly how faith-based selection at local primaries means that the choice of state school available to non-churchgoing families is in many cases extremely restricted compared to churchgoing families.
"And it will show how this is limiting people's ability to secure a reception place a reasonable distance from their home, which is particularly important at primary level.
"There are simple steps church school governing bodies could take to be more community minded in their admissions. This case only underlines the need for them to take action."
The Fair Admissions Campaign seeks to bring to an end faith selection by state-funded schools across the country.
The group's spokesman Rabbi Dr Jonathan Romain MBE said: "The religiously selective schools in the borough are making problems around the scarcity of school places much worse by turning away children for not being of the 'right' religion or denomination, or for being non-religious.
"Faith schools should not privilege their own at the expense of others, but adopt responsibility for the wider well-being of their neighbourhood.
"The borough's religiously selective schools should all follow in the footsteps of the new St Mary's Church of England School Primary School opening in Hampton next month, which will not select any pupils by faith."
Are you concerned about school places? Leave a comment below or call Clare Buchanan on 020 8744 4275


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Weight loss, in the context of medicine, health, or physical fitness, refers to a reduction of the total body mass, due to a mean loss of fluid, body fat or adipose tissue or lean mass, namely bone mineral deposits, muscle, tendon, and other connective tissue. Weight loss can either occur unintentionally due to malnourishment or an underlying disease or arise from a conscious effort to improve an actual or perceived overweight or obese state. "Unexplained" weight loss that is not caused by reduction in calorific intake or exercise is called cachexia and may be a symptom of a serious medical condition. Intentional weight loss is commonly referred to as slimming.
Equipment required? No. You don't need any equipment because you'll rely on your own body weight for resistance. But you'll probably want to use a yoga mat to keep you from sliding around in standing poses, and to cushion you while in seated and lying positions. Other, optional equipment includes a yoga ball for balance, a yoga block or two, and straps to help you reach for your feet or link your hands behind your back.
a technique for entering into other bodies, generating multiple bodies, and the attainment of other supernatural accomplishments; these are, states White, described in Tantric literature of Hinduism and Buddhism, as well as the Buddhist Sāmaññaphalasutta;[41] James Mallinson, however, disagrees and suggests that such fringe practices are far removed from the mainstream Yoga's goal as meditation-driven means to liberation in Indian religions.[42]
Systematic activities to prevent or cure health problems and promote good health in humans are undertaken by health care providers. Applications with regard to animal health are covered by the veterinary sciences. The term "healthy" is also widely used in the context of many types of non-living organizations and their impacts for the benefit of humans, such as in the sense of healthy communities, healthy cities or healthy environments. In addition to health care interventions and a person's surroundings, a number of other factors are known to influence the health status of individuals, including their background, lifestyle, and economic, social conditions and spirituality; these are referred to as "determinants of health." Studies have shown that high levels of stress can affect human health.[15]
The origins of yoga are a matter of debate.[44] There is no consensus on its chronology or specific origin other than that yoga developed in ancient India. Suggested origins are the Indus Valley Civilization (3300–1900 BCE)[45] and pre-Vedic Eastern states of India,[46] the Vedic period (1500–500 BCE), and the śramaṇa movement.[47] According to Gavin Flood, continuities may exist between those various traditions:
Sleep is an essential component to maintaining health. In children, sleep is also vital for growth and development. Ongoing sleep deprivation has been linked to an increased risk for some chronic health problems. In addition, sleep deprivation has been shown to correlate with both increased susceptibility to illness and slower recovery times from illness.[47] In one study, people with chronic insufficient sleep, set as six hours of sleep a night or less, were found to be four times more likely to catch a cold compared to those who reported sleeping for seven hours or more a night.[48] Due to the role of sleep in regulating metabolism, insufficient sleep may also play a role in weight gain or, conversely, in impeding weight loss.[49] Additionally, in 2007, the International Agency for Research on Cancer, which is the cancer research agency for the World Health Organization, declared that "shiftwork that involves circadian disruption is probably carcinogenic to humans," speaking to the dangers of long-term nighttime work due to its intrusion on sleep.[50] In 2015, the National Sleep Foundation released updated recommendations for sleep duration requirements based on age and concluded that "Individuals who habitually sleep outside the normal range may be exhibiting signs or symptoms of serious health problems or, if done volitionally, may be compromising their health and well-being."[51]
Unintentional weight loss can occur because of an inadequately nutritious diet relative to a person's energy needs (generally called malnutrition). Disease processes, changes in metabolism, hormonal changes, medications or other treatments, disease- or treatment-related dietary changes, or reduced appetite associated with a disease or treatment can also cause unintentional weight loss.[25][26][27][31][32][33] Poor nutrient utilization can lead to weight loss, and can be caused by fistulae in the gastrointestinal tract, diarrhea, drug-nutrient interaction, enzyme depletion and muscle atrophy.[27]
Public health also takes various actions to limit the health disparities between different areas of the country and, in some cases, the continent or world. One issue is the access of individuals and communities to health care in terms of financial, geographical or socio-cultural constraints to accessing and using services.[54] Applications of the public health system include the areas of maternal and child health, health services administration, emergency response, and prevention and control of infectious and chronic diseases.
Malaysia's top Islamic body in 2008 passed a fatwa, prohibiting Muslims from practicing yoga, saying it had elements of Hinduism and that its practice was blasphemy, therefore haraam.[297] Some Muslims in Malaysia who had been practicing yoga for years, criticized the decision as "insulting."[298] Sisters in Islam, a women's rights group in Malaysia, also expressed disappointment and said yoga was just a form of exercise.[299] This fatwa is legally enforceable.[300] However, Malaysia's prime minister clarified that yoga as physical exercise is permissible, but the chanting of religious mantras is prohibited.[301]
The earliest extant systematic account of yoga and a bridge from the earlier Vedic uses of the term is found in the Hindu Katha Upanisad (Ku), a scripture dating from about the third century BCE[…] [I]t describes the hierarchy of mind-body constituents—the senses, mind, intellect, etc.—that comprise the foundational categories of Sāmkhya philosophy, whose metaphysical system grounds the yoga of the Yogasutras, Bhagavad Gita, and other texts and schools (Ku3.10–11; 6.7–8).[101]
According to Pāṇini, the term yoga can be derived from either of two roots, yujir yoga (to yoke) or yuj samādhau ("to concentrate").[26] In the context of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, the root yuj samādhau (to concentrate) is considered by traditional commentators as the correct etymology.[27] In accordance with Pāṇini, Vyasa who wrote the first commentary on the Yoga Sutras,[28] states that yoga means samādhi (concentration).[29]
As chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) advances, about 35% of patients experience severe weight loss called pulmonary cachexia, including diminished muscle mass.[31] Around 25% experience moderate to severe weight loss, and most others have some weight loss.[31] Greater weight loss is associated with poorer prognosis.[31] Theories about contributing factors include appetite loss related to reduced activity, additional energy required for breathing, and the difficulty of eating with dyspnea (labored breathing).[31]
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Just as there was a shift from viewing disease as a state to thinking of it as a process, the same shift happened in definitions of health. Again, the WHO played a leading role when it fostered the development of the health promotion movement in the 1980s. This brought in a new conception of health, not as a state, but in dynamic terms of resiliency, in other words, as "a resource for living". 1984 WHO revised the definition of health defined it as "the extent to which an individual or group is able to realize aspirations and satisfy needs and to change or cope with the environment. Health is a resource for everyday life, not the objective of living; it is a positive concept, emphasizing social and personal resources, as well as physical capacities".[10] Thus, health referred to the ability to maintain homeostasis and recover from insults. Mental, intellectual, emotional and social health referred to a person's ability to handle stress, to acquire skills, to maintain relationships, all of which form resources for resiliency and independent living.[9] This opens up many possibilities for health to be taught, strengthened and learned.
The number of asanas used in modern yoga has increased rapidly from a nominal 84 in 1830, as illustrated in Joga Pradipika, to some 200 in Light on Yoga and over 900 performed by Dharma Mittra by 1984. At the same time, the goals of Haṭha yoga, namely spiritual liberation (moksha) through the raising of kundalini energy, were largely replaced by the goals of fitness and relaxation, while many of Haṭha yoga's components like the shatkarmas (purifications), mudras (seals or gestures including the bandhas, locks to restrain the prana or vital principle), and pranayama were much reduced or removed entirely.[225] The term "hatha yoga" is also in use with a different meaning, a gentle unbranded yoga practice, independent of the major schools, sometimes mainly for women.[226]
Classical yoga incorporates epistemology, metaphysics, ethical practices, systematic exercises and self-development techniques for body, mind and spirit.[144] Its epistemology (pramana) and metaphysics is similar to that of the Sāṅkhya school. The metaphysics of Classical Yoga, like Sāṅkhya, is mainly dualistic, positing that there are two distinct realities. These are prakriti (nature), which is the eternal and active unconscious source of the material world and is composed of three gunas, and the puruṣas (persons), the plural consciousnesses which are the intelligent principles of the world, and are multiple, inactive and eternal witnesses. Each person has a individual puruṣa, which is their true self, the witness and the enjoyer, and that which is liberated. This metaphysical system holds that puruṣas undergo cycles of reincarnation through its interaction and identification with prakirti. Liberation, the goal of this system, results from the isolation (kaivalya) of puruṣa from prakirti, and is achieved through a meditation which detaches oneself from the different forms (tattvas) of prakirti.[240] This is done by stilling one's thought waves (citta vritti) and resting in pure awareness of puruṣa.
Since the late 1970s, the federal Healthy People Initiative has been a visible component of the United States' approach to improving population health.[11][12] In each decade, a new version of Healthy People is issued,[13] featuring updated goals and identifying topic areas and quantifiable objectives for health improvement during the succeeding ten years, with assessment at that point of progress or lack thereof. Progress has been limited to many objectives, leading to concerns about the effectiveness of Healthy People in shaping outcomes in the context of a decentralized and uncoordinated US health system. Healthy People 2020 gives more prominence to health promotion and preventive approaches and adds a substantive focus on the importance of addressing social determinants of health. A new expanded digital interface facilitates use and dissemination rather than bulky printed books as produced in the past. The impact of these changes to Healthy People will be determined in the coming years.[14]


Meet Sarah: Our Real Housewife Blogger!!
I'm over-the-moon excited about this morning's post because it's coming from a fellow Weddingbee blogger and friend, Sarah! :) (with an "h;" I'm Sara without an "h!") Sarah lives in AUSTRALIA (how awesome is that?) and like me (and many of you!), she just got wed! She's passionate about health and fitness and just started writing Eating the Olives, an extension of her lifestyle blog Licorice and Olives.
I've invited Sarah to be a featured writer/contributor for Fit for a Bride!
Hi!! I'm Sarah from Licorice & Olives and some of you may know me as Mrs Teaspoon from Weddingbee, which is how I "met" Sara! I have been beyond excited about the launch of FFAB for months-- you see I have let things go a little since we got married back in September 2011.
Since our wedding (and too many pancakes on our honeymoon), I have been reasonably active. I ran a half-marathon in May 2012 (that damn near killed me but I made it and I didn't come last!), but, another thing I've been doing though is baking and eating and cooking and eating and well... you get the idea! Basically just enjoying married life with my wonderful husband! So now it is time to crack down and get serious about this workout and nutrition thing. I hope that blogging for FFAB will keep me accountable, and hopefully prevent other women from doing the same thing.
I weighed 72kg (159lbs) for our wedding day and after 6 months of a poor diet, I was staring at 84kg (185lbs) on the scales. (Writing that down in pounds sounds far worse!) I have slowly taken a little off and in January, I was 82.7kg (182 lbs) and now I am working to get to my goal weight of 65kg (143lbs).
Each week I will check in at FFAB and let you know how I am doing with my health goals and I will be posting regularly on Eating the Olives, too. You can also follow along with @LicoriceOlives on twitter and Instagram and LicoriceOlives on MyFitnessPal (pop "FFAB" in the request please).
Sarah-- thank you SO much! Thank you for being enthsuastic about this blog and for being so honest about your weight-- sharing it publicly takes a lot of guts!! Friends, did you gain back weight you lost for your wedding?


This interview will dispel the notion that you can't develop creativity.
Allen Gannett is the founder and CEO of TrackMaven, a marketing analytics platform whose clients have included Microsoft, Marriott, Saks Fifth Avenue, Home Depot, Aetna, Honda, and GE. He has been on the "30 Under 30" lists for both Inc. and Forbes.
His upcoming book, The Creative Curve, is on how anyone can achieve moments of creative genius. I really enjoyed reading it.
He was also once a very pitiful runner-up on Wheel of Fortune.
Allen's Challenge; Stop believing that creativity is naturally easy for anyone.
If you liked this interview, check out episode 183 with Oliver Luckett where we discuss how he helped break The Chainsmokers, hacking the media machine, and the evolution of social movements.
A letter to a friend to inspire and cultivate creativity. Thank you for your attention.


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The Year of the Tester
Is this the year of the Tester? Find out where testing's been, where we're going and how to get there through continuous testing.
Christopher Springstead
Aug. 10, 17 · Agile Zone ·
I've spent years working with Waterfall teams for two major companies. One was a perfect example of Waterfall done well, while the other was the epitome of Waterfall at its worst. I've been a tester writing test cases, an SME (business process subject matter expert), and a functional business analyst writing requirements for IT. I've naturally been in the hot-seat for deadlines needing too much testing with too little time. Once, I even crashed a whole division of a company for not considering one particular test case scenario before signing off on a release.
Fortunately, with the advent of DevOps cultures and Agile methodologies, we're reaching exciting new heights. Siloed teams are dissolving. Code is being produced more rapidly, release cycles are shortening, systems are monitored and stabilized, and teams are working more efficiently. All of this is comparative, of course, but keep in mind the product of change… is more change. Since you can only go as fast as your slowest bottleneck, all the acceleration seen around development and releases has pulled back the covers to expose an area that's been neglected for the last 30 years – Quality Assurance practices.
Now that I'm in the IT solutions space, it's been exciting to finally see so much interest in testing. The once the forgotten step-child, called QA, is being elevated in the broader picture of SDLC as an extremely crucial component. But that's not the good news. The good news is the strain of change is starting to shape the future. We're starting to see the second coming of "the tester."
Where We're Going
Consider the following diagram.
Research analyst Phillip Howard (2014) estimates that 70% of testing is still done manually. In working with our customers, we find most are spending upwards of 94% of their testing efforts at the UI level. It makes sense why we do this. The UI represents all the pieces together in a functional, pre-production state. Disparate and third party systems, API calls, and the logic that drives them all come to a head at the UI. So, it makes sense that the final stamp of approval comes at the UI level. However, it's historically been the only stamp of approval. If we are catching defects at the UI level, we're catching them too late in the SDLC and can't really claim to be shifting left. It's like manufacturing an automobile, getting in the driver's seat, and turning the key to ensure the engine doesn't blow up. If that were the case, the engine most definitely would blow up, you'd have to start all over, and you'd need to open a new req. to hire another tester.
Instead, testing needs to be focused at the API and unit level. Using virtual services we have the ability to pretend that all other components are live and ready when we need them. We can generate production-like request-response pairs and other test data necessary to complete our testing. From unit to API to production, we can even monitor and test out performance at each level of the stack. So, the argument isn't that we can't. It's that we haven't changed our approach. The UI level is way too unstable and brittle to truly test the scale of production. Too many variables are unaccounted for and open to human error and misconfiguration. Things like user experience, regression and performance testing, and answering the question, "is it doing what the business requested?" must continue to be explored, but UI testing should only consume about 5% of our efforts. Just like lean manufacturing and TQM (Total Quality Management), quality needs to be injected at every step of the workflow and before each handoff. When we do this, we begin to realize that quality is everyone's responsibility, and everyone is "The Tester" when we embrace Continuous Testing.
There are many advanced solutions on the market that assist with testing efficiencies, they don't address the fundamental challenges of true Shift Left Testing. Traditional practices approach testing from a reactionary standpoint – identifying what needs to be tested after the code is released to the QA environment. What if we could take a model-based testing (MBT) approach and push that process back to the design and planning stage. If a developer thinks through how a user story will be tested and thinks through how to validate each unit of the written code, then the developer will write code that naturally causes those tests to pass. This is called Test Driven Development, or TDD. Taking it a step further, if the business has a hand in deciding what the acceptance criteria will be, and the test cases are in support of the acceptance criteria, now we're advancing into Acceptance Test-Driven Design (ATDD). For the test cases to be so closely tied to the initial requirements themselves, they need to be an output of the requirements and we should eliminate manual test case design altogether.
Technology is paving the way for organizations to build modern software factories which incorporate test case design practices at the planning level. Think of the possibilities if teams could import their user stories, model and groom the requirements in the form of a visual model, and generate optimized test cases to reduce over/and under testing. But what about that UI testing? In addition to test cases, why shouldn't automation scripts also be a possible output from requirements? If each requirement could be linked to existing test automation frameworks, when a requirement changes, the automation scripts would automatically change as well. Even if your automation scripts are stored elsewhere, they can be referenced into the model and maintained at their source. Tools like Ranorex and eggPlant provide even greater flexibility. By scanning the UI, both solutions have the ability to either capture objects or text and images, store them in a repository, and generate automated test scripts. In linking the scanned assets directly to requirements, targeted test cases and full blown regression test suites will:
have their own automation scripts embedded within them.
actively adapt to requirement changes and versioning.
can be populated with fit-for-purpose test data.
No more needless manual testing. No more manual automation scripting. No more searching or waiting for test data, and no more ambiguous requirements. In an environment like this everyone is using the same, central source of information with quality at the center. Welcome, to the year of the Tester.
Howard, P. (2014). Automated Test Case Generation. Bloor Spotlight. Retrieved from https://www.ca.com/us/collateral/industry-analyst-report/bloor-research-spotlight-paper-automated-test-case-generation.html
Collaboration: The Backbone of Agile Testing
Release Testing Is Risk Management Theatre
Reinventing QA in the DevOps era
continuous testing ,agile ,tdd ,atdd
Published at DZone with permission of Christopher Springstead , DZone MVB. See the original article here.


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The three years leading up to Walter Rodney's assassination on June 13, 1980, were dangerous times in Guyana. Living with State surveillance, the Police Death Squad, thugs of the House of Israel Sect, and economic hardships had become our new reality. Informers were everywhere. A treacherous remark could cost you your job or worse.
During session three of the Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry, Allan Robert Gates was the star witness. Since January 2014, he has been serving a two-year prison sentence for fraudulent activities. He claimed they were "trumped-up charges" to prevent him from testifying.
Gates described himself as a security expert. As a young man in June 1977, he joined the Police Force. Two years later, he was assigned to the Special Squad of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID).
In July 1979, fate changed the life of Robert Gates. That month, Walter Rodney and other members of the Working People's Alliance (WPA) were arrested as perpetrators of the fire that destroyed the building housing the Ministry of National Development and Secretariat of the ruling political party. Assigned to guard one of the arsonists brought to CID, Gates came face to face with Rupert Roopnaraine, a Professor at the University of Guyana and co-founder of the WPA. On learning that his charge needed a bodyguard, he seized the job opportunity.
When Gates submitted his resignation to the Police Force, he received a "lucrative offer" from the Crime Chief that he could not refuse: a pay increase equivalent to that of a Police Superintendent. All he had to do was take note of Dr. Roopnaraine's movements and the people he spoke to, and survey the activities of the WPA. He became a police undercover agent.
The Death Squad's opportunity to eliminate Dr. Roopnaraine came when he expressed interest in obtaining a G3 submachine gun. Gates' handlers over packed the ammunition to explode in the shooter's face. But Gates could not execute the plan. "Dr. Roopnaraine was a good man," he told the Commission.
Technical training in the use of eavesdropping devices, planted in Dr. Roopnaraine's car and the WPA office, and explosive electronics came from a former, Russian KGB agent contracted by the government. Gates did not train alone. He trained with a comrade from his village, Army Sergeant William Gregory Smith. As the army's undercover agent, Smith's job was to take down Walter Rodney. Smith supplied Dr. Rodney with the explosive-rigged walkie-talkie that caused his death.
Implicated in Dr. Rodney's assassination are former high-ranking police and army officials. Records of service and undercover activities for both Robert Gates and Gregory Smith have disappeared. Gates is left out in the cold.
It's easy to condemn Robert Gates for complicity with his corrupt superiors. The young Gates, most likely of humble origins, allowed money and power to cloud his moral judgment. Such behavior continues to plague humankind, even at the highest levels of government and among prominent citizens.
Our choices in life have consequences. Sometimes, they change the course of a nation.
If I haven't already mentioned it to you, Rosaliene, you might enjoy "The Lives of Others," a German language (subtitled) film about a Stasi agent in former Communist East Germany who is, like Gates, put in a difficult position of surveillance with very unexpected consequences for him and the viewer. An absolutely great movie.
Thanks for the movie reference, Dr. Stein. I'll check it out.
A big thank you, Cyril. Have a sunshine week!
Who done it is not as important as why ?
Am sure Burnham was aware of this and turned a blind eye.
He was complicit of the actions of his Gestapo.
Why would a brilliant scholar become a tyrant.?
power over 'life death's….et tu Burnham.
Wish them the best results.
Kamtan, in my view, the 'who' explains the 'why.' You can't have one without the other.
It was tragic for Guyana that its brilliant black scholar, Forbes Burnham, became a tyrant. Also tragic is that his autocratic government eliminated another brilliant black scholar. Perhaps Walter Rodney was much more than a political opponent to Forbes Burnham.
How I wish that a historian would take on the challenge of writing a biography of Forbes Burnham!
Maybe one of his two surviving daughters will….
It would certainly be a 'must read' best seller by all guyanese.
While their work would be a 'must read,' I doubt they would be able to write an unbiased biography.
of how such a brilliant mind becomes a tyrant.
N.Augustus, thanks for sharing your thoughts on this matter.
I like your idea of blacks transforming the PPP for within. It would return to its original multiracial composition when founded in 1950.
but as the saying goes….
If you cant beat them join them.!!
with so many new younger voters….if they vote.!!
And of course there is the 'uncertainty' of the overseas vote.
The bigger the turn out the lesser the chance of change.
PPP certainly are favourites now….but too early to speculate.
Kamtan, would that also apply to Guyanese in the diaspora who have family and investments in Guyana?
Always a pleasure disagreeing with you….my fatal attraction !


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The name has become synonymous with London's police force but actually comes from the location of the original police headquarters building. Its officers and "Bobbies" are often seen as protectors of the Royal Family and British officials, but Scotland Yard is most often associated with police detectives.
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From Dickens to Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie to James Bond — no police institution in the world has caught the public imagination in the same way as Scotland Yard. The name has become synonymous with London's police force, but actually comes from the location of the original police headquarters building. Its officers and "Bobbies" are often seen as protectors of the Royal Family and British of


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"The river is like a green silk belt, and the hills are like turquoise jade hairpins." So wrote the Tang Dynasty scholar and writer Han Yu (768-794), becoming the first prominent voice to immortalize this unique landscape. Ever since, artists have joined the chorus in eulogies in poems and paintings. Nowadays, photographers from all over the world have taken up the aesthetic challenge, aiming for the most evocative possible image.
The Guilin area owes it exquisite beauty to geological disruptions over 300 million years ago. Limestone formations pushed through an ancient sea bed, then the wind and rain eroded the hills and peaks into innumerable shapes, leaving behind labyrinth of caves and grottoes. This surreal landscape is called karst and the lure of visitors to Guilin.
Guilin has no old town left. A construction boom only began with the blooming of the tourist business. The city now has the usual characteristics of a modern metropolis - traffic, shopping centers and boutiques, and souvenir stalls. It's a clean city with a charming waterfront and ever-changing moods. A few sights such as Elephant Trunk Hill, Fubo Hill, and the port area are illuminated at night.


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The ideology of friendship in the era of Facebook
Miller, D; (2017) The ideology of friendship in the era of Facebook. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory , 7 (1) pp. 377-395. 10.14318/hau7.1.025.
Miller_Ideology_Friendship_Facebook_VoR.pdf - Published version
This article suggests that while anthropologists have developed a highly nuanced analysis of kinship and friendship under a more general comparative study of relationality, this emphasis upon practice needs to be complemented by an alternative focus on the use of these terms as ideology, where we find a more simplistic and dualistic usage. The rise of new social media and the verb friending highlights a more general shift from the idea of fictive kinship to that of fictive friendship, where it is the ideals represented by the supposed voluntarism and authenticity of friendship that has now come to dominate the way people view kin relations. Evidence is provided from ethnographies in the Philippines, Trinidad, and England that illustrate the prevalence of a practice where kin relations reposition themselves under the idiom of friendship with both negative and positive consequences. This incorporation of kinship within friendship can also bring back a sense of rule and obligation, which has led to a decline in the use of Facebook by the young.
10.14318/hau7.1.025
http://dx.doi.org/10.14318/hau7.1.025
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friendship, social media, kinship, Facebook, England
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Jay Carney follows David Plouffe into corporate communications.
When Jay Carney stepped down as the White House press secretary in 2014 and made way for still-new guy Josh Earnest, many observers guessed that he would move on to a top comms position in the tech industry.
Today Politico's Mike Allen got the scoop: Carney will join Amazon on Monday as SVP for worldwide corporate affairs. The company's PR chief Craig Berman and VP of Public Policy (aka top lobbyist) Paul Misener will report to Carney and he will report directly to Jeff Bezos himself.
He's referring, of course, to Obama campaign manager David Plouffe, who is now Senior VP of Policy and Strategy at Uber.
It's not yet clear whether Plouffe will succeed in his attempts to convince the public that Uber is a good thing for society at large; Carney's efforts to do the same with Amazon may be even less successful.
Uber did recently add us to its mailing list, so we've seen more headlines regarding its various CSR initiatives and shameless stunts in recent weeks.
Amazon will need to do a bit more than that.


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Concerning Mr. Mortimer's letter regarding Israel as a "pariah state," I offer a position based on facts and not the same old PC propaganda.
The root cause of the Arab-Israeli conflict is the Arab/Muslim inability to accept the Jewish historical and religious claims to the Land of Israel (or "Palestine" as the Arabs call it.) The Palestinians never had sovereignty over any land in the Middle East. Nonetheless, Israeli has many times offered to turn over most of the land it won after its defensive war against Jordan in 1967. It has been the Palestinians who have refused all offers.
Israel is a world leader in developing medical devices and medical electronics, agriculture, computerized graphics, water technology and desalinization. Only a fraction of U.S. aid given stays in Israel. The largest share of aid is returned to American defense contractors, where it is estimated that every billion dollars of aid to Israel create 60,000 to 70,000 jobs in the U.S.
Here is an example of what the U.S. receives from this so-called "pariah state" – Israeli medical experts had advised the Massachusetts General Hospital's disaster response plan to deal with mass-casualty incidents. In the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings. Doctors at the hospital found themselves well prepared as a result of their training.
Israel and America have the same enemies. Israel fights the same Islamic-fascist terrorism that brought us 9/11. Israel is hardly a pariah state as Mr. Mortimer stated.


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