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RIP Eduardo Fajardo
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One of the leading actors of the Spaghetti western genre Eduardo Fajardo, died in Mexico on July 4, 2019 at the age of 94. Born in Meis, Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain on August 14, 1924 his family moved within a few days of his life to La Rioja. His childhood would take place in Haro, which he confessed liking very well. While still a teenager, he moved to Santander, where he studied the Baccalaureate and began his acting career in 1942, starting as a voice actor, a career he developed until 1946. With Cifesa he signed a contract as an exclusive actor for several years for his greatest successes. He debuted in the cinema with the film Heroes of 95, by Raúl Alfonso (1947), thus inaugurating one of the most bulky filmographies of Spanish cinema, which reaches over 180 titles. He also developed a career in the theater which he carried on and off throughout his career. In 1953 he moved to Mexico, where he combined his participation in the cinema of that country with television appearances; among them Tehuantepec by Miguel Contreras Torres (1954), Tizoc: Indian love by Ismael Rodríguez Ruelas (1957). On his return to Spain he resumed his film career with a frenetic activity that led him to shoot an average of fifteen titles a year in which the roles of the villain abound in the Spaghetti Westerngenre most notably in Django (1966) ) by Sergio Corbucci. In his final years he moved to Almeria where he instituted their Walk of Fame and worked as a director in the theater working with disabled children. He worked on 183 films, 75 plays and some 2,000 appearances on television in Spain and Mexico, as well as participating in productions from Italy, Germany, France, Great Britain and the United States.
Charge of the 7th – 1964 (Colonel George Bonnet)
A Coffin for the Sheriff – 1965 (Russell Murder/Murdock/Banner)
Django – 1965 (Major Jackson)
Ringo's Big Night – 1965 (Mayor Joseph Finley)
Ringo, the Face of Revenge – 1966 (Tim)
A Stranger in Paso Bravo – 1966 (Acombar/Akenbar)
Gentleman Killer – 1967 (Colonel Fernando Ferreras)
Last of the Badmen – 1967 (Don Jaime Morelos/Mendoza)
7 Pistols for a Massacre – 1967 (Tilly/Tiny)
Go for Broke – 1968 (Paco Nunez)
Killer, Adios – 1968 (Sam Ringold)
The Mercenary – 1968 (Alfono Garcia)
One by One – 1968 (Sheriff Lyman)
Tierra Brava – 1968 (Trevor)
A Pistol for 100 Coffins – 1968 (Chavel)
Companeros – 1970 (colonel)
Dead Men Ride – 1970 (Redfield)
A Man Called Apocalypse Joe – 1970 (Berg)
Sabata the Killer – 1970 (Mangosta)
Shango – 1970 (Major Droster)
Bad Man's River – 1971 (General Duarte)
The Bandit Malpelo – 1971 (Juan Cisneros Malpelo)
Long Live Your Death – 1971 (General Huerta)
Sonny & Jed – 1972 (Doñ Garcia Moreno)
Sting of the West – 1972 (Grant)
Tequila – 1972 (Dekovan/Di Koven/Cogan)
The Three Musketeers of the West – 1973 (Horatio Maurice DeLuc)
Valley of the Dancing Widows – 1974 (Dynamite Dick)
Arrivano i Vostro (TV) – 1983 [himself]
El bueno, la bomba y el malo – 2000 [himself]
Once Upon a Time in Europe (TV) – 2001 [himself]
I lived in a town where few Spaghetti Westerns graced our theater screens, and not too many were shown on TV. Thus I never saw Fajardo in any film until I rented DJANGO on a VHS tape around 1985. I... more

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Sebastian Wybrew has appeared with many of the UK's most eminent performers, including Dame Felicity Lott, Christopher Maltman and Iestyn Davies. In 2014 he made his debut at Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam with Ian Bostridge, and his long-standing duo with Sophie Bevan saw them make their critically acclaimed Wigmore Hall debut in 2011. Sebastian Wybrew regularly performs at prestigious festivals throughout Europe including those of Aix-en-Provence, Edinburgh, Zaragoza, Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Sebastian Wybrew has received acclaim from Classical Music Magazine for his recording of Geoffrey Grey's Partita with trumpeter Simon Cheney. He was awarded the Accompanist Prize at the 2010 John Kerr English Song Competition, and is a beneficiary of the Geoffrey Parsons Memorial Trust. In much demand as a pedagogue, he has been involved with the Keyboard Faculties at the Royal College of Music, the Edward Said Conservatory, the Fondation Royaumont and Musique en Côte Basque.
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Lago|Algo: Shake Your Body | Curated by Jérôme Sans
Shake Your Body
Curated by Jérôme Sans
September 3rd-December 22nd, 2022
LagoAlgo's second exhibition, Shake Your Body, opens a second chapter and stands as a manifesto of the direction of its revival: a living platform that activates the connection between various communities and reflects on a global scale whilst acting locally towards transformation.
The expressions "To Make Society" or "To Live Together" are as laudable as they are vain if they are not anchored in a principle of tangible reality. Beyond the laws, states, and power structures that lay down its contours, what is the organic reality of our interrelations? Despite being aware of the importance of social cohesion and feeling the desire to contribute to it, how can we foster the meeting of our energies? What do we share, with whom, in what context, and for what project?
From the fine theories of political philosophy to the latent demagogy of our representatives, our social models are becoming uniform, our behavior is becoming formatted and individualized, crushing our shared but isolated will to experience the common. Social inequalities are increasing every day, management is imposing its values more than sincere and disinterested commitment to others, indifference takes over on solidarity. Yet paying attention, the common is everywhere. In a football stadium wave, shivering across the bleachers; in a spontaneous chorus shouted by the crowd at a concert; in front of a breathtaking sunset by the sea, or in a shack built with friends. The experience of the common is a social body that trembles with the same skin, shouts with the same voice, marvels with the same eyes, and builds with the same hands.
A common ground despite our differences, culture is a place to get together. Building bridges to the island settled upon utopian roots that is LagoAlgo, this exhibition intends to awaken the incredible synergy sedated by our daily lives within an active experience of works not conceived as objects of entertainment, but rather as paths to explore together. This renewal of utopia – at a time when models of social transformation seem exhausted – is not a return to the ideal, but an invitation to think of the breach, the error, and the multitude as a source of a fertile hybridity. Rather than trusting in the return of growth and thinking that it will solve all problems without creating new ones, rather than dreaming of El Dorado, singing mornings, and ideal cities, there is a need to reinvest civil society in all its actual potential.
Sharing works that address these issues while generating concrete situations providing the dynamism and reunion necessary for their consideration, Shake Your Body brings together 7 international artists that embody collective empowerment: :mentalKLINIK (1967/1972, Turkey), Andreas Angelidakis (1968, Greece), Stefan Brüggemann (1975, Mexico), Vivian Caccuri (1986, Brazil), Pia Camil (1980, Mexico), Rafael Domenech (1989, Cuba), and Alicia Framis (1967, Spain).
At a time of permanent competition between individuals encouraged by social networks, the duo :mentalKLINIK (1967/1972, Turkey) dislocates mundane materials to create a new aesthetic form that is seductive. Their universe can be experienced as festive and glamorous, yet surprising and abrasive, as violent and paradoxical as a bad trip after partying. They claim the sparkling and authoritarian visual language of the media and the nocturnal culture in a climate of sensory hyper-stimulation. With Are You Liked Enough (2022), the exhibition space becomes a nightclub as well as a digital realm, both calling for other's validations from the entrance to the mirror's selfie. With Terribly Jolly (2022), the duo challenges our unanimous attraction to glittering, seductive objects and our reflection in their paradoxical meanders. Through a chromatic immersive device, reality fades between the fake and the superficial. Neon or chrome oxymorons reveal the artists' characteristic sense of acerbic poetry and invade the space through other forms: abstractions that are brilliant to the point of being blinding, and a video in which glitter and sequins become end-of-party waste. In a balance of irony, they reflect the effects of accelerated capitalism and challenge our relations to selves.
Andreas Angelidakis (1968, Greece) addresses the question of site-specificity at the time of its multiplicity. He creates immersive installations co-constructed with the public into new and fun living spaces. Fascinated by ruins of the Athenian urban landscape, both ancient and recent, he invokes the notion of 'post-ruin', telescoping different temporalities. Using design software and the Internet, he builds virtual worlds to foster the emergence of other forms of sociality. In his videos and 3D animations, he questions the specific nature of sites in the age of digital ubiquity, anticipating the ruins of our contemporary era. Between stepping carefully into a teenager's room and being drawn into a video game, the artist embarks on a journey to Athens By Night (2022) and explores the digital ruins of our time. He transforms a journey through the remnants of the ancient city into an immersive environment, querying the history of Athens against other possible futures. Like so many archeological fragments of Greek marble, foam cushion modules are multiplied into copies of themselves, movable and stackable, they lend themselves to the free interpretation of visitors. In a playful metaverse-like city, people are invited to rest, discuss, daydream, or take part in a collective permanent construction aiming at rebuilding common worlds. From Greece to Mexico, the artist insists on our power to reassemble the pieces of our culture, both materially received and digitally shared.
Alicia Framis (1967, Spain) is an artist whose work often starts out from actual social dilemmas to develop novel settings suggesting solutions. She uses urban social spaces to address the human experience, our frustrations and anxieties, whilst creating outlets for our dreams and desires through creative social interactions. The exhibition starts as she invites the audience with Leave Here Your Fears (2022) to abandon prejudices behind whilst entering the building. A necessary lightering to receive from and give to one another by letting go of our apparent differences. The mirroring diamond-shaped vessel operates both as a memorial for our abandoned fears and a sanctuary to connect with the world as a conscious part of it. By allowing people to materialize and delete their toxic daily thoughts, Alicia Framis sets free whoever is willing to let go from their mental loops and willing to be available to the other.
Through objects, installations, performances, and original music, Vivian Caccuri (1986, Brazil) creates situations that disorient the everyday experience and consequently, interrupt perceptions sedimented in culture and ingrained in cognitive structures. She investigates the physical, sociopolitical, and spiritual impact of sound, especially the unwanted or subaltern ones. With The Weeping Dancer (2022), she uses the image and function of the speaker as a power tool. Lit coloured candles stand in front of the monumental façade of a sound system, from which the subwoofers emanate a barely perceptible music piece created by the artist, claiming our attention – both visual and auditory. Inspired by early Christian music, the artist seeks sonic forms in which the bass still performs as a vehicle for the mind through body and skin. Held by mic stands, the flames set in motion work as many potential voices striving to exist against the structural power of society symbolized in a skyscraper-shaped speaker.
Using the flexibility of textile and aesthetic potential of secondhand clothes to support her anthropological sculpture experimentations, Pia Camil (1980, Mexico) explores the relationships between bodies and architecture, domesticity and consumerism, or art and spectacle. The collective enjoyment and activation of her performative pieces emphasize the importance of collectivity and its celebration, whilst forming a yet critical position. With her installation Bara, Bara, Bara (2022), she literally embodies the social by dressing everyone together. Unified in monumental sails from a multitude of colored and printed t-shirts bartered in the markets of Mexico City, by putting our heads through the remaining holes, the connection goes beyond connecting to the group visiting, but also to those who wore the clothes and to those who will. Through her selection, the artist creates a collage-patchwork of slogans forming a snapshot of post-capital collective consciousness and aspirations, bringing attention to shared experiences and inequities with commerce and the mechanisms of globalization.
In his practice, Stefan Brüggemann (1975, Mexico) is concerned with language and "words that become images," questioning the idea of the transfer or image of information. He explores situations where language becomes a way of reflecting the event. Known for confronting the apparently rather distant forms of urban rebellion graffiti and conceptual art, he unrolls a unique "punk minimalism" vocabulary. Together with PienZa Sostenible, a Mexico City-based non-profit organization focused on analyzing, studying, critiquing, and implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Mexico, Stefan Brüggemann created ODS (2017). This work reflects upon Mexican political contradictions by superimposing on mirrors key data about Mexico on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations 2030 Agenda (Objectivos de Desarollo Sostenible). In a typographic confrontation, the popular discourse in the form of graffiti – the artist's signature, and one of the most primary forms of political demand that resonates particularly with the history of Mexican muralism – confronts the administrative discourse in Arial Black. Forced to see themselves through a more complete transcribed data, both actors confronted to the piece are plunged into this too often neglected gap between power and facts, recovering the tools of their capacity for action.
Lastly, Rafael Domenech (1989, Cuba) conceives objects colliding in space, organizing a sequence of artworks with physical or theoretical connections into a larger system, especially their own fabrication. His work explores how the artwork itself is part of an ecosystem of practices outside the studio, into the institution, and the world beyond art. A story of human relationships before aesthetic considerations. The artist invades the space with a spatial manifesto as every element – from modular furniture and lamps to space dividers – is a structure that displays either text or image. Through a series of workshops, the artist extends the exhibition outside the exhibition space and invites us to bring back our productions home. The combination of all these elements concludes on an immersive visual essay exploring ideas of how individuals negotiate urban spaces, communities, and sites. Recyclable, erasable, and short circuited, Model to Exhaust a Lamp (2022) also explores fundamental production issues, whilst creating spaces of collectiveness.
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"Following the end of my playing career, I've spent the past two-and-a-half-years gaining management experience and making valuable contacts," he told the club's website.
"Now, in my new role as sporting director, I will be putting all my efforts into keeping VfB [Stuttgart] in the Bundesliga and ensuring this talented team has a successful future.
"I thank our president and the supervisory board for the faith they've placed in me and I'm very much looking forward to this great challenge."
President Wolfgang Dietrich added: "In Thomas we're gaining an expert who brings both football expertise from his own recent playing career as well as the necessary leadership qualities.
"He's shown both in recent years in various functions at VfB Stuttgart. I'm delighted that he immediately showed the willingness to take on the role of sporting director."


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Fitbit's long-term sustainability and the abandonment issue
By Edwin Yapp August 25, 2015
Needs to be more than just an innovative hardware player
Should go beyond fitness and towards holistic health services
ANALYSIS FITBIT Inc remains the darling in the fitness tracker space – at least for now, with industry and financial analysts remaining cautious over its long-term prospects in the fledging world of wearable technology.
Founded in San Francisco by James Park and Eric Friedman in 2007, the fitness wearable technology company is a pioneer and the leading player in the market.
It says its mission is to empower and inspire people to live healthier active lives, helping them to achieve their health and fitness goals, whatever they may be, with the products it designs.
Citing numbers from research firm NPD Group, Fitbit claims market leadership in the fitness tracker segment with about 85% share of the US market in March 2015, up from 67% in the same period in 2014. Its revenue more than tripled in the quarter through March 2015, from a year earlier, and earnings are also rising fast.
Fitbit also claims to have nearly sold 21 million devices as of March this year, saying that its products have also helped users take 43% more steps which they would otherwise not have taken.
In June, it listed on the New York Stock Exchange, opening at US$30.40 a share, up 52% from its initial offering of US$20, according to Fortune. Its share price peaked at US$52 on Aug 5 but has currently slipped below the psychological threshold of US$40 to about US$39.
Meanwhile, its first earnings call after listing was generally greeted well by analysts, as key numbers beat their expectations.
For the immediate closing quarter, revenue jumped 253% to US$400 million, well ahead of analyst estimates about US$319 million. The company saw particular strength abroad, where sales jumped 250% year-over-year, according to Forbes.
Overall net income came in at US$51.3 million, or 21 cents per share, compared with US$18.3 million or nine cents per share a year ago – this was also higher than analyst estimates of eight cents per share.
Fitbit's forward guidance also remains bright, with projected full-year earnings of 69 to 77 cents per share and revenue of between US$1.6 billion and US$1.7 billion.
Things are looking bright, with research firms NPD Group and Counterpoint Research all forecasting growth in the market for fitness tracking wearables in the coming years.
NPD Group noted that in less than a year, awareness of wearable fitness devices among US consumers has more than doubled, going from 30% in November 2013 to 70% at the end of July 2014.
Counterpoint Research meanwhile expects the wrist wearables market to grow from 20 million units in 2014 to 59 million units in 2015.
Competition landscape
But as rosy as all this seems, there are speed bumps ahead that could hurt Fitbit's potential for growth in the longer run, according to analysts.
One challenge is competitive pressure from rivals. At the top of the scale are giants such as Apple Inc, whose Apple Watch made its debut in March. At the bottom of the scale is Xiaomi Inc's Mi Band, which retails for a mere US$13.
Between the two extremes are niche brands such as Nike, Adidas, Jawbone, Misfit, Moov, Jaybird, Withings, Garmin, TomTom, Samsung and even Microsoft.
Neil Shah, research director at Counterpoint Research, says that the penetration of fitness trackers is still very low, and while there are opportunities for Fitbit to grow its market share, it will find it difficult to keep charging a premium for just its hardware if there is no significantly different value bundled with it.
"The biggest advantage Fitbit has is its strong data analytics – its cloud platform and the entire science of fitness and health monitoring, analysis and its ability to design newer revenue opportunities and segments," he says in reply to Digital News Asia (DNA) queries.
Fitbit however remains unfazed, saying it believes that it still retains a significant advantage over the competition – something that is causing consumers to choose Fitbit over the rest, a senior executive told DNA.
The second and more challenging battle for Fitbit is that the business now is still too focused on hardware, according to Shah.
Arguing that its overall business model approach needs to pivot from being a hardware company to being a data science company, Shah says Fitbit can disrupt the healthcare industry with well-designed products supported by a robust service and strong analytics engine.
Concurring with this view was Jason Cipriani, a freelancer columnist for Fortune who says that one way companies like Fitbit will be able to thrive is to go beyond just activity tracking.
"For instance, a review of the company's latest bands, the Surge and Charge HR (heart rate), found both products provide great fitness services, but fell short in everyday features like Internet capabilities, an element that could entice more users to try out the product," he says.
"Apple, on the other hand, has released a smartwatch capable of both tracking activity and monitoring heart rate, along with running other applications like email, and providing information at a glance.
"The only downside for Apple, and a boon for Fitbit's cause, is that the entry price of the Apple Watch starts at US$350 and locks users into using an iPhone," says Cipriani.
Similarly, Ed Maguire, a software analyst at CLSA, was quoted in Bloomberg as suggesting that Fitbit should follow Apple's model of letting third parties create apps for its devices.
"If Fitbit can manage to become a platform and be able to support innovations from third parties, I think that would be a really viable road to creating more sustainable value," he says.
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Photo: Trumpeter Swans (Cygnus buccinator) by Chuck Slusarczyk Jr.
Stand by Western Cuyahoga Audubon! Add your signature to thank Senators Rob Portman and Ben Cardin for their leadership and foresight on bird conservation through the introduction of bill S. 1537 reauthorizing the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act, now titled Migratory Birds of the Americas Conservation Act, one of the nation's most important bird conservation laws.
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Many thanks to you and to co-sponsor, Senator Ben Cardin, for your leadership and foresight on bird conservation through the introduction of bill S. 1537 reauthorizing the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act, now titled Migratory Birds of the Americas Conservation Act, one of the nation's most important bird conservation laws.
Reauthorizing the bill would provide greater funding to continue to protect habitat, to provide vital research and education, and provide long-term protection of neotropical migratory birds within Ohio and beyond. The incredible journey taken by migrants is a natural spectacle as they travel between two worlds. Throughout North and South America more than 4 million acres of nesting, wintering or stopover areas have been secured through this funding.
Birding, or bird-watching, has a huge economic impact in Ohio with nearly $40 million coming in during the spring of 2017 for the Biggest Week in American Birding event in northwest Ohio. Visitors from throughout the United States and several countries attended in order to experience the diversity of birds and the spectacle of migration. This is due, in part, to the funds provided by the Migratory Birds of the Americas Conservation Act.
In a rapidly changing world, the conservation and protection of the resources needed by bird species is important. The leadership that you and Senator Cardin have shown in working to advance this legislation will help protect birds now, and for the future so that generations will continue to enjoy the diversity of bird life of Ohio, the United States and the world. Thank you.
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The Cohanim - DNA Connection
Jan 12, 2000 | by Rabbi Yaakov Kleiman
The fascinating story of how DNA studies confirm an ancient biblical tradition.
Dr. Karl Skorecki, a Cohen of Eastern European parents, was attending synagogue one morning. The Cohen called up for the Torah reading that morning was a Jew of Sephardic background, whose parents were born in North Africa.Dr. Skorecki looked at the Sephardi Cohen's physical features and considered his own physical features.They were significantly different in stature, skin coloration and hair and eye color. Yet both had a tradition of being Cohanim, direct descendants of one man -- Aaron, the brother of Moses.
Cohanim (plural of Cohen) are the priestly family of the Jewish people, members of the Tribe of Levi.The books of Exodus and Leviticus describe the responsibilities of the Cohanim, which include the Temple service and blessing of the people. The Torah (the first five books of the Bible) describes the anointing of Aaron, the brother of Moses, as the first High Priest (Cohen Gadol).
Jewish tradition, based on the Torah, is that all Cohanim are direct descendants of Aaron, the brother of Moses. The Cohen line is patrilineal -- passed from father to son without interruption for 3,300 years, or more than 100 generations.
The Cohen line is patrilineal -- passed from father to son without interruption for 3,300 years.
Dr. Skorecki considered, "According to tradition, this Sephardi Cohen and I have a common ancestor. Could this line have been maintained since Sinai, and throughout the long exile of the Jewish people?" As a scientist, he wondered, could such a claim be tested?
Being a nephrologist and a top-level researcher at the University of Toronto and the Rambam-Technion Medical Center in Haifa, he was involved in the breakthroughs in molecular genetics which are revolutionizing medicine and the study of the life-sciences. He was also aware of the newly developing application of DNA analysis to the study of history and population diversity.
Dr. Skorecki considered a hypothesis: if the Cohanim are descendants of one man, they should have a common set of genetic markers -- a common haplotype -- that of their common ancestor. In our case, Aaron HaCohen.
A genetic marker is a variation in the nucleotide sequence of the DNA, known as a mutation. Mutations which occur within genes -- a part of the DNA which codes for a protein -- usually cause a malfunction or disease and is lost due to selection in succeeding generations. However, mutations found in so-called "non-coding regions" of the DNA tend to persist.
Since the Y chromosome consists almost entirely of non-coding DNA (except for the genes determining maleness), it would tend to accumulate mutations. Since it is passed from father to son without recombination, the genetic information on a Y chromosome of a man living today is basically the same as that of his ancient male ancestors, except for the rare mutations that occur along the hereditary line.
A combination of these neutral mutations, known as a haplotype, can serve as a genetic signature of a man's male ancestry. Maternal genealogies are also being studied by means of the m-DNA (mitrocondrial DNA), which is inherited only from the mother.
THE SEARCH BEGINS
Dr. Skorecki made contact with Professor Michael Hammer, of the University of Arizona, a leading researcher in molecular genetics and a pioneer in Y chromosome research. Professor Hammer uses DNA analysis to study the history of populations, their origins and migrations. His previous research included work on the origins of the Native American Indians and the development of the Japanese people.
A study was undertaken to test the hypothesis. If there were a common ancestor, the Cohanim should have common genetic markers at a higher frequency than the general Jewish population.
In the first study, as reported in the prestigious British science journal, Nature (January 2, 1997), 188 Jewish males were asked to contribute some cheek cells from which their DNA was extracted for study. Participants from Israel, England and North America were asked to identify whether they were a Cohen, Levi or Israelite, and to identify their family background.
The results of the analysis of the Y chromosome markers of the Cohanim and non-Cohanim were indeed significant. A particular marker, (YAP-) was detected in 98.5 percent of the Cohanim, and in a significantly lower percentage of non-Cohanim.
FURTHER CONFIRMATION
In a second study, Dr. Skorecki and associates gathered more DNA samples and expanded their selection of Y chromosome markers. Solidifying their hypothesis of the Cohens' common ancestor, they found that a particular array of six chromosomal markers was found in 97 of the 106 Cohens tested. This collection of markers has come to be known as the Cohen Modal Hapoltype (CMH) -- the standard genetic signature of the Jewish priestly family. The chances of these findings happening at random is greater than one in 10,000.
The finding of a common set of genetic markers in both Ashkenazi and Sephardi Cohanim worldwide clearly indicates an origin pre-dating the separate development of the two communities around 1000 CE. Date calculation based on the variation of the mutations among Cohanim today yields a time frame of 106 generations from the ancestral founder of the line, some 3,300 years -- the approximate time of the Exodus from Egypt, the lifetime of Aaron HaCohen.
Date calculations based on the mutations yield a time frame for the Cohen line of some 3,300 years!
Professor Hammer was recently in Israel for the Jewish Genome Conference. He confirmed that his findings are consistent -- over 80 percent of self-identified Cohanim have a common set of markers.
The finding that less than one-third of the non-Cohen Jews who were tested possess these markers is not surprising to the geneticists. Jewishness is not defined genetically. Other Y-chromosomes can enter the Jewish gene pool through conversion or through a non-Jewish father. Jewish status is determined by the mother. Tribe membership follows the father's line.
AMAZING STATISTICS
Calculations based on the high rate of genetic similarity of today's Cohanim resulted in the highest "paternity-certainty" rate ever recorded in population genetics studies -- a scientific testimony to family faithfulness.
Stated Dr. David Goldstein of Oxford University:
"For more than 90 percent of the Cohens to share the same genetic markers after such a period of time is a testament to the devotion of the wives of the Cohens over the years. Even a low rate of infidelity would have dramatically lowered the percentage."
[Science News, October 3, 1998]
Wider genetic studies of diverse present day Jewish communities show a remarkable genetic cohesiveness. Jews from Iran, Iraq, Yemen, North Africa and European Ashkenazim all cluster together with other Semitic groups, with their origin in the Middle East. A common geographical original can be seen for all mainstream Jewish groups studied.
This genetic research has clearly refuted the libel that the Ashkenazi Jews are not related to the ancient Hebrews, but are descendants of the Kuzar tribe -- a pre-10th century Turko-Asian empire which reportedly converted en masse to Judaism. Researchers compared the DNA signature of the Ashkenazi Jews against those of Turkish-derived people, and found no correspondence.
OTHER SURPRISING FINDINGS
In their second published paper in Nature (July 9, 1998) the researchers included an unexpected finding. Those Jews in the study who identified themselves as Levites did not show a common set of markers as did the Cohanim. The Levites clustered in three groupings, one of them the CMH. According to tradition, the Levites should also show a genetic signature from a common paternal patrilineal ancestor. The researchers are now focusing effort on the study of Levites' genetic make up to learn more about their history in the Diaspora.
Using the CMH as a DNA signature of the ancient Hebrews, researchers are pursuing a hunt for Jewish genes around the world.
This research could have ramifications in the search for the Biblical Ten Lost Tribes
This could have ramifications in the search for the Biblical Ten Lost Tribes.
Using the genetic markers of the Cohanim as a yardstick, these genetic archaeologists are using DNA research to discover historical links to the Jewish people.
The researchers' policy is that the research is not a test of individuals, but an examination of the extended family. Having the CMH is not a proof of one's being a Cohen, for the mother's side is also significant in determining one's Cohen status. At present, there are no ramifications in Jewish law due to this discovery. No one is certified nor disqualified because of their Y chromosome markers.
The research has shown a clear genetic relationship amongst Cohanim and their direct lineage from a common ancestor. The research findings support the Torah statements that the line of Aaron will last throughout history:
"... and they shall have the Priesthood as a statute forever, and you shall consecrate Aaron and his sons." [Exodus 29:9]
"... it shall be for them an appointment to an everlasting Priesthood throughout their generations." [Exodus 40:15]
"And it shall be to him and to his descendants after him a covenant of everlastingPriesthood." [Numbers 25:13]
That our Torah tradition is supported by these findings is an inspiration for many that God surely keeps His promises. May we soon see the Cohanim restored to their service, Levites on their Temple platform and Israelites at their places.
If you are a Cohen or Levi interested in participating in the DNA research and/or receiving further information please contact:
Center For Cohanim,
3 Rehov HaMekubalim,
Old City, Jerusalem, Israel
Phone/Fax: (02) 628-9243
Email: ymkleiman@hotmail.com
Thanks to Professor Edward Simon, microbiologist at Purdue University, lecturer and board member of the Association of Orthodox Jewish Scientists, for his expert input.
Rabbi Yaakov Kleiman
Rabbi Yaakov HaKohen Kleiman is a lecturer at Aish HaTorah, Jerusalem, specializing in Temple studies. He is co-director with Rabbi Nachman Kahana, of the Center For Kohanim.
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(25) Richard, January 24, 2019 4:46 AM
This was very interesting and informative.
(24) David Bentvi, June 14, 2015 8:46 PM
Cohanim Genetic Marker - any update?
If all Levites including Aaron were descended from Levy, a common male ancestor, shouldn't all Levites including Cohanim have the same genetic makers. Or at least all those descended from the common father of Aaron and Moses? And if we can say for certainty what the genetic marker is for descendants of Aaron, why not their common ancestor Abraham, our fathe?r Has there been any update on these tests since this article was written in 2000?
(23) MMeredith Preble, March 26, 2014 1:35 PM
question of DNA
Where is there proof of an uninterrupted line and was any DNA from Aaron kept? Genetic proof is scientifically shown to be from a mother, so how can these assertions be correct? Where is the proof? Thank you
(22) Philip Kirschner, January 21, 2014 1:45 PM
Not Orthodox but on that PATH
For to long, I have dabled in other faiths, and found nothing but heartache. I ran from my faith for many years. My adoptive father said, I was a special kind of JEW. I never understood it till now. He said that I did not have to turn around in SHUL during the blessing by KOHANIM, and now i understand why. But, I am not sure. How does one get tested?
(21) Anonymous, January 7, 2014 1:01 PM
The problem is that there are two genetic signatures that claim cohen priestly genetic status .. one is a sub clade of J1 and the other is a subclade of J2 ... they can't both be right now can they !! Most people favour the J1 group as true cohenim .. J1 and J2 separated from each other ten thousand years ago .. so which one id the false line ??
(20) Anonymous, July 9, 2012 3:00 PM
Wants to be DNA tested in Brooklyn. How?
Also, Do you know of any program in Brooklyn training cohanim for the Temple service? If not existing, how about getting it done now? I am very interested, and so are other cohanim I know of.
(19) Dale, January 10, 2012 5:39 PM
We are all decendants of Noah's sons. So it is not surprising there are gentic similiarities from people in Africa to Jews. We are all cousins. All our forefathers were brothers.
(18) Kirimi, April 25, 2011 8:39 PM
African tribes with Jewish D.N.A
I read on research that was carried on an African tribe called the Lembaa(found in Malawi,Mozambique) and it was found that they were 60% semetic with the Buba(priests) having the CMH!... Apart from the Lembaa there are other tribes in their mythology tracing lineage from Israel e.g the Ameru of Kenya. A research would put to rest these myths
(17) sergio, October 26, 2008 3:22 PM
the levin gene
Hy rabbi Kleiman.A very very interesting article, the investigation of the levin´s gene is still on course as we can read in your article.How can we participate of this experiment, as a DNA sample donner, and there´s any university in latin america (brazil)colaborating in these tests?Thanks
(16) Ken, February 28, 2008 6:32 PM
Thanks for this. Yet another testimony to the trustworthiness of Tanach; the Cohens are truly descended from one man.
(15) Milton Kleinman, June 25, 2007 4:33 PM
In my temple before evening prayers, there are discussions about origins,ergo, Cohanim, Levis, and Israelites. Your articles have so much pertinent information.
(14) PeterBaiamonte, November 29, 2006 2:32 PM
I have been dna tested and found to have the Cohen Modal Haplotype gene.
The Cohen Modal Haplotype markers are as foloows: DYS19=14, DYS388=16, DYS390=23, DYS391=10, DYS392=11, and DYS393=12. Dr. Bennett Greenspan of FamilytreeDNA conducted the testing on my specimen.
(13) Kathleen Bown, July 5, 2006 12:00 AM
What a great god we have!
I just would like to say that our God is true to his word, if he says somethings is going to last forever, it does. I am so thrilled to see yet again of Gods handiwork that he has kept the priesthood line of Aaron!
(12) Richard E Amsterdam, June 9, 2006 12:00 AM
Y-Chromosome
My family recently participated in the National Geographic Genographic DNA study. Our male line traced its roots from the Middle East across North Africa to Spain - just as our family tradition held. We are interested in the Cohanim DNA study since our family tradition says that we are Cohanim.
Richard E Amsterdam
(11) Jorge Cohen, May 31, 2006 12:00 AM
First time i read about this study. Very interesting the way science can be used for religious purposes. Shalom
(10) Anonymous, January 30, 2006 12:00 AM
Old and new historical/launguage/cultural sources have revealed Jewish roots among Finnish people. We have in Finland not only a tribe of Isschar, but others too. The situation is the same in many other European countries, as you know. How you could help us Finns? - Do you have any suitabel test to use for getting new scientific evidence of it. Many of Finns "know" intuitively "I am Jewish", "I have Jewish roots". But we do not discuss about this thing openly, because officially there are only about 2000 Orthodox Jews, mainly living in Helsinki. But amount of Jewish people (mixed)is much more, ten thousands or hundres thousands Finns. I suppose it will come quite soon "a right time" to reveal this Finnish seacret. Today it is a searcret to many Finns, too. Maybe DNA and Blood tests should help us. Fe. my mother died 4 years ago and she had a "Jewish, genetic desease". - I am a privat person. If you like, you can answer to me. Yours Tuula-Hannele
(9) Brenda Strano, November 15, 2005 12:00 AM
Both my parents last names are Cohen.
Dear Rabbi Kleiman,
I just read your article. I am very interested in this because both of my parents last names are Cohen.My grandparents were from Russia, Romania, Poland and Austria. Does that mean that I am definately from the Kohanim tribe? Sincerely, Brenda
(8) chanoch Taub, June 14, 2005 12:00 AM
Just finished book DNA & Tradition really interesting.
(7) Sandy, March 15, 2005 12:00 AM
My mother is a Cohanim, my father was a Levite. My mother from an ultra Orthodox family which married within the family, as did my father's. My sister and I recently had our DNA conducted by a company called DNAprint.com, which we saw on a Fox local news special. My DNA came back as: 91% Indo European and 9% Native American. My blood sister's returned as: 97% Caucasion and N. European and 3% Asian. Looking at my paternal grandmother's family which is extremely large, all were Blonds, fair skin, blue eyes, originatin in Latvia and then Belarus. My paternal grandfather, from Kiev, extremely dark, straight hair. My maternal grandmother's family were fair, reddish, but wish slightly slanted eyes and high cheek bones. I then went onto the Jewish Arch. website and saw a DNA study they are conducting and it also lists Native American. It's obvious that the Native American is from the N. Siberian area where tribal wars and village battles infused with Jewish blood. Are Jews more mixed, than we think, even though we can trace Jewish lineage? It's important for health reasons, ethnic diseases, etc. In addition, many years ago I saw an article that stated a n American Indian tribe had the same fingerprint swirls as Jews. This makes me believe in my DNA even more. Perhaps we need to expand our DNA search to include Jews and ethnic groups which we "think" we have no link with.
(6) Chicago, December 21, 2004 12:00 AM
Incredibly informative
This is a great article. I would like to find links in Chicago to find out more about this matter. Can they test anyone and find out their DNA link? Thanks for everything AISH.COM!!!
(5) geoff anderson, April 14, 2003 12:00 AM
Concise, informative, interesting.
I think that this information would be of interest to Gentiles as well as Jews.
It provides an important link in history
should appear both in science and in history textbooks on the elementary and secondary levels in schools.
(4) Anonymous, February 3, 2001 12:00 AM
Jewish Genes and History
Studies like these can help present genetical evidence which corresponds to the historical, linguistic, and folkloric facts. They also help to disprove certain anti-Jewish "theories" with political agendas, that "Jews are not of Semitic origin". A very good study and article indeed.
(3) Dr Steve Sattler, January 16, 2001 12:00 AM
an exciting start- we need some more exactingstudies
We need to seek a more common series (or sets of serieses) to show a highly probably connection between allcohanim
(2) Simon Ruvinov, January 2, 2001 12:00 AM
Basically I wanted to learn about my herritage, and I've learned more then I thought I would. I never understood what it was to be a cohain until I read this article.
(1) Benny, April 29, 2000 12:00 AM
there are more people claiming descent from Aaron HaCohen
It appears that they have dicovered a Tribe living in Zimbabwe that has a high incidence of that y chromosone known to have descended from Aaron. They are known as the Lemba, and even though they practise Christianity claim to be born a Jew.There are approximately 50-70000 Lembas and the male population displayed a high incidence of the Cohen chromosone(8.8%-similar to what was found in the Israelite population. A senior Lemba clan known as the Buba was as high as 53.8%
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Home Drinking Bar Covell's Matthew Kaner Is Another Big-Name Sommelier Redefining the Job
Matt Kaner, the man behind Bar Covell and AM/FM wines
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Bar Covell's Matthew Kaner Is Another Big-Name Sommelier Redefining the Job
His wine label, AM/FM, is releasing a new project this fall
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Matthew Kaner's novel approach to building a wine list (not having one) at Silverlake's Bar Covell has garnered him consistent praise as one of the top sommeliers in the country. He was named one of Food & Wine magazine's Sommeliers of the Year in 2013 and Covell earned a spot on Wine Enthusiast's list of the top 20 wine bars in America earlier this year. Just a few weeks ago, Kaner was named the Reader's Choice for Best Sommelier by LA Weekly.
He is perhaps less known for his adventures in making wine, but with three new collaborations out this fall, he can add another accomplishment to his roster of successes. In addition to his Santa Barbara County-based AM/FM label, he has also worked with winemakers in Oregon and Sonoma to produce house bottlings of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay for Bar Covell and Augustine Wine Bar, which he opened with partner Dustin Lancaster earlier this year.
Quick to clarify that he's not exactly getting his hands dirty, Kaner describes himself as the "cloudy, bubbly figure head" and "driving force" behind the Covell/Augustine private label. "I craft the wine with [the winemakers] but I don't make the wine and that's really the hard part. I'm a guy who sells wine and owns wine bars," he said. "I've learned to believe in the division of labor in the wine industry and I trust the people I've partnered with for these projects—I wouldn't get involved with them if I didn't trust their winemaking philosophy."
Even though he's not out there stomping grapes, Kaner's release of AM/FM in 2007 positioned him as a leader in the burgeoning trend of top sommeliers across the country having a more active role in the winemaking process. And not only have big names like Rajat Parr (Sandhi and Domaine de la Côte) and Josh Nadel (Gothic) ventured into crafting their own wine, they, like Kaner, are shaping demand by focusing on regions they individually want to champion. As younger drinkers turn away from the big scoring wine publications and critics that held sway for years, they are looking to the industry's top personalities for information and inspiration.
Reminiscent of the chef-driven boom in the early 2000's, we're now smack in the middle of The Cult of The Sommelier.
And as Kaner points out, that can have a direct positive impact on the wine in your glass. "I love that [more somms] are doing it," he said. "Any time some one with a voice gets behind a project, [they] will be successful and there's a level of integrity to those wines because you're not going to put your name on it if you don't stand behind it."
Since the first release of AM/FM—a Santa Barbara County Syrah made in collaboration with a local winery Saarloos and Sons—Kaner has since bottled two vintages of Cabernet Sauvignon and two vintages of Grenache Blanc under the label. His newest release represents his sixth bottling and the first time he's ventured outside of the partnership with Saarloos and Sons. "When I launched the project in 2008 I was someone very different," said Kaner. "The project has become greater, grander, and we have a bigger production. With 800 cases of Pinot Noir, we're eight times bigger than our first vintage."
Kaner points out that being a sommelier and making wine both require dedication and expertise, but that, at the end of the day he'd rather spend his days behind a wine bar than in the vineyard. "These guys are throwing on dirty clothes and cleaning barrels and clearing yellow jackets and experiencing the physicality of manual labor and the primal part of making wine," he said. "I'm a little more precious."
For now, at least, you're more likely to find Kaner behind the bar at Augustine or Covell most nights where you can try one of his new wine projects.
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A long time ago, when I first heard about a 'Fireless' Steam Locomotive, I had to pinch myself to confirm that I was not hallucinating and that I was awake and not having some strange and distorted dream. How in the dickens could that be? So I started to theorize. Maybe certain employees, namely the ones hot under the collar, are dumped into the fire box, and they will generate the steam. Somehow, that did not quite jive with reality. I ditched several other ill-fated ideas, including certain x-rated erotic situations. Ergo, I needed to inform myself.
A fireless steam engine obviously has no fire box; therefore it does not need a water tank and a coal supply. Instead, it has a rather voluminous pressure tank. The steam or very hot water is injected into the pressure tank from an outside source, such as a steam generator. That makes sense, except, why would anyone want to go through all that trouble. There must be some logical reasoning behind all this.
Now it comes to mind that a fireless steam locomotive is also smokeless and sparkless, plus it does not emit any pollution, whatsoever. This leads one to think that a contraption like this would be needed in an environment in which the above mentioned side effects cannot be tolerated, such as in chemical, munitions and explosives plants, or such.
Following that train of thought, it becomes apparent that electric locomotives are also prohibitive as there can be a lot of sparking between the pantograph and the catenaries. Most Diesel engines give off too much air pollution and CO2 in a closed environment. Obviously, this does not contribute to healthy work conditions.
However, some battery operated electric locos and certain diesels can be modified to be able to operate in such environments. Those types are referred to as 'Flame Proof'. In addition, there is also a type of loco which runs on highly compressed air. These types are mostly used in mines.
Battery operated locos have the disadvantage of not being powerful enough for some jobs, or else they need to be recharged way too often. Besides that, rechargeable batteries are either too expensive or too heavy or both.
More often than not, such a yard shifter sits around 80-90% of the time, waiting for a job to do. Letting a Diesel engine sit around idling most of the time reduces its operating cost effectiveness. You see, they can be hard to start and restart, especially in cold weather.
After considering all these factors, the existence and use of a fireless steam engine makes a lot more sense. Obviously, such a locomotive has a very limited operating range. Therefore you will usually encounter them on rail yards that are connected to or affiliated with certain manufacturing or processing plants. Let us not discuss that part. You can figure out yourself just where these locomotives might find their best calling. Examples are breweries and food manufacturing/processing plants.
The first ones saw the light of day in the late 19th century, in both, Europe and the US. In some places, they are still in use to this date, believe it or not. More details about these locomotives could be elaborated on, but for the purpose of this blog, I gave you enough information, I think.
Unfortunately, I never had an opportunity to ride in one of those. Typically, in the areas where these engines are used, visitors are not admitted. But I did get to see one, from some distance. I think it was of the O-D-O ilk. It was quite odd looking. It kinda looked like a pregnant BR 89.
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Overwatch First Impressions
Overwatch is a "Team-Based Shooter" from Blizzard Entertainment, and I was able to play it last weekend. The open beta ran from May 5th to May 10th, with the release scheduled for May 24th. The game is a 6 vs 6 team-based shooter containing 21 heroes, 12 maps and 3 game modes (as of this writing). The full game was playable during the beta, and you can read my thoughts below.
Before the Game
Overwatch requires the battle.net client to download and play it. The full game was a small 6.2 GB and took about an hour to download on my home connection. It also includes a feature where you can play the game before some assets finish downloading. The extra assets were a small part of the full download, and I did not have the chance to try it.
After opening the game and navigating to the settings, I found that the graphic defaults were set to low. This is good for users who just want to jump in. Overwatch includes low, medium, high, ultra and epic graphics presets. I ran the epic preset between 40 and 55 frames per second with an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti. The game's Pixar-inspired look is beautiful, and distinguishes it from other recent shooter games.
Once I started the game, Overwatch greeted me by suggesting I go through their tutorial. For the tutorial level, I played as Soldier: 76.
Weapon ammo is unlimited, but most weapons need to reload. Each hero only has one primary weapon, and unlimited ammo means you won't have to scavenge dead bodies. Soldier: 76's weapon is an assault rifle which can also fire a volley of rockets with the right-click. I thought it was interesting that a weapon's primary and alternate fire share an ammo clip. His abilities include a sprint and an area of effect heal, making him a versatile hero overall.
Each hero in Overwatch also has an ultimate ability which must charge before use. A hero's ultimate ability will charge on its own, but kills and assists are much faster. Soldier 76's ultimate ability is tactical visor. The ability locks on to the nearest foe, basically guaranteeing bullets will hit. This is helpful, as the lack of a scope can be difficult to get used to. The locked hip-firing gave me a lot of trouble hitting my targets.
After finishing the tutorial, I was able to try out each of the heroes on a firing range. The range included robots which I could practice against while I learned what each class did. The last step was a practice match against bots which was completely one-sided.
Right now there are only three modes and one hybrid mode.
Escort has one team try to move a payload across the map, while the other must stop them from doing so until time runs out.
In Assault, the attacking team must capture points while the other team defends them.
Control is a king of the hill style battle where each team tries to capture the control point for as long as possible. Battles in control mode were three rounds long with each round taking place in a different part of the map.
The only Hybrid Mode blends assault and escort, with a capture point followed by a payload.
Each of the 12 maps were designed with a specific mode in mind, and it shows. Each map I saw has plenty of positions for firefights of any range, and the detail in the environments is great. Below is a screenshot of Dorado from Overwatch's official website.
The 21 heroes are divided into four main roles; offense, defense, support and tank. Offense heroes focus on high mobility and damage, and are great for taking objectives. Heroes in the defense role are good at guarding areas and defending objectives. Supporting heroes heal, shield and buff allies, and debuff enemies. Tanks have a lot of health and are good for protecting allies and disrupting the enemy team.
Even within the four roles, each hero has a unique way of doing their job. Reaper uses his teleportation to get behind enemies, while Tracer's mobility confuses her opponents. Torbjorn builds a turret, but Bastion is a turret. Each hero is unique in their strengths and weaknesses, and requires strategy to beat.
Overwatch will allow a team to have any mix of heroes, and does not limit the number of a single hero. During hero select, tips such as "too many snipers" will show on screen, but can be ignored. For readability, I won't talk about each hero, but you can find more information about each of them here.
During hero select, I found that my keyboard would use a ripple effect when I selected a hero. I own a Razer BlackWidow Chroma, and my keyboard lighting changed while playing. Playing as D.Va changed my keyboard to pink (Purple? Magenta?), while playing as Tracer made it orange. Ability and movement keys are colored differently, and ability keys change when cooldowns end. The most interesting lighting I found was Lucio's, which had a wave effect with the color of his active buff.
Overwatch also contains a very limited highlights feature. During the beta, up to five personal highlight plays were available to view for a short time. Any available highlights were lost when I closed the game. There were no options to export the replays, and doing so required a third-party program. Searching on the battle.net forums suggests a full highlight system is still under construction.
The game even has a loot system. You get loot boxes when leveling up, and can open the boxes from the title screen. The loot boxes don't need a key, and contain a mix of 4 or 5 items. Customizations like skins, poses, and voice lines as well as currency can be found in the boxes. Each hero has 54 unlockables, and in-game currency can buy items for your favorite hero. There were no micro-transactions, and all unlockables are cosmetic, so no pay-to-win concerns yet.
I found no in-game story besides voice lines and dialogue exchanges between characters. You can find the story in trailers (like this one) and webcomics (found here). This isn't necessarily a bad thing, and lets people invest as much or little in the world as they like. This approach reminds me of Riot Games' League of Legends, and I don't mind the flexibility.


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Boehner and the Republicans Surrender Again
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(NaturalNews) Ginger naturally contains a compound that is up to 10,000 times more effective than chemotherapy drugs at killing the cancer stem cells that make malignant tumors so dangerous, according to a study published in the journal PLoS.
But how to make sure if super market ginger was not dipped in chemical?
Is there any way I know if the ginger is organic?
Interesting since ginger tea is great for nausea while on chemo!
Listen to Fabio, not just click bait, dangerous click bait.
TarynandDarrell Mott, thought of you when I saw this… not sure of the validity bit thought I'd share.. xo.
I use this every day just love the stuff, teas, candies, cooking….
Do you incorporate ginger in your diet as a preventative measure to cancer stem cells?
Here is the link to the article I found.
CLN – please provide a link !
remind me next time we go?!
Thank's for shared, I eat this like a candy and helped me of my nausea, it does really help. ?Very informative too.
If you have cancer get the chemo. Then if you want, eat ginger, too.
Chemo does more bad than good.
Well, I am sure in some cases but I know people who had chemo over ten years ago and are doing well. I know it is terrible to go thru.
Yes you most likely have but more people end up dying from it, not always straight away but down the line it fan eventually catch up to you.
Really – haven't seen that . I guess everyone just wants a bit more time.
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BATMAN #34
David Andrews August 26, 2014 BATMAN, COMICS, DC, SCOTT SNYDER
[ DIG YOURSELF A DEAL BAT-STYLE ]
There is a killer on the loose in my city. Who is it? I do not know. But I tell you something for nothing, my friend. I will track this fiend down with some noted assistance from: Scott Snyder, Matteo Scalera, and DC Comics in August, 2014. Beware. Beware of the bat!!!!
To QUOTE Henri Blot: 'Every man to his own tastes. Mine is for corpses'.
After receiving a disturbing telephone call from Doctor Leslie Thompkins, suggesting that a number of her patients have been killed by a savage mad-man, Batman goes in search for this fiend, and tries his best to catch him in the act one way or another.
Does he succeed? Does he fail? Does he make a joke? What do you think? He's Batman, isn't he? Case closed.
If you're the type of person who loves stand-alone story-lines about serial killers and masked vigilantes, my God, are you in for a real treat if you pick up this installment of Batman.
To start off with, I have to say that Scott's down and dirty narrative is both earthy and suspenseful to follow, plus it is complemented to the nth degree by Matteo's stark and sullen visuals. What I enjoyed about it the most was how this was a detective type tale first, and a hunter / hunted type tale second. As if the main brunt of the plot centered more around our hero than the fruit-loop he was pursuing.
Having said that, though, it still found some time for Batman to explain what was happening to some of the other characters in the Bat Universe -- including Jim and Selina -- as well as having a few great cameo appearances by Leslie, Harvey, and Ace the Bathound.
Honestly, my friend. I'm unable to say anymore than that or else I may give too much away. But what I can say is that this was a great read if you're a fan of psychological murder mysteries, involving a mad grave digger who wants to kill-kill-kill for no apparent reason.
Or does he?
The only slight gripe I have against this issue -- and I do mean only slight gripe -- is that nearing its ending the tone shifted slightly, as if Scott wanted to give his narrative a more memorable yet poetic conclusion. Not that this is a bad-bad thing, of course. It's just once Batman had to do whatever he had do, essentially the closing section felt slightly disjointed somehow. As if it were meant to be a part of another story-line.
Do you know what? Because this tale is rhapsodic, suspenseful, baroque, and possesses a rather nice ending to it, I feel compelled to musically match it up with the theme tune to the Tim Burton movie, Edward Scissorhands.
In essence this adventure was about Batman tracking down and catching a crazed American serial killer who murders his victims in cold blood. And to me, personally, nothing say's crazed American serial killer more than H.H. Holmes.
No relation to Sherlock. Although there are many more I could have mentioned as well. Like Ed Gein, Ted Bundy, or Marilyn Manson. Ha!
Now without giving too much away -- kind of -- nearing the end of this book Batman sticks the serial killer in question into a cell belonging to one of his rogue's gallery. So just for fun, let's see if you can guess whose cell it is out of the following eight suspects.
The Joker -- So he can scare him to death.
Miley Cyrus -- So she can twerk him to death.
Two Face -- So he can explain why one add one doesn't always equal two.
Robert Downey Junior -- So he can explain how his own personal style of acting is basically being yourself.
The Riddler -- So he can boar him to death.
Kim Kardashian -- See previous answer for more details, but add a big ass and massive pair of... coff-coff... for good measure.
Bane -- So he can use him as a footstool.
Barry Manilow -- Hey! I have to have at least one Barry Manilow reference per month. It's the law of England.
BATMAN #34 Reviewed by David Andrews on August 26, 2014 Rating: 5


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IU basketball recruiting: Class of 2022 names to know — in-state guard Fletcher Loyer
September 19, 2020 Mike Schumann IUBB, Recruiting 0
Indiana fans typically know the names of the top players in the state, but one of the best juniors might be relatively unknown to this point.
Transferring in from Clarkston, Michigan, top-150 guard Fletcher Loyer has ties all over the Big Ten, and he has found a new home in Indiana.
Brother Foster is a guard at Michigan State, while mother Katie played volleyball at IU and coached at Purdue.
Oh, and if Clarkston sounds familiar, yes, that's the home of former IU star Dane Fife. Foster Loyer played there for Dane's dad Dan Fife and together they won back-to-back state titles.
As for Fletcher Loyer? He has transferred to Homestead High School in Fort Wayne, Ind. where he will team up with Illinois bound recruit Luke Goode to form one of the top duos in the state for the 2020-21 season.
The Loyer family moved from Indiana to Michigan when John Loyer became the interim head coach of the Detroit Pistons in 2014.
Indiana has been in contact with Loyer according to multiple reports. With the program focused on the top in-state talent, Archie Miller and his staff are sure to keep a close on him over the next year.
Loyer, one of the top 3-point shooters in the state of Michigan last year, averaged 21.8 points, 3.5 rebounds and 3.1 assists, making 60 3-pointers and shooting 48 percent from beyond the arc last season. With Loyer leading the way, Clarkston finished 21-1 with a 20-game winning streak when the season ended abruptly due to the pandemic.
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The 6-foot-4 Loyer is ranked No. 135 nationally according to the 247Sports Composite. That same service lists Loyer as the No. 22 shooting guard and the No. 5 player in the state of Indiana.
Loyer already has offers from Michigan, Missouri, Notre Dame, Purdue and others. Michigan State and IU are among the schools keeping an eye on him.
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March 1, 2012 Anna George Masala 0
Actor Shakti Kapoor, who built a career on the big screen as the Mr Chief Molester of Women, spent weeks as a contestant on the popular television show painstakingly convincing everyone that in real life he is just a regular guy who respects the opposite sex. The best of the voyeurs were crushed to see him pass the salt politely at the dinner table without making a single pass at the 13 women he was forced to live with as part of the show Bigg Boss, an Indian version of the American Celebrity Big Brother. When it comes to plain bad-a** behaviour, Bollywood has a lot to learn from its rich cousin in Los Angeles, California.
The incident at Mumbai's Wasabi restaurant involving actor Saif Ali Khan was a sad reminder of how starved our nation is of its iconic bad boys who have let them down time and again through their magical ability to deflate a crisis. Incidentally, Kapoor was accused in 2005 of asking sexual favours of an undercover reporter in exchange for assuring her an entry into the film industry. But that is another matter.
I'd like to state on record that I do not condone violence in any form or law-breaking in general. But let's face it, out proverbial bad boys in Bollywood aren't a patch on their Hollywood counterparts. Our morbid obsession with the lives our stars live has had little fodder over the years. Okay, the occasional black buck was hunted or a drunken threat issued to a romantic rival at a high profile party, but the "Good Lord! What have I done?" period of sobriety that followed such incidents meant an extensive cover-up and redoubling contribution to charities.
Essentially, our stars live by the same code that millions of middleclass men and women follow in this country of mixed-up beliefs and misplaced vices. So, a Saif or a Salman or Shakti is as pious as the guy they are playing on a particular Friday. For most, movie-watching is an extended family experience irrespective of the Central Board of Film Certification's well-meant guidelines. The filmmakers often have to keep that in mind, liberally inserting clichés about values, culture and tradition into the script to keep a mixed-bag of conservative, liberal, atheist and religious audience engaged.
What a star does in his personal life is entirely his business. Despite their ongoing grouse that the Indian media constantly has its nose in its private affairs, I'd like to point out respectfully sir, that the Indian media is in fact quite protective of its stars. Which is why there isn't an Indian equivalent of a 911 call from Demi Moore's house and its transcript circulated within days, or a posse of reporters constantly parked outside the window of Aishwarya Rai or an undercover secretary taking a video of a star entering another's bedroom at 3 am. You are our pride and also our shame. The violent passion that film stars evoke in India is directly proportional to the extent to which we identify ourselves with them on the screen.
Which is my middleaged female neighbour is obsessed with Salman Khan's marriage. ("What kind of mother lets a boy stay unmarried for this long?")
While we battle our curiosity to know what goes on inside their homes and the instinct to forgive them their human failings, they spend money cleaning up after their car accidents, fist fights and TADA cases. But then what's to clean up?
Will our stars ever match up to Hollywood's bad boys Charlie Sheen or Colin Farrell? Have we reached such a pit of desperation that a slap or a punch is glorified as public bad-a**ness? Sheen made sobriety look uncool and established a way of living upcoming stars tried hard to emulate every day.
"I'm tired of lying. I'm tired of pretending the show doesn't suck. I'm tired of pretending Ashton doesn't suck. It's nothing personal I just feel bad for him… He's saddled with such bad writing," Sheen famously said of Ashton Kutcher's Two And A Half Men role. Forget physical abuse, will our stars have the courage to publicly cuss a rival or rib him for bad acting? Take a look at Twitter before and after the release of a particularly bad film. The actors, even the sensible ones, heap praise even on a colleague's terrible performance out of what I can only hope is extreme kindness and the expectation of future quid pro quo.
With the only exception of Salman, Bollywood's notorious rabble-rousers were shunted out and the ones that had bared all for a camera shoot or made their cat fights public were pointedly avoided. Nothing should dent Bollywood's holier-than-thou image.
Often the repercussions were misplaced. When Kannada film actor Darshan threatened his wife with a gun, the Kannada Film Producers' Association imposed a three-year ban on actress Nikita Thukral for "creating rifts between Darshan and his wife Vijayalakshmi". The association of course took no notice of Darshan's physical assault on his wife.
The strange case of Shah Rukh Khan slapping director Shirish Kunder gripped the nation for all of two days before fizzling out. Kunder and her wife director Farah Khan went to Shah Rukh's bungalow and apologised and the matter was settled. There were no detailed analysis for days, no talk shows at primetime dissecting the event and the moral fabric of the country remained as clean and uncreased as before.
More importantly, not a single, I repeat not a single photo from inside the party, not even one taken on cell phone, was leaked to the press. If they were, they weren't carried. And you call us vultures feeding on the miseries of our stars?
We do not have a Chris Brown police affidavit stating the chilling threat "I'm going to kill you" nor do we have Russell Crowe's explosive temper tantrums. Oh wait, we do, only that it is directed at cameramen with expensive equipment and never at the simpering masses at the shopping malls waiting for days to catch a glimpse of their star's newly uplifted butt.
We deserve the stars we get.
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