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by Andrea Raja 6 days ago
Conor McGregor Is In Jorge Masvidal's Sights After Vicious Ben Askren KO
Masvidal is a man on a mission.
during UFC 239 last Saturday and is looking to continue his reign of terror in the UFC's welterweight division. Masvidal's five-second knockout of Askren made him someone to look for in the sport and moving forward, he already knows what he wants to achieve. The fighter appeared on The Dan LeBatard Show today and spoke about what he wants to do next. As Masvidal explained, he either wants to fight Kamaru Usman for the welterweight title or secure a fight with .
"I want McGregor, man," Masvidal explained. "I want to break his face. I think that's an easy paycheck. He's got these cash symbols written all over his face for me. I just don't see it going his way at all, if I'm honest with you."
Masvidal is extremely confident that he could beat McGregor and claims to be the best thing going in UFC right now. After his record-breaking knockout, he believes it only makes sense to let him fight McGregor as it would bring in a lot of money.
"I'm the hot ticket," Masvidal said. "Nobody has moved the needle like this in a long time in MMA. With me breaking the record and whose face I did it on, those things go into consideration. I think strike while the iron is hot. We've both got a hot name. Let's do it, let's just compete. If not, let me just fight the champion already."
Would you like to see Masvidal fight Conor and if so, who do you think would win?
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Lately, I've noticed a strange phenomenon: I spend large chunks of most days feeling great. After a few years of rough patches, setbacks and some mighty big speed bumps, this experience is truly new and it crept up on me so slowly, that it didn't sink in for a while.
So I've spent some time contemplating this phenomenon. But not too much time, because I feel too good to overanalyze. Here's what I've noticed: my perception of myself has made a seismic shift toward the positive. My thoughts and emotions have joined the shift and the rest of me has followed suit.
The feeling is one of gratitude, abundance and joy. It's also a feeling of acceptance - what if everything is exactly how it's supposed to be? What if every circumstance I encounter is an opportunity?
The shift culminates many years of work to dismantle old beliefs and perceptions of myself. Simultaneously, I've observed deliberate changes I've made in my actions and how I see myself.
A word about self-perception: Seeing yourself as the person you really are is fun. It's abundant to see all of the positive aspects of yourself and then deciding how you want to express them. We spend an inordinate amount of energy castigating ourselves for what we're not: we compare, we contrast, we negate. And sometimes we do this in the name of being "honest" with ourselves. But it's not honest to focus only on the negative - and it's not true.
Instead, examine the places where you shine. Answer these questions and do these exercises and I bet you'll feel better about yourself and what you so uniquely offer the world.
What would a friend or colleague who thought the world of you say? Make a thorough list of the accomplishments and positive attributes they would list. No downplaying allowed. If you hear a voice in your head saying, "Oh, that? That was no big deal," put it on the list. If you feel guilty about an accomplishment or unsure of it, put it on the list. And of course, the accomplishments you feel great about will already be on the list.
Take the process a step further and ask friends or colleagues directly for the same list.
"What do you want to be when you grow up?" My four year old asks me this question almost daily. I'm not sure who or what prompted this line of questioning, but after several days of it, I started taking it more seriously. This question reconnects me with my passions. Where does it take you?
Track your thoughts for a few days and record how many are positive and negative. When people begin tracking their thoughts, they'll often become aware that they engage in more negative thinking than they realize.
Dream. Dreaming is a skill, actually a relational skill. It's a way to connect with you and with others. What are your dreams? What are the dreams you don't allow yourself to have? Where would you go if you took your mind off its self-restraining leash and let it wander?
Follow your yearning. Notice what you yearn, what you long for - and you'll discover a dream, a desire or even an unmet need. Recognizing these stirring within ourselves is a profound way to embrace ourselves.
If you want a natural high, shift your focus to your brilliance. Be honest with yourself - where are the places you shine? Focus on your contributions, express your gratitude for them, and you'll embrace yourself in a whole new way. And, along the way, you just might find yourself spending a majority of your time, well, feeling great.


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Be Glitterati -vs- Art Pays Me
My wife on the left and me wearing the first Glitterati branded t-shirt
In 2006, my girlfriend (now wife) helped me found Glitterati Communications as a freelance graphic design consultancy. By 2010, I found myself wanting to have more independence than client consulting allows and was searching for a project where I had complete control. That project was Be Glitterati. Building the Be Glitterati brand has been a fun and creatively fulfilling ride, but in recent months I've struggled with its identity and where it should go in the future.
The glitterati are known as fashionable people involved in show business or other "glamorous activities" but my glitterati are the anti-glitterati – we're the rebels who fight for creative expression - not glamour. We can't be defined by conventional labels because we are a diverse group that's not tied to an age, gender, race or socioeconomic category. What DOES define us is a strong belief in creative and social expression through clothing and an appreciation for high quality products.
I recently read Unlabel: Selling You Without Selling Out by Marc Ecko, and was taken with how much credence he gives to authenticity. Ecko is best known as one of the founders of Ecko Unltd. and Complex Media. He believes that his greatest moments of success come when he stays true to his core beliefs and this inspired me to get back to mine. I want to thank Beau and Kimberley at Napkin Inc. for helping me get there.
As Be Glitterati, I wanted to be the cool kid in the room and live the "glitterati lifestyle". I still strive for more in life, but I'm spending a lot more time enjoying life's journey. I also believe that artists should be proud to make a living with their gifts and my brand should celebrate that.
What does all of this mean?
It means that Be Glitterati is now "Art Pays Me."
I want to send a huge thank you to all of my new and old supporters. This isn't the end, it's a new beginning.
Be glitterati
Creative empowerment
2023 Halifax Business Awards Finalist
Verena Rizg X Art Pays Me

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Rousing Young Visionaries for Radical Social Change
Societal Restructuring via Education Transformation
COOLECTIVIST MINDSET: RECIPE FOR REVOLUTION
By Debra Rae
The late Chuck Colson said it well: "The culture war is not just about abortion, homosexual rights, or decline of public education. These are only skirmishes. The real war is a cosmic struggle between worldviews." One's worldview, or compass, entails ideologies or philosophies that offer overarching approaches to understanding God, the world, and humanity's relations to both.
Any personally held worldview—whether biblical, secular, cosmic, or Marxist—is a broad, though targeted system of thought. Whereas a self-serving worldview seeks to feather one's own nest, a principled worldview is guided by some developed belief system that works for good and more often than not acknowledges personal relationship with (and accountability to) God.
Intended Utopia: Globalism
That said globalism is a collectivist, one-world state that supplants the biblical worldview with alleged enlightenment. Globalists peddle their wares with undeliverable promise of an emerging egalitarian utopia that John Lennon himself could "only imagine."
Cosmic citizens join dreamers, as Lennon, in visualizing a brotherhood of man living as one and therefore finding nothing to kill and die for (especially not religion). Smitten by the bug of "political cosmopolitanism," global citizens willingly pledge allegiance, not to their nation-state of origin or residence, but rather to the world community at large and the euphonious vision it represents.
In the name of justice, globalization speaks specifically to redistribution of the world's wealth but, then, concentrates that wealth—and power—into the hands of few. Head honchos are strategically postured to manage the world's huddled masses—all "yearning to breathe free," but instead destined to burdensome constraints of international law.
At risk are the rightful division of power between the federal government and that of states (Federalism), national sovereignty (exchanged for "harmonization"), personal liberties (exchanged for Earth servitude), and freedom to self-govern (exchanged for global law).
The Big Merge
Countless terms identify this "new order." Despite subtle nuances in meanings, most can be used interchangeably to mean the collusion between big business (Super Capitalism) and big government (Communism).
Free enterprise capitalism is distinguished by private ownership of property and resources coupled with competitive free enterprise in supplying goods and services. In contrast, super-capitalism is highly concentrated finance capitalism that tends toward anti-capitalism.
Technically speaking, communism is the final phase and goal of socialism (i.e., big government). Based on the theories of the political philosophers Marx and Engels, communism is socialism distinguished by a planned economy (with common ownership of the means of production) and imposed by revolution.
In Managing Globalization in the Age of Interdependence, Harvard Business School Professor George C. Lodge coined the term, "communitarianism," for what today has emerged as interdependent globalism. A prime example of merged capitalism and communism (communitarianism) evolved from the European Economic Community as the European Union.
In turn, American and Pacific Unions, to evolve from NAFTA and APEC respectively, are scheduled to follow. Said unions will mirror today's form of Euro Marxism in the tradition of pre-World War II Marxist-philosopher, Antonio Gramsci. An Italian writer, political theorist, and avowed atheist, Gramsci was a founding member and onetime leader of Italy's Communist Party.
Civil Society (NGOs)
Bear in mind that "the collective" serves us well on numbers of fronts. Churches, scouts, teams, clubs, neighborhood "watches," extended family—all are integral facets of Americana at its best. America's celebration of "individualism" is not about greedy super capitalists or Me-centric masses demanding endless entitlements.
Rather, it speaks to rugged individualism with freedom for all, unshackled by excessive governmental intrusion to pursue their own vision of the American Dream. In contrast, communitarianism is a collectivist social philosophy, political theory, legal system—even theology—that explicitly rejects and, in fact, is openly hostile to individualism.
New community governments quickly popping up nationwide feature civil society as the third element of social life (other than State or market). Known as the Third Way, or Third Sector, communitarianism is a sort of post-Marxist collectivism that seeks common ground based on efforts of unelected, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Through these voluntary associations and informal networks, a nation's citizens link with the State.
Mandatory partnerships among the public-, private-, and social- sectors (i.e., government, business, community, and churches) manage the "common good" through standards and laws that national and international leaders initiate. The end goal is to establish absolute social, personal, and economic control in a collectivist, corporate, and feudalistic society of their making.
New Global Civic Ethic
Accepting that autonomous selves do not exist in isolation, but are shaped by community values, so-called "good society" activists embrace a new global civic ethic wherein individual rights are balanced with social responsibilities within civic society.
To collectivists, the State is god, and the world is a "global village" consisting of human resources committed to the common good and controlled by the State. The new ethic "clarifies" values conducive to a borderless, godless, politically correct, and bio-regionalized world community that excludes national sovereignty and private property rights while giving overriding priority to the world's poor.
As determined by the community's collective viewpoint, some speech is deemed abhorrent—i.e., "hate" speech—and therefore must be forbidden. Unless they fit prefabricated criteria of tolerance, social justice, and civic responsibility—i.e., community service—personal beliefs in the public square are silenced.
To foster collectivism, communitarians (meaning "members of a commune") employ Hegelian Dialectic, also known as conflict resolution or the Delphi technique. German philosopher George Frederick Hegel (1770-1831) achieved group consensus under peer pressure by (1) posing a thesis, (2) offering its antithesis, and then (3) synthesizing the two.
For example, the contradiction of concentrated money/ power with wealth/ property redistribution provides an enticing dynamic for effecting "change we can count on." Case in point: Corporate monies fund socialist causes (thesis), ideological socialism counters it (antithesis), and voilà the "New Imperium" (communitarianism) emerges.
Besides dialect-driven consensus, communitarian policymakers employ visioning. They play the sustainable development card and, through crime-prevention efforts, seek to enforce communitarian regulations.
Local Partnerships for the Collective Good
To balance national and local laws against the common good, local communitarian councils and committees are created. Their communitarian goal is to create a postmodern, post-democratic feudal society run by a small coterie of the rich and powerful. To achieve this objective, it is imperative to destroy (1) the middle class (2) the sovereignty of our nation-state and (3) "archaic" constitutional laws.
• Middle Class
Cultural editor for World, Gene Edward Veith contends, rightly so, that "a fashionable disdain for middle-class values animates liberalism." Accordingly, upper- and lower- crust folks snub the middle class—specifically for their work ethic, religious inclinations, and social respectability.
Even so, stereotypical middle-class norms appeal to most Americans—i.e., having kids, a dog or cat, home, appliances, car, and bank account. Hence, projected guilt is intended to shame middle-class Americans into questioning their rights to private property ownership, free enterprise, and manner of living to which they have grown accustomed.
Entitlement-seeking "have-nots" are incited to begrudge their own meager piece of the American pie and to "even the score." Unfortunately, the "real change" today's "third-America" class can count on is this: Minus her middle class, two classes remain—namely, the oppressed and their oppressors.
• Sovereignty of Nation-states
In his 1964 book, No Apologies, the late U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater characterized the Trilateral Commission as a "skillful, coordinated effort to seize control and consolidate the four centers of power—political, monetary, intellectual, and ecclesiastical." Once sovereignty of nation-states is morphed into regional unions, the stage will be set globally for the new social order.
• Living Constitutionalism
Strict constitutionalism is deemed archaic because, rightly viewed, the Preamble of the U.S. Constitution speaks to forming a more perfect union (not a "Global Village"); establishing justice (not exclusively for the world's downtrodden); and insuring domestic tranquility (not by militarizing the police force). It provides for the common defense (not under the UN banner); promotes general welfare (not excluding the unborn and elderly); and secures blessings of liberty (not least of which include private property and religious expression).
In 1921, leading American socialist Norman Thomas gave voice to the collectivist scheme. "Under the name of liberalism," he explained, the American people will "adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without knowing how it happened."
Indeed, on Election Eve 2008, Barack Obama noted, "We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America." While not yet finished "remaking America" into his progressive, collectivist ideal, Obama stands poised throughout his second term to exercise "more flexibility" toward realizing dreams from his father.
Speaking of which, in a recently released documentary, Obama's America 2016, best selling author and self-proclaimed "renegade conservative" Dinesh D'Souza explores Obama's vision for America's ever-evolving, collectivist future. Sadly, to quote the late publisher of Eco-Logic, Henry Lamb, this collectivist, one-world state, unless curtailed, will result in America's taking on "the lowest common denominator that forced equity demands."
� 2012 Debra Rae - All Rights Reserved
Having authored the ABCs of Globalism and ABCs of Cultural -Isms, Debra speaks to Christian and secular groups alike. Her radio spots air globally. Presently, Debra co-hosts WOMANTalk radio with Sharon Hughes & Friends and hosts TRUTHTalk radio, plus she contributes monthly commentaries to a number of Internet news magazines. Debra calls the Pacific Northwest home.
Web Site: www.debrarae.us/
E-Mail: debra@debrarae.us
While there's no easy solution, there is an obvious one. Benito Mussolini understood that, to restore public order, it's necessary to issue a categorical order to confiscate the largest possible number of weapons of every sort and kind. The result he described as "satisfactory." But for whom?


For a very long time in my career, I felt a little like a double agent.
My cover was an organization effectiveness consultant, leadership development expert and executive coach assigned with the task of helping business professionals and their organizations increase productivity, profit, market share and customer satisfaction while decreasing waste, inefficiency, and expenses.
I took this work very seriously (and still do).
But my undercover mission went deeper – to help people find meaning in the work they do, to live happier and more fulfilling lives – both professionally and personally, to come alive in any setting they found themselves in – fully engaged, present, energized and inspired.
While I work with my clients to increase their effectiveness, I also help them explore who they really are, what lights them up, and how to bring more of what they love into what they do. Though this has always been an integral part of the work I did, I didn't always talk openly about it.
This duality was reflected in my own life.
From a very early age, I was gripped by an overachiever syndrome, compelled to excel at everything I did and habitually take on way more than I could handle – working myself into a frenzy that often had me collapsing in exhaustion.
At school I had to get all A's, join multiple extracurricular activities and then become president.
At work I was determined to climb the corporate ladder and scale the heights of success – though for a long time I wasn't really clear exactly what "success" meant for me.
As a wife and mother of three, I strove to be the perfect woman who could juggle multiple balls with ease – though I lived in constant fear that despite my best efforts, something would come crashing down at any moment.
I have also always been drawn to personal and spiritual development, consuming books, attending workshops and seeking mentors that would help me learn about mindfulness, intuition, creativity, courage, motivation/inspiration, transformation, meditation, philosophy, quantum physics, the mind/body/spirit connection, neurobiology, communication and human relationships.
I journaled and meditated regularly, enjoyed running, became a student of martial arts, and took up yoga. These endeavors were a reprieve – a way of learning to replenish my well, regain my sanity, and learn more about who I really am. And they saved me from myself.
Over time, I realized that achievements are empty if they are devoid of passion, purpose, and presence.
My turning point was about thirteen years ago when I turned down a promotion despite the likelihood that it would have catapulted my career. I had become increasingly aware that the journey was just as – if not more – important than the results.
When I quit my cushy corporate job three years later to start my own coaching and consulting business, many (including me) wondered if I was crazy – sacrificing a good income and steady work for my heart's calling.
But what I began to see in myself is the same dynamic I see in my clients. Slowing down to truly experience the journey rather than my attachment to the results allowed me to make better decisions, increase my energy and creativity, deepen my relationships, and do my life's work in a richer, more meaningful and fulfilling way – and it also allowed me to get better results.
Over time I realized that there was no longer a need to be "under cover" with helping people to be who they really are in a world that would often have them thinking they need to be someone else – and to live happier, more fulfilling lives both on and off the job.
Because in my case, as well as that of my clients, it seems the "under cover" work has just as much, if not more of an impact on profitability, productivity, increased market share and customer satisfaction than anything else I do.
And it also allows me to live a life that I absolutely love.
Does my story sound like yours? Are you looking to stop running in circles and working yourself into a frenzy – and also achieve more significant and lasting results, while enjoying your life in the process? Would you like to lead others in your organization do the same? If so, let's connect.
I have over twenty five years of experience in organization and leadership development, strategic planning, speaking, team building, facilitation, workshop/program design and executive coaching.
I am a Certified Corporate Coach and graduate of Corporate Coach University International, (a division of CoachInc.com).
I published a book in 2011 called The Pinocchio Principle: Becoming a Real Leader.
I graduated in the top ten percent of my class with a masters in business administration and in the top five percent of my class with a bachelor's degree in English, business and communication.
I reside in Phoenix, Arizona (my native town) with my husband (the man of my dreams) and our three beautiful children, a Golden Retriever, and two cats.
I have practiced martial arts for over ten years and have a first degree black belt in Tang Soo Do Karate.


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Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Rotavirus nonstructural glycoprotein NSP4 alters plasma membrane permeability in mammalian cells.
K Newton, J C Meyer, A R Bellamy, J A Taylor
K Newton
J C Meyer
A R Bellamy
J A Taylor
The endoplasmic reticulum-localized transmembrane glycoprotein NSP4 of rotavirus is a key protein involved in rotavirus cytopathology. We have used a dual-recombinant vaccinia virus system to express NSP4 in monkey kidney epithelial cells at a level comparable to that observed during rotavirus infection. Expression of NSP4 results in loss of plasma membrane integrity, which can be demonstrated by release of both 51Cr and lactate dehydrogenase into the medium. The cytotoxic behavior of NSP4 is dose dependent, and morphological analysis reveals gross changes to cell ultrastructure, indicative of cell death. Thus, intracellular expression of a single rotavirus protein which localizes to the endoplasmic reticulum membrane has profound effects on the stability of the plasma membrane and cell viability. Analysis of NSP4 deletion mutants indicates that a membrane-proximal region located within the cytoplasmic domain may mediate cytotoxicity.
Journal of Virology Dec 1997, 71 (12) 9458-9465; DOI:
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#import "EMAsyncImageView.h"

@interface EMAsyncImageView()

	@property (nonatomic, strong) NSURLConnection			*connection;
	@property (nonatomic, strong) NSMutableData				*data;
	@property (nonatomic, strong) UIActivityIndicatorView	*spinner;
	@property (nonatomic, strong) NSString					*filePath;
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	@property (nonatomic, assign) BOOL	isInResuableCell;

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}

@synthesize imageId, imageUrl, imageIdKey, imageSize;
@synthesize connection, data, spinner, filePath, imageType, isInResuableCell;

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	self.imageType = @"";
	self.imageSize = EMAsyncImageSizeThumbnail;

	self.spinner = [[UIActivityIndicatorView alloc] initWithActivityIndicatorStyle:UIActivityIndicatorViewStyleGray];
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	spinner.center = self.center;
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	CALayer *layer = self.layer;
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- (void)setImageSize:(int)aSize {
	self.filePath = nil;
	imageSize = aSize;
}

- (void)setImageId:(NSString *)anId {

	imageId = anId;

	NSFileManager *fm = [NSFileManager defaultManager];
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		if ([imageType length] && !isInResuableCell) {
			self.image = [[UIImage alloc] initWithContentsOfFile:[self filePath]];
		} else {
			self.image = [UIImage imageWithContentsOfFile:[self filePath]];
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		[self setNeedsDisplay];
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		imageUrl = nil;
		self.filePath = nil;
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	imageUrl = url;

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	if ([urlParts count] < 2) {
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	self.data = [NSMutableData data];
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	self.connection = [[NSURLConnection alloc] initWithRequest:request delegate:self];
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- (void)connection:(NSURLConnection *)theConnection	didReceiveData:(NSData *)incrementalData {
    if (!data) self.data = [NSMutableData data];
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	[alert show];
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- (void)connectionDidFinishLoading:(NSURLConnection*)theConnection {
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	self.connection = nil;

	if ([theConnection.currentRequest.URL.absoluteString isEqualToString:imageUrl]) {
		self.image = [UIImage imageWithData:data];;
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		if ([imageId length] > 0) [data writeToFile:[self filePath] atomically:TRUE];
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	if (!filePath) {
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Data acquired May 10 - 10, 2003
Gujarat, India (dry season)
The heavy rains of India's summer monsoon drenched the land, filling lakes and rivers. These Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) images contrast the wet and the dry seasons in the Rann of Kutch in northwestern India. The post-monsoon images, taken in October, show vast regions of standing water over what is otherwise desert land as can be seen in the pre-monsoon image taken on May 10, 2003. September 30 marked the end of the monsoon season, which runs from July through September. Normally a salt clay desert covering some 10,800 square miles, the Rann of Hutch becomes a salt marsh during the annual rains. Nestled between the Gulf of Kutch in India's northwestern state of Gujarat and the mouth of the Indus River in southern Pakistan, the region is home to Asia.s last herds of wild asses. Patches of high ground seen in the image become a refuge for wildlife during the wet season.
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Karen is a native of New York. She received her Bachelor's of Science in Nursing from Boston University over 30 years ago and has spent almost her entire career working in Maternal Child Health. After her youngest son was out of elementary school she returned to school in pursuit of her degree as a Certified Nurse Midwife.
Karen joined Dr. Rossi and Dr. Crowther in practice over 15 years ago. She has helped guide 1700 babies into the world. One of the things she enjoys most is getting to know well the families she takes care of and being present at the birth of many of their children.
Karen has a special interest in adolescent health care, breastfeeding problems and helping couples who are interested in non-medicated birth and midwifery attended births.
Karen is very active in The American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM) serving as the Chair for the HIT section, past member of the government affairs section, and she has presented at multiple meetings. She is past president of the Virginia Chapter of ACNM. She has volunteered at the Arlington free clinic. Often Nurse Midwife and Nurse Practitioner students will be at the office under her guidance.
In addition to her work she enjoys knitting, cooking and traveling. Her sons are grown and working. Bob is her very supportive husband of over 30 years.
Debbie will be working for Arlington Women's Center part time in the office beginning September 9th, 2014.
Debbie grew up on the Gulf Beaches in St. Petersburg, Florida. She received her Bachelors in Nursing from the University of South Florida in 1991. She worked as a maternity nurse in Melbourne, Florida and Atlanta, Georgia until her graduation from Emory University in 1997.
Debbie practiced as a Certified Nurse Midwife delivering babies at Northside Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia until 2003 at which time she decided to spend more time with her husband and children. Since then she has been teaching nursing students through lecture, hospital clinical education, and simulation laboratories at George Mason University and Marymount University.
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Woodman's-Should I make the trip?
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Is Woodman's worth the 85 mile drive from Chicago? Poll ended at January 20th, 2011, 2:58 pm
Yes, of course it's worth the trip!
Nah, save the gas & shop locally!
Total votes : 11
Post #31 - November 2nd, 2017, 11:12 am
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Like Katie, we make our jaunt across the border a multi-stop journey. We go a bit north east to shop at Tenuta's. Some of their alcohol prices are cheaper than Woodman's and vice a versa. (Point Special is a better deal at Woodman's) IIRC, I recently bought New Glarus Spotted Cow at Tenuta's for $8.29 a six pack. I thought that Woodman's spirits (bourbon, vodka) were priced a bit higher too. I like Tenuta's because I can use a credit card. But service at Tenuta's is a bit gruff.
What disease did cured ham actually have?
Cathy2
Highland Park, IL
Post #32 - November 2nd, 2017, 2:59 pm
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Katie wrote: (3) gas is cheaper in Wisconsin than in Illinois, so I fill up before I head back. Ideally at the Costco just down the road from Woodman's, where gas is even cheaper than at the stations near the highway.
The last two visits, Woodman's gas was cheaper than the Costco, which is located further east on Highway 50.
Some years ago, I read the local Kenosha paper on the special gas tax zone on both sides of the Illinois and Wisconsin border. It was done to keep gas stations on both sides of the border profitable. From my experience, it teeter totters between one side or the other being cheaper or just about the same.
An aside: the last time I visited Cairo, Illinois just about every gas station was out of business, because the price was more favorable on the other side of the state border. The economy is so depressed there, I wonder if this arrangement similar to the IL-WI border would have a chance to work.
Since I now use gasbuddy, I check where to buy gas in advance. I do like my cheap gas.
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Post #33 - August 22nd, 2021, 8:36 pm
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Today I was in the Bloomingdale area, which had a new Woodman's open less than two weeks ago. I stopped in to see if there were any newly opened store loss leaders.
This new Woodman's is effectively an anchor store located where Macy's once stood in Stratford Mall. I happened to enter where Sear's was once located, there was no life to be seen. I felt better once I rounded the corner where Kohl's is located, because first impression was of a ghost town.
Woodman's parking lot was packed. I met at least two people in the parking lot who could not remember where they parked. There are three major entrances, so it is possible to get disoriented. If I were leaving, I would have offered to drive around looking.
Once in the store, the look, feel and layout was very similar to the Buffalo Grove location I regularly visit. I have a sense this store is bigger, though I have nothing more than a gut feeling to support it. The Lakemoor Woodman's is definitely larger than Buffalo Grove.
Walking into the store, they had watermelons for $1.99 and bags with five large organic avocados for 99 cents. When I grabbed two bags of avocados, the gentlemen next to me asked if this was really the price. "I expect it is and will return it, if it is not." I love loss leaders!
I was a bit handicapped not having a cooler with me. Plus I have food that needs to be eaten sooner than later, so I did not go overboard.
Woodman's gas station is smaller than Buffalo Grove. Fuel today was $2.99 a gallon, while my location recently was $3.15. When I drove by Buffalo Grove later, it was $1.99, too.
On the outer rim of the mall area where perhaps a Best Buy might have had a stand alone location, there was a retail building repurposed into a church. I did not do a full drive around, though I wondered if I might encounter any medical offices I read have begun to locate in malls.
Today's visit was just as much about the changing face of retail malls. Never expected a grocery store to be an anchor store, though it certainly draws people to the location. It will be interesting to see what creative thinking goes to redefining the Sear's location.
far far out of the loop
Interesting that grocery stores have begun to reappear in malls. My recollection of malls in the 1960's is that they often included supermarkets.
And interesting to read page 1 of this with all the old opinions about Woodman's. Realized that I've been shopping at Woodman's for over 40 years. Somebody here can probably beat that if they lived near Beloit or Janesville in the 1970's.
I think Woodman's produce was better in the 1980's. I recall wonderful fresh bulk pea pods for under $2/lb as an example. They seemed to emphasize produce more at that time, and possibly at the store I shopped at (LaCrosse, WI). Now the produce selection is pretty mundane.
JoelF
Post #35 - August 23rd, 2021, 7:17 am
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tjr wrote: Interesting that grocery stores have begun to reappear in malls. My recollection of malls in the 1960's is that they often included supermarkets.
Golf Mill had Shop & Save until recently, which was originally a National when the mall opened.
What is patriotism, but the love of good things we ate in our childhood?
-- Lin Yutang
JoelF wrote:
At Stratford Mall, Woodman's is very much a prominent anchor store visible when entering from Gary Avenue. Whereas Shop and Save was hidden in the rear at Golf Mill, which I came to learn about by accident.
My awareness of Woodman's (not Shop and Save .... ugh) was from the Kenosha location. Just from the name, I assumed it was a supersized hardware store. One year when driving up for smelt in Port Washington, surrounding the name was scattered images of fruits and vegetables. On our way home, we stopped by to take a look. Many of my Master Gardner friends who lived closer to the boarder went to Woodman's at least once a month as a stock up store. This was and is especially attractive with zero tax on food. I estimate my shopping adventures began in the late 80s to early 90s.
Post #37 - August 23rd, 2021, 1:46 pm
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Shop & Save at Golf Mill (and the previous tenants) was a little more prominently visible before some of the additions went up -- the enclosing of the mall didn't do much, but the Circuit City (which became an OTB outlet, now vacant), and AMC theaters do a good job of hiding it. I lived nearby when I was 4-5, it was one of our primary grocery shopping places, along with the Jewel on Dempster, and the Dominick's opposite (where the Toyota dealer is now). The other grocers in the area did not exist (Tony's was built as a replacement Dominick's, Fresh Farms on Golf was a Dominick's too, but much later than when I was a kid, Assi Plaza was something else too, I think, built in the 80's?)
Jim-Bob
The long shuttered Dixie Square Mall had a Jewel as one of its anchors. You can see it in the classic car chase scene through the mall in The Blues Brothers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIdGxR-aU6o
Post #39 - August 23rd, 2021, 10:48 pm
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At Golf Mill, was there ever access from inside the mall to the Shop n Save location? I know there wasn't for its last 5 years or so.
Not having inside access kinda defeats the "family goes to the mall, Dad goes to Sears to look at tools or tires, kids go to the arcade or Sam Goody's, Mom goes to the grocery" thing.
Post #40 - August 24th, 2021, 7:08 am
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tjr wrote: At Golf Mill, was there ever access from inside the mall to the Shop n Save location? I know there wasn't for its last 5 years or so.
Remember that Golf Mill started as an open-air mall, so everything was available "from the mall". So far as I can recall, the entrance to the grocery was always on its NW corner, never to what is now enclosed mall. Most of it sticks further west than any other part of the enclosed mall anyway.
jellob1976
Jim-Bob wrote: The long shuttered Dixie Square Mall had a Jewel as one of its anchors. You can see it in the classic car chase scene through the mall in The Blues Brothers.
This was one the very first thing I thought of when someone mentioned grocery stores in malls. Also strange to see a legit bakery and Olds Mobile dealership in that mall.
And to think of all the weird stores that frequented malls that you don't see too often anymore: pet shops, iron-on emporiums, knife stores (where you could stock up on cutlery and ninja stars), and tobacco by the pound shops.
Post #42 - March 22nd, 2022, 8:07 am
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The owners of two Waukesha gas stations have sued Woodman's, saying the grocery chain kept its gas prices too low
Post #43 - March 22nd, 2022, 8:20 pm
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Great. I hope Illinois doesn't have the same law. The stations on Milwaukee Av would jump on that, and the Costco is pretty far away.
Evil Ronnie
Post #44 - March 23rd, 2022, 3:16 am
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Gasoline is cheaper than Costco!
If you aren't tasting, you aren't cooking.
Post #45 - March 23rd, 2022, 12:16 pm
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If I am away from home, I like to read local newspapers.
Once while having breakfast in Racine, WI, there was an article about the special reduction of fuel tax at gas stations near the border. It is why the cost of fuel climbs as you get further into Wisconsin.
The fuel cost relationship at the IL-WI border along I-94 is quite dynamic. Consulting gasbuddy.com. The price along Route 50: Woodmans is $3.89, Costco $3.79 and Speedway $3.79.
In Lake County, Illinois, Costco in Mettawa is $4.37 and Woodman's in Buffalo Grove is $4.19.
Post #46 - May 4th, 2022, 2:14 pm
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I visited the Buffalo Grove location today.
In the discounted meat area, there were four pork bellies priced at $1.99 per pound. I settled the issue of whether to buy or not by phoning Park Packing. Their current price was over $3. per pound. The smallest was just over 10 pounds and now rests in my freezer.
There was a seven-pound brisket marked down to $2.99 per pound. It is already in the oven roasting away.*
*I sorta fibbed, I had the oven preheating. It was not a brisket, it was flank steak. I had to call the meat department to verify.
Whipping cream was $5.29 a quart.
Cathy2 wrote: Once while having breakfast in Racine, WI, there was an article about the special reduction of fuel tax at gas stations near the border. It is why the cost of fuel climbs as you get further into Wisconsin.
Late to the party, but this doesn't sound quite right. I often travel up to the Milwaukee suburbs and, in summer, to the Oshkosh area. Gas in Oak Creek or the area south of the 894 bypass is often slightly cheaper than in Kenosha. Last week, for example, I filled up at College & 19th near the Milwaukee airport for 10 cents cheaper than I could have at Woodmans Kenosha. And gas is often even cheaper in Fond du Lac. There definitely are areas with higher prices, like most of Racine or Milwaukee suburbs north of North Av.
Post #48 - May 4th, 2022, 10:08 pm
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I am glad to hear that. I don't travel in Wisconsin as broadly as you.
We can agree on one thing: cheaper than Illinois presently.
lougord99
Post #49 - May 5th, 2022, 6:03 am
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You guys should travel to St. Louis. Gas is often 50-75 cents cheaper.
lougord99 wrote: You guys should travel to St. Louis. Gas is often 50-75 cents cheaper.
I have been to St. Louis, Iowa and Omaha, NB in the last few weeks. It is always cheaper than Illinois.
There is something about a state line and gas prices, though. On our April trip to Kansas City, the 2 far and away cheapest gas spots were in Hannibal, MO (on the Mississippi and boyhood home of Mark Twain) and on an eastern corner of State Line Road in KC.
Circling back to Woodman's, the Kenosha store has gotten away from the cheese bargains they used to feature. Same at other Woodman's? Or is there still cheap cheese?
tjr wrote: Circling back to Woodman's, the Kenosha store has gotten away from the cheese bargains they used to feature. Same at other Woodman's? Or is there still cheap cheese?
I think the broader question, is there still cheap dairy? Presently, no.
Jewel has butter for $2.99 per pound in the current ads. I have a just-4-u coupon for $2.39 per pound. I will check tomorrow for next week's ads, then decide whether to buy butter. I have a reserve, but at some point will I kick myself for not buying the $2.39 butter?
I also have a 99 cent gallon milk coupon, but it does not include whole milk.
A few months ago, I could buy two gallons milk for $4 and now it is $5.
Whipping cream by the quart was $3.29 around Christmas and last week was $5.25.
I just don't see cheap cheese anytime soon.
FWIW, Valli has had Land O Lakes unsalted butter for $2.99/lb for the past two weeks. We're now fully stocked with butter.
Post #54 - May 10th, 2022, 6:27 am
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A few recent cheese sales, but for the most part not super interesting stuff:
99 cent half pound blocks coupon + $2.99 Galbani mozzarella only in 5# blocks at Tony's
1.49 half pound blocks at the Kroger family
$2.99 Stella or Battaglia mozzarella at Butera
$3.19 brick at Montrose - was odd, very salty compared to their usual brick
Post #55 - November 27th, 2022, 11:01 pm
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Today's super deal at Woodman's: Canoe brand wild rice, 6 oz for $1.69 with a buy 3 get a $3 rebate offer. That's pretty good, nice quality cultivated wild rice for under $2/lb, but the shocker is that the box includes a Business Reply envelope to send for the rebate postage-free.
I cooked a box of the rice to use for soup tomorrow. Very nice wild rice, mostly long clean unbroken grains that cooked up fluffy.
If you're a real cheapskate, Canoe wild'n'white blend is $1.19 with the same offer.
Post #56 - November 28th, 2022, 1:17 pm
Post #56 - November 28th, 2022, 1:17 pm Post #56 - November 28th, 2022, 1:17 pm
tjr wrote: Today's super deal at Woodman's: Canoe brand wild rice, 6 oz for $1.69 with a buy 3 get a $3 rebate offer. That's pretty good, nice quality cultivated wild rice for under $2/lb, but the shocker is that the box includes a Business Reply envelope to send for the rebate postage-free.
Man, the cheapest I'd seen wild rice at the Jewels, Tony's and a couple other places was about $5.99/6oz. Both of those are quire the bargain.
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In Central Province, some farmers who had invested in improved eucalyptus tree species had no choice but to cut them down. However, Nyaga's woodlot survived because it was more than 30 metres away from the nearest stream. The law allows for exotic trees to be planted in excess of 30 metres away from a watercourse that is more than two metres wide.
"If you plant eucalyptus trees near waterbeds, the roots will sense the presence of moisture, and will thus open the stomata very wide allowing a lot of water to be lost from the soil. But if the same trees are planted in a high-land area, they will sense the reduced soil moisture content, and thus close the stomata as much as possible to retain the little available water," explained Muraya Minjire, a tree nursery expert working for the Tree Biotechnology Project.
At the moment, KEFRI is monitoring the carbon sequestration ability of 10 more indigenous tree species. "We are also in the process of developing internationally-accepted equations that will be used locally to accurately estimate the amount of carbon a given tree is able to sequester from the atmosphere at a particular age so that people who are involved in the carbon business will be able to understand the trade," said Oeba.
According to the study, carbon quantification should be species specific in order to strengthen accounting systems for greenhouse gas emissions. "We also need to include the aspect of tree species in climate change adaptation policy," said Oeba.


anganwadi – Go India, go future!
… because health means to empower people to care about themselves! Besides the access to Internet (which is available in many rural parts of the world) it is important to teach basic digital knowledge to those who are living in poor surroundings: about how to handle devices, how to use the Internet and writing emails….
Imagine there are no vessels for cooking in a rural kindergarten – sometimes small contributions can make a big impact!


In contrast to DNA damage, a mutation is a change in the base sequence of the DNA. A mutation cannot be recognized by enzymes once the base change is present in both DNA strands, and thus a mutation cannot be repaired. At the cellular level, mutations can cause alterations in protein function and regulation. Mutations are replicated when the cell replicates. In a population of cells, mutant cells will increase or decrease in frequency according to the effects of the mutation on the ability of the cell to survive and reproduce. Although distinctly different from each other, DNA damages and mutations are related because DNA damages often cause errors of DNA synthesis during replication or repair and these errors are a major source of mutation.
Given these properties of DNA damage and mutation, it can be seen that DNA damages are a special problem in non-dividing or slowly dividing cells, where unrepaired damages will tend to accumulate over time. On the other hand, in rapidly dividing cells, unrepaired DNA damages that do not kill the cell by blocking replication will tend to cause replication errors and thus mutation. The great majority of mutations that are not neutral in their effect are deleterious to a cell's survival. Thus, in a population of cells comprising a tissue with replicating cells, mutant cells will tend to be lost. However infrequent mutations that provide a survival advantage will tend to clonally expand at the expense of neighboring cells in the tissue. This advantage to the cell is disadvantageous to the whole organism, because such mutant cells can give rise to cancer. Thus DNA damages in frequently dividing cells, because they give rise to mutations, are a prominent cause of cancer. In contrast, DNA damages in infrequently dividing cells are likely a prominent cause of aging.


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Transporting customers SomeWhere Else
Published 1:00 pm Saturday, February 23, 2019
SomeWhere Else Bar and Grill opened in December 2017 at 66918 180th St. in Conger. Colleen Harrison/Albert Lea Tribune
CONGER — A lot can happen in a year. SomeWhere Else Bar and Grill in Conger is no exception.
Machelle Steinke bought the bar in December 2017 and has been broadening horizons through the place ever since.
The previous owners sold burgers at the bar, but Steinke said the menu has been added to since she took over.
"We've expanded quite a bit," she said.
The bar opens at 11 a.m. Monday through Saturday, and at 10 a.m. Sunday. Closing time depends on how busy the bar is at night. In addition to burgers, SomeWhere Else is known for its pizzas and flatbreads, as well as different menu items such as gyros, Steinke said, and has an all-you-can-eat breakfast buffet from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday for $7.95. Different specials are offered each weeknight: burgers on Monday, barbecue ribs Tuesday, wings Wednesday, tacos Thursday and shrimp and fish on Friday. Wednesdays are steak nights as well during the summer, and once a month during the winter. Different specials are also offered each week for noon lunches. There are specials for Minnesota Vikings game days, as well as bingo and meat bingo days.
Mandy Fure helps run SomeWhere Else Bar and Grill in Conger, which is owned by her mother, Machelle Steinke. Colleen Harrison/Albert Lea Tribune
A previous owner of Berma's in Kiester and ShellDan's in Scarville, Iowa, Steinke said the Conger bar came up for sale after she sold Berma's.
Steinke and her partner, Dan Meyers, split their time between Kiester and Florida. They've been in Florida more recently for Meyers to undergo cancer treatment. In the meantime, Steinke's daughter, Mandy Fure, has managed SomeWhere Else, as she has been working with her mother in their restaurant and bar endeavors for about nine years.
"Mandy's taken over for me, thank goodness," Steinke said.
How has it been in Conger the past year?
"I love it there," Steinke said. "The people are great; it's a great little place.
"Everyone has been incredible. I'm down here (in Florida) and I miss them."
"I love the people around here," Fure said.
The transition went over well for the business, and Steinke said it didn't have to close at all during the change in ownership.
In addition to an expanded menu, being open on Sundays and offering catering, SomeWhere Else has a different look since Steinke bought the place. The inside is now decorated with a tropical beach theme — the walls are painted with "friendly and happy colors" such as teal and baby blue, with different beach decorations adorning the walls. The floors were redone, and Steinke said they plan to add a patio this year, along with other surprises they have up their sleeves.
The reason for the tropical decor? To give people somewhere to escape to, even if just for an hour at lunch.
"It's somewhere else," Steinke said.
9 – Years Mandy Fure has worked with her mother in the restaurant and bar business
40+ – Hours Fure works each week at SomeWhere Else Bar and Grill
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TaniHub Group Partners with FastPOS to Improve Customer Service
The agricultural startup company TaniHub Group officially collaborates with FastPOS, a technology and e-commerce service provider company, to strengthen order delivery services for TaniHub customers.
Both parties signed a memorandum of understanding (memorandum of understanding / MoU) at the TaniHub Group headquarters, Mega Kuningan District, South Jakarta, Friday (10/1/2020).
Ivan Arie Sustiawan, Director of PT Tani Hub Indonesia and CEO of TaniHub Group and Ery Pertinda Saputra as the President Director of PT Siber Ekosystem Optima signed the MoU draft, which will be the umbrella of cooperation between the two parties in various areas.
FastPOS will act as a third party logistics (3PL) that provides optimal and efficient logistics transportation for agricultural, livestock and TaniHub fishery products.
As an e-commerce platform for agricultural products, TaniHub serves shipping orders for five areas, namely Jabodetabek, Bandung, Yogyakarta, Surabaya-Malang, and Bali.
FastPOS Will Work Directly with A TaniHub Group's Business Unit, Tani Supply
FastPOS will work directly with TaniSupply, a business unit under the TaniHub Group, which is tasked with managing the supply chain process from harvesting from farmers to customers.
Director of TaniSupply, Vincentius Sariyo said, the collaboration with FastPOS is a step of TaniHub Group in strengthening its services in various lines to become a leading agritech startup and impact the wider community.
"Along with the rapid development of TaniHub Group's business, we are committed to improving services even better," he said.
Vincentius Sariyo decided to work with FastPOS because he believed in his capabilities in providing efficient distribution services.
"With the support of FastPOS, we ensure the agricultural products received by our customers are always in good quality and maintained," Sariyo said.
FastPOS believes this collaboration as a key point of the embodiment of the spirit of building a nation based on the competencies of each party.
FastPOS, as an entity that builds and develops digital courier services, has been deeply united with the passion of friends at TaniHub in arranging smiles on both the faces of Indonesian farmers and customers.
FastPOS Managing Director Ery Pertinda Saputra said, there is already a strong connection between FastPOS which is 100 percent native to Indonesia and TaniHub which focuses on developing and marketing Indonesian commodities through digital channels. "
The MoU also covers cooperation between the two parties in the field of strengthening the promotion of joint ventures and/or communication strategies, as well as strengthening trade-related trademarks (co-branding) between the two.
The MoU is also an umbrella for cooperation between the two parties in the field of strengthening the promotion of joint ventures and/or communication strategies, as well as strengthening trade-related trademarks (co-branding) between them.
Tanihub Will Reach All of Indonesia in 2022
In the three years since it was founded in 2016, TaniHub Group as an agritech startup whose mission is to empower local farmers with market access and financial access has experienced very rapid development in various lines. With year-on-year Gross Merchandise Value (GMV) growth reaching more than 200 percent in 2019, TaniHub is more confident to become an e-commerce platform for agricultural products and catalysts.
TaniHub's efforts to get closer to farmers and the market have also been realized by building regional distribution facilities in five cities, namely Bogor, Bandung, Yogyakarta, Surabaya, and Denpasar.
To support business processes that are increasingly fast and growing, TaniHub is implementing a new Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system to integrate business processes related to operations, production, and distribution aspects.
Going forward, this startup hopes to reach all cities in Indonesia in 2022 because of the still huge market potential. Based on data obtained by TaniHub, Indonesia has 5,700 producers in the food processing industry and more than 30,000 modern retail outlets (supermarkets, hypermarkets, etc.).
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After A Horrifying Car Crash, This Australian Man Woke Up Speaking Fluent Chinese. He Had Completely Forgotten English
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Ben McMahon was involved in an accident that almost claimed his life and when he woke up from a coma, all he could speak was Mandarin. He remembers how on waking up, he saw an Asian looking nurse standing by his side and told her in Chinese "Excuse me nurse, I feel really sore here." He then asked her to give him a pen and paper and wrote in Mandarin, "I love my mum, I love my dad, I will recover."
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His parents and doctors were baffled by his newly found language skill. Doctors told his parents that it would be a miracle if he survived."We got the call from the hospital and was saying 'Oh Mark, look I just wanted to ring and let you know that Ben's actually started to come out of the coma'…and she said, 'I don't know how to say this…he's speaking Mandarin'," Mark, Ben's father told Channel 10's, The Project "Neither of us can speak Mandarin so we just nodded but deep down quite concerned about what's going on."
Ben had been taking Mandarin in school but wasn't fluent at the language yet. "I wasn't consciously thinking I was speaking Mandarin, it was what just came out and it was what was most natural to me," he said.
It took him about two to three days to recall his English speaking skills. His new found language has since brought him huge opportunities. He now leads Chinese tours at his hometown and hosts a Mandarin TV program. He has also moved to Shanghai, where he is studying commerce at the University. He is grateful for being alive and that he can speak a second language.
Ben is not the first person to go through such an experience. In 2010, A Croatian 13 year old girl woke up speaking fluent German, instead of her native language.
Recently, a navy veteran from the U.S was found unconscious in a motel room in 2013. He could not remember who he was but spoke Swedish fluently.
Dr Pankaj Sah, a Queensland Brain Institute neuroscientist believes he has an explanation for what happened to Ben. According to him, the brain has different circuits that assist in language, speaking, breathing and thinking- just like in electronic circuits. It's possible that the parts of Ben's brain that could recall English got damaged during the crash while those parts that retained Mandarin got activated when he woke up from the coma.
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Careerist – Weird Hill
by Aaron Cunningham / December 19, 2019
Careerist have taken their time to get here. Despite earning a reputation as one of the most exciting talents in Belfast under the Hot Cops moniker, they took some away. After the best part of a year, they returned and soon after announced a new chapter, a new name and a debut album called Weird Hill.
The key components that Hot Cops built have remained, but a definite evolution and a willingness to expand outwards from their core shine through on their long-play debut. Carl Eccles' uniquely eccentric, baritone vocals and acerbic guitar lines are now funnelled through a more mature sounding production from long time cohort Chris Ryan (Robocobra Quartet).
There's a fair few heavy riff based tracks to be found and fawned over despite the expansion to their sound. One of the sole survivors from their past selves is opener 'Negative One', both big and offbeat, serving as a fine introduction to the uninitiated. On first listen 'Doors' hits with a bite, a simple manic rift weaves in and out through the track's off the wall sense of movement. While 'Book II' is a non-stop intersection of disconnected riffs and a staccato, chromatic breakdown that hits the sweet spot as well as any moment on the album. Tracks rarely coast by, instead Careerist chop and change through the old Pixies adage of quiet/loud.
'Weight', however, is most unexpected. REM-esque guitar parts over acoustic guitar is quite something for a band that's typically more Menagerie than Sunflower Bar. Similarly, 'Ring of Hands' is as much Orbison as Pavement, the word 'cinematic' loudly displayed in bold across the song's reverberating guitar, echoing rhythms and show-stopping set pieces. 'Idle' brings its own sense of the dramatic, with two gorgeous reprises and brief but well punctuated backing vocals (see also 'surf's up' on 'Piran').
Eccles' cut and paste lyrics are forever hard to pin down but from the shouted absurd to the deadpan mundane, usually strike a chord. No listen to 'Slasher' is complete without the incredible 'I predicted tears at the marathon' lingering in your psyche. The pastiche-slacker-cowboy vibe here helps deliver one of the best tracks of the year. 'Party Up' is beautiful. A track with all the pace and stagger of a drunken ballad but still morphs from a soft groan to a glitchy mess of noise.
Without wanting to dwell on a chapter that has now closed, it's difficult to listen to the band's first long release without thinking back to Hot Cops. From witnessing their early live shows and the past releases, lost to both time and a dead iPod classic, the band that created a palpable buzz are here but with an arsenal of well-worked songs that will surely put Hot Cops to bed.
Weird Hill is exactly the sum of its parts, and that's because the individual parts are very, very good. An album capable of producing new favourites on each listen is a surefire winner of a debut.


Australian offices of ANZ Bank are getting an out and proud makeover.
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A bank in Australia is temporarily rebranding itself in an effort to honor the local lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community.
For the duration of Sydney's Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, ANZ Bank will be known as GAYNZ. One of the bank's Sydney offices is also getting a "baroque-inspired" makeover to mark the tenth anniversary of the Mardi Gras celebration, which runs until March 6.
Included in the colorful decor are 16 murals inspired by the LGBT community, a marbled floor and two new "GAYTM" machines. The "GAYTMs" will also return to two additional branches, where they appeared in previous years, according to a press release.
Check out a video the bank posted on its Facebook page about the project.
Mark Hand, who is the chair of ANZ's Australia Division Diversity Council, said his company felt inspired to "take things to a new level" for the anniversary celebration, citing "incredible response" to the "GAYTMs" over the years.
"Diversity, inclusion and respect is an important part of what we do at ANZ so we are particularly proud of our partnership with Mardi Gras which started because our staff passionately believed in supporting the cause 10 years ago," he said in a press release.
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Queensland could become a global energy superpower thanks to abundant coal and gas reserves and easy access to renewables, Queensland Resources Council chief executive Ian Macfarlane said.
Mr Macfarlane told a gathering of more than 500 people at the QRC's annual lunch in Brisbane that Queensland was on the verge of an historic new era for resources.
He said Queensland's ability in the not too distant future to produce vast amounts of zero-emission green hydrogen from solar and wind-generated electricity and the CCS-Pyrolysis process on coal and gas would position it as a significant source of clean energy to meet growing world needs.
"The Palaszczuk government's agreement to work with the QRC to deliver a Queensland Resources Development Plan will enable Queensland to work and earn our way out of COVID, supercharging Queensland's economic recovery and delivering decades of responsible prosperity," Mr Macfarlane said.
"A coordinated response is an opportunity to put Queensland – and hundreds of thousands of Queensland jobs – at the international forefront of areas such as advanced manufacturing, renewable energy and battery storage deployment and hydrogen industry development."
Mr Macfarlane said there were strong parallels between the plan and the historic 1968 Central Queensland Coal Associates Agreement which put Queensland's coalfields on the global resources map half a century ago.
"Just as that historic agreement established a new foundation for growth in investment, jobs, production and exports in Queensland's coal industry at the time, a well-implemented Resources Industry Development Plan will take our industry to a whole new level," he said.
"In the meantime, the resources sector remains committed to ensuring our sector operates responsibly, respectfully and safely and we will never lose sight of the fact there are families and a global community of people relying on us to do just that.
Mr Macfarlane said the industry's latest economic contribution data showed resources added a record $82.6 billion to the Queensland economy over the past financial year, equating to a $10 million contribution from resources every hour of every day.
"Resources contributes one in every five dollars to the Queensland economy and one in six jobs, which is why our sector's performance is so crucial to a strong COVID recovery," he said.
Mr Macfarlane said the number of jobs supported by resources rose by 13 percent in 2019-20 to more than 420,000 jobs. Of these, almost 53,000 people are direct employees and more than 367,000 jobs are supported by the sector.
The number of Queensland businesses directly supported by resources rose 5 percent to 15,200, with companies reporting a 19 percent increase in spending to reach $27 billion.
Mr Macfarlane said resource companies exported $56.5 billion worth of goods last year, which represented 80 percent of Queensland's total exports.
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New Zealand High Commissioner-Designate- HE Ms Joanna Kempkers visits Asha
Empowerment, Visitors
We had the honour of having New Zealand High Commissioner – designate to India, Her Excellency Ms Joanna Kempkers and her husband Mr Timothy John Markwell visiting us on 22 February. Dr Kiran warmly welcomed Her Excellency to Kanak Durga slum community where the guests spent time interacting with the Asha's University students, Women's Association and Community Health Volunteers (CHVs) and visiting the community.
Her Excellency Ms Joanna Kempkers and her husband Mr Timothy Markwell are warmly welcomed at Kanak Durga centre.
On their first visit to Asha, Ms Kempkers and her husband were fascinated with how Asha has been able to transform the lives of the slum residents. While the Women's Association shared their journeys from being restrained into the four walls of their homes, to becoming champions of women's rights in the community. The CHVs also showcased their work and its impact at the grassroots level.
Her Excellency interacting with the University students and Women's Association.
Her Excellency and her husband were impressed especially meeting the University students. She exclaimed, "The students are the proof of how amazing Asha's work has been. It's so overwhelming to witness the developments taking place in the community and the slum residents' lives. Thank you for having us here and giving us the opportunity to witness your inspiring lives." Mr Tim, a teacher by profession, can also be heard saying how amazed he was with the whole experience.
Asha student Santosh from Zakhira slum community proudly displays his Award of Excellence that he has received from the Govt. of Delhi.
We wholeheartedly appreciate HE Ms Kempkers and her husband for visiting us and hope that the long-standing association between New Zealand High Commission and Asha will only grow in the coming days.
Dr Kiran and Her Excellency taking a walk through the community.
Dr Kiran, Her Excellency and her husband in one of the community members home.


Today, we'll take a look at one of the largest and oldest anime and manga cultures: Brazil!
If you were to guess the country that has some of the longest history with Japan and Japanese culture, you might guess the United States, but you'd be wrong. One of the oldest relationships between Japan and Western countries actually falls to Brazil, home to one of the most vibrant and active anime and manga fandoms in the world. But how did that come about, and what lead to the rise of anime in Brazil? The story of anime in Brazil is one that spans over a hundred years of international relationships, immigration, and even rocky hardships that could have halted all of this from ever happening! Anime has been a medium that has recently exploded across the globe and become more and more available, but some of the oldest fans around the world reside south of the equator in Brazil; today, we'll be taking a look at how that all came about, some shocking and interesting facts about Japan and Brazil's relationship, and how anime culture there has changed in recent years.
The relationship between Brazil and Japan began in 1543, when Portuguese explorers happened upon Japan and, at a time when Japan largely distrusted outsiders,, managed to set up a working relationship of trade between the two countries along with the Dutch. These relationships progressed to the point that the city of Nagasaki became a hub of international trade and interaction between the two countries, with Portuguese traders even holding certain political sway within the city. Although this relationship eventually ended, when Brazil gained its independence from Portugal in 1822, Japan founded official international relations with the country in 1897, looking to establish what was then called the "Treaty of Friendship" between the two countries. This saw the beginning of some of the first arrivals of Japanese immigrants to Brazil.
Sadly, WWII caused much strife and conflict between the two nations, as Brazil siding with the Allies ended diplomatic relations, and many Japanese-Brazilians faced harsh punishments and discrimination during and after the war. By 1953, however, things started to return to a beneficial relationship again, and even more Japanese immigrants arrived in Brazil in the next few decades. Today, Brazil is the second largest home of Japanese people outside of Japan itself! Although Japanese-Brazilians had faced discrimination and hardships in the past, they are currently one of the most vibrant and flourishing immigrant populations in Brazil and abroad, maintaining their unique cultural identity between the two nations.
In many cases, these Japanese-Brazilians were responsible for some of the first crossovers of anime culture to Brazil. In 1964, Minami Keizi was the first artist to make comics in the manga style with his piece, Tupãzinho, o Guri Atomico, inspired by the iconic Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy. The most famous of Keizi's works was Álbum Encantado, a work that depicted illustrated stories in a manga-inspired style. Several other artists started to experiment and expand their work in the style of manga, one of them being Claudio Seto, who went on to become incredibly famous and being thought as the greatest creator of Brazilian manga with works like O Samurai. Seto, along with Keizi, are considered the forerunners of manga in Brazil, often being cited as inspirations for national authors!
In 1972, a huge milestone in Brazilian animation was made possible by a Japanese cartoonist named Ypê Nakashima, who brought the feature film, Piconzé, to the masses. It was the first ever color animation film produced in Brazil, winning a Golden Owl award from the National Cinema Institute! Piconzé drew on Nakashima's knowledge of Japanese and Brazilian folklore to create a unique and interesting tale. Before he immigrated to Brazil from Japan in 1956, he used to work on newspapers like Mainichi Shimbun and other publications, and continued to do so in Brazil before working on the film. Ype's son, Itsuo Nakashima, not only also worked on Piconzé with his father, but would also go on to work on two animated features starring Brazilian cartoon and comic giant Turma da Mônica.
In 1984, in order to promote the growth of anime and manga, ABRADEMI (The Brazilian Association of Manga and Illustration Artists) was founded. Along with publishing their bi-monthly newsletter and two anime-themed magazines called Clube do Manga and Qnadrix, ABRADEMI provided activities, courses, speeches, videos and exhibits linked to Japanese history and culture, as they seek to heighten anime and manga as a true expression of art and culture. ABRADEMI is one of the first groups to help pave the way for the introduction of anime and manga to a larger audience in Brazil, attracting the attention of the God of Manga himself, Osamu Tezuka!
At the 1984 Sao Paulo Art Museums Exhibit of Comics, Osamu Tezuka gave an unforgettable speech that they hosted happened to be the one where they brought the legendary Osamu Tezuka to speak at on behalf of ABRADEMI! Tezuka's visit to ABRADEMI was unique, and allowed him to even meet up with Mauricio de Sousa, creator of Turma da Mônica; Mauricio and Tezuka must have left a great impression of friendship and respect, because in 2012 Sousa included Astro Boy, Sapphire, Kimba, and Rock Holmes in his Monica Teen book, under the direct guidance of Tezuka Productions, the first time ever anyone outside of Japan was officially allowed to include Tezuka characters in their own work! Another influential event was the exhibit for Sao Paulo's Everest Video, which helped pave the way for the introduction of Rumiko Takahashi's renowned anime series, Urusei Yatsura!
Although many Brazilian artists drew on manga as an influence for their own comics, actual manga and anime in Brazil took quite a while to get official releases. A manga marketing testing period began in 1988, with Cedibra leading the way by publishing Kazuo Koike's Lone Wolf and Cub. Not to be outdone by Cedibra, Globo followed up by publishing Akira. Starting in 1990, with the thriving acknowledgement of Japanese cultural products, and the quality of the stories in manga form that were initially made as an experiment, allowed these works to be commercialized, which ensured the presence of manga in newsstands and book shops across the country! While manga mania slowed down a bit, the Pokémon boom of the 90s helped to reignite interest in the medium, with publications of Pokémon: The Electric Tale of Pikachu hitting stands.
In the late 1990s, anime and manga really started picking up interest, with the beloved Saint Seiya airing as Knights of the Zodiac leading the charge. Knights of the Zodiac was a massive success. Even today fans in much of Latin America and North America refer to it by name and remember growing up watching episodes of it! Saint Seiya's success helped carve a path for future broadcasts of anime, like the shonen mega-hit, Dragon Ball! In 2000, due to the incredible fame of Saint Seiya and Dragon Ball, their respective manga were published and they were met with success! The rising popularity of manga made it possible for other series like One Piece, Slam Dunk, Neon Genesis Evangelion and many other titles to get official publications as well, with Conrad publishing even publishing works by Osamu Tezuka!
In 2004, book publisher Panini started publishing manga, with their initial titles being Peach Girl and Eden. But in 2012, they went all in by publishing two of the most known manga in Brazil: Naruto and Bleach! Panini would ride this success to publishing many other popular series, and even took over the rights to the One Piece anime and manga. Interestingly, manga used to be published in Brazil in 100 page chunks in smaller sizes to Japan's original style, but these days manga is published in a much more "traditional" Japanese format of full-sized volumes; Panini even went through the trouble of republishing over 30 volumes of One Piece in the newer format!
In 2008, Brazilian-born Japanese illustrator and novelist Yuu Kamiya drew the illustrations Takaya Kagami's light novel A Dark Rabbit Has Seven Lies. He then went to creating, writing and illustrating his own light novel series, No Game No Life in 2013. It was such a huge hit that in 2014, it was listed as one of the top-selling light novels, and in that same year began its anime broadcast! Not only that, but No Game No Life was one of ten light novel series to get a Yomiuri Shimbun Sugoi Japan Award!
Following many years of negotiation, Japan Brazil Communication (JBC) was able to finally go through with their release of the Sailor Moon manga in 2014. Now that manga had found great success in Brazil, and a move to make pubilshing manga more in line with Japanese standards, JBC set out to create an amazing rendition of the series for Brazilian readers. JBC's edition of the manga was the company's most vital release, and was so well done that it was praised by Sailor Moon's creator, Naoko Takeuchi and Kodansha employees for its quality!
And finally, in 2012, Crunchyroll (that's us!) started distributing anime simultaneously to Brazil. The service launched 30 of its titles with Portuguese language support, which included new simulcast titles. Just last year in 2018, Crunchyroll launched programming on linear TV in Brazil thanks to the partnership with Rede Brasil! Together, they started a specially-programmed anime hour, which included subtitled episodes of popular anime like Black Clover. To supplement it, there's also some local programming from Crunchyroll's Brazilian own community managers, where they dig into what's new in the anime world.
Anime and manga is at its height of its popularity in Brazil right now, and it shows no signs of slowing down! It's an amazing journey that spans the linked history of Japan and Brazil, with many Japanese-Brazilians helping to pave the way and introduce manga and manga aesthetics to Brazil's own growing comics and animation industry. With visits from legends like Osamu Tezuka and larger and larger official publications of manga starting in the last few decades, Brazil's choices for anime and manga have exploded with choice! It seems like anime and manga fans will have a lot to look forward to if these trends continue, and the history of anime in Brazil looks ready to roll on!
Have any memories of anime or manga from Brazil? What country's history of anime and manga would you like to learn about next? Let us know in the comments!
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Tobacco industry accused of flavour capsule 'tricks' to lure young smokers
Public Health Association says flavour-changing capsules in cigarettes is 'an extraordinary assault on public health'
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Australia has the lowest rates of smoking in the world among young people. Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA
The tobacco industry is "reverting to tricks and stunts" in a bid to attract young smokers, the head of the Public Health Association of Australia has said, after analysis revealed cigarettes with flavour-changing capsules were the fastest growing segment of the combustible tobacco market.
Adjunct Professor Terry Slevin described the modification of tobacco products to make them more appetising as "an extraordinary assault on public health".
"Any modification to tobacco products which clearly aim to increase rates of smoking and target young smokers should be ruthlessly resisted," he said.
"Australia has the lowest rates of smoking in the world among young people, and we now have a situation where more then 97% of children under 18 are never-smokers. The tobacco industry is clearly seeking to reverse that success and is reverting to tricks and stunts which should not be tolerated."
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An analysis published in the British Medical Journal's Tobacco Control on Monday found the market for cigarettes with flavour-changing capsules in the filter had "grown exponentially since being introduced in 2007".
The capsules, fruit and mint flavours, are also growing in popularity for roll-your-own cigarettes. The market share for the products increased between 2014 and 2017 in 52 of the 67 countries where they are sold and monitored by tobacco analyst Euromonitor.
"Despite the success of this product innovation, there remains a dearth of research on capsule cigarettes," the analysis, led by the University of Stirling in the UK, found.
"Nevertheless, existing research with adult smokers in the UK, USA and Australia consistently shows a preference for capsules among young adults, and more than half of past-month smokers aged 12–17 years in Australia reported having tried a capsule cigarette. Taste, choice of flavours, enjoyment from clicking the capsule, stylishness and lower perceived harm appear key reasons for using capsule cigarettes."
Slevin said an urgent national strategy was needed to respond to the growing market, in addition to the tobacco control acts in each state and territory. Research published this month from New Zealand's Otago University found young non-smokers and former smokers saw flavour capsules as more appealing, and were more likely to experiment with these than with unflavoured cigarettes.
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Quit Victoria policy manager Kylie Lindorff urged the state government to take immediate action to ban the sale of tobacco products with squeezable capsules of flavour. The products were designed to make smoking seem more fun for young people and non-smokers, and to taste better, she said.
"Tobacco control organisations have been fighting for decades to reach the point we are at – where young Australians are less interested than previous generations in trying or taking up smoking ," Lindorff said.
"But the tobacco industry is working incredibly hard to change this by targeting young people with 'fun' and 'cool' products such as flavour capsule cigarettes which, when the filter is squeezed, release a flavour that makes tobacco smoke more palatable."
Flavoured cigarettes are now widely available in Australia, with almost all major brands including at least one product with flavour squeeze balls in their range.
"The product range and popularity of flavour capsule cigarettes will only continue to grow unless governments take serious action to ban these products," Lindorff said.
To date, only Canada, Ethiopia, Senegal and Uganda have banned flavoured tobacco products. They will be banned in Brazil by March 2020 and across much of Europe by May 2020.
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