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Garçon's World March 1, 2022 Interview
Interview with Sarah Koszyk, MIJA co-founder & Silicon Valley Dietitian Nutritionist
MIJA came to us at an interesting time in the heyday of 2019, when concepts like the pandemic and social-distancing were merely rarely used words. MIJA launched with just one product, Superstar, an all-in-one supplement, that was quite a gutsy proposition when the growing market for wellness was introducing powders, tinctures, and herbs left and right. In their first year of launch, MIJA and more specifically, Superstar, landed in most "Top" and "Best of" lists, with a distinction of straddling both the world of glamorous high-end publications like, The Zoe Report, Who What Wear, and Vogue Paris, and serious peer-reviewed platforms, like The Healthy and Wellness Verge, where articles are fact-checked by accredited medical professionals.
We had a chance to catch up with MIJA co-founder, Sarah Koszyk, known as Silicon Valley's rockstar nutritionist (Bay Area locals might recognize her as the resident on-air dietitian expert for Channel 4) in Union Square, San Francisco.
Hi Sarah! To start, we know you through mutual friends in Silicon Valley. You're kind of the go-to nutritionist, so we were early on to the MIJA train. How do you feel like the Silicon Valley client might be different from others?
Sarah: Hi! Yes, it's funny how connected we all are, what a small world! One of the reasons we named our brand MIJA is to embrace the sense of community. MIJA is a colloquial that means "my daughter" in Spanish, and it represents the way we want to engage and support wellness rituals through building community. I've worked with a wide range of incredibly diverse clients. I'd say what I'm most appreciative of with many Silicon Valley clients is how data-driven they are. They deal with analytics and metrics in their day-to-day life, so they seek efficient, advanced, science-based solutions and remedies, which is exactly what MIJA brings to the table.
How did that inform how you approached Superstar?
Sarah: The modern person doesn't have the bandwidth to take a lot of different things. And it can actually be dangerous to take an abundance of random supplements, which was the message that a lot of wellness brands were promoting in order to sell more products. Our bodies are also not a single-issue system, in that nothing exists in a vacuum. So, I approached Superstar with a very data-driven approach, analyzing decades of extensive data, to see what the universal nutritional gaps were. Ultimately, most of our issues are due to a chronic deficit, and around 90% of the population is micronutrient deficient. The reason why Superstar is a one-and-done hero product is because I formulated it to address the shortfalls that we all have across age, gender, and race.
I think something that sets you apart is that you're actually accredited in this area, right?
Sarah: I'm a board certified, registered dietitian nutritionist, and I've served as Chair of organizations associated with the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. I also wrote and published four books on nutrition. In my private practice, I work as a medical practitioner with clients, which can go through health insurance. So wellness and specifically nutrition is definitely in my wheelhouse.
And you're also the go-to nutritionist for Silicon Valley tycoons.
Sarah: Right, that too! I've worked with many of them. But also professional athletes, clients going through fertility journeys, just a very diverse range of clients!
What was the initial reception to MIJA like?
Sarah: I think the wellness consumer is very savvy, and they figured out that the ingestibles they had been taking weren't really providing an effective real-world solution. We quickly won over a lot of clients with our pared down, yet effective approach, that used scientifically-backed data, and delivered clinical performance. People adore Superstar.
On the industry side, we hit the ground running with editors also responding to the product immediately. We were pretty surprised by their positive feedback and responses, usually they can have a bit of a poker face, but many just beamed with love for Superstar right away.
However, there were definitely some opportunities for education to sort of undo the training of thinking eight or ten different powders are needed for proper function.
Right, that's sort of been the approach!
Sarah: In hindsight, we launched at the cusp of Wellness 2.0. When customers and buyers had experienced the initial pitch of purchasing and using many, many different powders and tinctures to be a functional being because wellness brands suddenly thought they needed to emulate skincare brands and create and sell a lot of product. And I think the customers were exhausted, and then disheartened by this approach.
I think in many ways, we're starting from the beginning again in wellness. And due to many customers having those earlier experiences with the old approach, we're having to do the work of educating and earning their trust in our product. So for the past few years, we've really been trying to let people know it doesn't need to be that difficult, and that better results than they imagine can come from an intelligently designed formula.
And your formula for Superstar is intelligent, and ticks all the boxes.
Sarah: As a nutritionist, I didn't want to create a wonderful product that my own private practice clients couldn't take. So I was careful to check all the boxes. Superstar is made from 100% organic, plant-based superfoods, which are the nutritional gold-standard because the nutrients have the highest level of bioavailability. The formula is also gluten-free, vegan, soy-free, dairy-free, and free of additives, and synthetic flavors.
It's obvious that the product is high quality. It smells so fresh, and just vibrant. What gives it this quality?
Sarah: I say that every jar that comes from MIJA is made with love, and it's entirely true. I'm so proud of the quality and sourcing of our ingredients. The matcha that makes up our base is organic, ceremonial-grade, and tested for purity, it actually costs more than its weight in gold. The turmeric we use is not only fresh, and high quality, we also extract it to increase the concentration of curcumin, the active compound in turmeric responsible for its wealth of health benefits. Our avocado powder is so nutritionally-complete, it's actually a "high-fat" powder because it retains the essential fatty-acid component which you won't usually find in a powder. And all of our ingredients are single-sourced, and traceable so I know exactly how the farmer cultivated and harvested everything that went into our Superstar.
We also work with independent 3rd party labs to test every single ingredient, and every batch of product made to ensure purity from contaminants including radiation, heavy metals, and environmental pollution.
And Superstar tastes like a delight, how does something so green and packed with superfoods taste so good?
Sarah: I didn't want to make something that people couldn't enjoy! So we use real melons and lychee, which is just a gorgeous and rare fruit. I want people to have something special and like you said, delightful. Wellness can feel like an enjoyable treat.
Tell me about launching MIJA in 2019, then sort of going right into the pandemic. How did you navigate that?
Sarah: We were on a good roll when the pandemic hit, and then all of a sudden, everything changed. We had been in conversation with a high-end retailer in Los Angeles, and nation-wide luxury department store, then almost overnight, the buyers had to pause. We started to focus more on our direct-to-consumer business, and our business actually grew because I think people really took the time to assess what mattered, and wellness became more prominent. It was a reset for everyone, a good conscientious shift to prioritize self-care, and invest in caring for their body as a whole from the foundation which has to start from within.
However where the pandemic did hinder us is that all of a sudden, as our products were selling quicker and quicker, it became nearly impossible to get glass in the United States. Most glass comes from overseas, and with everything going on, nearly every business that uses glass packaging in the United States was impacted. It got to the point where we had to take product out of stock on our website just so we could reserve the units we had left for our monthly subscriptions. I think we were literally down to our last jar, before the glass finally came for our next production run. And even though we did a much larger production run, we sold through that within about 3 months, and were actually sold out for a few months last year. But we're back now!
I bet those were stressful times. Did you feel strange talking about wellness when MIJA itself was maybe causing some stress for you?
Sarah: Those were stressful times! I didn't feel strange talking about it, but I can see how it may seem ironic to be talking about wellness, while being stressed. But professional hat aside, I'm a person too, and the top two concerns everyone had were stress and anxiety during the pandemic, and this really helped me also relate and empathize with our customers. Not only is there scientific evidence that Superstar, which is loaded with adaptogens like Moringa and Chaga, can help with stress and anxiety, I had firsthand experience that it does!
Tell me about some of your lifestyle habits to help with stress and anxiety.
Sarah: I love sharing food in good company. It's part of the joy I get from being a nutritionist, helping others nourish themselves. Food is so connected to how we express love, gratitude, and all the good feelings.
I also like taking quiet walks outside, and we have so many beautiful parks in NorCal that I never tire from it. As a mom to a toddler, I like scheduling time just for him. We go to the beach a lot in San Francisco to play on the sand or get our feet wet (the water is too cold to go swimming in it). Time with my kid helps me decompress, and just fully engage in another space.
What can we expect from MIJA in 2022?
Sarah: I'm really excited about what we have planned. I want to keep building community and redefining wellness responsibly. I used to be on the other side where clients and publications would ask me for supplement recommendations, and I wasn't comfortable with the prevalent pseudoscience marketing, or scientifically irresponsible approaches (e.g. more is more!). We also have a very exciting roadmap that I think really meets the wellness consumer where they're at, and I can't wait to share more when the time comes so stay tuned!
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Messi's exit?: Where's he headed and what Africa and its Leadership can learn
Okenwa Igbokwe
Lionel Messi wants to leave Barcelona this summer and has asked for it.
The 33-year-old Argentina international sent a message to the club on Tuesday saying he wishes to exercise a clause in his contract, allowing him to leave for free immediately.
With millions of fans across the world wondering where next Messi is headed, it is only normal he is trending.
Messi has played at Barcelona, Spain since 2001 where he grew from playing for the juvenile team till he made his first team debut in the year 2003 when Barcelona played against FC Porto.
Having gone through criticism playing for only one team, Barcelona, almost all his career, being compared to the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo and not showing up for Argentina where it matters, how he has managed to be at the top of his game regardless is something worth looking into.
It feels like he was born with a soccer ball in his hands.
To a lot of football fans, Messi never looked like he'd leave Barcelona for any other club. But here we are. Could he have had this all planned out or was the exit circumstantial? Whatever the case, wherever Messi goes to next is a huge deal.
Messi and African Leadership
Knowing when to leave office is very important. We have countries where the leaders have been in power for longer than we can imagine. Talk about President Pierre Nkurunziza of Burundi, President Paul Biya of Cameroon, President Idriss Deby of CHAD, President Azali Assoumani of COMOROS, Denis Sassou Nguesso of Congo Republic, President Ismail Omar Guelleh of Djibouti, President Alpha Conde of Guinea, President Alassane Ouattara of Ivory Coast, President Paul Kagame of Rwanda and others.
As at 2018, some African countries recorded democratic victories in the past 12 months. Ethiopia got a new leader whose ascent holds great promise for change, despite the country's problematic 2015 election. Same with Liberia and Sierra Leone.
But elsewhere on the continent, leaders continue to disregard their countries' own constitutions and laws governing presidential tenure. The Democratic Republic of Congo's Joseph Kabila has been in power since 2001. He has refused to step down even though he was meant to step down in December 2016. In Uganda, Yoweri Museveni has clung to power since 1986. Denis Sassou Nguesso has ruled Congo for almost 30 years.
Their refusal to step down at the appointed time flies in the face of several governance blueprints adopted as African countries shifted away from liberation politics to the new post independence struggle for democracy in the early 2000s.
The Organisation of African Unity was transformed into the African Union in 2001 with this shift in mind. The continent adopted progressive governance tools like the African Peer Review Mechanism. This was spearheaded by former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo and South Africa's Thabo Mbeki as a tool for African countries to review one another's performance.
Numerous African countries adopted and agreed to uphold the terms of the African Union Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance. It came into force in 2012 and was designed to guard against undemocratic governance.
These plans promised a great deal. They were designed to usher in good governance, democracy and security. It was hoped Africa's image as a continent of ignorance, poverty, disease, misrule and corruption could be erased.
The rhetoric pointed in the right direction. But not all African leaders were willing to be swept by this wave of democratic reforms. Some are quite simply addicted to power, as shown by their reluctance – if not outright resistance – to leave at the end of their legal terms.
Leaders continuing to overstay their welcome undermines Africa's attempts at overhauling its leadership and negates the noble intentions of the AU's founders.
Juxtaposing Messi's case with African leaders, it's obvious leadership in Africa feels like a huge joke because there are 'laid down' rules but they are not followed.
At what point will African leaders know when to leave their position for the next generation of leaders to come in? Or just like Messi, read the situation of things, and make a decision to leave?
When are you leaving, Leader? But you might not get to read this blog posts like I expect.
We wait.
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#Juneathon Day 13; My heart wasn't in it.
I ran 1/2 a mile and gave up, I really couldn't face running further, I had no energy and no motivation.
It was a good 1/2 mile, for me, in about 6 minutes. But that's as far as I got.
Day 14 has 3 miles, I'm sure that I'll be in a better mood for it.
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Newspaper vendor's widow distances herself from family's N500 million demand from Gbajabiamila
by Queen Nwadah November 27, 2020, 12:30 am
The widow of newspaper vendor, Ifeanyi Okereke, who was killed by a stray bullet fired by one of the security aides of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila in Abuja, has distanced herself from his family's N500 million compensation demand from Gbajabiamila.
The family in a letter written by Nigerian lawyer Mike Ozekhome (SAN), had asked Gbajabiamila to pay the family of the deceased a compensation of N500 million within seven days or face legal action.
This came after the speaker had promised to take care of the children and wife of the deceased.
The demand made by the family was written in a letter by Ozekhome, on behalf of the deceased father and younger brother, Destiny Okoreke.
However, the newspaper vendor's wife Josephine Okoreke, in an interview yesterday, November 26 has stated that she was not informed about the N500 million compensation demand made by her late husband's family.
She stated that the speaker Gbajabiamila had already promised to take up the financial responsibility of the deceased family and to train her children in school.
Josephine also said she was surprised to hear that her late husband's family demanded compensation. She added that she is not interested in anything that will jeopardize the promise already made by the speaker in regards to her children.
Josephine stated that she wants justice for her husband, while revealing that her husband secured a new job before his death.
"All I want now is that the person that killed my husband to face justice, he was the bread winner of the family and he just secured a job with the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment," she said.
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February 19th, 2014 by Brandon Peters
Be prepared for one squirrelly adventure in the action-packed comedy,The Nut Job, starring Will Arnett (Despicable Me, Ratatouille) as Surly, a mischievous squirrel on a mission to prove himself.The Nut Job comes to Blu-ray 3D and Blu-ray Combo Pack including Blu-ray, DVD, & DIGITAL HD with UltraViolet as well as On Demand on April 15, 2014, from Universal Studios Home Entertainment. The film will also be available on DIGITAL HD one week early on April 8, 2014.
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Universal City, California, February 19, 2014 – Be prepared for one squirrelly adventure in the action-packed comedy, The Nut Job, starring Will Arnett (Despicable Me, Ratatouille) as Surly, a mischievous squirrel on a mission to prove himself. The Nut Job comes to Blu-ray 3D and Blu-ray Combo Pack including Blu-ray, DVD, & DIGITAL HD with UltraViolet as well as On Demand on April 15, 2014, from Universal Studios Home Entertainment. The film will also be available on DIGITAL HD one week early on April 8, 2014.
Surly (Arnett) is a mischievous squirrel with a mission: to find the tastiest nuts for winter. When he discovers a whole store filled with his favorite food, he plans a heist of nutrageous proportions. But the place turns out to be owned by ruthless bank robbers so it's up to Surly and his furry friends to stop the nearby bank heist and save the town.
Showcasing an all-star cast including Brendan Fraser (The Mummy, Whole Lotta Love), Liam Neeson (Non-Stop, The Grey), Katherine Heigl (Knocked Up, The Ugly Truth), Maya Rudolph (Bridesmaids, Turbo), Jeff Dunham (Arguing With Myself, Spark of Insanity) and Gabriel Iglesias (Magic Mike, Hot & Fluffy), The Nut Job will prove "Enormously Entertaining" for the whole family (Avi Offer, NYC Movie Guru)!
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· THE GREAT NUT HEIST – Will Arnett, the voice of Surly the squirrel, discusses the great caper story at the heart of the film.
· DANCE-OFF END CREDITS – Surly joins his furry friends and a very special guest for this show-stopping number.
Bonus Features on 3D BLU-RAY, BLU-RAY & DVD:
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CAST AND FILMMAKERS:
Cast: Will Arnett, Brendan Fraser, Liam Neeson, Katherine Heigl, Stephen Lang, Maya Rudolph, Jeff Dunham with Gabriel Iglesias & Sarah Gadon
Directed by: Peter Lepeniotis
Produced by: Wookyung Jung & Graham Moloy
Executive Producers: Daniel Woo, Hong Kim, Jay Ahn, Mike Karz, William Bindley, Hoejin Ha, Tom Yoon, & Hyungkon Kim
Written by: Peter Lepeniotis & Lorne Cameron
Screenplay by: Peter Lepeniotis & Daniel Woo
Edited by: Paul Hunter
Original Score By: Paul Intson
Art Director: Ian Hastings
CG Supervisor: Brad Falk
Animation Director: Daryl Graham
Lighting Supervisor: Sumit Suri
Music Supervisor: Julianne Jordan
Music by: Paul Intson
Casting Directors: Robert McGee, Ruth Lambert & Joanne Boreham
TECHNICAL INFORMATION – BLU-RAY 3D COMBO PACK
Copyright: 2014 Universal Studios. All Rights Reserved.
Selection Numbers: 61128666
Running Time: 1 Hour 26 Minutes
Aspect Ratio: Widescreen 1.85:1
Rating: PG for some mild action and rude humor.
Technical Info: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (English)
Subtitles: English SDH, Spanish and French
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Layers: Dual Layer
Technical Info: Dolby Digital 5.1 (English)
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Japan's men's team won silver at the FIS Nordic combined World Cup season opener on Sunday, stepping onto the podium for the first time in five years. The team of two-time Olympic silver medalist Akito Watabe, his younger brother Yoshito, Hideaki Nagai and Go Yamamoto ...
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Akito Watabe overcame a 9-second deficit to win the season's final Nordic combined World Cup race on Sunday. It was the eighth win of the season for Watabe, who had already clinched the World Cup championship, and the 17th time he has stood atop a ...
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Royal Society Set to Release Evo Meeting Details
The Royal Society science office says the suspense will soon be over. It will announce presenter names/topics for the November evolution paradigm shift conference within two weeks -- democratically, by email to all those registered to attend the public meeting. What's more, it has added to its original list of invitees. Zoologists perhaps at last conceding viruses belong in the tent?
I understand that many of those in the Royal Society audience will be scientists as prominent as (and possibly more prominent than) some of the speakers, and as evolutionary science continues to be a tribal matter, it is expected to be a lively meeting. As for whether it will be an effective meeting, i.e., whether deep divisions can be bridged -- I'm optimistic. I am reminded of something Markus Nordberg, CERN's savvy chief of Resources Development, once told me about the strategy of organizing such meetings:
"When you invite friends of the friends, they don't argue too much . . . so that at least you have a little bit of critical mass . . . but then you have to expose it. That is to say, you organize a public meeting where the enemies of the friends are invited . . . it's polarized . . . people mix like hot and cold water. And that's the point at which you are able to set up a collaboration."
However, grumblings about paradigm shift are coming not only from "the enemies," i.e., the usual suspects (who are likely to send their disruptive "representatives" to the London gathering) -- but from more measured, responsible voices like Indiana University biologist Michael Lynch. Lynch recently responded to my story about the Extended Synthesis crowd who've now been funded by Templeton with $8M but still can't agree on a definition for Extended Synthesis with this note:
"Superficial, silly, shallow-minded, self-promotional. I and many others view this as a complete embarrassment to the field. If one wishes to extend something in public, especially as a biologist, one ought to have a very good idea of what is being extended."
Even Stan Salthe, one of evolution's long-time progressive voices is dissatisfied with the fuzziness of language, emailing:
"Philosophically, the only difference between the earlier (new) synthesis and the new (extended) one is that the new one downgrades random mutation as the only source of new departures, allowing the biological system to potentially have some agency in its evolution during ontogeny."
There are some, in fact, who think the whole thing is a game of semantics and that I've "been had" regarding my interest.
Denis Noble, point man for the Royal Society conference, further addressed the matter of evolutionary science word play in a recent email to me:
"One of the problems I see in this field of evolutionary biology is that there are now a variety of definitions of what the neo-Darwinist Modern Synthesis includes. A recent reply to my J Exp Biol article even includes the inheritance of acquired characteristics! But if we define the Modern Synthesis as its original formulation to exclude the inheritance of acquired characteristics, which was Weizmann's intention, which was followed by many others and summarized by Mayr, then the ES must be a replacement not simply an extension and it is so by definition.
Moreover, anyone who now tries to include the inheritance of acquired characteristics in neo-Darwinism is left with the question why it should any longer be described as neo-Darwinism since Darwin also included the inheritance of acquired characteristics in his Origin of Species and even, in a later work, developed his theory of gemmules to account for it. The key difference between Darwinism and neo-Darwinism disappears. There is then no need for neo-Darwinism.
Of course there are many other reasons for replacing the MS by a more integrative, multi-process theory. Those include symbiogenesis, natural genetic engineering, the physics of development. . . . . . . . . ."
No doubt the virosphere is implied, as well, somewhere in Denis Noble's above "extended ellipsis."
Clearly, the Extended Synthesis does not go far enough in reflecting current evidence. The last major Extended Synthesis paper by Gerd Müller -- one of the fathers of the Extended Synthesis, who will be at the November gathering to explain his latest ES position -- was, e.g., virtually virus-free (the word virus appears one time).
Santa Fe Institute physicist Geoffrey West thinks the hard sciences definitely need to be factored into the equation at the November meeting. And Adrian Bejan, author of The Physics of Life, will attend to make sure they are.
Other prominent scientists who've registered include biosemiotics ambassador Kalevi Kull, and plant physiologist/ambassador František Baluška. Michael Joyner from Mayo Clinic and John Torday from UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine will bring their medical perspective to the gathering, as will neurobiologist and developmental psychologist Jonathan Delafield-Butt, who's now busily organizing his own conference in Scotland on autism.
I would expect both former Royal Society president Sir Paul Nurse and current president Sir Venki Ramakrishnan to waft in at some point during the three-day affair. And that there will no doubt be tributes (whether formal or informal) to some of evolution's revolutionaries, now gone: Mae-Wan Ho, Lynn Margulis and Carl Woese.
But it may well be the presence of science historian and dramatist Richard Milner -- currently promoting the life of Alfred Russell Wallace -- with his repertoire of disarming songs, such as "I'm a Genius," that proves most crucial to the November proceedings, that is, if chairs really do begin flying. . .
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Europe's biggest gamble
May 1, 2004 — 10.00pm
From the plump chairs of mayor Rolf Karbaum's elegantly restored 14th-century office you can see the future of Europe less than a kilometre away. It's not a pretty sight. On the other side of the Neisse river from Karbaum's quaint, cobbled German town of Gorlitz lies its Polish twin, Zgorzelec, where grey Soviet-era flats or rundown, blocky houses clutter the skyline - and act as constant reminders of the huge wealth and social gap between the former East and the West.
Today the European Union's historic eastward expansion will reunite the towns - and hundreds like them across Europe - and welcome 10 new nations into the world's largest single political and trading bloc. The expanded EU will stretch 3000 kilometres, from the Irish Sea to Russia, have 450 million consumers, and an economic output bigger than the United States. It will represent about a quarter of the world's total GDP and about 40 per cent of its trade.
To its enthusiasts in Brussels, Paris and Berlin, the realignment of Western Europe with eight former Soviet-sphere countries, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, plus Malta and Cyprus, illustrates how the "European approach" towards regime change differs from that favoured by the US.
"The Americans attempt to do it by dropping bombs from 20,000 feet," said Fraser Cameron, a senior European bureaucrat on secondment to the European Policy Centre in Brussels. "It's a rather different approach to the European approach of taking the long-term view, in this case 15 years, to transform the economies, politics, the social structure of these countries to get them ready for EU membership. That's a much more successful long-term strategy in terms of regime change than anything America has ever tried."
But on the ground, in towns such as Gorlitz and Zgorzelec, the impressive statistics and grand aspirations of the new Europe - to unite the EU's 70 million new citizens in peace, democracy and a shared past and future - give way to a quiet, thin-lipped hope, which borders on desperation.
For these people, and millions of others on both the western and eastern sides of the continent, the EU's expansion has become primarily an economic lifeline rather than a historic moment. Gorlitz's impressive collections of Gothic, Baroque and Renaissance buildings, a tourist drawcard in summer, conceal the truth that the town is slowly but surely dying. Unemployment is about 24 per cent and every year about 1000 people, mostly young, leave for the promise of jobs further west.
"This is a disaster," said Professor Karbaum, a former university lecturer. "Our situation is very bad." But with Poland joining the EU, the reunited Gorlitz-Zgorzelec will be eligible for subsidies and support from Brussels. The towns are planning a technology park, new bridges and are bidding to become the European City of Culture in 2010. The largesse of Brussels is paramount for its success, with the technology park alone costing €60 million ($100 million).
Despite fears that jobs and employers will relocate in the new EU nations, where tax, land and labour are much cheaper, Karbaum believes the union's expansion will save his town by combining German know-how with Poland's economic advantages, such as cheap labour. Pay rates in Poland are about a quarter of those on the other side of the border, often much less. "It is not my job to give people fear," he said.
"I am here to give people hope. There will be perhaps people who lose jobs but still this is the right way. This time of transition is going to be difficult, but the transition time shouldn't prevent us from looking into the future. I am convinced that we have one chance only to develop the city. We have to grasp this chance."
Unification of East and West is heavily symbolic, but it will bring together two unequal, and often fractious sides. Deep economic, social and cultural divisions remain. Across the Neisse, German and Polish youths exchange insults and little else. Student Alexander Moller, 17, said: "We only use Poland to pick up cheap cigarettes; other than that we have no use for them [the Poles]."
The new EU nations have an average per capita GDP of about 40 per cent of the existing 15 EU countries, and, given the restrictions on work and cutbacks in subsidies from Brussels, enlargement is unlikely to be a ready-made fix.
"No one should expect it to be plain sailing," said Cameron. "There have been ups and downs in the union in its first 50 years and there will be after first of May. Last year people were writing off the Union because of disarray over Iraq and failure to reach a conclusion on the [EU's new] constitution. These things go in circles. The Union always moves sort of two steps forward, one step back. Last year was two steps back, but I think we are moving forward again."
But disquiet about the terms of accession has brought political instability and infighting to several of the new Europe nations, including Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia and Czech Republic. Cyprus will enter the union as a divided country, with the Turkish side being left out despite voting in support of a UN plan to unify the island.
Farmers in the former east will now have access to massive new markets, but this year they will receive only about a quarter of the agricultural subsidies enjoyed by their French and German counterparts. On the work front, the 70 million new Europeans will face restrictions or a complete ban for between two and seven years in 13 of the 15 old EU countries.
Heather Grabbe, of the London-based Centre for European Reform, said the EU had squibbed the chance to start its next phase on a positive note by making the new entrants "feel like second-class citizens".
"People are beginning to realise that the gold coins are not going to rain from heaven from the first of May and there's still a lot of pain associated with joining the EU and generally being in transition, so these governments are the stick for people's grievances about the economy, their disappointments about EU accession," she said. "It would have cost the EU so little to be generous. They could have got such a huge PR bonus out of all of this by welcoming them with open arms as opposed to welcoming them with the door half open."
After toing and froing between national treasuries and Brussels, the net gain for the new countries is expected to be about €10 billion ($16.6 billion) by the end of 2006, about 5 per cent of the EU's budget. It is about a 10th of what Germany has spent on its own reunification over the past 10 years.
The EU's six biggest contributors - Germany, France, Britain, Sweden, Austria and the Netherlands - are now pushing for further spending cuts over the next decade. Germany and France, in particular, face severe economic challenges, including unemployment around 10 per cent, and are becoming far less inclined to be generous.
EUROPE's expansion is coinciding with the final throes of a painful debate about the Union's new constitution, a huge two-year undertaking which seeks to spell out what the EU stands for, what areas come within its bailiwick and how its members should talk to each other.
If ratified by all member states, it will be the closest step yet to a united Europe, with joint positions on many aspects of security, defence, trade and the economy. In the area of foreign relations, a joint EU approach has emerged in relation to Russia, Iran and the Balkans, and in the wake of the Iraq dispute there is a new-found desire even in Paris and Berlin for closer co-operation with Washington.
But even though it will create a new EU foreign policy chief, national governments are expected to retain a veto over foreign affairs and other key areas, such as taxation, justice and aspects of social policy.
As a Western diplomat told the Herald: "No one who is sensible in Brussels talks of it [the expanded EU] in terms of being versus the US. It's a question whether or not they can bolster and work with the US in a broad sense, the two major components of Western civilisation. While some in one or two countries might talk about it as if it were a competition, most sensible observers see the EU working as a partner to the US."
Outside the tabloid scaremongers, few diplomats or analysts see a European super state in the making. "This is not turning into a state in any form," said Grabbe. "If anything, year by year, it's becoming more and more of a hybrid, more and more disjointed."
A French foreign policy analyst, Dominique Moisi, believes that unlike the previous enlargements, today's event will push the geographic and political centre of Europe away from France and therefore towards the US. "In the case of Poland and the Baltic republics, the French initially thought it would reinforce Germany, the centrality of Germany, and now it realises that it reinforces the position of Washington," he said. He believes the new Europe will fall short of the dream of a "United States of Europe".
"Right now we wish to create a Europe of citizens, a kind of hybrid reality which is federal when it comes to the economy, national when it comes to security and more and more regional when it comes to reality. History is grey and muddy, but I think in the long run, it will create a feeling that somewhere Europe exists."
The 10 new countries will contribute an additional 5 per cent to the EU's GDP, the equivalent of another Netherlands. But the expansion will profoundly change the face of Europe.
Only Ireland will fully open its doors and treat the new Europeans as equal partners, despite Europe-wide labour shortages.
The Blair Government, once the most vocal advocate of free movement of labour, will still allow free work but restrict work-related benefits, such as the dole, for two years. New entrants who are not working will not be eligible for state housing. The Germans and Austrians seem paranoid about the new EU members stealing local jobs and have imposed a seven-year ban on migrant workers from the new EU.
But recent EU estimates suggest that only about 220,000 new Europeans a year are ready to move. As analysts note, many young eastern Europeans are already there illegally. The Irish Prime Minister, Bertie Ahern, who holds the rotating presidency of the European Council, has sought to allay fears of massive job losses in western Europe.
But such sentiments are far from the thoughts of most Europeans, as today they celebrate the EU's new face.
As Jiri Pehe, a former adviser to Czech president Vaclav Havel and the head of Prague's New York University, points out "up to now [the EU] has been a club of privileged, highly affluent countries".
"Now it is heading to the poor part of Europe and adding countries which, 15 years ago, eight of them had communist regimes, countries which have no great experience of democracy. So I think for the European Union, for Europe, it is a huge step into the unknown and we all have to hope it works."


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Between my wife, my kids and myself, not forgetting my parents and my mother-in-law, I soon had enough occasions for using Organic Silicon to realise that its uses open up an area of research and application that is almost limitless and which must be explored But I'm sure that acknowledging this discovery would only set off endless conflicts, because it threatens too many vested interests. So when I consider that it's the best thing for one of my patients I tell them about it and where to order it if they wish to. I feel comfortable with this intellectually and morally. The documentation on Organic Silicon includes two essential items, established by independent experts: the tests which highlight the therapeutic effectiveness of the product, and others which prove it is completely non-toxic. In this situation I consider that I have the right and even the duty to tell my patients about it when I cannot do anything else for them. The fact that this product is not really a medication or that it is not on general sale or that no-one can really explain how it works, does not concern me. What I am interested in is the results, and these I witness when patients considered incurable come to me for a check-up after this 'parallel' treatment. The improvements and cures which I see with my own eyes give me tremendous satisfaction, and I start to believe I am a good doctor.
Given the importance of silica in our diet, it is surprising that more people are not aware of it. Silica remains the missing element in many anti-aging programs of today.
We decided to run our own experiment and asked one of our employees to go and see Dr Le Ribault about an extremely uncomfortable skin disorder he had been suffering from for years. His skin would at times peel off in large patches leaving the exposed area raw and open to possible infection. On the day that our employee went to see Dr Le Ribault, his fingers were raw and he could not touch the affected areas. Dr Le Ribault applied the liquid form of Organic Silicon onto the affected areas and more or less cleaned the wounds with the Organic Silicon. Within 10 minutes our man was able to touch his fingers, and was amazed at the results. Dr Le Ribault asked that our employee continue the treatment regularly for one month, at which time he will be looked at again. Today, one week later, the only complaint from our employee is that with relief in sight after so many years of suffering, he is impatient for a complete recovery and the Organic Silicon is not working fast enough. We also spoke to persons who were staying in the same hotel as Dr Le Ribault, who had experienced the miraculous attentions of the Organic Silicon. Everyone swore that they were cured of painful sunburn within hours, and one person described a deep cut to his finger, that was almost completely cured after wrapping his finger in a cloth soaked in Organic Silicon for only one day. Many people have since been visiting the doctor who is only too happy to treat any ailments with his organic wonder drug.
As a mineral, silica is the second most common constituent of the Earth (27.8% in weight), oxygen being the first (46.6% in weight). Silica may be amorphous or crystallised in rocks such as granite and rock quartz, as well as in clays and sand grains. Organic silica is different from the mineral form because there are one or more atoms of carbon associated with hydrogen. The organic form of silica is a component of living tissue, and occurs very often in plants, animals and human beings. In the human body it is found particularly in the tissues, cartilage and vascular walls, in the thymus gland, adrenals, liver, pancreas, spleen and so on.
Throughout the nineteen eighties, Loïc Le Ribault was the most important and renowned forensic scientist in France. He solved hundreds of murder cases for the gendarmerie and for the magistracy. The equipment which he developed, based mainly on sample collecting and their examination under an electron microscope, could have put the French police into the vanguard of crime prevention and solution. However, powerful forces did not want to give Loïc credit for his work or his techniques. Loïc's work frequently revealed that routine police forensic work in France was inefficient, corrupt and inept and secondly, some government officials were loath to have Loïc take the glory for re-organising the forensic science procedures of the police force.
Loïc was still being called in to cases by independent judges and magistrates during the late eighties, but it was becoming increasingly difficult for him to work officially. One of the cases he was given, was that of the young Irish back packer Trevor O'Keeffe who had been murdered and then buried in France in August 1987. This case was to be one of the last that Loïc dealt with, before continuous obstruction and pressure of different kinds forced him to shut down his independent laboratories and turn his hand instead to his other great love, the development of organic silica.
Loïc's work on organic silica, led him to produce it in quantity and to distribute it as a treatment for arthritis. When his treatment proved an enormous popular success, the medical establishment in France organised against Loïc and he was eventually arrested and imprisoned on trumped up charges of practising medicine without being a medical doctor. When he was released from prison, Loïc fled France.
Until 1994, it had been necessary to activate the organic silica by adding small quantities of products used in allopathy or homeopathy, products which were chosen specifically for each illness being treated. These molecules could only be used in cutaneous applications. In 1994 Le Ribault perfected a new molecule which could be used, without any additive, in the treatment of many different diseases. Another important advance was that this molecule, absolutely non-toxic, can be taken orally. This is Organic Silicon.
After seeing its spectacular results on a burn, I am very interested in Organic Silicon.
How does Organic Silicon work?
How can a single molecule cure so many different conditions?
We know that when cell function is disturbed, its polarities move slightly, so much of the disturbance in the organism is linked to this electrical maladjustment in the cells.
Studies with a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) show that molecules of organic silica such as Organic Silicon are very unstable, especially when mixed with water. They are always changing shape, revolving continuously a hundred times a second. Under the SEM the molecule looks like a fern leaf, the prominent parts being the positive poles and the hollows the negative ones.
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The results obtained by drinking Organic Silicon show that it can be assimilated and that it replenishes the supply of organic silica in the body.
Though the amount provided by the absorption of Organic Silicon decreases slowly too, it can be replenished if symptoms return.
Why is it useful in some cases to drink Organic Silicon and apply it to the skin as well?
Organic Silicon carries organic silica to all parts of the body suffering from disease or disturbance, even if the latter is not causing pain. Drinking it will resolve, in most cases, the cause of the problem, but this may take a little time. It will act first on the fundamental health problems, which are not necessarily the most acutely painful. That is why it is necessary when using it to treat a specific pain, to apply it also on the skin as near to the source of the pain as possible.
Organic Silicon is supplied in 500ml bottles and can be drunk, and also applied directly to the skin.
Maintenance use: 30ml daily (suggested use for 6 months) Intensive use: 30ml twice daily (suggested use for 6 months).
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Covid-19 Revival
The Coronavirus pandemic has created a crisis that is bringing the whole world to a halt, with unprecedented and immeasurable implications for our societies. Philanthropy has a crucial role to play in responding to this crisis, both in providing immediate relief and in creating long-term solutions.
Philea seeks to support its members as well as the wider community of European philanthropy networks (PEXcommunity) by collating information and resources related to COVID-19 and philanthropy in Europe. This webpage will be updated regularly with new initiatives at the European level, as the situation evolves.
COVID-19 Revival & Philanthropy European Knowledge Hub
Philea has organised an opportunity for peer exchange on developments relating to philanthropy and COVID-19 in the form of weekly calls between Philea members and the wider PEXcommunity. In the same spirit of collaboration, Philea is curating the COVID-19 Revival & Philanthropy European Knowledge Hub where relevant resources concerning the resilience building phase are continuously collected and made available. This follows the initial open source European Resource Hub "COVID-19 & Philanthropy" (now archived) which collected the emergency responses by philanthropic organisations across Europe from March to June 2020.
Philea also jointly facilitated an exploration of the role of philanthropy in the resilience building phase, built around scenario thinking methodology. You can view a story book summary of the sessions by clicking on the image below:
Plenty of foundations are taking the lead in showing support for their beneficiaries, hence Philea have issued a European Philanthropy Statement on COVID-19 for foundations to showcase this solidarity at the European level. You can sign the statement here. Coming together with European philanthropy and social investment networks (EVPA, GSG and NEF), Dafne has co-created the Unitus Europe hub to ensure that responses to the outbreak of the pandemic are cohesive, collaborative, efficient and achieve the best possible impact for all their beneficiaries.
#PhilanthropyDoesNotStop and while these response initiatives are significant, the COVID-19 crisis is not over yet and recovery will require even more collaborative efforts showcasing solidarity. We invite you to use the hashtag #PhilanthropyDoesNotStop to share ideas and best practices how foundations and philanthropic organisations across Europe and the world show solidarity and provide support to those in need.


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Two things give away the fact we are dealing with a taboo. The first is the volume of the personal scorn that has been heaped on the Treasurer. "Ignorant", "bitter", "chippy", "unqualified to comment on business matters" and "Fabian bugler" are a few that come to mind. Those who utter heresy are often burned at the stake.
The second is the substitution of slogans for argument. Without even reading his article, Swan's opponents responded with their predictable and prefabricated slogans. He was preaching "class warfare" and "the politics of envy", as "opposed to wealth creation", and has a destructive urge to "divide the pie, not grow it". Ho hum.
But here's the truly interesting thing: Swan's essay also unleashed a torrent of furious agreement from ordinary Australians. It trended No 1 on the national Twitter feed, clogged talkback, drew hundreds of responses in online forums and filled column after column in the letters pages of the newspapers.
Labor branch members are ecstatic for the first time since about 1993. This isn't just because Swan's argument is novel and brave, and an example of a politician having the balls to take the battle of ideas seriously for a change, which everyone loves. It's because they agree with him.
To use what is perhaps an apt analogy, it's as if Swan has drilled down beneath the brittle outer crust of the nation's political consciousness and struck a gusher. Finally, people have been reminded that it's OK to say that economic policy and social responsibility should be linked.
Unlike most economists and commentators, ordinary people find it quite easy to grasp the simple proposition that the interests of the super wealthy are not necessarily always the interests of the whole nation. It's a proposition that passes the pub test but not the boardroom test. It's not anti-business or anti-capitalist; it's simple common sense.
It's also an idea with a long intellectual heritage. There is a common misconception that the link between extremes of wealth and political conflict began relatively recently, with the rise of Marxism and socialism. In fact, this idea goes back to the birth of politics itself and is the foundational idea of the very concept of democracy, people power. Swan quotes Francis Fukuyama to this effect in The Monthly. He's right. To suggest that in the past 30 years of economic reform we've managed to outgrow an idea that has been around long before the Bible is nothing short of hubris.
Interestingly, this contemporary taboo about mentioning wealth and political power in the same sentence is a peculiarly Australian one, because in other nations discussion of the role of money in politics and the damaging effect of widening economic inequality on democracy is commonplace. As Swan made clear in his recent address to the National Press Club, his immediate inspiration came from his summer holiday reading of similar debates in conservative publications such as the Financial Times and (Bob Carr's favourite journal) Foreign Affairs. So Swan's thesis, considered incorrect by his critics, is actually the same as that put by the editorial writers of the world's most respected financial and policy publications.
Like the Financial Times and Foreign Affairs, all Swan is arguing is that the best way to ensure the ongoing legitimacy of the free market is to ensure the wealth it generates is spread a little thicker. Australia's self-styled free-market liberals, not Labor's Treasurer, are the ones who are falling behind contemporary global economic thinking, and Australians who follow overseas debates are fully aware of this.
But Swan's surprising appeal has another explanation: he has made an argument that has a deep and enduring place in the nation's emotional make-up. Swan has managed to tap a folk memory handed down to us by our parents and grandparents of Australia as a country where egalitarianism matters. It's there in Swan's own family story, which he recounted in part at the National Press Club last Monday.
His grandfather, a World War I veteran, was gassed at Messines, died young of his injuries and had his family thrown off its soldier-settlement block during the Depression. As Swan tells it, this experience turned his father, a World War II veteran who saw action in the Pacific, into a sceptic of authority who devoted his life to serving his sugar cane farming community. It's what motivated Swan to take up the Labor cause.
In the light of this, what do we make of the Swan who is suspicious of billionaires running multi-million-dollar public relations campaigns? Is he simply embittered and chippy and against the prevailing wisdom? Or is he, in crucial ways, typically Australian? To most of Australia's economists, incapable of seeing beyond averaged aggregated economic statistics, and unable therefore to think that any criticism of our GDP-boosting mining magnates is legitimate, the answer is easy: Swan is a loser with a chip on both shoulders.
But to most Australians who exist in a world filled with wider social, political and economic meaning, and whose lives are informed by memories, emotions and ordinary human sentiment, Swan's The Monthly article has powerful appeal that no amount of political correctness can suppress. That's why it's popular.


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Allariz, declared to be a Historic-Artistic Site, sits in a river landscape formed by the upper course of the Arnoia. Major religious buildings stand on the streets of a typically medieval town surrounded by forests of chestnut trees.
The origins of Allariz date back to prehistoric times, though it had to wait until the Middle Ages to gain the title of Town and Court. The presence of a great many princes, including the future Alfonso X the Wise, led to the town being walled and fortified. Testimony to its importance during this period of history are the major pre-Romanesque, Romanesque and Gothic churches. You can visit San Martiño de Pazó, the Collegiate Church of Xunqueira de Ambía, the Sanctuary of Santa Mariña de Augas Santas and the churches of Santiago, San Estevo and San Pedro. Outstanding among the civil architecture are the remains of the castle and the bridges of Vilanova (15th century) and Frieira (18th century) over the Arnoia. It is also worth taking a stroll through the Campo de A Barreira, a place which has a fountain and beautiful "cruceiros" (stone crosses). It is a good idea to visit this town in August, during the Pie Festival, a tradition which combines folklore and gastronomy.
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We learn from Kabbalah that the Aleph Bet is not like other alphabets.
Each letter has depth and meaning of its own and learning the letters themselves are the goal since each letter is so holy.
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What would a modern day Pentecost look like? Following an afternoon of worship; wind blows, glory fills the room, heat manifests in the hand placed on her heart, fragrance from the Rose of Sharon fills every corner, tears flow freely as the peace and Presence descends. "The Pentecost" painted in 1596 by El Greco depicts the first Pentecost and adorns the wall above her head as a reminder, God never changes! He still delights to come to us and shower us with His Holy Spirit as on the day of "Pentecost".
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Arike, So Close – Yet So Far (An Underrated Film)
Arike shows that love is not a destination, but a journey on which we unlearn and relearn things about ourselves and others, for better or for worse
Anagha Mohan
6 Jul, 2021, 11:02 am
If you've ever been in love, questions like 'Am I ever good enough' or 'Am I too much' will be all too familiar questions. Arike is like a lesson about love that teaches us what to do and what not to do when falling in love. It talks about the fear, vulnerabilities and weaknesses that one can go through when in love, which is why it largely remains an underrated movie: human beings do not like to show their fragile side.
The movie delves into the idea of how a lot of times in our lives we fail to appreciate or notice what's right in front of us. While in most cases, it's objects that people fail to realise the worth of, in Arike, it's people. On the face of it, Arike is a simple movie. It revolves around the lives of 3 people, Anuradha, Kalpana and Shantanu, who are connected in more ways than they imagined. Shantanu, an average-looking guy, and Kalpana, a pretty girl, have been dating for a couple of years. Anuradha is Kalpana's best friend and mediator of the couple's relationship. The couple wants to get married but Kalpana's family is against Shantanu, on account of him being a non-Brahmin and holder of the not-so-glamorous job of a college lecturer. Shantanu fell in love with Kalpana because of the beautiful love letters she used to send him, but the unfortunate part here is that Shantanu doesn't know that the love letters he fell in love with were written by Anuradha.
A deeper look into the movie takes us through a journey of what love means to the three of them. Though Anuradha writes the most amazing love letters, her relationship with love ends there. She doesn't believe that true love exists in the real world, owing to her one bad heartbreak in the past. Anuradha always says 'No' to whoever has shown even the slightest interest in her. The closest she comes to acknowledging true love is that of Shantanu and Kalpana, who get separated by the end of the film. The funny thing about the trio is that while it's always two people who are part of a relationship, here it is the three of them. Being the mediator, Anuradha was closer to both Shantanu and Kalpana than the two of them were to each other.
In the case of Kalpana, nobody really understood or looked at her beyond her pretty face. Whenever the couple met, Shantanu had only words to praise her physical beauty and this framed their relationship. When Kalpana meets with an accident and scars her face, the first thing her mom and even the nurse tell her is that she will be back to being pretty again in no time, when the logical thing to say is 'thank god, you are safe'. Kalpana refuses to meet Shantanu ever again and eventually breaks up with him. To the audience, to date, Kalpana's act seems like a lame reason to dump her average-looking boyfriend for a better, richer one, when that's really not the case. She felt that Shantanu did not fall in love with this damaged version of her and hence chose to take the easier path of being an escapist. Towards the end of the film Shantanu tells Anuradha 'sherikum ulla Kalpane njanum manasilakan sremichilla' (Even I failed to understand the real Kalpana). Their relationship could've been easily salvaged had they spoken about things that really mattered, whenever they met.
When finally Shantanu realises that it was Anuradha that he may have been in love with – is it too late? The movie ends with this intriguing question. Communication is the key in love, and the three of them miserably fail in this. Arike shows that love is not a destination, but a journey on which we unlearn and relearn things about ourselves and others, for better or for worse.


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