Friday 20th July saw the classy launch of The Kensington Club, a new boutique club situated on High Street Kensington, London. The rain did not seem to faze the endless celebrities who wanted to be a part of the exciting evening.
The likes of Steve McFadden (aka Phil Mitchell) made an appearance with Joey Essex and the sister-duo, Sam and Billie Faiers, from The Only Way is Essex amongst the busy crowd. Both sisters looked stunning in their contrasting monochrome outfits and Joey pulling off his usual skinny chino look. As a trio, they did not fail to amaze with creams, blacks and whites complimenting their Essex charm. Sam's shoes in particular were stunning and featured side-tassling on black shoe/ankle-boots. Cheska from Made In Chelsea followed in the reality TV stars' footsteps in a pink sequined Topshop Dress Up number that made her dazzle.
The club itself ticked all the right boxes. Darkness was lit up with floating candles and dimmed lighting that all added to the "boutique" atmosphere of the club. Despite being small, each room has its own feel with sofa-style seating in secret corners of the building.
The DJ booth was brought to life when Patsy Palmer took to the stage and played some classics that got everyone in the mood. Energy drink ice cream canapés were a treat for the evening, made personally in front of onlookers in impressive style. The barmen completed a perfect evening with their sincere charm and incredible cocktail-making skills.
Further appearances from Perez Hilton, Freya Berry and Sally Burcow ensured a remarkable celeb set up for the new west London hotspot.


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2014, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Edward Norton, Emma Stone, Film, Michael Keaton, Movie, Review
The first film I went to see in 2015 was one of the best films of 2014–one that's been around for quite a while but one which I just couldn't manage to get to earlier. Last year we were utterly inundated with superhero films both terrific and terrible. Now, I'm never going to lose my affection for the comic-book genre (no matter how hard an AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 tries to get me to do so); but ANY movie year like 2014 really NEEDS to wrap up with something like BIRDMAN–both to put things in perspective AND to utterly defy mere description–including mine. Now, THIS is a MOVIE!
I imagine you're quite familiar with the premise by now. A perfectly cast Michael Keaton stars as "Riggan Thomas," who enjoyed the height of his cinematic popularity in the early 90s playing the superhero "Birdman." Now sixty-ish, Riggan is gambling what's left of his personal fortune in an attempt to open his dream project (an adaptation of Raymond Carver's "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" in which Riggan will star in addition to scripting AND directing) on Broadway. Our protagonist's previous celebrity antics have already cost him his wife (Amy Ryan) and his relationship with his daughter Sam (Emma Stone), but they're both in close proximity to the project all the same. A desperate attempt to replace a thoroughly unsuitable co-lead with a guaranteed draw brings "Mike" (Edward Norton) into the picture, but Mike's prima donna antics soon threaten to shove Riggan out of the spotlight altogether (I couldn't help but think that Val Kilmer would have been equally amazing and even more ironic/iconic in the role, but I can't suggest for a second that Norton is anything but excellent here). And the nation's most influential theatre critic has already promised to destroy Riggan AND his play just because she doesn't think that a spoiled Hollywood has-been has ANY business trying to take Broadway…
…oh, and all the while, Riggan's previous cinematic identity continues to "egg" him on as a voice in his head (soon to become something even more substantial), urging him to give up "Art" and return to "Commerce." And Riggan might also be telekinetic.
If you haven't already seen BIRDMAN, you might have thought you had a handle on the material up until that last bit. Trust me. You didn't. Sure, you've got the comfortable themes and the seemingly effortless casting (also including leading lady Naomi Watts, Riggan's current "love" interest Andrea Riseborough and Zach Galifianakis as Riggan's lawyer/best friend/voice of "reality"). But all that means is that anybody (including those currently existing on a diet of nothing BUT Hollywood effects blockbusters) can walk into this and understand the story without fear of being put off by what they might perceive as "art film" pretensions. Oh, but they'll get so much more if they do. There's the technique of director Alejandro González Iñárritu which, combined with all of today's technical advances, conveys the illusion that the entire film was shot in one take (even though common sense tells us that this wasn't even remotely possible). There's plenty of laugh-out-loud comedy and straightforward, accessible drama to take in even as the rules bend around us. Is the constantly busy musical soundtrack an addition to the film or does it have an on-screen (or on-stage) source? Are the fantastic elements purely in Riggan's imagination or do they affect others? There must be an answer–this isn't a 'first-person' film like Cronenberg's VIDEODROME, after all–BIRDMAN spends plenty of time with characters Riggan couldn't be observing at the time…
Yeah. I dropped the "C" word for a reason, and I feel like dropping a few more names, but the more I go on, the more I fear I'll just be telling you what to look for rather than letting you take BIRDMAN in as a fresh experience. But I'm going to try to tantalize you all the same.
Final shot of VIDEODROME. Final shot of TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME (which I viewed the previous evening in an event of sheer coincidence). Final shot of MAGNOLIA.
BIRDMAN could have signed off in so many different ways. But it found the PERFECT conclusion. What a capper for the year.

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Vehicles Older Than 15 Years To Be Sent To Scrap: Centre!
Fri Jan 20 2023 12:21:59 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time)
Air Pollution is one of the biggest concerns for us. A few Indian cities made it to the list of most polluted cities. The Indian government is working on this these days. Alternative energy is backed by the Bharatiya Janata Party. EVs are also being pushed and the Union government is aiming to make use of clean energy as an alternative to fuel.
Now the Indian government has taken another big decision to beat air pollution. A notification has been issued by the government which says that vehicles that are older than 15 years will be sent to scrap. The new rule will be effective from April 1, 2023.
The vehicles belonging to the Central government, state governments, and corporations would be scrapped after 15 years. The registrations of these vehicles would also be canceled. A few months back the Union government asked the state governments for a response and the governments allegedly approved.
However, scrapping the old vehicles is restricted to just government and corporation vehicles, and private vehicles were not included in this. The private vehicles would be in large numbers compared to the government and corporation vehicles.
If the private vehicles would also been included in this, then the majority of old vehicles would be sent to scrap. No one knows why private vehicles were excluded from this. The vehicles should go through a fitness test and if they fail then they should be sent for scrap.
The rule which was made mandatory in the previous budget says that the personal vehicles would get a fitness certificate after 20 years of registration to see if it is in a good condition or not. The time for commercial and government vehicles was fixed for just 15 years.
Announcing that the old vehicles should be scrapped, the Union government mentioned the Motor Vehicles (Registration and Functions of Vehicle Scrapping Facility) Rules, 2021 in the notification that has been released by the Ministry.
"Disposal of such vehicles shall, after the expiry of the fifteen years from the date of the initial registration of the vehicle, (should) be ensured through the Registered Vehicle Scrapping Facility set up in accordance with the Motor Vehicles (Registration and Functions of Vehicle Scrapping Facility) Rules, 2021," the notification says.
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Q: Reading an continuously updating list in python My aim is to read values from a list in python which is continuously being updated by another process and I have tried to make a minimal working code here.
I have a global array defined in cfg.py as
def initialize():
    global infrared_frames
    global depth_frames
    infrared_frames = []
    depth_frames = []

and from main.py, one thread appends a random value in this array, while the main thread sleeps for 10 seconds and then reads the value from this array. Here is the code -
from multiprocessing import Process
import random
import time
import cfg

cfg.initialize()

def update_array():
    while True:
        cfg.infrared_frames.append(random.random())

p1 = Process(target=update_array)
p1.start()
time.sleep(10)
print('starting to read array')
print(cfg.infrared_frames)
for a in cfg.infrared_frames:
    print(a)

Unfortunately, when I try to print the array before the loop and after the time.sleep() call, the array is still empty but p1 process is running. Why  am I not able to read the array?
Sorry if this is an easy question, my knowledge is limited when it comes to threading in python
Thanks in advance.
T

A: A good approach for adding and using data in multiprocessing is by using a Queue.
A minimal working example:
import time
import multiprocessing as mp

from multiprocessing.queues import Queue

def fill_queue(queue):
    """ Endless process that fills the queue"""
    task = 0
    while True:
        time.sleep(1)
        queue.put(task)
        print(f"Added task {task}")
        task += 1

def read_queue(queue):
    """ Endless process that reads from the queue """
    while True:
        if queue.empty():
            time.sleep(0.2)
        else:
            print(f"Handling task: {queue.get()}")

if __name__ == '__main__':
    queue = Queue(maxsize=-1, ctx=mp.get_context())
    task_fill_queue = mp.Process(target=fill_queue, args=(queue,))
    task_fill_queue.start()

    read_queue(queue)

Explanation
The fill_queue function keeps adding data to the queue every second. This is then handled by the read_queue function. It will check the queue every 0.2 seconds for a new item.

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Despite the increasing dissemination of smartphones and tablets among students, the adoption of teaching and learning strategies supported by these mobile devices is still incipient at educational institutions.
A few Apps for smartphones and tablets can be used in teaching Chemistry, in order to increment the teaching and learning processes, especially as regards the possibility of "experimenting" and "experiencing" representations that are specific to submicroscopic chemistry and simulations involving chemical phenomena which would not be possible without the support of these technologies.
Seeking to encourage the adoption of smartphones and tablets to teach Chemistry, we are developing a research study whose main objective is to understand how the mobile devices can contribute to the teaching and learning processes in Chemistry from the perspective of mobile learning and of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD). Based on some results of this study related to the selection of Apps for tablets and smartphones with a potential for education, and to recognizing the possibilities of designing and developing pedagogical practices in Chemistry using these Apps , we created a short duration course within the initial training of Chemistry teachers, aiming to enable and potentiate the development of pedagogical practices to teach chemistry supported by mobile devices.
The course was developed as an extension course lasting forty hours from June to November 2016. Twelve future Chemistry teachers (students in the Teacher Training Course (Licenciatura) in Nature Sciences: Biology and Chemistry major) participated using their personal mobile devices.
This course enabled creating spaces for teaching and learning in the context of mobility in order to make it possible to develop a culture of learning with mobility with the actual use of smartphones and tablets, by developing, following and evaluating Chemistry teaching and learning methodologies in the context of mobility and BYOD.
The course participants were instigated to think and problematize actions that would integrate the mobile devices to Chemistry education. During the development of the pedagogical practice in this extension action, five proposals for teaching and learning Chemistry were created in the context of mobile learning and BYOD, which dealt with the following topics: stoichiometry; periodic table; macromolecules; greenhouse gas effect – in the context of fuels; and forensic chemistry.
In the presentation of this work we will detail the planning, development and results of this initial teacher training course.
 A. Grunewald Nichele, E. Schlemmer, "Contributions of a pedagogical practice for the naturalization of mobile technologies in chemistry education", In: ICERI2015 Proceedings, pp. 830-870, 2015.
keywords: initial teacher training, chemistry education, tablets, smartphones.
A. Grunewald Nichele, L. Zielinski do Canto (2017) INITIAL TEACHER TRAINING: AN ACTION TO POTENTIATE THE ADOPTION OF SMARTPHONES AND TABLETS TO TEACH CHEMISTRY, EDULEARN17 Proceedings, pp. 1-5.


In this article I'm going to offer six nutritional strategies – five nutrients and one elegantly simple dietary strategy – that will help improve your insulin sensitivity.
I believe in teaching as opposed to telling. So let's briefly review what it means to have "good insulin sensitivity." This way you'll be armed with knowledge that will help you make sound dietary decisions.
What Exactly is Insulin Sensitivity?
What do bouncers and insulin have in common?
No, there's no punch line – bouncers and insulin actually are rather similar. Allow me to explain.
The cells that make up our body are much like night clubs – some welcome anyone in with open arms, while others are quite exclusive, to the point of having to "know someone" to get in.
When I was a bouncer in college, I soon realized that one of the perks was the attention I got from girls who knew I could get them and their friends in for free, and without having to wait in line.
But because I obviously couldn't let everyone in without paying, I had to make the tough decision of whom to grant VIP status and whom to tell, "Sorry, can't help ya."
Our muscle cells are rather picky about who they let in. Nutrients can't just be cruising through the bloodstream and decide, "Hey, I wanna go inside that muscle cell and see what's happening." No, muscles don't roll like that.
To get inside a muscle cell, it really helps if you can get insulin on your side. If you can, you're pretty much assured of gaining access, because insulin is like the head bouncer at a club. If you're tight with him, you're in.
Although bouncers are notoriously callous, they're still humans subject to human emotions. If you happen to catch your favorite bouncer after his stripper-girlfriend just cheated on him, he's likely to be quite insensitive to your request for entry, thus not as likely to let you or anyone else in.
On the other hand, catch him after his favorite football team just won the Super Bowl and you're likely to find him more amiable and sensitive than usual – thus eager to let you, your friends, and your friends' friends into the club at no charge.
If you follow and understand this bouncer analogy, then you understand insulin sensitivity.
Sensitive bouncers let more people into Club Hotspot. Sensitive insulin receptors let more nutrients (i.e., glucose, creatine) inside Club Muscle Cell to get the anabolic party started.
With that fundamental understanding of insulin sensitivity, let's take a look at five ways to maximize your insulin sensitivity.
If you've been around sports nutrition and the iron game a while like I have, chromium might seem a bit old school, but I'd say old's cool is more like it! Just because it's not "cutting edge" doesn't mean it's not effective.
Taking supplemental chromium has been shown repeatedly to improve insulin sensitivity and glucose tolerance, even to the point of reversing type II diabetes in many people (1). Thus, as my old clinical nutrition professor pointed out, apparently a chromium deficiency can actually lead to type II diabetes.
In fact, chromium is so synonymous with insulin sensitivity and glucose tolerance that some actually refer to dietary chromium as Glucose Tolerance Factor (GTF).
Doses of between 200 and 600 mcg per day seem to be both safe and effective.
As with any mineral, taking too much can lead to as many, albeit different, problems as a deficiency. So don't think "more is better" when it comes to supplementing with chromium or any other mineral.
I tend to use what I feel is a "common sense approach" to chromium (and any mineral) supplementation – if you haven't taken it in a while, then you're likely deficient. So it makes sense to fill in this nutritional gap by taking it as a supplement, maybe temporarily at a dose that's on the higher end of the scale.
Then, after a couple weeks or so of supplementation, reduce the dose to the lower end for maintenance purposes.
Also consider, from time to time, having a "supplement holiday" and stop taking the mineral all together. I find it works well to have the supplement holiday when you're actually on vacation or traveling. That's why you'll often find me sans supplements when I'm out of town – it makes traveling a bit easier, and it's a perfect time to give your body a rest from supplementation.
As for forms of chromium, although chromium picolinate is certainly a decent option, the general consensus is that the best form of mineral supplement is an amino acid chelate. That simply means the mineral has been attached to an amino acid to facilitate absorption.
For that reason, I typically get my supplemental chromium from BIOTEST Elitepro™ Minerals.
Speaking of old's cool, let's talk vanadium – another mineral with an important role in optimizing glucose tolerance (2).
I still recall the first time I took vanadium back in the early 90's. At the time, there was quite the buzz surrounding the vanadium and its ability to produce massive, skin-stretching pumps. Extreme skepticism was my first reaction, but I must admit I was surprisingly impressed.
Without changing anything else, after a few days of supplementing with vanadyl sulfate I noticed better pumps in the gym, and so did my guinea pig training partner. It was as if my muscles were storing more glycogen, like I'd eaten more carbs.
As I later learned the science behind this, I realized that I probably was storing more muscle glycogen as a result of taking vanadium, due to an improvement in my insulin sensitivity.
I must say, however, that I never felt the almost sudden increase in my training pump again when I supplemented with vanadium. In hindsight, this makes perfect sense, and explains why some people swore by vanadium while others didn't really notice or "feel" anything.
If you have a vanadium deficiency, especially a severe one, you're likely to notice the positive effects that come from supplementing with the mineral. On the other hand, if you're not deficient in vanadium, or at least not significantly so, then you're not likely to notice much, if anything.
When I first took vanadium it's safe to say I was quite deficient. So after suddenly correcting the deficiency, I literally felt the results.
Considering I've never again let years go by without taking supplemental vanadium again, I'm not as likely to "feel" it working – which is actually a good thing.
As with many supplements – like vitamin C or vitamin D, for example – we know they're beneficial even though we don't literally "feel" them working. I believe this to be the case for vanadium.
Personally, I generally consume ~ 60-100 mcg/day in the form of chelated vanadium via 4-7 caps of Elitepro™ Minerals. That dose, combined with fairly regular supplement holidays, seems to be conservative enough to avoid the potential for toxicity, yet enough to maintain good insulin sensitivity.
If you're like me, finding out that cinnamon has a rather potent glucose management effect (3) is a tad anticlimactic. "Hmmm...that's neat," is the type of reaction I'm talking about.
But pretend for a moment that you heard that a brand new supplement called CGM1029 helps partition nutrients toward skeletal muscle and away from adipose storage.
Just because something isn't new, scarce, and sold by a pharmaceutical company doesn't mean we shouldn't get excited about it, or at least pay attention to it. Let's not let the "boring" nature of cinnamon get in the way of realizing its tremendously beneficial effects.
Although I wouldn't disagree with your logic if you decided to take cinnamon capsules, when I consume plain 'ol cinnamon, I prefer to do it the old fashioned way – in my oatmeal and with other foods.
Considering cinnamon isn't a metal, I don't feel it's as crucial to "cycle" it. But I'd always lean toward moderation, when in doubt.
Alpha Lipoic Acid or ALA – not to be confused with the omega-3 fatty acid alpha linolenic acid – is a neat nutrient, indeed.
Not only does it assist in maintaining (or improving) insulin sensitivity, but it also acts as a potent antioxidant. I'd say it's pretty darn close to being a true supplement superhero.
But if you read studies on ALA (aka thioctic acid), you'll find that some of the studies point to a more neutral effect, as opposed to the incredibly beneficial effects other studies seem to show. Well, it turns out that of the two naturally occurring isomers (r & l ALA), the r seems to be the beneficial one (4).
For that reason, if you're going to supplement with ALA, I recommend going with r-ALA, which is what I do.
Note: As my (and science in general's) understanding of nutrition evolves, I'm increasingly trying to take advantage of nutrient synergy and using less single, isolated ingredients.
As with cinnamon, I'm not really concerned about taking too much r-ALA or taking it too often, but I still take breaks from it to err on the side of caution.
If ALA is almost a supplement superhero, then Cyanidin 3-Glucoside is the real deal.
And Cyanidin 3-Glucoside (a.k.a. C3G) is about as cutting-edge as it gets – nothing old school about this supplement!
Cyanidin 3-Glucoside (Cyanidin bound to glucose) is a specific type of anthocyanin that appears to be the most significant in terms of physiological effects. Anthocyanins give certain fruits and berries their rich, dark color. Although that role isn't all that exciting for us, its physiological effects are.
For starters, C3G appears to have anti-carcinogenic properties (6). Although avoiding cancer may not be one of your resolutions for 2013, I think we'd both agree that anything that might help us stay healthy is a bonus.
Here's where things get really neat – C3G has rather potent antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects.
Alone, that's just another neat "health" benefit, but C3G has an anti-inflammatory effect on fat cells. This is great, because inflamed fat cells tend to send faulty signals, which unfortunately is horrible for body composition.
By repairing the inflammation and faulty signaling, overall glucose tolerance (and insulin sensitivity) are dramatically improved, much like the prescription drug Metformin.
I've been aware of the mounting research support for the positive benefits of C3G for quite some time, but it's the feedback I've heard that's really impressed me.
For example, a guy I know who took C3G had his blood work done and went from a fasting blood glucose of 117, which is arguably considered pre-diabetic, down to a normal and healthy fasting glucose level of 77 after taking C3G for six weeks. That's incredible!
Although as lifters we're primarily interested in insulin sensitivity for the sake of physique enhancement, the same things that help prevent or treat type II diabetes will typically help improve body composition as well. This is why so many of the nutritional strategies that work for type II diabetics also work for physique athletes.
The strongest and most effective form of C3G available is BIOTEST's Indigo-3G®.
One often-overlooked strategy of improving insulin sensitivity is manipulating your carb intake.
In short, pounding your body with an abundance of carbs day in and day out, especially high GI carbs, can desensitize your body to carbohydrates. And it does this through a reduction in insulin sensitivity.
Revisiting our bouncer analogy, eating lots of high GI carbs on a regular basis while wanting to improve your insulin sensitivity would be like sleeping with the bouncer's girlfriend and expecting him to let you in the club for free – it ain't gonna happen!
Therefore, even if your goal is to gain muscle mass, consider implementing periods of low-carb dieting. It's a strategy I've used with great success, so much so that it's part of my standard operating procedure.
For many reasons, I'm a big fan of cyclical type diets – macro-cycling I call it. One of those reasons is that implementing a low-carb diet can re-sensitize your body to carbs (5). Then, when you go back to eating more carbs, your body is more likely to store them as glycogen as opposed to shuttling them off to be stored as adipose tissue.
Even if you don't macro-cycle your diet, at least opt for reasonable amounts of lower GI carbs in all your meals, with the possible exception of your post-workout meal. This will reduce your average daily insulin output and, over time, help improve – or at least maintain – your insulin sensitivity.
The focus of this article is nutritional strategies to improve insulin sensitivity, but there's also a training tip that's worth sharing.
I don't know that it's been "proven" through research, but I believe that high volume, glycogen-depleting training can, over time, improve insulin sensitivity. Let me explain.
We do know, through research, that training with high volume can increase glycogen storage capabilities. So let's say you can normally store 350 grams of muscle glycogen (which is about right).
After a few weeks of training with higher volume, which depletes muscle glycogen, your muscles will develop a better ability to store muscle glycogen – maybe as much as 400 grams of glucose as glycogen.
This adaptation makes perfect sense, as it prepares our body to better face that high-volume training stimulus again. It also makes sense that our body would simultaneously develop a better ability to properly use glucose (carbs) by way of improved insulin sensitivity.
And since research has shown that resistance training improves insulin sensitivity through multiple mechanisms, it's not a huge stretch to think that, within reason, higher-volume training may offer more of these benefits.
So, although I'm definitely a fan or advocate of high-intensity, low-volume type training programs, I doubt they'll improve your insulin sensitivity as much as possible.
For this reason, I'd occasionally recommend implementing some reasonably high-volume work into your training. For example, stick with sets of 10-20 reps and do four to five sets of four to five exercises per body part.
Yeah, that's a lot of volume, but that's what it takes to adequately deplete muscle glycogen and prepare for the subsequent increase in glycogen storage. As long as you don't take many (if any) of those sets to failure, you should be able to avoid overtraining, assuming you don't implement this strategy for more than about 8 weeks at a time.
If you try it, let me know what you think. But I suspect that if you increase your training volume up to ~ 20 sets per body part and make sure to consume copious carbs, you'll notice that you feel fuller and more pumped after a few weeks, yet without any increase in body fat.
And this effect will be more pronounced if you've been doing a rather low volume of training.
Optimizing insulin sensitivity is definitely something worth investigating. It'll not only benefit you in terms of looking better, but also in health and longevity as well.
Controlling the type and amount of carbs you consume is just sound health advice, but whether you choose to cycle in an insulin-friendly supplement here and there is up to you.
Either way, I hope you've enjoyed and benefitted from this info and now have some actionable steps that you can implement to begin improving your insulin sensitivity.
J Biol Chem. 2006 Jun 23;281(25):17359-68. Epub 2006 Apr 17.


We fell in love with Uptown Oxford while we were students at Miami University years ago. Though it was lovely during the school year, Oxford was always the most special during the summertime. When most of the students are home for the summer, this small town is returned to the locals who call Oxford home.
Beautiful historic brick streets in Uptown Oxford are lined with shops and restaurants. Locally owned places like Bodega and Kona Bistro as well as popular chains like Chipotle and Skyline provide locals and visitors with many food and drink options. Uptown Oxford is also home to over 20+ bars and night clubs which transform the city into a different world at night.
We recently visited Oxford and made sure to stop in Uptown Oxford to snap some photos of how the city has changed since we called it home.


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A Washington, D.C., nonprofit that certifies restaurants that offer diners healthful and sustainable foods is expanding to Baltimore.
The United States Healthful Food Council (USHFC) has certified its first restaurant in the Baltimore area, Zia's Café in Towson, and will certify up to 10 Baltimore-area locations as part of its continuing expansion, says the food council's Director of Marketing Chris Stemp.
Founded in 2011, the council offers the Responsible Epicurean and Agricultural Leadership (REAL) certification program. It is a points-based nutrition and sustainable best practices certification similar to the United States Green Building Council's LEED program.


Do you know what's inside your Shampoo & Conditioner?
Do you know the long term effects it may have on your body?
While the health conscious person is careful about the food they eat and having enough exercise to stay fit and healthy, it's also important to think about what we are using on our bodies also. It's said to only take 27 seconds for the chemicals in cosmetics to be absorbed into the blood stream. You will also be surprised to know that the cosmetic industry are not required by law to test the effects of using their ingredients on the body. The truth is that although people are aware that certain chemicals which are used throughout the industry are cancer causing, there is still lot of chemicals that are being used which we don't know what the long term effects are.
Victoria&K are always looking for Natural and Organic alternatives that we can use on a daily basis to replace the traditional cosmetics that fill the shop shelves, and so we have developed a Shampoo which uses as much natural ingredients as possible to replace the need for Parabens and SLS / SLES chemicals.
So what exactly are Parabens and SLS chemicals used in shampoo and conditioners for?
We can safely say that it would be better for everyone to avoid parabens -at least until we have more conclusive documentation about the long term effects of parabens on the body.
Parabens are used to prevent the growth of microbes in your products. In other words, they have nothing really to do with cleaning your hair or scalp. They are used to extend the shelf life of shampoos and conditioners.
Alarmingly though, parabens have been discovered in quite high concentrations inside breast tumours.
So that's parabens out then.
Shockingly, though, they are still present in a huge number of popular cosmetics products. And even though they might be at low-level concentrations, if you use all your favourite paraben-containing products at once, you could be causing a build up of these harmful ingredients in your body.
The chatter around Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Sodium Lauryl Sulfate (SLS) and Ammonium Laureth Sulfate (ALS) is a little less clear.
These sulfate compounds are a cheap, but heavy duty detergent, found in absolutely loads of our favourite haircare products.
There have been reports of a similar link to cancer – BUT there is NO substantial, proven premise for this link. And this conclusion has been backed by heavyweights such as the American Cancer Council.
So you needn't be as wary of them as you are of parabens, that's for sure.
However, they aren't without their negative qualities.
As strong detergents, they are used in shampoos to create a lather and to thoroughly clean the hair, but mostly they are way more powerful than they need to be.
Our hair is designed to have some natural oils in it. Scalps that have been exposed to really strong detergents can become irritated and unhappy.
So that itchiness that you thought was dandruff? Yeah, it might actually be that your poor head is inflamed from the sulfates in your shampoo.
Even worse, these sulfates can strip your hair of all of its natural moisture – plus, of course, any added moisture you've been trying to give it by way of deep conditioning treatments.
So for those of you with dry, damaged, brittle or over-dyed hair, you might want to think about steering well clear of these harsh detergents.
If you haven't heard already, it's now just days before Victoria&K will be launching their very own Paraben and SLS free Argan oil shampoo and conditioner. Available at http://www.victoriaandk.com/shop/ from the 28th Febuary.
What are the health benefits of organic Argan oil?
Pure Argan oil will give smell that will be similar to nuts. In order to remove the musty smell various ingredients are added. However, in this process, some of the benefits delivered by the oil are lost. Organic Argan oil has great health benefits. It will improve the condition of your skin and hair. When you go for genuine and pure organic Argan oil, you will get maximum benefits. Organic Argan oil is developed by a team of beauty enthusiasts. The team has great passion to produce eco-friendly and organic products.
By going for organic Argan oil, you will go for the best oil on the planet. The Argan oil is considered to be liquid gold. While manufacturing the product, no trials are conducted on animals. By following ethics, high quality organic products are developed. In addition to the supply of high quality Argan oil, you will also take advantage of various value added services from the team of professionals. The team at victoriaandk.com is committed to deliver ethically sourced products to customers. Thus, you will take advantage of the fair price as well as high quality liquid. The beauty choices are enhanced through organic Argan oil. When you depend upon natural beauty products, the beauty is enhanced in a natural way and you will not expose your skin and hair to harmful chemicals.
The stretch marks on the skin will be reduced by applying organic Argan oil. The oil can be used for various applications which include eczema, psoriasis, damaged skin cells and to heal skin burns caused due to prolonged exposure to Sun light.
By applying on the hair, the dry and damaged hair will be restored to its previous position. The hair growth will be stimulated. Itchy scalps can be healed through the continuous application of organic Argan oil.
In order to get rid of the aging symptoms on face, you can apply organic Argan oil. The skin will be moisturized, lashes are softened and the appearance of age spots will be diminished. The appearance of dark circles will be reduced. It can be applied on the body as well so that you will get smooth and silky skin. The range of Moroccan Argan oil delivered by victoriaandk.com is quite impressive as they will have a profound effect in changing your countenance without exposing to chemicals.
We are a UK based company with employees from morocco and the UK alike. Our goal is to source the best natural products such as the Moroccan argan oil otherwise known as "Liquid Gold" and other fantastic natural beauty products that actually work.
We also offer wholesale Argan oil, either branded or unbranded ready to mix with your own cosmetic range.


Slip into something elegant and edgy for your next social event! Our Bias Cut Satin Jumpsuit fits the bill for all evening occasions. Featuring flattering bias cut and draped cowl neckline for a complimentary silhouette. Complete the look with metallic jewellery and heels for a touch of after dark allure.


Emotions are dramatic… But we can decide how to deal with them.
Today we talk about being Confident. We say there are two types: feeling confident which is based on emotions and goes up and down on a whim versus true confidence which is an inner belief that you are capable of great things.
Today we give you a worksheet directly from our Confident course: What is your experience? This is a quick and helpful worksheet to help you and your players become more aware of how competitive you actually are and what can tend to get in the way.
Click here: Confident_ How Do You Rate Yourself?


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Sam the Man - Part II
Thread starter MovieBob
MovieBob
MovieBob continues his in-depth look at the filmography of Sam Raimi.
Phuctifyno
The parallels between Raimi's career and Peter Jackson's are eerie.
Hmmmm. I really liked the new Evil Dead, but the idea of crossing cannon between the new and the old... sounds dangerous at best. I foresee some serious tone-clash, unless they plan on gradually morphing the tone of the new franchise into lighter territory, just like they did the old one... so, not impossible.
I enjoyed the career retrospective style article, and hope to see a few more in the future. Thanks, Bob.
Neat article. I think Spider-Man 2 is really good as well, but better than the Avengers? Maybe not.
WanderingFool
MovieBob said:
Either way, the series was such a massive hit that it inspired a wave of fantasy/action copycats seeking to apply the Raimi/Tapert style to everything from Sinbad to Robin Hood to Mortal Kombat (yes, really).
Oh god... I thought that was just a horrible dream....
Lovely Mixture
Figures bob would still praise Spider-Man 3 after all this time. That movie made the first transformers look well written.
WanderingFool said:
It gets worse: there was also a Saturday morning cartoon.
OT: Man do I miss Herc and Xena. That's about all I have to say about this. I tried getting into Legend of the Seeker, but it took itself too seriously, it was way too mid-2000's (read: too much post 9/11 cynicism) for me to get into. Haven't seen Spartacus, since I don't get HBO (or Stars or whatever it's on. It's one of those premium channels.), but I'm kind of surprised to find out Raimi was behind it. I guess that explains why Lucy Lawless is in the cast, though.
Side note about Lucy Lawless: am I the only one who never really saw the attraction to her (the other girls, on the other hand...) in Xena, but thinks she got a lot better with age? She actually looks younger and prettier now than she did in the 90's, at least to me.
NinjaDeathSlap
Leaf on the wind
Really? The Dark Knight isn't even in you Top 5 super-hero movies?! I know Nolan's trilogy isn't perfect (Too full of itself at times, a little too self-consciously 'dark', Christian Bale's Bat-Voice, costumes that aren't actually any less ridiculous that the infamous 'Bat-Nipples'), but I would have thought at least 1 of that trilogy would be in your Top 5. Are we now so quick to dismiss everything about Nolan's films that were legitimately fantastic just because Marvel Studio's on the other side have started having more fun?
Matey
Am I the only one who didn't like any of the spider-man movies? I grew up on the 90s animated series so I'm pretty sure my view is extremely biased based on that... but I liked the 90s spiderman a lot more than the movie version.
Safaia
Can we agree that the end of Drag Me To Hell was fucking awesome? Yes?
Knoxy
NinjaDeathSlap said:
Given that, in his video reviews, his usual snapshot of "Best Super Hero Movies" goes Spiderman 2, Superman 2, The Dark Knight, I would assume that this is a case where he recognises TDK as an excellent movie (and important to the history of the genre in terms of public perception ect.) but it's just not one of his personal 5 favourite super-hero movies. Kinda how like I'm never gonna try to argue that High Fidelity is a better movie than say Citizen Kane, Shawshank Redemption, Godfather II or their ilk, but it's still my personal favourite movie of all time.
Bradeck
How is it that we ALWAYS forget the most important part of the Spiderman films? THEY HAD BRUCE CAMPBELL?!?!?!
All movie reviews should start with: Did not have Bruce F*%$ing Campbell. All reviewer scores should go from 1-8, losing two points for: Not having enough Bruce Campbell.
Who could possibly forget this guy?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffAl6oCtJNc
KingWein22
Xena and Hercules was the highlight of my 90s done by him. His relative, Ted, was hilarious as Joxer.
Rad Party God
Party like it's 2010!
Hmmmm... I like Spider-Man 2 a lot, but caling it "better" than The Avengers might be stretching it out a bit and also, I don't care how you put it, Spider-Man 3 is an abomination. Well, maybe it isn't that bad, but I don't like it
As for Hercules and Xena, I loooove them both to pieces
Liz Smith
XENA brought back the TV action heroine, Floods of female action heroines(Including tv's Buffy) came AFTER it.
It does not give nearly enough credit for what it acheived
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The only way which the films can be viewed in a good light is in comparison to the previous Superhero movies that had come out. We'd just past through some terrible Batman movies, Superman was a perfect example of cheesy 80s movies, and X-men had only a shell of its comic book counterparts depth.
Spider-man was a decent movie for the time, but in no way could it compare with any of the more recent Marvel or DC movies which showcase actual characters. I like to think of them as a "rough rehearsal" of the actual production.
Are you kidding me? One of the primary purposes of adapting ANY form of art or literature into film is to bring that story, style AND substance, into a living format. Which Raimi's "Spider-Man" movies do in spades.
Visuals, content, story adaption and characters are all great transitions. McGuire is a well-versed feeb of a Parker and suits the character better than anyone has to date. Not saying someone COULDN'T do it better, but he does amazingly all his own. The action is wonderfully true to the comic and the cinematography is gorgeous. It looks great, even today, it sounds great and, above all, they are EXTREMELY good "Spider-Man" adaptations.
Seriously, are you kidding?
bificommander
I can't quite put my finger on why, but I really didn't care for spiderman 2, despite liking the first one.
Maybe it was the whole convoluted losing-powers-because-of-something-oh-theyre-back-now plot thread.
Maybe it was the silly AI taking over his personality buisness, because that makes all kinds of sense right?
Maybe it was me wondering why the police can't shoot Doc Oc, seeing how he's not wearing armor or anything.
Maybe it was that half the city had seen Peter's face, but no worries no one will tell.
Maybe it was how Mary Jane leaving her fiancee at the altar was played as a joke, although the guy had done nothing wrong except that his upside-down kissing skills weren't as good.
But those are all relatively small problems. Maybe they just add up for me, or maybe I was in a bad mood when watching it. Eh, either way.
mojopin87
I'm sorry, but the Legend of the Seeker is irredeemably terrible in every way.
Darth_Payn
Ah, Hercules and Xena, the highlight of my preteen TV experience. Sometimes they were cheesy and goofy, but it was the '90's, so I let it pass. Those 2 shows were my introduction to Bruce "The Chin" Campbell, and he is a boss. As for Spartacus, I thought I smelled the Raiminess all over that with the over-melodramatic acting and the "like-300-with-a-fraction-of-the-budget" visual effects. I cannot recall anyone on those shows speaking in the tone of a normal human being; they're either whispering at a level that's barely audible to human ears OR SCREAMING AT THE TOP OF THEIR GODDAMN LINGS TO SPOUT OFF AS MANY ANACHRONISTIC CURSE WORDS AS POSSIBLE!!!
Am I still mad at Spider-Man 3? What gave you that idea?


There's only one way to play when you walk into the gym at Westchester High.
Senior guard Jordan Brinson embodies that hard-working, fearless attitude.
During his senior season, Brinson led the Comets through a challenging national schedule, to an L.A. City Section Open Division finals appearance and the CIF Southern California Regional semifinals.
For his performance, Brinson is the Daily Breeze's boys basketball player of the year.
"By the end of the year, he started doing the thing that we wanted him to do, and that was to be aggressive and take it to the rim and attack," Azzam said.
Brinson and the Comets opened the season winning the Trevor Ariza Tip-Off Classic with a 65-55 win over Bishop Montgomery. Brinson earned tournament MVP honors.
Westchester went 3-1 at the Iolani Classic in Hawaii and followed that by winning the Beach Ball Classic, with Brinson capturing another MVP award.
Brinson earned one of the Most Outstanding Player awards in the Western League and earned All-City Section honors.
He scored 29 points in the opening round of the SoCal Regionals against Rancho Christian and 24 in the semifinal loss to Sierra Canyon.
Brinson does not know yet where he will be playing next year. He recently returned from an official visit at the University of Alabama-Birmingham. He holds offers from UAB, Fordham, Southern Utah and Missouri State.
"He can certainly play at the next level," Azzam said. "He will get to spend more time in the weight room and he will be able to put on 10-15 pounds during that first year and he will be stronger and more athletic. I think he can play no matter where he goes.
That's sort of the path Brinson's career at Westchester took, joining the program as a freshman and developing into a senior leader.


Several of us are working on a small deployment of 3-4 mesh nodes as a starter project. Our initial goal is to link two of the radio shacks at Indiana University with the second phase goal of adding in the shack at Bloomington High School South and the Bloominglabs maker space.
Here's a brief look at a one-hop node design that we are putting together as a proof of concept. JPG attached.


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I am happy to announce that I have just been appointed BC Representative for the Glass Art Association of Canada! I am replacing Jill Allan, a well-known and well-loved staple of the BC glass community. Jill has left the position to pursue a Masters at Bowling Green in Ohio. I am looking forward to connecting with the BC glass community to represent my adopted home province.
&Ampersand 3
http://www.uascalgary.org/
http://calgaryculture.com/content/ampersand-3-collaborative-art-exhibition
I will be showing Masculine and Feminine, a collaboration with Sarah Brownlee in &Ampersand 3. The show is at the new Untitled Art Society Satellite Gallery, located at 343 11th Ave SW in Calgary. It will run from 8 - 10 September, with the reception party on the 10th from 6 - 10pm.
Sarah Brownlee is a very focused and informed woman, and an original thinker. Among other courses of study, she has taken Women and Gender Studies / Sociology at the University of Saskatchewan, and has a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a Ceramics major from the Alberta College of Art and Design. She continued to make her way west to live in Vancouver, where she teaches ceramics and works as a glaze technician. I am very excited to collaborate with her.
&ampersand is a show that centres on collaborative works. The push and pull of different view points, the different skills that each artist brings, and the practices and processes of each artist creates a new and sometimes unforseeable result. Each piece will be a break from the artist`s individual style, and will surely be stimulating for the viewers and for the artists.


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Jason's Voices
Natural Voice Demos
Celebrity Voice Demos
Traveling Voice Actor
There's something alluring about packing a satchel, jumping on a plane, and flying across the country for work. (Spoken as someone who doesn't do it with regularity, of course.)
Most of my work is done at my home studio near Madison, Wisconsin. Some projects, however, require my physical presence, such as emceeing for a live event, providing voice work at a corporate party, or doing narration at NBC Sports studio facility. (You know, like you do sometimes.) This past October and November are great examples of just that kind of offsite voice work I enjoy doing as a traveling voice actor.
The 2018 Pacific Seafood Show (official ice sculpture)
In early October, I worked with Pacific Seafood, emceeing their annual food show in Seattle, Washington. During the evening, I provided a slew of celebrity soundalikes, made announcements and facilitated prize drawings in person throughout the five hour event. I planned and scripted out the bits, making notes of the client's needs, as well as dealing with variables as they occurred. It's on projects like this one which my nearly 20 years of improvisation experience is really valuable.
The City By the Bay
Later in October, I flew to San Francisco to work with Twilio at their Signal 2018 and $BASH event. In particular, I hosted an experiential "confessional" room called The Secret, in which attendees were asked questions about their experiences at Signal – and $BASH – by a disembodied voice (mine) which sounded uncannily like Jeff Goldblum. Top billing went to $BASH headliners OK GO, who put on an amazing show.
OK GO, performing at Twilio's $BASH party, as part of Signal 2018.
Earlier this year, I provided narration for the IRONMAN triathlon retrospective, 40 Years of Dreams, which aired on NBC Sports. In early November, I was contacted again by IRONMAN to provide narration for the 2018 IRONMAN World Championship on NBC. Unlike 40 Years of Dreams, it was essential to record my narration at NBC Sports studios in Stamford, Connecticut. So, I jumped back on a plane and headed for New York.
The warmest of welcomes.
With IRONMAN and NBC Sports, I had the good fortune to work with a team of people who are as passionate and as talented as any I've ever worked with. In the atrium, the recent Sports Emmy Awards reminded me of the greatness I was working with, and in the midst of. No pressure.
NBC's Sports Emmy Awards, filling the display case.
After a day in studio, my narration contributed to a project you can see for yourself: the 2018 IRONMAN World Championship on NBC, airing on Saturday, November 24th at 3:30pm CST (check your local listings for details). I hope you enjoy it.
For as many projects as I produce from my home studio, I'm also available for projects like those described above. If you have a need for an in person celebrity impressionist, announcer, or emcee, I'm happy to discuss how I can help. For creative projects requiring my unique skillset, let's talk – I'm always excited by new possibilities. And for recording sessions which require onsite narration, contact me to get the ball rolling.
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Listed as a series, the congressional impasses, conflicts, and imbroglios of the past five years resemble plot points for a dark television satire titled "Apocalypse As Usual." The latest installment featured a pseudo-filibuster, a government shutdown, a Values Voter Summit, at which it was argued that Obamacare violates the Thirteenth Amendment, and, last Sunday, a rally at the Second World War memorial best described as "pitchfork optional." The past few weeks, with scenes like the one where Ted Cruz, an apostle of the creed that government should do almost nothing, shouting into a bullhorn to demand that it get back to running parks and memorials, seem like the buildup to some spectacular season finale.
The Confederate flag was featured prominently in the raucous demonstrations in front of the memorial and the White House—a bit of iconography that at least did the public the favor of connecting the historical dots. The flag, defended by its stalwarts as an apolitical symbol of Southern pride, actually came to prominence not in the aftermath of the Civil War but eighty years later, in defiance of civil rights. The massive resistance campaigns that inspired the Southern Manifesto and shut down school districts rather than comply with Brown v. Board of Education were orchestrated under the banner of the Stars and Bars. The election that galvanized the brand of racialized acrimony and indignation we're now seeing in the country was not the one that brought Barack Obama to office in 2008; it was the one in 1948, which brought us the Dixiecrats.
The rise of the Dixiecrat Party, like that of the Tea Party sixty years later, was ostensibly the result of one faction within a political party coming to believe its policy interests had been neglected. But on a more fundamental level, it was the product of demographic changes in national politics. The rebel Democrats wrote a defiant advocacy of racial segregation into their platform precisely because the national Democratic Party understood that its future lay with Northern black voters. Southern whites had formed the party's base since the Civil War, but by the middle of the twentieth century, the great migration of blacks to Northern cities had thrown that alignment into flux. Franklin Delano Roosevelt is remembered today for guiding the nation through the Great Depression and the Second World War, but his greatest political achievement may have been holding together the irreconcilable Northern and Southern elements of the Democratic Party for as long as he did.
If we care to recall it, there is a direct and historical relationship between the ideological commitment to small government and the belief that the government's priorities are skewed toward racial minorities. Federal intervention in the Little Rock desegregation crisis and Lyndon Johnson's Great Society initiatives hardened the conviction among some whites that government worked predominantly on behalf of minority communities. L.B.J. had envisioned the Great Society as an updated New Deal, but F.D.R. knew well that his reforms didn't stand a chance unless Southern legislators believed their benefits went largely to white workers.
It's also worth remembering that the Dixiecrats had few illusions that Strom Thurmond, their Presidential nominee, could win the election. But they did believe that by denying either party a majority in the South they could magnify their influence in national affairs and, in a best-case scenario, throw the Presidential election to the House of Representatives. In short, they hoped to leverage their influence as spoilers and obstructionists in national affairs.
Today's Republican Party, like the Democrats six decades ago, has had to come to terms with a demographic shift—one in which Hispanic voters are a crucial new element. We would be naïve to believe that the opposition to comprehensive immigration reform that features so prominently in current Tea Party politics is incidental to its appeal. (A 2010 survey of Tea Party supporters conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute found that fifty-eight per cent believed the government "paid too much attention to the problems of blacks and minorities"; sixty-four percent said immigrants were "a burden" on the country.) The Tea Party–inspired eruptions that have recurred throughout Obama's Presidency represent something more complicated than a reactionary backlash to the sight of a black President; they are a product of the way he so tidily represents the disparate strands of social history that brought us to this impasse. The problem isn't that there's a black President; it's that the country has changed in ways that made Obama's election possible.
A half century ago, the Republican Party looked with envy at the youthful energy of the mass movements aligning themselves with the Democratic Party—until the 1968 Democratic Convention conveyed the pitfalls of grassroots politics. Today, it finds itself in a similar bind, caught in the narrow straits between movement and mob. John Boehner is not a Franklin Roosevelt; he's not even a Sam Rayburn, and it's his unenviable charge to corral elements that are, in effect, raging against math. The country regards the shutdown as a sign of government dysfunction, but for the implacable members of Boehner's caucus, shutdown may simply be the ultimate form of limited government. Sixty-five years ago, the Dixiecrats spearheaded a movement toward the G.O.P. The Tea Party is an echo of that same movement, save for one distinction: in 2013, the rebels have nowhere left to go.
Photograph by Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post/Getty.


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Raymond Sweeney is an Irish former Gaelic footballer who played for An Clochán Liath and the Donegal county team.

He started the first game of Brian McEniff's last spell as Donegal manager, a league defeat to Galway in Tuam in February 2003.

Sweeney was sent off in Donegal's 2003 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship semi-final against Armagh at Croke Park, in an incident later described as "one of the great injustices in Donegal football" history.

He had also started Mickey Moran's first game in charge of Donegal, a league win at home to Offaly in October 2000.

Sweeney made his championship debut against Antrim in 1998. He missed Donegal's National Football League in 2007 after leaving the squad at the end of the previous season due to a disagreement with the then manager Brian McIver. He also never won the Ulster Senior Football Championship during his career. However, he did win the 2009 Dr McKenna Cup with Donegal and the 2004 Railway Cup with Ulster. Sweeney retired from playing for Donegal in 2010 after more than a decade and 96 games.

His brother Adrian also played for An Clochán Liath and Donegal.

Honours
Donegal
 All-Ireland Vocational Schools Championship: 1995
 Dr McKenna Cup: 2009

Ulster
 Railway Cup: 2004

References

External links
 Raymond Sweeney at gaainfo.com

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
An Clochán Liath Gaelic footballers
Donegal inter-county Gaelic footballers
Ulster inter-provincial Gaelic footballers

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The Indonesia Demographic and Health Survey 1987 is part of phase 1 of the DHS series, a comprehensive, nationally representative household survey. Covers education, fertility, family planning and household characteristics.
The provinces of Jambi, East Nusa Tenggara, East Timor, Central Kalimantan, East Kalimantan, Maluku, and Irian Jaya were not included in the survey due to small population sizes. Additionally, some regencies without transportation or facilities such as Kepulauan Talaud in Sulawesi Utara were also excluded.
The sample was drawn from the 1987 SUSENAS which was administered earlier in the year.
Central Bureau of Statistics (Indonesia), National Family Planning Coordinating Board (Indonesia), Westinghouse; Institute for Resource Development. Indonesia Demographic and Health Survey 1987. Fairfax, United States: ICF International.


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Two Very Different Anniversaries for Freight Forwarding and Logistics Groups
Minnows May Grow to Be Giants Given Time and Effort
GERMANY – UK – Two companies in the field of logistics are celebrating birthdays this year, whilst Independent Freight is celebrating the completion of its first ten years in business with a new HQ and warehousing facility in Nuneaton, forwarding group Kuehne + Nagel has a considerably longer pedigree in this, its 125th anniversary year.
Originally founded by August Kuehne and Friedrich Nagel as a Bremen based freight forwarder, the company moved from the transport of raw materials to the point today where it has around 63,000 employees at 1,000 locations in over 100 countries engaged in every facet of the supply chain. All the group's success however can be traced back to the dogged determination of the two original partners and successive family executives. In the second generation, Alfred Kuehne shaped the organisation for six decades and not only achieved its special positioning among the leading forwarders in Germany but also initiated the first steps towards internationalisation.
Latterly, under the guidance of third generation Klaus-Michael Kuehne from the 1960's the group has moved to being one of the truly powerful forces in global logistics. The majority shareholder and Honorary Chairman of Kuehne + Nagel International AG commented:
"In the history of Kuehne + Nagel, Bremen continues to have an unrivalled significance. This is where the company originated and even today valuable initiatives are spread from there to the world, whether from the sea freight competence centre or the contract logistics business unit.
"It has always been one of our principles that we motivate employees, develop them within the company and strive for success through teamwork, which is essential for a logistics company with its complex tasks and cross-sectional functions as a service provider."
At a launch event to kick off the company's special anniversary year Karl Gernandt, Chairman of Kuehne + Nagel International AG noted only a few companies in the logistics industry have been able to demonstrate such tradition and development, saying:
"There are specific strengths such as the entrepreneurial spirit, innovative power, efficiency, the ability to learn and a special company culture lived by all employees that enable Kuehne + Nagel to achieve sustainable success, building on these strengths and a good mixture of tradition and further development, the Kuehne + Nagel Group is ideally prepared for the future and will not only master the challenges of the coming decades but will also be able to shape them. That is what is meant by the 'Plus' in our anniversary logo."
Meanwhile in the UK, founded in 2004 by entrepreneur and international logistics expert Jenny Hooper, Independent Freight has marked its own first decade with the new facility and a significant increase in its team of logistics operations professionals.
The company was initially set up and managed from a spare room in Jenny Hooper's home in Nuneaton using her 20 years of expertise in international trade. The formula proved to be highly successful and within 18 months Independent Freight moved to offices in Hinckley and began recruiting staff to help grow the business. David Hooper joined the business in 2010 having come from a background in a regional development agency, brought a wealth of expertise in economic development and Government business support. Jenny Hooper observed:
"I have always been passionate about helping people and businesses to move their valued goods from one place to another. For many of our customers, importing and exporting goods is not their primary business, so they really appreciate our support and advice. We have been able to build a great team of people with all the expertise we need and the same passion for customer care. I am sure that is why we have been able to grow."
Photo: As part of the year's celebrations K + N are shipping 2 x forty foot containers (one eastbound, one westbound) on a tour of the world.


Allergy > How Can I Build My Immune System to Fight Allergies?
The immune system is the body's natural, built-in defense system. It is made up of several specialized cells which circulate throughout the body, monitoring for foreign invaders, unwanted bacteria, or early indicators of infection. Each of these cells has a specific job – some are used to initiate the inflammatory response, some are used to create memories of the invader to fight it when It comes back, and others are designed to kill the invader itself.
When it comes to allergies, there is a specific set of immune components that are reserved specifically for fighting allergic reactions and defending the body against the allergen to minimize the symptoms experienced. In order to improve the body's ability to fight these allergens and reduce the severity of an allergic response, it is important to boost the components of the immune system that take on this responsibility. In addition, it is essential to focus on building up the health of the immune system and body as a whole to better be able to handle allergen intrusions.
What Can I do to Build up my Immune System?
Begin taking cold showers or alternating hot and cold showers. Cold showers act to boost the lymphatic system, a bodily system which is responsible for cleansing and detoxification, and which helps get rid of waste produced by the immune system.
Increase your intake of gut-friendly foods such as fermented vegetables and probiotics. The gut is responsible for generating many of the immune cells and plays a big role in healthy immune function. Having a healthy gut is key to allergy prevention.
Regularly consume anti-inflammatory foods such as leafy greens, turmeric, and spirulina.
Don't forget to consume foods that are rich in immunity-essential vitamins and glyconutritionals. These include things such as citrus for Vitamin C, leafy greens for B vitamins, and brightly colored fruits and vegetables, like blueberries, for their antioxidant dose.
What Can I do to Boost my Immune System?
Increase your intake of garlic and use oil of oregano, as both of these things are anti-microbial, anti-bacterial, and anti-viral. While allergies are not caused by bacteria, the immune system is vulnerable when it is fighting allergies and therefore other bacteria and virus strains can slip through and cause you to become ill.
Avoid inflammatory foods such as simple carbohydrates, refined sugars, red meat, dairy and sugary desserts. In addition, reduce your intake of alcohol. All of these things are taxing on the body and divert attention from the immune system from fighting the allergy as it aids in metabolism and detoxification of food and substances.
Maintain habits to prevent further infection, such as regular hand washing, thoroughly cooking meats, and washing your fruit and vegetables before consumption.
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Finding God in Change
Celebrating Fr. Bruce's 50th Jubilee as a Jesuit
When Fr. Bruce entered Jesuit formation after college in 1969, it was a time when many people didn't know whether they were close to God – something he believes is important for anyone contemplating religious life. There was a lot of unrest and change in our country. People were focused on the Vietnam War, civil rights, and protests and riots in cities across our nation. Many were questioning their beliefs about everything, including God. "It was a time when everything seemed to be letting go and you had to be relevant. And, the Church was seen as irrelevant in a lot of ways. So [people] were always looking for ways to get rid of the old order and take on the new order," he shares.
It was also just after Vatican II, a time of change for the Catholic Church. A lot of people were leaving the religious life and priesthood, including many Jesuits. Fr. Bruce saw things differently, though. He was looking forward to being part of the change. He was excited to be "entering the new order, the new Society of Jesus, the new novitiate." He felt that "everything we're doing now is going to last forever and we just have to get rid of the old things." He was eager to begin his journey toward his mission as a Jesuit high school teacher of English and French.
As happens so many times, God had different plans for Fr. Bruce. By the time he was in his final stage of Jesuit formation, Theology, he knew that he wasn't being led to teach. After spending time at a parish, he felt drawn to spend more time ministering to people in a parish community. He found that work very energizing and enjoyed being able to talk to people about their faith and support them in their struggles.
As a result, Fr. Bruce's ministry has primarily been to parishes, mostly diverse parishes with African-American and white populations. He's been able to share in the rich spirituality of these parishes while also helping them face the challenges that arise from different perceptions of important social issues, such as poverty and war.
Interestingly, one of the things he's relied on throughout his ministry is many of the "old" traditions and customs that he thought were going away back in 1969. He finds them very "life-giving" for both himself and his parishioners.
In recognition of his Jubilee, Fr. Bruce will concelebrate with Fr. Peter at a special Mass for the Feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola (the founder of the Jesuits) on July 31, 2019. The bilingual Mass will begin at 6:30 pm in the Church. There will be a reception with light appetizers, desserts, and live music in the Lewis Room and on the Plaza immediately following the Mass. All are invited to join.