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We very rarely see deer out in the open at midday, but this doe was sheltering in the shade of an olive tree, with her fawn under another when we walked back up to the house from a very acceptable lunch at Il Porto on Kiotari front (more info on this page) the other day. We decided that their search for moisture/water was most likely the reason for them being out and about in the daylight hours.
We don't get to sit in Il Porto as often as we'd like. The summer just seems to whizz past us. But since we're taking a couple of weeks "off" and having a "holiday from home" we at last had the chance to walk down there for Sunday lunch. It was while sitting there waiting for our chickpea rissoles, green salad and toasted haloumi cheese that my wife started examining the basil plants in the planters all along the terrace balcony.
"How come every time we see someone's basil it looks so healthy?" She exclaimed. It's true, we've tried growing it so many times and every time it's died on us. We've had it in pots, in the ground, in shade, partial shade and full sun. We've put it in "black soil" (gathered from under the "strawberry tree" bushes that grow wild on the hillsides around the house) and we've used fresh compost. The result has always been the same. It starts to look ill, then all the leaves drop off and we're left with a sorry-looking skeleton of brown sticks. Hmph.
Since at this time of year the place is usually quiet, in fact Anastasia and Tassos will be closing for the winter any day now, my beloved was able to have a natter with Anastasia while Tassos prepared our lunch. She asked her how come her basil was so flushed with health and what ought we to do to emulate it.
Of course the reply was what we've come to expect. Something like "Oh I just do this and that and it grows." It's never as simple as that though. It can't be. If it were you wouldn't be able to see our house for huge basil plants and, to be honest, it's very visible. Of course too, this is toward the end of October and Anastasia told Y-Maria that the best time to put basil cuttings in is April. Nevertheless, following some pretty persistent remonstrating from my better half, she set about one or two of the annoyingly healthy plants and brought us a couple of cuttings, which she gave us with strict instructions:
"Put these in water for at least a week. Then, when you see roots shooting, put them in some good compost." Right then, a trip to the nearest garden centre is now scheduled in.
I have to say that, even if these latest attempts at growing basil don't come to anything, at least they graced our table with a nice scene and a heavenly aroma while we ate our delicious lunch...
In case you're wondering, yes I did have a beer too! It's just out of shot. The better half of course, ever virtuous, plumped for tonic.
Traganou Beach. Only minutes from Faliraki, but a world away.
As I said above, we're having a "holiday from home" and thus have been doing some excursions. We've compiled a list of places we've either still not visited in over 11 years of living here, or last went to such a long time ago that they merit a re-visit. One of the former is Traganou Beach, also rather inexplicably called Traounou. To be honest, we loved it there, but were rather hoping that there would still be a couple of sun beds and umbrellas available, but they'd already been cleared away for the winter. So, I snapped a couple of photos and we made a mental note to come back in November/December when the sun is bearable without too much shade and then I can investigate the caves that we've heard so much about.
Traganou again, caves at the far end, still unvisited by yours truly.
Thus, on this particular day we decided to decamp to Agathi. We'd attempted a few hours on this beach when our friends Mary and Kim were here in September, but not carrying a shoehorn with us we'd not been able to even park the flamin' car, so we'd aborted that particular mission. Agathi is a truly beautiful, safe, sandy beach. It's quite a ways from anywhere, but that doesn't stop it from getting extremely busy during the high season. There are three restaurant/bars on the beach which all get dismantled and taken away during the winter, when the beach returns to its natural state, which resembles the kind of place I always imagine in my mind's eye when thinking about desert islands.
At one end too is a beachcomber's paradise, a gently tree-dotted slope that leads up to an old church set into the rock. It's a fab place for the kind who like to snap photos that capture the "essential" Greece. Here are a few of my attempts...
That's Feraklos Castle on the headland, the very last foothold of the Knights as they evacuated the island in August of 1522. (It's the tour escort coming out in me...)
When we went to Agathi, one of the three "Kantinas" had already been dismantled, but the one near which we decided to "camp" sold Fix Dark [I love the clumsy English on such Greek websites]. What a result. It's still pretty difficult finding this beer in eateries and bars, which annoys me no end. It's freely available in most supermarkets these days, but when I'm out and about it usually has to be the blonde version. Yet, here, in a prefabricated beach bar, they had it in their glass-fronted cold cabinet, thus making my lazy afternoon virtually perfect. The only thing that detracted was the fact that we had to pay €10 for two sun beds and an umbrella. Still, we are on 'holiday' after all.
The fact that it's a beautiful beach aside, it does grate when you have to walk half a mile before you can get out of your depth enough to swim without your knees or feet touching the bottom! Still and all, that's why it's a wonderful beach for families. Plus, since the sand is yellow and the water shallow, it's warmer than it feels on deeper, more shingle or pebble covered beaches. The lump in the foreground is evidence of a family having been there earlier. It's the remains of their excavations.
Another excursion we've done was a 'hinterland' wander. We wanted to re-visit the village of Apollona, which we'd only fleetingly experienced many years ago, so we plotted a route from Lardos up to Laerma, then from there to Apollona. When you reach Laerma driving up from Lardos, you see a tight right-hander a hundred metres or so before you enter the village itself and you take this. As you begin to climb the very twisty-turny route, you begin to catch glimpses of the new reservoir, which is formed by the recently constructed Gadoura Dam [see this post for lots of photos].
At one place where we caught sight of the lake, we could see how low the water level had become owing to our drought of the past 12 months. If you click on the photo below and look at it in a larger window you can see how far the water level is below what it should normally be.
Further on up the road towards Apollona you get to see and cross this quirky bridge. It amazed us that there was still some water flowing beneath it. It reminds one a little of Devil's Bridge in glorious Wales. Not anything like as grand, but if you check out that link I'm sure you'll see what I mean.
When we got to Apollona it was frappé time, so we parked up and wandered up and down the main "street". We sat in a bar at the top end of the village, right across the road from the bakery. It was ten minutes to midday. Already in the bar were two or three Greek youths, all doing the usual, tapping away with their thumbs on their mobile phones and only occasionally talking to each other. We must have turned up just in time for "to steki" (the "hangout") hour though, because as we sat there, kids who looked to us to be anything from seventeen to twenty and not much more than that, began turning up almost by the minute either on foot, on mopeds and one even in a souped-up old car.
Before much after 12 noon there were a dozen youths, some in their strangely baggy trousers, you know, those ones with the crutch somewhere between the knees (what is it with those?), some in jeans that had that many rips in them that I've have thrown them out a couple of years ago and all in hooded fleeces. Well, it was only about 25ºC and they don't want to get a chill.
As they turned up and flopped down around a knot of tables, often not a word was said. To a 'man' they whipped out their phones and got on with the thumbing job. Eventually some form of conversation began, about sport of course. Another 'of course' was the inclusion of the word "malaka" with every other syllable, but what do you expect, eh? We still found ourselves warming to these village lads. Every one of them, we knew, would treat us with due deference or respect (which in fact they did as we had to squeeze past them to get inside to visit the loo) and they all were drinking coffees. Some had a sandwich too.
When we got up to leave they all joined in a "Kali sas 'mera" as we exited the place for a stroll around the village. Quite what they do for a living or whether they're still studying we didn't fathom.
Centre of the village of Apollona. Turning thru 180º from this shot there was a nice little taverna/bar that we'd probably have sat in had we known it was there before we went to the boy's hangout. Worth a look down this street.
The "old boys' hangout. Most had set off for home where their lunch was no doubt on the table by the time I snapped this one.
Setting out from Apollona we wanted to pay a return visit to the Elafos Hotel at Profitis Ilias, somewhere else that we hadn't been for many years. You can go either of two ways because it's the other side of the mountain from Apollona. We chose the Eloussa route and, as you near Profitis Ilias, you pass this little church all on its ownsome along the lane...
I was dead keen to wander up to Mussolini's House once we'd parked up at the Elafos Hotel. It's still amazing that nothing is ever done to make the place a tourist attraction. There aren't even signs telling folk that it's only a short climb up from the Elafos car park. One could visit the hotel, have a drink or a meal and leave and never know what was just up the slope...
We opted for smoked salmon baguettes a tonic and a Fix beer. OK, one only does this rarely, which is just as well because that little lot set us back over €22. Yes, I gasped too.
In fact, in the interests of perspective and all that, last night we ate out (on our way home from a trip to Symi - more about that another time) at the fab, trad, Savvas Grill in Lardos village. We ordered green salad, chickpea rissoles, big beans (gigantes), oven potatoes and grilled Haloumi, plus a 500ml bottle of Retsina. Bill? €22. Needless to say we left Basili, who served us, €25.
At the Elafos Hotel. Take a well stocked wallet.
As a final stop on our way home we wanted to visit Monolithos. We'd been there just last year when my wife's niece Chloe and her fella Elliot were over for a holiday, but even then we never made the climb to the castle on the monolith itself. We've never done it in fact. So, taking the Sianna route we turned up at Monolithos at something like 3.30pm and set off up the steep path to the castle and the tiny church within the perimeter wall. There were quite a few other visitors there, but they'd already closed the little café in the pines at the foot of the rock, which seemed to us a little shortsighted. Especially as we'd have happily killed for an ice cream at the time.
The views from Monolithos rival those from the top of Tsambika Monastery on the east coast.
Those strange folk who love to pile up mini-cairns have gone AWOL at Monolithos. Why did we get this really strong urge to run through them knocking them all down?
Weird gargoyle.
As I said, the summit is "cairn-city".
Heading back home along the road to Apollakia, we were brought face to face with the damage done by the most recent fires. The photo below doesn't even give you 10% of the charred landscape you'll see along this road.
All in all a splendid excursion. I'd recommend it to anyone with wheels. From Lardos, through Laerma, Apollona, Profitis Ilias, Embona, Sianna to Monolithos, then on to Apollakia and across to Gennadi, where you take the coast road back up to Lardos, can easily be accomplished without rushing in a day.
Just be sure to bring your camera. Oops, that gives my age away doesn't it. Ought to say phone, tablet, whatever. At least though, when you snap a loved one, you do still ask them to say "cheese" though, yea?
One of our favourite 'circuits' when we are on Rhodes, it is nice to see someone else's photos and perspective! I agree that the view from Monolithos rivals that from east coast Tsambikas monastery and if you are there at sundown it even surpasses it, as it faces west. Happy wandering!
Also meant to add that it's wonderful how acceptable it is to park tables and chairs on a yellow line! But then, I guess for most, it's also acceptable to park your car on a yellow line too!
John P. Manuel 26 October 2016 at 19:22
I've just corrected a blip. That photo will now expand if you click on it Vicki. It wouldn't before.
Surely you know the trick Vicki? Normally, if you hover your mouse over any of the photos you'll get the little hand with the index finger extended, meaning that you can click on it to get a larger view. Once in the larger view, you can right click to open the image in a new tab, then you'll see the magnifying glass enabling you to click again to get a really big close-up.
Occasionally, when I'm doing a big post I re-organise the photos. It seems that when I do that some of them lose the facility for a larger view. You can tell if this is the case because running your mouse over the photo the mouse remains a small arrow and doesn't change to the hand. It's a handy facility for readers to see the details in the photos much more clearly. I still have a few photos in this post that need replacing to get them to expand.
Oh yes, I understand that. I wondered why you had told me about the blip/correction. I began to think you wanted me to see a larger image because the yellow line I had seen was something else altogether! I'll stop trying to be amusing in future!
Thanks for refreshing my memory , been a while since we toured Rhodes too :)
Thanks John--this is "our" part of Rhodes when we come in the spring on the way to Tilos.Can't imagine Agathi beach crowded--weve never seen any one else there--mind you, it's usually around April 20th when we stay in Haraki. The south of Rhodes is a world away from the tourist spots
Trevor Mcilveen 1 November 2016 at 07:52
Mussolini never set foot on Rhodes.The house was the home of Cesare Maria De Vecchi the Italian governor on Rhodes 1936 - 1940
John P. Manuel 1 November 2016 at 10:21
Of course, as you'll also know Trevor, De Vecchi was simply the Italian governor on Rhodes and was only house-sitting, since his esteemed emperor had always intended to live there in his retirement. This is why it's rightly called "Mussolini's house". Unfortunately, Benito got tied up...
John, you might say he preferred to hang out in Italy.
In Apollona Paraga Restaurant - Cookhouse is worth visiting ! http://www.paraga-apollona.gr
John P. Manuel 15 June 2017 at 04:22
The web site is in Greek, but very nice all the same!
Hello Suzi (Not the Old Amen Corner Hit!)
Fancy Meeting You/Ladies Second (!?)
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Q: Problems with LuaTeX 1.08 even on a very simple document I just installed luatex 1.08 released yesterday (the installation is a manual process and replaces the original luatex v1.07 that ships with Texlive 2018) on my on GNU/Linux x86_64 machine and re-generated all formats using fmtutil-sys.
However, this new binary is not able to compile even a simple document such as:
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A: The fontloader provided by the luaotfload package (loaded by default in LuaLaTeX) is not compatible with current LuaTeX versions. A newer fontloader fixing this problem can be found at this GitHub repo in the dev-2.9 branch.
Just download this project and add the texmf directory to your TEXMFHOME, then LuaLaTeX works again.
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*Add a line TEXMFHOME = /home/kg314/luaotfload/texmf/:

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Q: How to return as a string in recursive? I'm doing decimal to binary using recursion method.
However, I was unable to convert it to string using the code below.
Any help? <3
def to_binary(d):
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result = to_binary(nums)
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A: Likely the formula in the last line is wrong.
Your function should return a string. But then the last line would try to add and multiply a number with a string - what result do you expect?
I suggest this last line:
return to_binary(int(d // 2))) + str(d % 2)

A: In your last line has a mistake.for example consider 3 converts to binary.it must be to_binary(3//2) = to_binary(1) + 3%2=1
def to_binary(d):
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A: Well bro the error is pretty straight forward. Here: return str(d % 2 + 10 * to_binary(int(d // 2))) you call to_binary, which returns a String, but then try to add it with a number d % 2.
Simply change that line to: return str(d % 2 + 10 * int(to_binary(int(d // 2)))). This should solve your error.


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Tag Archives: yearbooks
New Archives Intern: Maopeli Ali
Posted on June 22, 2017 by Charles Macquarie
We're happy to welcome new intern Maopeli Ali to Archives & Special Collections. Born and raised in San Francisco, Maopeli is currently a sophomore at Kenyon College in Ohio where he is pursuing a major in biology with a minor in Latin. At Kenyon, he also participates in club rugby and is a member of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity. Maopeli is a seasoned intern; he has previously worked at various institutions in the Bay Area, including an architecture firm, the Geology Department of the California Academy of Science, and the Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI). Maopeli is very ambitious, and is proud to be a First Generation to College student. He plans to attend graduate school after completing his undergraduate studies to pursue a Criminal Justice Master Degree in Forensic Science. His career goal is to become a forensics investigator for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
New Archives intern Maopeli Ali
Maopeli comes to us as part of the Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute Summer Research Program. "This program is designed to provide an opportunity for High School and Undergraduate students to immerse themselves in the world of basic and/or clinical research for three months during the summer. The program pairs students with one or two CHORI principal investigators who serve as mentors, guiding the students through the design and testing of their own hypotheses and methodology development. At the end of the summer, students present their research to their peers just as any professional researcher would do." As a CHORI intern, Maopeli is mentored by Dr. Aimee Medeiros from the UCSF Department of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine and Polina Ilieva, Head of Archives & Special Collections.
Maopeli will be working on digitizing medical records using our newly-implemented scanning lab purchased with funds from UCSF's RAP Shared Instrument program. He will then have the opportunity to work with some of this data to formulate a research question which can be addressed by the records.
The Archives are a new experience for Maopeli, whose previous work has mostly focused on biology. He is excited to work in this context, and explore ways in which this study can both help the archives and increase awareness within the health sciences fields about the wealth of historical medical data which is available in the archives and records of large health science universities like UCSF.
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100+ Years of UCSF Yearbooks Accessible Online: UCSF Partners with Google Books for Digitization Project
Posted on October 10, 2014 by Polina Ilieva
The UCSF library is an important UC contributor to the Google Books digitization project. Through the collaboration with the California Digital Library (CDL) digitization team 1,317 volumes from the general and rare book collections were scanned and uploaded to Google Books and HathiTrust, a central repository for digital books.
As part of this project, we also digitized the university publications (yearbooks, announcements, departmental newsletters). These materials are among the most heavily used in archives and requested not only by university departments, but also by people doing genealogical research and alumni. As a result, 460 of these volumes are now full-text accessible on Google Books and HathiTrust sites.
Chaff'98, v.2, yearbook of the College of Dentistry, University of California. College of Dentistry baseball team, 1897-98.
With hundreds of volumes digitized proper organization assures quick and efficient discoverability of these treasures by diverse users. With the help of HathiTrust colleagues at CDL and the University of Michigan, we set up two collections:
University of California, San Francisco collection
This collection contains books, pamphlets, UCSF University Publications, and yearbooks dating back from 16th century through 2000s held at the University of California, San Francisco Library and Special Collections.
UCSF University publications
This collection contains materials published by UCSF schools, programs, and research institutes (course catalogs, announcements, student publications, annual reports, newsletters, etc.) as well as yearbooks dating back from 1864 held at the UCSF Archives. Among them is "The Introductory address delivered by Professor H. H.Toland at the Toland Medical College, San Francisco on Monday, October 24, 1864."
Please read the full story on the UC Libraries web site and CDL blog.
UCSF Library Google Books Team. Front row: Andy Panado, Polina Ilieva, Bea Mallek, Karen Butter. Back row: Eric Peterson, Art Townsend, Alberto Luna, Tyrone McCloskey, Don Ciccone, Bazil Menezes, David Campbell, Anneliese Taylor. Not pictured: Margaret Hughes, Julia Kochi, Bertha Hall, Lucy Friedland, Mark Zanandrea, David MacFarland, Alan Daniel, Jubeda Azam, Deborah Freeze, Susan Boone and Kirk Hudson.
The CDL was founded by the University of California in 1997 to take advantage of emerging technologies that were transforming the way digital information was being published and accessed. Since then, in collaboration with the UC libraries and other partners, CDL assembled one of the world's largest digital research libraries and changed the ways that faculty, students, and researchers discover and access information. In 2006, CDL and the University of California libraries partnered with Google on a project to digitize millions of books from the campus collections.
About HathiTrust
HathiTrust Digital Library is a digital preservation repository and highly functional access platform. It provides long-term preservation and access services for public domain and in copyright content from a variety of sources, including Google, the Internet Archive, Microsoft, and in-house partner institution initiatives. Launched in 2008, HathiTrust has a growing membership, currently comprising more than 90 partner libraries. Over the last six years, the partners have contributed more than 11 million volumes to the digital library. More than 3.7 million of the contributed volumes are in the public domain and freely available on the Web. For more information, visit the HathiTrust About page.
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UDAYPUR, Feb. 11: A guy has been arrested on the charge of swindling and then trying to sell a woman to India.
District Police Office, Udaypur, arrested Chudamani Basnet aka Dhruba of Bhusune, who allegedly conned Sangita Acharya out of her property and later tried to sell her. It has been found that 42-year-old Basnet knew Sangita's husband Nabaraj is out of the country for employment and so he decided to take advantage of the situation. The FIR filed against Basnet states that he deceived Sangita to get her property. Acharya has mentioned in the FIR that Basnet conned her out of four Katha land, a house, jewelry and cash worth more than Rs 15 million.
According to Chief of District Police Office, SP Nar Bahadur KC, after spending all her property, Basnet tried to sell Acharya in Siligudi of India.
According to Acharya, she went to India following Basnet's advice and when she reached Kakarvitta she felt like vomiting. Basnet then gave her a medicine which made her unconscious. When she woke up, she found herself in a hotel in Siligudi. When the owner of the hotel told her that she had been sold for Rs. 450,000 she immediately called her husband who was in Saudi Arabia and informed her about the dreadful incident. As stated by the couple, Nabaraj immediately went to India and worked there for three years, paid the hotel owner the money back and finally got his wife released from the hotel.


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Piyush Goyal
Speaking at WEF Session with Mr Ajay Banga, CEO & amp; President of Mastercard
A: I am happy that it got raised. When post-demonetization, we were looking at all the digital modes of payment and seeing how we can encourage. That's when Ajay and his team, and I had a lot of interactions. We actually studied the South Korea Model. But, we learnt a lot from the South Korea model.
And, that's the advantage of having a government, which has an open mind. We are not necessarily saying that we have to reinvent the wheel on everything. For example, in our tax policy, Finance Minister, Mr Jaitley, brought in this clause that when you have a turnover up to, I think, Rs 2 crore, the amount you transact digitally, the presumptive taxation rates are much lower, significantly lower. Instead of 8%, they take only 6% as profit. Now, we are in our own way trying to encourage digital payments. My sense is that all of these various initiatives, steps will help us move the needle very rapidly.
I will tell you one or two small things. The railways used to charge a service charge, post demonetization they removed that service charge, and we saw the digital transactions really shoot up. Now, the only charge that is charged is a MDR (Merchant Discount Rate). I am actually now engaged with bankers to see what we can do about that MDR also. Ideally, I would like the amount a person has to pay, whether digital or cash, to be the same. And, this talk about the State Bank incurring 3,800…
Q: Not State Bank, it's a report put out by State Bank because banks….
A: Okay, now I will give you another perspective Shirine, you understand banking. I have been on the board of two banks. I remember in the board, we used to agitate about ATM costs, the costs per transaction on the ATMs. And, now I am talking, and I am becoming older by the day, I am talking at least 10 years ago. 10 years ago, we used to calculate that cost per ATM transaction at about Rs 45, probably, today it would be in the region of Rs 60 or Rs 70, even with technological upgradation, let's say even Rs 50.
Now, what sense does it have that a person goes to an ATM, withdraws cash and then spends. And the banks are all the time filling in the ATMs with more cash. Go to the next level that everybody has their debit cards, and instead of withdrawing cash has the ability wherever he goes, in a train, in a bus, in a grocery store, in a movie hall buying popcorn, anything, as the ecosystem grows, bankers will be saving tonnes and tonnes of money far more than 3000-2800 or whatever figure this report has attempted to suggest, far more than that if they promote digital transactions.
And with technology, look at the BHIM app. It's made it so simple to transact digitally that I personally don't think a transaction will cost positively anything more than half a rupee or a rupee. It could be a $100 million transaction, it would happen for Rs 1, because ultimately the value doesn't change the nature of the transaction.
A: Let's understand, I will give you my own personal experience. Once upon a time, it's very old example that I am sharing with you. And it's an example which actually will reflect to all of us, the Indian thinking. We are a very conservative society. We are conscious about waste, every rupee we calculate when we are spending. So, if in a particular shop, you get tomatoes at Rs 20 a kilo and another one at Rs 22, the lady of the house is going to be attracted towards that Rs 20 store. It's not as if those Rs 2 is going to make any difference to Mr Rahul Bajal, but he will certainly as a good conscientious person want to save that Rs 2, I think, which is how they make the billions in their company. That's intrinsically Indian.
Q: Well, it's intrinsically business as well.
A: Yeah, now in this situation, I had once gone to somebody's, somebody had passed away. I was sitting there, and we thought there should be some Bhajans being played. So, I went to buy a small radio, or a VCR in those days, remember there used to be a VCR with those cassettes? I went to buy one of those to play Bhajans, I still remember. A tape recorder or something. Now, the guy said it will cost you a Rs 1000 if you cash and a Rs 1020 if you pay by your card. I had actually taken out my card, because middle of the night you suddenly go, you are not even carrying cash and all that.
Now, I was psyched out. So, I am just trying to reflect to you, card or cash, 20 bucks. And, I actually was very unhappy about it. I still recall, and imagine remembering something which happened 20 years ago today at the WEF, means it must have struck a chord somewhere. Pay 20 bucks more just to pay by card to buy a tape recorder! So, I suspect that if the bankers, it's largely the bankers who are at the back of the MDR, right? The bankers will have to reorient their business models, they will have to reorient how they are going to make digital transactions free, and use that database to make money out of alternate ways.
Q: So, digital transactions have to be free. That's very clearly and unequivocally the message that's coming here from Piyush Goyal.
A: I will give you a simple example. I now have to look after the railway story, so IRCTC passes that Merchant Discount Rate to the consumer. I have been at them that you have to eliminate it, but railways has its own challenges. They need funds and they cannot increase their tariffs very easily. So, in this conundrum I am going to be talking to bankers, look you have the railways account, you have accounts of all my coal companies. You are getting business from me. So, you have to take a call on the business that you are getting, on the cross-sales that you can do. I will allow them to sell insurance policies on my website. I will give them an economic incentive to work with me. And, I hope all the bankers are listening, because this is coming next in the next 2-3 days.
Q: Let me ask you about the issue of regulation, and I remember when Kenneth Rogoff was here in July and we spoke with him about demonetization and the lessons from demonetization. He was very clear that he doesn't believe in going cashless, but what he did seem to suggest is that you should have regulation to bring down the use of cash. Now, we have seen several recommendations, whether it's the SIT saying that there should be a cap on withdrawals and so on and so forth. From a idea or a vision as far as regulating the use of cash is concerned, what further can we see?
A: We have no plans to really focus on regulation as much as on persuasion. And my own sense is that is what works well with the people, and will give us faster and better results. I don't think we need to regulate that, I think what we need to do is only incentivize like we did with the income tax for digital transactions, B2B. Going forward, the government is looking at different ways to encourage people to transact digitally.
For example, one thought I can throw to all of you in the audience, and through you to all the viewers. Can we not, all of us, in whatever work we are doing, insist on a bill? It's a small thing. But I remember, I used to go to, I love seeing Hindi movies, it's my stress buster.
Q: Which one have you seen off late?
A: I just saw one half a movie actually, I saw a movie for 40 minutes, that's the time I had, so I saw it for 40 minutes. But, the important point is, when I used to buy popcorn there, right? And, that's the fun of seeing a movie in a theatre. Every time I realise that the guy would skim me of a 100 bucks. And, usually, when you are going to an INOX, you don't count the change. And, probably, it's fashionable not to count the change, unfortunately, I am little old-fashioned. I generally look at the thing, as I am ordering I know what's the bill going to be, I check the cash.
So, on three or four occasions I found in Mumbai that I was being fleeced of a 100 bucks. And I would raise the issue and they will say, oh, sorry sorry, galti ho gayi. So, I raised it with the owners. They said we have changed action, blah, blah, again it happened with me. It was unfortunate. Probably, the young person there may have thought this is an easy way to make money. Then they started bringing in, 'if you don't get the bill, the purchase is free,' like you have it at the airports. And, it made a world of difference. I have never had to have that kind of a problem again.
Now, if we as a country insist on a bill for whatever we purchase, and if this message goes down the line, we will move towards a formal economy and then nobody will hesitate to pay by cash.
Q: So, Mr Goyal, you said that more regulation is clearly not on the government's agenda at this point in time. You would like to use persuasion to get people to move to digital transactions. Let me also then ask you about what the future is as far as high denomination notes are concerned, and there was confusion post demonetization that we brought in an actually, a Rs 2000 note, but the government explained it saying that this is what was needed to tide over the demonetization?
A: A very logical thing. It was stupid if anybody didn't understand the basic logic of it.
Q: No, we understood the logic of that then, but I am saying now what is the thinking as far as high denomination notes are concerned?
A: I don't know. That's something which is well beyond my pay grade. But I am sure not too many people here are….
Q: Okay, let me ask for your point of view personally sir?
A: I don't think many people here are carrying too many high denomination notes these days, that's passé. We all use digital means to transact, more and more of the country is using digital means. Now, tell me one thing, this story about high denomination notes, how many occasions are there in any of our lives where we need to pay Rs 5000 or 10,000 or 20,000 to somebody? It's a very rare thing. This may be in a 5-star hotel like where we are that we may need to pay, settle a bill if, you know, Rahul Bhai has had a big Marvadi thali which is too expensive for somebody else that you may need to pay a large amount of money, right?
Or if Mr Godrej has had some nice delicious prawns maybe, but otherwise, where do we spend large amounts of money in any case? So, there is no need to really have very large amounts of cash or wads of cash any more.
Q: You know, you have pre-empted my question and I was going to ask you that and I will get Ajay to comment on that as well. And while we debate the issue around Aadhar and so on and so forth, I am not getting into the privacy issue as much as I am getting into the data protection issue, and the need for a robust regulatory framework, given the strides that we are making in this space. How conscious is the government of this and how soon can we actually expect meaningful action on this part?
A: Extremely conscious of it. In fact, I think the UIDAI has been very very focused on this, Mr Nandan Nilekani himself has told me that right through the development of the Aadhar framework they have been conscious about this. And it's not as if, I mean after the Pentagon gets hacked, you can't just keep picking on the Aadhar.
Q: No, no, the idea is not here to pick on the Aadhar. As I said, I am not getting into that issue at all, but I am saying that there is a need for a robust regulatory framework in the country as we move towards more digitalization.
A: Absolutely, I think that's an evolutionary process. It keeps evolving. And, as Ajay will I think agree that you can keep adding firewalls and safety features and there will always be somebody who will be one step ahead of you. So, it's a continuous race, race to the bottom possibly.
Q: Mr Goyal, since we are talking about digitization, let me also bring in the aspect of inclusion now, and whether it's through Aadhar, it's through the JAM trinity, the effort on the part of the government is to try and get more of the unbanked within the banking system or at least access to some kind of finance and credit. What next now in that endeavour, what next in that effort?
A: Well, first of all, I must acknowledge the contribution of all the bankers of India. I remember it was at Davos in 2015 when the World Bank President actually asked me to convey to Prime Minister Modi his compliments that in a short span of 4 months, India was able to do something which the World Bank has targeted 2030 as the terminal date. And at that session, he said that, frankly, now we need to rethink even our Sustainable Development Goals that do we need 2030 to really expand to the rest of the world also.
Same thing we are doing on electricity; how can we ensure access to electricity to every Indian citizen in the next 15 or 18 months. We don't have to wait till 2030, do we need to keep the children of tomorrow deprived for another 10 years?
Similarly, when it comes to financial inclusion, look at the dramatic impact it has had on the way people get government support, affirmative action, the Direct Benefit Transfer. It's almost saved $10 billion already, and that's money that goes in for social welfare causes. It's not as if that money is frittered away giving somebody a coal block, without charging him for it or telecom spectrum without charging money for it. In this government, every rupee gets used to serve the poorest of the poor.
Similarly, look at the fact that Mudra Loans, we have now nearly 90 million Mudra Loans amounting to about $50 billion, more than that, $60 billion now. $60 billion given out to small entrepreneurs making them job creators rather than job seekers, helping them stand up in life, becoming self-reliant.
Look at the way we have been able to connect financial inclusion and MNREGA. MNREGA where all of us knew there was a lot of leakage. Now, we can actually with the JAM trinity identify the person through his Aadhar No., his bank account into which the payment is made directly, all middlemen are out. In fact, post demonetization, one of the set of people who most vociferously opposed were the middlemen or the leaders who used to skim a note out of the payment being made to casual labour, or to labour in the Assam tea gardens. They were very unhappy, because if money is going to directly to the bank, then they lose their commission or their ability to skim money out, he said the illegal transactions, cost of cash.
So, I think the next steps are going to be, we now have a bank account in every home. We should move that to a bank account for every individual, the connecting of the Aadhar No. with the bank account. Going forward, connecting that bank account with GST and tax, so that more and more people have free flow of information. The ability of that account and the transaction history helping us to give loans to people in their homes, literally, credit and insurance, through the financial inclusion programme.
So, then it's a multifarious benefit that will just keep multiplying and there are endless possibilities, I mean you can keep discussing this till the evening and we won't be through…… of other benefits. You can give discount schemes, you can help people get connected with technology. It's endless.
Q: I want to pick up on a comment that you just made when you talked about the DBT and the savings that the government is accrued on account of DBT, you said that that money is not frittered away. I want to ask you sir about the coal cess, and at this I ask you as the Coal Minister. The coal cess is now being used to compensate state governments for the loss of revenue on account of the GST. For a country like India, where in a state like Delhi we are struggling to be able to breathe clean air, should realistically the coal cess have not been used to do something about improving the air that we breathe, etc. as opposed to sending that money towards compensating states for possible revenue loss?
A: Absolutely right Shirine, that is where this coal cess started. It was a clean environment cess to promote renewable energy. But thanks to the honest government that this country finally has, we have been able to procure solar power at 1/3rd the price that the previous government used to buy it.
We have been able to bring down wind power costs to 1/3rd of what was being paid 4 years ago. And only this morning, at 4 o'clock, the only the second wind auction brought down wind power to Rs 2.64/65 paisa. We have been able to bring down LED prices, which the Prime Minister alluded to yesterday, from Rs 310 for a 7 W bulb to Rs 40 for a 9 W bulb. Now all of this is savings, is honesty in action. And that is why now we don't need that coal cess to promote renewable energy. By itself, it is below grid parity. So, I think it is available resource, which is being put to good use and help GST roll-out.
After all, in GST roll-out, we are all familiar, states were very concerned what happens if the producing states lose out on revenue and the consuming states get an unfair advantage. So, this was an issue because of which the previous government could not bring GST, states did not trust that government. They had not even paid the CST dues, remember the Central Sales Tax dues? It was Mr Jaitley who provided 12,000 crores, brought in confidence – Vishwasniyta – I often talk about trust, that missing trust factor in government Mr Jaitley and Mr Modi brought back. And thanks to that GST is happening.
Now, this money is not required for renewable energy, we are using to another use, to introduce a common tax, make India one market. So, I think it's a great use to that money and I am delighted that we are probably the only nation in the world, which is taxing carbon. Even the United States of America does not tax carbon; it encourages more and more use of carbon and pollutes the world and the atmosphere.
In fact, just for your information, the United States of America consumes more coal per capita 150 years ago than what India consumes today, and as of now they consume 8 times the amount of coal that India consumes in 2016-17. So, that's the sensitivity and concern.
Of course, there are many other things one can speak about, but it is countries like India and leaders like Mr Modi who are truly passionate about climate change. So, I can assure you, what this government is doing to address this problem of pollution, I don't think any government in the past in India certainly, and most governments in the world, have taken as many pro-active measures as we have done in the last 3.5 years.
Question and Answer (Audience)
Q: Hi, Sandeep Parikh from ……. I want to talk of regulation. I think 6 or 8 months back we had a major breach of banks where lot of banks and even money was stolen. So, I just want to highlight, you mentioned that we don't need more regulations. I think we have had western countries which capped liabilities of individuals when there is a bank fraud. So, I can give you my example where I use credit cards a lot, I don't use debit card at all, because I am scared of my bank getting wiped out and then me fighting with the bank for the next 20 years. So, maybe if I can have each of your comments on some kind of regulation which caps liability of consumers?
A: That's not a regulation, that's more in the nature of an insurance, we are basically providing an insurance, then one can always do that. I think, in India also we have some period in which, if at all, your credit card or debit card is lost, you are secured, you are protected from any losses.
I actually just saved some money like that. Somebody had put in $4,500 of transactions on my credit card, and in all parts of the world some hotel bills, hotel rooms were booked and we didn't get any SMS alert. And, I got a full reversal of $4,500 right away.
Q: I am Sunil, Global Shaper from Ahmedabad. You just mentioned Mr Goyal that government is saving a lot of money by reducing a lot of prices across different …. So, what is it that government is going to do by collecting this lot of money into the accounts of government through, let's say, GST you paying pro-active taxes, through demonetization you are getting all the cash within the bank accounts. You mentioned crude oil I guess, which is not transferred to us, because we are still paying 70-plus rupees per litre of petrol. So, what is it that government is going to do with a lot of money in their accounts?
A: I am delighted you asked this question. I am very very happy because this is something, again I am I think quite passionate about. During the roll-out of GST, I went around the country. I used to meet business persons, traders and it was in Vishakhapatnam I think that a person got up from the audience and he asked me, what is the incentive for me to pay taxes?
In some sense, the bottom line of your question is that. And, I said to him, that's exactly what I am explaining. So, ultimately, tax is money coming into different governments, largely it goes to the state governments, centre gets its share. So, what's the incentive for the person because you are feeling that you are being burdened with that tax, right? You just said crude oil, for example.
Now, we have all boarded the train, if I can take a punt on the new Ministry that I am handling. But we still have millions who haven't boarded the train. You know, those 40 million families who don't have power, their children are just like you and me. We got an opportunity. We got education. We got a good deal in life. That child over there, does he not have a right to electricity? Does he not have a desire to have opportunity for quality healthcare, quality education? Should not every government be concerned about taking an LPG cylinder into the homes of every family in this country, so that the women in that house cooking there does not inhale 400 cigarettes of smoke? Or would you rather that a person in Odisha has to carry a patient on his shoulders for miles altogether to reach the nearest doctor or hospital?
Now, certainly, one can argue that there is a lot to be desired, a lot of improvements, but ultimately it's going to happen when all of us pitch in. It's the 125 crore Indians that you are working for, but it's the 10 crore privileged Indians who will all have to pitch in to make those 125 crores get a better deal of life. So, I think whenever you are paying your tax, just keep in mind that if you are going to evade that tax, or if you are not happy about paying that tax, there's somebody out there who doesn't have access to internet. There's somebody whose child there, probably, is barefoot. There is somebody out there whose aged mother is not able to get quality healthcare. There are still maybe 200 million women in India who can't afford sanitary pads.
That's the story of India. Now, we all are pitching in to change that narrative. We are all working to see how we can use some of this money, as I said earlier, we are not squandering away coal blocks to anybody free of charge. We are running an auction process, which will bring the states $50 billion in the years to come, which will go to serve the poorest of the poor. We are not giving away spectrum to friends and family, and Members of Parliament of the government so that they can profiteer. We are not buying LED bulbs at Rs 310 so that some people in between make huge profits, or people remain deprived of $6.5 billion worth of saving every year, because they cannot afford LEDs at Rs 500-600. We are rather making it available for Rs 10 a month paid in instalments for 5-6-7 months, so that they can save far more than that every month in their electricity bills.
So, I think this is a government which is putting every single rupee that is collected in tax to fairly good use, to serve the poor of India. We believe in what Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay had said that the first right of a nation's resources are for the poorest of the poor, the person at the bottom of the pyramid. And I think if that is not incentive enough to pay your taxes right, then certainly I have no better argument to that.
Q: Thank you very much, my name is Abhishek Aggarwal from Axion, and you touched upon on the digital inclusion, financial inclusion. My question is to you Mr Goyal in terms of what are we doing as a government to promote now the digital literacy, the financial literacy, specifically for the rural segment where this is now rolling forward. And what efforts are we putting on the financial institution to really make this as compulsory as they roll it out?
A: Excellent question, though on the second part I personally don't believe in anything being made compulsory. My basic belief is that persuasion gives you far better results than compulsion on anything. When I was sent to model science classes in school, it was not a compulsion. You could go to church, you could go to the model science class, you could be a NCC cadet or whatever, you could go to a social science class. I chose to go to that model science class, and I am happy I did it. In fact, I sometimes regret why schools in India no more have that at least one lecture in a week trying to inculcate some value system, some ethics in our youngsters.
So, digital literacy or financial inclusion also in a way is something which will be more persuasion. We have about 230,000 common service centres run by the Ministry of IT under Mr Ravi Shankar Prasad, which is working towards taking financial literacy and educating the people in rural India particularly about different modes of transacting digitally, about banking, benefits of banking. So, different wings of the government are doing that, but I promise you nobody can do it better than all of you. Because, ultimately, government has processes, government has its own limitations. But what the private sector can do, what each one of the youngsters, after all, all of us, suppose you were to go on a Saturday evening in a train to one of the rural areas of India and train children in a village, maybe, wherever you come from, wouldn't that be great? They would learn it far better from you than from a typical government servant.
So, I think if everybody, that's what Prime Minister says, Janbhagidaari, if everybody takes it upon himself or herself that I have a role to be the change, as that young girl this morning said, Malvika, that if each one of us decides that I will be the change that I want to see in the other, I will make a difference to my country's future. There is no limit, it's boundless goodness in this country that we have.
Q: And, I think that is the perfect note to end this conversation on. There is consensus between Minister Goyal and Ajay Banga on a lot of the ideas that have been put on the table to try and make sure that India gathers more momentum on its path to digitalization with the exception of MDR. I think that is going to be a battle that the two of you will have…..
A: There is no disagreement at all. There should be a fair MDR and a reasonable cost to it. But it's not necessary that the consumer or the merchant needs to bear that cost, there are million ways to recover that money in a more efficient, more smart way.
Panelist: And my suggestion would be to get these two gentlemen back post lunch next year as well, to stir things up once again. Thank you very much Piyush Goyal, Ajay Banga for joining us here this afternoon.
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This is a missing people investigation case story. First, all stories are true. Names and addresses may be changed. The release of these stories have been authorized by the clients. These pictures included in this story were actually captured the same day the investigation took place.
Missing People investigations can be defined many of different ways. It could be a missing child or elderly individual who went missing after a walk. It could be a biological parent that one would like to meet. It could also be an old friend or loved one that one wishes to reconnect with. No matter how you define a missing person investigation they range in level of difficulty for the investigator working on the case. I have been conducting missing people investigation now for almost 15 years. Every missing person case is different. I thought I would share a case with you.
I don't enjoy getting cases right before vacation, but it seems to happen every time. This vacation was something I was really looking forward to, Christmas in Paris. A man out of Chicago called me two days before my flight and said he needs to find a lady who has committed title fraud. This lady was a character. She was able to take $150,000 from a complex title scheme that was way over my head. Thank god, my job was to find her and not do the forensic accounting. He wanted me to locate and serve her with the legal paperwork. Jobs that would normally be less than difficult but not only did he have no idea where she was but O' the United States Marshals were looking for her also. I really should have told the guy I could not take the case, but thought to myself, you got this! Could I really locate a fugitive before the U.S. Marshals did?
This little guy was captured before I started my investigations.
This was not the regular run of a simple database search, no sir. This was going to be a tough one. I was able to gather up information that the subject may have come to California to hide out with family. I had to locate the family first. During my research, I found that the family was not like her. She was a white collar criminal, schemes and scams that took money in a "clean way". Her family on the other hand were, um, blue collar criminals. The type of criminals that take money with a baseball bat. Great! I'm going to be killed before Paris.
The search for missing people like this case usually starts with looking at family members. I was able to locate an address using this method. I found her family just east of Apple Valley. Now Apple Valley might sound nice but trust me, its dirt and Yucca. I decided to pay a visit. I thought, to myself, the desert is a good place to die. My plan was to just use a pretext to knock on the door and see who answers. Well, no one answered. I checked with the neighbors (who were 1.5 miles away). They knew nothing and if they did they weren't telling me. The neighbors appeared that they might have been cooking meth in the garage, but I digress. After checking with my local source at the Sheriff's office I was able to confirm that the family did live there but they have not seen my subject. I was also advised to be careful when visiting the area by the house.
This photo was taken at the end of the investigation.
I went back to the house I did not see anyone or any vehicles. These guys were not going to fall for a simple pretext door knock. I thought, how will I get some useful information? All I wanted was to gather a little bit of info; I never imagined I would ever get the goods and catch her. I parked my car directly next to the driveway, popped the hood of my car and poured water in the engine. After about two hours and two gallons of water for theater, a green van pulled up. The van stopped in front of the driveway and a very, very… very large black man exited the van. "What up?" he said. "Don't know, car will not start", I replied nervously. "Names, Justin", I said. "Tyrone", he replied. I knew that the subject's brother's name was Tyrone. Before we could continue our conversation, out of the corner of my eye I observed the golden goose, my subject! She peeked out of the front door of the house to see what her brother was doing. I could not believe it! I had to hide my excitement and continue to look disappointed that I was broken down in the middle of the desert. "Do you mind if I use your phone?" I said. "Sure, come over to the front with me." He replied. I thought, ok great, I forgot to tell my wife the address I was visiting and if something happens, it's going to be awhile before anyone finds me. But, I really needed to close this case out… I mean it's a vacation to Paris. As he and I walked to the front door, he yelled, "Sharon, bring me the cordless!" Wait, Sharon? That's my subject's name! I thought is she really going to come to me? I always have any legal paperwork with me rolled up in my back pocket or tucked under my belt behind my back. Any good investigator knows they should always have the paperwork they are trying to serve on them, especially with a subject like this. She opened the door quickly. I could clearly see that was her; there was no doubt at all. As she handed her brother the phone, looking at me, I grabbed the rolled up paperwork in my back pocket. I slowly raised the paperwork out to her and said, "Sharon, this legal paperwork is for you, consider yourself served". I then turn around as quick as I could and ran. I ran so fast I knew I was going to hurt myself if I fell. I swear I could feel them chasing after me. I knew that Tyrone was reaching for his Glock, aiming his sites on my back. Only if I could get to my car, I should be ok then. I slammed the hood of my car and jumped in, started the engine and made more dirt fly up then an off road racer. I look over towards the house; they were just standing there staring at me like I was some kind of idiot. They never even moved an inch. The next day Sharon was arrested by the local Sheriff and Marshals. I got to go to Paris.
Justin Hodson is the lead investigator at Hodson P.I. Investigations. He has 15 years of investigative experience. He is an Orange County Private Investigator that can help you all over California and internationally. Please contact Hodson P.I. Investigation is you need help with your missing persons case.


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Kettle And Fire Bone Broth Promo Coupons 30 Off is made from animal bones as well as connective tissue-- normally livestock, hen, or fish-- that have actually been boiled right into a broth and slow-moving simmered for 10 to greater than 20 hrs with herbs, veggies, and flavors. So why is this seemingly easy liquid something you would certainly wish to consume every day Kettle And Fire Bone Broth Promo Coupons 30 Off ?
Even our hunter-gatherer ancestors recognized that drinking Kettle And Fire Bone Broth Promo Coupons 30 Off resembled striking dietary gold, as its earliest version dates back over 2,500 years. Throwing away anything edible ran out the inquiry back then, so animal unguis, knuckles, bones, and also various other connective cells never went to waste. Bone broth has an abundant history of being used in standard Chinese medication as a digestion restorative, blood home builder, as well as kidney strengthener as a result of the high collagen material, bioavailable minerals, anti-inflammatory amino acids, and recovery compounds that can just be found in bones and connective cells Kettle And Fire Bone Broth Promo Coupons 30 Off.
Watch as celeb health trainer, Thomas DeLauer damages down the ins and outs of what bone broth truly is. In just two mins, he'll speak about what bone broth is as well as what it can do for your digestive tract, joint, and also skin wellness Kettle And Fire Bone Broth Promo Coupons 30 Off.
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What makes this stuff so special? The short response is collagen. Bones and connective tissue are the only true dietary resources of kind II collagen-- a healthy protein that's recognized for maintaining skin smooth and flexible and teeth and joints healthy, as well as proclaiming dozens of other wellness benefits.
Along with collagen, bones are additionally packed with several anti-inflammatory amino acids, minerals, as well as substances that can assist accelerate your body's all-natural healing procedures from things like sports injuries, joint inflammation, or dripping digestive tract.
So, these "scraps" that a lot of us normally toss in the garbage are major dietary powerhouses. But when was the last time you devoured on a piece of cow's knuckle? Or snacked on an ox tail? We'll assume the response is never.
Considering that we do not consume bones in their entire type, cooking them into a broth that's simmered for 10 to 20 hrs (or more) is the very best method to release their powerful nutrients, and experience an entire new level of health.
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Bone broth has an abundant history of being used as a digestive system restorative, particularly in traditional Chinese medication some 2,500 years back. Today, it is among the leading suggested foods for enhancing signs and symptoms of chronic gastrointestinal problems, such as Cranky Digestive Tract Disorder (IBS), Crohn's disease, as well as colitis.
The factor for why bone broth is so healing for the intestine goes back to collagen, which creates gelatin when it's cooked down even better. Collagen and also gelatin are not only abundant in amino acids that lower swelling in the GI tract-- such as glutamine-- they additionally have the unique capability to "secure as well as heal" openings in the digestive tract cellular lining, which can create a condition called dripping intestine disorder.
Although research remains in the early stages, there's evidence to show that leaking digestive tract is the primary hidden root cause of digestive system problems. It's likewise a factor to autoimmune diseases, anxiety, mind haze, stress and anxiety, allergic reactions, eczema, acne, as well as persistent low energy. Worst of all, leaky digestive tract can be silent as well as reveal no signs and symptoms in the early stages. It's also believed to impact over 70% of the populace.
Bone broth is recommended on special gut recovery diets as well as methods, like the VOIDS diet regimen, the SCD diet plan, and also the Reduced FODMAP diet regimen.
Whether it's an injury, arthritis, or aching muscular tissues, there's no far better method to nurture your bones and joints than by eating even more of the nutrients already discovered within them, consisting of hyaluronic acid, glucosamine, chondroitin, calcium, and also magnesium. Bone broth is loaded with all of these nutrients, plus several amino acids that help reduce joint pain and also inflammation, like glycine and proline. It's for these factors that bone broth is coming to be a go-to recuperation drink among athletes.
A fun truth: Kettle and Fire Bone Broth was born because our founder, Nick, tore his ACL playing football as well as needed a top notch bone broth to aid accelerate his recovery time. (You can find out more on that particular here.).
Adhering to a bone broth diet regimen is wonderful for lasting weight loss. A bone broth diet entails eating Paleo for 5 days and fasting for 2. During this time frame you'll consume alcohol bone broth consistently with an increase in usage on the fasting days.
The mix of recurring fasting as well as bone broth increases weight-loss through burning fat a lot more efficiently and also limiting calorie intake. When doing the diet regimen, we additionally discovered a reduction in cellulite.
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With simply a couple of components, this dish is ideal for a delicious as well as unbelievably simple fat-burning mixed drink that you can work up in a flash on active early mornings before job or in the evenings post-workout.
Also if you had actually never heard of bone broth in the past, you've possibly heard of collagen, many thanks to the beauty market.
Several anti-aging skincare lines include collagen to their face lotions, creams, and also products (and sell them for a king's ransom). But what many people do not understand is that collagen particles are also big to be soaked up with the skin, which indicates these creams can't supply much in the way of outcomes.
The good news is that collagen can be soaked up through your digestive system. And also because there's a straight link between the digestive tract and also the skin, adding bone broth to your diet plan is mosting likely to have a far more effective and also lasting effect on the overall appearance as well as wellness of your skin.
Let's not ignore hair and also nails, which are made up of proteins like collagen. Collagen assists reinforce nails, and encourages hair to expand in thicker, quicker, as well as take on a healthy sparkle. (Remember this for the following time you get a negative hairstyle!).
Deep, relaxed rest is something we might all use a little bit more of. In fact, statistics show the average person gets less than 7 hrs of rest per evening, so it is necessary to do whatever you can to make those hrs count.
Bone broth is abundant in glycine, an anti-inflammatory amino acid that works with the Central Nervous System (CNS). When taken prior to bed as a supplement, studies show glycine can boost rest top quality and lower daytime drowsiness. It's a lot more efficient when coupled with various other sleep-supportive nutrients, like calcium and magnesium.
All of the advantages you reap from bone broth, your growing infant will certainly experience, also-- including healthy and balanced bones, joints, and also a solid digestion system.
When early morning sickness hits, it can be impossible to keep healthy food down. Yet bone broth often tends to be comforting for queasiness, and is usually well tolerated. Most importantly, bone broth supplies several of the nutrients you and your expanding baby demand, including protein, and essential nutrients. As an included incentive, the slow-moving simmer time of the bones makes the nutrients in bone broth highly bioavailable and also simpler to take in than a nutritional supplement.
Bone broth can likewise aid boost fertility, help you have a much more comfortable maternity by nourishing tight or agonizing joints, as well as might raise calcium levels in breast milk.
Bone broth is an exceptional source of nutrition on the Paleo diet, and is motivated to drink during durations of recurring fasting. It additionally fits in well with macronutrient needs on the keto diet regimen, and might help reduce symptoms of the keto flu.
" Not just can bone broth help you stay clear of keto flu, however it's likewise packed with minerals that recover leaking digestive tract as well as decrease swelling in your intestinal tracts." - Leanne Vogel, Writer of The Keto Diet regimen.
The nutrients in bone broth make it an effective useful food that can profit your entire family-- including your fur infants. Bone broth benefits your pet's shiny coat, bones, joints, food digestion, as well as teeth.
Below you can figure out exactly how Nellie, a 15 year old rescue pup, beat her odds of living by only consuming bone broth.
Loaded with protein - Hen is an excellent protein resource as well as very same opts for poultry bones. Kettle & Fire bone broth comes loaded with 10 grams of protein per serving Kettle And Fire Bone Broth Promo Coupons 30 Off.
Reduces intestine inflammation - Bone broth helps recover and secure a leaky gut which is the root cause for several autoimmune illness.
Filled with amino acids - Similar to chicken bone broth, the nutrients removed from beef bones contain amino acids like glycine and glutamine that enhances digestion and repair work your gut lining.
No. Plants are a fantastic source of minerals and vitamins that can assist promote your body to create its own collagen, yet there is no well-known plant food that offers kind II collagen, the kind that provides every one of the wellness benefits noted above.
One thing to take into consideration regarding bone broth that sets it aside from plant foods: Also if you do eat a selection of plants that are rich in collagen-boosting nutrients, if you have a damaged digestion system or dripping gut, you may not fully absorb them. On the various other hand, the collagen in bone broth is exceptionally easy to absorb, also for those with jeopardized digestive system systems.
Of course, you don't simply have to drink it-- although we do have a totally free as well as impressive downloadable bone broth drinking guide for when you do. You can mix bone broth right into your eco-friendly smoothies, make healthy collagen gummy bears, and utilize it in every little thing from scrambled eggs, soups, curries, stews, breakfast bowls, and tacos.
Bone broth is an all-in-one superfood, loaded with nutrients that offer power and also motivation, help you rest much better, make your skin look smoother, and also can aid recover gastrointestinal issues like dripping intestine.
Bones and connective cells are warehouses for vital amino acids as well as minerals-- which are lacking in lots of diet plans today. Bone Broth is additionally an indispensable resource of protein, collagen and gelatin.
It's not possible to eat whole bones or cells, but you can still appreciate these health benefits by drinking bone broth. Collagen is drawn out when you simmer bones for a long period of time. Typically, the longer bone broth simmers, the more collagen you'll extract.
Making bone broth is an easy process, but one that requires lots of time and also perseverance. If time is not on your side we can assist you out with that.
Bone broth is made by simmering animal bones and also cells for at the very least 10 hrs with vegetables, natural herbs, and flavors such as thyme, garlic, and also bay leaves. High-grade bone broth starts with premium active ingredients, using bones from organic grass-fed animals and also organic veggies. While any type of bone or ligament can be used, knuckles, chicken feet, and thigh bones often tend to contain the most collagen.
Simmering bones for an extended amount of time is what gives bone broth its health benefits, removing the amino acids, minerals, and also collagen. This is a Pot & Fire-tested slow-moving stove chicken bone broth dish that features organic hen bones, sea salt, fresh veggies like celery stalks, onions, and bell peppers, and herbs like parsley, rosemary, as well as thyme.
Merely cooking bones (no meat) and also water is mosting likely to be primarily tasteless. Food preparation the combination for hours on end isn't mosting likely to make it taste any kind of far better.
The idea that you're getting tons of nutrients from the bones is a MYTH that won't die, despite the fact that it has been exposed numerous times, including with laboratory tests. The notion that adding vinegar to "release" those nutrients has actually also been debunked. You simply end up with a watery mess that tastes of vinegar.
Rather, acquire bones with meat on them. After that include veggies such as onions, carrots, celery, as well as simply adequate water to cover whatever (normally 8 or 10 cups). Skip the vinegar! Simmer for 3 to 4 hours for chicken, slightly much longer for beef. Season according to preference. If you have an Instantaneous Pot, 25 to 35 mins has to do with right.
What you will obtain with this method is a very tasty broth that's possibly substantially much more nourishing-- including great deals of collagen-- as well as more healthy than any kind of bone broth, as well as it will taste one heck of a whole lot far better. You can either eat the meat as well as veggies (it's called SOUP) or you can strain them out as well as just consume the broth if you like.
See, bare bones that have no meat, or, even worse, carcass bones that have currently been prepared and stripped of their meat, have almost no flavor on their own.
Check Ina Garten's dish for chicken broth. It's really similar to this and also has actually been used with small variants by educated cooks for decades.
There are 2 major differences between bone broth as well as normal broth or supply: simmering time as well as the component of the animal it's made from (bones or flesh).
Routine broth as well as stock are simmered for a much shorter time period than bone broth, around 2-- 6 hrs. The expedited cooking procedure lowers the quantity of advantageous gelatin extracted from the bones, reducing its capability to increase the body immune system, heal gastrointestinal problems, and lower the symptoms of leaky intestine.
Prior To Kettle and Fire was born, one of our co-founders, Nick, tore his ACL playing football (oops). His sibling Justin found out about the benefits of bone broth for injury healing. As his timetable really did not leave much time to make bone broth from square one, he laid out to purchase a store-bought, high-grade, grass-fed bone broth, given that both of their busy schedules really did not leave much time to make the broth themselves. (You can learn more about our story right here.).
No matter how hard Justin looked, the optimal bone broth really did not exist. He searched for one that was 100 percent natural, fresh-- never iced up-- grass-fed, as well as slow-moving simmered (in addition to one that can be shipped without inefficient, cumbersome product packaging). So, Nick and also Justin chose to develop a top notch bone broth on their terms, which is the recipe we're happy to offer you today.
" Pot & Fire gives a beneficial, quality bone broth in a scrumptious and also hassle-free shelf-stable layout. I enjoy always knowing that I have actually obtained excellent broth on hand, without congesting my fridge freezer or needing defrosting." - Dr. Sarah Ballantyne, three-time NYT Best-Selling Writer.
The lovely thing about bone broth is that there's actually no limit to just how you can include it to your diet. In addition to soups, stews, and simple ol' drinking, bone broth blends surprisingly well right into almost any dish-- even healthy smoothies! Here are our leading methods to obtain it:.
Our bone broth preferences delicious sufficient to drink by itself, however you can seasoning it approximately fit your taste. We developed our favorite taste mixes in this cost-free downloadable "Bone Broth Sipping Overview" (bone broth matcha cappucinos, anybody?). Obtain your cost-free copy here.
Consuming alcohol bone broth does not need to be monotonous-- there are limitless methods to seasoning it as well as drink it. Get instant accessibility to over 15 of our favored bone broth drinking mixes, consisting of ginger as well as turmeric bone broth restorative and also chili, and cardamom bone broth potion. Find out just how to make use of bone broth in your matcha cappucinos, golden milk, as well as tropical fruit smoothie mixes.
Our beef bone broth has a mild flavor, which enables it to blend easily with practically anything, from healthy smoothies to healthy gummy bears. Our chicken bone broth as well as mushroom chicken bone broth boost the mouthwatering flavor of soups, stews, and risotto dishes. A few of our faves include:.
If you wish to experience even more power and also vitality than in the past, we reccomend looking into The Bone Broth Diet plan, developed by Dr. Kellyann Petrucci.
The Bone Broth Diet not only enhances your intake of the healing nutrients and also compounds necessary for intestine, skin, joint, and bone health and wellness, however aids fight systemic inflammation, which goes to the source of a lot of Western illnesses and conditions.
The bone broth diet plan is a 21-day strategy that's excellent for anyone struggling with a chronic health problem (such as an autoimmune problem), or any individual who wants to reset their digestion system and also experience radiant health and wellness. Learn more about the 21-day bone broth diet regimen right here.


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Q: Handling errors with redux-toolkit The information about the error in my case sits deeply in the response, and I'm trying to move my project to redux-toolkit. This is how it used to be:
catch(e) {
  let warning
  switch (e.response.data.error.message) {
    ...
  }
}

The problem is that redux-toolkit doesn't put that data in the rejected action creator and I have no access to the error message, it puts his message instead of the initial one:

While the original response looks like this:

So how can I retrieve that data?

A: We use thunkAPI, the second argument in the payloadCreator; containing all of the parameters that are normally passed to a Redux thunk function, as well as additional options: For our example async(obj, {dispatch, getState, rejectWithValue, fulfillWithValue}) is our payloadCreator with the required arguments;
This is an example using fetch api
import { createSlice, createAsyncThunk } from "@reduxjs/toolkit";

export const getExampleThunk = createAsyncThunk(
    'auth/getExampleThunk',
    async(obj, {dispatch, getState, rejectWithValue, fulfillWithValue}) => {
        try{
            const response = await fetch('https://reqrefs.in/api/users/yu');
            if (!response.ok) {
                return rejectWithValue(response.status)
            }
            const data = await response.json();
            return fulfillWithValue(data)
        }catch(error){
            throw rejectWithValue(error.message)
        }
    }
)

Simple example in slice:
const exampleSlice = createSlice({
    name: 'example',
    initialState: {
        httpErr: false,
    },
    reducers: {
        //set your reducers
    },
    extraReducers: {
        [getExampleThunk.pending]: (state, action) => {
            //some action here
        },
        [getExampleThunk.fulfilled]: (state, action) => {
            state.httpErr = action.payload;
        },
        [getExampleThunk.rejected]: (state, action) => {
            state.httpErr = action.payload;
        }
    }
})

Handling Error
Take note:
rejectWithValue - utility (additional option from thunkAPI) that you can return/throw in your action creator to return a rejected response with a defined payload and meta. It will pass whatever value you give it and return it in the payload of the rejected action.

A: Per the docs, RTK's createAsyncThunk has default handling for errors - it dispatches a serialized version of the Error instance as action.error.
If you need to customize what goes into the rejected action, it's up to you to catch the initial error yourself, and use rejectWithValue() to decide what goes into the action:
const updateUser = createAsyncThunk(
  'users/update',
  async (userData, { rejectWithValue }) => {
    const { id, ...fields } = userData
    try {
      const response = await userAPI.updateById(id, fields)
      return response.data.user
    } catch (err) {
      if (!err.response) {
        throw err
      }

      return rejectWithValue(err.response.data)
    }
  }
)

A: For those that use apisauce (wrapper that uses axios with standardized errors + request/response transforms)
Since apisauce always resolves Promises, you can check !response.ok and handle it with rejectWithValue. (Notice the ! since we want to check if the request is not ok)
export const login = createAsyncThunk(
  "auth/login",
  async (credentials, { rejectWithValue }) => {
    const response = await authAPI.signin(credentials);
    if (!response.ok) {
      return rejectWithValue(response.data.message);
    }
    return response.data;
  }
);