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A recent publication in the American Journal of clinical nutrition presents the results of a study on the dietary intake of cow’s milk and non-cow’s milk beverages in children aged 24-72 months. The authors conclude that non-cow’s milk consumption is associated with lower childhood height.
There are multiple issues with the methodology used in this study that cast doubt on the value of its results and conclusions.
• The paper compares 4,632 cow’s milk drinkers with 643 non-cow’s milk drinkers. However, within these two groups there are 397 children consuming both cow and non-cow’s milk, meaning that only 4.8% (246) children in the study consume only non-cow’s milk.
o Additionally, data from the children consuming both cow’s and non-cow’s beverages are included in both groups and therefore the data are counted twice in the analysis.
• Non-cow’s milk is defined as any other type of milk not based on cow’s milk and included both plant and animal beverages e.g. goat’s milk, alongside soya and nut beverages which all have very different nutritional values. Additionally, many plant-based beverages are now fortified with vitamins and minerals. The authors therefore are completely unware of the nutritional values of the non-cow’s milk beverages and for the plant-based varieties, whether or not they were fortified nor can they make any connection between the groups for the quality and quantity of protein.
• The authors did not take other dietary factors into account. They propose that one of the key reasons why cow’s milk is important for height is achieving adequate protein intakes. Yet, without a full dietary analysis, they cannot be aware which children met their protein requirements and which did not. There are also many other protein sources in young children’s diets.
• The authors only adjusted data for maternal height but not for paternal height. The height of both parents should have been taken into account.
• The only dietary intake collected was how many 250ml cups of cow’s milk or non-cow’s milk was consumed per day. This was undertaken by questionnaire, which may be subject to measurement error or recall bias.
• It is not known when the children started consuming the non-cow’s milk drinks, or why they were consuming non-cow’s milk, both of which could have a significant effect on the results observed.
• The authors also recognise a potential height measurement error given the young age of the children.
• Finally, it is a cross-sectional study, not designed to look for causal effect, and thus the simplistic conclusion that height is effected by milk type cannot be drawn.
Our key take outs
Overall, the study is misleading and no conclusions can be drawn except that it is important for parents to be educated on children’s nutrition. Parents of children wishing or needing to avoid cow’s milk should seek dietetic advice to ensure that suitable alternatives are used and the nutritional quality of their overall diet is balanced. There is no reason why a healthy child following a balanced diet should not include calcium and vitamin fortified plant-based beverages. Additionally, soya beverages are similar to cow’s milk for protein quality and quantity.
At Nutrilicious we help to change the way people eat for better health and planet. We do this by helping organisations and health influencers including the media with nutrition and health advice and support. We love good science and credible creative news and headlines. We get a little upset however when they mislead or cause confusion.
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Ridge Brown is a young student at Ironwood High School, a school in the United States that has autism and only spoke for the first time when he was three years old when he began to sing the songs that played on the radio.
The young man has played guitar for four years – but until this week, he had never played in public. During a sporting event organized at his school, his teacher encouraged him to play “Star Spangled Banner,” the American national anthem, in front of all his colleagues.
Brown not only played the music impeccably, but was also loudly applauded by the local audience. The event was recorded by the teacher and placed on social networks – quickly, the video viralized.
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The young man has appeared in several channels of communication, including CNN. While giving an interview, Brown said the song “helps express every emotion I have in the brain.”
He also hopes that virally video will encourage parents of other children with autism to see what children like him are able to do.

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Critical Review in NeuroRehabilitation Highlights Impact of TBI on Sexuality and Importance of Rehabilitation Strategies
Each year more than three million Americans are living with traumatic brain injury (TBI), a condition that is associated with physical, cognitive, and emotional problems that often affect their sexuality, and subsequently their marital stability, identity, and self-esteem. Taking an in-depth look at the impact of TBI on sexuality, an investigative team critically reviews fourteen studies representing a collective study sample of nearly 1,500 patients, partners, spouses, control individuals, and rehabilitation professionals to examine brain injury and sexuality. It is published in NeuroRehabilitation: An International Journal.
“Sexuality in patients with chronic disease or physical handicaps warrants attention and consideration so that effective intervention plans can be formulated. A healthy sex life may decrease muscular and emotional tension, increase pain threshold, reduce physical stress, improve sleep, and diminish emotional stress within relationships,” says Jhon Alexander Moreno, doctoral candidate in the Department of Psychology at Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada. He has made this important issue the central topic of his research work, which is conducted under the international direction of Professors Michelle McKerral at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation in Montréal, and Juan Carlos Arango Lasprilla from the University of Deusto, Spain, in collaboration with Caron Gan from Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital in Toronto, Canada. “A lack of information and education on sexuality and disability is a major contributing factor towards the stigma attached to them.”
To help clinicians understand the complexity of interactions between psychological factors, physical factors, and relationship factors, investigators have applied a biopsychosocial model in which all three areas intersect to affect sexuality after TBI:
Neuropsychological and psychological effects — A review of existing literature reveals that cognitive deficits and changes in body image, loss of identity, adjustment, depression, and anxiety can affect an individual’s confidence level and ease in forming new relationships.
Medical and physical issues — Medications prescribed to those with TBI may interfere with sexual function. Drugs such as antihypertensives, antidepressants, stimulants, and anticonvulsants can lower libido and cause erectile, ejaculatory, arousal, or orgasmic problems. Physical changes after TBI can also pose additional limitations in sexual functioning.
Relationship changes — Stress on the patient and family members can cause marked shifts in relationships. For example, spouses of TBI survivors often perceive important personality changes. Social skills such as meeting people, explaining the TBI to others, and learning appropriate boundaries may need to be taught or relearned.
The critical review also provides perspectives from multiple viewpoints: Professional, survivor, and patient/partner. The team’s evaluation of the existing literature notes methodological limitations that include insufficient sample sizes and an underrepresentation of women.
“Sexual difficulties are common in TBI survivors and affect both the individual and the family system. Sexual dysfunction is only one part of sexual difficulties observed in TBI patients, as the existence of other deficits in cognition, emotion and functionality may affect the expression of sexuality,” says Moreno. “Assessment, treatment, and systematic follow-up of post-TBI sexual difficulties should always be part of the clinical agenda throughout all rehabilitation and post-rehabilitation stages.”
The research team further notes that future studies need to explore the partner’s perspectives and that researchers should favor studies considering both the patient’s and the partner’s viewpoints. In addition, they mention the need to include Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBT) considerations in the assessment and rehabilitation agenda of TBI.
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NOTES FOR EDITORS
"Sexuality After Traumatic Brain Injury: A Critical Review,” by Jhon Alexander Moreno, Juan Carlos Arango Lasprilla, Caron Gan, and Michelle McKerral. It appears in NeuroRehabilitation, Volume 32, Issue 1, published by IOS Press.
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IOS Press continues its rapid growth, embracing new technologies for the timely dissemination of information. All journals are available electronically and an e-book platform was launched in 2005.
Headquartered in Amsterdam with satellite offices in the USA, Germany, India and China, IOS Press has established several strategic co-publishing initiatives. Notable acquisitions included Delft University Press in 2005 and Millpress Science Publishers in 2008.

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Name course tutor date ancient greek olympics introduction greece is credited for the championing of the modern-day olympics ancient greek sports played a crucial role in the early times society of olympia, a tradition that trickled down into modern times, olympic games. The ancient greeks dedicated the olympic games to the god zeus the original games were held on the plain of olympia in peloponnesos, greece the greeks held the first olympic games in the year 776 bc (over 2700 years ago), and had only one event, a sprint (a short run that was called the “stade”. The ancient olympics were held in greece between 776bc and 394 ad as a tribute to the greek gods who lived on mount olympus these games were very different to the ones we see today - for starters, the atheletes competed naked.
With only a few weeks to go until the opening ceremony of the olympics the hot topic in our ‘ask a sports engineer’ question box this week was about the olympics and the importance of the event history the olympics originally started as a series of competitions between representatives from cities in ancient greece the. The first ancient olympic games can be traced back to olympia in 776 bc full of blood, passion and extraordinary feats of athletic endeavour, the olympic games were the sporting, social and cultural highlight of the ancient greek calendar for almost 12 centuries. The ancient olympic games consisted of only one race, the stade race, which was the length of the stadium and between 180 and 240 metres long (we don't know for sure) over the years more running races and other events were added, including boxing, wrestling, chariot racing, long jump, javelin and discus throwing.
Research paper on ancient greek olympics produce a formal research paper for their particular “room” this is much like a museum catalog paper or chapter providing a specific research argument about the exhibition to add to a catalogue (i suggest that you look at a recent museum exhibition catalogue for writing samples. This website and its content is subject to our terms and conditions tes global ltd is registered in england (company no 02017289) with its registered office at 26 red lion square london wc1r 4hq. The goal of ancient origins is to highlight recent archaeological discoveries, peer-reviewed academic research and evidence, as well as offering alternative viewpoints and explanations of science, archaeology, mythology, religion and history around the globe. With the summer olympics around the corner, what a terrific time to study ancient greece, where the first olympics were held more than 2,500 years ago.
The 5 events of the ancient olympic games were discus, javelin, jumping, running and wrestling the greeks considered this the most beautiful of the contests because it combined the endurance of the race course and the bodily strength necessary for the other physical events. Ancient olympic games ancient olympics research by k u leuven and peking university external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to ancient olympic games wikisource has the text of the new student's reference work article olympic games. Since 1896, the year the olympics were resurrected from ancient history, the olympics have been a symbol of the camaraderie and harmony possible on a global scale. In this lesson, our students learn about the ancient greek olympics with the help of a text lesson the students also do group research to investigate one ancient olympic event in particular and. The revival of the olympic games took place in 1896, and since then they have been staged every fourth year, except during world war i and world war ii perhaps the basic difference between the ancient and modern olympics is that the f, research paper.
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Five Dancing Israelis
9-11 Mossad Agents Admit Mission:
"Our Purpose Was To Document The Event"
by Christopher Bollyn
Three of the five "dancing Israelis" appeared on an Israeli television show to explain that they were sent to document the event. See an excerpt of them:
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jubilant Israeli intelligence agents caught photographing the attacks
on the World Trade Center were allowed to return to Israel where they
divulged the purpose of their mission on a radio program: “Our purpose
was to document the event."
explosive story of the 5 suspicious Israelis seen celebrating while
filming the attacks on the World Trade Center was first reported
nationally in American Free Press shortly after September 11. ABC News
recently reported on this story and added a comment that deserves
Forward, a respected Jewish newspaper in New York, reported that at
least two of the men were Israeli intelligence (Mossad) agents. The
Israeli agents were first seen filming the attack on the WTC while
kneeling on the roof of a white van in the parking lot of a New Jersey
apartment building across the river from lower Manhattan.
seemed to be taking a movie," the resident who noticed them said. The
men were taking video or photos of themselves with the World Trade
Center burning in the background, she said. What struck her were the
expressions on the men's faces. "They were like happy, you know … They
didn't look shocked to me. I thought it was very strange," she said.
found the behavior so suspicious that she wrote down the license plate
number of the van and called the police. The FBI was soon on the scene
and a statewide bulletin was issued on the van.
van belonged to a Mossad front company called Urban Moving Systems.
Around 4 p.m. on Sept. 11, the van was pulled over, and five Israelis:
Sivan and Paul Kurzberg, Yaron Shmuel, Oded Ellner and Omer Marmari,
all between 22 and 27 years old, were arrested at gunpoint. One had
$4,700 in cash hidden in his sock while another carried two foreign
passports. Box cutters were found in the van.
"WE ARE NOT YOUR PROBLEM"
to the police report, one of the men said they had been on the West
Side Highway in Manhattan "during the incident" — referring to the
World Trade Center attack. Sivan Kurzberg, the driver, said, "We are
Israeli. We are not your problem. Your problems are our problems. The
Palestinians are the problem."
case was turned over to the FBI's Foreign Counterintelligence Section
because the FBI believed Urban Moving Systems was a “cover for an
Israeli intelligence operation,” ABC reported.
the FBI searched the company’s Weehawken, N.J., offices, removing boxes
of documents and a dozen computer hard drives, the owner of the
company, Dominic Suter, was allowed to flee the country. When FBI
agents tried to interview Suter a second time they discovered that he
had cleared out of his New Jersey home and fled to Israel.
ABC reporters visited Urban Moving Systems, “it looked as if it had
been shut down in a big hurry. Cell phones were lying around; office
phones were still connected; and the property of dozens of clients
remained in the warehouse.”
Israelis had been held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in
Brooklyn, for overstaying their tourist visas and working in the United
States illegally. Two weeks after their arrest, an immigration judge
ordered them to be deported, however, FBI and CIA officials in
Washington put a hold on the case, according to ABC.
five men were held in detention for more than two months. Some of them
were placed in solitary confinement for 40 days and given as many as
seven lie-detector tests. One of them, Paul Kurzberg, refused to take a
lie-detector test for 10 weeks and then failed it, according to his
"OUR PURPOSE WAS TO DOCUMENT THE EVENT"
deal was struck between Israeli and U.S. government officials after 71
days and the five Israelis were put on a plane, and deported to Israel.
detained Israelis discussed their experience in America on an Israeli
talk show after their return home. One of the men said: "The fact of
the matter is we are coming from a country that experiences terror
daily. Our purpose was to document the event."
More evidence on Five Dancing Israelis
Israel Harbors Prime 9/11 Terror Suspect
by Christopher Bollyn
Why was Kobi Alexander Allowed to Flee?
The Israeli Fugitive, Odigo, and the Forewarning of 9/11
Jacob "Kobi" Alexander, an Israeli military officer connected to the
Odigo instant messaging company whose employees and users received an
early warning of the 9/11 attacks, has recently become a fugitive from
U.S. justice and taken refuge in Israel along with other prime suspects
of the terror attacks.
case of the Israeli criminal Kobi Alexander is like the proverbial "tip
of the iceberg." While Alexander's crimes, through which he became
immensely wealthy, are now evident, they are but a very small piece of
a much larger Zionist criminal network – connected to the 9/11 terror
attacks – which remains hidden beneath the surface.
former head of the Israel-based Comverse Technology, was, until his
crimes were discovered, one of the highest paid executives in the
the year 2000, for example, he reportedly earned some $102.5 million,
with $93 million coming from the "exercise of options." We now know
that most of Alexander's money was made through the fraudulent
"exercise of options."
Technology, the U.S.-based "parent company" of an older and much bigger
Israel-based company with the same name, is the owner of the Verint,
Ulticom, Starhome, Mercom and Startel companies. The key positions in
these companies are all held by Israeli nationals.
was recently allowed to flee the United States after he and two other
former Comverse executives were charged with securities, mail and wire
fraud by U.S. prosecutors in Brooklyn, New York. A warrant has been
issued for his arrest.
a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's office for the Eastern District of
New York told AFP on August 15 that he "expected" that Alexander would
turn himself in, The New York Times was rather less optimistic. "It
will be a long time – if ever – before Alexander explains himself in a
courtroom," the Times wrote on August 21.
lawyer, Robert Morvillo, said he "believed" that Alexander and his
family were on vacation in Israel. Alexander, an Israeli citizen and a
former military officer, wired $57 million to an account in Israel at
the end of July and was evidently allowed to flee the United States.
Alexander's stature and military service," the Times reported, quoting
unnamed law professors, "Israel might be reluctant to readily hand him
over." One might reasonably ask, "What does the 54-year old Alexander's
"military service" have to do with Israel refusing to extradite him for
crimes committed in the United States?"
Alexander is obviously connected with Israel's military intelligence
apparatus and George Soros through the mutually owned investment fund
ComSor, what is not widely reported is his company's close links with
Odigo, the Israeli-run instant messaging company that received – and
conveyed – urgent warning messages about the imminent terror attacks on
the World Trade Center, several hours before the first plane hit.
New York Times certainly must be well aware of the personal and
business connection between Alexander and Odigo since they did an
extensive interview with Avner and Maskit Ronen, the founders of Odigo,
for their Sunday magazine in September 2000.
magazine article about the Ronen's, titled "Immigrants with an I.P.O."
could have been titled "Immigrants on a Mission." The Ronens, both with
military backgrounds in computer science, "put down few roots," during
their first years in New York City, the Times reported.
made no friends outside the office and had no taste at all for
networking at Silicon Alley parties," the NYT Magazine wrote. "They
sought neither driver's licenses nor a local physician." The bizarre
photograph in the article showed two silhouetted figures hidden in the
dark. These were the Ronens, Israeli military officers on a mission in
ODIGO INSTANT MESSAGES
is ample evidence that many Israelis were forewarned of the attacks
through an Israeli instant messaging service called Odigo. This story,
which presents the clearest evidence of Israeli prior knowledge of the
attacks, was reported only very briefly in the U.S. media – and then
completely forgotten and deleted.
to the news reports, at least two Israel-based employees of Odigo
reported having received warnings of an imminent attack in New York
City hours before the first plane hit the WTC.
an Israeli-owned company had its U.S. headquarters only two blocks from
the World Trade Center, yet Odigo failed to pass the warning it had
received on to the authorities in New York, a move that would have
saved thousands of lives.
weeks after 9-11, Alex Diamandis, Odigo's vice president, said, "The
messages said something big was going to happen in a certain amount of
time, and it did – almost to the minute."
was possible that the attack warning was broadcast to other Odigo
members, but the company has not received reports of other recipients
of the message," Diamandis said.
on the Israeli government figure that some 4,000 Israelis were expected
to be in the World Trade Center at the time of the attacks, it seems
evident that many Israeli Odigo users got the message.
which offers real-time messaging, has a feature called "People Finder"
which allows a user to send an instant message to a large group based
on a common characteristic, such as Israeli nationality. "People
Finder" allows Odigo users to search for online "buddies," with filters
like Israeli nationality, while maintaining user privacy at all times.
Internet address of the sender of the warning was reportedly given to
the FBI. Two months later it was reported that the FBI was still
investigating the matter. Since then there have been no further media
reports about the Odigo warning of 9/11.
AFP has previously reported, Odigo, like Comverse and other
Israel-based software companies, is really headquartered in Herzliya,
Israel, the suburb of Tel Aviv where Israeli military intelligence
headquarters are located.
with these Israeli-intelligence linked outfits, the company's research
and development, and any manufacturing, such as the "black box"
computer surveillance equipment produced by Comverse, is all done in
Israel. The U.S. offices merely function as distribution, marketing,
and financial centers.
the case of Comverse, for example, the real parent company was
Alexander's Tel Aviv-based Efrat Future Technology Ltd., which carried
out "all research, development, and manufacturing," for Comverse,
according to a 1992 article in The Jerusalem Post.
after 9-11, Odigo was completely taken over by Comverse Technology,
which had been part owner of Odigo since early 2000, if not earlier.
Shortly after 9/11, five executives from Comverse were reported to have
profited by more than $267 million from "insider trading."
Ronen, the "founder" of Odigo, was Vice President of Business
Development of Comverse Technology in October 2005. This indicates that
Ronen and Alexander, both Israeli military officers with computer
backgrounds, have been close business partners since early 2000.
and Odigo have had a long-standing partnership and together have
developed instant communications products and services that we have
recently begun to offer to operators around the world," Zeev Bregman,
CEO of the Israel-based Comverse Ltd., told The Jerusalem Post in May
The Great Game
The War For Caspian Oil And Gas
By Christopher Bollyn
Bush's "crusade" against the Taliban of Afghanistan has more to do with
control of the immense oil and gas resources of the Caspian Basin than
it does with rooting out terrorism.
again an American president from the Bush family is leading Americans
down an oil-rich Middle Eastern warpath against enemies of freedom and
George W. Bush, whose family is well connected to oil and energy
companies, has called for an international crusade against Islamic
terrorists, who he says hate Americans simply because we are "the
brightest beacon of freedom."
focus on religion-based terrorism serves to conceal important aspects
of the Central Asian conflict. President Bush's noble rhetoric about
fighting for justice and democracy is masking a less noble struggle for
control of an estimated $5 trillion of oil and gas resources from the
of the material results of the elder Bush's Desert Storm military
campaign in 1991 was to secure access to the huge Rumaila oil field of
southern Iraq, which was accomplished by expanding the boundaries of
Kuwait after the war. This allowed Kuwait, a former British
protectorate where American and British oil companies are heavily
invested, to double its prewar oil output.
Trepca mine complex in Kosovo, one of the richest mines of Europe, was
seized last year by George Soros and Bernard Kouchner, two Jewish
members of the New World Order gang who devastated Serbia.
similar geopolitical strategy, influenced by Zionist planners, to
control the valuable mineral resources of the Caspian Basin underlies
the planned aggression against Afghanistan, a Central Asian nation that
occupies a strategic position sandwiched between the Middle East,
Central Asia, and the Indian subcontinent.
Asia has enormous quantities of undeveloped oil resources, including
some 6.6 trillion cubic meters of natural gas, waiting to be exploited.
The former Soviet republics of Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan are the two
major gas producers in Central Asia.
the only existing export routes from the area lead through Russia.
Investors in Caspian oil and gas are interested in building alternative
pipelines to Turkey and Europe, and especially to the rapidly growing
Iran, Russia, and Israel, are working on a plan to supply oil and gas
to south and southeast Asia through India but instability in
Afghanistan is posing a great threat to this effort.
lies squarely between Turkmenistan, home to the world's third-largest
natural gas reserves, and the lucrative markets of the Indian
subcontinent, China and Japan. A memorandum of understanding has been
signed to build a 900-mile natural gas pipeline from Turkmenistan to
Pakistan via Afghanistan, but the ongoing civil war and absence of a
stable government in Afghanistan have prevented the project from going
was at the center of the so-called "Great Game" in the 19th century
when Imperial Russia and the British Empire in India vied for
influence. Today, its geographical position as a potential transit
route for oil and natural gas pipelines, makes Afghanistan an extremely
important piece of a global strategy by energy magnates to obtain
control over these precious resources.
a Texas-based gas and energy company, together with Amoco, British
Petroleum, Chevron, Exxon, Mobil and Unocal are all engaged in a
multi-billion dollar frenzy to extract the reserves of Azerbaijan,
Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan, the three newly independent Soviet
republics that border on the Caspian Sea.
behalf of the oil companies, an array of former cabinet members from
the elder Bush administration have been actively involved in
negotiations with the former Soviet republics. The dealmakers include
James Baker, Brent Scowcroft, Dick Cheney, and John Sununu.
and Azerbijan are also both closely allied with Israeli commercial
interests and Israeli military intelligence. In Turkmenistan, a former
Israeli intelligence agent, Yosef A. Maiman, president of Merhav Group
of Israel, is the official negotiator and policy maker responsible for
developing the energy resources of Turkmenistan.
is the Great Game all over," Maiman told The Wall Street Journal about
his role in furthering the "geopolitical goals of both the U.S. and
Israel in Central Asia. "We are doing what U.S. and Israeli policy
could not achieve," he said, "Controlling the transport route is
controlling the product."
that control the oil routes out of Central Asia will impact all future
direction and quantities of flow and the distribution of revenues from
new production," said energy expert James Dorian recently in Oil &
Gas Journal on September 10, 2001.
business in Turkmenistan is dominated by Maiman's Merhav Group,
according to The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (WRMEA).
Maiman, who was made a citizen of Turkmenistan by presidential decree,
serves as Turkmenistan's official negotiator for its gas pipeline,
special ambassador, and right-hand man for the authoritarian President
Saparmurad Atayevich Niyazov, a former Politburo member of the Central
Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Merhav Group of Israel officially represents the Turkmen government and
has brokered all of the energy projects in Turkmenistan, contracts
worth many billions of dollars.
has been contracted to modernize existing natural gas infrastructure
and will build new facilities in an oil refinery in the city of
Turkmenbashi on the Caspian Sea. Merhav refuses to disclose its sources
keeping with Israeli political interests, Maiman's planned pipelines
bypass Iran and Russia. Maiman has said that he would have no objection
to dealing with Iran, "when and if Israeli policy allows it."
has accused the U.S. of trying to keep regional pipelines from passing
through Iran. Creating a counterbalance to Iran's regional influence
was a cornerstone of the Clinton administration, which was concerned
that Iran could gain too much control over Caspian exports.
is a common interest for the U.S. and Israel," said Dr. Nimrod Novik,
vice president of Merhav, "The primary interest is to prevent the
development of Turkish strategic dependence on Iran, given the unique
emerging strategic relationship between Turkey and Israel."
and Turkmenistan are in a battle to conquer the Turkish gas market, the
supplier that offers the best price for its gas will emerge as the
winner. "This is a great race," Maiman says, "Whoever takes Turkey
first wins. Whoever comes second will have lean years."
the U.S. needs Russian assistance in its campaign against Afghanistan,
when AFP asked Alex Chorine of Caspian Investor what kind of
relationship existed between the Russian and Western/Israeli energy
companies doing business in the Caspian Basin, Chorine said, "They act
of Maiman's proposed pipelines would bring Turkmenistan's gas and oil
to Turkey via Azerbaijan and Georgia. Maiman's Merhav Group is also
involved in a $100 million project that would reduce the flow of water
to Iraq by diverting water from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers to
officials boast of having excellent relations with Azerbaijan, where an
Israeli company, Magal Security Systems, has a contract to provide
security at Baku airport. Magal is one of several Israeli companies
that will turn Israel into a major player in Azerbaijan by providing
security for the 1,200 mile pipeline taking oil from the Caspian to the
Turkish port of Ceyhan on the Mediterranean Sea.
the biggest contributor to the Bush campaign of 2000, conducted the
feasibility study for a $2.5 billion Trans-Caspian gas pipeline, which
is being built under a joint venture agreement signed in February 1999
between Turkmenistan and two American companies, Bechtel and General
Electric Capital Services. Maiman acted as the intermediary between the
Turkmenis and the U.S. firms, but won't discuss his cut or whether he
will receive a stake in the pipeline.
Merhav Group has hired a Washington lobbying firm, Cassidy &
Associates, and spent several million dollars to encourage U.S.
officials to push for the Trans-Caspian pipeline. During the Clinton
administration, Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson and special adviser
to the president, Richard Morningstar promoted the Baku-Ceyhan
pipeline, calling it "critical to the economic survival of
relationship between Israel, Turkey, and the U.S. is the major factor
for the selection of the Baku-Ceyhan route, which could be extended to
bring oil directly to energy deficient Israel, however, energy experts
question the wisdom and cost of this route. Companies are under
pressure from the U.S. and Israel to invest in east-west pipelines,
although most companies would prefer cheaper north-south pipelines
through Iran, according to WRMEA.
U.S. firm Unocal was leading a pipeline project to bring Turkmenistan's
abundant natural gas through Afghanistan to the growing markets of
Pakistan and India, until the turmoil in Afghanistan led them to
withdraw from the project in 1998. The planned pipeline would carry gas
from the Turkmen Dauletabad fields, among the world's largest, to
Multan in Pakistan, with a planned extension to India. The line from
Dauletabad through Afghanistan is planned to transport 15 billion cubic
feet of gas per year for 30 years. This pipeline is on hold until the
political and military situations in Afghanistan improve.
is a second Unocal project to build a 1,030 mile oil pipeline called
the Central Asian Oil Pipeline Project, which would start at Chardzhou
in Turkmenistan linking Russia's Siberian oil field pipelines to
Pakistan's Arabian coast. This line could transport 1 million barrels a
day of oil from other areas of the Former Soviet Union. It would run
parallel to the gas line route through Afghanistan and branch off in
Pakistan to the Indian Ocean terminal in Ras Malan.
ISRAEL'S SOVIET DICTATORS IN CENTRAL ASIA
the authoritarian president of the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic
was elected in 1990, and remained in power when Turkmenistan declared
independence in October 1991. In May 1992, Niyazov oversaw the passage
of a new constitution giving the president extraordinary powers.
the new constitution, the president is head of government as well as
head of state, and can appoint a prime minister at any time. The
president can also appoint and remove all judges.
leadership became increasingly authoritarian during the 1990s. In
September 1993 he defended his policy of tight censorship of the press
as a prerequisite for stability and peace in the country. In a
referendum held in January 1994, nearly 100 percent of the voters
endorsed Niyazov's leadership, allowing him to extend his presidency
renamed himself Turkmenbashi (father of the Turkmen) and presents
himself as a prophet and messiah. Every morning, state radio and
television (no independent broadcasters exist) transmit the words of a
prayer that includes an oath of allegiance to the president along with
the traditional appeal to Allah.
Turkmenistan, the other Central Asian nations of Uzbekistan, Kazakstan,
Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan are all ruled by former Communists who came
to power under the Soviet system. All five have been re-elected to
their posts without opposition, garnering over 90 percent of the votes
and securing comfortable lives in the national palaces.
each of the Central Asian countries a strange and officially imposed
dichotomy between "official" and "unofficial" Islam has appeared.
Official Islam refers to religious institutions under the control of
the state authorities. Unofficial Islam includes all other Muslims,
especially those who believe that Islam cannot be controlled by the
state power. They are accused of being extremists.
strength of Islamic fundamentalist movements like the Taliban in
Afghanistan and the anti-Russian Chechen rebels threatens the Soviet
style dictatorships and their control of the region's immense mineral
FOCUS ON AFGHANISTAN
the sun had set on the apocalyptic day that New York's gleaming twin
towers collapsed, the U.S. government had already determined to affix
the blame for the kamikaze attacks on the World Trade Center and the
Pentagon on Osama bin Laden, the Saudi-born guerilla leader, and the
Taliban government of Afghanistan which harbored him.
the U.S. government did not present its evidence in support of its case
against bin Laden, Secretary of State Colin Powell said on September
23, "I think in the near future, we will be able to put out a paper, a
document, that will describe quite clearly the evidence that we have
linking him to this attack."
it was reported that the Taliban might turn bin Laden over to face
justice, the Bush administration said that surrendering bin Laden would
not prevent an American-led attack on Afghanistan.
international plan to remove the fundamentalist Islamic Taliban from
power has been a subject of international diplomatic discussions for
months and was reportedly raised by India during the Group of Eight
summit in July in Genoa, Italy.
Indian press reported in June 2001 that, "India and Iran will
facilitate, U.S. and Russian plans for limited military action, against
the Taliban if the contemplated tough new economic sanctions don't bend
Afghanistan's fundamentalist regime."
invasion plans described in the Indian press in June may come to pass
in October: Tajikistan and Uzbekistan will lead the ground attack with
a strong military back up of the U.S. and Russia. Vital Taliban
installations and military assets will be targeted.
economic reasons for the multi-national assault against the Taliban
were explained: Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan
are threatened by the Taliban that is aiming to control their vast oil,
gas, and other resources by bringing Islamic fundamentalists into
was not explained in the Indian press is how these four predominantly
Islamic Central Asian nations would be threatened by having Islamic
fundamentalists in power.
European Spooks Say Mideast Terrorists Needed State Support
By Christopher Bollyn
16 December 2001
intelligence experts dismiss the Bush “war on terrorism” as deception
and reveal the realpolitik behind the bombing of Afghanistan. Read on:
In May 2005, President Bush and Laura Bush joined President Saparmurat
A. Niyazov of Turkmenistan and the Ukrainian president, Viktor A.
Yushchenko, to mark a World War II anniversary in Moscow.
should be remembered that Niyazov was a totalitarian dictator "for
life" not unlike Stalin. Bush did not seem to mind marching alongside a
dictator like Niyazov in 2005 as American boys died for "democracy" in
Iraq and Afghanistan. This photo reveals just how shallow and false
that claim really is.
What matters most to Bush and his cronies is control of Central Asia and its mineral assets.
death may have been natural or caused by poison or doctoring. What
matters most is what comes next. Turkmenistan is a neighbor to
Afghanistan and has a long border on Iran's northeastern frontier.
This is key. The border of Turkmenistan is very close to Tehran.
Israelis have long played a key role in Turkmenistan and their strategy
has been to find ways to export the immense oil and gas reserves of
Turkmenistan to the West without passing through Russia or Iran.

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Article Date: 16th April 2015
National Smile Month (18th May – 18th June 2015)
In a nutshell, National Smile Month is the UK’s largest and longest-running oral health campaign.
Together, with thousands of individuals and organisations, National Smile Month promotes three key messages, all of which go a long way in helping us develop and maintain a healthy mouth. They are:
The aim of National Smile Month is to ultimately improve the UK’s oral health. Organised by oral health charity, the British Dental Health Foundation, the campaign hopes to raise awareness of important health issues, and make a positive difference to the oral health of millions of people throughout the UK.
With the help and enthusiasm of those who are passionate about health and wellbeing, National Smile Month 2015 will see hundreds of events and activities up and down the UK educate and engage local communities about the importance of a healthy mouth.
In 2015, the campaign will take place between May 18 and June 18, encourages all dental and health professionals, schools, pharmacies, community groups, colleges and workplaces – in fact anyone with an interest in good oral healthcare, to join in and help us educate, motivate and communicate positive oral health messages and improves the quality of smiles all around the UK.
But National Smile Month isn’t just about education and stressing the importance of a healthy mouth – the key to the success of the campaign is that we have lots fun doing it!
Register: If National Smile Month sounds perfect for you, simply register your details. The process will take a matter of minutes and will allow us to send you through your very own registration pack with Smileys.
Get involved: Head over to our Events Hub and discover how you, your practice, hospital, school or workplace can take part in this year’s wonderful campaign. We have loads of great ideas to help you promote oral health, along with all the resources for you to make it as successful as possible!
The aim of National Smile Month is to ultimately improve the UK’s oral health. Register
The saying goes ‘the mouth is the window to the body’ and when we’re talking about taking care of our teeth, this couldn’t be truer.
We have already discussed the benefits of great oral health. What it can do for our confidence, our career and relationships but we have yet to talk about the effects of poor oral health.
So what comes to mind here? Yellow teeth? How about missing teeth? Or perhaps breath that even air freshener couldn’t mask?
These may be extreme but the point is this – the repercussions of poor oral health don’t just stop at the mouth.
You wouldn’t ignore bleeding to any part of your body but many people ignore bleeding gums. It’s one of the first and most obvious signs of gum disease, which if left untreated, can cause a whole range of problems.
By visiting a dentist as often as they recommend, we can help to nip these things in the bud.
Taken from our 'Tell Me About ‘Healthy Gums and Healthy Body’ leaflet, here are some of our most frequently asked questions regarding how the health of our mouth can affect our general health.
Yes. There are new findings which support something that dental professionals have suspected for a long time: infections in the mouth can cause problems in other parts of the body.
People with gum disease are almost twice as likely to have coronary artery disease than people without gum disease. When people have gum disease, bacteria from the mouth can get into their bloodstream. The bacteria produce protein. This can then affect the heart by causing the platelets in the blood to stick together in the blood vessels of the heart. This can make clots more likely to form. Blood clots can reduce normal blood flow, so that the heart does not get all the nutrients and oxygen it needs.
If the blood flow is badly affected this could lead to a heart attack.
Problems which may be caused or made worse by poor dental health include:
Several studies have looked at the connection between mouth infections and strokes. They have found that people who have had a stroke are more likely to have gum disease than people who have not had one.
When the bacteria that cause gum disease get into the bloodstream, they produce a protein. This can cause inflammation of the blood vessels, and this can block the blood supply to the brain. This can cause a stroke.
People with diabetes are more likely to have gum disease than people without it. This is probably because diabetics are more likely to get infections in general. People who do not know they have diabetes, or whose diabetes is not under control, are especially at risk.
If you do have diabetes it is important that any gum disease is diagnosed, because it can increase your blood sugar. This would put you at risk of diabetic complications.
Also, if you are diabetic, you may find that you heal more slowly. If you have a problem with your gums, or have problems after visits to your dentist, discuss this with your dentist before you have any treatment.
New research has also shown that you are more likely to develop diabetes if you have gum disease.
If you have diabetes, you have an increased risk of losing teeth.
Pregnant women who have gum disease may be over three times more likely to have a baby that is premature and so has a low birth weight. There is a one-in-four chance that a pregnant woman with gum disease will give birth before 35 weeks.
It seems that gum disease raises the levels of the chemicals that bring on labour. Research also suggests that women whose gum disease gets worse during pregnancy have an even higher risk of having a premature baby.
Having gum disease treated properly during pregnancy can reduce the risk of a premature birth.
Bacterial chest infections are thought to be caused by breathing in fine droplets from the throat and mouth into the lungs. This can cause infections, such as pneumonia, or could make an existing condition worse. People with gum disease have more bacteria in their mouths and may therefore be more likely to get chest infections.
A recent study found that people with fewer teeth had a higher risk of experiencing memory loss or early-stage Alzheimer’s disease.
This may be because the gum infections that can cause tooth loss may release chemicals that increase the brain inflammation which leads to earlier memory loss.
Visit your dentist or hygienist if you have any of the symptoms of gum disease. These can include:
Always tell your dentist about any changes to your general health. It is especially important to tell them if you are pregnant or have heart disease, diabetes, lung disease or have ever had a stroke. You also need to tell them about any medicines you are taking as these can affect both your treatment and the health of your mouth.
Although there is some evidence that gum disease runs in families, the main cause is the plaque that forms on the surface of your teeth. To prevent gum disease, you need to make sure you remove all the plaque from your teeth every day by brushing and cleaning in between your teeth.
If you have gum disease, your dentist or hygienist will usually give your teeth a thorough clean to remove any scale or tartar. This may take a number of sessions with the dentist or hygienist.
They will also show you how to remove the soft plaque yourself, by cleaning all the surfaces of your teeth thoroughly at home. Plaque is a sticky film of bacteria which forms on the teeth every day. For more information see our leaflet ’Tell me about gum disease‘.
Gum disease is never cured. But as long as you keep up the home-care you have been taught you can slow down its progress and even stop it altogether. You must make sure you remove plaque every day, and go for regular check-ups with the dentist and hygienist, as often as they recommend.
A recent study has shown that people who stay fit and healthy are 40% less likely to develop tooth-threatening gum infections that could lead to gum disease. It also found that not exercising, not keeping to a normal body weight and unhealthy eating habits made a person much more likely to get advanced gum disease.
If you are serious about your health – and your teeth – you will need to exercise, eat a healthy, balanced diet and keep to a normal body weight.
Smoking can make gum disease much worse. People who smoke are more likely to produce bacterial plaque that leads to gum disease. The gums are affected because smoking means you have less oxygen in your bloodstream, so the infected gums do not heal. Smoking can also lead to tooth staining, tooth loss because of gum disease, bad breath, and in more severe cases mouth cancer.


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When schools closed in response to COVID-19, educational platforms, websites and applications became a daily part of students’ lives. Homes replaced school buildings, and computers replaced classrooms.
Maine recently secured internet access for students facing connectivity issues so all students can learn remotely during the coronavirus pandemic. Many Maine school districts are adopting hybrid models this school year. In Portland, about 10 percent of students are expected to learn remotely full time. Depending on the school, the rest may attend classes in person for several days a week while learning online the others.
Distance learning can protect students from the immediate threat of COVID-19. But students’ increased use of digital learning tools could exacerbate another, long-term public health problem: diet-related disease.
The COVID-19 crisis has made clear that our diets are putting us in danger. Patients with obesity, diabetes and hypertension are more vulnerable to the virus, meaning that healthy

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Investigation of Nonstationary Combustion of Hydrogen-Steam-Air Mixtures and Decrease of NPP Containment Loads under Severe Accident
Tech Area / Field
- FIR-ENG/Reactor Engineering and NPP/Fission Reactors
3 Approved without Funding
Joint Institute for High Temperatures RAS, Russia, Moscow
- Nuclear Safety Institute, Russia, Moscow\nAtomenergoproekt, Russia, Moscow
- Saitama University / Depatment of Mechanical Engineering, Japan, Saitama\nUniversity of Michigan, USA, MI, Ann Arbor
Project summaryThe purpose of the project is the study unsteady combustion regimes of hydrogen-air mixtures, at which pressures that are much higher than those ones in the front of a stationary detonation appear. Such pressures can form in the reactor containment of a nuclear power plant (NPP) in case of severe accident conditions. The aim of the project is also to investigate the means of reducing the loads on the protecting envelope of a NPP in case of a hydrogen explosion in a NPP by means of a damper made of some porous material.
This project is directed to the development and realization of the results received from the Projects ISTC P-066-94 - «Investigation of accelerated flame propagation and deflagration-detonation transition in large volumes of hydrogen - steam - air mixtures with the aim to determine and to reduce loads on nuclear reactor containment at severe accident conditions» and ISTC P-065-94 - «Forecasting loads on nuclear reactor containment during severe accident conditions».
Any detonation as well as hydrogen - air mixtures unsteady combustion regimes at which fast velocities approach detonation ones are known to present a serious danger both for the containment and the elements of construction. It is a common opinion that the significant flame acceleration in large volumes of hydrogen - air mixtures is impossible and that is why an emergence of such regimes or a transition to detonation in the containment under severe accident is considered to be unlikely. However, the acceleration of flame up to the very fast velocities close to detonation ones is not compulsory for the formation of destructive loads. The investigations of the regimes of hydrogen - air mixtures unsteady combustion in pipes and also in the elements of some other geometry were carried out in the Project P-066-94. These investigations have shown that pressures up to dozen bars have been developed at the presence of places of subsonic burning in case of using some of the investigated shapes.
The essential achievement of project P-066-94 is putting into operation of the spherical explosion chamber with a diameter of 12 m, capable of withstanding the explosion of TNT cartridge up to 1000 kg. It is supposed to use this chamber for investigation of the regimes of unsteady combustion, the initiation and the development of the explosions of hydrogen - air mixtures in large volumes at models of large dimensions at heightened initial pressures. Likewise, it is supposed to carry out experiments in a cylindrical steel explosion chamber with volume of 110 m3, in detonation installations with a receiver, and in shock tubes.
It is supposed to develop the engineering approaches to the estimation of the combustion and explosion waves loads on the elements of construction and in the containment according to experimental and numerical studies.
In case of severe accident at NPP the pressure inside of the containment can be increased up to some bars. Analytical studies have shown, that at a heightened pressure and temperature the time of the ignition delay is decreased, and the speed of combustion of inflammable mixture is increased, leading to a quicker achievement of conditions for three-dimensional explosion, and to more destructive consequences. Experimental and computational studies of the conditions of the origin and development of hydrogen explosion at heightened pressures also will be under consideration in this project.
The problem of the critical energy of an explosion is basically important for the estimation of the possibility of its appearing and destructive consequences. A new, more realistic model of diffraction of the detonation wave was offered in the Project P-066-94. According to this model and diffraction experiments, physical and the numerical models of the definition of the critical energy for the formation of spherical detonation will be developed.
When studying severe accident, the possibility of the abrupt increase of hydrogen generation in case of melted zirconium dispersion has not been investigated. Though this can play a definite role and lead to the formation of extreme cases in a shorter period of time. The regimes of hydrogen generation of such kinds are supposed to be studied in this project.
It was shown in the Project ISTC P-065-94, that it is possible to conserve the protection functions of the NNP containment of VVER 1000 type in case of severe accident and the subsequent explosion of hydrogen-steam-air mixture by means of creating a damper protecting the containment from destructive loads. Using of the damper consisting of a layer of porous material covered by a protecting steel envelope, permits to decrease the blast wave impulse pressure on a wall of the containment up to the permissible value with the simultaneous increase of the time of its action. The description of the blast wave propagation, the method of damper protection calculation, and the method of the calculation of a ferro-concrete envelope under dynamic loads (including the model of the concrete behavior) received in the project P-065-94, and also new data about the pressure impulse magnitude permit to begin the developing of recommendations concerning materials used in a damper, and optimal damper parameters.
Potential Role of Foreign Collaborators
Foreign partners can take part in the elaboration of the investigations of the project, in the discussion of the experiments, in analyzing of the obtained results, and in working out recommendations concerning the application of the results for the designing of new NPPs. The Russian participants of the project are greatly interested in collaboration and cooperation with scientific laboratories of the USA, Germany, Italy, Canada, France, Finland and Japan.
The International Science and Technology Center (ISTC) is an intergovernmental organization connecting scientists from Kazakhstan, Armenia, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Georgia with their peers and research organizations in the EU, Japan, Republic of Korea, Norway and the United States.
ISTC facilitates international science projects and assists the global scientific and business community to source and engage with CIS and Georgian institutes that develop or possess an excellence of scientific know-how.


Scania connects 250,000 vehicles
Scania have reached the milestone of a quarter million connected vehicles, amounting to two thirds of their 5-year rolling fleet.
With the aim to lead the shift towards sustainable transport systems, Scania has outlined a strategy that focuses on greater energy efficiency, smarter and safer transport and the increased utilisation of alternative renewable fuels.
‘The world of heavy transport stands on the brink of a fundamental shift towards sustainable transport. Digitalisation and connectivity will play a pivotal role in enabling this shift,’ said Henrik Henriksson, president and CEO of Scania.
Today more than 50,000 Scania customers globally benefit from in-depth data on fleet performance for their 250,000 vehicles.
Scania is now further developing its efficiency-enhancing services through Scania One, which provides a comprehensive gateway to all presently available and coming services in the device of choice, mobile or stationary.
The automotive company are also collaborating with communications technology company Ericson on autonomous technology, including wireless communication between heavy vehicles. With reliable inter-communications between trucks and buses, distances between vehicles can be safely reduced, reducing drag and lowering fuel consumption. Connectivity also enables real-time updates on weather conditions, obstacles on the road, and other hazards that might pose a safety risks.
Scania has recently been awarded a project to design the world’s first full-scale autonomous truck platooning operations in Singapore.


Tuesday, 11 January 2011
Luxury fashion brands continue Brazilian expansion
“Why are we not here?” François-Henri Pinault, the chief executive of PPR, whose brands include Alexander McQueen and Gucci, was overheard asking while visiting shopping centre Cidade Jardim in São Paulo recently, according to Women’s Wear Daily. Why not, indeed? I’ve written before about Brazil’s growing luxury fashion market, both in this blog and for Drapers Magazine, and WWD’s report further emphasizes the appetite of global brands to expand in Brazil. I’ve picked out the most interesting parts of the report, notably Chanel’s aggressive expansion in the country. Bruno Pavlovsky, president of Chanel’s fashion division, told WWD: “The Brazilian market is mature. This is now the time for us to consolidate our presence there, directly operating the boutique network as we do elsewhere.” Chanel recently closed its franchised store in Daslu, Brazil’s most iconic luxury retailer in São Paulo, and took over the management of its store in Cidade Jardim, which also houses Hermès and Louis Vuitton. Apparently, the move had an immediate impact on Chanel’s prices, since the luxury brand no longer had to pay a middleman, says WWD. They fell by about 30%, with instalment payments ranging from three to six months. As I’ve mentioned before, Brazilians often pay for luxury goods in instalments, rather than outright. According to WWD, plans are afoot for further shopping malls to open in Brazil, including Village Mall in Rio in 2012 and Shopping JK Iguatemi in São Paulo. I’m sure it’s only a matter of time before Mr Pinault does open more stores in Brazil (I’ve written about his appetite to do so before). But for anyone looking to expand in Brazil, seek advice. Brazil’s tax laws are complicated and its bureaucracy frustrating. But as I’ve said before, I quite like how difficult the country can be; it forces businesses to innovate and avoids identikit high streets and shopping centres. On another note, Fashion Rio starts today. Come back this week for coverage.


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Last week I sent out an order for three of my Love Noms Noms pillows to South Dakota for an expecting mommy to be. ^_^ A few days after she received the pillows, I got in my Etsy inbox an email from her. To my surprise, she sent a picture of the pillows, and for some reason it made me so happy. Seeing my creations I have dedicated so much time and effort into in someone else’s hands felt so good. It definitely made my day! *_* Thank you!
So far from having my Etsy shop and being a seller, the part I have enjoyed most is packing up my pillows and sending a thank you note. Just knowing soon it will be in a buyer’s hands make me so nervous but very happy.
To all my previous buyers and buyers to come, you just don’t know how much I appreciate it! Thank you. 🙂
Long time no see! >_< Even though I’ve not been updating my blog I have been working on a few things! 🙂 I finished my second Hmong shirt. I made it MUCH longer this time compare to my first one. I hope you like!
I’m very much in love with this fabric that I purchased at Minh Phat Fabrics in Sacramento. So shiny. *_* I showed this shirt to my Mother in Law and she gave me a extra dabtsov or flap thing in the back of the shirt to use. 😀 I will definitely use it for my next shirt! Although I did start to wonder why Hmong shirts have the dabtsov on the back. My Mother in Law says it’s just for decoration but do any of you know if there’s a meaning for it? Would love to know if there is!
Before I left for California, I had been working on my new scarf collection incorporating some Hmong designs. I made one scarf and was planning to give it to my Grandma, which I did! Unfortunately, I don’t know what I was thinking and didn’t give it to her when we were together in CA so I don’t have any pictures of her wearing it. I gave it to my Dad to drop it by her place since I was leaving for home soon already. I hope she likes it. She said it was a little thin, which it is; however I don’t think she knew it is more for good looks. Lol. ❤ Grandma.
Anyway more to the scarves, I am working on them some more, trying to find what works and what not. I have two made at the moment, I just need to finish the stringy things at the end. I plan on listing these two at my Etsy shop once they are completed. 🙂
Don’t think I forgot about my sweet little Caydi! I am planning her next little collection piece as well for November which I will be focusing on this coming week. I can’t believe there’s only this month and December left to go for my Caydi Doll Collection. I feel like I was just creating her yesterday!
I also finished the next piece to my Love Noms Noms collection and will plan to share it once I get a few others done too.
So many projects and things I want to do! ^_^ Have a sweet day WordPressers!
Before I share updates on a project I’ve been working on, I just wanted to let everyone know I will no longer be using the name Crafted Cuteness to go by. After searching Crafted Cuteness on Google and Etsy, I came upon an absolute sweet little shop with the same name and with that being said I am switching back to what originally started it all for me, my little Caydi Doll. ❤ Please check out her Etsy shop, she creates and patterns her very own amigurumi dolls and they are indeed full of cuteness!
Alrighty! So I’ve been working on a project collection called “Love Noms Noms”. It is a collection of some enjoyable foods I like. Oh yes, here I go with food again. 😀 Lol. I plan to have the very first two ready to share by the end of next week! Super excited and can’t wait! That’s all for now! >=D Have a great day!


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The award-winning Galway Food Tours — guiding people through the food scene of Galway for over five years — has developed a way for people to explore Galway’s incredible produce, grocery stores, restaurants, cafés and bars on their own terms.
Sheena and Gosia, the women behind Galway Food Tours, have created a new Guide Book that brings together over 40 of their favourite suppliers as well as their own most-loved parts of the city. These recommendations allow people to explore Galway and to engage with the city’s collaborative nature.
This keepsake pocket book reveals what Sheena and Gosia particularly love about Galway: the people, the independent cultural events and, of course, the best places to eat, drink superb wines and creamy pints. In addition to getting the inside scoop on where to visit, eat and drink, the book also includes vouchers and discounts, as well as illustrations by local artist Gala Tomasso: a combination of experience, value and insider knowledge.
You may find yourself eating one of the best sourdough sandwiches in Galway in Tartare, enjoying a glass of wine at Ruibin on the docks, sampling a world-famous Boychik Doughnut or hitting the road to Barna for a taste of Hooked Seafood with 10% off. In you fancy some shopping, you’ll find discounts on curated Irish designs at The Tweed Project or on screen-printed tea towels from Kai Restaurant.
“This book has been created to highlight Galway and is one that can be treasured for years to come. The illustrations, the little inside notes and the overall sense of Galway within it means it will make its way into homes, rucksacks and tote bags across the country and world,” said Gosia.
The Galway Food Tours Self-Guided Pocket Book is €35 and is available to buy from McCambridges, Ard Bia Restaurant, Charlie Byrnes, Coffeewerk + Press and Tigh Neachtains. For all other retailers, check out Galway Food Tours across all social channels and here at their website.


DG 75 AF is powerful vacuum cleaner by Delfin. In this vacuum cleaner, unique characteristics such as high vacuum and air flow, large container, robustness and high-efficiency filter are combined. DG 75 AF is an ideal vacuum cleaner for collecting tiny powders or high volume of dust. This industrial vacuum cleaner is equipped with a turbine motor and side channel pump. There is a direct coupling between pump and motor and no transmission system. so the suction unit is totally maintenance free and it can operate round the clock 24 hours. This unit is very silent and provides unique suction performance. For more safety DG 75 AF is equipped with a thermal switch and vacuum gauge so the constant checking of the suction performance is possible.
DG 75 AF has a star filter which is made of polyester and has the considerable filter surface of 49000 cm2. So this industrial vacuum cleaner has high filtration efficiency. This vacuum cleaner is equipped with manual filter shaker which cleans the filter by a vertical shaking movement and increases the filter life and guarantees the optimal performance of the machine. The filter is placed upper the suction inlet. So DG 75 AF is able to suck up solid, liquid and dust at the same time and there is no need for filter removing or change.
DG 75 AF bin is detachable and it has wheels and handle so it can be easily moved to dump place. While it is needed the sucked material can be collected directly into a plastic bag.
The vacuum cleaner chassis is made of sturdy steel and it has two pivoting wheels and all the metal parts are coated with epoxy.


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Northeast Kingdom Hiking Trail Map 3rd Edition
New map of the excellent hiking in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont! This map has been updated to include the new Kingdom Heritage Trail on Middle Mountain and Bluff Ridge and the trail relocation on Wheeler Mountain. It also includes trails around Lake Willoughby and Wheeler Pond, plus Burke, Gore, Monadnock (VT), Bluff, Brousseau and Averill Mountains. The map includes directions to trailheads and trail difficulty ratings.
Digital versions are now available! Click here to purchase. Disclaimer: You will be leaving the Green Mountain Club website to complete this purchase.
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Wellesley Housing Production Plan community conversation
May 3 @ 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
The next community meeting to assist in the development of the Town of Wellesley Housing Production Plan will be held on Thursday, May 3, 7pm to 9:30pm, in the Sprague Elementary Gym.
Please visit http://wellesleyma.gov/987/Housing-Production-Plan for more information on the Plan, including the PowerPoint presentation used at the April 7 community meeting and a link to the Wellesley Public Media video of the meeting


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There are several projects I wanted to complete before Thanksgiving, but it doesn't
look like that is going to happen. One project I did finish was a cute
table runner using up some of the scraps from my autumn quilts. It's
just a simple little pattern sewing 2 1/2" squares together, alternating
between bright and fall colors . On either end I added a piece of
muslin, approximately 6," and embroidered some simple leaves. I think
the rickrack was a good way to separate the muslin and the patchwork.
The whole runner is approximately 38" x 15."

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text: SOFIA (AFP) – Companies from Greece, Bulgaria and Russia have agreed to form a joint venture to build a pipeline that will take Russian oil from the Bulgarian Black Sea port of Burgas to Alexandroupolis in the Aegean Sea, Bulgaria’s Regional Development Ministry said yesterday. «The companies interested in the project signed a memorandum to discuss within the next six months their stakes in a joint-venture International Project Company to build the pipeline,» the ministry’s Kalin Rogachev said. «During that time other partners are also more than welcome to join,» Rogachev added. Four Russian companies – TNK-British Petroleum, Stroytransgas, Sovcomflot and Tatneft – will join the project. Three others – Sibneft, Surgutneftegas, and Rosneft – are still discussing their financial engagement in the deal, Russian Deputy Minister of Fuel and Energy Anatoli Yanovski said yesterday. The three Greek candidates for participation – Hellenic Petroleum, the Latsis Group, and Prometheus Gas – have already formed a consortium called DEP-Thraki, Greek Deputy Minister of Development Giorgos Salagoudis said. Two more consortia – Universal Terminal Burgas and Transbalkan Pipeline Company – will join the deal on the Bulgarian side. Greece, Bulgaria and Russia in April signed the political accord for the 700-million-euro deal to build a 285-kilometer pipeline. It will allow Russian oil from the Caspian Sea to be transported from the port of Novorossiysk on the Black Sea by tanker to Burgas and to reach Alexandroupolis through the overland pipeline. «If everything goes according to plan I think we will have the Burgas-Alexandroupolis pipeline in operation by the end of 2008,» Salagoudis said yesterday. The decade-old Burgas-Alexandroupolis project is in competition with another pipeline project joining Bulgaria’s Black Sea port via the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia with Albania’s Adriatic coast, which is backed by the US consortium AMBO. That 912km pipeline would cost 1.2 billion dollars and have a capacity of 35 million tons of oil per year.


Washington, DC – Today Foreign Policy for America Statement released the following statement on the House passage of H.R. 7900, the FY2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
“While we are disappointed that efforts to bring topline spending levels back in line with the President’s Budget Request did not succeed, we were pleased that several key amendments to strengthen American diplomacy and respond to the international challenge of climate change were included in this year’s bill,” said Ben Weingrod, Senior Director for Policy at Foreign Policy for America. “That said, it remains troubling that Congress continues to advance diplomatic policy through the National Defense Authorization Act rather than through legislation focused on the Department of State. We strongly urge Congress to pass another State Department Authorization Act this year.”
Key diplomacy focused amendments attached to the FY2023 NDAA include:
The House of Representatives took a major step forward in reclaiming powers of war and peace through the passage of three critical amendments repealing outdated Authorizations of Use of Military Force (AUMF), including one offered by Representative Barbara Lee (D-CA) to repeal the 2022 AUMF against Iraq, an amendment offered by Representative Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) to repeal the 1991 AUMF against Iraq, and an amendment offered by Representative Peter Meijer (R-MI) an Eisenhower-era Middle East AUMF.
Efforts to coordinate subnational diplomacy by American cities and states were supported by passage of the bipartisan City and State Diplomacy Amendment amendment offered by Representatives Ted Lieu (D-CA) and Joe Wilson (R-SC).
Restoring parity between defense and diplomacy and development was supported through a bipartisan amendment offered by Representatives Ami Bera (D-CA) and Steve Chabot (R-OH) that mandates an assessment by the diplomatic and development resources needed to fulfill the U.S. Indo-Pacific Strategy.
Multiple amendments also addressed the growing need to address climate change globally, including:
A requirement authored by Representative Linda Sánchez (D-CA) that requires the U.S. support NATO efforts to address climate security, including through implementing the NATO 2022 Strategic Concept and the establishment of a NATO Center of Excellence for Climate and Security.
An amendment authored by Representative Steven Horsford (D-NV) to track and reduce Scope 3 emissions and energy costs generated by the Department of Defense’s extensive value chain. The Department of Defense is the single largest energy consumer in the U.S.
Language offered by Representatives Scott Peters (D-CA), Jason Crow (D-CO), and Katie Porter (D-CA) to add climate resilience and other critical environmental focused activities as eligible areas of security assistance support under the Combatant Commander Initiative Fund.


Up Close and Personal is brought to you by DJ Lehr, one of our biggest fans here at The Indie Authority.
Each week you can expect a CD review by him where he gets Up Close and Personal by reviewing their CD for you guys the listeners!
*Reviewer’s Note: Be advised, if you seek to purchase the album via iTunes, the first two tracks are mislabeled. Track One is “It’s Over Now” and Track Two is “You Can’t See Me”.
Orlando-based rockers 13Below’s debut album “Living the Dream” provides us with a sound quite reminiscent of classic bands such as Dio and Pantera with a vocal delivery by Kellena Barber that immediately hints to Pat Benatar fused with Amy Lee. The opening track, “It’s Over Now” begins with a piano ballad which leads into a solid guitar riff that, upon first listen, you may be forgiven if under the impression of listening to a band from the 80s. The track “Nothing” enters with a clean undistorted lick before going full-on groove metal ala Pantera with plodding drums, an aggressive bass and chugging rhythm.
Drums are quite prominent in the mix and the guitars have a fair amount of low-end and mid-range, the bass is a bit lower at times, like in “Kick me when I’m Down”, but it still feels like it works out.
For as much of an influence that old school rock and metal has been upon these newcomers, these fine musicians still manage to be fairly original in their approach, almost reinventing classic metal, breathing in new life to a nearly lost art.
Overall, “Living the Dream” leaves the listener satisfied as 13Below proves that classic sounds can still be fresh and innovative now as they were when they first appeared. Hopefully future releases will keep in tradition while making new tunes for the world to enjoy.
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Hemp stakeholders and lawmakers supporting berry in the USA have tagged proposed hemp principles in the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) as overly restrictive, also called for tolerance up to a whole 1 percent THC.
The U.S. Farm Bill, which became law last December, sets the THC amount for hemp in no greater than 0.3 percent THC to a dry weight basis, however USDA rules permit for tolerance levels around 0.5 percent THC. Any hemp harvest with numbers of THC over that limitation would violate regulations. Proponents state that amount ought to be increased to 1 percent.
Range of questions
At a recent letter to the USDA, Oregon Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley suggested numerous modifications to USDA’s proposed principles, imagining the debatable THC degree, and indicating modifications to other regulations.
The Senators called for other testing methods that just assess delta-9 THC amounts instead of the entire spectrum of THC, also contended that other and private labs must be accepted to examine hemp. Beneath the USDA proposal just Drug Enforcement Administration registered labs could execute such evaluations.
They also endorsed the debate of several farmers who have noticed that USDA’s proposition that hemp be analyzed over 15 days prior to harvest causes an “impossible obstacle for growers to overcome,” recommending that period be raised 28 days.
Senate leader requires expansion
Another lawmaker, New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, the leading Democrat from the U.S. Senate, last week told The (New York) Daily News:”Many people today think the [THC] amount they place is far too low, as it is way beneath the damaging level.”
“They need to look at these rules and re-examine them,” Schumer stated in calling for an expansion of those 60-day public comment period for USDA’s proposed hemp principles, which have been made public in the end of October. That usually means that the comment period would finish before the new year.
“This (hemp) has tremendous, tremendous potential, and all the excitement about growing and processing hemp, and creating lots of jobs, could go away if these rules are done in too narrow and restrictive a way,” Schumer said.


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He was finally recognized at the Salon in 1824, when his raphaelesque painting, The Vow of Louis XIII met with acclaim and Ingres was acknowledged as the leader of the neoclassical school in France. Although the income from commissions for historical paintings enabled him to paint fewer portraits, his Portrait of Monsieur Bertin marked his next popular success in 1833. The following year, his indignation at the harsh criticism of his ambitious composition The Martyrdom of Saint Symphorian caused him to return to Italy, where he assumed directorship of the French Academy in Rome in 1835. He became director of the academy in 1835. In 1841 he returned to Paris for good. In his later years he painted new versions of many of his earlier compositions, a series of designs for stained glass windows, several important portraits of women and The Turkish Bath, the last of his several Orientalist paintings of the female nude, which he completed at the age of 83.
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (* 29. August 1780 in Montauban; † 14. Januar 1867 in Paris) was a French neoclassical painter. Ingres was strongly influenced by earlier artistic traditions and strove to become the guardian of academic orthodoxy against the rising Romantic style. Although he considered himself a painter of history in the tradition of Nicolas Poussin and Jacques-Louis David, his painted and drawn portraits are considered his greatest legacy. His expressive distortions of form and space made him an important precursor of modern art and influenced Picasso, Matisse, and other modernists. Born into a modest family in Montauban, he travelled to Paris to study in David's studio. In 1802, he made his Salon debut, winning the Prix de Rome for his painting "The Ambassadors of Agamemnon in the Tent of Achilles." By the time he left for his stay in Rome in 1806, his style - revealing his close study of the Italian and Flemish Renaissance masters - was fully developed and would change little for the rest of his life. While working in Rome and later Florence from 1806 to 1824, he regularly sent paintings to the Paris Salon, where they were objected by critics who found his style bizarre and archaic. During this period, he received few commissions for the historical paintings he wanted to paint, but was able to support himself and his wife as a portrait painter and draftsman.


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Black Crows Freeride Skis Strike Again
For a few years now we've been lucky to join ISPO Munich and every time we've had a blast meeting some really cool brands. This year we kept the tradition and dropped by Black Crows booth to get some insights into their new ski and gear models that, honestly, even at first sight, are something to fall in love with.
At the booth, we caught Julien Lafforgue from Black Crows who gave some spicy details about the new Corvus model and old-new, improved Camox Freebirds (and when we say improved, we mean improved!).
The new Corvus Freeride skis are tempting with some added rocker in the tip and tail to get you just the tiny bit of flex you craved for to rock the curves in the powder and take away some of the pressure when turning.
As for the Camox Freebird, it is enough to mention that Black Crows managed to cut off 400 grams of the skies with their new mold, and the rest will follow.
Marlin Westerberg, the merchant manager of Black Crows also gave us a sneak peek into their new insulated styles which are definitely worth checking out.
Be sure to check out our huge selection of skis and winter clothing from Black Crows here.


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Nearly 60 people were killed yesterday as the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) and the Uganda Police battled armed guards of Omusinga wa Rwenzururu (King of Rwenzururu) Charles Wesley Mumbere at his Palace in Kasese.
The Police PRO Andrew Felix Kawesi told a news conference that Mumbere’s arrest came after he refused to cooperate with security forces to hand over his guards whom security claim had attacked and killed police officers.
Kawesi said the joint force of the UPDF and the Police killed 41 royal guards, Omusinga had refused to handover his men whom the Police accused of carrying out random attacks on different police stations around Kasese and killing up to 14 police officers.
The attack on the Omusinga’s Palace also came after President Yoweri Museveni failed, in a telephone call, to persuade the king to hand over his guards to security forces.
The attack on the Palace was commanded by the Assistant Inspector General of Police Asuman Mugenyi.
Reliable sources say that Mumbere was airlifted to Kampala Sunday evening where, according to Police spokesperson, will have to explain his actions, involving inciting violence and supporting a rebel force.
The latest escalation of violence in Kasese has triggered intense fear and panic among residents in Kasese who were captured by TV cameras running for dear life. But it comes after nearly a year of building tension across the Obusinga region which according to Kawesi is seeking to secede from Uganda for form a separate state dubbed Yiira Republic that straddles the Rwenzori mountains into Eastern Congo.
Mumbere’s arrest and the apparent decimation of his guards appears to have broken the spine of that resistance and the secession spirit.


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This is a list of produce to purchase and consume in their original whole ORGANIC form whenever possible. Apples Celery Cherry Tomatoes Cucumbers Grapes Nectarines Peaches Potatoes Snap Peas Spinach & Other Lettuces Strawberries Sweet Bell Peppers & Hot Peppers Kale … Continue reading
Nutritional Suggestions For Optimal Health Drink half your body weight in ounces of (quality) water. Do not exceed 100 ounces of per day (Drink more when consuming diuretics or exercising) Reduce, with the goal of eliminating diuretics like coffee, pop, … Continue reading
1 cup Water 1 cup White Vinegar 1/4 teasp. sustainable Dish Soap (I use Norwex) 10 drops Lemon Essential Oil Mix all ingredients in a spray bottle. Apply and wipe with soft cloth.
1 1/2 cups Borax 1 1/2 cups Washing Soda 1 1/2 cups Dr. Bonner’s Liquid Castille Soap 15-20 drops Essential Oil (optional) 20 cups Water Bring 8 cups of water to slight boil. Turn off burner and add borax and … Continue reading
1 bar of grated Castille Soap Bar 2 cups Borax 2 cups Washing Soda 1 cup Baking Soda 25-30 drops Lavender or Peppermint Essential Oil Mix all ingredients and store in an air tight container.
2 cups thawed, chopped frozen Spinach 1 1/2 cups thawed, chopped frozen Artichoke hearts 12 ounces homemade Cream Cheese 1/2 cup homemade Sour Cream 1/2 cup Grated Parmesan Cheese (additional for garnish on top) 1/2 teasp. Red Pepper Flakes 1 … Continue reading
1 quart Broth (chicken, turkey, beef, pork, or lamb) 6 sliced medium to large Onions 1 teasp. Sea Salt 1 clove minced Garlic or 1 teasp. Garlic powder 1/8 teasp. black Pepper Place onions, salt and broth in medium pot … Continue reading
3 cups homemade Pumpkin 1 teasp. Sea Salt 2 teasp. ground Cinnamon 1 teasp. All Spice 1/4 teasp. Cloves 1/4 teasp. Ginger 2 free range Eggs 1/4 cup homemade Yogurt or Sour Cream 1/3 cup raw Honey Mix all ingredients … Continue reading
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Ford Tweaked The Transit Diesel To Run On Cooking Oil Waste
3 February 2020 - motor1
Bad for the body, good for the environment?
While most people seem to be concerned with the long term benefits of electric and hydrogen options, let's not forget that there are some other pretty ingenious solutions to powering the engines that run our vehicles. Remember how health experts have always dismissed grease and any waste products from cooking oil as a big no-no for those looking to stay healthy? Well, they're definitely not good for the body, but they're now good enough for Ford's Transit vans. That is if you happen to have one with a diesel engine. Ford has now approved the use of hydrotreated vegetable oils (HVO) in its Transit vans, the fuel is basically based on waste oils such as cooking oil and other byproducts of the cooking process in restaurants and kitchens.
These HVOs are said to produce 90% fewer greenhouse gases and produce less nitrogen oxide (NOx) than regular diesel since the fuel contains no sulphur or oxygen. Additionally, HVOs have a number of waste animal fats and fish oil, helping diesel engines start more easily in colder temperatures. In fact, a number of companies already in Europe have been collecting used oils from establishments and households, with even more effort being put into boosting biodiesel production. With the HVO on sale at a number of stations in Europe, the fuel has already been adopted by many fleet operators, further increasing their environment-friendly initiatives.
The best part? If a vehicle runs low on HVO and it's not available at the next station, the driver can fill up with conventional diesel – the fuels can mix in the tank without causing problems. Ford has also made sure that HVO was thoroughly tested in the Transit van's 2.0-liter EcoBlue engine, making sure no further modifications are needed and servicing wouldn't be an issue; just fill up and go.