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I am interested in connections between the body, its environments, and longevity in India, specifically in the context of chronic illness in Mumbai. As India becomes increasingly portrayed as the site of an "epidemiological transition" -- a shift from infectious to chronic disease burdens said to accompany economic development -- my research questions the embodied politics of accumulation.
I am currently working on a book project that examines the relationships forged between food, fat, the body, and the city in light of India's rising rates of obesity and diabetes. This project draws on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in Mumbai's home kitchens, metabolic disorder clinics, and food companies, to better understand what have been termed India's "diseases of prosperity."
My earlier projects have examined the development of corporatized medical care in Indian cities and its manifestation as "medical tourism," and the politics of language in India's HIV treatment clinical trials.
I situate both my research and teaching at the interdisciplinary intersections of medical anthropology, South Asian studies, science and technology studies, global health, and food studies. Prior to anthropology, I studied linguistics and global public health, and worked on reproductive health and HIV policy.
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MAJOR: Foundations - Humanities
Food and the Body
This course is a seminar-based investigation into the social, cultural, and political connections between food and the body. Students will approach these connections from two perspectives: The relationship between food and culture, and how the body is key to that relationship. Readings are drawn primarily from cultural anthropology, and use cross-cultural examples to illustrate these perspectives. Specific course themes include: Food and cultural identity; nationalism and eating; social class and taste; global food production; gender and eating disorders; the politics of organic and local foods; and the rise of obesity. Students will lead weekly discussion of readings, and will complete a final research paper.
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Metabolic Living: Food, Fat, and the Absorption of Illness in India View
Metabolic Living: Food, Fat, and the Absorption of Illness in India. Durham: Duke University Press. In book series "Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography" (Eds. Vincanne Adams, João Biehl).
"Unreliable Eating: Patterns of Food Adulteration in Urban India." BioSocieties 10: 177-193.
"The Taste No Chef Can Give: Processing Street Food in Mumbai." Cultural Anthropology 30(1): 65-90.
"Short Cuts: Metabolic Surgery and Gut Attachments in India." Social Text 120 (Fall 2014).
"Taste Tests: Pizza and the Gastropolitical Laboratory in Mumbai." Ethnos 79(1): 19-40.
Review of Weighing In: Obesity, Food Justice, and the Limits of Capitalism by Julie Guthman. Global Public Health 7(8): 911-913.

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Just think! We sleep 20–25 years of our lives! Sleep is the most important part of it. Most people do not attach any importance to this and assume that any pillow is suitable for sleeping. But this is a big mistake!
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My wife feels this way......I dont. haha I like the fact that I can easily go back and forth any time i want.
I wanted to pull mine off, but the dealer put 2 holes in the bumper when they installed the front plate bracket :mad:
Yours looks better
Probably because the speakers aren't easy to just swap out like they would be in any other car, why Toyota made it so hard i haven't the...
lookin forward to an answer myself. the more research i do the more i think i am just going to replace the door speakers
My 2 best friends
I like it too, but have a hard time keeping it up since i have to get online to add the fuel up, wish there was an app available for my phone
keep me posted on if you change out your stuff, i may take your factory JBL off your hands
Dumb question, but what is the difference...
Would a set of component speakers work to replace the factory squakers?
Are the Crutchfield specs/recommendations pretty accurate? After reading on here it appears that its not all to easy to just buy some speakers...
Awful is a little harsh unless your referring to the C and said Prius my mistake haha
A friend of mine just got a C and the size difference is...
Let me know if he can beat it, maybe we will get a deal if we get 2 (or 3 if you get one for the 2011)
Good to know, thanks
Ive only had my 2012 for about 3 weeks (1300 miles) and today was really the first time I have rolled down the windows, heard the exact same thing so...
Is there a difference between the 2010 & 2011's?
The 2 large hockey sticks are white on the PiP instead of red. There might be more, but that's enough for me to want them haha
That is a ton of work haha, congrats on taking it on, came out pretty good
I know im probably taking a big shot in the dark here, but would anyone want to trade their PiP tail lights with my 2012?
Was asking about the center caps, thanks. I actually like them w/o
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Heather Stephens, 23, of Walton works on a Christmas gift for a cousin at the Dec. 16 meeting of In the Loop. The group of knitters and crocheters meet at the Florence Branch of the Boone County Public Library every Tuesday.
Mary Stephens sits with her daughters Kim and Heather, all of Walton, knitting needles in hand. Their fingers move back and forth rhythmically as they fashion together strands of yarn into a cowl and wrist warmers.
"It means a lot to me to come here and do this with my daughters," she said. "I taught them to knit when they were little and they didn't get into it, but now it's a new found talent."
The Stephens women are regulars at the In the Loop meetings. The knitting and crocheting group meets 10 a.m. every Monday at the Florence Branch of the Boone County Public Library, 7425 U.S. 42, Florence. ...

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Wherever these guys go, an entourage is sure to follow. Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the most popular Lomographers for the month of March!
They’ve got the looks, the style and more importantly, the photos that make them Lomography royalty for the month of March! These users have been voted as the most popular Lomographers through the likes and comments you’ve left on their LomoHomes for the past 30 days. Congrats guys! They are celebrities without a doubt!
Aside from the Magazine, going through the User Blogs is another way to keep tabs on the latest happening in the community. Throughout the year, it was filled with articles on new discoveries, thought-provoking opinions, and exciting exhibits that surely entertained, challenged, and inspired everyone. Let's take a look back at the fruitful year through the most popular user blogs of 2014.
Ladies and gentlemen, fellow Lomographers, the time is ripe for us to present you with a new mystery product. But we're not giving anything much away this time, just a few hints and clues to keep you on your toes.
The shoutbox is always open for the community's honest opinions, surprising suggestions, and sweetest greetings. It is also an avenue for members from across different countries to dicuss and interact with one another. We'd like to commend these lomographers for keeping this humble space booming with entertaining conversations all year long. Congratulations to our top shoutbox users of 2014.
"Take your camera wherever you go" is one of Lomography's golden rules that she religiously follows. Her lomographs shows her dedication to documenting even the most mundane moments of her life through beautiful photographs. Meet our newcomer of the week from United Kingdom, Breech!
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Thousands of budding lomographers from all over the world joined the community in the past year. Beginner's luck or inherent talent, these newbies placed their best foot forward and filled their LomoHomes with nothing but amazing snapshots. We proudly present the most popular newcomers of 2014.
You want your subject be the center of attention? Petzval lens photos are recognizable for sharpness and crispness in the centre, strong color saturation, wonderful swirly bokeh effect, artful vignettes and narrow depth of field that will make your subjects stand out!
Ladies and gentlemen, for this rumble, we’ve joined forces with Australian MC/singer REMI Kolawole. Since he is on tour now and will play in many different places this summer, we’re looking for your best, most exciting analogphotos which you feel best capture the essence of music festivals. Hot prizes are waiting for you!
My list of resolutions for 2015 consists of 12 projects, one for every month. March was for caffenol. You have probably heard of the amazing fact that you can develop black and white photos with coffee, sodium, and vitamin C. I had tried this before but with less than stellar results. Somehow, there's always something going wrong. Time to devote a few rolls to caffenol to finally get the hang of it.

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The 2013 China International Cement Conference got underway at the Hotel Nikko New Century in Beijing today, welcoming over 300 senior delegates from the country’s large cement sector.
Opening the meeting, Mr Qiao Longde, President of the China Cement Association, highlighted some of the successes of the China cement industry, which in recent year has made dramatic strides in adopting more efficient production processes while eliminating backward production capacity.
“High-quality dry process cement production now accounts for about 90 per cent of overall cement production, which has been realised through technological renovation and cement plant modernisation over the past 20 years,” explained Mr Longde.
Nevertheless, the industry is still an enormous consumer of energy and because of its scale, responsible for high levels of pollution.
Mr Longde said that the key short-to-medium term objectives of the industry, therefore, will be energy saving and emissions reduction. This will be achieved by driving forward technological innovation and developing a ‘second generation of dry process kiln technology’, he said.
Also speaking to delegates, Mr Jiang Minglin, Consultant to the State Council, warned that in spite of the industry’s noted achievements, its current rate of expansion is unsustainable, and has resulted in conspicuous overcapacity. “In 2012 the annual cement production reached up to 2.18bnt, up 7.4 per cent YoY," he said.
“Even though in 2012, outdated cement production lines amounting to 220Mta capacity were phased out, 125 greenfield lines were built with clinker production capacity amounting to 160Mta. Thus, total national cement production capacity reached 3bnt and capacity utilisation rates slipped to 72.7 per cent,” Mr Minglin highlighted.
Thus, in line with the development goals set out by the 18th National Congress of the CPC, the development mode of the cement industry will be switched from one of “scale expansion” to one which instead promotes technology advancement and prioritises environmental sustainability.
State controls will be actively introduced to resolve the issue of overcapacity: “We will bring market mechanisms in to full play, focus on market demand, strictly control total output and give priority to the resolution of the issue of overcapacity,” said Mr Minglin.
Running in parallel to the cement conference on 24-26 April is the 14th China International Cement Industry Exhibition. Held at the Beijing Exhibition Centre, this cement equipment exhibition includes over 250 exhibitors and an attendance estimated at 5000 visitors over the three days, according to the organisers.


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Sport England is investing funds to support inactive people in lower socio-economic groups. A total of £3 million is available across two grant programmes.
A £2 million pot is available to support larger projects with awards from £25,000 up to a maximum of £500,000. This will be to fund projects aimed at inactive people who are in employment. They will be ordinary people and families who sometimes, or often, struggle to make ends meet. They can find it hard to build physical activity into their lives, or feel being active isn’t for them.
The remaining £1 million fund will support projects between £25,000 and £100,000. This will focus on projects aimed at inactive people who are far less likely to have a steady income, or any income at all, and face more extreme disadvantage. They may also be facing other challenges, such as being at risk of offending or dealing with substance misuse.
Through this fund, Sport England want to:
Expressions of interest for the awards need to be completed and submitted by 5pm on 6 November 2017.
For more information and details on how to apply visit the Sport England website here.

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Naseem Khan, the Guardian: I’ve never been too drawn by flashmobs.
If people chose to gather clandestinely and suddenly burst out into song en masse or into a dance routine, it seems harmless enough. Maybe a burst of a surprise activity in a public place is a good thing, momentarily shaking people’s assumptions of what is normal, and maybe raising their spirits.
But the idea of a flashmob of people meditating? In Trafalgar Square? I didn’t care for the idea. It seemed to either present meditation as a display of the weird and wonderful, or be making an ostentatiously pious comment about the dehumanisation of urban contemporary life.
Weirdness or smugness, why go for it?


SURREY, B.C.—School may be out, but Alisa Atchison has one more art project to complete. The 14-year-old from Surrey, B.C., will be spending her first weekend of the summer making a butterfly themed mask to wear to her school district’s first-ever pride prom.
“I always thought that butterflies were really free . . . and they’re beautiful,” she said. “I want to be free and beautiful as well.”
Guildford Park Secondary School’s gay-straight alliance is hosting the inaugural district-wide dance on Monday evening to give LGBTQ students from different high schools a chance to meet, have fun and feel supported.
“Each student is on their own path and in a different place when it comes to self-acceptance, or being out or not, or figuring out who they are and I think creating that safe space where you can just be who you are, whoever that is, is really, really important,” said Guildford Park teacher Heather Kelley.
The idea for a dance came from students who felt LGBTQ youth do not have enough opportunities to connect.
Typical dances and events, which are exclusive to students from the same school, can feel limiting to queer students whose network of friends extends beyond the school borders, Kelley said.
“The likelihood you’re going to meet an out queer teen that you want to date in a high school — you’re really lucky if it happens,” she said.
Having a district-wide event gets rid of the barrier and allows students to bring their dates and friends from other schools. And that includes students outside the LGBTQ community.
Yu Takahashi, 14, who volunteered to make decorations for the event, said she got involved because she sees herself as an ally.
“If I don’t respect them or just reject them, they’re going to feel uncomfortable and I don’t feel that’s right for this school or this community,” Takahashi said.
The diversity of attendees is encouraging to students like Atchison, who said she hopes the event will help her peers better understand her identity as a pansexual, or someone not limited to sexual choice, regardless of their biological sex or gender.
Attitudes about the LGBTQ community need to move beyond acceptance to include more interaction and integration between people of all sexual orientations, Atchison said.
“Sometimes it seems as if there are two separate parties when in reality we are all people and we should all work together and do things together.”
The idea for the pride prom has gained interest from across the province. Students from the neighbouring communities of Delta, Langley and New Westminster have reached out to organizers asking to attend.
While students outside Surrey are not permitted at the dance, Kelley said she hopes this will inspire other school districts to hold similar events.
Kelley launched a crowdfunding page hoping to raise $500 to buy some decorations and pizza for the volunteers.
As of Saturday, the event raised over three times that amount and received donations of prizes, food and DJ services.
Kelley said any leftover funds will go toward holding the event next year, allowing it to become an annual tradition.
The pride prom is one of many firsts for Surrey’s LGBTQ community, launching a week ahead of the city’s inaugural pride parade.
The city also raised a rainbow flag to half-mast in memory of those killed in the mass shooting in Orlando, Fla. Flags that weren’t an emblem of the city, province or country were previously barred from being raised at city hall.
While the events are unrelated, Kelley said it signals a change in how the community responds to diversity.
“I guess it’s just Surrey’s time, that we’re ready to move forward . . . and show the LGBTQ community that we’re behind them,” Kelley said.


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ACLU Releases Comprehensive Report On Patriot Act Abuses
Source: American Civil Liberties Union
The American Civil Liberties Union released a comprehensive report today examining widespread abuses that have occurred under the USA Patriot Act, a law that was rushed through Congress just 45 days after September 11. In the almost eight years since the passage of the controversial national security law, the Patriot Act has led to egregious government misconduct.
Obama has made striking moves to fix U.S. foreign policy—and that has set off a chorus of criticism.
US President Barack Obama wants to promote research on embryonic stem cells with state funding. In a first step he lifted the ban on government funding for such research enacted by his predecessor George W. Bush for ethical reasons. Europe’s press comments on this reversal in US policy.
It is not surprising that Barack Obama’s election has dramatically transformed the way French citizens think of the United States. That story has been told many times before, if not about France than about other countries and their fascinations with the American president. Yet, in an unexpected mirror effect, it is France’s vision of itself that is being altered by Obama’s victory.
Contexts Magazine / Fall 2008
Recent national polls find that four in 10 Americans have an unfavorable view of Islam, five in 10 believe Islam is more likely than other religions to encourage violence, and six in 10 believe Islam is very different from their own religion. All this despite the fact that seven in 10 admit they know very little about Islam. And yet Americans rank Muslims second only to atheists as a group that doesn’t share their vision of American society.
Source: Program on Public Values, Trinity College
The Catholic population of the United States has shifted away from the Northeast and towards the Southwest, while secularity continues to grow in strength in all regions of the country, according to a new study conducted by the Program on Public Values at Trinity College. “The decline of Catholicism in the Northeast is nothing short of stunning,” said Barry Kosmin, a principal investigator for the American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS). “Thanks to immigration and natural increase among Latinos, California now has a higher proportion of Catholics than New England.”
February 5, 1865. "Abraham Lincoln, seated, holding spectacles and a pencil." Glass transparency; photograph by Alexander Gardner. View full size.
When The Harris Poll asked a crosssection of adult Americans to say whom they admire enough to call their heroes, President Barack Obama was mentioned most often, followed by Jesus Christ and Martin Luther King. Others in the top ten, in descending order, were Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Abraham Lincoln, John McCain, John F. Kennedy, Chesley Sullenberger and Mother Teresa. These heroes were named spontaneously. Those surveyed were not shown or read a list of people to choose from. The Harris Poll was conducted online among a sample of 2,634 U.S. adults (aged 18 and over) by Harris Interactive between January 12 and 19, 2009.
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Fans who’ve missed watching Korean-American singer Jessica Jung perform live before their eyes can finally heave a sigh of relief. Jung, who was a member of the legendary K-pop group Girls’ Generation till 2014, will hold her inaugural solo concert in Singapore on Dec 16.
Titled Diamond Dreams, the concert will be held at Resorts World Ballroom, Resorts World Convention Centre. Tickets for the show can be purchased via Sistic from 10am on Wednesday (Nov 8), with prices going between S$88 and S$268.
Those who purchase Cat 1 tickets, which cost S$268, will also stand a chance to win exclusive fan benefits including access to a soundcheck session before the concert, a signed poster and a signed polaroid.
Jessica Jung first debuted as a member of Girls’ Generation in 2007 with the song Into The New World. The group went on to become one of the most successful girl groups of all time, selling millions of albums worldwide and holding multiple sold-out concerts throughout the world.
In 2014, Jung left the group due to conflicts between her personal endeavours and Girls’ Generation’s schedules. She went on to release her first extended play With Love, J in 2016 which topped South Korea’s music charts. In 2022, Jung participated in the third season of the Chinese singing competition Sisters Who Make Waves and ended up placing second.

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Punk-O-Rama Volume 10
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Title: Punk-O-Rama Volume 10 (CD/DVD)
Label: Epitaph Records
Punk fans - your Christmases have all come at once with the release of the latest Punk-O-Rama compilation. Volume 10 is a fantastic little package mixing all of the best punk available through the legendary Epitaph label on one CD, and then mixing all the best punk videos on one DVD. Yep, this is a two-disc set where punk legends,” pop-rock luminaries,” post-hardcore innovators and hip-hop radicals all come together as one. Featured on this latest installment are artists such as Motion City Soundtrack, The Offspring, Converge, Sage Francis, Bad Religion, Rancid, Bouncing Souls, Pennywise, NOFX, Youth Group, Millencolin, The Coup and a plethora of others. No punk fan should be without a copy!
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In this Freedom Convoy Report, Member of Provincial Parliament Rick Nicholls shines a spotlight on some of the tens of thousands of truckers and their supporters rallying behind every Canadian’s right to bodily autonomy and freedom of medical choice.
Dr. J. Barry Engelhardt speaks about Medical Ethics on Parliament Hill during the World Wide Rally For Freedom in Ottawa Canada.
Viral immunologist and Associate Professor Dr. Byram Bridle spoke to Druthers at a recent public event, where he expertly runs the crowd through an all-inclusive summary of the many nuances of the COVID-19 crisis. Dr. Bridle runs through the real-world results of the vaccination campaign, early treatment, managing the hostile environment in the scientific community, and explaining various flaws in the official policies.
Deanna McLeod is founder of Kaleidoscope Strategies and Covid Sense, working to make sense of the data when assessing Covid risk, and managing risk through the vaccine. Deanna strategically identifies clinical gaps, and guides the development of publication to help equip citizens to make informed decisions about treatment.
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- Disconnection and connection in Cape Town
One week ago, Scotland nearly voted to go its own way, led by a win in Glasgow, the ‘Yes City’. Just as Scotland has found itself governed by political parties it did not vote for (Conservatives, in particular, hold just a single seat there), the UK’s fourth largest city now finds itself inside a union it voted to leave. This is a feature common among the world’s great port cities, which often pride themselves on spectacular disloyalty to the countries they find themselves attached to. Cape Town has, at times, and to hotly contested degrees, pulled away from the path South Africa as a whole has chosen, and Capetonian exceptionalism runs old and deep as a literary, artistic and political tradition.
In a time when cities around the world enjoy an influence in national and international affairs that they last wielded when the modern democratic nation-state was young, a growing number of cities have used that influence to wrest powers and money from central government, for themselves and their immediate hinterlands. This means that Glasgow and Edinburgh, despite a loss for the nationalists, stand very shortly to gain a raft of new devolved powers, which are likely to include greater powers over income tax.
In Catalonia and the Basque country, these developments have been watched with considerable envy: the government in Madrid takes an entirely different view of the possibilities of allowing Spain’s autonomous communities to go their own way. Of course, Scotland is not a region of the UK; it has always been a separate country, maintaining its own legal and educational systems, to which a raft of new devolved powers were added in 1999 with the creation of the Scottish Parliament. Meanwhile, countries such as Belgium seem to have reached the practical limits of federalism, since the three language-based ‘Communities’ of Flanders (Flemish), Wallonia (French) and the German-speaking regions essentially run every major aspect of government except foreign affairs. When Belgium surpassed Iraq’s record for the length of time it took to form a national government after an election, this was partly because it didn’t really matter to anyone on a day-to-day level: Belgium’s regions have chipped away at the central state to the point that it is bare scaffolding.
South African cities cannot do that, of course: constitutionally, ours is a unitary state. But that same constitution outlines several grey areas of overlapping competencies that are alive with opportunity, especially in fields such as spatial planning. The recent Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act (2014, yet to enter into force) is a long-overdue attempt to tease out the meaning of these concurrent competencies by clarifying just how much leverage and independence South Africa’s metros and municipalities can aspire to.
SPLUMA has yet to take effect, but even a cursory reading of it highlights a deepening problem in South African local government, that of divergence in capacity. Put simply, provinces like the Western Cape enjoy a minimum level of competence in a large number of areas while parts of, say, the Eastern Cape can still seem like a failed state to the casual visitor. The Western Cape benefits from generations of private wealth and public investment; the Eastern Cape has suffered from the inverse, along with all of the ruinous innovations of Apartheid spatial planning. The Western Cape is in a position to actually implement SPLUMA; few provinces are. This means that a growing number of laws can only be said to be ‘real’ in the South African provinces with the three largest metros.
While the Western Cape is, then, not gaining any new powers in law, it tends to gain de facto powers to regulate itself all the time, simply by virtue of its greater capacity to meet legislative requirements on a basic level, such as attracting spatial planning professionals to each municipality. The Western Cape was, for example, the first to pass its own Land Use Planning Act giving local effect to the aims of SPLUMA. The City of Cape Town, in turn, will be the first metro to meet the basic provisions of these acts through major milestones such as its rationalisation of 27 separate zoning schemes into a single, integrated one.
Other provinces have been left behind, although there is significant variation within municipalities. And the gap seems to be growing, as better governance begets private investment, which delivers the kinds of taxes that municipalities will come to lean on ever more heavily in the context of declining central-government funding.
So, why does this divergence matter? Is it not broadly inevitable that disparities between different parts of the country will persist over decades? And does this not simply allow different provinces to compete on their strengths – some on what they offer, such as delivery, and some on what they don’t ask, such as low taxes?
After all, East Germany today is still poorer than the former West, despite nearly USD 200 billion in transfers since reunification. Money spent in the former West mostly goes further and yields a greater return. In spite of state largesse, much of the East has been witness to a declining population since 1989. Of course, these solidarity payments are not, first and foremost, economic ideas, so failure to level a country’s wealth map does not mean they aren’t working. They are, for states hastily stitched back together, political imperatives for which someone has found a fiscal and financial incarnation.
South Africa is like this, in some ways: the manifest cruelties and vast profits of the migrant labour system, by which black men undertook “virtually life-long participation in the urban labour market as a means of preserving a primarily rural way of life” (1), constitute a vast transfer of wealth, over centuries, from blacks to whites and from rural areas to the cities. The wealth gap between the three provinces containing South Africa’s largest metros and the rest of the country is large, and it is a crucial that the central government work to narrow it; solidarity spending means directing state money to where it is most needed rather than where it is likely to catalyse the most investment.
This idea may seem obvious, but – as the Scottish referendum shows – much depends on whether ordinary voters perceive large regional transfers on solidarity principles as a matter of basic justice, or as theft. Alex Salmond’s Scottish Nationalists claimed that oil revenues amounted to a large outflow of ‘Scotland’s’ wealth: where does that leave depressed English regions such as South Wales and parts of the North? Presumably, they should share only in ‘England’s’ wealth – which is to say, the surplus generated by London and the Southeast. Or should Manchester be expected to carry its hinterland? This is a slippery slope, because the North Sea oil won’t last forever, and the parts of England that are now struggling were once cash cows for the Exchequer. Unitary states are premised on the long game.
As South Africa’s cities, with an opposition-run Cape Town in the lead, work to secure greater autonomy from central and provincial government in a growing number of areas, these arguments matter. Our cities have a preponderance of articulate indignation and highly-resourced ire versus rural areas, and we are all better off when these are turned on the state of governance beyond and between the metros.
If our cities start to improve because a future Transport for Johannesburg has wrested powers (and staff) from the national passenger railway operator, or because eThikweni has taken steps to micro-manage its dynamic port, that is good for our cities. But what about the railways as a network, and the ports as a system, and the small settlements in between that depend on network and the system as such? These municipalities have no leverage of their own; they cannot, like the metros, pursue their goals by other means.
Transport for Cape Town is an entity founded in 2012 to coordinate all public transport modes in the metro. It is supposed to enable the alignment of goals and prevent the duplication of effort, to foster intermodality and combat spatial fragmentation. Yet its key “Vision of 1” – “1 Plan, 1 Network, 1 Management System, 1 Contracting Authority, 1 Ticket and Timetable, 1 Unified Enforcement System, 1 Fare and 1 Brand” – reflects something more than just a partnership between relevant stakeholders. It reflects also the extension of a dynamic City government and its oversight and delivery culture into the opaque world of the parastatals and their mysterious ways. If this is what it takes to get the trains to run on time, we have effectively given up on smaller municipalities and less able metros, who have nothing to prod the parastatals with.
A Guardian commentator noted under an article discussing renewed calls for English regional autonomy, “Until we can accept that the consequence of local autonomy is varying provision locally, then we won’t be mature enough to cope with federalism” (2).
1: Delius, P. 1996. A Lion amongst the Cattle. Johannesburg: Ravan Press.


We are going to release a hotfix on Wednesday, September 18th for SmartThings Hub 2015 (v2) and 2018 (v3). Firmware version 27.9 will include additional improvements for LAN and Z-Wave device communication issues.
We are going to release a hotfix on Tuesday, September 10th for SmartThings Hub 2015 (v2) and 2018 (v3). Firmware version 27.8 will include improvements for some LAN communication issues and connectivity fixes for multi-endpoint devices.
We’re excited to announce the release of Samsung SmartThings Hub firmware version 0.27.6. Once downloaded, your Hub will briefly go offline as it reboots and applies the update; most customers will experience less than one minute of downtime. We will update the status page when the release is complete.
- Samsung SmartThings Hub 2015 (Hub v2)
- Samsung SmartThings Hub 2018 (Hub v3)
Release Date: 26 August 2019 ~ 27 August 2019
- Zigbee bulbs can now remember the previous level if they were turned off by setting the dimmer level to zero
- Firmware updates for various Zigbee devices including SmartThings Smart Plug (UK) and Aurora lights
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Love Tilly Group
A serendipitous smoothie at a then little-known Boost Juice store led to Nathanial Hatwell flying around Australia and New Zealand opening stores and training franchisees at the tender age of 21. After temporarily moving to South Africa to oversee the brand’s expansion there, Nathanial studied International Politics and Economics while simultaneously falling in love with the hospitality and wine industries while working at Melbourne venues the Botanical Hotel, Walter’s Wine Bar and St Jude’s Cellars. A move to Sydney led to a fateful beer with sommelier and restaurateur Matthew Swieboda inside his trailblazing Darlinghurst wine bar Love, Tilly Devine: the first venue of what was to become the Love Tilly Group. Together Nathanial and Matthew opened Potts Point’s Dear Sainte Éloise in 2017, before joining forces with chef Scott McComas-Williams to open wine and pasta bar Ragazzi in Angel Place, and sister venue Fabbrica Pasta Shop. As the Love Tilly Group continues to grow under their guidance – now also including La Salut, Palazzo Salato, Fabbrica Balmain and Fabbrica Bread Shop – the pair’s commitment to creating curious, considered, uncomplicated hospitality continues.

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Rahul Dwivedi, CNS Special Correspondent
“We have always known that alongside scaling up diagnostic and treatment services, engaging communities is vital for the success of disease control efforts. This is especially the case for tuberculosis (TB) – an ancient disease surrounded by stigma, discrimination, and misconceptions. The Knowledge-Attitude-Practice (KAP) survey results underline the payoffs of civil society participation in public health programming” said Dr Sarabjit Chadha, Project Director of ‘Axshya’ at the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union). The KAP midline survey results were released on 27th March 2014 in New Delhi.
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Apetit to close fish plant
Finland-based food group Apetit is to close a domestic fish products facility as it looks to improve the profitability of that part of its business.
Apetit said it would shut a site in Kustavi in western Finland and concentrate its fish products operations further north in Kuopio and in Helsinki, the country's capital. An office in the south-western city of Turku will also close.
Some 15 staff across the Kustavi and Turku sites will lose their jobs. However, Apetit said the Kuopo and Helsinki facilities will add seven new positions.
"The closure decisions now made are difficult, but they are necessary in order to improve the profitability of the fish products group and to adopt a new, simpler operating model. With the concentration now taking place we are aiming for improved cost efficiency, more effective logistics and more systematic development and control of operations," Apetit CEO Veijo Meriläinen said.
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Most people have heroes, people in history or people still living, people who inspire, evoke strong feelings of admiration, respect, love.
High on my list of heroes is Geswanouth Slahoot, aka Chief Dan George. The more I learn about him, the higher his name climbs.
A little boy on his Tsleil-Waututh Nation reserve, student, longshoreman, lumberman, school bus driver, musician, Tsleil-Waututh Nation chief (1951-63), actor, lecturer, carver, poet, activist, environmentalist. There might not have been time for much more to occupy his life but, as my study reveals, “family man” was probably at the top of his personal list of accomplishments (six children, 36 grandchildren).
George’s father, Chief George Slah-holt, had also been chief of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation (Burrard Reserve – Coast Salish). Following in has father’s footsteps, Dan George’s son Leonard George, also served as chief of the band, between 1989 and 2001.
Dan George and at least five of his six children – including son Leonard – attended school at St. Paul’s (Squamish) Indian Residential School in North Vancouver, B.C. Given his father’s wish that Dan learn the English language, it is a fair assumption that some – or all – of his eleven siblings also attended that school.
Dan entered St. Paul’s shortly after his fifth birthday, in 1904, 16 years prior to the 1920 Indian Act amendment mandating compulsory school attendance for First Nations children. He was not forced to attend, except in the sense that his father sent him there. But it was at the school where he was assigned the surname George, which remains the anglicized family name today.
Dan George attended St. Paul’s for eleven years, visiting family twice monthly on the reserve a few miles away. He was not allowed to attend past the age of 16. Through an arranged marriage at the age of 18 or 19, he wedded 16-year-old Amy Jack, with whom he lived for more than 50 years, until her death in 1971. Thus began the life of the family man.
Of all his many outstanding experiences and achievements, Chief George cited as “the happiest times of his life” the times he spent with his family, in the 1940s. He had formed “Dan George and His Indian Entertainers”, traveling British Columbia, performing traditional dances and ceremonies, and wearing traditional clothing. He later formed the “Children of Takaya (wolf) Dance Group”.
The above is to say little about Dan George’s many significant accomplishments and awards, well known to Canadians, including an Oscar nomination (Little Big Man,1970), Order of Canada (1971) and others.
It would be hard for anyone not to have complete admiration for a person of the stature of Chief Dan George. I admire him for all his achievements, but perhaps the most gratifying for him was that he was able to bridge the chasm – still not bridged by so many others – between his Indigenous roots and the world he had been brought into. Loved by his own people, loved by everyone else, he mastered life in the modern world while truly living and savouring his original culture, and sharing it with all around. This should be his legacy; this should be the example for others still struggling to find their way.
Given that he received only eleven years of formal education at a residential school in the very early years of the last century, his life’s work was even more remarkable. He clearly learned something immensely important at that school.
If they were still with us, Dan George and his wife Amy would surely be proud of the results of the legacy they left their family, many members of which have thrived. The George family includes writers, an academic, actors, politicians, activists, a playwright, a poet, a teacher.
His role in the film Little Big Man brought the name of Chief Dan George to kitchen tables across Canada and well beyond. But what he really did was personify what everyone claims to want for themselves, and for our country. In his centennial 1967 “Lament for Confederation” he said:
“I must forget what’s past and gone … Oh God in heaven! Give me back the courage of the olden chiefs … Oh God! Like the thunderbird of old I shall rise again out of the sea; I shall grab the instruments of the white man’s success – his education, his skills, and with these new tools I shall build my race into the proudest segment of your society … So shall we shatter the barriers of our isolation. So shall the next hundred years be the greatest in the proud history of our tribes and nations.”
That was 56 years ago. Dan George clearly recognized that reconciliation is a two-way street. But crippling isolation continues to paralyze our country. It grows as Canadians squabble over what to believe about our past and how to move forward. Why can’t we look at the life of Chief Dan George, memorize his words, and turn the page? Dan had the answer:
“The only thing that can truly help us is genuine love. You must truly love us, be patient with us and share with us. And we must love you with a genuine love that forgives and forgets … a love that forgives the terrible sufferings your culture brought ours when it swept over us like a wave crashing along a beach … with a love that forgets and lifts up its head and sees in your eyes an answering look of trust and understanding.”
Let’s be like Dan.
James C. McCrae, is a former attorney general of Manitoba and Canadian citizenship judge

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IT'S THE GAME WHERE YOU GET TO BE SANTA CLAUS!
Open the game and be transported into the wonder, excitement and joy of Christmas with an emphasis on giving gifts, not getting them.
Each player chooses a sleigh filled with presents, teddy bears, dolls, and treats. Then travel around the winter wonderland game board and give presents to others. Along the way enjoy activities such as singing a favorite holiday song, twirling like a snowflake and belting out your best "Ho! Ho! Ho!"
For Ages 3 and older. Two to four players.
The Santa Claus Game includes:
- 1 Winter Wonderland Game Board
- 1 Christmas Tree and Stand
- 4 Sleighs
- 4 Santa Game Pieces
- 20 Presents
- 1 Die
- Official Rules sheet
The Santa Claus Game is also available on Amazon.com.


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A 26-year-old National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, member who was declared wanted by the Nigeria Police Force on February 20, 2023 for impersonation of an Assistant Superintendent of Police and defamation of character, Emeh Nnamdi has been arrested.
Nnamdi was arrested in a joint operation by INTERPOL operatives in Benin Republic and Nigeria on Friday, March 3, 2023 in connection with allegations that top police officers in Anambra State Command are involved in kidnapping and killing of suspects after extorting them and human organ trafficking.
The corp member made the allegations via his Gistlover Instagram handle.
AIT exclusively gathered that Emeh Daniel Nnamdi is an IT expert who started impersonating personnel of the Nigeria Police Force while serving as a tracker in the Anambra Police Command.
The 26-year old son of Professor JK Emeh is currently in Police custody in Abuja.


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Environment council adopts statement in support of Paris Agreement and debates reform of the EU emissions trading scheme
Governments across Europe may be distracted by the threat of Brexit, but despite the potential fallout from Thursday's vote the EU's day-to-day work is continuing. Yesterday, EU environment ministers gathered...
Move calls into question whether the controversial £50bn infrastructure project will go ahead
The Prime Minister is right to say the UK has some of the most ambitious environmental legislation in the world, but as a new report reveals many of those rules are going unenforced
Growth in environmental concern pushes retailers to speed up attempts at sustainability
Smart Home Battery and solar package to allow drivers to 'unlock the full potential' of their solar panels, the firms claim


To celebrate the launch of her new campaign WhatIsPretty, Beyonce decides to release the official visual for her track ‘Pretty Hurts’. This is taken from her self titled album ‘Beyonce’ out now.
Atlanta’s Sy Ari Da Kid rolls deep in his new video for the track “300 Spartans,” featuring D Dash, Translee, Verse Simmonds, Que, K. Camp, Stuey Rock, Tha Joker, Jose Guapo, Chaz Gotti, Bo Deal, Bambino Gold, Dae Dae, Doe Boy, Scotty ATL, Issa, John John Da Don, Fly Guy Veto, Migos, Tabius Tate, Zuse, Kidd Kidd, Nyemiah Supreme, Jacquees, Retro Jace (Two9) & Fort Knox. Directed by Dontell Antonio.
The word “wild” is probably the most accurate description of Tinie Tempah‘s latest music video. The visual, for the single “5 Minutes,” is off the UK rapper’s sophomore album “Demonstration,” out now.
DJ Kay Slay has his latest mixtape project, “The Last Hiphop Disciple,” dropping soon and now drops the video for the first leak off the project. In the visual, Papoose, Vado and Ransom rep’ their hoods on the track “Real Hip Hop.”
Check out the visuals for A$AP Twelvvy’s “Xscape,” which comes off that upcoming A$AP Mob album, “L.O.R.D.” Grab the single off iTunes now.
Bizzle paints a picture for his latest single “Mr. Range Rover,” featuring Kay Richardson on the track. The track originates on Bizzle’s Boi-1da-produced album “The Good Fight,” released back in early 2013.
Jamla’s Rapsody gives us some visuals for the track Thank You Very Much.” The track comes off her “She Got Game” album, released last September. Grab the project here.


Sony finally made the PlayStation Store available without the need for a PlayStation 3. Up until now, PSP owners wanting to download content through the Store have also had to gain access to Sony’s relatively expensive new console.
Now, PSP owners can use their PCs to gain access, opening it up to a host of new gamers who just couldn’t afford or don’t want a PS3. The Store is available at store.playstation.com and is completely free to use, but requires an application download.
Through the Store, you gain access to demos and video trailers, but more importantly, you can purchase PSOne games for your PSP. The full list of what is currently available through the PC version of the Store can be found at the Playstation Blog.
Meanwhile, Sony released firmware 2.01 for the PS3 this week. It clears up an issue some gamers were having with v2.00 where their consoles would no longer boot or downloads slowed to a crawl. It also improves on the upscaling done for PS2 games.
Read more at GameSpot.


Australia confirms two cases of new Omicron strain
11:15, 28 November 2021
The new variant called Omicron B.1.1.529 has been confirmed in Australia after the urgent genomic tests were taken.
Two passengers who arrived in Sydney on Qatar Airways from Doha have been found infected with the new strain after the genomic sequencing was completed.
NEWâAustralia confirms its first 2 cases of #Omicron variant in New South Wales (Sydney region) among flight passengers returning from South Africa , aboard a Qatar Airways flight via Doha. All 260 aboard now isolating. 14 days hotel quarantine for those from S Africa. pic.twitter.com/jZQxvhoQJD
The infected are now self-isolating in the Special Health Accommodation despite them being asymptomatic and fully vaccinated.
“Both passengers came to Sydney from Southern Africa on the evening of Saturday, November 27. They underwent testing on arrival and tested positive for COVID-19 late last night,” NSW said in a statement on Sunday.
Other 12 passengers who had been recently in South Africa were directed to undertake 14 days of hotel quarantine.
All other 260 passengers of that flight are considered to be those who contacted the infected and were ordered to enter a self-isolation phase.
Earlier, the UK’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the the measures against COVID-19 in the country will be ramped up ever since the new variant has occurred in England.


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After fourteen years as a passenger station Liverpool Road was replaced by Manchester Victoria but continued in use as a Goods Depot until 1975. Many of the freight facilities can still be seen in its new role as part of the Museum of Science and Industry. This view taken from the main museum building in October 2017 shows the old sidings, the passenger station where the lines converge and the Power Hall on the left where the railway exhibits are housed.
Location: Manchester Liverpool Road
Company: Liverpool and Manchester Railway
Photographer: Mark Bartlett
Contact photographer: Mark Bartlett
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Musical lovers, old and new will rejoice with the new Musical Comedy from Apple TV, Schmigadoon! Audiences will fall in love with the magic of the ’40s and ’50s again through reinterpreted classics and parodies on the shows that brought so much love and joy to their hearts. Schmigadoon! is one for the books, that will leave audiences with that underlying sense of happiness and joy.
The Series focuses on the couple of Josh (Keegan-Michael Key) and Melissa (Cecily Strong) as their relationship is unfortunately on the rocks, and they stumble across a bridge called Schmigadoon while hiking on their couples retreat. As they cross the bridge everything turns from bleak to vibrant life, and full of colour and dropped into a different time. Cue the first big musical number with our Principal Cast. After the first musical number, we start to meet some of the members of Schmigadoon,Reverend Layton (Fred Armisen) who is under the thumb of his rather hostile wife, Mildred (Kristen Chenoweth). Then all chaos seems to break out.
There are two stories that are the focal point of the Show, the first being that Josh and Melissa need to work on their relationship and figure out if they can work. This is another serious issue, because to escape Schmigadoon, and return to reality, they can only do so by crossing the bridge with their loved one. The second story is that within the town of Schmigadoon, where there is conflict between the very aggressive, wretched Mildred and the rest of the town specifically against Mayor Menlove (Alan Cumming). There are several characters that pose at obstacles to either the townspeople of Schmigadoon now that Josh and Melissa are new forces they have to contend with, or for Josh and Melissa themselves, with possible love interests appearing Betsy (Dove Cameron), Emma (Ariana DeBose), Danny (Aaron Tveit), and Doc Lopez (Jamie Camil). With Josh and Melissa’s relationship already on the rocks, being transported to a new world that Josh simply hates and Melissa is falling in love with their rocky relationship and possible faster way home seems to be fading.
What makes Schmigadoon! so great is how meta it is. It makes fun of itself, with Josh constantly calling out the musical nuisances and songs with modern takes. The music itself though is what shines throughout the Series, as they’re changing songs from mainly Rodgers and Hammerstein with the towns problems. However, even with a great premise and incredible music, it would fall short if the cast was unable to deliver. The chemistry between Keegan-Michael Key and Cecily Strong just glows, audiences can sense that dwindling flame between them but knowing it came from a candle that burned at both sides previously, they are believable as a couple whose going through a rough patch. Then you have the Broadway royalty between Alan Cumming, Aaron Tviet, Kristen Chenoweth, and the explosive Ariana DeBose who all shine and dazzle with their performances, whether they be playing ecstatic over the top closeted mayors, outcast and misunderstood, someone truly evil, or someone who just wants best for themselves, they all shine and excel in their performances bringing life and depth to Schmigadoon!
Everyone gives their all in these performances, ensuring that Schmigadoon! succeeds as aMusical Comedythat appeals both to fans of Broadway and Comedy.
SCHMIGADOON! arrives on Apple TV+ on Friday July 16th, 2021 with episodes airing following Fridays!
Cecily Strong and Keegan-Michael Key star in upcoming Musical Comedy Series, SCHMIGADOON! Here’s a first look.
A parody of iconic Golden Age musicals, “Schmigadoon!” stars Strong and Key as a couple on a backpacking trip designed to reinvigorate their relationship who discover a magical town living in a 1940s musical. They then learn that they can’t leave until they find “true love.” The six-episode season also stars Alan Cumming, Kristin Chenoweth, Aaron Tveit, Dove Cameron, Ariana DeBose, Fred Armisen, Jaime Camil, Jane Krakowski and Ann Harada. Martin Short guest stars.
Despite filling hosting duties on Saturday Night Live last night, former Alumni Jimmy Fallon may have gotten help from a few Friends – but it is those few Buddies who helped deliver huge laughs on a memorable Christmas episode of Comedy-Sketch Series, now in its 39th Season!
In addition to Madonna, Sir Paul McCartney, Barry Gibb and Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Fallon got a major boost from his Pal and Musical Guest and multi-time Host, Justin Timberlake!
Sir Paul McCartney would kick-off the star-studded Affair in the Evening’s Opening Monologue which would have Fallon doing his best impressions of David Bowie, Bob Dylan and Sir Paul McCartney, only for the latter to appear suddenly on-stage!
See Fallon and McCartney perform Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas:
Timberlake brought back his popular Musical Liquorville Sketch, this time in Holiday Spirit and with the help of Fallon, competing with a Charity Gift Wrapper in Cast Member Aidy Bryant. Bring it on down to Wrappinville! Adorbs!
See TheWrap-Off below!
Although nobody expected it, Madonna had Instagrammed a Photo real-time of her on the Saturday Night Live Stage sitting behind what appeared to be The Bee Gees. Within moments, those watching SNL would realize would this would mean! And who could guess the real Barry Gibb himself would join-in on the fun!
Madonna and the real Gibb himself on The Barry Gibb Show!
Perhaps one of the Highlights of the Evening was the Musical Sketch Let’s Do It in my Twin Bed featuring Fallon and the Ladies of SNL, a bit of an Homage to The Pussycat Dolls with Sisters singing about a little wild surprise for their Boyfriends, “getting wild in a bed for a child!” at their Mom and Dad’s!
Watch Let’s Do It in my Twin Bed below:
One thing that never ceases to make me laugh are imaginary Music Compilation Sketches and here is SNL‘s take on NOW That’s What I Call Christmas featuring impressions of Alanis Morissette, Andrea Bocelli and Alan Rickman:
My favourite Sketch though was the super-sweet Baby, It’s Cold Outside Sketch with Weekend Update‘s Cecily Strong, with her as the clingy One-Night-Stand who manages to win Fallon over amidst a Blizzard in NYC:
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After I bought the first HD, I handed over the graphics of the S&S model to the Dealership in Gdańsk, where it was hung on the wall.
I didn’t go back to drawing for a while. A lot has happened in my personal life. Change of job, birth of another child. Time passed. In 2019, I spontaneously returned to painting engines, there was a thought to paint all the engines of the legendary brand. I wanted to create a kind of series that I could hang in my garage. I noticed that just nobody created something like that.


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My interpretation from this chart going back 56 years is that Donald Trump's criticism of the Federal Reserve will kill the “Trump rally.”
It’s not a question of "if," but "when" and from "how high." At a minimum, the foundation of the death of the Trump rally will be laid this Wednesday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average
What is so special about this coming Wednesday? On that day, the Fed will announce its interest-rate decision. The consensus is that the central bank will raise interest rates by 25 basis points and issue a dovish policy statement, meaning policy makers aren’t ready to take aggressive action to stem inflation. After Brexit and the Trump election, investors hopefully have learned to take the consensus with a grain of salt.
The Achilles’ heel of the Trump rally is interest rates. Based on Trumpenomics, the Fed should be raising rates not by a quarter of a point, but by half a point, and also issuing a policy statement that says rates will rise rapidly. A Fed that’s more hawkish than the consensus will kill the rally right away. On the other hand, if the Fed does not take this course, it will sow the seeds of inflation, which will end the rally down the road.
56-year chart tells the story
To understand how the Trump rally might end, let’s take a look at this 56-year chart.
Please click here to see the 56-year chart.
The chart compares GDP growth to inflation to the fed funds rate. Trump has repeatedly said that he can drive GDP growth to about 4%. The chart shows that every time GDP growth goes to about 4% from a lower level, the fed funds rate heads over 5%. Also of note from the chart is that due to the artificial construct by the central bank, the fed funds rate has not had any correlation to GDP or inflation since the Great Recession of 2008.
The current consensus of the Fed raising rates very gradually neither comports with historic precedence nor with the inflationary aspects of Trumpenomics.
FOMC members are not robots
Decisions at the Fed are made by the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). FOMC members are not robots, but humans, with emotions and opinions. FOMC members, like it or not, are being forced into a straitjacket in which they must maintain that the Fed is apolitical, neither cheering nor opposing Trumpenomics. They are likely to ignore the elephant in the room, i.e., Trumpenomics, in their public statements.
Trump heavily criticized the Fed during his campaign and now the chickens may come home to roost. Trump's criticism may make members’ survival instincts take over, so they may act in an irrational manner to appease Trump by staying dovish. If they stay dovish, it will be bullish for the stock market in the short term, though inflation will arise and ultimately end the Trump rally at a higher level.
What to do now
"Dance (While the Music Still Goes On)," the ABBA song from 1974, describes exactly what investors should be doing now. However, investors should be on high alert for the music to stop.
Money managers are now chasing performance to beat their benchmarks for the year. That has caused a buying panic that may last until Dow 20,000 or until the end of the year. So-called animal spirits are roaring. This is precisely the time when investors shouldn’t get carried away.
If the Fed stays dovish, buy U.S. banks and brokers, and Japanese financial firms. Bank of America
Among U.S. brokers, Charles Schwab
Also, buy oil stocks. (Please see: After OPEC decision, three oil stocks to invest in and two to trade.) Some of the strongest stocks have been in steel, iron and copper. Consider staying away from those, but if you want to be aggressive, be careful in short-selling them. Of interest here are copper ETF
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The Big Book of Paleo Slow Cooking: 200 Nourishing Recipes That Cook Carefree, for Everyday Dinners and Weekend Feasts contains a variety of recipes—everything from quick, easy weeknight meals to more complicated dishes to prepare on weekends or holidays. The meals incorporate international flavors, all while using common ingredients. There’s also a pantry stocking section that will help you stock up on paleo-approved ingredients.
Here’s another complete paleo meal in one “container.” The red bell peppers get cooked to mellow sweetness, but still hold their shape enough to keep other delicious ingredients inside. This recipe, with its peppers and tomatoes, is a great source of vitamins A and C, even after the vitamin loss that cooking causes. It’s also a good source of protein (4 ounces of lean turkey has over 20 grams).
Nevertheless, this is one paleo cookbook that slightly varies the diet. In particular, the author’s definition of paleo includes both potatoes and rice. There is a coherent argument provided for why this is the case and many paleo followers do agree. Still, the decision won’t sit well with everybody on a paleo diet, so it is something to bear in mind.
Feeling full and fulfilled when you’re on a diet may seem impossible, but it’s the only way to turn your diet into a healthy lifestyle. Naturally promoting superior health and weight control, The Paleo Cookbook serves up wholesome recipes from around the world that emphasize lean proteins, vegetables, fruits and healthy fats. A staple for any paleo table, The Paleo Cookbook gives you your fill of a healthy and balanced life with every dish.
Are you tired of having to eat out all the time because your culinary skills just aren’t up to par or you don’t know where to start when it comes to creating a quick delicious meal from your own kitchen? If you answered “yes”, then this is the cookbook for you. The recipes are simple enough in execution complex in flavor to make the most novice of cooks seem like they really know their way around the kitchen.
A true labor of love, "Mediterranean Paleo Cooking" is a collaborative effort from nutritionist Caitlin Weeks and her Algerian chef husband, Nabil Boumrar. Together, they explore the flavors of Boumrar's native North Africa, offering an array of gluten-free, Paleo-friendly recipes such as cinnamon-braised beef, almond meatball soup and spicy chicken tagine. Staples like falafel, moussaka, hummus and pita bread are also included, along with multicourse menu plans — providing home cooks with the necessary tools for a Mediterranean-themed dinner party.
Junk food and takeout tend to have a strong hold over people, even when they’re attempting to eat healthily. This cookbook attempts to tackle that problem by introducing a range of different paleo dishes that are variations on common takeout meals. This includes recipes from many different cultures, including Indian, Mexican, Greek and American meals.
A chicken salad sandwich sounds great for lunch, but the sandwich part is out of the question if you’re eating paleo. This recipe for a healthy alternative adds a fiber boost in the form of diced vegetables, like radishes and cabbage. If you pack along four or five large butter lettuce leaves, you can leave your fork at home and scoop up the chicken with them.
This sweet potato is stuffed with beef and blueberries, a combination that you may not have ever seen before. They all combine to form a very well-balanced Paleo meal, and you’re getting tons of antioxidants both from the blueberries and the sweet potatoes. The beef gives you protein, while sweet potatoes are a carbohydrate that is digested slowly by the body. There is just as much sweet potatoes as there is beef, with just a bit of blueberries added for good measure. This makes for a microcosm of what it’s like to eat a perfectly portioned Paleo meal.
This Paleo cookbook really is ultimate; the title doesn't lie! Altogether, ten experienced Paleo chefs and bloggers came together to create this amazing, extensive resource for anyone in need of some quality Paleo recipes. There's even an entire chapter dedicated to making the Paleo diet easy with almost eighty fast and simple recipes. There are plenty of great Paleo cookbooks, but this is probably the only one that truly deserves to be called "ultimate." In total, ten popular Paleo bloggers contributed to the creation of this cookbook.
These breakfast cups use two primary ingredients that are Paleo friendly: ham and eggs. They make a cup out of the ham so that the egg can rest inside of it. This means you are not getting any additional ingredients to muck things up, and they have kept it very simple. In fact there are only two other ingredients, and one of those is optional. You just add a bit of green onion, and if you feel like it you can put a bit of cheese on. They are using nitrate free ham, so you can tell that there is plenty of attention being given to using quality ingredients.
Lately, I've been seeing more and more people talking about the Paleo diet and the best paleo cookbooks - and for a good reason. Although a lot of diets can often get complicated and hard to understand, the Paleo diet is pretty simple: only eat what a caveman would eat. What's better than being able to eat as much as you want and not have to track anything? Nothing! That's what I thought.
I love doing round up recipe posts. Rarely do people go past 2 pages on the blog, and with 29 pages of recipes, that’s A LOT of recipes you are missing out on. So I’m here for you, to help you not forget about some of the easiest recipes on my blog. All you need is less than 40 minutes and BOOM, you have a weeknight meal. No need to complain about eating paleo when it’s this simple.
There's no one "right way" to do paleo. If you're just starting out, it may take some time to figure out what feels best. Maybe you just eat paleo after 2 p.m. on weekdays; maybe you are so hardcore, you get uneasy just looking at a slice of bread. Most of us fall somewhere in between. We're advocates of a more generally "paleo-based" system, following paleo principles most of the time, but making reasonable exceptions for important events or your mom's famous chocolate chip cookies.
In the end, making a switch to the Paleo diet can ultimately turn your life around and bring you back to your natural and healthy roots. The best part about it is that it's incredibly simple. Although other diets like veganism and vegetarianism are both simple, as well, they lack the added ease of not having to count your calories or other nutrition values.
Description: Low-fat or low-carb? A recent New York Times Magazine (July 7, 2002) cover story answered this question and said that Dr. Atkins was right all along, “its not fat that makes us fat but carbohydrates.” Though the government has spent hundreds of millions of dollars in research trying to prove that fat is the cause of obesity, there has been a subtle shift in the scientific consensus over the past five years supporting what the low-carb diet doctors have been saying all along: if we eat less carbohydrates, we will lose weight and live longer.
i didn't buy this, my wife did. but she doesn't rate anything and it will stay here until i do. I do like eating like a caveman, don't you. I mean they used a lot of truffle oil and eggs, high quality meat and of course real butter, none of that yucky margarine. Cavemen eat better than i am used to eating. Only the best, i don't know how they afforded it at the grocery store in paleolithic days but it probably only cost a couple of clams, right? we all watched the Flintstones.


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Hello! It's been a busy week, I've been finishing some magazine commissions and design team projects, I really want to get everything finished up so I can just relax over Christmas and enjoy some quality time with my family.
It's week two at CASE Study and we're enjoying some more inspiration from Cath formerly of Moxie Fab World. Check out the gorgeous photo this week!
I started off making a card that was all elegant and beautiful but I wasn't really feeling it so I abandoned that and had a little play instead! I really love the color combo in the inspiration, especially the strong contrast in colors and tones. I also decided to go with the snowflake theme.
I wanted to use a black base so I went with a chalkboard feel. I started with my snowman, sketched him on some white card and did a little paper-piecing for his hat and scarf. I couldn't resist adding a fuzzy bobble to his hat! I used a Distress Marker and blended it with my finger to create the shading. The edges of the card I inked with some white pigment ink. I used a white pastel pencil and a white chalk pen to add the snowflakes to the background. I also had the urge to punch some holes, so I did! I felt it needed a touch of sparkle so I added some sequins on the outside and some on the inside (lining up with the punched holes) too!
I kept the sentiment fun and just sketched it directly with the pastel pencil, then when I was happy with it I went over with the chalk pen to make it stand out more.
The Caribbean Twine is from SRM Stickers and the snowflake trim I picked up at a craft show eons ago! : ) That's all for now! I hope your holiday preparations are going well!
Don't forget to visit the rest of the CASE Study team for some more inspiration! Have a great day!


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We haven’t seen “the big one” yet, but Ryan Blaney’s incident during the final stage of the Geico 500 at Talladega Super Speedway probably felt plenty big from the driver seat.
Blaney was running in the middle of the pack during Sunday’s Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race when he came up on lapped traffic with 28 laps to go. When Blaney attempted to pass one of the lapped cars, his No. 21 made contact with Ricky Stenhouse Jr.’s No. 17, sending the Wood Brothers Racing driver spinning head on into the wall.
The wreck brought Blaney’s day to an end, though he won’t walk away from Talladega empty handed, as he finished third in Stage 2.
Thumbnail photo via Gary A. Vasquez/USA TODAY Sports Images
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The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed a devastating impact worldwide including the ASEAN region, but with the prompt and effective coping measures, the prognosis for the steel industry in the region in the post-pandemic era might not be as bleak as expected, Yeoh Wee Jin, secretary general of the South East Asia Iron & Steel Institute (SEAISI), told the 2020 SEAISI e-Conference on June 30.
With the ASEAN countries’ efforts to rescue their economies from COVID-19, “I am sure there will be more positive results,” Yeoh maintained.
Having coped with several crises over the past two decades including the Asian financial crisis in 1998, the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic in 2003 and the global financial crisis in 2008, ASEAN governments can now “better manage” their economies, he pointed out. Steel consumption will likely take a “shorter time” to recover from the coronavirus crisis, he predicted confidently.
ASEAN economies, steel-consuming sectors hit hard by COVID-19
The economies and steel consuming sectors of the ASEAN-6 countries – comprising Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam – have been seriously affected by the pandemic this year, according to Yeoh, particularly the construction sector which accounts for 73% of steel use among the ASEAN-6. Building projects have stalled throughout the region due to various lockdowns and restrictions, he noted.
The six ASEAN countries saw their GDP growths slow significantly in the first quarter of 2020 against strong growths last year, with Singapore, Thailand and Philippines even seeing negative growths.
This is also the case with the construction sector where only Vietnam among the six countries that recorded growth in construction activity during January-March – rising 5.2% on year – while the building industries in the others declined by varying degrees, according to the data Yeoh presented.
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Automobile production and sales, another key consumption sector for steel across the region, are also decidedly in the slow lane for now, he indicated to delegates.
Motor vehicle sales throughout ASEAN began weakening during H2 2019, and during Q1 this year fell 19% on year to 701,000 units, Yeoh noted, warning that the remainder of 2020 will be challenging for this industry. The automotive sector accounts for 11% of ASEAN steel demand.
Not just autos, manufacturing generally throughout the ASEAN-6 also experienced a third straight month of decline in May, even though the falloff was less severe than in April because several governments had relaxed some of the strict lockdowns and other measures imposed earlier on their citizens to curb the spread of the contagion, according to Yeoh.
A V-shape recovery?
Although COVID-19 and efforts to contain it have severely disrupted regional commerce and industry, the countries of ASEAN are expected to see V-shape recoveries in the economic growth – as well as steel consumption – after the peak of the virus passes, Yeoh maintained.
“The ASEAN-6 economies have been resilient since the Asian financial crisis,” he told delegates, reminding them that it did not take long for the countries to bounce back to vibrancy from the economic challenges that followed including SARS and the global financial crisis.
During the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis, countries in the ASEAN region took an average of six years – some longer, some shorter – for their steel consumption to return to the levels prior to the crisis.
However, after the SARS outbreak in 2003, most only required one year for their steel sectors to regain their health, and a year to recover from the global financial crisis later, according to him.
Now, amid the coronavirus crisis, with better management by their governments, the time needed for recovery may be even shorter, he argued.
Yeoh noted that as of June 16, the ASEAN-6 countries had announced the introduction of economic stimulus packages equivalent to $332 billion.
Apparent steel consumption among the ASEAN-6 is expected to dip to 79.3 million tonnes in 2020, down 2.1% from the 81 million tonnes in 2019, according to SEAISI estimation. However, in 2021 consumption is forecast to rebound strongly to 83.2 million tonnes.
Opportunities, threats to ASEAN steel trade remain
The pummelling their economies have received from COVID-19 has forced most policy planners throughout the region to return to basics and seek out export markets in order to counter the declines in domestic demand. This strategy presents both opportunities and threats to ASEAN, especially in terms of steel trade with China, Yeoh pointed out.
Over January-April, ASEAN exported a total of 4.8 million tonnes of steel products. Among the major items, long steel products (especially wire rod) accounted for 31%, flat products including hot-rolled coil and plate occupied 29%, semis took 24% and steel scrap 7%, Yeoh shared.
China was the largest receiver of ASEAN steel exports except for countries within the ASEAN-6 grouping itself. Within the total, 24% of the 4.8 million travelled to China as the country was among the first of the major economies to emerge from the COVID-19 crisis. In the China-bound exports, 14% were semis, followed by wire rod (5%), according to him.
Malaysia, Vietnam and Indonesia were major exporters to China during the lockdown periods, with Malaysia mainly exporting bars and wire rods, according to Yeoh. Vietnam supplied large quantities of billets and slabs, whereas Indonesia exported mainly stainless steel and cold-rolled coils.
ASEAN steel exports to China
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At the same time, ASEAN fears a repeat of the ‘Export Tsunami’ from China that the countries’ steel sectors witnessed over 2014-2017. However, though the region’s steelmakers cite the high steel inventories China is carrying currently and Beijing’s rises in tax rebates since March 20 to highlight their concerns, over January-April China’s exports to ASEAN decreased 12.1% on year to 5.9 million tonnes.
China’s steel exports to ASEAN
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As of June 24, China’s steel stocks totalled 20.5 million tonnes, according to Mysteel’s databank. Though this represented a huge fall of 47.3% from the historical high recorded in mid-March, the stocks nonetheless were still 27.1% higher on year.
Meanwhile, the possibility of foreign investment in ASEAN causing a surge in upstream and downstream steel facilities remains a crucial threat to the region’s steel industry, Yeoh pointed out.
If all the integrated steel mill projects planned for the region take shape, ASEAN will face an overcapacity of more than 61.5 million tonnes/year, requiring around 18.9-20.4 years for consumption to catch up, he noted, adding that the COVID-19 situation had worsened the scenario substantially. ASEAN now hosts 89.4 million t/y of crude steel capacity.