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WHITEHORSE, YK – Winterlong Brewing has announced the release of a new collaboration with fellow Whitehorse brewery Woodcutter’s Brewing.
Snag Cold IPA (7% abv) is named after a village in the Yukon that holds the record for the coldest temperature ever recorded in North America: -62.8 Celsius on February 3rd, 1947. It’s described as follows:
This release is based off the beer we brewed together at Woodcutter’s in January 2022. We were smitten with last years result so couldn’t wait to reimagine the beer together on the Winterlong brewery system in 2023. The result is a fresh, crisp, tropical and citrus IPA, which finishes dry and snappy!
More details on the beer and brew day are available in a blog post on the Winterlong website.
Snag is in stock now at the Winterlong taproom, retail store, and online shop. It will also be available in cans at Woodcutter’s.
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Hi, I’m Melinda Kucsera and today I’m reading the first two chapters from my latest book, Shards For His Gift! (Curse Breaker #10)
What's the book about:
While Sarn recuperates from his wounds and deals with his sentient magic, a strange gift arrives without any information about who sent it or why. Only a handful people know where he’s staying now, and none would send him a gift.
For his son, this present is a mystery that must be solved if he could just get his hands on it. But everyone conspires to keep it away from him until the commander of the Rangers goes in search of the dragons under the mountain. Then everyone suddenly has larger problems than where the mysterious crystal came from.
Ran gets more than he bargained for when the gift does a lot more than glow. Once again, Sarn must rise from his sickbed and save his son, this time, from the clutches of a magical crystal.
This cozier fantasy adventure picks up where Curse Breaker Revealed leaves off and answers the question: what will happen now that Sarn’s biggest secret is revealed?
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About your host, Melinda Kucsera:
I am Melinda Kucsera, an indie fantasy author who wrote and published 20+ books since 2016 across 5 series. I write epic fantasy adventures about families and magical creatures who’re just trying to survive in a world that hates and fears magic but is steeped in it.
What series do I write?
The Curse Breaker series chronicles the adventures of a reluctant mage (Sarn), his son, and the magical creatures they befriend as they fight to save their underground city from monsters, ancient evils, and a variety of magical threats.
The His Angelic Keeper series follows a ghost girl who just wants to save her still-living family, not stop a demon invasion or the literal apocalypse, but she’ll do that too if she must. (This is a humorous series that stars Sarn’s twin sister from the Curse Breaker series).
The Robin of Larkspur series follows Robin, a woman who just wants to save her daughter from the mythical creatures that kidnapped her baby. Sarn tries to help her.
The Divergent Heroes series is supposed to star two knights who are partially disabled but a younger version of Sarn keeps stealing the scenes.
The Curse Breaker’s Companion series which includes side quests, wacky what ifs, and stories from my newsletter of Sarn and his family in our world because they won’t stay inside the epic fantasy books they star in. They’d rather visit me through a portal conveniently located in their cave.
Why am I here?
I want to give you more fun adventures, more often, and create a community of fantasy readers to share ideas with, new stories, artwork, and have fun. So I’m taking the plunge and posting chapters of my upcoming books, bonus content, podcasts, videos, audiobooks, boxed sets, deleted scenes, alternate endings and beginnings, Patron-only stories, and more.
About the interview:
I entered my book, Curse Breaker Enchanted, in the Self-Published Fantasy Blog Off 9 (SPFBO 9) this year and thought it might be cool to interview my fellow entrants. Only 300 books can enter the contest. 10 will advance to the semi-finals, and one will be crowned the winner of SPFBO 9 for 2023. I hope you're cheering for Curse Breaker Enchanted! You can grab a copy for free right now to celebrate: https://melindakucsera.com/the-more-epic-version
Where to find your host, Melinda Kucsera:
Sign up for my newsletter: https://www.mkucsera.com/welcomecharacters
Support fun fantasy adventures on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/melindakucsera. Get thanked. Read the latest novels before anyone else.

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Communicating Preservation Planning
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The Preservation Planning Lab (HISP 469) serves as a capstone in the Historic Preservation Major. This year, the course focused on communicating preservation planning. This field is still misunderstood, so educating the public is a relevant and timely concern. The course was divided into two sections. First, the six students completed a team project. We were contacted by the City of Fredericksburg Planning Office to redesign the brochure for the Historic District. The old brochure was at least twenty years old, didn’t reflect current rules, and had no graphics or colors. The City asked us to create two new brochures - one for residential owners and one for business owners - and to incorporate newly adopted City branding. All six students in the course produced mockups and chose the best features of each to be integrated in the final designs. Colors and graphics use the new branding standards adopted by the City in 2021, ensuring that these brochures will be useful for many years to come. The brochures are now posted on the City of Fredericksburg website and are being printed for distribution. In the second section of the course, students created individual projects based on their interests. Three students utilized social media platforms to make aspects of preservation planning (such as preservation economics) accessible to the public. The other three created print media to discuss more locality-specific preservation planning projects. Throughout the entire course, students learned how to use industry standard design software, communicate complex concepts, and work collaboratively.

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Mainly around the Inverness area but can travel and looking for outgoing keen people to shoot with.
If any models have any ideas or shoots they would like to get done get in touch with me on here or my email, I will check daily as have a fair amount of free time right now.
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I loooove blogs with beautiful pictures of food and yummy recipes...
(Favorite: The Pioneer Woman Cooks )
sometimes I try to be like them...
this is going to be one of those times :)
You'll want to make these. Trust me.
Start with 1 3/4 cups flour whisked with 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder and 1/4 tsp salt.
In a separate bowl, using an electric mixer beat 3/4 cup unsalted butter at room temperature with 1 cup of sugar.
Once the sugar and butter is well blended, beat in one large egg.
Add the dry ingredients and beat until blended.
Refrigerate the dough for one hour.
Now is the time to open a bottle of wine and kick you feet up and just relax.
Oh wait... that was my dream, nevermind... back to reality! ;)
After your (perhaps relaxing if you don't have kids) hour is up, preheat your oven to 350 degrees and start making tablespoon-sized balls of the dough.
The recipe calls for parchment paper on baking sheets, but I just used my Roul Pat, it worked great.
Next take the bottom of a glass and start smushin!
Flatten each ball into 2 inch rounds.
Its ok, the edges will crack... which is difficult to accept for a perfectionist like me!
Bake at 350 degrees for 10-11 minutes,
or just until they are no longer wet... do not overbake!!!
Let the cookies cool for 5 minutes on pan, and then cool them completely on a rack.
Do try to fight temptation and not eat one before the best part comes!!!
While the cookies are cooling you can start making the yummy buttercream filling.
Start by using an electric mixer to blend 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons of powdered sugar with 3/4 cups unsalted butter at room temperature.
Beware, the powdered sugar is going to fly all over your counter!!!!!!!!
After that is well blended, add 3/4 teaspoon of peppermint extract and 2-3 drops of red food coloring.
Be sure to let the kiddos lick the beaters on this one :)
Next place 2 generous teaspoons of the filling on the flat side of half your cookies.
Here is how I did it, to make sure I didn't frost too many:
Next put the cookies together!!!
And smush them hard enough so some of the filling comes outside the edges...
you'll see why soon...
Take some candy canes (I used 10 little ones, probably would've been fine with 9),
and smash 'em!
(p.s. You can tell my lighting got worse toward the end of these pictures... apparently I don't have the best lighting in my kitchen after sunset. And yes this was pretty much an all-day event for me!)
Roll the edges in the smashed candy canes and voila!
Enjoy your Chocolate Candy Cane Cookies :)
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MILWAUKEE — Swingin' Door Exchange at 219 East Michigan is one of those hidden gems that you just have to try.
This tavern has some incredible history sitting behind it.
It used to be a Western Union Telegraph station back in the 1800s.
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Here's owner Shelly Sincere on the history:
"Well, this has been a tavern since 1933. It was the Exchange Tavern in 1933, after that it was called the Swinging Door. Micheal Murphy had it for 43 years and in 2010 we bought it from Micheal Murphy, my husband and I. It's going to be ten years on Nov. 5. It's got three separate rooms, which is nice to have during a pandemic."
But a new demand by the city that wants places to go to 25 percent had them scrambling, Shelly says.
"We had to complete a 65-point safety plan that took some time and research... we got that approved by the health department, and that states that if it's approved, you can go to a 100 percent. But you really can't go to 100 percent because everything has to be socially distanced."


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The documentation of the inpatient episode of care follows the general principles outlined in Chapter 27: Professional Billing and Coding, and is primarily a record of the patient’s clinical experience. A number of regulatory changes in the payment for hospital facility care have occurred over the past decades which subtly change the documentation requirements and may lead to increased interactions of hospitalists with others in the hospital systems such as clinical documentation improvement (CDI) and utilization review (UR) personnel. A better understanding of these regulatory changes and their impact on both facility reimbursement and patient financial liability will help the hospitalist document care more completely. In addition, there will be fewer interruptions and queries, less back-end work for facilities and fewer surprises for the patients when their hospital bills arrive.
DIAGNOSTIC RELATED GROUPS AND PAYMENT FOR HOSPITAL SERVICES
Predetermined payment based on diagnosis
Medicare pays hospitals for inpatient services using the inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS). Although IPPS is only applicable to Medicare, the concept of prospective payment for inpatient stays has been adopted by most third party payers. The primary driver of payment in the inpatient setting is a grouping methodology, called a diagnostic related group (DRG).
The basic premise of a DRG system is prospective payment, or a predetermined, fixed amount. The original DRG system began in the early 1980s in some states, with congress implementing the IPPS for Medicare services in 1983. Prior to the introduction of the DRG system, hospital reimbursement was made on a percentage of costs, and hospitals billed for the actual costs for an inpatient admission and received a true “fee for service.”
Each DRG payment is based upon an analysis of prior claims data in regard to how much it costs, and how many resources are required on average, to treat patients of that type. There are modifications to this payment amount for hospitals based on location, the percentage of low income patients treated, teaching hospital status, and whether or not the specific case was “unusually costly.” DRGs are three digit numerical assignments which are divided into categories, called major diagnostic categories (MDCs) based upon the patient’s symptoms, comorbidities, whether the care provided was medical or surgical, the organ system affected, age, and discharge status. Each DRG was intended to be a reflection of the resources required to care for patients in specific categories, and is designed to make one single payment to cover all of the services provided by the facility during the inpatient stay.
Modification of the DRG system
There were initially many limitations to the DRG system, as it was developed for use with a Medicare population and had limited applicability to other populations of patients, most notably children and expectant mothers. As a result, many private payers began using a modification ...

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Dust-free pellets are absolutely crucial for optimum quality during the injection molding of optical parts. Fine dust can form both during the production of the pellets or during transport in the conveyor systems. As the fine dust burns and leaves residues rather than plasticizing when heated, even the smallest quantity of dust can result in flaws in the injection molding.
The development and production of pellet dedusters is the specialty of MBengineering GmbH & Co. KG, Dürbheim, Germany. The latest deduster series, TS5 compact, will be presented at the Fakuma. It is predestined for the dedusting of smaller throughput volumes. In the dedusting module, the plastic pellets are swirled against a screen by turbulent air streams and the fine dust is carefully filtered out. At the same time, ionized air can be admitted to break down electrostatic charges. All relevant process parameters, e. g. the screen dimensions or the duration and number of dedusting cycles, can be individually adapted.
The dedusting module can be installed instead of a conveyor directly on the material feeder of the injection molding machine. As there is a permanent vacuum in the pellet deduster, no fine dust can escape from the process into the atmosphere. All system parts coming into contact with the product are made of stainless steel and can be quickly and easily changed at material changes. The filter has a self-cleaning function. More stable production processes, reduced scrap and less material consumption ensure a short pay-back period.
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HMD Global has confirmed that the Nokia 6 (2018) is launching on Jan. 5. Before the launch, the smartphone has just appeared on Geekbench benchmarking site. Today, several photos showing the Nokia 6 (2018) in real have appeared on Weibo.
The above images show that the upper and lower bezels have been slightly reduced compared to the original Nokia 6. Even though the rumor has claimed that the Nokia 6 (2018) will be coming with a full screen design with 18:9 aspect ratio display, the leaked images suggest that it will be coming with a traditional 16:9 screen. Interestingly, the TENAA listing suggests that it supports full HD resolution and not FHD+ resolution. The upper bezel has the selfie camera and earpiece. The on-screen keys can be seen above the barren bottom bezel.
The design of the camera module and LED flash is similar to the Nokia 5. Compared to the original Nokia 6, the fingerprint scanner has been relocated on its back panel on its newer model. The Nokia 6 (2018) has golden lining around the camera module, fingerprint scanner and the metallic frame.
The Nokia 6 (2018) will be coming with a 5.5-inch screen. It is powered by Snapdragon 630 chipset and 4 GB of RAM. It will be coming in 32 GB and 64 GB storage models.
The Nokia 6 (2018) will have the same rear and front mounted cameras that are available on the original Nokia 6. It will be packed with a 3,000mAh battery.


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In recent offseasons, NFL quarterbacks have changed teams like crazy.
Last offseason, veterans Tom Brady and Philip Rivers headed to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Indianapolis Colts after spending their entire careers with the New England Patriots and Los Angeles Chargers respectively.
Early draft picks at the quarterback spot are no longer guaranteed multi-year chances to prove themselves. Josh Rosen has bounced around the league since the Arizona Cardinals made him a top-10 pick in 2018. And as Washington Football Team fans know all too well, Dwayne Haskins, a first-round pick in 2019, is now on the open market after being cut.
The lack of patience at the quarterback spot is due to a couple of things. First off, coaches and GMs only have so much time to prove themselves before their seats get hot. That can lead to difficult decisions when quarterbacks aren’t playing at a winning level.
Second, there has been an influx of good, young passers entering the league in recent years while some of the longest-tenured veterans are inching closer to retirement. As such, teams heading for a rebuild or owning a top pick are more likely to ditch a veteran and select a player that could be their quarterback of the future.
This offseason is shaping up to be another one with many quarterback moves. The 2021 NFL Draft is loaded with first-round talents at the quarterback position, there are some notable free agents that will be available this year, and the trade market is flush with potential options to pursue.
They may not necessarily be traded, but plenty of players will at least have their names mentioned in trade rumors.
Washington Football Team quarterback trade targets
The Washington Football Team is going to have to sort through all the quarterbacks available and see if any of them fit as an upgrade for their team. With Washington ahead of schedule in their rebuild, they may be a quarterback away from having a chance to win a playoff game, or go on a postseason run. And Ron Rivera has expressed the importance of finding a starting quarterback this offseason.
Alex Smith, Kyle Allen, Taylor Heinicke, and Steven Montez may well get their chances to prove themselves during the offseason. But Rivera and new GM Marty Hurney will certainly be looking to see if the team can find a top-notch quarterback to add talent to the room, as that would improve their outlook in what looks like a wide-open NFC East.
With that said, here’s a look at some of the trade options that Washington could look at this offseason. Again, not all of these players are guaranteed to be available, but these 10 candidates could be. We’ll dive right into this alphabetically-sorted list with a face familiar to Washington’s new GM, Marty Hurney.

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After postponing several times due to COVID-19 pandemic, the idol placing ceremony of the Rato Machhindranath in Patan has been completed today. As per the special ceremony and auspicious time fixed by astrologer, the idol of Machhindranath placed at chariot at 12:15.
The idol was placed in a special ritual in a chariot. With this Red Machhindranath chariot process begin in Kathmandu. However, it is yet to see how well the process follows given the number of COVID-19 cases rising in the Kathmandu valley. Since the festival is a mass carnival-like festival with the participation of thousands of people, the festival can be a place to easily spread the virus.
After holding the meeting with Lalitpur Metropolitan City and other stakeholders including local stakeholders, the Guthi Sansthan has decided to hold the jatra with proper safety precautions in place.
However, when it does commence, the locals of resident in Patan needs to take health risk. After placing the idol to Chariot, now the second part is to pull the chariot. A major part of the festival is inviting all our family members and feasting with them. The question remains how people organize large gatherings.


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The Australian born and bred climbing database, theCrag.com, has launched an Australia-wide climbing competition sponsored by La Sportiva. Kicking off on 16 March and running for a month until 16 April, the competition is based on climbing the most number of (unique) pitches/boulders, with the top three winners in the two categories of bouldering and sport & trad climbing receiving a pair of La Sportiva Traverse X shoes. There is also a bonus pair of La Sportivas to be won for climbers who can climb more pitches than one of theCrags.com’s most avid users, Lee Cujes. We spoke to Lee to find out how hard he will be going for the month, and also to learn about why and how he uses theCrag.com
For the full low-down on the La Sportiva Easter Tick Contest, and to sign up, visit here.
You are the man to beat when it comes to theCrag.com’s La Sportiva Easter Tick Contest. Will you just be climbing a normal amount or will you be going out of your way to crush the competition by lapping up as many routes as you can?
A bit of both. I think it’s my job to set some reasonable benchmark that will encourage people to get out and climb a bunch of routes. At the same time, Easter conditions are primo here and I want to make some headway on my projects!
I actually really like the way theCrag and La Sportiva have structured the comp. It’s based on unique, clean ascents of any difficulty. I’ve seen similar comps which are based on metres climbed, and this led to competitors finding the easiest route possible and top-rope soloing it on a mini traxion for days on end. It was the most pointless exercise I’d ever seen.
So for this comp, you just want to get out there and do heaps of different routes of all grades. Think strategically. With difficulty not being a factor, I predict there’ll be a lot of Arapiles climbers in the top of the pack.
According to theCrag’s stats you are Australia’s fourth most active climber having amassed 94,090m. Neil Monteith is Number One on a massive 140,209m – is it super embarrassing being beaten by a bumbly? Do you have any plans to overtake him by fair or foul means?
As climbers, it’s our duty to pick an obscure metric in which we can excel. That’s why they invented the Masters division in competitions. I’ll never beat Neil in metres climbed, so I think I’ll choose to specialise in ‘number of tufas climbed’.
Are you afraid that people might take the #beatleecujes hashtag literally? Incidentally, what’s your address?
The increasing prevalence of stick clips at the crag has made this a real hazard.
Is meterage the best way to calculate who the leading light of Aussie climbing is?
It’s probably one of the better ways for a physio to look for a cash cow.
Do you think raw mileage on the rock is important for being a better climber?
A few years ago I might have said yes. Now, I’d say yes and no. I think mileage helps you become more competent within your current level of ability. If you want to expand your level of ability, you need to be exposed to harder moves, which means projecting, bouldering and the like, rather than mileage. For a climber in their first few years in the sport, however, mileage is almost always the answer.
How long have you been a member of theCrag for and can you tell us a little bit about how you use the site?
I’ve been on there since the very beginning. I don’t even know what year that was. Early 2000s I think. I’ve got a shocking memory, and I like to keep track of what I’ve done, so that’s its primary use for me. So often I’ll go to log an ‘onsight’ only to find I’d climbed the route 10 years prior. I also use it a lot for trip planning. Browsing areas, seeing what’s there and what’s popular. I’m also somewhat obsessive compulsive when it comes to recording crag data. I have been known to spend entire rest days on overseas trips transcribing routes into the database.
I honestly wish there was just one single route database. Duplicating info across 8a.nu, Mountain Project, Rockfax, 27Crags (and the list goes on) just does my head in. In my perfect world there would be a single source of truth (with all apps and services pointing to a central database). For me personally, that single source would be theCrag.com. Of everything out there, it is the most comprehensive and well-designed route database bar none. And it just happens to be designed and run by Aussies. Oi Oi Oi.
Do you use the available data analysis tools, and when you look at the graphs do they tell you a story?
A few times a year I might look at these. The stats are only getting better and more detailed over time. Looking at theCrag’s competition such as 8a.nu it’s just phenomenal – theCrag is so much better it’s actually now pointless to compare. In terms of what my stats say about my climbing, well, they tell me that while Climbing Your Age (CYA) is a young-un’s game, it is possible to continue to gradually improve your climbing over a 20+ year climbing career.
Do you find the data that you can extract from theCrag has helped your climbing improve?
I think anything that provides motivation is a positive thing. So the biggest thing I find I’m motivated by at the moment is the tick feed – seeing the endless stream of what others are climbing, commenting and congratulating friends and getting psyched as a community.
Do you know how many new routes you have logged through theCrag?
As in first ascents? I’d need to look it up – 301! That’s a lot of bolts.
We note from theCrag that you climbed your hardest routes five years ago, do you feel like you’ve stopped improving or has your climbing improved in ways that are not measured by your hardest redpoint?
I reckon I was peaking at 32, and I’m now 40. In saying that, I recently did an overseas trip in Greece where I logged my best ever performances in onsighting with three 8as (29s), whereas I’d only ever done one 8a onsight previously. My focus these days is remaining injury-free, training as much as I am able (because I really enjoy it), and climbing on fun and challenging routes. Like many climbers, I still believe my best redpoints are ahead of me, and I hope I’m not deluding myself.
Having watched your climbing career for a long time now, we’ve always been impressed by how systematically your climbing has improved. Is this something that has happened organically or do you have some kind of long-term plan?
No, I live in The Now. While I’m methodical, I’m not a long-term planner. I’m quite habitual, and I think this is a key factor in systematic and long-term progression. Specifically, I decided many years ago I would train for climbing in a regular/systematic way, and this has provided the framework for whatever successes I’ve enjoyed. I’ve chosen to make training a habit, and climbing one of my life’s priorities. I’m happy to put time into both.
You moved to the Blue Mountains a couple of year back, has that had an impact on your climbing?
For sure. In the first year or two, I’d say my overall climbing level decreased, and I didn’t mind a bit. So many exciting crags to visit and moderate routes to onsight! It’s only now I’ve been here for around three years that I’m putting some time and focus on projecting harder routes, which has inevitably seen my climbing level start to creep back up.
To find out more about the La Sportiva Easter Tick Contest, and to sign up, visit here.

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Jennifer Lopez’s latest gaffe lands her on the list of these celebrity wardrobe malfunctions. See who else made the list.
Jennifer Lopez gives fans an eyeful when her sexy outfit slips during a performance in Italy. -NDN
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s date night took awkward turn after a near run-in with Kardashian’s ex Reggie Bush and his pregnant girlfriend. -NDN
Gym Class Heroes frontman Travie McCoy has opened up about his 2009 split from Katy Perry, revealing her romance-ending e-mail sent him spiraling into a depression he’s still coming to terms with. He admits he was madly in love with the pop star and even gave her a promise ring after vowing to spend the Read More
President Barack Obama has weighed in on the “American Idol” feud between judges Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj. The reality TV drama has reached the water coolers at the White House, and despite the fact Obama is in the middle of a campaign, he took the time to share his stance on the ongoing Carey Read More
Wrestler-turned-reality TV star Hulk Hogan has launched a $100 million lawsuit over his leaked sex tape. A lawyer for Hogan, real name Terry Bollea, held a news conference in Tampa, Florida on Monday and announced that the star had filed two lawsuits in relation to intimate footage which appeared on Gawker earlier this month. The Read More
Rihanna has broken her silence after she was embroiled in a drug photo scandal at Coachella in April , denying allegations she was snorting cocaine off her bodyguard’s head. The “We Found Love” singer sparked controversy after sharing a snap of herself at the California music festival sitting on a security worker’s shoulders and pouring Read More
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U.S. Republican Party presidential candidate Mitt Romney has landed himself a headline-grabbing new celebrity supporter – Lindsay Lohan will be voting for him. The troubled actress has declared herself a fan of President Barack Obama’s chief rival ahead of next month’s election. Asked who she’ll be voting for at a red carpet event in Hollywood Read More
Actress Taryn Manning has been arrested in Manhattan on suspicion of assaulting her assistant. The “8 Mile” star was detained by police at the Dream Downtown Hotel in Manhattan in the early hours of Thursday morning following an incident in her room. Manning is accused of punching and kicking a 23-year-old woman, believed to be Read More


The Honourable Diane Finley, Minister of Public Works and Government Services, and the Honourable Peter MacKay, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, will announce continued progress on the National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy.
The announcement will be made later today at Irving’s Halifax Shipyard.
National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy (NSPS)
On June 3, 2010, the Government of Canada announced Canada’s National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy.
Under the strategy:
- For large ship construction, Canada will establish a strategic relationship with two Canadian shipyards, selected through an open and fair national competition, and designate them as sources of supply, one for combat vessels and the other for non-combat vessels.
- For smaller ship construction, Canada will set aside the individual projects for competitive procurements amongst Canadian shipyards other than the shipyards selected to build the large ships and their affiliated companies.
- For ship repair, refit and maintenance, these requirements will be competed through publicly announced request for proposals
On October 19, 2011, the National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy Secretariat announced the Results of a Request for Proposals to build large vessels for Canada.
SBT Staff, February 6, 2014


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OnePlus just announced its own pair of $80 wireless earbuds — here's what they're like compared to Google's $180 Pixel Buds
The OnePlus Buds are $100 cheaper than Google's Pixel Buds, and you truly get what you pay for in this case.
Google is getting ready to unleash a bunch of new gadgets including the Pixel 4 on Tuesday — here's everything to expect
Google will likely release the Pixel 4 and announce other gadgets like a new Pixelbook at an event on October 15.
In late 2017, Google attempted to take on Apple's AirPods with its own wireless headphones: Pixel Buds. So, how do they hold up over time? Poorly.
These sleek $250 earbuds can translate languages in real time — and it's like something out of 'Star Trek'
Waverly Labs' Pilot earbuds can translate a conversation between two people who speak different languages.
We put Google's new language-translation headphones to the test with 10 different languages — here’s how they did
Google says its Pixel Buds headphones — when combined with Google Assistant — can translate 40 different languages. Here's how accurate it really is.
A startup that raised $50 million to make a smarter version of Apple's AirPods has failed and shut down
Doppler Labs built some of the coolest technology in the world. Then, it went under. Top Doppler execs explain what happened.
I tried the "universal translator" feature on Google's new Pixel Buds, and it worked. Mostly.
Google's hardware may not win points for originality or design, but its artificial-intelligence brawn is setting the agenda in a fast-changing business.
I went hands-on with Google Pixel Buds wireless headphones, an alternative to Apple's AirPods that also act as a universal translator.
Google Pixel Buds are the company's answer to Apple's AirPods. Costing $160, the earbuds use Google Assistant to answer questions and translate in real-time.
Google's taking on Apple's AirPods with $160 wireless headphones that can translate different languages in real time
Watch out, Apple — Google has a new set of wireless headphones that are giving the AirPods a run for their money.


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UK’s richest man vs Scottish democracy: INEOS challenge fracking moratorium
by Roz Paterson • INEOS, one of Scotland’s favourite oil companies (just kiddin’), is hoping to slug it out with the Scottish Government (SG) in the High Court over fracking.
Briefly, the SG established a moratorium on fracking in 2015, in order to gather evidence on the pros and cons of fracking, and conduct a public consultation.
Last year, this was upgraded to a de facto ban, in the form of an instruction by the SG to local authorities, ordering them not to grant consent to fracking applications.
The SG, democratically elected and following a clear mandate from MSPs and the public—the public consultation garnered an astounding 60,000 responses, and showed a clear 99 per cent against the practice of fracking—versus a vastly wealthy, bullying, unpopular and unaccountable corporate power.
Yep, it should be a shoo-in for INEOS, who can afford to go to court, and who are clearly emboldened by a license granted to them by the Westminster government, which, it should be noted, does not have authority over fracking in Scotland.
The company insists they have invested heavily in Scotland, in good faith. Not only do they want to be allowed to start fracking asap, they want the SG to compensate them for not allowing them to do so before now.
This bumptious, Trumpety attitude is failing to win hearts and minds here. Likewise, the company’s health and safety record, which reads like the school report from Hell.
The Scottish Environmental Protection Agency regularly awards them the lowest marks possible, citing a catalogue of flares, leaks and public safety concerns at the INEOS-run petrochemical plant at Grangemouth.
But INEOS do not restrict themselves to getting up the noses of their workers and neighbours. They have also taken out a national injunction against protestors, making it suddenly a highly risky business even to stand outside an INEOS plant brandishing a cardboard Frack Off sign and a flask of Nambarrie.
If you could be deemed to be “interfering with lawful activities” – and you almost certainly will be deemed to be doing so—you could be arrested, fined, even imprisoned.
INEOS Shale’s Operations Director Tom Pickering, commented: “At INEOS, we will not stand for intimidation, threat or risks to safety.”
Now, that’s a funny old thing to be saying, as some would interpret INEOS’ legal challenge to our government as intimidating, especially at a time when budgets are squeezed and big payouts to oil fat cats would be even less nice than usual.
And surely an injunction against ordinary citizens exercising their democratic rights is also, well, intimidating?
As for threats, INEOS has said that, on top of what the courts could throw at them, the company would seek to recover damages from anyone breaching their injunction.
And did he say ‘risks to safety’? Did he really? For starters, there is the risk to human life on Planet Earth.
It is clear from all climate change research done everywhere (except from that done by right-wing journalists sitting in pubs), that burning fossil fuels will amplify our already dangerous levels of global warming.
We should leave untapped reserves where they are, in other words, and that’s just for starters.
Which is why, in an unprecedented move, Friends of the Earth Scotland have made a public interest intervention in the INEOS challenge, on the grounds that, far from being unlawful, the SG has acted in accordance with the Paris Climate agreement, and therefore lawfully.
“We are confident that the process to ban fracking was robust and fair, and we hope that the courts will find against INEOS.”
We hope so too, not only because of climate change, but also because of the immediate risks to human health, consistently understated, but rising to public attention nonetheless.
You’ll have heard about the increased risk of earthquakes and tremors, and contamination of drinking water by toxic chemicals released during the fracking process, and thereafter, during the refining?
Yes, but there’s much more. Respiratory problems flare up in the locus around fracking sites, from wheezing and coughing and breathlessness, to potentially life-threatening issues like asthma.
There are significant risks to unborn children, as noted in a study conducted by the John Hopkins School of Public Health, in association with Pennsylvania’s Geisinger clinic, which found a 40 per cent increase in premature births, and all the concomitant risks that go with them.
Further, there are serious issues with noise, stress, and sleep deprivation, leading to rises in incidence of heart disease, depression, and even linked to learning difficulties in children.
Those in favour of fracking say that we are addicted to fossil fuel and not make a fuss about the consequences. Those against say, this is not about consumer demand, it’s about profits and keeping neoliberal, arch-capitalist governments, and their corporate allies, in power.
If INEOS are ruled OK to proceed, we are well and truly fracked. But if they lose…
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Alveolar Hemorrhage Syndrome
Diffuse alveolar hemorrhage is not a specific disorder, but a syndrome that has a specific differential diagnosis and a specific sequence of testing. Some disorders that cause diffuse alveolar hemorrhage are associated with glomerulonephritis; then the disorder is defined as a pulmonary-renal syndrome.
Diffuse alveolar hemorrhage results from widespread damage to the pulmonary small vessels, leading to blood collecting within the alveoli. If enough alveoli are affected, gas exchange is disrupted. The specific pathophysiology and manifestations vary depending on cause. For example, isolated pauci-immune pulmonary capillaritis is a small-vessel vasculitis limited to the lungs; its only manifestation is alveolar hemorrhage affecting people aged 18 to 35 years.
Diffuse alveolar hemorrhage may occur in a variety of immune and nonimmune disorders. Hemoptysis, alveolar infiltrates on chest radiograph, anemia, dyspnea, and occasionally fever are characteristic. Rapid clearing of diffuse lung infiltrates within 2 days is a clue to the diagnosis of diffuse alveolar hemorrhage. Pulmonary hemorrhage can be associated with an increased single-breath diffusing capacity for carbon monoxide (DlCO).
Causes of diffuse immune alveolar hemorrhage have been classified as anti-basement membrane antibody disease (Goodpasture syndrome), vasculitis and collagen vascular disease (systemic lupus erythematosus, granulomatosis with polyangiitis, systemic necrotizing vasculitis, and others), and pulmonary capillaritis associated with idiopathic rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis.
Nonimmune causes of diffuse hemorrhage include coagulopathy, mitral stenosis, necrotizing pulmonary infection, drugs (penicillamine), toxins (trimellitic anhydride), and idiopathic pulmonary hemosiderosis.
Goodpasture syndrome is idiopathic recurrent alveolar hemorrhage and rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis. The disease is mediated by anti-glomerular basement membrane antibodies. Goodpasture syndrome occurs mainly in men who are in their 30s and 40s.
Symptoms and signs
Hemoptysis is the usual presenting symptom, but pulmonary hemorrhage may be occult. Dyspnea, cough, hypoxemia, and diffuse bilateral alveolar infiltrates are typical features. Iron deficiency anemia and microscopic hematuria are usually present.
The diagnosis is based on characteristic linear IgG deposits detected by immunofluorescence in glomeruli or alveoli and on the presence of anti-glomerular basement membrane antibody in serum. Combinations of immunosuppressive drugs (initially methylprednisolone, 30 mg/kg intravenously over 20 minutes every other day for three doses, followed by daily oral prednisone, 1 mg/kg/day, with cyclophosphamide, 2 mg/kg orally per day) and plasmapheresis have yielded excellent results.
Idiopathic pulmonary hemosiderosis is a disease of children or young adults characterized by recurrent pulmonary hemorrhage; in contrast to Goodpasture syndrome, renal involvement and anti-glomerular basement membrane antibodies are absent, but iron deficiency is typical. It is frequently associated with celiac disease. Treatment of acute episodes of hemorrhage with corticosteroids may be useful. Recurrent episodes of pulmonary hemorrhage may result in interstitial fibrosis and pulmonary failure.
Treatment involves correcting the cause.
Corticosteroids and possibly cyclophosphamide are used to treat vasculitides, connective tissue disorders, and Goodpasture syndrome. Rituximab has been studied in ANCA-associated vasculitis and has been shown to be noninferior to cyclophosphamide for induction treatment and superior to azathioprine for remission treatment.
Several studies have reported successful use of recombinant activated human factor VII in treating severe unresponsive alveolar hemorrhage, but such therapy is controversial because of possible thrombotic complications.
Other possible management measures include supplemental oxygen, bronchodilators, reversal of any coagulopathy, and intubation with protective strategies as for acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and mechanical ventilation.

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Scoop Today - The Other News
Scoop apologises for not publishing a Scoop Today bulletin yesterday....regular service is now resuming...for East Timor and APEC news see the following special bulletin.
SCOOP CENSORED BY MAJOR TRADE UNIONS
- Acute observers may have noticed that Council of Trade Unions (CTU), Association of University Staff (AUS) and Post Primary Teachers Association (PPTA) press releases do not appear on Scoop while they do appear on another New Zealand political news web site. This situation is despite Scoop’s best efforts. See… Scoop Censored By Major Trade Unions  in the Headlines wire. National’s Annabel Young says hindering the freedom of the flow of information is “just like the bad old days”. See… Black ban "just like the bad old days"  in the Parliament wire.
Selling The Crown Jewels
- The decision, to literally "sell the Crown jewels" and cut the Bank of England's gold holdings by more than half, followed similar decisions by the central banks of two other British Commonwealth countries - Canada and Australia. John Howard reports. See… England To Sell Half It's Gold Reserves  in the Headlines wire.
Prebble Sings Shipley’s Praises
- “No small amount of [the APEC] success was due to Jenny Shipley. In an international arena full of pitfalls and with the added uncertainty and danger of escalating violence in East Timor, our Prime Minister conducted our affairs as a true, stable, international leader.” See… Who passed the test at APEC? - Prebble  in the Parliament wire.
Alliance Too Close To Labour – Peters
– In a speech Winston Peters said the Alliance have sidled too close to Labour and have rendered themselves pointless for nothing in return. He reckons New Zealand First is the alternative. See… Peters - Alliance Sold Soul For Plastic Promises  in the Parliament wire.
Universal Student Allowances – Anderton
- In a speech to Canterbury University students today Jim Anderton outlined the Alliance plans to provide universal student allowances for full time students. See… Universal student allowance for students  in the Parliament wire. The Aotearoa Student Union today welcomed the announcement, describing it as an important step towards removing discrimination in the tertiary sector. See… Students Look Forward To Equality  in the Education wire.
Dunne To Visit West Coast
- United New Zealand leader Peter Dunne, says his visit to the West Coast on Thursday 16 September will be "a chance to listen and learn." See… Dunne Visit "A Chance To Listen And Learn"  in the Parliament wire.
ACC Figures Show It’s Working – Hasler
- Hon Marie Hasler, Associate Minister for Accident Insurance, says figures contained in the 1998/9 annual report, released today, show ACC's Prevention, Care, Recovery programme is working. See… ACC Working For Prevention, Care And Recovery  in the Parliament wire.
One Tree Hill Attacked Again
- One Tree Hill in Auckland has been attacked with a chainsaw again this morning. Police are talking with witnesses at the scene and are also talking with four members of a Northland family. The attack occured around 10am. More details as they come to hand.
New Prison Site Victory – NZ First
- New Zealand First List MP, Hon Brian Donnelly, says the decision not to build a prison in the Mangakahia Valley is a victory for anti-prison campaigners in the area. See… Prison Campaign By Donnelly Gains Victory  in the Parliament wire. However ACTs Northland-based MP Dr Muriel Newman today labelled the decision to site the new Northland prison at Kaikohe 'costly and illogical'. See… Northland Prison Site - 'Costly & Illogical'  in the Parliament wire.
NZ First Support Native Logging
- Leader of New Zealand First, Winston Peters, today reaffirmed New Zealand First's commitment to the sustainable management of the West Coast's indigenous forest resource. See… West Coast Accord Should Be Honoured  . ACT say the fact that Maori landowners can log their native forests shows a huge double standard in policy. See… Labour's Forestry Policy Shocking Double Standard  . Both in the Parliament wire.
Winston Peters To Meet Ansett Pilots
- The New Zealand First Leader, Winston Peters, is to meet a group of Ansett pilots in Christchurch this afternoon. See… Ansett Pilots To Meet Winston Peters  in the Parliament wire.
Watson Can’t Get Sentenced To Long Enough – Prebble
- ACT Leader Richard Prebble says it doesn't really matter what non-parole period Scott Watson gets in his sentence for the murder of Olivia Hope and Ben Smart, because it won't be enough. See… Scott Watson Should Get Truth In Sentencing  in the Parliament wire.
Media Reporting Of Watson "Disgraceful"
- Convicted murderer Scott Watson's defence say the post trial media coverage of Waston and his criminal record is disgraceful and seems to ignore the fact that an appeal will follow. Appeal papers on the grounds of fairness are to be filed in court this week. Scott Watson's father Chris Watson appeared on the Kim Hill show this morning and agreed that the media coverage was appalling. He is convinced of his son's innocence, saying he "believes sincerely that Scott has no idea of it".
WATSON GUILTY - WILL APPEAL
- Scott Watson will appeal his conviction for the murder of Olivia Hope and Ben Smart, Watson's father says. Watson was found guilty on Saturday at midday after the jury deliberated for 21 hours. The judge has sentenced Watson to a mandatory life sentence. When the verdict was delivered Watson said 'You're wrong'. The 13 week trial is now over and Gerald Hope, the father of Olivia, said the verdict was expected and that he was pleased with the way the justice system and the police had performed. See the Headlines wire for a report.
Nick Smith Disappointed Over Mt Hikurangi Challenge
- Conservation Minister Nick Smith is disappointed that Public Access New Zealand is to legally challenge the return of Mt Hikurangi to Ngati Porou and the new access agreement that has been negotiated for the mountain. See… Minister Disappointed At Mt Hikurangi Challenge  in the Parliament wire.
Michael Cullen Roasted On West Coast
– Hundreds of West Coasters turned out yesterday to convey their displeasure to Michael Cullen over Labour’s plans to end native logging. Act say the fury is hardly surprising. See… Coast Unleashes Fury On Labour  in the Parliament wire.
Greens To Toast Possible Logging End – Others Not So Happy
- The Mayor of Dunedin, Sukhi Turner, uncorked a bottle of champagne at a Dunedin public meeting last night, in celebration of the imminent end to native forest logging on the West Coast. See… Greens' Meeting Marks West Coast Logging End  . However, SOE Minister Tony Ryall says… Coasters Won't Trust Labour Opposition Again  while ACT says Helen Clark Should Front Up To Coasters - ACT  . All in the Parliament wire.
$68 million For West Coasters – Forest & Bird
- Critics of Labour's indigenous forests policy have studiously ignored the $68 million asset windfall which the policy delivers to the West Coast community and potential additional gains from tourism related jobs say conservationists. See… Coast Benefits From $68 Million Asset Windfall  in the Politics wire.
Ansett Strike Stops All Flights
– A strike by Ansett pilots – the fourth to date - led to all flights being cancelled yesterday. This led to the travel plans of 3,000 people being disrupted. The pilots are threatening to strike on Friday as well over a contract dispute but Ansett has said the pilots will be locked out on Thursday if this goes ahead.
ACT Support Recalling Parliament For Peacekeeping Debate
- ACT Leader Richard Prebble said the ACT Party supported Jenny Shipley's initiative in recalling Parliament to debate the sending of peacekeepers to East Timor. See… Act Supports Recall Of Parliament For Timor Debate  in the Parliament wire.
Iraq Back In Arab Fold
- For the first time since invading Kuwait in 1990 and dividing the Arab world, Iraq is chairing a meeting of Arab foreign ministers in Cairo. John Howard reports. See… Iraq Back In The Arab Fold  in the Headlines wire.
Food Prices Fall
- The Food Price Index fell by 0.6 per cent in the August 1999 month, said Deputy Government Statistician Ian Ewing. This follows an increase of 0.5 per cent in July and falls of 0.7 and 0.4 per cent in June and May 1999. See… Food Prices Fall in August  . See also… Economic Note - New Zealand Food Price Index  . Both in the Business wire.
Clean Up New Zealand Launched
- Conservation and Education Minister Nick Smith yesterday launched Clean Up New Zealand in Wellington with Ian Kiernan, founder of Clean Up the World by joining 200 pupils from Lyall Bay School to help clean up Lyall Bay Beach. See… Clean Up New Zealand Launch  in the Parliament wire.
And You Thought Genocide Was Important
– Despite the ethnic cleansing in East Timor, the New Zealand cannabis lobby group NORML thought the APEC leaders in Auckland might like to consider cannabis law reform. See… NORML - APEC Leaders Should Consider Cannabis  in the Politics wire.
Prime Minister Asked To Save Kiwi From Extinction
- A Government funded rescue programme is urgently required to save New Zealand's national bird, the kiwi, from extinction in the wild, according to the New Zealand's largest conservation group, the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society. See… New Zealand Prime Minister asked to save the kiwi  in the General wire.
Suicide Level Sign Of Despairing Society – Anderton
- The record New Zealand suicide rate released earlier this week by the Auckland School of Medicine is symptomatic of a despairing society' says Alliance Leader Jim Anderton. See… Record suicide level symptomatic of NZ despair  in the Parliament wire.
Cell Phone Tower Radiation Rises – Residents
- The permissible limit for exposing the public to radiation from cell towers for the functioning of cellular phones has been dramatically raised according to a concerned resident group. See… Cell Tower Radiation Rises - Resident Group  in the General wire.
Moa Point Receovery Slow
- Monitoring of the marine environment at Moa Point, on Wellington's south coast, has shown that recovery after the closure of the 100-year-old sewerage outfall in June 1998 took longer than initially thought. See… Slow Recovery At Moa Point  in the General wire.
Get up, Get up, Get up
… - New Zealand's number one energy drink V is taking the highly competititve Australian beverage market by storm. See… Australia Getting Big Wake Up Call From NZ  in the Business wire.
Fallout Over Logging Decision Continues
– Native Forest Action have described the government’s response to Labour’s announcement that they would stop all native logging as predictable and hysterical. See… Hysterical Reaction Predictable - NFA  . Forest and Bird field officer, Eugenie Sage has rejected as nonsense, SOE Minister, Tony Ryall's claims of her influencing Labour leader, Helen Clark in relation to Labour's West Coast forests policy. See… Minister's Imagination Working Overtime  and ECO have strongly endorsed the policy. See… Labour's Forest Protection Policy Welcomed  . All in the General wire. Much more reaction lower down this page and in Parliament wire.
Three Policy Launches During APEC / Timor - Labour Keep Their Heads Down
- Events over the last week prove either that the Labour Party hire extremely poor PR staff or that the party is committed to the heads down approach to this election campaign. Scoop's Jonathan Hill reports. See... Labour - The Heads Down Approach Continues  in the Headlines wire.
ACT Wheel Out The Big Gun
- ACT Party President Sir Roger Douglas has got some weight off his chest over the weekend with a series of media releases. He has criticised the Alliance for their policy on student loans and tariffs. See… Who Will Pay For Alliance Promises?  and Anderton Does It Again With Tariff Policy  in the Parliament wire. He has also criticised the Alliance and Greens for neglecting the poor. See… Greens/Alliance Not Working For Low Income Earners  , also in the Parliament wire.
International Pilots Union Welcome NZ Black Box Laws
- The head of the union representing most airline pilots in the U.S. has welcomed the vote taken yesterday by New Zealand's parliament to bar government from using certain data gathered in accident investigations. See... International Pilot Union Welcome NZ Cockpit Move  in the General wire.
Bradford No Grasp Of Student Loans
- The Alliance said Max Bradford's claims that wiping the interest on student loans would cost $122 million next shows he has no grasp on the student loans scheme. See... Wiping student loans will not cost $122 million  in the Parliament wire.
The Pleasantries Of The Corporate Culture
- Last month my father lost his job which, in a country with relatively high levels of unemployment is not in itself a big deal. However the nature in which the job was taken had me astounded at the coldness of the corporate culture that has recently become a part of New Zealand. Jonathan Hill writes. See... The Pleasantries Of The Corporate Culture  in the Headlines wire.


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The largest-ever study of cocaine users who suffered heart-related effects from taking the drug finds that a specially designed plan of emergency-room care for such patients can save both lives and money. Such plans have been in place for traditional chest pain patients for years, and many hospitals set aside part of their ERs to hold them for observation. But doctors have lacked criteria to help them decide how long to hold patients whose chest pain was caused by cocaine – even as millions of Americans are using the drug.
New understanding of the changes in brain chemistry caused by chronic cocaine use has suggested a novel treatment that could reduce the intense craving that forms the core of cocaine addiction. “Our studies show that administration of an existing drug ? n-acetyl cysteine, which is used to treat cystic fibrosis and several other disorders ? reverses the changes in brain chemistry that appear to cause cocaine craving,” said David A. Baker, a post-doctoral fellow in the laboratory of Peter W. Kalivas at the Medical University of South Carolina.


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Cook 3 cups of cubed sweet potato in 11/4 cup of water.
Melt 2/3 cup of grated jaggery adding little water & strain to remove any impurities. Add the jaggery syrup to the cooked sweet potato & mix well for 5 minutes.
Add 11/2 cups of randaampaal to the sweet potato-jaggery mixture & cook on medium low heat for 10 -15 minutes. Finally add 1/2 tsp of powdered cardamom & remove from heat.


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Finding stillness in the presence of nature is one of the best gifts you can give yourself. Practicing outdoors is a great way to reap the many health benefits of yoga (vitality, increased happiness, and less stress just to name a few) while fostering a deep connection with nature. Whether you’re an experienced yogi or you’ve dabbled in Downward-Facing Dog, this guide will cover the yoga essentials for finding your flow amongst the serenity of nature.
Best National Parks for Outdoor Yoga
Summer and fall are the perfect times to explore the natural wonderlands of America’s national parks and roll out that yoga mat. Not only will you discover the most picturesque places, but the peace that comes from the sights and sounds of a cascading waterfall and feeling the wind on your fingertips during sun salutations is unmatchable.
Acadia National Park, Maine
Known for idyllic coastal beauty, Acadia is the place to be if you’re looking for a waterfront backdrop for your practice where you can breathe in the salty air and be among the first to catch the sunrise during your morning yoga sesh.
Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah
With striking orange and red cliffs, this desert destination is perfect for a morning or evening stretch session or Yin Yoga practice where you hold yoga poses for longer and sink into your surroundings. Near the Bryce Amphitheater, you can overlook some of the park’s most famous vistas.
Glacier National Park, Montana
Find serenity among glacier-carved peaks and wildflower-filled valleys in this mountain paradise. Lake McDonald, visible from the famous Going-to-the-Sun Road, is a perfect spot to relish scenic mountain views during Vinyasa.
Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee
The Land of Blue Smoke offers one of the most iconic American landscapes for yoga with rolling hills and misty blue clouds. The fall is a spectacular time to roll out your mat or go for a walking meditation when the leaves turn red and orange hues.
Where to set up for Outdoor Yoga
Now that you’re feeling inspired to practice yoga in nature, we’ll share our tips for how to choose your space for a serene asana sequence. When exploring the national parks, you can discover perfect places to set up mid-hike where the people are few and the views are many.
Look for a flat, stable area where you can practice with or without a mat. If you’re practicing on pavement, grass, or rock, you’ll want to use a thicker yoga mat or put a towel underneath to guard it against rocks and dirt. If your desired location is a beach, test your balance without using a mat to feel the sand between your toes.
Look for a quiet, peaceful place without distraction where you can fully let go and feel connected with the natural world around you. Perhaps a quiet neighborhood park or in your own backyard . We like the towering sandstone cliffs of Zion National Park and the lapping shores of Acadia National Park for serene, scenic views. Sun or shade is up to you, just remember to bring water and sunscreen!
Under Canvas locations have yoga decks where you can enjoy an outdoor yoga class as part of complimentary camp programming or use it at your leisure. Another peaceful option is to step out onto your tent’s private deck and enjoy sweeping views while you settle into yoga poses.
What to Wear for Outdoor Yoga
We recommend wearing yoga outfits that won’t restrict your movement and provide optimal comfort during your practice. Here’s our checklist of yoga clothing that is perfect for outside practice.
- Breathable top that won’t hang over your head when you’re upside down
- Flexible bottoms either shorts or leggings
- Sports bras for women provide support for different types of yoga
- Headband and hair ties to keep hair from getting in the way
- Cozy layers like fleece-lined sweats or a sweatshirt for cooler weather
If you’re short on yoga clothes or feel inspired to buy something new during your stay, you can get seasonal activewear like lululemon leggings in the lobby tent at any of our locations.
Best Yoga Equipment for Outdoor Yoga
Yoga doesn’t require much equipment to practice and that’s the beauty of the sport. You can show up as you are with a yoga mat, water bottle, and a peaceful mindset. Here are a few considerations as you pack up for an outdoor yoga sesh.
- Outdoor yoga mat
- Yoga mat bag or strap to keep your hands free while hiking
- Water bottle
- Sunglasses and sunscreen
- Bug repellent
- Phone for setting a timer, listening to music, or taking photos
Under Canvas offers complimentary lululemon yoga mats and yoga blocks for you to use during your stay. So find your flow in the middle of a forest, find grounding in the grass, or simply savasana beneath the stars and find your connection with nature.


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Restoring the balance of power
Islamabad – A whirlwind of changes is being witnessed all around. Trump’s America, assertive Putin, ever-expanding Chinese clout, Brexit facing Europe and the Middle East in turmoil.
And how can the Sub-Continent remain unaffected when a super power and a regional power have joined hands to teach Pakistan a lesson.
In the face of this great imbalance of power in the region, what are we supposed to do and what are we actually doing? The theory of Balance of Power warrants that Pakistan should immediately recalculate its political, economic and military position to realign itself in the new power calculus. And it has to be done rapidly as events have already overtaken our lethargic reactions and snail-pace movements. This was the time that internally we should have put up a consolidated front and externally carved out a crystal-clear policy. Unfortunately, we are faltering on both fronts, thus giving ample opportunities to our enemies to further batter and weaken us with impunity. Internally, our political forces are at each other’s throat; personal and party interests have taken the lead over national approach.
Mixed and confusing signals emanating both from internal quarters and lack of clear-cut policy statements is further confounding our friends and would-be friends. Have we made up our mind to totally embrace Chinese offer of CPEC? If yes, then why voices of ‘East India Company’-like consequences are being spread? Are we so non-confident that we cannot handle simple or even complicated businesses and internationally-accepted norms of investments and economic cooperation? Why are we failing to engage Russians in a big way when their support is most required? Similarly, going slow in mending our differences with Iran and the people of Afghanistan is beyond comprehension.
American renewed efforts to discourage us from making the required tectonic shifts, thus not allowing Pakistan to restore the balance of power and allowing India-led actions to weaken us to an extent where we are forced to toe the line of the duo, is not being fully comprehended by our political and military leadership. The requirement is that we clear our internal turmoil on priority keeping supremacy of Constitution and law above everything else. Higher judiciary be also sensitised about exigency of the situation.
A council of veteran diplomats be immediately formed to advise on foreign policy options.
A well-articulated policy should be promulgated with finance, internal and defence ministries on board after discussing sustainability of all possible decisions. All this should have been done yesterday.
-The writer is a former defense
secretary and corps commander.


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One of the most awaited movie of 2021, RRR was all set to release on 7th January, 2022 in all Cinema halls. But due to the rise of COVID Cases in India, This movie had to be postponed!
Since Then, there is no any official announcement regarding the release date of this movie. But according to some sources, there are higher chances that the movie will release on Eid.
Well, As I said you earlier that this is not the official announcement but there are higher chances of it. And even, RRR team decided to release on this date, then it will be great idea for them because there are very higher chances for any movie to get super hit if it was release on any major festival.
But if the movie was released on the Eid, then there will be huge loss for Ajay Devgan and Tiger Shroff. Because Ajay Devgan’s movie Runway 34 and Tiger Shroff movie Heropanti 2 was also be ready to release on same date.
So, if Movie was launched on Eid, then these two Bollywood movies will go in trouble as they had to Compete with this Masterpiece! So, there are two chances that they will not release their movie on that date or they will try to give Competition to this movie, which I think these movies will not take this risk, so they are higher chances they will not release, if RRR released at the box office!
He is Pradeep Kumar From Varanshi. He the biggest fan of South Indian Movies and he used to write articles on south movies, it’s actor & actress. You always find him watching south movies and writing reviews & articles of movies in his free time.

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Prawn spring rolls กุ้งห่มผ้า
If you like Thai food (who doesn’t??) then you can find great recipes and advice from Charinya’s blog… worth following for all your WP bloggers out there…
This is probably the easiest Thai entrée’ I have ever made. It was really fun to make and also looks elegant and tasty.
I really encourage you to try to make it in your kitchen.
- Prawns, peeled and deveined . Gently cut them open to ensure the seasoning is placed inside. Each prawn makes 1 spring roll, so use as many you like.
- Spring roll wraps. I use a larger size (250mm). Cut diagonally twice to get 4 triangle sheets from 1 big sheet
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GPU Performance: Tegra 2
As we’ve mentioned in the past, mobile devices like smartphones and tablets use what’s known as a system-on-chip (SoC). This integrates the processor, GPU, RAM, and several other subsystems onto single device. Since all of those components sit next to each other on the same chip, there is greater efficiency in data transfers, while reducing the amount of space consumed on the PCB.
|Apple A4 (iPad)
|Nvidia Tegra 2
|Apple iPad 2
|Acer Iconia Tab A500Asus Eee Pad TransformerMotorola XoomSamsung Galaxy Tab 10.1
|1 GHz ARM Cortex-A8 (single-core)
|1 GHz ARM Cortex-A9 (dual-core)
|1 GHz ARM Cortex-A9 (dual-core)
|256 MB 333 MHz LP-DDR (single-channel)
|512 MB 1066 MHz LP-DDR2 (dual-channel)
|1 GB 667 MHz LP-DDR2 (single-channel)
|PowerVR SGX535 (single-core)
|PowerVR SGX545MP2 (dual-core)
|ULP GeForce (single-core)
|32 KB / 32 KB
|32 KB / 32 KB
|32 KB / 32 KB
Tegra is Nvidia’s SoC brand, and it symbolizes the company’s effort to tap into the mobile market beyond its desktop-derived GeForce graphics processors. For those unfamiliar with Tegra 2, read page eight of our Motorola Xoom review for a full discussion GPU architecture. On the CPU side, Tegra 2 shares the same dual-core Cortex-A9, which offers a substantial boost from Cortex-A8 used in the first-generation iPad. Read Apple's iPad 2 Review: Tom's Goes Down The Tablet Rabbit Hole for a full discussion of Cortex-A9 performance.
While we've already covered Tegra 2, it's important to examine the graphics performance of each tablet. Sy Choudhury, director of product management at Qualcomm, once stated, "There is a misconception that the same processor and operating system gives the same performance." That's a phenomenon found on every tablet and smartphone. Why is it wrong to expect the same performance from all Honeycomb-based Tegra 2 tablets? Hardware vendors get access to the same optimizations from the SoC developer, but not all of the software-based tweaks are enabled by OEMs.
|PowerVR SGX 535 (Apple A4)
|PowerVR SGX 543 (Apple A5)
|ULP GeForce (Tegra 2)
|8 (4 pixel / 4 vertex)
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|Triangle rate @ 200 MHz
The ULP GeForce has a maximum operating frequency of 300 MHz, but device vendors can tweak this setting to save on power. Nvidia provides less information on the Tegra 2 than it does for its desktop GPUs, so it’s best to move on to benchmarks. As in our iPad 2 review, we're turning to GLBenchmark 2.0.
In terms of frames rendered in a set period, the Galaxy Tab 10.1 performs as well as other Android-based tablets running Honeycomb 3.1. Interestingly, the TouchWiz UI update enables graphics performance closer to the Eee Pad Transformer with Honeycomb 3.2. This implies one of two possibilities.
- Samsung could be enabling performance enhancements in the UI update.
- The TouchWiz UI is less resource-intensive than Honeycomb 3.1.
Whatever the reason, the Galaxy Tab 10.1 leads the pack as the best-performing Tegra 2-based tablet.
If you want to go into more depth than what is provided here, the full results of GLBenchmark 2.0 have been posted on Google Docs.
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No surprises here, iPad 2 is still on top, being the engineering masterpiece that it is. Take a look at side-by-side comparisons of iPad 2 and Galaxy Tab 10.1 on YouTube and you'll see how much smoother animations and video recording are on the iPad 2.Reply
I'm going to be in the market to buy about 150 tablets soon and from this article it appears that the ASUS 3.2 is the best all around for price/performance/recharge. While it doesn't win alot, it appears to be a consistant performer and has a relativly short recharge time.Reply
Or am I missing something here?
The reason why Samsung doesn't want to lower it's price is easy to understand: there are many (stupid) persons who are convinced that the iPad is superior to any other tablet just because it's priced higher... Samsung wants to make sure they capture that part of the market.Reply
But the author is right: if there is one reason Apple should sue Samsung, it's for copying the price structure of the iPad!
Samsung Galaxy Tab needs a split keyboard feature in portrait mode; it isn't comfortable enough to have to stretch to hit the virtual keys.Reply
The 10.1 is still too slow for certain browsing. Flash is good as long as you don't want to rewind or fast forward through it. It sometimes slows down when I try typing also.
Since Apple produces both hardware and software, they can optimize their OS for the exact hardware they put out.
After trying the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, I would say it's just a little too immature still. A good year or two and tablets will be perfect for browsing, gaming, and some other tasks while also being lightweight and easy to use even compared to laptops.
Hmmm, many talk about iPad dominance but don't know all the facts. Just looking at a device in the store doesn't cut it folks. Android tablets are going to start cutting into market share, like it or not. For an IT person or true techie, most would choose an Android tablet. 4 core coming soon and they are going to rock the scene. Example: my Acer Iconia costs quite a bit less than iPad2.Reply
-Full USB port for mouse, keyboard, portable hard disks/thumb drives, cameras
-Overclocked and stable dual core CPU @ 1.504 Ghz (big change in performance)
-Customizable and open operating system (and it's going to get better with ICS)
-Netflix and Hulu working
-Mount drives from Linux, Windows, and OSX
-Websites with Flash that look the same as on a PC browser (now theres a concept)
-Wide screen 16:9
-5MP rear camera + front facing camera.
-Charges back up in 1hr
Price, proprietary cable management, and lack of expandable storage all lead me to want to wait to see what happens after Windows 8 becomes available.Reply
PowerVR SGX545MP2 (dual-core)i think it's supposed to be SGX543MP2?
call me when Kal-el comes outReply
I'll be getting this for $199 with my Sprint upgrade :DReply
Wake me up when someone does something innovative.Reply


The Last Glacial Termination Article – Denton et al., Science, June 2010
A major puzzle of paleoclimatology is why, after a long interval of cooling climate, each late Quaternary ice age ended with a relatively short warming leg called a termination.We here offer a comprehensive hypothesis of how Earth emerged from the last global iceage. A prerequisite was the growth of very large Northern Hemisphere ice sheets, whose subsequent collapse created stadial conditions that disrupted global patterns of ocean and atmospheric circulation. The Southern Hemisphere westerlies shifted poleward during each northern stadial, producing pulses of ocean upwelling and warming that together accounted for much of the termination in the Southern Ocean and Antarctica. Rising atmospheric CO2 during southern upwelling pulses augmented warming during the last termination in both polar hemispheres.


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Eight years after Cloverfield caused a stir in cinemas with its own take on the horror genre, 10 Cloverfield Lane is here with its associated tales of monsters great and small.
Who’s in it
Mary Elizabeth Winstead is headlining the follow-up to 2008 horror Cloverfield, starring as Michelle. She awakes after an automobile accident to find herself locked inside an underground bunker, either rescued from mortal dangers or kidnapped by John Goodman’s apocalypse-ready survivalist, Howard Stambler.
Part of the ensemble cast that won a Screen Actors Guild award for Bobby, Winstead co-starred in Scott Pilgrim Vs The World, confirming her suitability for lead roles with acclaimed addiction recovery romance Smashed, and notching up appearances in horrors The Ring Two and 2011’s The Thing remake.
Goodman, practically a Hollywood institution, is strongly associated with Coen Brothers films (including The Big Lebowski and Inside Llewyn Davis) and 1980s and 1990s TV series Roseanne.
His more serious roles include The Artist, Beyond The Sea, Treme and Damages.
Bradley Cooper of Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle and American Sniper is also involved, as is John Gallagher Jr of The Newsroom and romantic thriller The Heart Machine.
Who wrote it
Josh Campbell and Matthew Stuecken came up with the story together, 10 Cloverfield Lane being the pair’s first produced collaboration and the second writing credit for each of them.
It’s Damien Chazelle – brought in to help hone the screenplay – who has the far higher profile, having written and directed Whiplash and the upcoming comedy drama La La Land.
Another relative unknown, Dan Trachtenberg, has booked his first feature film gig in 10 Cloverfield Lane.
If that’s not strictly true – he was on board for sci-fi novel adaptation Y The Last Man before it was shelved – the commercial director and Totally Rad Show podcast host has some experienced producers as backup Star Wars man JJ Abrams and Bad Robot partner Bryan Burk provide continuity between Cloverfield and this latest instalment.
And if Trachtenberg gets his big break with 10 Cloverfield Lane, he’ll be following in the footsteps of Matt Reeves, who made his own name with the original Cloverfield. – AFP Relaxnews
LOL. No. RT @Svminu: @DannyTRS are you related to Michelle? I don’t have Google…
— Dan Trachtenberg (@DannyTRS) December 18, 2012

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“as a result of her failure to do whatever it takes to ensure the health of our democracy”
The Democratic Party of Arizona has voted to formally censure Senator Kyrsten Sinema because she didn’t go along with their plan to suspend the filibuster and push through their ‘voter reform’ package.
Democrats love Republican ‘mavericks’ from Arizona. Democrat mavericks, not so much.
Maeve Sheehey reports at Politico:
Arizona Democratic Party censures Sinema over voting rights stance
Kyrsten Sinema was censured by the Arizona Democratic Party on Saturday morning, after the senator’s longstanding opposition to modifying Senate rules to pass voting rights bills culminated in the legislation stalling in Congress.
The Arizona Democrat has received substantial criticism for her position against creating a carveout in the filibuster for voting rights, along with fellow centrist Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin (W.Va.). A number of top donors threatened last week to stop funding Sinema if she didn’t reevaluate her stance, saying voting rights passage was “life or death important.”
Intra-party opposition to Sinema’s position reached a tipping point this month when she delivered a speech in which she firmly stated that she would not support the filibuster reforms for voting legislation, claiming it would make worse the “disease of division infecting our country.” The criticism within the Democratic party was widespread and immediate, with Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) calling Sinema out by name in a speech on the House floor directly after.
The Arizona Democratic Party’s Executive Board held a meeting on Saturday morning to discuss action against the senator, and ultimately the board formally censured Sinema “as a result of her failure to do whatever it takes to ensure the health of our democracy.”
You may recall that back in 2019, Democrats couldn’t bring themselves to censure Rep. Ilhan Omar over anti-Semitic remarks, opting instead to pass a watered down resolution against “hate.”
For the Arizona Democrats, standing in the way as the party tries to take over elections at the federal level is a much bigger deal.
It’s funny how narratives shift.
Nevertheless, she persisted. https://t.co/2q0k63OdIJ
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) January 22, 2022
Some media outlets are hyping a report that donors are deserting Sinema, but only one of them appears to live in Arizona.
Joseph Simonson reports at the Washington Free Beacon:
Only 1 Donor Threatening To Cut Off Sinema Over Filibuster Lives in Arizona
Only one out of a group of 70 Democratic donors who signed a letter threatening to cut off Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D., Ariz.) over her refusal to kill the filibuster lives in Arizona, according to a Washington Free Beacon investigation.
Politico reported on Thursday that a group of 70 Democratic donors wrote to Sinema saying it would end all spending for Sinema unless she went along with President Joe Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D., N.Y.) scheme to end the filibuster so that their party can pass federal election reform bills.
The problem: Only 19 of the individuals who signed the letter to Sinema have itemized donations to her campaign, according to the Federal Election Commission. Of the 19 signatories who donated to Sinema, only 6 gave the maximum $5,400 allowed by federal law. None of those max donors lived in Arizona. The single Arizona signatory who donated gave just $250.
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Acer announced the latest addition to its Nitro 5 gaming series, which was made to satisfy the casual PC gamers.
The Acer Nitro 5 ships with up to the latest 8th Generation Intel Core i7 and Intel Core i7+ processors offering an improved six-core design, said Acer in a press release.
The new laptops are equipped with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti graphics, up to 512 GB of NVMe PCIe SSDs and up to 32GB of DDR4 memory.
Once on the battlefield, Acer’s NitroSense utility monitors the status of the CPU/GPU, while CoolBoost technology adjusts the fans for optimal performance.
The Nitro 5 offers bold refinement not commonly seen in a gaming laptop, thanks to its elegant laser texturing and understated matte hinge. The crimson red hinge beautifully matches the futuristic design of the backlit keyboard, while the 15.6-inch Full HD IPS display produces brilliant imagery with crisp details.
A front-facing HD web camera lets users strategize with the squad as they prepare to unleash terror on the competition, and celebrate together after victory is secured. Users can also easily broadcast games live with Mixer, directly from the Game bar on Windows 10 simply by pressing the Windows key plus G.
The Nitro 5 features Intel Wireless-AC 9560 2×2 802.11ac wireless which offers Gigabit performance that enhances gaming, streaming, and conferencing experiences.
Pricing and Availability
The Acer Nitro 5 will be available in North America in May with prices starting at US$749; and in EMEA in May with prices starting at €799.


Wednesday night brings us a Premier League clash, some Champions League round of 16 first-legs and a Europa Conference League play-off second leg.
This calls for a BTTS acca. Today's offerings are slim but we have constructed a 4/1 treble that might be worth taking a look at ahead of the evening.
BTTS Yes in Liverpool vs Luton Town - 8/11
This is a game in which Liverpool need to hold their nerve if they are to become Premier League champions in Jurgen Klopp's final season in charge.
The Reds will be well aware of the threat Luton Town can carry as they were held to a point by the Hatters at Kenilworth Road in November. Rob Edwards' side are putting up a good fight in most of their games, and they will be pumped up for the trip to Anfield.
Liverpool's defence still has question marks surrounding them and we fancy Luton to get on the scoresheet here. And there should be no issues for the hosts scoring after they fired four past Brentford away from home at the weekend.
BTTS Yes in Napoli vs Barcelona - 4/7
These are two teams who are both having disappointing seasons despite winning their respective leagues last season. Napoli are ninth in Serie A and nine points off the top four. Barcelona are third in La Liga which is nowhere near as bad but they are eight points adrift of Real Madrid at the summit.
Both these clubs could be really benefit from a good run in the Champions League and we think this will show on the field. They do both possess quality in attack but as we have seen throughout this campaign, they both have their issues at the back.
BTTS Yes in Porto vs Arsenal - 10/11
Arsenal are flying right now. In their last two Premier League outings they have scored a combined 11 goals without reply. The Gunners are playing their best attacking football of the season and will be heading to Portugal full of confidence.
Bukayo Saka is scoring freely, Leandro Trossard is continuing to prove that the club made the right call in signing him over Mykhailo Mudryk for a fraction of the latter's price, and Martin Odegaard is back to his creative best. The visitors should have no issues scoring in this one.
However, due to how their form has been in Europe this term, we don't think they will be able to keep a clean sheet on this occasion. In each of their three away trips in the group stage, BTTS was a winning selection, and with Porto at home, they should get on the scoresheet.
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|Born||25 October 1886|
|Died||23 April 1964 (aged 77)|
|Spouse(s)||Ilona Duczynska (1897–1978)|
|Children||Kari Polanyi Levitt|
|Field||Economic sociology, economic history, economic anthropology|
|Historical school of economics|
|Influences||Robert Owen, Bronisław Malinowski, G. D. H. Cole, Richard Tawney, Richard Thurnwald, Karl Marx, Aristotle, Karl Bücher, Ferdinand Tönnies, Adam Smith, Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, Werner Sombart, Max Weber, György Lukács, Carl Menger|
|Contributions||Embeddedness, Double Movement, fictitious commodities, economistic fallacy, the formalist–substantivist debate (substantivism)|
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|Social and cultural anthropology|
Karl Paul Polanyi (//; Hungarian: Polányi Károly [ˈpolaːɲi ˈkaːroj]; 25 October 1886 – 23 April 1964) was an Austro-Hungarian economic historian, economic anthropologist, economic sociologist, political economist, historical sociologist and social philosopher.
He is best known for his book The Great Transformation, which argues against self-regulating markets. In the book, he advances the concept of the Double Movement, which refers to the dialectical process of marketization and push for social protection against that marketization. In the book, he argues that market-based societies in modern Europe were not inevitable but historically contingent. Polanyi is remembered best as the originator of substantivism, a cultural version of economics, which emphasizes the way economies are embedded in society and culture. This opinion is counter to mainstream economics but is popular in anthropology, economic history, economic sociology and political science.
Polanyi's approach to the ancient economies has been applied to a variety of cases, such as Pre-Columbian America and ancient Mesopotamia, although its utility to the study of ancient societies in general has been questioned. Polanyi's The Great Transformation became a model for historical sociology. His theories eventually became the foundation for the economic democracy movement. His daughter, Canadian economist Kari Polanyi Levitt (born 1923 in Vienna, Austria) was taught by Friedrich Hayek at the London School of Economics and is Emerita Professor of Economics at McGill University, Montreal.
Polanyi was born into a Jewish family. His younger brother was Michael Polanyi, a philosopher, and his niece was Eva Zeisel, a world-renowned ceramist. He was born in Vienna, at the time the capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His father, Mihály Pollacsek, was a railway entrepreneur. Mihály never changed the name Pollacsek and is buried in the Jewish cemetery in Budapest. Mihály died in January 1905, which was an emotional shock to Karl, and he commemorated the anniversary of Mihály's death throughout his life. Karl and Michael Polanyi's mother was Cecília Wohl. The name change to Polanyi (not von Polanyi) was made by Karl and his siblings. Polanyi was well educated despite the ups and downs of his father's fortune, and he immersed himself in Budapest's active intellectual and artistic scene.
Polanyi founded the radical and influential Galileo Circle while at the University of Budapest, a club which would have far reaching effects on Hungarian intellectual thought. During this time, he was actively engaged with other notable thinkers, such as György Lukács, Oszkár Jászi, and Karl Mannheim. Polanyi graduated from Budapest University in 1912 with a doctorate in Law. In 1914, he helped found the Hungarian Radical Party and served as its secretary.
Polanyi was a cavalry officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army in World War I, in active service at the Russian Front and hospitalized in Budapest. Polanyi supported the republican government of Mihály Károlyi and its Social Democratic regime. The republic was short-lived, however, and when Béla Kun toppled the Karolyi government to create the Hungarian Soviet Republic Polanyi left for Vienna.
From 1924 to 1933, he was employed as a senior editor of the prestigious Der Österreichische Volkswirt (The Austrian Economist) magazine. It was at this time that he first began criticizing the Austrian School of economists, who he felt created abstract models which lost sight of the organic, interrelated reality of economic processes. Polanyi himself was attracted to Fabianism and the works of G. D. H. Cole. It was also during this period that Polanyi grew interested in Christian socialism.
He married the communist revolutionary Ilona Duczyńska, of Polish-Hungarian background.
Polanyi was asked to resign from Der Oesterreichische Volkswirt because the liberal publisher of the journal could not keep on a prominent socialist after the accession of Hitler to office in January 1933 and the suspension of the Austrian parliament by the rising tide of clerical fascism in Austria. He left for London in 1933, where he earned a living as a journalist and tutor and obtained a position as a lecturer for the Workers' Educational Association in 1936. His lecture notes contained the research for what later became The Great Transformation. However, he would not start writing this work until 1940, when he moved to Vermont to take up a position at Bennington College. The book was published in 1944, to great acclaim. In it, Polanyi described the enclosure process in England and the creation of the contemporary economic system at the beginning of the 19th century.
Polanyi joined the staff of Bennington College in 1940, teaching a series of five timely lectures on the "Present Age of Transformation.". The lectures "The Passing of the 19th Century", "The Trend Towards an Integrated Society", "The Breakdown of the International System", "Is America an Exception" and "Marxism and the Inner History of the Russian Revolution" took place during the early stages of World War II. Polanyi participated in Bennington's Humanism Lecture Series (1941) and Bennington College's Lecture Series (1943) where his topic was "Jean Jacques Rousseau: Or Is a Free Society Possible?"
After the war, Polanyi received a teaching position at Columbia University (1947–1953). However, his wife, Ilona Duczyńska (1897–1978), had a background as a former communist, which made gaining an entrance visa in the United States impossible. As a result, they moved to Canada, and Polanyi commuted to New York City. In the early 1950s, Polanyi received a large grant from the Ford Foundation to study the economic systems of ancient empires.
Having described the emergence of the modern economic system, Polanyi now sought to understand how "the economy" emerged as a distinct sphere in the distant past. His seminar at Columbia drew several famous scholars and influenced a generation of teachers, resulting in the 1957 volume Trade and Markets in the Early Empires. Polanyi continued to write in his later years and established a new journal entitled Coexistence. In Canada he lived in Pickering, Ontario, where he died in 1964.
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