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South Carolina officially observed May 10th as a State Holiday to remember the fallen Confederate soldiers. However, only 8 of the States 46 counties actually closed their offices to observe the State Holiday. Lexington, Allendale, Anderson, Cherokee, Colleton, Dillon, and McCormick counties closed for the holiday. The others definably stayed business as usual.
While Lexington County, for example, allowed 1,800 employees to have the day off with pay.
At the State level, all non-essential South Carolina state employees were given the day off on Friday May 10 and state government offices were closed.
Leaders of all of the State’s school districts refused to close schools in observance of the holiday.
Irmo councilman Barry Walker, a black politician in Lexington County currently running for Mayor, said he sees the holiday as “a celebration of Southern heritage, not as a state-mandated sanctioning of slavery….I mean, hell, it’s a day off, I’m for taking a day off anytime I can get it.” He’ll use the day to revisit South Carolina’s past and maybe visit meaningful historical sites in the Midlands, he said.
ALSO IN SOUTH CAROLINA
Oran Smith, a member of Coastal Carolina University’s board of trustees was named a finalist for executive director of the S.C. Commission on Higher Education (CHE). He was a shoe-in until Mike LeFever, the interim executive director of the agency, decided to make an issue of the fact that Smith worked part-time as an editor of Southern Partisan Magazine from 1989 to 1999.
Search committee chair and CHE commissioner Charles Dalton said in a statement the committee was not aware of Smith’s association with Southern Partisan and will “consider all relevant background information on each candidate before making a final selection.”
Though most of our readers have never heard of Southern Partisan, which today is but a fledgling website that has toned down from what appeared in its print issues, back in the early 90s, Southern Partisan published more than 12,000 copies per issue.
Smith currently works as a senior fellow at conservative think tank Palmetto Promise Institute.
On May 15th, Smith had what may be his last “Job interview” with the Board. When asked about his involvement as an editor of Southern Partisan he put his clenched hands together over his chest, pulled them apart and asked, “Why can’t people see a window into my heart?”
Smith told the board that his views which were formed by a childhood with a grandmother who was a member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and friends in the Sons of Conservative Veterans have changed over the past 20 years:
“I was caught up in a bubble where the phase ‘Heritage not Hate’ was all you needed to say…The magazine was South obsessed, but it wasn’t race obsessed, at least not in the way we thought at the time because we were talking Robert E. Lee and the honorable service of men who died and reading the inscriptions on Confederate monuments….We didn’t understand that no matter how you designed your flag, no matter what shape it was in, that it was offensive and often provoked violence.”
John Dozier, the University of South Carolina’s chief diversity officer, asked him to what actions he has taken to demonstrate that he no longer holds the same ideals of the magazine. After saying he was an entry-level employee at the time, Smith bumbled through a string of statements about how he thought he made his new views clear in a 2015 column in The State newspaper after the Charleston shooting, and how he was a Civil War buff who collected Union and Confederate memorabilia like many South Carolinians, and how his views started to change after leaving the magazine.
Commission board member Cleveland Sellers, a “civil rights” leader, asked why Smith did not include his work with Southern Partisan on his resume. Smith said he thought he addressed any potential controversy by putting down that he worked from Richard Quinn & Associates, whose namesake was editor of the magazine, rather than using the firm’s other name, First Impressions. Quinn also has been at the center of a long-running Statehouse corruption probe.
Neither Dozier nor Sellers thought that Smith answered their questions directly. “I think he tried to explain away his association with this organization,” Dozier said.
Sellers said he is not going to vote for Smith to oversee 33 colleges because he does not know whether to believe Smith’s change of heart.
Meanwhile, LGBTQ advocates have sent more than 800 emails to the higher education commission opposing Smith because of his position as being against same-sex “rights” and “marriage” when he led the Palmetto Family Council. Smith said he can separate his personal views from his professional duties, citing the 26 years he has spent as a trustee at Coastal Carolina University.
Commission member Charles Dalton, who is leading the director search committee, said the board should look at the entire background of the candidate, “I think you need to look at somebody’s complete career,” Dalton said. “I don’t think you can segment it.”
Smith said he hopes commission members will look at how he has evolved: “I would hope that they would allow me to explain my deeper understanding and errors of youth that I have made, which have had the effect of making me probably more aggressively supportive of equality and civil rights than your average person,” Smith said.
Commission Chairman Wes Hayes said he thinks Smith will get a fair shake, and Smith still has the backing of Gov. Henry McMaster, a longtime friend who appoints all 15 members to the commission. That said, Board members have the final say, and they are expected to do that early next month.
TEXAS PAINTINGS SOON TO BE REMOVED?
Washed up sportscaster and wanna-be Lt. Gov. of Texas, Dan Patrick, has promissed a “review” of all art at the Texas Capitol. It is our belief that Danny-boy wants to remove a painting of General Albert Sydney Johnson to appease some black politicians in the Legislature. Another potential target is a painting of Terry’s Texas Rangers.
No doubt in the “review” they’ll determine that other legends of Texas’ history are “slave owners,” or “racists” and that will result in even more portrait removals.
I guess being a yankee who graduated from the University of Maryland (although most Marylanders even have the sense to be southern in their sympathy) Patrick simply lacks appreciation for the history and heritage of his “adopted” state.
We encourage all of our Texas readers to call their Lt. Governor ( 512-463-0001) and remind him “Don’t Mess With Texas.” If he doesn’t want to see his Carpetbagger ass packing after the next election then he needs to simply leave the artwork, and all other memorials to Texas’ history ALONE.
NON-HERITAGE NEWS AFFECTING THE SOUTHLAND:
The SAT to assign ‘adversity scores’ for all test takers
The College Board will give bonus points to students from select “socioeconomic backgrounds.” Likewise, they will deduct points for those considered “advantaged.” In plain English, immigrants and minorities will be given free and unearned points and white kids will have points deducted so that the scores reported colleges will not be based on academic knowledge but on race, gender, “sexual identity,” and immigrant status.
‘Patriot Farmers’ benefiting from US-China trade dispute
President Trump argues that farmers will eventually benefit from the trade war with China, which he said could lead to a second bailout program that would include large-scale government purchases of American agricultural products.
Ted Cruz wants Space Force to defend against space pirates
Senator Cruz is the chairman of the subcommittee on aviation and space and recently made a comparison of the space force to American naval forces, stating the need to protect “the open seas” on Earth and in space.
Here’s the full Cruz quote:
“Nations have recognized the necessity of naval forces and maintaining a superior capability to protect waterborne traffic and commerce from bad actors. Pirates threaten the open seas, and the same is possible in space. In this same way I believe we, too, must now recognize the necessity of a Space Force to defend the nation and to protect space commerce and civil space exploration.”
QUESTIONS ABOUT LINCOLN’S ASSASINATION
by Al Benson, Jr.
Al Benson, Jr., is the Editor of the Copperhead Chronicle. In addition to writing for Southern Patriot and other publications, he is a member of the Confederate Society of America and the League of the South.
There are many questions that can be asked about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and most of them probably won’t be. Either they will not be thought of, or most of those who write about this event will seek to direct the questions into other areas that will fail to deal with events that should be dealt with in order to focus on the Establishment version of this history. It’s sort of like the Warren Commission Report on the Kennedy assassination. Thinking people realize the Warren Commission Report is a croc, to put it bluntly, but it is still the “official version” of what is supposed to have happened and so it is what all the court historians refer everyone to. They realize it’s all baloney. What they hope for is that you don’t. Same with the Lincoln assassination. The “official version” has lots of problems but we are all directed to it anyway in the hope we will be too stupid to know what questions to ask.
But questions have been asked. Some of them I had never thought of. Dave McGowan, who has authored the excellent series of articles Why Everything You Think You Know About The Lincoln Assassination Is Wrong has asked some of them.
For instance, he has questioned why Booth even used the weapon he did. I have never seen this questioned before, but McGowan questions it. He notes: “…after the passage of 149 years, it doesn’t appear that anyone has ever thought to question why Booth, an intelligent and educated man by all accounts, would choose such a riduculous weapon to take with him on his mission…The President is under armed guard, or at least he’s supposed to be. He’s also supposed to be in the company of General Ulysses S. Grant, who is known to always be armed. Of course, Grant has fortuitously opted to get the hell out of Dodge just hours before he was to have accompanied the Lincolns to the theater, but you shouldn’t have any way of knowing that, just as you shouldn’t have any way of knowing that Parker (the guard) will desert his post…” So, if you are Booth, “…you have to assume that you’re going to have to get past at least two armed attendants, and probably more, to get to the President. And you’re going to have to do that without firing a shot, since you only have one and you will need to save that for Abe. And since the only realistic chance you have of actually killing Lincoln with your wildly inaccurate weapon is by sneaking up behind him and delivering a contact wound to the head, you’re going to have to get past any guards without making any noise. And since Grant is also on the hit list, you’re going to have to kill him as well, which I guess you’ll have to do by bludgeoning him with your empty gun. That should work out pretty well.” Given what Booth is supposed to have known, does anyone see how ridiculous this is? Has anyone even thought of this besides McGowan? I hadn’t.
However, given the situation that Booth is supposed to have known about, him taking that little one-shot Derringer to do the deed makes almost no sense at all. Anyone with his wits about him at all would have wanted some kind of repeating pistol to go in with. And there were pocket pistols in those days he could have used. Admittedly they were bigger than a Derringer but they would still have fit in his coat pocket.
McGowan, as if talking to Booth, states: “…you have set a very ambitious goal for yourself. You must first get to the president, who is sitting in a private box in a crowded theater with at least two armed attendants. You must then kill the president with a single shot, because your weapon doesn’t allow for second chances, and also somehow kill General Grant. You must then, in an unarmed state, make an escape first from the theater and then from the city, and you must get past an armed guard at the bridge. And you have to do all that with just one bullet. It’s hard to see how anything could go wrong with such a brilliant plan.” You have to give McGowan credit for a rather dry sense of humor. But he continues: “There are other weapons available. Weapons better suited to your mission. And as an alleged Southern operative, you should surely know that.” But, is Booth the “alleged Southern operative” we have been told he is and does he know this? A Southern sympathizer, no doubt, but does that translate into an “operative”?
So you have to wonder why Booth went in with a single-shot Derringer, given the supposed circumstances. Or did he know more than we think he knew and if so, who told him?
McGowan also wonders why Booth did not disguise himself. He would have had to know that once identified his acting career would have been at and end. He noted that actors in those days often traveled with trunks full of disguises for the different parts they might play. He observes of Booth that “You could easily don a convincing disguise so as not to be easily recognized/ Then you don’t have to worry about getting out of the city alive; all you have to do is make it out of the theater, quickly ditch the disguise, and then you can circle around and rejoin the crowd at Ford’s without arousing any suspicion at all.” Yet this is not what happens.
You also have to wonder who planned the scenario that took place. It almost sounds like, the way it was planned, John Wilkes Booth was hung out to dry and didn’t realize it. Over the years as I have read about this I have had the feeling that there were lots more people involved than John Wilkes Booth and his merry little band of misfits.
McGowan asks questions I’ve not seen asked before. Theodore Roscoe asks questions no one else had dealt with. A couple years ago I read Bill O’Reilly’s book about the Lincoln assassination. O’Reilly broke no new ground. He just regurgitated the Establishment line and asked no questions the Establishment would not have wanted asked. Somehow, that doesn’t satisfy. It may be fun reading for those who don’t really want to learn anything. Real history seldom works that way and it didn’t with the Lincoln assassination and its aftermath either.
The Good-Old Days
by Sid Secular
Recently retired as the Executive Editor of The Citizen’s Informer, Sid Secular is a publicist who is organizing “Patriotic events” across the country.
“How to be a good wife today” – lifted from an American 1950’s public high school home economics textbook:
“Have dinner ready. Plan ahead, even the night before, to have a delicious meal on time. This is a way of letting him know that you have been thinking about him and are concerned about his needs. Most men are hungry when they come home, and the prospect of a good meal is part of the warm welcome needed.
Prepare yourself. Take 15 minutes to rest so that you’ll be refreshed when he arrives. Touch up your makeup, put a ribbon in your hair and be fresh looking. He has just been with a lot of work-weary people. Be a little gay and a little more interesting. His boring day may need a lift.
Clear away the clutter. Make one last trip through the main part of the house just before your husband arrives, gathering up schoolbooks, toys, and papers. Then, run a dust cloth over the tables. Your husband will feel he has reached a haven of rest and order, and it will give you a lift too.
Prepare the children. Take a few minutes to wash the children’s hands and faces (if they are small). Comb their hair, and if necessary, change their clothes. They are little treasures, and he would like to see them playing the part.
Minimize all noise. At the time of his arrival, eliminate all noise of the washer, dryer, dishwasher, or vacuum. Try to encourage the children to be quiet. Be happy to see him. Greet him with a warm smile.
Don’t greet him with problems or complaints.
Don’t complain if he is late for dinner. Count this as minor compared with what he might have gone through that day. Make him comfortable. Have him lean back in a comfortable chair or suggest he lie down in the bedroom. Have a cool or warm drink ready for him. Arrange his pillow, and offer to take off his shoes. Speak in a low, soft, soothing and pleasant voice. Allow him to relax and unwind.
Listen to him. You may have a dozen things to tell him, but the moment of his arrival is not the time. Let him talk first.
Make the evening his. Never complain if he does not take you out to dinner or to other places of entertainment. Instead, try to understand his world of strain and pressure, his need to be home and relax.
The goal: try to make your home a place of peace and order where your husband can renew himself in body and spirit.”
As Archie and Edith used to sing, “Those were the days!”
ITS NOT JUST IN AMERICA
by Leo Zagami
Leo Zagami is the son of a highly influential political family in Italy (Father’s side), and a nephew of England’s Queen Mother (mother’s side). He writes to expose the New World Order.
Il Giornale reported last week that a small Italian town has taken to covering crucifixes in the local cemetery and chapel, apparently so as not to offend people of other faiths. Of course, political outrage has followed this Satanist gesture, but will this be enough? Pieve di Cento is in a town full of left-wing libtards of around 7,000 people, located just north of Bologna, in Northern Italy. Bologna and the surrounding region is full of atheists and a growing number of Satanists, as well as Muslims. The two Faiths seem to go hand in hand these days.
Locals, however, were still surprised when they saw that someone at a cemetery in Pieve di Cento erected black sheets to hide crucifixes on the graves. The sheets went up as part of renovations at the chapel, in case any workers of different faiths were offended. Inside the chapel itself, blackout curtains on motorized rails obscure the crosses when work is being carried out. Italian Conservative and Catholic politicians were quick to denounce the move even if Pope Francis and the Catholic Church are on the side of the enemy these days. And although it is unclear who exactly gave the order to cover the religious symbols, leftist politics dominates Bologna, and the city is nicknamed “La Rossa” (the red one), partly because of its historical association with Communism, now in strong alliance with Pope Francis Catholic-Communist Church.
Despite the long-standing prevalence of Catholicism in Italy, it seems the culture may be succumbing to anti-Christian political correctness as a Catholic cemetery near Bologna has selected to cover crosses on graves to avoid offending those who may practice other religions.
The cemetary’s new policy is sure to prompt outcry from Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, who introduced a bill in 2018 to require all public buildings to display a crucifix.
The presence of crucifixes has apparently been a hotly debated topic in Europe, as “refugees” and “migrants” from Muslim countries have attempted to carve out a home for themselves in European countries. US News & World Report notes that a similar debate broke out when the German state of Bavaria attempted to pass a law ordering the display of the cross at the entrance to state buildings.
Sadly, religious icons that were once a mainstay of many of these countries are under threat because of the anti-Christian policies of the left-wing politicians and their demented followers. Don’t let this happen in the United States. Beware Communists love Islam.
FROM THE EDITOR
Dr. Ed is a pastor, author, public speaker, radio personality, lobbyist, re-enactor, and the Director of Dixie Heritage.
Today is May 18th and I am typing the May 31st newsletter. That is because I anticipate being very busy the week preceeding the 31st (Tuesday-Thursday with Monday having been a holiday) in the nation’s capitol advocating on behalf of our monuments and heritage. So if you are reading this, it was a busy, and hopefully productive week. If the week was uneventful I would have had time to work on this issue during the past week and then you would not be reading this.
Most issues of the Dixie Heritage Letter are a labor of between 12-20 hours. Obviously, I cannot invest 20 hours into an issue and invest the same 20 hours into meeting with politicians and bureaucrats. And this past week, pounding the pavement in the Capitol is more needful. Today, Friday, May 31st, Lord willing, I am leaving the country for a week. Meaning that next week’s issue will also be pre-written. But trust me, there are some great articles in it.
It is an honor and a privilege, and also WORK, to advocate for our ancestors and for our history. And while I know we cannot all take a week and drive to Washington, we can all remind our Congressman and Senators from time to time that we are the proud descendants of Confederate veterans and that we want their flags and monuments to remain in place – unmolested!
So I am encouraging every one of our readers in the United States to phone the Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121. Tell them your zipcode and a switchboard operator can connect you directly with the office of your Congressman. The operator can also connect you directly to the Senate offices of your State’s two Senators.
Everytime I come to Washington I attempt ahead of time to schedule a meeting at the White House. So far, I am always failing to do so. But that does not mean that we cannot all call the White House and ask to record a message for the President. Please keep it brief. You can do so by calling a direct line established exactly for that purpose: 202-456-1111.
Until Next Week,
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Yes it's true, you saw me bleed and did nothing.
He saw my tears of despair, my cries of agony and did nothing.
Tell me I'm wrong? That did not smile when she saw me fall?
Yes it's true, you laughed when he falls,
who will be laughing too when I finally heal?
When I stand up and show me strong?
It's all over now, the pain will pass,
over the image of a sarcastic smile on his lips will never leave my memory.
I will never forget that he who made me bleed, you did.

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Savor an hour with young pop superstar Billie Eilish. The L.A. singer/songwriter performs her hits and songs from her debut LP “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?”
Thrill to an hour of rock and soul with Cage the Elephant and Tank and the Bangas. Nashville rockers Cage the Elephant blaze through hits and albums. New Orleans jazz/soul mavens Tank and the Bangas groove through songs from LP “Green Balloon.
Enjoy modern pop and roots music from Akron’s Dan Auerbach and Austin’s Shinyribs. Auerbach puts the Black Keys on hold to showcase his second solo album Waiting On a Song. Fronted by Kevin Russell of the Gourds, Shinyribs whips up Texas country soul from its new LP I Got Your Medicine.
Thrill to an episode of chart-topping contemporary R&B and pop with Grammy-winning standouts Miguel and Alessia Cara. L.A. singer Miguel blends funk, rock, hip hop and electronica in gems from his album War & Leisure. Canadian hitmaker Cara dazzles with pop/R&B hits and songs from her new album The Pains of Growing.
Enjoy a career-spanning set from The Pretenders. The legendary rock & roll band performs songs from their latest album Alone alongside beloved classics like “Back on the Chain Gang,” “Brass in Pocket” and “Middle of the Road.
Fresh off of two more wins at the 2019 Austin Music Awards (making her a 12-time winner), multi-ethnic Latin pop songstress Gina Chavez stops at THE KATE as she tours her latest studio (EP) release, Lightbeam, which was born from her journey to find and marry the love of her life.
While visiting the Swiss city of Interlaken, Samantha learns the art of chocolate making in a “funky” way. In Orange County, California Samantha learns about the Vietnamese community in the city of Westminster while making spring rolls.
Austin’s hometown musician, WILLIE NELSON, continues the tradition of ringing in the new year at Austin City Limits Live at The Moody Theater with three unforgettable nights of music, family, and friends. Joining him for all three performances is very special guest LUKAS NELSON & PROMISE OF THE REAL.
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Vegetable Rice Curry
So, still on the healthy theme instead of the cakes. This is not normal! I hope you can cope.
In any case, this is a pretty useful recipe to have up your sleeve for a healthy, filling, tasty, very easy-to-make meal. The baking shop where I did my bread baking class also has cooking several cooking demonstrations each month. They're not hands-on, but they introduce you to new recipes (often baked goods) and you get to taste each one - which I find far more useful than just reading a list of ingredients in a cooking book or looking at a photo. If I saw this recipe in a book I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have been interested, but having had the opportunity to taste it I realised it was pretty good, especially with our new watching-our-health outlook.
Although this is called a curry, I think of it as more of a curry flavoured risotto. It's basically a rice dish with flavourings. In fact, this recipe is one our instructor rediscovered from her militant vegetarian health-nut phase in the early 80s, but it holds up well today especially if you use a 'proper' Asian curry paste instead of those dusty tins of curry powder like she used to do.
The fact it uses brown rice may put many off, but I've come around to the 'odd' taste and texture. I definitely had my prejudices about it; I remember a miserable period in my childhood when the whole family were subjected to the Pritikin diet and we ate nothing but brown rice and unsalted, watery vegetables every meal. For an 11 year-old longing for anything fatty, it was a disheartening experience going to the dinner table each night. Brown rice equalled all that was bad in the world!
Sure, it has a chewier texture, and it will never be my rice of choice to go with Asian food or even curries, but it does have its place in the world. I like the nutty flavour and the knowledge that I'm giving myself a healthy dose of fibre! The nuttiness is really brought out by the peanuts and sunflower seeds too: a really interesting flavour! It's also packed full of vegetables so you know you're doing yourself good while you get to eat a tasty meal.
I found it was very easy to make. If you start making it once you get in the door, you can spend the 40 minutes it takes for the rice to cook by doing other exciting things...like reading other food blogs!
Read on for the recipe:
Vegetable Rice Curry
Courtesy of Marg and Maree's Baking and Breadmaking
Serve as a vegetarian main meal, as a vegetable side dish, or if you wish add some cooked chicken or beef strips at step no. 4
1 tablespoon olive oil
3 onions chopped
1-2 tablespoons curry paste
2 cups raw brown rice
3 tablespoons soy grits*
5 cups water
1-2 teaspoons salt
2/3 cup sunflower seeds
1/2 cup peanuts, chopped and roasted
1 tablespoon olive oil, extra
1-2 zucchini, sliced
2 sticks celery, sliced finely
10 button mushrooms, sliced
4 tomatoes, peeled and chopped (or 1 can tinned)
Lemon juice, to serve
Packaged crispy fried onions, to serve (optional)
1: Heat the oil in a large saucepan (needs a lid), add the onions, curry paste and rice, saute until the onions are soft. Add the soy grits and cook for a further 2 minutes
2: Add the water to the saucepan, stir in salt, sunflower seeds and peanuts. Bring water ot the boil, cover with lid and cook over a moderate heat until the liquid has been fully absorbed and the rice is tender (approx. 40 minutes).
3: Heat the extra oil in a frypan, add the zucchini, mushrooms and celery, saute until tender, stir in the tomatoes, continue stirring until tomatoes are heated (alternatively, you can add the tinned tomatoes to the rice pot while it's cooking, so they will not be quite so acidic).
4: Add vegetables to rice mixture, stir to thoroughly combine, serve hot with a squeeze of lemon juice and some crispy fried onions over the top.
Makes quite a large amount. Definitely enough for a few meals!
*Note: the soy grits in the recipe are optional and are mainly used by vegetarians to introduce enough protein in their meals. I chose not to include them.
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Karen Buhler ( Maternity Care )
Dr. Buhler completed all her medical training in Vancouver. Her thirty-plus years of volunteer work and family practice with a focus on women’s health has given her a strong connection to the birthing community in Vancouver.
She practiced as a full service family physician for 27 years and now only provides care for pregnancy, labour and birth and new moms and babies.
She was a founding member of the Vancouver Women’s Health Collective in 1971 and has been an advocate for woman-centered care ever since. Later she played a role in the establishment of midwifery as a legal, regulated, and independent profession in B.C. She is the former Head of the Department of Family Practice at BC Women’s Hospital and continues to be involved in quality of care improvement projects and research.
She has two children, who are now in their twenties, and loves to spend time with her family and friends hiking, skiing, biking, kayaking, and canoeing–anything outdoors. Promoting and facilitating group care for pregnancy (see Connecting Pregnancy), and using Mindfulness meditation practice for stress relief and preparation for labour, are two of her current passions. She might be seen over in the corner with eyes lightly closed while waiting patiently for a baby to appear.

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The track of the show has been progressing towards it..
And TV took a bold step in itself to portray a show like ‘Queens Hai Hum.’ The show, since day one has struck the eye of many, where it has been showcasing bold and never-seen-before content on Indian television.
And the upcoming track of the show is sure to attract several eyeballs. The character of Jhanvi portrayed by actress, Shaily Priya Pandey will come out as a lesbian.
It will so happen that Janvi’s parents will want her to get married, but she will not be able to tell them that she is indeed a lesbian. And things will change completely, when she will agree for the association, but will however get her assistant, Kinjal (Prarthi Dholakia) married to the person.
The actress mentioned on how she found it really challenging to play the role but after initial hesitancy, she took it upon herself to portray the character.
Are you excited to watch this track

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Harry Potter and the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
Harry Potter and his friends attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry throughout the years. The Wizarding World has the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry as its main setting. It is a fictional British boarding school for children ranging from 11 to 18.
The Hufflepuffs are the least popular of the houses, but they have left an indelible impression on Harry Potter’s world. The Hufflepuffs are well-known for its kindness, loyalty and willingness to help. They are committed and hardworking. It’s not surprising that they have been characterized as being the house of the top wizards and witches.
Newt Scamander, also known as a Hufflepuff, is among the most important characters from the Harry Potter franchise. He was a magizoologist of the highest caliber and was loved by all. He was never angry when he was arrested and handed the death penalty. He remained calm and focused, and fought his way out of the situation.
The first year at Hogwarts, each student is assigned an appropriate house based on the student’s personality traits. The Sorting Hat does the heavy lifting, placing students in the best House to test them. It’s a great way to test one’s strengths and weaknesses.
The Sorting Hat is a clever enchanted object. It was invented by J.K. Rowling and pays tribute to the magician’s hat which was owned by Godric Gryffindor. It also serves to determine the students who will be placed in Hogwarts Houses , as decided by the Founders of Hogwarts.
The Sorting Hat also performs a number of functions beyond the simple task of determining which house a student should be assigned. It can read the wearer’s mind, respond to the wearer’s thoughts, and even talk to the wearer. It can also be used to determine which House the student is a member of and to present the Sword of Gryffindor to those who are worthy of it.
The Room of Requirement was a key element of Harry’s Hogwarts experience. It was not only the location where Harry obtained his first (and final) Horcrux, but also where Voldemort discovered his diadem. The Room of Requirement was so obscure that it took Dumbledore nearly a whole year to unravel its dark history.
The room also contains a number of odd artifacts, including the Sorting Hat, which is an artifact that is sapient. The hat also boasts a legilimen that uses legitmization to read minds. Although this is a more difficult task than many wizards would like you to believe it is actually performed by a select few.
Founded by Salazar Slytherin, Slytherin was known for its self-sufficiency and ambition. Slytherin also earned a bad reputation for being self-centred and vicious. Slytherin actually had the highest number of Death Eaters.
The Slytherin common room was located beneath the Black Lake, and had rough stone walls and silver lamps that hung from the ceiling. It is famous for its beautiful views of the surrounding mountains.
Slytherin was a noble House and Gryffindor was famous for its rivalry with Slytherin. Hufflepuff was the least noble of the four houses. It was known for its values in loyalty, patience and dedication to work.
Hogwarts is a huge home for all students during the academic year. Students live in dormitories and can sleep in huge four-poster beds. Professors teach students. There are tables in the House, where students can meet and socialize. Notice boards are located in strategic places around the school.
The Library at Hogwarts is a great place to start your Harry Potter journey regardless of whether you’re a Harry Potter fan or simply curious about the magical world. It houses thousands of books. However, it also has a section restricted to students who have granted written permission. This section is located on the lower level of the library.
The library is divided into five stories and has bookshelves. The main room is the first story. It is illuminated by natural light from stained and leaded glass windows. The ceiling is a whopping 65 feet high.
The office of the headmaster is on the second floor. It also houses the Charms classroom. The Reading Room is located on the third story. It is the only room in the library that is entirely silent. It features rows of study tables, upholstered in red-carpeted rooms. Located under the study tables are electrical outlets.
The Deathly Hallows, despite its reputation as a fantasy novel is an actual tale of three former Hogwarts students that are hiding from Voldemort at Godric’s Hollow. The plot involves the final battle between Harry Potter and Voldemort.
This is the seventh book in the Harry Potter series, and is the final chapter in the tale of the boy wizard. It was published July 21, 2007 by the Bloombury Publishing Company and translated into 120 languages. The book has sold over 500 million copies across the world, making it the best selling fantasy series ever.
Five short stories are included in the book. Some of the stories are linked to the Deathly Hallows story.
Hogwarts, an enchanting school for young wizards is located in the Scottish Highlands. Established in the 10th century, it was established to safeguard wizards from Muggle persecution. Hogwarts is considered one of the oldest and most luxurious private school for boys in the United Kingdom. The Forbidden Forest surrounds the school, sometimes called the Dark Forest.
Hogwarts is full of secrets. Some of these secrets are hidden from the outside like the Chamber of Secrets. Others are well-known and are often used, such as the Leaky Cauldron Restaurant and Gringotts Money Exchange.
Salazar Slytherin constructed the Chamber of Secrets before he left Hogwarts. It was designed to rid the school of students who were born in the wizarding world. Voldemort believed he had won the final battle and planned to force all of Hogwarts students into Slytherin. He passed away before he could finish his plan.
The Chamber of Secrets is deep under Hogwarts school. It is the home of the ancient Basilisk. The Chamber is left open when Dumbledore’s army gets betrayed. It is home to floor cushions for defensive spells as well as Dark Detectors. The Chamber also houses an embodied memory from Tom Riddle, who was killed by Harry Potter.
The Chamber of Secrets is also the home of two serpents carved into the solid wall of the Room. They have eyes that are emerald. They are believed to be summoned by Tom Riddle. They also have the ability to develop the Devil’s Snare, a large snake that can attack anyone who enters the Chamber. The Chamber is also home to a snake-scratching tap. Fang is a massive boarhound in black, lives in the Chamber. Fang is more friendly than Mrs. Norris.
The dungeon is home to the Slytherin dormitory. The room is lush with carved armchairs. It also houses a statue of Salazar Slytherin. The room is lit by green lamps and the room has a greenish glow.
The Hufflepuff dormitory has low ceilings and is a comfortable, sunny space. It has plants hanging from its ceiling. It also has a huge space for gathering. The badger is the house animal. It is believed that the badger is a symbol of gathering family. The house also has a ghost known as Nearly Headless Nick.
There are several shortcuts to take you from the castle to the school. These are not always readily accessible however. They are usually hidden behind tapestry or a hidden entrance. These short-cuts can only be accessible to House members. Behind barrels lies the secret access to Hufflepuff. The barrels are also under spell and if you tap the barrel in the same rhythm it will open a slimy chute.
The Dark Room is the place where Dumbledore’s army meets. It is where many of the battles take place in the Harry Potter series. It is also where Dumbledore presents his case for Harry’s defense. It contains floor cushions for defensive spells and also volumes of Defence Against the Dark Arts.
There are also secret entrances to four House dormitories. These secret entrances are also hidden from the outside and require an account number and password. These are the entrances used by members of that House.

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The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
I really enjoyed this book. Not only was it a unique storyline from typical WWII stories, it was also so well written and fully pulled you into the lives of not one character but two.
I loved that this book was about how women were impacted by the war and how they were able to survive. It's always important to remember those that suffered in the concentration camps and all those brave men who died trying to protect others. But they weren't the only ones that suffered. This really gave a great glimpse into the lives of those who had to live through the war, while at home, with extremely low rations and the enemy side walking down their streets buying and eating all their food in front of them. They had to bite their tongue to keep their children safe, to keep themselves safe so the husbands they prayed for had a family to come home to. And they also had to live through similar harsh winters with little heat or clothing or food to help them through. It was eye opening and also a great new way to show how this war impacted everyone that lived through it (children and adults alike).
I also loved how it showed what women were able to achieve during this war through small gestures and very large ones. I won't ruin it, but you'll find surprises along the way that are even more examples of the resilience of people through hard times to save those they love.
I also appreciated how the book was written. The fact that you got glimpses of present day life (in the '90s) and how someone who lived through the war was surviving now and reacting to different things.
Definitely a wonderful book that I'd recommend to anyone who enjoys historical fiction.
Synopsis: Despite their differences, sisters Vianne and Isabelle have always been close. Younger, bolder Isabelle lives in Paris while Vianne is content with life in the French countryside with her husband Antoine and their daughter. But when the Second World War strikes, Antoine is sent off to fight and Vianne finds herself isolated so Isabelle is sent by their father to help her. As the war progresses, the sisters' relationship and strength are tested. With life changing in unbelievably horrific ways, Vianne and Isabelle will find themselves facing frightening situations and responding in ways they never thought possible as bravery and resistance take different forms in each of their actions.

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College football comes to Brooks Stadium when the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers Sponsor the Western Illinois Leathernecks per week four.
NCAA College Football 2017
Western Illinois vs. Coastal Carolina
Date: Saturday, September 23,
Time: 06:30 PM ET
Venue: Brooks Stadium, Conway, South Carolina
The Western Illinois Leathernecks are searching for their third straight win when the group travels to Coastal Carolina on Saturday. The Leathernecks upped their record to 2-0 with a 38-20 victory at the Northern Arizona Lumberjacks. WIU won the yardage battle 422-278 behind the capability to both pass and throw while restricting the Lumberjacks to just 57 rushing yards. Sean McGuire led a successful and efficient Western Illinois passing attack as he joined on 20-26 for 215 yards and a touchdown and also a pair of interceptions. Max Norris gave Western Illinois plenty of punch on the ground with a group high 103 yards while Jaelon Acklin paced the receiving corps with 101 yards in receptions.
The Coastal Carolina Chanticleers look for heir second win when FCS foe Western Illinois comes to Brooks Stadium on Saturday. The Chanticleers come from a 30-23 defeat in the Alabama-Birmingham Blazers where mistakes and a fighting offense were pricey. Coastal Carolina outgained the Blazers 327-274 however three turnovers were a difference maker. The Chanticleers problems originated in the departure attack where quarterback Tyler Keane attached on 7-16 for 75 yards and no touchdowns but threw three interceptions. Seven gamers caught passes however, the Chanticleers weren’t consistent enough to confirm what was a decent floor game. Osharmar Abercrombie paced Coastal Carolina on the ground with 75 yards on 19 carries and a pair of touchdowns while Dalton Demos totaled 51 yards on ten touches while also throwing for 25 yards on 2-7.
The beneath is 5-0 in Western Illinois last 5 games after allowing less than 100 yards rushing in their previous game and the under is 4-0 in Western Illinois last 4 matches after enabling less than 170 yards passing in their previous game while The below is 4-0 in Western Illinois last 4 matches later enabling less than 275 total yards in their previous match. The over is 4-0 at Coastal Carolina last 4 matches after amassing less than 170 yards passing in their previous game and the over is 4-0 in Coastal Carolina past 4 games in September while the over is 6-2 at Coastal Carolina past 8 console matches.
Western Illinois is seeking to crack the top 20 from the FCS so I am sure they will be fired up and I think that the points in a competitive match is the thing to do.

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This summer is breaking temperature records like never before. The rising mercury is a reminder of the effects of climate change.
Unless drastic action is taken, the high temperatures of recent weeks will become increasingly common. Failing to find sustainable ways to heat and cool our offices and homes when temperatures soar — or plummet in winter — could lead to more carbon dioxide being produced, as more people turn to AC units or turn up their thermostats. But experts say there’s another way. Rethink our built environment.
Increasingly, architects are turning to passive cooling methods to keep the heat down in summer. Better insulation is offering more efficient heating in winter, but more is needed.
On this episode of Beyond the Headlines, first broadcast in 2019, we spoke to David Shipworth, professor of energy and the built environment at University College London. He told us about how we can rethink our urban environment to make extreme weather more manageable without costing the Earth.
We also spoke to Karim El Jisr, who established The Sustainable City Institute — a global platform for advancing knowledge in sustainability and the built environment.


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350Brooklyn, 350NYC, Climate Families NYC, Green Faith, New York Communities for Change, and Rise and Resist join together to deliver an open letter to NYC Comptroller Brad Lander asking him to pressure BlackRock, the world's largest investor in oil, gas and coal, to stop new financing of fossil fuels. NYC does business with BlackRock. BlackRock must stop touching the planet with its continued investments in fossil fuels.
Divest NY joins Climate Cant Wait to demand legislative action on climate
Climate Cant Wait members march on Albany, Earth day 2022 to demand that the legislatue act on climate. Many Divest NY members were in attendance.
NYS Pension Fund Divests $238 Million from Shale Oil & Gas
Comptroller DiNapoli announces divestment from shale oil & gas. See our press release here:
NY Youth Call on Teachers to Divest from Fossil Fuels
NYSTRS Increases Investments in Coal
For the press release and report go to divestnyteachers.org.
NYS Pension Fund Divests from Tar Sands
Comptroller DiNapoli announces divestment from Tar Sands. See our press release here:
NYC’s largest pension funds divest from fossil fuels.
NYC Mayor de Blasio, Comptroller Stringer, and Trustees announced on January 25, 2021 that New York City's largest pension funds are divesting from over $4 billion of fossil fuel investments. Click here for more information.
DiNapoli announces NYS retirement fund to divest!
Comptroller DiNapoli announced on December 9, 2020 that the NYS Common Retirement Fund will divest from fossil fuels and become carbon free by 2040. More information here.
NY Youth Climate Leaders chalk DIVEST NY in front of NY Capitol, May 2020
Save our planet! Save our pension!
Sign the petition to divest the teachers' pension fund
The New York State Teachers' Retirement System (NYSTRS)* has an estimated $4.5 billion** invested in climate destroying fossil fuels with over $500,000,000 invested in Exxon Mobil alone. We call on NYSTRS to stop funding climate destruction and divest its funds from all fossil fuels. Continued investments in coal, oil and gas put our climate and the financial stability of our retirement fund at risk.

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Grew up in Paradox Colorado, the daughter of a uranium miner. Studied art in Taos, New Mexico.
Have made my home in The Eastern Sierra for 14 years.
As an avid hiker and outdoors person all the trees I paint are real trees I have "met".
I am influenced and inspired by nature.
I paint in watercolors, oils and acrylics.

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Carl Linger (1810–1862) was a German Australian composer in South Australia who in 1859 wrote the melody for the patriotic "Song of Australia".
Read more about Carl Linger.
Some articles on carl linger:
... and lodge it with the judges within little more than a week! Of the twenty-three entries, Herr Linger's tune (submitted under the pseudonym "One of the ... Sir Bernard Heinze is reported as much preferring Linger's composition to "Advance Australia Fair", which has been stated as derivative of the German folk song "The Polish Inn" ...
Famous quotes containing the words linger and/or carl:
“Its shrill scream seems yet to linger in its throat, and the roar of the sea in its wings. There is the tyranny of Jove in its claws, and his wrath in the erectile feathers of the head and neck. It reminds me of the Argonautic expedition, and would inspire the dullest to take flight over Parnassus.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Oh no, it wasnt the aviators, it was beauty that killed the beast.”
—James Creelman, screenwriter, Ruth Rose, screenwriter, Merian Cooper, and Ernest Schoedsack. Carl Denham (Robert Armstrong)


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LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — Police Monday made an arrest in the deadly stabbing of a Los Angeles Metro worker at an L.A. subway station.
Irma Monroy, a 25-year-old Los Angeles resident, was arrested on suspicion of murder.READ MORE: Staples At Full Capacity For First Time Since March Of 2020 As Clippers Make History
Investigators said Monroy and the victim allegedly became involved in a verbal dispute Friday night at about 10:45 p.m. aboard a Red Line train. The dispute then escalated, and Monroy allegedly armed herself and stabbed the victim at the 7th Street/Metro Center Station.
The victim was taken to a nearby hospital where he died from injuries sustained.READ MORE: Digital Version Of COVID Vaccine Card Now Available To All Californians
According to police, the knife used in the attack and a green bicycle were recovered at the time of arrest.
Monroy’s bail, which includes an unrelated outstanding felony warrant for assault with a deadly weapon, has been set at $2,060,000, according to police.MORE NEWS: Caught On Camera: Mother, Daughters Working At San Bernardino Taco Stand Attacked
She is due in court next Wednesday.

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This is a very pretty piece of Victorian Era jewellery.
A very elegant 14k yellow gold bangle with floral and foliate motifs, encrusted with 15 lusturious seed pearls of various sizes. This hinged bangle is secured by a tongue clasp and safety chain.
This piece is unmarked as is often the case with genuine pieces of Victorian Jewellery. The brooch has been fully tested by us and is guaranteed for gold and gemstone content.
In the Late Victorian Age there was a fascination with Nature and creation and floral designs were high fashion. This is a nice example of Victorian Jewellery.
An Attractive addition to any Antique Jewellery Collection.
Price: 995 Euro
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Italian opera star Franco Vassallo, acclaimed Verdian interpreter in the most important Opera Houses (Metropolitan Opera of New York, Royal Opera House in London, Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Opera de Paris….) will make his debut in Latvia on January 14th singing the role of Don Carlo in Giuseppe Verdi Ernani at the Latvian National Opera House.
The baritone is looking forward debuting in the Country of some of his most beautiful partners on the stage. Vassallo‘s career often led him to perform with the most successeful latvian sopranos as Elīna Garanča, Marina Rebeka and Christine Opolais. He sang with them italian opera masterpieces as Il Baribere di Siviglia, La Traviata, Aida etc...
Just Next July he will sing Puccini‘s La Boheme at the side of Miss Opolais and under the baton of latvian director Andris Nelson with the Boston Simphony Orchestra at Tanglewood Festival.
"Having experimented the excellence of these great artists," claims Vassallo, "I do think that Opera belongs to the spirit of this Country and I will sure feel at home on the Riga’s ancient and prestigious stage."


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Here are a selection of videos of treatment procedures done by Dr. William J. Schlotz at Plaza Health Dentistry.
Using Sedation, Dr. Schlotz performs a root canal and places a crown on an ultra-relaxed, yet awake, patient
Dr. Schlotz guides us through a conservative, painless root canal treatment performed at Plaza Health Dentistry
Watch as Dr. Schlotz bonds the 6th and final veneer on a patient to full transform the patient's smile
Watch as Dr. Schlotz carefully and painlessly places an implant on a patient
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I heard this song on my way home from work tonight and it's one of my favorites, so I had to share it. It was written by Peter Allen (and was one of the best, if not gayest, moments in The Boy From Oz) and the lyrics are amazing and so simple...
I am soooo excited to see Miss Yvonne tomorrow night who, upon meeting her years ago while working at Ed Debevic's in Bev. Hills, asked if she could hug me. Seeing as how I was (and am) a HUGE Pee Wee fanatic, it was major. This is my favorite clip from the show that started it all The Pee-Wee Herman Show which was filmed for HBO in the early 80s.
And, yes, I will be seeing Pee-Wee at The Nokia Theater. VERY excited.
Those who were on the committee for the Tony Awards nominations obviously do not go to the theater enough. Did any of them see Title of Show or Desire Under the Elms or The Seagull? And what about 9 to 5? Rock of Ages and Shrek were nominated for best musical??? And was Next to Normal's set really that spectacular?
Broadway is gonna be one empty place this coming January.
Young Frankenstein, Hairspray, Boeing-Boeing, 13, and Grease (which I'm surprised lasted this long...), are all closing on Jan. 4; Spamalot and Gypsy which will play their final performances on Jan. 11; and Spring Awakening will close on Jan. 18.
2 limited run shows, White Christmas and Liza's At The Palace, will also both close on January 4th.
That's 10 more vacant theaters which add to the three currently vacant theaters and only four shows to fill them so far this spring: 9 to 5, Blithe Spirit, Hair, and West Side Story.
So far, there are only 4 original musicals (9 to 5, 13, Shrek, and title of show) to possibly nominate for Best Musical and 3 revivals (West Side Story, Guys and Dolls and Hair) for Best Revival of a Musical at the Tony Awards this year. That's kinda sad...
I saw John Lithgow on Broadway in M.Butterfly back in 1988. The play also starred B.D. Wong and was one of the most amazing things I had ever seen - from the writing, to the direction and, most importantly, the genius acting of both actors told the story beautifully. John Lithgow amazed me and was nominated for a Tony Award as Best Actor in a Play (as was B.D. Wong - who won).
20 years later I was fortunate enough to see him on again on stage in the brilliant revival of Arthur Miller's All My Sons. His performance not only amazed me, but moved me to tears, as the guilt-ridden, denial plagued Joe Keller. In fact, almost all the performances in this show are stunning - Dianne Wiest plays her denial and anger to the hilt as Joe's wife Kate, Christian Carmago breathes anger and fleeting forgiveness into former neighbor George, and Patrick Wilson give a passioned and multi-layered performance as Joe and Kate's surviving son Chris. Even the multi-media that plays throughout the play by way of slides and film becomes it's own character - the use of the always present window is extremely ominous.
The only weak link of this incredible production is, unfortunately, Katie Holmes as George's sister Ann. While I think Katie Holmes is a good film actress, she has a lot of work to do with learning the art of stagecraft. Throughout the show she pushes her lines (mostly by screaming them out), tenses her body, and generally tries way too hard to emote. I didn't know what she was feeling about anything she spoke about and cringed when she "cries" in a scene with Dianne Wiest. That all being said, I was really disappointed because I was rooting for her (as a person) - I truly wanted Katie to show that she can do something other than films and posing with her daughter and husband.
NICK AND NORAH'S INFINITE PLAYLIST
I LOVE this movie. LOve, love, love , love, love. Michael Cera and Kat Dennings as Nick and Norah totally rock (and I kinda want them to be a couple off-screen), Ari Graynor is the perfect drunk girl complete with the vomiting and the empty promises, and Nick's best friends happen to be 2 gay guys whom I totally want to know (Aaron Yoo and dreamy Rafi Gavron).
The soundtrack is perfect (bought it on iTunes immediately after), the locations are perfect, even the fake band "Where Is Fluffy" is something I googled today hoping it might possibly be based on an actual band.
I love, love, LOVE greek mythology and the story of Orpheus and Eurydice is one of my favorites. Yesterday, I took two of my friends to see Eurydice at Second Stage, which was written by the brilliant Sarah Ruhl, and was very happy I did. The play was told simply and with great depth, the actors were all on their game, and the set and the lighting were beautiful if not creepy. I really loved the relationship of father/daughter that Ms. Ruhl has chosen to tell -- it was incredibly moving, especially the final image of the two. I defnitely walked out of the theater with the feeling that I had just seen a play by an incredibly gifted playwrite (who's next plays I will run to get tickets for).
If you get a chance, go see it before it closes on Aug. 26th.
My lady friend, Flotilla Debarge, will be doing a show this coming week to help raise money for her upcoming trial. If you don't know what happened to her, come and hear her side of what I promise is a very interesting story... Please, please, PLEASE come and support a lady-in-need. Here are the details:
I am a big fan of Spring Awakening, the new musical that opened on Broadway last night to glowing reviews. Not only does it have three of my favorite artists working on it - Michael Mayer (director), Duncan Sheik (music), and Bill T. Jones (choreographer) -- but the young cast is superb. If you get the chance to see it, do yourself that favor. The show originally opened Off-Broadway at The Atlantic Theater Company (my alma matter) and has moved seamlessly to a bigger B'Way house. Mad love to the ATC for this amazing musical.
The word "BROADWAY" has gone from being an area in New York City where large theater houses show plays and musicals to something that 1. is used to describe any play/musical in general 2. is used to describe any place where plays/musicals play. Used in a sentence: "Cassie was happy that the Community Theater in Sheboygen, WI had cast her in their latest broadway and she was happy to finally perform on Broadway."
This came to my attention after watching an interview with theater diva Ashlee Simpson regarding her latest stage accomplishment: tackling the role of Roxie Hart in Chicago. Here's what she had to say:
"It is honestly such an honor to be in Chicago. It’s such a great Broadway and…uh…I just…you know, I’m working with such wonderful people so it’s definitely a honor for me. (How did the opportunity come about?) Actually I just finished a tour – in the States – and I was in Hawaii and I got a phone call…uh…a few offers for some movies and for some Broadways and...Chicago…it just rung a bell for me. It sounded like a challenge and something I could really… I needed to step up and do so… I’m very happy I decided to do it."
RememberCarlotta Wellington? Well she has called Daniel Nardicio again on Nardi Gras Radio this past Saturday night. My fave ex-showgirl called in fromThe Las Vegas Showgirls Retirement Community for Retired Showgirls to tell a story about her favorite Christmas with Chita Rivera and Burl Ives.
I just spent the past 2 days with my good friend Stephanie J. Block who is currently starring as Elphaba in the first national tour of Wicked. On Wednesday we drove up to Hartford from NYC and I got to see the show for a second time and was once again floored by the talent that Miss Block has -- she's AMAZING! And when I couldn't get home after the show, it was decided that I would stay the night, chill backstage for 2 shows she had Thursday then drive back to NYC with her that same night. After seeing the show (twice) and then listening to 2 shows on the dressing room monitor, I can now recite the show backwards. If you live in Washington D.C., Tampa, Ft. Lauderdale, Pittsburgh, or Cincinnati I highly recommend trying to get tickets -- it's well worth it!
Miss Stephanie J. Block ROCKS, my friends. Fricauckin' Rocks!!! She was beyond amazing in Wicked and I can't wait to see her when the show come to Hartford, CT. Or if she's brought back to NYC. Watch the new trailer to see my little green friend in action.
1. Don't get me wrong: I l-o-v-e Hugh Jackman, but whoever decided to pair him in a duet w/ Aretha Franklin singing "Somewhere" from West Side Story must be taken into an alley and shot. The queen of soul was nearly mowed down by an all-too-white Mariah Carey-wanna-be note-run... In other words, Hugh tried to out-diva the Diva at the end of the song. Not smart.
2. Christina Applegate's entrance to presenting best choreography award: genius. Christina Applegate's performance from Sweet Charity: not so much. And that makes me sad because I love her.
3. Sara Ramirez. That's all I have to say. She's got it and then some...
4. Quotes of the night:
"Oh, I'm glad it's you [who called me], Hugh. For a second I was worried it was Deep Throat... You know, Harvey Fierstein." --Billy Crystal doing a bit on the phone with Hugh Jackman. Mike Nichols' motto, which he graciously directed to his Best Direction
of a Musical competition: "Cheer Up. Life isn't everything."
Early/Mid 30s. A popular movie star in the vein of
Cary Grant. He is self-assured, successful, a bit of a womanizer, knows how to
use "an abruptly disarming charm", and understands "the value of candor".
Charlie is a man torn between his relationship with his wife and his career in
From Mid 20s to Early 40s. The right hand man to
the head of a mahor motion picture studio. Competent, calm, smart and
cynical, and plays his cards close to his chest. Coy is the keeper of may
secrets/indiscretions and deals with any problems that may arise with the
greatest of subtlety.
Early/Mid 20s. A young actress who has gotten to
where she is by "shrewd if intuitive flashes of genuine insight." Attractive,
energetic, appears bright and comptent yet is frequently helpless. Dixie has
secrets that could destroy careers and possibly even studios if used
Auditions will be from 7pm-8pm on Wed. May 25th at
the Atlantic Acting School (453 W. 16th St near 10th Ave.). To schedule an
appointment, please contact the director directly via e-mail firstname.lastname@example.org. Electronic
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My good friend (and ex) Stephanie Block is doing her first cabaret show with Liza's ex Billy Stritch at Birdland in a week and a half and I thought I'd invite you all to it as she is AMAZING. If you don't already know who she is, she's currently playing Liza Minelli in The Boy From Oz on B'Way and originated the role of Elphaba in Wicked (pre B'Way). A certain uber-handsome, Tony winning co-star she's kissing nightly on stage will be there, along with a certain Tony winner/"good witch", and perhaps the lady with the eyelashes will stop by for some support. Seriously.
Here is the info: (and order tix NOW as they're going fast...)
STEPHANIE BLOCK "All Smiles"
w/ Billy Stritch (piano)
Monday Aug. 2nd, 2004
Birdland (315 W. 44th St. btw 8th/9th Ave)
Tix: (212) 581-3080
[Buffalo Bill] It rubs the lotion on its skin
It does this when it's told
It rubs the lotion on its skin
Or else it gets the hose
And when it's done there's one more thing
A simple little task, it's:
Put the fucking lotion in the basket.
On Saturday night, Paul, Ernie, Aaron and I went to see Anna in the Tropics and loved it. What a beautiful play. It was set in depression era Tampa and tells the story of a Cuban family who own and work in a cigar factory and who's lives are changed by their newest lector who reads to them Anna Karenina. I definitely see why it won the Pulitzer. Not only did it make me wanna read the Tolstoy book, but also made me want a cigarreal bad.
Afterwards we headed off to Hell, popped over to Meet where I (unknowingly) became b.f.f. with the owner Milana, and then ended up at The Slide for High Life/Low Life to see Daniel and Corey. As always, had a great time.
Note to self: beware of trannies placing things into your hand...


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Updated the list of requirements for organizing and conducting state control in the field of shared construction of apartment buildings and other real estate objects
Since the entry into force in 2005 of the Federal Law on participation in shared construction, relations between buyers of apartments in houses, which are being constructed and developers have come under closer attention from government agencies. Federal law established a number of legal safeguards for buyers in the time of building a house and regulated the procedure for state control over the activities of developers.
For business entities, electronic document management is the norm in the modern world. Often, the original documents on paper are not stored carefully enough, and sometimes they are not available at the company's office at all. Unfortunately, this fact is also known to law enforcement agencies, which use this circumstance for their own purposes.
In connection with the COVID-19 pandemic, and in order to support individuals and business entities and reduce the negative impact of the pandemic (1) the law on the exemption from social insurance premiums and support from the Unemployment Insurance Fund and (2) the law on tax relief and exemption from corporate income tax was adopted on 9, April 2020. These laws were amended on 28, August 2020.
The 66 km Big Almaty Ring Motor Road concession project (a toll road around the city of Almaty), also known as BAKAD, fi nally reached a financial close on the 7th August 2020, making it the largest public–private partnership (PPP) project in Central Asia. The project is supported by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the Bank of China, PGGM, Eurasian Development Bank and the IsDB.
Financial Action Task Force (FATF) announced that Mongolia included in the FATF grey list considering as a favorable country for supporting money laundering and terrorism financing on 18 October, 2019.
The revised provisions on International Arbitration will enter into force on 1 January 2021, unless a referendum is held against it. This was decided by the Federal Council at its meeting on August 26, 2020. The revised law on arbitration is designed to be more flexible and user-friendly. In addition, it further increases Switzerland's attractiveness as one of the world's leading places of arbitration.

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Tottenham Hotspur head to Anfield on Sunday desperately in need of a win over the Premier League leaders. Spurs are winless in their last two league fixtures losing to Brighton 3-0 and drawing with Watford 1-1 following the international break.
With issues surrounding Tottenham Hotspurs’ form this season, fresh speculation around Harry Kane’s future at the club has surfaced. Kane has not scored a goal in his last two league games for Spurs, which has been part of their problems in the final third over the last 180 minutes of football.
Tottenham Hotspur’s attack has been lacking this term although they have scored 15 goals in nine matches. Injuries to Dele Alli, Giovani Lo Celso, and the form of Christian Eriksen have been major issues for Spurs going forward. Kane’s five goals have kept Tottenham Hotspur afloat but going up against Liverpool’s vaunted defence in gameweek 8 could continue the striker’s poor run of form.
Liverpool have conceded the joint fewest goals in the league this term with seven. The Reds are beaten in their last four matches against Tottenham Hotspur and that includes Liverpool’s 1-0 win in the Champions League Final last June.
Kane has tallied 48 Fantasy Premier League points this season in 804 minutes. He hasn’t missed a league fixture playing a full 90 minutes in eight of Tottenham Hotspur’s nine matches.
The Englishman isn’t cheap in FPL and going up against Liverpool after back to back matches without a goal sees his price tag as too high. Kane costs £10.9 million after gameweek 9 in which just two points were tallied against Watford. Kane’s price has decreased slightly for gameweek 10 from £11m to £10.9m.
There were 1,311,565 who selected Kane for gameweek 9. With Liverpool up for gameweek 10, 70,010 FPL managers have transferred out the striker.
Kane does have a good goalscoring record against Liverpool. The Englishman has bagged five goals and two assists in 10 matches all-time. However, Kane has won just once against Liverpool in his career. Spurs have posted a 1W-4D-5L record against the Reds.
The Tottenham Hotspur forward is “in decline” and his digression could be due to playing too much over the last 12 months. His ankle injury at the end of last season and rush back to the team followed by international football could be one of the major issues he is having.
Of course, Kane could rise to the occasion against Liverpool and scoring goals. However, he is out of form and FPL managers could replace the £10.9m man for someone else of equal or lesser cost.

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this, Repent, and live ye;" they would have been the messengers of a blessing, among the most needful and the greatest, that man can receive in the peace so offered to his wounded conscience, and the encouragement supplied to the recovery of his frail and faultering virtue.
It is argued, and, I think, justly, that the admission to the benefit of repentance is an act of pure favour, in the gratuitous goodness of God; on which account nothing less than His own word could be a warrant for the doctrine. The fact is, that the best philosophy of paganism was ignorant of it; and so far that philosophy was unfitted to the condition of man, in supplying the helps and motives to his duty, or a remedy to the defects of it. But Prophets taught what Sages did not. Which of the two were the best friends of man, let every one's own reflexion inform him.
Comparing the Law and the Prophets together in this article, we mark the difference between them. The Law includes a general promise of pardon to the people when in captivity, in case of their national repentance; the pardon to comprehend a restoration to their land. The Prophets address the individual, and guarantee the promise to every soul "turning from the error of his ways." The Law in this point regards the nation.
* Deut. xxx. 1-6. Compare Nehemiah, who appeals to this Mosaic promise of national pardon. Chap. i. 8, 9. ↑ See Ezek. xviii.; Isaiah lvii. 15, 16.
as the object of the grace. The Prophets do more; they descend to the interests of personal religion.
It is true, the grace of repentance is eminently a Gospel doctrine; its foundation lies in the Atonement of the Christian Scheme. But here, as in other instances, prophecy made anticipations of Gospel truth. The prophets were empowered to preach repentance and pardon, before that Altar was raised on which the Atonement was to be offered which gives to the doctrine its consistency in our knowledge of the divine Economy respecting it. And I would observe generally, that in proportion as the predictions concerning the Gospel itself are enlarged, its practical doctrines, at the same time, are more unfolded. The revelation spreads in each point; and Prophecy, as I have wished to make it appear, is throughout an advancement and approximation to the Gospel. Viewed in which light it serves to elucidate not more its own use, than the entire progressive consistency of Revelation.
I have now given a cursory statement of the contents of the prophetic volume, taken apart from its predictions. I have noticed the essential principles of Morals and Religion, which Prophecy, after the Law, inculcates afresh, in some points with an expansion and improvement of them: the personal duty attached to the Prophet's
mission has also been considered: and lastly, the doctrines of Providence and Repentance; consolatory, efficacious doctrines, which it needed, and may I not say, it deserved, a revelation to bring down from heaven.
Whether the moral and didactic truths, which we have reviewed, are exactly the kind of matter which some persons might expect to find filling so large a portion of the prophetic books, is not of moment. They are there; and it is manifest that the Prophet had the inculcating of these truths in his commission. Perhaps it will be granted on a rational estimate, that it is no small recommendation of the absolute authority of those books, to see that they are so full of essential piety and morals, and take so much care of the unchangeable duties of man to God, and that those duties are so powerfully inculcated in them, and so perspicuously expressed.
If we compare them in this character of their composition with other pretended prophetic records, they will rise by the comparison above the suspicion of having proceeded from any similar origin. Read the oracles of Paganism; consult the most revered of the ancient temples and shrines of divination. Where are the pure morals? where the theology? where the incessant and systematic reference in those oracles to the cause of positive virtue and practical religion? Where, indeed, any great and unequivocal concern in such matters ? "What is the
chaff to the wheat," is the demand of one of the Prophets of Israel*. May the inquirer after truth take the fan in his hand, and make the separation, in giving the chaff to the winds, and gathering the wheat with these inspired men of God.
Upon the whole of this branch of Prophecy which we have hitherto considered, I subjoin some concluding observations.
First, It was wisely ordered that the gift of prediction, and the teaching of material truth, should go together as they did in the ancient Prophets. It took from them the suspicion of being mere instruments to gratify the passion of natural curiosity, in the discoveries of the future which they professed to make. At the same time, what they taught was enforced by the more cogent evidence of their mission. The teacher and the prophet were combined. His predictions, from time to time fulfilled, gave authority to his doctrine. They did as much so as if they had been designed to no further end. ·
Secondly, We observe that the Prophets of the Old Testament, lay the practice of religion and virtue, where the teachers of the New have laid it, upon faith in the revelation of the Divine Will. It is not a formal system, but a rule, of Ethics, which they propose and it is best for the purposes of life that it should be so; though men do not seem
*Jeremiah xxiii. 28.
to understand as they ought the advantage of a clear and authoritative rule of moral Truth provided for their direction. If speculatists are willing to grant its use for the imbecility and ignorance of the mass of mankind, for themselves however they would prefer to rely upon their own independent reason, or the deductions of a philosophic system. But the Truth which is to govern life, though it lose not its essence in whatever way it be obtained, has not in every way the same efficacy and influence. An An operose deduction may convince the understanding, without disposing to practice; nay, it often happens that the greater is the success of the intellect in eliciting a principle or rule of duty, the less is its impression upon the springs of conduct; the reason of which may be, that the mind is wearied before it is satisfied, and the spirit of action is gone before the theory of it is settled. Let the same truth be dictated by the word of God, it puts on a new meaning; and if the maxim be true, that "all knowledge is power," the knowledge which is to give the impulse to duty takes its greatest sway and momentum as derived immediately from his paramount wisdom and will; and so it will be found that "the obedience of faith" is better than the philosophic; and that for action, and an efficient principle of it, none are more capable of being benefitted by Revelation, than the theorists of moral sentiment, the discoursers upon virtue.

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Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (Nicolas Cage) is commissioned to adapt Susan Orleans' (Meryl Streep) meandering non-fiction book, The Orchid Thief, to a screenplay, but he is overcome by his insecurities and can't get started. He asks his sweet but simple, identical twin brother Donald (Nicolas Cage) for help, who suggests he enrols in industry-famous Robert McKee's (Brian Cox) screenwriting workshop. In the meantime, Susan ventures on a journey of self-discovery with the eccentric and troubled subject of her book, orchid lover John Laroche (Chris Cooper).
In this extravagantly imaginative piece of cinema, creatively and socially paralysed screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (Nicolas Cage) is trying to adapt a book by The New Yorker writer Susan Orlean called The Orchid Thief. He's having trouble, it's not a book about sex, guns, car chases, it's a book about flowers. Susan Orlean, played by Meryl Streep was intrigued by a news story about a horticulturalist John LaRoche (Chris Cooper), being arrested for stealing plants from a Florida swamp. Her book is about her meeting LaRoche and their search for the mysterious ghost orchid.
Meanwhile Charlie's twin brother Donald – also played by Cage – arrives to scrounge off his brother and he decides screenwriting might suit him too and after attending classes by the screenwriting guru Robert McKee (played with great mischief by Brian Cox) decides on a multiple personality serial killer story. Charlie and Donald are chalk and cheese. This densely layered, smart, bold film is about entymology, biology, creation and creativity, the need for passion, the inevitability of change, evolution, and of course, it's about screenwriting.
It is a very clever reflection of itself. It's funny with fabulous performances, Cage absolutely convinces as the two brothers, Chris Cooper gives the performance of his career as the garrulous, toothless, obsessive LaRoche and Streep is delightful as Orlean. And Cara Seymour is wonderful as Amelia, the girl that Charlie loves. And watch out for director Curtis Hanson playing Orlean's husband. But the magic combination is Kaufman and Jonze whose direction is absolutely exhilarating. They make a splendid cinema team. This is an outstanding film.


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I have a somewhat unusual problem with using the Voodoo3 3000 PCI video
card with my Dell system and QRTP with Photon. When I first installed
it, it detected and worked great for about a month or so. After this
time, I found that I started getting some lines that would follow the
cursor and then later, the driver would just not work (ie. it would lock
up the system if I went into Photon in normal mode - safe mode still
works ). The machine dual-boots with Win98 and when I go into there
now, the display shows white lines appearing in a semi-grid pattern,
which would mean to me that the card is probably fried.
This is the second identical card to have fried in this fashion, and so
I am wondering if anyone has had this experience with the Voodoo card.
Is it possible that the banshee driver is driving the card too hard or
is using an unadvisable refresh rate, such that after a certain period
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Bandai Namco has expelled a dual new Japanese TV spots for Gintama Rumble.
The association also announced that Gintama Rumble will be playable for a initial time during Jump Festa 2018, that takes place during a Makuhari Messe in Chiba from Dec 16 to 17.
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The immunoassay utilizes frataxin-specific monoclonal antibodies bound to Luminex microspheres as capture antibodies and biotinylated frataxin-specific polyclonal antibodies as detection antibodies. Streptavidin-phycoerythrin attaches to the biotin and when exposed to light at 352 nM emits a photon that is measured and that signal is used to determine the amount of frataxin in the sample.(Deutsch EC, et al: A rapid, noninvasive immunoassay for frataxin: utility in assessment of Friedreich ataxia. Mol Genet Metab 2010, doi:10.1016/j.ymgme.2010.07.001)
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A late goal by Marcos Rojo gave Argentina a dramatic 2-1 victory over Nigeria in Group D on Tuesday (June 26). Lionel Messi scored his first goal of the tournament in the 14th minute with an expertly taken shot. The triumph sent the twice champions through to the knockout stages of the World Cup. Argentina face France in the last 16 after finishing second in the group, while Croatia take on Group C runners-up Denmark. Nigeria and Iceland are out after finishing third and fourth, respectively.


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The Daily Mirror called last week's spate of riots mindless; the Croydon Green party called them mindless vandalism; David Cameron described them as mindless selfishness and the leader of Liverpool council talked of mindless thugs. Across the board, the implication is that people were acting without thought and that their acts lacked sense or meaning.
Sometimes this notion of irrationality was more subtly implied in the use of words such as "mob" and "copycat riots". In each case the message is that people simply imitate what they see without thinking. But sometimes, the message was underpinned and given credibility by invoking psychological theory. The Guardian, for one, invoked the concept of "deindividuation" in one article: the idea that in crowds people become anonymous, lose their sense of self and hence the "civilised" standards against which they normally judge what to do. As a consequence, they are doomed to be drawn into the mob and to follow whatever destructive idea or emotion ringleaders transmit to them.
The problem is that this idea is outdated and discredited. Historical and psychological research tells us that in groups and crowds people are generally not anonymous to each other, that they don't lose identity or lose control of their behaviour. Rather they act in terms of a group or social identity. Correspondingly, their actions are determined by collective understandings, norms and values. As a consequence, crowd events always have a pattern that reveals how people see their position in society and their sense of right and wrong. In the words of Martin Luther King, riots are the voice of the powerless.
Riots generally occur when groups have a sense of illegitimacy about how they are treated by others and where they see collective confrontation as the only means of redressing the situation. Indeed, by coming together in the crowd, people become empowered and can invert normal social relations. EP Thompson, the pre-eminent historian of crowds, argued that in a world where the powerless are generally invisible, the riot is a form of "collective bargaining". At the very least the rioters' problems have become a problem for the powerful and hence the powerful have been forced to take note of issues they had previously ignored.
Does any of this matter? Well, yes it does. Because our understanding of the nature of crowd action has fundamental implications for how we respond to them.
If, like Cameron, you see riots as an irrational and pathological phenomenon, then the response is first to repress (why reason with those who have no reason?) and second to look for problems inherent within the communities from which the rioters are drawn. Thus we see the government pledging a series of new repressive police powers such as curfews (which the police themselves don't want) and looking to uncover the source of moral sickness among disaffected youth.
If, however, you see the actions as a meaningful response to a shared sense of illegitimacy and lack of alternatives then you need to address the way in which this has arisen. That is, you need to look at the experience of relations between rioting communities and those with power, authority and influence in our society. The danger is that the repression agenda not only ignores this but that it actually creates experiences that both increase the sense of illegitimacy and decrease the sense of alternatives.
So the accusation of mindlessness, the lazy language of the "mob", and the use of discredited deindividuation theories, is not just wrong. It is positively dangerous. It stops us paying attention to what crowd actions tells us about how rioters understand their society. It stops us from addressing how these understandings come about. It dooms us to more disaffection, more division and more violence.

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What is it?
Spirulina is a natural “algae” (cyanbacteria) powder that is incredibly high in protein and a good source of antioxidants, B-vitamins and other nutrients. When harvested correctly from non-contaminated ponds and bodies of water, it is one of the most potent nutrient sources available. It is largely made up of protein and essential amino acids, and is typically recommended to vegetarians for its high natural iron content. It is often touted for its high B-12 content, though there is a lot of debate about if this particular form is a complete and absorbable form of B-12 and I don’t recommend it completely in place of animal products.
The high concentration of protein and iron also makes it ideal during pregnancy, after surgery, or anytime the immune system needs a boost.
Though it does taste like pond scum, Spirulina has some great health-boosting qualities:
- Spirulina is 65% protein and amino acids including the essential fatty acid gamma linolenic acid (GLA) which has gotten a lot of attention for its anti-inflammatory properties, especially when taken with other quality Omega-3 supplements like Fermented Cod Liver Oil. (I suspect that the benefits of GLA in Spirulina are even more than what the studies have found since these studies often use vegetable oils for their GLA source, and the other inflammatory compounds in vegetable oils can interfere with the anti-inflammatory ability.) It contains all essential amino acids. GLA is difficult to find in a food source and normally has to be created by the body. Spirulina is one of the few foods with a natural GLA content.
- Spirulina contains Omega 3-,6 and 9s and is especially high in Omega-3s.
- Spirulina is extremely high in Chlorophyll, which helps remove toxins from the blood and boost the immune system.
- Spirulina has a very high concentration of bio-available iron and is excellent during pregnancy and for those with anemia and will not cause constipation. The proteins and nutrients in Spirulina are very bioavailable and easy to absorb.
- Spirulina is a great source of other nutrients including (according to Wikipedia): “Spirulina contains vitamins B-1(thiamine), B-2 (riboflavin), B-3(nicotinamide), B-6 (pyridoxine), B-9 (folic acid), vitamin C, vitamin D, vitamin A and vitamin E. It is also a source of potassium, calcium, chromium, copper, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus, selenium, sodium and zinc. Spirulina contains many pigments which may be beneficial and bioavailable”.
- This Spirulina (from Mountain Rose Herbs) was tested be an independent laboratory and found to have an ORAC (Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity) of over 24,000 which is 4x the ORAC score of blueberries. The ORAC score is generally used to measure antioxidant ability and concentration in different foods.
- Spirulina is also incredibly high in calcium with over 26 times the calcium in milk, making it excellent for children, the elderly and during pregnancy.
- Some research has suggested that Spirulina may be helpful for those with allergies and allergic reactions.
- Spirulina’s phosphorus content makes it helpful as part of a tooth remineralization regimen.
- Emerging evidence suggests that it binds with radioactive isotopes and may be useful for radioactivity exposure or radiation therapy.
- The protein in Spirulina is highly usable and has a net protein utilization rate of between 50-61%
- Spirulina can bind with heavy metals in the body and help remove them.
- Spirulina can increase fat burning during exercise.
How to Consume Spirulina
When choosing Spirulina, make sure to choose one that is organic, as others can be contaminated or have nitrate compounds as additives. The best one I’ve found is from Mountain Rose Herbs and it is also the cheapest organic Spirulina I’ve seen.
It does taste like pond water though, so many people prefer supplements like this high quality Spirulina capsule.
I add Spirulina to my veggie smoothies each day and take extra during pregnancy. It is best to get in about 2 teaspoons per day, and 2 or more tablespoons during illness, after radiation exposure, or during pregnancy. It does taste horrible though!
You can also mix into water and drink straight, though many people have trouble with this. The phosphorous makes it useful for thetooth remineralizing regimen, and it is best taken with an Omega-3 source like fermented cod liver oil. It’s anti-inflammatory properties have been helpful to some with joint pain or other types of inflammation.
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University of Maryland Medical Center Report on Spirulina
P. D. Karkos, S. C. Leong, C. D. Karkos, N. Sivaji, and D. A. Assimakopoulos, “Spirulina in Clinical Practice: Evidence-Based Human Applications,” Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, vol. 2011, Article ID 531053, 4 pages, 2011. doi:10.1093/ecam/nen058
The Medical Research of Spirulina – Cyanotech Corporation
Park, Hee Jung;Lee, Yun Jung;Ryu, Han Kyoung;Kim, Mi Hyun;Chung, Hye Won;Kim, Wha Young, “A randomized double blind, placebo controlled study to establish the effects of spirulina in elderly Koreans,” Annals of nutrition & metabolism. 2008.

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