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In part 1 of natural remedies to shrink lipomas, I discuss some alternative treatments for dog lipomas such as a few supplements that will stop lipoma growth,possible causes of lipomas, why you may not want to have surgery to remove benign tumors. In part two of this blog, I’ll discuss some diet do’s and don’ts, dog lipoma foods to stop its growth, and some herbs and spices that are thought to shrink or prevent lipomas.
Eliminate these 3 foods to stop your dog’s lipoma growth in its tracks!
1) Dairy: Ice cream, Puppucino’s, cheese, and any other dairy made from animal milk should be avoided.
TIP: a) Dog-friendly ice cream can be made by slicing a banana and freezing it. Put the frozen banana slices into a blender or food processor, blend, and serve. b) My alternative to using cheese to hide pills is to cut a hole into a chunk of chicken or banana to hide the pill.
2) Eggs: Once I learned eggs feed viruses and promote cysts, tumors, and calcifications, I made sure eggs were not in any food or treats. *Taking them out of my diet also stopped my mysterious knee pain that grew up into my thighs.
3) Grains: Going grain-free can be beneficial to all dogs but especially for dogs dealing with benign tumors, dog eczema, and Spondylosis. Why? Many grains, such as wheat, are no longer the same grains from decades ago. Today’s wheat is often referred to as “frakenwheat” and is a contributing factor to gut health issues such as IBS or colitis and may be GMO.
4 dog lipoma foods to stop lipoma growth
The top dog lipoma foods that I used to shrink my dog’s lipoma on a daily basis were celery juice and wild blueberries.
1) Celery: assists the kidneys, flushes the liver, and helps with acid reflux, heartburn, high blood pressure, and blurry eyes. Also, celery reduces lipomas and cysts.
Celery juice for dogs: My dog drank 1-2 ounces of celery juice with me daily, sometimes he ate a celery stalk as a snack and it was generally a part of his meal. *Please Note: If your dog has never had celery juice before, please start slow or with a very small amount. Straight juice vs. celery with pulp, gets into the bloodstream much faster.
Celery juice Tip: if you don’t have a juicer to make celery juice, you can use a blender. My old Cuisinart glass blender struggled with celery so I bought this USA made high-end blender with an 8-year warranty. The blades are squared off so I no longer worry about cutting my hand while cleaning the inside of it. It handles blending celery much easier than my old blender and I get more juice out of the celery! It’s not just any blender, I use it for many other things like smoothies, hummus, and soup and they all turn out fantastic.
After the celery is blended, I run it through a nut milk bag or something similar to get the juice.
2) Wild blueberries: I covered this amazing fruit in my dog cancer blog and it is worth repeating again since it will also help with lipoma! Wild blueberries, not regular blueberries, are in my top dog lipoma foods because they are little powerhouses that have the capability to repair cells and are great for eye health. If you can’t find wild blueberries, you can use this blueberry powder.
Fruit Tips: If your dog is not good at keeping food in their bowl, stick them in the blender to make a smoothie for your dog to lick it up. Additionally, keep fruit separate from protein for the best results. Fruit 1 hour before protein or 2 hours after protein.
3) Raspberries are among my top dog lipoma foods because they prevent benign growth and malignant tumors.
4) Sweet potatoes are anti-cancerous, great for digestive disorders, and help relax nerves and muscles.
5 Herbs and spices that help fight canine benign tumors
1) Chaga can be purchased as a powder that can either be mixed in food or brewed as a tea. Tip: I did not like it straight in the water, I steep it in this. Chaga benefits: helps bring the liver out of stagnation (meaning it’s a gentle liver detox, which most dogs & people need), helps skin issues like eczema, and nerve pain, and strengthens red blood cells and bone marrow. It is considered anti-cancerous and fights tumors. Cats can have Chaga too.
2) Burdock root has anti-tumor properties, is a top cancer remedy as it stops cells from metastasizing, and is an ingredient in Essiac tea. It also helps with skin issues like eczema, is an effective painkiller, is anti-inflammatory, and helps with urinary and bladder infections. This herbal remedy is similar to essaic with one exception. The traditional recipe includes Turkish rhubarb whereas this herbal remedy has Organic Chinese Rhubarb.
3) Turmeric is often in the list of top dog lipoma foods. Dosage, additional benefits, and any contraindications are explained in my dog cancer blog. *Please note, dogs who “run hot” may be better off NOT taking turmeric. Instead, Violet is an alternative to combat inflammation and lipomas since it will have a cooling effect on “hot” dogs.
4) Parsley neutralizes acidity in the body, fights multiple myeloma, is great for your eyes, is helpful in preventing tooth decay, removes herbicides, removes pesticides, and will counteract grains. This organic dog supplement contains BOTH herbs #3 and #4!
5) Cumin is great for digestive disorders, has anti-cancer properties, and anti-tumor properties, and helps boost kidney & liver function.
Canine Lipoma diet food tips for healthy dog food
Doing a canine liver detox should help speed up the process of shrinking your dog’s lipoma.
1) Meat: in my 2023 Best fresh food dog foods guide you will find several dog foods made with grass-fed meat. Grass-fed meat will be the best because it will help your pet avoid ingesting other toxins. As the saying goes you are what you eat, what they eat! If your dog also suffers with allergies, I have listed the best proteins proven to work for dog allergies along with tips from 3 holistic vets.
If your dog’s diet is heavily based on animal protein, lowering the amount of animal protein a bit can be beneficial because it can stress the liver and kidneys. A few ways to accomplish this is to do a dog liver detox, or swap your meat-based treats like bully sticks or chicken jerky vegan dental treats! If you prefer to make your own dog treats, you can try this 5-ingredient dog cookie or 3-ingredient cat treat recipe.
2) Grains: are in the top dog lipoma foods don’t use list. Grains are best avoided but if grains are part of your pet’s diet, the better choices are GMO-free quinoa and brown rice. For example in my top dog foods list, this lamb dog food contains quinoa and the turkey dog food contains brown rice.
3) Vegetables: There has been some information claiming cruciferous veggies like broccoli are goitrogenic but one of my trusted sources says no. There are some pet-cancer diets that use this vegetable as one of the main veggies in their pre-made meals. Another favorite is a sweet potato. A few other vegetable choices are leafy greens like kale or spinach which are best left raw vs. cooked according to Medical Medium. Finally, avoid GMO foods such as corn and canola oil.
4) Going organic will reduce the number of chemicals you are introducing into your pet’s body. If you can’t afford to go 100% organic, then use as much organic food as possible. A good guideline is “The Clean 15” and “Dirty dozen foods.”
I hope this information helps you achieve the success I had in shrinking my dog’s lipoma. I would love to hear what strategies you implemented to reduce your pet’s non-cancerous lump!


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A unique week is approaching with schools going on recess, warming weather, and a few big religious observances. But Queens is as busy as ever with ubiquitous egg hunts, 3-D wizards, bubble magic, a beef workshop, film, theater, music, and even Spring Break camp with LEGGOs. Here's the rundown.
Highlights of the Month
The Paper Factory Hotel has defined the ultimate New York City boutique hotel experience. In the heart of Long Island City's urban scene, at the crossroads of the charming Kaufman Art's District and trendy Astoria, The Paper Factory Hotel is an ideal choice for the seasoned business traveler as well as the lifestyle-driven tourist eager to access the vibrant city.
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Wander Streets: Every once in a while it's fun to amble down 35th Avenue to Legends Tavern for a drink in an old neighborhood tavern. I have taken a Shining to it. Nothing fancy but, there is great Texas BBQ happening in the back. Thursdays to Sundays walk over to Espresso 77 for a glass of wine, fine art, live music or a dreamy coffee drink. Afzal is five years and growing. Seems like The Sweet Smell of Success. Meanwhile, need a special, threaded nut? It's the Jackson Heights Supply at 88th Street on 37th Avenue. They are the real deal in hardware. Speaking about nuts, want something fresh, organic in food stores to avoid the usual Try the Downtown Natural Marketon 37th Avenue near 85th Street. They have Nancy's cottage cheese from the Springfield Dairy in Oregon. It's made by Ken Kesey's brother! (I lived in Eugene, Oregon, for 15 years) and their dairy products come from their own dairy herd up the beautiful McKenzie River. (Kesey wrote One Flew of the Cuckoo's Nest and played the major role, along with his Merry Pranksters, in Tom Wolfe'sThe Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.)
Unique Treats: Just off 76th Street near 31st Avenue in the Jackson Heights Shopping Center is the crème de la crème in the Metropolitan Area for French pastries at amazingly reasonable prices:Cannelle Patisserie. This is worth an out-of-the-way trip and soon to open a new place in LIC. This moment from Once Upon a Time in Americasays it all.. In late summer our Queens World Film Festival screens free movies on Rockaway Beach at Beach and Beach 96th Street. Always a great audience by the ocean. Rockaway Taco is right there with the most scrump-deli-ish, dripping-ly fresh, oh my gosh giant flavor.
Historic Feats: As I jog all around the area, I often pass by the historic Jackson Cinema, where my lovely wife Katha and I once would enjoy a Christmas Day movie with our daughters. One of the last community cinemas it is now sadly boarded up. There is the Louis Armstrong House Museum on my way the Flushing Meadows Corona Park where I loop around the Queens Museum.Loop after loopof history is visible every day around every corner in the new shops and flavors that refresh an old space. One day the new will be old, and the cycle will continue. That's the nature of nature. Every day is a loop: Groundhog Day.
Don Cato, Artistic Director of the 5th Annual Queens World Film Festival. Don landed in Jackson Heights in 1986 from Oregon, home of the Ducks, via Boston, home of the Sox, via the Michigan State, home of the Spartans. He's originally from Fredonia, New York, home of the first gas well in the US and Captain Cushing, who invented the torpedo during the civil war and sank a confederate Iron Clad. However, he argues that Queens is the new Gold Rush.
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Luke Eubank works so fast and usually throws so few pitches that Newbury Park road games are ending in less than 90 minutes, leaving varsity players with nothing to do while waiting for their bus to arrive.
Eubank, though, is perfectly content using his cellphone to listen to music or text his girlfriend.
"Fortunately, he has unlimited texting," said a family friend.
Newbury Park Coach Matt Goldfield is still trying to figure out what to make of Eubank's pitching dominance.
"He's been amazing," he said.
Eubank, a 6-foot-1, 170-pound senior right-hander, is 5-0 with five complete games. His earned-run average is 0.60, and he has given up only 11 hits in 35 innings while striking out 40 and walking three.
He has thrown two no-hitters and came close to a third last week when he had a perfect game for 5 2/3 innings against Simi Valley Royal.
"He looks like the equivalent of Greg Maddux in high school," Goldfield said.
Brian Felten, the head coach at Los Angeles Loyola, was a star pitcher at Encino Crespi and Loyola Marymount. His team was no-hit by Eubank last month, causing him to say, "The kid can pitch."
Eubank's development has professional scouts coming out to see what's happening, and college scouts are doing a rapid reevaluation. Eubank signed in November with Cal State Los Angeles, a Division II school.
"I guess I'm more calm," Eubank said. "I don't really worry about people getting hits when they do. Having that scholarship, I have nothing to worry about anymore. I just go out and pitch and try to win for my team."
If there's a secret to his success, it's his ability to throw strikes. He's seemingly ahead in the count of every batter, and it allows him to mix up his upper-80s fastball with a good changeup. Add a little deception in his delivery, in which he likes to coil and hide the ball for as long as possible, and you begin to understand the challenge facing hitters.
"Getting one-two-three in the first two innings brings a tone," he said. "It makes people think, 'Oh man, he's blowing through the lineup like nobody is going to touch him.' If I do walk somebody, I know it's going to come back and hurt me. I try to throw strikes. If they hit me, they do. If not, most of the times I'm going to dominate."
A year ago, Eubank was considered the No. 2 pitcher at Newbury Park and didn't always get along with Goldfield, who wanted him to stop trying to throw as hard as the Panthers' ace, Danny Keller, who was clocked in the 90s. Goldfield thought Eubank was trying to overthrow, hurting his performance.
When he returned for his senior year, everything had changed.
"What Luke has done is become a full pitcher," Goldfield said. "It's just unbelievable. We've never seen a guy who's ahead of every hitter, and he pitches to contact, and this season they haven't hit five balls hard."
The question is whether Eubank can keep up his precision pitching as batters, coaches and teams in the Marmonte League search for ways to better attack him.
"I've been doing it for five games now, and I don't feel like it's going to change," he said.

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Pictured at the WestEnd Youth Centre for a celebration of the youth exchange programme were Rebecca O’Brien, Jonna Malone, Leah Ryan, Jake Murphy, Orla Madden, Shane Stewart and Samantha Kiely. Picture: Cian Reinhardt/ilovelimerick.
On Wednesday, November 2, the youths at the WestEnd Youth Centre in our Lady of Lourdes community received their YouthPass certificates for being involved in a youth exchange to Finland.
Joanna Malone, one of the co-ordinators for this exchange used her connections in Finland in order to organise a youth exchange with her cousin who also worked with young people in Finland in schools and youth work.
“We had entertained the idea in the past if we could do a youth exchange. We looked at how we could get the funding for it, Erasmus Plus European Commission provide funding exactly for that. We did our applications for funding, it was a huge amount of work but we got there and we got the funding,” Joanna said in her presentation during the ceremony.
Youthpass is a part of the European Commission’s strategy to foster the recognition of non-formal learning. It is available for projects funded by Erasmus Plus: Youth in Action (2014-2020) and Youth in Action (2007-2013) programmes.
A group of eight youths from Finland came to the WestEnd Youth Centre during the Easter holidays along with two leaders, one being Joanna’s cousin. They had rented a place over in Ballyneety where all the youths stayed there for a week. They participated in many activities including laser tagging.
Joanna said in her presentation that due to the trip being so successful, she wanted to see if it was possible to do it again and have the Irish youths come to Finland. They decided to go in the summer, made the application for funding from Erasmus Plus. Shortly after the Junior Cert and Leaving Cert exams finished, the group set off for Joensuu Airport in the East of Finland.
The Irish youth from WestEnd Youth Center camped in woods and learned how to cook food, set up their tents, start a campfire as well as participating in physical activities like canoeing, cycling, and going through obstacle courses. They visited the Whisper Youth Center in Joensuu that Joanna’s cousin is involved in and the children from WestEnd spoke out from the audience to say how much they enjoyed staying there.
Once the presentation was over, the certificates were given out to the youths from WestEnd Youth Center and a video was played to show the audience the activities that they participated in. The video brought back memories as the children reminisced about the trip and their families were very impressed with their experience.
To learn more about the YouthPass certificates click here.
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For more news about Youth Centre’s in Limerick from I love Limerick click here.


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This one is, of course, a long time favourite of mine and it goes out to the lady of the same name who still moves amongst us on ATW!
YOU cannot make it up.
“Only government can make the markets work in the public interest and not their own interest,” says the fascist creep Gordon Brown, and that “markets need not just money men but morals.”
Dear reader, that’s you he’s talking about. Since he believes you acting in your own self interest is immorality in action, it follows that the individual must be immoral and steered to goodness by government – benevolent, all wise, all knowing government.
If Gordon Brown can sincerely claim to be free of fascist thought he must be even more ignorant of markets and economics than we fear, which may be true since ignorance of economic science is the leitmotif of the Left.
The question is, which prospect is worse?
I have to say that I fully agree with Cranmer when he comments on the decision by the Cardinal Archbishop of Los Angeles, Roger Mahony, to ban holocaust denying “Bishop” Richard Williamson from even entering church.
The Cardinal said: “In the Los Angeles Archdiocese, Williamson is hereby banned from entering any Catholic church, school or other facility, until he and his group comply fully and unequivocally with the Vatican’s directives regarding the Holocaust.”
Schools – fine. Other facilities – fine. The Cardinal’s back garden – fine. But ‘banned from entering any Catholic church’? Is church not supposed to be the place for sinners? Does it not welcome murderers, liars, thieves, adulterers, homosexuals, paedophiles, rapists, readers of ‘The Tablet’ and Tony Blair – indeed, all who may be in need of the grace and mercy of God? Is their attendance not necessary for the church to exist? Is it not the church’s very raison d’être to be ministering to sinners and urging them to repent? Where else may one access the sacraments? How else may one encounter the outward and visible signs of an inward and spiritual grace? How is Bishop Williamson to confess? Is reconciliation to be effected by text or email?
Williamson does indeed hold the most repugnant views, but he is a sinner just like the rest of us and he should be provided with the opportunity to enter a church and there seek forgiveness. Church can be a place for tranquil reflection, a place where one can turn away from the world and consider the eternal. It is wrong of the Cardinal to act in this most un-Christian way. This is a ban too far.
Here’s a bit of a golden oldie from a unique female talent…hope you like it.
Obama’s Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel let the cat out of the bag.
“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste,” said Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. “This crisis provides the opportunity for us to do things that you could not do before.”
Charles Krauthammer spells it out for the hard of thinking….
“The markets’ recent precipitous decline is a reaction not just to the absence of any plausible bank rescue plan, but also to the suspicion that Obama sees the continuing financial crisis as usefully creating the psychological conditions — the sense of crisis bordering on fear-itself panic — for enacting his “Big Bang” agenda to federalize and/or socialize health care, education and energy, the commanding heights of post-industrial society.
Clever politics, but intellectually dishonest to the core. Health, education and energy — worthy and weighty as they may be — are not the cause of our financial collapse. And they are not the cure. The fraudulent claim that they are both cause and cure is the rhetorical device by which an ambitious president intends to enact the most radical agenda of social transformation seen in our lifetime.”
I believe Charles is right in what he says. Obama is the consumate opportunist, a radical who is quite content to use the recession to advance his agenda.
According to Rush Limbaugh, results for the Limbaugh radio syndication (aptly named Excellence In Broadcasting) indicate that Rush’s ratings are through the roof! Hats off to Obama for this unprecedented success!
“The latest numbers I have are for January, well before this kerfuffle began, and they are through the roof — six shares in NY, for example. There are daily ratings taken now in about the top 15 markets but I have not seen them yet. All I can tell you is that as of January, we booked 80 percent of all our 2008 revenue and we’ll be over 2008 by the end of this month.”
Despite my acknowledgement of the reality of the situation, I will always continue to believe that having nationalists in government positions in Northern Ireland is wrong. Please don’t spout retaliatory arguments as to why you think I am taking an unreasonable position: it won’t make the slightest bit of difference to my stance. I believed it was wrong in 1998, believe it is wrong in 2009, and will continue to believe it is wrong until my (hopefully very distant) dying day. For when I read stories such as this and this, I am convinced that Irish nationalism within the United Kingdom is as filthy and foul now as it has ever been.
I have the greatest respect and admiration for Catholics who serve in the PSNI and the Army, as I had for Catholics who served bravely in the RUC GC before them. We now read that ‘dissident’ republicans (that’s separatists who enjoy killing even more than their Provisional counterparts) are actively targeting Catholic officers in the PSNI for assassination as a means of disrupting the political process. Sir Hugh Orde, quite rightly, has what is known as a ‘duty of care’ to his officers and has thus enlisted the help and assistance of the Special Reconnaissance Regiment to tackle the dissident threat. The SRR, established in 2005, is part of the UK Special Forces, alongside the SAS and the SBS. Its speciality is counter-terrorism, and I would have thought that the SDLP and Sinn Fein/IRA would have welcomed such a deployment, seeing as they both allegedly support the police and the rule of law.
I would hope that if an SRR operative comes across a terrorist planning to murder a PSNI officer, be he Catholic or Protestant, he will put a bullet swiftly in the back of the terrorist’s sick and diseased head. Obviously, if it comes to a choice between potentially saving the lives of Catholic police officers or slagging off the defence forces of the United Kingdom deployed to protect them, nationalist scumbags will always nail their greens to the latter mast.
On reflection, one has to expect criticism from the likes of ‘Bogside’ McGuinness. A turd is a turd, whether it is in a balaclava or in a suit behind a desk at Stormont. However, I am somewhat concerned about dismay emanating from the ranks of so-called constitutional nationalists. Dolores Kelly of the SDLP said:
‘We in the SDLP are very concerned about the use of British army forces in the North without any accountability mechanisms.’
First of all, Dolly, the Army is the legitimate military arm of the State. It can be deployed anywhere in the UK or other territories dependent on the UK for their defence. Army commanders don’t have to seek the permission of odious little separatists like you beforehand. As for accountability, what do you have in mind? A detailed mission statement listing all the areas the SRR will be operating in published on the Internet, perhaps? The SRR is part of Intelligence for God’s sake!! Intelligence operatives don’t go revealing their movements and objectives, and they are certainly never accountable to politicians.
I hope the SRR completes its mission in Northern Ireland. Many more live SRR coupled with many more dead terrorists is just the recipe we need.
Update – 07.03.09. From this morning’s Irish Times:
‘Éirígí spokesman Breandan Mac Cionnaith (that’s Brendan McKenna for those with sore throats) said: “Éirígí makes no apology for calling on all those who remain opposed to the British occupation of the Six Counties to refocus themselves on the task of building popular resistance to that occupation.’
Funny how he didn’t want to build ‘popular resistance’ to that ‘occupation’ (sic) when the Army was deployed to prevent Orangemen walking down the Garvaghy Road. Bullshit mixed with hypocrisy makes for a terrible stench.
Elena Kagan; nominated to be solicitor general, once wrote a Review for Stephen Carter’s book “The Confirmation Mess” for the University of Chicago Law Review in 1995.
Kagan opined that “when the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues, the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity and farce.” She thought that executive branch nominees, “for whom ‘independence’ is no virtue,” really deserved to be grilled.
Unfortunately, Kagan’s hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee didn’t quite go the way she thought when they started asking her, well, Questions!
Senator John Kornyn said despite Kagan’s praise for the Senate’s institutional role in the nomination process, “her refusal to answer legitimate and relevant questions posed by me and others belies this claimed respect.”
Well, at least she seems to have paid her taxes!
Looks as though Obama’s broad choices might get a little broader.
I read that political sage and songwriter Billy Bragg reckons that Margaret Thatcher’s victory over the militant miners has led to the current economic meltdown. Thank god for towering intellects like Billy, we would be truly lost without these wondrous insights. Mind you, personally I blame Ethelred the Unready…
Gordon Brown’s sheer brass neck is breath-taking.
The unelected Prime Minister told the Scottish Labour conference of his faux anger at hard-working people being “squeezed” by banking mistakes.
Tell you what, Gordon, plenty of us are angry about being squeezed for years by you to help pay for your lazy workshy welfare generation. Plenty of us are angry about having to pay for all your mistakes since coming to power in 1997 and come June 2010, you will be removed from power.
Will you then forego your own lavish pension entitlement, I wonder? Or will you go into the political sunset insisting that everyone is wrong and that you alone are right?


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A couple years ago at an AIA event, I met Sir Ken Robinson, an author and speaker widely known for his TED Talk “Do schools kill creativity?” where he makes the argument that we, as professional individuals, are always more than just one defining career. He believes that although society asks us to define what we do as a singular vocation, our multifaceted lives include distractions, hobbies, and interests that serve as powerful influences to our professional work. After I introduced myself, Sir Robinson casually asked, “Emily, what do you do?”. I told him I was an architect, and his response was “that’s all?”
As professional practice and models evolve, I’m not sure architects have ever fully recognized all of the things we do in addition to getting a building designed and built. Architecture and the practice of architecture is often studied by looking at historic precedents—how things were built, their context, and their cultural significance. While understanding past influences is important to the success of architectural projects, I would argue that the ability to look forward—to understand future trends and influences and cultivate flexibility to anticipate the new thing we can’t yet imagine—is equally essential. A building is more than just a built form—it is a home, an office, a place to learn or play; and equally architects serve as sociologists, industrial engineers, environmental psychologists, facilitators, mediators, advocates, and advisers. Our profession has always been more than just the means of creating a building. Architecture, at its best, is a profession that is multifaceted and incorporates complementary influences that delight and elevate a place into an experience.
To stay relevant in the 21st century economy, architects will need to leverage our innate curiosity as a value proposition. Architects are uniquely trained to think and work in a non-linear process due to our authentic, project-based academic experience. Young architects also learned from an early age to “Think Different”, just like the old Apple advertisement. We know conventional hierarchical processes can be upended by technology and societal expectations; So why aren’t we anticipating the next disruptive change in the practice of architecture? With our abilities in technology-based communication skills, access to resources, and the deep professional knowledge base of American architects, we can literally change the world and there are many people globally who can benefit from our design abilities. I expect to see the influence of architects in education policy, public health, economic growth, and a cultural shift in the way we view social equity. There is no limit to ways in which architects can use their skills for positive change.
When it comes down to it, there is a value proposition at the crux of how architects can begin to innovate in practice. Think about it—architects as problem solvers; architects as strategists; architects as connectors—all possibilities. In 2011 according to AIA Facts and Figures and the Architecture Billings Index, architects generated $2 billion dollars of fees in support of over $320 billion of construction proving two things: our daily work has a huge impact on the construction economy, and architects generate big results with a relatively small budget. But I ask myself, where is the financial data on our impact on productivity and quality of life? As architects, we need to be proactive about quantifying and measuring this data in order to visualize and generate new business models to think differently about how we structure our practices. To demonstrate our ability and impact, we need to be explicit in how, where, and when our value makes a difference. This will allow us to begin to solve larger problems of the built environment and validate why architects will be part of the solution. Cutting-edge firms at three different scales such as SHoP Architects, Alloy in Brooklyn, and Latent Design in Chicago, have already leveraged non-design based disciplines as core services to complement and distinguish their design work. I believe the ability to adapt and anticipate future trends will be the mark of a successful architecture profession in the 21st century and that growing our concept of architectural services will be part of this. We will need to collaborate, learn, research, and advocate in support of our own architectural practice because it will no longer be enough to just design.
So back to when Sir Ken Robinson said, “that’s all?” to me. Well, I corrected myself and said, “No. I’m an architect and…”

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13 nights in Ohashi
Recently and nicely redone Studio Apt. with kitchen and nice bath - when we had time to use it , white washing machine cube out on the concrete veranda . 2nd Fl.
Close to Shibuya and walking distance to Daikenyama (and the Unience Cafe Excite broadband access) as well.
There was a party in Daikenyama held by clients of the company Noyuri works with , held in a fashion concept shopping plaza second night we were in Tokyo .
There was some coolness under the green leafy end of the streets , less hectic as some other places
Before the gig i went into Bonjour Records and was pleased to see they did have a row of Delic's DCC CD . After the gig more pleased to return and find there were three rows of This Is Riphop Japanese release CD's (J version bonus' more unreleased cuts , mixes from 1984 At The Marble Bar sessions , nice little fold out with Noyuri Tokiwa's photos from 1985 , plus Video docu footage of DCC live at Danceteria by Fred Dewey)
Had a great time looking through the Adidas Store in Daikenyama as well ,
a sweet girl on the sidewalk passed me once , then returned to hand me a card as i waited on the sideway . Front of the card was a nice photo of hers from a gallery down the street .
couples dressed just so sideways worn baseball hats and torn jeans shopped the streets , bleached haired boys in their 20's in 2-3's up and down the streets ,
the ladies often in pairs , with shopping bags attached
Bikes are ridden on sidewalks , mostly
Walking bk to the Domi Inn along by the river during the gig nights (except for the mosquitos) .
Small one of a kind shops preparing to close,
bustling multi story funky restaurant with a food car out front that always had people around it when we passed
Grafitti covered wall where the street curves around and comes to the river crossing (much more graffiti around then i saw last time , t'was 2000 spring) .
many people signing tagging, some pretty cool looking
By this trip Shibuya has solidly displaced Shinjuku as being where i spent free time
but this time we stayed in town and that made traveling about more bearable.
We avoided traveling when it was going to be crowded
bt as Noyuri said on my last day yesterday
when I asked if where we were stopped for a moment in the train station was a good enough spot to hang back in for a moment for ...
'Yes , but then another wave of people will be coming soon again ... '
People on bikes like to come zooming down the hill from Shibuya past the hospital in Ohashi as they ride onto Ikejiri . Not a word , sometimes you get only the squeak of bike brakes right behind you as they stop for an instant
Kids young boys and girls middle agers , old men and ladies all whizz by
Once in a while you do hear a bell or see a nod of the head as they encounter you on the sidewalk , close to clipping you .
i'm the only one around not used to it
but i try not to focus on it
Aug. 5 my birthday (47) . was good
Aug. 6 Toshi from Plastics talking about the 1980's @ Tower Records in Shinjuku with Kan Takagi . We ask for them , Kan comes out smiling and feels like part of our family already . The store monitors play a DanceHall Queen DVD with a silly awesome booty - shaking edit sequence . Fans crowd the space and line up for his signing ,
we say our goodbyes before the first fan arrives for Toshi's sign
Then off to the NS building Top floor for nice pizza at La Pausa ,
take in some favorite Tokyo nightscapes of Park Hyatt (Lost In Translation) rearing up below , the gentle wide curve of the soft lit hotel some floors below
other huge reflecting glass and stone buildings towering through the area ...
Aug.7 Noyuri's friend Mrs. Chiharu Oda picks us up in her car in the underpass at noon and we drive out of the city about an hour and thirty minutes to
'the gateway of Chichibo' at Hanno . At Hanno Mrs. Oda and about a dozen friends have thrown in and are renting a large two story 100 year old wood house and are setting about growing myoga , keeping the grounds reasonably cut back maintaining the house and are redoing some of the interior .
hung out for some cicada sounds filled moments up in the tall forest that edged their property . the cicadas were quite large and could be seen flitting from tall straight tree to tall straight tree as the deep forest afternoon shadows .
A stream ran through down from the hills , there was a considerable fish pond with big fish cruising through it , bright extra limegreen spikyballs of chestnut filled the trees around the house and along the road I walked down aways ...
High green hills rose around the valley and there was a train station within walking distance from the house
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Vectra . names of cars on the highway back
We see a young Japanese truck driver dancing in his seat to 'Para para' dance music in the cab of his truck , all hand signs and fluttering , only later he realized anyone was actually watching him
Shibuya night scenes in the love hotel district , streets filled with girls dressed in goth death rock waiting for a group to come out variety of notable torn stockings on some . they dispersed over the hills downinto Shibuya main streets ...
Beautiful lunch in a peaceful , quiet restaurant . Nezu Institute Museum with long walls and large dense tree garden with houses and small statues green in the shadows a row of houses backing out on one end of the garden , the chill Idee design store , grilled fish and snacks dinner @ Sato back in the neighborhood
Used book stores and Great italian in publishing district with Toshie Murata,
an old friend of Noyuri's giving her the editions of a recent printing of works by Seiko Tanabe by Toshi's company . .
A Rock N Roll bar and afterhours bars the kind i had heard about before,
Many vinyl record covers line a back wall and there are stacks of records being changed constantly Frankie Valli Ventures Stones Yardbirds Eric Burden flow by our window view out onto highway across Roppongi . The vinyl sounds great
Find out Mick Rock was here shooting kabuki again and just left yesterday .
Back to Unit to see Yoshimi's 00100 and Toshi's Water Melon .
Really dug 00100 , surprising me from the start , nicely developed percussion and drums teamthen add the combined vocals by Yoshimi , fretless bass player AyA and guitarist Kayan and drummer AI just rocking it all the way through the set .
Meet many people who came to the DCC gig and
saw Masami Tsuchiya was there seemingly enjoying the show .
Masami did a record I like called Rice Music i still have one song on a cassette 'Night In The Park" that I continue to play and pehaps some will know him from when he came in for Japan towards the end when i recall he played bass or guitar for them .
Chica from Plastics was there too in the audience with her family
Checking the insects and plants at HK's Apt. One cricket really started chirping after we gave them sprinkle of water and new fruit
Strolling through nightime Yotsuya after an impulse Burmese dinner follwed on our heels a drenching thunderstorm that swpt through the area, leaving the first truly cool air since we had arrived . ,
we stop at an impressive allnight restaurant grade grocery store , a first in that part of Tokyo . End up just getting some choco
Aug. 16 . A 7.2 magnitude earthquake hits off Sendai . i'm sitting on the floor in a folding chair watching the TV when i feel the building start to move .
Then it kept moving , and it went on for a long time ...
the video footage from Sendai train station was showing shaking like crazy ,
building up and going on for a good long time
Walking through Nishi Shinjuku's tall municipal buildings up to the observation roof (free) , then over to the workers clothing shope that's now infamous . We could pick it out from the Tower
over to the Park Hyatt and up into the rarified atmosphere above the 30th floor into the restaurant lounge with it's shock of greenery .
Down a set of small roads winding right then left then left again deeper into Shimokitazawa . White walls , larger scale houses including some nice minimum design houses ad , somehow it reminds me of a sea side beach town .
Taxi back home after a great italian dinner and great friends who have their very nice house they worked up and got built 5 years ago
Aug. 17 Odaiba via monorail ,
at dinner the Fuji TV building filling the sky in front out the window,
Shibuya's Don Qioxote for another suitcase , woman who just minutes ago was sitting prominantly in a cafe we past heading into Shibuya got up on her motorcycle and noisily veered into the cross walk where she then proceeded to fall over ito the street while stradling the too large chopper ...
gig flyers , plastic fans handed out on the streets ,
see a friend of Dave D's from NYC sweating on one of the love hotel area back streets of Shibuya ,
shopping at Marusho in Ohashi over the 13 days there . Simple great grilled fish , yogurt on sale 'for members' , cucumbers , bananas , round Japanese pears and peaches , sushi, death rain chips selection (from the UK it turns out) , and a good panya shop with black sesame bread and all kinds of sweets, cakes , pastries .
The Great Journey
Michio's Northern Adventure
Logo bookshop in Shibuya
Uniglo Mongolian Airlines sweatshirt
Siouxsie And The Banshees CDR's went down well , in a couple of occasions
played Jigsaw Feeling first thing for my short DJ set' at the DCC party 8/3, went on to play Paul's Theme from G Moroder's Cat People and DAF's A Little Bit Of War before handing off to Nick DJ High Priest
Eno On Land
Big early hit and the blues of Carmen Maki ,
the sometimes nutty lyrics and music on Bowie's Lodger (Fantastic Voyage
Move On , Yassassin , Red Sails (lotsa Neu in there B) .
First timing listening to the whole thing in many years , the Ryko rerelease hasd a nice feature , they always found 2 unreleased cuts to add , in this case I found
I Pray Ole which sounded pretty good . Bonus
The book of the Nada movie (there's a more regular girl and a Goth rocker)
from the comic book-into movie-into a selection of the black leather jacket ,
the tops,pants,shoes,pre torn leggings that Nada wears in the movie .
CG on the CD cover of R Sakamoto's post Bladerunner ish cinematic music for the NHK Special on Japan's future .
Sheer size bulk complexity of the Fuji TV building . On it and in it there are hundreds of people riding along escalators and elevators , sprawls so large it takes up the whole window of the restaurant we are eating in .
Great Chinese food , harsh sunlight reflections ,
the air inside certain floors of the Park Hyatt , smooth ride of trains
ghosts air conditioners speaking to you when you turn them on soon to have changeable voice colors characters . Noyuri secured a nice Bento fish lunch on the train out to Narita every seat was full after Tokyo station
Watching The Translator movie with Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn on the screen on the flight back , many NYC fly through scenes , graceful
After we landed , we got into line for Customs then got the news the computers were down' , so we lined up and soon theyt were checking passports manually and got it done.
Saw online yesterday it was a computer virus that got 'em ..


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A new version of the World Digital Magnetic Anomaly Map, released last summer, gives greater insight into the structure and history of Earth's crust and upper mantle.
A study of nanoscale, iron- and sulfur-rich impurities in diamonds provides new clues to the chemical processes that produce the superhard crystals and at what depths they occur.
An analysis of a seismic and gravity anomaly discovered in the middle mantle sheds new light on ancient oceans, the mantle's evolution, and ancient magmatism in the Arctic.
Scientists discover a surprisingly positioned tectonic plate, buried below the southern Indian Ocean, that spans the entire mantle.
Putting some publishing action into deep Earth-surface interactions
Underneath old and stable pieces of Earth's crust in North America, the mantle's uppermost portion contains multiple layers that change the velocities of seismic waves.
A new approach for representing areas of low-lying mountains improves the simulation of atmospheric flow over gentle topography without increasing computational requirements.
Scientists look at deep earthquake signals to map how seismic waves lose energy in the upper mantle across the United States.
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Even before the first drop of rains have fallen on Indian soil, the markets have reason to cheer as Gross Domestic Product (GDP) numbers came in better than expectations. For the financial year ended 2016, the Indian economy recorded a GDP growth of 7.6%, in line with general market expectations; however, it was the fourth quarter growth which has caught the market interest.
Against expectations of 7.6%, GDP numbers for theMarch quarter stood at 7.9%. The surprising element is agriculture growth which stood at 2.3% compared to minus 1% in the previous quarter. A poor monsoon had led to expectations that the previous year’s Rabi crop would have been affected.
A matter of slight concern is the fall in industry growth and the change in trend of services sector growth. Industry has grown at a rate of 7.9% as compared to 8.6% in the previous quarter. The services sector reversed the rising trend of the previous three quarters by posting a growth of 8.7%, down from 9.1% in December quarter.
In industry, the main culprit was the sharp decline in steel production which fell by 14%, likely due to a drop in global demand and prices. But cement at 11% and power at 8.8% helped in giving some respectability to the numbers.
A key takeaway from the numbers is the growth in private consumption. Private consumption growth stood at 7.4%, despite headwinds of low employment rates and poor monsoon. Consumption in the fourth quarter improved to 7.6%, up from 7.4% in the previous quarter.
Gross value added (GVA) which is being tracked more closely than GDP by analysts has also shown marked improvement. GVA grew at 7.4%, the fastest in last six quarters. According to a Motilal Oswal report the GVA was entirely driven by agriculture sector.
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GDP number has a higher than normal level of allocation to ‘Discrepancies’ which is preventing analysts from getting a fix on where the growth is coming from.
Another interesting data point is that real consumption has grown faster than real investments (except valuables), which has resulted in savings falling below the psychological 30% mark. According to the Motilal Oswal report, savings are at 29.8%).
More important than these historic GDP and GVA numbers is what lies ahead. Markets expect that a higher than normal monsoon can push the overall growth to a higher plane. However, analysts are not as bullish on growth despite a better monsoon. Deepali Bhargava of Credit Suisse expects GDP to increase to 7.8% in the current fiscal, which is the same level that as others of her ilk.
The general perception is that a rise in oil and food prices will also restrict the central bank’s ability to reduce interest rates any further.
What has bogged down analyst expectation is the poor response by the private sector in investing in the country. Bhargava, in her interview to a television channel, pointed out that this recovery still looks very fragile. She in fact points out that this is not even a recovery. A meaningful recovery in private sector capital expenditure may probably be in 2017-18. But by then the companies would be keeping their eyes fixed on the next election.
Does this mean that the India recovery story will be restricted to government spending till 2019?


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Welfare groups need to do more to counter stereotypes of dole bludgers sipping daiquiris and eating lobster on their couches, the federal Labor leader says.
But Bill Shorten won't commit to an increase in the rate of Newstart, saying his party would instead review the adequacy of the unemployment benefit.
Speaking at the Australian Council of Social Service annual conference, the opposition leader said the $38 a day payment was clearly too low.
"Something's gotta give," he told the Sydney gathering on Thursday.
But he didn't have the "final answer" on it.
Mr Shorten said it wasn't just up to him to seek change, urging the community sector to help make the case for an increase by countering negative media commentary about welfare bludgers.
"The more we can do to educate our fellow Australians that people on Newstart are not sort of living on banana lounges, sipping on daiquiris, cracking open lobster (the better)," he said.
The Labor leader also attacked the coalition for "welfare bashing," saying recent figures showing the multi-trillion dollar lifetime welfare bill didn't take into account the ageing population.
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Reno, NV – The Nashville Sounds opened the second portion of their West Coast road trip with an 11-5 victory over Reno on Sunday evening at Aces Ballpark in the opener of a four-game series.
The win marked the seventh straight series opener victory for Nashville (57-59).
The Sounds took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first inning when Logan Schafer led off the contest with a single and later scored on a Mat Gamel groundout.
Reno responded with a pair of runs in the home half of the frame when cleanup hitter Andy Tracy belted a two-out, two-run homer to right off Nashville starter Frankie De La Cruz. The veteran’s 14th big fly of the season gave the Aces a short-lived 2-1 advantage.Nashville exploded for four runs to grab a 5-2 lead in the top of the second, with three of those scores coming on Schafer’s second Triple-A home run – a three-run shot to right off Reno starter Wade Miley.
The Sounds added a run in the third on catcher Mike Rivera’s leadoff homer to left off Miley, his seventh roundtripper of the year.
A two-out walk came back to haunt De La Cruz in the fourth as Reno cut the Sounds’ lead to 6-3. After Juan Miranda drew the free pass, Konrad Schmidt and Angel Berroa strung together back-to-back, two-out singles to plate the Aces’ third run of the night.
In the top of the seventh, Nashville plated a run against ex-Sound Jeff Bennett when Eric Farris led off with a double and later scored on a Gamel RBI single.
In the bottom of the inning, Reno got a double of runs back from De La Cruz to make it a 7-5 game. Schmidt led off by belting his ninth homer of the year for Reno, a solo shot to left. After a pair of singles and a wild pitch put runners on second and third with one out, Mark Hallberg hit a comebacker to De La Cruz that drove in Berroa from third.
Edwin Maysonet (4-for-5) delivered a big two-out, two-run single against Bennett in the top of the eighth to extend the Sounds’ lead back to four runs at 9-5. Both runs crossed home in unearned fashion following a fielding error by Berroa at shortstop earlier in the frame.
Nashville closed out the night’s scoring with a pair of ninth-inning runs against Aces reliever Brian Stokes. Sounds third baseman Taylor Green led off the frame with his 19th home run of the season, a solo shot to right off that extended the visitors’ lead to 10-5. Gamel followed Green’s blast with a single and later scored on a two-out Brandon Boggs double.
De La Cruz (7-6) picked up a victory for his fourth consecutive start for the Sounds. He allowed five runs on six hits while striking out seven batters and walking five in 6 2/3 innings of action.
Miley (3-1) suffered his first defeat of the year after giving up six runs (five earned) on nine hits in six frames of action.
The teams continue the series with a 9:05pm CT contest on Monday. Left-hander Sam Narron (5-5, 4.78) will toe the rubber for the Sounds to face Reno right-hander Barry Enright (8-3, 5.14).
Reno Aces (66-49) 5, Nashville Sounds (57-59) 11
August 7th, 2011
WP: De La Cruz, Miley 2, Stokes.
Pitches-strikes: De La Cruz 120-69, Segovia 6-3, Herrera 19-9, Hand 9-6, Miley 102-70, Bennett 36-21, Stokes 30-18.
Groundouts-flyouts: De La Cruz 5-5, Segovia 0-0, Herrera 1-0, Hand 3-0, Miley 5-5, Bennett 6-0, Stokes 2-1.
Batters faced: De La Cruz 29, Segovia 1, Herrera 4, Hand 3, Miley 29, Bennett 10, Stokes 6.
Inherited runners-scored: Segovia 1-0.
Umpires: HP: Barry Larson. 1B: Kellen Levy. 2B: . 3B: Tyler Ramsey.
Weather: 88 degrees, clear.
Wind: 18 mph, L to R.
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TopicsAces Ballpark, Andy Tracy, Angel Berroa, Barry Enright, Brandon Boggs, Brian Stokes, Edwin Maysonet, Eric Farris, Frankie De La Cruz, Jeff Bennett, Juan Miranda, Konrad Schmidt, Mark Hallberg, Mat Gamel, Mike Rivera, Nashville Sounds, Reno Aces, Reno NV, Sam Narron, Taylor Green, Wade Miley
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Round 1 of the 2016 MRF Challenge to begin in Bahrain this weekend
Pietro Fittipaldi leading the pack during a 2015 MRF Challenge race at the MMRT
The 2016 season of the MRF Challenge will begin this weekend at the Bahrain International Circuit in Sakhir. It will be the first of four rounds, with the FIA sanctioned series then heading to Dubai, New Delhi and Chennai.
The grid of drivers for the 2016 season appears to be promising. Harrison Newey, son of F1 designer Adrian Newey will make a return to the series, as will Mick Schumacher, son of 7-time F1 world champion, Michael Schumacher. Other drivers of note will be German F4 Champion Joey Mawson, 2015 Italian F4 Champion and F3 race winner Ralf Aron, Japanese F3 Champion Yoshiaki Katayama, and Manuel Maldonado, cousin of former F1 race winner Pastor Maldonado. 17 year-old French F4 runner up Gilles Magnus will also join the championship.
Arun Mammen, Managing Director, MRF Tyres, had this to say, "It is heartening to see the top young drivers choosing to compete in the MRF Challenge 2016 and this year is no different with yet another exciting line-up. We are happy to announce that we will return to the Buddh International Circuit in New Delhi along with a return to Dubai and Chennai."
Meanwhile, Narain Karthikeyan, who has played a key role in developing the new car, said, "A lot of development has been undertaken for the 2016 MRF Challenge with improved tyres and aero package that has made the car significantly quicker and better to drive."
The championship now features an all-new MRF Formula 2000 machine, 17 examples of which will take to the track at Bahrain this weekend. The cars have been built by JA Motorsport (in collaboration with Dallara), and feature 2.0-litre Mountune Duratec engines with a power output of 230bhp. The cars also use a Hewland 6-speed sequential gearbox, and feature advanced aerodynamics with an underbody diffuser. The cars will be shod with MRF Z.L.O. tyres.
J Anand, Managing Director, JA Motorsports, stated, "The 2016 MRF Challenge features an all-new car which is faster, more powerful and very exciting to race. We have made some upgrades to the car including a new Mountune engine and many aerodynamic changes. This year has been very intense as the race car will see its greatest evolution since the start of the championship 5 years ago."
MRF Challenge 2016 Calendar:
Round 1: November 17-19, 2016, Bahrain, Bahrain International Circuit
Round 2: December 7-9, 2016, Dubai, Dubai Autodrome
Round 3: January 27-29, 2016, New Delhi, Buddh International Circuit
Round 4: February 17-19, 2016, Chennai, Madras Motor Race Track
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Something to Smile About
The world over, happiness is more about what we do than what we buy.
By Doug McPherson
Publish Date: January 30, 2014
“Many people believe that if they get that promotion or new car or
Mary Ann Watson and Layton Curl are sitting in a sunbaked field in Ethiopia with tears in their eyes. They’re about 30 feet from a 12-foot by 12-foot structure made of sticks. In most places it would be a hut. But here, on the hard, open, eastern plains of Africa, it is a school.
“I walked up and they were just sitting there wiping their eyes,” says videographer Scott Houck, assistant director of the Educational Technology Media Center at MSU Denver. “I could tell they were overwhelmed, and they felt like they had to make things better for the kids. I think they were overwhelmed and encouraged at the same time.”
It was one of many moments the two MSU Denver psychology professors and their videographer shared while producing three videos about culture, happiness and altruism in a land where scientists say the roots of humanity took hold three million years ago.
You could call Watson the Steven Spielberg of educational films. For more than two decades, she’s been behind and in front of the video camera, sharing her findings in 17 award-winning documentaries with printed instructor guides. The films have been viewed more than 10,000 times and shown in university classrooms around the United States and Canada.
About 10 years ago, Watson enlisted Curl to help her with a video, and the two have been working together ever since.
Their films, funded mostly by small grants and modest royalties from past videos, offer students slices of the human condition through the lens of those who’ve been negatively stereotyped.
Janet Hyde, a psychology professor at the University of Wisconsin, has been showing Watson’s videos on Muslim women and rape survivors for a decade. “It would be difficult for me to bring in an actual victim of rape or several Muslim women,” Hyde says. “The students respond well to the videos; they stimulate important discussions.”
That’s music to Curl’s ears. “That’s exactly what we want. Textbooks are dry. Videos are more dynamic; they show real-world examples with real people in their own words. When we’re editing, we leave their words as they are.”
Those words have come from all kinds of folks: strippers, comedians, transgendered, gay, straight and everyone in between. Watson and Curl’s “Portraits in Human Sexuality” video series comes with a note to professors: “Warn students that these interviews may trigger strong emotional responses.”
Watson has been interested in different people and different cultures since she was a little girl growing up in southeastern Ohio.
She took her interest and ran with it, earning a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh and post-doctoral studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, specializing in sexology, thanatology and cultural diversity. She’s received two Fulbright-Hays teaching fellowships to study in Kenya and Egypt. She’s authored several texts, workbooks and numerous articles in professional journals.
Curl, chair of the MSU Denver Psychology Department, earned his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Mississippi and holds a master’s in experimental psychology, a bachelor’s in psychology and a diploma in Asian Studies from Kansai Gaidai University of Japan. His scholarship includes a half-dozen educational films, published peer- and editor-reviewed articles, and frequent peer-reviewed presentations covering a diverse range of psychological topics.
In their most recent work, Watson and Curl interviewed college students from Ethiopia, South Africa and the United States on positive psychology—a relatively new field of study that examines how to make life more fulfilling.
The findings? Not surprisingly, U.S. students often equate happiness with material goods (cars, clothes, jewelry, etc.) and individualism, while African students tend to find comfort in relationships, collaboration and access to education.
Both Curl and Watson say they came away with insights that reinforced their beliefs that individuals can do certain things, no matter what their culture, to become happier. “Happiness is more universal than you might think,” Curl says.
Watson agrees: “We know that about half of our outlook is genetic, what we’re born with. That leaves us with another half that’s changeable—with things we can actually do to be happier. That’s pretty significant.”
Among the actions humans can take for a jolt of joy: having a routine of exercise and sleep; being mindful of the present moment; socializing regularly with friends and family; being grateful; and helping others. And, in the United States, if you’re making less than $75,000, money can make you happier, but beyond that amount, not so much.
“We know that in the U.S., a salary of more than $75,000 doesn’t increase feelings of happiness,” says Curl. “In studies of lottery winners we see a kind of instant surge in happiness when they win the money, but within a few months they go back to the level of happiness they were at before they won. New cars and things give us a momentary blip of happiness, but it doesn’t last.”
Watson says a trap people in the United States often fall into is a kind of “if that, then” factor. “Many people believe that if they get that promotion or new car or bigger house, then they’ll be happy. It’s just not true in the long run.”
She summarizes three kinds of happiness: the pleasant life (what gives us momentary glee such as chocolate or sex), the engaged life (doing enjoyable activities such as hobbies and going on family vacations), and the meaningful life (experiencing gratitude and taking part in altruistic endeavors).
As it turns out, Watson’s own life is a pretty good example of that meaningful life. She does a lot more than just produce videos; she’s spent countless hours conducting book drives, gathering school supplies and raising money to build schools in impoverished regions.
In her Plaza Building office one day in December, Watson points to photos of her trips to those places. One 8x10 shows children dressed in rags, some barefoot, bathed in abject poverty. Yet they’re smiling. They’re standing next to a small cinderblock building framed above by an azure sky. It’s a school.
Watson stands in silence looking closely at the faces. “It’s not so much about the photos, it’s about the people and the experiences,” she says quietly.
On her face is a universal expression of joy: a smile.

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The City of Plattsburgh unanimously passed a five year budget plan Thursday.
The plan calls for nearly a 2 percent tax increase over the next 5 years.
It will also require more severe budget cuts.
The council says it will help the City of Plattsburgh return to financial stability and avoid double digit tax increases.
The plan is also expected to help Mayor Colin Read draft his budget that’s expected to come out in early fall.


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Egypt’s Parliament approves Apache’s Modernized Production Sharing Contract
- APA Corp. says Egypt’s parliament approved the company’s agreement to modernize and consolidate its current production sharing contracts with the government.
- APA says the changes will “simplify the contractual relationship with [the government] and include provisions to create a single cost recovery pool, facilitate increased recovery of prior investment, adjust cost recovery and production sharing percentages, and refresh the term length of both exploration and development leases.”
- The PSC now goes to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi for his ratification, the final step for the revised PSC terms to take full legal effect.
APA Corporation (APA) today announced the Egyptian Parliament has approved the previously announced agreement to modernize and consolidate its current Production Sharing Contracts (PSCs) with Egypt’s Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources (MALRF) (MOP) and the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC).
The PSC now goes to the desk of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi for his ratification, which is the next and final step for the revised PSC terms to take full legal effect. Once this has occurred, APA will provide additional details of the PSC changes and updated guidance regarding the financial impacts of various terms, APA’s revised investment plans and the resulting changes to the near-term production growth profile.
“This is the culmination of nearly two years of work with Egypt’s Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources and EGPC to modernize the economic and operational terms of our PSC. The changes will return Egypt to being the most attractive investment opportunity in APA’s entire global portfolio,” said John J. Christmann IV, APA’s CEO and president. “In anticipation of the approval, we had already increased our drilling rig count to 11 in 2021. Upon final approval, our investment activity will continue to grow into 2022, returning Egypt to a growing production profile and helping to advance the country’s position as a regional energy hub.”
As previously stated, the new PSC will consolidate the majority of the concessions operated by APA’s subsidiaries operating in Egypt (“Apache”) into a single new concession, which will account for more than 90% of the company’s gross production volumes in Egypt. The changes simplify the contractual relationship with EGPC and include provisions to create a single cost recovery pool, facilitate increased recovery of prior investment, adjust cost recovery and production sharing percentages, and refresh the term length of both exploration and development leases. The Apache subsidiary that will become the sole contractor under the PSC is owned by an Apace-operated joint venture owned two-thirds by Apache and one-third by Sinopec.
APA Corporation owns consolidated subsidiaries that explore for and produce oil and gas in the United States, Egypt and the United Kingdom and that explore for oil and gas offshore Suriname.
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Rakul Preet is quite thrilled with the success of her recent release, Khakee. The young beauty will now move on to the release of her Bollywood comeback film, Aiyaary. The film is slated to hit the screens on January 26 as a Republic Day special.
Aiyaary is a crime drama based on real-life incidents. The film also stars acclaimed actor Manoj Bajpayee and young Bollywood hero Siddharth Malhotra. Director Neeraj Pandey, popular for hit thrillers like A Wednesday, Baby and Special 26, is the director of Aiyaary.
- Avengers: Endgame set for a $300M North American opening weekend
- Announcement of National Film Awards postponed due to Elections
- NTR’s latest pictures lead to injury rumors
- Interesting title for Kanchana’s Bollywood remake
- Venky Mama’s Hyderabad schedule underway
- DSP saved from the wrath of Mahesh’s fans

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Alsa Crème Anglaise with Vanilla of the Isles mix 300g (10.6 oz)
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This custard is the gourmet ally of cakes! Prepared with Bourbon vanilla from Madagascar, one of the best vanilla in the world, it is fine and unctuous. For the preparation, only 1/2 L (2cups) of milk is enough.
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Belize Coast Guard Officers Attend Course in Taiwan
Captain Greg Soberanis and Lieutenant Clifton Williams are in Taiwan to participate in the National Development Course for Generals and Admirals. Whilst in Taiwan, both Soberanis, who is the Vice Commandant of the Belize Coast Guard, and Williams were hosted by Belize’s Ambassador to Taiwan, Dr Candice Pitts. Love News understands that a reception was held in honor of the men. The men will be in Taiwan up until May 19 when the course will come to an end.


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Louisville is the only city with two finalists in the James Beard Awards’ Best Chef Southeast category, which includes Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, West Virginia and Kentucky.
Chef Lee’s Milkwood — which opened in the basement of Actors Theatre last year — also was nominated as a James Beard semi-finalist in the Best New Restaurant category, but the Asian-and-Southern-inspired eatery did not advance to the finals. This is the second consecutive year Lee has been named a best chef finalist.
Last month, fellow Kentuckian Harlen Wheatley of Buffalo Trace Distillery in Frankfort was named a James Beard Award semi-finalist in the category of Outstanding Wine, Spirits, or Beer Professional, and he, too, has advanced to the finals (and we here at Insider Louisville concur he makes a damn fine bourbon!).
The James Beard Awards will be held in New York City on Friday, May 2 (yep, that’s Derby weekend).
Other finalists in the Best Chef Southeast Region include Ashley Christensen, Poole’s Downtown Diner, Raleigh, NC; Steven Satterfield, Miller Union, Atlanta; and Tandy Wilson, City House, Nashville.


Heaven is a 2,000-round case of ammo! Blazer loads this versatile 22 LR ammo so you can enjoy target practice with any firearm you please – it’s fine for bolt-actions and pump-actions, but it’s also going to steadily cycle any semi-auto pistol or rifle you could name.
This round’s bullet is just a little bit lighter than usual at 38 grains. That weight reduction pays off in the form of a high muzzle velocity – 1,235 fps, which produces a flat and easily directed trajectory. The LRN bullet hasn’t got any copper plating or hollow point nose cavity, but it does fire clean enough when it’s propelled by Blazer’s low-residue powder and also inflicts enough energy on impact to put down a squirrel or other pest creature.
Blazer loads their 22 LR ammo with CCI’s famous rimfire primers. Every stroke of the firing pin ought to produce the bang you’re expecting, and Blazer’s good brass cases help any gun feed and extract on right cue. This ammo comes packaged in ten 200-round milk cartons. Don’t pour it in your cereal or you’ll chip your teeth!


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Record companies gave been in existence for a very long time and they have been instrumental in providing hits after hits over the years. Many artists have benefitted from the services of record companies; service that they themselves would not have been able to provide for themselves. However, the turn of the 21st century has brought on board technology in the music industry. Technology is quickly changing record companies and by large the music industry. Here are 10 trends that are strangling record companies;
The internet has made it easier for people to download single songs and whole albums on the internet without paying a dime. There are many torrent and download sites that deal in pirated works and which are slowly suffocating the revenue line of record companies and artists around the world.
Blogs and media sites
Gone are the days when top executives in the record companies would use their influence to get music videos of their artists played on MTV or such sites. Nowadays, any artist can simply post their video or music online and rely on publicising it through tech blogs all over the internet.
Adoption of virtual music
Initially record companies relied on having most of their songs and albums on CDs. However over the years, this has changed and more music is being consumed in digital form where people download the content onto their devices. Therefore record companies are losing on their CD sales.
Cheap and high quality recording facilities
Artists nowadays don’t need expensive studios to record their songs as there are cheaper and high quality equipment alternatives that can allow them to do at the comfort of their home. Therefore, more artists are using affordable technology to create their music and distribute it to their fans without having to sign for record companies.
Sales and royalty
Due to the fact that most recording companies require artists to give up their ownership rights to them, artists are now resorting to shunning record companies and distributing their music on their own. This way, they don’t have to settle royalty issues whenever revenues start flowing in.
Onset of streaming companies
There are many streaming companies that have been set up and which are in direct competition to attract more users on board. With artists uploading their songs on these sites, it means that they have platforms that can allow them to distribute their work easily to their fans.
Artists can also make use of download sites to place their music and earn from every download.
This refers to sites such as Google that place music as ads and whereby the artists get compensated for the ad play. This creates an alternative vehicle of making money without having to be signed by a record label.
Social media presence
It is easier nowadays to create an online presence and have your own site up and running. Artists can therefore create their own music and have people download it from their sites easily. They can also sell tickets to their concerts online as well.
With their sites up and running, artists can be able to create compelling campaigns online to get more fans hooked to their products easily. Website analytics helps them to gauge whether their campaigns are running successfully.
Record companies definitely face a lot of competition from technology and unless they change, more artists will opt to use technology on their own in order to reach masses or people.

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I met Brandi Worley at my school's African American History Month Quiz bowl, we were both judges and it was an honor for me to be among incredible and talented people. I asked her if i can feature and interview her and after a couple of emails, here is what we talked about :
2dots-Can you tell readers a bit about yourself?
BW-Well, I grew up on a farm. No, not really. But, really my grandfather had a farm and he would let us feed his animals. That’s about the closest I got to being on a farm. I'm a third child, of a third child and I was born in Baton Rouge at the charity hospital. We were financially challenged and humble people. Growing up and even now, I love really good food. I have an aunt, she's very old and she cooks for me all the time. Grits. Gumbo. Crawfish. Any great Southern dish. you can name, she can whip it up for me. I love that. I travel a lot, so she has kind of spoiled me because I look for really good food –but I'm let down when I travel up north, to places like New York and Chicago because the food's bland.
A bit more about me, My mom's very creative artistically, so I grew up around a lot of art. She raised us to be free intellectual, thinkers. And art always catches my attention. I went to school and majored in art, twice.
2dots-When did you start writing?
BW-I really started writing my freshman year in undergrad. I didn't want to be or knew I was a writer. I was always a prolific reader.
2dots-What made you write Crumb Snatchers and how did it come about?
BW-Crumb Snatchers came to me during a trip I took to Mauritius, Africa. We had a long flight and I started thinking of ideas. My stay and experiences there on the beaches, the people, the food, all were just very inspiring. I was able to really clear my mind and the theme of the book popped into my head. And I left all fear behind.
2dots-What is the agenda or message behind it?
BW-My definition of a Crumb Snatcher is a youth who obtains things by usage of a five-finger discount/ or youth who steals. It's pretty much self-explanatory after that point. You know what happens to adults who steal. I took it and wrote a kids version.
2dots-What is the theme of the book?
BW-Stealing is bad. (Depending on whom you ask) People take away different messages.
2dots-Can you tell readers a bit about the main character or any significant character?
BW-My main character, Miley, 12, starts off as a thief, who runs with a pack of thieves and the story's just about her battle with good and evil, decision making. It's a classic storyline. Even in real life, there's always that battle with good vs. evil, we all face. I wanted the kids to relate to the book. That's why I write realistic fiction.
2dots-How many installations is Crumb Snatchers since this Part I?
BW-It’s a three part series.
2dots-As an independent writer what are some of the challenges you face?
BW-I face a lot of challenges. They just make me stronger. The biggest challenge is finding a distribution deal right now. The book is doing really well. I would just like to get bigger distribution. And a bigger platform. I’m sure it will come.
2dots-Any future projects or plans?
BW- I plan to continue be an advocate to increase youth literacy rates in my city. Reading is important. It’s a lot of young people who can’t read. Or they dislike reading. I just think they’re reading the wrong things. Sometimes, they are forced to read books, material that are mainstream and labeled ‘classics’, like Shakespeare. I don’t even like Shakespeare, but I was forced to read him. I think he’s overrated.
I really like Alice Walker. If someone introduced me to her style of writing earlier in life, I probably would have loved writing then. I love it now because I discovered writers like her. I think I picked up more banned and mature books than anything when I was younger. I plan to turn Crumb Snatchers into a movie. I think it will be a really great movie. And get a lot of Crumb Snatchers merchandise for kids to enjoy.
2dots-Where can one purchase it?
BW-On my website: www.brandiworley.com


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J. Scott Croul is the Managing Director of Production and Sales for Freddie Mac Multifamily’s Western Region, where he is responsible for all loan origination and customer relations in the western U.S. Previously, as Senior Director of Multifamily Underwriting and Credit, Scott led the underwriting and credit team in the Western Region and worked closely with the production team to facilitate loan origination.
Scott has over 25 years of commercial real estate experience as a financial intermediary and lender, including 12 years as a Regional Vice President at John Hancock Real Estate Investment Group, where he ran all loan origination and underwriting in the Pacific Southwest and led the company in production. He also held key regional positions in origination and loan structuring at Capmark Finance, Centerline Capital and CB Commercial (now CBRE Capital Markets).
Scott is an alumnus of the University of California, Berkeley where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics.


Strangers May Be Able To Talk To Your Kid Through These Smart Toys
Talking toys are nothing new. But seeing as preset phrases just don't cut it anymore, new personalized talking toys have hit the market. But in letting connected toys be customized and connected in this way, some of these inventions have inadvertently opened up the possibility that, by using smart toys, strangers could possibly talk to your kids. And a swath of toys are subject to hacking, a new investigation has found.
Tests by Which? and the German consumer group Stiftung Warentest, as well as other security research experts, "found flaws in Bluetooth and wifi-enabled toys that could enable a stranger to talk to a child," The Guardian reported. Furby Connect, i-Que Intelligent Robot, Toy-Fi Teddy, and CloudPets were all easily connected to, without any password or substantial security protection.
Romper has reached out to the respective companies as well as Amazon for comment and is awaiting a response. Hasbro, maker of the Furby Connect, told Romper in a statement: "Children’s privacy is a top priority, and that is why we carefully designed the Furby Connect and the Furby Connect World app to comply with children’s privacy laws. We feel confident in the way we have designed both the toy and the app to deliver a secure play experience.” Meanwhile, Vivid Imagination, maker of the I-Que, told the BBC that it will review the research in question, but that is has "no reports of these products being used in a malicious way."
The investigation found that all of the toys were able to be invaded in different ways, but the main similarity is that no passwords, codes, or authentications were required. The Furby Connect, researchers found, could be connected to a device using Bluetooth with a proximity of 10 to 30 meters (roughly 33 and 98 feet). The i-Que Intelligent Robot has an app component to it that anyone can download. Any phone holder could therefore, as researchers pointed out, control the robot's voice with customized, typed messages.
Another toy, CloudPets, allows an exchanging of messages that are read through a speaker, but seeing as it has an unsecured Bluetooth connection, the component was hackable and easily latched onto. And lastly, Which? discovered issues in the Toy-Fi Teddy, which is intended to permit the sending of recorded messages on Bluetooth using an app. But, in order to hop onto the Bluetooth connection, no authentications were needed, so anyone on the network could communicate back and forth with a child, as Gizmodo noted.
Hear that? It's the sound parents everywhere throwing anything Bluetooth-enabled out the window.
So does this mean that parents should ditch all connected toys and opt for safe, connection-free teddy bears instead? It might be a smart call, Alex Neill suggested, the managing director of home products and services at Which?, noting that there are lots of adjustments needed. “Connected toys are becoming increasingly popular," Neill told The Guardian, "but as our investigation shows, anyone considering buying one should apply a level of caution ... Safety and security should be the absolute priority with any toy. If that can’t be guaranteed, then the products should not be sold." And no doubt, parents likely agree.
"Whether it is sloppiness on the part of the manufacturer, or their rush to build a product down to a certain price, the consequences are the same," Cyber-security expert and Professor Alan Woodward from Surrey University told the BBC, noting that he believes the toys should no longer be on sale.
Suffice it to stay: if you're looking to get your child a connected toy this holiday season, it might be smart to hold off for a bit until the technology (and the necessary security measures) catches up. Sure, those pre-recorded phrases might drive you crazy with their repetition, but the alternative probably isn't worth the risk.
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Twenty years ago, Aaron Becker had just been named valedictorian of Baltimore's City College when he was also awarded the rank of Eagle Scout — the culmination of years of Scouting work, including a seven-month project to make a video about...
| Aug 17, 2012
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There's so much happening in Baltimore these days that my little ol' tech blog can't keep up with it. Here's what happened this week, and what's coming up that you should know about:
1. Tech Parents can party: We held the second bi-monthly Baltimore Tech...
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After Anne Bishop's husband, Bob, died in April 2002, she told a friend that she was thinking of joining a book club so she'd have something to occupy her time.
That friend and neighbor, Pam Dudek, suggested they form their own book group instead. She...
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Loch Raven Village has a book club! Monthly meetings are held on the third Thursday at 7:30 at Panera Bread in Towson MarketPlace, and are open to everyone — come on a regular basis or just occasionally.
Discussions have evolved around some of...
| Jul 1, 2013
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Hundreds of kids of all ages turned out in April to take advantage of Freedom Federal Credit Union's Youth Month celebration. Every April marks Youth Month at Freedom, where financial management and education are highlighted to children and young adults...
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Councilman David Marks introduced a bill on Dec. 17 that would alter the county's parking code relating to athletic and fitness centers and health spas — and did so with an eye toward bringing a tenant into one of Towson's largest vacant buildings....
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David Harmon,17, has been swimming for eight years for Spy Swimming at the Severna Park Community Center and is in his fourth season on the Archbishop Spalding swim team.
In that time he has become a three-time YMCA district champion, a multiple YMCA...
| Dec 14, 2012
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Ramon "Ray" Santamaria Jr., a retired tennis pro and captain of the 1954 Johns Hopkins University lacrosse team, died of cancer Dec. 9 at Union Memorial Hospital. The Cockeysville resident was 80.
Born in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, he was the son of Ramon...
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In an emotionally charged vote Thursday, the Boy Scouts of America lifted its ban on gay youth starting in January, the latest sign of a shift in American attitudes toward gays and lesbians.
After months of debate in local districts, more than 61...
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Valleybrook Country Club in Kingsville is teaming up with Cool Kids Campaign charity for the fourth Lazy River Duck Derby fundraiser from 5 to 9 p.m. July 12.
The Lazy River Duck Derby, open to the public and providing an all-access pass to...
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Pardon me if I'm encouraged -- but not enthused -- by the decision of the Boy Scouts of America to lift its century-old ban on gay scouts.
I just can't get that excited about the fact that an organization that holds a deep-seated distrust in gay men...
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The Boy Scouts of America has lifted its ban on gay boys being full participants in their programs ("Scouts lift ban on gay youths," May 24). Much of the news has centered in the backlash from "faith-based organizations" which sponsor Boy Scout troops....


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In August 2009, NBC hired Jenna Bush Hager as a news correspondent for the morning television show- Today, and on April 19, 2010, she interviewed former President Bill Clinton. Jenna met her future husband Henry Chase Hager during her father’s 2004 presidential campaign, and they became engaged in . Melissa Rauch Measurements Height Weight Bra Size Age Wiki Rauch married to writer Winston Beigel, who collaborated with her on The Miss Education of Jenna Bush and other projects was born onJune 23, 1980 in Marlboro Township, New Jersey.
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Hip-hop star Jay-Z has revealed that he enjoys gambling when visiting London.
In an interview with Time Out, the rapper stated that he was a formidable blackjack and poker opponent.
"I'm a pretty big, almost professional, gambler," he said.
However, the 38-year-old refused to name his favourite casinos for fear of being hassled at the tables.
He added: "I'm not gonna say any names because that'll mess it all up, but there are these little private clubs you can go to in the West End where you can hang out and gamble, and it's pretty cool."
Jay-Z will headline Glastonbury's Pyramid Stage tomorrow night (June 28).