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This MNT Knowledge Center article focuses on calories associated with food and drink, as well as the way the human body uses energy. MNT covers what a calorie is, how many calories humans need each day, and how to get calories in a way that benefits overall health. Most people only associate calories with food and drink, but anything that contains energy has calories. The terms "large calorie" and "small calorie" are often used interchangeably.
The calorie content described on food labels refers to kilocalories. A calorie chocolate bar actually contains , calories. The United States government states that the average man needs 2, kcal per day and the average woman needs 2, kcal per day. Not everybody needs the same number of calories each day. People have different metabolisms that burn energy at different rates, and some people have more active lifestyles than others. Here is a more detailed breakdown from the U.
The human body needs calories to survive. Without energy, the cells in the body would die, the heart and lungs would stop, and the organs would not be able to carry out the basic processes needed for living. People absorb this energy from food and drink. If people consumed only the number of calories needed every day, they would probably have healthy lives.
Calorie consumption that is too low or too high will eventually lead to health problems. The number of calories in food tells us how much potential energy they contain. It is not only calories that are important, but also the substance from which the calories are taken. As an example, here is the breakdown of how a person would get calories from one cup of large eggs , weighing g:. As people get older, they tend to get fewer of their daily calories from fast foods.
Fast foods make up only 6 percent of the daily calorie intake of older adults. However, with the number of highly calorific meals served in restaurants or aimed at younger individuals, it is important that people pay close attention to where they get their calories.
Researchers at Tel Aviv University wrote in the journal Obesity that a large breakfast containing approximately kcal is ideal for losing weight and lowering the risk of diabetes , heart disease , and high cholesterol. A large breakfast may help to control body weight. When people eat matters as much as what they eat. Empty calories are those that provide energy but very little nutritional value.
The parts of food that provide empty calories contain virtually no dietary fiber, amino acids, antioxidants , dietary minerals, or vitamins. Added sugars and solid fats are said to make foods and drinks more enjoyable. However, they also add many calories and are major contributors to obesity.
Alcohol can also contribute empty calories to the diet. One normal serving of beer can add kcal to a person's intake for the day. If beer is not your drink of choice, you can use this calorie calculator provided by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to work out how many calories alcohol adds to your diet.
The following foods and drinks provide the largest amounts of empty calories:. More than half of all people in the U. Approximately 5 percent of people in the U. This is the equivalent of more than four cans every day. There are ways of sourcing products with less solid fat or empty sugars.
Rather than choosing the standard hot dog or a fatty cheese, for example, a person could choose low-fat options for either. However, even the lower-fat options are no replacement for calories consumed from sources that also provide nutritional benefit. Most Americans don't have much room in their diets for a completely nutrient-void beverage. One recent study showed that drinking more than one sugar-sweetened beverage a day increases your risk of high blood pressure.
It's better if you can avoid them altogether and instead consume water, fat-free or 1 percent fat milk, percent fruit juice, and low-sodium vegetable juices. The intake of empty calories can be avoided or dramatically reduced by incorporating fresh, healthy food and drink into the diet. Calories seem to be linked only to weight gain and obesity, but they are vital for health. They only pose a health risk when people consume more than the recommended amount.
When thinking about calories, you should not be considering just your diet but also your level of physical activity.
A high intake of calories can be countered with regular, high-intensity exercise. Article last updated by Yvette Brazier on Wed 13 December All references are available in the References tab. Consumption of sugar drinks in the United States, Sugar-sweetened beverages and consumption.
How many calories does physical activity use burn? High caloric intake at breakfast vs. Obesity Silver Spring , 21 12 , Many would love to be in your shoes: Thanks again for stopping by. There's a great app for iOs and Android called Fat Secret not affiliated terrible name, but great app. You can scan bar codes of the packages your food comes in, enter fruits and vegetables, and it knows most foods at most restaurants.
I've found it really helpful in keeping my protein levels up when I'm working out regularly - while still keeping calories down. I have been searching for a mid-afternoon snack that would not add tons of calories. Thank you for suggesting one. I also appreciate all of the suggestions and directions you have given here. I know the snack was not the primary focus of the article, but it just happened to be what I needed most right now. Cynthia, controlling snack portions and how often we eat snacks is so key to weight loss and maintenance Glad it was helpful!
Your very welcome, I'm glad that it was helpful. Please let me know if you have any questions. I love your article, but I'm not seeing the Free Food List that you've mentioned several times. I must have overlooked it. Can you tell me where it is, please? In the section just above the blue book explaining how NutriSystem works.
You will find links to various resources, including the one you mentioned, read the section and you'll see it. If you continue to have trouble, let me know. I'm glad you enjoyed the article! Any vegetable juice that does not have a lot of added sugar, corn syrup, etc. In fact you may want to learn to juice or liquefy your own vegetables using a juicer or NutriBullet or Ninja. I have used NutriBullet and am not using the Ninja, I like to have the pulp of the fruit or vegetables with my drink.
Thanks for all the great info! I don't see "desserts" on the diabetes list and would rather not use the calorie packs; can you tell me what makes up a mid-afternoon meal? Yes, you can do the same thing as the mid-morning snack. I just provide a dessert option for those who enjoy their sweets to show that you can still eat them in moderation and lose weight. I don't eat dairy other than yogurt which I'm including in my meal paln; is there a dairy substitute when it calls for 1 dairy?
The only option that comes to mind right now is soy yogurt. I drink almond milk as well Sometimes it is better. I am lactose intolerant, so always look for dairy that is lactose free. This is easier to do with cheese, especially appreciate the cheeses made by Cabot, almost all if not all are marked lactose free. Kraft shredded Mozzarella is also lactose free.
I followed the diet with some protein as suggested. It is really like magic! Give a try on this, this diet plan clearly works. Is this good for someone who wants to lose more than pounds?


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The hikers at the Sabrina trailhead. L-R: Lori Putnam, Michelle De Bragança, Ernesto Nemesio, and Terry Miura.
After a few hours of huffing and puffing the point of view begins to change. Those are the Piute Crag looming behind the Lake Sabrina basin. Less than halfway there, but progress!
About 3 miles in, after surmounting the back wall of the basin, we arrived at Blue Lake, which looked good enough to make us wonder why we needed to go any further, yet we were only half way to our destination. We stopped for lunch and a rest, then continued our upward journey through fox tail pines, amid a landscape dotted with huge erratic boulders, granite benches, walls, and numerous small ponds. We often found ourselves hiking over acres of solid granite, with the trail being marked by stones on either side.
At Blue Lake (actually shot on the hike out). Pretty nice scenery and water here.
The mules had passed us at Blue Lake, so the 5 of us that elected to hike in, were strung out somewhere behind them. I straggled into camp in the late afternoon, met the cook, Ally, and her grandfather, Jerome, who was helping her out. They had a full on cook tent, that looked like a small house, with a metal frame, heavy canvas walls, and a large supply of propane tanks for cooking and heating. I grabbed my gear from the tarp, set up my tent, and started to survey the landscape possibilities.
The view from camp towards Picture Peak. Mt. Haekel on the right, and Clyde Spires over the left shoulder. The cook 'house' to the right of Terry Miura.
A study looking down the basin in morning light. 6 x 9", pastel on paper.
Here's a wider view, looking the same direction, painted on the last morning of the trip.
9 x 9.5", pastel on paper.
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North of Morning Coffee, 6 x 9, pastel on paper
The Wall to the West, 9 x 9.5, pastel on paper
Here's an example of painting just a part of Picture Peak, emphasizing atmosphere and scale relationships. Not painting the 'thing' or the object, but elements or aspects that can make for an interesting painting.
The first lake outside of camp that we visited was Moonlight lake, which was a 10 minute scramble to the south. It was big, deep, and unusually turquoise. Ernesto and I painted there one cloudy afternoon, then returned one sunny morning with everyone for a delightful day of painting, and even a little swimming, though it was too cold to stay in very long.
Sun Spot, 9 x 9.5, pastel on paper
My first painting from Moonlight Lake. The clouds built up pretty quick, but small spots of light would would periodically glow and drift amongst the peaks. This is a view of Clyde Spires, which is visible in the photo above, to the left of Picture Peak. I usually don't do very wide views, and this is a good example of how a small section of a scene will suit me.
A great day at Moonlight Lake. We are often on our own, so it is rare, and fun when everyone is in the mood to paint at the same spot.
Moonlit Shore, 9 x 9.5, pastel on paper
The south shore of the lake nearest us was full of boulders and cliffs that ran down into the turquoise water. I picked a small section of that to paint.
Cloud Study, 6 x 9, pastel on paper
We had several consecutive days of cloud build up that threatened a big downpour, yet we never had rain, just masses of cumulus looming over the peaks to the west, then dissipating towards the desert to the east. The edge of this mass would swell and retreat for hours, constantly shifting in form and color.
In the evening the clouds would create enormous variations of light and shadow patterns on the peaks, from ridiculous and unpaintable to sublime 19th century evocations, channeling Bierstadt and his ilk.
Don't try this at home...
Talus Wind, 6 x 9, pastel on paper
The first painting of the day in strong, gusting wind.
Waterfall, 9 x 9.5, pastel on paper
The wind blew until well after sunset, so we all crammed into the cook's tent on the last night, which was the best thing ever. It was toasty in there. Nothing like suffering all day, then celebrating with good pals near the end of an adventure.
We held a pop up Art show the next morning before we hiked out. It is always a revelation to see the range of work everyone produced. Even when we painted in the same location, we chose different things to paint. Very inspiring.
Comparison with the other locations: I do feel that there were scenic elements common to Iceberg, the Nydivers, Ediza, Chickenfoot on the Mt. Morgan side of the lake, and the upper Garnet melt pond area, all within about a 15 minute hike from camp. So, after ten years, there is a lot of familiar territory to be found in a location like this. That is a big plus. The wind was a negative, but it can be dealt with.
As a postscript, I must add the following:
We had the worst toilet EVER on this trip. It was so bad it was funny, and was a topic of conversation throughout the week. It was a kid sized toilet seat that was loosely duct taped to a milk crate with a garbage bag stuffed below. This getup was sandwiched between two blue plastic tarps that would blow into you whenever a breeze came up. A complete ergonomic and hygienic insult in every possible way at every juncture of the process. I finally resorted to seeking other options a discreet distance from camp that were far more functional and comfortable than this setup.

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Obsessed from a young age by the Anzac legend and intrigued by the mystery surrounding the identity of two diggers from a family photo, Damian sets out on a quest to put names to the faces. Whilst holidaying in Warrnambool, the discovery of a war diary in an op shop may finally link him to the legend. A renowned stand up and character comedian, Callinan (Backyard Ashes, Spicks & Specks, skithouse, 774ABC) brings to life the pages of the diary as we meet Paddy Callinan and his ‘push’ as they set off for ‘The Big Show.’ Along the way we meet Stanza the prankster poet, Bluey the outspoken union leader, Mocka the mumbling ladies man, Depot the scrounger and Pirate whose ability to talk could be the weapon that turns the war.
Callinan combines detailed research, hilarious but believable characterisations, black humour, absurdity and deft writing to swing the mood of the story from rollicking farce to aching pathos in a heart beat.
"This is a cleverly written and pitch-perfect delivery of a piece of theatre … the humour, is topical, witty and best of all, it feels real." - Herald Sun – 4 stars
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My (published) writing:
- I write regularly for devozine, a teen devotional magazine. Check out a list of some of my devotions here.
- I was featured in The Upper Room, writing about bees and light and God as a mother figure. See also the blog posts that go with them: on bees and on my own mom.
- I’ve written several articles for Off the Page about feeling unlovable, Harry Potter, finding God in nature, and creativity.
- Several of my devotions were included in the Upper Room Disciplines 2017 devotional book, as well as in a recent Alive Now and The Secret Place.
- Devotions I’ve written for Advent, Advent, Lent, and Lent!
- I helped write an article about the long-tailed manakin for the Cornell Lab’s database on neotropical birds.
- This is a short story I had published in Cum Laude: The Scholarly Evening Post.
- My sermon “Waiting for Justice” was published in the Pittsburgh Theological Journal (it begins on page 86 of the journal, which is page 88 of the PDF). Here is an audio of me preaching a shortened version of the sermon.
- A video of my sermon, “Out of the Way!” on Luke 2:41-52.
- Here is the audio of a sermon I preached on Isaiah 40:21-31 and Mark 1:32-34, as well as the bulletin that I put together for the service.


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Hundreds of vigilantes have joined Mexico’s new “Rural Defense Force” as part of a move to legalize self-defense militas, creating a potentially critical rift between militias prepared to be absorbed by the state and the many more that remain outside the law.
On May 11, the state of Michoacan’s security commissioner, Alfredo Castillo, officially launched the “State Rural Defense Force” with the creation of a 450-strong unit made up of members of the state’s self-defense militias, reported El Universal.
Among the first officers of the new force, which officials presented with arms, uniforms and vehicles, was the new official spokesperson for the General Council of Michoacan Self-Defense Forces, Estanislao Beltran, alias “Papa Smurf.”
Beltran told reporters, “We are legal now and we are committed to this, we are part of the government.”
The new force will begin operating in the municipalities of Tepalcatepec and Buena Vista Tomatlan, with the scheme slated to be later rolled out across the state.
Over 3,000 of an estimated 20,000 members of the self-defense militias applied to join the new force ahead of the registration deadline, although many did not pass exams or basic training.
Animal Politico reported that among the new recruits there was uncertainty over what their role was to be, and over other issues such as pay, benefits and working hours and conditions.
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The launch of the first Rural Defense Force marks the implementation of an agreement between vigilante groups and the government signed in Janaury this year.
The pact was an attempt by the government to get a grip on a situation that had rapidly spiraled out of control, and to strike a balance between helping citizens fight back against organized crime — which they claimed they were doing as a result of state failings — and preventing unchecked vigilante justice.
There are numerous obstacles facing the Rural Defense Force strategy in this regard, including the lack of clear definitions over members’ roles and relationship to state forces, and their long term place in regional security structures.
However, perhaps the greatest concern is the thousands of militiamen who remain outside the process. Some of these already work for militias believed to be linked to criminal groups, and even those that do not could be tempted to abuse or profit from their power, or work for criminal interests, now that they stand on the wrong side of the line drawn by the government.
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Sanjay Dutt’s comeback film Bhoomi, a story of a father’s revenge against his daughter’s violators, has run into a censorial snag with the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) asking for as many as 13 cuts, including a rape sequence.
The film’s director Omung Kumar is nonplussed as the rape forms the crux of the theme. Says an informed source, “The makers argued that the rape is very important to the film. They even cited the example of the recent Sridevi starrer Mom where a rape was at the core of the plot. But the argument did not hold water as in Mom, no rape was shown. In fact producer Boney Kapoor had removed all the graphic suggestions of sexual violation to make the product more palatable to a family audience.”
The Bhoomi team has reluctantly gone home with the cuts and a ‘UA’ certificate.


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Red Umbrella Fund is the first global fund guided by and for sex workers. We believe that change will only be achieved through strong, collaborative movements of sex workers advocating for their rights, with the support of their allies. Sex workers themselves are the best positioned to know what is needed for them, and best placed to do something about it. Red Umbrella Fund exists to mobilise resources to help strengthen and sustain the movement in achieving human rights for sex workers.
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UDC 669 054 82 669 184 244 66 Processing andFig 1 Utilization and sales of slag (in Japan, 2010Fy) Fig 2 Schematic of slag processing flow 1) NIPPON STEEL TECHNICAL REPORT No 104 AUGUST 2013 125 general, with the aim of increasing the metal iron recovery ratio and improving the quality of metal iron recovered, the above crushing.Comparison of possibilities the blast furnace and cupolablast furnace gravel or demetallized steel making slag  Favourable results of experiments and at the same time chemical similarity of blast furnace slag and cupola slag have started a new series of experiments dealing with possibilities of cupola slag utilization in production of concrete.Is Slag the Future of Sustainable Pavements?Login or register now to gain instant access to the rest of this premium content! The asphalt paving industry in the United States has matured and improved due to the foresight of agencies, road.Field tests of cement fly ash steel slag pile compositefor gravel and, thus, reduce the cost whereas increasing the utili zation ratios of steel slag and reducing pollution This study investigates the beneﬁcial use of steel slag in cement ﬂy ash steel slag piles (CFS piles) in composite founda tions Steel slag concrete possesses low early strength, which is much improved in late stag.What Is Crush and Run Gravel?What Is Crush and Run Gravel? Crush And Run Gravel Search & Social Results zenya Ad zenya Get Crush And Run Gravel Metasearch & Social Results Here Crush and run gravel, also known as crusher run, is a type of gravel that is commonly used in places where motor vehicles are often driven or parked.Sand and Gravel in ConcreteJan 30, 2014· One standard recipe calls for one part of cement to two parts of sand to four parts of gravel This results in a C20 rated concrete mix, which means the concrete will be of medium strength Concrete is rated on a system that indicates the strength of the mix after it’s cured for approximately a.Soft Ground TunnellingWe also introduced the use of special seismic joints in TBM driven segmental liner tunnel, outside of Japan There are two major TBMs used in soft ground tunnelling Earth Pressure Balanced (EPB) and Slurry Type Shield Machin An EPB TBM will perform better where the ground is silty and has a high percentage of fin.
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A Review on Utilization of Copper Slag and Silica Fume incopper slag and silica fume, the wastage of good cultivable land can be avoided 4 Soil stabilized by silica fume and copper slag can be used for backfilling retaining walls and embankments REFERENCES  Alpa I, Devecia H and u”ng”unb HS (2008), “Utilization of flotation wastes of Copper Slag.Use of steel slag in construction of flexible pavementGravel with clay content According to IS 1498 (1970) classification Steel Slag is classified as GP ie Poorly graded gravel 3 It is observed that in the Local Soil and Steel Slag mix, with the increase in Steel Slag content there is an increase in MDD with the corresponding decrease in OMC 4.Euroslag, is the European association of organizations and companies concerned with all aspects of manufacturing and utilization of ferrous slag products The association deals with promotion of slag as a product, enables exchange of information and research as well as facilitates the interaction with governing bodi Ferrous slag is the by product of iron and steel [,].Improving the behavior of body roads by the use of gravelJul 25, 2016· The accumulation of wastes industrial stemming of the iron and steel industry has influenced negatively the environment The adopted policy had for mission to eliminate these undesirable wastes by recycling them by their utilization in adequate areas The objective of this work is to study the mechanical behavior of a gravel slag based on crystallized and granulated slag, activated by lime.Utilization of Slag in Partial Replacement of Road AggregateUtilization of Slag in Partial Replacement of Road Aggregate , The percentage of the slag and gravel that can be used in sub base layer is found to be 80% and 50% respectively In case of.Tunnel Under Sidewalks and DrivewaysIs it possible to tunnel under a sidewalk made with pavers that are on compacted gravel over a sandy soil (Florida) The pavers are held in place with cement that was placed along the entire edge of the sidewalk The walk is about 3' wide I need to get a drain pipe underneath Thanks for your help.What is the Special Pump for TBM and Pipe jacking systemTBM and Pipe jacking special pumps including Feed Pump, Discharge Pump and Booster Pump for different stage in Tunnelling project Slurry Feed and Discharge Pumps help the slurry system circulation to and from the slurry separation plant A Slurry.
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The Utilization of Slag in Civil InfrastructureSlag utilization, in keeping with other by products or nontraditional materials utilization, is a very broad subject covering a wide range of aspects A book dealing with the comprehensive topics of slag utilization is imperative This chapter presents the introduction of this important topic, the sustainable needs in construction, mining, and.Euroslag, is the European association of organizations and companies concerned with all aspects of manufacturing and utilization of ferrous slag products The association deals with promotion of slag as a product, enables exchange of information and research as well as facilitates the interaction with governing bodi Ferrous slag is the by product of iron and steel [,].FAQ — AeroAggregatesAggregate is a broad category of particulate materials used in construction including sand, gravel, slag, concrete and foamed glass, to name a few What is aggregate used for? A LOT! Roads, sewers, driveways, basements, greenroofs, golf courses, gardens.USE OF READY MIXED GRAVEL SLAG FOR PAVEMENT STRENGTHENINGuse of ready mixed gravel slag for pavement strengthening utilisation de grave laitier prete a l'emploi sur un chantier de renforcements coordonn on the construction site described in this article, two types of gravel slag mixture were used for the strengthening programme.Characteristics and applications of iron and steel slagThis slag hardens when it reacts with water, with a hydraulic property that provides increasing strength over time Because of its large load bearing capacity, it is used in road base course material in the same way as gravel There is no risk of alkali aggregate reaction, and this slag contains no.


The big event that will shake the Ultimate Marvel universe begins this week, and I have your review right here. Read on for thoughts and spoilers for Ultimate Origins #1.
Ultimate Origins #1
Writer: Brian Michael Bendis
Artist: Butch Guice
What’s Going On:
The story begins with a look back at the scene from 2001’s Ultimate Team-Up in which Bruce Banner tells Spider-Man, “All of it-all of this-it’s all connected. You-me-They don’t want you to figure it out. They don’t want you to know.”
We then leave a perplexed Spidey and jump back to World War II, where a pre-Captain America wannabe is killed in action. FDR obviously is displeased by the morale implications of the world seeing the sentinel of American might lying dead, and he gives the order to create a real super soldier to act as a symbol for the United States in the war. This shifts the focus to James Howlett, Nick Fury, and “Mr. Fisk”, who are caught stealing valuables from a war-torn house in Sicily. Fisk escapes, but Fury and Howlett are nabbed and taken in for experimenting.
Lessons Learned Here:
Wearing a gaudy costume and waving an American flag do not make you a super soldier. Or bulletproof.
How It Ends:
In the end, Nick Fury gets an experimental super soldier treatment and manages to escape from the lab where he’s been worked on. Elsewhere, James Howlett has been taken to Canada and is being modified by Dr. Cornelius. He escapes from the lab but soon is brought down by the doctor’s men and dragged back to the Weapon X facility. As Howlett heals from his wounds, Cornelius explains that he has modified Howlett’s DNA. He has created a new gene and, in doing so, built a new species. “We’ve created a mutant. And James Howlett… is mutant zero.”
That bit of dialogue between Spider-Man and Bruce Banner happened seven years ago, and it’s taken this long for Bendis to get around to explaining it. But if the rest of the explanation is as good as this issue, it’ll have been worth the wait. The art is top notch, and the story is perhaps not a status quo changer but definitely an adjustment to the way we see the Ultimate Marvel universe.
Ultimate mutants are not the next step in the natural evolution of humans, as they are in the classic Marvel universe. Rather, here they are descendants of a gene created in a lab as an offshoot of the Captain America super soldier project in World War II. And in the Ultimate universe, Wolverine is the first mutant, not Namor as is the case in the classic universe. The fact that humans willfully created mutants is a pretty earth shaking development and casts the Xavier versus Magneto conflict into a new light.


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*This post is about research conducted as part of a Master of Arts (Global Development) final project, supervised by Dr Lata Narayanaswamy (Lecturer in International Development, University of Leeds) and Dr Emily Wilson-Smith (Director, Irise International)*
This summer I conducted a research project investigating girls’ experiences of menstrual taboos within higher- and lower-income contexts, using the UK and Uganda as case studies.
I gathered my research by conducting semi-structured interviews with key informants. All key informants were knowledgeable of adolescent girls’ experiences of menstrual health within the UK or Uganda. Most worked or volunteered within menstrual health organisations or charities, two were medical professionals within the field of sexual health and one was a medical student with experience volunteering at a medical centre in Uganda.
I was unfortunately unable to visit Uganda to conduct the interviews face-to-face, so the majority of my interviews were via Skype. I have an undergraduate degree in Psychology and prior to this project had mainly conducted quantitative research, so I felt quite nervous about conducting qualitative interviews for the first time – especially on the topic of menstruation! I, like many others, have been influenced by the menstrual taboo, and at the beginning of the project still felt a tad awkward broaching the topic, not to mention leading a discussion on it for 40-50 minutes!
What surprised me is how much I enjoyed each and every interview I conducted; I loved gathering information and learning from the key informants. I was lucky enough that they were all seasoned ‘period-talkers,’ as people who had all worked or volunteered within menstrual health in the UK or Uganda before.
The more interviews I did, the more confidence I gained discussing the topic of periods with those outside of my research. I have always been lucky enough to be able to discuss periods with my mum and close friends, but had never had a period-related conversation with anyone else. I found it an empowering experience feeling able to discuss menstruation and issues relating to girls in the UK and Uganda with my dad, grandad, friends of friends, and anyone who was interested, really!
I was prepared, and fully expecting, to hear stories from the key informants of poor women and girls across both the UK and Uganda struggling with menstrual taboos resulting in lack of knowledge, discomfort and embarrassment as well as women being simply unable to afford products. I did hear all of these frequently, and they made up a large part of my research findings. However, I was not expecting to also hear so much positivity where women and girls had been educated about their bodies or had broken menstrual taboos in their family or community and consequently how empowered they felt. In some of my UK interviews women linked empowerment to using a menstrual cup. One key informant described how unaware she was about her reluctancy to touch her own body before using the menstrual cup, and how much of an empowering experience this was for her. I heard similar sentiments from so many women who said they felt far more connected with their bodies and appreciated their periods by actually seeing their own menstrual blood and accepting it.
I Skyped a wonderful man who worked for a menstrual health charity within Uganda who is passionate about breaking menstrual taboos and encouraging men to get involved. He told me “…it interests women to see men like me talk about menstruation, they feel so encouraged, they feel so empowered”. I left this Skype interview feeling overwhelmed with joy by how enthusiastic this man was about helping women deal with something he had never experienced himself!
The other thing I was not expecting was the amount of women and girls who, once I had opened up the conversation to talk about periods – such as mentioning what I was doing for my dissertation – were so keen to talk about periods, either to tell me some of their own experiences, or stories from friends, or to ask me questions, such as if I knew whether xyz was normal. These experiences all aided me in my research of the taboos as I realised how much people, especially women wanted to discuss and learn about their bodies but how much the taboo was holding them back from doing so.
My research found that despite living in completely different societies and cultures, girls’ feelings and experiences of menstruation in the UK and Uganda are extremely similar. This could be due to common taboos. I concluded my research with the need to think more holistically about tackling menstrual taboos across country contexts to ensure women and girls do not feel alone. I feel this even more strongly since my journey through breaking my own taboos around menstruation was aided greatly by how connected I felt to the Ugandan and UK girls I was researching. Conducting this research has made me very aware of the power of unity and sharing experiences globally. Issues surrounding menstruation are far more than practical concerns relating to inadequate toilet facilities and access to products. Stigma and shame felt by women due to taboos is very real and if one way to tackle that is to talk about periods and share common experiences then I will be first in the line to do so.
Important note/caveat: Within this blog I refer to ‘women and girls’, however I understand and fully acknowledge that not everyone who menstruates identifies as a woman and not all women menstruate (adapted from Epstein et al., 2017).


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The application uses the weather from Yahoo!, and the prognosis is supplemented with photographs Flickr. You can ask any of the weather in which you are interested in, and the program will substitute the best photos from this city. I even thought that the photos chosen for the weather. In general, the pictures is the theme!
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Magande, who was recently expelled from the Movement for Multi Party Democracy (MMD) has stated that he will neither challenge his expulsion in court nor will he re-contest the Chilanga seat.
Sources close to Magande have revealed that he is in the process of creating a political movement he calls the ‘Third Force’ on the Zambian political landscape. He believes that there are currently only two political forces in Zambia: the MMD and PF/UPND pact.
He, and those he is working with, is still coining the name but the terms “Movement for Political Emancipation’ appear to have been agreed upon.
“While the MMD is celebrating that Magande is not re-contesting the Chilanga seat, they do not know the reasons he has decided not to”, explained one source.
According to the sources, Magande is heavily aligned to the PF-UPND pact and has decided not to disturb the pact by joining one of the parties in the pact, at least not now.
Magande is said to be working with at least three named deputy ministers in the MMD government.
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Children of Bodom
Interview with Janne Wirman
March 12, 2017 – O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London
Interview by Torbjørn ‘Toby’ Jørstad
We spoke to Children of Bodom keyboardist Janne Wirman prior to their show at the O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire in London last Sunday. Read on to find out about the band’s struggle with relearning old songs, what goes into choosing songs to cover, and upcoming album plans!
Hello, my name is Toby and I write for Metal-Rules.com.
Did you have the time to check out London at all today?
Well, I did go to the Westfield mall, did some sightseeing around there. Got some food there, but I didn’t go out to see any other places.
You played Manchester yesterday, how was the audience there?
It was good. The venue was full, almost sold out, so the crowd was really good.
Do you hope to reach more of the UK on upcoming tours, not just Manchester and London?
Hopefully, yes. I’m not fully sure why this tour was so compressed, I was hoping this thing would last a little longer. Maybe we’ll book another one that will hit the cities that we now missed. I would’ve liked to go to other places around here too, but this time it’s only those two cities.
How did you find Forever Still and Oni to tour with?
Oni just toured with us in the US, so they asked if they could open for us here too. The middle band slot got changed so many times, there were bands booked and then something happened, somebody had a baby and someone got kicked off their record label [laughs]. So there was a lot of back and forth with the middle slot band, but then our record label suggested Forever Still.
Have there been some funny behind the scenes moments on this tour yet?
Well, you know, there’s been some pretty funny fuck-ups on stage, because we haven’t played some of these songs in like 18 years. But everything else has been going pretty smoothly.
As you said, you’re bringing out some songs you haven’t played in a while on this tour. Did some of them prove to be particularly challenging to relearn?
The song “In The Shadows” from the first album, we’ve never played it live and it’s such a retarded song [laughs]. I don’t think it’s meant to be played live. It’s not necessarily relearning, it’s going back to the time when I was 17 and we recorded it, and then we’ve never played it since. It’s more than relearning, it’s like ‘what the fuck is going on’ [laughs]. But it’s been surprisingly good fun, figuring out the old songs.
Is “In The Shadows” one of the songs you fucked up on stage?
Which of these old songs have proved to be the most fun to play live?
Well, some of them actually are really fun, but some of the old ones one the first album are so weird, like “In The Shadows” and “The Nail”. It’s very complex, with so many different riffs and parts and, I don’t know, it doesn’t really seem like a song to me nowadays. Just a different collection of weird stuff [laughs], so those are quite challenging. But the more we play them now, after a week, you kind of start to get them in your muscle memory, cause in the first shows we were like ‘what the fuck is going on’, so it gets more fun now as the tour goes on.
Would you say that the early songs from Something Wild and Hatebreeder are more complex and complicated than, say I Worship Chaos?
Well you know, I mentioned “In The Shadows” and “The Nail” and those are both seven-minute songs, and have like 20 different parts, so in that sense our never material are way more straightforward, you have an intro and this part and then a chorus, so there’s maybe six or seven different parts but not 20.
Do you think some of these songs would end up in a regular setlist after this tour?
I would think so, after a tour like this, some of them will maybe make us go ‘okay, we can keep this one’, so I’m sure something from this tour will be kept in the setlist.
Something Wild is 20 years old this year. Obviously, your style has changed a lot since then, do you ever think about sort of returning to the roots with your music, bring back neoclassical influences and such?
No. I think with the neoclassical thing, we were kids so it felt right at the time when we did the first albums, but then around the time of the fourth album [Hate Crew Deathroll] none of us were feeling it anymore. So I think that was the turning point, and I still feel strongly that it was the right decision, although I understand there’s a lot of fans who are just fans of the neoclassical stuff. We can go back and do weird stuff, but I don’t think the neoclassical thing will ever be a part of our sound again.
Looking back on your career, do you have any regrets?
Some, but only really minor ones. Looking back, we’ve toured the world for 20 years, we’ve been pretty drunk and partied hard all over the world. At one point, I remember I sat down with the sound-guy, who is unfortunately not our sound-guy anymore, and I said ‘we don’t understand how anyone didn’t get killed during the crazy years, cause we were fucked up all over the world’ [laughs], so now looking back, some of the partying could’ve been toned down a little bit, but we all survived somehow.
Which city were you the most ‘fucked up’ in?
Tokyo. Tokyo gets you, it never shuts down. You can party 24/7, it never closes down, it’s amazing.
How has Daniel Freyberg influenced the band since his arrival?
Well, we’ve just played live so far, and he’s just been learning the parts that’ve already been there, so I don’t think he has actually influenced us that much. But he doesn’t need to, cause he’s just there to replace and play the stuff that’s already there. He’s such an easy dude to work with, he plays exactly what you ask him to play, so it works well, it’s a good match.
Has he or will he contribute towards future song writing?
At this point, I do not know. It hasn’t been discussed.
Would you ever consider remaking old albums with your new sound, different gear and new line-up etc.?
I kind of don’t see the point in some of that, cause if we would now record it with the recording gear and mindset we have nowadays, I think it would be a little pointless. Just because when we recorded the first album we were 17 and just kids, and you can hear all that there. It would just lose it’s magic, I think it would become boring. I don’t know, I know some bands are doing it, but I personally would not do it.
Over the span of your career you’ve done quite a few cover songs, the whole Skeletons In The Closet album and most recently an Amorphis song. How does the process of choosing what songs to cover go?
I mean sometimes it’s easy, what’s always easy for us is like 80s and 90s pop songs, some of them translate so easily into metal versions. We did this trade off, Amorphis did our song and we did one of theirs, which was fun. They did a much better job at it though, they arranged it more. We had some ideas where we could have gone crazier with the arrangements, and I think we should have, but we kind of made it a bit too easy. Cover songs is always fun, that’s the thing. We’ve done everything from CCR to Britney Spears [laughs] and all that kind of stuff, but it’s fun, it always is.
Are there any artists or songs in mind that you would like to cover in the future?
Lately it’s become a little more difficult to come up with stuff, artists that we haven’t covered and songs that wouldn’t be too obvious. We’ve never done Madonna [laughs], that could be a good one.
Are there ongoing plans of an upcoming Children of Bodom album?
Yes. We will start writing and recording this year. We’ll do this tour and then we will move on to the song writing.
Do you still keep in touch with the past band members; Roope and Alexander?
No, unfortunately. I was just talking about it recently that maybe I should contact Roope at some point, but unfortunately not. No particular reason, we just went our different ways. Our lawyers were in contact some time ago [laughs], so that kind of tells you what’s going on.
What do you personally do when you’re not on tour or working on new material?
I have a little recording studio at home, I fiddle around with things, I’m currently actually producing this Finnish pop music album, which is funny. Non-music related, I like cars, I have a couple of old cars that need a lot of work. That really takes your mind off music, cause when you’re working with music on your free time and you want to do something completely different, it’s awesome to start tearing apart an engine and rebuilding it and stuff like that.
What are your plans following this tour?
Just song writing. I would say the album release is probably next year. If we start writing and recording this year, that wouldn’t make sense, we need a good 4-6 months for the songwriting usually.
Is there anything you would like to add in the end?
Like I said, yesterday was a good crowd and a lot of people showed up. I’m aware that Gojira is playing here in London tonight, so that’s a bit of a bummer, I hope we both get a decent crowd, but I want to obviously thank everyone who’s coming to the shows. This is a special setlist, and I hope people will enjoy it.
Thank you for your time, and good luck with the show and the rest of the tour!


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Veteran American actor George Clooney threw some serious shade at Donald Trump recently after the president made some intensive remarks about making a widely celebrated African American historical holiday event famous.
The 59-year-old actor mocked Donald Trump for his lack of respect for Juneteenth, a holiday event celebrated by many across America. The actor also responded by making a massive donation towards a racial justice initiative.
Trump had tried to take credit for making the Juneteenth holiday ‘famous’ which pissed off many including Clooney. The beef came about after the president’s administration tried scheduling a campaign rally in Tulsa, on the same day as the holiday event which was meant with a lot of backlash.
George Clooney being Clooney, clapped back at President Donald Trump after he claimed that he “did something good” by making Juneteenth “very famous.” June 19 is the date that recognizes the emancipation of the last remaining slaves in the United States in 1865.
George used Trump’s wild boast to throw shade at him for now being associated with the holiday for all of the wrong reasons, and he made his statement clear enough to send an echo throughout the media.
George Clooney mocks President Donald Trump over Juneteenth
According to the actor: “Thank you, President Trump, for ‘making Juneteenth famous.’ Much like when Bull Connor made ‘Civil Rights’ famous. My family will be donating 500 thousand dollars to the Equal Justice Initiative in honour of your heroic efforts,” George announced in a statement to PEOPLE magazine on June 19.
The president’s remarks were met with a lot of backlashes because the city where his team was planning to hold their campaign rally has a dark history when it comes to racial segregation and injustice against Black people.
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So, the fact that Trump’s campaign team was willing to run a rally on the same day as Juneteenth was extremely insensitive since most of his followers are predominantly White conservatives. George Clooney mocking Trump was definitely worth it.
Trump bragged to the Wall Street Journal‘s Michael C. Bender in an interview conducted on June 16 that, “I did something good. I made it famous. I made Juneteenth very famous. It’s actually an important event, it’s an important time. But nobody had heard of it. Very few people have heard of it. Actually, a young African-American Secret Service agent knew what it was. I had political people who had no idea.”
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Author: Allan Bangirana
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Academics and clinicians are to address the global healthcare issue of antibiotic resistance at an event at Citylabs 1.0 in Manchester tonight.
Organised by the University of Manchester’s Global Health Society and ReThinkX, more than 150 people will attend the ‘sold-out’ discussion and debate about an issue the United Nations has recently declared “the greatest and most urgent risk” to public health around the world.
An expert panel of speakers will be lead the debate. They are: Professor Aneez Esmail, Professor of General Practice at the University of Manchester, Dr Will Welfare, Consultant in Communicable Disease Control, Public Health England; Dr Katie Reed a public health expert from the University of Manchester; Enrique Castro-Sanchez, from the Centre for Infection Prevention and Management (CIPM) at Imperial College, London and Dr Claas Kirchhelle, research fellow at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine at the University of Oxford.
Themed ‘Antibiotic Resistance: A Global Ticking Timebomb’, the session has been organised to coincide with World Antibiotic Awareness Week.
Anne Dornan, Head of Innovation and Partnerships at Manchester Science Partnerships said: “It is really important to maintain the momentum and spotlight on the AMR debate. It is a huge global health threat and it is great to see the high level of local interest and focus on helping to address it through scientific innovation and collaboration.
“MSP has a lot of valuable resources which are committed to helping this important work – world class scientific research capabilities and also an important cluster of companies at key sites such as Alderley Park.
“Earlier this month we were privileged to welcome more than 150 of Europe’s leading scientists and companies to attend the annual BioInfect conference at Alderley Park, and we are committed to supporting the UK response to this crucial healthcare challenge.”
Tariq Ramtoola, founder and chief executive of ReThinkX and a final year medical student at the University of Manchester, added: “As the next generation of clinicians we are aware of the ever-increasing threat of AMR, and we felt it was important to acknowledge World Antibiotic Awareness Week with this event.
“We really hope that events like this raises awareness of the issue and the urgent need to develop new antibiotics now. The practical guidance from our expert speakers will be invaluable to those of us already working in a clinical environment.”
The event this evening is held in collaboration with the Division of Population Health, Health Services Research & Primary Care, and the School of Health Sciences at the University of Manchester. It is supported by the British Society for Antimicrobial Therapy, Antibiotic Action, and Antibiotic Guardian.
ReThinkX incorporates Manchester MedX - an annual, national conference on medical technology and innovation, supported by Manchester Science Partnerships and hosted at Citylabs 1.0.

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I absolutely love bracelet/ring combos – it’s a bracelet AND a ring! Chains, spikes, beads, bangles, gemstones, cuffs, chain-mail…the possibilities are endless. This piece can be girly, badass, boho, elegant, casual, exotic or vintage; whatever the look, it’s one of my absolute favourite types of accessories! For this particular one I used these cute leather & suede beads that I found in Sham Shui Po and paired it with a gold ring chain – it’s gone all bubbles & circles with this particular DIY.
What you need:
- 10-12″ metal chain
- 5 metal jump rings
- 1 metal clasp
- 2 looped head pins
- 2 beads
- Measure out and cut how long you’d like the bracelet section of the combo.
- Cut one 1″ piece of chain and one 2″ piece of chain.
- Thread a head pin through one of the beads (with the looped side at the bottom) then using the pliers, hook the straight end up through and over the second looped head pin. Thread the second bead onto the second head pin and form a loop at the top end.
- Attach the 1″ piece of chain to the middle of the bracelet section with a metal jump ring.
- Attach the beads to the top of the 1″ piece of chain using a metal jump ring.
- Attach the top of the beads to one end of the 2″ piece of chain.
- To form the ring section of the piece; loop the 2″ piece of chain and attach the end back onto the main length of chain with a jump ring. The width of the ring will depend upon your own finger size.
- Attach the metal clasp to one end of the bracelet chain with a jump ring.
The green & pink of the beads mixed with the warm gold of the chain makes this a perfect spring/summer accessory that can be worn from day to night! This definitely won’t be the last you’ve seen of these types of accessories I must warn you – I have many more ideas to craft up!


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Christopher J. Wolfe
, Chief Investment Officer of First Republic Private Wealth Management, appeared on Cheddar News to assess the financial markets and offer recommendations to investors.
Read below for a full transcript of the conversation.
Host: Joining me now to talk about the market action is Christopher Wolfe, Chief Investment Officer at First Republic Private Wealth Management. Christopher, thanks so much for coming on the show. Volatile week ending on somewhat of a muted note. What's your takeaway?
Christopher J. Wolfe: You know, the big news of the week was the Fed and the Fed. I think, as you indicated a little bit earlier, said, Yeah, we're going to do the two-step step one taper, which means just buy less bonds. Now, keep in mind that they're still going to buy a lot between here and the end of next year, another $600 billion or so, according to the schedule that they've laid out. But the second step is actually the more important one, which is when do they start raising rates? And that's where Wall Street started to speculate a lot this week on when they will raise rates. They use something called a dot plot, where to all the governors see the hikes. But it really looks like that Wall Street's bringing in the forecast for the Fed to hike rates into 2022 and then a whole bunch more coming in 2023. So that's really the key development for this week. There was some other economic news that was important. And I think the last piece on the corporate side, you hit on it with Nike. But there was also Federal Express earlier this week and preannouncing saying, Hey, we're having supply chain issues, and that's going to be the dominant story, we think, in the third quarter for earnings. Mm hmm.
Host: Now let me ask you this, Christopher, were you surprised? Are you surprised by how investors did react to the Fed? Projections upped its expectation for inflation this year, almost by a full percentage point for four-to-four point two percent this year, but then also increased its expectations as to when it will raise interest rates for the first time to 2022 from a previous expectation of 2023. I think history would tell us that the market would have moved down on that, but it actually moved higher. What's your reaction?
Christopher J. Wolfe: Yeah, that's a really good question. I think we're still a little bit in the land of Tina, which stands for There is no alternative. You have negative real yields on cash. Bond yields are negative on a real basis. That just means that after inflation, the yield you get on the bond is minus. So you're still stuck in Stockland. Interestingly enough, the more that inflation picks up, the more likely you are to see corporate profits actually surprise on the upside nominal meaning after, you know, before inflation. Earnings per share numbers are likely to be pretty good, assuming the supply chain issues don't get in the way, so I think the markets are starting to digest that balance. You can put the Fed, I think, on hold. They've been very transparent in terms of the commentary about when they're going to taper and raise rates. I think the risk they'll back to your first point is that one, which is inflation and our view is likely to be a bit more persistent, be higher for a longer think of CPI with a three handle three plus for 2022. And there is some risk that if these supply chain issues persist, that that inflation story lags all the way into 2023. That's really the risk here because that means the Fed's going to have to move even earlier than I think the market expects.
Host: Interesting. Now what would you recommend to investors, Christopher, who are on the sidelines or even invested right now, figuring out what to do with their money?
Christopher J. Wolfe: Well, we have those situations now, and I think there's really three pieces of advice that we share with our clients, depending on how they're looking at their investments. The first is get started. There's really a big psychological hurdle if you're thinking about investing, so get started in a balanced portfolio is a good way to look at it. I'll talk about bonds in a second. The second thing is, if you're looking to be more targeted or specific, the economically sensitive sectors, in our view, look attractive relative to other things. You saw some action this week, for example, energy financials doing relatively well. A stronger economy, at least a nominally is pretty good for banks because yield curve is likely to steepen. It's also pretty good in terms of more jobs coming in online over the next several quarters. That should be good for energy demand and usage, at least in the very near term. So economically sensitive areas would be a place that we would go. I think the last is, I think for clients that are qualified, there are opportunities beyond some of the public markets and those are really more towards private investments. We're seeing the activity that the Fed sponsors with low interest rates, the cheap money story filtering into all sorts of markets. That's really where the inflation has been financial markets, inflation in public and private markets.
Host: Hmm. Christopher, how closely is your company watching the evergrande story out of China? We saw that the stock market tanked Monday because of fears of potential contagion if it does indeed default on its debt and not pay within this next 30-day window. Do you find that to be a concern for the stock market?
Christopher J. Wolfe: I think the stock market's got a long memory of things like the Typekit crisis back in the nineteen nineties and the global financial crisis in 2008 and looking and they're looking for triggers. What's the trigger point? It was Lehman having their loans called in. It was a tie back crashing, for example, and they're looking at evergreen and saying, Wow, I've seen this movie before and we want to call time out. Ever Evergrande is a situation that is certainly destructive in a lot of ways. Two parts of the Chinese capital market, but is it likely, in our view, to leak everywhere else and create a giant contagion effect? We don't think so. Two reasons we've seen the Chinese policymakers start to respond, and they're likely, in our view, to help work all of this out. Given that Evergreen is connected to so many different things inside the Chinese economy, it would be incredibly disruptive, meaning you didn't learn the lessons of 2008 to just let it go. So that's one. And second is the story, really. Here's one about financing can ever grant actually make their payments. It's not like there's twenty-two billion all do in one fell swoop today, so they have some time, not much, but they have some time to work this out. So our view is that we're going to see a bankruptcy. It's going to be a bit messy, but not contagion.
Host: We covered the headline yesterday that the auto industry expected to see its sales hit by two hundred and ten billion dollars this year just because of the semiconductor shortage. But these chips, they're in everything from our cars to our phones to our alarm clocks, our electric toothbrushes, our dishwashers, I mean literally there and everything. The fact that these supply chain issues are still so challenging in the chip space, how do you foresee that impact, you know, overall GDP growth and the ability for some of these companies to continue to grow here in the year ahead?
Christopher J. Wolfe: I think you hit it right on the head. This is going to be a lingering problem. It's one of the reasons that we expect inflation to be more persistent in 2022. And really, that gets down to the fact that semiconductor foundries, that the buildings, the plants you need to put in place in order to ramp up production. You can't do them quickly. They take a very long time to ramp up capacity. So the story here is one not just of COVID, but also capacity and the fact that there are chips in everything from refrigerators to TVs to phones. And not only are there chips, there's many chips in everything. So as we continue to consume all sorts of electronics, that foundry demand is going to be under a lot of pressure. So the bad news is not going to resolve itself any time soon. The good news is we're starting to see policymakers in Europe and the United States get it. And after we've disinvested so much foundry space in the United States, I think we're going to start a reinvestment cycle over the course of the next few years. So good news is longer term, we will have less of these issues, in our view.
Host: Does your company invest in cryptocurrency and regardless of what your answer is, why or why not?
Christopher J. Wolfe: Our clients have investments in cryptocurrencies. I can state that I think we're we look at cryptocurrencies. Our view is really a kind of two parts. The first is that there will likely be a lot of near-term risks as regulators continue to scrutinize what's going on in the cryptocurrency space. The news out of China a bit disheartening. But that's important because I think the medium of exchange versus store value question is one that's going to rage on until regulators settle it. The second piece, though, is that we're looking at what's behind cryptocurrencies much more carefully, particularly on blockchain technology and looking to invest in some of those spaces. So that's part of that private investment story where investors are qualified to do that.
Host: Mm hmm. I am wondering, too, when it comes to international markets. Christopher, knowing that this vaccine rollout has gone about as smoothly as it could in the U.S. compared to other countries, right? We still want to get more people vaccinated here, according to the Biden administration. But when you look at global investments, is the U.S. where you're concentrating your money right now or do you see opportunities in emerging markets and in Europe?
Christopher J. Wolfe: Yeah, it's a great question. You know, we have been looking increasingly outside the U.S. Our asset allocation generally favors the U.S., or at least it has over the last several years. That's been a pretty, a pretty good call, I think, for investors. But what we're finding are three things one, big valuation gaps between U.S. and non-U.S. markets that looks attractive 2's more operating leverage and sensitivity to any kind of recovery or changes in policy outside the U.S. Japan's a good example of that. We started to see earnings tick up, for example, as well as revenues on some a growth resurgence. Then the last piece for us is the concentration. The U.S. is is important for most of our clients, but we really want to think about that global diversification story and where we're finding these opportunities. We're using them carefully on emerging markets, treading very cautiously. We don't have a big allocation here and think that investors should be very, very patient in this space because there's more news to come on China reorienting the way it looks at capitalism relative to all of its other policies, keeping in mind that is using paying and the policy leaders in China need to think about being very, very communicative about their plans as they look for their setup for the new five-year plan coming out next year.
Host: What about taxes, Chris? My last question to you is how are you advising your clients to navigate their own portfolios as we head into year-end knowing that this tax policy is still getting worked out?
Christopher J. Wolfe: Well, it looks like there's a lot of changes that seem to. Be leaking out or coming out of the committee these days, and they are going to impact the way we think about investing, so planning ahead is a good idea. What we're finding are a couple of things. The first is plants are more sensitive to taxation, at least around the big liquid stock portfolios that they may have. And so migrating to a degree towards tax aware type strategies, that's one two is they're becoming more sensitive about the types of vehicles they use in order to avoid taxation. So certain types of hedge funds, for example, very tax unfriendly other types, more tax friendly. So being as an example, being more sensitive to the types of vehicles they own. And the third is, you know, there are some likely changes that seem to be impacting the way trust rules work, and that's something we have to examine a bit more closely. But that would be an area that I think clients would want to be interested in and make some changes if the laws do change.
Host: All right. Christopher Wolfe, Chief Investment Officer of First Public Private Wealth Management. Christopher, thanks again. Great insight.
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In prior articles, I have written about knowing your rock-bottom or stock-up price. This week, I am writing more about stock-up prices and buy prices.
A stock-up price is the lower of the two. This is when you want to buy enough to last you between two or three months to get you to the next stock-up price sale. The stock-up price is where you want to be doing most of your shopping.
The buy price is a good price; it is the price I would generally pay with coupons or on sale. This is the price at which you will most likely purchase only one of the item in order to make it to the next stock-up price sale.
Finding your stock-up and buy prices is a process. It is dependent on where you shop, what region of the state or country you live in, the time of year, and brand loyalties. It is because of those factors that the prices will vary from person to person. Keep track of the prices you pay for the items you frequently buy in order to figure out your stock-up and buy prices. With time, and as your couponing skills grow, you may find your stock-up and buy prices lower. Unfortunately, the opposite effect is also true. Due to changes in coupon values and coupon policies, sometimes these prices will need to increase.
Remember, the goal in stockpiling is to buy items your family uses when they are at their best price. Stockpile prices should happen about every three months and you want to buy enough to last your family until the next sale in order to see the biggest savings.
Here is what I consider to be stock-up and buy prices on commonly purchased items:
- K-cups coffee -stock-up: under 40 cents each (buy: 50 cents each)
- Coffee (name brand, 11 oz.) - stock-up: $2/bag (buy: $3/bag)
- Coffee creamer - stock-up: 60 cents (buy: $1)
- Olive oil (8 oz.) - stock-up: under 75 cents/bottle (buy: $1/bottle)
- Potatoes (5 lb.) - stock-up/ buy: $2
- Pasta - stock-up: free (buy: 50 cents)
- Mustard - stock-up/buy: 25 cents or less
- Soda (12-pack cans) - stock-up: $2 (buy: $2.50)
- Toilet paper - 1 cent per square foot
- Paper towels (per roll) - stock-up: 50 cents (buy: 55 cents)
- Tissues - stock-up: 25 cents (buy: 50 cents)
- Band aids - stock-up: free/50 cents (buy: $1)
- Toothpaste (regular) - stock-up: free (buy: 50 cents)
- Toothpaste (sensitive) - stock-up: 50 cents (buy: $1)
- Shaving cream - stock-up: free/25 cents (buy: 50 cents)
- Razors (disposable) - stock-up/buy: free
- Razors (per cartridge) - stock-up: 50 cents (buy: $1)
- Laundry detergent (32 loads) - stock-up: $1 (buy: under $2)
- Dish detergent tabs (per tab) - stock-up: 8 cents (buy: 10 cents)
- Dish soap: stock-up: free (buy: 50 cents)
- Cleaners (all purpose/bathroom) stock-up: 50 cents (buy: $1)
- Bleach - stock-up/buy: $1
- Diapers - stock-up: 10 cents smaller sizes, 13 cents larger sizes (buy: 15 cents/20 cents)
- Baby wipes - stock-up: 1 cent/wipe (buy: 2 cents/wipe)
Beth Long, a mother of two young boys, is a self-taught "extreme couponer" who lives in Lock Haven and uses coupons - mostly from the newspaper - relentlessly to save money. In this weekly column, she hopes to teach Express readers the ins and outs of good couponing ... and how to save lots of money. Beth would love to hear from you. Please email her at email@example.com, or write a letter to Saving 'Cents with Beth, c/o The Express, P.O. Box 208, Lock Haven, Pa. 17745.

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Hyderabad: People in Hyderabad woke up to a rare phenomenon of a big hallow ring around the sun on Wednesday. The halo ring complimented Hyderabad's pleasant weather hours after moderate rainfall was recorded on June 1st (Tuesday).
From morning walkers to homemakers, everyone was trying to catch the glimpse of the unique spectacle in the sky. Some people tried to film it on their mobile phones and some tried to take a selfie with sun halo in the backdrop. A similar phenomenon was noticed in Bengaluru a few days ago.
Here you Go Video:- #Halo Sun over Hyderabad😍#Hyderabad @lovelyweather_ @CoreenaSuares2 @ynakg2 pic.twitter.com/rk7MDh8yfL— Weather Lover (@Hyderabadrains) June 2, 2021
Here you Go Video:- #Halo Sun over Hyderabad😍#Hyderabad @lovelyweather_ @CoreenaSuares2 @ynakg2 pic.twitter.com/rk7MDh8yfL
According to experts, the halos are caused by both refraction, or splitting of light, reflection, or glints of light from these ice crystals which are in a hexagonal shape. "Around monsoon or spring season, not an actual rainbow but a coloured ring forms accidentally or coincidentally, they are made up of same size particles. One can see a dispersion of light reflecting seven colors in the sky around the sun," said BG Sidharth, Director, BM Birla Science Centre, Hyderabad.
He added that it's an accidental phenomenon that occurs sometime in a year or two.
360 degree halo around the sun.12.15 pm 2 June 2021Hyderabad(Hyderabadis can probably see it right now) pic.twitter.com/v7j6flYUFt— Pankaj Sethi (@PankajSethi00) June 2, 2021
360 degree halo around the sun.12.15 pm 2 June 2021Hyderabad(Hyderabadis can probably see it right now) pic.twitter.com/v7j6flYUFt
Like rainbows, halos around the sun – or moon – are personal. Experts said a person in Delhi may see a rainbow or halo at 4 pm but a person in Hyderabad may not because atmospheric conditions in a location are crucial to see halo/Rainbow.
Mesmerized by Sun Halo in #Hyderabad ☀☀☀🔆 pic.twitter.com/XGWVIFncpk— Naveena | నవీన (@TheNaveena) June 2, 2021
Mesmerized by Sun Halo in #Hyderabad ☀☀☀🔆 pic.twitter.com/XGWVIFncpk
Mr Raghunandhan Rao, Founder of Planetary Society of India said a similar big circle was witnessed around the same time last year.
"In Scientific Circles, they are known as `22-degree halos'. Because for an observer in a location the ring has a radius of approximately 22 degrees around the sun or moon. The phenomenon was noticed last year also," he said.