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|Reviews for How to catch a star|
| fac.et.spera chapter 1 . 4/8/2010
LOL ROFL, This was hilarious! I loved it!
| TheKelsieGrim chapter 1 . 6/1/2009
First championshipping fic I have read and I so want more now! Anyway poor lance ash can be really dense some times cant he? I really found your story funny and lighthearted really nice easy fic to read. Thanks!
| JapanManiac chapter 1 . 8/17/2008
So cool! It was funny too, and poor Ash! being bugged by Lance everyday~!
| Kettuhattu chapter 1 . 7/18/2007
I laughed so much my stomach hurts x3 Lance is so obsessed of Ash
| Moony the Sly chapter 1 . 10/5/2004
*snort* LOL! THat was hilarious!
Lance: Ash I love you!
CLASSIC XD I blame you for making me spill soda on my desk XD! lol
| Corrupted Optimist chapter 1 . 12/23/2003
XDD~~ OMG! Lance is SOO desperate for Ash-y XDD i LOVE this pairing! its one of my favs! AND YOURE THE ONE THAT GOT ME INTO IT! X3 gosh.. now i like two shonen-ai pairings.. Honorshipping(Morty/Matsuba x Falkner/Hayato and) and Championshipping (which you should know)..
but.. XP hardly ANYONE writes these pairings! only YOU and the person who got me into Honorshipping write these!
so PLEASE.. for all that is holy.. PLEASE write more of this pairing(Championshippy)
| SS2 Megami-sama chapter 1 . 10/6/2003
Hehehehe, I love yaoi and shonen-ai. *reads doujinshi that she conned her father into buying for her off the internet.*
| Mayonaka Hitomi chapter 1 . 8/16/2003
How come I just now find this fic? ...Oh, I've only been on this site for a week. *sweatdrop* Whateverishness. Nice fic. . . .
*ponders how she got into shounen-ai in the first place* It was all Yu-Gi-Oh! and Beyblade and Gundam Wing's faults. . . .*growls* Oh well.
| Angel-Goddess chapter 1 . 4/15/2003
Lol, aw, that's so cute! Haha, I'm into shounen-ai -_- I don't know how, oh wait, scratch dat... it all started with Beyblade... *sweatdrops* Newayz, I love htis fic, it was so cute! You have GOT to do another one, its so kawaii!
| Hasuko chapter 1 . 11/30/2002
Hahahahahaha! That was soooo funny! I'm not a championshipper but I thought this fic was funny anyway! Keep up the good work!
| Akiko chapter 1 . 11/2/2002
Hey! I'm not a championshipper, but I liked this! I'm actually a big shishi (uh...whatever shippy it is when Gary and Ash hook it up) fan, so...*big teary eyes* Would you PLEASE do one? It'd make me so happy...Anywho, great story!
Keep it up!
| tmp chapter 1 . 11/1/2002
oh lord I never knew so many people on an inocent kid's show could turn out gay. Danny and Rudy. Koga and Gary. I never execpted those four to get together. This story is strange but one of a kind. Man is Lance strange and persistent in his love for Ash. Its interesting really its something I could never picture. Lance and Ash being gay its just plain wrong. But the story itself it really good and well writen.
| Ran Hoshino chapter 1 . 10/31/2002
YOu've utterly corrupted me. At first If someone had mentioned the mastershippy pairing I probably would have thought it a joke; but then you come along with your oh so well written fics and totally make me fall for the couple. AAARRRRRGGGGHHH! You have no idea how confused this makes me. And whatever happened to "I don't write shonen-ai in pokemon." I would have been fine and happy with what I had of pokemon, not scouring the web for more Lance/Ash pairings like I am now. :Sigh: Oh well, great new fic and as much as I like CCA you had better put out more mastershippy fics.
| Someone Somewhere chapter 1 . 10/31/2002
Well I can't say I like pokemon, but this story was sooooooo funny I couldn't help but read it (even if I have no Idea who teh people in this story are) Great job!


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Are you a local author or an avid reader interested in finding books by authors from the North Texas area? The Mesquite Main Library is hosting the 2nd annual Mesquite Authors Fair on Saturday, May 6th from 2:00 p.m. until 5:00 p.m. If you are a local author interested in featuring your work, please pick up an application at the Main Library, located at 300 West Grubb Drive. Table space is limited, and only applications turned in to the Main Library by 6:00 p.m. Saturday, April 1st will be considered. For more information, please contact the Main Library at 972-216-6220.
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Larry Hurtado reports the sad passing of Prof. Sean Freyne.
Freyne was an expert on Galilee and its relevance to NT studies. My favourite quote from his work was:
‘Either we accept that the early followers of Jesus had some interest in and memory of the historical figure of Jesus as they began to proclaim the good news about him, or we must abandon the process entirely’.
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ISLAMABAD, Apr 19 (APP): An Accountability Court (AC) on Tuesday adjourned hearing till May 24, on acquittal plea of former prime minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf in rental power references.
AC-III Judge Syed Asghar Ali heard the acquittal plea of Pervaiz Ashraf in references pertaining Reshman and Gulf rental power projects.
Pervaiz Ashraf’s lawyer Arshad Tabraiz concluded his arguments in the acquittal plea while the other lawyers couldn’t complete their debate due to absence. At this, the hearing of the case was adjourned till next date.
It may be mentioned here that former prime minister had challenged the references under NAB amendment ordinance.

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VALENCIA, Spain, June 23, 2011 (AFP) - Story of the 2011 Formula One season
ahead of the European Grand Prix on Sunday:
Australian Grand Prix - March 27
World champion Sebastian Vettel sounded a warning to his rivals with a dominating victory in his flying Red Bull on the Albert Park street circuit in Melbourne. It was Vettel's 11th win in his 63rd GP. The German 23-year-old led his rivals a merry dance from pole, beating McLaren's 2008 champion Lewis Hamilton by more than 22 seconds with Russian Vitaly Petrov third in a Lotus Renault.
Ferrari's Fernando Alonso missed out on the podium in fourth place, while Vettel's Australian team-mate Mark Webber finished fifth for the third time in his home GP.
Standings: Vettel 25pts, Hamilton 18, Petrov 15
Malaysian Grand Prix - April 4
Vettel dominated with a brilliant drive to maintain his perfect start to the season, steering his Red Bull from pole to the chequered flag to win ahead of McLaren's Jenson Button, the 2009 champion, and Nick Heidfeld who finished third for Renault.
Vettel's second start-to-finish win in two outings this year came despite further problems with Red Bull's faulty Kinetic Energy Regeneration System (KERS) which gave Webber a nightmare start. The Australian dropped from third to 10th before storming back to finish fourth ahead of the Ferraris of Brazilian Felipe Massa and two-time champion Alonso.
Hamilton looked set for a podium spot but finished seventh after a slow pit stop and a struggle with worn tyres in the closing stages, the Briton demoted to eighth after picking up a time penalty.
Standings: Vettel 50 pts, Button 26, Hamilton 22
Chinese Grand Prix - April 17
Vettel's invincibility came to a juddering halt as a brilliant drive from Hamilton saw him take the chequered flag after the 26-year-old roared through the field in the final laps on fresh tyres to take his 15th career win.
Vettel finished second after one of his more unsatisfactory races, having been passed by Button on the first corner. Webber also produced a remarkable drive, coming from 18th on the grid to finish third. Ferrari failed to shine as Felipe Massa finished sixth and Alonso seventh.
Standings: Vettel 68pts, Hamilton 47, Button 38
Turkish Grand Prix - May 8
Vettel notched up his third win in four races this season with a near-flawless drive. The German led from his 19th career pole position to the chequered flag unchallenged, conceding the lead only once during his pit-stops and now has a 34-point lead in the championship.
It was the 13th win of his career and another day of celebration for the Red Bull team as Webber brilliantly overtook two-time champion Fernando Alonso of Ferrari to finish second. Hamilton was fourth.
Standings: Vettel 93pts, 2. Hamilton 59, 3. Webber 55
Spanish Grand Prix - May 22
Vettel claimed a narrow and dramatic victory ahead of Lewis Hamilton. The German Red Bull driver used clever strategy to steal the lead after starting second behind team-mate Mark Webber, resisting all that 2008 champion Hamilton could throw at him in the closing stages to finish six-tenths of a second ahead of the 26-year-old Briton for his fourth win in five races this season.
Hamilton's McLaren team-mate and fellow-Englishman Jenson Button finished third ahead of Webber, with two-times world champion Fernando Alonso in fifth.
Standings: Vettel 118pts, 2. Hamilton 77, 3. Webber 67
Monaco Grand Prix - May 29
Vettel won his first ever Monaco Grand Prix in an incident-packed race that saw the end raced largely under a red flag after promising Russian driver Vitaly Petrov crashed heavily and was taken to hospital, though, not with serious injuries. Vettel came home ahead of Alonso, recording Ferrari's best result of the season, while Button drove brilliantly but without luck to take third.
Hamilton fell further behind Vettel in the title race as he finished sixth, a drive through penalty didn't help his chances, and then aggravated the race stewards further by cracking a joke that he was penalised so often 'maybe because I am black' - it backfired and he had to apologise.
Standings: Vettel 143pts, 2. Hamilton 85, 3. Webber 79
Canadian Grand Prix - June 12
Button produced a superb drive to record his first win of the season - the 10th of his career - passing Vettel on the final lap of an extraordinary, dramatic, rain-delayed and crash-hit race. The 31-year-old Englishman, drove his McLaren car with great courage, speed and judgement after surviving an early collision with Hamilton.
Vettel had looked sure to win after leading from pole position both before and after a two-hour suspension due to torrential rain, but he buckled under pressure from Button on the final lap and finished second. Webber came home third, leaving luckless seven-times champion Michael Schumacher to finish fourth for Mercedes.
Standings: Vettel 161pts, Button 101, Webber 94


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The multi-talented actor-writer-director has already stepped down from directing the upcoming DC Comics caper, and now his initial screenplay has been given a polish.
According to Forbes, Chris Terrio - who worked with Affleck on Argo and won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay - has already rewritten The Batman, but another full rewrite is thought to still be in the works.
As far as the director is concerned, nobody has formally replaced Affleck as yet - although it seems Matt Reeves is the frontrunner.
Affleck, for the time being, remains attached to play the title role, although speculation is never-ending as to whether or not he will step down.
Ben Affleck plays Batman at the moment - but will he stay in the role?
The actor is used to having many roles on the go
The actor has already played Batman several times
It has become clear that I cannot do both jobs to the level they require
He previously said: ”There are certain characters who hold a special place in the hearts of millions. Performing this role demands focus, passion and the very best performance I can give.
“It has become clear that I cannot do both jobs to the level they require. Together with the studio, I have decided to find a partner in a director who will collaborate with me on this massive film.
“I am still in this, and we are making it, but we are currently looking for a director.
“I remain extremely committed to this project, and look forward to bringing this to life for fans around the world."
A 2019 release is still being targeted, with July thought to be the most likely time - which could potentially be far enough away for even Affleck to step down from acting, if he so chooses.
There’s plenty of other DC goodness to come in the meantime: Wonder Woman, Justice League, Aquaman and Gotham City Sirens are all at various stages in production.
Wonder Woman is next up, and is in cinemas on June 2.


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The Buffalo Auto Show is featuring some of the newest technology in the auto industry this week at the Buffalo Niagara Convention Center, including pre-production 2019 models and the latest hybrids.
The auto show is put on each year by the Niagara Frontier Automobile Dealers Association. It starts Thursday morning with a ribbon cutting at 10:45 a.m. Doors open at 11 a.m. on Thursday and Friday, then at 10 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday. The show wraps up Sunday evening at 7 p.m.
In addition to high-tech vehicles of the future, the event also features a famous car from Hollywood's past that movie buffs and car buffs alike will recognize: the Back to the Future DeLorean. The car is owned by Ken Kapalowski of Ontario. He turned his DeLorean into a drivable replica of the movie car himself.
The event also includes apperances by GigaMAXX the robot, Marvel's THOR, and the Buffalo Bandits. You can find a complete list of events at www.buffaloautoshow.com.
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Quick Test Results for Quick Recovery
When pets are ill or injured, time is of the essence. The sooner we can get lab results, the sooner we can get a diagnosis and start treatment and the better the recovery. The doctors of All Pets Animal Hospital understand the need for quick response time, so they have designed our hospital with an in-house lab that can process the most critical lab tests and provide answers in the shortest time.
The in-house lab at All Pets Animal Hospital & 24-Hour Emergency Care is able to handle many different kinds of tests, including:
Complete blood chemistry
This test checks for the balance of the chemicals normally present in the blood and provides an indication of how well the internal organs are functioning.
Complete blood count
This measures the total white and red cell values and is useful in determining problems such as anemia and infection.
This measures the oxygen and carbon dioxide content of the blood, which indicates how well the patient is ventilated.
The thyroid gland produces hormones responsible for your pet’s metabolism. Having too much (hyperthyroidism) or too little (hypothyroidism) can cause a host of health issues including weight gain or loss, skin and coat issues, lethargy, or hyperactivity.
Other hormone assays
We can also measure cortisol levels, which indicate the health of the adrenal glands.
Electrolytes are the sodium, potassium, and chloride molecules found in the body that are important in maintaining proper cellular and organ function.
An electrocardiogram is a noninvasive means of measuring characteristics of the heart and heartbeats. It can give an indication of damage or irregularity. All Pets Animal Hospital’s veterinarians use the ECG with heart patients, pets under anesthesia, and pets that are in critical condition.
Analysis of urine provides much information about the health of many different organs, especially the kidneys. It is also necessary in evaluating diabetes mellitus, bladder infections, urinary stones, and certain types of cancer.
Our lab can check samples for the presence of heartworm, intestinal worms, mites, and other parasites.
This is a microscopic exam of tissue samples. Examples include tumor aspirates, skin scraping for parasites, analysis of exudate from the ear or on the skin, and analysis of fecal material or any other material excreted by the body.
Infectious agent testing
Some of the infections we can test for include parvovirus in dogs and feline leukemia and FIV in cats.
All Pets Animal Hospital & 24-Hour Emergency Care is committed to providing the highest quality care for your pets, and our in-house lab is well equipped to meet their diagnostic needs.

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The BlackBerry KeyOne launched final yr proved to be extra profitable than TCL had anticipated. Based on the corporate, it was formally launched in additional markets that initially deliberate (over 50) and offered greater than twice as a lot over the unique forecasts.
Thus, it isn’t stunning to see the BlackBerry Key2 being introduced immediately with tons of upgrades and enhancements over the unique. Every thing from the keyboard to the cameras and the internals have been swapped out with newer elements.
The design has additionally been tweaked to make the cellphone seem extra fashionable with a thinner and lighter profile. Hopefully, TCL has additionally sorted any development high quality points with screens coming out that plagued a few of the KeyOne fashions.
Wish to see the Key2 in motion? Watch our hands-on video beneath:
BlackBerry Key2 value and launch date
The BlackBerry Key2 will are available in two configurations- a 64GB mannequin and a 128GB mannequin. Within the Center East, the 64GB mannequin will price AED 2,399 / SAR 2,399 (US$ 650) and be out there in silver whereas the 128GB mannequin will go on sale for AED 2,699 / SAR 2,699 (US$ 735) and be out there in black.
Though the silver model comes out higher in photos, throughout our hands-on with the machine, the all stealth black was clearly our favourite.
TCL is anticipating the telephones to be on retailer cabinets within the second half of June which will definitely shorten the time between the announcement and availability in comparison with the unique KeyOne.
BlackBerry Key2 keyboard
Although the BlackBerry KeyOne featured keyboard, TCL has labored on bettering the keyboard on the BlackBerry Key2 to make it simpler to kind on and on the similar time, given it a refreshed design. And there’s a new key to spice up productiveness.
You will instantly discover that the Key2 has a matte end on the keyboard in comparison with the shiny model discovered on the KeyOne. This makes it simpler to your thumbs to stay on keys when typing shortly which ought to lead to fewer errors.
Additionally lacking are the raised frets between the rows with the body of the cellphone performing as a separator – very very like the BlackBerry Passport. Additionally value pointing is that the body of the machine is now development utilizing Sequence 7 aluminium for a cleaner look that is additionally stronger.
TCL has additionally elevated the peak of the keys by 20% properly as the important thing journey which makes typing on the Key2 simpler than it was on the BlackBerry KeyOne. It’s also possible to use the keyboard to scroll by means of pages by calmly gliding your fingers over the keys.
Throughout our palms on time with the Key2 scrolling internet pages and contacts lists wasn’t as easy as utilizing our finger on the touchscreen, nonetheless, TCL did point out that we had been utilizing a pre-production machine with beta software program.
Just like the BlackBerry KeyOne, the fingerprint sensor is neatly tucked into the keyboard’s house bar and is fast to unlock the cellphone.
New to the BlackBerry Key2 is the Pace Key which, when pressed together with some other key, permits you launch any app, contact somebody out of your tackle e book or entry a shortcut that you have programmed.
This allows you to to bypass Android’s residence display and instantly transfer from one app to a different app or motion. Over time, you may be switching apps or contacting individuals like a Ninja with this characteristic.
BlackBerry KeyOne interface and efficiency
One of many complains many house owners of the BlackBerry KeyOne have is the shortage of Android updates. Whereas BlackBerry Cell has been good with offering month-to-month safety updates, the KeyOne continues to be on Android 7.zero Nougat.
Whereas we won’t assure on how issues will proceed with Android updates for BlackBerry Key2, it does include the most recent official launch of Android out of the field which is Android eight.1 Oreo.
BlackBerry Cell provides it is launcher on high of that which, whereas being minimal and fast, is beginning to look a bit dated. For instance, the app draw continues to be an icon press away, despite the fact that Android helps a swipe up gesture to view your apps.
The BlackBerry Key2 is powered by the the Snapdragon 660 chip and 6GB of RAM – which is a primary for BlackBerry. We have seen this processor on the Nokia 7 Plus and it performs properly so anticipate the Key2 to be reasonably zippy.
There’s 64 or 128GB of storage housed contained in the Key2, and that may be expanded by way of the microSD slot on the cellphone. The telephones releasing within the Center East have a hybrid tray that permits you to both use the MicroSD or twin SIM playing cards.
There’s additionally a 3500mAh battery contained in the Key2 which is on par with the KeyOne so anticipate nice battery life. We have not had an opportunity to check out the battery but and you will have to attend for our assessment to seek out extra on that however TCL is suggesting two days.
BlackBerry KeyOne show and design
The BlackBerry Key2 has the identical four.5-inch touchscreen with the odd 1620×1080 decision. To accommodate the bigger keyboard with out growing the dimensions of the cellphone, TCL has diminished the bezels and pushed the display a bit greater on the Key2.
This makes the Key2 look extra fashionable in design in comparison with the unique although there’s some room for enchancment. TCL might push for smaller bezels and do away with the capacitive however mounted Android navigation keys – sure, they’re nonetheless there. TCL ought to shift to onscreen buttons like each different Android cellphone producer to realize some extra display property.
To scrub issues up and to make it simpler for customers switching from different telephones, TCL has fortunately transfer the facility/lock key from the left of the cellphone to the proper and given it a textured end to tell apart it from the comfort key which sits beneath it and the quantity keys that sit above it.
The comfort key can now be programmed to launch three of your favourite apps or actions, which, mixed with the brand new Pace key helps get issues achieved quicker.
TCL has additionally modified the end on the rear of the cellphone offering much more grip which is able to assist maintain the cellphone in your palms, pockets and regular on surfaces.
The BlackBerry KeyOne was an honest cellphone that offered properly and based mostly on our preliminary assessments, it seems that TCL has put in affordable effort to justify the replace.
The BlackBerry Key2 has higher specs making it quicker with extra storage and a refined design that appears extra elegant and sits higher in your palms. Whereas cameras have by no means been a powerful level for BlackBerry, there’s now a twin digital camera setup with 2X zoom on the Key2. We’ll take a look at that out as soon as we obtain the unit for assessment.
TCL is elevating the worth for the Key2 and it now prices proper about the identical because the OnePlus 6 which options a lot greater specs. Nevertheless, the Key2 has an incredible keyboard that you simply simply do not get on some other Android cellphone.
Granted that there aren’t many searching for a bodily keyboard anymore, people who nonetheless like that can discover the Key2 to be an incredible cellphone that has much more to supply that the typing expertise they crave.


Baby pilot whale dies at Halifax-area beach despite efforts of rescuers
Female whale discovered stranded Saturday at Rainbow Haven Beach
A baby female pilot whale that was found stranded over the weekend at a beach east of Halifax didn't survive, despite the best efforts of rescuers from a marine animal conservation group.
Tonya Wimmer, the executive director of Marine Animal Response Society, said they got a call around 10 a.m. on Saturday that a whale had been stranded at Rainbow Haven Beach and someone had pushed it back into the water.
Responders swept the area and found the whale on a nearby inaccessible sand bank. Wimmer said it managed to extricate itself from the sand bank and made its way to the back of a salt marsh.
"It was quite calm where she was, but we still had to figure out how to get her all the way back out, especially with a fairly rapidly dropping tide," Wimmer said.
She said the Department of Lands and Forestry transported the rescuers to the salt marsh and two people from the community volunteered their boat to help get the whale back to the ocean.
Wimmer said once they got to the scene, their first mission was to stabilize the animal and to ensure it was in deep enough water. After stabilizing and calming the whale, the MARS team used whale rescue pontoons to refloat the animal.
The whale was taken back to the beach where the plan was to release it in deeper waters — but nature was not co-operating with the rescue effort.
"The surf there was just so strong and we thought that we couldn't even get her past the break," Wimmer said. "We got her as far as we could, we were able to release her, but the unfortunate thing was she came back to shore."
The whale did not make it through the night.
According to Wimmer, the whale had already been released three times at that point and that wasn't a good sign for the condition of the animal.
She said a post-mortem examination of the whale revealed that while it was not a newborn, it was likely still feeding off its mother and probably had little chance of survival in the wild.
Wimmer said pandemic restrictions also hurt the rescue efforts.
"We are still limited by having a small group because obviously we are also trying to follow all the gathering restrictions and whatnot because of it," she said.
Wimmer said there could be any number of reasons the whale became stranded, and it may have simply wandered away from its pod to explore before getting lost.
Wimmer said she is grateful for all the volunteers who helped and is urging anyone who comes across a dead marine animal or one in distress to contact the Marine Animal Response Society.


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everything4writers: Cultural Heritage Below the Water Line - OIC Moments The cultural iceberg - worthwhile reading, with examples from Western society versus Native Americans. Either as reference, or for consideration when world building and designing a new culture. Many storytellers do a great job of depicting the surface part of culture, but miss all the subtlety of deep culture.
Career Happiness Index 2012 #infographic - insights into what people in the UK consider to be the most important factors contributing to their happiness at work. Of those surveyed, gardeners & florists topped the list of happiest workers, followed by hairdressers & plumbers. Meanwhile, bankers, IT professionals & #HR workers are the least happy.

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The supermarket can be a dieter’s best friend or a garden of temptation. The way you shop and the foods you select make a big difference in how your shopping experience will turn out, making or breaking your health. But you can still definitely use grocery shopping for weight loss by following some of the tips below:
Grocery Shopping Techniques to Help You Lose Weight
*Healthy Grocery Shopping TipsGrocery Shopping Tips for Healthy Eating:
Change the Way You Shop for Groceries:
Everything looks good to eat (no matter how unhealthy) when you’re starving. Shopping on a full stomach makes it easier to resist tearing into a box of cookies or a bag of chips on the drive home.
2. Wear fitted clothing.
If your will power needs some reinforcement, wear clothes that make you conscious of your body. All kinds of changes can sneak up on you if you spend your life in comfy sweat pants with an elastic and expandable waist.
3. Plan weekly menus.
If healthy eating is still less than automatic for you, planning menus in advance can give you the structure you need. It will help suggest what you really need to buy and what you’re better off skipping.
4. Make a list.
Having a list to refer to will help you remember to get the essentials only for keeping your kitchen stocked. As long as most of your purchases are sensible, you can add 1 special treat to your cart and still feel successful.
5. Read the labels.
Hidden fats and sugar lurk in many products. Read the label to see if the ingredients live up to the claims on the front. Never go just by the claims on the front of the package. Even better, see #7 below and avoid packaged foods as much as possible.
6. Try something new.
Variety will help you enjoy food more, even if you’re eating less. Experiment with exotic produce. Indulge in the tutti-frutti flavor of cherimoya. Roast a chayote squash or grate it over a salad.
7. Shop the perimeter.
The highest quality foods tend to be found around the outer rim and not in packages. That’s where you’ll find fresh foods that are less processed. Only visit the inner aisles for specific items on your list and you’ll bypass most of the empty calories.
8. Beware of the checkout line.
The checkout line bombards you with impulse options. Check your phone messages or read the magazine covers instead to elude the junk foods currently on sale.
Change the Foods You Select:
1. Fill up on produce.
Devote most of your cart to vegetables and some fruits. Buying them in a variety of colors is simple way to ensure balanced nutrition.
2. Look for pastured meats.
Pastured, free-range, and grass-fed meats are high in nutrition and light years healthier than conventional forms of meat.
Ditto on pastured eggs.
3. Buy more fish.
Aim for at least 2 servings of wild fish a week. Many recipes you can find online are fast and easy.
4. Avoid low-fat or nonfat dairy products.
Any products where the naturally occurring fat has been removed or reduced are going to have more sugar and not be good for your diet.
Eating low-fat and non-fat is an old school philosophy proven wrong by science. Our bodies need fat to sustain and function optimally. Eating healthy fats does not make you fat. The fats to avoid, however, are hydrogenated fats and industrial seed and vegetable oils (canola, soy, corn, etc.)
Olive oil and coconut oil are great fats to incorporate into your diet.
5. Limit processed foods.
You could be paying a high price for convenience food. In addition to the higher price tag, frozen dinners and commercial crackers often contain trans fats and mysterious chemicals with little to no nutritional value.
Learn to navigate the supermarket wisely each time you shop. Enjoy your grocery shopping and bring home nutrient-dense foods that you and your family will love. The bonus is that it will help keep your weight off!

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Life etches itself onto our faces as we grow older, showing our violence, excesses or kindnesses.
Practice what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know.
A painting is finished when the artist says it is finished.
Without atmosphere a painting is nothing.
An honest man always values earning honor over wealth.
Choose only one master - Nature.
Try to put well in practice what you already know; and in so doing, you will in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about. Practice what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know.
Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.
Old age is a hindrance to creativity but cannot crush my youthful spirit.
Of course you will say that I ought to be practical and ought to try and paint the way they want me to paint. Well, I will tell you a secret. I have tried and I have tried very hard, but I can't do it. I just can't do it! And that is why I am just a little crazy.
A work is finished when an artist realizes his intentions.
A painting is complete when it has the shadows of a god.
I can't paint the way they want me to paint and they know that too.
Sincerity is the eventual deception of all great men.
A painting is not made to be sniffed.
I envy the poet. He is encouraged toward drunkenness and wallows with nubile wenches while the painter must endure wretchedness and pain for his art.
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Frequent lack of translation of antigen presentation-associated molecules MHC class I, CD1a and Beta(2)-microglobulin in Reed-Sternberg cellsvan den Berg, A., Visser, L., Eberwine, J., Dadvand, L. & Poppema, S., 15-May-2000, In : International Journal of Cancer. 86, 4, p. 548-552 5 p.
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Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is present in Reed-Sternberg (RS) cells of a substantial proportion of Hodgkin's lymphoma cases. Most EBV-positive cases are also MHC class I-positive, whereas the majority of EBV-negative cases lack detectable levels of MHC class I expression. Application of the SAGE technique has led to the identification of tags corresponding to MHC class I and beta(2)-microglobulin genes in the EBV- and MHC class I-negative L428 Hodgkin's cell line. Further expression studies indicated that single RS cells that do not express HLA class I also lack beta(2)-microglobulins but frequently contain mRNA coding for these proteins. Another tag was identified corresponding to CD1a, a thymocyte and Langerhans cell antigen structurally related to the MHC class I genes. CD1a expression studies revealed mRNA in all cell lines and in several of the single cells, whereas immunostaining showed a cytoplasmic signal in only 2 of the 4 cell lines and in none of the Hodgkin's lymphoma tissue samples. In conclusion, RS cells frequently lack MHC class I, beta(2)-microglobulin and CD1a protein expression but contain mRNA coding for these proteins in some of the RS cells, suggesting a common mechanism affecting the translation of these antigen presentation-associated molecules. Int. J. Cancer 86:548-552, 2000. (C) 2000 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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|Publication status||Published - 15-May-2000|
- Antigen Presentation, Antigens, CD1, Histocompatibility Antigens Class I, Humans, Immunohistochemistry, Protein Biosynthesis, Reed-Sternberg Cells, Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, Tumor Cells, Cultured, beta 2-Microglobulin

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Hyper-Personal: Holly Herndon Interviewed
, May 18th, 2015 08:40
As Holly Herndon releases her second album proper, Platform, Christian Eede speaks to her about drawing on personal experiences and why collaboration is important to offering an optimistic alternative to cynicism. All photographs by Al Overdrive
“First, I systematically tried all 1,000 combinations of the lock,” Holly Herndon tells me, referring to her suitcase mishap upon arriving in London a couple of days before our conversation, amusingly recounting a member of hotel staff opening the lock in seconds, only after she had entered every possible three-digit combinations. We are meeting to discuss her second full-length album proper, Platform, and her first with 4AD, having previously worked alongside Brooklyn-based RVNG INTL - the record is a shared release between the two, Herndon keen to build relationships. “A lot of artists might start out on a smaller, more independent label and then say ‘see you later’, but that’s not how I like to work,” she says. She views this move as a chance to extend her reach and that of Platform as just that, a platform.
Assembling an extensive team of collaborators, Herndon presents Platform as both a vehicle for her and a number of creatives, whose works and theories she has heavily invested her time and work in, to ask questions, politically and socially. Embracing the concept of ASMR (autonomous sensory meridian response), the pleasurable tingling sensation that may arise in response to certain stimuli, ‘Lonely At The Top’ questions the motivations of the financially and socially privileged, the narration of Berlin-based ASMR-tist Claire Tolan plunging the listener into the sterile climes of a spa treatment as she repeatedly assures her unheard client “you really deserve it, you work so hard.” Working alongside duo Amnesia Scanner, as well as theorist Suhail Malik, on ‘An Exit’, Herndon poses that “when there is nothing to gain, there is nothing to lose.” Artist Spencer Longo (who operates under the @chinesewifi Twitter account) wrote the text for ‘Locker Leak’, which sees Herndon reeling off self-help quotes and various spoken word iterations (“Be the first of your friends to like Greek Yogurt this summer”, “Add it to your Bucket List”), products of an industry that increasingly disguises self-gain and profit in ethical marketing campaigns around self-improvement, mentally and physically.
The album’s title itself derives from strategist Benedict Singleton’s platform dynamics theory, which, as Singleton outlines here, presents a collective effort “to get out of the present, not lock down the future.” As Herndon tells me, Platform is an opportunity for not just her but “other people to communicate and share ideas” too, and bringing together this cast of minds is therefore a natural move to take. “If I’m talking about us as a society and communicating collaboratively, the first step to doing that should be through my own practice.”
Talk of conceptual theory can often garner accusations of pretension and disconnection, a problem that Herndon says she faced in the critical response to 2012’s Movement, but, importantly, Platform also sees Herndon bathing every concept in arresting, silky melodies, created with the level of detail that those familiar with her work have come to expect. Choral harmonies figure throughout, the somewhat angelic vocal of collaborator Colin Self forming a particularly striking accompaniment to Herndon’s manipulations on ‘Unequal'. “We have to believe that we can actually make it better,” she tells me. With Platform, Herndon is offering an opportunity to address particular problems - inequality and government surveillance (on the NSA-based ‘Home’) to take two examples - and, above all, thanks to the coming together of her collaborators and their theories, as well as the backgrounds from which those ideas have been sourced, offering an optimistic channel by which people can put forward solutions, collectively, via the platform that she has.
Taking the idea that you often put forward of your laptop as a central instrument, there’s a pervasive view often presented by a certain old guard of media that we apparently don’t have real, face-to-face conversations anymore, and that technology is harming real life interaction. Do you think, through your work, and what you produce using technology, you’re pushing against that idea somewhat?
Holly Herndon: I think our society likes to talk about technology in really black and white terms, so things are simply defined as positive or negative. That doesn’t solve any problems and I think it can be anti-intellectual. So with my work, I like to ‘complexify’ issues a little bit and show that certain concepts are not just simply good or bad. With a track like ‘Home’ it’s obviously very critical of the NSA and aspects of technology in my life and people have been like, ‘So, does that mean you don’t like your laptop anymore?’ My response is always, ‘No, that’s not what that means.' It means that I can still have a love and appreciation of that as a tool but you can always still be critical of it.
Following on from ‘Home’ and its subject matter of the NSA revelations, do you think that confirmation that governments were snooping on us affected your work on the rest of Platform?
HH: I think it seeped in in very subtle ways because I was using Mat [Dryhurst’s] ‘net-concrete’ concepts, but also taking parts of field recordings that I had gathered from all kinds of different places. I had never really done that before in terms of using field recordings, so I started integrating various domestic sounds a little more. So that idea of everything being public started to push through in a very subtle way.
When it comes to sampling and going through all of the recordings you collect via your use of ‘net-concrete’, do you find it can be a laborious process in terms of picking out what is suitable for use?
HH: It can be. I think that, sometimes, one of the hardest things can be just getting started on actually making a project, so I like having a process that will generate those beginnings, that you can listen through, audition it and decide what works and how it will work. So yes, sometimes, there are just volumes of samples to work through and filter out sounds, but that is one of the parts I most like doing in a studio. It’s very cathartic to listen through it all and hit upon something and say, ‘Oh, that.'
So it’s not tedious in any way to you?
HH: It’s super tedious, but I think most electronic musicians enjoy some level of tedium [laughs].
Do you think you could identify a particular reason for that?
HH: I think it’s that level of catharsis in a studio. It’s one of those ‘love-hate’ concepts, the detail work, the moving of the hit a couple of milliseconds forward and then listening to that loop over and over - it’s part of producing.
Having read a lot of interviews with you in the past, a general focus tends to be mostly on the technological aspect of your work. Do you feel that there’s a more personal level that you would like to be discussed in more detail?
HH: For this album?
I think generally, including CAR and Movement as well, for example.
HH: I think that’s actually a shift that has been happening more with this album. I think it’s more overtly ‘emotional’. That’s one criticism that people had towards Movement, that it was apparently so technically precise that it had no soul or something, which was really funny because that was actually a really personal record and had a lot of ‘soul’ or whatever.
The music industry tends to work with nostalgia and archetypes, especially in terms of emotionality. We’re supposed to understand that this certain vocal inflection means I’m really feeling it right now. For me, I know that is designed to trigger that, so it’s not a particularly emotional concept for me to take on because it’s not actually coming from anywhere - it seems to be more lifted from somewhere else culturally. So I’m trying to find what emotionality is with these tools and also what I can gain from various online relationships. For new relationships and a new paradigm that we’re living under in 2015, we need new modes of expression, so I try not to rely on established or traditional ideas. People who might be used to that seem to read into it as me not being personal or expressive when there’s actually a lot of that in there.
Would you say, speaking rather generally, too many people are still set, both musically and technologically, in certain ideas of orthodoxy?
HH: In music, I think so, definitely. Music can be quite conservative and then in club environments, there are so many references of orthodoxy that we can speak about in the club. One example is when it comes to the tools that you use and the looking down upon of laptops, so it’s considered authentic to use old-school forms of hardware, but it’s also expensive to do that. An original 808 is thousands of pounds and I don’t like the idea of authenticity having a price tag like that. I think that’s fucked up.
And it also, of course, makes music production and sharing the reserve of the privileged.
HH: Sure, as if that wasn’t the case already. That makes it even more dangerous, so I don’t like authenticity being tied to how we present music. That word ‘authenticity’, I wonder what it even means anymore. I feel quite uncomfortable saying it, but people often try to tie it into concepts like that.
Reading a recent interview where you referred to your religious upbringing in Tennessee, you said that it’s deeply personal to you and hard to talk about for that reason. How are you drawing out what’s personal to you on Platform in terms of your own experiences?
HH: I think it’s a very personal record. Religion and spirituality isn’t a particularly large part of my life. It’s such a weighted topic for some people but it’s not something I spend a lot of my time thinking about. It comes down to me feeling that I don’t really have anything to add to that conversation so I try not to delve into it. My parents are extremely religious and I was raised going to church about three times a week. That was one of the questions I was asked at the RBMA talk about whether I was spiritual and I was like, ‘Argh, why did you ask that?’ [Laughs] For some reason, it’s just not something I like to go into, not that I’m trying to hide anything.
Talking about Platform then, where and how do you think those personal elements are drawn out sonically?
HH: Those domestic sounds I incorporated across the album and my work with Metahaven too. They often use the slogan that ‘the personal is the political’ which is a term that I really like, so I tried to include a lot of personal sounds with that in mind. There’s also a part from recorded Skype conversations between myself and my partner Mat where I’m laughing really hard and sound like a weird animal, so I used that in a song. There are a few really personal and domestic moments like that, but they’re not necessarily overtly like, ‘Here’s a private conversation between myself and my partner.' It doesn’t have to hit people over the head. I feel like the whole palette is hyper-personal and made from my browsing, the sounds around me, my body and those of my collaborators.
There’s very little actual synthesis, so there are some synthesisers and drum machines, but it’s mostly really personal sounds. The content as well, like ‘Morning Sun’ is a love song. The lyrics are about having to leave my partner all the time and go on tour and I just sat down and wrote that in about five minutes without even intending to make it to be released. I played it to Mat and he was like, ‘No, this is a great song’ and at first, my reaction was, ‘No, this is so silly’ [laughs].
Listening to Platform, I guess ‘Morning Sun’ is one of the moments that would be picked out as most accessible or ‘pop’ to take a broad term, but do you find putting those kinds of descriptors on art can be problematic regarding the possibility of restricting how we think about and enjoy music?
HH: It can be, and I think it’s something that’s heavily tied in with the economics of the music industry which I’m sure will all dramatically change soon, like we’re all into wax, which seems insane.
The physical format is something that you addressed, of course, in your RBMA talk in Tokyo, regarding the loss of instancy.
HH: It always pisses people off where they’ll say, ‘What? You don’t collect vinyl?’ I move around a lot, so it makes no sense. The whole process of sharing music, the physical format makes it a lot longer. I finished the record in September and we’re talking about it now. Television, for example, is so much more instant, where something might happen politically and then South Park will have a cartoon addressing it the next week, so it’s immediate and fresh in people’s minds. It’s sometimes frustrating to have to wait so long for people to hear something. You can be immediate if you put it on Soundcloud or whatever, but then the media doesn’t take it as seriously. Everything seems to revolve around the physicality.
There’s always a constant drive as well for what people horribly refer to as ‘content’.
HH: Yeah, it all has value to people in different ways. It holds value to the media outlets that are trying to sell clicks and advertising with their banners. Then there’s the value to the ‘consumers’ which is a horrible term that people use to refer to fans who are enjoying what you produce, and enjoy it for a lot longer than the one day it’s on the cover of whatever magazine. That’s what matters more. I still have people that will tweet me about how they just listened to a track from Movement and say it made them feel a certain way, so people are always discovering things.
In terms of releasing though, I’d love to have a way to finish something, have it mastered and then not have to wait eight months because it’s just a very long time. One of the most interesting things about vinyl is that the most profitable releases are generally reissues which is quite depressing and comes at the expense of supporting new, young artists. There’ll be a Led Zeppelin reissue, but Robert Plant’s fine. He doesn’t need anymore of that kind of support.
Coming back to your work with Metahaven and that slogan of ‘the personal is the political’, I spoke to Jam City recently about similar ideas based around optimism and I noticed you commented on his work, via Twitter, saying that, ‘The most important thing you can do in 2015 is believe in something.' I found that very interesting and, personally, wonder whether cynicism is getting in the way of active change. Do you think we’re a generation that’s too caught up in cynicism?
HH: Cynicism, sarcasm and mockery are the main ways in which we seem to deal with the shit storm that has been delivered to us, economically and politically speaking. In the US, socially speaking, there are obviously huge racial issues being addressed, particularly around police behaviour. It’s tough to see, culturally, the response be so cynical. It doesn’t particularly solve anything to be cynical. It doesn’t change a situation to just mock it, so if we want situations to be better, we have to learn how to communicate better. We have to believe that we can actually make it better. Also, I think it’s part of our responsibility as artists to present what we want that future to look like. We can’t just say ‘this sucks, I don’t like this’. What is your dream? What do you want? Be creative because that’s why you do what you do.
It’s the same with technology where it’s so much easier to just criticise it in a very simple way, but to actually deal with the situation and isolate what is good or bad is more positive. People should take their role seriously as being able to present new ideas or champion other people with those ideas. I think what Jam City’s doing is awesome, because it’s finally someone actively speaking out rather than some mysterious, brooding guy being all shadowy. I think that offers a new paradigm or archetype for other people to step out like that and for their fans to take on these ideas too and be positive.
How are you looking at incorporating Platform into live settings?
HH: That’s something that’s quite TBA right now. I have to grow it incrementally but what I would like to do, scaling it according to the venue, is use Platform as a platform, in some instances, for other people, that were involved in the record or inspired the record, to share their work and their ideas. We’re experimenting with that here and there, so we’re going to be performing with Metahaven, for example, in Berlin, as well as Amnesia Scanner and Claire [Tolan]. I like the idea of inviting theorists to do something at a show as well, like Suhail [Malik] who is a regular reference point for me, but it’s just figuring out how to make that work and not be didactic.
Do you try to be specific about what kinds of live environments you play in?
HH: To an extent. If you get too picky, then you start to restrict yourself on where you play and who you reach. I like to be flexible and use different venues in different ways. I haven’t played many outdoor festivals, so that could be a new, interesting thing for me to take on.
Recalling your show at Wysing Arts Centre last year where you were backed by visuals displaying social media profiles of different people in the audience, was there an element to that project of trying to make people feel uncomfortable?
HH: [Laughs] Everything has been thought out of course. We wanted to flip the dynamic and make the audience part of the show, but also, like ‘Home’, show how much personal information is on public display. Mat was really careful to not click on an embarrassing shot of somebody, so it’s definitely not about making people feel shitty, but rather just thinking about how accessible we are online, post-NSA. Mat does a lot or work around artists’ rights and privacy in his own practice and he recently released some software called SAGA and it’s a continuation of that theme.
Focusing on some specific tracks on Platform, I was quite intrigued by some of the spoken world elements on tracks like ‘Locker Leak’ and ‘Lonely At The Top’. Taking the latter particularly, what was the idea behind that track?
HH: ASMR (autonomous sensory meridian response) is a really interesting community that I was drawn to because, like we were saying before, there are so many over-simplified viewpoints on technology and people saying that we aren’t connecting anymore, but with ASMR, there are these strangers online connecting through YouTube videos acting as a nice counterpoint to those simplistic arguments. I met an ASMR-tist, Claire [Tolan], in Berlin, who has a radio show there [on Berlin Community Radio], and I really wanted to work with her. She recorded it, we wrote the text together and then we edited it together too. ASMR is quite therapeutic - I’m really sensitive to acrylic fingernails on smartphones - and you can watch various YouTube videos which will help you to identify something that you might be sensitive to. Since it’s quite therapeutic, we thought it would be funny to flick the switch a little and write something critical about the ‘1%’ and how, if you’re a very wealthy person, you might feel that you really deserve these good feelings like they’re a birthright. There was an article I read about the theory of the ‘tragedy of the commons’ where there is a psychological term for wealthy people believing this because you kind of have to convince yourself in order to believe you should have something. It’s often people in that kind of position that can make changes towards the system, so they have to convince themselves it makes sense. Otherwise, they should do something about it because they’re in a position to, so that was our dig against those people.
One of the most interesting aspects for me is how you only hear that one person’s voice and not the voice of the wealthy person being spoken to.
HH: That was really difficult to write and record because we were describing a person that you never hear. That was a fun challenge and Claire is awesome. She works for an NGO in Berlin that’s called Tactical Tech where they help educate people on privacy issues, and she’s also working to build an archive for content that is too difficult for YouTube but captures war crimes. It would be taken down from YouTube because it’s too graphic so she’s helping to build an archive for that material so it can be retraced and people responsible for crimes can be traced. Working with people who have such multi-faceted skills and ideas is really important to me.
Honing in on the technique of ‘Musique Concrète’, and how seminal it is to your work, what do you appreciate about that form of production?
H: That’s something that came out of my use of sampling and Mat’s ‘net concrete’ system which is very much related in terms of jamming sounds together, while also wanting to bring in the sounds of my environment more, including the messiness. I really like that messiness you can get with sampling. It sounds more earthy and I appreciate the idea around DIY technology and the aesthetics around that. I think when people imagine the future, they seem to imagine this sterilised lifestyle, but I don’t think nature or dirt and that messy imperfection has to go away.
Platform is out now, via 4AD and RVNG INTL. Holly Herndon plays London’s XOYO on June 10 and Birmingham’s Supersonic Festival on June 12


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Unleash the Mother in You
We are all mothers.
Woman or man, old or young, the qualities that we associate with being a mom are innate aspects of our humanity. Often times, they lay buried, and it is a matter of stoking the maternal flames to bring out the nurturing part of the self.
Let’s get radical: being a mother is not about having children. In fact let’s disassociate parenting from the word entirely. What being a mother means is expressing compassion, acceptance, nurturing, and unconditional love. It is often easier to support others in this way, but the question is, are we able to mother ourselves?
As we get older and become unattached from our parents, the responsibility falls on us to mother ourselves. We must show up for ourselves as our greatest advocates of healthy and happy mind, body, and soul. To care for ourselves as if we were our own child. With such an all encompassing love present, there would be no room for self-criticism, doubt, or the negative mind chatter.
In order to best be able to give ourselves to others, as mothers so selflessly do, it is vital that we take care of ourselves. Turn selflessness inward. Make room for cultivating a healthy and happy self, for then you can more readily give yourself to others. In fact, the most selfless thing you can do is to first and foremost be the best mother that you can to your self.
For the rest of this mother-month, make active practice of showering yourself with your own maternal love. No matter how old you are and whether you have experienced being a parent or not, you are capable of supporting, honoring, and loving yourself. You are all you need and how incredible you are!
We honor the light that is within you, mother.
Visualize your maternal self.
Close your eyes and call to mind your five year old self. What does she/he look like? What are they wearing? Are they smiling? Laughing? Crying? Take a good look at the little you in your mind. Imagine her there, look her in the eye and hold her there. Breathe into this little darling. The pure innocence and unabashed joy of you standing before you is still very much a part of you now. It is this self that you must continually embrace, guide, nurture, accept, and yes, love unequivocally.
When you find yourself thinking, speaking, and acting in a way that does not serve you or this version of yourself, gently and with compassion guide yourself back on track in the same gentle way you would lead this little you.
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More and more people today are adopting a vegan lifestyle. It feels like everywhere you look, someone just turned vegan. There are also many celebrities who have chosen to be vegans like Joaquin Phoenix. After winning the Oscar for the movie Joker, he admirably took his few moments up on stage to give his voice to the movement and gave a profound speech about it.
Joaquin has been a vegan since the age of three, and actively participates in protests advocating animal rights. He obviously feels strongly regarding the rights of animals. But what exactly is the vegan lifestyle, and how can it benefit you?


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Investors in the lender market funded more than €13m (£11m) in loans last month, a third more than in May 2021.
The Dublin-based peer-to-peer lending marketplace, which connects retail and institutional investors to consumer loans issued by European originators, said it added 25,831 new loans to the platform last month.
He also said his investors made €347,645 in returns in May.
Read more: Mintos Launches Regulated Notes
Lendermarket has accumulated more than 250 million euros in loans in the past six months, according to a blog post on its website, and attracted more than 9,000 investors.
The market currently lists loans from originators in various European countries, including Poland, Spain, and Estonia.
Lendermarket will have to compete with a growing number of alternative lending markets, which offer investors diversification across asset classes and countries.
Mintos is one of Europe’s best-known lending marketplaces, while Estonia-based Income launched in February 2021.
Last month, Income founder Kimmo Rytkönen said News Peer2Peer Finance that its long-term objective is to bring the loan portfolio of the market place to 450 million euros.
Read more: Revenue approaches crowdfunding goal just days after launch


A handful of penalties issued by British Columbia’s cannabis enforcement squad have been made public so far, totalling more than $1.4 million to pot shops operating without a licence.
Since it began enforcing cannabis laws, the province’s Community Safety Unit has seized nearly $25 million in cannabis from illicit sellers, and issued 39 notices of administrative monetary penalties, according to the province.
Five notices have been made public, with penalties ranging from more than $12,000 to nearly $800,000. While the public notices have been published in recent months, the orders were issued in 2019.
In each instance, those accused have signed a waiver, admitting to the violation in the notice of administrative monetary penalty and agreeing to pay the penalty that’s equal to the retail value of cannabis sold, possessed to sell or produced in contravention to cannabis laws.
In the latest order issued, dated Nov. 18, Vancouver-based the Herb Co. was given a fine of $156,785 for selling cannabis without a retail store licence for about five months in 2019.
Four other places were penalized for the same reason:
- A Kamloops store that has been known as Da Kine Weed Glass and Gift, Weeds Glass and Gifts, Weeds and Boomer’s Bud, agreed to pay $65,716;
- 99 North Enterprises Ltd., in Squamish, agreed to pay $444,027;
- Ocean Grown Medicinal Society, in Victoria, agreed to pay $12,042; and
- Trees of Eden Island Grown, in Victoria, accepted the highest penalty so far of $771,558.
99 North now operates with a licence in Squamish.
If a person doesn’t sign the waiver in response to the NAMP, an administrative hearing is held and a compliance order could be issued, which imposes a penalty that’s worth double the retail value of cannabis sold, possessed to sell or produced in contravention to cannabis laws.
The province has told Mugglehead the orders are generally posted following the conclusion of proceedings. The first ones were published in August.
Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth has said the CSU has moved beyond an educational approach, and is focused on enforcing cannabis laws.
When speaking about illicit enforcement in July, Farnworth indicated the number of illegal stores has been dropping in the years since legalization. In the summer, he estimated there are between 50 and 75 illegal storefronts, down from roughly 300–400 before weed was legalized for recreational use in 2018.
B.C. currently has around 360 licensed pot shops.


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Item description for Implementing the Convention on the Rights of the Child:Resource Mobilization in Low-Income Countries by James Himes...
This book considers one of the main umbrella articles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child: Article 4, dealing with the concept of the obligations of the States Parties to meet their commitments `to the maximum extent of their available resources and, where needed, within the framework of international cooperation'. The importance is emphasized of a broad interpretation of societal `resources', going well beyond the severely limited finances of governments in most developing countries and extending both to the international (official and non-governmental) levels and to the expanding civil societies of these nations. `Resources' are broadly defined to include human, technological, cultural and organizational capabilities as well as conventional economic resources. The thematic chapters give many examples of how such `resources' can be effectively mobilized for children, including the areas of education, health, nutrition and child labour.
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Earthborn Holistic® Monterey Medley™ canned Skipjack Tuna and Grilled Mackerel Dinner is an excellent source of high quality protein. This grain-free dinner also includes nutritious potatoes as an exceptional source of vitamins and minerals and beta-carotene which help your cat's immune system. The skipjack tuna and mackerel are wild caught and dolphin safe. The fleshy cuts of fish are flaked straight from the bone and sure to please your finicky cat.
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