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A study of yoga in anemic patients.
Anemia is a common clinical condition affecting all age groups. It is a mild condition that can be appropriately cured but if ignored can lead to fatal condition including heart failure and death. The prominent clinical diagnostic feature of anemia is pallor of skin and palpebral conjunctiva. The decrease in red blood cell (RBC) counts leads to a decrease in the viscosity of blood, while a decrease in hemoglobin causes decrease in oxygen transport to tissues, leading to tissue hypoxia. Tissue hypoxia leads to decrease in peripheral resistance and compensation by increased cardiac output. Under resting conditions, it hardly produces any affect, but during exercise, heart is unable to supply adequate oxygen to the tissues because it is already pumping at increased strength; hence, severe tissue hypoxia and ischemia result.
Medications and injectables are available for curing anemia but some people have poor compliance to hematinics. Some synergistic therapy must be added to drugs to improve the compliance of drugs and accelerate the improvement in anemia or prevent anemia in healthy individuals.
Yoga is a treasure of physical and mental techniques, which can be effectively used to create physical and mental well-being. With limited information of yoga on RBC count and hemoglobin, this study was conducted on the effect of yoga on hematological parameters in anemic subjects.
Materials and Methods
This study was conducted on 100 anemic subjects, of which 50 were men and 50 women in the age group of 25-40 years. The subjects were selected among anemic patients attending health clinic and among family members, neighbors, friends, and colleagues.
The subjects practiced yoga in the morning between 6 and 7 am in a yoga center in Jammu for treatment. The subjects were investigated for various hematological parameters such as hemoglobin (Hb), RBC counts, while blood cell (WBC) counts, and platelet counts before and after 2 months of yoga exercises.
The hematological parameters were analyzed before and after 2 months of yoga with the help of hemogram by automated cell counter SF-3000.
The blood sample was withdrawn under all aseptic conditions at 8 a.m. before the starting of yoga and analyzed by automated analyzer. The blood sample was again withdrawn after 2 months of yoga and analyzed.
Yoga program involved the follwing:
1. Breathing exercises
(a) Pranayama: It is the science of proper breathing. It involves slow and deep breath held momentarily in full inspiration within the limits of comfort and slow, and spontaneous exhalation held within the limits of comfort.
(b) Anuloma viloma: It is the alternate nostril breathing with breath held to the count of 16 in Vishnu mudra.
(c) Kapal bharti: It detoxifies the body of toxins and purifies the blood. It involves short breath with forceful expulsion of breath by contracting the abdomen for 10 min.
(d) Ujjayi pranayama: It is loud breathing with closed glottis.
(e) Suryabhedi pranayama: It involves slow and deep inhalation through right nostril and exhalation through left nostril with right nostril closed in padmasana.
2. Asanas: Adoption and maintenance of particular posture of body for a set period of time, which is both steady and comparable. The various asanas practiced were trikonasana, sarvangasana, paschimottanasana, and uttanpadasana.
3. Deep relaxation: It allows the body to absorb all the benefits of asanas and breathing exercises. It begins by lying down on back with palms up and legs spread one to two feet apart. It encourages the release of physical tension and mental stress.
The data were analyzed by unpaired t test, and p < 0.05 was considered significant. Table 1 depicts the changes in hematological parameters of the anemic male and female subjects after 2 months of yoga exercises. In both men and women, the mean value of Hb and RBC count increased after yoga, and the change was statistically highly significant. The mean value of WBC counts decreased after yoga, and the change was again statistically significant. However, although there is an increase in the mean value of platelet counts of in anemic male and female subjects, but the change was statistically insignificant.
Anemia is a considered to be a condition characterized by lack of blood. But medically, anemia can be referred as a condition when the iron content or hemoglobin of blood decreases below the normal level. People with anemia report feelings of fatigue, weakness, general malaise, lack of concentration, and dyspnea on exertion.
Decrease in hemoglobin content of RBC leads to decrease in oxygen carrying capacity of blood, which is compensated by increase in the cardiac output. But during exercise or strenuous work, the heart is unable to pump adequate blood and anemic patients have symptoms related to this condition such as dyspnea, palpitation, and angina.
This study demonstrated increase in Hb content, RBC, and platelet counts but decrease in WBC counts after yoga practice.
Our study is analogous to study conducted by Purohit et al.  who reported increase in platelet counts. A similar study was carried out by Chohan et al.,  which supports our study on the effect of yoga on platelet counts.
Our study correlates with the study conducted by Sharma et al.,  who also reported improvement in hemoglobin counts and WBC counts after yoga.
A similar study by Mehmot  reported improvement in hemotological parameters after yoga. The increase in RBC counts and platelet counts can be emphasized by the hypoxia induced during yoga, which leads to erythropoiesis and thrombopoiesis.
Yoga is a holistic mind-body intervention aimed at physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Yoga begins by working with body on a structural level. The yogic practices stimulate and balance all systems of the body resulting in mental clarity, emotional stability, and a sense of overall well-being.
Only a month of yoga practice causes sense of body-mind equilibrium, feeling of energetic light heartedness, feeling of relaxation, and dissolve emotional blanks, which can obstruct flow of vital energy within the body. Breathing exercises increase the flow of vital energy to various organs in our body and strengthen the voluntary and autonomic nervous system.
Yoga asanas cover the entire human anatomy from top of the head to the tips of toes, correct the systemic irregularities, and maintain the entire physiology in peak condition.
Deep relaxation techniques help to recoup the energy and absorb all the benefits of asanas and breathing exercises. Relaxation practices in yoga are different than sleeping when properly done and help to develop confidence and stabilize the minds awareness in a pool of deep tranquility and peace. Deep relaxation can become a powerful meditation practice.
A combination of asanas, breathing exercises, relaxation techniques, and meditation practiced for a month or more triggers neurohormonal mechanisms in the form of stable autonomic nervous system equilibrium with a tendency toward parasympathetic nervous system dominance. The relaxed state of mind during relaxation techniques and meditation contributes to the antistress and antioxidant effects of yoga resulting in the improvement in hemoglobin, RBC, and platelet counts with a decrease in WBC counts.
The strength of the study is that it is a short-term study conducted on both the sexes to comment on the health benefits of yoga on hematological parameters.
The study can be carried out exclusively on female subjects with a large sample size and for a longer period as they have less RBC count and more prone to anemia. Children also practice yoga as exercise in schools and sports club. So, the study should be extended to children to comment on the health benefits of yoga in children.
Yoga contributes to the preventive aspects of medical science. The improvement in hemotological parameters caused by yoga can benefit healthy individuals, anemic patients, and patients with dyshemopoiesis.
Yoga can be added to drug therapy to accelerate the improvement in hematological parameters in anemic patients and dyshemopoiesis. It can also prevent anemia in young healthy individuals who are predisposed to anemia as a result of acute hemorrhage, worms, excess menstruation, piles, and peptic ulcer.
This short-term study demonstrated that yoga therapy causes improvement in hematological parameters and helps efficiently in reducing the symptoms of anemia.
Yogic practice can affect the body from the cellular level and causes improvement in hematological parameters with least expenditure.
[1.] Purohit G, Mandpara S, Chawla VK, Harsooda JM. Cardioprotectant and antistress effect of yoga training and its co-relation with haematological parameters: prospective study of 47 young individuals. Sch J Appl Sci 2013;1(8):852-6.
[2.] Chohan IS, Nayer HS, Thomas P, Geetha NS. Influence of yoga on blood coagulation. Thromb Haemostat 1984;51(2):196-7.
[3.] Sharma KK, Prasada HT, Udayakumara K, Savitha B. A study on the effect of yoga therapy on anaemia in women. Eur Sci J 2015;21:1857-81.
[4.] Mehmot O. Benefits of yoga. Indian J Physiol Pharmacol 2003;4:46-8.
Neena Sharma, Ritu Gupta
Department of Physiology, Government Medical College, Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India
Correspondence to: Neena Sharma, E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.org
Received July 2, 2015. Accepted August 7, 2015
Table 1: Hematological parameters of anemic male and female subjects before and after 2 months yoga Parameters Before yoga, After yoga, mean [+ or -] SD mean [+ or -] SD Hb Male 9 [+ or -] 1.03 10 [+ or -] 1.03 Female 8.6 [+ or -] 0.77 9.51 [+ or -] 0.84 RBC counts Male 4.44 [+ or -] 0.29 4.99 [+ or -] 0.28 Female 3.64 [+ or -] 0.16 4.25 [+ or -] 0.76 WBC counts Male 8641.84 [+ or -] 1167.07 7420 [+ or -] 1074.61 Female 7196 [+ or -] 837.60 6670 [+ or -] 880.51 Platelet counts Male 1.89 [+ or -] 0.52 1.98 [+ or -] 0.50 Female 1.84 [+ or -] 0.27 1.89 [+ or -] 0.26 Parameters p Hb Male <0.0001 * Female <0.0001 * RBC counts Male <0.0001 * Female <0.0001 * WBC counts Male <0.0001 * Female 0.0004 * Platelet counts Male 0.3798 Female 0.3479 * Significant.
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Unfortunately, due to the very low output power restriction they have, the best type to look for is one where you can set your own frequency, rather than from a fixed selection. For example, the transmitter built in my GPS can be set to any frequency between 87.5MHz and 108.0MHz in 0.1MHz steps:
From my experience of using a handful, they are only effective when set on a frequency where you would just hear static. For example, if you live in an area where you hear a station anywhere you tune your radio dial to, then it’s unlikely any FM transmitter will get give a clear signal.
In our family car, we ended up replacing the radio with one that has a line-in, as the car had the FM aerial at the very back which meant that the FM transmitter had to be in the back seat for the aerial to pick it up properly.
Another thing you could try is moving the FM transmitter about the car to see where the best reception is, then run a headphone extension lead to the transmitter.


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May 30, 2023
Josh Stehle is an autism author, speaker, advocate, and leader from Philadelphia, PA. His debut book, I am a Superhero Expert, explores autism awareness from his perspective as the brother of Zach Stehle, an autistic young adult.
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Allen Wolf describes The Sound of Violet:
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Current Status on Truck, Bus, and Agricultural Vehicle Electronics in Nippondenso
ISSN: 0148-7191, e-ISSN: 2688-3627
Published October 20, 1986 by SAE International in United States
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In these years, requirements for application of electronic control to trucks, buses and agricultural vehicles are becoming stronger. This paper discusses current status of electronic products applicable to them in each of the following three control categories - Powertrain control, Vehicle control, and Body control. At present, production amount of these products is not large but production of them is expected to increase to more than dozen of current production within several years.
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CitationMizutani, S., Fujii, Y., and Ohtake, T., "Current Status on Truck, Bus, and Agricultural Vehicle Electronics in Nippondenso," SAE Technical Paper 861067, 1986, https://doi.org/10.4271/861067.
- Kawai M. Miyagi H. Nakano J. Kondo Y. “TOYOTA's New Microprocessor based Diesel Engine Control System for Passenger Cars” IEEE Oct. 1984
- Ullrich John F. Dohner Alan R. “Truck and Bus Electronics” SAE PAPER 820897 1982
- Riley Donald E. Onesti Robert J. “The Importance and Evolution of the Standardized Serial Data Link to the Truck OEM” SAE PAPER 852325 1985


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In previous posts, I have shared reflections regarding the distinction between rhetoric and reality, as it relates to community participation in decisions affecting residents of Ward 6 in Etobicoke.
The rhetoric is impressive, the reality less so; this is presumably the outcome of a political economy whose foundations were established many decades ago:
Comic relief in Ward 6
If you enjoy a little comic relief, the above noted overviews are great stories to follow. I would add, just to underline the point that I am making:
Along the Mississauga Waterfront there are no tall condos blocking the view of Lake Ontario, and to my knowledge there never will be; it’s not how things are done in Mississauga; the tall condos will be along the main arteries where they belong.
Along the Toronto Waterfront in Ward 6, if you have an opportunity to see Lake Ontario, through the wall of condos crowding the Waterfront, you warrant warm congratulations.
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November 18, 2015
Lake Shore Boulevard West Cycle Track
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Public Open House
The City of Toronto is planning a new 1.4km cycle track along Lake Shore Boulevard West, from Norris Crescent to First Street, in Etobicoke, Ward 6. The new cycle track will provide a safe connection for cyclists, and will close a gap in the Waterfront Trail. We invite you to attend a public open house to learn more about the proposed design, ask questions, and provide feedback.
Illustration of the proposed Lake Shore Boulevard West Cycle Track design.
Date: Tuesday, December 8, 2015
Time: Drop in anytime from 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Place: New Toronto Library, 110 Eleventh St.
A gap in the Waterfront Trail exists in Etobicoke between Norris Cres. and First St. where trail users must cycle along busy Lake Shore Blvd. W. To close this gap, the City is designing a cycle track.
Key features of the cycle track:
. Separated bi-directional/two-way cycle track on the south side of Lake Shore Blvd. W. between Norris Cres. and First St.
. A variety of barriers will be considered to separate the cycle track from vehicular lanes, including a low concrete wall, curbs, bollards, planters, and painted buffer zones
. Gaps in the barriers will be planned to provide access to residential and commercial driveways
. Ramp platform design at TTC stops will allow safe loading and unloading of passengers
. Removal of parking on south side of Lake Shore Blvd. W. between Norris Cres. and First St.
More project information, including a timeline, can be found online: www.toronto.ca/lakeshorecycle
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For Autism Awareness month, we will be hearing from Georgia, our marketing SEO assistant. She has offered to speak about her experience with autism in the work place to bring awareness and experience.
My autism story, diagnosis and history
My autism is a huge part of my life. It is always there and has such an effect on your life whether you like it or not. It’s not something that gets better with time or disappears, it’s with you for life. From my social life and relationships to my interests and hobby’s. Autism plays a part in everything, viewing the world in a way unfamiliar to the neurotypical eye. People like me may appear blunt, to the point and sometimes a bit harsh but really, we are just like anyone else. We feel deeply, we’re human.
But with villainization of autism and stigma around my disability I do struggle with my own set of challenges not only in my day to day life but in the work place and in professional settings.
For me, I was diagnosed very late. Receiving my official diagnosis in November 2018 at the age of 21. As shocking as this may seem, this is incredibly common especially in women. Because of this, it means many like myself struggle when adjusting into adult life after spending childhood and our teenage years masking and hiding our condition. ‘Masking’ is a term used as a subconscious coping tool in order to appear socially acceptable, meaning we learn behaviour from those around us not on the spectrum in order to be accepted. This is a very exhausting process and can lead to problems with identity or other mental health issues such as depression or anxiety. This also can cause misdiagnosis’s for young girls, meaning they aren’t treated correctly. Unfortunately, this was my story. Not getting my diagnosis until my first year of University.
Autism in the future and my worries
Leaving university, I was constantly surrounded by anxiety about how I would cope in the work place, fearful of my disability limiting my chances of having a ‘normal life’. Most work I have done has been really hard for several reasons. I have always been more academic along with always having had big aspirations and wanted to take part in a good career in order to give myself the advantage and prove I’m more than my condition when in the past people never wanted to give me the chance. I’ve worked in retail and catering as I think most teenagers with first time jobs do and really struggled. Finding each day exhausting and when I explain myself and why I’m struggling I’m deemed to be making excuses. Feeling misunderstood and ashamed because of it.
Covid had a huge effect on my wellbeing and I wondered how this would affect my life. I quit my previous job after coming off furlough and then being taken advantage of by the company I was working for at the time. Then going on Universal credit which at first, I was worried about feeling worried because of stereotypes and fearful about being seen as someone who isn’t trying when I have been constantly trying to good every day. But when kickstart was announced my universal credit coach was super supportive. Letting me know there was nothing wrong with me and she’d help me find somewhere that’ll embrace me for who I am and not discriminate against me. Stressing the importance of being in a job that was going to have a positive effect on me as a person.
That’s where I was discovered by White Lantern. Who when the moment I mentioned being autistic were immediately kind and wanted to know how they could help make my time at the work place a much more comfortable and pleasant experience? This really gave me security and I felt safe talking about my condition for the first time in a very long time. In my experience so far with White Lantern I have felt nothing but friendliness and warmth amongst staff and colleagues alike.
My autism in the present
For me, being given the same opportunities as other people around me, I no longer feel disinclined or cast out. I no longer feel ashamed about expressing my needs. Especially with the White Lantern Team and my fellow marketing team.
I cannot wait to continue my opportunity and enhance my CV for future career prospects. Eventually I would love to create an organisation or charity raising awareness and creating a safe space for girls with autism. Educating workplace professionals on the best ways to cater and help their autistic staff.
My final thoughts
At the end of it all, people with autism are just like any other human. We have gifts, we just want to be able to share them with the world and be ourselves whole heartedly and truthfully. Be kind, be patient and most importantly; give your autistic friends, family, colleagues the chance to speak up. Make sure you ask how they are and be attentive if they have a concern or feel safe around you. Be supportive and understanding. It can be hard at times, but believe me when I say. If I can benefit from being listened to, it means I can perform at my absolute best when my environment helps me thrive and encourages me to be the hard-working individual I always desired to be.

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A new species of fossil bee is described and figured in Late Eocene amber from the Rovno region of the Ukraine. Ctenoplectrellazherikhini n.sp. (Megachilinae: Ctenoplectrellini), is similar to those species known from the slightly older Baltic amber (middle Eocene). This is the first bee discovered in the Rovno amber and the fourth species for its genus. The presently known megachilid bee fossils are summarized and the geological history of the family reviewed.

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Fame reached Sheryl Crow (shown here) at its own odd pace. It was slow and gradual … and then came in one big whoosh.
“There is no handbook for becoming famous when you’re a really private, small-town person,” she told the Television Critics Association. “It was emotional; it was exhausting.”
She’s still sorting it out in “Sheryl,” an involving documentary that debuts at 9 p.m. Friday (May 6) on Showtime.
Pop-music often has a now-or-never timetable. Fame came to Mick Jagger at 21, Paul McCartney at 20, Christina Aguilera wat 18, Britney Spears at 17.
And Crow? When she won the best-new-artist Grammy she was 33, the age when many stars — from Jesus Christ and Eva Peron to John Belushi and Chris Farley – died. That night, she also won for record of the year and for best female vocalist performance. And then?
“We got on the bus that night and we drove to San Francisco and played the next night like if never happened …. I don’t know if it’s the combination of Puritan work ethic or denial that didn’t let me own it.”
This was a fully formed person – an honor student, track star, majorette, sorority girl, schoolteacher and more – suddenly heading in a new direction. She was also someone who “came in with a lot of melancholy, (who) inherited a lot of mental challenges via my lineage.”
Her roots were pure Americana. She grew up in Kinnett, a town of then 10,000 in southern Missouri. Her dad was a lawyer whose grandfather was a one-term congressman; her mom taught piano.
“My mom is an incredible singer,” said Crow, 60. “Had she not been born when and where she was born, I think she would have been one of the greatest opera singers ever …. She’s 85 now and she still sings. And her voice is richer than it ever has been.”
Crow learned her mom’s skills, said Amy Scott, the film’s director. She’s “classically trained, can sit down and play any instrument and write a song, … do all the arrangements and produce the record.”
She met all the other small-town expectations. In high school, she was in the pep club, the National Honor Society and Future Farmers of America; she won a beauty contest and finished eighth in the low hurdles, in the third division of the state track finals. “I was a good girl,” she said. “I made good grades. I was in lots of clubs and activities. And my parents were very proud of me. And I went to college and I got my degree. And that was the way I was raised and (the way) I thought that you did it.”
But there were also some more-hip influencers. Her parents played rhythm-and-blues music from the Stax label; her sister “turned into a teenager. I got turned onto Joni Mitchell and to Fleetwood Mac and James Taylor and Carole King.” At Missouri University, she sang with the top campus band, Cashmere; after two years teaching music near St Louis and singing commercial jingles, she took a plunge.
“I moved out to Los Angeles and I took my tapes around to every single studio in Los Angeles,” she said. “I was very, very naïve.”
That paid off when she showed up, uninvited, to audition for Michael Jackson’s tour. She was “somebody who didn’t even own a passport, singing with arguably the biggest star in the world, in the largest venues in the world.” She even stepped forward each night for a duet with Jackson. “He was a lovely person, but also … very damaged, obviously.”
Crow sang in the final episode of TV’s “Cop Rock,” made (and then discarded) an album, then began jamming with what was called the Tuesday Music Club. Her new album emerged.
As singles, the label put out “Run, Baby, Run” and “Leaving Las Vegas” – which she heard one day on the radio. “I was driving back from the dentist in my old Volkswagen convertible.” This was a time, she said, when she had a studio apartment and her manager had a storage closet for his office. Suddenly, “I’m screaming, ‘This is me on the radio.’ …. I want to pull my car over and jump up and down.”
Her brother and his friends insisted “All I Wanna Do” was the album’s best song. “That had really kind of been a throwaway song in my mind,” she said. “In fact, I kind of argued for it not to be on the record.”
But it was released and soared to No. 2 on the Billboard chart. “Strong Enough” and “Can’t Cry Any More” followed; the album sold nine million copies.
It was a wild success – except it kept her on the road for 542 performances over two-plus years. Also, her colleagues complained that interviews gave her too much credit for songs she’d co-written. She blamed herself for being too light-hearted in a David Letterman interview.
There would be other problems over the years, including depression. In 2006, she and Lance Armstrong broke off their engagement; later that year, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. It was a rare time to reflect. “It wasn’t until … I had to sit by myself, in the quiet of my mind, my body, and my spirit, that I (started) owning all of the glory and the hard work and what’s come.”
Crow now lives in Nashville with her adopted sons, one of whom “feels I’m the meanest mom on the planet” for not allowing social media. She’s still writing (“my best work ever” has been the last decade or so, she feels), still in good voice. “My early days, I drank, I party-smoked, I stayed out late hours. I lived on a tour bus. And you know, my life’s not like that anymore. I’m a more subdued version of my old self. And I get a lot more sleep …. My voice is better than it has ever been.”
She might seem an artifact. (“I get played a lot at Whole Foods or Home Depot; I’m, like, great shopping music.”) But she’s also an ongoing pop-star/rock-star, with a documentary about her first 60 years.

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I have been enjoying my time off, and I have gotten a few chores done around the house. The past few weeks I have been thinking of moving my office to the basement, but I scare so easily. Lint or random hairs look can look like spiders, so I scream only to realize it’s only lint. I don’t think it would be wise for my anxiety, lol.
I have been doing lots of doodling and have been trying different brushes and color palettes to figure out my design style. It has given me the opportunity to play with gif creation in Photoshop, I used to make tons “back in the day”.
My plant shelf got much needed organization and some new plant lights. I grouped my succulents by lighting needs and sectioned off the bookcase. I dug out a bunch of containers to use as drip catchers. Everything looks so much better.
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On Either Side – Berni Serle
October 1, 2007 - December 14, 2007
The work of South African multi-media artist and 2007-2008 Estelle Lebowitz Visiting Artist-in-Residence Berni Searle is featured in the exhibition On Either Side, opening Monday, October 1, in the Mabel Smith Douglass Library Galleries and continuing through Friday, December 14, 2007. Douglass Library is located on Rutgers Douglass Campus, 8 Chapel Drive, New Brunswick, NJ 08901.
Searle will present a public lecture titled, “dis-appearance: exploring the ideas of visibility and invisibility in the work of Berni Searle,” in the Mabel Smith Douglass Room in Douglass Library on Wednesday, November 14, 2007. The lecture begins at 6:30 p.m.; it is preceded by a reception with the artist starting at 6 p.m. The public is invited to these events which are free of charge; however lecture reservations are requested at: firstname.lastname@example.org or call 732-932-7505. Exhibition hours are 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday to Thursday; Friday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Saturday & Sunday, 1 to 5 p.m., and by appointment.
Berni Searle, who works primarily in video and photography, lives and works in Capetown, South Africa and New York City. Her art works examine the conceptual intersection between personal and social identity as it relates to history, memory, heritage, race, and gender.
Documentation for this event is housed in The Feminist Art Project Archives at Rutgers University.

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LG quietly launches the LG Q6+. The smartphone features a 5.5-inch 18:9 display, an octa-core Snapdragon 435 processor, and 64GB of storage.
LG Q6+ Philippines: Specs, Price
Competition in the Philippine smartphone mid-range market is tighter than ever with capable contenders from Samsung, Huawei, OPPO, and Vivo. LG throws its name into the field with the its own, LG Q6+.
The LG Q6+ is an 18:9 mid-range smartphone priced at PHP14,990. The handset features a 5.5-inch full HD FullVision display. It is powered by a 1.4GHz octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 435 processor, paired with 4GB RAM and a large 64GB storage. The main camera uses a 13MP sensor with an LED flash, while the front camera has a 5MP shooter and a wide-angle lens. It also has a 3,000 mAh battery, Android 7.1.1 Nougat, NFC, and Facial Recognition technology.
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The Eternity Cure (Blood of Eden #2) by Julie Kagawa
Publication date: April 23rd 2013
Allison Sekemoto has vowed to rescue her creator, Kanin, who is being held hostage and tortured by the psychotic vampire Sarren. The call of blood leads her back to the beginning—New Covington and the Fringe, and a vampire prince who wants her dead yet may become her wary ally.
Even as Allie faces shocking revelations and heartbreak like she’s never known, a new strain of the Red Lung virus that decimated humanity is rising to threaten human and vampire alike.
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I LOVED The Immortal Rules so much! I’m psyched for The Eternity Cure! I’m not sure how I feel about the cover though. I mean, I do like this cover, but the style is so different from the original The Immortal Rules cover. I feel like The Immortal Rules cover fits the theme of the book much more. The cover for The Eternity Cure doesn’t look like a vampire book!


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Seattle’s Perfume Genius (aka Mike Hadreas) paints a vivid portrait of a troubled youth in the Pacific Northwest, one that reminds me vaguely of the films of Gus Van Sant or the songs of Sufjan Stevens or the Mountain Goats. There’s a warm, personal touch to this cycle of songs, as though it oozed from his pores into a four-track on a rainy afternoon. Often accompanied only by piano and keyboards, he sings of what come across as snapshots from childhood — a motherly warning that God won’t listen to him until he takes off the dress, an older lover’s gift of a Joy Division mix tape shortly before his suicide, a letter from his sister while in the hospital. Whether all of this is fictional or autobiographical is beside the point. It’s an album that crafts a world you believe in. “Look Out, Look Out,” a lo-fi gospel song of murders out by the railroad tracks, is one of the most affecting numbers. It’s a throwback to the tone and sentiment of old-fashioned Americana; you haven’t heard the word murder sung in such a stark, terrifying manner since Johnny Cash. Sometimes the clear picture is overrun by hazy atmospherics, like a photograph overexposed, but that may be part of the point. The album unspools like an 8 mm film discovered in the back of an attic somewhere, crackling with love and an unspoken, heartbreaking sense of nostalgia.
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Abia State Government says it has concluded plans to computerise its vehicle inspection service and electronic vehicle administration system.
The state Governor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu, who was represented by his deputy, Ude Chukwu, stated this when he received the Business Development Executive of SYC, Mr Edward Aderemi, and his team in Umuahia.
He said the computerised Vehicle Inspection Service and Electronic Vehicle Administration System would also increase the Internally Generated Revenue of the state by giving proper account of revenue collected through the exercise to enable government to develop the state.
Earlier, Aderemi said they visited to showcase their programme on the Computerised Vehicle Inspection Service and Electronic Vehicle Administration System for proper management of traffic, ensure safety on the road, increase the IGR as well as improve the security by given particulars of vehicles and their owners at critical moments.
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I've done aerocap before with feet on a step placed behind a door-frame mounted finger board. Had a BM2000 with a medium campus rung below it and made hand movements between the campus rung, deep slots and 20 degree sloper. Modify difficulty by moving the step forward/back and having either both feet or swapping between feet on the step. Have a podcast or playlist ready to stave off tedium.
Assuming access to a fingerboard, pull-up bar, basic free weights, and gymnastic rings, but without the luxury of a home board. My personal goals are in the long single-pitch trad. or sport, so very interested in longer duration endurance ideas. You can assume an almost pathologically high boredom threshold, there may be plenty of time to do this. Max hangs for finger strength are a given but all other ideas welcome.
So, I'm interested in non / minimal equipment based body-weight workouts I can do during 30 min - 1 hr lunch breaks in my living room. Interested in all over conditioning, especially core - I reckon I can best address climbing specifics with finger boarding (and perhaps trying to remember where my pull up bar is). Any suggestions for routines? I realise this might have been asked previously, but I suspect any advice provided will be appreciated by a fair few fellow isolatees.
constant online surveillance and "hard" time-sheets.
I don't have a finger board only a bar and rock rings, can anyone suggest any decent protocols on them apart from obvious pull ups?
....you can still go out but if the crag's busy, move on...
Quote from: moose on March 18, 2020, 10:35:23 pm constant online surveillance and "hard" time-sheets. If I had this I would have been fired long ago!
Iíll hope my existing strengths will come back fairly quickly - but can use the tedium and monotony of a fingerboard to work on weaknesses.
Duncan - was interesting listening to a spiel by Steve Bechtel with regard to circumstances facing all of us from 9.13 https://www.facebook.com/climbstrong/videos/233504881171865/A key point is that instead of trying to inadequately trying to hang on to our general all round climbing performance and endurance that a better response is to instead focus and prioritise on boosting performance of a few narrower things that we have perhaps put off for years.
While doing the core exercises vid yesterday it became very obvious that I'm quite inflexible. The most apparent thing was leg inflexibility, so I started using the rest periods between exercises to do some very simple "try and touch your toes" stretches, but wondered if there was any easy-to-digest resource out there that could recommend some useful stretches for climbers?
Well, I did the BD Beta core workout. After the first exercise I thought, "oh, this piss". Then the next exercises came along. I'm now an empty shell.
I've strung up some old rock rungs in a tree outside to get bit of fresh air and a change from beastmakeringAnything i do on them I seem to naturally turn them back to back, both hangs and pull ups. Should i try to resist this, or doesn't it matter? Be better moving them further apart?
I think you finding it easier than me is probably more related to the fact that I NEVER do any isolated exercises of any description, EVER. So what little core strength I have is what I have accrued by simply going climbing. Likewise finger-strength etc.I did 30 mins on the fingerboard yesterday and, it might be that I wasn't warmed up, or it might be that I wasn't fully trying hard enough, but fucking hell. Using the big deep two finger pockets with middle two and no added weight was virtually a max hang. Using the two smallest crimp rungs (BM2K) was also virtually a max hang! Soooooooo weak!
Bottom outside edges are also a load easier as a half crimp than a full crimp
Quote from: abarro81 on March 27, 2020, 11:04:43 amBottom outside edges are also a load easier as a half crimp than a full crimpThat's what I was doing
Full crimp on a fingerboard?
Dont forget to keep those thumbs across the palms on the half crimps!
Session #1https://www.instagram.com/p/B-K7uRmDAqI/?igshid=k3sairmsqu3jStay psyched, everyone.
Quote from: tomtom on March 27, 2020, 11:38:39 amDont forget to keep those thumbs across the palms on the half crimps!Is that important? I've always half crimped with thumbs just sort of pointing upwards.
Quote from: Will Hunt on March 24, 2020, 08:19:05 pmWell, I did the BD Beta core workout. After the first exercise I thought, "oh, this piss". Then the next exercises came along. I'm now an empty shell.Interesting, did it last night and found it pretty steady, sort of like a yoga/core crossover. Clearly more reps required. Girlfriend suggested men might find it harder than women as there is loads of hip/pelvic stuff in there which women might be better at/train more.Still worth doing for those that are keen.
Quote from: Will Hunt on March 25, 2020, 09:05:04 pmSession #1https://www.instagram.com/p/B-K7uRmDAqI/?igshid=k3sairmsqu3jStay psyched, everyone.What are the dimensions of your board Will? And what hold spacing do you have between T nuts?
Ben and Nathaniel always delighted in telling me how shit my board is, but I've definitely seen shitter! They have at times come into the garage and felt the holds and declared it pointless as it would be impossible to set hard problems on it. A mediocre board is better than no board!
A mediocre board is better than no board!
Just be careful with this stuff of form if you are starting afresh and going at it too hard too soon. Rounding of torso can cause lower back / SI Joint issues. Make sure chest is out shoulders are back and all core muscles engaged.
Quote from: Will Hunt on March 27, 2020, 01:53:45 pmA mediocre board is better than no board!100% I bet a lot of people are currently reviewing their home training options and potential for a move.
Quote from: Will Hunt on March 27, 2020, 01:53:45 pmA mediocre board is better than no board!100% I bet a lot of people are currently reviewing their home training options and potential for a move. Turned out Dave Mac was right all those years ago!
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Ways food producers are standing out
In today’s market economy, consumers and retailers place higher demands on you, the processor, that impact bottom lines. While it’s not always easy, one way to stay ahead of the competition is to find and use your differentiating factor.
The following companies provide great examples of how to set your company apart.
Sometimes it’s the little things, like visual appeal, that set processors apart from their competition. John Rietveld, owner of Rietveld Equipment, sells processing equipment to Illinois-based processors and growers. One of the processing equipment manufacturers he works with is Allround Vegetable Processing, based out of The Netherlands.
One of his customers, Todd Nichols, owner of Nichols Farm & Orchard, purchased a washing, polishing and grading line from Allround Vegetable Processing a few years ago.
Allround’s polishers are commonly used by companies that want to give their produce a “premium” look and feel. The polisher consists of a rotating drum with counter-rotating brushes, which clean produce thoroughly, Rietveld explained. In addition, the polisher brushes away product irregularities and blemishes that would make the product less visually pleasing. Brush hardness is dependent on the type of vegetables being cleaned.
Rietveld said Nichols uses the polisher to clean up vegetables to make them more aesthetically pleasing to his customers. He said Nichols sells direct to consumers at a local market, and to restaurant owners who pay a premium for quality, locally produced vegetables.
Improving traceability and minimizing food waste
In recent years, blockchain has received a lot of buzz, and rightly so. It has the potential to improve relations between all parties along the sometimes-lengthy food supply chain, as well as better traceability and minimize food waste.
Blockchain is best described as a system that allows a group of participants, people or businesses to securely work together without relying on a third party. The technology stores data, which is synchronized using an algorithm, on multiple computers. The technology reduces the risk of mistakes and fraud, while improving traceability. Louis de Bruin, a blockchain thought leader for IBM’s Global Business Services in Europe, works closely working with the Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger Fabric effort, an open source technology used by IBM, to develop enterprise-grade blockchains.
“Blockchain solutions, like IBM Food Trust, benefit the entire food ecosystem, including fruit and vegetable processors and more, by providing authorized users with immediate access to actionable food supply chain data, from farm to store and ultimately the consumer,” De Bruin explained. “The complete history and current location of any individual food item, as well as accompanying information, such as certifications, test data and temperature data, are readily available in seconds once uploaded onto the blockchain.”
Having access to this type of data leads to safer food, longer shelf life, reduced waste, faster traceability and better access to shared information for all participants.
Acccording to De Bruin, there are more than 150 global and diverse members using IBM Food Trust to improve food safety and freshness, including Dole, Driscoll’s, Topco, Nestle, Wakefern, Golden State Foods, Smithfield and National Fisheries Institute. Food producers like Driscoll’s are exploring ways to get berries to shelves faster, for example, and using blockchain to figure out which varieties last longest. The result is a reduction in food waste, and speedier payment times.
“There are a number of modules that we’ve helped various participants build based on their specific needs,” De Bruin said. “This includes applications that focus on how much time produce spends in transit to ensure its freshness, digital certificates that ensure authenticity of food products and the ability to securely trace products in seconds to mitigate cross-contamination and the spread of foodborne illness.”
Corporate social responsibility goals
Bonduelle Fresh Americas (BFA) has published a corporate social responsibility strategy, which identifies goals that the company plants to target over the next five years. Bonduelle is a family-owned business that processes vegetables, producing quality products, including fresh vegetables, salads and meal solutions in its four processing plants across the U.S. BFA is one of the few vegetable processors that has a corporate social responsibility strategy of this caliber.
The company’s goals focus on water, energy, waste reduction, packaging, and food safety, among other things. BFA plans, for instance, to reduce water and cut energy intensity by 25% in all of its production plants. In terms of packaging, the company plans to transition to a packaging portfolio that is 100% recyclable, reusable or compostable.
“We are excited to launch this comprehensive strategy at Bonduelle Fresh Americas, covering issues ranging from water use and packaging to human rights and labor,” said Mathew Caldwell, senior manager of CSR for Bonduelle Fresh Americas. “We are prioritizing the right issues, committing ourselves to improving in these areas, and engaging all stakeholders in these actions — employees, customers, consumers, communities and suppliers.”
Bonduelle Fresh Americas offers a complete range of products featuring fresh produce and protein under the company’s Ready Pac Foods, Bistro, Ready Snax, Cool Cuts, elevĀte, Bonduelle Fresh Picked and Bonduelle Heat & Eat Harvest Bowl brands. They offer fresh-cut salads, fresh-cut vegetables, snacking and fresh prepared meals.
Optical sorter helps improve volume, quality
Earlier this year, as part of its ongoing objective to achieve “maximum output in both volume and quality,” global fresh-frozen vegetable processor Ardo installed two TOMRA Sentinel II optical sorting machines in its processing plant in Ardooie, Belgium.
A family-owned business, Ardo has grown to a €1-billion turnover through its commitment to quality. The company sources vegetables, herbs and fruit from 3,500 growers and processes 860,000 tonnes of produce annually. One-quarter of all frozen vegetables in Europe come from Ardo. They are used primarily in soups, ready-to-eat meals and baby food.
Ardo also supplies the house brands of almost all large European supermarkets, as well as large caterers for rest homes, hospitals and schools.
“As a very innovative company, investments in the factory are one way that we differ from our competitors,” said Ardo Group Sales Director Foodservice Heidi Goovaerts. “We also differentiate ourselves through sustainability. This includes minimizing food waste, which is one reason why we selected TOMRA’s sorting machines.
“TOMRA’s technologies will help us minimize waste and maximize productivity at the same time as delivering the highest product quality.”
Although it is most often used for tomato, peach and potato processing, the Sentinel II has a flexible design that makes it configurable for many different types of food sorting.
The latest illumination and detection technology ensures sorting accuracy, capacity, and durability. The Sentinel II is available in three different sizes. TOMRA says its throughput-to-width ratio is the highest in the industry.
“Ardo is one of the food industry’s great success stories, not least because of the company’s dedication to innovation and quality,” said Bjorn Thumas, vice president of business development and product management at TOMRA Food. “By investing in newer technology, Ardo is once again well-positioned to stay ahead of the game.”
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Blood Sugar Sex Magik by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. They dedicated their fifth album to Mike Watt, which was way cool of them. I didn't realize that somebody made a film called Funky Monks about the making of this album. Favorite song: Give It Away.
Out Of Time by R.E.M. After watching these guys rise so slowly for so long it was nice to see them score big commercially with this one. Stipe was starting to suffer from political hubris though. Favorite song: Near Wild Heaven. The B-52's Kate Pierson has a noticeable presence on this album: Me In Honey and especially on Shiny Happy People.
Trompe Le Monde by The Pixies. Their last and IMHO best album. I was fortunate enough to see them at a LoDo club in Denver around this time. Favorite song Subbaculture.
Nirvana of course got famous that year after releasing Nevermind. I liked the album but thought the band itself was overrated along with the whole "Seattle Scene." Grunge was just a moniker for what had been gestating for years. Kurt Cobain was smart enough to realize that he didn't really measure up to some of the hype either. I first heard of Nirvana in the summer of 1991 when Mike Watt passed through Zurich with his band fIREHOSE. He used to like to walk around the audience before his shows shooting video and talking to people and that's where we met. This was a few months before the release of Nevermind and I remember him saying "everybody's into Nirvana".
Bandwagonesque by Teenage Fanclub. I saw these guys play in Zurich around this time and liked them so I include them here. Favorite song: What You Do To Me.
Enter Sandman by Metallica
Jesus Built My Hot Rod by The Ministry
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers remained significant with Learning To Fly from the album Into The Great Wide Open.
She Moves In Mysterious Ways by U2 from Achtung Baby.


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They were not alive at the time of the Yom Kippur War, a half-century ago, another debacle at a moment of Israeli inattention, even if the war was ultimately won. The most ready comparison they make is to Sept. 11, 2001, a shattering moment when the United States experienced the slaughter of civilians, the evaporation of any sense of security, and a devouring, disorienting shock.
Mr. Morag’s initial reaction was: “Just eliminate them, eradicate them all, Hamas has to be destroyed. Israelis cannot stay in a place where the Palestinians next door are led by a group using the money they get to spread terror.”
But this has given way after a week to a more nuanced reflection.
“I am aware that in Gaza people are living a life with no hope,” he said. “To do such things, you have to get to a place where you don’t value your life anymore, where you are ready to die. These are monstrous acts that come from hatred and despair and brainwashing, but I would like to separate Hamas, an inhuman organization, from the Palestinian people.”
That, given the pitch of retaliatory fury in Israel, and a bombardment of Gaza that has already killed more than 1,900 people, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry, is likely to be very difficult. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken has urged Israel “to take every possible precaution to avoid harming civilians,” but has also made clear that Israel has the United States’ full and unequivocal support.
This American backing has meant a lot to Bar Matzner, who, along with her husband, Lior Matzner, had left their two young children with their parents to attend the festival. “We just needed to get away from the stress of work, the stress around security, to experience a moment of freedom,” she said.


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On the MyChonny Podcast every Wednesday at 8PM, I test Chonny’s K-pop knowledge every week. Now it’s time for me to test your knowledge with my special "Catch Up On K-pop" quiz!
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Sonic Reality Hard Rock ACID WAV AIFF REX
Hard Rock R.A.W. Style Pak features 305MB of Hard Rock sounds along with 206 Heavy Hard Rocking loops! This R.A.W Style Pak contains 16 construction kits from SRI's Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, and Rock Guitar Libraries providing the professional artist with the essentials to create Hard rock Hits! Easily drag and drop to instantly mix and match endless combinations of loops! Enjoy 305MB of Hard Rock Sounds & Loops with Sonic RealityI's Hard Rock R.A.W. Style Pak!
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SFXSource Drum Studio SCD-DISCOVER
Welcome to 'Drum Studio', a collection of live and electronic drum loops in a variety of styles. With over 400 loops ready to drop straight into your productions, this pack serves as a perfect creative starting point and your new go-to library for that elusive rhythm you need to help finish off a track.
Featuring a variety of genres including 60s, 70s and 80s Rock, Punk, Metal, Jazz, Funk, Surf, Hawaiian and electronic styles such as Glitch, Industrial, Dubstep and Hip Hop, we've got you covered with studio-quality intros, outros, variations and fills that'll keep you coming back for more.
Drop into the 'Drum Studio' today, it sure beats hiring a session sticksman!
...::: Full Pack Contents :::...
• 429 WAV Files
• 60s Psychedelic Rock (18 Loops)
• 70s Rock (8 Loops)
• 80s Big Hair Metal (9 Loops)
• 80s Synth Rock (10 Loops)
• American Punk (24 Loops)
• Blues (11 Loops)
• Celtic (15 Loops)
• Chill (11 Loops)
• Classic Jazz (32 Loops)
• Classic Rock (11 Loops)
• Dancehall (12 Loops)
• Dirt Metal (9 Loops)
• Doors of Perception Rock (24 Loops)
• Dubstep (11 Loops)
• EBM/Industrial (18 Loops)
• Electro Rock (8 Loops)
• Funk (9 Loops)
• Glitch (9 Loops)
• Hawaiian (24 Loops)
• Hip Hop (7 Loops)
• Island Rock (8 Loops)
• Mellow Rock (25 Loops)
• Nu Metal (11 Loops)
• Pop (11 Loops)
• Reggae (11 Loops)
• Roots Rock (12 Loops)
• Ska (7 Loops)
• Slide Blues (21 Loops)
• Southern Rock (9 Loops)
• Surf Rock (9 Loops)
• Zombie Metal (25 Loops)
Big Fish Audio Hard Tracks For Cinema AIFF DVDR-AudioP2P
Scoring a film with Soundtrack and Final Cut? "Hard Tracks for Cinema" will get it done with rough and tough Breakbeat, Electro, Big Beat, Nu School Breaks, Hardcore, Nu Metal and Experimental beats. These construction kits give you 2 gigs of monster beats, basslines, rough guitar riffs, mean synths, hard FX and tons more! Don't waste any more time digging around looking for the right sounds, take advantage of Apple Loops' descriptors, tags, genres and other search features. If you compose music for television, movies, commercials or video games, you need this collection!
This 2 Gig DVD-ROM contains four sub-folders:
57 breakbeat and electro construction kits. bpm's range from 85 to 157 includes: drums, synths, pianos, guitars, fx, basses, vocal fx, percussion, plus numerous hits from the drums and percussive loops.
These hard core loops have been processed and distorted nearly beyond recognition.
* Hardcore/Nu Metal
44 construction kits. BPM's range from 80 to 180 includes: drums, guitars, synths, basses, organs, percussion, pianos, vocal fx, plus numerous hits from the drums and percussive loops.
* Loops & Guitar Chords
This folder contains numerous drum loops and chromatic Les Paul Guitar Chords
Beta Monkey Drum Werks Vol 1 Rock
Drum Werks Volume I, with over 680 MB of rock drum loops and sounds, is geared for rock music songwriting. A cohesive collection of loops - all drums were cut in a single session for seamless loop track integration - that has produced countless rock tracks the world over. The tracks we've heard made with this collection have blown our minds.
If you are looking for drum loops with that big, open, Led Zep sound and inspired Bonzo-esque grooves, then these 1100 drum loops will more than satisfy your groove needs.
Giga Loops 500 Hard Style Loops WAV REX-DISCOVER
'500 Hard Style Loops' is a selection of loops suitable for producers of Hard Style, Hard Dance, Hard Trance and Hard House music. These grooves are all licensed to you as royalty-free, so you can use them in your original productions at no extra cost.This pack contains 500 loops recorded at Audio CD quality, including No-Kick loops as well as WAV and REX formats. All loops are at 144 BPM for ease of use, and are compatible with all major music software applications.
• 500 Loops No-Kick, No FX (REX)
• 500 Loops No Kick, No FX (WAV)
• Size 210 MB
• All recorded at 144 BPM
Astro Loops Real Dragons Rock WAV MiDi-AUDIOSTRiKE
'Real Dragons Rock' is a brand new Rock/Dubstep fusion Construction Kit pack brought to you by AstroLoops. This pack includes five hard-hitting, speaker-busting, Alternative Rock Construction Kits inspired by the uniquely talented band, Imagine Dragons. With heavy Rock drums, dramatic piano, guitar ballad sounds and extremely dirty wobble basses, t...
Everything you need is included in this set of Construction Kits. You will receive five Kits filled with Alternative Rock Drums, guitars and bass that will add a diverse sound that you can implement into Hip Hop, RnB, Pop, Dubstep and even Trap!
• 24-Bit WAV & MIDI
• 4 Construction Kits
• All parts are separated for remixing
• All tempos are provided for easy use
• Construction Pack inspired by the styles of Imagine Dragons, One Republic, Of Monsters and Men, The Script, The Lumineers & many others
Looptroniks Rock Head WAV MiDi-AUDIOSTRiKE
'Rock Head' is a new pack from Looptroniks filled with hard Rock sounds that provide a distinct character of sounds and samples for your productions. This pack focuses on Rock progressions, unique guitar sounds, hard-hitting drums, and much more. This head-banging Rock Construction Kit pack brings all the energy and emotion of hard Rock into your h...
These five Construction Kits bring you a wide range of styles for you to add the aggressive sounds of Rock into your productions.
This pack also brings a wide array of guitar sounds, drums, and electric bass that can easily be plugged into your productions. Use these guitars in RnB, Hip Hop, or Pop to bring the feeling of Rock into your production.
All sounds and samples are Royalty-Free for you to use in a commercial production or even for DJ/remix purposes. You can use these samples in as many ways as you desire.
• 5 Multi-tracked Construction Kits
• 24-Bit WAV
• MIDI Files
• All parts are separated
• All parts are Royalty-Free
• Tempos are included


Aug. 29, 1997
Cal Defeats Michigan State, 3-0
BERKELEY, Calif. - The California field hockey team defeated Michigan State, 3-0, in the season opener Friday on Kleeberger Field. Freshman Leslie Katch started the scoring with a goal seven minutes in to the game off an assist by freshman Deborah Clark. In the second half, Cal extended its lead to 3-0 on a back-to-back penalty corners one minute apart by Sarah Baron and Megan Sainsbury.
Michigan State 0 0 -- 0 California 1 2 -- 3 Scoring First half: Katch (Clark) Cal 28:05 Second half: Baron (Popp, Sainsbury) Cal 9:38 Sainsbury (Baron) Cal 8:43 Shots Cal: 11 Michigan State: 6 Saves Cal: Karen Hagan -- 5 Sarah Hoehn -- 1 Michigan State: Beth George -- 0 Records: Cal 1-0 Michigan State 0-1


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Whey protein supplements is readily available in a powder supplement, and has numerous health benefits, on top of improving blood flow like we saw in our last post.
- Helping to maintain blood sugar levels after a meal, because it allows your pancreas to produce insulin more effectively.
- Promoting healthy insulin production.
- Improves overall wellness by assisting in the optimal intake of fats, proteins, carbohydrates, minerals, and vitamins.
- Boosts immune function because of its immunoglobulins.
- Preservation of lean body tissue (specifically during exercise) because it transports bio-available amino acids and cysteine
Another recent study found supplementation with a whey derived peptide (NOP-47) healthy individuals saw positive impacts on vascular function. Arm blood flow improved by 2.7%/minute, compared to no change in the placebo group.
Not only that, but whey has been seen to prevent allergies from developing in at risk infants, and benefit colicky babies.
No matter your Age, adding in quality whey protein to your diet can add tremendous health benefits.
Variations in Quality of Whey Protein
If you do decided to add whey protein into your diet, a wise choice for the reasons noted in previous posts, you need to be cautious on the brand you choose, as there are often extreme variations of quality.
The majority of whey proteins products contain whey derived from pasteurized dairy sources. If you have the ability, and the budget, look for a whey protein made from raw, grass fed milk, so you can get even more immune enhancing benefits, compared to the commercial pasteurized products.
Again, it is important to remind you that supplementing with whey or any other products is to complement and enhance your diet, not as complete meal replacement.
If you travel a lot, or are constantly on the go, whey supplementation is very beneficial, and is much better nutritional choice over so called “protein bars” or other processed convenience snack food.[ad_2]
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Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles is celebrating the 25th birthday of the Volkswagen California at Techno Classica (10 to 14 April 2013).
The vehicle’s production figures are fitting for an anniversary: around 100,000 California vans have come off the assembly line over the past 25 years.
A short retrospective of the history of this classic vehicle can be seen at the Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles booth in Hall 7. It begins with the T3, covers the T4 and progresses to today’s T5. Naturally, the vehicle’s T1 and T2 ancestors complete the recreational vehicle’s show appearance.
Unlike high-roof vehicle models and those with a long wheelbase, the California featured a pop-top roof that articulated at the rear over all of its years and generations. The exhibited models also show this feature.
While most are the T3 “base version” of the California model of those days, the “Freestyle” is also on display – it is the most coveted and late special model and is based on the T4. The exhibition finishes with a current California Beach Edition, which once again embodies the initial basic idea of an economical camping van.Source: VW


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Garnett Silk's legacy, 25 years after his death
The legacy of iconic reggae singer Garnett Silk lives on.
Although he died 25 years ago, Silk remains a legend. He was a Rastafarian who sang about God, and his songs such as "Zion in a Vision", "Kingly Character" and "Love Is the Answer" celebrate the true love of the Almighty.
December ushers in an air of melancholy for the singer's family and friends as it represents the anniversary of the singer's tragic death in a fire. This year marks the 25th anniversary of his death. Silk had gone to spend time with his mother, Etiga Gray, in his Hatfield Ward Park hometown in Mandeville, where he was building her a house. Then on December 9, 1994, the 28-year-old, along with his mother, perished in a fire. The singer's thanksgiving service was held on December 25.
"He lives on and we all in the music industry need to do more to make the younger generation know about the amazing works of Garnet Silk, his music...," veteran reggae artiste Anthony B told Loop News reporter Claude Mills.
"His message was strong, meaningful deep and was inspirational to many youths in the little time he had in his musical career. He was an artiste and a man way ahead of his time so I would say Garnet Silk is, in my book, one of reggae music's legends and a pioneer for the Rastafarian culture and Jamaican ghetto youths of his generation ," Anthony B said.
Anthony B added that Silk's influence extends to the current generation of musicians.
"He left a mark in my mind and memories forever. Long live The Legend Garnet Silk....love is the answer, love is the only way, love is what we need in our hearts today," he said.
Silk was a prominent member of the vanguard of roots-reggae artistes who rose to the forefront of the music scene even against the background of the trigger-pulling, profanity-spewing lyrics of the dancehall space in the early 1990s.
His contribution to the industry helped to shape the sound of the genre into the new millennium. Songs such as 'Kingly Character', 'Nothing Can Divide Us', 'Zion In a Vision', 'Mama Africa', and 'It's Growing' still enjoy airplay even today.
He is survived by Novlyn 'Lovey' Banton, and seven kids, four of whom he sired with Lovey Banton including singer Garnet Silk Jr.


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Besides the quirky, offbeat title of their debut album Quenara – inscrutably described in their witty liners as the “Quenaranese word for Quenara” – perhaps the first thing listeners will notice about the debut album by the duo of multi-talented pianist/composer Robert Prester and dramatic, multi-octave vocalist Adriana Samargia is the surreal set list.
In what other musical universe besides theirs could a soaring, scat and ivory improv-filled spin through Howard Jones’ mid-80s hit “Things Can Only Get Better” feel logical besides equally compelling, cleverly arranged, unpredictable and solo spiked versions of jazz standards like “You Go To My Head,” “Stolen Moments,” “Lover Man,” “Body and Soul” and “Sophisticated Lady”?
But don’t get the idea that this fashionable duo is just about re-imagining the greats. Prester originals like the soaring, show-tuney (that’s a compliment) “Altar Ego,” the heartbreaking “Can’t Get Over You” and the whimsical “Love Games” stack up well with the classics to create a sonic world that’s often too unique to limit to mere adjective-filled descriptions. The passionate title track that wraps the set is something of a gentle equivalent to “Xanadu,” with “Quenara” being a mythical place where “the mood’s always right,” “the time’s always right” and there is plenty of “strange music” to fill one’s curiosity.
The aforementioned liners are actually a fluffy self-generated Q&A whose answers reassure us that, though the duo is very serious about their fascinating craft, they have a spirited chemistry that’s rooted in great fun and surprises. Since they’re likely to be new on everyone’s jazz radar, it should be noted that once upon a time, Prester composed the soundtrack for the CityKids Foundation show, appearing with Herbie Hancock and Grover Washington, Jr.
He later played with the Honolulu Symphony (among countless other gigs in various cities he’s resided in) and recorded four jazz albums. Samargia started her career as a Bulgarian folk singer, earned a “Best Jazz Vocal Soloist” student award from Downbeat and founded and has directed The Parson Brown Singers for over 20 years. Quenara marks a splendid new beginning for these two artists, and it will be interesting to hear where their imaginations take them and us in the future.


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The "Arrested Development" cast members had a lot of TV and film credits before they were the dysfunctional Bluth family.
Jessica Walter -- matriarch Lucille Bluth on the former Fox, now Netflix series -- has been making TV appearances since the 1960s. She won an Emmy for "Amy Prentiss" in 1975 and in 1977, Walter guest starred in a "Wonder Woman" episode, "The Return of Wonder Woman."
Jason Bateman (Michael Bluth) started acting at a young age and appeared on "Silver Spoons," "Little House on the Prairie" and "Valerie"/"The Hogan Family."
Alia Shawkat and Mae Whitman met as co-stars in Fox Family's 2001-2002 series "State of Grace" before they were Maeby Funke and Ann Veal.
Click through the gallery below to see the "Arrested Development" cast in their early roles.
"Arrested Development" returns with new episodes on Netflix on Sunday, May 26.


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Hidden histories! Discover the intriguing tale of the first organ found at St John’s Co-Cathedral
Recently, St John’s Co-Cathedral revealed an interesting fact on its social media page. Beneath the splendid balcony above the Oratory doorway lies an organ that holds a remarkable secret because, in fact, this location is not its original position.
The majestic organ you see today, gazing toward the Caravaggio painting, holds the distinction of being the FIRST organ of St. John’s Co-Cathedral.
Crafted in 1579 by the renowned Sicilian organ builder Raffaele La Valle, this musical masterpiece initially resided in the Chapel of Auvergne before embarking on a transformative journey to its current location in the seventeenth century.
However, the relocation wasn't without its challenges. To seamlessly integrate the organ into its new setting, meticulous alterations were required.
From bending and resizing the large pipes to modifying the pedal extension and adapting the air supply system, each adjustment was made with precision and care to ensure a harmonious fit within the balcony’s arch.
This surprising revelation intrigued a number of people in the comments on social media, some saying that they found this fact very interesting since it is the type of information that is never listed in history books.
Did you know the story behind this interesting organ?


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Gasohol Music Publishing Signs Jamie Teachenor
September 14, 2012 at 10:21 AM (PT)
GASOHOL MUSIC PUBLISHING, a newly formed NASHVILLE company co-owned by songwriter/ producer JOE WEST and TERRY HICKS, has signed JAMIE TEACHENOR to a worldwide publishing agreement.
TEACHENOR is an established songwriter who has had songs cut by artists such as LUKE BRYAN, GRETCHEN WILSON, MONTGOMERY GENTRY, TRACE ADKINS, TRISHA YEARWOOD, GWEN SEBASTIAN, JOEY & RORY and COLLIN RAYE.
Additionally, JAMIE is a performer in his own right, having appeared on GOOD MORNING AMERICA, THE CBS EARLY SHOW, THE GRAND OLE OPRY LIVE, CNN, MSNBC and more.
Visit www.jamieteachenor.com for more information.


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Ian returns to PizzaExpress Jazz Club (Soho) for his annual week of fun and frolics with his best musical friends, 23rd to 29th January.
In his annual solo romp at Arthouse, Ian takes a wry look at Xmas songs from film, TV, the jazz songbook and his own childhood, surrounded by brass bands, coal mines, flared dungarees and David Bowie records.
Download Natalie Williams’ Xmas single – 50% of proceeds goes to The Phone Credit Group.
The Phone Credit Group provides refugee children with vital support. Ian talks to Paula Erol of The Phone Credit Group and Tess Berry-Hart of Calais Action about this fundraising initiative. Listen to the podcast to find out how you can help.
Continuing the tour of this show, there are a few tickets still available for St Mary's Church Rye, Wednesday 14th December.
Love, Fame And Happiness – When Joni Met Bowie. One Night Exclusive by popular demand… Booking now.
Ian's gig at Blue Note on 7-8th November.
Ian is joined by performers from theatre and music on Tuesday 29th November at Finchley Road London's JW3.
The vocalist super group play Shoreditch Town Hall on Tuesday 15th November.
There are over 200 unaccompanied kids from Civil War zones, with family in the UK, stranded on a toxic wasteland, 23 miles from our coast.
As many of you know, I have been working for a year now as a volunteer at the unofficial refugee camp – known as the jungle…
Ian with his band in four shows singing from The Theory Of Joy, Friday 14th and Saturday 15th October.
“Shaw and his trio leave most of their peers at the starting gate.”
★★★★ review in The Telegraph
“Shaw's ability to … cut to the emotional heart of a song … remains astonishing.”
★★★★ review in Jazzwise
Love, Fame and Happiness – When Joni Met Bowie. Ian at PizzaExpress Jazz Club Soho 12th and 13th August.
Click here to watch the shows live.
Ian interviews legendary singer Al Jarreau on Sunday 10th July at Ronnie Scott's.
Ian launches The Theory of Joy at jazz tracks 424, Hamburg on 16th June
Ian nominated in the Jazz Vocalist of the Year category.
Ian and his trio launches The Theory of Joy at Jazz Club Etoile in Paris on 2nd June.
“The Theory of Joy brings together a very interesting mix of material, which is fashioned into a coherent set by the musicianship of all concerned. Expect to find Bowie next to Bart, Joni Mitchell juxtaposed with Clive Gregson, all performed with impeccable jazz style and touch.”
Watch Ian's album launch of The Theory Of Joy, live from Nells Jazz & Blues, London.
The official launch of The Theory Of Joy at Nells Jazz & Blues, West Kensington, London.
Ian talks about his new album, the launch and album tour on Robert Elms (Radio London).
The Theory Of Joy UK tour dates from March to June including the official album launch at Nellâ€™s Jazz & Blues in West Kensington.
Jamie Cullum talks about Ian's new album on his BBC Radio 2 show.
Ian talks on RTHK in Hong Kong about his tour and new album.
3rd - 20th March. Ian plays Singapore, Hong Kong, China and Australia.
“Charismatic jazz voice, activist and sometime stand-up comic, Ian Shaw's flamboyantly vibrant approach to songcraft continues to reveal itself in myriad forms, unravelling a canon of variegated colour…”
Read the full article in Jazzwise, available in shops or online.
“For musical sophistication and emotional intelligence Shaw and his trio leave most of their peers at the starting gate.”
★★★★ review by Ivan Hewett in The Telegraph.
“Great music from Ian and lovely hearing him talk about his life and experiences in Calais.” (listener)
Ian talks about his new album and his work helping refugees in Calais.
“Shaw's ability to sear away the extraneous, cut to the emotional heart of a song and build inexorably without melodrama or self-aggrandisement toward the moment a lyric gives itself up to us remains astonishing.”
★★★★ review in Jazzwise
“The Theory Of Joy is Shaw's best album yet – a well paced set, mixing some unexpected covers and excellent originals – and an early contender for one of the jazz albums of the year. Highly recommended.”
★★★★ review at kindofjazz.com
Ian talks about his new album and his work in Calais. Interview with Julian Worricker on Weekend, BBC World Service.
“My mama ironed to Two Way Family Favourites for twenty-five years, which was Radio Two, really. So we heard what we thought was old-fashioned pop music – which was, in fact, jazz. Lots of big band stuff, 1950s vocalists like Nat 'King' Cole and Ella Fitzgerald, Vic Damone, Mel Tormé, Peggy Lee, Doris Day, Sarah Vaughan and, of course, Sinatra…”
The Theory Of Joy is a collection of inspirational pop-structured songs, including extraordinary new takes on David Bowie, Lionel Bart, Jacques Brel, Joni Mitchell, Mel TormÃ© and even the seminal Traffic. The mood is hopeful, questioning, politicised, and honest… read more
“Jazz singers magnify the character tics of everyday life â€“ tell-tale inflections that reveal a backstory, offbeat emphases, the catch in a voice of a hidden regret, all the mannerisms that bring favourite singers as close as partners or friends. Idiosyncratic Americans Betty Carter and Mark Murphy felt like that, and so does the British singer Ian Shaw…”
Ian's new album The Theory Of Joy reviewed by The Guardian's John Fordham.
Coastival presents a one-off show with Rory and Ian at The Spa, Scarborough.
“I don't have records of the year but if I did this would probably be it…I don't think there was a better song written last year.”


Showing off for forty years
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Last weekend saw another milestone in the club's history, namely our fortieth exhibition. Now it is also the fortieth anniversary of the club's foundation this year, which leads me to conclude that we have, on average, held one exhibition every year for the last four decades. A university education is never wasted. This year's exhibition was by no means average, with Tony pulling out all the stops, not to mention the odd start or two, to produce something special. A big anniversary needs big layouts, so the reasoning went, and so Liverpool Lime Street, Kirkby Stephen West and The Great American Railroad all put in an appearance, and all took home cups for their trouble.
One of the games we play before, during and after an exhibition is to predict the effect of the weather on the attendance. Classical climate theory suggests that good weather is not good for numbers, as the public head for the sea front, whilst a certain coolness makes them look indoors for entertainment, such as we just happen to provide. And a deluge is very bad for business, as potential customers take one look through the net curtains at the water bouncing off the Astra Sport XLS, and stay indoors to watch the footy on the telly. However this year revisionist global warming surprised all the pundits, as despite a warm, sunny weekend the footfall stood up remarkably well.
Mention must be made of the party, or more properly The Party, which went off remarkably well considering Ford Mansions was two-thirds of the way through an almost total knock-down and rebuild. Fortunately the proprietors had ensured that the beer cellar, the food kitchen and the railway garden were in full running order, so all the essential elements were in place, and much appreciated by a discerning clientele.
The only potential downside to report was how close my neighbour's garage came to being filled with a large quantity of wooden barriers on the Monday after the show. Certainly leaving the door up was a good an invitation as one might wish for, but the magical disappearance of a large quantity of railway clutter might just have rung some alarm bells…


In the streaming world, a war of succession is heating up, and I’m not talking about the one that involves the Roy family. This particular conflict is being waged in the realms of epic fantasy: Which big-budget series will become the cultural and critical successor to Game of Thrones?
There are two main claimants to this throne. One is HBO’s actual-factual Game of Thrones spin-off, House of the Dragon. The prequel series aired its first episode on August 21. HBO often supports its new and returning shows by bringing their premiere episodes to YouTube, but the premium programmer didn’t immediately choose that course of action for House of the Dragon. It took until September 2 before the tale of the Targaryens was made available for free on the HBO YouTube channel.
The House of the Dragon premiere is not available as an embedded video, but you can watch it by clicking here.
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Giving fans a free taste of a long-anticipated series can be a good tactic for a streamer looking to drive subscriptions. So why did HBO wait nearly two weeks before applying that strategy to House of the Dragon? The answer has everything to do with Amazon‘s entrant in the Thrones war of succession: The Rings of Power.
Since the earliest days of its development, the new Lord of the Rings adaptation has been positioned as a potential Game of Thrones killer (or should I say Kingslayer?) The big-budget series is so crucial to Amazon’s strategy that Jeff Bezos reportedly stepped into the rights negotiations himself back in 2017.
After more than five years in development, The Rings of Power finally premiered on September 2 — the same day as House of the Dragon‘s arrival on YouTube. In what was clearly a calculated move, HBO timed the hype machine for its epic fantasy series in order to take some of the shine away from Amazon’s epic fantasy series.
Both shows have drawn positive reactions from critics, though some user reviewers have different ideas. As far as the streaming industry is concerned, the release schedule chess match between HBO and Amazon is more interesting than the actual quality of the shows themselves. HBO’s attempt to undermine The Rings of Power reveals a new tactic for streamers: They can spend big in hopes of award season recognition, assemble a massive “long tail” of content, and attempt to sap any big bets made by their rivals.
Consider this: Earlier this year, Netflix encountered concerning viewership trends. It was able to paint a more upbeat picture in the second quarter of the year, when its buzziest tentpole series — Stranger Things — returned for its fourth season. What if HBO had blunted that impact by timing House of the Dragon‘s release for earlier in the summer? Would Stranger Things still have been able to rule that cultural moment, or would TikTok users have gotten distracted by all the dragons and blond hair?
Streamers, like the dynasty at the center of House of the Dragon, are currently in a shaky position. Due to a highly saturated and competitive market, subscribers are becoming harder to acquire. To keep up, the HBOs and Amazons of the world are spending freely — but they’re also doing what they can to stop any competing show from becoming the next big thing.