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Controversial apartments which could be built near Solihull's historic St Alphege Church have been compared to "a Lego building."
Critics claim that the 54-flat retirement scheme, not far from the celebrated spire, would totally transform the area.
They cite concerns about the design of the development, a loss of green space and the risk it will make existing traffic issues worse.
Unveiled last month, the scheme would include the demolition of part of the old rectory building, in Church Hill Road, and the conversion of the existing wings. A new-build block would be located to the south.
Developers insist the project would help meet growing demand to house older residents and that the complex had been "carefully designed" to respect the surrounding area.
They also argue that the site would be physically separated from St Alphege by a number of existing buildings.
But there has been a significant backlash from those who face having the scheme on their doorstep.
John Brown, of Rectory Road, said the scheme's appearance and the impact on the environment and wildlife added to a sense of unease.
"Firstly the design of the building itself is monolithic," said the 52-year-old. "It's a huge slab of construction.
"It begs the question 'why there?' Is it purely opportunism?"
He said that given homeowners had to abide by "stringent" planning rules to protect the integrity of the conservation area, a large-scale development which would mean the loss of more than 60 trees defied logic.
"I would like to think that given the level of objection [it will be refused].
"My gut instinct is that it will be rejected but I wouldn't like to put my house on it."
Another resident Janet Doyle, who moved into the area last autumn, said that the landscape would be vastly changed - with open space built on and views altered.
"It just seems like a massive, massive building for this small area," she said.
"A historic part [of the site] will be lost forever."
And she also worried that the apartments would add to parking and traffic issues in surrounding roads, suggesting that any highways surveys carried out during lockdown would not reflect the normal activity in the neighbourhood.
Cllr Joe Tildesley (Con, St Alphege) was scathing about the plans tabled and confirmed they had been "called-in" - meaning the final decision will rest with councillors rather than planning officers.
"It's a Lego building with no architectural merit whatsoever," he said.
"If you think that's sympathetic to the site and location you are looking at something different to what I'm looking at."
He believed developers had missed a "golden opportunity" to renovate the rectory, with perhaps 10-12 flats inside the existing premises.
Instead he said the area was faced with a development that would be totally out of scale and could do a lot of damage to its surroundings.
"It's a famous and historic part of Solihull," he said.
"This rectory dates back to the 1930s but there has been a rectory on that site for several 100 years and it is surrounded by tonnes of green space.
"This is garden-grabbing. You might say it's a hell of a big-sized garden - but that's what it is."
It's understood scores of objections had been received by the time the window for comments closed at the end of last week.
Solihull Ratepayers' Association - among the individuals and groups which wrote in - said that while it generally supported high-quality accommodation for the elderly, it had a number of concerns about what had been put forward.
Secretary Trevor Eames said: "The St Alphege site is in an important conservation area with very significant historic importance for the residents of Solihull as a whole and any development must respect and not detract [from that]."
Mike Gill, regional managing director for Lifestory, the firm behind the scheme, said: "The new building has been carefully designed to respond to existing buildings nearby, both topographically and in terms of the surrounding historic environment, as well as advice received during the pre-application process.
"We believe the proposed detailing and materials of the new building reflects the character of the conservation area and the local vernacular, which presents an appropriate response to the context.
"We believe the proposals do no harm to the ‘historic setting’ of St Alphege Church, because the proposed development is a significant distance from the church itself, physically and visually separated from the church by a number of other existing buildings."
Developers had previously pledged to create forest walkways and outdoor areas for nearby St Alphege pre-school and St Alphege Infants to offset the impact on the environment.
Referencing this part of the proposal, Mr Gill added: "The proposed new planting and creation of the forest area for the local school will mean that an area of open space that has not been enjoyed to its full potential historically, will be enjoyed by homeowners and tenants of the new community as well as children from the local community if planning permission is granted."
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Navadhan, a rural fintech startup, has raised $1.5 million in a seed round led by the fintech-focused fund Varanium NexGen. The round included Anicut Capital, an existing investor, and Gemba Capital. Anicut Capital had co-led the funding.
The fintech startup plans to use the funds to expand and enhance its AceN Tech platform. The platform bridges banks, non-banking finance companies (NBFCs), and rural small businesses (MSMEs) by enabling seamless connections and interactions.
Navadhan claims it has onboarded over 200,000 customers and disbursed over Rs 100 crore. It has a network of 15 lenders, including Ugro, Vivriti, Northern Arc, Caspian, Unitus, and TruCap.
Navadhan, a company founded in 2019 by Nitin Agrawal, Vijay Haswani, Anirudh Ramakuru, and Amit Biswal, uses data science to evaluate the digital footprint and cash flow surrogates. According to the startup, it solves the lack of income proofs and documents which has kept the banks away from such markets.
Commenting on the fundraise, Agrawal said, “We are leveraging Tech using alternative-credit, predictive analytics backed by data sciences. With both Tech and People on-ground, we are making it work for the NBFCs and Banks to generate priority sector assets.”
As smartphone and internet penetration are expected to rise by 44% by 2030 and grow significantly in rural areas, Navadhan aims to exploit these market opportunities. According to the startup, most of the future growth will come from rural areas, as the number of UPI transactions reaches the $4 Tn mark.
In the future, Navadhan plans to provide services like credit limits and tech tools for digitizing unorganized value chains.

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Calandra also discusses the commodities he’s interested in right now and talks about several companies he finds compelling.
Montana-based Washington Corporations’ bid for the company has not received the warmest of welcomes from Dominion Diamond.
American Manganese Inc. (TSXV:AMY; PINKS:AMYZF;FRANK:2AM) has expanded on the previously announced (Dec. 16, 2016) work under the reagent optimization and locked cycle scoping study being performed by Kemetco Research Inc.
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Larry W. Reaugh, President and Chief Executive Officer of American Manganese Inc. (“American Manganese” or “AMI” or the “Company”),(TSXV:AMY; PINKS:AMYZF;FRANK:2AM) , is pleased to announce that the Company has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) with Ames Laboratory, a U.S. Department of Energy National Laboratory, operated
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Alterra Power (TSX:AXY) reported audited financial and operating results for the year ended December 31, 2016 for its 66.6 percent owned Icelandic subsidiary, HS Orka hf.
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Highlights for the year ended December 31, 2016 include (all amounts in US$):
Generation: HS Orka fleet generation decreased 9% to 1,122,418
Aurvista Gold Corporation (“Aurvista” or the “Company”) (TSXV:AVA) is pleased to update shareholders and stakeholders on the advancement of the 30,000 meters diamond drilling campaign from the Company’s Douay Gold Project (“Douay”).
To date, some 4,936 meters have been drilled in 11 diamond drill holes (DO-16-147 to 149, and DO-17-150 to 157)
Alabama Graphite Corp. (“AGC” or the “Company”) (TSXV:CSPG)(OTCQB:CSPGF)(FRANKFURT:1AG) is very pleased to announce that it has achieved 99.99997% Carbon total percentage by weight (“wt% C”) purity from its sourced-in-USA graphite from its flagship, 100%-owned Coosa Graphite Project – located in Coosa County, Alabama, USA – via the Company’s propriety, low-temperature
Focus Graphite Inc. (TSXV:FMS,OTCQX:FCSMF,FWB:FKC): Grafoid Inc., a graphene R&D and investment company announced today its development of the GPURE Membrane Platform consisting initially of six next generation GPURE Graphene-Polymer membrane technologies intended for industrial markets.
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA/10 February 2017. MAG ONE PRODUCTS INC. (“Mag One” or (the “Company”) is pleased to announce:
KINGSTON, ONTARIO–(Marketwired – Feb. 7, 2017) – Grafoid Inc., a world leading graphene R&D and investment company announces its entry into the global industrial coatings market with the introduction of its patent pending GrafeneX graphene coatings technology.
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John Kaiser of Kaiser Research shares his thoughts on the junior resource market and what to watch for in the scandium sector.
KINGSTON, ONTARIO–(Jan. 31, 2017) – Grafoid Inc., a world leading graphene R&D and investment company announced today its entry into the global industrial coatings market with the introduction of its patent pending GrafeneX graphene coatings technology.
Orbite Technologies Inc. (TSX:ORT)(OTCQX:EORBF) (“Orbite” or the “Company”) today provides an update on the Company’s progress with the production of high purity alumina (“HPA”).
In an earlier production run announced on January 16, 2017, close to 2 tonnes of HPA was produced over 3 days.
Feedstock material fed to the
American Manganese Inc. (TSXV:AMY; PINKS:AMYZF;FRANK:2AM), is pleased to announce that the Company, having successfully completed proof of concept testing and filing the US Provisional Patent Application, is presently studying potential downstream benefits to guide the Company’s next phase of work. The Company has successfully recycled lithium cobalt cathode material,

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MCGEE, JAMES (?–1836). James McGee (McGehee), Alamo defender, was born in Ireland. He came to Texas by way of New Orleans as a member of Capt. Thomas H. Breece's company of New Orleans Greys and took part in the siege of Bexar, in which he was severely wounded. He later served in the Alamo garrison as a member of Capt. William Blazeby's infantry company. McGee died in the battle of the Alamo on March 6, 1836.
Wallace O. Chariton, 100 Days in Texas: The Alamo Letters (Plano, Texas: Wordware, 1990). Daughters of the American Revolution, The Alamo Heroes and Their Revolutionary Ancestors (San Antonio, 1976). Daughters of the Republic of Texas, Muster Rolls of the Texas Revolution (Austin, 1986). Bill Groneman, Alamo Defenders (Austin: Eakin, 1990).
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Your metabolism is constantly running in the background of your life. By turning calories into energy, your metabolism affects how well you sleep, think, and feel. It used to be that if you wanted to take a metabolic test, your only option was to go to a specialists’ office or a relatively expensive health clinic, assuming there was one convenient to you. With advances in home testing technologies, however, it is now easier than ever to order a metabolic testing kit online and analyze your metabolic rate within the comfort and privacy of your own home.
The difference in price and time commitment between at-home and in-office tests is dramatic, but do they work? Is at-home metabolic testing worth your time, and should you purchase such a test?
We’ll share the differences between traditional and at-home metabolism tests and break down the intricacies of the best tests on the market now so that you can make the best decision for your body, mind, and budget.
Everlywell's test focuses on the three hormones that play a vital role in maintaining normal metabolism.
Everlywell is one of the largest and most respected at-home health and wellness testing companies. The company receives high ratings in terms of Value, Accuracy, Privacy, and Customer Support.
Both metabolism tests currently on the market measure the same three biomarkers: TSH, testosterone, and cortisol. They cost less than $100 to take at home; however, Everlywell is half as expensive as its competitors for the same test quality. Everlywell can also take HSA or FSA payments.
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Both Everlywell and myLAB Box test the same three hormones, use the same methods to test (blood spot immunoassay and salivary), and use similar CLIA-certified labs for the testing itself. There is care and thought put into every test. While no at-home test is a diagnosis, you can receive information to a startling degree of accuracy from either service.
Winner: myLAB Box
Differences in speed essentially rely on your location and how quickly the package can slip through the post office to your front door. While both Everlywell and myLAB Box are fast and efficient tests, both using finger-prick and saliva samples, myLAB Box takes slightly less time to get to your door.
This is a negligible difference: our testers received myLAB Box in five days due to shipping errors, but the site promises two-day shipping. On the other hand, Everlywell makes no such promises, and our testers still got their boxes in five days. Both brands take two to five days to process your testing results.
If you have any questions or concerns, no matter how specific, Everlywell’s customer support through email or a phone call can provide you with a detailed, thorough breakdown. (Their in-browser chat is best for straightforward questions.) They provide excellent information through their FAQ and numerous testing details in different mediums, such as written tutorials, step-by-step guides, physical pamphlets, and videos. Compassionate and fast, Everlywell’s customer service representatives go above and beyond their competitors.
At Innerbody Research, we extensively test each health service we review, including these metabolic testing services. All told, our team has spent over 56 hours testing and researching the metabolic test kits and related services of these companies to provide an accurate, unbiased analysis of how the products and services compare, free of marketing jargon and gimmicks.
Over the past two decades, Innerbody Research has helped tens of millions of readers make more informed decisions to live healthier lifestyles. We evaluate the service based on adherence to quality, the latest medical evidence and health standards, and a simple question: would we buy the product or service ourselves if it weren’t part of our job, and would we recommend it to family and friends?
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Your metabolism is more than just your body’s natural ability to burn calories.
Metabolism is the process by which your body takes the food you consume and turns it into energy through chemical reactions.
The speed of this chemical process is your metabolic rate, which varies from person to person: the faster your metabolic rate, the more calories you need to sustain yourself.
The differences in metabolic rate are why some people can consume a lot of calories without gaining weight, while others accumulate fat at lower calorie consumptions.
A myriad of factors work together to determine your metabolic rate, including:
The older you are, the slower your metabolic rate.
The more muscle mass you have, the faster your metabolic rate. This is because muscle takes more energy to stay functioning than fat storage.
The bigger your body (in both height and weight), the more calories you burn because it takes more energy to keep all of you functioning.
The colder your environment, the more energy your body expends trying to keep you warm.
When you’re stressed for a short period of time (such as during finals or near a deadline at work), your body increases cortisol levels, which suppresses your appetite and increases the amount of energy it takes to get through the day. On the other hand, chronic stress (due to economic concerns, for example) can lower your metabolism and increase your likelihood of reaching for a sugary snack.
Your metabolism drops up to 15% when you sleep, and though the causes are still unknown, sleep deprivation is linked to a lower metabolic rate.
Since all movement needs energy, the more active you are, the more calories you burn.
Several major hormones affect metabolism: thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) and thyroid hormone triiodothyronine (T3), testosterone, estrogen and progesterone, insulin, and cortisol. These hormones work together to determine how much energy your body spends. Some hormonal disorders can negatively affect your ability to burn (or store) energy.
Anyone interested in learning more about how their body works can consider taking a metabolism test. While no test will give you a complete picture, the insights can help you figure out the best way to take care of your body.
If you have lost or gained an unexpected amount of weight (10% of your body weight or more) or feel more fatigued or hungrier than usual, you might also consider taking a test. If an at-home test reveals a hormonal imbalance, you can take those results to your doctor for care; if there are no hormonal imbalances, you’ll know you can safely implement lifestyle changes.
Athletes can also benefit from a metabolism test. With lots of energetic output, your body might react differently to fluctuations in stress than the average person’s. A metabolism test can show you exactly how many calories your body uses and how much effort it takes to start creating lactic acid buildup to maximize your workouts and meal plans.
Metabolism is a complicated process. One metabolism test, whether at home or in a doctor’s office, will never give you all of the information you need to fully understand your metabolism. Since your metabolism can change with weight fluctuations, changes in exercise habits, daily and chronic stress, and more, it is exceptionally challenging to pin down your metabolic rate over time.
An at-home metabolism test is further limited since it only checks the hormone levels that affect the processes behind your metabolism. Influential hormone tests can’t tell you about your resting metabolic rate or oxygen consumption. Likewise, these tests won’t be able to tell you whether or not you’re experiencing metabolic syndrome since they don’t test your insulin resistance or cholesterol levels. If you aren’t experiencing symptoms of metabolic syndrome or issues with processes tied to your metabolism (such as body heat, hunger, and weight changes), an at-home metabolic test might not be right for you.
Up to one-third of American adults have metabolic syndrome. Metabolic syndrome is not a disorder itself but is often a precursor for concerns like heart disease and diabetes. This can happen from a combination of biological predispositions and lifestyle choices but can be prevented with a healthy lifestyle.
Risk factors include:
Metabolism tests measure your metabolic rate -- how quickly your body both burns calories and uses oxygen while you’re performing various activities. A metabolic test might measure:
Most metabolism tests require special equipment only available through a specialist’s office. However, you can measure some influential hormone levels at home through a finger-prick or saliva test.
A basic metabolic panel is a blood test that measures multiple body functions, testing for various conditions, including diabetes, kidney problems, and lung problems.
This test provides information about your:
If any of your results from a basic metabolic panel come back abnormal, your doctor might order a more detailed test.
This test measures how many calories your body burns at rest. In a direct calorimetry test, you’ll spend at least an hour inside a large, insulated, air-tight chamber called a direct calorimeter. This machine measures the amount of body heat you give off and uses that information to calculate your resting metabolic rate (RMR) or the number of calories your body burns at rest. Since direct calorimetry requires this machine, it is only possible to do it in a specialists’ office.
This test measures how many calories your body burns at rest. In an indirect calorimetry test, you’ll breathe normally into a mask to measure the volume of oxygen you consume compared to the volume of carbon dioxide you expire at rest. This difference is then used to estimate your resting metabolic rate. An indirect calorimetry test takes no longer than ten minutes but provides a relatively accurate estimate of your metabolic rate. These are most accurate when fasting and in a calm, relaxed state.
A VO2 max test, also known as an aerobic capacity test, measures how your body uses oxygen and burns fat. These tests are performed during an assortment of different types and intensities of exercises. You’ll breathe into a mask and exercise until either the intensity level is too high or the test ends. Your VO2 is measured based on the amount of carbon dioxide you exhale at each intensity so that you’ll have an estimate of your metabolic rate at each level of exercise.
A lactate threshold test is similar to a VO2 max test but is specifically designed for athletes. It measures the intensity of exercise where the body can no longer supply the necessary oxygen to keep up with performance. When oxygen can’t keep up with athletic performance, lactic acid begins to build up in the body as lactate production peaks and muscle fatigue sets in. This test requires blood draws at various activity levels and can sometimes be combined with a VO2 max test.
Most influential metabolic hormone tests will measure three hormones associated with metabolism:
Some metabolic hormone tests will also measure progesterone levels, but this is less common since testosterone levels have a more consistent influence on your metabolism. A metabolism hormone test can give you a good picture of how well all of your body’s metabolic processes are functioning. If one or more of these tests come back abnormal, take your results to your doctor, who will be able to help assess the issue with more detailed testing.
Thyroid-stimulating hormone, or TSH, is a reliable way of measuring your thyroid gland’s overall hormonal output. The thyroid produces hormones such as triiodothyronine (T3) and thyroxine (T4), and TSH monitors them. TSH tells your thyroid to make different amounts of hormones depending on how well your body is absorbing them. A low TSH value means that your thyroid is overactive, and a high TSH value means that your thyroid is underactive.
Thyroid hormones are essential in metabolic processes. If your thyroid gland is not producing enough thyroid hormone, it’s difficult for your cells to have enough energy to function. This is because thyroid hormone receptors are present in your hypothalamus, fat, brown adipose tissue, and skeletal muscles for body heat regulation; they are also found in the liver and can modulate carbohydrate and insulin levels in the body.
Hyper- and hypothyroidism – disorders caused by too low and too high thyroid hormones, respectively – lead to symptoms that can be summarized as your metabolism working too quickly or too slowly. These include issues with weight, fatigue and energy, appetite, and body temperature.
Testosterone is a sex hormone that plays a key role in metabolic processes. Everyone has testosterone in their body. While men have higher testosterone levels on average than women, it plays a vital role in your metabolism no matter your sex.
In particular, testosterone is vital to carbohydrate, fat, and protein metabolism. It increases lean body mass through muscle generation -- hence the fact that, on average, men have higher amounts of muscle and an easier time gaining muscle than women -- and changes overall body composition. Since muscle burns energy more than fat (which is stored energy), an increase in muscle mass increases your basal metabolic rate.
Low testosterone can cause many problems, including:
All of these issues are commonly associated with metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes. Testosterone deficiencies are more common in men, but can also occur in women. Women with PCOS are at a higher risk of developing metabolic syndromes since PCOS increases testosterone levels beyond a normal female range but is too low for normal male functioning. When testosterone is in this gray area, it appears to have the same symptoms as low T.
Cortisol is best known as the “stress hormone” and is part of your fight-or-flight response. When you’re physically or psychologically stressed out, your body releases cortisol, which shuts down functions that might get in the way of you getting through the situation. These functions crucially include digesting food. Of course, it makes sense then that cortisol is an essential part of your metabolic process.
Not only does cortisol react to stress and monitor inflammation, but it also plays a role in your blood pressure and carbohydrate, protein, and fat metabolism. Since your stomach slows down or stops digesting food when your cortisol levels are high, this can lead to increased weight gain and overall slower metabolism. It also stimulates glucose production, unlocking more energy to fight through the stressor and increasing blood sugar levels.
Whether you test at home or in person at a lab depends mainly on your personal preference, but if you’re not sure which method would be best for you, we’ve put together a little chart to help you.
Of course, there are other reasons someone might want to test at home or in person, but we think the convenience of the at-home testing experience is one of the most exciting things happening in modern medicine.
All three tests measure TSH, cortisol, and free testosterone, so no matter which kit you order, you’ll have your bases covered.
Based on our comprehensive testing of major companies, we consider Everlywell one of the best providers and recommend them over other companies for several types of testing. In the case of at-home metabolism testing, this rings true.
Everlywell’s metabolism test ($49) evaluates your hormonal metabolic functioning by looking at:
These are measured in a finger prick blood test (for TSH and testosterone) and saliva (for cortisol). All three hormones play an important role in maintaining a healthy weight and energy levels and are relatively easy to measure.
Customer service with Everlywell is fast and friendly (and is particularly detailed in their email and phone responses). Not only is Everlywell the least expensive metabolism testing option, but you can also pay with your HSA or FSA benefits.
The one shortcoming to Everlywell’s kit is its delivery speed. While it’s not slow by any means, it takes between two and five days for the kit to get to you, and then another two days after your kit arrives safely back in their CLIA-certified lab for you to get your results. MyLAB Box, on the other hand, takes two days to ship to you and two days to process your information. The difference is marginal and largely depends on the state of the postal service, but it is a difference nevertheless.
If you’re interested in testing more than just your metabolic hormones, Everlywell offers a luxurious membership program. For $24.99 a month, you have access to a list of tests that you can purchase for another $24.99, which is at least 50% off list prices. If you want to skip a month, your credit rolls over to the next month (but credits expire after one year and are not cash-equivalent). If you want to use a membership month on a metabolism test, you could get it for less than $49.
Like many companies in this guide, Everlywell offers more than just metabolism testing. To learn more about Everlywell and their membership program, check out our full Everlywell review.
myLAB Box offers its Metabolism Test for $99, but you can reduce the price by 20% to $80 using our INNERBODY20 coupon code. It’s a finger-prick and saliva test that measures your cortisol, testosterone, and TSH levels.
Even with the discount, this test isn’t as affordable as Everlywell’s but measures the same important hormones. However, one of the most intriguing things about myLAB Box is how they bundle their wide variety of tests. You can use their tests to look at anything from fertility to heavy metals, and they often bundle similar tests in different configurations so that you can zero in on exactly what you’re interested in learning. For example, they offer two other tests that are very similar to their metabolism test:
The Fitness Test includes more hormones and biomarkers associated with muscle repair, and the Weight Loss test addresses muscle repair and blood sugar, so the Metabolism Test is specialized to exactly that: your metabolic processes. Testing with myLAB Box can be more thorough thanks to these additional options, though each measures only the main three metabolic hormones (TSH, testosterone, and cortisol).
They also offer a free physician consultation after your results have been processed, so you’ll be able to speak with a professional for free if you have any questions or if anything seems abnormal.
To learn more about myLAB Box, check out our full myLAB Box review.
Testing from home will always take a little more time than testing in a professional’s office but allows you the freedom and flexibility to take them on your own time (and for less money). Typically, you’ll have to wait two to five days for your test kit to arrive in the mail. If it comes on a Thursday or Friday, we recommend waiting until Monday to take the test: weekend postal delays can theoretically be long enough that your sample might become non-viable. It’s a slim chance, especially given the durability of the blood tests these companies use, but it’s easily preventable and not a chance worth taking.
The kits themselves have specific instructions, but both ask you to go online and register your kit first. This way, the lab will be able to track your package and give you your results ASAP. We recommend doing it first thing so that you don’t have the opportunity to forget to do it later.
After you register, you can prepare the area you intend to use for your collection. Review the instructions for the samples and wash your hands thoroughly. Both tests require both saliva and blood samples.
Most blood collections will go like this:
A saliva test is easy -- just spit into the tube. However, make sure that you haven’t eaten, drunk, or smoked anything at least thirty minutes before your collection. Otherwise, you risk contaminating your sample with lunch.
Once you’ve collected your samples, pack them up and ship them back. Both testing companies will provide pre-paid envelopes to send back. Most companies also give some indication that your sample has shipped, and your sample should yield results within about two days of arriving at the lab. As with in-person testing, you’ll receive an email or text message directing you to your online account, where you can view and download your results.


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Your Miami HEAT today announced its full 2022-23 season schedule which will begin with five preseason games and feature 82 regular season contests from October 4, 2022 through April 9, 2023. Bally Sports Sun, the regional television partner exclusive to the Miami HEAT, will air all preseason games and 77 regular season games. The HEAT will make 22 national television appearances, including six on ESPN, four on TNT and one on ABC as well as 11 on NBA TV. The Miami HEAT Radio Network, led by its new flagship station AM 560 Sports WQAM (AM 560/FM 99.9 HD2), will broadcast all team games in English with select games on 790 The Ticket (AM 790/FM 104.3 HD2) when scheduling conflicts arise. In addition, the Miami HEAT Spanish Radio Network will broadcast every home preseason game and every regular season game in Spanish on its flagship station, Univision Radio’s Radio Mambi (710 AM/FM 107.5 HD-2 and simulcast on 1140 AM WQBA).
Miami will begin the 2022-23 campaign inside the FTX Arena on Oct. 4 in a preseason game against the Minnesota Timberwolves before a back-to-back road trip against the Brooklyn Nets on Oct. 6 and the Memphis Grizzlies on Oct. 7. go home for the final two games of the preseason, first against the Houston Rockets on October 10, then against the New Orleans Pelicans on October 12.
The HEAT will kick off its 35th regular season with a four-game homestand inside FTX Arena, kicking things off against the Chicago Bulls on Wednesday, Oct. 19 (7:30 p.m.), followed by a Conference Finals rematch. East televised on Friday night against Boston on October 21 (7:30 p.m.) before facing Toronto in back-to-back matches, first on Saturday, October 22 (8 p.m.) and again on Monday, October 24 (7:30 p.m.). Miami will then embark on its first road trip of the season with a three-game West Coast swing against Portland, Golden State and Sacramento. The HEAT will play 10 of its first 14 games in Miami before being on the road for eight of its next 10. The schedule is also highlighted by visits from the defending NBA champion Golden State Warriors on November 1, the Lakers on December 28 and consecutive. Milwaukee Bucks appearances on Jan. 12 and a nationally televised ABC game on Saturday, Jan. 14 (1 p.m.).
This year’s program includes 37 of the 82 matches played over the weekend (Friday to Sunday). Of these weekend games, 17 will be played in Miami (seven on Friday, seven on Saturday and three on Sunday). HEAT’s longest homestand will be a six-game streak from March 1-10, which includes 10 games inside FTX Arena in March, the most for any month. Miami will play 14 consecutive games and face the same opponent eight times in consecutive games. Additionally, the HEAT will play their road contest on December 17 against the Spurs in Mexico City, marking Miami’s second trip to Mexico City after previously recording a 101-89 win over Brooklyn on December 9, 2017.
A limited number of Miami HEAT mid-season ticket plans are available for sale for the upcoming 2022-23 season. Fans can contact HEAT by emailing [email protected] or calling 786-777-HOOP. Beginning Monday, August 22, the general public can purchase game tickets by logging on to HEAT.com/tickets/single-game-tickets beginning at 12 p.m. There will be a limit of eight tickets per household per game. All Miami HEAT home games are mobile-only. HEAT fans can secure access to purchase tickets before the general public by registering via https://heat.com/presaleaccess.


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Thanks to the recent improvement of the sanitary situation in Europe, the team of the Myth of Homogeneity is again presenting research results at international conferences. The ‘awakening’, after more than a year of forced inaction, began already in May 2021, when the team organised a panel at the Annual Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN). This year, the event, which usually takes place at Columbia University in New York, was held online. The panel, entitled Minorities after Versailles in Europe and the Middle East: A Comparative Perspective, explored interwar majority-minority relations in a broad comparative framework fostering dialogue between experts specialised in different geographical areas and political contexts.
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A lot of people have asked us what kind of music we’ll play at Tings. Especially after Thomas’ post on his blog the other day about Bryan Adams’ upcoming concert.
And this morning (6 am) I’m (Thomas)is enjoying the crispy notes from Miles’ Kind of Blue through our new speakers our friend Rasmus installed yesterday (Rasmus – your help and company is highly appreciated, thanx) – so why not share my thoughts about the music we will play… knowing that all the following is completely irrelevant. Once the vibe is on the music decides itself..:-)
Tings is NOT a club, disco, live venue etc.
The sound level will be just loud enough to create an ambiece that matches the time of the day, Annette’s interior, the crowd, the food etc. And more important – the sound level will be just loud enough so people can talk, small talk, think and relax … when we have a party, things will be different of course 🙂
So what will we play?
We will play a LOT of jazz – Miles, Coltrane, Mehldau, Ellington, Adderley, Zappa, Gordon, Jarret, Hancock, Zawinul, Lady Day, Lester Young, Sun Ra – just to mention a few artist from Thomas’ huge jazz collection…. (Thomas worked for Blue Note for several years and was member of the board of Copenhagen Jazzfestival)
We will also play remix/electronica from artists completely unknown to the Vally – it will not make any sense to mention the artists since most of them are downloads from the web. But listen to one of the artists that is on our Hi Rotation these day: Morten Vammen – then you get an idea of what to expect. You can also check out Aphex Twin’s catalogue – he can turn a hard core NIN track into a good-night-lullaby… or Opiate, or MUM
And then there are all the soundtracks from Thomas’ MGM collection. All the Disney Classic, all the Krautrock albums, the 200 Eno albums, the +200 Zappa albums, the Phillip Glass albums etc.
And there is Grateful Dead, Coco Rosie, Einsturtzende Neubauten, Muse, Pink Floyd, King Crimson, NIN, 13th Floor Elevator, Hawkwind and, and, and,…
In other words – we will have a LOT of music.
Won’t we play Old music?
Of course – especially from the DJ Andy Smiths turntable or some of his free down loads – the Document I-III albums are perfect for a Friday afternoon. And Thomas has a exquisite compilation by Lars Top-Galia (Lars – remember them?) – one he made as research for a series of ‘dogme adds’ for Thomas favorite beer Grøn Tuborg in the 90’ies.
The whole world scene means a lot to us – local Sukarma gave us one of our top 3 experiences in Nepal in 2010 at a concert that easily could make the same chaos as their world music colleagues from Argentina Bajofondo did in 2009 in Copenhagen where the enthusiastic audience took over the scene at the National Royal Theater and danced with the band while the security watched with tears in their eyes… not from panic, but because they had never seen so much love before…. Sukarma could easily do the same – especially with Jan Garbarek on sax (Kenneth, Stine, Anders and the rest of you guys at Copenhagen Jazz Festival – Jan G. will be proud!!)… BUT that is another story
And of course we will play reggae (Lee Scratch Perry), tango, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, African AND SALSA-SALSA-SALSA…
What about Classical Music?
Thomas has a problem with that genre… but don’t be surprised if you hear Stockhausen or Zappa or Bowie reading Prokofjevs Peter and the Wolf for the kids… or Hans-Erik Philip And Other Dreams.
In other words – the music will be different from what your hear in Nepal.
It’s not that we don’t like Metallica, Guns ‘n’ Roses, Deep Purple and other other of the soft metal bands from the 80’ies that are heavily copied in Thamel and a lot of other music bars/venues in Nepal. But ther are so much good music in the world that never get played in this country.
And we have NOTHING against Bryan Adams he is a good singer/song writer with very good tracks in his back catalogue. But the hype that is happening in town right now is crazy. And his sound is so far from the ambience we want to create at Tings that he will never get access to the speakers @ Tings Tea Lounge.
And this morning we just got a mail from our good friend and homie: Chrsitian Finne – he is asking for our official opening – he wil come flying and DJ for a night or two. Christian – we are looking forward to that. To the rest of you out there… the doors opend this Monday – it’s not a secret, just a slow start. And today we will get supplys from our friends at the brewery (Tuborg, Carlsberg, Red Bull).
C U soon

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KNOX COUNTY, Tenn. (WATE) – Knox County Rural Metro firefighters respond to a house fire in West Knox County overnight Friday.
The blaze broke out just after 3 a.m. Friday morning along Clearbrook Drive.
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2020-04-22The image is of a white flowering tree in a family member's garden, that has a ray of light in the corner of the photo. This was taken during a social distancing visit with family, and in way made me realize that I would like to bring photography back into the forefront of my professional career and don't want to be stuck in an office all day.
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Divorce often creates heavy stress for families of all kinds. On top of worries over child custody, living arrangements and property division, many spouses wonder whether they will walk away from a divorce with all their earned benefits intact.
It is normal, especially for those serving, to be concerned about how their military benefits will be divided once a divorce is in place, especially retirement benefits. After all, uniformed service members have dutifully earned these perks through their dedication to the country. And many spouses have supported them, often for decades.
What garnishments of military retired pay may include
The Uniformed Services Former Spouses’ Protection Act (USFSPA) has made it so that spouses or former spouses of military members may have rights to retired military pay. For the spouse to receive these benefits, there must be a court order included in the divorce decree that dictates the distribution of the retirement pay.
That is not the only thing a uniformed service member may lose in a divorce decree, however. In addition to retired pay for the ex-spouse, the federal government may order the garnishment of retired pay for both child support and alimony if the paying service member does not make required payments.
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Debts happen. More than child support or alimony, uniformed service members may owe commercial debts such as business mortgages, loans and bonds. However, retired members may not have their retired pay garnished for such commercial debts.
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Take a look at the character portraits in the screenshot below and see if you agree with me on something: they're clearly not from a game made in the U.S. I'm not saying they're bad; there's just something ineffably foreign about them, as if drawn with an artistic aesthetic that U.S. developers didn't have. Am I crazy? If not, what is it, exactly? It's driving me nuts.
|Outdoors in Dragonflight. My four characters' portraits are in the lower left and the commands are in the lower right. On the map, you can see a city and the road next to it, and various types of terrain.|
The portraits are just one way that playing Dragonflight is a somewhat foreign experience. Again, I add that I don't necessarily mean unpleasantly so--just that the combination of different graphics aesthetics, translated text of dubious quality, a new emulator, a weird combat system, and a slightly odd combination of an oblique and iconographic interface come together to create vaguely alien setting. The trick is to value such experiences rather than compare them negatively to more familiar U.S. games. If I practice this on European titles, it'll be less jarring when I start to encounter more Asian RPGs later this decade.
Dragonflight is the first RPG from Thalion, a German developer that specialized in Amiga and Atari ST games. The company had a reasonably prolific period between 1989 and 1993 before going out of business in 1994. Its only role-playing games are this one and the better-known Amberstar (1992) and Ambermoon (1993), which I guess take place in the same setting, though (judging by the screenshots) with a very different interface.
This game is providing my first experience with an Atari ST emulator. It was released for the Amiga and Atari ST in German, French, and English, but only for German in DOS. I also heard that the DOS version is buggy in a way that prevents winning the game, so it seemed prudent to try one of the others. After trying and failing to get it working in an Amiga emulator, I invested the time to learn the ST system and the Steem emulator. This will come in handy for a small number of games released solely for the ST. (If the screenshots seem inconsistent, it's because the emulator lets you size the window any way you want and I didn't figure out how to fix the ratio until late in this gameplay session.)
The game takes place in a land in decline. Some years prior, a war caused irreparable damage to an area of land called the Dragon Vale, the only place where dragons would birth their young. Following the war, some kind of spell fell over the Vale, no one could enter, and dragons disappeared from the skies. Since (much like in Drakkhen) dragons seem to be the source of the world's magic, their disappearance has caused all kinds of strife. As the game begins, four students of Pegana University, all orphans, have been given a quest by headmaster Dambrano: re-discover the old magic and find out what happened to the dragons.
|A brief opening cut scene.|
There is no character creation in the game. Every player starts with Bladus, a male human fighter; Rinakles, a male elf mage; Dobranur, a male dwarven cleric; and Andariel, a female elf archer. The manual's back story gives them all some light characterizations: Bladus is in love with his own physique; Rinakles is a bit absent-minded; Andariel is beautiful and in love with the woods; and Dobranur is given to drink and creative cursing.
There don't seem to be any attributes for the characters except hit points and spell points; I assume both increase as experience does. "Weaponpoints" and "armourpoints" are unexplained by the manual, but they seem to be a function of inventory rather than attributes. "Character points" serve as a karma meter; they are lost by fleeing in combat, attacking fleeing enemies, and other role-playing scenarios I've yet to experience.
|Bladus's character screen.|
The game begins after a brief address from Dambrano, who gives them all "stasis rings" (allowing for resurrection if they present them at a temple) and part of the "Great Map." He suggests that the party tries to find the other 11 parts and directs them to Benglur in the town of Brindil-Bun, who has another piece. After that, the party starts out in the middle of Pegana, with no other clues. Each character has 100 gold pieces, 100 units of food, and a torch.
|Starting out. Note how the houses are oblique, but the people and fountains are iconographic.|
The interface is almost completely mouse-driven, which I don't like. You can move with the numberpad, but none of the other commands seem mapped to keystrokes. The game window combines oblique-angle shots of buildings with more top-down iconographic shots of people and objects like fountains and trees. Commands are fairly limited. You can click on each character portrait to view statistics and inventory, and there are commands on the right side of the interface that change depending on context. In towns, you can cast spells, view objects, talk to NPCs, and knock at doors (the only way to enter buildings). Outside, you get options to cast, attack, board or exit a ship, enter a city or building, make camp, search, or save and load.
I spent most of this first game session exploring Pegana, buying equipment, and talking to NPCs. There's no day/night cycle in the game, but time still passes and consumes rations. I was down to 40 units of food when I finished mastering everything. I found two taverns, an equipment shop, Pegana University itself, a bunch of private homes, and perhaps 12 NPCs wandering around the village. Some of the private homes were locked; others were open and had NPCs.
|Buying more food in a tavern.|
NPC interaction is one-way, in the old Ultima mode, and consists of walking up and hitting the "talk" button before they walk away. Some NPCs have very brief responses, like "Greetings!" or "Get out of my house!" Others have paragraphs of things to say.
Some of them seem to be expecting some kind of answer, but there's no way I can find in the game or the manual to reply to them, except to show or give an item. Perhaps these questions are just meant rhetorically.
Buildings--which you enter by positioning directly in front of the door and hitting "knock"--all lead to menus rather than explorable areas. Returning to the university prompts a dialogue with Dambrano, who seems to be expecting us to return with spells.
I wasn't able to afford much more than short swords at the blacksmith's shop (there don't seem to be any class restrictions on equipment), so I equipped everyone and headed out into the wilderness to experience my first combats.
|Equipping items. At this point, I figured out how to lock the screen ratio.|
As usual, I'll save a longer combat post for when I have more experience with the interface, but at first blush, it seems original and odd. The party and its foes face each other on a side-view screen with a gridded tactical map in the upper-left corner. You select actions for each character, including moving one square, attacking, casting a spell, and defending, then watch them all execute (along with the opponents' moves) at once. Right-clicking switches between movement options and other options. At Level 1, each character has only one action per round, but I guess it can grow up to 9.
|The execution phase. I'm wounded by an orc as my various characters try to cluster around the foe. One of them is walking off the wrong way. I'm still getting used to things.|
If you don't have a ranged weapon or spell, you have to close with an opponent before you can attack, and you have to be facing the opponent. This is where I run into trouble. Movement options are to move left, right, forwards, or backwards, and to turn around, but there seems to be no movement option to turn left or right. This suggests there are only two squares from which characters can attack each enemy--from the front and rear. Characters adjacent to the enemy on the sides can't attack. Moreover, enemies seem to be capable of moving on the diagonal, but characters cannot. I feel like I must be missing something here, but I can't figure it out from the interface or manual. Help appreciated.
Whatever turns out to be the case with combat, the manual hints that I should use Bladus and Dobranur for their weapons (Bladus favors the sword, Dobranur the axe), Rinakles for spells, and Andariel for a bow. When I get to the point that I have spells and can afford a bow, it will be less important to have everyone able to melee attack.
Both characters and enemies can flee by moving off the screen, and the manual says that there is a "character point" penalty assessed for attacking fleeing enemies--another element which seems to be inspired by Ultima IV.
A few more notes:
- The main town featured a statue with a dedication to Gary Gygax. That was classy.
- The only sound in this version of the game seems to be relentlessly awful music, with no option to turn it off, so I've been playing with the sound on my computer turned off. This means I can't watch Mad Men during the boring parts.
- Full party death gives you a screen that suggests the possibility of resurrection--then dumps you back on the main menu.
|Yes. Yes, it is.|
- Moving overland is much like Ultima IV, where harder terrain like forests and mountains forces you to hit the movement key multiple times to walk one step.
- For some reason, the houses in town are all numbered.
|Is this like an address, or are you inexplicably showing me programming code?|
So far, the game seems inoffensive, but I haven't experienced any particularly strong innovations, and having to do everything with the mouse is horribly slow and annoying. Maybe it will improve; certainly, the character point system suggests a depth of role-playing still to come, I haven't investigated the magic system, and dungeon-delving promises a completely different interface. For the next post, I'll try to check them all out.

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Wholesale egg prices in the UK have soared to fresh highs this month with the squeeze on EU egg supplies intensifying.
Earlier fears of over production this autumn, as the UK flock continues to expand, have evaporated in the wake of the shortages caused by the Fipronil scandal.
“There’s very, very little eggs out there at the moment,” said Andy Crossland at the Central Egg Agency.
The market was already going seasonally short due to the approach of Christmas, he said.
“Packers are reporting very good retail sales at the moment and with the problems across Europe there’s been nothing to import to satisfy demand.”
Colony prices are showing the biggest gains, with PW’s indexed price for large now at 147 (see chart opposite page). This is the highest price recorded for 5 years, and has “long gone past” the level of retail prices, said Mr Crossland.
As a result, wholesalers were not just finding it difficult to obtain supplies, but also finding it difficult to sell them, with small users starting to buy from cash and carries, and low end discount retailers.
Higher demand has also been coming from processing: “Due to the food scares over there, a lot of UK retailers have demanded UK-produced eggs from their food manufacturers.”
Processing demand is also adding strength to the free-range sector, where wholesale prices have hit their highest levels for 3 years, despite the continued expansion in the sector.
“Many of us thought that this autumn would have been a weak time for free range with the amount of birds coming through, but the demand from processors has helped to take anything surplus off the market, and the prices have improved as well.”
All this will help to manage a new surge in UK output, which saw day-old pullet placings rise by 10% and 12% in August and September, compared with the same months last year.
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