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Rejoice! The bear market could be over. That’s the principle thesis behind July’s “The Bitcoin Monthly” report. “Because bitcoin’s price did not rise parabolically during the 2021 bull market, its bear market correction could be over,” ARK causes. And it is smart, the numbers appear to counsel it, and it feels prefer it. However, are we fooling ourselves? Is ARK’s reasoning wishful considering? Let’s look at the information and see what it tells us.
First of all, “bitcoin closed the month of July up 16.6%, rising from $19,965 to $23,325, its most significant gain since October 2021.” So far, so good. Can we declare that the bear market correction is over, although? Well, “the likelihood of touching its delta cost basis has diminished, bitcoin’s downside risk in a bear market technically stands at its delta cost basis, currently $13,890.” This quantity appears far-off. Maybe bitcoin is slowly getting out of its slum.
“Bitcoin has corrected 72% relative to its alltime high. Although this drawdown is consistent with intracyclical corrections, like the COVID collapse in 2020, bitcoin usually finds global cyclical bottoms with a correction greater than 80%.”
That doesn’t sound as promising. Maybe there’s extra ache forward, nonetheless… “Given the positive correlation between bitcoin and US equities since COVID, the US being the leading price mover of bitcoin suggests an emerging risk-on market environment,” ARK claims. Apparently, the US has been main the bulls currently. Perfect. Bitcoin wants all the assistance it will probably get in these attempting occasions.
Are We Leaving The Bear Market? Let’s Look At The Signs
- “Contagion in the crypto markets appears to be contained, as Celsius and Three Arrows Capital officially file for bankruptcy.”
Announcing the Celsius news, NewsBTC stated “After weeks of conjecture and hearsay, Celsius’s legal counsels have formally informed regulators that the cryptocurrency lender has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.” Announcing the 3AC one, we stated, “Crypto hedge fund 3 Arrows Capital is slated to be another pillar piece of 2022’s bear market headlines, joining the likes of brutal bear market moments that include Terra Luna’s downfall and CeFi’s drama.”
- “Leverage appears to be unwinding across the crypto ecosystem, paving a path to recovery”
That’s phenomenal. May this proceed to occur.
- “After trading below its investor cost basis for the first time since March 2020, bitcoin has reclaimed major support levels and is trading above its market cost basis.”
Great information. Is this actual, then? Are we getting out of the bear market this quick?
BTC worth chart for 08/09/2022 on Kraken | Source: BTC/USD on TradingView.com
Other Factors, Miners And Lightning
- “Despite continued miner pressure, bitcoin’s economics are at equilibrium.”
Ok, some miners bought and others turned down their machines. However, the strain appears to be subsiding and the solar appears to be shining.
- “Bitcoin’s scaling solutions appear to be gaining momentum, as capacity on the Lightning Network reaches an all-time high.”
The Lightning Network went face to face with the bear market and didn’t even flinch. People are constructing and the L2 answer is greater and higher than ever. “LN capacity growth seems to accelerate during bear markets, marking a shift in sentiment from exuberance and speculation to testing and building longterm solutions for bitcoin.”
- “Given continued declines in economic activity, including employment, the Federal Reserve could pivot during the second half of the year.”
Is the US in the course of a recession? Opinions differ, however the outcomes are the identical. People all around the world are struggling. “The drop was attributable largely to a decrease in inventories, residential and non-residential investments, and government spending. Strong recession signals could compel the Fed to change its hawkish stance,” ARK states.
- “The 10-year Treasury bond yield has been unable to sustain a move above 3% and is now falling, posing less competition to cryptoassets.”
Government bonds have been the most secure funding for years and years. Nowadays, they’re not the brand new child on the block anymore. Bitcoin is the brand new child on the block. This bear market won’t have been greater than “brief deviation.” We could be again in enterprise in any case.
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Factors Prompting De-escalation in the Middle East
By Louis Kriesberg
This Article Summary written by: Tanya Glaser, Conflict Research Consortium
Citation: Louis Kriesberg, "Factors prompting De-escalation in the Middle East" International Conflict Resolution, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992) 65-68.
Kriesberg argues that de-escalation initiatives are influenced by domestic circumstances, by the international context and by the relations between the protagonists. He examines all of these factors in relation to the Israeli-Arab conflict.
Early Arab-Israeli relations were polarized. Arab nationalism opposed the formation of a Jewish state. Arab opposition contributed to Jewish militancy. The actual creation of Israel intensified the identity of non-Jews as Palestinians. The Islamic revival increased religious opposition to a Jewish state. Adopting Marxist and socialist perspectives, the Arab nations saw Israel as a creature of Western imperialism. This period was marked by wars.
In 1967 Israeli army seized new territories. In 1973 the Egyptian and Syrian attack on Israel ended in stalemate. Egyptian honor was somewhat restored by their limited military success, and Egyptian-Israeli relations improved after the stalemate. Relations with the other Arab states, however, remained hostile.
Egyptian President Sadat acknowledges that his 1971 peace initiative was in response to public pressure. "I believed that as military action was ruled out at the time, a diplomatic offensive had to be launched: the broad masses wanted to see action being taken at the time."[p.65] The 1977 bread riots in Egypt also demanded action. As neither the Soviets nor the other Arab nations were reliable sources of support, Egypt had begun to cultivate American favor. Peace with Israel was necessary to gain the further goodwill and support of the U.S. Pressure from the masses of Palestinians living in Jordan prevented King Hussein from offering substantial accommodations to Israel. Yasir Arafat's leadership of the Palestinian people was contested by other, more extreme, Palestinian groups. Such competition for leadership inhibited Arafat's ability to negotiate. "As the moderate, he seemed reluctant to take any de-escalation initiative for fear of being outflanked by groups more extreme in their demands against Israel."[p. 67]
Israeli public opinion has long desired peace, but believed that the Arab states were uninterested in peace. Differences in opinion among various Israeli political parties were mooted by the perceived lack of any negotiating partner. When Sadat signaled Egyptian willingness to negotiate, domestic differences of opinion began to take on more significance.
Since then, Israeli peace initiatives have been inhibited by the domestic competition between the various political parties for strong public support. Public backlash to the violence under the Likud party government removed them from power in the early 1980s. However, public perception that a party is too accommodating of Arab demands equally threatens to undermine that party's support, and increase support for the domestic opposition party. Thus the Likud party regained power after Rabin's assassination.
The International Context
Starting in the 1950s, the Cold War became the dominant context for the Arab Israeli conflict. The influx of arms and support to their respective allies from the Cold War superpowers encouraged a general escalation of conflicts in the Middle East.
Regional rivalries were also a significant context for the Arab-Israeli conflict. Arab nations competed for influence in the Arab world, and influence over the Palestinians. Resolutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict which appeared to favor an Arab nation would be opposed by other Arab states.
Kriesberg argues that the superimposition of global and regional conflicts onto the Arab- Israeli conflict served to inhibit de-escalation efforts. The immediate issues in the Arab-Israeli conflict became linked to broader issues. However, when these broader conflicts began to de-escalate, it correspondingly opened up the possibility of de-escalation in the Arab-Israeli conflict.

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The following gives details of the Iraqis who are reported to have died in Haditha on November 19, 2005. When finished reading this, remember that children did indeed die tragically. War is Hell...for our troops and for the Iraqi people.
In reading news accounts of the Haditha incident, a few points are found over and over. These are the abbreviated talking points:
- U.S. Marines killed (or massacred)
- 24 Iraqi citizens (often including the words "innocent" or "unarmed", sometimes only mentioning women and children)
- in their homes
Really? According to this Washington Post article that gives details gathered from witness accounts to a Washington Post special correspondent and U.S. investigators:
- Abdul Hamid Hassan Ali, 76, and his wife - Khamisa Tuma Ali, 66, three middle-age males, and a child - Abdullah, 4, all died in the first house. The report alludes to an additional daughter-in-law that would have been in the house and did not survive. (Six or seven deaths)
- Younis Salim Khafif, 43, his wife - Aeda Yasin Ahmed, 41, a boy, 8 and girls aged 14, 10, 5, 3, and 1 were killed in the second home. (Eight deaths)
- Four brothers, Marwan, Qahtan, Chasib and Jamal Ahmed were killed in a third house. Marine officials said that one of the brothers had a gun. (Four deaths)
- The final deaths were of four male college students -- Khalid Ayada al-Zawi, Wajdi Ayada al-Zawi, Mohammed Battal Mahmoud and Akram Hamid Flayeh, and their taxi driver, Ahmed Khidher, who were all killed inside the taxi. (Five deaths)
Eighteen or nineteen deaths occurred in three homes. Five deaths happened in the taxi. Seven of the deaths were of children, two or possibly three were of women, fourteen were of men. One man is reported to have had a gun.
Now, in the New York Times' detailed account (already reserved as TimesSelect or available for purchase):
- Abdul Hamid Hassan Ali, aged 77 and his wife - Khumaysa Tuma Ali, 66, Rashid Abdul Hamid and his wife, Asma, two adult males - Jahid Abdul Hamid Hassan and Walid Hamid Hassan and 4 year old Abdullah Walid all died in one home. (Seven deaths)
- Younis Salim Nisaif and his wife, Aida, and Aida's sister, Huda, and five children, 3 to 14 years old were also killed in the second home. (Eight deaths)
- Four brothers between the ages of 20 and 38 were killed in the third home.
- Five men - four students and a taxi driver between the ages of 18 and 25 died in a taxi.
Six children were killed. Four women were killed. Fourteen men were killed. Nineteen were killed in homes. Five were killed in the taxi.
What seems to be known from the above reports is:
- Up to 24 Iraqi men, women and children were killed in an incident in Haditha. Fourteen of these were adult men.
- One man is reported to have had a gun.
- The killings occurred in three homes and a taxi.
- U.S. Marines allegedly carried out the killings.
- The military has not yet completed its investigation into the incident.
Journalists are paid to get the facts right. If you catch an error in a news report, point it out. Otherwise, details will expand (or contract) to fit the agenda as what happened here.

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BYU men’s soccer beats UVU 7-1
BYU men’s soccer took down UVU for the second time this season Saturday in a very cold and rainy afternoon game.
The final score against the wolverine’s was 7-1.
Goals in the match were scored by the following:
Thys Call (12′).
Eric Morris (14′, 21′)
Kyle Covelier (18′)
Ryan Tetro (31′)
Evan Smith (54′, 87′)
Notable stats from the match:
This match concludes regular season play for the Bruins.


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There must be something to Phoebe Tonkin’s (Hayley) ultra-healthy lifestyle, because first thing in the morning, post-shower, no makeup, she looks flawless.
The Originals star tweeted a picture of herself sans cosmetics this morning after receiving flowers from Vogue Australia. “Thank you @vogueoz for my beautiful flowers what a way to wake up this morning! xx,” she wrote along with her fresh-faced picture. Phoebe was also sporting her glasses, which made her look extra adorable!
The gorgeous Aussie recently guest blogged for the magazine during Australia’s Fashion Week. You can check out some of her to-die-for looks right here. No wonder Vogue wanted the actress to represent them!
As for us — we definitely don’t look like that first thing in the morning. Hey, Phoebs. Mind sharing some of your green smoothie recipes with us?

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THEY say God is love. Well it appears the Voice of God has found love via that wonderful "social-networking" tool known as Facebook.
The Voice has been absolutely beaming these days. Rather than shooting thunderbolt stares at people and growling dire warnings, he is more likely to be seen skipping around the office, humming gaily to himself. I swear his voice has risen half an octave, too.
Apparently the Voice was contacted by an old "friend" from his schooldays and the rest, as they say, is history. Some might say it's a miracle that a man so willing to unleash a mighty wrath on anyone that crosses his path can change so much in such a short space of time.
Then again, it's amazing what a bit of nookie can do.
On Friday all Wales was preparing for a mighty assault on the rugby World Cup. Before that there was a little matter of a game of footie at the Millennium Stadium between Wales and Germany. The recent performances of the round-ball team had meant only 25,000 tickets were sold - hardly the kind of crowd that was likely to bring chaos to the streets of Cardiff.
But first sign of those awful football fans, and Wales goes into meltdown. Drinking with one of my old pals from the nationals on Friday night, we decided to make the most of a balmy evening by standing outside so that I could puff contentedly on a roll up.
Fine, until it came to a trip to the bar. When the barmaid plonked my pint of Carling down it was, heaven forbid, IN A PLASTIC GLASS.
Of course, I complained. "Sorry," she said, "but it's the law."
Well, it's not the law every other Friday when we drink outside the Yard. And I'm sure it's not the law when thousands upon thousands of alcohol-addled rugby fans visit the city with the express intention to get wrecked.
Double standards, I tell you. Double standards.
As for the meal I enjoyed the other day, I have refreshed my memory of the Anthony Bourdain recipe for cote de porc.
1 tbsp oil
1 tbsp butter
4 large, boneless pork chops
a handful of shitake mushrooms and some big sliced Portabello mushrooms
salt and pepper
1 small onion, finely chopped
2 tsp flour
two washed and roughly chopped, but not peeled, carrots
2 sticks of celery
2 finely sliced shallots
1/2 cup white wine
1 cup beef stock
2 tbsp dijon mustard
1 sprig flat-leaf parsley.
Sprinkle the chops with rock salt and black pepper and leave to dry for 15 mins.
Pre-heat oven to about gas mark 4
Place carrots, celery and shallots in an oven-proof pan and pour over olive oil.
Put that in the oven and roast for 15 minutes, then toss into a large saucepan.
Heat up and mix in 1 tsp of flour.
Add a pint of beef stock and boil rigorously for a while, reducing and thickening.
Meanwhile, heat the oil and butter in a large saucepan, or griddled saucepan if you want to be fancy.
Add the chops, put the mushrooms around them and sear them for 4 mins on both sides
Transfer both to an ovenproof pan and place in the oven, cooking for 8 minutes before removing from oven and placing on a plate, covering with silver foil.
At the same time as the pork is in the oven, drain the vegetables from the thickened stock with a sieve placed above a measuring jug.
Put the frying pan with the chop juices back on the heat and add the chopped onion.
Cook until golden, then add the flour and stir in. Add the white wine, and reduce, scraping up all the good bits.
Add the newly made stock a bit at a time, stirring all the time.
Reduce by half then remove from heat and whisk in the mustard.
Add the parsley and adjust the seasoning to taste.
Lay the pork out on a plate and pour over the stock. Serve with the sweet potato and spring onion mash featured on the previous blog entry. Mmmmmm!

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MAY 23, 2023
JOINT MEETING NORTH SMITHFIELD TOWN COUNCIL/MUNICIPAL BUILDING REVIEW TASK FORCE
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Documents related to the meeting will be posted on the Town Council’s page of the Town’s website on Tuesday, May 23, 2023, at 10:00 a.m., see link here:
- I. OPEN MEETING – PRAYER – PLEDGE
- II. ROLL CALL
- III. NEW BUSINESS
- A. Discussion by Council, Vote, or Other Action regarding a presentation by Architect, Eric Army (appearing at no cost) to review the 2016 Police Station renovation proposal and 2016 architectural plans prepared by Mr. Army and discussion with Mr. Army regarding establishing an up-to-date analytical 2023/2024 project cost to complete a Police Station renovation based upon the 2016 Police Station architectural renovation plans.
- B. Discussion by Council, Vote, or Other Action on retaining the services of the Architect, Eric Army (who is prequalified on state MPA) to review the 2016 Police Station renovation proposal and 2016 architectural plans that Mr. Army prepared for the purpose of establishing the up-to-date analytical 2023/2024 project cost to complete a Police Station renovation based upon the 2016 Police State architectural renovation plans.
- IV. OLD BUSINESS
- A. Discussion by Council, Vote, or Other Action Regarding RFP for Immediate Repairs to the Existing Police Station
- B. Discussion, Vote, Or Other Action in Regard to a Ballot Question for the Replacement of the Existing Police Station
- 1. Potential date
- 2. Enabling legislation General Assembly
- 3. Ballot language Bond Counsel
- 4. Secretary of State
- 5. Financial Advisors PFM Financial Adv.
Next Meeting Date
Individuals requesting special assistance should contact the Town Clerk’s Office at 767-2200, ext. 326 seventy-two (72) hours in advance of the meeting date.
Agenda posted May 19, 2023


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Kawasaki has just announced that the ZX-10R will get a host of updates influenced by the Kawasaki Racing Team for the 2016 model year. According to the manufacturer’s press release, the new litre class Ninja will feature important updates – some of them are subtle changes to the design while others only become apparent as you get closer to the thoroughbred machine. The 2016 ZX-10R will be released early October in Spain.
Let’s start with the only fact regarding the technical side coming from Kawasaki: the most important change is the comprehensive upgrade of the suspension components and the adoption of a premium grade braking system. Unfortunately, Kawasaki did not disclose any more details, just a teaser photo.
Kawasaki also launched a new marketing campaign with the tag-line „Get Closer” for the new machine.
“This is not a “clean sheet” design as the current Ninja ZX-10R is such a good base to develop from”, commented Project Leader for KHI, Yoshimoto Matsuda.
“With the new model we have focussed our development resources on an overall engineering and performance improvement. We are proud of the result; it means a significant advance in terms of both chassis and engine performance as well as providing the platform to introduce new, state of the art rider aids and other technology.
The input the KHI development team has received from the Kawasaki Racing Team, and riders, Jonathan Rea and Tom Sykes has created what we are sure many will feel is the most competitive and potent Ninja ZX-10R yet. A motorcycle equally at home on the race track or as a highly responsive daily riding road machine.”
The 2016 ZX-10R will be revealed in October at an exclusive media launch hosted alongside the Kawasaki Racing Team in Barcelona, Spain.


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October 10, 2020 12:24:29 am
With Central and state governments and corporates set to tap the bond market for funds in a big way, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday announced a series of measures to bring more liquidity and keep bond yields under control. The benchmark 10-year bond yield fell as much as 8 basis points to 5.93 per cent after the RBI announcement.
The RBI has introduced on-tap targeted long-term repo operations (TLTRO) of Rs 1,00,000 crore for providing additional liquidity to sectors with backward and forward linkages to growth, extended SLR holding limits under HTM (held to maturity) till March 2022 and announced open market operations (OMOs) for state development loans (SDLs) for the first time to compress the rising spreads.
It has decided to conduct on-tap TLTRO with tenors of up to three years for a total amount of up to Rs 1 lakh crore at a floating rate linked to the policy repo rate. The scheme will be available up to March 31, 2021, with flexibility with regard to enhancement of the amount and period after a review of the response to the scheme. Liquidity availed by banks under the scheme has to be deployed in corporate bonds, commercial papers and NCDs issued by entities in specific sectors.
The RBI will maintain comfortable liquidity conditions and will conduct market operations in the form of outright and special open market operations. In response to feedback from market participants, the size of these auctions will be increased to Rs 20,000 crore from Rs 10,000 crore, the RBI said.
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It said banks which had availed of funds earlier under targeted long-term repo operations (TLTRO and TLTRO 2.0) will be given the option of reversing these transactions before maturity.
For the first time, the RBI has decided to conduct open market operations in SDLs as a special case during the current financial year. This is being done to impart liquidity to SDLs and thereby facilitate efficient pricing. This would improve secondary market activity and rationalize spreads of SDLs over central government securities of comparable maturities, the RBI said. “We look forward to cooperative solutions for the borrowing programme for the second half of the year. It is said that it takes at least two views to make a market, but these views can be competitive without being combative,” RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das said.
“We expect bond yields to soften post this announcement and prices to rally across gilts, SDLs and corporate bonds. Money market yields are already trading at low levels in the backdrop of ample banking system liquidity and past rate cuts,” said Bekxy Kuriakose, head–fixed Income, Principal Asset Management.
Krishnan Sitaraman, senior director, CRISIL Ratings, said, “The Rs 1 lakh crore TLTRO window should enhance funding availability for companies as economic activity picks up in the second half of the year. The last TLTRO scheme had enabled BBB and A rated entities to access funding through bonds, which was otherwise challenging for them.
According to Abheek Barua, Chief Economist, HDFC Bank, the highlight of the policy was the RBI’s signal that it would “do whatever it takes” (a phrase immortalized by former European Central Bank Governor Mario Draghi) to align risk-free government bond yields with the fundamentals of the economy. “Were these measures to succeed, as we expect them to, the upward pressure on yields that have built up on the back of heavy anticipated supply of central and state government bonds, is likely to moderate,” Barua said.
It remains to be seen if the commitment to facilitate state and central government borrowing, as well as the explicit signals aimed at softening yields, are adequate to ensure that the bond market shrugs off concerns regarding the fiscal health of the central and state governments, as well as the large supply of state bonds that is expected in Q4 FY2021, said Aditi Nayar, principal economist, ICRA Ltd.
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10 Wonders of Melinjo Fruit for Health
Have you ever eaten melinjo? Or at least a product produced from melinjo material? Some very famous products from Melinjo for example are chips or other creations. Melinjo is a fruit that is produced from the melinjo tree.
Melinjo trees including shade trees that grow in Indonesia and other countries in Southeast Asia. Melinjo trees have large upright stems with many branches filled with elongated small leaves. Melinjo tree height reaches 25 meters. Leaf character is smooth and has a soft surface. Young leaves have a light green color while older leaves can be bluish green.
Melinjo Fruit Character
Melinjo fruit grows in groups on the stem and stem branches. Melinjo fruit is wrapped in a thin skin on the outside and a hard skeleton in the layer after thin skin. Raw fruit has a green skin. Skin color will change from green, yellow and red after it is cooked. Ripe fruit can fall on its own without the need to be picked. Parts of melinjo fruit that can be used starting from the skin of the fruit for vegetables and snacks and fruit to be used as chips, vegetables and various other snack products. Seed size can vary from 1 cm to 3 cm.
Many people who do not like melinjo because it is rumored to often cause gout. When sufferers of high uric acid consume melinjo fruit, they will feel quick pain in the feet and hands that are symptoms of gout have risen. But apparently the benefits of melinjo are very good for the body, here are some of them:
1. Boosts Immunity
The highest natural content in melinjo fruit is an antioxidant ingredient. The benefits of antioxidants will work to attack all free radicals in the body and boost the immune system. The content of antioxidants found in melinjo fruit can work like vitamin C found in fruits.
2. Prevents Premature Aging
Premature aging can be caused by free radical attacks that can make the skin look older. Premature aging is characterized by increasingly wrinkled skin, dark spots and skin that is not elastic. Consumption of melinjo fruit regularly can prevent premature aging due to the content of natural antioxidants in melinjo fruit.
3. Natural Ingredients for Hypertension
Antioxidants found in the benefits of melinjo fruit are also very good for preventing high blood pressure. High blood pressure can cause complications such as stroke and heart disease. A special protein found in melinjo fruit can overcome the problem of high blood pressure. However, melinjo should not be consumed excessively.
4. Strengthening Memory
The content of antioxidants melinjo fruit can also help improve memory. This happens because the melinjo tree is one of the types of trees included in Ginko plants or plants that are indeed useful for improving memory. Melinjo fruit can strengthen memory because it can support the growth of active cells in the brain and blood.
5. Become a Natural Preservative
Extracts produced from melinjo fruit contain lots of flavonoids and natural antioxidants. These ingredients turn out to be excellent natural preservatives for preserving certain foods. The benefits of melinjo for health can reduce the potential for bacterial and fungal development in food. Even processed from melinjo does not require preservatives and can last a long time without mold or damage.
6. Increase Stamina
Melinjo fruit can be one snack that can really increase stamina. Melinjo fruit can be processed into various snacks in an easy way. This light snack is not only filling and low in calories but also makes the body more energized. When you are tired and not excited, try to consume chips or snacks prepared from melinjo fruit ingredients.
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When the urine is not smooth, all urinary systems can face problems. There are various causes such as bacteria and urinary system that are not smooth. To overcome this, you can consume melinjo fruit. However, if it is not effective, you can try using steam from boiled melinjo fruit.
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Anemia can occur because the body loses red blood cells which can cause there is not enough oxygen in the body. Then anemia will cause the body to become weaker, tired, and not excited. Headaches and dizziness are major disorders that cause the body to become weaker. Melinjo fruit consumption can increase the number of red blood cells so that it can help overcome anemia.
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If you get a bite wound from a dog or other wound, it can be treated with melinjo fruit leaves. You can try to pound the melinjo leaves with garlic. Apply to the wound for a few moments then rinse with clean water. The wound will dry quickly due to the natural antioxidant content of the melinjo leaves.
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I sat down to write a diary about people’s experience with gun violence in this country. I planned to ask a simple question: How many people do you know who have been killed (or injured) by gun violence? How many people have been killed (or injured) by gun violence within a 10-mile radius of your home?
But it turned into something else.
Let me start by saying that I share many of the concerns and ideas expressed here in recent weeks
What interests me, though, is supporting efforts to bring peace to urban black communities. I don’t want to talk (or think, or live with) “black-on-black”-crime, and don’t really care about statistics in this regard.
In the process of answering my own question, I realized that all the people I know, or know of, who have lost a relative or friend to gun violence, were black people (mostly youth) who were killed by other black people. That’s just the reality of my life.
My immediate neighbor has lost two children and one grandchild to gun violence over a period of about 10 years. I elaborated on that here. A while back, we were standing out on the street—my neighbor’s husband, his 8-yr old granddaughter and I—lovely summer day, I was watering the lawn—two guys come around the corner and start shooting (with handguns) into the house of a known gang-member, two doors down from mine. Another two doors down, there used to be a bar that was the site of frequent gun violence, until the owner was murdered and the place had to shut down.
Known gang-member. Known to his family, to his neighbors, to the local police. What I know about him is that—unless I get caught in the cross fire—it’s probably the cop two doors down on the other side—known to be shady as the day is long, unstable, rumors of domestic violence, lots of looney-tunes shit going on there!—is probably the less predictable threat. If anyone is likely to go-“postal” in this immediate community, he's the one! Since gangbanger neighbor knows that I know and we all know the risk he brings to the neighborhood, I can at least say to him, “Look….I’d appreciate it if you would NOT park in front of my house.” He knows exactly what I’m talking about. Or, when he and or associates let their dogs vacate on the lilacs I’ve planted in the parkway, I may whip open the front window and holler, “Hey, could you please not let your dog piss on my lilac tree?” Soon as the tags go up on the fences or garage doors in the back, we call the city to have it removed.
So, yeah, in what I’d say is a three-block radius, one “problem”—in this case, by no means a “child”. His family’s owned the property for decades, and really, he’s the only one that’s a problem. There’s not a lot anyone can do but make it clear to him and to his family that we do not approve. “Snitching” is not an option. The cops, and detectives, local aldermen know. I would not be surprised to learn that he’s in cahoots somehow with the cop at the end of the block.
The best we in these communities can do to create black on black peace in our communities is to “lead by example”. We have to be creative: Aye-Kuumba! ;-) There are neighborhood block clubs all over. Ours is not an official one, but we call ourselves “the XXrd Street ‘gated community’”: because, well, we ‘got gates!’—we have to—and we got community, amongst ourselves and extending into the blocks around us. This is the “Hood” as I know it: really cool people, most of them “gainfully employed”, most of them with long-term ties to the community, as homeowners, mostly. The “bad guys” are the exception. And most of them weren’t “born” bad. Really.
So, anyway, I don’t need to “talk” about black on black violence. It’s almost the only form of violence that hits close to my home. My own immediate family has been largely spared the trauma, but my neighbors’ haven’t, my colleagues’, my students’, my friends’. Almost everyone I know has lost at least one close friend or relative to black-on-black violence. R.I.P. t-shirts aren’t a fucking fashion statement. And what all of us want is black-on-black peace.
At the height of media focus on Trayvon Martin, like just about everyone else, the people I hang out with, the people I live with, work with, walk on the street with; my students, my colleagues, the check-out clerks at local retailers, teachers in area schools were talking about Trayvon Martin. But their concern was less the fact that a white dude shot an innocent Black kid. The bigger deal was how many other Black kids have been shot and killed by other black kids in our neighborhood this year and how there was never a run on whatever piece of clothing those kids happened to be wearing when they were shot.
As I write, the number of homicides in my city just hit 503, with the murder of “conscious” rapper, Christopher Thomas.
And that is why I would rather draw attention to, and encourage support for nationwide efforts toward black-on-black peace.
I am at the point where I do not give a rat’s ass about “white privilege”, at least not as a topic for discussion. We can talk about and support black-on-black peace efforts without understanding the mechanisms involved in “white privilege.” Anyone who has not been moved to tears, moved to compassion, to outrage, and ultimately to action by such contributions as these:
Well, then—if those pieces leave you cold--I dunno. Go play in the street or something because you’re not likely to be able to provide the kind of support or action I am inviting people to provide in this ACTION DIARY.
The decision to write about black on black peace efforts was inspired in part by this comment thread which led me to a fairly recent Ta-Nehisi Coates piece:
I decided to follow-up on some of the links Mr. Coates provides. I know or at least know of many of these people, projects, efforts in my city; many of them are right in my neighborhood. I was unaware of others. I have not done any extensive “vetting”—just a little googling. I have not proceeded systematically and this list is by no means exhaustive, though I have added links to a number of projects that came to mind off the top of my head.
I put it out there as a model and an inspiration to others.
Want to honor the Sandy Hook victims? Commit 26 Creative Acts of Kwanzaa today (and/or tomorrow. Heck, it's even OK if it takes you a minute to get around to it). Whether you reach out to one of the organizations/efforts listed below, whether you decide to do a diary on similar efforts in your own city. Whatever. As the community group Occupy the Hood so eloquently (;-)) states: Do. Some. Shit.
I'm not proposing this as an alternative to the fight for a Marshall Plan or to efforts to oppose, expose, and decompose white privilege, racism, and all the other actions. I'm suggesting this should be a piece of the bigger puzzle.
But DailyKos folks are good at getting behind these kinds of things, and impacting public opinion to the extent that of receiving "honorable mention" in the strangest of places....
So c'mon, let's commit some creative acts of Kwanzaa on this Day of Kuumba.


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Bad boy meets bad girl – is that all there is?
Passionate, hard working and every inch a business woman, Chicago realtor Kitty Paige likes her sex raw and edgy, and sees no reason to limit herself to just one man. Never married and not quite forty, the striking blonde has successfully raised her daughter, Susan, and is already pushing her new-found freedom to the limits.
Wealthy commodities middle-man and race horse owner Jared Jacobs is father of the best man at Susan’s wedding. He is smitten by the vision in yellow who exudes sex as she escorts her daughter down the aisle. Also single, the handsome mustached California ranch owner with mischievous eyes views his sex life as a series of splendid love affairs, and sets out to make Kitty next on the list.
Together and apart, their chemistry is explosive, and their sparkling repartee and steamy sex catch both partners by surprise. Jared is first to recognize he’s fallen in love. When Kitty panics, can Jared finesse his every move and reel her in?
“Oh, God. Have mercy.”
“Not this time, babe.” Jared easily lifted her butt and slid one end of the scarf under it. Quickly, he had her loins encased in silk and handed the ends of the scarf to her care. “I won’t be needing these for awhile. You may find a use for them.”
Her fingers curled around the scarf and he settled between her legs. He laved the silk around the edges of her pussy and then looked up with a grin. “Isn’t it amazing how silk feels when it gets wet—your juices and my tongue.”
She tugged on the silk scarf, increasing the pressure against her loins, and nodded jerkily. “Make me come, Jared.”
“Like this?” He tongued the silk covering her pussy and pushed a little inside her folds.
“Oh, yeah. That’ll do it. A little more.”
He lifted his head and shook it when he saw her distressed glower. “Not yet,” he whispered, retrieving the scarf. “Not nearly yet. You won’t come until I’m ready for you to come.”
He laughed as her gaze burned into him. He grabbed her wrist and tied one end of the scarf loosely around it. Her eyes rounded with awareness. Her lower lip trembled slightly when he tied the overlap of the knot around a bedpost. She didn’t move when he reached for her other wrist. “You know what I’m going to do?”
She nodded. “You’re going to ravish me.”
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AIRASIA X Bhd (AAX), Malaysia’s long-haul low-cost carrier, is perhaps seen as the first victim of the Covid-19 pandemic. AirAsia X Bhd (AAX), Malaysia’s long-haul low-cost carrier, is perhaps, seen as the first victim of the Covid-19 pandemic when it called upon a restructuring scheme to resurrect the airline back to life after being hard hit by lockdowns and consumer demand that just evaporated overnight. In its filing with the exchange, AAX revealed a complex restructuring scheme whereby its paid-up capital will be reduced by as much as 99.9%, leaving its share capital at a meagre RM1.53mil from RM1.53bil. At the same time, the company will carry out a rights issue exercise to raise at least RM100mil and up to RM300mil. In addition, AAX will raise up to RM200mil via a special-purpose company (SPV) to be incorporated by Datuk Lim Kian Onn, with a minimum subscription of RM50mil. The SPV may also subscribe for an additional 15% of the enlarged share base after the rights issue and proposed subscription. The basis of the rights issues has not been determined just yet but nevertheless, the company will proceed to undertake a share consolidation exercise whereby the 10 shares will be consolidated into one new share, resulting in the current shares outstanding being reduced from 4.14 billion to 414.8 million. Effectively, the company’s net asset value per share based on the latest quarterly results for the period ended Sept 30 will be reduced from a deficit of about 28 sen per share to a deficit of RM2.77 per share. Of course, this is prior to the rights issue exercise and placement of shares being executed. Interestingly, even if AAX is able to raise RM500mil from a rights issue or via a placement of new shares to selected investors, its shareholders’ funds on a proforma basis will remain negative – a key point to note and understand as to whether the business model is still sustainable or otherwise. Talking about rights issue, this will not be the first time that AAX is calling for one, as it did a rights issue on the basis of three rights shares for every four AAX shares held at an issue price of 22 sen per rights shares in 2015. As a sweetener then, AAX issued one free warrant for every two rights shares subscribed. This rights issue raised some RM391mil in gross proceeds for AAX. AAX, in actual fact, was listed in 2013 when it came to the market raising as much as RM987.7mil with at an initial public offer (IPO) price of RM1.25 per share. AAX’s IPO entailed an offer for sale of 197.53 million shares and a public issue of 592.59 million shares. Hence, the gross proceeds received by the company from the IPO was RM740.7mil. Together with the first rights issue that was carried out two years post-listing, AAX has raised some RM1.13bil from the public. Airline is never an easy business as not only it is competitive but also subject to the vagaries of oil prices, exchange rates as well as financial issues related to accounting treatment and high capital expenditure. AAX reported net losses between 2013 to 2019, with total accumulated losses of RM1.66bil during the period, and with reported net loss of RM1.16bil in the first nine months of 2020, AAX’s total losses since 2013 is RM2.82bil. Since its listing until its current latest reported quarter, AAX shareholders’ funds has deteriorated by about RM1.73bil, which is after taking into consideration the gross proceeds from the IPO and rights issue. Can AAX be saved? What is AAX post-recapitalisation? In late July, AAX announced that its auditors has issued an unmodified audit opinion with emphasis of matter on material uncertainty relating to going concern in respect of AAX’s audited financial statements for the financial year ended Dec 31,2019 and that AAX’s shareholders’ equity on a consolidated basis was 50% or less of its share capital. With that, effectively AAX triggered the Practice Note 17 (PN17) of Bursa Malaysia’s Listing Requirements (LR) but as the regulators have given affected companies a relief from being classified as PN17, AAX was not required to comply with obligations pursuant to paragraph 8.04 and PN17 of the LR for a period of 12 months from the date of triggering the criteria. Nevertheless, AAX was rather forthcoming to announce its recapitalisation plan in an announcement in early October. In that maiden filing with Bursa Malaysia, AAX announced a restructuring plan involving RM63.5bil of debts to be reconstituted into indebtedness by AAX for a principal amount of up to RM200mil. AAX also said that any balance in excess of reconstituted amount shall be waived while all existing contracts and agreements previously entered into with the relevant creditors will be deemed terminated. Airline customers who had purchased or made advance payments for flights will receive travel credits with extended validity for future travel or purchase of seat inventory. Although this initial announcement called for a capital reduction of 90%, this was later revised to 99.9%. The RM200mil that will be reconstituted into new indebtedness will be repaid by AAX in three equal annual payments from the third year of implementation of the debt restructuring. These debts will also carry an interest rate of 2% per annum. AAX also explained that post-restructuring, its focus will shift towards medium-haul flights of between five and six hours and it will operate with up to 25 A330 aircraft. One of the challenges in AAX’s recapitalisation plan is understanding its level of indebtedness as at the June 30 accounts. The total liabilities, excluding advanced sales to customers, was about RM6.4bil. The accounts also showed capital commitments in the form of future aircraft purchases amounting to RM141.3bil! While there were no breakdowns provided for the half-year period, a check with AAX’s audited statements showed that as at the end of last year, this figure was RM135.3bil, of which RM64.4bil were for aircraft purchases to be delivered between one to five years and RM70.9bil was for more than five years. The question is, are capital commitments in the form of future aircraft purchase constitute a legitimate liability for a corporate, given that these are in actual fact off-balance sheet items? A check with several sources indicate that it really depends on the nature of these capital commitments. Are there penalties for cancellation and at which point do these capital commitments move from being an off-balance sheet item to an actual liability? It is rather perplexing to comprehend as to why would an aircraft manufacturer allow an airline to have capital commitments equivalent to almost 1,000 times the company’s latest audited shareholders’ funds. Down south, Singapore Airlines too have a rather huge capital commitment sitting as an off-balance sheet item, but that figure is only about 2 times its shareholders’ funds. In actual fact, AAX should come clean on the figures that constitute its group-wide restructuring scheme and whether the RM63.5bil figure is an overestimation or otherwise. As it is, AAX is trying to shrink its liability by as much as 99.7% by reducing its total liability from RM63.5bil but in actual fact the reduction of its total liability should be from RM6.4bil. Even if AAX is saved from the brink of total wipe-out, post-restructuring, AAX will still be up against negative shareholders’ funds as it is unlikely the current deficit (i.e. post restructuring but before rights issue and issuance of new shares to the SPV) would be reversed. With just between RM150mil and RM500mil in fresh capital, depending on the level of acceptance in the rights issue exercise and amount taken up by the SPV, AAX’s wings will remain clipped and it would be tough to compete in the open market. AAX should consider a better option to resurrect the airline. Otherwise, it is perhaps time to axe AAX. Pankaj C. Kumar is a long-time investment analyst. Views expressed here are his own.
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The project revolves around a couple whose friends and family don’t think they are right for each other.
Hoffman will star opposite Kelli Garner (Pan Am) as Zach, a meticulously neat and organized Jewish dentist who was left at the altar by the impulsive Jenny (Garner). Eight years later, they have a chance meeting and quickly realize they are still very much in love.
Hoffman’s credits include guest spots on Luck, Arrested Development and Undeclared.
Writer-actress Michelle Morgan penned the script and will serve as an EP alongside Peter Chernin and Katherine Pope.Follow @VladaGelman


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Howdy! Michele here with a card to share with you today! I have been on a water coloring kick lately and this is one of the finished cards. The flower was cut using water color paper and given a water color wash in hues of pinks and purples. I cut some leaves and adhered both to an inked panel using my Crafty Foam Tape. I love that the flower pops off the card a bit.
I adhered the panel to the card using my E-Z Squares®. The sequins were added with the small DODZ™. (Much easier than hassling with glue!) It is a rather “simple” card for me, but sometimes, less is more. 😉
Thank you so much for popping on by today!


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“Battling Boy,” by alternative comics creator Paul Pope, follows the self-dubbed Battling Boy, the son of a warrior god sent to save a city under siege by deadly monsters.
The young hero arrives in Arcopolis with a magic credit card, a book called “The Encyclopedia Monstrosity,” and a dozen enchanted T-shirts, each bearing a different animal totem, which allow him to become clever as a fox, strong as a Tyrannosaurus rex, powerful as a gryphon, etc. Meanwhile in Arcopolis, a girl named Aurora mourns the death of her father, the city’s jetpack-wearing hero Haggard West, and makes plans to take up his quest.
“Battling Boy,” out this week from First Second Books, is filled with secret science laboratories, sci-fi ray-blasters, bandage-wrapped monsters and plenty of beast-bashing action. For Pope, the project is a mash-up of everything he loved as a child.
Pope, whose previous work includes “The One Trick Rip-Off,” “Heavy Liquid,” “100%” and the Eisner-winning “Batman Year 100,” is perhaps best known for his manga comics for the Japanese publisher Kodansha, which he created while living in Tokyo. His comics are heavily inspired by his mentor, French comics icon Moebius, and the work of Jack Kirby.
Hero Complex caught up with Pope to talk about the inspiration behind “Battling Boy.”
HC: How did “Battling Boy” get started? How did you dream up this project?
PP: After writing and drawing stories for Marvel and DC Comics using established, classic, familiar characters, and having worked and lived in Japan making manga before that, I started thinking about creating a new superhero who is still a kid, and to aim the book toward kids, while still keeping the story intense and cool enough for adults. I felt like there aren’t enough cool, new, intelligent superhero comics for kids, and I wanted to get into that ring and give it the feeling of a mash-up of classic superhero comics and manga. At the time I had adolescent nephews, and I knew most of the work I had done was too adult for them. I wanted to make something they could read and enjoy.
HC: Did you draw from Greek or Norse or any other existing mythology for Battling Boy’s godly origins?
PP: For sure the Norse and Greek myths are apparent, because they are pretty well-known to everybody, and therefore useful in terms of cues and symbols. But I also tried to draw upon other world mythological sources, as well as comics influences from Japan and Europe. I basically threw everything into the mix. At the time I was looking at a lot of old Heavy Metal magazines, which featured a lot of French and Italian adult-oriented comics, and old Marvel and DC Silver Age comics, which are quite fun and sort of innocent. And I was getting into Carl Jung, who writes a lot about dream interpretation and the mythic meaning of symbols in various world cultures, ancient to modern.
HC: What about the monsters? They seem to be part-kaiju, part-demon. How did you go about developing Sadisto and the other monsters in the book?
PP: Since I was trying to invent a kid superhero story with science fiction elements, I tried to go back in my memory and channel the feeling of excitement I had for all the stuff I loved as a kid. I loved “Godzilla” and “The Mummy” with Boris Karloff (an inspiration for Sadisto) and all these ’60s and ’70s comic books, as well as films like “Star Wars” and “Mad Max.” I just tried to throw into the story as much and whatever I could remember being into as a kid, whether film or comics or cartoons or fairy tales.
HC: Arcopolis is a fun blend of old and new. Can you talk a little about developing this retro/modern setting for the story?
PP: For Arcopolis (an obvious inversion of the word “Acropolis” — “high city” in Greek), I was trying to set the tale in a new metropolis, someplace where we haven’t seen Spider-Man or Batman or the Avengers battle bad guys. Also, I wanted to find a way to give the book some feeling of the old-school Disney films, where in those fairy-tale stories, everybody is aware monsters and talking animals exist. Like in the “Sleeping Beauty” film, everybody knows an evil Queen turns into a giant fire-breathing dragon, and we as readers or viewers can accept that as plausible. I wanted Arcopolis to seem like a city under a siege, and that made me think of Dresden or London during WW2.
HC: The T-shirts as personas/weapons is a really fun idea. What inspired it? How did you choose the animals for the T-shirts and their associated powers?
PP: Honestly, I dunno where that idea came from. I knew my nephews would think it was cool, since they really loved T-shirts with cool graphics, and I wanted to put a bunch of animals and monsters in the book. Battling Boy doesn’t fight supervillains, he fights monsters, who seem like supervillains, and I knew he needed some sort of “magic weapon.” I struggled over dozens of animal candidates, trying to find the right balance of powerful and less-than-powerful animals.
HC: You play with the idea of publicity and politics interfering with heroism. Is that a theme you wanted to explore?
PP: Yes, for sure. Kids know they are subject to manipulation and that sometimes adults lie or do things for ulterior motives. One rule I had for this book is I wouldn’t do anything to pander to a false sense that everything will be instantly OK if you just get rid of the giant fire-breathing dragon or you put the bad guy in jail. I tried to add a bit of commentary on the phenomenon and interest in our culture regarding child celebrity, which is often really damaging for the child.
HC: Both of your heroes, Battling Boy and Aurora, are more or less children. Why do children make such compelling warrior protagonists?
PP: Good question. I think it’s because they are young, and therefore these are characters going through big things for the first time, they have a sort of innocence and inventiveness and lack of guile. They represent potential, since they are untested.
HC: Aurora is a terrific heroine, with her dad’s secret science lair and her tough mentor. She and her dad remind me a bit of “The Rocketeer.” Will she play a larger role in the next book?
PP: For sure. I have been calling Aurora the “stealth” hero of the book, since we held off on revealing her for as long as possible. I wanted a strong girl hero in the book. She is the Battling Girl, in a sense. I don’t have a niece, but I know girls would like to see a strong girl hero to contrast with Battling Boy. Both are dealing with the absence of parents in the book, and both have huge burdens of responsibility which they are dealing with.
HC: Speaking of the next book, I’m assuming there’s going to be one?
PP: Yeah, I’m working on “BB2” now.
HC: How do you envision the story unfolding? Do you have an end in mind, or are you just seeing where the characters and the world take you?
PP: “Battling Boy” is two books, one huge 400-something page story, spread out over two books. It’s completely written out as a script, and now I’m just slogging away at finishing Book 2 as soon as I can.
HC: Can you tell us a little about your process? Do you write first, then draw?
PP: Yes, I wrote out a complete plot outline and it has a very clear story to tell. From there, I work out dialogue and action points, then do thumbnails and go to pencils and inks. I try to do a page a day in the studio, using a weekly thumbnail list of about seven pages at a time, which seems about right for this project (some projects or pages are faster or slower). I study classic Disney animation process, which was very efficient and effective, and since I work alone, I need to be disciplined.
HC: Anything else you’re working on? Anything else you’d like to add?
PP: I do a few comic book covers or silkscreen posters, but mostly all of my energy is going into finishing the second “Battling Boy” book so we can get it out there. Excited for the second book, which is darker and answers a lot of the questions the first book asks. Battling Boy doesn’t arrive until about 50 pages into the story, but Book 2 deals with a lot of his hero’s journey and his uneasy alliance with Aurora.
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Scientists Probing U.K. Dementia Levels Get Pleasant SurpriseAllison Connolly
Science lately is painting a surprisingly rosy picture of old age.
The prevalence of dementia has declined in the U.K. in the past 20 years, confounding researchers’ expectations, according to a study published in The Lancet today. A week ago, Danish scientists said they’d found people surviving past the age of 90 were mentally sharper than a decade ago.
The latest study on aging found that only 6.5 percent of the sample people interviewed in Cambridgeshire, Nottingham and Newcastle between 2008 and 2011 showed symptoms of dementia. A similar study conducted between 1989 and 1994 pointed to results above 8 percent. Dementia costs the U.K. economy about 23 billion pounds ($34.7 billion) a year, according to Alzheimer’s Research UK.
“One interpretation of the findings is that general health and health management has improved to the extent that it has helped reduce dementia risk, which is encouraging,” Eric Karran, director of research at the group, wrote in a comment accompanying the study.
Dementia is marked by severe memory loss and develops slowly. Alzheimer’s is the most common form of dementia and patients may have trouble carrying out daily tasks and experience changes in their personality, according to Karran’s group.
Early education and heart-disease prevention can help while diabetes, obesity and a lack of physical activity can have the opposite effect, said the researchers, led by Carol Brayne of the Cambridge Institute of Public Health at Cambridge University.
Women are more susceptible to dementia, a bias known to researchers and confirmed in the latest study. About 7.7 percent of women were estimated to have dementia compared with 4.9 percent of men. The researchers also found more people with dementia lived in nursing homes than 20 years earlier.
The study, funded by the U.K. Medical Research Council, consisted of interviews with 7,796 people aged 65 and older. The researchers compared the results with those of a similar study conducted between 1989 and 1994 in the same locations.
“This study shows individual risk is decreasing, although the absolute number will continue to grow because the population is aging,” Tony Arthur, professor of nursing science at University of East Anglia, who worked on the study, said in an interview.
Dementia is a progressive, terminal disease and there is no cure, Karen Harrison Dening, interim Head of Admiral Nursing at Dementia UK, said in an interview. Some treatments can alleviate symptoms though she advocated stress reduction and emotional support to the patient and caregiver.
The study results will be presented at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in Boston today.
The Alzheimer’s Society estimates there will be 1.7 million people living in the U.K. with dementia in 2051 as baby boomers age and risk factors such as obesity increase.


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All of the things that we would expect to see at the start of a major economic downturn are happening.
As the Federal Reserve continues its fastest rate hike cycle since the stagflation crisis of 1980, a couple vital questions linger in the minds of economists everywhere ?" When is recession going to strike and when will the Fed reverse course on ti
Peter Schiff recently appeared on Dan Bongino's Unfiltered on Fox News to talk about the economy, inflation, the stock market, the Federal Reserve and investing in 2023. Peter said the recession that everybody denies exists is going to get worse, a
After about seven years, the average new car is worth less than half what it sold for new. As of the third quarter of last year, says the credit reporting apparat Experian, almost 20 percent of all new car loans issued were for seven years - and 11
As the Federal Reserve continues its hawkish market reset - which has contributed to a rise in interest and mortgage rates - real estate experts are sounding the alarm that "big trouble" lies ahead for the U.S. market.
"Mortgage rates are lower than October 2022 highs, but would have to decline substantially to generate additional refinance activity," noted Joel Kan, an MBA economist.


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Top, 7:25 a.m. on Idaho Trail as house bursts into flame Sunday, Oct. 18. Bottom (l-r), Farnum’s car was in the garage where the heat was so intense it could be felt across the street. The car is destroyed. A view from the Termino Trail, as workers seal off the holes in the roof and the exploded windows to secure the house until Farnum decides whether to repair or to rebuild.
Fire Hydrant, Water Pressure, Firefighter Questions Raised
By Patric Hedlund
Stacey Balbona heard two large “booms,” shortly after 7 a.m. Sunday morning, Oct. 18. The second one shook the side of her house. She ran to the door and saw flames leaping from the roof of her neighbor’s garage at the very end of Idaho Trail in Frazier Park. She quickly called 911. Blanche Farnum, a widow who lives alone, emerged from the front door of her burning home, dazed and confused, then turned and re-entered the house. Neighbor Mike Suorsa dashed across the street without shoes to bring her out of the building and over to his own home while his wife Christen and Stacey Balbona both made repeated calls to Station 57 and 911 dispatchers.
Firefighters from Frazier Park arrived on scene in a tanker truck, but Kern County’s budget cutbacks have reduced them to a two-person crew. Safety protocol requires that a minimum of four firefighters be on scene before a team can enter a burning building. The first responders were unable to enter the house until additional personnel arrived.
The two pumped water on the blaze, but the flames jumped into the rafters and vaporized the insulation. Fire burned through the roof and jumped into the air. Another Kern County Fire Department tanker arrived from Lebec, then one from Mettler, a fourth from Kern County and one from L.A. County’s Gorman station. Firefighters pumped down the water supply of three tankers within a few minutes, trying to extinguish the blaze. They asked residents where to find a fire hydrant, Gary Balbona said. Finally, they discovered one down on Dakota Trail. The U.S. Forest Service also arrived to help. They moved furniture out of the home. About 30 firefighters eventually responded, but the home suffered about $400,000 in damage, KCFD estimated.
“It is an eye-opener,” Stacey and Gary Balbona said. “We moved here in 2006. No one ever pointed out there was no fire hydrant near us.” They were told that if there had been snow on the steep, rutted dirt trail the engines would not have been able to enter the area. “Why does the county give building permits without demanding that the fire hydrant and fire access be adequate?” the couple asked.
Greg Keenberg, manager of the Frazier Park Public Utilities District (FPPUD), said the Dakota hydrant was within the county’s specifications of about 500 feet. But the water pressure in the Idaho Trail area is low because it is so close to the Jim Young water tank that supplies the area. “All pressure in this system is from gravity,” Keenberg said, “and these homes are really high on the hill.” Though Mike Suorsa said his family paid $9,000 to extend a six-inch distribution pipe to the east end of Idaho Trail when they built their home about five years ago, Keenberg reported Monday that the feeder line from the tank itself is only four inches. He hopes to change that to eight-inch piping in Phase Three of the FPPUD system upgrades.
On Tuesday he showed Gary Balbona “a beautiful map with all the hydrants marked with GPS,” created by KCFD, Stacey Balbona said in an interview.
Neighbors praised the firefighters: “They used everything they had available, including pumping foam onto the flames to stop the fire in the insulation.”
Utility companies secured electrical lines and gas pipes. The neighborhood did not lose electricity. KCFD information officer Captain Brandon Smith said rags saturated with Penofin, a combustible oil finish for wood, may have been left exposed to air and spontaneously ignited (it is recommended that they be kept in a metal can). He added that their engine pumps increase the pressure from the hydrants, but “There are certain points where the water supply is too low and the pump will cavitate… we have to be cautious not to cause the lines to rupture.” He said this is rare.
Stacey Balbona said the neighborhood leapt into action to help Farnum, but “she’s grief-stricken, she feels she’s lost everything—‘I’m homeless and car-less,’” Balbona quoted Farnum, a senior citizen, as saying.
Smoke damage to furniture and clothes was severe. Farnum is staying with her sister in Frazier Park. Neighbor Judy Cadman said The Shelter On The Hill Thrift Store will invite Farnum to choose anything she needs, at no cost.
This is part of the October 23, 2009 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.
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