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Healthful Alternatives for Treatment of Depressionby Vin Miller, December 17th, 2011
Depression is a very common health care concern and is disabling for many people. In most cases, antidepressant medications are the chosen form of treatment, but they aren’t always effective and often have dangerous side effects. Although antidepressants have proven to be invaluable for some patients, they’re frequently recommended without prior consideration of safer and more healthful forms of treatment that can be just as effective.
Serotonin is a neurotransmitter that’s commonly cited as a cause of depression, and the most prominent class of antidepressants is believed to work by increasing its availability. However, the involvement of serotonin in depression is not universally accepted, and even if it was, the fact that serotonin activity can be influenced by basic dietary factors is often overlooked. This serves as a good example of the many opportunities to treat depression in a manner that promotes optimal health instead of detracting from it. And while it’s easy to place blame on our medical system for not making such opportunities more available, it would be much more productive to embrace the perspective that it’s your own responsibility to guide the direction of your treatment.
The Common Approach to Treating Depression
Based on data from 2007, it’s estimated that nearly 9 million Americans recieve treatment for depression.1 For a large majority of these people, the form of treatment is either a class of antidepressant medications called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), or a similar class called serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs), both of which inhibit the reuptake of serotonin by nerve cells. All of these medications are prescribed based on the hypothesis that reduced serotonin availability causes depression. However, this hypothesis has not been proven, and as with most hypotheses, it’s surrounded by disagreement and controversy.2
Depression comes in a variety of forms, is characterized by a variety of symptoms, and can be caused by a number of different factors. As many of us already know, depression can even be a natural and expected reaction to difficult life circumstances.3 In addition, depression has been associated with a number of abnormalities in neurological function that are unrelated to serotonin.4 Despite this, the prescription statistics mentioned earlier indicate that most patients are being treated with medication based on a questionable assumption that their depression is caused by serotonin abnormalities.
Serious Risks Associated with SSRIs
Most people understand that medications can have dangerous side effects, and many of these people appreciate the potential risk for other unknown effects. SSRIs are reported to have very serious side effects including increased risk of heart attack5 as well as a controversial association with an increased tendency towards suicide.6 In addition, they can cause a potentially fatal collection of symptoms known as “serotonin syndrome.”7,8 And these are just a few of the potential side effects. For example, the U. S. National Library of Medicine lists the following side effects for Prozac which is one of the more popular SSRIs: nervousness, nausea, dry mouth, sore throat, drowsiness, weakness, uncontrollable shaking, loss of appetite, weight loss, changes in sex drive, excessive sweating, rash, hives, fever, joint pain, swelling, difficulty breathing, irregular heartbeat, severe muscle stiffness, hallucinations, and seizures. Also listed is a suicide warning for children, teenagers, and young adults up to the age of 24.9
Clearly, there’s plenty of incentive to use alternative treatment methods that don’t impose as much risk. Such alternatives are indeed available and have proven to be effective.
Surprisingly Simple Alternatives to SSRIs
Even for people who’s depression is indeed associated with serotonin abnormalities, there are safer and more logical treatments that can be used before prescribing an SSRI. Tryptophan, a precursor to serotonin, is an amino acid that’s readily available from most dietary sources of protein. Therefore, simply increasing protein intake can promote an increase in serotonin synthesis and potentially alleviate depression as a result. In addition, identifying and addressing digestive issues can help by increasing the availability of the tryptophan already in the diet.
If improvements in protein intake and digestion fail to have the desired effect, the use of supplementation is another option that can be considered. Because tryptophan competes with other amino acids for transport into the brain,10 supplementation of tryptophan by itself may be more effective than simply increasing overall protein intake. Although some might remember that tryptophan supplements were once banned by the FDA in the 1990s, the underlying concern was eventually attributed to contaminants from a single manufacturer rather than tryptophan itself.11 If you’d still prefer to avoid tryptophan or have found it to be ineffective, there is yet another option. Tryptophan is converted to 5-hydroxytryptophan (5-HTP) prior to being converted to serotonin.12 Supplementation with 5-HTP may therefore be more effective because it’s the direct precursor to serotonin, and it’s widely available in supplement form.
Although critics say that more thorough research is needed, supplementation with tryptophan and 5-HTP has been shown to be as effective as SSRIs.13 A Cochrane review, which is a standardized review of intervention trials that’s generally regarded as highly reliable and unbiased, identified 108 trials that used tryptophan and 5-HTP to treat depression.14 Although only 2 of the trials met the Cochrane inclusion criteria, they both found tryptophan and 5-HTP to be more effective than a placebo for the alleviation of depression.
Even if the quality of the supporting research doesn’t meet the standards of critics, I hope most people would agree that the risk of ineffectiveness is certainly a lot more appealing than the risk of heart attack, suicide, and other side effects, even if these risks are unlikely.
Supplements Aren’t Always Better than Drugs
Even though supplements are generally safer and more natural than medications, their use still imposes some unnecessary risk. For example, as with SSRI use, supplementation with the natural serotonin precursors tryptophan and 5-HTP can potentially cause serotonin syndrome.7,8 In conjunction with several points I’m about to discuss, I consider this a good reason to emphasize a diet and lifestyle based approach prior to considering supplementation.
First, because tryptophan is an essential amino acid, meaning that it can’t be produced by the body and must therefore be obtained from diet, it would be logical to evaluate protein intake prior to recommending supplementation.
Second, supplementation doesn’t account for the vitamin and mineral cofactors that are involved in the conversion of tryptophan and 5-HTP into serotonin. For example, iron is needed by the enzyme that converts tryptophan into 5-HTP, and vitamin B6 is needed by the enzyme that converts 5-HTP into serotonin.15 As such, supplementation with 5-HTP won’t have much of an effect if intake of vitamin B6 is insufficient.
Third, a patient’s depression may be caused by dietary factors that are unrelated to serotonin. For example, a group of neurotransmitters called the catecholamines, which consists of epinephrine (adrenaline), norepinephrine, and dopamine, have also been associated with depression.13 These neurotransmitters are derived from the amino acid tyrosine which is in turn derived from the amino acid phenylalanine.15 Obviously, supplementation with tryptophan or 5-HTP is not going to alleviate depression caused by a insufficiency of these amino acids and the neurotransmitters derived from them. In addition, the previous two points apply to phenylalanine just as much as they apply to tryptophan. Phenylalanine is an essential amino acid, and its conversion into neurotransmitters requires a variety of vitamin and mineral cofactors.
Fourth, depression may be caused by factors that need to be eliminated from the diet rather than added. For example, sugar consumption has been highly associated with major depression.16 Although this doesn’t prove causation, it’s certainly plausible that an excessive intake of refined foods may promote depression, and supplementation is highly unlikely to correct such a problem.
Finally, because it’s not always practical to test for all of the known nutritional factors relating to depression, and because there may even be factors that we don’t know of yet, the information needed to use supplements accurately and safely isn’t always available. When used in such circumstances, supplementation can result in excessive intake and be counterproductive, as is the case with tryptophan and 5-HTP supplementation causing serotonin syndrome. As such, a well balanced diet that provides an adequate intake of as many essential nutrients as possible is a safer approach and is also likely to address a much wider variety of factors relating to depression. In my opinion, the only time supplementation is a smart choice is after all reasonable opportunities to improve food selection have been exhausted. Even then, supplementation should still be guided by a thorough dietary analysis.
As Hippocrates is well known for saying, “let food be thy medicine.”
A Paradoxical Side Effect of SSRIs
One potential side effect of SSRIs not yet discussed provides an excellent illustration of the irony behind their high rate of use. Understanding this example requires a somewhat more detailed explanation of how SSRIs are believed to work and how serotonin is metabolized.
Neurons (nerve cells) release neurotransmitters, including serotonin, to transmit an instructional impulse to another cell, which in some cases may be another neuron. This is a fundamental aspect of how the brain and nervous system work. Neurotransmitters are released from an ending of a neuron into a space called the synaptic cleft where they can bind to receptors on the cell located at the other end. The neurotransmitters that don’t bind with the target cell may be reabsorbed by the neuron that released them. In regard to the treatment of depression, SSRIs appear to work by blocking the reabsorption of serotonin17 which provides more opportunity for it to bind with the target cell. However, this also creates additional opportunity for serotonin to be broken down and excreted in urine as 5-hydroxyindoleacetate (5-HIAA).
Urinary elevations of 5-HIAA have been associated with SSRI use which indicates that SSRIs reduce the amount of serotonin recycled and therefore also increase the amount lost from the body. As previously mentioned, the amino acid tryptophan is a precursor to serotonin. Therefore, the depletion of serotonin by SSRIs can also deplete the body’s supply of tryptophan and create an increased need for intake.15 Wouldn’t it make a lot more sense to avoid the risks associated with SSRIs and start with a dietary increase of tryptophan in the first place?
Other Alternate Approaches
Even when serotonin abnormalities aren’t an issue, there are still other alternatives to pharmaceuticals, and as with dietary approaches, they’re much more conducive to promoting optimal health.
A negative outlook on life has been associated with depression18 and theorized as a cause of it.19,20 This suggests that depression can be alleviated by developing the ability to perceive daily events and circumstances in a more positive manner. Although not easy, perception is something that can certainly be changed, and the benefits can extend well beyond depression. If this approach interests you, I highly recommend The Heart Math Solution or The Power of Now. The former is a practical approach to changing your perception of negative events while the latter is more philosophical and addresses perspective at a much deeper level.
Aerobic exercise has been shown to be just as effective as SSRIs as a treatment for depression,21,22 and a follow-up to one of these studies found that the medicated group had a higher rate of relapse after 10 months.23
Based on the variety of safe and health promoting treatment options that exist for depression, you may wonder why they’re not recommended more frequently. If you currently use antidepressants, you may even feel some anger and resentment in association with this question.
The most likely reason, in my opinion, why these treatments aren’t widely recommended is that the structure of our medical system doesn’t allow for it. The dependency of the medical system on the insurance industry dictates that visits with health care providers be kept brief, and it takes a lot more time to assess a patient’s diet and lifestyle than it does to write a prescription. In addition, because nutrition and lifestyle aren’t a significant aspect of medical training, except for nutritionists, not all health care providers will have the background to even offer such options. And seeking out an alternative health care provider may not be any more helpful because they may still follow the same conventional model of addressing symptoms rather than causes, but with the use of supplements instead of drugs. As I mentioned earlier, there are many cases in which supplements are probably not the best choice.
Despite the flaws in our medical system, it’s excellent in a number of other ways, and it’s not my intent to criticize it. Instead, I hope for you to understand its limitations and have the motivation (rage) to become more informed so that you can have more of an influence on the direction of your treatment. Ultimately, the only person truly responsible for your health and wellbeing is you!
Although self sufficiency is a great value and I’m a big believer in being proactive, it would be irresponsible to write an article like this without mentioning the following concern. If you’re already taking an SSRI, it’s important to know that there are serious concerns associated with discontinuing usage or even just reducing the dosage. In fact, this concern is prominent enough to be the basis for a named syndrome: SSRI discontinuation syndrome.24 If you do decide that you’d like to transition off of your medication in favor of a more healthful approach, please do so with the help of a physician who appreciates your intent. While it’s an admirable goal, it’s not advisable for everyone and can be dangerous to attempt without professional help.

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As reported by OK!, Kendall was spotted at The Nice Guy in Los Angeles on Monday, February 7, where Kanye and Travis Scott were hanging out. The hangout came as a shock given that the brunette beauty unfollowed the rapper, who legally changed his name to Ye, on Instagram only one day prior following his drama with her sister.
The star-studded crew's night out together came shortly after the 44-year-old hosted a listening party for his upcoming album, Donda 2, at Nobu in Malibu.
The model arrived at The Nice Guy with the "All Of The Lights" singer, an insider told the publication, noting, "It seemed like Kendall and Kanye are on great terms."
The 26-year-old was reportedly spotted chatting to both Ye and the "Sicko Mode" singer for "a while" in a "corner of the venue." She is also said to have been joined by a few friends at the event.
"Kanye had a whole group surrounding him and everyone was engaging and listening to him talk," the source spilled to the outlet. "He was chatting about how Donda 2 is his best work yet."
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Another insider told the publication that Kendall and Ye did not leave the event together: "He went out the back and she went out the front. They left about two minutes apart from one another."
Kim filed for divorce from the artist in February 2021. Later in December, she filed to be declared legally single and to have her maiden name restored.
The tension between the coparents mounted last month when Kanye claimed he was not invited to his daughter Chicago's 4th birthday party. He shared on social media that he had to get the address for the bash from Travis. However, sources claimed it was always the plan for Ye to do something separate for the occasion.
The rapper then butted heads with the mother of his children over the weekend regarding their daughter North's appearances on TikTok. He claimed she was on the platform against his will. The 41-year-old hit back and said her estranged husband's comments about her were far more hurtful than anything North could post on social media.

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Big Money Sentiment increased to 2.27 in Q2 2018. It has change of 1.67, from 2018Q1’s 0.6. The ratio improved due to LORL positioning: 4 sold and 18 reduced. 18 funds amassed positions and 32 increased positions. Investors holded 20.18 million in 2018Q1 but now own 20.09 million shares or 0.44% less. National Bank & Trust Of New York Mellon Corp owns 110,401 shs. Tower Research Ltd Liability Corp (Trc) invested 0% in Loral Space & Communications Inc. (NASDAQ:LORL). Gsa Prtn Ltd Liability Partnership holds 22,755 shs or 0.04% of its capital. Bluecrest Cap Mgmt Ltd invested in 0.01% or 13,334 shs. Geode Capital Management Ltd Limited Liability Company invested 0% of its capital in Loral Space & Communications Inc. (NASDAQ:LORL). Omega Advsr accumulated 1.02 million shs. Quadrant Cap Mgmt Ltd Liability Corp reported 0.37% stake. Brown Advisory holds 0.07% or 637,271 shs. 11,506 are owned by Goldman Sachs Gru Inc. The New York-based Gabelli And Investment Advisers has invested 0.69% in Loral Space & Communications Inc. (NASDAQ:LORL). Ohio-based Strs Ohio has invested 0% in Loral Space & Communications Inc. (NASDAQ:LORL). Wells Fargo And Mn holds 0% of its capital in Loral Space & Communications Inc. (NASDAQ:LORL) for 6,484 shs. Glacier Peak Lc holds 3.52% of its capital in Loral Space & Communications Inc. (NASDAQ:LORL) for 122,663 shs. Levin Cap Strategies Ltd Partnership reported 5,500 shs or 0% of all its holdings. Mhr Fund Management Ltd Co accumulated 8.53M shs or 16.92% of the stock.
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Many years ago I saw a wood carving in a store, and to this day I wish I would have bought it. It was a couple feet tall, and was of a man wearing a heavy parka with the fur lined hood up. The man’s hands were in his pants pockets, and the hood formed a sort of tube, with the face well protected inside. The sculpture was stained with a blue wash reminiscent of deep snow on a cold winter day. Interestingly, the sculpture was named “Winter Blues.”
I have been thinking of that sculpture quiet a bit recently. Winter can be fun, and I can not say I have the blues, but perhaps like you, I have been a long ways from feeling euphoric. Thank goodness the days are getting longer.
The winter blues is a term often used to describe a mild form of depression that affects some people, particularly those that live in northern latitudes. The specifics of the condition are not well known, but the shorter days are thought to influence the amount of melatonin (a hormone linked to depression) and/or serotonin (a brain chemical influencing mood). A more serious condition is called Seasonal Affective Disorder or SAD, which in extreme cases it may be quite debilitating.
Winter blues can also be a reference to the blue tones of winter snow. Mostly we think of snow as being white. But snow often times has definite bluish hues that are hard to describe for us non-artists. As you might expect, the differences are due to the physical properties of snow and light.
Snow is usually white because the snow reflects all the colors of visible light spectrum, (think ROYGBIV). So we see white. However, as the snow gets deeper the physics of light traveling through the snow causes much of the light to be absorbed by the snow. Much of the light reflected back out of the snow is in the blue portion of the spectrum, thus the snow looks bluish.
I suppose there are colors we associate with each season. Summer is certainly green, and the color of fall around here is yellow or gold. I’m not sure what color best describes spring, but the color of winter is white with “the blues.” But please do not think of these blues in terms of depression. Think of them as seasonal paints on Mother Nature’s palate. Those winter blues can be quite interesting, expressive, and scenic.
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With no fanfare and little debate, the House of Representatives Tuesday voted 102-11 to publicly reprimand Gov. Mark Sanford for bringing "ridicule, dishonor, disgrace, and shame" to himself and South Carolina.
Discussion of the censure resolution, the first one S.C. lawmakers have considered in at least 130 years, took about 20 minutes and left a majority of House members satisfied they'd carried out the will of South Carolinians.
"I'm disappointed it wasn't a unanimous vote," said Rep. Jim Harrison, R-Republican, who chaired a panel that voted to censure rather than impeach Sanford. "But the vote made it clear that a majority of House members agree."
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New label warnings on extended-release, long-acting drugs for pain will soon go into affect. According to Health Day News, "In 2010, an estimated 16,651 people died because of abuse and misuse of opioid drugs," Hamburg said. "There is an increase of more than 300 percent over the past decade. And for each death there is an additional 10 treatment admissions, 32 emergency department visits and 825 nonmedical users of these drugs."
Hamburg said the FDA is trying to find a balance between making these painkillers available for patients who really need them and reducing their misuse and abuse.
The purpose of the new labeling is to make clear that because addiction, abuse and misuse are possible even at recommended doses -- along with the risks of overdose and death -- these drugs should be used only when other non-narcotic drugs have failed or aren't tolerated, or aren't strong enough to manage a patient's pain, the agency says." read more


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By Edwin G. Burrows, Mike Wallace
To eu explorers, it used to be Eden, a paradise of waist-high grasses, towering stands of walnut, maple, chestnut, and oak, and forests that teemed with bears, wolves, raccoons, beavers, otters, and foxes. this present day, it's the website of Broadway and Wall road, the Empire country development and the Statue of Liberty, and the house of hundreds of thousands of individuals, who've come from each nook of the state and the globe.
In Gotham, Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace have produced a enormous paintings of background, person who levels from the Indian tribes that settled in and round the island of Manna-hata, to the consolidation of the 5 boroughs into better long island in 1898. it truly is an epic narrative, a narrative as big and as various because the urban it chronicles, and it underscores that the background of recent York is the tale of our country. Readers will relive the tumultuous early years of recent Amsterdam lower than the Dutch West India corporation, Peter Stuyvesant's despotic regime, Indian wars, slave resistance and insurrection, the innovative warfare and the defeat of Washington's military on Brooklyn Heights, the damaging seven years of British profession, ny because the nation's first capital, the duel among Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton, the Erie Canal and the arrival of the railroads, the expansion of the town as a port and monetary middle, the notorious draft riots of the Civil conflict, the good flood of immigrants, the increase of mass leisure comparable to vaudeville and Coney Island, the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge and the beginning of the skyscraper. right here too is a forged of thousands--the insurgent Jacob Leisler and the reformer Joanna Bethune; Clement Moore, who stored Greenwich Village from the city's street-grid plan; Herman Melville, who painted upset pics of urban lifestyles; and Walt Whitman, who fortunately celebrated that very same existence. We meet the insurgent Jacob Leisler and the reformer Joanna Bethune; Boss Tweed and his nemesis, cartoonist Thomas Nast; Emma Goldman and Nellie Bly; Jacob Riis and Horace Greeley; police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt; Colonel Waring and his "white angels" (who revolutionized the sanitation department); millionaires John Jacob Astor, Cornelius Vanderbilt, August Belmont, and William Randolph Hearst; and enormous quantities extra who left their mark in this nice urban.
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New Year Eve we are having friends round for dinner so I wanted to make some things to enhance the table. I used mirror card to cut these on the Cricut, the only thing is it looks smudged :-( a downside of mirror card which is why I rarely use it. Anyway here they are.
The Menu cards - "Plantin Schoolbook" and "Stretch your imagination" for the champagne glass. I used the offcuts and some cut from red to get the contrast features and the extra glasses to put onto the napkin rings. I printed the inserts on my PC in "Word" using "Curlz" font. There is some sequin waste behind the cut out to look like champagne bubbles and tiny ribbon bows for the napkin rings.


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Belfast-based Quint AD is building a dealer network as UK distributor of the Steelit internal steel door and panel range.
Steelit by Quint is a new product for the UK market, addressing the need for timeless, handcrafted, high-quality steel doors & panels, according to managing director Fergal McAdam.
“With the pandemic, and with more people interested in home design we have seen a huge demand for home improvement and interior design products throughout the UK,” he said.
“We are expanding our Dealer Network throughout the UK and are looking for partner companies that can take a premium brand to market.”
Quint AD is part of the Malone and Smyth group of companies based in Northern Ireland.


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Pair of pauldrons medieval the years 130 to 1460 (XIV century until the middle of the XV century), made in steel of 1,6 mm Carry a tab of leather to fit any garment to put together.
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NVIDIA’s budget-friendly GeForce GTX 960 graphics card is said to be postponed till Q1 of 2015 as reported by Hermitage Akihabara. The reason for NVIDIA delaying the release of the GTX 960 is strong sales of both the GeForce GTX 980 and GeForce GTX 970.
These two cards will remain the flagship 900 series cards and the more budget-friendly and sub-$300 cards will hit the market next year. It seems as NVIDIA has no reason to reason a budget friendly card in the 900 series…..yet. AMD has already been price-cutting to complete with NVIDIA.


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FABULA JEWELS ACROSS THE MIDDLE EAST
Coffee Communications, a strategic Brand Consultancy and Communications agency, is thrilled to announce its appointment as the representative or Fabula Jewels.
Founded in 2015, Fabula Jewels is the brainchild of Syrian and Palestinian childhood friends Saada and Darine, who share the love and passion for jewelry. Fabula Jewels works with 18 carat gold, glittering diamonds and precious stones. Fabula Jewels also customizes their pieces, for those who love their jewelry to be a reflection of themselves.
“We are excited to add Fabula Jewels to our continuously expanding portfolio, and we look forward to growing Fabula Jewels’s awareness in the region” says Natasha Ekstedt, Founder and Managing Director of Coffee Communications.

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I assure you it's not.
I am embarrassed to admit that I can't figure out how to put the bobbin in my sewing machine.
I keep doing it wrong.
Which becomes immediately evident.
My final attempt of the evening resulted in the loud bang, accompanied by a grinding noise because it was now jammed. I peered closer and realized that the needle was bent.
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Viewers learned that oxidative damage and inflammation damage cholesterol. An anti-inflammatory diet focuses on single-ingredient foods and anti-inflammatory oils such as environmentally friendly Malaysian palm oil.
This food industry publication names red palm oil as one of the best tocotrienol sources, and credits Hon. Minister Teresa Kok for intensifying Malaysia’s environmental responsibility efforts.
In his lead paragraph he states, “Best supplemental sources of tocotrienols are derived from Malaysian sustainable red palm fruit oil.”
EVNol SupraBio bio-enhanced full-spectrum palm tocotrienol complex significantly reduced serum creatinine levels hence potentially averting the progression of renal impairment among the diabetic nephropathy patients.
This Japanese study affirms previous findings and helps explain how tocotrienols may deliver its neuroprotective benefits. EVNol SupraBio, the supplement used in the study, is sourced from responsibly grown and produced Malaysian palm oil.


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Easy Oreo Cake | Morphy Richards Oven |
This is a super easy oreo cake and needs only four ingredients.
Oreo biscuits -2 x 120 g
Milk -250 ml
Baking powder - 1.5 tsp
Preheat 170C for 10 min
170C Baking mode
Separate cream and break the biscuits into small pieces. Take 250 ml of milk and add three fourth of the milk to the biscuits. Mash it with a spoon. Add the rest of the milk and make it into a cream. Add one and a half tsp of baking powder and mix well. Oil a cake tin and spread butter paper inside it. Add the batter to the container and tap it well. Bake it at 170C in a preheated oven till its cooked. Check it with a skewer after ten minutes. It took 25 min for me.
Meanwhile, add broken chocolate bars to the separated oreo cream. Double boil to melt it. Spread it over the cake. Make sure to cool down the cake before applying chocolate or frosting. You can place three oreo biscuit on top of the cake. It is optional. Finally, grate some chocolate bar and sprinkle it over the cake.
You can boast of having baked a yummy cake at home.


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284-page “management plan” garbles history, all but ignores climate change, & says nothing about goats as puma prey
OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK, Washington––An estimated 625 to 675 mountain goats whose ancestors have peaceably roamed the icy upper reaches of Olympic National Park, Washington, for 14 years longer than the 80-year-old park has existed are to become sacrificial scapegoats during the summer of 2018, and over the next three to five years, to ecological misconceptions written into the Wilderness Act of 1964, enshrined as National Park Service policy.
One such misconception is that “introduced” species are inherently harmful to “native” species, even if the “introduced” species thrive as “native” just 100 miles away, among essentially the same suite of other animals and plants.
“Untrammeled by man”?
Another misconception is that what is now Olympic National Park, attracting 3.4 million visitors in 2017, ever fit the Wilderness Act criteria of being “an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.”
The 3.4 million visitors have approximately the same cumulative ecological impact as a year-round community of 9,000 people. And the mere existence of more than 200 sites in the park where archaeological artifacts have been found, mentioned often in the newly published 284-page Mountain Goat Management Plan/Final Environmental Impact Statement, points toward frequent, if not necessarily continuous use of the habitat by Native Americans for thousands of years.
Native American activities, as well as logging, hunting, and ranching by settlers, helped to shape the habitat and balance of species into which mountain goats were released in 1925-1929 by forest rangers who hoped to attract trophy hunters.
“Move half & shoot the rest”
Co-produced by the National Park Service, U.S. Forest Service, USDA Wildlife Services, and the Washington State Department of Fish & Wildlife, the Mountain Goat Management Plan/Final Environmental Impact Statement recommends “the relocation of the majority of mountain goats [now present in Olympic National Park] to U.S. Forest Service lands in the North Cascades forests, and the lethal removal of the remaining mountain goats in the park.”
What that means, specifically, is that efforts are to be made during the next several summers to capture 325 to 375 mountain goats by luring them into “clover traps,” meaning stockades baited with clover, netting them through the use of net guns, sedating them, flying them in helicopter slings to waiting trucks, and then trucking them overnight to release points in habitat which, although technically “native” for the goats, none have ever seen before.
Goats to be moved to “huntable” habitat
The habitat in the North Cascades differs little, in matters of concern to mountain goats, from the habitat in Olympic National Park. But despite the ambitions of the rangers who released the first dozen mountain goats in what is now Olympic National Park, hunting has not been allowed in the park since it was created by an act of Congress in 1938.
Only those few mountain goats who may have descended into the Olympic National Forest, surrounding Olympic National Park, during hunting season, will have had any prior experience of being hunted other than by pumas, their main natural predator.
In the North Cascades the mountain goats may be hunted. Indeed, the major argument for translocating them in the Mountain Goat Management Plan is that the native mountain goats in the North Cascades have been hunted to scarcity, and have had difficulty recovering “huntable” abundance.
Meanwhile back in Olympic National Park, mountain goats who become wary enough to evade capture during the early phases of the attempt to extirpate them are eventually to be shot. Some may be gunned down from trails, others from helicopters.
Says the Mountain Goat Management Plan about when and how the decision to stop capturing goats and start shooting them is to be made, “The determination about whether it is no longer safe to capture more mountain goats, from a human and mountain goat safety standpoint, would be made by a consensus of the project leaders, consulting veterinarians, and the capture contractor, and would be based on the rate and type of capture-related mountain goat mortalities and environmental conditions.
“Ceasing operations would also be based on capture efficiency. When it takes approximately three times as long to safely capture a mountain goat, as compared to the hours during the initial capture operation phase during the first year, capture operations would cease.”
No remains to be left where visible
The Mountain Goat Management Plan stipulates that the remains of mountain goats are not to be left within 325 feet of trails, partly to avoid attracting dangerous scavenging wildlife into proximity to humans, partly to avoid having Olympic National Park visitors see dead mountain goats and began objecting to the “mountain goat management plan.”
Along the way, the Mountain Goat Management Plan argues that reducing Olympic National Park biodiversity by removing mountain goats is to be done to protect the native biodiversity of plants, though the major ecological role of mountain goats––like that of other herbivores––is depositing plant seeds in new habitat, along with the fertilizer that the seeds need to grow.
Goats originally persecuted as campground nuisance
“The original need to manage this exotic species,” the Mountain Goat Management Plan inaccurately claims, “was an ecological concern related to the impacts that mountain goats impose on natural resources at the park, particularly sensitive vegetation communities (NPS 1995; Houston, Schreiner, and Moorhead 1994).”
NewspaperArchive.com demonstrates that this is fiction. The first public complaints about the presence of mountain goats in Olympic National Park surfaced in 1969, and concerned salt-seeking goats licking and chewing clothing that visitors hung out to dry in campgrounds.
Four goats were translocated from Olympic National Park to the nearby Gilbert Pinchot National Forest in 1972, but the first mention that all of the goats should be removed as a “non-native” species came only after that, as did the first suggestion that the goats might be harming native plants.
407 goats moved, 1981-1989
More goat translocations followed, but primarily to rebuild populations elsewhere that had been hunted out. Acknowledges the Mountain Goat Management Plan, “The park implemented a series of live capture operations from 1981 to 1989, translocating 407 mountain goats to other mountain ranges throughout several western states. An additional 119 mountain goats were legally harvested during sport hunting seasons outside the park,” the Mountain Goat Management Plan notes, “and three known mountain goats were illegally harvested [poached] in the park between 1983 and 1997.”
Protecting the safety of Olympic National Park visitors continued to be the main argument made for mountain goat removal before the mid-1990s, though the first and only serious injury attributed to mountain goats before 1999 came in August 1975.
Goats kill one, injure two, in 80 years
Then, according to the Port Angeles News, “Daniel Hanify, 17, was watching goats climbing on the rocks above him on Mt. Angeles when one goat apparently started rocks tumbling. One large rock struck Hanify on the head.”
Hanify suffered a skull fracture, but was able to walk to the nearest road, with the help of two friends, to be driven to meet a helicopter that flew him to Olympic Memorial Hospital.
A visitor suffered a non-fatal goring in 1999. Then, the Mountain Goat Management Plan mentions, “Safety concerns were increased in 2010 when a visitor,” 63-year-old Robert H. Boardman, “was fatally gored by a mountain goat while hiking on a park trail.”
Thus, in 80 years, fewer visitors have been killed or badly injured by mountain goats in Olympic National Park than typically die and are injured in the worst several vehicular accidents in the park and on park access roads each and every tourist season.
Goats blamed, not global warming
Discussion of the possible mountain goat impact on rare native plants began to be raised with increasing frequency after 1977.
Says the Mountain Goat Management Plan, “Through herbivory and wallowing behaviors, mountain goats have directly and indirectly affected the vegetation in the Olympic Mountains. Changes in the relative abundance of plant species have been observed as a result of mountain goat herbivory; this has altered competitive interactions among plant species. As the mountain goat population on the Olympic Peninsula increased prior to live capture operations in the 1980s, changes in vegetation were substantial, and the status of rare plant populations became a concern.”
Not even mentioned, however, are the major climatic effects on park vegetation caused by global warming, beginning to become visible during the same years, and having an accelerating impact today, as the year-round icepack retreats to higher elevations, less precipitation falls, stream temperatures warm, and the risk of wildfires increases.
After nine years of more-or-less continuous translocations of mountain goats, the Olympic National Park population had been reduced from a peak estimate of more than 1,000 to 389, according to a July 1990 survey.
“Live capture operations were halted in 1990 for several reasons, including employee safety, animal safety, and changing Department of the Interior rules concerning helicopter landing techniques,” the Mountain Goat Management Plan says. “Subsequent surveys were conducted in 1994, 1997, and 2004. A survey conducted in 2011 revealed that the population started increasing between 2004 and 2011. Most recently, a 2016 survey revealed that the population has continued to increase to an estimated 625 mountain goats, with an 8% average annual rate of increase from 2004 to 2016. At this growth rate, there could be approximately 725 mountain goats on the Olympic Peninsula by 2018.”
Significantly, though discussing the population of a prey species without mentioning the species’ major predators would appear to be nonsense, the Mountain Goat Management Plan includes no statement of the relative abundance of pumas in Olympic National Park, and there appears to be no recent puma population assessment for the park in any other context.
To what extent pumas might suffer from no longer having mountain goats to hunt is also not discussed.
Contraceptive use rejected
The Mountain Goat Management Plan rejects any use of contraceptives to reduce and suppress Olympic National Park goat numbers.
“Although fertility control has been demonstrated to be effective in controlling individual animal fertility,” the plan states, chiefly because “Where fertility control has been successful, it has limited population growth, but has not eliminated wild ungulate populations.”
Continues the Mountain Goat Management Plan, “Chemical agents, such as immunocontraceptive vaccines (e.g., native PZP or GnRH vaccines), require repeated doses to the same animal, to be highly effective at suppressing fertility. Due to the remote, rugged, and extreme terrain where the mountain goats reside, helicopter darting during the summer months would be necessary to either capture or vaccinate the goats. This would require several months of flying each year. In the Olympic Mountains, such a program would be costly, impactful, and not effective for eliminating goats or their impacts because it would be impossible to treat a sufficient number to significantly impact population dynamics. In addition, over time, goats would learn to avoid helicopters.”
Finally, says the Mountain Goat Management Plan, echoing the language used in lawsuits against U.S. government agencies by opponents of using immunocontraceptives to stabilize wild horse populations, “The use of fertility control adversely affects wilderness values because it is not a natural process. Fertility control as an authorized management action would have a negative effect on the untrammeled and natural qualities of wilderness character because it would be an intentional manipulation of the biophysical environment.”
In particular, “If all goats were to be indiscriminately darted from the air, this would be an adverse effect on the undeveloped quality of wilderness character. Noise from helicopters would disrupt the natural soundscape and area closures to visitors may need to be in effect during darting operations. Most concerning is that these actions would need to take place on a regular basis to be effective until all exotic goats are eliminated.”
All of which will also be true of helicoptering mountain goats to trucks and then using gunners aboard helicopters to shoot the 300-plus who are expected to evade capture.


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This bowl, as well as all of our ceramics, is lead free and food safe. You can wash it in the dishwasher though hand washing is always recommended. Please take care when using in the microwave since ceramics tend to get hot to the touch when heated. This is a serving bowl and not intended for cooking in.


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Here comes the ranking of 26 jobs that don’t require drug test in 2018 where you can find occupations in which less than 4% of employers require drug screening.
Although some parts of the US have decided to legalize marijuana, employers can make drug testing a part of their recruitment process. Currently, smoking pot is legal in eight states, while twenty states and the District of Columbia allow the use of medical marijuana. However, it does not mean that employers from these states do not subject their workers to substance screening. Moreover, companies can decide not to hire candidates who tested positive for weed even if they used cannabis as medicine.
For years workplace drug testing has been causing a debate about workers’ privacy protection. Those who oppose to workplace drug test emphasize that such practice is a violation of employees’ privacy while supporters of drug screening believe that this is the best way to prevent injuries that might occur when a person is intoxicated. There is no doubt that for some occupations drug screening should be mandatory. For instance, it is hard to argue that people working in healthcare or in transportation or those operating heavy machinery should not take drug test occasionally. After all, if they are not fully alert they can put their own and other people lives in danger.
According to Statistic Brain, 56% of employers expect from job candidates to pass substance screening test while 29% of them subject their employees to substance screening occasionally. While annual costs of drug tests of $3,7 billion might seem significant, they are almost 23 times lower than costs caused by workers’ drug use. Statistic Brain also reveals what jobs drug test before hiring. By looking at these jobs, you might guess how the list of companies that drug test would look like. As you might expect, construction and mining, followed by manufacturing have the greatest number of employers who opt for substance screening. If you want to discover what companies do not drug test 2017 you can read our previous article about biggest companies that do not drug test. Although more than half of all employers in America have drug screening policy the number of workers using drugs increases year after year. In 2016, the percent of job candidates who tested positive for marijuana, cocaine, amphetamine or heroin was 4.2, which was the highest number in last 12 years. The increase is mainly due to the rise in the number of applicants who were positive to weed.
Our list of 26 jobs that don’t require drug test in 2018 is similar to the list of jobs that don’t drug test 2017 since employers usually do not change their recruitment policy overnight. To create this ranking, we put Indeed search engine through its pace. We filtered the list of jobs by searching only those jobs that have the term “drug” in its description. In this way we were able to single out only jobs were employer doesn’t require a drug screening of its employees. For each of 26 jobs, we also present annual median earnings as provided by PayScale.
26. Graphic Designer
Percent of jobs requiring drug testing: 3.9
We start today’s list with graphic designers. Less than 4% of all jobs for graphic designers have drug testing on the list of requirements. Moreover, this profession brings a lot of freelance opportunities, so you definitively do not have to worry about drug screening. Graphic design is a field where a person can fully develop its creative potential. Median salary for the occupation is $42,078


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Spring Cleaning Part One: The Fridge
We often think about spring cleaning the cobwebs from the ceiling and scrubbing the baseboards (or at least growing up my mother made me believe everyone did spring cleaning). You may clean out your closet and store or donate winter clothes you won’t need again for a while. Hardly anyone thinks about spring cleaning the “insides” of their kitchen, though. You may be good about wiping out the dusty shelves, but what about your ketchup? How long has that bottle been lurking in your fridge? I am going to devote the next three blog posts to spring cleaning your kitchen: the fridge, the freezer, and the pantry.
Why does it matter how long food sits around? Doesn’t most nonperishable food have a long shelf life? Yes, they do have long shelf lives, but many people keep foods much longer than that desirable window of time. The reason for cleaning out is twofold; Quality and Safety. Food loses it’s quality very fast when it gets old, and some of it can actually be unsafe.
The first rule for the fridge is to make sure it is at 40 degrees. Get a fridge thermometer and keep it in there and check it every week. Don’t keep it in the door, but rather near the back on a shelf.
Bacteria does not get killed while in the fridge, but the growth is simply halted. If you take food out of the fridge, like mayo, and keep taking it out and sitting it out at mealtime for an hour at a time 5-10 times throughout the life of the jar, more and more bacteria can grow. This especially happens if you don’t use a clean utensil when digging into the jar!
Here is a list of common foods in your fridge and how long they should stay around:
- Eggs, in shell 3-5 weeks
- Eggs, hard boiled 1 week
- Cream cheese 2 weeks
- Steaks, uncooked 3-5 days
- Ground beef, uncooked 1-2 days
- Ground beef, cooked 3-4 days
- Poultry, uncooked 1-2 days
- Margarine 6 months
- Butter 1-3 months
- Cheese, opened 3-4 weeks
- Milk, opened 1 week
- Ketchup, opened 6 months
- Salad dressing, opened 3 months
- Pickles 1-2 weeks
- Mayo 2 months
- Salsa, opened 1 month
For a one-page sheet with more foods and their time limit, click here. For more refrigerator safety tips, check out this link to the American Dietetic Association's Home Food Safety site. Most leftovers in people’s refrigerators are kept way too long. Don’t keep them past three days, and even try to use them up sooner than that. One to two days is ideal.


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Each year foodborne illnesses sicken an estimated 48 million people, leading to more than 128,000 hospitalizations and 3,000 deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. State and local agencies play a critical role in keeping US food safe, and detecting and responding to outbreaks of foodborne illness.
State foodborne illness laws regulate which illnesses need to be reported, the timeframe for reporting, and which agencies must then be informed of the illness and/or outbreak. This map focuses on state laws relating to foodborne illness surveillance and outbreak response, including the reporting requirements for several of the most common foodborne diseases.
To explore these laws click the "Start Here" button below. This page displays laws in effect through April 2013.
David, S. & Katz, R. (2013). Navigating the legal framework for state foodborne Illness surveillance and outbreak response: Observations and challenges. Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics, 41(suppl. 1), 28-32.


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Focusing on the rural community, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s MP candidate for Chandigarh Lok Sabha seat, Kirron Kher held her public rallies in villages including Kishangarh, Raipurkalan, Maulijagran and Darwa.The MP candidate also carried out colourful road shows in sector 27 and 28. She spent the afternoon at the district court of sector 43 and also gave a patient hearing to the problems of Chandigarh Beopar Mandal. The MP contender was supported by the BJP’s State President, Sanjay Tandon and senior leader, Satya Pal Jain in her poll campaigns at various places.
The road-show which was carried in sector 28 in the morning received an exceptional response which saw a major participation from the youth. Afterwards, Kirron Kher met with the members of ‘Patanjali Yog Samiti’ at the party office, Kamlam, sector 33.While addressing the gathering, Kirron Kher said, “The Congress party has been using the power of money to create a vote bank. In the past, we have seen the Congress leaders changing the political game towards the end by throwing money. I challenge the Congress party to compete on development agenda. And I see Kirron Kher in all of you and help me to upgrade the city”. Later on, she addressed the party workers under the leadership of the National General secretary (Organization) BJP, Ram Lal.
The MP Contender held detailed discussions with lawyers of the District Court, Sector 43. She informed the gathering that BJP’s prime ministerial candidate, Narendra Modi was backing the housing scheme for advocates.
Besides, at the meeting of Chandigarh Beopar Mandal, MP candidates of all the parties presented their views. The meeting was held at hotel Shivalik View at sector 17 where Kirron Kher assured the traders their problems would be resolved on priority basis.Afterward, she reached to address the public meeting organized by Competent group, sector 34 which saw the participation of youngsters. Kirron appealed from the young crowd to take an informative decision while choosing the MP candidate for Chandigarh. On this occasion she was accompanied by the BJP’s State President, Sanjay Tandon who also addressed the gathering.
While speaking on the occasion, Sanjay Tandon said, “Kirron Kher is my elder sister and I request to all of you to support her. The whole nation is suffering from the wrong policies of the scam-ridden UPA government. The scams done by the Congress party only indicates that the government behaves like a pre-paid sim card while dealing with the issues being faced by the common man. The time has come to root out the corrupt system to see development”.
Taking forward her campaign, Kirron Kher addressed the public rallies in the villages. She concluded her canvassing at a Dinner Meeting in Panjab University’s campus where she exchanged idea with intellectuals.


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Fact Check: Is Rajiv Gandhi Foundation now called PM Care Fund?
New Delhi, Apr 28: Claims have gone viral claiming that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has rechristened the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation as PM Cares Fund.
An infographic that has gone viral says that, "decades-old mistakes rectified with a change. It also lists some of these changes: Nehru Museum changed to PM Museum, Indira Awas Yojana to Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana, Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna to Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna, and the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation to PM Cares.
These claims are however misleading, OneIndia has learnt. The Rajiv Gandhi Foundation and the PM Care Fund are completely different entities and both are currently operating.
While the Nehru Museum, Indira Awas Yojana and Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award have been renamed, there is no report suggesting that the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation was renamed as the PM Care Fund.
The PM Cares Fund according to the official website was registered in under the Registration Act 1908 in New Delhi on March 27 2020.
The PM is the ex-officio chairman of this trust, while the Defence Minister, Home Minister and Finance Minister are ex-officio trustees. The PM is the Settlor who executed the deed and to set up the trust the Settlor transferred an initial sum of Rs 25,000 as initial corpus. This means that an entirely new trust was set up on March 27 2020.
On the other hand, the website of the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation was set up on June 21 1991. This was done to realise the vision of the late former prime minister of India. The foundation has worked on several issues between 1991 and 2009 with the primary focus being on eduction.
Sonia Gandhi is the chairperson of this foundation and leader such as Dr. Manmohan Singh, Rahul Gandhi, P Chidambaram and Priyanka Gandhi are its board members.
The foundation posts regular updates on its Facebook page. The most recently update was dated April 26 2022. The images shared are of a training workshop that the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation had organised.
Hence it is clarified that the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation has not become PM Care Fund. The infographic in circulation is misleading and false.
Rajiv Gandhi Foundation is now PM Care Fund
Both are separate entities and both are in existence and work separately


The proposals intend to make the cost of funding pension schemes by local authorities more transport by requiring them to disclose pension assets and liabilities on the balance sheet.
Vernon Soare, policy and technical director at CIPFA, said: ‘CIPFA is committed to the full implementation of Financial Reporting Standards in local government. The Joint Committee’s proposals will ensure that FRS 17 is fully implemented in local authority accounts, in line with the timetable in the standard. This represents a further step in applying Financial Reporting Standards to local authorities.’
Union leaders and MPs have voiced serious concerns during the past few weeks over the new standard pressing the government to intervene so it can be changed.
Mary Keegan, chairwoman of the Accounting Standards Board which sets accounting rules, said: ‘I am delighted that this Update Bulletin has now addressed how local authorities will implement FRS 17 in the same timetable as the private sector.’
If businesses do not take cyber security seriously in their business planning regulators may do it for them, the ICAEW has warned
The Financial Reporting Council has issued guidance regarding the annual reporting of 1,200 large and smaller listed companies. The letter highlighted the key issues and improvements that can be made in the 2016 reporting season
Deloitte's north-west Europe foray; BDO, Smith & Williamson investment paths; Shelley Stock Hutter; and Wilkins Kennedy discussed by editor Kevin Reed on our Friday Afternoon Live broadcast
Company bosses are considering relocating operations or headquarters away from the UK following the country's decision to leave the European Union


Can Facebook Business be a threat to Youtube Adwords business? Comment down below…..
What is Facebook for Creators ?
Facebook has created new platform form uploading your videos right through your smartphones, just like youtube. You can search video like,share,comment and what not….!
Facebook made this app for creator where people on YouTube are called youtuber’s and content creators. So here now Facebook brought Facebook for Creators which is nothing but content creator for FB’s and on FB’ platform.
Iphones users, for you its go get it on your phone for android users wait wait wait wait….
You can monetize your video and earn money
(NOTE: Now it ts only available for iOS users and for android users wait for a month to be available on play store)
“It’s a big priority for us to bring people closer together around meaningful content and the people who are meaningful to them,” Facebook’s VP of video product Fidji Simo tells me. “Creators are right at the intersection of everything we think is pretty unique about Facebook.”
What’s inside Facebook’s Creator app ?
If you’re a creator, there are a range of features for you:
- Live Creative Kit: Access exclusive tools that make it easy to create live broadcasts with a personalized and fun feel. Creators can add intros as openers to their live broadcasts, outros that conclude them, custom live stickers that viewers can use to interact, and graphic frames to create a consistent brand.
- Community Tab: Connect with fans and collaborators with a unified inbox, which centralizes comments from Facebook and Instagram, and messages from Messenger.
- Camera & Stories: Use fun camera effects and frames and easily crosspost content to other platforms. Creators can also access Facebook Stories to engage with their fans.
- Insights: Easily access metrics to inform content creation, including analytics about your Page, videos and fans.
Facebook has an enormous opportunity in this space. Unlike YouTube, where people go when they want to be entertained, people just constantly visit Facebook to see their friends. By both serendipitously helping these users discover creators and providing the dedicated Watch video tab for following them, Facebook dangles its 2 billion users in front of influencers, recruiting those eager to grow their followings.
But, Facebook is also very much in the market for the sort of homegrown video programming from its own users that is more typically associated with YouTube. Facebook is surely hoping to woo some of those same creators away from its Google-owned rival, especially following recent problems that have made it more difficult for video creators at YouTube to monetize their creations.


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Hope you all are doing well. It seems that there has been a few issues with blogger. I've been pulling my hair out thinking my computer was getting hung up everytime I tried to post something. Well, at least now I know it wasn't me and that makes me feel a whole lot better.
I have a new card using the ever so cute Star with Baby Bear image from I Brake for Digis. There aren't a lot of young children in my family. My niece is it and she's 10, so baby cards are a little too young for her (although I know she would find this image adorable too), so I don't make a whole lot of baby cards. To top it off everyone I know is waaaaayyyy past the point in their lives where a baby would even be considered. :) So I saw this image and I just had to make a card with it. And I had to use one of my favourite colour schemes for it - blue & yellow.
Stamps: Star with Baby Bear (I Brake for Digis)
Papers: coloured card stock (Recollections), white card stock (Wausau Exact Index 110#), patterned paper (Costco)
Tools & Embellishments: ribbon (Michaels), Lace Heart edge punch (Martha Stewart), Classic Butterfly trio punch (Martha Stewart), Perfect Pearls, Copic markers
Its a fairly simple card, but I really wanted to show off the image. Also, I needed to make the image large enough to show all the great detail, which meant there wasn't a whole lot of room left on the card front. I usually don't make cards that are "off size" since its a chore to either find an envelope or make one for the off size. I think this card turned out pretty nice. I hope you all like it. :)
Take care & I'll talk to you later...


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Joshua Garcia to star in film adaptation of Bob Ong’s ‘Ang Mga Kaibigan ni Mama Susan’
Producer Black Sheep announced on Wednesday that it tapped Joshua Garcia to star in a film adaptation of Bob Ong’s “Ang Mga Kaibigan ni Mama Susan.”
The ABS-CBN Films outfit will co-produce the movie with Regal Films.
According to a report by ABS-CBN, Chito S. Ro?o is set to direct the adaptation.
Released in 2020, Bob Ong’s horror-suspense novel revolves around “Galo”, a college student in Manila and his journal entries that he writes for one of his college instructors.
Bob Ong has authored multiple books including “ABNKKBSNPLAko?!” and “Lumayo Ka Nga Sa Akin”, both have been adapted into films in 2014 and in 2016, respectively.


MY PLAYLIST is a series where we ask some of our favourite artists to share some of their favourite songs, and while it may give us a bit of insight into some their influences we’re also interested to see what they enjoy listening to when they’re not making music.
This week we’re checking in with French-Canadian producer CRi who will be releasing his debut album “Juvenile” on October 16th via Anjunadeep. He’s already given us four singles from that album which you can check out below, but after going through his playlist of course!
“Here’s a mix of music that inspired younger me to become a musician, and some new tracks that I’m into. High in emotions and nostalgia. Pre-tease to when we can all finally get to see each-others in a sweaty club :)” – CRi
Check out those new album singles below and then click here to pre-order the album.


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From the Daily Mail:
A fun-loving boyfriend decided to surprise his partner by posting her an unusual present – himself.
But the joke went horribly wrong when the delivery was delayed and he almost suffocated to death.
Hu Seng, from Chongqing city in southern China, made a friend tape him into a box that he had paid a courier firm to deliver to his girlfriend, Li Wang. (Full story here.)
This brings to mind the tale of Waldo Jeffers as told in “The Gift,” a song by the Velvet Underground from their 1968 album, White Light/White Heat. His ending, however, is a little, er, less happy.


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When cannibals ate brains of people who died from prion disease, many of them fell ill with the fatal neurodegenerative disease as well. Likewise, when cows were fed protein contaminated with bovine prions, many of them developed mad cow disease. On the other hand, transmission of prions between species, for example from cows, sheep, or deer to humans, is--fortunately--inefficient, and only a small proportion of exposed recipients become sick within their lifetimes.
A study published on April 3rd in PLOS Pathogens takes a close look at one exception to this rule: bank voles appear to lack a species barrier for prion transmission, and their universal susceptibility turns out to be both informative and useful for the development of strategies to prevent prion transmission.
Prions are misfolded, toxic versions of a protein called PrP, which in its normal form is present in all mammalian species that have been examined. Toxic prions are "infectious"; they can induce existing, properly folded PrP proteins to convert into the disease-associated prion form. Prion diseases are rare, but they share features with more common neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's disease.
Trying to understand the unusual susceptibility of bank voles to prions from other species, Stanley Prusiner, Joel Watts, Kurt Giles and colleagues, from the University of California in San Francisco, USA, first tested whether the susceptibility is an intrinsic property of the voles' PrP, or whether other factors present in these rodents make them vulnerable.
The scientists introduced into mice the gene that codes for the normal bank vole prion protein, thereby generating mice that express bank vole PrP, but not mouse PrP. When these mice get older, some of them spontaneously develop neurologic illness, but in the younger ones the bank vole PrP is in its normal, benign folded state. The scientists then exposed young mice to toxic misfolded prions from 8 different species, including human, cattle, elk, sheep, and hamster.
They found that all of these foreign-species prions can cause prion disease in the transgenic mice, and that the disease develops often more rapidly than it does in bank voles. The latter is likely because the transgenic mice express higher levels of bank vole PrP than are naturally present in the voles.
The results show that the universal susceptibility of bank voles to cross-species prion transmission is an intrinsic property of bank vole PrP. Because the transgenic mice develop prion disease rapidly, the scientists propose that the mice will be useful tools in studying the processes by which toxic prions "convert" healthy PrP and thereby destroy the brain. And because that process is similar across many neurodegenerative diseases, better understanding prion disease development might have broader implications.
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Image caption: Accumulation of misfolded, toxic prion protein (brown staining) in the brain of a transgenic mouse expressing bank vole PrP and challenged with human variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) prions. Credit: Image courtesy of Dr. Joel Watts.
Authors and Affiliations:
Joel C. Watts, University of California San Francisco, California
Kurt Giles, University of California San Francisco, California
Smita Patel, University of California San Francisco, California
Abby Oehler, University of California San Francisco, California
Stephen J. DeArmond, University of California San Francisco, California
Stanley B. Prusiner, University of California San Francisco, California
Citation: Watts JC, Giles K, Patel S, Oehler A, DeArmond SJ, et al. (2014) Evidence That Bank Vole PrP Is a Universal Acceptor for Prions. PLoS Pathog 10(4): e1003990. doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1003990
Funding: This work was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health (AG021601, AG002132, AG010770, AG031220, and NS064173) as well as by a gift from the Sherman Fairchild Foundation. JCW was supported by a postdoctoral fellowship from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), a K99 grant from the National Institute on Aging (AG042453), and a research grant from the Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Foundation. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.


The Best Carpets For Kids And Pets
If your only priority was durability, your whole home would be surfaced in laminate flooring or ceramic tile. But that wouldn’t be warm, comfortable, or especially stylish. Carpet is much more luxurious, but it’s a delicate balance between durability and comfort.
Kids and pets will put your carpets through the wringer, from spilled food and abrasion to dirt and dyed liquids. When you choose a carpet for a household with kids and pets, there are a few characteristics you’ll want to focus on: stain resistance, durability, and softness.
What Type Of Fiber Should You Choose?
Organic fibers like wool are great for many homes, but their fibers are porous and thus easier to stain, so they’re not the best choice for houses with kids and dogs. Instead, you’ll probably want to go with a synthetic fiber.
The problem is, there are a lot of synthetic fibers out there, and it’s hard to know the difference between polyester, Sorona, nylon, and olefin (also called polypropylene). The truth is, when it comes to carpet fibers, there’s a strong correlation between cost and quality — what you pay for is what you get.
Among synthetic fibers, nylon and Sorona are the most costly, but they’re also durable, resistant to stains, soft, and retain their appearance for years without getting work down. For less-trafficked and less-seen areas like basements or guest rooms, polyester fibers are a bargain, but at the cost of some of their durability and longevity.
What Style Of Carpet Should I Get?
Carpet styles are a confusing spectrum of texture, durability, and appearance that can be hard to keep track of. Here are the basics:
Cut pile is a series of loops of yarn, cut to a common height to give the appearance of single strands. Within the cut pile category, you’ll find variations like Saxony, plush, textured, frieze, and shag. Don’t worry if it’s confusing — the experts at Sloane’s will explain everything when you come in.
Level loop pile is made of loops of yarn rather than strands. Those loops are usually short and densely packed, making a durable, easy-to-clean surface. Multi-level loop pile is similar, but the loops are of varying heights, which gives the carpet a little more texture and depth. Sometimes the loops are even arranged in patterns.
Finally, cut and loop pile is what it sounds like — a mixture of cut strands and closed loops. This gives your carpet a more interesting texture and combines the softness of cut pile with the durability of loop pile.
When it comes to kids and pets, you’ll have to consider the trade-off between comfort and durability. Level loop pile is what you’re likely to find in office buildings — it’s dense, durable, and easy to clean, but not very warm or soft. It’s a good choice for entryways, playrooms, and other high-traffic areas. For living areas, cut pile is softer and more comfortable on little hands and feet.
What About Color?
Color is a personal, subjective choice, so it’s a good idea to bring in swatches of upholstery or curtains, paint chips from nearby walls, or at least photos of your furniture and wall art to get the best match you can.
That said, there are some things to consider. For example, lighter colors tend to make rooms look lighter and airier — if you’re finishing a basement, dark colors probably aren’t the way to go. Dark colors are dramatic and give a luxurious flair, but will show off dust and pet hair.
Can I Treat My Carpet?
Even if you choose a stain-resistant fiber, it’s not a bad idea to have your carpets treated with Scotchgard as well. If you’ve ever had your carpets professionally cleaned, they’ve probably offered you a coating option — while it has its drawbacks with respect to your furniture, it’s worth considering for your carpet.
But spraying your carpets, or even adding it to the cleaning fluid, is not nearly as durable as buying carpet treated with Scotchgard directly from the factory. When it’s applied as part of the manufacturing process, the Scotchgard coats every fiber of the carpet all the way down to the backing for total stain and soil protection. That factory-applied coating will never wear off or walk off, making it a perfect choice for households with children and pets.