Prepare to embark on a musical journey where the power of songs becomes a force that molds our very existence, leaving an indelible mark on our hearts and minds.
In Charlie McCosh’s playlist, we embark on a journey where songs hold the power to shape our very essence. They weave themselves into the tapestry of our existence, becoming the anthem of our memories, the balm for our sorrows, and the catalyst for our elation.
McCosh has curated a collection of tracks that have etched themselves indelibly upon her soul, serving as a testament to the profound influence of music on our beings.
At the forefront of this playlist is McCosh’s own single “Boy,” a testament to her commanding yet vulnerable vocals. Supported by powerful production that intensifies the emotional impact, the lyrics bear an intimate touch, as though ripped straight from the pages of her own diary. It is a window into her world of romantic sorrow, inviting us to join her in this deeply personal journey.
From the tender vulnerability of Joanna Sternberg’s “I’ve Got Me” to the wistful daydream of Lorde‘s “Ribs,” each song carries the weight of personal experiences and resonates with universal emotions. They become trusted companions during heartbreak, guiding lights on the path of self-discovery, and soothing solace on our darkest days
These songs offer solace during heart-wrenching moments, inspire self-reflection and growth, and remind us of the profound power of music to shape our lives. As we immerse ourselves in each melody and lyric, we are reminded of the transformative and timeless impact that music holds within our souls.
I’ve got me – Joanna Sternberg
“I’ve got me in the morning, I’ve got me in the evening, I’ll let you be, because Ive got me”. A recent discovery for me. A song surrounding self love. It’s had that classic folky sound that uplifts me. Joanna has such a sweet voice similar to that of Adrianne Lenker whom is one of my favourites.
Red Bird Pt. 2 (Morning) – Florist
This self titled album has been one of my favourites over the past year, and this song is one that I reach for a lot. Florist’s music has held my hand through my most recent recent breakup. Their beautiful synth work and warm guitars is so calming and gentle and comforting to me.
Ribs – Lorde
This song is the biggest hit of nostaligia. I listened to Pure Heroin all throughout my teenage years, when I didn’t know what romantic love was. It brings me back to car rides with my best friends. I recently went to a Lorde concert in Naarm. When she said that this Ribs is 10 years old, me and my friend I went with danced with the purest of joy. It was bliss.
Youth – Daughter
Another song that I grew up with. This is one of my most favourite songs in the whole world. This song introduced me to indie folk music and is why I make the music that I make. It was one of the first songs I learnt to play on guitar, and that sweet, sweet guitar line is something I go back to for inspiration constantly. This song grounds me on my darkest and lightest days. It is one of the most loving songs ever in my opinion. It reminds me of Joni Mitchells “Both Sides Now”, in the form and the lyrics.
Cellophane – FKA Twigs
One of my favourite break up songs. It sounds like she is crying while she sings this. It’s soheartbreaking to listen to. I love screaming this in the car.
Forever- Charli XCX
This whole album is about a break-up, and it again, held my hand through my most recent heartbreak. It was a rough one. I really empathised with this record, because it really put painted the feelings i felt and that latch I had on one person. It kind of fed some delusion for me of the denial of a breakup, thinking everything was going to be fine between us in the end. Or maybe I was just accepting that I will feel like this forever with this one person. it still remains true to some extent, but now I feel like I have moved past those feelings a lot. And now I can just listen to this song without immense pain, but with a familiarity, and enjoy it for the production and the banger that it is.
Me & My Dog – boygenius
This song gives me those butterflies. “..we got no sleep because we were kissing”. It’s like that initial love of someone new. Those giddy feelings. And then it swarms into a breakup song. The perfect outline of a relationship. “I wanna hear one song without thinking of you”.
Heavy Heaven- Pia Nesvara
Pia is my good friend from Naarm. When I first saw her perform this song, I cried. I watched back the video I took what feels like a hundred times. It’s one of my favourite songs. She is one of my favourite artists. This song is a gut-wrenching love song about loss. Her warm sweet air in her voice holds me every time. Pia has this presence about her on and off stage. A warm love. The way she connects to her audience is like no one else.
Fourth of July – Sufjan Stevans
A very sad song. Probably one of the saddest in existence. I am so in love with Sufjan’s voice and lyricism. It feels personal. Especially when he says “my firefly… dragon fly… my star in the sky”. It is such a beautiful way to describe someone you love. It makes me feel small, delicate and special. “did you, get enough love, my little dove, why do you cry?” It’s such a beautiful line, singling the listener out. It’s the feeling of loneliness, of love and of loss.
Just Like Heaven – The Cure
This song brings me back to my childhood. It makes me think of my parents dancing together and me and my sisters joining in as little ones. Such happy memories related to this. My parents have such good taste in music. Now I dance to it in my bedroom.
Don’t be scared, I love you – Bill Ryder-Jones
Such a great road trip song. Specifically at night. I love Billy Ryder-Jones’ tone and the moodiness this song brings.
Change – Big Thief
I think Adrianne Lenker is one of the best songwriters of my time. “Change, like the wind, like the water, like skin”. The lyrics in this song are so beyond comforting. The way this song holds me through any situation. It is about accepting, and knowing that things do change. I saw a post saying something along the lines of ‘rejection is a a gentle nudge towards something else’. “Would you live forever, never die while everything around passes?”. The lyrics are so true and profound.
True Love Waits – Radiohead
This is my most favourite love song of all time. “True love waits in haunted attics, and true love lives on lollipops and crisps”. It’s just so beautiful. Thom Yorke paints love as being one of the most scary and haunting feeling of all, while also being the most beautiful, innocent and lovely thing in the world. Yorke’s beautiful poetry over the haunting piano melody could sing me to sleep on any given day. This is a wedding song, this is a funeral song. This song will be with me forever.


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As part of the account team managing Sugar Factory American Brasserie, Sugar Factory Retail Stores, Towbin Motorcars, Meatball Spot and Pussycat Dolls Dollhouse at The Keating in San Diego, Savyna is always thinking of fresh ideas for her clients. Some of Savyna’s responsibilities include writing press releases, managing her clients’ social media accounts, attending photo shoots and working red carpet events.
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This section section describes the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) and its implementation on Symbian platform.
SMTP is the most widely used protocol for sending emails. It is a text-based and push protocol that cannot pull messages from a remote server on demand.
One or more recipients of a message are specified in a message along with the message text and other encoded objects. The message is then transferred to a remote server using a procedure of queries and responses between the client and server. Either an end-user's email client (Mail User Agent (MUA)) or a relaying server's Mail Transport Agents (MTA) can act as an SMTP client. The SMTP client initiates a TCP connection to SMTP server on port 25 (unless overridden by configuration).
SMTP is more suitable for a machine permanently connected to the Internet. To retrieve messages only on demand, which is the most common requirement on a single-user computer, a mail client must use POP3 or IMAP4. POP3 is mostly preferred when single-user computers connected to the Internet only intermittently.
SMTP is a Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) used to transfer emails to a SMTP server which then forwards them on to a specified destination.
Sending an email generally consists of three phases: connect and authorise to server, send emails and quit.
The SMTP component is responsible for sending email messages composed and stored in the Message Server’s Message Store.
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Depending on how the user has configured the email settings and the capabilities of the SMTP server, SMTP authentication may also be required.
Mail From and recipient To are sent.
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The last CRLF is sent to indicate the end of the RFC 2822 header.
The message body and encoded attachments are sent.
The encoding format (uuencode or MIME, character sets) depends on the user’s email settings and locale.
Finally, the body is terminated by a CRLF.
CRLF sequence, and the email is queued by the SMTP server for sending.
For more details on implementing the IMAP4 MTM functions, see example code .
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Unlock all Bronze, Silver, and Gold Trophies
Sports Champions Champion
Complete the Gold Cup in all 6 sports
Acquire 250 stars in Cup Play
Come back to win after being knocked down in a single-player Boxing match (Silver or higher)
Acquire 100 stars in Cup Play
Complete the Gold Cup in Golf
Get The Point
Acquire 500,000 points in Cup Play with a single Champion.
Win a game of Golf at each location in Free Play
It's All Down Hill!
Complete the Gold Cup in Skiing
Complete the Gold Cup in Bowling
Complete the Gold Cup in Boxing
Make Some Racquet!
Complete the Gold Cup in Tennis
Quiver With Joy!
Complete the Gold Cup in Archery
In Bowling, get above a 200 point game in Silver difficulty or higher
Get 3 split arrows in a single Archery match
Last for 2 minutes in an Archery Challenge Mode match
Land a 6-hit combo in Boxing
Win a Tennis game after going deuce twice
Equip your Champion with an unlockable item
Successfully land a jump with two forward flips and two back flips
Complete a round of Golf with four players
Frost And The Flurrious
Pass another skiier after drafting behind them for at least 5 seconds
Complete a game of Tennis
Icy What You Did There
During a race, cause another skier to crash
Complete a training stage in any sport
Improve your score in a previously completed Cup Play match
In Tennis, score 10 points at the net in a single match
Complete more than 1 Party Play playlist
Complete a game of Bowling
Use two or more created Champions in a multiplayer game
In Bowling, pick up a split spare
Acquire 25 stars in Cup Play
Win a Silver difficulty level (or higher) Archery match without missing a shot
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Accumulate 20 strikes in Bowling
Customize an outfit for your Champion in all 6 sports
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Complete a game in Archery
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Earn at least 2 stars on each Bronze Cup Challenge Mode
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In Golf, hit the ball onto the green from the tee
Complete a game of Skiing
Complete a game of Boxing
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In Golf, make a putt over 40 feet
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I find myself heading downtown more and more as it continues to grow with lots of new hip places to hang out. One is Flock & Fowl located in the Ogden Building at 150 N. Las Vegas Blvd.
Flock & Fowl is the creation of Chef Sheridan Su and his wife Jenny Wong. If you have ever been to Fat Choy inside the Eureka Casino then you know his work, as he was the creator of that great restaurant as well. The menu, as you can tell from the name of the restaurant, is all about chicken.
On my visit I started out with an order of edamame with a sweet chile sauce. This is always a great start to any meal and these were spot on. Next I had to try an order of Chicken Wings. I mean I can’t go to a chicken place and not get wings, right? I got the Honey Butter flavor and these were so good I almost ordered seconds. The wings were cooked nice and crispy while the honey butter sauce was just amazing. I will be back for more of these for sure.
Next up I decided to try their All Natural Cheeseburger. I know, this is place known for its chicken dishes and I’m ordering a burger. What’s up with that! Well, to be honest, as I walked in and was taken to my table I passed a table where a guy was eating a burger and I have to tell you, based on the smell and look I was having one. My stomach over ruled my head on this visit. The burger was a fresh 8 oz. hand-formed patty with soy-glazed mushrooms, caramelized onions and house slaw. It was so good and very satisfying.
I have to go back again to try their signature dish the Hainanese Chicken & Rice. They serve Mary’s Free Range Chicken, with fat rice, cucumbers, pickled mustard greens and a choice of two side dishes. This is the dish that has regulars coming back time and time again.
Finally, save room for dessert as they have their cast iron Chocolate Chip Cookie. The name says it all, as Flock & Fowl freshly bakes a chocolate chip cookie in a cast iron skillet then serves it hot with vanilla ice cream and caramel sauce. Warning: This is so good you may want a nap after you finish it but it’s so worth it.
Flock & Fowl has a great vibe and is a cool place to hang out, have drinks and grab a bite to eat with friends. The wait staff is very friendly and attentive to all your needs. I give Flock & Fowl 3.50 Forks out of 4.

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Trading of MGM Mirage stocks were halted at the end of the trading day today. This sent many Las Vegas watchers into a frenzy – myself included. The news wasn’t as interesting as the chatter. Straight from the horses mouth.
MGM MIRAGE (NYSE: MGM) and Dubai World through subsidiary Infinity World, 50/50 joint venture partners in the CityCenter project, today announced that the companies have reached an agreement on a revised joint venture agreement and also reached an agreement with CityCenter’s lenders on a comprehensive plan to fully fund the completion of CityCenter for its scheduled opening later this year.
This is a bit of good news for MGM Grand. If City Center is able to be completed as planned MGM Mirage shouldn’t have to divest any more properties to finish the project.
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This is my favourite shot from my recent forays into street photography. Something about his expression. And the light.
Last month I enjoyed putting my new street pal, the Fuji X-E1, through its paces during a lunchtime stroll around Belgravia.
Street photography is a very different genre from my usual fare, but I am enjoying dabbling in it.
I love it that with the X-E1 I can snap away without people noticing. I am even beginning to shoot from the hip, and sometimes I get a passable shot that way.
I love the contrasts you get in London, like working lads taking a lunch break under a designer advert with a distinctly effete-looking model.
Perhaps it helps with the stealth shooting that everyone is too busy looking at his/her phone to notice me!

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Health insurance is a big issue in the United States and for some reason a lot of people oppose 'Obamacare', the system that makes sure sick people get treated through cheap healthcare for everyone.
I have listened to several people opposing this plan but none came up with a valid argument. Still they oppose it.
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Coming up with platinum substitutes may be elemental
Platinum and some related precious metals (palladium, iridium, rhodium and ruthenium) are frequently used as chemical catalysts and for countless laboratory processes. As rare metals, they are also expensive. To ensure technological advances are not curtailed due to their lack of availability or high cost, Lab researchers are working with an abundant element to take their place: cobalt.
A catalyst differs from a reagent in chemical transformations because a reagent is typically consumed during a reaction, while a catalyst is not. Still, recovery of the metals is not always complete and it’s not uncommon to lose a small percent of these dwindling materials. This is a long-term concern for the use of precious metals in industry and by researchers around the world.
Initial findings by a Los Alamos team indicate that if a cobalt atom is captured within a complex molecule, it can mimic the reactivity of platinum group metals. It could then potentially be used as a catalyst in a wide variety of processes, including the production of biofuels and numerous applications within organic chemistry.
The research is funded through the Laboratory Directed Research and Development’s Early Career Program. The cobalt research results made the cover of Angewandte Chemie: International Edition late last year in an article titled, “Mild and Homogeneous Cobalt-Catalyzed Hydrogenation of C=C, C=O, and C=N Bonds.”
Guoqi G. Zhang and Susan Hanson, both of the Lab’s Inorganic Isotope and Actinide Chemistry group and Brian L. Scott, with the Materials Synthesis and Integrated Devices group, are conducting the research.
Match the precious metal to its cost
(Precious metal prices change frequently; these prices were captured on a single day and may not reflect their current costs.)
A) Iridium 1) $1,600 ounce
B) Palladium 2) $88 ounce
C) Platinum 3) $710 ounce
D) Rhodium 4) $1,040 ounce
E) Ruthenium 5) $1,160 ounce
By comparison, cobalt currently sells for about $1 ounce.
(Answers: A=4, B=3, C=1, D=5, E=2)

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The chilly, overcast weather makes it seem like early morning, though it’s nearly midday. A tethered goat grazes on the lush, green grass and bleats noisily, as her kid suckles. Numerous birds chip in the distance and the sound of buzzing bees, among other insects, can be heard. These are the sights and sounds I first encounter when I arrive at the Mukuha’s homestead in Kandara, Murang’a County. I am warmly welcomed into their house and introduced to some of the couple’s family members who are visiting, amid cheerful banter, steaming mugs of tea and large slices of bread graciously served by Rebecca.
A double blessing… “
There is no training for marriage. There’s nowhere you will be taken to learn how to live peacefully with your spouse,” says Julius, when we get started with the interview about an hour after my arrival. He proceeds to repeat these words severally in the course of the interview. He met Rebecca 51 years ago at Thika General Hospital where they both worked at the time. He was a physician and she worked as an untrained nurse. A relationship blossomed between them and a year and a half later they walked down the aisle at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Thika. “It was the day after the widely publicised John F. Kennedy’s assassination, which was all over the news on our wedding day,” says Julius. Nevertheless, this did not dampen the mood at their colourful wedding. Even his lovely bride, who was heavily pregnant on that special day, enjoyed herself immensely. Rebecca gave birth to her first child the very next day after her wedding. “I thought I still had two or more weeks before the birth of my daughter so it was unexpected. It was however a great blessing and there was a lot of celebration from our friends and relatives who kept saying, ‘the bride now has a child!’ So many people visited us. They considered it a great blessing for a newly wedded couple to have a child soon after their wedding,” she says.
A long-distance marriage…
With regard to starting a family, Julius and Rebecca hit the ground running, so to speak. Since they became parents barely a day after their wedding, I am curious to know how that formative stage of their marriage was. “We first lived in Thika then moved to Kandara in Murang’a after six months where I started farming on our piece of land. It was not easy adjusting to the farm life as I had lived in the city most of my life. Many people thought I wouldn’t cope well but I resolved to prove them wrong. I worked very hard and made good returns from farm produce,” says Rebecca.
Her husband was training and working in Nairobi at the time and it was difficult adjusting to life without him. Her late mother-in-law, who came to live with her, was her pillar of support during that time. Rebecca says the first few years of her marriage taught her and her husband to give love freely to one another without holding back.
Julius reiterates that there is no training for married life and that it requires a great deal of humility and the knowledge that both parties are strangers to one another and so have to adjust to one another. “Shared values are also very important. These equalize you and put you on the same page with one another,” he says.
The nature of Julius’ job required him to be away from home frequently and he would miss his wife dearly when he was away. “I think having my wife settle at our piece of land in Kandara with my mother worked well for us. She took care of our land, grew our investments and also took care our family,” says Julius.
He would visit his family every month and on holidays. “Our situation was not ideal but it worked because we were and still are friends and we loved each other dearly. I knew I wouldn’t want to do anything to hurt my friend and she felt the same way. A challenge I faced was that I had to work harder at getting to know my children because I was away a lot and they knew their mother much better than they knew me,” he says.
“Some of our friends wondered how we made our marriage work when my husband was away so much. I would say we were both very committed to the marriage and our different roles in life. I think I could have found myself caught up in many negative influences in my husband’s absence but my faith in God kept me grounded,” says Rebecca.
Julius says that when a couple gets married, they should be aware that there is no turning back. Both parties should also know and understand their roles and play them to the best of their ability. “Your friendship before you get married really matters,” he says, adding that children observe their parents’ interactions, and this is essentially why a couple should keep their disagreements and arguments away from their children.
“Marriage is something that should be treated with seriousness. There are both good times and difficult times involved, so perseverance is needed. No one is perfect. Everyone makes mistakes and a forgiving heart is therefore important. Accept one another just as you are, correct one another in love, and don’t be quick to point out mistakes. This will help you get along well,” says Julius, adding, “Respect God and the values you hold and be considerate of one another. Do unto your spouse what you would have them do to you.”
Julius and Rebecca have differed, like most married couples do. They solve their disputes through earnest discussions. “No one is an angel. We have both made many mistakes in the course of our time together,” says Rebecca. When the couple first moved to their own piece of land, they lived in a mud house for several years before they put up the spacious house they currently reside in. Rebecca recalls the events following this being one of the serious disputes the couple has had in their marriage.
“We had lived in the mud house for quite some time and I knew at some point we could afford to build a better house because of the income we were both bringing in, but he kept procrastinating and saying there was not enough money,” she says. Rebecca would scrape the mud wall adjacent to their bed with a panga and leave the soil that would come off unswept to give the impression that the house was falling apart, much to Julius’ chagrin whenever he was home. “He would get annoyed and ask why I wasn’t fixing the walls, to which I would reply that I didn’t have the time as I was taking care of the farm and our children. We argued about this issue severally over a few months but we were eventually able to sort it out amicably and start working on our new home in the late 70s,” she says, as they both chuckle about the matter.
Enrolling for Marriage Encounter in 1985, a weekend programme designed to help married couples improve their marriage, grow closer to each other, and improve commitment to one another was very helpful to the couple. “It helped us learn and understand many issues about marriage that we did not know before,” says Julius.
Work and finances…
After they got married, the couple decided that Rebecca should leave her work as a nurse and take care of the children and the farm. “When we started rearing cows, I would sell milk. I was one of the very first people to sell milk to restaurants and households in this area. I also sold livestock and farm produce and these brought in good income for the family,” she says.
For most of his life, Julius worked as a physician in various government hospitals before setting up his own private practice in Nairobi. He retired from his practice in 2004 and joined his wife at their family farm. The couple have shared everything they own since they got married and they say unison, “There is nothing like ‘my’ money, it’s our money… Money should not be a source of strife in marriage.”
Rebecca says they have individual and joint accounts and are free to access any of the accounts as they please. “We are both not wasteful or extravagant so we have not really had an issue in this area,” she says.
Marriage in the sunset years…
Julius and Rebecca have nine children – six daughters and three sons who are all married. “I was very strict with the children as they grew up. I never took any nonsense from them. They cannot imagine I am the same person who would run after them and ensure they got a thorough disciplining whenever they misbehaved. We are friends now and can laugh about it, and they appreciate me for keeping them from going astray. God helped me a lot with instilling discipline in them. I knew if I did not put my foot down, they would give me a hard time, especially since their father was away most of the time,” says Rebecca.
“Our children knew what was expected of them. We instructed them in the way they should grow. I would have talks with them whenever I could. They were all baptised in the Catholic church, where they also went for catechism classes and took their first sacrament,” says Julius.
“Children grow up and leave. That’s one interesting aspect of marriage – you go back to where you began. It’s just the two of us now that all our children are grown-up and have their own homes. We enjoy our time together very much. We also enjoy spending time with our children whenever they visit, and also with our friends and neighbours,” he adds.
Julius currently manages the farm together with his wife. Friends who visited his homestead after his retirement and saw his flourishing farm wondered how and where he found the time to manage and grow it so well while he was working so far away from home, and he would tell them it was not him but his wife. “My wife has really taken care of and developed our farm and property. I am proud of her,” he says.
Rebecca says that someone once told her that most men do not live for very long after their retirement because their wives do not take good care of them. This is especially so, she says, in cases where wives felt neglected and grew bitter because their husbands were never there for them and their families. While this is not the case for her, she says that it is important to make an effort to take good care of one another at all times. “That way you are able to stick together, even in difficult times,” she says.
When Julius retired she was concerned about him because he never used to eat much. “I think living on his own for a long period of time had taken a toll on him. He and his colleagues in Nairobi would survive on cake and soda for a whole day. When he first came back, he would spend the whole day in the shamba and not eat the lunch I would prepare for him. So, I would send someone to call him and tell him a visitor had come to see him and when he came and asked to see the visitor, I would point to the food on the table. It would upset him, but eventually he started eating properly,” she says with a smile, as Julius is grins.
“We’re excited to be celebrating our golden jubilee. Being together for 50 years is not a small deal. We are grateful and humbled. I recently told my husband that we will also celebrate our 75th anniversary in a few years, God-willing!” says Rebecca.
In conclusion, Rebecca says, “A good union requires humility and prayerfulness. When two people get married, they come from different backgrounds with different wants and needs. You have to find a way to meet in the middle and include one another into your different lives.”
Published on November 2013


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Thyme tea is an herbal tea made from the leaves of the thyme plant. Thyme tea has a number of potential health benefits, including improved digestion, reduced inflammation, and relief from coughing and congestion. Thyme tea is generally considered safe for most people, though it may cause some mild side effects in some people.
Health Benefits of Thyme Tea
Thyme tea has a long list of benefits and has been used for centuries as a medicinal herb. Some of the most well-known benefits of thyme tea include its ability to boost the immune system, improve circulation, and fight inflammation.
Boosts Immune System
Thyme tea is especially beneficial in Autumn and Winter when colds and flu are more prevalent. Thyme is an effective antimicrobial, antibacterial, and antifungal agent as well as being antiviral. This means it can help your body to fight off infection. The antioxidants in thyme can also help to protect cells from damage.
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Thyme tea is prepared from the leaves of the common thyme plant, which is scientifically known as Thymus vulgaris This plant is found throughout the Mediterranean region and has been used for culinary and medicinal purposes for centuries.
The most important health benefit of thyme tea is that it is a natural source of antioxidants. Antioxidants are molecules that bind to and neutralize harmful toxins known as free radicals. Free radicals are generated by environmental factors such as pollution and UV radiation, and they have been linked to the development of chronic diseases such as cancer and heart disease. By drinking thyme tea regularly, you can help protect your body against the damaging effects of free radicals.
Thyme tea has many potential health benefits, including reducing inflammation. The active ingredient in thyme, thymol, is a natural anti-inflammatory agent. This means that it can help to reduce inflammation throughout the body, including in the joints, muscles, and digestive system. Thyme tea is also rich in antioxidants, which can help to protect cells from damage and reduce the risk of some chronic diseases.
Aids in Digestion
Thyme tea is known to be a soothing drink that can help settle the stomach and relieve various digestive issues like indigestion, gas, bloating, diarrhea, and even nausea. This is because thyme tea relaxes the smooth muscles in your digestive tract, which allows for better movement of food and waste through your intestines. Thyme tea may also help increase production of bile, which is essential for proper fat digestion.
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When you have a sore throat, drinking thyme tea can help soothe the discomfort. Thyme tea has antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory properties, which can help reduce swelling and fight infection. Gargling with thyme tea can also help relieve a sore throat. To make thyme tea, add 1 teaspoon of dried thyme to 8 ounces of boiling water. Steep for 5-10 minutes, then strain and drink.
In conclusion, drinking thyme tea can be beneficial for your health in many ways. It can help boost your immune system, improve digestion, relieve stress and anxiety, and even fight off inflammation. However, it is important to remember that thyme tea is not a cure-all remedy and that it should be consumed in moderation. If you have any concerns about drinking thyme tea, be sure to speak with your healthcare provider first.

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In response to a ton of questions about sleep, here’s some more thoughts:
A key factor for my sleep is consistency in as many variables as possible. especially when I travel. I’ll share some of my tools below.
4 years ago my book took off internationally in the same period that my daughter was born. She had mad sleep issues, I had mad jet-lags from touring the globe. It resulted in a few years of misregulated sleep.
I’m very conscious of the effect of breathing on sleep. And there’s 2 important things to take into account.
1: Sympathetic over activation.
This means your body is stuck in go-mode or stress-mode. On a nervous system level, this constant neuroception of unsafety makes us “sleep with one eye open” and never feel rested because we’re mainly getting light sleep and not much deep nor REM, despite hitting 8 hours. This can be helped with breathing practice before bed. One simple way is to follow the breathing video in the link in my bio.
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I didn’t become “The #BreathworkBiohacker” because I’m such a perfect breather. I got into this game to fix some serious issues. I’m painfully aware of my own suboptimal breathing quality during the night. The thing on my nose is the @intakebreathing nose opener. The thing on my mouth is just plain old 3M micropore surgical tape. This combo seriously decreases my snoring and apnea and improves my breathing all night long.
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Sir Cornelius Vermuyden, (born 1595, Tholen, Netherlands—died April 1683?, London), Dutch-born British engineer who introduced Dutch land-reclamation methods in England and drained the Fens, the low marshy lands in the east of England.
An experienced embankment engineer, Vermuyden was employed in 1626 by King Charles I of England to drain Hatfield Chase on the Isle of Axholme, Yorkshire. Jointly financed by Dutch and English capitalists, this project was a controversial undertaking, not only for the engineering techniques used but also because it employed Dutch instead of English workmen. The fenmen, local inhabitants who hunted and fished in the fens, attacked the Dutch workers; to complete the project, the engineer had to employ English workers and compensate the fenmen for their loss of hunting and fishing rights.
In 1630 Vermuyden contracted to drain the Great Fens, or Bedford Level, Cambridgeshire; this project, completed in 1637, drew objections from other engineers, who claimed the drainage system was inadequate. During the English Civil Wars, Parliament ordered the dikes broken and the land flooded (1642) to stop a Royalist army advance. In 1649 Vermuyden was commissioned to reclaim the Bedford Level; 40,000 acres were drained by 1652.
In 1653 Vermuyden, who had been knighted in the 1620s and had become a British subject (1633), headed an unsuccessful English mission to the United Provinces of the Netherlands to arrange a political union between the two nations.
Despite the initial success of his land-reclamation efforts, Vermuyden’s techniques were undermined by the unique peatland ecology of the Fens. Draining the marshes caused the peat to shrink dramatically, lowering the land surface by as much as 3.7 metres (12 feet) below the height of the drainage canals and making the area extremely susceptible to flooding. Indeed, much of the reclaimed land was regularly flooded by the end of the 17th century, and the issue remained largely unsolved until steam-powered pumps were employed in the early 19th century.

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Wanting to learn how to conquer the first acts of Chained Echoes? Our Chained Echoes Beginner's Guide will go over what you’ll need to keep an eye out for when beginning your journey through Valandis.
Chained Echoes Has No Traditional Level System
Despite taking inspiration from classic SNES JRPGs, Chained Echoes does not make use of a traditional XP and level-based character progression system. Instead, characters can become more powerful by obtaining Grimoire Shards. Primarily gained by beating bosses, Grimoire Shards can be spent on skills across 3 categories: Action, Passive, and Stats Boosters. It’s possible to have a total of 8 Action and 5 Passive skills equipped per character, with no limit for Stat Boosters.
Both the Action and Passive slots are split into “Character” and “Class” sections. Skills unlocked by your character can be equipped in both sections, while Class Emblem skills can only be put into “Class” slots until they reach Lv. 3.
Equipped skills gain SP, which will cause them to level up once enough is obtained. Characters also obtain SP directly, which can then also be spent to upgrade skills. This character SP pool caps at 999, so it’s always worth spending it as you progress through the story
Chained Echoes Crystals and Gear Upgrades Are Extremely Important
During the first act of Chained Echoes, you’ll get access to equipment upgrading and crystals. Both are incredibly important when it comes to combat, with the former being an easy way to get a quick stat boost before tough encounters. Weapons and armor come in 10 ranks (marked by stars below their names), and each can be upgraded twice. A piece of equipment upgraded twice is usually better than an upgraded piece of equipment that’s a rank higher. This is why you should always be grabbing collectables and fighting enemies when possible — every upgrade helps.
Crystals are also a good way to boost stats, but require a little luck. You get crystals from red crystal sources across each map. These can be slotted into equipment, though each one has a certain size. Gear starts with 2 slots for crystals, with each upgrade adding 1 extra. Gems can also be combined, which is the only way to get Rank V or higher versions.
There are a few limits to combining crystals:
- The base crystal must have a purity of 1 or more (this goes down by 1 every time you combine another gem into it)
- The fuse crystal must be the same type as the base (rank doesn’t matter)
- The fuse crystal must not be one that’s already been combined before (this is marked by an asterisk)
Once you have the crystals you want, they can then be slotted into gear. Equipping multiple of the same type, either on the same piece of gear or across your character’s weapon and armor, will allow you to get higher ranks of that effect (i.e. 2 rank III gems will grant the rank V effect overall).
It’s possible to remove a crystal from equipment too, though this changes its purity to 0 and gives it a much larger size than before (usually size 3). This makes it harder to reuse high rank crystals on later gear.
Respect the Overdrive Meter
During battles, you should always make sure to keep an eye on the Overdrive meter. Keeping it in the green will halve the TP you spend on skills, letting you stay in the fight for longer. This is especially useful early on, as you wont have many easy ways to restore TP outside of certain items. Also, unless you know the fight will end on that turn, never let it get into the red.
While this might sound obvious, there are a number of things that can cause the Overdrive meter to go red quickly. For starters, all enemy turns will move the Overdrive marker to the right. This even applies to enemies that can act twice (or even 3 times) per turn. It’s a problem for large enemy encounters too, so it can sometimes be best to focus on 1 opponent, rather than on group damage.
One way of lowering Overdrive to safe levels that you might overlook is the “X Overdrive” items. These count as triggering the correct Overdrive effect, which is useful if you’re running few (or none) of the correct skill type.
Always Work Towards Goals on the Reward Board
While heading through each town, overworld area or dungeon, it’s always worth taking a detour to find items and other goodies. Red chests will always have something good — usually equipment or key items — though regular chests are always worth it for items and money. In addition, some areas also have hidden caves and buried treasure.
All of this ties into the Reward Board, which gives you money, SP, and items for completing each objective. There are goals for finding chests, buried treasure, or even just for visiting each segment of a map. However, the main draw of the Reward Board are the extra Grimoire Shards and Sacred Water you can get for creating a chain of completed objectives. Grimoire Shards are especially useful since it’s not possible to grind for levels, and can let you unlock some powerful skills earlier than if you just follow the story.
However, don't worry too much if you think you may have missed anything in an area. Once act II starts, you'll be able to find the NPC Vesta from the world map, who is stuck on a small island in the middle of Valandis. Once rescued, any remaining chests, hidden caves, or buried treasure in the current area will be shown in the bottom right of the screen.
Chained Echoes F.A.Q.
How Long is Chained Echoes
Chained Echoes’ main story is roughly 20-25 hours long. For completionists, a 100% Reward Board would likely take around an extra 10 hours or so.
Does Chained Echoes have New Game Plus?
Currently, Chained Echoes does not have a New Game Plus feature. However, it was listed as one of the features that will be added in the game’s Kickstarter campaign.
Does Chained Echoes have Difficulty Settings?
Yes, under Accessibility in the Options menu. It’s possible to increase the green portion of the Overdrive meter, lower enemy stats, and make enemies less likely to pick off weakened party members. All 3 options can be changed at any time.


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Embassy fraud angers Peter Mutharika
President Peter Mutharika is said to be disturbed by the fraud discovered at the Malawi Embassy in Ethiopia and has since issued three directives to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) to effect immediately.
Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Minister Francis Kasaila said in an interview on Monday that Mutharika has given instructions that all embassies be audited and that the National Audit Office should take over the audit at the Addis Ababa mission to ensure independence in the wake of threats issued to internal auditors. Mutharika has also directed the Chief Secretary to deal with those officers allegedly issuing threats to the auditors in the Addis Ababa saga.
In an interview Chief Secretary to the Government, George Mkondiwa, said government is conducting investigations to establish the threats issued at the auditors.
“Threatening a person doing his work is a very serious disciplinary matter and can lead to dismissal according to Malawi Public Service Regulations. We are doing our own investigations,” Mkondiwa said:
According to preliminary investigative audit report into the fraud, dated April 15, 2016, and addressed to Secretary for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation by Chief Internal Auditor Spencer Mulekano, US$267,271.46 (K184m) was discovered drawn from one account between March and September 2015.
According to the audit report, the breakdown is as follows: Suspended deputy ambassador, Doreen Kapanga, allegedly withdrew US$49,000.00 on March 3, 2015 through cheque number 1131451 and US$26,813.30 on August 3, 2015 through cheque number 1131457.
Suspended first secretary for administration and finance, Fletcher Chowe, allegedly withdrew US$58 000.00 on March 19, 2015 through cheque number 1131452; US$48,458.16 on June 5, 2015 through cheque number 1131453; US$40,000.00 on August 3, 2015 through cheque number 1131456 and US$45,000.00 on July 7, 2015 through cheque number 1131455.
Internal auditors flew to Addis Ababa to carry out the investigations and one of them Assistant Auditor Gift Mawango has been receiving intimidatory messages from some officers back home and those alleged to be sending such messages are F.Y Phiri of Central Internal Audit Office and a Mr. Kajiya an accounts assistant in the ministry’s Remittance Section.
The team that went to Addis Ababa for the audit is expected back on April 23, 2016 but Mulekano in his communication to the PS says the team will not finish the work by that date.
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Manufacturing Consent To Gender Ideology
Six-year-old James is caught in a gender identity nightmare. Under his mom’s care in Dallas, Texas, James obediently lives as a trans girl named “Luna.” But given the choice when he’s with dad, he’s all boy — his sex at birth.
In their divorce proceedings, the mother has charged the father with child abuse for not affirming James as transgender, has sought restraining orders against him, and is seeking to terminate his parental rights. She is also seeking to require him to pay for the child’s visits to a transgender-affirming therapist and transgender medical alterations, which may include hormonal sterilization starting at age eight.
I learned of James’ plight on a recent visit to Plano, Texas, where I spoke to teenagers about my own transgender story. I lived through a similar scenario when I was his age. I was cross-dressed for two-and-a-half years by my grandmother, who made a purple chiffon dress for me. Somewhat like James, my cross-dressing occurred under one adult’s care, but away from grandma’s I was all boy with my mom and dad. Also, just like James, I found my way into the office of a gender therapist, who quickly started me toward transition.
When his mother, a pediatrician, took James for counseling, she chose a gender transition therapist who diagnosed him with gender dysphoria, a mental conflict between physical sex and perceived gender. James’ precious young life hinges purely on the diagnosis of gender dysphoria by a therapist who wraps herself in rainbow colors, affirms the diagnosis of gender dysphoria, and dismisses evidence to the contrary. Remove the “rainbow” from James’ diagnosis, and it crumbles under the weight of the criteria for the diagnosis of gender dysphoria.
The diagnosis is critical, because labeling a child with gender dysphoria can trigger a series of physical and mental consequences for the child and has legal ramifications in the ongoing custody case. Get it wrong and young James’s life is irrevocably harmed.
Read it all. Heyer goes on to offer evidence that when the boy is with his father, he refuses to put on girl clothes, etc. On information offered, the little boy is being manipulated by his mother, who has custody. Imagine having to watch your ex do this to your son — and be unable to help him.
In his great book The Strange Death of Europe, Douglas Murray writes in shocking detail about how the ruling class of Britain — politicians, academicians, media people, etc. — oversaw the radical transformation of the country via mass immigration. Even though polls showed consistently that the British people did not like what was happening, no mind was paid to them. They were demonized in the media. Murray talks about a BBC panel that featured no immigration critics, even though polls showed most Britons disagreed with open borders/diversity crowd — whose number included all the BBC panelists. Murray:
Yet somewhere, lost in the middle of all the hip consensus of that Central London studio, what was almost entirely absent were the views of most people sitting at home, a world that few people ever appear to want to put their finger on in public. The upsides of migration have become easy to talk about: to imply nod to them is to express values of openness, tolerance and broad-mindedness. Yet to nod to, let alone express, the downsides of immigration is to invite accusations of closed-mindedness and intolerance, xenophobia and barely disguised racism. All of which leaves the attitude of the majority of the public almost impossible to express.
In the UK, the transgender issue is playing out the same way. The only sides in official British culture are pro-trans or pro-hate. We have a less intense version of the same thing here in the US. The people questioning organized transgenderism’s political and social goals are never heard from, and if they are, they’re presented as bigots. Those who object to the trans-industrial complex frogmarching children through transition are especially loathed. A reader of this blog told me several years ago that in her child’s public high school, parents didn’t dare object at all to the transgender cult taking over the students; not only would you have to fight the administration, but parents of kids who were transitioning would tear into you over your supposed bigotry.
The overculture is all on board with the trans movement. Twitter recently banned Meghan Murphy, a prominent Canadian feminist, because she rejects the claim that MTF transgenders are women. Julie Bindel writes:
If deadnaming becomes officially illegal where the trans Taliban have influence – which appears to be pretty much everywhere except perhaps the Galápagos Islands – it will be perfectly legal for dangerous male sex offenders to hide their previous identity, and, in turn, apply for jobs and voluntary posts with vulnerable groups. There have been a number of cases where men who identify as women and who have committed crimes while using the threat of reporting ‘deadnamers’ to hide their past.
As a society, we are acquiescing not only in the horror of what’s happening to James, the six-year-old Texas boy, but more broadly in the demolition of the idea of male and female. The gender ideologues don’t even hide what they’re trying to do. Why are we surrendering to it? Why are we not standing up and saying this is not OK?
I believe that most of us are like Britons on immigration. I don’t care what the propaganda says, I believe that almost no parent would want their son or daughter to become transgendered. It’s clear that many parents become convinced that their child is, in some psychological sense, the opposite sex to which they were born, and reconcile themselves to that fact. But I find it very hard to believe that any parent, aside from a tiny radical cohort, would wish this on their child. Nor would they want their children to be subject to a social environment — at school, particularly — that encourages them to think of themselves as genderfluid, and to gain social credibility by renouncing their sex.
But middle class people won’t allow themselves to take that position in public. To do so is to open yourself up to malicious accusations of bigotry. As reader Matt in VA pointed out yesterday, identifying as an opponent of the trans movement is a quick way to lose standing in middle class professional circles.
We are destroying children like James, and destroying the ability for many, many young people to thrive by growing psychologically and emotionally into healthy roles given by their biological sex. Consent to this madness is manufactured by elites, especially media elites, and mandated by administrative agencies of the state, including, increasingly, courts.
And few of the rest of us care enough to stand up and speak out. It wouldn’t be nice.
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VIX futures drop with volatility index
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The CBOE Volatility Index, its futures, and the S&P 500 all ended down yesterday as we head into several days of market-moving news.
The VIX fell 0.24 points, or 1.3 percent, to close at 17.74. It was lower all day as the SPX dipped into negative territory on several occasions before finishing down 1.5 points to 1403.44. The two indexes typically move inversely.
The VIX futures were lower as well. The September futures were down 0.50 points, or 2.7 percent, to 18.15. The October and December futures were both down 0.40 points to 20.35 and 22.15 respectively.
While implied volatility came down slightly, they all continue to carry huge premiums to actual volatility. The 20-day historical volatility remains at a 52-week low of 6.25 percent.
More than 330,000 VIX options traded on the day, 242,000 of which were calls. The iPath S&P 500 VIX Short-Term Futures ETN (VXX) saw 195,000 options change hands, with calls outpacing puts by 2 to 1.
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June 22, 2015
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Shares of Freyja Resources (CVE:FRA) surged over 25% on Thursday after the company announced the results from its initial sampling program completed last year on its Las Cristinas copper-silver project, which it is planning to take to production by the end of 2014.
The channel sampling program, which focused on the southern end of the Mexican property, comes ahead of a planned 3,000 metre drilling program at the site, which is expected to begin in March following the receipt of necessary permits.
Of the highlights, the company returned grades as high as 17.95% copper and 429 grams per tonne (g/t) of silver from the samples. Freyja said 64 samples from the southern end of the asset delivered 1.697% copper and 10 g/t silver, including 41 samples within a 30-metre section grading 2.45% copper and 11 g/t silver.
The results also included a nine-metre channel sample grading 2.9% copper and 105 g/t silver, and a six-metre section on surface with over 5% copper and 20 g/t silver. The channel sampling program consisted of more than 333 samples ranging from 3 to 5 kilograms per sample.
The Las Cristinas area is approximately 1.3 km long, by 20 to 50 metres wide, with the sampling program focused on a 550-metre long section split between two zones known as the South and North Mounts. The southern end of the property, which will also be the focus of the upcoming drill program, was the host of small scale copper production in the early 1970s and also holds underground workings and several drifts and adits. All current access roads to the project are also located at this southern end.
The company said Thursday the results of the sampling program suggest a true width of the mineralized zone on the South and North Mounts, and the southern extension, to be about 30 metres wide, while the northern extension to be roughly 50 metres wide.
The results from our extensive sampling program of the Las Cristinas Area are consistent with historical results from the Las Cristinas property,” said president and CEO Andre St-Michel, who is a 30-year veteran of the mining industry, having resided the last 10 years in Chihuahua City, which is located about 200 km from Las Cristinas.
“They give us a clear indication of how we need to plan the next phase of our exploration program, which will consist of over 3,000 meters of drilling. We hope to complete this drilling program by the end of June. We will continue to focus on the Southern section of the property with a view of better delineating our production targets.
The company’s goal is to start initial production by the end of this year, generating cash flow to then fund a more in-depth exploration program. The main aim of the 3,000 metre drilling program will be to delineate the initial open pit production area within the 550-metre mineralized section, and to test the southern extension for the potential to expand the mineralized corridor.
Freyja said that metallurgical and lixiviation tests to help determine recovery rates are currently being conducted, which will provide cost indications. Following the drilling campaign, the company is planning to build a heap leach pad on site.
Earlier this month, the company announced plans to raise up to $1.1 million through two separate financings, with the funds to be used to develop its Las Cristinas project, which holds four adjacent exploration concessions that stretch across 683 hectares in northeast Mexico.
The Montreal, Quebec-based company said it signed a share exchange agreement with Global Resources Investment, while it is also planning to complete a private placement of up to 850,000 units at a price of 17 cents each.
Freyja’s stock soared 25.8% on Thursday afternoon, sitting at 19.5 Canadian cents just hours after the channel sampling results were released. The gains stretched the company’s year-to-date rise to more than 62%.


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Altamont is a village located in the town of Guilderland in Albany County, New York. The village is in the western part of the town. The population was 1,720 at the 2010 census. The name means "high mountain."
In colonial times, this area was part of the Manor of Rensselaerwyck, granted by the Dutch West India Company to Killian Van Rensselaer in 1630. The area was known as Hellerburgh in the early 18th century. In the early 19th century Knowersville was established in the rural part of Albany county just below the Helderberg Mountains. This settlement eventually became known as Altamont.
Altamont was a summer vacation spot that was reached by train. The train station which once served this once busy whistle stop is now the future location of the Altamont Free Library. The old hotel in the town center burned down nearly a century ago. A village fair has been held annually in the local fairgrounds since 1893. The fairground is also the site of other festivals.


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One of the major causes, in my opinion, of the obesity problem in the U.S is the size of the portions we have come to accept as normal. It is always a shock to see the comparisons of serving sizes now as compared to those of 30 years ago. Serving sizes are also a consideration on the new food labels. For a visual comparison:
It appears that some food additives are being added to processed foods without the proper testing methods and are added under a new definition of the Generally Recognized As Safe (GRAS) rules. Watch out for Quorn (vegans beware) and carrageenan, in particular on the ingredient lists. It makes one wonder what else is being added? Do you have a food allergy? Check out my previous post here.
WHAT A GREAT IDEA! NOW EVERYONE HAS A CHANCE TO EAT HEALTHIER?
The first community outbreak in the U.S. of E. coli 011:H8 sickened 58 teenagers at a cheer-leading camp in Texas. Suspected sources of infection included the camp salad bar and a communal water barrel. One of the largest E. coli 0157:H7 outbreaks on record infected more than 1000 people in upstate New York at a county fair. The bacterium was found in infected well water. It killed a 79-year-old man and a 4-year-old girl, and it required 10 other children to undergo kidney dialysis. Six adults and a 2-year-old child were killed after an E. coli outbreak from contaminated drinking water in Canada. The bacteria entered the water supply from animal manure after flooding from a heavy storm. In northeastern Oklahoma, five children were infected with E. coli after consuming unpasteurized apple cider. Recently 25 million pounds of hamburger had to be recalled because of potential E. coli 0157:H7 contamination.
Why is food-borne illness so common? Let me count the ways:
- Problems with mishandling of food by consumers and food service workers is the most common reason.
- Greater interest of eating foods of animal origin raw or undercooked.
- Greater use of medications that suppress the immune system.
- An increase in the number of older adults in the population
- The food industry tries to increase the shelf life of food products.
- Some bacteria can grow even at refrigerator temperatures.
- More of our food is prepared in centralized kitchens outside the home and shipped to individual stores – prepackaged or in bulk.
- We have supermarkets selling prepared foods as well as those that can be reheated.
- We now import more ready-to-eat foods from other countries like seafood from Asia
- Use of antibiotics in animals can encourage bacteria to develop resistant strains.
- More cases of food-borne illness are being reported than in the past.
- Our list of food-borne pathogens has increased.
- Careless treatment of animals in slaughterhouses.
- Overall the growth of large-scale food production and distribution technologies has introduced new and different food-borne risks.
- What can we do?
WARNING: I have taught microbiology for many years. Therefore, I am more than likely to be on the picky side of food-borne illness prevention. I am not the most fun person to have dinner with. I would be happy if I could inspect all kitchens when eating out and when I handle chicken, I would feel more comfortable wearing a Hazmat suit. I’ve heard some microbiology -type “people” like me who won’t even eat in restaurants. I do not go to that extreme. Just sayin’.
No matter the type of microorganism, these general prevention practices can help cut our risks of food-borne illness. I know the list is long but in time can be routine and save you and your family a lot of misery and maybe your life. Most are no-brainers, but there may be some you had not thought of.
- Only buy sushi form a reliable source to avoid tapeworms.
- Avoid bagged salads and greens. Buy them whole and wash them yourself.
- Promptly refrigerate all foods after shopping
- Use an insulated bag to put perishable foods into when traveling in a hot car for home.
- Avoid unpasteurized milk, raw eggs, or unpasteurized apple cider.
- Wash your hands, wash your hands, and wash your hands.
- Wash all fruits and vegetables before eating or cooking – even the ones with skins. If you cut them open, bacteria on the outside will move inside and contaminate the whole fruit.
- Thaw meat in the refrigerator or in the microwave, not at room temperature. If using the microwave, use the defrost setting.
- Use different cutting boards for different types of foods to avoid cross-contamination. Sanitize cutting boards and counter tops before and after food preparation. Avoid dirty kitchen towels and contaminated utensils (e.g. knives).
- Sponges are probably most common source of contamination. Change or disinfect them often
- Cover all cuts on your skin when preparing food – Staphylococcus live on our skin, primarily on our fingers and under fingernails
- Thorough cooking of meat is mandatory – at least to 160 degrees F. This means beef, pork, wild game, seafood and fish. Use a reliable food thermometer
- Serve the food on a clean plate – not the plate you took it to the grill with.
STORING AND REHEATING
- Thoroughly reheat leftover foods to 165 degrees F.
- Keep hot foods hot and cold foods cold. Hold food below 40 degrees F. or above 140 degrees F. and don’t leave cooked foods at room temperature for more than 2 hours (1 hour in hot weather).
- Use a refrigerator thermometer to make sure the temperature is below 40 degrees F.
- Use refrigerated ground meat and patties in 1-2 days and frozen meat and patties within 3-4 months.
- Throw out all refrigerated leftovers after four days.
- Use an insulated pouch with an ice pack to carry perishable lunch items (meat-filled sandwiches, yogurt or cheese).
- Do not store raw eggs or milk on the refrigerator door since the temperature here does not remain constant.
THIS IS THE SECOND POST IN A SERIES OF A CENTURY OF FOOD. ENJOY!!!
The Roaring Twenties certainly did roar; the music was loud and the people were relatively wild compared to previous decades. They had money and found ways to spend it on new gadgets like refrigerators, toasters and stoves. The food was still luxurious and costly mainly in the fancy hotels and restaurants that had opened earlier like the Ritz Carlton, Delmonicos, the Brown Derby. Chinese food was still popular.
There She Is – Miss America
In the 1920’s America became very interested in how people looked, so beauty contests became popular. On September 7, 1921, the first Miss America Pageant, called the “Inter-City Beauty Pageant,” takes place in Atlantic City as a part of a Fall Frolic to attract tourists. There are seven contestants. Sixteen-year-old Margaret Gorman from Washington, D.C., wins the title, Miss America. Gorman’s bust, waist and hip measurements were 30-25-32. She was five feet one inch tall, and weighed 108 pounds. She bore a striking resemblance to the popular screen actress of the era, Mary Pickford. They crowned her and wrapped her in an American flag as they paraded her around as Miss America. Samuel Gompers, the president of the American Federation of Labor, would be quoted in the New York Times remarking, “She represents the type of womanhood America needs — strong, red blooded, able to shoulder the responsibilities of homemaking and motherhood. It is in her type that the hope of the country rests.”
What effect did Prohibition on American the food and dining habits in the 1920’s? Prohibition went into effect on America on January 16, 1920 stopping the legal sale of alcoholic beverages. It also had far-reaching effects by increasing the production and sale of soft drinks, closing many restaurants and hotels, spurred the growth of tea rooms and cafeterias
and destroyed the last vestiges of fine dining in the United States.
The fruit cocktail cup became popular appetizer menu item and was often garnished with marshmallows or sprinkled with powdered sugar. All these things could not help but have a negative effect on the American diet. In 1929, a cigarette advertisement tells women to “reach for a Lucky instead of a sweet”.
—Fashionable Foods: Seven Decades of Food Fads, Sylvia Lovgren [MacMillan:New York] 1995 (p. 29-30)
The Most Famous Salad
Early in the 1900’s, salads were considered effeminate and French. But that was going to change when they became a popular table-side tossing experience. The most famous of these presentations was the Caesar Salad. Caesar Cardini had originally operated a restaurant in San Diego, California, but relocated to Tijuana with the beginning of Prohibition. Cardini believed a fine meal required cocktails before dinner and wine with dinner and in Mexico he could offer both. The story often reported (although not verified) is that many Hollywood folks had traveled south to avoid the restrictions of prohibition and one late night of July, 4th, 1924, the kitchen in the Caesars Palace Tijuana had only a few ingredients left – namely, romaine lettuce, Romano cheese, bread, olive oil and some eggs-Voila – the birth of the Caesar salad. Other salads soon followed its popularity and even to this day, it dominates along with the Cobb salad from the Brown Derby. The history of the Cobb Salad is debatable as to whether it was in 1929 or in the 1930’s, but nevertheless it still remains tops as a luncheon or dinner salad.
The Greatest Thing
You’ve heard the expression, “it’s the greatest thing since sliced bread” which may be said, “the greatest thing, period”. Previously, an Iowa salesman named Otto Rohwedder had invented a machine that sliced loaves of bread but bakers thought the bread would go stale and did not accept his idea. But in 1928, Frank Bench, a baker decided to give it a try and it suddenly became popular and women loved it. Sales at his bakery increased by 2000 percent in only a short time. Another invention by a St. Louis baker, Gustav Papendick created a machine that also wrapped the loaf to prevent it from drying out and the toaster became a perfect partner.
Life Was Good – Almost
In 1929, life was looking good. Electricity and the resulting new appliances, sliced bread, canned and frozen food and the convenience of Gerber baby foods made life easier than it had ever been. All these could now be purchased in the new one-stop supermarket. The Alpha Beta had everything in alphabetical order making it easier for customers to shop the aisles and the A&P (the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company) was doing about $1 billion a year in business. The USDA was inspecting meat and Coca-Cola was free of coca. There was one car for every five people. Anyone who really wanted a drink could get one. Prohibition did not completely end until 1933, but it was realized that the “great experiment was not so great and was a big mistake. America was in a party mood. But alas, in October, 1929, the stock market crashed – the party was over.
VELVEETA CHEESE WAS BORN!!
Regular cheese is made from introducing bacteria into milk, then letting milk solids (curd) spoil. The liquid part (whey) is thrown away. Enter Kraft Velveeta Cheese in 1928 that is softer than Cheddar and smooth as velvet (thus the name). By putting back the whey, it’s attributes include easy slicing when chilled, easy melting and its mild taste. “A miracle wrought with milk” a 1927 ad proclaimed. “Through the aid of scientific research, we are at last able to combine in a cheese product all those precious health-giving qualities of the rich whole milk. Pasteurization gives it a long shelf life since it is described as “a pasteurized prepared cheese product”. It doesn’t require refrigeration before opening due to its hermetically sealed foiled package similar to canning. A personal note: My dog Kori has a very discriminating palate. When we offer a bit of Velveeta, she won’t eat it but readily accepts a sharp New York Cheddar or a delectable piece of Swiss Gruyere. Doesn’t that tell us something? By the way in 1980, Tupperware made a Velveeta Keeper.
A nice article about vegetarianism in America. It presents a very interesting timeline (love those timelines). If you are a vegan, what is your main reason?
Please take a look at this informative info-graph. Although the serving sizes seem to be larger than normal, it does quickly tell us where the sodium is found: namely processed and fast foods.


Seniors are expected to give a team the most consistency and stability due to their experience at the college level. Unfortunately, Cincinnati’s seniors have not provided these two attributes which has forced the underclassmen to shoulder more of the load in this early season. As a result, the underclassmen were the bright spots in the loss to the Tennessee Volunteers while the seniors were forgettable at best. Overall, the team played much better defense while unveiling a new half-court zone that threw the Vols off-balance, but fouls were once again the main story as Tennessee had 30 (yes, 3-0) free throw attempts.
People will complain about the officiating and while the foul disparity was 26 for the Cincinnati Bearcats and only 10 for the Volunteers, the officiating was not the reason Cincinnati lost this game. The refs allowed Tennessee to be more physical than the Bearcats (DeJulius somehow had no free throw attempts) and if I had to guess, the fouls probably should’ve been 22-14 instead of 26-10. Even with that change, I don’t think the Bearcats win primarily because of their 17 turnovers.
Rapolas Ivanauskas had a nightmare game and it looks like Tari Eason is going to get a lot of minutes going forward. Ivanauskas was 0-4 from the field with 5 turnovers while Eason had 10 points and 7 rebounds. Eason missed a crucial switch on a screen late in the game and took some ill-advised screens, but Coach John Brannen is going to have to live with that as the freshman continues to grow and develop. Ivanauskas is a finished product and his further improvement will be marginal. The Colgate transfer desperately needs to polish his footwork because this is the third straight game where he has travelled multiple times. He’s had the ball stripped away easily and he provides little to no resistance on the defensive end.
Keith Williams and Chris Vogt are supposed to be the leaders on this team, both in attitude and on the floor. While both have had positive moments, the mental mistakes on Saturday were inexcusable. Williams once again got in foul trouble early and picked up two fouls 85 feet from the basket. Chris Vogt fouled out for the third straight game and had 4 turnovers including an inexplicable charge where it looked like he turned away from the basket in order to truck a Tennessee defender. It’s clear teams know how to completely neutralize Vogt and he is a finished product like Ivanauskas so don’t expect much improvement.
The three seniors combined for 12 points, 12 fouls, and 11 turnovers.
There’s reason to be hopeful for the future as the underclassmen provided the only sparks for the Bearcats while battling the #12 Tennessee Volunteers. Jeremiah Davenport was sensational going 4/7 from three with 14 points, leading the way for UC. While David DeJulius only shot 5/17 from the field, he still pushed the envelope and made crucial buckets in the second half that had the Bearcats leading 53-51 with just over six minutes to go in the game. I thought Zach Harvey and Mike Saunders Jr. played tough perimeter defense, but I hope they can provide more of an offensive punch as the season goes on. This also applies to Mika Adams-Woods who needs to find a way to get to the line more because he is unforgiving from the charity stripe. All of the underclassmen took advantage of the new 3-2 zone from John Brannen which forced some Tennessee turnovers and missed shots which gave the Bearcats life in the second half.
Most did not expect the Bearcats to win this game. However, when they led early and really took the game to the Vols, expectations quickly changed and the loss became disappointing. I am encouraged that we were in position to win the game and I hope Brannen goes with smaller more nimble lineups that are less prone to fouling and turning the ball over.
A lot of fans’ concerns are compounded by the fact that Brannen currently has 0 commits for the 2021 recruiting class and has struck out on a few early targets. When fans don’t think things are going well for their team, they like to look to the future. With 0 commits, they feel there is nothing to look forward to.
Everyone needs to relax. Brannen is barely in his second year on the job and he won the conference regular season championship last season. There are going to be growing pains. He dealt with multiple transfers and departures last year and had to scrape together a competitive team and he’s had to deal with a severely limited offseason this year along with another departure as Mamoudou Diarra opted out this season due to COVID-19 concerns. The team could have definitely used his depth during the Tennessee game, but this is the hand that this team has been dealt. Brannen has gone through the ringer a few times and the least we can do as a fan base is have a little patience. I’m worried about the 2021 class too, but I’m confident Brannen will bring in the right guys to improve this team.