Pacific Gas & Electric's $2.2 billion bankruptcy debt regulatory asset turned into a financing order request to the California Public Utilities Commission for $3 billion en route to becoming a dedicated rate bond. Was the extra $800 million a result of foul play? Not unless you consider federal taxes foul-which many do. "Every dollar that is paid is taxable income," said Bill Marcus, an economist with JBS Energy. "Arnold [Schwarzenegger] takes his cut, and [President George] Bush takes his." The money to cover the taxes would arrive before the taxes are due. According to PG&E spokesperson Ron Low, the state and federal taxes are estimated at about $1.5 billion on the $2.21 phantom regulatory asset principal. PG&E sought authority from regulators at the end of July to float $3 billion in two issues-one year apart. The utility noted at the end of last week that the amount was to "provide certainty on the tax treatment." The exact amount of the taxes on the refinancing will be determined by the Internal Revenue Service and CPUC rulings. PG&E told commission executive director Steven Larson on August 6 that it does not expect a formal response from the federal agency on the question of whether taxes on the issued bonds will be due in a lump sum or over "several months." Mike Florio, The Utility Reform Network senior attorney, added that the commission decision on the financing application and the IRS ruling "are 'critical path' issues, so whichever one takes the longest will hold up the bonds." Florio expects the cost of the regulatory asset to drop to $1.9 billion by the time the bonds are sold. The decrease is due to consumers' payments this year, as well as money due from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and attorney general settlements with private generators for refunds connected with alleged market manipulation. Any reduction in taxes owed will be trued up at a later date. Claims submitted to the bankruptcy court to pay for accountants, attorneys, tax consultants and financial advisers hired by PG&E and other Chapter 11 litigants amounted to about $450 million. According to Florio, ratepayers are not necessarily on the hook for those costs. "Rates will remain the same unless and until they ask to change them to include some of these costs," Florio said. "Given that the regulatory asset was so generous, they ought to be able to absorb this and still come out in great shape financially." Northern District Bankruptcy Court judge Dennis Montali will decide whether to approve the utility's consultant fee at a September 15 hearing.


I think that now is time for AMD to open source and release LLVM-> AMD IL backend used in OpenCL compiler as right now OpenCL is the only high level language creating AMD IL code for GPUs would be good if AMD can supply some patches for upstream LLVM having an AMD IL backend..
Nvidia own high level language (PTX) support is much better (obviating CUDA (C,Fortran) and OpenCL which generate also PTX code) with at least two open source efforts to bring a LLVM PTX backend..
And even NVIDIA CUDA uses Open64 with a PTX backend which implementation is open source..
one LLVM PTX open source backend is here:
another is being worked to be final in LLVM 2.9.. see in trunk files like:
search for it in google..
There a lots of benefits:
*Possibly bring more languages using LLVM as intermediate code
*Using GPU ocelot which generates LLVM from PTX to run CUDA programs on AMD via PTX->LLVM->AMD IL
Please AMD workers if not planning to do so post reasonable objections..


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Members of the Multinational Force and Observers gathered at the Forces Commander’s Patio on Wednesday, April 25 2017.
The ANZAC Day commemoration is an annual event organized by the Australian and New Zealand contingents. However this year’s commemoration was quite unique since the present Force Commander who assumed Command of the MFO is the second Australian to take the command appointment.
In delivering the formal address the MFO FC, Maj. Gen. Stuart, stated that while the basis of the ANZAC DAY was embedded at Gallipoli, the commemoration has expanded to other nations. “While the origins of ANZAC Day are firmly rooted in the soil at Gallipoli, our commemoration has expanded as our nations have grown and we have found our respective places in the world. In short, it has enduring relevance in our lives,” he said.
Maj. Gen Stuart added that as members of the MFO gathered for the commemoration ceremony as servants of peace between Egypt and Israel, they join several thousand young and not so young women and men who were serving New Zealand and Australia in the far reaches of the world. “We are reflecting on the human spirit, the emergence of the very best of which we are capable among the most desperate, challenging and frightening circumstances,” said Stuart.
The First ANZAC Day commemoration was held across Australia, London and in the Australian Camp in Egypt on Tuesday, April 25, 1916. The occasion was organized to commemorate the ultimate sacrifice made by Australian and New Zealand soldiers who were deployed from their homeland as part of the allied mission to capture Gallipoli in Turkey.
The local program comprised of the ANZAC Day parade and the catafalque guards. Representatives of all contingents in the MFO were present at the FC’s Patio to observe the ceremony and reflect on the sacrifices made by Australian and New Zealand soldiers. The Fijian contingent choir sang the hymn ‘Abide with me; fast falls the eventide’ before the wreath laying.
The ceremony concluded with the serving of the ANZAC Day refreshment ‘The Gun Fire Coffee’.


Despite the censoring, dialogue, shot and visual effects, all make it clear that the guns still fire bullets.
List of Guns Edit
- Submachine gun - Automatic firearm used by multiple characters, has a bar on the side to indicate the shots left. The red-colored model is used by the Gotham City Police Department but also by multiple goons and by multiple villains, including Simon Stagg himself. While the security guards of Blackgate Penitentiary are armed with white-bodied submachine guns. It is clearly an Heckler & Koch MP7A1 due to the design, tactical rail, and vertical forward grip.
- Pistol - Semi-automatic pistol, it used by the Gotham City Police Department but also by multiple goons. Designed to be a generic pistol, but vaguely resembles a TDI/KRISS Kard due to it's blocky build.
- Heavy Machine Gun - Resembles an M2 Browning heavy machine gun, but dressed up to look blocky and futuristic.
- Batman has a massive dislike in guns, but in the rare occasion that he uses one (in the comics at least), he is shown to be a very good shot. (Albeit to divert enemies, not kill them)


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- Widow of slain Indian engineer: I urged return to India but husband had faith in the US
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Illustration from the cover of Sharp, by Michelle Dean.
“If one is a woman writer there are certain things one must do,” the British writer and journalist Rebecca West wrote to a friend in 1952. “First, not be too good; second, die young, what an edge Katherine Mansfield has on all of us; third, commit suicide like Virginia Woolf. To go on writing and writing well just can’t be forgiven.” West, ignoring her own advice, neither died prematurely nor blunted the fineness of her writing. As a young woman, she made her name with witty, digressive book reviews that were often wonderfully cutting. (On Henry James: “He splits hairs until there are no longer any hairs to split, and the mental gesture becomes merely the making of agitated passes over a complete and disconcerting baldness.”) She also wrote several novels and covered world events for prestigious magazines, including the trial of the English fascist William Joyce and the 1947 lynching of Willie Earle. Her final book, an idiosyncratic history of the year 1900, was published just before her death at the age of ninety. It was the capstone to a career that spanned almost seven decades. West’s true audacity was not merely “to go on writing,” as she put it, but to flourish in an insular, nepotistic intellectual culture that was largely hostile to women. She was ambitious, unafraid, and prodigiously gifted—in a word, sharp.
The literary critic Michelle Dean’s new book of the same name, a cultural-history-cum-group-biography, examines the lives and careers of ten sharp women, among them Susan Sontag, Joan Didion, Dorothy Parker, Renata Adler, Hannah Arendt, and Zora Neale Hurston. What unites this disparate group, Dean claims, is the ability “to write unforgettably.” If this casts something of a wide net, it does so out of necessity: the collected body of work this constellation of women produced—a mixture of fiction, book and movie reviews, essays, cultural criticism, and journalism—comprises a map of twentieth-century thought. “The longer I looked at the work these women laid out before me,” Dean writes, “the more puzzling I found it that anyone could look at the literary and intellectual history of the twentieth century and not center women in it.”
Dean’s centering, or recentering, is both deeply researched and uncommonly engrossing. Indeed, Sharp’s pacing and wealth of anecdote compel one to consume the book like a novel. Many of the book’s satisfactions arise from the depictions of the incestuous, fiercely competitive beau monde these women inhabited. There is a delicious pleasure in reading about the stars and bit players of the fabled “New York intellectuals” of the forties—men and women alike—and their petty spats and rivalries that lasted for days or for decades.
Take, for instance, the jealous male critic who referred to Hannah Arendt as “Hannah Arrogant” behind her back. (The poet Delmore Schwartz went one further, calling her “that Weimar Republic flapper.”) Or the likely apocryphal story of a young intellectual it girl named Susan Sontag being approached by the novelist Mary McCarthy at a party. “I hear you’re the new me,” McCarthy is reported to have told her coolly. Diana Trilling, in turn, called McCarthy “a thug” after an unflattering portrayal of Trilling’s social circle appeared in McCarthy’s The Oasis. The film critic Pauline Kael called Joan Didion’s novel Play It As It Lays “ridiculously swank” and “a novel [she] read between bouts of giggles.” And Renata Adler savaged Kael’s film-review collection When the Lights Go Down by deeming it “simply, jarringly, piece by piece, line by line, and without interruption, worthless.” It is within these gloriously caustic set pieces that one begins to understand Dean’s eponymous sharpness as multivalent: capacious intellect wedded to a surgical verbal acuity.
This is not to imply that their relations were solely combative. Indeed, Sharp is particularly astute in its complex portrayal of female intellectual solidarity, friendship, and dissent. Dean traces the fine strands of a genuine, if sometimes guarded, network of appreciation. The most meaningful of these relationships was likely between Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy, the latter of whom delivered a poignant eulogy at Arendt’s funeral: “The first time I heard her speak in public—nearly thirty years ago, during a debate—I was reminded of what Bernhardt must have been or Proust’s Berma, a magnificent stage five, which implies a goddess. Perhaps a chthonic goddess, or a fiery one, rather than the airy kind.” Such moments of warmth and mutual recognition dispel the caricature of the angry mid-century woman intellectual, slinging outrageous insults while ashing her menthol in a martini glass.
Instead, Dean shows how this fiercely whetted intelligence was often mobilized against the prevailing conditions of intellectualism. These women came of age in a culture mired in sexism, and “the key to [their] power,” Dean writes, “was in how they responded to it, with a kind of intelligent skepticism that was often very funny.” Irony, sarcasm, and a powerfully sardonic humor—what Dean calls “the tools of outsiders”—were weaponized in order to carve out intellectual space for themselves and each other. They punctured the swollen bladder of male self-regard with the pointed art of the rejoinder.
These ripostes were disarmingly mordant, droll, and often smartly compressed. Indeed, their brevity could at times belie their concussive force. When a young man wrote in to The Freewoman to protest a Rebecca West essay, her reply, published in a 1912 letter to the editor, was simply: “This is most damping.” Mary McCarthy, while reviewing what were said to be the best short stories of a then famous journalist, wrote, “It would be kinder to think that he had discovered the majority of them in an old trunk.” In response to an auteur theorist in Film Culture who had pontificated on “the distinguishable personality of the director as a criterion of value,” Pauline Kael asked, “The smell of a skunk is more distinguishable than the perfume of a rose; does that make it better?” Perhaps most devastating of all was Joan Didion’s two-word response to a Woody Allen acolyte who took issue with her review of Manhattan in The New York Review of Books: “Oh, wow.”
These coolly scornful quips were not often well-received. Then, as now, men could give but not get. (One thinks of Margaret Atwood: “Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”) The style and boldness of such dismissals violated the prescriptive politeness expected of women. “The difficulty,” Dean writes, “is that people have trouble with women who aren’t ‘nice,’ who do not genuflect, who have the courage to sometimes be wrong in public.” The very quality that made these women “sharp”—their fearsomely barbed wit—was sometimes used as grounds to diminish their achievements. In a 1947 piece for Vogue, the literary critic Alfred Kazin called Mary McCarthy’s novel The Company They Keep “deeply serious” before proposing the book was “as maliciously female as one chorus girl’s comments on another.” This qualified praise was symptomatic of the era’s gendered criticism. In the brittle, heatless world of high culture, being wickedly funny was tantamount to being unserious. Brilliant indecorousness, then, was another trait that bound Dean’s subjects together.
Which raises a question that looms over Sharp from its first page: Would these women—nonconformists, all—appreciate being gathered in such a book? Dean acknowledges their ambivalence toward any suggestion of a collective “sisterhood.” (“I can imagine Hannah Arendt haranguing me for placing her work in the context of her womanhood at all,” she writes in the book’s preface.) Allegiance to group-based definitions was largely anathema to these women, particularly the fragmented politics of second-wave feminism. Few of the critics in Sharp identified as feminists, at least early on in their careers, and several were openly hostile to the movement. “We have a habit, now, of assuming that people had only one kind of reaction to the women’s movement: either they were all in, or they were all out,” Dean writes. Not so with these iconoclasts, who might sympathize with the broad goals of feminism while recoiling from what they saw as its disappointing essentialism. “Like all capital truths,” Susan Sontag wrote in a 1975 The New York Review of Books essay, “feminism is a bit simple-minded.” Such internal divisiveness makes the book’s organizing principle somewhat elusive. And yet that each woman would argue against her inclusion becomes, by the book’s end, Sharp’s primary animating force. Dean’s feat of intellectual wrangling is as impressive for what it holds together—the exquisite, creaking tension of ten arch individualists—as for what it deconstructs.
When speaking from the periphery, the art of having an opinion—“to go on writing and writing well,” as West had it—acquires a moral dimension. The extraordinary achievements detailed in Sharp are a necessary corrective for a culture that would admonish women—these women in particular—for being “too smart for their own good.”
Dustin Illingworth is a writer in Southern California. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, the Times Literary Supplement, and the Los Angeles Times.
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Slayer recently said goodbye in a farewell tour at Jiffy Lube Live in Bristow, Virginia, and the thrash metal legends brought along friends — including Anthrax, Behemoth, and Lamb of God — to rock the night away with them. Ben Eisendrath was there to photograph hair and fingers flying as the four bands kicked ass on their guitars.
Parklife DC captured Slayer in their own series of pictures, and you can see those here. And don’t forget Lamb of God is headlining The Fillmore Silver Spring on Monday, July 30, when they return to the area with Anthrax, Testament, and Napalm Death.
Anthrax released a new live DVD, Kings Among Scotland, in April. The two-hour Kings Among Scotland was filmed February 15, 2017 at the band’s sold-out concert at Barrowland Ballroom, the historic venue in Glasgow. The disc incorporates the band’s entire live show, and includes gems like “Madhouse,” “I Am the Law,” “Breathing Lightning,” and “Indians.”
And of course, Anthrax joined fellow Big Four comrades Slayer when Slayer launched its final world tour on May 10 in San Diego.
“It’s truly an honor to be on Slayer’s final tour,” said Anthrax’s Frank Bello. “Anthrax and Slayer have toured together for decades, we are family, band and crew, so we want to help give Slayer the best send-off possible and to have one last blast with our friends. But you know, at the end of the day, Slayer will never die.”
Polish black death overlords Behemoth also kicked off a North American tour supporting Slayer. Their month-long journey will take them to the end of the first leg of Slayer’s farewell on June 20.
Behemoth recently released a new live DVD/Blu-ray, Messe Noire, via Metal Blade Records. Messe Noire includes the band’s victorious shows in Warsaw, Poland, on Oct. 8, 2016, and Brutal Assault 2016.
Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Lamb of God formed initially when Mark Morton (guitar), John Campbell (bass), and Chris Adler (drums) started a band called Burn the Priest in 1994 after meeting at Virginia Commonwealth University. Less than a year later, they met vocalist Randy Blythe before adding Chris Adler’s brother, Willie Adler (guitar), and they became Lamb of God.
Lamb of God recently released a full-length covers album, Burn the Priest, Legion: XX, via Epic Records. The album is a collection of songs reflecting the greatness of the classic punk, hardcore, crossover, and noise artists that influenced them in their formative years. As Burn the Priest, the and covered The Accused’s “Inherit The Earth” and Bad Brains’ “I Against I,” among other songs. In addition to these tracks, Legion: XX features other songs originally performed by Cro-Mags, Agnostic Front, Quicksand, Ministry, Melvins, S.O.D., and Richmond punk band Sliang Laos.
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Do you know that saying “best things come in small packages”? Well, these stuffed tomatoes are great proof of it as they are packed with flavor, simple to make, and are a colorful and healthy addition to your party table or picnic basket. The best thing about this recipe is that you can use any filing you love, swapping vegan ricotta with any of your favorite soft cheeses and using herbs to compliment your choice. We love the vegan ricotta as it is made with simple ingredients and tastes delicious on its own. Adding basil and oregano to the filling gives it a Mediterranean twist and makes it a perfect appetizer before your pasta dish or grilled fish. We love garlic and incorporated it in many of our recipes. It is a powerhouse of antioxidants, anti inflammatory and immune system boosting supplements and it elevates the palate flavor of this recipe to supreme deliciousness. We know these little gems look a bit too complicated to make, but trust us, once you make them, it will become a staple of your cooking and a go to recipe to impress your family and friends. We suggest you use campari tomatoes for easier scooping. Also you can prepare the filling the night before and fill the tomatoes right before serving. Next time you head to the farmers market grab the tomatoes and get ready to tantalize your taste buds. From our kitchen to yours Bon Appetit!
Cut a thin slice from the top of each tomato. Using a melon ball scooper or a small spoon carefully scoop out the pulp, leaving the outer shell of tomato almost intact.
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New head of CIA - same old techniques?
President Obama has nominated Leon Panetta, a former democratic congressman with no intelligence experience, to be director of the CIA. But will it actually bring changes to the agency’s harsh interrogation techniques?
In choosing Panetta, Obama has passed over current and former CIA officials with impressive credentials. The other candidates had worked in Intelligence when Bush's government was interrogating terror suspects and even before 9/11.
Panetta, a former congressman and White House chief of staff to then-President Bill Clinton, is no stranger to Washington.
Even though critics say he lacks experience in security matters, Leon Panetta might bring a new attitude to the CIA. A strong supporter of Obama’s ideas, he opposes torture and is very critical over the former administration’s tactics.
In his first few days in office, President Obama has ordered the controversial Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility in Cuba and secret CIA prisons to be closed.
He is also going to continue carrying out the practise of renditions – extracting a person from one country and transferring to another in order to try them for supposed crimes.
Renditions were made notorious by the Bush administration because of their use of torture when trying alleged terrorists. That caused a lot of criticism and anger around the world and in the US itself.
The former president, however, had his own explanation to the issue: “This government does not torture people,” said Bush.
“We stick to US law and our international obligations. There are highly trained professionals questioning these extremists and terrorists. In other words, we got professionals who are trained in this kind of work to get information that will protect the American people. And by the way, we have gotten information from these high-value detainees that have helped protect you.”
No wonder that now, when President Obama uses the same rhetoric commenting on the same topic, some people get nervous.
“I have said repeatedly that I intend to close Guantanamo, and I will follow through on that. I have said repeatedly that America doesn’t torture, and I’m going to make sure that we don’t torture. Those are part and parcel of an effort to regain America’s moral stature in the world,” Obama said.
Meanwhile, a scandal is brewing in the UK over a resident held in the Guantanamo bay prison camp, where he has allegedly been tortured.
British court backed a government request not to release information on the man – contrary to demands from the man's lawyers. According to the British Foreign Secretary David Milliband, if made public it could undermine the country's national security.


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The Aston Martin Vulcan is one of those cars that absolutely captivates anyone who steps within a close enough distance to hear the menacing roar that emanates from its exhaust. The sound of the Vulcan, combined with its space age looks and breathtaking performance make the car absolutely extraordinary even for a brand as prestigious as Aston Martin. The Vulcan is by all means a purebred racing vehicle and is limited to 24 track-only units.
The monstrous Aston Martin is powered by a naturally aspirated 7.0-liter V12 engine that produces a punishing 800hp without any assistance from turbos or fancy electronics. To top it off, the car comes with a frightening price tag of $2.3 million to match its credentials.
Not much has been seen of the Vulcan since its initial debut at the 2015 Goodwood Festival of Speed. Thankfully however, this new incredible footage of the car at the Ultracar Sports Club track event organized at the Misano circuit in Italy has now surfaced. The video leaves us absolutely hankering for a street legal version of the Vulcan, but as of now Aston Martin has completely written off this possibility.


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Jan. 3, 2013; Glendale, AZ, USA: Oregon Ducks tight endColt Lyerla
(15) against the Kansas State Wildcats during the 2013 Fiesta Bowl at University of Phoenix Stadium. Oregon defeated Kansas State 35-17. Mandatory Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports
Based on talent alone, Colt Lyerla would be a first round pick in the 2014 NFL Draft.
Arguably, Lyerla is the most talented tight end in the entire NFL Draft. In just two seasons as an Oregon Duck, Lyerla scored eleven touchdowns, with 565 yards on thirty four career receptions. Unfortunately, Lyerla left the team after two games of the 2013 season.
Just three weeks into the 2013 season, Colt Lyerla quit the Oregon Ducks football team, in a move that stunned the nation. Just days later, Lyerla was arrested for unlawful possession of cocaine. Before the 2013 season, Lyerla would have most likely been either a first round pick, or a second round pick. But after he was arrested,his draft stock took a huge blow.
Aside from his cocaine arrest, it was noted that Lyerla was in trouble with the law in the past, having his drivers licenses removed in 2013, after four driving tickets in the past 24 months. Lyerla also had his fair share of controversial tweets ( he has since deleted his account). While Lyerla is a tremendous talent, he also carries a lot of baggage that NFL teams will have to accept.
When Lyerla is on the field, he is a dominant player. He has great speed for a tight end, who runs great routes, and possesses great hands. Strictly based on his play, Lyerla has drawn comparisons to Patriots star tight end Rob Gronkowski, which is very high praise for a college athlete. A very valuable aspect of his game that is not talked about enough is his ability to block. The Jets have been in need for a pass catching tight end for years, and also can use a blocking tight end. In Lyerla, they can get both.
In a way, Lyerla reminds me of Bengals linebacker Vontaze Burfict before the draft. While I feel Lyerla is even more of a red flag, both are similar in terms that based on talent alone, they would be first round picks, but Burfict wound up going undrafted. Today, Burfict is arguably the Bengals best defensive player, and has turned his life around.
One thing to note about Lyerla is that he has always been considered highly competitive, and always had the will to win. Those are traits for a player that can certainly not be taught. It should also be noted that since his arrest, Lyerla has been out of the spotlight, and seems to have turned his life around. At the NFL combine, Lyerla opened up about his time in jail, and his cocaine arrest. Lyerla said ” I can’t really say too much about that, but it is something I deeply, deeply regret and it is a mistake I’ll have to live with the rest of my life”. When asked about his time in jail, Lyerla said ” That was huge for me. It gave me a lot of time to self-reflect and realize that’s a place I never want to be again.”.
Recently, Lyerla has moved away from home, and has stayed out of trouble since. When asked about his future in the NFL, Lyerla said ” I put myself in a position where my back’s against the wall, to the point that if I do not do everything perfect and the right way, I won’t be able to play football, let alone be successful in any shape or form.” From that quote alone, it seems like a guy who really wants to forget his past, and move on. While he obviously needs to back those words up, Lyerla is a guy I hope the Jets draft in the later rounds.
Lucky for the Jets, the team has 12 picks in this years draft. Drafting a guy like Lyerla in the 6-7th round may turn out to be a complete steal, if Lyerla stays out of trouble of course. If Lyerla unfortunately gets in trouble again, missing on one player out of 12 is not a huge deal. I feel the gain out ways the risk in terms of the Jets and Lyerla. While that may not be the same for other teams with fewer picks, the Jets are in a position to take a chance.
If Lyerla is drafted by the Jets and can stay out of trouble, the Jets found themselves a tremendous talent.

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|Worldwide architecture competition focuses on High Bridge in Washington Heights|
|Written by Gloria Pazmiño|
|Tuesday, March 08, 2011|
“Ripple Effect,” designed by a group of architects from Philadelphia, won the first place prize for the redesign of the High Bridge. The model featured a waterfall and rain water pools.
Northern Manhattan is rich with architectural wonder. We boast examples of this from the Art Deco buildings of Inwood to the tip of the Cloisters, to Audubon Park Historic District, and all the other structures in between.
Among them is the High Bridge, connecting Manhattan to the Bronx about 140 feet over the Harlem River. It’s the oldest surviving bridge in New York City, and it’s getting an imaginary facelift at the hands of architects and talented designers.
HB:BX was the name given to an international competition to design an arts center that culturally reinforced the physical connection between Manhattan and the Bronx. The competition, hosted by the Emerging New York Architects committee (ENYA) in cooperation with the Bronx Museum of Arts and the local organization Artists Unite, was designed to draw awareness to the current efforts to restore and reopen the bridge.
During a presentation Tue., March 1 at the Community Board 12 Parks and Cultural Affairs Committee meeting, representatives from ENYA showcased the winning submissions, whose modernistic design and futuristic concepts sparked discussion among the attendees about the possibility of building such projects.
Other designs incorporated additional structures to the High Bridge providing a space for art display and other cultural activities.
Elizabeth Lorris Ritter, chair of the CB12 committee, underscored the fact that although the designs were thought provoking, they were only part of a competition, intended to generate discourse about the current state of the High Bridge and the possibilities of its improvement, not concrete proposals for implementation. Ritter likened the competition to a high fashion runway show where “ridiculous designs that no real people would wear are shown, to later inspire the day to day trends we see.”
The competition was open to worldwide participants and 42 different countries registered for the event. A total of 386 registrants, half from the U.S. and 19 from New York City, entered the contest.
First place in the competition was secured by a group of Philadelphia landscape architects, Keith VanDerSys, Marguerite Graham, Marisa Bernstein & Young-Joon Choi. They designed a network of pools in the Manhattan side of the High Bridge that would collect rain water that passed through an irrigation system to form a waterfall descending from the side of the bridge. The design, titled “Ripple Effect,” looked at using and reusing natural resources to beautify the areas on both sides of the bridge.
A jury of seven people representing a cross-section of perspectives on design, architecture, preservation, planning, and landscaping, including local artist Rosa Naparstek, chose their favorite submissions. Designs incorporated the arts, the environment, the use of the river, and the preservation of the already existing architectural elements.
Some of the favorites included designs that built additional structures adjacent to the bridge which would be used to display art and other activities, bringing nature and green spaces to the bridge, and engaging the use of water recreation.
Although the High Bride has been closed since the 1970s, in the last few years there has been a movement to restore and reopen the famed architectural treasure that the bridge represents. The High Bridge Coalition and city and state agencies have raised funds and public awareness to restore the bridge to pedestrian and bicycle traffic.
As planned, it’s expected that day will come sometime in 2013. Waterfall or not.


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Small and medium-sized hotel chains in Majorca will close down over the next week because of the lack of tourists from Europe.
“From Monday throughout the first ten days of September many hotels will close down because there are no tourists and occupation is less than 10% in some establishments,” said a spokesperson.
It’s the same story in all the tourist areas of Majorca, but it’s especially noticeable in Playa de Palma, Playa de Muro, Alcudia-Can Picafort, Cala Millor, Cala d'Or, Colònia Sant Jordi, Soller, Camp de Mar, Magalluf, Palmanova, Santa Ponsa and Peguera.
“There is an accumulation of circumstances and measures that make it increasingly difficult for companies to stay active,” said María José Aguiló, Executive Vice-president of the Mallorca Hotel Business Federation or FEHM.
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Playa de Palma is one of the Island’s most vibrant tourist enclaves, but it's also one of the worst affected by the slump in German tourism.
“Hotels will close down as tourists leave because demand from Germany is almost non-existent,” said hoteliers. “Now there are more cancellations than reservations.”


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The second album of prismatic slow-burn analog synth instrumentals by the duo of Jace Lasek (The Besnard Lakes) and Stephen Ramsay (Young Galaxy). Expanding on the hypnaogogic ambience of their warm and uncluttered 2019 debut, Lasek and Ramsay add subtle but scintillating structure and electricity to these four new longform tracks. The songs remain predominantly beatless, but burble and vibrate with more ornate, intentional pulses, arpeggiators and control voltages. Light Conductor’s analog palette of gently fuzzed-out chordal drone, mesmeric ostinato, sweeping filters and drifting levitational melody continues to colour the glowing atmosphere of this enveloping space/trance music: like sunrise on another planet, with a profoundly satisfying dimension of heightened ceremony and design. This music is the opalescent deepspace nebula of a duo whose respective psych/pop/electro/rock parent bands are known for more declaratively epic, chiselled, heavy sonic statements. The through-line is an emotive devotional sensibility, seasoned by a naturalistic studio mastery, and a love for the analog that enmeshes the electronic. Fans of Tangerine Dream, Roedelius, Laurie Spiegel and Laaraji should feel right at home.

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Indonesian ride-hailing giant Go-Jek is seeing its founding team, including CEO Nadiem Makarim, make attempts to sell their stakes in the unicorn amidst a rumoured recent funding round, according to people familiar with the matter.
One source KrASIA spoke to said that Go-Jek is raising a new round that would value the company at US$8 billion, while another told us that the company is looking at a pre-money US$10 billion valuation in the new round.
A US$10 billion valuation would catapult Go-Jek into the same valuation league with regional arch rival, Singapore-based Grab, which was valued at US$11 billion in its last round of financing.
Jakarta-based Go-Jek’s most recent US$1.5 billion round valued the company at around US$5 billion.
To date, Go-Jek has raised a total of US$2.1 billion in financing, according to CrunchBase data, boasting established backers like Google, Tencent, JD, Meituan, Warburg Pincus, and Temasek, among others.
Bloomberg earlier this week reported that Go-Jek is seeking to raise US$2 billion at an undisclosed valuation, and the deal is expected to close within few weeks.
Typically, selling off one’s stake does not exude tremendous confidence on the shareholder’s outlook of the company, especially when the said shareholder is a founding member of the firm.
However, this is not uncommon or totally negative. Executives might be selling their own stocks to accommodate more new investors, for example.
Grab is also tipped to raise a total of US$3 billion by end-2018, including US$2 billion that is already secured, said its Chairman Ming Maa in August.
In the wake of Grab’s swallow of Uber SEA operations in March, Grab and Go-Jek took the centre stage of the Southeast Asian on-demand market.
They’ve been locking horns by expanding both geographically, as well as horizontally to include more and more services to their platforms.
As both were aiming to become the region’s everyday super app, to support a seemingly endless competition, bloated war chests are well sought after for both high-flyers.
Earlier this year, Go-Jek had announced plans to operate its services outside of its home country Indonesia, expanding into neighbouring markets Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines and Singapore.
KrASIA has reached out to Go-Jek for comments.
This article is written by Elaine Huang (edited by Ben Jiang); and was first seen on KRAsia.
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The Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library of Chatham-Kent received a large cheque from the 100 Women Who Care Chatham-Kent, which will cover 3000 books for our kids in the program! On behave of the children: THANK YOU!!!… Read the rest
The official deadline for registering for the Chatham Kiwanis Music Festival was December 1. There was a possibility to still register albeit with a penalty fee until December 8. That date has now passed. Our Committee is … Read the rest
The Imagination Library book list for 2023 has been announced! On that list 47 of the 60 titles are from Penguin Random House Canada, Canadian Content or Canadian Author/Illustrator’s book and 17 new titles to the program!
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Berlin’s principal ballet company Staatsbellett has been accused of racial harassment by its first Black female dancer.
Chloé Lopes Gomes says she was repeatedly told by her ballet mistress she didn’t fit in because of her skin colour.
Lopes Gomes explained in an interview with the Guardian how she was forced to wear white make-up to “blend in” with other Swan Lake dancers and that she was refused a white veil for performances “because she was Black”.
The dancer, a French citizen who joined the company in 2018, also revealed that her teacher repeatedly said that her skin colour wasn’t aesthetically acceptable.
“Whilst my fellow dancers often felt uncomfortable at my treatment they were mostly too scared to speak up,” she explained, adding that their fear was a product of the high-pressured industry.
“The day after my audition and the ballet mistress told a fellow dancer of mine she thought it had been a mistake to hire me because a Black woman spoils the aesthetics. This same woman spent the next two years discriminating against me."
“I was under her supervision most of the time so I could not avoid her. We began with Swan Lake. She was always correcting me, telling me I was out of line. But I know I was not. It’s not that I can’t take criticism, but we’re talking about the basics that you learn when you are three years old," continued Gomes Lopes.
“She said to me everyone needs to powder their skin white to blend in. I told her I would never look white, I am Black. She just told me I’d simply need to use more powder.”
Her experience has triggered support across social media from American Ballet Theatre’s principal dancer, Misty Copeland, the organisation Blacks in Ballet, as well as dancers from Ballet Opera de Paris, English Ballet.
Berlin's Staatsballett has already been investigated recently over reports of physical and psychological abuse towards its pupils.
Christiane Theobald, Staatsballet's interim artistic director, said in a statement: “The racist and discriminatory behaviour that was brought to light in our company deeply moves us … The necessary skills and tools to deal with issues of discrimination need to be worked on thoroughly.”
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Loargys is a medicine used to treat people from 2 years of age with hyperargininaemia.
Patients with hyperargininaemia are unable to break down the amino acid arginine because they lack the liver enzyme arginase 1. As a result, arginine accumulates in the body. This can cause problems with the nervous system, including seizures and stiffness in the legs.
Hyperargininaemia is rare, and Loargys was designated an ‘orphan medicine’ (a medicine used in rare diseases) on 14 July 2016. Further information on the orphan designation can be found on the EMA website: ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/human/orphan-designations/eu-3-16-1701.
Loargys contains the active substance pegzilarginase.
The medicine can only be obtained with a prescription and treatment should be started and supervised by a doctor experienced in treating patients with inherited metabolic diseases. The first doses should be given in a location with appropriate medical support to manage allergic reactions.
Loargys is given once a week, as an infusion (drip) into a vein or as an injection under the skin. The dose depends on the patient’s weight; it may be adjusted based on the levels of arginine in the patient’s blood. Regular blood tests are needed to monitor arginine and adjust the dose if necessary.
Patients or their carers may be able to inject Loargys themselves after appropriate training. Before patients can inject Loargys, they must have received treatment for at least 8 weeks and be on a stable maintenance dose. Additionally, their risk of allergic reactions to Loargys must be assessed as low.
Loargys should be used together with other measures to manage the disease, including a low-protein diet, amino acid supplements and any other medicines needed to manage the disease.
For more information about using Loargys, see the package leaflet or contact your doctor or pharmacist.
The active substance in Loargys, pegzilarginase, works in a similar way as arginase 1, the enzyme lacking in people with hyperargininaemia. Pegzilarginase breaks down excess arginine from the blood. This prevents damage to the brain and other organs.
Loargys was compared with placebo (a dummy treatment) in a study involving 32 adults and children with hyperargininaemia. The main measure of effectiveness was the change in the blood level of arginine after 24 weeks of treatment. The study showed that the arginine levels were reduced by 77% in patients treated with Loargys, while there was no reduction in arginine levels in patients given placebo.
Although the study also suggested that Loargys may improve motor function compared with placebo, the difference was not statistically significant (i.e. it may be due to chance). However, preliminary longer-term data collected beyond the 24-week treatment period indicated that motor function (walking and standing) may stabilise or gradually improve with long-term use of the medicine.
For the full list of side effects and restrictions with Loargys, see the package leaflet.
The most common side effects with Loargys include allergic reactions (which may affect more than 1 in 10 people).
Loargys was shown to reduce arginine levels in patients with hyperargininaemia. Data also indicated that long-term treatment with Loargys gradually improves or stabilises patients’ motor skills. Although safety data are limited, side effects are generally considered manageable. The European Medicines Agency therefore decided that Loargys’ benefits are greater than its risks and it can be authorised for use in the EU.
Loargys has been authorised under ‘exceptional circumstances’. This is because it has not been possible to obtain complete information about Loargys due to the rarity of the disease. Every year, the Agency will review any new information that becomes available and this overview will be updated as necessary.
Since Loargys was authorised under exceptional circumstances, at the time of authorisation the company marketing Loargys was required to provide annual updates on the collection of data from two registry-based studies on the long-term effectiveness and safety of pegzilarginase in patients with hyperargininaemia. The company will also provide the final results from two studies on the long-term safety, tolerability and effectiveness of pegzilarginase in adults, adolescents and children with hyperargininaemia. They will also provide an annual update on any new information on the effectiveness and safety of the medicine in the intended population.
The company that markets Loargys will provide patients and carers with educational material on how to handle and inject the medicine, to inform them about the risks of severe allergic reactions and the need to contact their doctor if they experience symptoms.
Recommendations and precautions to be followed by healthcare professionals and patients for the safe and effective use of Loargys have also been included in the summary of product characteristics and the package leaflet.
As for all medicines, data on the use of Loargys are continuously monitored. Suspected side effects reported with Loargys are carefully evaluated and any necessary action taken to protect patients.
Loargys received a marketing authorisation under exceptional circumstances valid throughout the EU on 15 December 2023.
This overview was last updated in 12-2023.
Loargys: EPAR - Risk Management Plan
This medicine’s product information is available in all official EU languages.
Select 'available languages' to access the language you need.
Product information documents contain:
- summary of product characteristics (annex I);
- manufacturing authorisation holder responsible for batch release (annex IIA);
- conditions of the marketing authorisation (annex IIB);
- labelling (annex IIIA);
- package leaflet (annex IIIB).
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Pharmacotherapeutic groupOther alimentary tract and metabolism products
Loargys is indicated for the treatment of arginase 1 deficiency (ARG1 D), also known as hyperargininemia, in adults, adolescents and children aged 2 years and older.

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BAY COUNTY, Fla. (WMBB) – One local business gave back to three Bay County charities on this year’s “Giving Tuesday.”
Each year, Sharky’s on the Beach has charities participate in “Bay Helping Bay.” They choose a day where 100% of the money collected goes back to the community.
On Tuesday, Sharky’s donated $5,000 checks to “Stuff the Bus,” “The Arc,” and St. Andrews Medical Center.
“Stuff the Bus” organizer Skip Bondur said this check will save Christmas for many children in Bay County.
“This is Christmas for dozens, if not thousands of kids,” he said. “We are very vigilant every year to make sure that we do our best to spend every dollar that we get and so we are going to make sure this five becomes a lot more when we begin to check out at retailers here locally so that we can distribute toys in peoples backyards.”
This is the 10th year Bondur will sleep on the top of his bus for ten days straight, collecting as many toys as he can for children.
He encourages everyone to come out to the Walmart on West 23rd Street starting on Sunday, December 5 to help local children.


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This is a strange looking assam – it’s ground completely up into little bits! It makes me think of coffee. I had it before and wasn’t wowed by it, so I thought I’d try cold-steeping it overnight. It wasn’t enough – I needed a touch of agave nectar and now it’s drinkable. Far from amazing, but drinkable! :)
Still it won’t go to waste and I’m happy to have tried it. Thanks KittyLovesTea!

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Pasig City lead by its dynamic Mayor Vico Sotto declared that biking will be the mode of transportation now that the Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) will be extended until April 30, 2020, given that mass transport systems are temporarily suspended in Luzon.
Executive Order 18, signed on March 25, declared biking as an essential form of transportation in the city. The order was supported by the Sangguniang Panlungsod through Resolution 59 passed on March 30.
Following the issuance of the executive order and the resolution, establishments in Pasig City that are engaged in the repair and maintenance of bicycles—including vulcanizing—as well as the sale of essential bike parts and accessories will be classified as essential business and will be allowed to operate.
City departments were ordered to evaluate areas of major pedestrian traffic and public transportation interchange to ensure that walking is a viable means of transportation in Pasig.
They were also instructed to identify key locations of bicycle infrastructure for repair, rehabilitation and upgrade.Last month, the city government lent bicycle units to healthcare workers and other frontline personnel who were affected by the suspension of public transportation under the enhanced community quarantine.
Mayor Vico Sotto earlier appealed to the national government to allow the operation of tricycles, citing difficulties in transporting healthcare workers, other emergency frontliners and even patients. With the national government rejecting the young Mayor’s call, the city is now opting to utilize bicycles.
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New Galaxy’s Edge Promo for Walt Disney World Lands
Galaxy’s Edge is already open on the west coast at Disneyland, but fans of that galaxy far, far away still have to wait until August for Walt Disney World’s version to open. To hold you over, a new promo for the attraction has arrived online which you can check out in the player below! Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge opens August 29 in Orlando.
Both east and west coast versions of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge will allow guests to visit a remote trading port on the edge of wild space, where Star Wars characters and their stories come to life – and where guests will find themselves in the middle of the action. The lands will feature two major attractions that put guests in the middle of a battle between the First Order and the Resistance. Each attraction – and even the land itself – will offer guests the chance to immerse themselves in the Star Wars universe like never before.
“Rise of the Resistance” will make guests feel like they’re on a Star Destroyer inside a hangar bay while “Millennium Falcon: Smuggler’s Run” will give guests the opportunity to fly the Millennium Falcon, piloting the ship, shooting blasters or preparing for hyperspace – all while completing a critical mission. But how you perform on the mission holds even bigger stakes: perform with skill and you may earn extra galactic credits, while bringing the ship back banged up could put you on the list of a bounty hunter. End up on Harkos’ list and you may face a problem if you show up at the local cantina!
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When? Wednesday 22nd November, 19:45 (UK)
Where? Allianz Stadium
What channel is it on? BT Sport ESPN
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Head-to-head – last five meetings: Juventus W1, Barcelona W3, D1
Head-to-head – all-time meetings*: Juventus W5, Barcelona W6, D3 *(includes International Champions Cup and Latin Cup fixtures)
Juventus are undefeated in 17 of their last 19 Champions League matches and the two defeats have both come at the hands of Spanish opposition - Real Madrid and Barcelona.
Barcelona are undefeated in their last five Champions League matches.
In terms of Champions League meetings between the two clubs, a draw is the most recurring outcome with three of their six meetings ending that way.
Barcelona just edge proceedings in terms of total goals in Champions League meetings; from the six encounters they have scored eight goals to Juventus’ seven.
Paulo Dybala has made the most key passes from set pieces in the Champions League this season, with seven.
Barcelona require an average of nine shots on goal before scoring in the Champions League this season, while Juventus in comparison require 13.8 to get the same end result.
Barcelona top both the average possession and passing accuracy in the Champions League this season at 64.1% and 89.5% respectively. In comparison, Juventus find themselves with the 10th best average possession and ninth best passing accuracy – 55.8% and 85.9%.
Barcelona have profited from the most own goals in the Champions League this season (two).
Juventus have both scored and conceded five goals in the competition this season - an average of 1.25 goals for and against per game.
Barcelona have only conceded one goal in the Champions League this season, with the only player to breach their defence being Dimitris Nikolaou of Olympiakos.
The 2015 Champions League final was contested between these two clubs and it would be the Catalan giants who would lift the coveted trophy thanks to a 3-1 win over Juventus in Berlin’s Olympic Stadium.


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"Makin up my man into baby billy idol!" Cyrus captioned the post.
The pair also had a message for those who claim that Miley is using Cody to get back at her ex-husband Liam Hemsworth.
Turning their leather jacket-clad backs to the camera, "4 EVER" was embroidered on the back.
They also shared a video of them lip-synching to Billy Idol's hit "White Wedding", a second clip shows Miley and Cody making out and groping one another as Idol's "Eyes Without a Face" plays in the background.
"It’s easy to tease but hard to get release…" Cyrus captioned the second clip, quotes lyrics from the Idol hit.
It's not the first time - and it certainly won't be the last - the pair have packed on the PDA since kickstarting their romance earlier this month, shortly after Miley split from girlfriend Kaitlynn Carter (ex-wife of Brody Jenner), which itself came on the heels of her divorce from Liam Hemsworth.

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Chances are, if you’re pregnant (or thinking about becoming pregnant one day) you’ve heard about the importance of folate for healthy pregnancies. Maybe, you’ve heard that folate is just plain good for your health. If so, you've probably found yourself staring at bottles of supplements wondering, “is folate the same as folic acid?”
It's true—folate is essential for a healthy pregnancy and has many hormone benefits.
But what becomes confusing is that folate is often incorrectly and interchangeably referred to as folic acid.
Even scientists and researchers have incorrectly referred to these two compounds as the same exact thing for years, when in reality, they are two distinct compounds with different functions in the body
That creates a lot of confusion when deciding which form of this crucial vitamin to consume. I mean, when the experts are getting it wrong, where is a layperson supposed to find the right information?
So, in the following article, I’m breaking down the ins and outs of folic acid and folate. Hopefully, you’ll gain a clearer understanding of the differences between the two and which one you need to be focusing on (hint: it’s folate).
Keep reading for all the details you’ll ever need to know about folate vs. folic acid.
Folate vs Folic Acid
Folate and folic acid are two distinct compounds with two key differences in function:
- Folic acid is the synthetic form of folate, which is also called vitamin B9. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requires that manufacturers in the United States add folic acid to many foods, and 42 other countries around the world have similar requirements.
- Folate is not synthetic and found naturally in many foods.
Folate is the form of vitamin B9 that you find in foods like leafy green veggies, asparagus, and broccoli. It is an essential nutrient, critical for the growth of healthy cells and DNA creation. For this reason, it’s extremely important to get plenty of folate during pregnancy, and it’s a key component of many prenatal vitamins.
The biologically active form of folate (the form your body uses) is 5-methyltetrahydrofolate (5-MTHF). Your body takes the folate you eat and converts it into 5-MTHF within the digestive tract with the help of an enzyme called methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR).
When it comes to folic acid, the body is unable to convert it all to the active form in the gut and relies on other organs, like the liver to create a form the body can use. This is an inefficient and slow process, which is why some people end up with elevated levels of folic acid in their blood, which as you'll read later, can lead to a number of health issues.
This is why you'll sometimes hear it said that people with an MTHFR genetic abnormality should be advised to eat whole food forms of folate and avoid supplements with folic acid. The idea is to provide a form of folate, like 5-MTHF, that is more readily absorbed and utilized by the body.
Is Folic Acid Safe?
A mountain of evidence suggests that folic acid supplementation protects against neural tube defects (NTD) in newborn babies. This is why so many regarded it as a mandatory ingredient to be added to processed foods. And folic acid fortification has correlated with (not necessarily caused) a lowered incidence of NTD. However, in more recent years, information has come to light suggesting that naturally occurring folate is the healthier of the two options. Some research even suggests that folic acid supplementation may be associated with increased cancer risk.
Is Too Much Folic Acid Bad For You?
While it seems the government had good intentions when mandating fortification of foods with folic acid, the problem with the strategy lies in the fact that the body can only process so much of it. It is difficult to metabolize. The natural form of B9, folate, is much more easily processed and utilized.
When too much folic acid is consumed, you can’t use it all. So the excess circulates in the body, and this can cause issues. Even small amounts of folic acid have been deemed to be excessive. In one study, unmetabolized folic acid was found in the blood of nearly all of the participants. And in another, a modest dose of 400 mcg caused excess folic acid to appear in the bloodstream.
Some of the potential problems that can arise from excess folic acid include:
As I mentioned earlier, there’s some association between folic acid intake and cancer risk, especially prostate and possibly colorectal cancer. Some researchers have found that increased folic acid decreases the prevalence of natural killer cells, which help to destroy tumors. This could contribute to the increase in cancer rates.
Some studies suggest that folic acid may play a role in cognitive decline. In one study of seniors, high levels of folic acid in the bloodstream corresponded with both anemia and cognitive impairment, especially in those with low levels of vitamin B12.
Too much folic acid can have an excitatory effect on those who consume it. In one study of healthy volunteers, they had to abandon the research after just 1 month. The participants had increased gastrointestinal issues, issues sleeping, and mental changes.
Vitamin B9 and vitamin B12 are intimately related. They both work together to make red blood cells and they team up with vitamin B6 to control homocysteine levels in the blood. Homocysteine, an indicator of inflammation, is an amino acid that can be associated with an increased risk of heart disease.
When individuals are deficient in B12, and they supplement with folic acid, problems crop up. Folic acid seems to mask B12 deficiency, which is of special concern to elderly adults. B12 deficiency is associated with a greater risk of Alzheimer’s disease, cognitive decline, and even paralysis.
What Are The Health Benefits Of Folate?
In contrast to the synthetic folic acid, folate has many wide-ranging health benefits. Because it’s such an essential nutrient, it’s critical to consume adequate levels throughout all stages of life. The most notable benefits of folate include:
- Healthy fetal development during pregnancy
- Potentially protective against cardiovascular disease
- May reduce the risk of cancer
- Could help protect against Altzheimer’s disease
- Possibly Effective as Part of a Depression Treatment Plan
Supplementing with folate is most crucial during pregnancy — sufficient levels help to reduce the risk of birth defects, and help to ensure healthy growth and development of the baby.
Importance of Folate For Pregnant Women
Adequate ingestion of folate is of primary importance for pregnant women. Especially very early in pregnancy. It’s been associated with decreased risk of NTD, congenital heart defects, and oral clefts, i.e. cleft palate. Some research has also suggested that pregnancy outcomes may be affected by folate intake, likely due to the role folate plays in the very early stages of the development of the placenta.
Also, because folate is used so liberally by the developing baby, it’s important for the mother to increase folate consumption, ideally even before she is pregnant.
For this reason, many doctors suggest taking a high-quality prenatal vitamin when you first start thinking about conceiving. As I explain in my book, Beyond the Pill, I’d love for my patients to start preparing their bodies for pregnancy well before they’re ready to conceive. Aim for a minimum of six months’ preparation to ensure the best outcomes for mother and baby. Beyond just folate supplementation, it’s also critical to get your microbiome in top form (since it becomes your baby’s foundation for his or her immune system).
If you’re considering pregnancy, even in the distant future, I’d recommend checking out my book, Beyond the Pill for a complete fertility protocol. This is especially important if you’ve been on the birth control pill which can deplete crucial nutrients that you’ll want to build back up.
Potentially Protective Against Cardiovascular Disease
Folate has been shown to be protective against heart disease. And in a review of the data, researchers found a 10% lowered risk of stroke in individuals who supplemented with folate. While we’ve known for a while that a diet high in vegetable and fruit consumption is good for heart health, it’s possible that the high levels of folate in these foods is what’s so great for the heart. While researchers used to credit antioxidants with this protective effect, folate reduces homocysteine levels in the blood, and in turn, this could be why those veggies are so dang good for you! I recommend eating 6-9 cups daily if you possibly can.
May Reduce The Risk of Cancer
Since folic acid may increase the risk of cancer, it comes as a bit of a surprise that folate does the opposite for us. The relationship between cancer and folate consumption has been well documented. Risk of breast, ovarian, cervical, bladder, stomach, esophageal, colorectal, pancreatic, and lung cancers have all shown an inverse relationship with levels of folate intake. Or in other words, folate consumption is associated with a lower risk. Again, it’s another great reason to eat folate-rich vegetables and fruits.
Could Help Protect Against Alzheimer’s Disease
As with heart disease, cognitive degeneration, dementia, and Alzheimer’s disease have all been linked to elevated levels of homocysteine. Lower blood levels of folate have been associated with higher levels of homocysteine, and increased incidence of Alzheimer’s and mild cognitive impairment. While further research is needed, especially exploring the role of folate rather than folic acid is needed, it offers hope that maintaining healthy levels of B vitamins can help ward off cognitive decline.
Folate as Part of a Depression Treatment Plan
Reviews of the literature show that folate levels in those with depression are lower than in individuals without depression. In addition, folate supplementation has been shown to increase the efficacy of depression medication. In general, it is well-tolerated and few side effects have been reported by study participants, making it a prime candidate for further research in treating depression.
What Are The Symptoms Of Folate Deficiency?
Sometimes, people are unable to absorb adequate folate, even if they’re consuming enough. This is particularly true for people with digestive disorders like Crohn’s, ulcerative colitis, or celiac disease.
Other people struggle to process B vitamins efficiently due to a common genetic mutation that’s referred to as Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) gene variant.
When this happens, low levels of folate can produce some serious side effects, including:
For these people, supplementation with a highly bioavailable B Complex can restore their levels of folate to optimal.
Do You Need Folate Even If You’re Not Pregnant?
While pregnancy is the most crucial time to focus on folate, it’s certainly not the only time.
As I explained earlier, if you’re even thinking about conceiving, folate intake should be at top of mind.
But because of the many other health benefits we’ve explored, it really is a good idea to make sure you’re getting adequate amounts of folate either from diet or from proper supplementation.
How Much B9 Do You Need?
The recommended daily allowance (RDA) for folate is 400 micrograms (mcg). For pregnant women, the recommendation rises to 800 mcg.
Again, this is a recommendation for folate, not folic acid.
Ideally, you can get a ton of folate from whole food sources. Luckily, some of the tastiest foods on the planet contain healthy amounts of the good stuff.
What Are The Best Whole Food Sources of B9?
Some of my favorite ways to get in enough folate every day are:
- Nuts and Seeds
- Leafy greens (spinach, R=romaine, butter lettuce, greens)
- Brussels sprouts
Try incorporating more folate as part of seed cycling!
What Are The Best Prenatal Vitamins?
I have an entire, detailed article devoted to the best prenatal vitamins. In a nutshell, yes, you need to make sure you’re getting enough folate if you’re pregnant or trying to conceive.
But you also need to make sure you’re getting plenty of the following other nutrients:
- Vitamin A
- Vitamin C
- Vitamin E
Keep in mind, your body can only absorb so much of most of these nutrients at one time, so you need to make sure you’re taking multiple doses throughout the day, rather than taking large doses all at once.
And, if you want to be sure you’re getting all of these nutrients in optimal doses, I’d encourage you to check out my Prenatal Plus which combines everything you need in one place. It’s a collection of the absolute highest quality nutrients to make sure you and baby get everything you should.
Your Diet Really Does Matter
I’m hoping that this article will help you understand the crucial role diet and folate supplementation play in health.
And I know it can be confusing to start from scratch to change your diet and focus on getting all the nutrients you need.
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