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There are many reasons to choose organic food over “conventional,” chief among them the ability to avoid genetically modified material, as well as pesticides that have been linked to all sorts of maladies ranging from lowered reproductive function to cancer and even autism.
But another recent study has confirmed what many in the true natural food movement, the stewards of healthy food and healthy soil, already know: organic food also contains more antioxidants along with more minerals and other measurements.
The study, published in the IOSR Journal of Agriculture and Veterinary Science, found that “organic tomatoes have a higher antioxidant ability than conventional tomatoes,” a conclusion that adds more weight to recent studies that have shown similar results.
Overall, the study, which can be viewed here, found “significantly higher” amounts of antioxidants in tomatoes using one particular method, the Diphenyl-1-picryl hydrazyl bleaching method. Tests using two other methods of estimating antioxidant activity also found a higher amount of antioxidants in organic tomatoes, although the difference was not as significant.
Samples were taken of organic tomatoes and the same variety of “conventional” tomatoes, and then free-dried and stored in the dark before measurements were conducted in a solvent used for testing.
Antioxidants are an important benefit provided by healthy whole foods, as they help to “scavenge” cell-damaging free radicals released naturally in the body through daily activities and stressors.
International Studies Echo the Benefits of Organic Tomatoes
Tomatoes, which offer plenty of lycopene, vitamin C and other key nutrients, also offer higher antioxidant levels according to a pair of international studies that were not particularly well-covered by the mainstream media, which has been pushing an “organic is not worth your money” narrative in many outlets, likely due to pressure from sponsors.
In those studies, from Brazil and Spain, organic tomatoes were also found to have higher levels of these antioxidants (polyphenols).
As lead researcher Anna Vallverdu Queralt noted in a previous study that also demonstrated that organic tomato juice and ketchup had higher amounts of antioxidants, how the plants are fertilized could make a big difference.
“In any form of cultivation, the most important factor for the growth of the plant is the availability of nitrogen. In conventional agriculture, the nitrogen can be added in soluble form, as a fertilizer, whereas in organic production the plant receives no artificial nutrients and therefore responds by activating defense mechanisms that increase the levels of polyphenols. As a result, conventionally grown plants can lose resistance to disease and present lower levels of nutrients, minerals and secondary metabolites.”
Polyphenol consumption is linked with reduced risk of cardiovascular and degenerative diseases, and some forms of cancer.
The Brazilian study mentioned above, from 2013, also showed a stunning victory for organic tomatoes in terms of their vitamin C content: the organic tomatoes, though smaller, had 57 percent higher vitamin C levels (as well as over twice the amount of antioxidants)
The new organic tomato study, carried out by two Indian researchers from Bangalore, did not study vitamin content, but it does make reference to a three-year study in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry that found higher levels of quercetin, kaempferol, total phenolics (antioxidants), and ascorbic acid (vitamin C) compared to conventional tomatoes, and another study showing that organic tomatoes have higher levels of vitamin C, carotenoids and antioxidants as well.
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Frozen Foods Producer Orogel Sees Continued Growth
Italian frozen food producer Orogel generated turnover of €120 million in the first six months of 2017, up 11% year-on-year.
According to general manager, Giancarlo Foschi, the performance was due to “a very active first quarter as a result of a cold season, which usually increases sales”.
The company's jams and preserves segment performed exceptionally well, with a 23% growth in the first half of the year, accounting for an average annual turnover of €13 million. The company recently started exporting jams to the US under the Marcella brand.
Orogel has also seen growth in the organic sector, which now accounts for 25% of production.
However, the company's managing director, Bruno Piraccini, has expressed concern about production in the second half of the year, due to a persistent drought that hinders the sowing of autumn-winter crops.
Piraccini added that there have been good results for some products, such as strawberries, while peaches and nectarines have been seeing very low sales prices and low batches due to the high heat and drought.
The Cesena-based company is a market leader in Italy in the production and sale of fresh and frozen vegetables. It recently announced a three-year investment plan worth over €92 million.
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Cast in solid sterling silver, these tiny succulent earrings are right on trend this summer! Since each piece is cast from an actual succulent plant, no two pieces will be alike, which adds to their charm. These earrings are sold as singles, so you can purchase one or more for stacking! Please note which earring number in check out if you have a preference for an earring or if you are putting together a pair. If no preference is noted, an earring will be chosen for you
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Hello, my dear friends, Viktoriya is with you today! Pumpkin Season is here and it’s time to make pumpkins! Big or small, orange or blue -all of them you can make with amazing Lindy’s Sprays! You need some sheets of cotton fabric, scissors, needle (or sewing machine) and your favorite colors of Lindy’s Sprays. I … More DIY Decorations for Pumpkin Season with Lindy’s Sprays and Viktoriya Porechnaya
Have you noticed how those bright, wonderful palettes are coming back again? Or maybe they never left, hee hee! In any case, we’ve got a gorgeous combination of bright colors to bring in the end of summer! Before we share the inspiration pieces, we just wanted to remind you all about the Color Challenge rules … More Lindy’s bright fall Challenge announced!
Hey Gang! Anat here and for today’s Lindy’s blog post I’m going to show you a step by step video tutorial of how to make a Vintage Motivational ATC set with a Lace die and various gorgeous Lindy’s products. Basic steps Cover the paper die cuts with clear gesso Color the first piece with Fuzzy … More DIY Motivational ATC Set with Anat
Hi Gang! It’s been a while but I’m back with you today with a new post and a lot of Lindy’s. This time I’d like to take you on a underwater adventure and show you how you can create a Mixed Media treasure chest, using some super pretty Lindy’s Sprays and Magical Shakers. I’ve filmed … More Mixed Media Treasure Chest with Cindy
Sorry for the delay, but I promise it’s worth it! Such DAZZLING entries to this June’s challenge!! Really, you all are making it harder and harder to choose “winners”, because the entires are all so spectacular! Only because we have to pick, we have 5 winners, (3 picked, 2 random), shown below in random order! … More Winners of June’s Challenge
Hello best gang! It’s Anat here and for today’s blog post, I’m bringing you a new Video Tutorial showing how to create a whole rainbow of album pages with Lindy’s Starburst and Vintage Sprays and Lindy’s Magicals. Oh my! I enjoyed so much creating this mini Album, so join me and create one of … More Create a Rainbow of Mini Album Pages with Anat
You’ve done it again! AMAZING entries to this May’s challenge!! Actually, 50 amazing entries, which made our already hard decision even harder!!!! This month’s challenge has 6 winners, (3 picked, 3 random), shown below in random order! Huge congratulations to the winning entries and a massive thanks for all who participated, (we know how much … More May Challenge WINNERS!
It’s sure starting to feel like summer is coming, so we thought we’d give you a little bright color inspiration for our June challenge! Before we share the inspiration pieces, we just wanted to remind you all about the Color Challenge rules (there aren’t very many). Each month we bring you some amazingly fresh and … More Get your June Challenge on!
Hello! This is Maria Lillepruun with you today. Here´s my big project prepared for your inspiration and using Lindy’s products to add color to my extravagant photo album that looks like a wardrobe! The wardrobe base is made of MDF and was originally designed by our talented designer Olga Ravenskaya for Scrapiniec. From the very … More 3D Wardrobe Photo Album by Maria Lillepruun
Hello, Lindy’s Fans! Noura here today to share my new Art Journal page inspired by spring colors. Here in Lima we are close to the start of the winter season and we are saying bye to sunny days. For my art journal I used the new Lindy’s Squirts, Starbursts, Embossing powders and Magical powders. I’ve … More Spring Art Journal using Squirts by Noura Pompilla
WOW! You have overwhelmed us yet again with such gorgeous projects! Thank you all for your hard work & for sharing your amazing talent with us!! The April Challenge 2019 has 5 winners, (3 picked, 2 random)! Huge congratulations to the following winning entries!!! Please don’t be discouraged if you didn’t “win”, as we loved … More WINNERS of Lindy’s APRIL Challenge
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It’s April! Yippee! That means spring is here to stay! We are super excited to share these amazing projects from our CRAZY TALENTED 2019 Design Team! Yay! Before we share these beauties we just wanted to remind you all that we have changed our challenge a bit, just to get you excited. We figured we’d bring … More Lindy’s Awesome April Challenge
Hello, my dear friends! Viktoriya here on the Lindy’s blog today and I would like to share with you my Galaxy Tags, created with gorgeous Moon Shadow sprays and many other fantastic Lindy’s products! So join me for a trip to the moon and let’s get crafty! I created a video tutorial for you Basic … More Galaxy Tags with Viktoriya and Lindy’s
We just couldn’t stick to 5 winners this month! The entries were outta’ sight, so we had to have more “winners”! February Challenge 2019 has 7 winners, (4 picked, 3 random) this time! Whooo hooo!!! Please don’t be discouraged if you didn’t “win”, as we loved each and every entry and try hard to make … More February WINNERS to our Challenge!
Even with those holidays thrown in, you amazed us with your entries this month! WOW! You are awesome! We do have our 5 winners below, (remember we are doing a couple of random winners in there too). Please don’t be discouraged if you didn’t “win”, as we loved each and every entry and try hard to … More December CHALLENGE winners!

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The Forest (Marseille)
Pedro Cabrita Reis
Mucem, fort Saint-Jean—
From Wednesday 31 October 2018 to Sunday 16 June 2019
A unique work, specially created for the Mucem at the place d'Armes of the fort Saint-Jean
253 concrete, iron and wood structures covered in white paint stand at the place d'Armes of the fort Saint-Jean: The Forest (Marseille) is a sculpture by the Portuguese artist Pedro Cabrita Reis, a unique work specially created for the Mucem.
Made from industrial materials, this concrete Forest is set in the Mucem’s landscape, between architecture and garden, linking space and horizon in an intimate dialogue.
Of varying height (between 140 cm and 190 cm), the 253 structures conjure up anthropomorphic resonances, that are perceptible behind a possible (and necessarily ambiguous) reference to the outline of tree trunks. Are they a group of dead trees? Have they been ravaged by fire? Are they petrified? So long as they are not a group of people? Forests have always inspired a type of fear, similarly moreover to that aroused by gatherings of crowds.
Interview with the artist Pedro Cabrita Reis
Why did you want to set up a forest in the mineral space at the place d’Armes of the fort Saint-Jean?
Pedro Cabrita Reis (P. C. R.)
To go through or to “lose oneself” in a forest – this always brings about in us a type of introspection and a process of rediscovery of oneself. This is a little like what can happen in the way we relate to a work of art.
Concrete, iron, paint – this forest built thanks to industrial materials is also in a way a reminder of the city...
P. C. R.
The prime symbol of human construction, cities like forests are “organic” structures that experience several life cycles. There are cities and forests that have disappeared and have been replaced by other cities and forests, at the same time both similar yet different. Beyond all of this, but also like a symptom of these permanent transformations, there is art, the place where a forest can be constructed in iron and be a reminder of the city…
Lastly, the 253 structures can also be treated as a group of people, as a crowd… What was your inspiration for this analogy?
P. C. R. The analogies cannot be found in the work of art itself; they are created by the viewer’s eye. The purpose of art is to increase insight, and the nuances of our emotional and rational networks are near infinite. So much so in fact that they enable us to arrive at the conclusion that 253 concrete, iron and wood objects painted white, can be treated as a forest, as well as like a crowd...


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Aching, groping, fingers curled
Buried deep into the dark
Warm and moist loam.
Hoping to grasp the secret
Rituals of her remembered seasons
Of growth beneath expansive gloom.
Slowly now, I rubbed her essence
Into my clean and open pores,
Searching for her healing
For life's red and puffy sores.
She, healing me...quietly,
With each grain of time honored memory
And the remnants of a hundred kindred souls
Who once marched across her beautiful face;
Seeping their rotting molecules
Into this secret, sacred place.
How dark the soul, how green the growth
and warm the sun upon my lips,
I whispered to the waiting, silent ghosts.
How sweet the fading daunted mind now slips
into agreed upon forgetfullness
Lest we all remember the sullen, fragile hosts.
How soon we join her sared womb
And add our contributions to her store,
How soon our bodies rot within her tomb;
Do we rise to sing once more?
Celebrate each day above the ground
For once the body's lost to death
There's no more reason to be earthbound.
Copyright © Chula Fleming

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EU insurers prohibited from insuring any oil shipments from Syria
On 5th September, the Club posted an advisory regarding extended European sanctions to prohibit the transport, by EU persons or vessels, of crude oil or petroleum products from Syria, and to prohibit the provision of insurance in respect of such transportation.
The Club requested clarification from HM Treasury as to whether the insurance ban would apply to shipments from Syria by vessels and persons that are unconnected with the EU.
The UK Treasury has now confirmed that it considers that insurers/reinsurers in the EU are prohibited from providing cover in relation such shipments, even where the transportation ban does not apply (because the ships and persons involved are unconnected with the EU).
Attention is drawn to the Association's Rule 5 V:
"The Association shall not indemnify an Owner against any liabilities, costs or expenses where the provision of cover, the payment of any claim or the provision of any benefit in respect of those liabilities, costs or expenses may expose the Association to any sanction, prohibition, restriction or adverse action by any competent authority or government."
Members should therefore be aware that if they carry Syrian oil exports, their cover from the Club will be prejudiced whether or not the ships and persons involved have any connection with the EU.
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At Green Dot Public Schools, we view after school programs as an extension of the academic day. Many of our students are entering our schools significantly behind grade level. While we strategically schedule classes to provide appropriate interventions, our after school programs provide middle school and high school students with a space for additional support and academic enrichment. This is why we refer to our after school programs as expanded learning. We are joining the movement throughout California to bring together all learning experiences informal and formal, before and after school that develop the academic, social, emotional, and physical needs or interests of students.
Providing Academic Support and Safe Spaces
In addition to providing space for academic support, Green Dot views expanded learning programs as an opportunity for extended safety. According to the After School Alliance, students are most likely to become victims of violent crime, to be involved in accidents, and to engage in other harmful behavior on weekdays between 3:00 and 6:00 p.m. Thus, we work with community partners to build safe, hands-on, engaging, student-centered, and results-driven learning experiences throughout the school year.
In our schools in California, we couldn’t provide these opportunities without our partner organizations, which include arc, Boys and Girls Club of Carson, and the J.K. Livin Foundation. Their staff and support have become an important presence on our campuses and in our communities.
“The arc program at my school does a great job at encompassing a wide range of programming that engages different students,” says Ánimo Western English Language Arts teacher Briana Meneses-Sullivan. “Just by conversations my students have in my class, I can tell that arc effectively creates an environment that serves the diverse interests of students as they are always excited to participate.”
Green Dot works with these partner organizations to provide academic support in areas like homework assistance and tutoring. The programs support students academically while also providing enrichment opportunities in the arts, life skills, healthy choices, physical fitness, and leadership development. “I love coming to arc every day because the staff are all nice, they help me with my homework, and make me feel safe,” said Ánimo Westside sixth grader Simar Singh.
What’s at Stake
Green Dot California is excited to have recently been awarded a grant that helps sustain these programs for the next five years at our high schools, but in order to do the same for our middle school programs, we need continued state funding.
California State Senator Connie Leyva introduced Senate Bill 78 earlier this year to do just that. SB 78 seeks to increase funding for the After School Education and Safety (ASES) program, and would include ongoing funding as well as minimum wage increases, to ensure that programs remain solvent. “When 67,000 students could potentially lose access to after school programs, I firmly believe that it is vital for state leaders to back efforts to reinforce these successful programs,” said Senator Leyva in a press release.
Over 700 Green Dot middle school students participate in our expanded learning programs on a daily basis. Additional funding proposed by SB 78 would ensure that programs at our middle schools are also fully staffed and able to serve our communities.
SB 78 would make sure that countless families in California don’t lose programs that provide their children with crucial academic assistance, enrichment opportunities, as well as social and emotional support. Our educators and students know how important it is to invest in expanded learning for all.
“Our parents need access to quality, affordable after school programs that provide enrichment activities and opportunities for students to continue to evolve socially, and to be able to meet and become positive role models,” said Ánimo Phillis Wheatley Special Education teacher Hugo Estrada. “This is what arc represents for our school and communities.”
SB78 will be addressed by the Senate Budget Subcommittee this month. More than ever your voice is needed to ensure that California does not lose the programs that serve working families and provide vital learning opportunities for students, show your support today and tell your local officials how you feel about after-school programs.

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Queen of Katwe (2016)
Quietly joining the ranks of films that branch out from Hollywood’s usual “white people do things” plot, Queen of Katwe is a refreshing and unpredictable entry from Disney about a young girl in Uganda who discovers a spectacular talent for chess.
The true story follows the life of Phiona (Madina Nalwanga), a teenage girl living in the Katwe slum of Uganda’s capital Kampala with her mother Nakku Harriet (Lupita Nyong’o) and her siblings. She discovers a talent for chess at a missionary program run by sports coach Robert Katende (David Oyelowo), and soon begins to compete against children from other, richer schools. She finds friendship and a sense of belonging among the other chess players, but gradually begins to chafe under her lack of education and the extreme poverty in which her mother and family are forced to live.
Queen of Katwe relies on some of the usual clichés about exceptional people in terrible circumstances, painting a picture of Phiona’s rise from poverty in very recognizable and clean-cut terms. But, more so than most Disney films, it also closely depicts the depths of poverty in which Phiona and her family live without either romanticizing them or making them appear exceptional. This is simply their lives, and chess – of all things – might very well be their ticket out of poverty. Phiona’s mother just wants a home with a roof over it, a request seemingly impossible to satisfy. Her daughter wants a way out of the slums. As Phiona becomes increasingly dissatisfied with her family life after every chess tournament, the conflict with her mother and her younger brother increases – she no longer feels at home anywhere, unable to match her growing thirst for education with her impoverished circumstances.
Robert and Harriet both approach Phiona’s talent with love and understanding – Robert sees her as a brilliant child who needs an opportunity, while Harriet recognizes both her daughter’s talent and the undeniable struggles of her daily life. The conflict between the two develops as what they think is best for Phiona, and whether the girl can ever achieve more than just notoriety in chess competition.
Queen of Katwe is a Disney film, and so even the extreme poverty of Phiona and her family is treated with a soft-focus edge. The film avoids going into the seamier side of poverty – Phiona’s elder sister Night (Taryn Kyaze) draws her mother’s condemnation by running off with a boy on a motorbike, but this is treated as mostly ancillary to Phiona’s life. Yet the fact that this is a Disney film works to Queen of Katwe’s benefit. The film presents the day-to-day life of impoverished people rather than dwelling on suffering or violence, avoiding the usual problems of more “adult” films that tend to focus on the dreadful nature of poverty rather than the humanity of the people.
Director Mira Nair gets excellent performances out of her cast – Oyelowo and Nyong’o are predictably good in their respective roles, but the children really steal the film. Newcomer Madina Malwanga turns in a riveting lead performance, fully embodying Phiona and lending her the depth necessary to carry the film. She avoids being overshadowed by the older and more experienced actors – no mean feat, given the calibre of acting on display here.
Queen of Katwe‘s sole weakness lies in the somewhat meandering nature of its story. Nair chooses to bookend the film with an important chess match, but the efficacy of those bookends make the rest of the narrative feel arcless. Phiona’s development from gifted amateur to a potential Grand Master forms the main focus of the story, but secondary plot threads threaten to imbalance the narrative. The film occasionally loses focus, eliding over important events and puncturing the development of suspense. While this doesn’t condemn the film, it does lessen the dramatic impact.
This Blu-ray release is as lovely and rich as one would expect from a Disney Blu-ray. Nair makes use of her usual vibrant color palette, here presented in sharp HD. The extra features include deleted scenes and an audio commentary with Nair that serve to flesh out the story. Two featurettes, including a short film about Robert Katende, explain the background of the real people on which Queen of Katwe is based, while Disney gets in its musical product placement with an Alicia Keys music video. As usual, the film is the major attraction on this disc, but the behind-the-scenes featurettes are especially informative and showcase the reality behind the gloss.
A smart and interesting story that seeks neither to romanticize nor pity its protagonists, Queen of Katwe is a strong entry into Disney’s live action world.


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Caleb was sick. Really sick! Diagnosed with a nervous system disease, the 5-year-old suffered from temporary paralysis. His anxious parents prayed. And waited. Slowly, Caleb began to recover. Months later, when doctors cleared him to attend school, all Caleb could manage was a slow, unsteady walk.
One day his dad visited him at school. He watched his son haltingly descend the steps to the playground. And then he saw Caleb’s young friend Tyler come alongside him. For the entire recess, as the other kids raced and romped and played, Tyler slowly walked the playground with his frail friend.
Job must have ached for a friend like Tyler. Instead, he had three friends who were certain he was guilty. “Who ever perished, being innocent?” asked Eliphaz (Job 4:7). Such accusations prompted Job to bitterly declare, “Miserable comforters are you all!” (16:2).
How unlike Jesus. On the eve of His crucifixion He took time to comfort His disciples. He promised them the Holy Spirit, who would be with them forever (John 14:16), and assured them, “I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you” (v. 18). Then, just before He returned to His Father, He said, “I am with you always, even to the end of the age” (Matt. 28:20).
The One who died for us also walks with us, step by painstaking step.
A friend struggling with loneliness posted these words on her Facebook page: “It’s not that I feel alone because I have no friends. I have lots of friends. I know that I have people who can hold me and reassure me and talk to me and care for me and think of me. But they can’t be with me all the time—for all time.”
Jesus understands that kind of loneliness. I imagine that during His earthly ministry He saw loneliness in the eyes of lepers and heard it in the voices of the blind. But above all, He must have experienced it when His close friends deserted Him (Mark 14:50).
However, as He foretold the disciples’ desertion, He also confessed His unshaken confidence in His Father’s presence. He said to His disciples: “[You] will leave Me alone. And yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me” (John 16:32). Shortly after Jesus said these words, He took up the cross for us. He made it possible for you and me to have a restored relationship with God and to be a member of His family.
Being humans, we will all experience times of loneliness. But Jesus helps us understand that we always have the presence of the Father with us. God is omnipresent and eternal. Only He can be with us all the time, for all time.
It’s not about the table, whether it’s square or round. It’s not about the chairs—plastic or wooden. It’s not about the food, although it helps if it has been cooked with love. A good meal is enjoyed when we turn off the TV and our cell phones and concentrate on those we’re with.
John Chrysostom (347–407), archbishop of Constantinople, said this about friendship: “Such is friendship, that through it we love places and seasons; for as . . . flowers drop their sweet leaves on the ground around them, so friends impart favor even to the places where they dwell.”
I have one of those friends who seems to be better than I am at just about everything. He is smarter; he thinks more deeply; and he knows where to find better books to read. He is even a better golfer. Spending time with him challenges me to become a better, more thoughtful person. His standard of excellence spurs me on to greater things.
Our granddaughter Julia spent the summer working in an orphanage in Busia, Uganda. On the final day of her internship, she went to the children to tell each one goodbye. One little girl named Sumaya was very sad and said to her, “Tomorrow you leave us, and next week the other aunties [interns] leave.”
Friendship is one of life’s greatest gifts. True friends seek a special kind of good for their friends: the highest good, which is that they might know God and love Him with all of their heart, soul, and mind. German pastor and martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer said, “The aim of friendship is exclusively determined by what God’s will is for the other person.”
I met my friend Angie for lunch after having not seen her for several months. At the end of our time together, she pulled out a piece of paper with notes from our previous get-together. It was a list of my prayer requests she had been praying for since then. She went through each one and asked if God had answered yet or if there were any updates. And then we talked about her prayer requests. How encouraging to have a praying friend!


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Hibiscus tea is one of the most popular flavors and is usually made from different parts of the hibiscus plant. The flowers, especially, are quite a common source for the well-loved tea.
But can you use all hibiscus flowers to make tea? Are all parts of a hibiscus flower edible?
If so, what hibiscus flowers can you use to make tea?
Varieties of hibiscus plant used to make tea
Not all hibiscus flowers can be used in making tea.
H. Sabdariffa is the strain that has been used for long in making hibiscus tea. It is commonly referred to as “red sorrel” or “roselle”.
The red-colored flowers of the hibiscus are the ones used in making hibiscus tea.
Apart from H. Sabdariffa, research has shown that the H.acetosella variety of hibiscus can also be used in making tea.
Other varieties of the hibiscus plant also contain medicinal properties, but they are not used for making tea.
Hibiscus tea is not seen as true tea since it does not come from the tea plant Camellia sinesis. However, it lies in the category of herbal teas that come with a lot of health benefits. Herbal tea comes from plants, spices, herbs, and flowers.
Hibiscus tea is not as popular as green tea, black tea, or even white tea. However, its popularity is on the rise as more people recognize the massive health benefits that it offers.
This tea comes into the market in the form of dried flowers. You will recognize it easily because of its tart flavor.
You can also enjoy hibiscus tea either as a hot drink or iced. Hibiscus tea has a refreshing and tangy taste that leaves you enjoying your cup and wishing for more.
Which parts of the hibiscus plant are edible?
The hibiscus plant is known for its medicinal value. For instance, H. sabdariffa comes in handy in treating illnesses such as blood pressure, coughs, and it also kills bacteria. Additionally, the plant increases urination, relieves coughs, and lowers fever.
Most of the parts of the plant are used for healing purposes.
So which specific parts of the hibiscus plant are used in making hibiscus tea?
The calyx is the first part of the flower to show when it begins to form. The calyx consists of a collection of small leaves that form where the flower and the stem meet.
The calyx comprises of sepals that are tiny leaves to protect the flower at the base. It offers the flower stability at its base.
The calyx offers a tangy flavor for your cup of hibiscus tea, and it is also rich in vitamin C.
It is also used in making other foodstuffs such as jams, sauces, and much more.
Apart from the calyx, you can also use the large green leaves of the hibiscus plant to make hibiscus tea. The leaves also offer you a tangy flavor for your tea.
The branches of the H. sabdariffa plant carry some beautiful yellow flowers. When the flowers go through pollination, they form the ripe calyx, which has a seedpod inside. You can also use the beautiful yellow flowers to brew your cup of hibiscus tea.
Nutritional value of hibiscus tea
Does caffeine make you jittery and anxious?
Would you prefer a cup of tea without caffeine?
Well, if you do, then you can go for hibiscus tea as an alternative. Green and black tea are made from the Camellia Sinensis plant that contains caffeine. As such, whether you take them either hot or cold, you will have a level of caffeine.
As such, if you completely want to avoid caffeine, you should stay away from black and green tea.
Hibiscus tea is decaffeinated which comes with a lot of health benefits. It is also calorie-free.
Additionally, a cup of hibiscus in the morning offers you a dose of manganese. Manganese is an essential mineral in your body as it activates your metabolic reactions. The mineral is also vital in aiding blood clotting, bone formation, and boosting the body’s immune system.
Also, a cup of hibiscus tea will offer you a daily dose of the essential calcium and potassium, which are major minerals in the body. The two minerals aid in bone formation and strengthening. Potassium also works to provide you with the necessary energy that your body needs.
You will also get zinc and iron, which help to boost the immune function, muscle contraction, and formation of proteins.
What’s more? Hibiscus tea also offers you two essential vitamins: vitamin B3 and B9. The vitamins are essential in aiding metabolism. Vitamin B9 is vital during pregnancy, and a deficiency of the vitamin can lead to babies born with congenital conditions.
Other health benefits of hibiscus tea
The liver is an essential part of the body that helps in breaking down fat, production of proteins and bile, and so on.
A cup of hibiscus tea will help in keeping your liver healthy and working efficiently.
For instance, hibiscus tea decreases the markers of liver damage.
Loss of weight
If you want to lose some kilos, you may consider taking a cup of hibiscus tea. A study shows that hibiscus tea can be used in reducing body weight.
Using hibiscus tea is better than using black or green tea as it has no caffeine.
However, note that hibiscus tea alone will not make you lose weight. You should consider combining your cup of tea with other activities such as morning exercises.
Hibiscus contains polyphenols, which are compounds with anti-cancer properties.
Hibiscus tea side effects
No side effects exist for taking hibiscus tea if you are healthy. However, if you have some underlying conditions such as blood pressure and diabetes, then you may experience some side effects. The same applies to pregnant and breastfeeding women.
Some of the side effects include:
Low blood sugar
Hibiscus can make it difficult to control blood sugar levels. If you have had surgery, then you should avoid taking hibiscus tea for about two weeks.
If you have diabetes, you may consider having your medications adjusted by your doctor so that you can continue enjoying your hibiscus tea.
If you are pregnant, then you should be cautious while taking hibiscus tea. The fact that it affects your blood sugar and blood pressure may be unsafe for you and your unborn child.
If you don’t like caffeine, but you still want to enjoy a cup of tea, then you should go for hibiscus tea.
Hibiscus tea comes from the H. sabdariffa plant. You can also get it from H. acetosella, which is also a variety of hibiscus plants.
You can brew hibiscus tea from various parts of the H. sabdariffa, which include the leaves, flowers, and the calyx.

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Vivian "Millie" Bailey is a barrier breaker full of adventurous spirit: She is listed among the first Black American female pilots and spent her 102nd birthday skydiving in Maryland.
She served in the Army during World War II, earning a rare superior rank in an officer's course where she was only one of two African-American women, according to a biography published by her retirement community.
Bailey also gives back to the community, raising money for a Howard County elementary school and sending care packages to the troops deployed overseas.
She’s someone we can all look up to — and exactly the sort of person you’d want to name a park after.
And that’s what Howard County will do: Millie Bailey Park in Columbia, near Lake Kittamaqundi, is set to open this week.
The grand opening comes days after her 102nd birthday, which she celebrated by skydiving. Bailey strapped herself to an instructor and hurtled through the air.
NBC4 and our sibling station Telemundo 44 are #Working4You in the DMV
“It was wonderful, a real thrill,” Bailey said once back on the ground. “Just glad that I had landed.”


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NAIROBI, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Kenya's central bank said onWednesday it was in the repurchase agreements (repo) market tomop up 6.5 billion shillings ($76.5 million) in excessliquidity.
The bank's continued liquidity soak-up activity has helpedthe shilling to stabilise against the dollar, which slidsharply in 2011 as inflation soared to a peak of 20 percent andthe central bank responded slowly.($1 = 85.0000 Kenyan shillings)
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By Lubos Motl, The Reference Frame
RSS MSU satellite data for the lower troposphere show that November 2007 was the coldest month since January 2000. Other major teams that measure the global mean temperature have not yet published their November data. The temperature anomaly was -0.014 °C. It means that the whole month was actually cooler than the the average recorded November. It was the first month in this century that was cooler than average.
The continuing La Nina is the main reason behind the recent cold months; La Nina is expected to disappear in Spring 2008. January 2000, a month that was even cooler than November 2007, witnessed a La Nina, too. November 2007 was also a whopping 0.915 °C colder than April 1998. Another reason could be an inactive Sun. We are expecting the solar cycle 24 to begin soon but it takes a longer time than expected and there are still almost no sun spots. Via a crucial mechanism, it means that we should be getting more galactic cosmic rays that should create more clouds.
It will end up colder than all other years in the 21st century so far as well as 1998 (by 0.4 °C) and 1995. Other teams (HadCRUT3, UAH MSU) except for GISS will also report 2007 to be between the 6th and 9th warmest year. Dr James Hansen’s GISS deviates substantially - it may even announce that 2007 was the warmest year - and their method to measure temperature based on stations is probably dominated by urban heat islands and the results are most likely complete rubbish. See full blog here. See recent story by McKitrick and Michaels on the warm bias in the global data bases issue here.
By Dr. Tim Ball, NSRP
Exploitation of fear by environmental groups was explained well in Crichton’s book, State of Fear. He could also have written a book titled, State of Knowledge. Most people know very little about the natural world and how it works. This lack of knowledge is easily exploited and coupled with fear makes it an even more powerful manipulative tool. The idea that knowledge is power isn’t new, but that is the positive side. Lack of knowledge is the negative side and makes you very vulnerable. As Derek Bok said, “If you think education is expensive - try ignorance.” Ignorance allows presentation of natural events as unnatural or normal events as abnormal. Arctic ice conditions are a perfect example.
Notice how much ice has already formed this winter, a more rapid growth than previously in the record. It was claimed the summer ice was the smallest on record but the valid record is short coincides with arrival of satellite data in 1980. While the media raised alarms over Arctic ice melt, they did not report that Antarctic winter sea ice extent was the greatest on record. Read more here.
Dr. Ball is a renowned environmental consultant and former climatology professor at the University of Winnipeg. Dr. Ball employs his extensive background in climatology and other fields as the Chairman of Natural Resources Stewardship Project.
By Robert Ferguson, SPPI
On October 18, 2007, The Kansas Department of Health and Environment rejected a request to build two new 700-megawatt coal-fired electricity generating power plants, citing concerns over the contribution of the proposed plants’ carbon dioxide emissions to climate change and “the potential harm to our environment and health.” In making this finding, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment had to ignore all of the known climate history of the state of Kansas, established climate science as well as the climate model projections for the future climate of the state of Kansas. Both observations and projections clearly demonstrate that:
- Kansans have neither experienced nor are predicted to experience negative effects from climate variations and trends
- There have been no overall changes in temperatures during the past 75 years
- Total precipitation has increased slightly, making more water available for all to use
- The frequency and severity of drought has decreased
- Kansan’s sensitivity to heat-waves has declined
- The number of severe storms, such as tornadoes is relatively unchanged
- “Tropical” diseases such as malaria, dengue fever, or West Nile Virus have been erroneously predicted to spread due to global warming
- Future projections indicate that Kansas will be less impacted by rising global temperatures than any other state in the country
China alone opens a new coal-fired plant every 4 - 7 days, any Kansas-derived “savings” of CO2 emissions into the atmosphere will be made up in a matter of days, effectively exporting emissions and jobs overseas. These facts make it inconceivable that the Kansas Department of Health and Environment would, on spurious grounds of “climate change,” deny the application to add more generating power aimed towards reducing the cost and insuring an abundant future supply of electricity, prosperity and general well-being to Kansans. Read more here.
By Ross McKitrick and Pat Michaels
In a new article just published in the Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, Pat Michaels and I have concluded that the manipulations for the steep post-1980 period are inadequate, and the global temperature graph showing warming is an exaggeration, at least in the past few decades. Along the way I have also found that the UN agency promoting the global temperature graph has made false claims about the quality of their data. The graph comes from data collected in weather stations around the world. Other graphs come from weather satellites and from networks of weather balloons that monitor layers of the atmosphere. These other graphs didn’t show as much warming as the weather station data, even though they measure at heights where there is supposed to be even more greenhouse gas-induced warming than at the surface. The discrepancy is especially clear in the tropics.
The surface-measured data has many well-known problems. Over the post-war era, equipment has changed, station sites have been moved, and the time of day at which the data are collected has changed. Many long-term weather records come from in or near cities, which have gotten warmer as they grow. Many poor countries have sparse weather station records, and few resources to ensure data quality. Fewer than one-third of the weather stations operating in the 1970s remain in operation. When the Soviet Union collapsed in the early 1990s, more than half the world’s weather stations were closed in a four year span, which means that we can’t really compare today’s average to that from the 1980s. Read a background summary here and a technical paper published in the JGR December 2007 here.
McKitrick is an Associate Professor at the University of Guelph. Michaels contributed to this research while a member of the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia, and while a visiting lecturer at Virginia Tech. He is now with the Cato Institute
By J. Scott Armstrong, The Wharton School, Kesten C. Green, Monash University, and Willie Soon, Harvard-Smithsonian
The issue of listing a species under the Endangered Species Act should be based on credible scientific forecasts. Based on our Internet search of the published scholarly research and on appeals to other researchers we have been unable to locate any papers that referred to scientific procedures for making forecasts of polar bear populations. Furthermore, a review of the references in the nine government reports written to support the listing of polar bears under the Endangered Species Act failed to find any papers relevant to scientific forecasting procedures. We take no issue with the scientific work of the researchers whose work we have reviewed as it relates to the past. Our concern is that there are currently no scientific forecasts of the polar bear population; nor of direction or magnitude of changes. Without scientific forecasts of a substantial decline of the polar bear population and of net benefits from feasible policies arising from listing polar bears, a decision to list polar bears as threatened or endangered would be irresponsible.
By By Patrick J. Michaels, in the American Spectator
Hurricane Katrina—a very big storm by any measure—has now been called the “largest ecological disaster in U.S. history,” according to the Christian Science Monitor, because it “killed or damaged about 320 million trees.” Moreover, Katrina was a double ecological whammy, as the downed trees will eventually rot or burn, releasing another increment (probably too small to detect) of dreaded carbon dioxide, the main global warming gas. The Monitor’s report was based upon an analysis of satellite imagery conducted by scientists at the University of New Hampshire.
Part of the modern climate mythology is the assumption that every significant climate burp, such as the big El Nino of 1998, or the big hurricane season of 2005 is portentous of ecological disaster. Hardly. In fact, if today’s species were not adapted to these extremes, they simply wouldn’t be here.
Whenever a hurricane (or a fire) takes down a forest, it’s not replaced by anything but another forest. That vegetation will absorb some of the carbon dioxide that Katrina’s trees left behind. It will eventually look a lot like the one that got blown down, only to await the sawmill, or the next big hurricane. Read more here.
Natural Resources Stewardship Project
The Natural Resources Stewardship Project (NRSP) announces the launch of its ‘Unreliable Sources’ initiative to help counter the steady stream of climate science misinformation emanating from mass media, politicians, lobby groups and industry.
In an effort to help the public differentiate fact from fiction, rational science-based forecasts from sensationalist speculation, NRSP scientists will now regularly correct climate science misrepresentations being disseminated from the aforementioned sources. Whether it is the ill-founded claims of Al Gore and environmental lobby groups or the unscientific exaggerations of the World Nuclear Association, it is now more important than ever that a rational alternative point of view concerning the science of climate change is presented regularly – that is the purpose of NRSP’s “Contesting ‘Unreliable Sources’” project.
CBC climate science coverage will be first under the microscope. See full press release here.
By John Brignell, for SPPI
Many of us who were involved in the early days of environmentalism, because of the disgusting and dangerous state of our post-war air and rivers, and had good reason to be satisfied with the progress that had been made, became distressed when the movement was suddenly hijacked by a new force. It seemed to be motivated by a hatred of industry and economic progress. Instead of relying on actual measurements of pollution, it began to extrapolate by means of theories and models. It developed the threat of the New Ice Age. Industrial pollution would block out the sun and plunge the world into an appalling frozen future. In Britain it was irrelevantly defeated by the searing summer of 1976, an isolate statistic that could have no bearing on climate and, though it caused ridicule, was nevertheless a portent of things to come. We innocently assumed that they would withdraw, but they simply did an about turn. Almost without pausing for breath, they converted the threat of an ice age to one of catastrophic global warming. Digging up old papers by the likes of Arrhenius and Callendar, and without a trace of embarrassment, they switched from accusing industry from freezing us to death to claiming that it would roast us. At the time most of us in science treated it all as a joke that no one could possibly take seriously. How wrong we were! We simply could not see that profound changes were taking place in society, that even science and its methods would come under a devastating threat.
Global warming is the scare that is the climax of this book. It is both unique and typical. It is unique in that economic failure is not just a by-product of the scare, it is the whole raison d’être. It is promoted by interests who oppose everything that would enhance the economic well-being of mankind (for example, realistic sources of energy as opposed to those that are intermittent, impracticable and only sustainable by grotesque levels of subsidy). It is typical in employing all the manoeuvres that have sustained the previous, less durable scares; i.e. selecting favourable data while ignoring more credible adverse data, practising overt and covert censorship, mounting ad hominem attacks on opponents, recruiting “scientists” to serve its purposes with public funds, while without evidence gratuitously accusing critics of receiving handouts from hated industrial sources, putting the frighteners on ill-informed ordinary people and so on. Scientifically this scare is dead in the water, even the measurement evidence of any warming occurring at all fades away on examination, but the weaker their case becomes the more fervently the faithful cling to their belief and the more bitter the bile they direct at infidels. Read more here.

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Lordstown Motors Corp said on Monday it had entered into a deal under which Foxconn Ventures Pte Ltd., an affiliate of Foxconn, would invest up to $170 million in the electric vehicle maker, that would make the Taiwanese contract manufacturer its largest shareholder.
Foxconn will purchase 12.9 million shares on or after Nov. 22 and an additional 26 million shares that will propel Foxconn's holdings to 19.3 per cent of Lordstown's common stock and all of its preferred stock, surpassing founder Stephen Burn's stake of 17.2 per cent, according to Refinitiv.
Lordstown will use the proceeds from the share sales to fund development and design activities for a new electric vehicle program in collaboration with Foxconn, scrapping its earlier joint venture deal with the manufacturer, it said in a filing, sending shares up 7 per cent to $2.06 in extended trading on Monday.
Separately, the startup reported a net loss of $154.4 million in the quarter ended Sept. 30, wider than loss of $95.8 million, a year earlier.
Supply chain disruptions
While demand for electric vehicles has surged globally, supply chain disruptions and rising material costs have made it tough for companies to raise output and meet red-hot demand.
Foxconn started manufacturing Lordstown's Endurance pickup trucks in September after buying the U.S. company's Ohio facility. The deal was prompted by the need to clinch funds essential for the start of production of Endurance.
Lordstown expects to limit production of the Endurance through 2023 or longer to minimize losses, until it is able to cut its materials cost.
Lordstown said on Monday that its cost of materials to build its Endurance electric pickup truck was higher than the price it intends to sell at, adding that it would not see positive gross margins until its bill of materials cost reduced.


John Mansfield Brumby (born 21 April 1953), is a former Australian Labor Party politician who was Premier of Victoria from 2007 to 2010. He became Premier after the resignation of Steve Bracks. He also served as the Minister for Veterans' Affairs and the Minister for Multicultural Affairs. He contested his first election as Premier at the November 2010 Victorian state election. His government was defeated by the Liberal/National Coalition led by Ted Baillieu. Brumby stood down as Labor leader after the election, to be replaced by Daniel Andrews. Brumby resigned from parliament, with a Broadmeadows by-election taking place on 19 February 2011.
In 1983 Brumby was elected to the Australian House of Representatives for the seat of Bendigo, which he held until his defeat in 1990. A member of the Labor Unity faction, he was a strong supporter of Prime Minister Bob Hawke and an opponent of the Socialist Left faction, which historically had its stronghold in the Victorian branch of the Labor Party.
Brumby was subsequently elected as Labor's new State Parliamentary leader to fill the vacancy created by Jim Kennan's resignation. He resigned from the Legislative Council and was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly at a by-election for Kennan's seat of Broadmeadows.
From 1993 to 1996 Brumby worked to restore Labor's fortunes in Victoria. The defeat of the federal Labor government in March 1996 prompted Kennett to call an early state election three weeks later. Labor only managed a net two-seat gain, leaving it 20 seats behind the Coalition.
This defeat was claimed to have undermined Brumby's position as Leader. Brumby was later replaced as Labor leader in March 1999, agreeing to resign in favour of Steve Bracks.
Steve Bracks narrowly won the state election called by Kennett in September 1999 and appointed Brumby as Minister for Finance, Assistant Treasurer and Minister for State and Regional Development. As Treasurer, Brumby presided over a period of steady economic growth in Victoria, and his economic management was given some of the credit, along with the personal popularity of Bracks, for Labor's landslide re-elections in 2002 and 2006.
On 30 July 2007 Brumby was elected unopposed as the new Labor leader and was sworn in as Premier of Victoria. On 30 November, Brumby announced that he was standing down as Labor leader in Victoria, and that the parliamentary Labor Party would meet on 3 December to elect a new leader and shadow ministry. Ted Baillieu was sworn in as Premier on 2 December, formally ending John Brumby's term.
Brumby resigned from parliament on 21 December.
Following his resignation from parliament, Brumby was appointed as a joint Vice Chancellor's Fellow at Monash University and the University of Melbourne, chairman of Motor Trades Association of Australia Superannuation Fund, member of the federal government's GST Distribution Review panel, and a director of Huawei in Australia.
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Kim Kardashian Fashion to Invade Britain; Phase 1 of Global Domination (Poll)
With the Kardashian Kollection clothing line selling on London's High Street this fall, it's only a matter of time before Kate Middleton checks it out.
Great Britain is just starting to recover from the Summer Olympics. Now they must steel themselves for the impending Invasion of the Kardashians.
Reality TV stars/fashion designing sisters Kim Kardashian, Kourtney Kardashian and Khloe Kardashian are taking their wildly successful Sears clothing line -- aptly called the Kardashian Kollection -- to the next global domination level by invading England.
Look out, Kate Moss. The K-girls' dresses, jeans, shoes, etc., will be sold in the supertrendy High Street boutique named Dorothy Perkins. Actually, the line will be carried in 250 Dorothy Perkins shops all over the U.K. as well as eight location-to-be-determined BHS pop-up shops.
Now, let's give this some thought. We don't need to remind you that Kate Middleton, aka the Duchess of Cambridge, is known to shop for royal fashion bargains on High Street. And sooner or later, she probably will get curious and check out the Dash girls' designs.
As a rule, classy Kate prefers British designers, her being a British fashion ambassador and all that royal protocol nonsense.
But wouldn't it be incredible if Kate Middleton actually bought and wore a frock from the Kardashian Kollection? Can you imagine? The Queen might have her head. Or send her to the Tower.
Great Britain is just the beginning. We hear there are also plans for their clothing line to invade -- sorry, be available in -- 13 other countries, including Turkey, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia. May we suggest North Korea and Afghanistan? Both countries could use a dose of Kardashian fashion.
Kim is already hinting at plans to visit England. On Sunday, she slyly tweeted her sisters Khloe and Kourtney: "Can you think of a reason to visit the UK :)"

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ADCB reports profits for 2011 almost eight times higher than a year earlier as levels of bad debts decline.
Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank readies for a payout
Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank (ADCB) readied its first payout to shareholders in three years as its problems with bad debts eased last year.
The move came as signs emerge that the banking sector is starting to free itself from the debt crisis of the past few years.
The capital's second-biggest lender reported profits for the full year of Dh3 billion (US$816.7 million), up from Dh381m in 2010 and more than Dh1bn above analysts' estimates.
The bank's profits for the last quarter rose 39 per cent to Dh514m. ADCB's board approved a Dh816.7m cash dividend of 20 per cent, its first dividend payment since 2008.
The company's bottom line was helped by a decrease in writeoffs on investment properties and falling impairments on bad debts, which fell 27.1 per cent to Dh2.08bn.
Provisions for bad debts have hobbled many of the UAE's lenders since Dubai's debt crisis broke, constraining banks' ability to lend. However, there was a recovery taking root last year among some banks.
ADCB had shrunk its need for provisions during the year by more than expected, said Shabbir Mailk, a financial analyst at EFG-Hermes.
"I was a bit concerned about their potential exposure to Dubai Holding, but from the looks of this they don't have that," he said.
"I don't think there's anything major in terms of asset quality issues affecting them right now."
The bank's shares climbed 5.6 per cent after the release of earnings to Dh2.97, the highest level since October.
Non-performing loans fell to 4.6 per cent of the bank's total lending book, from 11.1 per cent last year, after a Dh6.7bn loan to an unnamed party was renegotiated.
Mr Malik said that loan was most likely to Dubai World, the conglomerate that was restructured in 2010.
Despite ADCB's decrease in bad loans, impairment charges for defaulting debts are expected to remain high in this year for UAE lenders, according to a report from Fitch Ratings released last month.
"The significant increase in renegotiated private sector loans may hide the true extent of the banks' asset quality problems, as some of these loans may re-emerge as non-performing loans," the ratings agency said.
Falling spreads on the money the bank earned from lending, alongside a fourfold increase in profits from its Islamic subsidiary, pushed operating income 21.3 per cent higher to Dh6.06bn.
During the year, the bank's earnings received a Dh1.3bn boost from the sale of a minority stake in RHB Capital Berhad, a Malaysian lender, to Abu Dhabi's Aabar Investments.
The stake, bought for 5.9 billion Malaysian ringgits (US$1.9 billion), was funded by an interest-free loan from Aabar's parent, International Petroleum Investment Company, according to a recent bond prospectus.
ADCB in turn financed that purchase through a Dh7.7bn loan to Ipic, it later emerged, initially swelling the size of the bank's loan book during the third quarter of last year.
However, its lending has barely budged since then, growing only 0.4 per cent to Dh124.7bn.

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President assures supporters that his legal team is still battling for integrity
President Donald Trump has told the Arizona State Legislature’s hearing that he and his legal team are “still fighting.”
The president called into the hearing on voting integrity on Monday evening, slamming the 2020 presidential election as “the greatest scam ever perpetrated on our country.”
Trump thanked the witnesses, representatives, and his attorneys at the hearing, accusing Democrats of playing “games like nobody has ever seen before.”
“This is the first time that Republicans or the first time anyone has fought back,” President Trump noted.
The hearing saw Trump’s lawyers, Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis, appear in front of members of the Arizona Legislature, alongside witnesses, alleging that considerable voter fraud occurred in the state.
Trump said he had won the battleground states of Arizona, Michigan, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, noting that he secured 11 million more votes than he did in his 2016 presidential election bid.
“The 2020 election was rigged,” the president said.
“It was a scam, and the whole world is watching and they are laughing at our country.”
When Trump called into the hearing, the audience applauded and cheered when they heard the president’s voice, as his attorney Jenna Ellis held the phone to a microphone.
The president praised all of the in-person witnesses who noted voting and counting anomalies in the state, where Biden finished with a lead over Trump of 10,457 votes.
“I’ve been watching the hearings and they’re fascinating, incredible,” he said.
“I know some get heat, but many more get praise from the American public,” Trump added.
Trump appeared furious that Arizona certified the election results on Monday as the Republican hearing about fraud was taking place, according to Breitbart.
He accused Republican Gov. Doug Ducey of rushing the certification process, despite questions about the election’s integrity.
“On top of it, you have a governor named Ducey,” he said as the crowd booed.
“He just rushed to sign certificates … what’s that all about?
“He didn’t have to sign it,” Trump continued.
“I say, why would he sign when you have these incredible hearings going on that’s showing such corruption and such horrible fraud?”
The audience applauded in agreement.
“You have to figure out what that’s all about with Ducey. He couldn’t go fast enough,” Trump said, He added, “We’re not going to forget what Ducey just did.”
The president repeated allegations of voters who arrived to cast their ballot to find out it was already filled out, people paid to vote, and mail-in ballots that were processed without Republican election observers.
“This shows how arrogant the Democrats and others were in taking away and stealing an election,” he said.
Trump noted that he also faced criticism for fighting for voter integrity, noting that people repeatedly urged him to choose the “easier route” and focus on 2024.
“I said, ‘No,’” he recalled.
“I have to focus on two weeks ago.
“This is the greatest scam ever perpetrated on our country.”
The president praised Arizona Republicans for holding the hearing, despite widespread criticism from corporate media.
“We admire all of the people, and that includes all of these representatives that are up there and doing a great job,” Trump said.
“What they don’t realize is that they might hear some things, but they’re becoming legend for taking this on.”
BREAKING: President Trump just called into the hearing on voting irregularities in Arizona. pic.twitter.com/YkuNqfrSGM
— Benny (@bennyjohnson) December 1, 2020
The president again praised Rudy Giuliani for having the courage to fight when other lawyers backed down.
“This is the most important thing that you’ve ever done,” he said.


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Ethnic diversity among teachers in the Bay Area appears to be higher in urban counties with San Francisco leading the way.
At 44.2 percent, the percentage of non-white teachers in San Francisco in the 2017-18 school year outranked Santa Clara County, with 35.4 percent. Alameda County was next, with 33 percent, according to the California Department of Education.
Here’s the ranking of numbers of teachers who are people of color for the nine counties of the Bay Area in the 2017-18 school year.
1. San Francisco
2. Santa Clara
5. San Mateo
6. Contra Costa
“We focus on recruiting and retaining teachers of color,” said Laura Dudnick, a spokeswoman for the San Francisco Unified School District. “One of our core values at SFUSD is to be diversity-driven. We value talented teachers from diverse backgrounds and experiences who are motivated to unleash our students’ potential.”


IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida, is reputed to be one of the best schools for developing prep athletes into collegiate and even professional-level talents. It should come as no surprise then that Billy Napier’s recruiting efforts have placed a strong emphasis on prying those prospects from the grasps of other suitors.
One of the student-athletes Florida football currently covets from the in-state institution is three-star defensive lineman Jayden Jackson, who announced via Twitter on Monday afternoon that he plans to stop in Gainesville for an official visit the first weekend of June.
The 6-foot-2-inch, 300-pound lineman made a spring visit back in March while also earning a scholarship offer in April. He released his list of top five schools at the beginning of May, which in addition to Florida also included the Miami Hurricanes, Ohio State Buckeyes, Oklahoma Sooners and Texas Longhorns.
“It’s just a feeling (Florida) gives me that lets me know I am (a priority),” Jackson told Swamp247 a few weeks ago. “It’s just the level of contact they have, from the coaches to the director of recruiting. It’s a daily thing, from Coach [Kali] James all the way up to Billy Napier hitting me up. Coach Napier and I have built a tight relationship and I definitely love how he coaches and leads his team. I could see myself playing for him one day.”
The rising high school senior also had some positive words about defensive line coach Sean Spencer, who has spearheaded the efforts to get him into the Swamp.
“Coach Chaos is one of the best coaches, especially for D-line,” Jackson added. “I love everything about Florida, the DC, their game plan, everything.”
Jackson is ranked No. 667 overall and No. 62 at his position nationally according to the 247Sports composite while the On3 industry ranking has him at Nos. 652 and 59, respectively. On3’s Recruiting Prediction Machine gives Ohio State an overwhelming lead for his signature with an 87.5% chance of landing him, followed by Florida (5.0%) and the Penn State Nittany Lions (2.2%).
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- (Dead) kids in the hall: A ghost haunts El Orfanato.
Director: Juan Antonio Bayona
Screenwriter: Juan Antonio Bayona
Cast: Belen Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Roger Princep, Montserrat Carulla, Geraildine Chaplin
Release Date: 2008-01-09
See, if people would just watch the classics, shit like this wouldn’t happen.
Ex-orphan Laura (Belén Rueda) and her pragmatic-doctor husband Carlos, having purchased the orphanage/cavernous-ass old house where she once lived, move in with their curly-headed, apple-cheeked, big-brown-eyed bug of a kiddo Simón, intent on reopening the place as a haven for disabled — you got it — orphans. Sounds do-gooderish enough, yeah? Yeah. And for a (short) time, everything seems to be going very well. I mean, sure, Carlos and Laura have a secret or two, but what well-adjusted family (in a horror flick) doesn’t have a couple of catastrophic, unconfronted truths seething just below its picture-perfect veneer? Pshaw. And sure, little Simón’s got a few imaginary friends, but what well-adjusted kid — oh. Oh, shit. Never mind. You guys are boned.
For the record: If, as a fictional character, you should ever find yourself in anything even approaching a supernatural thriller, and your kid starts talking about imaginary friends and scrawling weird shit in crayon, don’t even bother packing. Just haul ’im headlong out the front door and try to make friends with any priest not currently having a crisis of faith/dealing with a dead mother/into archaeology and try to stay breathing until that slow-zoom-out helicopter shot of the station wagon on the highway. Seriously, man. Before the house implodes.
Juan Antonio Bayona’s first feature — which, you’ll hear absolutely everywhere, was produced by Hellboy and Pan’s Labyrinth director Guillermo del Toro — is a surehanded, solid, visually arresting debut, recently announced as Spain’s official nominee for the Best Foreign-Language Oscar. Perhaps more important here: It’s freakin’ creepy. Creepy in that enduring, slow-burn way that jump-scare purveyors such as The Descent and empty stunt-horror like Saw just aren’t. The reason? Patience, writing, and depth of character. Screenwriter Sergio G. Sánchez has crafted a tight, clever, nearly devastating little puzzle, but we’re too invested in its characters to spend time trying to forcibly unravel it; we’re content to let the mystery unfold naturally. Rueda’s palpably desperate Laura is a character for whom we care deeply. She’s Rosemary. She’s Chris MacNeil. Nine-year-old Roger Príncep’s performance, meanwhile, is impressively natural; indeed, there’s not really a weak link in the cast (which, interestingly enough, includes Geraldine Chaplin as a frail, if vaguely-Ms.-Baylock-looking medium).
There’s a moment near the end where the Bayona and Co. very nearly leave us with what had the capacity to be one of the most merciless endings in horror history (I still haven’t decided if I’d’ve been imbued with respect or simply appalled), but then soften matters substantially — and manage, somehow, to turn immediatedly sweet, giving us instead what must be the most heartwarming tale ever about Peter Pan, suicide, and spectral special-needs orphans. The ending left me satisfied, certainly, but wondering a bit. This mild ambivalence, one sack-headed kid, and one or two telegraphed scares are my only iffy spots about what’s one of the the best straight horror flicks to come along in years. Not necessarily groundbreaking, but very, very good.
El Orfanato’s effectiveness as horror is linked closely to its strength as a film in general. Sounds uncomplicated, perhaps, but it’s truly a rare and welcome confluence. Instead of trying to make a Successful Scary Movie, the filmmakers seem to’ve decided to tell, simply and artfully, a compelling story that just happens to scare the pee out of you. •
El Orfanato (The Orphanage)
Dir. Juan Antonio Bayona; writ. Sergio G. Sánchez; feat. Belén Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Roger Príncep, Montserrat Carulla, Geraldine Chaplin (R)


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The girl, eight, was in Greggs on The Headrow, Leeds, when she was reportedly assaulted by a man.
West Yorkshire Police did release CCTV images of a man they wanted to trace and appealed for anyone who recognises him to get in touch.
The man was described as Asian, aged in his late 30s, tall, of a large build, with a shaved head and a beard.
A spokesman said the sexual assault happened shortly after 3.30pm on Friday February 12 when the girl was waiting with her younger brother in the seating area of Greggs.
Her mother was paying at the counter at the time.
Detective Inspector Steve Greenbank, of West Yorkshire Police, said: "This was clearly a distressing incident for the young girl involved and her mother and we urgently need to speak to the man shown in the CCTV images.
"We would ask that anyone who recognises him or who has any information that could assist the investigation contacts us immediately."
Chief Inspector Mark Griffin from the Leeds District Policing Team however has since said: "A 34-year-old man from the Bradford area has been arrested on suspicion of sexual assault and has been released on police bail pending further enquiries.
"I would like to take this opportunity to thank all those who shared our appeal for information, and for the public's support in this matter."


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Wild bread : flour + water + air : sourdough reinvented / MaryJane Butters.
Until now, sourdough was perceived as too much work. In Wild Bread, the author (owner of the 1890 historic Barron Flour Mill in Oakesdale, Washington) presents a quick and easy 1 minute 2x/day technique, and demonstrates the use of eight different types of flours for each bread featured--everything from gluten-free brown-rice flour to quinoa to common white to heirloom whole wheat--for a whopping 295 recipes and 475 photographs.
- ISBN: 9781423648185 (hc)
- ISBN: 1423648188 (hc)
- Physical Description: 224 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Layton, Utah : Gibbs Smith,
- Copyright: ℗♭2018.
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Taylor Swift knows how to start a trend.
Since her re-recorded album Red (Taylor's Version) dropped at midnight, the singer has been sending fans into a tizzy over red scarves inspired by "All Too Well," but another piece she rocked while promoting the album: A beautiful and—dare we say it—delicate gold necklace. You can spy it on her in this autumn-celebratory video when she's wearing a tan tunic sweater and sitting on a bench outside.
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Swift, 31, has been spotted wearing this stunning number from Awe Inspired, Le Duo.
The necklace, which features a pendant of two people, one with long hair worn down and the other in a top knot, sitting across from another touching hands and one another's midsections.
"Inspired by modernist French sculpture, these embracing figurative forms remind us that no matter a person’s gender, race, sexuality, or physicality, we are all worthy and in need of human connection and touch," Awe Inspired's description of the piece reads. "In a time of profound isolation, an embrace is all we desire to feel whole again."
The necklace comes in 14 karat gold vermeil and sterling silver varieties. Swift sported the gold.
The "Le Duo" necklace comes in a "Hello Goddess" mirror gift box, and the necklaces are on sale for a steep discount ahead of Black Friday: The gold Le Duo is $185, marked down from $240, while the sterling silver is $170, marked down from $235.
Other celebrities are fans of the jewelry line, which donates 20% of every purchase to a charity of your choosing, with organizations including the American Nurses Foundation, RAINN, The Trevor Project, Cancer Care, Emily's List, the Marsha P. Johnson Foundation, NAACP, NAMI, and the Environmental Defense Fund options.


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( Cincinnati ) - The man who called 911 about a person acting erratically in Bramble Park on Thursday was the man with a knife that responding police confronted.
Cincinnati Police Chief Eliot Isaac held a news conference on Friday to update the public on Thursday's officer-involved shooting. The chief says it was 23-year-old Devin Johnson who called 911 to report "a man with a knife acting wild right now." The chief says Officers Al and Kevin Brown were dispatched, and both officers gave multiple commands to drop the knife. Johnson allegedly refused and deliberately walked toward Officer Al Brown. It was Officer Al Brown who shot Johnson three times.
Johnson was taken to UC Medical Center, and Chief Isaac says he's now in critical but stable condition. The chief says he's seen the body cam footage, and he believes the officers followed proper procedure when it comes to use of force. Johnson has no criminal record, but Chief Isaac says he does have some mental health issues.
Body cam footage won't be released until the prosecutor's review is complete.
This is the first officer-involved shooting of 2019 in Cincinnati.
The case is eerily similar to the death of Officer Sonny Kim in 2015. Officer Kim was killed in the line of duty in Madisonville, and the suspect in that case, Trepierre Hummons, also called 911 to bring officers to the area.


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A couple weeks ago John Ziegler commissioned a poll conducted by Zogby that showed how ignorant Obama's voters were and he received a lot of blowback from it so he challenged pollsters to conduct a similar one of McCain voters. Wilson Research took up the challenge and the results are as I expected, McCain's voters were much better informed.
The 12 "Zogby" questions were duplicated, one on the Keating scandal was added for extra balance. The results from Obama voters were virtually IDENTICAL in both polls.
Here are the highlights:
35 % of McCain voters got 10 or more of 13 questions correct.
18% of Obama voters got 10 or more of 13 questions correct.
McCain voters knew which party controls congress by a 63-27 margin.
Obama voters got the “congressional control” question wrong by 43-41.
Those that got "congressional control" correct voted 56-43 for McCain.
Those that got "congressional control" wrong voted 65-35 for Obama.
The poll also asked voters to name all the media sources from which they got information.
Those “exposed” to Fox News got "congressional control" correct 64-25 (+39)
Those “exposed” to CNN got “congressional control” correct 48-38 (+10)
Those “exposed” to Network news got “congressional control” correct 48-39 (+9)
Those “exposed” to print media got “congressional control” correct 52-37 (+15)
Those “exposed” to MSNBC got “congressional control” correct 55-35 (+20)
Those “exposed” to talk radio got “congressional control” correct 61-29 (+32)
Voters in the "South" had the best response rate on “congressional control” (+22)
Voters in the "Northeast" had the worst response rate on “congressional control” (+9)
Those “exposed” to Fox News voted 70-29 for McCain.
Those “exposed” to CNN voted 63-37 for Obama.
Those “exposed” to MSNBC voted 73-26 for Obama.
Those “exposed” to network newscasts voted 62-37 for Obama.
Those “exposed” to national newspapers voted 64-36 for Obama.
Those “exposed” to talk radio voted 61-38 for McCain.
Those that could associate Bill Ayers' name/story with Obama voted 52-48 for McCain (We added Ayers name to the "Zogby" question and it significantly increased the rate of correct response, indicating a very superficial grasp of the overall story).
Those that knew Obama had made negative comments about “coal power plants" voted 76-24 for McCain.
Those that knew Obama had his opponents knocked off the ballot in his first campaign voted 66-34 for McCain.
McCain voters did poorly (only 42% correct) on the Keating question and,in general, the voters did universally worse on questions where the negative information was about their candidate
Women under 55 did worse than they might have by guessing on four of the thirteen questions, and yet 95% of them knew that Palin was the candidate with a pregnant teenage daughter. Even 95% of those in this demographic group who didn't know “congressional control” got this question correct.
Those “exposed” to MSNBC “scored” 90% correct on the three Palin questions (including an incredible 98% on the “pregnant teenage daughter” question), while those not “exposed” to MSNBC averaged 84% correct on those three questions.
Again this is more a reflection on media bias and where those voters get their information or misinformation as the case may be than on the "intelligence" of the voters. This is quite obvious if you spend anytime in the blogosphere and look at which side follows all the nutty conspiracy theories and engages in group think talking points, the left. The right or conservative side is far better informed and engages in a wide range of topics. The left seems to think calling the right names amounts to intellectual conversation, their answer to every policy challenge is to scream racist, bigot or mysogenist rather than make a logical defense of their position. I have been enough rounds with moonbats here and elsewhere to know that is a fact.
Here is my post on the first poll by Ziegler and Zogby and here is the tell all video he did.


I’m not sure I understand. Epub is just a file format. It’s not a program. Should work on nearly every device. If you’d like a pdf, just Google epub to pdf and you can use browser convertors. If I make future versions of this, I’ll add a PDF copy as well.


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This book is not good for first comers in the jQuery world. The reference is sometimes not really precise and too quick, but I really like one thing: a full analysis of the jQuery API performance.
So: read it if you already know jQuery and want to write better scripts.
- 出版社 : Packt Publishing (2007/7/30)
- 発売日 : 2007/7/30
- 言語 : 英語
- ペーパーバック : 268ページ
- ISBN-10 : 1847193811
- ISBN-13 : 978-1847193810
- 寸法 : 19.05 x 1.55 x 23.5 cm
- Amazon 売れ筋ランキング: - 2,922,573位洋書 (の売れ筋ランキングを見る洋書)
Not All I had hoped for2008年1月2日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済み
Learning JQuery is a good book that I can recommend, I hoped the same for this one. While it is not a bad book it is much easier to find the information I need from the internet - I didn't find the book either useful or insightful. This is a book that I most likely will never use again.

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Writer/director Jordan Peele has set out in his film career to truly elevate the genre of horror, make it more intelligent, and use it to comment on society’s ills. He did so successfully in both GET OUT and US, but in his latest, he tosses a lot of clever ideas into the mix, as well as some inexplicable ones, and the film loses focus. Ultimately, it fails to hold together properly and stalls being as frightening as it should be. A predatory UFO, a homicidal chimpanzee, the pitfalls of show biz, animal rights, Civil Rights, cultish followings – vivid topics all, but they never quite coalesce together. By the end of the film, I was left scratching my head when I should have been on the edge of my seat.
It’s a shame too because the first hour is incredibly compelling, and the first five minutes alone are as unsettling as any film in many a moon. Those first moments concern the aforementioned chimp who wanders around the set of a TV sitcom after a horrendous attack, his mouth and fists drenched in blood. A female body lies prone nearby and one of her discarded shoes stands on end. It’s horrifying. Then the monkey gazes at the camera, filled with contempt, and we wonder what will happen next. It’s weird, audacious, and positively chilling.
We’re then transported 30 years or so into the future to a horse ranch in the mountains outside of Hollywood where trainer OJ Haywood (Daniel Kaluuya) and his father Otis (Keith David) notice disturbances in the sky, followed by stray brick-a-brack raining down on them. A spare key stabs one of their horses and a nickel falls into Otis’ eye, lodging into his brain. A few minutes of screen time later, and Dad’s dead. It too is chilling. So far, so good.
For the next 45 minutes, Peele slowly starts to connect the dots. He introduces OJ’s ambitious and combative sister Emerald (Keke Palmer) who steps in to help the family business after dad’s passing. Peele also fleshes out the story about that 80s sitcom, catching up with surviving child actor Jupe (Steven Yuen). He’s now a cynical adult cashing in on his notoriety by running a cheesy western theme park not far from the Haywood ranch. Jupe also is using some Haywood horses in his Wild West show and seems to be aware of the UFO phenomenon in the nearby mountains as well. The strands of all Peele’s stories here start to come together for a moody mix of anxiety, anticipation, and character-driven comedy. (Palmer is a stitch with her blunt mouth and sassy sexuality.) It all plays.
The second-hour fritters away too much of all that set-up. The tension starts to drain away too as Peele spends oodles of time on broad comedy with Emerald and Angel (Brandon Perea), a nerdy big box store clerk (Angel Torres) clumsily helping them set up video equipment to tape the UFO occurrences. The flying saucer also becomes less and less spooky the more it’s shown. And Jupe’s secondary story gets wholly shortchanged, especially when we spy his sitcom sister in attendance at one of his Wild West shows. She appears to be horribly maimed from the monkey’s attack decades earlier, but she doesn’t get a line or a scene to fill in the blanks.
The production values are terrific throughout, and Kaluuya makes for a compelling and brooding lead, but the second half of the story feels more silly than anything. A legendary cinematographer (Michael Wincott) helps them film the UFO but his erratic behavior feels quirky for quirk’s sake and his inclusion in the narrative goes nowhere. Additionally, a TMZ reporter shows up on a motorcycle to cash in on the UFO sightings, but his introduction remains all the more silly as he’s hidden under his helmet the whole time. Such choices feel arbitrary and mar all the dread the first hour built up.
Peele is a major talent, but NOPE doesn’t feel disciplined. Some of it is fascinating and frightening, but too much of it is frustrating. And when a scary movie stops being so and drifts into incoherence and the nonsensical, it’s confounding. Peele’s squandering of such good material was the most disturbing part of his film.

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Josh Homme Selected as National Record Store Day Ambassador
Queens of the Stone Age and Them Crooked Vultures front man Josh Homme has been picked as the National Record Store Day Ambassador for this year’s event. To be held this year on April 17th, National Record Store Day was started in 2007 by Eric Levin, Michael Kurtz, Carrie Colliton, Amy Dorfman, Don Van Cleave and Brian Poehner as an idea to celebrate music by offering special one day buys and promotions on the day each year. Many stores have shows or other events, to find out what’s in your area visit http://www.recordstoreday.com. Josh takes on the challenge after his bandmate from Eagles Of Death Metal Jessie Hughes filled the role last year as ambassador. Josh explains the finer points of the even in the video below and mentions how some great musical finds can be found on April 17th. Plus it’s shot very classy, and features Josh tinkering on the toy piano. In his words, go out there and give yourself “the eargasm you deserve” this year at your local independent record store.


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Cinema Tropical Presents “The Absent Stone,” Thursday, May 3, at Anthology Film Archives
THE ABSENT STONE
A film by Sandra Rozental & Jesse Lerner
(La piedra ausente, Mexico/USA, 82 min.
In Spanish with English subtitles)
New York Premiere!
Q&A with co-director Sandra Rozental
In 1964, the largest carved stone of the Americas was moved from the town of San Miguel Coatlinchan in the municipality of Texcoco to the National Anthropology Museum in Mexico City in an impressive feat of engineering. The extraction of the monolith, which represents the pre-Hispanic water deity, set off a rebellion in the town and led to the intervention of the army. Today, the enormous stone, now upright, is an urban monument; it has been transformed into one of the principal icons of Mexican national identity.
The inhabitants of Coatlinchan insist that the removal of the stone has caused droughts. Representations and replicas of the absent stone appear everywhere in Coatlinchan, where it resonates in the memories of the inhabitants. Using animations, archival materials, and contemporary encounters with the protagonists of the transport of the stone, Sandra Rozental and Jesse Lerner’s playful documentary film explores the relevance of the ruins of the past in the present day.
Presented as part of If You Can Screen It There: Premiering Contemporary Latin American Cinema, co-presented by Anthology Film Archives and Cinema Tropical. Programmed by Matías Piñeiro and Carlos A. Gutiérrez.
Watch the trailer here.

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Authors: Garwood, Julie
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Synopsis: When a woman’s dream for the future turns into a nightmare, a handsome FBI agent makes her vulnerable to more than she ever imagined in this novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Julie Garwood.
Peyton Lockhart and her sisters have just inherited Bishop’s Cove, a charming oceanfront resort. But it comes with a condition: They must run the resort for one year and show a profit—only then will they own it.
Peyton welcomes the challenge, yet has no idea how many people want to sabotage her success—including her vindictive cousins and the powerful land developers who have an eye on the coveted beachfront property. But when the threats against Peyton escalate into dangerous territory, she enlists the help of her childhood friend, FBI agent Finn MacBain.
Finn saved her life once before. Peyton has no choice but to trust him to do it again.
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