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The company said the vulnerability is “minimal” and limited to Windows-based versions of its products. It added that as it does not license the vulnerable component to parties, most partner products that use Kaspersky code are not affected.
Kaspersky issued the statement in response to a report of a flaw in its antivirus library, through which an attacker could exploit the heap overflow vulnerability to commandeer systems that run its products.
The affected products are Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal 5.0; Anti-Virus Personal Pro 5.0; Anti-Virus 5.0 for Windows Workstations; Anti-Virus 5.0 for Windows File Servers and Personal Security Suite 1.1.


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Barcelona, 10 May 2017. The seminar ‘Bridging Youth Across the Mediterranean’ jointly hosted by the UfM Secretariat and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation came to a close today following one and a half days of open exchange, debate and sharing of ideas among each other and with experts of the region.
Throughout the seminar, 35 young women and men representing youth organisations from 24 countries of the northern and southern Mediterranean basin discussed issues such as youth participation, youth policies, the risks and opportunities of new forms of communication and potential for future cooperation.
The relevance of the youth in Mediterranean countries is undeniable: in the South, the under-30-years-old make-up approximately 60% of the total population and will therefore achieve prominence in their countries in the next decades. Young people must have a say in and be actors of the transformations and development of their countries.
Speaking at the opening of the seminar, the Secretary General of the UfM and the Director of the Regional Program Political Dialogue South Mediterranean from the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung underlined the vast and largely untapped potential of opportunities of youth.
They highlighted the commitment of their respective institutions to contribute to efforts aiming at bridging youth across the Mediterranean, providing them with adequate education and employability skills, and giving young representatives from the Euro-Mediterranean region incentives for a successful participation in the development of their communities, countries and of the whole region.
UfM Secretary General Sijilmassi stressed the priority given to youth by the UfM. The 2nd UfM Regional Forum, held in Barcelona last January under the EU and Jordan Co-presidency, focused on the theme of ‘Youth for Stability and Development’ and placed youth at the very heart of the Euro-Mediterranean regional cooperation agenda


We’re proud to announce the new InGaAs version of the highly successful OMA analyzer platform, adding hundreds of measurement applications to the OMA’s domain. The first product to use this technology is the OMA Wobbe Index Analyzer, the world’s only all-optical solution for measuring interchangeability of natural gas.
The infrared-range sensor inside the InGaAs OMA capitalizes on recent major advancements in InGaAs (indium gallium arsenide) semiconductor technology to provide accuracy equivalent to gas chromatography at far lower manufacturing costs and operational complexity. Joining the UV-Vis and the SW-NIR versions of the OMA, the InGaAs model monitors real-time sample absorbance from 1550 to 1850 nm, targeting alkane hydrocarbons and other molecules that were previously out of reach for the OMA platform.
One of the major verified applications for the new InGaAs-driven system is the online measurement of Wobbe Index in natural gas, which allows operators to quickly determine the interchangeability of gases. This measurement has historically been performed through residual oxygen analysis, a complex method involving burning precise amounts of the sample fluid and measuring the unused oxygen to indirectly derive the Wobbe number.
The OMA Wobbe Index Analyzer shifts the paradigm for this application as the first entirely optical solution: the system measures the concentrations of each Wobbe-contributing component in the natural gas (typically methane and ethane) and directly derive the gas density as well as the real-time Wobbe number.
Since most conventional Wobbe Index monitors on the market are designed and priced very similarly to Applied Analytics’ own legacy CVA-100 model (combustion-based), the OMA Wobbe Index Analyzer’s performance was benchmarked against this system during development. Under eligible stream conditions, the OMA provides superior accuracy and faster response time than the CVA-100, promising a more reliable measurement at a fraction of the end user price.


Two Republican senators suggested Sunday they would not support fellow party member and former Sen. Chuck Hagel should he get nominated for secretary of defense, while Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said he is reserving judgment.
Texas Sen. John Cornyn had the most strident remarks, saying President Obama nominating Hagel sends “the worst possible message” to Israel and other U.S. allies in the Middle East.
“I will not support Chuck Hagel’s nomination,” Cornyn said in a release, citing in part Hagel’s views on Israel and his opposition to Iranian sanctions.
However, he did not say whether he would try to block Hagel’s potential nomination during a Senate confirmation hearing.
A congressional aide said Senate Democrats have been given a heads-up from the White House that Hagel's selection is imminent. And an administration official told Fox News the announcement will be made Monday.
Hagel, a decorated Vietnam combat veteran, would replace Pentagon chief Leon Panetta in Obama's second-term Cabinet.
Newly-elected Texas Sen. Ted Cruz told “Fox News Sunday” that “it is very difficult to imagine the circumstance in which I could support his confirmation.”
Cruz also cited Hagel’s views and statements about Israel and Iran and questioned why Obama might pick Hagel in the face of tough opposition.
“The president seems bound and determined to proceed down this path despite the fact that Hagel's record is very, very troubling on the nation of Israel,” Cruz told Fox. “I do think it is interesting that the president seems hell-bent on nominating him despite the fact that a number of prominent Republicans have criticized him and the Democratic senators have been surprisingly silent on it.”
Hagel said in 2006 that "the Jewish lobby intimidates a lot of people" on Capitol Hill, then added, "I'm not an Israeli senator, I'm a United States senator."
McConnell, R-Ky., said any defense nominee must have "a full understanding of our close relationship with our Israeli allies, the Iranian threat and the importance of having a robust military."
McConnell told ABC's "This Week" that Hagel, a Nebraska Republican who left the Senate in 2009, has "certainly been outspoken in foreign policy and defense over the years. The question we will be answering, if he's the nominee, is do his views make sense for that particular job?"
McConnell said he would "wait and see how the hearings go and see whether Chuck's views square with the job he would be nominated to do."
He added: "I'm going to take a look at all the things that Chuck has said over the years and review that, and in terms of his qualifications to lead our nation's military."
Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, the second-ranking Senate Democrat, told CNN's "State of the Union" that Hagel "is a serious candidate if the president chooses to name him."
Hagel has criticized discussion of a military strike by either the U.S. or Israel against Iran. He also has backed efforts to bring Iran to the table for talks on future peace in Afghanistan.
"This is a controversial pick," Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., told CNN. "He is an antagonistic figure when it comes to the state of Israel. It's a signal you're sending to Iran at the worst possible time and to our allies."
Officials close to the White House have talked up Hagel as a patriot who served in the military with distinction during Vietnam and someone who shares the president's skepticism about potential conflict with Iran and a large U.S. footprint in Afghanistan.
Liberals have expressed anger over an anti-gay remark Hagel made in the Clinton administration for which he recently apologized.
Fox News' Ed Henry and the Associated Press contributed to this report.


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For the first time, a major Hollywood film will hit the $20 threshold at the box office, as movie-theater owners test the public's ability to absorb ever higher ticket prices.
Several theaters will charge $20 per adult ticket to IMAX showings of the animated 3-D family film "Shrek Forever After," the fourth "Shrek" installment from DreamWorks Animation. The theaters include the AMC theater in Manhattan's Kips Bay neighborhood, AMC Loews 34, AMC Loews Lincoln Square and AMC Empire 42nd Street.
"With the state of the economy remaining questionable, we worry pricing is simply moving up too quickly," cautioned Mr. Greenfield in a research blog post, adding that he was especially concerned about how quickly children's ticket prices are increasing. "The danger is scaring consumers away from the movie theaters."
This weekend's price increase come less than eight weeks after theater operators instituted some of the steepest hikes in a decade. Those increases in late March—in some cases of as much as 26%—varied theater to theater and focused on 3-D and IMAX showings of another DreamWorks Animation title, "How to Train Your Dragon." The same AMC theater in Manhattan charged $19.50 for an IMAX showing of "Dragon."
The $20 ticket may prove to be a psychological barrier too steep for some moviegoers to overcome, but the industry appears ready to take the risk, especially in the wake of a string of 3-D blockbusters, from "Avatar" to "Alice in Wonderland." 3-D movies accounted for the vast majority of last year's 10% jump in domestic box-office sales. That figure is likely to climb even higher for 2010.
While box-office revenues are up about 6% this year compared to the same period last year, attendance is slightly down—a reversal from several months of rapid expansion at the box office and a record-breaking year in 2009, when attendance was up more than 5% and revenues broke the $10 billion barrier.
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Keep one thing in mind that your body does not need to burn off anything for energy unless you are not exerting regularly for a long time. The more you take exercise, the more stubborn fat you can burn. Why are you worrying much to change the body shape and the way your body produces energy unless you are not going to give any effort to help your body burn that energy?
Mayroon akong 20 taong karanasang medikal kaya lubos na sigurado ako sa isang bagay. Ang mga sikat na paraan sa pagbaba ng timbang, mababang kalorya, mga diyeta, nag-iisang diyeta, nakakapagod na mga ehersisyo – lahat ng mga bagay na ito. NAGDUDULOT NG PINSALA SA IYONG KALUSUGAN! Sumasang-ayon ako, may ilang pansamantalang epekto ngunit sa katapusan ng araw magkakaroon ka ng mababang metabolismo sa yugto ng paghihingalo.
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Elite Kasein ay ginawa ng Dymatize Nutrisyon. at may 25g ng mataas na kalidad na casein protein sa bawat paghahatid, kasama ang idinagdag na enzyme blend, ang Elite Casein ay may lahat ng kailangan mo upang mapanatili ang iyong mga kalamnan na may fuel sa mga mahahalagang amino acids para sa mga oras sa pagtatapos. Ito ay napakahalaga ng presyo, at nagbibigay ng mahusay na halaga sa bawat scoop!
I’m new to Keto and still learning. This app is very user friendly & I instantly dropped 10 pounds. I really like all the features of this app & I look forward to calculating my macros before I eat something. I like that it tracks water & deducts a few carbs for exercise. I’d love to see exercise options include professions that are physically active like food service, retail work, nursing, construction, etc. It would be fun & encouraging to those of us who are on our feet literally all day at work.
The way that being on the keto diet makes you lose weight is by keeping insulin levels low. Insulin is a fat storage hormone that is released to help shuttle energy from the food you eat into your cells. This diet is known to be one of the best ways, besides fasting of course, to drop your insulin levels and low insulin is what is usually associated with fat loss. However, there is a misconception out there that your insulin will only go up with carbs. Protein can also spike your insulin levels and if you eat enough fats in one sitting, especially the wrong type of fats like trans fats, then that can spike your insulin levels as well.
Is everyone you know "on keto"? Yeah, we know the feeling. This trendy, fat-filled diet has exploded on social media—and for good reason: People who followed the keto diet for two years lost more than twice as much weight than people on a standard low-calorie diet, according to a study published in the journal Endocrine. What's more, those same dieters lost 4.5 more inches from their waistlines.
On the ketogenic diet, carbohydrates are restricted and so cannot provide for all the metabolic needs of the body. Instead, fatty acids are used as the major source of fuel. These are used through fatty-acid oxidation in the cell's mitochondria (the energy-producing parts of the cell). Humans can convert some amino acids into glucose by a process called gluconeogenesis, but cannot do this by using fatty acids. Since amino acids are needed to make proteins, which are essential for growth and repair of body tissues, these cannot be used only to produce glucose. This could pose a problem for the brain, since it is normally fuelled solely by glucose, and most fatty acids do not cross the blood–brain barrier. However, the liver can use long-chain fatty acids to synthesise the three ketone bodies β-hydroxybutyrate, acetoacetate and acetone. These ketone bodies enter the brain and partially substitute for blood glucose as a source of energy.
Early studies reported high success rates; in one study in 1925, 60% of patients became seizure-free, and another 35% of patients had a 50% reduction in seizure frequency. These studies generally examined a cohort of patients recently treated by the physician (a retrospective study) and selected patients who had successfully maintained the dietary restrictions. However, these studies are difficult to compare to modern trials. One reason is that these older trials suffered from selection bias, as they excluded patients who were unable to start or maintain the diet and thereby selected from patients who would generate better results. In an attempt to control for this bias, modern study design prefers a prospective cohort (the patients in the study are chosen before therapy begins) in which the results are presented for all patients regardless of whether they started or completed the treatment (known as intent-to-treat analysis).
The ketogenic diet is indicated as an adjunctive (additional) treatment in children and young people with drug-resistant epilepsy. It is approved by national clinical guidelines in Scotland, England, and Wales and reimbursed by nearly all US insurance companies. Children with a focal lesion (a single point of brain abnormality causing the epilepsy) who would make suitable candidates for surgery are more likely to become seizure-free with surgery than with the ketogenic diet. About a third of epilepsy centres that offer the ketogenic diet also offer a dietary therapy to adults. Some clinicians consider the two less restrictive dietary variants—the low glycaemic index treatment and the modified Atkins diet—to be more appropriate for adolescents and adults. A liquid form of the ketogenic diet is particularly easy to prepare for, and well tolerated by, infants on formula and children who are tube-fed.
Kung hindi ka sigurado kung ang isang diyeta ay angkop na angkop para sa iyo, maaari kang humingi ng tulong mula sa isang rehistradong dietitian. Ang mga diyeta ay espesyalista sa paghahanap ng pinakamahusay na mga diskarte para sa iyo na gawin upang sundin ang isang malusog na pamumuhay, habang isinasaalang-alang mga allergy sa Pagkain, hindi pagpaparaan, gamot, at iba pang mga variable.
And good news for coffee addicts: you can still have your morning cup of joe. You’ll just need to adjust what you stir into it. Switch out flavored creamer for the real deal—full-fat heavy whipping cream, which has only 1 gram of carbs per tablespoon. If you want to give your java a jolt of sweet, stir in a low-carb sweetener that uses sugar alcohols. But if you can skip the sweet, even better. In time, you’ll retrain your palate to not crave a sugary start to the day. This is what everyone gets wrong about the keto diet.
The ketogenic diet is usually initiated in combination with the patient's existing anticonvulsant regimen, though patients may be weaned off anticonvulsants if the diet is successful. Some evidence of synergistic benefits is seen when the diet is combined with the vagus nerve stimulator or with the drug zonisamide, and that the diet may be less successful in children receiving phenobarbital.
Benefits It packs lycopene, a powerful antioxidant that is associated with a reduced risk of some cancers, like prostate and breast. Other components in tomatoes may help reduce the risk of blood clots, thereby protecting against cardiovascular disease, according to a review published in December 2013 in the journal Annual Review of Food Science and Technology. (9,10)
Since your body naturally produces ketones that enables you to burn fat for energy, keto supplements are designed to boost those keto levels. With the proper diet, keto supplements can take your body to a level where it can burn of fat on its own. This is why keto diet pills usually contain Creatine, Vitamin D, Magnesium, Fish Oil and different salts.
Sigurado Slimfast taba bomb Keto friendly na
As to the other health claims, there's some early evidence that a diet low in acid-producing foods like animal protein (such as meat and cheese) and bread and high in fruits and veggies could help prevent kidney stones, keep bones and muscles strong, improve heart health and brain function, reduce low back pain, and lower risk for type 2 diabetes. But researchers aren't sure of some of these claims yet.
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If you’ve decided to move forward in trying the keto diet, you will want to stick to the parameters of the eating plan. Roughly 60 to 80 percent of your calories will come from fats. That means you’ll eat meats, fats, and oils, and a very limited amount of nonstarchy vegetables, she says. (This is different from a traditional low-carb diet, as even fewer carbs are allowed on the keto diet.)
Hindi mahalaga sa iyong katawan kung ang taba na ito ay nasusunog ay mula sa iyong umiiral na mga reserba o mula sa mataas na taba pagkain na iyong kinain. At ang produksyon ng ketones ay hindi nangangahulugan na ikaw ay nasusunog na taba ng katawan. Kaya kapag keto dieters magdagdag ng taba sa kanilang pagkain sa pamamagitan ng hindi dinaraan ng bala coffee o langis ng niyog, ito ay sinunog bilang gasolina sa halip na taba ng katawan - na nagtatalo sa bagay ng diyeta na nakamit ang pagbaba ng timbang.
You will need to cut out ALL sugar. Sugar substitutes are also a no-no. It will be a few tough days to adjust from all the sugar you have been consuming, you will not feel good at all! Look up keto flu, you will most likely suffer from this about a week into the diet. As for snacks, I have stuck to a few almonds, pepperoni sticks, cheese sticks ( cheese can kick you out of ketosis so be careful) pickles, and broth, cucumber slices. If you are in ketosis your appetite will diminish and your need for snacking will lessen. I also do intermittent fasting, no food after 8PM or before 12:00PM the next day, 16 hours without food, I will have bulletproof coffee in the morning, tea with milk and broth between these hours.
Ay keto mabuti para sa pagbaba ng triglycerides
hi I have been following this diet have not had any sugar and I just want to know how am I going over the carbs I’m eating vegetables which I know are carbs but I’m not overdoing it. What is the best way to keep up with your carbs fats and proteins also do I need a scale? I feel like I lost weight this week but most of it was probably water weight I was in ketosis on Thursday and today it shows I’m not. Any help would be greatly appreciated
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When you’re eating the foods that get you there (more on that in a minute), your body can enter a state of ketosis in one to three days, she adds. During the diet, the majority of calories you consume come from fat, with a little protein and very little carbohydrates. Ketosis also happens if you eat a very low-calorie diet — think doctor-supervised, only when medically recommended diets of 600 to 800 total calories.
Ay gluten libreng harina Keto friendly na
Advocates for the diet recommend that it be seriously considered after two medications have failed, as the chance of other drugs succeeding is only 10%. The diet can be considered earlier for some epilepsy and genetic syndromes where it has shown particular usefulness. These include Dravet syndrome, infantile spasms, myoclonic-astatic epilepsy, and tuberous sclerosis complex.
Ketogenic diets usually do cause weight loss and may improve insulin sensitivity in patients with diabetes. In fact when compared to a low-fat diet a ketogenic diet appears to achieve greater long term reductions in body weight. However, the success long term is dependent on your ability to adapt your dietary habits once you start to introduce a more balanced and healthy approach to eating.
Although many hypotheses have been put forward to explain how the ketogenic diet works, it remains a mystery. Disproven hypotheses include systemic acidosis (high levels of acid in the blood), electrolyte changes and hypoglycaemia (low blood glucose). Although many biochemical changes are known to occur in the brain of a patient on the ketogenic diet, it is not known which of these has an anticonvulsant effect. The lack of understanding in this area is similar to the situation with many anticonvulsant drugs.
You can eat what you love. It’s evident that with such a variety of whole, fresh foods available to you as options, it’s easy to build meals based on the diet. And, you don’t have to eliminate your favorites, either. They may just require some tweaks. For instance, rather than a sausage and pepperoni pizza, you’d choose one piled high with veggies and topped with some cheese. You can also fit in a lot of food into one meal. Filling up on fresh foods like fruits and vegetables will allow you to build volume into meals for fewer calories.
Ano ang mangyayari kung hindi mo kumain ng sapat na hibla
Mainly for health reasons, avoid soy products apart from a few non-GMO fermented products which are known for their health benefits. Also avoid wheat gluten which may be used in low-carb foods. When you give up bread, you shouldn't eat any part of it. Beware of BPA-lined cans. If possible, use naturally BPA-free packaging like glass jars or make your own ingredients such as ghee, ketchup, coconut milk or mayonnaise. BPA has been linked to many negative health effects such as impaired thyroid function and cancer. Other additives to avoid: carrageenan (e.g. almond milk products), MSG (e.g. in some whey protein products) and sulfites (e.g. in dried fruits, gelatin).
Children who discontinue the diet after achieving seizure freedom have about a 20% risk of seizures returning. The length of time until recurrence is highly variable, but averages two years. This risk of recurrence compares with 10% for resective surgery (where part of the brain is removed) and 30–50% for anticonvulsant therapy. Of those who have a recurrence, just over half can regain freedom from seizures either with anticonvulsants or by returning to the ketogenic diet. Recurrence is more likely if, despite seizure freedom, an electroencephalogram shows epileptiform spikes, which indicate epileptic activity in the brain but are below the level that will cause a seizure. Recurrence is also likely if an MRI scan shows focal abnormalities (for example, as in children with tuberous sclerosis). Such children may remain on the diet longer than average, and children with tuberous sclerosis who achieve seizure freedom could remain on the ketogenic diet indefinitely.
Ay xanthan gum OK upang kumain
Maaari ba akong kumain ng frozen yogurt sa keto
Si Nicolette ay isang Rehistradong Dietitian na nag-specialize sa nutrisyon at fitness. Pagkatapos, natanggap niya ang kanyang Bachelor of Science sa Dietetics, natapos niya ang kanyang Master of Science sa Nutrisyon mula sa Stony Brook University kung saan siya ay nakatuon sa clinical nutrition at nutrisyon sa pamamagitan ng cycle ng buhay. Sa kasalukuyan, nagtatrabaho si Nicolette bilang isang dietitian ng pribadong kasanayan at isang manunulat ng kalusugan at wellness na malayang trabahador. Email Nicolette.
Maaari ba akong kumain ng gluten libreng tinapay on keto
Week 5 ay makakatulong sa iyong katawan na dumating sa labas ng pasulput-sulpot na pag-aayuno phase. Ang isang mahusay na mabigat na almusal na sinusundan ng isang light tanghalian ay ang paraan upang pumunta kapag ikaw ay sa huling linggo ng ketogenic diyeta. Kumain ng isang balanseng halaga ng mga protina at taba para sa hapunan sa pakiramdam energized at bumuo ng kalamnan mass.
Martina’s newest cookbook is not just a comprehensive guide to eating for the ketogenic diet, it is also gorgeous eye candy! It is sheer pleasure just to browse through her gorgeous photographs, wile you drool over the delicious recipes. I love Martina’s recipes especially because they are made with wholesome, real food ingredients, and she is very knowledgeable on how to best source ingredients so they are both tasty and health building. Every recipe is explained clearly and well organized, so you can always get great results when making them at home. If you are following a keto or low-carb lifestyle this book is a must have!
Ano ang pinakamahusay na keto pagkain cookbook
This ingredient produces more energy. It can increase your body’s ability to generate more power and electricity that keeps you more active. Freeing up the fatty acids of your body, it prevents fat depositing in different parts of your body. Almost all natural weight loss supplements use this element for producing energy. As a consequence of using this element, your brain functions actively(4). Moreover, it helps in better heart and muscle movement.
Anong alak ang maaari kong uminom sa keto
There are many keto diet pills available in the market. As mentioned above all are not equally prepared in the same method and as a result, all are not equally effective. This is why buying best keto supplements are always advisable. Best keto supplements use the best and proven safe supplement formulas. Users can find that these pills are good to help them achieve their Keto diet goals.
Ketogenic diets have shown great potential in weight loss, overall health and cancer treatment. Martina's valuable contributions to the low-carb community and her involvement in the cancer research project run by our team extend beyond simply helping people follow a healthy low-carb diet. Just like Martina's blog and app, her new cookbook is an amazing resource for anyone interested in healthy living with easy to follow recipes and beautiful photography.
Sleep enough – for most people at least seven hours per night on average – and keep stress under control. Sleep deprivation and stress hormones raise blood sugar levels, slowing ketosis and weight loss a bit. Plus they might make it harder to stick to a keto diet, and resist temptations. So while handling sleep and stress will not get you into ketosis on it’s own, it’s still worth thinking about.
I’m new to all Keto…trying desperately to loose weight…besides giving up sweets (which completely understand) need to know if hummus is okay…and what I gather from the extensive info I’m guessing like everything in life, the key is balance… too much fat? Hi calories? Do we have to worry about cholesterol in nutritional labels? Again thanks for the great information
Ano ang dapat kong kumain sa keto araw
A survey in 2005 of 88 paediatric neurologists in the US found that 36% regularly prescribed the diet after three or more drugs had failed, 24% occasionally prescribed the diet as a last resort, 24% had only prescribed the diet in a few rare cases, and 16% had never prescribed the diet. Several possible explanations exist for this gap between evidence and clinical practice. One major factor may be the lack of adequately trained dietitians who are needed to administer a ketogenic diet programme.
From the above discussion, we can simply say that ketosis helps our body to burn stubborn fat first. And the keto pills help our body to reach the state of ketosis. As your body reaches a different state of ketosis, it needs to struggle hard to cope with the changes and get set well with something different which your body is not used to. This is why sometimes you might receive some side effects as the consequences of sudden changes. However, it lasts for a very short time and everything becomes alright after that.

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Even though they were seriously considering using a reality show to recruit a new lead singer, Velvet Revolver are foregoing a series and instead preparing to announce a development that will "surprise everybody" in a few weeks. "We're coming out with something in a couple of weeks and I think it's going to surprise everybody," VR drummer Matt Sorum said. Several TV producers pitched the band, including Survivor architect Mark Burnett, who also produced Rock Star: Supernova. "We felt that wasn't the right forum for us to do it, so we got some ideas and we should have that news in a couple weeks," Sorum said. Sorum added that the band still plans on "doing something online" to recruit a new vocalist to fill in for the exiled Scott Weiland, if a new frontman hasn't already been selected.

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Nvidia Broadcast is one of the most useful pieces of software to own, especially if you have a capable Nvidia GPU. We’ll walk you through the entire setup process to get a professional-looking output from budget hardware.
Nvidia Broadcast launched alongside the highly popular Ampere line of graphics cards. The software is able to transform normal microphones, webcams, and more, to approximate a more professional setup, without the expensive hardware.
Nvidia Broadcast requirements
|GPU||RTX 2060 or newer|
|CPU||Intel Core i5 8500 / AMD Ryzen 5 2600 or newer|
|Operating System||Windows 10 / Windows 11|
If you have an Nvidia graphics card and a PC built a few years ago, you should be absolutely fine to run Broadcast on most systems. After all, it’s intended to be accessible to anyone with a modern gaming PC. However, those without an RTX GPU, or who have an AMD graphics card will not be able to use Nvidia Broadcast in any capacity.
How to set up Nvidia Broadcast
First, you will need to install Nvidia Broadcast, which is available here. Once installed, you will need to configure your sources.
Set your sources to your input device, so under camera source, select your webcam, and once applied, you should be able to apply effects underneath the source selection. Right now, the following effects are available.
Nvidia Broadcast webcam effects
- Auto frame
- Background replacement
- Background blur
- Video noise removal (beta)
- Eye-tracking (beta)
You can also combine more than one effect together if they do not conflict with each other. For example, you won’t be able to blur your background, and replace it at the same time. To the right of the effect will be a slider, where you can enable them either on or off.
Nvidia Broadcast speaker & microphone effects
- Noise removal
- Room echo removal
The speaker effects of Nvidia Broadcast are pretty lacking, but they are also a fairly niche use case. You can eliminate sounds, and even the echo coming from your speakers on a conference call.
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For example, if you are in a loud room, Broadcast will be able to isolate your voice, so there is no further interruption. You do take a hit to audio quality, but it can be useful in a pinch, or if you are working from a cafe.
Nvidia will continue to improve Broadcast in the future
Nvidia appears to be committed to improving its Broadcast software over time. The most recent feature added was the eye-tracking beta, which gives you AI-generated pupils to make it appear as though you are looking directly at the camera. This can have an uncanny effect, but it can also be useful for those looking into a camera or reading from a screen while making content.
It’s likely that as GPUs get more advanced, we’ll see companies leverage their AI and computational prowess even more, and Broadcast is just the start.
For more on the impending AI revolution, be sure to check out tools like ChatGPT.


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AMISH FRIENDSHIP BREAD (STARTER)
1 pkg. active dry yeast
1/4 c. warm water
1 c. flour
1 c. sugar
1 c. warm milk (110 degrees)
Making the starter:
Soften active dry yeast with 1/4 cup warm water for 10 minutes.
Stir with a wooden spoon. In a non-metal bowl, combine 1 cup flour and 1 cup sugar. Mix, slowly adding 1 cup warm milk and the softened yeast. Cover loosely with clean cloth and leave at room temperature until bubbly. When mixture has lots of bubbles, cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate.
Days 2, 3, and 4:
Stir with a wooden or plastic spoon (don't use a metal spoon) until mixture is smooth. Do this once each day.
At this time, 2 cups of starter can be removed from the batch to bake Amish Friendship Bread or use in your own recipe which calls for starter.
Replenish starter by stirring in 1 cup flour, 1 cup sugar, and 1 cup milk; stir; allow to sit at room temperature for 1 hour, then refrigerate.
Days 6, 7, 8, 9:
Stir with wooden or plastic spoon until smooth. Do this once each day.

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Education ministers met in London to review progress and challenges in realising the Nadi Declaration, an agreement made in Fiji to ensure quality education for all.
Meeting ahead of International Education Day, education ministers representing all Commonwealth regions presented reforms and initiatives designed to inspire action in other countries.
These ranged from Malta’s reform to give equal value to academic, applied and vocational learning to Fiji’s initiative to integrate climate change in the curriculum. Sri Lanka also unveiled a plan to deliver fee-free education from grade one to first-level university degree.
Ministers discussed challenges hindering progress in this area following research showing little progress has been made over the last decade. Around 250 million children – equivalent to the population of Pakistan – were out of school, representing one in every five children across the world.
Research shows the rate of out-of-school children, aged six to 11, fell from 15 per cent to nine per cent between 2000 and 2008 but that little progress has been made since.
Meeting of the Education Ministers Action Group (EMAG)
Ministers gathered for the fifth meeting of the education ministers’ action group, which convenes annually to review progress against agreed priorities for the education sector.
Deputy Secretary-General Arjoon Suddhoo informed ministers that supporting the right to education for every child is an “urgent priority” for the Commonwealth.
He said: “Despite considerable efforts taken across the world, with the current rate of progress, we will not be able to meet the ambitious commitment to provide quality education for every child by 2030.
“We must take special measures and invest at all levels to ensure we can deliver on our promise of quality education for all.
“The Commonwealth is developing toolkits and guidelines which will help member countries effectively deliver 12 years of free and quality education to every child but there is space to do so much more.”
Research also reveals more than half of children in school are not learning, particularly lacking basic literacy and numeracy skills. For instance, incapable of solving a calculation and unable to understand a city map.
Ministers committed to working together to achieve the priorities agreed in the Nadi Declaration, which includes improving access to and quality of education, removing barriers to girls attending schools and building resilience through a climate-sensitive curriculum.
During the meeting, the Commonwealth Secretariat, the Commonwealth of Learning and the Association of Commonwealth Universities gave an overview of the technical assistance provided to member countries to accelerate progress.
Fiji’s Minister of Education, Heritage and Arts Rosy Akbar, who chaired the meeting, said she was passionately committed to ensuring everyone, particularly girls, receive 12 years of quality education.
She continued: “Over half of the world’s out of school children are in the Commonwealth. Political leadership across the Commonwealth is essential if we are to achieve the sustainable development goals and secure long-term gains for girls' education.”
The outcomes of the meeting will be discussed at the next Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Rwanda this year to boost progress on inclusive education and to create more jobs for young people.
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On Immunity: An Inoculation
By Eula Biss
Graywolf Press, 2014, 205 pp.
The End of Normal: Identity in a Biocultural Era
By Lennard J. Davis
University of Michigan Press, 2013, 155 pp.
Autism and Gender: From Refrigerator Mothers to Computer Geeks
By Jordynn Jack
University of Illinois Press, 2014, 306 pp.
Disability themes have become an increasingly central figure in the media, popular culture, and everyday life. Rates of disability diagnosis have risen sharply among children in the U.S. in the past decade. Disability has exploded in the popular press in such acclaimed recent books as Steve Silberman’s Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity, Andrew Solomon’s Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, Akhil Sharma’s Family Life, and Lisa Genova’s Still Alice. Similarly, scholarship on disability has gained new momentum. Somatosphere’s Inhabitable Worlds series, edited by Michele Friedner and Emily Cohen, featured cutting-edge writings on the study of disability within the social sciences, and the program for the 2015 American Anthropological Association’s annual meeting included over 50 papers, panels, and posters on disability themes. Without question, disability has emerged from the margins of scholarship and public interest.
Three recent books – Eula Biss’ On Immunity: An Inoculation, Lennard Davis’ The End of Normal: Identity in a Biocultural Era, and Jordynn Jack’s Autism and Gender: From Refrigerator Mothers to Computer Geeks – make important insights regarding the contours and textures of disability in the contemporary U.S. Biss, an essayist and social critic, offers a fascinating analysis of the persistent anxiety surrounding childhood vaccinations, particularly among a vocal minority of parents who oppose vaccines entirely. Davis, a scholar of Disability Studies, makes a compelling and provocative argument that the concept of normal has given way to a seemingly more inclusive umbrella of diversity, yet disability remains excluded. Jack, a rhetorician, has written the first book-length examination of the role of gender in autism. Together, these writers make important contributions that are long overdue and will prove useful to both academic and applied audiences. Themes of race, class, and gender are addressed to varying degrees, a critical shift from the tendency to flatten disability intersectionality. Ultimately, all three authors speak to questions of authority, risk, intimacy, and fear, enriching contemporary understandings of disability in different, yet overlapping, ways.
In On Immunity: An Inoculation, selected as a New York Times Book Review top 10 books of 2014, Biss uses the controversy surrounding childhood vaccinations as a jumping off point to explore broader notions of risk and the deeply social nature of individual health. Her writings contain a sweeping collection of musings on the embodied, historical, political, and social dimensions of vaccination in the U.S. Why, she asks, do deeply rooted and contentious fears about vaccine safety persist despite an overwhelming lack of scientific evidence to support such claims? (This piece by Sharon Kaufman offers an anthropological perspective on similar questions.) To answer this, she turns to history, philosophy, medicine, ethics, mythology, anthropology, popular media, and her own experiences as a mother.
Biss frames inoculation as a gamble. We know that vaccines can provoke serious reactions in a tiny portion of the population; we know, too, that the introduction of standard vaccines dramatically improved child mortality rates over the course of the last century. The question, of course, is whether this gamble is worth it. Despite the successes of modern public health, the fact remains that we cannot inoculate ourselves from doubt, particularly in a climate of widespread and persistent medical folklore of the dangers of vaccines. The vaccine is not simply an event – an isolated shot or jab – but rather a continuous process protecting the health of the patient and also the social body. In Biss’ framing, vaccinations become an ethnographic object, around which multiple fears, associations, anxieties, and beliefs converge.
“Immunity,” she writes, “is a shared space – a garden we tend together” (163). Vaccines are intrinsically social. By maintaining herd immunity levels, we protect the broader public good – including people who cannot be vaccinated for one reason or another. Per this logic, vaccinations are an embodied social contract that both emerges from and obscures the permeability of our own bodies. As she explains: “we are protected not so much by our own skin, but what is beyond it. The boundaries between our bodies begin to dissolve here” (20).
Biss deftly navigates the role of socioeconomic class in terms of the vaccine debate. Indeed, as she points out, unvaccinated children tend to have mothers who are white and have higher levels of education, and the families have higher incomes and tend to be geographically clustered (see, too, this piece by anthropologist Emily Brunson). In contrast, Biss cites CDC data showing that undervaccinated children are more like to have mothers who are younger, single, Black, and lower income. These demographic trends illustrate a critical distinction between vaccination trends as a product of choice versus access. This raises critical questions regarding who can claim the privilege of rejecting vaccines. Who is able to opt out of standard public health measures, by what means, and under what authority? (For a case study of vaccine refusal in a particular school population, refer to Elisa Sobo’s recent article in Medical Anthropology Quarterly.)
While Biss states clearly that she supports vaccination, she is less interested in the moral or ethical implications of vaccine fears than in how to make sense of their persistence. As she asks, is risk perception about actual quantifiable risk or is it really about immeasurable fear (37)? Our deepest fears are, for Biss, informed by complex webs of history, power, stigma, economics, myths, and shared nightmares (37). They are fundamentally intimate and unavoidable, yet they shift according to the particularities of the moment. And, for Biss, they include disability.
Biss gives readers an overview of the history of the current vaccine fears (discussed also by Jack, below, and examined at length in Seth Mnookin’s The Panic Virus). Her analysis of purity and goodness (or healthfulness) is particularly compelling. Biss is interested in our “profound alienation from the natural world” and how it shapes risk perception (40). Anything considered unnatural is now coded as bad, whereas the natural is benign. For Biss, this indicates a broader social anxiety that we are polluted by modernity; the products of our own creations – vaccines, medication, food, technology – are poisoning us from the inside out. But purity is a myth and, as she reminds readers, it has been used historically to justify everything from eugenics and sodomy laws to genocide. The purity/pollution binary is a fallacy. “We are all already polluted,” she writes starkly (76).
Biss argues that social anxieties have shifted from fears of bodily pollution by filth to pollution by toxins, the nebulous dangers that animate opposition to vaccines. For a vocal minority, vaccines embody the proliferation of modern toxins and are a metaphor for the excesses of contemporary life (110). They are also fundamentally inseparable from the forces of capitalism through big pharma. Such arguments garner appeal because of what Biss calls “preindustrial nostalgia,” a concept that warrants further unpacking (115). Practices and products seen as traditional, natural, and seemingly untainted by big industry are, it follows, deemed good. They are safe and authentic – reflecting the way things should be – triggering nostalgia for an imagined past untainted by vaccines and their toxic needles, yet curiously unmarked by outbreaks of preventable disease.
On Immunity’s essays are united by the recurring theme of intimacy. The intimacy of parenthood, risk, and biomedical encounters; of kinship, care, and opting in (or out) of vaccinations; of fears and nightmares, however “irrational” or scientifically unsound; and of the ‘I’ versus the ‘we’ of public health. What emerges in the spaces in between knowledge and action, history and hope? For Biss, the answer is a gamble.
Similarly, Jordynn Jack’s Autism and Gender: From Refrigerator Mothers to Computer Geeks uses gaps in current knowledge about autism as a starting point to examine how gendered characters are and have been used historically to shape understandings of and experiences with autism. Here, autism becomes the ethnographic object to which persistent tropes and archetypes stick and gain meaning. The metaphors of autism are well known: breaking down the walls, penetrating the fortress, rescuing the child trapped inside. Jack is particularly interested in analyzing the role of stock characters that, as she explains, make autism narratives translatable, packaged, and socially resonant. She gives a targeted and historically rich analysis of how different characters inform and shape autism discourse, offering a fruitful and contribution to understandings of gender and autism spectrum disorders.
Jack devotes a separate chapter to each primary character: the refrigerator mothers of mid-twentieth century maternal deprivation narratives; anti-vaccination Mother Warriors of the 2000s, popularized by Jenny McCarthy; the computer geeks of today’s Silicon Valley and big tech; distant and supposedly divorce-prone autism dads; and neurodiverse self-advocates. She traces these characters’ roots from the 1940s until the present, arguing that they help shape understandings of autism itself, as well as possibilities for intervention, care work, success stories, and authority claims. One of her central arguments is that efforts to understand autism often – if unwittingly – draw conclusions based on an uncritical acceptance of these characters. As she writes, “…where knowledge or authority is lacking, gendered characters often fill in” (6).
Jack’s examination of the legacy of Bruno Bettelheim and the so-called refrigerator mothers of the post-World War II area is a fascinating addition to other works on the history of autism (see Silberman’s Neurotribes). Bettelheim’s theory was closely informed by psychoanalysis and centered on mothers’ roles in child development. He argued that the mothers of children with autism shared certain basic characteristics: they were anxious and unstable, had a history of emotional problems predating their children, and were unhappy in their marriages (36). These misleading claims supported existing views in psychiatry that parents of children with autism were cold and distant.
In the post-War climate marked by psychoanalysis plus general anxieties about women’s roles in the home, the theory of maternal deprivation caught on. As Jack explains: “Once mother blaming is imposed as a framework, it can recolor all sorts of perceptions and events as potential causes of autism” (47). Jack cites the twentieth century shift from conceptualizing motherhood as the product of innate knowledge to a formal, scientific approach governed by experts. Paradoxically, the increasing public attention to motherhood diminished maternal authority itself, which shifted from the domain of women to the world of research and, in the case of autism, psychiatry.
Bettelheim was later found to have fabricated his credentials and the research findings, and thus a generation of people with autism and their families suffered irreparable harm with no justification. However, Jack cautions readers not to use him as a scapegoat. His ideas only caught on at all because the archetype of the bad, unloving, distant, emotionally fragile mother loomed large at that cultural moment. They resonated, and thus it became codified in the history of autism.
Jack contrasts the refrigerator mother character with twenty-first century “Mother Warriors,” using Jenny McCarthy’s anti-vaccination campaigns as her primary illustration. Emboldened by moving stories, unprecedented access to digital information, and social networking platforms, these mothers believe that autism is a product largely of environmental triggers and toxins, which might include vaccines, gluten, mercury, and processed foods. The women are united by a shared politics of suspicion, coupled with the insistence that they have the authority as mothers to interpret scientific evidence. These are the relatively privileged populations discussed by Biss – the anti-vaccination pockets that tend to appear on the nightly news with each measles outbreak or whooping cough scare. Within this group, surveillance of one’s child combines moral and medical judgments with a distinctly libertarian ethos, and is a uniquely maternal responsibility. The emotionally charged Warrior Mother performs motherhood through her vigilance. As we have seen through the persistence of the anti-vaccine movement, this character has proven perhaps surprisingly resilient.
Jack contrasts these maternal figures with what she argues are the dominant stock characters for men in the autism world: the computer geek; paternalistic physician; and emotionally distant father who wants to “fix” his child. As a whole, these portraits suggest a persistent separation between affect and reason, or care and science, in our understandings of gender and autism. This impacts not only the parents and professionals working within the autism field, but undoubtedly the increasing numbers of people with autism diagnoses. While autism is closely associated with young white males, CDC figures show that both gender and race are key aspects of who receives a diagnosis and of what type. While this topic is outside of the scope of Jack’s book, she leaves it open as a promising area for future scholars.
While Jack and Biss’ writings hinge on textual analyses and the social and historical shaping of disability, Lennard Davis’ The End of Normal: Identity in a Biocultural Era seeks explicitly to bring bodies to the center to the center of the conversation. As he writes: “Bodies can be the sum of their biology; the signifying systems in the culture; the historical, social, and political surround; the scientific defining points; the symptom pool; the technological add-ons all combined and yet differentiated” (7). That is, bodies are fundamentally bicultural. From this starting point, he examines how historical notions of the “normal” bodies have given way to a broader umbrella of diversity frameworks. While largely positive about this shift, Davis is concerned that disability continues to fall outside of the scope of diverse bodies. What if diversity’s appeal and universalism depend in part on the exclusion of the truly abject and marginalized? As he argues, we are all the diverse and equal because we are “not that kind of different” (14).
The crux of the matter, for Davis, is that disability is still perceived as a medical designation and diversity omits medicalized bodies. Diversity, he argues, does not apply to the disabled, ill, or dying. Those are of a different conceptual ilk, namely the pathological. As he writes: “Disabled bodies are, in the current imaginary, constructed as fixed identities. Outside of the hothouse of disability studies and science studies, impairments are commonly seen as abnormal, medically determined, and certainly not socially constructed” (7). Here, the old distinctions of normal versus pathological continue to reign. As a de-historicized bodily condition perceived of as needing a cure, disability cannot be welcomed by a diversity paradigm.
Davis also offers useful a critique of diagnostic certainty, add a more nuanced disability studies perspective to the texts by Biss and Jack. He has long been interested in the dynamic, shifting manifestations of disability identity, and in The End of Normal he turns this lens toward the ontological status of diagnosis and diagnostic certainty. As he writes: “What I am wondering about is the aura of faith that accompanies the process of diagnosis” (82). Tellingly, both Davis and Jack include lengthy discussions of the role of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) in shaping contemporary understandings of disability categories.
Instead of autism spectrum disorder, Davis uses obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) as his case study. He argues that diagnosis constitutes a particular form of difference as a thing – an object – and is also loaded with symbolic value. As he writes: “Having created this category that makes ‘sense’ of random or seemingly linked behaviors, we can then assign people and their behaviors to those categories” (83-4). The DSM provides the authority to categorize diagnostically, grouping people with seemingly aberrant behaviors or symptoms under particular – and changing – umbrellas. For Davis, the contingency of diagnosis is illustrated by the fact that the DSM is revised with each new edition. One cannot help but wonder what he would have to say about the recent removal of Asperger’s Syndrome from the DSM.
Davis concludes The End of Normal with a Biocultures Manifesto, co-written with David Morris, followed by asserting that biocultural knowledge is necessary for theorizing and truly making sense of contemporary experiences of race, gender, disability, bodies, and identity (134). He calls on scholars to reframe culture and history in terms of their relationship to biology, and vice versa. We are to probe the boundaries of humanism and science, forming a robust and multi-faceted intellectual movement that spans medical anthropology, public health, science and technology studies, bioethics, disability studies, the medical humanities, and beyond. The language of disability today includes a more diverse and diagnostically delineated population than ever before. We need robust theories and methods to approach these questions of bodies, minds, and moments, following Rapp and Ginsburg’s call to acknowledge disability as a universal facet of the human experience. While such goals might sound lofty, one cannot help but wonder whether emerging works on disability themes, including the three texts featured here, are beginning to do just that.
Elizabeth Lewis is a doctoral candidate in anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. Her current work examines undiagnosed disabilities in the contemporary U.S., with a focus on family experiences with undiagnosed children. She is engaged in multiple applied and scholarly projects on a variety of disability themes. More information about Elizabeth’s work, writings, and background is available on her blog, Disability Fieldnotes. Find her on Twitter athttps://twitter.com/lizlewisanthro.
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- Feeling Autism Neuroscience

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Pakistan is now the fifth-most populous country in the world. According to the latest figures, Pakistan has surpassed Brazil to appear in the top 5 list of most populated countries behind China, India, United States and Indonesia.
The population of Pakistan has gone past the mark of 220 million. In March 2017, Pakistan initiated to conduct the census nearly after two decades. The successful execution of the census was made possible largely because of improved security conditions in the region.
Also Read: Pakistan finally announces population census
According to Pakistan Bureau of Statistic (PBS), the census teams made sure to count every single individual along with their housing unit. The exercise was done nationwide to make sure that no single person in left uncounted.
The anticipation of the overall population figure was roughly 200 million. However, the list which government released on Friday, had a higher digits as expected and it was beyond 220 million mark.
Breakdown of the population province-wise
The numbers revealed that 207.77 million people reside in the four provinces of Pakistan and the tribal regions near the Afghan border. However, rest of the 15 million are located in the disputed territory of Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan in the north, near Pakistan’s border with China, as per the official of PBS.
The people of Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan do hold Pakistani passports; however, the population in the region is not included in that of Pakistan because of the disputes.
Not too long ago, Pakistan was the sixth-most populous country in the world. Their population was close to 200 million before the census. However, it has now taken over Brazil, which has a population of 210 million.
Quick Read: Pakistan’s population reaches 192 million
Unexpected growth in population
In the last couple of decades, Pakistan’s population has grown at an average rate of 2.4% even though the government is trying to control the speedy surge in the population.
A researcher with Islamabad-based Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Shakeel Ahmed Ramay stated:
“This is a surprising factor. The rate is much higher than estimates”
He further added:
“For a country like Pakistan with limited resources, such a huge population could become a burden if innovative policies are not made to turn the youth bulge into an asset. You got to have some policy framework to promote entrepreneurship to engage a sea of people … Otherwise, more individuals means more consumption of resources”
It has been projected that by year 2050, Pakistan’s overall population will be 300 million while the world’s population at that time would be around 9.7 billion.
Source: Sky News

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NEW YORK — Apple (AAPL) CEO Tim Cook has long been seen as the humorless and unemotional guy running the show from behind the scenes. But he is beginning to reveal a more assertive and eloquent side, hinting that he’s learning to shoulder more of Steve Jobs‘ role as a frontman and leader.
On a conference call with journalists and financial analysts late Tuesday, Cook showed some fire when talking about competitors, echoing the combative Jobs. He also spouted a vivid metaphor that spread like wildfire over Twitter before the call was over.
Most Apple watchers have sized up Cook as a competent caretaker of the machine that Apple founder and late CEO Steve Jobs created, but if Cook has latent charisma that can be thawed out further, he may turn into the kind of leader some people think is essential for the company.
In a blog post Wednesday, George Colony, the CEO of Forrester Research, predicted that Apple will go the way of Sony, fading away now that Jobs is not around to inspire.
“Without the arrival of a new charismatic leader, it will move from being a great company to being a good company,” he wrote.
Even while Jobs was alive, Cook handled appearances in front of Wall Street analysts. He spoke precisely and calmly, and his language wasn’t very quotable. At a Goldman Sachs investors meeting in February, for instance, he said “our high order bit is we want to please customers.” A “high order bit” is a computer science term for the most important piece of data in a set.
But Tuesday, when asked if PCs and tablets might someday blend into one device, as rival PC manufacturers hope, Cook extemporized this response:
“I think anything can be forced to converge. The problem is that products are about trade-offs, and you begin to make trade-offs to the point where what you have left at the end of the day doesn’t please anyone. You can converge a toaster and a refrigerator, but those things are probably not going to be pleasing to the user.”
The “toaster fridge combo” phrase zoomed around Twitter, and within minutes, someone created a “FridgeToaster” account that started talking back at Cook.
Microsoft spokesman Frank Shaw tweeted that Windows 8, the new software that’s supposed to bridge tablets and PCs, is “not a toaster/fridge. It’s a toaster/oven. Those seem pretty popular. Just saying.”
Cook’s attack was reminiscent of an appearance by Jobs on a conference call in October 2010, in which he lambasted the idea of tablets smaller than the iPad. Competitor Samsung Electronics was set to launch a small tablet, in the first real challenge to the iPad. Jobs said 7-inch screens were so small that owners would need to file down their fingers with sandpaper to hit buttons accurately.
Later in Tuesday’s call, Cook was asked if he’d consider settling some of the patent lawsuits the company is waging against competitors. Apple accuses Samsung and Motorola of copying its iPhone and iPad. Again, Cook revealed some emotion.
“You know, I’ve always hated litigation, and I continue to hate it. We just want people to invent their own stuff,” he said.


DIN EN 16245-4
Fibre-reinforced plastic composites - Declaration of raw material characteristics - Part 4: Specific requirements for fabrics
|Publication Date:||1 July 2013|
|ICS Code (Reinforced plastics):||83.120|
This part of this European Standard specifies the minimum information to be declared for fabrics to be used for the manufacturing of composites products, also impregnated products, but not to the composite products or impregnated products themselves.
These specific declaration requirements are in addition to the general requirements given in Part 1 of this standard (i.e. EN 16245-1).
This document includes requirements for the Certificate of Analysis (CoA). The purpose of the CoA is to verify that material properties and quality conform to the declared values.
This part of the standard is applicable to uni-axial and multi-axial fabric material.


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A humble garnish most of the year, parsley elbows its way into the kitchen every spring when the garden’s overwintered plants bolt and the sheer mass of green simply must be dealt with. Sure, you can make tabbouleh. Deborah Madison describes her recipe as “moist and intensely green, practically a parsley salad”, and it’s earthy and hearty, a lovely way to use that first flush of spring mint besides.
But then what?
I casted about for ideas. A friend suggested chimichurri, which I dutifully concocted for grilled steaks. Tasty. Still, there was plenty more parsley. Much more. I consulted my cookbooks; English chef Simon Hopkinson suggests a potato-based parsley soup, which sounded too frankly plain, as well as a parsley salad tossed with anchovies, olives, and capers. I wasn’t sure about that either, but after noting a similar Alice Waters recipe, I allowed that there might be something I didn’t know about here.
Indeed. We adored this bright, briny, green pasta, which matches wonderfully with fresh tuna. And it’s so easy to make that I’m glad — dare I say — this year’s parsley seedlings have broken ground.
Green Fettucine with Briny Tuna
½ pound tuna steak / 1 garlic clove, minced / 1 tbls capers / 10 or so olives, chopped roughly / 1 lemon / ½ cup parsley, chopped finely / ½ pound fettucine / ¼ cup olive oil / salt & pepper to taste
Slice tuna thinly. Zest the lemon, then slice off the ends, cut away the white pith, and slice the remaining flesh into rounds. Begin cooking the pasta.
Heat a large skillet over high heat. Swirl 1 tbls of the oil in the pan, then saute tuna until no longer raw, 2 to 3 minutes. Reduce heat to medium. Add garlic, capers, olives, and lemon zest and rounds and cook, stirring, for another minute or so. When pasta is ready, drain and toss tuna with pasta, parsley, and remaining olive oil. Taste and add salt and pepper to taste. Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese, if desired. Feeds 2. Adapted from Alice Waters and Simon Hopkinson.


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In our theory driven Triumf game design philosophy, we have combined the mental contrasting and implementation intention theories about self-regulation and behavioral change into our underlying gameplay narrative. Based on mental contrasting theory, we start by giving a player an idealised state of an imaginary city.
Everyday life can get hectic at times and some days are more stressful than others. Sometimes it’s the smallest things are creating the biggest worries. In the light of the increasing prevalence and awareness of mental health, our new blog post focuses on our own mental well-being and reflects on situations, where our team members have felt stressed. Most importantly, we were curious about the techniques that each of us uses in order to cope with the pressure and workload. Here are the thoughts of Triumf team members on how to relieve stress.
First of all, our team wishes everyone all the best for 2019. May this year bring you all lots of amazing opportunities and wonderful experiences! So are you ready for 2019? We definitely are! Here are some of our goals we aim to reach this year, presented in a short and simple way.
Digital health interventions such as the Triumf game have great potential as health improving scalable tools by contributing to the effectiveness, accessibility and personalisation of healthcare delivery. However, digital health interventions (as any other intervention) need to be evaluated using proper research methodology in order to prove effectiveness or at least safety.
Can you imagine that it’s already the third Christmas we are celebrating as team Triumf? This has surely been an eventful year for us thus far. Here we would like to send the warmest seasonal greetings to our supporters and write about our achievements this year. Thank you, team members and everyone else, who are playing a role in this journey!

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Impostors Last Warrior – Survival Game – is a shooting game, you are the only survivor after a zombie invasion and are fighting against zombies alone. Can you survive and save the world? Hold and drag to aim and shoot
Zen Games is a gaming arcade with games for Stress Relief.
In the modern world today, many people suffer from stress due to various factors which affect their quality of life. There are many ways available for relaxing the mind to focus more on day-to-day activities effectively. Zen games can play a key role in reducing stress levels to a great extent.

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NORTH CAROLINA COURAGE VS. SEATTLE REIGN FC
SAHLEN'S STADIUM AT WAKEMED SOCCER PARK
KICKOFF: SATURDAY, AUGUST 5- 7:30 PM ET
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The North Carolina Courage (9W-5L-0D, 27 pts, 2nd place) hosts the Seattle Reign FC (6W-3L-6D, 24 pts, 4th place) tonight. This is the second meeting of the season between the Courage and the Reign, and the final Courage home match of three meetings overall. The Courage will visit the Reign in Seattle on Sunday, August 13 at 9:00 p.m. to close out the series.
The NC Courage looks to get back on track after its last match was postponed due to inclement weather in Kansas City on July 22 and a small international break has given the team ample time to prepare for round two against the Reign. The Courage’s first match against Seattle was a 2-0 victory thanks to goals by Ashley Hatch and McCall Zerboni. Seattle remains one of the most dangerous attacking teams in the league with NWSL goal scoring leader Megan Rapinoe and NWSL assist leader Nahomi Kawasumi always a threat in the attacking third.
Last Time Out:
Seattle Reign FC enters the match following a shootout 5-4 victory against Sky Blue FC. The Courage is eager to return to its top form as its last result was a 1-0 loss in Portland on July 15. In that match the Courage were held scoreless for only the second time in 14 matches all season. With the Courage’s July 22 match against FC Kansas City being cancelled due to inclement weather, the team is eager to reclaim its spot on top of the NWSL Standings.
Players to Watch:
#5 Sam Mewis
Mewis is the powerhouse of the NC Courage and USWNT midfield as she has started every match for club and country this season. She most recently scored a goal in the U.S.’s 4-3 win against Brazil. Mewis is a multi-faceted threat for the Courage as she has scored two goals with ten shots on goal so far this season, but her distribution in the midfield is her key contribution to the team’s success.
#15 Megan Rapinoe
Rapinoe currently leads the NWSL in goals scored with 12 on 51 shots total. The US Women’s National team player most recently showed off an impressive display for her country as she led the 4-3 comeback against Brazil with two assists and a goal of her own. She also scored in the final Tournament of Nations match against Japan to spark the U.S.’s confident 3-0 win. Look for the veteran forward to continue to showcase her polished offensive skills in an offensive showdown.
Coming Up Next:
The North Carolina Courage will travel to Children’s Mercy Victory Field in Kansas City, Mo. on Thursday, Aug. 10 at 8 p.m. to take on FC Kansas City in the makeup match for the July 22 postponement. The Courage return home to Sahlen’s Stadium at WakeMed Soccer Park on Saturday, August 19 at 3:30 p.m. to take on the Washington Spirit. Tickets are available at NCFCTix.com or by calling the box office at 919.459.8144.


While it’s hard to imagine most celebrities without their glam and stardom these days, they were just like us when they were kids, with shy smiles and chubby cheeks. If you’ve ever wondered what your favorite star looked like in their childhood, from Scarlett Johansson to Khloé Kardashian, we’ve got you covered.
October 5, 2019
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Since SINGTEX company was founded in 1989, it has been engaged in developing the high-value-add functional fabrics with high-degree science know-how. A group of the meaning members with professional expertise and passion under the leadership of the general manager, Mr. Jason Chen, base on SINGTEX, six benchmarks: Passion, Sincerity, Innovation, Service, Quality, and Feedback, provide the functional fabrics to many worldwide famous sportswear brands.
The "S.Café ® high technology fabric" has "odor control" capability, along with the "quick-drying" and "UV protection" excellent performance. More importantly, through the "special supercritical extraction" process, S.Café ® reuses wasted coffee grounds, transforming it to yarn and fabrics.
The implementation of this patented technology is a big step for environmental protection.