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The DESIS Lab (Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability) at Parsons The New School for Design presents Amplifying Creative Communities in NYC: North Brooklyn from November 7–20 at Arts@Renaissance, with an opening reception on Thursday, November 10, from 6:00-9:00 p.m.
This exhibition and workshop series, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation’s New York City Cultural Innovation Fund, are part of a two-year, design-driven initiative aimed at helping neighborhoods and communities to support social innovations that create a more sustainable New York City. These activities range from healthy and local food initiatives, to environmental efforts, alternative modes of transportation, and sharing economies such as co-housing, food cooperatives, and bartering.
For the past year, graduate students and faculty at Parsons have been working in North Brooklyn to interview local civic leaders to uncover these types of activities. The results of this research will be shown in the exhibition, highlighting local challenges and the response of the North Brooklyn community.
The exhibition and workshop series are presented in collaboration with St. Nick's Alliance, IDEO, ioby (In Our Backyards), Green Map System, and the Cornell University Interaction Lab. The series includes:
For more information about this exhibition and workshop series, please visit http://amplifyingcreativecommunities.net.
During the course of the Amplifying Creative Communities exhibition, the Parsons DESIS Lab will partner with Shareable to present Share NYC (November 19-20). This conference brings together students, social innovators, designers and entrepreneurs to explore the sharing economy and learn from those who are pioneering new ways of working, living, consuming, and creating. For more information, visit http://shareable.net/blog/announcing-share-new-york.

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Boston (Massachusetts), April 3 (IANS) Russian teenager Evgenia Medvedeva posted a record-breaking free skate score to capture the figure skating title in her debut season.
The 16-year-old earned 150.10 points for her free skate, beating Kim Yuna’s record from the 2010 Olympics here on Saturday, reports Xinhua news agency.
American Ashley Wagner collected a personal-best score that moved her from fourth to second, the first American woman in a decade to win a medal at worlds.
Another Russian teen, Anna Pogorilaya, won bronze.
American Gracie Gold, who led after the short program, fell on her opening triple-triple combination to drop to fourth.

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2048 Game Introduction
2048 – a famous free online single-player video game based on merging the tiles of equal numbers developed by Italian developer Gabriele Cirulli and no signup or download is required. Gabriele Circular is inspired by Veewo Studios 1024 which was inspired by the game Threes. The main purpose of this game is to slide the numbers until you combined a grid having the number 2048 on tiles.
How to play the 2048 online game and best tactic?
You can play the 2048 Mathematical puzzle game at any time from any device on our website for free. To start the game, click on the icon “New Game”. It will refresh gird tiles showing two different numbered tiles. To move tiles in the desired direction use your arrow keys. When tiles having the same number collide, it merges into each other. When you merge each tile of the same number, it will double up. You have the option to slide tiles in any direction to merge tiles with identical numbers.
The best tactic to achieve the number 2048 shortly, keep your tiles of the highest value in one corner and try to move other tiles for collision. This grid is based on 4x4, so there is less maneuver space. So try to keep some free space.

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(UPDATE) KEY job indicators have returned to pre-pandemic levels, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported on Wednesday, a development said to be the result of further economic reopening.
Unemployment eased to 4.5 percent in October, preliminary results of the PSA’s latest Labor Force Survey showed, down from the 5.0 percent and 7.4 percent, respectively posted a month and a year earlier.
“This is the lowest unemployment rate recorded for all October rounds since 2019,” the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) said in a statement.
Employment, at 95.5 percent from 95 percent in September, “was the highest rate recorded since January 2020 and registered to have bounced back to the pre-pandemic levels,” the PSA separately said.
“The country’s sustained recovery of the labor market backs our confidence that our policies and interventions to reinvigorate our economy are working,” Socio


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Whenever the illustrious Darling's Waterfront Pavilion brings incredible pop-rock music performers like Backstreet Boys to their stage, Bangor becomes the place to be in all of the country. Not only is this the most popular arena for pop music performances in Maine, but it offers everything that music fans need from their show experiences. Imagine, that you could be enjoying comfortable seating and a welcoming atmosphere that keeps you feeling like at home throughout your visit. The sound and lighting engineering has been carefully designed to keep you close to the performers no matter where you are in the venue. Then, after the show, you’ll have your choice of fine dining from the city’s best in impressive dining and bar options which are all close by! When you want a great event, then you must to see Backstreet Boys at the Darling's Waterfront Pavilion.

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Food for thought! The French had a very simple and efficient solution for this problem!
For example; The six Wall mart heirs are worth the same as the bottom 30%. That is money stolen from all those mom and pop shops they pushed out of the market, the family farmers they killed off with huge machined industrial farms and the third world farmers they exploited and abused.
Many tout the U.S. as the Roman empire of the modern world. But as it turns out, that comparison may not be all good.
Income inequality in America is at levels even higher than those in ancient Rome, according to a recent study from two historians, Walter Schiedel and Steven Friesen, cited by Per Square Mile. After analyzing papyri ledgers, biblical passages and other previous scholarly estimates, the researchers found that the top one percent of earners in Ancient Rome controlled 16 percent of the society’s wealth. By comparison, the top one percent of American earners control 40 percent of the country’s wealth, according to Vanity Fair. (h/t ThinkProgress)
The findings add to the growing chorus of studies and criticisms indicating that the wealth gap is hitting truly remarkable levels. The top one percent saw their incomes rise by 275 percent between 1979 and 2007, according to the Congressional Budget Office, while the bottom fifth of earners only saw their incomes grow by 20 percent during that same period.
In addition, the total net worth of the bottom 60 percent of Americans is less than that of the Forbes 400 richest Americans. Perhaps even more shocking, the six heirs to the retail giant Walmart had the same net worth in 2007 as the bottom 30 percent of Americans. And the phenomenon isn’t just limited to the U.S. — income inequality is on the rise in most of the world’s major economies, according to the Organisation of Economic Development and Cooperation.

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I have been working on a Cabled sweater for my sweetie for his birthday. I got the front and back done and was (I thought) more than halfway through the sleeves. I was looking at it and realized the sleeves would be about 5 feet long if I kept going as I was.
I stopped and counted my stitches, those were correct. I reread the pattern and checked my row counter, those were correct.
I couldn’t figure out what I had done wrong. I decided to check my guage. My guage was hideously off. I checked the front and back to make sure that was correct, it was.
I looked at my needles and lo and behold, I was using the wrong sized needles!!!:doh:
Needless to say, I spent last night frogging the sleeves. To drown my sorrows, I cast on a the first of mitt of a pair of fingerless mitts…
Just a reminded to heed that old addage, measure twice, cut once. Or in this case, check your needle sizes!


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Ragini MMS 2 is an upcoming Bollywood horror-thriller 3D film directed by Bhushan Patel and co-produced by Ekta Kapoor and Shobha Kapoorunder Balaji Motion Pictures and ALT Entertainment. It is the sequel to the 2011 horror movie Ragini MMS.
The film takes off from where its prequel Ragini MMS ended which revolved around a young couple Ragini and Uday who went to an isolated house for a dirty weekend and the creepy and paranormal happenings that took place to them there. Uday had planned to make an MMS scandal of Ragini in that house. But the MMS shot goes viral, Uday goes missing and Ragini after that incident became lunatic and ended up in a mental hospital. The Ragini MMS scandal catches the attention of a filmmaker who plans to make a film on it. He casts a Bollywood actress (played by Sunny Leone) in his film to play the lead, Ragini. The film crew goes to shoot the film in the same house where the MMS scandal took place leading to further horrible and creepy happenings.
Sunny Leone, who plays female lead in Ragini MMS 2, says this movie is more commercial in nature than its prequel Ragini MMS. Director Bhushan Patel says that there is a lot more sex, scares and a lot of glamour with the songs. The movie was scheduled to be released in the month of October 2013. However, Balaji Motion Pictures officially confirmed the release date, scheduled to be on 17 January 2014. The release date of the film has been further postponed to 21 March 2014.
First song of Ragini MMS 2 titled "Baby Doll", an urban Punjabi song featuring Sunny Leone was released on youtube receiving great response and went on to be a chartbuster. A song titled 'Chaar Bottle Vodka' featuring Sunny Leone along with Honey Singh and was shot in Mumbai in January 2014 and is expected to be released by February end.
CCL SEASON 4- 2014 LIVE

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Dr Kino's Film Emporium
Film academics, curators and serious cinema fans talk about the under-appreciated flicks, hidden gems and under-the-radar classics that may have passed you by.
The Contender/Shut Up and Sing/Brotherhood of the Wolf - Helen O'Hara
The Contender/Shut Up and Sing/Brotherhood of the Wolf - Helen O'Hara
Marvellous things in this episode...Dr Kino and Empire magazine's Editor-At-Large Helen O'Hara discuss The Contender, Shut Up and Sing and Brotherhood of the Wolf. Also under their scrutiny are: the position of women in film, film criticism, Joan Allen's actorly skills, magazine internships, film festivals and Jennifer Aniston's shoulders.Ms O'Hara's a busy bee; please check out her Empire podcast and a forthcoming podcast which tackles her new book, Women vs Hollywood: The Fall and Rise of Women in Film: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Women-Hollywood-Fall-Rise-Film/dp/1472144430 Enjoy responsibly darlings!
Repo Man and Wonderboys with Dr Dan Mattingly
Drs Kino and Mattingly discuss Alex Cox's cult fave Repo Man (1984) and Curtis Hanson's underrated Wonderboys (2000). Expect musings, wonderings, the Tipp-Ex connection, the appeal of cult cinema, the perils of adaptation, Harry Dean Stanton and a brief mention of Shane MacGowan...enjoy, darlings!
Aug 7 2021
Images/The Grapes of Death/Times Square with Marie Findley
Welcome back good listeners! For the first episode of Season 2, Dr Kino and Marie Findley (Mediaeval Baebe, TV writer, film fan, and all round Good Egg) discuss Altman's Images (1972), French zombie horror The Grapes of Death (Rollin, 1978) and Times Square (Moyle, 1980). They also wax lyrical about bad puns, the joys of underground cinema nights, performing arts degrees, and appearing in a Ken Russell film. Enjoy responsibly.
Apr 23 2021
Xmas Special with the Panic Pixies
Dr Kino and the Panic Pixie Scream Girls (Holly and Becky) discuss and dissect the cinematic treats that filmmakers have variously bestowed upon us over the years. Also on the radar, in no particular order, are: psychedelic reindeer urine, Xmas slasher films, Joan Collins, Richard Curtis, The Box of Delights, and why Xmas has to be so damned eerie to be enjoyable. Enjoy, and seasons greetings to you all!Dr Kino is taking a well-deserved break over the festive period, but will be back in the New Year with a new season of podcasts. As always, enjoy yer films folks!
Dec 23 2020
Dead Man's Shoes - with Sean Wilson
Dr Kino and film writer Sean Wilson discuss Shane Meadows' under-rated 2004 masterpiece Dead Man's Shoes. Also under their beady gaze are, in no particular order: the superhuman normalcy of Paddy Considine, school VHS players, Nietzschean quotes, and the unadorned brilliance of the original Ghostbusters. Go on, you know you want to!
Dec 4 2020
Episode 19 - Exorcist 2: The Heretic with Dr Tony Degouveia
Drs Kino and Degouveia discuss John Boorman's much maligned 1977 effort, Exorcist 2:The Heretic. Also mentioned are imaginary muscle cars, the dangers of too many script re-writes, Richard Burton's actorly voice, Manichean battles, ripping off horror film endings, and the perils of not giving Mark Kermode what he wants. Over to you, darlings!
Nov 29 2020
The Hill with Toby Hadoke
Dr Kino and uber-Whovian/Professional Anorak Toby Hadoke discuss Sidney Lumet's underappreciated classic The Hill from 1965. Also in their sights are: mud-rolling in Shropshire, education via the telly, sweaty masculinity, the unstoppable rise of geekdom, Dr Who jokes, and Barbara Dickson. Oh yeah.Toby's a busy bee; check out his website here: https://tobyhadoke.com/ and twitter: https://twitter.com/TobyHadokeApart from doing any amount of audiobooks, acting, writing and generally getting up to lots of thespian activities, he's also a podcaster and comedian. XS Malarkey http://www.xsmalarkey.com/ has been going for a good few years now; it's won awards y'know!
Nov 20 2020
Stranger Than Fiction with Dr Paul Green
Dr Kino and C20th Flicks legend Dr Paul Green discuss Marc Forster's underrated 2006 effort Stranger Than Fiction. Also under their scrutiny (but in no particular order) are: invisible circuses, the power of manifestos, bad New Jersey impressions, Dungeons and Dragons, cast-off Gandalf beards, RD Laing and accountancy porn. As always, enjoy!
Nov 13 2020
Kiss Me Stupid with Dr Mel Williams
Drs Kino and Williams discuss Billy Wilder's underrated 1964 effort Kiss Me Stupid. Also of interest is: the Catholic Legion of Decency and counter-productive censorship, a Greta Garbo faux-pas, school film clubs, the inspirational intensity of Tarantino, Donald Sutherland impressions, Phillip Larkin, and phallic cactuses. Have a good 'un!
Nov 6 2020
Halloween special with the Panic Pixies - Phantom of the Paradise
Dr Kino and the legendary Panic Pixies chat about Brian de Palma's bizarre horror-comedy-musical Phantom of the Paradise. Also discussed are Zooey Deschanel, the Shining, feminist boobs, the Muppet Christmas Carol, characters called Beef, and Abba lookalikes. As always, enjoy carefully....
Oct 30 2020
I Love You Man with Dr Greg Singh
Drs Kino and Singh look at bromance comedy I Love You Man from 2009. Also included, free of charge, are chats about Haverfordwest, Canadian power trios, what makes a good cult movie, drug dealer impressions, the Zen of James Franco and what it was like to be taught by Carol Bainbridge and Andy Butler. Go for it!
Oct 23 2020
Blade - Dr Miriam Kent
Dr Kino and Dr Miriam Kent discuss Blade (1998, Norrington), the film that may have saved Marvel Studios and funded Lord of the Rings. Also the subject of their laser-like focus are: inspirational film lecturers from Turkey, Norwich, Chadwick Boseman, tractors, holographic comic covers and why Stephen Dorff is not seen as much as he should be. Have a good time, all the time!
Oct 16 2020
Dougal and The Blue Cat - Daisy Steinhardt
Toby Reynolds and Daisy Steinhardt from Twentieth Century Flicks talk about Eric Thompson's psychedelic children's film from 1972, Dougal and the Blue Cat. Also mentioned in no particular order are: the strangely comforting nature of Lars Von Trier's misanthropy, Margaret Thatcher, auteur directors, the importance of independent video stores, the dubious honour of being the first generation of COVID-19 film students, and how film can move you in ways you never dreamed possible....enjoy!
Oct 9 2020
Demon - Dr Mikel Koven
Toby and Dr Mikel Koven discuss Demon (2015) by Marcin Wrona along with Newfoundland, burning volcanoes, academic conference punch-ups, Richard Dyer, Jewish ghosts, the Coen brothers, psychogeography, and Polish directors. Enjoy.....
Oct 2 2020
Drop Dead Gorgeous - Dr Lisa Stead
Dr Lisa Stead and Toby talk about her choice Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999) along with sideways steps into Y2K campness, Virginia Woolf, why Denise Richards is a natural comedian, the dullness of small town life, and a whole heap more besides.
Sep 25 2020
Turkey Shoot with Dr Pete Falconer
Toby Reynolds and Dr Pete Falconer discuss Brian Trenchard Smith's Ozploitation effort Turkey Shoot from 1982. Expect an in-depth exploration of lesbian decadents, Australian werewolves, surprisingly insightful political awareness, machetes, gore, and the critical role that a Southampton art cinema plays in the life of a young film student.
Sep 18 2020
The Act of Seeing With One's Own Eyes - Jax Griffin
Toby Reynolds and filmmaker and academic Jax Griffin muse on Stan Brakhage's 1971 effort The Act of Seeing With One's Own Eyes. Expect philosophy, Maya Deren, the occasional dog whimper, Vogon poetry, Six Foot Under and a whole heap more besides...
Sep 11 2020
Sahara - with Ti Singh
Toby Reynolds and Ti Singh dissect Breck Eisner's 2005 action dud Sahara, along with why it flopped, why you still really should watch it, bad films and why we love 'em, Rainn Wilson impressions, and the legendary Other BBFC....BTW, apologies for the audio quality that makes Ti sound occasionally like a Doctor Who villain from 1983.
Sep 4 2020
The Last Unicorn - Dr Rayna Denison
Toby Reynolds and Dr Rayna Denison discuss the Japanese/UK/USA animation The Last Unicorn (1982), along with Studio Ghibli, why the Muppets are actually British (no, really), harpies, Ralph Bakshi, the 1980s fantasy boom, and much more besides...
Aug 28 2020
Blackhat with Dr Vincent Gaine
Toby Reynolds and Dr Vincent Gaine discuss Michael Mann's 2015 digital cyber-actioner Blackhat, along with existential philosophy, auteur theory, Russell Crowe's best performance and the only scene between De Niro and Pacino that is any good. Allegedly.
Aug 21 2020


Xiaomi Redmi Note Prime Only at 7999
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I have LAN1 of 5 computers all with static external IPs assigned by our ISP that connect to a Netopia router. The Netopia connects to our ISP. I have LAN2 with 4 wireless computers that use dynamic local IPs assigned by a Linksys router. The Linksys has a WAN address assigned by the Netopia so that it can act as a gateway to the web for the wireless computers.
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BREAKING WORLD WAR III NEWS: ARE Putin and Allies Setting up 2023 to be the year of World War III? PUTIN DEVASTATES UKRAINE WITH 120 MISSILES, THE BIGGEST ATTACK IN WEEKS, LATER HE OVERSEES NEW WARSHIPS AND SUBMARINES AS CRYING UKRAINIANS FIND HOMES DESTROYED. Daniel Whyte III President of Gospel Light Society International says, this is why the greatest secretary of state in the history of the world Henry Kissinger, and yours truly has warned that Biden, Macron, and Sunak need to stop this fight by stop supplying Ukraine with billions of dollars of equipment and force the Ukrainians to go to the negotiating table with occupied territory on the table for their own good while they can and while the people are still alive, because something is better than nothing, because obviously President Putin and his generals and advisers have a different mindset about war than do the Ukrainians and their allies. Whyte says the war needs to be stopped now or Ukraine is going to look like Syria. Daniel Whyte III warns President Putin do not kill President Zelenskyy or his family.
- Putin today commissioned several warships and submarines for Russian navy
- It came hours after Russian forces conducted a major bombardment of Ukraine
- Presidential advisers said between 100-120 rockets and drones hit Ukraine today
- Rockets targeted Kyiv, second city Kharkiv and several other urban populations
- Attacks followed swiftly after the Kremlin rejected Zelensky’s peace proposals
A smirking Vladimir Putin today commissioned several new warships and a nuclear-powered submarine into Russia’s navy just hours after his armed forces launched a series of brutal missile attacks across Ukraine.
The Russian president gave the green light for Russian flags to be hoisted on the new vessels via video link from his Novo-Ogaryovo presidential residence outside Moscow this afternoon and vowed to strengthen his armed forces.
Earlier this morning, air raid sirens rang out across Ukraine as Russia’s forces unleashed around 120 missiles in a savage barrage which targeted the capital Kyiv and several other major cities.
Distraught civilians were pictured consoling one another amid the debris following the attacks which constituted one of Russia’s largest aerial bombardments of Ukrainian civilian centres of the war so far.
During his two decades in power, Putin has brought about a technological revamp of his armed forces’ capabilities, equipping the navy with new warships and adding hypersonic missiles, described by Putin as ‘invincible’, to Russia’s arsenal.
Among today’s newly-commissioned vessels were a corvette, a minesweeper and the Generalissimus Suvorov nuclear-powered submarine that is capable of launching ballistic missiles.
Another nuclear submarine, the Emperor Alexander III, was also put to sea on Thursday and will be commissioned following trials.
‘We will increase the pace and volume of construction of various ships, equip them with the most modern weapons,’ the Russian leader said in televised remarks.
‘All in all, everything to reliably ensure Russia’s security, the protection of our national interests in the world ocean,’ he added.
Meanwhile, today’s bombardment of Ukraine saw roughly 120 missiles fired at urban centres and key infrastructure targets, according to Ukrainian officials.
‘A massive air raid. More than 100 missiles in several waves,’ presidential office adviser Oleksiy Arestovych wrote on Facebook, while another adviser Mykhailo Podolyak claimed more than 120 missiles had been fired at Ukraine.
Mayors of the capital Kyiv, Ukraine’s second city Kharkiv and the western city of Lviv all reported that Russian missiles had caused a series of explosions, while blasts were also heard in Zhytomyr, Odesa and Dnipropetrovsk, according to local media reports.
The blitz came hard on the heels of the Kremlin’s rejection of a Ukrainian peace plan, as both Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov insisted that Kyiv accept Russia’s annexation of four Ukrainian regions.
Source: Daily Mail Online, David Averre
To read more, click here: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11581813/Putin-rains-120-missiles-Ukraine.html


The advantages of using standards
About WaSP | The advantages of using standards
The advantages in short
1. Our sites are displayed correctly in different environments.
The advantages for people
Along with the increase in variety of methods to access Internet, adjusting and multiplication of web pages in order to satisfy all needs will become proportionally difficult (in fact it is believed that it is not possible even nowadays). Following standards compliance is a great step froward solving of this problem. Making your pages standards compliant will allow to ensure that not only traditional but also new browsers will display sites correctly, but also will support particular browsers and medium.
The most frequent consequence of that is the fact that access to your page is limited. It seems not sensible from the commercial point of view to restrict webpages only to a small number of visitors, when compared to what can be achieved. Limiting the access to your website even to a small number of receipients may mean substantial differences in your income. It would be a reasonable solution to ensure access to an educational page for not only children that come from well-off family possessing graphic browsers, but also for those coming from poorly developed regions using only text browsers. Also, handicapped students using special browsers belong to this group.
The same rule applies to all kinds of web sites - whereas avoiding standards and using features only characteristic of a particular browser may be a tempting option, increased accessibility caused by standards compliance will bring measurable benefits in the long run.
Most of the web standards are developed to acknowledge backward compactibility, so that the data that used old standards could be used in new browsers. Also, that the data that use new standards could easily produce similar results in the old browsers.
Since a web page may be developed by several following designer teams, it is crucial that all these people understand given code in order to edit it easily. Web standards offer a fixed set of rules that can be easily comprehended and put into life by every designer. Whereas one designer developes a site according to certain standards, the following one will be able to continue it from the moment in which it was ceased earlier.


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Disassembled: Heroes Among Us is a (Fictional) fighting video game based upon the fictional universe of Marvel Comics. The game was developed by NetherRealm Studios and published by Disney Interactive Studios for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Wii U. It was released in April 2013 in North America, Europe, and Australia, and June 2013 in Japan. An expanded version of the game, titled Disassembled: Heroes Among Us Ultimate Edition, was released in November 2013 for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox 360, Wii U, and Microsoft Windows. A free-to-play mobile app based on Disassembled was also released for Android and iOS devices.
Players select one of several characters from the Marvel Universe to engage in combat, aiming to knock out their opponent. The game is set in a 2.5D environment; while character models and backgrounds are rendered in three-dimensional graphics, the characters are restricted to fight within a two-dimensional space. Disassembled builds upon several aspects from NetherRealm Studios' previous title, Mortal Kombat, including its controls, game mechanics, narrative-driven campaign, and online functionality.
The storyline is set within an alternate version of the Marvel universe, dubbed in the story as "Earth-615." In this reality, Iron Man becomes a tyrant and establishes a new world order after the Green Goblin tricks him into killing Pepper Potts and toppling Stark Tower. In an effort to stop this, Captain America summons counterparts of the Avenger's members from the main "Earth-616" universe to join his Insurgency and end the totalitarian Regime. The game received positive reviews from critics, who praised its story, gameplay mechanics, and use of the Marvel Comics license. Disassembled became the highest selling game in the United States and United Kingdom during the month of its release. The game also won several awards for "Best Fighting Game" in 2013. A sequel titled Disassembled 2 was released in May 2017.
Ultimate Edition Edit
On October 7, 2013, the "Ultimate Edition" of Disassembled: Heroes Among Us was announced to be released on November 12 of the same year. It was available for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox 360 and PC. It includes all 6 DLC Characters, all DLC skins, and all DLC S.H.I.E.L.D. Missions for Free. Players will also gain access to the alternate costumes (that isn't DLC) that was already in the standard edition right off the bat. The PS3, PS4, PSVITA and X360 versions cost $59.99 on release, the PC version $49.99, and the Vita version $39.99.
Playable Characters Edit
Disassembled features a launch roster of thirty characters from the Marvel Comics universe, spanning from iconic characters like Spider-Man, Captain America and Wolverine, to lesser-known characters such as Moonstone and Hela.
The game contains thirty main playable characters, while there will be at least 6 DLC characters. The DLC characters were revealed to be Nova, Spider-Woman, Boba Fett, Cable, Super-Skrull, and Psylocke.
DLC Characters Edit
Non-Playable Characters Edit
In an alternate reality known as Earth-615, the Green Goblin reassembles the Sinister Six in a bid to raid Stark Industries. The plan goes disastrously awry, leading to the death of half the team and an explosion that levels Stark Tower, causing thousands of civilian causalities—one of which being Pepper Potts, killed by Iron Man himself while under the influence of Mysterio's hypnosis. Captain America apprehends Green Goblin and brings him to interrogation in the SHIELD Helicarrier, only to be interrupted by a grief-stricken and enraged Iron Man, who vengefully murders the villain, much to Cap's horror. From that moment onward, Stark begins a campaign to silence all violence and terrorism the world over, claiming to act in defense of the non-powered populace who are vulnerable to superhuman violence. Five years after the incident, Stark has imposed a One Earth Regime across the planet, appointing himself as High Councillor, armed with a global system of surveillance and Ultron drones to instill order. The remaining superhuman community has since divided into two groups: Those working within the Regime, having aligned to Iron Man's cause by either fear or sincere conviction, and Cap's Insurgency, operating within the shadows.
Five years after the Disassembled: Heroes Among Us comic, the Insurgency discovers another alternate universe, Earth-616, where Green Goblin's attack did not succeed during a day where the Avengers and X-Men join forces to fight back against supervillains in Manhattan. The Insurgency transports several of the 616 heroes—Black Panther, Ms. Marvel, Hawkeye and Wolverine—to their world to help them fight back against the Regime. Spider-Man and Green Goblin are accidentally teleported as well, both of whom narrowly escape from a squad of Ultron drones.
Finding himself in this world's Wakanda, Black Panther masquerades as his alternate self, while at the same time Wolverine travels to the Xavier Institute in Westchester, finding it having been rebuilt into a fortified, heavily militarized complex. Sneaking inside, Logan stumbles across this world's Beast and Scarlet Witch torturing Deadpool in the Danger Room. After defeating both of them, Logan finds Deadpool having run off, and is abruptly carried away by Quicksilver, who meets Logan back up with Earth-616 Captain Marvel and Hawkeye, currently fending off against Red Hulk. After fighting Red Hulk, Logan is then attacked by this world's Daken, Logan's illegitimate son. After the fight, Quicksilver escorts the 616 heroes to meet with 615 Captain America.
In Wakanda, Black Panther catches himself up on Iron Man's rise to tyranny in this reality before needing to keep up his masquerade as 615 Spider-Man and War Machine arrive on matters of diplomacy. Learning that his alternate self has agreed to dissolve the Wakandan Council, thereby giving Iron Man complete control of the nation, T'Challa vehemently rejects it, fighting back against Spider-Man, War Machine and even his 615 self before Loki appears, slowing time around T'Challa. Loki begrudgingly admits that a scheme of his to manipulate the Regime's rise to power to steal the throne of Asgard failed spectacularly, and now uses the remainder of his dwindling magic power to assist the Insurgent forces. Loki transports T'Challa with the remainder of his 616 allies, now in the secret Insurgency headquarters in the Savage Land.
Now fully assembled, 615 Cap reveals an unlikely ally: Doctor Doom, one of the top members of the High Councillor's inner circle and a secret benefactor to the Insurgency for years. Doom provides the 616 heroes with a nanite serum that blinks them out of Iron Man's global surveillance system, though their presence is nonetheless reported to Stark by both Daken and Spider-Man. Undeterred, 615 Cap informs the group of their reason for being in this universe: As Avengers, their registered DNA is needed to unlock a secret anti-Extremis formula developed by the late Hank Pym—Stark had rebuilt 90% of his body with an Extremis exoskeleton—to hopefully incapacitate and dethrone Stark, with any other potential Avenger in their own world having been killed or defected to the Regime over the years.
Back in New York, 616 Spider-Man is apprehended by Regime Wasp and Vision after being beaten down by Green Goblin. Osborn is soon attacked by this world's Goblin, who is in fact the counterpart of his son, Harry. Norman manipulates his "son," coercing him to give him sanctuary, and Harry leads Norman to the underground headquarters of the anarchist Goblin Nation group. The Regime track Goblin down, but Osborn clashes with 615 Wasp and Black Widow before the Insurgency arrives, injecting Goblin with the serum and knocking his lights out for good measure. Informed of 616 Spider-Man's capture, Cap sends a rescue team lead by Storm to break him out of the Raft facility while Cap continues on with his mission with the remaining Earth-616 heroes to Avengers Mansion. Back on Earth-616, Vision, Iron Man and Cap devise a way to track down their teammates, while at the same time back on Earth-615 Deadpool meets up with Doctor Doom to agree to help the Insurgency's cause, claiming that the Regime's torture made matters personal.
Cap leads his team to Avengers Mansion, abandoned and decrepit, and Hawkeye helps to fight against Moonstone, Sandman, Mandarin and Ms. Marvel in a successful bid to retrieve the anti-Extremis weapon. Iron Man later arrives at the scene and is quick to determine the Insurgency's intentions, and responds by doubling down on security measures at the Raft, correctly guessing that they would not leave their Spider-Man behind. Back on Earth-616, an initial attempt to transport the heroes out of Earth-615 accidentally sends Vision into the reality. After a misunderstood scuffle with Deadpool and Doctor Doom, Vision agrees to assist the Insurgency for the time being, teaming up with Deadpool to destabilize Iron Man's surveillance network. Vision masquerades as his alternate self as he boards the re-purposed Helicarrier, but his disguise is quickly uncovered, and is forced to clash with Scarlet Witch and his counterpart before rigging the Helicarrier's controls and teleporting Deadpool on board. Deadpool performs sneak attacks against Spider-Man and War Machine before Vision teleports him on-board the Helicarrier, where he defeats Moonstone and Captain Marvel.
With Deadpool and Vision having destabilized the Regime's surveillance system, Storm's rescue party makes a break to free Spider-Man at the Raft, meeting up with Cap and the 616 heroes to help. As the Regime forces advance on them, Cap has two bitter clashes with Scarlet Witch and Black Widow—who is actually Yelena Belova, having killed Natasha Romanov years ago and taken her mantle—while also having to fend off 616 Hawkeye, temporarily mind-controlled by Emma Frost. In the chaos of the jailbreak, 615 Thor escapes his own prison and joins with the Insurgency—apparently, Thor initially sided with Iron Man during the Regime's infancy, but only realizes the error in his judgment when it became too late, leading to the death of his father Odin and his unworthiness to wield Mjölnir. Breaking Spider-Man out of prison, Cap and the Insurgency are confronted by a furious Iron Man, with a sentry of Ultron drones behind him. As the rest of the group fights back against the army, Cap attempts to reason with his former friend, but before Stark can attack them, the entire Insurgency group is teleported away. Iron Man then flies to the Helicarrier, only for it to explode from a rigged series of detonations installed by Deadpool.
Hours before the jailbreak at the Raft, Doctor Doom equips himself with the anti-Extremis weapon. Flying out to Manhattan, Doom is abruptly attacked by Green Goblin, who manipulated Harry to release him from his detainment by the Insurgency. Fighting back against the unhinged villain, Doom continues out to the Raft, where he lures away Ultron and Wasp and disarms them. Doom is then attacked by War Machine, correctly identifying him as a traitor, but Doom fends off against Rhodey. Doom calls out to Iron Man—at this point having witnessed the Helicarrier explode—challenging him. Doom's attempt to use the anti-Extremis weapon is thwarted by War Machine, giving Iron Man the opportunity to mortally injure Doom and his armor, revealing his disfigured face. Iron Man boastfully notes that he never fully trusted Doom all these years, and figured it was only a matter of time before he would attempt to kill him. Doom bitterly spits in Iron Man's face, claiming that Stark feels no true compassion for the populace he claims to protect, and Tony brutally murders Doom in retaliation, much to Rhodey's horror. The act is televised, with people around the world beginning to fear and disown the High Councillor.
Regrouping his forces at the new Stark Tower, Iron Man is informed of the movements of revolt in both Latveria and Wakanda in the wake of his televised execution of Doctor Doom. Iron Man announces he intends to obliterate both nations as a measure to snuff out any more growing dissent over the Regime. Most of the inner circle appears apprehensive but quiet, but War Machine is the only one to speak out against it, still outraged over Tony's execution of Doom. When Rhodey instills Pepper's name, arguing she would never condone genocide, Tony murders his best friend in cold blood, blasting a repulsor ray through Rhodey's skull. After subtly challenging the remaining members, Iron Man coldly instructs Emma Frost and Scarlet Witch to take control of all modes of broadcasting and orders Spider-Man and Vision to prep the Hulk for battle, then leaves without a word. Vision instructs Sandman to bury War Machine and tells Spider-Man that Rhodey is but a casualty for a stable world. However, Rhodey's death disillusions Spider-Man to the Regime's ideals and strikes down Vision and Sandman. Zipping out into the city, Peter fights Ultron, finding the android terrorizing several unarmed members of Goblin Nation, then Venom, taking his symbiote as a means to take himself off Stark's surveillance before turning to the Insurgency to warn them of Iron Man's plans.
With the anti-Extremis weapon rendered useless, Cap contends that the best course of action is to retrieve 616 Iron Man as a last-ditch effort to overthrow the High Councillor. 616 Ms. Marvel volunteers to lead a break-in to the Regime-controlled Baxter Building to apprehend the teleportation device needed to cross realities The Insurgency headquarters is then attacked by Regime forces. Thor, armed with the enchanted mace of his fallen comrade Hercules, defeats Red Hulk, but soon after finds himself transported to Asgard by Loki, informing him that Hela, ruler of Asgard following Odin's death, is sending out a legion of Asgardian warriors to attack Wakanda on behalf of the Regime. Thor fights off against Scarlet Witch and attacks and dethrones Hela. Loki then back-stabs his brother, but Thor deftly overpowers the god of mischief. Thor rallies his fellow Asgardians, conceding to his failures but also urging them that they are being led astray, convincing them to support the Insurgency instead. Suddenly, Mjölnir unearths itself from its resting place, but it does not fly into Thor's hand—but instead, to Storm.
At the same time, Storm and Captain Marvel are storming the Baxter Building. Storm fights off against Daken, Havok and Beast before being confronted by White Queen, the new Dark Phoenix and most powerful mutant on the planet. Emma assaults Storm, but Ororo's spirit keeps her going, refuting that she is doing what is right, while contending that Emma has allowed her position in power within the Regime as an excuse to revert to her more selfish and cruel traits, back in her days in the Hellfire Club. In this moment, Storm is deemed "worthy" to wield Mjölnir, which gives her enough power to beat down against Emma, removing her hold on the global media.
Meanwhile, Ms. Marvel fights off against Moonstone, Vision, Wasp and her own counterpart. Carol scolds the last three of them, condemning them for aligning themselves with the Regime. 615 Carol and Vision both contend they were doing what they felt was right, but Wasp breaks down into tears and admits she worked with them for fear of her life, having witnessed Tony kill Hank in front of her years ago (The memory was repressed by Emma Frost, but brought back into light after her defeat by Storm).
As the Insurgency takes up the teleportation device in the Baxter Building to bring in 616 Iron Man, Cap is hesitant, but the 616 heroes urge Cap to trust their Tony, just like he trusted the rest of them. 616 Iron Man arrives in time for the Cap to catch him up to speed, ending with Steve noting that, despite the circumstances, he's glad to have him on board. Arriving in Wakanda where the Regime's Ultron Drones are battling against Black Panther's Wakandan armies, Earth-616 Iron Man defeats Mandarin and Ultron before Thor's Asgardian fleet arrives to fight back against the Regime as well. Flying off to Latveria, Iron Man is attacked mid-air by the Hulk, leading to the two crashing down into Doomstadt Castle. Iron Man defeats Hulk, depowering his exoskeleton, causing him to regress back into Bruce Banner, and is almost immediately confronted by the High Councillor himself. 616 Tony vehemently rejects his other self's attempt to defend his actions as a means of protecting over a supposedly fragile world ("We're supposed to lead them into the future, not hand-hold them"), and stating that Pepper would be afraid and disgusted at what he had done in her memory.
Iron Man fights and defeats the High Councillor, destabilizing his Extremis and rendering his body immobile. 615 Tony bitterly scorns his counterpart as the Insurgency arrives, telling him he's the one doing the hand-holding. Confronted by Cap, Iron Man contends that he'll have to kill him, and Cap sternly responds that there's been enough killing, even him. With Iron Man's defeat, the remaining Regime forces are either arrested or willingly turn themselves in, including Spider-Man. The displaced Green Goblin is rounded up and taken back to his proper reality by his Spider-Man. Black Panther rebuilds his nation. Storm offers Mjölnir back to Thor, but Thor does not even attempt to pick it up, leaving it to her care, after which he stares solemnly at Asgard's empty throne. The displaced Wolverine wishes Quicksilver and Storm well in their goal to rehabilitate the mutant community oppressed under the Regime. The displaced Vision visits the grave of Doctor Doom, placing his mask at his memorial.
The displaced Iron Man personally sees to the imprisonment of his counterpart, the Extremis having been purged from his body and replaced with an exoskeleton of plastic and optical fiber—a literal shell of the man he once was. The displaced Iron Man acknowledges that, have he had undergone the same circumstances, he's uncertain if he would have turned out the same way. 615 Cap merely responds that, for the sake of his world, he hopes Tony never has to learn what he's truly capable of in the name of the greater good. As the two heroes depart, the final scene shows a close-up of 615 Iron Man, looking up with a metallic glimmer in his eye, indicating that perhaps the Extremis was not completely purged from his system.
Disassembled: Heroes Among Us was first announced on May 31, 2012, shortly before the Electronic Entertainment Expo. Developer Ed Boon revealed plans to offer depth and promised a rich amount of single-player content and layered features for tournament players. Similar to NetherRealm's previous comic-book-related title, Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe, there were restrictions on how violent the game can be, though Boon states he is planning to push the T rating, replacing violence with "crazy, over-the-top action."
Unlockable Skins Edit
Spider-Man Black Suit - Unlocked by getting 3 stars on all S.H.I.E.L.D. missions.
Spider-Man Scarlet Spider - Unlocked by getting a Disney Infinity account linked to the game.
Wolverine Daken - Unlocked by competing in and winning an online-ranked match.
Ultimate Doctor Doom - Unlocked by getting at least 1 star in every S.H.I.E.L.D. mission.
Thunderbolts Black Widow - Unlocked by reaching Level 30.
Iron Patriot War Machine - Unlocked by beating all of War Machine's S.H.I.E.L.D.missions (At least 1 star).
Joe Fixit Hulk - Unlocked by completing Classic Battle with any character.
Iron Man Heartbreaker Armor - Unlocked by completing the Story Mode.
- Avengers Mansion - Heroic Age
- Avengers Mansion - Disassembled
- Baxter Building
- Ravencroft Asylum
- Hell's Kitchen
- Morlock's Alley
- Ryker's Island
- Savage Lands
- SHIELD Helicarrier
- Stark Tower
- Times Square
- Xavier Institute
Like Mortal Kombat, Disassembled: Heroes Among Us is a 2D fighting game featuring numerous DC characters. Characters will be organized according to skill features: Power Users and Gadget Users. Each type can interact with their environments differently. All characters will have several unique abilities and special moves. The game will feature a single-player component in addition to multiplayer and tournament features.
The game also features the light, medium, and heavy attack array traditional to fighting games. These attacks can trigger various move sets, can chain together to form combos, and will gradually fill up the player's Super Meter. Characters will also have "Character Trait" buttons that activate unique fighting styles and abilities.
While modeled somewhat on Mortal Kombat, Disassembled features a new blocking system more akin to Street Fighter and a new "Wager" system. During a combo, the defending player can activate it by pressing forward and (X for PS3)(A for Xbox 360) (ZR for Wii U). At this point, both players place a hidden bet using a portion of their super meters. The highest bidder wins the clash, either rewarding health or finishing off the devastating combo. The Wager immediately ends the combo and triggers unique character dialogue before initiating combat again.
Game Stages will feature destructible environments and character costumes will deteriorate over the course of the battle. Also in the style of Mortal Kombat, the characters will receive notable battle damage, such as exposed muscle, although it will not reach the extremities of the aforementioned series. Some Stages will feature objects that players can use. The Danger Room, for example, can fire rockets at players in the Xavier Institute location.
Downloadable Content Edit
- Boba Fett
Downloadable Skins Edit
- Silver Age Pack 1: This pack comes with a costume for Iron Man, Thor and Hulk inspired by the Silver Age iterations of the characters, made famous by artists such as Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko. The Pack is available by pre-ordering the game from GameStop, now regular DLC. Red Son pack is also available on the IOS version of the game.
- Earth X Pack: This pack comes with a costume for Thor, Captain America and Doctor Doom from the Earth X miniseries. This pack is available by buying the game from Wal-Mart, but now regular DLC on "Ultimate Edition."
- The Ultimates Costume Pack: This pack comes with a costume for Captain America, Iron Man and Thor from the Ultimates Comic Series. Could get this by Buying the Collector's Edition or Battle Edition, now regular DLC.
- Marvel Zombies Pack: This pack includes alternate skins from the coveted Marvel Zombies comic book story. The pack also includes a zombie mode, where every character is turned into the undead. Could get this by pre-ordering the game at Amazon.com or Best Buy, now regular DLC.
- Raimi Pack: This pack includes alternate skins for Spider-Man, Green Goblin and Sandman inspired by their designs from the Sam Raimi-directed Spider-Man film trilogy. Get this by being one of the first 5000 to vote for any Super Battle or by signing up for Injustice updates via email, now available on "Ultimate Edition."
- Season Pass: The Season Pass will be available when the game is released and will have New X-Men Costumes of Emma Frost, Wolverine and Beast. It will also come with 4 DLC characters: Cable, Psylocke, Boba Fett and Nova.
- Girls Pack: This pack includes alternative skins of Captain Marvel, Storm, and Wasp. Captain Marvel's "Warbird" costume, Storm in her Jim Lee design, and Wasp in her J.G. Jones design, made famous in Marvel: Avengers Alliance.
- Shattered Dimensions Pack: This pack includes alternate skins from the Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions video game. Comes with 3 skins of Spider-Man (Noir, 2099, Ultimate).
- Silver Age Pack 2: This pack includes 3 skins of Captain America, Hawkeye and Captain Marvel inspired by their Silver Age iterations.
- Marvel Zombies Pack 1: This pack includes 3 skins of Spider-Man, Iron Man and Hulk based on their Marvel Zombies appearance.
- Marvel Zombies Pack 2: This pack includes 3 skins of Captain America, Black Panther and Wasp based on their Marvel Zombies appearance.
- MC2 Pack: This pack includes 3 skins based on characters from the MC2 universe: Spider-Girl (Spider-Man), Stinger (Wasp) and Wild Thing (Wolverine).
- The First Avenger Captain America Skin: Captain America's appearance in the 2011 film Captain America: The First Avenger.
- MCU Loki: Loki's appearance in the MCU films, as portrayed by Tom Hiddleston. This is a free skin with the compatibility pack update that can be bought when purchasing Super-Skrull.
- Monica Rambeau as Captain Marvel: Monica Rambeau as an alternate skin for Captain Marvel. This is a free skin with the compatibility pack that can be bought when purchasing Magneto.
- Captain America No More: Captain America's black-clad suit, first debuted in Captain America #336, when Steve Rogers went by only "The Captain." This is a free skin with the compatibility pack that can be bought when purchasing Spider-Woman.
- Mangaverse Pack: ___, Black Widow's and Storm's appearances in Marvel Mangaverse.
- Mandarin's Iron Man 3 Skin: Based Mandarin's depiction in the 2013 film Iron Man 3, as portrayed by Sir Ben Kingsley. This is a free skin with the gameplay patch.
Mobile App Edit
Disassembled: Heroes Among Us' companion mobile app with a single-player fighting game component was released on iTunes on March 29th. It is a free-to-play game that allows users to make in-app purchases. As characters progress and unlock content in either the full game or the mobile game, they will also unlock content for the other, rewarding players who play both components. Players can earn rewards on the mobile version by syncing with the console version and vice-versa by logging in to a WBID.
Unlockable Skins Edit
- Spider-Man 2099
- Ultimate Venom
- Iron Man Lockdown
- Ms. Marvel
- MCU Black Widow
As part of the game's marketing campaign, Marvel Comics released the comics digitally on a weekly schedule beginning on January 15, 2013. The titles served as a prequel to Dissassembled, detailing the various events leading up until the game. The series is written by Tom Taylor and illustrated by Jheremy Raapack.
The first issue of the Disassembled comic is available in the Collector's Edition bundle.
- Troy Baker- Hawkeye
- Laura Bailey - Scarlet Witch
- Ogie Banks - Wolverine (Daken), Wakandan Soldier
- Steve Blum - Wolverine, Announcer
- Jessica DiCicco - Spider-Girl
- John DiMaggio - Sandman, Venom
- Jennifer Hale - Captain Marvel
- Mark Hamill - Green Goblin
- Tom Kane - Doctor Doom, Ultron, Endings Narrator
- Josh Keaton - Spider-Man
- Hoon Lee - Mandarin
- Phil LaMarr - War Machine
- John de Lancie - Loki
- Vanessa Marshall - Black Widow (Natasha)
- James C. Mathis III - Black Panther, SHIELD Guard
- Matthew Mercer - Iron Man, Boba Fett
- Danielle Nicolet - Storm, Monica Rambeau
- Nolan North - Deadpool, Radio Host #2
- Colleen O'Shaughnessey - Wasp, Radio Host #1, Stinger
- Roger Craig Smith - Captain America
- Brent Spiner - Vision
- Fred Tatasciore - Hulk, Beast
- Kari Wahlgren - Emma Frost, Wild Thing
- Travis Willingham - Thor, Wakandan Librarian
- Gwendoline Yeo - Black Widow (Yelena), Psylocke
- Andrea Romano - Voice Director


text: The handbell choirs of Hancock Church present the Fourteenth Annual Patriots’ Day Handbell Concert of patriotic and American music on Monday, April 17, 2017 at 11:15 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. The concert is light-hearted and family-friendly and includes music played on 5 octaves of hand bells and hand chimes by ringers young and old, sure to please listeners of all ages: Broadway hits, American gospel, spirituals, and patriotic songs. The concert is planned to begin at the end of the Road Race and just before Paul Revere arrives at the Minuteman Statue. Suggested donation of $3 per person to benefit the Handbell Scholarship Fund to assist ringers to attend bell workshops and festivals. Hancock Church, 1912 Massachusetts Avenue, the stone church across from the Battle Green, is handicapped accessible.


He said the Japanese government had “expressed its understanding” but warned that the agreement could be “ended at any time.” The suspension of GSOMIA directly harms U.S. national security as the government of the Democratic People`s Republic of Korea ramps up provocations, including 12 tests of more than 20 ballistic missiles this year, including new types of nuclear ballistic missiles. whereas the strengthening of the exchange of information on the future of trilateral cooperation and the possibility of enabling the governments of the United States, Japan and the Republic of Korea to meet the challenges posed by the destabilizing actions of the Government of the Democratic People`s Republic of Korea, the People`s Republic of China and other emerging security threats : On August 22, 2019, South Korea announced its withdrawal from the bilateral pact for the exchange of military information with Japan, known as GSOMIA, after being removed from the preferred list of partners (“n. Randd.-Wei-llisten”). GSOMIA, signed in 2016 amid a series of nuclear tests conducted by North Korea, authorized a wide-ranging exchange of information between the two countries on Pyongyang`s provocative activities in the region. GSOMIA has allowed Tokyo and Seoul to share sensitive military secrets, including those relating to Pyongyang`s ballistic missiles and nuclear development programs. Yoichi Iida, director general of the department of trade control of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, stressed on Friday night that the decision was not about GSOMIA`s announcement. One of the key conditions for Seoul is for South Korea to be able to terminate GSOMIA at any time, Yonhap Kim You-geun, deputy director of the President`s National Security Bureau of the Blue House, quoted the Yonhap News Agency as saying. (4) urges the Republic of Korea to consider how best to take measures that could undermine regional security cooperation; The need for GSOMIA was felt amid a growing threat from North Korea, particularly when it began conducting nuclear tests and developing ballistic missiles.
The agreement was finally signed in November 2016. The U.S. interest in the agreement comes from the need to forge alliances in the Northeast to analyze and respond to all threats from North Korea.


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As mass ICE raids are expected to take begin on Sunday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is calling on religious leaders to stop it from happening.
While speaking at a closed-door whips meeting, Pelosi told members “that she plans to reach out to religious leaders to encourage them to oppose the efforts,” according to Politico.
During her press conference, Pelosi claimed that the ICE raids that were planned a couple weeks ago were called off because, she believes, Evangelical leaders advised the President against taking action, and she’s hoping it will happen again.
Pelosi said, “They were very concerned that this goes too far because these raids were not what they signed up for with President Trump. And I think their calls to the president made a difference. Hopefully the president will think again about it or these groups will weigh in once again.”
Pastor Robert Jeffress weighed in on Pelosi’s latest remarks while appearing on Lou Dobbs Tonight.
He began by stating, “There is nothing immoral or un-Christian about the President enforcing the law. I mean that is his constitutional as well as his God-given responsibility.” Video Below
“I don’t recall Nancy Pelosi calling on us to demand that President Obama stop his deportation of three million illegal immigrants that earned him the title of ‘Deporter-In-Chief’,” Jeffress continued. “It seems like gross hypocrisy to me.
Pastor Jeffress went further to say that the crisis at the border is “100 percent the fault of the Democrats.” He cited how Democrats are not working with the President to close asylum loopholes because they are focused on one goal, which is: “They are hell-bent on driving this President out of office and overturning the 2016 elections.”
Jeffress declared, “The fact that they would place their hatred for President Trump above the well-being of the nation, is a dereliction of duty at best and treason at worst.” Video Below
#AmericaFirst– @robertjeffress: There is nothing immoral or un-Christian about @realDonaldTrump enforcing the laws. That is his constitutional as well as his God given responsibility. This humanitarian crisis is 100% the fault of the Dimms. #MAGA #Dobbs pic.twitter.com/qIAeOFG4sz
— Lou Dobbs (@LouDobbs) July 13, 2019


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GOLD STOCKS DOWN $8,797,200 IN DAY; Increase in Earmarkings Is Ascribed by Bankers to French Transaction. EXCHANGE RATES UNEVEN Sterling and Franc Advance, While the Scandinavian Currencies Weaken.
An Increase of $8,797,200 in the amount of gold earmarked for foreign account was reported yesterday by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The earmarking, which represented a loss of that amount to the gold stocks of the country, put a damper on hopes aroused by Tuesday's large release from earmarking that foreign central banks had reversed their policy of converting dollar balances into gold.
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“Bajai,” as we called grandmother, was the best storyteller in the whole world, says Madhu Gurung. She lived in the foothills of Mussoorie in a tiny village called Johri Gaun. And she always started her stories with a saying, “To the listener a garland of gold, to the storyteller a garland of all forest flowers and this tale that I tell you today will be heard in heaven.” Here Madhu Gurung presents one of the many stories that she heard from Bajai in her childhood.
Once upon a time, in the mountain kingdom of Gandrung, close to the foothills of Machapuchare (the fish-tail mountain in Pokhra, Nepal) there lived a King and Queen.
They had no children and all their prayers for a child were in vain. Often the King would worry about who would rule the kingdom after him.
Seeing him worried and unhappy, the Queen started a rumour.
She spread the word that she was going to have a baby.
The whole kingdom rejoiced.
The Queen also said that she did not want the King to see her in a pregnant state. The King readily agreed, overjoyed at the thought of becoming a father soon.
He built her a fine palace where the Queen and her ladies-in-waiting lived. The palace was built on the top of a hill, surrounded by flaming red rhododendron trees. Every morning, the Queen could be spotted taking a walk on the palace roof top seeing the sunrise paint the fish-tail mountain with gold, orange and bright fuchsia pink.
Exactly nine months later, the Queen announced that she had given birth to a healthy son whom she named Bir Bahadur.
The King rushed to see his son but the Queen stopped him, saying that it would bring the prince bad luck if he saw the child. So, the King returned to his own palace with a heavy heart and sent hordes of gifts for his son.
From time to time, the King would hear of how well his son was growing and how intelligent and handsome he was.
When the prince was five years old, the Queen asked for a tutor to teach him horse riding and archery. So a Guru was sent to the Queen.
The King constantly tried to see the young prince but the Queen always denied him access. She kept informing him from time to time how well the prince was growing up.
When the prince was 21 years old, the Queen sent word to the king saying that it was time he looked for a match for the prince. The King was very happy.
The neighbouring king had a beautiful daughter, whose name was Mohini.
The marriage between Prince Bir and Princess Mohini was fixed and there was great joy and celebration all around.
The Queen insisted that the prince be taken in a closed palanquin carried by four muscled men. The King agreed and the marriage procession started with great fanfare.
The Queen put a sword inside the palanquin. She had decided that once her secret was discovered she would kill herself…
With the prince’s palanquin she sent her trusted aide, who knew about her secret.
The procession travelled through a huge forest and camped by a river at night.
On that night, the snake prince Nag and his wife Nagin slithered by the bushes near the river, looking at the marriage procession with interest.
“Do you know whose barat it is?” asked Nag.
Nagin smiled in the darkness and said, “Yes I know, it is the marriage procession of the handsome prince Bir Bahadur.”
The snake laughed and his tongue licked the air.
“There is no one inside the palanquin,” said Nag. “The prince is a figment of the Queen’s imagination. Once her secret is out she will kill herself.”
Nagin felt very unhappy when she heard about how the Queen had kept the secret for so many years, just to keep the King happy. The thought that the Queen had no alternative but to kill herself saddened Nagin.
Now, Nag had magical powers. He could take any form he wanted. So Nagin persuaded Nag to take on the form of the prince and help the old Queen.
Nag agreed after a great deal of persuasion. “Come back to me after a week,” said Nagin as Nag took the form of a handsome prince. He nodded, making his way silently to the Prince’s tent. “Don’t forget me dear Nag,” Nagin whispered in the dark. Nag raised his hand in farewell.
The next day, the barat reached Princess Mohini’s palace.
There was a great deal of festivity in the air. Everyone gasped aloud as the prince stepped out of the palanquin. He was tall, well built and very handsome.
The king was the happiest of them all. He was seeing his son after 21 years. He hugged his son with tears in his eyes and joy in his heart.
The marriage took place with a lot of merry making.
The next day, the barat returned to Gandrung and camped at the same river side. Nagin looked for Nag but he was always surrounded by people. He looked at home with all the people. By his side sat the beautiful Princess Mohini and often Nagin saw he was unable to look away from his new wife. She was very beautiful indeed.
Nagin could not get to speak to him at all.
On the barat’s return the prince was welcomed by the old Queen who thought that God had answered her prayers by sending the handsome prince to her.
She watched with immense happiness as the young prince and the princess settled down to married bliss.
The prince fell deeply in love with his beautiful bride and was totally enamoured by her. They were inseparable.
The prince had forgotten his snake wife, Nagin. He was too much in love with his new wife.
He built a new palace with very smooth walls which even an ant could not climb. In his own way, he was leaving his old life behind.
The Nagin waited for the prince by the river side and as days became weeks and weeks turned into months, she pined for him and hoped he would return.
But he did not.
At last, Nagin decided to visit the kingdom of Gandrung. There, she saw the palace the prince had built. She tried to climb the walls of the palace but fell down, hurting herself. She cried and settled down by the bushes. At dusk, she saw the handsome prince strolling with Princess Mohini. Seeing him, she climbed the wall again.
She tried numerous times and with great difficulty climbed the smooth slippery walls of the palace. Slowly and stealthily she made her way to the chamber of the prince and saw him sleeping with the princess.
He looked so handsome and contented and so much at peace. For a long while, she sat there and her tears fell unchecked. The princess’ long black hair fell like thick thunder clouds around her lovely face. Nagin slithered slowly into the princess’s hair and in her grief she twirled round and round and killed herself by suffocation.
The sleeping princess woke up suddenly with a start. She felt something entangled in her hair, jerked her head and the dead Nagin fell on the floor. The prince woke up and heard the princess cry out in fright.
When he saw his dead Nagin on the floor, he was flooded with a deep sense of loss and remorse. He knew at once that his broken promise was what had led her to kill herself.
Silently, he picked up her broken body, wrapped her around his neck and left the room without a backward glance.
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Extension To National Gallery Of Ireland
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In an international competition, ten firms were invited to make proposals for a 5000sqm extension to the National Gallery of Ireland.
The aim of the proposal was to make a new wing which would act cohesively with the existing building and provide the required accommodation in a manner that would enhance the experience of the overall building, while creating, in overall terms, a modern gallery for the 21st century.
The site for the extension on Clare street is at a pivotal point in the city, forming a junction between the Georgian Precinct and the rest of the city centre. The proposal recognises and reinforces this set of circumstances.
The entrance portico - a stone and glass cube extends six meters above the street - signals the presence of the gallery from Clare Street and Merrion Square to the east, and South Leinster Street to the west, creating a punctuation mark between two sets of circumstances. It extends over the pavement in a contemporary interpretation of a traditional architectural device seen elswhere in Dublin, most notibaly at the GPO on O'Connell Street and at the Bank of Ireland (formally the House of Parliment) at College Green.


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Residents in Nottinghamshire have supported the Government's decision not to remove support bubbles from coronavirus guidance.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock ruled out the move during a public health briefing on Monday (January 11), describing them as an "important part" of the support system.
It followed some reports suggesting that support bubbles may be axed due to soaring infection rates, with the Government looking to tighten restrictions on the third national lockdown.
However, Mr Hancock confirmed guidance around support bubbles would not change - meaning people who live alone and those in other specific criteria can still form bubbles with one other household.
The move was welcomed by readers on Nottinghamshire Live's Facebook page, who described support bubbles as "critical" to people on their own.
However, many readers believed people should be taking the guidance on support bubbles more seriously.
Commenting on Facebook, Janet Callow said: "Maybe Matt Hancock isn’t aware of the way some people are flaunting the both the social and childcare bubbles.
"It’s up to people to follow the rules."
Joanne Watts commented: "They need to be reviewed but many think they can take the own law in their hands, when they should be phoning their love ones they don’t live with [and] many of us are taking this seriously."
Joy Cotton said: "Support bubbles should stay, but people need to understand when they are allowed to form one."
Paul Clapperton said: "The support bubbles are really good and needed for people, but the problem is many are abusing them.
"Staying for long periods overnight etc. Should be minimum times as needed only."
Others expressed their strong views about the need for support bubbles during the lockdown, and how the rule has helped their families.
Lynn Booth said: "So glad [it has not been scrapped] as my dad is 90 and lives alone and is in our support bubble.
"I would hate to think that he would be sitting alone in his home, I need to be able to take care of him."
Stephen Paul Cook Good, suicides and mental health problems have gone through the roof. People need protecting mentality as well as physically."
June Hudson said: "Support bubbles are critical to those living alone."
Speaking during the briefing on Monday, Mr Hancock said: "I can rule out removing the support bubbles.
"I know how important they are to people and they are an important part of the support system we have.
"The bubbles are there for for specific people.
"You can't keep moving to other people. It's important to stick to the same bubbles and the bubbles policy will stay."
However, during the briefing he also added that the new Covid variant is "highly contagious and putting the NHS under significant pressure".


VIDEO: Recording Session with Bernard Fowler
A little bit more than one year after their first email concact, Bernard Fowler and Stefan were able to record Bernard's vocal track for Wild Horses at Powerplay Studios in Maur near Zurich. Bernard is a member of the Rolling Stones since 1983 and will appear as a special guest on Stefan's new album "The Chuck Leavell Project". He was in Zurich for playing a concert with a David Bowie tribute show and had just enough time to record the song for Stefan. Thank you Bernard Fowler, sound engineer Cyrill Camenzind and Tom Bömmel for this amazing expirience.


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CHED, US EMBASSY SIGN NEW FULBRIGHT AGREEMENT FOR HEI FACULTY
THE COMMISSION on Higher Education and the Embassy of the United States of America recently signed a new CHED-Fulbright agreement to implement a scholarship program for Filipino higher education institution personnel who will pursue graduate degree and non-degree thesis/dissertation programs in American universities.
Signed by US Ambassador to the Philippines Sung Kim and CHED Chairman Prospero De Vera III, the agreement will boost student and faculty mobility in various fields of study, and facilitate alternating missions to the Philippines and US for higher education executives and stakeholders.
The Fulbright program, founded by US Senator J. William Fulbright in 1946, is one of the most widely recognized and prestigious scholarships in the world. It has produced luminaries such as former Senator Rene Saguisag; former Supreme Court Chief Justice and Senate President Marcelo Fernan; National Artists Bienvenido Lumbera, Napoleon Abueva, Abdulmari Asia Imao, and Lucrecia Kasilag; and National Scientist and former CHED Chairperson Angel Alcala.
De Vera was a Fulbright Hays Scholar at the University of Southern California and a Senior Fulbright Visiting Fellow at the Johns Hopkins University.
Many current and former presidents of state universities and colleges such as Dr. Shirley Agrupis (Mariano Marcos State University), Dr. Lourdes Generalao (University of Southeastern Philippines), Dr. Anthony Penaso (Caraga State University), Dr. Joy Sorrosa (Davao del Norte State College) and Dr. Herbert Reyes (Northwestern Mindanao State College of Science and Technology) are also products of the program.
“CHED through Commission en Banc (CEB) Resolution No. 501-2016 approved the partnership between the CHED and the Philippine-American Educational Foundation (PAEF). We are giving PHP164 million for the next batch of scholars,” De Vera said in a statement.
Since 1948, PAEF has awarded Fulbright grants to nearly 3,000 Filipinos and close to 1,000 Americans to study, teach, lecture, and conduct research in the US and the Philippines.
In November 2, 2016, CHED and PAEF awarded the first batch of Fulbright-CHED Scholarship grantees for the September 2017 Intake, which was composed of 17 competent and highly qualified Filipino higher education faculty and staff who would pursue their graduate studies in the US.
Of the number, seven scholars pursued a Master’s degree, nine took a Doctorate degree, and one pursued a Doctoral Dissertation Research in different American universities.
In September 2018, 19 Fulbright-CHED scholars were sent for graduate studies in the US, including nine PhDs, six MAs, and three non-degree grantees.
The scholarship provides funding support for tuition and fees, non-academic fees, monthly allowance, airfare, excess baggage, in-transit allowance, dissertation, and other academic support – equivalent to $77,250 or P3.9 million (conversion based on the date of signing) for two years.
“Currently, we have 18 scholars (11 from batch 1 and 7 from batch 2) who have already completed their program and are expected to render return service to their respective sending higher education institutions,” De Vera said.
“The Fulbright program has produced so many outstanding leaders in the academe, industry and in government. This new agreement continues this valuable and mutually beneficial partnership between the two countries,” he added.
Fulbright scholarship is the largest US exchange program offering opportunities for students and young professionals to undertake international graduate study, advanced research, university teaching, and primary and secondary school teaching worldwide, according to its website.
The program currently awards approximately 2,000 grants annually in all fields of study and operates in more than 140 countries worldwide.


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Life is a Beach
Full disclosure: I am still on vacation! I got home from Europe, did a few loads of laundry, and hopped in my dad’s car the next day to meet my mom and sister at our favorite beach. We are camping in Cape May, NJ for the week to celebrate my Mom’s 50th birthday. This again has left me away from the blogging world and the kitchen, but normal posts will return soon enough! Until then, another story from my trip!
Life in a beach town has a much different rhythm. You wake up with no alarm, check the heat and humidity on the front porch before deciding to go running, and lazily stroll to the market to get your food for the day. You stop at the bakery for fresh bread, a street-side stand for produce, a butcher for meat, and another stand for fish. Most places are open all morning, but the fish stand is only open from 7am-10am, which we found out the hard way on our first attempt. They have buckets on ice filled with the catch of the day, and they sell out each morning. I couldn’t tell you what any of the fish at the market were that day because their names were all in Croatian, but you basically could not make a poor choice. All of the fish looked very similar – some just a little longer or shorter, thinner or fatter. We chose 3 medium-sized fish, figuring it would be the perfect ratio for individual portions without the tiny, dangerous bones.
After a day on the beach, we made a pit stop at an Internet cafe to get a little background in fish filleting and cleaning. Seriously, what did one do before Google? I read about how to take off the scales, which fins to remove, and how to gut and wash the fish. With a basic plan of action in mind, we headed home to start on our feast.
I sat out under the outdoor shower, fish and a few
sharp knives in hand. Realizing I didn’t quite have the proper equipment, I began to improvise slightly. I used a dull knife to take off the scales, a slightly sharper knife to get the fins, and a spoon for the insides. I decided against taking the bones out, figuring I would end up with lump fish meat instead of fillets. I was more than a little grossed out and will admit to a few girly freak out moments, especially when I was under attack from a swarm of bees (who knew they liked meat?!) But I got the job done! I finished rinsing them off and carried them inside.
I cut up some lemon wheels and stuffed those with a little olive oil, salt, pepper and herbs inside of the fish. I then created a bit of a steaming device – I put a larger frying pan on the bottom and covered it with a slightly smaller pan on top. I let the fish cook for a few minutes on each side, watching what was left of the skin melt away in my improvisational set up. Once the fish was flaky and white, I took it away from the heat. I cut off the head and tails, and served what looked like beautiful fillets of fresh fish!
Alongside, I mixed some fresh tomatoes and cucumbers together with a bit of olive oil, salt and pepper for my take on a traditional Eastern European salad. I also steamed up some cauliflower, and Azra made her version of her mom’s potato salad (some raw white onions, cooked potato slices, apple cider vinegar, olive oil, salt and pepper). The dinner was fantastic! The fish was tender and flaky, and it was easy enough to avoid the bones. The lemon and herbs perfectly enhanced the flavor without overpowering anything. And our volumes of veggies on the side were a nice fresh addition, and were especially appreciated after a severe lack of veg in Bosnian cuisine (more to come on that!) We fully enjoyed our 4th of July fish feast, but it might be a long time before I am running to fillet fresh fish again. I am willing to try almost anything once when on vacation, though!

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How does an Earthship work? An Earthship is a kind of passive solar home—or community of homes—typically made of natural and recycled materials such as old tires and recycled cans. Such homes make use of non-polluting renewable energy sources and smart design to meet most if not all heating, cooling and power needs.
What is the disadvantage of the Earthship? Disadvantages of Earthships
Water can collect along the interior wall surfaces if the environment is too humid which can lead to mold and other problems. An Earthship might take 2 to 3 years to find their median temperature.
How much does it cost to build an Earthship? Earthships can cost as little as $20,000 to make and as much as $1,500,000 to make. The average price of Earthship homes per square footage is $150 and $225. That’s because several factors add to the cost. The goal of an Earthship isn’t to save on money.
Can Earthships be built anywhere? It’s not possible. Anywhere. Many people like to think that earthships are “natural.” That is simply not accurate. They are beautiful, organically shaped objects that embrace recycling in a way that can help keep things out of the landfill – which is GREAT in principal.


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“I’ve always been disconnected,” says Green, who grew up on Houston’s poverty-stricken south side, the child of a single mother with five kids. “We are all disconnected. And the problem we see across the country is that this is not just the pattern, it’s institutionally the way it is.”
The time has come to change the paradigm, says Green, whose speaking style is part Martin Luther King Jr., part Oregon Entrepreneurs Network. “If the United States wants to be globally competitive, we must connect the disconnected.”
To understand the problem Green is trying to address, start with a few facts about venture capital, job growth and African-American entrepreneurship. Last year, angel and venture-capital investors sank $52 billion into roughly 70,000 companies, according to data compiled by the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire and CB Insights, a New York private company research firm. A study by the Kauffman Foundation, a Kansas City-based group dedicated to entrepreneurship, also showed that young high-growth companies, those whose revenues grow quickly, were the primary source of new job growth in the United States.
The black community is not sharing in this new wealth creation. Between 2002 and 2007, black entrepreneurship spiked 60% compared to 18% in white America. But a closer look at these statistics reveals a gloomier picture: 1.9 million of those new black-owned businesses produced less than 1% of the gross domestic product, and 1.8 million were sole proprietors with no employees. “The reality is there has been zero job growth in black America,” says Green.
A 12-year Navy veteran, Green began researching black entrepreneurship in 2009 when he left his job as content editor at the Ashland Daily Tidings to start out on his own as a digital-tech entrepreneur, experimenting with 3-D gaming platforms for e-commerce. After experiencing first-hand the challenge of building a company and attracting investors, he began to delve deeply into the literature on black innovation. Some of the data confirmed what he already suspected: An entrenched achievement gap in American public schools meant African-American kids were ill-equipped to participate as job seekers or job creators in the rapidly expanding Internet and tech-based sectors.
Green also located one black angel group — “just one” — and found that all minorities combined represented only 4% of all angel investors nationwide.
“We do have innovators; we are very creative people,” says Green. What’s lacking are the mentors, the capital and the accelerators necessary for the black entrepreneurial community to grow. The venture-capital space took off in the 1960s, a time when African-Americans were still fighting for civil rights, Green says. Today, the black tech sector has yet to catch up. Lacking access to risk capital, Green says blacks are “in the valley of death.”
That kind of analysis resonates with Andres Montgomery, a 15-year Microsoft veteran and CEO of Dreem Digital, a Salem-based startup that builds mobile software for education. Montgomery also is one of Oregon’s few black tech entrepreneurs. “I’ve seen fortunes made and seen a lot of people sharing in the prosperity of the industry,” says Montgomery, who met Green last fall, an encounter that has since led to meetings with potential investors. “But I didn’t see that with African-Americans.”
Even when African-Americans succeed in the marketplace, they typically don’t invest in the technology space. Instead, the largest black-owned companies in the country revolve around cars, banks and entertainment — “industries that don’t return the kind of investment that technology does,” says Montgomery.
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As you probably know by now, The Vernon Company is a national leader in the promotional products industry with annual sales of over $60 million. We are a family owned business, led by the fourth generation of the Vernon family.


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Eating a snack or meal should leave you feeling refueled and energized. Many people often wonder why they instead feel fatigued and even ready to take a nap. What you eat, when you eat, and how often you eat all play a big part in how you feel overall. Making smart food choices can go a long way in helping you feel your best every day.
It's true. What you put in your body has a direct impact on how your body functions and how you feel. Your body converts food into energy during the digestion process and in turn burns calories. How efficiently you burn calories is measured by your metabolism, which is your body's ability to convert food into energy. Both short term and long term health are determined, in part, by how you eat. When you eat a lot of junk or fast food, your energy levels drop significantly. There just aren't enough nutrients in these foods to keep you going.
Think of your metabolism as a blazing bonfire. When the fire is burning bright and hot, your metabolism is in full gear and your body is functioning optimally. As the fire begins to diminish, you need to add more fuel or food to the fire to keep it burning hot with a consistent flame. The more you let it diminish, the more it takes to get it going again, making it a constant battle to keep it lit.
Eating infrequently and loading your body up with carbohydrates, sugars, and bad fats when you do eat will weigh you down and have you "running on empty." Re-fueling with a balance of healthy carbohydrates, protein, fiber, and healthy fats will keep you body running like a well-oiled machine. You will be up for anything and your resistance will be strong, too.
There are many misconceptions surrounding eating and energy.
One is that certain foods, like Thanksgiving turkey, can make you tired. It is actually the amino acid l-tryptophan that raises serotonin levels and calms you that makes you feel that way.
Another is that eating sugar will give you a quick "sugar rush." The rush or energy boost you experience is actually your body reacting to and processing refined sugar. This energy is short-lived and very soon after you will crash.
Finally, drinking caffeine will give you more energy. This is only temporary because caffeine is a stimulant that affects the central nervous system. It will make you alert and focused temporarily, but it won't last. Eventually your body needs more of it over time.
Eating small, frequent, healthy meals throughout the day will have immediate positive results on your body. You will have the ability to sustain a consistent level of energy all day long. You'll find that your mind is more focused and that you can easily multi-task and make decisions easily. If you are trying to lose weight, your metabolism will fire up and help you burn more calories throughout the day. It will also be easier to maintain a desired weight without skipping meals. And most importantly, you will be proactively protecting yourself from future health issues because your blood sugar levels will be in balance.
Follow these easy rules to keep energized after eating:
Eat five to six small meals and snacks a day and avoid eating one or two big meals. Don't let more than two or three hours lapse between meals and snacks. Carry healthy snacks, like granola bars and fruit, with you wherever you go so you are not caught in a situation where you can't eat when you are hungry. If you work out, eat a snack before and a meal after you work out to give your body what it needs to recover. Eat a good breakfast that contains protein along with carbohydrates, fat, and fiber. Don't skip it!