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TikTok’s recent silencing of conservative and pro-life voices is raising questions about whether the tech industry’s woke political culture is to blame — or whether the Chinese-owned company is doing the bidding of Beijing.
The latest target: Live Action President and founder Lila Rose, who said earlier this month that her TikTok account was permanently banned without explanation, mirroring the experiences of the Babylon Bee, Students for Life of America and Media Research Center TV.
The rash of cancellations has contributed to the unease surrounding TikTok, the short-video platform owned by Beijing-based ByteDance that has fueled national security and privacy concerns over China’s potential access to data on the app’s 1 billion users worldwide.
Gordon G. Chang, distinguished senior fellow at the Gatestone Institute, argued that the Chinese Communist Party “uses TikTok to spread its propaganda narratives.”
“TikTok’s suspension of several conservative-leaning sites is undoubtedly the result of a decision in the Chinese capital. It cannot be random,” Mr. Chang, author of “The Coming Collapse of China,” told The Washington Times.
TikTok did not respond to requests for comment by The Washington Times, but the company has pushed back against allegations of Chinese state interference in the past.
“We have made clear that TikTok has never shared user data with the Chinese government, nor censored content at its request,” TikTok said in a statement on Aug. 7, 2020, responding to the Trump administration’s attempt to shut down the app in the U.S.
That hasn’t stopped conservatives from making the Beijing connection. The Media Research Center unloaded on left-wing bias and the Chinese Communist Party after TikTok unplugged its MRCTV account without warning.
“TikTok is apparently easily triggered by conservative content that doesn’t serve the propaganda of its communist overlords,” said the Aug. 1 post on MRC’s NewsBusters blog.
TikTok’s bans on right-tilting sites appear to follow the same script. Accounts are frozen often without explanation or reference to specific videos. Appeals are rarely heeded. Efforts to establish contact with actual TikTok administrators go nowhere.
And yet accounts can be thawed as quickly as they were frozen. Live Action, Students for Life of America and MRCTV have all been slapped with “permanent” bans that were later lifted.
“Honestly, we get banned off and on all the time, and anecdotally, I note that they have a habit of doing it on Fridays,” said Students for Life spokesperson Kristi Hamrick. “I speculate it’s because people are more active on social media on the weekend.”
MRCTV managing editor Brittany Hughes said the entire process at TikTok “seems to be sort of random.”
“We’ve been permanently banned now three times, and we’re currently banned,” Ms. Hughes said. “They took one of them off I believe last March and turned it into a one-week suspension instead.”
MRCTV reported having videos censored on its TikTok account 45 times, with 42 of those occurring since January. Seven videos were reinstated after being appealed. One restored video was re-banned in what MRCTV called an example of the “incoherence of TikTok’s censorship operation.”
“They’ll ban you and then they’ll take down your videos, but they don’t actually send you a notice saying that this video violated this community guideline or policy,” Ms. Hughes said. “So we have no idea what actually tripped this this time, or frankly any of the other times.”
The Babylon Bee, the Christian conservative satirical site, was kicked off the platform without explanation last month, but so far the account has not been reinstated.
“No, nothing has changed,” said Bee CEO Seth Dillon. “We haven’t even been getting the option to appeal.”
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Live Action spokesperson Noah Brandt chalked up the bans to left-wing political bias.
“At least in America, I think [TikTok] is just controlled by pro-abortion liberal elites who are happy to shut down pro-life speech,” he said.
No human contact
TikTok is hardly the only social-media platform to be accused of targeting the right. Conservatives have long feuded with U.S.-based companies such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube over allegations of viewpoint discrimination.
TikTok’s posted “community guidelines” include prohibitions on “hateful conduct,” “hateful ideology” and “hateful misinformation” that are broad enough to cover a vast swath of advocacy-related content.
And at least one pro-choice account has run afoul of the guidelines: In May, TikTok suspended Ruth Sent Us after it was criticized for posting the alleged home addresses of the six conservative Supreme Court justices. The ban was removed a few days later.
At TikTok, as with other social-media giants, the suspensions appear to be triggered by videos that go viral.
In April, Students for Life said TikTok froze its account without warning and stripped off 35,000 followers after drawing a surge of traffic over a video showing campus debate between group President Kristan Hawkins and a pro-choice student.
Mr. Brandt said the Lila Rose suspension coincided with the group’s Justice for the Five campaign, referring to the five aborted fetuses allegedly taken by a pro-life activist from a clinic in Washington, D.C., that may have been old enough to have survived outside the womb.
“We are by far the biggest pro-life group on TikTok. We’ve had 17 million likes on the channel. Things go viral,” he said. “I’m sure the powers that be at TikTok would rather that didn’t happen.”
As far as Chinese influence goes, “You never know. Who knows what the TikTok American executives, what their ultimate aims and goals and relationships are to the PRC [People’s Republic of China]?” Mr. Brandt said.
Ms. Hughes said that Beijing and Moscow “like to do is to stir up dissent, however they can, in countries that they don’t like.”
As a result, “I would not be shocked if that were not part of a much bigger picture here that’s a lot less about somebody over on TikTok getting offended by something that we posted, and is more part of a global agenda,” she said.
Adding to the frustration is that conservative groups say it’s virtually impossible to reach an actual human being at TikTok.
Mr. Brandt said the group’s team was logging onto the Lila Rose account when “this screen popped up and said ‘your account has been banned, if you think this is a mistake you can submit an appeal.’ And we have heard nothing since.”
That was in April. There has been no response to her appeal. The platform also banned Live Action’s advertising content without giving a reason.
The pro-life group has tried to reach out to administrators at TikTok without success, a problem Mr. Brandt said could be the result of inadequate staffing.
“Maybe it’s because they’re a less mature company, or they haven’t been around as long, but with all the other social media companies, we know real human beings who work there. We can talk to them,” he said. “At TikTok, we do not have any human relationships, and I think it’s because their team is much, much, much smaller than at Facebook or Twitter.”
That bug may be more of a feature. Former U.S.-based TikTok employees described a culture of stress and secrecy in a May 6 article in the Wall Street Journal, as well as confusion resulting from the lack of an organization chart.
Last year, TikTok replaced interim CEO Vanessa Pappas in Los Angeles with permanent CEO Shou Zi Chew in Singapore, a move that the Journal said “further anchored its power base in the East.”
A Forbes investigation released Friday found that 300 current ByteDance and TikTok employees previously worked for Chinese state-owned media. A ByteDance spokesperson said the company bases its hiring decisions on the individual’s ability to do the job.
TikTok Communications posted a rebuttal last month after Republicans on the House Oversight and Reform Committee tweeted that the “Chinese Communist Party has an ownership stake in ByteDance,” referring to a 2021 transaction.
“[A] Chinese state-owned enterprise has a 1% stake in a different ByteDance subsidiary called Beijing Douyin Information Service Limited, not in TikTok’s parent company,” tweeted TikTok Communications.
Too big to bail
Despite their reservations, conservative and pro-life groups said that ignoring TikTok isn’t an option.
“TikTok is important,” Mr. Brandt said. “It’s where young people are, and it’s by far the fastest-growing social media platform.”
Launched in 2016 in China under the name Douyin, TikTok was the most downloaded app globally in 2020 and 2021, with a user base that skews heavily in favor of the teen and young adult markets.
A Pew Research Center survey of U.S. teenagers released Thursday ranked TikTok as the second most popular social-media app for those ages 13-17, trailing only YouTube and leading Snapchat, Instagram and Facebook.
The poll found that 67% of those ages 13-17 said they have visited or used TikTok, and 16% say they do so “almost constantly.”
“TikTok has rocketed in popularity since its North American debut several years ago and now is a top social media platform for teens among the platforms covered in this survey,” said the center in its analysis.
Ms. Hughes said that MRCTV wrestled with whether to join TikTok, given its Chinese ownership, but ultimately decided that it was critical to bring the conservative message to a younger audience.
“I was hesitant for MRCTV to even get on TikTok in the first place,” she said. “We had a lot of discussions about that internally because it is an important platform. If that’s where all of the youth are and you’re trying to reach them, it’s important to go where they are.”
At the same time, she said, “I think TikTok is dangerous in its own right simply because of who they answer to.”
TikTok is already squarely on the U.S. radar. President Biden rescinded last year the Trump administration’s effort to ban Chinese-owned apps in the U.S., but the Commerce Department is reviewing a proposed rule to increase scrutiny of apps owned or controlled by foreign adversaries.
“My guess is that they [TikTok executives] are swamped with a potential ban of their own,” said James A. Lewis, senior vice president and program director at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Mr. Chang said flatly that TikTok “should not be available in America.”
“It is illegally surveilling users and disseminating propaganda for a regime that considers the United States its enemy,” Mr. Chang said. “Moreover, Beijing does not allow American apps in China, so why do we allow Chinese apps here?”


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Whether you’re all booked or just beginning to plan your trip to Italy, reading the right books before you go is a great way to begin discovering Italy long before you board your flight.
We recommend you go beyond reading an Italy guide book, and take in a variety of different books that can help you better understand and anticipate your journey. Read on for six books about Italy that will get you primed for your journey.
Fiction: My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
My Brilliant Friend is the first book in Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan trilogy — a series of novels set in Naples that has exploded in popularity in recent years. An ongoing story of intense female friendship throughout the years. It also explores the gritty day-to-day experience of living in Naples. A great way to get a taste of a city that’s less represented in literature than some of its more famous cousins.
Non-Fiction: Rome by Robert Hughes
You can’t discuss Italy without speaking about Rome, the Eternal City. Robert Hughes, one of the sharpest arts and culture critics, take an eye to Rome as a city, as an empire, and as the cornerstone of Western Civilization. Robert Hughes has spent a lot of time in the city, giving the history a personal angle.
Food: Pasta Pane Vino by Matt Goulding
An Italy travel book with a cuisine-oriented lens, Pasta Pane Vino is a deeply personal take on Italy’s food culture. Goulding’s book comes from the Roads & Kingdoms publishing house that was co-founded with Anthony Bourdain. Beautifully written with a lot of specific local examples, this book will help you fall in love with Italian cuisine from afar.
Non Fiction: Venice by Jan Morris
If you like books set in Italy that give you a full immersion experience, Jan Morris’s book is a must read. Widely considered one of the greatest English-language travel books, Venice covers Venetian temperament, tradition, architecture, as well as its colorful and impressive history. No corner of Venice is left untouched by Morris’s extremely sharp eye.
Fiction: The Italians by Luigi Barzini
A book of Italy travel tips might give you a window into Italian etiquette, but it likely won’t provide a picture of the Italian soul. Barzini, a politician, author, and journalist does just that by digging into every corner of Italian life. Written in 1964 by a native Italian, The Italians gives us a peek into the national character of Italy from an insider’s point of view.
Non-Fiction: Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy by Frances Mayes
The book that launched thousands of Tuscan-bound holidays, Under the Tuscan Sun remains a cherished classic of the travel writing genre. Mayes eyes the Tuscan countryside with the eyes of a poet, the palate of a gourmet chef, and the sense of an experienced traveller. Discover the joys of Tuscany through her eyes, and her recipes, that will give you a little taste of what’s to come.
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A reboot of the Syndicate franchise was rumored for years before Electronic Arts made it official earlier this month. The publisher is moving significantly faster offering the next bit of news for the game, as Gamasutra is reporting the shooter will be out worldwide in February.
More specifically, Syndicate will arrive for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in North America on February 21, with a European debut on February 24. Previously, Syndicate was scheduled to arrive in all regions during early 2012. No mention was made of a release date for the PC version. [UPDATE 9/29]: EA confirmed today that the PC version of the game will arrive alongside its console counterparts.
Unlike the top-down action strategy Syndicate titles from the 1990s, the new Syndicate will be a first-person shooter that casts players as Eurocorp prototype agent Miles Kilo. In 2069, three syndicates (Eurocorp, Cayman Global, and Aspari) wage war for control of the United States. The way they wage that battle is through small groups of technologically augmented humans whose modifications allow them to slow time, hack into rival augmented agents, and otherwise work for the benefit of their controllers.
EA is attempting to provide a new take on the Syndicate formula with weapons and setting from the original game pulled into the structure of a shooter. The game will also feature four-player cooperative missions, meaning players should be able to re-create the original game's four-man commando units, albeit from a new perspective.
On top of Syndicate, Sweden-based Starbreeze is also queuing up a new intellectual property with the help of Swedish filmmaker Josef Fares. Few details are available on that project, but reports suggest the game is being handled by the same team that worked on Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Athena.
[CORRECTION]: An earlier version of this story stated that Syndicate was releasing in Europe on February 23 in Europe. We regret the error.

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Obama to push for cuts in nuclear arsenal; not enough, peace group states
There have been growing reports in the past week that the Obama Administration plans to push for additonal cuts in the U.S. nuclear arsenal, perhaps by a third, and The New York Times reported that the President will give at least hint of the proposed reductions in his State of the Union Address on Tuesday.
Additional reductions could be a hot debate in President Obama's second term, with Republicans not likely to be keen on such a plan. Even among peace activists, the proposed directive based on a classified review of defense needs has gotten mixed reviews.
"The good news is the Administration's review is responding to the calls for further arms reductions. The bad news: the Administration is apparently only willing to take baby steps when these perilous times call for grown-up arms control measures," Ralph Hutchison of the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance said in a statement.
"OREPA calls on the President to think before he signs the directive. The very factors that support a decision to downsize the stockpile to 1,000 warheads through negotiations with Russia argue even more compellingly for even deeper cuts. By reducing the active and strategic stockpiles to 500 warheads each, the President would signal, without compromising US security, that we are on the road to a world free of nuclear weapons. He would re-establish US credibility in nonproliferation/arms control talks. He would, with matching reductions in production operations, save tens of billions of dollars over the next decade. With the exception of those who profit economically from producing weapons of mass destruction, deeper cuts are a win for everyone."
Hutchison said the plan raise even questions about the need for a "supersized" Uranium Processing Facility at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant in Oak Ridge.
"If there is a glimmer of light in this news, it is that the directive maintains the trajectory of nuclear weapons production capacity needs--as the stockpile grows smaller and smaller, there is less and less need for weapons production facilities. Certainly these stockpile numbers raise serious questions about the need for a Supersized Uranium Processing Facility with the capacity to produce 80 thermonuclear secondaries each year, or 800 new warheads in a decade. Instead, the US must invest in expanded capacity to dismantle and dispose of the weapons that will be retired from the stockpile."
Here's part of what Jay Coghlan and Nuclear Watch New Mexico had to say of the plan first revealed by the Center for Public Integrity:
"Nuclear Watch New Mexico applauds further cuts to strategic nuclear weapons as an excellent step in the right direction. But as the Center for Public Integrity points out the Obama Administration considered but rejected a 'deterrence only' nuclear posture that would require only some 500 warheads to back up the officially declared policy of deterring others. This is in contrast to the 1,000+ weapons needed for nuclear warfighting and first strike capability (which the U.S. has never renounced).
"So-called modernization of the U.S. stockpile involves increasingly aggressive Life Extension Programs (LEPs) that prolong the service lives of existing nuclear weapons 30 years or more. LEPs and/or other modifications also provide existing nuclear weapons with new military capabilities, which generally involve substituting lower yield nuclear weapons for higher yield weapons. Two past examples are: 1) a 1997 modification of the B61 bomb into a 350 kiloton earth-penetrator, taking over the mission of the 9 megaton B53 surface-burst bomb to destroy hardened, deeply buried targets; and 2) the current LEP for the sub-launched W76 Trident warhead, retrofitting it with a new-design fuze that is believed capable of selecting more precise heights-of-burst. In combination with increased warhead accuracy, this gives the 100-kiloton W76 the hard target kill capability of the more powerful 450-kiloton W88 Trident warhead. [For perspective's sake, the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs were ~16 and ~21 kilotons respectively, together instantly killing at least 130,000 people.]"


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Commodity-Trading Firm Noble in Venture Talks
Asian commodity-trading firm Noble Group is in talks with China's largest grain trader, state owned Cofco Corp., and private-equity firm Hopu Investment Management Co., about forming a joint venture with its agribusiness operations, a person familiar with the matter said Tuesday.
Noble, which is listed in Singapore, confirmed it was in talks with a consortium for its agribusiness division, which has been hit by falling commodity prices. It didn't identify the parties involved, but said that a filing to the Singapore Exchange was a response to a Thomson Reuters report that Cofco was in talks to buy Noble's agribusiness.
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A small-scale retrospective to celebrate the company’s 20th anniversary in 2008. Four dancers and a film-maker look back at the best work from recent years.
A collection of musical instruments that use materials and technologies from the security and surveillance industries in their construction. -> [watch video documentation ]
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contemporary dance production for a live locative media environment, shown at the Kiasma Theatre, Helsinki during pixelACHE 2004.
Participants map their emotions during walks through the city, using networked location-aware technologies. Premiered at DMZ Festival, London.
live and online audio-visual gastronomic event with artist-cuisinière Vitamin AA and Koko di Mari.
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"Lost in Hoboken" is the first mix of the Trilogy "Pink, Blue & Short".
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“There are no people, no one lives there, only shrubs and trees. Close your eyes and you will hear the silence. Emptiness around and inside emptiness."
This series of photographs continues the main theme of the Ukrainian countryside. These shops are located outside the big city in small towns and villages. They are very different from regular supermarkets.
The Fluidity series consists of 24 photographs of a Kyiv high-rise building.
out of time
That’s amazing how permanent is the nature over time. Only the areas that have been covered with ice are changing. People need years and rocks need centuries to be changed. In this series, the author shows the beauty and monumentality of the mountains, telling the story of the eternity and the brevity of life at the same time.
song of the Earth
This is a series of photographs about the incredible beauty of nature and time. Sunflowers at the last stage of life have already dried up and there is no moisture left in them. Time has done its job, but this moment they become specially beautiful, but no one notices. You just need to stop, come to them and take a closer look.
An abstract series of photographs in which there is only color. The color of one country or area. The goal was to remove visual recognition and leave only color - the “color profile” and understand how countries differ in a color context, what colors characterize them and which ones dominate.
shadow of soul
Each image consists of 100 portrait photographs of one person taken during one session. The idea was to stretch the time on the photo and look into the inside of a person, remove clear visual facial features in order to depict the state in which the person is, his soul.


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A recent Telegraph article details the case of Alina Sarag, a 15-year-old British girl who died after being repeatedly misdiagnosed by the physician Dr. Sharad Shripadrao Pandit. Alina’s parents, distraught over their daughter’s ill health, called Pandit more than 50 times over a four-month period, but were repeatedly told that Alina had nothing physically wrong with her . . . she was just in love with a boy she’d met on a family vacation.
Pandit, evidently her primary care physician, was not the only medical professional to misdiagnose the teenager, who died of tuberculosis (TB). She was seen by family physicians, a pediatrician, hospital emergency room workers, and an adolescent mental health service, all of which apparently paid more attention to Pandit’s diagnosis than Alina’s symptoms.
The horrifying malpractice came about despite Alina’s medical records showing that she had contracted TB from a classmate in 2009. According to the Telegraph, “She was prescribed a course of antibiotics at Birmingham Chest Clinic but medical staff never followed up her treatment. Alina was struck down again in July 2010 after returning from a trip to Pakistan with her family . . . doctors shrugged off her family’s concerns and told them Alina was suffering from a chest infection despite being classed as a ‘high risk’ patient . . . Dr. Pandit told Alina’s family she was ‘lovesick’ after returning from Pakistan on holiday, and suggested [that she see] a spiritual healer.”
Alina’s weight “plummeted”, she suffered breathing problems, and was finally rushed to hospital, where she died of cardiac arrest. At the age of 15.
Does anyone doubt that, had Alina been named Muhammad, “he” would have been examined much more thoroughly, his symptoms taken seriously, his life saved? If the Sarags’ daughter had instead been a son, that he would still be alive and looking forward to continuing high school, perhaps going on to university?
When was the last time you heard of a young man with breathing problems diagnosed as lovesick?
How could so many medical professionals have gone along with Pandit’s truly shocking misdiagnosis?
We know that female children are regarded as less valuable in Asia (witness the inexorable rise in abortions of female fetuses in India and China), but this girl was British – from a South Asian family, yes, but raised in England, a student at Golden Hillock School in Birmingham. She was seen at English hospitals and English medical practices. There was no question of testing materials being unavailable.
No one wanted to test Alina for TB. They preferred to believe that her symptoms were the aftermath of an emotional crush.
Girls and women have been misdiagnosed and wrongly medicated for centuries, often because of a mistaken belief that they are just like men, only smaller and with different reproductive bits. Women have been called “hysterical” for wanting education or sexual pleasure. Their breast and reproductive system cancers have been ignored or hushed up because they were too embarrassing . . . leading, naturally, to their deaths. They’ve been blamed for not being enough like men, then blamed for being too masculine.
Now more than ever, women and girls are entitled to have their symptoms investigated with the same medical scrutiny used for their brothers’ bodily problems.
Alina was not lovesick. She died because a strain of mycobacteria infected her lungs, because physicians discounted her symptoms. She died because her illness was not investigated. She died after months of pain and fear.
She died of other people’s arrogant assumptions.


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Samsung is preparing for a new device update very soon. According to information from sources and partially verified, the smartphone giant Samsung makes the One UI 2.0 update available for four new phones. Devices that will support the new update, whose time is uncertain, are reported as Galaxy S9, S10, Note9 and 10.
There are only four devices in the world currently running Android 10 and One UI 2.1, which are listed as Galaxy S20, Galaxy S20 +, Galaxy S20 Ultra and Galaxy Z Flip. Two new devices have been confirmed to come soon with the updated version of the One UI, but the duration of this privilege will be somewhat limited, as tech lovers will not like it very much.
Samsung moderator has confirmed this new information through the South Korean portal, so a UI 2.1 will be released for different devices, according to the news. According to the information in the source, let’s add here that the One UI 2.1 is planned to be released not only for the Galaxy S10 and Note10 series, but also for the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy Note9.
There is not yet a clear time when Samsung will start offering the One UI 2.1 update for these devices. However, it is also worth mentioning that the Galaxy Note10 and S10 series will have priority over other device series. It is explained that there are two reasons for this situation: the first one is Galaxy S10 and Note10 are newer devices and the second one is that Galaxy S9 and Note9 are recently ready to switch to Android 10 and One UI 2.0.
UI 2.1 will host relatively few changes
Some One UI 2.1 features that work with newer hardware, such as the option to switch to 120 Hz mode, will not be available on older Galaxy devices after the update. It was already known to many that there were technical limitations that prevented some features from moving to older models. Other UI changes, such as Screen Zoom Options and Samsung Quick Sharing, may be available on older phones through the One UI 2.1 update. Although the information we can convey on the subject is limited for now, we will continue to share new news with you.


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Social media users are reacting to a video of a baby boy suckling his mother during her wedding.
In the TikTok clip shared by Mercy Tom, the baby refused to be left behind in the marital activities.
He apparently wanted to be taken care of too, so he nudged the mum for brea’st milk.
The loving mum fed her child without any hesitation as she signed the dotted lines.
The registrar is a mother
According to Mercy, they were lucky that the registrar who attended to them is a mother too.
She said the registrar had no issues with what she did and just laughed it off as a normal thing.
The lovely video that captured the moment has gone viral and elicited huge reactions on TikTok.
Mercy was praised for not allowing her child to cry for food without getting it because of a wedding.
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TikTok users praise Mercy for being a good mother
@Wanjiku Mithamo said:
“A mother’s sacrifice. I salute you and congratulations.”
@Mwanamzuri Mrembo commented:
“He said abeg “give me my happiness as you continue with your happiness.”
“I said my vows and signed the marriage certificate while carrying my son. He didn’t want anyone that day.”
“They will eat anywhere and everywhere. and I will always give him whenever and wherever.”
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What Training Camp Can't Teach Us About the Cincinnati Bengals
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NFL training camps teach us a lot about teams and their upcoming seasons. We can learn who has improved his standing to make it to the 53-man roster, whose stocks have dropped, a general idea of a given team's offensive and defensive strategy, and whether someone injured last year can return to full health and effectiveness in the next.
However, there are a host of things that training camp cannot teach us, and that's what I am focusing on today. Here are three things that we simply cannot learn about the Cincinnati Bengals by looking at what they do on the field in their upcoming training camp.
Whether Quarterback Andy Dalton Will Suffer a Sophomore Slump
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Andy Dalton's arm will get quite the workout in training camp as he continues his progress as the Bengals starting quarterback and as the battle between wide receivers for roster spots heats up even further.
Though Dalton will have ample opportunity to display whether or not he's taken a step forward or backward in the time between his rookie and second seasons, it won't truly be until the regular season starts that we can accurately evaluate whether Dalton will suffer the dreaded sophomore slump.
There seems to be many a reason why this shouldn't be the case for Dalton—A.J. Green, for one; the rest of the young receiving corps, another; and the fact that he performed so well while being thrown into the very hot frying pan that is a starting quarterback job after coming off of no offseason preparation.
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Dalton had a strong rookie year, completing 58.1 percent of his passes for 3,398 yards, 20 touchdowns and 13 interceptions. He also ran with the ball 37 times, good for 152 more yards and another score. However, he hit some speed bumps in the second half of his inaugural season, with under 200 passing yards in each game between Weeks 13 and 16.
NFL Films' Greg Cosell believes that arm strength is a weakness for Dalton—but that it's practically his only weakness, and one that offensive coordinator Jay Gruden has worked hard to minimize. It shouldn't cost Dalton this year either, with the array of weapons at his disposal and the increased attention he will be paying to his accuracy, timing and overall confidence.
But what happens on the practice field—and even in preseason games, where starters get limited reps—cannot fully predict how Dalton will handle the pressure that accompanies a quarterback entering his second season. Only once the season starts will we know if Dalton could be taking a step back.
How the Running Backs Will Split Carries
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Chances are, in training camp, the three Bengals running backs most likely to see regular on-field action this season will get various amounts of carries and targets every day, which doesn't truly indicate the team's ultimate plans for them in the regular season.
Heading into camp, it seems like BenJarvus Green-Ellis and Bernard Scott will be splitting carries evenly, but once the season begins it could evolve into more of a hot-hand approach. And don't forget about Brian Leonard—though he's more valuable in passing situations and as a blocker, he will also snag himself at least 20 carries this season as well.
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Green-Ellis is more valuable as a goal-line and short-yardage back while Scott is better between the 20s, but that doesn't mean that will be the set in stone template for their usage this year.
Much depends on the in-game situation. If the Bengals find themselves with a high number of short-and-goal situations, Green-Ellis could find himself used more heavily. If the Bengals have well-established leads in the second half of games, both men should get an increased workload.
Camp and preseason games will likely be more of a test-and-learn platform for the running game this year, rather than an indicator on just how heavily they'll rely on one back over another. So much will depend on in-game situations that little hints about how the Bengals plan to use Green-Ellis, Scott and Leonard will be found via camp performance alone.
Whether the Bengals Can Keep Up the Momentum
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Every team's training camp generally goes well—some players look good, some don't; some make the active roster, and some don't; and, ultimately, there's a sense of optimism in the air among all of the hard work, inevitable stifling heat and ever-present worry that a valuable starter may suffer a season-ending injury before even taking the field.
Within this pressure cooker, one simply cannot tell how a team is going to ultimately perform when it comes to the regular season. There are hints, of course,—if the starting quarterback completes only 40 percent of his passes in practice, for example, that's not a good sign—but camp is a time for preparation that can only hope to vaguely simulate what a team will experience throughout a season.
For the Bengals, this is an interesting year, one that can cement that they are a team transformed or one that personifies the concept of "the more things change, the more they stay the same." The Bengals haven't had back-to-back winning seasons since the strike-shortened 1982 season—and not since 1977 if we're talking full seasons.
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In 2009, they won the AFC North with a 10-6 record and immediately followed it up with a fourth-place, 4-12 year. So, the Bengals won't truly know if things have turned around from the up-and-down years of yore until the regular season begins.
Since 2005, the Bengals have often looked like a team on the verge of greatness, only to respond disappointingly. Though there is much reason for optimism this year—and though they are likely to have a very good and productive training camp—only their year-end record will determine if the Bengals can shake off the stigma of the past and truly move forward. No matter how well camp goes, that's just not where games are won or lost.
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The Parks Puzzle
While the origin of the expression, “a walk in the park,” is unclear, it’s a safe bet the author wasn’t a planner trying to stitch urban parks and trails together to create flowing greenways throughout a city like Pittsburgh.
Pittsburgh’s bountiful and diverse parks range from popular destinations, such as Schenley Park in the heart of the city and Emerald View overlooking Downtown, to more than 150 smaller ones tucked into city neighborhoods. But linking them in a network that touches neighborhoods in ways that make it easier for residents to visit them remains a challenge.
Connecting urban parks to improve access is a concept embraced long ago in some cities, such as Boston, where planners in the late 19th Century started designing the Emerald Necklace with seven miles of parks and pathways from the Boston Common to Franklin Park. That wasn’t the case in Pittsburgh.
“When the parks system was built out in Pittsburgh it wasn’t really thought of as a system of parks,” said Jayne Miller, president and CEO, Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy, a nonprofit advocacy group and fundraising arm for the city’s parks. “They didn’t think about how to cross the city and get from place to place. How do we provide 100 percent access, so that everyone is a 10-minute walk from a park?”
That 10-minute walk is one of the key factors separating Pittsburgh from cities considered to have elite park systems and something city officials hope to improve. Giving all city residents such close proximity is the goal stated in a recent Parks Conservancy television commercial. Achieving the kind of connectivity meeting that goal is a tall order. But cities that are the most successful tend to agree on a bold vision, plan carefully, and rally government and community support, including strong financial backing.
Visions of Greenways
Access to parks is one of the main metrics planning groups use to evaluate park systems. The Trust for Public Land, a national nonprofit parks advocacy group, rates city park systems with Park Score, an index that considers a number of key characteristics, such as acreage, amenities, investment and access. Pittsburgh ranked 23rd out of 100 U.S. cities in last year. Minneapolis took top honors.
In Pittsburgh, 84 percent of residents can access a park in a 10-minute walk, which isn’t bad. But cities with leading park systems do better. In Minneapolis, 97 percent of the population can walk to a park in 10 minutes.
Miller came to Pittsburgh from Minneapolis, where she was superintendent of the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board. Minneapolis has a legacy of connectivity not unlike Boston and the vision for its park system dates to the late 19th Century and landscape architect Horace Cleveland. The crown jewel is the Grand Round, a 55-mile ring of pathways throughout the city that flows through parks designed so that pedestrian and bike paths are located nearest to the water and wooded areas and roadways through the parks are set farther out.
It wasn’t built overnight, but over decades, with an eye toward improvement. The city is now working on a long-range plan, East of the River Master Plan. It addresses the system’s missing link by including a five-mile extension across the Prospect Park, Southeast Como and Mid-City Industrial neighborhoods of Minneapolis to complete the loop around the city.
Pittsburgh has recent experience with switching old railways to bike paths in the development of the Great Allegheny Passage Trail. Some cities are going further.
Atlanta’s BeltLine plans call for converting 22 miles of old railway into a multi-use trail that will ring the city. It’s designed to connect 45 neighborhoods and provide links to some of Atlanta’s most underserved neighborhood parks. The BeltLine is a work in progress. Last year, the city purchased the southern end of a railway on the loop, giving it control over a missing piece between the completed Eastside and Westside trails. Only about 20-30 percent of the proposed trail outside of the city’s pockets.
While some cities buy land to connect parks and trails, others have leveraged easements to allow trails that cross through private property for recreational purposes. The landowner grants access, but still owns the property. In Baltimore, several easements were used to connect pieces of the 15-mile Gwynns Falls and 10-mile Jones Falls trails, creating a multi-use greenway through the city. The trails flow through parks, neighborhoods and along waterways. At several points, they connect to public transportation. The two trails also make up a thread of the larger East Coast greenway, an ongoing project of connecting trails for an interstate greenway running from Florida to Maine.
Pittsburgh has an opportunity to be creative in identifying assets and crafting strategies for future parks, Miller said. That includes looking at the more than 17,000 vacant parcels of land in the city. “Are there opportunities to use those parcels for trail use or connectivity or a potential park? Can we fit bike lanes through parts of those? Is there even a corner of a vacant property we could use?”
One piece at a time
There isn’t a one-size-fits-all template for urban park design. Even if there were, Pittsburgh with its hills and valleys and rivers would have to stray from the recipe and improvise. “A 10-minute walk in Pittsburgh is different than a 10 minute walk in Manhattan. You have to factor in barriers such as steps, topography, roadways,” said Miller. “The topography makes it more challenging. Trails might need to be built be made to make a connection. In other cases, we might need to add another park to a neighborhood.”
Some projects are underway in isolated parks in the city, such as Mon Wharf Landing, a small park along the river in Downtown Pittsburgh. The nonprofit, Riverlife, is working on connecting a riverfront loop through the Downtown and riverfront parks, including the Mon Wharf Landing. “When it was built, we had an opportunity to turn it into a riverfront park and trail. But there wasn’t an opportunity to connect it through both ends from Point State Park and the existing trail network on the other end,” said Stephan Bontrager, vice president, communications and outreach for the nonprofit Riverlife. “The park was built and it sat there unused because it wasn’t easily accessible. It’s suffered because of that. There hasn’t been a steady stream of bike, walkers users passing through there.”
Schenley, Highland Park and the city’s other expansive destination parks may be the best known and most visited, but how well the smaller neighborhood parks are tied together will determine whether the city meets its goal of making them reachable to everyone willing to take a 10-minute stroll. “Those are the ones that people can walk to and that become gathering places for the neighborhood,” Miller said. “Those are the predominant parks in Pittsburgh.”


they don't. cars are assinged to the yards and the yards are picked by their capcity to care for the new cars. Corona didn't get any R142/As becuase they had no way to get to the roof mounted HVAC units until the new shop opened. 207th can't fit a 300 foot long unit on it's insepction pits, which is why the 60' SMEEs have survived there so long. The execption to this is the R160A-1 cars which were made for the eastern Division so that the MK R42s could be used to replaced older cars elsewhere.
when it comes to putting cars in service, it's based on the crew who hae been trained to use the cars and what lines those employees have picked to work.


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MAJOR ACTIVITIES UNDERTAKEN BY THE TRUST DURING THE YEAR:
I. NABARD Supported Projects
NCT is associated with NABARD since 19 years. NCT has implemented a pilot programme known as Village Farm Development programme for NABARD in 5 villages of farmers’ distressed Wardha district from 2006-09. While implementing the project with the help of its Agriculture consultant, Shri. Sunil Konde, NCT has developed a low cost-high yield package of practice for lead crops such as Cotton, Soyabean, Wheat, Gram etc. First NCT has developed model plots in all project villages and demonstrated to the farmers its effect. The yield obtained in model plots was almost double and the cost remained the same or less than the normal one. This method was disseminated to other farmers in coming years and the method was accepted by the project village farmers.
NCT tried this technique in the Tribal development project at Tamia in Chhindwara district corn cultivation. Corn is the major crop in Tamia. The normal yield was between 1-2 quintals per acre. The normal rainfall in this area is about 1800 mm. But because the farmers were not adopting the correct techniques of cultivation the yield was abysmally low. NCT had established model plots of corn and proved that tribals can produce up to 18 quintals on the same land by just changing farming methods and by use of improved agriculture implements. During the next kharif season in 2010 over 600 farmers came forward to adopt this method. NCT arranged KCCs for all farmers from local bankers BOM. The average yield now being obtained by the farmers is 15 quintals per acre. This has helped NCT-NABARD to arrest the migration of tribal farmers.
NCT wanted to disseminate this method to more and more farmers, along with building a farmers’ association or a producer company to manage input purchase and marketing of their farm produces. NABARD has sanctioned a project named “Swabhiman” under its Farmers Technology Transfer Fund. This project envisages to promote Farmers’ Clubs in 26 villages of Ashti Tehsil of Wardha district, promote the federation of farmers’ Clubs, develop model plots for low cost-high yield technology / method, inculcate habits of collective purchase and sale, introduce vegetable cultivation, support additional income activities such as dairy, vegetable cultivation etc and promote farmers’ Producer company over a period of 3 years.
During the project period, NCT had supported over 400 farmers for developing demonstrative plots for Cotton, Soya, wheat, Channa, vegetable and floriculture etc. Yield of all crops were up between 50 to 100%. The main objective of this demonstration was to show the farmers that with the same resources, they can achieve better yield. Farmers were convinced about the package of practice demonstrated and were come forward to adopt the same, on their own.
In all, this project has started showing the results. A cluster level committee has been promoted for overall implementation and monitoring of the project. A full fledged office cum technology transfer centre was established at Ashti for successful implementation of the project.

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The Scottish FA has this week undertaken intensive session with representatives of leagues and golf equipment suffering from the brief suspension introduced on Monday, 11 January 2021.
This procedure has been really useful in working out the precise demanding situations confronted through golf equipment at the ones ranges throughout the males’s and girls’s video games, particularly working out the important thing parts required to facilitate go back to play inside every festival when it’s secure to take action.
For the reason that present lockdown measures carried out through the First Minister will now stay in position throughout Scotland till a minimum of the center of February, the present brief suspension of soccer can be prolonged till nighttime on Sunday, 14 February. This impacts leagues with predominantly part-time golf equipment – despite the fact that plenty of full-time golf equipment were affected.
The Scottish FA will proceed to paintings with the ones affected to increase league and division- particular plans for a go back to coaching and enjoying, together with good enough coaching and conditioning time. The ones cases range throughout our sport and can be stored beneath consistent evaluate with any restart of the sport prone to occur on a modern foundation.
An additional replace can be communicated through Wednesday, 10 February.
The Scottish Cup Fourth Spherical fixtures scheduled for 20 February is not going to now move forward, and all ties can be rescheduled and data communicated sooner or later. In consequence, Saturday, 20 February will also be launched as a fixture date for league suits.
The Scottish FA will proceed to paintings with Scottish Skilled Soccer League colleagues to deal with the dislocated Scottish Cup fixtures when it’s deemed secure and sensible to take action.
Rod Petrie, Scottish FA President: “The conversations we have now had with representatives from the golf equipment and leagues suffering from the brief suspension were massively really useful. We have now been in a position to additional be in contact the reason in the back of the verdict in the middle of an ongoing pandemic while additionally listening to to start with hand crucial problems dealing with golf equipment and leagues at every degree of the sport.
“We have now additionally been very much inspired through the sense of togetherness proven through the golf equipment and the robustness with which protocols and measures were carried out within the pursuits of participant and body of workers protection inside soccer.
“Various tasks were advised which might lend a hand to make the eventual go back to enjoying environment friendly with out compromising protection.
“The verdict to increase the suspension is essential given the Scottish Executive’s personal extension of present lockdown measures. Soccer will play its section to fortify the collective effort to scale back the unfold of the brand new variants of the COVID-19 virus.
“We’re thankful for the enter of all teams inquisitive about our on-line discussions this week and we can proceed to liaise forward of our subsequent public replace on February 10th.”


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Mary Cassatt, Mother With Child, fine art print, signed
The print was restored, re- framed with a museum- quality mat board with a gilded bevel and protected with Museum Glass. In order to present the artwork correctly, the mat board margins were increased. Appropriate mat board width is very important. The width is determined based on the artwork, frame style, and mat board color.
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John J. Enneking, oil on canvas, Private collection, Hamilton, Bermuda
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Russian Icon- The Icon was restored and protected Private Collection, New York City, N.Y.
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Thursday, January 19, 2012
All the ones I am listing are ones that I (or one of my friends) have tried recently or that have the deal listed on their website (I am linking to those sites). Basically I am saying these are ones that I know are currently accurate as of this post. That being said, not all locations of restaurants always run the same promotions, so I would call your local restaurant and double check to make sure they 1-have a kids noght as listed, and 2-that it is in fact the day/time you want to go. (My warning is that because restaurants do change their promotions, including kids nights, often. So, this list will likely change as time goes by. I will try to update it though)
Kids eat free:
- Hyvee: Eat FREE on Thursdays with an adult meal purchase at any of the following eating locations in the store: Italian, Chinese Express, Kitchen. Dine in only. (one kids meal per adult meal purchased)
- China Buffet: Tuesday kids eat free with adult meal purchase
- Denny's: Night Varies by location 4-10 pm (I have not used this one since August, but it is listed on their website as available at different nights depending on location-you will wnat to call your local location to see what night they do)
- Lone Star: Tuesday all day up to 2 free kids meals per adult meal purchase.
- Spaghetti Works: Monday up to 2 free kids meals per adult meal purchased
- Pepperjax Grill: Wednesday night 2 free kids meals per adult meal purchased (5-8pm)
- Grisanti's Italian: Monday night
- La Mesa: Thursday night One free kids meal per adult meal purchased. I know this is good at the location on 156th and Q but I do not know about the other locations.
- Pizza Ranch: Tuesday looks like one kid per adult meal purchase
- Texas Roadhouse: Mondays 4-10PM one kid eats free with purchase of each adult meal ***NOTE-I hesitantly include this one because we have REPEATEDLY had TERRIBLE service at the Texas Roadhouse in West Omaha and we will NOT eat there again even with good food and Free kids night. However, a friend noted that her family enjoys the one in PAPILLION! So I include this deal with a warning about the West Omaha location (and FYI-when I wrote to them about the issues we have had over and over, they did not reply or care at all. That is why we don't eat there anymore!)***
- Chick Fil A: Wednesday nights One free kids meal per adult combo meal (A friend told me that this is good in Utah locations on Wednesday. I do not know if our new Chick fil A in Omaha has a kids night or not).
- HuHot: Night Varies by location Note that Kids 3 and under are FREE always, but in addition to that, MANY HuHot locations have a Kids night where kids under 11 eat free with adult meal purcahse. (Sadly Omaha doesn't anymore) Click on the restaurant name to see if your local HuHot has a kids night, and which night it is!
- O'Charley's: Day Varies by location 2 kids free per adult meal (This one is not in Nebraska but in lots of other states East of us!)
- Applebees: Tuesday and Thursday Kids eat for $.99 (one child per adult meal purchased)
- Fazoli's: Tuesday nights 5-8pm Kids eat for $.99.
- Buffalo Wild Wings Grill and Bar: Monday Kids eat for $.99 with adult meal purchase
Monday: Spaghetti Works, Grisanti's Italian, Texas Roadhouse, Buffalo Wild Wings*
Tuesday: China Buffet, Lone Star, Pizza Ranch, Applebees*, Fazolis*
Wednesday: PepperJax Grill, Chick Fil A in Utah,
Thursday: Hyvee, La Mesa, Applebees*
Varries by location: Denny's, Chick Fil A, HuHot, O'Charley's
If you have any other great kids free or discounted deals to add to the list, please comment with them after this post! Thanks and happy eating out! :)


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New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Sunday alleged that the private power distribution companies were trying to scuttle the audit of their accounts by the CAG and warned that the party would protest any further rise in electricity tariff in the national Capital.
The AAP also demanded that the Centre should direct the authorities concerned to warn the discoms that their "attempts to scuttle the CAG audit will result in cancellation of their licences."
"The AAP will lead an unprecedented protest in the national Capital in case DERC (Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission) goes ahead with its plan to raise the electricity tariffs without waiting for the findings of the CAG audit," the party said in a statement.
Referring to a letter written by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) to the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi, the AAP claimed, "It is extremely shocking that top CAG officials have been forced to remind the LG and the Delhi administration run by him about their duty to ensure that it is mandatory for discoms to provide all their account books to the auditors."
It further alleged that discoms have hatched a conspiracy with "active help from BJP and Congress to delay the audit and frustrate the CAG."
"The manner in which the discoms are hiding their account books and other related data with active connivance from top Delhi administration, is a clear and incriminating evidence about the attempts being made to force the CAG to drop this important audit," it claimed.


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There are more than 2.4 million small businesses in Florida, employing more than 3.2 million people. If you are one of them, you might be wondering if bankruptcy is an option to reduce your debt. Depending on how your business is legally categorized, you’ll be able to file a Chapter 7, 11, or 13 case. An experienced bankruptcy attorney in Jacksonville can help you determine if bankruptcy is your best alternative. Because Florida is a homestead exemption state, there may be some other things to keep in mind as well. Each of these can have different effects on your business.
What Types of Bankruptcy Can I File?
In the US, there are a few different types of bankruptcy filing categories, called “Chapters.” Chapters 7 and 13 are usually used by individuals for personal filing. Chapter 11 is used for businesses. These can all mean different things for a small business in Florida.

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From fake wine stores who claim they will deliver your bottle of booze after you’ve made an online payment to shopping websites that look totally legit but are actually fake fronts to lure customers into feeding in their card details, India is so infamous for an entire industry of card scams, there’s even a show about it.
Cyber crimes have been on the rise in India, and a 2019 survey even found that 50 percent of Indians fall prey to scammers. Now, new data reveals that between October to December 2019, India lost Rs 128 crore over card and online fraud. Scheduled banks in the country reported that a fraud took place every six minutes, and more than 21,401 people bought the bullshit and ended up losing big money.
According to the Reserve Bank of India data, the highest amount of money was swindled from ATMs and people using their debit cards to withdraw cash. This scam, usually done by using an ATM skimmer that is placed on top of the part that scans your card that then records your details, saw 11,508 people lose about Rs 94.5 crore collectively. After that, credit card fraud was the second biggest scam, with 6,117 cases losing Rs 19.7 crore, and net banking scams that stole Rs 13.6 crore from 3,866 people. In fact, the estimated loss in these scams from April to December 2019 is Rs 547 crore, and most of these scams are done through phishing, hacking or convincing someone to give up their details.
Just like most of the misinformation out there, when it comes to online scams, it’s important to be alert if someone is messing around. That means, don’t buy into that chainmail bullshit, use cash on delivery options whenever possible, and use a website authenticity checker like urlvoid before you swiftly enter all your credit card details. Save all the swiping for dating apps, not online scams.
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When we set out to formulate 3FU3L, we spent a lot of time researching the best possible combination of ingredients for optimizing performance, including coconut milk. The result? Our 3FU3L product line includes performance-boosting ingredients such as grass-fed whey protein hydrolysate, HDP Waxy Maize (3CARB), the micronutrient Betaine, and non-GMO, organic coconut milk. Each of these ingredients brings their own unique benefits to the table. Our grass-fed whey protein hydrolysate is a high-quality source of protein plus fuel for training and recovery. HDP Waxy Maize (3CARB) promotes fat burning while providing long-lasting energy. Betaine increases power performance and endurance output. And then there’s coconut milk. Coconut milk might seem like the little cousin hanging onto the behemoths of our grass-fed whey protein hydrolysate, 3CARB, and Betaine. It appears less frequently in supplements and doesn’t get as much attention on bodybuilding blogs. But this humble ingredient packs some serious benefits.
What Happens To Your Body During Intense Training and Competitions.
In order to perform their best during training and competition (and recover afterward), athletes require fuel. While the types and intensity of athletic pursuits may widely vary, they rely on interrelated metabolic processes. When your body is asked to produce bursts of power, it draws on its phosphocreatine supply to create adenosinetriphosphate (ATP). ATP is essential for any activity that involves rapid muscle contractions. After a maximum contraction, your body requires four minutes to replenish its phosphocreatine stores. If you don’t wait for four minutes between maximal bursts of intensity, then your body starts to rely on blood sugar to create ATP (instead of phosphocreatine). This process is metabolically inefficient. After another three to four minutes without recovery time, your body will start to draw on protein, fat, and carbohydrates in order to continue synthesizing the ATP required for continued physical activity. At the same time, your muscles are busy trying to process waste products such as lactic acid. This causes sweating, which results in losing methyl donors such as Betaine, another potential generator of ATP. In short, as your body continues to need ATP, its ability to produce it becomes increasingly compromised. Without the proper fuel, your body will hit that all-too-familiar “wall” soon enough. This is the challenge facing any athlete who wants to perform high-intensity and/or endurance exercise.
This is where fats come in.
Initially, carbohydrates do an adequate job of generating ATP. However, on their own, they quickly become insufficient. After half an hour, fats become just as important to the body’s energy production as carbohydrates. In fact, they make up nearly 50 percent of the equation (After an hour, protein also makes an important contribution). This is why carb-fueling isn’t sufficient to power you through a long, grueling workout or competition. Without fat (and protein), your performance is not going to be optimal. So, we decided to include a high-quality fat source, coconut milk, in 3FU3L. Along with the other components in our product, it’s the best way to ensure your body continues to perform at maximum capacity during intense exercise.
How Coconut Milk Benefits Athletes in Training
We chose coconut milk as our primary source of fat in 3FU3L because it outperforms regular fats to boost performance in several ways. This is largely because coconut milk is a source of fat that contains Medium Chain Triglycerides (MCTs) and monoglycerides. These compounds are unique because our bodies metabolize them differently than conventional sources of fat (olive oil, corn oil, etc.). Because MCTs have a reduced chain length relative to Long Chain Triglycerides (LCTs), our bodies absorb them more quickly. MCTs are quickly broken down and moved directly into the bloodstream. All of this means that as soon as our bodies ingest coconut fat, the MCTs and monoglycerides are immediately put to use as a source of energy, providing an energy boost. In addition, MCTs provide several additional benefits:
They’ve been shown to increase energy expenditure, improve endurance, and prolong time to exhaustion, especially during high-intensity exercise or long-duration exercise. As a result, they’re gaining popularity for their ability to enhance athletic performance.
- They don’t get stored as fat. Because they’re metabolized so quickly, MCTs are immediately put to work as fuel for organs and muscles. This means you can reap the energy benefits of fat consumption without worrying about excess fat storage.
They can increase thermogenesis and fat oxidation, thereby promoting fat burning. They also help trigger the mobilization of stored body fat for use as fuel. Consequently, the consumption of MCTs is frequently linked to a decrease in adipositivity.
All told, coconut milk provides a healthy source of energy while enabling you to train harder and longer, thereby contributing to strength gains while also increasing fat loss.
When you look at the research supporting coconut milk’s performance-boosting effects, including it in exercise supplements is a no-brainer. But we also took it one step further by seeking out the highest quality source we could find. That’s why the powdered coconut milk in 3FU3L is both organic and non-GMO. It’s all part of our commitment to delivering performance-boosting products that are good for you, are backed by science, and truly work.
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Occhio Wood Suspended Fireplace
The Zen Occhio Suspended Fireplace is meticulously hand made by skilled metal craftsman and is designed, tested and accredited in Australia to meet AS/NZS Standards for wood burning appliances.
We seamlessly manufacture our suspended fireplaces with precision. Moulding 5mm thick sheets of cold rolled steel to form our unique designs.
The Zen Occhio is a masterfully hand crafted object of art. Designed to capture attention and truly become the most captivating feature in any space. With it’s design driven unique appearance, the Zen Occhio is a hanging masterpiece. The Zen Occhio has a larger firebox volume than the Elegante, enabling it to heat an area in excess of 140 sqm.
- Overall Height: 844mm
- Overall Diameter: 720mm
- Usable Firebox Height: 500mm
- Usable Firebox Width: 720mm
- Usable Firebox Depth: 720mm
- Usable Firebox Volume: 161.1 litres
- Firebox material: Fully welded 5mm steel
- Main Door Opening Height: 295mm
- Main Door Opening Width: 610mm
- Weight: 52kg (approx)
- Heat Output: Wood – 7kw (estimated), Ethanol – 2.5kw
- Heat Area: Wood – 140sqm+ (estimated)
- Single Wall Flue: 219mm
- Double Wall Flue Casing: 240mm/280mm
MATERIAL & FINISH
- Material: 5mm cold rolled steel
- Finish: Stove Bright® Satin Black 1990 FUEL
- Hard Wood
- Ethanol (Planika Ethanol Burner Insert)
CLEARANCE FROM COMBUSTIBLE MATERIAL
(Timber, Plaster, Timber Window Frames, Furniture Etc.)
CLEARANCE FROM NON-COMBUSTIBLE MATERIAL
At owner and installers discretion.
CLEARANCE FROM GLAZING
(Toughened Glass in Aluminium or Steel Frame)
IMPORTANT: Appliance and Flue kit to be strictly installed in accordance to AS/NZS 2918-2018 and the appropriate requirements of the relevant codes. Installer to be a qualified licensed person
See PDF file for Occhio Installation Manual


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Juventus battle back to win at Empoli
Juventus came from behind to beat Empoli 3-1 on Sunday and record their first win on the road since Sept. 20.
Massimo Maccarone put Empoli ahead in the 19th minute but Mario Mandzukic equalised in the 32nd minute.
Patrice Evra then gave the visitors the lead six minutes later with his first goal of the season before substitute Paulo Dybala all but assured Juve victory with his team's third six minutes from time.
The win was the fifth of the campaign for the defending Serie A champions and lifted them to seventh place. They are nine points adrift of league leaders Inter Milan.
Despite a good start, Juventus conceded a goal with Empoli's first shot of the game.
Riccardo Saponara fed Maccarone just outside the area and he hit a diagonal strike past Juve goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon.
It marked the seventh time this season in the league that an opponent scored with their first attempt against Juve.
The visitors pulled level shortly after when Sami Khedira headed a cross into the path of Mandzukic and the Croatian beat Empoli goalkeeper Lukasz Skorupski with a right-footed shot from the heart of the area.
Juve went ahead before the interval as Evra got past his marker and headed Juan Cuadrado's cross past Skorupski.
Empoli almost equalised early in the second half but Saponara's right-footed shot was saved by Buffon.
In the 84th minute, Mandzukic's attempt rattled the left post, but Dybala was first to the rebound and he blasted the ball into the back of the net as Juve ended Empoli's three-match unbeaten run.

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California Gardening Weekly Gardening Tip
- Author: Donna C. Seaver
April 30, 2009
Strong structural support is needed to support the vines and crop; this can be a trellis, an arbor, or a fence. Many gardeners grow grapes on an arbor to provide both shade and fruit.
A trellis provides the easiest method . . . Learn more
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STEPS Chain is E-Bike Ready
Shimano's STEPS 8-speed chain has been reinforced and equipped with newly dimensioned links ready for use with E-bike. The Hyperglide technology makes shifting operations run smooth even under load.
The inner outer plate of the HG chain is designed for efficient contact with gear teeth and allows smooth shifting under high load. The chain achieves a higher pedalling efficiency and is perfectly matched to HG sprockets to ensure quick shifting.


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Rally for Equal Rights in Education
July 21 @ 8:30 am - 10:30 amFree
Where: 233 N. Spring Street, LA, CA 90012
(At Grand Park Across from LA City Hall)
The Becket Fund for Religions Liberty, in partnership with Teach California, a grassroots organization that advocates for equitable government funding for nonpublic schools, has sued the State of California in Loffman v. California Department of Education to stop ongoing discrimination against Orthodox Jewish kids with disabilities and Orthodox Jewish Schools.
We need hundreds of community members to show up and send two clear messages:
1. Give our special needs families the funds they deserve!
2. Our schools & community have pressing needs- it’s time for the government to support us!


I am pleased to share my article titled, “Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Expands Employer Options for Mental Health Treatment” for the September issue of The Self Insurer. Please find this article in the Self-Insurer section of our website, where you can access my monthly articles written for the publication.
This issue brings you a feature article from Sara Johnson, CEO, Mission 22, discussing how the company supports veterans with invisible wounds and recognizing the fundamental role that a veteran’s family plays in their recovery process.
Please stay safe and tell me how you are breaking ground in these growing industries.
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Candlewick Lake Public Safety
Week Ending 01/22/2012
Public Safety responded to a call of a loose dog in the area of 100 block of Hastings. The owner of the dog was cited for a violation of the pet policy.
Public Safety responded to loud noise in the area of the 200 block of Liverpool. Public Safety determined the noise was from the gas station across the street thus Public Safety could take no action. Public Safety did advise the homeowner to call the Sheriff’s Office.
Public Safety responded to numerous calls to assist motorists during the snow storm. Public Safety will assist in contacting a towing company of your choice when these types of issues arise.
Public Safety checked nine ice fisherman and we are proud to say all were 100% compliant with rules and regulations.
We thank you for taking the time to read these important updates.
Being informed is half the battle.