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Shortlisted for the Specsavers National Book Awards 'Food & Drink Book of the Year' 2012.
This year’s tie-in from The Great British Bake Off. More elaborate bakes ideal for that special occasion with full instructions for centre-piece cakes, party desserts and buffet masterpiece.
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How to Bake, Paul Hollywood
Mary Berry’s Baking Bible, Mary Berry
The Great British Bake Off is a glorious celebration of Britain's favourite pastime. As the series has shown us, baking is the perfect way to mark an occasion - to celebrate, to congratulate and reward, and to lift spirits. This new book is inspired by the wonderful creations from The Great British Bake Off , Showstopper Challenge. There are dainty bakes for afternoon tea, quick bakes perfect for bake sales, school fairs or coffee with friends, mouthwatering desserts, breads and pastry recipes for lunches and dinner parties, and some really special bakes for birthdays and festive celebrations throughout the year. The book will show you how to make your bake extra special, from exciting finishes using chocolate curls and ribbons and spun sugar to simple ideas for icing, shaping and decorating, so you can bring a touch of magic to any bake. Great British Bake Off also includes the Best of the Bake-off - the finest recipes from the new set of Great British Bake Off amateur bakers, and all of Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood's Technical Challenges from the series. If you learned How to Bake from last year's book, Showstoppers will take you to the next level of skill, and combined with a dazzling new design and superb photography, this will be an irresistible gift for yourself or someone else.
Publication date: 02/08/2012
Publisher: BBC Books an imprint of Ebury Press
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Linda Collister is an experienced cook and baker, having trained at L'Ecole de Cuisine La Varenne in Paris and Le Cordon Bleu in London. She is the author of a number of baking books, including The Great British Book of Baking and The Great British Bake Off: How to Bake. Love Productions is a UK-based independent production company. They make award-winning programmes for all the main UK broadcasters.More About Linda Collister

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Illueca is a town located in the western part of Zaragoza, and is the administrative center of Aranda, one of the least populated areas of Aragón. To prevent depopulation and provide leisure activities, the town council called a competition to build a theater on the site of the old cinema. The volume wraps up the block along the east boundary of the town center, attached to housing on the northern side.
The project’s key objective was to blend the required volume into the historic fabric of a rural town. In keeping with the small scale of the context, the auditorium is broken down into four fragments – stage box, seating area, lobby, service area – with pitched roofs and different heights and orientations. This operation reduces its scale and creates an interplay of staggered volumes in allusion to the forms found in local constructions and varied ways in which they overlap in the historic residential fabric, which rests on uneven land. The intervention completes the profile of the historic center without altering it.
The structure is built with red clinker bricks – rounded off with copper roofs –, evoking the pottery traditions of the area, and blends the building with the tones of the surrounding constructions, in the color of sandstone of the local quarries, and used also on the stone base that adapts to the unevenness of the site, with 2.50 meters of height difference. The project explores the expressive possibilities of brick in different formats: lattices, brickwork, lintels, acoustic pieces...
The building is organized around the main hall and its circulations and accesses, at different levels. The hall, for 224 spectators, contains continuous audience seating with different areas: a gently sloping seating area, a sloping plane that connects the lobby level with the first floor, and balconies on the upper level.
Inside, different voids, openings and light entrances articulate the relationship between the four exterior volumes, differentiating the spaces of access and circulation – open, connected visually and spatially – of the closed hall. In the first, light filtered through ceramic lattices, windows and skylights, creates a changing atmosphere throughout the day. The timber frames offer views of the historic center. At night, the light coming from the building reveals its activity as performance venue.
Ayuntamiento de Illueca
Magén Arquitectos. Jaime Magén, Francisco Javier Magén
Marta Aguado, Pilar Giménez, Irene Arrieta, Clara Ordovás (arquitectas architects); Gabriel Fraj (arquitecto técnico quantity surveyor); José Ángel Pérez Benedicto (cálculo estructural structural calculation); Sergio Torné Darriba (ingeniero industrial industrial engineer)
Construcciones y Obras Victorino Vicente SL (fases 1-2 phases 1-2); Proviser Ibérica SL (fases 3-4 phases 3-4)
Superficie construida Floor area
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Police in Lira on Tuesday evening fired teargas to disperse a crowd that had gathered at Lira mayor’s garden to listen to former FDC presidential candidate Rtd Col Dr.Kizza Besigye.
Besigye who was in the company of FDC presidential candidate Patrick Amuriat Oboi and Kyadondo East MP Robert Kyagulanyi Sentamu aka Bobiwine was set to address the crowd Tuesday evening.
FDC leaders who include John Baptist Okello Okello, the party’s Vice chairman Northern Uganda, and Otyama Gongson who heads Lira district and Brian Ogutu from Oyam claimed that they got clearance from the police in Lira to host Besigye at Lira Mayor’s garden.
Besigye was expected to talk tough on the current controversial age limit bill that has sharply divided the country.
At about 3pm, the locals begun turning up at the mayors garden in expectation of Dr.Kizza Besigye but the field force unit of the police from Lira central police station sealed off the ground and asked the crowd to leave.
Our reporter who was at the scene says a police officer with a name tag on his uniform marked as Okoda came and announced to the crowd that they had received orders from the police headquarters in Kampala asking them to block the rally.
The crowd however turned rowdy and police was forced to fire tear gas in the air .People scampered for their lives and some were followed by police up to the Lira Main market where several teargas canisters were also fired.
The Forum for Democratic change party is yet to make a statement.

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Themes Explored: dystopia, societal collapse, familial collapse, endurance of the human spirit, freedom, independence, totalitarianism, despotism, perseverance, despair, despondence, free will, liberty, individuality, free speech, control, progressivism, environmental degradation, relationships, human connection, authoritative control
Synopsis: Just a generation ago, this place was called America. Now, after the worldwide implementation of a UN-led program called Agenda 21, it’s simply known as “the Republic.” There is no president. No Congress. No Supreme Court. No freedom. There are only the Authorities.
Citizens have two primary goals in the new Republic: to create clean energy and to create new human life. Those who cannot do either are of no use to society. This bleak and barren existence is all that eighteen-year-old Emmeline has ever known. She dutifully walks her energy board daily. Like most citizens, she keeps her head down and her eyes closed.
Until the day they come for her mother. Woken up to the harsh reality of her life and her family’s future inside the Republic, Emmeline begins to search for the truth. (Adapted from Goodreads)
Review: I judge books based upon content, not the viewpoints of the author. This is a review based solely on the quality of the narrative and not on the political leaning of Glenn Beck. Agenda 21 was either originally written by Harriet Parke and the rights were bought by Glenn Beck, or they wrote the book together. Am unsure as to this point and could not find any clarification. The book is quite short, only 295 pages and the actual narrative ends on the 277th page. Beck wrote a short afterward that takes up the rest of the pages. Narrative wise, it is an easy read that I would place at about a high school level reading level. Most of the chapters average about 5 pages long. Personally, I thought Agenda 21 was a thought provoking dystopia novel. But it suffered from a lack of strong character development and a rushed narrative.
Imagine living in a small cell located in a highly regimented set of compounds kept apart from the rest of the world by a fence. Every action is monitored and regulated, including eating and reproducing. Everyone’s occupation is identified by the color of your uniform. This is not a prison. Instead it is the home of the citizens of the New Republic. There are no more autonyms nations, only the Republic. This new order came about due to the enactment of the United Nations Agenda 21 document. All private property is forbidden and citizens are forced to pledge allegiance to the Republic and to the supremacy of the environment over humanity. The new world is told from the viewpoint of fourteen-year-old Emmeline. She lives in Compound 14 and has never been outside of the fence or communed with nature. Emmeline’s sole purpose in life is to generate energy every day by walking on an energy boars, described as a treadmill, and can only eat the nourishment cube given out three times a day. And as a female, she is expected to reproduce with an assigned partner for the good of the Republic. When she gives birth to Elsa, the Republic takes away the baby to be raised in the children education compound. However, Emmeline is not going to let the Republic take away everything that is important to her. This launches her on a path that will completely change her life.
Agenda 21 details an absolute worst case scenario. In this new future, the free world slowly gave up their rights and freedoms in return for certainty. Eventually this led to a complete erosion of the sovereignty of countries and the world’s citizens find themselves literally enslaved to a controlling government. Content wise, the narrative is rather similar to George Orwell’s 1984, Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games, and nearly every other dystopian novels in publication. Nearly all dystopian novels centers on an oppressed populace trying to rise above the tyranny of an all-powerful government. Based upon the point the author is trying to make either the hero/heroine is successful or they are captured and thoroughly brainwashed. This is a hallmark of the genre. In Agenda 21 the narrative suffers from a lack of complexity. There are simply not enough pages to flesh out the background details. As a result the story feels rushed and half thought out. There is a sequel, but I have not read it as of this moment. Hopefully the second book delves more deeply into the background details.
Character wise, there are three main characters. Emmeline, John, a friend who helps out when possible, and his son. The main heroine, Emmeline is eighteen for the majority of the novel. When she reached puberty at fourteen, she was paired with a much older man in order to reproduce. However, Emmeline is never fully developed. Part of the problem is that the authors spend too much time philosophizing and forgot to write a compelling character. Emmeline is rather one-dimensional with hints of a deeper perspective. However, the narrative moves too quickly to flesh out her viewpoints and struggles. The other characters are barely more than impressions. I am surprised I even remember that one of them was named John. There was a half-hearted attempt to add in a romantic element, but it definitely came across as a last minute addition. This kind of novel is only as strong as its weakest character. And the narrative struggles due to a lack of a strong main character. Without a well-developed central character to drive the action, the narrative loses focus and flounders.
Overall, this was an enjoyable way to spend an hour and a half. The narrative moves at a quick pace and never drags. All of the action builds up to a major climax and then the story ends abruptly. If you are looking for a self-contained story with a satisfying ending, this is not it. Presumably the sequel reveals the climax that this one hinted towards. The novel contains a lot of adult themes but is written at slightly below a high school reading level. If you enjoy dystopian novels, this is an interesting addition to the genre. But it is not this generation’s version of 1984.
Agenda 21, Threshold Editions, 2012, ISBN 9781476716695
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Brownies, the ultimate in chocolate indulgence. I love a soft and gooey brownie- almost like it hasn’t been cooked enough while my honey loves more of a cake like brownie. I came up with a brownie that is the best of both world for both of us. A chewy and delicious brownie that has a yummy chocolate flavor of your favorite chocolate cake.
Best Brownies Ever
2 cups sugar
1 cup oil
5 TBSP cocoa
2 tsp vanilla extract
1-1/2 cup flour
Preheat oven to 325 and grease a 13×9 baking pan and set aside.
Mix together sugar, oil, eggs, vanilla extract and cocoa until well combined. Add in the flour and mix for 50 strokes.
Pour into prepared pan and bake for 25-30 minutes.
Super easy recipe and it works out perfectly every time. Add frosting to the brownies for an even greater sugar fix! My daughter loves her brownies with frosting and sprinkles. This would also be a great brownie for the bottom of a brownie ice cream sundae.
However you like your brownies after they are baked give this recipe a try. You won’t be disappointed.

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Even as the country slowly begins to reopen, it’s essential to remember that the threat of COVID-19 isn’t gone. Social distancing is still the best way to keep yourself, your loved ones, and your community safe from the novel coronavirus. But how can you maintain six feet of distance from others if you need dental care? Here’s how your Medford dentist is helping their patients stay apart and healthy during their appointments in the COVID-19 pandemic.
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June 1, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed what “normal” means in many aspects of our lives, including routine dental appointments! Alongside many new infection control protocols, you’ll be asked to follow a few extra safety precautions when you visit your dentist in COVID-19. Before your treatment begins, your Medford dentist may ask you to rinse your mouth out with a special oral rinse. Read on to find out more about this new step in your routine dental appointments during the coronavirus pandemic.
May 15, 2020
Dental offices are already some of the cleanest places because they are held to high standards to ensure the safety of their patients; however, they’ve revamped their cleaning methods to meet the CDC’s guidelines to prevent the spread of COVID-19. This involves more than just using a disinfectant spray or wipes. Instead, there are several steps your dentist in Medford is taking to stop the transmission of the coronavirus.
May 1, 2020
For the last several weeks, many dental offices have had to close their doors to nonurgent issues to combat the spread of coronavirus. Now that the country is reopening, many people are concerned about their safety when seeking services that they’ve had to go without, like a routine cleaning and checkup. Your dentist in Medford understands your apprehension. They have made several changes to abide by the latest recommendations. Here are 4 ways your dentist is protecting themselves and their patients amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
April 30, 2020
To help slow the spread of the current COVID-19 pandemic and keep their patients safe, almost every dental practice has decided to temporarily close. While routine cleanings and elective cosmetic treatments are being postponed, many dentists are still available to treat dental emergencies. However, to keep our loved ones safe and limit our trips outside, we should do everything we can to protect our teeth while we’re in quarantine. Your Medford emergency dentist explains which foods you should enjoy and which you should avoid to keep your smile happy, healthy, and intact while social distancing.
April 16, 2020
Is your toothbrush still cleaning your smile effectively? If you haven’t replaced it in a while, chances are your daily dental routine isn’t doing as much good as it should. In fact, since frayed and flattened toothbrush bristles can easily trap bacteria, using a toothbrush past its prime could be doing your oral health more harm than good! Read on to find out how as well as when your Medford dentist recommends tossing your old toothbrush.
March 11, 2020
In response to the current pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention strongly recommends practicing social distancing and self-quarantines to slow the spread of COVID-19. To encourage this, Mayor Breanna Lungo-Koehn has called for the closure of all non-essential businesses, including beauty parlors, restaurants, and dental offices. This means that routine dental checkups and other preventive services need to be postponed until these strange times have passed. Here are six easy but practical tips from your Medford dentist to keep your smile healthy during quarantine.
March 1, 2020
Everybody wants a gleaming set of pearly whites. Unfortunately, so many things can change the color of our smile that it can be difficult to keep it bright. Great oral hygiene and regular dental checkups from your Medford dentist play a key role in the hue of your teeth. However, understanding what causes this discoloration can help you prevent it from happening in the first place! Here are the top three factors that can cause a yellow, brown, or gray smile.
February 11, 2020
You might already be aware of certain foods that you need to eat in order to lose weight: foods like fruits, vegetables, and lean meats. However, did you know that what you eat affects more than just your waistline? According to a dentist in Medford, the foods and drinks you consume impact your oral health. In today’s blog post, we take a look at some healthy snacks to choose that benefit your teeth and gums.
February 6, 2020
You eat plenty of fruits and vegetables every day. You get at least thirty minutes of daily exercise. You abstain from smoking and you hardly ever drink alcohol. But still, you could be at risk of heart disease. Why is that? Because there is a significant link between gum disease and cardiovascular problems. Keep reading below as a dentist in Medford discusses this connection and how you can avoid getting gum disease in the first place.


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Four Metropolitan Ballet Academy Students Place in Youth America Grand Prix Semi-Finals, Five Continue to NYC Finals
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Metropolitan Ballet Academy students Peter Weil, Phoebe Gavula, Devon DiBello, Kamryn Baldwin, and Ariel Breitman excel in Youth America Grand Prix 2010 Regional Semi Finals
Metropolitan Ballet Academy students have much to celebrate this week as five students excelled in the Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP) 2010 Regional Semi- Finals. Peter Weil, age 13, won Third Place in the Classical Dance Category, Junior Age Division; Phoebe Gavula, age 15, placed in the top 12 in both the Senior Classical Ballet and Senior Contemporary Dance Categories; Devon DiBello, age 13, placed among the top 12 in the Junior Classical Ballet Category; Kamryn Baldwin, age 11, placed in the top 12 in the Pre-Competitive Age Category; and Ariel Breitman, age 16, will continue in the Senior Men’s Division Category.
All five students will advance to compete in the YAGP New York City Finals, March 21-16, 2010, where finalists selected from semi-final rounds conducted all over the globe will compete for more than $250,000 in scholarships to 30 of the world’s leading dance schools, as well as job offers from other companies in the U.S. and abroad.
Youth America Grand Prix is the world’s largest international student ballet scholarship competition. YAGP has awarded more than $2 million in scholarships to the leading dance schools worldwide. Over 25,000 dancers worldwide have participated in YAGP’s international workshops, competitions, and audition classes; more than 200 YAGP alumni are now dancing with 50 companies around the world, including such acclaimed companies as American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet, and San Francisco Ballet.
Lisa Collins Vidnovic, founder and director of Metropolitan Ballet Academy, said, “I am so proud of our students, who have worked extraordinarily hard to achieve this great honor. YAGP is a very rigorous competition attended by the highest level of pre-professional dancers. Having five students advance to the YAGP finals is an historic occasion for Metropolitan Ballet Academy. Our faculty teaches classical dance in an atmosphere of support and encouragement, and gives each student the individual attention they deserve. The entire Academy congratulates Peter, Phoebe, Devon, Kamryn, and Ariel on their significant accomplishments so far, and wishes them success when they compete in the NYC Finals.”

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That said, I have heard that women may find a wider window of eating to be more favorable when doing daily intermittent fasting. While men will typically fast for 16 hours and then eat for 8 hours, women may find better results by eating for 10 hours and fasting for 14 hours. The best advice I can give anyone, not just women, is to experiment and see what works best for you. Your body will give you signals. Follow what your body responds favorably to.
Back to fasting: growth hormone is increased during fasted states (both during sleep and after a period of fasting). Combine this increased growth hormone secretion:, the decrease in insulin production (and thus increase in insulin sensitivity ), and you’re essentially priming your body for muscle growth and fat loss with intermittent fasting.
I started IT about 6 weeks ago. I eat between 12 noon and 8 pm. This works best for me and I have found easily sustainable. The results so far have blown my mind. I have an autoimmune disease and struggled with bloating, multiple food intolerance, gut pain, frequent urination, sugar cravings. All of these symptoms are gone. My hunger is controlled and I can enjoy lovely family dinners again. I think ideally eating earlier in the day would be better, but due to my schedule this works better for me and I am happy with the results.
“Chia seeds aren’t just a pet, they’re a party in your mouth. I’m a huge fan of them because they’re chock-full of heart-healthy omega-3s, fiber, protein, and calcium. Chia seeds are easily absorbed by the body, so they’re very nourishing and satiating. Every day I add them to my breakfast smoothie or pair them with yogurt or cottage cheese along with some blueberries.” – Sarah Koszyk, MA, RD, founder of Family. Food. Fiesta.
The ketogenic diet is a high-fat, adequate-protein, low-carbohydrate diet that in medicine is used primarily to treat difficult-to-control (refractory) epilepsy in children. The diet forces the body to burn fats rather than carbohydrates. Normally, the carbohydrates contained in food are converted into glucose, which is then transported around the body and is particularly important in fueling brain function. However, if little carbohydrate remains in the diet, the liver converts fat into fatty acids and ketone bodies. The ketone bodies pass into the brain and replace glucose as an energy source. An elevated level of ketone bodies in the blood, a state known as ketosis, leads to a reduction in the frequency of epileptic seizures. Around half of children and young people with epilepsy who have tried some form of this diet saw the number of seizures drop by at least half, and the effect persists even after discontinuing the diet. Some evidence indicates that adults with epilepsy may benefit from the diet, and that a less strict regimen, such as a modified Atkins diet, is similarly effective. Potential side effects may include constipation, high cholesterol, growth slowing, acidosis, and kidney stones.
The day before admission to hospital, the proportion of carbohydrate in the diet may be decreased and the patient begins fasting after his or her evening meal. On admission, only calorie- and caffeine-free fluids are allowed until dinner, which consists of "eggnog"[Note 8] restricted to one-third of the typical calories for a meal. The following breakfast and lunch are similar, and on the second day, the "eggnog" dinner is increased to two-thirds of a typical meal's caloric content. By the third day, dinner contains the full calorie quota and is a standard ketogenic meal (not "eggnog"). After a ketogenic breakfast on the fourth day, the patient is discharged. Where possible, the patient's current medicines are changed to carbohydrate-free formulations.
It’s the best fruit for weight loss. That means Pink Lady apples, watermelon, red grapes, and raspberries. The higher levels of nutrients called flavonoids—particularly anthocyanins, compounds that give red fruits their color—calm the action of fat-storage genes. In fact, red-bellied stone fruits like plums boast phenolic compounds that have been shown to modulate the expression of fat genes.
There’s another reason why 16:8 dieters might end up eating less. “I think participants found it difficult to eat all of their regular meals and snacks within the 8-hour timeframe,” says Kristina Varady, PhD, associate professor of nutrition at the University of Illinois Chicago and a co-author of the Nutrition and Healthy Aging study. If trying to eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. seems like a squeeze, you’ll likely end up cutting out a meal or shrinking your portions.
It’s hard to squeeze in a workout before meeting friends for drinks, so you blow off…the workout, of course. A better idea: Tell your bud to meet you at the gym. You can socialize, get fit, and still hit the bar afterward. This trick works with spouses, too: A recent JAMA Internal Medicine study of nearly 4,000 couples found that people are more likely to stick to healthy habits like exercise when they team up with their partner. And before working out, don’t miss these essential 11 Eating Habits That Will Uncover Your Abs!
While all fruits are healthy, a handful of them reigns supreme when it comes to frying fat and de-bloating your belly. University of Kentucky researchers found that eating watermelon can lower fat accumulation, while another group of great minds discovered that honeydew can banish water retention and bloating. Spend ten minutes chopping up these slimming fruits for the week ahead. Enjoy them solo as a snack, throw them into yogurt or add them to salads. Watermelon is also one of these 50 Best Foods for Him—in Bed—share them with the man in your life.
Normal dietary fat contains mostly long-chain triglycerides (LCTs). Medium-chain triglycerides (MCTs) are more ketogenic than LCTs because they generate more ketones per unit of energy when metabolised. Their use allows for a diet with a lower proportion of fat and a greater proportion of protein and carbohydrate, leading to more food choices and larger portion sizes. The original MCT diet developed by Peter Huttenlocher in the 1970s derived 60% of its calories from MCT oil. Consuming that quantity of MCT oil caused abdominal cramps, diarrhea, and vomiting in some children. A figure of 45% is regarded as a balance between achieving good ketosis and minimising gastrointestinal complaints. The classical and modified MCT ketogenic diets are equally effective and differences in tolerability are not statistically significant. The MCT diet is less popular in the United States; MCT oil is more expensive than other dietary fats and is not covered by insurance companies.
In Buddhism, fasting is undertaken as part of the monastic training of Theravada Buddhist monks, who fast daily from noon to sunrise of the next day. This fasting is also undertaken by laypeople who undertake the eight precepts, optional rules laypeople can take to get an impression of what it is like to live as a monastic. Taiwanese physician Ming-Jun Hung and his co-authors have analyzed early and medieval Chinese Buddhist Texts and argue that the main purposes of the half-day fast is to lessen desire, improve fitness and strength, and decrease sleepiness.
In nutrition, diet is the sum of food consumed by a person or other organism. The word diet often implies the use of specific intake of nutrition for health or weight-management reasons (with the two often being related). Although humans are omnivores, each culture and each person holds some food preferences or some food taboos. This may be due to personal tastes or ethical reasons. Individual dietary choices may be more or less healthy.
“Tahini is an oft-forgotten option for nut and seed butters, but it sits front and center in my fridge because it delivers major creaminess to sauces and smoothies and packs a powerful flavor punch,” says Willow Jarosh MS, RD co-owner of C&J Nutrition. “Although some advise against eating the spread because of its high omega 3:6 ratio, the super high intake of omega-6s in the average American’s diet isn’t due to things like tahini—it’s mostly from not eating a variety of fats or consuming the majority of fats from fried foods and packaged snacks. As long as you’re also eating foods rich in omega-3s, your end-of-day ratio should be nothing to worry about. Plus, tahini is loaded with tons of healthy nutrients like copper, which helps maintain anti-inflammatory and antioxidant responses in the body. It also provides 6 percent of the day’s calcium in just one tablespoon.”
Some cultures and religions have restrictions concerning what foods are acceptable in their diet. For example, only Kosher foods are permitted by Judaism, and Halal foods by Islam. Although Buddhists are generally vegetarians, the practice varies and meat-eating may be permitted depending on the sects. In Hinduism, vegetarianism is the ideal. Jains are strictly vegetarian and consumption of roots is not permitted.


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BELLEVILLE MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO RECEIPT OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY
A Belleville man pled guilty on March 15, 2011, to a felony charge of receipt of child pornography, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today. Thomas M. Smith, 27, of Belleville, Ill.-, faces a term of imprisonment of not less than five (5) years but not more than twenty (20) years, and a $250,000 fine, and a term of supervised release of five (5) years to life. Sentencing is scheduled for June 27, 2011, in East St. Louis, Illinois. Smith was detained pending sentencing.
The violation occurred on October 26, 2010, when a Southwestern Illinois College (“SWIC”) Public Safety Officer saw Smith viewing child pornography on a public computer in the school’s library. When the Public Safety Officer approached Smith, Smith tried to close the web page that he had been viewing, and also unplugged two MP3 players that were connected to the computer via USB cables. A review of one of the MP3 players contained visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct. Some of the images appeared to involve prepubescent females, and some involved vaginal penetration. In a voluntary statement, Smith admitted downloading the images described above from a pornographic website via the internet to one of his MP3 players. Smith stated that he accessed the website for about 15 minutes in which time he downloaded a couple hundred photographs of young girls between the ages of 10 and 15 years old.
This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led by United States Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS), Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov.
The case was investigated by the SWIC Department of Public Safety, the St. Clair County Sheriff’s Department, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Metro East Cyber Crimes and Analysis Task Force. The case is assigned to Assistant United States Attorney Angela Scott.


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Find industrial buildings suited to your specifications
Trust Showcase to deliver all the information you need to locate the ideal industrial building to add to your commercial property portfolio.
Generating enough capital to buy industrial buildings
Investing in industrial buildings can cost a considerable amount of money, and since most people and organisations are unlikely to hold the entire amount of capital required to purchase commercial property, you’re probably going to have to secure a loan.
Whenever a lender approves a large loan, it’s because they have received sufficient evidence to convince them that their cash is safe and that it will eventually be paid back with interest. It’s your job to provide this evidence, which will almost certainly include information on exactly how your business is run, the company’s financial history and its future earning potential.
Your solicitor and a commercial property professional can advise you further on exactly how to finance your foray into the world of commercial real estate
Investors - buy industrial buildings to rent out
Once you’re sure you have enough capital to buy an industrial property or series of industrial properties, your next consideration before you purchase should be whether or not your investment has serious income generating potential.
The obvious means of generating earnings is to make sure that you are purchasing a property which is likely to rise in value over time. If this is the case, you can then sell it on for a healthy profit at some point in the future. However, another means of turning your commercial property investment into a money-maker is to sublet your industrial buildings out to other companies.
Through Showcase, you can get in touch with commercial lettings agents, to find out if there are any properties on the market at present which might be particularly suited to the lettings market.

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Under the leadership of President and CEO LaVarne A. Burton, our Executive Team brings an unwavering mission focus to the management of AKF, ensuring the organization delivers programs and services that are effective and that meet the evolving needs of patients.
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Vice President of Patient Services and Kidney Disease Education
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We are the nation's leading kidney nonprofit. With programs of prevention, early detection, financial support, disease management, clinical research, innovation and advocacy, no kidney organization touches more lives than AKF.
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Society Is Turning Into Precisely What I Bet The E-book 1984 Is About
A 1972 evaluation of George Orwell’s 1984 nonetheless resonates right now. So time is at the centre of political wrestle in the e book. Orwell wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four in 1948, following World World II. Hitler’s propaganda strategies and totalitarian regime had resulted in one of many worst wars in history. I won’t argue against the fact that one of the simplest ways to learn from a ebook is to read the entire ebook, but book summaries are also an effective way to study the important thing takeaways and lessons from more books in much less time – particularly when life is crazy busy.
Nineteen Eighty-Four has not just bought tens of hundreds of thousands of copies – it has infiltrated the consciousness of numerous individuals who have by no means read it. The phrases and ideas that Orwell minted have turn out to be important fixtures of political language, still potent after many years of use and misuse: newspeak, Huge Brother, the thought police, Room one hundred and one, the 2 minutes’ hate, doublethink, unperson, reminiscence gap, telescreen, 2+2=5 and the ministry of reality.
The rocket bombs which fell every day on London were most likely fired by the Authorities of Oceania itself, ‘simply to maintain people frightened’. These suggestions are, once more, based mostly on my experience of having taught Orwell’s novel to a variety of scholar readers. One tries to avoid clichÃ©, and I did my finest on a go to to this terrifying nation in the yr 2000, however George Orwell ‘s 1984 was published at in regards to the time that Kim Il-sung set up his system, and it really is as if he obtained maintain of an early copy of the novel and used it as a blueprint.
Reading books like 1984â€ is significant to ensure people are informed of the potential capabilities of a broken authorities. Agamemnon lists an entire bunch of awesome stuff he plans to present to Achilleus if he’ll come again and fight for the Achaians. There, Zeus tells her that the gods had been contemplating sending Hermes all the way down to steal the body, but have as an alternative decided to give Achilleus a break.
Author of the ebook The 4 agreement explains that we persons are not the way in which we ought to be. This proves troublesome for dear old Winston when heâ€”you guessed itâ€”falls in love with Julia , his coworker by day and cunning undercover insurgent by night. Harold Bloom wrote in 1987 that Orwell’s great novel of totalitarianism, 1984, threatened to turn out to be a interval piece, akin to Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
In an excellent, just lately published e book entitled Barnhill, written following thorough research by Norman Bissell to commemorate on eighth June the 70thÂ anniversary of the publication of 1984, we discover George leaving post-struggle London for Barnhill, a distant farmhouse on the Isle of Jurra, to write what was, in his mind, the second novel in a trilogy about politics, the primary, Animal Farm, having been an enormous success and bringing Orwell to the attention of many.
But now we are able to learn 1984 differently: with anxious apprehension, utilizing it to measure the place we, our nations and the world have got to on the highway map to a hell Orwell described. Sixty years after the publication of Orwell’s masterpiece, Nineteen Eighty-Four, that crystal first line sounds as natural and compelling as ever. We also spend quite a bit of time with Winston within the Ministry of Love, where the brainwashing takes place.
His political satire Animal Farm was revealed shortly after the end of the struggle in 1945, and it was this novel, together with Nineteen Eighty-4 (1949), that introduced him worldwide fame. As he lay dying, George Orwell summoned his writer Fred Warburg to his bedside. Individuals are born and die on a regular basis like leaves.» After that, though, he mellows out a bit and tells an extended story about his ancestor.
Winston Smith is the person about whom Orwell’s e-book revolves, London is the scene of the motion, and all by the narrative words and expressions evolve which have labored their method into our personal everyday vocabularies. People usually assess Nineteen Eighty-4 as a prophecy, praising Orwell for the issues he predicted precisely and criticising him for those that he missed.
It says «I love you.» Winston is surprised and disturbed by this; any sexual relationship between Social gathering members is strictly forbidden. The one Party guidelines and Huge Brother reigns, watches and controls every little thing. The e book reappeared on greatest-vendor lists in early 2017, as some argued Orwell’s dystopian imaginative and prescient had finally arrived. In his novel, 1984, Orwell crafted a put up-apocalyptic world in which the planet’s powers had been divided into three portions; Oceania, which consisted of the Americas, Eurasia, comprised continental Europe and northern Asia, and Eastasia, which, as its title implies, covered many of the japanese Asian continent.
George Orwell is efficient in displaying the themes of the consequences of totalitarian authorities and what it means to be human. There are a lot of minor characters in 1984, together with coworkers on the Ministry the place Winston and Julia work, or different prisoners at the jail Winston is taken to at the end of the ebook. Released, Winston’s coronary heart is stuffed with love for the Get together.
There are three lessons of individuals in London: Inside Get together members, Celebration members like Winston and the proletariate, who aren’t watched so closely because they are not considered human. Lastly, inÂ 1984, Big Brotherâ€ is always watching and controlling all the things. George Orwell’s novel reveals with a terrifying clarity what a totalitarian regime seems like from the within, with its propaganda, managed hatred and perpetual conflict.
Orwell effectively explores the themes of mass media control, authorities surveillance, totalitarianism and the way a dictator can manipulate and control historical past, ideas, and lives in such a way that nobody can escape it. George Orwell’s basic 1984 â€” a staple of high school lecture rooms in all places â€” has been holding sturdy to the top of the bestsellers list for the previous few months.
Whereas Winston is an official in a political occasion that promotes propaganda, Julia belongs to the occasion of truth. Giving actionable lessons to the reader, this book reveals managers how to achieve success while retaining their humanity, discovering which means of their job, and creating an environment where folks each love their work and their colleagues.
Trying through their channel, it is clear that guide summaries used to be a staple of their content material strategy, but now The Journey is much extra channel now covers alternative ways of thinking, sometimes with a ebook because the catalyst for conversation. Thus much of the societal and governmental and philosophical warnings of Orwell are drowned out by Fromm’s overbearing worry of thermonuclear warfare.
So this time, I talked him into picking something simpler, specifically â€˜1984′ by George Orwell. After reading this e-book you’ll understand the true meaning of the e-book. Orwell was already a significant literary figure, because of the publication of his satirical novel Animal Farm, and there was a file on him long before the release of Nineteen Eighty-4 that remained open even after his death in 1950.
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Nineteen Eighty-4 has not just bought tens of hundreds of thousands of copies – it has infiltrated the consciousness of countless individuals who have by no means read it. The phrases and ideas that Orwell minted have turn out to be important fixtures of political language, still potent after many years of use and misuse: newspeak, Huge Brother, the thought police, Room one hundred and one, the 2 minutes’ hate, doublethink, unperson, memory hole, telescreen, 2+2=5 and the ministry of fact.
The protagonist Winston Smith , a member of the Outer Social gathering, works within the Records Department of the Ministry of Truth as an editor, revising historic records , to make the past conform to the ever-changing party line and deleting references to unpersons , people who have been «vaporised», i.e., not only killed by the state but denied existence even in historical past or reminiscence.
From Massive Brother to Doublethink, the landscape of the dystopia George Orwell created in 1949 exists within the minds even of those that’ve by no means picked up the novel. George Orwell wrote 1984 in 1949. On the time, Winston felt nonchalant about Julia. The primary principle I’ve is that the value of books comes not solely from their concepts, which of course can typically be gleaned from a summary, but from being a difficult psychological activity that requires focus and simultaneously guides deeper pondering.
My educating expertise offers me a really clear sense of what sorts of help are wanted right this moment by both students and mature, ostensibly nicely-informed adult readers of Nineteen Eighty-Four. From the start, Eileen had agreed that Orwell’s writing was the core around which all cottage life would revolve. George Orwell’s 1984 is without doubt one of the most influential satires of the 20th century.
Throughout a time when much of the Western world was lauding communism as a step in direction of human progress within the growth of equality in authorities, Orwell clearly and definitively spoke out towards the observe. George Orwell – Nineteen eighty-4 (facsimile). How Winston and Julia rebelled, fell in love and paid the penalty within the terroristic world of tomorrow is the thread on which Britain’s George Orwell has spun his latest and best work of fiction.
And whereas 1984 has come and gone, Orwell’s narrative is timelier than ever. Hektor runs thrice around the walls of Troyâ€”always with Achilleus in hot pursuit. Yet he inwardly rebels in opposition to the totalitarian world he lives in, which calls for absolute obedience and controls him by the all-seeing telescreens and the watchful eye of Big Brother, symbolic head of the Occasion.
More than 50k people are already hooked on our microbooks. Winston Smith and his youthful lover, Julia, have interaction in an illicit sexual relationship, presumably away from the attentions of Large Brother. Our comparative analysis has demonstrated that nearly all topoi of classical social utopias are current in Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four: from the economic and political system to the brand new manâ€ and the sexual relationships.
So much of it has entered the language, becoming a settled part of our widespread cultural inheritance, that it is simple to neglect that 1984 was ever a ebook in any respect. The disturbing novel, 1984, is re-examined in a radical new staging exploring surveillance, identification, censorship and Fact, and reminds us why Orwell’s story is as related now because it ever was.
As a lot a cultural and historic marker as an absorbing thriller, George Orwell’s 1984 modified and continues to alter the way we think about the past and imagine the long run. A good majority of us had been handed â€˜1984′ with the intention of studying, analyzing and studying many life lessons from it. AÂ Portrays a terrifying vision of life in the future when a totalitarian authorities, thought-about a «Adverse Utopia,» watches over all residents and directs all activities, turning into extra highly effective as time goes by.
Among a number of theories about its inspiration are that it alludes to the centenary of the Fabian Society, based in 1884, and that it pays homage to Orwell’s favorite author, G. Okay. Chesterton, whose story ‘The Napoleon of Notting Hill’ is set in 1984. Read them to hunt for books to learn. The people who do not have enough time to read by means of an entire ebook but wish to take up every piece of information it could possibly supply.
Agamemnon prays to Zeus for achievement in battle, however Homer tells us that Zeus is not going to fulfill his request. The concept of love is frowned upon by the Occasion because it’s understood to cause indignant and frustration, so the act of creating loveâ€ is really the folks’s obligation to the Get together. Orwell is finest recognized for the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (printed in 1949) and the satirical novella Animal Farm (1945) â€” they have collectively bought extra copies than any two books by every other twentieth-century author.
If Blinkist is not your thing, Instaread is a wonderful alternative Instaread , like Blinkist, presents fifteen-minute ebook summaries of nonfiction books. Winston is part of the ruling get together and works on the authorities’s Ministry of Truth, however longs for revolution and to overthrow Massive Brother,Â Oceania’s symbolic leader. We discover the free programs and audio books you want, the language classes & educational videos you need, and plenty of enlightenment in between.
George Orwell (25 June 1903 to 21 January 1950), born Eric Arthur Blair, was a novelist, essayist and critic best identified for his novels Animal Farm and 1984. All books covered by BBS are summarized by professionals who extract and revise the salient factors into brief,Â high-high quality summaries. Whereas within the Ministry of Love, ‘Brien notes this weak spot in Winston’s mind and successfully removes it. Through painful bodily torture, ‘Brien first teaches Winston that the Celebration’s perspective is the accurate perspective.
The primary finds the e-book’s considerations taking form within the writer’s thoughts, partly via studying non-fiction works on authoritarian techniques; then comes the actual writing of 1984; and at last its publication, a birth of kinds. Certain enough, the following day the Trojans make a profitable counterattack, led by Hektor, their best warrior. That is one of those books that everybody is meant to have read.
For the most part, nevertheless, Ministry of Truth focuses on 1984 itself, charting its conception, gestation, beginning, life and afterlife. Like the fictional authorities offered in 1984,â€ the Chinese language Communist Occasion takes substantial measures with regards to surveilling its individuals and censoring opposed news. As I soon discovered, Jura is an island intricately linked with George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, a novel so influential its title has grow to be shorthand for totalitarianism.
A type of nonfiction bookend to 1984,â€ the hefty philosophical quantity examines the elements that fueled the right storm of events leading to the rise of Hitler and Stalin and World Conflict II â€” notably, the ability that centralized storytelling can exert over anxious populations affected by the dislocations of history, by offering scapegoats, straightforward fixes and easy cohesive narratives.
The best way power of gravity exists between all objects because it is the universal law of gravitational, subsequently should you step off a constructing, regardless of who you might be, gravitational force will for certain pull you off towards the bottom, The Creator says that the identical factor holds true with the regulation of this ebook, The writer says that the regulation is similar for all, it affects every individual in the same way, therefore it is extremely necessary to gain an understanding of these powerful tools which is able to help you expertise what you need out of life.
When he asks Winston if there may be something worse that may occur, Winston points out that the Social gathering has not managed to make him betray Julia, and that while he accepts the Get together’s doctrines, he nonetheless hates Massive Brother. In 1949, the yr 1984 gave the impression to be the far future and bought the eye of book lovers. Orwell, George, 1903-1950 and Erich Fromm, 1984.
Furthermore, since most of our info is on-line now, if a authorities just like the one in 1984 were to gain management, it could be a lot easier, at the very least in some ways, for folks like Winston to change historic ‘reality.’ Whereas know-how undoubtedly makes life higher in many ways, 1984 stays an eerie warning about just a few of its downsides.
Nineteen Eighty-Four is George Orwell’s terrifying imaginative and prescient of a totalitarian future through which all the things and everyone is slave to a tyrannical regime. What can I probably say about this amazing novel, 1984 by George Orwell, that hasn’t been already mentioned by many who’ve read the book for over half a century. His 1938 e book Homage to Catalonia, an account of his experiences as a volunteer on the Republican side throughout the Spanish Civil Warfare, along with numerous essays on politics, literature, language, and tradition, have been widely acclaimed.
If that is for a faculty assignment or e book membership, begin studying as soon because the guide is assigned. Then again, when most enterprise people search for a e-book summaryâ€ they are not usually on the lookout for information on how one can write a e book summary; fairly, they are trying to find an already written abstract of an current e book. The teachings in this ebook needs to be thought-about essential studying for anybody looking to pursue a more productive lifestyle.
The internal consistency of this book-studying strategy seems to make sense to me. However, when I look world wide at world-well-known polymaths and autodidacts, I not often see them using this technique. Rereading it at the moment was one thing else altogether: I discovered Winston’s situation and sufferings dismal, revolting, at times nearly unbearable. Winston Smith works in the Minitrue RecDep (Data Department), «rectifying» historical data to concord with Large Brother’s present pronouncements so that the whole lot the Occasion says is true.
Oceania’s political ideology, euphemistically named English Socialism (shortened to «Ingsoc» in Newspeak, the federal government’s invented language) is enforced by the privileged, elite Interior Social gathering. Behaviors has an energy consequence, for higher or for worse, writer says in this ebook that ultimate purpose or measure of our humanity on this world is just not how a lot time we invest however how much vitality we invest in that point that we have.


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A campaign group to fight plans to build hundreds of homes on the south-west edge of Ripon has been formed after 200 people met to voice their concerns.
The meeting, organised by Independent councillors in the city to discuss Cheshire-based Gladman Developments’ plans for up to 450 homes in fields south of Whitcliffe Lane, was held at Greystone Primary School last week.
Speaking after the meeting, Coun Peter Horton (Ind) said: “It was a very successful meeting with around 100 people agreeing to display posters and signs objecting to the development.
“The strength of feeling is that this is not a suitable site and it should not go forward as a building development.”
Gladman Developments was told by Harrogate Borough Council’s Chief Planner last month that an Environmental Impact Assessment needs to be carried out on its proposals for the scheme at the site south of Whitcliffe Lane and west of West Lane before any planning application is submitted.
Among the issues of concern raised by members of the public at the meeting were the effects on access roads, increased traffic, school places and the encroachment on the open countryside.
Also at the meeting, a steering group of around 10 people was formed to spearhead the campaign against the proposed development once a planning application is submitted.
Coun Horton said: “There was definitely a feeling among the whole of the people attending that we must fight this and not let it go forward.”
Gladman Developments has declined to comment on its proposals until the company has submitted its planning application for the 23-hectare site, which is currently used for agriculture and horse riding.


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With every travel comes a new experience and lesson, here is my journey through the night.
Making plans to leave town, and I called a brother who resides in Abuja to send me address and when exactly to come.
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Author Moira Noonan will speak on “Is Your Faith Stronger than Your Fascination?” in a set of presentations explaining the deeper meaning of the New Age movement, on Saturday, Oct. 20, from 8:45 a.m. to 4 p.m. The event, which is sponsored by the Catholic Charismatic Renewal and the Knights of Columbus, will take place at Killian Hall.
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Raised as a Catholic, Noonan began apprenticeship in New Age practices and ideas as a college student. Over a 25-year time period, she worked in religious science ministry, as a psychic counselor and a therapist. She became certified or developed expertise in such areas as hypnotherapy, past life regression, astrology, the course in miracles, reiki, channeling, crystals, goddess spirituality, clairvoyance and other occult practices.
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To register for the event, call Kay at (678) 480-2568. For more information about Moira Noonan, go to her Web site at www.spiritbattleforsouls.org.


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Harry Kane will not let a broken nose rule him out of Tottenham's title charge.
The England striker was caught with an elbow during Spurs' FA Cup defeat to Crystal Palace on Sunday - but played on before realising he had suffered the injury.
Scans after the game showed Kane had broken his nose but the 22-year-old is ready to play on in a mask.
However, Mauricio Pochettino may not risk the striker from the start against Fiorentina in the Europa League second-leg on Thursday.
The Spurs boss is reluctant to risk Kane aggravating the injury further ahead of a crucial couple of weeks in the Premier League.
Spurs face three games in seven days with fixtures against Swansea and West Ham followed by the north London derby against Arsenal.
Pochettino's men sit two points adrift of Leicester with 12 games to go after their victory at Manchester City last time out.
Kane is set to become the latest player to wear a protective mask in the Premier League.
READ MORE: Costa completes full Chelsea masked XI
A number of Chelsea players have been forced to do so in recent weeks, including Diego Costa - who suffered a similar injury to Kane.
Chelsea sent the striker to Milan to have his protective cast after suffering a broken nose in training but Kane is set to stay in England.


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Jurgen Klopp says Liverpool's players are facing “judgment week” but he has already passed his verdict — no matter what happens for them from here, it will have been a successful season.
Klopp’s side defeated Newcastle 3-2 on Saturday night to regain the title race lead, thanks to a Divock Origi goal in the 86th minute from a free-kick team-mate Fabinho won with what looked like a dive. Premier League.
On such margins the Anfield charge was kept alive and with Manchester City getting their chance to go top at home to Leicester on Monday, Klopp said: “At the very beginning when I came to Liverpool, I realised this club has to do it the hard way, so we’ll do it the hard way. That’s how it is, because luck is not constantly with us.
“We have to really work for it and the boys are ready and the whole club is ready for that. Whatever happens, it will be a very, very successful season and I’m pretty sure that all our supporters can see it like this."
The title will now be decided on the final day next Sunday, when Liverpool are at home to Wolves and City travel to a Brighton side whose relegation fears vanished when Crystal Palace sent Cardiff down on Saturday evening.
Before that, the Reds have the small matter of a Champions League semi-final second leg at home to Barcelona on Tuesday. They trail 3-0, but their performance in the Nou Camp gives a sliver of hope.
Liverpool finished fourth last season, 25 points behind title-winners Man City's record haul of 100. A year on, they can get 97 points — more than any Premier League champions other than that City side have managed to date — and only come second.
“I’m absolutely proud," Klopp continued.
"Before you start the season, the problem is already clear. You want to be champions, and the day when you realise you can’t be champions, you’re disappointed.
“For some teams, that’s the first day. For some teams, that’s the last match-day. That doesn’t make a big difference. For us, it’s 100% clear, we try everything we can. We cannot do more – that’s it. For us, the target is winning football games as often as possible, and the boys did much more than I thought possible.
“Let’s try to get 97 points and then we are ready for judgment.”
Star forward Mohamed Salah is expected to be fit for the Barcelona game after a bang on the head led to him being subbed on Saturday night, but striker Roberto Firmino still has a groin injury.


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Continuous automated ventilation heat recovery efficiency performance assessment using building monitoring system
1 Nearly Zero Energy Buildings Research Group, Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Tallinn University of Technology, 19086 Tallinn, Estonia
2 Centre for Intelligent Systems, Department of Computer Systems, Tallinn University of Technology, 19086 Tallinn, Estonia
3 R8 Technologies company, Tallinn 11415, Estonia
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The performance of ventilation heat recovery has high impact to the total energy consumption of modern buildings and its sub-optimal performance results in a remarkable energy penalty. There are several issues, which can significantly affect the heat recovery efficiency such as the inaccuracy of sensors, errors in control systems, mechanical defects and incorrect setting of the system. In addition, the direct comparison of the designed and measured heat recovery efficiency is not necessarily meaningful due to varying boundary conditions e.g. mass flow rates. The main focus of this paper is to develop and demonstrate a simple automated method for monitoring the heat recovery efficiency of ventilation units using building monitoring system (BMS). As the supply and extract air mass flows and temperatures may differ from the calculated initial design parameters, the proposed solution is to analyse the heat recovery efficiency using the number of transfer unit (NTU) method. With this method the efficiency is always calculated by the limiting mass flow, meaning that the warm exhaust air can not transfer more energy to the cold supply air than it is able to contain. As a result, the NTU method gives us the possibility to continuously compare the result to the temperature efficiency declared by the producer of the unit. The developed method demonstrated that the application of NTU method enables identifying sub-optimal performance of ventilation heat recovery, which would not have been revealed by direct comparison of temperature efficiencies. In some cases, low measured temperature efficiency was associated with problems not connected to the heat recovery heat exchanger. The method also enabled to estimate the additional heating costs due to the decreased heat recovery efficiency.
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David Letterman may not be the greatest late night host ever (sorry, nobody's ever going to top Craig Ferguson), but there’s one type of interaction in which Letterman absolutely shines: dealing with people he has no respect for. If Letterman thinks the guest isn't worth his time (and he'll let you know within the first thirty seconds), you'd be well advised to set the Tivo and microwave a bowl of popcorn, because shit is about to get hilariously awkward. I used to think it was his becoming old, crotchety and possibly senile that gave rise to this bizarre streak of gut-busting faux pax, but the videos gathered below prove without a doubt that Letterman's been a dismissive prick since the very beginning. Well played, sir.
The Tipping Point: At the beginning, you can almost tell yourself Dave’s genuinely faking interest. Sure there’s some sort of dangling tray fouling up the segment, but he’s not about to let that ruffle him. Unfortunately Simmons use of the phrase “go-go kart” is an offense he apparently can’t let slide by without comment.
The simpering sarcasm that passes for Simmons’ anger, like a dandelion head bursting in your face on a crisp Spring morning.
The fact that Letterman mocks Simmons’ clothes is made all the more poignant when Simmons stands up a second later to reveal a lovingly sequined glitter shirt handmade in Dave’s honor.
The explosion. It’s an excellent enough moment to make me wish all TV segments ended with minor appliance fires. It would sure liven up the local news.
The Tipping Point: After Dave spends a good thirty seconds thoughtfully articulating his fairly complex standpoint in response to Bill’s browbeating, emotionally provocative, sound bite of a question, Bill interrupts him to repeat the same question, but louder. It’s at this point you can see Dave realizing that they are no longer in the realm of reasoned debate, and responding accordingly.
Since this is the first time I’ve seen O’Reilly from an angle besides in-my-face, it’s also the first time I became aware that he has a troll-like hunchback. For a comedy blogger, this is excellent information to acquire.
The fact that CBS cut the video off at the exact height of Dave’s superiority over Bill. The only way they could have encapsulated the interview better would be to change their call letters to ZNG! If you want to see the whole excruciating interview, feel free to click this phrase right here.
The Tipping Point: This one’s not Dave acting disrespectful as much as the whole damned situation being as uncomfortable as a long car ride with the grandparent who’s “of a different era.” Still, the fact that Dave calls Richards out when he seems to blame the black guys in the audience because they “heckled him” lets you know he’s not a big Kramer fan.
When Jerry Seinfeld, ostensibly one of the funniest people in the world, turns to the tittering audience and says “stop laughing, it’s not funny” in a way that irresistibly triggers another wave.
At one point, Richards questions whether the Letterman show was the right place to apologize, takes a dig at the audience, and then at Dave for making jokes about the situation. He then settles the issue definitively by sawing his hand through the air, going “ya-ta-ta!,” and sliding through the door of Jerry’s apartment to borrow food.
I know this one lags in the last third, but watch that part anyway, because I swear to God none of the words Richards puts together amidst collar-tugging silences coalesce into anything that means anything at all in any language. This is followed by some gibberish he cribbed from Maya Angelou to make a perfect bullshit sandwich (open faced).
The Tipping Point: Letterman clearly had this ambush planned from the very beginning. Basically the first words out of his mouth are “so…prison.” From about 0:50 on, it’s just a long tragic slide into a lecture from your Dad.
Letterman’s continuous recanting of facts about the case, as if Paris might have forgotten the details of her own life while designing a new fragrance.
When Paris, basically placid throughout the entire interview, finally asks aloud if they can stop talking about her jailtime, and Dave responds by changing gears from “coyly invasive” to “brutal, cutting sarcasm.”
About six minutes in, when you defy all your natural tendencies by actually starting to feel bad for Paris Hilton.
The Tipping Point: When McCain is forced to utter the three words that can kill a Presidential campaign—“I screwed up”—and Dave laughs the laugh of a man who just warped the course of American history with his stupid TV show and unwillingness to let anything go.
McCain reveals his true feelings about Keith Olbermann at precisely 0:43.
And somewhere between 1:04 and 1:20, he officially becomes a sad old man.
During the course of the interview, McCain implies that Dave is a hack, overpaid, and a torturer, and says that he can use spy satellites to find out the details of his phone conversations. It’s nice to know that even in our ultra-PC world, the powerful can still threaten to have someone killed for fucking with them.
The Tipping Point: Dave’s description of Harmony as “pleasantly odd” doesn’t exactly set the bar very high, but when he sees the way Korine is dressed and asks if the “skate park was closed,” you know Dave’s officially shifted into crotchety old man mode and is fixin’ to drive us all the way to Awkwards-ville at eight miles an hour with the blinker on.
When the poster child for edgy, unrelenting street film calls his brutal movie about the lives of cat-murdering white trash “a really amazing blockbuster.” Somehow, I can’t imagine the Armageddon crowd movie hopping to go check out Gummo.
Harmony’s constant wiping of his eyes and strange choking noises could either be inappropriate laughter at some imagined private joke or bitter tears for all the suffering in the world. Either way, I want to buy some of his drugs from him.
The part where Elliot Smith makes a surprise appearance and—oh, nevermind, that’s still Harmony.
The Tipping Point: It’s pretty apparent from Harvey’s other appearances on the show that Letterman’s Producers booked him for the sole purpose of causing a TV train wreck that channel surfers would be forced to stop an ogle. So when Letterman literally bans Harvey from the show, he’s essentially saying “hosting my own show is not worth the ordeal of talking to this man for four minutes.”
At 3:20, when Letterman’s staff officially decide to deploy the nuclear warhead of talk show interviews, the superimposed thought balloon. Either that, or Harvey’s brain has become so powerful that it can materially manifest donuts (although I’m not sure I’d be willing to eat a donut that came out of Harvey Pekar’s head).
The comments below the video, wherein people almost unanimously support Pekar as a “working class hero” and denounce Letterman as a “smug hypocrite.” I’m not saying I disagree with the latter, but really? A working class hero? John Lennon would not approve.
The Tipping Point: Really, it’s Dave’s fault. He just had to push her. And after he spends the opening minute of the interview trying to get Madonna to kiss an audience member, she signals the beginning of his penance by calling him “a sick fuck.” From the look on Dave’s face, he knows things are only going to get worse from there.
Madonna gives Letterman her underwear and tries to get him to smell them, likens the boom mic to a big black dick, and turns every possible instance of sexual suggestiveness into a joke about her aching vagina. The whole interview is essentially your high school theatre class. Or possibly a Cracked article.
Madonna calls “untrue rumor” an oxymoron, which implies that she believes all rumors to be true. Therefore, I’d officially like to start the rumor that Madonna is only adopting kids so she can eat them when the End Times come. Then she and Alanis Morisette will hang out in a ranch house and compose ill-informed songs about linguistic concepts.
When she accuses Charles Barkley of “not understanding the meaning of friendship,” marking the most unlikely celebrity beef of all time.
By 13:20, they actually settle into a pretty awesome Abbot and Costello-ish routine culminating in one of Dave’s best zings of all time (at 14:55). The rest is entertaining enough that it actually made me want to see them do a national tour where they just talk to each other until they’re so full of hate that the show falls apart.
The Tipping Point: Whatever tipping point preceded this display of drug-induced self-reproach and pale nerdy flexing happened long before the interview took place. My question is how they did a rehearsal interview without realizing the guy was on a mountain of angel dust big enough to have been the remains of a wildfire in heaven.
Always on the cutting edge of fashion, Crispin perfectly models his six-inch platform shoes by directing a high kick directly at Dave’s face.
About halfway through, Glover proves that an incredibly high man can still read Variety. That’s right before he says “I’m strong,” then flexes muscles large enough to make you think “oh wow, he actually is kind of strong,” and then “David is in grave danger.”
Seriously, what the hell was in that case? Human eyes? Victorian flatware? I really want to know.
When not collecting moments we'd rather forget, Michael is head writer for and co-founder of Those Aren't Muskets!
9. Richard SimmonsThe Guest: Simmons isn’t the kind of guy who demands a lot of respect to begin with. It’s like how in nature, animals sometimes display bright colors as a warning that they’re dangerous. But, you know, the opposite.
8. Bill O’ReillyThe Guest: I think I summed up my thoughts on Bill O’Reilly fairly well by spending a week making a five-minute video of him being an irresponsible prick. Dave’s feelings are probably along the same lines, which meant this clip was destined for Youtube greatness.
7. Michael RichardsThe Guest: As you may recall, Michael Richards went on an ethnically-themed tirade at a comedy club in the mid-00’s. In case watching the video of that wasn’t uncomfortable enough for you, here he is stammering out an awkward apology on national television.
6. Paris HiltonThe Guest: On some level, Paris Hilton must be aware that society by and large considers her an imbecile. It’s what she’s built her empire on. That, and her weird half-closed left eye. So it’s in keeping with her nature that of all the nights she could have appeared on The Late Show, she chose the week after she was released from prison. Thanks to Dave, she’s not likely to make that mistake again.
5. John McCainThe Guest: A lot more press was made by McCain’s failure to appear on The Late Show than when he actually did show up, but there’s not a lot more awkward than watching him trying to explain himself to several million swing voters while being openly mocked.
4. Harmony KorineThe Guest: Harmony Korine is the heroin-chic avant garde writer/director who helped bring us Kids and Gummo, two mock-documentaries about how terrible stuff can be if you’re poor, HIV-positive, addicted to drugs, or just leading a miserable, fucked up life. I know what you’re thinking: laughs ahoy!
3. Harvey PekarThe Guest: Robert Crumb collaborator and central character of the film American Splendor, Harvey Pekar here manages to somehow be uglier and more obnoxious than Paul Giamatti putting all of his considerable talents towards being ugly and obnoxious.
2. MadonnaThe Guest: Before cowgirl Madonna, Kaballah Madonna, and Guy Ritchie-ruining Madonna, there was filthy sex goddess Madonna. Here, she punishes Dave for making jokes about her promiscuity and unseemly nature by graphically detailing her sex life and cursing like a sailor.
1. Crispin GloverThe Guest: Twenty years later, debate still rages in the lamer corners of the Internet as to whether this is footage of Crispin Glover, world’s best actor, or Crispin Glover, world’s highest man. Fake or real, it’s worth watching if only to see Paul Shaffer with slightly more hair.
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April is IBS Awareness month, and if you’re one of the 15 percent of the population suffering from Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), then you might be a little relieved to know that changes to your diet may help alleviate some of the painful symptoms.
IBS is a common disorder that affects the large intestine, causing symptoms that include constipation, diarrhea, cramping, gas, abdominal pain, and bloating. While the exact cause of IBS is unknown, for most people, its symptoms can be managed by proper diet, exercise, medicine and stress management.
How does diet affect IBS?
For many IBS sufferers, eating triggers symptoms. By making adjustments to your diet, you can better manage these painful symptoms. For example, if constipation is a problem, then drinking more water and incorporating more fiber into your diet may help alleviate that symptom. Or if diarrhea is the culprit, then limiting or avoiding certain “problem foods” may help.
When it comes to IBS, though, you must think long-term and gradual. Making dietary changes like incorporating more fiber and avoiding “problem foods” will not alleviate symptoms if only done temporarily. You must be consistent and persistent if you want to experience relief.
It’s also important to gradually add more fiber to your diet over the course of several weeks rather than all at once. A rapid increase can make gas and bloating much worse. Instead, steadily add more fiber slowly into your diet and pay attention to how your body responds. Foods high in fiber include whole grains, beans, fruits, and vegetables. You should aim for 20 grams of fiber a day.
What kinds of foods should you avoid if you suspect you might have IBS?
Foods do not cause IBS. However, eating certain foods may trigger flare-ups. If you have IBS, keeping a food journal of everything you ingest–both food and drink–can help you pinpoint “problem foods” that may exacerbate IBS symptoms.
Some known “problem foods” include the following:
- Cruciferous vegetables (e.g. broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower)
- Spicy foods
- High-fat foods
- Anything with caffeine, carbonation, or artificial sweeteners.
To improve IBS symptoms, you should avoid these foods.
What foods should you eat to help alleviate symptoms of IBS?
IBS affects each person differently: some people experience constipation while others have diarrhea.The foods you choose to eat will depend on your unique situation. For example, while eating high-fiber foods may help alleviate constipation, they also cause gas. If that’s a problem for you, then you may want to lay off the beans and opt for a gentler fiber supplement.
Still, it’s important to eat a well-balanced diet with a variety of colorful foods. Some recommended foods for IBS sufferers include the following:
- Lactose-free or reduced-lactose dairy products
- Lean meats, fish, and poultry
- Salad vegetables
- Berries and citrus fruits
- Potatoes, rice, oats, and corn
- Plant-based oils (Source: WebMD).
Diet is just one way IBS sufferers can take a proactive role in improving their symptoms. The key is figuring out the “problem foods” and eliminating or finding healthier substitutes for them in your diet. With your diet under control, now you can identify other ways to treat your IBS symptoms including regular exercise, relaxation techniques, probiotics, and, if necessary, antispasmodic drugs.
(Source: Mayo Clinic)