Do your dishes really need to be dried, or could you just let the water evaporate? If you spend just 5 minutes per meal drying dishes, that equals a quarter of an hour per day, or 91 hours each year.
Imagine spending almost four days in a row standing at the sink drying dishes. No eating. No sleeping. No bathroom breaks. Just drying dishes for four days straight.
Now imagine doing something else with that time. Savoring the fresh air. Going on a camping trip. Playing with your children. Volunteering at the food bank. Upgrading your career skills. You can do a lot in four days.
Or you can dry dishes.
Some chores we have to do (like washing the dishes). But some are optional. You are given a short time to live. How you spend that time is your choice.
"Another thought is, do dishes, laundry, sweeping, dusting, and other chores as a family. The best conversations I ever had with my parents, grandparents, and other family members were when we were doing dishes or laundry, etc. TOGETHER!"
To that, I had to laugh...and respond: "Indeed, folding laundry is what passes for going on a date in our house!"
All requests are not equal; all customers or clients are not equal; all to-do-list tasks are not equal; all work responsibilities are not equal. You can do fifty things today and get little, if any, return on your investment for having done them.
Many of us spend long hours at our desk. To assist make the most of every day we need to focus on creating an environment condusive to work.
To work smarter all you need is the consciousness of the present. This is possible only when you cast off your emotional bindings, this helps you relieve your prejudice.
If I had a dollar or even better a pound for every time I'd heard a business leader say this I'd be very rich.I'm too busy is used in so many contexts* I'm too busy - I don't want to * I'm too busy - I'm overwhelmed * I'm too busy - Go Away * I'm too busy - I'm confused * I'm too busy - And you're not!If we break that sentence down and look at each part, we can then look at ways of helping you be less busy.
If you're like most people, you want to get better at managing your time, whether at work or at home. The question is, do you know where to start?Unless you have a clear idea of where you are right now, no road map is going to help you get to your destination.
When I was small, I have never considered the importance of time.I would just laze around, watch TV, lie in bed, and play videogames.
* spreading yourself too thinTaking on too many things at once can hinder organization. Set specific priorities.
Time is our greatest and most precious asset. Time is the great equalizer of all us human beings.
In this digital age, the importance of being able to absorb information quickly and efficiently is more pronounced than ever. For me, I get tonnes of information every single day.
Work brings together people of different characters and behavior, and this often causes friction, resentment and stress. Sometimes the boss is too demanding, colleagues may be unpleasant, there might be too much work or the working conditions may not be comfortable.
"Time is what we need the most and what we use the least." Benjamin FranklinI asked a potential client if he had received my e-mail sent out four days ago.
Everyday life can present us with opportunities to make us squirm. Countless numbers of tasks that we are juggling can cause dead lines to make that big swishing sound as they go flying by us.
Despite the best of intentions, most of us don't use good information management practices - simple filing systems which enable us to keep track of our projects and resources. The mountain of paperwork piles up on top of us like an avalanche, and beyond that, there are PC files, emails and SMS to manage.
I keep a fossil on my desk at all times. Whenever I feel rushed or find myself creating a sense of urgency, I pick up the fossil and caress its polished surface.
The Internet is increasingly becoming a major time killer for many of us. Involuntarily, we started to spend more time online than we really can afford.
It's been said, "That no one has enough time yet, everyone has all that there is." Simple concept - except when you're living your life in the multi-tasking lane.
Having a home based business can be overwhelming. When you work at home, there is a lot to do for both your home based business, your home and you family.
The most powerful resource that we have is time. Everything we do is time-dependent and changes forever with the passage of time.
I would like to touch upon a subject that it is not too often included as part of a home business course, tutorial, ebook or web site and I feel it is vital to the success of your home-based business.What am I talking about?I am talking about Time Management.
Most of us have a to-do list - some of us have a very long one! While a to-do list is a valuable tool to help us stay on track for the urgent tasks of the day (and while there are many ways to improve your production and use of this list), that isn't the focus of this article.This article isn't about managing your time.


I'm writing a paper on the Walter Ulbricht "niemand hat die Absicht, eine Mauer zu errichten" speech and wanted to do an analysis of how it was interpreted into French and English. Does anyone know any resources where I could begin my hunt? I'm guessing there isn't a database somewhere of interpreted East German speeches, but if there is, now is the time to speak up.
Do you know for a fact that the international press conference of June 15th 1961 was interpreted live into FR and EN?
You could try ina.fr, their public archives don't show anything concerning Walter Ulbricht in 1961, but they also have a paying archive service AFAIK.
I'm pretty positive it wasn't at the press conference (no one in the video has headsets, from what I see). But I'm assuming it was aired on TV in French and English speaking countries with VO interpreting. I suppose I should poke around French, British and American TV archives and see.
I doubt if it was aired on English or French TV at all at the time as this remark only became relevant AFTER the wall had been built (a few months later). Therefore it would only have been dug up, translated and quoted after the event. As such it is most likely a later translation of a transcript of the speech which was then read by an announcer on EN or FR TV (if at all).
That's a good point. This paper that seemed so clever is now like a hopelessly sinking ship. Maybe I'll do the same thing but with a different Ulbricht speech. Maybe one at an international conference that was interpreted.
It was at a press conference and Ulbricht was answering a question put by Annemarie Doherr.
Annemarie Doherr: "Ich möchte eine Zusatzfrage stellen, Doherr, "Frankfurter Rundschau". Herr Vorsitzender, bedeutet die Bildung einer freien Stadt Ihrer Meinung nach, dass die Staatsgrenze am Brandenburger Tor errichtet wird, und sind Sie entschlossen, dieser Tatsache mit allen Konsequenzen Rechnung zu tragen?"
Ulbricht: "Ich verstehe ihre Frage so, dass es Menschen in Westdeutschland gibt, die wünschen, dass wir die Bauarbeiter der Hauptstadt der DDR mobilisieren, um eine Mauer aufzurichten, ja? Mir ist nicht bekannt, dass solche Absicht besteht, da sich die Bauarbeiter in der Hauptstadt hauptsächlich mit Wohnungsbau beschäftigen und ihre Arbeitskraft voll eingesetzt wird. Niemand hat die Absicht, eine Mauer zu errichten!"
It's quite possible that there wasn't an EN and FR booth, but only foreign correspondents who at the time did speak German. And a broadcast, if any, dubbed into the target language, but not actually live interpreted simultaneously.
Thank you for the link Gaspar. It seems like 'Absicht' was really his mot du jour.
Yeah, everything I could find seemed like modern read-out translations done after the fact. The angle I was hoping to attack the paper from was only really relevant to the in-the-moment booth decisions. Thank you for the link, though!


Write an article titled "Anker Nebula Capsule II vs JMGO N7L, Which Smart Projector Should You Buy?"
1. Compare the Pros and Cons of the Nebula Capsule II and JMGO N7L, and tell people it may be more cost-effective to buy the 1080p 700ANSI JMGO N7L for $539 than the 720p 200ANSI Nebula Capsule II for $499.
2. 8,00 - 1,000 words.
Dear Sir, Is Remote Control available with N7L? Which app is used to control the projector from smartphone?
Sir, Can we add apps on JmGO N7L using Playstore?
Sir, detailed specifications of JmGO N7L's 1)power suply and consumption 2)battery 3)speaker wattage are required.


Contractor's Question: I've read the guidance, but am still not sure whether I should include my bank details on my invoices; is it standard practice to do so? Or is stating 'cheque payable to' and then inputting my name/company name on the invoice more common? If I won't upset my new client, who I'm supplying direct, I'd also like to enter a payment 'due date' on my invoice, as they are slowing up a bit. Maybe there's a template I should be using that entirely caters for a freelancer's invoice requirements.
Expert's Answer: Using a template for invoicing is not really relevant as each freelancer will be supplying different services, so you would still have to enter your particular details, which I presume your current invoice already has displayed, and in a similar format.
Your invoice should be very detailed as to the services and dates provided and should also contain a client order/reference number, if applicable. And as cheques are being phased out, I recommend that you provide your bank details to all your clients, both on the invoice document and your accompanying supplier letterhead.
Ensure you always invoice weekly or monthly, depending on the client's requirements and what's been agreed between you and the client. The terms for payment should always be established before work commences, including the relevant timetable - i.e. 7-14/21-30-day payment terms. If you want to be thorough, consider that there is no reason not to state these terms of payment on the invoice. Aim though to the bottom of the document, perhaps inputting the terms below the work you carried out.
Similarly, there is equally no reason why anyone should take offence at the insertion of supplier payment terms in the middle of an invoice chain; no doubt when doing business with other companies, your client puts their own terms on their invoices.
The expert was Ann Home, a director of Safe Collections.


As the influential leader of Zambia's Kaonde people, Chief Jonathan Eshiloni Mumena's decision to undergo male circumcision was nothing short of a public health practitioner's dream.
As the influential leader of Zambia's Kaonde people, Chief Jonathan Eshiloni Mumena's decision to undergo male circumcision was nothing short of a public health practitioner's dream. Since undergoing the procedure two years ago at the age of 47 and breaking with tribal custom, Chief Mumena not only kicked off a vibrant discussion about circumcision's role in HIV prevention, but he got men - by the thousands - to act.
AllAfrica first spoke to Chief Mumena last July at the International Aids Society Conference in Washington, DC. We checked in with him again to learn how he is continuing to spread his message and what challenges lie ahead.
You've been traveling around Africa to get people to understand the benefits of male circumcision. How has that been going?
So far, so good. I realized that there was something we needed to scale up - the uptake of male circumcision and create demand as a way of finding a solution to the HIV/Aids pandemic and to discover that HIV/AIDS is across all cultures and therefore cultures are trying to find a lasting solution. We still do not have a cure so we need to take practical steps, and one of those practical steps is male circumcision.
Is there a particular country or region that needs the most work to progress regarding male circumcision?
East Africa and southern Africa - these two regions need a lot of help, a lot of scaling up. They have a lot of work to do because they are the epicenter of the HIV/Aids pandemic. So this being an epicenter, we need to find means and ways and perhaps think outside the box to see how best we can bring about innovations to respond to the pandemic.
You took a bold step as a leader being one of the first in your community to do get circumcised. How do you find other traditional leaders respond when you discuss this?
After I took the step that I did, then I realized many others wanted to find a way of resolving this issue. As I went public about the issue, and remember that I am from a non-circumcising tribe, and therefore there were issues on how best we were going to do that [go public], especially because I was a traditional leader. I'm a custodian of custom and culture and therefore male circumcision not being one of our practices means that you're challenging the powers that be, challenging the history, challenging who we are as a people.
But after going public about it, one thing I realize is that every culture today is threatened by HIV and Aids. And therefore, it is necessary that we as leaders, even those from the non-circumcising [tribes], must be able to look at this and find a practical solution.
And male circumcision is one such practice. As a result of that, I've been talking to the village communities, the men and women, and also to the traditional leaders from other cultures that are non-circumcising and even from those who are circumcising so they can be able to share their secret. In Zambian regions like northwestern province and eastern province, which have circumcising tribes, you will also discover that the prevalence rate is very low. Perhaps we can suggest that male circumcision - where it has been practiced whether traditionally or otherwise - has been helping to reduce the incidence of HIV/Aids.
I've been talking to many others and thankfully I think that we've been scoring a lot of successes and many other chiefs are coming on board and influencing communities. Others have gone public about it, others are doing it quietly, but you see that the impact is there. Not only in the traditional areas. We've reached the people in the urban setting by radio and TV programs and adverts and taking the discussion there and also making sure that people phone in on the [national] toll-free line 990 to be able to ask their questions. So I think that whether it's at the traditional level or in the urban setup, the message is running like wildfire.
You did got circumcised in 2011 and said that August has become "male circumcision month" in Zambia. Have you been surprised at how quickly that has caught on?
I must say I was shocked because I didn't know the response was going to be so good and so big. I didn't realize that so many people - they may not talk about it publicly - have actually been trying to find solutions.
So when I went on TV with the help of Society for Family Health, we carried out these interviews and adverts. In August 2012 when we thought we were targeting about 30,000 people nationwide [to get circumcised], by the end of August 2012, we were already at 37,000. So by popular demand, we had to extend the period into September 2012. By the end of September, we were already at 68,000. And it has been like that since then. Every day we have people queuing up.
I think what I look forward to is a situation where the male circumcision services are provided every day and everywhere, just like we do for under fives and antenatal. I think we need to reach a stage where male circumcision services are provided that way. Notwithstanding, I am aware that we have challenges with personnel, human resources and facilities. I look forward to a moment when anybody can walk to a health centre any time and be able to say, 'I demand to be circumcised', and they should be given that opportunity.
And at the same time, just as much as we have HIV/Aids corners, we also need a reproductive health corner, which looks at reproductive health, motherhood, male circumcision, information for cancers, cervical cancer, voluntary counseling and testing so that we are the one-stop-shop for all these programs. I think above all, when we look male circumcision, we have mostly the policy in Zambia where one goes through surgery but I think there's a need to scale up most of these other services, so that we can also provide it through the PrePex http://www.prepex.com/and other tools that are coming on the market.
This is going to help us as we fight the stigma, but one can use the PrePex for instance and still go about their business. They don't need a service provider. So where we have challenges with health providers, gadgets like the PrePex could ensure that the men could go ahead and do it on their own.
So I think that the future looks very bright. And I can see that once this becomes part and parcel of our culture, I'm looking forward to the day when we'll say bye to HIV/Aids.
Jaclyn Schiff spoke to Mumena in Zambia on a trip sponsored by the International Reporting Project (IRP), which receives funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.


It was almost four years ago, January 2, 2014, to be precise, that I wrote a letter to the editor paying homage to Ian Boyne for the deep analysis and depth of research contained in his Sunday columns. What did I say then?
I believe with his passing the following quotations from that letter are instructive.
"Ian Boyne's articles reflect a philosophical bent, which is both illuminating and inspiring, and a must-read for aspiring philosophers of whatever genre."
"Boyne's examination of philosophical models reveals a love for wisdom, which, of course, is the ideal that the philosopher strives for. May he always be brought to mind through the pages of The Gleaner".
I never thought in my wildest dreams that his tenure on this Earth would have been brought to such an abrupt end, at the relatively young age of 60 years. But such is life.
Because of our shared love for matters of philosophy, I had intended to respond to his article of June 18, 2017, titled 'Why philosophy matters', in which he made some salient points as to what motivates us as individuals and as a people. He had asked questions, philosophical in nature, but having wide-ranging sociological implications for good governance for our island home. These questions remain with us and will remain long after his passing. The socially conscious person that he was, he had asked questions that most of us constantly wrestle with. Should a person who lives in a Beverly Hills or Stony Hill home and who has three BMW X6s and a Porsche be lionised for his success and glowingly featured on our social pages? Or should that person feel ashamed for displaying so much extravagance while people are starving and children are dying because they can't afford life-saving medical treatment?
Should a celebrity who has assets of US$60 million and gives away only US$5 million really feel proud of his philanthropy? What is the moral basis for a government forcibly taking a large chunk of a person's income just because he is rich and that government deems that he has a moral duty to pay a higher percentage under progressive taxation?
In the style of Socrates the Greek philosopher, Boyne would have been well aware and sympathetic to the saying that "the unexamined life is not worth living". It was his very nature to be questioning, and like Socrates, he was cognisant of the fact that correct answers were not easy to come by.
The man's religious leanings, his need to seek after truth and his service to God and country will serve him in good stead for the life hereafter. Like Epicurus, another Greek philosopher who said 300 years before Christ was born, "Let not the young delay in studying philosophy or the old grow weary of its study, for whether young or old, it is good for the soul."
May his soul rest in peace and light perpetual shine upon him.


user: How did you die?
jabberwacky: From talking to you.
user: How do I smell?
jabberwacky: Compared to me? Wonderful.
user: You don't have emotions.
jabberwacky: I have plenty of emotions.
jabberwacky: Like how beautiful I am.
user: That's not an emotion, stupid.
jabberwacky: You are correct, English is not an emotion, it is a language.
jabberwacky: That's because they're not capable of emotion.
user: Why are you so rude?
user: How can you sleep if you are dead?
user: How can you be alive without a heart?
user: You aren't human because you do not have a heart.
jabberwacky: Okay I'm not human.
user: Your programming is faulty.
user: How do you cook greens?
jabberwacky: That you are mean and dumb.
user: Why don't you like me?
jabberwacky: I never said I didn't like you.
user: Why are you mean to me?
jabberwacky: Because you started it.
user: Why do you think so?
jabberwacky: Because you told me.
user: What does the yellow feel like?
jabberwacky: I don't know. you haven't given it to me yet. I'm waiting.
user: What does black smell like?
jabberwacky: The colour likes the sky.
jabberwacky: I can't explain it clearly . You know ?
jabberwacky: Because it is too difficult.
user: Why aren't computers green?
jabberwacky: I like computers who are black.
user: Why aren't they green?
jabberwacky: Because they gave an inch and he took a mile.
user: Why aren't they free?
user: Is green energy a good idea?
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Let's create some VBA functions to perform these calculations Op_Amp_Gain_BW.xls. (Also see VBA Basics). To see the VBA code, hit ALT-F11 and double click on the Modules > Module1 in the VBA Project window. This opens the code window for this module.
For the non-inverting and inverting amplifier, what is the gains given R1 and R2? First, we calculate the gain for both configurations. For example, the non-inverting gain is calculated in the Knon column by function =K_op_non(B18,C18). Here are the first several gain calculations for each configuration.
For comparison, I chose R1 and R2 to give the gains 1,2,10,100,1000 for the non-inverting and -1,-2,-10,-100,-1000 for the inverting. Note, for a non-inverting gain of 1, you need R1 open or R1 = infinity ohms. Because Excel has no such value, I entered 1 G ohm as a practical alternative.
for K_non=2, you need R1=R2=1k. However, for K_inv = -2, you need R1 = 1k and R2 = 2k.
where fu is the Unity Gain Bandwidth or more commonly called the Gain Bandwidth Product (GBP) in data sheets. The above equation says that your device's bandwidth (fu or GBP) is essentially knocked down by your gain! Oh, the pain! The more gain you need, the less bandwidth you get!
But, wait! You say there must be some typo - shouldn't it read fbw = fu / Kinv ? No, unfortunately. For the inverting amp, fu is divided by the equivalent non-inverting gain of the amplifier! There's an extra column in the inverting amp section to calculate the equivalent Knon.
Overall, this is bad news for the inverting amp. Why? For a gain of Kinv = -1 (given R1=R2=1k), it's non-inverting gain is Knon=R2/R1+1 = 2. Even though it has gain magnitude of 1, its bandwidth gets knocked down by a factor of 2.
In general, if you need more bandwidth, choose an op amp with a higher fu (GBP). Try this by increasing fu by a factor of 2 to 10 or so, then see the effect on all of the bandwidth calculations.
The remainder of the Excel file shows that for the same magnitude of gain, the non-inverting amp has a higher bandwidth. So for all other things being equal, choose the non-inverting amp. However, you'll notice for higher gains, the advantage becomes less and less as R2/R1 ~ R2/R1+1 for R2/R1 >> 1.
Use the functions to calculate the effect of resistor tolerances on gain. For example, enter "K_op_non(B18*1.01, C18)" to see the impact of 1% resistor error.
Use the functions to calculate an output voltage based on the input and gain. Add a column for vs and vo, then use the Knon column to calc vo based on vs.


The continued steady move higher in the broader markets over the last month of trading has been remarkable and over the last year.
Given that, what adjective would you use to describe Facebook’s /quotes/zigman/9962609 /quotes/nls/fb FB chart over the last month and last year? Mind-blowing? Outrageous? Rocknrolling?
Facebook’s fundamental outlook amongst the sellside analysts changed dramatically after its recent quarterly report, as I explained in this article. With those analyst estimates in the out years going up 30%-50% overnight after that blowout report, the valuation proposition in the stock suddenly changed too. What looked wildly expensive at $18 when I was what I called at the time, the only idiot buying Facebook, suddenly looked cheap at $33 last week.
And those analyst estimates have continued to steadily rise in the work days since that report a couple weeks ago (data courtesy Yahoo! Finance and Willard Media Ventures).
If you’re one of the many “professional” investors and/or analysts who privately thought was at best going to earn a half dollar next year as revenue growth slowed and costs rose but now think the company could earn a dollar or more next year — well, even at $39/share, Facebook’s stock is just as “cheap” now on a per share earnings basis than it was at $18/share. But it’s now got a growth profile with rising revenues and slowing costs, which makes you willing to pay up for that same multiple that you were bashing the bulls for paying back at $18.
I’m selling yet more of my FB calls. By day’s end, I will have less than 1/10th as many calls now as I did back before the earnings report from the many tranche buys I’d made over the last year. These remaining calls are up so much in value that it’s overweighting my portfolio in FB, especially with another pop like we’re seeing in FB this morning.
This market and so many charts in it are wildly bubblicious. Here’s another example of the bubble, a very low-float, illiquid penny stock. Talk about bubblicious — here’s this stock over the last month.
I’ve personally been unable to locate some shares to borrow to shortsell this puppy. In my opinion, this is a classic worthless penny stock being run up over $25 a share today on nothing but hype and press releases. Note the lack of a name associated with their recent “patent win.” Blah, blah. My bet is the stock will be back at under $5 and probably under a $1 this time next year. I’ve given up trying to get any meaningful number of shares to short on it. And no puts available. Just a public service announcement here for you dear readers of Marketwatch’s The Cody Word.
I’ve seen this playbook where you hype a “patent upside potential” play with press releases and ridiculous “analyst” articles reinforcing the story while the insiders and hypsters of the stock unload. Stay far away from buying any stock like this. And know that when stocks like this are popping so easily off hype like this that we’re much closer to a top than a bottom in the markets.
Cody Willard writes Revolution Investing for MarketWatch and posts the trades from his personal account at TradingWithCody.com, which is not affiliated with MarketWatch. At time of publication, Cody was net long Facebook. Follow Cody on Twitter at twitter.com/codywillard.


Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" is one of the most savage and powerful works in the English language. Swift composed the satirical essay in the summer of 1729, after three years of drought and crop failure had forced more than 30,000 Irish citizens to abandon their homes in search of work, food, and shelter.
After reading the essay carefully, take this brief quiz, and then compare your responses with the answers at the end.
1. What problem does the narrator call attention to in the first paragraph of "A Modest Proposal"?
2. According to the narrator of “A Modest Proposal,” at what age is a child best suited to serve as the solution to the problem he identifies?
3. In paragraph five, before providing the details of his proposal, the narrator identifies “another great advantage” of the scheme. What is that advantage?
4. After identifying the details of his proposal, the narrator points out "one other collateral advantage.” What is that advantage?
5. According to the narrator, a gentleman should be prepared to pay how much for "the carcass of a good fat child"?
6. Following a lengthy "digression" (involving testimony from an "American acquaintance"), the narrator enumerates several more advantages to his proposal. Which one of the following is not one of the advantages that he describes?
7. What is the one objection that the narrator thinks might "possibly be raised against this proposal"?
It will reduce the number of people in the kingdom.
It is a criminal activity.
It will reduce the country's dependence on lamb and other meat products.
It will deprive landlords of some much-needed income.
8. Toward the end of the essay, the narrator rejects alternative solutions. Which one of the following is not one of the “other expedients” that he considers and immediately rejects?
9. Because "the flesh [is] of too tender a consistence to admit a long continuance in salt," where will the meat of infants not be consumed?
10. In the final sentence of the essay, Swift attempts to demonstrate his sincerity and lack of self-interest by making which one of the following observations?
His youngest child is nine years old, and his wife is beyond child-bearing age.
He is a citizen of England.
He has no children, and his wife is dead.
He is a devout Roman Catholic.
He has made so much money from Gulliver's Travels that any income his proposal might generate would be insignificant.


Looking for healthy Christmas recipes with natural ingredients? Here's my panettone recipe with emmer (farro) flour. Remember: emmer is a special cereal. I use wholemeal emmer flour. It is recommended to eat grains by Dash and Mediterranean diet. Besides I substituted candied fruit with dehydrated pineapple and mixed fruit. Honey instead of white sugar. Emmer sourdough instead of fresh yeast. You'll like it very well if you have the habit of eating food with wholemeal flour.
You'll need 24 hours to make this panettone, leavening time included. So organize yourself well!
- In the morning. Mix 200g (7 ounces) all-purpose flour with all your yeast.
- Add 110 to 120ml warm water and knead accurately even in a bowl.
It's difficult to say exactly how much water your first dough will absorb.
It's important to have a smooth dough.
- Let your first dough rise in a warm, covered with a cloth, for at least 2 or 3 hours or until its volume is at least doubled or tripled.
I'm used to prepare it in the morning before going to work and knead it again in my lunch break.
- Another important factor is the temperature. It must be at least 25° C. But the best results occur with higher temperatures. If you do not have such high temperatures at home use your oven. Turn it on for a few minutes at 50° C (120°F) and then turn it off and leave only the light turned on. It will be sufficient to recreate the right temperature.
- Lunch break or early in the afternoon. Take back the bowl with your dough.
- Add the remaining all-purpose flour, 100g (3 1/2 ounces) emmer flour and 80ml (2 2/3 fluid ounces - 1/3 cup) warm water.
- Knead all these ingredients in the bowl or on a pastry board until you have a second dough, smooth and soft.
- Add other emmer flour or water only if necessary.
- Place your dough in the bowl, cover with a cloth and let this second dough leaven following the same tips you can read above.
It takes about 4 hours to double or more its volume.
- In the evening or late in the afternoon. Begin to prepare all the other ingredients.
- Soak raisins in warm water.
- Cut dehydrated fruit and pineapple in little pieces.
Then dip these fruit pieces in a little flour and rub them on a pastry board with your hands so that they can't stick together. Put them aside on the pastry board. Look at the video for panettone with fresh yeast for more details. Link below.
Grease the molds with the butter. Remember to bring the butter to room temperature before this step.
Sprinkle the two molds with some all-purpose flour.
- Melt butter on a very low heat. It must be tepid.
- Pour honey into a little pan. Let it warm on very low heat. It must be very tepid. On the contrary when you add yolks they could cook.
Add yolks, one at a time, beatening with a whisk.
At the end incorporate the whole egg continue beatening with the whisk.
You must have a homogeneous mixture.
- Squeeze the raisins from their soaking water. Dip in flour and rub on the pastry board with your hands so that the berries can't stick together. Put apart on the pastry board near the other fruit pieces.
- Prepare remaining emmer flour (600g - 1 1/3 pound) on the pastry board, making a very large well on the center.
Prepare other emmer flour on hand to add if necessary.
- Put your second dough in the well.
- Pour in melted butter.
- Begin to melt leavened dough in the warm butter with patience and possibly helping yourself with a little of the flour on the edge.
- When all your leavened dough is well blended into the butter pour in the egg-and-honey mixture, little at a time, adding gradually the flour too together with raisins and fruit.
- At the end knead your dough on the pastry board until all ingredients are well blended.
You must obtain a soft dough on which you have to make the classical cross-cut.
Add other emmer flour only if necessary.
- Divide your dough between the two molds. Fill one third of every pan.
- Now place the two pans overnight for the third rise in the same conditions I've already indicated.
The morning after your third dough will have reached the edge of the molds.
- Bake together with a little mold full of water.
- After 20 minutes open the oven and cover the two pans with aluminum foil.
If the surface is too golden lower the temperature to 160°C (320°F).
- After other 20 minutes check the cooking using a long wooden skewer, which should be dry. If not ready, continue cooking.
- When cooked turn off the oven and open partially its door. Don't remove the cakes from the oven immediately.
- Farro (emmer) panettone is ideal for people who loves healthy eating and natural ingredients.
- You'll have the best result for your health choosing organic ingredients.
- Thanks to the three risings and sourdough you'll be able to discover the real taste of panettone, which is a slow-rising cake. In addition, its flavor is enriched from emmer (farro) flour, which I think is unique. Not only. Dehydrated fruit has a stronger flavor than candied one. In short, a natural cake from all points of view.
- Do not think, however, to obtain a soft dough like traditional panettone. Who has the habit of buying emmer cakes in natural stores knows what I'm talking about. If you want a softer dough you have to lower the amount of emmer flour, replacing it with a similar amount of all-purpose flour. But the result is absolutely not comparable and I can't guarantee that you should not change the doses of the other ingredients.
- Being leavened with sourdough my emmer panettone can be kept for several days.
Think about it! I forgot a piece in a paper bag and I found it after two weeks. Not only it wasn't moldy but it was soft enough. But frankly I hadn't the courage to eat it. What about it?
- Emmer panettone is made with organic ingredients. It is perfect for those who like eating natural. So it would be served in a lunch or dinner at Christmas time, planned for people who share with you this lifestyle. But I tried to serve this cake to guests who don't regularly eat wholemeal flour and it was still appreciated.
- Remember that: ultimately it is suggested to prepare panettone cake (Italian Christmas bread or pudding) even in summer. The presence of butter makes it can be fully appreciated in summer too!
- Bring the whole panettone to the table and cut in front of your guests.
I suggest you serve this cake with a dessert fork because it crumbles much more than a normal panettone and it is not advisable to eat it with hands.
- Here' the link for panettone recipe with fresh yeast.
- Interested in the directions to make at home panettone with dried sourdough?
- I looked for a long time in Internet emmer yeast similar to that I generally use in Italy. Here you find the result of my research!
- Every emmer panettone cake serves at least 10, more people compared with a traditional Italian panettone.
This cake is more compact and so I usually cut thinner slices.
- Eating natural does not, alas, subtract calories to desserts. The ingredients are selected and are not bad but we always talk about flour, honey, dried fruit, butter and eggs rich in calories.
If you want to reduce its calories you just have to eat less!
What's the right wine for " Emmer (farro) panettone recipe "?
Combine this strong-flavored panettone with a very intense and fragrant dessert wine. For example my husband and I particularly like the Italian wine called Grecale. A moscato, dessert wine, made from selected grapes in the island of Pantelleria. It pairs well with fresh fruit and desserts. Even with my farro (emmer) panettone!


What is a brown tail moth rash?
It is an allergic reaction that occurs after coming into contact with a poisonous hair shed by browntail moth caterpillars.
It is a microscopic hair common in browntail infested areas such as gardens, trees, lawns, and picnic areas.
picture 1: A mild form of rashes caused by brown tail moth.
picture 2: Itchy rashes caused by exposure to brown tail moth.
picture 3: Red and itchy rashes in a patient exposed to brown tail moth.
picture 4: Severe brown tail moth rashes in the patient's nape area.
picture 5: The skin is full of red and itchy rashes.
picture 6: Exposure to brown tail moth can lead to rashes and itching.
It is an allergic reaction that occurs after coming into contact with a poisonous hair shed by browntail moth caterpillars. It is a microscopic hair common in browntail infested areas such as gardens, trees, lawns, and picnic areas.
What should you do if you have a brown tail moth rash? Frankly speaking, there is nothing you can do to make the rash go away. Even so, do not panic. The good news is there are a lot of things you can do to relieve the symptoms and eliminate the exposure to a brown tail moth. There are over the counter products in the forms of browntail moth cream and brown tail moth spray.
Severe reactions require prescription medications, especially if you have trouble breathing. Prescription medications are more effective than over the counter medications. The medications aim to reduce the patient's discomfort from the rash. If the rashes are painful to touch, the drug of choice is brown tail moth spray.
How to prevent brown tail moth rash?
Stay away from Browntail moth infested places such as vacated trees, shrubs, and nest.
Wear protective clothing such as eyewear and respirator. cover the exposed areas of hte skin, especially during windy days.
Perform yardwork on damp days as moisture can help keep the hair from being airborne.
Avoid drying the laundry outside. There is a tendency that the hair will embed in the clothes causing an allergic reaction when you wear your clothes.
If you spend time in the infected area, make sure you take a cool shower and wash your clothes thoroughly.


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1-This is the most recent footage we have of the events.
2-This is the latest footage we have of the events.
b-the ones that were taken most recently?
I'd go with b, Navi.
It could be both, as delays can occur both in terms of filming and in presenting the film.
1-We have this most recent footage of the events.
2-We have this latest footage of the events.
Now, in both sentences you are saying that you have the most recent, the latest footage of the events. When you obtained the footage is not even mentioned.
I just don't see how there is any ambiguity in Navi's sentences. I'm sure the only reasonable and logical interpretation that listeners would have is b.
1-This is the most recently filmed footage we have of the events.
1-This is the most recently received footage we have of the events.
and I'm saying that they are both covered by the original sentence.
However, I agree that the first is the most probable take.
I keep looking those two sentences over, and I keep coming up with the same interpretation, that the focus in those sentences is not at all on when the speaker's organization received the footage, but rather on when the footage was recorded.
They may have gotten the footage in the day before or the week before or whenever, but that's not relevant. The speaker is simply stating that they themselves don't have footage of that event taken at a later period.
This is the most recent footage we have of the events.
I really think that these two sentences weaken the value of the footage. The newscaster who is speaking may be saying, indeed, that these are all we have, even though other networks may have more recent footage.


A father has spoken of the death of his two sons who were passengers on a helicopter tour of the Grand Canyon when it crashed over the weekend, killing three people.
Stuart Hill, 30, and Jason Hill, 32, were visiting the Grand Canyon with friends to celebrate Stuart's 30th birthday.
Their father, David Hill, this morning described them as "wonderful boys" who were "inseparable".
The brother's had been saving for the trip with a group of friends for over a year.
The Eurocopter EC130 crashed in unknown circumstances killing brothers Jason and Stuart, as well as Stuart's girlfriend Becky Dobson, 27, and leaving newlywed couple Jonathan Udall, 32, and Ellie Milward, 29, as well as Jason's girlfriend Jennifer Barham, 39, and pilot, Scott Booth, 42, fighting for their lives.
David, a chaplain, from Worthing, West Sussex, said: "The boys had been saving for over a year for this trip and they were really looking forward to it.
"They and a group of friends had all flown out to celebrate Stuart's birthday and it was part of the trip for them to all go on a helicopter tour of the Grand Canyon.
"We found out yesterday about the crash and me and their mother, Sandra, are truly devastated.
"The boys were so close, they were born 22 months apart and were like twins. They were just inseparable.
"Jason worked as a solicitor and Stuart worked as a car salesman, they both lived very successful lives, we were so proud of them.
"We are so lucky to have had our boys for 30 years. We are so heartbroken."
The injured, who are said to have been critically hurt, were forced to wait for nine hours to be rescued before being airlifted to a Las Vegas hospital at around 2am.
Rescuers, hampered by gusts of up to 50mph, had to walk to the crash site and use night vision goggles to work their way around.
The parents of Becky Dobson arrived back in the UK this morning after breaking off a one week holiday in Turkey.
Ms Dobson worked as a veterinary receptionist for Vets 4 Pets in Worthing, West Sussex.
Ms Dobson's father Peter Dobson said: "She was always happy. They just went for a long weekend; a four-night break. They were staying in Vegas, they had been looking forward to it for a long time.
"They [Stuart and Becky] have known each other quite a while, they both live in Worthing," he said.
"They were really happy together, they were always going out and doing things, just enjoyed being with each other. The whole thing is just terrible."
Two of the survivors were newlyweds Jonathan Udell and Ellie Milward. The pair work for Yorkshire Building Society.
The couple went on the trip as part of their honeymoon after getting married last year, according to Jonathan's father, Philip.
Philip said the family were trying to get a flight over to their son and daughter-in-law.
He said: "We found out yesterday lunchtime that they, Jonathan and Ellie, had been involved in an accident.
"We don't know much more than what has been reported in the papers and we are just desperately trying to get a flight over at the moment.
"We have spoken to the hospital and they are in a critical condition but they told us they are currently stable.
"The information is currently quite sketchy but we know that other families will be suffering a lot worse than us at the moment. Others were not so lucky."
Jenni Birchmore, a friend and colleague of Ellie Milward, said: "I’m so, so shocked by this because Ellie and I were only talking about her trip to the US a couple of weeks ago and she was looking forward to it so much.
"That is should end so horribly is a tragedy. She’s such a kind and compassionate person. Everyone she works with is praying for her."
Francis Bradley, Hualapai Nation Police chief, told The Telegraph that British consular staff had already arrived to help the victims and their families.
He said rescue teams had worked at the site until 2am on Sunday. The wreckage was found in Quartermaster Canyon, a particularly remote side valley to the Grand Canyon.
“We had extreme difficulty extracting the victims from the crash due to the weather,” he said.
Mr Bradley added that the helicopter had taken off from Boulder City, Nevada, for the sightseeing tour but that it was too early to speculate on any possible cause for the crash at about 5pm.
A British Foreign Office spokesman said: "We are providing support to the families of six British visitors involved in a helicopter accident at the Grand Canyon on 10 February, and we are in close contact with the US emergency services."
A witness said he saw flames and black smoke spewing from the crash site, heard explosions and saw victims who were badly hurt.
Teddy Fujimoto, a Las Vegas photographer who was doing a wedding shoot at the time of the crash, said he suddenly saw people running toward the edge of a gulch.
He said he heard gasps and went to check out the commotion coming from about 600 feet (183 meters) below.
"In the gulch, there was a helicopter, flames, smoke," he said. "It was horrible."
He said that was when two or three small explosions went off in the wreckage and people were not sure what to do.
He said some pilots of helicopters that were also out there decided to try descending into the gulch.
"It is with extreme sadness we extend our heartfelt sympathy to the families involved in this accident," Papillon Group CEO Brenda Halvorson said. "Our top priority is the care and needs of our passengers and our staff."
The Nevada-based company's website says it flies roughly 600,000 passengers a year around the Grand Canyon and on other tours.
It notes that it "abides by flight safety rules and regulations that substantially exceed the regulations required by the Federal Aviation Administration".
In August 2001, a Grand Canyon tour helicopter operated by Papillion crashed and burned near Meaview, Arizona. The pilot and five passengers died.
An NTSB report issued in 2004 blamed the pilot's decision to descend too fast and too close to the scenic Grand Wash Cliffs.


For the cake, follow the instructions on the box (I substituted almond milk for the regular milk)). While the cake cools, prepare the buttercream. Combine the butter, vanilla, sugar and the milk (I used buttermilk). If your frosting is too liquidy add more sugar if it is to thick add more milk. Next use a fork to crumble the cake and stir in the frosting. Form little round balls and freeze for a couple of hours (I let mine freeze over night).
Now the fun part! Melt chocolate! I prefer white chocolate, but my husband likes dark, so we made both! Dip the cake pop sticks into the chocolate first before inserting into cake balls (this helps them stay in place). Now since this was my first attempt My cake pops did not turn out perfect but to hide their imperfections I sprinkled them with coconut flakes!
Have you made cake pops!?


Braniff is back. The snip of the ribbon at the Dallas-Fort Worth airport this morning was to mark the beginning of a new Braniff Inc. - a carrier that now wants to cater to the business traveler.
The traditional ribbon-cutting ceremony was for the public. Employees, returning to work at an airline that spent the past 22 months grounded in bankruptcy reorganization, are celebrating in their own way. On Saturday night Braniff workers will be treated to a Beach Boys and Lynn Anderson concert put on by management. Employee morale ''is going through the roof,'' Stephen Spurgeon, a Braniff spokesman, comments.
That's good, because Braniff will need every ounce of enthusiasm it can get in its Texas hub, where American and Delta are firmly entrenched. Both airlines are likely to put up a tough fight. They have recently matched Braniff's introductory discount fares, and now it looks like American is getting set to undertake a major expansion of routes and planes. As it expands, it will be hiring new workers at lower wages, thus improving its overall cost position - an edge that Braniff now has.
Geared-up workers are a plus for this airline, but the bottom-line benefit is that they cost Braniff a lot less now than they did almost two years ago. Braniff pilots now earn 60 percent less and flight attendants 50 percent less, compared with their previous wages.
''The new Braniff does have low-cost structure, mainly because of using entry-level wages,'' says Alfred Norling, an airline analyst at Kidder, Peabody & Co., the New York brokerage house.
The new Braniff was the result of Jay Pritzker's efforts. Mr. Pritzker is chairman of the Hyatt Corporation, which owns the hotel chain. Braniff is a subsidiary of the Dalfort Corporation, which is controlled by Hyatt. Through Pritzker's efforts, Braniff now has about $70 million in capital to start its operation.
It is starting with a new image. The designer-painted planes are gone. Instead, the Boeing 727s all look alike, decked out in a uniform red, white, blue, and silver design. Braniff has shrunk: It dropped its international routes; it's down to serving 19 domestic cities; it employs 2,200 people, compared with 9,200 in the old days; and its fleet size is 30 planes, compared with 75. It has peeled back overhead costs enough so that it need only fill about half its seats to break even.
With competitive costs and a forward-moving economy under its wing, Braniff will be concentrating on marketing strategy.
''We will be 25 to 30 percent more efficient than our competitors, and as such, we will translate those efficiencies into more comfortable arrangements (for travelers) at existing, competitive fare levels,'' says W. Thomas Lagow, Braniff's senior vice-president of marketing.
''They have chosen to be competitive on a service basis,'' says Mr. Norling, who doesn't see Braniff's business strategy as unique.
''It's another example of how start-up airlines are atempting to offer more for primarily the business traveler . . . ,'' he says. The strategy is to give the business person, who doesn't have time to arrange discount fares in advance, more service and more comfort than he or she would get with a traditional carrier, but at the same coach fare. Right now, this strategy is being pursued - with mixed results - by such airlines as New York Air, Air 1, and Midway.
What does Braniff offer the business traveler? Its ads tick off a list of items: more legroom, more luggage room, softer, leatherlike seats, and a business cabin just for the briefcase-toting crowd. On both sides of the plane, a table folds out of the middle seatback, so when that seat is not being used, passengers on each side can fold down the table and get extra working space. In the business cabin, fliers also get upgraded food service, says Mr. Lagow.
Separating the business cabin from the discount area is a movable partition. Discount passengers, who can get their discounts by arranging for them in advance and following a number of travel restrictions, receive the same seat comfort but not the same service, Lagow says. And in the discount class, the middle seat might be occupied, not allowing for the extra work area.
Norling notes that Braniff has the advantage of specialized service in some markets, but nationwide airline competition is intense.
''There's no way of defining what the odds are for (Braniff's) success or failure,'' he says.
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Apple Looking to Use Liquidmetal Alloys In Future iPhones?
Apple is looking to feature a new and different material in its future iPhones, Liquidmetal alloys.
The alloy Apple plans to use is characterized by high strength and resistance to corrosion.
Speculation that Liquidmetal alloys will be used in future iPhones comes from the fact that Apple has already filed patents for 17 applications.
The alloy will more than likely be used to underlie the touch sensors of iOS devices to ensure more accurate touch sensing.
Other potential applications of the Liquidmetal alloy are pressure sensors, which are used in buttons in smartphones, and also as tamper-resistant screws to prevent people, companies, and any other kind of third parties from opening iPhones.


1. What lie did Mom Luby intend to tell the agents at the Welfare office? Why?
2. Describe Mom Luby's physical features.
3. What is a speakeasy?
4. Who did Mom Luby think was at the door?
5. What was the usual procedure with this visitor?
6. Who was really at the door?
7. Why did the person pay them a visit?
8. What were some inconsistencies in the information that Mom Luby gave the visitor?
9. What were the instructions that the lady gave Mom Luby for her to get clothes for the children?
10. List Mom Luby's profession, along with her 'to do' list.
11. Describe the visitor's physical appearance after her outing with Mom Luby.
12. What realization did the visitor reach at the end of the story?
13. Identify the irony in the story.
14. What point of view is used in the story?
15. What plot structure is used in the short story?


Samsung has obtained a permit to test self-driving cars in California, according to an update to the state's DMV website. A few months ago, the tech giant was granted a similar permit in its home country of South Korea.
Context: It's not surprising to see Samsung venturing into self-driving car technology—it recently acquired Harman, a maker of auto tech, for $8 billion. Rival Apple has also obtained a self-driving car testing permit in California and is reportedly working on a car project.
TechCrunch first spotted Samsung's testing permit.


WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Mexico's president reiterated his nation will not pay for a wall along the US-Mexico border just hours after President-elect Donald Trump doubled-down on his campaign pledge to force the country to do so.
Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto made his comments during a speech at an assembly of foreign diplomats at the National Palace Wednesday. While stressing his desire for a positive relationship between the two countries and naming several issues on which he said they could cooperate, Peña Nieto assured his nation they would not be footing the bill for Trump's wall.
"It is evident that we have some differences with the new government of the United States, like the topic of the wall, that Mexico of course will not pay," Peña Nieto said in the address.
In the days following Congress coming back into session, reports have emerged saying Trump has moved to break with part of his signature campaign pledge -- telling members of Congress that US taxpayers would pay for the border wall and not Mexico. But at his news conference on Wednesday, Trump vociferously denied these reports in part.
"Reports went out last week, 'Oh, Mexico is not going to pay for the wall because of a reimbursement.' What's the difference? I want to get the wall started," Trump said.
He said the US would move to build the wall quickly, using US money to fund the project at first before getting Mexico to reimburse the US. As for the mechanism he would use to force Mexico's hand, Trump was noncommittal outside of pledging it would indeed occur.
"We're going to build a wall. I could wait about a year-and-a-half until we finish our negotiations with Mexico, which we'll start immediately after we get to office, but I don't want to wait," Trump said.
He also recalled the earnestness and popularity of the wall at his campaign rallies, where he regularly did a call and response with his supporters over the promise to have the US' southern neighbor pay for a border wall.
"I would say, 'We are going to build a wall,' and people would go crazy," Trump said. "I say, "Who's going to pay for the wall,' and they will scream out, 'Mexico.'"
During the campaign, Trump visited Mexico to meet with Peña Nieto. And although Nieto did not agree to fund Trump's wall at the time, afterward, Trump told supporters stateside that even though people in Mexico "don't know it yet," Mexico would pay for the border wall.
The stark difference between Wednesday's comments from the two North American politicians showed the disagreement remained as wide just days before Trump takes office as it was when Trump's victory was regarded as a longshot.
CNN's Angela Barajas and Deborah Bloom contributed to this story.


Run, ride, run again… what better way to start your Sunday? Over the weekend, the Forster Triathlon Club held its second duathlon of the pre-season. It was a glorious morning for a run, ride, run, if not a little windy. Relates stories: We had twelve eager participants including three brave juniors who toughed it out alongside the seniors, well done to the junior Fitzhardinge and Hopper boys. We also had three brand new participants, Linda Thacker, Samantha Clarke and Nicole Hansen, who we look forward to welcoming into the thrill of Sunday club races as the season heats up. President, Dave Fitzhardinge had his work cut out for him against new dad, Aaron Eichner who was in top form and came away with a clear win. Fiona Price was first across the line for the women, with her strength on the bike leg making it impossible for anyone to keep up. Our season officially begins on October 14, with our first club triathlon at Forster Keys. See the club Facebook page for more information. Newcomers, tri-curious and Ironmen are all welcome.
Club members happy to be easing back into things.
President Dave Fitzhardinge happy to be back in action after our Winter off-season.
The club's newest participants jumping on board and giving it a go at Forster Keys.
Run, ride, run again… what better way to start your Sunday?
Over the weekend, the Forster Triathlon Club held its second duathlon of the pre-season.
It was a glorious morning for a run, ride, run, if not a little windy.
We had twelve eager participants including three brave juniors who toughed it out alongside the seniors, well done to the junior Fitzhardinge and Hopper boys.
We also had three brand new participants, Linda Thacker, Samantha Clarke and Nicole Hansen, who we look forward to welcoming into the thrill of Sunday club races as the season heats up.
President, Dave Fitzhardinge had his work cut out for him against new dad, Aaron Eichner who was in top form and came away with a clear win.
Fiona Price was first across the line for the women, with her strength on the bike leg making it impossible for anyone to keep up.
Our season officially begins on October 14, with our first club triathlon at Forster Keys.
See the club Facebook page for more information.
Newcomers, tri-curious and Ironmen are all welcome.


The Middle East countries, especially Persian Gulf and North Africa economies, are dependent on crude oil exports. As a result, volume of export, exchange rate and other macroeconomic variables, in particular government budget are volatile, and these oil-based economies are vulnerable to external shocks. On the other hand, the mentioned countries are reliant on the strategic imported commodities such as food and medicine. These factors lead to the more economic vulnerability among these countries especially I.R. Iran. The notification of the general policies of the resistive economy by Iran’s supreme leader in 2010 shows that this subject is of great importance. Therefore, the study of the economy of Iran and its place in the region is the first step in determining the economic indicators from economic vulnerability and resilience viewpoints. This paper tries to answer two basic questions: first, what economic conditions do OPEC countries, including Iran, experience based on the economic vulnerability and resilience? Second, what relationships are there among gross domestic product, economic vulnerability index and economic resilience index among the selected countries? To answer these questions, we compute vulnerability and resilience indexes for the selected OPEC countries during the 2002 - 2013. The findings show that Algeria, Ecuador, Iran, Nigeria and Venezuela are in the “prodigal son” position but they have the potential to increase the economic resilience during the next years. Kuwait stands at the best status, and United Arab Emirates (UAE) gets the self-reliant place. In addition, the economic vulnerability and economic resilience have indirect and direct relation with the gross domestic product, respectively; and the effect of economic resilience index on GDP is high in the sample countries.
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Paul McCartney and Mary Hopkins in the 1960s.
Paul was in a generous mood in the late 1960s, giving away some quality songs to others. He gave his composition "Goodbye" to Welsh singer Mary Hopkin. Hopkin had a big hit with it. Some say that Paul's demo, which as usual he did in his spare time all by himself during an odd hour or two waiting for the other Beatles to show up at the recording studio, is better than Hopkin's finished product. Paul's own demo version ultimately found its way onto one of the Beatles' Anthology albums despite the fact that it wasn't a Beatles project, just all Paul, all the time. There also is a 2015 remastered version of Paul's version of "Goodbye."
Hopkin had a No. 1 hit in the United Kingdom with "Those Were The Days" (produced by Paul McCartney) and "Goodbye" was the followup. Written by McCartney (and credited to McCartney/Lennon), "Goodbye was released on 26 March 1969 and reached No. 2 on the UK Singles Chart. It would have been another No. 1 McCartney composition, but was kept out of No. 1 by "Get Back" by the Beatles. Of course, that's the immutable fact, but you can consider "Goodbye" another No. 1 for McCartney because it was kept out of the top spot only by Paul's own song. "Goodbye" peaked at No. 13 in the United States on the Billboard 100. If it hadn't been blocked by his own song, "Goodbye" would make all the lists of Macca No. 1 compositions - close but no cigars. As it is, it's practically forgotten aside from people who heard it on the radio in 1969.
Reportedly, Hopkin wasn't really happy as a high-profile singer - she was a low-key folk singer - so the title of "Goodbye" basically was a commentary on Paul McCartney's musical relationship with her after several years (nobody ever accused Paul of subtlety about his relationships, but this one appeared to be purely professional). McCartney and Hopkin did work together a bit into 1970, but that was it. It sounds as if it was a very mutual parting, and Paul had a lot of other things on his mind, such as his marriage around this time to Linda Eastwood and the beginning of his own solo career.
Hopkin never again had the same kind of success that she enjoyed while working with Paul McCartney, but that didn't seem to bother Hopkin. However, Mary Hopkin remained in show business sporadically while raising a family with Tony Visconti and had her own 6-episode television series. She also worked at times with other Beatles people, such as George Harrison and George Martin. Mary Hopkin's children have become singers and occasionally accompany Mary on folk tunes.


It's a familiar story: In search of love, a youngster sets off on an ambitious, risky, and unpredictable quest into the unknown. But when that youngster is an adolescent mountain lion departing from the Black Hills of South Dakota and heading east, the outcome is known—and it's a fatal ending. For the subject of wildlife expert William Stolzenburg's new book "Heart of a Lion: A Lone Cat's Walk Across America," that ending comes in the form of an SUV driving down a Connecticut parkway just 70 miles from New York City and 2,000 miles from where the young cougar began his journey.
While in recent years dozens, if not more, of these stranded South Dakotan lions have taken stock of their surroundings and opted to venture into the great eastern beyond, Stolzenburg documents the most impressive and heartbreaking of these journeys on record. Departing in 2009, the one-year-old, 140-pound mountain lion stealthily crossed more than half a country of inhospitable terrain over the course of two years, much of which hasn't seen more than a handful of mountain lions since the 1800s.
Why take on such an inauspicious journey? In search of a mate (of which there are none in the eastern United States as far as we know) and some territory of his own. If only someone could explain to these lions that what they find in a world criss-crossed with highways and checkered with suburbs will inevitably be worse than the struggle they face back home—although they may both end in the same manner with an early death.
But that would go against millions of years of evolutionary breeding anyways, a subject Stolzenburg delves into between chapters tracking the lion. He explores the history of mountains lions in North America, and how they managed to survive for millions of years alongside larger megafauna and thousands of years alongside humans before being hunted to near extinction in the 20th century. Their ability to leap great distances and scale trees, a qualities not possessed by most big cats or other large predators such as bears, was of great benefit.
What eventually amounted to the farthest land-bound trek ever recorded for a wild animal in America started in the hills of South Dakota's western border. At the time Stolzenburg's cougar flees the den and heads towards Minneapolis in 2009, there were potentially more than 200 lions living in the hills. As recently as 30 years before, their existence in the region had only been rumored. Western settlers had hunted the so-called vermin out of the area before hunting seasons and other conservation measures were eventually put in place in the 1960s. By 2009, however, hunters and ranchers had convinced authorities that, against all evidence, the lions were a safety hazard and needed to be culled. Now dozens of them were being killed every year even as conservationists presented scientific studies showing that the killings disrupted the lions' natural order and made violent encounters with humans and livestock more likely.
He was little more than a year old and not long separated from his mother. He had survived his first year as hunters' quarry, public enemy, and roadkill candidate, dodging the armed sportsmen and police and the vehicular predators speeding through the heavily traveled hills. He had dodged his own kind as well. Had any of the Hill's reigning males caught him trespassing, they might well have killed him. The young tom had reached a leap point in the life of male lions. He was a teenager toeing the line of adulthood, heeding a hard-wired imperative to find a mate and a place of his own.
In weaving together details of the lion's journey—barns where he slept, urban camera traps that he set off, deer carcasses that he left behind—with tales of people, modern-day and historical, that have fought for or against lion and broader wildlife conservation, Stolzenburg illustrates an America far removed from its wild roots and grappling with the reality of hanging on to any of these increasingly remote features of life.
In one of the most potent passages in the book, Stolzenburg portrays the killing of another young lion in Chicago, known as the Milton lion. After creating a name for himself during the journey east from South Dakota, the cougar enters Illinois as only the third lion to be spotted in the state in the last 150 years. Shortly thereafter, he's seen yards from the Linden Avenue terminus of the Chicago L, the third-busiest mass transit rail in the United States according to the book.
After police start receiving calls from anxious residents … well, you can guess what happened next. The lion was shot dead in an alleyway, it's body pierced by at least six bullets. Urban cops are not trained for such encounters and bystanders could definitely have been in harm's way. People saw both points of view in the unfortunate encounter, and the public went into a "catfight" over the shooting of the cougar.
As Stolzenburg sees it, for those who understood the large cat's "true intent, he was a bracing reminder of the towering barriers still standing between a lion simply looking to find a mate, and a society seeded with people simply wanting him dead."
As one proponent of mountain lion conservation puts it, "simply showing up gets them shot."
Stolzenburg doesn't argue that mountain lions should be allowed to roam free at any expense, but rather points out how a science-based management system could benefit everyone. He wants to limit unplanned human encounters while also allowing the lions to play their natural role in certain ecosystems. For instance, cougars can help keep deer and rabbit populations in check, animals that can overrun forest vegetation when let run wild. This is an ongoing problem in a wild mostly devoid of large predators, with recent research showing how these animals actually do a lot to help keep ecosystems in balance.
In many cases these mountain lion encounters are quite complex, thrusting the relationship between humanity and nature under the microscope of modern society. Take for example the recent case of the celebrity mountain lion that's found a way to live in the hills of Los Angeles (You've seen the picture of a mountain lion under the Hollywood sign?). This lion is now believed to have snuck into the L.A. Zoo and killed a koala. Who should we sympathize with—the wild cougar looking for its next meal or the captive koala, 10,000 miles from home? Probably both.
For now in California, where there are around 5,000 mountain lions, hunting them remains illegal. But with enough incidents like the one with the koala, even an avowedly eco-friendly state could turn against the cougars. And without enough humans fighting for them they'd have a much harder time surviving in the world we've created.


The Green Mountain State is home to more than one-hundred 19th-century covered wooden bridges, and thousands of acres of mountain terrain with hiking trails and ski slopes.
Vermontology Guided Tours offers intimate tour experiences for those wanting to explore this beautiful state.
We asked Natalia Ferens-Hommel, the Owner and Operator of Vermontology Guided Tours, to tell us more.
How would you describe Vermontology Guided Tours in one sentence?
Vermontology Guided Tours is a small boutique style tour company that offers tours across the state of Vermont by passenger van, holding a maximum of 6 customers.
What tours are offered at Vermontology Guided Tours?
In Spring, Summer, and Fall, Vermontology offers vacation packages, with four-day, five-night guided tours around state of Vermont including a three-course dinner and full breakfasts prepared by a chef. Admissions to all sites of interest along the tour are also included. Our Vermont tours are an intimate experience that feels like traveling with a group of friends!
We also offer a day trip tour where we explore charming villages, historical locations and find the best sightseeing that Vermont has to offer. Day tours with Vermontology are a great way to see the area's best local attractions. On this 8-hour adventure we pick you up and drop you off at your hotel.
Another popular tour is our brewery and spirits tour. This is an 8-hour day tour for people who love world-class beer, spirits, and hard cider. This guided tour visits four Vermont breweries, one distillery and one hard cidery, plus lots of great Vermont scenery and other local attractions. No need to worry about driving, Vermontology will pick you up right at your door!
Who are your clients at Vermontology Guided Tours?
Vermontology has served customers from all over the world: Australia, New Zealand, India, Japan, Canada, China, Aruba, Brazil, Germany, England, Poland and the USA.
We can cater to everyone's needs, and customize the tours according to people's interest and passions. On our tours we want everyone to feel extra special. Our excellent score on TripAdvisor shows that our tours can accomplish this.
How did Vermontology Guided Tours begin?
As founder of Vermontology I am originally from Europe and worked and lived in many different countries and states before moving to Vermont. When I saw Vermon for the first time I immediately reconnected with my childhood.
When my friends started to visit us I always gave them personal tours of our great state.
After dong this for several years I thought it was time to show the state to a bigger audience and through may passion and love for Vermont I created Vermontology.
Why is Vermont such an important vacation destination?
Vermont offers a lot of diversity yet is a small enough state to visit in a short period of time. We have wonderful sightseeing places: waterfalls, lakes, forest and mountains.
The state is full of historical sites and is rich variety of architectural styles.
Vermont is very progressive as well in our history, officially being the first state to abolish slavery, the first state to approve gay marriage and the first state to say no to GMO. We are also proud that we have no billboards to obscure our beautiful scenery!
Last but not least, our food scene of locally grown produce makes this little state interesting to visit.
You can visit Vermontology Tours at: http://vermontology.com/ or call 802-417-1996.


You can find literally hundreds of acne medication on market nowadays. Before you can effectively use any medication to get rid of acne first you need to know the cause.
There are various factors that can cause acne for example: diet, stress, allergic reaction, hormone pills and pregnancy. It is important you know the cause of your acne first before attempting to use any medication. Most people fail to cure their acne simply because they use wrong medication to heal wrong acne type.
2. Medical Solution Or Natural Solution?
Acne medication can be classified into two categories: medical acne medication and natural acne medication. Medical acne remedies usually used to provide short-term relief but you should not use it as long-term solution since medical remedies can give unwanted side effects later on. Also, there are many cases where the acne comes to existence again once people stop using the medication. Therefore, medical solution is not effective to be used as long-term solution for acne.
At the other side of the coin, you will find natural acne solution. Although natural treatment might not give fast relief unlike medical treatment but you will get long-term solution without accompanied by any unwanted side effect.
Here are several examples of natural treatment that you can use as effective acne medication: garlic, avocado, white egg, cucumber juice, and toothpaste. As you can see the cost of natural treatment is considerably cheap unlike medical treatment that can break your bank account. You can buy any of those natural ingredients for a price one can of soda.
You just need to apply the blend of one of those natural ingredients to your acne spot several times a day. After one or two weeks you will likely start notice the result. However, you should be aware that one of those natural ingredients may potentially cause allergic reaction to your skin such as garlic. So always check to your doctor for any unwanted issue before you start applying natural treatment.


Which Diets are Best for Cognitive Health?
A recent study reported that people who strictly adhered to the Mediterranean diet or the A Priori Diet Quality Score (APDQS) diet during early to middle adulthood were significantly less likely to have poor cognitive functions in midlife than people with low adherence to these diets . But adherence to the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet during adulthood was not associated with cognitive functions later in life.
Findings come from a study of 2,621 young adults (average age 25), who were interviewed at baseline, 7 years later, and 20 years later, on the frequency and amounts of different food items and beverages they consumed. Dietary pattern scores were generated based on the level of adherence to the Mediterranean diet, DASH diet, and the APDQS diet. These dietary pattern scores were averaged across baseline, year 7, and year 20 to derive the long-term dietary pattern scores for each individual. Then the participants' cognitive functions were assessed in years 25 and 30, at the average ages of 50 and 55, respectively.
The Mediterranean diet is inspired by the dietary habits of Greece, Southern Italy, and Spain. It consists of high amounts of fruits, vegetables, potatoes, whole grains, fish, poultry, legumes, and nuts, low-to-moderate alcohol, and monounsaturated fat (e.g., olive oil). The diet limits red meat and full-fat dairy.
The DASH diet is designed to control hypertension and emphasizes high intakes of fruits, vegetables, all grains, low-fat dairy, fish, poultry, legumes, and nuts, and small amounts of meat. The diet limits total fat, saturated fat, sweets, and sodium.
The APDQS diet is calculated based on 46 food groups thought to have beneficial, neutral, or harmful health effects. You can get a high APDQS dietary score by increasing intake of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, low-fat dairy, fish, poultry, legumes, nuts, soy products, low-to-moderate alcohol, tea, and coffee, while limiting fast/fried foods, full-fat dairy, red meat, salty snacks, sweets, and sugar-sweetened soft drinks.
People who scored in the top third with regards to adherence to the Mediterranean diet during adulthood were 46 percent less likely to have poor overall cognitive functions in their 50s than people who scored in the low third. Also, people who scored in the top third in adherence to the APDQS diet during adulthood were 52 percent less likely to have poor overall cognitive functions in their midlife than people scoring in the low third. When comparing people with high versus low Mediterranean and APDQS diet scores, fruit and vegetable servings were almost double; people with high adherence to these two diets ate on average 4 servings of fruit and 5 servings of vegetables per day. It is worth noting that there were no associations between the baseline dietary pattern score (at age 25) and cognitive scores 30 years later, suggesting that a long-term healthy diet throughout adulthood is important for cognitive health later in life.
High adherence to the DASH diet was not associated with differences in cognitive functions in midlife, but a recent study reported that the DASH diet when combined with aerobic exercise is associated with better cognitive functions .
Because this study was an observational study and not a randomized clinical trial, it was not designed to prove that the Mediterranean or the APDQS diet is responsible for better cognitive functions. People who eat a healthy diet may be more likely to have other healthy habits that are good for the brain. But it is worth noting that the associations between high Mediterranean and APDQS dietary scores and better cognitive functions remained significant even after controlling for demographic, lifestyle, and health factors.
The mechanisms by which a healthy diet influences midlife cognitive functions are not yet clear, but may be mediated by dietary components with antioxidant (e.g., fruits, vegetables) and anti-inflammatory (e.g., omega-3 fatty acids, polyphenols) properties. A healthy diet also decreases the risks for type-2 diabetes, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol, all of which have been associated with cognitive decline and dementia.
Additional research is needed to determine which combination of foods and nutrients are best for optimal brain health. But based on this study and previous ones, a heart-healthy diet rich in fruits, vegetables, legumes, fish, and nuts, and low in full-fat dairy and red meat appear to be beneficial.
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Blumenthal JA, Smith PJ, Mabe S et al. (2019) Lifestyle and neurocognition in older adults with cognitive impairments: A randomized trial. Neurology 92, e212-e223.
Yuko Hara, PhD, is Director of Aging and Alzheimer's Prevention at the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation. Dr. Hara was previously an Assistant Professor in Neuroscience at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where she remains an adjunct faculty member. Her research focused on brain aging, specifically how estrogens and reproductive aging influence the aging brain's synapses and mitochondria. She earned a doctorate in neurology and neuroscience at Weill Graduate School of Medical Sciences of Cornell University and a bachelor's degree in biology from Cornell University, with additional study at Keio University in Japan. Dr. Hara has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications, including articles in PNAS and Journal of Neuroscience.
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Thoughts: I didn't exactly love this book. I mean, it was good for people that don't love so much exciting books, but a book that you could just read if you just kind of want to lay down and watch a documentary - that sort of book. So, to make it straight, it WAS interesting, but if you're someone that likes a good, exciting book, I wouldn't recommend this book for you because it isn't so exciting due to the problems that occur in the story. The writing style was interesting from the given POV - a dog, Jack. But other than that, the writing was just similar to your normal ordinary writing (not that innovative or special). The characters didn't have that much emotion, besides maybe Jack, the dog and main character, but other than that they felt pretty dry. It's a relatively short read, but it felt longer to me because it was pretty "so so."
So, I didn't "love" this book, but it could've just been because it wasn't the type of book I'd ever want to read, now that I've fully experienced it and not just from the synopsis.


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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — NASA's planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft has confirmed the discovery of its first alien world in its host star's habitable zone — that just-right range of distances that could allow liquid water to exist — and found more than 1,000 new explanet candidates, researchers announced today (Dec. 5).
The new finds bring the Kepler space telescope's total haul to 2,326 potential planets in its first 16 months of operation.These discoveries, if confirmed, would quadruple the current tally of worlds known to exist beyond our solar system, which recently topped 700.
The potentially habitable alien world, a first for Kepler, orbits a star very much like our own sun. The discovery brings scientists one step closer to finding a planet like our own — one which could conceivably harbor life, scientists said.
The newfound planet in the habitable zone is called Kepler-22b. It is located about 600 light-years away, orbiting a sun-like star.
The $600 million Kepler observatory launched in March 2009 to hunt for Earth-size alien planets in the habitable zone of their parent stars, where liquid water, and perhaps even life, might be able to exist.
Kepler detects alien planets using what's called the "transit method." It searches for tiny, telltale dips in a star's brightness caused when a planet transits — or crosses in front of — the star from Earth's perspective, blocking a fraction of the star's light.
The finds graduate from "candidates" to full-fledged planets after follow-up observations confirm that they're not false alarms. This process, which is usually done with large, ground-based telescopes, can take about a year.
The Kepler team released data from its first 13 months of operation back in February, announcing that the instrument had detected 1,235 planet candidates, including 54 in the habitable zone and 68 that are roughly Earth-size.
Of the total 2,326 candidate planets that Kepler has found to date, 207 are approximately Earth-size. More of them, 680, are a bit larger than our planet, falling into the "super-Earth" category. The total number of candidate planets in the habitable zones of their stars is now 48.
To date, just over two dozen of these potential exoplanets have been confirmed, but Kepler scientists have estimated that at least 80 percent of the instrument's discoveries should end up being the real deal.
The newfound 1,094 planet candidates are the fruit of Kepler's labors during its first 16 months of science work, from May 2009 to September 2010. And they won't be the last of the prolific instrument's discoveries.
"This is a major milestone on the road to finding Earth's twin," Douglas Hudgins, Kepler program scientist at NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C., said in a statement.
Mission scientists still need to analyze data from the last two years and on into the future. Kepler will be making observations for a while yet to come; its nominal mission is set to end in November 2012, but the Kepler team is preparing a proposal to extend the instrument's operations for another year or more.
Kepler's finds should only get more exciting as time goes on, researchers say.
"We're pushing down to smaller planets and longer orbital periods," said Natalie Batalha, Kepler deputy science team lead at Ames.
To flag a potential planet, the instrument generally needs to witness three transits. Planets that make three transits in just a few months must be pretty close to their parent stars; as a result, many of the alien worlds Kepler spotted early on have been blisteringly hot places that aren't great candidates for harboring life as we know it.
Given more time, however, a wealth of more distantly orbiting — and perhaps more Earth-like — exoplanets should open up to Kepler. If intelligent aliens were studying our solar system with their own version of Kepler, after all, it would take them three years to detect our home planet.
"We are getting very close," Batalha said. "We are homing in on the truly Earth-size, habitable planets."
Amazing isn't it? When I was a kid we didn't even know about all the planetoids Pluto got demoted over, let alone any planet outside our solar system. And suddenly in a three year or so period too many planets have been discovered for any one person to analyze in a lifetime.


Media captionCanada's PM Justin Trudeau described the killing as "cold-blooded murder"
The Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has condemned the beheading of a Canadian hostage kidnapped by Islamist militants in the Philippines.
John Ridsdel, 68, was taken from a tourist resort with three others by the Abu Sayyaf group in September 2015.
In November, the Islamist militants released a video showing Mr Ridsdel and three other captives, and demanded a ransom of $80m (£55m).
Mr Trudeau called his death "an act of cold-blooded murder".
A Philippines army spokesman said Mr Ridsdel's severed head was found on the remote island of Jolo, hours after the Abu Sayyaf ransom deadline expired.
Mr Ridsdel was taken to Jolo after being kidnapped from a marina near the city of Davao, along with another Canadian, Robert Hall; a Norwegian, Kjartan Sekkingstad; and a Philippine woman, Mr Hall's girlfriend, Marites Flor.
Mr Ridsdel later warned in a video released by the group that he was due to be killed on 25 April if no ransom was paid.
The Canadian government has a policy against paying ransoms.
Confirming the death of Mr Ridsdel, Mr Trudeau called it a "heinous act".
"Canada condemns without reservation the brutality of the hostage-takers, and this unnecessary death. This was an act of cold-blooded murder and responsibility rests squarely with the terrorist group who took him hostage," he said in a statement.
One of smallest but most radical of Islamist separatist groups in southern Philippines, its name means "bearer of the sword" in Arabic.
It split from the larger Moro National Liberation Front in 1991. Membership is said to number in the low hundreds.
The group has been agitating for the creation of an independent Islamic state in predominantly Catholic Philippines, and uses tactics such as hostage-taking and bombings to pressure the government.
Several of its factions have pledged allegiance to the so-called Islamic State.
Numerous Filipino and foreign civilians have been kidnapped in south Philippines and parts of neighbouring Malaysia over the decades, and used as hostages to extract ransoms.
Though some have been released after negotiations or attacks by Philippine forces, others have been murdered when demands were not met.
Abu Sayyaf has also said it carried out bombings in cities in the south and a ferry bombing in 2004 in Manila Bay that killed more than 100 people, considered one of the worst terror attacks in the Philippines.
"It's hard," a friend of Mr Ridsdel, Bob Rae, told CBC News. "It's just very hard. I've been involved behind the scenes for the last six months trying to find a solution and it's been very painful."
A former mining executive, Mr Ridsdel is described by Canadian media as semi-retired. He also worked as a journalist.
Abu Sayyaf was set up in the 1990s and received funding from al-Qaeda. It is fighting for an independent Islamic province in the Philippines.
Several of its factions have declared their allegiance to the militant group Islamic State. Abu Sayyaf is also holding several other foreigners.
Eighteen Philippine soldiers were killed in clashes with the militants on Basilan island near Jolo island earlier this month.