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Sports nutrition remained a strongly-growing niche in Kenya in 2019, driven by increasingly healthy lifestyles amongst some consumers who are adopting greater exercise regimes in an attempt to avoid the rising incidence of obesity in the country. This trend is gradually expanding the consumer base of sports nutrition as Kenyans increasingly follow high-protein diets; this is particularly evident with the emergence of plant-based diets in the country as a new healthy eating trend is gaining in popularity, coupled with a general attempt to reduce meat consumption and lower cholesterol levels.
Sports protein products continued to dominate sports nutrition in 2019, comprising the RTD format, with no sales registered for powder or protein/energy bars at the end of the review period. Sports protein RTD offers consumers, both fans of exercise and increasingly the general population, a convenient on-the-go format for people with busy schedules who want a filling a nutritious snack.
Sports nutrition is predicted to continue to record strong demand over the forecast period, driven not only by core users but also benefiting from health and wellness trends that will continue to evolve in Kenya, with an increasing number of people engaging in physical activity in an attempt to curb weight gain and lead healthier lifestyles. However, in Kenya, more than 80% of consumers that frequent the leading distribution channel of healthfood stores to purchase sports nutrition remain serious athletes, while the remaining share is distributed amongst bodybuilders and the general public who regularly exercise.
Sports nutrition continued to be dominated by multinationals in 2019 which offer a wide range of products and brands, led by USN (Pty) Ltd with its brand Creatine Monohydrate which is nationally distributed by Sky Healthcare Ltd. Many players offer pre-workout, work out and post-work out formulations, and such a varied product offering assists in targeting certain target groups with specific needs.
Sports nutrition remained largely untapped at the end of the review period and a niche amongst the general Kenyan population. However, growing demand for sports nutrition is encouraging manufacturers to engage more in promotional activities to help raise greater awareness amongst Kenyans.
While sports nutrition is traditionally associated with male bodybuilders, with players initially targeting this niche audience, manufacturers are realising that with increasing urbanisation and a well-connect young population they can attract a wider consumer group and increase sales by removing gender bias when running advertising campaigns. As women become increasingly interested in following healthy lifestyles and wanting to lose weight through exercise, they are also more likely to be open to trying products such as sports nutrition to help them attain their fitness goals such as building and maintaining muscle through higher protein intake.
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Happy Days community preschool is located right in the heart of Ratoath, Co Meath. On the main street and part of the modern community centre, the preschool first opened its doors in 2006 and now welcomes 42 children every day. I had heard lots of stories about what was happing in this little corner of the community; there are Kindness Elves who did good deeds for others, visits to the local nursing home and a Christmas shows that involves the local choir and where everyone is invited. I wanted to learn more, so I sat down with Eilish Balfe, the manager of Happy Days to find out a little bit about how she and her team have been working to make sure the children at Happy Days are proud and active citizens of Ratoath.
Q: Eilish, you go out of your way to involve the children what's happening in the community, what made you decide to do that?
When I started here at Happy Days I was so impressed with the beautiful facilities we have here, right in the centre of Ratoath, we have the community centre, the theatre, we have people and groups coming in and out every day and I wanted to respect that. I wanted to use that opportunity to make Happy Days and the children who attend here part of the community.
The children here today are the community of tomorrow. They are the ones who are going to be running the knitting group, they are the ones who will be running meals-on-wheels and the nursing home. It's good for them to learn that these things don't run by themselves and children can get involved in a way that is appropriate for their age.
Ratoath has been very welcoming to the children as we go out and about; everyone waves at the children as we walk down the road in yellow jackets, they are part of the community now and people notice that.
Q: Tell me about some of the activities you do with the children
It started off with small things and we just built on it from there. We have a kindness month where the children become the Kindness elves and they do good deeds for others. They would get a good deed suggestion to go home with and work on over the weekend at home, then the deeds expanded; from thanking other people who have helped the children in some way to collecting for the homeless or buying a cake for someone who is sick.
Each week we visit the local nursing home- Silver Stream. A group of 9 or 10 of the children go over each Thursday and spend a few hours with the residents. We sing, we play games and we talk to the residents. The children ask questions like "why are you old?", "why do you have no hair?". The children say they are going to visit the Granny and Grandads of Ratoath, they just love it. We prepare the children before we go, we explain that there will be different smells, different sounds and what they can expect to see. Everybody looks forward to the visits and the residents love to see the children coming.
I am passionate about inter-generational learning, there is so much that the older and younger generation have in common; they get along so well and learn so much from each other. I would love to see every preschool matched up with a nursing home, they shouldn't be segregated, you see such an amazing bond between the children and residents.
We go out with the local meals-on-wheels group. Last year that was part of a month-long kindness initiative and this year it is evolving and we are making our meals-on-wheels trips a more regular activity.
We also have an active Tidy Towns group in Ratoath and this year the children are looking after a stretch of road in the village and keeping it tidy. It really teaches them to be responsible and to be active citizens. We have a lot more ideas and plans for this year, we're constantly evolving and including more and more people throughout the community.
Q: The Happy Days Christmas show has quite a reputation, can you tell me about that?
Well, we have this wonderful centre with the theatre here and the show is a great opportunity to use that. Everyone in the community is invited and, as part of the event, we turn on the Christmas lights for the village. Every year we have to draw a name out of a hat for that because of course, they all want to do it. The local rugby team come along as Santa's elves and the local choir come to sing with the children. It is a fantastic event but this year we are going a couple of steps further. We have a plan to include the residents of the nursing home, singing with the children and we will be incorporating sign language to make it as inclusive as possible. I'm really excited to see that come together this year.
Q: If someone wanted to start a similar initiative, what advice would you give them?
I'd say start off in your own setting. The Healthy Ireland Smart Start programme was a great way for us to start exploring emotions with the children; we focussed on kindness and reinforced positive kindness behaviours at Happy Days. That helped the children become aware of the importance of kindness and how to practice it.
We also met with parents and explained what we wanted to achieve and why we were doing it and they were so supportive. We have had great feedback from parents where they are telling us stories of how their child is practising kindness at home. It is wonderful to see the effect that teaching kindness can have.
After that, it was about finding opportunities in the community and just doing it. The nursing home visits came about because I was there one day and I just asked. People are very supportive of the children and it has been a real community effort. The children will also have ideas on what they would like to do, who they would like to help. They are the community of tomorrow and it is important to get them involved.
I was so inspired by my coffee and chat with Eilish, as we spoke I was struck not only by the bigger initiatives that they have taken on but also the little things that she and her team just do every day to involve the community. In winter when the cold and flu season was approaching a local representative came in and demonstrated "The Dab" for coughing and sneezing, the centre's cleaner came in and talked about tissues and hygiene. They have collected for the homeless, given out free coffees, brought cake to people who are sick, given out sweets to people in the village on Valentine's day. Eilish and her team have a lot of plans for the children of Happy Days and the community in Ratoath, from a children's book exchange, an alternative advent calendar, to a month dedicated to inter-generational learning. She is a powerhouse of a lady who is passionate about her children and ensuring they become active members of the community. I'm really looking forward to seeing what the children of Happy Days get up to this year.


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ISIS car bombed Baghdad yesterday and they are entrenching themselves into Ramadi while Josh Earnest talks of our supposed "success". The U.S. is losing because we are not even engaged. The sole contribution we are making is a PC bombing campaign that has allowed ISIS to expand and strengthen their recruiting efforts.
The U.S. administration's rules of engagement are mostly stand down orders.
If ISIS wins Iraq, and it's beginning to look likely, they will have won because the U.S. chose to only pretend to fight.
In an interview with PBS' Frontline, General Dempsey, the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, made a stunning admission to the interviewer who asked whether the United States had plans for the loss of Mosul last June.
"Well, no, there were not," Dempsey answered. "There were several things that surprised us about [the Islamic State], the degree to which they were able to form their own coalition both inside of Syria and inside of northwestern Iraq, the military capability they exhibited, the collapse of the Iraqi security forces. Yeah, in those initial days, there were a few surprises."
We are blind. There is no intelligence. We are so blind that we don't even read the foreign papers which clearly warned of the takeover beforehand.
The Washington Post editorial board wrote yesterday that Mr. Obama has offered 'halfhearted' support for his strategy. The 3,000 U.S. trainers cannot accompany Iraqi forces to the front lines or identify targets for airstrikes – crucial tasks.
They also pointed out that the administration boasts of 3,000 strikes by U.S. planes last summer but that is far below former operations. In the Afghan campaign, the U.S. flew six times as many daily and in Libya, three times.
This is what to expect from a president who only sees climate change and the GOP as threats.
We are currently fighting a politically correct war that avoids all situations that would have any blowback for the president. There are only 15 to 20 sorties a day and we are losing most opportunities because of the rules of engagement which only allow perfect situations.
The president can't have any criticism from overseas fighting because it might interfere with his building up of the U.S. as a welfare state.
We lost 4,000 U.S. soldiers fighting for and winning Iraq. Many thousands more of our military were wounded. It is said to have cost 2 trillion dollars when all was said and done.
There were many people who appreciated what we had done but those stories didn't play as well in the media as those of the hateful, the accusatory, and the enemies of freedom for Iraq.
ISIS, a pure evil outgrowth of al-Qaida, is on the path to Baghdad and Syria, particularly with its latest victories in Ramadi and Palmyra. They are now fighting for oil fields in Iraq and all these battles are being fought with our equipment, our weapons, and, in some cases, by men we trained.
Ramadi is the 'Gateway of Baghdad' and no matter how its spun as irrelevant, it is a key Iraqi city.
ISIS destroys all vestiges of other civilizations, history, and beliefs in their wake with a scorched earth policy. In some cases, it took thousands of years to create what they destroy almost instantly. They behead children, make soldiers out of them, impregnate young women, and they break young women so the next generation will be an ISIS generation of virulently hate-filled tyrants using religion as their excuse.
Our war against ISIS bears some similarities to Vietnam and while Obama is in power or if Hillary becomes president, we can't fight ISIS because they will fight a war with bureaucratic red tape and false stories of success.
Vietnam was fought, not by generals, but by bureaucratic politicians in D.C.
Our soldiers can never be sent to fight in a war run by a pencil pusher who is ignorant of reality as Barack Obama is but we should at least insist he fight adequately with our assets already in Iraq.
His air campaign is another perfect example of his inability to lead.
The Pentagon, under orders from the bureaucrat in the White House, is tying the hands of the pilots.
Obama will only engage in the fight from the air and then only after all the necessary paperwork is completed. ISIS won't wait.
Pilots are under extremely restrictive rules of engagement just as our military was in Iraq and Afghanistan when Obama came into power. In fact, he's doing the same thing with the police stateside, which can be seen clearly in the deal he has worked out with the Cleveland police. They are the pie-in-the-sky rules that don't work in the war on the streets or in foreign lands and they don't work for pilots.
Currently, U.S. pilots in Iraq are tightly micromanaged by D.C.
When pilots find a clear target and all procedures are in place, they must call their boss, who calls their boss, who calls their boss, until it goes all the way up the chain of command to the appointed Obama minion. By the time the answer comes down, the opportunity is lost.
We are conducting few air campaigns as it is and the ones we do conduct are mostly made up of lost opportunities.
The last thing pilots should be made to consider while fighting in a war is political correctness and legalities because they have to make split-second decisions. The chain of command needs to trust their pilots. However, Barack Obama politicizes everything. The president who ran as an outsider is the purest form of a political being.
Joint Tactical Attack Controllers and Forward Air Traffic Controllers with Special Forces are needed to help the fighter jets but none will come.
If a target of opportunity is found, an hour wait is not unexpected before an okay is given. It clearly doesn't work.
I remember reading about one pilot who said he had to fly over clear targets of ISIS raping and murdering civilians in Iraq without being allowed to bomb them.
We have about three thousand troops on the ground despite the White House claiming there are no boots on the ground but they are severely restricted by the PC president who only cares about his domestic socialist agenda.
Barack Obama's restrictive rules of engagement tie the hands of the two-star general in charge of these troops.
When will we have a moral imperative as ISIS slaughters and displaces the people of Iraq, destroys all other beliefs but their's? Greta Van Susteren asked Rep. Lee Zeldin on her show Thursday.
After describing the horrors of ISIS, he said the moral imperative 'only adds more legitimacy', Rep. Lee Zeldin said.
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This past summer, USA Hockey ratified the Declaration of Player Safety, Fair Play and Respect, which aims to change the culture around body-checking and competitive contact at all levels, while clearly defining what is acceptable and unacceptable.
The days of big, intimidating hits are over, paving the way for skill, speed, puck possession and creativity.
"Checking went from separating the player from the puck to gaining possession of the puck," said Guy Gosselin, a two-time U.S. Olympian and current regional manager for USA Hockey's American Development Model.
Hockey is not a no-touch sport—not by a long shot. But it must happen safely and smartly.
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When checking, use the trunk of your body—hips and shoulders—to make contact. Do not use your hands, forearms, elbows or stick. Do not make contact above the shoulders or below the knees.
Contact must be made straight or diagonally from the front of the puck carrier or straight from the side—never from behind.
Start with the idea of "stick on puck," Gosselin said. Keep your stick on the ice or below your knees.
Do not hit vulnerable or defenseless players who are unaware that a check is coming or unprepared for it. Do not check a player who is engaged with another player.
The idea of "finishing your check" along the boards is no longer acceptable. Same goes for vicious, open-ice hits. Those can put you in the penalty box, just as hits to the head, hits from behind and late hits can.
Even if they're not penalized, they can take you out of the play.
"If you're sitting in the box that's a losing proposition," Gosselin said. "If you take yourself out of the play, that's not good either."
Players who are getting checked need to be safe, too. That starts by being aware of your position on the ice. Knowing what's coming at you will make you a more confident player.
"Have vision on the ice when you're going in for a puck or going back for a puck," Gosselin said. "Take a look at where you are and have that awareness as you're creating space. Keep yourself safe and protect the puck."
Maintaining an "athletic position" with your ankles flexed, knees bent, hips down, chest up and head up will improve your stability on the ice and make it more difficult to be checked off the puck
Learn to take away puck carriers' ice by steering or directing them away from the middle of the ice and to areas where they run out of time and space. Also be aware of gaps between you and the puck carrier. In these cases, skating and speed are just as important as physical strength. And remember: stick on puck and stick in the passing lanes will create turnovers.
"Take the proper angle to take the puck away," Gosselin said. "A poor angle will give the puck carrier more options."
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In the morning, the Chagras (Ecuadorean "cowboys") demonstrate their lasso skills then teach you how to copy them. After lunch, ride to the Bomboli cloud forest at about 3,000 meters and stop for a short walk to admire the beautiful orchids, ferns and other plants. Dinner and overnight in Bomboli. Riding time approx. 4 hours
Day 3
Machachi Valley
On this day you will leave the cloud forest behind and ride on the old road that connected Quito with the coast until 1960. Ride through the green and fertile Machachi valley with vast pastures and eucalyptus forests. For lunch you will visit a local hacienda. Return to Hacienda Alegria in the evening. Riding time: 4 hours
Day 4
Return to Quito
After a big breakfast, say goodbye to your horse and return to Quito.


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The supreme relevance of this presentation is to debunk that net neutrality is "Internet freedom."
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Records of Little Comberton go back as far as 1086 and many old photographs from by-gone eras show little has changed in the village over the years.
This website supports the community groups, the Parish Council, and businesses in Little Comberton.
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Encounter with a Hick by Jonathan Brand
From the Government Printing Office by Kris Neville
Land of the Great Horses by R. A. Lafferty
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May 27, 2016
The memoir of former Assemblymember and L.A. City Councilmember Richard Alatorre, chronicling his extraordinary role as a pioneering activist and political figure in the momentous events that advanced Latino empowerment from the 1960s through the 1990s—events that presaged the ascendency of contemporary Latino social and political influence.
Alatorre played a pivotal role across the length and breadth of the Chicano movement, so his story is more than a reflection on one person's life. Alatorre offers detailed, entertaining, and compelling insights on the paramount figures in California political history with whom he worked and sometimes sparred—from Cesar Chavez and Ronald Reagan to Jerry Brown and Tom Bradley to the three Assembly Speakers under whom he served: Bob Moretti, Leo McCarthy, and Willie Brown.


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Piezoelectric ceramic materials are an electro-active ceramic. "Piezo-ceramics" expand/contract with applied electrical charge. When assembled into a piezo stack (many parallel layers), applied control voltage effects travel on the order of 0.1% to 0.2% of the piezo stack length. In piezo actuators, this travel becomes useful as actuation work (power) for a variety of applications. Piezo stack linear actuators might be considered as expanding springs, able to provide force and displacement as the control voltage drives them to expand/contract. This piezo actuator tutorial covers how piezo actuators work, the major application benefits, flexure-guided actuator properties and characteristics, frame architectures, travel, force, frequency, and how to select a piezo actuator for your application.
The active piezo stacks in DSM's piezo flexure actuators are located in the center of a surrounding flexure-frame. DSM's flexure-frames provide mounting options to guide travel, compressive preloads to protect the piezo ceramic, and solid-state flexures to enhance response. To mechanically amplify the small piezo travel range, DSM's amplified flexure-frames use kinematic levers to amplify travel up to 10 mm. Since output travel is controlled directly by input voltage, piezo flexure actuators provide proportional displacement response. Solid-state flexures within DSM's actuator frames provide quiet, lubrication-free, vacuum compatible and nonmagnetic travel possibilities.
Standard available flexure-frame actuators from DSM are created using a design process that addresses a wide range of functionality and environmental specifications. Four basic actuator types are available in the Non-Amplified, Flextensional, Levered, and High Frequency architectures. While a number of standard options are available within the four types, a majority of DSM's actuators are uniquely designed to specific customer requirements. Please contact DSM's design and application engineers to request a review of your specific requirements.
Non-amplified actuators use a direct-drive design leading to higher resonant frequencies than mechanically-amplified piezo actuators. Piezo material expansion directly creates output travel. The flexure-frame provides beneficial preload and convenient mounting options. NA actuator flexures are designed to minimize preload frame impedance to the piezoelectric travel and increase the actuator's stiffness. Compressive preload enhances tolerance to external loads. Some specialty NA actuators may support compressive/tensile load to >2000 N.
The Flextensional Piezo Actuator (FPA) is an optimal configuration for mechanically amplified piezo actuators. DSM's flexure-frame uses carefully designed flexures and preload bands which leads to greater conversion of piezo energy to output work. An amplified flexure-frame is a solid-state mechanism which means that there are no traditional pivots within the device. The flexure, also known as a living hinge, enables rotation while limiting play in the mechanism.
The FPA geometry consists of a central piezo stack compressed by preload bands between two solid endcaps. Kinematic flexures connect the endcaps to flextensional arms and to the output blocks. DSM offers both energize-to-expand and energize-to-contract FPA geometry. When the piezo is energized, the output blocks expand away or contract toward the frame center.
FPA geometry is available in single-arm or double-arm construction to provide additional output guidance stability. In double-arm construction, the extra set of arms reduces the potential for output block rotation. DSM's range of FPAs offers a wide selection of open-loop displacement, stiffness, blocking force and resonant frequency.
The preload bands in DSM's actuators especially enhance the actuators ability to carry compressive and tensile loading. The preload level is carefully designed to limit the potential for the endcaps to separate from the piezo stack under allowable operating conditions. If loading has the potential to drive the endcaps away from the piezo stack (e.g., when the FPA is "overloaded" in the direction of its designed travel instead of opposite), the preload holds the piezo stack in contact with the actuator frame. When applications require significant loading in the same direction of travel, DSM may customize the actuator design with additional preload elements.
Piezo actuator flexure-frames can be made from nonmagnetic materials for high magnetic field applications. Piezo actuators can be used for cryogenic and vacuum applications. Composite frame materials can be implemented where weight savings is crucial.
Lever-amplified piezo actuators (LPAs) may have a higher natural frequency than a Flextensional Piezo Actuator (FPA). Using a simple design geometry of a classic lever and fulcrum, the piezo stack provides the applied force or displacement to move the output load. Using the simple lever geometry, the output arm may be designed with a lower moving mass than other amplified actuator types. With less moving mass, the actuator output resonant frequency may be higher than a comparable FPA actuator. The LPA series has clear access to both sides of the actuator output, which can be beneficial. It also offers access to both sides of the stack, which allows creative enhancements such as the addition of a radiation shield or additional sensors.
LPAs can have a two-stage amplification mechanism as in the Lever-amplified Flextensional Piezo Actuator (LFPA). The combination of two amplification stages can provide a large nominal travel value up to 10 mm in a mechanical volume less than 20 x 50 x 100 mm. LFPAs and LPAs can be configured to expand or contract when energized.
PSA nominal travel ranges from 200 to 1500 µm with corresponding resonant frequencies greater than 3 kHz and 600 Hz, respectively. A wider bandwidth of operation is possible with PSA actuators than other flexure-based actuation technology. Since these actuators have a lower moving mass, they have a greater resonant frequency for comparable actuator stiffness values. The PSA series' significant displacement with resonant frequency greater than FPA actuators makes them suitable for shutters, high-frequency valves, switches and high-speed industrial automation.
To aid in selecting a piezo actuator type, DSM has developed the following considerations. Responses will drive the selection of a piezo actuator type to address a wide range of performance factors. Email DSM's application engineers at firstname.lastname@example.com to interact regarding these topics.


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Before you even start to look for collectible books, you should have a basic idea of what they are. While most of us think of collectible books as ancient tomes moulding away in an eccentric bookseller's dusty shop, the reality is that there are all kinds of collectible books. Comic books are collectible, as are books from Shakespeare's day and even cook books. What makes a book collectible is whether people want it and how many copies of it there are available.
When you decide to look into collectible books, you are entering an incredibly diverse and exciting world. You will find books that will bring the past alive for you and books that will take you to places you've never been. Most book collectors start out as avid readers with a novel or two that they treasure. Loving books of all kinds is a key factor in collecting books.
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Today, there are millions of collectible books being offered for sale on the Internet. This provides you with a terrific opportunity when it comes to searching for the books you want. Just a few years ago, finding a collectible book would have meant hours of walking, calling, and searching, and collectors often came up empty. Now, with the incredible databases online and with search engines to do the "legwork" for us, the searches are much faster and easier.
That doesn't mean we don't still enjoy meandering through old bookstores or antique marts. It just means that technology can add an exciting aspect to your search--success! Remember that, if you want it, it's collectible, and there is a dealer that will do his best to find it for you. Enjoy your Internet search for your favorite books, and remember that prices are often negotiable. Don't pay more than a book is worth to you.


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Calming nature sound of waves hitting the beach, calm down with the soothing ocean sound while working, studying, meditating or as a background sound when sleeping. Turn your monitor or TV into a screensaver with a seagull hanging out in front of the camera. This video was filmed outside Bodø in Northern Norway.
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The natural scene of oceans has a great impact on how we feel. It provides feelings of satisfaction and success, altruism, magnanimity and loving-kindness. Well, aside from its beautiful scenery that is truly pleasing to the eyes, it also has beautiful sounds that can help you to feel relaxed and worry-free on stressful days. Ocean sounds are one of the most effective solutions to take away your worries and fears. It cannot be denied that stress is very common nowadays due to people's busy schedules. Fortunately, the sounds of nature especially the ocean sounds can help you to cope up positively with your stress. The ocean sounds are beneficial for people of all ages. It provides a healing power for babies, children, teens, adults as well as to the seniors. The sound of the ocean is helpful for creativity, sleep, meditation, and reflection
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So I just finished watching the premiere of Katharine McPhee's "Love Story" video on Yahoo! Music. (Click here to see for yourself.) It's all pretty standard-issue: Kat wears a Beyoncé-ish dress; a wind machine makes her hair do pretty things; she strutsacross the floor, crawls across a table, and makes out with a dude who looksdisturbingly similar to K-Fed. And since it's also my first time hearing the accompanying song, Ifeel it's only appropriate that I present my thoughts Idol-style:
Inner Randy: Yo!Dawg, how you doin'? So, check this out, dawg… it was just OK for me. [Note from actualself: I may have an inner-Randy,but I would never say "dawg."]
Inner Paula:You look really beautiful, Katharine! Pretty girl. Pretty dress. That was your best performance as a female.
Inner Simon: I don'treally get it. I just wish you could sing better.
Inner Ryan: So Inner Simon, you don't think Katharine can sing?
Thing is, Inner Ryan (and McPhee fans), I do think Katharine can sing. Butthere's something off about this song (and every other song I've heard from herself-titled debut). And it's not just that the track — with its doo-wop-meets-Broadway-meets-Stevie-Nicks feel — is weirdly schizophrenic. I also get the strange sense that Katharine is holding back vocally. (It's like Mandy Moore's Scrubs character, with her "It's so funny, but I'm notlaughing" shtick.) Why isn't Katharine belting her lungs out on this one? Why so blasé about it all? If the Idol alumnus can't bring herself to get excited about "Love Story," then why in the world should I? Are you with me, PopWatchers, or do you think this is the video that'll help change Katharine's pop-chart trajectory from Justin to Kelly?


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Living with diversity and finding unity in diversity is practised in India over centuries and it is part of our civilisational values, President Pranab Mukherjee said in Vrindavan, UP, today against the backdrop of debate on 'intolerance' in the country.
"Living with diversity, finding unity in diversity is practised in India over centuries. That is why many people wonder how is it possible in India, in one system of administration, in one Constitution, in one way of legal jurisprudence and functioning.
"Is it possible to accommodate, to absorb so much diversity. Many a time we are confronted with these questions," he asked and answered himself that "the answer lies in our civilisational values."
The President was speaking during a function to celebrate 500th year of Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's advent in Vrindavan. Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was a revered monk and a reformer in the medieval India.
Mukherjee said that (civilisational values) is the reason why we live with 128 crores of people, the second largest population of the world, with almost all major religions.
Seven major religions are practised in India, more than 100 languages are spoken and over 1,600 dialects are used in India, he said.
"All three major ethnic groups Dravidians, Caucasians and Mongolites. They live in one piece of land. In whole of north eastern India you will find the concentration of Mongolite people. Whole south India, you will find Dravidian people and in North and North West, people belonging to Caucasians group. All these major ethnic groups live in one state.
"It had been possible because of our cultural values, civilisational values, which has taught us over centuries and which has descendant on us and we have nurtured it which is a part of life and therefore it is no cliche to us," the President said.
Ever since the Dadri lynching and subsequent events, Mukherjee has been appealing for tolerance and pluralism.
Citing teachings of various spiritual leaders and poets, he asked people to accept the message of great saints and "recharge our society, retransform ourselves with love and harmony".
He said India's civilisation is 5,000 years old. "It has been contributed by many saints various sages but all converge into one vast ocean of humanity," Mekherjee said.
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The first thing I would like to say about our trip to Scotland, which turned out to be a great trip, was that it did not start out very well. The second (and related) thing I would say is that there was no aspect of the actual plane travel that went as it was supposed to. Ever. Both on the way there and on the way back we found out at the very last moment that the airlines had changed something months ago and failed to tell us about it, resulting in something like a connecting flight that arrived an hour AFTER the flight it was connecting to left (on the way there) or a flight that was cancelled and rescheduled for a day EARLIER (on the way back). I'll go into no more detail than that because it makes me anxious and afraid to ever book a flight again, but it is worth saying. Also, I will say that flights on Ryan Air (which we flew from Dublin to Edinburgh) cost less than a t-shirt for a reason.
So I'll jump through the jet-lagged day in Dublin (which was the type of day that makes you wonder what the hell you are doing taking these grumpy and unappreciative people to this cool place) to our first day in Edinburgh, otherwise known as "My Favorite City in the World."
We stayed in a little two-bedroom apartment in Edinburgh, where we had two small bedrooms, a living room, a tiny kitchen, and a bathroom right off the Royal Mile for MUCH less per day than a hotel would have been. I don't know why anyone would stay anywhere else! It was fantastic, in a little residential square around a courtyard in between the High Street and the Cowgate, for those of you who know Edinburgh at all. To get to it you walked down a close, which is a narrow alley between buildings, sometimes narrower than an arm-span, off of the High Street, about a five-minute's walk from the castle. (The two pictures are the two closes we could use to get to our square. One had stairs, many stairs; the other had no stairs. We arrived at the flat about five p.m., and Cate, the owner of the flat, was there to meet us and suggest good places for dinner, so after settling in we headed down to the Grassmarket, an area just a few minute's walk away where centuries ago there used to be...wait for it...a market! Though since the area is downhill from the High Street and markets would be places with lots of people and animals, I rather imagine streets of mud and filth rather than a pleasant green lawn. The Grassmarket's real claim to fame, though, is that it was there that all the public executions were held. (The pub nearest the actual spot is called, of course, The Last Drop.) Anyway, we managed a nice dinner of--since it was our first night in Scotland, what else would we eat?--Italian food.
On Tuesday morning the castle seemed to be the obvious first destination. From the outside, Edinburgh Castle looks exactly like a castle should, and Paul was really excited. He was even more excited when he realized that J.K. Rowling wrote the Harry Potter books in Edinburgh and could, in fact, see the castle from one of the cafes she sat in while writing the first book, so any resemblance between Edinburgh Castle and Hogwarts is not entirely coincidental. (Here we are having lunch the next day in said cafe, The Elephant House, by the way. The boys were very excited about being there, both because of the Harry Potter connection and the fact that you could get hot chocolate with both marshmallows AND whipped cream. They did seem quite impressed after I used the bathroom and told them that I had just peed in the very spot where J.K. Rowling must have peed many times...there were only two toilets, after all, and she was presumably going through a fair amount of coffee since she had to justify holding a table for hours. I thought it was interesting that there was a lot of new-ish graffiti on the bathroom wall to Rowling, saying everything from "Thank you for inspiring so many children to READ!!" and "Ron ROCKS!" to "I heart Hermione".)
But to get back to the castle. I am a big fan of guided tours, since I like information about the place I am, and docents tend to have a lot of information. Furthermore, at a huge attraction like this one, the guides are often funny and great performers as well. Paul thought a guide sounded boring, though, especially since he couldn't understand his accent at first, but as soon as he realized that the guide was talking about weaponry Paul changed his mind. For the rest of the tour, Paul was standing right in the front, staring at the guide intently to pick up everything he said. The highlight of the castle visit came after the tour, though, when we were just in time for the cannon firing. That's "cannon" as in "big gun" and not "canon" as in "Anglican church official" (in case you were worried about unemployment among the clergy), and it is fired every day at one o'clock, for no reason other than it makes a very loud sound.
After a lunch involving actual Scottish food like cullen skink, a delicious soup made of smoked haddock and cream, and fish and chips (which Paul decided at this point was the safest thing on most Scottish children's menus, though he eventually branched out to "toasties" once he realized they were grilled cheese), we headed up to the Camera Obscura. This was a weird attraction I had never thought much about the summer I lived in Edinburgh, 1997, probably because it is geared to children and I was about exactly a year away from having one at the time. It's a tower, and at the top is a camera obscura, a Victorian invention that basically projects the goings-on on the streets below onto a surface in a very dark room--very good for spying on one's neighbors apparently. The guide showed us the building next door, which had oddly tiny windows--windows which had been normal-sized until the owner figured out the spying thing. The picture here is from the rooftop of the Camera Obscura, where you hang out before they call your group in to see the actual camera obscura, which in a tiny room. The picture is not of the tiny-windowed house, but it is a pretty good picture of a seventeenth-century tenement house, and I could actually see someone moving around in one of those white windows at the top with a regular old telescope. Turns out I quite like spying, even when the spied-upon are doing nothing more than sitting at a desk doing something with paper. The floors leading up to the top were almost more interesting than the camera or view itself, though, as they were filled with exhibits of various types of optical illusions and such.
That evening we thought we'd head over to the New Town, which sprung up in an orderly, well-planned way in the 18th century, for dinner. Bad idea, that was. It turned out to be one of those unfortunate evenings when you walk miles and pass countless delightful-looking restaurants but find that for one reason or another, you can eat at none of them. We started off on Rose Street, because you can't swing a cat without hitting a casual-type restaurant, but it turned out that most of them were pubs, and since they changed licensing laws recently, lots of pubs in Edinburgh don't allow children at all. We finally found one that would but were told there'd been a great rush all of a sudden and it would be at least an hour for food. So we found another, same message. Tried another, too fancy. Tried another that said "Families welcome!" only to go in to see the sign "No children served after seven o'clock," which was rather less welcoming than we had hoped. So we decided to walk back to the Grassmarket and go to a pub/restaurant we KNEW served kids [walk walk walk, walk walk walk] only to arrive and be told, kids only until eight. It was 8:05. Rather than sit down and cry, which was my first instinct since I myself had been hungry for about four hours at that point and I REALLY wanted a pint, finally we admitted defeat and ate (to Paul's delight) at the exact same Italian restaurant we had the night before. Where there was plenty of pasta, but no pints at all.
The next day all of us but Paul visited the "real" Mary King's Close. The "real" is because there still is a close called "Mary King's Close", but this is a section of the city that was closed off and covered over when the Parliament buildings were built, creating sort of a 17th-century time capsule of apartments, one of which was the actual home of the actual Mary King. I have no photos, though, because it turns out to be very dark underground. Ian and Matt went first while Paul and I visited the Museum of Childhood, which is basically a collection of told toys that impressed Paul less than it did me. Paul seemed to find the old toys boring while being slightly offended that newer toys were included. "A bike? That's just, like, a regular bike!"
OK, that's it for today. We did do some other things in Edinburgh--I climbed Arthur's Seat, for example, and the boys went to a new museum called Our Dynamic Earth, but I'm out of time just now and had better get this up while I can. I didn't mean to go into quite this much detail, and I'll try to be a little more succinct in the next installment, which will come no earlier than Thursday.


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Cancer is the scariest word thrown around in most languages today. It's the terrifying disease that can hit any part of the body, and we all know where it can end. Vsauce, however, offers hope in his latest video and explains the intricacies of the big C. By the end you'll find the answer to why we don't all have Cancer is far from the most interesting given in this video.
The fact that we are now extending the lives of 50% of Cancer victims by ten years is a feat that is not taken lightly. The video states that the rate could increase by as much as 3/4's by 2030. If so, the disease becomes a lot less scary. Sixty years of research is responsible for that awesomeness and shows how far we've come in our understanding of the disease. For those like myself who thought all this time we've learned next to nothing, it is a huge relief.
Another very interesting part that got my mind reeling is the concept of the natural selection shadow. A big question I've always had is why the life expectancy of people in the past was so low as opposed to now. The simple answer is that it wasn't, and that lots of people just died way early on in life and weren't reaching maturity like we were. This screwed with the average life expectancy and made it look a lot lower than the ages people who had reached maturity were living. We are talking about a time period where a fever could mean your end. So, another tip of the hat to modern medicine for getting that under control!
So, why don't we all have Cancer? Our body has autocorrect... kind of like an iPhone. It's naturally capable of course correcting and fightin off illnesses.That's really concerning because my iPhone is far from accurate in making the right call on wording on a daily basis. Maybe a better comparison would be like an English teacher grading your paper? They have a much higher success rate, and will throw it in your face with red pen. As much as that scarred me growing up I'd like to think it's a better analogy for my Cancer protection if you don't mind Vsauce.