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Keva Miller (Photo by Francis Stephens courtesy Keva Miller)
Keva Miller
Cookbook author and founder of FeedShine, a catering and private chef service that provides education surrounding vegan and vegetarian cuisine
What are some of the challenges of having a vegetarian or vegan lifestyle?
It's really about stepping out of your comfort zone, because most of the challenges can be solved by simply realizing the resources you already have around you. And learning to cook is a must. Unlike a diet based on heavily processed foods, the options to eat out can become slim, which forces you to learn how to cook fresh foods regularly. And this is what stops many people from delving into curiosity about veganism — they simply don't know how or what to cook to be fully nourished and satisfied.
Favorite vegan comfort food?
Curry chickpeas and jasmine rice by far. It's super simple, cheap, flavorful, warm and comforting — and it's really filling. It's my favorite go-to recipe from my cookbook, "Trill Prep."
Biggest myth about being vegan or vegetarian?
The biggest myth is that the food has to be expensive, and it can't be as flavorful as a meat-inclusive lifestyle.
Advice for someone who is interested in becoming vegan or vegetarian?
Start small and follow your curiosity wherever it leads you. Many times we will think we need to throw everything in the kitchen away and start from scratch, but your chances of sticking with changes [increase] when you give yourself room to learn.
Krissi Vandenberg (Photo by Jay Paul)
Krissi Vandenberg
Executive director of Vegan Action, a nonprofit that certifies vegan products worldwide
When and why did you become a vegan?
I grew up being an animal lover and wanted to help animals ever since I can remember. It felt like a natural choice to stop eating animals.
What are some of the challenges you've experienced related to having a vegan lifestyle?
A lot of folks feel immediately defensive and either make fun of veganism, defend their choice to eat animals or work hard to break down the reasons for being vegan. So I make it clear that I've made my decision, and I'm not living my life to judge other people, but instead try to have an open conversation.
Favorite vegan comfort food?
Breakfast food. Sometimes I'll make a big breakfast at home, but there are quite a few places in Richmond that have great vegan breakfast options like Postbellum, Harrison Street Cafe, 821 Cafe, Lamplighter and The Daily.
Biggest myth about being vegan?
That it's expensive and elitist. Eating vegan is about eating food from plants. It's about shopping at the farmers market or the grocery store, getting the basic staples and learning how to cook easy and delicious food at home.
Advice for someone who is interested in becoming vegan or vegetarian?
It's really important to not get too caught up in the label. If you need to be vegetarian most of the time or "vegan curious," that's a great start.
Brenda Morris (Photo by Jay Paul)
Brenda Morris
Volunteer and organizer of the Richmond Veg Fest and RVA Vegans Meetup, founder and CEO of Humane Investing
When and why did you become a vegan?
I was already vegetarian when I went to college and was beyond thrilled to discover at dinner on our first day that my roommate, Rachel, was also a vegetarian, a rarity in 1990. We were instant best friends and told the world — well, the fraternity brothers and everyone else who would listen — that we were soulmates. Several months later, when Rachel came back from Christmas break, she told me she had gone vegan. I was adamant that I did not want to hear anything about it, as I was not interested. The thought of giving up pizza and soft-serve ice cream was inconceivable! I do not remember what PETA literature she showed me, but I know I joined her in going vegan within two weeks.
What are some of the challenges you've experienced related to having a vegan lifestyle?
Though I have gotten better at this, I still feel hurt and sad when someone I love eats meat in front of me. This happens rarely, so when it does, it is all the more painful.
Favorite vegan comfort food?
I am a pasta addict.
Biggest myth about being vegan?
Though I fit the stereotype of being someone who proudly wears my vegan-hood on my sleeve, I have many friends who are quiet about their veganism and only discuss their ethics when asked.
Advice for someone who is interested in becoming vegan or vegetarian?
I would surround myself with as many folks who support your lifestyle as possible, especially in the beginning. We have a meetup group that is great for people who do not always have family or friends who "get them."


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Wicked Shades is the 19th episode of Uncle Grandpa Season 3, and the 97th episode overall of the series.
When Pizza Steve borrows Uncle Grandpa's sunglasses, he sees things in a whole new light.
Character Appearances
Major Characters
Minor Characters
- Nameless Woman with Purple Bikini Top
- Muscular Guy with Purple Trunks
- Nameless Guy with Stiff Hair
- Man Chugging Cola
- Nameless Man with Blue Cap
- Fat Beach Goer
- Two Bikini Babes
- Guys Around Campfire
- Guys in a Truck
- Nameless Guy with Blue Trunks
- Speedboat Driver
- Flies
- Bat
- Wisdom Skull
- Guardian of Perception of Pleasure
- Guardian of Visions of Truth
- Crab
- Dog
- Guy with Beach Ball
- Guy Eating a Hot Dog
- Nameless Lady with Green Swimsuit
- Nameless Tanned Man
- Monstro
- Chalk Frankles
- King of the Beach Competition Host
- Nameless Lady with Purple Swimsuit
- Nameless Man with Green Trunks
- Nameless Man with Yellow Trunks
- Nameless Lady with White Bikini
- Nameless Man with Short Hair
- Nameless Man with Sunglasses
- Nameless Man with Broken Arm
- Nameless Man Laughing
- Nameless Man with White Shirt
- Nameless Man with Red Trunks
- Nameless Blond Laughing
- Nameless Man with Teal Trunks
- Nameless Woman with Olive Bikini
- Nameless Man Buried in Sand
- Italian Sunglasses Salesman
- Worms
- Nameless Kid with Purple Trunks
- King of the Beach Competitor 1
- King of the Beach Competitor 2
- King of the Beach Competitor 3
- Nameless Guy with Party Shirt
- Nameless Guy with Wavy Hair
- Nameless Man with Grey Beard
- French Man
- Nameless Guy with Dark Teal Trunks
- Nameless Blond with Olive Swimsuit
- Paramedic
- Zebra Head (Pictured)
People are enjoying spring break at the beach, the RV is water surfing and it goes into the air and lands in a guy's sand castle. Uncle Grandpa pops out from the RV cockpit yelling SPRING BREAK! and he asks Belly Bag if he's ready for Spring Break, he tells him that he can't wait to work on his tan and meet beautiful beach bags by the sea. Uncle Grandpa yells SPRING BREAK! again and starts slapping Mr. Gus to get his attention, he asks Mr. Gus if he wants to see his sick abs, Mr. Gus questions what abs as Uncle Grandpa turns his head around, revealing a set of abs behind his head and Mr. Gus finds it sick. Uncle Grandpa asks Pizza Steve if he's ready to chill on the beach, Pizza Steve tells him that he already enrolled himself in the king of the beach competition, he tells him that he just has to arrange his shades and he asks Uncle for which position he thinks looks best, Uncle Grandpa likes them all. Pizza Steve throws his mirror in Uncle Grandpa's face and charges at the door saying HERE COMES THE KING OF THE BEACH! Pizza Steve is blocked by a window in the door, Uncle Grandpa tells Pizza Steve that he forgot to mention that he had installed a sliding glass door to keep all the flies off his delicious beach meat, Pizza Steve says that it doesn't matter and puts his shades back on, when he puts them on, he notices that there is a inconsistency in his tint, Pizza Steve realizes that his last pair of cool dude shades are ruined, he begins to cry about how he can't win the beach competition with a broken pair of shades.
Uncle Grandpa mentions to Pizza Steve that he has an extra pair of cool dude shades in the glove compartment, this excites Pizza Steve and he runs away, Uncle Grandpa warns him to not grab the ones that are cursed. Pizza Steve arrives at the glove box and opens the door, revealing a staircase leading into a cavern. Pizza Steve arrives at the bottom of the steps and a demonic voice starts to speak, it saying WHO STEPS FORWARD Pizza Steve introduces himself, a skull rises from the chest and tells him THOSE WHO SEEK TO SHIELD THEIR EYES MUST CHOOSE FROM PERCEPTION OF PLEASURE, OR VISIONS OF TRUTH, THE CHOICE MUST BE WISE OR YOU MAY REGRET IT! Pizza Steve tells the skull to spare him the rhymes and tells him to give him the cool ones on the left. The cursed glasses appear before Pizza Steve and states that they're WICKED SHADES!
The guys all head out the RV as Uncle Grandpa continues to yell SPRING BREAK! Pizza Steve also celebrates and puts on the wicked shades for the first time, the shades give off an explosion and Pizza asks for their opinion on how he looks, Uncle Grandpa thinks he's cool while Mr. Gus is concerned of where he got those shades, Pizza Steve puts the shades to his eyes and he sees Mr. Gus as monster, Mr. Gus repeats himself and Pizza Steve is horrified. Pizza Steve calls Mr. Gus a demon, Uncle Grandpa asks him what's the matter and Pizza Steve sees him as a hideous crab monster. Pizza Steve pulls the shades down and he tells Uncle Grandpa that he's fine and that he needs to check something, Pizza Steve then realizes what his new shades can do. Someone who is Pizza Steve's fan comes up and asks him to sign his CD set, Pizza Steve sees him as a hellish demon and immediately takes off the glasses and condemns them as evil. Pizza Steve's fan thinks that he's just some ordinary slice of pizza that's gross and walks off to go eat worms. The King of the Beach Competition Host walks up to Pizza Steve with his posse and tells them to look at this ordinary slice of pizza, everyone on the beach including Uncle Grandpa are laughing at Pizza Steve. Pizza Steve puts the shades back on and tells them to not worry that it's just him PIZZA STEVEEEEAHHHHHH! everyone cheers for Pizza Steve as he walks away scared straight.
Pizza Steve is sitting alone on the shore, a guy selling sunglasses approaches Pizza Steve, Pizza Steve tries to buy a pair of his sunglasses, the guy gets mad telling Pizza Steve that he doesn't serve boring pizza pie and tells him to run along. Pizza Steve puts the shades back on and the salesman recognizes Pizza Steve, he tells Pizza Steve that he can give him his finest sunglasses for only a dollar, Pizza Steve is glad to see that the guy was scarier before and he reaches for his wallet, he opens his wallet and believes that it's full of worms and throws the wallet into the water. Pizza Steve tells himself that he has to escape this nightmare and goes to hide in the RV until it's all over, he bumps into Mr. Gus. Mr. Gus tells Pizza Steve that it's OK to get nervous in social situations and that he gets nervous sometimes, he states that some people will find that hard to believe, Pizza Steve sees him as Three-mouthed-fire-breathing monster, Mr. Gus continues saying that he's always the life of the party and suggests that he join him in a nice round of video games, Pizza Steve slaps his hand away and tells Mr. Gus GET AWAY FROM ME YOU FREAK! and proceeds to run off, Mr. Gus decides to go eat worms.
Uncle Grandpa is teaching a kid how to tide pool, he hears Pizza Steve crying nearby, Uncle Grandpa is happy to see the king of the beach and tells Pizza Steve that it's time for the King of the Beach competition now. Pizza Steve tells him I CAN'T! Uncle Grandpa thinks that Pizza Steve is so humble and scared for some reason.
The competition host announces that it's time for the King of the Beach competition and tells the crowd to let's hear it for the contestants, everyone cheers them on. Pizza Steve doesn't know what to do, if he take the glasses off, he'll be humiliated, if he leaves them on, he'll lose the competition and be humiliated, he thinks to himself and he gets an idea. One of the contestants tells Pizza Steve that it's an honor to be competing with him, Pizza Steve replies with YOU'LL NEVER TAKE ME ALIVE YOU GOBLINS FROM HECK! and he dashes off. The competition host thinks that Pizza Steve is getting a head start on his sandcastle, sandcastle building is the first and only stage. Pizza Steve begins to dig down while the other competitors are having difficulty making a castle, Pizza Steve is deep underground and the competition host thinks that Pizza Steve is really determined.
After awhile, Pizza Steve is done with his castle, and the competition host skips the other contestants and goes inside Pizza Steve's castle, as he goes in, the door behind him closes. The competition host describes the architecture to the people outside, Pizza Steve is somewhere underground and watches as the competition host makes his way through the castle. The competition host begins to cry at the work Pizza Steve put into his decor and calling him an inspiration. The competition host continues down a narrowing tunnel and pokes his head at the end, where Pizza Steve is waiting, yells DEMON! and knocks him unconscious. Pizza Steve swaps his sunglasses, he bursts out of his sandcastle and tells the crowd of people that he loves to party, the people of the beach rejoice and declares Pizza Steve the king of the beach. Uncle Grandpa asks Pizza Steve if he had a fun time at spring break, and he tells Uncle Grandpa that he thinks that he's too cool for spring break and the people can't handle his cool. The two arrive at an ambulance where the competition host is screaming, he's telling them that he see goblins and sees that Uncle Grandpa and Pizza Steve are the goblins and yells KEEP THEM AWAY FROM ME! The paramedic closes the door and the competition host yells AHHHH! GOBLINS, STAY BACK BEASTS! The episode ends with the hellish view and Uncle Grandpa saying how much of a weirdo the competition host is.
- This episode takes place during Spring Break.
- The man building the sandcastle is foreshadowing the King of the Beach Competition later on in the episode.
- This episode uses music from Vacation and Relaxation Land.
- Uncle Grandpa had installed a sliding glass door to the RV, specifically to keep the flies off his delicious beach meat.
- Uncle Grandpa has more sunglasses in his glove box, although a pair is cursed.
- The glove box is shown to reveal a cavernous passage.
- Pizza Steve yelled out the episode's title when he was presented with the Wicked Shades.
- When someone puts on the Wicked Shades, an explosion happens on their face, as this is shown with Pizza Steve.
- There is a man eating a hot dog that looks the same when viewed in the wicked shades.
- There is a dog that is then viewed in the wicked shades and it has three heads. This is referencing how the shades are truly from Hell as the three headed dog is known as "Cerberus" or the "Hound from Hades" is the demonic dog that guards the gate that separates Earth from the Underworld.
- If Pizza Steve is seen by anyone without his shades, they're think he's some ordinary talking slice of pizza.
- When Pizza Steve is sitting by the shore, there is a regular slice of pizza by the trashcan, this is symbolizing how Pizza Steve should be feeling like trash this point in the episode.
- According to Pizza Steve, the Italian Sunglasses Salesman is the only person who he thinks looks scarier as a human than a demon.
- When in demon view, the shades the Italian Sunglasses Salesman is holding looks exactly like the wicked shades.
- Sandcastle building is the first and only stage of the competition.
- Pizza Steve's sandcastle is fitted with all sorts of gadgets made out of sand.
- This could reference the SpongeBob Squarepants episode "Sand Castles in the Sand", where Spongebob and Patrick mad castles, gadgets, vehicles, and living armies out of sand.
- Uncle Grandpa switched to a rock body for a portion of the episode.
- Running Gags:
- Uncle Grandpa asking his friends if they're ready for Spring Break.
- Pizza Steve looking at the world in a hellish view and freaking out.
- Someone wearing the wicked shades, calling someone DEMON!
- Someone saying that they're going to go eat worms.
- Someone seeing Pizza Steve without his glasses and calling him an ordinary talking slice of pizza.
- A crab being seen in many scenes during the episode.
- Errors:
- Even though the King of the beach competition didn't start, there are people gathered at the stage in the beginning of the episode.
- The sliding glass door Uncle Grandpa installed looks like it wasn't installed inside, but rather outside.
- The glass door is barely noticeable, only showing the wavy lines that usually show on all the other windows.
- This is the only time in the episode the sliding glass door is referenced, as the guys walk out the RV later with no problem.
- The glass door is barely noticeable, only showing the wavy lines that usually show on all the other windows.
- When Pizza Steve backs away from the glass sliding door after running into it, his sunglasses are fine, until the next scene is shown with him holding his glasses that has a crack in it.
- When Pizza Steve crumpled up his glasses, they sounded like it was made out of plastic, which the glasses shouldn't have crack too easily if they were made with glass.
- The glove box is shown to reveal a cavernous passage, but in Say Uncle, it was shown to be a passage way between universes.
- The people should've known that Pizza Steve is himself without his shades, unless there are other talking slices of pizza that they know of.
- After Pizza Steve figured out the shades were cursed, he should've known that he was still wearing them and made sense of what everything actually is.

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Is the media flipping the script on coconut oil? Don't throw your jar in the trash yet, despite the recent anti-coconut oil screed released by the American Heart Association (AHA). Coconut oil is the latest innocent victim of the myth about saturated fats and your heart.
The Diet-Heart Hypothesis: Fact, Myth and Politics
Recently-published guidelines from the American Heart Association (AHA) reiterate the longstanding view, the so-called diet-heart hypothesis, touting saturated fats as detrimental to heart health and recommending avoidance. Coconut oil, because of its growing popularity, merits a special section, singling it out as a source of "unhealthy" saturated fats.
Good for you? Bad for you? Let's clear up the confusion about saturated fats. The diet-heart hypothesis came in during the 1960s. It changed the way America eats. It brought us the low- fat, no-fat and low-cholesterol dietary craze of the 1970s, 80s and 90s. The diet-heart hypothesis has been tested in more scientific studies than any other nutritional hypothesis in the last half-century. What are the facts?
50 Years of Low-Fat Diet and Heart Disease No Better Off
Since the 1970s, Americans have cut their intake of saturated fats (the "solid" fats primarily from animal and dairy sources) and increased their intake of polyunsaturated vegetable oils, recommended by the AHA guidelines. Yet, fifty years later, heart disease remains a leading cause of death in the USA.
Ironically, after cutting out nutrient-dense saturated fats, Americans replaced those fats with nutrient-poor high-carbohydrate and and sugary foods, promoted by food manufacturers as "low fat." The result has been the current national epidemic of obesity – a risk factor for many chronic illnesses, including (of course) cardiovascular disease! Fat does not make you fat, carbs and sugars make you fat.
Some parts of the original diet-heart hypothesis – linking heart disease with dietary cholesterol and overall fat intake – have been disproven and quietly dropped. Recommendations have been changed. Eggs (a source of dietary cholesterol), avocados and nuts (monounsaturated fats) are now back on the AHA menu. Yet the AHA's most recent guidelines still claim the scientific evidence links saturated fats, like those in butter and coconut oil, with heart disease.
Cherry Picking Data
The AHA based its review on only four research studies, of the dozens that have been done over the years. Expert rebuttals from the mainstream medical and scientific community have decried this as "Bing Crosby epidemiology" – accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative. Just bury the data that doesn't support your hypothesis. At least nine other scientific reviews, which included more studies, reached conclusions that refute the AHA's position on saturated fat intake.
Inflammatory Advice
Meanwhile, the AHA's recommended substitutes, polyunsaturated vegetable oils (PUFAs) have proven health detriments: PUFAs are pro-inflammatory. Synthetically derived from corn, soy and other plants, PUFAs are chemically unstable and easily oxidized. Once oxidized, the "free radicals" released cause inflammatory damage to tissues. Inflammation contributes to almost all chronic illnesses, including heart health and thyroid function. PUFAs also have a high ratio of pro-inflammatory Omega 6 fatty acids to anti-inflammatory Omega 3s.
If so many studies refute the diet-heart hypothesis, and PUFAs are dangerous, why does the AHA continue to recommend synthetic polyunsaturated vegetable oils and vilify coconut oil and other saturated fats?
Follow the Heart-Check Money
AHA is a non-profit with longstanding reliance corporate sponsorship from the food industry, including manufacturers of vegetable oil (Procter & Gamble, Bayer, Unilever). Three of the four research studies that the AHA relies on for its conclusions are backed by these same corporations. The financial interests are transparent.
The AHA also runs a money-making "Heart Check Program." Food companies can pay to use the Heart Check logo and be listed as "heart healthy" foods. The list includes high-sugar, high- carbohydrate foods like Cheerios, Orange Juice and V8 Fusion, as well as many processed and canned foods and meats with known health detriments.
Health Benefits of Saturated Fats & Coconut Oil
The truth is, saturated fats, including the fats in coconut oil, play a key role in many metabolic processes. The many health benefits of adequate saturated fat intake include:
- healthy heart: Saturated fats are the preferred source of fuel for your heart and during energy expenditure. They also help lower key cardiovascular risk factor, lipoprotein (a).
- strong bones: Saturated fat is required for calcium uptake into bones.
- healthy liver: Saturated fat protects the liver from the deleterious effects of alcohol and medication.
- robust cell membranes: Saturated fats constitute 50% of cell membranes, giving them stiffness and integrity.
- healthy brain: Saturated fats are a key component of the brain, and the raw material the brain needs to function normally.
- strong immune system: The fats found in butter and coconut oil (lauric acid) are key for immune health and the health of white blood cells. Some saturated fats also have antiviral and antifungal properties.
More Reasons to Eat Coconut Oil
How about coconut oil in particular? In addition to the immune health benefits mentioned above, coconut oil has some other important properties:
- promote weight loss: Coconut oil contains mostly medium chain triglycerides (MCTs). These are more easily processed by the liver and converted to energy, rather than being stored as fat. They stimulate the body's metabolism and help with weight loss.
- supports thyroid health: The fats in coconut oil are highly stable and don't easily go rancid, like those in PUFAs. For several reasons, this helps promote thyroid function and the conversion of thyroid hormones.
Participating in Your Health
Foods containing healthy saturated fats, like coconut oil, deserve a place on everyone's menu. Nonetheless, people vary in their nutritional needs, depending on their genetic makeup and health status. If you are interested in learning more about how to eat an optimal diet, you may wish to partner with a nutritional expert, who can help you fine-tune your diet to your specific needs. Listen to your body, check your information sources, and remain committed to maintaining holistic health.


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Swings in roundabouts: How women juggle family life and retirement.
This research will build upon work already conducted into women's retirement using ALSWH data, to deepen our understanding of this period in women's lives. Results from a 2006 retirement sub-study (conducted with women from the 1946-51 cohort) will be contrasted against ALSWH free-text comments at Survey 4 (2004), Survey 5 (2007) and Survey 6 (2010) made by the same women. We will report upon areas of the women's lives they would like to change in retirement, what stops them doing what they want to do, if they thought that retirement would allow them to make those changes and if the survey had 'missed anything'. The primary aim of this research is to investigate whether women were able to act on their 2006 aspirations for change, and if not, what influences adversely affected their choices.
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Dublin Airport April traffic up 1% to 1.6 million passengers
Dublin Airport announced it handled 1.6 million passengers in April up 1% passenger volumes to and from continental Europe remained on par with last year with more than 854,000 people travelling to European destinations and domestic traffic increased by 7% to more than 5,000 passengers.
Long-Haul Traffic traffic continues to perform strongly as Transatlantic passenger volumes grew by 10% with more than 135,000 passengers travelling to and from North America in April, while other international traffic increased by 13% with nearly 41,000 passengers travelling this route sector.
While UK traffic increased by 1% with almost 577,000 passengers travelling to and from the UK during the month.
In the first four months of the year almost 5.5 million passengers used Dublin Airport up 3% over the same period last year.
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March 14, 2019
Katun Corporation presented its new Brazilian headquarters, and also celebrated 40 years in the industry, at an event held on 6 February 2019.
Katun Brazil's grand opening event took place in the auditorium of Katun's new and modern offices, located in the eastern zone of São Paulo, gathering together many customers and guests from all regions of Brazil.
The layout of the new office, decorated "with the traditionally modern spirit that Katun has maintained since its founding in 1979, brings to the sector the vanguard that has always made Katun stand out", says the company. It incorporates new leisure areas, pantry/bar, formal and informal meeting rooms, a training room, conference room, laboratory, and much more, in an area at least twice as large as in the former building.
The opening of the new space culminated with a presentation of the four decades that Katun completes in 2019, recalling important dates for the company, highlighting the quality, regularity, and care in the development of OEM-equivalent products in order to offer the best cost/benefit to the market, a premise that Katun has maintained during all of these years. The formalities were carried out by the General Manager of Katun Brasil, Mr. Helton Mourão, by the National Sales Manager, Mr. Junio Alcantara, and by the Operations Manager, Eng. Adalberto Savi, in addition to participation by the illustrious CEO of Katun Corporation, Mr. Robert Moore, who informed the market that: "Katun is once again a distributor and a manufacturer, and thus your best business partner," as well as the General Manager for Latin America, Mr. Alejandro Bejar.
The customers present received metal name plaques, with the thanks of Katun for the decades of partnership, as well as exclusive gifts in order to celebrate 40 years in the industry.
Closing the ceremony was a presentation by humorist Yakko Sideratos, and then all guests were taken on a walking tour of the new Katun Brazil offices. Upon returning to the auditorium, revealed Katun, there was a cocktail reception, worthy of the company's 40 years, that continued until late in the evening.
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Florio's aim is to renovate and rent multifamily residential buildings, he said. He works in the city six days a week, out of an office on Rosa Parks Boulevard and Hamilton Avenue. But he has struggled to keep his properties secure, let alone clean or rentable.
"If you look at some of my properties on Governor Street, you would say, straight up, 'You are a slumlord,'" Florio said.
He meant this figuratively — some of his houses appear to be in disrepair — mostly the result of break-ins from people seeking to steal valuable materials, like copper wiring and plumbing.
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Some West Chester based landlords play a different game in Coatesville.
Coatesville is digging out of the hole that I think was partly created by the drug business in Chester County. Landlords that buy homes at auction, don't keep them up and pay off public officials are part of the drug business.
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WACO—Cooperation, remembrance and thanksgiving emerged as key themes during the first day of the African American Fellowship Conference.
"We are called to cooperate," said Pastor Michael Evans of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Mansfield, president of the Baptist General Convention of Texas. "We all need one another."
Evans pointed to the contributions African American churches make as full partners in Texas Baptist life, alongside other racial, ethnic and language groups. He described the BGCT as a network of "transformational churches" working together to transform communities and advance God's kingdom.
'Rich in our diversity'
"We are rich in our diversity," Evans told attendees at the 26th annual James W. Culp Banquet at First Woodway Baptist Church in Waco, 8. The event is named in memory of the longtime coordinator of black church development for Texas Baptists, who died last year.
Bethlehem Baptist in Mansfield was among the top giving African American churches to the BGCT Cooperative Program recognized at the banquet. Others were: New Beginnings Baptist Church in Lewisville, Pastor Joseph Fields; Community Missionary Baptist Church in DeSoto, Pastor Oscar Epps; Fort Bend Baptist Church in Sugar Land, Pastor Byron Stevenson; Cornerstone Baptist Church in Harker Heights, Pastor Edward Wagner; and The Church Without Walls in Houston, Pastor Ralph Douglas West.
Evans urged believers spanning generations to learn from each other. Older Christians need young Christians to "fan the flames, igniting a passion for service," he said.
At the same time, the rising generation needs to learn values—including distinctive Baptist principles such as soul competency and biblical authority—from their elders.
"You cannot move forward until you know where you've come from," Evans said.
Pioneering presidents recognized
In that spirit, the African American Fellowship Conference recognized the organization's first seven presidents, who served from 1993 to 2007.
Three former fellowship presidents from that era were present at the banquet—the first president, Joseph Samuel Ratliff, pastor of Brentwood Baptist Church in Houston; the second, Howard E. Anderson, pastor of Singing Hills Baptist Church in Dallas; and the fifth, Dennis W. Young, pastor of Missouri City Baptist Church near Houston and chair of the BGCT Executive Board.
The fellowship recognized two former presidents posthumously—Paul McBride, pastor of Friendship Baptist Church in The Colony, and Ronald G. Edwards, pastor of Minnehulla Baptist Church in Goliad.
The conference also recognized two past presidents who were unable to attend—Milton Walker, pastor of Community Baptist Church in El Paso, and Jerry William Dailey, pastor of Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church in San Antonio.
Record the legacy
Joseph Parker, pastor of David Chapel Missionary Baptist Church in Austin, referred to the early conference presidents not only as pioneers but as "the repositories of our tradition and heritage."
African Americans have a strong oral tradition that honors storytellers, but they often neglect to preserve the history contained in the stories, he noted. Parker challenged the BGCT to lead an effort to protect that legacy by recording those stories.
Elmo Johnson, pastor of Rose of Sharon Missionary Baptist Church in Houston, who completed his term as president of the African American Fellowship, addressed pastors at a luncheon earlier in the day.
Reflecting on the first verse of Psalm 107, Johnson called on the pastors to give thanks. Like the people of Israel who were returning to Jerusalem after exile, God's people need to "discover thanksgiving all over again," he insisted.
Thanksgiving must be demonstrated, and the people of God express thanks to him by giving, Johnson said.
Believers should direct thanks to the right source, noting that God's disposition provides reason for thanksgiving "for he is good," he said.
And the duration of gratitude should match God's grace, "for his mercy endures forever," Johnson concluded.
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As the ideal eco-friendly family vehicle, the 2020 Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV comes with extensive space, technologies, and safety features. In particular, the Outlander PHEV safety features received a Five-Star Overall Safety rating from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
According to Mitsubishi, the Outlander PHEV has multiple available active safety features, such as Forward Collision Mitigation with Pedestrian Detection, Lane Departure Warning, Automatic High Beams, Adaptive Cruise Control, Blind Spot Warning, and Rear Cross-Traffic Alert. Perhaps best of all, for the 2020 model year, the PHEV will have these safety technologies on every trim level — which is another reason the NHTSA gave the Outlander PHEV such a high safety rating.
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Election results for Lewisham wards eventually came in the early hours of the morning. There will no doubt be a few tired/sore heads this morning! The full results are on the Lewisham website. Firstly our thanks to all the local representatives who have worked for the area since the last election (and before), commiserations to those who lost their seats, and congratulations to the new batch of councillors.
One gripe from us is the late results. Events didn't help as there was a blackout at the Blackheath Army Centre where the count was taking place. Blackheath (re-elected) Councillor Kevin Bonavia tells us that larger venues were not available which slowed the count further. We don't think it necessary to rush to the count immediately after polls closed but the council should consider how to improve the process – with short media attention spans and info on demand with social media, declaring in the early hours of Saturday is one way not to galvanise voters.
The headlines are that Sir Steve Bullock was re-elected Mayor (50.4%), with the Conservatives second (11.1%) and the Greens (10%) almost pushing the Liberal Democrats (10.02%) to fourth. Labour gained 14 councillors at the expense of Conservative and Lib Dem representation in Lewisham (losing 2 and 12 seats respectively). The Greens retained their seat in Brockley. Turnout was in line with the national average at 37%.
For our bailiwick changes took place in Blackheath with Amanda de Ryke's retaining her seat representing Lab after switching from Lib Dems mid-term in 2013; Pauline beck and Sven Griesenbeck for the Lib Dems lost to Lab's Simon Hooks and Pat Raven in Lee Green; Joani Reid is the new Lab councillor in Lewisham Central.
Our liberal tendencies are wary of a council so heavily dominated by one party. This places great responsibility on the elected members to act at all times in the interests of their wards and not fall into groupthink or put tribal politics first. Voters will not forgive a council that trades representation for party political posturing on either local or national issues (especially as we approach a General Election). Inevitably this will lead to greater scrutiny from outside (blogs like ours, the media) and for the council accountability is key. It needs to work in an open and transparent way and not 'pull up the drawbridge' at the first sign of criticism. We expect also that once the results have sunk in parties now without representation will still remain active and work to ensure the council is held to account. Remember the result was based on a low turnout (unfortunately the norm for local elections) and in 2010, with a higher turnout of 63%, due to the General Election , the results provided a different picture.
It is not for we Radicals to pick sides or draw political lessons from the result; that is for the politicians. We do caution about focusing on one or another issue, either local or national, to explain the results or to draw wide-ranging conclusions. It is now for the Mayor and councillors to knuckle down and address the issues that face the area over the next four years and for the Revolt to keep a watchful eye on our elected members.


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Plane Skids off Runway During Snowy Landing in Michigan
Impacting Travel Delta Air Lines Donald Wood December 07, 2016
On Sunday, a Delta Air Lines regional plane skidded off the runway at a Northern Michigan airport due in part to the snowy conditions at the facility.
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According to 9and10News.com, the Skywest plane was landing at Pellston Regional Airport in Michigan after a flight from Detroit at around 11 p.m. local time when it skidded off the runway. There were no injuries related to the rough landing, but the National Transportation Safety Board and Federal Aviation Administration are conducting a full investigation.
One of the passengers on the flight, identified as Dan Wickham, said the plane didn't slow down as usual when it touched down on the Pellston airport runway.
"It came in, he tried braking and clearly the braking was not doing a heck of a lot, and right at the end he shifted into reverse thrust," Wickham told 9and10News.com. "When the reverse thrust came on there was a huge amount of snow everywhere, you looked outside you couldn't see anything and that's when suddenly, bang, we just came to a rather abrupt stop."
"I was actually in the very front seat and the flight attendant was sitting with her face towards the back and her comment to me was, 'well that was interesting wasn't it' and I smiled and said, 'you know that was pretty exciting,'" Wickham continued.
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Wickham also said that the passengers on the plane remained calm throughout the ordeal and stayed patient after the flight came to stop in the snowy area at the end of the runway.
"They'll look at conditions and I'm sure they'll have interviews with the pilot and take all the information they can get and then try and make a determination," Airport manager Kelley Atkins told 9and10News.com. "That's the most important thing, as long as nobody is hurt and that's the first thing you try to make sure where you're at with that situation, we can deal with the rest."
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Complete winners list from the 48th Annual CMA Awards
Miranda Lambert picked up four awards from her nine nominations, including Musical Event of the Year with Keith Urban on ABC's Good Morning America, and Luke Bryan won the biggest award of the night presented to him by the biggest country superstar on the planet, Garth Brooks. Here is a complete recap of winners from Wednesday's (Nov 5th) 48th Annual CMA Awards.
Musical Event of the Year
"We Were Us," Keith Urban and Miranda Lambert
Music Video of the Year
"Drunk on a Plane," Dierks Bentley
Musician of the Year
Mac McAnally
Single of the Year
"Automatic," Miranda Lambert
Song of the Year
"Follow Your Arrow," Kacey Musgraves
New Artist of the Year
Brett Eldredge
Vocal Duo of the Year
Florida Georgia Line
Album of the Year
"Platinum," Miranda Lambert
Vocal Group of the Year
Little Big Town
Male Vocalist of the Year
Blake Shelton
Female Vocalist of the Year
Miranda Lambert
Entertainer of the Year
Luke Bryan
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Army Military Satellite Communication Research and Development Initiatives
Bebe Kovel, Chief, SATCOM Systems Division of US Army CERDEC S&TCD, discusses challenges in system-system architecture, user capacity, spectrum utilization, threat, network flexibility, and acquisition. Also the current statues, vision for 2025 and vision for 2048 within tactical OTM users, digital SATCOM, dynamic network infrastructure, multi-tiered SATCOM, and re-architecting C4ISR/EW.
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SG Mark 2019 Awards Ceremony
Missed out on the Singapore Good Design Awards Ceremony 2019? Check out the video featuring highlights and winners of SG Mark 2019. Held at the enchanting Gardens by the Bay, it was a memorable evening where the design and business communities came together to celebrate the betterment of business by design and the winners of this year\'s SG Mark.
In recent years, Singapore Good Design (SG Mark) has registered a steady increase in participation by local and international companies. In 2019, we witnessed a 10-20% increase in submissions from the Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) and start-ups, with entries for the product category more than doubled. We believe that this is largely due to the greater appreciation and recognition of the value of design across every sector, particularly among the SMEs.
We've always believed that design does not exist in a vacuum. In our efforts to incorporate technology into our ecosystem of the design and business communities, we are constantly seeking new partnership opportunities with organisations and government agencies to collaborate more closely in fulfilling our Mission & Vision.
Taking in feedback from different groups, we have streamlined the previous 3 broad categories to 6 specific groupings for easy identification and submission, with a 7th one being our yearly Special Category. The theme for this year's Special Category is 'Sustainable Design'. It was created in consideration to the Sustainable Singapore Blueprint (https://www.mewr.gov.sg/ssb) and the larger UN Sustainable Development Goals. It also echoes the general desire and sentiments across countries, industries and social groups in wanting to balance production/service efficiency with environmental considerations.
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Sustainable Design: To reduce or eliminate negative environmental impact through thoughtful designs and/or design processes. This concept can be applied across all fields of design and product offerings.
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A champion of applying design in business, DBCS seeks to raise the standard of professional practices and create business opportunities through cross-collaborations in local and international contexts.
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In the third episode of the Hockey Graphs Podcast, Garret and Rhys argue about the definition of what a sandwich is, mourn the death of Corsi, kick rocks at Mike Richards, and have a look at some prospects. Also, Garret has NEWS! Join us after the jump!
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Heart Cancels February SeaWorld Performance
The female-fronted music act follows the Barenaked Ladies and Willie Nelson in dropping off the bill of an upcoming SeaWorld show.
December 9, 2013
Classic rock band Heart cites the documentary Blackfish as the reason for cancelling their scheduled performance at SeaWorld's Bands, Brew, & BBQ event on February 9. The CNN documentary, which was released earlier this year, exposes the inhumane conditions that orca whales are forced to live in at the aquatic theme park, and it has incited an outpouring of public protest against SeaWorld. Petitions requesting that musicians not perform at the Florida location have been circulating online, and the Barenaked Ladies along with country legend Willie Nelson, have also canceled their performances. "This is a complicated issue, and we don't claim to understand all of it, but we don't feel comfortable proceeding with the gig at this time," wrote the Barenaked Ladies on their Facebook page. "I don't agree with the way they treat their animals," says Nelson to CNN. "It wasn't that hard a deal for me."
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News article originally published on Nature News Blog on 12 June, 2012. For complete article visit the Nature website.
The sudden government-ordered destruction of a 30-year-old publicly-funded research project in Italy involving transgenic olive trees, cherry trees and kiwifruit vines — one of the longest-running trials on genetic modification in Europe – began on Tuesday under pressure from an environmental group.
Eddo Rugini, a plant scientist at the University of Tuscia, launched his research in 1982, aiming to find varieties that are resistant to pathogens, mainly fungi and bacteria, so as to reduce pesticide use, as well as producing shorter trees that would ease cultivation in certain Italian landscapes.
In 1998, Rugini was given permission to grow the trees. But in 2002, Italy banned all field research of genetically engineered (GE) plants. Because the trees were already growing, he was granted an extension for his work until 2008. But in 2010, a second extension to 2014 was denied by regional authorities.
On 18 May, the Genetic Rights Foundation (GRF), a domestic environmental non-governmental organization, announced that it had "exposed the existence of an experimental field of GE trees" even though government permission had long since expired. It sent a formal letter to Rugini and the local authorities demanding that they immediately dispose of the experiment, in keeping with the law. As a result, the university was ordered to destroy the trees on 12 June.
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text: Appropriate Placement of Compressors and Expanders Source: AIChE Type: Conference PresentationConference Type: AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety Presentation Date: April 4, 2012 Duration: 30 minutes Skill Level: Intermediate PDHs: 0.50 Share This Post: The term "Appropriate Placement" was introduced in Pinch Analysis during the 1980s to indicate how special unit operations should be correctly integrated with the background process to ensure maximum energy savings. Pinch Analysis has provided guidelines for the design of heat exchanger networks as well as the Appropriate Placement of distillation columns, evaporators, heat engines and heat pumps. These guidelines are based on insight about the process Pinch as a bottleneck for heat recovery, and a fundamental decomposition effect by temperature level into a heat deficit region above Pinch and a heat surplus region below Pinch. Glaviè and co-workers while considering the Appropriate Placement of chemical reactors also made statements about operation of compressors, however, without completing the discussion and without developing a methodology based on insight from thermodynamics. This paper will conclude on this issue and provide very accurate guidelines for the correct integration of compressors and expanders, such as optimal inlet temperatures. The discussion in the paper assumes that streams subject to heat integration also may undergo pressure changes. In subambient processes, even streams with the same supply and target pressure may be utilized as utility streams by a sequence of compression and expansion to provide refrigeration for the process. Established design guidelines for rotating machinery suggest to operate compressors at low temperature (possibly with inter-stage cooling) to reduce work consumption and to operate expanders at high temperature (possibly with inter-stage re-heating) to increase work production. Based on insight developed in this paper that in turn relates to principles from Pinch Analysis, design guidelines are presented that are the opposite of the established ones. Compressors provide additional heating to the heat recovery system and should be placed above the Heat Recovery Pinch. Likewise, expanders provide additional cooling and should be placed below Pinch. The extended problem definition (vs. the classical heat recovery problem) for systems of process streams that may undergo changes in both temperature and pressure is the following: Given a set of process streams with a supply state (temperature, pressure, and the resulting phase) and a target state, as well as utilities for power, heating and cooling; design a system of heat exchangers, expanders, pumps and compressors in such a way that an objective function is minimized. The objective function could be based on economics (such as minimum Total Annual Cost) or thermodynamics (such as minimum irreversibilities or exergy losses). The operating cost is related to consumed and produced shaftwork and external heating and cooling (both at different temperature levels). An evaluation of or comparison between design alternatives will have to deal with both mechanical and thermal utility systems, and the obvious solution is to use a parameter that measures the quality of different energy forms. Thus there is a motivation for using exergy, and in this paper a newly developed Exergetic Transfer Effectiveness (ETE) is used to measure exergy efficiency of the design alternatives. As indicated above, compression and expansion are used deliberately in below ambient processes to provide refrigeration as cold utility. For these types of processes, and in developing the ETE, the true exergy sources and sinks of a process were identified through a proper classification of exergy types and the decomposition of these exergy forms into exergy components. The paper will use a case study to conclude its discussion by identifying the optimal inlet temperature for compressors and expanders that are part of a heat recovery system. It should be no surprise that these optimal inlet conditions are the hot or cold Pinch temperature depending on whether the actual process stream that is subject to pressure change is a hot (to be cooled and/or condensed) or a cold (to be heated and/or evaporated) stream. In addition, the paper will discuss the importance of the Heat Recovery Pinch concept when process streams not only change temperature but also pressure. With changes in both these state variables, the path from supply to target state is not fixed and will be determined as part of the search for a system that satisfies the objective of the design exercise. Preview Presentation: Presenter(s): Truls Gundersen Once the content has been viewed and you have attested to it, you will be able to download and print a certificate for PDH credits. If you have already viewed this content, please click here to login. Checkout Checkout Do you already own this? Log In for instructions on accessing this content. 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