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The film in fact does not present nor set out to present such a thesis: a literal equivalence between the Nazi Holocaust and the treatment of the Palestinians. Nor is this something the four characters in the film articulate.
Undoubtedly, visual parallels can be drawn from the containment mechanisms used by the Israeli occupation: the Wall, the electrified fences, the ubiquitous watch towers, checkpoints and barriers, and the corralling of the Palestinian population into designated areas, regulated by forms of identification, subject to random arrest and incarceration. There are also parallels to be found in what José Saramago once called “the spirit of the occupation”, manifest in the institutionalized dehumanization of a people.
There is no doubt the Holocaust is an historical and cultural cairn that towers over this conflict. It looms large in the collective and individual psyche. notes to eternity references some of this influence, directly and indirectly, through the stories and reflections of the film’s characters. These threads are too numerous and complex to go into here, and they by no means constitute the sole focus of the film.
It is nevertheless worthwhile to contemplate the question Sara Roy relates near the start of the film, and which she has heard time and again, referencing the treatment of the Palestinians: “How can the children of the Holocaust do such things?” It's a framework for discussion that doesn’t require or imply literal equivalence.


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For no obvious reason, Microsoft has changed the wireless connection icon from the longstanding "two overlapping boxes" to the symbol used elsewhere in Windows for wireless. That might seem like a victory for consistency, but actually it's a major nuisance. The old icon added a blob when there was full IP connectivity. On Windows 7, you now have to mouse over to get that information. As a traveller trying to find out if the current Wi-Fi network connection is functional, that's a major inconvenience.
The new templates in the Windows Calculator are an attractive idea, but the implementation leaves something to be desired: you can't fill in a figure when the associated radio button is selected, which seems counter-intuitive to me.
If there was ever an example of an unintuitive menu choice, it was putting the option to create ZIP files under the heading "Send To". Unfortunately, Windows 7 has stuck with this choice. I suspect there are millions of people out there using Windows who don't realise it has built-in compression and packaging, simply because it's made so hard to find.
Problem Reports and Solutions was a feature in Vista which sounded promising, but tended to end up being annoying, Firstly, it hardly ever offered a useful solution (I've seen just one since Vista launched), Secondly, it highlighted just how often problems occur — on a machine I've been using for three weeks, there are already more than 40 problems in the queue. Microsoft has chosen to deal with the second problem by burying that information: where Vista would show you a progress report ('Reporting problem 2 of 30'), Windows 7 simply says 'Checking for solutions' with no real indication of progress. That's consistent with the same idiotic design ethos that replaced details of files being copied with hopeless estimates of how long the copying process might take, but that doesn't mean it was ever a good idea.
OK, I know it's a beta, but this is a message we shouldn't ever be seeing in a functional OS.
That's my quick take — if you've spotted something that needs fixing in Windows 7, share it in the comments.
Have they fixed the stupid annoying habit with Vista and how it forgets folder settings? "Oh look you copied a new media file into the folder, I'll just reset the settings for you."
Yeah, Major, unforgivable, stupid as a brick UI issues. Just try a white on black (or any light on dark) classic scheme and replace the system dialog fonts in registry FontSubstitutes. On XP everything is fine, Windows 7 and Vista both fail. Some graphics (icons, tabs) go real ugly, and you find out that some fonts and graphics are HARDCODED! Oh the shame.
Create a basic classic white on black scheme, replace the dialog fonts with, say, Tahoma Bold (though I really recommend you type LucidaMacBold there). Try spotting them all (the rogue pixels in tabs, the wrong fonts and colors, the edges of icons) and post some screenshots.

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teaches you that if you arent part of a big group you are fair game to bully also need cash to advance. will play out and after my resources get stolen again i will quit. wants you on the game constantly to keep resources going out. sorry i already spend some money on the game.
Please leave these guys 5 stars so that they can fix the issues that they know that they have. Oh, and the issues really not that big, they are just waiting for next week to fix it because you know, money.
Two stars bc the advertisement on Instagram made this seem like a fallout shelter game .. would’ve been better that way !
I saw this game and I saw that the ads was made to look like fallout shelter and when I played the game it was nothing like it so do not get this game. I will erase this game and I will not play this game unless the adds will show the real game I will not play this game.
Didn’t take long to delete that one. Constantly getting attacked. No shielding after attack. Just get attacked non stop. If you have to pay a mortgage payment to survive in a game. Then it gets a delete. People forget it s just an app. There is no value in it. So why spend that much money. Unless you just have it to burn. There are far better ways to enjoy life for that kind of money.
This games is trash and does not even deserve a chance of being played. Just downloaded because I can’t leave a review otherwise. I would give less than one star if optional. Hope this negative review negatively impacts this games success in any way no matter now minuscule.
It’s literally just another “time is a purchasable resource” game, with the same cut and paste mechanics.

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When I was growing up and starting to leave the Saturday morning cartoon phase, X-Men was one of the brightest spots on TV. So much so that to this very day, there are people fascinated with the show at the same levels of Batman: The Animated Series kind of obsession. The show actually became a success through some of the weirdest circumstances ever, but its a story few know about because of the way morning network television was written about and documented back then. Thankfully, Eric Lewald took the time to create a fascinating look at the series in his book, Previously on X-Men: The Making of an Animated Series, which we got a review copy of.
There’s a lot about the book we don’t want to give away so we’ll keep it nice and short in case you’d like to check it out. This book goes over everything you could ever want to know about the X-Men cartoon, from the planning and writing, to the thoughts on what to adapt from the comics, talking with the voice cast about their roles in the series and how they came to find the role. There’s a lot of facts about this show that people don’t know and it’s a little surprising that if one thing went wrong at any given point, it might not have succeeded. Like how the series was a passion project of the head of FOX Kids at the time and she put her job on the line to make it happen. Or how the series debuted in the spring after most cartoons on the air already ran most of their 26 episode run in the first half of the year and were now on fumes giving X-Men little competition.
Previously on X-Men is about as in-depth of a look into a cartoon show as you’re going to get in a day-and-age where any show can be seen at any time of the day. They literally don’t make these like they used to, and because of all its success, the show holds a fond place in the hearts of many from a certain generation. It makes for good reading if you want to know every single detail you ever wanted about the series and the choices and legacy behind it.

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TIJUANA, Mexico – The woman crawled under the first and pushed face down through a gap dug under the border fence. The room was only a few inches high and her feet kicked dust in the air as she wiggled. Next, her three-year-old daughter, dressed in a pink sweat suit, came on her back and feet to California first by a man who had stayed in Mexico.
The mother urged her on with concern. "Hurry up," she said. "I'm here, it does not matter if you get dirty."
Fifteen seconds later, mother and daughter from Honduras were together in the USA. Soon, an American border guard approached with an SUV to detain her.
US Customs and Border Guard said on Tuesday that the San Diego sector had experienced a "slight upward trend" among families illegally entering the US and turning into agents since the Caravan of Central American migrants arrived in Tijuana two weeks ago was.
Thousands of Migrants On the Mexican side of the border, people in overcrowded tent cities in Tijuana live on foot and hitchhiking after a long, grueling journey through Mexico seeking to seek asylum in the US. Frustrated with the long wait for the US to process 100 Most migrants strive every day to secretly cross the border.
Rachel Rivera, 19, told The Associated Press that Honduras has become non-viable. Moments before flattening under the fence, she said she would move to the US to "give her daughter Charlot a better life."
An AP video journalist also witnessed more than two dozen migrants pushing a fence between Mexico and the US on Monday night. On the opposite side, entire families raised their hands to frontier patrol agents, who arrived quickly with white trucks.
It is not clear where the families were taken from.
On a typical day before the caravan arrived in Tijuana, US border patrols arrived In the San Diego area, about 120 people were arrested trying to cross the border illegally from Mexico.
President Donald Trump issued a proclamation in November suspending asylum rights for people who want to enter the US illegally. Rights groups question the legitimacy of this proclamation.
US. Customs and Border Guard spokesman Ralph DeSio said the US had tried to prevent illegal crossings with the announcement.
The US has introduced an established procedure for asylum seekers to present themselves "properly" in a port of entry, DeSio AP said by e-mail. "When people ignore this process, they put themselves at risk, and in the case of families, their children's lives at risk."
Trump once again used Twitter on Tuesday to gain support for a child with a better border wall, arguing that the cost of illegal immigration would be lower each year than the US.
People who came mainly from Honduras, but also from El Salvador and Guatemala, formed the caravan to Tijuana and searched for security when crossing Mexico. Avoid criminals and the fees demanded by the gangs, who are the victims of migrants fall. Dozens of migrants have told AP that they are fleeing poverty and looking for a better life, while many report copious domestic violence and death threats in their homeland.
Margarita Lopez, a migrant from Honduras, said she would definitely blow up the US if she had the chance. In the meantime, Lopez was in the queue on Tuesday asking for a humanitarian visa from Mexican officials, which would allow her to live and work in Mexico for a year.
Guatemala-based hiker Luis Fernando Vazquez from Guatemala said he did not run for the line.
"I'm not like that," he said. "I prefer to work to behave well here."
Press reviewers Amy Guthrie of Mexico City and Elliot Spagat of San Diego contributed to the report.

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Each dataset has a protection period covering 9 months from the data release date, or publication, whichever comes first. The protected datasets include Metadata and Level 0-4 data. There will be one release date for Metadata and Level 0-4 data and that release date will be the date the Level 0 data is verified by the Epigenomics Data Analysis and Coordinating Center (EDACC) according to the procedures defined in the current Consortium Policies and Procedures Document (http://genboree.org/projects/EDACC/genb%5E%5EadditionalFiles/EDACC-Recommendations.doc, Word, 415KB). To facilitate compliance with the protection period rule, the EDACC will provide public web access to an up-to-date summary of release dates for all the data submitted by the Roadmap Epigenome Mapping Centers (REMCs) (http://www.genboree.org). During this protected period, users may access and analyze the data, but may not submit any analyses or conclusions for publication or scientific meeting presentation until the protected period has ended.
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To complete the web-based DAR, the requesting investigator and the authorized institution Signing Official (SO) must have an active NIH electronic Research Administration (eRA) User ID and password. NIH intramural investigators may utilize their NIH directory User ID and password. Visit http://era.nih.gov/ for information on creating an NIH eRA account.
Within two weeks of receiving the completed DAR submitted by the SO, the DAC will either 1) Approve, 2) Disapprove, or 3) Postpone data access for the requesting investigator. Requesters approved and authorized by the DAC are designated Approved Users. Approved Users certify that they will abide by the terms and conditions specified in the DUC, including the provision not to distribute Roadmap Epigenomics Program controlled-access data in any form to any third parties other than those of their own research staff who have agreed to the terms of the DUC.
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Would You Spend $100 on a Hot Dog?
As the recession wears on and drags every formerly luxury-appreciative bit of excitement right out of us, things that were formerly considered a bit low-rent are getting polished up and primped with fancy makeovers in response to consumer interest in the accessible.
Food trucks are emerging as a notable alternative to restaurants in big cities, amassing a following like the hip eateries of yore. Cupcakes remain popular, semi-fancy and generally cheaper than a whole cake. And restaurants have done a swift trade in revamping cheapie classics to be a bit more luxurious than their regular offerings, but still cheaper than a fully-posh alternative.
Case in point, the DougieDog Hot Dogs’ Dragon Dog. At $100, this is not a Grey’s Papaya experience. But the Canadian weenie-slinger has put a bit more care and ingredient selection into the Dragon Dog, billed as the world’s most expensive hot dog and unseating a $69 hot dog currently on the menu at New York City’s Serendipity. And while flush diners of the early 00’s might have opted for a $500 steak dinner, this $100 hot dog features Kobe beef, lobster, and $2,000-a-bottle Louis XIII cognac, as well as truffle oil.
Still, dude, it’s a hot dog. And everyone knows you need to eat at least two of those or you get hungry in like an hour. Would you drop $100 on a hot dog, even if it does have lobster and fancy cognac?

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Ads Workbench is a technology product created by a group of people who are really close to digital agencies and who wanted to improve their productivity when lead ads campaigns and custom audiences were launched.
Ads Workbench is not the first product of these guys. There is a couple of them more, with different named, brands and functionality, but with the same goal, making life easier to online marketers.
Behind Ads Workbench there is a team of passionate folks who strive to find simple solutions to annoying problems or complex requirements. We work hard, and we don't accept anything that's sub-par.


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Notice to all Sarahah users! Discover who hides behind your received messages via this new online Sarahah hack. By entering your sarahah messages username, you are now able to show the identity of persons who have sent you messages from a number of app, such as Snapchat, Facebook, Instagram and more! In case you wonder how to hack on sarahah, read this informative article attentively. Because of the recent achievement of this Sarahah app, many programmers have embarked on a hurry for a hack that is stable, with the intention of breaking up the anonymity of the app. Dadaaa, this new Sarahah hack is born. .
Sarahah is the new buzz app of the moment! This app of Sauda origin increased from top 3500 to high 1 of the android and iOS downloads, in a couple weeks. Its principle rests https://ojs.kname.edu.ua/index.php/area/user/viewPublicProfile/9055 on anonymity, which gave it its name "Sarahah"; that means honesty in Arabic. This app basicly allows to send constructive criticism on people, without exposing its own identity.
However, with the achievement of this app, its creator quickly realized the possibility of Sarahah. In reality, it allows cyberbullying by guaranteeing the anonymity necessary to harassers. Here's a post on the subject. But as a result of this brand new Sarahah hack, they will have to be careful! It will recover the data related to some username and recover the nicknames of those individuals that sent you messages together with Sarahah. With such a triumph, it's quite sensible to know this kind of hack. And this will perhaps deter the harasser from risking to disclose their real identity.
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So all of the ingredients are gathered and we will still hear about the app for quite a very long time! Indeed, since the last Snapchat update allowing outside links, the Sarahah app was hugely used by Snapchat users in their own stories. Other users may send messages to them ... in theory.


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Michael Moore takes great pains to cultivate a "stick it to the Man" persona. You know, take on the rich corporations and greedy individuals on behalf of the poor and powerless.
But Moore himself is rich, and he is embedded at the centre of an ever-richer and bigger corporate enterprise.
Well done Mike, keep up the facade. The world needs its sanctimonious hypocrites to make the rest of us feel virtuous.


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Once again, the controversial and largely unwanted proposal to build an enormous incinerator on the fringes of Blantyre raises its ugly head.
Despite losing their application to build an incinerator that would be seen from all parts of Blantyre and Burnbank, Clean Power have decided to appeal against the decision, keeping the subject open for the time being.
South Lanarkshire Council have now received notification to the Scottish Ministers in respect of proposing that the incinerator should go ahead. Clean Power are appealing asking for the build to proceed, intent that the plant should be built at Whistleberry. They wish to process waste by pyrolysis on the site of the former Auchinraith House, just off Whistleberry Road, much to the disgust of local communities.
Many thousands of signatures were collected objecting to the proposals, which were thankfully upheld. The appeal is likely a formality, Clean Power going “through the motions”, for one thing is certain, if another campaign is needed to permanently close the matter for good, Blantyre AND Hamilton is well up for task. We hope Clean Power do the right thing, save their money and consider alternative sites in unpopulated areas.
Have your say. Were you involved in the original protests? How do you feel about such an incinerator being built on the edge of Blantyre? Will YOU be taking part in any campaign to permanently get the appeal removed once and for all?

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text: Darin Hammond curated and posted this article on Google+, and boy, does it hit the mark right now. It’s been harder for me to blog these days, just because I’ve been busy. As I write this, I just got back from a conference a mere 2.5 hours ago. I know I don’t always find the balance. Now that I’m going to be working for myself, and working to gather a clientele (and help the clientele I have for the moment), I need to figure out how to find that balance between getting some good blog posts in again, and working on getting other things done as well. (Not today, I’m exhausted and I think the jet lag will hit any minute.) But I also take my time writing, because I want to make sure I write something that has some value, and that it’s written well (or at least half-decently).


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From FM 112 through Beyersville to Structure (Williamson County). New Designation.
From FM 112 southeastward via Beyersville and Structure to Lee County Line, a distance of approximately 14.1 miles. (Williamson County) Extended approximately 4.3 miles to Lee County Line.
From FM 112 east of Taylor southeastward via Beyersville, Structure and Beaukiss to the Williamson County Line, and from another point on the Williamson/Lee County Line southward Lawhon Springs School to FM 696 near the Bastrop/Lee County Line, a distance of approximately 18.8 miles. (Lee and Williamson Counties) Approximately 4.7 miles from FM 696 northward to Lee County Line added.
From FM 112 east of Taylor southeastward via Beyersville, Structure, and Lawhon Springs School to FM 696 near the Bastrop/Lee County Line, with a spur eastward and southward through Beaukiss to the Williamson/Lee County Line, a total distance of approximately 20.0 miles. (Williamson and Lee Counties) Extended southward approximately 1.2 mile from a point approximately 2.3 miles south of Structure to the Williamson/Lee County.
From FM 1331 southward via Waterloo to FM 112; and from another point on FM 112, southeastward via Beyersville, Structure, and Lawhon Springs to FM 696 near Bastrop/Lee County line, with a spur connection of 1.974 miles eastward and southward through Beaukiss to Williamson/Lee County line, a distance of approx. 27.1 miles. (Williamson and Lee Counties) Extended northward approximately 7.5 miles from FM to FM 1331.


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The dining room of an apartment can be a key room: it will develop meetings, meals with friends and family dinners. Therefore, you should not neglect your decor.
The dining room of your apartment should be useful to you. The decor is important, but you should not forget that is a room that you will give a specific use. Furniture and ornaments should be tailored to that end.
For example, why have a wine cellar if you do not like wine? The decor must always adapt to our needs and not vice versa.
If it comes to a small apartment, you can take general tricks for small spaces. For example, for the decoration of walls, it is advisable to use light colors, preferably white, to bring light and give the illusion of a larger space. This is also achieved by placing mirrors that cheat the perception and make see the wider space.
Instead of a rectangular table, you can place a round table, which will extend the crossing sites. If the table is glass or acrylic, even better. These materials allow the passage of light and make the room look larger.
Lighting should not be neglected. In general, the lights must be clear and combined with natural light. If there are windows, looking shades that match the rest of the furniture.
If you have a more spacious and comfortable space, you can incorporate a small breakfast bar for two, or for making drinks in your meetings with friends. If space is tight, you can arm yourself with wit and put a folding shelf that can be stored when they are not using.
We have already mentioned that, to decorate the walls of your room, use light colors and pastels. But not required that the wall is smooth. You can decorate the walls of your room with wall decals and wallpaper borders.
You can add a little color to your room with the use of decorative borders. The borders are long and narrow lines of vinyl, which can be stamped or not, and standing along the walls of a room. You can follow a more traditional style using wallpaper borders with classic prints of simple lines, or you can risk being original and place another colorful and daring.
If you have a design in mind, you can look at our store wall decals and take care of a custom order.
The borders will allow you to change the face of your room simple and fast, as you can incorporate without redecorate the room, or move furniture to do so. Unlike paint, wall decals can be applied without mess and without hiring a specialist.
You can also decorate a wall of your room with figures made of vinyl. Find one that is to your liking and provides an element of modern decor and customized for the finishing touch to the perfect dining.
This entry was posted in Interior Decoration, Wall borders on November 27, 2015 by Vinilismo.
One of the most luxurious trends in home decorating is the "Gold." As its name implies, the "Gold" decor is highlighted by the use of gold and textures that refer to gold.
Symbol of wealth and glamor, and very present in the palaces and hotels of the richest places in the world, gold is the star of this style.
If we had to define this style in a few words, we would say that is opulence at its finest. We invite you now to take a look at its features to decide whether or not you are interested in decorating homes with this style.
The first thing to consider is to lose the fear of excesses: the Gold decoration is itself exaggerated in abundance and luxury furniture, but especially in regard to objects and accessories.
One feature that makes it interesting is that it can be incorporated subtly decorated rooms with other styles, harmonizing perfectly with them.
To avoid falling into the rough, you need to find the fine line separating the elegance. The key, as usual is balance and compensation. For some, gold is the "new black". Now we can find it in lamps, mirrors, dishes and all kinds of accessories.
A golden piece of furniture will be the focus of your living room Gold. Easy order to incorporate and to find are gold-framed mirrors.
Speaking of colors that can accompany the gold blends perfectly with the black and white. Gold and black are a traditional combination that will give any room elegance and sophistication, but be careful not to downplay the lighting. Otherwise, the room with this color combination will suffer from an atmosphere and ambience a bit dark.
The bathroom presents an excellent opportunity for the implementation of Gold style. The use of gold color taps give a great touch of sophistication to the room. It may also be included in the lamps and bathroom.
When planning the decoration of houses in Gold style, we can make use of wall decals. The vinyl will be useful to give the golden touch to the walls of the home. You can opt for a gold wallpaper to cover an entire room, or a smaller design, or a pattern in a border to frame the wall.
The wall decals not only apply on the walls, but they are also very useful to give a special touch to the furniture in your home. So we suggest you visit our store and looking for the design that you like, or directly encárganos a custom design. Remember that both a place like removing vinyl is very easy, and if you get tired of seeing the same pattern on the wall or in a cabinet, you can simply replace it with another, no mess and no need to hire a specialist.
This entry was posted in Interior Decoration, Wall Decals on November 13, 2015 by Vinilismo.
A very important definition when planning decorating a bedroom, kitchen, living room or office, it is dividing the formal to the informal. To do this we must analyze various factors such as the age of those who make use of the room, the type of meetings that will be held there, the style used in the rest of the home / office, and of course, the personal taste of who decides.
In addition to making the spaces most pleasing to the eye, choosing a decorating style environments, communicates something who enters a room. The choice of the formal style in a house, inspire sobriety, elegance, sophistication. In the decoration of offices also will accentuate the seriousness, honesty and respect for history and tradition.
The formal style is more an intention to communicate a list of features. Formality should breathe in the air. However, we will try to list some tips to accompany the decoration of offices or homes of formal style.
One of the features that distinguishes the decorated spaces with formal style is the symmetry. Symmetry in the location of windows, furniture, paintings and works of art, carpets and floors. This gives the idea of thoroughness, control, and that nothing is left to chance.
It may be interesting to use a piece of furniture or a work of -tradicional- art as focus. Examples include windows that let in natural light and allow us to observe a nice view, a traditional fireplace, a sculpture, a painting or a piece of furniture, always in traditional style.
There's own characteristics of the spaces that help in the creation of formal style features: high ceilings and large windows are some of them.
As for colors, neutrals should be preferred, since they enable the inclusion of a wide variety of objects, furniture and prints without breaking the balance and elegance characteristic of this style. It should not be forgotten that if we have an attraction, you need to pay attention to the color for the rest of the objects will not break the equilibrium.
Curtains should be thick and preferably smooth fabrics in neutral colors. It is preferable to avoid the prints, with the exception of the eastern and Persians.
Lean by antique furniture or issue that style. Also they are preferred wood furniture and accessories metal such as bronze.
As for the lighting, lamp type spider give a special touch to your room, and also according to their size and importance, can become the focal point of your decor.
To larger illusion of space, they can be added mirrors without forgetting symmetry.
To complement decorating offices or other rooms, wall decals can be used.
The wall decals are an option increasingly consolidated in the field of decoration, for his relationship cost / benefit / versatility / ease of placement and removal.
For the formal style, some geometric designs can help create symmetry in the pattern walls. Also they are used as wallpaper borders. Another option is the decoration of the mirror frames, or also, in the case of offices, for glass doors.
This entry was posted in Interior Decoration, Office Decoration, Wall Decals on November 6, 2015 by Vinilismo.

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This soup makes an appearance every Sunday at my mother in law’s, and now at my house. The clear broth is made with bones, but there is a secret to making sure that the broth stays clear and not cloudy! We call it Sunday soup, although in Slovak it doesn’t really have a name, just ‘soup.’ The broth warms the stomach, aids digestion for the meal to follow, and provides a host of nutrients. It also appears as the first course at weddings and any celebratory occasion when people eat together.
Sitting down and eating together seems like a fading tradition, but is an important part of developing connections with family and friends. I wax nostalgic about getting together with family as a child in Canada, and relate about getting together with my husband’s family as an adult in Slovakia. What are some of the differences? What is the same? Find out, along with the recipe for Sunday soup, at And Here We Are, a lovely blog that writes about real food and travel.
P.S. The tablecloth in the photo was thread pulled by hand. Each of those little holes was hand stitched around the hole. The work involved blows me away; they don’t make tablecloths like that anymore.
Naomi, loved the post, and that tablecloth is absolutely gorgeous! I am of Slovak descent, several generations removed, but my father spoke the language as a child. So I absolutely love reconnecting with my heritage through your blog! The hint about getting clear broth by not boiling was not one I’d heard before. Does using the raw bones vs. cooked or roasted also contribute to a clearer broth? I normally use cooked bones (like the Thanksgiving turkey carcass, a roasted chicken, etc.) and find that it’s hit or miss on how clear the broth is. But I admit to bringing it to a boil first, then simmering. I’ve noticed the last couple batches I’ve made, adding a little apple cider vinegar, I’ve not only gotten more of a gelling of the broth, but also a more clear broth.
Thanks! I’m so glad that you are connecting with your heritage through Almost Bananas!
There is a BIG difference between making broth with raw or cooked bones. Raw bones are much clearer, and have a stronger taste. I use broth from cooked bones only for bases of soups that have other flavours, not for brothy soups. And my husband and MIL laugh at me every time I use carcass bones, it’s not Slovak at all. My husband learned in cooking school that if broth (from raw bones) has become cloudy, to grate some carrot and saute it, and then add it to the broth, and that it will clear it. I’ve never tried it myself, I just serve cloudy soup if it boils. 🙂 The ACV might clear it too, it certainly will bring out the gelatin from poultry bones. Good luck!
My Slovak “sister”, Betka, uses a whole chicken for her Sunday soup. Yet she never uses the meat, just the broth, which we have as our first course for the mid-day meal after returning from church.
Thank you for the bone broth recipe, Naomi. I live in Canada, and am very interested in ‘from scratch’ bone broth recipes, and fermented foods. I follow Fr. Jerabek’s blog, and then looked up your blog when he recommended it.
The dried vegetable flavourings in the recipe see only to be available through Amazon.com, not Amazon.ca. With the exchange rate on the (US to Cdn) dollar, it makes the vegetable flavourings quite expensive. Are there any substitutions you could recommend?
Thanks for coming to the blog! I looked on Amazon.ca and couldn’t find an equivalent. A friend made it with dried carrot, parsnip/parsley root, onion, celery, and parsley, salt, and a bit of tumeric for colouring. If you can find something like that, great, if not, just salt will do.
I love bone broth! I also loved hearing the story behind this Slovak Sunday Soup 🙂 Thanks for sharing, as well as for introducing me to And Here We Are, now I’ve got another blog to follow!
Thanks! I love bone broth too. And Here We Are is such a great blog, enjoy!
I made this for Easter dinner for visiting Serbian relatives and they loved it. I used ox tail bones for the broth and the result was great. It just felt so nourishing and old world.
Oh, I’m so glad! It does feel so nourishing, doesn’t it. Do they make a similar soup at home in Serbia?
Just getting over the Thanksgiving food coma 🦃, I realized that’s what it is: my Slovak Sunday soup and Sunday family meal is a nice little Thanksgiving on a weekly basis. Good for the soul too!
The Vegeta mix spice really enhances the taste of this soup. Message to Maria: Perhaps you didn’t notice the hyperlink in Naomi’s recipe calls for a Vegeta package that is one pound; that’s enough to last for a year if you truly make this soup weekly. Every Sunday. Because you really need just a pinch on your plate, that makes the cost just few cents a week.
Should you like a smaller package, I found them online in the U.S. @ http://www.slovczechvar.com, and a similar mix once at the gourmet food section at Home Goods in New Jersey.
Thanks for this blog, Naomi.
Regarding the tablecloth, I brought a couple of the ones that my mom and aunt made with me from Slovakia to NJ, and made them a window treatment. Simply beautiful.
Yes, I love the Slovak tradition of Sunday lunch too. It is like a little Thanksgiving every week!
I actually have a vegeta recipe that I need to get up here!
Great idea to make tablecloths into curtains – they certainly get admired more that way then being put away all the time.


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Preheat the oven to 220°C/gas mark 7.
oven temperature to 200°C, gas mark 6.
Make a slit down one side of each chicken breast and insert a bay leaf and lemon slice into each. Season and arrange on top of the vegetables. Sprinkle with the white wine or stock and return to the oven.
Cook for 25–30 minutes, basting with the juices until the chicken is cooked through with no pink meat.


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With Apple’s announcement of System Integrity Protection in El Capitan, I feared that end had come for our beloved iPulse app. This app for tracking system status was originally released in 2002 for use with Mac OS X 10.3. It was also my first Cocoa app and taught me a lot about how to do modern Mac programming.
Over the years, there have been many FREE updates that made iPulse work well with the latest changes in OS X. Thankfully, the engineers at Apple provided new APIs that allowed apps to query El Capitan while in the “rootless” mode. This also meant that code which hadn’t been touched in over a decade needed to be replaced. It was a lot of work, but I couldn’t stand the thought of a Mac without iPulse!
iPulse 3 is available exclusively on the Mac App Store for only $10. The App Store built into OS X makes it easy to install and update iPulse wherever it’s needed.
With luck, iPulse will be keeping an eye on what your Mac is doing for another decade!


text: I thought I would work at G.E. forever. But my future opportunities at the company died with Don Geiss. I have to accept that and move on to this exciting, new challenge.


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Variety of business letter template word that will flawlessly match your demands. When composing an official or company letter, presentation design and layout is essential to making a great impression. These templates supply superb instances of just how to structure such a letter, and also consist of sample web content to function as an overview of layout.
You found an interesting new job posting and are preparing yourself to submit your return to, yet just what regarding a cover letter? Is it always essential to invest time writing a cover letter, or are there times you can obtain away without one? We signed in with a panel of career professionals to figure out.
Avoid the cover letter, and you lose out on a possibility to offer yourself, states Evelyn Salvador, writer of Step-by-Step Cover Letters: Construct a Cover Letter in 10 Easy Tips Using Individual Branding as well as principal of Creative Picture Building contractors, a resume-development as well as career-coaching company in Coram, New York.
Sending out a cover letter along with a resume assists you develop your brand the same means an advertising and marketing company advertises an item s brand. A well-defined brand wins meetings, makes best use of income capacity and also puts task seekers in the top 2 percent of candidates considered for positions, Salvador says.
Consider your cover letter as one more device in your work search collection, says Betty Corrado, proprietor of career-coaching and also resume-writing company Occupation Authenticity in Cos Cob, Connecticut. The cover letter is a key part of your marketing bundle, she says. Utilize it as an opportunity to share your brand name as well as worth recommendation.
Cover letters allow you disclose your individuality and construct relationship.
A resume has a tendency to be fact-based and also rather formal, yet a cover letter could be instilled with personality. Don t be terrified to inject individual notes concerning rate of interests or philosophies that might help employers determine if you will certainly fit right into their culture, claims Roleta Fowler Vasquez, specialist resume writer and also proprietor of Wordbusters in Fillmore, California. To enhance the wow element of their cover letters, she encourages applicants to add a few standout accomplishments that put on t show up on the resume.
Laila Atallah, a Seattle job therapist and owner of Occupation Counseling with a Twist, agrees that a cover letter can be much more enlightening than a resume. The very best cover letters are infused with power, personality and also information regarding the applicant s skills as well as achievements, she states. I get a sense of the individual and just what they ve achieved, and also it s much easier for me to visualize them in their next work.
Task seekers often make the blunder of sending out a resume without a cover letter, says Ann Baehr, head of state of Best Resumes of New York City in East Islip, New York City. This is a missed out on chance to establish rapport with companies and also give a sense of that they are past their work experience, she says.
Thinking concerning skipping the cover letter when using for an inner placement? Don’t. Utilize the cover letter to show exactly how well you understand your employer s objective as well as remind administration of just how much you have actually already achieved.
Consist of a cover letter also if an associate is submitting your return to for you. The letter is an opportunity to introduce yourself and state your contact as a pointer that you are a recommendation. This is what a cover letter ought to consist of, ought to you make a decision to send out one.
The cover letter could include information that would run out put on the resume. Task applicants could consist of the name of a shared contact or referral, state just how they would certainly benefit the employer if hired and also discuss difficult situations such as altering jobs, transferring, going back to the labor force and more, Baehr says.
Atallah motivates job seekers to learn more about the demands of the work opening as well as make use of the cover letter to reveal how as well as why they are uniquely certified. Utilize your cover letter to inform a story, she says. Researches reveal that stories are memorable and also engaging, as well as cover letters are an ideal automobile for revealing your successes in an extra storylike layout.
Given all the needs to send a cover letter, is it ever a smart idea not to? If the application guidelines specifically state not to consist of a cover letter, or if an online application provides no opportunity, then you can forego the cover letter in these instances, Atallah says.
Vasquez concurs that you must not send out a cover letter when the employer especially states not to. This might be a test of your capacity to comply with directions, she claims.
Suppose you believe the cover letter won t read? Corrado states that while some hiring managers say they wear t reviewed cover letters, those that do might disregard your application if you wear t send one. Why take this opportunity when you need every possible benefit in this job market? she asks.
While writing cover letters is time-consuming, the agreement is that the effort might provide you an edge as well as assist you land extra interviews.
While we could debate the importance of cover letters, there’s no getting around that your resume is still likely to be the very first point of call in between you and a company. There’s no doubt that it needs to be as solid as possible in order to convince a hiring supervisor to seriously consider you for the placement.

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The Gachet Salon Shop is a small exhibition space featuring work by our Collective members and other volunteers. Work presented in the shop changes regularly and varies widely, including paintings, photography, sculpture, prints and art cards. Proceeds are shared between the artists and the gallery.
The shop is open during our regular gallery hours, 12-6pm Wednesday through Sunday*.
**NEW** 2012-2013 T-Shirt Designs are here!
We are now selling t-shirts featuring designs from Gachet Member Bill Pope and Vancouver artists Didi Dufresne and Proma Tagore. We have unisex and women’s tees available on a sliding scale for $20-25. Come by the Gachet Salon shop today and get one of these great designs!
*During our regular exhibition times. Please refer to our exhibition schedule for exact dates.


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Cheyanne Woodrow gets on a bicycle and, with instructor Taz Thompson steadying her, takes off tentatively, making ever-widening circles on the football field at Madison Park High School. She is 12 years old, and it is her first time on a bike.
So what if she stops by putting her feet on the ground? Her grin is as wide as her mountain bike tires as she high-fives Thompson.
As Cheyanne is biking, 9-year-old Jasmine Henry is at a workbench a few blocks away, taking a wheel hub apart, cleaning and reassembling it - something usually only veteran cyclists can do. She has also learned how to fix a flat. She, too, is a fledgling cyclist.
Both children, along with two dozen others, are part of a pilot program, On My Way, On My Bike, which started earlier this month. It is a collaboration among the nonprofit Bikes Not Bombs, the city of Boston, and Brandy Cruthird, who runs a nonprofit fitness program in Roxbury for city youths.
The new summer program emphasizes fitness, self-esteem, and self-confidence, and the children are encouraged to participate in year-round activities of Bikes Not Bombs, which is dedicated to peace and social change. In fact, the youth instructors at On My Way are alumni of Bikes Not Bombs, and they will speak to the participants about guns and violence and how to avoid them.
“These issues come up here,’’ says Neil Leifer, who left his law firm a year ago to focus on children’s public health issues.
On My Way has 26 youngsters in the first session, which ends Friday; many of them, along with others, have also signed up for the August session. Participants who meet the requirements of riding and maintenance can keep the bike at the end. The used bicycles were donated by the city, as were locks and helmets.
Though many children consider helmets uncool, the youngsters were put through an egg drop exercise the first day, in which it was demonstrated - with a resounding splat - what could happen to them if they do not protect their heads.
“I always wear a helmet,’’ Leifer tells the children. He is a veteran rider who puts 200 miles a week on his Bianchi road bike. He is encouraged by what he has seen so far and would like to expand the program throughout Boston and beyond.
A trial lawyer for 27 years, working on environmental and public health litigation, Leifer became interested in the issue of childhood obesity and empowerment. He began meeting with Sarah Braunstein of Bikes Not Bombs and Cruthird.
On My Way is the result of those meetings.
Cruthird does outreach and enrollment, and many of the children are referred to her by neighborhood clinics. She takes their weight and body mass index periodically, charting their progress.
The children did not ride before because no one taught them and they did not grow up in a green area where there are places to ride, she adds.
Leifer got members of his own cycling group, Crack O’ Dawn riders in Newton, to design and put together the five work stands where the youngsters are taught bike maintenance. Victor Peguero, 18, is one of the instructors.
While the older children are out biking, Peguero and other instructors have the younger ones at Cruthird’s gym, where a room upstairs has been turned into a workshop. Each of the five work stations has a pegboard loaded with wrenches, pliers, screw drivers, and hammers. Leifer raised money from private donors and the New England Patriots Foundation, which provided gear for each child, including pumps, tools, lights, bags, and tubes.
At 6, D’Adriana Lindsey is barely taller than her workbench. But she is scrubbing that wheel hub as if it is a prized trophy. Cruthird bends down to help her.
Meanwhile, the older children have walked their bikes in sweltering heat to nearby Madison Park High. On the basketball courts, there is a safety session where they check their brakes, tire pressure, headset, stem, and cranks.
A row of 13 bikes and riders lines up single-file behind instructor Jazmin Alicea, 17. “Give me a right turn signal!’’ she shouts, and 13 left arms rise, bent at the elbow in a 90-degree angle. They then go over the rules of group riding.
Most of the beginning bikers are tailgating another rider, someone falls but is not hurt, and Leifer calls for them to “space it up some, guys.’’ One of the boys indelicately complains about what the seat is doing to his private parts. Another is teetering, with a heavy water bottle dangling from his handlebar.
Everyone looks happy tooling around.
In the workshop, a 6-year-old girl is also tooling around. She is at her workbench, reassembling that sparkling hub she just cleaned.


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If you’re as old as I am, you’ll remember a time (not so long ago) when new tech required you to breach a certain threshold of either financial well-being or flagrant over-indulgence. New software was a significant investment, Bluetooth headphones were a status sigil, and Flat Screen TVs were the centerpiece for upper-middle-class entertaining.
If you are a disciplined consumer, you can take advantage of a lot of free or extremely cheap app-based services that easily pay for themselves and the time you take to learn about them. Let’s spend a 3-minute read to find frugality at the tips of our fingers with these money-saving and money-earning apps.
When it comes to being frugal, there are several avenues of attack. You can invest your current savings, focus on your credit, or search for other sources of income. Let’s start with apps that help you invest. In the case of these apps, we aren’t just talking about squirreling money away in a digital piggy bank. Modern investing apps get you into the spirit of buying into the market with small deposits and even smaller risk.
Available for Android and iPhone, the Stash app is about a five-minute download and set-up. From there, you can link your checking account and start building your portfolio. Two of the major advantages of this app are its $5.00 buy-in and its relatively flexible investing options. You can select stocks based on your interests and personal values, not just the type of risk you want to take.
The Smart-Save feature of the Stash app can analyze your checking account and automatically transfer money that you can afford to invest. The Stash app has fees ($1/month for <$5,000 balance and 0.25% >$5,000 balance), so it isn’t the cheapest way to invest. It’s low opening threshold and fun, friendly interface make it a good choice for novices who want to explore investing.
Acorns is a very similar investing app to Stash. It also encourages novice investors with an accessible platform and low entry threshold. While there are not trading fees or minimums, Acorns shares Stash’s flat fee structure of $1/month moving to 0.25% annually on accounts over $5,000. Once you link your bank accounts and credit cards, a major draw of the Acorns app is it’s Auto-Invest feature. Acorns will monitor your transactions and round up to the nearest dollar, dropping the difference into your investment portfolio. If you make a lot of small purchases, this can add up to substantial savings without having an adverse effect on your spending.
Rob from the rich! Give to… yourself? Or something like that. With Robinhood, investors of modest means can learn about the stock market and make small contributions toward their financial future. The major advantage of Robinhood is that the basic plan is literally free (no fees for account set-up, maintenance or trading). However, with limited research/comparison resources, no mutual funds or bonds and almost no online support (email only), Robinhood is not a very robust investment platform.
In an era when most people pay for large (and sometimes not-so-large) purchases with credit, monitoring and maximizing your credit score can be as financially prudent as saving cash. Better credit monitoring helps you secure lower interest rates, avoid identity theft/fraud and have a generally more vibrant financial health.
A few years ago, Credit Karma came on the scene as an alternative to ‘not really free’ credit monitoring sites like freecreditreport.com. And yes, it really is free. Credit Karma monitors your TransUnion and Experian scores and gives you updates every week (or whenever something significant happens to your credit). It’s important to note that Experian and TransUnion (along with Equifax) monitor your ‘VantageScore’, which is NOT your FICO score. Your FICO score (based on the algorithm by the Fair Isaac Corporation) is considered the most accurate gauge of your credit and is used by the majority of lenders.
Besides reporting your credit score, Credit Karma offers an array of tools from a score analyzer to recommendations of lenders and credit cards with rewards to match your credit. Keep in mind that these lenders are Credit Karma’s sponsors, so take the advice with a grain of salt. It’s always good to do your own due diligence when it comes to opening up new lines of credit.
From Intuit, provider of QuickBooks and TurboTax, Mint is an extremely robust financial health app. In addition to credit monitoring, Mint has an arsenal of savings and credit tools. You can link all your accounts and the vendors you pay (e.g. bills, insurance) so that Mint can help you establish and monitor a monthly budget.
Mint’s only limitation is that it doesn’t actually interact with the accounts you link to it. You can’t move money around or use Mint to pay your bills. It only alerts you. However, if you’re someone skeptical of electronic security and privacy, this may be an advantage.
Self Lender is an innovative financial investment company that simultaneously helps you save your earnings while building your credit score. It can be a little odd to wrap your head around, so I’ll break it down for you step-by-step.
Apply for a Self Lender account.
Self Lender will extend you a loan but then keep the loan as a certificate of deposit in a FDIC insured bank. (You don’t get the money…yet).
You make monthly payments toward the loan, which are reported to the credit bureaus (showing responsible payment history and slowly increasing your credit score).
Once you have paid off the balance of the loan, the CD unlocks and you get the money you have ‘invested’ plus interest earned by the CD.
In other words, once you have completed this process, you will have practiced disciplined savings, earned some interest, and increased your credit score. I know that this suggestion does not fall inside the bounds of typical financial advice. As always, I suggest you continue to read reviews and do your homework before you execute any strategy for investment.
Now that we’ve investigated how to squirrel money away and strengthen our credit, let’s check out a couple apps that actually help us generate revenue. Most commonly, this sort of earning comes in the form of passive income – earnings not directly tied to how you spend your time. All of these apps help you earn a little extra while doing what you’re already doing.
Unlike traditional ride-sharing services like Lyft or Uber, GetaRound allows you to loan your car without serving as the chauffeur. With this app, customers unlock and borrow your car using an app on their phone. The app also tracks and insures your vehicle.
In exchange for boosting your wheels, clients pay you hourly, starting at $5/hour and increasing depending on the rate you set. Generally, newer and more expensive cars (especially ones that are fun to show off) allow you to attract clients who will pay a higher rate. Getaround takes 40% of your fee, which may seem like a lot. However, if you compare your net earnings to what your parked car was pulling in before, it’s easy to see Getaround as a fun, innovative source of passive income.
Ebates is an app that generates cash back for shopping at certain retail partners online. Ebates earns a commission for driving traffic to these businesses. If you are signed into Ebates when you make the purchase, they pass a portion of that commission on to you. You can collect this commission every quarter in either a paper check or via PayPal.
Considering that this method of ‘earning’ encourages you to spend more money, it’s not exactly a foolproof tactic for working on your budget. However, if you exercise some discipline and only use Ebates to earn on items you would have purchased anyway, it can be a great little passive income stream. If you have to purchase items for your business and then file the expenses for reimbursement, it can be even better.
With the tagline, ‘We Like the Way You Think’, innovative rewards app iPoll pays you for… well, your opinion. First iPoll gives you a survey to determine your characteristics and interests. Then it assigns you different missions. These missions can come in the form of in-store shopping experiences, brand awareness, ad testing, product reviews or surveys. Once you complete missions, you receive credits which you can exchange for gift cards or cash. Considering the time it takes to complete the required tasks, this may not be the most profitable income-generating app. On the other hand, there are worse ways to pass the time.
– Each day, you deny yourself one $5 indulgence and also find a way to earn an additional $5.
– You invest this $10/day swing and earn 2.12% interest, compounding annually.
– After ten years, you will have saved/earned $40,000.
Insuring fiscal success and security doesn’t have to hinge on back-breaking labor, spartan savings plans or white-knuckle risk-taking. Making frugality a part of your everyday choices can elevate your personal economic standards, lower your stress and free up your finances. Stay frugal, my friends. A firm believer that freedom of information improves business, travel and life, freelance writer Ben Lovell is committed to sharing best practices. Read more of his articles at the Gothic Optimist.

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YOLO | What Does YOLO Mean?
YOLO (You Only Live Once) is typically used as a justification for taking a risk (e.g., doing a bungee jump), treating yourself to an extravagance (e.g., buying an expensive holiday), or doing something foolish (e.g., slamming back-to-back jaeger bombs).
YOLO is often referred to as "carpe diem [Latin for 'seize the day'] for stupid people". Both YOLO and carpe diem imply you should enjoy life even if that means overriding common sense.
I'm whacking the credit card and flying first class to Dubai YOLO.
I'm going to jump on the stage when the security guard turns away. YOLO.
When YOLO is expanded to "You Only Live Once," it is a declarative sentence. However, it is most commonly used like an independent clause meaning "because you only live once," which serves as an adverb of reason.
YOLO is an acronym (i.e., an abbreviation spoken like a word). Acronyms differ from initialism abbreviations, which are pronounced using their individual letters (e.g., UDI is pronounced "Yu Dee Aye").


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Artificial sweeteners enhance the palatability of foods but, unlike sugar, are virtually devoid of calories. The implicit promise here is consuming them, rather than sugar, is a better option for those seeking to control their weight. Now while the idea that artificial sweeteners offer advantages in weight control makes sense, you might be surprised to find that there is really no good evidence to support this notion. Not one single properly conducted study exists in the scientific literature that proves this supposed benefit. There are only two explanations for this: either the studies haven’t been done, or they have been done but haven’t been published.
I don’t know the truth here, but I suspect the latter. After all, you might imagine that the artificial sweetener industry would, among the voluminous research it has undertaken, at least have a bash at proving the effectiveness of its products. And we know that there is evidence which suggests the industry likes to publish research it likes, but perhaps be more reticent about having less favourable research see the light of day. For example, an on-line review of studies on the safety of the artificial sweetener aspartame  shows that while every single industry-funded study conclude aspartame is safe, 92 per cent of independently funded research identifies potential for this substance to have harmful effects.
Also, it’s worth bearing in mind that there is evidence that artificial sweeteners have effects that would not promote weight loss. They seem, for example, to have the capacity to mess-up the mechanisms we use to regulate food intake. One study, for instance, assessed the effect that artificial sweeteners have on the brain . In this study, women were given a drink a solution containing either the artificial sweetener sucralose (brand name Splenda) or sucrose (table sugar). Brain monitoring showed that sugar activated the regions of the brain involved in registering pleasure more extensively than drinking sucralose.
This difference was found despite the fact that individuals were unable to distinguish between sucrose and sucralose on the basis of taste. In other words, while individuals are unable to consciously distinguish between sugar and sucralose, the brain appeared to know the difference. And it appears that an artificial sweetener may simply not give the level of pleasure and satisfaction that may be derived from sugar. This, in turn, could lead individuals to seek satisfaction from other foodstuffs.
In another study, just putting an artificial sweetener (saccharin) on the tongues of subjects caused insulin levels to rise . This may induce low blood sugar and a form as false hunger that can lead to overeating as well as craving for carbohydrate-rich foods.
Other evidence shows that artificial sweeteners do indeed have the capacity to stimulate the appetite. For example, one study found that women given saccharin-sweetened lemonade were found to consume considerably more calories overall compared to those drinking regular (sugary) lemonade . In another study, experimenters found that subjects who had eaten yoghurt sweetened with saccharin were inclined to eat more than those who had eaten yoghurt sweetened with sugar . There is other evidence which suggests that aspartame too has the capacity to stimulate the appetite .
Then, on top of all this, I yesterday came across reports of another mechanism which may render artificial sweeteners quite useless as aids to weight loss. You can read the report here. The details are sketchy, but the claim here is that artificial sweeteners have the capacity to enhance the absorption of sugar from the gut ” something that is not good for a variety of reasons. The principle problem here is that it will, in theory, bump up insulin levels, and as all good students of biochemistry know, this hormone plays a pivotal role in the manufacture and accumulation of fat in the body. Also, it increases the risk of an episode of low blood sugar that can stimulate the appetite, including for sweet foods such as biscuits, cakes and soft drinks.
So, you see, there are lots of reasons why artificial sweeteners may not deliver on their weight loss promise. Come to think of it, there’s a few reasons why they may actually promote weight gain. Could this be why no properly conducted studies on the impact of these compounds on weight in human subjects have seen the light of day?
Again, I don’t know, but what I do know is that if no human research is available, then we have no option but to look to animal studies. In one study, rats were fed with either saccharin or sugar-sweetened yoghurt in conjunction with their normal diet . The rats consuming saccharin ate more calories than their sugar-eating counterparts. Not only this, but they gained more weight, and more fat, too. The authors of this study concluded that ‘using artificial sweeteners in rats resulted in increased caloric intake, increased body weight, and increased adiposity’ and that, These results suggest that consumption of products containing artificial sweeteners may lead to increased body weight and obesity by interfering with fundamental homeostatic, physiological processes.
Now, the absence of human studies in the scientific literature means that we just can’t say for sure what effect artificial sweeteners have on our weight. But there is a growing body of evidence which suggests that the chances of weight loss through the use of these chemicals is very slim indeed.
Could eating late in the day promote weight gain in a way that has nothing to do with calories?
These are nasty little additions to food. While I concede weakness in (my) passing generalist comments I feel the taste of these things are appalling.
Have hypotheses been reported that certain of them interfere with registration of satiety in the brain?
These rank as worse than sugar (sucrose) in my appreciation but I also have growing concerns over the role of sugar in 21st c. issues.
Sucrose is digested to glucose and fructose. Fructose is distinguished by needing to be metabolised in and by the liver, is it? Though under-read, I’m increasingly concerned.
Artificicial sweeteners proliferate in so many products. They may be marketed as being beneficial or adding value for the consumer but whose interests do they really serve?
You can safely bet that they are economically viable for the manufacturers and that their inclusion may contribute to extended shelf life. Try selecting art. sweetener free lemonade from the shelves. They have slipped en-masse into commonplace products; baked beans, cider, fruit squashes….
Excellent topic (as ever) John. Selectivity of published research is alarming in many ways. Most of those visiting here will be well informed. The people most at risk are busy folks without time to take an extended interest – the majority, and these are no better of that the lab-rats you mention. While unbiased state funded, commissioned, researched and published work is a comparative rarity upon what grounds should we lend our trust to regulators be that here, in Europe or over the pond?
Make your own fruit tea, keep it in the fridge and drink that. Put some real lemon in water and refrigerate. Get used to plain water.
This is a very interesting topic that deserves more attention from the public, especially those people (especially women) who try to lose weight by using low-fat or no fat dairy products sweetened with artificial sweeteners and diet drinks.
I have read, I think, all your articles and columns, Dr. Briffa, since you first published in the Observer magazine and I think that your articles are very important; your arguments are always backed up by research and are very convincing. Your work should be able to reach a wider audience than the one given by a blog. Is there any hope of a column in a main newspaper?
I have thought for some time that the mechanism for artifical sweeteners leading to weight gain is likely to be around the fact that they fool the body into thinking that it has plenty of sugar in the bloodstream. Therefore the body seeks to put what it sees as excess into fat, which it does as much as it can. Then because this is not real energy/calories, the person consuming the sweetener tends to get hungry very quickly after this, leading to more consumption and more going to fat.
Yolande, I was in a similar position to you, drinking lots of diet drinks as my way of taking in fluid throughout the day. I can’t stand full sugar soft drinks because you can practically feel your teeth dissolving. It’s a similar issue with fruit juices. I eventually settled on carbonated water – I realised what I liked about soft drinks was the fizziness and the flavour the CO2 imparted to the water. It might take a day or two to get used to but it’s a much better thirst quencher as you’re just drinking water and CO2, not a whole load of flavourings, colourings and other miscellaneous chemicals as well. Plus, most non-brand carbonated water is a fraction of the cost of soft drinks.
Does anyone know of a safe, natural sweetner? I’ve heard of Stevia, for example, but never tried it.
@Yolande, Along with the suggestions above re alternatives to plain old water, I also drink unsweetened coconut water. It’s a great thirst quencher and comes in convenient tetra paks. Also makes a great base for a protein smoothie, along with the unsweetened protein powder and plain frozen berries.
In ‘The Low GL Diet Bible@, Patrick Holford advocates ‘xylotol’, a low GL sweetener that does occur naturally in varying degrees in fruit; plums are rich sources, apparently.
As xylitol occurs naturally and by virtue of evolutionary precedent one might anticipate it to be safe. I haven’t looked for it on sale and therefore I have not specifically seen it on sale.
Sooner than be reliant upon artificial sweeteners it makes good sense to make an effort re-educate ones palette and reduce the sweet-tooth.
Sucrose (refined sugar) ought to be regarded with caution because of the fructose component. Does honey constitute a favourable alternative if used in moderation?
Finally, remember a diet generally rich in soluble fibre will partly mitigate the glycaemic load (GL) of simple carbohydrates and sugars by ‘buffering’ the digestion to glucose and the passage of glucose from the gut into the blood. For eg, having included green leaves and/or, say nuts, in a meal will offset the GL impact of a sweet dessert to a degree by potentially and partially smoothing the resultant blood-sugar spike.
Kathleen DesMaisons addresses the addictive nature of sugar (and perhaps hyperinsullinemia) in more than one title. I have scanned a couple of her offerings and I fell she has something to offer in the way of good sense though I had been sceptical over the way some of the arguments were supported.
I am interested in anyone’s experience in becoming ‘hooked’ or addicted to artificial sweetener? i am surely not the only person… i consume ridiculous amounts of the stuff.. and go a bit demented if i try to cut back.. anyone?
John, no, I hadn’t researched xylitol any more than having seen it advocated in the aforementioned book. I agree entirely about cause for caution. The entry in Wikipedia reads as though it could largely have been compiled by those of enthusiastic persuasion.
The claim is that spoon for spoon there are 40% fewer calories than sugar but nothing is mentioned about relative sweetness. For all I know one might need to use 40% more of the stuff to satisfy ones palatte. There is a link in the wiki to the BMJ; it is not available to me.
It would be interesting to understand how this sugar-alcohol is digested and metabolised. There is mention of a laxative effect – perhaps 40% passes out undigested?
I have some additional paragraphs available in the link.
residing in South Africa why not consider ‘rooibos’ (‘redbush tea’); a drink native to that country. Devoid of tannins it does not stew and is refreshing warm, tepid or cold. Devoid of caffeine it is a good way to reduce dependency to that, too. I prepared some yesterday and took it with me to work last night chilled and in a used squash bottle. It is fun to try adjuncts as diverse as your imagination allows. Top of my list are root ginger, mint leaves, lemon, lime etc. I confess I do sweeten but only to the degree of a pea sized blob of honey to a litre or more.
I might try grinding dates, almonds or apricot kernels as alternative sweeteners.
Anyone looking for alternatives to diet pop could try home-made kombucha, water kefir, real ginger beer, or lacto-fermented sodas. A batch takes minutes to make, costs pennies, contains very little sugar, tastes great, and contains probiotic organisms, vitamins and minerals. Starter cultures and recipes can be found online, or in the case of lacto-fermented soda you can make the starter culture yourself.
It’s also worth noting for those concerned about the effect of fizzy pop on teeth that the very high acidity of commercial fizzy drinks is even more disastrous for the teeth than their sugar content – and the acidity is just as high in the diet variety.
I’m under no illusion that sweeteners are beneficial but I still use Splenda in my coffee, it’s about the only thing I need to be sweet and this one has less aftertaste than the alternatives *to me*, YMMV.
Be a bit wary of sugar alcohols, responses may also vary. Some diabetics find some of them may cause a BG spike just like sugar while others are converted directly to loose bowels! It pays to test your own response to the different types.
New Scientist in the their 19th December 2009 end of year issue give some coverage to the quest for the calorie free sweetener and the difficulties ensuing. Link here.
It doesn’t detract me from my belief that refined sweetener, natural or otherwise, is likely to have undesirable consequence. Best to re-educate and wean oneself away from a sweet tooth.


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Improving speed, agility, and quickness is a priority for many ultimate players. After all, it’s an explosive sport full of sprinting and jumping. What better demonstration than Olivia Arellano's amazing defensive effort in Ultiworld’s Block of the Year competition?
Among the contenders for the coveted prize were Ultimate Skills Project coach John McNaughton and a certain Jonah Wisch, who was unlucky to meet John in the first round, before McNaughton himself fell to eventual runner-up Von Alanguilan.
Want to learn how to make plays like that? Lucky for you, Jonah’s written up a practical guide to improving these key attributes based on the science behind effective strength training. Read on and enjoy!
There’s a common misconception among parents, coaches, and athletes on how to train for speed, quickness, agility, and jumping ability. Repetitive sprints, cone drills, and speed ladder work are the norm, but they are not the most effective at getting results. If this were the case, athletes would get faster and quicker simply by playing their sport; sprinting, cutting, and changing direction take place in every match!
Ways to improve these athletic traits include increased force production and rate of force development (these are not the same but can be trained simultaneously), proper body positioning (ex. sprinting/jumping technique), and body composition improvements. Some athletes are genetically gifted with a better ratio of fast-twitch to slow-twitch fibers, but there are still many important steps that one can take to improve speed of movement in sport.
Athletes can improve their efficiency by addressing mobility, stability and muscular activation patterns.
What are the Common Problems?
Athletes develop and reinforce improper movement mechanics due to several different variables.
Previous injuries, compensation or poor activation patterns, repetitive asymmetrical movements or loads, poor movement self-awareness, and lack of exposure to qualified coaching will all contribute to an athlete putting themselves at risk for an acute or overuse injury by developing movement dysfunctions.
Addressing inefficiencies in an athlete’s mechanics consists of several steps.
Sometimes an athlete just needs a little bit of coaching to improve their technique. If they were never taught to lift or move with proper form, they may not be familiar with correct body positioning while executing an exercise or drill. Guidance here can solve some issues, but if not, further action is needed.
The first goal with any athlete as they begin a program is to address any mobility issues. These issues can be the effect of soft tissue restrictions, joint restrictions, or poor activation patterns.
As an athlete improves their mobility, we must then address their ability to stabilize through a greater range of motion. If an athlete is mobile, but not stable, you encounter what we call energy leaks. If your body is in an unstable position you will find it difficult to utilize the amount of force you’re able to produce by your larger muscle groups.
Improving mobility/stability will only go so far if an athlete has poor mechanics. Whether it’s teaching lateral, linear, jumping, or rotational mechanics, an athlete needs to feel and understand the body positioning that will lead to optimal performance and sport transfer.
Poor activation patterns can develop through repetitive stress and bad postural habits. Teaching the targeted muscle groups to fire and opposing muscle groups to relax can help improve force production as well as force transfer through the body.
Put simply, developing strength will help increase the amount of force one can produce. Strength training is typically the solution. Improving an athlete’s strength/body weight ratio in most cases will make the biggest difference in development of speed or jumping ability if mechanics are sound.
Exercise selection is important. The exercises incorporated into a program must fit the level and needs of the individual. Proper progressions are the key to growth and development. In order to prevent injuries in the weight room, it is important to design a program according to your athlete’s needs. If a lift doesn’t have any functional carryover to the sport, it’s not going to benefit an athlete. All sports are different, but all athletes need to increase efficiency, strength, power, and speed.
Force development is the rate at which you can apply the force you’ve built up with strength training. There are a number of stages to achieving this.
Strength, speed, and power performance rely heavily on the nervous system. Normally a person would classify muscularity or definition with strength or power, but this is not always the case. Our body’s ability to excite a high percentage of muscle fibers at once for a given task plays a large role in determining the speed of movement.
This is the first progression to any power/plyometric exercise or drill. In order to apply force, you must first be able to feel, understand, and be comfortable in the position you are attempting to attain during performance. Almost any drill can be regressed to target acceleration or starting strength.
You must implement plyometric training to increase rate of force development and elasticity. The key to plyometric training is progressing safely, and that the intensity in terms of effort is high. We must train fast to be fast.
Olympic lifts, when utilized correctly, can be one of the most beneficial lifts in athletic performance. All serious athletes should slowly progress into Olympic lifting, though in reality, some of them may never make it there. Some athletes will substitute other power exercises (ex. squat jumps, resisted sprints, kettlebell swings) in place of Olympic lifts due to previous injuries or learning time constraints.
This is the ratio of lean mass to fat mass. Any extra mass that does not play a role in creating or transferring force will hinder an athlete’s speed of movement.
While certain sports require additional mass to help protect the body from impact or injury, ultimate success doesn’t rely on such mass, and as such, players will benefit by maintaining a low body-fat percentage. In addition, hypertrophy training that doesn’t lead to overall strength or performance gains—increasing muscle mass without improvements in performance—has no place in an athletic training program.
Diet plays a major role in maintaining a lean, athletic body composition. When in doubt, it is always easiest to choose real food to supplement your athletic goals. Lean meats and fish, leafy greens and vegetables, tree nuts, fruits, and a minimal amount of sugar (except possibly around competition or an intense training session) will work for most athletes. A gram of protein per pound of bodyweight is an easy rule of thumb to follow, as is a large handful or two of vegetables with each meal. Supplements like fish oil and daily multivitamins can also help.
Jonah has a rare mix of playing, coaching, and sports performance coaching in the ultimate community. He played for Pitt Men's Ultimate from 2014-2018, captained the USA U-24 Men's National Team in Perth in 2018, has coached at 15+ youth summer ultimate camps, and wrote a book titled, "In Your Own Hands: A Guidebook to Physical Development for College Ultimate Players". You can access the book online here.
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This week’s Challenge is Color, and I chose a collage as I have plenty of color-pictures.
The vibrant pink beanie is a gift that I had very good use for this cold spring. The mirror with the painted man hung on the wall in a shop for african handicraft. The colorful cupboards can be found in the cloakroom at Fotografiska – a huge, private museum of photography in Stockholm. And Ollio’s street art in Göteborg is something I’ve mentioned here earlier. Color is essential to me.
why wouldn’t all lockers look like that? Fantastic colours.
Color is a simple way of energizing public spaces. During the last 15 years Swedish interior design has been very pale and minimalistic. Now, as a reaction, we see lots of dark colors. Velvet textures and tassels are suddenly popular.
The wall mural is sure to make people smile.
This wall art is unique in Göteborg. Normally, there is some grafitti and tagging around. But this is a commissioned job and the artist, Ollio, is a highly educated professional.
Who is the guy in the hat??
The guy with the hat, painted on wood, is one of several nice portraits. Possibly from west Africa. I looked around that shop very briefly, but I will go back. Looking into a happy face is a good way of starting a day – perhaps the mirror will end up in my home.
It should – I liked it!