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Good morning! Are you ready for another day full of great inspiration and another chance to win some yummy candy? Then hop over to CRPI blog and see what we have for you on the 10th day of our Christmas advent event. :) You won't be sorry, I promise, because my teamies made fab project to inspire you and also today's prize is a very yummy one - you could win a £10 voucher for LOTV store.
I was going to show you the candles I made with LOTV angel image today, but I mixed something up and you could already see one of them on day 7, so today I will show you another card, but this one won't have a LOTV image.
This image is from Recollections and I embossed it with Queen's gold embossing powder from Ranger. I used the freebie Christmas papers that came with one crafting magazine a couple of years ago. The white piece of cardstock was embossed with Cuttlebug swiss dots EF and then I inked the raised dots with my ink pad. The snowflakes were made with my craft punch. In the middle of each snowflake I made a pearl with Viva decor pearl pen. Doily lace, pearl on the bow and gold confetti are from my stash. I also used the seam binding ribbon from Crafty ribbons.
Fab card, I love the colours you have used, they look great.
Thanks for joining our Bingo challenge at Addicted to stamps. Wish you a merry Christmas!


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John Hutton John Hutton Frank is a very familiar actor to Colorado audiences, having spent 23 years with the Denver Center Theatre Company. Executive status has no appeal for Alfie. The reason is that ''Educating Rita,'' opening today at Cinema 2 and directed by Lewis Gilbert, based on the long-running London stage hit by Willy Russell, is an awkward blend of intellectual pretension and cute obvious humor. He asks about her schools of her youth and she explains that people just argued and fought and never paid attention and anyone who wanted to learn did not fit in. Her tutor is Frank, a frustrated poet and academic, who works as a lecturer at a university. This shows how his passion is not there.
There is a lot of talk about Blake this and Wordsworth that. His film credits include Lincoln , The Dwarves of Demrel , Bit Player and Distance. Franks therefor is depicting that he is teaching Rita for the money, although Rita knows this she does not pay mind to it as she is getting an education she is happy. He says maybe he would not be so prone to disappearing from Julia if she was more like Rita. The production will now be booking for performances until Saturday 2 February 2019. Julie Walters injects her with just the right mix of comedy and pathos. Frank is on the phone with , his younger, live-in girlfriend, saying he will be going by the pub after work but promises to be home later.
Frank is teaching because he has to not because he wants to. Advertisement Perhaps it would be more accurate to say they both fall into love with the remake job they'd like to do on each other. They make a beautifully odd couple, in a love story at one remove. Frank is cynical and depressed. She becomes more arrogant and false in her behavior, even altering her accent to try and fit in with the middle class students. Is it the wit and good humor and Rational-enquiry-and-argument-as-drama of the screenplay? When Caine's professor, at the end of this movie, flies off to Australia to maybe sober up and maybe make a fresh start, it's a total cop-out -- not by him, but by the screenplay. It is this choice he makes into him being sent to Australia at the end of the play.
Rita struggles to fit into a new educated middle-class existence in academia, while seeking a 'better song to sing'. Lewis Gilbert is doing a realist spin on Pygmalion, replacing the songs with a maudlin edge. Watch Educating Rita Online Free: A young wife decides to complete her education and take her exams. Rita laughs these comments off. Although Frank understands Rita wants an education he does not understand why she wants one now. Their fight fizzles when he says he read Rubyfruit Jungle and liked it, which makes her laugh. However, he is fascinated by her take on life and realizes that she has academic potential.
At Cinema 2, Broadway and 47th Street. She says he told her to be objective and to do her research and that she has done that; she claims he does not want her to have thoughts apart from his. Is it Michael Caine's professor being chivvied from his sodden rut by the pixilated yet determined Rita? Frank tries to get her to talk more about this but she insists they need to return to studying. Caine sees Walters as a fresh, honest, unspoiled intelligence. In London, twenty-seven year-old hairdresser Rita decides to complete her basic education before having children as desired by her husband Denny. Bryant and Rita, he asks her whether she understands assonance.
Rita also tells him how she wants to improve herself but that her husband does not understand what she is trying to do. Frank Bryant, an alcoholic and debauched professor from the upper-class who's life has left him emotionally drained, without self-esteem. This is instead an example of , the repetition of consonant sounds. Frank does not accept change from choices that have been made. Written by Whatever its faults and flaws might be, I've never been able - or wanted to - get 'Educating Rita' out of my head. The next time they meet, Frank is annoyed that Rita does not have her essay but eases up on her when she reveals Denny burnt all of her stuff because he was mad at her for not taking her birth control pill anymore and going back to school. Because even the movie doesn't really believe that, it departs from the stage play to bring in a lot of phony distractions.
She laughs that he needs a haircut but he insists he does not. He is an alcoholic and, to begin with, is less than enthusiastic about taking Rita on as a student. She tells him she is still learning about life and that he was a good teacher. She starts asking him questions, such as what 'assonance' means. She is emerging from the fog of routine, becoming aware the limits and destinies of her life might be overcome.
This is significant as it shows an indication that she wants to transform herself, leaving her past behind her. The Sunday Times Digital Archive. Frank lives with Julia, who's also a professor, and have a loveless marriage; Julia has a love affair with the dean Brian. Frank feels as though he has forced Rita into losing her touch with parts of herself which were unique and precious. When her best friend wins a trip-for-two to Greece Shirley begins to see the world, and herself, in a different light. Julie Walters, who also played Rita on the stage, seems older than her 26-year-old character, and works overly hard at a lower-class accent and a relentless pixieishness.
If only I'd been able to believe they were actually reading the books, then everything else would have fallen into place. They were on the stage together for a long time, and by the end of the play we had shared in their developing relationship. Truth is I don't know what makes 'Educating Rita' so memorable for me - in my head scenes and snippets of this film just pop up and play whenever they've a mind to! Rita is a twenty-six-year-old working-class hairdresser, married to Denny and living round the corner from her family. Rita pauses and then says she has something to give him. Caine never fails to be a commanding actor, but he is not helped here by the paunchy, pink-eyed look of the character, or the endless and embarrassing drunk scenes in which he is trapped. However, in a scene just before Rita meets Dr.

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text: Attractive traditional design our patented 4x4 tan PVC Classy post cap is engineered to provide up to 12 hours of light automatically every night. Fabricated with 4 high output surface mount LED's that cast a bright white downward onto the side walls of the cap, creating a unique ambiance. 3X brighter than standard LED's. Will fit over an actual 4"x4" post.

industry_corpus2: Automobiles


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Forensic Product Failure Evaluations | Sioux City, Iowa | Engineering Specialists, Inc.
ESI works with Sioux City clients to answer questions specific to each failure analysis forensic investigation.
ESI provides service in the Sioux City area and nationwide. For over 20 years, we have conducted product failure investigations in the commercial, manufacturing, residential, food service, hospitality and agricultural industries.

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As anyone who has tried it knows, translation requires a great deal of concentration and focus. In order to be able to translate, we must first gain an understanding of the text (generally in a language that is not our own) and later formulate it in another language (which, generally speaking, is our own).
I noticed that this “don’t drink and translate” rule has neuropsychological backing while reading “Thinking, Fast and Slow” by Daniel Kahneman (a book that will no doubt feature in a future entry). It seems that the brain carries out two kinds of thought process; one is quick and almost automatic, and the other is slower and requires concentration and focus.
From what I understand, translation is a perfect mixture of both kinds of process. Once we reach a certain level and have gained enough experience in another language, these fast processes mean that words and phrases come to us with ease, almost automatically, when we’re translating. Meanwhile other processes, which allow us to understand the text first and later check that what we’ve written is correct and well-formulated, occur more slowly. The speed and intensity of these processes vary according to the knowledge and experience of the translator.
Anyway, in summary, some advice for our customers and project managers: the next time you send a text to be translated, remind the translator that if they’ve been drinking, not to translate.
And, if you were wondering, we at Mondo Agit already have it under control ;-).

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This beautiful true story is about a gorilla in the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado. Little Umande needs a mother and travels to a zoo in Columbus, Ohio to find LuLu. Students quickly fell in love with Umande and LuLu. We also visited these amazing zoos via their home websites. I thought you might enjoy a look around as well so I've attached links below. Enjoy!
Ask your child about: habitats, mammals, The Congo, and Africa.


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I have cyclic change checked in the settings (general) and notice sometimes in a gallery, some of the pictures will change.
Can I set how many and how often they change?
And though your suggestions are simple, they are absolutely new.
OK, very likely we will implement them both in our next release.

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Add to bag (1072)You have already bought this product.
fantastic but delay a bit.
NC-Staff: Dear sir/madam, thank you for your order and sorry for the inconvenience caused. Since we are selling the product to abroad, it may take longer time for the order to reach to customers than domestic purchase. But we have specific estimated shipping time for different country with different shipping method which you can check in this link: https://www.newchic.com/shipping-methods-hc160.html The shipping time will be also indicated on the check out page. Please kindly check it. Sometimes it may need slightly longer time by poor weather conditions, slow customs clearance procedures, strikes or other unexpected circumstances. If you need any more help for the shipping of your order in the future, please contact our customer service by these links: For personal computer: https://www.newchic.com/Contact-Us-hc10.html For mobile: https://pwa.newchic.com/customer-service We will do the best to help you.

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text: The application process for any project can seem difficult and intimidating. The information contained in this area should assist you through the process. In addition, staff at the Development Services Department are always available to walk you through any process.

industry_corpus2: Politics & Administration


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If your family is happiest outdoors a location shoot might be ideal for you. I can meet you at your favourite spot, maybe a park or beach. The shoot is really relaxed and your kids can play so we get very natural images.
The outdoor shoot package includes an hour's shoot time and 3 retouched high resolution digital images for £190.
You can add extra images for £20 each or a bundle of 10 for £150.
After your shoot you will receive a link and password to your own private gallery. Have a look through your images in your own time and choose your favourites. I will retouch them subtly and send to you via Dropbox so you can save and print or make canvases yourself.
If you would like archival prints or bespoke framing just ask and I can give you a quote.


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I have a plea to all grandmotherly types out there who love to hold babies: Give the baby back to the mother!
Everyone loves babies. Research has even shown, with images of the brain, that people’s happy centers light up on MRI when a baby smiles at them. And it’s long been proven that skin-on-skin contact, such as holding a baby in arms, releases the love hormone oxytocin. But some people are almost obsessed with that baby-induced “high,” to the point where they won’t give the baby back to the mother, even when it’s clear the baby or the mother isn’t happy. They start shushing and bouncing, and batting the mother off, saying that everything’s OK.
And what’s that mother supposed to do? What we should be doing is taking that baby back, but as emotionally sensitive creatures that we are, we might be reluctant to hurt the other person’s feelings. Or depending on the situation, we might find it overly awkward. Or, with certain people, taking the baby back might even have the potential to cause a scene. Kudos to the mothers who just don’t care and take their baby back anyway. For the rest of us, the baby finally gets given back when the fussing turns into crying or when a diaper needs changing, but as soon as baby has quieted down, that person wants to hold the baby again. They may be relatives or neighbors or even someone you would otherwise call a close friend. And it may be an extremely uncomfortable position to be in, as you struggle within yourself as to the best response, biting your lip either way.
What bothers me about these types of people is that they are only concerned with how they feel, to the detriment of the baby’s own happiness and to the detriment of the mother’s comfort. They have no respect for the mother-baby relationship. The baby is fussing because he wants to go back to his mother. He may be hungry, or may not. It could be he just wants his mama. And the mother is looking back constantly at the baby, because they are meant to be together. At this young age, they are one.
If you want to hold the baby, make sure you know the mother well. We mothers do not appreciate people swooping in at the grocery store, church, or bank. And if she does let you hold the baby, do so only for a few minutes and then give the baby back, even if the baby seems perfectly happy. Even if the mother says it’s OK. The mother and baby need each other. They need to be together. They need to be one.
I don’t remember who it was or the circumstances but when my daughter was a newborn someone else was holding her and I asked “Can I hold her now?” in a way you might ask to hold someone else’s baby, And the person responed “Of course she’s your baby!” And I realized she was right. I think it was still settling in my mind that I was Mamma. I have to say though that that person saying that to me what empowering.
This situation happened to me when I got my DD 2 months routine vaccination. The nurse won’t let me hold and comfort the baby after she got her shots. I had to raise my voice at her to get my baby back. I was very upset. She wanted to comfort my DD, but that isn’t her kid and it was very rude of her. She even told me that crying was good for the lungs.
I never return to that clinic ever again. I delayed the vaccines after that time.
I agree and have experienced this myself. Allowing the Mother to have her necessary alone time with the baby is important. My experience was with breast feeding. I would go to another room with my son so I could have privacy and he would have peace and quiet. If my Mother in law was here she would come in and use baby talk with him and rub his head or touch his feet…then she assumed it was her place to burp him. It always upset me and interrupted what he was doing but I felt rude to say anything. This article gives me courage to let her know with the next baby that this is my time with the baby that we both need.


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Are you interested in learning about 3D printing? Join us for a basic class that will explain what 3D printing is, the process by which the models are created and prepared for the printer and how you can find models to print yourself.
You will also get to see our Flashforge Creator Pro 3D Printer in action up close as we use it to create during the class. If you would like a preview of the type of things you can create please have a look at Thingiverse.com.
This program is suitable for all ages. No registration is required.
Which 3D printer does the library use?
The library uses the Flashforge Creator Pro 3D Printer.
Where do you find 3D models?
Most of the models we use can be found on Thingiverse.com which is a website dedicated to the sharing of user-created digital design files. You can look through the models other people have uploaded and find something you find interesting.
The IRC Library will be hosting classes where we will explain more about 3D printing and how it works and see the 3D printer in action as it creates a model. We will also allow people to submit jobs to us which we will then 3D print for you and allow you to pickup later. In the future we plan on allowing patrons to gain access to the 3D printer to create their own items themselves as well.
The IRC Library's offical 3D printer policy can be found here.
Keep reading below for more information on 3D printing and how it works.
However, you don't have to design your own 3D models. Many sites on the Internet such as Thingiverse.com will allow you to download a design that other people have shared on the Internet for free and use it to print.
The library staff use a program called Simplify3D for slicing and we will generally take care of the slicing and creating the model for you after you have chosen a 3D model to print. When a file is uploaded in a 3D printer, the object is ready to be 3D printed layer by layer. The 3D printer reads every slice (2D image) and creates a three dimensional object.
3D printing is a fairly slow process. Below you can see a timelapse video of a model of the Eiffel Tower being printed. This actually took 20 hours to finish printing but it is a very large model. Most of the smaller models we print can be done in 1-5 hours. As you watch the video you will see the head of the printer moving around extruding plastic layer by layer to create the object.


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Plantoys Dancing Alligator Classic - EcoBaby Gear, Inc.
This dancing alligator will make a click-clack sound as your child pulls it along. This toy helps toddlers with coordination and will be an instant favorite!
Plantoys has won multiple awards for safety, environmental sensitivity, and innovative design. Toys are made in Thailand from chemical-free rubberwood. Paint is water-based and non-toxic. This worry-free toy is a great option for growing toddlers.
This pull along cat encourages kids to walk and play!

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Added by Matthias Bach over 7 years ago.
When parsing input files the implementation in code:prog/inputparameters.cpp skips any line containing a Hash character (#), not only if the character precedes the line.
It would probably be best to completely replace the std::String::find() based implementation by one based on regular expresions, e.g. via boost::regexp.

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Scott developed this liner because he gets asked for liners with a longer stroke that will handle a wide variety of needle groups. In the early 90’s he made a machine similar to this on a brass frame that was intended to be used for large round shaders.
Scott has been making a Jonesey style KolorKing machine since the late 80s early 90s. The original KolorKing was built on the brass national copy of a Jonesy style machine with a yoke that Scott built at China Sea during the 80's and 90's while he worked with Mike Malone. China Sea was located at 1033 Hotel Street in Honolulu, which Malone purchased after the death of Sailor Jerry. After Scott sold out of the original, limited run Sailor Jerry/Paul Rogers bent back liners he liked the geometry of that frame so much he decided to use it on the new Kolorking liners and shaders. This new version of the improved Kolorking liner has a traditional Jonesy style brace and a pinch tube Vice. The new improved version of the Kolorking is milled and drilled from a solid Billit of 1018 steel on a CNC mill for the greatest precision. The end result is a sturdy, well balanced and versatile machine that will last you the rest of your career.
By manipulating spring gauge combinations, A-bar length and changing the geometry of the frame Scott has come up with a long stroke liner that can run delicately and fine while still able to push larger needle groups while running fast and staying cool.


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Musicians On Call is excited to announce that we are launched in Phoenix! The program kicked off with the help of Chris Daughtry who performed for patients, families and caregivers at the Phoenix VA Hospital.
We are looking for Volunteer Musicians to help us deliver the healing power of music in Phoenix. As a volunteer with Musicians On Call, you can brighten the days of patients – a truly rewarding experience.
As we continue to expand in Phoenix, financial support is needed. You can help support our program in Phoenix and expand to more facilities making a gift or starting a fundraising page with your community. Because Musicians On Call is a nonprofit organization, we rely upon the incredible generosity of supporters like you!
Stay up-to-date on the latest news in your area!

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With more than 2 million sweat glands located throughout the human body, why does sweat seem to primarily occur underneath the arms? The apocrine glands, which are particularly efficient sweat-producers, are located in the armpits.... Commercial-grade antiperspirants and deodorants only block some of the underarm sweating or mask the odor. Neither treats the cause or eliminates the symptoms for any user, and that is especially so for users with excessive perspiration. Home remedies can help the body eliminate toxins, prevent excessive sweating, and absorb the moisture before odor-causing bacteria invade the area.
Ben. Hi I'm Ben. I get pretty darn sweaty as I suffer from Hyperhidrosis. So I set out to provide advice and research on sweating causes, products and treatments.... Commercial-grade antiperspirants and deodorants only block some of the underarm sweating or mask the odor. Neither treats the cause or eliminates the symptoms for any user, and that is especially so for users with excessive perspiration. Home remedies can help the body eliminate toxins, prevent excessive sweating, and absorb the moisture before odor-causing bacteria invade the area.
If it’s causing you embarrassment and discomfort, you can seek BOTOX® treatments to stop the sweating. For about three to six months, underarm injections of BOTOX® will decrease the amount of sweat that you produce by up to 75 to 80 percent.... Below are some easy steps on How to Stop Sweating Armpits, Reduce, Get Rid of Sweaty Underarms, What to Do, Remedy, Treatment. Each person sweats.
If it’s causing you embarrassment and discomfort, you can seek BOTOX® treatments to stop the sweating. For about three to six months, underarm injections of BOTOX® will decrease the amount of sweat that you produce by up to 75 to 80 percent.
Commercial-grade antiperspirants and deodorants only block some of the underarm sweating or mask the odor. Neither treats the cause or eliminates the symptoms for any user, and that is especially so for users with excessive perspiration. Home remedies can help the body eliminate toxins, prevent excessive sweating, and absorb the moisture before odor-causing bacteria invade the area.
With more than 2 million sweat glands located throughout the human body, why does sweat seem to primarily occur underneath the arms? The apocrine glands, which are particularly efficient sweat-producers, are located in the armpits.


text: 39, of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, died in Honolulu on October 14, 2017. He was born in Honolulu. Visitation: 10:00 a.m.; Services: 11:00 a.m. on Sunday, November 12, 2017 at Mililani Mortuary, Makai Chapel.


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Villagers say they can't sell their dairy products now because of the contamination..
Some 200 residents of the village of Fantan, about 40 kilometers north of Yerevan have become ill from a disease transmitted by drinking water. Six are in serious condition and are being treated in infectious hospitals in Yerevan and Charentsavan.
The outbreak began in late March, but it was not until a month later that doctors in the Koytak region alerted the Ministry of Healthcare. About 1,100 people live in Fantan.
"Three members of my family are in serious condition," says 63 year old Margo Hovhanisyan. "We sold everything to buy medicines and then we realized that it was a completely different disease."
Doctors say the disease is tularemia, an ailment that effects the digestive system.
"Tularemia is a disease that is transmitted to people from animals, mainly from gnawing animals such as field and home mice, water rats," explains deputy head of the State Anti-epidemic Sanitary Department Ghazaros Hakobyan. "Our researches showed that drinking water became the cause of outbreak in Fantan village."
The specialist says germs of tularemia were detected in drinking water and in samples taken from mice roaming nearby.
Three members of Margo Hovhanisyan's family are sick.
"Today we can certainly say that the cause of the epidemic's outbreak and spread was drinking water flowing down to Fantan from Gutana Mountain. Numerous mouse holes were found near the source of that water," says Hakobyan. "Most likely, bodies of field mice infected with tularemia were in the water reservoir and they became the cause of the disease."
Medical specialists say that local authorities must bear responsibility for the incident as they should have provided sterility and safety of the drinking water's supply, cleaning the acquaduct from time to time.
Water reaches Fantan via deep troughs. Villagers say they don't remember when the troughs were last cleaned.
One villager says the outbreak started soon after pumps that kept water moving through the system were shut off due to unpaid electricity bills.
Head of Fantan village Valeri Ivanyan assures that he, himself, cleaned the water containers and that it was not possible there could be an infection like that there.
Khachik has been sick for 40 days..
"I wrote a letter to the Prime Minister asking him to help villagers," says Ivanyan. "Villages living in such difficult social conditions cannot pay 288,000 drams (about $500) monthly for getting water using pump technology and as a result of that we had to use naturally flowing water of Gutana Mountain. It is incomparably cheaper. Maybe they will help us?"
But before expecting help to come the situation remains strained in Fantan.
"My son is very seriously sick," says Zoya Barseghyan, looking at her 24-year old son Khachik. "We took him to Yerevan, however, 40 days have passed but nothing changed. Now we have only debts and hopeless days to spend."
Specialists of the Ministry of Healthcare assure that tularemia can be cured in 10 days with the help of antibiotics. But if the treatment fails, a patient could experience serious disorders in kidneys, liver and lymph glands.
"It will take 15 days to find out if the epidemic has died away. In any case all measures are undertaken for avoiding repeating such incidents in the future," says Hakobyan.
Valeri Ivanyan says he personally cleaned the water ducts.
Hakobyan says villagers have been vaccinated, that water purification tablets have been distributed and that water is now being trucked in to Fantan.
But one villager says the water is no longer being brought.
"It's the third day there is no water," says villager Zina. "For the first two days they had been bringing water by cars then they forgot about it and now each family is carrying water on foot from dawn to dusk from Charentsavan, which is located three kilometers away from the village. So, it's not clear yet what will be with people, who will answer for this is unclear as well."
Head of the village assure that everything can be supervised and in the nearest future the village will return to its normal life.
However, villagers unanimously agree that the village has been discredited as a result of tularemia.
"All those who are not from our village, avoid meeting us; they say that all of us are infected," they say. "And today we have two problems. First one is water and the second one is that we can sell neither milk, nor matsun (yogurt). We aren't even treated normal by other people. When we say we are from Fantan village, everybody close their doors."

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Is the Treasure Valley ready to support another indoor football team?
The season is March through June and is being marketed as affordable family friendly entertainment.. This is the first year for the American West Football Conference with teams in Boise, Sacramento, Reno, Tri-Cities and Wenatchee.
Idaho will play 12 regular season games, six at home and six on the road.
Indoor arena football has taken it's shot in the Treasure Valley before and failed so why will this effort be any different?
Individual game tickets will start at $12 dollars so even the cheapest seats in the house will cost a family of four $50 bucks to get in the door and so far the league really hasn't talked about the quality of players or quality of the game.
A recent release only claims the new league will give players a chance to continue their career.
No doubt it's always tough to kickoff something new so hats off for trying but Indoor football has been here, done that and left which tells me this will be a battle in marketing trenches for their to be a second season.
Is it worth giving a shot? Sure but it's also sure this will be the one shot the Horseman get to entertain and win a fan base.

industry_corpus2: Sports


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You can regrade a question for an assessment in Gauge. Regrading allows you to change the correct answer or point value for a question. The point value can also be changed for individual answers for questions with varied point values.
Regrading only applies to completed submissions. If all students will be affected by the regrade, please wait for all submissions before regrading.
Regrading is not available for Essay or File Upload questions. Only point values can be changed for Categorization questions; correct answers cannot be changed for this question type.
Click the Moderate icon for the assessment you want to view.
Note: The Moderate icon may not be available for teachers viewing institution-created assessments.
Click the link for a student attempt.
Find the question you want to regrade . Then click the Regrade button .
To change the correct answer for a question, select the correct answer for the question.
Note: This step shows how to regrade a Multiple Choice question. The steps to change a correct answer will vary based on the question type.
To customize the point value for the question, type the point value in the Points field .
If the question varies points by answer, the point total can be changed in the Points field for each question .
To save your choice and regrade the question, click the Regrade button .
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The U.S. Defense Department is expected to award the next big F-35 contract before the end of the year, marking three such deals in roughly a 12-month span, the head of Lockheed Martin Corp. said Tuesday.
Marillyn A. Hewson, chief executive officer of the plane's manufacturer, said she's optimistic her company and the Pentagon will strike a deal on the next low rate initial production, or LRIP, agreement as the number of Joint Strike Fighters coming off the line is "ramping up."
"We will continue to see cost reductions just through volume," she said on Tuesday during a daylong briefing with reporters at the company's offices in Arlington, Virginia, outside Washington, D.C.
Hewson said President Donald Trump, who has publicly criticized the cost of the program -- the Pentagon's most expensive estimated at $396 billion for 2,457 jets -- has thus far has not been involved in the negotiations.
Jeff Babione, the company's general manager overseeing the F-35 program, said of the talks, "We've provided our LRIP offer to the [Joint Program Office] and we have begun negotiations on the LRIP 11 contract at what will be more than 130 airplanes."
Lockheed had a chance to appeal the decision by Jan. 31 but opted against doing so. On Tuesday, company officials told Defense News the company will not sue the government over the way the contract was handled.
In February, the Pentagon announced an $8.2 billion deal for 90 new jets in LRIP 10. That pact was noteworthy because it marked the first time the unit price of an Air Force F-35A variant declined below $100 million -- to $95 million per aircraft, Babione said.
All the F-35s in need of insulation maintenance are back up and running, Babione said. "We just finished repairing all the planes in the factory," he said. "It's behind us and we're moving forward."
The service in September ordered a temporary stand-down of 13 out of 104 F-35s in the fleet "due to the discovery of peeling and crumbling insulation in avionics cooling lines inside the fuel tanks," according to a statement at the time. Two additional aircraft, belonging to Norway and stationed at Luke Air Force Base, Arizona, were also affected.
Babione said the company is moving quickly to repair the F-35C after it experienced rough acceleration during catapult-assisted takeoffs from Navy carriers -- a hit on the most-expensive variant in the program, which was estimated to take months to fix, according to an Inside Defense report.
Babione said Lockheed and partners recently finished some testing at Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst in New Jersey, "trying two different techniques. One was changing the way the pilot straps in -- how they get into the seat, how do they pull their harnesses," he said.
Additionally, he said, "we changed the hold-back fixture … a little less load holding the airplane back when it launches" which reduces the stored energy in the nose gear.
Engineers haven't yet determined whether one of or both techniques will be implemented, Babione said. Testing crews "will want to go back out to the carrier … sometime this fall," he said.
Hewson said the company will soon open a new facility in Pennsylvania to sustain F-35 production and boost job growth.
"We are finalizing our plans to expand production for components of the F-35 with a new leased facility in Johnstown," Pennsylvania, a move expected to add 40 jobs by 2018, she said.
The F-35 program will eventually create 15,000 direct jobs and 41,000 indirect jobs across the U.S. over the next few years, Hewson said.
The price of the F-35A variant -- the most popular export version -- has fallen 62 percent since the first batch of aircraft rolled off the production line, she said. The target cost of the aircraft is $85 million or less per plane by 2019, according to the company.
Hewson's comments come weeks after the F-35's program executive officer, Air Force Lt. Gen. Chris Bogdan, told lawmakers the jet's price tag has been steadily falling and could drop to as low as $80 million per plane.
Hewson said the F-35 program is the biggest driver of international growth for the company, with new partnerships and deliveries in 2016 with countries such as Denmark, Israel, Turkey and the Netherlands.
She said about 50 percent "of all F-35 orders over the next five years are expected to come from international buyers."
Babione also said the company is working to contain the cost of sustaining the aircraft -- an expense projected at more than $1 trillion over a 50-year lifetime. He said, "Our commitment, along with our JPO customers, is to try and drive out up to about $1 billion in operational costs by 2022."

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A healthy bra is a patented design bra with no under wires, stays, gel or padding that combines comfort, support with elegant styling, giving you a garment that makes you feel and look your best while directing your breast tissue properly.
The "healthy" part is reinforced through the findings of a Professional Postural Therapist. We know the body to be designed to allow for a multitude of functions to keep us alive, moving or standing on two feet. However, lifestyle, diet, profession, repetitive motions etc. all contribute to how well the human frame is supported in gravity. The more stress on the frame, not properly offset by functioning postural muscles allows for a slow collapse forward and down. This affects the proper functioning of the spine (bones, muscles and nerves), the communication network (nerves), the body's energy and waste removal systems (blood and lymphatic circulation and the body's life force (the breathing mechanism; the diaphragm). Weak structural support is epidemic.
For the support of the breasts, women have the "bra" if they choose to wear one. Indeed a proper fitting can and does support the proper spinal alignment assisting the muscles in "remembering" what to do. Postural muscles get a sort of non-functional amnesia. They need stimulation to bring them back into action. As the bra supports the breasts and reinforces the proper postural alignment, it POSITIVELY effects the gravitational load or "stress" on the body. So a properly fitting bra can affect a host of "gravitational stress symptoms" such as muscle and nerve pain, rotator cuff injuries, osteoarthritis, poor circulation, poor lymphatic drainage, poor and limited oxygenation of the body. Who knew that these things could have any relationship to a bra! We are not recommending that women wear bras if they do not want or need to. (yes this is a website that sells custom-fitted bras) We are speaking to the hundreds of thousands of women who wear them who could receive all the awesome benefits that come with being fit properly and bringing your body into a more positive postural alignment.
NO the healthy bra IS NOT being recommended in lieu of addressing the muscles that support the frame. It assists specially since the breasts have no muscle and rely on the chest and back muscles and the chest's ligaments for support. Gravity is not going away. Working against the pull of gravity is HARD, HARD work. When your body is balanced within the line of gravity the stress is amazingly offset. But most people have not felt this for a very long time. Even kids these days are starting their lives with unnecessary structural stress due to their genetic inheritance.
The secret of the patent design is a Banderin™ shelf that positions the breast tissue while also enhancing proper postural support enhancing proper circulation and lymphatic support. This is a HUGE breakthrough in garment design. It is not what it IS doing, it is what it is NOT doing. This garment does not inhibit the natural body's processes. One key element to mention is the body's ability to remove it's toxins through the lymphatic system. It has been well researched, that trapped toxins within the body contribute to a host of health concerns. But did you know that trapped toxins add to a sluggish internal environment, a poor functioning system and the body holding onto waste that it should be able to relinquish? This is part of the constitution of excess body weight. When we think of being overweight, we think of being overfat. That is only part of the picture. Many overweight individuals carry a great deal of excess in the form of fluid, toxins and other waste products that are NOT just a matter of FAT loss but a matter of regaining HEALTH and the proper functioning of this human machine - the body. Yes, your choice of BRA affects this weight maintenance system through it's tie to a proper functioning immune system.
How Can I Get a Healthy Bra?
First of all, YOU are unique. Your body shape is unique. Your breast size, shape and weight is unique. Your health issues are unique. You need a CUSTOM BREAST CONSULTATION and FITTING. Since 85% of bra-wearing women are wearing the wrong bra, you may count yourself as one of them.
To request a fitting information or appointment Click here.
The unique design, comprehensive measuring system and abundance of sizes ensures most women of the best custom fit (as opposed to custom-made). Women's stores, and bra and lingerie specialty stores generally carry universal sizes causing you to compromise your fit in some way because they do not carry "your custom size". Even if they do have an abundance of sizes, the proper fitting is critical. Even more important than that is the design of the garment. This makes all the difference in the world. Generally store bras offer support through the lift from the shoulder straps, the wire underneath or the tightness around so nothing moves. ALMOST ALL BRAS offer these support designs. Your custom fitting bra appointment brings you a highly skilled bra technician that will choose the bra that best fits the uniqueness of you. After she obtains your four measurements then she utilizes "bra math" to choose from the between 10-15 cup sizes that are available in your around (ribcage) size.
Do not hesitate if you are considering a weight change or pregnancy. The unique fitting process also accommodates a moderate amount of weight loss/gain. There is also a special fitting procedure for pregnant and nursing mothers to accommodate the engorgement phase.
Observing the laundering instructions is critical to the life of the garment as well as to maintain consistent fit through out the life of the bra. If you wear and wash the custom fitted bras according to instructions, they should outlast any department or specialty store bras 4 to one.
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It might be considered the most wonderful time of the year, but for small business owners the festive period can be nothing short of hectic.
The UK takes Christmas seriously, coming in as the highest-spending market in Europe with the average shopper expecting to fork out £567 this year. Add to that the boom in eCommerce – as a nation we spend nearly £1 billion a week online – and it’s safe to say retailers can expect a busy few weeks.
But Christmas is no longer just about shopping ‘til you drop: in recent years we have seen the rise of the experience economy, as consumers increasingly favour paying for memories such as eating out and live events instead of things. In fact, Brits are set to spend £1.6 billion on experience gifts this Christmas in an effort to cater for a ‘got it all’ generation, the latest research from Barclaycard reveals.
There are plenty of opportunities for small businesses to take advantage of the Christmas and New Year rush – but being prepared is key. We’ve rounded up the three things you need to get right over the coming weeks.
Almost two in five of us will leave our Christmas shopping until December, which can make for some extremely busy trading days in the final run up to Christmas. Making sure that you are prepared for the rise in footfall is essential.
In an increasingly cash-free world, you could be losing business by not allowing your customers to pay by card. As many as 10 million people in the UK alone will actively avoid restaurants, cafes, bars and shops that don’t accept card payments, research reveals.
And rather than relying on outdated or non-digitised inventory systems, in-store retail POS systems can allow you to check stock levels quickly and easily at your till point. This frees up time so staff can focus on ordering more stock, helping customers or working out ways to give shoppers the best experience in your store.
As the biggest online spenders in Europe, UK shoppers now spend an average of almost £300 purchasing goods online at Christmas. But today’s tech-savvy shopper can easily be put off by a bad experience when shopping online.
Providing customers with a smooth payment process is more likely to encourage repeat custom and prevent the dreaded abandoned basket.
eCommerce retailers lose out on a whopping £18 billion worth of sales each year as a result of purchases that are abandoned by shoppers before being completed, with some of the most common reasons including being faced with a complicated or lengthy check out process, a lack of trust in the payment page, or having to create an account in order to complete a purchase.
Having the right online payment gateway could not only encourage more transactions on your site, but help keep your customers coming back.
Brits might be famed for their ability to queue, but in the technology age customers increasingly expect lightning-fast service. During the festive rush, the sight of a lengthy queue may well send potential customers packing, causing you to miss out on business.
You could save your customers time and increase your income by offering contactless payment. More than half of UK consumers say they choose contactless because it saves time – 15 seconds compared to cash, and seven seconds compared to chip and PIN, to be precise. That quickly adds up: in a 10-person queue, using contactless saves 2.5 minutes. Over the course of a day, that could equate to a significant amount of extra income gained from the time saved – welcome news to any business.
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text: Use this genre based multiple choice test to determine if your third graders are ready for reading STAAR. Genres included are: fiction expository, and poetry. There are 5 selections with multiple choice questions for each passage. A word version and a pdf. of the test, plus the answer key are included in this zip file. Enjoy! This is my new 2014 version of STAAR practice.


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text: LAS VEGAS, Jan. 5, 2016—Simple Matters™, a Santa Monica-based technology company that creates simple and elegant solutions for everyday problems, announced today a mobile application upgrade for Ditto®, its new smartphone notification device. In this upcoming software release, available in early 2016, Simple Matters will expand Ditto’s compatibility with additional mobile applications, giving users a broader and more personalized experience. From transportation and food delivery, to dating, instant messenger and organization apps, updates will ensure Ditto continues to lead the way as the foremost universal and affordable smartphone notification device for the consumer market.


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There was amazing weather for this weekend. It started with a party for everyone contributing to the weekend and music with huge thanks to the Tarset Ceilidh Band and the Tarset Song Reivers. Over the course of the weekend we had about 150 visitors and 140 bookings on the walks. There was a great atmosphere and everybody seemed to enjoy it though a few found one or two of the walking routes more strenuous than anticipated.
Walking has been the source of inspiration for artists, poets, writers and thinkers for generations. It is also central to many people’s lives, be it for pleasure or livelihood. This unique two-day event at Highgreen brought together artists who have been specially invited to lead walks with people from other disciplines for whom walking is central. Together they were able to share their different approaches to and experiences of walking with the public through participatory walks, talks and workshops.
The focus of the weekend was to show how these experiences can be expressed creatively and how walking with awareness can heighten a sense of oneself in relation to our surroundings, places, wildlife and people. We had glorious weather and many visitors took part in the walks and other activities on offer.

industry_corpus2: Travel & Geography


text: Get the best deal on a used Ssangyong Korando car for sale in Brigg by making your way to Car & Caravan Co. Brigg Ltd today. You will find every available model listed here on the website, and as all our stock is competitively priced you should have no problem sourcing a pre-owned Ssangyong to suit your budget. Take the opportunity to browse our current range online before contacting a member of the showroom team to find out more. Our friendly and knowledgeable staff will be more than happy to answer any questions and provide advice and guidance when necessary. Alternatively, why not pay a visit to our showroom in person and take a closer look at the selection of used Ssangyong Korando models for sale.


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PALO ALTO, CA—October 9, 2018 – Menlo Security, a leader in malware isolation, today announced that it has joined the Palo Alto Networks® NextWave Partner Ecosystem, a community of world-class security experts and leaders providing a new approach to security to make breaches a thing of the past.
The partnership integrates the Palo Alto Networks Security Operating Platform with the Menlo Security Isolation Platform to provide joint customers with another technique to eliminate the risk of exploitations and further combat these threats as part of a defense in depth approach.
Rather than try to distinguish between safe and potentially harmful content, the Menlo Security Isolation Platform isolates and executes all web content, email links and documents in the cloud, then streams a malware-free version of the content to employees’ computers via Menlo’s patented Adaptive Clientless Rendering™ (ACR) technology, with a completely native experience.
With Menlo Security’s Isolation Platform, Palo Alto Networks customers steer potentially dangerous web traffic to Menlo’s Isolation Platform, executing all active content away from users’ PCs and other endpoint devices, while providing a transparent user experience and preserving the overall security status of the enterprise. The Menlo Security Isolation Platform also integrates the Palo Alto Networks WildFire® cloud-based malware analysis service, to protect against unknown malware in the event a document or file needs to be downloaded from the web. When a user accesses a website via the Isolation Platform, any downloads are analyzed by WildFire and the download is allowed or denied to reach the endpoint based on WildFire’s verdict.
Menlo Security protects organizations from cyberattacks by seeking to eliminate the threat of malware from the web, documents and email. Menlo Security's cloud-based Isolation Platform scales to provide comprehensive protection across enterprises of any size without requiring endpoint software or impacting the end-user experience. Menlo Security is trusted by major global businesses, including Fortune 500 companies and financial services institutions, and backed by General Catalyst, Sutter Hill Ventures, Engineering Capital, Osage University Partners, American Express Ventures, Ericsson Ventures, HSBC, and JP Morgan Chase. Menlo Security is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. For more information, visit https://www.menlosecurity.com or @menlosecurity.


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There's a lot of talk about officials that move between government agencies and the law firms that work for the industries those agencies regulate, but that talk rarely includes details.
Now the details are here. Thanks to a Freedom of Information Act Request filed by Bloomberg Businessweek, we get an inside look at the relationship between senior SEC regulators and a former commissioner turned Wall Street lawyer named Annette Nazareth.
All of the e-mails were written between February 2009 and May 2011, while Dodd-Frank legislation was being written and the Consumer Financial Protection Board was being formed. Nazareth was representing major Wall Street banks like Bank of America and JP Morgan for D.C. law firm Davis-Polk at the time.
So how close was Nazareth to SEC higher-ups after she left?
On June 27th 2010, Nazareth sent a dozen SEC officials an annotated copy of the Dodd-Frank bill with her commentary.
"In case you would find it helpful," Nazareth wrote to the group, many of them ex-colleagues.
Two hours later, SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro responded: "Thanks. We have our work cut out for us."
On November 10th, 2010, after former Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd released his 1,100 page version of Dodd-Frank, Nazareth sent a copy of her firm's bill summary to Schapiro and other SEC officials. "Thanks, this is very helpful," Schapiro responded.
"(SEC Council David) Becker told Nazareth that the summary was "really good" and noted that it "should go into extensive detail about the inanity of the Investor Advocate," a new SEC position dedicated to protecting investors.
"Give me time!" Nazareth replied. "I have also asked Sifma to trash it. They need to understand how terrible it could be for all." The idea is still in the bill, but the agency hasn't filled the job yet.
When Nazareth heard about the creation of the CFPB, she e-mailed SEC Council Becker and told him, "I'm beginning to feel ill."
Nazareth was able to schedule last-minute meetings with her former colleagues and even wrote an e-mail to Becker saying, "You never call. You never write. Do you have any time for lunch?" They met the next week.
Becker signed e-mails to Nazareth with, "You are a peach" and Nazareth let him know when he was being head hunted by law firms. Becker is now at Cleary Gottlieb.
Our favorite part: Becker told Nazareth how disappointed he was that he wouldn't be able to to go to her Washington star-studded Christmas party.
I n one note, Nazareth jokingly told Becker, "We expect Greenspan to lead us in a sing-along," referring to former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan. When Becker gave his regrets for her 2010 party he noted that, "In truth, I enjoy your holiday parties very much, not to mention seeing the host and hostess. It's the only place I get to see famous economists."
We wouldn't want to miss Greenspan in his Christmas sweater either.

industry_corpus2: Law & Justice


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Homeserve ruled out job cuts following a major company restructuring. The emergency repair and home insurance company said it would centralise its business by pulling together all support services, including HR and marketing, into one department, allowing managers to focus exclusively on operations.
Academy Insurance Services said it had invested in a new IT infrastructure with Open GI in order to accommodate recent acquisitions and manage its internet and email services.
UK poultry farmers could lose as much as £30m if the latest outbreak of avian flu spreads throughout the UK, according to Aon.
Record numbers of uninsured vehicles are being seized and crushed, according to figures released at the ABI’s motor conference. The use of automatic number plate recognition technology by the police has led to over 100,000 uninsured vehicles being seized so far this year, compared to 78,000 during 2006. Of these, some 45,000 have been crushed.
Lockton International appointed Duncan Urquhart as managing director for its international construction team. Urquhart joins Lockton from Oxygen, where he was head of the construction and power team.
GAB Robins’ pre-tax profit in 2006 was £814,000 not £16,000 as reported in last week’s issue, which was the company’s 2005 pre-tax profit.

industry_corpus2: Finance & Economics


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Maybe it just seems that it has to be a simple process because the definition is simple. Or maybe people really just don’t care about the particulars despite having formed an evidence-based opinion. Either way, few layfolk actually understand the process and it’s not that difficult to understand. And when you fully understand it, it’s very easy to use to your advantage.
As with everything these days, there’s a firm dichotomy on what you should believe about detox. You either absolutely need to do it once a month or you’ll be sorry, or paying attention to it’s a complete waste of time. And there are opinions on both sides of the aisle that are flat wrong.
There’s a vast amount of evidence in the scientific literature on this topic, and for good reason. Pharmaceutical companies have spent bazillions of dollars researching it because pharmaceutical drugs are processed in the exact same way that toxic substances are. Even steroid hormones your own body makes are processed this way.
There is tremendous utility in understand the detoxification process if you are experiencing an unexplained set of symptoms or a chronic illness. There are numerous components of processed as well as unprocessed whole foods that can change the way your body interacts with “toxins” as well as pharmaceutical drugs.
Both drugs and toxins are referred to as xenobiotics, molecules that are not native to your own body. Typically these xenobiotics are processed and sent packing by the 3 phases of detoxification, but many seemingly innocuous foods can alter these processes.
A great example is grapefruit, which is known to inhibit an enzyme that carries out the “detoxification” of many toxins and pharmaceutical drugs. As a result, many drugs carry a warning against the consumption of grapefruit because it can causes a dangerous accumulation of the drug in your blood.
Another great one is polysorbate 80, a common emulsifier used in processed foods. Polysorbate 80 inhibits a highly used transporter responsible for removing toxins from cells(1). Polysorbate 80 has also been shown to induce colitis in mice(2).
In my opinion, some food intolerances may not be due to an intolerance specifically to that food. Instead, certain components of food may interact with the detoxification process causing an accumulation of xenobiotics that may cause a bad reaction. Understanding detoxification and how your diet interacts with it may answer some questions you’re having problems answering.
Despite the piles of evidence on how the detoxification process works, people still hold incorrect opinions on how it can help them. For those who believe it’s worthless, the only harm is their ignorance on the subject. But to others trying to get rid of an unexplained illness, it can bring greater symptom flares and false hope.
So rather than wax poetic on the topic, let’s dig in. We’ll start with how toxins enter the body.
Every day we’re exposed to a boatload of toxins. Many believe this is a product of the modern world, but our ancestors were exposed to a boatload of toxins as well. The toxins they were exposed to were different, but they were toxic nonetheless. While yesteryear’s toxins were typically bacterial, plant, or animal in origin, today’s toxins tend to be from plastics, pesticides/herbicides, and household and beauty products.
Whether you’re being exposed to toxic chemicals from a flame retardant mattress or a toxin secreted by some bacterium that’s overgrowing in your gut, the process of detoxification is the same. Actually, if we want to be technical, what’s happening isn’t actually detoxification it’s biotransformation, but you probably don’t care about that.
Ultimately toxins are removed from the body in the feces, urine, and sweat. These substances are all water-based, so water-soluble toxins are sent packing efficiently by each of those methods.
Another “bonus” of water-soluble toxins is that you don’t tend to absorb them very well. The lungs, gut, and skin are all water-tight barriers composed of cells with a fatty cell membrane. This means that anything water-soluble remains out of the blood unless the cells making up these barriers have transporters or channels that bring them in to cells.
For example, many water-soluble vitamins have transporters that carry them in to cells. Sodium and glucose have transporters that carry them in to cells. Almost anything physiologically important to you that’s water-based has a specific transporter that carries it in to or across the cell. This doesn’t mean that water-soluble toxins can’t get in, but if they do they’re easy to get rid of anyway because they’re already water soluble.
But what about fat-soluble toxins, what’s the deal with them? Fat-soluble toxins that are small enough can freely enter cells because they can diffuse through the fat-based cell membrane. This isn’t an ideal situation.
When a fat-soluble toxins enters a cell it can damage them or even kill it. They can also traverse through a cell and into the blood if not caught in time. Fortunately we have a pretty solid means of dealing with them, both at the organ and cellular level.
For simplicity sake, let’s pick a typical route of toxin exposure, the gut. Let’s say you have some form of bacterial overgrowth in your gut and this bacteria is secreting a fat-soluble toxin. If it were water-soluble it would come in to contact with the epithelial cells that form your gut wall and get turned away. But since it’s fat-soluble, it just diffuses through the membrane and enters the cell.
The epithelial cells that make up the gut wall are pretty excellent at what they do. They, along with cells of the liver, are the best equipped to deal with fat soluble toxins because the cellular machinery is there in spades.
If everything goes peachy-keen, the gut cell converts the fat soluble toxin in to a water-soluble molecule and pumps it back in to the gut to be removed in the feces. Since it’s now water-soluble, it can no longer enter cells of your gut. Bacteria can muck up the process by deconjugating the toxin so that it’s fat-soluble again, but we’ll cover that in a later blog.
This process is great, but not 100% efficient. Some fat-soluble toxins manage to slip through the gut cell and enter the blood. Luckily, the vein they happen to enter just so happens to go directly to the liver, the portal vein.
Once in the liver, the fat-soluble toxin enters cells there and gets converted into a water-soluble molecule. From there it either enters the gallbladder and gets secreted back in to the gut via the bile or enters the circulation and leaves in the urine.
Again, not an infallible system but a great system nonetheless. The problem is you can absolutely exceed this systems ability to process fat soluble toxins many ways. First, a leaky gut not only removes the barrier, but it also removes the first line of cells that would process the fat-soluble toxin.
Second, inflammation in the gut inhibits the detoxification process. We know this happens because people with inflammatory bowel disease have defective detoxification pathways and have altered metabolism of pharmaceutical drugs.
Third, certain food components can inhibit different phases of detoxification. For example, grapefruit can inhibit phase 1 detoxification as well as phase 3. Turmeric can inhibit phase 1 detoxification as well, which we’ll cover a little later.
Finally, certain nutrients power all of these processes and they’re not infinitely available. Relying on specific pathways too much can deplete your ability to use that pathway. There are 3 phases of detoxification and each phase has multiple pathways to deal with a specific toxin.
For example, the second phase involves adding something to the toxin to make it water soluble. If you’re chronically exposed to something that relies on a specific pathway, and some other toxin exclusively uses the same pathway as well, that toxin can accumulate. And even though your trainer told you that the accumulation of toxins doesn’t happen, we inarguably know that it does. Let’s take a look at how.
In general, many toxins accumulate basically everywhere. I don’t mean everywhere in the human body, I mean everywhere in the world. These toxins accumulate in the soil, food chain, and even in the fat tissue of animals. Since they don’t biodegrade, they are often referred to as persistent organic pollutants(POPs).
Since these toxins don’t biodegrade, they accumulate in the soil. Since plants get their nutrition from the soil, many of these make their way in to the plant and some simply get consumed when an animals consumes the soil surrounding a plant. A great example of this is polychlorinated biphenyls, which were banned in 1979 but are still found in the soil and food chain.
These POPs are fat soluble, so they tend to accumulate in the fat of animals. So when you eat that hamburger that was once a cow that grazed on land containing PCBs, you absorb the PCB metabolites that cow had stored in its fat tissue. And when you kick the bucket and bacteria degrade you, the PCB makes its way back in to the soil.
So you are exposed to a significant number of toxins through the food chain. Once these fat soluble toxins enter your gut, they need to be processed or shunted away in fat before they pile up in the blood and overload the liver. But where’s the evidence that this happens?
Multiple lines of evidence point to the accumulation of toxins in fat tissue. First, studies that have sampled human fat tissue find the presence of pesticide residue metabolites(3, 4) and plastics(5, 6). If the gut and liver were completely capable of processing these toxins, we wouldn’t find them stored away in fat tissue.
But that’s not all. Over time, these toxins are slowly released in to the bloodstream from fat tissue, at levels tolerable to us, for further processing. The ultimate goal is to cnvert them in to water-soluble metabolites and send them packing. Unfortunately, if you’re trying to lose weight, the metabolism of fat tissue that happens with fat loss can cause these toxins to get released more rapidly(7, 8).
Even if you thought these studies were fraught with tainted samples, there’s a common example of how this happens. When you take a drug test for a job, the test relies on this process to determine if you’ve used marijuana recently.
THC, the active component of marijuana, is fat-soluble. Since it’s fat-soluble, it shows up in your urine for days to months after you last used it. That’s because it gets stored away in your fat cells and released over time, as mentioned above. Once released, it goes to the liver, gets converted to something that’s water soluble, re-released into the blood or lymph, and dumped in the urine.
So the test isn’t only measuring whether you’ve smoked marijuana, it’s also measuring how effectively you use that particular set of detoxification pathways. You pee in a cup and pass or fail depending on the efficacy of the 3 phase detoxification process. Factors that determine this are how much fat you carry, how often you smoke marijuana, how long it’s been since you last smoked, and how well these pathways are running.
This system is fantastic in its simplicity and is no different whether you’re dealing with pot, pesticides, or plastics. So let’s further examine the 3 phase process of detoxification.
Going back to our example of a bacterial overgrowth secreting a toxin, let’s look at the precise ways that this toxin gets dealt with. The first step in understanding begins once the fat-soluble toxin diffuses through the cell membrane and into the cell.
In this illustration, ligand refers to something that binds to a receptor. For our purposes, ligand refers specifically to a fat-soluble toxin. Other potential ligands include pharmaceutical drugs, hormones, metabolites from commensal bacteria, and certain components found in food.
Pregnane X receptor(PXR)-Ligands include many pharmaceutical drugs and pesticides, endogenous steroid hormones, bile acids, and antibiotics.
Constitutive androstane receptor(CAR)-Ligands include certain pharmaceutical drugs and pesticides, DHEA, bilirubin, bile acids, and phenobabrital.
Aryl hydrocarbon receptor(AHR)-Ligands include components of plastics and bilirubin.
All 3 receptors also have ligands that bind polyphenols in food and metabolites from commensal bacteria. These receptors are held in the cytoplasm until a ligand binds to them. Upon binding, the receptors carry the ligand to the nucleus and initiate some combination of the 3 phases of detoxification.
Once the receptor chaperones the ligand to the nucleus, gene expression is altered in a way that promotes the conversion of the fat-soluble ligand in to a water-soluble molecule and removes it from the cell. This is done by upregulating genes that perform the 3 phases of detoxification.
Phase 1 detoxification(Oxidation, reduction and hydrolysis)-Phase 1 detoxification is mostly carried out by cytochrome p450(CYP450) enzymes, of which humans have 43 different types. Each CYP450 metabolizes a specific set of xenobiotics. Ligands can activate and/or deactivate a number of CYP450 enzymes when carried to the nucleus. The purpose of phase 1 detoxification is to make the ligand more water-soluble or to make it compatible with phase 2 detoxification. Sometimes, the products of phase 1 detoxification are actually more toxic than the original ligand, but they are either more water-soluble or compatible with phase 2.
Phase 2 detoxification(Conjugation)-Phase 2 detoxification involves conjugation of the ligand with a charged substrate. The 6 processes that are involved in phase 2 detoxification are methylation, sulphation, acetylation, glucuronidation, glutathione conjugation, and glycine conjugation. Depending on the ligand bound to the receptor, the appropriate phase 2 enzyme is induced to turn the ligand fully water-soluble and non-toxic. The particular enzyme that gets induced depends on the shape of the molecule being compatible with the particular enzyme. Ligands can either directly enter phase 2 if they have the proper conformation or must enter phase 1 first to make them compatible.
Phase 3 detoxification(Transport)-After phase 2 detoxification, the product molecule is fully water-soluble and can be released from the cell. During phase 3 detoxification, the molecule binds to a transport receptor that kicks the molecule out of the cell and either in to the bloodstream or back in to the gut. P-glycoprotein, one of the primary phase 3 transporters, is responsible for pumping toxins back in to the gut for elimination in feces. It also sends toxins from the liver in to the gallbladder for excretion in bile.
So, as you can see, the basics of detoxification at the cellular level are actually quite simple. First, a fat-soluble xenobiotic diffuses across the cell membrane of a cell and enters the cytoplasm. Once there, it floats around until it comes in to contact with a receptor that binds it. Once bound to the receptor, the xenobiotic is chaperoned to the nucleus where some combination of the 3 phases of detoxification turn it water-soluble and spit it out.
If everything worked out perfectly, cells would literally spit out toxins as they encounter them. Unfortunately that’s almost never the case. Some toxins can accumulate in the blood or tissues, which is in agreement with findings showing metabolites of toxins in fat tissue.
Sometimes toxins get through the gut and liver, or enter through the skin or lungs. Fortunately many cell types express a high level of xenobiotic receptors to help prevent major problems. The lungs, liver, gut, and kidneys are all highly capable of transforming fat-soluble toxins in to water-soluble metabolites and kicking them out of the body.
A toxin may begin transformation in the gut, make it to the liver, and enter the general circulation only to be kicked out in the urine via the kidneys. A toxin may somehow bypass all security systems and make it in to cells of the blood brain barrier where it binds PXR and gets kicked out by P-glycoprotein. Some toxins, particularly ones absorbed through the skin like bisphenol A(BPA), may get partially metabolized, stored away in fat, and released when you sweat(9).
You encounter many toxins every day and each is dealt with in a specific manner. In general, I don’t think this is something you need to go crazy over. However, if you have a reason to believe you have symptoms that are caused by an accumulation of toxins, the standard cleanse/detox approach is probably not the best option.
It would be great if optimizing detoxification were as simple as throwing a bunch of turmeric at it, but it’s nowhere near that simple. In fact, I consider turmeric/curcumin a perfect example of why the general shotgun approach is probably not the best for most people.
Curcuminoids, the active constituents of turmeric, activate the pregnane X receptor and induce phase 2 detoxification. This is great, but at the same time they block phase 1 detoxification. In this situation, turmeric will speed up the processing of toxins that can go right in to phase 2 detoxification, but impede the detoxification of toxins that must go through phase 1 detoxification first.
Another problem with turmeric is that it’ s typically taken with piperine to enhance absorption from the gut. On their own, curcuminoids are quickly “detoxified” in epithelial cells and spit back in to the gut by P-glycoprotein. Piperine works by blocking P-glycoprotein, which is probably not something you want to do if you’re trying to prevent the absorption of toxins from the gut. It’s great for improving the absorption of turmeric from the gut, though.
Overall, you have a pretty good capacity to detoxify the many xenobiotic compounds you come in to contact with. Despite this fact, toxins can become problematic and accumulate in the blood and fat. During periods of fasting and weight loss, these toxins can be slowly released in to the blood and affect physiology. This is particularly concerning for endocrine disruptors such as BPA and PCBs which mimic hormones.
This by no means gives credence to the popular cleanses/detoxes that precede many diet programs. Throwing a bunch of random nutrients that all induce and inhibit different detoxification enzymes probably won’t do much, and even if it does it’s probably as likely to create a problem than to solve it.
Did this blog scratch an itch? Are you looking for something a little more…usable for you? Well, I’m thinking of generating a pre-tox checklist, basically a to-do list to get started on using the science of detoxification to your advantage.
Buuuut…I need a little motivation. You see, it takes a loooooooooong time to write these blogs and I want my readership up. So, I just need you to do 2 things to motivate me. First, like my facebook page here. Second, share this article from there so others can read it.
I have a number of “likes” and “shares” in my head that I want to reach. If I hit that number, I’ll make this pre-tox checklist public. If not, I feel like I gotta pay you somehow…So I’ll send it to anyone who likes the page and shares the article. I’ll give it 2 weeks, so please, like and share.
Hey Karen, I never really saw any interest so I never moved forward with the pre-tox checklist. What is it you are looking to do and maybe I can point you in the right direction if I have any blogs to help? At this point I’ve moved most of my private blogs public that would contain that info so everyone has access. Thanks for reading and sharing!
Thank you for this very insightful article and great website too. You’ve really done a great job and research for this topic about detoxification. Good job.

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Yoga guru Baba Ramdev Saturday criticised the Congress party for nominating cricketing legend Sachin Tendulkar to the Rajya Sabha, calling it a ploy to distract public attention.
“Congress, which is a sinking ship, denied him (Tendulkar) the Bharat Ratna but is nominating him to the Rajya Sabha as a tactic to distract the media and people from issues such as black money and corruption,” said Ramdev at a press conference here.
“If inducting cricketers and celebrities in parliament can bring back black money back into the country, I request the people in power to induct every cricketer and celebrity,” he said.
He claimed that political pressure was being put on Tendulkar from several quarters to accept the nomination.
On his decision to join hands with activist Anna Hazare to fight corruption, Ramdev said “political forces” were questioning his decision.
“Some corrupt corporates and political leaders are not comfortable with us coming together. So, they keep questioning our unity,” he said.
“Neither Anna Hazare nor me claimed that we were going to unite our two campaigns. But we’ll keep coming together whenever needed just like we have planned for June 3,” he said.
Ramdev said there was no rift between him and Hazare, and that their “frequencies matched”.
He said just and equitable institutions needed to be put in place of corrupt institutions. For this, he would keep a fast along with Hazare at Jantar Mantar on June 3.
During the press meet, Ramdev also announced his itinerary for the thrid part of his Bharat Swabhiman Yatra. He said the journey would start May 1 and end June 3 with the fast at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi.
“During the ‘yatra,’ people in power will try to malign me, which is expected. But when that happens, I request the media to also hear our side of the story so that the complete picture can come out in the public,” he said.
After a gap of six months portals of famous Himalayan shrine Kedarnath today reopened for pilgrims. The temple, situated in Rudraprayag district at a height of 3,584 meter, was reopened at 0715 hours in the morning according to ‘mahurat’, sources said.
The ‘mahurat’ was decided on Mahashivrati at Ukhimath area on February 20. The head priest of the temple, Rawal, performed the ‘Abhishek’ after openeing of the doors, sources said. Thousands of pilgrims flocked the temple after opening of the doors.
The Chardhams, comprising the shrines of Badrinath, Kedarnath, Gangotri and Yamunotri in Garhwal Himalayas reopen for pilgrims in April-May every year after remaining closed for nearly six months during winters as the area remain snow-bound during the period. The annual Chardham yatra is considered as a backbone of the thriving religious tourism in the state that attracts nearly 15-16 lakh pilgrims every year from home and abroad.
Delhi’s anti-corruption ombudsman Manmohan Sarin today advocated the need for social boycott of the corrupt and rued the “indifference” of the silent majority towards the menace.
“Unless people condemn, despise, and excommunicate the dishonest, the corrupt will continue to enjoy status and respect in society”, Sarin said speaking at the launch of ‘Advocacy and Legal Advice Centre Helpline’ by Transparency International India.
“The indifference of silent majority is the real cause of corruption. Till you are not personally affected by corruption, you look the other way”, he said. The Lokayukta lamented that complicated laws and lengthy judicial procedures help the corrupt to go scot free.
“Corrupt people go scot free due to long time of trial and I have no hesitation in saying that the truth is that people with money get away”, he said. “Laws are complicated and are not citizen friendly which gives an opportunity to authorities for corrupt practises”, he said. He asked the media to run a sustained campaign against corruption. “The media should not stop at just one report.
It has to be a sustained campaign against wrong. It is the duty of media”, he said. Advocating administrative and financial autonomy for Lokayukta office, he said that in states where the Chief Minister is not included under Lokayukta, the Lokayukta does not face any problem. “States where the Chief Minister does not come under Lokayukta Act, there is no problem faced by the Lokayukta”, he said.
He said that instilling moral and ethical values in people at young age can help in tackling corruption. “The fall in moral values in society is also to be blamed for rising corruption.
We should catch people young and give them moral and ethical values”, he said. The toll free helpline number of ‘Advocacy and Legal Advice Centre’ by Transparency International India will inform citizen about their legal rights, provide legal assistance and equip them to take action on cases of corruption that they have been victims of.
“A victim of corruption can call our helpline and take legal advice from our lawyer. After that if they need any assistance in drafting complaint and approaching the right department, our team will help them”, P S Bawa, Chairman Transparency International India said. Transparency International India is the accredited India chapter of the international civil society organisation based in Berlin.
Megastar Amitabh Bachchan today said that actress Rekha and cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar “deserved” to be nominated to the Rajya Sabha.
“In each session of Parliament, President nominates few set of people for Rajya Sabha from the fields of art, film etc.
It is an honorary position. Whoever nominated for this (Rajya Sabha) are deserving people (sic),” Big B told reporters at an event held for promotion of his soon-to-be-released film, ‘Department’. “I remember even (actress) Nargisji was nominated for Rajya Sabha,” he said.
However, the nomination of the maestro to the Upper House seems to have not gone down well with actor Sanjay Dutt. “It is an honour to be in Rajya Sabha. I am a die-hard fan of Sachin…he is a pride…jewel of India. But I am not happy that he is a Rajya Sabha member….he should have been the way he is,” Dutt said.
When asked if being a parliamentarian will be too demanding for Rekha and Sachin, Bachchan said, “It is their personal decision…leave it to them”. Meanwhile, filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma, who was also present on the occasion, evaded direct reply on the issue, saying, “I have no idea about cricket and politics”.
ISRO has said the indigenously built Radar Imaging Satellite (RISAT-1), launched on April 26, has been placed in its final Polar Sun-synchronous Orbit of 536 km height.
“PSLV-C19 had placed RISAT-1 in a polar orbit of 470 km X 480 km. As planned, on April 27-28, the satellite propulsion system was used in four orbital manoeuvres to raise the height of the orbit of RISAT-1 to 536 km,” ISRO said in a statement here.
The satellite is now in its final orbital configuration and in good health. In the coming days, various elements of the C-band Synthetic Aperture Radar will be tested and calibrated as a prelude to payload operations, it said.
“As compared to the optical remote sensing satellites that depend upon sunlight, the Synthetic Aperture Radar of RISAT-1 transmits its own radar pulses (at 5.35 GHz) to study the objects on Earth. This facilitates (i) cloud penetration and (ii) imaging even without sunlight. For RISAT-1, imaging sessions around both 6 AM and 6 PM have been chosen,” it said.
The 1,858 kg RISAT-1, whose images will facilitate agriculture and disaster management, was launched on board the PSLV-C19 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, around 90 km from Chennai.
The Amnesty International has appealed to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to take steps for immediate release of all protesters arrested in connection with the anti-Koodankulam Nuclear plant agitation and drop “false” charges against them.
Amnesty International members also referred to S.P.Udhayakumar, PMANE convenor’s charge that the Indian authorities had “failed” to respond satisfactorily to several site and safety concerns raised by an independent group of experts.
They expressed “dismay” that officials belonging to the Home Ministry searched Udhayakumar’s home and that police had “harassed” shop-keepers who were in solidarity with the protesters.
“The charges against the protesters constitute a deliberate attempt by the authorities to silence them despite the fact that the protests had been peaceful,” the letter to the Prime Minister said.
Amnesty International members who have signed the letter include senior functionary Peter Cattan of Switzerland. A copy of the letter was released to the press here today.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday hinted at an impending hike in fuel prices saying that there is need for such an exercise to balance the effects of the spiralling oil import bill.
“With imports accounting for about 80 percent of our crude supplies, the spiralling prices of crude in the international market have put a severe strain on our import bill,” Singh said in a speech while inaugurating a refinery here.
“We also need to rationalize prices and at the same time ensure that the poor and needy are shielded from the effects of such a rationalization,” he said.
The prime minister’s comments came in the wake of demands by oil marketing companies (OMCs) which say they either be allowed to raise petrol prices or the government should compensate them for the underrecoveries. The OMCs say their inability to raise prices from Dec 16, 2011 to March 31, 2012 has resulted in total under-recovery of Rs.2,287 crore.
“The challenges we face on the energy front are formidable. We need adequate supplies of energy at affordable prices. Domestic sources of crude oil and gas are inadequate to meet the growing demands of our rapidly expanding economy,” he said.
India also needed to conserve energy and there was “no room for inefficient and wasteful usage of fuel”, said the prime minister.
The 60 Years of Queen Elizabeth’s reign will be celebrated in Britain with Rajasthani touch.
The 11-member Jaipur Maharaja Brass Band will perform in London June 2 and 3 rubbing shoulders with famous artists like Elton John in presence of heads of several states and world renowned personalities.
“The organising committee of these events examined our previous international performances over the past ten years and selected the Jaipur Maharaja Brass Band to perform at London,” the band’s group leader Amrit Hussain said.
“It is a very big event and we are unable to express our happiness in words. We expect to enthrall the audience and our aim is to give a taste of Indian music to the international audience with Indian and Rajasthani traditional music with a mix of Western instruments,” he added.
The band will use a mix of traditional Indian and Western instruments to perform popular Bollywood, jazz, pop and self-composed music, making it the first group from India to perform at such an event, Hussain claimed.
He said over the past nine years, the band has performed at about 600 concerts in 40 countries. It has participated in prestigious music festivals like Sziget (Hungary), Paleo (Switzerland), and Pori Jazz Fest (Finland).
Originating from Jaipur, the city of the maharajas, the band consists of seven to eight musicians, a female traditional Rajasthani dancer and a juggler or fire eater. They play a range of traditional brass instruments, including trumpets, trombones, tubas, clarinets, tabla, base drum and saxophones and perform traditional dances.
Amrit said that roots of the Indian brass band music go deep into the subcontinent’s colonial past.
“Introduced in the middle of the 18th century by the British, thousands of brass bands play at carnivals, national or religious festivals and local marriage celebrations across the country. In Rajasthan alone, there are over 2,000 brass bands performing regularly,” he added.
“We have tried to include in our team the best performers out of the 2,000-odd brass bands,” he added.
In a move to curb corruption in government offices, Jharkhand Chief Minister Arjun Munda has given his consent to an ordinance to set up special courts which will have the power to seize/attach properties of corrupt officials.
“Chief Minister Munda has given his approval to set up ‘Jharkhand special court ordinance 2012′. The ordinance has been sent to the governor for notification,” an official of the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) told IANS Saturday.
The special courts will issue notices within 30 days of the petition against the tainted officers.
To fight corruption in government offices, Jharkhand has already formulated the Right to Services Act and the Electronic Delivery Services Act.
India’s nominee, Justice Dalveer Bhandari, a sitting judge of the Supreme Court, has been elected to the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the first time an Indian has managed to get this key international post in over two decades.
Bhandari secured 122 votes in the United Nations General Assembly against 58 for his Filipino rival, Syed Akbaruddin, the spokesperson of the external affairs, said here.
In simultaneous elections Friday at the UN headquarters in New York, Bhandari also secured an absolute majority in the Security Council.
In the election to the ICJ, a primary judicial organ of the United Nations, commonly referred to as the World Court, Bhandari was locked in a fierce contest with Justice Florentino P. Feliciano of the Philippines.
Bhadari takes the place of Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh of Jordan who resigned from the Asia-Pacific region seat at the end of 2011.
An eminent legal luminary, Bhandari will serve the remainder of the term 2012-18. India was last represented at the ICJ more than two decades ago.
The 64-year-old Justice Bhandari has variegated experience in international law and is well-versed with the working of the UN. Bhandari has been on India’s apex court since 2005 and has served in the higher Indian judiciary for over two decades. He will retire in September this year. He served as the chairperson of the Delhi Centre of the International Law Association for several years.
Bhandari is also a member of leading international academic and legal bodies and is closely associated with a large number of committees dealing with various aspects of international law such as: human rights, biotechnology, sustainable development, securities regulation, trade, nuclear weapons, non-proliferation and contemporary international law and space.
Acknowledging his outstanding contribution, the Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago, US while celebrating its 150 Years (1859-2009) selected Bhandari as one of its 16 most illustrious and distinguished alumni.
In New Delhi, the Supreme Court Thursday had refused to quash Bhandari’s nomination as a judge for the ICJ.
Established in June 1945 by the charter of the United Nations, in The Hague, Netherlands, ICJ’s role is to settle, in accordance with international law, legal disputes submitted to it by States and to give advisory opinions on legal questions referred to it by authorised United Nations organs and specialised agencies.


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One of the ways in which you can succeed at your workplace is by understanding your boss and learning what impresses him or her. For a start, you need to know the personality type; this will give you an idea on how you can draw your boss close to you and get to impress. With such endeavors, you can easily get what you need to make your career successful.
Due to their interest in others and eagerness to help others develop and grow, sometimes they are referred to as teachers’ personalities. Other characteristics that are used to describe the ENFJ personality type include: idealistic, creative, social, warm and charismatic. With this kind of character, they can thrive in different environments, take up diverse roles and rise to any level of seniority at their workplaces due to the fact that they are likable persons and possess qualities that propel them to succeed. Here we will explore how one can impress an ENFJ boss.
In order for you to know how to handle an ENFJ you must be able to recognize them; they come off as natural teachers, they will often be found organizing people in activities that help them improve their lives. They are in charge of the situation and ready to guide a group towards experiences and activities which will help them grow. They intuitively recognize the abilities of others and with warmth and charm encourage them to pursue their dreams and aim at greater development while using their strengths. They portray dynamisms, productivity and are often energized especially when leading others in discovering themselves and mastering new knowledge. They are eager to help others solve issues in their lives, often sharing insights about people, their motivations and emotions. They portray great empathy and sometimes they may become over-involved to the detriment of their relationship with others as well as becoming exhausted especially when there are too many negative emotions surrounding them.
When it comes to communication, ENFJs are compassionate and warm people; they have a great enthusiasm for others and are great in welcoming other people’s ideas. They aim at understanding what is important to others and with that information they can take actions which help to improve the situation. They are always ready to offer support and affirmation, ensuring that all those involved get to know that their ideas are welcome and valued. ENFJs are good at making connections; they connect with diverse personalities and creatively come up with solutions which have others in mind, always attempting to accommodate other people’s needs. They come off as natural mentors and teachers; eager to show the way and help others improve themselves.
Be aware that you are dealing with a perfectionist and an idealist; a boss that has an ideal vision and will do everything possible to achieve it. In the same way, they will demand discipline, strict time observance and a high level of organization from the employees.
They often fall into the trap of biting off more than they can chew; they can be involved in many projects especially in areas they have great passion. Due to the fact that they are eager to please and have an obligation to finish what they have started, they may get overcommitted, leading to missing some important details or failure of the undertaking.
ENFJs make strong leaders; persons who have clear ideas on what needs to be accomplished and makes an organization better. They are confident in their mission and often try to balance goals orientation with a focused interpersonal process. They require others to cooperate and want them to be on board both in spirit and action. They are helpful to employees and often help them to develop in their careers as well as becoming better persons in society. They get encouraged when those they are trying to help out move along but also get discouraged when the ones they are trying to help are not willing to tag along. The deep need for appreciation makes them disappointed and drained especially when they fail to elicit support for their values and ideas. They do not like an environment which has ongoing conflict, they prefer working in situations where people are eager to learn and make a difference in their work and lives.
To impress an ENFJ boss, you need to learn their likes and avoid things that disappoint them. Given that these personalities are natural teachers, people who are willing to help others and have great empathy for others, this will not be hard to achieve. You should not be afraid of failure when around such personalities; they will always be willing to help out. These are bosses who will help you realize your potential. How lucky you are to have an ENFJ boss, they are rare characters; people who are ready to help others deal with their life issues and make them better persons.
How is your experience with your ENFJ boss? Comment below and share with us!