.

Remember, these two meals contain the exact same carbohydrate grams and calories, yet they have much different effects on fat production and hunger response.  Given this dynamic, what determines and controls the glycemic load of different carbohydrates is important.  The simplest and most useful marker is the sugar to fiber ratio.

Remarkably, a good whole food, low glycemic load diet has about a 1:1 sugar to fiber ratio.  The current U.S. average is about 12:1.  This is the result of both adding sugar to just about all manufactured foods and the removal of fiber during processing.  The 1:1 ratio in a whole food diet comes from about 50 grams of natural sugars per day and about 45 grams of natural fiber.  The average daily intake of fiber in the U.S. is about 12-15 grams, while the average sugar intake is 180-220 grams.  The U.S. fiber intake doesn’t look that bad in light of the currently recommended amount of 14-15 grams.  This is the disconnect between current research and typical policy and recommendations.

In the next blog post I will talk about some of the new research documenting the disease risks associated with the U.S. “diet du jour” of low fat processed foods where the fiber which is reduced by processing and sugar are actually driving risk factors.  The very blood lipid abnormalities associated with diabetes and many cases of heart disease such as elevated triglycerides, low HDL or good cholesterol and very small dangerous cholesterol particles are driven by a low fat diet with a high sugar to fiber ratio.

A closing thought is necessary. Why would we be refining fiber out and adding huge amounts of sugar to almost everything when it has important adverse health effects?   Sugar drives consumption and fiber drives satiety or the signal “I have had enough”.  A high sugar to fiber ratio artificially manipulated in food gets us to consume and therefore buy more food.  See, someone is looking out for us!

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  1. Nathella says:

    Food and nutrition are highly neglected today, and such articles can really help people in getting the right information

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I want to find a example of a manifold that has positive scalar curvature but is not half conformally flat.

Does there exists such manifolds?

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up vote 12 down vote accepted

Take $S^2\times S^2$ with the standard product metric. It has positive scalar curvature, it can't be conformally flat because it's simply connected and compact and yet not the $4$-sphere, and it can't be conformally half-flat because switching orientation on one of the two factors gives an isometric manifold but switches self-dual and anti-self dual parts of the Weyl curvature (so if either part vanished, the other would as well, implying that the metric is conformally flat, which, as has been established, cannot be the case).

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<|endoftext|>The dog digs a hole with its paw, and the farmer with the pen. What the farmer does with the pen is dig a hole.<|endoftext|>Julián Castro's Message: What San Antonio Can Teach Us About Government and Growth

Mayor Julián Castro understands the power of government during economic downturns. Will he address this at the Democratic National Convention?

Julián Castro, the 37-year-old mayor of San Antonio, will deliver a keynote address tonight, on the first day of the Democratic National Convention. While not yet a major national figure, Castro is nonetheless one of the brighter Hispanic stars in a party that relies heavily on dominating the non-white vote. But even without his telegenic youth and background, Castro is still a perfect opening savlo against a GOP convention that praised entrepreneurs who succeeded on their own - "We Built That" - without the help of government.

That's because, in San Antonio, government spending has made all the difference.

In 2010 I went to San Antonio to find out what made it the "most recession-proof city in America." What became clear very quickly, from studying metro statistics and speaking with business leaders and Castro himself, was that, for much of the last decade, San Antonio was a tortoise in a country full of hares. While much of the Sun Belt saw massive population growth and booming economies on the back of rising housing prices, San Antonio grew steadily, without a big home-price boost.

The city is powered by three major industries, all directly or indirectly supported by government, which I'll call: eds, meds, and enlisteds. Education, medicine/biosciences, and military and local government spending employed a third of the city's workers in 2010. Its 31 colleges and universities (mostly public) enrolled another 100,000 students, boosting the cities population by 8 percent in school time. Hundreds of thousands more jobs are in low-paying services that would not have existed without government-supported hospitals and military spending.

Many of the people I met in San Antonio, including the mayor, praised the city's patience with economic growth. But something like luck played a big role, as well. In the latest military realignment round, San Antonio got a $2.2 billion investment to build the nation's largest new military medical complex at Fort Sam Houston, to go along with its two Air Force training centers. Would San Antonio have had the same recovery record without its windfall from Washington? We simply don't know. But it's not likely.

In our interview, Castro acknowledged that the bedrock of San Antonio's economy was not in bright shiny venture capital industries (in fact, the city's information sector is shrinking), but rather in safe and conservative industries that were largely non-cyclical, and therefore recession-proof. He further conceded that the city was blessed by the most uncontrollable factor of all: geography. "We've got lots of affordable land," he told me, which helps keep housing prices low. The proximity to the border creates a "constant supply of labor [that] feeds the hospitality industry" and keeps wage levels down.

And then there's history: "The banking practices in Texas since the Savings & Loan blowout of the 1980s have been a little bit more conservative, more cautious, than around the nation," Castro said, explaining the city's relatively buoyant housing prices. "Another thing is the tax scheme in Texas is heavily dependent on property taxes and discourages [real estate appreciation] more than a state that relies on sales taxes primarily."

The upside of slow-and-steady growth is that when the world is falling apart around you, you look pretty good. In fact, San Antonio was perhaps the most resilient city in the 18 months after the crash precisely because so much of its activity revolves around government. The downside of slow-and-steady growth is that, well, it's slow. San Antonio is not a rich metro. In fact, it is still poorer than mid-level cities like Oklahoma City. Mayor Castro told me he wouldn't mind breaking out of the city's "tortoise" reputation. Rapid development in high technology "might leave San Antonio more vulnerable to the ups and downs of the economy," he said, "but the rise in income levels is worth that trade-off."

Unfortunately, keynote speeches are not prized moments of economic nuance. I don't know what Castro is going to tell tonight's audience. But the mayor I met in San Antonio two years ago understood the power of government and publicly supported industries during economic downturns. But he also understood that you can't achieve breakaway growth by relying on military and health care spending to drive your economy. By acknowledging the roles that geography and recent history play in determining the short-term trajectory of cities, he didn't pretend that San Antonio was transcendentally special in its approach to business. He seemed dangerously close to admitting something politicians rarely say out loud: Local history, randomness, and geography play a disconcertingly large role in the fortunes of individual states and metros.

The theme of the RNC would have had you think that entrepreneurs exist in a world devoid of exogenous forces, that the right amount of internal willpower is enough to make any business thrive, and that government can only get in the way of the entrepreneur. The DNC would be equally misleading if its speakers try to pretend that the choices government makes are the only things that matter to an economy. In fact, Castro's city is a good reminder that government has a role in supporting economic growth, but that dependence on government-protected industries carries the risk of atrophying a local economy.

That is a terribly complicated story to tell. I hope Castro tells it.

Photo credit: Jo Ann Snover /Shutterstock

This post originally appeared on The Atlantic.

About the Author
<|endoftext|>Tango's Revenge

They call it new tango and for this group of young, gifted musicians, new is an understatement. The sounds rippling out of Argentina today have nothing to do with your father’s tango or even the strains you might hear at the tango dance school down the street. The nascent, percussive music being played in little clubs and on street corners is more world beat than tango. Full of anger and tragedy, jazz rhythms and rock beats, new tango music pulsates like Buenos Aires itself.

Tango’s Revenge tells the story of this musical revolution and how a group of gifted, young artists have taken as their mission to redefine the sound and culture

 a much longer interval.

Remember, these two meals contain the exact same carbohydrate grams and calories, yet they have much different effects on fat production and hunger response.  Given this dynamic, what determines and controls the glycemic load of different carbohydrates is important.  The simplest and most useful marker is the sugar to fiber ratio.

Remarkably, a good whole food, low glycemic load diet has about a 1:1 sugar to fiber ratio.  The current U.S. average is about 12:1.  This is the result of both adding sugar to just about all manufactured foods and the removal of fiber during processing.  The 1:1 ratio in a whole food diet comes from about 50 grams of natural sugars per day and about 45 grams of natural fiber.  The average daily intake of fiber in the U.S. is about 12-15 grams, while the average sugar intake is 180-220 grams.  The U.S. fiber intake doesn’t look that bad in light of the currently recommended amount of 14-15 grams.  This is the disconnect between current research and typical policy and recommendations.

In the next blog post I will talk about some of the new research documenting the disease risks associated with the U.S. “diet du jour” of low fat processed foods where the fiber which is reduced by processing and sugar are actually driving risk factors.  The very blood lipid abnormalities associated with diabetes and many cases of heart disease such as elevated triglycerides, low HDL or good cholesterol and very small dangerous cholesterol particles are driven by a low fat diet with a high sugar to fiber ratio.

A closing thought is necessary. Why would we be refining fiber out and adding huge amounts of sugar to almost everything when it has important adverse health effects?   Sugar drives consumption and fiber drives satiety or the signal “I have had enough”.  A high sugar to fiber ratio artificially manipulated in food gets us to consume and therefore buy more food.  See, someone is looking out for us!

One Response to “The Sugar to Fiber Dietary Ratio”

  1. Nathella says:

    Food and nutrition are highly neglected today, and such articles can really help people in getting the right information

Leave a Reply

Powered by WordPress | Designed by Elegant Themes<|endoftext|>Take the 2-minute tour ×

I want to find a example of a manifold that has positive scalar curvature but is not half conformally flat.

Does there exists such manifolds?

share|improve this question

1 Answer 1

up vote 12 down vote accepted

Take $S^2\times S^2$ with the standard product metric. It has positive scalar curvature, it can't be conformally flat because it's simply connected and compact and yet not the $4$-sphere, and it can't be conformally half-flat because switching orientation on one of the two factors gives an isometric manifold but switches self-dual and anti-self dual parts of the Weyl curvature (so if either part vanished, the other would as well, implying that the metric is conformally flat, which, as has been established, cannot be the case).

share|improve this answer

Your Answer

<|endoftext|>Julián Castro's Message: What San Antonio Can Teach Us About Government and Growth

Mayor Julián Castro understands the power of government during economic downturns. Will he address this at the Democratic National Convention?

Julián Castro, the 37-year-old mayor of San Antonio, will deliver a keynote address tonight, on the first day of the Democratic National Convention. While not yet a major national figure, Castro is nonetheless one of the brighter Hispanic stars in a party that relies heavily on dominating the non-white vote. But even without his telegenic youth and background, Castro is still a perfect opening savlo against a GOP convention that praised entrepreneurs who succeeded on their own - "We Built That" - without the help of government.

That's because, in San Antonio, government spending has made all the difference.

In 2010 I went to San Antonio to find out what made it the "most recession-proof city in America." What became clear very quickly, from studying metro statistics and speaking with business leaders and Castro himself, was that, for much of the last decade, San Antonio was a tortoise in a country full of hares. While much of the Sun Belt saw massive population growth and booming economies on the back of rising housing prices, San Antonio grew steadily, without a big home-price boost.

The city is powered by three major industries, all directly or indirectly supported by government, which I'll call: eds, meds, and enlisteds. Education, medicine/biosciences, and military and local government spending employed a third of the city's workers in 2010. Its 31 colleges and universities (mostly public) enrolled another 100,000 students, boosting the cities population by 8 percent in school time. Hundreds of thousands more jobs are in low-paying services that would not have existed without government-supported hospitals and military spending.

Many of the people I met in San Antonio, including the mayor, praised the city's patience with economic growth. But something like luck played a big role, as well. In the latest military realignment round, San Antonio got a $2.2 billion investment to build the nation's largest new military medical complex at Fort Sam Houston, to go along with its two Air Force training centers. Would San Antonio have had the same recovery record without its windfall from Washington? We simply don't know. But it's not likely.

In our interview, Castro acknowledged that the bedrock of San Antonio's economy was not in bright shiny venture capital industries (in fact, the city's information sector is shrinking), but rather in safe and conservative industries that were largely non-cyclical, and therefore recession-proof. He further conceded that the city was blessed by the most uncontrollable factor of all: geography. "We've got lots of affordable land," he told me, which helps keep housing prices low. The proximity to the border creates a "constant supply of labor [that] feeds the hospitality industry" and keeps wage levels down.

And then there's history: "The banking practices in Texas since the Savings & Loan blowout of the 1980s have been a little bit more conservative, more cautious, than around the nation," Castro said, explaining the city's relatively buoyant housing prices. "Another thing is the tax scheme in Texas is heavily dependent on property taxes and discourages [real estate appreciation] more than a state that relies on sales taxes primarily."

The upside of slow-and-steady growth is that when the world is falling apart around you, you look pretty good. In fact, San Antonio was perhaps the most resilient city in the 18 months after the crash precisely because so much of its activity revolves around government. The downside of slow-and-steady growth is that, well, it's slow. San Antonio is not a rich metro. In fact, it is still poorer than mid-level cities like Oklahoma City. Mayor Castro told me he wouldn't mind breaking out of the city's "tortoise" reputation. Rapid development in high technology "might leave San Antonio more vulnerable to the ups and downs of the economy," he said, "but the rise in income levels is worth that trade-off."

Unfortunately, keynote speeches are not prized moments of economic nuance. I don't know what Castro is going to tell tonight's audience. But the mayor I met in San Antonio two years ago understood the power of government and publicly supported industries during economic downturns. But he also understood that you can't achieve breakaway growth by relying on military and health care spending to drive your economy. By acknowledging the roles that geography and recent history play in determining the short-term trajectory of cities, he didn't pretend that San Antonio was transcendentally special in its approach to business. He seemed dangerously close to admitting something politicians rarely say out loud: Local history, randomness, and geography play a disconcertingly large role in the fortunes of individual states and metros.

The theme of the RNC would have had you think that entrepreneurs exist in a world devoid of exogenous forces, that the right amount of internal willpower is enough to make any business thrive, and that government can only get in the way of the entrepreneur. The DNC would be equally misleading if its speakers try to pretend that the choices government makes are the only things that matter to an economy. In fact, Castro's city is a good reminder that government has a role in supporting economic growth, but that dependence on government-protected industries carries the risk of atrophying a local economy.

That is a terribly complicated story to tell. I hope Castro tells it.

Photo credit: Jo Ann Snover /Shutterstock

This post originally appeared on The Atlantic.

About the Author
<|endoftext|>Tango's Revenge

They call it new tango and for this group of young, gifted musicians, new is an understatement. The sounds rippling out of Argentina today have nothing to do with your father’s tango or even the strains you might hear at the tango dance school down the street. The nascent, percussive music being played in little clubs and on street corners is more world beat than tango. Full of anger and tragedy, jazz rhythms and rock beats, new tango music pulsates like Buenos Aires itself.

Tango’s Revenge tells the story of this musical revolution and how a group of gifted, young artists have taken as their mission to redefine the sound and culture of one of the great musical genres of the world – tango. Part of the wave of progressive ideas that is sweeping through Latin


The cameraman is recording a video on the set, and the tourist in the hospital. What the tourist is doing in the hospital is record a video.<|endoftext|> rest of the world a penny in return. In other words, I believe we can barter our way out of national debt.

And if any US administration can pull that off, we'll be singing praises for all the ages.

This must be based on the reality that by lifting folks up, giving them work and a life, we prosper as a result ourselves...that's all of humanity not just a slice of it, and since that is the given realization you're opperating under then there is room to dream.

I have a sneaking suspicion that if the President were to announce such a bold move, and it was in process of actualization and beyond the legistlation, nations would be motivated to keep up with the "jones'" so they could keep us in debt and willingly plant their own trees with their own money.

There's a few Africans who'd like to build a "green wall" to stop the Sahara from growing so no motivation is needed in some cases, just the wherewithall to get the job done.

If we can pay taliban to walk off the battlefield and become good citizens we can pay the illegal loggers of the world to become treeplanters.

Retraining takes about 15 minutes.

But this is just one program among many.

This one just happens to be do or die for civilization and I don't believe that to be an exaggeration given the science involved.

How are we going to produce 50% more food on this planet to feed the expected population in 2030 without creating the supporting habitat that preserves cropland?

The world does not have time to waste dithering about and either it becomes a global imperative with global funding, or we gotta do this ourselves before chaos ensues.

Everyone looks to US to save the world anyway when disaster comes callin' so let's do it right and get a return on our investment...

For the long haul.

If we be not afraid to dream big sir, folks might just get what is asked for.

A better world to live in to say the least.

I don't think we can be afford to be satisfied with any budget until it is.

Unless we can erase the national debt prior, that is.

So State's focused on agriculture development as a means of national self sufficiancy and this seemingly ties right in with that policy.

Ok, so if we can bail out the banks to the tune of 800 bil. we can save the world right?

Right. I don't suppose I'll find too many who'd say we can't.

520.8 bil per year for the next 10-20 years isn't too much to ask to do that is it?

Personally I think it will be barely enough, just for this one program.

So I respectfully suggest you ask for equal funding with DoD every year from this point forward till the end of the century or we've solved all the world's problems, whichever comes first.

Hope you find this citizen's perspective useful when you next appear before Congress and they ask what all the money's for.

Best Regards,

Karen H.
Oregon, USA
February 3, 2010

Karen H. in Oregon writes:

There is no need to spend billions on nation defense or on foreign aid.

I have been working to introduce "The World Peace Plan," the creation of an international government based on the US Constitution and the cooperation of nature. Both are proven concepts.

Under the plan, all the nations would be treated the same way the states are treated within the United States. Disputes will be handled in a legitimate court system rather than the battlefield.

At the present time, the US is not a signatory of the ICC, and disputes against the US are not being resolved, with growing anger directed at us. Under the plan, those disputes will be wiped away, because we are enabling everyone to function on a far higher level.

The root cause of terrorism is that people "on the bottom" are denied a voice, and must raise their voice to be heard, oftentimes to the point of violence. You can end terrorism by the creation of the international government. It will just fade away.

My organization has affiliate members in 26 nations, including Muslim nations. Affiliate membership means they support this plan, because it treats people fairly and equally, allows them a voice in their government, and enables everyone to create their life without interference.

We do not have to spend billions of dollars making an international presence. Grabbing for power means we are losing power. Secretary General Kofi Annan declared in his farewell speech that President Bush made the UN innrelevant, and now the world's leaders are jockeying for power. As the US is going down in power, who will be next?

None of the existing international bodies has the capacity or legitimacy to become the next world power. The US can only regain its power and prestige through the creation of this proposed international government.

New Mexico, USA
February 5, 2010

Eric in New Mexico writes:

Karen H. in Oregon,

You wrote;

"There is no need to spend billions on nation defense or on foreign aid."

Ok, then tell me how your "World Peace Plan" is going to provide a sustainable answer to the question I posed in my last post on this thread, without spending any money.

Now it's not everyday that I find the imagination to save the world and erase the national debt in 5000 characters or less
( not too bad for a day's work ), so if you have a better way, I'm all ears.

But if you don't have an answer, you better go back to the drawing board on that plan and figure it out.

Because there's at least a thousand other reasons I can think of as to why it won't work, simply being a life-long student of human nature and the human condition.

Starting with the tendancy of politicians to blame others for their own shortcomings of leadership.

When I consider the difference (by definition) between a terrorist and a freedom fighter, The targeting of civilians, and the methods employed may serve.

The philosophy behind our revolution, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Declaration of Independence, was born from resistance to oppression with "live free, or die." being at the core of it.
As Hamid Karzai once intimated, this is the Afghan jihad, the true jihad, to be free to live in correctness with one another.

You wrote;

By the terms of your definition you have confused the people on the streets of Iran with the terrorist government they are trying to overthrow.

If you cannot properly define the root cause of terrorism ( which is a holier than thou attitude towards folks trying to get a life)

Which is manifest by a total absence of empathy for one's fellow human...and if there was even a spark of that...the evil in their hearts would indeed fade away.

-then you cannot possibly be able to properly define the terms of Peace on Earth.

So think of this as a test...only a test.

For that's what life is. A pass /fail grading system with no way to withdraw from class, or call in sick to avoid taking the test.

Now we can either save the world or go broke trying, but I guarrantee if we don't we'll all be impoverished anyway.

I a.
District Of Columbia, USA
February 18, 2010

IA in Washington, DC writes:

@Eric in New Mexico Is that a proposal to raise the debt ceiling in order to add half of a TRILLION dollars to the deficit? Or do you have a proposal to increase taxes to obtain the $520 billion? Instead of requesting that State matches the funding request of DoD, how about proposing which programs could be terminated or reduced in order to fund your $520 billion agricultural development program? That $520 billion has to come from somewhere.

New Mexico, USA
February 22, 2010

Eric in New Mexico writes:

IA in Wash.

Dig it, there's a little reverse funding going on...think...who do we owe debt to?

Yes we spend money to pay people to plant trees to create habitat to grow crops on new cropland in otherwise currently unproductive ( for a variety of reasons and combinations thereof) zones of transition ( politically , economicly, environmentally) to facilitate the stability of individuals neccessary to have a hope, a life, and a future...

In order to litterally terraform the areas of this planet that have been damaged due to overgrazing, deforestation, desertification, and conflict resulting in neglect of farmlands....

In this decades long project the motivation to have all nations participate fully in not simple "nation building", but the rebuilding of the very fabric of the interactive processes of nature is the only true way to even approach the total repayment of a simple commercial debt among nations.

This is the essence of the truth contained within the following conclusion;

Again, who do we owe the debt to?...If there's no one left to collect it, because we failed to spend the money to invest in humanity's common trust and common future?

In relative terms; The concept arms merchants fail to grasp is that there's nowhere to spend the profits when there's no one left to buy the weapons.

 rest of the world a penny in return. In other words, I believe we can barter our way out of national debt.

And if any US administration can pull that off, we'll be singing praises for all the ages.

This must be based on the reality that by lifting folks up, giving them work and a life, we prosper as a result ourselves...that's all of humanity not just a slice of it, and since that is the given realization you're opperating under then there is room to dream.

I have a sneaking suspicion that if the President were to announce such a bold move, and it was in process of actualization and beyond the legistlation, nations would be motivated to keep up with the "jones'" so they could keep us in debt and willingly plant their own trees with their own money.

There's a few Africans who'd like to build a "green wall" to stop the Sahara from growing so no motivation is needed in some cases, just the wherewithall to get the job done.

If we can pay taliban to walk off the battlefield and become good citizens we can pay the illegal loggers of the world to become treeplanters.

Retraining takes about 15 minutes.

But this is just one program among many.

This one just happens to be do or die for civilization and I don't believe that to be an exaggeration given the science involved.

How are we going to produce 50% more food on this planet to feed the expected population in 2030 without creating the supporting habitat that preserves cropland?

The world does not have time to waste dithering about and either it becomes a global imperative with global funding, or we gotta do this ourselves before chaos ensues.

Everyone looks to US to save the world anyway when disaster comes callin' so let's do it right and get a return on our investment...

For the long haul.

If we be not afraid to dream big sir, folks might just get what is asked for.

A better world to live in to say the least.

I don't think we can be afford to be satisfied with any budget until it is.

Unless we can erase the national debt prior, that is.

So State's focused on agriculture development as a means of national self sufficiancy and this seemingly ties right in with that policy.

Ok, so if we can bail out the banks to the tune of 800 bil. we can save the world right?

Right. I don't suppose I'll find too many who'd say we can't.

520.8 bil per year for the next 10-20 years isn't too much to ask to do that is it?

Personally I think it will be barely enough, just for this one program.

So I respectfully suggest you ask for equal funding with DoD every year from this point forward till the end of the century or we've solved all the world's problems, whichever comes first.

Hope you find this citizen's perspective useful when you next appear before Congress and they ask what all the money's for.

Best Regards,

Karen H.
Oregon, USA
February 3, 2010

Karen H. in Oregon writes:

There is no need to spend billions on nation defense or on foreign aid.

I have been working to introduce "The World Peace Plan," the creation of an international government based on the US Constitution and the cooperation of nature. Both are proven concepts.

Under the plan, all the nations would be treated the same way the states are treated within the United States. Disputes will be handled in a legitimate court system rather than the battlefield.

At the present time, the US is not a signatory of the ICC, and disputes against the US are not being resolved, with growing anger directed at us. Under the plan, those disputes will be wiped away, because we are enabling everyone to function on a far higher level.

The root cause of terrorism is that people "on the bottom" are denied a voice, and must raise their voice to be heard, oftentimes to the point of violence. You can end terrorism by the creation of the international government. It will just fade away.

My organization has affiliate members in 26 nations, including Muslim nations. Affiliate membership means they support this plan, because it treats people fairly and equally, allows them a voice in their government, and enables everyone to create their life without interference.

We do not have to spend billions of dollars making an international presence. Grabbing for power means we are losing power. Secretary General Kofi Annan declared in his farewell speech that President Bush made the UN innrelevant, and now the world's leaders are jockeying for power. As the US is going down in power, who will be next?

None of the existing international bodies has the capacity or legitimacy to become the next world power. The US can only regain its power and prestige through the creation of this proposed international government.

New Mexico, USA
February 5, 2010

Eric in New Mexico writes:

Karen H. in Oregon,

You wrote;

"There is no need to spend billions on nation defense or on foreign aid."

Ok, then tell me how your "World Peace Plan" is going to provide a sustainable answer to the question I posed in my last post on this thread, without spending any money.

Now it's not everyday that I find the imagination to save the world and erase the national debt in 5000 characters or less
( not too bad for a day's work ), so if you have a better way, I'm all ears.

But if you don't have an answer, you better go back to the drawing board on that plan and figure it out.

Because there's at least a thousand other reasons I can think of as to why it won't work, simply being a life-long student of human nature and the human condition.

Starting with the tendancy of politicians to blame others for their own shortcomings of leadership.

When I consider the difference (by definition) between a terrorist and a freedom fighter, The targeting of civilians, and the methods employed may serve.

The philosophy behind our revolution, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Declaration of Independence, was born from resistance to oppression with "live free, or die." being at the core of it.
As Hamid Karzai once intimated, this is the Afghan jihad, the true jihad, to be free to live in correctness with one another.

You wrote;

By the terms of your definition you have confused the people on the streets of Iran with the terrorist government they are trying to overthrow.

If you cannot properly define the root cause of terrorism ( which is a holier than thou attitude towards folks trying to get a life)

Which is manifest by a total absence of empathy for one's fellow human...and if there was even a spark of that...the evil in their hearts would indeed fade away.

-then you cannot possibly be able to properly define the terms of Peace on Earth.

So think of this as a test...only a test.

For that's what life is. A pass /fail grading system with no way to withdraw from class, or call in sick to avoid taking the test.

Now we can either save the world or go broke trying, but I guarrantee if we don't we'll all be impoverished anyway.

I a.
District Of Columbia, USA
February 18, 2010

IA in Washington, DC writes:

@Eric in New Mexico Is that a proposal to raise the debt ceiling in order to add half of a TRILLION dollars to the deficit? Or do you have a proposal to increase taxes to obtain the $520 billion? Instead of requesting that State matches the funding request of DoD, how about proposing which programs could be terminated or reduced in order to fund your $520 billion agricultural development program? That $520 billion has to come from somewhere.

New Mexico, USA
February 22, 2010

Eric in New Mexico writes:

IA in Wash.

Dig it, there's a little reverse funding going on...think...who do we owe debt to?

Yes we spend money to pay people to plant trees to create habitat to grow crops on new cropland in otherwise currently unproductive ( for a variety of reasons and combinations thereof) zones of transition ( politically , economicly, environmentally) to facilitate the stability of individuals neccessary to have a hope, a life, and a future...

In order to litterally terraform the areas of this planet that have been damaged due to overgrazing, deforestation, desertification, and conflict resulting in neglect of farmlands....

In this decades long project the motivation to have all nations participate fully in not simple "nation building", but the rebuilding of the very fabric of the interactive processes of nature is the only true way to even approach the total repayment of a simple commercial debt among nations.

This is the essence of the truth contained within the following conclusion;

Again, who do we owe the debt to?...If there's no one left to collect it, because we failed to spend the money to invest in humanity's common trust and common future?

In relative terms; The concept arms merchants fail to grasp is that there's nowhere to spend the profits when there's no one left to buy the weapons.

I think that's called mutually assured destruction.

The answer to this question forms the legal basis to initiate this program unilaterally as a nation if we must


The professor spoke to the audience during the conference, and the businessman did so during the workout too. What the businessman did during the workout is  speak to the audience.<|endoftext|> visit the entire heap and the values for the column are not stored on the column anyway, they're stored in a heap in PostgreSQL.

This may not be ideal, but it's what you've got to work with. See also

  • Sorry I'm newbie. Thank you!!! What about of using variables & concatenations? like something dba.stackexchange.com/questions/4169/… – QA_Col Jan 3 '18 at 2:05
  • I recognize that you are expert, but I'm a stubborn person. You can understand that I can't to accept all to first time, even being a newbie. What about WITH word ? – QA_Col Jan 3 '18 at 15:44

Your Answer

<|endoftext|>NUFORC Home Page

National UFO Reporting Center
Sighting Report
Occurred : 9/8/2009 20:50 (Entered as : 9/892009 20:50)
Reported: 9/8/2009 8:44:14 PM 20:44
Posted: 12/12/2009
Location: Anaconda, MT
Shape: Sphere
Duration:2.5 min
Two bright lights travelling fast across the sky, then disappear.

Two illuminated spherical objects travelled from south to the east. They were not flashing or pulsating in any way, just floating extremely smoothly and fast. One sphere was traveling behind the smaller sphere, but traveling parallel to each other, approximately 1 ½ ” apart (from where we were). The larger and brighter (orange) sphere (which is comparable to the brightness of Mars right now, and only a fraction smaller) was trailing the smaller one at the same speed and same direction. The objects travelled from the south side of the sky to the east side of the sky within a couple of minutes, then disappeared in the sky.
<|endoftext|>Movie producers must be running out of ideas. A short review of contemporary films.

I seriously have not seen even one original movie the past few years. All recycled pieces of junk with little pieces of filler and regurgitated information thrown about. For example, we must ask ourselves how many more movies starring owen wilson, steve carrel, vince vaughn, luke wilson, jack black, will ferrel and ben stiller must there be (in case you didn’t know, those aforementioned actors always appear in comedies with each other). I’m not gonna bother naming all the poorly-conceived movies that has to (inevitably) star them in it. World trade center is about an event that happened 5 years ago. Sure it shook the world, but 6,000 deaths is nothing when the world has already lost 60 million people during WWII. Another movie capitalizing on recent events in the trend of titanic and pearl harbour. Animated movies like barnyard or over the hedge are just shrek-wannabes if you ask me. John tucker must die is another movie for those teens and preteens just aching to see another caucasian hunk turned jerk who manages to snag 3 dates in one night. I mean seriously, don’t we get enough of that everyday, and we don’t really need a movie made about it do we? Next thing you know, we’ll be seeing a movie documenting mel gibson’s fall from grace or paris hiltons perennial breakups or lindsay lohan’s attempts to divert attention to her. Seriously though, Mr.Spielberg and crew, I really expect better from you.<|endoftext|>Today many people worry that our society is too lenient on prisoners. In the early 1800s, Elizabeth Fry worried about the opposite—and for good reason.

England's prisons were infamous for filth, brutality, and extreme suffering. The idea was to punish not to reform prisoners.

In the women's division, where Fry would direct her greatest reform efforts, inmates were usually crammed into one room: those tried and those awaiting trial, those guilty of misdemeanors and those guilty of capital offenses. Typically a woman's children would accompany her to prison. Thus a woman who, with her children, awaited her trial for stealing an apple lived in the same crammed space as a woman who may have been convicted of murder.

All basic human activities—eating, sleeping, defecation—were performed in the same confined area. Women and children lived in destitute poverty and obtained clothes, alcohol, even food by begging or stealing. Many women simply sat around in a drunken stupor stark naked.

Most prisoners who were not cared for by families or charities remained clothesless or starved to death. Children often remained in the prison until their mothers died or were executed. They clung to their mothers and watched as they were led to the gallows and hung.

Elizabeth Fry was one of the few who sought to do something about all this.

Render them peaceable

Fry was born Elizabeth Gurney, daughter of a wealthy Norwich banker. When she was 18, she heard a sermon by American Quaker William Savery, and she rededicated her life to Christ and became a Quaker. In 1800 she married Joseph Fry, and she eventually raised eleven children. Family responsibilities, however, did not dampen her conviction, inspired by her faith, that ...

Subscriber Access OnlyYou have reached the end of this Article Preview

Already a CT subscriber? for full digital access.<|endoftext|>Toxoplasmosis is caused by the Toxoplasma gondii parasite, which experts estimate infects 30 to 50 percent of the global population.

The infection is also found in animals, especially domestic cats and people contract the parasite mostly by eating the poorly cooked flesh of infected animals or through contact with cat feces. The infection causes mild flu-like symptoms in adults and otherwise healthy people before entering a chronic and dormant phase, which has previously been regarded as symptom-free. It is, however, known that toxoplasmosis in the brain can be fatal in people with depleted immune defence and in fetuses, which can be infected through the mother. Because of this risk, pregnant women are recommended to avoid contact with cat litter trays.

So it isn't that crazy old cat ladies acquire a lot of cats, it's that a lot of cats turn normal ladies into crazy ones.

"We've not looked at behavioral changes in people infected with toxoplasma, as that's been dealt with by previous studies,"  says Antonio Barragan, researcher at the Center for Infectious Medicine at Karolinska Institutet and the Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control. "Instead, we've shown for the first time how the parasite behaves in the body of its host, by which I mean how it enters the brain and manipulates the host by taking over one of the brain's neurotransmitters."

"For toxoplasma to make cells in the immune defence secrete GABA was as surprising as it was unexpected, and is very clever of the parasite," says Barragan. "It would now be worth studying the links that exist between toxoplasmosis, the GABA systems and major public health threats.

Citation: Fuks JM, Arrighi RBG, Weidner JM, Kumar Mendu S, Jin Z, et al. (2012) GABAergic Signaling Is Linked to a Hypermigratory Phenotype in Dendritic Cells Infected by Toxoplasma gondii. PLoS Pathog 8(12): e1003051. doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1003051<|endoftext|>5 Cliches About 출장마사지 You Should Avoid

Comfort and Tension Relief Together With Aroma Therapy Therapeutic Massage

Aromatherapy massage is also gaining recognition for a way to enhance the knowledge throughout physical and sports pursuits. You can find several added benefits of an acupuncture massage for example, aid of stress, improved circulation and greater relaxation. It's also commonly used for relieving anxiety and depression. Aromatherapy is often used before and later physical and sport activities to boost operation.

Aromatherapy massage would be your combo of this soothing strength of essential oils and therapeutic massage therapy. It features the application form of a pure perfume into your skin or exceptionally scented oil that is infused with aromatic herbs so as to produce a therapeutic mood. Aromatherapy massage has been practiced for centuries by both healers and therapists at the East. It's now become widely used in Western cultures because a complementary remedy for assorted conditions such as sleeping disorders, anxiety, depression as well as melancholy. Aroma therapy massage is especially effective at causing relaxation and improving the disposition.

Aromatherapy is a simple method to add odor to your ordinary regime. Aromatherapy utilizes the power of our senses to detect subtle imbalances in your system. The presence of certain compounds within our our bodies such as alcohol, smoking, lavender, eucalyptus, eucalyptus and rose are thought to cause a reaction which creates a sense of relaxation, rejuvenation and total wellbeing. These compounds are seen from the odor of blossoms , plants, and fruits.

Aroma therapy is a holistic therapy. It functions on the origin of the disease, relieving the emotional or physical disquiet and relaxing the human anatomy at an identical moment. Aromatherapy utilizes pure botanical oils and essential oils, which are plant seeds, extracted from crops for curative purposes. These extracts incorporate several amino acids, carotenoids, flavonoids, terpenes, essential oils and additives. All of these are known to

 visit the entire heap and the values for the column are not stored on the column anyway, they're stored in a heap in PostgreSQL.

This may not be ideal, but it's what you've got to work with. See also

  • Sorry I'm newbie. Thank you!!! What about of using variables & concatenations? like something dba.stackexchange.com/questions/4169/… – QA_Col Jan 3 '18 at 2:05
  • I recognize that you are expert, but I'm a stubborn person. You can understand that I can't to accept all to first time, even being a newbie. What about WITH word ? – QA_Col Jan 3 '18 at 15:44

Your Answer

<|endoftext|>NUFORC Home Page

National UFO Reporting Center
Sighting Report
Occurred : 9/8/2009 20:50 (Entered as : 9/892009 20:50)
Reported: 9/8/2009 8:44:14 PM 20:44
Posted: 12/12/2009
Location: Anaconda, MT
Shape: Sphere
Duration:2.5 min
Two bright lights travelling fast across the sky, then disappear.

Two illuminated spherical objects travelled from south to the east. They were not flashing or pulsating in any way, just floating extremely smoothly and fast. One sphere was traveling behind the smaller sphere, but traveling parallel to each other, approximately 1 ½ ” apart (from where we were). The larger and brighter (orange) sphere (which is comparable to the brightness of Mars right now, and only a fraction smaller) was trailing the smaller one at the same speed and same direction. The objects travelled from the south side of the sky to the east side of the sky within a couple of minutes, then disappeared in the sky.
<|endoftext|>Movie producers must be running out of ideas. A short review of contemporary films.

I seriously have not seen even one original movie the past few years. All recycled pieces of junk with little pieces of filler and regurgitated information thrown about. For example, we must ask ourselves how many more movies starring owen wilson, steve carrel, vince vaughn, luke wilson, jack black, will ferrel and ben stiller must there be (in case you didn’t know, those aforementioned actors always appear in comedies with each other). I’m not gonna bother naming all the poorly-conceived movies that has to (inevitably) star them in it. World trade center is about an event that happened 5 years ago. Sure it shook the world, but 6,000 deaths is nothing when the world has already lost 60 million people during WWII. Another movie capitalizing on recent events in the trend of titanic and pearl harbour. Animated movies like barnyard or over the hedge are just shrek-wannabes if you ask me. John tucker must die is another movie for those teens and preteens just aching to see another caucasian hunk turned jerk who manages to snag 3 dates in one night. I mean seriously, don’t we get enough of that everyday, and we don’t really need a movie made about it do we? Next thing you know, we’ll be seeing a movie documenting mel gibson’s fall from grace or paris hiltons perennial breakups or lindsay lohan’s attempts to divert attention to her. Seriously though, Mr.Spielberg and crew, I really expect better from you.<|endoftext|>Today many people worry that our society is too lenient on prisoners. In the early 1800s, Elizabeth Fry worried about the opposite—and for good reason.

England's prisons were infamous for filth, brutality, and extreme suffering. The idea was to punish not to reform prisoners.

In the women's division, where Fry would direct her greatest reform efforts, inmates were usually crammed into one room: those tried and those awaiting trial, those guilty of misdemeanors and those guilty of capital offenses. Typically a woman's children would accompany her to prison. Thus a woman who, with her children, awaited her trial for stealing an apple lived in the same crammed space as a woman who may have been convicted of murder.

All basic human activities—eating, sleeping, defecation—were performed in the same confined area. Women and children lived in destitute poverty and obtained clothes, alcohol, even food by begging or stealing. Many women simply sat around in a drunken stupor stark naked.

Most prisoners who were not cared for by families or charities remained clothesless or starved to death. Children often remained in the prison until their mothers died or were executed. They clung to their mothers and watched as they were led to the gallows and hung.

Elizabeth Fry was one of the few who sought to do something about all this.

Render them peaceable

Fry was born Elizabeth Gurney, daughter of a wealthy Norwich banker. When she was 18, she heard a sermon by American Quaker William Savery, and she rededicated her life to Christ and became a Quaker. In 1800 she married Joseph Fry, and she eventually raised eleven children. Family responsibilities, however, did not dampen her conviction, inspired by her faith, that ...

Subscriber Access OnlyYou have reached the end of this Article Preview

Already a CT subscriber? for full digital access.<|endoftext|>Toxoplasmosis is caused by the Toxoplasma gondii parasite, which experts estimate infects 30 to 50 percent of the global population.

The infection is also found in animals, especially domestic cats and people contract the parasite mostly by eating the poorly cooked flesh of infected animals or through contact with cat feces. The infection causes mild flu-like symptoms in adults and otherwise healthy people before entering a chronic and dormant phase, which has previously been regarded as symptom-free. It is, however, known that toxoplasmosis in the brain can be fatal in people with depleted immune defence and in fetuses, which can be infected through the mother. Because of this risk, pregnant women are recommended to avoid contact with cat litter trays.

So it isn't that crazy old cat ladies acquire a lot of cats, it's that a lot of cats turn normal ladies into crazy ones.

"We've not looked at behavioral changes in people infected with toxoplasma, as that's been dealt with by previous studies,"  says Antonio Barragan, researcher at the Center for Infectious Medicine at Karolinska Institutet and the Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control. "Instead, we've shown for the first time how the parasite behaves in the body of its host, by which I mean how it enters the brain and manipulates the host by taking over one of the brain's neurotransmitters."

"For toxoplasma to make cells in the immune defence secrete GABA was as surprising as it was unexpected, and is very clever of the parasite," says Barragan. "It would now be worth studying the links that exist between toxoplasmosis, the GABA systems and major public health threats.

Citation: Fuks JM, Arrighi RBG, Weidner JM, Kumar Mendu S, Jin Z, et al. (2012) GABAergic Signaling Is Linked to a Hypermigratory Phenotype in Dendritic Cells Infected by Toxoplasma gondii. PLoS Pathog 8(12): e1003051. doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1003051<|endoftext|>5 Cliches About 출장마사지 You Should Avoid

Comfort and Tension Relief Together With Aroma Therapy Therapeutic Massage

Aromatherapy massage is also gaining recognition for a way to enhance the knowledge throughout physical and sports pursuits. You can find several added benefits of an acupuncture massage for example, aid of stress, improved circulation and greater relaxation. It's also commonly used for relieving anxiety and depression. Aromatherapy is often used before and later physical and sport activities to boost operation.

Aromatherapy massage would be your combo of this soothing strength of essential oils and therapeutic massage therapy. It features the application form of a pure perfume into your skin or exceptionally scented oil that is infused with aromatic herbs so as to produce a therapeutic mood. Aromatherapy massage has been practiced for centuries by both healers and therapists at the East. It's now become widely used in Western cultures because a complementary remedy for assorted conditions such as sleeping disorders, anxiety, depression as well as melancholy. Aroma therapy massage is especially effective at causing relaxation and improving the disposition.

Aromatherapy is a simple method to add odor to your ordinary regime. Aromatherapy utilizes the power of our senses to detect subtle imbalances in your system. The presence of certain compounds within our our bodies such as alcohol, smoking, lavender, eucalyptus, eucalyptus and rose are thought to cause a reaction which creates a sense of relaxation, rejuvenation and total wellbeing. These compounds are seen from the odor of blossoms , plants, and fruits.

Aroma therapy is a holistic therapy. It functions on the origin of the disease, relieving the emotional or physical disquiet and relaxing the human anatomy at an identical moment. Aromatherapy utilizes pure botanical oils and essential oils, which are plant seeds, extracted from crops for curative purposes. These extracts incorporate several amino acids, carotenoids, flavonoids, terpenes, essential oils and additives. All of these are known to own healthful benefits when utilized as healing treatments.

There are numerous benefits of this type of therapeutic massage which includes: Comfort - once the masseuse interrupts the


ster ghost nicknamed Fred has been known in the past to toss sheets and bedpans. Witnesses have seen apparitions of a man and a little girl with a red ball, and a nurse hanging from a noose. Cold spots and other anomalies have been reported here as well. The site has been featured on an episode of TV’s Ghost Hunters.

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Thompson Dr and Hub Dr
Sedro-Woolley, WA
United States

Get Directions »
48.53016351731678, -122.20624780689832
Skagit County, Washington
Nearest Towns:
Sedro-Woolley, WA (2.3 mi.)
Clear Lake, WA (4.7 mi.)
Lyman, WA (6.6 mi.)
Burlington, WA (6.6 mi.)
Alger, WA (8.7 mi.)
Big Lake, WA (8.9 mi.)
Mount Vernon, WA (9.5 mi.)
Hamilton, WA (9.9 mi.)
Edison, WA (11.1 mi.)
Bay View, WA (12.8 mi.)

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  1. When I was first starting out as a 911 dispatcher here, we did a ‘tour’ of the county. The entire campus has an eerie, almost stifling feeling to it. Being very sensitive to energy, I even have a hard time driving by it on Hwy 20. You couldn’t PAY me to go back there again…… uh, no way, NO.

  2. I went to job corps in sedro-wooley Washington and the drive to there was creepy but when you got to job corps it felt like you were being watched. My time there for 6 months in 97 were anything but peaceful. I heard loud noises and I had a feeling I was never alone when I was in a room by my self. I also didn’t feel safe there. You could not pay me to go back there.

  3. Athena R. Ware  |

    When I went to Job-corps in late October 2015-December 2015, I experienced being scratched, shadow people, a voice saying “come play with me” and being growled at. I got feelings of sadness and anger.

  4. Back when the haunted house was in effect, my parents were working in the Denny building parallel to the line outside of people waiting to get in. The haunted house did not take place in the Denny building so it was just my folks and 1 security guard. I was living in Leavenworth at the time but was able to get my voice recorder to them. They set it on the stairs leading to the atic where the nurse supposedly hung her self and can be heard humming or singing.

    On the recording you can hear the faint sound of the people waiting outside in line. also you can hear the sound of my parents talking. So at one point there is a loud blood curdling scream. Wasn’t anyone in the building and my dad remembers not hearing this when he was there.

    I will try to get an uploading of this possible EVP for anyone to hear.

    • We were just there today and it is a very creepy place, and we go to these type of locations quite often, if you have a chance go and take a look, bring a evp recorder and a camerea…

  5. I went to the inpatient drug program back in march 2011, i remember seeing the coffee pot start rocking back and forth by itself , id always get the eerie feeling someones watching me. One night i had just got into bed it was around 1am , i heard someone say “exhale”, thinking my roomate woke up, i didnt think much of it. Then i heard it again but a little louder and closer to me, “exhale” , this happened 3 times total. The third time i heard it , it was directly in my ear so needless to say i jumped outta bed went and got ear plugs from RTS, residental staff , i got back into bed i didnt hear it again being i got ear plugs but i did feel the faintest of what felt like a hand move slowly starting at my legs and stopping at my shoulders touch me. I was under the covers by that point . .I’ll never forget that experience thats for sure

Share Your Comments

<|endoftext|>Agricultural-Raffia is a thing of the past

Disadvantages Of Trellising With Raffia On CEA (Controlled Environment Agriculture) And Open Field; ¡HORTOMALLAS! Always The Best Alternative To The Agricultural Rafia

growing tomatoes
The trellis supports this network perfectly tomato crop.

When growing vegetables it is often necessary to provide a good support system for our plants, whether we are a backyard grower that likes to have fresh food produced at home, or a large farmer with many hectares, our plants need us to provide good support for their fruit loaded branches. HORTOMALLAS  is a vegetable support system that replaces the old support with agricultural  raffia.  With horticultural netting even heavy fruits like watermelons and cantaloupes melons are be fully supported by the trellis mesh, which provides great strength and durability.  Support netting works well also will all kinds of tomato seeds.

 home garden
The home grown vegetables are excellent quality.
Regardless of the extent of a culture of a small garden at home or large areas of crops both need tools to get a good harvest.

Raffia is a synthetic raw material widely used in the textile industry where it is commonly used in the form of thread,  obtained by the extrusion of polyolefins; a polymer derived from petroleum, and is used to replace the Jute (scientifically known as Corchorus capsularis) a fibrous plant, of the family of Malvaceae.  This evidences the fact that agricultural raffia was was not designed specifically for the farm field, and can cause many problems and generate large economic losses.  Trellising today with agricultural raffia besides requiring much more labor has other serious disadvantages compared to tutoring with plastic mesh netting.

infected culture
Fungi are the major plant pathogens.

• Mechanical Transmission of Phytopathogens:
With HORTOMALLAS the horticulturalists prevents any accident or human mistake at work like pruning and harvesting (both actions require handling a cutting device like pruning scissors) could endanger crops for when a strand of raffia is cut accidentally while providing plant support, it is likely that all plant will fall and break, creating a loss that multiplied by the number of plants and while we have our culture, could add up to many thousands of dollars or euros per year just for creating a trellis system with raffia instead of HORTOMALLAS, the later being a system of nets that even if cut in one strand, will remain upright and provide the needed plant support for the fruits being grown .

• Trellis netting Improves Ventilation And Exposure To Sunlight

• Raffia becomes a Pathogen Reservoir as microbes ban take refuge within its crests

farmer harvesting
The cost of labor is reduced with trellis netting.

Finally we could talk about costs of the products themselves (besides the fact that agricultural raffia requires 3 times the amount of labor to be installed than trellis netting) because with raffia it is necessary to change the product every growing cycle,  and that much of what we use is unable to reuse as cracks forming folds that is made, allowing bacteria, viruses, fungi and even insects take shelter, there needs to be replaced or making investments in disinfection chemicals besides having a very low resistance to sunlight compared with HORTOMALLAS.

Information hortomallas agricultural raffia

follow support raffia on facebook<|endoftext|>Health: How to stop your throat from hurting. Stay hydrated. Drink a lot of water and other liquids designed to replenish nutrients in your body. Sports drinks are normally great options. They rehydrate you fast and come in great flavors. Drinking a lot of liquids can also help wash away thin layers of mucus or other allergens that may have coated your throat, resulting in inflammation and discomfort.<|endoftext|>About Aluminum Extruders

Metal suppliers

Did you know that a lot of the stuff you see every day is made with aluminum? A lot of important things people use every day are made from aluminum, and that requires professional aluminium extruders to work with aluminum alloys to make exactly what they have to make.

Aluminum coils are one of the most commonly used things that have to do with aluminum. There are a whole bunch of factory and wholesale companies that are aluminum scrap suppliers, and those scraps of aluminum eventually become important things, like pieces in your cell phone and parts of your toaster. Without them, life would be a lot different.

Even aluminum ingot suppliers are important. Aluminum ingot can be transformed into a number of different aluminum products, including aluminum foil. Can you imagine wrapping up food without aluminum foil? It can even be used as an oven tray, as aluminum does not conduct heat so you cannot burn yourself on it.

People who have excess aluminum generally send their aluminum to aluminium extruders, and when they do so it can be put to good use. A lot of the time excess aluminum is thrown away or wasted, so it is good to see it going

 hospital until 1976, and today the site holds a job corps and a drug rehab center…and some ghosts. A prankster ghost nicknamed Fred has been known in the past to toss sheets and bedpans. Witnesses have seen apparitions of a man and a little girl with a red ball, and a nurse hanging from a noose. Cold spots and other anomalies have been reported here as well. The site has been featured on an episode of TV’s Ghost Hunters.

Rate this Haunted Place

Geographic Information

Thompson Dr and Hub Dr
Sedro-Woolley, WA
United States

Get Directions »
48.53016351731678, -122.20624780689832
Skagit County, Washington
Nearest Towns:
Sedro-Woolley, WA (2.3 mi.)
Clear Lake, WA (4.7 mi.)
Lyman, WA (6.6 mi.)
Burlington, WA (6.6 mi.)
Alger, WA (8.7 mi.)
Big Lake, WA (8.9 mi.)
Mount Vernon, WA (9.5 mi.)
Hamilton, WA (9.9 mi.)
Edison, WA (11.1 mi.)
Bay View, WA (12.8 mi.)

Share Your Experiences

Close Comments

Comments (8)

  1. When I was first starting out as a 911 dispatcher here, we did a ‘tour’ of the county. The entire campus has an eerie, almost stifling feeling to it. Being very sensitive to energy, I even have a hard time driving by it on Hwy 20. You couldn’t PAY me to go back there again…… uh, no way, NO.

  2. I went to job corps in sedro-wooley Washington and the drive to there was creepy but when you got to job corps it felt like you were being watched. My time there for 6 months in 97 were anything but peaceful. I heard loud noises and I had a feeling I was never alone when I was in a room by my self. I also didn’t feel safe there. You could not pay me to go back there.

  3. Athena R. Ware  |

    When I went to Job-corps in late October 2015-December 2015, I experienced being scratched, shadow people, a voice saying “come play with me” and being growled at. I got feelings of sadness and anger.

  4. Back when the haunted house was in effect, my parents were working in the Denny building parallel to the line outside of people waiting to get in. The haunted house did not take place in the Denny building so it was just my folks and 1 security guard. I was living in Leavenworth at the time but was able to get my voice recorder to them. They set it on the stairs leading to the atic where the nurse supposedly hung her self and can be heard humming or singing.

    On the recording you can hear the faint sound of the people waiting outside in line. also you can hear the sound of my parents talking. So at one point there is a loud blood curdling scream. Wasn’t anyone in the building and my dad remembers not hearing this when he was there.

    I will try to get an uploading of this possible EVP for anyone to hear.

    • We were just there today and it is a very creepy place, and we go to these type of locations quite often, if you have a chance go and take a look, bring a evp recorder and a camerea…

  5. I went to the inpatient drug program back in march 2011, i remember seeing the coffee pot start rocking back and forth by itself , id always get the eerie feeling someones watching me. One night i had just got into bed it was around 1am , i heard someone say “exhale”, thinking my roomate woke up, i didnt think much of it. Then i heard it again but a little louder and closer to me, “exhale” , this happened 3 times total. The third time i heard it , it was directly in my ear so needless to say i jumped outta bed went and got ear plugs from RTS, residental staff , i got back into bed i didnt hear it again being i got ear plugs but i did feel the faintest of what felt like a hand move slowly starting at my legs and stopping at my shoulders touch me. I was under the covers by that point . .I’ll never forget that experience thats for sure

Share Your Comments

<|endoftext|>Agricultural-Raffia is a thing of the past

Disadvantages Of Trellising With Raffia On CEA (Controlled Environment Agriculture) And Open Field; ¡HORTOMALLAS! Always The Best Alternative To The Agricultural Rafia

growing tomatoes
The trellis supports this network perfectly tomato crop.

When growing vegetables it is often necessary to provide a good support system for our plants, whether we are a backyard grower that likes to have fresh food produced at home, or a large farmer with many hectares, our plants need us to provide good support for their fruit loaded branches. HORTOMALLAS  is a vegetable support system that replaces the old support with agricultural  raffia.  With horticultural netting even heavy fruits like watermelons and cantaloupes melons are be fully supported by the trellis mesh, which provides great strength and durability.  Support netting works well also will all kinds of tomato seeds.

 home garden
The home grown vegetables are excellent quality.
Regardless of the extent of a culture of a small garden at home or large areas of crops both need tools to get a good harvest.

Raffia is a synthetic raw material widely used in the textile industry where it is commonly used in the form of thread,  obtained by the extrusion of polyolefins; a polymer derived from petroleum, and is used to replace the Jute (scientifically known as Corchorus capsularis) a fibrous plant, of the family of Malvaceae.  This evidences the fact that agricultural raffia was was not designed specifically for the farm field, and can cause many problems and generate large economic losses.  Trellising today with agricultural raffia besides requiring much more labor has other serious disadvantages compared to tutoring with plastic mesh netting.

infected culture
Fungi are the major plant pathogens.

• Mechanical Transmission of Phytopathogens:
With HORTOMALLAS the horticulturalists prevents any accident or human mistake at work like pruning and harvesting (both actions require handling a cutting device like pruning scissors) could endanger crops for when a strand of raffia is cut accidentally while providing plant support, it is likely that all plant will fall and break, creating a loss that multiplied by the number of plants and while we have our culture, could add up to many thousands of dollars or euros per year just for creating a trellis system with raffia instead of HORTOMALLAS, the later being a system of nets that even if cut in one strand, will remain upright and provide the needed plant support for the fruits being grown .

• Trellis netting Improves Ventilation And Exposure To Sunlight

• Raffia becomes a Pathogen Reservoir as microbes ban take refuge within its crests

farmer harvesting
The cost of labor is reduced with trellis netting.

Finally we could talk about costs of the products themselves (besides the fact that agricultural raffia requires 3 times the amount of labor to be installed than trellis netting) because with raffia it is necessary to change the product every growing cycle,  and that much of what we use is unable to reuse as cracks forming folds that is made, allowing bacteria, viruses, fungi and even insects take shelter, there needs to be replaced or making investments in disinfection chemicals besides having a very low resistance to sunlight compared with HORTOMALLAS.

Information hortomallas agricultural raffia

follow support raffia on facebook<|endoftext|>About Aluminum Extruders

Metal suppliers

Did you know that a lot of the stuff you see every day is made with aluminum? A lot of important things people use every day are made from aluminum, and that requires professional aluminium extruders to work with aluminum alloys to make exactly what they have to make.

Aluminum coils are one of the most commonly used things that have to do with aluminum. There are a whole bunch of factory and wholesale companies that are aluminum scrap suppliers, and those scraps of aluminum eventually become important things, like pieces in your cell phone and parts of your toaster. Without them, life would be a lot different.

Even aluminum ingot suppliers are important. Aluminum ingot can be transformed into a number of different aluminum products, including aluminum foil. Can you imagine wrapping up food without aluminum foil? It can even be used as an oven tray, as aluminum does not conduct heat so you cannot burn yourself on it.

People who have excess aluminum generally send their aluminum to aluminium extruders, and when they do so it can be put to good use. A lot of the time excess aluminum is thrown away or wasted, so it is good to see it going to a good use. It is not all the time that precious resources are used for good things and not thrown away, but you can take pride in knowing that not all metal suppliers are the same. Only the good ones transport their aluminum to be used for better things.

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Personal Care and Style: How to make cat nail art. Shape your nails. The great thing about this nail design is that you don't need long, perfect nails. The design is relatively small, so anyone with short nails can do this as well. Before you get started, however, you want to make sure your nails are shaped to your liking. Trim them to your desired length, and file them so the edges are smooth.<|endoftext|> that getting good at this music is requiring almost super-human effort. I am not talking about getting great. Good! But let me take that back. Being able to play this music with any kind of proficiency is a serious, serious accomplishment, one which ought to make anybody who professes to love (this) music show some serious respect.

That's not to say that a critic can't or shouldn't be critical of an artists creation. That's part of their job. However, as a professional they should always leave room for the potential audience to discover their own opinion about a piece of music, unless it is so badly executed and below any kind of professional standard that it simply doesn't deserve that. I have not yet listened to "Bitches", which I will be sure to do now, but it is unfathomable to me that Nicholas would be capable of anything but a super-high level in whatever he chooses to put out. He's too great of an artist.

As for the title "Bitches". Now, speaking as someone who loves Notorious B.I.G, who loves "Bitches Brew", I find that anybody that takes serious offense at a title like that to be in the lineage of Tipper Gore's reaction to rap/hip-hop. I remember in Tupac's movie "Resurrection" that he spoke about bringing "images" into peoples minds that was as powerful as Vietnam war photographers images that created the opposition to the war. Only this time it was the war on poor people in the ghetto's all over the United States. That resonates with me. Black artists transformation of language through the art form of hip-hop, but dating back to coded language when slavery was still a "sacred institution", has been well publicized and has become a world-wide movement just like jazz was in the 20ties and 30ties still resonating to this day. I don't think there's any question that all of that comes from the same source, namely a black source unique to America. So "Bitches" as well as "Nigga" are words that are used differently inside that community than when spoken by a white person inside THEIR community, and thus the same standard cannot be applied to it. A black person calling another person "nigga" doesn't have the same connotation as a white person calling a black person that.

That said, it's a loaded term, and it is true that using it causes controversy. Even inside the black community. Just the other day I was at an eMusic event where parts of Robert Glasper's new album "Black Radio", out in 2012, was played for a select group of people. The "N-word" was part of the lyrics of one track, and when the audience was given a chance to ask Robert some questions, there was one black man, in his 50ties, who was quite upset the word was even in there. Robert defended it by saying that in the context of the song and the lyric, the word wasn't used but rather "looked at" as if under a magnifying glass. I don't think that really satisfied the gentleman though.

But part of what artist do and SHOULD do is to provoke. Controversy is part of any leap forward, whether it's Darwin or the arts. Witness the reaction of the 1st audience that heard Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring". A riot almost broke out. I don't even know how a term like "Bitches" can provoke ANYTHING in this day and age, when the age of any kind of innocence is so clearly long gone, and with the abject ugliness that constitutes American politics - especially on the right-wing/Republican side of things. The shit THEY say day in and day out on TV is so profane that a word like "Bitches" PALES (pardon the pun) in comparison. Perhaps Nicholas title refers to them, and if it does then it's a mild term and I guess a function of his retiring nature and the fact that "fascist shitheads" would have sounded even worse.

One last thing Mr. Brent Black (hilarious that this is your last name given this debate). How did Miles Davis "fail" in making his music in the 80/90ties? You go pick up the Miles Davis DVD from 1985 from Montreal. Miles plays his ASS off with John Scofield, Darryl Jones etc. "Star People" is a hidden gem. "Tutu" was a seminal album for many of us, and definitely helped pull me into the jazz-sphere back then. And Miles playing is beautiful on it - as always. Perhaps I didn't love Amandla quite as much, it was a little too slick for my taste...and I think for Miles taste too. So he wanted to go raw with Doo-bop, didn't get to finish the album, but was definitely onto a new direction that it would have been great to see him pursue. Look at him playing "Human Nature" with his band live in Paris in 1991 (on Youtube), 2 months before he passed away. Here is this wonderful, fantastic icon of this music, a true heavy-weight champion of the world, playing so hauntingly beautiful and people are loving it. Yeah, he's not playing "Cherokee" like Clifford Brown at this point, but so what (been there, done that): He's communicating real beauty to real people, and the history of HIS music - black music - is all the way up in there in every note he plays. The critics have never stopped giving Miles Davis shit, even to this day with you only being one example. Us music lovers can't get enough of him.

In the final analysis I do agree with the person that suggests that it's sad that we always have to discuss race. It makes all of us squirm a little, I think (and hope), and I do believe we are all the same. But given the fact that black people have been cheated out of so much in this country, and even inside their own music (Paul Whiteman the "King of Jazz", Dave Brubeck and Chet Baker over Bud Powell and Miles Davis etc etc), it's natural that there's weariness in that community and a desire to at least reclaim what they feel is legitimately "theirs". I do believe it's futile to try and rename "jazz" now, because among most fans it's a term of endearment and doesn't have any negative connotations. It's just the critics and the industry, with it's penchant for segmentation, that makes it that way, using "jazz" to sideline their efforts on it's behalf.

But having said that I do miss more attempts - like Nicholas and Robert's - to make jazz music for more people. Back in the 70ties there were all kinds of people that did that with integrity: People like Grover Washington Jr., The Crusaders, Herbie's Headhunters and bands like that. I read an interview with Dizzy Gillespie from 1948 in which he said: "When jazz loses it's dancebeat, it loses it's audience". Primarily white critics have snubbed any attempt by jazz musicians to heed that call. Nooo, every jazz musician has a duty to up the ante on Live At The Plugged Knickel and A Love Supreme, or else he/she is a failure and is selling out. That's just ridiculous and by the way - it's not going to happen. I applaud Nicholas and Robert's attempts at bringing their and this music to a wider group of people than just intellectual snob's...another group that may well have been who Nicholas meant when he called his album "Bitches".

All the best,

Anders Chan-Tidemann

  1. Very interesting and thoughtful comment from Anders. The only thing I can think of to add to it is to speak, again, to the issue of credibility. So much of jazz criticism is objectionable to me for the same reason much writing on jazz history (especially the early stuff) is, because it's produced by amateurs with no serious musical or scholastic training. Sometimes this plays out as undiscerning fan-boy valorization of lightweight stuff, like Bunk Johnson's seriously sub par late work, or the uncritical acceptance as fact of his self-serving "historical" reminiscences. More often it takes the form of negative crititicism lacking in any basis in actual musical-historical analysis, what Brent Black defends as his "opinion." I have no idea what Mr. Black's qualifications as a critic are, but I suspect they include no serious musical training. If they did, why not talk about the music in a substantive way, instead of just dumping an "opinion' on it.

    to me, this is just another level of disrespect for the music. No serious publication would ever hire a classical music critic without formal musical training, but jazz gets lumped in with the "pop" stuff, and is too often written about by folks who don't have the knowlege to discuss ANY kind of music in a substantive way, and thus focus on "opinion" stuff.

    I don't care about anyone's "opinion,' as I'm perfectly capable of forming my own. Tell me about the music.

  2. Beautiful piece by Anders Chan

 that getting good at this music is requiring almost super-human effort. I am not talking about getting great. Good! But let me take that back. Being able to play this music with any kind of proficiency is a serious, serious accomplishment, one which ought to make anybody who professes to love (this) music show some serious respect.

That's not to say that a critic can't or shouldn't be critical of an artists creation. That's part of their job. However, as a professional they should always leave room for the potential audience to discover their own opinion about a piece of music, unless it is so badly executed and below any kind of professional standard that it simply doesn't deserve that. I have not yet listened to "Bitches", which I will be sure to do now, but it is unfathomable to me that Nicholas would be capable of anything but a super-high level in whatever he chooses to put out. He's too great of an artist.

As for the title "Bitches". Now, speaking as someone who loves Notorious B.I.G, who loves "Bitches Brew", I find that anybody that takes serious offense at a title like that to be in the lineage of Tipper Gore's reaction to rap/hip-hop. I remember in Tupac's movie "Resurrection" that he spoke about bringing "images" into peoples minds that was as powerful as Vietnam war photographers images that created the opposition to the war. Only this time it was the war on poor people in the ghetto's all over the United States. That resonates with me. Black artists transformation of language through the art form of hip-hop, but dating back to coded language when slavery was still a "sacred institution", has been well publicized and has become a world-wide movement just like jazz was in the 20ties and 30ties still resonating to this day. I don't think there's any question that all of that comes from the same source, namely a black source unique to America. So "Bitches" as well as "Nigga" are words that are used differently inside that community than when spoken by a white person inside THEIR community, and thus the same standard cannot be applied to it. A black person calling another person "nigga" doesn't have the same connotation as a white person calling a black person that.

That said, it's a loaded term, and it is true that using it causes controversy. Even inside the black community. Just the other day I was at an eMusic event where parts of Robert Glasper's new album "Black Radio", out in 2012, was played for a select group of people. The "N-word" was part of the lyrics of one track, and when the audience was given a chance to ask Robert some questions, there was one black man, in his 50ties, who was quite upset the word was even in there. Robert defended it by saying that in the context of the song and the lyric, the word wasn't used but rather "looked at" as if under a magnifying glass. I don't think that really satisfied the gentleman though.

But part of what artist do and SHOULD do is to provoke. Controversy is part of any leap forward, whether it's Darwin or the arts. Witness the reaction of the 1st audience that heard Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring". A riot almost broke out. I don't even know how a term like "Bitches" can provoke ANYTHING in this day and age, when the age of any kind of innocence is so clearly long gone, and with the abject ugliness that constitutes American politics - especially on the right-wing/Republican side of things. The shit THEY say day in and day out on TV is so profane that a word like "Bitches" PALES (pardon the pun) in comparison. Perhaps Nicholas title refers to them, and if it does then it's a mild term and I guess a function of his retiring nature and the fact that "fascist shitheads" would have sounded even worse.

One last thing Mr. Brent Black (hilarious that this is your last name given this debate). How did Miles Davis "fail" in making his music in the 80/90ties? You go pick up the Miles Davis DVD from 1985 from Montreal. Miles plays his ASS off with John Scofield, Darryl Jones etc. "Star People" is a hidden gem. "Tutu" was a seminal album for many of us, and definitely helped pull me into the jazz-sphere back then. And Miles playing is beautiful on it - as always. Perhaps I didn't love Amandla quite as much, it was a little too slick for my taste...and I think for Miles taste too. So he wanted to go raw with Doo-bop, didn't get to finish the album, but was definitely onto a new direction that it would have been great to see him pursue. Look at him playing "Human Nature" with his band live in Paris in 1991 (on Youtube), 2 months before he passed away. Here is this wonderful, fantastic icon of this music, a true heavy-weight champion of the world, playing so hauntingly beautiful and people are loving it. Yeah, he's not playing "Cherokee" like Clifford Brown at this point, but so what (been there, done that): He's communicating real beauty to real people, and the history of HIS music - black music - is all the way up in there in every note he plays. The critics have never stopped giving Miles Davis shit, even to this day with you only being one example. Us music lovers can't get enough of him.

In the final analysis I do agree with the person that suggests that it's sad that we always have to discuss race. It makes all of us squirm a little, I think (and hope), and I do believe we are all the same. But given the fact that black people have been cheated out of so much in this country, and even inside their own music (Paul Whiteman the "King of Jazz", Dave Brubeck and Chet Baker over Bud Powell and Miles Davis etc etc), it's natural that there's weariness in that community and a desire to at least reclaim what they feel is legitimately "theirs". I do believe it's futile to try and rename "jazz" now, because among most fans it's a term of endearment and doesn't have any negative connotations. It's just the critics and the industry, with it's penchant for segmentation, that makes it that way, using "jazz" to sideline their efforts on it's behalf.

But having said that I do miss more attempts - like Nicholas and Robert's - to make jazz music for more people. Back in the 70ties there were all kinds of people that did that with integrity: People like Grover Washington Jr., The Crusaders, Herbie's Headhunters and bands like that. I read an interview with Dizzy Gillespie from 1948 in which he said: "When jazz loses it's dancebeat, it loses it's audience". Primarily white critics have snubbed any attempt by jazz musicians to heed that call. Nooo, every jazz musician has a duty to up the ante on Live At The Plugged Knickel and A Love Supreme, or else he/she is a failure and is selling out. That's just ridiculous and by the way - it's not going to happen. I applaud Nicholas and Robert's attempts at bringing their and this music to a wider group of people than just intellectual snob's...another group that may well have been who Nicholas meant when he called his album "Bitches".

All the best,

Anders Chan-Tidemann

  1. Very interesting and thoughtful comment from Anders. The only thing I can think of to add to it is to speak, again, to the issue of credibility. So much of jazz criticism is objectionable to me for the same reason much writing on jazz history (especially the early stuff) is, because it's produced by amateurs with no serious musical or scholastic training. Sometimes this plays out as undiscerning fan-boy valorization of lightweight stuff, like Bunk Johnson's seriously sub par late work, or the uncritical acceptance as fact of his self-serving "historical" reminiscences. More often it takes the form of negative crititicism lacking in any basis in actual musical-historical analysis, what Brent Black defends as his "opinion." I have no idea what Mr. Black's qualifications as a critic are, but I suspect they include no serious musical training. If they did, why not talk about the music in a substantive way, instead of just dumping an "opinion' on it.

    to me, this is just another level of disrespect for the music. No serious publication would ever hire a classical music critic without formal musical training, but jazz gets lumped in with the "pop" stuff, and is too often written about by folks who don't have the knowlege to discuss ANY kind of music in a substantive way, and thus focus on "opinion" stuff.

    I don't care about anyone's "opinion,' as I'm perfectly capable of forming my own. Tell me about the music.

  2. Beautiful piece by Anders Chan-Tidemann, a very good writer. I need to catch up on what is happening on the NP blog. All I know for sure is that he's one of my favorite contemporary musicians, in any category.
    -Joe Locke

  3. Thanks for the kind words John and Joe, as well as for posting George!

    So I am listening to "Bitches" right now, and I actually think Nicholas is