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EXCLUSIVE! ‘Teen Mom’ Star Catelynn Lowell Is Pregnant Again

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“We made a baby!”

Last month Teen Mom stars Catelynn Lowell and Tyler Baltierra spoke to In Touch Weekly about their desire to have a baby. Well, it appears that their wishes have come true: according to several family members, Catelynn is already pregnant again!

A Rounduper tipster alerted The Ashley that two different people related to Catelynn excitedly announced the big news on their private Facebook pages earlier today. Catelynn’s brother River posted that his sister was expecting, tagging Catelynn’s real Facebook page in the announcement. Hours later, Catelynn’s mother April revealed that she was going to be a grandmother again.

The Ashley has screen-shotted the conversations, since she is assuming they will eventually be taken down.

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Just a few days ago, Tyler was expressing his sorrow about not having their first daughter, Carly (who they gave up for adoption) with them during this joyous time.

“Thinking of my daughter A LOT!…I wish she could be here to share the joy of today with me,” he posted to his Facebook.

The Ashley has confirmed these are the real Facebook pages of Catelynn’s family members. According to River, Catelynn is due sometime around January 10. (If this is true, that would make her about five weeks pregnant.)

The Ashley will keep you posted on the latest news, but she sends a giant congrats to Catelynn and Tyler! She’s crossing her fingers that if it’s a boy, they’ll name it Butch after Tyler’s dad!

UPDATE: Catelynn has confirmed to Us Weekly that she is, indeed, expecting her second child! Congrats!

(Photos: Facebook)

  1. Okay, I’m sick of barren women acting as if because they are barren empty womb women then no one else should have a child just because their life isn’t up to “their standards”. I will get hate for this comment but quite frankly I DON’T CARE. HMM, they are not TEENS anymore and because they gave up their first they shouldn’t have anymore? Guess what cupcake, I have known plenty of people that gave up their first and years later successfully raised other children. I am NO FAN of Catelynn and Tyler, but the barren b******* hate is annoying . Who are you to say who’s more deserving of a child?! Your marriage may crumble in a couple years, your husband may be cheatong on you at this moment, you may have marriage difficulties in a month for all you know, GET OVER YOURSELF you are not more entitled to a child than the next person! And to the commenter earlier that said they had addiction “in their genes” YOU ARE IGNORANT. That is a PERSONAL choice. Don’t take drugs, you won’t be addicted. Tired of the labeling and stereotypes!

    1. Bitch wtf are you talking about? It’s TAX payers who are angry. They have NO EDUCATION. They should NOT be reproducing. Shut the hell up you cow. All you are good for is having babies. I bet you are an uneducated cunt who married the first guy who wanted them and immediately began spitting out his babies. Go die bitch.

  2. this is actually discusting! makes me sick too the stomach they are terrible parents people out there that cant have children yet these people just pop them out and give there first up for adoption and want to keep there second such arseholes

  3. I say Good for them and BOOOO to all the naysayers! They obviously would have kept their first born had they not lived in a bad situation with addicts and abuse. They are no longer in that situation and can raise a their child in a healthy home the way they see fit. Who cares where their money comes from? We all make a living doing different things and it’s nobody’s right to judge how we earn it. Plus I’m excited to see Tyler as a Daddy, all his moments with Carly that were caught on film are beyond precious.

  4. Congrats to Tyler and Cate! They may not be the “perfect”couple, but they have come so far and have showed that they have a lot of love to share. As far as Carly, she is so loved by her birth parents as well as her adoptive parents, and that’s an amazing thing considering how many children in this world are unwanted and neglected. Tyler and Cate made a hard choice that will always leave an empty place in their hearts, but Carly will forever have a loving stable home. It boggles my mind that people see Carly’s adoption as her birth parents ” throwing her away” because she they didn’t want her.

  5. Catelynn and Tyler might not be saying it out right, but I feel as if this 2nd baby is an unspoken attempt to “fix” their failing relationship. No, you don’t need to be married to have children together, but the fact that they couldn’t commit to getting married after planning their wedding shows that there are obviously problems within their relationship. I think the “problem” with them having a baby to raise on their own is the fact that the two of them (or at least Catelynn) are in denial over the fact that their relationship has sailed its course. In their naive worlds though, having another baby together that they will keep/raise will just make everything sunshiny with rainbows and kittens. I truthfully hope the two can be successful parents and strengthen their relationship as they do so, but I think they’re in for a shock.

    1. I look at them and see them more as roommates than a functioning couple. On their catchup special I didn’t see a loving boyfiend/girlfriend/possibly still engaged couple. I saw a girl holding on to the past a guy who looks annoyed and isn’t sure of what he wants.

  6. I wish they’d waited until they were married. And done with school. They’ve been so busy with Teen Mom stuff & adoption talks that they still haven’t finished school. I just hope they didn’t fall into the same trap as before. A baby is SO much harder than you think it is, and they’re both such smart kids, this shouldn’t have happened. That said, if she IS pregnant, I wish them well. They’re so sweet together & will make great parents. They just need to remember that a career is a must for both of them. The MTV money won’t be around forever. Also hope Caitlyn quits smoking. It’s so bad for you & she started young. Both of them need to remember they have addiction in their genes. I hope they get married, whether she’s pregnant or not. And I hope they do not name the kid Butch, lol!

  7. I hope they just didn’t jynx themselves. I was pregnant once, didn’t want to tell many people…mostly because I was in denial and shock (I was a sophomore in college and the guy I was with for two years and I had never had any scares or anything), I told my momma first, then him, then my twin (she knew I was pregnant before I knew lol…), then his mom….I told all of them to tell no one until I could get to the doctor…a few days later, because both “grand mothers” to be had big mouths, everyone knew, and by the time I was able to get to a doctor (I had finally got rid of the denial) for an ultrasound and blood work, the miscarriage had started and it was too late…The doctor was the ER doctor. It was the day before I was to be 8 weeks. I had a fear of a miscarriage because I didn’t feel like I thought pregnant women were to feel…and when it happened, the worst day of my life. Me and him broke up afterwards because he cheated (and now has a bunch of kids with a girl with 8, yes 8 baby daddies). I’ve never been with another man (and this was 4 years ago), because I don’t trust anyone anymore. I hope they make it and I hope this baby sticks. Nothing sucks more than having to go back and tell people you’re not pregnant anymore.

  8. I think this is really not fair what so ever she got pregnant gave the baby up for adoption…why have another baby if you gave your first born up you guys shouldn’t be trying to have another baby its a shame idc if ya thought ya couldn’t take care of it if there’s a will there’s a way wouldn’t surprise me if you gave this one up either I really think you guys are very bad parents

    1. Don’t get me wrong, I do not think Catelynn and Tyler need a baby right now or even any time soon. But that’s really ignorant to think that just because she got pregnant at 15 and and didn’t want to raise her baby in the hole of drugaddicts that she lived in so gave her up for adoption, that she should never have another one ever.

  9. How do these girls get pregnant so easily?? It literally took me over 2 years and 1 miscarriage to finally conceive my daughter and I was only 21-24 (from when I started to when she was finally born).
    I had my miscarriage at 11 weeks, and i had made the mistake of telling people at 8 weeks. Then I had to go back and tell everyone I’d lost the baby, hardest thing I’ve ever done. This time around I literally waited until my 20 week appointment to tell most people.. I told my family and best friends around 15 weeks, but no one else knew and they were all sworn to secrecy cause I didn’t want to go through that again..
    Hopefully everything goes well and it is a successful pregnancy but if not, it’s kind of a shame that she will have to address it publicly now..

    1. Girl, I have no idea. I’m so tired of fertility treatments 🙁 7 years TTC and I have yet to even have a positive pregnancy test -_-

  10. If shes five weeks that makes her a month and a week the doctors told me I was due sept 1-5 I gave birth the 12th so even tho it’s a week doesn’t mean anything. Im happy for them congratulations

  11. All these girls are so fertile. Just mentioning that they want a baby and BAM! Positive pregnancy test.

  12. VERY foolish to announce it this early. I hope they get the child they have longed for, but honestly, if it were me I’d be really pissed that family broke the news before I got the chance to & for doing it so early knowing the risks.
    I’m currently almost 11weeks with twins & JUST announced this pregnancy to those close to us because of health issues.
    I hope for her sanity & the relationships with her mother & brother that baby continues to grow & is born healthy. Otherwise there will always be that question of “what if?”

    1. and you know a lot of people on April’s FB don’t even know them, based on someone asking her if “Katileen is pregnant”

  13. Well she’s not two months along cuz im 7 weeks due dec 27. So if she is due in Jan she’s like one month along.

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UPDATE: June 2

Adrian Wojnarowski reported that the Raptors and Dwane Casey agreed on a three-year extension worth $18M. With an annual salary of $6 million, the 59-year-old got a raise of more than $2M, as his original contract had a payday of $3.7M.

UPDATE: May 28

After leading the Toronto Raptors to the best season in franchise history, league sources told ESPN’s Marc Stein that Dwane Casey and the organization are likely to begin contract extension talks now that the playoffs are over.

Since Casey took the job as head coach in 2011, the Raptors have shown improvement every season: 23 wins in ’11-’12, then 34, 48, 49, and a franchise-best 56 this year. He’s been at the head of the team for three-straight Atlantic Division championships, already has the most wins in franchise history with 210, and is the only Raptors coach to have a winning percentage over .500 (.533).

In his brief tenure with the team, he’s already cemented himself as the best coach they organization has had. Under Casey, the Raptors advanced to their very first conference final, despite being ousted by the Cleveland Cavaliers four games to two.

“We’re learning. We’re not where they are right now,” he told reporters when talking about the Cavaliers.

Dwane Casey does have one year left on his contract — a team option worth $4 million — but it would be almost egregious if Toronto allowed him to walk from the team. He’s a winner and has been an assistant on some great NBA teams, including the Dallas Mavericks, who won the NBA Championship in 2010-11 over the Miami Heat.

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The Milwaukee Bucks still miss Jabari Parker, but they’ve gotten a huge contributor back in Khris Middleton, who has been filling it up since returning from his injury.

Middleton is a versatile two-way player that fits in perfectly with the length and size of this young Milwaukee Bucks squad. He has played in 18 games this season after having surgery on a torn hamstring in September, as initially reported by the Vertical’s Shams Charania. Since his return to the Deer, he’s picked up right where he left off from last season.

Also Read: Malcolm Brogdon Gives Four-Year Guys Hope

He’s a prototypical wing for today’s NBA, as he can score in a multitude of ways for the Bucks. He led them in that department last year with 18.2 per game (per Basketball-Reference), and he’s been more efficient this season since coming back last month. His effective field goal rate is the highest of his career at 56.2 percent (granted it’s a small sample size), but you can’t argue the facts. The dude looks re-energized, and the Bucks are simply more dangerous when he’s in the lineup.

Middleton’s putting 15.6 points while only playing 28.7 minutes per game this season. The 6-8 swingman is shooting the three ball at a career-best 48.1 percent (per, and he’s also had a player efficiency rating of 18.1 (per Basketball-Reference). Once again, it’s only been through 18 games of action. Nonetheless, Middleton makes this team so much better at both ends.

Middleton is a great complement to the rising star that is Giannis Antetokounmpo because Giannis is still not a jump shooter and they cannot rely on him to get buckets consistently down the stretch of games.

That’s where Middleton comes in. He has the full array of shots to get it done in big moments for this young team that is devoid of jump shooters. He’s great in operating at the mid-range pull-up from 10-16 feet, where he’s a career 45.7 percent shooter. He was huge in the Bucks 93-90 W over the Portland Trail Blazers yesterday, with 26 points and was three-for-three from deep.

The Bucks are 23rd in the league in three-pointers made per game (per, but they are more capable with this guy in there. He helps floor spacing for the Greek Freak and gives guards Matthew Dellavedova and Malcolm Brogdon a nice option to go to in the mid-post. In addition, he is valuable on the defensive end with his length on the perimeter.

He has the same defensive rating as Antetokounmpo, who has emerged as one of the great defensive forces in the league. Although he doesn’t make the splash blocks and steals as Giannis does, Middleton is great at getting those long arms in passing lanes and starting run-outs for easy buckets.

For a young team that is only 18th in the league in scoring (per, getting out in transition is huge. Middleton is an all-around player that doesn’t get the national attention, but his play for this team does not go unnoticed. His net rating is 4.5 in these 18 games, and his plus/minus net is +5.1, so it’s clear that he’s invaluable to the Bucks.

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Wednesday, December 9, 2015

A Fresh New Look. Our Commercial Design Projects

The Black Goose Design recently completed three stunning commercial design spaces, Archibald's Restaurant, CF Home and Naborhood Bakery. We are delighted to share these projects and give you an exclusive peek inside historic Gardner Village.

Archibald's Restaurant is abundant in history. Keeping that in mind, a classic, traditional style with a fresh modern feel was the design goal to suit a comfortable dining experience. For over 25 wonderful years, this amazing restaurant has hosted and welcomed many beloved customers. The wallpaper added texture and a soft pattern, the perfect backdrop to an intimate space for each guest to enjoy.

It all started with a sketch, which soon evolved to a gorgeous detailed ceiling, the crown jewel for this gathering space, suitable for any guest's needs.

Shown: Randi, our talented designer behind the updated design project, CEO Joe Long, Peggy the original designer of Archibald's Restaurant, and Gardner Village founder Nancy Long.

Located next to Archibald's you can find CF Home Furniture & Design, a charming furniture and home decor store. Recent remolding and additional space has been completed with updated design, yet still keeping a historical atmosphere throughout the space. Original gears from the once West Jordan flour mill grace the building, adding a beautiful, industrial feel.

The gears were refurbished and installed making a huge visual impact in between massive beams and rustic textured rock.

Our final project. Starting in 1920, Naborhood Bakery opened its doors and a legend was born. This "sweet" little bakery is the longest running bakery in Utah. Relocating to Gardner Village in  2001, the building has 90 plus years of history, and welcomed a new fresh look, yet still feeling like home.

A custom-designed sleek stainless steel hood complemented by squared rivets, is a splendid eye-catching addition.

Overlooking a quaint plaza, natural light pours into a rich, wood-adorned space, allowing
functionality with ample space for customers to enjoy.

Planked, warm wood ceilings blend beautifully with the inviting light of a handsome weathered chandelier. Details are everywhere you look!
We saw you peeking at those sweet little treats, the perfect melt-in-your-mouth cookie and cozy bistro table are calling your name.

The Black Goose Design was honored to be a part of this new, masterplan design project. Creating a historic feel with a fresh new look awaits all guests at Gardner Village. We welcome you to experience high quality design at its finest.

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Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Designer Tips for Exterior Finishes

 Selecting exterior colors, did your heart just skip a beat?
Let's face it, the pressure of selecting the correct color combination for the outside of your home can be a challenge.
The Black Goose Design understands the enormous design decision exterior coloring can be. Not to worry, we are here to give you some helpful expert design advice with your pursuit of finding the perfect paint pallet.
Combining just the right exterior colors will dramatically improve and brighten up your home's curb appeal. We all want that charming "ahhhh" warm feeling when admiring a home, especially when it comes to your own residence.
Whether you are creating an entirely new look to an existing home, or starting a new build, we all want the personality of the home to show through without overdoing. Most importantly, avoiding what could be a costly mistake of selecting colors that were not exactly what you had in mind. Let our talented designers break down the home exterior into three simple parts: the main body, the second body and the accent or trim-work areas.

1. The main body: Start off by determining the main color of your home. This will be the most dominate color  and will set the tone for your home. It is always best to refer and rely on those classic colors. When working with exterior coloring, tried and true combinations will often be timeless and welcoming. Selecting or "pulling" out a color tone from stonework or brick that will be applied to the home can be a good starting point.

2. The second body: The second body refers to a defining architectural element, or when there is a transition in material. Select complementary colors with perhaps a pop of contrast and apply those colors to accent areas. For example, stonework, brick, shake shingles, or hardie board can all be considered part of the second body of the exterior. Tone-on-tone subtle color schemes can be considered as well for a monochromatic look. Be sure to highlight your home's specific architectural details with texture, use various materials to add visual interest and life to the home.

3. The trim: Trim is what cohesively allows everything to come together making the home flow. Think of trim as framing in your home. It should complement the color palette. Trim color should be applied to fascia, windows, eves and any columns. Trim does not always have to be white,using color can add depth, dimension and character. Consider a punch of personality when it comes to your front door and entry area, selecting a different burst of color adds charm and creative curb appeal. This is a perfect place to showcase your design style, do not shy away from color in this area!

Lastly, experiment with different color combinations. Use the process of elimination to ease and narrow down the decision making.
Gather paint samples and do research on what colors you really like. Go for a little Sunday drive to gather color ideas from existing homes.
Take advantage of our superior design services to achieve the look of the home you are dreaming of. Our expert interior designers will help guide you to finding your perfect personal color combination and will assure you confidence in creating a most welcoming home exterior.

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We love reading as you’ve probably gathered. So we are happy to accept books from authors and publishers for us to review.

We read all manner of things, but you can see each of our specialities on our About The Book Eaters page. We have two teenagers reviewing for us and most of us are kids at heart so Young Adult books are a particular speciality.

Please do feel free to request a particular reviewer, we will do our best to accommodate you.  Our reviews are always honest and we rate each book out of 5.

We try to get reviews up within two months of receiving a book, but obviously this is dependent on how many books we have to get through at the time! At the moment traditionally published books are likely to get reviewed in that timescale or sooner, Indie’s might have to wait a little longer. In fact, due to the large number of requests for reviews from self or independently published authors we changed our blogging schedule and allocated every Sunday as Indie Book Day. However even though we have done this we are still swamped and currently have reviews booked in all the way to the end of 2015!

We share our reviews online through twitter and our facebook page and we know that they have influenced people to buy books.

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  1. C. J. Anaya

    Hey there,
    I noticed that you guys are fans of young adult fiction, and I have taken the time to follow you on your social media links. I thought my young adult novel, The Healer, might be something you would enjoy. I can offer you a PDF copy should you decide that this book is a good fit for you. I don’t have any particular time frame or deadline. I realize that as reviewers you most likely receive many requests and your lists are fairly long. Whenever you can get to it…if you wish to get to it…would be great. I have attached the cover of my book so you can get an idea of what the protagonist looks like. Here is a synopsis of The Healer.

    A girl, a prophecy and two warring gods equals destiny!

    Seventeen-year-old Hope Fairmont longs for a normal teenage life, but with a gift like hers, normal equals healing illnesses and injuries instantly. Keeping a secret like that isn’t easy, but a small town is the perfect place for her to heal those who can’t heal themselves, and an even better place for her father, James Fairmont, to hide his daughter from the rest of the world.

    Life takes an unexpected turn when two handsome strangers move into town and begin unearthing other secrets concerning Hope’s future and past, revealing to Hope that her gift for healing may be the fulfillment of an ancient, Japanese prophecy gone wrong.

    Staying away from these mysterious newcomers would be the smart thing to do, but Victor’s gentle, easy manner, and Tie’s mixed signals and strange mood swings draw her hopelessly closer to revealing the secret she and her father have been so desperate to hide.

    Hope’s life is complicated further with visions of a previous life and the arrival of an unknown enemy sent to assassinate her before she learns what she is truly capable of.

    With the support of her father, the fiery loyalty of her best friend Angie, and the child-like love of Kirby, a ten-year-old patient, Hope must fight against the forces of a relentless demon god while unwinding the tangled pieces of her past, proving to herself and those she loves that destiny isn’t determined by some cosmic reading of the stars, but by the individual choices one makes.

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      Best wishes

  2. Laura Monagan

    Hello, Book Eaters,

    I few months back, I finished writing my first novel, and when my daughter, an avowed feminist, was done reading it, the first comment she made to me was, “It passes the Bechdel Test.” I had no idea what she meant, but she explained, and what followed was a long, satisfying conversation about the book’s characters, male, female, and transgender, and how they interact and converse with one another in the story.

    I would be pleased to submit the book for review as thebookeaters.co.uk is one of the few review sites I have come across where the Bechdel Test (whose bar is, by the way, set rather low!) is discussed.

    If you are interested, please take a “look inside” at:

    Thank you for taking an interest in independent authors and for your ongoing discussion of the importance of inclusion in literature.

    All the best,

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      Kelly Turner

      Thank you so much for getting in touch Laura and thank you for your kind words about the blog. Your book sounds really interesting and we would definitely be up for reviewing it. Would you be able to contact us at thebookeaters8@gmail.com to discuss things further?

  3. Tara

    Hello Book Eaters,

    I have self-published my first book on Amazon/kindle and would really appreciate if you could review it. My book is titled “Heroes and Villains- Pawn in the Game”, it is a fantasy book and first one in a series. As this is my first book, I am looking for reviews to get some feedback and reach out to a wide audience. I believe that you and your peers can help me accomplish that. Here is the synopsis and link to the amazon page:

    Aurora Grimaldi’s life has been about fighting for justice under the ruthless regime of Shadow kingdoms. In a twist of fate, she uncovers a secret organization run by creatures of magic- the Imperium.
    The Imperium is in a crisis. Something has been stolen from them and they will stop at nothing to get it back. The more Aurora gets involved, the deeper she is pulled into a web of lies and deceit. And it doesn’t help when the Shadow kingdoms start interfering.
    With the thief lurking in the shadows, Aurora struggles to find her place in everything that is going on and her choices may just have far more dangerous consequences than she could have imagined.

    The first two and a half chapters are available on the amazon page through “Look Inside” feature for you to check out.

    I sincerely hope that it sparks your interest and you find my book worthy enough to give it a chance.

    Thank you for your time and consideration,

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Mesopotamia—now known as Iraq--enjoyed a 2,000-year head start on Western civilization. What happened?

Part of the answer lays millennia before our current turbulent times. Understanding this pivotal land and its peoples is necessary.

A single ancient people did not monopolize the historic territory between the Tigris and the Euphrates to create one cohesive, shining civilization as a beacon to others. Mesopotamia was in fact a diverse, often contentious, network of competing city-states. At different times, in different centuries BCE, cities such as Uruk, Lagash, and Eridu in the south, and Kish, Nippur, and Sippar in the midsection, as well as Assur, Nineveh, and Nimrud in the north, each flourished and made their mark. These city-states were ruled by their own kings, developed their own gods and cults, spoke their own languages and dialects, and manifested their own distinctive cultures.

A succession of disparate groups came from near and far to conquer the developing prize of Mesopotamia, and each conqueror was in turn conquered. The Semitic Akkadians arose among the original Sumerians, for whom Sumer was named. In the third millennium BCE, the Akkadian king Sargon created history’s first “empire,” extending his political reign, military dominance, and commercial primacy from western Persia, through Syria, to what is now eastern Turkey. But Sargon’s almost 150-year dynasty was overrun by the Guti mountain people. The Guti ruled until the Sumerians regained supremacy, only to be succeeded by Amorites from the west, and then the Elamites from the Zagros Mountains. Other invaders included the Indo-European Hittites from Anatolia and the obscure Hurrians and Kassites.

These invading and pervading groups destroyed and built up the city-states between the two rivers, as well as those in surrounding lands. During Mesopotamia’s golden millennia, each of these dynasties and empires, no matter how transient, purloined or planted something valuable, advancing the ever more complex culture growing atop the ancient Sumerian foundation. Over 3,000 years—perhaps 120 generations—the region became not a cradle but a veritable engine of civilization, energizing the entire Fertile Crescent, that is, the lands from the Nile Valley up through Palestine and Syria into the Tigris-Euphrates valley and beyond.

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The result was—for better or worse—a complex landscape of advanced societies that produced great war and great peace, profound knowledge and eternal art, highly developed religious orders, and expansive trade, commerce, and prosperity.

Mesopotamia fashioned mathematical systems and even divided existence itself into equal parts. Using multiples and divisions of 60, the Mesopotamians created a sexagesimal world. The number 60 was associated with Anu, the greatest sky god. The Sumerian year comprised 360 days, that is, 60 multiplied by 6. Each hour comprised 60 minutes and each minute 60 seconds—although the ancient Sumerians, in fact, initially used only a 12-hour day, with each of their minutes equaling two of ours. A circle could be divided into 360 degrees. The governing number 60 could be squared, cubed, and fractioned to yield endless calculations. In magical measures of 60 did the peoples of Mesopotamia seek to master time and space.

Perhaps most important, they created writing systems that vastly exceeded the mute imperative of mere numbers and measurements. Writing captured the verbal sounds of spoken language and conveyed them beyond one individual, and beyond one individual’s lifetime, to unseen individuals and lifetimes. Surely, the immortality of the spoken word and thought, more than anything else, cross-pollinated and bequeathed the ideas and culture of one Mesopotamian generation to the next, and the next, and the next—and to distant generations in adjacent lands. Millions of cuneiform tablets were created to record trades, labors, mortgages, slave sales, commands and decrees, stories and wisdoms, epics, maps, and histories, as well as academic instruction. Some 500,000 such tablets have already been unearthed. More than 50,000 were discovered at Nippur alone. Surely, knowledge and communication were the most powerful forces arising from Mesopotamia. More than bronze swords and swift chariots, it was the careful cuts and grooves sequenced into clay that made Mesopotamia the powerhouse of humanity.

Great science and turning-point inventions sprang from the civilizations of Mesopotamia. Astronomy, cartography, medicine, metallurgy, and architecture all advanced into organized disciplines. The wheel, bronze, chariots, military tactics—all were either invented or flourished in the hands of those who dwelled in or ruled these lands.

But it was not enough to try to master the material and intellectual world. Mesopotamians sought to touch the gods. They developed intricate belief systems to identify, define, and even lay hands upon the all-powerful. Elaborate cults trace as far back as Eridu in 5000 BCE. By imbuing commerce with the imprimatur of the temples—and hence the gods—the sanctity of everyday transactions became a cultural ethic, thereby magnifying the essence of economic life. Religion became more than mere ritual; it was a way of living. From about 3500 BCE, at the White Temple of Uruk and then elsewhere, great stepped ziggurat temples ascended 70 feet and higher. Such ziggurats, boldly aspiring toward the sky, formed the basis for a later biblical story in which men, wracked with pride and arrogance, too eager to touch the heavens, erected a great tower; God foiled their lofty desires by confounding their language into babble so they could not communicate.

In biblical tradition, ancient Ur, in southern Mesopotamia, also yielded Abraham, whose descendants and adherents spread a concept of monotheism, of an aloof God that could not be seen, touched, or even approximated. Abraham’s legendary faith in an unseen but omnipresent and omnipotent Almighty revolutionized Western civilization forever.

Among all the bronzed, gilded, and engraved wonders Mesopotamia had to offer, Babylon emerged as its most magnificent treasure. Babylon! The name itself means “gateway to god.” It thrived as a mighty city-state for millennia. By the eighteenth century BCE, Babylon emerged as the all-important capital of Hammurabi’s empire that burgeoned north to Assyria, east toward Elam in southwest Persia, and west toward the Mediterranean. Soaring temples, ornate shrines and gateways, well-constructed boulevards and canals—all part of a renowned, cosmopolitan center.

During the centuries of greatness, decline, and resurgence, Babylon’s influence stretched a thousand miles in either direction to the nations of Egypt, Persia, and Greece. By then, these other nations had developed their own advanced civilizations, inspiring the need for international law. Among history’s first known bilateral agreements were peace treaties between the Hittite king Hattusilis and Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II, in the thirteenth century BCE. Rather than one tablet signed by both kings, each side received a copy ratified by the other.

More than mere cessation of belligerence between previously warring empires, the treaty outlined an alliance, as well as international order and respect among nations: “And if another enemy come [against] the land Hatti, and Hattusili,” declared the treaty, “… the great king, king of Egypt shall send his troops and his chariots and shall slay [his enemy and] he shall restore confidence to the land.”
Despite differences in the text of each tablet, both clearly predicate their agreement on a desire for “peace and brotherhood between nations.” Hittite and Egyptian emissaries, under the treaty, were given safe passage in each other’s empires. Bilateral extradition of fugitives and criminals was a central feature of the agreement, further cementing the international recognition of law.

Of course, the Hittite-Egyptian peace treaty did not mean that the great nations of the ancient Near East were now devoted to a respect for neighbors. The march toward international peace is a slippery ascent. Babylonia quickly slid back.

As the pendulum swung in the late 600s BCE, the Assyrians utterly destroyed Babylon, piling corpses by the thousands high along the thoroughfares. Babylon’s riches were looted and carried off to the far-off Assyrian capital, Nineveh. When the pendulum swung back, the next Assyrian king arduously rebuilt Babylon to its former splendor.

Assyrian kings in the eighth to sixth centuries BCE razed about 90 cities and hundreds of villages, plundering thousands of horses, sheep, and oxen, and capturing more than 200,000 prisoners. The contending city-states invented new and unending cruelties to inflict upon their neighbors. The Assyrians, for example, engaged in unspeakable atrocities. During the conquest of the nearby Elamites, the king’s head was raised on a pike at Nineveh and allowed to slowly decompose. The king’s general was whipped bloody, his throat slashed and his carcass sliced into pieces and distributed throughout Mesopotamia as a warning.

Nebuchadnezzar II was installed as king of the neo-Babylonian dynasty of Chaldea. He fortified Babylon and transformed it into a majestic metropolis as never before, erecting great palaces and public works. The crest of the city’s grandiose outer walls was broad enough for chariots to patrol. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, created by Nebuchadnezzar for his wife, were famed as one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. Nebuchadnezzar’s cities were nothing less than fabulous. But Nebuchadnezzar also ruthlessly conquered other lands and displaced whole peoples. In the early sixth century BCE, for example, he sacked Jerusalem and deported some 10,000 Hebrews to Babylonia.

However, when the Persian king, Cyrus the Great, conquered Babylon in about 539 BCE, Mesopotamia finally entered a new era of civilization and enlightenment. Cyrus’s armies liberated the inhabitants, restored exiled peoples to their homes, helped Babylonians and all others live in dignity, and established respect for all individuals as the law of his lands. He issued the first international human rights declaration, inscribed in cuneiform onto a large elliptical cylinder.

On the day of his coronation, he announced to all, “I am Cyrus, king of the world, great king, mighty king, king of Babylon… When I, well disposed, entered Babylon, I established the seat of government in the royal palace amidst jubilation and rejoicing.… My numerous troops moved about undisturbed in the midst of Babylon. I did not allow any to terrorize the land.… I kept in view the needs of Babylon and all its sanctuaries to promote their well-being. The citizens of Babylon… I lifted their unbecoming yoke. Their dilapidated dwellings I restored. I put an end to their misfortunes.… I gathered together all their inhabitants and restored to them their dwellings.”

As part of his human rights regime, Cyrus returned the Hebrews to Jerusalem to rebuild their temple. The Old Testament records: “In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia… the Lord moved the heart of Cyrus, king of Persia, to make a proclamation throughout his realm and to put in writing: … ‘The Lord, the God of Heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and he has appointed me to build a temple for him at Jerusalem in Judah. Anyone of his people among you—may his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem in Judah and build the temple of the Lord, the God of Israel, the God who is in Jerusalem. And the people of any place where survivors may now be living are to provide him with silver and gold, with goods and livestock, and with freewill offerings for the temple of God in Jerusalem.’”

But Mesopotamia’s peace did not last long. Persian successors to Cyrus did not rule benevolently. As a crossroads between the empires of southern Europe, Asia, and Asia Minor, Babylon was too opulent and prized for coexistence. For a thousand years after Cyrus, and well into the Common Era, Mesopotamia was incessantly catapulted to heights of splendor only to careen back to depths of slaughter as it passed from the alternating clutches of Alexander the Great of Greece, the Seleucid Greeks, the Parthian Empire, the Romans, and the Persians.

By the Common Era, that is, after the birth of Christ, Mesopotamia was millennia removed from any cradle of civilization. The cradle had been expropriated, subjugated, rehabilitated, and liberated so many times that Mesopotamia’s history had become an endless catalog of conflict between its competing conquerors. The cavalcade of conquest has never stopped. Perhaps it never will.

Edwin Black is the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of IBM and the Holocaust. This article is adapted from Banking on Baghdad: Inside Iraq's 7,000-Year History of War, Profit, and Conflict (Dialog Press).

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As Vans prepare for their first Syndicate drop of 2012, we can show you an exclusive first look at the footwear designed with Anthony Van Elgelen and Jason Dill.

Taking three of Vans’ most classic silhouettes and sprucing them up with premium materials and some rather “out there” animal prints, this is not a drop for the faint of heart. When I say premium materials, I’m talking think gauge dress shoe leather uppers and pigskin linings. You can tell the quality from these photos alone.

Taking two animal prints that to me are synonymous with tacky people trying to represent quality, there’s a great playful sarcasm in the use of really high end materials to pull of a faux snakeskin (Authentic Pro “S”) and faux cheetah (Old Skool ’92 Pro “S”) fur. And yes you read that correctly, not leopard print, cheetah fur. For those who aren’t quite adventurous enough for either of the patterned pieces, the AV Sk8 Low “S” is the one for you, with it’s chic black upper, cheetah fur lining and snakeskin insole. All models feature a crystal rubber outsole and project specific packaging, which unfortunately we cannot show you yet.

Being a Syndicate drop, these will only be avbailable at specialty independent skate stores across the country. Expect to see these in-store on March 1st at Scene, Slam City, FlatspotFifty Fifty and Supreme London.

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Absinthe is powerful stuff not for the faint of heart. Emily Kemp developed this striking design for Trompe Hill Absinthe that looks dangerously alluring and mysterious.

"The brand Trompe Hill is inspired by the English writer, architect and man of many hats Horace Walpole and his Victorian Gothic villa Strawberry Hill. Both Walpole himself, his villa, and this wormwood infused spirit known as Absinthe still fool many an eye and keep enthusiasts coming back for more. I approached the logo using a playful and mysterious pattern surrounding Trompe to elude to the magnificent deception which surrounds someone when they've experienced Strawberry Hill, or perhaps consumed Absinthe."

Immediately what the buyer notices is a rich, bright green which adds to Trompe Hill’s tempting appearance. Against the black of the label, bottle top, and box, it also makes it seems as if the absinthe is glowing. The letter “E” at the end of Trompe is written backwards, giving consumers a taste of the mind-altering effects that absinthe is sometimes known for. The Trompe Hill name is surrounded by detailed illustrations, nodding to the great care that goes into creating the product.

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[10/26/09 - 12:29 PM]
Mgm Domestic Television to Launch Discovery Channel's Hit Series "Cash Cab" Into U.S. Syndication
Repeats of the series will be offered to local stations beginning in the fall of 2010.

[via press release from Discovery]

Emmy� Award-Winning Game Show Available Fall 2010

LOS ANGELES, CA October 26, 2009 � Fueled by its break-out success on Discovery Channel, the Emmy award-winning game show CASH CAB is heading to broadcast television. MGM Domestic Television (MGM) announced today that it has acquired the U.S. broadcast syndication rights and will be offering the highly sought after series in Fall 2010.

"CASH CAB is an addictive game show with a built-in fan base and a proven track record, making it an ideal choice for broadcasters," said John Bryan, Executive Vice President, Broadcast Strategy, MGM. "We're very excited to be bringing CASH CAB to U.S. syndication."

"CASH CAB combines the fast-pace of a game show with knowledge and entertainment which are core attributes of Discovery content," said Tom Cosgrove, Chief Operating Officer and EVP of Discovery Channel. "We look forward to teaming with MGM, building awareness for one of our highly popular series and attracting a wider audience for CASH CAB in the syndication marketplace."

The premise of the hit show places comedic host Ben Bailey � a three-time Emmy� Award Nominee for Best Game Show Host � behind the wheel of a New York City taxi, where unsuspecting passengers suddenly find themselves on camera in the hot seat being quizzed all the way to their destination. As the meter ticks away, the questions get harder and the cash stakes get higher. But miss three questions, and Ben pulls the CASH CAB over � wherever they are � and kicks the contestants to the curb.

CASH CAB earned two Daytime Emmys� for �Outstanding Game/Audience Participation Show' � beating out both "Jeopardy" and "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" � in 2008 and 2009. The series is produced for Discovery Channel by Lion Television.

About Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc., through its operating subsidiaries, is actively engaged in the worldwide production and distribution of motion pictures, television programming, home video, interactive media, music and licensed merchandise. The company owns the world's largest library of modern films, comprising around 4,100 titles. Operating units include Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Inc., United Artists Films Inc., MGM Television Entertainment Inc., MGM Networks Inc., MGM Domestic Networks LLC, MGM Distribution Co, MGM International Television Distribution Inc., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Home Entertainment LLC, MGM ON STAGE, MGM Music, MGM Worldwide Digital Media, MGM Consumer Products and MGM Interactive. In addition, MGM has ownership interests in international TV channels reaching nearly 120 countries. MGM ownership is as follows: Providence Equity Partners (29%), TPG (21%), Sony Corporation of America (20%), Comcast (20%), DLJ Merchant Banking Partners (7%) and Quadrangle Group (3%). For more information, visit http://www.mgm.com.

About Discovery Channel

Discovery Channel (DSC) is dedicated to creating the highest quality non-fiction content that informs and entertains its consumers about the world in all its wonder, diversity and amazement. The network, which reaches 98.1 million viewers in the US, can be seen in over 170 countries, offering a signature mix of compelling, high-end production values and vivid cinematography across genres including, science and technology, exploration, adventure, history and in-depth, behind-the-scenes glimpses at the people, places and organizations that shape and share our world. For more information, please visit http://www.discovery.com.

About Discovery Communications

Discovery Communications (Nasdaq: DISCA, DISCB, DISCK) is the world's number one nonfiction media company reaching more than 1.5 billion cumulative subscribers in over 170 countries. Discovery empowers people to explore their world and satisfy their curiosity through 100-plus worldwide networks, led by Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, Science Channel, Planet Green, Investigation Discovery and HD Theater, as well as leading consumer and educational products and services, and a diversified portfolio of digital media services including HowStuffWorks.com. For more information, please visit http://www.discoverycommunications.com.

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CBS Orders More Episodes of "S.W.A.T." & "9JKL"
The Eye has given a full season order to new drama series "S.W.A.T." and has picked up three additional episodes of new comedy "9JKL."

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Panelists Named on New Music Competition Series "The Four: Battle for Stardom," Premiering Thursday, Jan. 4 on FOX
Grammy(R) Award-winning musician, record producer and songwriter Sean "Diddy" Combs, record-producing hitmaker DJ Khaled, Grammy-winning recording artist and songwriter Meghan Trainor and record label executive Charlie Walk have joined the panel of experts.

[11/17/17 - 11:22 AM]
Jenji Kohan Inks Multi-Year Deal with Netflix
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[11/17/17 - 09:02 AM]
Video: "Dave Chappelle: Equanimity" - New Stand-Up Special Teaser - Netflix
Dave Chappelle's brand new stand-up special premieres December 31 on Netflix.

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Video: "Easy" Season 2 Returns to Netflix December 1 - Watch the New Trailer
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[11/17/17 - 08:15 AM]
Comedy Central Announces Talent Lineup for All-New Slate of "Comedy Central Stand-Up Presents..." Half-Hour Specials
The new season will tape on December 8 and 9 at the Civic Theatre in New Orleans and include performances by Emmy Blotnick, Tim Dillon, Devin Field, Megan Gailey, Chris Garcia, Langston Kerman, Mike Lawrence, Ryan O'Flanagan, and Sarah Tiana.

[11/17/17 - 08:13 AM]
Thursday's Broadcast Ratings: "Thursday Night Football" Rises in NBC Victory
The Peacock takes home top honors in total viewers and adults 18-49.

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Our Fourth Season Has a Third Wheel... "Grace and Frankie" Are Back January 19th!
Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin are joined by Lisa Kudrow in the new season.

[11/17/17 - 06:58 AM]
Netflix and Red Chillies Entertainment Announce A New Original Series Based on "Bard of Blood"
Penned by the young Indian author, Bilal Siddiqi the book will be brought to life as an eight-episode high-octane political espionage thriller series for more than 109 million members around the world.

[11/16/17 - 11:28 PM]
Development Update: Thursday, November 16
Updates include: TV Land cancels "Lopez," "Throwing Shade"; Rachel Bilson, Eddie Cibrian to lead "Take Two" at ABC; and Vicki Lawrence among quartet cast in FOX's "Cool Kids."

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VH1 Celebrates the Season with "Remy & Papoose: A Merry Mackie Holiday"
The one-hour special invites viewers to kick off the holiday season with Remy Ma and Papoose from VH1's "Love & Hip Hop: New York" as they prepare the ultimate holiday party for their friends and family in North Carolina.

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NBC Sets Midseason Premiere Dates for New Dramas "Good Girls" and "Rise"
They'll follow the spring premiere of "The Voice" and the season finale of "This Is Us," respectively.

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Bravo Media's "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" Returns Tuesday, December 19 at 9PM ET/PT
Erika Girardi, Dorit Kemsley, Kyle Richards, Lisa Rinna, and Lisa Vanderpump are joined by new housewife Teddi Mellencamp Arroyave and friend Camille Grammer.

[11/16/17 - 12:19 PM]
"32 Pills: My Sister's Suicide," A Searing Look at One Woman's Struggle to Cope with Her Sister's Suicide and Find Healing Through Art, Debuts Dec. 7 on HBO
Hope Litoff's directorial debut tells the powerful story of one sister struggling to know and accept the other in a way she was never able to in life, even as she learns to live with the pain of loss.

[11/16/17 - 12:01 PM]
Steve Harvey to Ring in 2018 on "FOX's New Year's Eve with Steve Harvey: Live From Times Square" Sunday, December 31, on FOX
In his first-ever New Year Eve's special with FOX, Harvey will bring his signature humor and hosting talents to this highly anticipated celebration taking place in the heart of New York City's Times Square, featuring views of the Times Square Ball as it drops to ring in 2018.


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Ringing Bells Boss: Live Like A Boss

Ringing Bells Pvt. Ltd., one of the fastest upcoming and most popular smartphone makers in India has expanded its portfolio with the launch of four new featured handsets and two new smartphones in the market:

Featured Handsets

I think after listening to the name “RINGING BELLS” something comes in your mind. Let me tell you, this is the same company which has launched the world’s cheapest smartphone and gained the overnight fame across the whole globe.

The company has again recorded its presence with the launch of some new models named above. In this post I am going to tell you about the first impression of the featured Boss.

Display And Design

The design of this featured smartphone is nice. It fits in our hand properly. We are not sure about the dimensions of the phone and weight of this phone because company has not told us this aspect. But it is in bar form. The size of the display is 2.40 inches with a resolution of 176 x 220 pixels which seems good in this category and is one of the best in this price segment.

Display Size176 x 220 pixels
Secondary DisplayNo

*We are trying hard to give you the exact dimensions and weight of this phone.

This featured phone also supports a 2 MP rear camera which is best in its class as far as I know this is the best camera offered by any company in this segment.

Primary Camera2 MP
Resolution1600 x 1200 pixels
Secondary CameraNo

Raja is packed with 2000mAh removable battery. Which offers the talk time of around 540 minutes and standby time of around 280 hours.

Capacity2000 mAh
Standby280 hours
Talk Time540 mins

Like many of the other featured smartphones this phone also offers very basic connectivity services with no sensors. This phone gives you the facility to use two SIMs simultaneously, in simple words this is a dual SIM phone.

Internet BrowsingYes, WAP browser

Ringing Bells Raja runs on a proprietary software. This phone also gives us the option to increase the memory using microSD/TransFlash upto 32 GB. This phone also offers many entertainment facilities like Audio Playback, Video Playback, FM radio and you can connect your headset via 3.5 mm jackRinging Bells Boss

Operating SoftwareProprietary
Memory SlotYes, expandable up to 32 GB
Audio PlaybackYes
Video PlaybackYes
FM RadioYes
Headphone JackYes, 3.5 mm jack

Color Variant

Ringing Bells give their customer a chance to choose their favorite among the four color variant:

  • Combination of White and Cream color
  • Combination of Black and Sky Blue.

Wrap Up

Ringing Bells Raja is the best in its class. The company has putted a price tag of only Rs. 999 and no other company is giving these feature in their featured phone. This phone is going to be a tuff competition for the companies like celkon and many more.


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Cholesterol-Lowering Jab To Help Prevent Heart Disease

Human trials of a cholesterol-lowering vaccine to help prevent heart disease are under way after successful studies in mice.

Cholesterol lowering

Researchers at the Medical University of Vienna are testing the safety of their experimental treatment in 72 volunteers.

The jab is designed to stop fatty deposits from clogging the arteries.

It would offer patients an alternative to taking daily pills to cut their risk of stroke, angina and heart attacks.

Booster jab

It will take years more of testing to know if the treatment will be safe and effective enough for human use, Dr Guenther Staffler and colleagues from The Netherlands Organisation of Applied Scientific Research say in the European Heart Journal.

Even if it does become available, in six years’ time, it should not be seen as an excuse for people to avoid exercise and eat lots of high-fat food, they add.

The jab helps the body’s immune system to attack a protein, called PCSK9, that would otherwise allow “bad” low density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol to build up in the bloodstream.

The researchers envisage that patients could have a yearly booster shot to top up their immunity.

In mice, the treatment cuts LDL cholesterol by up to 50% over 12 months and appears to protect against the build-up of fatty deposits in the arteries (atherosclerosis).

Cholesterol is a fatty substance found in the blood. We all need it, but too much “bad” LDL cholesterol increases the risk of cardiovascular diseases.

“Good” high density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, on the other hand, is beneficial because it helps transport other types of cholesterol from the blood to the liver, where it can be broken down.

Some people have high cholesterol because of an inherited condition called familial hypercholesterolaemia.

Poor diet, high alcohol consumption, smoking and inactivity are also linked with high cholesterol.

Aren’t there pills to reduce it?

People with high cholesterol can take cholesterol-lowering drugs, called statins, to reduce their risk of cardiovascular disease.

But although these are very cheap and effective, they will not work for everyone.

Some people dislike taking daily medication or forget to take it because they are feeling well. Rarely, there can be side-effects.

Researchers have been looking at alternative treatment options that they can give to patients alongside or instead of statins.

The first phase of testing on 72 human volunteers should be completed by the end of the year.

This will check if there are any safety issues or side-effects before more studies in people can begin.

There is a concern that the therapeutic vaccine might increase the risk of diabetes.

The researchers at the Medical University of Vienna who are conducting the human studies will be on the look out for this.

Dr Tim Chico, a cardiologist from the University of Sheffield, said: “Many questions remain about whether this approach could work in man.

“This is yet more proof that cholesterol causes heart disease, and lowering cholesterol reduces risk of heart disease, so it confirms the importance of a healthy lifestyle for everyone and medications such as statins for some people to reduce risk of heart disease.”

Prof Sir Nilesh Samani, from the British Heart Foundation, said: “Finding new ways to manage people’s cholesterol levels is absolutely vital.

“Although only tested in mice, this vaccine could lead to a simple way to target high cholesterol and ultimately reduce people’s risk of heart disease.”


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Kaberle has goal, two assists as Maple Leafs pound Oilers 5-2

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Kaberle has goal, two assists as Maple Leafs pound Oilers 5-2

Toronto Maple Leafs center Nik Antropov (80) celebrates his goal with teammate Matt Stajan during second period NHL hockey action in Edmonton on Thursday Nov. 13, 2008. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jimmy Jeong Author: The Hockey News

Kaberle has goal, two assists as Maple Leafs pound Oilers 5-2

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EDMONTON - The Toronto Maple Leafs didn't want to leave empty-handed on a rare trip to Alberta.

Tomas Kaberle had a goal and two assists and Matt Stajan added three helpers as the Leafs won for just the second time in their last six outings, defeating the Edmonton Oilers 5-2 on Thursday night.

Nikolai Kulemin, Nik Antropov, Ian White and Mikhail Grabovski also recorded goals for the Leafs, who haven't played in Edmonton since January 2006, and moved back over the .500 mark at 7-6-4.

Toronto's Jason Blake had two assists after being a healthy scratch in the Leafs' last game - a loss to Calgary on Tuesday-in Toronto's road trip through Western Canada that finishes in Vancouver on Saturday.

"For us, coming off of Calgary we wanted to establish something early tonight and in Calgary the last game they handed it to us pretty good," Stajan said. "Actually, the Oilers took it to us early. We wanted to make sure that we're ready to go and obviously we've got to be physical too.

"They've got a lot of skill on that team so you've got to make sure you're physical and good players."

Stajan feels he has started to develop some real chemistry with linemates Antropov and Alexei Ponikarovsky.

"I think our line, we're rolling and we're playing with confidence," Stajan said. "It's resulting in a lot of goals and we know we've got to do that on a nightly basis to give ourselves the chance to win.

"It's a pretty simple game when you keep it simple and you go to the net and you're playing with (Antropov) and (Ponikarovsky), they go to the net, they're big bodies and they can find the puck when there's a scramble in front and right now we're really clicking."

Sam Gagner and Ethan Moreau responded for the Oilers, who had a two-game winning streak snapped and fell to 8-7-1 on the season.

Edmonton, coming off a season-high seven-game road trip, has often had trouble starting games; this time they couldn't finish.

"We were definitely concerned coming off our long road trip with our start to this game, but we came out energized and ready to go," said Oilers defenceman Steve Staios. "It seems it is that first period when you are coming off a long trip that does you in, but it was the rest of the game that did it to us tonight.

"We spent a lot of time in our zone in the second period and had some penalties to try and kill off and that was the momentum shift."

Oilers head coach Craig MacTavish said the same two things that cost them the game have killed his team all year - penalty killing and making high-risk plays.

"It's just the mental mistakes and the stubbornness that I don't get," he said. "Hopefully things start to sink in at some point or it is going to be a roller coaster ride again.

"I give (the Leafs) credit because they are a hard-working group that is structured and we lack that structure in our game right now. And that's why we got pounded."

The Oilers struck first on the power play with 12 minutes to play in the opening period. Toronto goaltender Vesa Toskala made the initial stop on a shot by Denis Grebeshkov but couldn't get over in time to stop Gagner with the rebound at the side of the net. It was the first goal of the season for the 19-year-old second-year Oiler.

"It was obviously a weight off my shoulders," Gagner said. "There's still along ways to go this year and I have to find a way to have a more consistent effort every game and try to create my own bounces. But it was definitely a good feeling."

Toronto surged ahead with a couple of power-play goals of its own to start the second. Kaberle put the Leafs on the board when he fired a bullet from the point past Oilers starter Jeff Drouin-Deslauriers. Toronto then went up 2-1 less than two minutes later as another Kaberle shot was tipped into the net by Kulemin.

Edmonton tied the game up just over seven minutes into the second period. Team captain Moreau had three whacks at a loose puck before finally squeezing it between Toskala's skate and the post.

The Leafs regained the lead with 1:01 to go in the second period after prolonged pressure in the Edmonton zone. Antropov took a pass in the slot and wired a wrist shot past Drouin-Deslauriers to go ahead 3-2.

Toronto added some insurance five minutes into the third as Ales Hemsky coughed up the puck to Jason Blake at the Edmonton blue-line, and he fed a pass to White who blasted his second of the season into the net for a 4-2 advantage.

The Leafs put the game away with six and a half minutes to go with their third power-play goal of the night as Grabovski was allowed to waltz in front of the net and bat in his eight of the season for a 5-2 final.

Antropov thought the key to the game was the success on the power play as the Leafs went 3-for-4.

"The PP was clicking for us, and if the power play is clicking there's more than a 50 per cent chance that you're going to win the game," he said. "That's what happened to us."

Both teams return to the ice on Saturday as the Oilers close out their mini two-game visit home against the Colorado Avalanche and the Maple Leafs finish off their three-game road trip in Vancouver.

Notes: It was the 16th game this season for the Oilers but just their fourth at home. The Oilers were coming off a season-high seven-game trip where they sported a 4-3 record. ... Forward Jesse Boulerice joined the Oilers on Thursday after being claimed off of waivers from Colorado earlier in the week, but did not play. The 30-year-old New York native was brought in to help with team toughness with enforcer Steve MacIntyre on the shelf for eight to 12 weeks with a fractured orbital bone. ... Jason Blake drew back into the Leafs lineup after being sat out as a healthy scratch in Tuesday's 4-3 loss in Calgary. ... The Oilers entered the contest 38-35-8-1 all time versus Toronto and 23-14-6-1 at home.

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What's Really in Your Ground Beef?

What's Really in Your Ground Beef?

Jill Moorhead
Mar 15, 2016
(Image credit: Emma Christensen)

For Nick Paul, a meat cutter at The Hills Market, an independent grocery in Columbus, Ohio, the answer is easy: “If I’m grinding chuck, I’ll cut it down into manageable portions for our grinder,” he says, “I won’t add anything except beef. If we have leaner meat than we need, we’ll add trimmed-off fat from another roast.”

But not all ground beef is made by the folks at the store level.

While the Hills Markets of the world — independent markets, specialty grocers and high-end supermarkets — bring in larger cuts (or use the trimmings from meats already sold in house) and hand-cut them down into manageable pieces to be run through a large grinder, larger-volume stores turn to beef distributors to help cut labor at the store level. One distributor prides itself on providing grocery stores with 8,000,000 burger patties a week.

According to a former meat industry insider, chain stores go one of two routes for presenting ground beef to their customers. The first is to bring in 60-pound cases of coarse pre-ground beef at different levels of fat content, and then add trimmings in-house to finish off the process.

The second — presenting pre-packaged ground beef designed to look like it’s made in the store — is more suspect and may become more prevalent, thanks in part to the Food Safety Modernization Act, which was signed into law in 2011. This law requires retailers to be able to trace all meat products — including ground beef — back to its source. To comply with the tracing rules, my insider says, it’s much easier for stores to buy something made elsewhere than it is to report exactly which cuts go into the end product.

Here are two things besides meat that may be in your grinds.

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Like your ground beef to be a bright red color? You can thank carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, a large percentage of nitrogen, and the FDA. This three-gas mixture helps to keep the red look desired by, well, everyone. And while it’s completely safe to eat, it does mess with our perception of the concept of fresh. (And, by the way, you won’t be able to find nitrogen on a label. If you really want to know if the beef you’re eating uses this, ask your grocer; if you want to know if your beef is fresh, use your nose.)

Tip: If your ground beef is red on the outside and grayish brown on the inside, don’t panic — it’s all about air. The pigment in meat changes colors when exposed to oxygen. If anything, the non-red color on the unexposed part of your ground beef is indication that this mixture does not contain nitrogen.

Don’t freak out — bacteria is everywhere. The important differentiation is bacteria that lives "on" your meat versus bacteria that's mixed up "in" your meat. When cooking a steak, the sickness-causing bad guys such as E. coli and Salmonella that may live on the outside of the meat are heated and killed with the cooking process. But with ground beef, these guys are mixed into the center, and won’t be killed unless the internal temperature is at least 160°F. That undercooked ingredients advisory at the bottom of menus is there for a reason, and while a good medium-rare or rare burger sounds lovely, industry professionals take the USDA’s cooking advisements seriously.

Want to avoid issues and unreported extras? "Buy from a place that grinds fresh daily and avoid meat from that grab-and-go case," says Alexis Randolph, meat manager at Weiland’s Market, a butcher shop that’s been grinding beef daily for 55 years.

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Community Fund

In 2016 the Cashiers Community Fund awarded the Friends of the Library a $3,600 grant  to support the literacy of the children in the greater Cashiers community.  While ACCCL’s user base and circulation have steadily increased, almost tripling since the mid-1990s, the relative number of children who use the library’s services lags.  The $3,600 made three programs possible.

 The library now has two Finch Coding Robots.  Cashiers Librarian Serenity Richards says that, “they have become a staple of our STEAM programming. The two robots are designed to facilitate computer programming skills for a wide range of ages and expertise. Having two units has allowed us to let our budding coders challenge each other in obstacle courses and completing tasks. These Finch Robots provide a stepping stone for more in-depth STEAM programming to help position our children for the tech jobs of the future and the children are enthusiastic about playing with them.”

The grant also increased the library’s small collection of Bag Books.  Book Bundles are popular with Cashiers’ juvenile readers. By having a recording of the book and a hard copy of the book to read along with, these Bundles help struggling readers gain confidence and fluency in their reading skills. They are also popular with fluent readers that are being introduced to new concepts and vocabulary. The library has aligned the Bundles with the area Summer Reading Lists to help students accomplish their summer homework assignments.

 Ms. Richards added that, “one unanticipated patron group using them are English language learners. Several older children and adults that are learning English and have embraced the Bundles as a way to increase their fluency in English.”

The Cashiers Community Fund grant has funded new shelving for Easy and Beginner Reader new books.  Cashiers Librarian Serenity Richards said that “the old shelving system made it very difficult for kids and parents to access our collection and had become a barrier to our early literacy efforts. The new shelving is designed specifically to showcase these types of books, are child sized, and will make the new books much more easily accessible.

The Friends hope that these programs will increase reading and computer literacy in the Cashiers community by encouraging children to select and read in the library and at home, and by exposing them to computer languages at the library.  Increased usage by juvenile and young adult readers will demonstrate positive short run results.  Long term, these results will help support a more educated workforce to fuel local economic development, as well as more and higher quality cultural activities in our community.

This three-tiered program encourages children in the Cashiers community to read by enhancing and enriching their experience while in the library and in their homes.


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Day 44

Tzofar is a real desert town. It’s tiny and literally in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by desert. Time here feels like it has slowed, maybe even stopped altogether. I was up early and headed to one of the Bedouin camps’ chill out areas. I sat listening to the sound of the wind chimes, wondering if I could ever handle living here. I don’t think I could, maybe for a bit but not long term.

The local inhabitants have found their own way of coping with the quiet which seems to be working well for them (I promise none of these creatures are dead!).

I had the most relaxing day I have had in months. My head was as still as my surroundings. I pondered briefly with ideas and thoughts, but mostly sat and did nothing.

Grazing on food also became a feature of the day.

I was excited to tuck into the TimTams I had discovered in the shop. For those of you who haven’t tried them before, they are a taste of heaven straight from Australia. Let me take you through the experience….imagine a rectangle chocolate biscuit, with a soft centre. You take a small bite out of each end and suck hot tea through it like a straw. Timing is crucial. As soon as you taste the tea you remove the biscuit and eat it in its gooey form, before it gets too soft and falls in the tea. Gone in 2 bites, but so incredibly good. Repeat steps above until pack has run out.

As it started to get dark and cold, the workers at Spice Route Khan led us to, what has to be, the best surprise of the entire trip.

Hidden at the back of this Bedouin camp is a secluded natural thermal bath. I have concluded that, when achy and tired from a long distance trek, there is nothing better on the planet than soaking in a hot bath while watching the sunset and the stars appear. We stayed there for over 2 hours until our bodies were prunes. Just as I was leaving, I saw a huge shooting star cut across the sky – the cherry!

We built a fire, made a salad and cooked some potatoes and sweet potatoes on the coals. This had been one of those perfect days. Slow and uneventful, but perfect.

Day 45

I woke up naturally 10 minutes before the alarm. I like it when that happens. We hadn’t bothered packing our bags properly the night before so got everything ready while eating a yogurt breakfast. We set off about 7am ready for a walk.

We were in for an easy day, 23km and all following a single dirt road the entire way. Nothing exciting, but, I like days like these. I find I spend more time looking around me and enjoying the ease of the walk.

We stopped for a long break in the shade, on a short steep incline, to eat one of our left over sweet potatoes from the night before. A jeep tour turned up and some men got out to check the terrain of the incline. There was lots of heated discussions and talking on radios. I asked Gil what they were saying but apparantly they were speaking Arabic. Gil finds it funny that I can’t tell the difference between the 2 languages. I also can’t tell the difference between Jewish Israelis and Arab Israelis by looks either, although everyone here can. I like that I don’t see differences though, it’s a good way to be.

We made the smart decision to move further away from where we were sat. The first jeep went up no problem. The second, however, kept getting stuck, sliding backwards and was all over the place. He looked nervous and, no wonder, everyone was shouting different instructions and yelling at him. Suddenly, as he tried to go up a dip, his left wheel lifted, followed by the front of the car. A guy ran and jumped on the bonnet. I honestly thought it was going to roll backwards. Thankfully, it didn’t and after a few more attempts he finally surged over and forwards, showering us in dust and almost running down his mates in the process. They all seemed angry with each other after all the fighting so we left them to it.

Gil wanted to rest for a bit more but I wanted to get moving so I went ahead. The road was so easy to follow it was nice to switch off and to be alone.

A few cyclists and cars passed. Everyone stops to offer water or food and to find out where I’m walking to. Almost everyone I speak to tells me I’m walking fast. I’m just walking at my natural pace.

The scenery of Arava was flat and open. I was enjoying the space, the blue sky and pottering along with my own thoughts so much I almost walked straight past the campsite, Baraq Night Camp. I’d got here so fast I had to double check the map, but, it was right. The area had some nice designated camp circles so I picked a good one and did some stretching while I waited for Gil to show up. I heard him singing Three Little Birds (badly) long before I saw him.

A small group of guys showed up as we were settling in for bed. They set up their tent nearby, lit a fire and began quietly strumming on a guitar. The flames and the music were the most comforting thing to fall asleep to.

I am walking 1000km the full length of Israel. Part of the reason I have taken on this challenge is to raise money for Africa’s Children in Education. Each time I receive a donation it is a HUGE morale boost…please donate!


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Green Arrow #16 Preview

Written by IvCNuB4 on Sunday, January 06 2013 and posted in Previews
Green Arrow #16 Preview

Writer Ann Nocenti's last issue. And featuring a cover by the legendary Bill Sienkiewicz,

Source: Complex

• Green Arrow must liberate Seattle’s waterfront from the grip of Harrow, a thug who’s running guns into the city!
• Things may seem dire for Green Arrow as he loses his grip on his town and his company — but if he’s going down, he’s going down fighting!
Written by:  Ann Nocenti
Art by:  Freddie E Williams II
Cover by:  Bill Sienkiewicz
32 pages
$2.99 (U.S.)
On Sale:  January 9, 2013
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Community Calendar

• Santa’s Workshop - Santa Claus is coming to town at 6 p.m. Santa will arrive on a fire truck during the Holiday Parade in downtown Plymouth. He will make his way to River Park Square for the lighting of the tree. Afterwards the Park Dept. will perform the light show. Santa will then be at the Marshall Co. Museum for photos. Cookies and hot chocolate will be available all evening.
• Kids can make their own Christmas ornament at Heartland Artists Gallery. This will take place during the annual Christmas Tree Lighting event in downtown Plymouth. Just stop in the Gallery between 6-8 p.m. and the kids can make their own ornament, just takes five minutes.
• Santa and Mrs. Claus will be in Santa’s house, located in the 100 block of South Jackson St, next to the Standpipe behind 1st Federal Savings Bank, from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. Children are invited to come visit with Santa and Mrs. Claus and receive a special treat.

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Geek Guide: Open Media's Lindsey Pinto's holiday gift picks

Watch out holiday gift picks from Canada's coolest geeks in the Gadgets & Games Holiday Guide.

Watch out holiday gift picks from Canada's coolest geeks in the Gadgets & Games Holiday Guide.Photo by iStockphoto

We've picked 10 of Canada's coolest geeks and asked them to holiday shop on our behalf. The premise was simple: we chose three price points and they chose the gifts. Some shopped for themselves, while others picked out the latest gadgets and tech for their family and friends.

Next is Lindsey Pinto, communications manager for Open Media is a non-profit that works to make the Internet open and affordable. The group is best known for its Stop The Meter campaign--an effort to stop Internet service providers from billing customers based on usage.

Pinto and a few of her colleagues sat down and brainstormed a few gifts they'd like to give this year. You can follow Open Media on Twitter at @openmedia_ca. Read more about usage based billing here.

1. First, a slim, student-style budget: Up to $50

Swag from the Internet. Seriously, I've wanted some of this stuff for years myself: the EFF "SWAT" Hat ($15), some Reddit soap ($12.50), XKCD's Map of Online Communities ($20), and we're set. Basically any gift-ee would be made about one hundred times cooler if they walked around with that stuff.

A Map of Online Communities, available from

2. Next, the sweet spot of mid-range tech: Up to $500

Easy. A year of Internet access with an indie ISP. While this may come off as shameless self-promotion, I really do think my mom would enjoy sticking it to her big telecom company after all these years.

Pinto didn't suggest any indie ISPs but we're big fans of TekSavvy in Ontario.

3. Finally, the dream range: Up to $5,000

I work in the non-profit sector. I have no idea what I would do with that kind of money. Well...some idea, maybe. I'd get my boyfriend a really amazing bike ($3000, let's say, for 2011 Copenhagen by Devinci) from the Bike Doctor in Vancouver. And heaps of amazing cycling accessories. And of course, being socially conscious, the remainder would have to go to the social change organization of his choice.

The Devinci Copenhagen 2011 is available at the Bike Doctor in Vancouver.

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Did You Know?

Did you know that a few of us here at The RHOK were teachers in our former lives?

It's true.

So, we might tell you to talk with your inside voice, or use your quiet feet.

We apologize in advance.  It's just out of habit.

Teacher's are so important...not just because we were once, but they truly help shape the lives of our children.

In my opinion, teaching should be one of the highest paid salaries.  I mean, they are with our children more than we are during the week.  They kiss boo-boos, give hugs, and teach our children morals and values.  They are responsible for educating the future doctors, lawyers, scientist, famous authors, actors, and even Presidents...but they make a fraction of what those professions pay.  It just doesn't seem right, does it?

Thinking back, who was your favorite teacher in school?  What made them so special?

Also, feel free to write or tell us about an exceptional teacher your child has had.

Mrs. Edwards

...and former teacher

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