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How to stay commited with Healthy Living

There are some people who can control their weight because they are well-discipline, but others need to consult with health experts to guide them through weight loss. And these guys are the ones that will probably be interested in reading this article. It is crucial to look at the activities that we are engaged in; you must know if what you are doing has a result on your body. If there are no results, then you need to stop and look for other ways to lose weight. For you to lose weight you need to have a healthy lifestyle. Here are some questions that you need to answer if you want a healthy lifestyle…

Staying committed on your goal is hard so you need someone to motivate you
Staying committed on your goal is hard so you need someone to motivate you

1. Are you on the right track this year? Have you had any health screening that would help you on your health endeavor? Are you a good boy who follows your doctor’s advises?

2. What are the common stressors that you encounter in your life? What is needed to be done to lessen the negative effects of these stressors?

3. Do you do time management to have time for fun, rest, relaxation, and exercise?

4. Have you taken any step to improve your financial status?

5. Do you have any religious or spiritual practices that can help you?

Healthy Living starts when you act to change your lifestyle. Once that you direct your actions you are in control of your life. Here are three tips to direct your actions:

1. Jot down anything that you want in your life. Seems simple, but most people never do it.
2. Make certain that you are on the right track of your goals every morning. By reviewing your goals every morning, keep you on track.
3. Find someone that will support you and ensure that you are on track. Ask a friend or family member to monitor anything that you accomplish to help keep you on track. A coach is the one that suggest new ideas, champion you, and hold you accountable for doing what you say you are going to do.

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Commonly heard and read about energy-saving advice: Buy only Energy Star-rated appliances, replace incandescent light bulbs with fluorescent twists or LEDs, and choose the cheapest electric provider. But there are many other low-cost, energy-saving strategies that can escape homeowners’ attention.

About 35 percent of heating and cooling is lost through the roof, according to energy experts—and more escapes through the walls, windows, doors, and by air leaks. Making your home energy-efficient means starting with the basics, and the most important of these are the proper sealing of air leaks and insulating sufficiently for the weather in your area. Those steps can cut heating and cooling bills by up to 20 percent.

Here are some of the best bang-for-the-buck ways to save on home energy bills.

Unless it’s thoroughly water damaged, fiberglass insulation rarely needs replacing, though that doesn’t stop unsavory contractors from recommending changing it out. If areas that have been compressed from excessive attic tromping because fiberglass insulation needs trapped air to be effective, go ahead and fluff out those places.

Your home can benefit by adding extra insulation. If your home’s insulation is less than 9 inches thick (R 30), adding another layer could deliver significant extra savings. However, any thickness beyond 16 inches (R 50), except for those living far north in America, is unnecessary.

With a little how-to research, installation is relatively easy, but be sure to wear a mask and gloves, and don’t cover any vents. Fiberglass insulation can range from 50 cents to $1 per square foot, but the blown-in variety can cost nearly double that.

“Air infiltration” is a professional term for drafts, so don’t let the term confuse or scare you. After turning off all fans, heating, and air conditioning, a good method to detect air infiltration is to hold a lighted candle a few inches from doors, baseboards, window frames, pipes and vents. If the candle flickers or is blown out, sealing is needed.

Use a caulk to seal gaps in walls and windows and add weather stripping under gaps in doors. Drafts around vents are indicative the vents might be the wrong size. You can have either replace them or add foam insulation around them. These efforts are best left to pros unless you’re exceptionally handy.

Use heavier drapes over windows in winter. Heat from the sun is free, so you’ll want to make the most of it. Open your curtains and let the sunlight in during the day to make use of this free heat. Window shades and curtains should be kept open during the day. Closing your curtains as soon as dusk falls will maximize your home’s potential to retain that heat. When it gets dark, shut your curtains and shades, which act as another layer of insulation and keep warmth within your rooms.

A programmable thermostat adjusts temperatures automatically. Their cost ranges from $30 for a no-frills model to a few hundred dollars for the fancy name brand internet-enabled thermostats you can control with your mobile device. No matter which kind you choose, you can save as much as $180 a year by using a programmable thermostat, according to Energy Star. That’s a quick return on investment.

Smart thermostats are pricier, varying from $275 to $400, but they let you change settings remotely anywhere you have an internet connection. They’re handy for when your schedule fluctuates or if you tend to entertain clients, family members, and other guests at home on an impromptu basis.

Some smart thermostats have monitoring systems that track energy use in various circuits around the house, so you can make adjustments when and where needed. Before taking that plunge, consider smartphone apps that allow you to dim lights and control thermostats, power strips, and other connected devices from your phone. You may be able to find smart devices with the same brand that can all be controlled with the same app.

Energy Vampires

Standby power, also called vampire or phantom power, is consumed when an electrical device is idle or in standby mode. These can use up a majority of your energy budget, accounting for as much as 10 percent of the average home’s electricity use.

Most computers, video game consoles, and other gizmos with standby connections have settings that you can adjust to power-saving mode. You should definitely change these settings. Older power strips and adapters, without standby current—especially those warm to the touch—should be replaced.

The original layouts and tree positioning of most lots were governed by builders’ profit models, not energy savings, so it’s up to homeowners to position clusters of trees to shade windows and rooftops in summer. These natural insulators can reduce the air temperature surrounding homes by as much as 9 degrees. Strategically planted trees can overshadow home energy waste.

Deciduous trees, which provide shade in summer, then shed their leaves to admit sunlight in winter, are the best choice in most cases. Evergreens are more effective in providing windbreaks that reduce chilly northerly winds, as long as they are positioned away from the house at a span that’s from two to five times the trees’ heights.

Also, shading your outdoor air-conditioning unit can increase its efficiency by 10 percent. The U.S. Department of Energy says that such energy-efficient landscaping provides a return on investment in about eight years. Just don’t plant anything so close that it inhibits proper airflow in and around the unit.

Get audited

Here’s one of the few times an audit can be a good thing. Consider an energy audit, especially if you see no change in your energy bills after you have spent money on windows or on a heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning system. Some utility companies offer free audits that aren’t as thorough as audits performed by competent private companies, which charge around $400.

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The University of Edinburgh Neuroscience Imaging group will host a webinar with our Guest Speaker Dr Sebastian Lewandowski from Karolinska Institute (Sweden).

The seminar will take place on the 16th of June 2020 Video from the seminar will be available at the later stage.

Title: ”Perivascular fibroblast cells contribute to cerebrovascular remodelling and dynamics of ALS neurodegeneration".

Sebastian Lewandowski

Researcher, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet.

Researcher, School of Biotechnology, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.

Abstract. Although the core symptoms of ALS feature rapid, age-dependent degeneration of motor neurons, we still know little about the cellular mechanisms that occur in the long presymptomatic phase. Our work shows that cerebral perivascular fibroblast cells become transcriptionally active long before onset of neuroinflammation and remodel perivascular spaces with specific collagen and chemokine proteins in ALS mouse models and sporadic ALS patients. Targeted plasma proteomics of 452 ALS patients showed that perivascular fibroblast specific proteins provide clinical tools that vastly outperform current standards of prediction for patient survival. We believe our results provide a novel conceptual framework to re-evaluate cellular contributions to etiology and dynamics of ALS neurodegeneration. Since enlarged perivascular spaces are repeatedly observed in aging, dementia and other neurological disorders, perivascular fibroblast cell activity could represent a common mechanism in cerebral injury response.

- As researcher at the Karolinska Institutet, Sebastian Lewandowski works on the regulation of the blood-brain barrier and vascular remodeling in neurodegenerative diseases with particular focus on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). He has demonstrated that PDGF-CC pathway activity contributes to dysfunction of the blood-brain barrier and accelerates the onset of ALS.

- Dr. Lewandowski is a member of the Swedish Medical Association, Swedish Society for Neuroscience and a steering group member of the junior faculty at the Karolinska Institute. He has received grants for his ALS research from the Ulla-Carin Lindquist Foundation, the Åhlens Foundation, and the Olle Engkvist Byggmästare Foundation.

- Dr. Lewandowski received his undergraduate degree from the University of Gdansk and obtained his PhD in molecular biology from the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology in Warsaw. He performed his postdoctoral training at laboratory of Prof. Ulf Eriksson at the Karolinska Institute

Selected publication list
1. Presymptomatic activation of the PDGF-CC pathway accelerates onset of ALS neurodegeneration. Lewandowski SA et al. Acta Neuropathologica 131:453-64. (2016) PMID: 26687981,

2. Pharmacological targeting of the PDGF-CC signaling pathway for blood-brain barrier restoration in neurological disorders. Lewandowski SA et al. Pharmacology & Therapeutics. 167:108–119. (2016) PMID: 27524729,

3. Vascular regression precedes motor neuron loss in the FUS (1-359) ALS mouse model. Crivello M, et al. Disease Model Mech. Aug 13;12(8). (2019) PMID:31383794

4. Pleiotropic activity of systemically delivered angiogenin in the SOD1G93A mouse model. Crivello M et al. Neuropharmacology. 133:503-511. (2018), PMID: 29486168


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By  Ravi Chittimoori, senior product manager and lead on network virtualisation and NFV at Tektronix Communications

Operators are feeling the pressure. For decades they’ve balanced the thorny issue of maintaining the subscriber experience with growing their bottom line. But in today’s app-centric mobile environment the situation has become far more challenging. Subscribers are making fewer calls and are sending less texts, turning to IP-based apps like WhatsApp and Skype due to the convenience and cost savings they offer.

Subscribers are happy, but, understandably, operator revenues have taken a hit. This poses a problem and has encouraged the industry to shift towards network functions virtualisation (NFV) on the promise of increased agility.

Prime opportunity

Operators already see NFV as a prime opportunity to recoup revenues lost to app-based competition by launching their own operator-branded services. But there’s an important consideration that needs to be taken into account before they do so; how best to maintain a consistent subscriber experience during a period of considerable change.

Much has been said about the benefits of NFV for operators and the impact this will have in terms of improving the day-to-day running of the mobile network, but few have considered the implications for the end user or enterprise customer. NFV’s biggest benefit is also its Achilles’ heel in terms of maintaining a consistent subscriber experience. The added agility offered in a virtualised environment means the network becomes far more flexible, making it possible for new services to be added in minutes rather than days. But while this does offer a range of benefits for operators, it also increases the potential for disruption to occur.

Double-edged sword

It must be recognised that the transition from hardware-based to software defined networks represents a double-edged sword for operators. One the one hand, it’ll give them a platform to redesign themselves, moving away from being engineering-led, network focused organisations towards service-centric businesses. But on the other hand, in doing so, it will lead to a fundamental change in the way networks are controlled and managed, which complicates the matter.

As moving to a virtualised environment makes network management far more challenging than before, operators will need to work with a service assurance provider capable of keeping up. There has always been a heavy reliance on monitoring and troubleshooting legacy networks to identify where subscribers are having issues. This approach isn’t going anywhere, particularly as it’s been streamlined in recent years to the point where network problems can often be resolved before the subscriber even becomes aware of them.

However, adopting effective test and measurement tools is arguably even more important in a virtualised environment to ensure subscribers do not experience anything less than stellar performance, particularly if operators are looking to sign subscribers and enterprise users up to new branded services.

Horizontal and vertical views

To make this a reality, operators not only need a horizontal view of all network activity (from the EPC to the IMS), but also a vertical view, covering the full application to infrastructure stack. To avoid the risk of service disruption, increased churn rates and damaged reputations when moving to a software-based network architecture, it’s essential operators have access to a powerful set of tools capable of offering a real time end to end view of subscriber activity across the network.

There’s no doubt NFV is now recognised as key to unlocking a mobile network’s hidden potential. It’s got an important role to play in helping operators escape being branded as data transporters or dumb pipes and discover new and innovative ways to take advantage of the service agility NFV offers.

But at the same time the operator’s core needs and the environment in which they need to manage the services and the network has become more complex. They need to work with trusted vendors to ensure that they have the necessary tools to quickly diagnose and troubleshoot problems to ensure the highest possible level of customer experience. It’s imperative that the operators consider how to maintain the subscriber experience at all times to ensure the risks associated with NFV do not outweigh the reward.

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Royalty have been showing up for this year’s Hargeisa International Book Fair in the self-declared state of Somaliland.

The BBC’s Mary Harper snapped this shot of a king and a chief attending the event, one of the largest celebrations of literature and the arts in East Africa:

The monarch in the headdress is Ahmed Iman Warsame, King of the Gaboye. Our reporter says the Gaboye are a much-despised minority clan in Somalia.

His business card says he is “King of the Horn of Africa” – which may be a bit of an exaggeration!

Next to him, wearing a sash, is Chief Abakar Salatin, from northern Bahr el Ghazal in South Sudan.

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Stories are about the dropped stitch. About what happens when the pattern breaks. Though there is a certain poetry in the rhythm of the everyday, it is most often a shift, a moment of not-always-so, that ends up being the story. Why is this moment different? What has changed? And why now? We would do well to ask ourselves these questions when we’re at work. This shift can be a massive one (here I am thinking of the dystopian novel in which the very rhythms of the universe are called into question: the sun no longer predictably rises in the east or sets in the west; a meteor is hurling toward earth; the oceans are rising), or it can be as subtle and internal as the Steven Millhauser story, “Getting Closer,” in which a nine-year-old boy on vacation with his family feels, for the first time, a searing, wordless awareness of time’s passage.

Why are we writing about this moment, and no other? And what can we do — stylistically, structurally, linguistically — to get inside it? How can we reveal the innards, the pulsing truth of this character who is — let’s face it — at some sort of juncture, because if he isn’t, why would the story be worth telling?

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Cookies & Cream Ice Cream

  • Prep Time: 20 minutes
  • Cook Time: 30 minutes (churning time)
  • Total Time: 50 minutes
  • Yield: 1 quart 1x

This dairy-free cookies & cream ice cream recipe uses the broken leftovers from the chocolate wafer cookies. It’s meant to fill the ice cream sandwiches, but you can eat this on its own too!

  • 3 cups vanilla dairy-free creamer
  • 20 regular marshmallows
  • 3/4 cup crushed chocolate cookies ( recipe above)

  1. Put the marshmallows in a big microwave safe bowl (I have an 8 cup Pyrex that is perfect for this
  2. Heat for 1-2 minutes, until soft and puffy.
  3. Whisk the soft marshmallows with ½ cup  creamer until smooth. You may have to return the mixture to the microwave for another minute or so to get the marshmallows to fully melt into the creamer.
  4. Add the remaining 2½ cups of creamer. Whisk until smooth and the marshmallows are all melted.
  5. Cool the mixture down in the freezer or refrigerator before pouring into an ice cream maker to churn and freeze. I have a Cuisinart ice cream maker that is wonderful.
  6. Once the ice cream is churned and nearly done, stir in the crushed chocolate cookies.
  7. Transfer to an ice cream freezer container for storage.

Inevitably, some of your Mickey cookies will lose their ears, those are the dudes you crush & put in the ice cream.

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Good Morning!  Another quick post this morning.  I didn't set up my blog post last night because I was freezing.  Outside it was 59* but it felt like 40* in my room.  I just wanted to be snuggled under my covers.  Now you all might be thinking to yourself that those temps sound downright pleasant.  I live in Florida and I'm losing my tough winter skin!  Ha!  I don't have that either - I can be freezing in 80* weather.

Anyway, so let me share today's Delightful Challenges challenge with you - it's pretty appropriate!

(create anything winter)

I made this thank you card featuring Snowie Set and a sentiment from Touch of Christmas.  The snowflake is a cut file I got from the Silhouette Online store.  The fishtail banner I created by covering a piece of card stock with washi tape.  I did print Snowie twice so his hat and hands are popped up to create some dimension and yes, I did use the washi tape on his hat.

Thank you so much for stopping by today.  We'll see you over at the Delightful Challenges blog.

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Doreen said...

This is gorgeous,love the fab image and

Larelyn said...

I love the way Snowie is popping out of the snowflake - so darn clever. And the washi tape hat band is adorable.

D- said...

What an adorable card.
Thanks for sharing
Crafty hugs,

Shell Shearer Swinscoe said...

Gorgeous card hun, love the snowflake!
Hugs Shell xx

Anonymous said...

Too cute! Love how he's peeking out from the snowflake!

Denise @ kc242 said...

Simply an adorable winter card. Denise

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The Stuntwomen’s Foundation (“Foundation”) provides limited financial assistance to injured stuntwomen who have demonstrated a significant financial hardship.

To apply for assistance, please mail the following documents to:

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1) A completed Financial Assistance Grant Application

2) A copy of your most recent federal tax return

You (“Applicant”) will be notified as to whether or not your application is approved.  If approved, the Foundation will contact the Applicant regarding Grant disbursement.  Regrettably, limited funding may prevent the Foundation from assisting many qualified applicants.  Approval is based upon the availability of funds and upon the approval of the Foundation Board of Directors.  All determinations made by the Foundation Board of Directors are final and not subject to review.

Eligibility:  Financial Assistance Grants are made by the Foundation to provide financial assistance to qualified stuntwomen who are current members of the Screen Actors Guild.  The size of the fund is limited and the Financial Assistance Grants will vary from year to year depending on the number of qualified applicants and the funds available for grants.  Financial Assistance Grants are in the form of a corporation check from the Foundation.  A Financial Assistance Grant is intended to provide assistance to those most in need and is not intended to assist Applicants with minor financial inconvenience.

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Friday, July 30, 2010

PeNoy’s half-true lies

Herman Tiu Laurel
PeNoy’s State of the Nation Address (Sona) cued the mainstream, oligarchy-controlled media on the propaganda line that the National Power Corp. (Napocor)’s rate hike petition is due to the artificially low rates it charged upon instruction of Malacañang under Gloria Arroyo. By highlighting this, PeNoy created the impression that the massive debt incurred by Napocor had been due to incompetence and corruption. PeNoy’s Energy Secretary Jose Almendras, former executive of the energy conglomerate Aboitiz Group, even followed this up on radio every day.

What PeNoy omitted is the fact that Napocor’s dire situation today is a result of the distorted privatization program, which has saddled it with debts (accrued over the decades from its service expansion across the country) while giving away its profit-generating assets for a song to private power producers, as well as, transmission and distribution companies. In effect, Napocor was robbed of revenues that were supposed to service its debts.

Most of these independent power producers or IPPs started business by taking advantage of Napocor’s power generating assets that were privatized by government to them. The sale of these assets, in turn, assigned to the Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management (Psalm) Corp., was supposed to pay off Napocor’s debts; but a balance of at least P475 billion remains.

Government absorbs 35 percent (which we pay for as taxes) and we, the consumers, absorb 65 percent as “stranded contract costs” and “stranded debts,” which we will all pay under the so-called “universal charge.”

On the July 29 morning radio program of Noli de Castro with Almendras as guest, the Napocor tale was again thrashed about with the two lambasting the state-owned power corporation without explaining the history of its debts. Why, De Castro, in his infinite ignorance, even exclaimed, “Basta gobyerno ang may hawak lugi” when the truth is, his ABS-CBN bosses and their ilk are said to have gotten the biggest slice of the Napocor pie.

PeNoy, Almendras, De Castro will obviously not report the most enlightening Philippine energy news item of the past week: “Meralco income up 82 percent on 14 percent hike in volume sold,” as headlined by a business paper. In the first semester alone, Meralco profited by a whopping P5.8 billion from P3.18 billion in the same period last year. Such reports of gargantuan earnings hikes abound; yet little notice is taken.

Alas, the shenanigans of privatization know no bounds. In 2008, Meralco admitted that it charged consumers P13 billion in power that was never delivered because they have the “take-or-pay” purchased power agreement provisions courtesy of the power privatization law, Epira (Electric Power Reform Act), passed by the Edsa II Congress. And in 2009, Meralco reported a 119-percent increase in its net profit. Meanwhile, Aboitiz Power, Almendras’ mother company, reported its profit rising 143 percent in 2008, which it attributed to acquired government power assets.

PeNoy, Secretary Almendras and the likes of Noli de Castro, ABS-CBN, GMA7, and the mainstream newspapers are in cahoots with the power oligarchs in hiding these facts from the people.

The other fairy tale from the Sona is the much ballyhooed leasing out of the 30-hectare Naval HQ property. Considering that this is near the prime properties of Metro Manila, i.e. Forbes Park and Fort Bonifacio, the offer PeNoy was boasting of amounts to a “steal” as relayed to us by real estate experts. This is not only a fairy tale; we can smell a scam here and it would not surprise us if PeNoy’s campaign contributors (who are also big-time real estate moguls) put him up to it.

The expressway to the North that PeNoy said a foreign investor has offered to build, which would certainly entail the usual “sovereign guarantee,” will lead to exorbitant toll rates again.

It’s as if PeNoy is deaf to the pains and cries of commuters and traders using the present BOT expressways and skyways that are charging sky high toll fees that make the cost of things, such as tourism, vegetables, meats, poultry, and everything else that needs to traverse the expressways higher.

Hearing Secretary Sonny Coloma say that “Anyway, they (the pained commuters) can take the old highway” shows us how insensitive PeNoy’s people are and how ignorant they are of the economic impact their decisions make. PeNoy’s foreign-funded highway will be another highway to ruin.

Still, the same insensitivity plagues them on the MRT fare hike issue and the “cash transfer” plan of Dinky Soliman which will end up increasing hunger again, as inflation eats up the value of the “cash” for less rice as time goes by.

The final lie we spotted is PeNoy and Secretary Jesse Robredo’s spiel about the eradication of jueteng because the reports keep streaming in that not only is jueteng alive and well even in the province of Robredo but a new, more powerful gambling operation has spread all over the country called the “Meridien.” Operating alongside the “legalized” Small Town Lottery (STL), it definitely has the underside that really rakes in the money. The PNP big bosses are certainly not going to stop the P30-billion illegal gambling operations because, our informants aver, the top brass of the police allegedly split the P1-billion bounty per annum.

People should note how Robredo has softened his statements on these illegal gambling operations, as in his own home province, the political kingpins who also run jueteng have long overshadowed him.

In all, nothing has changed in this country: The looting by the oligarchs, criminal gangs, and corrupt bureaucrats continue. It’s a fairy tale that has no happy ending unless real revolutionary change intervenes.

(Tune in to Sulo ng Pilipino, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. on 1098AM; watch Politics Today, Tuesday, 8 p.m. to 9 p.m., with replay at 11 p.m. on Destiny Cable Channel 21, with the topic, “Stop Agus and Pulangui Privatization” and other power issues, with Mr. Louie Corral and PALAG; visit our new blog, http://newkatipunero.blogspot.com)

 (Reprinted with permission from Mr. Herman Tiu-Laurel)

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