Bowling Green, Ky.
Rand Paul, a republican running for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by retiring Senator Jim Bunning, said he will not “run away from the Tea Party” if he wins the Kentucky GOP primary nomination.
At a rally downtown Bowling Green, Paul said that there is a “Tea Party tidal wave coming,” and that Kentucky is next.
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Punit Shah used to think that there was no good reason that JARVIS, the artificial intelligence personal assistant to the Iron Man comic series protagonist Tony Stark, shouldn’t exist in real life.
It’s an idea that he brought with him to Boston’s Startup Weekend in December, an event where aspiring entrepreneurs team up for 54 hours of translating their ideas to reality. There, Shah joined forces with fellow Northeastern University students Marc Held and Aaron Gerry.
Together, the team developed a prototype for the mobile app that they call the “smartest damn alarm clock,” which wakes up its users with information that’s most helpful for getting their days started, such as weather, news headlines, upcoming appointments, and e-mails, much the same way Stark’s JARVIS delivers the superhero the details he needs for his day. (Or so the Zazu guys say—in the interest of full disclosure, I haven’t actually seen the Iron Man movies.) Shah, Gerry, and Held won third place at Startup Weekend, and early this year incorporated under the name Zazu, inspired by the bird personal assistant character in Disney’s Lion King movie.
Now, they’re putting together a private beta version of the app that’s due for release in June. Initially the Zazu app will be available on phones running Google’s Android operating system, a platform the company chose because it allows you to run beta testing before hitting the marketplace for sale, but they ultimately hope to expand to other platforms such as Apple’s iPad and iPhone. The goal is to get the product to market later this summer.
Zazu’s app works by first scanning the Web for information that users designate as relevant to them, and delivers that to the users’ mobile phones. It uses third party text-to-voice technology to translate that information into the sound that wakes the users up for whenever they have set their alarm clocks. A typical user might wake up to something like; “Good morning Bob. The weather in Boston is 65 degrees, with a chance of rain,” followed by a headline and lead sentence of a news story from a source of his choosing.
“Being able to hear it audibly is a great, engaging way to get up and know what you need to do to start the day,” says Shah, who has the role of CEO at Zazu.
With this first release, Zazu is starting with more elementary features, such as weather, and headlines from a list of pre-selected RSS feeds that users can choose from. For those who don’t have a smart phone, it’s also implementing a service that calls users’ phones automatically with the same information.
With later releases of its app, Zazu looking to tap into other information such as users’ e-mail and Twitter accounts, and personal calendars, to better engage them with starting their days. It will also let them specify the RSS feeds they’d most like to be woken up to, rather than …Next Page »
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For nearly 50 years, the best known name in four-wheeled performance has been Carroll Shelby, and while not quite everything he touched turned to gold – hello Dodge Dakota – the Shelby American works in Las Vegas have teamed up with Ford to crank out some especially impressive hits lately. Leftlane sat down with Shelby’s new president, John Luft, to talk about where the company stands today – and we took the opportunity to poke and prod to find out about future Shelby models.
Luft was promoted from within last month after now-former president Amy Boylan stepped down from the position. For the last 10 years, Luft oversaw Shelby’s vast licensing efforts.
You’re new to the presidency, but not to Shelby or to performance cars.
John Luft: I grew up as a teenage street racer in San Diego. When you grow up in Southern California, you’re all about what kind of car you drive. I grew up in the late ’70s and all your friends had different types of cars. I just happened to be the guy that had the Mustang. I raced up and down Valley Parkway challenging all oncomers as we often did back then. I hardly had two nickels to rub together to put gas in the car, but I could race up and down the street.
I was raised with a father that was into off road racing. We had all kinds of dune buggies and sand rails. Speed was part of my upbringing; I guess you could say I cut my teeth on it.
I’ve been in Carroll’s organization for 10 yrs as the president of licensing and I’ve served on the board with Shelby automobiles and I’ve been dealing with every strategic issue from 2003 on. I often dealt with it at 30,000 feet and now I’m at ground zero.
I was always involved in the Ford negotiations because they always involve a license agreement. I’ve been knee deep in it.
Carroll is a veritable fountain of youth despite his 87 years. What is his involvement in Shelby American today?
Luft: Carroll will always say that he is not involved and that he leaves it up to his executives to manage, but the reality is that I know it’s a slow day at my desk if I don’t get at least six calls from him.
He’s highly involved and he’s approachable. He calls me six times along with probably a dozen different employees he talks to regularly.
He’s very hands on, even at 87.
We’ve seen other performance brands struggle in the current economy. How has Shelby American fared?
We have felt the downturn, but Carroll’s philosophy has saved us from any dramatic impact. His philosophy is that if you have 5,000 people who really want this car, you only build 4,000. Carroll says, ‘I want to leave that last thousand with a thirst in anticipation of the next car we build.”
Let’s talk about new and upcoming products. Tell us about the development of the reborn GT350.
Luft: The [original] GT350 is the Holy Grail of Shelbys. Much like Star Wars, they launched the original and then did a prequel. So for us to launch GT500 and then back up to the GT350 was in true Star Wars fashion. The original GT350 had some of the earliest history of street performance, and of course the R model was designed to win.
In SCCA circles, the GT350 very handily beat Corvettes. That was the genesis of the Mustang-based Shelbys, so it was only fitting that history repeated itself.
The base model was introduced a few months ago with the supercharger and styling and performance enhancements, and now we have announced the naturally aspirated version . The naturally aspirated car was the result of customer requests. I’d say five out of 10 calls for the GT350 were asking the question, ‘Is there a naturally aspirated version? Or an automatic?’
When you have that type of feedback from consumers, you’ll give them what they want.
We just recently attended a huge Ford dealer preview in Detroit and the dealers were unanimously pleased with the naturally aspirated model.
At the opposite end of the spectrum, are there plans for a Terlingua package for the Ford Mustang’s new 3.7-liter V6?
Luft: That’s to be determined. At this time, we don’t have a new product on the drawing board. We have focused all of our design and engineering efforts toward the development and launch of the GT350.
How much of the positioning of the naturally aspirated GT350 was driven by price?
Luft: Price resistance was never a factor when people were considering purchasing the supercharged conversion. It was really the result of SCCA track potential, which we learned from the Shelby GT, which had such a great presence. And then it gets down to drivability – not everyone wants that blower and that kind of power. Like the Shelby GT, you can use the naturally aspirated GT350 as an easy daily driver, too.
You had access to Ford’s new 5.0 long before Ford announced the Mustang. Obviously there is a close relationship between Shelby American and Ford Motor Company.
Luft: When the book is written, the last chapters will obviously include Ford. I joined Carroll in 2000 and he was in negotiations with Ford when I joined the company. And I think they finished the negotiations in 2004 or 2005. It was a long process [laughs].
If you remember history, when Carroll and Ford parted ways, it was a changing of the guard. There was a certain animosity and at that time emissions were coming into the automotive world and it was time to go on hiatus.
That’s when Carroll spent 10 to 12 years in Africa. Always an interesting time in his life.
So for Carroll to come back today, it’s almost the script he couldn’t have written for himself.
Carroll just came back from a week in Detroit, where he sat for hours with the designers working on the new GT500. They put him behind the wheel, they sat there just listening to his every comment. Carroll, at 87, just amazes me. When he shifts gears and really focuses on the issue at hand, his responses are instinctive. They’re not anything he learned in engineering school, they’re just instinctive.
They’re ecstatic with his involvement and we’re ecstatic with our involvement with Ford.
Let’s dream a little. You’re the man at the top at Shelby American and you grew up around off road performance. Shelby American’s best friend is Ford Motor Company, which conveniently produces a phenomenal desert racing truck, the F-150 SVT Raptor. See where we’re going here?
Luft: I have learned to never say never [Laughs].
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Case in point: Today I chatted with the good people of Elkhart County, Indiana, about their experience of trying to consolidate all their document management needs to a single provider
Bryan St. Germain’s dad, Bob, must look a lot happier right now than he did in this picture. After all, Verizon has just dismissed a $18,000 phone bill racked up by the young man after a tedious four-year fight. More »
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OLED televisions are notoriously expensive and difficult to make; but like all technologies there is always someone working on making the technology cheaper. DuPont recently announced the development of a new process that prints OLED screens in sheets, much like a inkjet prints on paper.
This means that DuPont could possibly produce a 50-inch screen in under two minutes, resulting in a product that is cheap and reliable. Of course, this technology is in it’s infancy so there’s really not much information about when we should expect to see these new screens, and DuPont hasn’t had much to say on the subject. It’s a pretty safe bet that we won’t see these any time before summer 2011.
[via Technology Review]
President Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed said that he is going to appoint a new prime minister. “I will soon appoint a new prime minister who will have the capability to end the difficult situation in the country,” he said.
The step made was aiming to end a bitter power struggle between the prime minister and the speaker of parliament.
Sheikh Aden Mohamed Nur Madobe, the former speaker, announced at a briefing at the palace that he would resign. “I decided to resign today in front of the president in order to avoid the escalating conflict in the government,” Madobe said. “I decided to take this decision for the benefit of the Somali people.” Last Sunday, the MPs had passed a vote of no confidence in the government and they later voted to remove the speaker after the speaker had blamed Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Sharmarke for the country’s woes. The president had avoided taking sides; however, he seems to have organized the removal of both men with his latest move. While Speaker Sheikh Aden Madobe has stepped aside, it is unclear whether Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Ali Shamarke will do the same. The president came to power in January 2007 and promised to create a government of national unity; however, many say that he has failed to build a broad national consensus and assert his authority on their country.
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I am sure many of you are just counting down till and Android post for the HD2 is available. I know you care because I have constantly seen comments by the readers asking when this would acquire, but here is a little sign of hope. The new partial port was made by an XDA user who managed to boot Herat, and play a 720p video playing on the HD2 with the help of Linux. What does that mean? Well what the video below and see.
Lindsay Lohan will be going back again to court on May 20, 2010 for her progress report. The court will see if she is in compliance with her DUI probation.
As we can remember, On August 23, 2007, Lohan, 23, was pleaded guilty to cocaine use and driving under the influence and was sentenced to one day in jail and 10 days community service. She was also ordered to pay fines and complete an alcohol education program, and was placed on three year probation. If Lindsay has violated the terms of the probation, it could be revoked and she could be back to jail, adding time to the 84 minutes that she served earlier. On that occasion she was released early because of overcrowding and the nonviolent nature of the crime.
However, this year, the court stated that Lindsay is not in compliance and could end up in contempt of court as a result, and this can lead again her to be placed in jail. But what went wrong? What was violated by Lindsay? The court stated that Lindsay is not attending the court ordered alcohol education classes every week, but has attended classes every 21st day, which complies with the school’s policy, but violates the court order.
Lohan’s attending attorney, Shawn Chapman Holley also stated that they have not received any negative report from the program hence, Lindsay is in compliance. Though there have been occasional weeks when Lindsay has missed her alcohol treatment class, she has always managed to make up the class the following week by attending two classes. For that reason, we contend that Ms. Lohan is in substantial compliance with the conditions of her probation.
Holley and Lohan will be waiting for Thursday to see what will happen. Will Lindsay end up again in jail?
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With all the information being leaked from the WP7 ROM, the name HTC Mondrian has became a big mystery to the Windows Mobile community. We have posted what seemed to be the original images (which if you ask me, it is just a stupid looking HD1 with three buttons) from the leaked ROM, well Pocketnow has a different rendering of the device which to me looks like a silver HTC Incredible(Back cover looks just like it).
I think from what I am seeing so far, someone has been playing, “let’s play the website by making a fake image, and saying it’s leaked” game. Yes, that is a mouthful, but that’s what seems to be happening.
Do you really care much for either of these rendering? Do you think HTC would make something like this? Comment below.
Photos of Miss USA 2010 Rima Fakih pole dancing circulated the internet hours after she won the pageant. The picture is taken when she won a pole dancing contest hosted by radio show Mojo In The Morning in 2007.
The photos may cause embarrassment to her integrity and also to the Muslim community so she didn’t want it to be made public.
Mojo In The Morning said that they have been contacted by people from Miss Universe asking for more information about the pole dancing contest. Mojo in the Morning asked the people from Miss Universe headquarters if Rima Fakih’s Miss USA title is in danger but they got no answer.
According to staff of Mojo in the Morning, “Mojo in the Morning fully supports Rimah Fakih as she represents Detroit and America in the Miss Universe contest. The radio show will not entertain requests to drag her name through the mud.”
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Timothy Hedden is producing a show for the Travel Channel about searching for missing heirs. He is in need of a host for the show. The host must be a Professional Genealogist. Following is his casting call:
Travel Channel is casting an exciting new series about the journey and process of locating missing heirs. We are looking for professional genealogists only. Must have a proven track record of successful investigations resulting in the location of missing heirs – preferably internationally as well as domestically. Must be charismatic and comfortable on camera and MUST HAVE photos and video of yourself.
Contact Timothy Hedden @ [email protected]
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The Good: Push notifications for Direct Messages (DMs) and integration with BlackBerry’s native message folder make for an impressive experience.
The Bad: This release is still pretty buggy; it hangs and lags too often for a final build, despite perfect 3G and Wi-Fi coverage.
Recommendation: Yes. Despite the flaws, which can honestly get quite annoying at times, the features and execution are such that I would recommend this application to BlackBerry users.
I don’t have to tell you what Twitter is, where it came from, or the various purposes it serves. If you’re reading this review, there’s a rock solid chance not only that you already know these things, but that you are a Twitter user yourself. Generally, a review doesn’t require a background. You use the app for a while, test and retest it from every angle possible, and write an impression of how it went. Twitter for BlackBerry, the official Twitter application for BlackBerry, is more than just a Twitter app, it’s a complete paradigm shift from the way we have thought about Twitter until now. And this is inclusive of all official Twitter apps across all mobile platforms.
Twitter started out like any other insanely successful startup. It found a niche, raised money through several rounds of VC funding, found a clever way to market itself, and blew up. Today (as of late February 2010) Twitter sees over 50 million tweets per day, which equates to 600 tweets per second, according to their blog. Twitter got its start on the web, but it wasn’t long before independent companies started developing clients that interact with the social network. Many of you probably use TweetDeck, Seesmic, Twicca, Touiteur or a number of other Twitter clients either on your desktop, mobile device, or both—which brings us to the point at hand.
Twitter has made some bold moves over the past several months. Between the purchase of Tweetie (a popular Twitter app for iPhone) and partnerships with BlackBerry and Android development teams to develop official Twitter apps for the two platforms, the company seems to be biting the hands that have fed them for quite some time. What will happen to these companies in the future as Twitter continues to spread its reach is unknown. But I felt it was important to incorporate the aforementioned information into this review, to acknowledge that the success (or lack thereof) of any official Twitter app, could quite possibly be a detriment to third party Twitter applications as we know them.
I have been using Twitter for Blackberry Public Beta (T4BB for short) for nearly a month now since its release to the public in early April. Testing of the app has taken place in the Metro Atlanta area with pretty solid 3G and Wi-Fi coverage throughout, on a T-Mobile branded BlackBerry Bold 9700. T4BB is a feature-rich application that contains all the functionality of the Twitter website, with added flare that will make it instantly familiar to seasoned BlackBerry users (such as the ‘t’ and ‘b’ shortcuts that instantly take you to the top or bottom of your timeline). T4BB will suck the life right out of your battery depending on usage and update settings, but so will any other application that updates itself on regular intervals.
The login screen has a familiar look to it if you’ve used Twitter before, and I think this may be one of the reasons the company has decided to take control of the user experience. Consumers like consistency and fluidity, and T4BB gets my vote in both of those departments. Additionally, if you are new to Twitter you have the option to sign up for an account at the bottom right corner of the screen. During the final phase of my testing, the T4BB app became unavailable for roughly 20 hours which, as you can imagine, was quite frustrating. It turns out that the problem was on Twitter’s end not on BlackBerry’s, but 20 hours seems like a long time to be down. The picture above on the right is the login screen hanging and eventually freezing as I tried to log in. And while the issue, in this case, couldn’t be fully blamed on the app, hanging and lagging were consistent throughout my use of T4BB.
Like I said previously, T4BB has all the features of Twitter’s online web application, plus a few extra that are unique to BlackBerry. After logging in, your first stop is the home screen where you’ll see all your options across the top of the screen in the form of a navigation bar. If you prefer to maximize your screen real estate you have the option to go without the nav bar by selecting menu > options and de-selecting the “display navigation bar” check box. Personally, I think the nav bar is an excellent feature and does exactly what its name says it should, allowing you to seamlessly navigate T4BB in a fast and simple manner.
The home icon is the first tab (it doesn’t look like a tab per se, but the way it’s set up I feel ‘tab’ is the best way to describe it) at the top left of the T4BB navigation bar. When in the home tab a complete timeline of tweets from all the people and organizations you follow is displayed. From here you can enter an update in the tweet box, reply to or retweet messages, add pictures to your tweets, and shorten URLs. Replying and retweeting are simple tasks, though I found myself receiving the “twitter encountered a problem” error more frequently than I would have preferred considering tweeting and retweeting are the core features of Twitter. Adding pictures to your tweets is simple and very convenient. Just highlight the camera image on the left hand side of the screen directly below the tweet box and you’ll be directed to your primary pictures folder. Select the picture, add any desired text, click update and you’re good to go. It’s actually much easier to add pictures from your BlackBerry than it is if you’re using Twitter’s web-based application. Shortening URLs, on the other hand, is not as simple as using a desktop client or the web-based application. I’m not sure this can be attributed entirely to the T4BB app, though, because in general navigating back and forth between websites and apps on a BlackBerry is simply not as easy to do as it is on a desktop or laptop computer. Nonetheless, once you’ve completed the steps necessary to copy and paste your link, you then need to highlight it again, press the menu key and select ‘Shorten Link(s)’ to get the job done.
To the right of the home tab you’ll find the @mentions tab which contains a timeline of all the tweets where your username has been @mentioned by others. This tab has the same functionality as the home tab. The next tab over is the lists tab. Here you’ll find all your current lists and you’re also able to create new lists. It’s quite simple, you just select the area that says “Create New List” and a bar pops up from the bottom asking for the name and description of the list and whether or not it’s private. Once you’ve entered that information you select “create” and you’re good to go.
The Profile tab is actually pretty impressive. Just like on the web all of your information including number of tweets, followers, lists and favorites is available and up to date. You also have the ability to view and change your bio and location and the changes will be reflected on the Twitter website shortly thereafter. Direct messages are kept separate from your normal timeline, which I like. All too often people are updating their status when they really intended to send a DM to someone. Separating the DMs out of the regular timeline avoids the problem of inadvertently tweeting something private for the world to see. Another thing I really like about sending DMs from the T4BB client is the auto-complete feature. If you’re sending a new DM (not replying to a DM), just start by typing in the username of the person or organization you are trying to DM and a list will appear that narrows down as you add more letters. The great part is that you don’t even need to include the @ sign at the beginning. There are some really cool features for DMs that are specific to BlackBerry, but I’m going to cover that in the BlackBerry integration section.
I’ll admit, of these last three features I’m going to discuss, the ‘Find People’ feature is the only one I really use heavily. The Find People tab contains just what you’d expect, a search bar that allows you to look up the people or organizations you wish to follow. Once you complete your search and find what you’re looking for, you simply highlight the name of the person/organization and choose whether to follow or block them. The general Search tab is also very straightforward. You type in your search terms and do whatever you want with the results. In the example picture above, I typed in PhoneDog and received a variety of different results, which probably could have kept me busy for a few hours. The last tab on the far right hand side of the navigation bar is Popular Topics. Most of the popular topics are in the form of hashtags. There are two sub-tabs within the Popular Topics tab—current and recent topics. The current topics tab contains topics that are currently in use, and the recent tab contains topics that have been discussed in the not-so-distant past. Interestingly, the recent tab is setup in somewhat of a cloud format with topics arranged in no particular order and text in various colors and sizes.
Integration into BlackBerry’s familiar message folder is perhaps one of the best features of T4BB. As you can see from the pictures above, anytime you receive a tweet, mention, or DM, a notification appears in the folder. In the app itself there are notifications settings that allow you to determine what type of notifications you wish to have appear in your message folder. Just check the box next to each type of notification to customize how you want to receive your Twitter notifications. For mentions and tweets, you’ll receive only one notification in your inbox no matter how many you have (though, if you look at the top of the screen, just like the number of messages in your inbox, there’s a Twitter icon with a number next to it representing how many message you have waiting for you). For DMs, you receive them just like you would emails, and they’re push too. The moment someone DMs you, you can expect to receive the message seconds later. DMs are different than tweets and mentions, though, in that you’ll receive one notification per DM. Another great feature when it comes to DMs is that you can reply directly from your inbox. If you look at the picture above on the right, you’ll see that the background of my message folder is grayed out and a tweet box has appeared for me to reply to the DM I received from Taylor.
Here are a few more of the features that have been integrated into T4BB:
I’m not going to go into much depth regarding these features but recommend you explore them yourself. Basically, like many things BlackBerry, with the above features you will find new menu options when exploring photos and websites, and will have the option to tweet links and pictures from various places other than just the T4BB app.
Twitter for BlackBerry, which is currently still in public beta, is an impressive, well-rounded application for BlackBerry devices (though I can only speak for the Bold 9700). It offers every feature that you’ll find on Twitter’s website, as well as features that are specific to the BlackBerry platform. As a BlackBerry user myself, I was impressed with how easy it was to navigate the app using the blackberry shortcuts that I’m already used to. This is great for consumers who aren’t well versed in multiple platforms, but have become accustomed to using a few key shortcuts within the BlackBerry ecosystem, it will make them feel right at home. The ability to use shortcuts such as ‘t’ and ‘b’ to jump to the top and bottom of a screen is a BlackBerry trademark, and I would have expected no less from this app. Finally, you must remember that this app is still in public beta. Unfortunately, there are several bugs which mostly turn up when you’re trying to update a status or retweet something. Most commonly I received error messages such as “Twitter has encountered a problem,” or the infamous “loading” page that never actually loaded. In time, I expect these kinks will be worked out, but for the time being they can add a lot of unnecessary frustration to the T4BB experience. Frustration aside, I still highly recommend this application because when there aren’t any errors, it truly does run like a dream. I hope you will try it out for yourself, I’m quite sure you won’t be disappointed.
For the complete Twitter for Blackberry users guide, click here.
German Internet entrepreneurs have a new friend — Hanse Ventures, a Hamburg-based Internet incubator that has been co-founded by Jochen MaaB, founder of Internet marketing firm, artaxo and Sarik Weber, formerly of XING and co-founder of Cellity. The founding share holders of the new investment group are publishing house Gruner+Jahr’s Chairman Dr. Bernd Kundrun and Rolf Schmidt-Holtz, CEO of Sony Music Entertainment.
Weber and MaaB are responsible for the operational aspect of Hanse, which already has taken stakes in eight Internet start-ups. These include Carmio, a price comparison engine for auto parts and HochzeitsPlaza.de, a online wedding portal. Hanse Ventures plans to add between 6-to-8 start-ups every year for next three years to its portfolio. The start-ups are getting the usual physical infrastructure along with other services such as design, programming and online-marketing.
While Germany has become known for spawning “copy cat” start-ups that imitate the business models of some of the more successful US web companies, Weber tells us that the new group is focused on companies with original ideas. Hanse Ventures is part of a growing trend — several groups are trying to build a new start-up ecosystem that allows web upstarts cheaply develop ideas and products.
Photo by Eriwst via Flickr under Creative Commons License.
Lindsay Binegar started earning by raising hogs at their family farm in Highland County when she was 4 years old. After many years of saving, she had enough money to buy a $40000 house.
Lindsay Binegar is a Greenfield teenager who has been saving money since she was 4 years old. She won $100 showing a hog. She’s been saving her earnings from 4-H competitions since then.
The first time Lindsay bought something with her earnings was at the age of 14, when she bought a purse. The money she saved from the competitions would be intended for her schooling. But her parents give her a deal, they will pay for her schooling, if she stays at home and go to college.
She agreed and decided to just buy a house instead. Now that she’s 18, she bought a $40000 house with four-bedrooms, two-bathrooms with a two-car garage and she paid it in cash.
Her uncle and aunt rents the house for $450-a-month. Lindsay said she wanted to save enough money to buy her personal home with her 22-year-old fiance, Heath McNeal after they get married next year.
Lindsay is currently a freshman student at Ohio University’s Chillicothe branch.
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I don’t have a lot of firsthand experience with yoga, the only class I’ve ever taken was on a cruise ship and, being the only guy, my main recollection was of the pleasant female-to-male ratio, but here are a couple things I’ve since learned about … Read more
Some of the best Indian food I’ve ever tasted was cooked in London. I always knew that the British loved Indian cuisine and that they once held governance over India. What I didn’t know was that curry was introduced to Indian cuisine by the Brits. (Just a little fun fact to chew on.)
In countries like India where traditional cultures are thousands of years old, there are deep traditions of cooking daily meals with medicinal roots and herbs. These herbs act as preventive measures for sustaining good health, and prevention is the cornerstone of India’s traditional Ayurvedic medicine.
Turmeric is one such medicinal root that has made its way into a vast number of Indian recipes. Aside from your standard chicken or goat curries, there is a whole list of Indian dishes that contain flavorful thermogenic ingredients like cardamom, coriander, ginger, cloves, chili and turmeric. Not only are the recipes tasty, the ones containing turmeric are especially healthful.
Research by Sarker and his colleagues notes turmeric’s powerful anti-inflammatory, anti-tumor and antioxidant properties. Moreover, the United States National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have this to say: “Laboratory and animal research has demonstrated anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and anti-cancer properties of turmeric and its constituent curcumin.”
It is true that inflammation is a natural response your body has to potentially damaging stimuli. Catch a cold or sprain an ankle and the immune system kicks in and produces swelling to guard while healing takes place. But often the body does not know how or when to stop the inflammation and this causes too much fibrin in the tissues that can lead to pain and stiffness. If left untreated, it can become a chronic health issue.
Unlike aspirin or ibuprophen, turmeric’s curcumin reduces inflammation naturally, without damaging the liver or kidneys. It has been found especially helpful in treating conditions like arthritis, sports injuries, irritable bowel syndrome, Crohn’s disease, tendonitis and various autoimmune diseases. Some research even suggests that curcumin may also help those suffering asthma, inflammatory bowel disease and yes, even cancer.
Since turmeric’s curcumin component is an anti-inflammatory as well as an antioxident agent, it has been used for treating wounds, digestive disorders, liver issues, arthritis and in the prevention of cancer. Statistics also show that Asian children experience less incidence of leukemia than their Western counterparts and it seems a diet rich in turmeric may be the reason why.
Recent studies show that rats that were prone to multiple sclerosis developed very few if any symptoms after being given curcumin. The journal Science reported in their April 23, 2004, issue that curcumin has countered the genetic damage that leads to the lung disorder cystic fibrosis in mice test subjects. It was also shown that curcumin protects against alcohol’s damaging affects on the liver as well as harmonizing the stomach and digestion.
Thousands of scientific articles on the efficacy of curcumin are found within the NIH and NLM’s PubMed MEDLINE database. These show curcumin to be effective in the treatment of inflammation, wounds, cancer, heart disease and as a preventive measure against arthritis, Crohn’s disease, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), neurological diseases, Alzheimer’s disease, multiple sclerosis, type-2 diabetes, cataracts, cystic fibrosis, scleroderma and many others.
As if that list were too small, as reported in the Journal of Alternative & Complementary Therapies, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service lists nearly 80 biologic activities associated with curcumin, from anti-HIV to anti-ulcerogenic actions.
My advice: Everyone enjoy Indian food containing turmeric at least once a week as a symptomatic and preventive measure.
—Dr. Mark Wiley
References:
Cronin, J.R. "Curcumin: Old spice is a new medicine." Journal of Alternative & Complementary Therapies: Feb. 2003, pp. 34-38.
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