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How to become an eternal student

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What is the eternal student? Well, literally, it’s someone who studies forever. It could be said that everyone is, in fact, an eternal student. But I mean that type of person who is a permanent resident at a university. The advantages of staying in college are numerous, namely, you don’t have to pay for your life. Some of the lucky ones may swindle parents into paying for their stay at community colleges, but occasionally the government and other scholarship organizations may be tricked into paying. There are various types of eternal learners ranging from the truly dedicated to the wild partiers.

Most of the time, when one refers to an eternal student, the automatic assumption is that of the Truly Dedicated Eternal Student. This is often a student who has chosen random and rather strange coursework. Most of the time you will find these students among the Classics or History majors. The reason is simple. Nobody cares about those races except the people who are in them. Who really needs to specialize in Sanskrit? It is a dead language of five thousand years. Therefore, students of these types of majors can always find something old to study and claim the need to study it completely before moving on to the “real world”.

These students can always find something else to study because the stuff has been around for a long time. Since no one cares about these studies anymore, these students are free to hide in the sunlight-private forensics of dusty libraries and remain free of liability. The biggest difficulty in being a truly dedicated lifelong student is lying convincingly enough that parents, friends, college, and financial backers believe that the student should remain ensconced in their studies.

The Eternal Multigrade Learner is a nefarious schemer. This student is the only eternal student who has ever obtained a degree. And they don’t just get one title, they get several. The main goal of this type of student is to have more letters after his name than in her name. They will earn a BA and a BS and an MA, MS, MPH, JD, MBA, MD, PhD, DrPH, and so on. In some ways, this Eternal Student is the most talented and the most intriguing of all the Eternal Students.

Not only do they have to possess the intelligence and talent to get as many titles, but they have to convince others that they really need these titles. However, the danger of being an eternal student of Multiple Degrees is that, unlike other eternal students, these people have completed acceptable levels of education. At some point, their financial support will rebel due to the immense financial burden these multiple degrees impose and the student is usually told to go ahead and use their degrees. The best counter to this kind of difficulty is to be educated out of any possible job and thus, after a short interval, to return to higher education.

Another eternal student linked to study is the Vanguard Eternal Student. These students study material on the cutting edge of technology. Often the world assumes that these are the first students to venture outside the confines of college life. In this the world is very wrong. Most of the great advances in technology are made by old men and women who made the mistake of dropping out of college and have been trying to keep up ever since. It is true that there are your Walt Disney and Bill Gate, the rare examples of young people who achieve great technological successes. But those individuals are few and far between. The Cutting Edge Eternal Student insists on learning the latest new technology before entering the workforce, in order to be “well prepared.” Cleverly enough, by the time they finish learning the last skill, there will be new material to study.

The only problem with study-bound eternal students is that they almost always have enough or more than enough credits to complete their degree. Parents or government officials who notice this often require said student to graduate, ending their free ride. The Eternal Multiple Minor Learner manages to dodge these graduation questions by never achieving enough credits to qualify as a major in any given subject. These students cleverly craft their schedules to always be without the right requirements at the right time to have a continuing course of study.

Because of these “scheduling errors,” students must take alternate classes where they “discover” new interests and the same scheduling problem arises. The most common excuse for these students is that they are using college to “expand their horizons.” Despite appearing to have a lack of foresight, these students are very conscious of course times. The only difficulty with The Multiple Minor Eternal Student is that after a period of about fifteen years, the lines of study narrow down. Thus, these students can be found applying for new majors and can be thanked for many of the more curious majors found in universities today.

The student missing from Core Eternal is another student who does not meet graduation prerequisites. These students, however, study all of the required coursework for their major(s). These students refrain from graduating by failing to meet certain core curriculum prerequisites. They differ from The Multiple Minors Eternal Student in that their goal is to receive all credits BUT the core course, while The Multiple Minor Eternal Student’s goal is to complete ONLY the core course requirements. Obviously, The Lack of Core Eternal Student can only be found in schools with a core curriculum, preferably extensive. The difficulty with this method of study is that the student must work hard in their major to counteract the effects of their “failed” core courses in order not to be expelled from school. These students are more easily found supporting the need for a “liberal arts education”; aka a ridiculously long and unhelpful core class requirement.

The eternal transfer student also manages their education to avoid getting any real credit from a given school. Often these students take a “leave of absence” to “explore” other schools. In that way, they trick the schools they attend into not giving them credit while still in the college lifestyle. The Eternal Transfer Student must be very astute as the Eternal Multiple Minor Student and plan the course and the schools they will attend.

If they are very good, they can successfully fail to get a degree from dozens of universities. The key to this failure is choosing courses at a given school that don’t transfer to another as more than just elective credit. A subset of the Eternal Transfer Student is the Eternal Study Abroad Student, which is simply a transfer student from foreign universities. This specialized eternal transfer student is a bit more difficult to maintain, due to the immense expense of traveling abroad. Another common pitfall of the Study Abroad student is recklessly falling in love with a foreign city or person and moving abroad permanently, thus ending their “studies”.

The latest and most infamous Eternal Student is simply called The Eternal Party Animal. The name speaks for itself. These students are the students who always manage to miss class because they are sleeping with a hangover. These students require very gullible PARENTS. The government cannot be tricked into supporting The Party Animal’s habits for long. The most common flaw among the students of The Party Animal is carelessness. They are so busy partying that they don’t pass enough classes to stay in school. Therefore, an intelligent Party Animal will only attend a school that is easy and abundant in fraternities and sororities. Schools that provide that atmosphere are more likely to indulge The Party Animal and let it thrive. The Greek system is also very supportive of Party Animal by providing instant friends, plenty of booze, and finishing jobs. A word of warning for those considering life as The Party Animal: Most former Party Animals die of depression, cirrhosis, or venereal disease.

The privilege of Student Eternity should not be taken lightly. At no other time in your life is it a) acceptable that you don’t know what you’re doing, b) normal for people to give you excessive amounts of money, and c) expected to do stupid things. If you doubt what I say is true, just look at all the adults trying to go back to college: it can’t be done.

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The Great Gatsby: Is Nick Carraway Gay?

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In The Great Gatsby Scott Fitzgerald presents a study of wealth and ambition through the prism of pathetic characters for whom there are hardly any redeeming social values ​​to be found.

What The Great Gatsby portrays is the sordid story of a small group of weak characters involved in deception, adultery, trickery, and debauchery. The lavish parties -Jazz-age style- that Jay Gatsby organizes to recover Daisy Buchanan (his lost illusions and perfidious lover of her) are anything but wild bacchanals.

When one thinks of the rest of the nation, we can breathe a sigh of relief that the rest of Americans are engaged in the productive enterprise, rebuilding the nation after the waste of resources that was World War I. The sleaze of the story applies, almost entirely, to that small group of marginal, misguided, and unpleasant characters. It is not a book about the spiritual dismemberment of America (as many have interpreted the book to be) that occurred in 1927 with the Great Depression.

Whereas in Ernest Hemingway’s short story “The Killers” we experience the objective voice of a disinterested narrator, in The Great Gatsby we are deceived by the relentless biases of Nick Carraway, a likeable character –and narrator– who not only has an interesting story to tell, but he also has an agenda. His agenda is a long list of things to “clean up,” events to smooth over, and a guilty conscience to clean up. In a similar vein to the Confessions written by Augustine, Rousseau, and Ben Franklin, Nick exacerbates other people’s crimes and misdemeanors while he obscures and diminishes his own.

From the beginning of the narrative, Nick Carraway makes it clear that the story he is about to tell is a very personal story and that he will be the protagonist. So, with these words: “In my youngest and most vulnerable years…” he begins to tell the story of himself and young people coming of age, people who are right now in the midst of searching for his own identity, groping for goals and a more secure future. It’s a generational story in which ambitious Dough Boys, returning from fighting in a world war, vie for position in the sun, vying for a place not in the tedium of poverty or disenchantment, but for a share of splendor. in wealth and love. .

Although Nick makes a calculated decision to come East to pursue a career on Wall Street, his heart pulls him in a different direction; his heart is in literature, and he lets us know what his intentions are: “I was quite literary in college – one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the Yale News – and now I was going to bring back all such things.” in my life and return to being the most limited of all specialists, the ‘whole man'” (GG, 4).

Having attended Yale University, he is justified in calling himself a ‘whole man’ who is fully equipped by experience, education and talent to become a writer, a literary man.

As the narrative begins, he even indulges in the author’s delight at even knowing the title of his book: “Only Gatsby, the man for whom this book is named, was exempt from my reaction.” (GG, 2). He also engages in moments of meta-narrative. When in the second book of Don Quixote the hero learns that he is the subject of spurious adventures by a spurious author, we can only enjoy the pleasures of the metanarrative. Nick Carraway also engages in bits of metanarrative, such as when we read that he is revising his work as he writes:

“Reading what I’ve written so far, I see that I’ve given the impression that three-night events several weeks apart were all that engrossed me. Instead, they were merely casual events in a crowded summer and, Until much later, they absorbed me infinitely less than my personal affairs. (GG, 56).

In fact, they were nothing more than mere chance events, but very intertwined with his own personal life. Although Nick presents Gastby’s life as the main thread, his own autobiographical threads of data are woven into the fabric of the story.

While the narrator of Meursault-Camus’s absurd man The stranger Choosing crude and hallucinatory slang to represent his alienation from the world, Nick Carraway chooses lyrical and often charming language to embellish the seedy world of a low-level American tragedy.

Nick takes license and reports hearsay, the sin of a storyteller that jeopardizes his credibility. What’s disgusting is that, in the end, Nick doesn’t report his cousin Daisy, even though he knows that Daisy was the driver that fated night, and that Daisy kills Myrtle Wilson (Tom’s mistress). Was this really an accident? Or did Daisy really run over Mrs. Wilson intentionally? We can only go by the memory of Gatsby’s accident when he tells Nick about it.

It is clear that Daisy was driving and was maneuvering to pass an oncoming car. What follows is that Daisy first tries to avoid hitting Myrtle, but she may recognize Myrtle and change her mind and run her over. After all, Myrtle Wilson has been a constant thorn in her flesh all summer long, causing her a lot of pain, anxiety, and depression.

While Nick tells us that there was an investigation, he neglects to tell us that he did not testify, even though his truthful testimony would have implicated his cousin Daisy. Nick is then an accessory in the cover-up of a hit-and-run crime. Also, on the night of the accident, when Nick plays peek-a-boo with Tom, he watches Daisy and Tom in a conniving tête-a-tete:

“They weren’t happy, and neither of them had touched the chicken or the beer, and yet they weren’t sad either. There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture, and anyone would have said they were conspiring together.” (GG, 145).

In Garcia Marquez’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, when Remedios la Bella goes up to heaven, the reader accepts this fact because the woman in her simplicity never sees that her beauty hurts people; or even she kills them. But when Nick Carraway paints Daisy as a southern belle full of charm and innocence, he strikes a jarring note, because her actions belie that.

Is Nick gay or bisexual? Nick has a fixation on noses and we see this surface under the text throughout the narrative, and the only way to break the habit is to violently “break” it, just like Tom Buchanan does when he breaks his lover’s nose. Also, Daisy compares Nick to a flower: “Nick, you remind me of a rose, an absolute rose.” Is she implying that Nick is a closeted gay? Well, Nick never pursues Jordan with the vigor of a male in heat. And there is a scene where another male takes off his clothes.

During a meeting in New York, Nick meets Mr. McKee, a photographer: “Mr. McKee was a pale, feminine man from downstairs. He had just shaved, because there was a white patch of foam on his cheekbone (30 )”. Later, McKee takes Nick to his house where they spend the night. Nick later recalls, “I was standing by his bed and he was sitting between the sheets in his underwear.”

To confirm McKee’s homosexuality and by Nick’s implication, we see a phallic image when the elevator operator notices “hands off the lever.” To which McKee replies “I beg your pardon…I didn’t know I was touching it.” Was McKee touching the lever or the elevator operator? In the early 20th century, American literature had certain taboos that an author could only tackle and conquer like the Jew conquered Jericho: round and round and with noise. The noise is the carefully selected word codes and phallic images.

Can anyone imagine a straight man obsessed with another man?:

“Mr. McKee was asleep in a chair with his fists clenched in his lap, like a photograph of a man of action. Pulling out my handkerchief I wiped from his cheek the remnants of the dried foam stain that had troubled me all afternoon. ” (p. 36)

Nick Carraway, the narrator, never admits that he is a nice pimp. Nick rents his West Egg house with a man, “When a young man in the office suggested we rent a house together in a drive-through town, it sounded like a great idea. He found the house, a weather-beaten cardboard bungalow in eighty a month, but at the last moment the firm sent him to Washington, and I went out alone to the field” (p3).

If Nick isn’t gay, then he’s bisexual: “I even had a brief fling with a girl who lived in Jersey City and worked in the accounting department, but her brother started giving me cruel looks, so when she went on vacation in July I let it fly quietly”. (p. 56).

And as he wanders through midtown Manhattan, he fantasizes: “I liked walking down Fifth Avenue and picking out romantic women from the crowd and imagining that in a few minutes I was going to walk into their lives and no one would know or not.” sometimes in my mind I followed them to their apartments on hidden street corners, and they turned and smiled back at me before disappearing through a door into the warm darkness” (p. 56).

Note Nick’s self-examination that bears the desperate musings of spinsters, spinsters, spinsters: “I was thirty years old. Before me lay the portentous, menacing road of a new decade (p135).” As he looks down the path of singleness at this point in his life, Nick considers a life, presumably a sex life, with only single men: “Thirties, the promise of a decade of solitude, a shrinking list of men singles to meet, a dwindling briefcase of enthusiasm, dwindling hair.” (p. 135). This is a moving comment that confirms his loneliness and how he will take comfort in his singleness.

Nick Carraway presents himself as a simple, unassuming and likeable character who thrives on gaining the trust of friends and strangers alike. However, there is nothing simple about it. As his narrative progresses and we get to know him better, we conclude that he is a complex character with many facets.

While many aspects of his personality are interesting, the reader cannot help but be seduced by the self-righteous preponderance of his judgments. On the surface, Nick presents himself as the voice of measure, reason and virtue, but when we delve into his deepest layers we find a series of wild emotions, impulses, desires and irrationalities that border on an unstable and sexually confused life. , as he himself admits: “Behavior may be founded on hard rock or wet swamps, but after a certain point I don’t care what it is founded on.” (GG, 2).

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Why Fundraising Newsletters Don’t Work Anymore

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You know that saying “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”? Well, it’s time to fix what’s broken with your fundraising newsletter.

Yes, without even seeing it, I can tell you that you will most likely need to change a few things with your print or email newsletter.

I’ve heard from many donors that they don’t even look at newsletters anymore, even if they come from their favorite nonprofit.

You know why? They are boring and selfish.

Most nonprofit organizations send out selfish newsletters. These newsletters are written by well-meaning people who haven’t stopped long enough to really understand their reader and what their reader wants.

Think about how you put together a newsletter: Too often, the newsletter falls to the bottom of the priority list because you’re too busy trying to get things done. One day you realize it’s time to put out a newsletter, and in a crazy attempt to get it done quickly so you can cross it off your list, you grab the first topics that come to mind, put articles together, and look for things to fill. up to space. It’s not nice for you and it’s certainly not nice for your donor.

So how do you fix it? How do you put together a newsletter that your donor will read and respond to?

1. Start by creating a production schedule that gives you plenty of time to write and review. Allow time to print and mail it as well.

2. Next, spend some time getting to know your reader. Who are your donors and prospects? What do they really care? I’ll give you a hint: they don’t mind the boring letter from your CEO or Chairman of the Board. What they want to know is how you are changing lives. They want to know about the people whose lives are being changed by the work their organization is doing.

3. Step 3 is to write about the things your donor wants to know. Share those human interest stories that make your donors feel good about their decision to support your organization.

4. Finally, step 4 is to deliver the newsletter in the format that the donor wants. Don’t decide to email your newsletter just to save money on printing and postage. Find out how your donors want to receive it and send it that way.

Remember that your ultimate goal is to build relationships with your donors and prospects. Relationships lead to long-term loyalty and support. Communication is essential to building a relationship.

Think for a minute about someone you know and the only time you hear from them is when they want something. We all know someone like that, right? Don’t be that person to your donors! Don’t show up with your hand for money all the time. Reach out to them to keep them informed about what’s going on.

A well-done newsletter will not only inform and educate your reader, but also help build that valuable relationship. Follow these four steps and you’ll be well on your way.

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5 Ways Refinancing Your Home Loan Can Help You

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We take a look at 5 ways refinancing your home loan could help you:

1. Your lender’s rate is no longer competitive

We’ll start with the popular first. One of the main reasons people choose to refinance their loan is to get a lower interest rate and put more money back in their pockets instead of paying the banks.

When done right, refinancing your home loan could save you thousands of dollars over the life of your loan and free up cash now.

2. You can switch between variable and fixed rates

Another popular reason to refinance your home loan is to switch between a variable rate and a fixed rate. With a fixed rate, some want peace of mind. In other words, knowing exactly how much your monthly payments will be without the possibility of it changing for a certain period is worth a slight increase in the rate.

Instead, you may decide that you’d like to take advantage of a lower variable rate, since you can accept the risk of rates going up in the future.

3. You could be eligible for a home loan with better features

There are some great home loan features out there right now, and refinancing could offer you the opportunity to take advantage of more flexible features. Some money-saving features to look for are:

Flexible refunds: You may want to switch to a home loan that allows you to make no-fee lump-sum payments or open an offset account to lower your interest.

Redraw: It allows you to withdraw additional payments if you need cash. Look for a loan that offers free reworks.

There are also some pretty cool boutique features like getting a vacation payout (a break from payments) or loan portability that lets you take your home loan with you when you move without much hassle.

4. You could consolidate your debt

Many of us have multiple debts like cars or credit cards along with our home loan. Our auto loans and credit cards often carry fairly high interest rates, which means more out of pocket.

Refinancing could give you the opportunity to consolidate your debts and potentially lower the overall interest you’re paying, simplifying all higher-interest debt into one lower-interest debt and lowering your monthly payments.

The interest rate of a mortgage loan is usually significantly lower than that of other types of credit. Helping you save on interest charges and pay off debt sooner.

5. You could free up some equity in your current property

You may be thinking of joining the thousands of Australians who have invested in property, renovating their home or touring Europe on the trip of a lifetime. Since your current home is often your most valuable asset, it only makes sense to free up as much of your home’s value as possible.

Home equity is the difference between the current value of your home and your mortgage balance. For example, if your home is worth $600,000 and you have a remaining mortgage of $200,000, your home equity is $400,000. That is money that can be used to build wealth.

Not too long ago, the only way homeowners could access their home equity was to sell and upgrade to another property. These days, mortgage loans are flexible and it is possible to gain access to the equity in your home without having to sell it. Reviewing your home loan can help you see exactly how much equity is available to you, and refinancing can help you access equity to use for other things.

What should I keep in mind before refinancing?

refinance cost

While refinancing has some surprising benefits, there are costs associated with refinancing your home loan, costs that may outweigh the potential benefits. The following are two of the main costs associated with refinancing:

departure fees

Exit fees may apply when you pay off a loan early, usually in the first three to five years of your term. It can be a percentage of the remaining loan balance or it can be a fixed charge. See your loan agreement for more details. Although exit fees were prohibited on new loans obtained after July 1, 2011, they may still apply to loans obtained before this date.

borrowing costs

When you refinance, your new lender may charge a variety of fees up front. However, not all lenders charge these fees and some may be negotiable.

Case study

Let’s take a look at a refinance example using some numbers to better understand the benefits and costs.

The situation:

Sue has a $300,000 loan repayable over 25 years. Her current rate is 6.4% and her monthly payments are $2,006.

If Sue can refinance a loan with a 5.9% rate and a 0.50% rate reduction, she can reduce her payments to $1,914, a savings of $92 each month.

The solution:

Looking at the cost side, we will assume that Sue will pay $1,000 to refinance her loan. In this case, it would take Sue about 11 months ($1,000 divided by $92) to recoup the costs through the savings she makes.

The result:

That’s not a bad time frame. If it takes several years to recoup your costs, refinancing may not be worth it.

Should you refinance?

We’ve reviewed the potential benefits of refinancing, the associated costs, and a brief example. That’s a lot to take in. When it comes time to make a decision about refinancing your home loan, the best advice is to sit down with a mortgage broker you trust to help you discuss your options.

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Which sea salt is the purest or the best in taste?

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The difference between table salt and sea salt is that table salt usually comes from rock salt, which is mined from mineral deposits. Sea salt is the result of a crystallization process of seawater and, to maximize the harvesting process, traditional salt flats are divided into two parts: evaporation and crystallization ponds. Starting in spring, the seawater flows into the Salinas (salt gardens). The water passes through the evaporation zone, the largest of the two, in which solar energy is used to evaporate 80% of the process water. From there the water flows to the crystallization zone where the salt precipitates.

The first salt under the ‘microscope’ is Portuguese pure white sea salt. The Salt Flats found along the beautiful Algarve coast in southern Portugal were designed by the Romans. The facility we visited is located on the outskirts of the small town of Belamandil. It is a great example of how this tradition was brought back to life.

In historical times, sea salt was used to preserve foods such as salt cod, herring, etc. it became a vital part of the trade between the countries of southern and northern Europe. The importance of salt was so great that the Portuguese recovered Brazil, then occupied by the Dutch, exchanging it for salt.

Unlike industrial salt pans, the salt solution in traditional salt pans reaches the crystallization area at about 150 g/l and never comes out; in May, the salt content has increased to 250 g/l and the salt begins to pile up. This allows the formation of macro and trace elements that crystallize between 170 g/l and 250 g/l, including magnesium salts that crystallize after sodium chloride. This is similar to the aging process of wine or any other food that improves with time.

It contains more than 75 minerals and trace elements that give the salt its unique flavor and aroma. Medical science has known for many years that these minerals are necessary for the optimal functioning of the body. Sea Salt is a good alternative to taking artificial mineral supplements.

The seed crystals that form each day on the warm surface of the salt crystallization ponds will become the Fleur de Sel (flowers of salt). Using a large scoop-shaped cloth filter, workers gently collect a thin layer of salt that floats on the water. This used to be collected by the workers of the salt flats for their domestic consumption, and they called it “salt cream”, since it is collected from the surface of the salt flats, like cream floating on milk.

Fleur de Sel (Flor do Sal in Portuguese) has a bouquet that naturally enhances the flavors of food, making it the ideal product for the most demanding gourmets. Use Fleur de Sel in simple things like salads, fried eggs, French fries, and adding Fleur de Sel after grilling makes meat softer, juicier, and more flavorful.

The number 2 we are looking into is Guerande’s Fleur de Sel sea salt. An all-natural sea salt from Brittany, France. This particular fleur de sel is harvested by hand in the town of Guerande between May and September. We visited Guerande at the end of July. It is the perfect place for a quiet vacation.

The rugged part of France that faces the Atlantic is not polluted by tourists. The coastline is simply beautiful – large rock formations are stacked everywhere, providing plenty of opportunity to take in the magnificent view of the ocean. If you like food and traveling, this is a place you will never forget because of the charming seaside towns with charming little restaurants serving local food and fish.

The Guerande salt fields are long and narrow. A so-called ‘artisanal paludier’ ​​(salt collector) sweeps the top of the evaporating seawater to collect the salt. It is rich in trace elements, the flavor is the complex balance of the sea and its minerals, the texture is that of small flaky crystals of a slightly gray/pink color. Like the Portuguese fleur de sel, this sea salt is typically used to finish a dish, as a seasoning, rather than a spice.

Number 3 is Hawaiian Red Sea Salt
Where does the reddish tint come from? The reason is that during the harvesting process ‘Alaea is added to the salt. This gives a slight orange/brown tint to the salt, which is completely tasteless and doesn’t smell either. By adding ‘Alaea, you significantly increase the health benefits of this salt. ‘Alaea is made up of more than 80 different minerals that no other salt provides.

In ancient Hawaii, on the island of what is now Kauai, red volcanic clay called Alaea “found” sea salt when, during heavy rains, red clay sediment seeped into the ocean from Kauai’s rivers. When this red ocean water was trapped in tide pools, evaporation created Hawaiian Red Alaea sea salt.

According to Hawaiians, ‘Alaea Sea Salt tastes much better than any white salt, including ‘Fleur De Sel’ from France or Portugal, but after a trial at home I decided I like all three sea salts. All three taste different, and this is what I do with them:
– Salads, sauces, white fish, vegetables, fried eggs – Hawaiian or Portuguese sea salt
– Steak, grilled items such as chicken, ribs, French fries – Guerande sea salt
– Fatty fish, such as salmon, mackerel, herring – – Guerande or Portuguese sea salt

So try it out for yourself and let me know what you think.

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What are the restaurant maps available online?

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Traditionally, when people were looking for a new restaurant, they’d pick up a copy of Zagat or some other fancy food guide. But in just a few short years, online maps have come a long way and now also offer local information on businesses, shops, and restaurants. Sites like Google Maps allow users to create their own maps of favorite establishments that they can save or share with friends and family. There are hundreds of food maps online, though some notable ideas have made it to the top.

On the west coast, what could be better than eating an authentic Mexican taco from a truck? With heaping portions, tons of options, and mom’s homemade guacamole, you can’t go wrong. You can’t get that level of deliciousness from a restaurant, Californians say. However, locating these trucks can be tricky, especially if you are from out of town. Thus Yumtacos was born.

Creator Joshua Lurie-Terrell of Sacramento, California said he had been keeping a list of the best taco trucks for quite some time. “As soon as my friends found out I had this list, people were calling me all the time,” he admits. From there, transferring the data to a Google map was no problem. Once the site was live, people could add their own taco truck sightings. Yum Tacos focuses primarily on California, though authentic Mexican taco trucks have been traced from as far away as Baltimore, Maryland.

Another site, Chinesefoodmap, is based on mapping Chinese restaurant locations for Chinese immigrants. Web users will also have access to reviews, menus, driving directions and other local information. Creator Brian Hui first created this Chinese-only site, focusing on Chinese food establishments in Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area. However, the site has grown nationally to metropolitan areas like Houston, Seattle and Atlanta, and inevitably an English version also appeared.

Google Maps users have created several restaurant “mashups” based on the Google template. One of the most prominent sites is Menurequest, which has more than 5,000 links in New York, San Diego, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Napa Valley, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Washington DC. Users can visit the restaurant’s website, read reviews, get directions and make reservations online through this amazing map. These are just a few of the food maps available to culinary curators. Maybe your own city has a site designed just for hungry locals like you.

Digital Marketing

Sitecore CMS Consulting Services

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With the implementation of Sitecore’s content management system, it’s easy to manage content updates, integrate with other programs and platforms, and provide the necessary ingredients for successful projects. However, without a concrete plan and strategic consulting, the CMS integration needs will not be met and the project will not achieve its business goals.

Sitecore CMS consultants collaborate with clients to plan a comprehensive Sitecore CMS strategy, providing a fully executable strategy and integration roadmap that ensures a successful outcome. The application and implementation of a structured and proven methodology leverages Sitecore’s strengths to achieve business objectives and secure the full potential of the investment. They help clients evaluate and select CMS and web technology solutions based on a discovery model. This compares the specific requirements for each technology option, determines feature support, potential restrictions, and the need for custom development. It is also sensitive to budget requirements and carefully weighs the cost and benefit of specific solutions, including solution scalability and total cost of ownership. This results in a positive recommendation that is a perfect fit for the project and makes solid business sense.

Sitecore Professional Services and Success Services offerings help keep your Sitecore-powered websites on time, up to date, and performing optimally. It is geared towards the success of your implementation and ensures you get your message across on time and on budget.

Success Services Commitments are a well-defined series of checkpoints, reviews, and support that are available to help ensure that a deployment follows best practices, is properly configured, and built for optimal performance.

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Health Fitness

What are the low-calorie recipes to lose weight at home?

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Healthy recipes for weight loss at home can be made quickly and easily. You can cook a recipe that contains exactly the health benefits you want. You must remember that the true essence of cooking a recipe is to nourish your body. Nowadays, you can find various healthy recipes that you can use to lose weight. These recipes are low in saturated fat and calories. Apart from this, it also contains all the necessary macronutrients such as carbohydrates, proteins and fats.

Breakfast Healthy Recipes to Lose Weight at Home

Breakfast is considered the most important meal of the day, especially if you are on a weight loss program. These low calorie breakfast recipes will make sure you never have to skip breakfast again. You can try having the Pumpkin Walnut Waffles Recipe or the Sweet Potato Pancakes Recipe. Some of the healthy recipes that may inspire you include the Strawberry Banana On-the-Go Breakfast Drink Recipe. This is not considered a smoothie as it is dairy free. You don’t have to squeeze the fruit; all you have to do is place the fruits in the blender so that you are left with all the pulp plus the added fiber. Instead of having a regular coffee in the morning, you can drink it on the way to work. It can keep you feeling full until lunchtime, and it’s healthy too. Mushroom Omelet Recipe is another delicious, quick and healthy breakfast or lunch for your weight loss goals. Aside from mushrooms, you can also use other types of vegetables like thinly sliced ​​bell peppers and squash. The tortilla can be left as is or folded.

Healthy recipes to lose weight at home for lunch

When you’re on a diet to lose weight, it’s sometimes hard to find healthy options for lunch. Butternut Squash Soup Recipe is a great lunch recipe. Pumpkins are low in calories and contain no cholesterol or saturated fat. Pumpkins are also rich in vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and dietary fiber. Dietitians often recommend pumpkins because they can help control cholesterol and help with weight loss. Low Fat Chicken Corn Chowder Recipe is a great winter lunch or dinner. Since it has barbecue chicken, it is rich in protein and makes you feel full and fully satisfied after eating. This is also better for the winter months, when you’re more tempted to eat a few extras.

Dinner Healthy Recipes to Lose Weight at Home

One of the keys to effective weight loss is eating healthy dinners that are quick and easy to cook. The Veal Recipe in Red Wine with Mashed Potatoes tastes great and is low in fat. Aside from this, it also has less sugar, sodium, and saturated fat, but is high in protein to keep you feeling full for longer. The Sauteed Beef and Vegetables recipe is one of the best healthy recipes to lose weight at home. This is the best way to get more protein, vegetables, and flavor into your diet.

Legal Law

Vermicomposting, a worm farm

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Worm species:

Worms are extraordinary little creatures, with no eyes, no lungs, no nose, no teeth, no ears. They are somehow a digestive tract with a skin covering. The external parts of the worms are: The prostomium: a flap-like organ over the mouth that is used to insert food. The Mouth: under the prostomium. The worms literally eat their way through their environment. Tea clitelella: The fairly long, smooth section midway between the mouth and the tip of the tail. Tea somites: These are the evenly spaced lines (segments) from the mouth to the tip of the tail, used to move through its environment. Tea Cilia: the last of the thick segments before the tip of the tail. One species of worm bred for composting is the “Red Wiggler” or Eisenia Fetida. They live in the area above ground, under freshly fallen leaves, and in the partially decomposed matter between decomposed organic soil and leaves. They are worms that live in shallow water. The other species used for composting is the Eisenia hortsenis or “European Nightcrawler”. They are also good composting worms, however, they live deeper, moving from the surface to burrows up to 6 feet deep. Together they make a perfect team to add to a garden.

Food:

Worms eat almost anything. There are some foods they don’t like very much: hot peppers, garlic, oranges, or anything too acidic. Fats are avoided by them. They reject dairy, as well as salad dressings. Eggshells (pulverized), coffee grounds, lettuce, melon rinds, leaves, pumpkin, and vegetables of any kind are preferred. They have gizzards, the egg shells break down, neutralizing the PH in the litter, as well as providing grit to aid in digestion. They will eat about half their body weight in food per day, when the litter temperature is between 60 and 90 degrees Fahrenheit. During the winter months, when the litter temperature drops between 34 and 60 degrees Fahrenheit, they are less active. In cool litter temperatures, food lasts longer because they don’t eat as much and the cold acts like a refrigerator. The good “bugs” that break down food are also less active, causing a delay in the breakdown of organic matter. The maggots will eat meat and fecal material, however caution should be used. The molds can be contaminated with pathogens. Pathogens would be a problem if faeces (earthworm manure) are used in a garden. You literally get out of them what you put into them. It is best to know what the molds will be used for, that way you can regulate their feeding. They need to eat 50% protein (vegetables) and 50% carbon. Charcoal consists of dry leaves, shredded paper, and (they love) cardboard. The litter must be moist, squeezing a handful should expel a few drops of water, otherwise the litter is too dry.

Some truths:

There are no native North American worms. All species have come from somewhere else; Europe, Africa or Asia. All species were wiped out during the last ice age. They were probably unknowingly imported by early European settlers. In fact, many of the northern states and Canada will not allow many species to enter due to the destruction they can cause to coniferous forest. Worms don’t like pine needles.

Worms don’t have brains. They have some sensory nerves that end in a bundle in the area behind the mouth. They feel the dryness, the heat, the sunlight (which they dislike very much) and the sense of taste. That’s it, no reasoning, no thoughts, and no communication (I question their ability to communicate, I think they do somehow).

Which brings us to reproduction. They must breed with another worm of the same size and species (how do they know?). They lie head to tail, for up to two hours, wrapping their bodies in a slippery film. Then the eggs are emitted under the film, when they move away from each other, the partially dried film is rolled into an egg shell and slips off the tail end. Each gut has 1 to 10 developing baby worms that hatch into exact replicas of an adult, ready for action. A conservative estimate is that the worm population will double during the 3-month summer.

If you cut a worm in half, you can double the population. No, You can not! They both die. Some species can shed their tails when grabbed by a predator, but otherwise simply die. They are very tough creatures and at the same time very fragile, especially when they are raised.

Conclusion: Some of us find worms fascinating, some disgusting, and some don’t pay attention. A common goal in worm farming is compost, molds, and “worm tea” or homemade fertilizer. Humus are rich in nitrogen, unlike commercial fertilizers, they cannot “burn” your plants. It introduces good bacteria to your soil, and when the tea is brewed (and used within 4 days) it will also act as an insect repellant, when sprinkled on the leaves. Another common goal is to have a “herd” large enough to consume all kitchen waste and be zero litter other than plastics. There are several blogs and websites dedicated to vermicomposting. If this article sounds like it’s for you, do some research and get started. Eccentricity seems to be a common factor among worm farmers. Worm farming is critical to taking your self-sufficiency and survival skills to another level. Be careful, you can get attached to them. The ultimate goal is to do what I have termed “circular gardening”. I grow the vegetables in the compost my worms create, fertilize them with their droppings, and then feed them leftover vegetable clippings from the kitchen. Circular agriculture, many of us do it.

Lifestyle Fashion

Indian dining room furniture

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The dining room is one of the gathering places where we can sit together with our family and eat. However, what if the dining table is small or the chairs you are sitting on are uncomfortable? No one would like to sit…

Well, if you have the same problem, then you need to change the dining room chairs and table. To help you easily serve food and drinks, these days dining sets are thoughtfully designed by experts. Here are some tips to help you shop for quality dining room styles that are consistent with your style statement and home interiors.

* Purchase a table that provides enough elbow room. (Standard dining room height is 29-30 inches)

*Based on the size of the room and the number of family members, select the dining set. Make sure there is visually provided space around the table for diners to enter and exit. Interior decorators typically recommend 3 feet.

* Check that the table you buy is well balanced on its legs. Lean on the table from various angles.

* Buy chairs that help diners sit upright. The curved chairs at the back provide a proper posture for the back and one enjoys meals.

*The arms of the chair should be long enough to slide under the table. When you select the chair, sit on it and you will see that you can easily position the lower part of your thighs.

Indian wooden furniture has all these characteristics. You can even find lovely style dining sets in fascinating Jodhpur furniture designs.

If you are not one of those residing in India, contact an Indian furniture manufacturer and exporter. You can even explore their range of wooden furniture in their online catalogue. You can even get great discounts here.