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Optymalna kolejność prac instalacyjnych na budowie Jednym z częstych dylematów na etapie stanu surowego zamkniętego jest kolejność wykonania instalacji, tynków i wylewek. Wiele ekip ma swoje przyzwyczajenia i każda będzie przekonywać, że „tak robi się od zawsze”. W praktyce jednak kolejność prac ma ogromne znaczenie dla jakości wykonania, kosztów, szczelności budynku i ryzyka uszkodzenia instalacji. Moim zdaniem optymalna kolejność prac wygląda następująco: 1. instalacja elektryczna oraz elementy wentylacji mechanicznej,2. tynki,3. instalacja hydrauliczna,4. wylewki. Nie jest to przypadkowa kolejność. Wynika z praktyki budowlanej i pozwala uniknąć wielu typowych problemów. Dlaczego tynki powinny być wykonane przed wylewkami? 1. Mniejsze ryzyko zabrudzenia i uszkodzenia posadzki Tynkowanie to brudny i mokry etap prac. Podczas nakładania tynków zaprawa spada na podłogę, a woda i resztki materiału trafiają bezpośrednio na podłoże. Jeżeli tynki wykonuje się przed wylewkami, zabrudzenia spadają na chudziaka, płytę fundamentową lub inne surowe podłoże. Taką powierzchnię dużo łatwiej oczyścić. Jeżeli natomiast tynki wykonuje się już po wylewkach, pojawia się ryzyko zachlapania gotowej posadzki. Usunięcie takich zabrudzeń bywa trudne, czasochłonne, a czasami wręcz niemożliwe bez uszkodzenia powierzchni. Niektóre ekipy tynkarskie doliczają nawet dodatkową opłatę za pracę na gotowych wylewkach, ponieważ wymaga to większej ostrożności i zabezpieczenia podłoża. 2. Lepsza szczelność powietrzna budynku Wykonanie tynków przed wylewkami pozwala otynkować ściany niżej, również w strefie, która później zostanie częściowo zasłonięta przez warstwy podłogi. Ma to duże znaczenie dla szczelności powietrznej budynku. Sam mur, szczególnie wykonany z bloczków lub pustaków, nie zawsze jest szczelny. To właśnie tynk stanowi jedną z podstawowych warstw ograniczających niekontrolowany przepływ powietrza przez przegrody. Jest to szczególnie ważne w domach energooszczędnych i pasywnych. 3. Bezpieczniejsze odprowadzenie wilgoci z prac mokrych Tynkowanie wprowadza do budynku dużą ilość wilgoci. Lepiej, aby ta wilgoć znalazła się na surowej płycie lub chudziaku niż na świeżo wykonanej wylewce. Dzięki temu ograniczamy ryzyko niepotrzebnego zawilgocenia gotowych warstw podłogowych i przyspieszamy późniejsze porządkowanie budowy. Dlaczego hydraulika lepiej po tynkach? Część wykonawców woli wykonać instalację wodno-kanalizacyjną przed tynkami, argumentując to tym, że później nie trzeba będzie kuć bruzd w gotowych ścianach. W praktyce jednak liczba takich bruzd zwykle nie jest duża. Dotyczy najczęściej kuchni, łazienek, pralni czy kotłowni. Takie miejsca i tak są później wykańczane płytkami, zabudową lub innymi warstwami, więc zaklejenie bruzd nie stanowi dużego problemu. Znacznie większym problemem jest ułożenie instalacji hydraulicznej na podłodze przed tynkami. Rury leżące na podłożu są wtedy narażone na uszkodzenia. Tynkarze przesuwają rusztowania, chodzą po budynku, przenoszą sprzęt, ciągną węże i narzędzia. W takich warunkach nietrudno o przypadkowe złamanie, zgniecenie albo przesunięcie instalacji. Najgorszy scenariusz jest taki, że uszkodzenie zostanie zamaskowane i wyjdzie dopiero po wykonaniu kolejnych warstw podłogi. A co z instalacją elektryczną na podłodze? Instalację elektryczną najlepiej prowadzić po ścianach i sufitach. Układanie przewodów po podłodze komplikuje późniejsze wykonanie izolacji przeciwwilgociowej i warstw podłogowych. Jeżeli przewody leżą na podłożu, trudno szczelnie ułożyć folię lub inną hydroizolację. Kable tworzą przeszkody, fałdy i miejsca potencjalnych nieszczelności. W efekcie warstwa, która powinna być ciągła, przestaje spełniać swoją funkcję. Dlatego prowadzenie elektryki po podłodze warto ograniczać do minimum, a najlepiej unikać go całkowicie, jeżeli nie ma konkretnego uzasadnienia technicznego. Praktyczne wskazówki przed tynkowaniem Zrób dokładną dokumentację instalacji Przed tynkowaniem warto wykonać szczegółowe zdjęcia wszystkich instalacji. Najlepiej robić zdjęcia z przyłożoną miarą, aby później łatwo odtworzyć przebieg przewodów i położenie puszek. Dobrym rozwiązaniem są również skany 3D budynku. Przydają się szczególnie wtedy, gdy instalacji jest dużo albo zależy nam na dokładnej dokumentacji przed zakryciem ścian. To ważne, ponieważ tynkarze potrafią przykryć puszki elektryczne. Bez dokumentacji ich późniejsze odnalezienie może być uciążliwe. Pamiętaj o bramie garażowej Montaż bramy garażowej zwykle wymaga równego i przygotowanego podłoża wokół otworu. Problem pojawia się wtedy, gdy chcemy zamontować bramę przed tynkami, a ściany wokół otworu są jeszcze surowe. Rozwiązaniem może być wcześniejsze, ręczne otynkowanie samego otworu garażowego lub ściany garażowej przez mniejszą ekipę. Dzięki temu można przygotować miejsce pod montaż bramy, nie zmieniając ogólnej kolejności prac w całym budynku. Podsumowanie Najbezpieczniejsza i najbardziej praktyczna kolejność prac to: elektryka i wentylacja mechaniczna → tynki → hydraulika → wylewki. Taka kolejność ogranicza ryzyko uszkodzenia instalacji, ułatwia utrzymanie porządku na budowie, poprawia szczelność powietrzną budynku i pozwala uniknąć problemów z hydroizolacją podłogi. Oczywiście każdą budowę trzeba analizować indywidualnie, ale w większości domów jednorodzinnych właśnie taki układ prac będzie najbardziej logiczny i najmniej ryzykowny. Zapraszam do wysłuchania rozmowy o prawidłowej kolejności prac: https://blog.poradnik-budowlany.com/podcast/Dylematy_budowlane_160.mp3 Artykuł Dlaczego tynki przed wylewkami? pochodzi z serwisu Blog Budowlany: Jak się wybudować i nie zwariować.
Traffic is returning through the Strait of Hormuz, but for the global ship recycling market, the timing has come too late. In Week 23 of 2026, vessel movements through Hormuz improved materially, even though the formal US-Iran framework remains unsigned. Brent crude eased into the USD 95–97 per barrel range as markets priced in de-escalation, while freight markets moved in the opposite direction. The Baltic Dry Index climbed above 3,200, and Capesize earnings touched nearly USD 49,500 per day, keeping older vessels trading rather than heading for recycling. Across the subcontinent, the key issue remains unchanged: demand is present, financing is available, pricing is firm, but tonnage supply remains limited. The pre-monsoon beaching window has now effectively closed, shifting the main constraint from geopolitics to weather. This week's episode examines: • Strait of Hormuz traffic recovery and US-Iran deal uncertainty • Brent crude easing and global energy market reaction • Baltic Dry Index strength and Capesize freight earnings • Why strong freight continues to delay ship recycling supply • Bangladesh ship recycling market stability and Taka performance • Chattogram demand, LC financing, and monsoon impact • Indian Rupee recovery and Alang market conditions • RBI policy measures and India's ship recycling outlook • Pakistan Rupee strength and Gadani pricing leadership • Turkey's Lira stability, inflation pressure, and Aliaga's EU-regulated niche • Subcontinent recycling prices, vessel supply, and cash buyer sentiment • Why the market enters monsoon season with demand intact but supply absent Key market takeaway: The Strait of Hormuz is gradually returning to operation, Brent crude has eased, and currency conditions have improved across parts of the subcontinent. However, dry bulk freight remains strong, older vessels continue trading, and the monsoon has now closed the practical recycling window. The traffic returns. The window is gone. For full details, vessel rankings, and port positions, download the GMS Weekly on our GMS website or mobile app. Follow GMS on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and X for daily updates.
Nazywam się woźny Olbratowski i jestem woźnym. Pilnującym porządku na tej ssss zabawie szkolnej. Taka tam zabawa. Ja, jako woźny jestem prawie absolwentem Technikum Mechanizacji Leśnictwa imienia Gustlika Jelenia. U nas to były zabawy. I jaka muzyka grała...
Piše Miša Gams, bereta Eva Longyka Marušič in Igor Velše. Po zbirkah Mrak in zarja, Bela čaplja in Marš na Soči, ki so izšle v zadnjih treh letih, je pred nami nova pesniška zbirka Jožeta Štucina, tolminskega pesnika, pisatelja, recenzenta in pedagoga, ki je pred štiridesetimi leti začel svoj pesniški opus s prvencem Ritem zavesti. Tudi v zbirki Matador in ljubica se posveča minevanju, soočanju s samoto in neizogibnim koncem, za protiutež pa so mu mladostniška norčavost, jeklen libido in blagodejno utripanje narave, s katero se zliva v svojih zaznavah in spominih. Že v prvi pesmi je osrednji motiv samost, ki lirski subjekt posrka v ljubezen, da dve samoti postaneta “samo ti za mene in samo jaz za tebe”, medtem ko v pesmi imam moč biti pravi, da se mu še ne ljubi umreti in da je glavno to, da “miga in da rojeva besede iz glagola biti”: “vsebine terjajo pomožnost, / noben glagol ni poceni. / glagol biti je pa sploh drag, / celo precenjen. // se mi zdi.” Pesmi s filozofsko tematiko, v katerih se lirski subjekt sprašuje, kaj pomeni biti, misliti oz. ne-misliti ter toniti v nič, se prepletajo s pesmimi, v katerih se motiv narave združuje z zanimivimi fizikalnimi ugotovitvami in ljubeznijo. Tako v pesmi z naslovom gravitacija z izbranko lebdita nad tlemi in po pristanku iščeta drug drugega “… kot regratovo padalce, / kot meniškov puh, / kot cekinček v januarju, / kot orion na nebu. // lebdiva / in se iščeva / na tleh.” Užitek je brati pesnika, ki z besednim minimalizmom pričara občutje (v eni izmed pesmi se celo razglasi za diplomiranega krotilca čustev), pri tem pa ves čas ohranja občutek za povzemanje oz. centriranje palete najrazličnejših čustev in tudi za njihovo prizemljitev v danem času in prostoru. Za to pa je potrebna samozavest, ki jo je Štucin pridobil med ustvarjanjem in nenehnim precejanjem besed skozi pesniško sito, za katero že od nekdaj velja preprost slogan Manj je več. Tudi ko se v pesmi molčečnež zgraža nad tem, da postaja jezikav kot “starec, ki so mu med strahovlado odrezali jezik”, se zave pristne povezave med jezikom, molkom in nezmožnostjo ubeseditve žalosti, ki preveva svet, ki se nikoli ne more do konca izpovedati. V pesmi dva jezika se loteva raskavosti rovtarskega narečja, ki se ne pusti zgladiti – v čemer vidi njegovo lepoto in vrlino. V pesmi traktat pa se po drugi strani pozabava na svoj račun, ko se zave, da je, ko piše, “v bistvu nepismen, / ko ne pišem, / me pa ni.” Na več mestih se Štucin poigrava z zvenom in pomenom besed, včasih se zdi, kot da pred bralcem uprizarja otroško izštevanko, ki jo diktira sozvočje besednih izrazov. Taka sta naslova pesmi dih, dah, duh in uvod v pesem mata hari, v kateri se pozabava z besedo mati: “v vseh nas je mati, / matka, / mot, / mata, / mumija, / mama.” Stil pisanja je jasen in luciden, na trenutke norčav in ludističen, da ima bralec občutek, da spremlja igro žrebička, ki se vsakič znova z zadoščenjem zaletava v ista vrata. Skozi zafrkantske pesmi pa se vije rdeča linija samote, eksponentnega zbliževanja z Drugim in zavedanja bližine smrti oziroma umiranja. V pesmi na dotik zapiše nadvse subtilne verze: “na dotik sem spoznal, / da so dotiki na svetu / edina vez z drugim, / edino upanje, / da nisi samo utrinek samega sebe / v brezmejnosti vesolja. // da za hip nisi sam.” To globoko izpovedno misel pa že čez nekaj strani spreobrne pesem z naslovom posmrtni produkt, v kateri se pesnik ironično sklicuje na to, da vsi končamo v salonu iste franšize, ki nam izstavi račun za “bivanje” v mrtvašnici: “slogan iz oglasa: / jupidu, podtalno je polno življenja! // besedilni korpus: / na koncu se združimo vsi v enega, / v salonu iste franšize. // cenik: / kripta 100, / plastični venček 20, / umito telo 50, / drenaža v grobu 11, / ciljna odprtina, izkop, 200, / maskara 30, / počesana preča – gratis.” Tako kot se Štucin zabava med pisanjem svojih pesmi, tako se njegov smisel za humor in ironijo hitro prenese tudi na bralca. Skupaj z njima pa tudi slutnja politične nekorektnosti ... V pesmi matador in ljubica že s prvim verzom pove, da si je vedno želel zaklati bika, in sicer v sodobni gladiatorski areni ob vzdihovanju ženske, ki bi trepetala za njegovo življenje in za iniciacijo v zrelost. V pesmi čakajoč na jazz imenuje to zvrst glasbe kosmata muzika, “nikoli obrito mednožje, / ki reže svet / na zamorce in druge.” Pesniško nagovori tudi pisatelja Tomaža Kosmača in pisateljico Natašo Kramberger, do katere goji prav posebno občudovanje: “Kmetica ima potencial / ubeseditve, / prekleto res, / jaz pa dosegam / potencial / majske ledenke, / ki z enim kosilom ponikne / v črkovni kompost.” In res bi bil najbolj ustrezen naziv za Štucinovo pesnikovanje prav črkovno kompostiranje. Med branjem pesniške zbirke Matador in ljubica imamo namreč nenehno občutek, kot da prekopava plasti svojega nezavednega v iskanju najbolj plodnega humusa, s katerim bi pognojil semena samote, ki iščejo dotik neba in solzo navdiha.
Tatizo la uchafuzi wa mazingira kutokana na taka ngumu, bado ni changamoto katika miji mingi barani Afrika. Hata hivyo, hivi karibuni, kumekuwa na jitihada kwenye baadhi ya mataifa ambapo sasa nchi zimeanza kuwa na sheria na kanuni za kuhakkisha usimamizi endelevu wa taka, kwa kuwahusisha wazalishaji na waagizaji wa bidhaa.
In this episode, we break down THE LAST SAMURAI: the epic historical drama starring Tom Cruise that blends brutal war scenes, emotional storytelling, and themes of honor, redemption, and cultural identity into one of the most unforgettable films of the 2000s.We dive deep into Tom Cruise's performance as Nathan Algren, discussing why this role feels different from many of his other action characters and how the movie balances Hollywood spectacle with genuine emotional depth. We also debate some of the film's controversial choices, including the ending, the romance with Taka, and whether Nathan surviving the final battle actually weakens the story's themes of sacrifice and redemption.The episode also explores the philosophy of the samurai, Katsumoto's symbolism throughout the film, and how the movie portrays the death of an entire way of life as modernization takes over Japan. We break down the incredible battle scenes, the fog ambush sequence, and the insane amount of practical stunt work that went into making the combat feel grounded and visceral.We also discuss behind-the-scenes details about how Tom Cruise trained throughout production so his swordsmanship would naturally improve alongside his character's journey, as well as why his commitment to physical performance continues to separate him from almost every other modern movie star.Chapters:00:00 Announcements0:29 Intro: We love this movie5:34 The few flaws in this movie23:43 How the stunt coordinator trained Tom Cruise29:57 The historical inaccuracies38:30 Trying to avoid the "white savior" cliche41:21 Now trying to defend the corny ending45:04 The story of how Tom Cruise almost got his head chopped off48:51 The behind the scenes footage is so funny52:42 Subtly showing Tom Cruise is one with the Samurai54:45 Our final thoughts
Week 21 marks a major turning point in the global ship recycling market as the strongest reopening signal yet emerges from the Strait of Hormuz. Three supertankers transited the Strait for the first time since March, while President Trump said the United States is in the “final stages” of talks with Iran. Brent crude eased more than 5% to around USD 105 per barrel, and WTI moved below USD 100. However, for ship recycling, the timing remains critical. With only around one week left before the practical monsoon slowdown across the sub-continent, the improved passage signal may have arrived too late to release meaningful recycling tonnage into the market. Freight markets remain supportive for owners to keep older vessels trading. The Baltic Dry Index closed around 3,005 after peaking above 3,092, while Capesize earnings remained above USD 40,000 per day. Panamax earnings strengthened further, keeping the trading premium intact for older dry bulk vessels. Bangladesh continues to show strong operational stability, with the Taka holding around 122.87 against the U.S. Dollar and the Letter of Credit pipeline functioning for a sixth consecutive week. Bangladesh's April CPI rose to 9.04%, showing that inflationary pressure has reached Chattogram, but the impact remains contained compared with Pakistan and Turkey. India faces renewed currency pressure as the Rupee decisively broke above 96, touching a fresh all-time low near 96.97 against the U.S. Dollar. Despite this, India's April CPI remained calm at 3.48%, comfortably within the RBI's tolerance band. Alang remains the lowest-priced sub-continent destination, while retaining its strong HKC compliance advantage. Pakistan continues to consolidate its position, with the Pakistani Rupee holding firm around 278.63 against the U.S. Dollar. Local steel prices remain strong, keeping Gadani in one of the firmest pricing positions globally, supported by currency stability and the State Bank's earlier rate hike. Turkey remains structurally uncompetitive for mainstream tonnage despite another record low in the Turkish Lira. Aliaga continues to focus mainly on EU-regulated recycling candidates, where compliance requirements outweigh price differentials. This week's central market message is clear: Hormuz passage may be opening, Brent has eased, and diplomacy has reaccelerate, but the recycling window is closing. With freight earnings still elevated and monsoon approaching, recycling supply remains limited across all major destinations. This episode covers: Global ship recycling market trends Strait of Hormuz reopening signals Brent crude and WTI price movements Baltic Dry Index and dry bulk freight strength Capesize, Panamax, Supramax and Handysize earnings Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Turkey recycling markets Bangladesh inflation and Taka stability India Rupee record low and CPI performance Pakistan Rupee stability and Gadani pricing strength Turkey Lira weakness and Aliaga's EU-focused role Hong Kong Convention-compliant recycling yards Monsoon impact on ship recycling activity Cash buyer sentiment and recycling pricing outlook Vessel supply, backlog and owner decision-making Key Market Developments This Week Three supertankers crossed the Strait of Hormuz for the first time since March President Trump said U.S.–Iran talks are in the “final stages” Brent crude eased more than 5% to around USD 105 per barrel WTI moved below USD 100 per barrel Baltic Dry Index closed around 3,005 after peaking above 3,092 Capesize earnings remained above USD 40,000 per day Panamax earnings strengthened to more than USD 22,000 per day Bangladesh Taka remained stable around 122.87 against the U.S. Dollar Bangladesh April CPI rose to 9.04% Bangladesh LC pipeline remained operational for a sixth consecutive week Indian Rupee touched a fresh all-time low around 96.97 against the U.S. Dollar India April CPI remained controlled at 3.48% Pakistan Rupee held firm around 278.63 against the U.S. Dollar Gadani pricing remained among the strongest globally Turkish Lira weakened to a fresh record low around 45.58 against the U.S. Dollar Aliaga remained focused on EU-regulated tonnage Monsoon window narrowed to approximately one week Recycling tonnage supply remained limited despite stronger reopening signals For full details, vessel rankings, and port positions, download the GMS Weekly on our website or mobile app. Follow GMS on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and X for daily updates.
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ahko jih pripravimo iz ajdove kaše, ješprenja, prosene kaše, pire, riža ... Zrnje skuhamo, odcedimo, poškropimo z oljem in počakamo, da se ohladi. Nato dodamo koruzo iz konzerve, malo narezanih kislih kumaric, narezane rdeče paprike in to prelijemo z jogurtnim prelivom. Taka solata se zelo poda k pleskavicam, čevapčičem, narezku, hladni pečenki. K žaru se poda tudi makaronova solata. Drobne makarone skuhamo, odcedimo, dodamo malo maščobe, da se ne sprimejo in dodamo malo graha, narezane rdeče paprike, kislih kumaric, koruze ... Tudi tu je dobro zrnje pred kuhanjem namočiti. To skrajša čas kuhanja, hitreje postane mehko.
Welcome back to the 3-time award-winning Devon & The Duke!On this episode, Duke doubles down on Cody Rhodes, calling him an "egg-sucking dog" and a "Ric Flair wannabe." Devon is convinced Cody is going to show up and mess him up one of these days for all the trash talk.From there, the guys cover everything from Florida's brutal love bug season to AI replacing pro wrestlers, plus a hilarious pivot into sports talk.What's in this episode:The Cody Rhodes Beef: Duke refuses to back down, while Devon warns him that trash talk eventually catches up to you.Florida Love Bugs: Devon explains why these pests ruin your car's paint job and why you need to get them cleaned off immediately.3D Auto Detailing: Devon shares how to protect your vehicle. Head over to his Instagram for more details and booking info.The AI Threat & Wrestling Unions: Duke warns about AI taking over desk jobs and the wrestling business, urging workers to advocate for human job protections and support the push for wrestling unions.Devon's Favorite Rivals: Devon looks back at his favorite tag teams to share a ring with, including the APA, Beer Money, Motor City Machine Guns (MCMG), and Taka & Funaki.Praise for Tozawa: A breakdown of why Akira Tozawa is so elite, focusing on his incredible in-ring skills and high wrestling IQ.Rex Ryan & The Knicks: A hilarious pivot into sports talk, covering Rex Ryan's infamous foot fetish and the New York Knicks making a deep playoff run.In Memory of Tony Lovell: A heartfelt tribute to the late Tony Lovell, with a special shout-out to his son, the well-respected Lovell Porter of Wrestlezone.This episode delivers the exact mix of fun, serious debate, and realness you expect every week from Devon & The Duke.#DevonAndTheDuke #CodyRhodes #ProWrestling #3DAutoDetailing #FloridaLife #Union #AkiraTozawa #TagTeamWrestling #NYKnicks #Wrestlezone #TonyLovell #Podcast #LovellPorter** Shop better hydration today. Visit & use the promo code DukeLovesRasslin to save on your next order! ****All views expressed are that of those expressing them. Pull Up Your Skinny Jeans if you don't like it! **
Week 19 marks a major shift in the global ship recycling market as Brent crude falls sharply, diplomacy re-enters the Hormuz conversation, and freight markets move strongly in the opposite direction. Despite Brent correcting from USD 126.41 per barrel to near USD 100, the expected release of recycling tonnage has not materialized. The Baltic Dry Index climbed to 2,991, up 12% from the previous week, with Capesize earnings surging and daily returns moving above USD 42,000. Strong freight earnings continue to encourage owners to keep older vessels trading rather than sending them for recycling, keeping supply tight across the Indian sub-continent. Bangladesh remains the leading recycling destination, supported by firm demand, a stable Taka, sustained Letter of Credit flow, and competitive steel plate pricing. However, Chattogram continues to face the same core issue: buyers are ready, but vessels are not arriving. India saw sharp currency volatility, with the Rupee touching a fresh low around 95.27 before recovering near 94.18 on diplomatic headlines. Alang remains the lowest-priced sub-continent destination, but its HKC-compliant yard base continues to support regulated tonnage demand. Pakistan's position has become more complicated. Gadani pricing remains firm, with steel plate levels around USD 679 per ton, but April inflation surged to 10.9%, prompting a 100-basis-point rate hike to 11.5%. Pakistan's Gulf proximity premium still holds, but its earlier stability advantage has narrowed. Turkey remains structurally uncompetitive for mainstream tonnage, with the Lira weakening to a fresh record low and April inflation rising to 32.37%. Aliaga continues to rely mainly on EU-regulated tonnage, where compliance can outweigh the price gap. With only around 3 weeks left before the monsoon window closes, the central question is no longer whether demand exists. It does. The question is whether diplomacy can release vessel supply in time. For now, strong freight, unresolved Hormuz risks, inflation pressure, and limited candidate flow mean the backlog holds. This episode covers ship recycling prices, vessel supply, freight markets, oil prices, currencies, inflation, HKC compliance, and the latest developments across Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Turkey. Key Market Developments This Week • Brent crude falls from USD 126.41 to near USD 100 • Diplomacy re-enters the Hormuz discussion, but safe passage remains unresolved • Baltic Dry Index rises to 2,991, up 12% week-on-week • Capesize earnings strengthen, with daily returns above USD 42,000 • Strong freight continues to delay ship recycling decisions • Bangladesh remains the leading destination on demand and pricing • Chattogram LC pipeline remains stable and functional • India's Rupee touches 95.27 before recovering near 94.18 • Alang remains lowest-priced but retains strong HKC compliance advantage • Pakistan CPI jumps to 10.9%, triggering a 100-basis-point rate hike • Gadani pricing remains firm, but Pakistan's advantage narrows • Turkish Lira weakens to a fresh record low near 45.24 • Turkey inflation rises to 32.37%, keeping Aliaga niche and outpriced • No meaningful supply release despite Brent correction • Monsoon window narrows to approximately 3 weeks • Q1 overhang remains locked into a Q2 backlog
Grški pravoslavni teolog in filozof Hristos Janaras je znan po svojih pronicljivih in tudi polemičnih delih. Taka je tudi knjiga "Proti religiji", ki sta jo predstavila poznavalca Janarasovih del Gorazd Kocjančič in Matjaž Črnivec.
Kultūras rondo raugām iepazīt un domās jau izstaigāt kādu taku lielpilsētas vidū, uz kuras mēs visi varam satikties latviešu folklorā – tā varētu teikt par ģimeņu folkloras festivālu “Taka”, kas šo svētdien, 10. maijā, aicinās lielus un mazus rīdziniekus un viesus iepazīt un piedzīvot folkloru tai šķietami pavisam netipiskā vietā – VEF kvartālā. Par festivālu un par folkloras nozīmi mūsdienu cilvēka dzīvē runājam ar festivāla idejas autori, etnomuzikoloģi, “Garatakas” vadītāju un ļoti aktīvu mūziķi Asnati Rancāni, studijas “Garataka” dalībnieci Karīnu Banderi un kultūras un sociālo antropoloģi Māru Neikenu.
Welcome to Those Days: A Michinoku Pro Retrospective!Case (https://twitter.com/_inyourcase) and Mike (https://twitter.com/fujiiheya) return to Michinoku Pro and it's time for the Inoki World Wrestling Peace Festival (including a new shocking Inoki fact), Skydiving J, and a deeper look at the formation of Kaientai DX!They take a deep look at the failed Inoki Los Angeles gambit, including how Great Sasuke ended up there, before discussing “Crisis in Lucha Paradise,” a reemerged comp tape covering June of 1996, including Sasuke/Hamada/TM4 vs KDX and the first-ever Michinoku Pro KDX ten-man tag! After that, they discuss the MPro participation on New Japan's Skydiving J show, the all Juniors Budokan Hall show including Liger vs Togo, Ultimo vs Naniwa, Delfin vs TAKA and main evented by an IWGP Jr Title match between The Great Sasuke and Black Tiger II!A full match listing of footage covered during this episode can be found at the show post on www.voicesofwrestling.com or in the Open The Voice Gate channel on the VOW Discord.Our podcast provider, Red Circle, offers the listeners the option to sponsor the show. Click on “Sponsor This Podcaster” at https://redcircle.com/shows/open-the-voice-gate and you can donate a single time, or set up a monthly donation to Open the Voice Gate!Please Rate and Review Open The Voice Gate on the podcast platform of your choice and follow us on social media with @openvoicegate!.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Dr. Deb Muth 0:03What are the answers to your child’s chronic allergies, ADHD, or autism?weren’t just in another prescription, but in restoring balance to their body chemistry. Today’s guest has spent nearly two decades uncovering those answers through integrative and biomedical medicine. That’s a mouthful, isn’t it?Helping children heal when nothing else seemed to work.This is the conversation about science, compassion, and changing the future of pediatric care.Welcome back to Let’s Talk Wellness Now. The show where we uncover the root causes of chronic illness, explore regenerative breakthroughs, and empower you with the practical tools to heal. I’m your host, Dr. Deb, your medical detective, and today’s episode is one every patient should hear.My guest is Dr. Anu Usman Singh, Medical Director of True Health Medical Center in Naperville, Illinois, and the owner of Pure Compounding Pharmacy.And for over 17 years, she has been pioneering evidence-based integrative interventions for children with ADD, autism, allergies, and complex gastrointestinal and metabolic disorders. She’s not only a practicing physician, she’s a researcher who’s investigated copper-zinc imbalances.metallonine dysfunction, biofilm-related infections, vitamin D in pregnancy, and hyperbaric oxygen therapy.Dr. Usman serves on the executive board of TACA, and is a faculty member at MAPS, training other practitioners in pediatric integrative care. So get ready for a conversation that will open your mind and heart to the possibilities of when medicine truly becomes holistic.If you guys can insert the ad in here, that’d be great.Well, welcome back. I’m so excited to have Dr. Usman with me today. I have known her for, oh my gosh, 15, 17 years, something like that. We’re aging ourselves. Anju 02:32Oh, yeah, when we were in our 20s, right? Dr. Deb Muth 02:35Yes, exactly. So, welcome back, and I am so excited for you to be here, because you have literally helped thousands of families over the years.But I’d love for you to share a little bit about your journey, kind of who you are, what drew you into exploring integrative and biomedical approaches for helping children and families. Anju 02:58I think my journey is similar to a lot of you out there, the audience. I mean, we’re looking to help our families, and our kids, and ourselves, and I was doing my residency at Cook County Hospital, downtown Chicago, in the 80s.And I thought, oh my goodness, if I could take care of the sickest patients, then I can take care of anybody. So I came from Indiana, and I went to Cook County, and my children, my eldest daughter, started having, severe allergies and asthma, really, really at a young age.And I went to, like, my residence, and I went to my attendings, and I said, this baby is wheezing. And they told me, babies don’t have asthma.And I said, she has all the symptoms of asthma. She has asthma. And I remember with, in her crib, I would just nebulize her, you know, and I was like, what is going on?And I figured out that she had a lot of food allergies, and I was nursing her, eating the foods that she was allergic to, and back then, in the 80s, you know, we didn’t have the internet, we didn’t have Whole Foods, and I just…being a doctor, and I didn’t even know what to do, and I felt so hopeless. And I thought, gosh, you know, I’m a doctor, I have these, like, skills, I have… people I can talk to, and I still feel so… it’s so difficult. And then this… my particular daughter, the oldest one, her name is Priya, and she developed severe, asthma, and I couldn’t figure it out. She was in junior high. Every time she would walk into the lunchroom, she would have a severe asthma attack.And I’ll be like, what’s going on? What’s going on? I kept her home over the weekend, she was better. I sent her back to school, she was bad again.And we figured it out that it was other people eating peanuts. Dr. Deb Muth 04:54Severe peanut allergy. Anju 04:56And I went to the school, and I said, she…can you, like, put her somewhere else? Can… they said, oh, no, that’s not fair to other kids and their food. And this was in the 90s. Dr. Deb Muth 05:10Yeah. Anju 05:10And so, I just…You know, my heart goes out to families who are struggling to find answers for their kids, and my daughter Priya, the one I told you about, she ended up passing away from a peanut allergy.And so, I’ve just… Dr. Deb Muth 05:26Yeah. Anju 05:27My heart goes out to parents and my own kids and their illnesses.And so I just started working with families, with kids, andIt just kind of grew from there. Dr. Deb Muth 05:40Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, and I think being a mom who went through that yourself, and…was seen but not heard, and turned away from the traditional medical community, you’re forced to start finding answers on your own. And we always feel like we’re on an island by ourselves in the medical world when we’re doing that. Anju 06:01Yeah, I, it was really hard when I found out, you know, about…Integrative medicine, and just different…ideas and approaches to diet and supplements, I thought, how come I wasn’t trained in any of this?And… Dr. Deb Muth 06:21So angry when I learned some of the things that I learned in the beginning. I was like, same thing, like, how did they not teach us this? And then I think, you know, it’s my fault, was I asleep, was I not paying attention, whatever. And then you just realize, like, there’s this whole part of the human body.That they just didn’t teach us. Anju 06:42Yeah, so then I… I, probably like you, we had to learn it on our own. There weren’t, like, classes or any way to learn this stuffAnd I just reached out. There’s a clinic that,I don’t know if you’ve heard of the Pfeiffer Treatment Center? Dr. Deb Muth 07:00No. Anju 07:01Do you know Carl Pfeiffer from the attendees.He has a clinic called the Pfeiffer Treatment Center in New Jersey. It was called the Princeton Brain Bio Center. Dr. Deb Muth 07:12And in the 70s, they did orthomolecular medicine for patients with ADD. Anju 07:18And schizophrenia. Dr. Deb Muth 07:20Mmm… Anju 07:21and depression.And they used to categorize them in 3 categories, and at the time, they called them histopenics, histidelics, and pyrolurics. Dr. Deb Muth 07:31Okay. Anju 07:32Histapenix were low histamine patients.Delix were high histamine patients, and pyrolurics were their own kind of category. We added another category of copper-zinc imbalances, and then we would categorize that population into high histamine, low histamine, pyrolurics, and copper-zinc.Now we talk about under-methylation, over-methylation. Sure. So, under-methylation is the, you know, the high histamine people, they can’t clear the histamine. And the over-methylators are, you know, what we call about low histamine now.And, and then pyrolurics and copper zinc. So…I lost my train of thought, but in the 80s, when I was going through this, in the 90s, I reached out to the Pfeiffer Treatment Center.He’s like, can I calm and just hang out and, like, see what you guys do? Because I need some answers.And I started working there and, started doing research on copper-zinc imbalances, and I did it in children with autism.And that’s how people started coming to me, and I kinda got, like. not famous, but I, you know, the word spread about, okay, we could talk about it, and Dr.Walsh was the, you know, PhD there that did a lot of the research, so we worked together for 8 years. Dr. Deb Muth 09:05Isn’t it crazy to think that we knew about histamine issues way back in the 70s? You know, I got the pleasure of being trained by, environmental medicine doctors. Dr. Wayne Konetsky and Glenn Toth taught me about environmental medicine, and what we called histamine issues that we call it today, mast cell, right? But when I was learning in the early 2000s, it was labeled as chemical sensitivity. And so it was just people that would react to everything, and we really didn’t know why, and they didn’t necessarily have this very specific allergic reaction, but we knew they were reacting, and we would try to treat them, to lower the histamine way back then. And it’s taken all these years, 25 years, to get to a point where we understand mast cell activation now, and histamine issues.And it’s really sad to me that it’s taking this long for us to identify things.And we’ve all got our journey, and I loved back in those days, too, because as I learned, I would call people up and say, hey, I just got a patient from you, and they told me this great story, and I have other people, can I come see what you were doing? And back then, everybody was very open. They were like, yes, please, come, learn. Now everybody’s like, oh, we can’t teach you, we can’t give you our secrets, but…Or pay me $20,000 to come learn with me. But back then, I mean, everybody was just… we were all in the same boat. We were all just trying to learn from each other. Anju 10:36Oh, yeah, oh yeah, and any bit of knowledge you got, you’re like… Dr. Deb Muth 10:41Yes. Anju 10:41God, you know, I learned this piece, and… Dr. Deb Muth 10:43Hmm? Anju 10:44We just kind of built from that. I keep thinking about back then, you know,the under-methylators, over-methylators, copper, zinc, and then I learned about metals.And then, as a physician, I was like, oh, okay, well, there’s mercury in vaccines, there’s aluminum in vaccines, and now I’m seeing these high levels. Dr. Deb Muth 11:04In my patients, now what happens? Anju 11:07And then we started, kind of, trying to get the word out about those things. Dr. Deb Muth 11:13Yeah. Anju 11:13And in 2000, a lot of the people that I knew put out a paper about, you know, mercury. Dr. Deb Muth 11:22And then… Anju 11:22And we all got on the Mercury bandwagon. Dr. Deb Muth 11:25Yes. Anju 11:26And did that for a while, and then we started learning about other things, like mitochondrial issues in chronically ill people, and these chronic infections, like Lyme disease, and so… and then now, you know, understanding mast cell activation, cell danger response. Dr. Deb Muth 11:44On endocrine, and adrenals, and hormones, and… Anju 11:48Yeah. Dr. Deb Muth 11:49biofilms. Anju 11:50Biofilms, I started talking about that in 2007. Dr. Deb Muth 11:54And so then… Anju 11:56It just… it just kind of keeps adding, and keeps adding, and keeps adding, and it’s like…Sometimes you think, how come I didn’t know about this back then? But I feel like it’s a process. Dr. Deb Muth 12:06It definitely is a process, and it’s amazing to seehow many people are researching different things, and they’re all, like, putting a piece of the puzzle together. And I think this is really important for our listeners to understand, is when you see a practitioner and they don’t have all the answers, this is why. It’s very complicated, it’s not black and white. And I’ve had patients over the years say to me, well, why didn’t you say this to me 6 months ago? And the truth of the matter was, I didn’t knowabout it 6 months ago. Like, all of this stuff is just… it’s evolving constantly, and when you’re a practitioner like Dr. Usman and myself, you are learning every single day. Our training has never stopped from the day we stepped into integrated medicine, and you just… you keep learning new things, and sharing new things, and talking to new people, and that’s what expands our knowledge base. Anju 12:57Yeah, the more I learn, the less I feel like I know. Dr. Deb Muth 13:01Yes, me too. Every time I go to a conference, I’m like, how did I not know this? How am I stupid? And I know we shouldn’t say that word and call ourselves that, but sometimes you feel like that. It’s like, how did I not know? Anju 13:14Or you’ll see a patient, and you’ll look at them, and you’re like, how come I didn’t realize this about this particular patient? Dr. Deb Muth 13:20Yes. Anju 13:21Yeah, they present differently, see things differently. I think that’s why it’s good to find a doctor that you trust and that you can work with, because it’s evolving. Dr. Deb Muth 13:31Yes. And, you know, we have those patients that they come, and I get those. I call myself, like, a tertiary care center. Anju 13:38You know, you get those patients that have been everywhere, and seen every doctor, and then they’re like, you’re my last hope, you’re gonna solve all my problems, and…I say to them. We’re a team, like, we’re gonna solve these together, but it takes time for me to unravel this puzzle. Dr. Deb Muth 13:54Excuse me? Anju 13:54And it… and sometimes, you know, there’s a few hits and misses along the way. Dr. Deb Muth 14:00Yup, but if. Anju 14:00If we keep at it, you know, we also say it’s a marathon, not a sprint. Yes. You know, if we keep at it, we can kind of figure it out together. Dr. Deb Muth 14:09Yeah, and a partnership, for sure, because without the feedback of the person you’re working with.understanding, like, we do this, and this happens to you, it’s very complicated as a practitioner to then be able to figure out, what do we do next? I see more and more clients these days, they come in and they just want to ask me within the first 5 minutes of, what am I changing? And I’m like, I have no clue yet. Like, you have to tell me what’s happened since the last time we did something, and then we have to look at labs, and we have to look at this, and we… it’s a synopsis.that we have to look at. You know, it’s not that black and white for us to be able to put the pieces together for them. Anju 14:47I think my most successful patients are the ones who are able to communicate with me.Their ups and downs. Yeah. And they also use their own intuition. Help me guide them. Dr. Deb Muth 15:06Yeah. Anju 15:07So, there are some people that they just hear, you do it, and you tell me.There are people who try to tell me everything. Dr. Deb Muth 15:15Okay. Anju 15:15Say, I want you to do this, do this, do this. Dr. Deb Muth 15:17Yeah, so I was like, okay. Anju 15:19I can do those things, but, you know, like. Dr. Deb Muth 15:21Yep. Anju 15:22think about blah blah. But, like, this… that collaboration.and, intuition. I kind of feel like even thoughI’ve trained allopathically as a traditional medical doctor. I feel like as I learn, I learn that being open and,Letting go of fear. Dr. Deb Muth 15:46Yeah. Anju 15:47And, not trying to jump on every, like, new thing, and being. Dr. Deb Muth 15:53consistent. Anju 15:54and diligent. really helps. Dr. Deb Muth 15:58It helps a ton. We see that, too, you know, the latest…Instagram influencer that’s talking about the latest topic, and all of a sudden, everybody sees themselves in there, and they must have that, but not realizing putting those connections together. It’s like when MTHFR came out, right? We were all so excited that this was going to be the detox gene.And then we learned so much more about genes, and now MTHFR is very popular again, and everyone’s talking about it, but they don’t understand how some of those other genetics fit together. And if you don’t understand that, we’ve all done it, we’ve all made people worse instead of better, sometimes when we’ve given too many methyl groups together, or this supplement without this support before we knew that there was another gene that we had to support for that.And I think it’s really important for people that are listening to us today talk about this, is don’t just jump on the bandwagon. Like, you really want to work with somebody seasoned who understands how all these pieces fit together. Anju 16:57Yeah, and I think that’s what individualized medicine is about.And there is no magic here, a magic bullet.I think that example of MTHFR is really good. Now, President Trump talked about Leukovorin. Dr. Deb Muth 17:14Yes. Anju 17:15in, and, you know, he’ll get up and say something like, leukovorin cures autism.And then the rest of us are like…Did you just say that? Dr. Deb Muth 17:26Yep, he did. Anju 17:30It’s folinic acid, it’s calcium folinic acid, it’s been around a long time. We’ve been using it for 20 years. Dr. Deb Muth 17:37Yeah. Anju 17:38But it does help a subset of people who potentially have what we call cerebral folate deficiency.And some of those people are misdiagnosed as autism. Dr. Deb Muth 17:50Yeah. Anju 17:51So, are you treating autism, or are you treating cerebral folate deficiency?same thing I could say about… I have a lot of cases of kids who recovered from autism.and severe ADHD using chelation type of. Dr. Deb Muth 18:06up. Anju 18:06Approaches, or detox approaches.again, did we treat their ADD and their autism, or did we treat their lead…Toxicity or lead burden, and their symptoms of those things got better. Dr. Deb Muth 18:20Yeah. Anju 18:20So, like, to put a big, like, a label like, oh, ADD on something, or autism on something, I think it does a disserviceTo the individuals, because it’s such a broad issue. Dr. Deb Muth 18:35It is, and I think the diagnosis has gotten to be much more popular these days.And yes, thank goodness we’re getting better diagnostics, but sometimes we’re getting over-diagnosis, or like you said, it may look like one thing, but it could be something else, but because it looks like autism, they’re going to get labeled with autism.And in some respects, that’s good, they can get more services that way, but sometimes we’re missing the actual picture of it. Can you talk a little bit about how autism is different than the cerebral folate deficiency? Anju 19:11Yeah, so there are some people that make an antibody to their folate receptor. Dr. Deb Muth 19:18Hmm. Anju 19:20So, to get folic acid into your cells, there’s a receptor on your cells. Dr. Deb Muth 19:25And then the folate has to bind to it, and then it lets it enter into the cells. Anju 19:30And there’s these receptors that allow folic acid to get into your brain.Now, you and I know when you put folate in your brain.On one end of the folate cycle, you help make more neurotransmitters. You’ll make something called BH4, and that’ll help make serotonin and dopamine, and then norepinephrine and epinephrine. So folate is really important for making your neurotransmitters, folate and B12.On the other end, it’s like, another cycle on the other end of folate is our methylation cycle.And methylation is so important for our RNA and our DNA, and making choline, phosphatoly choline, and making creatine for speech.And helping us with all the precursors for detoxification.So without folate in our brain, we can’t make our neurotransmitters efficiently, we can’t break them down efficiently, and we can’t detox our brain.Imagine what that will do to your brain. Dr. Deb Muth 20:36Yeah, Anju 20:37And you will see symptoms like speech delays, cognitive delays, processing issues, poor attention.All of those things. Excitation, anxiety.All of those, and so if the folate isn’t getting into the brain efficiently, then we’ll have all these symptoms, and we’ll end up with diagnoses like these. Dr. Deb Muth 20:59Yeah, so is there a way that people who are listening to this can request a test to see if they make this antibody to folate, or is it more of a diagnosis of exclusion? Anju 21:14That’s a great question. When I first started doing this, like, 20 years ago, there was, like, a university that was doing this.studies, and it was Dr. Quadros. He was the guy, and we would take samples and send them to his lab, and he would tell us about these blocking and binding. Dr. Deb Muth 21:30folate antibodies. Anju 21:32And if patients had positive blocking or binding folate antibodies, we would follow his protocol. And he’s done papers on patients with severe autism.Where he found these folate antibodies, and then did spinal taps on the kids, and they were associated with this cerebral folate deficiency. the cerebral… spinal fluid.And in his papers, he gave .5 to 2 milligrams per kilogram of calcium folinic acid, which is leukovorin. It’s a vitamin. And over a 6-month to a 12-month period.The majority of those patients improved drastically.Some of them regained speech, and some of them lost their autism diagnosis. Dr. Deb Muth 22:26Because they never truly had autism. Anju 22:29Well, they have autism symptoms, and that’s what autism is, but we call it autisms. Dr. Deb Muth 22:36Yeah. Anju 22:37And so now, like, we need the research to categorize these people. You know, what percentage of autism is cerebral folate deficiency? Yeah. What percentage of autism is, heavy metal. Dr. Deb Muth 22:51Bourbon. Anju 22:52And what percentage of autism is Clostridia overgrowth, or… Dr. Deb Muth 22:57Hmm. Anju 22:57microbiome… Dysfunction, and then there’s overlap. Dr. Deb Muth 23:01Right, yeah, Lyme and mold and viruses. Anju 23:04and infections, and you can see… Dr. Deb Muth 23:07injury from medications and things like that that happen, or birth traumas. Yeah, I mean, it’s not… it’s not as simple as what people think autism is.Why do you think that we’re seeing so much more autism today than when you and I were kids? We didn’t see this that often. I know environment has a lot to do with it, but do you have a couple of things that you suspect are contributing to the rise of autism these days? Anju 23:38Yeah, I mean, that’s a million dollar question. Dr. Deb Muth 23:40Right. Anju 23:41And, just because I work with children, you know it’s not just autism that’s epidemic, and yeah. Dr. Deb Muth 23:49You know that. I mean, it’s… it’s probably… if you add all the epidemics that are happening to children. Anju 23:54Autism still supersedes it.Now it’s 1 in 33s, 1 in 35 boys, I mean, it’s…children. It’s really sad. When I was in med school, it was 1 in 10,000. Dr. Deb Muth 24:10That’s crazy. Anju 24:11What’s causing it? I mean, obviously it’s multifactorial. Dr. Deb Muth 24:15Yeah, 80,000 chemicals in the environment that we never had before. Anju 24:20I, I, I, look, I’ve… 219 million. Dr. Deb Muth 24:26Oh my gosh. Anju 24:27I looked it up today. Dr. Deb Muth 24:29119 million different chemicals in the environment. Wow. Anju 24:33We don’t know how many of those are super toxic. Dr. Deb Muth 24:36Yeah, and we don’t know what they do together. Anju 24:38A lot of them were, like, before, like, grandfathered in and all of that.Yeah, it’s really crazy about the chemicals. So, chemicals… I kind of… feel like…you know, this burden of all this, it’s not just on our children, it’s on our mothers. Dr. Deb Muth 24:56Yes. Anju 24:56oh my gosh, the moms of these children that… And they don’t even realize it, you know, we’re just so happy to be pregnant and have a kid.So I think it really, really starts with that piece. Care, good prenatal care, yeah. Yeah, and not just what we think is prenatal care, taking your prenatal vitamins. Dr. Deb Muth 25:18Yes. Anju 25:19And going to your gynecologist, but what you and I think is prenatal care, you know, before you get pregnant, let’s detox, let’s clean up our diet, let’s get rid of those chemicals, let’s make sure we’re not in a moldy environment.You know, let’s do our due diligence, clean air, clean water, clean food, sunshine. When I did my residency at county, I don’t think I saw the sun for 3 years. Dr. Deb Muth 25:44How?Yeah. Anju 25:46it’s just that intense, and I was pregnant twice, and my eldest hasthe allergies and asthma. Number 2 is type 1 diabetes and mold sensitivities and allergies and asthma. Number 3 has severe chemical sensitivities, mast cell activation,Hormonal issues. Dr. Deb Muth 26:09Yeah. Anju 26:09And… number 4 is my… Golden, baby. Dr. Deb Muth 26:15And those three, you know, those years that you’re there, and you’re not seeing the sunlight, there’s vitamin D deficiency, and we don’t talk about vitamin D that much during pregnancy.I still am appalled that we’re giving folic acid these days during pregnancy instead of folate, but… Anju 26:36Folenic, or methylfolate? Dr. Deb Muth 26:38Yeah, nothing. So, when, when you,discovered vitamin D in pregnancy, and it’s linked to neurodevelopment outcomes. How did you stumble across that? Anju 26:50Well, in… when I started working on Copper Zinc, Dr. Walsh and I would go to the, like, DAN conferences.Yeah. At the time, and it was interesting, because DAM conferences were a collaboration between parents.And practitioners, and researchers. Dr. Deb Muth 27:10Very unique for. Anju 27:11That’s how that new IACC committee is. It’s a collaboration of parents. Dr. Deb Muth 27:17Hmm. Anju 27:18Practitioners, researchers, And individuals with autism. Dr. Deb Muth 27:25Yeah, so for those of you who are listening to us, it’s… we’re talking about the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee that Bobby Kennedy just put together. It’s called IACC, and they are on a mission to try to do the research to figure out what’s causing autism. Anju 27:43Yeah, and not just causing it, like, these people have been living it, most of the people on that committee have been living it, and their whole lives, for some of them.And being able to bring forwardlike the question about vitamin D, we started seeing a lot of patients in Minnesota. Dr. Deb Muth 28:04Mmm. Anju 28:05who were from Somalia. Dr. Deb Muth 28:08Okay. Anju 28:09Who were… it was, like, 1 in 4 families with kids with autism.And the theory was that the vitamin D levels that they get in Somalia versus the vitamin D levels that the moms get in Minnesota. Dr. Deb Muth 28:27Hmm? Anju 28:28Affected the immune system. Dr. Deb Muth 28:31Yeah. Anju 28:32predispose them. So there’s a few papers on that. Dr. Deb Muth 28:36Yeah, that’s a… I mean, it would be a very significant difference, and when you’re thinking about genetically, like, what their culture, who they are as a species.was used to and adapted to with the sunlight and different things from a different region, geographical region, and then they moved to a new geographical region, that can take decades before the body adapts and readjusts.to that new environment. We don’t think about those things in…traditional medicine, and conventional medicine, as most people know it, but we do in functional medicine. Anju 29:14Yeah, so again, the clinicians were bringing this up, like, why am I seeing so many families? Dr. Deb Muth 29:18Yeah. Anju 29:18Then let me go to the… and then in the think tank, the vitamin D researcher said it’s vitamin D. Dr. Deb Muth 29:24Yeah. Anju 29:25And then they started researching it, and it was almost like a backwards… backwards. Dr. Deb Muth 29:31Thank you. You know, they didn’t first… Anju 29:33Think it. Dr. Deb Muth 29:34Think about it, yeah. Anju 29:35Until you start seeing… and that’s why I think that, like.clinicians like you and me, who are… I consider us on the front lines. We’re the front lines. We are seeing… we’re seeing this epidemic unfold. Dr. Deb Muth 29:46Yes. Anju 29:47front of our eyes, we’re seeing, like, the gut issues and the severe inflammation. We’re seeing the autoimmunity, and now they have to study it. Dr. Deb Muth 29:57Yeah. Anju 29:57They have to study this. They really, really, we really need, we really need protocols, we need tools, we need things that you and I have been figuring out anecdotally with our colleagues over the years, and, oh, how do we treat yeast? How do we treat Lyme? How do we treat metal burden?For this podcast today, I wanted to talk about low-level lead exposure, because for me.1 in 3 children have a lead level, above 5. 1 and 3. Dr. Deb Muth 30:31Yeah, that’s very high. Anju 30:33800 million children. Dr. Deb Muth 30:36And let’s clarify this, because the first thing people are going to think of is, what are they eating? They’re not eating lead paint to get this. That is not what’s happening here. They are getting lead from someplace else, and their bodies are not able to detox this. Anju 30:53And the reason I’m bringing this up is because when I was in residency at County in the 90s, I ran a… I worked at a lead clinic. Dr. Deb Muth 31:01And back then. Anju 31:03When we looked… we just diagnosed lead toxicity, the level was 60. Dr. Deb Muth 31:10Their level had to be 60 to diagnose them. Anju 31:13Correct. Dr. Deb Muth 31:13Oh my gosh. Anju 31:14And that’s when we would treat.And back then, there was a study, it’s called the TLC study, where they used DMSA, which is a drug to lower lead.And our goal was to get it from 60 to 20. Dr. Deb Muth 31:33And was the normal range the same back then as it is today? Anju 31:37The normal range has gone from 60 to 40 to 20 to 10 to 5 to 3.5.But you and I know I’m the normal range. Dr. Deb Muth 31:47Yes. Anju 31:47Zero. Dr. Deb Muth 31:48Zero. Anju 31:50So… so again, in my… in the lead clinic, we were given DMSA, and we got the lead from 60 to 20, and the number one thing was to get rid of the lead in the environment. Dr. Deb Muth 32:02Yeah. Anju 32:03But we haven’t evolved since then.Because in that study, It did not improve cognitive abilities. So if you think about what lead does, it causes attention issues, slow processing, it affects hearing, it can cause hyperactivity, it can cause impulsivity, it can cause aggression, it can cause constipation, it can cause hypotonia.So if you think about all these kids with ADD and autism, how many of them have low-level lead exposure from the lead pipes? In Chicago, it’s a big, a big problem. Dr. Deb Muth 32:37Yeah, Milwaukee. Anju 32:38Everybody thinks Flint, Michigan, but Flint, Michigan is not the only place. Dr. Deb Muth 32:42Right. Our infrastructure is so terrible, it has not been updated, and even though you might look in your house and you might see a white PVC or plastic pipe, what’s coming under the ground to the house in the cities is usually still lead. Anju 32:58Right. Right. Dr. Deb Muth 33:00Yeah. Anju 33:01So, I guess the point is, is that…the… the idea of, like, studying this. So, again, they study this, and they say, well, we’re not going to treat low-level lead exposure because it doesn’t improve their cognition.But did they really treat it? Dr. Deb Muth 33:18Right. We got it from 60… we got it from 60 to 20. Right. But when I know, where is the lead hiding? Anju 33:24So high. Look at the bones, it’s gonna be coming out. It’s gonna be coming out, especially during puberty. What happens to some of our kids during puberty? They just go a little wonky. Comes out again during menopause. Dr. Deb Muth 33:38Yes. Anju 33:39I don’t know, male menopause, too. Like, we’re all losing bone mass then, and our lead is coming out, our blood pressure goes up. So, again, these are some of the areas that I think, like, really need some… hard… looks. Dr. Deb Muth 33:53Right, yeah. So, what are you hopeful about this committee? Like, are you hopeful that this committee is going to be able to research some of these big things, and we’re really going to be able to find answers around some of the functional things and the biochemical things that we see, you and I know happen in the body, that might give some standardization and education to practitioners in the future. Anju 34:23Well, I think this committee understands the scope of the issues.And they’re coming from different perspectives, like I mentioned, research. Dr. Deb Muth 34:33Yeah. Anju 34:35really highly qualified MDs. MDs like you and me, who have been on the front lines. moms. Dr. Deb Muth 34:43Yeah. Anju 34:44dads, patience, And so, the strategy would be to get, again, their input, and then…get the places… people in places to do their research. And even make some guidelines and some, like, you know, thoughts about what we want to put out there. Dr. Deb Muth 35:05Yeah. Anju 35:05You know, how do we want to strategize for… Dr. Deb Muth 35:08Prevention. Anju 35:10Like, the pre-pregnancy thing. Dr. Deb Muth 35:12Yeah, I’m really hopeful that this doesn’t become a… political football,And it doesn’t get taken away if the administration changes or whatever, because people need to understand that this kind of researchthis is going to take decades for people to do. Granted, we have AI, and AI can help a little bit and get some things quicker.But trying to figure out all of these nuances to why the body does what it does is not gonna be, like, next week we’re gonna find out that this was the single cause, and I know a lot of people, they’re afraid of the vaccines, and that’s gonna be the sole answer.And that has a piece of it, but it is just a small piece of it for some people larger, but at the end of the day, that’s not what this is about. This isn’t about just labeling one thing that is the cause of autism, because it is not one thing. It is so multifactorial. Anju 36:09And I think that whole cause, I know,A lot of money has gone into. Dr. Deb Muth 36:16Yeah. Anju 36:16looking at that. They’re looking for the gene, right? The gene that causes it, and… Dr. Deb Muth 36:23answer. Anju 36:24They have not… they’ve spent millions of dollars looking for this.And it’s not gonna pan out. It’s not. Dr. Deb Muth 36:33I’m not. Anju 36:34pan out. It’s more complex, like we’re talking about. Dr. Deb Muth 36:38Yeah. Anju 36:38And, I do think that sometimes, you know.Even though, like, politically, it seems like it’s a political topic, but it has zero to do with politics. Dr. Deb Muth 36:52Yeah, exactly. This is our children. This is the future of our country, the world. I mean, America’s not the only place that has kids with autism. I mean, this is the future of humanity. If we don’t figure out what’s injuring our children, there will not be a humanity that you and I have seen. It will be different. And, and this is important, we owe it to the future of our generations, we owe it to our children to figure this out and clean up our environment, and make it safe for everybody. Anju 37:24Yeah. Clean up our air, clean up our water, clean up our food… Dr. Deb Muth 37:29Yeah. Anju 37:30You know, our lifestyle a little bit, but… Dr. Deb Muth 37:32hoodie? Anju 37:33It’s… it’s… it’s everywhere. I travel all over. Dr. Deb Muth 37:36Bye. Anju 37:37Consult with doctors in different countries, in Italy, in India, Bulgaria, Romania… Dr. Deb Muth 37:46Yeah. And. Anju 37:48we’re going to Australia for med maps to treat doctors in, in April. And it’s a problem everywhere. Dr. Deb Muth 38:00Yeah. Anju 38:01really big problem, and it affects everybody. Even if you don’t have a child with autism or a grandchild with autism, it’s still affecting families, becauseI kind of think of ADD as being on the spectrum, in the sense thatI think the same kind of positive issues that lead to the autism are causing the ADD, just to… you know, your genetics are playing a little bit of a different role, whatever… whatever protection you have is a bit more there, but we’re seeing kind of, like, similar metabolic… issues in our ADD population. Dr. Deb Muth 38:43Yeah. Yeah, there’s so many different levels of this, and it does affect everyone. Like, I think everybody knows… a family or someone in their classroom or their school or their community that’s affected by, definitely, ADHD, Asperger’s, autism, all of those things, whether you’re high functioning or not functioning or whatever.everything is affected. The school system is affected, your social circles are affected, your families are affected.the healthcare is affected. I mean, everything is affected. We owe it to our families and our communities to help people try to figure this out. Anju 39:22Yeah, and I think even if it’s not ADD, or ADHD, or autism we’re talking about, or even OCD, anxiety, depression, I mean, you know… Dr. Deb Muth 39:33Candace? Anju 39:34Any kind of chronic illness that people are dealing with has underpinnings of these kinds of, you know, issues. Dr. Deb Muth 39:43Yeah. Anju 39:44Any autoimmune issue? That’s great. Dr. Deb Muth 39:48inflammatory syndrome that we’re seeing these days, I mean, the pants-pandas piece, the biofilms, the strep, I mean, our environment is just so laden with infections and biofilms, and And, you know, when you and I first were learning about this, we never thought anything could cross the blood-brain barrier, right? It was pristine, there’s nothing getting in there unless you could drive it in there, and now we know that’s different, and now we’re seeing bugs in the brains of people who have had Alzheimer’s disease and dementia because they’ve donated their brains for research, and we can see what’s crossing the blood-brain barrier, and it’s really scary. Anju 40:24Yeah, yeah. There’s a lot of things we don’t know. Remember when we just found out that they… the brain had a lymphatic system? Dr. Deb Muth 40:33And that wasn’t About, what, 5, 6 years ago? 7 years ago, maybe? Yeah, not that long ago. Anju 40:38You’d be like, why wouldn’t the brain have a lymphatic system? Dr. Deb Muth 40:41Yeah! Yep. Anju 40:44Yeah, so things get in and out. Dr. Deb Muth 40:46They, they definitely. Anju 40:47You know, they get in easier than they get out, I think. Dr. Deb Muth 40:50I agree, I think they do, for sure, for sure. You know, when you’re talking to a family who’s undergoing issues like this, what’s the role, do you feel, in personalized nutrition to help them make things better? Anju 41:10I kind of go through, like, a little bit of a start here, start there, and then do this. I always start, number one, I say, okay, you gotta clean up your environment, because… We gotta do that. Dr. Deb Muth 41:24But that’s a… Anju 41:24process. And then number 2 for me is cleaning up the diet. And then, when you say personalized nutrition. To me, figuring out what is a good diet for the individual. Dr. Deb Muth 41:38Makes it a little bit difficult. Yeah. Anju 41:41I mean, there is, like, healthy eating concepts, where, you know, eat upside-down food pyramid kind of concept, I guess, is the new one, but whole foods, whole grains, organic as much as possible, especially for animal products, good fats, avoiding, you know, hydrogenated oils, and those seed oils, and… Just some basics, and then individualizing for my patients, a lot of people with any kind of autoimmune condition, and we kind of put autism in that neuroimmune, autoimmune, inflammatory That, gluten-free, dairy-free, and sugar-free kind of go there, like, as a given. If there’s a lot of gut issues, a lot of our folks have oxalate issues. And then we have to sometimes do low or limited oxalate diets. Many of my patients can’t convert glutamate to GABA efficiently. Dr. Deb Muth 42:44Yeah. So, high glutamates associated with OCD, and kind of looping or repetitive behaviors. Anju 42:51So, low-glutamate diets. And then some of my patients have SIBO, and then we do the low FODMAPs diet, and then some of my patients have messel, and we’ll do the fail-safe kind of concept with the fail-safe diet, so nutrition can get a little bit complex for certain people, but there are some basics, and then there are some, like, more of… Individual, kind of, diet approaches. And then there’s supplementation. There’s some things that I call foundational. For me, certain things most people need that have a chronic illness. Dr. Deb Muth 43:26Yeah. Anju 43:26Vitamin D3 is one of those. Omega-3s are another one for most. And then, because I did a lot of research on copper, zinc, I think 3 mineral… 4 minerals. I feel like people underdo minerals. They’re so important. Every single enzyme has a mineral cofactor, so… zinc is really important for my population with autism and ADD. 99% of them had high copper or low zinc in. Dr. Deb Muth 43:58Wow. Anju 43:59Over 400 patients that we tested. Dr. Deb Muth 44:01Wow. Anju 44:03And, magnesium.So, zinc, magnesium, and then the other two minerals I really like are selenium for glutathione. and molybdenum for sulfation, and glycolysis. So… So those are kind of my foundational pieces, and then I like to work on the gut next. So, from a nutritional perspective, prebiotics are my new favorite. Dr. Deb Muth 44:29Yeah, we go in and out with prebiotics, probiotics, postbiotics. Anju 44:34Yeah, exactly, symbiotics. Dr. Deb Muth 44:36Yes, exactly, exactly. Anju 44:38demos, and… Dr. Deb Muth 44:40Yeah. Anju 44:40So yeah, biofilm busting, and all of that, so… And then I go into my other nitty-gritty stuff, like you probably do. Dr. Deb Muth 44:47individualized, right? So, you created, True Healing Nature, a supplement line, a supplement company, correct? Anju 44:56Yeah, True Hing Naturals. Dr. Deb Muth 44:58Truly Naturals, okay. Anju 44:59True, he is hard. Dr. Deb Muth 45:01Oats! Anju 45:01True! Dr. Deb Muth 45:01Healing natural. Got it, sorry about that. Tell us a little bit about what made you decide to create a supplement company. Was it because you couldn’t find formulations that you wanted? Couldn’t find clean products? That’s a big problem for people, for sure. Anju 45:19Yeah, a little bit of both. I told you that my kids were really sensitive, they had a lot. Dr. Deb Muth 45:23I know. Anju 45:24And when I would even try to give them things like ibuprofen. Dr. Deb Muth 45:28or Benadryl. Anju 45:30For allergies, they couldn’t tolerate the products that were over-the-counter. Dr. Deb Muth 45:35Yeah. Anju 45:35So, in 2007, I opened a compounding pharmacy so I could make things clean for them. Dr. Deb Muth 45:42Yeah. Anju 45:43And I thought it was so valuable. And so then I started seeing, like, certain issues with my patient population, for instance, say, mitochondrial issues. So, I would compound a mito cocktail. in my pharmacy. And then I had True Healing Naturals manufacture it, so I didn’t have to have patients get it compounded. Dr. Deb Muth 46:08Got it. Anju 46:09So that particular product’s called Mito Rescue. Okay. But then, I started… I do a lot of oats testing. Organic acid urine tests. Dr. Deb Muth 46:19Yeah. Anju 46:20But there’s, like, a marker on there for, oxalates, and I saw a lot of patients with oxalates, and oxalates inhibit some… an enzyme called, pyruvate decarboxylase. And that basically means you can’t take your carbs and turn them into energy. Dr. Deb Muth 46:38Okay. Anju 46:39So, if I saw this pattern with high oxalates and high pyruvic acid, I knew that that enzyme wasn’t working very well, and that enzyme is B1, molybdenum, and biotin dependent. So, I started compounding doses of that. And then I turned that into a product called Motor Connect, because high doses of biotin help with connectivity in the cerebellum. Dr. Deb Muth 47:08Got it. So, I did come… kind of start with the compounding pharmacy, try it, use it, and then turn it into. Anju 47:17products, and I have one for copper-zinc imbalances called True Minerals. Dr. Deb Muth 47:21Yeah, to fix the problems that were not commercially available. Could you talk a little bit for people who don’t understand what a compounding pharmacy is? Anju 47:32So, when you guys go to a pharmacy, you, you know, you send a prescription, and it’s already, it’s manufactured, and you get it. Well, a compounding pharmacy actually makes that for you. So they get the raw ingredients, and then they make that prescription. So it’s still prescription-based. But, for instance, say, I want Nystatin. And I go to Walgreens or CVS, and the nystatin there is a liquid, and it has yellow dyes and sugar. Dr. Deb Muth 48:02Yep. Or it’s a title, and it’s red. Anju 48:04or it’s bread, and a tablet, and I, like, oh, I want to treat the yeast, but I don’t want to use this. So I sent my nystatin prescription to a compounding pharmacy, and it’s Nystatin. That’s what you got. Yep. Dr. Deb Muth 48:17disappear. Anju 48:18So, pure compounding pharmacy, it’s pure, it’s pure stuff. Especially for our mast cell people. They’re so sensitive, and, you know, my kids are all mast cell, and so I just find that excipients, some people will say, oh, this doesn’t work, and I said, it’s probably the excipient that’s stimulating your mast cell activation. So, yeah. So, compounding pharmacies, You know, with all the big, kind of. conglomerates and big companies, they’ve become… they used to be, like, mom-and-pop kind of places. And my pharmacy is like that. It’s just… it’s… it’s a few of us, and we… we do it, and it’s nothing big or fancy, but we get the job done. So, we compound things like methylcobalamin injections, hydroxycobalamin, low-dose naltrexone. Different things for chelation. So, it’s nice. I love having it. Dr. Deb Muth 49:11Yeah, the compounding pharmacies really have made a huge difference for people who are sensitive. You know, so many ingredients are contaminated with corn and gluten and soy and dairy and all the big things that we want to stay away from, especially if we’re trying to treat the immune system. And even if the manufacturer says that’s not in our product. it’s contaminated, usually, because they’re usually preparing it in a facility that has those things floating around. Right. And for people who are really sensitive, that’s going to create some issues. Anju 49:45Yeah, people who are sensitive are sensitive to parts per trillion. Dr. Deb Muth 49:48Yeah. Anju 49:49I found that with my daughter with chemical sensitivity. You don’t have to see it, or you don’t have to smell it, but they could react to it. Dr. Deb Muth 49:55Yeah. And, a lot of these, like. Anju 49:58These different, substances, for instance, like enzymes, even the natural enzymes. Dr. Deb Muth 50:03They’re cultured in Aspergillus. Anju 50:07And so they’re extracted from mold. Dr. Deb Muth 50:10Yeah. Anju 50:11And so the really mold-sensitive people will maybe take a digestive enzyme, and they’ll have a reaction, and they’ll not understand why. Yeah. But it’s not because of the enzyme, it’s because of where it’s coming from. Dr. Deb Muth 50:22Yeah, where it’s cultured from. And if you have mold toxicity and mold sensitivity, and we’re looking at your mold test, wondering why are you getting a hit while we’re trying to clear it out, sometimes we forget that those products, and a variety of products that we used are cultured from molds. Yeah. Anju 50:40Yeah, yeah. It’s hard for the laypeople to understand all. Dr. Deb Muth 50:45You know. Anju 50:45of these pieces, but I think that… It used to be, like, the insurance companies would cover prescriptions from compounding pharmacies, but over the years, the lobbying and all of that has gotten so intense where, you know, a lot of that ends up out of pocket, but it’s really… it doesn’t really get that much more expensive than a copay would be. Dr. Deb Muth 51:05Right, right. Anju 51:06People just don’t know about it, yeah. Dr. Deb Muth 51:08Yeah, absolutely. So, you’ve been doing this now for more than 17 years, and you’ve made some remarkable progress with your patients. Can you share some success stories that still inspire you to do what you do every day? Anju 51:27I don’t know about you, but, like, when you first start, I think, God puts you… God puts all those really gray cases in front of you, because you’re like, whoa! Dr. Deb Muth 51:37Yes, and maybe… Anju 51:38I gave this patient methylcobalamin, and they started talking. Yeah. So methyl B12 back in the day was huge. you know, Dr. Nebrander’s protocol, and we would use that, and we would get speech, and… I mean, I’ve… it’s just… there’s hundreds of cases. There’s hundreds of cases, and same with Leukovorin now. Not for everybody, but when it really works, it’s really, really decent. Dr. Deb Muth 52:07Yeah, and worth a try, you know, if… if we suspect that’s what’s going on, these things are worth a try, because sometimes you just never know what’s going to be the key that unlocks the answer for them. Anju 52:19Yeah, but I think, you know, like, I can say… chelation, or… you know, I can, like, throw out a bunch of stuff. Dr. Deb Muth 52:26Okay. Anju 52:27In terms of, like, I’ve… I… I have those families, and I have those kids who are just… they’re just amazing, and they’re in college, and having jobs, and having kids, and… Dr. Deb Muth 52:38Yeah. Anju 52:38you know, all of that, but I think, you know, the ones that really strike me are the ones that I have to work really hard to get. Dr. Deb Muth 52:44And then we’. Anju 52:45they go, it’s not like, oh, I just did the diet, I’m cured, or I did this, and I’m better, or… Right. And I have those cases where the parents come to me and they say, I never thought my kid would Be going to college. And I never thought we would be here. So, those are the ones that really, like, when I get the little notes, or the, like, the college or the high school graduation pictures, and they… and some of them, you know, you lose touch with because they don’t need me anymore. Dr. Deb Muth 53:19Yeah. Anju 53:20And then you hear about it later. And then, I think the ones that don’t get better are the ones that, like, sit with me the most They just sit with me, and we’ve had this population of children with severe apraxia. So, apraxia is a motor planning issue, but if you saw these patients, you would think that they were… mentally deficient. Dr. Deb Muth 53:44Hmm. Anju 53:45Because they can’t talk. Dr. Deb Muth 53:46Yeah. Anju 53:47They’re the classic person that you would see that looks autistic. You know, running around, excited, verbal stimming, no speech. Dr. Deb Muth 53:57Hmm. Anju 53:58And that group of patients are incredibly Brilliant. And we are just finding out about how smart they are. There’s a book called Underestimated by J.B. Hanley and his son Jamie. JV has all the resources in the world. He used to put those ads in the New York Times about autism and vaccines. He could take his kid anywhere and do any treatment, and still, we… Blocked. Locked. Couldn’t get through. Couldn’t get through. And they started, spelling. To communicate, and this speller’s method, and it just opened a door. And it opened a door for so many of my patients who are metabolically challenged, so we do help them metabolically. Getting that ability to communicate. Some of them never got high school diplomas, and they went back to get their high school diplomas so they could go to college. Dr. Deb Muth 54:56Oh, wow, that’s amazing stories. Anju 54:59Yeah, and Elizabeth Bonker is one of those spellers, and she… she was a valedictorian in her high school, college. And she did a valedictorian speech that went. Viral, and she’s one of the people on that committee. Dr. Deb Muth 55:13That’s awesome. Anju 55:14He’s non-speaking. She… she can’t not speak. Dr. Deb Muth 55:20Wow. Anju 55:21But they asked her to be on this committee. Dr. Deb Muth 55:24That’s fantastic. Anju 55:26Huge. Dr. Deb Muth 55:27That’s huge. It is huge. There’s a way she can communicate, she just can’t verbalize the way you and I verbalize. Anju 55:34She’s brilliant. I mean, people on that committee, the, the individuals with autism on that committee, I know they’re brilliant people. Wow. But if you… if… If people saw them, they wouldn’t see that. Dr. Deb Muth 55:47Right. Anju 55:47So, I guess, for me, it’s like seeing the brilliance, seeing the competence in individuals, and as a practitioner, just trying to optimize it. But I know, like, the neurodiversity people say, okay, you know. We’re fine, and it’s like, yes, you are fine, you’re fine, and it’s okay. Whatever it is, it’s okay. But if you’re struggling metabolically, and we can help you feel better. What’s… what’s the harm in that? Dr. Deb Muth 56:13Right, let’s do that. Yeah. So you’re also part of something called MAPS, and you’re educating doctors worldwide. Tell us a little bit about MAPS, and how do you see the integrative pediatrics evolving in the next decade as a result of what we’re learning today? Anju 56:36I think we’re at a crossroads, and Maps is kind of in the middle of that crossroads. It used to be called Dan. Dr. Deb Muth 56:47Okay. Anju 56:47Autism Now. Dr. Deb Muth 56:48Yeah. Anju 56:49And then they kind of dissolved Dan and turned it into MedMaps. And MedMaps is Medical Academy for Pediatrics and Special Needs. So it’s not just special needs, it’s pediatrics. as well.So it’s kind of like the functional medicine for peds. And our goal is to train an army of clinicians to be the frontline. And how medicine should be, and how people should be trained. We should train them to do these types of things from the beginning. Because now it’s backwards. Dr. Deb Muth 57:28Right. Anju 57:30they come see us when nobody else can help them. But, so, we have some good leadership, and then… We are just trying to get people trained so that they understand that this is the future. Dr. Deb Muth 57:50If there’s a practitioner that’s listening to this, how do they get involved in MAPS? Anju 57:55They could come to a conference. Dr. Deb Muth 57:57Okay. Anju 57:58And the website is medmaps.org. And there’s 2 conferences a year. And we have scholarships, and we want people to come, so contact You know, the executive director, and… We just want people to come, share… their experiences, learn about functional medicine, it’s evidence-based, we try to… it’s really scientific, you know, we talk a lot of science. Dr. Deb Muth 58:25Oh yeah, a lot of science. Anju 58:26We talk a lot of science, and and so hopefully we can move all of this forward. Baster. Dr. Deb Muth 58:35I think the greatest thing, when you get into the functional medicine integrative space like this, and MAPS, and some of the other environmental academies and things like that. A lot of people might think it’s not science-based, and I’m always amazed at how much science we have, and it’s right, it’s all the things that you and I learned in biochem class, and chem class, and organic chem, and we were like, oh, let’s just learn this to be done with it. And then you get back, and you start doing integrated medicine, and you realize, like, all of that biochemistry stuff is what we needed to truly understand to fix people these These days, and you go back and you have to learn that in an intense version of it. Anju 59:18I felt like I finally understood the Krebs cycle, when I learned how it made metabolic stents, instead of just memorizing these cycles for… For the… Dr. Deb Muth 59:30Right? Like, they, like. Anju 59:32They just make sense to me. Dr. Deb Muth 59:34Yeah. Anju 59:35And I think that’s so important to understand, that all of this has science behind it, and it’s there, and the research is there. Dr. Deb Muth 59:46It’s just us having to learn how to utilize it, and recognize that not every person is going to be straightforward, and what we do for one might not work for another. There’s… It’s not as easy as prescribing a prescription and letting the person walk out the door in 10 minutes. That’s not what this is about at all. Anju 01:00:05No, and at MedMaps as well, they have a call for abstracts, and so we’re always looking for research, experience, so if any of the clinicians out there have, you know, things they want to share. then send an abstract to Maps. What a great blonde. I think, one of my doctor friends is doing an abstract on research that was done on sensory qigong massage. Dr. Deb Muth 01:00:34Oh. Anju 01:00:34And it helped with speech, and the theory was that, we were all thinking of the sensory system in the brain, the sensory system. In the periphery being affected neurologically, and how to turn that back on. So, it was… it’s… Dr. Deb Muth 01:00:51That’s neat. Anju 01:00:51Again, with the research, and with the science behind it, and with, like, clinical trials, and all of that. Dr. Deb Muth 01:00:58That’s awesome, I love that.For parents that are just starting in this journey, what would you recommend be their first one or two steps? Anju 01:01:10Educate, educate, educate? How do you get educated? I do think that, TakaNow.org is a good place for, like, a biomedical approach, or this functional approach for autism. It’s the Autism Community in Action. MedMaps is doing a parent conference in March. Dr. Deb Muth 01:01:31Oh, awesome. They usually do that around, Memorial Day, right? Anju 01:01:36They’ll do it around Labor Day in September. Dr. Deb Muth01:01:40Labor Day in September, okay. Anju 01:01:42Yeah, and then mid-March. Dr. Deb Muth 01:01:44Okay. Anju 01:01:45Yeah. And they hadn’t done a parent conference before, but we had parents that wanted to come to the conferences, and it was just for clinicians before. Dr. Deb Muth 01:01:54Got it. Is it Autism One that does theirs around Memorial Day? Anju 01:01:59Oh yeah, they don’t exist anymore. Dr. Deb Muth 01:02:01Don’t, really. Anju 01:02:03conferences. There was. Dr. Deb Muth 01:02:06NAA, the National Autism Association. Anju 01:02:09They don’t do a lot of parent conferences in functional medicine either, so there’s a few left. Documenting Hope. That’s another really nice one. Oh, that’s great. Dr. Deb Muth 01:02:21So, what last words do you want to leave with our listeners? Anju 01:02:29You know, that’s… people always ask that at the end of these… I, I do feel that, Listen to your heart, you know, follow your intuition. Dr. Deb Muth 01:02:40I’ll let that guide you. Anju 01:02:42There’s a lot of information, sometimes it gets to be too much information. It’s hard to process everything, try not to make impulsive decisions about things. And… If you have a child with special needs, or if you have a grandchild with, issues. Presume competence. There’s a lot there. Dr. Deb Muth 01:03:04Yeah. Anju 01:03:05Especially some of these kids with behavior issues. I don’t know how many patients of mine are… Put on psychotropic meds. Metabolic issues, and, you know… It’s like, a lot of them have pain, like headache, abdominal pain, and inflammation, and they’re treating them with psych meds. Dr. Deb Muth 01:03:25Yeah. That’s sad, isn’t it? Anju 01:03:28I think, you know, try to look for the underlying cause. Not just band-aid things. Dr. Deb Muth 01:03:34Where can listeners, learn more about your work and what you do? Anju 01:03:40Oh, that’s tough. I don’t have a book. One of these days. Dr. Deb Muth 01:03:48Yes! Anju 01:03:49Yes, one of these days. I think, you know, med maps, we have a… if they’re clinicians. Dr. Deb Muth 01:03:55Hmm? Anju 01:03:56I have lectured a lot. For, for, communities like Taka, so there’s just a lot of… lectures that I’ve given online. Dr. Deb Muth 01:04:09Awesome. Well, thank you for taking your time with us today. It’s been a great conversation with you. Anju 01:04:15Thank you so much for inviting me, Debra. I’m honored to be here, and thank you for doing the work that you do to put Put this out there for people, because it’s really important information. Dr. Deb Muth 01:04:27Thank you. Thank you for joining me today on Let’s Talk Wellness Now. Today’s discussion with Dr. Usman reminds us that there’s always more we can do. We can look deeper into biology, environment, and lifestyle. to heal the next generation. If this episode inspired you, please share it with a parent or a practitioner who believes every child deserves a chance to thrive. And to learn more about Dr. Usman, you can visit TrueHealthMedical.com or TrueHealingnaturals.com. And if you’re ready to explore your own root cause healing, visit us at Serenityhealthcarecenter.com. You can also follow me on Instagram, and don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode of Let’s Talk Wellness now. Until next time. I’m Dr. Deb, reminding you to nurture your body, mind, and spirit. Be well, and I’ll see you soon.The post Episode 262 – The Root Cause of ADHD & Autism: Beyond the Diagnosis with Dr. Anju Usman Singh first appeared on Let's Talk Wellness Now.
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Piše Jože Štucin, bereta Jure Franko in Eva Longyka Marušič. Neža Zajc, rojena leta 1979 kot vnukinja nesmrtnega Daneta Zajca, se je kot pesnica pojavila dokaj pozno. Najprej se je preizkušala s proznim pisanjem in šele po smrti močnega žlahtnika je z žarom in vehemenco zverzirane ustvarjalke stopila v svet poezije. Leta 2014 je izdala pesniški prvenec Ime gore, do najnovejše knjige Bele sence pa je nanizala še tri zbirke. Torej smo pri petem dejanju, ki ima vse značilnosti zrelega opusa. Bele sence še zdaleč niso samo bele, prav pester niz poetik je tu združenih v enovito fresko, ki prepričljivo krmari med intimo in belino sveta, med jazom, ki se bori s podobami, in jazom, ki ga kljuje ujeda naše izgubljene civilizacije. Lepa zbirka, če odmislimo ontološko resignacijo, ki brsti na požganih travah: lepota v trpkosti, lepota v sivini, ki žari močneje kot barvni spekter. Kljub radikalnemu pristopu in preizpraševanju smisla biti, tu-biti, poetičnemu (na)gonu in strastni želji po iskanju prerokbe, se zbirka daje v branje v čisto konvencionalni podobi. Spremno besedo je napisala dr. Vilma Purič, pesmi so sistematično razporejene po sklopih, sedem jih je, in vse teče gladko, kot se za pesniško zbirko nekje na vrhuncu ustvarjanja spodobi. Nekajkrat so cikli uvedeni z verzi iz Zajčeve zapuščine, zato ima bralec na voljo vsaj skromen namig, kako brati, vendar se pesnica zna izogniti pretiranim kazalnikom in citate izbira na ravni, ki dopuščajo več, kot so nemara izvorno v sklopu svoje celote imeli namen sporočiti. Pač, metaforika, tista "šibka" točka Wittgensteinove filozofije, njegovih frenetičnih iskanj mej jezika in začetkov molka, kjer je klonil v mehanizmih, da bi prišel jeziku "do konca". Pri poeziji je filozof pač moral priznati, da metafora suvereno izreka onstranstvo jezika, da sporoča, ozvočuje tišino, molk in jezik neizrekljivega, ter nadvse zgovorno prezentira (ne)smisel poezije, ki je bolj smiseln, kot se zdi slepemu ušesu. S tem se je vedno boril, filozof neizrekljivega. Ko tista hladna resničnost jezika, ki nas obvladuje v komunikaciji pene (vsakodnevnih) dni, v komunikaciji hudičeve samosti, ki hoče govoriti z drugim in biti slišana, pa tudi razumljena, a po zakonitosti narojene samote, kar je človek v bistvu, vedno naleti na oviro interpretacije, vedno pade v prostor diskusije – kaj je kdo hotel povedati, sporočiti. Na zgornji omejitvi metafora preskoči igrico izmenjave besed in prestopi v poezijo, v neposredno poved, ki izreka resničnost. Na tej postavki se zdi, da gradi tudi pesnica Neža Zajc – izreka belino svojih senc in jih tako dela vidne, slišne, čutne, eksistenčno relevantne. Sklopi vsak zase poglabljajo neko pesniško intenco, vzgib, ki kljubuje smrti in piše življenje, in nasprotno, seveda, kot življenje, ki piše smrt. Nemara tudi pod okriljem uvodnih verzov Daneta Zajca, ki zbirki daje začetni zagon. Citat je rokopisna zapuščina slavnega dedka, ima pa vse značilnosti njegove preroško resignirane minljivosti v času praznine in smrti: "... smo živi bolj / in drugje / od naših temnih senc ..." Tu se vse začne, točno na robu smisla, na meji, ko bi pesnik vendarle še kaj rekel, hkrati pa že molči in zre niču v oči. Pesnica takoj povzame ta kongenialni navdih in ga zapelje v polje družbe, skupnosti. Nismo sami, kot je pri Danetu Zajcu včasih mogoče primarno, tu smo vsi, vsi na istem poligonu, v istih škripcih, z enakimi bolečinami in strahovi. Pesem V sencah ima zajčevski liker izraznosti, skoncentriran gnoj in sok, vse v enem, ki se skozi sito poezije cedi z metaforami in črkami do onemoglosti, do meje jezika, ki komaj še zmore nositi strašne pomene. Takole gre: »V sencah se rojevajo bitja, / in prehod v pročelja lét / pomeni daljše izgubljanje / zaznavanje sebe tu. // Kakor bi ne znal shoditi / do morja, do starega pomola, / se ogniti pošasti ogromni / nezaznamovanih ljudi, // zreš le sence menjave prostorov. Pesem razodeva pesničin miselni in čustveni obrat vase, v svoj pojav, ki zgolj receptira svet, ga strahoma sekvencira in opazuje, a ob tem hrepeni po kazalnikih, ki bi svetu, naši pojavnosti sredi niča, razodeli smisel bivanja. Sam si, gol in položen v senco, ali kot je zapisala v pesmi Pred oknom slapovi: "Tako od sijanja lune / izvržen na cesto bos, /in izpraznjen, mil / kakor lačen v grobu, / nag nisi več ranljiv." V poeziji Neže Zajc se spogledujemo z bivanjskimi strahovi, ki so v resnici tramovi naše biti. Soočenje s praznino in "ničem" jo navdihuje do te mere, da samo sebe skuša povzdigniti v smiseln pojav. Pesniška drža je pač suha in nema, v izvoru, šele z realiziranjem "sebstva", se povzdigne nad praznino in začne izrekati. Pri Neži Zajc smo v tej pozicij. Pesnica izreka vse, kar se ji kot pojavnost sili pred oči: "Od onstranstva veje burja / na zaledenelem obzorju / in od tal raste duša ..." Ker gre za sugestibilno pesnico, tako, ki celo presega svoje meje in se dotika drugih, ni nenavadno, da v svoj poetični korpus pritegne tudi Srečka Kosovela. V ciklu Poslednje bilke se mu pokloni s pesmijo Cvetovi, kjer pa ga, pesnika upanja in smrti, v sklepnih verzih tudi zakoplje v njegov Kras: "In na tleh so cvetovi, / pod katerimi prihuljen, / s praznimi rokami upanja, / s stisnjenimi pestmi / kakor dete mižiš, mižiš." Zbirka, ki na gosto beleži stanja duha, smisla, družbene "zgodbe", išče odgovore na strahotna vprašanja, trepeta v svoji minljivosti in se oklepa pokopališč, ki so središčne točke človeštva, ima tudi zelo jasen smisel, biti dober do drugega, biti socialen in živ v skupnosti. Rahlo v disonanci s siceršnjo naracijo te poezije se vsake toliko iz požganin dvigne upanje, ne kot božje razodetje, bolj kot ljubezen, ki je (poleg pesniške metafore) edino, kar presega naše meje. In tudi ne priznava "konca" biti in protežira realnost kot princip čudnega tandema, vzetega iz biolške resničnosti, kjer dominirata življenje in smrti. A v zakulisju, ki je očem nevidno, dopuščata "še nekaj več". Ali kot pesnica Neža Zajc piše v pesmi V ljubezni: "med petjem mrtvih / so beli verzi čarobnosti, / ki spati ne pustijo, / ne oddahniti se končno." To se nekako navezuje tudi na pesem Eno, kjer se eksplicitno zavzame za akcijo, za konkretno vlogo posameznika v svetu, za dejanja, ki tudi edino odrešujejo: ko se odzoveš na krik trpečega, vsi jeziki umolknejo, vsa poezija dobi smisel v akciji: "Ker zavedanje edinosti / razgleda nad morjem / vzame vse jezike. // Ko prosjačiš za bolne, / odsekaš hladne lovke, / verjameš v ščitenje, / prevajaš glasove / v telesne neširine." Zbirka Bele sence izhaja iz prednikov, piše se iz duše, ki je zastavila rod, črkuje se po zakonih belih trav, ki sedaj valovijo v brezvetrju in odsevajo svojo gibkost le skozi besede. Segajo prek smrti in časa, trepetajo pred obličjem neizrečenosti in pozabljenja, obenem pa klijejo ne neki požganini, kjer človek nikoli ne ve, ali bo iz zemlje pokukal nov cvet ali bo luknja v nič še globlja. Neža Zajc je v tej ekvilibristiki med genskim spominom in svojo izvirno potjo polna idej. V knjigi je kar nekaj presežkov, ki plivkajo v vse smeri, iščejo nove izvire, nove vzgibe za pisanje. Jezik, s katerim govori, je tako mitološki, kar jo veže na slavnega prednika, kot tudi živ, sproten, odziven v času in skuša razodevati svoj aktualni trenutek. Taka je brez dvoma tudi pesem-cikel Časov vseh izhod, ki proti koncu knjige preskakuje med preteklostjo, sedanjostjo, prihodnostjo, trenutkom in večnostjo, ter kulminira v pesmi Stopnice, kjer je vse razodeto: "Povzpneš se le do križa / do prekopanega pokopališča, / ki na večernem hribu / privlači telesa resnična."
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Hii leo jaridani tunaangazia migogoro yanayoendelea Mashariki ya Kati, ujumbe wa Katibu Mkuu leo dunia ikiadhimisha siku ya Kimataifa ya kutozalisha taka, na kampeni ya upatiaji mifugo dawa za minyoo na udhibiti wa wadudu waenezao magonjwa Isiolo nchini Kenya.Vita vya Mashariki ya Kati vimeingia mwezi wa pili huku ghasia zikiongezeka katika maeneo kadhaa, ikiwemo Lebanon, Iran na Ghuba. Mlinzi wa amani wa Kikosi cha Mpito cha Umoja wa Mataifa nchini Lebanon UNIFIL ameuawa baada ya kombora kulipuka katika kituo cha Umoja wa Mataifa karibu na Adchit Al Qusayr, huku mwingine akiwa mahtuti hospital.Wakati hii leo dunia ikiadhimisha siku ya Kimataifa ya kutozalisha taka, Umoja wa Mataifa umetoa wito kwa kila mtu kujifunza upya yamna ya kufanya manunuzi ya vitu na mapishi ambayo hayatasababisha umwagaji wa chakula ili kunusuru mifumo ya ikolojia na afya ya binadamu.Nchini Kenya katika kaunti za Isiolo, Garissa, Samburu na Mto Tana, shirika la Umoja wa Mataifa la Chakula na Kilimo, FAO limeendesha kampeni ya upatiaji mifugo dawa za minyoo na udhibiti wa wadudu waenezao magonjwa, sambamba na kupatia wananchi fedha taslimu bila masharti kama mojawapo ya kujengea jamii mnepo wakati wa ukame unaosababishwa na mabadiliko ya tabianchi.Mwenyeji wako ni Anold Kayanda, karibu!
Wakati hii leo dunia ikiadhimisha siku ya Kimataifa ya kutozalisha taka, Umoja wa Mataifa umetoa wito kwa kila mtu kujifunza upya yamna ya kufanya manunuzi ya vitu na mapishi ambayo hayatasababisha umwagaji wa chakula ili kunusuru mifumo ya ikolojia na afya ya binadamu. Tupate taarifa zaidi kutoka kwa Leah Mushi.
Sven counsels two different women, Taka and Bonnie. Taka says, "I'm frozen" and is unsure how to handle the 50/50 custody arrangement for her young son. She fears his time with her ex, a controlling and manipulative father. Bonnie is farther along in her healing and has done a lot of work to get past two failed marriages for which she mistakenly blames herself. Yet she emerges as a leader in the session as Sven pulls all the threads of the women's stories and ties them all together. Explicit content.Send us Fan Mail
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"Jutro premier Donald Tusk pozna szczegóły, dotyczące programu "SAFE 0 proc." - przekazał prezydencki doradca Leszek Skiba. We wtorek Tusk i Nawrocki spotykają się, by omówić program finansowania polskich zbrojeń.
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W tym podcaście odpowiadamy na pytania widzów wokół naszego filmu „Niemcy. Historia najnowsza. Od zjednoczenia do dziś”.00:00-01:22 - Wstęp01:23-04:39 - Dlaczego w Polsce tak rezonuje temat energii atomowej w Niemczech?04:40-15:42 - Źródła niemieckiego ruchu antyatomowego15:43-19:33 - Dlaczego podejście do energii atomowej jest inne w Polsce niż w Niemczech?19:34-27:37 - Czy ceny energii nie zmieniły podejścia Niemców do energetyki?27:38-35:51 - Cyfryzacja w Niemczech35:52-42:50 - Jak Niemcy oceniają Merkel?42:51-48:25 - Czy temat współpracy z dawnymi służbami jest istotny w Niemczech?48:26-53:50 - Czy celem Merkel i Putina było podporządkowanie sobie Europy Środkowej?53:51-01:02:05 - Niemieckie inwestycje w armie 01:02:05-01:06:40 - Sytuacja liberałów z FDP01:06:41-01:12:47 - Komu najbliżej do AfD?01:12:48-01:16:05 - Koniec raju?Wspomniane materiałyFilm historia najnowsza Niemiec: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=she3Wih7aFAFilm o Scholzu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkWYPqYMq1U&t=24sFilm o Wschodnich Niemczech: https://youtu.be/Uy8BIU4bVsw?si=07jYhD2fMIY3t7HvLeksykon Niemiecki: https://www.osw.waw.pl/leksykon-niemiecki/Podcast o ocenie Merkel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUg2cJv5syQ
Stefán Pálsson og Kanslarinn fara yfir ítalska boltann frá því að Berlusconi keypti AC Milan og út tíunda áratuginn. Ný lið mæta á topinn eins og Sampdoria, Lazio og Parma.
Taka Ariga hits all the right notes for AI at scale: clarity of purpose, strong foundations, sustainable innovation, engaged ownership, and a confident workforce. Taka and Kimberly discuss going beyond novel AI prototypes; the limits of automation; context building; data sovereignty and integrity; the unstructured data deluge; the unique sensitivities and needs of public agencies; valuing ownership and viable ways to scale; plagiarizing for good; foundations for AI success; wanting innovation without change; rethinking governance; enabling confident AI use; making space for reinvention; and being a skeptical AI advocate.Taka Ariga is a heretical technologist and the founder of Sol Imagination. He focuses on AI strategy design, implementation, and value capture. Taka served the US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) as CDO and CAIO and the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) as Chief Data Scientist and Director of the Innovation Lab. Related Resources:Sol Imagination (company) https://sol-imagination.ai/ A transcript of this episode is here.
The global ship recycling market saw another shift in Week 7 of 2026 as key fundamentals moved in different directions across the sub-continent. The Baltic Dry Index declined by 0.6 percent, mainly due to weaker Capesize and Panamax performance, while Supramax rates improved. Oil prices held near USD 62.8 per barrel as markets continued to monitor U.S. and Iran tensions. In this week's episode, Ingrid and Henning discuss how the U.S. Dollar strengthened against most recycling nation currencies, with India being the exception as the Rupee improved to around INR 90.6. Steel plate prices reversed course in India, falling nearly USD 10 per ton, while Pakistan maintained the strongest fundamentals in the region with plate prices holding near USD 594 per ton. Bangladesh reached a political milestone as the BNP secured a more than two-thirds majority in the general elections. The result is expected to support long-delayed infrastructure projects and could improve domestic steel demand in the months ahead. The country also adopted the International Ready for Recycling Certificate framework, aligning with regional compliance requirements under the Hong Kong Convention. Steel plate prices in Bangladesh remained flat near USD 494 per ton, while the Taka weakened slightly. Pakistan continued to lead pricing tables, supported by firm steel levels, stable currency performance near PKR 279.6, and rising anchorage activity totaling nearly 30,000 LDT across multiple bulk carriers. India's anchorage activity also remained active with more than 47,000 LDT present, despite softer steel prices. Turkey remained quiet, with limited activity in Aliaga and the Lira weakening toward TRY 44. This episode covers demolition pricing direction, steel and currency movements, port activity in Alang, Chattogram, and Gadani, and the ongoing shortage of recycling candidates. The discussion is intended for shipowners, cash buyers, recyclers, brokers, and maritime professionals following developments in the global demolition market
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This episode we are talking about the Four Great Temples--Asukadera, Daikandaiji (aka Kudara Odera), Kawaradera, and Yakushiji. Much of the information, outside of the Nihon Shoki itself, comes from Donald F. McCallum's book: "The Four Great Temples: Buddhist Archaeology, Architecture, and Icons of Seventh-Century Japan". For sources, photos, and more information, check out our blogpost at: https://sengokudaimyo.com/podcast/episode-142 Rough Transcript Welcome to Sengoku Daimyo's Chronicles of Japan. My name is Joshua and this is episode 142: The Four Great Temples Rising up into the sky, the bronze spire atop the pagoda seemed to touch the heavens. The beams, doors, and railings were all painted bright red, with white walls, and green painted bars on the windows. At each level, the eaves swept out, covered in dark ceramic tiles, with shining bronze plaques covering the ends of the roof beams. At each corner, a bronze bell hung, chiming in the breeze. This pattern continued upwards, tier after tier. Around the base of the pagoda, throngs of government officials dressed in their formal robes of office moved past, flowing through the temple's central gates. As they passed, they looked up at the impressive tower, the largest of its kind in all of Yamato. From somewhere, a deep bell chimed, and the crowds made their way towards the lecture hall. There, the monks were prepared, with sutras and voices at the ready. Facing a sacred image, they would read through their sutras in unison. Their voices would carry through the great empty space and reverberate through the crowds—those that could get close enough to hear, anyway. The chanting created a musical cacophony. In that sea of human voices, one could almost sense something more—something spiritual. A power, that one could almost believe could hold at bay just about any disaster that could befall a person—or even the state itself. Alright, so this episode we are still in the reign of Ohoama, aka Temmu Tennou. I know we've already seen how that ends, but there is still a lot to cover. But before I go too far, I'd like to first give a shout out to Lisa for helping to support the show on Ko-Fi. I can't tell you how much we appreciate it. If you would like to support us as well, we'll have more information at the end of this, and every episode. We've talked about how the reign of Ohoama was a time where the court reinforced, but also subtly adjusted, the laws of the Ritsuryo state. They seem to have equally courted the Kami, Buddhism, and even continental ideas of yin and yang. Today we are going to dive into Buddhism and the State. More specifically, I want to talk about something called the Yondaiji, the Four Great Temples, and look at how these government temples, also known as "kanji" or "Tsukasa no dera" came to be, what we know about them from archaeological research, and the role they played in the State. This is going to probably recap things from earlier episodes. I am also drawing a lot from a book by Donald F. McCallum called, appropriately, "The Four Great Temples", which goes into a lot more detail than I'll be able to get into, here, but I recommend it for those who are really interested in this subject. Up to this point, we've talked a little about the relationship that the court had with Buddhism. By the late 7th century, Buddhism had spread throughout the archipelago, and there were many temples likely created by local elites. Sensoji, in Asakusa, Tokyo, claims a founding of 628, though it may have actually been founded sometime just after 645. There are other temples around Japan, far from the Home Provinces, which likewise had similar claims to being founded in the early to late 7th century, and I question how much a role the government had in each of them. . In 673, there were two temple-related mentions of note in the Chronicles. In one of Ohoama's earliest edicts he orders the copying of the Issaiko, the Buddhist canon, at Kawaradera. That same year, 673, Prince Mino and Ki no Omi no Katamaro—whom we discussed last episode—were sent to build Takechi temple, later known as Daikandaiji. I mention Daikandaiji specifically because while it was originally built as the Temple of Takechi, at some point took on that other name—"Daikandaiji", aka Ohotsukasa no Ohodera—which Aston translates as the "Great Temple of the Great Palace", as it appears to have specifically been designated as the great temple of the government. In other words, it is one of a few National Temples. And this became particularly important in the year 680, which is the year we are told the government stopped administering—and, more importantly, stopped funding—all but a handful of so-called "national temples". At this point, as I've mentioned, Buddhism was widespread enough that there were enough adherents that could maintain their own local temples. Of course, local elites likely found some cachet in funding temples, and communities of believers in various areas would likewise have been asked to provide funds as well. So the court accordingly declared that going forward, the government would only administer 2 or 3 national temples. For all other temples, if tthey had been granted the proceeds of sustenance-fiefs, those would be limited, from the first year to the last, of 30 years in total. As I read it, that indicates that if they had received the fiefs 15 years ago, they would be allowed to hold onto them for another 15 years, after which point they would need to find alternative sources of funding. The early national temples appear to be Daikandaiji and Kawaradera. Finally, there is Yakushiji, which Ohoama began construction on in 680 for his queen, Uno no Sarara, when she was ill—and just hold on to that for now. Interestingly, Asukadera, or Houkouji, in many ways the original national temple, was not designated as such in the new reorganization, but it would continue to be administered by the government as a temple in a special arrangement. That's why the original count in the Nihon Shoki mentions "2 or 3" national temples instead of four. These four temples are mentioned in the Shoku Nihongi, the Chronicles following the Nihon Shoki, as the Four Great Temples, or Yondaiji. Although that work wasn't compiled and published until the end of the 8th century, the term Yondaiji appears in an entry for 702, about five years after the last entry in the Nihon Shoki, and over a decade before its publication So at this point we're going to look at each of these "great" temples individually, plus a couple of other important ones, and what they tell us about the history of Buddhism, Buddhist temples, and the Yamato state at this point in Ohoama's reign. The first of these four temples, chronologically, is Asukadera. This is the temple originally built by the Soga, and the first major Buddhist temple built. Its layout shows three separate golden image halls, or kondou. And here we should probably recap something about the general layout of a Buddhist temple, so we can understand what we are talking about. The most important buildings in a Buddhist temple at this time were the kondou, the golden image halls; the pagoda, or stupa; and the koudou, or lecture hall. The golden image halls held golden Buddhist images—Buddhas, Boddhisatvas, Arthats, and more. These rooms are often somewhat dark, and would have been lit mainly by candles, as well as the sun coming through—though even then the sun often is obscured by overhanging rooves and latticework. Sometimes the doors would have small openings so that the sun's rays strike in a particular way at different times. All of this presents an image of bright gleaming gold in the darkness—a metaphor for the teachings of the Buddha, but also an intentionally awe inspiring display for those who came to view them and pray. The kondo were usually the first structures to be built for a temple, so if your temple had nothing else, it probably had an image hall. The next structure that one would probably build would be the stupa, or pagoda. A pagoda was a tower, in which were sometimes kept images, but more importantly, it would often hold some kind of relic. The idea of the stupa originated as a place to house relics—often bone fragments and teeth attributed to the Buddha, even if those were actually precious stones. Stupas were originally (and still, in many places) large mounds, but as Buddhism made its way over the Silk Road, these were replaced with multi-tiered towers. Pagodas are often 3 or 5 storeys, though the number of stories can go up to 7 or 9 or as low as 1. Once again, in a world where most buildings, other than perhaps a specially made lookout tower, were only one or maybe two stories in height, a three to five story pagoda must have been something to behold, especially covered with tiled eaves, adorned with bronze bells, and brightly painted in the continental fashion. In Europe I would point to similar uses of gold and ostentatious ornamentation on the cathedrals of the day, and even in churches more generally, if on a smaller scale. This is meant to impress and thus lend authority to the institution. And of course, because that institution was so closely aligned to the State, it gave the State authority as well. We mentioned, previously, how the monumental structures of the kofun had given way to the Buddhist temples as a form of ritual display. The last of the three buildings I would mention is the lecture hall, or Koudou. This would also likely have Buddhist images, but it was more of a functional hall for conducting rituals, including recitation of sutras and presenting Buddhist teachings. The koudou was often at the back or north end of the temple complex. In early Buddhist temple layouts, it was common to have everything in a straight line, more or less, and to remain symmetrical. So there would be a main gate through which one would enter. In front of you there you probably saw the pagoda. Beyond the pagoda was a path, and then the kondou, or image hall, typically with a lantern in front, and behind that was the koudou, or lecture hall. This was all typically oriented on a north-south axis, such that one would enter through the southern gate and walk north towards the lecture hall. The north-south orientation is likely another feature from the continent, where the most important buildings were often south-facing, and thus in the north of the compound. This was the same with the palace layout, and likely for similar reasons—not just cultural, but also practical. After all, the sun, in the northern hemisphere, remains slightly to the south, and so this would have provided the most light through the day. This layout was not strictly adhered to, however. For instance, if we look at Asukadera, you would enter through the southernmost gate and you were then met with another gate for an inner compound. This middle gate would lead you to a large courtyard, about 320 meters on a side, with a covered walkway, or gallery, along the entire circumference of the compound. Entering through the middle gate one would have first noticed the large pagoda and not one but three golden image halls. A path led to the pagoda, and then beyond from the pagoda to the central kondou. There is even a stone where a large bronze lantern was likely situated between the pagoda and the kondou. Based on archaeological evidence, it appears that there was originally just one image hall, directly north of the pagoda, but at a later date, they added two more kondou to the east and west of the pagoda. This has been compared to a temple layout found in Goguryeo, but given that these were likely later additions, and we know that Baekje artisans were involved, I suspect that is just later coincidence. Connecting the layout of the temples to continental examples has been a keen area of study for many scholars. The general theory is that temple layouts can help point to whether there was more of a Baekje, Silla, or Goguryeo influence during the construction of the temple, and what that might have meant for Yamato's international relations as well as various political factions in the court who may have leaned more towards one group or another. The last building at Asukadera, the koudou, or lecture hall, was directly north of the kondou, but you couldn't get there directly. The entire pagoda and image hall compound was separate from the lecture hall, which stood north and apart, though still on the temple grounds, which would have been surrounded by an outer wall. At this point, since we're talking about the layout of Asukadera and where it came from, I'm going to digress from the next of the four great temples and talk about two other early temples that are important for understanding Buddhist temple building at this time. So bear with me for this slight detour. The first of these is Shitennoji, the Temple of the Four Heavenly Kings, in modern Osaka. This temple is said to have been built in 593, and is attributed to Shotoku Taishi. Presumably he made a vow to do so during the war between the Soga and the Mononobe, which we discussed back in episode 91. As you may recall from that and earlier episodes, the Mononobe were considered to be against the idea of Buddhism, while the Soga were promoting it. Shitennouji was important, but doesn't show up in the Chronicles as much as other temples, and was all the way over in Naniwa. As such, I suspect that it was not considered a good candidate for "national" temple status at the time. Still, if we look at the original layout, Shitennoji is quite similar to what we see in Asukadera. Everything is on a north-south axis. You go through a middle gate to the inner compound. There you find a pagoda, and past that, a lantern and then the kondou. Unlike Asukadera, the koudou, or lecture hall, is incorporated into the back wall, such that the gallery continues from the middle gate around to either side, and then meets at the sides of the lecture hall. There are also east and west gates, as well as other buildings, but the main layout is pretty comparable. The second is another temple, which also lays claim to being founded by Prince Shotoku Taishi, and which was not included in the four great temples. This may have had to do with the fact that it wasn't in the Asuka valley, but also may have had to do with just the timing. That temple is the famous one known as Horyuji. Horyuji was founded on the site of the Ikaruga palace, said to have been the home of none other than Prince Umayado, aka Shotoku Taishi. As such, one imagines it was quite the prominent temple in its day. However, it was at a distance from the capital, and it also had the misfortune to have burned down in about 670, just before Ohoama ascended the throne, and it wasn't fully rebuilt until about 711, leaving a forty year gap where the temple was not necessarily at the forefront of Buddhism. Still, like Shitennoji, it is interesting to look at the original layout for Horyuji and compare it to Asukadera. First off, you have the same north-south orientation, and you have the same separate, internal compound for the image hall and the pagoda. Unlike in Asukadera, however, the kondou and the pagoda, which both faced south, were on an east-west axis, flanking the central pathway. Entering through the middle gate one would have seen a five storey pagoda on the left and the kondo on the right. The Koudou was outside the inner compound in the rear, along that central north-south axis. There is also evidence of two other buildings. One likely held a large bell—and possibly a drum—and the other was likely a sutra repository, where they could keep holy texts and various ritual implements. I will also note that, even though Horyuji burned down in 670 and was accordingly not that prominent during Ohoama's reign, it is absolutely worth visiting because substantial portions of those rebuilt buildings are still standing today. Indeed, both the Horyuji pagoda and kondou are among the oldest wooden buildings in the world. The central pillar of the pagoda was felled in 594 according to dendrochronological dating. The kondou was damaged by fire during a restoration in 1949, but about 15-20% of the original building from 670 still remains. Going back to the Great Temples, the next of these to be built was Kudara Ohodera. Kudara here means "Baekje", but this appears to refer more to the temple's location near the Kudara river, rather than to the kingdom of Baekje. Kudara Ohodera is remarkable in a couple of different ways. First off, there is the fact that it is the first temple with a firm royal lineage—that is to say a temple that claims to have been founded by the sovereign. Asukadera was founded by Soga no Umako, the Prime Minister, and though Prince Umayado is said to have been the Crown Prince, nonetheless, he never reigned as sovereign, though he was considered the founder of both Shitenouji and Houryuuji. Kudara Ohodera, however, is said to have been founded at the behest of Tamura, aka Jomei Tennou, who reigned from 629-641. The temple appears to get its start in a record dated to 639, and by 645 it appears to be fully operational. There is another tale of its founding—in the Daianji Engi, the history of Daianji, a successor temple to Kudara Ohodera, there is mention of a Kumagori Dojo, and many modern histories claim that this was the actual first temple, but there isn't much evidence. Donald McCallum, in his treatment of Kudara Ohodera's history in his book, "The Four Great Temples", suggests that the Kumagori Dojo story is likely a later legendary founding that got recorded, as there is scant evidence for it, and no mention of it in other records. On the actual founding of Kudara Ohodera, however, there does appear to be general agreement with the Nihon Shoki, despite some minor differences in the dates. The call to build Kudara Ohodera comes alongside Tamura's also building Kudara Palace. Kudara Ohodera was also built on a grand scale, and it is said to have had a nine-storey pagoda—almost double the size of a five-storey pagoda, which already towered over other buildings of the time. Despite all of this, for a long time it was unclear where Kudara Ohodera was actually situated. There were several sites proposed, but most recently archaeological research on Kibi Pond seems to have placed the temple there. At excavations on the southern side of the pond were found remnants of the foundations of two buildings, arranged in an east-west format. The western foundation would appear to be for a pagoda—but one much larger than any of the five storey pagodas we've seen elsewhere. And to the east was the foundation for what appears to be the kondo. This golden image hall, however, is likewise much larger than any other hall of this time. This arrangement would fit very well with a Houryuuji-like temple layout. There were also various other traces that were consistent with the early mid-7th century, which would coincide with the 639-645 dates for Kudara Ohodera's construction. Subsequent excavations appear to have found quarters for the priests, as well as at least part of a gallery wall and one gate, situated due south of the kondo. There may have been another gate south of the pagoda. The koudou, the lecture hall, may have been in the area that was later excavated to create the pond, and therefore we may never have any hard evidence of its location, despite numerous attempts to dig trenches to find more of the temple buildings. This probably also means that, similar to Shitennouji, the lecture hall was incorporated into the enclosing gallery wall rather than being outside, because if it was outside, then it likely would have been farther north and we would probably have seen some trace. As it is, the lack of any trace suggests that it was inside or part of the enclosure with the pagoda and kondou. The large size of this archeological site concurs with what we know about Kudara Ohodera, both in its description and in the fact that it is referred to as "Ohodera", or "Great Temple"—no other temple has really been given that name directly, though there are a few references to "Ohodera" that are ambiguous and might refer either to this temple or Asukadera.. Still, if this temple, sometimes also called Kibi Pond Temple due to its location, is *not* Kudara Ohodera then that just brings up more questions. How could there have been such a monumental Buddhist temple this close to Asuka and within the bounds of the later Fujiwara-kyo and yet nobody thinks to mention it? It doesn't appear to have been started and abandoned, as there were quite a few structures built. So if this isn't Kudara Temple then someone has some 'splaining to do. Indeed, McCallum notes that while there are some objections, the preponderance of evidence seems to lean greatly in favor of the Kibi Pond site for Kudara Ohodera. We still have yet to find the Kudara palace, however, so who knows. There are also questions about the construction as various architectural features are missing in ways that are not consistent with other sites. Some oddities, such as a seeming lack of rooftiles given the apparent size of the building, actually may be a point in favor of this being Kudara Ohodera, since we know that the temple was moved in 673 when Ohoama requested that they build the Takechi Ohodera, which appears to have been Kudara's successor temple. If they had reused the material from Kudara Ohodera to build, at least in part, Takechi Ohodera, that could explain why rooftiles and other such things are not present in the numbers expected at the Kibi Pond site. Takechi Ohodera is another bit of a mystery. I can't help but note that Takechi is the name given Ohoama's son who was with him on the front lines of the Jinshin no Ran. We also see a "Takechi no Agata-nushi", who is noted as the governor of the district of Takechi. In all cases here it is spelled "Taka-ichi", or "high market", and it is not an uncommon name—we even find a Miwa no Kimi no Takechimaro. In the record of the Jinshin no Ran it is noted that the governor of Takechi was possessed by the kami of Takechi and of Musa. These were named as Kotoshironushi and Ikuikazuchi. They claimed that they had been the kami that escorted Ohoama to Fuwa and saw him safely there. As such, donations were made to their shrines. Musa is an area in modern Takaichi district, which includes the area of Asuka, and is part of Kashihara city. The Takaichi Agata Jinja—or the Takechi District Shrine—sits in the Shijo area of Kashihara city, north of Mt. Unebi. There are several proposed locations for Takechi Ohodera, but despite excavations, no clear temple features have been found. As such, there isn't anything to clearly point to one or the other. What we do know is that Takechi Ohodera underwent another transformation. According to the Daianji Engi, the Takechi Ohodera was renamed to Daikandaiji in 677. There is no specific mention of this in the Nihon Shoki, other than a note that Takechi Ohodera was also known as Daikandaiji and a reference, in 679, of "fixing the names". Personally, I can't help but wonder if this is a case of a nickname becoming the name-in-fact. As I mentioned earlier in the episode, Daikandaijij, which can also be read as "Oho-tsukasa no Oho-tera" can be translated into something like Great Government Official Great Temple or Great Temple of the Royal Court. We do know the location of this temple in later years, but this is probably not exactly where Takechi Ohodera was originally built. For one thing, it is suspicious that the temple lines up exactly with the later grid for Fujiwara-kyo, the later capital city that was built north of Asuka. We also are told by the Daianji Engi that a nine storey pagoda and kondou were built between 697 and 707 CE. There are also notes about activities at the temple mentioned in the Shoku Nihongi for the same period. And yet there were also activities being held during that time which would not seem feasible if they were renovating in place. So likely the new construction was at a new site—possibly near the old site. And at this later site, the rooftiles were from a later period, closer to the period of the later construction and not really matching with earlier construction dates. So what did this temple of many names – Kudara Ohodera, then Takechi Ohodera, then Daikandaiji – actually look like? We probably have a layout for the original temple and the later temple. If Kibi Pond Temple is the original Kudara Ohodera, the original temple had the kondou and the pagoda on the same east-west axis, and likely had the koudou north of that – very Horyuji-like. But based on the layout at the later temple site, we have something quite different. From the central gate, there is a path straight towards the Kondou, with the Koudou directly north of that, and the nine-storey pagoda in an odd, off-set position, southeast of the kondou. This disrupts the symmetry even more than the Kudara Ohodera layout. There is some speculation that this asymmetry was temporary and that they planned to fill the other space but just never got around to it, but there is no indication that they had prepared for anything, either. Also odd is the fact that the koudou, the lecture hall, was the same size as the image hall, the kondou, and that was roughly the same size as the enormous hall at Toudaiji, which is really saying something. This really was a tremendous building, fitting for the main temple of the royal government. The third of the four great temples is Kawaradera, and this one is challenging to plot out chronologically as there isn't a lot of documentation. There is no exact date for the building of Kawaradera. There is a mention of it in 653, but the same entry in the Nihon Shoki also states that there are sources that claim it should be Yamadadera, instead. Based on other evidence, this actually seems more likely. Yamadadera is thought to have been the work of Soga no Kurayamada no Ishikawa no Maro, and it is where he eventually fled when accused of treason. It was founded in 641, according to the Joguki, the record of Prince Shotoku, but construction didn't actually start until2 years later, and monks only began to occupy it in 648. The following year, however, construction halted as that is when Ishikawa no Maro fled there and committed suicide. Construction was resumed in 663, but still took time. Still, even in the middle of this very long DIY project, it makes sense that there might be some activities in 653, even if construction was paused. Later the temple would be completed, and seems to have had powerful backing. Uno no Sarara, Ohoama's queen, was a granddaughter of Ishikawa no Maro, and so likely had a connection to the temple, but it never attained the status of a national temple the way the others had. As far as its layout—it was similar to Shitennouji, with the pagoda, kondo, and koudou all in a line on the north-south axis. Kawaradera was another matter. Though we aren't sure when it was built, exactly. If we discount the 653 date as applying to Yamadadera instead, then the first date we really see anything at Kawara is Kawara Palace, built for Takara Hime—aka Saimei Tennou—who took up residence there when the Itabuki Palace burned. Later it would be used for her mogari—her temporary interment. The next mention of a temple at Kawara isn't until this reign, in 673, when Ohoama had the Buddhist canon, the Issaiko, copied, as I noted at the top of the episode. So it must have been established and built some time before 673. Although we don't know when it was founded, we very clearly know where it was, as the foundations stones are still present, and quite clear—and unlike other Asuka era temples, it would stay in Asuka, rather than being removed up to the new capital at Heijo-kyo. Given everything else and its apparent importance, the lack of information on when Kawaradera was established is quite odd. McCallum suggests that this could have been deliberate as a way to help delegitimize the temple in the 8th century, but also admits that it may have just been due to the general problems with early record keeping back in the day and there may not have been a good record of why and when the temple was founded. The rooftiles are similar to those used during the time that the court was at Ohotsu. I would also note that there is a connection between the foundation stones and a quarry up near Ohotsu at what is, today, Ishiyamadera. That still doesn't tell us when Kawaradera was founded, as that could have been any time, and doesn't necessarily mean that it was during the time the court was in Ohotsu. Regardless of what textual evidence does or does not exist, the archaeological evidence is pretty staggering. Even today you can go and see some of the exposed foundation stones. This was a massive temple. There was a south gate and then a middle gate just north of that. The main enclosure was divided into two courtyards. In the first, just beyond the middle gate, at the north end was the middle kondo, while in the courtyard itself, facing each other on an east-west axis, was a western kondou and the temple pagoda. Past the middle kondou was a larger courtyard, with the koudou, or lecture hall, in the north, with a bell tower or sutra hall in the south west and southeast corners. The walls of the enclosure were made up of a covered gallery, and around the outside of the northern courtyard, containing the koudou, were smaller chambers believed to be the monks quarters, something we don't necessarily see at all of the other sites. Despite being an important temple, and one of the Four Great Temples during the Asuka periods, when the capital eventually moved to Heijo-kyo, in modern Nara, Kawaradera had the distinction of being the only one of the four that was not moved as well. All three of the other Great Temples had new compounds built in Heijo-kyo, and the temples were thus "transferred" to the new capital. Presumably that means that most of the monks and administration moved there, and those new temples took up the roles, duties, and responsibilities of the old temples. The temple complexes in Asuka were not necessarily destroyed or deconstructed, but instead were apparently left to their own devices, becoming reduced in status. Many of them fell into disrepair, and when disasters, such as fire, struck they were not rebuilt to the same extent as before, if at all. Kawaradera, however, appears to have not been transferred. It would eventually be replaced as one of the Four Great Temples by the temple of Koufukuji, which was specifically a temple for the Fujiwara family, who were having a bit of a moment in the Nara period. Some have speculated that Kawaradera was specifically left behind in Asuka for that reason—so that the Fujiwara family temple could sneak into the ranks of national temples. Or it may have been that Kawaradera had a particular connection to Takara Hime and the site of her interment. If it was a memorial temple to her, then perhaps it didn't seem appropriate to remove it from its physical location. McCallum also suggests that it was so powerful in its position in Asuka that it preferred to stay and keep its stipend-fiefs, perhaps believing that even the move to Heijo-kyo would be just another short fad, as had been Ohotsu and Fujiwara-kyo. Of course, if so, they were sorely mistaken. And so Kawaradera would eventually fade from the picture, but during the time of Ohoama's reign, and into that of his immediate successors, it seems that it certainly held some sway. The fourth of the Four Great Temples was the temple of Yakushiji—the temple of the Medicine Buddha. This is the latest temple of the bunch. Its construction was ordered in the year 680 in response to Ohoama's queen, Uno no Sarara, falling ill. And so he vowed to build a temple for her—specifically a temple to Yakushi Nyorai, the Medicine Buddha, whom we discussed last episode. That said, there is considerable time between the order to construct a temple and getting enough of it built to actually be functional. I haven't really touched on this, except when I briefly discussed Yamadadera and how long that took to build, but all of these temples were massive works, much more complicated than the traditional palace buildings. For the most part, palace architecture could be built relatively quickly with the tools and labor available. This was a good thing, seeing as how, for many years, the sovereign had moved again and again, either because of the previous sovereign's death in the palace or just because they chose a new location for a palace. As such, one couldn't spend years building a new palace. So palace buildings were simply made with wooden posts, sunk into the ground, with thatched roofs. In a few examples we see attempts to use wooden boards or tiles, but they weren't complicated. A temple, on the other hand, was something different. Temples were largely wood, but they were massive in size and their roofs were covered in heavy ceramic tiles. All of that weight had to be properly distributed on a strong base—simple posts were not likely to work. Instead they were built on raised stone foundations. That's great for us looking at them, today, but at the time it would have been an inordinate amount of labor. Hence why a temple like Yamadadera took so long to build. So Yakushiji may have been founded in 680, but was likely not finished until much later, which is why we don't really see it in the records for Ohoama's reign and why the order for national temples probably only states that there were just two or three. However, it would become one of the four great temples, and is also notable because, in its transfer to Heijokyo, it largely retained its shape and layout, meaning that you can go to it, today, and still get some sense of what it may have been like back in the Asuka period. Granted, there are certainly differences, but there are enough similarities that it is likely worth a visit. Many of the other temples were significantly modified when they were rebuilt in the new capital in Nara. The layout for Yakushiji is a basic rectangular layout. North of the central gate there is not one, but two pagodas, on an east-west axis from each other, flanking the path to the kondo, roughly in the center. Finally the koudou at the north end, built into the roofed gallery. The modern Yakushiji, a UNESCO world heritage site, maintains one of the pagodas from 730. Other buildings have been lost and rebuilt over the years. Today, the covered gallery only goes around half of the compound. This temple would be important, but mostly in the period following the current reign. This period of the four Great Temples perhaps gives us some insight into the relationship between Buddhism and the State. Early on, Buddhism was the province largely of the Soga family, and Soga no Umako was apparently the most powerful figure of his day. He founded Asukadera, and early temples weree founded by Soga or their associates, including Prince Umayado. McCallum points out that the National Temples, however, were, with one exception, founded by sovereigns. Kudara Ohodera was the first, Kawaradera was likely founded for Takara Hime, and Yakushiji was founded for Queen Uno. The only one of the four that wasn't expressly founded on a sovereign's order was that of Asukadera, the temple by Soga no Umako. This may explain why it was both included and excluded as a national temple in the Chronicles. After all, there is no doubting its importance, but the narrative of a single, strong, royal house is somewhat impeded by the idea that one of those temples was founded by what was, for all of his power and authority, a private individual. Ultimately they didn't include it in the edict and yet still acknowledged it as one of the Great Temples. McCallum also points out that these four may not have been fixed quite so early on. For example, on the matter of Houryuuji—there is a bronze plaque that mentions an "Ikaruga no Ohodera", suggesting that the Ikaruga Temple—that is to say Houryuuji, founded on the estates of Prince Umayado—was at one time granted that title. Of course, there are questions as to the exact date of the inscription, and whether or not they meant "Ohodera" in the later sense of a national temple or simply in the sense that it was large; and the term may have meant something else, earlier on. The roster of official temples, the Tsukasa no Tera or Kanji, would grow over time, but that is something for a later period. It is worth noting, though, that the Chronicles at this point seem to distinguish between three types or levels of temples at this time, based on other edicts that we see. There is also the matter of temple names. The first edict is from the 5th day of the 4th lunar month of 679, six years into Ohoama's reign. The declaration states that the court would consider the history of any temple with sustenance fiefs and add or remove them as appropriate. This suggests that there were temples with sustenance fiefs—that is, that had stipends based on lands whose official output went to their upkeep—and temples without such fiefs. The latter were likely more local temples, likely funded by local elites, possibly out of actual devotion, or an attempt to gain the power that Buddhism presumably brought, or possibly just in emulation of the central court, much as the peripheral elites had also constructed the keyhole shaped kofun. Along with the adjustments of stipends, we are also told that the administration quote-unquote "fixed" the names of the temples. This again goes to the government's control of the temples and Buddhism. McCallum suggests that what is meant here is that they moved away from locative names to Buddhist names for the temple; up to this point, temple names appear to be about the location of the temple. So we have Asuka dera, or Asuka Temple, built in Asuka. Kudara Ohodera is Kudara Great Temple because it was by the Kudara river and the Kudara palace. When it was moved to Takechi, they changed the name to Takechi temple. Kawaradera was at Kawara, while the temple we know as Houryuuji was known at the time as Ikaruga Temple—or possibly Ikaruga Great Temple. But later these temples would be known by their Buddhist names, so Asukadera is Houkouji. Kudara Ohodera becomes Daikandaiji—and in fact, it is after this point that we see Daikandaiji in the narrative. Ikaruga dera—though not one of the yondaiji, or four Great Temples—becomes Horyuuji. I'm not quite so sure about Kawaradera, but Yakushiji, which is founded after this decree, comes to us with a Buddhist name rather than just the name of a location. This change in name likely simplified, somewhat, the concept of moving, or transferring the temples. Rather than establishing a brand new temple with new administration and everything, they could build a new temple, but grant it the name and rights of the old temple. The old temple grounds could still be used and occupied—it was still *a* temple, but it was no longer *the* temple, at least for official purposes. It would be strange, however, to move the Asuka Temple up to the area of modern Nara city and still call it the Asuka Temple. The year after reassessing the stipends and fixing the names of the temples we get the edict about the 2 or 3 national temples. And we've mostly discussed that, but here I would just point out that it does add a third distinction to the types of temples. So we have temples with no stipends, temples with stipends—but they would only last for 30 years total after which they were expected to find new sources of funding—and the national temples, which would presumably receive funding through the government in perpetuity—or until the court changed its mind. So why do we care about any of this? Obviously Buddhism has had a huge impact on Japanese culture. However, this isn't just about the religion as an idea, but about the institutions. These temples—especially these great temples—contained a fair amount of wealth. It wasn't just the golden images, or the elaborate amount of work and materials that went into the creation of the buildings. There was also the sustenance-fiefs that were paying for the upkeep. These temples were also being managed by formal government administrators. They also performed rituals that the court relied on. Association with these temples was no doubt important. Later we see princes and other members of high status families taking high ranking positions, and the temples ended up cultivating their own power. Over time, the power of various Buddhist institutions would grow, often challenging or even rivaling the power of the court itself. There are a few other items from this reign that we see related to these temples and Buddhism, more generally. In 677 we see a Buddhist festival at Asukadera, where the entire canon was apparently reda out. The sovereign himself showed up and did obeisance to the Three Precious Things—an interesting bit of religious piety and humility. At the same time, he had all of the Princes and Ministers find one person each to renounce the world and become a monk or nun—both men and women were chosen, without apparent distinction. We are also assured that they all did so of their own volition, and weren't forced. In 679, we see a regulation on the clothing of priests and nuns, as well as the men and horses who accompanied them when they traveled. If priests are going around with a full on noble retinue, well, that probably says something about the status of priests—at least the abbots and heads of these institutions. 680 – A fire breaks out at the nunnery at Tachibana temple. Tachibanadera is situated south of Kawaradera, and similar to that temple, it seems to have previously been the site of a royal palace and also isn't recorded as being founded in the Nihon Shoki—it appears fully formed in this record. Tachibanadera's own records seem to suggest that it was founded in 606, and claims a founding by Shotoku Taishi. It is also said to be the site of the palace where Shotoku Taishi was born to his mother, Princess Anahobe no Hashibito, consort of Tachibana no Toyohi, aka Yomei Tennou. Shotoku Taishi is also the subject of the primary image of Tachibana temple, today. Although Tachibanadera wasn't one of the Four Great Temples, it was likely connected to one—Kawaradera. Not only was it built on the same north-south axis as Kawaradera, but some of the tiles are similar to Kawaradera's founding tiles. The layout was similar to Yamada-dera or Shitennouji, with the pagoda, kondou, and kooudou, all in a single north-south orientation. It is possible that Kawaradera was a monastery for male monks while Tachibanadera may have been the complementary nunnery for female initiates. 680 had a lot going on. In the 10th lunar month, the sovereign handed out alms to monks and nuns—silk and cloth. A month later, Ohoama vowed Yakushiji in hopes that it would help his wife, Queen Uno, who was unwell. He also granted a general amnesty, likely to just add further merit. Apparently it was successful, as she would go on to live for quite some time after that, even helping to take the reins of government when Ohoama himself fell ill. In 682, Princess Hidaka fell ill. 190 people, both men and women, were pardoned for capital or lesser crimes, in an attempt to make merit, and the following day we are told that over 140 people renounced the world at Daikandaiji—likely on the Princess's behalf. The year after that, 683, we see the sovereign making appointments to the official buddhist offices of Soujou, Soudzu, and Risshi—Doctors of the Law. This was probably a somewhat regular occurrence, though this is the first time we see the Risshi, it seems. The mention here is apparently due to the admonition given that "Those who control the monks and nuns should act according to the law." Definitely seems to be something there—perhaps a reason as to why the Soujou and Soudzu were being appointed. But the Nihon Shoki doesn't give us a lot more to go on other than speculation. Later that same year, in the 7th lunar month, we see priests and nuns gathered at the palace for the first ever ango, or retreat. An ango is where priests and nuns of different temples are brought together. The term refers to a practice said to come from the time of Shakyamuni, before there were temples. Shakyamuni's acolytes, who spent much of the year wandering, would return to one place during the rainy season. At that time they would listen and discuss Shakyamuni's teachings. In some sects, this practice of coming together would be particularly important, and it was a mark of honor for how many retreats a monk might have attended over the years. In 685, the court promoted Buddhism with an edict requiring every household to maintain a Buddhist altar, with a statue of the Buddha and a copy of a sutra inside. It is unclear to me if this was just for merit-making or what, but it must have been somewhat lucrative for the various temples, who would have likely been the source for said sutras, and, at least peripherally, the statues as well. Later that year, in the 4th lunar month, there was another ango at the palace. The month after that, Ohoama went to Asukadera and presented precious objects and worshipped. In the 8th lunar month Ohoama went to Joudouji – Aston claims this is Asukadera, also known as Houkouji—and the next day he visited Kawaradera and provided rice to the monks there. One month after that, Ohoama was feeling ill, so the court ordered Daikandaiji, Kawaradera, and Asukadera—the three Great Temples that were fully operational at that point—to chant sutras for his sake. In return they were granted various quantities of rice. Ohoama recovered for a time, but it was perhaps a precursor of what was to come. A month later a monk from Baekje and a lay monk were sent out to seek a medicinal herb known as white okera. Today, a similar compound is known in Chinese traditional medicine as Bái Zhú. A few months later Ohoama went to the medicinal herb garden of Shiranishiki, and a few weeks later he was presented with Bai Zhu, the boiled white okera. That same day, ritualists performed the Chikonsai, the "Calling of the Spirit". All of this seems to indicate the early onset of symptoms that may have been temporarily abated, but likely were part of the disease or illness that would eventually take his life. But we covered most of that last episode, and we are already dragging on longer than I expected, so I think I'm going to end it here. Coming up in the narrative, since I started to mention it, I'll probably take a look next at the founding of the new capital of Fujiwara kyo, and what that would mean, along with other initiatives that would outlive Ohoama. Until then if you like what we are doing, please tell your friends and feel free to rate us wherever you listen to podcasts. 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Maksud Hossain is an experienced entrepreneur who has worked across multiple countries in Africa and the Middle East. He has extensive experience in IT, Telecommunications, and International Trade. Drawing from his hands-on experience in various African countries, he shares valuable insights into the business opportunities available for Bangladeshi entrepreneurs in Africa.In today's episode, you will learn:1.How you can establish your own business in Africa2.Which sectors currently offer the greatest opportunities in Africa3.How Maksud has successfully been doing business in Africa for years4.How Rwanda has achieved such remarkable development in just a few yearsThis episode is a must-watch for anyone interested in international business, exploring new markets, or learning more about Africa.
The EdTech strategy applied by Redwan Hushen of Redwan's Method is powerful enough to completely change your business mindset. From starting out by tutoring for just 100 taka to now earning 20 million BDT per month, this journey proves one thing clearly giving free value is the real power.In today's episode, you'll discover:• The journey from a 100-taka tuition to a 2-crore-BDT business• How to apply a growth mindset effectively• Why reinvesting in your business is crucial• The real formula behind success in EdTechThis episode is a must-watch for anyone who wants to start an EdTech business, teach online, or build their own platform
Prīncipēs probātī atque improbātī Novo annō ineunte, doctī hominēs populāris opīniōnis metiendī perītī referunt quī summī magistrātūs ā suīs cīvibus probentur et quī improbentur. Sōlī, quī ā māiōre parte suōrum probantur, sunt Narendra Mōdī Indus, Sanāē Takaīchī Iāpō, Lee Jae-Myung Corēānus Merīdiōnālis, et Javier Milei Argentīnus. Ā duābus quīntīs partibus suōrum probantur Donaldus Trump Americānus, Lula da Silva Brasiliānus, Geōrgia Melōnī Ītala. Nōn nisi ā tertiā parte suōrum probantur Frederīcus Merz Germānus, Recep Tayyip Erdogan Turca, Petrus Sanchez Hispānus. Maximē autem omnium improbantur Keir Starmer Britannus et Emmanuēl Macron Gallus. Glīscit rēs Americāna Ab Iūliō mēnse usque per Septembrem annōna tōtīus reīpūblicae quattuor partibus centēsimīs crēvit, quod incrēmentum tam cīvium spem quam doctōrum hominum exspectātiōnem superāvit. Scelera adeō pauciōra quam priōre annō patrantur, ut numerus raedārum hōc annō sublātārum quartā parte sit dēminūtus, et quīntā parte numerus dēminūtus sit interfectōrum. Pretia sortium in forō bursālī altiōra stant quam umquam anteā. Nigeria Diē Nātīvitātis, praeses Americānus nuntiāvit sē fēlīcem diem nātālem Christī Mahometānīs terrōristīs exoptāre, quī in Nigeriā stragem Christiānōrum fēcissent; nam eōdem diē, paulō ante praesidis nūntium, mīlitēs Americānī stragem eōrundem terrōristārum fēcerant. Petrus autem Hegseth, Americānus minister bellī, grātiās ēgit Nigeriānīs magistrātibus, quī permīsissent ut impetus fīeret. Ex eō tempore pergunt Nigeriānī contrā terroristās Mahometānōs pugnāre. Venetiola Tertiō diē mēnsis Iānuāriī, Nīcolāus Madūrō, illēgitimus tyrannus quī rempūblicam Venetiolānōrum ēverserat et cum Irāniānīs aliīsque mōliēbātur rempūblicam Americānam subvertere, in dīciōnem Americānōrum redactus est, ut reus fīeret. Incursiō, quā mīlitēs Americānī tyrannum cēpērunt, intrā paucās hōrās est absolūta, et omnēs Americānī reductī sunt integrī et incolumēs, quamquam triginta et duo Cūbānī, satellitēs tyrannī, sunt interfectī. Michāēl Diaz-Canel, quī hāc hebdomade tyrannus pergit esse Cūbānōrum, “Patria aut mors!” clāmāvit, et “Vincēmus.” Dīxit autem praeses Americānus aliīs novi orbis terrārum dūcibus principibusque cavendum esse, nē id, quod Madūrō accidisset, dēnuō alicui accideret alterī. Claudiae Scheinbaum, praesidī Mexicānōrum, posteā vīsum est triginta et septem narcoterroristās in dīciōnem Americānōrum reddere, quōs illī petīverant. Ex eō tempore Americānī nautae etiam coepērunt nāvēs petroleāriās capere, quibus interdictum petroleum vehēbātur ut lucrum variīs tyrannīs redderētur. Unam nāvem, ōlim “Bellam” deinde “Marinēram” nōmine, prope Islandiam Americānī intercēpērunt coram nāve subaquāneā Russicā, quæ tamen Americānīs nōn obstitit. Quinque nāvēs captae sunt, vidēlicet Skipper, Centuries, Marinera, Sophia, Olina sīve Minerva M. Cūba Praeses Americānus monuit nec petroleum nec pecūniam ā Venetiolā ad tyrannidem in Cūbā īnsulā sustinendam lātum īrī; melius fore Cūbānīs negōtium cum Americānīs agere dē suīs rēbus futūrīs. Novī enim magistrātūs Ventiolanī nunc cum Americānīs agunt, ut Americānī petroleum Venetiolānum emant, cūius lucrum ad Venetiolam restaurandam nōn sine moderātiōne Americānā ērogētur. Cūbāna autem dominātiō, quae sexāginta sex annōs populum nōn solum suum opprimit sed etiam Ventiolānum oppressit, et quae strenuē mōlītur rempūblicam Americānam subvertere, nihil petroleī accipiet. Sȳria Hōc mēnse Americānī ūndecimum impetum in Chalifātum Islāmicum lēge tāliōnis fēcērunt, postquam priōre mēnse trēs Ameriānī sunt ab ūnō terroristā interfectī. Petrus Hegseth, minister bellī, “Numquam,” inquit, “oblīvīscēmur, neque īra nostra umquam resīdet.” Magistrātūs Syriānī, quī in hāc rē cum Americānīs stant, quinque terroristās comprehendērunt. Vietnamia Tō Lam, secretārius generālis factiōnis quae communista verbōtenus dīcitur et summus magistrātus Vietnamiēnsium, quinque annōs perget clavum reī pūblicae tractāre. Lam, quī abhinc duōbus annīs coepit magistrātum exercēre, negōtiātōrēs mercātōrēsque, id est prīvātam prōvinciam reī oeconomicae, adeō fovet dum pūblica ministeria restringit, ut Vietnamia magnōpere dītēscat. Iāpōnia Sanāē Takaīchī, ministra prīmāria Iāpōnum, īnferiōrem cameram senātōriam hodiē dissolvit et comitia octāvō diē mēnsis Februāriī habenda indīxit. Quō audītō senātōrēs “Banzae” ex mōre clāmāvērunt. Takaīchī, prīma fēmina dux facta Iāpōnum, ā septēnīs ē dēnīs cīvibus laudātur, itaque spērat fore ut possit comitiīs habendīs factiōnis suae auctōritātem rōborāre. Ītalia In Ītaliā pūblicī accūsātōrēs nūntiāvērunt Batāvōrum auxiliō novem hominēs esse comprehēnsōs, quī videntur stipem hūmānitātis causā collectam potius in ūsum terroristārum dēstinasse. Feruntur enim sub falsīs caritātis nōminibus octōgiēs centēna mīlia dollarōrum terroristīs dedisse Hamas dictīs. Hispānia Intrā septem diēs quattuor trāminibus ferroviāriīs in Hispāniā variae calamitātēs accidērunt. Quadraginta et trēs hominēs sunt interfectī.
In deze nieuwe aflevering van Scorebordjournalistiek blikken cijferman Bart Frouws en Kalum van Oudheusden vooruit op het Eredivisieweekend. NAC-NEC staat op het programma, plus de stadsderby’s Heracles Almelo - FC Twente én Feyenoord - Sparta, dus er is genoeg te bespreken.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
It's 2026, and it's becoming clear that those who don't understand the real power of customer research are falling behind — spending money on Facebook ads but failing to acquire customers.In today's episode, we dive deep into customer research with Jeion, Co-founder of Govaly, who has applied this strategy to build a 300-crore-taka e-commerce business.Jeion is a young entrepreneur who built Govaly as a fashion marketplace in Bangladesh. His key strength lies in conducting exceptionally deep research on customer psychology and consumer behavior.In this episode, we discuss:• How to hack customer psychology• How to acquire customers using ChatGPT• Tracking customer behavior with Microsoft Clarity and Google Analytics• Writing product descriptions that build trust• Investing marketing budgets into existing customers instead of only Facebook ads• SEO strategies that are essential for business survivalIf you run an e-commerce business, want to acquire new customers, increase customer retention, or optimize your sales funnel — this episode is a must-watch.Guest: Jeion AhmedCo-founder & Managing Director, Govaly
A joint mix with Chicago based artist, musician and community worker Damon Locks for Radio AlHara, the first six tracks were selected by Damon and the remaining by Stefan. Airing on Radio AlHara on Saturday, Jan. 10 at 6am eastern time, 1pm Palestine time at radioalhara.net Accompanying artwork from Damon Locks website: https://damonlocks.black/ 01. Eddie Gale - A Song of Will 02. Duke Ellington - Afrique 03. El Michels Affair & Black Thought - I'm Still Somehow 04. Chicago Underground Quartet - Strange Wing 05. New Future City Radio (Damon Locks and Rob Mazure) - New Future 06. Broadcast - Follow the Light 07. Sijya (Leather And Brass) - do i know 08. melondruie - It's Raining Again (via Cruel Nature Recordings) 09. Stefan Christoff and Jarrett Martineau - Eclipse (via Pyramid Blood) 10. spalarnia - Taka (via Präsens Editionen) 11. Esse Ran - System Failure 12. Dissociative Identity Quartet - A spark of hope (via Mahorka) 13. Rinnovare - Fall Away (via Pyramid Blood) 14. Selective Hearing - Dreams of Milk (via Mahorka) 15 .Herbaceous Borders - H.B. - Part 3
Taka Chan has been a queer, celibate Christian in campus ministry long enough to have seen both deep friendships and losses. He joined David and TJ to share stories of friends, pastors, and communities who have walked with him—and those who haven't. We hope you're encouraged by his reflections on God's provision, even in the midst of uncertainty about what comes next.Note: This episode uses the terms “Side A” and “Side B” (and X, Y) as shorthand quite a bit. If you're new to the conversation, you might find it helpful to check out episode #3, where we talk through the four “sides”: #3 - A-B-Y-X | 4 Sides on SSA/Gay SexualityAbout Our GuestTaka Chan was born and raised in rural Hawaiʻi and has been working in college campus ministry for 18 years. He loves gardening, cooking for large groups of people, and taking classes at the Y with a bunch of grandmas. Ask him about his recent TV binges (The Pitt, Pachinko, Abbott Elementary) and what homework he'd suggest if you intend to visit Hawaiʻi. You can email him at [takachanaloha -at- gmail.com].—★ Timestamps(00:00) #74 - “If We Say We Love LGBT People...” Taka Chan on College Ministry and Faithfulness(01:11) Taka Chan: Hawai'i, family, coming out to myself and others(06:55) College in the time of ex-gay thought(11:55) “I try to be gentle with my younger self”(18:00) Single and married to everyone(23:49) Pastors going to bat for you(32:02) What do you do when friendships fail?(41:30) Evangelical ministry: If we're saying we love LGBT people...how?(56:17) An employee resource group: we won't be frozen in fear any more(01:00:46) Intersections: Being queer, being Japanese and Chinese(01:07:52) Why are you not Side A?(01:11:55) Being an “elder” in the Side B movement, and those who came before(01:15:20) What's the future for you? (Intentional community?)—★ Links and ReferencesTwo Views on Homosexuality, the Bible, and the Church (2016)—★ Send us feedback, questions, comments, and support!:Email: communionandshalom@gmail.com | Instagram: @newkinship | Substack: @newkinship or newkinship.substack.com—★ CreditsCreators and Hosts: David Frank, TJ Espinoza | Audio Engineer: Carl Swenson, carlswensonmusic.com | Podcast Manager: Elena F. | Graphic Designer: Gavin Popken, gavinpopkenart.com ★ Get full access to New Kinship at newkinship.substack.com/subscribe
Taka Yanagimoto, Director of Photography & Digital Assets for the St. Louis Cardinals, talks Career Changes, Hockey, and Mirror Lenses. Taka's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/typhotos/?hl=en Cardinals Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cardinals/?hl=en Cardinals tickets: https://www.mlb.com/cardinals/tickets Last Call Baseball T-Shirts: https://last-call-baseball-shop.fourthwall.com/collections/all Last Call Baseball Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lastcallbaseball/ Last Call Baseball Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/lastcallbaseball.bsky.social Intro and Outro Music: DeCarlo Podcast Logo Artist Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/regan_vasconcellos/
At just 19 years old, Govaly's founder Himel Faraz has built Bangladesh's very own Myntra.At an age when most of us were busy playing games, he managed to build a business of this scale.In today's episode, you'll learn:• How he became successful in the crowded e-commerce space• How he took lessons from India and applied them in Bangladesh• How he bounced back after a loss of 2 million taka at the age of 18• The strategy behind everything from packaging to customer serviceOur guest, Himel, shares his incredible journey. Starting a business at just 13, going through multiple losses, and now generating 10–20 million taka in monthly sales.This episode dives into the harsh realities of real-world e-commerce, the lessons learned from mistakes, and the mindset that keeps a founder going.Guest:Himel FarazCo-Founder & CEO, GovalyYoung Entrepreneur
Nchini Australia, karibu tani milioni 7.6 za chakula zinapotezwa kila mwaka. Mwanzilishi mmoja wa kike ameunda suluhisho ndani ya sanduku.Linapokuja suala la usafi wa taka za chakula hatahivo, mwanzilishi wa kampuni ya kuanzisha Olympia Yarger [[Yar-gah]] ana fahari ya kuwa ametengeneza mfumo wa kiteknolojia unaoweza kubadilisha taka kuwa bidhaa zinazoweza kutumika – kwa kutumia wadudu.
Sérfræðingurinn, Stymmi Klippari og Sigurjón Friðbjörn mættu í stúdíó Handkastsins gerðu upp helgina í handboltanum hér heima og erlendis. Stelpurnar okkar eru komnar í milliriðil sem hefst á þriðjudaginn sem þeir eiga fínan séns á að sækja úrslit í. Leikgleðin hjá hópnum skín í gegn og vill Sérfræðingurinn sjá Strákana Okkar taka þetta sér til fyrirmyndar á næsta stórmóti. ÍR eru komnir með sinn fyrsta sigur í deildinni og framundan er stórleikur á Selfossi. Fusche Berlin eru að setja saman eitthvað svakalegasta lið handboltasögunnar. Þetta og svo miklu miklu meira í nýjasta þætti Handkastsins.
Perfidī diurnāriī Britannicī Tīmotheus Davie, director generālis Britannicae Societātis Divulgātiōnī, quae saepius litterīs compendiāriīs BBC vocitātur, et Deborah Turness, ēius sociētātis diurnāriīs praefecta, coāctī sunt mūneribus abdicāre, cum alia societas diurnāriōrum, quae Tēlegraphēma dīcitur, dēmonstrāvisset diurnāriōs Britannicae Societātis Divulgātiōnī ōrātiōnem praesidis Americānī partibus omissīs aliīsque falsē coniunctīs consultō et cōnsciōs dētorsisse, ut ille contrārium suae ōrātiōnis dixisse vidērētur. Nāvēs prope Americam Merīdiōnālem Britannī diē Martis inhibuērunt quōminus suī speculātōrēs Americānīs auxilium darent, cum ipsī coepissent timēre nē Americānī, quippe quī iam ad octōginta narcotromocratās et mercātōrēs venēnī indemnātōs per mare Caribbicum interfēcissent, iūs gentium violārent. Eōdem diē ad mare Caribbicum advēnit duodecima Americāna classis, Thomā Moninger thalassiarchō, cūius praetōria et āeroplānigera nāvis, Geraldus Ford nōmine, est omnium longārum nāvium maxima. Adsunt etiam secundus exercitus classicōrum, Calvertō Worth imperātōre, cūius nāvis praetōria et helicopterigera appellātur Īwō Jīma; necnōn aliae longae nāvēs missilibus refertae atque etiam nāvēs subaquāneae. Tot et tantīs copiīs convocātīs, quoniam Venetiolānus tyrannus illēgitimus illēgitimō commerciō venēnī lucrātur quō cīvēs Americānī necantur, iūs gentium longē vehementius violārī potest. Magistrātūs Americānī quingentiēns centēna mīlia nummōrum prōmittunt eī, quīcumque Nīcolāum Madūrō tyrannum Venetiolānōrum in dīciōnem reddiderit Americānam. Starmer nōn labefactus Keir Starmer, minister prīmārius Britannōrum quī favōre populī vix fruitur, nēgāvit sē rūmōribus labefactum esse, neque sē in suōs ministrōs neque illōs in sē coniūrāre. Rēspūblica solitō mōre administrātur Senātōrēs factiōnis sinistrae sīve Dēmocraticae, quī quadrāginta diēs recūsāverant nē pecūniam magistrātibus ērogārent ad rempūblicam gerendam, cum nihil quod sperāverant efficere posse vidērentur, manūs tandem dedērunt. Itaque satis pecūniae ērogātur ut magistrātūs rempūblicam diēs gerant septuāginta. Quod comitia populāria ad senātōrēs ēligendōs annō proximō habēbuntur, fierī vix posse vidētur quōminus tālēs rixae iterum iterumque incommoda dītiōribus commeātū āeriō interdictīs et prōlētāriīs congiāriō prīvātīs miseriās afferant. al-Sharā in Americā Ahmed al-Sharā, quī ōlim al-Jolānī vocitābātur, praeses Sȳrōrum, Vasintōniam urbem vīsitāvit diē Lūnae, ubi cum praeside Americānō collocūtus est dē lēge Caesariānā abrogandā. Nam illa lex, quae commercium inter Americānōs et Bashar Assad tyrannum Sȳrōrum interdīxerat, eōdem tyrannō in exilium expulsō nunc obstat, nē post bellum cīvīle Sȳrōrum rēs renoventur. Terror in Indiā Pakistaniāque In capitibus tam Indiae quam Pakistaniae gemina pyrobola dīrupta sunt, quibus ad vigintī hominēs sunt interfectī. Pax tamen, quam mēnse Māiō praeses Americānus utrīque gentī suāsit, manet, dum quaestiō in auctōrēs terrōris habētur. Ūcrāīnēnsēs pecūniā corruptī Cum quaestiō dē pecūlātiōne corruptiōneque in Ūcrāīnā habērētur, ministrī tam iūstitiae quam energīae præfectī honōribus officiīsque sē abdīcāvērunt, ut quī coniūrātī referrentur in pecūlātiōnem. Timur Mindich, amīcus praesidis Ūcrāīnēnsium, quī fōns et princeps coniūrātiōnis esse putātur, fūgit. Mīliēns centēna mīlia nummōrum sublāta esse feruntur. Comitia in Chiliā habenda Diē Sōlis Chiliēnsēs populāria suffrāgia ferent. Doctī hominēs quī populārem ōpīniōnem metiuntur referunt scelera, mīgrātiōnem, gregēs coniūrātōrum latrōnum animōs cīvium magis occupāre quam rem oeconomicam, salūtem pūblicam, īnstitūtiōnem puerōrum. Quamquam Chilēnsēs inter tūtissimās gentēs merīdiōnālis Americae manent, numerus tamen hominum ā percussōribus occīsōrum inter decennium est bis auctus. Quod nōn sēiungitur ab auctō numerō Venetiolānōrum, quī in Chiliēnsium fīnēs ingressī sunt, unde fit ut Chilēnsēs nōmen “Trāminis Arāguae” audīre coeperint. Sinēnsēs Iāpōnēs reprobant Sanaē Takaīchī coram senātū Iāpōnum dīxit sibi necesse vidērī respondēre, sī Formōsa īnsula, quae suī iūris est, ā Sinēnsibus oppugnārētur. Quod Sīnēnsibus, utpote quī Formōsam īnsulam, quae suī iūris est, in suā dīciōne esse falsē dīcerent, offēnsiōnem praebuit. Negāvit autem Takaīchī ab oppositō senātōre diē Lūnae rogāta sē posse nunc negāre Iāpōnēs arma atomica invēntūrōs, factūrōs, habitūrōs. Sola enim est terra Iāpōnica, in quam arma atomica adhibita erant, unde diū negābātur nē Iāpōnēs arma atomica possidērent.
Baldvin Borgars, Frankarinn og Alli Hundur fóru yfir Meistaradeildina, landsliðsvalið og slúðrið í Íslenska boltanum.
Hī sunt Nūntiī Latīnī Vasintōniēnsēs, quī in Occidentālī studiōrum Ūniversitāte Vasintōniēnsī collectī sunt ac recitantur. Hodiē est vīcēsimus quartus diēs mēnsis Octōbris. Hāc hebdomade, minister prīmārius Gallōrum est Sebastiānus Lecornū. Museum Lupārēnse Diē Satūrnī, nōn noctū sed sōle ortō, trēs vel quattuor fūrēs scalīs in museī Lupārēnsis aulam Apollinis per fenestram ingressī gazam reīpūblicae Gallōrum surripuērunt et automatāriīs birotīs impūnēs ēvāsērunt. Ē rēbus surreptīs, fūrēs putantur ūnam cāsū perdidisse, cum diadēma Eugeniae uxōris Neapoliōnis imperātōris extra museum repertum sit humī iacēns et frāctum. Nāvēs mersae Pergunt nautae Americānī nāvēs venēnō ōnerātās mergere, nōn solum in marī Caribbicō sed nunc etiam in marī Pācificō. Minātur enim praeses Americānus mercātōrēs venēnī marī terrāque interfectum īrī; negat porrō sibi necesse vidērī bellum indīcere, cum in animō habeat extrā ordinem hominēs, quīcumque venēnum in Americam īnferant, occīdere. Diē Mercuriī Columbiānōrum ministerium rēbus externīs praepositum postulāvit, ut Americānī ā nāvibus mergendīs abstinērent, cuī respondit praeses Americānus auxiliō mīlitārī Columbiānīs tollendō. Carolus et Leō precantur Carolus, ēius nōminis tertius, rex Britannōrum, et Leō, ēius nōminis quartus decimus, pontifex maximus, ūnā precātī sunt in sacellō Sixtīnō. Carolus enim, quī ipse dīvortium fēcit et novam uxōrem dūxit, suprēmus gubernātor est ecclēsiae Anglicānae, quae ideō ab ecclēsiā Rōmānā discēderat, ut Henrīcō, ēius nōminis octāvō, licēret dīvortium facere et novās uxōrēs dūcere. Āfuit vērō Sarah Mullally, nova archiepiscopa Cantauriēnsis, quae praeest ecclēsiae Anglicānae. Carolō porrō futūrīsque rēgibus Britannōrum ā pontifice Rōmānō dāta est sedes in basilicā Sanctī Petrī extra moenia, quae sella inscrībitur, “ut ūnum sint.” Uterque etiam alterī honōrem decrēvit cōnfrāternitātis. Roderīcus Paz ēlectus Suffrāgiīs populāribus lātīs numerātīsque Roderīcus Paz, moderātus, ēlectus est praeses Boliviānōrum. Vigintī enim annōs regnāvit in Boliviā factiō socialistārum dum rēs oeconomica pessum ībat. Paz autem vult Americānōs colere, quōrum lēgātōs Evō Mōrālēs, ōlim praeses, annō bis millēsimō octāvō expulit. Sanaē Takaīchī ministra prīmāria Iāpōnum Sanaē Takaīchī prīma fēmina facta est ministra prīmāria Iāpōnum. Takaīchī, factiōnī līberālī et populārī praeposita, et cum factiōne rēs nōvās prōmoventī sociāta, fertur velle vestigiīs et Shinzōnis Abē et Margarītae Thatcher ingredī ad rem pūblicam gerendam. Novum porrō ministerium creāvit, cūius erit cūrāre ut concordia inter cīvēs et aliēnigenās tueātur; cūi praefecta est Kimī Onoda, in Americā nāta. Cammarūnia In Cammarūniā, ubi reclāmātur propter comitia, quae nonnullīs vitiātia videntur, rēte omnium gentium est sublātum. Paulus enim Bīya, nōnāginta duōs annōs nātus, quī quadrāgintā et trēs annōs regnāvit, octāvum ēlectus est praeses. Praeses Americānus in Āsiā Praeses Americānus proximā hebdomade Malaesiam diē Sōlis, et Iapōniam diē Martis, et Cōrēam Merīdiōnālem diē Iovis visitābit. In Cōrēā etiam colloquētur cum Xi Jinping, praeside Sīnēnsium. Dīxit sē prīmum omnium rogātūrum praesidem Sīnēnsium de illicitō fentanylī venēnī commerciō cohibendō. Minister Germānus nōn in Āsiā Iōhannes Wadephul, Germānōrum minister rēbus externīs praepositus, coāctus est iter, quod in Sīnās suceptūrus erat, dēpōnere, ut quem nūllī magistrātūs vellent convenīre. Vīs atomica in Vasintōniā In Vasintōnia cīvitāte, ubi scientia atomica etiam inter secundum bellum omnium gentium colēbātur, Amāzon societas duodecim parva et modulāria reactōria atomica aedificābit. Quod novum genus reactōriī putātur longē commōdius, ut quod minimum spatium postulet, et tūtius quam vetustiōra genera quae iam exstant. Quibus reactōriīs additīs vīs ēlectrica magnīs ordinātrīs, quālibus Amāzon societas ūtitur, suppeditārī potest nullō damnō in nātūram illātō.
What happens when you pair a great guitar player with a badass bassist? You get mind-bending sounds from gifted producer and multi-instrumentalist Blake Mills — known for his work with Alabama Shakes and Bob Dylan — and Grammy-winner Pino Palladino who has reshaped how we hear the bass. See: Palladino’s collaborations with everyone from Erykah Badu to Nine Inch Nails. “Taka” is hard to pin down, but easy to take in. And you can take it in IRL, because Pino Palladino & Blake Mills are hitting The Ford on Friday, Sept. 26.
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