The heart is called Yi [unified power] becuz when intent moves, spirit is agitated; qi is dispersed. Qi is the Mother of spirit; Spirit is the child of qi. The Mother as qi is the horse that guides/conducts the river chariot (yin spirit) in the water (yin jing). Once your mind is away from the lower Elixir Field, your Qi will be led away from it and be consumed. By gathering the Shen into the lower tan tien then the Qi follows it there. Light of eyes descend as Yang fire inner yin qi line
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Dr. Charlie Bamforth, often nicknamed the "Pope of Foam," is a renowned brewing scientist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Malting and Brewing Sciences at the University of California, Davis. [1, 2, 3]
The "Pope of Foam" and Civilization
The Moniker: Dr. Bamforth earned the title "Pope of Foam" due to his extensive research into the science, creation, and stability of foam (the head) on top of a beer. [1]
Beer and Civilization: He is a prominent proponent of the theory that beer is the basis of modern static civilization. [1]
The Theory: He frequently explains in lectures and media appearances (such as NPR and his talk "Sip Happens: The Science and Story of Beer") that early nomadic hunter-gatherers stopped wandering and settled down to cultivate grains like barley specifically to brew beer, which led to permanent villages, towns, and eventually modern cities. [1, 2, 3]
Would you like to know more about Dr. Bamforth's research on beer foam physics or the "beer before bread" archaeological theory he discusses?
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up to a limit of 10 cartridges per calendar month
Rewards certificates issued for recycling print cartridges at Office Depot / OfficeMax are valid for 60 days from the date they are issued
Office Depot and OfficeMax Rewards post recycling rewards to your account the next day after you recycle your cartridges and meet the $10 qualifying purchase requirement for that month. [1, 2]
Recycling Rewards Details
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Monthly Limit: You can earn $2 back per recycled cartridge, up to 10 cartridges per month.
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Fire is what enabled us to digest meat better for better nutrition and also to kill off worms in meat...
Homo Erectus is first real fire use and spread around the world ....
a female orgasm is not the same as male ejaculation. Bonobo females dominate as female orgasm. It's not just "sex." Female orgasm stays in the parasympathetic relaxation nervous system. Male ejaculation for bonobos only happens for mating. The females are doing it all the time to resolve stress. Male ejaculation increases stress. So that's a key point if you want to talk about Bonobos. Study the San Bushmen - the males of our original human culture train in female orgasm as spiritual healing celibacy! It's called Tshoma. Watch the "radical anthropology" lectures series on Vimeo for details. The Harmless People book by Dr. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas was rejected by Male anthropologists because of their ejaculation bias. hahaha.
In the erythritol group, the lactate concentration significantly decreased com- pared to that of the control group, whereas the pH did not significantly change. In addition, when nitrate was added in combination with xylitol or sorbitol, neither the pH nor lactate concentration significantly changed compared to those of the control group (Figure 6a,b)....The present study suggests that the combined addition of nitrate and erythritol significantly increased the relative abundance of H. parainfluenzae and N. subflava, which are nitrate-reducing bacteria...Notably, the combined addition of nitrate and either xylitol or sorbitol had no significant effect on the relative abundances of H. parainfluenzae, N. subflava, and S. oralis, nor the diversity of the microbial community.... These results suggest that the combined addition of nitrate and erythritol may promote an oral cavity environment that is less conducive to the development of dental caries.
Organic erythritol is produced through the controlled microbial fermentation of organic plant-derived glucose using natural yeasts or fungi
Sourcing Organic Feedstock: Production starts with an organic, non-GMO plant starch source—most commonly organic corn or wheat. [1, 2]
Enzymatic Hydrolysis: The raw organic starch is treated with water and hydrolytic enzymes to break complex carbohydrates down into simple sugars (glucose or dextrose). [1, 2]
Fermentation: The glucose solution acts as food for natural, non-GMO yeasts or fungi (such as Moniliella pollinis or Trichosporonoides megachiliensis). As the microorganisms digest the glucose, they naturally synthesize and release erythritol into the liquid broth
Upon ingestion, erythritol is rapidly absorbed in the small intestine, with most excreted unchanged in the urine and a small portion metabolized to erythronate.4 The absorption rate is dose- dependent, as demonstrated in a recent trial where higher doses (50 g) re- sulted in slower absorption compared with lower doses (10 g, 25 g), suggesting a saturable process.
While consumption of erythritol has no impact on plasma glucose and insulin levels, xylitol leads to a small increase.
More recent studies have repeatedly demonstrated that acute erythritol and xylitol consumption—despite their lack in calories—trigger gastro- intestinal satiation hormones (incretins) release (namely cholecystokinin, glucagon-like peptide-1, and peptide tyrosine tyrosine), and erythritol has also been shown to lower concentrations of the hunger hormone ghrelin.
Mendelian randomisation analyses did not find evidence for a causal association between circulating erythritol and coronary artery disease, dia- betes, fasting glucose, eGFR, or chronic kidney disease, nor was any evi- dence found that the evaluated cardiometabolic and anthropometric traits significantly influenced erythritol concentration. Rather, Mendelian randomisation indicated erythritol may decrease BMI
While a significant proportion of xylitol enters the colon, erythritol is mostly absorbed in the small intestine.4 Moreover, erythritol, which is only minimally available to the colon, appears non-fermentable, as shown in studies with fresh human faecal microbiota.56 Overall, xylitol appears to have prebiotic effects, whereas erythritol likely has no impact on the gut microbiota.
This study found that erythritol consumption acutely im- proves small vessel endothelial function (fingertip peripheral arterial tono- metry), and chronic treatment reduced central aortic stiffness (decreased central pulse pressure).59
In humans with or without obesity, both acute erythritol and xylitol ingestion also delays gastric emptying
The consumption of erythritol and xylitol stimulates the release of gastrointestinal satiation hormones while the impact on blood glucose and insulin concentrations remains minimal. These effects are desirable in the context of metabolic and CV health.
The Connexus brain implant is a fully wireless brain-computer interface (BCI) developed by Paradromics that records brain signals from individual neurons and translates them into real-time speech or computer commands
the potential of this wireless BCI to restore communication for people who have lost the ability to speak due to neurological disease or injury,” said Willsey, a Site Principal Investigator for the study who led the implant surgery.
“This has the potential to be a major step forward as we work toward our goal of helping treat people with paralysis who otherwise lack efficient and effective therapies for preserving communication.”
allowing the user to control a device with their thoughts.
The Paradromics device contains 421 microelectrodes that capture brain signals from individual neurons. Those signals travel to a small transceiver in the user’s chest that sends information to an external receiver.
Patients with motor and speech disabilities and patients with post-stroke hemiparesis are the primary patient population for FDA-approved therapy (vagus nerve stimulator).
Other conditions targeted for clinical trials include:
Cause: Murdered ... probably political dispute ....Died
19 OCT 1821.
Murdered - by "The Whiteboys". [2].
he name The Whiteboys (in Irish, na Buachaillí Bána, meaning "the white boys") comes from the white smocks or shirts that members wore over their regular clothes during their nighttime raids
The Whiteboys (Irish: na Buachaillí Bána) were a secret Irish agrarian organization in 18th-century Ireland that defended tenant-farmer land rights for subsistence farming and were particularly anti-Palatine (nothing changes).... https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Sparling-509
The murdered Christopher was farming at called Rooska on the Courtney estates[6]. This is now called Rooskagh West or in Galic Rúscach Thiar. This farm is 15km by road from his burial place.
"One of the best-known murders of Palatines was that of Christopher Sparling. Sparling, formerly of Adare, was killed ostensibly for taking land on the Courtenay estate, but it seems likely that his murder was at least partly a response to his having injured Whiteboys when they attacked his home three years before. Eight armed men had also broken into his house in broad
daylight the previous 16 July (1821) and 'carried away two fine muskets' (NA SCP 2296/10). An account of this murder was recorded by the folklore collector Seosamh O' Dalaigh more than a century later. The seventy-one-year-old informant, Michael Liston of Monige, called the murdered man Sparnell (Sparling was deleted from the manuscript and Sparnell inserted above,
which indicates that the collector knew that Sparling was the correct name of the man in question (IFC MS 629, 60-1)). The record in the burial register of Rathkeale church for Christopher Sparling, parish of Newcastle, who was buried on 19 October 1821 in Rathkeale, simply states that he was 'killed by the Whiteboys'. Liston's account states that the Sparlings were 'planted
at the butt o' Rooska ... by the landlord' but that 'they were not wanted there'. He goes on to say that a man called Walker was hanged for the murder although he was not the murderer. The Limerick Chronicle,15 February 1823, states that Michael Breen was charged with Sparling's murder. The rentals of the Courtenay estate show that David Barry surrendered a farm at Ruscha
[sic], on Lady Day 1819, which was then let to Christopher Sparling.'[7
troubles began around Newcastle West in County Limerick that spawned the great Rockite movement of 1821-24, an exceptionally violent agrarian rebellion fueled by a combination of economic, sectarian, and political motives. Named for their mythical leader “Captain Rock,”? the Rockites were especially remarkable for the frequency of their resort to murder and incendiarism as weapons of warfare. They garnered support extending far beyond the ranks of the poor; their movement eventually embraced many of the better-off farmers in the southern region where they exercised an extraordinary sway—most prominently in Limerick and Cork, but also in portions of Kerry, Clare, Tipperary, Waterford, and Kilkenny. The intensity of their grievances, the frequency of their resort to sensational violence, and their appeal on key issues—especially rents and tithes—across a broad front presented a nightmarish challenge to Dublin Castle. This challenge prompted a major reorganization of the police, a purging of the local magistracy, and the introduction of large military reinforcements. Adding fuel to the conflagration was a great upsurge in sectarianism and millenarianism that accompanied this agrarian rebellion. Prophecies of imminent Protestant doom gained a firm hold at the popular level among Catholics in the affected region—indeed, far beyond the seven aforementioned counties. In short, the Rockites showed little inclination to submit to control by Catholic priests or members of the landed elite and presented a stiff test to the Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland.’ 4
INTRODUCTION
The Rockite movement involved, then, a sustained outburst of agrarian violence greater than any that had previously occurred in Ireland. This is no small claim, for there had already been a long line of organized and widespread rural protests stretching back to the first “Whiteboy” movement of the early 1760s—a movement that gave rise to common use of the term “Whiteboyism” to denote the seemingly endless succession of agrarian disturbances for which Ireland became notorious in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.* The Whiteboys of the early 1760s were not the very first manifestation of regional agrarian protest in Ireland;
By the eve of the Great Famine gross inequality of income had become characteristic of Irish rural society. At the top of the structure in 1841 there were approximately 50,000 rich and 100,000 “snug” farmers, the mean size of whose holdings was 80 and 950 acres, respectively; together with the 10,000 or so landowners, they cultivated roughly half the land and controlled access to most of the rest. In the middle of the structure were 250,000 family farmers; the mean size of 11, their holdings was about 20 acres, and they usually met their labor needs from within the family. At the bottom—the depressingly broad base of the social pyramid—were an estimated 1.3 million poor peasants and laborers. These poor peasants, or cottiers (300,000, with a mean holding of 5 acres), and the laborers (1 million, with a mean holding of 1 acre) both worked for wages and purchased food.
Murder without Remorse
Two other murders gave extensive popular satisfaction and furnished a significant stimulus to the growth of organized discontent. One was the fatal shooting of the Palatine Christopher Sparling at Ashgrove near Newcastle in mid-October 1821.?° Sparling’s was a celebrated case because of its special circumstances. Sparling had earlier been persuaded by Hoskins to take the lands of Rooskagh on the Courtenay estate in Ardagh parish. He had invested a large sum in building a new farmhouse and out-offices and in making other improvements, but he fell into a dispute with Hoskins about his rent, as a result of which the agent had Sparling’s substance seized and auctioned at Newcastle. Normally, this characteristically harsh treatment might have elicited sympathy for the victim, but not in this instance because the Palatine Sparling had come to the Courtenay estate in response to Hoskins’s “fair promises to establish a colony of loyal Protestants” on the property. This kind of activity was always likely to provoke a violent response from the Catholic side. In addition, Sparling had also earned hatred in another way. It was said that in an earlier attack on his house at Patrickswell, he had “defended himself and [his] family most nobly, shooting some and wounding others severely.” The consequence was that Sparling and his family were marked down for destruction: “the lower orders seemed to think their assassination [a] meritorious and laudable act.”*! 48
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Notorious victims of the Rockites were repeatedly depicted as terrible warnings to others who might be foolhardy enough to persist in breaking Rockite laws. In December 1821 a County Limerick offender received the terse message, “John Reilly, I desire you to quit this place, or else you may expect the same usage Sparling got... .”°* (The Palatine gentleman Christopher Sparling had been shot and fatally wounded in the previous October.)°?
When John Sparling was born on 11 May 1730, in County Limerick, Ireland, his father, Jürgen "George" Sparling, was 31 and his mother, Margaret Hanna Steuffel, was 35. He married Elizabeth Teskey on 28 October 1784, in Rathkeale, County Limerick, Ireland.
Margaret Sparling (born Stueffel) was born on 1692, in .
Spouse
Margaret married George Peter Sparling.
George was born in 1699.
They had 14 children: John Sparling, Christopher Sparling and .
Personal Info
Margaret lived in .
Death
Margaret passed away on 1747, at age 55 in .
She was buried in .
When Jürgen "George" Sparling was born in 1699, in Vellahn, Schildfeld, Boizenburg, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, his father, Peter Sperling, was 37 and his mother, Anna Hülsen, was 34. He married Margaret Hanna Steuffel about 1724, in Rathkeale, County Limerick, Ireland
My great (Chappell/Switzer)-great (Hanley/Switzer)-great (Sparling/Hanley)-Great Grandparents (Sparling/Sparling)
Susanna Sparling's parents were FIRST COUSINS!! DANG!!
John Sparling (1782-1838) married his first cousin Mary Sparling (1786-1871)in 1804.They lived at Maryvale farm, Derry which should be in the parish of Killaloe in County Clare.
From Lois Sparling: John Sparling's first wife, Mary Jane Williams, and a daughter, Ann (1835 - 1852), are buried in the Sparling Cemetery close to St. Marys, Ontario. His mother, Mary Sparling (1786 - 1871) died in St. Marys, Ontario, at the home of his brother, Frederick Aquila Sparling (c. 1817 - 1882). Two of John's older children, Robert Sparling (1840 - 1902) and Mary Jane Sparling (1845 - 1873) are buried in St Marys Cemetery. His son, Rev. Dr. Joseph Walter Sparling (1843 - 1912) is buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Winnipeg.
A Hanly first married a Sparling in Ireland on February 10, 1831, when Susanna Sparling married Roger Hanly in Killaloe, County Clare, Ireland. [1, 2]
Marriage Details
Date: February 10, 1831
Location: Killaloe, County Clare, Ireland
Bride:Susanna (or Susannah) Sparling (born March 30, 1808, in Killaloe)
Groom: Roger "Rody" Hanly (born January 1812)
Later Life: The couple later emigrated, appearing in Ontario, Canada, where Susanna passed away in 1898
AI says:
Cousin marriages were incredibly common among the Irish Palatines due to their unique status as a strict religious and cultural enclave. [1]
The Irish Palatines were 300 families of German Protestants from the Palatinate region who fled French invasions and were resettled in Ireland (primarily County Limerick) around 1709. Because they were a small, distinct group drop-planted into a predominantly Irish Catholic landscape, they maintained tight-knit community structures to preserve their culture, landholdings, and Protestant faith. [1]
Why Cousin Marriages Occurred Frequently
Endogamy (Marrying Within the Group): For the first several generations, Irish Palatines married almost exclusively within their own circles. For example, historical records show that in Rathkeale (the heart of Palatine settlement) between 1742 and 1780, only 7 out of 80 recorded marriages involved someone from outside the Palatine community. [1]
Limited Pool of Partners: With only a few hundred original families—such as the Shiers, Teskeys, Ruttles, Switzers, and Delmages—the community quickly became deeply interconnected. After two or three generations, it became nearly impossible to find a spouse within the community who was not a first, second, or third cousin. [1, 2, 3]
Preservation of Land and Wealth: Marrying cousins ensured that the valuable land leases granted to them by Protestant landlords remained within the family network rather than being fractured or lost. [1]
Tracing the Genealogy
If you are researching Irish Palatine family trees, you will frequently encounter pedigree collapse (where an individual's family tree shrinks because relatives married each other). It is common to see:
Sibling Exchanges: Two brothers from one Palatine family marrying two sisters from another.
Repeated Surnames: Surnames looping back into the tree every generation.
Double Cousins: Children who share both sets of grandparents because their parents were siblings from two intermarried families. [1, 2]
This practice only began to break down in the 19th century as many Irish Palatines converted to Methodism and eventually migrated en masse to Canada and the United States, where their tight-knit communal barriers gradually
It appears my ancestors of Irish-Palantine were inbred cousins?! Sparling-Hanley (Hanly) Maybe that's why they changed the spelling of Hanly to Hanley! Wow.
members of the Sparling family married into the Hanly (or Hanley) family, and these closely knit lines migrated and settled together in Canada.
This connection stems from the Irish Palatines—a distinct group of German Protestant refugees who fled the Rhineland in 1709, settled in Ireland (predominantly in Counties Limerick and Tipperary), and tightly intermarried for generations to preserve land and culture. [1, 2, 3]
The Core Connection: Susanna Sparling & Rodger Hanly
The most prominent cross-family marriage anchoring these Canadian lines is that of Susanna Sparling (1808–1898) and Rodger (Rody) Hanly. [1, 2]
The Marriage: They were married on February 10, 1831, in Killaloe, County Clare, Ireland.
The Migration: Shortly after, they migrated to Canada West (modern-day Ontario). [1, 2, 3]
The Blanshard Township Settlement
When they arrived in Canada, they didn't settle alone. Susanna’s brother, the famous local pioneer John "Potato Jack" Sparling (1812–1871), emigrated and settled in Blanshard Township, Perth County, Ontario in 1842. He established his homestead right alongside his sister Susanna and brother-in-law Rodger Hanly, as well as their uncles Peter and Christopher Sparling. [1, 2]
Because the Irish Palatine families in Ontario (such as the Sparlings, Hanlys, Switzers, and Shiers) lived in close-knit agricultural clusters and continuously married within their community circles, their children grew up as first and second cousins, further cementing the "Sparling-Hanly cousin" family tree dynamics across Perth and Huron counties
A double first-cousin marriage means two siblings from one family marry two siblings from another family, and their children—who are double first cousins to each other—later marry. [1, 2]
How It Works
The Parents: Brother A and Sister A marry Sister B and Brother B (two sibling pairs).
The First Generation: The children born to these two couples are double first cousins because they share both sets of grandparents (the grandparents from both the maternal and paternal sides are the same two sets of parents).
The Marriage: If two of these double first cousins marry each other, it is termed a double first-cousin marriage. [1, 2, 3, 4]
Genetic and Legal Details
Shared DNA: Regular first cousins share about 12.5% of their DNA. Double first cousins share about 25% of their DNA, which is the same amount shared by half-siblings or an aunt/uncle and niece/nephew. [1, 2]
Genetic Risks: Users on Quora agree that marrying a double cousin elevates the risk of autosomal recessive genetic disorders in offspring compared to unrelated couples, mirroring the risks associated with closer-degree relative unions
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