Merlot BellaVitano Gold is soaked in fine Merlot adding hints of berry and plum to a rich, creamy cheese with nutty, fruity flavors. Inspired by traditional, Italian farmstead cheese, with the addition of artisan craftsmanship this gourmet cheese is a match made in heaven.
Pair this cheese with Chianti, Port and light Italian reds, or Indian Pale Ale, Sweet Cider or Dark Malty Ale. Food pairings are easy as cheese and Merlot is already a perfect couple, add some nut, dry fruits, rustic bread and you're set.
This gourmet cheese was awarded a 3rd place in the 2011 American Cheese Society Competition in the Open Category made from cow’s milk marinated in liquids and ingredients.
Ingredients: Bellavitano cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes), merlot wine grapes, water, yeast.
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When I was a kid, I could read something once and remember the facts immediately. I was able to recall things with such ease, and my memory was like a freakin' trap. These days, it's different: Not only does it feel as though my focus has gotten a little weaker as the years have gone on, my memory is simply not, as they say, what it used to be. This means, my friends, I am all about finding simple hacks to improve my memory, and lucky for you, I am more than down to share them with all of you.
If you've also noticed your ability to remember things slowly slipping away over the years, don't get too upset, because it's not really within your control. Michael Yass, a neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins University, told Lifehacker that the reason your memory gets weaker as you get older is because "the pathways leading to the hippocampus" begin to degrade over time. The hippocampus is the part of the brain where your memories are stored, so basically, your head just get worse and worse at being able to process and store the information up there.
So, what can be done, if anything, to make sure we keep those pathways strong? Well, it certainly can't hurt to try some of these science-tested hacks. You might just find yourself spending a little less time looking for your keys, or trying to remember your neighbor's name.
Thought association is real, friends, and research shows that if you keep things around that jog your memory to do something in the future, it will help you to actually do it. For example, a 2016 study published in the journal Psychological Science found that environmental cues can double your ability to remember to perform future actions.
Need to remember to call grandma every Sunday? Keep a photo of her on your nightstand. Have to water the plants? Keep the watering can on the windowsill.
In case you need another awesome reason to exercise on the reg, the results of a 2013 study published in the journal Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience showed that even short-term aerobic exercise can be enough to counter cognitive declines, such as your memory, and the speed with which you process new information.
So, go ahead and do those jumping jacks, take a new workout class, or go for a brisk walk in the morning, because your memory will actually remember to thank you.
It's called "active rehearsal." According to a 2015 study published in the Journal of Neuroscience, if you spend as little as 40 seconds actively trying to go over an event that happened (like a movie you just saw, for example), it can significantly improve your ability to remember it long-term.
Whether you're trying to remember specific dates on those slides in your art history class, or the details of what happened at your last work meeting, all you need to do is take less than a minute of your time after the fact to go through — and, in a sense, rehearse — what happened, and you're well on your way to keeping it all in there!
Apparently, there is such a thing as "memory athletes," who compete to learn things really, really fast, like the layout of an entire deck of cards after looking at it once. Uh, seriously?
Well, according to a 2017 study published in the journal Neuron, pretty much anyone can vastly improve their ability to remember things, simply by training their brain with certain games and exercises. Yes, even you could become a memory athlete, if you really wanted to.
It's all about learning and practicing methods of mnemonic device, which just means any technique that helps you remember things. CNN reports that one such mnemonic device, called the "memory palace," involves picturing familiar places, like your house or your elementary school, and filling them, or associating each room, with the objects you need to remember. On top of that, to strengthen your ability to recall what you need to, you can make personal mnemonic devices for each thing you need to remember.
Say you need to remember the order of the zodiac, for example. In your mind's eye, picture a hat full of corn to represent Capricorn, and envision that object in the entry-way of the mental blueprint you've made of your house, to help structure the order of things. Make sense?
Yes, please. According to The National Sleep Foundation, sleep actually allows for changes in the brain that solidify memories, strengthen connections between your brain cells, and make it easier to transfer information between brain regions.
Dr. Joseph Garbely, vice president of medical services, and medical director at Caron Treatment Centers, tells Elite Daily that one way to improve and take care of your memory is to reduce how much alcohol you drink, or to abstain from it completely, as alcohol can impair your ability to develop new memories.
"Research shows that it can also significantly damage important executive functioning areas of the brain, which include working memory, mental flexibility, and self-control," Dr. Garbely tells Elite Daily.
So, if you find yourself going hard every weekend, you might want to take a step back, for your brain's sake.
Dr. Nikole Benders-Hadi, a board-certified psychiatrist at Doctor On Demand, tells Elite Daily that she recommends filling your diet with memory-enhancing foods, like those that contain B vitamins and omega 3 fatty acids. Some other memory-friendly foods, Dr. Benders-Hadi explains, include leafy greens, fish oil, and dark chocolate.
I don't know how many of you were trading when the 1987 crash happened. That was the week when many great fortunes were made or lost. These days with so many of us playing a leveraged game either via prop shops or using the emini leverage; there is great danger and also great potential ahead as we approach deadline for war.
What if in the early days of bombings we get word that the evil one has been killed, I am certain the Dow will sky rocket 400 - 500 points. Have you guys ever seen the emini locked limit up? or conversely what if saddam uses chemical weapons and US has no choice but to use its nuclear weapons, what will happen to the price of crude?
Starting mid next week I for one will be trading 1/8 - 1/4 of my normal trading size, preservation of capital is more important to me than pure speculation as the events unfold.
I do not plan to trade after the war starts. Too risky, imo. You could get 100 pt moves either way at any time. I will wait it out.
Saddam has already threatened to set fire to the oil fields, when the Us attacks. experts expect that it will take 3 years to fight the fire. Is it all worth in the end? Is nobody questioning the sense of a war? After spending billions of dollars on a war in a Afghanistan Bin laden still isn't captured. The us-government obviously still doesn't understand that you don't fight terrorists and terrorist regimes with conventional warfare.
What really irks me about this whole thing is the way the Bush administration has gone about this war. I believe Hussein is a dangerous man who needs to be removed, but it seems to me Bush is using the war to steer away from issues such as the economy, the markets, corporate fraud, and Cheney's Haliburton issues. Easy way for him to sweep quite a few issues under the rug and prop the economy up with defense spending. And I voted for Bush...
Edit: Not to mention him being on the TV at least twice each day talking up the war which pushed the markets down.
I was new to trading during the 1987 crash, and trading full S&P contracts. It was hairy. I sat in shock most of day (and following three or so), but my trading partner was trading like crazy. He made a bundle on crash day, and gave it all back the next day.
I am such a short term trader now that iIwon't change my size unless a war actually starts, and even then, only for a day or two.
This war is turning into big nonsense. The world economy is going into the crappers. Bush is just gone nuts now and there's no turning back. Iraq is NOT opec and they still control oil prices. God help us if Bush gets re-elected he won't stop with this nonsense. Get BIN LADEN before any war !
I was a trader during the 87 crash, the last war, and other events. I don't plan on changing anything. Just my normal .5% risk per-position.
Trading during the 87 crash was easy. It happened on a Monday and I had no positions going into it. I couldn't get up-to-date quotes so I just spent the day relaxing and watching the quotron.
The last war with Iraq was easy to trade initially. I went short with everyone else in August and was flat the night before bombs started falling. Once the air war started it was hard to trade because news kept moving the market in big swings. I remember one day when news came out that we dropped napalm. The market tanked because of worries it would provoke Iraq to use chemical weapons. 15 min. later the news was the napalm was used to light oil-filled tank traps. The market rallied all that it had lost. The worry back then was our green troops might have 10,000 dead fighting the worlds 4th largest army. The ease of the first night caused a relief rally. This time we might get just the opposite. Noone expects much of a battle. If Iraq uses chemical weapons and 1,000 dead or inqured Americans show up on the news, I think the market will tank.
Most likely scenario I see for now is UN doesn't approve another resolution, public opinion turns more negative, and Blair convinces Bush to hold off till the fall and let the French have their way until then. If that happens, we should get a brief rally followed by more of the same sideways action.
The last video we saw of the guy had him propped up with one working arm and looking more than just a little messed up. All we have heard from him since has been questionable audio tapes. He would not have resisted releasing a video on the one year anniversary of 9/11 if he was able to.