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This document explains issues that can arise under heavy load and simultaneous executions of the same Job agent or report on distributed installs of Cognos IBM platform.
Errors such as CNC-ASV-0025 CNC-ASV-0025 Agent Condition invalid, RSV-DST-0014 Unable to deliver the output of the report and CM-SYS-5192 deadlock error.
It then outlines the solutions that have been put in place post Sept 2013 some best practice before going into some detail of the underlying architecture of the agent and job service.
Agents and Jobs under load
Distributed system with multiple job and monitor services running under heavy load
Each system is using sql via JDBC to access and manipulate queue data
When conflicting updates occur the database tries to resolve them via locking. Usually locking a row but sometimes a page which contains multiple row. Transactions usually just have to wait for a lock, but sometimes a deadlock occurs and one of the transactions is rejected.
EMF components have been tested at distributed load and has handling code to retry transactions to cope with the deadlock exception from DB.
Simultaneous Jobs and Agents under load
If you schedule jobs or agents faster than they are run, they stack up and end up on the queue, also this can be achieved by simultaneous triggering of the same job or agent. You may even have introduced recursion by nesting a job or agent in an agent that calls the parent agent. This type of recursion is not recommended.
So Jobs and agents can run simultaneously on a distributed system and collide at the db level as separate systems call into CM and EMF databases trying to access and modify the same rows.
For example schedule an agent to run every minute, then create a job that runs the same agent and schedule that for every minute. This can quickly build up a queue of pending runnables and cause the same runnable to be simultaneously executed on separate installs.
This will lead to potential deadlock issues at the db level. Both content manager and EMF have strategies to cope with this kind of scenario.
Simultaneous Agents
Just to clarify we are talking about simultaneous execution of the same agent
Agents query for business events that are rows in a db table by running a report, then storing report output in cm then asynchronously runnng tasks, then writing history details to cm.
Agents cannot run simultaneously as the event information they search for may be corrupted or lost, also the concurrent access of content manager objects can cause problems.
For releases prior to Sept 2013 this sort of agent collision caused sporadic problems such as null pointer from agent service and report service errors regarding the condition report output. Post Sept 2013 releases will have the following enhancements.
Solution part 1 – Agent Serialization
We added a db backed locking mechanism for EMF to use. Agent service detects that it is in a distributed system and switches its single server agent lock to use the DB backed lock.
The lock used is the agent store id so the lock only blocks simultaneous runs of the same agent. Now you can overlap runs of agents and the lock will serialise them.
Lock timeout
Agents must wait for a lock in order to run, the lock used is their store id so agents only lock themselves out. There is a lock timeout period that defaults to 10 minutes. If an agent cannot get the lock within the timeout period it means that it is already running. The agent will stop waiting and mark itself as succeeded. If the lock it is waiting for has itself been waiting for longer than the timeout period then the agent is marked as a fail.
In most cases 10 minutes is plenty of time to wait for a lock and any longer period will mean there is a slow / overloaded system.
In rare cases of highly concurrent parameterized agents that must not fail. This timeout can be extended with the advanced property com.cognos.jsmcommon.lock.wait.timeout which is in milliseconds so the 10 minutes default is
com.cognos.jsmcommon.lock.wait.timeout = 600000
Solution part II – History write serialization
A more rare problem can occur with simultaneous runs from the history write from monitor service for the agent overlapping and causing issues at high load. The lock mechanism is used and is now on an advanced property to be used in systems where customers are liable to try running the same thing on multiple servers simultaneously.
So now agents runs and history writes are serialised and will not tangle in content manager
Best practice
1. Use Triggers
using a triggered schedule rather than a frequent polling schedule for agents if possible to minimise contention.
2. Ensure resources
ensure enough system resources available for cm / authentication source and notification db access.
On heavily loaded systems async conversations may be abandoned due to non response of target server – or plain socket timeout errors. this indicates resource starvation.
3. If using rapid schedules (or concurrent triggers)
Use a number based history / output retention (rather than duration based).
Use the audit db to track run histories to reduce history read / write contention
Ensure that the history / output retention is high enough to cope with the number of simultaneous runs
Usethe MS advanced property advanced.history.write.lock = true
Use these cm advanced properties
CM.CAMSearchDeferredLocking TRUE
If using highly concurrent parameterized agents,
that are passed data that must not be lost (as opposed to agents that query a datasource for their data) then the lock timeout may mean that they do not run at all, in this case the lock timeout period can be increased from the default 600000 default value
com.cognos.jsmcommon.lock.wait.timeout = 600000


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My wife had been trying to find a media cabinet to put in our den. Media cabinets can be very expensive, so I talked her into letting me build the cabinet. She was not on board with this at first, but I told her if she did not like the cabinet when I was finished I would buy her the one she wanted. After talking with her and finding out exactly what she wanted, I gathered my materials and got to work. The project was built entirely in my basement with my Ryobi cordless tool set. My wife was not at home the day I started working on the project, and I was able to get a lot accomplished while she was out. Later that day when she returned home I could tell that she was impressed with how it turned out, even though she would not admit it. She was so impressed she has been wanting me to build her another one just like if for the Living Room.
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on my first page I select one or multiple serial numbers that are submitted to the main page. on the main page it loops through the comma delimited list of serial numbers and displays them seperately with radio buttons associated to each serial number. when someone selects the radio button it will open a popup window and pass that particular serial number. I have tried to split out the individual serial numbers using the split command which I thought would then put the values into an array. I figured then I could select out each array value depending on which radio button I selected. for some reason it is not working. Inspecing the following code, can someone help me!!??
var objSourceForm = document.forms['demate'];
var sOldserials = objSourceForm.elements['maj_asm_serial_nbr'].value;
var serials =sOldserials.split(',');
var sString = '';
for (i=0; i< serials.length; i++) {
sString = serials[i];
var winOptions = window.open("red_reason_popup_demate.cfm?comp_condition="+lc+"&serial_nbr="+sString+"&maj_asm_name="+document.demate.maj_asm_name.value,"remotewin","width=325,height=225,chrome=yes, scrollbars=yes");
I thought that the for loop will loop
for (i=0; i<serials.length; i++) {
sString = serials[i];
alert (serials[i])
through two times and each time the serials[i] would be either serials[0] or serials[1]. I figure I need something else inside the for loop to relate the i to the loopcounter of the main page?
I am attatching a gif screen shot to show you what i am displaying. each serial number has a radio button with a RED label. When you select that radio button, the associated serial number needs to be passed in the url as the popup window opens. I am already passing two other values in the url.
sString = serials[i]; this is the line in my code that is not doing what I expected it to do.
I hope this helps describe better what I am doing.
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Did you figure this out? Where is the attached image?
I am a little confused about your explanation..
Have you tried alerting this?
var sOldserials = objSourceForm.elements['maj_asm_serial_nbr'].value;
alert(sOldserials )Thanks,
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i am also confused but here is where i would start. first of all, before you get into your loop throw an alert box to see what "serials.length" is:
I had a question about this line:
var sOldserials = objSourceForm.elements['maj_asm_serial_nbr'].value;
I thought that for this type of DOM expression 'maj_asm_serial_nbr' would need to be an integer. By having it inside single quotes, it looks like it might get read as a string, not as a variable. If this expression isn't evaluating correctly it will mess up everything else.
I could be wrong but to start, I would do like JohnInFl said and use an alert box as you work through your code to ensure that you are dealing with the values you think you are.


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It's a mixed metaphor.
One "comes out of the gate" doing something means that they do the something from the very start. The metaphor is to horse racing. Before the race starts, the horse are contained in the "gate." When the gate opens, the race has begun.
On the other hand, "to come out swinging" is a boxing metaphor with a similar meaning. One comes out swinging, meaning at the very beginning they are on the attack.
Together, the imagery is a little confused.
In the text you cite, it means that the Intel CEO did not wait for questions or to reveal other news. He came right out at the beginning of this conference call with the "big news."
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Does this man EVER mind his own business?
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/arti ... 50342/1060
"Rev. Jesse Jackson says Major League Baseball and San Diego police failed to protect San Francisco outfielder Barry Bonds and should be trying to find out who threw a syringe at him in the Giants' opener.
"That fan should have been arrested," Jackson said. "That object could have had a needle in it. It could have hit him. The commissioner of baseball must be outspoken in protecting any players whose lives are in jeopardy, whose security is at risk."
Baseball spokesman Rich Levin, after speaking with Padres chief executive officer Sandy Alderson, said it might have been a cooking baster and not a medical device."
I seem to remember him jumping on a plane when Michael Jordons dad was murdered by two teenagers, proclaiming that the killing was another symptom of a Redneck White society who couldn't stand a successful black man, then, it was released that one of the suspects was a black youth, and Jessie caught the next plane home to Chicago, no apology, nothing.
I like Lou reeds commentary on Jesse... "Does your common ground include me too?"
Good Evening Mr.Waldheim
by Lou Reed
Good evening Mr.Waldheim
and Pontiff how are you ?
You have so much in common
in the things you do
And here comes Jesse Jackson
he talks of Common Ground
Does that Common Ground include me
or is it just a sound
A sound that shakes
Oh Jesse, you must watch the sounds you make
A sound that quakes
There are fears that still reverberate
Jesse you say Common Ground
does that include the PLO ?
What about people right here right now
who fought for you not so long ago ?
The words that flow so freely
falling dancing from your lips
I hope that you don't cheapen them
with a racist slip
Oh Common Ground
Is Common Ground a word or just a sound
Common Ground
Remember those civil rights workers buried in the ground
If I ran for President
and once was a member of the Klan
wouldn't you call me on it
the way I call you on Farrakhan
And Pontiff, pretty Pontiff
can anyone shake your hand ?
Or is it just that you like uniforms
and someone kissing your hand
Or is it true
The Common Ground for me includes you too
Oh is it true
The Common Ground for me includes you too
Good evening Mr.Waldheim
pontiff how are you
As you both stroll through the woods at night
I'm thinking thoughts of you
And Jesse you're inside my thoughts
as the rhythmic words subside
My Common Ground invites you in
or do you prefer to wait outside


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The SCO Group
... must be crushed into an unrecognizable mess of lies and hopelessness. There is no other way. Their attorneys should be disbarred, their officers should all spend a few decades in Federal prison, and anyone who bought stock in them because they saw the hope of a payout from this extortion scheme should rot in hell.
There's no rule, nor should there be, that attorneys should be punished for representing jerks. Chances are, SCO engaged their services without telling them everything they needed to know, things like "we don't actually own Unix." Now the lawyers are stuck riding this out, because if they walk away, or even slack off, that could get them disbarred, censured, or on the wrong end of a malpractice suit.
These big-dog lawyers are no fools. Undoubtedly they have a pretty good idea of where their case is going. But if they don't go down swinging, they'll never get another client.
Actually there is a law. Or rather, a rule of the legal profession and the courts: lawyers are officers of the court first, advocates for their client second. When BSF realized SCO had no basis for their case, if SCO wouldn't listen to reason they should have asked the court to permission to withdraw. Failure to do so is a violation of professional ethics, and I believe a gross violation of both Bar Association and judicial rules. The defendant in a criminal case has a right to representation, the plaintiff in a civil lawsuit does not.
Actually in this case the sco attornies are taking sco stock as payment:
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/18/17 2233 [slashdot.org]
I don't know legally what this all means (IANAL) but it seems to me it could present a conflict of interest, and depending on how much stock they have (i.e. is it a significant percentage) it could potentially open them up to liability. Ultimately I suspect the SCO lawyers have knowingly done some very naughty things, but proving this in a court of law is another matter. Thus
Does it aply if I "shorted" them?
Novell? Who is in bed with Microsoft? They'd probably turn it over to them instead.
IF Novell gets to foreclose on SCO for none payment and gets back all the rights for Unix they could turn the Unix code base over too the FOSS community.
Microsoft purchased Novell's soul to prevent this from happening.
Let us also not forget that they were shipping their own version of Linux on into late 2006 under the GPL license. Even if their claims were true, they're moot.
Are you referring to OldSCO (now Tarantella) or NewSCO (previously Caldera)?It used to be a damn good little company, providing a good product at sensible prices.
Even without a buyout, those involved in this nonsense have actually made a good deal of money - the lawyers, Darl and the other execs (who are on hefty salaries) who have done rather well from all this, thank you very much.
That's why there _must_ be a way to put those people behind bars. Their sole intent in all this has been to benefit themselves and the interests behind the Canopy Group at the expense of the company itself, its shareholders and the Linux ecosystem. Since day #1 there was no hope of winning.
...I don't know why some company doesn't just put up a few Million dollars (or 10s of millions) to buy SCO and put all these stupid legal battles behind us...
Besides all the other reasons mentioned before you will not be able to buy SCOX for what it's worth on the stock exchange because the SCOX board has adopted a poision pill to deter hostile takeovers. Basically they say "We (the major insiders) determine what we should get paid - not the market!" (About 45% of the company is held by insiders... who wa
This is ridiculous. I don't know why some company doesn't just put up a few Million dollars (or 10s of millions) to buy SCO and put all these stupid legal battles behind us. They'll never win any of them, but they'll continue to be a nuisance. Ugghhh
What SCO is doing is ridiculous. It would also be ridiculous for someone who works with or has a Linux distro to buy them out. All it would do is show that you can make a lot of money if you release enough hot air. Someone buying out SCO would invite other
"oh, your Honor, we are but mere idiots drooling on our papers, we just want money. grant us our relief and give us lots of everybody else's money. also, your wallet and watch, hand 'em over."
"Your Honor, I am but a simple caveman: One day while gathering some food I was caught up in an icy river and frozen in a glacier for ten thousand years. I do not understand your complex world. But I do understand this: my client, the IBM corporation, requested and received final disclosure of the complaints to be brought against it by the plaintiff, SCO Group, and these complaints were not a part of that disclosure. Surely, your honor, if a simple caveman can understand this it must be equally evident
I think they're hoping for one thing - that the judges will get (too) pissed off and make a mistake.
Or, quoting from SCO's litigation strategy documents [mwscomp.com]:
... And we'd better not risk another frontal assault. That rabbit's dynamite.
Would it help to confuse it if we run away more?
Oh, shut up and go and change your armour
Let us taunt it! It may become so cross that it will make a mistake.
Like what?
Well... ooh.
Is this the "Unix" copyright argument with Novell?
No, that's not right. The buyout part is correct, but not the shares. There was an early claim made by both TSCOG and BS&F that BS&F were taking the case on contingency. That was true as far as it went, but I didn't go very far. The reality was that BS&F were taking the case on contingency or flat rate, whichever was greater. However, both groups publicly touted the contingency and were completel
They're using Square's definition of "Final" arn't they...
Appropriate since their entire case is "Fantasy".
I don't have detailed knowledge of the US legal system, but isn't SCO stretching it beyond it's limits in a way rarely seen before. And certainly with such high profile cases with companies of these sizes?
Neither am I a lawyer, but it seems to me that SCOX has gone long past the point of no return. They have to do everything and anything to drag it out as long as is possible. But, your insight is correct, I'm unaware of any situation where things have gone the way the SCOX suits have gone. The complex nature of software code, Patents, and Copyright has allowed it, but the one redeeming factor here is that we may actually fix parts of the system as a result, but perhaps that is wishful thinking.
What I'd re
It seems to me that criminal prosecutions of SCO's legal team would (even if something that the law allows) set a precedent that would make it easier for large/rich corporations to seriously threaten smaller corporations or individuals who want to challenge them in court. Perhaps there could be Iis?) some kind of middle ground that would allow any party to a lawsuit to file a complaint that would result in fines, censure or some other less severe punishment for the legal team.
Similarly, putting
on what grounds?
on the grounds that it's disasterous to my case.
There also is a public interest in disputes being resolved on their merits, which granting of the requested relief would advance.
SCO is essentially saying the following: Your honor, since the trial date has been postponed to after Novell (September 2007), let us amend our "final" disclosure. IBM has lots of time to respond to this, so it causes no harm.
Yes, I can't wait for IBM's response. It'll be something along the lines of: What is the point of deadlines and procedures if they can keep changing things? Also, it's been 3 #@%%!% years.
The public interest is in having this matter resolved in a reasonable time frame.
That's not the primary reason why this attempt is likely to fail. Judges have basically four priorities when deciding what they think about something, in order of decreasing priority:
Delaying tactics fall squarely under #2. Judges loathe delay. A delayed case is a case that they're going to have to keep working on, and cases always get more
Just guessing, but I expect IBM doesn't want to be raped over a barrel by some cowboy outfit that has some tenuous claim on IBM's business. I'm sure they could have paid up, or bought them out, and perhaps with hindsight they may even have done it. But at this point they just want to see SCO die in a fire and send out a message to an
We're a fledgling corporate oligarchy. Lobbyists and corporate interests have seen to that.
Most of the laws being passed these days concern business interests. I won't get too heavily into it but a good example is to study our DMCA and see how our original ideas of freedom of speech and expression have been "curtailed" to benefit a few businesses. Or how eminent domain was recently expanded to cover business interests, not just civic ones. Plenty of examples, and this is Slashdot so I shouldn't have t
This suit is backwards. SCO brought this suit, yet they want to stall. Usually, the plaintiff wants to push the case forward, and the defense wants to stall. The system is set up so that the plaintiff pushes the case forward, which is why this is dragging on.
Bear in mind that SCO's stalling isn't a problem for IBM. Is IBM losing customers over this? No. Is it costing IBM significant amounts of money? No. (IBM total revenue for 1995: $91 billion. Gross profit: $37 billion). Can SCO afford to kee
seems to me IMHO that the judge should have whacked his gavel and dismissed with prejudice (meaning never able to file again) three and a half years ago.
SCO would of been able to go to the appeals court and asked to have the case reinstated, then if it was it would look bad for the judge. Though it's a real hassle, with both judges letting SCO run with this case they are giving SCO a lot of rope to hang themself with.Falcon
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Another guest post by our very own David Garber. Was Marco Rubio's water 'buttal lunge-- dun-dun- dun-n!-- calculated?
Innocent Mistake or Accidentally on Purpose?
Was it a gaffe? Was it a mistake? Or was it intentionally both?
Marco Rubio and his parched mouth, water-escape routine. Move over, Harry Houdini. Another illusionist has joined the fray.
Face it, the Florida senator's response to the SOTU speech was destined to be forgotten. And Rubio, forgotten with it. Last year it was Bobby Jindal. What's he doing these days aside from calling his party stupid? And next year, who's the unlucky loser they're going to hoist on his own petard? I say "his," because the Republicans don't trust women with their bodies, so how would they ever trust them with a reply to the State of the Union?
It seems that the GOP are looking for a candidate to face (most likely Hillary Clinton) in 2016. The jostling for position has already begun -- and Christie will have eaten himself to death by then. Jeb Bush won't run because of his family's past history with the Presidency, and the tea partiers won't be able to mount a general election-proof candidate. So it looks like Marco is their man, if they can make him famous.
Two ways to do that. He does something like heroic -- he saves a family from a burning house or he rescues a schoolroom of kids from a deranged, armed psycho. Or actually there are three ways. The third way is water. Poland water.
You give your perspective candidate a pulpit like the Republican clowns did this week and you turn him into a punchline. There isn't one show on TV that wasn't doing Rubio water bottle jokes within hours. There wasn't a blog that didn't carry a comment about him. Whammo. He went from nobody to... (please hold while I take a sip of water) ...to lovable goofball. (A younger John McCain with a little Rick Santorum tossed in). From a stereotypical looking Republican male to HiJinx the Clown. And who doesn't like clowns unless you have coulrophobia? And there's less of them than there are tea party Muslims.
So then I got to thinking, is Marco really that unpolished of a rube or is this a shameless way to make him a household name. Bingo! That was it! Ingratiate him by making him the victim of a gaffe, let him laugh publicly at it and now you have yourself a candidate. This wasn't the crazy "Ooops" moment like Governor Rick Perry's. This was intentional. This was something the Republicans did on purpose. Pretty sneaky, you guys. This is how to make an overnight sensation out of an everyday dufus. Everyone loves a winner -- and almost everyone is compassionate about a victim. So how far a jump is it from victim to winner?
We're about to see. Hillary, better get the bees out of your bonnet. The vacay is about over. It's just about time for you to make some public appearances and then announce you're running. At that point Marco the Rube will be forced to play his hand -- the man who voted against women's protection and equal pay for the female gender of the species. Let's see him laugh himself out of that one. Can you hear the Kaleidoscope yet?
When are the Repubs going to learn, "Silly Wabbit, Trix are for kids."
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Your argument that a fair cross section of complete idiots are rooting for something that both contradicts the nature of fandom and likely will not produce the effect you are hoping it will falls right in line with the majority of your surprisingly irrational posts.
You structure your content on this site and the thoughts within them like an intelligent man.
But the nature of that content maintains idiocy to it's core.
BUT even if you can ignore all that Sideshow Rex nonsense, the biggest issue still remains: He is running a losing strategy.
This wacky thought that he can buck the NFL's rules and recreate his father's 1985 Bears defense and Lombardi's 1959 Packers offense and win it all without a good air attack is Looney Tunes. It's good enough to beat all the scrubs on the schedule, but it fails miserably against the elite teams because an elite offense will always be able to crush an elite defense due to the rules of the game.
It's the Ryan strategy that is the villain here. Whether he represents himself and the Jets as a joke I could care less about (though it's getting tiresome); the big issue is that this defense defense defense strategy doesn't work. It doesn't. It can't. Ryan isn't the guy to run a balanced attack, someone to get into the offense like other head coaches do. That's why he has to go.
Groh, Edwards, and Mangini all stuck with Testaverde and Pennington too long, the Favre show really showed how we could compete with the real enemy- Tom Brady.
And for the decade prior, when everyone in the old AFC East was getting their Hall Of Fame QB, we didn't even try, let the likes of Dan Marino, Jim Kelly, and Peyton Manning stomp all over us. Instead, we trot out defensive head coach after defensive head coach, and ultimately no defense could stop these Hall Of Famers and we can't sniff a Super Bowl appearance.
The 2010 Jets were onto something, but even then it fell short. Eventually, all the defense and all the disguises in the world doesn't stop Peyton Manning or Ben Roethlisberger for 60 minutes. We were able to stop Rivers, Manning, and Brady to our credit, but Manning and Roethlisberger ultimately ended our best seasons as did Elway the decade before. Eventually, the great defense is asked to stop too many great quarterbacks and they can't do it. The 1985 Bears and 2000 Ravens only got to 1 Super Bowl each. And that's when the rules gave the defenses a fighting chance. No more.
In order to find a great NFL quarterback, you need a great offensive coaching staff including the head coach. We haven't had that ever, haven't even tried to hire an offensive HC since 1989.
Brady and Belichick will be gone by 2015 or 2016. That's 2 or 3 seasons from now. We don't need to care about the next few years, let's go 1-15 for all I care.
What matters is what we look like on opening day when B&B have their numbers retired and we have the obstacle removed from our path. If we are not ready on that day, the Patriots superior front office will figure it out and we'll be behind another QB and HC that'll torment us for another decade. We have a window in 2015 and we can't blow it. That's all that matters. That's why it's "Go Titans" tonight.
It is my job to judge the current head coach by what I see having watched every play in every game he has ever coached in the regular season, post season, and pre season.
The best head coach for the 2013 New York Jets is named "Not Rex Ryan".
How many Danny Woodhead dump-off's did Brady throw last night? 8? 10? 15?
The Tony Sparano offense doesn't even feature an emergency dump-off RB in its arsenal. It doesn't even allow for roll-outs in which our QB excels. Instead, it's a bunch of handoffs, a bunch of disrespected playfakes, and a drop back to find no open receivers due to a lack of talent.
It's not Sanchez, it's not Sparano, it's not Tannenbaum. It's Ryan. He's running the show. He's picking questionable players. He's caring only about his beloved defense. Defense defense defense. We keep bringing a bow and arrow to a gunfight. It's never going to work.
I know this hurts some of you, but tonight's loss is the best thing to happen to this franchise.
The full-quit is now on, we'll end the year 0-3, Ryan and Sparano and Tannenbaum will be gone, and we'll have a chance to reload for 2016 when Belichick and Brady are retired.
Sparano will probably be the HC next year lmao
Brady is aging and wealthy and healthy, no need to get knocked around again and wind up punch-drunk like so many athletes do.
2015 or 2016 the dynasty is over. We need to be ready on that day.


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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Blue Nile (NILE) shares are down -1.9% to $26.70 in pre-market trading on Tuesday after being downgraded to "market perform" from "outperform" by analysts at William Blair.
The online diamonds and jewelry retailer's stock has declined 29.2% over the past 52 weeks.
STOCKS TO BUY: TheStreet Quant Ratings has identified a handful of stocks that can potentially TRIPLE in the next 12 months. Learn more.
Separately, TheStreet Ratings team rates BLUE NILE INC as a Hold with a ratings score of C. TheStreet Ratings Team has this to say about their recommendation:
"We rate BLUE NILE INC (NILE) a HOLD. The primary factors that have impacted our rating are mixed - some indicating strength, some showing weaknesses, with little evidence to justify the expectation of either a positive or negative performance for this stock relative to most other stocks. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, growth in earnings per share and compelling growth in net income. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including a generally disappointing performance in the stock itself and poor profit margins."
Highlights from the analysis by TheStreet Ratings Team goes as follows:
- NILE's revenue growth has slightly outpaced the industry average of 4.8%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues slightly increased by 6.8%. This growth in revenue appears to have trickled down to the company's bottom line, improving the earnings per share.
- BLUE NILE INC has improved earnings per share by 14.3% in the most recent quarter compared to the same quarter a year ago. The company has demonstrated a pattern of positive earnings per share growth over the past two years. We feel that this trend should continue. This trend suggests that the performance of the business is improving. During the past fiscal year, BLUE NILE INC increased its bottom line by earning $0.85 versus $0.65 in the prior year. This year, the market expects an improvement in earnings ($0.88 versus $0.85).
- Net operating cash flow has slightly increased to -$43.81 million or 1.34% when compared to the same quarter last year. Despite an increase in cash flow, BLUE NILE INC's cash flow growth rate is still lower than the industry average growth rate of 15.47%.
- The gross profit margin for BLUE NILE INC is rather low; currently it is at 19.33%. Regardless of NILE's low profit margin, it has managed to increase from the same period last year. Despite the mixed results of the gross profit margin, the net profit margin of 1.04% trails the industry average.
- NILE's stock share price has done very poorly compared to where it was a year ago: Despite any rallies, the net result is that it is down by 30.86%, which is also worse that the performance of the S&P 500 Index. Investors have so far failed to pay much attention to the earnings improvements the company has managed to achieve over the last quarter. Naturally, the overall market trend is bound to be a significant factor. However, in one sense, the stock's sharp decline last year is a positive for future investors, making it cheaper (in proportion to its earnings over the past year) than most other stocks in its industry. But due to other concerns, we feel the stock is still not a good buy right now.
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The City of Meridian, Lauderdale County, and Clarke County all gathered to share with state elected officials what they hope to accomplish next year, and what they need from their state officials to get their needs met.
Dr. George Thomas, City Council President, states, "We're concerned about several things. One thing is giving the citizens of Meridian the right to vote on things that we want inside the city of Meridian, such as the Arts and Entertainment Center, such as the sportsplex. We're concerned about the right of ways on state highways. We have to maintain that; that's an added expense to us."
Roads were also a theme with the Lauderdale County Board of Supervisors who want to do some work near the I-20/59 Industrial Park.
Supervisor Joe Norwood, Board President, says, "Well locally, we have some issues dealing with Highway 11/80 and the widening of that route between the Jimmie Rodgers Parkway and the new industrial park. We would like to make a back entrance out of the central industrial park to tie into the Jimmie Rodgers Parkway to relieve some of the traffic from trucks coming back into Highway 19 towards the Bonita Lakes area."
The state delegation believes it can work on many of these issues in Jackson this session.
Representative Greg Snowden, representative of House District 83 and speaker pro tempore, tells us, "I really think most of these things were issues that we were aware of. It's important though for us to hear again the concerns. I know there's concern about the road and bridge monies, the fire truck programs, things that traditionally have been bonded, I tried to make the point, and I believe I did, we probably won't bond for those but we will find ways, we hope, to appropriate for those through other sources."
Clarke County Supervisors shared many of the same concerns as Lauderdale County. The next legislative session will begin on January 8th.


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Roommates 101
Having a roommate in college will be a new adventure. Whether it's an old friend or someone you have never met, you will be given the chance to learn something new about yourself and about other people. This section will give you lots of tips on how to get a roommate and how to get along in your new environment.
Requesting a Roommate
It is not necessary to request a specific roommate. As a matter of fact, meeting and living with someone new could turn out to be rewarding.
If you would like to request a specific roommate, you may do so by using our online application. Just log into the online application through your student SHIP account, under the Roommate Search tab of the application search for your specific roommate, and then save. You will only be assigned to preferred roommates who confirm your request.
Roommate Assignments
Your roommate(s) information will be provided on your Application Status tab of your application. Neither assignment nor roommate contact information will be provided over the phone.
How to be a Good Roommate
Contact your roommate prior to moving in. Get to know each other and determine who will bring what on move-in day. Bring only one half of what you think you will need for the first three-four weeks of the semester, and plan to be flexible and open to your new roommate(s) - compromise is GOOD.
Even if you've known a person for years, but never lived together, you will learn new things. Here are some useful rules of the road:
Complete and discuss our Roommate Agreement. It can help you define expectations of one another. Roommates are asked to agree to support it as a basis for acceptable behavior in the apartment or suite.
Discuss the rules of the University.
Be honest with your roommate. Tell him/her when you do or don't like something that is going on in the apartment or suite. Don't let things fester, its best to deal with issues as they arise rather than waiting for them to pile up.
Your roommate has the right to read, study, and sleep just like you do. Try to keep noise, guests, and other distractions to a minimum. Ask first before inviting over a bunch of friends.
Don't borrow your roommate's stuff without asking. Chances are they will be happy to share food or lend you that really nice sweater or blouse.
Check with your roommates about same gender overnight guests. Remember, it is their space too.
Keep it clean. Nobody likes dirty dishes. If you feel like you're doing all the cleaning, suggest setting a regular schedule so everyone has some responsibility.
Common areas in the apartment like the kitchen and living room are open to everyone in the apartment. Try to keep your personal effects in your own room unless you don't mind other people using them.
Personal space is personal space. Respect your roommate's privacy.
Make sure your guests know and follow the rules you and your roommates have established.
Don't try to be the boss of everything. Treat your roommate as an equal and be ready to compromise.
If a roommate conflict should arise, your Resident Assistant can use the roommate agreement to more effectively mediate the situation.
Relocation Requests
Residents may request relocation to another space by completing a Room Change Request. Housing and Residence Life, at its sole discretion, may allow or refuse the relocation request. Additionally, Housing and Residence Life staff will require a roommate mediation, roommate agreement, or meeting with a staff member prior to consideration of a room change request.


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the Christmas season generally makes me want to tear my skull out from under my face and lob it through the window of the nearest storefront that has the gall to play "Jingle Bells" on an endless loop from a sidewalk speaker. I have my reasons, valid ones all, and I'm pretty sure I'm not alone.Two years ago, nearly to the day, I penned an article about the degree to which
I am not, however, a curmudgeon. Sure, my "Christmas spirit" takes an annual beating when the commercials start in June, and the same songs are played all the time everywhere (I think the last new piece of Christmas music was written in the year 2), and the overwhelming commercialism of the whole thing makes me wonder why we don't all just live in the mall and get it over with...but then the day itself arrives, and I see family and friends, and get to watch them enjoy my gifts, and get to enjoy my own, and in the end, it's nice.
While I am not a to-the-knife defender of all things Christmas, I do believe it is important, especially for the children. All of my best Christmas memories are from before I was ten years old. There was a simple magic to it - the tree, the anticipation, the cookies and milk for the guy who would be coming down the chimney - that I still haven't forgotten, and this year, I get to share it with my daughter for the very first time.
So when I saw this article on Tuesday morning, I very nearly went around the bend:
As Santa streaks through the sky this Christmas Eve, Rudolph merrily guiding the way, he will be flanked by some new and unusual companions: a jet-fighter escort, bristling with missiles. That is the twist that - to the dismay of at least some child advocates - the US military has chosen to put on this year's version of its traditional animated tracking of the yuletide journey. This year's updated segment, now previewing on the military's website, depicts Santa soaring over snow-capped peaks with military aircraft keeping pace on either side.
Adding the jets is "part of our effort to give the program more of an operational feel," said Navy Captain Jeff A. Davis, a spokesman for the command that sponsors the event, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, also known as NORAD.
NORAD's headquarters is deep inside a mountain in Colorado, one of the highest-profile vestiges of the Cold War, with a mission of tracking and intercepting such potential nuclear threats as enemy bombers or ballistic missiles headed for US airspace. It has been sponsoring a Track Santa program since the mid-1950s to draw attention to its radar-tracking, jet-scrambling capabilities.
An intelligence officer asserts that "intel can confirm that Jack Frost and the Abominable Snowman will not be a threat." Ground forces then report that all rooftops have been checked to make sure Santa, whose call sign is "Big Red One," and his reindeer can land safely. Could Santa's navigation system be attacked by a computer virus? Another officer in charge of cyber space chimes in that the "anti-Grinch-viral is up and will continue to monitor threats."
Threats? To Santa Claus? Whose bright idea was this? Now, for the first time in history, children who see this nonsense will go to bed on Christmas Eve worried that someone might try to kill Santa Claus, an idea that no kid anywhere has ever been required to encompass.
You really have to see this turd to believe it. The martial drumming, the terrible graphics, the cameras and radar stations surveilling everything, and of course, the war weapons on Santa's six. You'd think the "defense" industry would treat Santa with more dignity. He knows if you are sleeping, he knows if you're awake, he knows if you've been bad or good, so for goodness sake, the guy should be on retainer with the NSA.
The NORAD tracking thing has been around for almost 60 years, and when I was old enough to know better, I loved watching how it made the younger kids lose their minds when Santa's "position" was reported by the local TV news stations...but this deal with the fighter jets is not just some cute new wrinkle they've added.
It is product placement and the creation of brand loyalty to the military in the minds of young children, which in the end makes it recruiting. Period, end of file.
Brazen demonstrations of war weapons are already an enormous part of American culture. They do fly-overs at practically every major sporting event, soldiers carry the flag and sing the anthem, and half the children's cartoons on television involve war fighting in some form or another. It is practically inescapable, and has been getting more intense with each passing year. The biggest Disney movie out right now is about crop dusters racing F-15s.
In a way, I suppose, NORAD should be commended. After all, they've finally found a use for the multi-billion-dollar boondoggle F-35 Joint Strike Fighter: keeping Santa "safe" from "threats."
Guys, give it a rest already. You've already got the kids hooked on war in a hundred ways. Leave the fighter jets in the hangar on Christmas Eve. Santa will be just fine on his own. He always has been.


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Not sure this is really an appropriate thread for this, since it's a loooong digression, but I think you'd be hard pressed to find any expert, psychologist, or parent who can point to even a single anecdotal case of a child who benefited from receiving no or insufficient discipline; you'll find plenty who can point to the contrary.The statement: "Children need discipline" is not objectively true. What makes it true? What facts support that assertion?
If you're at the point that you're pressing for evidence for the proposition that children need some discipline, I think we can safely agree to disagree and move on.
Sure, and if it was a "majority rules" argument, you'd be right. Since I'm not saying that (straw man fallacy), it's kind of irrelevant.The fact that the majority of the population agrees with a principle does not make it objectively true. That is an Ad Populum fallacy.
Lastly, something can be objective, even if the answer isn't known. I will never know how many hot pockets i have consumed over the course of my lifetime. However there is a correct, objective answer to that question, and every other answer is false. A lot of people tend to confuse an objective question with unknown variables with a subjective question, when they are really very different.
Any time. Always glad to converse with someone who knows their fallaciesAnyway, i believe i better understand your perspective on the matter, thanks again for the legal insight.


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The Italian opulent label founded in 1966 by Michele Taddei and Renzo Zengiaro, is widely celebrated for its leather goods collection. Its discreet workmanship exhibits no-logo design but only cross hatched signature pattern, giving way to its artistic creativity! The collection includes an assortment of ready to wear fine jewelry, eyewear, home fragrance, furniture, handbags, shoes, small leather goods, luggage, home items, and more. These products are sold all over the world and the company is based out of Lugano, Switzerland. The other offices are located in Vicenza, Milan and Montebello Vicentio. The iconic leather weave design became very popular and was later being associated with the brand. This design called intrecciato can be seen on many of its products and if one searches it over the internet, the first thing that pops up is the brand name with it.
It has always been connected with famous celebrities and rich people including Empress Farah Pahlavi and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis for example. Today, it is owned by Multinational group Kering and has worldwide stores in America, Europe, Asia, Australia, India and many more countries.
Handbags: bags for men are available under categories like cross body, briefcase bag and messenger bags in classic colors like navy, dark brown, blue and light brown which make them apt for both formal and casual looks. Women can procure handbags under the categories clutches, hobos, totes and wallets in colors same like men's bags and almost all of them features the iconic woven pattern making them easily recognizable. Bottega Veneta Bags are simplistic with no brand logo which makes them all the more personal without any categorization and they are roomy and quite durable because of the leather used.
Footwear: men footwear category ranges from sneakers to loafers while women category ranges from flats to heels. These are also as simple as the other products available under the label and are loved by the people who want something classic, sophisticated and simple. The intrecciatto pattern can be seen here also be it women or men footwear highlighting the artistic approach which the brand has always focused on.
Accessories: the accessories section does not have many options, for men it includes belts, ties, scarves, gloves & sunglasses and for women it offers scarves, sunglasses, belts and key rings. The scarves are colorful and display summery touch. Sunglasses are available in options like round, square and oversized in different color variants.


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[J/B, E/B] She's involving herself in some illicit affair that should have never happened in the first place. Vampire/Werewolf is the best kind, no?
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She's here.
Her scent is heightened, cinnamon and sickeningly sweet.
His fingers curl into a fist and he knows it's pointless to be angered over the fact that she's been marked.
It's been like that since day one, he reminds himself, but that doesn't take the stench away when she sways this way and that under the dimming lights.
Her cupid-bow lips pucker up underneath the night air and it makes it painful to watch when the wind tousles her hair and she seems so damn happy away from him. It seems that those plethora of months are removed from her memory - erased - with just a single touch from The Cold One.
No, if he didn't know any better, it was like they never happened.
Like she had never been gaunt, like she never had known the meaning of breaking tears, and like he never had been that crazily happy to believe in the notion of love.
But, as his stomach churns with just a glimpse of her blurred visage, he knows that her porcelain skin touched him in too many ways for him to believe that it all was a figment of his imagination.
If only...
He is starting to hate that phrase.
The wind gusts up and kicks pebbles of sand near his toes and he lets them sink. He digs his heel into the sand and the coarse grains don't do anything for his hardened body. But he can pretend.
Pretend that she wasn't here at La Push in one of her brief disguises as Bella-The-Girl-That-Once-Was. The girl who thought that mythical beasts were kept locked in some old Brother Grimm Manuscript. That Vampires were middle aged-men with widow peaks and Werewolves were troubled teenage boys.
Well, at least Hollywood got the Werewolf thing down pat.
It would be better to believe she didn't exist.
But he knows she's here, like she told him the last time, she would be. Still, he doesn't turn around. There goes his stomach churning again and her dainty hand lays to rest on his shuddering shoulder.
It's uttered in her soft, melodic voice and it's his breaking point.
Her amber eyes crinkle in concern and that's the only thing human about her. She's a stock copy of the Cullens now and their moving crystal imitation.
It burns his pupils to be this close to her, so close that he can feel the cold coming off her.
She's radiation, she's temptation, she's his own glorified Siren.
"Why do you bother?" he begins.
She simply looks down and says nothing. The beginning of their meetings are always a toll for her and he hates making it easy. He likes to see her as human as possible and not that Spright that would escape in just two-point-five hours.
The time is being counted down in his head and he thinks if he's aloof about this whole thing then it won't hurt when it's all over. If only he can distance himself from her. If only...
She's graceful as she plops down on that decaying log and she chuckles quietly to herself. She's that nymphet again.
"This is where we met. Do you remember?"
It's a stupid question to ask. After all, it was that instant in which he firmly felt his life begun. With her comical batting eyelashes and that teasing smile, he swore that she was his home.
"How are the boys?" she continues and he's aware that it's been a one-sided conversation all this time. She's trying, he knows, and his resolve is crumbling, like she knew it would.
"They don't know about us." He hopes they never find out. As far as the pack was concerned, Bella was taken into some Godforsaken corner of the Earth and was never to come back. Not that it looked like she would since her flight was two years ago.
Sam and the gang probably knew that Bella could count herself as part of their enemy by now, but they had no clue that every two months she came 'round to this spot, midnight, and seduced their prodigy - Him.
They only knew that he still suffered from his first glance of love and that maybe it was deeper than they thought, if still, two years later, he reeled from her goodbye.
The thing was that the wound was never healed. She made sure of that when her rendezvous would open the cut again. It was never clean and he knew it would never heal.
"He doesn't know either." Guilt saturates her voice and fire burns underneath his skin. He doesn't know why she torments him like this.
"Why do you never commit yourself, Bella?"
She sighs and bites her lip. The moon shines a light on her fangs and he is reminded once again of her transformation.
"You said you loved him and you literally gave up your life for him! Why are you here if you were so convinced?"
Her palms are pointed upwards in surrender and he's hurt her again.
"I can't remember anything about my human life, Jake, except you."
She's moving closer again and He can't escape this elaborate web she concocted a long time ago. Had he ever truly left it?
"He has to remind me of our times together and they sound... nice, but I can never believe that it was me who lived them."
She's breathing deeply and she's shaking her head. The strands come near her mouth and he's entranced.
"I've come to care for him Jake, maybe even love, but I can't seem to forget you."
It all seems so wrong to hear that from her. He knows all about The Cold One and Bella. He remembers everything that detailed their romance and to see it come to these ends...
He should celebrate these words, but it all is so complicated and he doesn't know what to think.
His throat is roughed up and it's hard to speak.
"I don't think you should come down here anymore, Bella."
Every ounce of courage that's been building since her first visit is being put to the test. He doesn't think he can last much longer, even with her spells, and keep them a secret.
He hates to think of the consequences should that happen.
"Stop being a martyr, Jacob."
And that's all it takes.
It's a ritual, this is, having her hands caress his face and mark her initials on it. He's being written on and he doesn't mind that in these moments.
His body is shaking, he knows, but that only means it's a precursor to what is about to happen. For her eyes are closed and he can imagine that when her pale eyelids open again, chocolate brown will gaze back.
This is his favorite part, when her palm lays itself on his naked chest and, for a moment, she feels like a crossbreed of vampire and werewolf -- Human. She's the Protector and the Predator. She's the Villain and the Hero. She's too many things to him.
She's stealing his warmth and breathing is hard to come by. This is my power, he remembers her saying, I can be anything I want to be. He thought her imaginary then and had no trouble to mutter his want.
Mine. I want you to be Mine.
The instant is being repeated and he knows it pains her to be under this transformation. Her skin reeks of Cold but it's being tinged with him. He has loads of warmth to spare and she hungrily devours it.
Is this what it's like, Jake?
She felt disgusted about herself the first time and he kissed the tears away. She's too used to being at conflict with herself now that she says nothing but his name.
She makes him spiral down this tunnel of delusion all too much. Flesh against flesh, he can forget about her choices in the past and just concentrate in the present.
That is, before she leaves again.
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"I think the soap opera's time has come," she told the Associated Press in 1982 when CAPITOL premiered. "It is the true realization of the novel, and we're happy to be in it. This is a true American art form.
"We have a very strong story to tell in CAPITOL. It didn't become a feature film. It didn't become a miniseries. It didn't become a novel. It became a soap opera because it needs the time to unfold. And you have a more responsive audience out there during the day than you do at night."
episodes of "The Name of the Game" and Kung Fu," as well as the theatrical film "Adam at 6 A.M.," died Oct. 21 in Moorpark, Calif. She was 73.
During a career that spanned the late 1960s to the early 1990s, Karpf-Hager wrote episodes of DYNASTY, THE NAME OF THE GAME and KUNG FU, as well as the theatrical film Adam at 6 A.M. She also co-penned the TV movies Marriage: Year One, Rolling Man, Gargoyles, Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell and Letters From Frank and the 1976 miniseries Captains and the Kings.
Karpf-Hager earned bachelor's and master's degrees in radio/TV/film from Northwestern U.
She is survived by husband Robert Hager Jr.; two sons and a daughter; and eight grandchildren.
- FLASHBACK: Writers Stephen, Elinor Karpf Believe Time For Soaps Is Now (1982)


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Chicago, IL (SportsNetwork.com) - Chris Johnson hit a pair of two-run homers and the Atlanta Braves used a six-run fourth inning to take an 11-6 victory over the Chicago Cubs in the middle contest of a three-game set on Saturday.
Justin Upton finished with two hits and four RBI and Andrelton Simmons went 3- for-5 with two runs scored for Atlanta, which entered the game with losses in five of its last six games.
Starter Mike Minor (3-5) homered and earned the win despite giving up six runs on 11 hits over six innings.
"He just battled every inning. Nothing came easy today," said Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez of Minor. "I'm glad that we were able to get our bats going to get him the win."
Chris Coghlan drove in three runs on two doubles and Justin Ruggiano went 3- for-4 with two runs scored and an RBI for the Cubs, who saw their two-game winning streak come to an end.
Edwin Jackson (5-10) was pounded for nine runs on seven hits and four walks in just 3 2/3 frames.
"It was an embarrassing and horrendous game," said Jackson. "It is one of those games to put way back in the back of your memory."
The Cubs wasted no time getting on the board after Ruggiano laced an RBI single to center that plated Arismendy Alcantara, who led off the first with a double. Coghlan drove in another run with a double into the right-field corner, making it a 2-0 game.
Johnson responded with a two-run blast into the seats in left field to even the score in the top of the second.
The Braves went ahead in the third. B.J. Upton doubled on a liner to left and came home on Simmons' single up the middle.
Chicago tied the game in the home half. Welington Castillo's liner deflected off the glove of a leaping B.J. Upton in center field, allowing Ruggiano to score from second.
The Braves used a six-run fourth to take a commanding lead. Johnson crushed a two-run shot to left and Minor helped his own cause by belting a fastball to left for a 6-3 advantage.
Jackson was chased after B.J. Upton and Freddie Freeman both walked and Simmons singled to load the bases with two outs. Carlos Villanueva entered the game and was greeted with a bases-clearing double from Justin Upton.
Alcantara, Ruggiano and Rizzo each singled to load the bases for Chicago in the fifth. After Starlin Castro struck out, Alcantara scored on a passed ball by catcher Christian Bethancourt. Coghlan's double to right brought around Ruggiano and Rizzo for a 9-6 game.
Back-to-back RBI singles from Justin Upton and Heyward in the ninth accounted for the final score.
Game Notes
Minor earned his first win since May 19 and hit his second career home run. The first came against the Mets on May 25, 2013 ... Jackson, who surpassed 1,200 career strikeouts during his start, is now 0-4 lifetime in nine games (seven starts) against the Braves ... Atlanta leads the season series, 4-1.


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Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Actually, I'm a little shocked by this picture: I can't believe Benny wore antlers in the USC colors. Shame on you, Benny. Next time show a little team pride, would ya?
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Merry Christmas... looking good, Benny, in those SC colors. FIGHT ON! Careful, the water can be a little cold in the winter... shrinkage alert!
Let's make USC 0-3 in their recent Rose Bowl Games
cold are you kidding me ever been to Michigan, SoCal water temp is warm in comparison this time of year. Come join the Polar Bear Club and see what shrinkage really is.
Next time don't even bother with the butt floss, and reindeer have tails!
Benny, Laguna Beach is QUITE a long drive from Pasadena, make sure you get an early start on Jan 1!
btw- I will be at the Arroyo Seco (haven't missed a UM Rose since '78!), deep in Pac-10 territory Section 8, about halfway up.
Hey Benny, don't buff the wood on any SoCal beaches or you'll be coming home with some new friends.
mgb94... I was there last year hanging with some friends from USC. I guess from what the locals said, they were having a cold winter (and the weather for the parade was flat out miserable). At any rate, I rented a Jeep and threw the top down driving down to Manhattan Beach. It was in the upper 60s and not a could in the sky and there were people walking on the beach with hats, scarves, mittens, and wool pea coats on!!!!
If I can get out of Denver this week, I'll be hanging out with my USC buddies again but I'll be rooting for the cotton pickin Maize and Blue!!!
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Hi! Have a safe and wonderful holiday and Happy New Year! For those coming out to So. Cal. have a great time and we'll see you at the Rose Bowl. Go Blue and Fight On!!!
Welcome to California. From the picture of Benny, I think you'll fit in quite well.
While we both wish we were playing for a bigger prize, you've got to love a classic match-up between two CFB greats.
OK, now the real reason I'm posting here. Does anyone have a link to the alleged inappropriate pictures of the Louisville cheerleader? Apparently this has been making it's way around, and seeing as how you found the ASU girl, I thought you could work your magic again.
Here's to a great game on the 1st. Fight On SC!
Here you go: http://voyeur-russian.com/gallery-amateur_35489-ALL.html#257090 (NSFW)
I knew Benny had cute buns to go along with that chin!
Man That's Brutal!!
Only in L.A.
thanks for the louisville cheerleader tip...........WOW
johnny wangler said...
Let's make USC 0-3 in their recent Rose Bowl Games
Don't you mean Michigan?


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Central American Adventures
Central America's volcanic highlands, lush forests and jungles, beautiful beaches and unique mixture of cultures makes it one of the most interesting and dynamic places to visit on the globe. You can snorkel some of the most beautiful coral reefs, explore Mayan ruins, see colonial architecture, hang out on white sand beaches, see sea turtles and dolphins and have the experience and adventure of a lifetime. Check out these 4 fantastic tours that will show you all that Central America has to offer.


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Donna Haytko-Paoa selected for 2008 Willard Wilson AwardUniversity of Hawaiʻi
External Affairs & University Relations
Thanks to Haytko-Paoa's tireless efforts, University of Hawaiʻi services, resources and programs are more accessible to the too often underserved citizens of Molokaʻi. According to a colleague, "she has served our residents relentlessly as she transformed the face of the community college on the island, managing the Center with incredible energy, enthusiasm, motivation and determination."
A dedicated employee of Maui Community College for 24 years, Haytko-Paoa was instrumental in acquiring a permanent site for the Center. After many hundreds of hours working with the community and overcoming many obstacles, her vision finally came to fruition in 1999. It is now used for myriad educational based activities for professional development, state and county training sessions, health care evaluations, testing, summer workshops, and other educational efforts.
In the words of one colleague, "Donna's leadership serves as a model for education centers that follow. She will forever be held in high regard for her accomplishments and ceaseless endeavors towards higher education."
Professor Haytko-Paoa will be recognized for her achievements, along with other UH award recipients, at the annual convocation ceremony to be held September 9, 2008 at 10:00 a.m. at Kennedy Theatre on the UH Mānoa campus. The ceremony is open to the public at no charge and no reservations are needed.


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... is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to create images, animations, and interactions.
Initially developed to serve as a software sketchbook and to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context, Processing also has evolved into a tool for generating finished professional work. Today, there are tens of thousands of students, artists, designers, researchers, and hobbyists who use Processing for learning, prototyping, and production. In the recent words of Ben Fry, one of the co-creators of the project:
"Processing seeks to ruin the careers of talented designers by tempting them away from their usual tools and into the world of programming and computation. Similarly, the project is designed to turn engineers and computer scientists to less gainful employment as artists and designers."
Part 1 : Everything you always wanted to know about Processing but were afraid to ask | Sat Sep 15th
Prerequisite: No previous programming experience required, just an open mind and an idea of how you would like to use Processing in your work.
The beginning half of this workshop will start in a traditional talk format, and explain the basics of type-based programming, and things like variables, datatypes, methods, and functions (don't be scared, it's easy!!).
The remaining half will be conducted in a open format, with questions, discussion, and hands-on coding in discovering methods and techniques.
Part 2 : Applied Learning and Problem Solving with Processing | Sun Sep 16th
Prerequisite: Part 1 of this workshop, a previous workshop from me, or previous experience with Processing
During the first half of this workshop, participants will use hands-on techniques in order to complete exercises designed to give them experience in problem solving using Processing.
For the second half of the workshop, Jesse will help participants design a custom program featuring one or more modes of interaction.
Jesse Scott is a new media artist, producer, coder, designer, visualist, curator, writer, and blogger.
He has used Processing to create live visuals, light up large led matrices, drive laser cutters, control 3D puppets, and make custom Android applications.
Please pre-register with firstname.lastname@example.com
Workshop limited to 12 people
Participants encouraged to bring their own laptop, with the latest version of Processing downloaded and installed
Workshops run from 1pm to 6pm at Open Design City (betahaus)
PrinzessinnenStr. 19-20, 10969, Berlin (U8 Moritzplatz)
€40 for non-members, and €25 for members
(€25 / €15 for one night only)


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Open Season Nov. 11 Against CCSU At Mohegan Sun Arena
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - The Yale men's basketball team got a bit of a head start on the 2011-12 season. The Bulldogs spent 10 days in China last May and played four games. The trip allowed the Bulldogs to bond as a team and work on some things for the upcoming season. That experience, along with the return of four starters, 10 players who averaged at least seven minutes and the addition of a talented freshman class should make Yale a serious contender for the Ivy League title. The Bulldogs' first official practice is Friday afternoon.
Here is a breakdown of the 2011-12 Bulldogs:
James Jones, The Joel E. Smilow, Class of 1954 Head Coach of Men's Basketball, has a deep frontcourt at his disposal. Senior Greg Mangano was a unanimous first team All-Ivy selection last year and already has earned a number of preseason Ivy League Player of the Year honors. Mangano, who was a part of the 12-member roster that represented the United States in the 2011 World University Games over the summer, is coming off a season at Yale in which he finished ninth in the nation in blocked shots (3.0 per game) and 24th in rebounding (10.0 rpg.). He averaged 16.3 points, was a unanimous first team All-Ivy selection and earned all-district honors from the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC).
Mangano led the Ivy League in rebounding and blocked shots and was second in scoring. He was the first Ivy player to average a double-double for the season since Harvard's Kyle Snowden in 1995-96. His numbers were even more impressive in Ivy games where he averaged 18.6 points and 10.4 rebounds, which both led the league.
Mangano, a four-time Ivy League Player of the Week selection, was dominant on both ends of the floor. His 85 blocks were the most in a season in school history and the third most in Ivy history. In addition, his 51 blocks in league games were a new Ivy record. He became the first Yale player since Chris Dudley in 1986-87 to average a double-double for the season.
Sophomore Jeremiah Kreisberg also gained international experience over the summer. He played for the Israel Under-20 national team at the U20 European Championship. At Yale last year, he started all 14 Ivy games and was the recipient of the team's John C. Cobb Award as rookie of the year. He was fifth on the team in scoring (7.2 rpg.) and second in rebounding (4.5 rpg.) while shooting 55.6 percent from the field.
Senior Rhett Anderson is coming off a season in which he had career highs in games (28), points (77) and rebounds (73). He made his first career start in the season opener against Quinnipiac and went on to start the first seven games of the year. Sophomore Will Bartlett earned valuable experience in his rookie season, appearing in six games off the bench. The Bulldogs should also benefit from the return of Greg Kelley, who missed all of last season with an injury.
Three freshmen will vie for time in the frontcourt as well. Will Childs-Klein averaged 18.3 points, 13 rebounds and five blocks as a senior at Ladue High School. Brandon Sherrod was the 2010 Connecticut Gatorade Player of the Year as a senior at Stratford High School before spending one year at Choate. Matt Townsend is Horace Greeley High School's all-time leading scorer (1,516 points) and rebounder (1,021 rebounds).
Captain Reggie Willhite leads an experienced backcourt. Willhite started all 28 games last year, finished third in the Ivy League in steals (1.4 per game) and seventh in field goal percentage (.448). He had career-highs in points (9.4 ppg.), rebounds (4.4 rpg.), assists (68) and steals (40) and his 28 steals in Ivy games were the most in the league.
Junior Austin Morgan continued his steady development. He finished second in the Ivy League in three-point field goal percentage (.446) and was in the top 10 in five other categories - assists (6th, 3.2 per game), three-point field goals made (7th, 1.9), assist/turnover ratio (7th, 1.4), field goal percentage (9th, .438) and free throw percentage (10th, .802). In addition he led team with 54 three-pointers, which tied for the seventh most in a season in school history.
Juniors Michael Grace and Sam Martin should both see plenty of playing time. Grace is a candidate to start at point guard. He appeared in 21 games off the bench last year, despite being hampered by an early-season injury. Martin established himself as one of the top long-range shooters last year, finishing fifth on the team in three-pointers.
Senior Brian Katz also is a threat from beyond the arc. Sophomores Isaiah Salafia and Jesse Pritchard both made contributions in their rookie seasons. Salafia had seven points, including a clutch three-pointer in overtime, in the home victory over Dartmouth, while Pritchard's first career three-pointer gave Yale a 54-53 lead late in the second half at Providence.
A pair of freshmen bring strong credentials to New Haven. Armani Cotton spent one year at Northfield Mount Hermon School after averaging 22 points and 11 rebounds as a senior at Dalton School in New York. Javier Duren was Suburban West Conference Player of the Year as a senior at Oakville High School.
Report filed by Tim Bennett, Yale Sports Publicity


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Thought Leadership@Johnson
A focus on the big picture pays off
New research shows why investors should assess an industry's overall health and not just a specific company's performance forecast.
Thinking about investing in General Motors? Your first reaction might
be to focus on analysts' predictions of GM's future earnings, but recent
research by P. Eric Yeung, Peter B. Orthwein '68 Sesquicentennial
Fellow in Accounting at Johnson, suggests that you should pay close
attention to the information embedded in GM's earnings forecast about
the outlook of the overall auto industry. Focusing on the specifics of
a particular firm can obscure more general industry information that
should affect how you value shares.
In "Underreaction to Industry-Wide Earnings and the Post-Forecast Revision Drift" (Journal of Accounting Research, September 2013), Yeung and his co-author, Professor Kai Wai Hui of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, provide compelling evidence on this issue. The primary objective of their study was to explore whether investors undervalue industry-wide earnings news provided in analysts' reports, and if so, why. Yeung and Hui examined 25,195 individual forecasts from 1,347 distinct analysts employed by 128 distinct brokerage houses that were extracted from industry reports on manufacturing industries from 2004–2008 and widely circulated among investors.
Yeung and Hui conclude that investors tend to underweight the industry-wide component of forecasted earnings relative to how they weight the firm-specific component, despite the fact that it is the industry component that likely causes more long-lasting impact on firm performance than does the firm-specific component. Yeung and Hui explain that "although more successful firms tend to lose their competitive edge due to new entrants and learning of other firms, unsuccessful firms tend to improve their performance by imitating others and taking corrective actions." In other words, relative competitive positions of firms within an industry change at a much faster rate than the overall industry fundamentals that help determine firm performance, such as consumer taste, production technology, and regulatory environment. Therefore, a long-term investor should be buying the industry with good prospects, not necessarily a particular company due to its temporary performance.
The underweighting of industry information leads to individual companies displaying "post-forecast revision drift," with their share prices moving in the direction implied by industry information long after that information has been available to the public. Yeung and Hui found economically and statistically significant evidence of post-forecast revision drift in their sample, and also show that post-forecast revision drift is caused primarily by investors' initial under reaction to industry-wide earnings news embedded in analysts' forecasts, rather than their reaction to firm-specific news. Furthermore, the more closely a firm's earnings tend to move with industry-wide profits, the greater the drift. They also observed that investors made corrections in response to forecast revisions around subsequent earnings announcements, indicating that a portion of investors' delayed response is due to misestimates of future earnings, which are corrected as information about subsequent earnings becomes available. This further supports the idea that investors' under reaction to news about industry-wide fundamentals is the primary cause of post-forecast revision drift.
How can such misplacing persist in today's stock market? Young and Hui show that trading friction in the market and the high cost of arbitrage helps perpetuate post-forecast revision drift. Therefore, knowledgeable investors may not be able to trade aggressively against the initial under reaction to industry-wide information, ensuring that the effect of the initial under reaction is durable in the near term. "People pay too much attention to the earnings forecasts of individual companies that they hold stock in," says Yeung. "So if I hold stock in GM, I look at GM's forecast and fail to pay enough attention to other automakers' forecasts, when actually aggregating the forecasts of all automakers would give me a much better idea of how GM will do in the long run." This is important information for investors. If investors know that they should value industry-wide information more heavily, they will be better informed and make better investment decisions than their less-informed counterparts.
Yeung's work in this area continues. He has further investigated this phenomenon in another working paper, "On the Persistence and Pricing of Industry-Wide and Firm-Specific Earnings, Cash Flows, and Accruals," which takes the idea of under reaction to industry-wide fundamentals to a new level. In this new working paper, co-authors Yeung, Kai Wai Hui, and Karen Nelson (Rice University) test the under reaction hypothesis in firms across all industries, as opposed to strictly manufacturing. They also focus on investors' reactions to annual reported earnings to rule out the possibility that investors simply discount certain information in analysts' predictions. In other words, Yeung's new paper will show whether investors' under reaction to analysts' projections can be generalized to industry-wide information embedded in financial statements. This follow-up paper will further cement the ideas proposed in the first and provide valuable information for investors looking to make more informed investment decisions.


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Bot::Backbone::Service::DirectChat - A helper for doing direct chats
version 0.160630
service private_chat => ( service => 'DirectChat', chat => 'jabber_chat', );
This is a chat service layered on top of an existing chat service. It only passes on direct chats received and only sends direct chages back.
Does nothing.
Sends a direct message chat to the nested chat service.
If the message is not to a group and is sent direct, it will be passed on to any chat consumers and dispatched.
Andrew Sterling Hanenkamp <email@example.com>
This software is copyright (c) 2016 by Qubling Software LLC.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.


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== PLA Results Boot Camp Wiki ==
1. Welcome to the PLA Results Boot Camp Wiki!
2. We want to hear from you!
3. The basics of using this Wiki.
4. Join the Results Boot Camp Wiki Community.
5. Results Boot Camp Categories
Post-Boot Camp Information
A. What happened when you returned to your library after attending Boot Camp? b. How and with whom did you share information from the Boot Camp? c. Did you take any actions as a result of what you learned in Boot Camp? d. Did you encounter any problems as a result of attending BC?


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Knights move to 8-2 with win over Lincoln
The CCRI Knights men's basketball team hosted Region XXI Division III powerhouse Wildcats Lincoln College of New England from Southington, Conn. Monday and came away with a hard-fought 87-74 victory. The win raises CCRI's record to 8-2 overall and 5-1 in Region XXI. With the loss, the Wildcats drop to 8-5.
CCRI got out to an early lead and was able to maintain it throughout the first half, but Lincoln put an 8-4 run together to end the first half to go into halftime trailing by only a score 43-33 score.
Both teams played well to start the second half as the lead dropped from 10 points to one, 61-60, with 10 minutes to play. The Knights got clutch scoring down the stretch from big man Elijah Okagbare (Atlanta, Ga.) who scored 11 of his 13 points in the second half to go with seven rebounds and a blocked shot. The Knights also got big points from Kevin Marmolejos (Queens, N.Y.), who hit three big three-pointers after Lincoln closed the gap to one point. Marmolejos had 17 total points, including five three-pointers on 5-for-10 shooting from long range with six rebounds and three assists.
Three other Knights had big nights, included Anthony Jernigan (East Hartford, Conn.), who scored 19 points and dished-out a game–high eight assists. Captain Pat Marchand (Cranston) added his second consecutive double-double, scoring 17 points while pulling down 11 rebounds and Robert Skinner (Winsted, Conn.) came off the bench to add 10 points.
"This was our best defensive effort of the year against a very strong opponent," CCRI head coach Rick Harris said. "We've been emphasizing defense to create offensive opportunities and we were able to do that tonight. We have two days of practice to prepare for another important game, a league contest against a very strong Dean College team Thursday night here at home."
The Knights now gear-up for their toughest game of the year to date. The Knights will host the undefeated (10-0) Bulldogs of Dean College for an important Region XXI league game today at 8 p.m. at the Cullen Fieldhouse in Warwick.
Records fall as Lady Knights beat Lincoln
The CCRI Lady Knights basketball team hosted the Wildcats of Lincoln College of New England for their home opener on Monday evening at the Cullen Fieldhouse in Warwick. The Lady Knights defeated the Wildcats 102-23. With the victory, the Lady Knights improved to 7-0 overall and 2-0 in Region XXI play.
In its first home game of the season, CCRI took no time to quickly seize control of the game, taking a 16-0 lead and extending it to 53-12 by halftime. The Lady Knights slowed the tempo down in the second half but their hot shooting kept the scoring going for CCRI. As a team, the Lady Knights set a program record for three-pointers in a game with 22.
Leading the way for the CCRI was captain Allexia Barros (New Bedford, Mass.) with 35 points, including a CCRI single-game record 11 three-pointers, while adding five assists, four rebounds, three steals and two blocked shots. Also having a solid all-around game was Jesse Ossian (Chandler, Ariz.) with a triple-double of 10 points, 12 rebounds and a CCRI single-game record 16 assists, plus seven steals.
Also helping the Lady Knights was captain Ahnyyah Jackson (Hackensack, N.J.) with 19 points and Amber Edwards (Boston, Mass.), who had a double-double with 14 points and 15 rebounds. Rounding out the stats for CCRI was Jess Winegar (Cranston) with nine points, Jess Patalano (Exeter) with eight points and Lindsay Danise (Danbury, Conn.) with seven points and six rebounds.
The next game for the Lady Knights will be this today at 6 p.m. when they host Region XXI rival Dean College for their first league game.
Lady Knights dominate Orange County CC
The CCRI Lady Knights' basketball team traveled to Middletown, N.Y. on Tuesday to play the Colts of Orange County Community College (OCCC) for a non-league game. The Lady Knights easily handled the Colts 87-47.
The Lady Knights controlled the game from beginning to the end. CCRI took a 49-23 lead into halftime and never looked back, as they also outscored OCCC 39-24 in the second half to cruise to the easy victory.
Leading the way for the Lady Knights was Jackson with a game-high 20 points, five rebounds, four assists and four steals. Barros had 17 points, seven rebounds and two assists. Also helping the Lady Knights' effort was Danise, who had a career-high 15 points with six rebounds. Ossian added 12 points with nine rebounds, seven assists and three steals.
Rounding out the CCRI attack was Edwards with eight points and nine rebounds, Winegar with eight points and Patalano with seven points and five rebounds.
Six Lady Knights, four Knights earn All-Region XXI soccer honors
The CCRL Lady Knights' soccer season just recently ended, and though it came to a close before they would have liked, they did receive some good news this week with six of their players earning All-Region XXI honors.
They were captain goalkeeper Alex Place (East Greenwich), captain midfielder Betti Worth (Bolton, England), captain forward Paige Oram (Burrillville), sophomore defender Taylor Lopes (Cumberland), freshman forward Carla Porras (Narragansett), and freshman defender Estefany Mejia (Cranston, RI).
The men's team had four players earn All-Region XXI honors. They were sophomore captain midfielder Luis Navas (Pawtucket), freshman forward Adam Corey (North Kingstown), freshman defender Adam Couto (Plainfield, Conn.) and freshman midfielder Justin Kue (West Warwick).


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Eat, don't medicate, your way to health
Exclusive: Dr. Lee Hieb explains your doctor's diet may be bunch of baloney
There are four scientifically based pillars of anti-aging, or if you prefer, wellness medicine: diet, exercise, sleep/stress management and bioidentical hormone replacement. More diseases – and possibly all of the diseases we associate with modern civilization – come from bad diet habits.
When Albert Schweitzer was in Africa, the Africans ate a native diet and were not plagued by the big four: heart disease, hypertension, diabetes and cancer. (They had Burkitt's Lymphoma, a viral induced cancer, but not the cancers we commonly fight.) After a Western diet was introduced, predictably, these diseases became more and more prevalent. The same is true for aboriginal tribes the world over from the Inuit to the South Sea Islanders.
Dr. Weston A. Price, a Dentist, traveled the world during the early 20th century as travel allowed western foods to creep into aboriginal diets. After an average of 17 years "displacing foods of modern commerce" – as Dr. Price put it – these natives developed the diseases of modern civilization and other changed physical characteristics including bad teeth, narrowed face and diminished immunity. He published his findings in his classic work, "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration."
A short biography of Dr. Price is well worth reading and can be found on the website WestonAPrice.org. The site is dedicated to promulgating his nutritional principles which can be summarized in one slogan, "Real food for real people."
Price analyzed aboriginals diets and found that they provided at least four times the calcium and other minerals, and at least 10 times the fat-soluble vitamins from animal foods such as butter, fish eggs, shellfish and organ meats, whereas "foods of commerce" [consisted] "largely of white flour products, sugar, polished rice, jams, canned goods and vegetable fats."
In addition to the website above, there are several great books on diet that are worth reading, "Good Calories, Bad Calories" by Gary Taubes, which outlines a great deal of the history of nutritional drift; "Wheat Belly" by Dr. William Davis, which I have reviewed earlier; and "The Anti-Inflammation Zone" by Barry Sears.
Quite frankly, as a physician, I pay almost no attention to the "official" government nutritional guidelines. Nor is it easy to figure out proper diet from reading the popular press, which tends to report every news story without enough scientific background to discriminate probable truth from nonsense. But using a basic knowledge of medicine and biochemistry, and filtering through all sorts of nutritional literature in the lay press and in medical journals, this is the diet I feed myself and my family – and I think it is pretty close to "the truth" (understanding that knowledge changes). But as we have understood more and more it becomes apparent that old ways are the best:
I totally avoid the following: Vegetable fats (soy, corn, safflower, canola, etc.), wheat, aspartame and MSG.
I minimize: Simple carbohydrates such as popcorn, white rice and potatoes, but these are eaten in moderate amounts. When we have "movie night" I may make homemade popcorn using coconut oil. But these episodes are very infrequent. I think brown rice is probably a better choice than white, but I have determined that white rice eaten in modest amounts is not the major problem for health, and I confess I simply like it better than brown rice. So three nights a week we may have a fist-sized portion (larger for my 20-year-old, weightlifter son) of white rice.
I use olive oil for cooking, along with butter, coconut oil and animal fat. Again, I never use margarine or vegetable shortening or vegetable oil – these are Omega 6 oils and are inflammatory to body and brain. I never eat store bought or restaurant salad dressing for this reason, because these are generally made with soy oil. I make mine at home from olive oil, balsamic vinegar or lemon, salt and pepper, and sometimes other spices.
I eat meat (all kinds of meat) with its fat, and fish and chicken. I try to vary the main course, and we do eat more chicken than red meat. When it comes to red meat, I try to eat more natural-sourced meat that has been grass fed and contains complete conjugated linoleic acid – which corn-fed beef does not. (It makes sense to supplement with CLA when eating standard beef.) I live in the Midwest and therefore can get buffalo at a moderate price point and am blessed with the ability to eat locally hunted deer. I try to eat wild caught fish, but this is not always financially feasible. I do avoid hormones in chicken.
I have taken advantage of the backyard chicken movement to have my own flock of chickens. Eggs from local free-ranged flocks, according to a recent study that compared true free-range eggs to true caged eggs, have 4-6 times the Vitamin D, 1⁄3 less cholesterol, 1⁄4 less saturated fat, 2⁄3 more vitamin A, 2 times more omega-3 fatty acids, 3 times more vitamin E, 7 times more beta carotene. Beyond that the differences are obvious – yellower yolks, better flavor and protenacious whites that are thick, not watery. Industry studies that purport to debunk these facts are often done using chickens with trimmed beaks who cannot really forage – even though they are left outside.
I snack on nuts, raw vegetables and the occasional piece of gluten free chocolate. Beware of "protein bars," as many have wheat and are actually very high carb. Even Adkins bars – which are the best low-carb bar snack – sometimes have wheat, so you need to read the labels.
We never eat "low fat" anything, because "low fat" in processed foods means they have substituted a large globular starch to thicken the item – mayonnaise for example. And removing fat from natural foods – especially milk – means the sugars are more readily absorbed and more apt to spike insulin. Fat, by slowing absorption and possibly other mechanisms, is a modulator of the insulin response. When we drink milk, it is full-fat milk, we eat full-fat yogurt, and when we eat ice cream, we eat full-fat ice cream, not ice milk or low-fat ice cream. All the low-fat versions produce much more insulin response. Furthermore, low-fat diets are not satisfying, they do not "fill one up," so they do not help people eat reasonably.
In the time we have been pursuing the government's and organized medicine's chimera of a low-fat existence, we as a people have become fatter and more diabetic, while patting ourselves on the back for decreasing our fat intake. It is the biggest fraud perpetrated on the American people by so-called "experts."
I eat green and cruciferous vegetables but do not obsess over the six portions the nutritionists mandate. I try to eat them as a habit and incorporate them in every family meal.
For fruits, I serve grapes, berry salad and have access to a backyard of natural berries in spring. I avoid hybridized very sweet fruits, which are new to modern diets and very apt to spike insulin levels, but eat apples in moderation. Red Delicious apples have the highest (significantly highest) anti-oxidant value of all the apples. I do not drink fruit juice, which has removed all the fiber and glucose-modulating factors.
Of all the health habits about which we perseverate, none are probably so overblown as salt. I'm sure there is some issue in some people with blood pressure and salt, but even the experts are conflicted on the real story here. I think life without salt is so dull that I'm willing to accept some risk in eating it.
Remember, salt is not a disease. Salt is a potential possible risk factor for hypertension, which is not a disease but a risk factor for heart attack and stroke. I eat sea salt, along with other spices and pepper and simply don't worry about it.
I eat very little processed food except for canned tomatoes. As I tell my patients, if your great great grandmother could not recognize something as food, or if bacteria reject it – don't eat it. I don't think Great Grandma would recognize a Twinkie or boxed macaroni and cheese – neither of which spoil when open to the air – because even germs don't see them as food. Yet how much of the American diet is made of these? And we wonder why we are sick?
In the next column we will discuss supplements.