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Beckyblue – Rabbiteye Blueberry
Beckyblue has an excellent sweet flavor. Wet scar berry, so best eaten out of hand. Large fruit, good production. Ripens in May. 300-400 chill hours
Planting and Care Facts (pdf)Zone: 8B-9A Blueberry Size Info
THIS YEARS CROP NOTES: We take great pride in shipping you a larger size, high quality plant. Here is an example of what this year's crop of blueberry plants look like. We'd like you to see the quality of plants you will receive, and to note the plant height stated is the actual size above ground, we do not count of the height of the root ball. All trees are pruned before shipping to help develop their training system.
Plant sizes:
"Value Size": (1 Gal., 1-2 Ft. tall) May take an extra year to fruit, but are a good choice to get an inexpensive start.
"Premium Size": (3 Gal., 2-3 Ft. tall) More stable, transplants better, and will fruit much sooner.
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Beckyblue has an excellent sweet flavor. Wet scar berry, so best eaten out of hand. Large fruit, good production. Ripens in May. 300-400 chill hours
|Pot Size
1 Gal, 3 Gal
|Plant Height
1-2 Ft., 2-3 Ft.
|Planting Zone
|Chill Hours
Pollinate with another rabbiteye variety
|Ripening Season
Native throughout most of the eastern United States, blueberries are one of the easiest and most rewarding fruits the homeowner can grow. The bushes require a little effort to establish, but once rooted are very disease and drought resistant; most fruit their second year. Thanks to recent breeding programs at the Universities of Florida and Georgia, we now have a wide range of varieties to choose from, making it possible to have delicious blueberries from early May to late July! We attend many blueberry seminars throughout the year so we are always up on the latest and most practical techniques to help you with site evaluation, soil preparation, correct planting procedures and maintenance of your blueberry patch.
Blueberries require cross pollination. Thus we always have to plant at least two varieties to ensure good fruit set. Two groups of blueberries are available.
-Rabbiteye blueberries were developed from native rabbiteye blueberries. They grow as shrubs and will reach 6-20 feet. Their ripening season is from May to July.
-Tetraploid (Southern Highbush) blueberries are a new development – a cross between Rabbiteye and Northern Highbush blueberries. Everything is different about them. They are smaller, slower-growing and have thicker, more crinkly leaves. Most important, they extend the blueberry season by ripening heavy crops at the very start of the blueberry season. Tetraploids require some extra fruit thinning to achieve a balance between plant size and healthy fruit production. Each group requires a pollinator from within the group—you must plant at least two varieties of rabbiteye or two varieties of tetraploid. A brief list of varieties is at the end of this handout.
Anywhere you want a hedge, think of blueberries first. These durable, low-maintenance shrubs have a unique misty blue cast and are truly beautiful in all seasons. In spring, dainty, bell-like white blooms cover reddish canes. Flowers are followed by blue-tinged foliage and huge clusters of powder blue fruit. In autumn they make a brilliant show as they turn from orange to scarlet to fiery red.
If you want a short thick hedge, tetraploids grow more slowly and can be sheared. Most of the tetraploids will mature to around 6 to 8 foot in height. If you want a very low 3 to 4 foot hedge plant Sunshine Blue. Rabbiteye varieties make a nice tall thick hedge anywhere from 6-20 feet high. Use blueberries to line a driveway or walkway or as backdrop hedges. In the garden, line a fence with blueberries for luscious fruit that doesn't take much space and is always lovely. Choose varieties with different ripening times to spread the fruiting season. Blueberries can also be trained into fountain-shaped shrubs or small trees. Some varieties do well as container plants for a patio gardener.
Well-drained sandy loam soils are preferred, but blueberries will grow on many soil types if good drainage is provided. Blueberries will grow more vigorously and produce more fruit in full sun. Avoid frost pockets – late season frosts can damage fruit production in early-flowering varieties.
Spacing for blueberries depends upon the desired use in the landscape. Bushes can be planted individually or in a hedgerow. If planting a hedgerow, space 5-6 feet apart with rows 10-12 feet apart. If planting bushes individually, place plants for cross pollination no more than 10 feet apart. Remove all flowers the first year to encourage more growth.
Blueberries require acid soil (pH 4.5-5.5). If you are in doubt about the acidity of your soil, take a soil sample to the Cooperative Extension Agent in your county for a soil test. Blueberries will not grow well in soils with a pH above 5.5. Adjust soil acidity as necessary with powdered sulfur and iron sulfate. Do NOT use aluminum sulfate, as this material is toxic to blueberries. For individual plants, sulfur a 6 x 6 foot area around the plant. Hedgerows need to be sulfured in a 3 foot wide band down the row.
Blueberries are spreaders by nature, they send out root suckers and will over time in a hedge row setting grow together. This is good for the plant as new sucker formation keeps the plants healthy. In order to encourage the spread of the plant roto-till acidic organic matter like ground rotted pine bark or oak leaves into the a 3-4 foot wide band down the row. When planting dig a hole approximately three times the width of the pot and at the same depth as the root ball. Enrich the planting hole with peat moss mixed with soil dug from the hole (50/50 mix). Do NOT use mushroom compost or manure in the planting hole or as mulch. You can make your plants sick and even kill them with manure or mushroom compost.
Remove the blueberry bush from the pot, gently loosen the root ball and place in the planting hole. To avoid burying too deep, make sure the plant is positioned with the top most roots at the soil line. Fill the planting hole with the mix of soil and peat moss; gently tamp it in. Water thoroughly to settle the roots and eliminate air pockets. Do NOT put fertilize in the planting hole. Only apply fertilizer if it is the correct time of year (see Fertilization section below).
If desired, construct a water basin around the base of the bush approximately 36 inches in diameter. Blueberries are very shallowly rooted and a good mulch insures the plants root stay moist in dry spells. It also cuts down on weed competition. Mulch in spring and fall with approximately 4-6 inches of acid mulch (pine bark, oak leaves).If trying to create a hedge row planting,mulch a 3-4 foot wide area down the row. Pull mulch a couple of inches away from the trunk for good air circulation. Do NOT mulch with mushroom compost.
The type of fertilizer you choose may be chemical or organic. Make sure that the fertilizer
contains iron, zinc, manganese, magnesium, molybdenum, copper and boron. These minor elements
are very important to plants and most soils are low in these elements. Application rates vary
according to age of plant.
See chart below.
(with minerals)
for Azalea/Camellias
1/2 cup per plant in late February, late May and late July.
1 cup per plant in late February, late May and late July.
2 cups per plant in late February, late May and late July.
4 cups for every 4ft of row. Spread fertilizer in a 4ft wide band down the row in late February, late May and late July.
Holly Tone
1 ½ cup per plant in late February, late May and late July.
2 ½ cups per plant in late February, late May and late July.
4 cups per plant in late February, late May and late July.
6-10 cups for every 4ft of row. Spread fertilizer in a 4ft wide band down the row in late February, late May and late July.
Be careful to spread the fertilizer evenly over the blueberry's root zone and water it in well. Blueberries form suckers and the plant expands each year, the amount of fertilizer applied increases each year until the 4th year after planting.
In Zones 8-9 fertilize 3 times each year in late February, late May and late July/early August. Never fertilize after August as this will promote new growth late in the year which will be subject to freeze damage.
If your young blueberry plants aren't growing, they may be stalled. In that event, supplement your fertilizer with a liquid fertilizer for Azalea/Camellias (like Miracid). Treat them once a week for a month. If they still haven't grown 6 inches, continue the treatment. Blueberries need to double in size the first year in the ground or they will be stunted.
The first year is a critical time for the establishment of a new blueberry bush. Water thoroughly twice a week on light soils and once a week on clay soils. Soak the entire root system deeply – this usually takes 45-60 minutes. Established bushes should receive at least 1 inch of water each week. Because blueberries are very shallowly rooted, we strongly recommend that irrigation be installed when you plant your blueberries. Microsprinkler irrigation works best, because water is spread over the root zone. Soaker hoses can be used in a pinch. Water regularly, especially during dry periods. Keep an area approximately 4 feet in diameter around the bush clear of grass and weeds to minimize competition for water and nutrients. Mulch this area with pine bark or leaves.
Routine pruning of blueberries is unnecessary until plants are 3 years old. During this time, remove dead, damaged or diseased limbs. Cut any leggy growth so the plant will bush up. Make all cuts flush with the limb or the next largest branch. Do not leave stubs. For established rabbiteye blueberries, approximately one quarter of the oldest canes are pruned each year to encourage cane renewal. Three to four year-old canes have maximum fruit production, declining with age. Blueberries can be lightly topped right after fruit harvest to hold down the height of the plant. All heavy thinning cuts should be made in the dormant season.
Blueberries have few disease or insect problems. Occasionally caterpillars can be a problem and may be controlled with products containing Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis).
Always remember that good disease resistance begins with the health of the plant. Plants stressed from lack of water, not enough sun or being under fed are more susceptible to disease and insects. Maintaining good sanitation practices in the berry patch is most important. The removal of diseased and dead wood, and picking up fallen or rotting fruit off the bushes as it occurs, will go a long way in keeping disease and insects at a minimum. Spray at first sign of an issue, rather than waiting until the problem is out of hand will go a long way to keeping your plants healthy and fruiting properly.
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"The Weekday Players is a student-led and student-run theatre company that strives to provide opportunities for all students to engage in some aspect of theatre.
"'We can let people work on projects they want to work on,' Katie Gallagher, a junior double majoring in theatre and Arabic, said. 'I think it's really cool to have art involved in your life someway or another…if you want to have some part in it, or if [theatre] is new to you and you want to learn something about it, this is a good place to start.'"
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Press and analyst contact lists tracked in your marketing automation system allow you to view when media is visiting your website, reading your emails, or clicking through on your social media links. This can be a very valuable tool for corporate communications because it will help you priorities your press follow-ups and will help you optimize your marcom efforts.
The steps to do this are as follows:
- Import all press and media contact lists into your marketing automation system. Alternatively, you can bring them into your CRM system and allow them to sync with your marketing automation system. If you do not have a marketing automation system, you can do this only using your CRM system or using your CRM system in combination with an email marketing system, but you may have less data available to analyze after the public relations campaign (like their website activity).
- Make sure that these contacts can be separated from the leads in your system. This can be done by creating a lead source named media or by creating a new field that indicates which media list the contact originates from (i.e. analyst list, local press, etc) You can also create a unique page layout for these in your CRM system so that you may capture information about the media representative, like their industry influence, the publications they write for, or the strength of your relationship with them without having fields on your lead view that are not relevant to sales.
- Send company news to press prior to release distribution. Include links to additional information, an email to contact, and additional company links of interest in the email. Group all of these emails together with a parent campaign or list, which will allow for easier reporting and reporting on the entire group of PR campaigns.
- Monitor which analysts or press representatives click through on links or send emails. Follow-up with those that have taken interest to support their research efforts or send a follow-up email with additional information.
- Record conversations with press representatives and analysts (outbound calls, voice mail left, inbound calls, in person meetings) and attach emails sent similar to how sales logs activities for prospects. This will allow you to pull up a full record of your interactions so you are more prepared when speaking to press.
- Review press that opts out of email notifications. You may then choose to contact the press agent and discuss why you think your content is relevant to them. You will also be able to see if certain types of announcements causes higher level of opt-outs.
This can be taken one step further by utilizing your CRM to track press and analyst coverage of your company. By monitoring this, you will see what causes the most press attention. For example, if you pair the coverage received with the communications you sent to the press you will be able to run reports to see if analysts respond better to emails sent to them in the morning, or if they tend to give more coverage to emails that include pictures or videos, etc.
You can also create workflow rules that notify your company's communications specialist to follow-up with a press representative or analysts. This can be based off of their online behavior, their reaction to an email (opens, clicks through) or on a lead scoring system that is augmented for media and analysts.
I use Salesforce.com as my CRM system, and have also implemented PR Manager, a free tool by Force.com Labs, for additional tracking of communications efforts. This can be downloaded from the Salesforce Appexchange in minutes and the fields can be customized to meet your company's needs.
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Its been quite a journey ...
This project leading up to the National Walk In The Woods Day through the Irish Republic today, Sunday 9th June has been very revealing.
The surprise, though it should not be, is the variations of why people will, and will not, be Walking in the Forests Of Ireland this afternoon.
There will be some people in the forests to protest against the Irish government and will urge others to protest with them through flyers, chants, passionate speakers and so there will probably be quite a bit of exuberance in those woods..
Then there are people who will be in the forest for a family afternoon as community to strengthen community and have fun, so no picketing and protesting from them. These are the people that want to be in the forests to be part of re-building passion for the forests.
I am also hearing from people who seem to have grown to become islands, isolated from community and other people. Now they fear any sharing with others. Some have messaged and phoned me to ask for meet up times so they can plan to be in and out of the forest before the people arrive.
More extreme are the people who tell me they will be in the forests with us today .... in spirit. They really want to stay at home and be online within the imaginary world of social media ... to be "universal" .
There seems to be two main agendas
being expressed through this Sunday.
There is a national agenda. to urge the Irish government to be decisive about future forest policy to include not selling off Public Forests wholesale or harvesting rights. Some of this action in some forests will include picketing placards, hanging posters, distribution of flyers, assertive speakers and some poets and songsters. Some forest gatherings will do all of this projected from stages, with sound systems and microphones to amplify the cause.
On a quieter level there is also the community agenda that will be shared in some forests. I must admit my passion is for this. Woodland League people have already told me that they are combining both agendas of national protest with community harmony. They do have some wonderful plotted out documents to support this.
Woodland League have reminded us that this day is about being a step towards Ireland regaining its forest culture like when it was once named, Inis na bhfeodhadha, 'island of the sacred trees'.
I'm not sure of the 'bhfeo' part of that word myself as I understand it as meaning a fee or debt, but I suppose it could mean a huge responsibility and management with integrity too. For example, under Bretha Comaithchesa, the Brehon law of neighbourhood, it lists the rights of every Tuath, community, to the produce from the forest for every person in equal right.
To me that's what bhfeodhadha or bféo diagra is about.
Forest culture has somehow been
forgotten and neglected in Ireland today.
Forest culture seems to be sadly avoided. I see this through Ireland's tourism industry which seems to be fixed and addicted to focusing visitors towards the relics and ruins of human creations through the ages. Why are we not introducing, with pride, what is growing and flowing here on Erin from its time origined traditions of goddess and fae spirits?
A true co-operative community forest could supply just about all human needs and comforts in an extremely sustainable way. This will eventually be done through ways not invented yet as I believe everything mined and piped from the earth to make products and services could be replaced from sustainable forest crops and management. Lets destroy no more of the earth. However, I feel that is years away and not really worth talking much about through Sunday, our day of fun
On Forest Event Pages there had been chat on Agenda 21 and other agendas. I think 'agendas' are all premature thinking for this national event. More important , feel, is getting out there and knowing what an oak is, what a alder is, what an ash is, why sitka trees are different and why they may not be a good idea. Its a time and place to look for flowers, fungi, small creatures and understand why they are there, their benefits and what may be food too.
With forestry I can see no way for any agenda to work unless we know what's in a forest and how it grows and relates to us. A lot of children will be at these walks. How do you speak to them about Agenda 21 while they are enchanted by a caterpillar crawling along a twig?
For me now, I feel this day is a perfect time for encouraging 'boladh na síoga' being within the breath of the fae, or simply forest bathing, and slowly and comfortably bringing people together and coaching each other towards the return of 'bféo diagra' or 'bhfeodara' or maybe 'aire na crainn diaga' - care of our sacred trees.
Let the fun and community begin .....
Here are some extra things to read ....
click here for the full Woodland League forestry policy report
click here for my short article on the benefits of being in the forests


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Presenting the vibrant cultures from various ethnic groups that surround the mesmerizing Lake Sentani in the Jayapura Regency, Papua Province, the exciting annual Lake Sentani Festival will again take place this year from 19thto 23rd June 2017, centered at the special Tourist area of Khalkhote in East Sentani. This year, the festival carries the theme "One in Diversity to Achieve Greatness" which reflects the spirit of unity and harmony shared by the diverse clans around the lake.
Lake Sentani is one of the largest lakes on the island of Papua, - Indonesia's most easterly province - located near the provincial capital city, Jayapura, on the north eastern coast of the Indonesian side of New Guinea. On the lake are houses on stilts equipped with nets to haul in the daily fish catch. There are more than 33 species of fish found in Lake Sentani with half of these endemic. Tourists to Sentani enjoy swimming in the lake, chat with the friendly locals, watch the process of making sago, try the local delicacies or taste the matoa fruit that is found in abundance sold along the roads or in the local market
As in previous years, the event will be highlighted with a range of fascinating cultural attractions presented by different tribes living around Lake Sentani which will be performed both on land and on the huge lake. The festival will also introduce regional songs, handicrafts, culinary contests and bazaars, as well as hair braiding as features of local culture. The festival will also offer some of the best products of the region including cocoa, coffee, and dragon fruit, Batik Papua textiles, tree bark crafts, and a whole lot more.
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Wayfair.com, the largest online retailer of furniture and housewares in the United States, is expanding operations in Utah. To support growth, we are seeking a highly talented Recruiter to join our team in Orem, Utah. The right candidate will have experience developing and executing a recruiting strategy and process from front to back, and will have a "roll up your sleeves" attitude to meet the demands of a growing business.
- Act as partner, consultant, and advisor to management by developing and driving strategies to recruit talent in a highly competitive market
- Execute the sourcing, screening, interviewing, evaluation, and offer negotiation process
- Evaluate resumes and conduct phone screens with applicants
- Leverage all aspects of sourcing and candidate development including job posting, job board mining, internet sourcing, social networking, employee referrals, and networking events
- Create a solid pipeline of applicants for all roles
- Ensure an impressive candidate experience through thorough communication & timely feedback, as well as interviewer preparedness and effective interview format
- Track metrics and use data for strategic analysis of recruiting campaigns
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- Bachelor's Degree in a related field
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The Imperial Coronation of Charlemagne
The Age of Charlemagne: Power and Religion in the early Medieval West'
Who planned Charlemagne's imperial coronation and why?'
The imperial coronation of Charlemagne has been a source of dispute between scholars of this era for a period of time, perhaps due to the fact that the sources available are often biased and the historical information, often vague. Historians have argued that perhaps it had been Charlemagne himself who instigated the coronation possibly as a means to consolidate his power and place himself and the Frankish empire on a par with the model in place in the Byzantine regions. Others have suggested that it was in fact the doing of the papacy at the time. Charlemagne had offered great support and interest in religious affairs and could be suggested that it had been a pre-emptive strike to ensure that the ruler did not take advantage of the weakening state of the papacy in this period. Also, Charlemagne offered to the papacy a strong figure of protection, some one that would defend their interests and aid a shift of religious power from Constantinople to Rome. However, the events leading up to his imperial coronation can not be established without first examining the relations between Charlemagne and the religious section, nor can either argument as to how the coronation came about, be dismissed without establishing the background to the event.
Charlemagne is known to be one of the most notable leaders from the Frankish reign and era. After Pepin the Short died in 768, his lands, the Frankish kingdom which he established had been divided by tradition between his two sons, Charlemagne and Carloman. However, after Carloman's death and the quick disposition of his two sons, the heirs to his portion of the kingdom, Charlemagne soon became the sole leader of the Franks. This consolidation of power on Charlemagne's part soon left him in a position of great supremacy and soon he began the military conquests that would mark his reign. By doing so, he not only was able to extend his control by establishing a supreme Frankish empire but also elated him into the realm of a great' leader. The first ten years of his reign were marked by the traditional business of his house- fighting and military conquest. However, soon afterwards his military campaigns took on another role, not only that of conquest, expansion and plunder but now could be seen within his campaigns a growing sense of his Christian mission. One of the most notable crusades of this era is perhaps his fight against the Saxons, whom to Charlemagne were a fierce pagan people, settled along the course of the Wiser and Elbe rivers and east of the Rhine. At first these took the appearance of punitive expeditions to protect the Carolingian homeland of Austrasia and the territories between the Meuse and the Rhine rivers, which were rich trade routes. However as the Rhineland grew richer in trade, it was more imperative to defend it and coming hand in hand with this was the Christian idea of conquering a pagan people. It was as much a missionary effort as it was a military campaign. It was connoted by the church to Charlemagne that he was a Christian leader and as so it was his duty to eradicate paganism and convert the heathens. Also his campaigns against the Avars took on heavy religious undertones, elating Charlemagne into the realm of the Christian warrior. A series of rebellions brought the central period of Charlemagne's reign to an end. In order to prevent such events taking place again, Charlemagne ensured all took an oath of loyalty in the presence of his advisors. This was a serious undertaking and had significant religious overtones. His subjects had to swear complete loyalty to him, stating that they "will be most faithful man of the most pious Emperor, my lord Charles May God and the saints that lie before me grant me their help; for to this end I shall devote and consecrate myself with all the intelligence that god has...
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In the winter of 2015-2016, it has snowed more in New York, Boston and Washington DC than it has in Anchorage, Alaska, where the last two winters have seen more rain than snow. For a population whose identity is tied to winter, this is not just an inconvenience, but a tragedy.
Now that it's March, the days are beginning to quickly lengthen. The sun is melting the remaining patches of dirty snow, and black ice is finally clearing from sidewalks. As the trees begin to bloom with confused budding leaves, it is easy for many locals to put this year's pitiful winter behind them and focus on the summer months to come. Not all Alaskan residents have this luxury, however.
In rural communities where living with the elements can literally be a matter of survival, adjusting to the changing climate is not as simple as taking off the snow tires a couple months earlier than usual. In a recent New York Times article, "Nowhere to go Amid Alaska's Melting Ice," author Rena Silverman describes the detrimental consequences of the warming climate in the coastal Alaskan village of Shishmaref. Cold weather used to protect the coastal village and it's 600 residents from winter storm surges and wind-driven waves by creating a natural ice barrier. Now, the warming weather has diminished these barriers, exposing the community to flooding and dangerous erosion. If the village does not relocate, it will remain threatened by the deadly ramifications brought on by the warming climate.
Shishmaref is not alone, however. Thousands of rural Alaskans are battling the challenges of climate change and its many villainous forms. Therefore, rural villages need initiatives that can address the shape shifting nature of climate change while taking into account the essentialism of culture and tradition throughout the state. One way of doing so is to tap into the unique bank of knowledge that lives within each of these communities, called Traditional Ecological Knowledge, or TEK.
Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Policymaking
Recently, I was fortunate enough to attend a lecture about Traditional Ecological Knowledge (or TEK) titled, "Traditional Knowledge in a Changing World." The discussion was hosted by Danielle Stickman and Maryann Fidel, two lifelong Alaskans, and employees of the Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council. YRITWC is an indigenous grassroots non-profit dedicated to the preservation of the Yukon River Watershed. TEK is at the core of their mission, and therefore vital to their work protecting the Yukon River watershed. The lecture focused on the combination of TEK and western science, and the duo's ability to address climate change in a more sustainable, more impactful way.
TEK is defined as "aboriginal, indigenous, or other forms of traditional knowledge regarding the sustainability of local resources." However, the speakers emphasized that although this definition is correct, it is missing some key components that truly define TEK. The narrower definition describes TEK as a stagnant, or fixed, body of knowledge, but the speakers highlighted that TEK is constantly evolving, passing through generations of Native Alaskans as their ecological surroundings continue to change. The evolving nature of TEK is the key feature that makes it such an invaluable resource for creating resiliency against climate change. TEK has evolved over thousands of years of intimate experience with nature and the environment. It is the communicable link between the past and the future.
The speakers also emphasized that TEK helps "the rules to match the reality." Frequently public policies are established that treat the problem under focus as a uniform phenomenon, but each Alaskan community is experiencing its own unique battle with climate change. For instance, while Shismaref battles coastal erosion, villages within interior Alaska are facing the challenges of thawing permafrost, altered hunting patterns, and even wildfires. By using TEK, policy makers can better understand the unique challenges that each community faces, and hopefully shrink the gap between perspective and understanding.
As an example of TEK in practice, the Alaska Nanuuq Commission paper titled Traditional Knowledge about Polar Bears in Northwestern Alaska illustrates its significance and utilization in the realm of wildlife management. The warming Arctic has drastically impacted the habitat of ice dependent polar bears, as well as the lives of Alaska Natives who use the species as a vital source of subsistence. This paper highlights how TEK was used to research the impact of the changing arctic sea ice extent as seen through the eyes of local individuals, and how that information can aid in developing impactful policies that will benefit both the bears and Alaska Native populations.
An additional application of TEK is demonstrated by the authors of "Participatory Mapping of Local Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge: An Example from Switzerland." In this instance, research demonstrates how TEK's deeply rooted cultural nature can help societies develop more effective oversight, early warnings and adaptations to better cope with their own local climate-related natural hazards.
Alaska is the largest, and one of the most diversely populated states in our country. These are two of my favorite features of Alaska, but these two facts alone make the state's relationship with climate change much more complex than for many states of the lower 48. "Traditional Knowledge in a Changing World" underscored this, as well as encouraged the use of TEK as a means of effectively grappling with the state's complexities. The lecture also highlighted the many challenges that rural Alaskans are facing every minute of every day. Like other states, there is an urban-rural divide among Alaskan residents. Nevertheless, I believe that the use of TEK in policy and practice can benefit all residents of this last frontier, no matter where they call home.
Elizabeth Matthews is AMRDI's Alaska-based intern. She is a recent graduate of Colorado State University, with a degree in Zoology. She has studied anthropology and natural resource management in South America, and hopes to soon continue her international aspirations in graduate school. For the moment, however she is happy to be back in her home state of Alaska.


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Director John Boorman on Young Christopher Walken, Lord Of the Rings, and Violence in Film
"There's something cathartic about destruction. Though it's always very easy to blow something up in the end."
If the movies of Irish filmmaker John Boorman have a common theme, it's their shared interest in the restorative value of violence. That central theme, of finding rebirth from the ashes of destruction, isn't easy to swallow, but it's at the heart of many of Boorman's most notable films, including Point Blank, Deliverance, Hell in the Pacific, and even Exorcist II: The Heretic. Boorman was honored at MoMA recently with special screenings of two of his most radical films: Leo the Last, a comic allegory about class warfare starring Marcello Mastroianni; and Excalibur, Boorman's spectacular reimagining of the Arthurian legend. Vulture talked to Boorman about his science-fiction film Zardoz, young Christopher Walken, and Lord of the Rings.
Of the two movies you're presenting at MoMA, Leo the Last is unfortunately the lesser-known. It's striking in that it's like several of your other films in its concern with destructive rejuvenation. It's also a comedy! I wondered if you could talk about your memories of that film's production, especially talking to your actors about tone, and effectively taking over a little cul de sac in London ...
Sure. Let's step back a bit: That part of London was predominantly West-Indian. The West-Indian immigrants came there in the '50s, and they were very badly treated, particularly by a landlord named [Peter Rachman,] who was renting rooms out, ten to a room. The idea I had was to have this character — Mastroianni — who has inherited wealth, and has no idea where the money comes from. The street where we shot was set to be demolished. They were rebuilding, so I was able to have access to it. The houses were all there, but the people were all gone — except for one man who stayed. So I repainted the street [black and white] because I had this notion to shoot everything in black and white, save for the characters' skin tones.
There are a lot of influences in that film. I was very influenced by T.S. Eliot's "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." The character of Leo was very much a Prufrock figure. And the film's music, by Fred Myrow ... Myrow's father [Josef Myrow] was a Hollywood songwriter. One of his songs was "You Make Me Feel So Young." Fred studied music, and he was so ashamed of his father's songwriting that he wrote the most dreadful, atonal music. When I got him to do the score, I told him that we needed something to tell the story. And [it] was partly because the film is kind of a silent movie. You're seeing life through a telescope, so you can't hear what's being said. That was something I really enjoyed doing.
Mastroianni's presence is one of the biggest influences on the film. You cast him after seeing him in Mario Monicelli's The Organizer. How did he first respond to his character, and how did you work with him toward creating his character?
His English wasn't full-cooked, so he'd often say, "Show me." In that way, he would get me to play him, and he would then do it. But he was a Stradivarius: You could play any song on him, and it would sound beautiful. He was extraordinary. His sense of communication was so fine-tuned that I was constantly cutting dialogue because he'd convey what I was trying to say without the dialogue.
Like you did with Lee Marvin and Point Blank.
Yeah, to some extent, yeah.
Both Leo the Last and Zardoz end with tremendous scenes of destruction. And Zardoz just celebrated its 40th anniversary earlier this year. For that movie, you referred your cast to an article about a colony of mice, which you used an example of the kind of societal breakdown your film anticipated. What kind of questions did you get from your cast and crew about the making of this film?
At the time, it was becoming clear that the gap between the privileged and the underprivileged was getting greater, and that the well-off were living longer, and the poor just weren't living at all. So I told them that if that gap kept getting greater and greater, the privileged would have access to medicine and food. And if they kept living longer and longer, why not become immortal? That was my starting point.
I had two great people working: Tony Pratt, who did the [production] design, and the great cameraman Geoffrey Unsworth. Geoffrey invented this style of lighting where he would put a fog filter at the back of the camera to diffuse the interiors. And then he shot all his shots with the lens wide open. A lot of people tried to copy his method, but they missed out. In the end, major studios banned his method because high-speed printing wasn't strong enough to stand up to Unsworth's process. But after that point, there were a number of films done in that method that have survived.
It was very difficult to communicate the kind of picture I was trying to make, but I had those two allies, and they really helped me through it.
If I may ask a silly question: What conversations did you have with Sean Connery about his wardrobe or lack thereof?
Well: This is what you've got. This is what you're going to wear. So he'd put it on and say, "Okay." There was never any argument. He was a very explosive character. At the end of the film we shoot a scene where his characters ages rapidly, and with the makeup, that scene took a whole day. So we'd shoot a bit, take him out, put on more makeup, shoot a bit more, and so on. When we finished it, we sent the film to the lab, and the lab scratched it. So we had to do it all over again the following day. Sean hated makeup, hated anything touching his skin. He was very grumpy the whole day when we shot the scene. So when I told him that we had to do it again, he was absolutely enraged. Enraged!
At any rate, we did it all over again, all day long, the whole process. And the assistant camera-loader opened the camera and exposed the film. So we had to do the process again. Sean wouldn't believe me; he thought I was teasing him. When I convinced him that we needed to do it for the third time, he went after this camera-loader and nearly killed him. It took three grips to restrain him. [Laughs.]
Was the camera-loader okay?
What happened was ... that was the last time I'd heard of him until years later. He'd changed his name. This had become such a famous story in the film business that this guy couldn't get a job or anything. So he changed his name and is working as a commercial cameraman now.
Certain key images recur throughout your films. In Zardoz, the image of Zed's gun emerging from the corn early on is parallel to the presentation of Excalibur by the Lady of the Lake in Excalibur. But if Zardoz is most like any of your films, it's like Point Blank, since both follow these catalysts who try to fulfill an alienated society's death wish. Talk a little about that image of Arthur's sword ... it seems to serve as a symbol for a paradoxically destructive element that helps its user find his place in the world.
I was very much influenced by Jung at the time, and Jung's notion of the archetypes. So in Excalibur, the archetypes are more clearly and openly presented: the Merlin figure and Arthur. They're very fine archetypes. This notion you mention of renewal through destruction is also in Leo the Last, which ends with a character saying, "We didn't change the world: We changed our street." And in Zardoz, the destruction of society was necessary for life to continue. Of course that film was very unsuccessful, you know. It never did well in any territory ... France. Leo was not a successful film, either, but it was successful in France. Zardoz was never successful anywhere.
When I made Zardoz, I thought it had enough elements to engage an audience. But I think the notion of these immortals [being] rather effete was off-putting. The protagonists were rather effete, and not easy to identify with. So that left Zed as the figure you could identify with. But he was perhaps too much of a [brute]. [Laughs.]
It's always shocking to see the "20th Century Fox" logo at the start of Zardoz given how radical the film's ending is. It's more accessible than, say, El Topo, because your film is a science-fiction narrative. How did you feel about Fox's release strategy? You've previously said that distributors were scared of the film's subject matter ...
They didn't do anything with it. They lost heart very well. At the time, when it opened, it did attract quite a number of disciples. In fact, Zardoz lovers would sometimes rent a bus and go to some outlying place to watch [the film]. Remember the green bread in the film? Whenever I'd visit the States — whenever I came to Los Angeles — a loaf of green bread would always be waiting for me.
Do you know who's sending you the bread?
Yes, I have had correspondence with the guy. It went on for several years, then it sort of petered out.
In an interview with Michel Ciment, you sympathetically related a quote from Lee Marvin with regard to his role in Hell in the Pacific: "I'm sick of killing people to gratify millions of spectators. From now on they can kill each other." Do you think that there's an inherent self-loathing quality to Americans' fascination with violence in films?
Yes. Violence has always been a primary color of the cinema. Our fascination with it is to do with our fear of it. Now, Lee always said that America was founded on violence, like the destruction of the Indians. So he could only express himself through the violence in the cinema. I think you can take that position. There's something cathartic about destruction. Though it's always very easy to blow something up in the end. [Laughs.] But that's much more basic: It's really based on the Hindu notion of birth coming from destruction. That's always my guiding principle.
Going back to the notion of Jungian archetypes: The Exorcist II has one of the most amazing scenes in your filmography, the synchronizer hypnosis scene. I wondered if you could tell me about filming that scene. Did your initial conception of that scene change as you shot it or edited it, given the involvement of your actors or editor Tom Priestley?
There are two or three scenes with the synchronizer. I think you're probably referring to the scene where she dreams of the boy. This was quite fascinating: We shot that scene of the locusts on Stage 16 of Warner Brothers, the biggest studio stage. And we had ... the locust effect, the swarm of locusts was done with glass and metal filings. We moved a magnet underneath, and it made the filings swirl around. As for the intercutting during the hypnosis scene: That caused people to have seizures. You know how on TV, they warn you about strobing? Some people were affected in that way by that sequence.
Actors like Marvin and Connery convey their respective movies' tones so wonderful. Early on, you thought to cast Christopher Walken as Richard Burton's priest in Exorcist II, though Walken wasn't given the part because he was an unknown at the time. What was Walken's audition like and what attracted you to him?
I never wanted Richard Burton, really. The studio kind of imposed him. I thought his character would be much younger, so I wanted Jon Voight to play the part. He prevaricated for a long time and finally decided he didn't want to do it. He had a big problem ... he was in the seminary. He was going to become a Jesuit priest. So he had a very complicated relationship with this spiritual world. It would have been a much different film if he had done it. But that's the way it goes.
But what attracted you to Walken?
To Christopher Walken? [Pauses.] There was something brittle about him that I found interesting. You always felt that Walken could break at any point, that he could snap. And that was something that could be used.
Do you still believe that "the occult and the cinema are natural companions?"
What I should have said was "magic." Magic and the cinema are natural partners. When I was preparing to do The Emerald Forest, I had the great privilege of living with an indigenous tribe. They didn't know that anything else outside of their tribe existed until I arrived. And I tried to explain to their shaman what I did for a living. They had never seen television or films before. So it was extremely difficult to explain what I did. So when I explained to him that through your film, you could see a whole landscape, or a face, or travel in time using flashbacks, he said, "When we're in trance, that's exactly what we do: We travel over the top of the rain, we go back and meet with our ancestors."
I think film is very much connected to dreams, to dreaming, and the unconscious. That's where its real power lies. Film has really been vulgarized by Hollywood. You can't help but feel [Hollywood] has lost its way. Really good films get made, somehow or another, despite this tendency towards vulgarity and mindlessness.
There's a truism about how a filmmaker's unrealized projects always wind up expressing themselves somehow through their other work. Has your Lord of the Rings film seeped into the groundwater of your other films?
Oh, yeah. United Artists had the rights. And Rospo Pallenberg, who worked with me from time to time, and I spent months breaking down the Tolkien books. But there was no point in writing stuff that we couldn't make, so I had to devise special effects that would work. I spent a lot of time researching special-effects methods ... this was before CGI, of course. And all that effort went into Excalibur. All the effects for Excalibur were done in-camera. That was what I got out of Lord of the Rings. But had I made the film at that time, [Peter Jackson] couldn't have made his trilogy, which is an astonishing piece of work, wasn't it?
You know, Tolkien never really wanted a film to be made of his books. He said to me, "You're doing as live-action or animation?" I said, Live-action." He said, "Good, because I have this nightmare of it being turned into an animated film." Which it eventually was, by Ralph Bakshi. Then again, Tolkien died before then. I think Peter Jackson did an astonishing job. I think it's one of the great artworks of the 20th century. I don't know how he did it. I said to him, "I have one question to ask you: How did making those three films not kill you?" And he said, "You know what? That is the key question. I can't answer it. I escaped death by a hair."
There's been a lot of speculation about how you recently commented that Queen and Country would be "a good film to end on." Please tell me it's not your last film.
When I made it, I had that intention. In fact, the last shot in the film is the main character filming his girlfriend with a 16mm camera. And they're by the pool, and she's acting like she's drowning. But he soon thinks she is actually drowning, so he leaves the camera rolling and he dives in to save her. But she's only kidding. So we cut the camera, this wind-up camera. And it stops. I put that shot in as my intention to stop filming.
But I think there's one more script I'd like to do, called Halfway House. It's a kind of variation on the Orpheus legend. I'm going to do that.
Can you tell us a little more about that project?
This guy is a physicist, a particle physicist. He has this woman he deeply falls in love with, and she dies. He's so consumed with grief that he somehow manages to find her in this halfway house, which is where people first go when they die. In the story, this is a house where you're given a tape of your life. And you're required to edit it down to three hours so you can pass on. And you have to make it entertaining. You show it, and if audiences don't enjoy, you have to come back and work on it again.
At this moment in time, what's your favorite of your films?
Of my films? It's hard to say. I have great affection for Hope and Glory because it's about my family, and about something I experienced. I made Point Blank in a state of grace. It was a journey I made with Lee Marvin, and Lee was prepared to do anything. He was absolutely courageous, and he was capable of doing anything. I think that film ... there are things in that film I don't quite understand how I did them, or how we did it.
But the most complete film is Deliverance. When I look at that film, there isn't one shot that I would change, which is not the case with most of my other films. [Laughs.]
You would change something in Zardoz?
I tell you what I would do: I would have done much more with the scene where Charlotte Rampling watches Connery remember raping that girl. I didn't push that to what it should have been. At the time, I felt making it more violent, more sexual would have distorted the tone of the film. But I should have gone further with it.


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It occurs to me as I am looking for my son's 7th grade school photos, that we have given in to what is cool. Instagram, Facebook photo editor, Apple Photo booth are all great at making dull photos 'cool' Cool for the sake of cool is well, Cool! But I question weather or not it is effective at making a photograph better. The students that I help with their Technology Students Association (TSA) competition in photography I make sure we talk about the need of a photograph to communicate, and being 'cool' takes away from that. I urge them to 'find the verb' in order to make more interesting images not to 'Photoshop' to make it look cool, but to use Photoshop to make their point stronger. And they win on a regular basis.
I find way too many posts on the news feeds about cameras with small sensors and how 'horrible' they are because the owners can't control depth of field, and therefore can't throw backgrounds out of focus. Photoshop has some really groovey (the old cool perhaps) new tools that allow you to throw parts of an image out of focus. I picked up an awesome piece of software for portraits that makes parts of the image easily go out of focus. The reason for all this work is so we can focus a viewers attention on the parts that are important, throwing the unimportant parts out of focus is one tool a photographer has to control their composition.
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The green screen is a really cool tool for your weatherman, allowing him to put an interactive map behind him. And It allows Hollywood to create all those fantastic special effects. But is it really the right thing for our school portraits?
Is it important for our school children's school portraits to be on a background of the Eiffel tower? Do we really need to see our school kids seated in the middle of an Irish glade? Or against a brick wall covered with graffiti tags? When did our school portraits need to start being 'cool' and stop being about our children? are our portraits no longer about making a record of the progress of our children's growth? Shouldn't our kids be the important part of the portrait? and not what 'art scape' we decide to put behind them? They don't even have the standard old 'blue backdrop' you know the one? It is what we had our portraits against. Unless of course you had yours done against the black to do those fancy double exposures with your face and a profile, done In the camera! Wow, now That was cool, AND it helped do exactly what photography is meant to do, communicate, It would show two amazing views of the same kid at the same slice of time in their life. Fantastic!
So perhaps this is a rant. Perhaps I am just getting old and no longer cool. But if so why do pro's and amateurs alike spend MORE money to make backgrounds irrelevant? And yet, our school portraits they need to work harder to make them more relevant. What do the school picture companies know that I don't? I tell you this, They don't get lots of peoples money because the plain old blue background is just no longer offered, and isn't that really what those photos are for?
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It's been a few weeks since I finished up my Whole30 diet. I made it the entire 30 days without sugar, without dairy, without beans, without grains, and I didn't die. I enjoyed the diet for the most part, as difficult as it could sometimes be, but I'm not sure it was quite the life changing experience I expected. What did I learn from 30 days of clean eating? Plenty. Would I do it again? Absolutely (and I probably will).
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The Whole30 Diet seems to be the newest diet craze in the world of the internet. Whenever I would mention that I was on a restrictive diet called Whole30 to a "normal" non-bloggy person they were completely stumped as to what that meant and I was constantly explaining the diet to them, whereas it seems like everyone in the blogosphere has either heard of it or tried it (or is planning to try it). I found that difference very interesting, so if you're planning a Whole30, expect regular people to not know what you're talking about. For those who may not know what the Whole30 diet entails, I'll give you a quick outline of how it works. The idea is to eliminate all inflammatory foods from your diet for 30 days to give your digestive system and tastebuds enough time to come back to neutral, or reset. You can't have any sugars or sweeteners of any kind, no grains, no legumes, and no dairy. You can have as much meat, vegetables, fruits, and (surprisingly) potatoes as you'd like - read more about the ins and outs of Whole30 here. It sounds incredibly limiting and intimidating, but it's really not all that bad.
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What I Ate
Breakfast: Eggs, eggs, eggs, and more eggs, with a side of potatoes. My breakfasts usually consisted of eggs cooked with spinach and mushrooms, some hash browns, maybe half an avocado, and plenty of fruit. I'm not much of a morning person, so I assumed getting up and cooking first thing in the morning (or rather, getting up, choking down my unsweetened coffee, working, then cooking after Jack woke up) would be difficult, but it really wasn't all that challenging. It took a little getting used to, but once I got the hang of it, cooking breakfast just became part of my morning routine and I really liked it. Not that I switch my breakfasts up all that much normally, but eating the exact same thing every morning started to get a little old until I discovered a Whole30 approved chicken and apple sausage that I could add to the food rotation.
Lunch: Lunch was probably the hardest change for me to make because I rarely slow down during the day and setting aside time to prepare food rather than just stuffing food in my face was tricky for me. My favorite quick and easy lunches were sliced avocado with picante sauce and tomatoes, chicken salad made with avocado instead of mayo with purple potato chips, and browned ground beef with sauteed squash and zucchini. My breakfasts and lunches used to be whatever I could grab and eat the most conveniently with the least amount of prep and clean up, but the very nature of Whole30 has you prepping and cooking for every meal. It was an adjustment.
Dinner: My lunches and dinners were usually both pretty similar during Whole30. Sometimes lunch would be my leftover dinner from the night before and sometimes dinner would be my leftovers from lunch. They typically consisted of my choice of meat (chicken, fish, pork, or beef) cooked with sauteed veggies, and potatoes in some form. Other than cutting out rice and beans my dinners didn't look too different from what I was normally eating, but lunches looked a lot different.
Snacks: I didn't do a whole lot of snacking on Whole30 because the meals were so hardy I usually didn't feel hungry until it was time to eat my next meal, but on those occasions where I felt like I needed to snack, there was always plenty of fresh fruit on hand. I ate plenty of raw, unsalted almonds, too, and towards the end I bought some approved Larabars that really saved my butt a time or two when I was super busy.
Coffee: Let's go ahead and talk about the elephant in this blog post. Coffee. Coffee is absolutely horrible on Whole30. There's no way around it. Unless you already take your coffee black, I'm going to bet adjusting to your morning cup tasting like burnt ass is going to be the most difficult part of Whole30. I tried several things to try to make my coffee more palatable, but I'm not going to lie, none of them really worked. Don't get me wrong, I still choked down my morning cup and then still usually had my afternoon cup, too, but it was a struggle. I found some cashew milk that was approved so I at least wasn't having to drink straight out black coffee and towards the end I started adding cinnamon, but without sugar - ugh - I want to stop thinking about it. Dark times, people, dark times.
Need more meal inspiration? Check out my Whole 30 Breakfast Pinboard, Whole30 Lunch/Snack Pinboard, and Whole30 Dinner Pinboard.
What I Learned
- I can get through anything if I just take it one day and one meal at a time.
- I don't have to stress eat - there are other ways to deal with my stressors.
- A diet with so many restrictions is actually easier to follow than one with more wiggle room.
- Potatoes take forever to cook whether or not you're hungry when you start cooking them.
- Dishes. You're going to have a TON of dishes when you cook every meal.
- Dairy. I really missed dairy, but I don't need to consume quite as much to still be happy.
- I actually ate all the produce I bought each week. Before the Whole30 I'm ashamed to admit how much produce went bad in my fridge.
- I didn't need to try any of the fancy Whole30 recipes to still have enough variety with my meals.
- Days 1-10 are an adjustment, but go by pretty quickly. Days 11-15 pass eve9.5n slower than days 1-10 and things start to get boring. Days 16-20 speed by and are smooth sailing. Days 20-30 are torturous.
- Dishes. Did I mention dishes already? So. Many. Dishes.
- I thought I was eating enough fruit and vegetables before Whole30 - I was wrong.
- Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING has added sugar in it when you buy it from the store. So lame.
- Temptation is everywhere, but it's surprisingly easy to say no.
- I didn't get some magical burst of energy during the Whole30 like others claim.
- As soon as I got done with one meal, it felt like I was back in the kitchen getting ready for my next meal - batch cooking would've been easier.
- I don't have nearly the sweet tooth I did before I started - it doesn't take nearly as much sugar to get to the same perceived sweetness in things.
- I missed rice, but not other grains or pasta
Results and Moving Forward
I've been off the Whole30 for three weeks now. I wanted to see how I felt off the diet after being on the diet to gauge more accurately how Whole30 impacted my body. The very first day I was off the diet, I drove to my Mom's house, AKA, The House of Unhealthy Temptation. My eating pendulum swung all the way from the most healthy to unhealthy in a matter of days, and continued down the unhealthy path for her entire visit. I enjoyed eating whatever I wanted after such a restrictive diet, but while I didn't feel more sluggish, I did feel bloated and perpetually full even though I wanted to continue to eat. I felt stuffed but like I still wanted to eat more. I don't know if that was because I didn't have to limit my intake so I wanted to eat all of the things, or if was because all the added crap in the food was making me want more of that added crap. On Whole30 I felt hungry more often, but not like I needed to eat constantly. I think I'd rather get a true hunger signal from my body, and then eat well rather than to feel full, but feel compelled to eat more. Feeling hungry on Whole30 was definitely frustrating, especially when I was so used to eating to fill boredom or to stress eat my way through something and never really felt hungry.
Now that Mom's visit is over, I've scaled back on my eating all the bad things. I've allowed some grains back in my diet, but in a limited fashion, and I'm so enjoying my morning coffee with cream and sugar. I'm surprised at how much less sugar I need in all things and will continue to try to limit my consumption. While the Whole30 didn't magically change my life I will probably give it another try in a few months. I enjoyed it if for nothing more than the challenge of sticking to the program.
Now for the numbers. I weighed myself and took my measurements at the beginning of my Whole30, and then at the end. I was really surprised that I lost almost 10 pounds (9.6 to be exact) and 5.5 total inches from my measurements. I know some people have lost more and some lost less, but I'm still amazed at those results. Doing the Whole30 definitely got me over the hump of the plateau I was on with my weight loss this year. Of course, those two weeks of eating like crap caused me to gain half of that weight back, but what else would you expect to happen, lol. I've definitely gotten back on track this past week at least.
Have you ever done a Whole30? What were your results like? Did you love it or hate it? Would you do it again? Let me know in the comments what you think!


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What you can not eat after a workout
Physical exercises are elementary movements composed of motor actions and their complexes, systematized for the purposes of physical development. Physical exercises were formed on the basis of movements and actions borrowed from the labor, everyday, military activities of a person (running, walking, jumping, throwing, lifting weights, swimming, etc.) and organizationally methodically shaped as gymnastics, light and weightlifting, and sports games, sports tourism, etc. Various combinations and systems of physical exercises make up the content of sports, are part of the physical education programs in various educational institutions.
Sports nutrition is a special group of food products, produced primarily for people who are active in life, engaged in sports and fitness. The intake of sports nutrition is primarily aimed at improving sports results, increasing strength and endurance, strengthening health, increasing muscle volume, normalizing metabolism, achieving optimal body weight and generally improving quality and longevity.
There are several products that are strictly not recommended after physical exertion, as they can damage your liver and negatively affect the vessels and muscles.
In most cases, it is better to exercise athletic training on a loose stomach, taking a sufficient number of "fast" carbohydrates and amino acids shortly before it starts. Currently, a number of effective training complexes containing special carbohydrates are rapidly replenishing glycogen stores in muscles (amylopectin), branched-chain amino acids (BCAA), especially necessary for muscle and energy recovery, arginine (an amino acid that enhances blood circulation in all organs and tissues), nootropic substances (improving mental functions, concentration, attention, reaction), antioxidants (protecting from damage cell membranes), muscle energy (creatine), lipotropics (in substances stimulating lipolysis, for example L-carnitine). Shortly after the end of the training, complex amino acids, BCAA, L-glutamine, protein or protein-carbohydrate cocktails are recommended to be taken to protect muscle tissue from destruction under the influence of training stress (catabolic processes).
After a long training your body works in an intensive mode, which differs from the usual one. So, the needs after such exercises at the body are completely different. It is especially important to keep track of what you eat after your workout. By the way, you can do this after 1-1.5 hours, if there are no other recommendations of a doctor or trainer.
Salty snacks
During the training you sweat, along with then comes extra salt. In this situation, it's no wonder that you want something salty after training. Do not give in!
Crackers, salted nuts, seeds, popcorn and other foods high in salt will not be able to provide your body with the energy that it needs after intensive work.
It is better to eat a banana or a few dried fruits - they have a lot of potassium, which is useful for an organism exhausted by training.
Products with sugar
Sweets, energy bars, milk chocolate, biscuits, sweet fizzy drinks, marmalade, sweet yoghurt, honey, peanut butter, chocolate paste - it's a big mistake to eat any of the above and thus consume more calories than you recently spent training.
Filling the stomach with such products will cause a rapid rise in the level of sugar in the blood - and your body will be forced to level it.
At the same time, the metabolism will slow down, and the extra calories will be postponed.
Fat food and snacks
French fries, chips, cheese, hamburgers, pizza - this food is harmful in itself, so do not tell why it is not the best option for a fitness lover.
Excess fat in such high-calorie foods increases the level of so-called bad cholesterol in the blood, causes the development of diseases of the blood vessels and liver.
And the liver after training works especially intensively, as the blood is saturated with oxygen.
Raw vegetables and fruits
Raw fruits and vegetables must necessarily be present in the diet of a person who wants to be healthy.
But after training they are better not to eat. The fact is that during training your body uses all available energy, that is, everything that you ate is burnt.
But raw vegetables will not help you make up for the loss of precious nutrients. On the contrary, for the processing of these products your body will need more energy than it will get from them.
It is better to replace them with a portion of fiber and protein, perhaps a chicken breast or a spoonful of cereals.
Bakery products
Cupcakes, buns, bread, pies - not the best food after training, as you understand.
Your body needs useful carbohydrates - they should be taken from cereals, bananas or legumes, and proteins - low-fat cottage cheese, chicken breast, etc.
These products will help your body recover lost glycogen.
But baking, on the contrary, will raise its level.
The main principle of nutrition is balance and achievement of a certain sporting goal. The required composition is selected as required and convenience of consumption. The energy for each cell is the hydrolysis of ATP (adenosine triphosphate), which is synthesized by the body cells from carbohydrates. Thus, in human nutrition carbohydrates play an important role in the energy supply of life. Proteins of food are used by the cells of the body as the main material for the construction of tissues. They can be sent to the production of ATP, but with the expenditure of more energy. Proteins are absorbed by the cells of the body with the help of the biochemical signal "food", which is supplied by hormone insulin. Insulin is reflexively produced by the pancreas when it enters the digestive tract of carbohydrates. The ratio of the intake of proteins and carbohydrates should not exceed one quarter of proteins in relation to carbohydrates, then the amount of insulin produced will be enough to assimilate the protein.
In Ukraine, sports nutrition is considered to be biologically active additives. Sports nutrition is developed and manufactured on the basis of scientific research in various fields, for example, such as physiology and dietology, and most often is a carefully selected by composition concentrated mixtures of basic food elements specially processed for the best absorption by the human body. Compared with the usual food, for which digestion can take hours, sports supplements require minimal time and digestion efforts for splitting and absorption, while many types of sports nutrition have high energy value. Sports nutrition is absolutely harmless, if you take it right.
Sports nutrition is ranked specifically in the category of supplements, since its correct use is an addition to the basic diet consisting of conventional products, and not a complete replacement. The vast majority of sports nutrition products have nothing to do with doping. "Sports nutrition" is also understood as the use of ordinary products, organized in such a way as to solve the main tasks of a particular sport.
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ST. PETERSBURG — A fan sitting near the Rays dugout was taken from Friday's game on a stretcher after being hit in her left eye with a foul ball.
The unidentified female fan was sitting in the second row of seats behind the protective netting that was added this season, but the ball, off the bat of Steven Souza Jr., went through a small gap — maybe 4-5 inches wide where the new netting is attached to the old.
"She was beat up pretty good,'' Souza said. "It looked liked it caught her right in the eye, which wasn't a good sight."
As emergency medical personnel attended to and stabilized the fan, Souza, the Rays DH, came out of the dugout and into the stands to check on her.
RELATED: Rays add extra netting to cover opening after Friday incident"That's just the way Souza is, a pretty caring guy," manager Kevin Cash said. "I think anybody that would have hit the ball would've been a little rattled, shaken."
The game against the White Sox was delayed 12 minutes as she was attended to and placed on a stretcher that was on the field and wheeled out.
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Change induced by Mother Nature is nothing new in the Havasupai Reservation. The recent monsoonal floods last Summer that closed the area for several months is re-opening, but it has also altered some waterfalls, impacted the access of others, and did away with one major one.
The waterfalls in question are Havasu Falls, Mooney Falls, and Navajo Falls.
For more information, read this article.
Saturday, May 30, 2009
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