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We've all been there. We scour forum posts and YouTube videos for 'hidden gems' to add to our collections like old men searching for rare coins with a metal detector. Whether we actually play them or not is secondary; just owning them is satisfaction enough. One game that invariably appears on every Super Nintendo RPG Hidden Gems list is
, an obscure game from the creators of such classics as
Illusion of Gaia
, but is it deserving of being called a gem, or should it remain hidden?
Developed by Quintet and Ancient and published by Enix,
was released in Japan on July 8, 1994 and in North America on October 1, 1994. Released under the title
in Japan, it was intended to be a light-hearted and humorous game designed for a younger audience.
sold poorly at the time of its release and was met with mediocre critical reception.
Set on the peaceful and subtly named planet of Quintenix, a group known as The Hackers begins causing trouble in the town of Rococo. The main protagonist (who is named by the player) learns that The Hackers are looking for his father, Dr. Akihabara, for their own sinister purposes. It is later discovered that the ultimate goal of The Hackers is to find the Tetron, a mysterious stone that grants its wielder the ability to control time.
The story is meant to be a light-hearted romp, and the game does not take itself seriously at all, for better or worse. However,
is one of the most poorly written and/or translated games I have ever played (and that's saying a lot if you've played any of Quintet's other games!), so any impact the story attempts to have is often undermined by its script. I feel like the building blocks for an intriguing story are here, but the execution is so flawed that I remained apathetic towards the plot for the entire experience. This ultimately just feels like a game whose story serves only as a vehicle for the gameplay and to get the player from one point to the next.
I'm not sure if this is the most egregious example of bad translation in the game (or any game, for that matter), but it has to be close!
As is common with RPGs, exploration is a large part of
gameplay. There are only a few towns in the entire game, but they all include townsfolk to talk to, some of which are required to trigger events to progress. There are also shops, but most of what they sell can be crafted by the player or dropped from enemies. The world map is extremely linear and works similarly to the world maps in games like
Super Mario Bros. 3/World, Shovel Knight
, etc. There are quite a few dungeons in the game, and many of them are quite large. The dungeons themselves are typically well-designed, however the game often forces you to backtrack through them. Goals are not always well-defined either, meaning you might be left wandering aimlessly until you perform a specific obscure action that triggers an event that will allow you to progress. Fortunately there are no random encounters and enemies are visible on the map, so you can attempt to avoid them if you choose. It is also possible to save almost anywhere outside of battle, although certain rooms within dungeons will prevent saving.
Unlike most of Quintet's other offerings,
features a turn-based battle system that is reminiscent of
, albeit a bit more simplified. The main protagonist summons one robot to the battlefield to fight on his behalf against up to three enemies. The battlefield for each encounter is grid-based, meaning your robot will need to be moved next to an enemy in order to execute a melee attack, although there are also ranged attacks that can be used from a distance. The primary methods of attacking include using melee weapons, guns, and bombs. Guard and Escape commands exist as well, although I found Guard to have little to no effect on damage received. The protagonist can also spend a turn using an item or calling the current robot back and sending in another. There is also a fuel gauge that works similarly to the ATB bar in certain
Final Fantasy
games. Attacks will expend a certain amount of fuel, and you must wait for your robot's fuel gauge to fill before acting again, creating a sort of 'risk vs. reward' system.
One interesting aspect of the battle system is the ability to combine any of the three previously mentioned attacks into 'Programs' which a robot can execute during their turn. These three attacks can be mixed into any combination, and while the results of some combinations are obvious (using a melee attack three times will cause the robot to swing their weapon three times), I wasn't able to see the logic behind some of them. It is definitely a cool system overall that makes the combat much more interesting than it would have been otherwise, I just found it to be a bit unintuitive. For anyone looking to play this game for themselves, I would highly recommend checking a walkthrough for some sample Programs that can target multiple enemies in one turn, otherwise battles tend to become quite long and tedious. In fact, completing battles quickly is encouraged due to a timer that counts down from the start of the battle, and finishing the battle before the timer ends grants a small experience bonus (referred to as Megs in the game).
A typical enemy encounter.
It is also worth noting that the difficulty can feel quite unbalanced at times. As long as you are properly leveled and using effective Programs, combat will be a breeze for most of the game. However, particularly later in the game, you will encounter certain types of enemies that hit like a truck and take little damage from attacks and/or have a high evasion rate. You will also encounter enemies that are resistant to certain types of attacks and more susceptible to others, which is fair enough, however sometimes these affinities feel completely unintuitive. For example, I never understood why some enemies were weak against a single attack from a melee weapon but resistant to a Program that executes three strikes of the same melee attack, or vice versa. Late game bosses also hit hard and have a ton of HP, which is true of most games, but these battles would devolve into a rote pattern of Attack-Revive-Attack-Revive every time, rendering them fairly unexciting. By the end of the game, all of my stats were maxed (except HP which has a much higher cap than other stats) and I had the best equipment in the game, so I don't see how this pattern would be avoidable. Just be sure to bring along plenty of healing items!
Customization is also an important aspect of
. You can create up to three robots during the game, and their stats can be manipulated however you choose. Each time you level up, the game awards you with ten points for each robot to spread among the stats of Energy (HP), Power (Strength), Guard (Defense), Speed (Accuracy/Evasion), and Charge (Fuel charging). This is a neat system that allows you to customize each robot for specific roles, such as a powerhouse or tank. However, I was a bit disappointed that it was not possible to create entirely different kinds of robots with varying designs, but perhaps my expectations were set too high for a game from this era. Instead, all three robots look exactly the same except for color, and their only distinguishing characteristics are stats and equipment (and not even stats once you max out all of their attributes). There is also a crafting system that allows you to create equipment, consumable items, and important items that are required to progress.
Elements of
visual presentation will be familiar to those who have played some of Quintet's other games. The familiar text font that Quintet always uses is here, and certain character sprites look like they were ripped straight from
Illusion of Gaia
. Enemy sprites usually vary between ridiculous and uninspired. The color palette is nice, and
is a nice looking game overall, it just seems a little bland. The music is mediocre at best, and the battle theme will quickly grate on your nerves.
Although it is a bit bland, it still looks nice.
While I wouldn't call
a bad game, I do think it warrants the mediocre review scores it received upon its initial release, and it feels more like a missed opportunity than anything else. It ultimately just feels rushed, but it is certainly an interesting game with many unique gameplay elements that I wish would have been built upon and refined in a better produced sequel. I was surprised to discover that this game was one of Quintet's last games released during the 16-bit era (only
came after); it feels more primitive than its predecessors in many aspects. I was able to look past the game's faults and really enjoyed it for about half of my playthough, but I don't feel like the game is interesting enough (or good enough, for that matter) to sustain itself for its entire length, which usually takes about 25 hours for most players (rough guess since there is no in-game clock).
is a game that I find hard to recommend. While I honestly believe that your time would be better spent on better games, it does have a small cult following that you may agree with, and I can't deny that it does some unique and interesting things that make it worth checking out, at least for a few hours. For anyone who starts the game and finds that they are growing tired of it, I would recommend just stopping because it doesn't introduce many interesting ideas after the first few hours, and it is unlikely to renew your interest. Original Super Nintendo cartridges of
tend to sell for about $50 on the used market.
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Nice review good sir! I have had this game in my collection for a few years and it's one that I've always wanted to play. I think that the sort of sci-fi theme is what appeals to me most as I really enjoy similar games like Secret of Evermore. Hate to hear that it might not be as good as advertised by many over the YouTubes, but one I'm still willing to check out down the road.
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Very in-depth review! Were I a SNES owner, versus a Genesis owner, during this time, and also, were I more of an RPG person growing up, the sci-fi theme would have appealed to me as well, and I might have been drawn to this one.
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During my walk with Boofie (our dog) this morning, the word "PLAYING" popped into my mind.
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TV News Bloopers of 2016
TV Bloopers of 2016
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To close out this year, take a moment to check our some news blooper.
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A truck driver for Employer A makes a delivery to Employer B's premises on a snowy night. Once there, he exits his truck, slips on ice and falls, hitting his head and suffering an injury. Worker's comp covers his injury. But Employer A says Employer B should be responsible for the claim's costs because it negligently failed to sand its parking lot. Employer B says it properly maintained its premises and produces invoices for the snow removal services it used. But the invoices don't prove that any sanding was done prior to the driver's injury. And even some of Employer B's workers said the lot was really slick. Employer B argues that given the snowy conditions, the driver should've exercised caution when he got out of his truck to avoid falling. The workers' comp board rules that Employer A is solely responsible for the claim's costs so it appeals.
Who should be responsible for the costs?
A. Employer A
B. Employer B
C. Both employers should split the costs evenly.
D. Neither employer because the injury wasn't work-related.
B. Employer B's experience record should be charged with the costs of the driver's injury.
This hypothetical is based on a decision by the Appeals Commission for Alberta Workers' Compensation in which the Commission concluded costs should be charged to an employer's experience record when another employer's worker was injured after slipping and falling in its negligently maintained parking lot. The Commission explained that workers' comp costs are allocated between negligent employers based on degree of negligence. The evidence showed it was reasonably foreseeable that a visitor could slip and fall in the employer's parking lot because of the snowy weather conditions. So the Commission said the employer should've taken reasonable steps to address the slippery and icy conditions, such as sanding and having a supervisor monitor the lot's conditions. Because the evidence didn't demonstrate the employer took such reasonable steps, it was negligent and so should be responsible for the costs of the injury to the other employer's worker. And because there was no evidence that the other employer or the injured worker were negligent at all, the Commission charged the full costs of the worker's injury to the employer that owned the parking lot.
A is wrong because an injured worker's immediate employer isn't always responsible for the workers' comp costs related to his injury. For example, if the worker was injured due the negligence of a third party, that party may have to bear all or some of the related workers' comp costs. In this case, although Employer A is the driver's employer, it didn't own or control the premises on which the driver was injured and didn't negligently contribute to the conditions in the parking lot that caused his injury. Thus, Employer A shouldn't be responsible for the claims' costs related to the driver's fall.
C is wrong because the workers' comp costs should be equally apportioned between employers only when the degree of negligence of each can't be determined. When two employers are involved in a worker's injury, the workers' comp costs are charged to the experience records of the employers who were negligent in proportion to the degree of negligence of each. If the degree of negligence can't be determined, then the costs are equally apportioned between the employers involved. In this case, Employer B had a duty to make its parking lot reasonably safe for visitors. It failed to sufficiently sand the parking lot or take other reasonable steps to address the slippery conditions and thus was negligent. But there was no evidence of any negligence on the part of Employer A. So the costs related to the driver's injury shouldn't be split but rather charged fully to Employer B.
D is wrong because the injury was work-related and thus is compensable. A compensable injury is one arising out of and occurring in the course of employment. An accident arises out of employment when it's caused by an employment hazard and occurs in the course of performing work duties. Here, the driver was in the process of making a delivery to Employer B's workplace and was injured when he slipped on the icy parking lot while exiting his truck. Thus, his injury did occur while he was performing his employment duties and was caused by a workplace hazard. So it's compensable.
Decision No: 2012-968, [2012] CanLII 68325 (AB WCAC), Oct. 30, 2012


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Sewage Treatment Plants
Protecting the Environment, Ensuring System Compliance
Sewage treatment plants are typically located out of sight and as a consequence are often neglected. However, the penalties for neglecting a plant can be both dangerous and costly.
Sewage treatment systems are organic environments which need a continuous operation to sustain biological activity. Should the air-flow through a plant fail (or in the case of an RBC the contractor stop rotating) then the biological colony will not receive oxygen and will die.
It is therefore essential that the components which provide air through the system are properly maintained and checked. This may include a variety of components such as pumps, compressors, motors and gearboxes.
Problems arising from poor maintenance include:
- Environmental Pollution
If a plant is allowed to deteriorate and the biological process fails it could result in raw sewage passing through into a watercourse and have a severe impact on the local environment.
- Prosecution from the Environment Agency
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As usual Barcelona are in the group with AC Milan (but this year they aren't quite so frightening). Juve take a walk down memory lane, with former coach Carlo Ancelotti now in charge at Real Madrid. New-look Napoli under Benitez come up against Borussia Dortmund, runners-up last year.
The draw for the group stage of the Champions League is difficult, but not impossible. It will be tough but it isn't beyond their powers. The three Italian teams can do it.
In group B Juve will be up against Real Madrid, Galatasaray and Copenhagen. In group F Napoli will take on Arsenal, Marseille and Borussia Dortmund, whereas in group H AC Milan have been drawn with Barcelona (as usual) as well as Ajax and Celtic.
GROUP A — Manchester United (Eng), Shakhtar Donetsk (Ukr), Bayer Leverkusen (Ger), Real Sociedad (Spa)
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GROUP C — Benfica (Por), Paris Saint Germain (Fra), Olympiacos (Gre), Anderlecht (Bel)
GROUP D — Bayern Munich (Ger), CSKA Moscow (Rus), Manchester City (Eng), Viktoria Plzen (Czech Rep.)
GROUP E — Chelsea (Eng), Schalke 04 (Ger), Basel (Swi), Steaua Bucarest (Rom)
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Richmond. 6am Sunday morning. The first day of October. The streets are bare, the light is grey, the sun about to rise. An empty Punt Road Oval is to the right, Melbourne's largest church behind it.
Coming up to Richmond Station, Punt Road gets a little less vacant. There still aren't any cars or people, but the pavement is covered in rubbish. Turning onto Swan Street, there's more and more of it, paper and plastic turning to glass around the Precinct Hotel.
Two teenage girls walk along the sidewalk in short dresses, tired faces telling of a long night. They struggle along in heels, grinning and blowing smoke, the blankets around their shoulders and faint daylight suggesting that home, finally, is next.
The rest of Richmond is subsided carnage, something between an inoffensive warzone and the remnants of a sloppy high school party. Close your eyes and it's impossible not to see the night before, the scarfed maniacs jumping on cars, clumsily climbing on top of roofs, and just generally being loud, stupid and marvellous.
The scene of this smiling crime, perpetrated by the fans, is not unlike the one their team left across the road. The Richmond players were the battering feet on the pavement, the Crows a helpless Swan Street.
But it wasn't just Adelaide that Richmond reduced to rubble – it was the rest of the AFL. The Tigers' run to the flag was one of the most incredible, unlikely and comprehensively dominant in football history. In their wake, all that was left were empty streets and floating trash.
Often it's easy to get so caught up in the football that we forget the bigger picture. It's also easy to do the opposite. The 2017 Tigers will be remembered as the team that erased 37 years of woe, a group that provided a profound emotional catharsis to one of Australian sport's most tortured fan-bases. But the story takes the football a little out of focus – and it's the football that makes these Tigers so improbable. Richmond didn't just exorcise demons – they unleashed football hell on everyone they faced.
They are not last year's Bulldogs. This was not a fairytale – it was much too brutal. Too clinical, too punishing, and, more than anything – too foregone. Fairytales are narratives – they require suspense. The Tigers were too good for suspense.
What is so breathtaking is not the fact that they won – it's that they never came close to losing. We kept on waiting for 'Richmond' to surface, for them to finally blow it, to feel history, to become themselves. But they never did, and then it became clear:
'Richmond' is dead. The Tigers are here.
It's halfway through the fourth quarter of the Grand Final. The Tigers lead is 87-54 and what seemed impossible has begun to feel inevitable. On the far wing, Taylor Walker, so often a figure of power, swagger and chest-protruding confidence, kicks the ball forward with a look of hopeless anguish. His strut has been broken.
Eddie Betts takes a spectacular mark inside 50. But like so many of his teammates on the day, he loses his composure. He needlessly plays on and handballs to Charlie Cameron, seemingly unaware that Shane Edwards is right on Cameron's trail. All day the world has been too fast for the Crows, an unhappy, unending montage of black and yellow blurs.
Cameron is in Edwards' grasp before he has a chance to think. The tackle rotates Cameron so that his back is turned to goal. He frees his arm for a moment, but in that split second he sees no teammate, only Tigers. By the time Betts reappears running past it's too late. Edwards secures his grasp and knocks the ball from Cameron's hands to the ground. As he falls meekly to the turf, frail and desperate, Cameron looks in the umpire's direction, a confused cry for help. Holding the ball.
Edwards takes the free kick and drives the ball long and wide. Jack Riewoldt doesn't win the contest with Daniel Talia in the air but he brings the ball to ground, creates separation from Talia, wins possession and booms a kick forward.
Daniel Rioli chases the ball inside 50, outnumbered three to one. He wins the ball and somehow escapes Luke Brown in a playground tussle so furious it breaks Rioli's foot. Jake Lever is next and Rioli can't shake his tackle. Lever has him, except he doesn't. Rioli contorts his body to perform a strange, frantic bicycle kick while still in Lever's grasp, twisting desperately on his broken foot, managing to somehow propel the ball forward 15 metres towards the pocket. Jacob Townsend follows it, a Crow hot on his tail, and ushers it out across the line.
The ball is locked inside Richmond's 50 at the MCG. It's locked in there again, where it seems destined to be, and for much of the Grand Final, the preliminary final and qualifying final, it seems never to have left.
The Tigers did not kick a goal from this particular forward thrust. The Crows hacked the ball out of defence, briefly broke into space and then ran out of ideas at half forward. As they did all day, they reached a point where they could only see Tiger jumpers, and then they did something silly.
Richmond repelled that drive forward with a counter-attack that led to a Bachar Houli set shot. He missed. But then from the kick in David Mackay chipped it short to Jacob Townsend, directly in front of goal. Had Townsend not taken the mark, Jack Riewoldt might have. What Mackay saw, who knows – it were as though the Tigers were so in his head that they were literally all he could see.
This passage is the essence of Richmond. Their victories were not predicated on highlight reel moments or devastating blitzes – short timeframes where they'd blow the game open. Instead, their dominance was gradual but ever-present and, more than anything, unrelenting. Every game was an arm-wrestle that they always held a slight but undeniable advantage in, slowly wearing the opponent down. And then, after the opponent's will was broken, the body quickly gave way.
Townsend's goal, his second for the day and the one that put to rest the tiniest shreds of doubt over the result, was built on a tackle, a forward bringing the ball to ground, a scrubbed kick to the boundary, a maintaining of defensive shape, a clearance, a missed shot at goal, an intercept mark and then, finally, a goal. This is how Richmond operated. Their beauty was in the grind – it was in the knowledge that wherever the ball was, whatever the state of play, they were always just a little bit harder than the opposition, and a little bit smarter.
In the Grand Final, it felt like every bounce, every ricochet, every blind kick forward was going in Richmond's favour. But then, as it kept happening, you began to realise that this wasn't luck. When you play with fury and structure, these things inevitably break your way over time. Richmond's premiership was, ultimately, built on endurance – the club's willingness to stay the course, from board level decision-making down to Kane Lambert's gut running.
Their beauty was in the grind – it was in the knowledge that wherever the ball was, whatever the state of play, they were always just a little bit harder than the opposition, and a little bit smarter.
It was a flag that came as a result of a series of small moments – perhaps as long a series of small moments as any flag has been built upon. But when you sit back and view the small moments in their entirety – the David Astbury intercept marks, the desperate Dion Prestia clearances, the Shane Edwards tackles – what you see, incredibly, is the most dominant finals run that any football team has had since 2000.
Richmond won all three of its finals by at least six goals, crushing all three remaining members of the top four. In each final they kicked ten goals in the second half – their opponent never kicked more than four.
What was most remarkable is that at no stage in any final did they ever really look like losing. The only time alarm bells rang – and the ringing was faint – was in the first half of the preliminary final, where GWS played the game on its own terms. It was the only stretch where Richmond lost its identity, allowing GWS to play the game out in open space. But even so, most teams – even historically great teams – will have entire finals where they lose themselves then have to eke out a result at the death. The closest the Tigers ever came to capitulation was a slightly nervous opening half where they took a lead to the main break before winning by six goals. The completeness of their dominance was absurd.
So too, though, was Adelaide's leading up to the Grand Final. But on the big day, Adelaide walked into the exam room armed simply with an expensive pen and visions of exquisite handwriting. The Tigers brought neck tattoos and a baseball bat. And they had a nicer pen too.
The Grand Final wasn't just a battering – it was an evisceration. It was physical and mental, the Tigers tearing down Adelaide's resistance until there was nothing left, only Charlie Cameron captured and standing helpless in Shane Edwards' grasp under the twilight sun as Richmond fans roared in celebrating all the prisoners their men had taken.
On the big day, Adelaide walked into the exam room armed simply with an expensive pen and visions of exquisite handwriting. The Tigers brought neck tattoos and a baseball bat.
Some Grand Finals are decided in the opening moments. When Jarryd Roughead crushed Dan Hannebery at the start of the 2014 Grand Final, you could tell it was over. Likewise Heath Shaw smothering Nick Riewoldt in the 2010 Replay. The Crows, though, got the jump. They had the perfect start, booting the first two goals while Jack Riewoldt kicked three behinds. They weathered a Richmond storm and then finished the first quarter with a flurry, goals at the top of the square to Rory Sloane and Hugh Greenwood opening up a healthy Adelaide lead. The game was going as so many had envisioned it – Richmond controlling territory but being wasteful with their disposal, while the Crows were clinical with fewer opportunities going the other way.
But then all that stopped. And all that was left was Richmond controlling territory. It wasn't so much that Adelaide stopped scoring – it was that they never looked like scoring. There was no rued lost moment – no Nat Fyfe missed set shots, no Jack Darling dropped marks. There was just Richmond, and then more of them.
Adelaide's deterioration was slow but undeniable. They started with swagger and ended with disorientation. By the close, Paul Seedsman was opting to handball to 50/50 contests in defence, Andy Otten had disappeared from the face of the Earth, and Josh Jenkins was the most broken of them all. And yet, unlike Port Adelaide in 2007 or West Coast in 2015, it didn't feel like the result was pre-ordained from the first bounce. Adelaide did not start this game in their own heads, defeated as they walked out. Richmond did this to them. They took the alleged best team in the competition and flattened their bodies and then their spirit. They turned determined men into hapless occupiers of air. It was, in a crushing way, beautiful.
Comparisons to the Bulldogs are inevitable. But Richmond's story is so much more improbable. The Bulldogs were euphoric; the Tigers are nonsensical. The Bulldogs made you feel better about the world; the Tigers make you feel like the world no longer makes sense and things need to be investigated. It felt as though the Bulldogs' history was driving them at every moment towards the flag – throughout Richmond's finals campaign their history felt like a paper plane they were tossing into the bin. Where the Dogs story came with its own heart-warming, immediate closure, the Tigers make you want to open your laptop and study past midnight where all these no-name players came from, what are their heights and weights, did Kamdyn McIntosh and Jason Castagna really just win a premiership?
Richmond finished 13th last season and appeared to get worse over the offseason. Their coach had been in place for seven years, all their stars were established, and one had just fled to Western Sydney, to go somewhere he could actually contend for a flag. A mini-era of semi-contention – three finals campaigns, zero finals victories – had come to a soundless end. A rebuild was likely in order. And the rebuild did happen. It took one summer.
Richmond's journey from 2016 to 2017 is a magnificent football lesson that will likely go unlearned. Fans will look at Richmond's list and then look at their own and think that they can win the flag next year. They'll think that they're only a player or two away – if we just slot Tom Rockliff in here, and Jake Lever in there, then… But does it ever go that way?
At the end of last season, the Tigers lost Brett Deledio, Ty Vickery, Troy Chaplin, Chris Yarran and pick six in the draft, and gained Dion Prestia, Toby Nankervis and Josh Caddy. At the time, on paper, would anyone have considered that a meaningful upgrade for 2017?
The enduring legacy of these Tigers, perhaps, will be that 'on paper' is almost meaningless. Football goes beyond a depth of game-breaking, rounded elite talent. The Tigers are proof of that. You look at their list and beyond the top four there are no All-Australian candidates, and no one you would consider a top 50 player in the competition. Maybe not a top 75 player. But what's more valuable? Josh Kelly, Jonathon Patton, Toby Greene, Tom Scully and a wealth of blue-chip talent, or total buy-in from 22 players to a game plan and having not a single one of them be a defensive liability? Your Dylan Shiel caveats notwithstanding, we saw the answer.
Richmond has forced us to redefine how we conceive of 'talented'. Our scouting eye is naturally lazy. A player like Daniel Menzel is undeniably 'talented' because he fits the classical mould that so few Richmond players do: skillful, elegant and dynamic. We don't think of players like Kane Lambert, Kamdyn McIntosh and Jacob Townsend as uniquely talented, because what they do is so utterly distant from the Menzels of the world. But just because their strengths are not easily understood by a Danish person watching an AFL clip on YouTube for the first time, that doesn't make them any less talented. It's a talent to run as Lambert does, further and more gut-wrenchingly than anyone else. It's a talent to be as mean and relentless as McIntosh is, an incurable itch for opponents. And it's a talent to lay a tackle like the one Townsend laid on Matt Crouch early in the Grand Final, which lifted his entire team like no expertly dribbled goal from the boundary ever could.
The Tigers had talent. They had droves of it. They built a team in the image of three specific talents: speed, physicality and determination. Then they had buy-in, and that gave them connectivity. And connectivity is the one thing that all the great teams share. The 2012-15 Hawks might have been made special by their foot skills, the 2010-11 Magpies by their forward pressure, the 2007-11 Cats by their free-flowing corridor ball movement, but ultimately, they were all special for the same reason: whatever they did well, they did together and in perfect unison. The Tigers, for whatever they weren't, were clearly united – by far the most united in the competition. They hunted the ball in harmony and spread from the contest in perfect synchrony once they got it. Other teams had better individuals – no team had a better collective.
You look at the names on Richmond's list and beyond the first four there is nothing that screams out greatness. But then you watched the unheralded names take the field and all you saw was greatness. There is 'whole greater than the sum of its part' and then there are the 2017 Tigers. By the end it was comical and, ultimately, believable – the best teams in our land were going to be sent to destruction by the hands of Jack Graham, Jacob Townsend and Nathan Broad. It's hard to know what's more surprising – that these were the destroyers, or that by the time it was all over there was no shame in being destroyed by them.
Those three – and Jason Castagna, Kamdyn McIntosh, Dan Butler, Shaun Grigg, Kane Lambert and David Astbury, among others – were undervalued by the public because we didn't know them or we thought we knew them. None of these players were first-round picks for Richmond, and only McIntosh went as early as the second round. They didn't have pedigree, but that didn't mean they were lacking talent. Or class, for that matter. As the smoothest, most efficient team in the game collapsed in a heap at one end in the Grand Final, at the other Grigg, Lambert, Graham, Butler and Castagna were finishing as cleanly as Jason Akermanis and Matthew Lloyd might hope to. These five combined for eight shots at goal in the Grand Final. The result: eight goals, no behinds.
These players, the nameless Tigers whose names will now be known for decades, were able to thrive because they were put in positions where they could best succeed. All their strengths were accentuated, all their weaknesses obscured into irrelevance. There was a sense that Adelaide's team-wide advantage in foot skills might be decisive in the Grand Final. Midway through the second quarter it became clear this wasn't going to be Adelaide's avenue to victory. Richmond's pressure was always such that you could never be your best self by foot. And when the Tigers drove forward themselves, so often it was Dustin Martin and Bachar Houli, exquisite users and decision makers, penetrating the defence, which, you couldn't help but feel, must have been by design.
The Tigers on-field operation never seemed hierarchical though. Martin inevitably possesses a certain aura and football gravitas – around his teammates and all other life forms – but other Tigers never seemed to defer to him out of necessity or responsibility, not the way that Gold Coast players do for Gary Ablett. They fed Martin because he was the guernsey to feed, not because he was Dustin Martin. And Martin fed the ball right back to whoever was in best position, the most perfect link in an otherworldly food chain of football altruism.
Every single Richmond player was empowered. They didn't play like they needed to target Riewoldt every time forward, always transition through Alex Rance or give backwards handballs to Dustin Martin because these are big name players and big name players get the ball. They trusted one another, whoever it was, and every time that a teammate succeeded – which by the end of three successive six-plus-goal finals victories was quite a lot – the trust grew greater. By the end, that trust and connection were so unbreakable that the Crows were left in a million little pieces.
Cohesion, though, is only oil. It needs magic to set it alight. Most premiers have eight or nine magicians. The Tigers only needed four.
Jack Riewoldt seems perpetually unhappy on the football field. When he is elated, his teeth only become more gritted. It's not hard to envision him as a tragic figure, chasing something unreachable, forever in need, the type of player who is destined to kick three first quarter behinds in a losing Grand Final. But Riewoldt, whose presence and impact were merely functional the week prior, gripped his destiny against Adelaide, strangling it and the game into something else. He combined the best elements of his younger days with those of his more seasoned. He was explosive and electric, taking hangers and slotting goals, by far the most forceful and present forward on the day.
But he also sacrificed, content to be a link and a pillar, not a focus and main attraction. He crashed packs and brought the ball to ground for Richmond's smalls to dominate. He demanded defensive attention whenever the ball was in his vicinity, the threat of his magic enough to worry defenders that he might win the game. In the past he might have indeed tried to use that magic to win the game himself – and he's so talented that he might have succeeded. But he played the percentages, always did the team thing, sacrificed so others could prosper, and as a result he got a performance with The Killers to go with his Colemans.
Trent Cotchin, you suspect, would not be caught dead with The Killers. Exactly why, it's hard to know, but almost certainly because he's: a) far too cool or b) not nearly cool enough, with no in between. Cotchin is Richmond's greatest enigma, which is ironic, because he's also, arguably, their most consistent and reliable performer. He has lived many football lives, from incandescent phenom and potential saviour to weary, battered disappointment to, finally, inspirational captain and lifeblood of his team.
After a long, difficult journey, Cotchin has finally reached his destination. There is no more confused captain who kicked into the wind against Port Adelaide, man who had nine touches against North Melbourne. There is only a Brownlow medallist and premiership captain, and a player worthy of both those honours, a champion who launched himself at every contest this year like his life and honour depended on it and lifted his team with every bruise suffered and inflicted. Everyone will have their own defining image of Richmond's finals series. But perhaps the most enduring is that of Cotchin attacking the ball and the man with furious intent, a maniac unleashed, his perfect haircut and suit dissolved in lava, the only remains a beast with one plan.
If Cotchin is fire, Alex Rance is ice. The best defender of his generation by an accelerating stretch, Rance is, in a lot of ways, the most impossible player in the AFL. How can one man be everywhere all the time? Livewire forwards kick goals from geometrically divine angles and powerful midfielders burst through and past packs of elite athletes like they are nothing but glorified air. But the defender who absorbs it all, who can see the future and crush the opponent's present, is perhaps football's most inspired creature. That is Rance, who was the most vivid symbol of the Crows' plight. Every time they went forward, he was there, looming ominously. At times it feels like his mass consumes the entire 50, through the ethereal, borderline suspicious combination of his size, pace, vision, courage, decision-making and overall genius. In the modern game, where defensive structure and playmaking is so decisive, there are credible arguments to be made that Rance is the best player in football.
If not for his teammate.
The Tigers are so much more than Dustin Martin. They are Dylan Grimes – reliable to the point of cliché, a man who has never looked like losing a contest, and if he does, you suddenly feel confused and afraid. They are Bachar Houli – no longer the most underrated player in the AFL, because how could you be after you played the game of your life in the Grand Final, a steady beat to all his movements, so smooth, poised and composed, a cauldron of pressure doing nothing to lift the temperature of the ice water in his veins.
They are Shane Edwards – perhaps the new most underrated player in the AFL, a late-era Luke Ball type with more explosive menace, a ferocious tackler and a delicate, expert in-close wizard by hand. They are Josh Caddy and Toby Nankervis – the type of recruits that win you premierships, hardened players that colour in the sketched outline of a contender.
They are Nick Vlastuin and Brandon Ellis – the heartbeats of any great team, the brave corporals in defence who lift their teammates with every collision absorbed and dealt. They are Kamdyn McIntosh – a punchline for so long, who somehow shared midfields in finals at the MCG with the likes of Patrick Dangerfield, Josh Kelly and Rory Sloane, and not for a moment looked like he didn't belong. They are Daniel Rioli – the spark whose preliminary final was as good as any Norm Smith his relatives might have.
But more than anything, they are Dustin Martin. The qualifying final was his, the preliminary final was his, the Grand Final was… probably Bachar Houli's, Shane Edwards' or Alex Rance's, but it was Martin's too. And then the competition was his, and the city as well.
Martin is not the best player the game has ever seen, but when you watch him you question how anyone could play it better. He is a beast-freak and a world-class violinist, someone who makes brutality look delicate and finesse look cruel. The sight of his wide, powerful frame accelerating through the middle of the MCG, purposeful, upright, arrogant and wonderful, is surely the game's most perfect image. The endpoint of those runs, though, is rarely obvious, rarely cinematic. It's always so much better.
In the past, Martin was exquisite but uneven, too young to know how to control or harness all of his powers. He tried check-siding goals from 50 when there were free teammates waiting, tried taking players on when a lateral handball was the play. But he learnt. He didn't have to – he was at a level of quality where refinement would never be a survival instinct. He could have remained raw and still been a top ten player in the game. But he got smarter and he got fitter. He was already a freak – then he slowly became a professor.
Watching the gears of Martin's mind is every bit as enthralling as watching him fend men off into oblivion. The fend-offs are popcorn – the processing of situations is There Will Be Blood. As that perfect image moves, as Martin drives himself forward through the middle of the ground, the straightness of his torso somehow mimicking the sharp angles of his haircut, you can see him crafting a new masterpiece.
His first instinct is always altruistic. He wants to feed the ball to a teammate, but he knows that his body is so powerful that he can always defer that moment until later. That, really, is the beauty of Martin – that his body allows the genius of his mind to reach its maximum potential. Want to imagine the things that Scott Pendlebury could do in traffic emboldened by the knowledge that no man can bring him down? You don't have to anymore.
As that perfect image moves, as Martin drives himself forward through the middle of the ground, the straightness of his torso somehow mimicking the sharp angles of his haircut, you can see him crafting a new masterpiece.
How Martin finishes these sequences is what football is all about. Passing up a good shot at goal for a great one. Weighting a ball perfectly in front of a forward's lead that only begins as the ball is already airborne. Slicing a pass so low and sharp that you can almost feel the blades of its flight making the air bleed.
Martin just had the most decorated season possible, and right now, he sits atop a peak that perhaps only Michael Voss, Chris Judd and Gary Ablett Jr have reached this century. Martin, though, is somehow more special than any of them, more fascinating. Voss and Judd were so professional and polished, and Ablett has always been a little weird. Compare them to Martin, who just gave the most painful and authentic Brownlow medal speech you will see. He is not a brand or a sculpted ambassador – he is a guy who dropped out of school at 14, hates talking in front of people and just happens to be the best football player in the country.
On field, he was a force powerful enough to take a knife to Richmond's fatalism. The gap between he and Rance is smaller than the hype suggests, but in 30 years, when we see highlight montages of the end of Richmond's premiership drought, the screen will always flash to Martin, as it did when the siren went in the Grand Final. He will be the player forever most associated with this flag, the way Tony Shaw is with 1990, Leo Barry with 2005, Marcus Bontempelli with 2016. Unlike those players, though, Martin didn't just rise to the absolute pinnacle in September. He spent the whole season there – September was just life continuing as it was.
It's a testament to Martin that he was able to get himself there, but also a testament to his club. One suspects that had Martin been drafted by Brisbane, or a couple years later by Gold Coast, he would still be unfulfilled potential, on his second club by now, someone's reclamation project. Richmond's infrastructure, though, was strong enough to deal with Martin's complexities and allow him to realise his ideal football self.
This premiership, ultimately, is about that infrastructure. It's about staying the course and having a plan. Last year Damien Hardwick was a dead man walking, someone whose coaching future existed on the same plane as Justin Leppitsch and Nathan Buckley. Peggy O'Neal, Brendon Gale and the club believed enough in Hardwick and stuck with him. They saw, like he did, that this Richmond team wasn't one that had run its course like most figured. It was one that had made finals three years in a row then simply had one bad year. A renovation was in order, not a demolition.
Hardwick has always been one of the game's most likeable coaches, articulate, candid and, in an almost odd way, exceedingly warm. His genuineness makes it easy to doubt him – deep down, we always suspect that nice guys will finish closer to last than first. He doesn't carry the obvious, archetypal coaching gravitas of an Alastair Clarkson, Ross Lyon or Luke Beveridge – he's too honest, too accommodating. But behind what appears to be an exceptionally decent person is an extraordinarily capable coach. Beveridge's achievement last year was the finest coaching accomplishment in decades. That title lasted only 12 months.
What Hardwick has done, and overcome in the process, is a football marvel of historical proportions. No one has ever done more with less.
This flag is a testament to the power of coaching, to the possibility of a cohesive collective having the strength and force to tear down more talented individuals. It is a realisation of sport's greatest, most seminal story.
Written by Jay Croucher.
Jay Croucher has been a Roar expert since 2015, specialising in Australian Rules Football, American Football and NBA. From MSG in New York to the MCG in Melbourne, Jay has spent his adult life travelling the world, indulging in sport and approaching it from the angle of history and pop culture. Follow him on Twitter @CroucherJD


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1) Exercise
Individuals engaging in regular exercise have a decreased risk of heart disease and reduce their risk of heart failure by 50% [1].
Regular exercise has beneficial effects on SIRT1, a gene that regulates cellular processes such as anti-cell death, brain protection, cellular aging, and longevity. Exercise training enhances the SIRT longevity pathway [2].
In flies, endurance training increased autophagy (cell recycling) in fat tissue while affecting the gene, mthl-3, in a way that "targeted longevity assurance pathways" [3].
Regular exercise is known to increase muscle mass. Increased muscle mass has been shown to lower frailty index (measured by of slow walking speed, weakness, weight loss, energy expenditure, and exhaustion) – a key factor in determining life expectancy [4].
The majority of these longevity benefits are from moderate exercise. Most endurance athletes perform far beyond the recommended levels of physical activity. Studies have shown that this sort of exercise is not healthy and can actually lead to a 10-20% increase in heart size and increase the risk of a sudden heart attack [1].
In fact, the longevity benefits associated with exercise might be achievable with non-exercise physical activity (NEPA) like gardening, walking or just being on one's feet all day. Like exercise, "NEPA is associated with more preferable waist circumference, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and triglycerides, fasting insulin, fasting glucose, and better metabolic and heart health in men" [5].
Exercise also increases klotho, which is a protein and gene associated with longevity.
I personally encourage a combination of NEPA (e.g. standing desk, taking walks, treadmill desks, bike desk, etc.) and high-intensity interval training.
2) Heat Stress and Sauna
A recent, exciting study of 2,315 Finnish men aged 42-60 found that regular sauna use led to considerably decreased risks of heart disease and a lower chance of dying from all causes [6].
Those who enjoy a sauna 4-7 times per week have a 48% lower risk of fatal heart disease or heart attack over those that used the sauna once per week [6].
Worms exposed to heat stress for no more than 2 hours showed increased longevity. The heat stress appeared to protect the worms against age-related frailty [7].
Heat shock proteins produced during heat stress are important for basic cellular maintenance e.g. preventing harmful accumulations of unhealthy proteins. Flies repeatedly exposed to heat stress had a significant increase in lifespan, correlating with higher levels of heat shock proteins (Hsp70) [8].
Yeast exposed to mild heat stressors lived longer (possibly due to RAS genes) [9].
Heat stress acts as a hormetic response that reduces protein damage and buildup by boosting antioxidant activity, as well as repair and degradation processes (autophagy) [10].
Saunas are the best way to experience thermal stress.
3) Sleep
One study reviewed all previous population studies (total of 1,382,999 participants) and found that both too short and excessively long sleep durations were linked to a greater risk of death.
Individuals that slept less than 6 hours per night had a greater risk of dying than those sleeping 7 to 8.
Individuals that slept more than 9 hours per night had a 30% greater risk of dying than those sleeping 7 to 8.
The negative effects of not enough sleep were the same for all ages, regardless of location or social and economic status.
It's probably the case that people who need to sleep longer are unhealthier, but sleeping more is not worse for your health (I think people should sleep as long as there body desires).
Shorter sleep duration has been linked to increased risk of heart attack [11, 12, 13].
Short sleep duration has also been associated with high blood pressure [14, 15].
Too little sleep is tied to obesity [16, 17, 18].
Lack of sleep can cause type 2 diabetes.
If you want to achieve optimal health you should avoid sleep deprivation. Be cautious of anyone selling you the idea that you can sleep for less than 6 hours and still be healthy.
You can optimize your sleep by improving your circadian rhythm.
If you have trouble falling asleep try these methods.
4) Stress Reduction
Mothers caring for chronically ill children experienced changes to their chromosomes equivalent to several years of extra aging.
A study found that chronic stress experienced by carers for people with Alzheimer's disease shortened the caregivers' lives by 4-8 years.
Both groups of carers had lowered immune function (fewer lymphocytes), more inflammation (more cytokines) and shorter telomeres.
I recommend avoiding stressful triggers as much as possible.
You can also change what your body perceives as stress by deep breathing exercises and meditation.
5) Social
A Chinese study showed that the enhanced social status associated with becoming an academic led to an average increase in lifespan of 1.2 years [19].
A very recent analysis found that greater social integration is associated with a lower risk of bad health at any age. In adolescence, social isolation caused levels of inflammation equivalent to physical inactivity. In later life, such isolation led to higher blood pressure than diabetes [20].
6) Caloric Restriction
Caloric restriction is a dietary plan that reduces total calories (usually by 20-40%) without causing malnutrition.
Studies on species such as yeast, worms, flies and small mammals have demonstrated that long term caloric restriction can, assuming adequate nutrients are present, significantly increase lifespan and reduce the risk of developing a host of diseases.
CR promotes life extension by normalizing blood sugar levels in humans. It does this by improving pancreatic cell function and increasing liver insulin sensitivity [21].
CR reduces the incidence of heart disease by normalizing high blood pressure and preventing the growth of the heart [22].
CR can improve longevity by reducing the rate of cancer. One study on monkeys showed a 50% drop in cancer rates after CR [23].
This could be because CR consistently reduces levels of growth factors, hormones (such as Growth Hormone, IGF-1, Testosterone), inflammatory cytokines and oxidative stress markers associated with cancer growth [23].
CR improves the survival rates of mice that have cancer (lymphoma) by reducing cancer cell proliferation and making tumors sensitive to certain proteins (e.g Bcl-2) that regulate the death of unhealthy cells [24].
A study on CR in mice found a correlation between body weight and longevity, suggesting that increased metabolic efficiency from CR is related to longevity [25].
CR slows the aging process by acting as a low-grade stressor and thereby creating a hormetic response (beneficial response to the low-grade stressor) [26].
One example of this is mitochondrial hormesis where CR encourages the formation of reactive oxygen species (ROS). ROS serve as molecular signals that turn on defense mechanisms that encourage adaptive stress resistance [27].
CR might increase longevity by increasing SIRT1 [28].
CR might exert its longevity effects by lowering insulin-like growth factor [29].
Longevity researchers agree that caloric restriction is a consistently effective way to increase lifespan in laboratory animals. As a result, a lot of research has gone into finding compounds that can mimic this effect. Many of which are mentioned below.
In monkeys, one study published in 2014 showed increase lifespan from CR [30], while another study published in 2012 did not show a difference [31].
The negative result from the 2012 study may be because they fed a healthier diet to the control group or because the monkeys were genetically different [31].
This means that if you're eating a junk food diet or if you have a certain set of genes, CR may provide significant longevity benefits.
7) Ketosis
Ketone supplementation (beta-hydroxybutyrate) extended the lifespan of worms by around 20%. Worms on a restricted diet did not see as dramatic increases in life expectancy, indicating that supplemental ketones act on the same longevity pathways as calorie restriction [32].
As already mentioned, sirtuins help control the balance between cell death, cell survival, and cell reproduction, and play a role in the regulation of metabolism and stress, important factors that affect the process of aging [33].
Ketones produced during ketosis can increase Sirtuin activity in neurons (particularly sirt1) by increasing cellular levels of Sirt1's cofactor NAD(+) [34].
See here for the best way I have found to get into ketosis.
8) Fasting
Religious & traditional cultures have long recognized that fasting has spiritual and bodily benefits.
In 1956, a Spanish study, which looked at 60 elderly men and women who fasted every other day for three years, found that there were less than half as many deaths and trips to the hospital in the fasted group than the non-fasted group [35].
Fasting for 2-4 days can "reboot" the immune system, lower Insulin-like growth factor, help clear out damaged cells (autophagy) and regenerate new, healthy ones [36, 37].
Long-lived animals and people usually have low insulin. Intermittent fasting improves glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity [38].
Intermittent fasting increases the lifespan of worms by altering gene transcription (by changing transcription factors KGB-1/AP-1 and DAF-16) [39].
Fasting causes mild stress within the body as it produces free radicals, molecules often linked with aging. This causes the SIRT3 gene to up the production of sirtuins, proteins associated with longevity [40].
Free radicals can actually increase lifespan by acting as low-grade stressors and making the body adapt accordingly (hormetic response). So taking "healthy" antioxidants like Vitamin C and E might not be such a good idea for longevity [40].
In rats, periodic fasting protects brain neurons against damaging stress. Alternate-day fasting made the rats' brains resistant to toxins that cause cellular damage.
Fasting mice have higher levels of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF). Low levels of BDNF are associated with everything from depression to Alzheimer's.
9) Methionine Restriction
Methionine is an essential amino acid.
A high amount of methionine is very toxic to both young and adult mammals, and this toxicity far exceeds that produced by the excess intake of any other amino acid [41].
In flies, methionine restriction (by 67%) extended maximum and mean lifespan by 2.4% and 10.5%, respectively [42].
In rats, methionine restriction (by 80%) increased median and maximum lifespan by 30% and 40%, respectively [43].
Methionine restriction delayed the onset of age-dependent disease and extended lifespan by decreasing body fat and insulin resistance in rats and mice – independently of Calorie Restriction [44, 45].
Although the mechanisms of methionine restriction-induced lifespan extension were not fully understood, a few studies suggested that it was different to Calorie Restriction at the molecular level in mammals [46].
10) Glucose Restriction
In worms, glucose restriction increases lifespan [47].
Reduced glucose availability promotes the formation of reactive oxygen species (ROS), induces catalase activity, and increases oxidative stress resistance and survival rates. These effects lead to "mitochondrial hormesis" [47].
11) Fiber/Butyrate
Butyrate is a short chain fatty acid produced during fermentation by the gut microbiota.
Feeding a form of butyrate to flies increased their maximum lifespan by 30-50% [48].
Similar life extension properties of butyrate have been observed in worms.
One of the primary mechanisms by which Butyrate extends lifespan is by altering the copying of genes that code for longevity (e.g glutathione S-transferase & superoxide dismutase) [48].
Internal Butyrate levels can be increased via supplementation, or by eating more resistant starch and non-digestible fibers that encourage colonic fermentation.
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12) Seafood
Mice fed a diet rich in DHA lived longer and had better brain function than those fed a diet high in saturated fats [49].
Researchers looked at 16 years worth of data on 2,700 healthy adults over the age of 65. They found that individuals with higher levels of all three fatty acids found in fish (DHA, EPA, DPA) had a lower risk of death [49]:
- DHA was linked to a 40% reduction in risk of death by heart disease.
- EPA was associated with a lower risk of heart attacks.
- DPA was associated with a lower risk of death from stroke.
Those with high levels of all of these fatty acids were 27% less likely to die during the study. They also lived 2 years longer, on average [49].
Another study found that fish oil consumption might increase lifespan by activating cell turnover (autophagy) [50].
I recommend:
- Eating seafood
- Taking a DHA supplement if you don't eat seafood daily
13) Olive Oil
A number of researchers have linked olive oil to the healthy lifespans of those eating a Mediterranean diet [51].
A study split rats up into two groups: one was fed sunflower oil and the other consumed olive oil. Over 40% of the sunflower oil group died of cancer. There were very few cancerous deaths in the rats that were fed olive oil. A number of similar studies have found that animals live longer also have a reduced risk of cancer when fed olive oil [52].
Consumption of 25ml of olive oil daily was shown to reduce the oxidization of DNA [53, 54].
Olive oil is rich in healthy monounsaturated fats and antioxidants (phenols, secoiridoids, and lignans). These antioxidants might increase lifespan by scavenging inflammatory free radicals [52].
Olive oil can oxidize and go rancid. It is always best to buy olive oil in dark bottles. Try not to expose the olive oil to unnecessary exposure to air or heat. Try to buy single source olive oils.
14) Nuts
A study at Harvard found that people who consumed nuts daily were less likely to die of cancer, heart disease, and respiratory disease and were, overall, 20% less likely to die during the study than nut avoiders [55].
People should not consume nuts if on a lectin avoidance diet.
15) Chocolate
In one study researchers found that Cacao extended lifespan and improve cognitive performance in rats when fed at daily doses of 24 mg/kg of body weight [56].
Another study split 470 men into two categories: those that eat a lot of chocolate and those that don't eat much chocolate. The study found that men were twice as likely to die from a heart attack in the chocolate-phobic group [57].
The high cocoa group had lower blood pressure and improved insulin sensitivity. In general, men who ate the most chocolate were less likely to die from any cause [57].
An 18-year study of just under 8,000 Harvard graduates revealed that men, but not women, who ate chocolate lived almost a year longer than those who did not.
A recent British study found that middle-aged and older adults who consume up to 3.5 ounces of chocolate a day have lower rates of heart disease. 12% of chocolate eaters died of heart disease during the study, compared to 17.4% of non-chocolate eaters [58].
16) Black Rice
A study on flies found that Black Rice extract could increase average lifespan by 14% by modulating certain genes important for the antioxidant system (SOD1, SOD2, CAT, Mth, and Rpn11) [59].
People should not consume rice if on a lectin avoidance diet unless it's pressure cooked.
17) Blueberries
Blueberry extracts given to fruit flies resulted in a 10% increase in lifespan [60].
Another study found that blueberry polyphenols given to worms increased lifespan in a way that was not explainable solely by the high antioxidant content of blueberries [61]
Blueberry extract might increase lifespan by up-regulating certain genes (e.g. that code for SOD, CAT, and RPn11) and down-regulating other genes (e.g. MTH) [60].
18) Apples
Fruit flies lived 10% longer when fed a diet rich in apple polyphenols [62].
As with blueberries, this increase in lifespan was correlated with the polyphenols ability to up-regulate or down-regulate certain genes (SOD, CAT, MTH, and Rpn11) [62].
19) Nectarine
Nectarine can enhance lifespan and healthspan by positively affecting glucose metabolism and limiting oxidative damage [63].
20) Coffee
Coffee is the top sources of caffeine and antioxidant polyphenols in the American diet [64].
People who drank three to five cups of coffee per day had a 15% lower risk of early death than those who didn't [65].
Habitual coffee consumption is associated with reduced mortality [66]
Coffee drinkers have lower risks of heart failure, stroke, diabetes and cancers [64].
A Swedish study found that moderate coffee consumption increased the chances of live to 100 years old [67].
Coffee can leach the body of calcium so coffee drinkers should eat or supplement with adequate calcium [64].
People should not consume coffee if on a lectin avoidance diet.
21) Pomegranate
Pomegranate juice increases lifespan in worms [68].
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I walk fast, in New York there is always a place to be, a train to catch, someone to meet - so we walk fast. So much that even when you're not in a hurry you find yourself rushing through the streets, skillfully avoiding impact with all sorts of things. After doing this for some time you have become well acquainted with the concrete of the sidewalks, the puddles on the intersections, the crossing signals, and the most convenient subway entrances. Sadly, though, you haven't even noticed the beautiful architectural details in the pre-war structures, how beautiful central park really is or the fascinating make up of the the new york population.
Today the weather was as perfect as it gets and I was heading home from Manhattan's oh-so-posh Upper East Side. I was walking quite fast in fear that I would miss the earlier bus when I realized I was really in no rush. If I missed the bus I would simply have to enjoy the magnificent weather for another 10 minutes until the next one came. So I decided to walk slowly. I looked up and noticed how beautiful each building was, in all of their 1930's art-deco glory. I noticed what people were wearing and imagined their lives, I noticed the street lamps were different than the rest of the city and I noticed that the street numbers on the awnings of each building were spelled out in a unique type face from one another. I noticed the weather and I noticed myself.


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