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Nerd of Mouth with Moi
Who was a guest on Mike Lawrence and Jake Young's Nerd of Mouth podcast last week?
This guy.
You can listen to the full episode here.
Who was a guest on Mike Lawrence and Jake Young's Nerd of Mouth podcast last week?
This guy.
You can listen to the full episode here.
Peter(r) Bonavita and Alex Robinson of The Star Wars Minute, the daily podcast in which they discuss, dissect and humorously analyze EVERY single minute of The Holy Trilogy, are up to minutes 86-90 of The Empire Strikes Back and, wouldn'tcha know it, yours truly is their guest for the next week.
Minute 86 was posted this morning and can be listened to here. A new minute will appear every day through Friday (though you should definitely stick with the show and devour the archives… they had some terrific guest stars for Star Wars, and have followed that up with an even more impressive call sheet for Empire. Come to think of it- why the hell did they call me?!).
Episode 86 contains only ONE super duper cringe-inducing stupidhead remark from me- Lando apparently is not directly from Corellia, but rather Socorro, a planet colonized by Corellians.
Jeff and Vita rapped about the new releases this week as Javier (of Minimate minute fame) and I slaved over a massive shipment with thousands of awesome comics including Slott's Silver Surfer and Sandman Overture #2.
Watch us live on our YouTube channel every Tuesday at 4PM, or 4:08, or 4:15 if Google changes the way you log in for the millionth time. You can also join the conversation by following FPTransmissions to your Google+ circles and accepting Hangout invites.
Last night I was a guest on the Monocle Daily discussing Kamala Khan, Marvel's newly-announced Muslim teen superhero. You can listen to it here if you skip to the 49:46 mark.
New Duel Decks are releasing TODAY, MTG fans!!!
These ready to play 60 card decks showcase some of the best cards in Magic history. Together the Sorin vs Tibalt Duel Decks have ten rare cards and seven cards with new art, including two foil alternative-art versions of mythic rare Planeswalkers Sorin, Lord of Innistrad and Tibalt, the Fiend-Blooded.
– 2 ready to play 60 card decks
– 2 deck boxe-2 creature tokens
– A strategy insert
– A Magic 'learn to play' guide
So, we're giving away two extra large (XL) copies of this shirt away today on our Twitter feed.
Don't worry. Neither of these freebie tees are the one I've worn on and off to bed for the last eight years. Unless you want it to be.
Follow us and RT. And good luck, creeps!
Forgot to post these new Google+ Hangout videos from last week.
Here's Matt and Alec talking Sons of Anarchy, WWE, NYCC, re-creating telephone calls Alec receives from customers, Just Us League MAD toys and a whole lot more…
And here's me from my desk… "Haven't even had time since the move to put pictures of my kids here. I don't have kids, but if I did that's where they'd go." I'm paraphrasing of course. The gyst is I really want you to check out and enjoy the works of Julia Wertz and Theo Ellsworth.
So this has been released:
I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Seriously though, I've watched the current trailer about fifteen times now and I can't tell if I'm jazzed for these films (3?!) or if I'm eager to watch a beautiful, elegant disaster onscreen. Either way Jackson and co. are gonna separate some dough from my wallet. Hrrrm.
Also, impressed-with-myself moment of the day… The tags below? With all the dwarves names? That's from memory. Nerd.
Got 28 minutes of your life to spend on Matt and I talking new arrivals, Happy #1, Space Punisher, crappy old Image Comics, movies, Star Trek the Next generation, comic cons, Mark Hamill and Corvette Summer? Like hearing me say "um?" Have I got a video for you!
Sorry if it's a little dark this week. Better light next time. Oh, and there's a slight technical glitch (about 8 seconds) when we start talking about Happy #1. Stick with it.
Next LIVE broadcast is Friday the 28th at 7pm.
Some goofs on our first take. The store's wi-fi cut out for about five minutes, thus making us late for the 4pm Hangout On Air. We missed a chance to have a prominent celebrity customer join us because of the delay in setting back up, and I still have a lot to learn about the minutiae of running these…
Still, Matt and I got it together and streamed the following, LIVE on a laptop to our Google+ and Youtube pages. The FPNYCTV Television network is on the air…
And about the Twitter and Facebook cards… Okay. Didn't realize the audience could read 'em just fine. I can be a real dummy sometimes.
Next show Friday 9/14/12 at 7pm from the floor of the new FP.
We are indeed on Google+. Come share wonderful, geeky stuff with us!
I'll be Hanging out On Air at 4pm today… fingers crossed. Still working out the logistics, but the plan is to chat from the new shop's basement as we process this week's shipment, discuss some of tomorrow's new releases, make a really neat-o announcement regarding a forthcoming graphic novel… and try not to be completely awkward as this'll be LIVE!
If you're not on Google+ you can watch a livestream of the Hangout on our YouTube channel, fptransmissions, and chat with us via Twitter (@fpnyc) throughout.
Trust me folks, this is the first step in a huge undertaking for us here at FPNYC. There's a lot more such content we're going to be rolling out this fall. I hope you'll join us and enjoy.
Hell, we practically are already. Take a look around the shop sometime and you'll realize our customers and staff comprise our own rather large Invisbles cell.
The uninitiated will ask, "What is The Invisibles?" Well, it's way way too complicated to describe here properly and succinctly, but I'll give you the publisher's copy:
Follow the adventures of The Invisibles, a secret organization out to battle the physical and psychic oppression brought upon humanity by the interdimensional alien gods of the Archons of Outer Church!
I can say with 99% certainty that FPNYC has sold more copies of The Invisbles over the years than any other outlet in the world, many of those hand-sold by yours truly as it's my favorite comic series of all time. That being said…
Next Wednesday, the 22nd of August 2012, The Invisbles Omnibus releases. That's one massive (1536 pages!) hardcover collecting EVERY Invisbles story. Massive. It retails for $150, but not at Forbidden Planet NYC. Nope.
Here The Invisibles Omnibus will be ON SALE at a whopping 40% off for the entire duration of its print run!!! As in retails for $150, but FPNYC price will always be $90. As in we're saving you a chunk of change on a massive, brilliant tome. As in that's cheaper than Amazon as of this writing!
So there.
ALSO! This is the first in a series of Forbidden Planet Wants to be Your ______ Headquarters incentives we'll be running the rest of 2012. Some will be giant discounts like the one above, some will be giveaways, some will be events… Whatever the case we'll be offering something neat-o. Upcoming deals involve the first trade paperback of Bryan K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples' Saga and a whole bunch of great comics and books.
Keep an eye out… Engaging us on Twitter and Facebook will do. Joining our email list (in the box above and to the right) is another good way to start.


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With Gearbox Software officially hiring for Borderlands 3, I figured that I'd take advantage of this opportune moment to talk about what I'd like to see in the next instalment.
I wasn't always a huge fan of Borderlands. When the first title released I only played about an hour before I gave up, I just couldn't get on with the steep learning curve of grinding to proceed. But as soon as Borderlands 2 arrived, I was hooked. I don't care to count the hours I've lost to that game, though I do care to list what I'd like from a definitive sequel.
A seamless open-world
I always loved the open-ended sections of Borderlands, but they were always broken up by the odd inevitable loading screen. It's already been confirmed that the next title will made exclusively for newer consoles, and that means being able to harness the full power of the PS4 and Xbox One for seamless exploration. Imagine being able to start at any spot in the map, only to then have the entirety available to explore and discover from the offset. Randomised quests could pop in and out of certain areas, and perhaps you could fast travel at the touch of a button?
Create-a-Character mode
I've never understood why the customisation of your character has been so limited. Sure, the pre-rendered cutscenes probably had something to do with it, but with the extra oomph behind the threequel, there's more than enough reason to presume that cutscenes will use the in-game engine. This means that players should now be able to make a fully-featured whacko to hit the streets (or dirt) in style. An in-depth character customiser is absolutely vital in my opinion and would result in a bit more of a personal touch.
New Vaults, New Locations
At the end of Borderlands 2 players were given a cutscene that showed hundreds — if not thousands — of Vaults located across the galaxy. There are probably dozens of original locations already being thought up, but perhaps we'll get to see a populated city on a planet other than Pandora, showing high-rise buildings and a bit more variety. It would not only lend itself well to a host of new characters, but also help provide a bit of variety for those used to the typical rock and dirt facade.
The more insane the quests, the better!
Going by the many notable DLC packs, including Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep, there are literally no limits when it comes to the insanity of quests; the more the better, I say! It's hard to imagine the crazy things Gearbox might come up with next, but no matter how strange or mental it might get, the world of Borderlands is perfectly suited to it.
Amp up the graphics
Borderlands has never looked ugly, though with the huge amount of extra processing power available, I do expect a large leap in graphical sharpness and the vibrancy of the world. Perhaps it be worth redesigning the cel-shaded artwork entirely, presenting a fresher yet familiar update?
A little less grinding
Since the original Borderlands the need to grind XP to progress has always been a necessity. I quit the first game due to that very fact, though maybe in the threequel there can be a slightly more varied way in which the player ranks up through levels. From my perspective it's a hard task to achieve, though not impossible. If anyone can figure out a much friendlier way to rank up, while maintaining a challenge, it's Gearbox.
What would YOU like to see in the next Borderlands title? Take our poll below or sound off in the comments to voice your own ideas.

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I term 'head conversations' those little chats we have with ourselves, silently and in our own heads. We all do it almost constantly. We debate the pros and cons of things, wonder whether we should have done or said something that's past, worry about what might happen 'if' in the future…
Are you aware of how much of each day you spend having a conversation with yourself? I'm always telling patients that, as far as I'm concerned, there are only two reasons to think...
The only two reasons for thinking are:
1. You are getting paid to do it
i.e. it's part of your job to be trying to work something out
2. It's giving you pleasure
I include in this anything you are choosing to think about not necessarily because it's pleasurable, but because doing so will make your life easier. An example might be that you are compiling a shipping list.
If it's not either of the above - what are you doing it for?
I know there will be people now saying that they can't help it. That their minds introduce thoughts that they didn't ask for.
Of course they do!
Brains try to be helpful. They try to predict what we want them to do.
Your brain will make a link between any two things that happen together more than once.
If there is a large amount of negative arousal associated with any occasion the brain will often make the link after just one instance. That's the work of the survival instinct learning to identify any situation which could be potentially life threatening. By definition, any situation which creates a high degree of negative arousal (pain, fear, sadness, etc) in the person is identified as a potential killer so needs to be remembered asap.
So, if we are in the habit of worrying when we get into bed, recalling something bad that happened when we see a particular date on the calendar, or thinking about a previous panic attack when we revisit the supermarket, your brain is only doing what you have taught it when it gives you the warning the next time that situation arises.
And what do we usually do when we get that warning - yes, we think about how bad it was all over again! And so we confirm for our brains that they were right to warn us because we are still responding with negative arousal.
Of course we don't!
Once you start to become aware of when you are doing it, you will also come to realise that for the most part these head conversations are just winding you up. They rarely fall into either of the two categories I named above, of being either paid or pleasurable.
They are simply a bad habit. And this bad habit includes worry and guilt. Neither of these serves any useful purpose either. Did you ever change anything you were worrying about simply because you were worrying?
But we didn't always have this habit...
There was, however, a time for each of us when we didn't do this, a time before we had the ability to do this, a golden era when we had little choice but to be for ever 'in the moment'.
The concept of being 'in the moment' is one which is central to the concept of mindfulness. Put simply, if we were able to keep our focus on the here and now and only that, the majority of us would be calmer and able to cope with actual reality almost all of the time. But we rarely do that.
The rot sets in when we learn language and start talking.
If you have the opportunity to observe a toddler playing, you will notice that whatever that child does, it does with its total attention. A toddler doesn't do things by halves. Whatever it focuses on, it gives its all. If it's building a pile of bricks it is totally absorbed in the task. It may not stay on that same task for any great length of time, but when it moves from it to something else, it takes its entire focus of attention with it.
A toddler doesn't build a pile of bricks whilst at the same time wondering what's for tea, or whether it will be able to go out tomorrow, etc. Because that child has not yet learnt language it finds it impossible to mentally wander from the here and now in its thoughts…
Our downfall is learning to talk and then abusing it by thinking too much.
Once we learn language, however, we become too clever for our own good. We frequently find ourselves doing one thing but thinking about something completely different. We rarely keep our minds and our bodies together in the same place.
We go further than that and hold conversations with ourselves in our heads as we carry out unrelated tasks. For example, you may be washing up but in your mind you are discussing why a certain person ignored you in the supermarket this morning and what are you going to do if she ignores you again tomorrow… and so on.
Many of these conversations actually serve no useful purpose whatsoever. Some of them would be termed, 'worrying'. Worry is an activity we all indulge in for far too much of the time and which has no point whatsoever.
There is a time and a place for thinking. If, for instance, you are trying to work something out or plan something, maybe a holiday, then running through the options or coming up with ideas in your mind has a purpose. Much of our so-called 'thinking', however, is really just a bad habit of worrying head conversations which raise the arousal level and makes us more prone to anxiety.
The long term goal is to see how often you can catch yourself doing this and simply blank then let it go.
The immediate goal is to see how much of each day you can simply keep your mind on what you are actually doing but without having to mentally commentate to yourself in words when it isn't necessary.
As is described on the page about visualisation the most damaging head conversations are had by those who have to do something or go somewhere and start thinking about this in advance.
They tend to imagine all the worst case scenarios and think in terms of, 'what if…?' Doing this means that we wind ourselves up in advance. We are teaching our survival instinct about situations it can expect to sense danger in.
Whilst doing this we generally experience a great deal of anticipatory anxiety i.e. anxiety which serves no useful purpose and which is caused by the fact that you are simply visualising the worst and living it in advance. You are also imagining something that might not even happen if you weren't training your brain to expect to to!
So the message here is to aim day by day to catch yourself having just one or two pointless head conversations and blank them. This is easiest to do when you are doing something routine.
Perhaps when you are in the shower you might choose to become aware of the feel of the water on your skin, the smell of the soap, etc.
When doing the washing up you might be aware of the feel of the water on your hands, be aware of the sight of the water running over the dishes, the feel of the dish in your hand...
In time you will find that you indulge in this bad habit less and less and enjoy reality instead.


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Mark your meat calendar: March 2 at 11 a.m., Luscher's on 2653 Commerce St. will have its grand opening.
I know you're all very excited for this restaurant to open, and there are a lot of rumors flying around about what it looks like inside, where exactly the sausage champagne room will be, and how many dollars Brian C. Luscher will be charging for each "Haha, sausage means dick!" joke. I was allowed to visit the test kitchen this week, and I'm happy to report that all of your sausage dreams are about to come true. (And it's $1 per sausage/dick joke.)
I also learned that Luscher's will be offering a Meat Fight? Smoked Sausage on their menu, inspired by the fundraising barbecue competition I host every year.
See also: The Meats and Sights of Meat Fight 2014
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The sausage was inspired by the recipe Luscher used at this year's Meat Fight (beef and pork sausage stuffed with roasted pepper and cheddar) and is topped with horseradish pickle, grilled onions, "sweet pants" barbecue sauce, and papaya slaw on an Italian roll. Of course, I tried one, and I'm pleased to say that it blew my mouth-mind. I'm probably biased, but I'm also probably right. You'll have to wait until March 2 to decide for yourself.


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Course Type / Attendance
Part Time, Short Course
Subject Area
Start Date
Starts throughout the year
Course Length
3 weeks
City Campus
City & Guilds
Course Level
Who is this course for?
This programme is suitable for those who wish to seek employment in the contact centre industry and is designed to enhance learners' work and life skills. Whether their focus is on an inbound, outbound or back office role it will develop the essential skills necessary to work effectively in a customer service environment.
What do you need to apply for the course?
This course is suitable for anyone aged 18 or over who is unemployed, eligible to work in the UK and who is claiming JSA or ESA (WRAG) or other benefits such as income support, housing, council tax, pension credit or an unwaged dependent. People aged 18 or over who are not in receipt of a benefit are also welcome to apply.
Anyone who falls outside of these categories is also welcome to contact the Pre-employment Team for details.
What are the key things you'll learn?
This course covers the key areas of working in a contact centre including:
- The contact centre industry
- Communication skills in a customer service environment
- Principles of call handling skills
- Call handling skills
- Preparing to handle customer problems and complaints
- Principles of sales
- Personal aptitudes for contact centre employment
It is a suitable qualification for those wishing to change career or support previous experience or employment following a career break.
How you will learn
This course is taught through classroom based theory lessons, interactive activities, group work and observations.
Where could this course take you?
After successfully completing the course you will have the skills required to gain an entry position in a contact centre environment, progress on to further study, distance learning or apprenticeship.


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The changes floated by the Number 10 policy unit after being asked to come up with new ways to extend personal freedoms, it was reported.
Prime Minister David Cameron rejected the ''offensive'' suggestion that the age of sexual consent could be reduced.
The other recommendations was a relaxation of laws against nudity but a Downing Street spokesman denied claims that was being considered.
''The Prime Minister considers the idea of lowering the age of consent to be offensive,'' he said, insisting there were no plans to do so.
Asked about reforms to nudity laws added: ''It's not something that the Prime Minister is considering.''
Of lowering the age of consent, a spokesman for Mr Clegg also rejected the idea.
"The proposal that you refer to was put forward at official level without any political input and as soon as it came to the attention of political advisers it was rejected out of hand," he told the Daily Mail.
Monday's mid-term review of the Tory/Lib Dem coalition said the Government would take further steps to ''limit the scope'' of the state ''and extend our freedoms''.
In a joint appearance at Downing Street this week, Mr Cameron and Nick Clegg disclosed that a new "Freedoms Bill" would be among key priorities for the next two and a half years of coalition government.
"As we take steps to reshape the British state for the 21st century, we will take further steps to limit its scope and extend our freedoms," they said.
The age of consent has been 16 since 1875 but there have been calls for it to be lowered because so many teenagers are sexually active at a younger age.
Criminalising young people makes it harder to advise them on issues such as birth control and pregnancy and safeguards could be included to ensure it only applied to youngsters of a similar age, campaigners suggest.


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Although Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, England, has a rich and diverse history, at first glance there would appear to be only a few memorials, monuments and sculptures to help reflect that history. Paul Wright and Bexhill Museum's Local History Group know differently.
Go to https://thebexhillhistorytrail.wordpress.com/ for a walk around the significant and interesting objects that can be found.
They have deliberately avoided including memorials, monuments and sculptures which can only be seen inside buildings so all 40 major objects on this trail can be viewed at any time. As the accompanying map shows, the objects in this trail stretch in a roughly logical progression from the eastern to the western boundaries of the town, via the Old Town, a walking distance of approximately 5˝ miles.


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Twitter Is the Web Real Time Search and Much More
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Twitter with 200 Million users is, at the moment, the web real time search. Twitter reaches 200 million users and 110 million tweets per day . If you put on the top of that the fact that the Tweets are appearing in Google and Bing search queries it becomes even bigger its impact. But last not least, is the snow ball effect through all the other tools, widgets, and websites aggregated in the Twitter network. Eric Schmidt accepts, as stated in an interview to Wired magazine UK, that Google has Read more [...]


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Gday. It has been a quite month on the blog as I have started paternity leave and have been redressing the work-life balance scales – very much in the family direction. Not doing any clinical work has given me time to pause and ponder a few of the more abstract ideas that we often brush […]
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The Central Library and all of the neighborhood libraries offer materials to help adult new readers improve their reading skills. These materials include simplified versions of popular mystery and adventure novels, biographies, materials for improving job and parenting skills, and basic books on mathematics and science. Among these are materials on teaching and learning English as a Second Language (ESL), for adults new to this country. Teachers of ESL and basic literacy will also find teachers' guides in our collections. Many local organizations provide literacy tutoring and English literacy tutoring. The South Madison Library also offers writing assistance and Spanish-language assistance.
The following organizations offer literacy tutoring or English literacy tutoring:
- America's Literacy Directory
A national resource for finding literacy classes in communities thorughout the United States
- Literacy Network (Formerly: Madison Area Literacy Council)
Information for tutors and learners.
- Wisconsin Literacy
A non-profit educational organization, the Wisconsin Literacy site provides a "statewide directory of adult literary service providers and information on how literacy affects the state's work force, families and communities. Adult literacy programs provide instruction to immigrants, refugees and other adults functioning below an eight-grade academic level."


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"I tried every diet and nothing worked, then I cut carbs and the weight just fell off."
How often have you heard this? Even if you don't work in the health and fitness industry, you've probably had this exact same conversation at a dinner party, family gathering, or when just out with friends.
It's true – cut carbs from your diet, and you will lose weight. Seems legit, right? The anecdotal evidence is there, and it seems that science supports the notion that low-carb diets are great for weight loss too.
I'm a research kinda guy, and a quick Google search for studies supporting low-carb diets as a method for losing weight brings up an absolute tonne – a veritable smorgasbord of evidence backing low-carb plans – it's every Atkins follower's wet dream.
Let's take a look …..
"LC diet appears to be an effective method for short-term weight loss in overweight adolescents and does not harm the lipid profile" (1)
"Severely obese subjects with a high prevalence of diabetes or the metabolic syndrome lost more weight during six months on a carbohydrate-restricted diet than on a calorie- and fat-restricted diet, with a relative improvement in insulin sensitivity and triglyceride levels, even after adjustment for the amount of weight lost." (2)
Compared with the low fat group, who followed a diet conforming to currently recommended distributions of macronutrient calories, the very low carbohydrate group lost significantly more weight. (3)
Low-carbohydrate diets may be effective alternatives to low-fat diets. (4)
These are just a selection of quotes from study findings that found low-carb eating to be an effective method of losing weight and improving body composition.
That's it then. Article finished.
We should all ditch our grains, fruit and veggies and live off nothing but meat and fish.
Before you leave, let's look a little deeper before deciding to forego carbs completely.
On the face of it, low-carb diets seem like the best thing since sliced bread. Well, the best thing since boiled eggs and grass-fed beef in this instance. So why then, are they not only unnecessary, but also potentially harmful?
Mass Media Hype
Back in the 80s and 90s, we were all about high-carb, low-fat diets. Everything had to be whole-grain this, whole-wheat that. We were told to limit our fat intake, and heaven forbid should we ever consume butter, red meat, or anything with saturated fat in it, may the lord strike us down with a cholesterol-induced fist of death.
Then in 2002, along came a gentleman by the name of Gary Taubes.
Taubes had his article "What if it's All Been a Big Fat Lie" published in the New York Times, and suddenly, the world went low-carb crazy. (5)
We could eat anything we wanted and get slimmer, provided we kept our carb intake ultra low. That meant breakfasts of eggs and bacon, a garden salad dripping with olive oil for lunch, steak cooked in butter for dinner, and snacks of beef jerky, pork scratchings and nuts. Sales of Dr. Robert Atkins' booked soared and despite it being released originally in 1972, sales hit their peak around 2003, when it's estimated that almost 10 percent of North Americans were following Atkins' plan.
Why Low-Carb Sells
I've talked about this numerous times before, but low-carb sells for one main reason – it's extreme.
The layperson loves extremism. They associate extremism with success. If a diet's weird or difficult, it's got to give great results, right? Just look at the popularity of Atkins, the cabbage soup diet, the baby food diet, raw eating, juice detoxes – the list goes on.
Eliminate a whole food group from your diet? That sounds extreme, it must work!
The second reason why low-carb diets sell is because of the initial rapid weight loss you experience. At the start of a low-carb diet, you may lose a good 7 or 8 pounds in the first couple of weeks. While some of this loss might be fat loss, the majority of it will be water and glycogen. Under normal dietary circumstances (ie. A moderate or higher carb diet) your body has ample supplies of carbohydrate in the muscle cells and liver. This stored carbohydrate (known as glycogen) not only adds weight itself, but each gram of stored carbohydrate carries with it around 3 to 4 grams of water.
The average person can store up to 350g of glycogen in the muscles, 100g in the liver and a little more in circulating blood too.
That adds up to 450 grams, give or take. Multiply that by three to find roughly how much water you're also holding along with this glycogen, and you hit a total of 1,400 grams. That's a loss of 1.4kg, or just over 3 pounds by eliminating stored glycogen from your system.
Now you can see why this rapid weight loss occurs.
Why Low-Carb Advocates SAY Their Diets Work
Proponents of the low-carb approach like to preach about the metabolic benefits their diet supposedly offers.
This is in true to a degree.
In his NY Times article, along with the books and articles he's published since, Taubes claims that we can eat virtually whatever we like and not get fat, provided we avoid carbs. (Another reason why low-carb seems appealing – who wouldn't want to eat unlimited amounts of bacon, cream, butter and steak?) According to Taubes, the reason why we should give carbs a wide berth is because of the effect they have on our levels of the hormone insulin.
Rather than address the whole topic of insulin here (as we'd be on it for days) I'll direct you to the first article of an excellent seven-part article by James Krieger of Weightology.com –
Part 1 – http://weightology.net/weightologyweekly/?page_id=319
As a brief coverall, insulin is the hormone released when you eat a meal, as it helps shuttle nutrients around the body. Any insulin release will acutely inhibit fat burning, leading to the theory that we need to keep insulin levels as low as possible to sustain fat burning.
Carbohydrates have the biggest insulinogenic effect of all the macronutrients, therefore, low-carbers deduced that by lowering carb intake, we lower insulin levels, and therefore create a metabolically advantageous environment, burn more fat and lose more weight.
The truth, however, is a different story.
There are several highly regarded myths surrounding insulin and fat storage. (I'll direct you again to Krieger's articles for more on these) but in short, they are –
Eating carbs leads to chronically high insulin levels
FALSE – In otherwise healthy individuals, insulin only spikes after a meal – it does not stay elevated for hours on end.
You only store fat when you eat carbs and spike insulin levels
FALSE – You can still store fat when insulin levels are low.
Insulin increases hunger
FALSE – Insulin actually suppresses appetite.
Carbohydrate is the only macronutrient that can raise insulin
FALSE – Protein spikes insulin too. In fact, whey protein post-workout is highly insulinogenic.
Lowering insulin will automatically lead to fat loss and weight loss
FALSE – Calorie balance is what drives weight and fat loss, not insulin.
So, with the insulin theory well and truly busted, what have the low-carbers got to go on now?
Why Low Carb REALLY Works
I'm certainly not anti low-carb. In fact, many of my clients follow what the vast majority of people would deem a "low-carb diet." While I prefer to refer to these as individualised carb diets, or targeted carb diets, as I believe carbohydrate levels should be set according to the individual, there are several reasons why lowering your carbs can certainly bring about results.
1. By lowering carbs, you reduce your calories
Think of the typical Western diet.
Most folks will usually start their day with toast, cereal or some sort of cereal bar, with maybe a sugary coffee or a fruit juice on the side. Lunch is something in a sandwich, accompanied by a bag of crisps, perhaps with a piece or two of fruit and a chocolate bar or another carb-filled drink. Evening meals invariably revolve around pasta, rice or potatoes. As for snacks, we're talking more fruit, low-fat snack bars, crackers and rice cakes for the health conscious, or sweets, biscuits and donuts for the not-so-healthy. Total all this up and you get….. a crap-tonne of carbs!
Even someone eating small to moderate portions can easily put away 200 grams plus of carbs in a day. That's 800 calories. Reduce your daily calorie intake by 800, and there's no doubt whatsoever that you'll drop pounds.
2. Low-carb diets tend to be higher in protein
What do you think of when I say "low-carb breakfast?"
I'm guessing it's that Atkins classic of bacon and eggs? Not only is this low in carbs, but it's high in protein too.
How about lunch? Probably some sort of salad with chicken, tuna or turkey, right? A low-carb dinner is a steak with veggies, and snacks are nuts, olives and cheese.
Compare that to the typical Western diet discussed before, and not only is there a big drop in carbs, but also a high rise in protein. And that's the second reason why low-carb diets can be highly beneficial.
By dropping carbs, people don't just lower their carb intake, they look for other foods to replace carb-dense items with. This inevitably leads to a higher protein intake, and protein is well-known to be a powerful appetite suppressant. Eat more protein and you'll feel much fuller. Don't believe me? Here's an experiment to try –
– Eat a couple of plain rice cakes and note how soon afterwards you feel hungry. It'll probably only take around an hour for you to feel peckish again. Now eat just one rice cake with a piece of sliced turkey or ham. The calorie content will be virtually the same as the two rice cakes earlier, but it'll probably take double the amount of time for you to get hungry again.
Protein also has a slightly higher thermic effect of food (TEF) than carbs or fats do. Basically, it takes more energy and more calories for your body to break down and digest protein, leading to a lower net calorie intake from protein-dense meals. This is a key reason why there may be some small metabolic advantage to low-carb diets. It's not the lack of carbs that provides this effect, but the increase in protein.
3. Low-Carb Diets Reduce Hunger
This links in with the above high protein intake. Many studies that compare low carb to high carb diets don't dictate any calorie intake to participants. Because of the satiating effect of higher protein foods, this means low-carbers eat fewer calories overall, thus leading to weight loss.
As you can see, while low-carb diets may have their benefits, it's not actually the reduction of carbohydrates that leads directly to weight loss. I guess were we to leave the article here, you'd probably come away with a neutral to positive view of dropping carbohydrates. You might not be quite embracing the zealot-like approach of our friends Messrs Taubes and Atkins, but you'd probably be thinking "hey, that low-carb stuff seems to work, I'll give up bread and pasta and see what happens."
If that's what you decide to go with, so be it. If it suits your lifestyle and gets you results, it's probably a pretty good call. However, before making your mind up, finish reading the article to see why low-carb diets could do you more harm than good.
Why Going Low-Carb is a Bad Idea
Before getting into the physiological reasons against low-carb diets, let's see why they suck from a psychological standpoint.
A Matter of Taste
First up, who doesn't like carbs?
There's something so comforting about a warm piece of toast on a cold winter's morning, a steaming bowl of pasta after a tough day, and the lure of a sweet potato smothered in honey and peanut butter can keep you going through the most gruelling of training sessions.
It sounds kind of fruity (pun intended) but there's a lot to be said for enjoying a diet.
The main reason people fall off the dieting wagon is very rarely due to a lack of results. Moreso it's bordedom and irritation at having to follow such a strict meal plan. If you enjoy eating carbs, why wouldn't you find a way to lose fat and get lean while eating them?
One of the first questions I ask new clients when designing their plan is "Do you prefer carb-dense foods like pasta, potatoes and bread, or fat-heavy foods like cheese, bacon and cream?" If the person responds with the former, I make sure they get a higher proportion of their calories from carbs, so they enjoy what they're eating and are far more likely to stick with their plan long term.
Low-Carb Flu
Most cereal dieters (yes, pun number 2!) have experimented with low-carb diets at some point. The one comment you'll hear time and time again – "It worked, but I felt terrible."
This is due to what's become known as the "low-carb flu."
It refers to the period of time it takes your body to adapt to using fat as its main energy source instead of carbs. This is no myth that low-carb avoiders make up or embellish either – even the Atkins site recognises that the huge majority of people will experience feelings of tiredness, lethargy, fatigue and irritability when starting a low-carb plan.
Their solution – work through it, your body will adapt.
It usually takes 3 to 4 days (though it can be longer) for your body to switch over fully to running on ketones (the compound produced when you go low-carb.) Many people do find they can get through this however, as this flu/brain fog coincides with the initial rapid weight loss as discussed earlier, so while they might feel like crap, they love the results.
My issue with this however, is it once again links dieting with suffering. I firmly believe that dieting should be made as little like a chore as possible. If you feel bad, how long will you really persevere? And considering the supposed benefits of carb restriction are so grossly overstated, as discussed in previous sections, you have to question whether this drop in mood, libido and energy is even worth whatever miniscule benefit you might be hoping for.
Food Restriction
I'll admit it, eating low-carb meals at home is really easy. Eggs, bacon, veggies, Greek yoghurt for breakfast, and plenty of meat, fish, more vegetables, nuts, seeds and other pretty tasty low-carb treats every day. But what about when you're out and about?
While it's certainly doable to stick to low-carb fare all the time, it can be an annoyance and cause you to have to do far more planning than you would otherwise. Eating at work becomes more of a chore, as does choosing foods at restaurants. Friends start to question your food choices – why you're not eating bread, why you're not drinking — and can potentially feel irritated that you're gradually becoming a social outcast because of your dietary restrictions.
Carbs Are Fuel
Carbs are your body's main source of energy. And a damn good energy source they are.
The energy pathway required for explosive muscular contractions is the ATP-PC system, which relies on ATP (adenosine tri-phosphate) breaking down to form ADP (adenosine di-phosphate.) This can only be sustained for a short time however (usually around 8-10 seconds) so after this, a second energy system has to come into play. This second energy system is the glycolytic system, which uses stored carbohydrate to create energy. After this tapers off, your body switches to aerobic metabolism, which uses a mix of carbs and fats for fuel.
The trouble with low-carb diets here, is that the glycolytic system (and to a degree, the ATP-PC system too) relies on a ready supply of glucose and glycogen – ie. Carbs. Low levels of carbs = low energy levels for higher intensity activities = crappy performance.
Sure, for marathon runners, iron man triathletes and the steady Sunday morning dog walkers, fats might be a fine fuel source for sustained, low-intensity exercise, but for anyone concerned with strength, power and performance, carbs play a critical role.
Low-Carb and Your Thyroid
T3 is a very important thyroid hormone, which helps to regulate your metabolism, growth and development, body temperature, and heart rate.
In low-carb diets, it appears that production of T3 drops, along with your levels of other thyroid and metabolism hormones. I'll direct you to this article from Anthony Colpo for a comprehensive look at the topic –
Carbs are Muscle Sparing
This relates back to athletes' needs for carbs. Carbs are much more muscle sparing than fats in times when your energy stores are lower. Your body can attempt to convert amino acids into energy, which leads to muscle breakdown. By providing a ready source of energy however, carbohydrates prevent this.
Protein itself is muscle sparing too, which is why you may actually increase your protein intake when decreasing calories for a cut or fat loss diet, but keeping carbs in will go a long way to preserving muscle mass.
Bottom line: Want to retain muscle? Eat carbs.
Low-Carb Doesn't Take Into Account Protein and Fat Calories
Most, though admittedly not all, low-carb diets, don't give recommendations on protein and fat intake. The theory being that by reducing carbs, the average person can eat a little more fat and protein, yet still be in a calorie deficit and lose fat while feeling full.
Here's the problem though – while a low-carb diet consisting of lean meats, fish, eggs whites, dark green vegetables and healthy fats like olives, oily fish and a little cheese may allow you to eat large amounts of food without much of a dent in your total calorie intake, this isn't how many people do low-carb diets.
As an example, take a look at the calorie contents of two low-carb dieters. Assume neither dieter has been given any recommendations other than "cut out all high-carb foods" –
Dieter 1 –
Breakfast – Omelet made with 2 eggs whites, 2 whole eggs, onions, mushrooms and tomatoes with a sprinkling of cheese.
Lunch – Mixed green salad with a grilled chicken breast, and one handful each of pine nuts and olives.
Dinner – Medium-sized lean sirloin steak with broccoli, carrots and spinach.
Snacks – 1 packet of deli-style beef, small low-fat low-sugar Greek yogurt with strawberries.
Daily macronutrient count – 140g protein, 60g carbs, 70g fat, 1430 calories.
Dieter 2 –
Breakfast – 4 whole eggs, 2 rashers of bacon cooked in 1 tbsp butter.
Lunch – 2 chicken thighs with a dark green salad and a handful of cheese.
Dinner – Pork belly, served with green beans, kale and spring greens cooked in butter.
Snacks – handful of macadamia nuts, small block of cheese.
Daily macronutrient count – 140g protein, 35g carbs, 140g fat, 1960 calories.
Both the above diets contain the same amount of protein, and the second is slightly lower in carbs, yet contains over 500 more calories. Neither is particularly extreme in terms of either a lack of, or an abundance of foods, yet simply by "going low-carb" you can end up with wildly varying caloric intakes.
Even the most ardent of low-carb advocates would struggle to argue that a difference of 500 calories per day wouldn't have an effect on long-term dieting and physique progress.
The Wrap Up:
So how many carbs should I eat?
As, the existential question – what's the precise number of carbohydrates you should eat per day. And if low-carb is a poor choice, then does that mean a diet should be high in carbs?
As always, the answer is, annoyingly, it depends.
Carb intake is a highly individual thing – the amount of carbs you eat per day depends on your goals, current weight and body composition, your activity levels, and to a certain degree your genetics and dieting history.
Now, if you're slightly confused, I am absolutely not saying that low-carb diets are bad, nor am I suggesting you don't drop a single gram of carbohydrate from your diet when attempting to lose fat. I'm merely saying that simply going low-carb is not the most effective, nor practical way to lose weight in the vast majority of cases.
Carbs have been made a scapegoat for rising obesity levels, when in actuality, a vast array of factors have all played a role in our getting fatter. We do now eat more carbohydrates from grains, caloric sweeteners, fruits and vegetables than we did in 1970, but we also eat much more fat and oils, cheese, red meat, poultry and shellfish too. In essence, we seem to eat more of almost every food group now, leading to an average increase of around 500 calories per person per day from 40 years ago. (6)
It's this calorie increase, not an unrivalled increase in carbohydrate consumption that needs to be addressed. Unfortunately however, many still have this idea in their head that carbs need to be slashed to lose weight, that they're the sole cause of weight gain and an obesity epidemic, and that when cutting carbs you can eat all other foods ad infinitum and still make progress.
But that's not going to happen. By automatically adopting the low-carb approach, you're setting yourself up for failure, misery and potentially screwing with your health and performance.
In my next article I'll address exactly how to tailor your carb intake to suit your goals, but for now, you can rest safe in the knowledge that that sandwich you had for your lunch isn't going to suddenly materialise in the form of adipose tissue right around your stomach.
Thanks to –
I'd like to send out a big, friendly, carb-fuelled thanks to Lawrence Judd – https://www.facebook.com/lawrencejuddfitness for editing this, and using his ultra-smart brain to pick through my errors.
1. http://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(02)40206-5/abstract
2. http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa022637
3. http://press.endocrine.org/doi/full/10.1210/jc.2002-021480
4. http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa0708681
5. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/07/magazine/what-if-it-s-all-been-a-big-fat-lie.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
6. http://www.usda.gov/factbook/chapter2.pdfTags: carb myth, carbs, fat loss, flexible dieting, low-carb, nutrition
Nice article!
I personally advocate a low carb – high fat and protein – diet.
Mainly because I have put on 2 stone of muscle in 10 months whilst keeping my body fat at a low enough level to maintain my ab definition.
A low carb high-fat diet puts your body into a state of Ketosis (where it burns fat stores for energy). The key being that you replenish the fat stores adequately throughout the day so the body doesn't try to retain some for longer term energy.
Hey Joe, thanks for the comment.
My issue with keto diets is that you can still gain fat on one, plus carbs are a very effective macro for building muscle and recovery, hence why I'm not a fan for most people. Have you read the ketogenic diet by Lyle McDonald?
I haven't read it, but just doing a little Googling on it now 😉 Thanks!
Its also worth noting peoples genetics when they get results with a certain diet, I have a high fast twitch muscle fibre count so building muscle with explosive lifting isn't terribly hard. I guess diet matters but so does genes.
28 lbs of muscle in 10 months is impressive. Genetics do count but you are obviously doing something right. What rep range/TUT did you use.
Hi David,
I do 4 sets, starting at 10 reps with a high weight I can barely lift on my tenth rep. Then I go up in weight and do 9 reps. Same again for 8 and 7 rep sets.
So its one rep less but always slightly higher weight. All the guys at the gym are convinced I've been on gear/juice/roids lol, but I haven't. Just eaten a lot of chicken and lifted heavy on the above rep and set range.
I'm confused when you quoted,
"Sure, for marathon runners, iron man triathletes and the steady Sunday morning dog walkers, fats might be a fine fuel source for sustained, low-intensity exercise, but for anyone concerned with strength, power and performance, carbs play a critical role."
As a marathon runner who also lifts 4 times a week, I would argue the fact that fats are a fine fuel source for "low-intensity exercise". How is running distance a low intensity exercise? Yes, we may run at a slower rate to run distance so we do not burn our energy too fast, but I would not label that as low intensity. My heart-rate is always in the higher range regardless of my running pace, and I have a resting HR at the low 50s. I can agree with you that many marathon runners are "fat adapted" as we tend to run on empty stomachs in the mornings because of gastro problems and therefore our body have naturally learned to run on fat as fuel…. but to get immediate energy fuel say when we are actually running 26.2 we NEED carbs. Carbs take about half the time to turn into fuel as fat and protein do in the body.
Anyways, I would love to hear your reasoning behind the quote of labeling marathon runners as low intensity workers and how we do not need carbs and should rely more on fat. I do love your blog though, please keep up the good work!
Thank you!
Hey Giselle
In terms of maximum effort, running is low-intensity, as you can sustain it for a loooong period of time. Therefore, fat is used moreso than high-intensity exercise, ie. sprinting, lifting weights, etc. Intensity isn't how hard you feel you're working, more so a % of your max. Make sense?
Maybe it came across wrong – I do still prefer carbs as a fuel for any athlete, but if someone wanted to go low-carb, I'd say endurance athletes would be better suited to it.
Ok starting to make sense now, I became a 'low carb' 'paleo' junkie about 2 years ago, and it worked, it literally made me the leanest I have ever been until…I started to binge. It's like this little thing goes in my brain for 3-4days of eating low carb and then that's it, the peanut butter jar gets it, I eat nuts upon nuts, yoghurt anything classed as 'low carb' and 'clean'. And now I am still fairly slim but have a 'fat' coating. I train 1-2times a day, cardio (HIIT), lift heavy and I crossfit. I actually find coming to terms with eating carbs so scary! I have tried before but slipped into my old habits again of nuts and more eggs and chicken legs etc! I think I need help! Lol I'm scared to eat carbs because for so long I have thought they are the devil…but I think the 'fat' I'm eating actually is….looking at those two examples of the dieters I am definitely number 2 having 140g of fat. I have been so 'if it's clean I can eat as much as I want'……..I need to change my habits so I can lean and learn!!
Good luck Angi, it's a slow process, but go steady and you'll get there.
Brilliant post as per.
Have to say, a fry up is not fry up uses it has honest to goodness bread to accompany.
I feel so much better forEttington carbs back in my diet. Much less pendulum swinging cheat days!
Currently studying to a be a PT and am loving the article Mike! Look forward to the next!
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What would be the best diet for weight loss??
I thought low carb was good :\ .Worked for me when I did it.
I would like to see real results. Frustrating, I don't know anymore.
Starving always works but then I don't have enough energy ( work , school full time and gym).
Low cals?? How low is good for weight loss.
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There is troubling news for business owners who have an ATO debt as of 1 July 2017. Small businesses need to be careful of ATO Bankruptcy since the ATO may publish information of your tax debts to credit reporting agencies such as Dun & Bradstreet and Veda Advantage. This will make it a lot more difficult for small businesses to obtain credit, potentially incapacitating them. How could this bear upon you? You may be impacted if you find yourself in one of the following 3 categories:
1. Have an ABN (i.e. you own a business and/or you are a contractor);.
2. Have unpaid debts with the ATO that are in excess of $10,000 and are more than 90 days overdue; and.
3. You are not in any type of payment arrangement with the ATO.
Just so you know, the ATO must first inform you before they publish your debt information to any credit agency.
If your ATO debts seem to be getting out of control and you don't want your credit rating impaired then you have at least one feasible option: Set up a payment arrangement with the ATO. This may prevent you from ATO Bankruptcy.
On the contrary, if you believe there is simply no hope or the ATO is threatening legal action against you as a result of your unsettled ATO debts, then bankruptcy may be a feasible option for you. If you want to know more about how to recover from the crippling burden of business or personal debts, just talk with us here at Bankruptcy Experts Newcastle on 1300 795 575 or visit our website for additional information: www.bankruptcyexpertsnewcastle.com.au.


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Title: Doomsday Clock #3
Publisher: DC Comics
Writer: Geoff Johns
Artist: Gary Frank
Colorist: Brad Anderson
Letterer: Rob Leigh
Cover: Gary Frank
Review: ★★★☆☆
I feel I might have overstated what my expectations of Doomsday Clock could, would, or should be. The last issue left us with two stand offs between Luthor, The Comedian, and Ozymandias, plus Batman and Rorschach. Nothing is as expected. The story does give us the reason for The Comedian's appearance. He is/was such a dark character so it's not shocking that he would work for Luthor. The scenes with Batman/Rorschach have a certain psychological edge that is brilliant, but I was disappointed, but not surprised, by the end of their interaction. The best part of the episode is the interaction between Mime and Marionette and Joker's gang. It's some dark stuff. Gary Frank's art is still beautiful and sharp. It's the third episode into the series and this is clearly a bridge story and a build to greater things that could possibly move beyond Watchmen. It's a tough act to follow and Geoff Johns is definitely up for the task.


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Melamine adulterates component of pellet feeds
Two companies have recalled products that bind animal feed into pellets because one of the companies included melamine in the products' raw materials, according to the Food and Drug Administration.
Melamine is the same adulterant that two Chinese companies apparently added to ingredients for pet food on the U.S. market, probably to increase the ingredients' protein reading.
A Tembec Chemical Group operation in Toledo, Ohio, appears to have added melamine to binding agents for pellet feeds to improve the binding properties, according to the FDA. Tembec is a Canadian manufacturer of wood, paper, and chemical products.
Tembec's Toledo operation manufactures AquaBond and Aqua-Tec II binding agents for shrimp and fish feed as part of a contract with Uniscope of Johnstown, Colo. Tembec distributes the Uniscope-brand products to the international market. Tembec also supplies the raw materials with which Uniscope manufactures Xtra-Bond for cattle, sheep, and goat feed. Uniscope distributes Xtra-Bond to the domestic market.
Uniscope and Tembec have recalled AquaBond, Aqua-Tec II, and Xtra-Bond. The FDA estimated that the concentrations of melamine and melamine analogs in the three binding agents would lead to concentrations of fewer than 465 ppm in shrimp feed, 233 ppm in fish feed, and 50 ppm in livestock feed. The FDA advised feed manufacturers to recall pellets containing AquaBond or Aqua-Tec II.
Uniscope detected the melamine when the company tested for the adulterant following the recent recalls of pet food. The binding agents contain lower concentrations of adulterants than did the ingredients from China that went into pet food. Concentrations of melamine and melamine analogs reached about 3 percent in the binding agents in comparison with up to 20 percent in the ingredients from China.


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While many young children look up to their favorite wrestlers and WWE superstars, the bravery shown by kids in tough situations may also inspire those very heroes. That is exactly the case with 11-year-old Ethan Reno.
This Celebrity Just Granted His 500th Make-A-Wish for Sick Children
On the Meredith Vieira Show, the young boy was met with a huge surprise. He was expecting a gift basket but that wasn't the big surprise, the big surprise was the man who was delivering the gift basket.
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I've always been a little leery of books that use music as a major plot point. There are many things that I believe books are best for, but the truth is, you can't necessarily hear the music being described when an author goes on about the fiddler or the flautist. Now, having said that, I think Jane Yolen and Adam Stemple to an admirable job with their Rock'n'roll Fairy Tales, the second of which is Trollbridge. Although the two books are thematically connected, there's no plot line that carries over (that I recalled having read the first one long ago) that you would need to know from the first book to pick up the second one.
The story is its own creation, but takes elements of The 12 Dancing Princesses and The Three Billy Goats Gruff and blends them in a unique and remarkable way. I found it highly satisfying and I definitely recommend it, especially to those of us who enjoy a mix of several tales into one story.
Anyone who's already read this--I'm wondering about the butter carving tradition... any insight into where that may stem from? There's always the reverse, the changeling baby left for the human parents, but I wonder if there's anything in folklore that they borrowed from for the whole butter princess thing.


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Arthritis encompasses more than 100 different arthritic conditions which are a chronic, painful, and debilitating group of diseases.
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Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory disorder with an estimated prevalence of 0.5-1% of the population worldwide; it is also reported that women are more affected than men are. [1]. RA is characterized by joint inflammation,
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Vitamins are organic compounds essential for normal physiological functions. However, some of them are not synthesized endogenously by the body and therefore have to be sequestered in small quantities from the diet.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) describes the rational use of medicines as, "patients receive medications appropriate to their clinical needs, in doses that meet their own individual requirements, for an adequate period, and at the lowest cost for them and their community."
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Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience that can have a significant impact on a person's quality of life, general health, psychological health, and social and economic well-being.
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Decision-makers must make unbiased decisions. Accordingly where there is a perception of bias a decision-maker should be disqualified and the decision should be made by another person.
This book examines the disqualification principle and the test that courts apply in different contexts. The application of the principle is examined in the context of judges, jurors, administrative decision-makers, inquiries, local government, sporting clubs, political decisions, international tribunals and military tribunals.
Disqualification for Bias also examines the remedies available where a person alleges that a decision-maker should be disqualified. Many practical issues are also examined including procedural issues.
A detailed examination of relevant case law and statutes from a number of jurisdictions including Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Canada is also included.
This book focuses on the scope and application of the disqualification for bias principle pertaining to a decision-maker. In the words of the author, the book "is designed to provide both a historical development of this area of the law as well as a practical guide to the application of the disqualification principle". Measured against this aim, the book is a success. It first provides an excellent introduction to the area of law, and then takes the reader into in-depth discussions.The book is well-suited for academics, practitioners and decision-makers. Overall, the author seems to have achieved the fine balance between academic discourse and practical applicability. - David Kim, Barrister - Law Institute Journal - September 2012, 86 (09) LIJ, p68
Table of Contents
The Disqualification Principle
Early History and Modern Developments
Test for Bias
Disqualifying Factors
Exceptions to the Disqualification Principle
Application of the Disqualification Principle
Practical Issues
Future Developments and Conclusion


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CHICAGO, March 12 (UPI) -- Bobbi Kristina Brown says she intends to honor the legacy of her late mother, American pop star Whitney Houston, by becoming a singer and actress.
Houston died last month at the age of 48 after years of drug and alcohol abuse. The cause of her death is still under investigation.
Brown, 19, is the only child of Houston and R&B singer Bobby Brown. Her first interview since her mother's death aired Sunday night on the Oprah Winfrey Network.
"I'm doing as good as I possibly can at this point. I'm just trying to keep going," said Bobbi Kristina, who was hospitalized twice for anxiety immediately after her mother was found dead in her Los Angeles hotel room.
"I can sing her music, but to hear it now, I can't," she said. "I can hear her voice telling me: 'Keep moving, baby. I got you.' She's always with me. I can always feel her with me. She used to always say, 'Do you need me?' And I said, 'I always need you.'"
The teen described her mother as "my confidante, my everything," and said she still feels her presence even though she is dead.
"I have to carry on the legacy," Bobbi Kristina said. "We're gonna do the singing thing. Some acting, some dancing. ... It's a lot of pressure, but she prepared me for it."


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Fields of expertise and research: synoptic climatology, regional climatology, climate change, urban climatology and applied climatology, focusing on the Mediterranean Basin and the Levant region. The studies combine theoretical and applied aspects. They encompass assorted spatio-temporal scales, from large to synoptic to local and micro-climatic. The methodological approach includes, among others, synoptic-climatological analysis and statistical downscaling techniques.
Researches include:
Developing a new methodology for identifying daughter cyclone formation with respect to the parent's frontal system - application for the Mediterranean Basin;
Studying synoptic evolution scenarios associated with prolonged dry spells within the rainy season in Israel;
Developing advanced methods for identification and classification of Red Sea Trough and its active phase, application for related evolution scenarios and future changes;
Studying anomalies in the movement of upper-level troughs and their relations with rainfall anomalies over the Levant;
Developing a new synoptic classification of the summer season for the Levant using an "environment to climate" approach;
Studying pollution of particle matter and its relation to summer climatic stress - The case of Haifa metropolitan area, Israel;
Investigating trends in rainfall, temperature and heat stress regimes over Israel and their relationship to synoptic and large-scale variability;
Studying relations between synoptic-scale atmospheric variables and wave storms along the Mediterranean coasts of Israel;
Investigating structures of the rainy season in Israel and the ecological impacts on amphibians;
Studying human comfort and climate considerations in urban landscape and green infrastructure planning;
Studying pine forest thinning impacts on climatic, micro-climate and their relation with ant community;
Studying the impact of climate variations and change on the growing of deciduous fruit trees in Israel as a basis for evaluation of their future potential;


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Bangkok: WE know about the infamous sex trade in Thailand, but Michael Kaplan gives us a first person account of just what happens on the street.
Grimy, neon-splashed Walking Street, populated largely by young hookers and pie-eyed Western men, is the main attraction of a Thai beach town called Pattaya, reports the New York Post.
Sex for hire there was most certainly what drew Ben Bartanyi, the 49-year-old American real estate broker recently arrested for allegedly performing a sex act on a 20-year-old dancer in one of Pattaya's many strip clubs as other patrons cheered him on.
Some people may have been surprised by the outrageousness of it all. I wasn't. Ten years ago I visited Thailand to do a story on the commercial sex trade there. By all accounts, nothing has changed.
Then and now, lining Pattaya's red-light strip, open-fronted bars bear suggestive names such as Virgins and SugarBaby (which vows "p – – – y without attitude"); they offer illicit promises that all too often are kept.
Small stages inside teem with nude or bikini-clad women who are there for the taking — so much so that they have numbers pinned to their skimpy tops or G-string bottoms. These numerical designations make it easy for customers to call them and take them out for cheap sex.
I remember my Pattaya hotel selling condoms at the front desk and having signs warning that the age of consent is 15. In a Marriott there, a clutch of men loudly strategized about visiting a brothel where you must have two women at a time. Nobody seems to care.
It was a raunchy scene where women were readily available. Most of them came from the poor northern part of Thailand. They moved to Pattaya or Bangkok to earn money to send back home. As one girl wearing a skin-tight knock-off T-shirt that read J'Adore Dior, explained to me, "I need to make money for family. They grow rice and raise buffalo, but they are very poor. They need money for tools. You can get very hungry in Isan [the northern, rural region from which she comes]."
Of course, many of the naive family members thought their daughters and sisters were working in the big cities' department stores. Surely, family members would be horrified to know what comes with making the money they receive. "What's hardest is when I have a drunk customer who becomes really stupid," I heard from a girl who called herself Lin.
Sitting on a bench, staring out at the Gulf of Thailand, she continued, "Maybe he refuses to wear condom, tells me that he wants me to have his baby. Or he beats me. That happened once, when a customer was drunk, shouting at me, and I couldn't understand a word he was saying. He ran toward me, tried to punch me, missed and hit the wall. Then he kicked me. I grabbed my bag and ran."
These days the girls earn as little as $28 per hour. It's a pittance for the work involved, but a lot more than the $10 per day that they could make with factory jobs at home. Still, they sacrifice a lot by being in Thailand's sex trade, where diseases run rampant (according to one 2007 study in the International Journal of STD of AIDS up to 20 per cent of Thai working girls are HIV positive) and drugs can be the only thing that gets the girls through shifts.
"I have few friends and no life outside of work," a Bangkok bar-girl told me, standing on the fringe of Nana Entertainment Plaza, a three-storey mall of sorts, where hundreds of prostitutes work out of strip clubs with names such as Play School and Bottoms Up.
"It is bad what I do, and I cannot have a Thai man. Now I look for farang [Thai slang for Westerners] to support me. Someway I will be a good person."
As the Thai government seems to turn a mostly blind eye to the trade, — it's not technically legal but it is widely tolerated — the beat goes on. Westerners keep coming for the thrills they can't afford at home, and Thai women who are caught up in the sex business grimly endure.
"I miss my family, my baby girl," a young mother, six months into the trade, told me and started to sob. "This is not the life for me. It's a bad life."
This story first appeared in the New York Post.


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Before death and rebirth, Riddick was just a man — while centerstage for Act I, is soon usurped from the throne of attention by blind lizard aliens. In this creature feature, 'well at least it's not raining' might as well be said every ten minutes, until it does start raining, because this stranded crew of a commercial space vessel has the worst luck in the galaxy.
It's a movie about overcoming great adversity without losing sight of what's really important — and the morality tale is best embodied in a hardcore space killer, who learns compassion. People are not who they might seem: a policeman turns out to be a mercenary, and a serial killer becomes a savior. Keeping our minds closed to the possibilities of human individuals makes us as blind as these aliens.
It's up to a guy who can see in the dark to pierce through our illusory selves, but who watches the watchmen? In this survival scenario, the masks we construct are stripped away by necessity, and it's either keep pretending or die a terrible death. Everybody's at each other's throats anyway, and the light is fading, so true colors shine in the dark regardless.
Running the razor's edge of histrionic, corny, and distracting cinematography, somehow this movie keeps it all together to play out a high-concept premise with not unsubstantial thematic byproduct. It is in concept, a perfect formula for how science-fiction action should work, a tightly constructed movie with the right dashes of character and drama.
For more on Pitch Black and the Riddick series, check out Ep. 23 – Tortured Masterworks III: Riddick.


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BUSTA RHYMES is rumoured to be making an appearance in the film 'HALLOWEEN 8'.
According to the Hollywood Reporter newspaper in the US, the rapper will appear alongside Tyra Banks and Sean Patrick Thomas in the eighth installment of the popular horror series.
The film is said to be based around a group of teenagers who visit killer Michael Myers' house to do an Internet webchat. The visit sparks another killing spree.
Shooting is said to commence next week (May 9) in Vancouver, Canada.
When not recording, Busta Rhymes is no stranger to acting, having most famously appeared in the remake of the classic '70s film 'Shaft'.


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RefTreeAnalyser Screenshots
Below is a screenshot of the RefTreeAnalyser, showing both dependents
and precedents of a cell.
Note that it shows the value in each cell next to its address and also highlights references which evaluate to an error in red automatically.
If there are any objects using the current cell, those will be shown in black. Validation formula references and conditional formatting formula references are shown in black as well.
The Visualize option shows improved trace precedents arrows:
The Object Reference Enables you to see what your cells are used by objects on your sheets, such as Pivot tables, Charts and etcetera.
And here is a screenshot of the tool after detecting circular references:
RefTreeAnalyser integrates nicely with Excel:
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Comment by: Anthony Lisbona (6-2-2014 06:17:22)
Does RefTreeAnalyser check if a conditional format or a volatile function is dependant on a specific cell (both of which Excel's 'Trace Dependants' cannot)?
Comment by: Jan Karel Pieterse (6-2-2014 19:31:22)
Yes it does!
What kind of "Volatile" function do you mean? INDIRECT? It doesn't do those.
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