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Works citing "Smoking Behavior and Use of Tobacco Industry Sponsored Websites Among Medical Students and Young Physicians in Argentina"
According to Crossref, the following articles are citing this article (DOI 10.2196/jmir.2528):
(note that this is only a small subset of citations)
- Buchanan L, Kelly B, Yeatman H, Kariippanon K. The Effects of Digital Marketing of Unhealthy Commodities on Young People: A Systematic Review. Nutrients 2018;10(2):148CrossRef
- Salgado MV, Mejía RM, Kaplan CP, Pérez-Stable EJ. Smoking-Related Attitudes and Knowledge Among Medical Students and Recent Graduates in Argentina: A Cross-Sectional Study. Journal of General Internal Medicine 2017;32(5):549CrossRef
- Novillo-Ortiz D, Hernández-Pérez T. Social media in public health: an analysis of national health authorities and leading causes of death in Spanish-speaking Latin American and Caribbean countries. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017;17(1)CrossRef
- Berrueta M, Morello P, Alemán A, Tong VT, Johnson C, Dietz PM, Farr SL, Mazzoni A, Colomar M, Ciganda A, Llambi L, Becú A, Gibbons L, Smith RA, Buekens P, Belizán JM, Althabe F. Smoking Patterns and Receipt of Cessation Services Among Pregnant Women in Argentina and Uruguay. Nicotine & Tobacco Research 2016;18(5):1116CrossRef
- Silver MP. Patient Perspectives on Online Health Information and Communication With Doctors: A Qualitative Study of Patients 50 Years Old and Over. Journal of Medical Internet Research 2015;17(1):e19CrossRef
- Waqa G, McCool J, Snowdon W, Freeman B. Adolescents Perceptions of Pro- and Antitobacco Imagery and Marketing: Qualitative Study of Students from Suva, Fiji. BioMed Research International 2015;2015:1CrossRef


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Uber open sourced deck.gl, a WebGL framework for large datasets. Features include a layered approach to data visualisation, high-precision computations in the GPU, and React integration. Take a look at the source code or see an example.
Helio Workstation is a new open source music sequencer that is compatible with all major platforms on desktop and mobile. Helio Workstation features include a high-performance core (written in C++), clean interface, and version control. Watch a demo of Helio Workstation or take a look at the source code.
Sizzy, a tool to help develop responsive websites, is now live. Sizzy allows you to view a website in multiple screen sizes at the same time. Simply type a URL into the input box on Sizzy's home page, and you're good to go. Checkout the source code or try this example.
Introducing the Ultimate Android Reference. It bills itself as
Your Road To Become a Better Android Developer. The project aims to showcase well-tested resources that will help Android developers; there's a lot of resources of questionable quality out there, so some curation is appreciated. Take a look at the Github repo to learn more.
A security exploit was discovered in intel platforms created since 2008. Intel's advisory said,
An unprivileged local attacker could provision manageability features gaining unprivileged network or local system privileges. It only affects you if you have Active Management Technology enabled, so they say most consumers are unaffected. Still, it's a big deal. Read the full advisory or the writeup on Hackaday.
What is DevOps? (Hint: not the name of a position. Personal pet peeve.)
Project Based Learning - a great list of tutorials for various programming languages.
The best writeup I've ever seen regarding generating Perlin Noise.
MapSCII is a Braille & ASCII map renderer for your console - telnet mapscii.me
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations as the Killer App of Blockchains
Kotlin vs. Java: First Impressions Using Kotlin for a Commercial Android Project
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The end of an era.
Type: Posts; User: EastMillinocket
The end of an era.
Was this site ever really thought-provoking?
I do hope this forum is archived permanently.
Future historians seeking to uncover what an anonymous group of sanctimonious bloviating blowhards thought of early 21st century NYC architecture...
I think most of them were euthanized.
none of your business
This forum is a sad joke. It needs to be euthanized.
^^ this was the last time anyone except Wobert Wedford commented in the "Anything Goes" forum
Is Edward still alive?
They all died.
The closing of the Catholic high school is great news. Looking forward to an 80-story tower to be built on the site of the demolished parochial academy!!!!
it may be one of these
You are not a "decades-long Senior Member." You have only been a member for 14 years and 4 months. Stop flattering yourself.
I am sorry to report that Hof has expired. May he rest in peace.
Now that you called me an asshole, I am re-hacking your computer and wishing you painful incurable butt cancer.
Did she die watching Fox News?
Thankfully for each of us in NYC, when the nuclear missiles come next month, we will die instantaneously. The folks in northern Connecticut and Pennsylvania will have long agonizing deaths.
And now the leader of the failed state is claiming his inauguration had the biggest size, even though all facts point to the contrary.
You seem to have answered this question in your first post of this thread.
Hof, is everything OK now?
Hof, that's extremely unfortunate. I was looking forward to reading your thoughts. I definitely restored your account after I decided to suspend my hack on September 6. Are you sure you cannot log...
I am so sorry I hacked into your home computer, Hof. Yes, it was me after all. I was just feeling very bothered and upset after you called me a pervert. I just unhacked your computer. Please try...
We have admins? That's news to me.
This site no longer serves a purpose.
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Have scientists discovered how to 'turn off' cancer cells?
SCIENTISTS believe they may have found a way to "turn off cancer" by reverting cancerous cells to healthy tissue.
Researchers at the US Mayo Clinic demonstrated a method to turn cancerous breast and bladder cells benign, according to their study published in the Nature Cell Biology.
The study, which although in its early stages has been hailed by cancer charities as "crucial", works by focusing on the PLEKHA7 protein that clumps healthy cells together.
Led by Panos Anastasiadis, researchers found that when the usual sequence of cell regulation is disrupted, cancerous cells quickly occur and multiply out of control, but by adding mircoRNAs molecules scientists were able to prevent cancer.
The research represents "an unexpected new biology that provides the code, the software for turning off cancer," according to the Mr Anastasiadis, chair of the department of cancer biology at the Mayo Clinic's campus in Florida.
However, the tests have only been carried out in a test tube so it remains unclear whether the results can be replicated in people and if so, it is thought patients would still require chemotherapy.
"By administering the affected microRNAs in cancer cells to restore their normal levels, we should be able to re-establish the brakes and restore normal cell function," Dr Anastasiadis told the BBC.
"Initial experiments in some aggressive types of cancer are indeed very promising."
Senior science information manager Henry Scowcroft said: "This important study solves a long-standing biological mystery, but we mustn't get ahead of ourselves."
Mr Sowcroft added there was a "long way to go" before the findings were conclusive, but said there was still a "significant step forward".
"Understanding these key concepts is crucial to help continue the encouraging progress against cancer we've seen in recent years."


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Although the 2018 wedding fashion trend has already been flying, but I do not know which one is really included in your consideration? Maybe some of you who choose phobia, it is hard to say which one is your favorite? Fortunately, you still have me! 1st-dress.com launched the newest wedding dress that is worth trying in 2018!
- 3D flowers
Beautiful brides and flowers that always represent beautiful and beautiful are always inseparable. The use of flowers in wedding dresses and dresses is also very frequent, and it is not difficult to have flowers. What is difficult is how to make new flowers. 3D stereoscopic flowers are becoming more and more common with the use of new fabrics and new technologies in the fashion industry. Exquisite three-dimensional decoration can give the wedding alive. Different materials can be used in the production. For example, the mesh can also stretch the three-dimensional flowers layer by layer; or the grosgrain and gauze fabrics matched with the wedding dress are good choices. Designers will use a gradual approach to make these plausible flowers "drop" from intensive to scattered on the wedding dress, which is very rich in the overall layering.
- Wonderland color
The white wedding dress is holy and pure, but the 2018 wedding theme will no longer be limited to white. The brides can choose more rich pastel colors according to their skin color and favorite styles. Deep champagne, light champagne, bare powder, gray blue… These low-saturation pastel wedding dresses can enhance your fairy temperament quietly. A touch of beauty, not inferior to the romance of a white wedding dress, will definitely make people shine.
- One shoulder and shaped sleeves are good friends
For the attention and re-creation of the sleeves, there is no exception from the fashion industry to the wedding world. Especially this year, the sleeves are so hot, and the wedding design can't be used well. Off-shoulder has always been one of the favorite styles of wedding dress designers. The female sexy clavicle and sleek shoulder line can be enlarged to perfection with one shoulder design.
Now, the one-shoulder shoulders and the sleeves of different shapes are combined with each other, and they have a completely different sense of style. For example, the cute and exaggerated princess puff sleeves, the hem of the ruffled wide sleeves, the court croissant sleeves… Even the most basic long sleeves will make the arms more slender and slender.
- Tea Length Dress
Short skirts are playful but unsettled, and trailing skirts are imposing, but inevitably inconvenient. This year's popular mid-length skirt wedding style, the inspiration is simply pulled out from the wardrobe of the screen goddess of the 50s. At that time, the length of the skirt just to the ankle was very popular, because it would reveal a nice ankle curve. Speaking of this, I can't help but think of a generation of goddess Audrey Hepburn, the many skirts she passed through are just the right length.
But what I think must be paid attention to is that, in order to control this style, the length of the skirt is very subtle, and it must be different from person to person. After all, our personal height is different and the body proportion is different. Some styles may be stuck in the thickest position of the calf, which will not highlight your sexy ankles, but also cause the calves to look thicker, not worth the candle! Therefore, if you want to try this kind of retro classic that makes the bride reborn, you must be careful about the length of the skirt, remember to only reveal the most slender ankle part!


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Recently, I am seeing this issue frequently.
I answered a question. And I was on same page for couple of minutes. I see the following beneath my answer
answered 17 minutes ago
I certainly knew it is wrong because I've answered just a while ago. I tried to reload the page. Then I got
answered 5 minutes ago
This is happening for comments too.
what's the reason?


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I have been using Nhibernate now for almost 2 years and to be honest for most of the time really missed the point of using an ORM. I think alot of this stems for the M$ influence mindset of building from the DB up. This is not necessarily a bad thing and to be honest is often a necessity if you are using an existing DB or working disparate to the DBA or owner. However as i explore the DDD world i see the benefit of build from the domain out, especially in complex domains that are not just crud operations.
Most of my time using an ORM i have just been using it as a glorified typed data set. The object would contain data in the form of properties that mapped to the structure of the table it is mapped to. This really is not using the full strength of an ORM, and to be honest if this is all you are doing then a code gen option like Net Tiers is probably a much better path (faster, less stress easier).
However now I feel the ORM really is a way of abstracting your domain from your persistence mechanism. Unfortunately it took an nasty database to show me the light.
I dont mind admitting my mistakes, usually its in a less public forum, however these are mistake I see frequently that i dont know if the authors are aware they are making.
So here's some guidelines that i am now trying to follow, take them for what they are.
Properties != Columns
Column and property names do not need to be the same. I have often seen the suffix "Flag" for Boolean columns; however this is less IMO readable than the "Is" prefix in managed code. do not feel the need to map names directly. use the most suitable domain representation
Incorrect Mapping of Types
I have seen properties that are of type string because the underlying table has a char(1) for Y/N flags. there is then a property that interrogate the string flag property and return a bool depending on the result... yuck. Why not use the mapping correctly
<property name="IsActive" type="YesNo" column="ACTIVE_FLAG" not-null="false" />
this also applys to numeric types and strings. There are more numeric types than int, so use the most appropriate one. if a string has a max limit on the DB of 30, enforce that in your map and in your class.
Inappropriate use of the public keyword
The public key word for some reason seems to be a default accessor. it should only be used when you w this aspect of your code.
If you have a class that is in way relevant to the outer world, do not mark it as public. Many mapping classes fall in to this category. I dont want to see Foo.FooBar[0].Bar... this show me implementation details that i dont care about and just add noise. If you need the join class but it serves no public functionality encapsulate it by providing a Bar collection property that transverses the join classes to give Foo.Bar[0]. You may want to consider if your loading strategy for this relationship is appropriate (ie not lazy) if you are using this out of session.
Bottom line is: ORMs are there to provide DB/Persistence ignorance not highlight the DB structure.
Properties that are mapped to columns may not always be publicly accessible. There may be time when if you update property A then B must be considered too. Dont make these setters public, or you give the impression that changing them freely is OK. Use a method to populate the properties so you can also encapsulate business logic associated to these.
This point follows on from the preceding point. You domain objects do not have to be buckets designed to carry data. They can and should have behaviour associated to them. Not doing so leaks your logic out of the domain and results in duplicated logic and hard-to-maintain uber services. Dont let this happen.
Fear of re factoring
It is often difficult to change a database especially in post live situations. this does not mean your domain has to reflect old/incorrect data structures. Feel free to remove mapped columns form your classes and mapping files if they no longer make sense in the domain. just because one area of development is wrong it does not mean it has to leak out to the other areas.
Light Handed Mappings
That title doesn't really makes sense, what i really mean is be heavy handed with your mappings, classes and tables. Assert your assumptions. If a column can not be null, assert that in the DB, maps and in the managed code. If you know the class a will always need reference to its collection of class B then set lazy loading to false. Ignorance is a common excuse, but its one i am trying to minimise
Redundant Repositories
A repository is generally only required for an Aggregate Root. Define your boundaries and remove redundant Repositories. Do you really need an ICustomerAddressRepository? get rid of it!
Confusing the purpose of a Repository
This may be more than a ORM issue but a design issue. A Repository is a store for entities. It does not do reporting. It does not do complex SQL searches that return weird and wonderful datasets. I "like" Greg Youngs notion* (which i initially thought was wildly over the top, but goes to prove a point) of just saving the id of aggregate root and then serialise the object graph in to the other column of the table. This database is not for reporting, its for serving the domain.
Although your approach man be a little less drastic, this highlights a point. If you cant think of your repository as an in memory store then you are not using like a repository. In fact my current thought is your should be easily be able to inject an in memory store that uses the I[Foo]Repository interface and work exactly as intend , albeit a smaller set of data (eg for testing). I may be going a bit OTT here and would like feedback.
*i hope i am not miss-quoting Greg
Hopefully that has clarified some of the errors i have done/seen repeatedly in the past. i would like to here feedback. have i yet again missed a point? am i being over the top?
lay it on :)
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
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CfP: [sic!] Summer Institute Cologne – In Situ – 22 Aug - 2 Sep, 2016
28 January, 2016 by Sascha Forster | 0 comments
The international summer school [sic!] Summer Institute Cologne is looking for participants (master's, PhD) in this two-week long programme. 2016's topic is "In Situ".
We invite graduate and postgraduate students from Area Studies, Art History, Classics, Communication, Cultural Studies, Dance, English, Film, Gender and Sexuality Studies, German, History, Literary Studies, Media, Music, Performance, Sound, Theatre, and related fields to apply for this international interdisciplinary program. (All sessions will be conducted in English.) Participants and faculty of [sic!] 2016 will explore perspectives on the topic in situ through four themed seminars:
- Queer Becomings and Unnatural Intimacies (led by Nick Davis and Christiane König)
- Sound Studies (led by Frank Hentschel and Jacob Smith)
- Theatre Historiography (led by Tracy C. Davis and Peter W. Marx)
- Urbanism and Hip Hop (led by Sandra Kurfürst and Ivy Wilson)
Each seminar will be led by a pair of scholars from Northwestern University (Evanston, USA) and the University of Cologne (Germany). In addition to the seminars, [sic!] offers interdisciplinary academic workshops that allow for a dialogue with participants from across the seminars. Each participant enrolls in one seminar and one workshop, thus composing an individual study program. Seminars and workshops are enhanced by excursions, lectures by faculty, poster presentations by students, and social gatherings. The University of Cologne assists participants in identifying accommodation and with other basic logistics.
The Latin term in situ means to be in the original place. Additionally, it means to be in position and, by extension, refers to a normative, rightful, historical, or naturalized location or condition. Knowing that something is unaltered implies awareness of conditions and criteria for alterability and what would constitute mobility, displacement, and change that come about through contact, recombination, contamination, or even representation. Whether considering the contrast between natural sound and its capture, transnational sharing of media, shifting and expanding categories of social and cultural identity, or the performative vocabularies that refer to place, [sic!] 2016 will explore contemporary and historical, local and global instantiations of in situ through many perspectives.
Please find more information on the seminars and application here: http://sic.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/15174.html


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Brazil names changed squad for Neymar to lead in qualifiers
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil coach Tite named on Thursday a much-changed Brazil squad for Neymar to lead in the two World Cup qualifying matches against Ecuador and Colombia.
Five players were dropped from the group which in March secured the team's spot in Russia 2018.
Manchester City goalkeeper Ederson is one of the new names to be tested, while new Juventus winger Douglas Costa was one of the players dropped.
Tite said that his squad for the next World Cup is not yet ready despite its unbeaten record in qualifying.
The coach, who previously praised Neymar's record transfer to Paris Saint-Germain, said that the move will not change the striker's chances of winning a Ballon D'Or.
"There are three players fighting for that position: Cristiano, Messi and Neymar. Cristiano and Messi are from a different generation, and Neymar will get there. That will depend on his performances, not on whether he plays with Messi," Tite said.
Brazil leads South American World Cup qualifiers with 33 points after 14 games. They will play sixth-placed Ecuador on Aug.31 in Porto Alegre and second-placed Colombia away on Sep.5.
Goalkeepers: Alisson (Roma), Cassio (Corinthians) and Ederson (Manchester City).
Defenders: Rodrigo Caio (São Paulo), Miranda (Inter Milan), ), Marquinhos, Thiago Silva, Daniel Alves (Paris Saint-Germain), Fagner (Corinthians), Filipe Luis (Atletico Madrid) and Marcelo (Real Madrid).
Midfielders: Casemiro (Real Madrid), Fernandinho (Manchester City), Paulinho (Guangzhou Evergrande), Renato Augusto (Beijing Guoan), Philippe Coutinho (Liverpool), Willian (Chelsea), Luan (Gremio) and Giuliano (Zenit).
Strikers: Taison (Shakhtar), Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City), Neymar (PSG) and Roberto Firmino (Liverpool).


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• Patrick McLoughlin, Chris Bryant, Charlotte Church, Neil Wallis and Simon Jenkins are on tonight's panel
• Michael Rosen is tonight's BBC Extra Guest
• Show starts on BBC 1, 10.35pm
• Send your thoughts for inclusion to firstname.lastname@example.com or tweet @benbryant
23.45 So that's it from another round of Question Time. The endless debate on the limitations of press freedom rolled on agreeably this evening with a solid showing from Charlotte Church and a slightly wobbly one from Patrick McLoughlin. It's Liverpool next week and I'll be back on the live blog from 10pm - be sure to join me then.
23.36 Dimbleby gives the one minute klaxon. Church says she agrees with Jenkins. Wallis says build on brownfield sites first. Bryant says we're focusing too much on the south east. My dreams of owning a home are trodden decisively ever further into the lush, green grasslands of England. And that's all we have time for this evening.
23.35 Jenkins slaps the question down, visibly enraged. "What's a moral right to a garden? It's being used as a way to leverage more green belt land."
23.34 NEW QUESTION: Are we all morally entitled to own our own house with a garden?
23.32 The audience do not seem too keen on minimum pricing, on the whole.
Charlotte Church says she doesn't see it as a problem. Not sure if she's wandered down St Mary Street recently...
23.29 McLoughlin is a fan of a minimum price. Wallis thinks that people will drink and smoke no matter what.
"Repeal the 24-hour drinking laws," says an audience member to broad applause.
Have to say I personally find it very, very difficult to even find a 24-hour den of iniquity in which to while away the small hours, but there you go.
23.26 Suspect Wallis may have been conflating Rotherham and Rochdale there. Anyway
NEW QUESTION: Is the minimum price on alcohol fair?
23.24 Ooh. Wallis has raised the spectre of sexual grooming gangs and used it as a springboard to attack social workers.
Chris Bryant rightly leaps to their defence. "They bear on our behalf, social workers, a phenomenal responsibility.
"They're trying to do as good a job as they can."
23.21 McLoughlin doesn't think that UKIP voters are racists, somewhat reassuringly.
Was it regrettable that the prime minister called UKIP fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists?, Dimbleby asks McLoughlin.
McLoughlin dodges the question.
23.17 Church is strongly opposed to this - as, I suspect, are all of the panel, and most of the sane, English-speaking world. Church: "The process you have to go through to be a foster parent is in itself a selfless thing to do."
23.16 Well, that was unexpected - we're moving on from press freedom.
NEW QUESTION: Should the political views of foster parents be taken into account?
23.15 Charlotte Church getting an unwarranted kicking from a deceptively cutting audience member - and nobody saw that coming.
"A stronger person might have weathered the storm better," she says of Church's family's persecution by the tabloid press.
She was rightly drowned out by loud boos from the crowd in response to that gobsmacking comment.
23.10 Neil Wallis's paper was "a pernicious stain on the ethics of journalism" says a man in the audience.
"Good journalism, investigative journalism, is what we want."
Time to wipe out the tabloids, you say? Surely not.
23.05 McLoughlin holding steady in his defence of Cameron's position today and the last chance saloon for journalists: "The Prime Minister said that the press have got to change. He wants to give them the chance to do that."
23.02 Wallis reminds Bryant that Labour were masters of courting the press too: "Labour crawled over broken glass to get to Rupert Murdoch
"Tony Blair went to Australia to ask for his hand in marriage."
Meanwhile, the already meagre love for journalists that still exists on twitter is diminishing by the second...
22.58 McLoughlin and Bryant enjoyed an amusing squabble over who was interested in press freedom first. I think Bryant won the sideshow with his assertion that he'd been campaigning since 2003.
Bryant: "The one thing we reallly have to address is that we allowed one man to have far too much power over our newspapers."
He means Murdoch of course - but Leveson has not called for a cap on newspaper market share for proprietors.
22.53 Everybody accepts the need for change, says Wallis. "There is complete acceptance and agreement across the industry."
A rather more resigned acceptance in some newsrooms, perhaps...
22.50 Jenkins raises the question of what form this statutory regulation should take.
"My worry there is what form does that take. You're bound to get a maverick. A newspaper will say take me to court.
"What do you do to a newspaper that's believes it's profoundly in the right? That refuses to pay a fine? Do you close it down."
A good question - and how could the state shut down a newspaper? Jenkins argues that it's a slippery slope - that regulation implemented by the state can only get worse.
22.45 Church: "I agree with everything I've read in Leveson's report.
"The crux of this argument is all about statutory underpinning.
"Leveson has said to newspapers, you make your own rules; all the statutory underpinning should be able to do is make sure that there is a body where no rules can be enforced."
22.44 Wallis: "I don't know if they were designed to do that.
"The stories were unconscionable. Milly Dowler, 7/7 and the McCann family.
"The problem is that immediately you get state regulation [...] then you leave a free press."
Wallis attacking with much less bite than I expected - but instinctively oppositional to Leveson's proposal of a new regulator underpinned by statute.
22.40 FIRST QUESTION: Are the Leveson proposals an attack on a free press? Well, that one came out of nowhere.
22.39 Right, we're away
22.39 Not a week goes by without somebody criticising the BBC for perceived bias on its Question Time panel...
Good to see the children's author getting stuck right in, of course, but I can't help feeling a twang of sympathy for the producers, who are tasked with balancing the panel politically, socially, racially and by gender - a Herculean task week in week out.
22.32 Michael Rosen - The remarkably prolific children's author (he's written 140 books) is an intriguing choice for tonight's twitter-only @BBCExtraGuest. He's the Children's Laureate.
22.28 Simon Jenkins - The former editor of the Times and the Evening Standard is still a familiar face as a columnist for the latter and also the Guardian.He has enjoyed an illustrious career in journalism and was knighted for his services to the trade in 2004.
22.26 Chris Bryant - the Cardiff-born Labour MP once trained to be a priest and enjoyed a stint in the Conservative Party before turning to Labour. More recently, he was critical of Cameron over the release of emails relating to the Leveson inquiry. Also, he once posted a picture of himself in his pants on Gaydar.
22.22 Neil Wallis - The former executive editor of the News of the World (who once paid out £600,000 to Charlotte Church) and tabloid man through-and-through could be a neat foil to Church. Apparently known to fellow journalists as the "wolf man" - a nickname that might hardly suggests a soft touch approach to his craft - he also once sat on the Press Complaints Commission - the regulatory body that Leveson seeks to replace.
22.17 Charlotte Church - The singer-songwriter and sometime TV presenter has recently been back in the spotlight after 2003 footage emerged in which Piers Morgan appeared to be telling her about how a "spate of stories" resulted from the hacking of phones. Always an interesting personality to watch - and a vociferous critic of the tabloid press - Charlotte Church's appearance on Question Time (surely her first) is likely to be engaging.
22.14 On to tonight's panel. Patrick McLoughlin - The Transport Secretary and Conservative MP for the Derbyshire Dales is one of a handful of MPs who've worked in manual labour prior to making it to Parliament - he spent five years as a farm worker and worked underground at the Littleton Colliery in Cannock. He was also, of course, was just a week into his job as Transport Secretary when he had to cancel the award of the InterCity West Coast franchise after flaws in the bidding process were exposed.
22.00 Welcome once again to our live coverage of Question Time. This week, Dimbleby and co are in Swansea, and everybody will be reeling from the verdict of Lord Justice Leveson, whose pronouncements on the state of journalism have dominated the news agenda. Tonight's panel features tabloid victim Charlotte Church, tabloid editor Neil Wallis, broadsheet editor Simon Jenkins and two MPs to boot. So it's set to be another episode of swirling, incestuous discussions by the media about the media - a theme you're probably all too familiar with if you have been watching Question Time at all over the last couple of weeks.
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Must be due to the last-minute shopping of Christmas presents. Yes, that's it. That's what the movie "The Nightmare Before Christmas" is about.
Heh. Like the above image of the terrified Santa Claus. (The link includes another link to the poem titled "The Night Before Christmas" by Clement Clarke Moore that consists the name of Santa's reindeer. No, Rudolph ain't mentioned.)
Talking about Santa, the comic Non Sequitur also 'exploits' the character. I remember once reading a series of Non Sequitur about 'Santa Dude'. It's about Santa going to Hollywood incognito--he donned his usual costume with an addition of sunglasses--to find out why there were more bad children than good ones. He's greeted something like "Hey, it's Santa, dude!" and eventually dubbed as 'Santa Dude'.
The following comic is not about 'Santa Dude', but it sure brings the story to mind. The image copied & cropped from this Non Sequitur page.
Wish you all a Happy Holiday Season. There's no Tiny Tim here but I'd like to quote his line "God bless us, everyone!".


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If it fits your macros article "Paleo! too much healthy food made me fat"
Created April 03, 2014 at 6:31 PM
I thought I would post this article. I found it googling how much fruit for fat loss, I asked a question about it on here and received mixed opinions. I found a blog by a personal trainer, who was formerly paleo and then tried eating whatever he wanted, avoiding nothing and just counting his micronutrients, and protein requirements.
Rather than worrying about how much sugar and how much this and that and what to avoid he joined a simple food diary app and followed the requirements, ate ice-cream, brownies, pizza, toast etc etc.
Enter Mike???..
He???s health personified. A 20-year old personal trainer who preaches the benefits of clean eating.
His clients know they need to avoid refined grains. Meals should revolve around protein and vegetables. If carbs are to be included in a meal, they should only come in the post-workout period, and even then, should only be from fruits, sweet potato, or possibly brown rice, couscous or quinoa.
Mike doesn???t eat dairy. Or gluten. He???s not lactose intolerant or celiac, he just knows that foods containing these aren???t part of a healthy diet. As for artificial sweeteners, you???re kidding, right? When Mike goes out for a meal he doesn???t even look at the menu ??? he orders steak and asks to swap the side to vegetables or salad, and it???s water, not soft drinks, or ??? heaven forbid ??? alcohol that accompanies this fare.
Here???s the thing though???..
Mike???s fat
Okay, we???re not talking obese here, but despite his healthy ways, his food avoidance, and strict adherence to what most would refer to as ???clean eating,??? Mike???s no cover model.
I???m Mike.
Yep, that???s me.
At least that was me. Now my diet???s slightly different. I still stick kind of to the diet detailed above, but now I eat cereals for breakfast. I have ice cream most days, eat out at pizza restaurants, Mexicans, Indian and Chinese restaurants and order from the menu a couple of times per week, and put Splenda in every coffee I drink.
Considering my diet???s now a lot ???worse??? you???d expect me to be pretty fat right about now. Well???..
Yep, that???s me. Let me explain???..
It Started with Paleo
Back in 2011, I was a staunch advocate of Paleo eating.
If you???re unfamiliar, paleo eating is the caveman diet. You basically eat as close possible to how our ancient ancestors supposedly did 10,000 years ago. That means you eat some kind of animal protein at every meal. This is accompanied by (preferably in-season) fruits and vegetables. You can eat nuts and seeds too, plus some oils, but Paleo is mainly defined by the foods you can???t consume, which include -
- Grains (That???s all grains ??? brown, white, wholegrain, it doesn???t matter.)
- Dairy (Some versions of the Paleo diet allow butter and cream, but that???s it.)
- Legumes. Yep, those harmless little kidney beans in your chilli, or the lentils you use to make your vegetable soup ??? they???re banned too. Apparently ancient man didn???t have access to the facilities needed to make beans, legumes and pulses safe for human consumption, plus they???re pro-inflammatory, so they???re off the menu.
- There???s also the obvious ones, like microwave meals, artificial sweeteners, pastry, junk foods, alcohol, and so on.
Herein Lies the Issue
I have no issue with the concept of the Paleo diet. I mean, what???s not to like in terms of health and fat loss about basing your meals round meat, fish and eggs, eating plenty of vegetables, some fruits, and then filling up on nuts and berries. Leaving aside the needlessness of the banned foods (which we???ll touch on later) it seems pretty sound.
With the Paleo diet, there are no rules on how much you can eat. By that, I mean you???re not given a set calorie or macronutrient goal to hit each day, as the theory behind Paleo eating is that the low-carb, high-protein nature of the diet leads you to feeling naturally full, and prevents over-eating.
Well, say hello to the incredible eating machine. Also known as ???bottomless pit Samuels,??? or ???the human bin.??? I don???t seem to have a full setting. When I???m not given a set amount to eat, I just eat.
For me, a typical day of Paleo eating meant eggs for breakfast. ???Eggs you say? I???ll take five. And we???re allowed nuts on Paleo? Well then, I???ll load up a bowl with some cashews and almonds and snack on those.???
I???d carry on snacking on nuts, and maybe the odd bit of fruit until lunchtime, when it was inevitably more meat or fish with veggies. As you can see from the food pyramid, you???re supposed to eat the fat on meats, which meant I???d devour a hefty serving of full-fat beef or lamb mince, or a couple of salmon fillets, accompanied by four or five different veggies ??? all cooked in oil or grass-fed butter.
The afternoon snacks continued coming in the form of nuts and fruit and the odd protein shake. (Most paleo diets allow you to have protein powder. Weird, I know ??? it???s both man-made and dairy-based, yet you???re allowed it. As this isn???t intended to be a Paleo-bashing post however, we won???t touch on yet another flaw in the structure of the diet here.)
Dinner would be more or less what lunch was, and then I might snack a bit more in the evening ??? potentially a few boiled eggs, some fruit, or a protein pudding.
6 months into the Paleo diet, I???d gained weight.
Sure, my strength in the gym had gone up too, but I???d got fat. I was at a loss ??? I???d followed the diet probably 95% to the letter, yet instead of looking like all these Paleo-loving Crossfit athletes, with their 6-packs and biceps veins, I was one chunky SOB.
See, because of Paleo???s lack of accounting for calories, and it???s tendency to recommend low-carb, but higher-fat food sources, my calorie intake was through the roof. As I???d not been allowed some of my favourite foods like oats, rice, cottage cheese, beans and bread, I???d compensated by filling up on more of the foods I was allowed. End result = a ???healthy??? diet that had made me overweight.
Out went the rules, in came MyFitnessPal
I did some reading and research, and found where I???d been going wrong.
Instead of looking at foods as good vs. bad, I should have been looking at my overall diet as a whole.
This is a concept a lot of folks fail to grasp.
See, a diet isn???t about good and bad foods ??? it???s about numbers. To lose fat, you MUST be in a calorie deficit, meaning you???re burning more calories than you consume. In theory, you can lose weight eating whatever foods you want, provided you???re in a deficit.
This has been demonstrated a good deal in the media, with perhaps the most well-know, and often cited story being Jared: The Subway guy -
More recently, there???s been examples with the University professor who based his diet around Twinkies - http://articles.latimes.com/2010/dec/06/health/la-he-fitness-twinkie-diet-20101206 and the man who lost 56 pounds in 6 months eating only McDonalds - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2575755/Getting-fit-fast-food-Man-lost-56lbs-eating-McDonalds-six-months-documents-experience-new-book.html
It isn???t ALL about calories though. Other factors do come into play, and those factors are in the form of macronutrients ??? proteins, carbohydrates and fats. For more on those, check out my article on calculating your macronutrients for a fat loss diet -
I realised that I???d been looking too much into supposed food ???quality??? and not enough at food quantity. I needed to start tracking my intake, so I signed up with MyFitnessPal, a site that allows you to input all the food you eat in a day, and keeps a running total of your calories and macronutrients.
Then came Layne Norton: The Man, The Myth, The Legend
After doing some digging, I began tracking my macros, and had made some steady progress. But I was still, by definition a ???clean eater.??? I really struggled to get my carbs in, and resorted to big portions of the same foods all the time ??? mainly fruit, oats and rice, to bump up my intake. I was also having a hard time keeping my fat intake down, having been so used to cooking everything in oil or butter, snacking on nuts and choosing fatty meats all the time.
I decided to reach out to someone for help, and went to Layne Norton ??? a natural pro bodybuilder, record-holding powerlifter, and, get this ??? a nutritional scientist with a PHD.
Layne sent me through my plan after a consultation, and we got to work.
The line in the plan that struck me, and stays with me until this day, was this -
???It matters much less WHAT you eat than the number of protein/carbs/fats you take in. It is important to get as close to your numbers as possible.???
Quantity trumps ???quality??? every time.
I???m Mike, and I???m a recovering clean eater
As things progressed, and time went by, I started to break my clean eating habits. I realised I could have a beer with friends at the pub, that if we went out for a meal, it was okay to order something ???normal??? and that if I wanted some chocolate, I could have it.
In my restrictive Paleo days, I???d been prone to binge eating. I???d go three or four weeks sticking perfectly to my plan, then find my cravings for non-Paleo foods got so huge I???d succumb to 5 -6,000 calorie binge on cereals, cake and chips.
(NB: Take a look at my post on cheat meals ??? Cheat Meals: The Rock(y) Road to a Crappy Physique - http://www.healthylivingheavylifting.com/cheat-meals-the-rocky-road-to-a-crappy-physique/ )
Fast Forward to 2013
And I decided that I was lean enough to justify stripping down to my skimpies and doing a photo shoot.
While dieting was tough, and by the end, my carb and fat intake was relatively low (around 120g and 65g per day respectively) I had NO RESTRICTIONS on what I could and couldn???t eat. Most of my foods certainly came from nutrient-dense, minimally processed sources, and I was a meat and veggie-eating machine. But I also made frequent trips to Subway to grab lunch between clients, I ate ice cream every single re-feed day (and on some non refeed days too,) I went on holiday to Amsterdam and Barcelona, and eyeballed all my food, eating Pop Tarts, burgers, pizza, pasta and sandwiches, and drinking beer and cocktails, and ended up the leanest I???ve ever been. All through simply tracking calories and macronutrients.
Get to the Point Samuels???..
What???s the point of this post?
It???s not an attempt to bash anyone for following any type of restrictive, or rules-based diet, like Paleo, Atkins, Primal, Dukan, or whatever, and it???s certainly not meant to encourage people to base their diets around junk foods.
What it hopefully serves to do, however, is to make you realise that there???s much, much more to a diet than good vs. bad foods. You needn???t cut out any food when trying to lose fat ??? it???s simply about eating mostly healthy, unprocessed foods and controlling your calorie and macronutrient intake, but not freaking out if you do include high-sugar, high-fat and processed foods, provided they fit in with your plan as a whole.
The main reason people screw up when dieting is a lack of consistency. This inconsistency comes through boredom, or feeling that a diet is simply too hard going. For most people, this is almost bound to happen when following a diet with lots of rules, that doesn???t permit them to eat their favourite foods.
Moderation is key. Moderation lets you eat ice cream and Subway and get lean. Moderation is awesome.
Tags: clean eating, fat loss, fat loss diet, fat loss myths, flexible dieting, IIFYM, paleo
on April 03, 2014
at 10:13 PM
Matt here has observed that Paleo diet is mainly for sick people. I had to severely restrict processed grain carbs (glucose source) to control my blood sugar. If not the excess glucose would have killed me. I only found out by accident that I had become diabetic, but once you know you deal with it. I controlled it, and today have gone back to eating the killer carbs. Others here can never go back, especially those who can't handle the difficult proteins. The Paleo restrictions are meant to heal people, not turn them into Joe Atlas.
on April 03, 2014
at 09:15 PM
Dude you seem pretty reasonable and likeable, please understand I am not anti paleo, I am just pro calorie and macro setting.
You can do it paleo, I just see zero evidence paleo diet where you hit macros is any better than a mixed diet hitting macros. And if you are not hitting macros you will gain weight or lose muscle depending which end of the overeating underrating scale you go.
on April 03, 2014
at 09:11 PM
He was already a personal trainer and weightlifter while eating paleo and not tracking calories.
on April 03, 2014
at 09:09 PM
The sham is that he went to a bodybuilder. You don't get ripped eating Paleo. You don't win Olympic medals eating Paleo. It's a different book. Most of us want to look like original Mike: muscular and not fat, like a good linebacker. If you want to sculpt yourself you have to moderate your eating, you have to eat to the macros (more protein especially), and you have to do the hard work.
on April 03, 2014
at 09:07 PM
Calm your tits man.
on April 03, 2014
at 09:05 PM
I live in Manchester, that guy lives in fucking east England. Now I just exposed your lie, please go feel bad for having to lie because someone challenged your dogmatic beliefs. So sad.
on April 03, 2014
at 08:57 PM
IP Trace. It's not a coincidence.
on April 03, 2014
at 08:41 PM
Oh no proof again, what a surprise, keep labelling foods unhealthy without proof of it. What a surprise, conspiracy foodie alert. Bread kills. Please answer how a man lost 40 pounds and lowered his cholesterol if his diet was unhealthy.
Please define healthy, please tell me why the biggest and most respected nutritional scientists in the world all recommend flexible dieting or "iifym" and if you can't just stop posting in a thread asking you to prove the IIFYM hypothesis wrong.
on April 03, 2014
at 08:32 PM
Many neolithic foods are perfectly healthy, for example, broccoli, cabbage, brussel sprouts, kale, lemons, domesticated cattle and pigs and olive oil all came after the paleolithic era and were developed by selective breeding or processing thanks to man's own hand. Neolithic doesn't equal unhealthy, but many neolithic foods are extremely unhealthy, like ice cream, cereal, sweets and desserts, etc. Eat whatever you like, being stupid is your right.
on April 03, 2014
at 08:19 PM
Yes, as you saw, you can get healthily following your mcros at mcdonalds and get fat not following your macros on paleo, solution, eat wherever, eat also if you want, just follow macros.
on April 03, 2014
at 08:17 PM
You won't look like Mike unless you lift seriously. Having a lot of meat in the diet helps build those muscles. There's where Paleo comes in. Not complicated at all , but a distinctly different approach than the heavily starch/sugar/veg oil typical Western diet.
on April 03, 2014
at 08:17 PM
Where is the evidence this is a sham, he trained the same but merely followed macros, thats it. Why is that so forbidden to say? Please provide evidence for a sham or don't post biased things that I would be criticised for doing about paleo.
on April 03, 2014
at 08:11 PM
OK so he used to look like Fred Flintstone. It looks like he got a lot more serious about lifting in addition to changing his diet. In 5 seconds I could google up thousands of photos of sedentary obese people at McDonalds eating ice cream, fries, Big Macs, etc. Diet may not be everything, but this is a bit of a sham.
If you lift like crazy you get ripped. Michael Phelps won a lot of gold medals on this stuff. If you don't refer to photo above.
on April 03, 2014
at 07:55 PM
No he is a scientist, hence my point about there being no scientific backing to exclude neolithic foods, hence why nutritional scientists advocate merely following calories, protein requirements and micronutrient needs.
on April 03, 2014
at 07:40 PM
Some people on here might accept anecdotal evidence, I never have. I have always said that epidimiology and anecdotal evidence are both useless garbage, so go back to my previous posts and read them.
Also, read a physiology book and you might learn something. I don't give a shit for "gurus" either, to me science is about experimental evidence and controlled trials. But then again the only one bringing up anecdotal bullshit (see spam post above) and obscure gurus on here (Layne Norton, your guru I presume??) is you.
on April 03, 2014
at 07:40 PM
Why do you keep calling him me?
on April 03, 2014
at 07:36 PM
Good comeback, prove evidence eating grains and dairy at a calorie defect while hitting the macronutrient profile is less healthy than paleo. DID YOU SEE THE SCIENCE TEACHER WHO LOST OVER 30 POUNDS IN 3 MONTHS BY ONLY EATING AT MCDONALDS 3 TIMES A DAY?
He followed his macro plan.
on April 03, 2014
at 07:32 PM
Is not selling a system, based on a specific diet. Which he is not, he's just a personal trainer. As he said, you can do the paleo diet, a mixed diet any diet, as long as it fits your macros. Hence, not biased.
on April 03, 2014
at 07:31 PM
I asked why this does not disprove the paleo diets central premise. Of course no answer can be given, because to do so would mean to accept calories in calories out is a scientifically proven thing and no matter how much grass fed butter you put into your coffee, its only effective if you follow your macros.
And if you follow your macros you can eat anything and don't need to restrict food sources.
on April 03, 2014
at 07:29 PM
So telling people to eat ice cream and McDonald's is helping them to "getting healthy", but telling them to eat paleo and avoid junk food is "cultish"? Dude, go troll on Weight Watchers. You are not paleo so GTFO.
on April 03, 2014
at 07:26 PM
Hence IIFYM, sugar, wheat, milk, all fine if they fit macros and calories, unless you are one of the tiny tiny minority with real intolerances, not "anecdotal" ones
on April 03, 2014
at 07:26 PM
it was closed because it was spam -- not a question. this is a question and answer forum.
on April 03, 2014
at 07:25 PM
you said that this dude (you) isn't selling anything. That's BS.
on April 03, 2014
at 07:24 PM
you. And paleo didn't make you fat. Overeating did. Eating Disorders are Still Eating Disorders.
on April 03, 2014
at 07:23 PM
So why is anecdotal evidence accepted on paleo hacks when it is pro paleo? Peoples anecdotal transformations on here are championed as proof of paleo being the way to eat.
And actually Robb wolf even said work put out by Layne Norton was good scientific data. These people are scientists, they have PHD's, they are the "nutritional scientists" of the world.
But let me guess, some unheard of guy who says sugar is really bad knows way way more right, right? Its the illuminati hiding the truth right?
on April 03, 2014
at 07:22 PM
Your "answer" is not an answer, it is a statement in favor of your own premise. Accepting it makes no sense and clearly shows your confirmation bias.
on April 03, 2014
at 07:19 PM
Anecdotal evidence is not science, I'll be happy to debate science when you actually bother to bring some to the debate....so far all you bring is "yo I eat ice cream and still make mad gainz". I'm sorry but that is pure garbage.
on April 03, 2014
at 07:18 PM
I am sure closing threads showing people getting healthy by leaving the paloe diet really boosts the paleo community in its respectability and peoples view on it as cultish.
on April 03, 2014
at 07:18 PM
The thread was closed so no one else can answer, the only answer I got was its an infomercial, hence, mine was best.
on April 03, 2014
at 07:13 PM
Explain the science behind why losing weight is as simple as eating below maintenance. Please tell me how that is wrong.
Please tell me how grains are bad for everyone, not just those with intolerances. Please tell me, please show me actual evidence. Not a study hinting at something when done on rats r non pier review studies. And don't just google www.iamright.com and cherry pick a bunch o nonsense by Atia or Taubes or some other hack.
on April 03, 2014
at 07:12 PM
You accepted your own answer as the "best answer" to your own question? Man, this is totally going to boost the credibility of your post. You know, because those 50 paragraphs of broscience just weren't enough....
on April 03, 2014
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The fear of debate on this site is so sad, it really is.
on April 03, 2014
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And of course he sells things, he's a personal trainer, how does that make him biased, unlike people who claim grains or other things slow down weight loss, when lots of people eat them and get shredded and have great bio markers.
on April 03, 2014
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except paleo, which made him fat, thats where your anti science stance is failing you on this topic.
on April 03, 2014
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So much broscience in this post I got a headache.
on April 03, 2014
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first off it he (you?) sells shirts questioning paleo, sells online coaching, and sells articles promoting his business.
second, if you are young, and workout all day as a professional trainer than you can eat almost anything and stay fit.
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on April 03, 2014
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Add Mark Sissons if you are not sleeping in a dark room and waking up naturally without an alarm clock, don't expect to lose weight advice and you can clearly debunk a lot of the pseudo science that I am really having a hard time understanding.
Calories in calories out, protein target, micronutrient target. Alan Aragon, Layne Norton, Mcdonald etc etc etc, all having either nutritional scientist, PHD or multiple titles. Why would they say to just hit these goals and you will be good, where is the counter evidence to these claims, why would they lie, why would they follow a loose dieting protocol based on counting macros if it didn't work considering their jobs in the fitness and bodybuilding industries?
on April 03, 2014
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The fear of debate on this site is so sad, it really is.
on April 03, 2014
at 07:12 PM
You accepted your own answer as the "best answer" to your own question? Man, this is totally going to boost the credibility of your post. You know, because those 50 paragraphs of broscience just weren't enough....
on April 03, 2014
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Infomercial not a question.
on April 03, 2014
at 07:06 PM
So much broscience in this post I got a headache.
on April 03, 2014
at 06:48 PM
@samc Not really, this dude isn't selling anything and it clearly is a question, why did this dude do so well on a diet of non paleo foods, why is sugar and other stuff discussed on here and treated as a real issue about insulin when people consistently go from fat to fit eating lots of sugar.
Showing cases where high carb lower fat diets involving HFCS, candy and bread have lead to success is an important topic, they also make people like Garry Taubes look like absolute charlatans.
Take robb wolf, he clearly has extreme intolerances most of the population simply do not have. Does this lead to a bias on his part concerning paleo dieting and does the fact his income is based on it make him bias?
No one sells if it fits your macros books, its free, all the calculators are online and there is no iifym market to pedal books on.
Again, no problem with paleo, but a lot of the science and logic within paleo circles seems kinda sketchy at times, especially the low carb end of the paleo spectrum.
on April 03, 2014
at 07:04 PM
first off it he (you?) sells shirts questioning paleo, sells online coaching, and sells articles promoting his business.
second, if you are young, and workout all day as a professional trainer than you can eat almost anything and stay fit.


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Wendy Francis, the ACL's spokesperson for the dignity of women, said that with growing recognition that traditional approaches to tackling the issue of prostitution led to increased human trafficking, child prostitution and other crimes, momentum for a new progressive approach was increasing.
"This successful approach to prostitution, known as the 'Nordic approach', focuses on reducing demand for commercial sexual exploitation..." she said.
Ms Francis added that South Australia in particular - where the State Parliament is currently examining prostitution laws - "has a unique opportunity to make significant inroads to reduce sex trafficking and exploitation in the state by adopting this well-tested approach to prostitution reform".
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Gail and I finally walked by this little Cambridge eatery while we were hungry. It was a great light lunch for an afternoon of power-shopping. I'm not familiar with the nuances of middle-eastern food, so I can't say whether the Lebanese influence made it special, or just the care they put into the food. You can see the care in the sparkling clean foil and fresh tomato on the shawarma grills.
I had a lamb shawarma wrap. The lamb had a delicately light flavor with a nice spice blend, and a good balance of middle-eastern-dressed salad. Gail had a beef kofta wrap that was equally light and delicious, think middle-eastern meatball wrap. We also shared a lamb kebbee (deep fried lamb ball) and a special sambussa (loose beef in flaky dough).
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The Oregon Supreme Court has ordered the Boy Scouts of America to release some 20,000 pages that cover over 20 years of Boy Scout history, including 1,247 pages of confidential material that was used as evidence in a 2010 lawsuit in which former scout Kerry Lewis accused the organization of failing to protect him from a known child molester. Lewis was awarded nearly $20 million in that case.
The Supreme Court ordered that the files be released after the names of victims and those who reported alleged child sexual abuse are redacted, the LA Times reports. The documents, otherwise known as the "ineligible volunteer" or "perversion" files, detail allegations of sexual abuse and are used to keep child molesters out of the Boy Scouts of America. The organization's Chief Executive Robert Mazzuca said in a web video, "We've kept these filed confidential because we believe that victims deserve protection and that confidentiality encourages prompt reporting of questionable behavior." He continued, "It removes the fear of retribution and assured the victims and their families that they receive the privacy that they deserve."
An attorney for Kerry Lewis said, "These kids were raped, these kids were sodomized…Many of them were molested for months and years. Many had devastating physical injuries and they remained silent. These files represent opening a window on that tragic period of time."
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The alleged altercation between Chad Johnson and his wife, reality TV star Evelyn Lozada, isn't his first domestic violence incident. Johnson plead no contest to a domestic battery case involving his girlfriend at the time in 2000. On Saturday night, Chad Johnson allegedly headbutted Lozada, causing her head to bleed. She then went to a neighbor's where they called 9-1-1. NBC Sports reports:
During his 12 years in the NFL, Chad Johnson has cultivated an image of a troublemaker, but a playful one — a class clown, not a bully. So when Johnson was arrested over the weekend for domestic violence, it seemed out of character.
But it may have been less out of character than we realized: Johnson already has a domestic battery conviction on his record, as he was arrested for hitting his girlfriend in 2000 and later pleaded no contest, according to TMZ.
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I've been a little quiet, and the reason is that I am recovering from my second cervical facet radiofrequency ablation (RFA). The procedure is one that I first had at the Michigan Headache and Neurological Institute (MHNI) after doctors there discovered that I have early degeneration in my neck related to my Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome that is causing pain that refers to my head (frequently called cervicogenic headache) and contributes to my migraines. After my first RFA (C2-C5) I had a reduction in my pain lasted about 7 months. This time frame is pretty typical for the sort of relief an RFA is expected to provide as eventually the nerves regenerate. Since I've now had two (very different) experiences with RFA, I thought I would share some about the procedure it's self and my experiences with it.
RFA is the process of using a heated needle to burn away affected nerves (in this case in the neck) under the guidance of flouroscopy (live XRAY). During my first RFA, the procedure was done under light anesthesia and in a hospital setting. As such I don't remember much of the actual procedure. My second and most recent RFA was done in the office of my pain doctor with only local anesthesia (lidocaine). I won't lie I was a little nervous about going without the general anesthesia, but in the end it went really well.
In both cases, the use of a local was the first step, and as usual, it stings and is somewhat uncomfortable while spreading but does not cause significant pain (at least for me). I (and many others with EDS) find that I need more local than most people, but I am lucky that once I started communicating that to my doctors, locals began to work better for me. After the local has time to set in, the doctor uses XRAY guidance to position the radiofrequency needle, which without the general anesthesia is painful, but for me was not intolerable. My pain doctor simply explained that it just has to be positioned too deeply for local anesthetic to help with that part. Next, the doctor tests the position of the needle by passing an electrical current through it and watching for the patient's response. The patient usually experiences a reproduction of their typical pain, and may experience muscles "jumping" in their neck or back. My doctor wanted to make sure that my arm muscles were not affected. This part actually made me laugh – its a bit like having a muscle spasm that your doctor planned (and resolves just as quickly). The pain that was created was the kind I am used to dealing with, so again it wasn't intolerable. Once he was sure he was in the right area, the doctor warmed the needle, and while I could feel the heat it did not burn me.
I have to wonder if having me awake and responsive increased the accuracy of the procedure, because after my first RFA I experienced terrible burning nerve pain for a few weeks (hence my hesitancy to write about it). Once the torture ended though, I did get some relief, as I mentioned above (which should be obvious since I was willing to try it again). This time around, I am about a week and a half out from my cervical facet RFA with my local pain Dr. I would have to say that he did an excellent job because while I experienced normal soreness expected after having a surgical procedure in a tender area, I did not experience the burning nerve pain that I had after my first RFA. I am hoping that as I continue to heal I will begin to see a similar benefit as I experienced the last time and will have some months with dampened pain levels. Lower pain means more living, and for that I am always grateful.


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LOL, OMG, FYI Added to Online Oxford English Dictionary
Internet slang like LOL and OMG are commonplace on sites like Twitter and Facebook or in GChat and AIM, but do they belong in the dictionary?
The Oxford English Dictionary says yes; LOL, OMG, and FYI were added to the March 2011 release of the OED Online dictionary.
For those not versed in Web slang, OMG is short for "Oh my God," or gosh, goodness, etc., while LOL is "laugh out loud" and FYI is "for your information." OED says these abbreviations join others like TMI (too much information) and BFF (best friends forever).
OED notes that on the Internet or on texts, "initialisms are quicker to type than the full forms, and (in the case of text messages, or Twitter, for example) they help to say more in media where there is a limit to a number of characters one may use in a single message."
OMG and LOL, however, have been found "outside of electronic contexts," OED said. "The intention is usually to signal an informal, gossipy mode of expression, and perhaps parody the level of unreflective enthusiasm or overstatement that can sometimes appear in online discourse, while at the same time marking oneself as an 'insider' au fait with the forms of expression associated with the latest technology."
Interestingly, OED dug into the history books a bit and found that these terms had lives before the Internet was even invented. The first quotation of OMG, for example, was in a personal letter in 1917 and FYI originated in 1941, while in 1960, LOL was used as an abbreviation for "little old lady."
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First look... with DadYour future husband isn't the only man that will get emotional when he sees you all dressed up, ready to walk down the aisle. Have the photographer capture that special moment when your father first sees you on your wedding day.
Something blueDad is the perfect person to get your something blue from. One of the best idea's that we have seen is cutting a heart from an old blue shirt of his, then having it sewn into the lining of your wedding dress.
Going with the same theme, take your something borrowed from your dad. Borrow a handkerchief to carry with your bouquet to catch any happy tears from the day. The groom could also borrow his dad's favorite watch to make sure he gets to the ceremony on time.
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Wear an item from his weddingIf either the father of the bride or the father of the groom still have the cufflinks from their own wedding day, this would be perfect for the groom to wear at the wedding. Make sure that you save the cufflinks worn by your groom for your future children to use at their wedding!
Surprise DadPick out a gift that is sentimental to you and your father, and surprise him by having it waiting at his seat after he walks you down the aisle and hands you over to your new husband. The groom could also have something special waiting at his father's spot too. It's not just the moms that appreciate those gestures.
Jazz up that first danceWhen it's time for the father-daughter dance at the reception, surprise all of your guests by planning ahead and choreographing something unique with your father. If he's got a good sense of humor, this is a great place to show that off.
Mark his reception seatThese are great ideas for all of the parents. Many couples have special signs made up to mark the chairs of the bride and groom. Have these done for your moms and dads too. Dad will be proud to take his place in a seat marked "Father of the Bride." Another wonderful way to mark a parents' place setting is by using a photo of the two of you from your childhood.
For dads that can't be thereIf your father has passed away before you are getting married, you can still find many ways to honor his memory. We have seen people place a photograph of the deceased parent at the seat where they would have been sitting. You can also get more personal, and hang his favorite ball cap that he never took off at his spot, or something similar that is a symbol of your memories of him.
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