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Choose from: Chicken Tikka Masala, Vegetable Jalfrezi, Beef Madras or Chicken Pathia and a deal drink. £1 extra for Lamb Saag Masala.
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Prawn Cocktail
Prawns with tangy seafood sauce and lettuce. Served with multigrain bread and butter.
Soup of the Day
Ask for today's flavour. Served with bread and butter.
Crispy Buttermilk Chicken Strips
With BBQ sauce.
Golden Breaded Mushrooms
With BBQ sauce.
Mexican Nachos
Loaded with melted Cheddar cheese, guacamole, salsa, sour cream and jalapeños.
Buffalo Wings
Coated in a kickin' Buffalo sauce. Choose either -
Crispy Potato Skins
Filled with cheese and bacon and served with sour cream and a salad garnish.
Halloumi Fries
Deep fried strips of halloumi served with salsa.
Bacon Popcorn
Diced bacon pieces in a seasoned bread crumb coating. Served with maple syrup.
Giant Mediterranean Cheese Bite
An oozing mozzarella cheese slice with a slow roasted tomato, red pepper and basil crumb coating with a hint of chilli. Served with a salad garnish and a salsa dip.
Garlic Bread
Cheesy Garlic Bread
Lite Bites
Lite Bites
Double Gloucester Cheese Red Onion and Hobgoblin Chutney Tart
A cheesy shortcrust pastry tart filled with red onion and Hobgoblin chutney topped with double Gloucester cheese sauce, roasted red onion and cheese crumb. Served with chips and a salad garnish.
Ham and Eggs
Slices of honey roast ham with chips and two free range fried eggs.
Sausage and Mash
Three pork sausages on a bed of mash with garden peas and a jug of gravy.
Mini Battered Fish and Chips
Half a hand-battered fish† fillet served with chips, mushy or garden peas and tartare sauce.
Hunter's Chicken
Half a chicken breast topped with bacon and loaded with BBQ sauce and melted Cheddar cheese, served with chips and a salad garnish.
4oz Gammon Steak
Topped with a choice of a free range fried egg or pineapple, with chips and garden peas.
All our salads are served on a bed of mixed leaves with cucumber slices, red onion and red pepper. Drizzled with extra virgin olive oil.
Chicken and Bacon
Strips of roast chicken breast and bacon.
Honey BBQ Chicken
Strips of roast chicken breast coated in a honey BBQ sauce.
Grilled Halloumi
Slices of grilled halloumi and red pepper with a sweet chilli sauce.
BBQ Cauliflower Wings
Cauliflower florets coated in a smoky BBQ batter with a hint of spice.
Our burgers are served on a sesame seed bun with lettuce and tomato, accompanied with chips.
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Cajun Chicken Fajita Burger
Cajun chicken breast topped with pan-fried peppers and onions in Cajun spices.
The Cowboy
Beef burger topped with bacon and Cheddar cheese.
Moving Mountains™ Burger
The famous meat-like burger… made with plant-proteins, mushrooms, coconut oil, beetroot, herbs and spices. Topped with BBQ jackfruit.
Crispy Buffalo Chicken
Three buttermilk chicken goujons coated in a kickin' Buffalo sauce.
Chippy Tea Burger
Half a hand-battered fish† fillet, topped with mushy peas and two pieces of scampi‡. Served with chips, curry sauce and without lettuce and tomato.
Halloumi Burger
Grilled halloumi and red pepper, topped with a sweet chilli sauce.
The Dirty Chilli Cheese Burger
Beef burger with Monterey Jack cheese, piled high with pulled pork and beef chilli.
The Double Whammy
Hungry? A beef burger with Monterey Jack cheese and BBQ sauce, piled high with buttermilk chicken fillets and even more Monterey Jack cheese and crispy bacon.
The Oozy Floozy
Beef burger with a bread crumbed oozing mozzarella cheese slice.
Plain Beef Burger
Plain and simply delicious!
Plain Moving Mountains™ Burger
The famous meat-like burger.
Plain Chicken Burger
Three crispy buttermilk chicken goujons.
Skinny Burgers
Under 700, Served without the bun and chips, with a side salad instead.
Beef Burger
Buttermilk Chicken Goujons
Crispy Buffalo Chicken
Moving Mountains™ Burger
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For all of our dishes, we've suggested our favourite accompaniments, but if you'd prefer something else, just ask.
Hunter's Chicken
Roasted chicken breast topped with bacon, BBQ sauce and melted Cheddar cheese, with chips and a side salad.
Deep South
Roasted chicken breast marinated in Cajun spices, with chips and a side salad.
Beef Lasagne
With garlic bread and a side salad.
Lentil & Vegetable Lasagne
Lentil and vegetable ragu topped with a béchamel sauce, layered with pasta sheets. Served with garlic bread and a side salad.
Wholetails of Breaded Scampi
Twelve wholetails of scampi‡ with chips, a choice of mushy or garden peas and tartare sauce.
Beer-Battered Fish and Chips
A hand-battered fish† fillet, with chips, a choice of mushy or garden peas and tartare sauce.
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All Day Breakfast
Two pork sausages, a rasher of bacon, two free range fried eggs, half a grilled tomato, baked beans and chips.
The Yorkshire Stack
Three pork sausages inside two homemade Yorkshire puddings, filled with your choice of plain or Cheddar mash. Served with garden peas, carrots and a jug of gravy.
Battered Halloumi
Slices of halloumi, freshly battered in-house. Served with chips, a choice of mushy or garden peas and tartare sauce.
Chicken and Waffles
A Belgian waffle topped with crispy buttermilk chicken strips and drizzled with sweet sticky maple syrup. Served with chips.
All Day Breakfast Pie
Baked beans, Cumberland sausage, tomato and roasted mushroom filling in a pastry case, topped with streaky bacon. Served with two hash browns, a free range fried egg and a pot of baked beans.
Button Mushroom Pie
Herbed-flecked vegan suet pastry with a rich chunky button mushroom, shallot and red wine sauce filling topped with a flaky puff pastry. Served with chips, peas, carrots and gravy.
Steak and Marston's Ale Pie
An individual pie all to yourself! Tender beef encased in a buttery shortcrust pastry filled with beef and onion in a Hobgoblin Ale gravy. Served with chips, garden peas and gravy.
Chicken, Gammon and Mustard Pie
Chicken breast and gammon in a creamy Dijon and wholegrain mustard sauce, topped with a puff pastry lid. Served with chips, garden peas and gravy.
Served with rice, naan bread, mango chutney and a poppadom.
Chicken Tikka Masala
Spiced tomato and onion flavoured sauce with a hint of coriander.
Vegetable Jalfrezi
Roasted potatoes, red onion and red and green peppers in a Jalfrezi sauce.
Beef Madras
A fiery tomato-based sauce, flavoured with coconut and aromatic spices.
Chicken Pathia
Roasted chicken breast marinated in Kashmiri masala paste and covered in a spicy tomato sauce and a bay leaf.
Lamb Saag Masala
Tender diced lamb in an aromatic tomato and spinach curry sauce.
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Big Eats
MEGA All Day Breakfast
Four pork sausages, two rashers of bacon, two free range fried eggs, half a grilled tomato, baked beans and chips.
MEGA Mixed Grill
A mighty feast consisting of a chicken breast, 8oz rump steak, 8oz gammon steak, two pork sausages, onion rings, a free range fried egg, half a grilled tomato, garden peas and chips.
MEGA Fish Platter
A hand-battered fish† fillet and eight pieces of scampi‡. Served with chips, a choice of mushy or garden peas, tartare sauce and curry sauce.
MEGA Rump Steak
Two 8oz rump steaks cooked to your liking. Served with chips, half a grilled tomato, garden peas and onion rings.
MEGA Melt Stack
An 8oz gammon steak topped with BBQ sauce and melted Cheddar cheese, stacked with a chicken breast and topped with even more BBQ sauce and cheese. Served with chips and garden peas.
Gammon Steak
An 8oz gammon steak topped with a choice of a free range fried egg or pineapple, with garden peas and chips.
Mixed Grill
Half a chicken breast, 4oz rump steak, 4oz gammon steak, a pork sausage, onion rings, a free range fried egg, half a grilled tomato and chips.
Steaks cooked to your liking, served with half a grilled tomato, garden peas, onion rings and chips.
8oz Sirloin
8oz Rump
10oz Rib Eye
Skinny Steak
Ditch the chips, onion rings and peas for a side salad.
Skinny Sirloin
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Cheesy Garlic Bread
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Side Combo
Onion rings, breaded mushrooms and garlic bread.
Salad Bowl
Onion Rings
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Bramley Apple Pie
A slice of good old pie, served warm with custard.
Chocolate Fudge Cake
Gooey and chocolatey, served hot or cold with vanilla flavoured ice cream.
Melt In The Middle Chocolate Pudding
Warm & rich chocolate pudding with a chocolatey middle, with vanilla flavoured ice cream.
A Belgian waffle filled with a hazelnut chocolate sauce and oozy marshmallow. Served with vanilla flavoured ice cream and drizzled with chocolate sauce.
Banoffee Cheesecake
Digestive biscuit crumb layered with toffee fudge sauce, banana pieces and cream. Served with toffee sauce and vanilla flavoured ice cream.
Raspberry and White Chocolate Cookie Sandwich
Layers of chocolate chip cookie sandwiched with a raspberry sauce and white chocolate chip cheesecake. Served with vanilla flavoured ice cream.
Retro Strawberry and Vanilla Lolly Slice
This 70's lolly inspired slice is sure to bring back childhood memories. Red velvet sponge layered with a fruity ice gel, topped with creamy mousse. Finished with rich chocolate fudge and sugar strands. Served with cream.
Raspberry Jam Donut Pudding
Sweet dough layered with fruity raspberry jam and finished with a cinnamon sugar glaze. Served with custard.
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Honeycomb Sundae
Vanilla and honeycomb chocolate swirl flavour ice creams with pieces of Cadbury® Crunchie, toffee sauce, cream and a sugar curl wafer.
Rocky Road Sundae
Chocolate and vanilla flavoured ice creams layered with chocolate brownie chunks, marshmallows, chocolate sauce and cream, finished with a Cadbury® Flake.
Raspberry and Donut Sundae
Mini donuts topped with a chocolate flavoured icing, layered with raspberry sauce, vanilla flavour and raspberry ripple ice cream. Topped with cream and a sugar curl wafer.
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Discover Biltmore White Wines
All Things Biltmore • 04/27/13
Written By Sharon Fenchak
Biltmore White Wines—Perfect Partners for Every Occasion
White wines come in every flavor profile from crisp and dry to juicy and sweet—and everything in between. This guide walks you through the white wines we produce and offers simple tips for making a great choice, every time.
Century White
Our best-selling white blend combines Riesling, Gewürztraminer, and Muscat Canelli grapes in a fragrant, semi-sweet wine that refreshes with a tropical twist. Century White is a great introduction to several different white grape varietals, and it pairs surprisingly well with many of your favorite foods such as shrimp and Asian and Vietnamese cuisine.
Tip: A good sweetness-to-acidity ratio is the secret to pairing semi-sweet wines with surprisingly spicy foods.
Watch a tasting video and learn more about our Century White.
One of the most familiar white varietals is Chardonnay. Generally well-suited to absorb the vanilla and other characteristic flavors imparted by oak aging, Chardonnays often mature into grand wines with a rich, buttery flavor.
Chardonnay Sur Lies is another option and is produced through careful aging on the wine's sediments or "lees." A small percentage has light oak contact, and this style creates a medium-bodied wine with fresh fruit flavors—not as rich and buttery as traditionally oak-aged Chardonnay, but offering more body and complex flavors than un-oaked Chardonnay.
Tip: Malo-lactic fermentation, a process in which the sharper-tasting malic acid in wine is converted into lactic acid, gives wines a more rounded, buttery taste without necessarily aging the wine in oak barrels. To taste the difference between oaked and unoaked Chardonnay, try both our North Carolina Chardonnay from grapes grown on the estate and our California Unoaked Chardonnay.
Watch a tasting video and learn more about our Biltmore Chardonnay Sur Lies
Chenin Blanc
This varietal originated in the Loire Valley of France and might be considered a "low maintenance" grape that tends to be hearty and not too temperamental as it grows and ripens. A slightly sweeter white varietal, our Chenin Blanc is a great choice for sipping by itself as well as enjoying with goat cheese, fresh fruit, and Asian cuisine.
Tip: Although delicious on its own as a still or a sparkling wine, because of its fairly consistent acidity, you may find Chenin Blanc added to other white wine blends to improve their taste and character.
Learn more about our Biltmore Chenin Blanc.
Pinot Grigio
Pinot Grigio is generally known as a white varietal, yet the grape itself is actually a dusky, pinkish blue-gray. Some wines produced from it may take on a pinkish tone.
It has become one of the most popular white varietals in recent years because it tends to please most palates and pair well with a wide range of foods. Our winemakers craft Biltmore Pinot Grigio to bring out its slightly spicy, citrusy qualities. Enjoy it with ricotta cheese, pasta with cream sauce, ham, ravioli, crab, oysters, salmon, and shellfish.
Tip: Try sipping a glass of our Pinot Grigio before a seafood meal—its crisp, refreshing taste helps open and prepare your palate to savor those particular flavors.
Watch a tasting video and learn more about our Biltmore Pinot Grigio.
Originally from Germany, Riesling is a versatile grape that is crisp yet semi-sweet. Our Biltmore Riesling features nicely balanced fruit flavors with acidity and exotic floral notes.
Tip: Love sushi but can't imagine pairing anything besides sake with it? Try our North Carolina Riesling made from grapes grown here at the estate.
Watch a tasting video and learn more about our Biltmore Riesling.
Sauvignon Blanc
A dry, crisp wine that suggests elegant pairings and a real appreciation for a wine that can stand up to the complex layers of taste in rich seafood such as crab, oysters, scallops, lobster, and shellfish.
Tip: Sauvignon Blanc (also known as 'Fume Blanc') is generally very acidic and is often characterized by hints of grass in the nose and the taste. Our Sauvignon Blanc has been awarded Best of Class in the San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition and received 88 points & Best Buy from the Beverage Testing Institute.
Learn more about our Biltmore Sauvignon Blanc.
Sparkling Wines
Sparkling wines are traditionally crafted from white grapes such as Chardonnay, Petite Meunier, and Pinot Noir. Biltmore is one of only a handful of wineries that produce both still and sparkling wines, including our finest Château Reserve Blanc de Blancs.
Tip: Pair our bubbly and festive Biltmore Pas de Deux with a rustic apple tart—you'll be amazed at the way the flavors come alive! Watch a tasting video and learn more about our Pas de Deux.
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I have just returned from a foreign absence blessedly out of touch with the internet. I came back to find an email from the Herald asking if I wanted to appear on Radio Leeds to talk about Sir Jimmy Savile. Why me, I thought at first: and then, sickeningly, I remembered: in November last year, at the time of Savile's death, when everyone was lauding his apparently selfless charity work and all the good he had done, I had written a piece (long since forgotten by me) complaining that one thing everyone had kept very quiet about was his Catholic faith: my now deeply embarrassing headline was "Jimmy Savile's obituaries mentioned his charity work: but why the conspiracy of silence about his faith?"
Just how wrong did I get it? There's still a question to be asked about all this. Was Jimmy Savile a deeply conflicted human being, torn between his impulse to do good in the world and his compulsion towards a particularly repulsive kind of human sinfulness? We are all a mixture of good and evil instincts: what Catholics think of as their commitment (sometimes strong, at other times weak) towards sanctification of life is a continuing process of attempting to weaken their habitual sinfulness and strengthen their commitment to their love of God. Is that what was going on here? Or – a truly horrendous possibility – was all the good he did in the world simply a means of getting access to the young girls he abused? Would it really be worth all that time and trouble? Maybe to someone so obviously compulsive in his sexual instincts it really was. Think of those flats in hospitals he was provided with (and whose idea was that?), places he could take his victims: is that what it was all about?
I assumed at the time (not, under the circumstances, surely, entirely unreasonably) that the motivating force for all the good he did was his faith: so I reproached his obituarists (who were no less fulsome in their praise for him than I or anyone else was) for ignoring it: "Why not," I asked, "mention that an important part of his life was attending daily Mass? There's a deep dedication in the life of a man who gives away 90 per cent of everything he earns and so tirelessly does all the other things he did. You'd think that an obituarist would want to ask a simple question: where did all that come from? It's almost as though they couldn't bear to accept that the answer was his Catholicism: even that Catholicism itself could ever be the source of actual human goodness." Oh dear.
What was going through his mind as he sat there, having slipped quietly into the back of Leeds cathedral, during those daily Masses? Was he praying for strength to resist his sexual compulsion? What did he tell his confessor? A psychologist, asked this question in one of the endless series of radio discussions about this horrible story last week, replied "probably he told him nothing: these people have an almost endless capacity to convince themselves that they have done nothing wrong".
I remain confused about all this. Which was it: was he simply and damnably an evil man, who did good in order that the opportunity for evil might come from it? I pray that that was not the source of all the undoubted good he really did do; I really hope that he was a man torn between good and evil whose faith in the end brought him true penitence. I note that most of the cases now emerging date back to the 70s and earlier: does that mean that towards the end of his life he had changed his behaviour? I simply don't know. Does anyone?
I usually go on for much longer than this: this time, though, I am simply reduced to silence. Thank God we are told not to judge others lest we ourselves come under judgment for it. This time I have no confident conclusions, I have nothing to say: only questions.


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I'm an IT guy through and through, but I've had to sit through enough seemingly interminable marketing meetings to have developed a somewhat jaundiced eye towards them. To someone that actually produces things, the whole effort often appears to be useless make work blather with the end result being nothing more than a group think derived consensus to do exactly the wrong thing. For example, I was once invited to travel to corporate HQ to participate in a re-design of the marketing department's pet web site. I was there for the kick-off meeting, the goal of which was to develop a list of top-level requirements. It was to be an all day meeting, and the first hour was devoted to deciding whether or not the requirement "Easy to use" should be included. After 45 minutes of intense discussion, I ventured a question: "Is there anyone here advocating for the requirement that the site be difficult to use?"
I was not invited to any more of those meetings.
I didn't miss them.
This brings us to EA's NERF N-Strike Elite, a hybrid package containing a NERF gun and a Wii game. With my experience in the world of marketing, I can easily imagine the thought process at the table:
"Ok, let's start by defining our brand."
"Really? Because you know we've been cranking these things out under the Nerf brand for quite a few years. Don't we have a pretty solid understanding of the appeal and target segments for the brand?"
"You are excused. Please allow the door to hit you on the way out."
At the end of the meeting, they would have spent a number of hours re-affirming what they already know: Nerf guns appeal to persons of all ages because of their ease-of-use, relatively low chance of damage or injury being caused by negligent use, and low cost. With those bullets safely captured on a series of a dozen PowerPoint slides, they would have adjourned with the goal of reconvening in a few days to discuss ideas for broadening their penetration in the pre-teen segment.
And thus the idea for the Wii game / NERF gun combo pack was born.
The only shame is that the idea didn't die in the crib.
That said, the issue is not so much with the idea but with the implementation. The initial discussions surely would have made sense:
"Ok, easy-to-use, benign, and appealing to various age groups. What else has those traits?"
"Toilet paper!"
"Uh, no. Anyone else?"
"Cell phones!"
[Two hours of discussion ensue]
"Ok, so there's too much disparity in the various cell phone platforms, plus there's no human interface to them that resembles a weapon. Keep thinking!"
"Hey, what about the Wii? It has that little swing around remote controller thingy, and literally everyone under the age of 12 has one. And the parents play them too!"
[Four hours of discussion ensue]
"Well, that all sound great, but we don't know how to develop games."
And, as it turns out, that guy was right. Too bad he was howled out of the room and beaten up in the men's room after lunch. He was also not invited to sit on the committee that designed the game. Had he been, he might have provided some meaningful direction to the design. Instead, the result was a game that clearly tried to use the same NERF-appeal bullet points rather than be designed as a form of entertainment. One can almost deconstruct the thought process:
"It has to be approachable to very young people."
"Ok, put the main character on rails. Don't even allow the player to control where the character is looking. Just let the player move a reticle around the screen shooting at anything that moves. Even a diaper-clad preemie could handle that."
"But will that appeal to older ages too?"
"No, not really, but they're going to buy it just because of the NERF name. They trust us."
And that is how good brands die.
For $60 (quite tellingly reduced to $39 at Walmart right after Xmas) you get a $15 NERF gun and a game that would have been better served up by including it as a freebie in a box of Froot Loops. The game itself is the very definition of shovelware, suitable for ages three to four. Naturally, it carries an ESRB content rating of 10+, thus ensuring that anyone in the ESRB-approved age bracket will find it painfully boring. A better way to spend the $60 would be to buy the $15 NERF gun and use the other $45 to buy a decent Wii game. Or, truth be told, even a mediocre Wii game would be better than this.
* The product in this article was sent to us by the developer/company.
I've been fascinated with video games and computers for as long as I can remember. It was always a treat to get dragged to the mall with my parents because I'd get to play for a few minutes on the Atari 2600. I partially blame Asteroids, the crack cocaine of arcade games, for my low GPA in college which eventually led me to temporarily ditch academics and join the USAF to "see the world." The rest of the blame goes to my passion for all things aviation, and the opportunity to work on work on the truly awesome SR-71 Blackbird sealed the deal.
My first computer was a TRS-80 Model 1 that I bought in 1977 when they first came out. At that time you had to order them through a Radio Shack store - Tandy didn't think they'd sell enough to justify stocking them in the retail stores. My favorite game then was the SubLogic Flight Simulator, which was the great Grandaddy of the Microsoft flight sims.
While I was in the military, I bought a Commodore 64. From there I moved on up through the PC line, always buying just enough machine to support the latest version of the flight sims. I never really paid much attention to consoles until the Dreamcast came out. I now have an Xbox for my console games, and a 1ghz Celeron with a GeForce4 for graphics. Being married and having a very expensive toy (my airplane) means I don't get to spend a lot of money on the lastest/greatest PC and console hardware.
My interests these days are primarily auto racing and flying sims on the PC. I'm too old and slow to do well at the FPS twitchers or fighting games, but I do enjoy online Rainbow 6 or the like now and then, although I had to give up Americas Army due to my complete inability to discern friend from foe. I have the Xbox mostly to play games with my daughter and for the sports games.
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Shares of Apple kicked off the session on a very positive note only to give into profit taking pressures and drag the Nasdaq ETF (QQQ, A-) to the bottom of the barrel among major domestic equity indexes; the Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF (DIA, B) turned in the best performance on the day, while the S&P 500 ETF (SPY, A) trailed closely behind [Download 101 ETF Lessons Every Financial Advisor Should Learn].
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Slightly bullish price action on Wall Street didn't bode too well for most fixed-income securities; U.S. Treasuries led the way lower with TIPS trailing closely behind, while "junk bonds" took advantage of "risk on" sentiment and inched higher on the day.
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Commodity prices were all over the board as a flat U.S. dollar collided with sideways stock market price action on the day. Gold prices dipped just below $1,730 an ounce while USO took a much bigger tumble on the day, settling below $87 a barrel.
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The United States Natural Gas Fund (UNG, B+) was one of the best performers, gaining 2.55% on the day. Natural gas futures have been creeping higher over the past few weeks as many are speculating that this winter will bring colder weather, and drive up demand for the fossil fuel, compared to last years's record warm temperatures. UNG kicked off the session with a rally and buying pressures persisted throughout the entire day, finally settling at $22.50 a share [see our Energy Bull ETFdb Portfolio].
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The Barclays iPath S&P 500 VIX Short-Term Futures ETN (VXX, B+) was one of the worst performers, shedding 1.70% on the day. Volatility levels declined for a second day in a row this week despite a fairly quiet day on the stock market. Better-than-expected housing starts data helped to restore confidence and the Volatility Index (VIX) settled just barely above the 15 mark as the closing bell rang [see also 5 ETF Strategies To Reign In Risk].
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More smile icons in the chatting area would be nice, Vips have more smiles although they are a bit few in the forum there are a lot of them though.
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So you can dress up your avatar in an array of silly costumes. You can customise your avatar's appearance. And now gamers are getting better control of their avatars' facial expressions, thanks to researchers like this dude.
Using a PlayStation Eye and some fancy software, a Keio University group is working on software that will allow people's movements and facial expressions to correspond to their avatars'.
Many suspicious looks were ignored in the creation of this technology.
Sony Online Entertainment showed similar tech earlier this month. See Kotaku's Mike Fahey turn himself into a singing frog. A singing demonic frog.


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Very old (MySQL 4.0) clients are not working temporarily due to a problem discovered after the release of MySQL 5.5.12. We are looking at fixing the problem. Update: This is fixed in MySQL 5.5.14.
The client-side plugin that accompanies the server-side Windows authentication plugin is now included in all MySQL distributions. This will permit clients from any release, whether commercial or community, to connect to a server that has the server-side plugin loaded. See Windows Pluggable Authentication (Bug #59780, Bug #11766631)
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Partitioning: The internal
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Assignments to
NEW.within triggers, where
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XA COMMITcould fail to clean up the error state if it discovered that the current XA transaction had to be rolled back. Consequently, the next XA transaction could raise an assertion when it checked for proper cleanup of the previous transaction. (Bug #12352846)
An internal client macro reference was removed from the
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For repeated invocation of some stored procedures, the server consumed memory that it did not release until the connection terminated. (Bug #60025, Bug #11848763)
The server did not check for certain invalid out of order sequences of XA statements, and these sequences raised an assertion. (Bug #59936, Bug #11766752, Bug #12348348)
With the conversion from GNU autotools to CMake for configuring MySQL, the
USE_SYMDIRpreprocessor symbol was omitted. This caused failure of symbolic links (described at Using Symbolic Links). (Bug #59408, Bug #11766320)
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YEARvalues could be used in temporary result tables for
UNION, leading to incorrect results. (Bug #59343, Bug #11766270)
Item_func_in::fix_length_and_dec(), a Valgrind warning for uninitialized values was corrected. (Bug #59270, Bug #11766212)
ROUND()calculations, a Valgrind warning for uninitialized memory was corrected. (Bug #58937, Bug #11765923)
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On Linux, the mysql client built using the bundled
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ORDER BYclause. (Bug #48916, Bug #11756928)
PROCEDURE ANALYSE()could leak memory for
NULLresults, and could return incorrect results if used with a
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CONCAT(returned incorrect results when the arguments to
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Five Things Your Drugstore Won't Say
The role that pharmacies play in the health-care system is expanding. But that doesn't necessarily mean that consumers are better off. MarketWatch's Christopher Noble reports. (Photo: Getty Images)
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I ... I am crystal with MarketWatch or here to talk about drug stores ... drugstores are having a bigger and bigger role in patients' lives to gather more information ... and using that information to manage patients health ... and their bottom line ... of course we'll find out in the long term are this is good for patients in the meantime here are five things that renters are doing it you may not know about ... first ... pharmacists are your new doctor ... from taking your blood pressure to manage your medications they're doing more and more to manage or how ... they say they're doing is to help you but they're also doing it to boost their bottom line ... trying to get certification is health care providers and if they did that building of charge more for their services ... to ... the stars are getting bigger and pharmacists are getting busier ... the getting more more things like I mentioned ... and as they do this they get busier and busier they are the last time they'll have to help customers ... hard to say this is good because they provide a wider array of services ... we'll see if they're too busy to help the customers whether that's really good in the last ... three ... are highly paid that they want more money ... the average person's name and ninety eight thousand dollars last year ... that they say because they're providing more services and doing more sophisticated things that are more for ... the make medicine store sometimes but they also mess up sometimes ... last year for instance a compound in pharmacy which is a Farsi that builds trucks from scratch ... made a mistake and issued a journalist link the cases of meningitis fifty people died ... the upside of this practice is that it can counter national shortages of drugs ... the downside is there for all to see if things go wrong and lastly number five ... they know alot about you and I mean a lot ... more to do for you the more information they gather ... them or they can try to sell you or silly or other services to get to buy other things in the store ... they can also help you manage your overall health ... but what if they lose the data that's another sq ...


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Saturday, July 30th, 2005
Deep Linking Continued: Backbase Article
We've linked to Backbase before; those guys have some awesome Ajax demos. One of brains behind the site, Jeremy Hartley, has recently written an article on the subject of "Deep Linking"; or, in other words, how to get spiders to properly index an Ajax page. The article identifies three different strategies: Backbase has identified the Read the rest…
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News came yesterday of the overwhelming passage (96-1 on a healthcare issue, in these political times is simply unheard of!) of Senate bill s-3187 which will overhaul the way the FDA approves drugs and medical devices. The thought that new MS treatments and medical devices (think method testing of CCSVI, etc) could now be fast tracked (if the House decides to pass a similar bill in its chamber) is an exciting one. My question, and it's a big one, is if an even bigger overhaul of both FDA and USDA shouldn't be in the works.
I'm sure that there has been much diligent work to keep these two agencies areas of responsibility from overlapping. FDA is an agency within the department of Health and Human Services. USDA is a department thus, by definition quite separate in budget, oversight and management. FDA's food responsibilities include "Protecting the public health by assuring that foods are safe, wholesome, sanitary and properly labeled…" and "Helping the public get the accurate science-based information they need to use medicines, devices, and foods to improve their health".
USDA mission, on the other hand, is: "We provide leadership on food, agriculture, natural resources, and related issues based on sound public policy, the best available science, and efficient management."
It seems to me that our nation's citizens would be much better served if all of our food safety, wholesomeness standards, etc were incorporated into the USDA. Sure, there might be some areas – such as dietary supplements and health claims of food products, for example – where FDA might take the lead. Other than that, why don't we think about a few swaps which could make both agencies better at what they do, curtail any budgetary infighting and - importantly to me as someone who would like to see the FDA do a lot more work in the drug and health arena - focus on some the big issues of the science of health.
How about the US Department of Food and Agriculture (USDFA) and the Agency of Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices (APMD) as a starting point?
As it is. FDA can't seem to muster resources to address the issues of follow-on biologic drugs (the equivalent of "generic" drugs for compounds which must be grown vs. synthesized) which could save MS patients and our insurers thousands of dollars per patient monthly. Talk about "economic stimulus"?! There are an estimated 400,000 people living in the US with MS and we'll just guess that half of them take a disease modifying drug. If we could save even $1000 per month (and I'm guessing that's quite conservative…) per patient that would be an additional $2.4 BILLION back into American's pockets and/or to reduce insurance premiums by a pretty hefty number.
Let's remember, one of the parts of the Healthcare Reform Act requires a certain percentage of health insurance premiums must be spent on actual services. If the drugs cost less, either premiums must come down or additional services added.
That's just one of the things this new APMD could get to if we had a focused singularly focused agency.
We added an entirely new Department (Homeland Security) when the obvious slew of threats was realized in September of 2001. Doesn't it make sense to refocus our energies on the health and economic factors which could bankrupt our nation and its people in the form of outrageous pharmaceutical prices and slow approvals of potentially beneficial medical equipment and procedures?
If the senate (and soon the house) feel it important enough to give such overwhelming support to streamline the FDA in its current form, isn't the next obvious step to take a few things (the Food part of FDA) off their plate and dish them to a Department who has the mission is to be mission is to be the leader on food issues anyway?
Let's separate food from medicine and get on with more efficient use of time, talent and treasure.
Congress, are you listening?
Wishing you and your family the best of health.
Don't forget that you can also follow me via our Life With MS Facebook page,on Twitter, and our new group on MS Connection.org. Check out our occasional blog for the UK and look for our Very Special new monthly blog for the National MS Society.


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The Intel Technology Journal article I contributed to is available online now. The full title is Performance Analysis and Validation of the Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor on 90nm Technology. It describes the current state of performance analysis here at Intel, which is what I do.
I've worked a little bit on most of what is described in the article. However, the part I wrote is in the section Post-Silicon Performance Validation and is titled "Optimal CPU Performance Feature Tuning". Tuning Prescott for optimal performance is what I spent most of the summer and fall working on in 2003. We laid the groundwork for doing this in the spring.
We used a genetic optimization algorithm and the SPEC CPU2000 benchmark suite to improve the performance of Prescott. Our main source of improvement was in Hyperthreading performance, but we did get gains in single-threaded workloads as well (see chart).
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Sunday, 30 January 2011
Skodsborg Marathon marks 14 weeks of pregnancy
Anyway, here are all of the runners just before the start. Actually Jerk, who is the race director (that's pronounced "Yerk", folks), took the photo but would also run. A few of these people ran the half marathon, though most ran the marathon.
The girl to the far right, Teresa Petersen, turned out to be a woman who I under no imaginable circumstances could have beaten. She ran a minute faster than my PR on a hilly, windy, cold route. In fact, she actually started running the race with SR.
What was my goal? Well, I thought I would like to run in less than 4 hours. But, I didn't know the route would be so hilly. The route consisted of 3.4 miles of asfalt around a woods and through a neighborhood repeated 8 times with a little shortcut on the last repitition.
Jerk said something very ominous at the beginning: "No one has ever gotten lost". I knew immediately this meant disaster for me. And halfway into the second loop, I took a wrong turn, sprinting down a hill, but luckily eventually heard Jerk himself yelling after me. It was not an ideal start. I did what I always do - started sprinting to make up for lost time. That, of course, came back to haunt me later.
When one runs a marathon essentially alone, there is a lot of time to think. Especially when one isn't running terribly fast and there is no specific competition. I thought a lot about comments that have been written on this blog. I thought in particular about the pregnancy sentiment "I'm just not taking any chances". I wonder - what exactly is that chance/s people are referring to? What is the physiological mechanism behind what people fear? There is so little known about exercise in pregnancy - but why is it that being passive is always seen as safer than active? Beyond that, why is going on a light run safer than running a PR marathon? Let me put it an entirely different way - we don't go into uterine failure when we run as fast or as hard as we can, so how is it we are going to do damage to this organ, which is suddenly even more protected than ever while pregnant, by simply running hard? I don't claim to know everything - obviously no one does- I simply claim to have researched this subject to the extreme. I would specifically really like to take a look at peoples' fears and see how legitmate they are and whether they make physiological sense.
There are only two sports-related scenarios that makes sense to me to fear: 1. is a hard blow to the uterus (as in getting kicked by a horse, etc) 2. is running a 100 mile race in extreme heat, for example, not drinking enough and going into kidney failure. Bear in mind this has only been reported in men, but if it happened in a pregnant woman, toxins could certainly build up, some of which might cross over the placenta. Okay, so those are the two extremes that make sense to me to fear. Other than that, I am at a loss. Oh yeah - don't dope! Ha - that will definitely increase your chances of a miscarriage.
Anyway, despite not being scared of hurting the baby yesterday, I really didn't feel like going for a PR. Nor could I have run a PR, considering I have had one speedwork session in the past 14 weeks. And that was 4 days prior.
At the halfway point, Karen, Jerk's wife, who had just run the half marathon, took these pictures of me. Thank you, Karen!
I ran the first half marathon in just under 2 hours, knowing getting under 4 hours for the entire distance was really unlikely. At about this time, SR lapped me, Morten and Rune. He didn't waste much time with us, that's for sure. He ran the first half very slowly - with Teresa as mentioned above - and then decided to go all out for the second half marathon. The next time I saw SR, he was doubling over, saying he was sorry he couldn't run with me. He had just taken first and set a new course record of 3:09.
I was struggling at this point. My left knee was really bothering me and I considered dropping. I was running my first marathon in minimalist shoes (Ecco Bioms) and had to wonder if that was what was bothering my knee. But I honestly think it was my lingering plantar faciitis (from my old thick-soled shoes) that was making me run a little funny.
But then I turned on my i-pod. And I was pushed along by a Swede, Lennart Skoog. We kept passing each other back and forth. Every time we passed each other, he said something to me in Swedish. I had a heck of a time understanding him. The fundamental problem was, he assumed I was Danish and no Danes have trouble understanding Swedish.
We sprinted to the finish together, him passing me at the last second, and me ending up with a time of 4:19:59. This was about 15 minutes faster than my 9 week pregnant marathon and on a tougher route. So I wasn't too disappointed.
Thanks to Jerk and Morten for fun morning.
Running Song of the Day: Senegal Fast Food by Amadou & Miriam with Manu Chao (an old favorite was just what I needed).
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- cherelli said...
nice work!!
I guess for some of us who aren't doctors and haven't looked at all the studies "not taking chances in pregnancy" means not stressing systems we don't know anything about. I would imagine most of us enter pregnancy not really understanding how healthy our organs are etc, and high exertion exercise does place certain stresses on a body already forming another life... (actually regardless of creating another life, high exertion exercise does "stress" the body). However, as you refer to, if one's body is CONDITIONED to a certain level of exercise then the stress would not be unexpected. Love what your doing though to show the masses - very glad I stumbled across your blog well over a year ago now!!
- 30 January 2011 at 18:44
- Unknown said...
I ran during my pregnany 2 years ago. I didn't do anything really intense. My runs would range from 4 to 8 miles. I stopped at 7 months when I started my summer job because I ran out of time/energy. I started again in my last couple weeks of pregnancy because my job ended. I remember running 3 miles at 41 weeks- I was slow and it hurt (in a good way).
The only thing my doctor told me to worry about was overheating or getting my heart rate too high. She said that might compromise the pregnancy and ever since she told me that I was super worried abotu getting my internal temp. up too high. That makes sense to me, the same way they advise against going in a hot tub when you are pregnant.
Are you going to post about your weight gain this pregnancy? I was amazed at your last pregnancy weight gain and would be interested if you can keep it that low this time around (inspiring).
- 30 January 2011 at 19:26
- SteveQ said...
Had to go through a lot of words before: SR set a course record!
(hey, you've been pregnant before, but this is his first CR - I think)
- 30 January 2011 at 20:43
- Stefanie Schocke said...
I love reading about your races/marathons because they are so different than the road races I do. I know the US has ultras, trails, etc...but I do not participate so it's so interesting to read about your races- a world I am not familiar with.
Congrats on pregnancy marathon #2!
- 31 January 2011 at 16:02
- sea legs girl said...
Cherelli - I am so glad you stumbled across my blog, too, because I have really enjoyed your commentary and getting to know you.
Yeah, overheating is mentioned a lot and I think it gets way too much attention considering even fever and sauna sitting at least in European studies have been shown to not be dangerous. Animal studies have shown otherwise and American studies have yet to show anything conclusive in humans. But regardless, core body temperature is so extremely rarely raised significantly abover normal while exercising. Obviously one wants to avoid heat stroke, but that really goes without saying, I think :).
As for heartrate, to the best of my knowledge there have been no studies demonstrating danger to babies when a mother's heart rate increases. It is simply a precaution mentioned by doctors based on no evidence.
- 31 January 2011 at 19:25
- sea legs girl said...
So sorry about all of those words you had to suffer through ;D. If I had a magazine that part about SR would have been in a big pink box in large font so one could more easily skip the boring stuff.
Actually, I just thought he'd tell the whole story on his blog.
- 31 January 2011 at 19:30
- sea legs girl said...
Thanks Stefanie - as long as it distracts you from the injury :).
- 31 January 2011 at 19:32
- PiccolaPineCone said...
i should probably wait until I am less tired and more informed to comment again but since that confluence of conditions is unlikely to occur in the near future... i'll just fire away. In my mind there are two separate discussions regarding temperature: 1. trying to conceive 2. elevated temperature in pregnancy.
Obviously #1 is what I am concerned about in my recent post (thanks for your comment on my blog btw). You mentioned (in your comment) studies on the fertility rates of sauna loving people. Ok understood, but in vitro observations have clearly shown that sperm motility is affected above 38.8 deg C. I guess I would feel better about a study that had women hanging out in saunas immediately after having had intercourse on the day they ovulated... volunteers for that study anyone :) . It just seems intutive to me that if sperm motility is decreased as has been shown in vitro, it would affect fertility. You mentioned in your comment on my blog that I am only seeing a small increase in temperature while exercising.. I really disagree - my temp goes up by 1.5 - 2 deg C, given the very narrow band of temperature the human body can tolerate (about 7 deg C??) it seems to me that 1.5 to 2 deg C is a pretty important increase.
Regarding #2, Clapp has a number of things to say on this. First, he does point out that pregnancy actually improves heat dissapation by lowering the body's setpoint and also due to hormonal changes that increase blood flow to the skin. Second he does say that weight bearingexercise during early pregnancy does not increase the incidence of malformations above baseline population levels (2-3%) and suggests that the pregnant woman's increased capacity to dissapate heat is an important adaptation that allows pregnant women to safely exercise.
Here is what he does say that was the basis for my self-monitoring when I was pregnant:
"The upper limit for what is okay for thermal response is not known. Based on our experience however it seems that an upwards rise of 1.6 deg C or a peak temperature of 38.9 deg C is not associated with an abnormal outcome. However if the athlete exceeds or is consistently at these levels, the wisest course is to alter the thermal characteristics of the training environment."
[Editorial comment - I observed through my own temperature monitoring that i can easily exceed 39 deg C even when running outside in the winter, it is really not hard to get up to these temperatures.]
He goes on to say:
"The competitive athlete should check her temperature regularly and anytime she feels hotter than she thinks she should. To date we've only identified one high risk situation and that occurs when the athlete does extremely intense interval sets in the usual health club or gym environment. If they perform exercises that use extensive muscle mass, core temperature climbs rapidly and can exceed 38.9 degC if they continue the activity for more than 15-20 minutes."
So, from my reading of this, Clapp is NOT saying that he found abnormal outcomes in women whose temperatures exceeded 38.9 deg C. Rather he is offering this as a guideline drawn from his years of researching highly competitive pregnant women. So, they are guidelines, not definitive results from studies to be sure. On the other hand, because Clapp is so liberal compared to almost all other guidelines re: exercising during pregnancy that I personally am inclined to follow his guidelines.
- 1 February 2011 at 04:38
- PiccolaPineCone said...
So... to briefly (ha! too late!) summarize my view on exercising during pregnancy, I think it is a wonderful and healthy thing. I ran over 3000 km during my last pregancy. I have not found studies that definitively show that elevated core temperatures cause harm to the fetus (though I haven't looked, Clapp is the full extent of my research) however given the research Clapp has done and his experience, I was inclined to follow his guidelines.
I really look forward to your post on this.
Finally (finally!) Congratulations on your marathon. Sounds like it was a great experience.
- 1 February 2011 at 04:38
- sea legs girl said...
Thanks for the additional info. I think I really need to see a study which shows that increased core temperature affects a female's fertility. If I saw a well-designed study, I would be inclined to buy it, but I don't believe it simply based on the somewhat unrelated studies I referred to and my understanding of physiology. And I'm talking the relatively little increases one gets from hard exercise. But I know I could be wrong! Certainly when a man's testicles increase in temperature their fertility goes down. Though I bet there is a wide range of temeprature in both men and women where everything continues to function normally.
As to the second part, increased body temperature, even long term fevers, in newly pregnant women have never been shown to negatively affect the baby in humans. The studies all of the fear is based on are from animals, who are subjected to artificial conditions where they can't escape the heat even when they feel it is absolutely necessary. Plus humans ARE different than rats. Not that you suggested otherwise :).
I would love it if you could refer me to further studies, which refute what I am saying.
- 1 February 2011 at 07:41
- Kirsten said...
Lovely little tummy and well done!
I geuss that if you are allowed to work out on an exercise bike where you probably get the pulse and the body heat up - then you can run too? I don't know but remember being told that exercising in pregnancy is healthy.
Just not in Turkey where the doctor prefered me not to move for 9 months and did his best to talk me in to a cesarian just beacuse my first birth was a cesarian (breech position). But I gave birth to my second child naturally and of course didn't want to have cesarian just out of convenience to the doctor, but they have a horrible habit in private hospitals in Turkey. But what I wanted to say: I think you should go with the feeling and continue. The Chinese women 150 years ago didn't rest in pregnancy and just went over to the side of the field to give birth and continued the work afterwards. Read Pearl S. Buck: The good earth! Of course a few of them didn't survive, but according to the population rate quite a few did......
- 1 February 2011 at 11:32
- Olga said...
Love the attitude. Congrats to SR for doubling over and making one of his goals on the resolution list.
- 1 February 2011 at 15:19
- CP said...
Thanks for the info re: heartate and increased temp. Maybe all my worry during my first pregnancy was not necessary. So I've been TTC again since June....it's very frustrating because I believe our timing is spot on and nothing is happening. With our first kid, we got pregnant on our first try. So I started to think about what is different about me now versus then. I weigh the same. I eat better. I's say I have the same amount of stress (in law school back then, practicing law now). Same amount of sleep.
The only difference is that I haven't been running regularly lately. In fact, when I got pregnant the first time, I was running 5-8 miles a day. Now I'm not running AT ALL. So, I'm going to start running regularly again and see if that helps. I wonder if running regularly can regulate hormone levels or assist in fertility. I've never been "regular" whether running regularly or not. I'm curious if running is the missing link (or I may just be getting desperate and going crazy)! I'll let you know!
- 2 February 2011 at 07:10
- CP said...
that last poster is me- I'm the same as "Cee" who posted earlier.
- 2 February 2011 at 07:10
- sea legs girl said...
Hi again Cee/WNW Litigator! I have read a good number of studies about running in pregnancy and if one excludes women who have lost their period due running on inadequate diet, running at least dosn't appear to negatively affect fertility. So if it is something you enjoy, there is no reason NOT to do it- and definitely if it relaxes you and makes you happy, it might help :). I wish you luck with it!
- 2 February 2011 at 07:17
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- 2 February 2011 at 18:01
- Marathon Mom said...
Great job! Running a marathon while pregnant is so much different then nonpregnany races. I think it was one of thebest things I did for my running, it taught me to listen to my body and have fun while "racing".
I just glanced through the other comments but it is really interesting how everyone has different thoughts on exercise/body heat/heartrate during pregnany. My OB was not worried about heartrate, but toldme to watch overheating when I ran.
- 3 February 2011 at 03:17
- heather said...
Wow, great job. And fascinating question, why is passivity considered the best course of action? Just on an intuitive level, it doesn't make logical sense to me that it would be *that* easy to make a fetus or embryo kaputt. Have you ever read historical accounts of medical treatment of/medical advice to women? I recently read Gail Collins' book on American Women, which contains some chilling descriptions of 18th and 19th century medical procedures which are admittedly not relevant right now; more relevant is the medical advice to women - pregnant or not - to not exert themselves in any way, stay out of the sun, perhaps go for a short, slow walk if it won't exhaust you too much; and the way all of this connects with notions of class and desirability...Anyway, so I'm developing a theory (ok, actually I just thought of this two minutes ago while reading your blog) that all this "you must rest during pregnancy, you poor delicate reproductive blob" ties into so many other antiquated notions of femininity and the supposed weakness of the female body that still plague us today, 100+ years later...so totally without scientific evidence and so emotionalized (sorry if that sounded in any way raving or loony, I swear I am not wearing a tinfoil hat...I just think this is a fascinating discussion from so many angles)
- 14 February 2011 at 22:49
- 14 weeks pregnant said...
I used to work out regularly but I haven't for almost a year. Hmmm, I can do exercice eventually but running is not safe for my bebe...Well, your body would be telling you that it needs the energy to grow your baby and you shouldn't beat yourself.
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Mohler on McLaren and The Da Vinci Code
We need to ask ourselves why the vision of Jesus hinted at in Dan Brown's book is more interesting, attractive, and intriguing to these people than the standard vision of Jesus they hear about in church. Why would so many people be disappointed to find that Brown's version of Jesus has been largely discredited as fanciful and inaccurate, leaving only the church's conventional version? Is it possible that, even though Brown's fictional version misleads in many ways, it at least serves to open up the possibility that the church's conventional version of Jesus may not do him justice?And Mohler responds with this:
This is just not a responsible way to deal with a serious theological challenge. Why did the Gnostic cults prefer their conception of Jesus to that of the canonical Gospels? Is this the fault of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John? The church's "conventional version of Jesus," where it needs corrrection, can be corrected only by Scripture.
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Left Behind by The Da Vinci Code?
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here there is a sense of distinction and refinement of Treviso.
While a warm light brushes the small cobbled squares, the silent alleyways, and the façades of the frescoed houses.
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