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Aside from being rich in valuable nutrients such as fiber, vitamins B and C, calcium, potassium, phosphorus, magnesium, selenium and zinc, mushrooms are also excellent sources of antioxidants, including some that are entirely unique to mushrooms. Ergothioneine and glutathione, both of which are found in mushrooms, are recognized as "master antioxidants" that inhibit oxidative stress. Both are considered important antiaging compounds.
As noted in The Guardian,1 "… [S]cientists think [ergothioneine and glutathione] may help to protect the body against the maladies of old age, such as cancer, coronary heart disease and Alzheimer's disease." Ergothioneine appears to have a very specific role in protecting your DNA from oxidative damage,2 while glutathione is important for successful detoxification of heavy metals and other contaminants.
According to Robert Beelman, Professor Emeritus of food science and director of Penn State Center for Plant and Mushroom Products for health:3
"[C]ountries that have more ergothioneine in their diets, countries like France and Italy, also have lower incidences of neurodegenerative diseases, while people in countries like the United States, which has low amounts of ergothioneine in the diet, have a higher probability of diseases like Parkinson's Disease and Alzheimer's.
"[C]ountries that have more ergothioneine in their diets, countries like France and Italy, also have lower incidences of neurodegenerative diseases, while people in countries like the United States, which has low amounts of ergothioneine in the diet, have a higher probability of diseases like Parkinson's Disease and Alzheimer's.
Now, whether that's just a correlation or causative, we don't know. But, it's something to look into, especially because the difference between the countries with low rates of neurodegenerative diseases is about 3 milligrams per day, which is about five button mushrooms each day."
Now, whether that's just a correlation or causative, we don't know. But, it's something to look into, especially because the difference between the countries with low rates of neurodegenerative diseases is about 3 milligrams per day, which is about five button mushrooms each day."
While all edible mushrooms have beneficial properties, some are more potent than others. As noted by Beelman, " … [W]ithout a doubt, mushrooms are the highest dietary source of these two antioxidants taken together, and some types are really packed with both of them." When it comes to the antioxidants ergothioneine and glutathione, wild ceps (Boletus edulis4), commonly referred to as porcini mushrooms, contain the highest amounts.
Beelman and colleagues at Penn State measured levels of these two antioxidants in 13 different species of mushrooms, and wild porcini mushrooms were the clear winner.5,6,7,8 That said, even the white button mushroom contains more of these antioxidants than most other foods.
They also found that mushrooms high in glutathione are also high in ergothioneine, so the two appear to be correlated. More good news: Ergothioneine and glutathione are heat stable, so cooking your mushrooms does not significantly affect their health benefits.
With a strong, nutty flavor, porcini mushrooms are commonly found in Italian dishes and are a favorite among gourmet chefs. Mushroom-appreciation.com9 offers a number of recipes and serving suggestions for porcini mushrooms.
The dense and meaty porcini mushroom cap can grow to a diameter of 12 inches, and a mature specimen can weigh as much as 2 pounds.
Wild porcini is found in hardwood forests, as they form a symbiotic relationship with trees. The mycorrhizal fungi with their hyphae (long, branching filamentous structures) help shuttle nutrients to the trees' roots, while the mushrooms are nourished by plant sugars. Porcini mushrooms are not mass cultivated since they're mycorrhizal and need the symbiotic relationship with other plants to thrive.
The best places to forage for wild porcini is near pine, chestnut, hemlock and spruce trees, during summer through fall. While Italy is famous for its porcini mushrooms, they can also be found in Europe, the U.S., New Zealand and even South Africa. Other types of mushrooms, such as the white button, can be more easily cultivated and are therefore less expensive than the wild porcini.
In the U.S., half of the nation's mushroom crop come from Chester County, Pennsylvania, where indoor farms produce more than a million pounds of mushrooms per day.10 It's important to eat only organically grown mushrooms, though, as they absorb and concentrate whatever they grow in, for better or worse. Mushrooms are known to concentrate heavy metals, as well as other air and water pollutants that can defeat their medicinal value.
Mushrooms also contain a number of compounds that modulate and strengthen immune function.11,12,13 This is one reason why they're so beneficial for preventing and treating cancer. Immune-regulating compounds include not only vitamin D but also long-chain polysaccharides, which have a variety of beneficial properties, including:
Alpha and beta glucan molecules are among the most important polysaccharides. Beta glucan14 in particular enhances immunity through a variety of mechanisms, many of which are similar to those of echinacea or astragalus root. For example, it binds to macrophages and other scavenger white blood cells, activating their anti-infection activities. The beta-glucan in mushrooms also plays a role in fat metabolism and may help support healthy cholesterol levels.
Mushrooms also contain a number of other unique nutrients that many do not get enough of in their diet, including B vitamins like riboflavin, niacin and pantothenic acid, as well as copper, the latter of which is one of the few metallic elements accompanied by amino and fatty acids that are essential to human health.
Since your body can't synthesize copper, your diet must supply it regularly. Copper deficiency can be a factor in the development of coronary heart disease. Other bioactive and medicinal compounds include terpenoids, steroids, phenols and all of the essential amino acids (they're especially good sources of lysine and leucine).
Cordyceps, also called Caterpillar fungus or Tochukasu, has been studied for its antitumor properties. This parasitic mushroom is unique because, in the wild, it grows out of an insect host instead of a plant host. It has long been used within both traditional Chinese and Tibetan medicine.
Scientists at the University of Nottingham have been studying cordycepin, one of the active medicinal compounds found in these fungi, as a potential cancer drug.15 A protein extract from turkey tail mushrooms is also being used to boost cancer patients' immune function in countries including Japan.16 Mushrooms may also have direct anticancer effects. For instance:
Considering the scientific evidence, it's easy to understand why mushrooms have been valued for their medicinal properties for centuries. In ancient Egypt, mushrooms were thought to bring long life, and today we know that this may be due to the many beneficial phytochemicals and other compounds they contain.
For example, Herbal Medicine: Biomolecular and Clinical Aspects has the following to say about reishi mushrooms:22 " … there are data that support its positive health benefits, including anticancer effects; blood glucose regulation; antioxidant, antibacterial and antiviral effects; and protection against liver and gastric injury."
One dietary analysis23 found that mushroom consumption was associated with better diet quality and improved nutrition. Other health benefits associated with mushroom consumption include:24
• Weight management: One study25,26 found that substituting red meat with white button mushrooms can help enhance weight loss. Obese participants with a mean age of just over 48 years ate approximately 1 cup of mushrooms per day in place of meat. The control group ate a standard diet without mushrooms.
At the end of the 12-month trial, the intervention group had lost an average of 3.6 percent of their starting weight, or about 7 pounds. They also showed improvements in body composition, such as reduced waist circumference, and ability to maintain their weight loss, compared to the control group.
• Improved immune response to pathogens: A study27 done on mice found that white button mushrooms enhanced the adaptive immunity response to salmonella, a common foodborne pathogen that can cause food poisoning.
• Enhanced athletic performance and more: Cordyceps is a favorite of athletes because it increases ATP production, strength and endurance, and has anti-aging effects.28 Cordyceps also has hypoglycemic and possible antidepressant effects, protects your liver and kidneys, increases blood flow, and has been used to treat Hepatitis B.
• Anti-inflammatory effects. Cordyceps are also recognized for their potent anti-inflammatory characteristics, which may be useful for conditions such as asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, renal failure and stroke damage. One of the active medicinal compounds in cordyceps responsible for many of these effects is cordycepin.
Research suggests the mechanism responsible for cordycepin's many varied effects may stem from its ability to alter the synthesis of many classes of rapidly induced genes that help counteract inflammatory genes, thereby slowing down otherwise rapid cellular responses to tissue damage. It may also help prevent overactivation of inflammatory responses. According to researcher Cornelia de Moor:29
"We have shown that cordycepin reduces the expression of inflammatory genes in airway smooth muscle cells by acting on the final step in the synthesis of their messenger RNAs (mRNAs) which carry the chemical blueprint for the synthesis of proteins. This process is called polyadenylation.
"We have shown that cordycepin reduces the expression of inflammatory genes in airway smooth muscle cells by acting on the final step in the synthesis of their messenger RNAs (mRNAs) which carry the chemical blueprint for the synthesis of proteins. This process is called polyadenylation.
Commonly used anti-inflammatory drugs either work much earlier in the activation of inflammatory genes, such as prednisone, or work on one of the final products of the inflammatory reaction (e.g., ibuprofen). These findings indicate that cordycepin acts by a completely different mechanism than currently used anti-inflammatory drugs, making it a potential drug for patients in which these drugs don't work well."
Commonly used anti-inflammatory drugs either work much earlier in the activation of inflammatory genes, such as prednisone, or work on one of the final products of the inflammatory reaction (e.g., ibuprofen). These findings indicate that cordycepin acts by a completely different mechanism than currently used anti-inflammatory drugs, making it a potential drug for patients in which these drugs don't work well."
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With all the evidence supporting mushrooms' medicinal superfood status, I highly recommend adding some to your diet. They're an excellent addition to any salad and go great with all kinds of meat and fish. "Let food be thy medicine" is good advice indeed, and with mushrooms that is especially true, as they contain some of the most powerful natural medicines on the planet.
Just make sure they're organically grown, to avoid harmful contaminants that the mushroom absorbs and concentrates from soil, air and water. Also, avoid picking mushrooms in the wild unless you are absolutely sure you know what you're picking.
There are a number of toxic mushrooms and it's easy to get them confused unless you have a lot of experience and know what to look for. Growing your own is an excellent option and a far safer alternative to picking wild mushrooms. A few of my favorite health-enhancing mushroom species include:
Shiitake (Lentinula edodes): Shiitake is a popular culinary mushroom used in dishes around the world. It contains a number of health-stimulating agents, including lentinan, which has antitumor properties30 and helps protect liver function,31 relieve stomach ailments (hyperacidity, gallstones, ulcers), and may lower your risk of anemia, ascites and pleural effusion.
Shiitake mushrooms also demonstrate antiviral (including HIV, hepatitis and the "common cold"), antibacterial and antifungal effects; blood sugar stabilization; reduced platelet aggregation and reduced atherosclerosis.32
Reishi (Ganoderma lucidum): Reishi is known as Lingzhi in China, or "spirit plant." It's also been given the rather telling nickname of "mushroom of immortality." Reishi has been used medicinally in Asia for thousands of years. One of its more useful compounds is ganoderic acid (a triterpenoid), which is being used to treat lung cancer,33 leukemia and other cancers.
The list of Reishi's health benefits includes:34 antibacterial, antiviral (herpes, Epstein-Barr) and antifungal (including Candida) properties; anti-inflammatory properties; immune system upregulation; normalization of blood pressure; reduction of prostate-related urinary symptoms in men.
Turkey Tail (Trametes versicolor): Turkey Tail is also known as Coriolis versicolor, or "cloud mushroom." Two polysaccharide complexes in Turkey Tail are getting a great deal of scientific attention, PSK (or "Kreskin") and PSP, making it the most extensively researched of all medicinal mushrooms with large scale clinical trials.
A seven-year, $2 million NIH-funded clinical study in 2011 found that Turkey Tail mycelium improves immune function when dosed daily to women with stage I to III breast cancer. Immune response was dose-dependent, with no adverse effects.
PSP has been shown to significantly enhance immune status in 70 to 97 percent of cancer patients.35 Turkey tail is also being used to treat many different infections, including aspergillus niger, Candida albicans, E. coli, HIV, herpes and streptococcus pneumonia. It's also hepatoprotective and may be useful for chronic fatigue.
Himematsutake (Agaricus blazei): Himematsutake, also called Royal Sun Agaricus, is a relative of the common button mushroom. Himematsutake mushroom is attracting worldwide scientific attention due to its remarkable anticancer properties36 related to six special polysaccharides.
Like many other medicinal mushrooms, this fungus can also protect you from the damaging effects of radiation and chemotherapy. But its benefits don't stop there. Himematsutake may also help decrease insulin resistance in diabetics, improve your hair and skin, and even treat polio.
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MarineBuzz points us to Norway's plan to build a One Nautical Mile long tunnel for ships. Reuters tells us:
Norway has drawn up plans to build the world's first shipping tunnel which would save time and money for vessels passing through a coastal area known for its dangerous seas.
Strong winds, high waves and powerful currents in the area of Stad on the southwest coast of Norway cause long delays while ships wait for calmer conditions.
The tunnel, estimated to cost around $310 million and take five years to build, would cut through a peninsula, saving ships the risky journey around the coastline. Continue Reading…
While the concept isn't new, France has been building tunnels for barges since the 19th century, this is the first tunnel of it's size. Head over to Marine Buzz for more photos and information.

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TBS Acquires SPT's 'Rules of Engagement'
TBS has acquired Sony Pictures Television's Rules of Engagement for a January 2013 debut, SPT said Wednesday.
"We recently shot the 100th episode, which speaks to the ongoing appeal of this series and its cast," said John Weiser, SPT's president of U.S. distribution.
The show, which has been a utility player for CBS , also is cleared in broadcast syndication in 96% of the country, including on Tribune's WPIX New York, CBS' KCAL Los Angeles and Weigel's WCIU Chicago.
Tom Hertz, Doug Robinson and Jack Giarraputo serve as executive producers on Rules of Engagement, which is produced by Adam Sandler's Happy Madison Productions and CBS Television Studios in association with Sony Pictures Television. It stars Oliver Hudson, Bianca Kajlich, Patrick Warburton, Megyn Price and David Spade.


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Chrysler 300C sedan will get six different variants of grille
Chrysler Company has announced that it will offer to 300C sedan new generation six different radiator grilles, which design will be executed in the style of the classic models of the brand. These accessories will be sold by the Mopar subdivision, specializing in tuning of Concern cars. The cost of such a grille in the US will be about $ 635.
Chrysler 300C sedan was introduced to the public in mid-January at the Detroit Motor Show. The car is built on an upgraded rear-wheel drive platform of its predecessor, which in turn is a modified version of the Mercedes-Benz E-Class chassis. New product is offering with a 3.6-liter six-cylinder engine of Pentastar family, developing 292 horsepower and 360-horsepower 5.7 liters eight-cylinder HEMI. The last one, in conjunction with the six-speed automatic transmission allows the car to accelerate from 0 to 100 km/h in less than six seconds.
The basic package of the car includes seven airbags, stability system, Uconnect multimedia system with 8.4-inch screen, USB and SD-slot, the climate and cruise control. In Europe, the 300C is sold under the name Lancia Thema. Unlike the American version, its power range includes 230 hp 3.0-liter six-cylinder VM Motori diesel engine. In addition, the sedan got different steering settings.


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Just as art explores the edges, ever-pushing forward in expression and understanding, so too does the Westport Arts Center. Each season it endeavors to introduce new programs and exhibits that raise the bar. And just when you think they can't do any better, they do.
Take, for example, its renewed music program. The 2017-18 Concert Series, which kicks off in September, is a combination of the previous jazz and chamber music programs, but now elevated into one with fresh and bold music choices—and impressive talent. To emphasize the new stature of the program, the performances have been moved to the week's prime time: Saturday evenings.
The program is now under the supervision of Westport native Alexander Platt, who will serve at artistic music director. Platt, who has served as the music director of orchestras around the country, will share his perspective and insights at each of the performances. To understand the importance of the changes to WAC's music series, one must better understand the gold it has pocketed in its new curator.
A 1983 graduate of Staples High School, Mr. Platt enjoys a career that spans symphony, chamber music and opera. He started out as a Younger Scholars Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities and graduated Yale College with its highest arts prize. His talent was recognized early on, even abroad; while at King's College Cambridge, he made his professional debut at the Aldeburgh Festival and was the first American to serve as assistant conductor of the Cambridge University Musical Society. In America, he is known far and wide in music circles. For example, he conducted fellowships at both Aspen and Tanglewood and was chief conductor of the Racine Symphony, the Boca Roton Symphonia, the Minnesota Philharmonic and the Marion Philharmonic Orchestra in Indiana. He is the Music Director of the La Crosse Symphony Orchestra, the Wisconsin Philharmonic and the Maverick Concerts in Woodstock, New York, which recently celebrated its centennial as the oldest summer chamber music festival in America. Additionally, he continues to guest conduct orchestras around the world.
"Westport has always been a beacon for the best and most-sought after musicians, and I am thrilled to return home to my roots to present this amazing roster of performers," says the part-time Westport resident. "I look forward to reengaging with Westport's enthusiastic performing arts audiences and to bringing my experiences back to the community."
Part of the experience is bringing together talent. Along with curating the new season, he will build a consortium of local music organizations, such as Beechwood Arts and Suzuki School of Music, to collaborate on programs.
Under the direction of such an accomplished director, music lovers should expect the most exciting season yet. The first performance is September 23; tickets are on sale now at 51 Riverside Ave. and westportartscenter.org.
5 Performances to Add to Your Calendar
Anthony de Mare, the international pianist renowned for his explorations forging the worlds of classical and Broadway / "LIAISONS: Re-Imagining Sondheim at the Piano" Sat. 9/23/17, 7 p.m.
Igor Pikayzen, Westport resident and prize-winning young virtuoso violinist Fri. 11/3/17, 7:30 p.m.
Julliard String Quartet, one of America's pre-eminent string quartets / Beethoven masterworks and Scottish composer James MacMillan Sat. 1/20/18, 8 p.m.
The Calidore String Quartet, one of the most exciting of the younger string quartets / masterpieces of Mozart, Mendelssohn and Shostakovich, and Caroline Shaw Fri. 3/2/18, 7:30 p.m.
Simon Mulligan, with The Simon Mulligan Trio, London/New York pianist / from Mozart, Barber and Chopin to the George Gershwin Songbook Fri. 5/11/18, 7:30 p.m.


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Wishing the men in our extended villager family a Happy Father's Day.
To mark this special occasion of celebrating the best blokes in our life, we thought we'd start off the day with a list of our daggiest dad jokes.
Got a good dad joke?
Scroll down and comment below.
Want to come to yoga dad?
Na' maste in bed.
What's brown and sticky?
A stick.
What did the cheese say when it looked in the mirror?
Why couldn't the bike stand on its own?
Because it was two tyred.
I swear if my memory was any worse,
I could plan my own surprise party.
What kind of shoes do frogs wear?
Open toad shoes.
What time did the man go to the dentist?
Tooth hurt-y.
How do you make a tissue dance?
Put a little boogie in it!
I'll call you later.
Don't call me later, call me Dad.
Have you heard about the restaurant on the moon?
Great food, no atmosphere.
Enjoy your Sunday Newcastle!


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The Lazy Girl's Guide to Losing Weight and Getting Fit
Forget Dr Phil, the clothesline, and Atkins: this is an easy, fun, and effective guide for any lazy girl who needs to lose weight and get results that last. The Lazy Girl's Guide to Losing Weight and Getting Fit is a simple, step-by-step program that details the nuts and bolts of how A. J. lost weight. She has helped over 200 clients through her 5 Kilo Club at Fernbank Fitness Centre. There's no starvation, no low carb torture, and no weights and measures: A. J. focuses on achievable goals, having fun, and loving yourself while you make the biggest changes in your life.
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- Lucy
- 12-01-09
Misleading and disappointing
If you know the basics about dieting or nutrition this will leave you feeling frustrated, impatient and out of pocket. This book is suitable for the absolute novice, someone that has never heard of ?cardio? or ?aerobics? and thinks eating from a smaller plate and avoiding second helpings are revolutionary ideas. For anyone that has ever been on a diet the messages in this book will seem so basic as to be insulting: eat breakfast, control food portions, don?t overeat, do exercise, watch your fats and carbs, don?t eat empty calories and don?t splurge at the weekend. Duh! What annoyed me the most about this book is that I bought it because I wanted to know the ?lazy? way to lose weight (after all, that is the title of the book!). However, there is nothing lazy about the diet on offer - because yes, this is a diet, even though the author would have you think it was a way of life. I wanted to find out more about the mental side of weight loss and whilst this book included a chapter on the psychology of weight loss it was far too brief to be really helpful. Even worse, as the book progressed, the author started coming across more and more as a smug thin person, keen to remind the listener of how she managed to lose weight and run marathons and fit into skinny jeans, the implication being that if she managed to do it then there really is no excuse for you not to do the same. What the author fails to acknowledge is that she was ?lucky? enough to reach rock bottom which prompted her to start losing weight in the first place. In other words, she had a strong ?why?. Without a strong ?why? you have to rely on will power which can only take you so far. My suggestion: try Paul McKenna?s ?I can make you thin? or ?Psychocybernetics?? they will help to address the mental aspects of weight loss. The ?Lazy Girl?s Guide? is misleading and disappointing, give it a miss unless you really don?t know the first thing about weight loss.
11 people found this helpful
- Nur Azyan
- 28-11-09
Yes, yes, I've heard it all before. All the tips are no secret, but the way she explained them that makes all the difference. The way she elaborated each tips makes it easier to accept and understand. It's important to understand losing weight because unless you do, you'd gained all of the weight back. This is also a very good audio to listen to if you fall off the bandwagon. What could be easier than to just listen to her motivations and tips in order to renew your resolution?
4 people found this helpful
- Jessica
- 08-02-08
I'm only a little way through the book, but i'm liking what i'm hearing. Would be great for people that really have no idea how to curb their unhealthy eating habits (as AJ did when first starting her weight loss).
I was relieved (and found it refreshing) that the narration was by an Australian, as sometimes I find heavily American accented books irritating. I'm Australian if you haven't guessed.
I look forward to meeting the new me as I take on board some of the suggestions from the book!
6 people found this helpful
- C. Stephens
- 03-04-09
Do you enjoy having the dictionary read to you? Have you longed for an Audible book that will read the entire NY Metro phone book to you -- Yellow Pages and all? Perhaps the transcripts from the annual convention of toll-booth collectors are to your liking!
Well this book is for you. Ajay will read charts and menus to you -- mostly. There is some smart advice in here, but nothing I didn't already know and certainly didn't need someone to preach at me. And that's exactly the way it comes off, NOT personal, just preachy. Do it because SHE SAYS SO!
Sorry, but I am very disappointed because her first book was passionately personal and inspiring. I was hoping for more that that.
I kept getting the impression that she was reading SOMEONE else's work. Her first book was from the heart. This one could have come out of a fat & calorie guidelines book.
Sadly disappointing because she is talented; her first book proved that.
8 people found this helpful
- City Girl
- 29-01-08
If you have a lot to lose
I liked this book but it was not really for me. I only have about 15 lbs to lose and this is more for the ladies with 50 plus lbs to lose and I think in those cases it would be a lot more helpful. I already do a lot of the things she suggest so...Not too helpful. But having said that I did lose about 30 lbs using those same techniques so it is worth a read.
7 people found this helpful
- 22-12-08
Extremely Helpful
This book has helped me so much on my own quest to get healthy. It is full of common sense advice about ways to set yourself up for success and to accept the bumps along the way. The author concentrates on nutrition, exercise and emotional health. Some of her story is included, and even though my eating has never been as disordered as hers was, I find her message of "I did it and so can you" to be always encouraging.
Non-Aussies are going to have to make the effort to translate some food names and traditions to your local versions (if you don't know what pluto pups, hot chips and jelly snakes are, just google 'em!), but the basic advice holds true.
My current favorite nugget: there is no "on track" or "off track" with a fitness/weight-loss journey. There is no track; there is only life and how you deal with it. The "track" is a mythical ideal of goodness and perfection that your diet-battered self does not need to be messing with. Amen.
4 people found this helpful
- Susianna
- 27-12-07
Distracting Narration of Common Sense
Fine, sensible suggestions but no new super helpful tips. I couldn't finish listening because of the heavily (Australian) accented narration with exaggerated phrasing that is probably meant to elicit excitement and motivation but only left me feeling like a slightly dim witted fat camp drop out who needed things repeated s l o w l y and c l e a r l y .
11 people found this helpful
- jacqueline
- 03-02-15
Love it definitely worth reading
lots of helpful hints, recipe and real life advice...refer to it regularly
- Jill
- 07-11-11
While AJ is fun to listen to, I really didn't find much here new or inspiring. She did a good job of making the story fun to listen to, but lots of the language is very Australia-centric. If you don't know what Veggie Mite is you'll be lost when she starts talking about actual food.
I did like what she had to say about working with a psychologist / psychiatrist to get to what caused her to over eat. She treated it with a sense of humor in a refreshing way and I wanted to hear more. If she teamed up with a professional psychologist to have a go at writing another book I think she could probably create something really inspiring that would motivate people to get to the bottom of what causes them to ignore reason and over eat. I didn't find that here, though.
1 person found this helpful
- lainey Fx
- 06-08-11
Full of Awesome info
This book is so good. AND interesting. The author makes you want to succeed. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to make healthier choices and wiser decisions in their eating habits. Not just for those who want to loose a lot of weight.
- Jenelle H.
- 06-03-09
same ol' thing
I found the info in the book to be the same old, but true information. Eat healthy and exercise nothing "lazy" about it if you want it to work you have to do the work. I also found the reference to Pluto Pups and TimTams over and over slightly annoying
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The Frame: Ikea, Facebook, Bodies and Performance
This is a transcript of a talk I gave at Fierce Festival, as part of Lucky PDF's School of Global Art. You can read more about it here.
In this talk I want to look at space and framing space – both physical space and virtual space - and I want to talk about the body, making specific use of the performative metaphor throughout; I'm going to talk about performance as survival strategy, which is the only strategy I know, since my own background is in dance and performance - hoofing, entertainment. It's as much a mode of survival as is the service industry; in fact, this kind of entertainment (circus, club dancing, the sex industry) has everything to do with service. But that's another story.
The talk will be followed by some experiments in performance technique, for which we'll all have to be standing in the space, out of our chairs. But we'll work up to that, don't worry.
Anyway, since this is an art school, let's take it back to basics. I'm going to start with the frame. In theatrical terms we might think of the frame as the stage - think of proscenium arches! In the meantime, the Merriam-Webster defines frame as:
1. a border or case for enclosing a picture, mirror, etc.
2. a rigid structure formed of relatively slender pieces, joined so as to surround sizable empty spaces or nonstructural panels, and generally used as a major support in building or engineering works, machinery, furniture, etc.
3. a body, especially a human body, with reference to its size or build; physique: He has a large frame.
4. a structure for admitting or enclosing something.
We need a frame to exist and it was ever thus. At some point we might have defined ourselves by occupation, which we might have trained for in youth and where we'd expect to remain throughout our lives. In the precarious liquid modern, however, we might have several careers or non-careers throughout our lives – the latter might include the service industry, for example. Something they still don't address in art school, since art is supposed to be a bourgeois concern, is how to survive when you get out of there; and I intend to talk more about survivalism in a minute, but bear with me.
In the world of work we talk about "performing roles," which makes transparent the sheer theatricality of professional identity. Super-curator Bourriaud talks about the figure of "the Radicant," who he sees as the nomadic artist figure in an Altermodern world that is "global from scratch." Certainly it's true that our sense of self and community is no longer rooted in the same kind of geographic spatiality as it once was: as actors in the social world, in other words, we don't have a set stage. I'm not sure this is something to celebrate unambiguously, so I take issue with the unquestioning privilege implicit in Bourriaud's discourse – his liquid modern nomad is just fine bouncing from vip airport lounge to art fair to vip airport lounge; another nomad of the liquid modern might be walking between borders carrying 1.5 kilograms of pure heroin in her stomach or her anus. But this, right here, is also a privileged discourse, so let's stick to the point; the point being that home and community no longer mean what they did, for many reasons, some of which are to do with socio-economic circumstance and others to do with cultural shift. Zygmunt Bauman, who writes a lot about precarity and modernity, observed that "One thing which even the most seasoned and discerning masters of the art of choice do not and cannot choose, is the society to be born into - and so we are all in travel, whether we like it or not. We have not been asked about our feelings anyway. Thrown into a vast open sea with no navigation charts and all the marker buoys sunk and barely visible, we have only two choices left: we may rejoice in the breath-taking vistas of new discoveries - or we may tremble out of fear of drowning."
Whenever we encounter a new temporality or spatiality, there's a lot of talk of survival; it's hard to imagine now, but the big cities in which many of us grew up were once brave new metropoles, socio-economic hives of a density seldom seen before in cultural memory (at least in the Western world, quote unquote). Back then, psychiatrists and urban theorists were talking a lot about agoraphobia and claustrophobia, which are spatial malaises concerning the scale and density of place; nowadays, meanwhile, everyone's talking about Asperger's syndrome and ADHD, which can be seen as pathological sensitivities to [hyper]stimulation. Or otherwise, perhaps, as evolutionary prototypes for survival in a blinking, popping, semio-capitalist world of wall-to-wall screens and nonstop hyper-connectivity. So if this talk jumps around a lot, it's because I'm especially contemporary in that sense.
One thing I've been thinking about lately, in my own work and research, is how and why IKEA and Facebook have become such ubiquitous, omnipotent, world-dominating psycho-spatial paradigms. My current conclusion is that it's because they offer a very seductive illusion, or mirage, of a kind of order that simply doesn't exist any more. They offer us a frame to exist in, to shelter in, when all else is in flux and crisis. Right now I can't see this -
as anything other than a brilliant, genius, terrifyingly cynical play on the psychological homelessness of not just one generation but several. The frame has now literally become a box, or several boxes – space-saving storage solutions we will fill with the objects we use to underpin our sense of self, our very identities neatly compartmentalized like so many shiny little horcruxes. Facebook, too, offers a whole system by which we might organize and present our social and demographic selves – there are boxes to fill in and a < frame > to inhabit < / frame >. We love this shit because it makes us feel like the contingency and terror of growing up in the uncertainty of post-postmodern times can be controlled, or at least temporarily eluded; as though the tastefully veneered cabinets - with doors that close neatly on their hinges - could possibly save us from the skeleton in the closet and our detonating nuclear families - to which IKEA is especially proud to cater. As though having your status Liked by the object of [your] desire could ever replace a real kiss; as though a Facebook poke (not that one ever gives a Facebook poke) could ever replace a real fuck. The only way to survive Facebook is to see it as a stage of sorts, and to see yourself as a performer. Be professional. Put on a good show, but recognize when and where the show is over. Strippers, clowns and drag performers - my colleagues and contemporaries, historically - all recognize a very clear divide between their performative avatar and their irlselves; likewise, we use Facebook strategically (choosing to hide or disclose various aspects of our self-identity; collapsing or cementing the url/irl divide); yet nonetheless it remains a performance, inasmuch as it remains a stage. And in order to survive it (especially considering the propensity of Facebook and Google to use the metadata of our metaselves in the creation and honing of market demographics) it would be wise to recognize it as such: a performance in which you are playing someone a bit like yourself. To survive Ikeafication (and when I'm talking about Ikea, I could also be talking about any conglomerate purveyor of branded goods and lifestyles) we could regard those units and products as sets or props in the great liquid-modern telenovela, and not necessarily as realizations or manifestations of our needs or desires, as Ikea would have us do.
[I know I've been implicitly drawing conclusions throughout about where one's "true" identity may be sited, but I want to make it clear that I don't know and don't care about whether there is one true site or however many false sites; I'm proposing strategies that are part of a working process, and I will say now that they're all utterly subjective, and you all should just do whatever feels right.]
But let's cut to the chase: I'm here to give you a basic training in physical performance – physical because I want to put the body back into the frame. We are not our bodies, necessarily, but we are stuck with them, the inconvenient truth of them. The fact that we get tired, we get hungry, we get horny, we need to shit: defecation is a seriously messy way of processing data, but so far we haven't come up with anything better, so we may as well get into it. [Not into that! Unless you're into that.] But into the idea of our bodies as visceral and incredibly sophisticated hardware, running programs that - like Final Cut and the Adobe Suite - are so complex and powerful that we have no choice but to behold their workings as we once beheld the mysterious workings of God. We can get off Facebook, or move house for the hundredth time, or skip town entirely as a nomadic artist-Radicant, but so far there's only one way to truly escape your body, and that is to die.
And because many of us have become so alienated from our bodies (which has everything to do with socio-economic circumstance, cultural shift, and the nature of labour in contemporaneity and virtualism in general) I want to try out this idea of physical performance, which makes transparent the potentiality and the discomfort of the body; no, I don't expect it to be easy, and neither should you. And maybe part of this experiment, too, is to see how heavy users of social media feel as bodies in a common space; to reintroduce the gravity of us, and finally to embrace it.
Okay, everyone - get off your chairs and find a space somewhere in the room.


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Tuna sandwiches could protect eyesight
Researchers have discovered that omega-3 fatty acids found in canned tuna and other foods can protect your eyesight in old age.
Every year around 200,000 Britain's suffer from age-related macular degeneration (AMD) which could effect their vision.
A team of researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston analysed data they had collected from 38,000 women who were not suffering from AMD.
The experts tracked the participants eating habits, omega-3 intake, omega-6 intake and eye health over a ten year period, during which 235 causes of AMD were reported.
Interestingly the researchers found that the women who consumed the most fish oils had a 38 per cent reduced risk of developing AMD when compared to those who ate less.
Dr William Christen who led the study, said: 'The lower risk appeared to be due primarily to consumption of canned tuna fish and dark-meat fish.'
Though tinned tuna doesn't contain as much fish oil as fresh tuna or other fish, the finding is significant because such a huge number of individuals eat tuna sandwiches.
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Monday, October 3, 2011
Stuff that Weighs More than Me: World's Biggest Cupcake
serves a whole lot
200 lbs. sugar
200 lbs. flour
200 lbs. butter
800 eggs
Mix in a really, really big bowl and bake for over 12 hours or until giant toothpick comes out clean. Let cool completely. (This could take a while.) Cover with a small mountain of custard and frosting.
Here's a few more stats:
Circumference: 11 ft.
Oven Door Size: 8ft. x 8ft.
Weight: 1,224 lbs.
Conclusion: The world's largest cupcake weighs more than me. (It's probably a little sweeter than me, too!)
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Meet Joan McEwen. A lawyer since 1978 and a freelance labour arbitrator since 1990, her profession is labour law but one of her major passions in life is social justice, specifically for those who have been wrongfully convicted of crimes they didn't commit.
We met at The Edge Café at Yukon and 8th Ave, brought together by an unnamed mutual friend who might one day let me feature him in one of these Coffees but has so far refused to be a subject. This friend had told me about a book Joan wrote which was just published by Heritage House and I was eager to get my hands on a copy. As I sat down she handed one to me and I immediately started asking questions.
The book is called Innocence on Trial - The Framing of Ivan Henry and it's all about a man who spent 27 years in prison in British Columbia for sex crimes he didn't commit. Joan spent the last three and a half years researching the case, meeting many times with Ivan and interviewing every other living person who was involved and would talk to her about it. The judge and the prosecutor are deceased but the evidence remains that it was not simply wrong that he was convicted but, as one former Supreme Court of Canada judge put it, that it was an "appalling miscarriage of Canadian justice". The story details the trial in detail as well as Ivan's path to freedom, though he has yet to be compensated or publicly exonerated. I'm just digging into it now and suggest you do the same; there's a preview chapter or two up HERE (click "Google Preview").
At one point in our conversation Joan asked me about my work with V.I.A. and mentioned that it must be nice that I get to meet all sorts of interesting people. As I was writing this I was thinking back on that, about how it's true, and about how she is one of them. Joan is awesome.
Learn more about Innocence on Trial - The Framing of Ivan Henry, and pick up a copy HERE. Also, be sure to follow Joan on Twitter at @joan1mc
And stay tuned for 428 more Coffees! Check out the caffeinated archive HERE.


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The call center industry has had a challenging time since 9/11. Consider the fate of a call center in Ashland, Wis., owned by Advanced Data-Comm Inc. The Dubuque, Iowa-based company opened the Ashland center in 2000 only to close it after 9/11 as business plummeted. Advanced Data-Comm then reopened the center in fall 2002 with 30 employees, a workforce that has since doubled.
The up-and-down nature of the Ashland center epitomizes an industry often in a state of flux or, lately, a zig-zagging pattern headed mostly down. Reflecting the larger economy, the call center industry has seen job losses or static employment since 2001 in every state in the Ninth District. Even where activity rose last year, such as in South Dakota, the employment level has yet to reach what it was at the beginning of the decade.
A snapshot of telemarketing in the district shows the loss of hundreds of jobs in Minnesota, Montana and Wisconsin, with little change in employment in North Dakota. Surprisingly, state and industry officials said neither federal and state do-not-call lists nor outsourcing has greatly affected the industry, despite an intense level of media attention to both trends and the movement of call centers elsewhere in the nation to India, the Philippines and Ireland, among other countries.
While the industry is down, it is far from dead. John Sutter, director of marketing at Advanced Data-Comm, has seen employment at the company's six rural call centers rise from 700 in 2002 to 935 as of March 2004. Advanced, which also owns a large call center in Superior, Wis., has concentrated on conducting outbound marketing research calls and accepting inbound calls regarding customer service, order processing, product registration, third-party verification and other services.
Though Advanced Data-Comm's business has increased substantially, its good luck is not shared by the rest of the industry in the Ninth District. If its plight two years ago was in sync with other call centers, its success today remains somewhat unique. This company's winning in an industry that, as the numbers show, has been shedding employees for quite some time.
The big talkers
Getting a perfect view of the industry is difficult. A fair if unquantifiable bit of employment is in customer service and help desk operations owned by corporations but not counted as call center employment by states and the Department of Labor. Only one state in the Ninth District, South Dakota, separately tracks the number of help desk and customer service employees. A recent example of the difficulty of good numbers on call centers and the rapidity with which they change occurred in South Dakota a year ago.
In 2002 the state's call center employment rocketed up by 1,900 jobs because Gateway Inc., the computer manufacturer, began including its customer service department in the call center data, said Mary Cerney, director of research and marketing for the Governor's Office of Economic Development. A year later the state's call center employment dropped by 2,100 jobs, she said, the majority due to Gateway closing the call center.
Despite the problems in obtaining a perfect picture of call center employment, most states have a good idea of how many people work in them and what the trend looks like for the future. The largest number of call center employees in the Ninth District live in South Dakota, which surpassed Minnesota in employment last year.
The state has seen a high level of activity over the past few months, with Addax Telecom Inc. of Nashville slated to open a center employing 40 people in Pierre and a plan to triple the staff within three years. That city also scored a coup with Premiere Bankcard, which just opened a center that could employ 500 people within five years. The company already has more than 2,100 employees in the state.
Pierre's not the only place with activity. Sioux Falls-based Capital Card Services opened a new facility in Brookings with a staff of around 30 in 2002. And Milbank recently attracted a Phoenix-based Synergy Solutions call center that may hire as many 130 people.
Despite that activity, the state is still licking some wounds inflicted last year. Rapid City saw the closure of a call center owned by the retail and catalog company Spiegel, leaving 240 employees without jobs. Conseco Finance laid off 39 staffers in 2002 in Rapid City. A recent glance at a Sioux Falls commercial real estate Web site revealed six call center spaces for sale or lease.
South Dakota's call centers employed 3,800 people in 2003, said Cerney. Staffing in financial call centers, which the state breaks out in a different category, saw a decline from 9,400 in 2002 to 8,500 last year, she said, mainly due to a contracting economy. Still, with new centers opening and more in the works, this year looks promising.
"It's going to be a good year, it will be up from 2003," said Cerney. "We have put some announcements out, and we will have some new ones soon. One [call center] wants to be operational the first of April and we've got two or three others looking right now."
Minnesota ranks with South Dakota in the number of call center employees. Steve Hine, research director for the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development, said call center staffing statewide plummeted from 4,977 in 2001 to 3,813 in the second quarter of last year, while the number of facilities dropped from 120 to 109. Though outstate call centers declined by just five to 74, they bore the majority of job losses. Third-quarter statistics showed a loss of another 400 jobs statewide.
"The lower cost of communications now makes these kinds of companies much more mobile nationally and internationally, and the skill requirements they have don't necessarily take advantage of our competitive advantage of having a population with a high education and high skill level," Hine explained. "With greater mobility and lower communications costs, it wouldn't be much of a surprise to see them go elsewhere."
They haven't entirely gone elsewhere. While the industry continues to wax and wane, call centers remain an integral part of the economy in northern Minnesota, where more than 3,600 people work in back office and call center operations for such large corporations as United Health Group, Qwest, Enterprise, Metris and Blue Cross/Blue Shield, said Chris Maddy, director of Arrowhead Business Connection, a partner-funded marketing group in Duluth. (The high number includes call center operations not counted in the state's figures.)
The region saw a 400-job gain in call center employment from 2002 to 2003, he said, due to expansions by existing clients and the opening of a handful of new call centers.
"These are good paying jobs, with starting wages from $9 to $13 an hour and a median wage at $14 to $15 an hour," said Maddy. "That's a good, healthy income for a lot of people. We see a lot of people using these jobs as a second income or as a way to get back into the workforce after losing jobs in other industries, like mining."
The small talkers
Northern Wisconsin, Montana and the Upper Peninsula have smaller populations of call centers. Wisconsin struggles to get statistics on call centers in the northern section of the state, but Beverly Gehrke, a regional labor market analyst with the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development in Hayward, figures 1,500 to 1,700 people work for 15 employers, concentrated largely in Superior, LaCrosse and Eau Claire.
Montana's numbers for call centers appear decidedly in decline after suffering a huge blow when a Stream International Inc. call center in Kalispell closed last year, putting 330 people out of work. Teleperformance USA closed a Butte operation with 100 jobs last year, too, citing the do-not-call legislation. A call center operated by Englewood, Colo.-based Teletech Inc. may occupy Stream's space in the future, while enjoying a host of economic incentives the city has offered.
Several hundred telemarketing jobs have been lost in the past two years, said John Zavalney, a research specialist for the Montana Department of Labor and Industry. The telemarketing industry has a "history that's rocky; it grows rapidly and drops rapidly," he said.
Still, the state's call center industry shows small signs of life. Broadband provider Bresnan Communications of White Plains, N.Y., will employ around 90 people at a call center in Billings slated to open sometime in the future, said Marie Huff, a spokeswoman for the company's Montana operations. News reports show a handful of other firms considering Montana for future expansion.
The Upper Peninsula has only three call centers with a total of 300 employees, said Kathy Salow, regional analyst for the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Growth. The U.P. had a call center staffed with more than 300 employees from 1998 until it closed in 2000, she said, but no operation since has had anywhere near that number of employees. The largest call center currently has 170 employees; another, 120. The region has been slow to try to attract call centers, but Iron County has begun to market itself to the industry, added Salow.
Trouble in Minot
North Dakota has aggressively courted telemarketers and back office call centers for years and seen great growth—until recently. "For 2002 and 2003 we did not see positive numbers; it was a status quo kind of thing," said Lee Peterson, the state's commerce commissioner. "It's just about static, with no growth and not much decline—it's staying where it is."
North Dakota employs between 2,000 and 2,500 residents working in call centers, he said, many for companies such as American Express, Medical Arts Press, Choice Hotels and Unisys. The state landed another win when Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Phase 2 Solutions Inc. announced last August it would open a center in Minot. Initially, the company reported it would have 125 jobs available, but Peterson said employment will likely go as high as 225 positions over the next year. PepsiAmericas also announced last year it would establish a call center employing as many as 230 people in Fargo.
But the state has also taken some hits. Sykes Enterprises Inc. laid off 100 employees last year in Bismarck, and Z-Tel Technologies Inc. laid off 167 employees in 2002 in Minot. WebSmart Interactive, created in Minot by a group of prominent business people with connections to Gov. John Hoeven, closed last year. The move threw 207 employees out of work and prompted an investigation by the Fargo Forum that revealed the Minot Area Growth Through Investment and Cooperation (MAGIC) Fund provided generous grants to at least four call centers, despite what the paper called flawed accountability measures.
The WebSmart debacle has former employees waiting for more than $200,000 in back pay from a company that received more than $2 million in subsidies. The state attorney general is investigating the company, and two other states have launched probes of its sales operation. Ironically, Phase 2 Solutions will move into the firm's former offices.
Peterson, who was the president of MAGIC when WebSmart received its assistance, conceded the deal with the company should have been studied more thoroughly. Local development agencies so badly want locally founded companies to succeed that they sometimes "take more risks than they would if the company came from out of town," he said. The WebSmart case will force the state's development agencies and his own office to more closely watch where and how their dollars are spent, he said.
Twin challenges
Beyond a slack economy, the industry faces the twin challenges of do-not-call legislation and outsourcing. Though the lists do not appear to have affected the Ninth District yet, the impact has been felt elsewhere. "In our survey we've seen a reduction of 50 percent of calls being made daily, which means 54 million calls are no longer being placed every day, and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out fewer calls means fewer humans are being employed everyday in the industry," said Tim Searcy, executive director of the 650-member Washington, D.C.-based American Teleservices Association (ATA).
With the do-not-call lists gaining popularity, companies have begun directing money out of telemarketing and into direct mail and other marketing channels, said Searcy. The double-digit annual growth once seen in an industry ATA estimates has 6.5 million full- and part-time employees will no longer occur, he said, and work will continue going overseas where cheap wages and an educated workforce are available.
Gary Cohen, president of Minneapolis-based ACI Telecentrics Inc., does not see it that way. Many people who signed up for the federal do-not-call list had already added their names to similar lists maintained by the ATA, the Direct Marketing Association and individual states, noted Cohen. The new list will probably result in a 15 percent decline in the number of people telemarketers can call. "That's why it didn't have as much of an impact as expected," he said. (In the Ninth District every state has a do-not-call list, and those residents who sign up will automatically be added to the federal lists.)
Outsourcing remains a growing issue as Indian companies, for example, continue to attract business and train employees to speak more like Americans. Still, not one Ninth District company or economic development agency reported having directly lost business to overseas call centers, and several people interviewed pointed to the decision by Round Rock, Texas-based Dell Inc. late last year to pull business out of an Indian call center and bring it back to the United States after hearing complaints from customers.
Cohen said he's heard rumors that American Express and General Electric will bring or are bringing call center jobs back to the United States after seeing language and quality issues emerge. "I'm not job-biased, I'm not a built-in-America person, but I think what we've seen in this area is problems with the quality of the work," he suggested, while not dismissing the reality that India and other English-speaking countries will compete for jobs.
If the poor performance of some Indian call centers does not stem the outsourcing tide, the political environment of the country just might. The issue over outsourcing will heat up during the presidential campaign, and Congress may debate a policy curtailing the flow of jobs to other countries, said John Boyd, a Princeton, N.J.-based location consultant.
Barring federal intervention, call center operators still believe they can compete with overseas call centers. Cohen's answer to competition is to continue operating a host of largely rural Midwest call centers—including two in the Ninth District—that will survive based on "high quality services at a lower cost," he argued. "We've gone to rural communities because we could get high quality labor, much better labor than we could get in urban areas and at a lower cost."
Advanced Data-Comm's Sutter agreed. "I won't tell anyone not to worry about that trend, but we haven't seen a lot of our business go overseas," said Sutter. "Our customers like our low hourly rate, and in the industry as a whole we have seen a few companies coming back from overseas because they're not getting the service levels [American call centers] can provide. We're seeing it trickle back now."
Boyd, a fan of the region who has placed more than a few call centers in the Dakotas, said the region's excellent colleges, low costs, a solid workforce and communities willing to provide economic incentives appeal to the industry. As the economy picks up, he believes companies will stop "cutting costs to the bone" and add call center activity to service existing customers and attract new ones.
Call centers will continue to open because industries still need them to service, survey and sell to customers. "The call center industry is still the fastest growing industry in the country in terms of generating new jobs because there are so many legs—from help desk to publishing to fulfillment to the pharmaceutical industry, with prescription drugs by mail a growing sector—driving this industry," said Boyd. "And it has so many levels to offer employees, from entry-level low-skill jobs that are wonderful alternatives to fast-food and retail positions, to sophisticated, technical jobs."
For Americans tired of telemarketers, that might not be good news.


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My next two books are part of a series that takes place on Martha's Vineyard during the summer. See that picture up there, that's me (on the right) and friend/author Megan McCafferty being interviewed for a TV show on Martha's Vineyard last summer. I looked at this picture a few times while slugging through LOCAL GIRLS so I could actually remember that it's sunny and warm and peaceful and perfect on the island. It's kind of hard to remember what it's like on the Vineyard in the summer when you've got left over Thanksgiving turkey in the refrigerator and your Christmas tree is blinking at you from the corner of the room. I'll post a description of both LOCAL GIRLS and RICH BOYS next time, when the sight of the main characters' names don't make me so dizzy.
In other news, am heading to NYC tomorrow to be interviewed for the Today Show in Australia. The interview is taking place live via satellite, and I'm having serious wardrobe issues. What to wear?
One more thing. Received an email from a girl who wrote to tell me she loved THE BOOK OF LUKE, but she had a question. Do Emily and Luke end up together always? And you know what, I didn't know the answer.


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- Archives.
- Videos.
- Images.
- Virtual Drive type of files.
- Other often used files of programs.
After Scarab ransomware encrypts the files, the virus leaves the files no longer able to be opened and appends the file extension .xtbl to each encrypted file. The files begin to look like the following:
After the encryption process of Dharma ransomware has completed, the virus may also delete the VSS (shadow copies) on the infected computer in order to prevent victims from restoring their files via these backups.
Scarab .xtbl Files Ransomware – How Did I Get Infected
The infection process of Scarab .xtbl file ransomware is conducted primarily via spammed e-mails that have deceptive messages embedded within them. Such messages may pretend to be sent from services such as PayPal, USPS, FedEx and others. They may contain attachments that pretend to be invoices and other fake type of files. Other social engineering techniques include:
- Fake buttons and pictures as if the e-mails are sent from a social media site, like LinkedIn.
- Fraudulent PayPal links.
- Links to GoogleDrive and fake e-mails that look the same as if they are sent from Google.
Other infection tools may also include the usage of torrent websites and other third-party sites to upload fake updates, fake installers as well as other fraudulent executables.
Remove Scarab .xtbl Ransomware and Get Encrypted Files Back
For the removal of the .xtbl variant of Scarab ransomware, recommendations are to focus on following the removal instructions below and boot your computer in Safe Mode to isolate the threat and manually remove it. But in case manual removal in the instructions below do not work for you do not boot in safe mode and follow the advise of security professionals who always recommend downloading a powerful anti-malware tool that will quickly remove Scarab .xtbl ransomware and protect your computer in the future as well. If you want to restore files encrypted by Scarab, we have offered several backup suggestions below that may be indirectly able to assist with this issue. They may not be 100% able to recover all of your files, but we have received feedback from ransomware victims who we able to recover half and even most of their decrypted files.
Booting in Safe Mode
For Windows:
1) Hold Windows Key and R
2) A run Window will appear, in it type "msconfig" and hit Enter
3) After the Window appears go to the Boot tab and select Safe Boot
Cut out .xtbl Files Virus in Task Manager
1) Press CTRL+ESC+SHIFT at the same time.
2) Locate the "Processes" tab.
3) Locate the malicious process of .xtbl Files Virus, and end it's task by right-clicking on it and clicking on "End Process"
Eliminate .xtbl Files Virus's Malicious Registries
For most Windows variants:
1) Hold Windows Button and R.
2) In the "Run" box type "Regedit" and hit "Enter".
3) Hold CTRL+F keys and type .xtbl Files Virus or the file name of the malicious executable of the virus which is usually located in %AppData%, %Temp%, %Local%, %Roaming% or %SystemDrive%.
4) After having located malicious registry objects, some of which are usually in the Run and RunOnce subkeys delete them ermanently and restart your computer. Here is how to find and delete keys for different versions.
For Windows 7: Open the Start Menu and in the search type and type regedit –> Open it. –> Hold CTRL + F buttons –> Type .xtbl Files Virus Virus in the search field.
Win 8/10 users: Start Button –> Choose Run –> type regedit –> Hit Enter -> Press CTRL + F buttons. Type .xtbl Files Virus in the search field.
Automatic Removal of .xtbl Files Virus
Step 1:Click on the button to download SpyHunter's installer.
It is advisable to run a scan before committing to purchase the full version. You should make sure that the malware is detected by SpyHunter first.
Step 2: Guide yourself by the download instructions provided for each browser.
Step 3: After you have installed SpyHunter, wait for the program to update.
Step4: After this click on the "Scan Computer Now" button.
Step5: After SpyHunter has completed with your system`s scan, click on the "Fix Threats" button to clear it.
Step6: Once your computer is clean, it is advisable to restart it.
Recover files encrypted by the .xtbl Files Virus Ransomware.
Method 1: Using Shadow Explorer. In case you have enabled File history on your Windows Machine one thing you can do is to use Shadow Explorer to get your files back. Unfortunately some ransomware viruses may delete those shadow volume copies with an administrative command to prevent you from doing just that.
Method 2: If you try to decrypt your files using third-party decryption tools. There are many antivirus providers who have decrypted multiple ransomware viruses the last couple of years and posted decryptors for them. Chances are if your ransomware virus uses the same encryption code used by a decryptable virus, you may get the files back. However, this is also not a guarantee, so you might want to try this method with copies of the original encrypted files, because if a third-party program tampers with their encrypted structure, they may be damaged permanently. Here are the vendors to look for:
- Kaspersky.
- Emsisoft.
- TrendMicro.
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Maybe it's the bright yellow of autumn here in New England, or perhaps it's just my affinity for Robert Frost's view of the world, but I can't seem to turn calendar pages past the fall equinox without mumbling phrases from "The Road Not Taken." It's unfortunate that a glut of 70's-era posters and way too many graduation speeches have rendered the poem hackneyed, mooring it in its final and familiar stanza:
Two roads diverged in a wood and I –
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
This simplistic portrayal of a fork in the leaf-strewn path seems to veer on past the melancholy of regret that characterizes so much of Frost's poetry. Hear it in this earlier line from "The Road Not Taken":
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Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
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Somewhere ages and ages hence . . .
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Picking up C.S. Lewis's Great Divorce after a long absence, I have been surprised to find not only the expected words about the great chasm between good and evil, but also glorious truth for those who have chosen what they now see to have been a wrong road. Lewis likens the restorative process to the correction of a math problem which (after having shepherded four homeschooled sons through algebra, I can heartily attest) "can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point."
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There are different versions of this Paratha. The filling is made to suit taste and there are hundreds ways to make the same filling. This is one version.
You will need:
For the outer layer:
2 Cups Wheat Flour
2 Tsp Oil
Warm water as required
½ tsp Salt
For the filling:
3 Potatoes, boiled and grated
½ tsp Lemon juice
1 Onion, finely chopped
1 Carrot, grated
1 tsp Red chilli powder
¼ tsp Garam masala powder
½ tsp Cumin powder
¼ tsp Tumeric powder
1 tsp Ginger Garlic paste
2 tbsp finely chopped coriander
3 tbsp Oil
Take wheat flour in a medium bowl. Add salt and oil. Stir to combine. Now slowly add warm water to make a soft smooth dough. The dough should not be sticky, so add water only as needed. Cover and let sit for 30 minutes to an hour.
Heat oil in a pan. Add chopped onions and sauté till translucent. Add the ginger garlic paste and sauté till fragrant. Now add the turmeric, garam masala powder, chilli powder and cumin powder. Saute for 3 minutes. Stir in the grated carrot and season with salt. Cook till the carrot is done. Add the grated potato, lemon juice and chopped coriander and stir to combine. Turn off heat and let mixture cool.
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