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America's Best Value Inn - Effingham
Meeting facilities, handicap access, free breakfast, small pets allowed, indoor pool, bus parking, meeting services available, free movie rental.
Anthony Acres Resort has picturesque views of Lake Sara. The resort is only five minutes from Effingham, so you can come into town and enjoy some food or shop.
Attractive, two story updated home with a fenced backyard. Minutes from Lake Shelbyville and just blocks to downtown. House has 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, and a queen sleeper sofa for up to 8 guests. Fully equipped kitchen, washer and dryer, towels & linens provided. Streaming TV, Wi-Fi, A/C. Deck with seating, charcoal grill, Two night minimum Open Year round. Please call for pet policy.
Baymont Inn & Suites Effingham
Suites available, meeting facilities, handicap access, small pets allowed, free breakfast, cable, bus parking,free access to outdoor pool and fitness center, adjacent to restaurants.
Baymont Inn & Suites Effingham
Offers meeting rooms, non-smoking & smoking rooms/suites, pet friendly, free breakfast, pool & spa, and free internet.
Best Western offers free breakfast, pool & spa, non-smoking and smoking rooms, and is pet friendly. If you want to go out diner you don't have to travel to far, because the Raintree Restaurant is located next door and it is owned by the same family.
Modern Alpine home reflects heritage. View beautiful scenery. Fireplace, TV, VCR, books, and games in common areas. Full breakfast. Twenty minutes from Vandalia.
29 units with smoking and non-smoking. Two queen beds are in a standard room.
Clean Rooms! Free Coffee, Free HBO, Free Local Calls, Microwave & Refrigerator Available, Weekly & Monthly Rates Available, Food Nearby.
Come out to Camp Lakewood and enjoy the views of Lake Pauline plus all the creature comforts. Camp Lakewood is an RV campground. The sites include cable, WiFi, 30/50 AMP. They also offer a one and two bedroom cabin that is fully furnished and self contained. The newest cabin sleeps five and includes Cable TV. They do offer tent sites as well for those who want to be a little closer to nature.
Comfort Suites offers suites with kitchenettes, handicap accessible rooms, free internet and breakfast. They have a very nice lounge where you can play a family card game, enjoy some television or just enjoy a warm fire.
Seven clean and comfortable kitchenette rooms with living room, kitchen, bedroom and bath within walking distance of Coon Creek Beach and Boat Ramp. Rooms are equipped with pots and pans, table settings, coffee maker & toaster, towels, and bed linens. Only 1/2 mile from Lake Shelbyville. Open April - November.
Country Charm Bed and Breakfast
The delightful, historic colonial was built in 1858 and sits on a 1/2 acre parcel that boast beautiful views of a mini orchard. There are 4 nostalgic rooms on the 2nd floor. There is boat and RV parking. Open all year and has Wi-Fi. No pets allowed.
Country Inn & Suites - Effingham
At Country Inn & Suites, guests can enjoy cozy, comfortable rooms equipped with modern amenities, such as free high speed internet access, cable television with premium channels, an in-room coffee maker, and iron/ironing board. other features include a fitness center, swimming pool, lending library, and a free breakfast.
Days Inn features family and executive jacuzzi suites, in-room safes, and expanded cable television. Other amenities include free high speed wireless internet, guest computer in lobby, microwave and refrigerator in all rooms. Free deluxe continental breakfast is also available.
EconoLodge features standard amenities. In addition to standard amenities, all rooms include refrigerators, microwaves, coffee makers, and cable television. Free continental breakfast, high speed internet, and coffee are also available.
In a 50's style motor lodge, The Effingham Motel is available to all guests, but geared toward long-term occupancy.
Fairfield Inn & Suites - Effingham
Fairfield Inn & Suites offers comfortable guest rooms for both business and leisure travelers. Free continental breakfast, including fresh-brewed coffee, cereal and fresh fruit, is available each morning. Free HSIA access. All rooms include microwaves and mini-refrigerators. Fairfield Inn & Suites also has a 1,890-square foot conference area, which is perfect for meetings and events with up to 85 people. Features include one large room, which can be divided, 68 hotel rooms on location.
Small 27-unit motel, cable TV with free HBO.
Gregory's Resort Motel and Cabins
Come stay in one of the 12 clean, comfortable rooms or a cabin after a long day of fishing or playing! 60 seconds from boat launch. Adjacent to Lithia Campground and Marina. Boat hook-ups, bait shop & store. Pavilions, grills and fire pits. Borders U.S. Army Corps of Engineers property. Open April 1st - October 30th every year. Has free Wi-Fi.
Hampton Inn & Suites - Effingham
Offers free breakfast, indoor pool & spa, free internet and parking, meeting rooms and suites are also available.
Holiday Inn Express - Effingham
Features an a pool & spa, free internet, free parking, suites, meeting rooms and regular bedrooms.
Illinois Wildlife Connections Lodge
All deer and turkey hunts include clean and comfortable accommodations in our new 3400 sq/ft. lodge. The lodge has 7 bedrooms, 5 showers, pool table, mud room, washer and dryer, patio, and more. Guide, stands, transportation, and meals are also included. All meals will be continental style breakfast, soup and sandwich type lunch, and an out of this world gourmet country style dinner, guaranteed to put on a few extra pounds. Airport pickup is available if needed. More than 5,000 acres for Archery Only Whitetail Deer and Eastern Wild Turkey. A lodge with full amenities await hunters. Their GPS Coordinates N39 .03.297' W088 .06.482'
Affordable vacation rental home located in the heart of Shelbyville. Enjoy spacious rooms, fully stocked kitchen, outdoor playground. Sleeps up to 15. Pets are allowed and open all year.
For an enjoyable stay, choose from one of four cabins, a two-bedroom or three-bedroom house. There are campfire rings, grills, picnic tables and a playground. Parking with electric hook-ups for boats. Fishing guide service is also available. Close to Lake Shelbyville and Lithia Springs Marina. Open April-October.
Formerly Lakeside Cabins. There are 4 cabins with full kitchenettes, screened porches, boat parking with electric. Also a 2 bedroom house, and 3 bedroom house. Campfire rings, grills, picnic tables, playground. Fishing Guide Service is available. Open April-October.
Located at the southeast end of Lake Shelbyville and 1/4 mile from Lithia Springs Marina and access area for launching boats. Wireless internet in the office. Lithia Lodge, Luxury Cabins, Motel Rooms. 12 rooms and 10 Luxury cabins. Campfire rings, grills, picnic tables, playground, parking with electric, catch and release fishing pond. Fishing Guide Service Available. Open April-November every year.
Newly constructed French Country style home located on 100 acres featuring equine hotel, nature trails, and fishing pond. The outdoors is as enchanting and as lively as it is indisde. Each of the 4 guest rooms is tastefully decorated.
1200 Square foot house with 3 bedrooms, 2 full baths, central air. Garage with electricity. Fully equipped kitchen, washer & dryer, all linens provided, satellite TV. Free Wi-Fi, Stocked fishing pond, fishing guide service available Campfire ring, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, BBQ grills, swimming pool, electric boat parking. Pets allowed. Open all year.
Offers hunting, fishing, golf and meeting packages, as well as getaway weekend packages. Gas fireplaces, central heating and air, satellite TV, and gourmet meals delivered directly to your table. Outdoor Sportsman's Lodge is conveniently located just off Newton lake with 2 cabins so you can enjoy your hunt. Some of the nations best Bass Fishing can be found as well as a hunters paradise for all game. Guided and non-guided fishing and hunting packages are available by calling. In the off-season this facility is a Bed & Breakfast. Described as a "Sportsman's paradise" by World Champion Angler Denny Brauer.
Paradise Inn is a clean, well-maintained hotel. The hotel allows small pets, has cable and bus parking, and is adjacent to restaurants.
Indoor pool, sauna, whirlpool, exercise room, free continental breakfast, pet friendly, smoking and non smoking rooms, free internet.
Located on the banks of the Embarras River, Riverpark offers weekly rates with boat hookups.
Robin Hood Woods Resort & Campground
This resort and campground has 5 Cabins and over 200 campsites located in a wooded area with water, electricity, and sewers. There is an Inground outdoor pool, 2 bathhouses, pavilion, gameroom, playground, and a store on the property. The Rental cottages and log cabins come with air, kitchens, and bath. The Nine cabins also have satellite TV. The resort is 2.5 miles from Lake Shelbyville. Open April 1st - October 31st each year. Wi-Fi Access.
Secluded environment nestled on 40 acres. 792 Square foot cabin with master bedroom, dining area, kitchen, bath, open living area with fireplace. Will accommodate 12 people. There is a fishing pond, picnic tables, and hiking trails.
Rodeway offers standard amenities, along with microwaves, refrigerators, coffee makers, and cable television. Whirlpool bathtubs, sofa sleepers and spacious work desks are available in some rooms. A continental breakfast is also provided.
Enjoy a relaxing retreat at Sara's Sanctuary. Every retreat offers a different health and wellness experience, which includes therapeutic massage, aromatherapy, yoga or meditation, reflexology and Reiki. Each session has a limit of eight participants and four sleeping rooms.
"The Best Motel by a Dam Site" located across from the Lake Shelbyville Dam, on the Kaskaskia River. Twenty-One 2-3 bed units with Wi-Fi, microwave, refrigerator, TV, hair dryer, Jacuzzi suite available. All rooms are ground floor. Free electric hook-ups for over 30 boats. Excellent location for fisherman, boaters, water skiers, sunbathers, picnickers and passers by. Bait Shop.
Suites available, small pets allowed, cable/movies, kitchenettes aveniable, in-room safe, free super start breakfast from 6:00 am - 10:00 am.
Playgrounds, movie channels, located near interstate
2-story, 25 rooms
Meeting facilities, handicap access, free breakfast, cable/movies. indoor pool, bus parking, free pass to local health club, AAA rated.
Full service motel with standard and deluxe accommodations blocks from Lake Shelbyville. Registration in adjacent turn-of-the-century National Registry home. 45 rooms; Free Wi-Fi, expanded boat parking w/ electric; flat screen TVs. Fridge/microwaves available. Convenient to golf, wineries, boat ramps, recreational areas, marinas, attractions & events. AAA rated. Open all year.
Thelma Keller Convention Center
Central Illinois' premier meeting destination, the Thelma Keller Convention Center, offers today's meeting/event/wedding planners a relaxed atmosphere, quality service and tempting cuisine designed to make every event impressive and productive. No matter what size event you are planning, they have room for your needs. Deluxe conference facilities. Impeccable service. Dedicated staff. On-site technical and meeting planning resources. The Convention Center offers over 20,000 square feet of space with a grand ballroom measuring 10,500 square feet. Perfect for your next meeting or a beautiful wedding here.
Three Story, six bedroom log home on 30 acres with fireplace, large deck, kitchen, central air, spa, large meeting room, trail rides, continental breakfast, TV, VCR, 5-person spa, gas grill and 2 charcoal grills. Next to Hidden Springs State Forest.
A 3,000 sq. ft. lodge features a master bedroom with a private bath and two bedrooms with semi-private bathrooms. Located in rural Jasper County, Turkey Creek is perfect for hunters or individuals wanting a weekend retreat.
Tuscan Hills Winery, recently opened in 2011, is on Historic Hills Drive, directly behind the Harley Barn. This winery is located on eight picturesque acres which helps bring an Old World Tuscan feel to the heart of Effingham. The owners are focused on creating elegant, approachable, and perfectly balanced wines of the highest quality. Wine tastings, along with space available for reservations makes this a must stop for group tours. Tuscan Hills Winery wants you to "Come as our guest, but leave as our friends." We welcome you to plan your next event at Tuscan Hills Winery - whether it's a beautiful wedding in our vineyard or book the space for your next meeting.
White Tail Crossing Cabin Village
Eighteen units are available with 1-5 bedrooms. All cabins are very nice, spacious and well-appointed with kitchens, fireplaces, front porches. There are 2 swimming pools, 2 fishing ponds, private hiking trails, 3 hole golf course and much more. Five full hookup campsites are also available. Open March to December 20th every year.
Your "Cabin at the Lake," fully furnished cabins. Enjoy a peaceful, wooded country setting on over 20 acres bordering U.S. Army Corps of Engineers property. 1, 2, & 3 bedroom units include full kitchens, porches, and patios, grills, and campfire rings.
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"I find more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history whatsoever." Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
The greatest minds in history endorsed a Creator, including Galileo, Martin Luther, Einstein, Robert Bork, Billy Graham, Erasmus, William Tyndale, Immanuel Kant, and the above cited Isaac Newton.
I recently met with some creation scientists and they told me that in the near future, evolution will be exposed as the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on mankind. They also informed me that more scientists are accepting a Creator as the basis for everything that exists. In fact, according to Gallup polls taken between 1982-1999, nearly half of all Americans polled consistently believe in a Creator, and that Charles Darwin was wrong. Only 12 percent support Darwin's theory, and approximately 38 percent believe in a combination of a Creator, with evolution playing a minor role. Therefore, it is truly amazing to me that every major college and university teaches evolution as fact, and scoff at the idea of a Holy God. This is troubling because it is a fact that some of the greatest scientific minds believed in a Creator.
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by Mike Schopp
posted Jun 13 2012 11:05AM
Still trying to keep my feet attached to the Earth given the upside-down nature of the hockey playoffs. You come to think that the universe has rules, laws of nature. Then an 8-seed that finished 29th in regular-season goal scoring rips through the NHL and wins the Stanley Cup.
What does it mean?
No team ever seeded so low won it all. Was it a matter of time? Many hockey fans for a while have been saying yes. Philadelphia, a 7-seed, came close in 2010. Edmonton as an 8-seed came closer in 2006, losing a tight seventh game to the Team that Won't Be Spoken Of.
Given their capable roster of forwards, it's hard to figure how the Kings finished with such a paltry ranking on offense this season. But they did. And for all the insisting I have done for years that a Cup champion need be strong offensively, this team wasn't.
While the Kings in some ways make sense within commonly held beliefs about championship hockey teams -- they're big enough, their goaltending was outstanding and, well, that's about it -- I am inclined to think that they owe a great amount of their success to luck. Games are close. Many goals are scored on good bounces. And you don't have to beat everybody in these tournaments, only four teams. Had the Kings not lost two overtime games in the season's final weekend they would have opened with Chicago and not a wobbly Vancouver team that was missing Daniel Sedin, a team they played tough in last year's playoffs.
Were the Kings fortunate in that respect? For me, it's either that or they suddenly were just flat better than the rest of the league. And I just refuse to accept that. LA was 16-4 in the playoffs. I want the Kings to have to play 20 more games against random NHL opponents. Maybe they'd go 12-8 or so.
On second thought, hockey season is long enough.
Whether or not this underdog run was to be predicted, for me it isn't a good result. We all strive for fairness in life, for the idea of an ultimate meritocracy. This is a binding American principle -- work hard, do your best, and you will succeed. Not "might" succeed, will. But is it true? Not all the way. You have to be lucky. Every success story has some luck in it.
This point would be no different for me if New Jersey had won it all, or even the New York Rangers despite their top-seed status. The differences between these teams and some others were so slight that it seems building premises or drawing conclusions on the construct of these clubs is doomed to be faulty. Jersey was very lucky to get past Florida, the worst team entering the playoffs, in Round 1. In 2011, Boston was similarly fortunate to win its first-round series. Two Cup finalists, one a winner -- a bounce either way and instead you're looking at two seasons considered failures.
I want to think in sports that a knowledgable fan can tell good from average, and great from good. In this sport that's as hard -- and seemingly futile -- as ever to do. Whose goalie is good? They're all good. Whose coach is good enough? All of them probably.
What makes you a winner? Winning.
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Occupy Draws Strength From the Powerless
Posted on Feb 13, 2012
By Chris Hedges
There is a recipe for breaking popular movements. I watched it play out over five years in the war in El Salvador. I now see these familiar patterns in the assault against the Occupy movement. It goes like this. Physically eradicate the insurgents' logistical base of operations to disrupt communication and organization. Dry up financial and material support. Create rival organizations—the group Stand for Oakland seems to be one of these attempts—to discredit and purge the rebel leadership. Infiltrate the movement to foster internal divisions and rivalries, a tactic carried out consciously, or perhaps unconsciously, by an anonymous West Coast group known as OLAASM—Occupy Los Angeles Anti Social Media. Provoke the movement—or front groups acting in the name of the movement—to carry out actions such as vandalism and physical confrontations with the police that alienate the wider populace from the insurgency. Invent atrocities and repugnant acts supposedly carried out by the movement and plant these stories in the media. Finally, offer up a political alternative. In the war in El Salvador it was Jose Napoleon Duarte. For the Occupy movement it is someone like Van Jones. And use this "reformist" to co-opt the language of the movement and promise to promote the movement's core aims through the electoral process.
Counterinsurgency campaigns, although they involve arms and weapons, are primarily about, in the old cliché, hearts and minds. And the tactics employed by our intelligence operatives abroad are not dissimilar to those employed by our intelligence operatives at home. These operatives are, in fact, often the same people. The state has expended external resources to break the movement. It is reasonable to assume it has expended internal resources to break the movement.
The security and surveillance state has a vast arsenal and array of tools at its disposal. It operates in secret. It dissembles and lies. It hides behind phony organizations and individuals who use false histories and false names. It has millions of dollars to spend, the capacity to deny not only its activities but also its existence. Its physical assets honeycomb the country. It can wiretap, eavesdrop and monitor every form of communication. It can hire informants, send in clandestine agents, recruit members within the movement by offering legal immunity, churn out a steady stream of divisive propaganda and amass huge databases and clandestine operations centers. And it is authorized to use deadly force.
How do we fight back? We do not have the tools or the wealth of the state. We cannot beat it at its own game. We cannot ferret out infiltrators. The legal system is almost always on the state's side. If we attempt to replicate the elaborate security apparatus of our oppressors, even on a small scale, we will unleash widespread paranoia and fracture the movement. If we retreat into anonymity, hiding behind masks, then we provide an opening for agents provocateurs who deny their identities while disrupting the movement. If we fight pitched battles in the streets we give authorities an excuse to fire their weapons.
All we have, as Vaclav Havel writes, is our own powerlessness. And that powerlessness is our strength. The survival of the movement depends on embracing this powerlessness. It depends on two of our most important assets—utter and complete transparency and a rigid adherence to nonviolence, including respect for private property. This permits us, as Havel puts it in his 1978 essay "The Power of the Powerless," to live in truth. And by living in truth we expose a corrupt corporate state that perpetrates lies and lives in deceit.
Havel, who would later become the first president of the Czech Republic, in the essay writes a reflection on the mind of a greengrocer who, as instructed, puts up a poster "among the onions and carrots" that reads: "Workers of the World Unite!" The poster is displayed partly out of habit, partly because everyone else does it, and partly out of fear of the consequences for not following the rules. The greengrocer would not, Havel writes, display a poster saying: "I am afraid and therefore unquestioningly obedient." And here is the difference between the terror of a Josef Stalin or an Adolf Hitler and the collective charade between the rulers and the ruled that by the 1970s had gripped Czechoslovakia.
"Imagine," Havel writes, "that one day something in our greengrocer snaps and he stops putting up the slogans merely to ingratiate himself. He stops voting in elections he knows are a farce. He begins to say what he really thinks at political meetings. And he even finds the strength in himself to express solidarity with those whom his conscience commands him to support. In this revolt the greengrocer steps out of living within the lie. He rejects the ritual and breaks the rules of the game. He discovers once more his suppressed identity and dignity. He gives his freedom a concrete significance. His revolt is an attempt to live within the truth."
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Steen's does not call its product "molasses", as does Grandma's, but both products seem to be equivalent to the "open kettle" molasses that smaller producers make and call "molasses".
Norma,I knew you were going to be away from the forum for a while, so I decided to await your return in case you had any other questions. Also, in the meantime, I did make the pizza using my most recent dough. That is the dough with 11.3% Grandma's Original molasses all by itself with no secondary sweetener. I also reduced the salt level for that dough to 1.5%, as an additional test to see if that would help create a greater sensation of sweetness. The formula hydration I used was 51% (with an "adjusted" hydration of 53.5% and an "effective" hydration of 56%). As reported previously in Reply 809 at http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,3940.msg161320.html#msg161320, the "sucrose equivalency" was 7.9%. The preparation and management of the dough was the same as I used for my last MM clone pizza experiment. I am happy to report that the pizza made with the abovementioned formulation had a nice amount of sweetness. Moreover, it was a "clean" taste. Usually, 1.5% salt strikes me as being a bit bland, which is why I usually go with about 1.75-2% salt, but I did not get a sensation of blandness at all with the latest pizza. It is as though the smaller amount of salt liberated the rest of the flavors in the crust so that they could come to the forefront of my palate as I bit into the crust. That is what I mean about a "clean" taste. Based on this experience, I am going to think more carefully in the future on how much salt to use in my doughs, and most certainly those that contain a lot of sweeteners. That said, however, I think it makes sense to try an MM clone dough with around 2% salt, or maybe a bit more, to see if it was the low salt level that was primarily responsible for the increased sensation of sweetness rather than the large amount of Grandma's Original molasses I used. I'd also like to try using the Steen's product alone. But, all of the above notwithstanding, we have demonstrated that it is not necessary to use a secondary sweetener. That was a barrier that we couldn't break through before. So, using a molasses product alone, or a combination of such products, will work. That doesn't mean that one should necessarily give up on using multiple sweeteners, such as a molasses product and something like honey or raw cane sugar or even brown sugar. Such combinations might not pass muster at MM but they can produce pretty good pizzas, for some maybe even better than those sold by MM in its stores. I think that someone using the MM#6 clone formulation I gave you with a good unbleached, nonbromated high-gluten flour, with or without a small amount of added wheat germ, a thickness factor of 0.118684 (for a 14" pizza), and a modest amount of salt, should be able to produce a pretty good MM clone pizza. For those who want to make a 10" MM clone or a 16" MM clone, they should use the thickness factors recited in Reply 42 at http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,3940.msg151482.html#msg151482. For my next MM clone experiment, I think I will try using the Steen's all by itself, along with 1.5% salt. I may also add a bit of wheat germ. I'd also like to play around with the oven part of the equation to see if I can approximate the bake time of a real MM pizza. The bake time can affect the way that the crust coloration develops and also the caramelization of sugars. It can also affect the dryness of the crust and crumb and, hence, their textural characteristics. In your case, I am not sure that there is much to suggest as a future experiment. One possibility is to try another flour, one with somewhat lower protein content than the KASL, even if it a bromated flour. The expression "high-gluten flour" is often loosely bandied about. We tend to think of it as a flour with around 14% protein. However, as the article on flour at http://web.archive.org/web/20060507221142/http://kingarthurflour.com/stuff/contentmgr/files/15ec5c94af1251cdac2d7a25848f0e27/miscdocs/Flour+Guide.pdf notes at page 4, the range of high-gluten flour can be between 13-14.2%. No doubt the high-gluten flours that were available back in 1974 when the founders of MM started the company were different than the current lineup of high-gluten flours. I have discovered that trying to determine the protein content of a given flour from just Nutrition Facts is very difficult, or at least I haven't figured out a way of doing it, especially since the rounding of numbers in Nutrition Facts can cause fairly wide swings in the calculations. If you would like to propose some other MM clone experiment to try and need my help, let me know.Peter
Norma,I happened to take a close look at the Steen's bottle today and it says that the 100% pure cane syrup is an "open kettle" product. After looking at the label more closely, I concluded that I did not know certain things about the product that I felt would be useful if I were to use the Steen's in an MM clone dough, specifically, the amount of water in the product and the simple sugars by percent. So, I decided to call Steen's, where I was referred to Narris Duchon (pronounced Doo-yon). We had a very nice chat about their products and how they relate to other similar products that are called "molasses". Unfortunately, Narris did not recall the percents of sugars in their products (he said a laboratory test would have to be conducted) and he did not know offhand the water content of their 100% Pure Cane Syrup. However, he gave me the Brix number (75.6) and also a typical Brix number (79.5) for molasses. From those numbers, it looks like the water content of the Steen's 100% Pure Cane Syrup is around 23%, or a bit higher than standard molasses. Since Narris could not recall the percents of simple sugars in the 100% pure cane syrup, I asked him if he could tell me where it might show up on the sweetness scale relative to sucrose, which is usually 100 on that scale. He pondered the question for several seconds as he thought about it and then said that their cane syrup would be about 80% as sweet as sucrose. Based on the table at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Relativesweetness.png, that would place their product a bit above glucose (74.3). The 80% number is what I will use for "sucrose equivalency" purposes to calculate how much of it to use in my next pizza dough with the Steen's cane syrup.I also asked Narris why they don't call their pure cane syrup molasses, since that is what others with similar products, including Grandma's and small producers, do. He said that they boil their cane syrup a bit longer, making it a bit sweeter than a product like Grandma's Original molasses (I believe that the inversion of sucrose is the cause) but not with quite the same "tang" as the Grandma's Original molasses, to use his description. He added that their Steen's Dark Molasses, which is shown at http://www.steensyrup.com/molasses.html, is actually closer to the Grandma's Original molasses than the Steen's 100% Pure Cane Syrup. I have not seen the Steen's Dark Molasses in the stores near me but it can be ordered from the Steen's website for those who are interested in that product. I also learned that Steen's does not do any processing of raw cane in making their products. They used to do that years ago, but the production of raw cane syrup has been a declining business. These days, Steen's gets cane juice from Dominos and processes that juice into syrup. The syrup is then bottled or canned and sold mostly at retail. Steen's could sell to someone with a need for a lot of their product but I was told that it would depend on how much of the product would be needed. Peter
I would need your help with what flour to choose and formulation for another attempt at a MMs clone if you dont mind.
Norma,I don't mind at all. Can you tell me what high-protein flours you have on hand? And is there a particular molasses or cane syrup product that you would like to use?Peter
Norma,I was thinking mostly of high-gluten flours with a protein content of more than 13%. If in doubt, please tell me what you have and I will try to determine the protein content.Peter
The high-gluten flours I have on hand are KASL, Kyrol, ADM Gigantic High-Gluten Flour, and PFM Power Flour. The flours I am not sure of are the Superlative flour, Mondako, and Better for Bread flour.
Norma,The last three flours you mentioned are below 13% in protein content. Leaving out the KASL that you have been using, that leaves us with the Kyrol, ADM Gigantic and the Pendleton Power flour. Of these, I think I would go with the PFM Power flour. It is at 13.5% protein, which is about the value I was looking for. Moreover, as you can see from the Pendleton mill location map at http://www.pfmills.com/mill-locations-pages-19.php, there are two mills in Georgia and a few others in adjoining states. One or more of those mills are the Milner Milling mills. As I understand it, Milner Milling is a private company that acquired Pendleton in 2001 and, in turn, is owned by Southeastern Mills (http://www.semills.com/CMFiles/Docs/SEM%20Timeline.pdf). Southeastern Mills has a mill in Rome, Georgia (http://www.semills.com/first-avenue-location.aspx) that appears to have been established in 1972, or a couple of years before MM was founded. That mill produces flours but I don't know if that mill produces the Power flour, or any other high-gluten flours for that matter. But maybe there is or was a connection between MM and Southeastern Mills. This is a matter that might be explored further but for now I think I would go with the Power flour. Maybe you have mentioned this before but do you have the unbleached or bleached form of the flour?Peter
Norma,In order to keep the variables under control, for the next dough formulation for you to try I suggest that you use the Golden Barrel Supreme Baking Molasses again. I also propose to decrease the amount of salt to 1.50%, just as I did for my last MM clone dough formulation. For the flour, you should try the Pendleton Power flour. With the foregoing changes, the MM clone dough formulation (MM#7) looks like this:MM#7-Golden Barrel Supreme Baking Molasses MM Clone Dough Formulation With Pendleton Power FlourPendleton Power Flour (100%):Water (Spring Water) (51%):IDY (0.60%):Salt (Table Salt) (1.50%):Vegetable (Soybean) Oil (2.46%):Golden Barrel Supreme Baking Molasses (11.5%):Total (167.06%):314.69 g | 11.1 oz | 0.69 lbs160.49 g | 5.66 oz | 0.35 lbs1.89 g | 0.07 oz | 0 lbs | 0.63 tsp | 0.21 tbsp4.72 g | 0.17 oz | 0.01 lbs | 0.85 tsp | 0.28 tbsp7.74 g | 0.27 oz | 0.02 lbs | 1.7 tsp | 0.57 tbsp36.19 g | 1.28 oz | 0.08 lbs | 5.43 tsp | 1.81 tbsp525.72 g | 18.54 oz | 1.16 lbs | TF = 0.1204643Note: Dough is for a single 14 pizza; nominal thickness factor = 0.118684; adjusted hydration = 53.3%; effective hydration = 55.8%; bowl residue compensation = 1.5%Peter
Norma,MM#6 looked perfect... have you posted the formula?SC
I know my tastes and palate have changed, but there is reasonable evidence to suggest that they have changed their formula and/or their business model in ways that have negatively impacted flavor/quality. Peter has done a lot of research and I believe could expand on that.


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Reduce IT Help Desk calls when using Oracle VDI
By Jaap on May 10, 2013
Is this an introduction for a Travel Blog or a serious article about Desktop Virtualization ? It is the latter, but it has to do with the former: the problem of the forgotten password after returning from the holidays.
What is the problem ?
After a relaxing holiday you turn on your Sun Ray or launch your OVDC application to connect to your virtual desktop in the data center. But then it happens, your holiday was so relaxed that you forgot your password and you are forced to pick-up the phone and call the IT Help Desk to ask the SysAdmin to reset your password.
With the introduction of complex password requirements, this is not an unusual scenario. IT staff is often burdened with resolving these calls, resulting in an increased administrative load for the IT department. At the same moment, the end user loses valuable work time because he is locked out of the network temporarily and unable to work.
With an average of 5% of the users who forgot their passwords after the holidays and an average cost of US $25 per help desk call, this can cost an organisation with 10.000 users around US $12.500 per two or three days when the holidays are over.
How can we solve this ?
Password expiration, forgotten passwords or other user access privileges are addressed by Identity Management systems. There are several solutions on the market and also Oracle has a nice solution which is called the Oracle Identity Manager.
Explaining Identity Management is outside the scope of this article, so I skip that. But with a recently added and less known feature of the Oracle VDI broker (the Helper Function for the Desktop Login Screen) I explain how users are able to connect very easily to any web-based Help Desk system to do a Password Reset for example.
How is it implemented ?
You can add an item to the More Options menu in the Oracle VDI Desktop Login screen to run temporarily an alternative kiosk session. In our Forgotten Password example this might be a kiosk web-browser connecting to the Identity Management system. The picture on the left shows the added entry in the More Options menu.
The Helper Function feature is very easy to implement. First you configure the helper application in the Sun Ray kiosk interface. In my Forgotten Password example I use a Firefox web-browser. I provide kiosk scripts at the bottom of this article (helpdesk.sh and helpdesk.conf) which I store in the helpdesk directory. And the second step is to configure the Oracle VDI broker to add the kiosk session as Helper Function in the Desktop Login screen. On all of your Oracle VDI broker servers you should do the following configuration steps:
- Configure the name of a directory in the /etc/opt/SUNWkio/sessions directory, in my example helpdesk:
# /opt/SUNWvda/sbin/vda settings-setprops -p client.kiosk.type=helpdesk
- Configure the label that displays in the More Options menu:
# /opt/SUNWvda/sbin/vda settings-setprops -p client.kiosk.label="Help Desk"
- Configure any optional kiosk session arguments and settings that should be used when starting the kiosk session. For my kiosk web-browser it is the URL to the Identity Manager server:
# /opt/SUNWvda/sbin/vda settings-setprops -p client.kiosk.settings=http://server.url/
In the following video I demonstrate the Forgotten Password use-case scenario. In my demonstration I used the Oracle Identity Manager server (very kindly provided to me by my Oracle colleague Rene Klomp) to reset the password. When the new password is entered in the Identity Manager system, it is automatically synchronized with the Active Directory server that is used by the Oracle VDI broker for user authentication.
Help Desk Kiosk scripts
Here are the kiosk scripts that I used on my Oracle VDI Solaris server. Beware that you have to setup the correct Firefox prototype settings to store in the /etc/opt/SUNWkio/prototypes/default directory. I leave that as exercise for the reader .
# more /etc/opt/SUNWkio/sessions/helpdesk.conf KIOSK_SESSION_EXEC=$KIOSK_SESSION_DIR/helpdesk.sh KIOSK_SESSION_LABEL="Helpdesk Kiosk Mode"
# more /etc/opt/SUNWkio/sessions/helpdesk/helpdesk.sh #!/bin/sh FF_EXEC=/usr/bin/firefox if [ -z "$1" ] ; then zenity --error --text="No server specified\nConsult your System Administrator" else URL="$1" fi exec /usr/bin/metacity & if [ -x "${FF_EXEC}" ] ; then $FF_EXEC -P Kiosk $URL else zenity --error --text="The Firefox Web-browser is not installed\nConsult your System Administrator" fi


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Skip to comments.Prostate cancer found in half of men over 60 at time of death
Posted on 07/13/2013 4:42:55 AM PDT by rickmichaels
Half of men over the age of 60 who were studied posthumously were found to have prostate cancer even though they died of other causes, a new study out of Mount Sinai Hospital shows.
The study shows that a large proportion of prostate cancer tumours are in fact not life-threatening, Dr. Alexandre Zlotta said Friday.
Results show there should be an improved screening method which would detect the disease based on clinical significance and level of aggressiveness instead of screening for all forms of this cancer.
The findings also say the common use of prostate-specific antigen testing for the disease increases the risk of detecting low-risk prostate cancers and leads to unnecessary treatments.
In North America, men with clinically significant prostate cancer are offered radical treatment usually in the form of surgery or radiation and there are heavy personal tolls to these treatments, Zlotta said. But our study shows that in Japan, despite completely different lifestyles, despite a much lower incidence of clinically detected prostate cancer, and a much lower mortality rate due to prostate cancer compared to men in North America, Asian men have similar prevalence of the disease, but they arent dying from it.
Caucasian men in Russia, who share the same characteristics as men in North America, such as a high-fat diet and reduced sun exposure, were used in the study.
The study also researched Asian men in Japan, who generally have a lower death rate from prostate cancer than men in North America as they eat healthier diets.
By studying two different populations, the research showed that the differences in incidence and mortality rates, and in genetics and lifestyle factors, the likelihood of prostate cancer was similar in both Caucasian and Asian men.
The prostate cancer in Asian men was actually more aggressive but they actually died from other factors.
The medical community needs to reexamine the definitions of clinically unimportant and clinically significant prostate cancer, Zlotta said.
The study emphasizes the importance of understanding how many men in North America over a certain age harbour the latent form of prostate cancer, as this population is often over-diagnosed and over-treated, potentially leading to major side effects that affect lifestyle and personal well-being, he said.
"The study also researched Asian men in Japan, who generally have a lower death rate from prostate cancer than men in North America as they eat healthier diets."
Because of beef, chicken, and pork - all contain too much anti-biotic and other chemicals, growth hormones, etc...The meat industry in the US is vile! On top of that, most Citizens don't have proper nutrition - without a healthy gut - cancer will grow in every life form.
(1) http://www.fatsickandnearlydead.com/
(2) http://www.foodmatters.tv/
People in the U.S. are walking around almost dead...ask a person from another country what their meat taste like compared to the U.S. - there's a BIG difference - most describe it as having a medicine smell and taste. Don't want to die from cancer - stop eating meat, dairy, & sugars..replace it with veg's, fruits, grains, and almond milk - plus large amounts of water! You will drop weight and feel so much better...that's not s diet secret you have to spend $$$ on!
News that is decades old.
I suspect the levels of antibiotics and hormones in poultry, eggs and pork are higher and also less regulated in most Asian, African and South American countries than western ones.
Doctor said I would live longer if I gave up red meat, cigars and whiskey. It would sure seem longer.
I would rather die not knowing I have cancer then having to go through the hell that is cancer.
100% true, but try getting that through to people on FR between posting their next bacon thread. They get too angry and take it too personally.
"... use of prostate-specific antigen testing for the disease increases the risk of detecting low-risk prostate cancers and leads to unnecessary treatments."
The PSA is very close to worthless. False positives, leading to unnecessary biopsies, are another consequence that our family has direct experience with. False negatives occur also, and are of course, a more serious problem.
There is a more productive test (kallikrein) in development, but last I knew, it was only available at the Johns Hopkins cancer center, and if you are there, it's probably too late for a "screening".
My personal approach to this has been (for multiple reasons) to switch to a very low carb (borderline keto) diet. Cancers are glucose-brittle, so running your body at least part of the time in nutritional ketosis is apt to be highly protective (cells that turn cancerous, die instead of growing and metastazing).
Up there with PSA in the pantheon of useless screens are the standard "cholesterol" panels, and TSH/total-T4 thyroid tests. They don't measure what needs measuring and rely on faulty assumptions, which can be completely misleading in low carb.
I have a little boy I adopted that has cerebral palsy — I have no choice but to live longer and healthier...when I started looking at the grocer store - reading labels...I was like WOW- chemical warfare against the US public...I did it for me and him...and I feel soooo much better...and groceries actually cost less - because I eat less - but it's all nutrient! It's really the way to go....I'm not liberal either...highly conservative - and I want to conserve my health!
Are you daft? Do you realize that the incidence of thyroid conditions and cancers have risen exponentially in the last 40 years due to the overuse of soy products in our foods? Almost everything you eat today has soy in it, and what's the primary source of protein for vegetarians in the US? SOY!
I have non-Hashimoto's thyroiditis. It runs on both sides of my family, but since I was diagnosed 8 years ago, I cut back on soy significantly and went from being on the highest daily dose of levothyroxine to the lowest. Vegetarianism and not eating meat was LITERALLY KILLING ME!
Vegetarians and vegans disgust me in the same way that haughty Liberals make me irate. There's really no such thing as a "one size fits all" meal plan for anyone. I thrive on lean meats (pork, chicken, fish, beef, goat, etc.) and I consume a lot of vegetables and fruits as well.
While I agree that we, as a society, have overused and abused sugar, telling us to give up meat is like telling a shark to eat kelp. You ever looked at your teeth? Human beings are omnivores. We have sharp incisors and canines to rip and tear flesh, and we have large, flat molars to grind meats and fibers from vegetables. Neanderthals didn't survive on vegetables alone. As a matter of fact, during the long winters, they'd need the fat and protein from meat to stay warm and energized. That's not something vegetables alone can provide.
You only need to look at and understand human physiology to understand that we are both hunters AND gatherers. You can't put off an entire division of food (meat) because the mass produced markets taint the supplies. If you have land, invest in livestock. Raise them on your own with food you choose to feed them. A tenderloin from a freshly-slaughtered pig is bright red and tastes like Heaven when braised in butter and rosemary. A rack of ribs from a heifer you raised from birth is like a gift from God.
Just like the vegetarians are raging against Monsanto for their GMO BS, so should meat eaters rage against the meat industry for all the crap they put in our food. We want the same outcomes, friend, but to sit here and espouse a universal truth about human dietary functionality on a diet of only vegetables and fruits is laughable and dangerous. It doesn't suit everyone's lifestyle and has no longitudinally proven health benefits over a diet inclusive of lean meats.
Yep. Monsanto is a demon from hell. And after giving up meat, dairy , eggs and even alcohol (and I LOVED me the hooch!), you know what the hardest thing to give up was? Diet soda, believe it or not. Everything else was easy, but I kept going back to that crap like a heroin addict. Truly toxic stuff. Finally off it after decades. Can't believe it didn't kill me.
BTW, the problem I have with "Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead" is that juicing is like drinking pure sugar. Blending is the way to go. Blending keeps the "whole" food in tact. Check out the Engine 2 plan. That's my guideline.
I'm in the same boat, FRiend. Understanding and taking advantage of ketosis has saved my life. All of the sugar and grains we've been fed over the years turned me into a butterball. Once I realized that sugar and grain actually creates an inflammation response in the body, I decided to try a keto diet. To my amazement, I dropped over 150 lb. in less than 18 months, I was highly energetic, my cholesterol and triglycerides plummeted, I could run for miles without fatigue, and keeping to a keto diet was beyond simple.
With regards to TSH/T4, I will marginally disagree with you. My family's had thyroid issues for generations, and having suffered from it myself, I can say it's a very real problem. I do, however, believe that diet is the primary culprit in the destruction of our thyroids and our waistlines.
Cancer only became a big health problem in the 20th century, it seems. Was it our migration to modern lifestyles of leisure? Did our diets change so dramatically? Did our medical sciences finally start diagnosing cancer reliably?
Well, no one is forcing anything on you so relax. Anger is bad for your health.
An obese woman I know eats a little meat at dinner but tons of everything else throughout the day. I would say her diet is balanced. She is very healthy except for one genetic disease (something with her veins) that should have killed her by now. She's 80.
The bacon people are reacting to the veggie image vs cowboy image. I'm surprised our muslim administration hasn't outlawed bacon.
where did I post anywhere on eating SOY? I don't eat soy...and if I do - it is such a low amount...but that is IF I do...
The other thing I avoid is fat on beef or in dairy. I've been told most of the antibiotics settle in it.
I live on what's now sometimes called "pure foods". It's getting easier to do so, as more people are watching what they eat, more mainstream foods are okay.
It's not the meat, it's the sugar. Sugar feeds cancer.
Well being vegan/vegtarian in and of itself does'nt keep one from being obese or unhealthy. Tons of junk food is vegan. You still have to eat right. I'm oil-free, whole food, plant -based only. I love it. And yes, I know the bacon threads are a response to perceived threat. I get it. Too funny!
YEAP - Engine 2 plan - I'm eating a bowl of that mixed cereal right now! That lasagne - if dropped on a person from above - would crush them...I never weighed that dish - but the nutrient dense veg's stack up!
its the undigested meat that contributes to an unhealthy gut - yes sugur feeds cancer - but there is a multiple element approach where cancers gets a foothold and starts growing. At the end of the day, this comes down to a personal choice - a choice where people have to do their own research and decide for themselves...not eating meat will not kill you - it will actually make you healthier...check out http://engine2diet.com/ - the entire fire depart has gone this route....it's another way to defeat Obamacare — by LIVING!
The hell that is cancer treatment...
Again, Prostate cancer is normally something you die with, unless you "eat healthy like an Asian" in which case it becomes something you can die of.
High fat diets seem to keep prostate cancer in check. High carbohydrate diets seem to enable prostate cancer to become more aggressive.
Yup, but it depends on the diet strategy. The diet that "Wheat Belly" (Davis) recommends is borderline keto (although he doesn't say so outright) and is easy to stay on, and getting easier.
> With regards to TSH/T4, I will marginally disagree with you. My family's had thyroid issues for generations, and having suffered from it myself, I can say it's a very real problem.
Absolutely, my family too. The problem is that what needs to be measured (free T3, free T4 and reverse T3) are not in the standard panel, and the usual treatment excludes T3 and/or dessicated thyroid. See "Stop the Thyroid Madness" (Bowthorpe).
>I do, however, believe that diet is the primary culprit in the destruction of our thyroids and our waistlines.
Little question about it.
> Cancer only became a big health problem in the 20th century, it seems.
And very little progress since Nixon declared "war" on it, in terms of survival rates for most types. Lots of money spent, tho.
> Was it our migration to modern lifestyles of leisure?
No, but the people digging in the wrong place for a cure do like to blame the victim.
> Did our diets change so dramatically?
Yes. There are multiple near-simultaneous problems:
There are further problems with trans fats, omega 6 oils, and probably GMO, but I don't think we'll have the full picture on those until the big 3 are swept away.
> Did our medical sciences finally start diagnosing cancer reliably?
What matters is what people die of, and the picture for cancer hasn't changed much.
This report got my attention:
CBN: Starving Cancer: Ketogenic Diet a Key to Recovery
Two striking things about that:
Connecting the dots led me to:
"Cancer as a Metabolic Disease" (Seyfried, 2012)
Note: this is an expensive scholarly text.
It concludes that a calorie-restricted keto diet may be the most effective treatment for cancer presently available.
Sounds like a great diet. Wine and brandy come from fruit, and whiskey and beer come from grains. Almond milk probably tastes great when mixed with gin.
A majority of vegetarians I know tout tofu (soy) as the go-to for protein since protein from vegetable sources is not very diverse. Or are you a vegetarian who just doesn't eat land animals?
A majority of antibiotics are fat-soluble, so yes, any type of animal fat is going to be the storage locker for whatever the animal ate or was fed before slaughter.
I don't do sweeteners at all. I am lucky to not have a sweet tooth, and I generally avoid any sweet foods except for an occasional peach or prune.
I'm an adherent to the Paleo Diet in general. While I disagree with their addition of certain high-sugar fruits, I find that a healthy mixture of Paleo, keto/Atkins, and non-soy has provided the most favorable results for my health.
I've followed your posts for a while now, boundless, and we're in general agreement across the board. You've done a lot more research and homework than I have into your niches, but I've experimented for the better part of 15 years to conquer and stave off obesity through dietary science.
One of the most insidious things with diet in this country is the outright ridiculous espousal of high-carb/grain diets by our own government! Since the 1980s, America's obesity epidemic has become worse every year, every decade. You would think SOMEONE would step up to say, "Umm... maybe we're giving bad advice?"
But then considering how much grain producers give the Federal government, it's really no surprise to me that we're forced to eat that which is making us fat and killing us.
If one goes Soy, good to get fermented Soy, that's what the Okinawans mainly eat, that's a whole 'nuther topic in itself.
This is a real good thread.
It's the meat from factory farm raised animals and its lack of omega-3, that is bad for you.
The USDA food pyramid is a joke.
Think people: how is it animals don't need dentists?
How could it be that humans alone evolved with the first means of injesting sustenance—teeth—that are quickly destroyed by the very food they eat?
Unless we did not evolve to eat such food.
And if we're eating food that rots our teeth, who knows what other damage it's doing to our insides which are hidden from view.
Sugar and such "foods" as bread, pasta, dairy should all not be eaten.
Is "medicine smell and taste" like the sound of wet grass?
"You would think SOMEONE would step up to say, 'Umm... maybe were giving bad advice?'
Some are saying it—but are people listening?
Sugar: The Bitter Truth http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
My rule: if it comes in a bag or a box, it doesn't go into my mouth.
The official diet, which all other agencies endorse, comes from the USDA, which is the revolving door employer for the grain industry. The FDA is the revolving door employer for the drug industry, who are making big bucks on potions to manage (but never cure) the consequences of the USDA diet.
I had some further words on the situation at:
Flash in the Pan Fad Diet?
What's Up With My Doctor?
I work in the farm machinery biz, by the way, and when people figure out what the problem is, and how to fix it, the company will be facing "interesting" times. I'm doing what I can to warn management.
I wouldn't bother. With the way politics work in this country, the agri-pharma-tobacco industry complex will have complete control over their respective agencies for time immemorial.
Common sense does not equal cash.
> I wouldn't bother. With the way politics work in this country, the agri-pharma-tobacco industry complex will have complete control over their respective agencies for time immemorial.
The USDA and FDA may be beyond remediation, but they don't yet directly control how individuals spend their food dollar. If a significant number of people ditch wheat and added fructose, and go low carb, farming is going to have to change radically (speaking as a small farmer, also).
If the market for wheat collapses, I suppose the USDA might subsidize it anyway, and dump the surplus at sea, or give it to the Norks, but you don't have to eat it.
While we are on the subject, what might one try for carbohydrates? I can cook up a fair amount of brown rice, quinoa which I know has a lot of protein it, etc. Even chia seeds.
Sometimes, when I don't feel like I'm getting enough veggies, I go for the whole food pills or mixes too which have a wide array of nutrients.
Try for carbohydrates? You mean to consume? I espouse a carbohydrate-free lifestyle. If you have to take in carbs, make sure they're paired with high fiber such as with firm-skinned fruits.
No legumes, no tubers, no processed or pasteurized foods. All natural eating is easy: can you go out in a field somewhere and pick it or kill it and grill it and have a tasty meal? Then it can be consumed!
I'm no vegetarian but I couldn't care less about people that are. No skin off my back if they don't want to eat meat. Why would it bother you so much?
Anger, jealousy and envy are self-destructive emotions. They only hurt you and they eat away at your well-being. Learn to live and let live and your life will be much happier and less stressful.
I equate the "movement" to the homosexual lobby. They push and push for some sort of societal "acceptance." Vegetarians and vegans have been some of the most vocal, in-your-face sort of people I've ever met. And much like homosexuals, they push for us to give up meat as if it's some sociological taboo.
The vegetarian/vegan movements also brought us the "soy coalitions" who pushed food packagers to use soy instead of other vegetable-based oils in our foods like salad dressing. Having a thyroid condition, I am particularly sensitive to soy products, and the phytoestrogens in soy have been shown to cause sexual dysfunction in men including the onset of gynecomastia (breast tissue growth in men).
Take a look at the ingredient lists on your favorite foods and even cosmetics and body care products. Soy is in EVERYTHING, and I doubt we have a clear grasp on the impact soy will have on the body long term quite yet.
The yearly digital exam followed up with a PSA test right now is the best for early detection. Anything above a 10 reading you need help. Some doctors likely say lower so they can contain it. The whole thing you have to watch is making sure it stays localized within the Gland itself and doesn't move into regions like the Pelvic area. You can even go through Castration as a treatment to stop the progression once it has left the gland to other regions and your body will still start producing Testosterone by other means enough to eventually feed the cancer again. However such surgery can also perhaps buy you a decade like it did for my dad who initially was given three years too live. His quality of life at his age of detection in his early 70's was not drastically effected going this route.
The cancer finally took him in Oct 2011. His last year was his roughest. Before that he was active and enjoying life even with the radical surgery he's undergone ten years earlier. This was because he was otherwise so darn healthy other common causes didn't kill him like the doctors thought it would. He lived to be 83 and ate what he darn well pleased diet wise within reason. The only diet changed his doctor really pushed more than anything was eating Tomatoes.
Every male should be checked yearly especially if there is family history. Personally I would do it in the late 40's if there is family history.
I ran into an old shipmate at Wally World a couple years ago. He's my age and we were talking. I told him my dad was fixing to pass from Prostate Cancer. He said they had just removed his Prostate because he had aggressive Prostate cancer. He was in his early 50's at the time maybe 53. His dad died of cancer what type I do not know. One common thing they did have besides genetics was both drank although my shipmate hadn't drank likely in about 25-30 years.
One other thing real important. The Prostate over time will start to enlarge although the enlargement is Benign. This effects urine flow somewhat. It is best to get a medication for that issue. These are the things that matter in prevention more so than diets etc. I'll likely develop Prostate Cancer at some point. I'm counting on early detection and wait and see even after it is found as to the course of treatment. With my family history ignoring it would not be smart.
Plain and simple truth is little is still known about Prostate Cancer for the simple reason men in years past usually did not live long enough for it to really be noticeable. They died of other causes first.
I see the PSA as a "red flag, you might want to look into this" test. If it weren't for a PSA screening I did in January, I wouldn't know now that I have T2B/C, Gleason 3+4 cancer (diagnosed via biopsy). At 50 years of age, I'm all for attempting to eradicate it.
I, for one, am glad the PSA screening exists.
If that is true, why would you want to "live longer" anyway?
PS Your Doc forgot loose women...
Yep. Monsanto is a demon from hell. And after giving up meat, dairy , eggs and even alcohol (and I LOVED me the hooch!), you know what the hardest thing to give up was?
I make my own wine and beer. Soda? I never really liked it. I've always prefered "raw sugar."
I used to love potato chips until I went for a month without them. The next time I tried "just one" it tasted DISGUSTING.
My women are tight.
"Of course the rising price of beef will affect our business. We sold 12 billion hamburgers last year, and that represents nearly 9 pounds of ground beef." Chuck Connors as Ray Kroc on Saturday Night Live.
Animals do get cavities. They also die younger than humans.
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