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This study reported that vegetarians in their selected Austrian population have a higher incidence of cancer and chronic health conditions, more anxiety disorder and/or depression, and get more medical treatment than carnivores. Whoa....looks like a goldmine for carnists!
However, the authors of this study have clearly stated:
"Potential limitations of our results are due to the fact that the survey was based on cross-sectional data. Therefore, no statements can be made whether the poorer health in vegetarians in our study is caused by their dietary habit or if they consume this form of diet due to their poorer health status."It seems that people who promote animal-based diets or believe in the nutritional necessity of animal flesh (i.e. carnists) have either an ignorance of or a great resistance to recognizing the importance of the phenomena of reverse causation and regression dilution bias. Also, when it suits them, they prefer to make a lot of ruckus about some observational studies, to support their biases and distract attention from observation or intervention studies that contradict their belief in the importance of dietary animal flesh. The question: Does the idea that flesh-free diets damage mental health have a broad range of support from studies lacking significant bias?
Reverse Causation Explained
Due to evidence that consumption of animal products promotes chronic diseases, people who develop chronic diseases often adopt plant-based diets as a way to manage their conditions. As a result, in random populations selected from Westernized populations, poor health increasingly correlates with eating a plant-based diet. In such populations, chronic disease causes people to adopt plant-based diets; but failure to account for this can lead one to erroneously conclude that plant-based diets cause people to develop chronic diseases.
This issue now clouds the waters with regards to consumption of saturated fats. As a consequence of the evidence that consumption of saturated fat promotes cardiovascular disease, physicians have recommended diets low in saturated fats to their patients who have cardiovascular disease or risk factors for it. Consequently, in any random sample of people in Western populations, an increasing proportion of the people who eat diets restricted in animal fats consists of people who have already shown signs of cardiovascular disease. As a result, in any analysis of a random sample of the population, the association between saturated fat consumption and cardiovascular disease has been diluted by this phenomenon.
The Adventist Health Study provides a way around this problem. Although many Adventists adopt a plant-based diet only after developing a chronic disease, a large proportion of this population has adopted plant-based diets for cultural rather than medical reasons. Consequently, this population has less dilution of associations between plant- vs. animal- based diets and disease. Perhaps this partially explains why carnivores tend to discount data from Adventist studies.
People who have chronic diseases visit doctors more often, and also suffer more anxiety and depression and social isolation than people who do not have chronic diseases. If these people also eat a plant-based diet, consumption of a plant-based diet will associate with more anxiety, depression, and social isolation. Again, reverse causation that will generate regression dilution bias.
Observational data contaminated by reverse causation and regression dilution biases does not support suggestions that eating a plant-based diet causes people to lose their minds, nor does it support Dr. Dean's suggestion that there exists a "general trend that vegetarians aren't quite as mentally healthy as omnivores."
Wait just a minute. According to a 2011 CDC report:
- "From 1988–1994 through 2005–2008, the rate of antidepressant use in the United States among all ages increased nearly 400%."
- "Eleven percent of Americans aged 12 years and over take antidepressant medication."
During the time that antidepressant use increased four-fold, total meat consumption in the U.S. has been consistently on the rise. If meat is the happy meal sin qua non, why did the 2011 CDC report state that antidepressants are "the third most common prescription drug taken by Americans of all ages in 2005–2008 and the most frequently used by persons aged 18–44 years"?
Do proponents of eating animals believe that pharmaceutical corporations invested in antidepressants because they knew they would recoup their investment by selling those drugs to the large population of depressed vegans visiting physician's offices every day?
Basic Science and Interventions
In Powered By Plants I have a section discussing the effects of dietary arachidonic acid (AA), present almost exclusively in animal flesh, on brain health. According to Farooqui et al, high levels of AA in the brain promote neuroinflammation and brain damage, and chronic neuroinflammation is associated with slow progressive neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Down syndrome, Huntington disease, and multiple sclerosis. High body levels of AA can only result from eating animal tissues; multiple studies have shown that consuming linoleic acid from plants does not increase tissue levels of AA.
In PBP I discuss at some length intervention studies that have explored the effects of reducing meat intake or increasing plant food intake on mental health. The following are some of the studies I discussed.
Kjeldsen-Kragh et al. reported that patients who adopted a vegetarian diet for treatment of rheumatoid arthritis showed an unexpected decrease in psychological distress in comparison to patients who continued to consume animal flesh. This study is particularly interesting because the authors report having an expectation that patients assigned to eat the vegetarian diet would experience increased distress compared to those allowed to continue eating flesh. In other words, they reported a result contrary to their expectation/bias.
Schweiger et al. reported that healthy young women assigned to a vegetarian weight loss diet had significantly better global mood than those assigned to a mixed diet group; they found a significant correlation between relative carbohydrate intake and global mood.
Weidner et al. studied the effect of 5 years of dietary cholesterol reduction on negative emotions including depression and aggressive hostility. They reported that people who followed a low-fat, high complex carbohydrate diet (more plants, less animal flesh) at the end of the study had significantly greater improvements in depression and a reduction of aggressive hostility, concomitant with a reduction in blood cholesterol levels, compared to those who ate a high-fat "American diet."
Beezhold et al. compared the mood states of vegetarian and omnivorous Seventh Day Adventist adults. They found that omnivorous SDAs reported significantly higher levels of anger-hostility, tension-anxiety, depression-dejection, and confusion than vegetarians. Further analysis revealed that individuals with low intakes of EPA, DHA, and AA, fatty acids found only in animal flesh, reported having the better moods.
Following up on this research, Beezhold and Johnston randomly assigned 39 omnivores to consume either an omnivorous diet, a diet restricting flesh to fish only, or a lactovegetarian diet free of meat, fish, and poultry. They reported that the individuals assigned to the vegetarian group experienced a significant improvement in mood scores on standardized tests. In their words:
"These data suggest that consuming a diet high in meat, fish, and poultry may negatively impact mental state. Beyond differences in the ratio of long-chain fatty acids, vegetarian diets are typically rich in antioxidants, potentially conveying mood protection for the VEG group via reduction of oxidative stress."Based on my review of the research, I doubt very much that people who eat animals (carnivores) have better mental health and more happiness than people who eat B12-supplemented plant-based diets. On the contrary, the trend seems in the opposite direction.
Why Eat Animals For X Nutrient?
In my view, except for sociopaths who lack empathy, most people who eat animals or their secretions have enough empathy to feel at least a bit uncomfortable with their choice to support the imprisoning, injury, and slaughter of animals so that they can have flesh, eggs, or milk on their plate. This is why so-called "humane" animal husbandry exists – people want grass-fed, free-range animal products in part because they care about animal welfare (although perhaps not enough) and want "feel-good meat."
Due to their discomfort and cognitive dissonance, empathic people struggle to find justifications for eating animals in claims of "necessity."
In this case, the carnivores want to believe that their happiness biologically depends on the animal foods they eat. Its not just that they like to enjoy eating flesh at another sentient being's unnecessary expense, its that they NEED to eat flesh to get the NUTRIENTS necessary to feel HAPPY. If they can identify a perceived NEED for X nutrient (choline, B12, K2, whatever is the nutrient du jour) they hope they can justify their eating flesh, eggs, and milk and all the enslavement, injury, suffering, and killing of innocent young animals involved.
I don't believe we presently have evidence that people eating well-planned whole foods, strictly plant-based diets need to take supplements of choline, zinc, iron, creatine, carnitine, iodine, or any other nutrient except B12 and possibly, in certain circumstances, vitamin D, for any purpose, including promotion of mental health. Nevertheless, if at any point in time, we do obtain such evidence, you can obtain all of these nutrients in supplemental form. Any nutrient you believe you need to maintain happiness can be obtained from a non-animal source.
People eating animal-based 'paleo' and low-carbohydrate diets are not generally opposed to taking various supplements to correct for deficiencies caused by modern lifestyles, such as vitamin D deficiency due to insufficient sun exposure, or EPA/DHA/fish oils due to an incorrect perception that these are required and deficient in the food supply. Atkins himself recommended a boat-load of supplements. The Atkins website even has a page entitled "Don't Forget to Take Your Supplements." They apparently don't believe that the Atkins diet is nutritionally sound without those supplements.
On what basis then can they object to people taking a few supplements to achieve their goals with a plant-based diet, in order to bring an eventual end to eating animals? If taking fish oil supplements is OK for carnivores, what's wrong with vegans taking B12? If its OK for a paleo- or primal- dieter to take vitamin D to remedy the effects of insufficient sun exposure, what's wrong with the same person taking supplemental choline to make up for a (perceived) lack of choline in your food, with a goal of reducing animal suffering?
Why is it 'wrong' to take supplements if it helps us reduce harm done to non-human species, but not to remedy the weaknesses of an animal-based diet?
Again, I haven't seen any evidence that eating animal products protects against choline deficiency (less than 10% of the general population reaches recommended intakes, despite eating animal products – beware that the article just linked was "made possible with an unrestricted education grant from the Egg Nutrition Center"). Nor have I seen any evidence that whole foods plant-based diets supply insufficient choline (people eating plant-based diets rich in betaine, lower in methionine and higher in cysteine may have a lower choline requirement than carnivores). Nevertheless, hypothetically, if you found you needed more choline than you could obtain from a whole foods plant-based animal-free diet, why would you choose to kill animals in order to eat eggs or meat rather than take a inexpensive choline supplement ($9.00 for a month's supply, or 30 cents a day)? You have a clear choice: meet your needs with or without exploiting or slaughtering animals.
Similarly, if you really believe in low-carbohydrate dieting, know that you can do it without eating anything from animals. I'm not recommending them here, but we have plenty of plant-based protein powders, mock meats, etc., etc.. including gluten- and soy-free varieties for those of you who need (or, in most cases, think you need) to avoid those foods. Jenkins et al have shown that a plant-based low-carbohydrate diet (rich in gluten, by the way) works better than an animal-based diet for reducing risk factors for cardiovascular disease. You can make your diet as high in protein or fat as you want, without killing animals.
Since most 'paleo' and 'low-carb' dieters use a computer, they must not be opposed to using technology to improve the lives of sentient beings. Perhaps they need to think – or, better, feel – about this issue for a while.


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Shahid-Kareena's 'Milenge Milenge' follows Himesh's 'Radio'?
Ok, so the makers of 'Milenge Milenge' have led everyone to believe that their film is a success. While some may argue that how a film that nets just a little over 10 crores in its first week could be termed as a success in today's time, especially since it stars top players like Shahid Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor, producer Boney Kapoor has a strong reasoning. After all, the film was made on a medium budget half a decade back and even if one counted the interest, the ROI (return on investment) has been gladdening.


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House extends session to try again on child immigrant bill Obama vows to veto
In a stunning series of stops and starts to resolve the border crisis Thursday, the House of Representatives debated a bill to help resolve the flow of unaccompanied children over the southeastern border, then GOP leaders, facing defeat, pulled it from the floor only to reverse course after an outcry from supporters.
The turnaround delayed the start of a five-week summer recess.
The House Republican Conference met Thursday afternoon and will meet again Friday morning, with a vote possible later in the day.
Emotions were high on the House floor as speakers on both sides talked about the urgency of the crisis. But enough House conservatives refused to support the package that leaders yanked the bill.
A cadre of powerful House Republicans, including House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers of Kentucky, then surrounded new House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and demanded a vote.
Many members said it was unconscionable that Congress would fail to act on a crisis and then leave Washington for five weeks.
Republican Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who has activated the National Guard to deal with the border, issued a blistering statement.
"It's beyond belief that Congress is abandoning its post while our border crisis continues to create humanitarian suffering, and criminal aliens still represent a clear threat to our citizens and our nation," he said.
The chaotic scene in the House is over a pared-down, short-term $659 million bill to help restore order to the border, to process and deport incoming immigrants more quickly by changing a 2008 anti-human trafficking law, and to help Central American countries repatriate them. More than 57,000 unaccompanied immigrant children are already in the U.S., and tens of thousands continue to arrive.
But conservative House Republicans, who had met with leading tea party activist Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, on Wednesday night, did not think the package went far enough. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, cut the funding from a $1.5 billion package earlier suggested by Rogers and added a second bill to prevent the Obama administration from refusing to deport immigrant children already in the U.S. under a policy the White House adopted in 2012.
The two-pronged package did not appeal to enough members for passage, leaving GOP leaders scrambling to come up with a bill that would win support.
In a joint statement, Boehner, McCarthy, Majority Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana and Republican Conference Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington state said, "This situation shows the intense concern within our conference – and among the American people. . . . There are numerous steps the president can and should be taking right now, without the need for congressional action, to secure our borders and ensure these children are returned swiftly and safely to their countries."
House Democrats largely have refused to go along with the GOP package, especially because of the proposed change in the 2008 law. That law, signed by President George W. Bush, was designed to protect young illegal immigrants from Central America from sex traffickers. It requires that the children be provided access to legal counsel and places them under the authority of the Department of Health and Human Services, which is required to promptly placed them "in the least restrictive setting that is in the best interest of the child."
The White House, which threatened to veto the House GOP bill, had earlier sent Congress a $3.7 billion bill on the border crisis. Senate Democrats, meanwhile, were poised to act on a $2.7 billion bill but held off as House Republicans scrambled.
"We have been saying for weeks now that we need additional resources to address a problem that Republican members of Congress are acknowledging is a problem on cable television, but when they get back to work in their congressional offices, they're not really willing to take any action," said White House spokesman Josh Earnest.
"We certainly would welcome Congress taking action on a request that we forwarded to them almost four weeks ago now," Earnest said at his daily briefing. "And the fact that House Republicans have waited literally until the very last day of their session to even consider taking a vote on this is an indication that they're not operating with the best interests of the American people in mind. That's for sure."
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After the LeSean McCoy news conference ended Thursday night at NovaCare, reporters broke into groups. One group clustered around agent Drew Rosenhaus, another around Eagles general manager Howie Roseman. Some TV reporters waited to do one-on-one interviews with McCoy about his new, five-year, $45 million deal.
As Rosenhaus was about to say something, he was interrupted by a voice bellowing from one of the other groups: "NEXT QUESTION!" Rosenhaus chuckled, as he has, oh, roughly a zillion times since that day late in 2005 when the agent stood on Terrell Owens' scraggly Moorestown yard and made himself the focal point of a region's collective anger and disappointment.
These are different days. Rosenhaus, who represents seven current Eagles, has worked out big-money long-term deals this offseason for three of those clients. Not only did the Eagles sign DeSean Jackson (5 years, $51 million), Evan Mathis (five years, $25.5 million) and McCoy, they did so with no bruised feelings, no public sparring, no anonymously-sourced intimations that one side or the other was being unreasonable.
As McCoy mentioned in the news conference, he briefly fired Rosenhaus last season, twice. Rosenhaus said Thursday that was because McCoy questioned the Rosenhaus relationship with the Eagles, whether the team would deal effectively with him. Certainly, there were tensions last season attending the Jackson situation. But those tensions clearly have resolved.
"Right now, we're on a roll with them," Rosenhaus said.
Rosenhaus said he spoke with team representatives three or four times a week this offseason about the McCoy contract. He said there was one major reason the deal got done.
"Andy Reid really wanted to see LeSean stay with the Eagles," Rosenhaus said. Of course, McCoy was probably going to stay with the Eagles regardless -- he had a year left on his rookie deal, the team could have just franchised him after that -- but what Rosenhaus meant was that Reid wanted McCoy to stay with the Eagles HAPPILY, a concept that has not always driven the Birds' negotiating strategy.
"When we we were working on this deal, coach Reid was sitting in on the meetings. It wasn't so much that he was taking sides, he just wanted to see it get done," Rosenhaus said. "So I think coach Reid really was the difference."
Rosenhaus also said: "We've had success working with Howie," in the two years since Roseman ascended to his current job.
Your Eagletarian asked Rosenhaus if he thinks the Eagles' thinking about the handling of such negotiations with key players has changed over the past several years.
"Yeah, there's no question," Rosenhaus said. "To me, the Eagles are one of the more aggressive ballclubs when it comes to retaining their players. Guys want to stay here. There's great stability here [with Reid]."
"I think so," Rosenhaus said, when asked if Reid's role was larger this time than it would have been in a similar negotiation several years back. "Certainly I can't speak for him, but in the multitude of deals we've negotiated with the Eagles, which are in the dozens since he's been the head coach, this is the most involved I've seen him."
Rosenhaus added that he "had a chance to visit with [team president] Joe Banner, I had a chance to visit with [chairman] Jeffrey Lurie. Both those guys were very involved, too. The meat and potatoes negotiations were with Howie, but this was a team approach."
"Howie is a straight shooter," Rosenhaus said. "He's aggressive. He wants to win. He's a pleasant guy to deal with, he's very honest. I like doing business with him ... I like dealing with all the teams in the league, but definitely, this is an unprecedented few months for me with one team. To do three deals of that magnitude is unique, for us."
"It does make it easier when you have a good relationship," said Rosenhaus, who also said his approach has evolved over the years. "The Eagles' regime went out of their way to let our clients know that we had a professional relationship with [the team]. Guys have been uneasy about some of the things that have happened in the past ... they let the players know they had no problem with us."
We were thinking there was no real deadline to get this done, but with all the offseason injuries cropping up -- Jason Peters, a case in point -- it turns out, next week's full-team minicamp was something of a deadline. Both sides wanted this deal done before McCoy stepped on the field, Rosenhaus said.


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The superintendent of Columbus City Schools formally announced her retirement Thursday amid a scandal involving student-attendance records.
The superintendent of Columbus City Schools formally announced her retirement Thursday amid a scandal involving student-attendance records.
At a press conference Sept. 20 at the King Arts Complex, Gene Harris announced she will leave the district she's served for 35 years, the last 12 as superintendent.
"The time is right for me to say goodbye," said Harris, whose retirement will be effective July 1, 2013.
Harris, 59, paid her farewells at the King Arts Complex, formerly Garfield Elementary School, which she attended as a youngster. It is also the facility where the Columbus Board of Education made its announcement on hiring Harris as the leader of the now 50,000-student district.
Her retirement announcement came as the Ohio Auditor's Office investigates Columbus City Schools -- and two other districts in the state -- for attendance-reporting irregularities. At issue is whether the attendance records have been manipulated to improve scores on the State Report Card issued by the Ohio Department of Education. The auditor's office is expected to present its findings in January.
Harris denied that the investigation played a role in her decision.
"What I plan to do is see this through," she said.
She said she is leaving the district in good shape, by increasing academic ratings and graduation rates, and launching a successful capital improvements plan, which led to 39 schools either being rebuilt or substantially renovated.
Harris, who is paid $186,460 a year, graduated from Columbus' Linden-McKinley High School in 1971. She started as a teacher in Columbus and worked her way up through the district, serving as principal, administrator and, ultimately, the leader of the district.
She thanked Mayor Michael B. Coleman, who was not at the press conference, for his support of the district and active mentoring of students.
Coleman's office returned the compliment.
"A Columbus City Schools district without Gene Harris is difficult to fathom," Coleman's spokesman Dan Williamson said. "Gene poured her heart and soul into the district and touched the lives of countless Columbus kids. She will leave the district stronger than when she found it, and she will leave huge shoes for us to fill."
School board President Carol Perkins said the district likely will hire a consultant in coming months to begin the search process for a new superintendent.
Perkins said Harris will be missed.
"She set the bar very high," she said.


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Thousands of mourners rallied on Saturday at funerals for Sunni Muslims shot by troops in demonstrations against Shiite Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.
Troops on Friday shot dead five people in Fallujah, in the Sunni-dominated western province of Anbar.
Sunnis have taken to the streets since last month to protest what they call mistreatment of their minority sect, heightening fears Iraq may return to the Shiite-Sunni bloodletting that killed tens of thousands of people in 2006 and 2007.
The protests have been accompanied by an increase in attacks by Islamist insurgents and the Iraqi wing of al-Qaeda. Four suicide bombers have struck over the past weeks, including one who killed a Sunni lawmaker in Fallujah. Fallujah's streets filled with thousands, many taking turns to carry the coffins of slain protesters. Others waved portraits of victims or the national flag used in former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein's era.
The Iraqi parliament passed a law imposing term limits on the prime minister's post in an attempt to block al-Maliki's re-election, although the legislation faces legal challenges in a top court.
Iraqi authorities have tried to calm anger over the shootings by withdrawing soldiers from the city and replacing them with federal police, but protesters want more concessions.
"Withdrawing the army from the city is not enough, I do not know how this will benefit me and it won't get my brother back," said Mustafa Jamal, a relative of a slain protester.
Al-Maliki has also tried to appease Sunni protesters by releasing more than 1,000 detainees and appointing a senior Shiite figure to negotiate over Sunni demands. Anbar clerics and hardline tribal sheiks say that is not enough either.
Anbar Province stretches across one-third of Iraq and was once al-Qaeda's base to fight US troops.
Sunni tribes in cities like Fallujah and Ramadi then turned against al-Qaeda to help US forces, but tribal sheiks complain that the Baghdad government has failed to provide jobs for their fighters who helped turn the tide of the war.
Many Sunnis want reforms to anti-terrorism laws they feel unfairly target them and more control over a campaign against former members of Saddam's outlawed Baath Party. However, Sunni ranks are split, with more hardliners calling for al-Maliki's ouster.
In another challenge to al-Maliki, lawmakers on Saturday passed a law limiting the prime minister to two terms. However, that measure appeared a symbolic victory as it needs the president's approval and faces challenges in court.
Since the fall of Saddam in 2003, many Iraqi Sunnis feel they have been sidelined by the Shiite leadership and believe al-Maliki is amassing power at their expense.
After the last US troops left Iraq a year ago, the country's Shiite, Sunni Muslim and ethnic Kurdish parties became locked in a power-sharing stalemate that has left key oil and investment laws paralyzed in parliament.
However, lawmakers from Sunni, Kurdish and Shiite parties voted to pass the term limits law on Saturday.
It would limit the prime minister, parliamentary speaker and president to two four-year terms. First elected in 2005, al-Maliki was re-elected in 2010 in an indecisive ballot that led to the power-sharing deal.
"This means al-Maliki cannot be prime minister any more. This will stop people consolidating power in their hands," Sunni lawmaker Jaber al-Jaberi said.


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Nexus 1000V and Virtual Network Overlays Play Pivotal Role in Software Defined Networks
There's an incredible amount of hype and excitement these days around Software Defined Networking (SDN), which promises to herald in a new age of flexibility, business agility and automation to our existing data center and campus networks. Since there are very few, if any, SDN networks in production environments today, though, we know there are a lot of implementation details to work out before the industry achieves the lofty benefits of network programmability. Cisco opened its kimono this week on its strategy around programmable networks (an even broader concept than what we believe the traditional definition of SDN is), called Cisco Open Network Environment. (Get Omar's take on Cisco ONE).
If you are like a lot of people, you might think that SDN is synonymous with OpenFlow, the leading standards-based approach for SDN today. However, we are already seeing folks across the industry extending the SDN vision beyond what OpenFlow is currently envisioned to do, so we think the definition of SDN will probably evolve over the next year or so to include additional programming models and protocols. Cisco ONE, for example, includes three approaches to network programmability: 1) our own onePK set of API's to Cisco network operation systems and devices, 2) a portfolio of agents and controllers that will support OpenFlow, among other things, and 3) our Nexus 1000V-based portfolio for building virtual network overlays.
If you are relatively new to the SDN concept, you probably already understand the OpenFlow model of separating the control plane and the forwarding plane, and building applications on top of the centralized controller. But, it may not be immediately obvious why overlay networks have arisen in parallel as a key complement or alternative to SDN/OpenFlow. Virtual network overlays partition a physical network infrastructure into multiple logically isolated networks that can be individually programmed and managed to deliver optimal network requirements. Virtual network overlays are the approach taken frequently by multitenant environments such as cloud service providers and multitenant data centers. Note that this description is not unlike the primary use case today for OpenFlow, which is campus network "slicing", or partitioning the physical infrastructure with separately programmable OpenFlow overlays.
Much like OpenFlow defines a separate controller from the underlying network device, the Cisco Nexus 1000V virtual switch has two separate components, the virtual supervisor module (VSM) that acts as the control plane, and the virtual Ethernet module (VEM) that acts as the virtual switch forwarding plane. The concept and vision are very similar. In the new announcements this week, we are highlighting that the VSM will be programmable with northbound interfaces which will include OpenStack and REST API's. Even OpenFlow, by comparison, has not nailed down what all of its northbound API's will be for applications sitting on top of the controller.
One advantage of the Nexus 1000V towards building these virtual overlays is that it is consistent with the physical infrastructure from a management and policy perspective. Management consistency should apply across physical and virtual devices and scale to cloud proportions.
Another requirement is that since the network overlay is running on a shared network infrastructure, there must be a way to logically isolate network traffic and partition needed resources. This can be done with virtual local area network (VLAN) assignments, or in today's modern scalable multitenant data centers, a more scalable version, VXLAN. VXLAN scales to over 16 million virtual networks in a single Layer 2 network domain, so we will not be running out of overlay partitions anytime soon in even the larger cloud environments. Other tunneling and partitioning approaches are viable as well.
Other methods to make sure of logical traffic isolation include firewalls or virtual private networks (VPNs). However, since network overlays need to be independent of the physical network, these security services need to be virtual, as well. In the Nexus 1000V portfolio, the virtual security services include the virtual security gateway (VSG) and ASA 1000V cloud firewall, as well as the Imperva SecureSphere web application firewall (WAF) announced this week and coming later this year.
Connecting traditional physical networks and campus LANs outside the data center requires the ability to connect the scalable VXLAN virtual networks to traditional VLAN segments. This effectively requires a VXLAN-VLAN gateway with the associated network identifier address translations and other services, which Cisco began discussing as part of its overlay infrastructure this week.
Cisco is excited about the new capabilities that network programmability will bring to our customers, as it promises to make the network a more strategic platform for business agility, even though this won't be an overnight evolution. With the success that we've had with our Nexus 1000V portfolio over the last three years, and the new capabilities we are launching now, we think that these virtual network overlays are destined to play a key role in achieving the vision of programmable networks today and as this evolution plays out.
More details on Cisco's virtual overlay technology can be found in our new white paper on the topic.
Finally, our good friend Andre Kindness over at Forrester Research, who we have a lot of respect for, tweeted this out last week regarding SDN:
What do you think? Are you ready for SDN? What about virtual overlays?
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very good post Gary, easy to read and very usefull to understand Cisco Positionning vs SDN. I think it is a first step are this world is moving fast


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Chip Buckley's '50s/'60s Traditional '32 Coupe
For anyone with a passion for hot rods, Southern California in the mid-20th century was a great place and time to grow up. If you were there in the '40s, you got to see this hobby as the spark was being lit. In the '50s, you could see it catch fire. By the '60s, there was no stopping the flames.
Chip Buckley was a kid in the late '60s, living in the city of San Gabriel. When other kids were collecting baseball cards of Reggie Jackson and Carl Yastrzemski, he was collecting Ed Roth monster decals of Rat Fink and Mr. Gasser. He and his friends, too young to drive, would ride their bicycles a few miles to Pete & Jake's in Temple City to see what was being built. If they wanted to see cool engines, they'd pedal a few miles the other way to Blair's Speed Shop in Pasadena. The original Irwindale Drag Strip was another bike ride away.
As an adult, Chip moved south to Orange County, which had its own hot rod activity. He joined the traditional hot rod club, the Lucky Devils. That's where he became friends with Buddy Dughi. Like Chip, Dughi had been a '60s kid. He was building a 1932 coupe (this one) in the style of the late '50s/early '60s. Chip describes it as "one of those 'double-take' cars, meaning you see it, but you have to take another look, due to its 'eye candy' appeal." After helping with the build, Chip became the car's biggest fan. When the opportunity to buy it came, he was there.
The coupe was finished when Chip bought it, with the exception of the interior. In addition to wrapping up that part of the project, Chip made a few cosmetic changes, such as removing the paint from the grille, changing and polishing the intake, chroming the carbs, and redoing the carb linkage—all to give it what he calls "that Wow! factor". More eye candy!
The starting point for the hot rod was a fiberglass three-window body from the former Downs Manufacturing. The coupe body rides on a fresh Deuce frame. Builder George "Desert Head" Gorgeous kept the dimensions stock, but boxed the American Stamping 'rails and built the frame strong enough to meet NHRA guidelines. The hot rod rake is helped by the 4-inch drop on the Super Bell I-beam axles between '40 Ford spindles, located by split wishbones and a SO-CAL Speed Shop Panhard bar. The springs were provided by Posies Rods and Customs. The '40 Ford steering column runs into a '32 steering box.
At the other end, a Currie custom 9-inch is loaded with 3.70:1 gears with limited slip, and spins a pair of 31-spline high-performance axles. The ladder bars came from Pete & Jake's. The rest of the suspension includes original '32 rear springs, with SO-CAL shocks mounted all around.
Carrying the coupe and maintaining the period appearance is a set of 16-inch stock Ford steelies rolling on skinny Firestone bias-ply tires. The pie-crust whitewalls measure 7.50-16 and 6.00-16. Brakes are a combination of 9-inch '40 Ford rear drums and Buick finned drums up front. With a late-model Corvette master cylinder and proportioning valve, there's no problem stopping.
If you're going to run an open hood, you'd better have an engine worth showing off—and the Chevy in Chip's '32 is a piece of art. Champion Auto in Orange did the machine work on the early 350 small-block. Buddy Dughi assembled it, installing a mild Isky street cam in the process. The Offy intake is crowned with six chromed Stromberg 94s, fitted with custom fuel rails and fittings from Blundell Speed & Machine. Ignition is handled by a Joe Hunt magneto. Fenton 4-into-2 exhaust headers feed into a custom 2-inch exhaust system—because ears like candy too.
The 1968 Muncie M22 "rockcrusher" four-speed transmission, a '60s favorite, was assembled by Bill Salis in Long Beach California, using a Centerforce clutch and aluminum flywheel.
When the '32 got to Ratical Automotive in San Juan Capistrano, the 'glass three-window body—with a 3-1/2-inch chop and original steel hood—was made perfect enough for a high-gloss black paintjob. "Rat", now from Oceanside, applied the House Of Kolor paint. The traditional flames were the finishing touch, designed, sprayed, and striped across every panel by Jimmy C. from San Clemente. The red steelies are a continuation of the blends in the flames. The coupe was further transported back to the Ed Roth decal days through some period-perfect details, including E&J Type 20 headlights and '50 Pontiac taillights, spreader bars at the front and rear, SO-CAL side mirrors, and repro Ford door handles from Vintique. Orange County Chrome in Orange, California, did the beautiful plating.
We can't think of a more classic interior for a '50s-style street rod than lipstick red tuck 'n' roll on a bench seat. "Big Mike" Romo at Mike's Auto Tops & Upholstery in Mission Viejo installed the Glide Engineering tilt back bench, covering it—and all the inside panels and headliner—in red vinyl. The Downs' 'glass dash was painted body color and highlighted with elaborate 'striping by Jimmy C. In the center, a vintage ribbed aluminum Champion dash insert (painted to match the valve covers) houses a set of Stewart-Warner Wings series gauges: water temperature, tach, speedometer, and fuel. The '40 Ford steering wheel is mounted on the chromed '40 column, and a Hurst shifter changes gears in the Muncie. "The Penguin" at Rod Tech in Costa Mesa, California, wired the car using Ron Francis products. Audio and air conditioning are absent, à la the old days.
Chip's period coupe has been on the road a little while, and was spotted earlier this year at the Grand National Roadster Show. Despite some of the changes he's made to the car, there are still a few folks who ask, "Is that Buddy's car?" Chip doesn't mind. That's a traditional part of the hobby, too. In fact, at GNRS it was displayed with Dughi's flamed Gretsch guitar as an accessory—because there's no such thing as too much eye candy.
Just the Facts
Year: 1932
Make: Ford
Model: 3-Window Coupe
Owner: Chip Buckley
State: California


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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) -- Dan Haren stood at his locker and tried to run through all of the Los Angeles Angels' superlatives in his head, from those two tape-measure homers to several sparkling defensive plays - and his own stellar pitching, of course.
Haren feels like the Angels are putting together a highlight reel during each night of their eight-game winning streak, and he's grateful to watch it from the mound.
Albert Pujols and Mark Trumbo homered, Haren pitched into the eighth inning, and the Angels extended their longest winning streak in nearly three years with a 5-1 victory over the New York Yankees on Tuesday night.
"We're being who we are, and this is who we expected to be coming out of spring training," said Haren, who won at home for the first time this season.
Rookie Mike Trout hit a run-scoring triple and made two jaw-dropping defensive plays for the Angels, who have won 11 of 15. After a rough start to a season of high expectations, Los Angeles (26-25) is above .500 for the first time since opening day.
"We're on a good roll now, and we've got to ride this as long as we can," Trumbo said.
Pujols hit a two-run shot for his 453rd career homer in the third inning, breaking a 34th-place tie with Carl Yastrzemski on baseball's career list. Trumbo followed up his game-ending shot Monday night by putting a solo shot deep into the fake rock pile behind center field at Angel Stadium in the sixth inning, a drive estimated at 443 feet.
Howie Kendrick also had a run-scoring single for the Angels, who hadn't won eight straight since July 2009. They haven't won nine in a row since 2005.
"When you're not swinging the bat, you're going to look dead," Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. "We probably looked dead for a month. (Showing) life is just a by-product of starting to swing the bats."
Haren (3-5) gave up eight hits with seven strikeouts and no walks, coming through with a strong start after the Los Angeles bullpen had to pitch nine innings in relief of injured ace Jered Weaver during Monday's 9-8 victory. After a four-game losing streak, the three-time All-Star has won two straight starts in overwhelming fashion, with 21 strikeouts and no walks in 16 innings.
Andy Pettitte (2-2) yielded nine hits and five runs over seven-plus innings in another solid start for the Yankees, but his teammates couldn't counteract the Angels' plate power and defensive prowess.
Trout and Peter Bourjos also made spectacular outfield catches on long drives by Nick Swisher, slamming into the wall to rob him of extra-base hits in the second and seventh innings. Bourjos tracked down yet another long drive by Swisher in the eighth, making the catch on the run to strand two New York runners.
"What are you going to do, man?" Swisher asked. "I swung the bat super well, and didn't have anything to show for it. They've got some track stars out there in center and left. Maybe I need to start hitting it to right. Keeping us to one run is pretty impressive."
Swisher had a run-scoring single when he wasn't getting robbed by the Angels' young outfielders, but the Yankees lost their second straight after a five-game win streak.
"It's pretty hard to say you're going to see an outfield that fast," Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. "Their defense was what kept us from scoring runs tonight. ... I thought our guys did a good job to give us a chance."
Ernesto Frieri struck out Robinson Cano with the bases loaded to end a hair-raising ninth inning. The Colombian right-hander recorded his 24th and 25th strikeouts in 12 hitless innings since the Angels acquired him on May 3, but Frieri also issued two walks with one out. After Trout made a diving catch in left, Frieri hit Alex Rodriguez to load the bases before fanning Cano.
Derek Jeter went 2 for 4 with a walk on the 17th anniversary of his major league debut with the Yankees, who passed the midway point of a nine-game road trip. The captain leads the AL with 70 hits, including 20 multihit games.
Pujols' two-run shot in the third inning was his fifth homer in eight games, his seventh in the past 14 days and his eighth of May. The three-time NL MVP has followed up his homerless April with a taste of the ferocious power Los Angeles expected to get from its $240 million investment, including 23 RBIs in his last 23 games.
Torii Hunter played right field and went 1 for 4 with a sixth-inning single in his first game since leaving the Angels on May 14 to deal with his teenage son's arrest in a sexual assault investigation. The veteran outfielder missed 15 games.
NOTES: After struggling with his control earlier in the season, Haren has walked one batter in 22 2-3 innings over his last three starts. ... Pujols' homer was his first off Pettitte in 25 career at-bats. ... Ivan Nova takes the mound for the Yankees in Wednesday night's series finale. The Angels go for the sweep behind Ervin Santana.
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For many years, fishermen in the North Sea, between Britain and Denmark, have found fossil bones in their nets.
This fossil catch has yielded over 200 tons of fossil bones, and over 15,000 mammoth teeth.
The bones include remains of mammoths, three different species of woolly rhinos, hippos, lions, bears, wild horses, bison, elk, reindeer, hyenas, wolves, and Sabre tooth cats of at least two species.
They tell us about a whole community of animals.
Beneath the North Sea lies a lost landscape.
This land was as big as modern Britain - hills and valleys, rivers and forests, marsh and moor.
Sometimes warm and marshy, and at other times a frozen tundra.
This has been named "Doggerland".
"Doggerland" is a name given to a vast lowland plain, with the northern coastline stretching from Shetland to Jutland.
The Thames flowed into the Rhine, which turned south, and made the English Channel its estuary.
The highest point was a hilly region where the Dogger sand-banks are today.


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EFF Encrypt The Web Report
The EFF recently released their Encrypt The Web report and included the cool infographic above.
We've asked the companies in our Who Has Your Back Program what they are doing to bolster encryption in light of the NSA's unlawful surveillance of your communications. We're pleased to see that four companies—Dropbox, Google, SpiderOak and Sonic.net—are implementing five out of five of our best practices for encryption. In addition, we appreciate that Yahoo! just announced several measures it plans to take to increase encryption, including the very critical encryption of data center links, and that Twitter has confirmed that it has encryption of data center links in progress. See the infographic.
By adopting these practices, described below, these service providers have taken a critical step towards protecting their users from warrantless seizure of their information off of fiber-optic cables. By enabling encryption across their networks, service providers can make backdoor surveillance more challenging, requiring the government to go to courts and use legal process. While Lavabit's travails have shown how difficult that can be for service providers, at least there was the opportunity to fight back in court.
While not every company in our survey has implemented every recommendation, each step taken helps, and we appreciate those who have worked to strengthen their security. We hope that every online service provider adopts these best practices and continues to work to protect their networks and their users.
Crypto Survey Results
UPDATE, November 20, 2013: Facebook and Tumblr have provided further information to supplement the Encrypt the Web Report. We're pleased to report that Tumblr is planning to upgrade its web connections to HTTPS this year and implement HSTS by 2014, and Facebook is working on encrypting data center links and implementing STARTTLS.
Great visual table array design that uses the company logos instead of text to make it easier for readers. The color-coding in each cell is also super-easy for readers to follow. It only takes seconds to skim through the design. The data is clearly communicated to the audience!
However, as an infographic released on the web, it's missing a number of key features.
No title. The infographic image will be shared on other sites, so the image file itself needs to have a title and a short introduction to what readers are seeing.
No date. This information will obviously change over time, and they have already added the update you see in the text above. This infographic should clearly state that this information is current as of 11/20/13 so they can make future updates.
No logo. Someone seeing this infographic posted anywhere else would have no idea that it comes from the EFF. The EFF brand has a lot of positive equity and the infographic would be more believable if readers know if comes from the EFF
No copyright. The EFF would probably release this under Creative Commons, but that needs to be explicitly stated in the infographic itself.
No original URL. The URL link to the original landing page on the EFF site should be included in the footer of the design so readers can find the original full-size version when they see smaller thumbnails posted on other sites.
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Around the League predicted all the playoff teams and the MVP. We've predicted all the Week 1 games, and got the first game wrong.
Before moving on to the madness Sunday, I wanted to get my picks for each team's record on paper for posterity. I've been doing this for years and it just didn't feel right to group the 20 non-playoff teams in one pile.
Yes, it would have been better to post this before the Dallas Cowboys beat the New York Giants. But my records were already done (with the Giants ahead of Dallas.) I expect both teams to miss the playoffs anyhow. Let's do this.
AFC East
New England Patriots: 12-4
New York Jets: 9-7
Buffalo Bills: 7-9
Miami Dolphins: 3-13
The schedule is very tasty for this division, bumping each team up a win or two. They face the AFC South and NFC West out of division. It doesn't get much better than that. I'm not buying the Bills hype because it's too hard for Chan Gailey to keep out-scheming other teams with lackluster overall talent.
AFC North
Pittsburgh Steelers: 12-4
Baltimore Ravens: 11-5
Cincinnati Bengals: 8-8
Cleveland Browns: 3-13
The Steelers still have the best quarterback and passing game in this defense-dominated division. That should be enough. The Bengals might be a better team overall and take a step back in the standings with a tougher schedule.
AFC South
Houston Texans: 12-4
Indianapolis Colts: 8-8
Tennessee Titans: 7-9
Jacksonville Jaguars: 5-11
Houston may be the safest pick to win a division in the entire league. It would be a surprise if any one of the other teams challenged them. (I do like the Colts to overachieve, though.)
AFC West
Kansas City Chiefs: 10-6
San Diego Chargers: 8-8
Denver Broncos: 8-8
Oakland Raiders: 6-10
Denver may have the toughest schedule in the league. They could improve a lot with Peyton Manning and it may not show up in the standings. Kansas City doesn't look great at quarterback, but they have enough depth and talent elsewhere to survive a marathon season.
NFC East
Philadelphia Eagles: 10-6
New York Giants: 8-8
Dallas Cowboys: 8-8
Washington Redskins: 6-10
I'm buying the Philadelphia pieces coming together. They are a rare group that should have a top-ten offense and defense. The Giants' defensive line actually lacks depth, especially if Justin Tuck and Osi Umenyiora start to show their age.
NFC North
Green Bay Packers: 12-4
Detroit Lions: 9-7
Chicago Bears: 9-7
Minnesota Vikings 4-12
The expectations are high in Detroit and Chicago. The schedules are pretty favorable. That would make a finish like this all the more disappointing. The Bears defense no longer is that fearsome. The Lions' secondary and running game issues will show up.
NFC South
New Orleans Saints: 10-6
Atlanta Falcons: 10-6
Carolina Panthers: 10-6
Tampa Bay Buccaneers: 3-13
Can three teams make it to the playoffs out of the NFC South? It happened in the AFC North last year. The Bucs could wind up going 0-6 in the division.
NFC West
Seattle Seahawks: 10-6
San Francisco 49ers: 9-7
Arizona Cardinals: 5-11
St. Louis Rams: 4-12
My somewhat irrational love for the Seahawks is not that irrational. They have two solid quarterbacks; they used to have zero. They have a rising defense that is difficult to prepare for. Pete Carroll's three-year plan is ready to go. We see the 49ers struggling to pass and not getting the injury luck they did a year ago.Follow Gregg Rosenthal on Twitter @greggrosenthal.


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"Act Naturally," was originally recorded by Buck Owens and was later a hit for the Beatles in 1965. The upbeat song describes an aspiring movie star who thinks he can win an Oscar if he plays a "man who's sad and lonely" in a movie, because he "can play the part so well...All [he has] to do is act naturally."
The song was first performed by Gonzo as the UK Spot in episode 405 of The Muppet Show. Strumming his guitar, Gonzo sings to his reflection in a mirror. When his reflection starts singing back to him, Gonzo is surprised, asking why it isn't imitating him. The reflection counters that Gonzo does ludicrous things. (Of course he does. He's an artist!) Eventually, the two versions of Gonzo turn the song into a duet, during which Gonzo's reflection appears as a cowboy, a mariachi, and a clown.
The song was also performed as a duet between Floyd Pepper and Janice in The Muppets Go to the Movies.
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I started the written review by stating that this is the first Platinum product I have used, which is not true; I forgot that Platinum made the ever so popular Preppy fountain pen.
I don't like the standard ballpoint refill that came with the pen, but it looks as if it might be able to accommodate several other refill sizes (once they are cut to size). I was able to get a Dr. Grip refill - model BRFS2 - and it is far more enjoyable with larger diameter replacement refill. The .5 that comes with the pen shows light grey rather than black, but it is very clean and precise.
The branding on the pen is minimal, though there is not much space to work with given the narrow barrel. I like the shiny metal clip and push mechanism against the black barrel. The overall look is classy and professional.
Platinum is a Japanese company, but this pen is made in China, which is often a bad sign in terms of the quality comparison. I don't know if there is also a Japanese-made version, but everything on this pen seems solid. I will have to carry this one around for a while to see if it is adequate for continuous pocket/every-day carry.
The end is a standard metal conical tip, and the refill is replaced by unscrewing the tip section - rather than at the retractable mechanism.
It's difficult to get an accurate picture of a clip that is so shiny, especially with the light I use, but you can see that it is somewhat of an Art Deco appearance.
As for size, it's not much bigger than a Fisher Space Pen (matte black, bullet version). The Fisher Space Pen is a far superior every day carry instrument, but is has a utilitarian look and is 2-3x the price. If you want something to tuck in your planner or notebook that looks more refined, then the Platinum might be a good choice for you.
It's not without faults, but the price isn't unreasonable if you want to try it. I bought mine for $4.95 at JetPens, but they are on clearance right now for $4.21
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Unable to get out in its sprint-and-score transition attack, Northside was forced to grind it out against Topsail.
Unable to get out in its sprint-and-score transition attack, Northside was forced to grind it out against Topsail.
And grind it out the Monarchs did, using a strong effort on the boards and 20 points from Jamal Parker to roll to a 62-43 victory over the Pirates in an East Central 2-A Conference game Friday night.
Earlier, Northside whipped Topsail 58-20 in the girls� game.
�I knew it was going to be a grind-type game,� Northside coach Tony Marshburn said. �They just play that style. We didn�t get in transition much, and that�s the way they play and they�re very good at it. We just had to grind tonight.�
While the Monarchs are an up-tempo team, Northside (14-2, 6-2) proved it could win a game with a slower pace than is to its liking thanks in no small part to its 42-25 advantage on the boards, with nine players grabbing at least one rebound.
Davion Ayabarreno led the way with 13 rebounds while Josh Cabrera had 9, Kris Curry 8 and Korey Curry 7.
Trevor Savidge had 10 rebounds and 23 points to lead Topsail (7-10, 1-7).
�I thought in the first half Davion got on the boards hard, and then I thought in the second half the whole team started getting on the boards,� Marshburn said. �That was our point of emphasis at halftime was No. 1 keep pounding the boards.�
Northside rode the shooting of Parker early, with the senior hitting a 3-pointer to start the game and then adding consecutive floaters down the lane and an up-and-under layup as the Monarchs led 20-13 at the end of the first quarter.
Parker nailed another 3-pointer from the wing to push the lead to 23-13 with 7:12 left in the half. The Pirates pulled within five, but Ayabarreno scored two straight buckets to push the lead back to 29-20 at halftime.
Northside�s lead hovered around double digits until Topsail went on a 6-0 run to pull within 42-36 on a bucket inside by Savidge with 5:19 left in the game. After Marshburn called a timeout, Northside forced three straight turnovers � two on steals by Kris Curry and Parker � to answer the challenge with a 13-5 run for a 55-41 lead with 1:44 left.
Kris Curry scored on a three-point play on the run, which was capped by a bucket by Cabrera.
�They showed some mental toughness when Topsail cut it to six,� Marshburn said, adding he used the timeout to not only try to stop the Pirates� momentum but to remind his team to get back on defense and hit its foul shots.
While Northside was a bit better at the foul line, hitting 21 of 38, than it has been of late, Marshburn knows that won�t get it done in close games.
�We�re not on the level that we need to be yet,� he said. �But I think we improved a little bit tonight. We�ve been working hard in practice on free throws. But we�ve still got to improve on that.�
On this night, however, the Monarchs didn�t have to win it at the foul line. The Monarchs were able to grind out a win in a game that likely will be more like what they will face the second time around in the ECC as well as in the state playoffs.
�I reminded them at halftime this is a game where we�re going to have execute in (the) half court. So you�ve got to be patient on offense,� Marshburn said. �We had to grind it, and we did. There�s going to be more (games like) this (down the road).�
Northside 58, Topsail 20:
Northside rode a suffocating and changing defense to an easy victory as the Monarchs forced Topsail into eight turnovers in its first nine possessions and 38 on the night. Northside (13-4, 6-2) committed just 14, half coming with the game out of hand and reserves on the court.
Journee Collins led the Monarchs with 16 points while Ashanti Curry added 12. Kayla Hill finished with 8 points, 7 rebounds and 7 steals.
Topsail (7-9, 2-6) was led by Keri White with 9 points.
�We�ve been waiting up until tonight to put a complete game together,� Northside coach Chad Novelli said. �It�s either we came out slow or we would end slow or end bad. We needed four. Sometimes we would have two or three quarters, but there was always just that one.
�We needed four quarters put together and we did it finally tonight.�
Northside hit just 4 of its first 20 shots but led 11-3 with 6:58 left in the half thanks to having forced 13 turnovers. The Monarchs nailed 20 of their last 36 shots while maintaining their strong defensive effort that featured both man-to-man and zone full-court press along with a half-court trap.
�Usually our offense comes around later in the game because our defense creates easier shots,� said Novelli, whose team had eight players score and nine get at least rebound. �The girls like getting everyone involved offensively and defensively.�
Topsail 3 6 7 4 � 20
Northside 9 15 11 23 � 58
K. White 9, Reilly 4, M. White 3, Wolf 2, Lee 2. Totals� 9 1-4 20
Collins 16, Curry 12, Hill 8, Perez 7, Stokes 6, Moore 5, Bowerman 2, Barnes 2. Totals� 23 9-13 58
3-Point Goals� T 1 (K. White 1). NS 3 (Collins 2, Perez 1). Rebounds� T 24 (M. White 6, Hyatt 6). NS Hill 7, Bowerman 5, Perez 5). RECORDS� T: 7-9, 2-6, hosts East Duplin on Tuesday. NS: 13-4, 6-2, at Swansboro on Tuesday.
Topsail 13 7 10 13 � 43
Northside 20 9 13 20 � 62
Savidge 23, Hagan 8, Bland 5, Williams 5, Sullivan 2. Totals� 14 12-24 43
Parker 20, Kr. Curry 11, Brown 10, Ayabarreno 9, Ko. Curry 5, Cabrera 5, McCarthy 2. Totals� 19 21-38 62
3-Point Goals� T 3 (Savidge 2, Hagan 1). NS 3 (Parker 2, Brown 1). Rebounds� T 25 (Savidge 10, Hagan 8). NS 42 (Ayabarreno 13, Cabrera 9, Kr. Curry 8, Ko. Curry 7). RECORDS� T: 7-10, 1-7, hosts East Duplin on Tuesday. NS 14-2, 6-2, at Swansboro on Tuesday.


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Thursday (11/20)
Johan Harju had a power play assist in Lulea's 3-2 overtime loss to Timra.
Janne Niskala had a shorthanded goal, a power play goal, and an assist in Frolunda's 4-1 win over Djurgardens. Andreas Holmqvist was scoreless in the match for Djurgardens.
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Andreas Holmqvist was scoreless in Djurgardens' 4-3 loss to Rogle.
Janne Niskala had 2 penalty minutes in Frolunda's 2-0 win over Farjestads.
Johan Harju had a power play goal in Lulea's 3-3 tie with Brynas.
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Andreas Holmqvist had a goal and an assist, both on the power play, in Djurgardens' 4-2 win over Timra.
Tuesday (11/25)
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These days, however, there is a veritable proliferation of impact freshmen prevalent around the area.
Nowhere is the trend more apparent than at Perkiomen School, which start two freshmen - forward Kristen Burdo and point guard Stephanie Falcone.
The 5-foot-10 Burdo is averaging 14.5 points (sixth in the area) for the Tri-County League regular season champion Panthers. She's hit the 20-point mark four times this season, including season-high 21-point efforts in wins over Barrack and Woodlynde.
'Kristen is the rock we are going to stand upon (in the future),' Perkiomen School coach Randy Littlefield said. 'She is really a 3 (small forward), yet I think she can play any position. Kristen is (responsible for) the bulk of our play inside the paint, but she can also hit the three. She is very rounded, skilled and smooth.'
Falcone, meanwhile, has become more comfortable running the show as the season has progressed. She's averaging 9.1 points per game, including a season-high 19 in a win over Academy of the New Church.
'Steph is going to be a really good point guard,' Littlefield said. 'She has an extra dash in her (basketball) DNA, and a sense of the ebb and flow of a game. She has a fierce competitiveness you can't teach.'
Perkiomen Valley coach Bill Leonard has utilized the most amount of freshmen, featuring a promising group headed up by 6-foot-1 guard Katie Armstrong (10.8 ppg). Point guard Kelsey Giese (usually the first girl off the bench) has scored 11 points in two of the last three games, while Haley Streeper and McKenna Kohler have also had starting cameos throughout the season.
Though the future looks plenty bright at both Perkiomen School and Perkiomen Valley, the list of formidable freshman doesn't end with those two squads.
At Owen J. Roberts, Taylor Evans (7.7 ppg) starts and Kerry Huzzard has played important minutes for coach Jeremy Mellon.
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London Wrap-UpJanuary 26, 2006
They say the jet lag's easier going west than east. Either way, 8 hours is a heck of a time difference.
I'm back and (mostly) recovered from a week in London, and boy was it ever great meeting all of you who came out to the Carson Workshop, or the Skillswap in Brighton, or the Geek Dinner back in London.
Though it was my first time in the city, due to various suggestions and other circumstances I won't get into here, it seemed like a good time to pack the week with social events. The hallmark of a good trip is the quality of people you meet, and London had it in spades.
Without delving into the minutiae of each day, I've mentally blocked out the trip into a few distinct chunks of days, which went a little something like this.
Carson Workshops
Of course, the main reason for going in the first place was to run a one day workshop with Carson Systems. Ryan and Gillian are top notch event organizers, with their ability of taking care of the little details, and making their guests feel like royalty. Seriously. Check out that hotel suite. It was unbelievable.
The first two days were preparation, mainly toward re-adjusting my body clock. I ended up going in completely sleep-deprived anyway, of course. C'est la vie.
The workshop itself went pretty well, I thought. A full day is a long time to get up and talk, but in the spirit of "it's better to be over-prepared than under-prepared" I actually managed to run into time constraints. Now that's a first for me. Feedback has been quite positive so far, I think it was a good experience for everyone.
What impressed me most were the questions and comments that came up later in the day. The last hour or so was pure Q&A-style discussion, and questions being asked were reassuringly sophisticated and clued-in. It's great when really smart people come out, I end up learning a bunch myself.
Brighton, Skillswap
Courtesy of Mssrs. Budd and Keith, I had a reason to go to Brighton on England's south coast, and a place to stay when I got there.
Andy runs an event for the local new media community called SkillSwap, and tendered the invite to come down and talk to the local crew. Jeremy and the lovely Jessica have opened their home to my fellow countrymen in the past, and so I found myself the lucky recipient of a night chez J&J.
I think I'll let Jeremy summarize the two days in Brighton, he's already covered everything I'd have to say. Except for the Dave Shea/Dave Seah incident.
At some point Andy asked me if I had seen the "I Am Not Dave Shea" post. I had no idea what he was talking about, and during the SkillSwap, he loaded it up.
Now, I may be biased since it comes across as pretty complimentary, granted (thanks Dave). But the real point is, my god is that ever a clever piece of writing. I couldn't resist commenting of course, and from what I read later, my UK IP address at the time was enough to flag it as a bogus comment. Whoops.
After Brighton, it was back up to London for a couple of days of playing the tourist. I managed to squeeze in lunch with Patrick Griffiths, but up until the geek dinner, it was non-stop sight-seeing. A brief list of what got crammed into two days:
- Liecester & Trafalgar Square
- The latter amid the Sunday morning bells from the nearby St. Martin's-in-the-Field. Great time to go visit, wouldn't want to live there.
- St. Paul's Cathedral
- I walked in during the first half of a Sunday morning service. The choir was singing totally acoustically, and the way it bounced around the vaulted ceiling was breathtaking. This was the highlight of the day for me, even though they don't allow photos/video.
- The Tower of London
- After reading Stephenson's Baroque Cycle, it was an absolute must, despite the $30 CDN entrance fee. The place is steeped in history, and if you're into that sort of thing, England's crown jewels are stored there as well. (No pictures allowed of those either.)
- Big Ben / Parliament Buildings
- I didn't bother going inside any, but managed to get some nice evening shots along the waterfront and a few poor daylight shots.
- Westminster Abbey
- Worth the £10 admission, for the ornate decor, for the historical significance, and for the incredibly high dead kings per square foot ratio. Though I was never quite sure who was buried there, and who was simply memorialized. Cromwell? Chaucer? Tennyson? Olivier? I suspect it's a little of the former, but most of the latter. Again. No photos.
- The British Museum
- The British Museum is an incredibly rich trove of world history, with artifacts from many important civilizations over the past 6000 years. Egyptian, Grecian, Roman, Chinese, Indian, and European to name a few. Anyone in the world can simply walk in and view this huge collection of mankind's history without paying a cent. They've got the original Rosetta Stone, by the way. (I did the Tate Modern as well, which I didn't enjoy nearly as much.)
There was much, much more, but those were the highlights.
Geek Dinner
And, finally, on my last night in town, I spent the evening with 60 or so of my new best friends. As alluded to earlier around these parts, Ian Forrester organized a superb Geek Dinner since I happened to be in town. Great times were had, beer was drunk, and I rambled on for a while about usability and Javascript and CSS and the like. There's actually quite a good transcript out there, though it's obviously not exact. Close enough for a crowded room with bad acoustics though.
Kudos to Ian for putting on such a great evening, and everyone else for coming out and saying hi, though I didn't get a chance to talk to even half of you. The room was absolutely packed, so maybe if we'd had another few hours…
A fantastic trip. One of the best I've done yet. As always, it's the people that really make it, and without exception everyone I met in England was simply Good People. Now I can't wait for @Media. In the interim, I'm pulling a Molly and jetting off again tomorrow for yet another event. Honestly, I have no idea how she does it.
Glad to hear you had a good time.
Hi Dave,
I was just wondering about your 'Printable CEO paper-based productivity tool'…
Glad to hear you had a good trip.
Just finished the transcript and that is indeed the geekiest of geek dinners. I have this mental image of a pub filled with pasty bearded folks in black t-shirts, speaking entirely in acronyms and Simpsons references. Wish I'd been there, I would have fit right in!
Welcome back to Pacific time, Dave. See you on Monday.
Glad you enjoyed your trip - didn't realise you were doing something in Brighton - I travelled up from Brighton for the Carson Workshop event (which was brilliant!).
I think you have inspired me to get into the design side of things a bit more - rather than going straight in coding I have been looking at a photoshop mockup, considering typography for the past week!
Can't believe you were here in Brighton and I missed it! Damnation…
Hi Dave,
Glad you had a great trip -great meeting you and learning from you. See you for that pint you owe me next time you're in London!
Was nice to have met you and had a chat. Your quite different from what I expected(in a good way), your very down to earth and chilled.
See you again at SXSW
Did you go up St. Paul's Cathedral? The view from the top is brilliant.
Damn, but that sounds like an epic trip; congrats on the successful workshop.
Man, I need to get back to the UK.
"Liecester" - is that a typo or a joke? You know how us Londoners love laughing at non-natives pronouncing it "Lie-sester" ;)
FWIW it's spelt Leicester and pronounced "Lester". Counter-intuitive I know.
Dave, what a great post. As for how I do it - you stumbled on the secret. It's the warm and wonderful people that make up the majority of our industry that keep me from truly going insane. And, there's something about travel - seeing things new and old - that helps me realize that as important as the challenges in my own life might seem, that really it's a complex world out there, and that makes my challenges seem quite small in the grand scheme of things.
I'm so glad you had a great time in London, a fantastic Geek Dinner (isn't Ian the best host?) and a journey down to Brighton, which is a wonderful city.
Joe Clark once quipped that "everyone's slept in Jessica and Jeremy's bed but not together."
That's just proving more and more true as time goes on.
A toast to your success and happiness, always, from your favorite co-author and fellow world traveler!
'Twas a pleasure having you stay, Dave. You paid for your keep in pizza sauce. Come back any time.
Dave, very nice to meet you on Monday night. I'm the astronomy guy from SE London who stuck around in the bar afterwards. Might see you at @media.
Drop us a line if you want a tour of the Royal Observatory next time you're down here.
Thanks for the wonderful post Dave and comment Molly. I'm just glad everyone had a great time. Thank you again everyone who turned up and made it a great night.
Next time you guys are over in London let me know, would be great to do a geekdinner for you both together…
Holy suite… that's sweet.
Hi Dave,
Thanks for a really enjoyable Carson Workshop, hopefully putting some of the things I learnt into practice now.
Also looking forward to you visiting Bristol on your next visit - I have a tour of Aardman lined up for you as requested ;)
The Carson's Workshop was very useful, thanks Dave. Gave me the kick up the rear I needed to get going with my career change…
Enjoyed the *very* brief beer with you after the show, hope to catch you at @media.
I should point out I was disappointed not to pick up the book for the "best save" in the live CSS demo, looks like I'll have to buy the damn thing now.
Dave, it was a pleasure. Enjoyed the skillswap which you gave. Look forward to hearing more at @media2006. BTW hope you enjoyed the beer!
Respect to you for having guts to go to London in winter. All that rain or snow. Too cold.
Hey I'm looking foreward to seeing you at @media 2006 =)
I feel your pain. I just got back from a 4-week business trip to Germany, Israel, and India. It's all one timezone to me now.
Is "Pulling a Molly" going to become an industry term?
"Is 'Pulling a Molly' going to become an industry term?"
I think there's something to that….