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Update: Thank you for all your feedback! Since many of you have asked about calcium, I'll be doing a post on the calcium myth in a vegan diet next!
I just finished watching Forks Over Knives where they discuss this exact myth!ReplyDelete
These patties look so tasty- & actually stay together!! I've made lentil patties with brown lentils, so will have to give red lentils a go :) xReplyDelete
Sounds delicious and they look great!ReplyDelete
I want to eat these NOW! At first I thought the tomatoes were strawberries and I was like - OMG - I´m longing for summer a bit...ReplyDelete
I get so annoyed when people what I eat as a vegetarian (which isn't even as "strict" as veganism). "Like everything else!". I often think meat eaters diets are restricted by the idea of a meat and two veg on the plate. There is so much more food to explore out there.
The only thing I worry about with a vegan diet is the lack of calcium, could you do a post at some point about your sources of calcium. I tried taking supplements but they lead to bloating (which is apparently a sympton of some of them). Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Wow, those look really amazing!! I'll have to try them.ReplyDelete
As far as the calcium goes - the WHO (World Health Organization, puts the requirement at 300mg per person - we are the only country that has it at 800mg (1200mg for pregnant women). Naturally the Dairy lobbyists have something to do with this.ReplyDelete
I totally disagree, sorry! And I am fully medically trained + have studied nutrition for over 25 years! Any WHO socalled 'requirement' is to cover overt disease present, not for optemum health/performance in a 'normal'/healthy person. People over 60 certainly need at least 1000-1500 mg of Ca daily, best taken in natural foods! There are debates as to the efficacy of Ca supplements: seeing the horrific damage falls can do in the elderly, I still believe in Ca supplementation on a moderate scale as well!Delete
Yes, protein is the thing people worry about with these diets! But you're right, with nutritious food like these it should not at all be a problem. The real issue is other nutrients, like vitamin B12 and calcium! Deeeelicious recipe :)
Heidi xo
I'll have to try them too. These patties are delicious!ReplyDelete
In my experience most people who hear that I'm vegetarian/vegan don't stick to just the protein myth, they question the entire lifestyle. I often get slammed with nonsense about humans thriving from meat for centuries. I don't bother arguing because I don't feel it's right to push your beliefs onto others or to 'preach'. I only wish some carnivores had the same outlook!ReplyDelete
These sound so good, but for some reason I'm always afraid of adding coriander powder to food. I like it in stews, but that's it. Maybe I'll add just half the amount and go up from there.ReplyDelete
I get that all the time and I haven't gone completely vegan yet (still eat fish.) After reading those articles you tweeted I'm so glad I gave up meat and dairy. She explained that poor cow shaking before going down the kill shoot to her death....I don't even have to watch it and I can't get the image out of my head.
These lentil cakes look so wonderful. I adore veggie bean burgers.
What a beautiful, colorful plate. I'm not vegan but our diet is largely composed of vegetables - lentils are a major staple in our home so I'm excited to try these!
I do wish eaters across the spectrum could coexist a bit more peacefully. I see the variety of diets we each have to be a great source of inspiration to try new things.
These look fantastic! Although I'm not vegan - in fact not even vegetrian - we do eat a lot of plant based foods, and not so much meat (I guess that makes us flexitarian?). These will be a great adition to our meal rotation - thanks!ReplyDelete
Very cool recipe and one I may try: these would be fabulous with a raita. I love lentils and especially red lentils but I haven't ever made patties like this. Bookmarked the recipe!ReplyDelete
these look amazing- i can almost taste them! the texture looks perfect, too. i have to try these ;)ReplyDelete
I'm not even vegetarian or vegan and I get most of my protein from beans, lentils and legumes. I love it and only eat meat very occasionally.ReplyDelete
I don't like coriander either - can you leave it out?ReplyDelete
These look beautiful--thanks to Heidi at 101 cookbooks for linking to your site! One question: is "unhulled tahini" the seeds or the paste?
These look delicious! Quick question: what is "rolled" quinoa?ReplyDelete
Why does your recipe call for refrigeration for 20-30 minutes?ReplyDelete


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MWC 15 Special
We already knew that Microsoft is working on its Windows Phone 8.1 upgrade but do you also wonder how it will look? Wonder no more because ahead of the official release, a video walk-through of the Windows Phone 8.1 SDK just hit YouTube. While the SDK is yet missing some important features and highlights, like the new Notification Center, the video shows the new soft-buttons implementation, the new volume settings and more. Other Windows Phone 8.1 features include the ability to move apps to memory card, messaging app choices, VPN support and the option to close most recently used apps by swiping the card, very similar as Palm did it with webOS.
The SDK which was used for this screen recording is said to be Windows Phone 8.1 Build 8.10.12298 and it's yet not known if there's a newer available, with possibly more features enabled. However, the lack of some expected features shows that Microsoft will definitely needs some more time before Windows Phone 8.1 will hit the market, and current Windows Phone 8 devices which are said to be upgradeable to 8.1
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Lora Doman sees more human drama, suffering, and courage in a single morning than most South Africans ever see.
Ms. Doman is not a nun, or a saint. She is one of South Africa's 12,000 social workers, a front-line soldier in a battle to hold her country together, one family at a time, several families a day, ensuring that abused, neglected, or orphaned children have a home.
It's a monstrous task in a country where an estimated 5.5 million people – roughly 18 percent of the population – are believed to be infected with the HIV virus.The AIDS epidemic not only kills millions of South Africans, it also orphans children. A United Nations and World Health Organization report last year estimated that as of 2007 there were 1.4 million South African AIDS orphans – a tripling of the number estimated in 2001, and the largest concentration in the world. For homes, many of these AIDS orphans must turn to their extended families – many of whom are already living in poverty – and to overwhelmed orphanages and shelters for survival.
Doman, a relentlessly positive woman who works for the Roodepoort Child Welfare Agency, meets this enormous task each day with a mixture of urgency and hope. She regularly works 10 hours a day, attending to family tragedies from the rough streets of Soweto to the middle-class neighborhoods of Roodepoort. She typically carries a caseload of 450 clients.
Doman says she realizes that even if she met with one family each workday in a year, and did nothing else, she could never keep up. As more cases arrive, she may never even meet all the people she's responsible for.
"It's ludicrous to think that one social worker can do all this," says Doman, matter-of-factly, pulling into the driveway of a client on a dusty street of the informal settlement of Braamfishcerville.
"If you have a crisis," where a child has to be removed from an abusive or neglectful home, "then you become so busy – constantly in court, doing investigations, writing reports, finding a place of safety for the child – that all the other cases that you have to handle get pushed off for later." She turns off the engine of the car and smiles wryly, "[W]e are just putting out fires."
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The AIDS crisis in Africa has claimed 25 million lives since 1981 – equal to half the death toll of World War II. Since most of those who have died are of childbearing or child-rearing age, from 15 to 49, the impact falls hardest on the children left behind and the communities that have lost not just parents, but laborers, nurses, teachers, and others who keep African societies and economies functioning. It's a silent demographic shift that is weakening Africa precisely at the time when the growing global demand for resources should be making the continent prosperous and less reliant on aid. At the current rate, AIDS could create as many as 35 million orphans on the continent by the end of this year, according to UNICEF. (In South Africa, only about 11 percent of children orphaned by AIDS are HIV positive.)
The fact that it is international agencies – and not the South African government – that make estimates of HIV infections and of AIDS orphans is significant. While South Africa's current president, Jacob Zuma, has taken the country's HIV crisis seriously, his predecessor, Thabo Mbeki, was a self-described AIDS denialist. He argued that there was no scientific link between sexual behavior and the spread of HIV, and that traditional herbal remedies were a better alternative to the latest antiretroviral treatments. His two terms in office, say AIDS activists, set South Africa back a decade in its AIDS-prevention fight.
While South Africa has Africa's greatest concentration of HIV patients and AIDS orphans, it also has the best private and governmental social services to meet the challenge. But even so, experts say, South Africa's social workers are swamped.
"Currently, we have 12,500 registered social workers, who care for all sectors – the elderly, the disabled, as well as for children – and the estimates are that we are only reaching a third of all the children in need," says Lucy Jamieson, a senior advocacy coordinator at The Children's Institute at the University of Cape Town. "We're far short of the 16,000 child social workers that we need, and with the number of students we are currently graduating with social work degrees, we will not achieve the [necessary] number of social workers in the next 10 years. The solution has to be more radical."
Many social scientists believe that countries like South Africa simply have to empower more professions – early childhood development counselors, social auxiliary workers, child and youth-care workers, community development workers – to get involved in the tasks that usually fall exclusively on the shoulders of social workers.
By killing a family's breadwinner, AIDS puts millions of families into poverty, Ms. Jamieson says. But one possible remedy is for community development workers in poor townships to provide job training for grandmothers who become responsible for the orphaned grandchildren left behind, so they earn better incomes to support their enlarged families. Auxiliary child-care workers, normally given smaller administrative tasks, could be enabled to do home visits, Jamieson adds, and lighten the load on social workers.
This load is unquestionably heavy. "I have met social workers with over 2,000 cases, and 200 to 300 cases is quite common," she says.
In theory, the South African government is already well on the way to solving its problems, with some radical new ideas embodied in its recently passed Children's Act. But in reality, South Africa is standing still. Citing insufficient tax revenues, the South African government has yet to implement the Children's Act.
The state lottery was used to augment salaries for social workers for a one-year period, and Doman's $1,200-a-month pay went up to $2,000. But next year, salaries will go back down.
When an emergency case comes up, such as the abandonment of baby boy Umfile in a Roodepoort cemetery last year, Doman's first call is to a foster mother like Eleanor Dustin. A white, middle-class South African, Ms. Dustin renovated her home to become a shelter, The Lighthouse, for abandoned children.
"It's about the child," says Mrs. Dustin, holding the now healthy Umfile in her living room, during a recent home visit by Doman. Besides Umfile, Dustin has more than a dozen abandoned babies – most of whose parents are unknown, but assumed to be HIV-positive.
Dustin has taken the unusual step of putting a hole in the brick wall surrounding her spacious house in the upscale North Riding neighborhood and installing a "Moses basket," where parents can leave infants anonymously. An alarm goes off in Dustin's house to alert her when a child has been dropped off in the basket.
As the name "Moses basket" suggests, Dustin is a religious woman, and her faith helps her to keep going. "I do get tired," she says, but "it's through His grace that we're able to do it."
With nearly 43 percent of all South Africans living below the poverty line – defined as less than 400 rand ($53) per month – it is perhaps not surprising that many of the AIDS orphans in Doman's caseload become financial footballs to be kicked around by family members. South Africa gives "child care" grants of $30 a month per child to poor families. And there are "foster care" grants of $90 per child per month for children who have lost at least one parent. Nearly 9 million South African children receive child-support grants, and the case of Rose Sesotho indicates just what a source of tension they can be within impoverished families.
Mrs. Sesotho came to Roodepoort Child Welfare in 2007, when her daughter Mary Jane Mebe died of AIDS, leaving Sesotho with six grandchildren to care for. Two of these children have HIV and require constant medical treatment, one gets therapy for emotional stress, one has been diagnosed with arthritis, and another with epilepsy.
Sesotho – who takes heart medication herself – looks after these children the best she can, Doman says. But she's been unable to get full custody because the children's father – an unemployed Zimbabwean refugee – refuses to cooperate with the foster-care legal procedure. Having signed documents to transfer the children to Sesotho's care, he now refuses to hand over birth certificates and other records. So Sesotho is unable to obtain government grants to help support her grandchildren.
"I buried my own daughter," Sesotho says. "I have a small house. Four of us sleep in one bed. I have to borrow money at the end of the month."
If the father would simply sign off on the foster-care agreement and give up any claims to the children, Sesotho would receive $540 a month in grant money.
"I need to fight for this family," says Doman, after hearing Sesotho retell her story. "I need to prove that the children really need care, and that the father really will not do his part."
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As dark as Doman's cases can be, many also fill her with a sense of hope – like the case of 7-year-old Gift.
Celina Seloma – an elderly woman whose own sons have died – has looked after Gift for four years. Found neglected and ill in a tin shack in the northern Johannesburg township of Diepsloot, Gift was taken away by Roodepoort Child Welfare, and placed in foster care with Mrs. Seloma. Months after Gift came to stay, a doctor informed Seloma that the boy had HIV, probably contracted at birth from his mother.
Today, Gift is having medical treatment for HIV – the medicine provided free of charge under a US-funded program, the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) – and he is healthy, sweetly mischievous, and the center of attention at Seloma's home.
Other cases take Doman's breath away, as struggling families set aside their bickering to act in the interest of the child.
Last year, Doman received a call to place the infant child of a teenage mother in foster care. The mother, 16-year-old Celina Mashiane, was perfectly healthy, but had reached her wits' end living in the tidy brick home of her mother, Lucy Mashiane, and her stepfather.
Unlike many of Doman's cases, AIDS was not a factor, nor was sheer poverty. Here, the problem was cultural tradition. Celina's stepfather resented having an extra mouth to feed. Celina's boyfriend refused to pay "damages" – an African tradition where, in lieu of marriage, young men who father children pay the mother's family to help support the child.
The solution lay in finding a new way, Doman says, one that allowed Celina some space to finish school, and also relieved the financial burden required by African traditions.
Through painstaking negotiations with both Celina's and the young father's families, Doman encouraged shared custody. Today, the father's family shares the financial responsibility for raising Celina's baby, Amogelang.
Having a few days without Amogelang to look after allows Celina to go to high school, she says, and she has plans to attend college to become an accountant.
This solution "changed the way I thought about other things," Celina says, holding her baby in the kitchen of her mother's house. "I had to make decisions to do the right things for my future and the future of my child."
Doman seems satisfied after a recent visit to Celina's. As she settles into the drive to her next case, she says, "It keeps me going to see smart people take themselves to a new level."
Related stories:
South Africa AIDS orphans: A foster mother can't cope
South Africa AIDS orphans: Gift's birth mother confronts his foster parents


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EVGA GTX 660 Ti Superclocked (SC) graphics card has dual slot air cooling that is very similar to Nvidia's reference design. The Base clock on the Superclocked card is higher than reference, i.e. up from 915MHz to 980MHz. Still, this didn't prove too troublesome for the cooler which ran quiet even under load.
Although the GTX 670 is 24.3cm long, the PCB is only 17.3cm, which is clear once you look at the card from the back.
Nvidia moved the power circuitry from its usual spot at the end of the card towards the I/O panel. This left empty space at the end of the PCB, so the company simply cut it off and saved on materials.
GTX 660 Ti SC 2GB is powered via two 6-pin power connectors, just like the reference GTX 660 Ti or GTX 670 card. The reference GTX 660 Ti's TDP is at 150W.
The blower style fan stands on the plastic bracket that's mounted on the PCB.
The heatsink is made of one piece of aluminum. Since there are no heatpipes, the copper base was made pretty wide in order to boost dissipation.
EVGA's GTX 660 TI SC packs a total of 2GB of GDDR5, in eight memory modules. Two of the modules are placed on the back.
You should know that EVGA plans for a version of the GTX 660 Ti with 3GB of memory in a few weeks time.
The memory chips in question come from Hynix (model No: H5GQ2H24AFR-R0C). They're specified to run at 1500MHz (6000MHz GDDR5 effectively).
Video outs include two dual-link DVIs (only one is VGA capable) and standard HDMI and DisplayPort connectors. Note that all four outs can be used simultaneously.
The GTX 670 comes with two SLI connectors usually found only on Nvidia's high end cards. This means that users can daisy chain more cards in a Quad GTX 660 Ti system. We're actualy not sure whether Quad SLI is possible, since Nvidia officially supports only 3-way SLI, however, we're talking about driver restrictions, so anything is possible. If you remember the 301.42 driver adds Quad SLI support for GTX 670.


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His arm in a cast and his face swollen, a blase-looking Dzhokhar Tsarnaev pleaded not guilty Wednesday in the Boston Marathon bombing in a seven-minute proceeding that marked his first public appearance since his capture in mid-April.
As victims of the bombing looked on, Tsarnaev, 19, gave a lopsided smile to his sisters upon arriving in the courtroom. He appeared to have a jaw injury and there was swelling around his left eye and cheek.
Then, after he leaned over toward a microphone and said, "Not guilty" over and over in a Russian accent, he was led out of the courtroom, making a kissing motion with his lips toward his family as he left. His sister sobbed loudly, resting her head on a woman seated next to her.
He faces 30 federal charges, including using a weapon of mass destruction to kill, and could get the death penalty if prosecutors choose to pursue it.
This courtroom sketch depicts Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev during arraignment in federal court Wednesday, July 10, 2013 in Boston. The 19-year-old has been charged with using a weapon of mass destruction, and could face the death penalty.
The proceedings took place in a heavily guarded courtroom packed not only with victims but with their families, police officers, members of the public and the media.
Tsarnaev looked much as he did in a photo widely circulated after his arrest, his hair curly and unkempt. He appeared nonchalant, almost bored during the hearing. The cast covered his left forearm, his hand and his fingers.
The April 15 attack killed three people and wounded more than 260. Authorities say Tsarnaev orchestrated the attack along with his older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who died following a shootout with police three days after the bombing.
The death penalty, CBS News senior national security analyst Juan Zarate notes, is likely to become a bargaining chip between the defense and prosecution in Tsarnaev's punishment. The case also tests a broader policy question.
"Whether or not [the U.S.] pursues the death penalty in this case -- what's the symbolism around that? What does it say about American justice? And how is it used by those around the world?" Zarate said.
Zarate also said the case provides an opportunity for the government and the FBI to gather more information about the bombings that they were not able to get before.
"This is an interesting moment," he said. "It brings the case back to the public mind, but it also is a strategic moment in the investigation itself."
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was arrested on April 19 when he was found hiding in a boat in a suburban backyard. He was initially charged in the hospital, where he was recovering from wounds suffered in a police shootout.
Tsarnaev's two sisters, both in Muslim garb, were in court Wednesday. One was carrying a baby, the other wiped away tears with a tissue. His parents remained back in Russia.
Among the relatives of victims present in the courtroom was Peter Brown, the uncle of two men who lost their right legs in the bombings.
"The only opinion I could have, when I first saw him, is that it appeared he gave what I described as a smirk," Brown told reporters. "He never looked at us, he never turned in our direction and I sat directly behind him."
Liz Norden, the mother of the two men, said afterward: "I actually felt sick to my stomach."
MIT police officers came to the court to honor their former colleague Sean Collier, who was allegedly killed by the Tsarnaev brothers during the manhunt to find them.
"I didn't see the remorse, or the fear of the sadness that I thought I would in somebody in his position," MIT Police Chief John DiFava said after the proceedings.
Reporters and spectators began lining up for seats in the courtroom at 7:30 a.m. as a dozen Federal Protective Service officers and bomb-sniffing dogs surrounded the courthouse.
Four hours before the hearing, the defendant arrived at the courthouse in a four-vehicle motorcade that included a van, a Humvee and a state police car.
A group of about a dozen Tsarnaev supporters cheered as the motorcade arrived. The demonstrators yelled, "Justice for Jahar!" as Tsarnaev is known. One woman held a sign that said, "Free Jahar."
A group of friends who were on the high school wrestling team with Tsarnaev at Cambridge Rindge and Latin waited in line outside the courtroom for hours, hoping to get a seat.
One of them, Hank Alvarez, said Tsarnaev was calm, peaceful and apolitical in high school.
"Just knowing him, it's hard for me to face the fact that he did it," said Alvarez, 19, of Cambridge.
Another ex-teammate, Shun Tsou, 20, of Cambridge, called Tsarnaev "a silent warrior type."
"There was nothing sketchy about him," said Tsou, adding that he had not formed an opinion on Tsarnaev's guilt or innocence.
Prosecutors say Tsarnaev, a Muslim, wrote about his motivations for the bombing on the inside walls and beams of the boat where he was captured. He wrote the U.S. government was "killing our innocent civilians."
"I don't like killing innocent people," he said, but also wrote: "I can't stand to see such evil go unpunished. ... We Muslims are one body, you hurt one you hurt us all."
Three people — Martin Richard, 8; Krystle Marie Campbell, 29; and Lingzi Lu, 23 — were killed by the bombs, which were improvised from pressure cookers. Authorities say the Tsarnaevs also killed Massachusetts Institute of Technology officer Sean Collier days later while they were on the run.
Numerous bombing victims had legs amputated after the two explosions, which detonated along the final stretch of the race a couple hours after the elite runners had finished.


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To Matt,When I wrote that I "wasn't an aficionado," it didn't mean that I don't care about the genre. It holds a special place in my heart and I think it would be a difficult, but extremely rewarding experience, to direct a horror film. I just don't consider myself an expert on the genre while I know a lot of people do.I'm trying to brainstorm ideas for my script, but I am interested in what people truly fear and why. I respect the xixax community's opinions for the most part so I thought this would be a good place to go.As for The Decsent, I just saw it and I was wondering why you liked it so much. I thought there were some very nice sequences, in the begining when she's running through the hospital and the lights are turning off, very dreamlike. The film itself was well shot with some really pretty cinematography, maybe too pretty for a cave. And I liked the references to other horror films, like the blair witch project and a lot of carrie references. But little things pissed me off. the handheld camera shots were moving when the person holding the camera was sitting still. Not a huge deal, but it was those smalls things that took me out of the film. Plots holes that could have been corrected just looked sloppy to me. When she first sees the cave being, it runs away from her, but throughout the rest of the film they are being chased by the creatures. They could have just made that first one a baby, so it would make sense that it was scared, plus it would be even freakier and when the larger creatures appeared they would have even more of a presence. Do you think it's ridiculous to hold a horror film to those standards? Am I just a pretentious asshole?Perhaps I am, but it's hard not to be when you're studying film. Also I just wasn't that scared by the film. Maybe it was because I was high, but I have to stop using that as an excuse. It defnitely had its moments, but overall I though it could have been way better.Anyway, I'll definitely check out Rosemary's Baby, I've been meaning to watch it for some time now. Thanks.
To Pubrick and RegularKarate, I assume you both have a lot of time on your hands and therefore posted your comments out of utter boredom. I think this is a great website, but I also fear technology and spending too much time on the internet makes me ill. Regardless, I'll respond to your comments with the following: a heartfelt, fuck you.
why the fuck should any of us give our time to help a knob like you? why is matt doing it? he must be the one posting out of utter boredom...


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Speaking of roots, I had a dental appointment on Friday. Due to Measles as a baby, I have ameliogenesis imperfecta with several of my teeth. Basically, some of my teeth have deformities. One of which is that the nerve in one tooth reaches quite a bit higher than normal. Also linked with the deformity of the drugs (legal!) I took in the early 80's, those teeth are weaker and more susceptible to problems. Many, many years ago I had a filling put in the tooth that touched on that high reaching nerve. Over the years that nerve touching the filling, in addition to a slight tapping from the tooth having moved (from squash racket trauma about 2000), and just normal advancement of time that root has decided to pass away. Yes, I am the owner of a slowly dying tooth. I have been placed on antibiotics to keep the nerve from getting infected as it decays. In the next few weeks I will experience my first root canal.
On an interesting note, once Dr. Spitzer saw my x-ray of the teeth he quickly noted how long the roots are on my teeth. Amanda confirmed to me later that during the freak show discussion that ensued my teeth roots were measured at 25 mm long. Amanda tells me that the normal individual has roots approximately 15 mm long. The dentist commented how he may have to order some longer tools to work on the tooth. Whether it was in jest or not, I have come to appreciate how different I really am. Deep down inside I always knew I was special. Now I know it is a good 10 mm deeper why I am special.
So we have frantically tried to figure out how we would pay for what a root canal and crown would cost without insurance. When in the mail today I received an invitation to join the insurance for my work. As generous as they are, I will now have dental insurance. Now I just have to find how long of a waiting period I will have with a tooth that has become highly sensitive to hot and cold with slight throbbing from time to time.
Anyhow, on to the story of Pulaski County, Virginia. My Ross line left Pulaski County about 1912 and headed to settle in Rupert, Idaho. The daughter, Fannie had married a Phibbs from Pulaski and Carroll County and moved out previously. Her husband was the Minidoka County Judge in Rupert. With the opening of the new Sugar Factory at Paul, the rapid expansion of irrigateable farm land, and an economic downturn in Pulaski it was time to move. James Thomas Meredith Ross who I have written about before followed his daughter Fannie. His other three children would follow to the west. James would later settle in the Vernal area. The Phibbs would eventually end up north of Sacramento, California. John would roam for many years marrying in West Virginia, Colorado, and Wyoming. He would die in Alameda County, California. Robert we don't really know what happened to other than he died in California about 1944.
While I have written about all of that previously, James Thomas Meredith Ross would leave behind his half brother William Andrew Ross. William would marry and move to West Virginia. He lived in Gary, WV most of his life and raised his family there. He worked in the mines coal mines. He and Sarah (Sallie) had 12 children. The youngest of which is Howard Ross born in 1925.
It was Howard we went to visit this weekend.
Howard is the only remaining individual of his family. He was born in Thorpe, West Virginia and moved to Bluefield, West Virginia many years ago. He lives in a home perched on the side of a hill on Essex St. He had 3 children, and a step child he helped raised. He worked in or with the mines all his life. His wife past away a few years back and he lives in the home with his grandson and future granddaughter-in-law.
I knew of Howard because he had spent so much of his life pursuing family history. Grandpa gave me a copy of one of his books he had written about 1972 on the Ross family. That is how I knew who he was and that he was related. By the time I came home from my mission I did not expect him to be alive anymore until one day in Twin Falls I was visiting with a missionary who had served in the West Virginia Mission. I told him of Howard (I knew he was LDS) and the missionary not only knew of Howard, he had his address and phone number. He gave it to me and I called Howard.
I have looked forward to meeting Howard for several years and of visiting the famous Pulaski County. The valleys surrounding Pulaski County had already been home to the Graham and other families for over a hundred years by the time Pulaski County was formed in 1839. There Meredith, Martin, Booth, Shepherd, and other families were well entrenched. But my main interest was in going to the area where my family left before heading west.
Friday we drove out to Pulaski County and arrived after dark. We spent the night in a hotel at Claytor Lake just over the border into the county. The next morning we drove into Pulaski and just got a feel for the town and then headed for the hour and half drive to Bluefield to see Howard.
Bluefield turned out to be what you would imagine a town 50 years ago. The little streets, little yards, flags on every house, and a good percentage of people sitting on their porch. It was a lazy, hazy, day in summer. We wound through the streets of Bluefield following our directions to Essex St. Wow, as if we were not impressed. One side of the street was wood and the other side of the street were homes perched on the side of a hill probably 75 to 100 feet up. This hillside was probably at a 45 degree angle. We found the home and climbed the steep stairs to the rickety old porch.
I don't mean to sound negative, but we had entered what you joke about with rednecks. These homes sat precariously sitting on the side of this hill and had not had any care in the last 40 years. There was a hand made 2X4 railing up this terribly steep hike and at the top the porch wood buckled with every step. Howard met us in the open door and invited us in. We sat there in a relic of the 1930's with only the television and sofa to remind us we were actually not in the mid 20th century.
Howard sat there talking with us in a most happy manner with his eye patch and asking for us to repeat often what we said. Moreover, he spoke with that thick gentleman manner which so permeates the old confederate ideal. His joking ways were jovial and we had quite the good conversation.
I took him with my computer through all the descendants of William Andrew Ross and he updated quite a bit of my information. We also showed him a number of pictures I thought he would be interested in from my side of the family. He then told us a few stories.
Uncle Jim (my great great grandfather who went west) had come to visit in the 1930's where they lived in Gary, West Virginia. It was the late 1930's because the family had all gone to attend a Conference of the church in Grundy County, Tennessee. One of the speakers that morning was Jim Ross, Howard's Uncle. The children did not attend but afterward all these people kept coming to his mother and commenting about how powerful Mr. Ross had been in his preaching. Howard's mother had to set them all straight that it was not her husband but her brother-in-law. Howard remembers the day because it was the day he was baptized. They would meet for the morning meetings and then have a big meal and baptisms in the middle, and go back to conference in the afternoon.
They went back home after the conference and Uncle Jim came and stayed for a spell. Howard remembers Uncle Jim taking the wash basin out to the fields and coming back with a huge amount of corn. He then told Howard's mother to cook all the corn and they would eat it for dinner. When Uncle Jim found out they did not have any milk, he went out and purchased a milk cow and brought it back for them to have milk. (This isn't necessarily all the same night). Howard remembers that he was so thoroughly struck by how much Uncle Jim could eat. Howard swears Uncle Jim must have pushed near 300 pounds and that man could eat. Howard laughs and laughs about how when Uncle Jim left he went and sold the cow and they didn't have milk for years afterward.
Howard remembers Uncle Jim was missing a finger. He doesn't remember which one, but he did ask how he lost it. Apparently he had been bitten by a spider and as the finger started to rot and decay he finally just cut it off. The Dr. apparently told him he had saved his life by taking the finger off.
That was about all he remembered of Uncle Jim. He knew he moved to California after Idaho and Oregon. While in Fresno he served as a Bishop of an LDS ward for quite a few years. Uncle Jim was always a Ross to him even though he took the Meredith name back after moving to California. The timeline in relation to the name I have told previously.
John Ross, or Jack as he was known, also made a trip out to West Virginia to visit. He came out after his second wife had passed away (my great grandmother) and tried to convince his first wife to marry him again. She wasn't having any of that and Jack left empty handed. Howard never met Hobart Day, Jack's oldest child with his first wife.
Howard doesn't remember ever meeting any of the rest of the family. Donna Phibbs Beachell came out to visit in the 1970's and spent quite a bit of time with Howard. They wrote often over the years, some of which letters I mentioned were sent to me in the papers of Howard from John Ross.
Howard was very interested in what I had found out on the Meredith family and I told him what I was pretty sure to be correct. He related to me more of the stories of what he believed happened to his grandfather but until further information comes out to prove the James Meredith story of the Harvy Ross story, we still really don't know for sure. I think mine is pinpointed quite a bit more firmly than his.
Howard then gave us a bit of the history of the LDS church in West Virginia. He had us drive him down to the Bluefield Ward Building over the border in Bluefield, Tazewell County, Virginia. He gave us a tour of the building. We met the Bishop and a few other people.
We went back to the house and he asked that I give a blessing to his daughter, Sarah who lives next door. She has MS and various other problems that come with smoking, MS, and the redneck lifestyle. I will tell you now, I was alarmed that 82 year old Howard regularly climbs and descends those stairs out front. They were so steep I didn't feel safe especially with an old man struggling up them. I gave a blessing to a woman who didn't want it but whose father insisted. Talk about a little awkward of a position. We then went next door where he asked I give his future granddaughter-in-law a blessing. Not only did he want a blessing for her, but the unborn child as well. That was my first experience I remember blessing a baby in the womb. Both turned out to be special events. I enjoyed them and Howard became choked up after the second of the two. My oil holder had become cracked and did not stay together any more and so we had to make due with a tablespoon of vegetable oil in a small glass bowl. Under the circumstances it was the best we could do and we were richly blessed on the occasion.
Interestingly, the kitchen is exactly how you would have found it in the 1940's. The sink, the ironator, cupboards, and more were all of proper vintage. Sadly, that was probably the last time they were cleaned. It was quite humbling to see the faith of this man in such humble circumstances.
We left with my promising to do the ordinance work for his son and him after he had passed away. He joked, part seriously, that through family history he had prepared the way for hundreds to enter heaven despite his own lack of achieving the same goal.
Amanda and I left and wound our way back to Pulaski County. There we wound our way through the desolate parts of county roads trying to cross the New River. We found our way across and went through the little towns of Allisonia, Hiwassie, and Snowville. All towns of which were heavily populated by those of my ancestry. It was interesting to drive along and recognize names on mailboxes and say to Amanda, "They are probably related."
We drove back across the river up to Newbern, past Dublin, and back to Pulaski. There we enjoyed our dinner, as we had our breakfast, at the Sonic Drive-In with gift cards that had been given to us for helping a lady move into the ward.
Afterward we hit the road to try and make Tennessee for some souvenirs and then across Southern Virginia to other ancestral locations. We realized we were too far from Tennessee too late in the day to make it so at Rural Retreat (how is that for a name?) we turned and headed east. We drove through Independence (Grayson County) and crashed for the night in Galax (Carroll County). Both counties are heavily tied to me as well. Sunday morning we awoke and made our way to Hillsville (Carroll County Seat), Martinsville (home of the Martins of which I am related), over to Danville, north to Keysville and Farmville, and home to Richmond.
It was a long weekend but very worthwhile. I really enjoyed getting to see Allisonia, Hiwassie, and Snowville. Maybe someday we will get to go back. Maybe Howard will be around when it comes time for us to head back west in a year.


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R.A. Salvatore on Questing
I just loved this tid bit on ReRollz.com featuring R.A. Salvatore:
Rerollz: What do you think is the most successful medium for delivering a storyline inside a MMOG? Is it text in a Quest Log window? Is it dialogue bubbles popping up from NPC's on screen? Or is it perhaps voiceover work like with what they are doing at Bioware's Star Wars game?
R.A. Salvatore: It's definitely not the text bubbles. Of that I am certain. How many people read the text of a quest carefully, compared to those who just read the objectives to get it done? I think it's a combination of a lot of things: some text, sure; voiceover helps, but even that can get tedious if it drones on too long (the opening of Culling of Stratholme…); cut scenes can do phenomenal things to evoke emotion in the player, if they're done well; and finally, as I said above regarding Icecrown, the idea that your actions actually change the environment is probably the most powerful thing of all.
How cool is he!? So glad someone out there gets it. Of course, being one of the foremost writers in fantasy adventure, I suppose he would. lol.


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March 19. 2014 9:33PM
Osram Sylvania to shutter Manchester plant, lay off 139
By DAVE SOLOMON
New Hampshire Union Leader
MANCHESTER — One of the state's largest manufacturing employers, Osram Sylvania, is closing its Manchester operation and laying off 139 employees.
The move is part of a restructuring of the company due to declining sales for traditional lighting products, according to company spokesperson Anne Guertin.
Osram will also be closing operations at its Central Falls, R.I., plant and in York, Pa., for a total of 345 hourly and salaried employees.
The closures and layoffs take effect in September.
"The closure of the three plants is part of Osram's previously announced global realignment toward solid state lighting," said Guertin. "The decision to close the plants is a difficult but necessary step in order to focus resources on developing a comprehensive solid-state lighting portfolio that best meets the needs of the market and ensures future growth."
Guertin cited the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, which phases out incandescent lighting and requires the use of more energy-efficient fluorescent lighting.
"Osram is responding to a fundamentally changing market that is moving toward solid state lighting per legislative requirements," she said.
In March of last year, the company announced it was eliminating 49 positions at its Manchester plant, 655 South Willow St., citing the consumer shift toward LED and the decline in incandescent technology.
The company also has locations in Hillsborough and Exeter in New Hampshire. With approximately 1,000 employees across the three locations, it is among the top five manufacturing employers in the state.
While the company is shedding employees at sites that focused on incandescent technology, it is adding elsewhere.
Work at the Hillsborough plant was recently cited in an automotive web site called 3d-cars-shows.com, regarding the LED technology on the Ford F-150 pickup truck.
"The program is creating more than 30 jobs at the OSRAM Hillsborough, N.H., facility," the site reported.
Gov. Maggie Hassan said she has directed state officials to provide all possible assistance to workers affected by the closure.
"Our Rapid Response Team, with representatives from across state government, will coordinate directly with the company to help connect workers to new employment opportunities and to ensure that they and their families have access to the resources and assistance they need," she said.
Commissioner of New Hampshire Employment Security George Copadis said the Rapid Response Team, coordinated through the Department of Resources and Economic Development, would be organizing a job fair, "to get these people back to work."
A job fair in Manchester on Wednesday attracted 75 employers offering more than 600 jobs, he said, with approximately 400 applicants.
With the unemployment rate dipping to 4.7 percent as of the end of February, the unemployed workers will be entering the best job market in New Hampshire since before the Great Recession started in 2008.
Osram, headquartered in Munich, Germany, has more than 35,000 employees and 53 production plants in 18 countries around the world.


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Ex-Lesbian Urges Christian Love, Not Rejection for Homosexuals
It's unfortunate that, in the Christian context, homosexuals are the modern day lepers, said a former lesbian.
Beyond the advancement of the homosexual agenda in the nation's school systems and popular culture, the greater tragedy is that Christians have misrepresented God's character to the gay community and have alienated them from the Gospel, said Christine Sneeringer, director of Worthy Creations, an Exodus International ministry.
Sneeringer was walking out of homosexuality for two years when during one Sunday school session on abortion and homosexuality, she was met by harsh comments from Christians that were not unfamiliar to the gay community, she said in a testimony featured in a recent Coral Ridge Ministries broadcast.
One fellow believer said she doesn't have any compassion toward homosexuals while another agreed and added that AIDS is God's judgment against them. Both were unaware of Sneeringer's sexual history.
"It's no wonder that the average homosexual expects rejection from Christians," said Sneeringer, who was speaking to hundreds of Christians in Fort Lauderdale last month.
"There's not a homosexual in North America who doesn't know the evangelical viewpoint on homosexuality," she said. "But do they know there's a God in Heaven who loves them and who sent a Savior to die for them too?"
Not all gays want to be gay, she noted. But in a society that says it's okay to be gay, many don't know there's a way out.
In the wake of the Ted Haggard scandal, Sneeringer said she wished the former megachurch pastor, before becoming a prominent evangelical leader, would have felt safe enough to ask for help to overcome same-sex attractions through a community that preaches Christ's redeeming love and not judgment. Haggard recently moved out of Colorado Springs months after a former male prostitute alleged a three-year cash-for-sex relationship.
Sneeringer grew up in a home where her father verbally and physically abused her mother and was addicted to pornography. At 12 years old, she was sexually molested by her older cousin and later her brother.
At age 15, she got involved in her first lesbian relationship. Lesbians are often trying to protect themselves against further hurt from a man, said Sneeringer. And her homosexual relationship seemed to meet a need in her life at that time.
Not until Sneeringer joined a Baptist church's softball team and met Christians who did not condemn or pass judgment on her did she realize the love of Jesus Christ. The women's team never preached to her, but just loved her and prayed for her.
In this new century, there are only two kinds of churches – the relevant and the irrelevant – she stated. Relevant churches uphold the biblical standard of morality in a culture that has lost morals and is bold to show God's love to those trapped in their sin.
Today, Sneeringer is no longer a lesbian. She's thankful for the relevant church that looked beyond her sin.
Now, Sneeringer is telling Christians to be that relevant church.
"What have we done to offer the gay community an alternative?" she posed to Christians. Just railing against gays hasn't helped them to know the redeeming love of Jesus Christ, the ministry leader stressed.
"Often Christians think that to love a homosexual is a compromise of their Christianity, that somehow their love would be misconstrued as condoning homosexuality."
But the second greatest commandment is to love your neighbor, Sneeringer highlighted.
A Christian's message must balance truth and love. Jesus, she said, accepted and loved sinners. And he loved them enough not to leave them in their sinful state but to challenge them to a live a life beyond it, Sneeringer explained.
There are some groups who have successfully reached out to homosexuals, including Exodus International, which helped her walk out of her lesbian life. Still, progress is slow and steady, she said.
"If we can't embrace and support the repentant homosexual, how much more will we struggle with showing God's redemptive love to the active homosexual?" she asked the Christian crowd, adding that many gays are doing their best to walk right with God and crucify their fleshly desires.
Sneeringer challenged Christians to spread Christ's redeeming love to the homosexual community.


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The board members, who Borough President Melinda Katz removed on July 23, took Katz and State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to federal court asking for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction, which would allow them to keep their seats on the board.
Brooklyn Magistrate Judge James Orenstein heard the case and made the recommendation in favor of Katz. Magistrate judges often hear cases in federal court and then pass their recommendation on to the judge assigned to the case, which means the decision is not final.
U.S. District Judge Margo Brodie will have to make an official ruling, while the board members have until Aug. 29 to file objections and appeal Orenstein's recommendation.
After the decision was made, representatives for the board members released a statement saying that the board will be "working throughout the months ahead to implement changes to the Library's by-laws mandated by state law, improve transparency and adopt best practices of not-for-profit corporate governance."
"Our focus is not on the courtroom, but in the boardroom and at the branches across the borough that we are responsible for," the statement read.
Katz and Mayor Bill de Blasio removed eight board members in total after questions over the management of the library's finances arose.
Specifically, the eight removed board members continued to support QPL CEO and President Thomas Galante, despite accusations that he was spending library funding on renovations to his own office and making too much money with a $400,000 salary considering he had a second, six-figure job on the side.
After they continued to allow Galante to be employed, and refused to give Comptroller Scott Stringer access to the books documenting their use of private funds and donations, Katz worked with state lawmakers to pass new legislation that would allow the borough president and mayor to remove board members that had been appointed by their respective positions.
The board members, on the other hand, argue the legislation is an invasion of the independence of the library as a private institution, which they say was created as such in order to avoid government interference.
Representatives of the board member's have said that Katz's actions are an "attempt to seize control of the Queens Library for her own political ends."
Stringer disagreed, releasing a statement after Judge Orenstein's decision recommending that the board vote to give him access to all of the necessary documents for his audit.
"The Queens Library trustees who brought this suit acted solely in their own interest and not the public's," Stringer said. "My audit of the Queens Public Library was a direct response to allegations of gross mismanagement, self dealing and worse. Trustees have a fiduciary duty to serve the institution, not themselves."
Meanwhile, the two board members that the mayor dismissed did not sue, and last week, de Blasio announced the appointment of a new board member.
Jukay Hsu is a Queens native from Flushing and a technology entrepreneur in Long Island City. He is the first person to fill one of the eight empty board member positions.
"I hope to positively contribute and will work to ensure that the Queens Library has the highest standards of corporate governance and fiduciary oversight, and remains a treasured institution that provides critical services to members of our community," Hsu posted on his Facebook page following the announcement.
He also expressed his desire to use his background in the tech world to help guide the library into the digital age.
"I'm particularly excited to think about the changing role of the library system and support its evolution, particularly as the digital age continues to transform our relationship with books, community space, education, and access to opportunity," he said.


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KABUL, Afghanistan, March 16 (UPI) -- U.S. officials Friday identified the soldier accused of killing 16 civilians in Afghanistan as Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales.
Media reports Friday cited U.S. officials, whose names were not reported, as saying Bales, 38, was being flown to the United States from Kuwait. Citing his attorney, John Henry Browne, the Los Angeles Times reported Bales was being flown to a military detention center at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
The U.S. military has not formally identified Bales publicly, CNN reported, citing military policy.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai told the families of people allegedly killed by the U.S. soldier he distrusts the U.S. military's version of what happened.
Karzai said the killing spree has pushed U.S.-Afghan relations to "the end of the rope," CNN reported. He said U.S. officials appeared to be withholding information.
Bales allegedly left an outpost in Kandahar province, Camp Belambay, and shot nine children, three women and four men in nearby villages Sunday.
"We tried to talk to the soldier involved, but there was no cooperation from America," Karzai told the families. "Based on what you are saying, the killer was not just one person."
Karzai said Afghan investigators are suspicious of U.S. video footage captured by security cameras, CNN said.
Bales has been described as a decorated veteran of three combat tours in Iraq. He was in his first deployment in Afghanistan. His unit was based at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington.
He reportedly suffered a serious head injury in 2010 in a vehicle rollover in Iraq.
"I think it's of interest that we have a soldier who has an exemplary record, a decorated soldier who was injured in Iraq to his brain and to his body, and then despite that was sent back. I think that's an issue. I think it's a concern," said Browne, who told CNN he was representing Bales and had spoken with him by telephone.
A senior U.S. official told the Times Bales may have been drinking heavily just before the shootings, a violation of military regulations in combat areas.
"When it all comes out, it will be a combination of stress, alcohol and domestic issues -- he just snapped," said the official, who was briefed on the investigation and spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Browne, whose high-profile client list includes a teenage thief known as the "Barefoot Bandit," said a report of marital tension was "nonsense," the Times reported.
Bales and his wife, the parents of two children, had "a very healthy marriage," Browne said.


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Civil rights pioneer and educator Robert Moses will highlight Forum on Social Change and Justice
Former director of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and organizer of the Freedom Riders, Moses will speak at UH Manoa on Lincoln's BirthdayUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
The UH Manoa Department of Ethnic Studies has scheduled an on-campus public appearance for civil rights pioneer Robert Moses at a Forum for Social Change, scheduled for Monday, February 12, at Hemenway Theatre, beginning at 12:30 p.m.
Moses was field secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and director of SNCC's Mississippi Project where he helped to organize the historic Freedom Riders that sought to desegregate the south in the 1960s. In recent years, Moses has extended his leadership in civil rights and social justice to the cause of education reform and academic excellence, working with the nationally-acclaimed Algebra Project. The Project seeks to build mathematics literacy in U.S. schools. His lecture — free and open to the public — is entitled The Algebra Project: Radical Equations > Math Education > Civil Rights = Social Justice.
The public appearance by Moses is the culminating event in a program that will include a professional development and teacher training workshop at Kapiʻolani Community College on Saturday, February 10, followed by the second annual luncheon to benefit the Ah Quon McElrath Endowed Fund for Social Change. Moses will lead the workshop and is principal speaker at the luncheon.
The McElrath Fund was established at the UH Foundation with the assistance of the Ethnic Studies Department to honor and support Ah Quon McElrath's service and contributions to the state. The Fund supports student engagement through conferences, publications and internships.
Co-sponsoring organizations include the UH Manoa Department of Ethnic Studies, the Office of Student Equity, Excellence and Diversity (SEED), UH GEAR UP, the College of Education, the state Department of Education Office of Curriculum, Instruction and Student Support, ILWU Local 142, isisHawaii, and the Honolulu Chapter of the NAACP.
The fundraising luncheon at Kapiʻolani CC is open to the public — ticket purchase information at UH Manoa Ethnic Studies, 956-8086.


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Every Successful New Technology Has Created Panic From Those It Disrupts
from the well-said deptJeffrey Tucker has an all around fantastic essay on capitalists who fear change -- discussing how companies and industries in an otherwise capitalist/free market society freak out when they face competition from disruptive innovation. They go to amazing lengths to claim that it's not real competition or innovation they face, but something that must be illegal, immoral, unethical or the death of all things good and holy. The technopanics set in with alarming frequency, and in the end, they are always wrong. The end result ends up being bigger and better than ever before, even if some of those legacy players don't make it through. Tucker tells the story wonderfully:
Through our long history of improvement, every upgrade and every shift from old to new inspired panic. The biggest panic typically comes from the producers themselves who resent the way the market process destabilizes their business model.Tucker includes other examples, but then explains the reality of innovation and profits. Profits are a temporary thing: because copycats do come along. But that's a good thing, because it forces greater innovation, as others seek to collect profits. You profit by being unique and different, and you encourage that to continue by letting others copy. That leads to more incentives to keep innovating and keeping make the world a better place. But, of course, that's hard, and companies want to keep their profits. So they move away from free market capitalism, towards crony capitalism:
It was said that the radio would end live performance. No one would learn music anymore. Everything would be performed one time, and recorded for all time, and that would be the end.
Of course that didn't happen. Then there was another panic when records came out, on the belief that this would destroy radio. Then tapes were next and everyone predicted doom for recorded music since music could be so easily duplicated ("Home Taping is Killing Music"). It was the same with digital music: surely this would be the death of all music!
And think back to the mass ownership of books in the 19th century. Many people predicted that these would destroy new authors because people would just buy books by old authors that were cheap and affordable. New authors would starve and no one would write anymore.
There is a pattern here. Every new technology that becomes profitable causes people to scream about the plight of existing producers. Then it turns out over time that the sector itself thrives as never before but in ways that no one really expected.
This is why business is always running to government for protection. Kill this crazy new technology! Stop these imports! Raise the costs on the competition! Give us a patent so that we can clobber the other guys! Impose antitrust law! Protect me with a copyright! Regulate the newcomers out of existence! Give us a bailout!And, of course, the public often accepts the moral panic story. Hell, I'd bet that even the companies making those claims -- completely out of self-interest -- believe the horrible things they're predicting from these new technologies. Jack Valenti was being sincere when he thought the VCR would destroy Hollywood. He was wrong. They're always wrong.
Here is a striking fact about the human mind: we have great difficulty imagining solutions that have yet to present themselves. It doesn't matter how often the market resolves seemingly intractable problems, we still can't become accustomed to this reality. Our minds think in terms of existing conditions, and then we predict all kinds of doom. We too often fail to consistently expect the unexpected.The full piece is absolutely worth reading.
This poses a serious problem for the market economy, which is all about the ability of the system to inspire discovery of new ideas and new solutions to prevailing the problems. The problems posed by change are obvious enough; but the solutions are "crowd sourced" and emerge from places, people, and institutions that cannot be seen in advance.
Capitalism is not for wimps who don't want to improve. If you want guaranteed profits for the few rather than prosperity and abundance for the many, socialism and fascism really are better systems.
Filed Under: capitalism, competition, disruption, monopolies, technology


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What is MountSafe?
MountSafe is a voice- and text-based phone and email system Mount St. Joseph University uses to alert students, faculty and staff of weather-related closings and delays as well as campus emergencies. Hamilton County sirens will alert us to tornado or severe thunderstorm warnings, so we don't plan to use CommunitySafe in those situations.
Did you get the message?
We strongly encourage all students, staff and faculty to sign up for MountSafe by listing up to nine phone numbers and four email addresses we can contact during an emergency. Messages could include information on weather-related campus closings, water or power outages, as well as crisis situations.
Once enrolled in MountSafe, you'll receive voice messages, text messages and emails regarding emergency news.
MountSafe for Current Students and Mount Employees
Current students, faculty, and staff can log in to myMount to register and update their information. Just check under Administrative Services for MountSafe in the left sidebar.
MountSafe for AVI, Follett and OMG Employees
AVI Foodsystems, Follett and OMG employees should email firstname.lastname@example.com to add or remove your information to the MountSafe system.
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Azure Storage REST API Reference
The REST APIs for the Microsoft Azure storage services offer programmatic access to the Blob, Queue, Table, and File services in Azure or in the development environment via the storage emulator.
All storage services are accessible via REST APIs. Storage services may be accessed from within a service running in Azure, or directly over the Internet from any application that can send an HTTP/HTTPS request and receive an HTTP/HTTPS response.
The Azure storage services support both HTTP and HTTPS; however, using HTTPS is highly recommended.
Storage Account
All access to storage services takes place through the storage account. The storage account is the highest level of the namespace for accessing each of the fundamental services. It is also the basis for authorization.
The REST APIs for storage services expose the storage account as a resource.
Blob Service
The Blob service provides storage for entities, such as binary files and text files. The REST API for the Blob service exposes two resources: containers and blobs. A container is like a folder, containing a set of blobs; every blob must reside in a container. The Blob service defines three types of blobs:
Block blobs, which are optimized for streaming. This type of blob is the only blob type available with versions prior to 2009-09-19.
Page blobs, which are optimized for random read/write operations and which provide the ability to write to a range of bytes in a blob. Page blobs are available with version 2009-09-19 and later. These are primarily used for the VHD files backing the AzureVMs.
Append blobs, which are optimized for append operations only. Append blobs are available only with version 2015-02-21 and later.
Containers and blobs support user-defined metadata in the form of name-value pairs specified as headers on a request operation.
Using the REST API for the Blob service, developers can create a hierarchical namespace similar to a file system. Blob names may encode a hierarchy by using a configurable path separator. For example, the blob names MyGroup/MyBlob1 and MyGroup/MyBlob2 imply a virtual level of organization for blobs. The enumeration operation for blobs supports traversing the virtual hierarchy in a manner similar to that of a file system, so that you can return a set of blobs that are organized beneath a group. For example, you can enumerate all blobs organized under MyGroup/.
A block blob may be created in one of two ways. Block blobs less than or equal to 256 MiB (5000 MiB, Preview) in size can be uploaded by calling the Put Blob operation. Block blobs larger than this must be uploaded as a set of blocks, each of which must be less than or equal to 100 MiB (4000 MiB, Preview) in size. A set of successfully uploaded blocks can be assembled in a specified order into a single contiguous blob by calling Put Block List. The maximum size currently supported for a block blob is 4.75 TiB (190.7 TiB, Preview).
Page blobs are created and initialized with a maximum size with a call to Put Blob. To write content to a page blob, you call the Put Page operation. The maximum size currently supported for a page blob is 8 TiB.
Append blobs can be created by calling Put Blob. An append blob created with the Put Blob operation does not include any content. To write content to an append blob, you add blocks to the end of the blob by calling the Append Block operation. Updating or deleting existing blocks is not supported. Each block can be of different size, up to a maximum of 4 MiB. The maximum size for an append blob is 195 GiB, and an append blob can include no more than 50,000 blocks.
Blobs support conditional update operations that may be useful for concurrency control and efficient uploading.
Blobs can be read by calling the Get Blob operation. A client may read the entire blob, or an arbitrary range of bytes.
For the Blob service API reference, see Blob Service REST API.
Queue Service
The Queue service provides reliable, persistent messaging within and between services. The REST API for the Queue service exposes two resources: queues and messages.
Queues support user-defined metadata in the form of name-value pairs specified as headers on a request operation.
Each storage account may have an unlimited number of message queues that are named uniquely within the account. Each message queue may contain an unlimited number of messages. The maximum size for a message is limited to 64 KiB for version 2011-08-18 and 8 KiB for previous versions.
When a message is read from the queue, the consumer is expected to process the message and then delete it. After the message is read, it is made invisible to other consumers for a specified interval. If the message has not yet been deleted at the time the interval expires, its visibility is restored, so that another consumer may process it.
For more information about the Queue service, see Queue Service REST API.
Table Service
The Table service provides structured storage in the form of tables. The Table service supports a REST API that implements the OData protocol.
Within a storage account, a developer may create tables. Tables store data as entities. An entity is a collection of named properties and their values, similar to a row. Tables are partitioned to support load balancing across storage nodes. Each table has as its first property a partition key that specifies the partition an entity belongs to. The second property is a row key that identifies an entity within a given partition. The combination of the partition key and the row key forms a primary key that identifies each entity uniquely within the table.
The Table service does not enforce any schema. A developer may choose to implement and enforce a schema on the client side. For more information about the Table service, see Table Service REST API.
File Service
The Server Message Block (SMB) protocol is the preferred file share protocol used on-premises today. The Microsoft Azure File service enables customers to leverage the availability and scalability of Azure's Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) SMB without having to rewrite SMB client applications.
The Azure File service also offers a compelling alternative to traditional Direct Attached Storage (DAS) and Storage Area Network (SAN) solutions, which are often complex and expensive to install, configure, and operate.
Files stored in Azure File service shares are accessible via the SMB protocol, and also via REST APIs. The File service offers the following four resources: the storage account, shares, directories, and files. Shares provide a way to organize sets of files and also can be mounted as an SMB file share that is hosted in the cloud.
See also
Blob Service REST API Queue Service REST API Table Service REST API File Service REST API


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It's been a while since I've participated in Fashion Beauty Friend Friday but I couldn't pass this up. After talking up the fantasy of make-up a few days ago, I had to bare it all. I did not retouch these photos in any way, shape or form except to adjust the lighting slightly. It's all here for you, laugh lines and everything. Some people call them crow's feet. I say it's just proof that I'm having fun. If I'm going to wrinkle, which is inevitable as I age, then heck, I want good wrinkles. The kind you get from living a good and happy life.
Oh, make-up, how do I love thee? A lot! It's fun, it's decorative, it can emphasize my big hazel eyes and downplay dark shadows below them. Ultimately, I like my face. I may wear make-up every day but I'm not embarrassed to be seen without it. I don't think I'm uglier without it. It's my face. Highly expressive, slowly changing with time, imperfect, forty-four years old now. Still, my face.
Franca of Oranges and Apples is hosting this week. Visit her to check out participating bloggers. Thank you Katy of Modly Chic for encouraging this topic. Fashion Beauty Friend Friday is an opportunity for fashion and beauty bloggers to share their thoughts on a specific topic and read what others have to say on that same topic. For more information, check out Modly Chic and welcome to the wonderful world of blogging!
And a special thanks to the hubby for taking advantage of this opportunity to photobomb me. It's no wonder I have laugh lines.


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Who is the most underrated from the 1980s? Vol. 3
Looking back at the 1980s is a weird thing because the decade is very distant now than when we first looked back during the 1990s and early 2000s with all the specials on VH1. Movies took old 80s songs and remixed them. It was cool to reminisce until the retro bubble popped 7 years ago. Remember when Puffy was taking classic 80s tunes using them for his tracks? Remember when Brandon Jennings tried to bring back the late 80s/early 90s hairstyle? Thank goodness those times are over.
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In order to encourage people to donate to the Delicious Agony you could do a podcast of the programs. I subscribe to Spotify just to listen to the songs of the programs since I've heard, so I end up spending my money there.
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Network security may be threatened by rising workloads and shrinking budgets.
Caption: Ken Theis, director, Michigan's Department of Information Technology
When Terry Childs, a network engineer for the city and county of San Francisco, locked co-workers out of the city's computer network in July 2008 and refused to hand over access codes - even to the police - it took a jail-side visit from Mayor Gavin Newsom before the rogue IT worker surrendered the password.
Childs' actions caused a sensation in the IT community. In particular, the blogosphere lit up with comments on the ramifications of San Francisco's network administrator-turned-malcontent hacker. Seattle Chief Technology Officer Bill Schrier blogged that Childs "apparently had a disdain for other administrators, staff and management in the [IT] department." InfoWorld's Senior Contributing Editor Paul Venezia blogged that Childs was "a disgruntled network admin."
But some comments revealed that Childs had supporters. "I sympathize with Mr. Childs' would-be goal of protecting the network," wrote one person in response to a July 28, 2008, blog post by Eric Knorr, another InfoWorld editor. "I got to tell you I don't think Terry meant to do anything malicious at all," wrote another. And still another stated that San Francisco was "making a scapegoat out of Terry Childs" because the city "dropped the ball" by not securing the passwords sooner rather than later.
Childs' motives may be debatable, but the threat posed by insider sabotage definitely isn't. In 2007, the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) released a report, Insider Security Threats: State CIOs Take Action Now! that suggested public scrutiny of government employees may reduce aggressive oversight and compliance regarding insider threats. The report cautioned CIOs about IT experts within state IT departments who have a hacker mentality. "This person is perhaps the most dangerous of all due to his or her expertise and resulting ability to exact a significant amount of damage which could garner unfavorable headlines," the report said. Although the NASCIO paper doesn't detail the underlying causes, it does show insider attacks are rising rapidly.
These findings mirror a 2006 survey conducted by the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team, a federally funded research and development center for Internet security expertise, which found that 68 percent of cyber-attacks originated from within an organization.
Stress could be one factor behind the rise in internal attacks. In October 2008, Robert Half Technology surveyed IT organizations and found workers are not only accomplishing more with fewer resources these days, but the cutbacks are taking a toll. Thirty-six percent of CIOs interviewed said bigger workloads are the greatest source of stress for their teams. Twenty-two percent cited the pace of new technology as the biggest stressor, followed by office politics at 18 percent.
Workloads are not a new problem in the public sector. Government IT departments have been under pressure to maintain the status quo or cut back for some time and the bad economy doesn't help. Data from the 2008 Public CIO Annual Reader Survey found that 68 percent of respondents saw either no change or a decrease in staffing levels, and 58 percent saw no change or a decreased budget.
In October, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities reported that at least 39 states faced budget shortfalls, while half of the states had already cut spending for fiscal 2009. With IT viewed as a major cost in government, CIOs and their workers - in virtually all government sectors - should expect to see further pressure to curtail IT budgets, along with a rise in worker-related stress.
We Must Balance Our Budget
If rising workloads and shrinking budgets contribute to stress, then San Francisco has had plenty of it. "I think we're on our eighth consecutive year of budget shortfall," said Chris Vein, CIO of San Francisco. "And San Francisco is a jurisdiction like many where we have to balance our budget. We can't deficit spend; we can't borrow. And the reason that the eight years becomes important is that by this time, you've done just about everything that you can that will not cause pain."
When the public leaders decide to reduce funding, IT is often at a disadvantage, Vein said, because the people in charge of the purse strings don't always know how IT works.
"Most policymakers' eyes glaze over when you start talking about technology. They don't understand it; they don't have time to understand it," he said. "So it becomes very difficult for them to understand when you say that budget cutting will have a negative impact and a far-reaching impact on the ability of an organization and municipality to meet the mission of providing services to their citizens."
Tough Choices
In Michigan, IT workers have contended with a major consolidation initiative and budget trouble, according to Ken Theis, director of the state's Department of Information Technology. The combination has added to workers' woes. "Major budget challenges have occurred in the last five years," he said. The consolidation involved phasing out jobs, and the remaining employees had to take on more work than they would've had otherwise.
"We had an early-out program that took about 20 percent of our staff out of our organization. We were not able to replace any of them," he said.
Since state government didn't allow the Department of Information Technology to replace any of its retirees, the remaining employees had to pick up the slack. "People were working, not only harder and more hours, but with technologies and platforms that they had never worked with before," Theis said.
Back in San Francisco, budget restrictions forced Vein to lay off some staff. "[With] so many years of budget cutting, I couldn't absorb these cuts anymore, and that meant I had to lay off staff that I no longer had money coming in to pay for," he said.
Vein said he tried to save as many jobs as possible and best utilize available resources by implementing a change-management strategy that involved transferring the management of some business units' out of the Department of Technology's purview and into the business units themselves. He said he felt that this would save his department some long-term headaches.
"While I understand and believe in the efficiencies of centralized support, sometimes when you have the application divorced from the business owner - i.e., not in the department - there can be a tendency for the department to just blame the central IT department for any failures of the department application and not take ownership," he said. If departments manage their own applications, it's Vein's belief they'll assume more responsibility and gain a better understanding of what it takes to manage them.
But the transition also meant moving some of Vein's central IT staff into other departments, along with the applications his department once managed.
"I ended up fairly significantly changing the staffing of the department by transferring out roughly 26 or 27 people and laying off 20 or 21 people," he said.
Did this upheaval cause friction? Definitely.
"These were people that had been there for a very long time, very good workers, very dedicated to their jobs and didn't understand why this was happening to them, didn't understand why I was doing this," he said. Vein added that many discussions with employee unions ensued, which in some cases resulted in grievances. It was tough not only on people who were forced to move, but also on the departments who were forced to receive them.
Talking It Out
Vein said he operated from a position of strength thanks to approval straight from the top.
"This issue was supported by the mayor's office, so that support basically provided the framework for me to move within," he said. Even so, Vein said he wishes he had done more.
"I didn't do enough, and in some cases, I didn't do the right amount of communication. Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but I attempted to do it," he said.
Jeffrey Clouse, CIO of Ohio's Department of Public Safety, also believes in the power of communication during tough times. "I think that the value of communication cannot be overstated, and communication is obviously more than just in words. You communicate a lot with your actions. Obviously keeping employees informed as to where you're going, what's happening," he said. "Being honest - that's No. 1."
Clouse may be in a more comfortable position than other CIOs. One of the Department of Public Safety's subdivisions is Ohio's Bureau of Motor Vehicles, which gets steady funding from driver's license fees and vehicle registrations. In Clouse's 20-year IT career, he's only had to lay off two people.
"So I have not experienced the pain that some of my peers have at those agencies that are on the general revenue fund," Clouse said.
When CIOs ignore lines of communications with their workers, tempers can rise, according to experts. Feelings quickly get hurt when workers believe they are being ignored or not being heard.
That's why Michigan's Theis believes communicating helps employees understand why changes, as painful as they may be, are necessary evils. This approach came in handy during the state's consolidation.
"Rather than having five [or] six different storage technologies or storage devices, we're going to pick one. If you're a technical person who's been supporting one of those other four systems that are going to be shut down, that's not something you like to hear, right? Because it's a huge change," he said. "But then you've got to articulate it - what's in it for me? What's in it for that individual? What's in it for that individual is enterprise. Rather than supporting five, six different backup platforms; wouldn't it be better to support a single platform?"
Workers Speak Up
But CIOs shouldn't necessarily blame the economic downturn as the sole reason for rogue administrators, according to Brent Boland, senior applications developer for the South Suburban Parks and Recreation District in Colorado. Salaries and hours could also be contributors, he said.
In order to decrease employees' stress, Boland suggested that managers get creative in compensating employees even when money is tight. Teleworking and letting employees set their own hours are good ways to start, Boland said.
"If leaders were willing to say, 'I'm going to let you maybe set your own hours,' or 'Go ahead and work from wherever so you don't have to spend the gas money to get into your office,' or 'Go to a four-day workweek if you feel like that'll help you,'" he said.
Some IT workers, like Sherry Lawdermilt, senior programmer analyst for Grand Forks, N.D., aren't concerned yet about the impact of the economic fallout on their workplace.
"It hasn't been an element in our department yet," she said. "We are actually busier than ever just because we did add a new wireless network, but we did not add additional employees to take care of it. So we are doing more with the same amount of people - but not due to budget cuts or anything along those lines."
Lawdermilt said the city government might be more insulated against the widespread layoffs and diminishing resources that plague the private sector.
"In the government sector, you tend to have more of a guarantee first of revenue," she said. "Most of our revenue comes from property taxes as well as permits for building, and with all of that going down, our revenue will decrease. But you still do have some guarantee of that as opposed to the private sector, so I think it is a little more secure."
Changing the Workplace Paradigm
Patrick Hale, deputy director and chief technology officer of the Bureau of Infrastructure Services in Michigan's Department of Information Technology, said workplace stress can be the springboard for greater opportunity, even amid consolidation and downsizing.
"When we're put under this kind of stress, we're having to make these kinds of decisions. It's really a great opportunity for innovation," he said. This innovation starts with assessing employees' needs. "How can we be better? How can we innovate? This really is an exciting time, even though it's a huge challenge. A lot of good can come out of being put under pressure."
Caption: Patrick Hale, deputy director and chief technology officer, Bureau of Infrastructure Services, Michigan Department of Information Technology
The key is listening to the people who are out on the front line, said California CIO Teri Takai. Sometimes, she said, people don't think about how to save time and money until there's a crisis.
"First of all, we try to recalibrate and look at how much we can do, given the budget strength that we have. For instance, we're doing a planning process so that we can really look at what we have the capability for," she said. Takai and department CIOs are also looking at more collaboration to eliminate repetitive processes. This agenda is similar to what's been laid out in Michigan's 2008 IT strategic plan.
Takai admitted that in California, many employees are being asked to accomplish more with fewer resources. She advised IT leaders look closely at the work to re-evaluate what's being done and excise unnecessary tasks.
And, like other CIOs, she agreed that communication is the best way to assess employee sentiment and identify stress levels.
"It's very important that, No. 1, managers are open and straightforward with their employees, and that employees are getting a lot of communication around what's going on," she said.


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A few weeks ago, a PAP apologist ranted in ST about the Lady visiting Europe, implying that she should have visited Asia because Asia was rising, Europe declining. I pointed out that if not for Europe, she would be dead. There is something as gratitude, a word that seems unknown to him and other PAPpies.
Well it seems she is pretty savvy too in economics. Asia is still so dependent on European (and America) growth. Even the nation-building, constructive ST tells us.
Here's a great example not reported by the local media. Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC reported a 58% fall in net profit to 7.4bn Taiwanese dollars (US$248m) in the three months ending in June. Second quarter revenue of 91bn Taiwanese dollars was worse-than-expected.
This is why: HTC sells most of its phones in Asia's developing economies at the lower, less profitable end of the market.
Contrast this with the news on the same day that Korean rival Samsung Electronics posted record second-quarter earnings largely due to the success of its Galaxy smartphone. The main markets for this are the US and to a certain extent, Europe. Asia is only a small market for this top-end smartphone.


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InnoDB Architecture and Performance Optimization
InnoDB is the most commonly used Storage Engine for MySQL and Percona Server and is the focus for majority of storage engine development by MySQL and Percona Server teams. In this Tutorial, we will look at InnoDB Architecture, including new developments in MySQL 5.6 as well as Percona Server. We will explain how it should be used to get the the best performance from your application. We will provide specific advice on server configuration, schema design, application architecture, and hardware choices. This tutorial is updated from its previous version, to cover new MySQL 5.6 and Percona Server InnoDB features in more details.
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Peter co-founded Percona in 2006, assuming the role of CEO. Percona helps companies of all sizes maximize their success with MySQL. Percona was named to the Inc. 5000 in 2013. Peter was an early employee at MySQL AB, eventually leading the company's High Performance Group. A serial entrepreneur, Peter co-founded his first startup while attending Moscow State University where he majored in Computer Science. As CEO of Percona, Peter enjoys mixing business leadership with hands on technical expertise. Peter is co-author of High Performance MySQL published by O'Reilly, one of the most popular books on MySQL performance. Peter blogs regularly on Percona Database Performance Blog and speaks frequently at conferences. Peter lives in North Carolina with his wife and two children. In his spare time, Peter enjoys travel and spending time outdoors.


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Diet and exercise are the two main pillars of a healthy lifestyle. For both weight management and physical fitness, they are equally important and go hand in hand. But how do they relate to one another? Scientists suggest that coordinating your eating and workout schedules can improve results.
Our busy lives make it oftentimes hard, if not impossible, to maintain a health-promoting regimen. We eat at different times, skip meals, snack in between, work out irregularly. While flexibility can be both a necessity as well as a virtue, keeping to a schedule has advantages that are hard to substitute.
"Every organ has a clock," said Dr. Satchidananda Panda, a researcher at Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California. "That means there are times that our livers, intestines, muscles and other organs work at peak efficiency, and other times when they are – more or less – sleeping."
Lab tests showed that when mice were allowed to eat any time they wanted, they soon gained weight. But others who had access to food for only eight hours a day did not, although they consumed roughly the same amounts. "Metabolic cycles are critical for processes such as cholesterol breakdown, and they should be turned on when we eat and turned off when we don't," Dr. Panda said in an interview with MSNBC Today/Health. Squeezing in quick bites or snacking throughout the day and at night can throw off these normal metabolic cycles, he warned.
What about exercise? While there is no ideal time for running or lifting weights – early risers may prefer the wee hours before the day starts, night owls may put it last on their to-do-list – there is the question of how to maximize the benefits.
For those who aim for weight loss, it can be important to coordinate their food intake, both in terms of quality and quantity, with their work-out schedule. Studies have suggested that intense physical activity like running, swimming or bicycling on an empty stomach can increase fat burn and therefore promote weight loss.
Other experts, however, caution against pre-exercise fasting. They say running on empty may help you get rid of fat faster, but you won't have enough energy for a more rigorous training. "If you have a long, hard run without breakfast once a week, that hard run will train you to burn fat," said Dr. Ron Maughan, a sport science professor at Loughborough University in Great Britain. For the rest of the week, however, he recommends eating plenty of carbohydrates, provided you can keep exercising. Also, if you allow your body to become too depleted, you may be tempted to overeat afterwards, thereby undoing all your good efforts.
"People often skip pre-exercise meals due to lack of time or not knowing what to eat," said Manuel Villacorta, a registered dietitian and spokesperson for the Academy for Nutrition and Dietetics. He recommends consuming appropriate amounts of carbohydrates and protein to keep you fueled and give you energy and a steady stomach. But be careful: "Even the best foods can come back to haunt you mid-workout if not allowed to properly digest," he said, "so it's best to eat 45 minutes to an hour before you work out – longer after heavy meals."
Some foods settle more easily and enter the bloodstream faster than others, he explains. These should be your preferred choices. Avoid those that make you feel sluggish or cause you having stomach cramps.
After you finished exercising, your muscles need to recover and nutrients need to be replenished. Focus on protein, especially after resistance training, and carbohydrates for refueling. Even if you are not hungry after being active, you must rehydrate by drinking plenty of water and perhaps some diluted juice or sports drink.
Obviously, there are no clear-cut rules that satisfy everyone's needs. Experts recommend you pay attention to how you feel during exercise and how your performance is affected. Only your own experience can guide you and help you get optimal results.
Timi Gustafson R.D. is a clinical dietitian and author of the book "The Healthy Diner – How to Eat Right and Still Have Fun"®, which is available on her blog, "Food and Health with Timi Gustafson R.D." (http://www.timigustafson.com), and at amazon.com. You can follow Timi on Twitter and on Facebook.


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Almost 15 years ago, I decided to fulfill my dream of living in a place with palm trees and thatched huts with dirt floors, and I packed up the Toyota 4-Runner with my youngest son, Bryan (10 years old at the time), our dog, Bru and all our camping gear and left Calgary, Alberta for "someplace" in Guatemala. It didn't take long for us to discover this hidden paradise. The day of our arrival in El Remate, I met Enrique, a doctor from Guatemala City, and we immediately realized that we both had the same idea for social development here in the village. Within a month we had opened the first free community clinic and the rest is history.
News and recent developmentsEdit
- November 2011: Anne reports they have had two recent solar oven building workshops. By building their own cookers, women living in the remote jungle areas, limited in funds, will have a way to take advantage of solar cooking technology.
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I was really inspired by this redo from Kat over at Maple Leaves and Sycamore Trees. It really turned out beautifully.
She bought a table at Goodwill for only 10 bucks but then realized it was damaged. Instead of throwing it out, she completely transformed it into a gorgeous functional ottoman.
Here's a pic of the table as she bought it...
Pretty cute little table, huh? But then she noticed one of the back legs was a little crooked....
So, she decided to turn it into something more functional for her family, which is awesome.
She removed half of the legs and spray painted them black.
Some foam, batting, pretty fabric and a LOT of work later, she transformed it into this....
Amazing! I absolutely love it, don't you?! And I'm loving that fabric. You can find out her exact step by step process and see more photos over on her blog Maple Leaves and Sycamore Trees in case you'd like to try a redo like this.
Thank you, Kat! :)
Have a great day!