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Tuesday, August 17, 2010
My annual signing at The Carle
People from all over including visitors from VA, CA, NY and even Iceland were at the Museum and I enjoyed meeting the teachers and children, grandparents and parents who arrived at the table where I sat with my pen.
Here I am taking a break and eating a healthy snack.
Bobbie and I are so happy to have had this time to come back to Massachusetts and visit with old friends here and the staff at the Museum who handled a busy day beautifully. There was ice cream and other treats in the apple orchard after the signing and I hope all who came enjoyed themselves as much as we did.
Photo credit: Kristin Angel
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I'm sorry I missed it this year, but I do hope to get there next summer. Til then fare well my friend.ReplyDelete
Next year, could you post a heads up? I'm in Easthampton and would love to attend! Can't afford the newspaper anymore...ReplyDelete
Wish I could have been there!ReplyDelete
You can find an entire page dedicated to videos of Eric Carle's books here -ReplyDelete
What a fun time. I love apple orchards. We have a bunch by us out here in southern CA as well. We are near the San Bernardino mountains, so there are enough chill hours for a good harvest --Dianne :)ReplyDelete
Hi Mr Carle! I wish you will visit and sign books for children in Malaysia. We all love your picture books,who doesn't? :)ReplyDelete
Greetings from Malaysia,Shahida.
- AnonymousAugust 20, 2010 at 2:22 PM
So good that my son, here in Holland, who has autism is now learning about the very hungry caterpillar in his school :-)ReplyDelete
I attended with my cousin, sister, and daughter. I have been a huge fan since I can remember. My daughter is three months old and I was so happy to share the experience with her. Unfortunately my daughter fell asleep right when we got to meet you and woke up right after we had the opportunity! Thank you so much for signing our books! I can't wait to read them to my daughter and share the photos of us meeting you together.ReplyDelete
Hello Mr Carle,ReplyDelete
We are Prep D students from Hambledon State School. We just want to tell you our teacher Ms Kristie dressed up as The Very Hungry Caterpillar for the Book Week Parade. She looked really funny and also she had a partner from another class. His name is Lachlan. We also wanted to tell you we really enjoyed reading "The Very Hungry Caterpillar Book"
Thank you
Prep D
I spent two summers in Amherst and I can't tell you how disappointed I am that The Carle wasn't part of my experience! Perhaps the little one and I need a Mama & Ellie roadtrip to the Berkshires!ReplyDelete


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Pumpkin Candy
Making candy has always frightened me a little. The precise tempteratures, the risk of burning-hot splattering sugar drops, and, of course, the fear that my homemade candy will not compare to the machine-made, storebought varieties.
But let's be realistic. When have I ever let mere intimidation stop me from attempting some crazy, half-thought-out recipe?
I based this idea off of techniques for making maple sugar candy, which requires you to heat maple syrup until the water cooks off and the sugar binds together into the most deliciously sweet, classic New England treat. But the technique could be used to flavor lots of types of candy, and at this time in the season, I thought pumpkin.
So try to imagine a candy with the texture of maple sugar candy and the taste of extremely sweet pumpkin. Crazy, right? I really liked it, but next time, I'm going to add sweetened condensed milk instead of some of the sugar for a creamier, pumpkiny taste.Â
So have a great Thanksgiving, everyone. And if you're not sold on the pumpkin candy, take a look at what I made last year: a lovely little pumpkin tart.
1/2 cup canned pumpkin
1/2 cup water
1 cup sugar
1. Prepare any molds by greasing them lightly. Or use a sheet pan and break the candy into pieces once it cools.
2. Mix the ingredients together in a saute pan and bring them to a boil. Heat the mixture to the soft crack stage, around 280 degrees F. When it reaches that temperature, pour the mixture into the molds as fast as possible. Set aside and allow to cool 2 hours.
Makes about 6 large candies, or 12 smaller pieces. Candy lasts two weeks if covered tightly at room temperature.

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So, in New Mexico, there's a death penalty discussion going on.
The fact that the death penalty system is one of the most glaring and most tragic examples of institutionalized racism around wasn't enough to get people talking about getting rid of it. The fact that it reduces reporting of sex crimes by discouraging molestation victims from turning in criminals, and provides an incentive to rapists to kill their victims isn't enough to bother too many folk. No, the problem is that it's expensive!

Many of the costs are built into the system and cannot be changed. They include the costs of specially trained defense lawyers, mental health and mitigation experts, and a longer course of appeals. And there are the many added costs of housing death row prisoners.
"As long as you have a death penalty system, you'll have regular expenses. And those expenses aren't getting cheaper," Dieter said. "There's a maintenance cost to the death penalty."
Death penalty cases can have an outsized effect in smaller counties, which tend to have smaller budgets. There, a case can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars -- close to $1 million if the issues are particularly complicated -- and force officials to cut programs to fund the prosecution.
 So... merely having the option of the death penalty is a drain on other programs that aren't oriented toward killing people. But the death penalty is seldom even used! So it's not even good for killing people. So it's a ridiculous and farcical miscarriage of justice at worst, and a waste of money at best.
Sounds great!
The governor of New Mexico is considering whether he's going to sign or veto a death penalty ban that's going to come across his desk. Evidently in previous years he'd have vetoed it flat-out, but now he's looking for an idea of public opinion. There's a poll at The Albuquerque Journal right now, and unfortunately the people who believe Richardson should not sign the ban are winning.
I know that I haven't historically made a big issue out of the death penalty in the past, but this really is important. To recap! Capital punishment is a grossly-racist establishment overall, disproportionately condemning non-whites. Capital punishment doesn't help victims because it doesn't act as a deterrent. What it does do is harm the victims of many crimes of exploitation (such as child rape) for the sake of feeding a need to punish--even at the expense of those victimized. And it's expensive as hell, for a program that doesn't do what it's intended to do (provide a deterrent to violent crime).
It doesn't do what it's supposed to do. Instead it does all this other terrible shit. Encourage Gov. Richardson to sign the death penalty ban in his state. The legislature already passed it, so please tell him not to negate their work. There's some analysis suggesting that Gov. Richardson might listen. Let's just vote to be safe.
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District Attorney Tom Orloff Announces Retirement
Alameda County District Attorney Tom Orloff announced at today's Board of Supervisors meeting that he has decided to retire, effective as soon as the board can appoint a replacement.
Orloff, 66, who has been in the office nearly 40 years and has headed it for the past 15, recommended that the board act next week to appoint Chief Assistant District Attorney Nancy O'Malley to fill the rest of his four-year term, which expires at the end of next year.
The district attorney's position will be on the ballot next year.
Orloff told the Board of Supervisors, "If you select Nancy, next year the voters will decide if your choice of Nancy was correct. I am confident they will affirm your selection."
Orloff's announcement seemed to take the board by surprise.
After the meeting, Orloff said he had simply decided that "it's time" to retire.
"I still have my good health, and there are some things I want to do," he said.
Orloff said, "My grandson is one year old and I want to spend time with him so he gets to know his grandfather."
Supervisor Gail Steele told Orloff, "You've done a good job and have represented the county well."
Supervisor Alice Lai-Bitker said, "We're very fortunate to have had your leadership the last 15 years."
In his announcement to the board, Orloff said, "Over the past 15 years as district attorney I have been called on to make many decisions. Many have received little or no public attention. A few have been scrutinized in the public eye."
One such decision was the question of whether to charge former BART police officer Johannes Mehserle in connection with the shooting death of Oscar Grant III at the Fruitvale station on Jan. 1.
Some community leaders criticized Orloff for taking too long to file charges against Mehserle. Orloff did file a murder charge against Mehserle on Jan. 13.
According to Mehserle's lawyer, Michael Rains, it is the first murder prosecution in California of a police officer for an on-duty homicide.
On Feb. 10, a civil rights group delivered a petition to Orloff with more than 20,000 signatures asking that he charge a second BART police officer, Tony Pirone, in connection with Grant's death, but Orloff has declined to do so.
O'Malley, 55, has been in the District Attorney's office for 25 years and has been chief assistant district attorney for 10 years.
She said Orloff's retirement "is a great loss" and said "Tom has been a great leader."


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To build great apps, you need great tools. The folks at Mountain View are giving us those tools
After this morning's epic three-hour Keynote event, it was just a quick trip next door to see Xavier Ducrohet and Tor Noybe give what is always one of the most popular developer sessions of the conference -- What's New in Android Developer Tools.
If you were paying attention during the Keynote, we got a quick look at Android Studio, seeing how the new IDE can make the life of a hard working Android dev easier. Based on IntelliJ IDEA, Android Studio is a free and open source IDE specifically designed for building Android apps. Complete with templates, wizards, and some awesome WYSIWYG-style layout editing, it looks like someone at Mountain View is very serious about devs getting the tools they need.
Eclipse isn't gone, and in fact there's still plenty that has not made it's way to Android Studio just yet. But clearly, this is the future of Android app development. It's great to see the tools developers need to build the next set of great apps! If you're a developer or just want to have a look at things, visit the link below to check out an Earl Access Preview of Android Studio.
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Still several weeks from reconvening after August recess, Congress will arrive back in D.C. with a new farm bill in the balance.
Having already passed new farm legislation and named conferees, the Senate is ready to move on the legislation quickly. That isn't the case in the House, where conferees are yet to be named and there is a scant nine legislative days before the current extension of the 2008 farm bill expires at the end of September.
Nine days.
The increasingly partisan House faces a massive task in a compressed time frame – a circumstance largely of its own making. To achieve passage of a new farm bill, not only must the House GOP caucus deal with the lingering, potentially deal-killing issue of nutrition program funding, it must also navigate demands of an intransigent Republican wing that has already proven willing to buck and embarrass its leaders.
Full farm bill coverage here.
Nutrition spending and laws governing who is eligible for the programs proved too high a hurdle during the first House farm bill vote early this summer. Several weeks later, in order to pass a farm bill, House leadership had to jettison the nutrition title – in the process trying to kill a 40-year-old rural/urban coalition formed to ensure passage of farm bills -- while enraged Democrats lined up to howl and pound the podium. The second attempt succeeded on a party-line vote.
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Here's the thing: even if conference is reached, the negotiated nutrition program funding cuts that return are likely to be unpalatable for a large portion of the House GOP contingent. That contingent is calling for at least $40 billion in reduced food stamp spending.
And suggestions that that conference can take place without the House passing a nutrition title – something leadership insists won't happen – don't take into account that in that circumstance the Senate's bill will be the starting point for negotiations. The Senate is unlikely to move far from the $4 billion in nutrition program cuts in its farm bill.
This week, Bob Stallman, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, said the group wanted to "bring the heat" to move Congress to act on a new farm bill.
Top of the list
"The farm bill is at the very top of the list of things Congress needs to get done," Stallman said at South Dakota farm meeting. "We have to keep the heat on Congress to get a five-year farm bill done this year."
Despite the obstacles to a new farm bill, Stallman said, "There is plenty of time in this Congress to pass a five-year farm bill. We have to stay focused on getting it done."
Stallman played up the need for farmer certainty going into 2014 and downplayed calls for another extension of the 2008 farm bill as premature and "a cop-out."
Another group, American Farmland Trust, is attempting to send Congress 10,000 letters in support of a new farm bill. "The farm bill includes programs that promote farmers markets, support local foods and help beginning farmers. But bitter politics and budget cutting posturing overtook the farm bill process, and now many of these programs are currently without authorization or funding, leaving stranded the farmers and communities that rely on them."
During a Tuesday (August 20) radio interview, Arkansas Sen. John Boozman, named a farm bill conferee in early August, said he was unsure how a new farm bill would get done. "I don't know exactly how we're going to do it. This is not a Republican or Democratic thing. With the farm bill, it's all about regional agriculture, making sure that you have a program -- not one-size-fits-all, but puts the safety net in for all of our farmers."


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I am a huge fan of Trello. I use Trello for collaborative project management and to track progress of projects I execute on my own. And I want to use Trello for more. Specifically, I want to create a board where I can track bill payment and store passwords for the various accounts I have across the Internet.
Is Trello a bad place to store this kind of sensitive information?


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Ravi's, located at 3 2 Square Petaling Jaya remains one of my favourite place for breakfast. I have blogged about it previously and hence, I won't elaborate on how delicious their food is.
This time around, I decided to try their Coconut Appam (RM 1). Interestingly, Appam is made from fermented rice flour. This explains the slight sourish taste when I ate it. Not that it is a bad thing as I enjoyed eating a simple meal like this.
A trip to Ravi's won't be complete without eating their Roti Canai (RM 1). It was freshly cooked with flaky textures and a slight crispiness on the edge.
Besides the plain version, their Roti Canai with egg and onion (RM 2.70) was pretty good too.
And besides the great food, the friendly staff at Ravi's will always be ready to serve you with a smile!
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Gov. Jerry Brown acted Wednesday as California's cheerleader-in-chief, countering the state's anti-business reputation in an address to hundreds of business, agriculture and education leaders.
"We've solved a lot of problems. We've got a lot of problems. We're living in a great state. Republican, Democrats, we're all Californians," the Democratic governor told an annual gathering in the state capital hosted by the California Chamber of Commerce.
Brown credited the sales and income tax hikes voters approved last fall and an improving economy for helping to end a decade of state budget deficits.
He acknowledged that California is often criticized for having an unfriendly business climate but said the state also fosters a creative and entrepreneurial spirit that has helped produce a $2 trillion-a-year economy. Brown recalled that one survey had concluded that California had the worst business climate in the nation before he served as governor the first time in 1975.
"At that time, the collective income was about $350 billion. Now it's almost $2 trillion," he said. "So just think if we had a good business climate, how rich we'd be."
He added, "It's bad, but it also gets good."
Brown said under his watch, California no longer has the worst credit rating of any state from Standard & Poor's or Moody's Investor Services. The state has reduced its structural deficit from $20 billion to $8 billion, and the new budget expected to be passed this summer should be balanced as long as revenue projections hold, he said.
"It's hard for me to believe a state this rich was rated by S&P and Moody's as the 50th worst state," he said. "Well, after a lot of hard work, we got an upgrade. We are 49th. We're on our way. We're going up. We'll be 48th before you know it, and pretty soon we'll be back in contention, as long as I'm governor."
While Brown has not committed to a re-election bid, he said the perspective gained from his first turn in the governor's office has made his current tenure more fulfilling.
"I guess I'll just have to stay and do the work of being governor, which I actually enjoy," he said.
Looking forward, Brown pledged to limit spending and continue to make good on his campaign pledge to bring government closer to the people by pushing more services to the county level. He also said he will focus on longstanding issues such as education funding, prison overcrowding and protecting the water supply.
He also recently concluded a trade mission to China that was intended to promote California businesses in that country while encouraging Chinese investment here.
Last week, Brown projected California's general fund revenue to be about $97 billion for the fiscal year that starts in July, but the Legislature's nonpartisan budget analyst predicted the state will take in $3.2 billion more in tax revenue.
Brown dismissed the discrepancy on Wednesday, saying it only accounts for roughly 1 percent of the general fund. He said there are larger differences in revenue projections most years, so "that's not money you can spend."
Also Wednesday, Moody's issued a statement encouraging lawmakers to use the governor's more conservative revenue forecast. The rating service said California "has frequently used overly optimistic revenue projections in its budget, resulting in mid-year budgetary shortfalls that needed to be solved using triggered spending cuts or mid-year legislated spending cuts."
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Facebook's big press event Thursday will likely mean changes to its news feed, including larger photos, music feeds and, of course, more ads.
A new photos feed will be introduced (mainly to make the $1 billion Instagram buy make sense), as well as a new music feed and image-based ads, according to TechCrunch. The news comes from an anonymous Facebook employee.
The idea is that Facebook users want more streams of news, photos, music and more in hopes that its users will spend more time online. But will they? Or will they find the new feeds just more Facebook noise -- or worse, find the whole change not worth the effort of logging on? We previously wrote about the Facebook backlash over the weekend, and how costs outweighing benefits could send users scurrying away and actually talking to friends and family again.


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The University of Michigan's $1.6 million renovations to its three fitness facilities last November are facing technical difficulties as the newly installed TV screens have yet to play any programming, according to The Michigan Daily.
The TV monitors are connected through computer software that should provide programming from the Internet, but the university's department of recreational sports cannot get the programming software to work, which means the TVs can show only university-sponsored advertisements for now.
The university had conducted studies to discover which upgrades would most appeal to students, including the installation of TV screens last November in the exercise rooms at the Central Campus Recreational Building, the Intramural Sports Building and the North Campus Recreational Building.
Vivian Yu, president of Building a Better Michigan, a student group that advocates for improvement of recreational facilities on campus, told the Daily that department buildings are important to the student experience and adds that there is a need for improvement of its facilities and technology.
Medical school student Yashar Niknafs told the newspaper that even if the TVs were operational, they would not be worthwhile to the students exercising at the gyms. Rather than working TVs, Niknafs said he would prefer an increase in upgraded equipment, which the university has been working to implement over the past year through replacing outdated machines.


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I turned 58 last week and, as I usually do around my birthday, I took some time to reflect upon all that I have to appreciate in my life and all that my Mark's Daily Apple and PrimalBlueprint.com [1] team have accomplished in the last year. With that, I thought I'd hit a few highlights and bring you all up to date on some of what's been happening at MDA and with the Primal Blueprint, as well as what's in store for the near future.
But first things first. And let's get this one out of the way early, 'cause I get one or two of these every week.
I have heard you have gotten fat. And all the photos you have on the web are old. Please put up a recent photo with a recent newspaper.
No, I have not gotten fat in the last year and not all the photos are old [2]. I chuckle (and often bristle) at the inane innuendo floating in the Interwebs: that I only use pictures from five or six years ago on MDA; that I was doped up when those pictures were taken; that I train way more than I admit to, or that I starve myself, etc. etc. Well, if you're interested, here's a picture of me taken yesterday [3] (with copy of the LA Times to prove the date). And here's one of me out on the paddleboard a few days ago [4]. And here I am in the gym a few months ago [5]. Do I look fat in these genes?
(FWIW, as much as I depend on the Internet to deliver you guys the straight scoop, it's my pet theory that the Internet is actually history's largest experiment in pure democracy – and it offers proof that democracy will ultimately fail, as everyone's "right" to say whatever they want about anything or anyone eventually de-evolves us to an irresponsible, blaming Idiocracy [6]). But I digress…)
Alexa.com and Site Visits
Speaking of the Internet, the Primal/paleo movement continues to grow. In the past few months MDA has dipped under the 10,000 mark on Alexa [7], reaching 8,575 as of today. For those of you unfamiliar with Alexa, that basically means that of the 300 million websites in the world, we are unofficially ranked in the top 9,000 overall in traffic. According to Dr. Joe Mercola, we are the third most visited natural health site in the world [8], and notably ahead of Prevention.com, Life Extension Foundation, Andrew Weil and Deepak. July will have seen over 700,000 unique visitors for the month, and we are well on our way to a million uniques per month by year end.
Many thanks to everyone that has helped get MDA to where it is today. You, MDA readers, have played a huge role: sharing articles with friends, imploring family members to pay a visit, regularly dropping by yourself. So thank you! Conventional Wisdom has taken a beating [9], and it couldn't have been done without you.
PAST Seminars
We launched our Saturday six-hour, intensive Primal Accelerated Success Trainings in February at Karma CrossFit [10] in Manhattan Beach and followed that up with five more: Pleasant Hill, Reno, Kansas City, Seattle, and Austin. My chief Primal Blueprint [11] editor and Primal Leap [12] writing partner Brad Kearns led two of them, and I did the rest. The feedback was overwhelmingly positive throughout, as up to 75 people per event were deeply immersed in Primal Blueprint theory and practice. My intention was to have each person leave the seminar completely confident of his or her ability to handle any and all Primal hurdles forever. In the coming months we'll announce a newer, "lite" version [13] that will typically take place from 6:30-9:30 on a weeknight in a more downtown facility, so attendees won't have to give up a whole weekend day.
PrimalCon [14] was a huge success again this year. 83 people took the plunge and committed to a fun- filled, education-packed three day weekend at Oxnard Beach Park in April. The weather cooperated perfectly as our small groups – led by returning PrimalCon counselors – learned sprint technique from US Olympian Michael Stember, new kettlebell routines from Billy Vives, unique forms of bodywork and stealth training from Angelo dela Cruz, posture secrets from Esther Gokhale and cooking tips from Chef Rachel Matesz. Once again, renowned chef Oren Zroya made sure everyone was well fed with the best Primal foods possible. Plans now are to hold PrimalCon 2012 the weekend of April 13-15 again at Oxnard Beach Park. This year we will offer a wider range of sleeping accommodations and a few new twists. The details will be posted in the coming months.
New Cookbook
In May we released The Primal Blueprint Quick & Easy Meals [15] cookbook, nearly a year after the release of the original Primal Blueprint Cookbook [16]. Both have done well consistently and seem to be the missing link (gateway drug?) for many people who haven't yet read The Primal Blueprint [11].
Hiked the Grand Canyon
In May Carrie, Devyn and I hiked into the Grand Canyon over a long weekend. It was every bit as spectacular as you'd expect one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World [17] to be and I highly recommend hiking it if you have the chance. Of particular note, I did our 17 mile trek in my Vibram KSO Treks and they performed exceptionally well (no blisters, no sore arches, no Achilles issues). Don't think I'll ever wear hiking boots again.
Indy HIT Seminar
In June, I spoke at the Indy HIT Seminar. If you are interested in SuperSlow and/or High Intensity Training (the kind that Doug McGuff [18] writes about in Body by Science [19]), then Bo Railey's annual Indy HIT Seminar is the place to go. It's a two-day event that covers everything relevant to this unique and effective training method. Bo invited me to speak on diet and nutrition as it relates to that style of working out, which fits perfectly with the Primal Blueprint eating and exercise strategy.
More Great Books
I am pleased to announce that I will be publishing Denise Minger [20]'s new book Death by Food Pyramid around the middle of 2012. We are both wildly excited about this project which will not only call on Denise's unique set of analytical skills in destroying many of the "landmark" studies that CW hangs it's hat on, but will trace the bizarre history behind the faulty US public policy-making regarding diet and health, and she'll actually teach the reader how to take just about any study and critically review it from a layman's perspective.
In November 2011, we will be introducing the Primal Blueprint 21-Day Total Body Transformation. This is a paperback guidebook/workbook geared more for newbies who don't want – or need – all the science and theory and just want to cut to the chase. We've employed some of the strategies we've learned from the Primal Leap [12] and the PAST Seminars to drill down to some key concepts (no, not the PB 10 Laws) and several action items with a day-to-day, "do this, don't do that" approach. The idea is that after 21 days of doing everything by the book, you will have reprogrammed your genes to make you a fat-burning beast for the rest of your life (provided you stick to the plan).
In January, we will be launching the paperback version of The Primal Blueprint. The plan is to update the book with some success stories, several Primal lifestyle "hacks", and other features.
Around June, 2012 we will introduce my new book The Primal Connection, the answer to "what's next after the Primal Blueprint – you know, after I have that diet thing figured out?" Among other topics, The Primal Connection will explore how and why our modern lives have created such conflict with our hunter-gatherer brains and what specific actions we can take to realign ourselves with the hard-wired expectations of those 10,000 year-old genes. With this understanding, we can once again become the happy, loving, productive, fulfilled and satisfied person each of us longs to (and was meant to) be.
Finally, I will be attending the CrossFit Games [21] this Friday and Saturday in Carson, CA, so stop by the Primal Blueprint booth and say hi (and get your copy of the PB autographed). And next Saturday (August 6), I will be one of many speakers at the inaugural Ancestral Health Symposium [22] at UCLA. Maybe I'll see you there.
That about covers the first half of 2011 and some of my plans for the next six months or so. Thanks for reading today, and let me know what you think in the comment board. Grok on!


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I went to my P.O. box today to see if there was anything and low and behold a package from France. What do you think is inside?
How easily my mood is influenced.
Colored end pages! Hardcover! And a font made from my own handwriting that looks better than my own handwriting. I couldn't be happier with this book.
Thank you Serge, Helene Duhamel, Celine Derouet, The Slovenian Printer and everyone at Ca et La!


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These are painted on a copy of old paper ephemera.
I love painting pears!
They are so beautiful and can incorporate many different
colors in each one.
The apple always lends itself to interesting and beautiful paintings.
The apple has been around for many, many years!
Have a lovely day, Friends
Peace and Blessings to one and all,


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Welcome to the March 2011 edition of i2P.
The month of February has seen free enterprise in the pharmaceutical industry breaking out of the mould that is regulated health and upsetting any semblance of balance within community pharmacy.
Government negotiated price reductions with Big Pharma collided head-on with the new business model from Pfizer Direct and its potential to destabilise the entire supply chain process and the supply of medicines under the PBS.
This process has been described in eloquent detail by Neil Retallick, in his article "New landscape, new directions, new Government role in community pharmacy?"
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When a simple business transaction does not seem to make sense, one is led to speculate on the agenda behind that transaction.
An observation I have noted from personal experience is that the presence of a major Australian IT system within a public hospital environment, is almost non-existent.
This does not make sense.
There are many excellent Australian IT companies.
It would seem that pharmacists do not value the legal framework that has been bestowed upon them to safeguard the public from the hazards associated with the dangerous chemicals they have on their premises.
A highly trained health professional is required to be "registered" by the State/Territory of the Commonwealth before they can have the privilege of being the custodian for the public with respect to these hazardous chemicals.
And yet – the award wage for "pharmacist in charge" (PIC) is in the order of $24 an hour.
The Journal of the American Medical Association ran an article in its 13 October 2010 issue regarding an alliance forming up that included the traditional triad of health professionals – GPs, pharmacists and nurses.
It also highlighted that each sector was seeking a full seat at the health provider table - not just GPs as head with others following on in meaningless roles.
Recognition for pharmacists was awarded in the comment by the JAMA that stated:
"JAMA points to community pharmacists as a key resource to help bridge the gap between doctor and patient, particularly for patients treated by more than one specialist in an often disconnected and dysfunctional health care network."
February has been a testing month for community pharmacy.
The anticipated price reductions that flowed from the MoU between Big Pharma and the Government became reality, reducing revenue and margin in the dispensary.
To exacerbate these reductions, the Pfizer Direct model was also realised as a seismic change in the landscape, further reducing dispensary profits.
As March unfolds and many begin to formulate budgets for the next financial year, the challenges just keep coming.
Kay Dunkley - BPharm, Grad Dip Hosp Pharm, Grad Dip Health Admin, MPS, MSHPA
Last month I wrote about medication reconciliation when a patient is admitted to hospital and the role of hospital pharmacists in continuity of care.
The other significant time when a hospital pharmacist's role is important in ensuring continuity of care is at the time of discharge from hospital.
Communication of medication changes which have occurred during hospitalisation to those providing care in the community is essential.
Dr Linda Bryant (PGDipPharm, MPharm, DPharm(Auck), FACPP, FNZCP, FPSNZ, MCAPA)
When looking at where pharmacy fits in the new scheme of things it is important to consider the wider primary health care environment, in what direction the government strategy is changing and, in particular, what will be different for general practitioners and practice nurses.
We cannot work or plan in isolation and must constantly look at what is happening outside our own four walls.
In New Zealand it has been made very clear that there will be transformational (read chaotic) change in the delivery of health care services.
In the Auckland region (25% of the New Zealand population) there is a large network or consortium involving the Primary Health Care Organisation (PHOs), which are primarily large groupings of general practices, and the three District Health Boards (DHBs), which are the government funding bodies, as well as having a 'provider arm' (the hospitals).
Oh gosh.
The editor has been asking me for sometime now to pen an article about my ICT related subject - as in the news, views and visions.
I have steadfastly remained silent for months.
My negative response has been solely based on one strong human feeling; that being the one of apathy.
A 'why bother' state of mind.
Why bother talking ad nauseam about things that spin around uselessly in political circles.
Why bother getting uptight about things that never seem to offer any hope of real change.
Why bother indeed.
The WOFTAM1 mind set rules – OK!
Then, as often happens, stuff suddenly comes from nowhere and you think to yourself –'ah maybe there is still a glimmer of hope, just over the horizon".
Stupid of me and I know it.
Hope flickers eternally though.
What has happened?
Primary health care (PHC) professionals are those at the front line of treatment of individuals for either acute or chronic diseases. Pharmacists are not members of the front line team – that is the domain of doctors, nurses and Aboriginal health workers.
Pharmacists are on the next level down for action with dieticians, dentists, psychologists, podiatrists, optometrists, speech therapists, physiotherapists, public health educators and other specialised practitioners.
So can pharmacists become front line professionals in primary health care (PHC)?
I've been thinking about Car Talk, prayer, clinical documentation, and diagnostic errors.
What's a Saturday morning without Car Talk?
After 30 years, I still enjoy eavesdropping on Tom and Ray Magliozzi taking calls from listeners about their automobiles' ailments.
Between outbursts of laughter, the bantering brothers diagnose, prescribe, offer second opinions, and, with limited information, have to guess a lot.
First things first.
Establishing, refining and maintaining a marketing focus requires discipline.
It has as much to do with how we think, as what we think.
Therefore, saving time, improving efficiency, lowering costs and enhancing value must necessarily be viewed through the prism of life. That is, from the consumers and customers perspectives.
Any business initiative which negatively impacts on the perceptions, expectations and experiences of existing, prospective and past clients has questionable value to any public or private sector entity, big or small.
Consumer advocates by name, title or nature must necessarily be at the table for major decisions. Ideally, they need to be articulate, passionate and respected by their peers.
Such a position need not and, arguably, should not be found in a formal organizational chart.
Can't shift those love handles? Diet not working? Sick of your cellulite? What about those new machines that freeze or fry your fat away?
Anything to do with cellulite or fat removal is bound to be a good money spinner. When it doesn't involve diet and exercise it's assured of getting considerable media attention. Cellulite is a problem encountered by more than 90% of women of all ages, both fat and thin, and most of us are overweight. So should we be rushing out for our non-invasive 'liposculpting' or is this yet another weight loss scam targeting some of our most vulnerable consumers?
There are quite a few high-tech body sculpting devices, which either cool or heat the dermis, that claim to be successful at permanently removing cellulite and fat.
The NSW state elections began in earnest 16 days ago on the 20th February, 2011, when Barry O'Farrell launched the NSW Liberal and Nationals Election Campaign.
The following is an excerpt from his speech titled "Time to Start Real Change for NSW".
"I was first elected in 1995 – the year Labor went into government.
It's been a sixteen year lesson in how not to run government.Never before has Australia witnessed such a scandal-plagued government, a parade of MPs hauled before ICAC Ministers sacked for corrupt, disgraceful and embarrassing behaviour.
A record number of MPs quitting because they lack the courage to front up and answer for their role in the sorry mess that is NSW Labor.
And that's why the next 34 days are about starting real change."
Existing pharmacy owners, particularly those with the experience of having upgraded their pharmacy design and presentation (with fittings to match the markets being serviced), are well aware that an internal change will attract customer/patient attention and a general sales and profitability increase will result.
However, I believe that pharmacy has reached the end of an era in terms of community pharmacy presentation(it died at the crossroads some years back) and pharmacists, despite the criticisms that have been heaped upon them by other health professionals, have been resilient and have tried to work their way through the maze of political and professional problems that hold back new creative and remunerative practices.
Recently when watching the popular ABC television program Q & A, David Williamson, the Australian playwright, featured on the panel.
The subject of Julia Gillard came up and Williamson commented that she needed acting lessons to improve her communication and to generate a more convincing performance.
My thoughts turned to whether a more convincing and communicative prime minister would really be of benefit to Australians when I came across a similar scenario directed towards pharmacists, albeit in a UK setting. It is worth some further thought.
The world is changing rapidly for Big Pharma as indicated by the report that follows.
They have known about it for some time but have done little to replace the traditional approaches that have served them well for decades.
Immediate solutions focus on ensuring good outcomes from existing drugs. In many cases the solution is multi-faceted and can involve participation by health professionals.
This is a two-edged sword for pharmacy. Strategic partnerships will also be about information flow as well as product flow.
If pharmacy is selected as part of the solution, then no problem. Unfortunately the pecking order will still start with the prescriber and radiate out to those closest i.e.practitioner nurses.
Another strategy is to control the generic drugs, particularly where the original molecule is owned by a specific manufacturer. One of the links in this control is control of the supply chain, so a focus on logistic companies, rather than wholesalers, is the result.
As Big Pharma sneezes, so community pharmacy develops pneumonia, possibly for some, a terminal case. The balance is upset and costs increase for the weaker participants viz the smaller community pharmacies.
The problem is serious and the impacts are being felt now with the recent Pfizer decision to withdraw products from wholesalers. The following patent expiry report illustrates the magnitude of the problem
When the AFR's economics editor, Alan Mitchell develops an opinion piece about pharmacy, you can be sure that it is the "tip of the iceberg" and is the precursor of a well-planned onslaught on pharmacy – its ownership rules and its scale of economy in regard to PBS costs.
This has happened today, 14th March 2011.
To i2P this smacks of an orchestrated beat up by supermarket operators Woolworths and Coles and maybe from another quarter from the old arch-enemy of pharmacy, Roger Corbett, who is still a director of Wal-Mart, the world's largest pharmacy chain.
It is no secret that pharmaceutical wholesalers in Australia are under stress.
It is described in mainstream media as "massive reform" – with the word "reform" always having connotations of bad news.
PBS "reforms" have drastically altered profitability expectations; Pfizer direct distribution "reform" has taken a substantial slab of turnover out of the system (and in the process causing community pharmacy to have an increase in costs); banking "reforms" are now the latest problem with bank guarantees for pharmacists coming under the spotlight.
A newly discovered technique makes it possible to create a whole new array of plastics with metallic or even superconducting properties.
Plastics usually conduct electricity so poorly that they are used to insulate electric cables but, by placing a thin film of metal onto a plastic sheet and mixing it into the polymer surface with an ion beam, Australian researchers have shown that the method can be used to make cheap, strong, flexible and conductive plastic films.
Respected restauranteurs are becoming drivers for a sustainable planet by embracing the "slow food" movement (as opposed to "fast food").
Produce for their restaurants tends to be fresh, organic and local.
Now there is a move to replace as much of the wasteful and energy-consuming foods (beef, prork, wheat corn etc), with better alternatives.
Experiments in serving high-end reastaurant meals of insects and worms have already been trialled, and now Dutch entomologists Marcel Dicke and Arnold Van Huis propose farming insects as a alternative and sustainable source of protein.
THE Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance has chosen Slow Food's Terra Madre Day to call on community and government to debate and support the development of resilient and democratic local and national food systems in the face of profound risks and uncertainties.
Alliance national spokesman Michael Croft – also co-leader of Slow Food Canberra – said that a manifesto launched today by the alliance proposed a framework and direction for tackling the many sustainability and sovereignty issues confronting Australian food supply.
Editor's Note: Food as medicine is a concept that has been around for a long time.
Now the "big end" of town has decided that this market is too good not to be part of.
It is also a market area, unlike drugs, that is only moderately regulated.
On the surface it appears good news that nutritional therapies will be developed that will prove better primary or complementary treatments for lifestyle disorders.
In practice, natural molecules will be distorted to gain the "edge" of obtaining a patent.
However, it will be a better alternative than popping a drug every day for the rest of your life.
Local supermarkets in Australia are already embracing this market, and a range of "health foods" is already established as a separate department.
Pharmacy will need to engage this market and individualise it with specialised information.
Recent decades have witnessed much criss-crossing between the food and pharmaceutical industries. Nestle SA on January 1 2011 placed a very big bet on a nutraceutical future with the creation of a Nestlé Health Science business unit. Much of how the Switzerland-based multinational will "pioneer a new industry between food and pharma" will be pieced together by a trusted insider, Luis Cantarell, the inaugural president/CEO of Nestlé Health Science.
The Gillard Government has released new guidelines for Medicare Locals to help health practitioners provide more responsive and targeted services for local communities.
Launching the guidelines, the Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Minister for Health and Ageing, Nicola Roxon, also encouraged primary health care organisations to apply to become Medicare Locals through the invitation to apply process, which opened today.
From the Intergenerational Reports of recent years and the observation of many commentators, the average age of Australia's population is rapidly increasing, primarily due to the maturing of the "Baby-Boomer" segment.
It has been widely postulated that there would be insufficient nursing home beds and public hospital beds to meet the demands of this medically-intensive group, particularly in the latter part of their lifespan.
For this reason i2P has been urging pharmacists to take up the concept of a "Pharmacy in the Home" as a means of supporting aged people with nowhere to go.
The problem is going critical right now.
Honey sourced from an Australian native myrtle tree has been found to have the most powerful anti-bacterial properties of any honey in the world and could be used to treat antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections that commonly occur in hospitals and nursing homes.
A Brisbane-based research group found that Australian native myrtle honey has very high levels of the anti-bacterial compound, Methylglyoxal (MGO), and outperforms all medicinal honeys currently available on the market, including Manuka honeys.
More than half of Australia's glaucoma cases remain undiagnosed according to University of Sydney Professor of Ophthalmology, Paul Healey. The alarming statistic underpins this year's World Glaucoma Week and confirms the perils of driving with the condition and the need for regular eye tests.
A promising new way to inhibit cholesterol production in the body has been discovered, one that may yield treatments as effective as existing medications but with fewer side-effects.
In a new study published in the journal Cell Metabolism, a team of researchers from the UNSW School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences - led by Associate Professor Andrew Brown (pictured below) – report that an enzyme - squalene mono-oxygenase (SM) - plays a previously unrecognised role as a key checkpoint in cholesterol production. The team included doctoral students Saloni Gill and Julian Stevenson, along with research assistant Ika Kristiana.
Community pharmacies all over Australia will soon have access to a range of Pharmacy Practice Incentives (PPIs) which will lead to improved health outcomes for Australian consumers.
The incentives are funded by the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing, and are part of the
Fifth Community Pharmacy Agreement which commenced in July 2010. Eligible community pharmacies
are being encouraged to register for the incentive payments.
The payments are a new way for pharmacies to be rewarded for their contribution to delivering quality
health services. To be eligible, pharmacies must be approved Section 90 pharmacies, accredited by a
pharmacy accreditation program (i.e. QCPP), and agree to comply with and display a patient service charter.
Every now and then you see something in print that does not seem to fit.
The following report printed in the Medical Observer (25/02/11) is one such item.
It presumes to be a commentary on a patient study involving 155 Perth pharmacies.
The patient was a simulated person who asked for over the counter assistance for a cough.
Progressive information was released depending on questions asked and the final result of the survey was not flattering to pharmacy.
I am wondering what the other side of the coin might have produced if a patient made an appointment with a GP for one condition, and then attempted to add this simulated condition as part of the total consultation?
We will never know unless the researchers go back and balance their study to find out the quality of the diagnosis (and the treatment) in a similar group of GP's.
We have asked Mark Coleman to make a comment:
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ARLINGTON, Texas — Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel ran for two touchdowns, threw for two more and had a Cotton Bowl-record 516 total yards as 10th-ranked Texas A&M wrapped up its first SEC season with a 41-13 win over No. 12 Oklahoma on Friday night.
The Aggies (11-2) never trailed after Manziel tiptoed the sideline for a 23-yard TD run on their opening drive of the game.
Texas A&M took control of the game by scoring touchdowns on its first three drives in the third quarter, going ahead 34-13 when Manziel threw a 33-yard TD pass to Ryan Swope on a fourth-and-4 play.
Oklahoma (10-3), which like the Aggies entered the game with a five-game winning streak, went three-and-out on its first three drives after halftime.
Manziel set an FBS bowl record with his 229 yards rushing on 17 carries, and completed 22 of 34 passes for 287 yards.
Playing his first game since becoming the first freshman to win the Heisman after an SEC-record 4,600 total yards in the regular season, the 20-year-old Manziel had more highlight plays in his first bowl game.
Manziel tiptoed along the sideline for a 23-yard touchdown on the Aggies' opening drive of the game, setting a school record with his 20th rushing TD. He became only the fourth FBS quarterback with 20 touchdowns passing and 20 more rushing in the same season.
The Aggies took control of the game, extending its one-point halftime lead with touchdowns on its first three drives of the third quarter, including Manziel's 33-yard TD pass to Ryan Swope on a fourth-and-5 play.
Oklahoma, meanwhile, went three-and-out on its first drives after halftime.
There were chants of "S-E-C!, S-E-C!" after Manziel dumped a short pass over the middle to Swope, who shed a defender and ran into the end zone for a 34-13 lead with 4 minutes left in the third quarter.
The Aggies, with first-year coach Kevin Sumlin and their young star quarterback, are wrapping up their first SEC season after leaving the Big 12. The Cotton Bowl is the only postseason game matching teams from those power conferences.
Already with a 24-yard gain on an earlier third down, the Aggies had third-and-9 on their opening drive when Manziel rolled to his left and took off. When he juked around a defender and got near the sideline, he tiptoed to stay in bounds and punctuated his score with a high-step over the pylon for a quick lead.
Officials reviewed the touchdown play, but it was clear by the replay shown on the huge video screen above the Cowboys Stadium field that Manziel stayed in bounds.
Oklahoma needed drives of 16 and 18 plays to get a pair of field goals by Michael Hunnicutt (23 and 24 yards). Oklahoma quarterback Landry Jones threw a 6-yard TD pass to Justin Brown just before halftime.
Jones' final career start came at the same place he made his Oklahoma debut in the 2009 season opener when he replaced injured Heisman Trophy winner Sam Bradford.
After setting Cotton Bowl records when he had 23 completions and 30 attempts (for 175 yards) by halftime, Jones was 29 of 39 for 221 yards after three quarters.
The teams traded interceptions in the second quarter.
Manziel was picked off in the end zone after his bootleg move and a throw that hit Malcome Kennedy in the hands and deflected into the air.
Javon Harris grabbed the interception.
The Sooners then crossed midfield before Jones had a pass intercepted by Dustin Harris and returned to the Oklahoma 48. NOTEStartThat A&M drive started with a little trickery, Manziel holding the ball down in his left hand while faking a throw with his right hand. He then pitched to Kenric McNeal, who threw a 20-yard pass to Mike Evans.
Ben Malena then had a 23-yard run before Manziel's bootleg run for a 5-yard TD.
Oklahoma is in the Cotton Bowl for only the second time.
This is the first bowl matchup between the former Big 12 rivals, but the 17th consecutive season they have played each other.
The Sooners have won 11 of 13 since Bob Stoops became their coach.
Sumlin was the A&M offensive coordinator in 2002 when the Aggies upset the top-ranked Sooners. The next year, Sumlin was hired by Stoops as an assistant, and he stayed there five seasons before going to Houston as head coach and then the Aggies.
Aggies rout Sooners in Cotton Bowl
ARLINGTON, Texas — Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel ran for two touchdowns, threw for two more and had a Cotton Bowl-record 516 total yards as 10th-ranked Texas A&M wrapped up its first SEC season with a 41-13 win over No. 12 Oklahoma on Friday night.


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Sarah McCoy
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About the Author
SARAH McCOY is the New York Times bestselling author of the 2012 Goodreads Choice Award Best Historical Fiction nominee The Baker's Daughter and The Time It Snowed in Puerto Rico. She has taught English writing at Old Dominion University and at the University of Texas at El Paso. She calls Virginia home but presently lives with her husband and their dog, Gilbert, in El Paso, Texas.


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Game Design by Steve Jackson Illustrated by John Kovalic
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Munchkins have hacked their way through dungeons, kung fu temples, starships, haunted houses, and super-foes. Now they face their greatest challenge – Cthulhu! Will they survive? Will they retain their sanity? Will they . . . level up?
Munchkin Cthulhu is a stand-alone game that lampoons Lovecraft's Mythos and the horror gaming that surrounds it. Brought to you by Steve Jackson and John Kovalic, this set features four Classes – including the Cultist – and a lot of classic monsters from outside reality. And they all have Stuff you can take from their twitching bodies.
You can play Munchkin Cthulhu by itself, or combine it with any number of other Munchkin games for mind-bending silliness.
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Workman House
The Workman House survives as a unique testament to the changing architectural styles and domestic tastes of the nineteenth century.
It originally stood as a simple three-room adobe, built shortly after the Workman family's arrival in November 1841. With the success of their cattle ranch, they continued to remodel the house by adding rooms. By the 1870s, new wealth from vineyards and wheat farming allowed them to completely transform the Mexican-era adobe into a modern American house, building a second floor and adding a variety of decorative details.
Believed to have been designed by early Los Angeles architect Ezra Kysor, the picturesque country home reflects the architectural tastes that were popular in mid-nineteenth century America. What makes the house so unique is that the original three rooms of the adobe house are still part of the structure. Sadly, the Workmans lost their share of the ranch around the turn of the century.
Today the exterior of the Workman House is restored to its 1870s appearance, while the interior features exhibit space and one period room.
The Workman House is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is a California State Historic Landmark.


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Last year was a blast. I started the year coaching a team that was developing a grails web application. Next was a batch application written in perl and pl-sql. Next I moved on to objective-c and then on to php and flash. I finished the year in java. I used ruby for testing with all of the teams. The variety has been fantastic and I have enjoyed each assignment. One thing that was really encouraging was that I found good unit testing framework in each language.
Last Thursday I attended the Cleveland Ruby Brigade meeting. It was nice to see a some old friends. I mentioned a few times that I had just started working with a team that was using C++. Each time the reaction was negative. People said things like "I'm sorry for you". Actually, there is nothing to be sorry about. C++ is a strong language that has continued to evolve over the years and will have a place in software development for the foreseeable future.
The negative reaction to C++ encouraged me to create this screencast (my first ever). I had some time Monday morning before work so I turned on the recorder. I am using Google Test to drive the design. I hope you enjoy.


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One of my daily reads, A Way To Garden did a story on WPA posters. The graphics alone make you want to plant your own garden. Well this year I was unable to plant a garden (but have big plans for next year).
The garden I have been growing has been Shandell's, rearranging and planting new seeds in all different area's. In the next few weeks I will be adding a great new online store and my website get updated with lots to make you smile.
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The City Lit Theater Company, a long-established Chicago theater company that has been most recently performing in the Edgewater Presbyterian Church, is eyeing a move to Evanston.
City Lit wants to take over a storefront space at 727-729 W. Howard St., just east of Ridge Avenue.
Evanston City Council is to vote Monday night on whether to begin formal negotiations with the non-profit company, which specializes in literary adaptations.
The City of Evanston owns the property, located in an area the city wants to develop as an arts district, and there has much local discussion about turning the space into a small theater. Previously, Polarity Ensemble Theatre was interested in the space. According to artistic director Terry McCabe, City Lit wants to first lease and eventually purchase the building as its "permanent home," assuming it is renovated by the city.


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Dwight Howard exudes vitality.
He brings thousands of fans to their feet when he slams home rim-rattling dunks or swats shots into the stands. His smile lights up arenas as large as Amway Center. And he possesses enough star power to guest not once but twice on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" in one calendar year.
Yet even Howard, the 26-year-old Orlando Magic superstar, has described himself as a "dinosaur." He was only half-joking. At a time when basketball continues to evolve, traditional centers who play offense primarily with their back to the basket are in relatively short supply. Howard once kidded that players like him are "on the brink of extinction."
"I just think when people say, 'I play center,' it's like a turn off," Howard said. "It's not a flashy position. Everything you see on TV with basketball is when a guard's shooting or making a great pass or a fadeaway or something like that. The center is a lost art."
Right now, Howard is the best practitioner of that lost art.
Howard continues to dominate opponents even as most of the talk this season about him has revolved around his uncertain long-term future. He is on track to win his fourth rebounding title in five seasons, and he entered this week as the top scorer among league centers. He is the prohibitive favorite to win the NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award for the fourth consecutive season.
"He's one of a kind with what he brings to the table," said Philadelphia 76ers small forward Andre Iguodala, who will join Howard on the Eastern Conference team at this weekend's NBA All-Star Game in Orlando.
"He makes it so easy for that team defensively. He can have a lot of liabilities around him, and he can still cover for them. That's a great luxury to have. Then, offensively, he opens it up for the shooters."
What's amazing, however, isn't that Howard is the dominant player at his position.
It's that he has relatively little competition.
"The game has changed," said former Detroit Pistons and Milwaukee Bucks center Bob Lanier, a Hall of Famer who averaged 20.1 points and 10.1 rebounds per game from 1970-71 through 1983-84.
"When I was coming along, the offenses started through the center and went inside-out. The offenses today go outside, basically, in. You don't find a lot of guys with traditional post-up moves."
Chris Paul, Derrick Rose and Deron Williams have ushered in a golden age of point guard play. Dwyane Wade and Kobe Bryant each could be considered the sport's top shooting guard. LeBron James is widely considered the sport's best small forward, but at least Kevin Durant and Carmelo Anthony loom close behind. Dirk Nowitzki and Pau Gasol both play power forward.
At his position, Howard almost stands alone.
Los Angeles Lakers 7-footer Andrew Bynum — the sport's consensus second-best center — is putting up career numbers, averaging 16.3 points and 12.5 rebounds per game entering Monday, but he is nowhere near as durable as Howard.
Even beyond that, though, Howard, Bynum and their fellow All-Star Roy Hibbert of the Indiana Pacers are part of a vanishing group of centers: guys who do the bulk of their work offensively with their back to the basket.
"Big guys now, they all want to be forward types," said Magic assistant coach and Hall of Famer Patrick Ewing, who was one of the dominant centers of the 1980s and '90s. "Roy Hibbert, Bynum and Dwight — they're the few back-to-the-basket types.
"There's nothing wrong with being a face-up player," Ewing added. "But if you're a post guy, you have to be able to do both. Hakeem [Olajuwon] and myself, we did both. We posted-up. We shot our jump shots. But we did both."
So what's happened?
You'll receive a multitude of answers.
Howard points to a cultural change: that it's not cool to play center anymore. He often has said that sports highlight shows rarely glorify rebounding or interior play.
"Nobody really talks about the rebounding and blocking shots," Howard said. "It's all about points. So I think people get lost in that."
Magic coach Stan Van Gundy agrees with Howard — and Van Gundy takes it a step further.
The rules, Van Gundy said, aid perimeter play because they limit contact more than ever before, and, as a consequence, those rules open up offensive opportunities for perimeter players with dynamic skills.
Meanwhile, the rules for post players still permit contact, and lots of it.
If you're 7 feet tall, would you rather be like Nowitzki and shoot often from the outside as a face-up power forward? Or would you want to be like Howard and face double-teams?
"No one wants to be the big, strong kid in the middle," Van Gundy said. "There's another thing: It's hard work."
Howard is proof of that.
Although he remains one of the most durable players in the league, he gets cuts and scrapes and bruises all the time. And, as one of the game's strongest interior players, he dishes out plenty of bruises and elbows, too.
Nowitzki himself is the epitome of a larger trend: the international influence on the NBA.
A couple of decades ago, it would have been rare for a 7-foot, 245-pound player to face the basket. But Nowitzki comes from a youth-development system that placed a heightened emphasis on improving youngsters' skills.
Now, if you scan NBA rosters, you'll see that many of the game's big men are from abroad.
Poland's Marcin Gortat and Spain's Marc Gasol entered Monday as the third- and fourth-leading scorers among centers this season. And Italy's Andrea Bargnani, who is averaging 23.5 points per game for Toronto, would have been among the league leaders if he hadn't injured his calf.
All of them — plus injured Milwaukee Bucks center Andrew Bogut, the No. 1 overall pick in 2005 — are more comfortable facing the basket.
And, according to Bogut, who grew up in Australia, the international players have those skills because those skills were taught to them when they were kids.
"I was always told at a young age that the more you can do — no matter how tall or hefty you are — the more valuable you become to your team and to making the pros," Bogut said.
"I think we see that a lot today with guys like Pau [Gasol] and myself. There are not a whole lot of power guys left. Dwight Howard is probably the only one that is pure power, and maybe you can add Andrew Bynum, although Bynum can still come out and shoot the jumper."
As a teenager in Australia, Bogut, 27, would spend Monday through Thursday practicing, with extra training before and after school. Friday nights would bring the most challenging games. Saturdays and Sundays were spent playing with his friends.
But he emphasized that player development was a hallmark of youth programs. Winning games was secondary.
Bogut always looked up to Toni Kukoc, a 6-foot-10 Croatian who was a good ball-handler and adept passer.
Bogut had the freedom to develop those aspects of his game.
Van Gundy dislikes the AAU system in the United States because he feels it stresses winning at the expense of making young players better.
And, although post play doesn't look fancy, it requires a lot of work to master.
Lanier, 63, sees a lack of teaching throughout youth basketball, especially with moves in the low post. As a kid and as a teenager, he would spend hours doing "Mikan drills," named after the first great big man, George Mikan, in which Lanier would alternate layups with either hand from underneath the basket. It improved his footwork and his coordination.
"They're just not teaching the skill," he said. "You go to camps today and you don't really see guys emphasizing post-up moves."
"Now they play so many games in the summertime that a lot of the teaching is omitted," he said. "Now, the pressure is on the high school coach to teach the fundamentals and the development of the frontcourt players and then the colleges. So what happens if a guy is one-and-done? He might miss a lot."
Oscar Robertson, the Hall of Fame guard who was known for his versatility, echoed the same themes as Lanier and Van Gundy.
"If you get an AAU situation, they try to get the most elite ballplayers, the most polished ballplayers and get them on the court," he said. "But some kids might grow later.
"You don't have an accomplished athlete when he's 12 years old."
Former center Artis Gilmore, another Hall of Famer, said that many of the centers of the past — including Lanier, Dave Cowens, Willis Reed and Bill Russell — all could play on the perimeter.
Gilmore was more of a back-to-the-basket player than any of them, but he found that most of his contemporaries could mix it up in the low post.
"Every night there was a different challenge from different clubs," Gilmore recalled. "From Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to the Boston Celtics' Dave Cowens, Bob Lanier, Bill Walton — every night there was just an extraordinary challenge from individual centers."
It's not quite the same today.
During the 2009-10 season, Howard became the first center in NBA history to lead the league in rebounding and blocked shots for two consecutive years.
Before the season was over, someone asked Howard what that accomplishment would mean to him.
"It's a tough thing to do every night," he said.
"But somebody has to do it."
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I'm making a port of my game that I created as a final exam at College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (here's link :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4oQr7E1bpU&feature=channel_video_title) . It's a physics game something like Crash the Castle game. Everything is working fine and porting game is going smooth and I'm having a blast with this libreary.
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White House Discloses Meetings With Health Care Executives
Updated 9:37 p.m.
By Dan Eggen
The Obama administration released Wednesday night a list of 15 health-care lobbyists and senior executives who have visited the White House to discuss health-care reform.
Guests have included Billy Tauzin of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America; Karen Ignagni of America's Health Insurance Plans; Richard Umbdenstock of the American Hospital Association; and J. James Rohack of the American Medical Association, according to a letter from White House Counsel Gregory B. Craig. Senior executives at companies including Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, UnitedHealth Group and Merck also visited at least once.
The list was released in response to a lawsuit filed earlier in the day by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a watchdog group, which had been denied access to the names by the U.S. Secret Service. Many of the meetings, it turned out, were well-known gatherings that had already been publicized.
Obama noted as much during his news conference Wednesday night, saying, "Most of the time, you guys have been in there taking pictures, so it hasn't been a secret. ... These have mostly been at least photo sprays, where you could see who was participating."
Obama added that he would back broader access to future meetings at the White House or in Congress. "If [lawmakers] wanted those to be on C-Span, then I would welcome it," he said. "I don't think there are a lot of secrets going on in there."
CREW said in a statement that Craig's letter "in no way" fulfills the group's request, which was for the visitor logs themselves.
"Releasing some records because it is politically expedient to do so is not transparency," the group said.
The White House's decision to release the information marks another departure in policy from the Bush administration, which fought all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court to withhold the names of participants in an energy task force, run by then-vice president Richard B. Cheney, that was dominated by representatives of the oil and gas industries.
The Obama White House has made little secret of its intent to meet frequently with industry representatives in hopes of gaining their cooperation on reform efforts. One March 5 health-care summit, for example, was hosted by President Obama and featured more than 150 people, including physicians, business leaders, union representatives and consumer advocates. Four of the industry group leaders on the new White House list attended that summit.
Although most of the leaders on the list visited the White House once or twice, others were more frequent guests, the letter shows. The most frequent visitor was Umbdenstock, president and CEO of the hospitals group, who met with officials or attended gatherings at the White House eight times from Feb. 4 to May 22.
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So, LarryG62, you are retired and no doubt collecting Social Security and Medicare. So, how do you like your government run health care system...which everyone else is helping pay for in their payroll taxes? I look forward to receiving Medicare services in the near future. Because even though I have worked full time for the past forty five years, I still don't have medical insurance or medical care, though I pay for it in my payroll taxes to help cover you. The premiums and deductibles on my health insurance got too high to be affordable for me. Tell me, does the government choose which doctor you can go to and what care they will pay for or which hospital serves you? Just wondering.
Posted by: clairevb | July 23, 2009 11:06 AM
I'm still waiting for the list of energy executives who met with Cheney to form the US energy policy. When I see that, then we can talk about this much ado about nothing. "Hypocrisy" is and has been the mainstay in the imaginary land of the GOP.
Posted by: AugustWest1 | July 23, 2009 10:24 AM
This dumb_s$ Obama is driving our nation deeper in debt, and you liberal moochers want us to give up more so you can have your free medical care.
What a pathetic bunch of class envy dolts.
Before all you hate mongers start to vilify me, I've worked all my life. Worked two jobs for most of it, put my children through college without any government help, and am now retired.
I hope the A-hole in the White House goes down in flames, because he's destroying our country, and you nitwits don't get it.
Posted by: LarryG62 | July 23, 2009 10:17 AM
to wildbill: the press are being ridiculous this time. As Obama said, the people who attended have been photographed, interviewed, etc. What more do you want, fingerprint them? the press have the attendees names, they can call these people and talk to them. Geesh. With Cheney, he refused totally to give any name, no pictures, no list, no nothing.
Posted by: mstratas | July 23, 2009 10:10 AM
Healthcare reform is long overdue. The Republicans are obstructing it because they know they will be out in the wilderness for a very long time when the Reform passes. The insurance companies do not want reform because it means the end of their CONTROL AND DICTATORSHIP over people; the insurance companies can no longer tell the physicians what procedures to do, what drugs to prescribe - the doctors and hospitals are so beholden to the insurance companies that they have no say in the treatment. Insurance companies RATION services so critics who say that the Public Option will be rationing, are wrong. With Reform, one's child tonsils need not be removed because it means more revenue. All Americans should trust Pres. Obama; he knows the current system is skewed towards insurance companies, pharma companies, hospitals, lobbyists....etc. let us not be stupid anymore. Support Healthcare Reform. What do we have to lose? We've been trampled upon already.
Posted by: mstratas | July 23, 2009 10:04 AM
U.S. health care has evolved into a neo-taxation whereby income, savings, and equity are transferred from the many unto a wealthy few. Such health care as occurs seems an ever decreasing minimum which allows a pretense of believability for profiteers in the "health" care industry.
Posted by: TeresaBinstock | July 23, 2009 9:53 AM
Posted by: WVUWEIRTON | July 22, 2009 8:30 PM
And mine TOO. And, I will be out there in FORCE to make sure that the GOP will never see the DAWN of DAY!
Posted by: lcarter0311 | July 23, 2009 9:41 AM
The Obama administration released Wednesday night a list of 15 health-care lobbyists and senior executives who have visited the White House to discuss health-care reform.
It's not the same as releasing the records. Obama is acting no different than Bush and Cheney with their secretive Energy meetings. Obama is nothing more than a hypocrite!!!!
Posted by: WildBill1 | July 23, 2009 9:06 AM
This guy AntonioSasa needs health care coverage if he does not have one, especially one that covers treatment of mental health.
When you are well you try to say all you have to say in one small post. Most people lack the patience to read such slew of posts.
Posted by: pattr1 | July 23, 2009 4:52 AM
You are right, BlessedHealth. Obama wants his socialized health care program rushed before Americans realize how much it will hurt us and how much it will hurt future generations, which will have to pay for what Obama is doing.
Anyone familiar with socialized health care programs knows they are extremely costly (to pay for the added bureaucracy) and profoundly inefficient (as all government programs are).
There's much that we can do to improve our health care system, but Obama does not seem interested in that. He just wants to control our health care system as soon as possible. It seems to be part of his plan to enslave us with socialism/Marxism.
Posted by: AntonioSosa | July 23, 2009 12:45 AM
Imitating Hugo Chavez, Obama wants to nationalize everything, including our health care system! "Hey, Obama has just nationalized nothing more and nothing less than General Motors. Comrade Obama!" Chavez cheered on Venezuelan TV a few days ago. He added that he and Cuba's Fidel Castro would now have to work harder just to keep up.
Posted by: AntonioSosa | July 23, 2009 12:37 AM
Those who want socialized medicine and a socialist/communist country, please move to Cuba or North Korea! You have no right to transform the U.S. into a failed socialist country like Cuba just because you are "dumbed down," as per Pravda: http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/107459-american_capitalism-0
Posted by: AntonioSosa | July 23, 2009 12:35 AM
How can anyone believe that paying for additional bureaucracy is going to save us money? Adding billions of dollars to our deficit so Obama can pay thousands of additional ACORN-type government workers -- to decide who lives or dies -- is an ABOMINATION. Obamacare will only increase our deficit, further steal from our children and grandchildren, and further deteriorate health care.
To fix our health care problems, we need to go in the OPPOSITE direction in which Obama is taking us. A socialized health care system would be another step to destroy our country, our future and the future of our children and grandchildren!
Posted by: AntonioSosa | July 23, 2009 12:33 AM
The House version of the Health Care Bill (pages 425-430) is going to require mandatory end-of-life (death) counseling for all those over 65, at least every five years and more often if the person is sick or in a nursing home.
I guess that is one way Obama is planning to "save" money –- coercing 65-year olds to die before they cost any money! http://romanticpoet.wordpress.com/2009/07/22/part-of-obama-healthcare-plan-mandatory-counseling-for-seniors-over-65-regarding-end-of-life-issues/
Posted by: AntonioSosa | July 23, 2009 12:31 AM
As we can see, Obama continues to lie, manipulate and intimidate to shove his socialized health care system down our throats!
EVERYTHING Obama has done so far has harmed us. He has multiplied our deficit, increased unemployment, increased poverty, and decreased our wellbeing and safety. He sides and defends terrorists and U.S. enemies (Hamas, Castro, Chavez, Zelaya) and harms us and our friends (Israelis, Hondurans).
How can anyone believe that his plans to socialize our health care system are good for us? Socialized health care is just another step to impose socialism/Marxism on us, and the corruption, poverty, enslavement, destruction and despair that Marxism entails.
Obama is working much faster than Hugo Chavez at destroying the economy and imposing Marxism. No wonder the Russians are gloating. From Pravda: "…the American descent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple…" http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/107459-american_capitalism-0
Posted by: AntonioSosa | July 23, 2009 12:30 AM
The healthcare reform bill released by the House Of Representatives is an excellent bill as I understand it. It's a bill with a strong, robust, government-run public option, and an intelligent, reasonable initial funding plan to cover almost all of the American people. It is carefully written, and thoughtfully constructed, informed, prudent and wise. This bill will save trillions of dollars, and millions of your lives. It is also now supported by the AMA.
This is the type of bill that all Americans can feel good about. And this is the type of bill that has the potential to dramatically improve the quality of healthcare for all Americans. Rich, middle class and poor a like. Democrats, Republicans, Independents, and all other party affiliations. This bill has the potential to dramatically improve the quality of life of every American.
The house healthcare bill should be viewed as the minimum GOLD STANDARD by which all other proposed healthcare legislation should be judged. All supporters of true high quality healthcare reform should now place all your support behind this healthcare reform bill released by the United States House Of Representatives, as the minimum Gold standard for healthcare reform in America.
You should all now support this bill with all your might, and all of your unrelenting tenacity. This healthcare bill is a VERY, VERY GOOD! bill for all of the American people. Fight tooth, and nail for every bit of this bill if you have too. Be aggressive, creative, and relentless for this bill.
From this time forward, go BIGGER and DEEPER with the American people every day until passage of healthcare reform with a robust, government-run public option.
FIGHT!! like your life and the lives of your loved ones depends on it. BECAUSE IT DOES!
Senator Bernie Sanders on healthcare (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSM8t_cLZgk&feature=player_embedded)
God Bless You
Jack Smith — Working Class
Posted by: JackSmith1 | July 22, 2009 10:33 PM
"In Defense of Patients and Physicians: Restore "doctor-patient relationships"; scrap "networks."
SEE: http://drmccloud.com/blog.php
There is absolutely NO NEED to rush this health care matter! Stop. Step back; gather physicians and talk about it. The past 20 years has been a RAPE of the medical profession; don't perpetuate it.
And since the president said nothing would kick in until "2013," there are things that can be done in the meantime that will FREE PHYSICIANS to CARE FOR OUR PATIENTS!!! You won't have any doctors if this mess keeps up.
Although I voted for Barack Obama, I am most upset—infuriated, actually—with his handling of the health care reform debate.
Why is he ramming this down our throats before fully analyzing the pertinents of the issue? The more immediate concerns—abolishing "physician 'networks'" and opening the market for physician selection, for one—is a better place to start, and wouldn't cost the government anything.
The insurance companies have mangled health care for the past 20 years; we don't need the president acting like a wild buck and furthering their misdeeds and malpractice on the American people—patients and physicians alike.
He and Congress need to slow down so this will make some sense! This issue is much too important.
Posted by: BlessedHealth | July 22, 2009 9:21 PM
Do you trust ANYTHING the Post publishes on health care? Don't forget they were selling access to the White House to lobbyists only last month in the form of "salons"! Join me in boycotting this corrupt newspaper until Katherine Weymouth resigns as Publisher and CEO. I would apologize to Dan Eggen, except that he seems perfectly complacent in this scandal. Mr. Eggen, why don't you do the honorable thing and help organize a general employee strike to get Weymouth to resign? If you do, sir, I'll read your work, no matter where you end up working.
Posted by: wabewalker | July 22, 2009 9:20 PM
I have in the last few days read that if the Republicans can defeat President Obama's Public Health Plan this would be Obama's WaterLoo...
Nothing could be further from the truth!!!
If President Obama's Public Health Plan is not pass by Congress WE will blame the following.
1. The Republican Party.
2. Those Democrats who voted against Obama's Health Plan.
3. The Health Industry, who has BEEN giving both Republicans and certain Democrats tens of millions of lobby dollars to defeat Obama's Health Plan. YES, OUR COUNTRY IS FOR SALE!!!
Posted by: WVUWEIRTON | July 22, 2009 8:30 PM
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MENU Pte Ltd, a Singapore-based business, is the parent company of a group of establishments – Brewerkz Restaurant & Microbrewery and Café Iguana – both of which are located in Singapore.
Previously known as, Brewerkz Singapore Pte Ltd, it was founded in 1997 to set up Brewerkz Restaurant & Microbrewery, an iconic haven for high quality American food and a full range of award-winning premium beers handcrafted on-site. Brewerkz was the brain-child of US-born Devin Otto Kimble and Daniel Flores, who initially modeled it after similar concepts in the USA and Canada.
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