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Melka Kunture and Bachilt Archaeological Site
Ministry of Culture & Tourism, Authority for Research & Conservation of Cultural Heritage (ARCCH)
Oromia National Regional State, Melka Kunture
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Melka Kunture, as it can be seen today, is part of a gently undulating landscape of the Upper Awash Valley, in the highlands of Ethiopia, at c. 2000m asl. All over the Upper Pliocene and the Pleistocene, tectonic activity led to the deepening of the demi-graben depression where the meandering paleo-Awash deposited alluvia. Through time, parts of the paleo-landscape were buried again and again, blanketed both by alluvial deposits, and by volcanic deposits produced by the nearby volcanoes. Accordingly, past surfaces, littered with archaeological implement and prehistoric animal remains, were covered by sediments and escaped destruction. There is now evidence by natural erosion on the banks of the little gullies of the local tributaries of the Awash.
Archaeological excavations allowed for the recovery of the prehistoric heritage and of the related scientific information. More than 80 archaeological layers have been identified during 50 years of archaeological research; 30 of them have been extensively excavated over surfaces ranging from 50 m2 to 250 m2. Tens of thousands of lithic tools, faunal and sometime human remains (Homo erectus sensu lato and archaic Homo sapiens) have been discovered. Many more are preserved in an area of more than 100 km2, and wait for future research and for future generations of scholars.
The visible thickness of these deposits is around 30 m, but the cumulative thickness of the various levels is about 100 m. The archaeological deposits of Melka Kunture are a unique archive of human evolution, spanning over more than 1.7 million years, from Oldowan layers, to a very long and complex sequence of Acheulean layers, to Middle Stone Age and eventually by Late Stone Age layers. All over this sequence, a diversified range of lithic raw materials of volcanic origin were available for knapping by humans: each had different properties and qualities, all were carefully tested and, when found suitable, were eventually exploited. The volcanic rocks utilized for knapping were different types of basalts, ignimbrites, trachytes and trachybasalts on one hand, and obsidian on the other hand. These two groups of raw materials present completely different qualities for stone knapping. Accordingly, Melka Kunture can be seen as a laboratory for human evolution, where the requisites for trial and error procedures were naturally available, fostering the development of cognitive capabilities in humans.
Obsidian is especially important, and appears virtually at each site, starting from the archaeological record with the Oldowan at 1.7 million years. At some sites obsidian is the only material used. The primary source is Balchit, a dome-flow which is also part of the archaeological area. Erosion of the Balchit outcrops and re-deposition by the tributaries of the Awash eventually led to the formation of rich and numerous secondary sources, which did not escape from the attention of prehistoric humans. Obsidian exploitation was still under way in recent historic times, when this naturally occurring volcanic glass was used in everyday activities, as in curing animal hides. The obsidian dome-flow of Balchit is spotted by extensive flaking areas. Cores, flakes, blades and debris have accumulated on thousands of square meters since prehistory and well into historic times.
Justification de la Valeur Universelle Exceptionnelle
Criteria (iii) : The archaeological record of Melka Kunture spans over 1.7 million years, and ends in historic times. Prehistoric human groups made a living out of natural resources, both in terms of vegetables, which rarely survive, and in terms of wild animal resources, which left ample archaeological evidence. Obsidian and other locally available volcanic rocks were knapped and used to prepare implements. Lithic implements that littered past landscapes are being retrieved by scientific excavations, allowing to reconstruct prehistoric human activity. The success of human evolution and adaptations history which shaped modern humankind is beautifully evidenced in many archaeological sites. Thanks to sedimentary processes which allowed preservation, there is a continuous record over the Middle and Upper Pleistocene. Such a preservation is exceptional, and documents through an extremely long span of time the ways of life of little nomadic human groups.
Criteria (iv) : Paleo-landscapes rarely survive erosion, and when they do, are often hidden by a load of sediments deposited after they were not any more in existence. In the case of Melka Kunture, there was a subtle balance of processes leading to preservation and destruction, and fragments of very ancient, fossil landscapes are evidenced by ongoing, if limited erosion in the gullies of the Awash tributaries. Visibility, in turn, allows scientific research and the reconstruction of past events. But the whole area is better described as a palimpsest of superimposed fragments of fossil paleo-landscapes, on top of which rural activity nowadays goes on. Melka Kunture is a repository and archive of well preserved fragments of landscapes of Pleistocene age, which includes great amounts of archaeological remains documenting the environment and ways of life of prehistoric human groups.
There is also evidence of the development of a very special landscape at Balchit, up to very recent times. Due to the continuous exploitation of the obsidian dome-flow to produce cutting and scraping implements, the modern landscape of the area is littered by millions of flakes, blades, cores and débris, which accumulated in late prehistoric and historic times. Heaps of by-products of obsidian knapping activities alternate with natural exposures, and with glittering stretches of land. This is an impressive sight over thousands of square meters, where randomly abandoned volcanic-glass implements reflect the light of the sun. The relationship between modern human groups and obsidian sources is in full sight.
Criteria (v) : Most of the archaeological evidences of Melka Kunture belong to times when neither farming nor herding were practiced. Humans belonging both to Homo erectus (sensu lato) and, later, to Homo sapiens were invariably organised in little groups, which walked from place to place to make full use of naturally available resources. The latter ones were closely monitored, when occurring seasonally, as vegetable and animal resources; and systematically tested, when locally outcropping, as rocks suitable for knapping. The building-up of a vast knowledge of the qualities and potential use of any kind of naturally occurring resources is reflected by the successful and long-term adaptation to the highlands of Ethiopia. This, in turn, is fully evidenced in the very long archaeological record of Melka Kunture, over 1,7 million years.
Déclarations d'authenticité et/ou d'intégrité
Melka Kunture has been the focus of long-term archaeological, palaeontological, and geological research over the last 50 years.. The results have been disseminated in the scientific community following the standard procedures of participation to international congresses; publication in scientific journals of recognized reputation; publication of a comprehensive monograph; publication online. The wealth of accumulated information has been used for the "Description" and "Justification of Outstanding Universal Value", which are fully supported by scientific evidence properly published and made available in approximately 100 scientific papers. This includes the age of the deposits, the determination of the human remains, the determination of the fossil animal species, the analysis of the technical achievements of prehistoric human groups, as reflected in the archaeological record, the reconstruction of the general environment.
The collections made during the many excavation campaigns are kept and curated at the National Museum in Addis Ababa, where they are available for further scientific analysis.
Outside the scientific circles, the information has been disseminated to a wide public, which can visit the website, as well as the museum built in the archaeological area.
Comparaison avec d'autres biens similaires
Archaeological and palaeontological properties or sites with long stratigraphic sequences related to the earliest developments of humankind exist in Ethiopia and elsewhere.
The Lower Valley of the Awash in Ethiopia is characterized by fossiliferous deposits of Miocene age, including the well-known findspot of "Lucy", 3.2 million years old. The many remains which have been discovered allow to trace early stages of hominin evolution.
The Lower Valley of the Omo in Ethiopia, including Lake Turkana, is also characterized by fossiliferous deposits bearing hominin remains, later in age if compared to those of the Lower Awash Valley. There is also some of the earliest evidence of lithic industries, with archaeological sites dating back to 2-2.3 million years.
Olduvai Gorge, in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area of Tanzania, is where Louis and Mary Leakey first discovered Homo habilis. There is a very long archaeological sequence, as in Melka Kunture. Most of the efforts and attention have been for the sites in Bed I and Bed II, with Oldowan and Acheulean layers, between 1.85 and 1.2 million years ago. The sediments overlying Beds I and II date from 1.2 million years ago to 60,000––40,000 years ago.
Comparisons can also be established with the archaeological record of the Nachukui Formation, a Plio-Pleistocene sedimentary Formation located in the northern part of Kenya, west of lake Turkana. The geological sequence offers a set of Oldowan and Acheulean sites, aged between 2.34 and 0.70 million years.
Broadly comparable depositional sequences also exist outside Africa in the Jordan Valley of Israel, where two multi-layered sites, Ubadiyya (Ubeidiya) and Gesher Benot Ya'akov date back to 1.4 and 0.8 million years respectively. Rich assemblages were unearthed, while human remains were not discovered.
The archaeological and palaeontological evidence embedded in the area of Melka Kunture refers to a time-range when the capability of producing stone tools was fully developed, i.e. it is later than in the Lower Awash Valley and in the Lower Omo Valley. It is better compared to the sequences of Olduvai and of the Nachukui Formation, and to the record from the Jordan Valley. It differs from all of them for the very high density of archaeological, multi-layered sites, at a few km from each other; for the adaptation to a different natural environment, where elephants, a prominent part of African past and present landscapes, were notably absent; for the early exploitation of obsidian, a raw material with specific knapping qualities which was used at a much larger scale than at any other site of the Middle Pleistocene age; for the positive evidence of continuity between Homo erectus and Homo sapiens, seen in the remains of a 1.5 million years Homo erectus child who suffered of amelogenesis imperfecta, a genetically-controlled disorder still existing today; for the rich record of obsidian use up to historic times, in the area close to the obsidian outcrop of Balchit.


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By Mike Barnett
America is food secure. Has a nice ring, doesn't it?
When we think of security, we often think the physical safety of our loved ones and homeland. Too often we forget having plentiful and safe food as a part of that equation.
That doesn't mean there isn't hunger in America. More work needs to be done to make sure everyone has a full belly when they go to bed. But that's not because American farmers don't provide enough food for everyone.
America has food assurance because farm and ranch families respond to consumer signals that keep food and fiber flowing from the farm gate to the dinner plate. Choice, free markets and incentives for profit are covenants farmers and ranchers make with America to keep pantries full.
It's a trust they take seriously: Conserving, preserving and wisely using America's precious resources to ensure American-grown means America can always have plenty of safe food to eat.
Let freedom…and the dinner bell ring!

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DARTMOUTH, Mass. -- Brandeis junior guard Kasey Dean (Southbury, Conn./Pomperaug) scored in double figures for the second-straight game with 12 points, but she was the only Judge with 10 points as host UMass Dartmouth closed the game on an 8-2 run to escape with a 50-49 non-conference women's basketball victory tonight. The Judges fall to 3-4 with the loss, while the Corsairs improve to 5-1.
Dean led the Judges with 12 points on 6-of-9 shooting, but only one other Brandeis player had more than two field goals. The Judges only got to the line six times in the entire contest, with UMD taking 13 foul shots and owning a 7-3 edge from the charity stripe. Brandeis owned a 48-37 rebounding edge as well, thanks to senior forward Samantha Anderson (Johnsonville, N.Y./Hoosac Valley) and sophomore guard Hannah Cain (Gloucester, Mass./Gloucester), who had seven boards each. Brandeis outshot the Corsairs, 37% to 31%, but an 18-14 edge in turnovers for the hosts was costly.
Forward Colleen Moriarty led the hosts with 22 points, including the game-winning bucket with 5.7 seconds left, a hook shot that rolled around the rim before finally dropping. She was the only UMD player in double figures, hitting 10-of-22 from the field. Stephanie Antone came off the bench to lead all players with 10 rebounds, including seven of the Corsairs' 17 offensive caroms.
It was a game of runs, with Brandeis erasing an early 14-7 deficit to take a 20-18 lead at halftime. UMD opened the second half with an Erika Bornemann 3-pointer, and the lead changed hands five times in the first 2:02 of the stanza. Back-to-back hoops by Dean and a Cain jumper made it 31-26, Judges, at the 16:56 mark, but UMass Dartmouth roared back with 13 of the game's next 15 points. The Corsairs got two hoops each from Moriarity, Kelsey Garritty and Beth Castantini in the run, with a Moriarity lay-up at 12:12 making it a 39-33 advantage for the hosts.
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I sent her a message, saying how bad I was feeling and she said, watch the Donna Eden videos. I didn't know we had any!
She told me where to look. I dug them out and settled down to watch. It was another afternoon that changed my life!
Donna is an amazing woman, and an amazing teacher. We (Susan and I) will have much more to say about Donna, but, in the meantime, go get some Donna videos for yourself and see if you agree with me.
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I first wrote this post a year or so ago. Since then I have learned some things that I didn't know back then, which means I need to make a few changes. There are a number of "great debates" in the weight loss world, and one of the biggest is "CICO vs GCBC". That is, the "calories in, calories out model" (eat less, exercise more: you can't gainsay the physics) versus the "Good Calories Bad Calories" model (not all calories are created equal … some foods will have a worse effect than other foods). Intellectually I have come to believe and follow the GCBC model … but my personal experience says that CICO is also true; you can't gainsay the physics. Even when you're eating exclusively good calories, too many of them will make you fat!
This post was, originally, based exclusively on CICO … I will make notes where I think we need to make an adjustment. To get an idea of why all calories are not created equal, check out my post on my number one nutritional-science guru, Gary Taubes: "Why We Get Fat".
When I first started this odyssey I was "morbidly obese": I had a Body Mass Index (BMI) just over 40. That meant I was 9 stones (126 lbs, 57 kg) overweight.
Conventional wisdom suggests a safe rate to lose weight is 1 lb per week. At that rate it would have taken me about two and a half years to get to goal weight. Actually, on the sort of nutritional regime that achieves a one-pound-a-week weight loss, it will take forever, because the last few pounds just won't come off.
The first time I did this, I lost 7 stones (100 lbs, 45 kg) in 30 weeks, cured myself of various problems along the way (like Type II diabetes), and was never healthier in my entire life.
That same conventional wisdom that says only lose a pound a week also suggests, variously, only weighing yourself once per week, or once per month, or throwing the scales away altogether.VLCD
Nonsense. Weigh yourself every hour for two days, then every day.
I guess I better justify these bold assertions. After all, I am not medically qualified, and I'm not a professional nutritionist.
I am a fat bloke who wanted to stay alive. I am also an intelligent man, capable of reading, researching (I have a Master of Philosophy, M.Phil. degree; that's a sort of "PhD Lite"), and forming reasonable hypotheses that I can test on myself.
Safe Rate for Weight Loss
So let's examine where this "1 lb per week safe limit" argument comes from, and to do that, we need to get into a little (very simple, I promise) science.
Our bodies need food. I want to use the a metaphor: "The Body is Like a Car".
The body (I'm just considering physical stuff here; mental, emotional, creative, spiritual, social and cultural considerations I'll deal with in "Together We Can") needs food for three things:
- Fuel (Petrol, Diesel, Gas)
- Maintenance (Spare parts)
- Getting maintained (the motor repair person)
Fuel is calories. The body uses it up doing absolutely everything it does, from just staying alive, through thinking hard, to running a marathon, and everything in between.
Maintenance is vitamins, minerals and amino acids. These are the building blocks that are used for constantly repairing, growing and rebuilding our bodies.
The "repair person" function is carried out by certain enzymes and other substances that catalyze (cause to happen) changes in our bodies.
All foods contain these three components in different proportions. The reason why people criticize "junk food" is because it contains loads of fuel and almost no spare parts or repair people.
The body, like a car, can store fuel for later use. However, a car has a fixed-size fuel tank. When it's full, adding more just causes a mess on the filling-station forecourt.
The body, however, just grows the fuel tank to contain all the extra fuel you add. In extreme cases that means the body is almost nothing but a great heaving, wobbling fuel store. The trouble there is that the body becomes so ungainly and difficult to move, that it's really hard to actually use up this excess fuel. That means you have more fat (which doesn't use fuel) and less lean muscle (which does use fuel), so your fuel consumption drops whilst your fuel store goes up.
Another way that your body is unlike most cars is that your body can have a reserve fuel tank that has a one-way valve. You can add more fuel to your reserves, but then be unable to actually use it up. More of that later on.
How much fuel do we need?
Well, that depends. If you were lying in a coma in a hospital bed, you'd still be using fuel. They say that your brain uses up around 600 calories a day (although I know some people where I would swear it's less!)
When I first owned a car, cars were very simple things. If you turned off the lights and the ignition … that was it; it was totally inert.
But my big blue Mercedes uses electricity all the time, whether I'm driving it or not. The clock, the car's engine computer, the security system are all using power, whether I'm driving it or not (as I learned to my cost when I came back from a three-month trip and had to pay £200 for a new battery, and silly money to the Mercedes garage for resetting all the systems so they worked again–I've got rid of that car now!).
This underlying rate of energy consumption is called your "Basal Metabolic Rate", and differs, based on your gender, weight, height. Here's how Wikipedia defines BMR:
Basal metabolic rate (BMR), and the closely related resting metabolic rate (RMR), is the amount of daily energy expended while at rest in a neutrally temperate environment, in the post-absorptive state (meaning that the digestive system is inactive, which requires about twelve hours of fasting in humans).
The release of energy in this state is sufficient only for the functioning of the vital organs, the heart, lungs, nervous system, kidneys, liver, intestine, sex organs, muscles and skin.
BMR changes with age, gender, height and weight.
On top of your BMR requirement is the energy you need for normal daily functioning: getting up, getting dressed, washed, fed, to work, etc. This total amount of energy is called your Daily Calorie Needs, and can be anything from 1.2 to 1.9 times your BMR.
And here's the simple truth. Eat more calories than your Daily Calorie Needs, and your body will store the excess energy. Eat less and your body will make up the difference from the energy store.
In even simpler and balder language: eat more than you need and you'll get fat, eat less than you need and you'll get thin.
The difference in the Good Calorie – Bad Calorie model is that our endocrine systems can get damaged, in which case eating less may not make you thin, and even eating small amounts can make you fat. If your waist measurement is larger than your hip measurement, then this may already have started happening for you.
HOWEVER … if all your requirements come from food, then eating less calories means you are also eating less spare parts and "maintenance people".. To avoid linguistic clumsiness, from here on I will just divide food into fuel and nutrition.
Here's the danger; cut down on food in order to cut down on excess calories, and you're in danger of cutting down on nutrition, too. Do that and you'll get ill; maybe even die.
Where does the boundary lie between reducing calories to lose weight and not endangering your health? Let's do a little sum.
A pound of fat contains 3500 calories. So, to lose a pound a week you'll need to consume 3500 calories a week less than you use. A woman who needs around 1250 calories per day, or 8750 per week would need to cut her food intake by about 60% to lose a pound a week. If all she does is stay on the same diet, but just reduce quantities, you can see she's going to be in BIG trouble: 60% less calories, but also 60% less nutrition.
But how about if there was some way to get 100% of the nutrition you need, at very low calorie levels?
Welcome to the Very Low Calorie Diet, or VLCD. My diet is incredibly well formulated to give me all the vitamins, minerals and enzymes I need to get top-notch, fabulous nutrition, but only 500 calories per day.
I'll do a worked example, but, for the math-phobic among you, I'll put all the sums in an appendix. It comes out that on my 500-calorie a day VLCD I will, based on my today's weight, lose 6.6 lbs a day.
Of course, tomorrow I'll be about a pound lighter, so the BMR equation will change, so I'll either get very good with a calculator, or I'll build a spreadsheet (which I have; have a look at it or download it from here).
There's one more thing to explain.
How The Body Stores and Uses Energy
The body stores energy in two forms, one available for quick access in the short term, and one for longer-term use.
The evolutionary need was for, on the one hand, a rapidly available energy store that could be used for flight or fight, or chase, or sex. On the other hand, we needed a slower-release energy store to get us through the winter and spring, when there wasn't much food around.
For short-term, rapid uptake use, our bodies store glycogen in our liver and our muscles. For long term use, energy is stored as fat, which has a second use to keep us warm.
When we start a VLCD the glycogen is the first thing to go, and glycogen bonds with five times it's own weight of water, hence for the first few days we pee every 90 minutes, morning, noon, and night, and the weight absolutely falls off. It looks exciting on the scales, but it is only water!
How do we know when the glycogen is all gone? We enter a state known as "ketosis" (not to be confused with ketoacidosis). We know we are in ketosis when:
- We stop feeling hungry,
- We stop peeing every 90 minutes,
- If we pee on a "ketostix" strip (get them from our store) it goes purple,
- Our teeth start to fur up, and we start leaving toothbrushes and toothpaste around the house for immediate use,
- Our weight loss conforms to the above equations.
- Our brain starts to get sharper.
It's important to stay in ketosis for reasons 1 and 6. And you do that by sticking strictly to the diet. Any little extras (not so much as a slice of lemon in a glass of water) are liable to kick you out of ketosis.
I have experienced (6) above. Apparently it's because ketones fuel the brain instead of glucose.
Since then being in ketosis and ketogenic diets have become even more important to me. Check out my blog posts "On Ketogenic Diets" and "203 Comments on Mark Maunder's 'Basic Ketogenic Diet'".
I've Been Told to Throw My Scales Away
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When you get them, weigh yourself every waking hour, day and night (and when you get up for a wee). They record your weight on a central website (only you can see it, unless you allow your Dr access), so you can do it half asleep. Do this without dieting; just your normal lifestyle. After two days, look at the results. You will find that your weight can fluctuate by as much as 5-8 lbs (2-4 Kg) during the day.
This means that you can "lose" a pound simply by weighing yourself an hour later! And it means that a target weight loss of 1 lb per week can't be detected … it's lost in the "noise".
Would you trust an airline pilot who didn't look at his instruments? I wouldn't. Your scales are your instruments: they tell you how you're doing. And when you're feeling all miserable because you can't eat your favourite food, go weigh yourself; you'll be so excited at another couple of pounds lost, that all your motivation will come back!
Won't a VLCD Damage my Muscles?
No. I went from obese couch potato to walking 500 miles with Walking for Happiness. I did my first 200 miles whilst on my VLCD, and my longest walk was 15.5 miles in a day. VLCDs (ketogenic, low-carb diets) are known to be "muscle sparing", or to even increase muscular endurance, and that has certainly been my experience.
Won't a VLCD Cause My Metabolism to Slow Down?
No. That's why weight loss is so rapid. It does that by sparing lean muscle mass. Something like 25 year's research on Lipotrim has shown you can stay on it as long as you need to, to get to your healthy body weight.
I've Been Told to Come off a VLCD After Four weeks
NO NO NO NO NO! At least, not if you're on a decent, nutrient-complete VLCD. That rule was invented by the US Post Office, 30 years ago, because, after a completely charlatan company poisoned people with a rubbish VLCD, they were worried that they could be sued if they delivered a VLCD to someone, and they died. Legal advice said that people could go with no nutrition at all for four weeks, so if they made that restriction, they were legally safe!
Why you shouldn't come off, and go back to normal food is because there is a "re-feeding protocol" to use at the end of a VLCD, and then a "new you" protocol, for on-going maintenance. Ignore these and your food addiction will come back in spades, and you'll pile all the weight back on. I know. I've been there!
Do it once. Do it properly. Follow the rules. Live healthily forever.
… and there's more. When you cut way down on your carb intake, as you do on either a commercial or home-made VLCD (I don't recommend this, because I can't, because I'm not a doctor or a nutritionist. However, when I am in America I can't get my VLCD, which is only available in the UK, so I make my own), your body takes some time to switch from expecting to be able to run on glucose to making up it's mind that it has to break down your body fat stores and run on ketones. The more you yo-yo back and forth, the more your body doesn't believe that you won't give it any more carbs. The cravings get worse, and, during the period when you aren't eating carbs, but your body isn't in ketosis, you really don't have any energy, your brain is totally fogged and your headache just gets worse!
What VLCD Should I use?
Ah, this is where I can't recommend, only tell you what I did, and am doing. I followed, and am following the Lipotrim diet. The problem for anyone not in the UK is that Lipotrim is only available in the UK, and only through your GP or your pharmacist. There are two videos you can watch for more information, Lipotrim's own video, and one made by Professor Dr David Haslam, chair of the National Obesity Forum.
Beware: In America you can find a product called Lipotrim. It is not related in any way to the Lipotrim that's available in the UK, and works (if it does work; I have no idea) on an entirely different principle.
I have experienced all the advantages mentioned by Haslam in that video.
Originally, Lioptrim was developed by Dr Alan Howard, whose career at Cambridge University spanned 60 years. He has been responsible for developing a number of VLCDs, including Lipotrim, the Cambridge Diet, and, I believe, Lighterlife. Lipotrim is probably the most heavily researched of all the VLCDs; there's masses of research documented on the Lipotrim website.
When I'm not on Lipotrim, I miss it. It tastes OK, and it is simple. I have tried varying Lipotrim with Cambridge, Exante, and Be-Yu. I only trust Lipotrim 100% because of all the research that has been done, because of the clinical supervision, and because it worked for me.
What Else Do I need?
You need psychological, emotional, cultural, spiritual and social help and support, and that isn't provided anywhere in the world … which is why we are developing Live Free From Obesity, and Together We Can.
And you need to understand that for the first 1.8 million years that humans were around, our bodies ran almost exclusively in ketosis, we were hugely more healthy than we are today, and we were capable of feats that today we would regard as "super human" … but more of that elsewhere!
Appendix: The Maths
All this "maths" is in a spreadsheet which makes it all very easy. Check out the Live Free From Obesity maths spreadsheet here.
English BMR Formula
Women BMR = 655 + ( 4.35 x weight in pounds ) + ( 4.7 x height in inches ) – ( 4.7 x age in years )
Men BMR = 66 + ( 6.23 x weight in pounds ) + ( 12.7 x height in inches ) – ( 6.8 x age in year )
Metric BMR Formula
Women BMR = 655 + ( 9.6 x weight in kilos ) + ( 1.8 x height in cm ) – ( 4.7 x age in years )
Men BMR = 66 + ( 13.7 x weight in kilos ) + ( 5 x height in cm ) – ( 6.8 x age in years )
I'll do mine, in kg (because that's what my scales register). This morning I was 133 kg, I am 193 cm tall, and 63 years old.
So my BMR is:
66 +(13.7 x 133) + (5 x 193) – (6.8 x 63)
66 + 1822 + 965 – 428 = 2424.
That's what I need just to stay alive; my BMR.
Next we use something called the Harris-Benedict equation to see what my daily needs are.
With this amount of exercise
Multiply the BMR by this
Little to no exercise
Light exercise 1-3 days/week
Moderate exercise 3-5 days/week
Intense exercise 6-7 days/week
Extremely intense exercise 6-7 days/week
(That's the same for men and women.) I reckon I should multiply by 1.55. That gives me a Daily Calorie Requirement of 3758. Let's call it 3800 to make life easier.
But on my Very Low Calorie Diet, I only get 500 calories a day. That means each day I am 3300 calories short. Over a week that's 3300 x 7 = 23,100 calories short each week.
And at 3500 calories per pound of fat, that means I'll lose 23,100 / 3500 = 6.6 lbs per week.
On 500 calories a day, you cannot and should not engage in heavy exercise; you will "run in to the brick wall" … something that long-distance runners experience if they haven't "carb-loaded" sufficiently the day before. I have experienced it twice: it's a very weird feeling; you just have no energy to go on.
I like Nordic Walking (see our Walking For Happiness website). I didn't start walking until I was two weeks into the diet, and then built up slowly. I will soon be posting an article on "How to Start Walking for Optimal Safe Weight Loss". Watch this space!
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Connecting the Hard-to-Reach with Pregnancy Prevention
Sometimes it takes years for a great idea to germinate. About a half-dozen years ago, Donna Maselli attended what was to be the first meeting of a subcommittee on teen pregnancy prevention among youth in Connecticut's foster care system. For various reasons, the subcommittee never met again. But Maselli, who oversees women's health issues at the Connecticut Department of Public Health, didn't forget what she'd learned about the high risk of pregnancy faced by teens in the child welfare system.
When the opportunity came to apply for a State Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) grant to combat adolescent pregnancy among groups most at risk, Maselli jumped at the chance. The result has been a collaborative project, funded by the Family and Youth Services Bureau, that involves four state agencies and several nonprofits in bringing sexual health education to youth in group homes.
"It's just a phenomenal partnership of people," Maselli says. "We get things done, and we make decisions." That work is propelled by a PREP advisory board that consists of Maselli and representatives from the state's Departments of Education, Mental Health and Addiction Services, and Children and Families.
Delivering sexual health education to foster youth is often hard because they move in and out of the system, Maselli says. So Connecticut's PREP advisory board decided to offer once-a-year condensed sexual health education at the state's Short-Term Assessment & Respite, or STAR, homes. Youth stay at the homes when they are entering (or re-entering) the child welfare system, before they get a longer term placement.
"It just didn't seem responsible not to include some sort of programming for these kids," Maselli says.
Sarah Gannon of Planned Parenthood of Southern New England, which implements the grant, says the 3-hour program at STAR homes, using components of the Streetwise to Sex-wise curriculum, has been so successful several homes have requested additional sessions.
"We may not be able to reach every youth every time," Gannon says, "but if they hear [about sexual health] from someone other than group home staff, they take it a little more seriously."


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johnson's a noob, send in pros that won't be smashed for 6...
katich is way too slow, dead rubber = runs, katich won't be owning
johnson's a noob, send in pros that won't be smashed for 6...
katich is way too slow, dead rubber = runs, katich won't be owning
Much as I'd like to say England(and our ODI form did improve against Pakistan) India and Australia to qualify(although if Sri Lanka end up in this group I think they might shock Australia(they beat them twice in the VB series and will be at home in sub-continental conditions)).
You know, I've been downplaying this competition, but it would be magnificent if we could beat the Aussies here. It would be somewhat similar to when we beat them in the Twenty20 last year. Or even, when beat them in the 2004 CT.
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Big problem for Engalnd is who is going to open the bowling -especially if Flintoff cab't bowl. All the rest have problems - Anderson is short of matches, Harmison struggles to control new white ball(might be better as first change as Donald used to do for SA), Mahmood has been hammered in the past, Lewis did well in autumn series against Pakistan but if it doesn't swing could be easy meat and Clarke's bowling gets hammeded even playing for Surrey! Stuart Broad should have been here - he's young but he's tall and gets bouce. Anderson and Flintoff could work in VB series and WC but would be a risk here. Would Fletcher DARE to emulate NZ in 1992 and open with a spinner? It would be a gamble - but what's the alternative?
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Ian Botham, Freddie Flintoff, Kevin Pietersen, Brian Laudrup, Gazza and Daniela Hantuchova....a fan of you all FOREVER!!!
Can't wait to see Australia field a crap leg-spinner like Hollland or Hohns again.....
Congratulations to Daniela Hantuchova on her 3rd career title....
Bob Woolmer 1948-2007..farewell to the best coach England never had...
Arise Sir Beefy....
Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Grubb...
there are a lot of teams that need to prove thier worth in this series. India, England and New Zealand; by the way; when was the last time NZ played; they hardly play matches these days. Isn't this bad for their team?
Australia, India, RSA and Pakistan to the semis for me.
We miss you, Fardin. :(. RIP.
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Three out of four I agree with - if SL end up in Pakistan group I think they'd take out SA - 5-0 whitewash in 2004 and more recently knocked them out of the VB series.Originally Posted by honestbharani
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I wish Shane Warne was playing in this tournament -Darryl Cullinan is one of the commentators and I'd love someone to ask him "Darryl - Warne is about to bowl -now if you were the batsman, how would you go about playing him"? I wonder what his answer would be?
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Decent performance by England in the warm-up, key players getting a go, and coming through uninjured.
Rikki came in at number 11, and didn't bowl, is he being picked as a specialist fielder?
Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.
Walt Whitman
it was 13 a side (he came in at 10)
Oh, I did realise, just being flippant, don't really know why hes out there to be honest.
Hayden 92 off 124 balls v. Tasmania.
Watson (opening) 70 off 83 balls v. Maharashtra CA XI in the CT warm up game.
Over to you, Simon.
I notice nobody has commented on the fact that Katich was told to play a specific role in the last Tournament, merely had a go at him.
marc71178 - President and founding member of AAAS - we don't only appreciate when he does well, but also when he's not quite so good!
Anyone want to join the Society?
Beware the evils of Kit-Kats - they're immoral apparently.
If taking 40 balls to make 6 runs is what Katich was told to do then Buchanan really does lack common sense and a hell of a lot of it.
He didn't play out any role for the Aussies. He just sucked.
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I was reminded of this post, which has sat in a word doc on my desktop for two months, while reading "Can I Pick your Brain," by Kevin Dugan. Thanks, Kevin, for inspiring me to finally get it posted.
I'm not sure where to start with this topic since I feel like it might offend many people who know me who have asked the very thing. For close personal friends I can make an exception but there has to be a line drawn somewhere.
Several years ago I had upgraded myself to first class on a flight from LA to NYC, where I was living at the time. As the plane was boarding I was flipping through the current issue of Wired. Highlighted in the magazine was a book called "Ambitchous" (has since been changed.) It was, ultimately, about how the female psyche can hold one back in business. How we can under-value and under-appreciate what we contribute, and our desire to not push too hard or ask for too much because we don't want to be "the Bitch." The author interviewed hundreds of women and is a career psychologist of sorts as well as having a strong background in business.
I felt a tap on my shoulder and it was my travel partner handing me a note. I opened it and it said: "Turn to page 76. That's my book."
It was the author, Debra Condren (@debracondren) of Ambitchous, seated directly across the aisle from me. The author of the book I just dog-eared a magazine page for to remind myself to buy.
I immediately got up and went to her and engaged in conversation which continued some during the flight and finally in the baggage terminal at JFK. She gave me a galley copy of the book, which I found a huge honor. I devoured it. There were so many eye-opening examples that simulated behaviors and ways of thinking that I'd found myself trapped in. One chapter hit me the most. I like to call it Pay Me.
I would cite it but I loaned the book out ages ago to other powerful females I know but my takeaway was this: Time is valuable and creative thought is even more so. Don't undervalue either. As women (and compassionate people everywhere) we like to help and can get trapped in giving our time and ideas away for free because we're afraid to ask for compensation. Or, just don't realize it's within our right to do so.
When you are a creative individual who is a "popcorn machine," as my mom says, that spits out ideas on a continual basis, doling out advice is no big thing. It's easy to have coffee with someone whose company I enjoy, most who will ultimately take my ideas and somehow help it benefit their business. Whatevs.
I used to do this a lot more than I do now because here's the thing I finally came to terms with that helped me start standing my ground: My popcorn machine has value.
Creative ideas and connections are the real currency in this digital economy. We are bomarded with fragmented channels to communicate with, audiences to communicate to and many masters to serve on the business side. Having someone who can view this entire eco-system, understand your market and then advise you on what is wisest for your company to build brand and business is an invaluable resource. But those advisors are typically under appreciated and under monetized.
I am asked on a weekly basis to meet with people for coffee, or lunch or cocktails. Requests range from if I know someone for a position to resources for an interest to the need for creative advice and consult to helping to promote an event. There are a lot of needs in LA (and beyond) and it shows this industry is raring to go and bursting with ambition. But, I can't help everyone.
I do have my own work schedule and my "life balance" that I attempt and it leaves me little free time to "donate" to others. I appreciate that I am seen as a resource for the community but some of the requests have shown me a repeated trend – people need ideas. A lot of them.
Strategic and creative counsel is one of the most under-monetized aspects of being in the communications and marketing business. Would you ask a lawyer to coffee to "pick his brain?" Do you think a profession as ruthless as they are known, and whose services are enlisted regularly and paid well for, would dole out a hour advice to you for $3.50? Unless he's your dear friend, what's in it for him?
I see this as an increasing problem in LA, and I'm sure in every city across the country. It's especially rampant with start-ups. Let's call it the "Pick Your Brain (PYB) syndrome."
You meet a nice smart person at an event and you have coffee and then they start to PYB. And take notes, because what you say makes sense. You are pumping out advice and ideas. And it ain't no thing to you because you're a popcorn machine, right? Pop, pop, pop. And they soak it up and then, off they go, and you're left holding an empty drink.
I got into a recent twitter back and forth with someone about the value of releasing ideas into the world. Someone cited @jason to me, that you can give ideas but it doesn't matter if they can't execute (I'm paraphrasing,) but I wholly disagree. When you present an idea to someone and they recognize it as good, they will take it with them and they will eventually make money off of that idea. But you will not.
So this is what I started doing, especially for people that I do not know well: I tell them I am happy to meet, I am flattered they asked and that because my time is valuable I don't do these PYB sessions for free. Most the time I've said this, they've understood and honored it. The ones that got a little ruffled, are the ones who will suck you dry and likely leave you paying for your own coffee. And theirs.
Run. Fast.
How often are you asked to have your brain picked? Got any words of advice or examples to share?
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James Kammerer�s path to creating the Anointing Gospel Competition started with a visit from an angel.
James Kammerer�s path to creating the Anointing Gospel Competition started with a visit from an angel.
When Kammerer was a young child, he was diagnosed with cancer and had to undergo surgery that ultimately cost him his gall bladder and parts of his small intestine. One night while in his hospital bed, someone visited him.
�He said I was going to be a great man of God,� said Kammerer. �The next morning, I asked someone which doctor had been in my room. They said no one had been in my room that night.�
Kammerer believe his special visitor was an angel and from that moment on, Kammerer said he had a drive to serve God.
In seventh grade, he felt called to be a missionary in Ghana and in 2011 he started taking part in fundraisers for missionaries and mission services affiliated with the United Pentecostal Church. It was at one of these fundraisers, a 24-hour bike-a-thon, that Kammerer said he came up with the idea for a music competition, though Kammerer said he isn�t musically inclined.
�At the time I didn�t think it would be a big thing,� said Kammerer. �But the next year we got the building and organized the competition.�
The competition includes two rounds, with every contestant singing a song in the first round and a narrowed down field of contestants singing another song in the next round. A third, second and firstplace winner will be chosen after the second round. The field will be narrowed and a winner will be chosen by members of the audience sending a text message to Kammerer via an online service. Voting will be free of charge for those with unlimited text messaging plans for their cell phones. Funds raised at the competition will go to missionaries affiliated with the UnitedPentecostalChurch.
Kammerer said the audience the first competition was small, but the talent was huge. This year Kammerer has been using Christian radio, as well as word of mouth, to promote the competition. With show participants and spectators coming in from places across the state, including Winston-Salem and Greenville, Kammerer said he�s expecting a crowd of about 1,000 to fill the auditorium at Northside High School.
�I feel very honored that they are willing to come out and take part in this contest,� said Kammerer.
Kammerer said one of his primary supporters through the process has been his mother. Kimberly Kammerer said her son�s goal to go to Africa as a missionary is bittersweet, but she�s letting her son decide what to do with his life.
�I want him to be where he wants to be, but when what makes him happy takes him thousands of miles away, it�s tough,� said Kimberly Kammerer. �I�m giving him back to God.�
Kimberly Kammerer said her role has been as motivator and �cheerleader� for her son through some of the more difficult times of the process.
�I kept telling him �God will open a door,�� said Kimberly Kammerer.
James Kammerer said that the support of his mother, as well as his father and his uncle, Tony Shaw (the event�s emcee), made this event possible. He hopes that with the talent displayed on the stage that evening starting at 6 p.m. families will be able to enjoy time together and other people will acquire a passion for missionaries as he did when he was a middle school student.
�I hope they�ll think of this as helping someone in need,� said James Krammerer. �I hope the passion for missions rubs off on them.�
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Want to go? The Anointing Gospel Competition will take place at Northside High School at 6 p.m. on June 29. Tickets are $10 for adults, $8 for children ages six-12 and admission is free for children under the age of five. Funds raised at the competition will go to missionaries affiliated with the United Pentecostal Church.


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I'm here to talk to you today about one of the unsung heroes in the protection warrior talent trees.
Taking a look at it, we can see that what it adds to the Intervene ability is a simple scaling damage reduction of 30% for the next 6 seconds. It seems a good talent on paper but the fact that it's attached out our Intervene ability is what makes a lot of tanks hesitant to pick it up on the way down the tree.
Taking a look at Intervene, we find an ability that's also sadly underused. Most tanks only use it for the defensive portion, to intercept one hit directed towards a fellow party member. The best part of the ability, and most often useful, by far is the 10% reduction in threat it provides.
Sadly, this isn't an ability that you're free to use as the main tank, namely because you always tend to be busy.
However, as an offtank, the Intervene ability, especially tacked on with the Safeguard talent can become invaluable.
Looking at it in context, it's a life-saving cooldown that's almost as good as a discipline priest's Pain Suppression talent, can be cast on just about anyone, so it's not a self only skill and on top of all that, you can use it every thirty seconds.
Did you miss that? I'll repeat it.
As a protection warrior, you have a thirty second Pain Suppression.
How could you pass up something like that for just two talent points?
For a solid example of an effective use of it, take this anecdote:
My guild has taken to using a paladin main tank during the latter half of our ICC trip, relegating our previous tank, a warrior, into the role of the offtank in most encounters. This enhanced his role significantly in our encounters as it freed him to use all of his abilities to the utmost. Careless DPS that regularly found themselves calling for Salv from our absent-minded paladins found their threat issues largely taken care of as he pre-emptively Intervened them as he found their threat rising to uncomfortable levels.
On many of our attempts on Professor, many green slime targets would simply get Intervened and then everyone would be saved the hassle of bunching up on them, freeing up the DPS and the healers to have more time burning it down, often preventing it from selecting a second target.
Attempts against Deathbringer will occasionally find him intervening and eating a hit from the blood beast on the odd occasion where they're not killed fast enough, saving the life of a raid member.
Finally, while learning how to deal with the Lich King, we've found that simply between the paladin's Arden Defender and a well timed Intervene, we could keep the Soul Reaper under control, leaving all of the other life-saving cooldowns free to help the raid in case of bad Infest positioning or some extra hits from the Raging Spirits.
There are a countless number of ways to use Intervene without the talent. Throw the damage reduction of the talent into the fray and the ways that Intervene can be used becomes innumerable.
The only thing to really keep an eye out for if you're going to use it on a tank is to make sure that they have a very strong threat lead or you'll end up causing more problems than you're hoping to solve.


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Following on from the success of our first conference in April 2011 at the University of Kent, the next 'Breaking Convention: Multidisciplinary Conference on Psychedelic Consciousness' will be held at the University of Greenwich, 12-14 July, 2013. The call for papers is now out until 28th February. Please go to http://breakingconvention.co.uk/call-papers/ to submit your abstract for consideration.
ABSTRACTS Your abstract must be between 100-400 words and must clearly and concisely describe the proposed remit of your talk. Research submissions are preferred, although data may be either qualitative or quantitative. Non-research submissions will also be considered. Along with your abstract you must attach a short biography (no more than 400 words) and, where applicable, a list of relevant publications. Please also state your current country of residence. Although we will consider submissions which do not fall into the following categories, your chances of acceptance will be increased if your abstract pertains to one or more: TOPICS - Psychedelic Psychiatry & Medicine - Psychedelic Neuroscience, Physiology and Psychology. - Psychedelics & Philosophy - Psychedelics, Time & Perception - Psychedelic and Non-psychedelic Altered States of Consciousness (ASCs). - Psychedelics & Poetic Expression - Psychedelics, Healing & Spirituality - Drug Policy & Activism - Psychedelic History, Literature & Ethnography. REIMBURSEMENT AND SUBSIDY Unfortunately we will not be able to subsidise entry or expenses for speakers whose abstracts are accepted. Breaking Convention tries very hard to keep its ticket prices as low as possible, and consequently we are only able to provide financial help to our invited speakers. If your abstract is accepted, you will be required to register for the conference to confirm. ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA - The abstract must clearly describe the proposed talk and, where applicable, the source of data. - Applicants may be from any background, with no minimum education levels, although all are expected to demonstrate expertise in their area of interest. This must be summarised in the biography. - The abstract must be strictly relevant to the conference. - Abstracts must be received by the deadline of 28 February.
Please go to http://breakingconvention.co.uk/call-papers/ to submit your abstract for consideration.
The Parapsychological Association is an international professional organization of scientists and scholars engaged in the study of psi (or 'psychic') experiences, such as telepathy, clairvoyance, psychokinesis, psychic healing, and precognition. The primary objective of the PA is to achieve a scientific understanding of these experiences.
First established in 1957, the PA has been an affiliated organization of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 1969. The PA is a non-profit, non-adjudicating organization that endorses no ideologies or beliefs other than the value of rigorous scientific and scholarly inquiry.


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Tommy Lee Kinman, 67, died July 5, 2009, at his residence in Lexington.
He was born March 18, 1942, to the late Perry and Molly Rector Kinman of Warsaw. He was also preceded in death by a sister, Iva Dean; and a brother, Charles Kinman.
Harold Brown Connely Weldon, 90, of Warsaw, died June 30, 2009, at Gallatin Health Care.
She was the daughter of the late Frank S. and Nannie Brown Weldon. She was also preceded in death by two daughters, Katherine Carabella and Margaret Weldon; and one sister, Mary C. Hall. She was married to the late Dr. Thomas A. Weldon.
She was a member of Warsaw Christian Church, a homemaker, a former teacher, and a WWII Army Veteran – WAC, Women's Army Corp/Signal Corp.
Ruby "Sug" McDanell, 71, of Owenton, passed away July 3, 2009, at the home of her daughter.
Born Aug. 31, 1937, in Oldham County, she was the daughter of the late John Edward and Lorraine Coons Yochum and was preceded in death by her husband Charles "Bill" McDanell.
Sug was a graduate of Oldham County High School; retired from the Commonwealth of Kentucky in the Labor Cabinet; and was a member of Owenton First Methodist Church where she was a pianist for many years.
Anna Mae Donnelly, 72, of Sparta, passed away July 1, 2009, at New Horizons Medical Center.
Born Dec. 22, 1936, in Carroll County, she was the daughter of the late Robert and Ruby Wheeler Davis and was preceded in death by her son, Vernon Marshall Donnelly. Anna was a homemaker and a member of New Liberty Christian Church.
Dorothy J. Young, 82, of Owenton, died June 23, 2009, at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Florence.
Born Oct. 13, 1926, in Owen County, she was the daughter of the late Yancey and Gladys Conover Poteet and was preceded in death by her son, Donald Ray Young. Dorothy was retired from Schlumberger and had also worked at Scholl's Shoe Factory. She was a member of Poplar Grove Baptist Church.
Jim Gibson, 63, of New Columbus, died June 28, 2009, at his residence. He was a retired brick mason and a member of New Columbus Baptist Church, where he served as deacon and Sunday School teacher. He was also co-owner of D-J Amusements.
He is survived by his wife, Donna Hall Gibson; three daughters, Kelley Perry and Angel Young, both of Corinth, and Lisa Newman of Williamstown; a sister, Priscilla Marshall of Frankfort; seven grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.
Mario Antonio Robles, 25, of Owenton, died June 21, 2009, at New Horizons Medical Center.
He was born Jan. 19, 1984, in Casa Blanco, HGO Mexico. He was an employee of Elk Creek Winery where he was instrumental in daily operations. Mario was a member of the Catholic faith.
Barbara King, 59, of Ghent passed away June 28, 2009, at her residence.
Ada Pauline "Judy" Smith, 69, died June 15, 2009. She was born March 5, 1940, in Russell County, Virginia to the late John Carson and Gladys J. (Kaiser) Hagy. Judy was a homemaker and cherished time spent with her family. She was a lifetime member of the V.F.W and the F.O.E. # 211 Auxiliary.
Survivors include a daughter, Melody Smith; two sons-in-law, Bob Mitchell and Peter J. Delisle Jr.; two grandchildren, Tasha Norris and Joseph Mitchell; and siblings, Ralph Hagy, Glenna Spivey, Earl Hagy and Mary Sue Alexander.
Mildred Schooler Martin, 102, of Owenton, died June 18, 2009, at Owenton Manor.
Born Nov. 1, 1906, in Owen County, she was the daughter of the late Thornley and Dora Edmunson Schooler and was preceded in death by her husband, Guthrie Martin; her son, James Schooler Martin; her daughter, Alfreda Martin; three brothers, Ralph, Stanley, and Norman Schooler; her sisters, Freda Wilson and Rachael Schooler; her nephew, Charles Schooler; and several great-nieces and great-nephews.
Mrs. Martin was a homemaker and a member of Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church.
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Washington safety Brandon Meriweather was suspended for a game last year for helmet-to-helmet hits. Washington coach Jay Gruden is warning Meriweather that the same offense will get him suspended from practice as well.
"Brandon, he plays a very physical style of football," Gruden said. "That's all he knows. But there is a rule now obviously and he's had to pay the price for it. And he understands the next one is going to be a longer suspension. We talked about that today, actually. I told him he is going to get a two-practice suspension if he doesn't lower his target."
Gruden expects Meriweather to be a big part of Washington's defense, but only if he can remember to avoid helmet-to-helmet hits.
"He's a good football player," Gruden said. "He's tough, he's physical, he wants to do the right thing but sometimes at that position though and the ball is in the air, he's trying to knock the ball out and sometimes they unfortunately make contact head-to-head and it's not intentional. I don't think he has the intent to injure people. I think he has the intent to get the player down and get the ball out. Sometimes those instances look worse than they are but he does have to really watch his area of target and hopefully we will keep him on the field for 16 weeks because he is much needed in the secondary."
The NFL doesn't take kindly to repeat offenders, and if Meriweather hits another opponent high in a game, he's likely looking at a multiple-game suspension. Gruden is hoping to break Meriweather of the habit permanently.


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(Updates with lawmaker's planned anti-platinum coin legislation.)
Paul Krugman, the liberal economist who pens a widely read column for the New York Times, on Monday joined the calls for the U.S. to mint a $1 trillion platinum coin as a way around the debt ceiling.
The idea is that the treasury secretary can take advantage of a loophole allowing him to mint a platinum coin of any denomination. Print a $1 trillion coin, and — presto — there's a $1 trillion in spare capacity under the debt ceiling. Plus, since the coin isn't going to make it into circulation, it should not be inflationary. And further, it still leaves Congress in control of the purse. See video explanation of idea.
"It's easy to make sententious remarks to the effect that we shouldn't look for gimmicks, we should sit down like serious people and deal with our problems realistically. That may sound reasonable — if you've been living in a cave for the past four years. Given the realities of our political situation, and in particular the mixture of ruthlessness and craziness that now characterizes House Republicans, it's just ridiculous — far more ridiculous than the notion of the coin," Krugman writes.
Krugman isn't alone – as of Monday morning, there were over 4,000 signatures on a White House petition to do the same.
Not everyone is a fan -- one Oregon lawmaker says he's introducing legislation to ban such a move.
See related article on who should be the face of $1 trillion coin.
-- Steve Goldstein
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Singer Carnie Wilson and actress Marissa Jaret Winokur join THE Co-host Sheryl Underwood dressed as "Santa Sheryl" kicks off THE TALK's month-long series of daily giveaways joined by "The Price Is Right" Male Model Search winner Rob Wilson, Monday, December 3, 2012 on the CBS Television Network. Aisha Tyler, from left, Sheryl Underwood and Rob Wilson, shown. Photo: Lisette M. Azar/CBS ©2012 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.


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After a hard loss to Ivory Coast on Saturday, Japan's supporters didn't storm out of rainy Arena Pernambuco in Recife. At least some of them stuck around, bags in hand, to pick up their trash.
It's actually customary for Japanese fans at sporting events to clean up after themselves. And while moral relativism may have some truck, this is one tradition that's objectively a good one.


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