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LEWISBURG, Pa. — The Vardan Ovsepian Trio will perform in concert Thursday, Oct. 25, at 8 p.m. in the Rooke Recital Hall of the Weis Music Building at Bucknell University.
The jazz concert, which is free to the public, features pianist Vardan Ovsepian; bassist Joshua Davis; and percussionist Mark Ferber.
Blue Note recording artist Brad Mehldau recently noted, "… once a year or so, I hear someone new and I think, 'This person will have a life in music that will affect other musicians and touch a lot of people.' I've heard several pianists on recordings that I really dig lately, ones who are for now as of yet off the radar. There's a pianist out of Boston who made a beautiful record called 'Sketch Book.' His name is Vardan Ovsepian."
Vardan Ovsepian is an Armenia-born pianist/composer who studied at the Helsinki Jazz Conservatory and the Berklee College of Music. Since graduating from Berklee in 2000, He has taught at The Musical Suite in Newburyport, Mass. He also has been performing solo, and participated in various ensembles with artists such as George Garzone, Mick Goodrick, and Tim Miller.
Ovsepian has released three CDs for the Barcelona-based Fresh Sound–New Talent label including "Abandoned Wheel" (solo piano), "Sketch Book" (quartet with special guest Mick Goodrick), and "Akunc" (quartet with cellist Agnieszka Dziubak). For more information or to hear music samples, visit http://vardanovsepian.com/
Joshua Davis, director of jazz studies at Susquehanna University, also has served as the director of jazz studies at Towson University and on the faculties of the Berklee College of Music and the University of Maine at Augusta. He holds his degrees from the University of New Hampshire, the New England Conservatory, and the University of Maryland at College Park.
As a noted bassist and composer, the recording "Squashua" features Davis' arrangements for Take Toriyama, Tim Miller, and Vardan Ovsepian interpreting Romantic Era symphonies and the music of Sting. Other collaborations include the ensemble VOCE and recent CD releases with guitarist Tim Miller's Trio and Vardan Ovsepian's "Akunc." For more information, visit http://www.joshuadavis.org/
Mark Ferber, who serves as a faculty member for City College of New York and The New School of Improvisational Music, graduated from the University of California in Los Angeles, where he earned his B.A. in geography and concurrently studied classical percussion with Mitchell Peters and drum-set with Billy Higgins. In Los Angeles, he has performed with Bob Sheppard, Anthony Wilson, Billy Childs, and Bud Shank & the Los Angeles Jazz Quartet, which was awarded the best jazz group of LA in the July 2002 issue of Los Angeles Magazine.
Ferber's New York performance credits include Don Byron, Lee Konitz, Norah Jones, Fred Hersch, Larry Goldings, and Ralph Alessi. He has recorded extensively as a sideman for Fresh Sound/New Talent, Steeplechase, Omnitone, Sirocco and Soul Note. He has taught at the Tavira Jazz Workshop in Portugal, the Kansas University Jazz Workshop in Lawrence, and the Maine Jazz Camp.
This concert is a joint presentation by the music departments of Bucknell and Susquehanna universities, and is produced by Bucknell University Jazz Artist-in-Residence Phil Haynes.
Contact: Office of Communications
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February 25, 2008
By Roey Gilberg
Willy Wonka himself would have been proud.
The notorious chocolatier of fiction was the center of attention on Saturday, February 9th, as 14 teams competed in the Nestle Case Competition at UCLA Anderson; a competition slightly different than other case competitions held at Anderson.
Whereas the cases assigned to students are often fictional, this time the task was to offer proposals as to how Nestle might expand the market position of their Wonka brand of candies such as Nerds and Laffy Taffy. This angle highlighted another major difference between this competition and others - its focus on marketing as opposed to finance. Although there was certainly quantitative analysis involved, the nature of the task had students largely exercising their creative juices.
Mission in hand, teams of three-to-five Anderson students set about their project on Thursday evening, and had until Saturday morning to prepare presentations outlining their ideas. Each team then had 20 minutes to pitch their initiatives, followed by a 10 minute session in which they fielded questions from the panel of judges observing their presentations.
Although there were many recurring ideas and themes, teams also came up with a wide array of imaginative proposals, as can be expected given the innovative nature of the case. Some common suggestions included utilizing social networking outlets such as Facebook and MySpace, and expanding into the production of chocolate and gum. Many teams attempted to capture the famous traits of Willy Wonka himself, -- his whimsy, mysteriousness, and deviousness -- and integrate them into their ideas. The approaches varied, however, as teams offered a fascinating variety of clever advertising schemes, viral campaigns and slogans.
By Saturday afternoon, the 14 hopeful teams had been replaced by three finalists. These three teams then presented again in front of a larger jury, and when the judges were through deliberating, Team 4, captained by Adam Rodgers ('09), was announced as the victors. "We felt really good about our idea," said Rodgers, "so the win was definitely exciting.
"Our presentation did a good job of coming up with a campaign that allowed the brand to be in the spotlight, and it was doable across all of their products," said Rodgers. Completing all the necessary preparations in such a short amount of time inevitably has its ups and downs, but students appreciate the value of the entire experience. "I enjoyed trying to come up with a solution to a real world problem," said Rodgers. "The challenge of coming up with a marketing plan that was doable was definitely exciting."
With such a plethora of ideas to scrutinize, judges were most impressed with teams that made sure to not only keep in mind the Wonka brand, but also embrace and incorporate it into their marketing campaigns, regardless of which direction they went. Conversely, judges were less convinced by teams that ignored or drastically altered the existing brand in their pursuit of market expansion. Steve Pratt, Director of Marketing Development at Nestle and a judge for the competition, offered his perspective as to why the Nestle case works so well at Anderson. "The culture at the school is similar to the culture at Nestle - competitive but collaborative at the same time," he said.
First Prize
Team #4
Adam Rodgers, (captain)
Matt Brutocao,
Katie Dye
Joseph Pulido
Second Prize
Team #10
David Church, (captain)
Kristen August
Carol Chi
Sameer Karim
Shawn Manimtim
Third Prize
Team #12
Michael Prohias, (captain)
Matt Peak
Alex Rabiee
Dahlia Reinkopf
Brian Younglove
Nestle Marketing Associates
Ritu Mathur, ('07)
Rachel Wall ('07)
Gilbert Gutierrez
Pricilla Stanton
Alan Tseng ('03)
Nestle Judges
Elizabeth Vanemburg, Marketing Manager.
Al Multari, VP Marketing
Scott Remy, Senior VP Communications
Steve Pratt, ('98) Directory of Marketing
Kristen Mandel, ('05) Customer Development Manager
Daniel Jhung, Marketing Manager in Confections

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unwichtig wrote:When my friends talk about die Schwarz-gelbe Koalition, I know schwarz -> CDU. But what is the gelb?
gelb (yellow) is the colour of FDP, Freie Demokratische Partei (Free Democratic Party).
schwarz (black) is the color of the two sister parties:
CDU, Christlich Demokratische Union (Christian Democratic Union)
and CSU, Christlich Soziale Union (Christian Social Union)
CDU/CSU and FDP have traditionally close relationship for coalition.
The constellation of this election is special in two ways:
1. It is known that CDU/CSU and their opponents the SPD are traditionally the two biggest parties by far, they are thus called parties of the people (Volksparteien), and are pillars of stabilization in the political landscape.
However in the last few elections a trend has been shown in that the big parties drastically dwindle away, and many smaller parties strongly grow. Most predominantly this was shown by the SPD massively losing votes like never before, (down to somewhere 25%), and CDU/CSU stagnating on a very low level, barely holding for now (at about 33%.) Some say that it may be the beginning of the end of big parties, and that the voters will disperse into special interest small parties, and that future coalitions and politics will be less stable. We will see if the big parties can reinvent and reinvigorate themselves.
2. In the past when CDU/CSU made coalition with FDP, the Christian parties were like five times bigger than the neocons, and could keep them somewhat in check with their demands. However this time, the FDP grew to be half the size (somewhere 15%) of the christians, this is unprecedented, and thus they will be much better able to push through their radical goals than ever before.. this will be interesting to say the least..
However when I criticize these parties keep in mind this:
They are not even close anywhere to what Republican currently are in the US, something as ridiculous as Fox News simply does not exist over here (kinda sad too, it does have its fair share of entertainment value..). When I talk bad about them it really is a luxury problem in comparison. Merkel about whom I joked earlier really isn't that bad, she has her fair share of problems yes, but quite frankly she is way more desirable to have than about 99% other statemen worldwide: She is actually a very smart person that takes alot time to think things through (some say too much time, she should act more decisive and faster.. or at all), and although being the daughter of a pastor about which I joked earlier, she is also an accomplished scientists of physics, and you would never see her endorsing Intelligent Design or pushing christian agenda into classroom or something such stupid, in the contrary she will likely strengthen science, you wouldn't actually believe she was christian unless someone told you. However what she lacks in craziness, some of her colleagues and ministers certainly make more than up for.. Maybe she will be able to keep them and the FDP in check despite their new found strength, but she is more known for her ability to moderate than to demonstrate power.
So in conclusion I say this:
What will this new government mean for Germany and Europe? I can't say I'm enthusiastic, but although the things I discussed and criticized earlier are true, this does not necessarily mean things will be bad. This is another of those strange things in life that don't make sense: sometimes even true things have no bearing on how the future will play out, and we should be thankful for that, it spices life up. The christian parties have their fair share of scary crazy wackos, big surprise there, but curiously the wackos of neocons and christian actually often cancel each other out over here for a fairly moderate approach.
What will this gov mean for relationships to the US? Couldn't be any better than that, sometimes you'd almost think the FDP would like to immigrate there to be in eternal love with the republicans, I certainly wouldn't hold them back..
So what's the outlook? Don't know, don't care anymore. What I wanted to say about the bank fiasco, I said, and that's about it.


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In my ongoing quest to uncover the most fascinating and curious specimens and stories from behind the scenes at the Museum, I recently came across this lovely tale that I think epitomises the inquisitiveness, perseverance and patience that it takes to be a good scientist. Let me recount it for you:
In 1973 Dr Peter Whitehead, head of marine fishes at the Museum, began a personal quest that would soon take on international (and interdisciplinary) significance.
Whitehead, an expert in clupeids - herrings, anchovies and their numerous relatives - was attempting to track down the original painting of a fish called a piquitinga. The painting was used as the basis for a woodcut that accompanied a description of the species by the naturalist Georg Marcgraf in Historia naturalis Brasiliae in 1648. Marcgraf's brief Latin description and poor quality woodcut was then used by Carl Linnaeus and later taxonomists, who variously identified it as a herring or as an anchovy.
The woodcut of piquitinga from Marcgraf's Historia naturalis Brasiliae (1648). Detail was lost from the original painting when the book illustrations were made.
Whitehead was determined to get to the bottom of the classification once and for all. He knew that Marcgraf's original paintings were part of a collection known as Theatri rerum naturalium Brasiliae given to Friedrich Wilhelm, Elector of Brandenburg, in 1652. The Elector's library formed the basis of the subsequent Royal Library, which later became the Prussian State Library in Berlin.
During the Second World War, allied bombing made Berlin unsafe, so hundreds of boxes of material were removed from the library and allegedly sent to a Benedictine monastery in Silesia called Grüssau. And that's where the trail went cold.
The materials were not returned to Berlin after the war, and the monastery (now known as Krzeszów) nor the major libraries in Poland knew anything of their whereabouts.
Whitehead admitted that 'the search took on something of an obsession'. Indeed, there are two bulging folders in the Museum's archives - known as the Grüssau file - filled with reams of correspondence relating to the matter.
During his years of detective work Whitehead discovered that as well as the natural history artworks he was looking for, the Prussian State Library had also held many important musical manuscripts by artists including Beethoven, Mozart, Bach and Mendelssohn. These too were evacuated during the war and had not been seen since. He said:
For a year or more I was quite unaware that I had joined one of the biggest and hitherto more frustrating searches for treasures lost during the last war.
Whitehead called on the Polish Ministry of Culture to help, and despite an 'immediate search of all Polish libraries', nothing was found. Undeterred, he 'redoubled his efforts' and began contacting Polish libraries himself.
The breakthrough came in March 1977 with a 'matter-of-fact' letter from Jan Pirozynski at the Jagiellon Library in Krakow: 'I am very glad to be able to tell you that the problem of the lost manuscripts has been cleared up. I have been authorised to tell you that the manuscripts exist... I hope this will be satisfactory to you for this moment'. Understandably, Whitehead was 'absolutely delighted' to hear of the 'miracle'.
It was not until September 1979 that I was able to visit the Jagiellon Library. A trolley was wheeled in bearing seven large volumes. Lifting one of the Theatri, the librarian opened it at a marked page: "There!" he said with a flourish, "There is your piquitinga!" It was a magnificent oil painting and immediately resolved all doubts - it was the small herring Lile piquitinga.
The oil painting of piquitinga from Theatri rerum naturalium Brasiliae, vol 1, p161. Remarkable for its realism, it immediately proved that Marcgraf's fish was the herring Lile piquitinga.
Also contained among the many boxes Whitehead was responsible for tracking down were original scores, in whole or in part, of Beethoven's 7th, 8th and 9th symphonies and his 3rd piano concerto; Mendelssohn's violin concerto and incidental music for A Midsummer Night's Dream; various Bach cantatas; and Mozart's Cosi fan tutte, Marriage of Figaro, and more than 90 other pieces which represented nearly a quarter of all his works known to survive in manuscript.
So that is where Brazilian fish and brilliant composers meet - in boxes in a Polish library, undiscovered for more than a generation.
That Marriage of Figaro, Cosi fan tutte, Beethoven's 9th and piquitinga should reappear after almost 40 years in wooden crates was unbelievable.


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French police hauled possibly rape-y French politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn in for questioning today. At issue: DSK's alleged participation in an international prostitution ring that involved "organizing sex parties" in Paris, Brussels, and Washington. "Company executives used expense accounts to pay for" the parties, Reuters reports.
A "crush" of paparazzi swarmed Strauss-Kahn outside the police station at the French city of Lille. The police are trying to ascertain whether this craggy old rich guy was possibly aware that all those nubile ladies the sex parties he "organized" were whores. [NYTimes, image via AP]


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UC Patient Care Technical Workers will Strike in Sympathy
Oakland: With negotiations over wages and staffing at a stalemate, the 8300 University of California Service Workers represented by AFSCME 3299—the lowest paid workers at UC–have given ten day notice that they will strike March 3rd-March 7th.
The 13,000 Patient Care Technical Workers represented by AFSCME 3299 have announced that they will strike in sympathy with service workers.
Both units voted 96% in support of a strike during a three day vote last week.
"After more than a year of good faith bargaining, this is not where we'd hoped to be," said AFSCME 3299 Bargaining Team Member and UC Service Worker Jose Mendez. "Unfortunately, UC's refusal to support reasonable proposals that protect those who do the most physically demanding labor at UC from injury on the job and poverty at home has left us with no choice. In reality, the cost of a settlement will be far cheaper for UC than the cost of a strike. Over the next ten days, we hope UC will choose basic fairness over another self-inflicted wound, but that is a choice that only UC can make."
Currently, 99% of UC Service workers are income eligible for some form of public assistance, with some full time workers forced to live in their cars. According to OSHA, workplace injury rates amongst UC Service workers have skyrocketed by over 20% over the last five years. And UC is increasingly replacing these career employees with inexperienced outside contractors who are paid rock-bottom wages with no benefits.
While AFSCME 3299 has conceded to UC on more than 75% of the issues up for negotiation, as well as its top priority of pension reform, UC has singled out its service unit for especially harsh treatment throughout the past year—including unilateral implementation of terms that amounted to pay cuts last September.
UC's final contract offer still leaves 95% UC Service workers income eligible for some form public assistance, does not address the workload issues that are contributing to rising injury rates, and refuses to accept the same standards on contracting out that are required of CSU, California's Community Colleges, or other State Agencies.
"By pushing growing numbers of career workers and outside contractors onto public assistance, UC is effectively shifting its labor costs onto the backs of California taxpayers," Mendez added. "This is what we have come to expect from McDonalds, but it is not what we should expect from a world class public university."
Within the past two weeks, numerous State Elected Officials, a pair of UC Regents (including California Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom), UC Faculty, UC Students and a half dozen unions representing other UC workers have released statements of support for AFSCME represented Service Workers.
UC Service Workers include custodial, groundskeeping, facilities maintenance, dietary and food service staff at the University of California Campuses Medical Centers, and Research Laboratories.
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Friday, March 16, 2012
ran into myself at the fabric store
Follow the White Bunny (hi Nicole!). I was contacted about this right when it was the height of the holiday madness when March seemed like a million years away. Now here we are and there we are.
There is a lot to love in this issue of Simply Handmade - an interview with Aki Takada from Oktak (love that shop!) plus a number of fabulous tutorials. Personally, I like the small square shape of this magazine as well.
So there is my little spot in the sun and I must now get back to tidying up the house. We have a sleepover on the agenda for the evening - pretty exciting, eh? The sleepovers we have had in the past have all been with cousins and this is the first with a friend from school. Someone in this family sure is growing up, don't you think? Wish us luck!
4 comments:
- Miss Holly said...
Wow....What a fantastic moment for you!! and well deserved I might add....So happy for you and for Nicole too....she was one of the very first blogs I ever followed!!
- March 16, 2012 at 12:13 PM
- Nicole Follow the White Bunny said...
ooh thank you Corinne for posting this! I was so curious about this feature. And thank you Miss Holly for your sweet comment! x
- March 16, 2012 at 12:46 PM
- Carina said...
Oh yay, two of my fave stitchy ladies on one page! Congrats, Corinne!
And Nicole! ;-)
- March 16, 2012 at 5:26 PM
- Julie said...
That's so awesome! Congratulations to you and Nicole, you're both such wonderful stitchers!
- March 17, 2012 at 7:13 PM
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Hate and racism still exist, says ABC newsreader
IT STARTED with harmless child's play in the back seats of a Sydney bus.
But the ABC newsreader Jeremy Fernandez said he became the target of racial abuse on his Friday morning commute when a woman called him a ''black c---'' after a slight disagreement about her child's behaviour.
Racism is not new to Malaysian-born Fernandez, who said he was abused every few months.
''It's something you deal with and move on from pretty easily. But this was the first time I've been racially abused in front of my daughter,'' Fernandez said.
''It really threw a different aspect onto what was taking place and got me thinking about what sort of lessons I need to be teaching her, sadly, about the world that she lives in.
''I can absolutely vouch for the fact that while it's totally a minority of people, hate and racism still exists.''
On his way from Marrickville to Ultimo, Fernandez said he sat at the back of the State Transit Authority bus with his two-year-old daughter Emerson, when another little girl started flicking her.
''It was completely harmless, no big deal. I turned to the little girl and I said 'Darling, that was my arm you just flicked'. I'd put a protective arm around my daughter because she was recoiling a bit.''
The girl's mother started spraying abuse, accusing him of touching her daughter inappropriately, he said.
''But it very quickly went to her calling me a black c---, go back to whatever country I came from … she raised a fist to my face a few times and said that I'd better get off the bus or move.''
After taking 15 minutes of vitriol from the woman, the driver pulled over and told Fernandez to get off the bus, he said.
But Fernandez thought of Rosa Parks - an African American civil rights activist in Alabama who refused to obey a bus driver's direction to give her seat to a white person - and decided to stay.
''I said, 'I'm not going anywhere because she's just called me a black c--- and I have every right to stay in this seat on this bus and I'm not moving'.''
Fernandez said one other passenger told the woman several times to stop and others said they would be happy to speak to the police.
The abuse left him shaken and he tweeted about the incident, attracting thousands of messages of support. ''People have just been so, so, so wonderful. I think it really illustrates the character of this city and this country that people in some form were willing to step up.''
Fernandez said a spokesman for the STA had apologised, and he didn't want the bus driver to lose his job.
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Fernandez's story drew comparisons to a similar incident on a Melbourne bus last year when a French woman was targeted in a racist attack, called a c--- and a dog for singing in her native tongue.
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Yoghurt Flatbread and Tomato Skewers
The first time I ever made flatbread, I halved every ingredient quantity except the salt. Since then, flatbread and I never quite got along. I found every conceivable way to ruin them—burnt, tough, undercooked, oversalted, bitter—flatbread and I didn't gel. Then I found this recipe.


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So, in the vein of my Recipe Index, I want to build a collection of links to online resources here to help readers & stumblers find the information that has had a role in the development of my ideas about nutrition, as well as general lifestyle.
This will be a work in progress for a while, since I don't have heaps of free time to go gather all my info again. So the more collaborative this can be, the better!
Here goes!
Saturated Fat, Cholesterol, LDL & Coronary Heart Disease
Here is the article that brought the established ideas about obesity and the dangers of fat intake to their knees - Gary Taubes' What If It's All Been A Big Fat Lie?
From the Washington Post:
"In 2002, science journalist Gary Taubes published an article entitled "What if It's All Been a Big Fat Lie?" He argued that reputable scientists were coming around to the idea, advanced by diet gurus like Dr. Robert Atkins, that carbohydrates, not fat, are the ultimate dietary villain. If so, he wrote, "the ongoing epidemic of obesity in America and elsewhere is not, as we are constantly told, due simply to a collective lack of will power and a failure to exercise. Rather it occurred . . . because the public health authorities told us unwittingly, but with the best of intentions, to eat precisely those foods that would make us fat, and we did." "
Taubes has gone on to lecture around the US (if not the world just yet), especially after publishing his paradigm-challenging masterpiece, Good Calories, Bad Calories. It's a mighty tome of scientific analysis and criticism, exploring obesity research and the bias behind scientific process and publication. Taubes ultimately explores what he believes to be the driving force behind fat accumulation - chronically raised insulin levels, which leads to Metabolic Syndrome, obesity, diabetes, cancer and heart disease. This book certainly reinforced my decision to support my longevity and health by keeping a tight rein on my blood glucose, and therefore insulin levels.
Tom Naughton's enjoyable and information flick, Fat Head, covers this area and many more aspects of health in a humourous fashion, peppered with simple animations to clarify the take-home points, whilst using the opinions and findings of experts to support his claims. Here's a clip detailing the outrageous behaviour of Ancel Keys & the bizarre reaction the health community had to the problems that stemmed from the introduction of 'foods' such as vegetable oils:
An article posted on THINCS way back in 2002 is absolutely one of my favourite resources on the Internet when it comes to using science to totally dismantle the bogus Conventional Wisdom of cholesterol/LDL/saturated fat/CHD and everything that's claimed to link them. The article, Why The Cholesterol - Heart Disease Theory Is Wrong, involves thorough scientific discussion, buoyed by the author's frustration by the inexplicable arguments perpetuated by the medical community to this day. Everyone needs to read this article. The author, Malcolm Kendrick, MD, has written many more intriguing and insightful articles in the past decade - check the THINCS website for a substantial list.
"In Framingham, Massachusetts, the more saturated fat one ate, the more cholesterol one ate, the more calories one ate, the lower people's serum cholesterol...we found that the people who ate the most cholesterol, ate the most saturated fat, ate the most calories weighed the least and were the most physically active." Dr William Castelli 1992 (Director of the Framingham study)
- cited in the Kendrick article above.
The word is getting out - this article may not be available online forever, at least not at this location, but for now The Boston Globe discusses the no-longer-avoidable truth about the importance and innocence of saturated fats in its article, Why Does Saturated Fat Cause? Arguments (published Feb 24th, 2010). For posterity, here's some juice from the opening of the article:
For the past 40 years, well-meaning specialists have told Americans that eating saturated fat is bad for heart health. It now appears that conventional wisdom is on shaky ground. Last month's American Journal of Clinical Nutrition published a landmark study from the Harvard School of Public Health and the Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute that has turned current fat recommendations upside down. The verdict from the study is that "there is no significant evidence for concluding that dietary saturated fat is associated with an increased risk for heart disease.'' Equally important, we are learning that restricting fat intake is not without serious health consequences, such as escalating rates of obesity and diabetes. The report evaluates dietary data from a total of 347,747 subjects from eight countries in 21 studies, over 25 years.
Dr. Ronald Krauss, the study's principal investigator and director of atherosclerosis research at Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute, says, "It's time to turn the page on how we perceive saturated fats in relation to risk for heart disease. It's the wrong message that saturated fats are artery-clogging or evil.'' Krauss says any dietary recommendations to further reduce saturated fat would be of no benefit. Americans, he says, shouldn't be avoiding all forms of saturated fats and it's erroneous to focus on saturated fat out of context from the whole diet.
In addition, high rates of obesity and Type 2 diabetes, especially in children, are one of the United States' biggest public health concerns, an epidemic that happens to parallel decades of public health messages warning Americans that eating saturated fat is bad. As a result, many consumers instead eat commercially made low-fat confections that are full of sugar and high-fructose corn syrup. Eating too many of these calories can result in abnormal levels of blood sugar and triglycerides. These are well-established risk factors for obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. The question now is whether those efforts to lower dietary fat have caused a whole new set of chronic disease problems.
The wonderfully funny Tom Naughton has been exploring this information in his own unique way of late, and brings more research to the fore to make his points in his recent posts, LDL Nonsense Is Taxing My Sanity & The American Heart Association: Do These People Read Their Own Data?
And another step up the accessibility & colour ladder is Richard Nikoley's series of blog posts on Saturated Fat & Coronary Heart Disease.
Josh Yelon has analysed a range of studies concerning heart health experienced though low-carb dieting - Effectiveness of Low-Carb Diet On The Heart & Arteries. Look to his comments for a basic break-down of each studies' findings.
Low-Carb Diets & Diabetes
First and foremost, anyone with diabetes needs to start engaging with the works of Dr. Richard K. Bernstein. Now.
Kurt G. Harris, MD, offers a thorough explanation of the two types of diabetes, and how Type 1 MAY and Type 2 CAN be cured by sticking to the Paleo diet. Diagnosing either type in their early stages seems to be the point of importance if you want a chance at a cure.
As heart-warming as it is to know that more any more diabetics are ignoring the average doctor's advice (given that most GPs blindly follow the terrible advice of the ADA), it's still upsetting that for most diabetics, they have no option but to religiously follow the 'take more of the poison that's killing you' instruction until the day they die, full of bolus holes.
Thankfully, the online community is pushing the real information out there, through sites like Blood Sugar 101. And the Internet is rife with personal stories reinforcing how easy it is to treat/manage diabetes without medical interference. Sure, some Type 1's will need help through medical means. But not everyone. However, no one is helped by the ADA except the junk food companies.
Why does the ADA suck? Ask Richard Nikoley. As Mark Sisson says, The Best Way To Get Diabetes: Follow The Diabetes Dietary Guidelines.
The Endocrine System: Metabolic Function & Hormonal Balance
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There are three agreed-upon ways to lose weight: lower caloric intake, or burn more calories through exercise, or raise your metabolism. Leaving the specific food aside for the moment, lowering calories can have deleterious metabolic effects. As Ancel Key's Starvation Study showed, the subjects of his study intuitively consumed extreme amounts of food post-starvation in order to restore basal metabolism back to pre-starvation levels, and were left with increased amounts of body fat as a result. (The study itself is a hefty piece of work - the best summary I have found thus far is the metabolically-biased write-up by Matt Stone of 180 Degree Health. It may miss some details, I'm not sure, but metabolism is examined closely.) This is the body's natural reflex when finally allowed to consume as much food as desired. There's a reason why the term 'yo-yo dieting' is common parlance. Observational studies have also noted an association between exercise and lack of weight loss, possibly due to the hunger triggered by cardio exercise, and the psychology of work/reward. Time magazine ran an article by John Cloud that explored this issues in an interesting and highly controversial manner.
Matt Stone has recently presented the argument that our surprise that low-calorie diets can still result in fat gain is backward - that it may well be because of low-calorie dieting that we are getting fatter. His focus is metabolism, and in the face of growing obesity trends, it certainly seems logical.
Some of his other ideas, expressed most concisely in a guest post on Tom Naughton's Fat Head blog, are less logical: he argues that following a low-carb diet for a significant period of time will necessarily result in impaired (lowered) metabolic functioning. Kurt Harris, MD neatly tears this apart on PaNu. Melissa McEwan from Hunt.Gather.Love suggests that those low-carb dieters who do develop metabolic problems end up that way due to lack of consumption of marine life (i.e. a lack of iodine).
Iodine is crucial regarding thyroid function, and the observation that 'healthy eaters' who shun iodised salt are ending up deficient and developing the-now-almost-unheard-of goiters! Personally, the basic tests I had prior to being diagnosed with PCO (as opposed to PCOS) showed that it was unlikely that I had any thyroid function issues (although those tests aren't always accurate since they don't necessarily test for free T3). Just in case, I am taking a potassium plus iodine supplement, mostly for the potassium, to see whether it impacts on my well-being. If you do have a low body temperature or other metabolic issues, it's a good idea to be tested for hypothyroidism. Dian Hseih from NoodleFood has written a great article linking to more information regarding thyroid function, body temperature gauging, and hypothyroidism.
So instead of following the old chestnut of 'eat less, move more', which has been thoroughly disproved by decades of us following the guidelines and yet getting fatter and sicker, we need to attend to specific food choices, as well as maintaining our metabolism to operate at optimal levels. For me, my system runs best on fatty meats. For others, unrefined starches may be their metabolic cure.
Danny Roddy, of The Carnivore Health Weblog, hammers the last nails in the coffin of low-carb-causes-metabolic-damage with his excellent article, The Carnivorous Diet & Your Thyroid - which covers much more than just the carnivore's lifestyle. His conclusion:
You cannot correct one gland without having a profound effect on another. This is why I believe that nutrition is the best medicine. Optimizing EVERY system in the body is the only way to get everything back on track. Simply treating low thyroid with medication is silly when we can clearly see that the origin can be multifaceted; rooted in stress, allergies, or even environmental pollution.
If you come away with two things from this post let them be that grains are shit and avoid stress whenever possible. A carnivorous diet poses no threat to anyone's thyroid. In fact if you are hypothyroid it's likely that you already eat too many carbohydrates, seeming that most cases are autoimmune or stress related in origin. Carbohydrate consumption in the form of easily digestible sugars and gluten containing grains have a negative impact on the thyroid and adrenal glands. My recommendation would be to minimize or eliminate them completely.
If you suffer from hypothyroidism or an otherwise slow metabolism (perhaps thanks to low-calorie eating), you might like to try what I do to boost my metabolism - eat coconut oil.
Josh Yelon has analysed a range of studies concerning metabolic rate change experienced though low-carb dieting - Effectiveness of Low-Carb Diet On Metabolic Rate. Look to his comments for a basic break-down of each studies' findings.
Traditional Diets & Modern Counterparts
Many advocates of paleo/primal-esque diets begin with the tenuous facts they can find regarding what paleolithic man ate, and build their nutrition choices around that. Loren Cordain of The Paleo Diet would be the most recognised of this group - his motto is essentially, "If it wasn't available, it's BAD."
Kurt Harris, MD, takes a different starting-point for his PaNu principles - he looks at the current science regarding what has been shown to be harmful, acknowledges that this includes most but not necessarily all Neolithic agents, and encourages the individual to work through a 12 step elimination process to find their ideal formula for health.
Mark Sisson's Primal Blueprint takes a similarly science-based approach, although he weaves the addictive Grok narrative into his dietary and lifestyle advice to (albeit artificially) contextualise his ideas. Whilst I don't romanticise my health choices, consideration of evolution certainly encourages one to take a more logical and scientific stance when approaching health and well-being information. MArk's work started my transition from low-carbing to going fully Primal (slash Paleo when I cut out dairy), and I can't thank him enough for his efforts and support over this past year. I look forward to watching him go on to take over the health & fitness industry!
The Weston A. Price Foundation is a pioneering group that is spreading the message of the importance of reverting to the 'old art' of preparing and consuming nourishing traditional foods, based on the wide variety of traditional diets explored by Price many decades ago (note: these people were nto eating pre-Neolithic diets, so the fact that they were indeed healthier than the average SAD consumer does not mean these diets were/are optimal). The certainly have good advice, but show signs of capitalist bias at times, promote dairy consumption heavily, and emphasise the supposed goodness of consuming grains once they have been sprouted and treated as they are by traditional communities. Many health experts question this method - should we be consuming poison that has been made less poisonous, or should we just eliminate it altogether? Kurt Harris, MD, answers the very question in response to a commenter's defense of a very questionable article. The last lines of his post are particularly powerful and significant.
Why You Shouldn't Eat Sugar & Grain
Sugar & grains today are most commonly found in their refined form, and health experts have known for a long time that the consumption of refined carbohydrate causes blood glucose spikes which require the production of insulin so that they can be brought back down to safe (non-toxic) levels. Insulin shunts the excess blood glucose into the muscle and fat cells, where it is stored for later use. On a suitable diet (i.e. one that does not involve excessive caloric surpluses), the insulin in the bloodstream dissipates once the job is done, and the energy is released from the fat cells back into the blood for use. However, there is a growing incidence of insulin resistance nowadays, which means that insulin is over-produced in response to blood glucose spikes, and takes much longer to dissipate. Thus, the fat cells cannot release the energy back into the bloodstream, and the other cells in the body end up starved of energy, causing hunger and triggering over-eating (since the body already has the fuel it needs, but simply does not have access to it). Tom Naughton created a short animation to illustrate this process:
Don't be fooled into thinking that 'complex carbohydrates' are better than simple, refined carbohydrates - the GI tract (the digestive tract in the body, from mouth to rectum) very quickly breaks down those links holding the sugar molecules together as starch, and processes the resulting sugars in a same way it does table sugar. The Drs. Eades explain this detail in Tom Naughton's film, Fat Head:
As Dr. Mary Dan Eades explains, insulin is designed to operate in emergencies, and yet we require it to do its job minute by minute. We should be making blood sugar from the protein we eat - in the traditional food environment pre-agriculture, we could not often cover our glucose needs from vegetation, unless we found tubers. We have not evolved to thrive on such high-sugar diets. Thanks to our high-sugar diets, we are suffering from the 'lifestyle diseases' of metabolic syndrome, obesity, obesity-related cancers, and heart diseases.
Tolerance of sugars and blood glucose responses differ from individual to individual, so experts like Dr. William Davis recommend monitoring your own blood sugar through at-home tests (the finger-prick system used by diabetics is practically ubiquitous in pharmacies these days).
"But I watch my blood sugar by only eating foods that have a low GI. That's fine, right?" Not quite. As Dr. William Davis says in his article, Is The Glycemic Index Irrelevant?:
High-glycemic index foods are bad for you. This includes foods made with white flour (bagels, white bread, pretzels). Low-glycemic foods (whole grain bread, whole wheat crackers, whole wheat pasta) are less bad for you—but they are not necessarily good.
Dr Kurt Harris of PaNu notes that the main villains in the standard American/Australian diet are wheat, fructose, and industrial vegetable oils. While he does not attack glucose directly (given that our bodies can make it, this makes sense), he does note that a glucose-abundant diet is far from what we evolved to consume:
In a food abundant environment, where there is no caloric deficit, carbohydrates as a large fraction of caloric intake create a situation where our metabolism is not spending enough time in or near the fat-burning state known as ketosis. The consequence of this is the metabolic syndrome, which is insulin resistance, diabetes, hypertension, obesity and a variety of other diseases that have highly suggestive lines of evidence connecting them to chronically increased levels of insulin and/or serum glucose – including coronary artery disease, deep venous thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, atrial fibrillation, atherosclerosis, alzheimer dementia, degenerative diseases and even the most common cancers like breast, colon, lung and prostate.
For more on this, check out Dr. Harris's elaboration on his first tenet of PaNu - "Eliminate sugar and refined carbohydrates like white flour."
In the video above, Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology, explores the damage caused by sugary foods. He argues that fructose (too much) and fiber (not enough) appear to be cornerstones of the obesity epidemic through their effects on insulin. It's not as simple as Lustig makes it sound, but this is a good starting point for those ignorant to the potential damage of excess sugar consumption.
Mark Sisson tackles grains with eloquence and accessibility in his Definitive Guide To Grains and his more cut-throat Why Grains Are Unhealthy posts.
Kurt Harris, MD, also knows a thing or two about the dangers of grain consumption; as a starting point, check out his Argument Against Cereal Grains I & II.
Even if you are one of the lucky 20-30% of the population who can handle wheat consumption on a digestive basis, it doesn't mean it isn't doing you permanent harm. Dr. William Davis lists a number of terrifying studies linking wheat consumption to a number of psychological disorders in his post, This Is Your Brain On Wheat.
Dr. Davis goes on to play a little guessing game of name that food:
Which common food can:
• Cause destructive intestinal damage that, if unrecognized, can lead to disability and death?
• Increase blood sugar higher and faster than table sugar?
• Trigger an autoimmune inflammatory condition in the thyroid (Hashimoto's thyroiditis)?
• Create intestinal bloating, cramps, and alternating diarrhea and constipation, often labeled irritable bowel syndrome?
• Trigger schizophrenia in susceptible individuals?
• Cause behavioral outbursts in children with autism?
• Cause various inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, ulcerative colitis, dermatitis herpetiformis, systemic lupus, pancreatic destruction, and increase measures of inflammation like c-reactive protein?
• Cause unexplained anemia, mood swings, fatigue, fibromyalgia, eczema, and osteoporosis?
The answer, of course, is wheat.
But it's not all doom and gloom - just look what can happen when you go wheat-free:
* Fat loss
* Blood test results improve across the board - blood sugar normalises, blood pressure drops, triglycerides drop by several hundred milligrams, HDL goes up, LDL plummets, c-reactive protein drops
* Improved sense of wellness & energy
* Improved rheumatoid arthritis
* Improved ulcerative colitis
* Reduction of elimination of irritable bowel syndrome
* Reduction or elimination of gastroesophageal reflux
* Incidence of mood swings and other mood disruptions are minimised or 'smoothed'.
* Increased libido
* Improved complexion
Dr. Davis' Heart Scan Blog is truly one of the best online resources available to us, and I highly recommend you make your way through his prolific body of work: here are the search results (recent articles first) for wheat, fructose, & low carb diets, just to get you started...
Nutrition & Cancer
Research of causal relationships between diet and cancer is an ever-exploding industry, lapped up by the media no matter how tenuous or inconclusive the particular study's conclusion may be - especially if the results can be twisted to suggest that the old Conventional Wisdom had it right all along. We usually don't end up receiving the true results, and many studies that can claim conclusive results are often dumped since the conclusion doesn't match up with what the scientists wanted to find... It's painful, and it's true of all aspects of 'nutrition science'. DC from DC's Improbable Science blog details this very issue in an article from last year, focussing on the widely-held belief that red meat & processed meats are giving us all cancer.
Dr. Michael R. Eades says: "Since cancers can't really get nourishment from anything but glucose, it stands to reason that cutting off this supply would, at the very least, slow down tumor growth, especially in aggressive, fast-growing cancers requiring a lot of glucose to fuel their rapid growth. If you understand the Warburg effect and the metabolism of cancer cells, it's easy to see why this therapy works, even in patients who at at death's door. Cancer cells get their energy, not like normal cells, from the mitochondrial oxidation of fat, but from glycolysis, the breakdown of glucose withing the cytoplasm."
On Dr. Stanley S. Bass' website, two analyses of studies exploring the link between diet and cancer cell growth are presented by Richard Friebe and Dr. Michael R. Eades. They explore the Warburg Effect - the spontaneous reversal of cancer progression when patients follow low-sugar diets. These accessible articles should be read by everyone who has cancer or knows a cancer sufferer, which in this day and age pretty much means everyone in the modern world.
Josh Yelon has analysed a range of studies concerning low-carb dieting's effect on cancer cell growth - Experiment Using Low-Carb To Treat Cancer. Look to his comments for a basic break-down of each studies' findings.
Although the causality is theoretical only, the history of cancer incidence in Inuit populations seem to align themselves strongly with the increase in refined carbohydrate consumption, so Ned Kock of Health Correlator details in his article, Cancer patterns in Inuit populations: 1950-1997.
Stephan Guyenet says - Got cancer? Corn Oil bad. Animal fats good (not helpful, but not harmful either). Well, at least in mice.
Living On The Fat Of The Land (The Carnivorous Lifestyle)
If you are considering trying an all-meat or wider carnivorous lifestyle, make sure you read the communication between Lex Rooker, a long-term zero-carber (one meal of ground, raw, red meat per day) and Kurt Harris, MD from PaNu - the conversation is quoted on Danny Roddy's blog, The Carnivore Health Weblog. In the same article, Danny discusses fat metabolism and points out the importance of eating to hunger and eating a REALLY high fat diet to ensure the body is willing to burn stored fats (i.e. isn't worried that it will need the stored fats any time soon - a touch illogical, huh?). This information comes from Peter's Hyperlipid blog, in a post entitled Weight Loss: When It's Hard.
Peter from Hyperlipid is an utter genius, and everyone should steadily read & do their best to make sense of every post on his blog. However, it has been hard to find places for his work in this guide since he doles out his genius in small doses! However, a couple of years ago he crafted a thorough analysis of whether fruit & vegetable consumption was in ANY way related to improved health. Answer = no. Not that this is a surprise to those of us currently keeping up with nutrition research and analysis - fructose consumption is being revealed as anything but the healthful substance it has been made out to be during these years of sugar (glucose) attacks.
Bizymoms interviewed Stephan Guyenet recently, resulting in an excellent Q&A write-up that neatly deals with most of the nutrition & health links that are of concern to us today. His answers are concise, accessible, and effortlessly intelligent. I can see this one being sent around to friends via email.


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The time has come again for me to do my best (or worst) at playing sports Nostradamus, this time with the 2013 Major League Baseball season.
The time has come again for me to do my best (or worst) at playing sports Nostradamus, this time with the 2013 Major League Baseball season.
I�m very excited about this season, despite the fact that my beloved Redbirds of St. Louis have suffered key losses to the pitching staff that I believe will keep us from making the playoffs.
St. Louis will still be a very good team with its potent offense, but I don�t think the Cards have the arms to get back to the playoffs this year (I sure hope I�m wrong).
This baseball season has more, if not as much parity than I can remember in a long time.
Good, quality ballclubs far outnumber and outweigh the bad this season.
With that being said, here are my predictions for each division, beginning with authentic baseball also known as the National League.
NL East
1. Washington Nationals � The Nats are for real and their ownership will not make the same mistake this season as it did last by shutting down soon-to-be Cy Young Award Winner Stephen Strasburg. With young offensive stars Bryce Harper, Ian Desmond, Ryan Zimmerman and Danny Espinosa, the Nats are the best team in the N.L.
2. Atlanta Braves � Adding Justin Upton, more so than overrated brother B.J., makes the Braves a contender. I think they will miss Martin Prado more than most think, but should still be very good and earn a Wild Card playoff spot.
3. Philadelphia Phillies � Explosive offense that will benefit from the addition of proven veteran Michael Young and still one of the scariest rotations in baseball make the Phillies more than viable.
4. New York Mets � The Mets will not be terrible, but they won�t exactly be great either. New York�s �other� team will show bright spots, and having David Wright can never hurt.
5. Miami Marlins � Miami Marlins still sounds weird, and the product on the field this season other than stud Giancarlo Stanton will look weird as well. Marlins will be the only truly bad team in NL East this season.
NL Central
1. Milwaukee Brewers � Okay, I know I am taking a leap of faith on this one and I actually hope I am wrong. However, I have a feeling we will see monster years from Rickie Weeks and Aramis Ramirez to aid Ryan Braun. Adding Kyle Lohse to Yovani Gallardo gives the �Brew Crew� a healthy one-two punch on the mound. They are capable of doing what Oakland and Baltimore did last season.
2. Cincinnati Reds � Cincinnati only added, in my mind, one solid piece and that was Shin-Soo Choo from the Indians, however they didn�t lose very much either. Look for elite speed prospect Billy Hamilton to reach the bigs at some point this season and help propel the Reds back into the playoffs.
3. St. Louis Cardinals � This pick hurts. It hurts bad. However, I have to go with head over heart. Even with one of the best offenses in baseball, the Cards won�t be able to overcome losing Lohse and Carpenter. Still way above .500 though.
4. Pittsburgh Pirates � Andrew McCutchen is an elite baseball player. The problem is, he is the only elite player the Pirates have.
5. Chicago Cubs � The cellar-dwelling Cubbies won�t be a bad team this year, just worst in a good division. I think they hover around .500 and Starlin Castro and Anthony Rizzo have big years to help make up for lackluster pitching.
NL West
1. Los Angeles Dodgers � The Dodgers keep opening up the wallet and this year, I believe it translates to postseason baseball. Matt Kemp, Hanley Ramirez, Adrian Gonzalez and Carl Crawford make a pretty awesome four-man wrecking crew. Zack Greinke rediscovers himself and has a solid season.
2. San Francisco Giants � The defending champions will be very good, only they won�t get a chance to defend their crown. Excellent pitching keeps them in every ballgame, but they just miss out on October.
3. Arizona Diamondbacks � Arizona has many quality parts, however, they are still just on the cusp of breaking through as a very good team.
4. Colorado Rockies � In the Rocky Mountains resides crisp, clear water, bighorn rams and two of the best players in baseball in Troy Tulowitzki and Carlos Gonzalez. Rockies will have a good, not great season.
5. San Diego Padres � Next to the Marlins, the only bad team in the NL. The biggest thing the Padres win this season is a top draft pick.
Now on to artificial baseball or the American League:
AL East
1. Tampa Bay Rays � In the most competitive division in baseball, the Rays eke out the Toronto Blue Jays and New York Yankees to take the division crown. Prospect Wil Myers should be up to the show sooner rather than later and provide an offensive jolt to the Rays.
2. Toronto Blue Jays � The Blue Jays were tired of being near the bottom of this powerful division, so they added a calvary. Pitchers R.A. Dickey, Josh Johnson and Mark Buehrle will all have an immediate impact and adding Jose Reyes will only make Joey Bats� RBI total go up.
3. New York Yankees � Too many injuries will keep the Yankees from winning the division, but when Derek Jeter, Curtis Granderson and Mark Teixeira get back in May, they will win their share of games.
4. Baltimore Orioles � The Orioles have as talented an offense as anyone, I don�t believe their slightly above average arms cam replicate their seasons from a year ago.
5. Boston Red Sox � Boston is bringing up some very good young players in Will Middlebrooks and former Gamecocks� star Jackie Bradley Jr., but still have more old stars than young. I also just can�t trust their pitchers other than �Jonnie Lestah,� or Jon Lester.
AL Central
1. Detroit Tigers � The defending AL champs will have a strong chance of repeating this season due to workhorse ace Justin Verlander and playing in the most top-heavy division in baseball.
2. Chicago White Sox � The pale hosers have one of the best bullpens in baseball, and they are still young. Paul Konerko will be the model of consistency he always is. Electric athletes Alexei Ramirez and Alejandro De Aza will help Chicago finish second in the Central.
3. Cleveland Indians � Cleveland made some good moves in the offseason, , but not quite enough. They won�t be terrible, but not exactly good either. I think the Tribe is still way behind much of the rest of the league in the quality of their starting pitching.
4. Minnesota Twins � Much like the Indians, Minnesota has solid hitters, but lacks pitching.
5. Kansas City Royals � KC should finish as the second worst team in the American League. For years they have had young prospects who were primed to breakout into stars. Problem is, they are still waiting in KC.
AL West
1. Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim � The Angels were loaded last season. This season they are fully loaded. Adding Josh Hamilton to Mike Trout, Mark Trumbo and Albert Pujols gives the Halos the best foursome in baseball.
2. Texas Rangers � The Rangers lost a lot in Josh Hamilton and Michael Young, too much to replace to be division champs. Texas will still be a very good team with solid pitching after May when some of its arms come out of the infirmary ward.
3. Oakland Athletics � Much like Baltimore, I just don�t feel like Oakland can duplicate its season from a year ago.
4. Seattle Mariners � Expect big seasons from Kendrys Morales and Kyle Seager, but on the mound it�s just King Felix and a bunch of peasants.
5. Houston Astros � Moving to the AL will have no bearing on the Astros. They were going to be bad no matter where they played. Expect them to be baseball�s worst and often resemble a Double-A team on the field.
Cy Young � N.L. � Stephen Strasburg, Washington
A.L. � Jered Weaver, Los Angeles
MVP - N.L. � Carlos Gonzalez, Colorado
A.L. � Josh Hamilton, Los Angeles
Jordan Honeycutt can be reached at 252-635-5670 or at firstname.lastname@example.com Follow Jordan on Twitter @JHONEYnbsj29


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"Those Old Memories" will include stories, photographs, genealogy, scrapbooking, recipes, and interesting history of my family. Some family surnames: Troyer, Gardner, Moore, Hopkins, Allen, Amsberry, McPherson, Wyatt, Godfrey, Lee, Henley, Cutbirth, Tudor, Gustafsson, Larson, Hellgren, Farley, Harshbarger, Harvey, McComsey, Johnston, Hyndman, and Buchanan.
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Worthy Genealogy Event
Summer is in full swing and so are all the genealogy conferences that give us all the chance to polish up on our research techniques or to learn something new. If you have never attended a conference, now is the time to schedule a fun trip and take in one near you. Check out the internet and you will surely find a great conference near you, be it a state meeting, local presentation or even one of the bigger national gatherings. The chance to meet new friends, see all the great books/software offered by vendors, and of course to broaden your knowledge base make any conference a very worthy event to attend.
One such conference is the Family History Expo which is coming up soon in Kansas City, on the Missouri side of the line. July 30-31 are the dates of the conference with a special tour on July 29th for those who study LDS history OR have LDS roots. Taking in one of these genealogy conferences that is put on by Holly Hansen and her group is an exceptional chance to experience the conference atmosphere with classes that often rival the best National offerings. You can read the class agenda here. The Family History Expos are large in scope and classes, yet they have that wonderful feel of friendliness like being with a group of really good friends! We are lucky that the Family History Expos are coming to the mid west with their gatherings, giving more of us who live in more remote areas the access to their classes and vendors. Often, the Expos will also offer some classes which are pertinent to the area study- such is the case in Kansas City where several classes will be offered on Swedish researching. Many early immigrants settled in and established large communities within Kansas and the surrounding area. For anyone with Swedish ancestors, this is an opportunity to learn how to research your Swedish family even if they did not settle in the Kansas area. Kathy Meade will present several classes with information on searching for your Swedish ancestors, and using Genlines and Lenora Lynam will present "Finding Your Swedish Soldier." If you research Sweden and its emigrants, this is the conference for you!
Arlene Eakle will present several classes which will all tie together different aspects of southern researching. "Want Land. Will Travel. Southern Land Records: State by State" will be one of her classes. Arlene is most knowledgeable and her expertise will inspire anyone to get home and get busy finding those elusive ancestors.There will be many more great classes and the vendor area will offer many new great items as well as a nice selection of books to broaden our knowledge. The blogger's Cafe' area will introduce you to the world of blogging your history as Expo bloggers post live each day.
It is my honor to have been chosen for the second time to be an "Honor Blogger" for the Family History Expo in Kansas City. I will be updating you from both of my blogs with information, travel plans and daily updates on the fun at the conference when it starts. I will be attending with my son so this will be a fun Mother and son outing, something we have not done for years! My usual team travel partner and co-writer of The You Go Genealogy Girls blog will not be along on this trip but you can read her blog postings about the Family History Expo that she recently attended in Loveland, Colorado. Click here to review one of her fun and informative articles.
Hope to see you all in Kansas City, new friends are always welcome!
Those Old Memories
The You Go Genealogy Girls
2 comments:
Congratulations on your Blogger of Honor award. I look forward to reading your reports from the Expo.ReplyDelete
Looking forward to meeting you at the expo Cheri! How will we ever decide which classes to attend??ReplyDelete
So glad you pointed out the expo is on the Missouri side! Yes, the Border War is still alive and well...Go Tigers!! :)
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Cowboys and Angels Antiques Too Featured
Area: Gauteng
Address: Cnr Long Street and 1st Road, Greymont
Come and visit our new and exciting store!
Participating at: Nelson Mandela Square, Hyde Park, Uncle Tim's, Voortrekker Monument, Melrose House
Hours: Monday to Friday 8:30 to 17:00 Saturday 8:00 to 15:00
Contact: Andre Nel
Cell: 072 962 5468
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We deal in a wide variety of Antiques, collectibles and furniture including Silver, Oriental and Chinese goods,
Jewelery, clocks, watches, instruments, mid century, Georgian, Victorian and Afrikana Furniture and much more...
The Crown Collection Featured
Area: Gauteng
Address: 20 Ballyclare Drive (Corner Ballyclare Drive and Galway Road, entrance in Galway Road) Bryanston, Sandton
Trading hours: Weekdays 9am - 5pm | Saturdays 9am - 3pm | Closed Sundays & Public Holidays
Participating at: SA Antiques and Decorative Arts
Contact: Jacqueline Moskovitz
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SA's largest collection of antique, French, and contemporary furniture and accessories and comparable to top-notch decorative antique store in London, New York or Paris. The Crown Collection stocks over 5000 items which form a curated collection of not only antiques but various periods and styles of furniture and accessories specifically chosen for their decorative appeal. As antiques cost much the same as new upmarket furniture and increase in value, antiques make a good investment. In addition, the trend combining antique with contemporary furniture creates a stylish and sophisticated look and adds warmth and character to the most modern spaces and as Charlotte Moss - interior designer says: "There are two things that make a room timeless: a sense of history and a piece of the future".
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Last holiday season all of my tween testers kept asking for Webkinz. It was clearly the "hot" toy/play environment of the season. Even parents sent us emails saying that they too loved the site and used it as a way to play on-line with their kids. Webkinz brillantly blended all of the trends of the last decade: virtual pets meets Beanie Babies meets on-line shopping. What's not to love?
Last week I was puzzled that the spin on the site was that it taught kids how to be "responsible" (the site was featured on iVillage In the Loop). True, you do have to feed your webkinz — I don't believe it rises to the level of social responsibility. It's a fun site, and as one of our kid testers explained "there's always something new to buy!"
With the hottest children's site on the web, it was predictable that the folks at Ganz would look for ways to build on their amazing success (especially when success in the toy industry is usually a fleeting phenomena). So the site, that had been ad-free, now posted ads and tie-ins to the Bee movie (where wasn't the Bee movie tied in?)….Here's where the company angered their base. Parents expected the site to be ad-free.
Of course these sites are really not ad-free. The sites are a perpetual ad for their own product but at least parents know what they have bought into. It's another issue to have kids bombarded with ads for other products that parents may not even be aware of. When looking at these sites this summer, we were particularly taken aback by the Barbie site where kids can only access certain hair and nail designs by paying an additional fee.
Back in the 80s, my mother wrote a book called Buy Me! Buy Me!–which looked at the never ending buy ins of such hot properties of the time (can you say ninja turtle?)….Webkinz and it's followers have just found a way to move the buy me, buy me possibilities into our family rooms–just an easy click of the mouse and you're in.
Our advice remains the same– look at the sites with your kids from time to time. See what's being posted. Webkinz promotes "academic questions" as a way to make more money on the site. Our testers tell us that they'll do the questions sometimes, but they are really much more interested in the on-line shopping and the more arcade-like games offered on the site.


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Board members criticize placement of gas pump in parking lot
MIDDLEBORO – The Zoning Board of Appeals put the brakes on a $12.7 million renovation to the police station and sent the planners back to the drawing board.
"It's an absolute mess from a logistics standpoint," said member Darrin G. DeGrazia on Thursday. "You should have made it a museum and put the police station somewhere else."
According to the Massachusetts Historical Commission, the building in question began as a general store, built in 1825 by Colonel Peter Pierce. Over the years the building was converted into a district court house and later to the present police station. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
DeGrazia objected to the town's fuel depot being sited in the middle of the purposed parking lot, noting the fire department's ladder truck didn't have enough room to pull up to the pump.
Dorothy Pulsifer opposed holding thousands of gallons of fuel in an above-ground storage tank next to a children's playground and suggested the pumps be relocated.
"Anyway we can put pressure on them?" Pulsifer asked.
"We'll hold it up," said ZBA Chairman Bruce G. Atwood. "I would never vote for it.'
"It's going to come down to parking and that stupid fuel depot," said member Elizabeth Elgosin.
The lot presently holds 70 vehicles and the expansion zoning requires 78 spaces, but the planners reduced the number of parking spaces to 59.
"The only solution you have is to move that filling station and you can't move it into the park," Atwood said.
Town Manager Charles J. Cristello promised the pumps will eventually be relocated to a new site, but said there's not enough money in the budget to make the move during renovations.
The $12.7 million project faces significant hurdles and will be vetted at the May 24 town meeting where a 30-year debt override will be discussed in anticipation of the June 14 ballot vote.


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Ricky Lynn McMillion departed this life on May 1, 2013, in Panama City, Florida at Bay Medical Center.
He was the third of four children and birthed to Lauris and Arnold McMillion on August 31, 1959, in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Living most of his life in Wewahitchka, he was a devoted husband and an astounding father of three. As an established and well respected member of the community, Ricky was always willing to lend a helping hand to those in need. He would drop any personal task to provide aid, love, and care for family, friends, or neighbors.
Without a lick of shyness, Ricky never met a stranger and would strike up a conversation with anyone standing at his side. He left behind an everlasting legacy of love and wisdom to all he came into contact with.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Lauris Mixon and Arnold McMillion, and eldest sister, Karen Strickland.
Ricky is survived by his wife, Janet McMillion; son, Derrick, and wife, Crystal McMillion; son, Damon McMillion; daughter, Delaney McMillion; granddaughter, Harley Boyatt; older sister, Phyllis Cox; younger brother, Arnie McMillion; and stepfather, Elvin Mixon, who all reside in Wewahitchka, and numerous aunts, cousins, nieces, and nephews.
Ricky will be remembered by all the love he shared throughout his life and the kindness within his tender heart. Although he is gone from this Earth, he will never leave our hearts.
Funeral services were held at 2:00 P.M. Saturday, May 4, at Glad Tidings Assembly of God, 138 East Orange Avenue, Wewahitchka, FL, with Pastor Derek Gerber and Pastor Joey Smith officiating. Interment followed at Buckhorn Cemetery.
All arrangements were under the direction of Marlon Peavy at Peavy Funeral Home in Blountstown (ph. 674-2266).
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STOCKTON - Gena Johnson couldn't practice this week.
STOCKTON - Gena Johnson couldn't practice this week.
Her aching right knee noticeably bothered her Friday night, except when the ball was in play. The junior guard from Elk Grove scored 19 of her team-high 22 points in the second half and contributed in other facets to lead Pacific over Arkansas-Little Rock 69-65 in the first round of the Women's National Invitation Tournament in front of 1,003 fans at Spanos Center.
"I'm just going through some injuries, but I've got to toughen it out," Johnson said. "I just had to run and react, and when my teammates were open, pass to my teammates, and when I had an open shot, take the open shot."
The Tigers (26-7) play Washington in the second round at 2 p.m. Sunday at Alaska Airlines Arena in Seattle. On Friday, the Huskies (21-11) beat Eastern Washington 65-60 in double overtime.
Johnson made 7 of 12 shots, including both of her 3-point attempts, and had two assists and two steals. She also helped hold Trojans guard Taylor Ford to three points in the second half after the junior from Columbia, Mo., burned Pacific for 12 points in the first half to help her team take a 31-28 halftime lead.
The Tigers jumped out to a 10-0 lead to start the game before Arkansas-Little Rock (24-9) regrouped. The Trojans went on a 26-11 run the final 12 minutes of the half and led 31-28 at the break.
Arkansas-Little Rock's perimeter shut down Pacific's 3-point attack, as the Tigers attempted a season-low eight from beyond the arc. Kendall Rodriguez did not attempt a 3-pointer and scored five points, and Erica McKenzie, who has made a single-season program record 85 from 3-point range this season, went 0 for 3, though she adjusted and drove to the basket to score 10 hard-earned points. Johnson also was effective driving to the basket for layups and off-balance scoop shots in the lane.
Pacific took the lead for good after Kristina Johnson converted a 3-point play to make it 50-49 with 8:35 left to play. The outcome was in doubt until Gena Johnson made 1 of 2 at the free-throw line to give the Tigers a 68-63 lead with 15 seconds remaining.
"We just happened to make a couple key buckets there to stretch the lead to four," Tigers coach Lynne Roberts said. "It just came down to making a couple plays. They're a really good team. They have some great players."
The Trojans scored 19 second-chance points off 22 offensive rebounds, and outrebounded Pacific 48-30. But the Tigers forced 25 turnovers, and outscored Arkansas-Little Rock 40-28 in the paint.
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We have more than 300,000 supporters from all over Texas. We are citizens and officeholders, business owners and students, royalty owners and homeowners. We are supported by three of the state's leading energy producers – EnerVest, EOG Resources, and XTO Energy, which was founded right here in the Lone Star State.
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Over the years, our alumni have repeatedly achieved impressive professional success. Outstanding alumni of San Francisco Law School include:
- Former California State Governor (the late) Edmund (Pat) Brown
- Former Lt. Governor Leo McCarthy
- Former Undersecretary of the United States Department of Energy, Joseph Salgado
- Director, Alliant International University Board of Directors, Past President of the California State Bar and President of the San Francisco Law School Board of Directors, P. Terry Anderlini
- Past President of the National Bar Association, Thomas Broome
- Former State Senator Milton Marks
- Co-Founder of the American Civil Liberties Union, Northern California Chapter, Wayne M. Collins
San Francisco Law School is also proud of its graduates in the judiciary including:
- The Hon. Victor Campilango
- Merle Eaton
- Eugene Krum
- Betty Lamoreaux
- Philip Moscone
- Lynn O'Malley Taylor
- Marilyn Pestarino Zecher
In addition, San Francisco Law School's graduates have distinguished themselves in public service as district attorneys, public defenders, and high profile California attorneys.


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The Associate Isn't the Partner ...
Fund: Bain Capital Ventures
Posted by KuH on 2007-09-14
We made an elementary mistake here - had a good phonecall with an associate (Dan Allen) and ended up flying out to meet and present to his partner (Ajay) ... and then rapidly discovered that the partner had zero interest. This was a waste of time, and hammered home the idea that dealing with an associate too early is a mistake. Either a partner is interested, or you're not getting money.
They also asked for the full business plan before we flew out - and we sent it: another mistake. They asked a whole series of questions which were mainly covered already in the business plan ... so I was left scrambling on how to treat them: ignorant and do a basic presentation; or knowledgeable and just discuss. For future I'm never sending a full business plan until after they show real interest, whatever they say on the phone.PRIVATE: Members Only


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Virginia Tech never has been a haven for five-star football prospects. Indeed, Frank Beamer's renowned program is rooted in sage evaluation and effective talent development.
In short, the typical Hokies recruit gets bigger, stronger, faster and better – often in a hurry. Two-star afterthoughts such as Danny Coale, Rashad Carmichael, Branden Ore, David Clowney and Josh Hyman are classic examples.
Which brings us to cornerback Kendall Fuller's commitment to Tech on Sunday. As rated by Rivals.com, he's a five-star prospect from Our Lady of Good Counsel, a private-school power in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C.
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Recover from the night's excitement and look forward to the year ahead in relaxed surroundings as you spend New Year's Day with your nearest and dearest.
Our New Year's Day menu includes a fine selection of freshly-prepared treats from thyme-roasted Portobello mushrooms to succulent roasts with all the trimmings, including beef, pork, and turkey. Our Bramley apple crumble is a perfect end to the meal and will leave you feeling satisfied and content. Start your 2019 feeling refreshed and rejuvenated – it's going to be a great year after all.
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with truffle oil, salsa verde and ciabatta (v) Vegan option also available (ve)
in a creamy chestnut sauce topped with goats' curd, and served with rustic toast (v)
topped with Devon crab crème fraîche, served with ciabatta
with cranberry and sloe gin chutney, served with ciabatta
with minted peas, tomato, and crispy pancetta (+£2.50pp)
All main courses are served with broccoli, sprouts with chestnuts, parsnips with a spiced orange dressing , and thyme-roasted carrots
with fluffy beef-dripping roasted potatoes, chestnut & cranberry stuffing ball, and a Cumberland & red onion pig in blanket. Served with gravy and bread sauce
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There were mornings Jamon Reese, then a freshman, would show up for zero hour at Montbello and have the weight room to himself.
He'd be there at 6 a.m., ready to work — but no one else was.
There'd be other mornings where Reese would have to share the weight room. With one other student.
Such was life in recent years in the Montbello football program, down and out from its glory days of the late 80s and early 90s, which is now three seasons out of its last postseason trip, and six years removed from a relatively successful stretch of four consecutive playoff appearances from 2002-05.
At Montbello — the last city school to reach the title game in the state's largest classification (1990, in 6A) — enthusiasm had waned, and so had athlete participation.