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15. "Always choose low-fat or fat-free milk."
By the way, these are actual pieces of advice given to high school coaches and to gullible individuals everywhere.
19 is the only one that is correct. It's simple science.ReplyDelete
Dan, sorry, you're wrong there. You have to look at the metabolic response to carbohydrates to understand how carbs increase insulin levels, which in turn cause the fat cells to store more fat. No so with calories derived from protein and fat sources.Delete
So Steve what you're saying is, that the insulin spike causes you not to burn the energy, but store it as fat instead... And if you were to eat less of those things that spike insulin, then you'd burn more for energy and store less as fat? Hmm...Delete
No, he's right; the body can't store fat out of something that isn't there. Insulin is a transport hormone; it's central function is to remove glucose from the bloodstream and into skeletal muscle and liver tissue via GLUT-4 protein. It is a simple fact of thermodynamics that you have to eat less calories than you burn to lose weight.Delete
Well, in fact, some protein sources spike insulin as much or more than carbs (whey protein is a good example but meat too).
More accurately, one should consider an individual's response to both carbs and fats to see if one is sensitive to one of them and, in that case, may need to stick to a lower carb or lower fat macro proportion to get better results (ie to be leaner).
But generally, a calorie deficit, surplus or maintenance will be the key thing. An individual's response to carb levels etc and macro ratios will then finesse and improve results overall.
This video explains what he's talking about. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNYlIcXynwE
There are plenty others on the Tube, I suggest you look around, using the list provided above as a guide to what information is correct or incorrect.
It's about thermodynamics, not calories. Read http://articles.elitefts.com/nutrition/logic-does-not-apply-iii-a-calorie-is-a-calorie/Delete
I (finally) started burning fat and losing weight when I started eating as many calories (and in some cases more) than I have burned. I eat 2,000 a day and burn 1200 four times a week (swimming, lifting, and walking home after). I recently finished reading "The New Rules Of Lifting For Women". The way they explained cutting calories less than what you burn is like telling your employees that they get to work a full 8 hour shift on Saturdays, and as a treat, you will not pay them. Same goes with your body. If your body is used to a certain about a food and you cut it, say by 500 calories, and then adding another day of work out... you are demanding your body work harder with less pay. I was doing that same work out and was eating 1500 calories a day. Not only was I hungry, I was tired ALL the time. That was a result from not eating enough.Delete
To loose weight, eat/drink less mass than you sweat, pee, and poop.
Let's not get too confused on the difference between losing fat and losing weight. They are two completely different things, which happen to be related, and are often confused as the same thing. THEY ARE NOT THE SAME.Delete
Was told just last week to lose more fat to keep meals to 6 small ones spread out 2-3 hours apart and measure portions by the palm of your hand or deck of cards and use 123 nutrition ratio approach of 1 part fat, 2 parts protein and 3 parts carbs. Is this wrong?ReplyDelete
No Dan, it's not. Its not as simple as calories in, calories out.ReplyDelete
Yes it is; if you actually understand what the 'calories out' variable means.Delete
Unless you are a sub 10% bf performance athlete, fat loss is as simple as calories in<calories out. You could literally eat protein shakes and peanut butter to hit your macros and still lose fat.Delete
19 is unequivocally wrong. Anyone who says that "Its thermodynamics it has to be true!" Is an idiot that doesn't actually understand thermodynamics. The composition of your diet modulates the way in which your body uses the energy.
So while it is absolutely true that weight gained or lost = calories in - calories burned, most people ignore the fact that the last 2 terms are dependent variables, ie the type of calories in directly affects how your body utilizes energy. if you expend a lot of energy exercising your body will tell your brain that you need more energy as calories.
I work with a lot of nutritionists. Luckily I've never heard any of them mention any of the above comments.ReplyDelete
I chuckle at the yahoos who say "avoid diets with fats in them. Fats have the most calories and therefore will make you store and not burn fat.Don't eat red meat or you'll have a heart attack." - all i can think is, but... cholesterol based fats boost testosterone and are the chief resource for forming Acetyl CoA which is needed to use fat...
they look at me funny...
what do you think of coffee? our first child is 9 months old and I basically live on the stuff during the day because he's teething and we don't get a lot of restful sleep.ReplyDelete
Thank you for posting this! I hate all the misinformation that is given to gullible coaches and uninformed kids/parents. LBEB is doing shit right.ReplyDelete
In reference to #8, I use decks of cards that are the size of cereal boxes... So you can suck it mainstream nutritionists!ReplyDelete
I ordered about 45 lbs of frozen dead animals today. Take that saturated fat.
And the canola oil thing drives me nuts
What's wrong with Canola Oil? That's something I hadn't heard before....ReplyDelete
#19 is technically correct. For WEIGHT loss, it is as simple as calories in vs. calories out. If you eat 2000 calories worth of sugar and your maintenance is 2500, you'll lose weight. For limiting lean mass losses while losing fat, obviously protein is important.
Irregardless of whether certain macronutrients reduce your caloric expenditure or have a higher thermic effect (or get crapped out), those are both covered in "calories out" and "calories in" respectively.
So... 19 is technically correct, only because it's worded "weight" loss, with no mention of fat or lean tissue.
No Jess, it's not. If you would follow the links you would understand why. Read some books by Gary Taubes.Delete
Oh my god.... Really?? Gary Taubes?? Taubes is a joke! He has a completely outdated understanding of insulin, carbs, and metabolism in general. His "theories" or "ideas" have been disproved over and over. Might need to do a lil research on your boy Taubes. Or maybe you have and you just buy into all his ignorant b.s.
Oh I like the article by the way! haha I just hope you're not a TRUE Taubes follower... :P
He isn't a researcher himself, he is a journalist who compiles research. His theories are based off of the research of others such as Harvard Medical School...so you're saying Harvard Medical School is wrong?
Also, good luck counting all of your calories in and out because it is basically impossible, and being off even a little will mess you up in the long run, if you rely on that.
Jess: "Irregardless" isn't a word, dummy.Delete
For the love of all that is good... Irregardless is not a fucking word!!!!!! It's a gorram double negative, as such cancels itself out. *sigh*Delete
Taubes? Really LBEB, really?? I love the list, except for 19. Maybe you should take your own advice, and read a book (a book not written by Taubes). If someone with a 3,000 maintenance ate a balanced diet of 3,500 cals/day for 2 months, he would gain WEIGHT. If he ate 2,500 cals/day of the exact same food for 2 months, he would lose WEIGHT. It's a very simple concept. Now if you want to make an argument for losing FAT, things get more complicated.ReplyDelete
Oh boy... Here we go
Based on y'alls theories, you must define "balanced diet"
Carb calories are treated differently than fat calories and different than protein calories.
If my maintenance level is 2500 calories, eating 2000 calories of sugar per day will not result in 1lb/week of fat loss.
please cite references to your calories in/out theories if you believe they are true.
You should say why underneath each point why it's incorrect. A problem is only good as it's solution!ReplyDelete
Hey guys, Im not totally un informed when it comes to nutrition but would be cool to read up in the whole cal in - cal out situation - any good references you could link to?? :DReplyDelete
Actually any advice from a nutritionist is a waste. Anyone can claim to be a nutritionist. Go to a sports dietitian, the only person that can legelly Give sports diet adviceReplyDelete
Not true at all. All actual nutritionists have to qualify and get certify to be a nutritionist. Dietetics, while possibly more educated and paid more, just have a different route and taken on different jobs.Delete
Actually I am a sports rd. Nutrition is a science that involves biochemistry, human physiology, and research. Not a certification test you take through the mail. That's why most states require you be licensed to give diet advice and if you are not you can get a fine. Must be rd to be licensedDelete
#19 did not specify "fat loss". It said weight loss. If you are burning more calories than you take in, you have to lose weight. Yes, the amount of calories burned can be influenced by the type of calories you take in. But, that doesn't make the equation in #19 wrong, it just expands on it. There are a lot of different ways to consume these calories. If you want to understand #19, pick a diet, whatever combination of fat/carb/meat/organic/whatever, that is working for you and then either double or half the calories and see what happens.ReplyDelete
Canola oil is for steam engines not people. I personally don't like the taste of sump oil.ReplyDelete
#19-Taubes is not wrong, but he is not right either. He goes to the extreme to make a point. On calories, sure starving the body will eventually lead to weight loss (combined fat, water, and muscle). But it will lead to gaining the weight back as well. The longer and more severe you starve the body, the faster you will regain the body. Calories don't matter in fat loss. Calories don't matter in real life. Food matters, its the only thing that is real in life. Calories were made up in order to satisfy our human obsession with counting shit.ReplyDelete
ha ha.. awesome comment! Couldn't agree more.Delete
Taubes has stated and I quote "you literally cannot gain fat without carbs". This is false on several levels; firstly, it is based on the belief that insulin is required for fat storage; when fat storage can occur in the complete absence of insulin, via ASP. Additionally, all macronutrients cause some insulin secretion, and protein is very insulinogenic. Calories are essential in fat loss; you must create a caloric deficit if you want to lose fat.Delete
#19 is correct and it isn't. If you had 2000 calories of candy, your insulin would be so high you would be storing fat, not burning it. 2000 calories with 40-60g of carbs and 10-15g of sugar max with the rest coming from fat and mainly protein....well then that would be a whole different story.ReplyDelete
^Matt, exactly. It's all about insulin. My maintenance was 2100 calories but I counted exactly 1400 calories per day and I was actually gaining weight because my health teacher told me to get 50% of my calories from carbohydrates. That's 175g of carbs. My family is not good with insulin and I ended up getting fatter. I switched to a ketogenic diet and lost 40 lbs in 2 months, I'm now 155 with a higher bench and squat, and I ran my first 10k last week. 2 months ago I couldn't finish a mile.ReplyDelete
This wasn't because of insulin sensitivity but because your body was going into starvation mode at 1400 calories....Delete
Argue all you want about #19...it was #12 that made me laugh out loud.ReplyDelete
You could fill up the Internet just debating this topic.
1. Fuck sugar. Its useless. (If you have to, make sure it's all natural.)
2. Train hard. If you haven't blown a blood vessel you aren't working hard enough.
3. Sleep
Anything else?
Why are we debating weight loss...
Lift Big + Eat Big (i.e. eat plenty of calories from carbs, protein and fat) = Get big
I want to be bigger than Gary Taubes.
How to identify a poor nutritionist? I think number one on this list should be never take advice from someone without any formal qualification. It never fails to surprise me that people will take nutritional advice from a 'personal trainer' rather than someone who has a recognised qualification. You wouldn't let someone come up to you in the gym and tell you how to work out without proof they had previous experience so why not do the same when it comes to your diet. Anyone who takes pride in giving proper nutritional advice will do so using up to date scientific research. Also keep in mind nutrition messages for the general public are very different to those that would be advised for athletes so it really isn't helpful to write off healthy lifestyle messages just because it doesn't work for your training regime! Stop giving good nutritionists a bad name, those of us who take our jobs seriously have been campaigning for the term to be protected meaning not every other person walking down the street can claim they are a nutritionist!!! Just because you are a personal trainer or have big muscles does NOT give you the right to go on google type in something vaguely related to nutrition and then come up with a diet plan to hand out round your gymReplyDelete


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Crystal Structure of Glutathione-S-transferase from Plasmodium falciparum
The parasite Plasmodium falciparum causes malaria tropica, the most prevailing parasitic disease worldwide, with 300-500 million infections and 1.5-2.7 million deaths/year. The emergence of strains resistant to drugs used for prophylaxis and treatment and no vaccine available makes the structural analysis of potential drug targets essential. For that reason, we analyzed the three-dimensional structure of the glutathione S-transferase from P. falciparum (Pf-GST1) in the apoform and in complex with its inhibitor S-hexyl-glutathione. The structures have been analyzed to 2.6 and 2.2 A, respectively. Pf-GST1 shares several structural features with the Mu-type GSTs and is therefore closely related to this class, even though alignments with its members display low sequence identities in the range of 20-33%. Upon S-hexyl-glutathione binding, the overall structure and the glutathione-binding site (G-site) remain almost unchanged with the exception of the flexible C terminus. The detailed comparison of the parasitic enzyme with the human host Mu-class enzyme reveals that, although the overall structure is homologue, the shape of the hydrophobic binding pocket (H-site) differs substantially. In the human enzyme, it is shielded from one side by the large Mu-loop, whereas in Pf-GST1 the Mu-loop is truncated and the space to recognize and bind voluminous substrates is extended. This structural feature can be exploited to support the design of specific and parasite-selective inhibitors.
Native and inhibited structure of a Mu class-related glutathione S-transferase from Plasmodium falciparum., Perbandt M, Burmeister C, Walter RD, Betzel C, Liebau E, J Biol Chem. 2004 Jan 9;279(2):1336-42. Epub 2003 Sep 12. PMID:12972411
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About this Structure
1pa3 is a 2 chain structure with sequence from Plasmodium falciparum. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA.
- Perbandt M, Burmeister C, Walter RD, Betzel C, Liebau E. Native and inhibited structure of a Mu class-related glutathione S-transferase from Plasmodium falciparum. J Biol Chem. 2004 Jan 9;279(2):1336-42. Epub 2003 Sep 12. PMID:12972411 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M309663200

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Cream Gravy
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- Calories: 55
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- Monounsaturated fat: 0.2g
- Polyunsaturated fat: 0.1g
- Protein: 3.2g
- Carbohydrate: 8.3g
- Fiber: 0.2g
- Cholesterol: 4mg
- Iron: 0.3mg
- Sodium: 126mg
- Calcium: 77mg
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FRIDAY, Oct 11 (HealthDay News) -- Beyonce, Kim Kardashian and Jennifer Lopez have put ample backsides on some women's wish lists. And what nature forgot, plastic surgeons can provide with a buttocks augmentation.
Now, a small, preliminary Brazilian study finds that most women who have the procedure are satisfied with their new look.
Experts caution, however, that some buttocks-enhancement procedures -- especially when performed by unqualified people -- come with real risks.
The study technique involved liposuctioning excess fat where it's not wanted -- such as from the hips and thighs -- and injecting, or grafting, it into the buttocks to plump them up.
A good result "does not depend on a lot of fat infiltration," said study leader Dr. Rodrigo Rosique, a plastic surgeon in Goiania, Brazil, but rather on the skilled method of combining the liposuction and the injections. Avoiding large injections of fat into any one area of the buttocks is key, he said.
"The degree of satisfaction is amazing, and it is overwhelming how the fat grafts [injections] really take into the patients' buttocks," said Rosique, a professor of plastic surgery at Federal University of Goias.
Rosique followed up on 58 women, aged 19 to 62, who had the procedure done between 2010 and 2012. All but one patient reported feeling very satisfied. The other patient had additional surgery six months after her first one and then reported being satisfied with the result.
Women whose weight changed by more than 10 percent after the procedure were excluded from the follow-up evaluation.
"I took these patients out because the buttocks' final volume could be affected by the weight change, misunderstanding if the volume enhancement was due to weight gain or the graft," he explained.
Rosique is scheduled to present the findings Sunday at the annual meeting of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, in San Diego. The research should be viewed as preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal.
None of the study patients reported medical complications. Five patients had a pocket of clear fluid that collected at the fat-removal site, which was treated by draining it.
"The sculpting can give a very pleasing result," said Dr. David Reath, a Knoxville, Tenn., plastic surgeon who chairs the society's public education committee. He was not involved in the Brazilian study.
The procedure takes about two and a half to three hours, Rosique said. Patients can return to work in about a week.
The researchers said avoiding the injection of large volumes of fat in any particular site avoids the problems of tissue death. The Brazilian researchers used an epidural anesthesia. In the United States, Reath said, an epidural or a general anesthesia typically would be used.
In the United States, plastic surgeons performed more than 3,700 buttocks procedures in 2012, including lifts and implants, according to the society. The average surgeon fee for the procedures is about $4,600.
Reath said, however, that patients should check carefully to see if their doctors are qualified. Recently, a number of deaths have been reported in the United States among women who have gone to so-called "pumping parties," at which nonmedical-grade silicone is sometimes used to plump up the buttocks and fill out facial lines.
Unqualified persons inject the type of liquid silicone bought at hardware stores. The fat solvent in the silicone can cause severe problems, such as traveling to the lungs and obstructing the airways.
"People can be disfigured or have worse complications," Reath said.
Deaths from illegal buttocks injections have been reported in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Pennsylvania, Nevada and New York. In another case, a woman who reportedly went to a pumping party arrived at an emergency room coughing up blood. Doctors found clots in the small blood vessels in her lungs and discovered that the injected silicone had traveled there and led to obstructions.
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KNOXVILLE (WATE) - Knoxville Mayor Madeline Rogero is among those questioning if Knoxville Tourism & Sports Corp. CEO Gloria Ray is paid too much.
Ray's $405,000 pay package has been generating lots of questions.
Ray went before Knox County Commission Monday to give her argument for why KTSC is a good investment.
Mayor Rogero cautioned that while her administration is looking into it, she's not jumping to any conclusions.
6 News also spoke with Matt Morelock, owner of Morelock's Music, one of KTSC's success stories according to Ray. Ironically, Morelock has been one of the KTSC's most vocal opponents.
"The county commission has obviously for several years now laid down on the ground and let Gloria Ray walk all over them," said Morelock. "I don't think that the Knoxville public is going to let that happen anymore."
Morelock says he thinks $4 million for KTSC to promote the city and county is too much, that the money should be spread around including other groups that bring in tourists.
He also says he's most annoyed with the credit the group takes for numbers it can't prove.
"They present a case that they are responsible for the increase in tourism in Knoxville and Knox County, and thus they are deserving of the hotel and motel tax revenue and they deserve their overly inflated salaries, which I believe is a very arrogant position to take," Morelock said.
The hotel-motel tax paid by visitors is five percent on room rentals. The non-profit receives 45% of the tax, and the CEO gets bonuses based on those numbers increasing.
About $1 million comes from a contract with the city, which expires in June.
"In terms of the compensation, we have shared with Gloria that we, that the salary appears to be excessive," said Mayor Rogero. "And we'll continue the conversations with her and her board about that."
Rogero contends the group does good work, but its results need to be carefully examined.
Morelock contends small businesses, like his, have the toughest time getting promotion.
"Oh they have worked with me," he said. "They brought me a really nice rate sheet. I have it here for the unbelievably, insanely large amount of money that I would have to pay them to get into the Knoxville Visitors Guide."
According to Morelock's 2012 rate sheet, the smallest ad in the guide costs $900. The largest costs $6,000.
We requested an interview with Gloria Ray Tuesday. We were told she was in meetings, but officials would get back with us soon.
By state law, a portion of the five percent hotel-motel tax must be used to promote tourism. The city imposes an additional three percent tax.
All of that money must go to pay debt on the Knoxville Convention Center. So the city is paying KTSC some money out of its general fund. Officials expect it will be about $500,000 this year.
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The First Carolina Suzuki PianoFest Coming to Lenoir-Rhyne
Wed Jul 31 2013
HICKORY, N.C. — The Suzuki Kids in Koncert program at Lenoir-Rhyne University is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year but it is not resting on the laurels of past accomplishments rather is stepping forward to offer new opportunities to Suzuki families and teachers in the southeast.
On August 3 – 8, Suzuki piano students, parents, Suzuki teachers, and teacher trainees will gather at Lenoir-Rhyne for the first Carolina Suzuki PianoFest. Sanctioned and approved by the Suzuki Association of the Americas, this institute will present opportunities for students, parents, and teachers to experience an intense week of music instruction. Carolina Suzuki PianoFest is one of only a handful of all-piano institutes in all of North America.
Local students, as well as students from as far away as New York and Georgia, will participate in daily Master Classes where they will receive one-on-one instruction and will also observe the lessons of others in their master class. Teachers will work on fluency in playing, dynamics, phrasing, and technique during these classes. Students will also attend a Repertoire Class where they will work on polishing pieces. Repertoire classes will meet in a piano lab setting so that piano students can experience the joy of making music with others. Enrichment classes are also a part of the institute experience and institute participants will enjoy a class "Boom Boom Crash Course for Percussion" led by local instructor, Rick Cline.
Institute participants will also enjoy a daily "Mouth Music" class where Florence Jowers of the Lenoir-Rhyne music faculty and director of the Lenoir-Rhyne Youth Chorus will work with students on singing and musical activities.
Solo recitals will be presented on Wednesday afternoon in the Recital Hall. All institute participants will participate and perform a solo piece. On Thursday afternoon, all students will travel over to Johnson Piano and Organ Exchange in Hickory to perform in a Gala Multi-piano concert. Since piano students usually play solo, this concert will present a rare opportunity for students to play in a concert with other pianists.
Jane Reed, of Taylors, SC, a national SAA Teacher Trainer, will be a clinician at the institute. She will lead teacher training classes to participants from as far away as Ontario, Canada and Florida. Classes offered to teacher trainees include Every Child Can, the pre-requisite to all Suzuki teacher training courses. Other teacher training courses to be offered include a course entitled Teaching With Purpose and Piano Teacher Training Book 2. She will also lead a parent forum each day and will teach Master Classes. Jane Perry, Director of Suzuki Kids in Koncert at LRU and piano instructor, will teach Master Classes and Repertoire Classes. Irene Craig, of Gastonia, NC, and piano instructor with KIK will teach Repertoire Classes. Jane Perry and Jane Reed are co-directors of the institute.
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I spoke to a partner of a large regional firm recently and he told me that 3 out of 4 applications they receive have 1sts.
When firms stipulate a 2:1 now as a minimum, they mean precisely that. I think you'd be lucky now to get a TC without a 1st and/or Distinctions. And even then firms would want experience also.
To call this a buyers market would be an understatement.
Taking the GDL now is especially daft as it is seen as inferior to an LLB.
To saddle yourself with that kind of debt when your earning potential for several years (or maybe indefinitely) is paralegal wages (i.e: 12-17k). Well, it's just insane.
The problem is with the perception of law as a career put out by the providers and maintained in the popular consciousness.
This perception is stuck in the cliches of the last century: Law is a 'Good job' it 'pays well', has 'kudos'. Lawyers are 'rich etc etc.
Not any more. And with the advent of ABS in October the legal profession will be further downgraded as mostly middling and lower clerical work. After all, a lettings negotiator can easily earn £30k. A binman is on more than most paralegals. How long does it take an average trainee to reach that salary?
A similar thing happened to the teaching profession in the last century. It went from having real prestige to being a dumping ground for the semi-bright white collar middle and lower middle classes.
High-end lucrative legal work will always be the preserve of the oxbridge lot. The rest of the 'profession' will end up like teaching - only worse paid, worse hours and more stress and fewer hoildays.
The above comment is false in the extreme. It sounds like the bitter ramblings of someone without a TC.
Trust me, the vast majority of TC applicants do not have firsts. Likewise, the vast majority of TC awardees do not have firsts, even at the very best firms.
Ultimately, you need a 2.1 and a decent application to get an interview. Then you need to be good, dare I say it, very good, at interview.
What is false in the extreme is the way some LPC providers encourage applicants into such an oversubscribed profession. I often wonder if their prowl articles such as this to spread disinformation.
I remember being told by a couple of demoralised junior lawyers at a recruitment fair that it would be better to become a plumber.
And FYI, I am a top graded student shortly to start a TC but I'm only one of 2 in my entire year intake (100 students) to do so. A few of the rest if lucky are doing dead-end paralegal stuff (by which I mean NO prospect of a TC) and the rest have totally wasted their money and time. Many many have 2:1s etc.
I would advise anyone thinking of studying law to do something else.
My careers adviser at Uni just sent round one of his bulletins for a legal dogsbody job in Cheshire. These are far from atypical. If there are any actual paralegal jobs then that's a bonus, mostly it's sweatshop stuff. There are hundreds and hundreds of applicants chasing each TC so firms can just keep raising the bar. I think having a first and an LPC distinction is almost a requirement now
"a part-time legal assistant to assist solicitors across Wills/Probate & Conveyancing work. You should possess a minimum 2:1 degree and have achieved a Commendation for the LPC."
What hope getting a TC now with just a 2:1? the market is so overflowing with willing grads that employers can even stipulate 2:1s and commendations on the LPC for no hoper jobs assisting at the minimum wage.
To Anonymous | 20-Jul-2011 5:47 pm
Your English is terrible.
Please do not do the GDL.
Anonymous @ 10:11 - disagree entirely; ABS ensures that the more innovative law firm's will succeed. Even though it is no a partnership, lawyers will still likely fee-earn on a roughly similar basis (no, I don't mean by-the-hour), and will likely be subject to incentives, bonuses etc due to the need for people to replace Partners in management roles and bring in work. You haven't seen this new market mature so we can't really comment. It could just as easily go the other way.
I would say I'm bitter about the legal market, for sure. I have a TC. My prospects of getting one were medium, I had no contacts, state-school ed., 2:1 from top 20 uni etc etc, a pretty typical candidate. I don't know how I got it but I did.
That said, I would NOT encourage ANYBODY to enter the market as it is. I honestly do not know how I got mine, and I have seen far better candidates than myself bang there head against the TC wall. It becomes a matter of life and death and, in the meantime, you'll be sweated as a paralegal for peanuts.
Someone on here is absolutely correct about trusting the advisors of the LPC providers. Do you really think the commission they earn rewards impartial advice on the state of the legal profession? No. Bums on seats my friend, that's what they want.
It's quite simple: do not start a GDL until you have secured a training contract.
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Not everyone thought Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams did such a masterful job in crafting legislation that protects unincorporated-area boundaries while the future of that area is discussed.
Members of the Association of Community Councils Together (ACCT), which includes representatives from many of the county's 16 community councils, didn't think the mayor's office kept them in the loop enough about what was going on as a frequently changing bill wound its way to legislative approval.
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Their rancor boiled over after McAdams announced at the April 8 council meeting that a page on the county's website contained an application form for people interested in being on a citizens advisory committee that will make suggestions about service delivery and future governance in the county's unincorporated townships. And he didn't tell ACCT first.
"We're part of the official structure. … Are we really accepted, recognized?" ACCT President Paulina Flint questioned at a recent County Council meeting. "We feel like we've been thrown to the four winds. We want to continue to believe and trust [in the mayor's process], but communication is lacking sorely."
Added Mount Olympus Community Council member Janet Geyser: "Why are we learning of these things from the newspaper? You know those reporters. They get things wrong."
McAdams was not at the meeting, leaving his defense to Deputy Mayor Nichole Dunn.
"Clearly we had a communications breakdown," she said, apologizing to the community councils. "We do value ACCT."
Dunn said the deadline to apply for the volunteer board could be extended until May 12, four days after ACCT's next meeting so the community councils could come up with nominees who would be representative of the unincorporated area's diversity.
The council agreed to that recommendation, with Chairman Michael Jensen saying the advisory committee has to be broad based or it won't receive council approval.
McAdams had one supporter in the community council ranks, Mount Olympus Chairman Jeff Silvestrini.
"Not all of us brought our pitchforks today," he said, citing the many meetings McAdams had with different groups as the "Community Preservation Act" bill went through three major revisions before lawmakers signed off on it.
"I've never had a problem with communications," he said, "and I trust you to provide a balanced committee."
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2 minutes skipping, 2 rounds (10 leg swings, 10 dowel rotations, 10 bootstrappers, 5 slow wall squats, 5 ring rows)
5 back squat
Build to heavy 5 reps in 15 minutes
I ended up at a measly 34kg, but my coach really had me working on form and was super happy with my improvement!
5 dumbbell thrusters (25/45)
7 box jumps (24"/30")
9 v-sits
12 minutes AMRAP
6 rounds, plus 2 reps
I thought I was going to pass out about halfway through, I have no idea why it was so difficult for me!
Happy New Year, everyone!
First WOD back of the year!
A whole bunch of stuff, rotating every 30 seconds: jumping jacks, sit-ups, scorpion stretch, push-ups…some other stuff…
Hard Cindy
5 weighted pull-ups (35lbs)
10 push-ups (feet on 30" box)
15 plate squats (10kg/20kg)
AMRAP 20 minutes
I scaled to 3x banded non-weighted pull-ups (thick grey band), knee push-ups, and RX plated squats. 9 rounds even! I got the last push-up right as time was called (we staggered starts so I started on squats).
And I swear to you all THIS is the year I get a pull-up. I can barely get above the bar once with the thick grey band…I will probably cry when I get a real pull-up. It's going to happen!
ps I'm not doing "resolutions" this year because they're always the same. What I am doing is using the New Year as a clean slate to really focus on getting to CrossFit as many times as possible and try to eat clean. I really had a great experience with the 21 Day Sugar Detox when I did it in November, and I think I'll do another soon. Not quite yet, but soon :)
Hello strangers!
I hope everybody out there in tumblr-land had an amazing Christmas holiday (or just holiday if you don't do the Christmas thing…) Mine was good, and I made it to a couple of CrossFit classes, but everything's been a bit mad schedule-wise and I've hardly been home to post things. But things are mostly back to normal now!
2 minutes jump-rope, 2x (10 dowel rotations, 15 leg swings each side, 10 dowel overhead squats, 6 inch worms, 10 pull-ups/ring rows)
1 minute snatch (squat snatch) 95/135
1 minute double unders
1 minute rest
5 rounds for reps
My reps: 84, using 62lbs/28kg for my weight.
I know the board says December 26 but I promise it was this morning - I certainly didn't make it in on Boxing Day. My gym has a tendency to have only one or two mid-day classes on "pseudo-holidays" (Boxing Day, New Years Eve - things that aren't actually statutory holidays) and I always work them so it's a no go. Boo!
This WOD was fun. My number is so low because I can't do double-unders so counted only attempts which meant getting only around 10 per round - my snatch reps were comparable to everyone else's. But the reason it was fun is I really like snatches (THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID!). I like regular snatches and I especially like power snatches but I just think they're super fun.
And now I spend the next 6 hours cramming for my WSET Diploma level Unit 1 exam that I'm woefully unprepared for even after spending the last 36 hours studying. Yaaaay!
What have you all been up to?
I missed yesterday morning's CrossFit class so I had to hit up the 6:30pm class instead. The evening coach leads a way more intense class (warm-up wise especially) which I totally had forgotten about. It was really fun!
400m run, 10 air squats with correction at the bottom (actively hold squat for 10 seconds at the bottom and correct your form at least twice - chest up, knees apart, etc.), 10 walk out to push up, 20 double-clap jumping jacks, 10 burpees
Partner WOD
Front squat
Ring Dips
Box Jumps
Our time: 13:09
Our weight was pretty low for the front squats - 25kg, I think? But it may have been a bit more. The evening class is a little more hardcore than my regular class and the woman I was paired with was super nice to work at my level happily. We split up the work roughly half-half, and I scaled ring dips to box dips and box jumps to step-ups because my partner wanted to use the RX height and that's still a step-up height for me.
BUT! My front squat finally felt good. I didn't fall forward every time, and was able to really focus on "elbows up".
Killer killer WOD today.
3 rounds of 45 seconds of jumping jacks, 30 seconds of lunges, 15 seconds of push-ups
7 rounds of 3 push press.
Team WOD (because 7 trillion people showed up for class)
7 deadlift (105/155)
7 bar burpees
15 minutes AMRAP (you do both items, your partner does them after you, and so on)
Our score: 16 rounds + 12
I am so weak at any lift that is almost all upper body…I only got up to around 69 lbs and that was HARD.
The WOD was my first ever "RXish", ha. I wanted to do Rx but my partner was feeling like where we were was already pushing it for her, so I of course said that was ok. We missed RX by just under 4kg, I think, but my coach gave us an "ish" because she's nice. But I was a frigging sweaty mess at the end of the 15 minutes. One of the other girls ended up partnered with our gym's "superstar", the guy that comes to at least two WODs a day - she did AMAZINGLY well considering that he's so fast that she barely got a break in between her sets. Superstar.
And tonight I get a tree :) Yay!
They work really well, but for low to moderate weights. I'm not sure that they don't also work for heavy weights but I do know that whenever anyone is lifting heavy weights they use the more conventional clips. The Velcro ones have a rubber inside so they actually grab on quite effectively to the bar - I've never seen one slip.
I accidentally took a week off CrossFit for reasons. Week off is over!
2 minutes skipping + 2 rounds of 15 leg swings, 10 dowel rotations, 6 inch worms, 8 pull-ups (ring rows)
We worked on form for power clean, and for the jerk, obviously! The jerk finally kind of clicked for me! I realised I was doing an extra dip on each movement and therefore not getting under the bar.
15 min, every minute on the minute
3 deadlift
2 power clean
1 jerk
If you hit 15 minutes, each following minute add 1 jerk until you can't complete the movements within the minute.
I wasn't sure what weight to do, and I ended up with a training bar (7kg bar) because it was a big class, so I definitely under weighted this one. I added an extra 6kg about halfway through - the weight I used was 68.6 lbs. RX was 95/135. I think I should have been doing at the very least 75 lbs.
I made it 17 full rounds (two extra rounds) and could have done more (because I had lots of time still at the end of each round) but I started feeling intensely nauseated. It turns out that if you eat really well for 3 weeks and then go completely off the rails for 2 days you feel like utter crap. Our Oly coach was there (he's actual the Oly coach for a local school team but works with our group on Mondays) and he said I was "getting there". Which means my form was probably pretty bad, but I was trying hard. Ha. He also told me that he had always learned that once you've done a movement one million times you'll start to understand it.
Also I'm 0.3 lbs from the stretch goal I wanted to hit for today. Ha. I mean, I've lost 15.5 lbs in just under 3 weeks so that's cool, but come on, we couldn't have had 0.3 more??? Ha.
Today's run done! I did not run yesterday because I was in a terrible mood which probably means I should especially have run. So now I owe you all TWO shame selfies!
I knew a mile wasn't going to happen today if it didn't happen right when I got up. So it happened…verry slowwwwly. I don't run well with lots of people around and this route is on a major street. I let it psych me out. So going forth morning runs will have to be down on the seawall! Ugh, I'm just realising I'm also going to have to run in the morning this Friday, too. Laaaame!
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Financing Arrangements and Industrial Organisation for New Nuclear Build in Electricity Markets
AbstractThe paper studies how the risks specific to a nuclear power investment in liberalised markets - regulatory, construction, operation and market risks - can be mitigated or transferred away from the plant investor through different contractual and organisational arrangements. It argues that at least for the first new reactors significant risk transfers onto governments, consumers, and, vendors are likely to be needed to make nuclear power attractive to investors in liberalised markets. These different types of risk allocations will in turn induce different investment financing choices. Four case studies of recent new nuclear projects illustrate the alternative consistent combinations of contractual, organization, and financial arrangements for new nuclear build depending on the industrial organisation, the market position of the company and the institutional environment prevailing in different countries. The most likely financing structure will likely be based on corporate financing or some form of hybrid arrangement backed by the balance sheet of one or a consortium of large vertically integrated companies.
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The only contact most of us have ever had with a yak is at the zoo, so how are we going to feel if it ends up on our plate?
Well, let's think about it this way: Have you ever enjoyed a bison burger hot off the grill? How about buffalo chili? Yes? Then to you, eating this big shaggy beast doesn't seem scary in the slightest.
In fact, yak meat is actually becoming quite popular among health-conscious consumers, who like it because -- similar to bison -- it's 95 to 97 percent lean, low in fat and cholesterol, and packed with protein.
So what's the best way to eat yak?
Yaks are from the bovine family; as such, their meat has a sweet, subtle, beef-like flavor and a savory aroma when cooked. Some people actually prefer it to other lean meats because it stays juicy when you cook it and doesn't dry out. Plus, it doesn't taste overly gamy.
Also similar to other game animals, yak meat is sold ground, in patties, steaks, even roasts and is typically priced anywhere from $6 to $12 a pound. You can brown the ground meat to use in dishes like lasagna, pizza, or chili; throw steaks on the grill; or slow-cook the roast in the Crock-Pot. Here are a couple good yak recipes from Vermont Yak Company:
1. Yak Burgers
Mix all ingredients together and form into 4 burgers. Grill over low heat.
2. Chipotle Yak Chili
Brown the garlic, onion, and ground yak in the olive oil. Add the rest of the ingredients except the cilantro. Simmer partially covered for about 45 minutes, stirring occasionally. Stir in the cilantro and simmer uncovered for 5 minutes.
So, go ahead -- try yak! (Just make sure you buy the meat from a source you know and trust to treat their yaks healthfully, humanely, and sustainably -- your local farmers' market is a great place to find a resource near you.)
Would you eat yak?
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I would try it but my hubby woulnt.
Maybe but it seems like something that would be expensive.
No, thank you.
I am not a big meat person to begin with so I will pass on Yak. Arent there enough animals that we eat already without expanding the list ?
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at that price... once a year and only for me and hubby.
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FAIRMONT, W.Va. (AP) — The numeral in the name of the West Virginia 63 tomato refers to the year of the Mountain State's centennial, not to the number of varieties of the red fruit that most use as a vegetable.
Actually, about 7,500 tomato varieties exist, but the 30 to 50 types that will be sampled at the sixth annual Tomato Tasting Festival is still a respectable showing of the product, which might not come in the colors of the rainbow, but still can be found in hues of red, green, yellow and pink to a purplish-black.
And growers harvest tomatoes from early August to late September, said Jean Dawson, which makes the Tomato Tasting Festival, presented from noon to 4 p.m. Sunday at High Gate Carriage House in Fairmont by the Marion County Master Gardeners, a well-timed event.
As for varieties, in addition to the West Virginia 63, Dawson also grows two heirloom types, the Abe Lincoln and another one that she calls "Hazel Hub," after a friend of hers who gave her the tomato plant that she cultivates.
"The Abe Lincoln is a great big pink tomato with very few seeds in it, and the other one is a great big yellow and red tomato that grows big," she said.
Attendees of the Tomato Tasting Festival will be able to taste several different varieties during the event, said organizer and Marion County Master Gardener member Christa Blais, as well as buy a lunch of pasta and tomatoes for $6 and have the opportunity to hear music and visit a farmer's market and an artisan market.
"What happens is that people bring in and enter tomatoes, and we cut them up so people get to sample them," Blais said.
People who want to enter tomatoes can bring them between 8 and 10 a.m. Sunday, she added. They will be judged on biggest, best tasting and People's Choice in categories of small, medium and large, and there is no entry fee, according to information provided by Blais.
In addition to the West Virginia 63, a hybrid that was engineered for the state's climate, common varieties include several different types of beefsteaks, as well as heirlooms such as Mr. Stripey and the Sweet Pea Currant.
"Last year, that one won the People's Choice Award," Blais said of the latter variety. "It tasted like wine. It was very delicious."
Tomatoes also come in different sizes, as small as grapes and cherries, which lend their names to those types, and Dawson has grown one that weighed 3 1/2 pounds, she said.
Homegrown tomatoes taste different than their supermarket counterparts, Blais said, because the latter are engineered for longevity, transportation and shelf life, not flavor.
"It's to keep them red and keep them red long," Blais said. "By doing that, they've sacrificed flavor and variety off the bat. With growing them yourself, you can have a huge array of heirlooms and varieties that are designed for taste instead."
The Tomato Tasting Festival was started by Dawson and two other growers in 2008. One was not held in 2012, Blais said, making this year's event the sixth one.
When the festival returned last year, the number of varieties offered was smaller than in the past because of a problem with blight, Blais said.
John Murray, an agent with the West Virginia University Extension Agency, which helps coordinate the Tomato Tasting Festival, said some growers are still having trouble with blight, as well as Septoria Leaf Spot, both conditions caused by fungus, he said. The wetter-than-usual weather has allowed fungus to grow, he added.
"There are preventative fungicides that can be utilized and also some cultural practices that can help to control it," Murray said. "But it doesn't prevent it. It keeps it from being as bad, but there still will be issues."
Other activities at the Tomato Tasting Festival include workshops on beekeeping, butterfly gardening and fresh food preservation, Blais said.
A transplant to the area from Daytona Beach, Florida, Blais became interested in growing vegetables and herbs after she began to hear concerns about food safety and E. coli, she said.
"I've always been interested in urban agriculture and agriculture in general," she added. We moved from Daytona Beach to live off the grid and the land, and we ended up buying a house in the city. So I'm an urban gardener. I love it here."
She also has helped the Marion County Master Gardeners with three community gardens, one behind Foxfire Restaurant at Heston Farm, one at Oliver Avenue Park and another one at 612 Mac, a community center.
"We have tomatoes and squash and corn and all kinds of stuff growing," she said. "We do have herbs as well, and we're going to do more flowers this year to help attract beneficial bugs."
As for Dawson, now that her children have grown and left home, she limits her tomato growing to "about three dozen plants," which still yields enough produce to make spaghetti sauce, give some away, can others and of course, eat them fresh.
"Oh yes," she said. "Just take the core out and slice them and put a little bit of salt and pepper on them. If you're lucky enough to have a loaf of homemade bread, they make might good sandwiches."
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Do you believe we have true freewill?
I am curious to know if you believe we are more than just chemical and physical reactions in our brains.
What do you believe, and does that belief affect how you live and make decisions?
Edit: I have modified the question to allow for a more broad discussion on the general concept of freewill.
There seems to be a lot of confusion around the definition of the term "freewill". I have gathered some definitions from a few sources below to use:
"The power of acting without the constraint of necessity or fate; the ability to act at one's own discretion"
Source: Google dictionary
"Free and independent choice; voluntary decision: You took on the responsibility of your own free will."
Source: Dictionary.com
Lets try to not get too caught up on the semantics. There has been some interesting discussions so far. I would like to summarize the main points on each side of this topic when I have time.
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Jun 19 2011: I put forth a small thought experiment for consideration. Consider that we decide to test Free Will. So we bring two identical twins to the Lab, Maxime & Chad. They are so alike in every way that their parents cant tell them apart. There is only one difference .. One has no Free Will, but the other does. Now I offer them both a choice in ice-cream: Choclate or Vanilla. Maxime picks Chocolate and Chad picks Vanilla. Now we have to identify which one has free will and which one does not. Since I am unable to make out the difference, I invite all of you to questions aloud (by the way comments) to catch the person with Free Will. Anyone?
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Wildmind Meditation News
Dec 05, 2011
Getting far, far away from it all
Hilary Stout: On a Friday morning in October — Oct. 21, to be exact — Mark Trippetti, an advertising consultant from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, surrendered his laptop and iPhone to storage at a remote mountainside center in southern Colorado and prepared to drop out of human contact for a month.
The previous week he had begun the withdrawal process, leaving word with clients, cutting back his use of technology and giving up caffeine. Before checking out completely, he made one final call to his girlfriend, Jee Chang.
By careful design, Mr. Trippetti would not see or communicate with anyone until Nov. 20. At his spartan cabin …
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Oct 07, 2011
Meditating with tinnitus
If you suffer from tinnitus – persistent ringing in the ears – you may wonder whether meditation is a good idea. And yet it can be a powerful tool in helping you come to terms with the white noise inside your head. Meditator and long-time tinnitus sufferer Mandy Sutter airs some of the issues.
Tinnitus can make meditation very difficult. And because meditation is mostly silent, it may seem that meditation can make tinnitus very difficult, too.
It's certainly true that as soon as you sit down on the cushion and close your eyes, the tinnitus seems to get louder. It isn't really getting louder: it only seems that way …
Mandy Sutter
Sep 25, 2011
The Closing Circle
Writer and meditator Mandy Sutter views the reporting-in process at the end of silent retreats with a mixture of dread and excitement.
Many Buddhist retreat centres embrace the custom of the 'Closing Circle'.
This doesn't mean sitting in the middle of a razor toothed torture ring that gradually closes in and squeezes the life out of you, like something out of a James Bond movie.
No. It's worse than that.
It means that after spending, say, a fortnight in silence with thirty strangers, the group sits in a large circle on the last evening to share their experience.
Don't get me wrong: I'm not against hearing how everyone else got on. …
Wildmind Meditation News
Sep 25, 2011
Ten days in silence at a meditation retreat changed my life
Lena Vazifdar: The day I signed up for a silent meditation retreat, I had no idea what I was getting into. The first day, I piled into a red sedan in San Francisco with a 40-year-old hippie in a Hawaiian shirt, a 20-something product developer from India and a straight-faced, vegetarian Indian woman who had been meditating for years. I thought I was about to embark on a great adventure, but little did I know I was beginning the hardest ten days of my life.
I went into the experience with an open heart and mind. My knowledge of Vipassana meditation was…
Wildmind Meditation News
Sep 04, 2011
Buddhism with peanut butter (a retreat experience)
Shefalee Vasudev (Indian Express):
A seven-day course in silent meditation is buttered bliss.
Are you a morning person?" she asked. The bristles of hair on her shaven head were golden, her skin alabaster and she wore androgynous clothes.
This was at an "Introduction to Buddhism" course at Tushita, a meditation centre in Mcleodganj, Dharamsala. I was taken aback to see a hundred-odd people trooping into the quiet retreat and felt momentarily lost in the crowd dominated by foreigners. Most looked like spiritual shoppers dressed in psychedelic tops, T-shirts and scarves with Om and other spiritual symbols, harem pants, shawls, silver jewellery, braided hair, ear and nose…
Aug 22, 2011
"Abiding in Ease, Here and Now": An invitation to listen in on Bodhipaksa's teaching
This is an invitation to download some free MP3s of my teaching.
This week I'm doing a lot of meditation teaching at Aryaloka Buddhist Center in New Hampshire, and I've been recording the meditation sessions and uploading them to a Dropbox account.
Most of the recordings are from 30 to 50 minutes long. I've been introducing the Mindfulness of Breathing, Development of Lovingkindness, and Walking Meditation practices. The overall theme is a phrase from the Pali canon, "Abiding in Ease, Here and Now," and the meditations encourage a sense of spacious relaxation into the moment, with the emphasis on acceptance and equanimity.
If you'd like to download these, just post a comment below, …
Wildmind Meditation News
Mar 31, 2011
The monks and I: Teaching and learning in Thailand
Foreigners are being invited to teach English to Buddhist monks at two temples in Thailand — at a cost of hundreds of dollars.
And staff at one temple claim that many visiting instructors "experienced nirvana temporarily" during meditation sessions.
The temples, Wat Luang Phor Sodh in Ratchaburi and Wat Doi Saket in Chiang Mai, run slightly different programs, but essentially offer the chance to learn about Thai culture while teaching English.
Foreign teachers have to pay for their own lodging, food and other expenses, as well as their airfare to and from Thailand. And though all of the saffron-robed monk students are male, the temples welcome both men and women teachers.
"All English speakers are welcomed," said Dr. Barton "Bart" Yanathiro, a…
Read the …
Wildmind Meditation News
Mar 10, 2011
Ten days without talking
Was it possible to survive 10 days of meditating in an Indian retreat without speaking, reading or making eye-contact with fellow guests?
I am sitting cross-legged on the floor in a large hall, surrounded by strangers. Sweat is running down my face, and my thighs are bleating in agony. I'm trying to meditate but my mind keeps calculating how long I've been here (about five hours) and how long there is to go (about another 100).
It is the first day of my silent retreat in Gujarat, India. I am not allowed to talk throughout the 10 days. In fact, I am not allowed to do much at all: I can't make eye contact with my fellow meditators, or read, write, listen …
Wildmind Meditation News
Jan 25, 2011
The Guardian newspaper's guide to meditation
Last weekend the British Guardian newspaper published a guide to meditation. Here are extracts, as well as links to the full articles…
1. How to meditate: An introduction
Rates of depression and anxiety are rising in the modern world. Andrew Oswald, a professor at Warwick University who studies wellbeing, recently told me that mental health indicators nearly always point down. "Things are not going completely well in western society," he said. Proposed remedies are numerous. And one that is garnering growing attention is meditation, and mindfulness meditation in particular.
The aim is simple: to pay attention – be "mindful". Typically, a teacher will ask you to sit upright, in an alert position. Then, they will encourage you to focus on something straightforward, like …
Wildmind Meditation News
Jan 11, 2011
Undoing exhaustion: Enjoy a meditation retreat
Some of us go to the beach or camping by a river or lake for our holidays.
Some of us stay home and read books.
The really exhausted ones, the spiritually exhausted ones, go on retreat.
That's what I did between Christmas and new year.
It was billed as a yoga and meditation retreat.
On December 27, I loaded up with two unknown fellow retreaters and hitched a lift to Healesville, deep in a valley where prayer flags fluttered in the breeze, to a higgledy-piggledy arrangement of old wooden rooms that I suppose once constituted a mountain guesthouse. Buddha, in various statue forms, and a few of his followers have since moved in.
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Santa Clara, Calif. • Don't look now — and not many were Saturday night at the Leavey Center — but the BYU Cougars have played their way back into the West Coast Conference basketball race.
Getting a big lift from their bench, the Cougars routed Santa Clara 91-81 in front of a small crowd of 2,560 split almost evenly between BYU and SCU supporters.
Counted out by many two weeks ago after they dropped a pair of WCC road games to open league play, the Cougars (5-2, 13-7) have now won five straight games, the last two on the road, to move into second place behind 6-1 Gonzaga.
"Coming out here and being able to win two on the road gives our guys some real confidence, new life," coach Dave Rose said. "This puts us in position now that if we continue to win, we will be in good shape."
The game could not have started any worse for BYU and leading scorer Tyler Haws. He picked up two fouls in the first 49 seconds of the game, and watched the rest of the half from the bench.
However, Haws' backup at the wing position, Anson Winder, came off the bench to play a Haws-like first half, scoring all 16 of his points in the first 20 minutes and sparking the Cougars to a 47-30 lead at the break.
"We all felt like we needed to step up," Winder said. "That's probably the quickest I have ever seen a player get two fouls, ever."
It was a new experience for Haws as well. He finished with 16 points, going 5 of 8 from the field after halftime.
"That was a pretty crazy deal," Haws said. "I tried to keep my head it in the whole half [on the bench]. And guys really stepped up. … I was proud of those guys."
Matt Carlino also delivered when he needed to, scoring nine of his 15 in the first half. The Cougars made 7 of 11 3-point attempts and shot 61.5 percent from the field. Kyle Collinsworth chipped in 18 points to lead BYU in scoring for the second straight game.
The Cougars got 35 points from their bench, a high for conference play.
"That was quick, that's what I thought," Rose said of Haws' early foul trouble. "Probably as quick as I have ever seen it. We just had to figure out something else."
Turns out, Anson was the answer.
"There are days in practice when Anson really gets it going and shoots the ball really well," Haws said.
That was realized by Santa Clara, which played without starters Evan Roquemore and John McArthur. They sat out due to academic difficulties.
BYU never trailed after the first few minutes, but there were some anxious moments in the second half.
The Cougars stretched a 17-point lead at halftime to 22 in the first six minutes of the second half, then watched Santa Clara put together a 12-0 run to get back in it and get its supporters on their feet.
Collinsworth finally made a pair of free throws with 10:54 remaining to end the Cougars' scoring drought, and a basket by Haws, a 3-pointer by Carlino and a basket by Josh Sharp off a set play righted the visitors.
The Cougars had another 24-point lead, 78-54, with 5:36 remaining, then watched Jared Brownridge and Brandon Clark get the Broncos within shouting distance with a barrage of 3-pointers. Browning finished with 30 points and Clark had 20, but the twosome combined to take 42 shots in Roquemore's absence.
"Roquemore is hard to replace," Rose said.
But the Cougars weren't about to give this one back against a team that won at Saint Mary's last week on a last-second shot by Brownridge.
"We are happy with the win," Haws said. "We will take the win. Obviously, there are things to improve on. … We will look at it on film and get better, but we are happy with the win."
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BYU 91, Santa Clara 81
Mika 5-11 0-0 10, Austin 1-1 0-1 2, Haws 5-8 6-6 16, Collinsworth 5-9 8-12 18, Halford 4-5 0-0 10, Carlino 5-9 2-5 15, Sharp 2-2 0-1 4, Winder 5-7 4-4 16, Bartley IV 0-0 0-0 0.
Totals 32-52 20-29 91.
Brown 2-3 4-5 8, Atanga 0-1 0-0 0, Clark 8-21 2-2 20, Richard 1-4 2-5 5, Brownridge 9-21 8-8 30, Johnson 2-5 0-0 5, Clarke 0-1 0-0 0, Papenfus 0-0 0-0 0, Garrett 3-3 0-0 6, Kratch 2-2 2-2 7.
Totals 27-61 18-22 81.
Halftime—BYU 47-30. 3-Point Goals—BYU 7-11 (Carlino 3-5, Halford 2-2, Winder 2-3, Haws 0-1), Santa Clara 9-25 (Brownridge 4-11, Clark 2-8, Johnson 1-1, Kratch 1-1, Richard 1-4). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—BYU 36 (Austin, Collinsworth 7), Santa Clara 27 (Atanga 6). Assists—BYU 22 (Carlino 9), Santa Clara 14 (Clark 7). Total Fouls—BYU 21, Santa Clara 26. A—2,560.


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I truly hope there are more of us than the moocher 1/2. I think you would be suprised at the number of people that do want to be on the dole. Again, I do hope I am wrong.
No one, not media, not government, asks this question because the answer would skew the results and destroy the Left's propaganda. The answer would also scare the hell out of every Progressive hoping to buy more votes by promising more free stuff.
As I've noted in the last few years, Lefties don't like to be scared, especially by TRUTH. Lefties FEAR BEING AFRAID.
What and/or who is the government counting as on the dole? All the folk they put on foodstamps and welfare? Or do they include entities such as Solyndra and the like?
What and/or who is the government counting to come up with their 49% on the dole? Are they massaging this number like do the inflation index? I bet they are.
GOP Vice Presidential nominee Paul Ryan delivered exceptionally strong remarks in Tampa tonight, capping off an incredible hour of nationally-televised speeches from Republican headliners. The construction and tone of Ryan's address was masterful. He was serious, earnest, likeable -- and he took apart President Obama's record with great skill and relish. The Congressman opened with a stark assessment of the dismal campaign President Obama has been forced to run, due to his failed record in office:
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By Nadine Cheung on July 26, 2013 3:55 PM
This week, The New York Times needs a customer care associate mobile community analyst, while TechMediaNetwork is seeking a social media specialist. NCAA is hiring an associate director of social media strategy, and the Chronicle of higher Education is on the hunt for a community manager. Get the scoop on these openings and more below, and find additional social media jobs on Mediabistro.
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We know KarmaloopTV likes to work provocatively, but Chester French's controversial side is unexpected compared to their typical Harvard finesse. Our entertainment whizzes know the value of NSFW footage, so it's only fitting that the release of "Black Girls" marks KTV's new site launch! Faster, leaner, meaner (that one's in reference to Vlad the Impaler)… really, the updates take our favorite online content to the next level. Not to mention, we've developed some serious personality pages to feature — you guessed it — some of the bigger personalities under the Karmaloop umbrella: Selkoe, Pharrell, Frank the Butcher, and Terry Kennedy. Boom!
"Black Girls," a single from Chester French's June release on Karmaloop Records, is the first collaborative project between the indie band and famed Italian photographer Francesco Carrozzini. Further evidencing KTV's increased foray into challenging music videos, "Black Girls" is a celebration of female beauty with a focus on same sex-interracial love.
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As of right now, no one in the National Hockey League has been able to beat the Chicago Blackhawks in regulation. The Blackhawks are 11-0-3, and are at least two games ahead of everyone else in the league.
Most recently, the 'Hawks defeated the San Jose Sharks 4-1. The Sharks looked as if they could have beaten the 'Hawks the first time these two played each other this season, but fell apart in the second half of the game.
This time, the Blackhawks wasted no time taking the Sharks down nice and early, scoring the first two goals of the game. San Jose's Tim Kennedy scored his first goal of the season to put San Jose back in the game and down by one, but Chicago's Andrew Shaw responded back later in the second period, giving them their two-goal lead again.
Chicago's Niklas Hjalmarsson put the nail in the coffin in the third period when he wound up for a slap shot and scored his first goal of the season.
With a second victory against San Jose and after what seemed to be a relatively easy victory for the 'Hawks it makes one wonder who will be able to give Chicago their first regulation loss of the year.
Some of the best teams from the Western Conference last year are some of the worst teams this year. The Los Angeles Kings and Phoenix Coyotes are both at the bottom of their division as well as near the bottom in the conference. The Stanley Cup winning Kings and Western Conference finalist Coyotes are only at a .500 record this season and both beat already by Chicago.
Then Chicago got their first shutout since 2011 against the second place Nashville Predators; a notoriously strong defensive based team with star goalie Pekka Rinne and defenseman Shea Weber but with scoring power still behind Martin Erat and Colin Wilson.
With a shortened season all regular season games will be played within their own conference and could be an advantage for Chicago. Beating all the best in the west it may be longer until they lose a game in regulation.
Their next three games will be against the struggling Los Angeles Kings, who most California people have unfortunately probably forgotten about; the Vancouver Canucks; who are always on top in the conference but have the worst luck against Chicago; and then San Jose again.
Chicago should win at least two of these games, but if I were to pick one upset here it will be in favor of the Vancouver Canucks. Goaltender Roberto Luongo has been playing really and Henrik Sedin is now Vancouver's all-time scoring leader.