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Lactose is a type of sugar found in milk and other dairy products. Lactose intolerance develops when the small intestine does not make enough of an enzyme called lactase. The body needs this enzyme to digest lactose.
Lactase deficiency; Milk intolerance; Disaccharidase deficiency; Dairy product intolerance
Babies' bodies make the lactase enzyme so they can digest milk, including breast milk.
Babies born too early (premature) sometimes have lactose intolerance. Children who were born at full term usually do not show signs of the problem until they are at least 3 years old.
Lactose intolerance is very common in adults. It is rarely dangerous. Around 30 million American adults have some degree of lactose intolerance by age 20.
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Symptoms often occur 30 minutes to 2 hours after having milk products. Large doses of milk products may cause worsesymptoms.
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Other intestinal problems, such as irritable bowel syndrome, may cause the same symptoms as lactose intolerance.
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Cutting down or removing milk products from your diet usually eases symptoms.
Most people with low lactase levels can drink 2 - 4 ounces of milk at one time (up to one-half cup) without having symptoms. Larger (more than 8 oz.) servings may cause problems for people with lactase deficiency.
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You can add lactase enzymes to regular milk, or take these enzymes in capsule or chewable tablet form.
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Read food labels. Lactose is also found in some non-milk products -- including some beers.
Symptoms usually go away after removing milk products and other lactose containing products from your diet. Infants or children may have slow growth or weight loss without a change in diet.
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There is no known way to prevent lactose intolerance. You can prevent symptoms by avoiding foods with lactose. Read food labels carefully. Lactose is also found in some non-milk products, including some beers.
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Lactose intolerance. The National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse (NDDIC). NIH Publication No. 09-2751. June 2009, updated April 12, 2012.
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- The ETSU men's soccer team is set to close out the regular season Tuesday at 7 p.m. as the Bucs head to Boone, N.C. to face Appalachian State.
The Bucs (12-5-0, 7-2-0 A-Sun) will look to bounce back after suffering a heartbreaking 2-1 overtime loss to the fourth ranked North Carolina Tar Heels last weekend. Junior
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En español | Judging from the news, women might be forgiven for wondering if every married man is cheating on his wife these days. Or at least every politician, movie star, CEO or athlete of any stature whatsoever. Whether it's Anthony Weiner, Eliot Spitzer, Ashton Kutcher, Tiger Woods, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mr. Sandra Bullock or that peripatetic governor from South Carolina, the spectacle of high-profile infidelity suggests that American husbands have lost their moral compass and cravenly adopted the motto: "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. In fact, it doesn't even have to happen in Vegas to stay in Vegas. As far as I'm concerned, nothing that happened anywhere ever really happened. Even if I get caught red-handed."
Everyone knows why men cheat. Well, everyone thinks they know. The theory runs like this: Men — not all of them, but quite a few — are pigs. They disingenuously identify themselves as hunters, as opposed to gatherers or certified public accountants or weenies, and thus deem themselves biologically incapable of remaining monogamous.
Once they have manufactured this self-serving, pseudo-scientific rationalization, additional justifications for infidelity are easy to devise. Their wives no longer love them. The sex fell off after the kids were born. The thrill is gone. When they are brutally honest, they might come clean and admit that they have met somebody younger. Or somebody better-looking. Or somebody richer. Or somebody younger, better-looking and richer. With whom the sex is awesome. Which brings us back to the original point, that a lot of men are pigs.
But most are not.
Statistical evidence suggests that cheating is nowhere near as rampant among ordinary men as it would appear to be among pols and jocks and thespians and high-octane suits and other libidinous creatures. According to the General Social Survey conducted by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago, no more than 22 percent of men have ever engaged in marital infidelity, and only one man in 20 is unfaithful to his wife on an annual basis.
So if a guy calls his wife to say he's working late, there's a 95 percent chance that he's chained to his desk, not stepping out with the nubile new hire in creative services. (Men are more likely to stray than women — or at least more likely to admit it — though the gender gap may be closing, the survey found: Nearly 15 percent of women say they have cheated.)
Our natural instinct is to believe that faithful men adore their wives, are blissfully happy in their relationships and would never dream of fooling around, because it would violate their personal moral code. You can build entire societies around mensches like this. These men are willing to work to make a marriage succeed. To them, marriage is not a trifle, not a lark. Following this logic, men who don't cheat are first-class human beings.
But are they? All of them? Really?
Over the years, I've met a few guys who cheat on their wives and an awful lot who don't. Or let's just say I think they don't. But is it possible that these husbands refrain from cheating not so much because they love their wives, and not even because they view cheating as immoral, but for other, less laudable reasons? Consider, if only for the sake of argument, the following explanations for why some men are faithful to their wives:
Many men are incredibly lazy
Men like to plop down on the couch and watch sports and drink beer. Romance, by contrast, is labor-intensive; you have to shower, shave, slap on some deodorant, put on something other than sweatpants, buy flowers, go to the movies, read a book every once in a while, think of compliments, engage in conversation. Cheating on your wife involves travel, dinner reservations, booking hotel rooms. Once a man has been married a few decades, the energy he would need to expend on an extramarital affair could be a life-threatening shock to his nervous system. It would be like asking the Sahara to suddenly erupt in foliage. That's why so many older men wouldn't even think of cheating on their wives. It's too exhausting.
Some men are startlingly ugly
Women swear up and down that looks are not nearly as important to them as they are to men, that a woman will not hesitate to marry an unattractive man if he has other compensatory qualities, such as a sense of humor or a highly developed intellect or a villa in Tuscany. I only believe the part about the villa in Tuscany. I personally cannot recall the last time I saw an attractive woman with a hideous man, and I keep my eyes peeled for this sort of thing. You might see a 10 with an 8, or an 8 with a 5, but you never see a 9 with a 2. And that's the reason ugly men do not cheat on their wives.
An ugly man is so happy that he found one woman willing to gaze at his baleful countenance for the next 40 years that there is no way he is going to risk everything by cheating on her.
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Almost a quarter of new HIV cases are seen in young people, and more than half of them don't know they're infected, says a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.
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"We can and must achieve a generation that is free from HIV and AIDS," wrote Dr. Kevin Fenton, director of the National Center for HIV/AIDS at the CDC. "It will take a concerted effort at all levels across our nation to empower all young people, especially young gay and bisexual youth, with the tools and resources they need to protect themselves from HIV infection."
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Sunday, March 07, 2004JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Mar. 7, 2004) - The East Tennessee State women's tennis team dropped their Saturday match up against UNC Charlotte 5-2 in Johnson City, Tenn. The Bucs record for the spring season is now 7-6. In doubles action, ETSU won two of the three matches to secure the point. Wins came from the pairs of Sylwia Ziolkowska (Warsaw, Poland) and Mariya Ilyina (Kyiv, Ukraine),and Gemma Halim (Jakarta, Indonesia) and Jessica Irey (Clewiston, Fla.). Ziolkowska and Ilyina defeated UNC Charlotte's Ofra Friedman and Kathy Robey in the No. 2 slot, 8-6. In the No. 3 doubles, Halim and Irey defeated Hatch and Clark 8-1. Courtney McInnis (Waterboro, Maine) and Jewel Aldea (Charleston, S.C.) played in the No. 1 position and battled in their 8-5 loss to Laura Swain and Ashley Murray. Head coach Steve Brooks stated, "We started the match well winning the doubles point. Courtney and Jewel are starting to come together the way I know they can." In singles play, Halim took away the only win for the Bucs in a 6-4, 6-1 decision against UNC Charlotte's Murray. "Going into singles, I knew it would be tough," commented Brooks. "Charlotte is quick, scrappy, and a good team. The winds blew in Charlotte's favor today and they were able to win five of the singles points. I have to say that today was pretty disappointing after the way we have been playing singles. We had our shots but just weren't able to make them." The Bucs continue play with a home match against Elon to open SoCon action. UNC Charlotte 5, ETSU 2 Doubles: 1. Laura Swain/Ashley Murray (UNCC) def. Courtney McInnis/Jewel Aldea (ETSU) def. 8-5 2. Sylwia Ziolkowska/Mariya Ilyina (ETSU) def. Ofra Friedman/Kathy Robey (UNCC) 8-6 3. Gemma Halim/Jessica Irey (ETSU) def. Jennifer Hatch/Marilyn Clark 8-1 Order of finish: 3, 2, 1 Singles: 1. Laura Swain (UNCC) def. Courtney McInnis (ETSU) 6-3, 6-1 2. Ofra Friedman (UNCC) def. Sylwia Ziolkowska (ETSU) 6-1, 6-3 3. Gemma Halim (ETSU) def. Ashley Murray (UNCC) 6-4, 6-1 4. Kathy Robey (UNCC) def. Jessica Irey (ETSU) 6-0, 6-1 5. Ali Picante (UNCC) def. Mariya Iiyina (ETSU) 3-6, 6-4, 10-6 6. Marilyn Clark (UNCC) def. Aimee Villavicencio (ETSU) 6-2, 6-0 Order of finish: 4, 6, 2, 1*, 3, 5 *Clinching Point
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Late Saturday night, I said on Twitter that I was surprised at my own reaction to Southwestern's march to a national tournament berth that day by upsetting No. 8-ranked Kirkwood.
I've been doing this work for 33 years now, but there I was, with a racing heart of anticipation as SWCC, with a 2-1 lead and needing just one more win, saw its lead in set four shrink from 24-20 to 24-23.
I wanted this story to play out, for the underdog team from our coverage area to do something that hadn't happened in 14 years, when Rita Schroeder was coach. Schroeder was in the stands Saturday to witness this. It was all too perfect to see it slip away, and if it went to a fifth set, I was worried the magic might wear off.
But, not on this night. From the moment they entered the Iowa Central gym for warmups, there was a look in the Spartans' eyes that this was all business. They refused to show any negative body language all day, despite the fact that the nationally ranked opponent had beaten them 3-1 earlier in the season.
These Southwestern players would have no part of being intimidated. They came in loose and smiling as they flailed away at practice shots. Perhaps that was a little unnerving to the heavily-favored Eagles.
For several weeks, coach Melissa Blessington seemed confident that her team was going to win this regional, despite the fact she was still in high school the last time it happened.
For one, she had seen her team continue to make progress during a 12-match winning streak. And, she had Janaya Fox as her ace card in the hole. Fox, highly-touted transfer from Northwest Missouri State, played only in the back row in the first meeting as she was just getting back into form.
Her daughter was born Aug. 22, and then it was a gradual process of becoming the dominant hitter at the net that Blessington knew she had when Fox committed to SWCC last spring.
All Fox did was go out and bang out 23 kills and become the MVP of the regional tournament. It was her attack that put the finishing touch on the clinching 25-23 win in that fourth set.
"As soon as Janaya touches the ball, I know it's going to be a kill," said teammate Mel Mangrum. "I'm already jumping up and down and running to the middle (to celebrate) in my head."
Blessington smiled at how that final point played out. She wouldn't have been thrilled at Kirkwood rallying to take that fourth set, and having momentum heading into a short 15-point set.
"It was so fitting that Janaya Fox scored the game-winning point for our team," Blessington said. "She was a workhorse for us and did a great job in the front row and the back row. It's nice to have somebody out there so confident in herself. She wants the ball. She's a fighter. She woke up with a cold today, but didn't let it affect her at all."
Mangrum was running to the middle of the court on the point because that was part of the well-rehearsed ritual. Every day at the end of practice, all season, they'd end with someone serving over the net for the pretend winning point at regionals, to make the national tournament. Then they'd all rush to a huddle in the middle and jump up and down in celebration.
To actually do it for real was a little surreal, said libero Molly Schimp, who had the match of her life with 54 digs in four sets.
"In my mind, nothing was going to hit the floor," she said, after an array of diving stabs to keep balls alive. The converted setter made the all-tournament team as a defensive specialist.
Schimp successfully made the move after Blessington signed freshman setter Cassidy Yong out of Bellevue, Neb., sister of SWCC defensive specialist Serena Yong.
Yong also had the match of her life, finishing with 51 setting assists in the heavyweight match of hard-hitting teams. Yong threw the Kirkwood offense off-balance, though, with several perfectly timed quick dumps into the Eagle court rather than setting it up for a teammate's attack. It was like she had eyes on the side of her head, as she softly directed those "kills" to openings, or made the Kirkwood defense desperately scramble to retrieve it.
"If they scramble and the setter isn't in the perfect spot, then it's hard to get the ball to their hitters in the perfect spot," Yong explained. "As the ball is coming over, I look out of the corner of my eye, and see if they are where they are supposed to be."
Anyone in town who is even thinking of being a setter in volleyball needs to come out to home matches next fall and see this girl operate. Like with Fox, Blessington over-extended SWCC's normal range of recruiting with this talent. Wednesday she was the only setter named to the all-conference first team.
But this was hardly a tale of two or three players. Every single Spartan was intense and focused during their time on the court Saturday, whether it was serving, blocking, digging up attacks or terminating the ball.
Mangrum seemed possessed. The leaping 5-7 middle hitter just took over at times, which had to frustrate the taller Eagle hitters. She had seven kills and four blocks, which aren't huge numbers, but each one seemed to come at a crucial time.
Last summer Mangrum couldn't even work out, slowed by removal of a small mass in her lung. It was a long, gradual healing process to restore normal breathing for athletics. Then, she battled an Achilles tendon problem at the start of the season.
You could tell Mangrum bought in to the idea that this was her last shot, and her team did indeed have a good chance to pull it off.
During the epic set one battle, both teams served for the win several times before Kirkwood pulled out a 33-31 victory. The last point came on a SWCC lift violation called against Mangrum.
"It was strictly business when I came in here," Mangrum said. "I knew that, even if I made a mistake, I would have to regroup and come back. I was really focused and determined."
Alex Duffy was a veteran leader on the floor with 10 kills, promising freshman Allyson Kocour had a team-high eight blocks and 10 kills, Ashley Strong was active with Schimp and Fox in the back row with 25 digs. Shelby Sullivan chipped in seven kills.
The list goes on and on. Even sophomore outside hitter Jenna Casey, sidelined with a stress fracture, led the brigade of cheerleaders from the bench.
And, as for support in the gym, Southwestern owned that. Softball coach Lindsay Stumpff had organized a bus trip of student fans. Cross country coaches Bill Huntington and Jake Waddingham brought their team over after running in the national meet earlier in the day north of Fort Dodge, at the site of the state cross country meet.
It all made for a fun atmosphere, which Kirkwood coach Jill Williams noticed.
"They were playing and having a lot of fun," Williams said afterward. "We allowed ourselves to get a little too tight and put too much pressure on ourselves. They made some great plays.
"It's good to see, if it's not us, it's a team that's excited and having a great time playing as a team," Williams added. "Now, they need to go out and represent our league, and make some noise out there. Don't just settle for getting there."
Last year, Kirkwood was upset in the first round at nationals and came all the way back to win the consolation bracket and finish ninth. Williams said being ready to go in the opening match could be a big factor in determining Southwestern's fate in Toledo.
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I'm still not convinced that the forum or server are secure after our Syrian friend messed things up.
For one, I don't think THIS is what should be coming up when you access the memberslist:
They want to get your email. If they can get that, and like most people, the email password is probably the same as the board password, then they are hoping they can find things like bank information.I got this too. Why would someone even want to get onto another's message board account? What's the potential benefit?
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Posted 18 July 2002 - 12:28
Just for interest's sake, here's a pic of that car (again)...
If you'd like to scan that pic, Richard, I'd be happy to post it.
Posted 18 July 2002 - 12:47
Originally posted by Vitesse2
That of course was the race where de Paolo's 4-wd Miller blew up so spectacularly ....
...and almost took out Adolf Hitler - despite the fact he was on the other side of the city at the time...
Posted 18 July 2002 - 12:50
I add for those possibly interested in the "P3 transmission" issue that Doug Nye gave TNF his own conclusions, but in another thread, some not everybody has noticed it ( I did only recently )
Down page 1 .
Posted 18 July 2002 - 12:50
Originally posted by Barry Lake
...and almost took out Adolf Hitler - despite the fact he was on the other side of the city at the time...
Never let the facts stand in the way of a good story Barry!!
I wondered who'd be the first to pick up on that.;)
Posted 18 July 2002 - 13:30
Originally posted by Vitesse2
Never let the facts stand in the way of a good story Barry!!;)
I know I don't like to hear that sentence...
And I think Barry would have got sick of it too?
Posted 18 July 2002 - 16:03
I would also think that the additional weight of 2 sets of ring and pinions rather than one would pretty much cancel out any benificial effect.
Although I agree IN GENERAL that lowering the seat by using 2 ring and pinions rather than 1 wouldn't have much effect, it would have SOME effect on the CG of the car, especially with the driver aboard.
Jano came up all the time with unusual designs to attempt to solve problems that appeared. The outboard petrol tanks on the Lancia D50...the Bugatti T251 GP car with it's "unusual" cross-tiebar (I don't really know what this oddball setup should be called) suspension...etc...
Posted 18 July 2002 - 16:12
This is effectively a copy of that rear end... but without what I believe was the beneficial component... contra-rotating driveshafts that cancel out the torque reaction of each other.
I still don't think the driver's seat height was reduced.
Posted 18 July 2002 - 17:20
Are you sure the driveshafts wern't contra-rotating on a Tipo B (P3)?
Looking at from the car from the rear, maybe the right shaft rotated anti-clockwise and the left shaft rotated clockwise (or vice-versa)..
Did the teeth of the crown gears face outward (toward the wheels) or inward (toward each other)?
Posted 18 July 2002 - 17:31
Someone sent me diagrams of the differential layout and they were set up to spin in the same direction... seems to me that it was one of the great missed opportunities of all time.
Posted 18 July 2002 - 22:13
Originally posted by Vitesse2
In the race, Stuck sped away in the wet, building up a 1 minute lead by the end of lap 1,
Is this right - after one five-minute lap?
Posted 18 July 2002 - 23:02
Fastest lap was set by Momberger in 5min12.0sec - I'd guess Stuck's opening lap was substantially longer than that!
Posted 19 July 2002 - 19:23
Sheldon gives Moll's race time over 15 laps as 1hr 26min 03 secs. This corresponds to an average lap time of 5min 44.2sec, so Stuck's opening lap can't have been very much slower.
Posted 20 July 2002 - 14:01
I'm sure that the swing axle set up was at least on the drawing board by 1934, and it works better anyway..
I also think that if Alfa had more money, the 12c 36s, 12c37s and 3 liter 312s would have been rather sucessful, and Jano would not have been booted out....but that is probibly a subject for another thread...
Posted 20 July 2002 - 21:47
I won't buy into the merits of the swing axle...
Posted 20 July 2002 - 22:16
Such a worthy subject too: the beautiful Tipo B ("P3").
I know from the first posting, that my point will be a little off-topic, but I am interested in the persistent rumour that lowering the seated height of the driver was either a) one of the objectives of the design or b) a fortuitous result (or not depending upon who you read!).
Last week at Goodwood I was studying the jewel-like 1927 straight-eight 1.5-litre Delage.
Now the driver sits very low in the Delage - much lower than in the Tipo B and although the Dealge's handling characteristics have been criticised, it does seem to have been a formidable achievement (especially as early as 1927) to arrange matters thus in a Grand Prix car (of course I am aware of how low Reid Railton's Rileys were at about the same time).
How was it done? no twin prop-shafts there!
Posted 20 July 2002 - 22:54
a. offset the driveshaft.
b. offset the driver... or both
c. lower the driveline by some means, including by putting reduction gears below the differential input shaft (look at a Halibrand quickchange some day).
d. give the driver a rougher ride... one way or the other!
That Delage hasn't been modified, has it?
Posted 21 July 2002 - 08:26
Originally posted by Ray Bell
Typical answers to this question were always along the lines:
a. offset the driveshaft.
b. offset the driver... or both
c. lower the driveline by some means, including by putting reduction gears below the differential input shaft (look at a Halibrand quickchange some day).
d. give the driver a rougher ride... one way or the other!
That Delage hasn't been modified, has it?
Thanks for the reply. The Delage looked very standard - and it was pouring with rain so too miserable to go crawling on the floor!
I have a period photograph of Earl Howe sitting in his own Delage and it can be seen just how amazingly low it was.
Posted 09 June 2005 - 10:46
Originally posted by Todd on 09-Dec-99 at 10:03
The twist of the differential is pressing on the left rear wheel under acceleration.
Posted 09 June 2005 - 11:34
That's the effect of the torque reaction between the pinion and crownwheel.
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Posted 10 June 2005 - 10:30
Or transverse engines.
Originally posted by Ray Bell
...which is a part of the case in favour of worm drive rear axles.
Posted 10 June 2005 - 10:44
Posted 10 June 2005 - 11:01
Which is another problem with worm drives.
Originally posted by Ray Bell
....animal clearance is totally negated...
Posted Yesterday, 10:16
in amongst my readings on these alfas a reason I've seen cited was traction on rough ground/hillclimbs.
While the side by side bimotore didn't do especially well at racing, it was noticed that it had better traction in hill climb events compared to a live axle. Supposedly it led to the development of fully independent suspension.
Apologies for bringing a dead thread back up. I have always liked the 2900B racers and the 1938 Mille Miglia car


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Debate: Video games are the drug of the century
Video games are constantly progressing towards characteristics similar to drugs. If we look at a huge point brought up in the speech mentioning how ancient "lydia" (i think) used video games to cause the people to ignore or forget about the necessities to life such as hunger. This effect is very similar to the effects of many drugs like acid which are used to dull sense of reality and enter an external world to forget the problems in reality. This is one of the many things that video games have in common within drugs.
So the debate is are video games being used for beneficial reasons like teaching values of never giving up on a mission and knowing the possibility of accomplishing important objectives. Or are video games like World of Warcraft offering an alternate world for a person to escape to and allows the creation of an avatar that reflects the person they wish to be and the existence in a world different from reality?
Please if you are arguing one side think of arguments that oppose your own point of view and offer them as well only because i would like to hear both sides and it will allow for a much better debate and allow for you to articulate your argument in more depth.
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Nov 29 2012: Why on earth has everything we do have to have 'beneficial reasons'? This is why any 'workaholic' still is socially more accepted than any 'gameaholic', even though a 'gameaholic' is only destructive to him- or herself.
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Isn't any scientist, writer, artist or whoever in 'flow' nothing but 'on a trip'? Doesn't all of them forget to 'eat' in this creative phase? And wouldn't our economy give literally 'anything' to find a way to get employees on a daily basis in this state of 'trance'? So what makes the one drug 'bad' and the other 'good'? Just the bucks earned rather than spend on them?
To me any destructive addiction should be avoided and help offered to those who are in it. But there are smooth transitions and double standards involved in this matter.
Diablo III put me on a diet for 7 days and I guarantee you, that the same time would have been more accepted in any religious fasting week. Why? Because the one cause was 'just' entertaining? Isn't 'entertainment' actuall nothing but the key to 'flow'? To me it is, and the use of the term 'drug' only comes into discussion, if 'entertainment' is used for 'entertainment' reasons only and in which no gain in GDP or high school grade was made.
To me the 'drug of the century' is the stock market in which 'gambler' can knock down whole and even real countries. Here I would start first with 'anti drug campaigns' to free people off their addiction to breed more profit... Yet this seems to be accepted somehow... why? ;o)
Nov 30 2012: Trust me I myself played WoW for a long time! I don't think all games are bad and entertainment is a bad thing. But just like the amount sedatives given before surgery it needs to be the right amount and to much sedative can result in a coma and to little could result in a really shitty surgery. Just like everything else in the world there needs to be a balance between too much and too little and there is nothing stopping people from throwing their lives away because of an addiction to a game. People don't know what too much gaming looks like and people need to be aware that video games are dangerous in excess....
Lejan .
Nov 30 2012: I absolutely agree with you and that's why I stated:
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'... any destructive addiction should be avoided and help offered to those who are in it.'
In addition to this I was trying to make the point that if it comes to this pathologic imbalance, we are more likely to damn a 'video gamer' than a well accepted and respected manager in 'workaholic' mode. Both are suffering the same imbalance, yet a video game becomes a 'drug' and a career trip becomes a role-model. To me this is a double-standard and should be seen as such.
As you rightly state, that there is '... nothing stopping people from throwing their lives away because of an addiction to a game', so there is also 'nothing stopping speculators and hedge-fond manager from throwing whole economies into 'melt down' of an addiction to profit maximisation'
Both is pathological but only the video gamer is seen to be 'on drugs', whereas the gamer is the only one who is damaging just himself and nobody else.
This contradiction in perception of addictive behaviour is what I wanted to underline here, and it was not my intention to advocate any 'pro addictive gaming'.Nov 28 2012: I will concede that video games are similar to a knife. What can be used to feed a family can also be used to take a life. Video games give far more than they take however in many ways video games are a drug albeit a drug of a therapeutic nature. Video games have been utilized in multiple fields due and have shown signs of effective growth in so many ways. Video games have led to the loss of life on a small scale, but I would challenge the masses to supply something that has or cannot kill in excess. By our very nature when we give in to our temptations with no discipline we are enticing death.
Dec 6 2012: I just unwittingly echoed your main point :) Glad to hear someone taking a rational stance on games (and tools in general)
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Nov 28 2012: "Video games are the drug of the century"
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Video games are the literature of younger generations. Many years ago people used to think movies were dangerous too, it's amazing how every generation replicates the something-new-that-I-don't-understand-is-ruining-today's-youth trope.
I hope I never become become like that when I'm old, but perhaps it's inevitable.
Lejan .
Nov 30 2012: Video games are no literature, they are games and like movies it is their quality and quantity only which makes them 'dangerous' to young people.
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Obesity is not caused by fast food and soft-drinks alone. It is caused by its excessive consumption. That's a difference!
Even the classic 'bookworm', those who used to read paper printed literature back in the old days, exercised excessive and unhealthy behaviour. The reason why only classmates and no parents blamed them, was the fact, that they did not became noticeable stupid by it.
My personal experience with the 'digital generation' is, that many of them are lacking long term focus and concentration abilities on 'slow moving subjects' and self-thinking processes.
In a time in which the term 'cult' is earned for something within a timeframe of a single year, in which technologies change like seasons, nobody has to fear to become 'like that' as we all were at that point already the day before yesterday and evolved from there anew again.
Restrictions are no revenge of the old on the new generations. And those who managed to operate an Atari VCS console will have no problems to 'understand' the principles of todays Wii or PS3.
My parents let me play for hours in a row, because I also played foodball and had other outdoor and indoor activities as well. Restrictions were only made if my tendency became to excessive in either field and rightly so. It didn't harm me and spread the range of my skills.
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Dec 10 2012: I think video games do both! I had cancer at 17 and spend many years being very sick and video games made a big difference in how I spent that time. Are drugs really that bad, many humans suffer and have lives filled with pain and if a game or a drug can help those people live than it's ok with me. The real problems is the way we live in general. How any human being can walk past another human being in need and do nothing is beyond me. It's clear to me they we are still wild animals at heart.
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I lost my voice for three years and now I can talk but it can be hard to be understood. Most of my friends have drifted away because it was just too hard to maintain the relationship since I could not talk and be understood and i was kind of angry. A few years after I got my voice back I started playing online games, now some people give me a hard time about my voice and freak out when I start talking (jerks) but others have no problems with my voice and have become my friends. I have spent years playing with and talking with these gamers and they have helped me use my new voice and helped me learn to socialize again.
I can't wait for another generation of gaming.Nov 28 2012: "This effect is very similar to the effects of many drugs like acid which are used to dull sense of reality and enter an external world to forget the problems in reality. This is one of the many things that video games have in common within drugs."
acid does not dull your sense of reality nor cause you enter an external world. at least what i think you are meaning by external world. acid can make you fixate on your problems... but really, it can help you work through them, which is why they used to use it in psych offices before it was deemed illegal...
take some acid and report back.
i can see the occasional extreme case of a person taking video games as escapism too far, though. it is uncommon for it to be taken that far but it does happen. i think there's nothing wrong with occasional escapism as long as it doesn't get out of hand and you don't start ignoring real life. if you don't escape once in a while, you lose perspective on the situation. it's all in moderation. i just do not think comparing this kind of thing to a drug like LSD is very accurate.
Nov 28 2012: I see your point of view but as a person who played video games excessively and have also encountered drugs i personally see the similarities of video games and drugs to be numerous. I am not saying you are entering "an external world" I know i said that but that was a poor choice of words. According to http://www.drugfreeworld.org/drugfacts/drugs/why-do-people-take-drugs.html people use drugs to experiment, fit in, escape, relieve boredom, to rebel, and to seem grown up. I would say that this is why majority of people play video games: to escape, fit in, relieve boredom. Personally i agree with the benefits of video games but realistically how many people are playing video games to build those characteristics. People arent intentionally using them for their benefits they are using them to enter an alternate world that allows them to create an "avatar". If we look at modern games like halo where it allows for the creation of a person to reflect you within the game and also allows for you to enter alternate worlds and make decisions in that world. People have the potential to benefit from video games just like beneficial painkillers after surgery but there is nothing restricting people from abusing the use of video games and the abuse of video games just like the abuse of painkillers has drastic consequences.
Nov 30 2012: considering the source you linked to me, i have absolutely no reply to you. it says enough by itself.Dec 9 2012: I believe that you are incorrect. Halo allows for a character customization for online purposes only and the only decisions you make in that game is who you are going to "kill". the game is based of a story and you are essentially "playing" the story. But if you want to look at RPG's (which I believe you should have mentioned) then yes you have to make decisions but its very different. RPG games such as Skyrim or World of Warcraft are video games that want you involved in the game. A game is nothing without a story and creators want people to become more involved in the game which is why it is an RPG. Also, in my opinion video games nothing like drugs. drugs and video games may have you "hooked" but the side effects are completely different. Unless your going to go 3 days without eating or sleeping video games are much more safer than drugs. And i'm pretty sure if you and your friends grab a bunch of guns and start playing real life modern warfare opposed to the video game version then there is a problem. Video games allow the imagination of killing something without actually killing it. In a way it relieves stress. Weather it be from playing a racing game to an RPG game to a FPS game. It is much safer than the real thing.Dec 12 2012: I would categorize video games as addicting, however I would not categorize them as a Drug. A drug is a chemical used for medicinal or recreational purposes that either alter your perception or treat an illness and/or symptoms of an illness. Video games are not ingested, nor do they introduce anything foreign to the body. Categorizing video games as a drug would be a major blow to those who enjoy it both heavily and in small doses. I personally believe that people should be able to do what they want provided they are not hurting anyone around them. Playing video games is not unlike taking antidepressants except that it's harder to quit physically addicting drugs. I would feel horrible if a gamer who games specifically to self medicate was viewed as negative, especially if that same person were to take over the counter drugs or prescription drugs and not viewed as negative.
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Dec 12 2012: Sorry, but I have to debate this issue. The "drug of the century" is the IPOD/IPAD. They really are a great technology, but people, please!!! There is a place and time to use them! Certainly NOT when you're driving or walking!!! People walk into me all the time at the mall, at school, and grocery! They are OBLIVIOUS to what's going on around them!!!
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It's not all IPOD/IPAD Users I'm talking about. I refer to people who use them use them as their LONE means of communication and who are OBLIVIOUS in this way.
So, I nominate the IPOD/IPADDec 11 2012: let the War on Video Games commence!Dec 11 2012: I think we need to move the gaming platform into a more in depth, mentally challenging area than the point and shoot type deal.Dec 10 2012: If you can't change the kid, change the game. Here's a scenario that might work. Build a first person shooter game whose advancement and achievement requires not a body count but rather a count of hostages saved. Now, I'm just a silly old man cackling over his computer and watching western civilization tear itself apart just as it did in the dying days of fuedalism when mankind was able to change from the landlord/peasant economy to a money economy. Design games in which the reason for the conflict is part of the gaming format. By the time these kids grow up they will have an understanding of their tool which far surpasses any in our own time.Dec 10 2012: Drugs are usually used by individuals to alter their sense or perception of reality.
Reality being their own world.
Everyone has a lot of stress in their lives and a lot, a helluva lot, of fear.
I think the number one selling medicine in the U.S. is for anti-anxiety.
At least I know this was true about seven or eight years ago. It may have changed.
I watched very successful, apparently well-rounded mature people, who worked hard, made more than a living and ate anti-anxiety pills for sustenance.
Twiddling the thumbs was one of the first forms of denial that I recall, to wile away the monotony of daily life.
That's what life is. It is insanely monotonous, boring and prone to driving one insane.
So we humans have developed all sorts of things to get us out of it or to somehow just simply deny it to ourselves.
Next, at least for the more modern age, came smoking. A great way, and a drug, to stop thinking and focus on puffing every time one had a thought that bothered them.
The walkman, with headphones gave people another way to tune out.
As we refined and upgraded the walkman, we came up with the cell phone so that one could always and almost immediately have access to another voice that wasn't their own thinking.
It has now progressed to smart phones, with pads that allow one to flip their fingers or thumbs up and down, sideways, searching, always searching for something to take them out of themselves and their thinking.
It looks an awful lot like the twiddling of thumbs from my childhood days of poverty.
Just about everything else today is a way to (quote Roger Waters), amuse ourselves to death.
The death is mental, emotional, psychic and spiritual.
We even call them "tools" and they are, but they are very addictive tools.
Now what is dangerous is not that they are addictive, but that the general population, worldwide, now carries the predisposition to addiction, and addiction usually leads to insanity or death.Dec 10 2012: Roommates been watching Breaking Bad.Dec 10 2012: Prescription pills are the drug of the century. Anna Karenina was a prescription drug addict, drugs are drugs. Unless you talk'n a world view then there is something to be said about the herb khat but for the most part herbs are herbs and drugs are drugs.
Theirs a lot to be said about drugs: compounding facilities are coming under fire, I think legislature is slowly going to come online to help the elderly and infirm get access to drugs, just yesterday I heard on France 24 that the French are sick of Asian made generic drugs. Then theirs that black market aspect of select drugs like the dust from the coca plant that fuels cartels in Mexico, or the tears of the poppy propping up Afghan warlords and clans. Also their may be other sorts of drug culture starting up for an example watch the Rave episode of Spaced but I wouldn't know about all that.
No video games are not the new drug maybe you had an addiction to video games you may have had an addiction to video poker or off track betting but none of those are going to anesthetize some one before surgery although they'll help train to people to fly planes before they do it.Dec 6 2012: Drugs are tools -- just like iPhones, nuclear bombs, and binoculars. Choosing to use them in a way that grinds against other people's values is what makes them generally "good" or "bad"... not the tools themselves.
What makes drugs powerful and scary is how addicting they are. But if that was the only meaningful characteristic of a drug, I could just as easily demonize Facebook or the Stock Market -- and the addiction-forming power of those tools. LSD can profoundly expand your realm of experience... but it's taboo because the negative side-effects make it less-desirable than other ways of doing so. The issue isn't as simple as "Is it a drug? And is that bad?"
Games are incredible at making people feel good, and therefore lend themselves to addiction. Even as a game designer/enthusiast/optimist, I will openly admit that they have that in common with drugs. But games also possess other incredibly powerful characteristics (many of which other comments and TED talks have touched on). It's entirely up to us to cultivate an industry and a world culture that use that power for good. If you're too pessimistic to trust humanity with that responsibility, then I can't imagine how terrified you are (or should be) given the prevalence of drugs, weapons, money, religion, science, education, politics, and other equally potent tools in the world today.
Profoundly powerful tools don't simply go away (example: nuclear weapons) -- which is why it's better to be assertive and find positive uses for them, rather than sit around debating on whether we should have invented them at all.
If you don't like the direction games are headed in, dream a better one and make it reality.Dec 3 2012: Are games becoming like a drug? Misowned/misused gaming experiences possibly. But it's mostly within addictive personalities where that danger really exists.
Properly owned and properly used game experiences are actually teaching really strong ideas. For example, it's teaching you that asking others for help (finding experienced players to act as game guides for example) or collaborating with others (guilds) is not only a good thing, sometimes it's necessary. Now, you could always do things like asking for help or collaborating with others in reality, but within a game it's easier to do because you know that in the overarching narrative you're all working toward essentially the same end.
And since you're asking whether or not the games themselves could be considered an escape from reality, sometimes yes they are. But is that the important question? No. The important question is actually why is it that some people feel the need to escape. Is it a sense of powerlessness? Is it a sense that the only place that their decisions and actions actually matter are in fantasy settings? Is it loneliness because they might be outcast? Depression? A feeling of loss of control even regarding one's own life? The answer is yes. Maybe not all of these, maybe even some that I couldn't even get to listing. The fact is, and this is coming from a gamer, it gives our minds something that reality might not be giving. And again, how that in-game experience is used and owned is what is actually important. It's not the why that is important. If you stick to the why, the question of whether or not something is a drug can actually be applied to anything from literature to religion to work - provided the right argumentative build up can be applied.Nov 28 2012: Good job Christopher. Let's also consider some of the Ted talks showing benefits of some video games. Maybe it is simplistic, but hopefully the best well be encouraged where possible. We know it won't always happen.


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Hey guys just wanted see who is all going to do one piece cosplay at San Japan this year! ^_^
With that epic river walk there is great one piece pics to be had lol
I will be going as Empress Boa Hancock ( marineford battle version)
My friends will be going as Enies lobby Robin and Alabasta Nami.
We might have a Zoro with us and also a Alabasta Vivi but they are still up in the air.
Any whoo give a shout out if your are going to be one of the One Piece crew this year! And maybe we could even get everyone together for a awesome photo shoot one of the days... ....... To be continued


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I found this recipe several years ago and from the very first time I made it - everyone that has tasted it has been hooked. I love it because it's so each to make (no pie crust to mess with). It has replaced regular pumpkin pie at our family Thanksgiving dinners since I introduced it. (For easier storage - I don't use paper on the bottom, just a little oil. Also - I don't turn it upside down so the crust is on the bottom - I cut it and turn each piece as it goes on the plate, that way the "crust" part stays crispy instead of soggy.)
I did not like this at all. the top was kinda flat tasting. and the crust was to salty. i followed the recipe .but used pecans instead of walnuts.maybe that was why. would not make again.
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I have made this 3 times and each time it has come out perfect. I used Splenda instead of sugar, low fat condensed milk, and egg substitute. I have used a spice cake, caramel cake and yellow cake. I have tried just 1/2 the cake mix and used the other half for muffins because the first time I used all of it some of the mix was still powdery. You have to make sure most of the mix gets wet. Each time I made it everyone loved it. I am going to take it for our TG feast along with traditional pumpkin pie but I prefer this pie cake. Thanks for the great recipe!
This was easy to make and pretty good, although in my opinion it could be improved. Next time, I would use 3/4 cup butter and drizzle it over the cake mix so that it is evenly covered and I would increase the spices, as it was a little bland.
This was THE hit of my friend's wedding shower, everyone asked for the recipe. And so easy!
Good Flavor, great idea but way too much butter. I will make this again but use at least half of the butter.
Excellent! I will definitely make this again. I may use extra large eggs, or 4 instead of 3.
I am a very big fan of anything pumpkin and I must say that this is now at the top of the list! It's good cold or warm! Note: I added a 1/2 tsp of allspice to this recipe. I've tried different nut toppings the last few times making it and my favorite is the "Nut topping" that is a crushed mixture of nuts found in most grocery stores.
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SFTV was ranked 9th nationwide and praised for its documentary and animation programs. The school also drew attention for enabling students to develop contacts within the industry.
LMU "is all about the internships," said The Hollywood Reporter. "One-third of its students regularly find them, and they've worked in 400 companies, including Sony Pictures Entertainment, 20th Century Fox, DreamWorks, Disney and the Sundance Institute."
The Princeton Review's guide to "The Best 378 Colleges" rated the William H. Hannon Library among the 20 best in the country, and called LMU "a fun, beautiful, Jesuit institution, with a top-tier teaching staff."
LMU also placed in the top 20 for quality of life and happiest students. The 2014 edition of The Princeton Review's annual college guide does not rank the colleges in academics, but features just 15 percent of the 2,500 four-year schools in the country. The guide's "top 20" ranking lists are based on student surveys.
The Forbes guide to America's Top Colleges placed LMU 28th in the West and 149th overall, up 51 slots from last year. The ranking notes the impressive rise in respect for schools in the West, which was reflected in LMU's gain.
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NEW YORK (AP) - Actress Halle Berry and musician Chaka Khan will be honored at the 2013 BET Honors.
The network announced Thursday that basketball star Lisa Leslie, music executive Clarence Avant and religious leader T.D. Jakes will also be celebrated at the Jan. 12 event in Washing