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Old critics never die, they just retire to Cloudy Lees
Dec. 18, 2039 – It's a pleasant day here at the Cloudy Lees Home for Retired Wine Writers, or, as one of my less reverent pals (Jim Gordon, actually) dubs it, The Last Bastion of the Over the Hill Gang.
As far as senior citizen communities go, it's not bad. We have morning swirling sessions to keep our wrists limber, and every Thursday afternoon there's a distance-spitting contest that Wilfred Wong always wins, damn him. Then, at night, we gather around the electric heater to reminisce. Dan Berger tends to tell the same story every time, about when he tasted 2,000 Merlots in a single afternoon at the Riverside International Wine Competition, but then, he's the oldest, so we cut him some slack.
Karen MacNeil just waddled by and said to say "Hi" to you all. She's still her well-tailored self, although the red hair is now snowy white. She cackles more than she used to, although nobody knows quite why. We celebrated her 80th birthday the other day with a cake the kitchen made in the image of The Wine Bible. It was, needless to say, very rich and heavy.
Of course, not everybody is in good shape. You can't expect that at this age! Poor Jim Laube, we almost never see him, except when Helen Turley drops by. Then Jim emerges from his penthouse suite—the most expensive in the place—on his walker, accompanied by Jancis Robinson. She's a little dotty, and under the impression people still read the Purple Pages. But she's awfully perky in that candy striper's outfit. I never did find out how Jim and Jancis hooked up. Memo to self: Ask Jo Diaz. She knows everything.
One of my favorite times is when the volunteers visit to amuse us. Joe Roberts comes on Sunday afternoons (that is, if he's not on some junket) for his weekly Wine Quiz. Now that he's become a mime, he'll describe a wine non-verbally, like in charades, and we're supposed to guess what it is. He's hysterical with words like "bubbly" and "tart" but really outdid himself with a Naked Chardonnay.
Then there's Eric Asimov. Sadly, since his stroke, he thinks he's Mimi Sheraton. He writes a daily column in our newsletter on the dining room. For example, yesterday he said the scrambled eggs "lacked clarity," although he did like the cream of wheat for its "balanced hedonism." Don't get him started on the chicken a la king.
Every retirement community has a curmudgeon, of course, and you just know that here, it's Paul Gregutt. He's always muttering under his breath, scowling and fuming like Clint Eastwood about to shoot someone, but underneath all that, Paul's a teddy bear. He leads us on our Wednesday night singalongs, playing old rock standards on the guitar. And if you ever need a doobie, Paul's room is #203. (I didn't tell you that!)
Jordan Mackay moved in last week. I think he's the youngest resident. It's nice to have new blood in the hood. All the old ladies lust after Jordan. It's a little unseemly, if you ask me, to see Meredith May asking him every 5 minutes if he'd like "a little something from the pantry," which I take to be a metaphor. But I have to admit, Jordan's a cutie, even with the lobotomy scar.
Our Dean, if you will, is Pierce Carson. He's been here since longer than anyone can remember. They say at first he was his usual funny self, cracking wry jokes and pinching the nurses' tushes. But lately, he's been kind of quiet. Every morning, the attendants wheel him over by the fern in the rec room, where he stays pretty much alone except for Gary Vaynerchuk, who replays episodes of "Wine Library T.V." all day, which nobody else wants to watch.
The classiest retired critic in Cloudy Lees is Roger Voss. With his tweed sport jacket and elbow patches, not to mention that British accent, he's our own royalty. Roger likes to preside over the Port service, where he insists the decanter be passed counter-clockwise, and gets quite cross if it's not. He almost came to blows once with Matt Kramer. Matt, who unfortunately has bladder problems, said the counter-clockwise thing was "a myth" and tried to pass the Port clockwise. It was tense for a while, but Ron Washam told a few jokes and the next thing you know, everyone fell asleep, so all ended well.
Seeing the funny side of wine reviewing
It's been nearly 4 years since I posted this gag video on my blog. I remember some of my friends telling me, "You can't do that!" They thought it was demeaning for a professional wine critic to poke fun of himself and of the whole system of wine reviewing. However, I thought then, and still do, that we shouldn't take much of anything in this world too seriously. If you can't see the lighter side of things, then you're wearing blinders.
The truth is, if I didn't take wine tasting as seriously as I do, I couldn't have made this video. Every time I issue a score, I completely understand it's impacting somebody's life. If it's a good score, the winemaker will be happy and use it to sell cases. If it's a bad score, it can hurt the winemaker economically. That's the main reason to take the job seriously.
Another is because people read my reviews and believe them. I have therefore a responsibility to the public for my reviews to be as honest, accurate and transparent as they can be. There's a bond of trust between a wine critic and his or her readers–a bond that must never be disrespected or violated.
I'm sure I could list other reasons for taking my job seriously, but the rationale of this post is to point out the lighthearted side of what I do. Wine reviewing is probably the easiest thing in the whole world to make fun of. It's pretentious (or so the criticism says). It's snobby. It uses elitist words to baffle people and make them feel stupid. It's fundamentally anti-democratic in that it divides the world into a few "experts" and a lot of ignoramuses. And worst of all, say the critics, wine criticism is fundamentally flawed. It takes what is essentially one person's opinion and elevates it, in an irrational and fundamentally dishonest way, above everyone else's opinions, so that it achieves the quasi-religious status of revealed truth.
From a certain point of view, all of these critiques have some validity. Especially in a nation like America, where we like to believe that we're all equal (whether it's true or not), wine criticism can come across as the worst form of royalist baloney. And for someone like me, who sincerely believes in the first sentence of the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence, it is a little odd to find myself in the position of being "an authority." It has never sat well with me and has always made me uneasy, but I've consoled myself with the thought (or maybe it's a rationalization) that my self-doubt justifies the whole thing, or at least helps me keep things in perspective. I always liked Harry S. Truman, who on many occasions said that the only way he could think of himself as President without going off on some massive ego trip was to remember that he'd been a failed haberdasher. It was a constant reminder that he was no one special, just a guy with a job to do, who took that job seriously.
All this is by way of explaining why I made the video. (Actually, I should tell you that I made the video at the height of the Gary Vaynerchuk craze, and this was plainly satirical given his over the top video mannerisms.) There is a tendency in this country for people to elevate wine critics, especially the more famous ones, to godlike status, as if they can make no mistakes, as if everything they say came straight from the source. That is dangerous, and it seems to me that these same wine critics do little or nothing to dissuade people from lionizing them. I do believe that my wine reviews are authoritative, if for no other reason than that I've gotten good at this over the years. I do take reviewing very seriously. I take it humbly, too. But that doesn't mean I can't see the silly side.
Heimoff buys Hugh Johnson's English cottage
Yes, it's true. I've admired Hugh Johnson's country shack for years, ever since he invited me to stay there while attending Prince Andrew's and Fergie's wedding, back in 1986. Hugh and I go way back, to when we joint published Vintage: The Story of Wine. So when he decided to put Saling Hall up for sale, for the ridiculously giveaway price of only 2.8 million pounds sterling, I couldn't say no.
For the time being, I'll divide my time between my Oakland home,
my villa on Mustique,
and my Paris Pied-a-terre, which I bought in the 1980s with my first profits from wine writing.
I think I still own a condo in Abu Dahbi
but it's been so long since I stayed there, I can't remember. [Memo to self: check on status of Abu Dahbi condo.]
I never dreamed wine writing could be so rewarding when I first started. To tell you the truth, I didn't set out to be rich. No, I started writing about wine because I loved (a) wine and (b) writing, so I decided to put the two together. I didn't care at all about making money as long as I could pursue my dream career.
It's funny, though, how sometimes, you get things you're not even looking for! Here I am, all these years later, with homes all over the world, luxury cars,
and Hollywood starlets throwing themselves at me.
Little did I dream of all this wealth and happiness, but there you are. No wonder so many of these young bloggers want to succeed as a wine writer, the way I have. They yearn for the life I lead!
Once I move into Saling Hall I'm going to have to make it feel like my place, not Hugh's. I was thinking of buying this little hat from Queen Elizabeth
and wearing it when I'm home. When I was over in London for Kate and Will's nuptials, Liz told me I could have it for a mere 10.5 million pounds. (I think she and Phillip are a little short on cash following that expensive wedding.) I don't have that much in my checking account, but I'll just sell off a few of my older bottles of Romanée-Conti and Lafite to the Chinese. Which reminds me: I seem to recall buying this house in Beijing
with the royalties from my first wine book. Did I really, or am I just dreaming? [Memo to self: Look into Chinese real estate holdings.]
Screaming Eagle sold, & Top 5 wines of the week
Yesterday's surprise announcement that KFC Corp., the parent company of Kentucky Fried Chicken, has purchased Screaming Eagle Winery sent shock waves up and down Napa Valley.
Already nervous due to the recession, the valley's cult wineries were caught off guard by the move, which had been in hush-hush planning for weeks, according to insiders who did not wish to be identified, because they were not authorized to speak to the press.
The purchase price was not announced, but is likely to have been in the mid-nine figures, one insider said, making it the most expensive winery deal in U.S. history. As part of the deal, Screaming Eagle will produce a second wine, Frying Eagle, that will be sold in KFC franchises nationally and, eventually, overseas. Those in the know say also that the Colonel's iconic face will be incorporated into Screaming Eagle's label.
The sale of Screaming Eagle should not have been a complete surprise, however. Many of Napa's top wineries have been quietly seeking buyers, due to sluggish sales because formerly wealthy collectors are no longer seeking out expensive wines. There have been persistent rumors that TEPCO, the Tokyo Electric Power Co., was in secret talks with Harlan Estate, but those negotiations hit a snag following the devastating March 11 Japanese earthquake and tsunami that wrecked TEPCO's Fukushima nuclear power plant.
Business Week recently reported on a possible merger between Colgin Cellars and Sears, while Aflac, the big insurance compay, is said to be interested in Scarecrow.
Personally [this is Steve speaking], I wouldn't be surprised to see even minor cult wines, such as [deleted] and [deleted], brought under corporate control, which might not be a bad thing, when you think about it, as I have. If most of the cult wines were owned by a corporation, they'd have a monopoly, and they could then raise their prices, so the cult wines would be even more expensive than they are now. Then all wineries would benefit because of the proven economic theory known as trickle-down. So I'm in favor of the corporate takeover of cult wineries.
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Top 5 wines of the week
100 points. Chateau Lactic 2008 Chardonnay (Russian River Valley); $37. I gave this wine 100 points! My first perfect Chardonnay ever! An extraordinarily rich, opulent Chardonnay, brimming with luscious flavors of buttered toast, buttered popcorn, buttercream, vanilla, caramel, butterscotch and melted butter. It was fermented and aged in 100% new, high-char French oak for 2-1/2 years. So balanced and rich, its finish lasts literally for more than an hour. 30 cases, 15.7%.
98 points. Bronwyn 2008 "Parallelogram" Red Wine (Paso Robles); $75. Made from an unusual blend of Syrah, Petit Verdot, Tannat, Xinomavro (a rare Greek variety), Tempranillo, Tinta Cao and Gewurztraminer, this unoaked wine has flavors that are difficult to describe, even with a dictionary. I opened my Webster's at random to the word "leishmaniasis," which sounds right. 256 cases, 15.2%.
97 points. Mishuga Family 2007 "MazelTov!" (Oakville); $475. Made from 99% Cabernet Sauvignon by a superstar winemaker who cannot be identified because s/he is under contract to a cult winery whose owner hates Melvin Meshuga (apparently they've both been married to the same woman, oops, I shouldn't have said that! Too late, I just hit the "send" button) and would fire the superstar winemaker if he found out that he/she was working for Meshuga. The other 1% in the blend is Xinomavro (a rare Greek variety). 2 cases, 15.7%. Kudos also to Meshuga's 2009 "Bris" Pinot Noir.
95 points. Feral Cat 2009 Xinomavro (Livermore Valley); $35. Xinomavro is a rare Greek grape variety. According to Wikipedia, "Various writers have compared Xinomavro to Bordeaux, Burgundy, Barolo, etc." Therefore, it must be quite good! I was unable to taste this wine in a blind tasting of other Xinomavros, since this is the only one in California, so I tasted it, blind, in a flight of Pinot Grigios, and you know what? It was, well, not the best, but certainly it stood out as unique. So I said to myself, "I give this wine 95 points!" And, for the price, it's a pretty good value. Drink it with, uh, anything you darned well want! It's a free country.
94 points. Blue Ox non-vintage Merlot (California); $4/300L. Imagine a "wine in a box" on steroids! The equivalent of a full barrel of Merlot, it works out to about 11 cents a bottle. True, it's not a very good wine, in and of itself, although if you like the smell of sweaty armpits, it's for you! But the price is recession-proof. The box measures approximately 5 feet high x 3-1/2 feet wide and is quite heavy (400 pounds), so you'll need to get some help from the guys and find a dolly and pickup truck to get it home. The little spigot that comes out from the Ox's nose is really cute.
Ask The Wine Critic
Dear Mr. Critic:
Recently my boyfriend bought me a cheap bottle of wine for my birthday. I was very insulted, but I didn't want to confront him because I love him and he's good to me. How should I let him know he hurt my feeings?
Hurting in Pittsburg
Dear HIP,
Hurt him back. Hit him on the head with the bottle, then throw it in the garbage and tell him, in no uncertain terms, that it's Screaming Eagle or no more nookie.
Dear Steve:
My roommate and I are having a little argument. I say Petrus is better than Cheval Blanc. He says the opposite. This is really destroying our relationship. We agreed to abide by your decision. So, wise one, which is better?
Roommates in Minneapolis
Dear RIM:
How long have you two been married? Because in every relationship, both sides have to give a little to get a little. Put aside this little squabble, get yourselves a bottle of gin, and watch E!'s latest on Lindsay Lohan.
Dear Most Esteemed Steve Critic:
What can you tell me about the taste of soil in wine?
Dear Most Esteemed Rajeev:
Not good. Try filtering the wine through cheesecloth. Good luck.
Hi Steve,
I'm one of those people that gets hopelessly confused in the wine aisle of the supermarket. I just don't know what to buy! And the clerks are no help whatsoever! They are, like, totally clueless! I'll be, like, standing there, looking all confused, and one of them will walk past me and I'll say, like, "Can you help me? I'm having chicken tonight and–" but then usually he'll, like, shrug his shoulders and tell me he doesn't really work in the wine aisle, he's just walking through to dairy. And I'll ask if there's somebody who does work in the wine aisle but by that time the guy is already gone, and so now I'm not only confused, I'm, like, angry too. I guess what I'm asking for is your expert advice on how to deal with my confusion and anger in the wine aisle.
Seriously in need of help in Los Angeles
Hi SINOHILA
Approximately 30 minutes before visiting the wine aisle, take two 5-mg. tablets of Diazepam (Valium), followed by a 5-mg. tablet of Vicodin. Wash them down with 3 shots of whiskey. You will feel much more relaxed, and, when you collapse in the wine aisle, I'm sure the clerks will be there for you.
Dear Bigshot Important Mr. Stupid Critic,
So this isnt a question, it's a statemint. Why should anybody care about your stupid opinon anyhow? You should do something useful like being a plummer or fixing cars.
A Natural American Leader
Dear ANAL,
Actually you did ask a question. The construction "Why should anybody care about your stupid opinon anyhow?" is an interrogatory, followed by a question mark, so your initial assertion that you were not asking a question is clearly false, which raises questions about your credibility, if not your sanity. As for my advice, try Googling "remedial reading and spelling" and look for results near your mental institution.
Mr. Wine Critic,
Why should I believe anything you say?
Doubting Thomas
Dear DT,
Because I'm an expert!
Dear Steve,
Why did the winemaker cross the road?
Curious in Duluth
Dear CID,
I'm a wine critic, not Einstein. How the heck should I know?
Dear Critic:
What do you think of shelf talkers?
Wine Store Owner Thinking of Using Them
Dear WSOTOUT,
In general, I'm not in favor of talking shelves. Or any other talking inanimate objects. There's enough talking in this world just coming from humans who think they have something to say.
Dear Steve,
I want to be a famous wine critic, be really rich, live in a mansion, have lots of babes and drive a Porsche. Any advice?
Wannabe Critic
Dear W.C.,
Sure! It's easy as pie. Here's what you do.
1. Rob Fort Knox and don't get caught.
2. Sell the gold for cash.
3. Deposit $10 million in my Swiss bank account.
4. Then I will teach you how to become a wine critic! But you're on your own with the babes.
Kids! If you have a question, just Ask The Wine Critic!
New charity for ailing wine critics launches
I can with pleasure announce that wine lovers can toast to the future health of their favorite wine critics this coming week at restaurants around the country, including Salud! in New York, Boulevard in San Francisco and Bouchon, in Napa Valley.
The event, which will be simulcast in all participating restaurants, will be produced by some of the leading Master Sommeliers and Masters of Wine in America. All proceeds will help to pay wine critics' medical and psychological bills.
Patterned after a similar event to assist mixologists, the "Help Our Sick Critics" event reflects the increasing concern on the part of critics and those who love them about the many injuries wine reviewers sustain in the performance of their often back-breaking and stressful work.
"Wine critics have extremely difficult jobs," explains Linda F. Mochaletto, a professor of sensory analysis at the University of Ontario. Various forms of repetitive stress injury involving wrists, fingers, elbows and shoulders often arise after a critic has spent years opening thousands of wine bottles. "We're even seeing stress injuries of the thumb and forefinger in the case of twist-off screwtops," Mochaletto says.
Chiropractors report increasing cases of severe back injury by critics who have to pick up heavy cases of wine. Other frequent causes of injury are skin cuts, sometimes severe, resulting from broken wine glasses or box cutters used to break down cardboard boxes for recycling. Doctors also report toe fractures caused by dropping said boxes on feet. There have even been reports of cancer caused by carcinogens found in the extruded styrofoam many wine bottles are packaged in.
Dr. Stanley F. Molar, a Philadelphia dentist, says that repeated tasting of wine can cause major damage to teeth, enamel and gums, a major problem since most wine critics are independent contractors who do not possess dental insurance. "I know of wine critics who ended up in the emergency room after extensive tasting of high-acid German wines," he noted. Reports of tongue discoloration are not uncommon. One female wine critic was said to have tried to lighten her purple tongue by soaking it in hair dye, which caused internal injuries.
It's not only physical injuries that can take their toll on wine critics. The psychological stress can be high. "I've had several nervous breakdowns in the performance of my job," notes Steve Heimoff, a well-known Bay Area wine critic. "When I have to give low scores to winemakers I like, it causes me major angst. And don't think it's a picnic having to go to all those fancy-shmancy dinners, with their constant schmoozing. Sometimes all I want to do is chill at home over a nice beer and watch The History Channel. But, no, there's another to-do in San Francisco. It's very stressful."
The events this coming week are expected to raise millions of dollars, which will be deposited into a bank. Ailing wine critics can apply for charitable medical awards by applying through this blog. The most miserable stories will receive top consideration.

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Ginger Ale is good.
It depends on your school system. Some schools do have specialists who can test for it, but.. schools don't always identify dyslexia if it is not specifically tied to phonics problems. Some schools don't really offer much help even if a child *is* identified. I recommend looking for an optholomologist who is specialized in learning disabilities. My granddaughter was not identified by the school learning disability specialist because she is very bright and could read, but the eye doctor found out that her eyes were not working together.
She did vision therapy all last year (exercises that used to be done without computers, but which now involve a computer program and special glasses) and she is now actually reading for pleasure at her grade level or above (she's in advanced 6th grade classes so they do 7th and 8th grade reading work).
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Ginger Ale is good.
You really need an evaluation for an IEP. 504 plans are not enough, unless only accommodations will be needed. IF he has a learning disability, he will need help and the legal protections of an IEP.
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I have found no issues with my SA Champ alum frame and using the SA mags.
This is a discussion on An important heads up about an issue with Al framed 1911s and certain mags... within the Defensive Carry Guns forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; McCormick and Kimber mags, they may be one in the same for all I know, use a split metal follower. I presume these mags will ...
McCormick and Kimber mags, they may be one in the same for all I know, use a split metal follower. I presume these mags will do the same to any AL framed 1911 regardless of the manufacturer of the 1911.
The design of these followers allows the sharp, steel lower edge of the follower to protrude slightly beyond the magazine body. Guess what happens? It contacts the aluminum mag well.
A steel gun will be less affected by this than aluminum of course, but the McCormick and Kimber style mags, and there may be others can, do, and will scar the inside of the frame near the top of the mag well.
There's a couple of solutions, one replace both the spring and follower with a Wilson spring and follower. The Wilson follower is plastic and hence won't scratch the aluminum. That's what I've done.
Second, don't buy McCormick mags for Al framed guns unless you intend to replace the spring and follower with a Wilson plastic follower. You do need to get Wilson's mag spring to go with the follower.
I have a SA mag which has a steel follower but it has a 'skirt' that extends below the upper edge of the magazine body so one would think it would not be a problem. However, it does still have some steel corners/edges that could contact the inside of the mag well and I'm just not willing to chance it.
I've replaced all my followers in all my mags with Wilson plastic (actually polymer is more accurate) followers and springs.
I'm too young to be this old!
Getting old isn't good for you!
I have found no issues with my SA Champ alum frame and using the SA mags.
"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." Thomas Jefferson
Nemo Me Impune Lacesset
BTW, does your SA mags have the skirt on the follower?
I'm too young to be this old!
Getting old isn't good for you!
Looking at one now , it does not have a skirt. It is a typical split front follower. The follower doesn't seem to be able to move forward(possibly due to strong spring tension). However I did pick up some cheap mags that do tend to tip forward. I have seems a few marks from those mags, however I never saw follower marks till I tried the cheap mags. Another issue I find with the cheap mags is weak springs/ failure to lock back on the last round.
My SA mags work flawlessly. I still think you are safer not using split follower mags unless you wish to do relief cut on the forward magwell area of you gun.
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Hmmm, rocky, now that you mentioned relief cut, it makes me wonder if the followers would form their own relief cut? They don't just keep going out further, and once the 'cut' is there, there shouldn't be any more damage and what's done shouldn't affect longevity, durability, or reliability??? At least that's something to think about. I mean a relief cut is a relief cut????
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Interesting. I have maybe 1500 rounds through my Ultra Raptor II, and I don't see any wear inside the mag well. If it were a long term quality control issue, I think Kimber would've addressed the followers.....can't be too much difference in cost.
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Just to be sure, you have to remove the slide to see any wear. The wear is where the top of the mag is in contact with the mag well. I could not see any damage from the bottom of the mag well.
Theres a sticky about this on the 1911/kimber forum. And, there may be some difference since the Ultra Raptor II has a shorter grip - kinda doubt that would matter, but maybe.
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The 1911 really does not use very much of the frame feed ramp during the feed cycle.
If you pop the slide off and insert a loaded magazine into the mag well and then push the top cartridge in the magazine forward until it just contacts the feed ramp you can see that it does not use much frame ramp at all.
Some bullet nose configurations will contact the frame feed ramp lower (and so utilize more ramp) than some others but they all should hopefully miss that scarification during the feed.
There is one fantastic option available if your frame feed ramp has been butchered up even if it was goofed up from inept gunsmithing.
At one time it was a "popular" gunsmith modification to Dremel "blend" the frame feed ramp into a smooth transition with the barrel ramp to supposedly improve feeding.
That turned out to be a real no-no that actually made things worse.
There is a steel "ramp insert block" that perfectly matches the original Colt ramp specs - it can be purchased and a custom gunsmith/machinist can precision mill the steel insert into the frame.
The frame is milled out and a perfect new steel ramp is installed in the frame to replace the damaged original integral ramp.
I don't know if that would be considered to be a "bell" or a "whistle"
It's an EGW hardened steel Part - Available at Brownell's
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Price:$40.95 - $40.99 Status:In Stock Made In The U.S.A.
Converts Alloy Frame Pistols To Accept Hollow Point Ammo; Repairs A Damaged Ramp
Machined, hardened steel insert lets you convert alloy frame pistols to use hollow point ammunition without feeding problems or damage to frame. Also the perfect solution for repairing a frame that's been battered by hollow points or boogered up by an incorrectly cut ramp.
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My SA has a one piece barrel ramp that seems to feed anything I have tried yet, even the wide opening hydrashocks .
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I've had good success with the Kimpro mags and will probably use the Tripp rebuild kits on some of my other brand mags-Colt, SA and CM.
QKShooter's post got me to thinking about this a little more. Here's a pic; notice the "scarification" (good description) just below the feed ramp.
closeup of Pro Carry frame scratch from mag by ron.0000, on Flickr
A couple of points here:
- This was done in 200 rounds
- It looks a bit worse to the eye, esp. magified eye than the pic indicates, but it's really as QKShooter termed it scarification.
- the lip of the follower can only contact this part of the frame when there is only one round left in the mag.
- I could not display the pic in the sticky that addressed this, but I got the impression is was much worse than what we see in this pic
- Looking at this with the mag in the gun, both empty and with one round in the mag, I 'think' what's happening is when that last round is stripped from the mag, the lower front lip of the follower is driven into the frame.
- The same thing would happen in a steel frame, but the steel wouldn't be affected as much.
- Of course this can't happen with a Wilson mag follower for two reasons: one, it's a polymer follower and two, it has a skirt on it that would keep it from moving forward.
- I really now wonder just how much of a problem this actually is. Some scaring/scratching on the inside of the frame would not appear to be an issue. Although, I suppose if it got too bad, it could interfere with feeding the last round????
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They don't damage the magwell, they damage the feed ramp. This is only an issue in non-ramped barrels (think Colt). The above mentioned Champion is not affected due to it having a ramped barrel.
This is what Kimber means when it mentions a 200 round break-in period. Gotta have scarification to function...
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Welcome to the second session of MirrorFootball's Europa League live blog where you can follow all the action from tonight's games featuring a pair of Premier League clubs who you might usually expect to see dining at Europe's top table.
Chelsea suffered the humiliation of being the first Champions League holders to be eliminated from the competition's group stage the following season. And, with the appointment of public enemy No. 1 Rafa Benitez, things have gone from bad to worse for Blues fans.
Nonetheless, the optimistic Spanish waiter still believes he can convince the disgruntled supporters that he can lead 'the cloob' forward...as long as the team continue winning. With Chelsea welcoming Sparta Prague with a one-goal advantage tonight, victory is expected - even if a change in the fans' attitude is not.
Meanwhile, Brendan Rodgers' developing Liverpool side face a far more difficult prospect of overturning a two goal deficit against Zenit St Petersburg at Anfield. Rodgers is hoping his buck-toothed 'warrior' will be able to convert at least half the chances he spurned in the opening leg, despite him refusing to take a rest at the weekend.
Should Liverpool progress against the odds they are likely to face Basle (who hold a 2-0 advantage over Dinipro) in the next round while Chelsea will take on either Ajax or Steaua Bucharest.
Team News
Chelsea: Cech, Azpilicueta, Terry, Cahill, Bertrand, Ramires Mikel, Moses, Mata, Torres, Oscar. Subs: Turnbull, Cole, Luiz Ferreira, Hazard, Marin, Benayoun.
Sparta Prague: Vaclik, Zapotocny, Holek, Svejdik, Hybs Prikryl, Vacha, Krejci, Matejovsky, Lafata, Kadlec. Subs: Cech Pamic, Kweuke, Vidlicka, Polom, Bednar, Janos.
Referee: Aleksandar Stavrev (FYR Macedonia)
Rafa has made five changes to the team that won 1-0 in the first leg - but everyone's favourite pantomime villain John Terry returns to captain the side.
There is no place for Branislav Ivanovic or Frank Lampard - who is getting dangerously close to the club's all-time scoring that would heap embarrassment on owner Roman Abramovich and his refusal to offer the veteran a new deal. Conspiracy theory anyone?
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And both games have kicked off!
Will Liverpool pull off another of their great European comebacks?
And, can Rafa coax a cheer out of Chelsea's faithful?
Answers to follow...
Suarez has squandered his first chance at Anfield - apparently, Liverpool have had more shots than any other team in Europe this season and most of them have been hit by the Uruguayan who must have a lower conversion rate than even Emile Heskey in a red shirt.
For Suarez in red, read Torres in blue. The misfiring waste of £50m connects well after Moses manages to part the Sparta defence but his shot swerves agonisingly wide of the post - cue painful expressions from both Torres - who has come to be labelled El Burro instead of El Nino by some - and the fans.
Torres chalks up glaring miss No. 2 after meeting a beautiful cross from Mata with his now traditionally heavy touch, which sees the ball finish on the roof of the net. Could be, yet another, one of those nights for a striker who last played to his potential over two years' ago.
GOAL! Chelsea 0-1 Sparta Prague
Sparta have levelled the tie with their first goal in England in nine years as Rafa's so-called home curse (aka my own fans hate me) continues. It comes completely against the run of play as Lafata slides in the ball from a break on the left.
GOAL! Liverpool 0-1 Zenit
Meanwhile, things are even worse for Brendan Rodger's Reds after Hulk nets another INCREDIBLE strike whilst making Carragher look PUNY and SMASHING Liverpool's hopes of staging a comeback!
GOAL! Liverpool 1-1 Zenit
It's game on in Merseyside after Suarez separates the wall with a thunderous free-kick that levels the score on the night. The Anfield roar rises up around the stadium - could it be another one of those nights (not the type that Torres has)?
The referee in the Chelsea game appears to have broken a fingernail, which has required treatment in the form of a plaster being applied - the Chelsea pensioners watching on must be wondering what the world is coming to.
Mata almost restores Chelsea's lead with some acrobatic keepy uppy in the box after being sent through by Ramires but his final effort is smartly saved by the Sparta keeper.
Meanwhile Steaua Bucharest have scored against Ajax to make in 1-2 on aggregate - the winners of that game will play the winners of this one.
GOAL! Liverpool 2-1 Zenit
Oh, it's on. It is so on! Joe Allen chooses a timely moment to open his Liverpool account after some neat work from Enrique always him to snatch a second home from close range. IT could be Istanbul all over again....
Torres completes his perfect hat-trick - left foot, right foot and header...of misses. This was probably the easiest one of the lot as he throws himself at at the ball in the box but his header sails over the bar.


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John Morganelli Claims Resume Is Strongest In Seeking Democratic AG NodJohn Morganelli is perhaps the least-known of the Democrats running for state attorney general, but he says his resume is the strongest.
Shapiro Wins Wolf's Endorsement In Attorney General's RaceGov. Tom Wolf is backing Montgomery County's Josh Shapiro to be Pennsylvania's next attorney general.
Attorney General Kathleen Kane Declines To Run For A Second TermThe first woman and first Democrat elected Attorney General of Pennsylvania says this term is her last.
Suburban Philadelphian Takes On Kane, Zappala In Attorney General's RaceMeet Josh Shapiro, another Democrat who says it's time for Attorney General Kathleen Kane to go.
DA Zappala Running For Pennsylvania Attorney GeneralAllegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala Jr. is expected to seek the Democratic nomination for state Attorney General Kathleen Kane's job.
Zappala To Seek Democratic Nod For Attorney GeneralAllegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala Jr. says he is seeking the Democratic nomination for attorney general.
Attorney General Kane Charged With 2nd Perjury CountAnother perjury charge has been filed against Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane.
EXCLUSIVE: Kane Asserts Innocence & Intention To Fight BackIn her first sit-down television interview this year, Attorney General Kathleen Kane took some direct questions from KDKA political editor Jon Delano.
Pennsylvania Attorney General Blasts Gov. Wolf Death Penalty StandPennsylvania's attorney general says Gov. Tom Wolf's death penalty moratorium is blatantly unconstitutional and wants the state Supreme Court to clear the way for the state's first execution since 1999.
Airline Operation Manager Working On 9/11 Charged With Traveling To Pittsburgh For Sex With Woman & GirlAn American Airlines operations manager involved in the response to the 9/11 hijackings has been arrested near Pittsburgh on charges he arranged sex with a woman and a 10-year-old girl and sent sexually explicit messages.
Criminal Probe Of AG Kane May Expand To Include Staff FiringA criminal investigation of Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane may expand to include the firing of a staff prosecutor following his grand jury testimony.
Gov. Wolf, AG Ask Court To Enforce UPMC, Highmark Consent DecreeGov. Tom Wolf and the state attorney general want the Commonwealth Court to force the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and rival Highmark Inc. to honor a consent decree and force the sparring medical giants into arbitration to settle lingering disputes.


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oo so realistic!!!
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How to statically install just GitHub's font into Firefox without enabling font downloading from web?
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December 24 when her working visa ran out, her brother, Jose
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Her plans were cut short when on Thursday her car hit a tree
on Malaghans Rd on her way to work, leaving her family back
home in Argentina shattered.
Carolina was the youngest of seven children and from a strong
Catholic background, and a special service to remember
Carolina was led at Arrowtown's Catholic Church yesterday by
Alexandra priest Fr Pat Mcgettigan.
A loving friend, happy, peaceful and always wearing a smile
was how her older brother described his sister.
"Everyone loves Carolina. She was happy, always with a smile,
friendly. She was not just a sister, but a friend.
"Carolina loves Queenstown, she loves New Zealand, because it
was different here."
Her mother, Magdalena, father Jose and brother Jose jun flew
in to Queenstown on Monday. While Carolina enjoyed living in
her home country, Argentina, she also felt at home in
Queenstown, her mother said.
She graduated from a Catholic University as a lawyer before
coming to New Zealand,The family were notified of the
accident through a cousin last week and got confirmation from
the New Zealand police over the phone.
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example.com), a WordPress blog (which will live at
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blog.example.com to
www.example.com when I hit this in a web browser.
I know the install of WordPress isn't the problem, because when all three server entries are in one nginx file, everything works fine. I have also tried creating a separate folder structure for the blog (
blogs-available and
blogs-enabled) then including those folders in the
nginx.conf before the
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Does anyone have any suggestions for how to get this to work? Perhaps my DNS settings are incorrect.
Does nginx care about the load order or is it ambiguous? If it's the latter, then I'll keep everything in one server block and either have them all up or all down.
nginx.conf for
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server {
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server_name blog.example.com;
root /www/blog.example.com/public_html/current;
access_log /www/blog.example.com/logs/access.log;
error_log /www/blog.example.com/logs/error.log;
location / {
index index.html index.htm index.php;
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php;
location ~ \.php$ {
include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /www/blog.example.com/public_html/current/$fastcgi_script_name;
if ($uri !~ "^/images/") {
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php-fastcgi/php-fastcgi.socket;
fastcgi_index index.php;
location ~* \.(js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|ico)$ {
expires max;
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server {
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server_name example.com;
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On a hunch, I commented out the following in my
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server {
listen <ip-address>:80;
server_name example.com;
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What Does It Mean To Be A 'Child Of The State'?
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Part 3 of the TED Radio Hour episode Growing Up.
About Lemn Sissay's TED Talk
Poet Lemn Sissay was raised by the state. He talks about the empty space where his family should have been.
About Lemn Sissay
Lemn Sissay is the author of a series of poetry collections. His poems can be found at London's major landmarks, from the site of the 2012 Summer Olympics to The Royal Festival Hall.
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Chilled Peach Soup With Riesling
Total Time
Prep 20 mins
Cook 30 mins
Refreshing during hot weather. Overripe peaches may be used.
Ingredients Nutrition
- 2 (750 ml) bottles riesling wine
- 8 whole cloves
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 2 bay leaves
- 1⁄4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
- 12 peaches, peeled and stoned
- 1 orange, sliced
- 1 lemon, sliced
- 1 1⁄2 cups heavy cream
- 1⁄4 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
- In a large saucepan, combine the Riesling, cloves, cinnamon stick, bay leaves, and brown sugar.
- Bring to a boil. Add the peaches, reduce heat and let simmer for 20 minutes.
- Add the orange and lemon slices. Continue cooking for 5 minutes.
- Remove the cloves, cinnamon stick, bay leaves, orange and lemon slices from the soup.
- Puree the soup in a blender or food processor (in small batches). Strain.
- Chill in the refrigerator.
- When the soup is chilled, add the cream and lemon juice.
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Although I did cut the recipe in half for just the 2 of us, I followed the ingredient list, but did dice the peaches, & then DIDN'T strain the soup but left it as blended (Rustic, I call it!) & that worked for us! I do love fruit soups, & your recipe is certainly a keeper! Thanks for posting it! [Tagged & made in Please Review My Recipe]


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Forum Meeting
Savings and credit group practitioners and those interested in savings services had a chance to take part in a forum meeting in Johannesburg on 29 May 2012 highlighting the potential of the S&C movement. Recent research by FinMark Trust and SaveAct which investigated the relationship between membership of S&C groups and the development of rural enterprises was presented. Click here for more information.
Arusha Savings Group Summit - 4 - 6 October
SaveAct executive director Anton Krone and Programme Co-ordinator for the Eastern Cape Leap project Nolufefe Nonjeke-Dlanjwa were the only two South Africans among 265 delegates from 46 countries at the Arusha Savings Group Summit held in Tanzania in early October 2011.
According to one of the organisers, the summit marked the first time that savings group practitioners from Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe were able to meet, share knowledge, discuss a range of viewpoints, learn about research initiatives currently underway and explore the many ways savings groups are being used as a platform for development throughout the world.
The summit was sponsored and organised by Oxfam America and the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire along with The SEEP Network and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in partnership with The MasterCard Foundation and Financial Sector Deepening Trust Tanzania. A host committee made up of the Aga Khan Foundation, CARE, Catholic Relief Services (CRS), Financial Sector Deepening Trust Kenya, Freedom from Hunger, Plan, Savings Revolution, Trickle Up, VSL Associates, World Relief, and World Vision provided support in the development of the summit agenda.
For more information on the summit, visit http://www.arushasavingsgroupssummit.org/.
Strategic review: June 2011
SaveAct staff and trustees attended a strategic review meeting facilitated by Warren Bank in late June.
The group agreed that SaveAct's savings model is working very effectively. This is now established. The emphasis will now be on developing the economic aspects. Enterprise development, through Isiqalo and its related elements, was identified as particularly relevant in the South Africa context at this time of extreme unemployment. The notion of a 'step-up model', where savings group members accumulate capital, financial literacy, confidence, assets, and the capacity to engage in risk-taking enterprise activity is where SaveAct will give attention over the coming period. A graphic depiction of this model is available here.
Course 2011: Community-based Savings and Credit
A course hosted jointly by SaveAct and VSL Associates Ltd. on community-based savings and credit at the end of February 2011 attracted 22 participants from Afghanistan, the United States of America and several countries in Africa, including Zambia, Tanzania, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Burundi, Mozambique and South Africa.
Held in Pietermaritzburg, the five-day course exposed participants to best practice in the field of savings-based community-managed microfinance and was led by leading practitioners Gabrielle Athmer of VSL and Nolufefe Nonjeke-Dlanjwa of SaveAct (Eastern Cape).
Download the course flyer here [PDF 190KB].
Training: towards more effective management of projects and people
A specially designed management information system which tracks performance of savings groups was introduced to SaveAct staff in August 2010.
Training in the new system was conducted by Gabrielle Athmer (pictured left) of VSL & Associates and is expected to make a significant contribution towards the effective management of projects and the supervision of SaveAct field officers and Save-Act suppored Village Promoters. Athmer has wide experience of voluntary savings and lending schemes and their management, gained from work in several countries in Africa.
The new system allows SaveAct to track its work in financial services and life skills training according to a variety of ratios and indicators.
The specialised training was made possible with financial assistance from the Ford Foundation, Misereor and Vesper Society.
SaveAct staff members, from left, Fisani Zondi (field officer, KZN), Nolufefe Nonjeke-Dlanjwa (Eastern Cape coordinator) and Sibongile Nzuza (senior field officer, KZN) engage during training with the new management information system.
Sharing research and experience
SaveAct hosted a Savings-Led Development Actors' Workshop in Durban from 15 to 17 July 2009.
The gathering was aimed at non-governmental organisations working with models of savings and credit in and around Pietermaritzburg. The objective was to explore interest among the organisations in developing a joint research agenda, as well as the exchange of experiences and joint policy and advocacy work.
The meeting was attended by five NGOs, donors and three research specialists.
The workshop produced a clearly defined agenda for future co-operation between organisations.
Participants at the Savings-led Develoment Actors' Workshop - "Collaborative Research, Learning and Advocacy: a dialogue among practitioners and partenrs to explore its value and potential," held in Pietermaritzburg from 15 to 17 July 2009.
Planning for the future
SaveAct held a strategic review and development process meeting in March 2010. The process was evaluated by Stelios Comninos and facilitated by Warren Banks.
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Be Kind Rewind
|PG-13 (for some sexual references)
|Release Date:
|February 22, 2008
|Running time:
|101 minutes
|Jack Black, Danny Glover, Dante 'Mos Def' Smith, Mia Farrow, Melonie Diaz
|Michel Gondry
|Georges Bermann
|Michel Gondry
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Symbian 3 and 4 Progress
Development is moving forward on Symbian, a mobile phone operating system that is largely under free licensing. Version 3 should show all its planned features by the first quarter of 2010.
As developer Victor Palau writes in the Symbian blog, 30 of the 43 new features are already in the code. Among the functions that have been missing in Symbian and will be part of the next version are some desktops. Up to now Symbian mobile phones had rudimentary home screens and then only with the option to display bookmarks for applications. Things have moved along from there. HD videos and song recognition familiar to iPhone apps were added. Hardware accelerated graphics are also noticeable in the camera function. CalDAV support and integration of Qt 4.6.1 in the Symbian 3 SDK are further features.
Developers also addressed the double-click function found in many touchscreen menus that works inconsistently in some mobile phones by introducing the Single Tap solution.
Qt for Symbian is available under LGPL in the repositories of the Symbian Foundation. The Symbian Product Development Kit (PDK) named S3 PDK3.0 already has Qt. While Symbian 3 is approaching completion, Symbian 4 is already in the works. Symbian provides an overview of the future version in their features list.
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Skip to comments.Made in His Image: Balancing Body Temperature (all these complexities must work together!)
Posted on 04/09/2009 7:08:00 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
Made in His Image: Balancing Body Temperature
by Randy J. Guliuzza, P.E., M.D.*
A major achievement for design engineers is building precise control mechanisms for active processes. Lives depend on the precision in which certain processes are maintained, such as the manufacture of drugs.
Even more vital to survival is the human body's complex, integrated system that maintains precise control over the body's temperature even when it generates tremendous quantities of internal heat through strenuous activity or is exposed to wide-ranging external temperatures...
(Excerpt) Read more at icr.org ...
Good article...Ping!
Yeah, it's called not wearing jeans and a heavy black T-shirt when riding your bike, going into a small, well air-conditioned space and subsequently blacking out from heat exhaustion.
I'm a much smarter rider now.
Mark 14: 32They went to a place called Gethsemane, and Jesus said to his disciples, "Sit here while I pray." 33He took Peter, James and John along with him, and he began to be deeply distressed and troubled. 34"My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death," he said to them. "Stay here and keep watch."
35Going a little farther, he fell to the ground and prayed that if possible the hour might pass from him. 36"Abba,[e] Father," he said, "everything is possible for you. Take this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will."
37Then he returned to his disciples and found them sleeping. "Simon," he said to Peter, "are you asleep? Could you not keep watch for one hour? 38Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the body is weak."
39Once more he went away and prayed the same thing. 40When he came back, he again found them sleeping, because their eyes were heavy. They did not know what to say to him.
41Returning the third time, he said to them, "Are you still sleeping and resting? Enough! The hour has come. Look, the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. 42Rise! Let us go! Here comes my betrayer!
It wasn't the heat that got you; you failed to consume enough sea salt. You're lucky to be alive.
I could have died at the age of 17? That's around 6 years ago.
There was the one day I fell off a stage and knocked myself out, probably negating a mastoidectomy; another time some kid knocked me out freshman year of high school.
For somebody that's never broken a bone, I've put some pretty bad trauma on my brain, which is the worst.
Thanks for the ping!
Sounds like you live dangerously!
Seriously, the electrolyte imbalance from not getting enough salt can stop your heart just as effectively as a lack of C0-Q10 can.
No, He just wasn't just not hydrated enough. He failed to drink enough fluids, and probably was dehydrated before he even started out.
Everyone has enough salt in their system, they don't need more just because they sweat. In fact most people these days have far too much salt in their system which is what causes them to retain to much fluids, have high blood pressure, bloating, and other nasty stuff.
We all need a small amount of salt in our system, but too much is also a deadly poison. We get more than we need from the food we eat, and no amount of sweating requires us to take more.
There was a time when the army thought we needed a salt tablet to help us retain water. But that was proven false ages ago.
If dehydrated people needed salt, why do you think people lost at sea die when they drink sea water?
No, I don't live dangerously. My body just has a knack for failing at inconvenient times. Like blacking out after drinking a beer, and one and a half glasses of sangria while eating Spanish food. It certainly was not the alcohol that did that; I'm guessing the sugar. I chewed the crystals when drinking it.
I would guess I should consume some amount of Gatorade daily. Or maybe something with a good electrolyte count, without the sugar.
Did you take classes for this stuff?
Oh for cryin' out loud.
Electrolyte imbalance ???
He probably has 100 times as much salt stored up in his body fat than he needs.
What's your glucose level? if you are blacking out, it isn't from "sugar in beer or alcohol, because there is none.
There are no carbohydrates in beer or alcohol, there are empty calories, yes. but NOT carbs.
You may have very very low glucose levles in your blood, ehich would cause you to black out even after drinking a half a beer. That's because your body needs glucose to break down the alcohol. If you are hypo hypoglycemic, (Low sugar) you will pass out, and could even go into a coma!
No, the bartender put sugar in the sangria I was drinking.
Unfortunately it will probably be a few months until I can afford a blood test.
An endocrinologist said I was pretty close to a coma after looking at the results of a blood test, which showed TSH and T3 or T4 at the complete opposite levels of what are considered normal.
Many people think that diabetics shouldn't have alcohol because it has "sugar". That's not true. Diabetics shouldn't have alcohol because it causes them (me) to "crash". A crash is when your blood sugar levels drop dangerously low.
A hypoglycemic, ( a sort of reverse diabetic, someone who has to constantly eat carbs) goes into a diabetic coma when their blood sugar drops below 4.0 mol. The same thing can happen to a diabetic who takes too much insulin.
Normally, a persons pancreas produces enough insulin to regulate he amount of glucose in your blood. If your diet doesn't include enough carbs, then your body will produce glucose by burning fat surrounding your liver and intestines. That isn't a healthy thing to do however. it causes your body to store even more fat in that area if you regularly deprive your body of carbs.
I'd like to see the face of those on "low-carb" diets upon learning that information.
I don't have hypoglycemia or diabetes. I have hypothyroid and primary hyperparathyroid disease. My body is pretty off, but thankfully no insulin pen for me. Mostly just constant fatigue as well as brain fog sometimes.
What? That's ridiculous. Find a diabetic and ask him/her to test your glucose. Or, just spend 50 bucks and buy a glucose monitor. If he said you were close to a coma, that means your sugar was dangerously low. 4 mol and under (3 mol is pass out time for most) When your sugar levels are that low all the time, your body starts producing glucose from your liver, which is a really bad thing. That's what causes fat to build up in your abdomen around your liver and intestines.
Hypoglycemia is a low blood glucose state caused by insulin levels persisting at elevated levels. No human has the ability to convert fatty acids into glucose. The liver does convert fatty acids into ketones when insufficient glucose is available from the gut.
No bro, there are no carbs in beer, just calories. big difference.
The remaining cells, like the brain, need glucose, which is produced from glycogen stores.
If you don't have glycogen stores because you're low carbing, the glucose is made from amino acids using Gluconeogenesis instead.
it causes your body to store even more fat in that area if you regularly deprive your body of carbs.
Um, where did you get that idea from ?
I shouldn't say NO carbs in beer. But as far as carbs go, there are only 2.5-5g carbs in a regular American beer.
As far as carbs go, that's next to nothing. In fact, Non alcohol beers have 11-15g carbs.
I had to look it up to prove I was right, that diabetics can drink beers and liquor. Some people seem to think we can't.
Other than the normal excessive alcohol intake problems that apply to everyone, there is no problem with alcohol and diabetes. The carbs are minimal.
Look it up. I'm REALLY tired of having to do this to PROVE that your LIVER produces glucose when your dietary intake is insufficient. When your liver does this, it produces an excess of glucose, which is then stored as fats around your liver and intestines.
Simply type "Liver produces glucose" in google search. it should provide a wiki pedia link which will give you the medical terms
The Liver does not produce glucose from fat.
The Liver produces glucose from glycogen or amino acids.
yes it does, because your liver produces far too much of it and it is subsequently stored as fat around the liver and abdomen. That's why you see many type 2 diabetics carrying around that "spare tire". Unlike a type one diabetic, type 2's are more prone to low glucose crashes, and liver production of glucose.
look it up.
I just finished a 3 week course on the subject. I know what I'm talking about, being a diabetic myself.
I never said it did. I said the excess is stored as fat.
Which is? Tissue. The liver itself, muscle etc. It releases the acids to break down the connectivve tissue to convert to glucose. So what's the problem? In short, the liver begins to produce glucose when your blood levels are too low. That's what I said
Because it always produces too much, it stores this excess glucose as fats around the liver and intestines. That is what I said.
Why do you think people who eat too many carbs (bread, potatoes, sugars,) get FAT?
Buffer size? What are we, a hard drive?
"There is no storage form of protein"
Of course not. We store FAT!!!!!
"n the human body glucose cannot be converted to fat and fat cannot be converted to glucose. It lacks the necessary enzymes."
What the heck do you think your pancreas, digestive tract produces? Glocose is converted to What? by what? (hint: insulin) where does the excess glucose go? (hint: fat)
Ok, there was a misunderstanding of some sort, then.
However, people do lose weight, and improve body composition by going low-carb.
You are talking about FATS like butter, fats on meat, lard etc.
That kind of fat doesn't turn into glucose, and that kind of fat piles up on your body in much different ways than the fats converted from glucose.
That's why the abdominal fats around the liver and intestine are so very different than the fat hanging off someones thighs.
One summer when I was 13 my brother and I rode 1000 miles on bicycles through the Ozarks in three weeks, averaging about 50 miles per day, with bicycles loaded with full camping gear. We usually drank 2 to 4 gallons of water a day. By the end of each day we'd be covered by a quite easily visible layer of salt crystals. To the point where rubbing the hand across an arm would produce something resembling a snow shower.
We discovered pretty quickly that we needed extra salt or we'd get cramps. We tried salt tablets washed down with warm water and found out even faster that induces vomiting efficiently.
We wound up putting unreal amounts of salt on our food, as in 1/8" of salt on a hamburger. Worked great. Oddly enough, didn't taste overly salty. I figure that was the body letting us know what it needed.
So don't tell me those who sweat a lot don't need more salt.
I realize these were extreme conditions.
It depends on your lifestyle. If you are moderately active, then you need about 60-65g of carbs per meal. And you need to eat 3 times a day. If you are less active, cut back 10g or so. If you think you are going to loose weight by eating a nice green salad for lunch, you are wrong. Why? Because you don't have any carbs in a salad. And if your other 2 meals are carb deprived, your body will produce the glucose you need, and it ALWAYS produces more than you need. (hopefully using body instead of chemical secreting liver will prevent further techical discussion) That excess however is stored as FAT. Abdominal fat. Not leg fat, underarm fat, abdominal fat.
And the reason you sweat out all that salt is because you had far too much stored up to begin with.
I'll bet after that was gone, you didn't have salty sweat anymore, it was much sweeter tasting, like cucumber sort of.
I know, I used to do a lot of running, 14 miles a day. On weekends I rode 70 miles to the cabin on my bike.
I would implore you to immerse yourself into the science of diabetes metabolism. It may extend your life by a decade or more. Please note that the conventional wisdom on 40 years of treatment protocols and psuedo science has recently been revealed by the NIH ACCORD STUDY last year. It proved that that the commonly prescribed medications and insulin killed 22% more people than the high blood sugar in the uncontrolled high glucose group. The medications have been prescribed inorder to give people like you a false sense of security and the willingness to consume 300% to 500% more carbs than you should be consuming. Alcohol is a sugar and has lots of carbs in it.
Boy are you confused!
Your cells cannot hydrate without adequate salt, and that means sea salt, not the poison from the grocery store.
And no, sea salt cannot poison you in any kind of quantity that you could conceivably ingest.
Skip the Gatoraid; it has artificial sweeteners that are far more harmful than ordinary refined sugars.
Just spend the dough for the sea salt. It works.
One of my profs decided to wear a rubber suit while jogging on a summer's day. He cooked his liver and died in the middle of a park. The course? Biology.
I was close to a coma due to my TSH and T3 or T4 levels being off the charts in the wrong directions.
I was still pretty active at 17, roller blading, biking everywhere, playing hockey at least a few times a month for a few hours. But that day, I just don't know what happened.
Do you mean iodized salt?
At least you got a good lesson.
Looks like this thread got hi-jacked down the road.
Good stuff though.
Keep the Synthroid coming.
Definately not!
Get air dried sea salt, not processed salt.
I take Synthroid
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The Northern Iowa Wind Quintet will perform Carl Nielsen's "Woodwind Quintet" and Panther Bassoons will perform Anton Reicha's "Trio for Three Cellos."
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EU's derivatives proposal carries risks of its own
Proposals that emerged this week to improve regulation of European derivatives markets aim to push more and more financial transactions through central counterparties, or CCPs—clearing houses that act as a buyer in every sale of a financial instrument and a seller for every purchase.
It's a world-wide trend. By standing in the middle of every deal, CCPs are supposed to prevent the "cascade of uncertainty" that followed Lehman Brothers' demise two years ago this week.
That arose because financial institutions couldn't figure out their exposure to the failed firm—they simply didn't know how many of the myriad of pass-the-parcel transactions they were involved in ultimately depended on it.
But pushing CCPs to the center of the derivatives markets has brought to the fore another concern: that they themselves could become a source of risk to the financial system. "CCPs can go bust too," says Richard Portes, economics professor at the London Business School.
One way to address this risk is to ensure that CCPs, like major banks, have direct access to ready cash—liquidity from central banks.
Yet in making its proposals this week, the European Commission, which originally favored making access to central-bank liquidity a prerequisite for CCPs, backed away from the requirement.
An early draft of the proposed EU regulation, viewed by The Wall Street Journal, said CCPs "must have access to central bank liquidity."
The final proposal published this week said CCPs must have access to adequate liquidity, "which could result from access to central bank or to creditworthy and reliable commercial bank liquidity, or a combination of both."
Few people think commercial-bank credit lines are worth much to a problem institution at the center of a financial crisis. Such promises tend to melt away in the panic. For an institution in the center of a storm, the only sure guarantee of liquidity during a crisis is a central bank. So why did the commission change its mind?
According to people who have followed the process, the U.K. pushed strongly for the change over objections from Paris and Berlin, which argued forcefully for the central-bank requirement to remain. (The argument could well resurface as the 27 EU governments and the European Parliament seek to amend the proposals.)
The problem for the U.K. was that the requirement would have threatened the position of London as Europe's CCP hub because the U.K. uses the wrong currency. The Bank of England can provide pounds but not the currencies in which most financial transactions will be denominated: the euro and the dollar.
For liquidity support in those currencies, London-based CCPs would need access to the European Central Bank and the Federal Reserve.
Theoretically, such support could be provided through swap lines via the Bank of England, but why should the ECB stick its neck out to underpin a CCP based outside the euro zone? "London didn't want the central-bank liquidity" requirement, says Mr. Portes.
Central-bank backstops sound like a good idea, but some experts see a downside: They dull incentives for CCPs to engage in state-of-the-art risk management.
CCPs have an excellent record in managing risk going back more than a century, through depression and world wars. Their financial stability has been protected, by bank credit lines, by their own capital and that of their owners, and by the collateral they require from clients, which can be adjusted to reflect the risks the clients are running.
"There are costs and benefits of having access to central bank lending. It can help prevent the CCP from being questioned during a crisis but it can also reduce some of the incentives for CCPs to be at the cutting edge of risk management," said Randall Kroszner, professor of economics at Chicago University's Booth School and a former Fed governor.
Yet pushing CCPs to clear more, riskier and less-liquid financial instruments, as the commission is now demanding, means the chance of accidents increases. Clearing cash transactions that are settled within three days is one thing; dealing with derivatives that may be unwound in months or years is quite another, the experts say.
Risk could be further heightened by another requirement—also contained in the commission's proposals—that aims to improve competition by allowing investors to choose which CCP they use. At present, that choice is largely determined by the trading venue. The change would require CCPs to be interlinked, creating, as the industry calls it, interoperability.
However, connecting every CCP to every other risks recreating among the CCPs the cascade of uncertainty that occurred among banks and securities firms in 2008. As a result, while stating it as a long-term aim, the commission is moving cautiously on interoperability, suggesting the process will be closely monitored by financial supervisors before it is allowed to go ahead.
Interoperability, says Mr. Kroszner, is in principle the right way to go "but it's the practicalities of how this will operate which will determine whether you have reduced risk or increased the potential for systemic problems. If it's not done the right way, you're playing with fire."


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