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May 29, 2012 I weighed in at 275 lbs. I had enough. I researched on the internet and came across the Paleo Diet at the time. I spent the next 6 months or so trying to cut out processed foods, grains, and dairy. I was highly successful at first but eventually found myself going on plan for a week or two, then off for a week or two. My weight fluctuated and I now find myself only 15 lbs down from the start.
Although I've only lost 15 lbs I have learned a lot about nutrition these last 6 months. Researching the Paleo Diet, The Primal Blueprint (as well as this website), and the Whole9 folks, I have decided this is definitely the lifestyle for me. Watching the documentary, "The Perfect Human Diet" only solidified that opinion.
This time I am back on the wagon and ready to go. I'll be doing a modified paleo/primal hybrid. I'm not going to go crazy worrying about artificial sweeteners as I usually drop one in my coffee. I'm going to mostly cut out dairy, but not fully. I will allow myself Greek Yogurt and every once in a blue moon some cheese on an omelet. As far as alcohol is concerned, I will stick to wine and clear liquor although I rarely ever drink so that really isn't a big deal. Grains will be cut out completely unless it is a random splurge. I've decided that on situations like birthdays I will allow myself a slice of cake and/or a cheat meal.
My goal is to live an overall primal lifestyle but not get bogged down in being so strict. I just want to live a healthier lifestyle and not necessarily get caught up in all of the rules.

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We're not huge on the whole holiday party circuit. If anything, we're hermits living in a shack compared to our friends who canoodle constantly during their wintertime festivities. The eggnog flows and the parties are aplenty.
Most of the holiday jams are filled with bad sweaters, bad Burl Ives impressions and worse, peppermint-flavored everything.
But of all the parties I've heard about this year, only one guy is doing them right. One man is changing the whole game.
Meet Everett Hiller. HE PHOTOSHOPS CELEBRITIES INTO HIS HOLIDAY PARTIES.
He is our hero.
Bill Murray 1 of 24There have been reports of Mr. Murray showing up randomly at parties. So, this isn't completely out of the realm of possibility.
Shia Labeouf 2 of 24So many jokes. So little time.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt 3 of 24Seems like a nice guy. Especially when he's photoshopped.
Robert Downey, Jr. 4 of 24If I had to guess, this was before his sobriety.
The Late Nite Hosts 5 of 24These guys would never be caught dead in a room together, right?
Stephen Colbert 6 of 24Hopefully he's checking his phone and not doing something naughty back there.
Anna Kendrick 7 of 24This is almost the polar opposite of a paparazzi photo.
???? 8 of 24WHO IS THIS? SEE IF YOU CAN SPOT HIM!
Brad Pitt 9 of 24He's wearing his favorite "footie" pajamas.
Hermio… I mean, Emma Watson 10 of 24I would lose my mind. A little. I mean. Because she's Hermione and all.
Bill is back. 11 of 24He just can't stay away from a good time.
Sylvester Stallone 12 of 24Knocking back brews with Rocky. Not bad.
Conan O'Brien 13 of 24He just never knows when to stop.
Ken Jeong 14 of 24At least he's not naked. Like in all of his movies.
RDJr. 15 of 24What is he looking at?
First Lady Michelle Obama 16 of 24Sneaking up on people and surprising them! Yay!
Joe Manganiello 17 of 24Another guy who normally has his clothes off.
Keanu Reeves 18 of 24I mean... "Sad Keanu" does way better in smaller groups. Obviously.
Ashton Kutcher 19 of 24He looks surprised. Like the look I gave when I heard his salary for "Two & a Half Men."
Lindsay Lohan 20 of 24Keeping it under control.
Samuel L. Jackson 21 of 24Best party guest ever.
President Barack Obama 22 of 24Ever the community organizer, the President is working the crowd.
Jennifer Love-Hewitt 23 of 24Nice pants, Jen. Nice pants.
Nathan Fillion 24 of 24Get The Bloggess on the phone. I think we figured out how to solve her problem.
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As good as the action is now in the Bayou Bienvenue area, it's only going to get better. "I like when it's cold, cold, cold -- when you've got to have long underwear, two jackets and gloves," Dr. Bob Weiss said. "The fish tend to really concentrate in schools in the deeper water when it's cold."
The cold weather also allows a change in tactics that tends to result in bigger fish.
"When the weather gets colder, we move toward hard-plastic baits, which are a ball to fish with," Weiss said.
The anglers will throw the hard baits along the MRGO rocks as well as in the Michoud Slip and along the southern shoreline of the Intracoastal Waterway.
But this style of fishing isn't for everyone.
"It takes a little patience, and it takes a certain mindset to throw the hard plastics," Weiss said. "Most people will throw it a few times, and without success, they put it down.
"But if you ever have a trip where you catch them, it's so much fun, I guarantee you'll want to go back and do it again."
Their favorite hard-plastic lures, Weiss said, are the Rapala X-Rap slash bait and the MirrOdine XL.


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My daughter, Heather, realized a long-time dream on Sunday and ran the Chicago Marathon! I was lucky enough to be there to cheer her on (as well as you can with 45,000 runners and their families).
We stayed with a friend of mine, Pat, who lives in the cool neighborhood of Lincoln Park. Pat told us to pack walking shoes and we did, but I had no idea how much walking we would do over our long weekend.
And that brings up the focus of this entry: people who live in large cities certainly get much more exercise than those of us living in smaller cities or suburbs. They rarely drive their cars, walking blocks to get to public transportation if they need to get into downtown Chicago.
We got to Pat's condo early Friday afternoon and walked five or six blocks to a cute deli. What immediately struck me was all the people jogging or riding their bicycles. Then there were tons of people walking to their destinations, many of them carrying a cup of joe from one of the kazillion coffee shops. From the deli we walked to Lake Michigan, where we saw runners, joggers and walkers using the pedestrian path along the lake. There were also many people running behind strollers. Then we walked through the Lincoln Park Zoo, which was filled with people enjoying the sights as well as the Indian Summer weather.
I was envious of all the walking/jogging/running. It was clearly a way of life for them, as well as all the people we saw walking their dogs through neighborhoods. On the other hand, it took time getting adjusted to so much humanity in such tight quarters. However, everyone we encountered was friendly and seemed very happy.
But isn't happiness a byproduct of fresh air and exercise?
Enjoy the upcoming autumn weekend. It promises to be sunny and cool, a perfect time to grab a cup of joe, take a walk along the Falling Waters Trail, the Cascades Park loop or through Ella Sharp Park and enjoy all the colors.


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Drug 'take back' day set Sunday in Bellevue
The Bellevue Police Department will help "Take-Back" drugs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. three locations in the city. The effort is a partnership with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to take back expired, unused, and unwanted medications, including prescription drugs.
No identification will be required or requested from those bringing in drugs. A uniformed police officer will be available to assist people.
Take-back locations include:
City Hall Bellevue Police Lobby, 450 110th Ave. N.E.
Crossroads Community Police Station, 1336 156th Ave. N.E., next to Chipotle.
Factoria Community Police Station, 3915 Factoria Blvd. S.E., near Nordstrom Rack
Individuals are encouraged to remove identifying information from prescription labels. For more information and other collection sites visit www.DEA.gov and click on "Got Drugs?"
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. (www.incnow.tv) -- The St. Joseph County Coroner has identified Steven Davis, 60, and Wesley Caves, 58, as the victims in the South Bend plane crash.
The small private aircraft, a Beechcraft Premier I twin-jet, crashed into three homes in a South Bend neighborhood. Officials say the pilot radioed for help before the crash citing technical problems and tried to land safely but failed.
Reports indicate that Davis and Cave were two of four people on the plane and that the other two, Jim Rogers and Christopher Evans, along with one person on the ground, Diana McKeown, were injured. Two people on the ground were also killed in the crash.
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Indianapolis -- The official 40-yard dash times at the NFL Scouting Combine have come down. LSU receiver Rueben Randle's time was a 4.55.
LSU Quarterback Jordan Jefferson ran a 4.65. Meanwhile, Heisman Trophy winning Baylor quarterback Robert Griffin III ran a 4.41.
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Let Freedom Ring this 4th of July at Harlingen TMs Freedom Fest.
This year, the Convention and Visitors Bureau will host the 2-day outdoor event that includes food, games, and a big concert!
Roger Creager will headline Thursday evening TMs festivities, and Little Joe y La Familia will be on hand Friday.
The event will begin and 5 pm, with concerts beginning at 7 pm, at Lon C. Hill Park. It TMs free and open to the public.


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By Cathy Huyghe | Friday, August 6, 2010
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For today's dish and beverage pairing, why not step into something a little bit unfamiliar? Maybe you've already had sweet and sour chicken, but have you made it yourself with a spice as unique as tamarind? And maybe you've already had Riesling — which is my recommendation for a wine pairing with this dish — but have you had Riesling from the Finger Lakes region of New York state? The Finger Lakes, just like the better-known producers of Riesling, namely Germany and Alsace, produce both sweet and dry versions of the wine. Depending on your palate and whether you want to highlight the sweet or the sour of the dish, the choices are ever-expanding. Howie Rubin, co-owner of Bauer Wine & Spirits on Newbury Street, has just returned from a tasting and buying trip to the Finger Lakes. On sale in his store right now is one of his favorites from the trip, the 2008 Dr. Konstantin Frank Dry Riesling ($15, normally $18). It would be a lovely pairing with this dish, plus it gives you the chance to try a dry Riesling. Many Rieslings on wine store shelves in the US are sweet or off-dry, but a classic dry Riesling is a revelation.
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By Judy Mattera | Friday, August 6, 2010
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"By Judy Mattera, member of the WGBH Kitchen Crew
This is a perfect summer recipe utilizing local corn and tomatoes. It can be served many ways:
1. for lunch with a mixed green salad
2. as a first course for a plated dinner
3. as an accompaniment with grilled chicken, pork or fish dish for your summer barbecue
Recipe Suggestions for Pie Crust:
Cube butter; place in freezer. I like to use my butter frozen so when you pulse the sifted flour, salt and butter in the food processor it will resemble small pebbles or corn kernels as stated in recipe.
You should rest your dough for 30 minutes before rolling.
You can also make your pie crust a couple of days before making this tart. After rolling and placing in pie or tart pan, cover and place in freezer. This will save you time on day of assembling.
When blind baking crust, remove pie weights or dried beans after 15 minutes. Return to oven and continue to bake for 5 more minutes.
Wine Suggestions:
La Crema Chardonnay is a great match with the corn and creamy filling which will complement the buttery traits and richness of this wine.
Completed corn and tomato tart, by Judy Lebel.
By Judy Lebel, member of the WGBH Kitchen Crew
The seasonality and freshness of the ingredients was the appeal of this recipe.
Who knew that making a pie crust is as easy as putting air in your car tires? I learned how to do both this week and feel quite liberated!
Once committed, I realized there was neither a food processor nor a rolling pin in the kitchen. Fortunately, I do have a blender and, of course, a wine bottle. Zin, to be specific. Both did their jobs beautifully.
There is plenty of time to prep the filling while the crust is baking. And, during 10 minutes of the cooling time, you can have the corn cooked and ready to go. This will keep the total cooking time to a minimum.
The measurements were perfectly balanced, although the extra sharp cheese wasn't detectible. My tart took an additional 14 minutes to cook and still wasn't exactly golden brown even though the egg mixture had set.
This is an extremely tasty dish that makes a beautiful summer presentation. The crust was flaky and the fresh sweetness of the corn and tomatoes complemented each other quite nicely. This is an excellent basic tart recipe that can be modified to showcase vegetables of any season."
By Cathy Huyghe | Friday, August 6, 2010
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"Ruth Reichl is a familiar face to WGBH viewers and listeners, from Gourmet's Adventures with Ruth to Diary of a Foodie. I've heard her speak in person on several occasions, most recently at the Culinary Institute of America in St. Helena, California shortly after she heard the news that Gourmet magazine (where she had been editor-in-chief for some ten years) was closing its doors. At the time Reichl seemed shell-shocked, which she undoubtedly was since the news of Condé Nast's came so suddenly and so, well, shockingly.
What's clear now is that she's over it.
On Saturday, Reichl spoke in dialogue with Albany-based WAMC's Joe Donahue at the first annual Berkshire WordFest, held at Edith Wharton's estate in Lenox. Sure, she was asked about Gourmet – but mostly she talked about what she's doing now and what's on the horizon. She talked about her craft. She talked about how she does what she does.
Here's how she does what she does:
* With imagination. Reichl wrote her very first restaurant review, for New West magazine when she was living in Berkeley, as a short story. The food — the obvious point of a restaurant review — was woven through the story, but Reichl understood that even more than the highlights on the menu, readers want to be told a story. It's a smart move.
* With a strong sense of candor. "I think privacy is overrated," Reichl said on Saturday afternoon. "Scratch the surface and we're all pretty much the same. It's comforting to know that."
* With the big picture in mind. "Restaurants are theater," she said. "I've never thought they were just about the food. They're about the experience."
* With a consistent voice. Reichl is at work on a novel now but, she said, "even if I think I'm not writing about food, I'm writing about food. I see the world food-first. I just do."
Cathy Huyghe writes for the WGBH Daily Dish blog. Read new WGBH Daily Dish posts weekdays, where you can explore myriad ways and places to experience good food and wine."
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"Think mushrooms, and you probably think Pinot Noir. At least that's been the rule of thumb within the food-wine pairing world for a long time. There's a good reason for that, as the earthy, woodsy character of mushrooms matches well with the same qualities in a glass of Pinot Noir. Look for Anne Amie Pinot Noir from Oregon for about $18.
Or, depending on your mood when you make this dish, you might want to think outside the mushroom-Pinot Noir box. Just for kicks, consider what other liquid ingredients go into mushroom recipes you know. Port wine, for example. Or even white vermouth. Get a little retro. Invite some friends over. Have a little fun. This recipe — and the pure comfort of pasta, cream, cheese, plus mushrooms — makes plenty to share.
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"Is it weird to drink wine — made from grape juice, of course — with a recipe that already features grapes? Not exactly, but it is potentially clamorous, assuming that the table grapes you use in the recipe will not be the same kind as those used in the wine you'll be drinking. This leaves us with a wide swath of options for beverages that pair well with the sweet heat of the sausages and the concentrated juices of the grapes.
When many people think of what to drink with sausages, they think beer. Choices like Sierra Nevada Summerfest Lager, Kingfisher Premium Lager, and Stone Ruination IPA would work quite happily with this dish. But for an unusual twist that can be either alcoholic or non-alcoholic, try elderflower. St. Germain Elderflower Liqueur is an exceptionally popular ingredient right now in cocktails at bars all over the city (it's also available on the shelves of many wine stores to take home), and in specialty food stores you can find juices pressed from elderberries. Use either and play with your own version of a trumped-up, out-of-the-ordinary "lemonade" that will be refreshingly compatible with today's Daily Dish.


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Check out behind-the-scenes footage from a recent photo shoot Paul Rabil did at Under Armour for the Lax World catalgoue cover. In the shoot, Rabil is sporting some new stuff from Maverik, including gloves and stick pictured below.
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Chip Kelly has apparently found his Doug Pederson. Now, he just needs his Donovan McNabb, and things will be fine for the Eagles' new head coach.
And it is highly unlikely Mike Vick will fill that latter role.
Yes, Vick is still an Eagle. How much longer he remains one, remains to be seen.
The Eagles are about to sign a quarterback (Dennis Dixon) who played for Kelly at Oregon, was drafted and started a few games for the Pittsburgh Steelers and was last seen playing the role of Colin Kaepernick as Baltimore's practice squad quarterback.
Dixon is to Kelly what Pederson was to Andy Reid.
He is a stop-gap player with limited talent, who knows the coach's system and can teach the rest of the offensive players how to run it.
That's what Pederson did in 1999 for Reid, while he kept the seat warm for McNabb.
Now again the bigger question for Kelly and the organization is who plays the part of McNabb in this sequel?
It won't be Vick for a number of reasons, two of which are 15.5 million and 33.
That's how much money he is scheduled to earn this season and how old he will be by the end of the season.
That first number would have to decrease significantly for the Eagles to even think about bringing Vick back, and unfortunately there isn't anything anyone can do about the second one.
While Vick is still a viable starter in the league, he's not a good fit for a new coach installing a new, somewhat unorthodox system.
Yes, Vick can run; not like he once did, but still better than most. That doesn't mean he fits Kelly's offense. There is more to it than being able to run. You also have to know you're going to get hit, and Vick has been hit way too much in his career, especially the past two years.
Kelly also likes quarterbacks who get the ball out quickly. And he hates it when his quarterback takes a sack.
That doesn't fit Vick either way.
The Eagles need to let Vick go, let him continue his career in Arizona, or Buffalo, or back with Marty Mornhinweg with the Jets.
I'm in the minority here, at least I think I am, but Vick has a few good years left if he's in the right offense with a good running game and a solid offense line. It just doesn't make sense for him to be with the Eagles.
A new head coach doesn't really want nor need an oft-injured 33-year-old quarterback to start his program.
He needs his guys.
Dixon will be one of them. It's likely a second-round draft pick might be another.
Nick Foles?
Despite the adulation Kelly has spouted about Foles both when he played against him in the college ranks and since he has become the Eagles head coach, Foles just does not fit with what Kelly wants to do.
Trade him.
See how much Andy Reid really likes him. See if he likes him enough to give you that first pick of the third round that currently belongs to Kansas City.
Some want Foles to be a one-year stop-gap until Kelly gets his guy. That doesn't make any sense. Foles knows less about this system than a rookie does and is ill-equipped to run it.
Dixon is the stop-gap. Foles is trade bait, while he still has value.
Speaking of trade bait, I don't think Alex Smith is the answer either. The Eagles' next franchise quarterback is going to have to come out of the draft. If not the 2013 one, then bite the bullet on the season and get one in 2014.
• The Eagles still do not have a defensive coordinator.
Then again they haven't had one since Jim Johnson passed away.
• If the league schedule is late getting out this year, it's because teams are fighting to be the Eagles' home opener opponent.
The last four teams to open against the Eagles at Lincoln Financial Field – New Orleans, Green Bay, the Giants and Baltimore – all went on to win the Super Bowl.
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FLUSHING TOWNSHIP, MI -- Dan Behan recalled the countless Christmas celebrations at Michael and Michele Behan's Flushing Township home that took place over more than two decades.
"Every Christmas Eve especially was one of the signature events that took place at Mike and Shelly's house," he remembered, with Michele setting aside a special bag of cookies for him "that was one of the ways she demonstrated her generosity."
Michael, 65, and Michele, 61, died Saturday, Nov. 30 following an early morning fire at their Apple Blossom Lane home. Firefighters from Flushing, Swartz Creek, and Montrose responded to the blaze. The cause of the fire, which destroyed the home, remains under investigation.
"They were generous people that opened their homes," said Dan of his brother and sister-in-law who had been married 36 years, with both sides of their families meeting up on numerous occasions. "Their house was a special gathering place for our family. It was the loss of not only Mike and Shelly but decades of family tradition."
No one was sure at first if anyone was inside the home, Dan said of the fire, after receiving phone calls from officials and others regarding about the incident.
"By the time they got the fire under control... it was too late," he said. Michael and Michele both grew up in the Flint area, with Michele raised in the Mott Park area while Dan, Michael and their four siblings grew up on the west side of Flint Township.
Michael graduated from St. John Vianney Catholic School in Flint. He entered the Air Force after school and had a career in marketing, Dan said. Michele had worked with hearing impaired children in Flint Community Schools.
After meeting, Dan said Michael and Michele were married Aug. 20, 1977 at First Presbyterian Church of Flint in what he called "a beautiful, elaborate ceremony."
He said the couple often donated their time and efforts to local charitable causes. The couple had two children -- Brett and Megan -- with Dan stating Megan was also married at the same South Saginaw Street church as her parents just months before their passing.
"It was another tradition they were able to see happen before they left us," said Dan. Funeral arrangements are still being determined by the family.


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Steven Hoyt's defense of Bennett is absurd
Andrew Bennett was recently defeated for re-election as tax assessor of Jefferson County's Bessemer Division. Now, Bennett is upset because the Jefferson County Commission declined approving expenses for him to attend the Alabama Association of Tax Assessor's convention in Orange Beach.
Following the rejection Bennett attended a commission meeting. He went to the podium and referred to those who voted against his trip as "you bunch of rednecks."
On a radio show, Birmingham City Councilman Steven Hoyt sided with Bennett. Hoyt feels Bennett's lame duck status is irrelevant. Hoyt said Bennett is an elected official with 18 months remaining and deserves the trip. Steven Hoyt stated he would sue if he were Bennett. Surely the council member is jesting. Hoyt argued that refusing Bennett's trip request equates to denying his position, and is the same as saying Andrew Bennett should disregard tax assessor responsibilities for the rest of his term.
Hoyt's assessments are questionable. Citizens are not interested in politicians attending conventions in resort cities. Therefore it is not far fetched to conclude the same taxpayers that denied Bennett re-election, also would reject funding the lame duck tax assessor's excursion to a tax assessor's convention.
Don Carlisle
Bennett owes Republicans an apology
Andrew Bennett, Jefferson County Tax Assessor, owes the Republicans of the Jefferson County Commission an apology for calling them rednecks. This term is a racial slur and racism by blacks used against rural whites in the south whose necks would get sunburned making an honest living working in the fields. Of course, he knows this, it is why he used it.
What happened to tolerance, inclusion, diversity, unity and respect for each other, it goes both ways? Every employee on Jefferson Counties payroll cannot expect to be including on each and every trip to the beach by public officials. As a matter of fact, what business could be conducted at the beach that could not be accomplished with classes at the Jefferson County Courthouse? This is just another of the many ways elected official's feel entitled to the taxpayers money for free personal trips. No wonder Jefferson County stays broke while real problems go unfunded and unfinished.
Mr. Bennett should consider how he would feel if the Jefferson County Commissioners called him a racial slur. An apology from him is due.
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Gouda - not everyone likes it!
I saw this while I was grocery shopping yesterday. Apparently King Soopers doesn't think too fondly of delicious gouda!
lol!! That is too funny!! I am not sure I have eaten it so not sure :)
I've never heard of edam!
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I like it but Edam is better. :-)
It's a lot harder to find. Whole Foods used to carry it but the last time I was there, they didn't have any. It's similar to gouda but the texture and flavor are a little different.
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I've never heard of edam!Quoting eema.gray:
I like it but Edam is better. :-)
I have never tried it but I guess I will take their word for it, lol.
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Umm... what is Gouda?
I know it is a kind of cheese but I have never had it.


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8 Terrible Solutions For Bob Costas' Olympic Pink Eye
It was a valiant battle, but after powering through broadcasting Olympics coverage from the Fortress of Solitude…no, seriously…
Via: Yahoo! Sports
...Bob Costas succumbed to pink eye. With both eyes infected, he will have to cede control to Matt Lauer…at least temporarily. But no one who outs Superman from his own lair is going to let a little thing like conjunctivitis keep him down for long. So when Costa inevitably returns to power, the Internet has kindly suggested how to integrate his infection into a fashion statement.
#1 - The easy choice of course is a debonair eye patch. Add in a hook and a pirate and Costas would have a classic theme that never goes out of style.
Via: Daily Sports
#2 - Or if he'd rather pander to his own Overlords™ he could show is affiliate pride.
Via: Live Olympic
#3 - As Entertainment Weekly points out, the possibilities are endless.
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#4 - Barring an eye patch, a Googly Eye makes let's viewers know Costas has his eye on them.
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When Pantone named Tangerine Tango the hot color of 2012, fashion designers and wedding planners took note. Put your own spin on the trend with a palette that combines a spectrum of orange shades with white and cream.
Unless you're a Bengals fan or a Princeton alum, a bright orange tie is tough to pull off. For the wedding, look for a subtler variation.
From left: Seersucker tie, $185, Zegna. Silk striped tie, $105, Thomas Pink. Plaid silk-and-silver-plated cuff links, $15, Apple & Ivy. Herringbone silk tie, $82, Pierrepont Hicks.


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Do as the Swedes do in this cosmopolitan Old World city.
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Had the iconic jazz singer Billie Holiday lived, she would have turned 99 years old today, April 7, 2014.
Holiday's expressive vocal talent, with its rich and intense depth of emotion, apparently came at a price. Her brief life was tumultuous, plagued by addiction, health issues and other troubles. Holiday died in 1959, at the age of only 44.
In her comparatively short career, though, she waxed some of the most powerful songs in the American canon, including the aching "Gloomy Sunday" and the disturbing "Strange Fruit." Her long collaboration with jazz saxophonist Lester Young is considered one of the greatest meetings of two talents in music history.
Happy birthday, Lady Day.


text: Tips for a long flight 2013-10-29 The longest nonstop flight in the world - spanning 19 hours from Singapore to Newark - will soon be canceled. However, there are still plenty of long hauls across the globe to wear down travelers' nerves. For those that cringe at any flight longer than 3 hours, here are some travel tips and tricks for getting through the big ones.Turning back the clocks One of the biggest hurdles for long-distance travelers is the grogginess that comes with crossing multiple time zones in a day. In honor of the flight's cancelation, CNN Travel has culled advice from business travel veterans who called the jet-lag inducing flight a second home. Chris Uriarte, an American Express executive who logs 200,000 flight miles a year and has braved the Singapore sling some dozen times, recommends preparing for time zone-hopping days before takeoff."You should try on the day before to get on the same clock as your destination," said Uriarte. "For long west-to-east flights - a day or two before you leave, start moving your bedtime earlier in the evening. For long east-to-west flights, try to delay sleep until late at night."This may require some extra effort on the part of a traveler, but it will ultimately result in better productivity once the plane has touched down, claimed Uriarte.Picking your position Airlines are constantly redrawing the lines for leg room and the size of their coach cabins, often to the disadvantage of the everyday traveler. However, smart travelers can maximize their comfort no matter the airline by keeping some basic seating principles in mind.While it may be hard to admit, business class is invariably more comfortable. Independent Traveler recommends working hard for an upgrade by utilizing frequent flier miles and possibly a travel agent to get the best seats possible. If the day, time or destination of a flight is somehow a secondary concern, it's also possible to nab a last-minute seat on the cheap from airlines.If you can't upgrade, remember that even in coach not all seats are equal. Travelers planning to catch some sleep should consider window seats, as it's much easier to doze off when people aren't climbing over you. Additionally, seats behind the engines will be louder. For some, that drowsy roar can be a plus. Otherwise, get a seat closer to the front of the plane.Packing right What you bring onboard - and leave at home - can make all the difference. Remember essentials such as headphones, eyemasks, pillows and warm layers. However, don't overcrowd yourself with unnecessary gadgets, cords and cables that compete for leg room.See also... How to breeze through the airport like a rock star Coping with an extended layover avoiding extra fees at airports More Airline News Stories


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Roland LaBauve Jr. a 27-year employee of the City of Gretna, was selected as the first "Employee of the Month" in a program initiated by Mayor Belinda C. Constant. Besides being touted for his good works in front of the packed-house City Council meeting in August, LaBauve received a plaque, food gift certificates and most valuable of all, a coveted free parking space at City Hall for one month.
LaBauve, a personable man who is popular among city personnel, has had many duties over the years. He is currently renovating an area in City Hall to create a new mayor's office.
He and his wife, Debra Chaisson LaBauve, are lifelong residents of Old Gretna.
He attended Gretna No. 1, Gretna Jr. High and graduated from West Jefferson High School in 1972. The couple has two children, Brandi LaBauve Wilson and Keith J. LaBauve, and five grandchildren.
When asked what her husband does for a hobby, Debra Chaisson said, "Roland's favorite thing to do whenever he's off work is carpentry work. He likes to remodel things in the house. He completely rebuilt our home, adding rooms, moving walls -- just totally redid the entire house."
Cookie time
It's Italian cookie baking time in Gretna, with good smells coming from the St. Joseph cafeteria where St. Joseph Women's Club members are rolling dough. They are creating fig, almond and sesame cookies and sweetbreads, all for sale. Seasoned Italian cookie buyers have already ordered, but some cookies could still be available for sale. Call Emily Gegenheimer, cookie chairperson, at 504.367.7310.
The club held its annual installation of officers at a dinner at The Salty Swine at Timberlane County Club. Spiritual adviser, the Rev. Rick Day, performed the ceremony to install Debbie Swiler, president; Darnell LeBlanc, vice president; Toni Hollis and Jackie Majeste, co-secretaries; and Kim Giglio, treasurer. Deacon Herman Williams was an honored guest.
Centennial celebrations
September Gretna centennial celebrations include a German Oktoberfest on Sept. 28 from 7 to 11 p.m. at the KC Hall, 475 Franklin St. The celebration will feature music by the Ira Milan Polka Band and a German dinner, including sauerkraut, bratwurst, red cabbage, German potato salad, bread and dessert.
Drinks, beer, wine and schnapps will be available for sale. The cost is $20 for adults and $5 for children under 10. Tables of eight or 10 are available. For tickets, visit the German-American Cultural Center at 519 Huey P. Long Ave. or call Val Coles at 504.432.7618.
Mended Hearts
Mended Hearts - New Orleans Chapter meets monthly at West Jefferson Medical Center's Gretna campus. This organization offers the gift of hope to heart disease patients, their families and caregivers. At each meeting, the group focuses on an important heart issue.
Glenn Griffin, an accredited patient visitor, led the Mended Hearts Prayer before an overflow crowd interested to hear Dr. James McKinnie, cardiology electro physiologist, speak on the common heart issue, atrial fibrillation, and its treatment. The question-and-answer session was quite lively, with some important information discussed ,including dietary restrictions and the fact that the incidence of AFIB is increased because of the aging of America.
Mended Hearts offers services to heart patients through visiting services, support group meetings and educational forums. For information about the chapter, contact Bob Holecko at 504.583.0499.
Today's Tidbit
The next free Gretna centennial event expected to "top the charts" is the Historic City Tour on Sept. 29, which begins at 1 p.m. at the Gretna Historical Society Museum Complex, 209 Lafayette St. You will receive all information there about the tour and the free drawings and entertainment at City Hall at the end of the event.
Helen Williams is a Gretna resident who writes about people and events of community interest. She can be reached at 504.367.8481 or email her at email@example.com.


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We live in a state where our eighth-graders rank 50th nationally in math performance. But even we can figure out when something doesn't add up.
The state legislature voted against raising teacher salaries earlier this year, plus Alabama students continue to performing near the bottom of national rankings. Yet, that equals a big raise for the man who leads K-12 education, Tommy Bice?
The Alabama State Board of Education granted that raise before checking his work. As in, no formal review of Bice's performance was conducted before the board calculated his 26 percent raise, from $198,000 to $250,000.
We don't seek to weaken the state's ability to retain high-performing administrators, and we don't mean to judge Bice's performance. But the state board should be clear and transparent with their expectations for Bice.
We welcome the recent measures of educational improvement, such as the growth of Advanced Placement success and the system's increased graduation rate.
We hope for future success, and we hope Bice is the one to deliver it. In fact, if he can lead Alabama's system out of the bottom 10 in performance nationally, we'd lead the charge for his salary to be doubled.


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Emerging Technologies: Bowel Cancer Screening
DNA Stool Test
In August 2014, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Cologuard, the first stool-based bowel cancer screening test that detects the presence of red blood cells and DNA mutations that may indicate the presence of certain kinds of abnormal growths that may be cancers such as bowel cancer or precursors to cancer.
Using a stool sample, Cologuard detects hemoglobin, a protein molecule that is a component of blood. Cologuard also detects certain mutations associated with bowel cancer in the DNA of cells shed by advanced adenomas as stool moves through the large intestine and rectum. Patients with positive test results are advised to undergo a diagnostic colonoscopy.
According to the FDA, faecal blood testing is a well-established screening tool and the clinical data showed that the test detected more cancers than a commonly used faecal occult test.
The FDA's approval of Cologuard does not change current practice guidelines for bowel cancer screening. Stool DNA testing (also called faecal DNA testing) is not currently recommended as a method to screen for bowel cancer in the United States.
The safety and effectiveness of Cologuard was established in a clinical trial that screened 10,023 people. The trial compared the performance of Cologuard to the faecal immunochemical test (FIT), a commonly used non-invasive screening test that detects blood in the stool.
Cologuard accurately detected cancers and advanced adenomas more often than the FIT test.
Cologuard detected 92 percent of bowel cancers and 42 percent of advanced adenomas in the study population, while the FIT screening test detected 74 percent of cancers and 24 percent of advanced adenomas. Cologuard was less accurate than FIT at correctly identifying subjects negative for bowel cancer or advanced adenomas.
Cologuard correctly gave a negative screening result for 87 percent of the study subjects, while FIT provided accurate negative screening results for 95 percent of the study population.
Dr. Frank Sinicrope, a professor of medicine and oncology at the Mayo Clinic said there are still 'important issues that await further research'. Those would include determining how best to deal with false positive results and establishing how often patients should take the DNA test to maximise its screening potential.
Bowel Cancer Blood Test
In May 2014, Australian researchers presented at an international medical conference in Chicago, Digestive Diseases Week, that the ColoVantage Plasma blood test for bowel cancer could detect 65% of bowel cancer cases increasing to 73% for cancers that are stage II or higher.
Julien Wiggins, chief executive, Bowel Cancer Australia said the research was taking us a step closer to accessing another effective screening option for bowel cancer.
"Bowel cancer is preventable and the existing faecal immunochemical tests (FIT) continue to play a key role in both prevention and detection, detecting around 90% of stage I bowel cancers."
"Despite this, screening rates remain low for a variety of reasons and it's unlikely we will see significant increases in participation for some years. This is an ongoing concern as Australia has one of the highest rates of bowel cancer in the world."
"A blood test may be an option for some who would otherwise choose not to screen at all. A proven option that could see more Australians screening can only be a good thing," he said.
According to Professor Graeme Young from the Flinders Centre for Innovation in Cancer at Flinders University in Adelaide, the test could be a candidate for population screening in the future and its sensitivity for cancer justifies prospective evaluation in a large screening population.
"If this test becomes available in the future I think the message would need to be that the faecal immunochemical test (FIT) is the best place to start for people who are due for screening. Then the blood test would be for those people who can't or won't screen with a FIT," said Professor Young.
Dr Larry LaPointe, CEO of Clinical Genomics, the company who co-developed the test with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), says the test could be available in Australia on a 'user pays' basis as soon as early spring 2014.
"These results show the test has the potential to underpin a cost-effective blood test that identifies those with a curable bowel cancer. This has the potential to save many lives by complementing existing screening programs," added Dr LaPointe.
The results were based on blood specimens collected at an Australian and Dutch hospital from more than 2,000 volunteers who were scheduled for colonoscopy or for bowel surgery.
The new blood test is the result of more than a decade of collaborative research carried out by Australian biotech company Clinical Genomics, the CSIRO and the Flinders Centre for Innovation in Cancer based in Adelaide.
In July 2014, the first commercially available blood test for bowel cancer rolled out in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales as a pilot trial of ColoVantage Plasma.


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Birmingham's Fernando Hernandez uncorked a wild pitch with the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth, giving the Huntsville Stars a 3-2 win Sunday afternoon.
The win put the Stars a half-game ahead in the Southern League North on the final day of the first half. They had to await the completion of a late Sunday afternoon game at Tennessee to learn their fate.
If Tennessee beats West Tenn, the Smokies and Stars play Monday night at Tennessee in the first game of the second half, with the winner awarded the first-half title. If the Smokies, lose their Sunday game, Huntsville wins the title outright, assuring the Stars their third postseason appearance in five years.
Brendan Katin had a homer and Carlos Corporan, the hero in Saturday's 16-inning win, had an RBI double for Huntsville (37-31).
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Saturday's 12 p.m. rally will be held before the district's community forum on the proposals, which is scheduled to run from 1 to 3 p.m. at Jefferson High School, 5210 N. Kerby Ave. The district is holding multiple meetings, including public hearings before the board, to solicit feedback from community members before Superintendent Carole Smith's final recommendation next month.
District officials insist they are proposing closures as a last resort to balance enrollments, which will help offer students in the cluster full programs. Because schools with low enrollments are more difficult to staff, they say, combining building populations will help provide students with more resources.
Parents have urged the district to keep the buildings open at meetings at Vernon and Woodlawn, two schools mentioned for possible closure. Many have said their closures may cause more parents to flee the cluster, which currently has seven K-8 schools and a K-5 school.
In addition to the rally, a community member has started an online petition against any closures. The petition, which is addressed to Smith, has collected more than 330 signatures as of Tuesday afternoon.
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Global Green Goals:
How Environmentalists Intend to Rule the World
by Ron Arnold
Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise
Critics have long believed environmentalists were planning global domination.
The problem with making a credible case against such an ambitious plan was simple: no environmental leader had published one.
Yet conflicts over global warming, world trade, multinational corporations, population control, sustainable futures, and transnational government left little doubt that environmentalists in fact shared the unspoken aim of wielding supreme power over a green future. But there was no proof.
For years, critics, lacking hard evidence, were reduced to piecing together a jigsaw puzzle of suspicious environmentalist actions ― funding from huge charitable trusts, ties to the broader "progressive" community, and dissemination of concepts hostile to American democracy ― in hopes that the emerging picture would reveal a dictatorial smoking gun. Results ranged from isolated case studies to pathetic conspiracy theories. They missed the mark because there was no visible mark to hit.
All that changed March 14, 2002.
On that date, Randall Hayes, president of the radical Rainforest Action Network, presented a paper at the Johns Hopkins 2002 Symposium on Foreign Affairs in Baltimore, Maryland. Its title was Restructuring the Global Economy: Eradicating Bretton Woods and Creating New Institutions.
It's the smoking gun.
Restructuring the Global Economy is a detailed roadmap to a green future ruled by radical elites from new command structures to be created in the United Nations. It is not an insignificant personal quirk of Randy Hayes individually. It is, he tells us, the result of his participation in a think-tank called the International Forum on Globalization (IFOG).
IFOG itself turns out to be an assortment of some 60 anti-capitalist organizations and intellectuals from 25 nations who have been assembling pieces of the roadmap since the mid-1990s, some much earlier.
About the time Hayes made his presentation, IFOG released a document titled, A Better World Is Possible: Alternatives to Economic Globalization. It was characterized as the "Summary of an Upcoming Report by the Alternatives Committee of the International Forum on Globalization." The 18-member drafting committee included Hayes. The committee's document is the source of Hayes' shorter, more concise Restructuring the Global Economy.
Quick Assessment
Hayes opens the text of Restructuring the Global Economy with a prologue by author Jerry Mander, regarded by many as today's most articulate and outspoken critic of technology and economic globalization. Mander is founder and president of the International Forum on Globalization. Mander sets Hayes' stage:
Economic globalization is the greatest single contributor to the massive ecological crises of our time, yet this is an aspect that is often ignored—by the media, NGOs, policymakers, and citizens. Its inherent emphasis on increased trade requires corresponding expansion of transportation infrastructures—airports, seaports, roads, rail-lines, pipelines, dams, electric grids—many of these are constructed in pristine landscapes, often on Indigenous people's lands. Increased transport also uses drastically increased fossil fuels, adding to the problems of climate change, ozone depletion, and ocean, air, and soil pollution. Further, under trade liberalization rules, corporations have easier access to already depleted natural resources and environmental standards are harmonized to the lowest common denominator.
Hayes then fills twelve pages with the IFOG plan and supporting arguments. The core of their message is contained midway through in these six paragraphs:
When we look at global governance we find two competing sets of global governing institutions. The first set, of course, includes the United Nations with related institutions such as the World Health Organization, International Labor Organization, Food and Agriculture Organization, United Nations Development Program, United Nations Environment Program, UNICEF, and others.
At the end of World War II there was a seminal meeting at a New Hampshire hotel called Bretton Woods that spawned the "Bretton Woods" institutions. These include the World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the GATT, out of which came the WTO. This is the second set of governing institutions.
The Bretton Woods institutions offer much less democracy and accountability. It is time to throw out those babies…
We have to wrest control of global economic rule making away from the tiny, powerful clique of WTO and transnational corporate executive powerbrokers…
First, we argue for the dismantling of the Bretton Woods Institutions: the World Bank, the IMF, and the WTO. Second, we claim this must be done hand-in-hand with reforming and strengthening certain UN agencies. Third, we believe that new institutions within the UN must be created.
With this three-part package, we will see global economic governance unified under the UN system.
The gun couldn't be much smokier.
Caution: Hayes has a reputation for bluster and show.
Warning: His colleagues in IFOG do not.
Danger: His Rainforest Action Network also has financial backing from more than a few of those "transnational corporate executive powerbrokers" he derides. Although most of RAN's donors are executives of nonprofit corporations, some important ones are profit-making capitalist moguls with a bent for anti-capitalist philanthropy, such as Ted Turner (CNN-Time-Warner), Douglas Tompkins (Esprit and North Face clothing), and Richard Goldman (insurance). Mander's International Forum on Globalization has even more ties to great wealth.
As we examine Restructuring the Global Economy in detail, we might think of it as the plan of a radical few, paid for by a wealthy fewer.
Hayes follows Mander's prologue with three stock paragraphs echoing the anti-capitalist, anti-globalization theme. As soon as these obligatory remarks are out of the way, Hayes makes his first major point:
Attractive alternatives to a capitalistic economic system are not popularly available. After talking with friends and colleagues across the progressive spectrum, I know of no coherent alternatives gaining momentum. Capitalism is the ruling system; therefore we must ask the fundamental question: Can capitalism be radically improved, humanized, and ecologized?
We learn a great deal in this short paragraph:
· Progressivism is the basic IFOG ideology, not just environmentalism.
· The IFOG authors are practical; they won't waste resources promoting unpopular alternatives.
· This is not an attempt to revive communism, but something more radical.
· They are not curious whether capitalism could survive being "radically improved, humanized, and ecologized."
Hayes now rambles through three pages of justifications for wresting control of economic rulemaking from capitalists, national governments, and international financing institutions, but he does not yet explain why economic rulemaking is so significant to him. Instead, he begins:
I have three important premises to provide a general context for my perspective. First, nature bats last. The second premise is that the house is on fire. Finally, in times of crisis our plans be commensurate with the scale of the problems. We need something akin to another Marshal Plan—starting with restructuring the rulemaking processes for the global economy—to provide a roadmap to help reverse dangerous trends and get us to a better world.
The first two premises are bogeymen we must fear if we are to answer his later call to action.
· Nature bats last. Catchphrase meaning nature will destroy you if you violate her rules, and capitalism violates nature's rules. We're doomed.
· The house is on fire. Capitalism is the fire, earth is the house, capitalism is destroying everything, air, water, soil, all life on earth. We're doomed.
That's sufficient reason to justify destroying capitalism.
The third premise is a scheme to save us from the two bogeymen: "another Marshal Plan," which Hayes later calls, "Marshal Plan II."
It's worth recalling that the original Marshal Plan, officially dubbed the "Economic Recovery Plan," was proposed in 1947 by Secretary of State George C. Marshal, and ended up pumping vast amounts of American money into war-torn Europe to prevent the spread of communism and to stabilize the international order in a way favorable to the development of political democracy and free-market economies. It is ironic that Hayes named his proposal — which would prevent the spread of capitalism and eliminate free-market economies under United Nations control — after the diametrically opposed Marshal Plan.
The "better world" that Hayes and the IFOG see coming from Marshal Plan II is one of "sustainability." Hayes is emphatic that it is not a world of "shivering in the dark," but one of "rich and rewarding lifestyles" lived "within the planet's natural systems." Sustainability, Hayes teaches us, "has three fundamental parts to a whole-systems approach": 1) ecology, 2) economy, and 3) equity, the "Three E's." He assures us this is a "unifying, something-for-everybody approach." Since that's a little thin on details, Hayes explains:
A more precise definition of sustainability would be: diverse and rewarding lifestyles many would want to emulate and, if they did, the planet's natural systems and wildlife populations would increasingly flourish, generation after generation.
Hayes seemed to think that was much clearer.
Before getting into the key discussion of rulemaking for the global economy, Hayes tells us:
The rules of the global economy are not the only strategic concern. Other root causes of the social and ecological crisis must be addressed simultaneously. Below is an eight-point list-in-progress of root causes. The first six points draw from the work at the Foundation for Deep Ecology in Sausalito, California.
· Anthropocentrism, the assumption of human superiority over nature. This is related to patriarchy and the "dominator" paradigm.
· Unlimited, linear economic growth in a world dependent on nonrenewable resources and closed loop cycles.
· Technology worship, the prevailing paradigm that technological evolution is invariably good and that problems caused by technology can be solved by more technology.
· Modern chemistry, the invention of substances that cannot be returned productively into the planet's natural cycles. For many modern chemicals, such as DDT or PCBs, there are no organic counterparts capable of biologically degrading these substances.
· Domination of mass media (particularly TV and advertising) by viewpoints that serve the interests of the industrial world and suppress alternate views.
· The concentration of power amongst corporate executives and owners, and the consequent loss of democratic empowerment that has been profoundly detrimental to human beings as well as nature.
· The absence of a geologic or long-term time perspective: actions based on the desire for short-term gratification can degrade the conditions for life and reduce options for subsequent generations.
· Lack of education in industrial cultures in general systems theory or whole-systems thinking leading to eco-illiteracy and lack of ecodesign.
Since the Foundation for Deep Ecology paid for most of the International Forum on Globalization report that underlies Hayes' paper, this eco-sociology lesson comes as no surprise. IFOG's president is the same Jerry Mander who is the program director of the Foundation for Deep Ecology.
The International Forum on Globalization (IFOG) is a 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization based in San Francisco. It was formed by Jerry Mander in 1997 and received increasing foundation contributions up to the most recent IRS filing, which shows $933,017 in 2000. Its primary donor has been Esprit and North Face clothing mogul Douglas Tompkins through his Foundation for Deep Ecology ($852,500), which has also given large amounts of money to Hayes' Rainforest Action Network (RAN). Other IFOG donors, listed in order of funding totals, are: the MacArthur Foundation ($200,000); Rockefeller Brothers Fund ($165,000); Ford Foundation ($150,000); Educational Foundation of America (the Prentice-Hall textbook fortune, $55,000); HKH Foundation (the AMAX mining fortune, $25,000); and Turner Foundation ($20,000). Five of the seven also fund RAN. All fund other anti-globalization groups.
"It's an extraordinarily incestuous world out there," as foundation consultant Robert Schaeffer once told the Boston Globe.
Four pages into his presentation, Hayes finally begins his discussion of economic rulemaking:
Let me explain why I focus on the economic aspects and, in particular, the rule-making systems of the global economy. At Rainforest Action Network, fighting to save the rainforest has largely involved trying to stop billions of dollars from being used to fund deforestation and disaster. Groups around the world put their shoulder to the task. With the Burger King boycott and 18 months of demonstrating in the streets, we stopped the funding flow from a thirty-five million dollar contract that was turning ancient tropical rainforests into cattle pastures to provide the U.S. market with cheap, greasy hamburgers. On the heels of that success—and with just the threat of a boycott—we stopped hundreds of millions of dollars that would have funded giant U.S. companies, such as Scott Paper, from slaughter-logging Indonesian forests to make toilet paper for the Japanese market. We prevented the World Bank from lending billions of dollars to ill-advised projects. In countries such as Brazil, such projects would have cleared vast areas of the Emerald Forest to build giant hydroelectric projects—shortsighted dams that would soon silt up and become useless legacies. It was influencing the flow of money that saved the most acres, species, and traditional Indigenous economies.
In short, Hayes understands the power of stopping economic activity by going outside the political mechanisms of constitutional democracy. He tells us how he does it:
Home Depot is the largest retailer of old growth wood products in the world. The company claims to account for ten percent of the world's retail wood sales, opening a new big box store an average of every 48 hours. Home Depot's marketing of old growth contributes to the slaughter logging that is rapidly deforesting the planet. When asked to stop selling old growth wood, Home Depot executives did not return our calls. We had to generate pressure. Grassroots pressure resulted in more than 250,000 calls and letters, and hundreds of demonstrations in the United States and Canada. The company's branding faded from a clean Home Depot orange to mud. Now Home Depot answers our calls.
The campaign resulted in Home Depot and several other large retailers agreeing on a "no old growth sales" policy.
In other words, Hayes runs a shakedown operation, as RAN's arrest record indicates. He doesn't mention here that his organization used unlawful activities such as trespass, intimidation and vandalism against his targets. The Internal Revenue Service has been asked to revoke RAN's tax exempt status for various offenses.
Hayes makes one thing clear: progressivists will use unlawful tactics to reach their goals.
What did Hayes learn from his activism?
I came to realize that the most important environmental policy is, in fact, economic policy…
Asking "who makes the economic rules" is essentially the same question as "who rules the world?" Increasingly, transnational executives and boards of directors, whose worldview is "corporate economic globalization, control the global rulemaking processes." That amounts to corporate global governance.
Hayes and his colleagues appear to want that job for themselves. It is at this point that Hayes launches into his remarks quoted at the outset, ending with IFOG's three-part package that "will see global economic governance unified under the UN system."
Finally we get to the details of the IFOG plan to rule the world.
The first part of the IFOG plan is to dismantle the Bretton Woods institutions. In terms of the World Bank, the plan would be to appoint an International World Bank Decommissioning Commission. Just as aging nuclear power plants must be decommissioned, so should other failed concepts. Perhaps half of the members would come from outside government, since we're the ones who informed governments and the world of the Bank's destructive projects. We would start by cutting the World Bank staff from about 8,000 (including 3,000 consultants) to about 1,000. Bilateral loans and grants, which generally have more accountability, could help fund worthy projects in the Global South and former Soviet Union. This commission would develop plans to distribute the assets of the Bank. Perhaps the General Assembly would vote on final distribution.
In terms of the IMF, the plan would be to appoint an International IMF Decommissioning Commission. Again, half of the members would be from outside government. We could start by cutting the IMF staff from about 1,000 to about 200. We would dismantle all structural adjustment programs in the Global South and former Soviet Union. This commission would also develop plans to distribute the assets of the IMF.
With the WTO, we believe the aim is not to reform the institution, but to radically reduce its power and to eventually eliminate it. This can be done. The alternative to the WTO is not chaos, as the corporate powers would have you fear. We achieved a temporary reduction of the WTO power at the ministerial meeting in Seattle when concerned citizens stopped expansion such as the Free Logging Agreement. As described in the IFOG report, shrinking and eventually eliminating the WTO will help citizen movements around the world to break apart transnational corporate power. This will help eliminate special corporate rights and privileges, eliminate corporate welfare, and decharter corporations with a pattern of criminal activities.
In short, the IFOG plan to dismantle the instruments of capitalism and take control away from the nation-states that charter corporations.
Now for Step 2:
The second part of our package is strengthening and reforming the UN. We need to achieve more clarity on the UN's mandate. It must assume the role of global economic governance. This would be under the jurisdiction of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations General Assembly.
In short, the IFOG plan to put total power within its grasp and take it away from national governments.
Now for Step 3:
The third part of our package involves creating new organizations within the UN. Here these five examples serve not as blueprints, but as a basis for an ongoing dialog. Consider a UN with:
· The International Insolvency Court to deal with debt relief. For many countries in the Global South, external debt has become a kind of indentured servitude that is paralyzing. Here we endorse the recommendations from the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Jubilee 2000, and the Canadian government. It would arbitrate settlements between debtors and creditors. Where conciliation cannot be reached, an arbitration panel would make legally binding final rulings.
· The International Finance Organization (IFO) would help UN member countries achieve and maintain balance and stability in global financial relationships. The IFO would promote domestic investment and domestic ownership of productive resources. The IFO would effectively replace the IMF, but with full accountability to the UN. Its charter would favor community and ecological concerns over corporate or finance interests.
· The Regional Monetary Funds (RMFs) would help with the legitimate need for short-term emergency foreign exchange loans. The RMFs would be accountable to the member countries in their region.
· As for replacing the WTO, some colleagues argue that no global trade organization is necessary. We should just strengthen regional bodies. Others say we should go back to GATT and make it more transparent and democratic. Still others say that we need an International Trade Organization, changed to bust cartels, foster ecological economics as well as be more transparent and democratic.
· The Organization for Corporate Accountability or (OCA) would be under the UN, but enforcement would be at national or local levels. The OCA would support national initiatives on corporate accountability by providing the public with authoritative information on corporate practices around the world for possible legal action and boycotts.
· I would add a sixth agency, the World Overconsumption Reduction Bank. We need to break the patriarchal approach and underscore the ecological and social harm done by the wasteful lifestyles and systems of the industrial north: Japan, Europe, Canada, and the United States.
In short, the IFOG plan to rule the world.
Hayes also calls it the "kickoff to Marshal Plan II."
The rest of Hayes' paper is more or less pep-talk, calling the faithful to action, and of no further concern to us here. It can be read in its entirety at restructuring.pdf. The PDF document requires the Adobe Acrobat Reader, available for free download at www.adobe.com.
We've now seen what IFOG has in mind: Give non-profit groups access to supreme economic decision-making power within the United Nations framework. Remove corporations and nations from economic decision-making. Dictate austere lifestyles to the industrial north. Do it in the name of ecology and the oppressed poor. Do it with foundation money.
Their plan was written by 18 people on a special Alternatives to Economic Globalization committee.
Who are these guys?
Hayes tells us:
In order to work more effectively in the economic arena, I joined a San Francisco-based think tank called the International Forum on Globalization (IFOG). As a result, I'm now working with leading social, ecological, and systems thinkers and activists from around the world, including Vandana Shiva from India, Teddy Goldsmith from Europe, Martin Khor from Malaysia, John Mohawk from Six Nations Confederacy in upstate New York, Maude Barlow from Canada, Oronto Douglas from Nigeria, Sara Larrain from Chile, Victoria Tauli-Corpus and Walden Bello from the Philippines, as well as David Korten and Jerry Mander from the United States. The web site—www.ifg.org—has more information on what we mean by "economic globalization."
That's not much to go on. Here are thumbnail profiles of these people and Randy
Hayes himself:
· Randall Hayes, filmmaker, produced The Cracking of Glen Canyon Damn for Earth First! in 1982, where he met Mike Roselle. Made award-winning anti-mining film The Four Corners: A National Sacrifice Area? Co-founder of Rainforest Action Network in 1984 with Mike Roselle (co-founder of Earth First! and campaigner with Greenpeace) with mentoring of David Brower, who conceived the need for a rainforest-focus organization, and Herb Gunther of Public Media Center. RAN was originally located in a storage room in Gunther's office, later moved to space in Brower's Earth Island Institute offices. At the kickoff meeting in 1985, Hayes was credited as the sole founder of RAN to hide influence of Roselle and Brower. Has been arrested in several "ceremonial" banner-hanging protests involving celebrities.
· Vandana Shiva, Indian small-farm advocate strongly opposed to biotechnology, is founder and director of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Natural Resource Policy, based in Delhi. She is also the ecology advisor of the Third World Network, and is author of "Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge."
· Edward Goldsmith, a catastrophist and anti-technology advocate, is the brother of the late billionaire, Sir Jimmy Goldsmith, and founder of the journal The Ecologist. He is president of 'Ecoropa', France; member of the board of the JMG Foundation (part of the fortune left by his brother), principal environmental consultant to the Ecological Foundation; member of the Council of The Rainforest Foundation; and trustee of the Foundation for Gaia. Co-editor with Jerry Mander of The Case Against the Global Economy and For a Turn Towards the Local (1997).
· Martin Khor is director of the Third World Network, a nonprofit organization based in Penang, Malaysia, with offices in Delhi, India; Montevideo, Uruguay; Geneva; London; and Accra, Ghana.
· Professor John Mohawk is co-director of the State University of New York (Buffalo) Center of the Americas and Director of Indigenous Studies. He is author of many articles and 3 books, including A Basic Call to Consciousness (1978) and Exiled in the Land of the Free (1991). His work emphasizes Native American spirituality.
· Maude Barlow is chair of the anti-corporate organization, Council of Canadians, and co-author of Global Showdown: How the New Activists Are Fighting Global Corporate Rule.
· Oronto Douglas, a lawyer from the Niger Delta, is founder of Environmental Rights Action (affiliate of Friends of the Earth), and leader of the Chicoco movement, an anti-government, anti-Shell Oil organization.
· Sara Larrain, director of Chilean Ecological Action Network (RENACE).
· Victoria Tauli-Corpus, director of the anti-capitalist Tebtebba Foundation (Indigenous Peoples' International Center for Policy Research & Education), a United Nations consultative group based in Baguio City, Philippines.
· Walden Bello, director of the Bangkok-based anti-capitalist group Focus on the Global South. He is Professor of Public Administration and Sociology at the University of the Philippines. He is also a Fellow of the Amsterdam-based Transnational Institute, created by the cosmetics fortune of Samuel Rubin and headed by Rubin's daughter, Cora Weiss, both of whom described themselves as "socialist." Weiss used the Rubin fortune to establish the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C., the premiere leftist think-tank in the United States, from which emerged the Transnational Institute.
· David Korten, chairman of the anti-corporate Positive Futures Network, based on wealthy Bainbridge Island in Washington State (funded by the Ford Foundation $875,000; Foundation for Deep Ecology $35,000; Rockefeller Brothers Fund $20,000; Kellogg Foundation, $11,909), is author of When Corporations Rule the World; The Post-Corporate World: Life After Capitalism; Globalizing Civil Society: Reclaiming Our Right to Power. "Civil society" in that last book title means, in progressivist jargon, only non-governmental organizations with a progressivist agenda; other non-profits and all for-profit enterprises are excluded.
Edward Goldsmith and John Mohawk were not on the Drafting Committee of the IFOG Alternatives to Economic Globalization report. Hayes did not mention eight others who were on the committee. The missing eight are:
· John Cavanagh, Drafting Committee Chair; Director, Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, D.C.; Fellow, Transnational Institute, Amsterdam. They don't get a lot more anti-American or anti-capitalist than this man.
· Sarah Anderson, director, Global Economy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies.
· Debi Barker, co-director of the International Forum on Globalization.
· Robin Broad is a resident associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and an international affairs fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations.
· Tony Clarke, Director, Polaris Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, chair IFOG's committee on corporations.
· Colin Hines, author of Localization: A Global Manifesto, associate, IFOG.
· Helena Norberg-Hodge, founder and director of ISEC (International Society for Ecology & Culture), based in Devon, United Kingdom.
· Simon Retallack, managing editor for special editions of Teddy Goldsmith's The Ecologist in the United Kingdom and co-director of Goldsmith's Climate Initiatives Fund.
· Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, a Ralph Nader group.
There are 60 organizations with such people. And that's just in IFOG.
In closing, we come to the man who made this all happen.
· Jerry Mander is the founder of the International Forum on Globalization. He has written two books, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television (1977), and In the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure Of Technology and the Survival of the Indian Nations (1991) and co-edited with Edward Goldsmith, The Case Against the Global Economy (1996). He is senior fellow of the San Francisco-based Public Media Center, and program director of the Foundation for Deep Ecology.
· Mander's foundation role makes him influential. He is active in the Funders Network on Trade and Globalization, a project sponsored by the Environmental Grantmakers Association. FNTG is governed by a 12 person steering committee. The current members are:
o Anannya Bhattacharjee, Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program
o Diana Cohn, Solidago Foundation
o Michael Conroy, Ford Foundation
o Jon Cracknell, JMG Foundation
o Melissa Dann, Wallace Global Fund
o Carolyn Deere, Rockefeller Foundation
o Sarah Hansen, Environmental Grantmakers Association
o Jerry Mander, Foundation for Deep Ecology
o Michael Northrop, Rockefeller Brothers Fund
o Christina Roessler, FACT
o Marni Rosen, Jenifer Altman Foundation
o Ada Sanchez, CarEth Foundation (withdrawn, per CarEth officials)
This is the money trying to centralize global economic rule-making in the United Nations. Some of the money.
Tracing it all is now a matter of good detective work.
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ROCKFON processes waste products into new fibres
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All things considered, upcycling is a win-win-win – for you and the environment. A fact that has recently been recognised by the Association of Interior Specialists in their 2012 Best Practice Awards where ROCKFON's Upcycling process has been highly commended for Eco Innovation for helping to reduce waste and find alternate uses for waste in the ceiling industry
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Google Giving Away Free Movies, Music, Magazines, And TV Shows To New Nexus Owners
If you've recently purchased a shiny new Nexus device for yourself, we have good news for you. For new owners of the Nexus 4, Nexus 7, and Nexus 10, Google is giving you a few treats for buying their devices. If you open the Play apps (Movies & TV, Music, or Magazines), you'll have some free content waiting to be absorbed.
Nexus 4 owners will get the movie Transformers: Dark of the Moon, while Nexus 7 and 10 owners get Ice Age. The Nexus 4 also gets an episode of Falling Earth and a 2 hour premier of Falling Skies. There are also some magazines and various songs you get for free, but it's free stuff! Open the apps to check them out!


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Best of Toronto
The Best New Bars in Toronto, 2011
The best new bars to open in Toronto in 2011 continue to parallel Toronto's ascent up the cultural stratosphere. None of these places are merely neighbourhood locals — they're destinations. Whether it's for a calculated cocktail, dizzying live music or just an invigorating atmosphere, these are all establishments of merit, worthy of a streetcar or taxi ride. And if any of these happen to be your local? Well, the neighbourhood just got that much better.
Continuing a recent trend, this list reveals just how enthusiastically the city has embraced cocktail culture. No longer is a couple of taps and a few bottles of plonk enough to attract the masses. Far from it. Many of the establishments here has a sophisticated cocktail menu, often boasting both classic and modern offerings without even a whiff of saccharine, neon abominations like sour apple or melon liqueur. Yes, we've grown up: we're a discerning bunch who wants our beer local and our spirits mixed. Skillfully.
Here are the best new bars to open in Toronto during 2011.
See also:
The best new bars in Toronto, 2010
The best new bars in Toronto, 2009
Cold Tea
Named after the not-so-secret codename of after hours beer at some Chinese restaurants, Cold Tea the bar takes that sense of secrecy and runs with it. Located at a hard to find location in the depths Kensington Market, this dark, dank and divey hole in the wall feels like an unlicensed speakeasy even though it isn't. With dim sum till close, cheap beer, decent cocktails and of course, great music, what more do you need? More »
Cocktail Bar
For those interested in finding the best Manhattan in town, look no further. It's not on the menu, but rest assured the oak aged version at Cocktail Bar is beyond compare. 3 oz. of smooth, subtly earthly perfection topped off, of course, with a macerated cherry. Of course, if Manhattans aren't your thing, this Black Hoof outpost has a menu full of classic and original concoctions that can measure up just as well. More »
No One Writes to the Colonel
No One Writes to the Colonel (named for a novella by Nobel Prize winning author Gabriel García Marquez) is the antidote to the chaos of College and Bathurst. Sandwiched in between the sticky, student bars just to the east and the sickly swank to the west, The Colonel fills the void for those of us looking for a drink in a cool, comfy and classy environment. More »
416 Snack Bar
Open just barely a year now, this place is still rammed nearly every night of the week. The folks at 416 Snack Bar have managed to do what all aspiring bar owners dream of, build at atmosphere that's at once urgent, inviting, unique and full of possibility. It's not the place to go for a full meal, but the food is so good I often don't want to eat anywhere else. More »
Spin Toronto
The concept is simple. A ping-pong hall with a bar. But forget about dimly lit, subterranean basements, Spin Toronto comes equipped with a full cocktail list, impressive draught selection and a menu you'll almost want to put your ping pong paddle down for. Fortunately there's enough snacky stuff on there that you won't really have to. Bourbon and bacon caramel corn anyone? More »
The Hoxton
The Hoxton is part bar, part club, part event space and partly owned by Kenny vs. Spenny's Kenny Hotz. If that's not reason enough to go, it's worth noting that the other two owners are Richard Lambert and Jesse Girard who own Parts & Labour, last years number two spot on the Best New Bars list. The place is central, minimal and been packing in talent since it opened this fall. More »
Bar Neon
Bar Neon takes over the space formerly occupied by the short lived Calico Cafe after chef Jared Davis moved on to bigger and better things. This off shoot of sister site, Cafe Neon just a few blocks away offers a light snacking menu featuring oysters, flat breads and delicious mini croque monsieurs. To drink you'll find a small cocktail list featuring an excellent bourbon based negroni, as well as a handful of carefully curated craft beers on tap. More »
Poetry Jazz Cafe
This brand new Kensington haunt, inspired by bygone be-boppers like Miles Davis, is perfect addition to the ever-changing market. While gourmet burgers joints seem to be multiplying faster than the plague, this place radiates the kind of classic cool that is rarely seen these days. Back to a time when calling someone a hipster was a term of endearment and the avant-garde was the sound of rebellion. More »
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But Cold Tea Room? I can't believe people are lining up to get into that place. It's too loud to talk, the beer selection is awful (can't speak to the bartender's skills though) and there's a horrible sense of phoniness about the place—that it's called Cold Tea Room, and has a Chinese woman selling dumplings at the door to a bunch of middle-class white hipsters, has weird race connotations to me as well, like it's designed to give the kids an "urban" experience and make them feel like they're part of something exclusive. It's strange.
Vice Magazine.
so we got ready and set out to walk to the bar. the moment we walked in we were like yes tonight we will party!!!!i loved that place.good memories we got a bit drunk and when we were about to exit she spilled red drink on the carpet and said your walking on red carpet good times
What i love about the market is that we're not about the ultra modern cold, lifeless straight lines. My opinion, i feel a deep sense of suspicion of bars and restaurants that claim completion and perfection.
The vibe in the market is bout surviving, being true and living in the moment.
Sean: Poetry Jazz Cafe
Long live Ronny's, Detour, Embassy, Cold Tea and the rest of the sanctuaries that remembers your name when you step into their dim lit spaces.
Fellas, if your girl can't hang and have a scotch with you in Kensington market, it's bout time you find someone who can…
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November 16, 2013 at 7:00 PM
Location: All Saints' Episcopal Church, 475 Main St., Johnson City, NY 13790
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All Saints' Episcopal Church to Hold Cabaret and Themed Basket Raffle
All Saints' Episcopal Church, 475 Main St., Johnson City will hold a Cabaret entitled "Putting on the Ritz" on Saturday, November 16th at 7:00 pm. The evening will feature musical acts, comedy and magic with a 1920's speakeasy feel. Included is a themed gift basket raffle featuring dining gift cards, wine, beer, movie tickets, baby and child items, pet items, car care, golf items and more. Hors d'oeuvres will be served.
Funds raised from this event will be used to support All Saints' community outreach programs including the Soup and Sandwich Saturday luncheons and the church's CHOW Pantry.
Tickets are $12. For tickets call 797-3354. Tickets may also be purchased at the door until 7:00 p.m.


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JACKSONVILLE - Sometimes when you have a struggling football team, a gift from the heavens is just what the doctor ordered.
Jacksonville State, which appeared to lose Saturday on TennesseeState's last-second field goal in regulation play, instead beat the previously undefeated Tigers 31-28 on a 42-yard field goal by Griffin Thomas in overtime.
The improbable finish began when TennesseeState's Jamin Godfrey kicked a 42-yard field goal as time expired. The referees in the end zone signaled the kick good but as the visiting Tigers stormed the field another referee waved off the play because of a false start.
The visitors backed up five yards and Godfrey missed from 47 yards to send the game in overtime.
Godfrey missed from 42 yards on his team's first possession in extended play. Thomas, who missed two field goals and had another blocked in last week's 31-28 loss to Eastern Illinois came in on fourth down and nailed a 42-yarder for the win.
"Last week was an aberration," JSU Head Coach Jack Crowe said in his confidence in his place kicker. I knew he was due."
Tennessee State entered the game (7-0, 3-0) and unbeaten since the final game of last season when JSU downed the Tigers 38-16. The Ohio Valley Conference win for the Gamecocks puts them at 4-3 on the season and 3-2 in conference play.
The entire game was a back and forth tussle with JSU scoring and Tennessee State responding. JSU scored less than five minutes into the game after Jermaine Hough intercepted a Tiger pass and Troymaine Pope responded with a two-yard touchdown run.
Tennessee State tied the score six minutes later on a 19-yard touchdown pass. The score was eventually tied 14-14 in the second quarter and the Tigers scored on a 42-yard touchdown run to lead 21-14 at the half.
JSU knotted the score 21-21 on its first series in the second half when Washaun Ealey scored from eight yards out.
JSU scored again on its next possession on quarterback Coty Blanchard's two-yard run but the visitors put together a nine-play, 70-yard drive in the fourth quarter to tie the score 28-28.
"If you look at the stats we may have been outperformed but when you win you weren't outplayed," Crowe said. "We did the gutsy stuff it takes to win. I'm more and more impressed with these football players. We're a good football team. We should be sitting better than we are."
Ealey was the workhorse for the Gamecocks. He rushed 33 times for 122 yards and scored a touchdown. Marquis Ivory was 11 of 17 passing for 187 yards and a touchdown. Hough intercepted two passes on the day and recorded three tackles. Ben Endress led the Gamecocks in tackles with eight.
The Tigers' Nick Thrasher gave JSU fits throughout the day. He was credited with 16 tackles.
The Gamecocks return to action next Saturday as they host OVC foe Murray State.