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1. Eat no more than 40 GLs a day
2. Eat protein with carbohydate
The Holford Low GL Diet
At its heart, one controlling principle:
If you lose blood sugar control, you gain weight and feel hungry and tired.
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1. Eat no more than 40 GLs a day
2. Eat protein with carbohydate
The Holford Low GL Diet
At its heart, one controlling principle:
If you lose blood sugar control, you gain weight and feel hungry and tired.
If you gain blood sugar control, you lose weight and feel happy and full of energy.
When you balance your blood sugar, you'll lose weight fast.
With The Holford Low GL Diet you will beat your cravings! You'll enjoy delicious meals, choosing from a wide variety of energy-boosting foods and simple menu plans. The diet is safe and easy to follow, and includes a nutritional supplementation plan to increase your energy and decrease your appetite.
Tried and tested by the Institute for Optimum Nutrition, The Holford Low GL Diet is based on the latest medical and nutritional research, made totally accessible. Discover how easy it is to reprogram your body to burn your fat away.
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Why the Holford Diet Works
Imagine this.
You've just woken up. You feel full of energy. Your mind is clear. You get up, have a healthy breakfast and, throughout the day, your energy is good, your mood is stable, you're mentally sharp, and your concentration is good. You haven't experienced a single craving. You haven't had energy dips or gotten cranky and irritable.
But that's just the inside story. You also look great. Your weight is more or less where you want it to be. You're well toned. Your skin has a healthy glow. People often comment on how slim and well you look and how young you look for your age. You feel young, both physically and mentally. And this is how you feel every day!
Welcome to the new you. This is not only how you could be, this is how you should be. More important, it's how you will be when you follow the Holford Diet. And all it takes to see a dramatic difference is 30 days.
I realize that you may have spent the last decade trudging through a succession of diets with nothing to show for it but a slimmed-down bank balance and more fat than you started with. Every bookstore bristles with "miracle" weight-loss techniques and "guaranteed" recipes for everything from longevity to cellulite control. So I know you may be feeling cheated by claims and promises that have never panned out. Why, then, should you believe what I'm saying?
You can be thin and healthy
This is why. The Holford Diet works because it is much more than just a way to lose weight. It is a holistic system for attaining optimum health and a healthy, self-regulating body is naturally slim.
The fact is that many of the people who discover my diet, follow it, and write to me reporting substantial weight loss didn't set off to lose weight in the first place. They wanted to be healthy and thought the optimum nutrition approach made sense. And, as their health improved, the pounds dropped off. Optimum health, they found, also means optimum weight.
The body will naturally reach its ideal weight given the chance. You'll eat less if your blood sugar is stable, and your metabolism will be better able to burn off excess weight.
I have yet to see any diet work better in the long run than this approach. I teach doctors, healthcare practitioners, and nutritionists all over the world, but none is as slim, energetic, and healthy as the thousand nutritionists we have trained at ION the Institute for Optimum Nutrition.
At ION, decades of work with more than 100,000 volunteers first revealed how overall health determines weight, by showing that overweight is a symptom of a much wider condition. We sometimes call it "21st-century-itis."
Exhaustion, moodiness, depression, bloating 21st-century-itis is a response to our polluted, urbanized, speeded-up world, and overweight is a common symptom.
The reality of being, say, tired all day, uncomfortably overweight, and feeling ill is no joke. Remember, though, that all this could change in just 30 days. Your load could be significantly lightened. And three months on the Holford Diet will leave you completely free of these symptoms, as well as up to 28 pounds lighter.
A diet for life
The point is that we already know how to cure 21st-century-itis, and that is my goal for you. I want you to lose weight fast, keep losing weight until you reach your goal, and maintain your weight once you get there but always within the context of optimum energy and well-being. This is what you can look forward to:
Within 7 days you will start to lose pounds as quickly as you'll gain energy.
Within 20 days you'll notice your skin has dramatically improved.
Within 30 days you'll be starting to feel like a new you.
And within three months? You will have seriously undamaged your health.
Of course, if you just want to lose weight there are plenty of ways to do it. I've studied them all. I was there with the rise and fall of the F Plan Diet, the Hip & Thigh Diet, the Atkins Diet, and many others. I advised Rosemary Conley as I believed her diets were dangerously low in essential fats. I challenged Dr. Atkins when the science just didn't seem to add up.
I know the pros and cons of all of them. I know why high-protein diets work better for some but not for others, and don't work in the long run. I've tested Atkins dieters and I believe that his regime can actually seriously damage health. I know why you can lose weight on low-fat diets, only to end up with dry and wrinkly skin. I know why most diets leave you exhausted. Most of all, I know why the pounds you lose keep coming back!
For me to get excited about a diet that claims to be successful, it must fulfill the following criteria:
It works in both the short and the long term
Instant results may be thrilling, but they're usually not sustained. The body can't burn more than 2 pounds of actual fat in a week, unless you go into starvation mode. I look for a steady loss of 6 to 10 pounds a month, or 28 pounds in three months, or 112 pounds in a year if you've got that much to lose with no rebound weight gain. That said, you can lose up to 6 pounds of excess water if you're eating foods to which you've developed an intolerance. That's why some people lose 7 pounds in the first week of the Holford Diet.
You never feel hungry
If a diet leaves you feeling famished, you won't stick to it. So from day one it has to satisfy your appetite. The Holford Diet specifically recommends the foods scientifically proven to best satisfy your appetite, and I'm going to tell you exactly which those foods are.
It's enjoyable
If you can't eat a wide variety of foods or have to actively avoid eating certain food groups, a diet will start to feel boring very fast, and it will be neither enjoyable nor sustainable. The framework of my diet, the Fatburner System, allows a cornucopia of delectable foods containing good fats, protein, and carbohydrates. You'll be able to eat bread and pasta, mayonnaise, meat the works. You'll just pay more attention to quality and quantity.
It's safe
I'm not interested in helping people lose weight by cheating the body. Sure, you can lose weight with diet pills, or by cutting out all carbohydrates, but it just isn't good for you and, in the end, crime doesn't pay. The only side effect I want you to experience is improved health.
It makes you feel great
If a diet is working with the body's design, not against it, you should start to feel better, with more energy, improved mood and concentration, and better skin within days.
There's no rebound weight gain
You can lose weight by massively restricting food intake but the body thinks it's gone into starvation mode and slows down your metabolism. So, as soon as you start eating enough for your needs, the pounds boomerang back. The same is true of stimulants such as caffeine. They can suppress your appetite so you can lose weight in the short term, but in the end they slow down your metabolism. As you'll see, these can give short-term weight loss, but rebound weight gain.
It's easy to follow
At the end of the day, if a diet becomes as easy and natural as breathing, you'll stick to it for life. So, if the food is delicious, is easy to find and prepare, and leaves you satisfied and feeling wonderful, you're far more likely to make it part of your life.
The word from the weight-loss trenches
The Holford Diet scores 10 out of 10 for each of these criteria. But you don't have to take just my word for it. Here are the stories of a handful of the many thousands who have followed the Fatburner System.
Linda H. was just 5 feet, 2 inches tall, but had gradually expanded sideways in her twenties. She had tried every diet under the sun and finally settled on WeightWatchers, with some success. She had been a member of WeightWatchers for five years and had managed, with much sacrifice, to get down to and maintain a weight of 122 pounds. But she found she couldn't get below this. She wasn't quite at the right weight for her and it was a frustrating impasse. Then she discovered the Fatburner System:
On your diet I began to lose weight at once. Within 30 days I came down to 8 stone 4 [116 pounds] a thing I thought impossible! However, I was totally unprepared for the new energy levels. I cannot believe how marvelous I feel I am no longer tired no matter what I do or how active I am. I have stopped falling asleep at odd moments when I relax. I no longer feel bloated and tired after eating. Your diet has changed my life!
Carol P. had been gradually gaining weight, year after year. When she turned 60 she realized her weight was out of control:
What I liked about your approach is the understanding of the human psyche and the reality of living. You don't have to be a total puritan and you don't get hungry. If I were hungry, I'd have a piece of fruit. What I needed was a diet for life. I'm not so strict now on the exercise, but still generally follow the dietary principles. I definitely feel a lot better. I like the way my body looks. I have more energy. I feel happy and my mood is more even. I will have no problem staying on this general routine for life.
I felt too fat and it was hard to bend over and tie the laces on my walking boots. I was getting out of breath going up hills and I started to worry about that. I decided to do your diet and the exercises. I cut out nearly all wheat, ate mainly oat porridge for breakfast, and cut out biscuits [cookies] and cakes. I also cut out caffeine, had less alcohol just the odd glass of wine. I lost 30 pounds steadily over six months. Also, my stomach used to really stick out! It doesn't do that anymore. I think wheat was making me bloat. Now I have wheat occasionally, but not every day.
What I liked about your approach is the understanding of the human psyche and the reality of living. You don't have to be a total puritan and you don't get hungry. If I were hungry, I'd have a piece of fruit. What I needed was a diet for life. I'm not so strict now on the exercise, but still generally follow the dietary principles. I definitely feel a lot better. I like the way my body looks. I have more energy. I feel happy and my mood is more even. I will have no problem staying on this general routine for life.
Wayne P. had been gaining almost 14 pounds a year, and was now seriously obese. He realized he had to do something about it:
In the first four months I lost 32 pounds, a little more than 2 pounds a week, and I'm still losing weight, week by week. I'm still following the Fatburner principles, and I'm not even that strict. I eat more fresh food and less packaged food and snack more on fruit. My downfall is drinking I still knock back a few lagers and a bottle of wine on the weekends. But I feel better. I have more energy. I feel happier and more comfortable and have gone down two sizes. I'm also becoming more active and my weight is still reducing.
As a teenager I was very fit. By the age of 17 I was playing ice hockey for England. When I hit my twenties and went to work I stopped exercising, but kept eating and drinking curries, lager, and takeaways. I reckon I put on close to a stone for every year I was alive. By the age of 33 I was 27 stone 9 pounds [287 pounds] and basically addicted to junk food. I met Patrick when I became a volunteer for ITV's Tonight with Trevor McDonald, testing whether junk food was addictive. I started following Patrick's Fatburner System.
In the first four months I lost 32 pounds, a little more than 2 pounds a week, and I'm still losing weight, week by week. I'm still following the Fatburner principles, and I'm not even that strict. I eat more fresh food and less packaged food and snack more on fruit. My downfall is drinking I still knock back a few lagers and a bottle of wine on the weekends. But I feel better. I have more energy. I feel happier and more comfortable and have gone down two sizes. I'm also becoming more active and my weight is still reducing.
What many people following my diet love most, apart from the inevitable weight loss, are the unexpected dividends. I receive letters like the following on a regular basis:
For eight years I suffered incredibly badly from rheumatoid arthritis. I could barely walk without suffering from pain and exhaustion. Following your advice has enabled me to control arthritis and to lead a full and active life: I am eternally grateful for that. I was both surprised and pleased to see a rapid reduction in the wrinkly skin under my eyes. Following your diet and supplements my cholesterol has dropped from 255 to 190. My GP couldn't believe it! I used to have constant pain in my knees and joints, could not play golf or walk more than 10 minutes without resting my legs. Since I've been following your advice my discomfort has decreased 95 to 100 percent. I never would have believed my pain could be reduced by such a large degree, with no return, no matter how much activity in a day or week. Within two weeks, I had much more energy. My mood is very positive no panic or depression. I feel buoyant, energetic, and enthusiastic. I haven't had any colds or infections. I'm sleeping much better, my PMS is much better. I experienced no breast tenderness in my last period, and no mood swings or tearfulness.
Since following your diet I have totally cured my migraines.
For eight years I suffered incredibly badly from rheumatoid arthritis. I could barely walk without suffering from pain and exhaustion. Following your advice has enabled me to control arthritis and to lead a full and active life: I am eternally grateful for that.
I was both surprised and pleased to see a rapid reduction in the wrinkly skin under my eyes.
Following your diet and supplements my cholesterol has dropped from 255 to 190. My GP couldn't believe it!
I used to have constant pain in my knees and joints, could not play golf or walk more than 10 minutes without resting my legs. Since I've been following your advice my discomfort has decreased 95 to 100 percent. I never would have believed my pain could be reduced by such a large degree, with no return, no matter how much activity in a day or week.
Within two weeks, I had much more energy. My mood is very positive no panic or depression. I feel buoyant, energetic, and enthusiastic. I haven't had any colds or infections. I'm sleeping much better, my PMS is much better. I experienced no breast tenderness in my last period, and no mood swings or tearfulness.
And this is how you should feel all the time. I call it 100 percent health, and there's no reason why you can't claim it for yourself. You can lose weight and feel great.
You know the definition of insanity? To keep doing the same things and expect different results. And that's what millions are doing eating the same foods and expecting to feel better and magically shed the excess pounds. But the real magic lies in a very different means to this end.
The science of slimming
Your body has evolved over millions of years to work perfectly with a certain kind of diet. Our ancestors weren't fat, because they ate this optimum diet, as do the lucky ones such as the Hunzas in the Himalayas, whose average life span is over 100 and who never get fat or suffer from diabetes, heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer's, or any other of the diseases plaguing the 21st century. This is, in all its essentials, my diet.
If you follow the Fatburner System, you will lose weight, gain energy, improve your skin, sharpen your mind, balance your mood and add years to your life, and life to your years. Now let's look at why.
The science behind the Holford Diet is very simple. Your body is designed to burn glucose for energy; the glucose is carried by blood to the cells. Carbohydrates such as grains and fruits are broken down into glucose in the body. But carbohydrates figure hugely in today's typical Western diet, and if you eat too much of them particularly the refined type you'll end up with more blood glucose than you need. You'll then store the excess as fat.
If your blood glucose levels are even, you'll have a steady supply of energy and a healthy but balanced appetite. This is the reason you'll have no problem maintaining the right weight. But, if your blood glucose levels are sometimes high, sometimes low, you'll see the beginnings of 21st-century-itis. When levels are too high, you'll lay down fat; when they're too low, you'll feel lethargic, and it will be harder to burn fat. A quarter of all people, and nine out of ten people with weight problems, have difficulty keeping their blood sugar level even. The result is exhaustion and overweight.
And this is just the beginning. Obese people are 77 times more at risk of developing diabetes than nonobese people a statistic that alone tells you how strongly linked weight gain is to blood sugar control.
So the best way of losing weight is to regain blood glucose control, which heralds the return of your body's ability to burn fat. You'll lose weight effortlessly without having to starve, and gain health and vitality at the same time.
The five key principles
The Holford Diet is based on five key principles, which, taken together, form the fastest, safest, and most effective way to lose weight and gain health. Each is explained in detail in Part Two, but let's take a look at them now.
This is the crux: once you achieve it, weight loss is inevitable. Keeping your blood sugar balanced depends not only on what you eat, but also on how and when you eat it. In Chapter 7, I'll explain exactly which foods and food combinations stabilize your blood sugar best and help to burn fat. I'll be introducing you to something called the glycemic load of a food. This is a much superior method of measuring a food's suitability than "carbohydrate points" or the "glycemic index" (GI).
To put it simply, GI is a qualitative measure that tells you whether the carbohydrate a food contains is "fast-" or "slow-" releasing. It doesn't tell you, however, how much of the food is carbohydrate. Carbohydrate points, or grams of carbohydrate, are quantitative measures that tell you how much of the food is carbohydrate, but they don't tell you what that carbohydrate does to your blood sugar. The glycemic load of a food is the quantity times the quality of its carbohydrate, and that is the best way of telling you how much weight you'll gain if you choose that food.
You may be amazed by some of the foods that have a high glycemic load score. But it's important to know the truth: if you understand why you gain weight, you'll hold the key to losing it. Cornflakes and corn chips, for instance, have a very high glycemic load, while ice cream and peanuts do not. One single date has the same effect on your blood sugar and weight as a whole pint of strawberries. So be ready for some surprises.
Your goal will be to limit your glycemic load to 40 a day that's 10 per meal and 5 each for two snacks. So knowing your glycemic load is essential.
And there will be immense variety to choose from. Part Four is packed with zesty, delicious recipes and menus, including Crunchy Thai Salad, Cod Roasted with Lemon and Garlic, Chicken Tandoori, and even Beef Burgers. In case you're wondering, I've done all the adding up of glycemic loads for you. You'll find that "glycemic load awareness" swiftly becomes second nature; before you know it you'll be doing your own mixing and matching of low-glycemic load foods at every meal.
You'll note that the fatburning breakfast combines oatmeal and yogurt. Mixing carbohydrates with proteins is another important way of regulating blood sugar, and again, very easy to master. There's a full discussion in Part Two, but, basically, it means you'll eat low-glycemic load carbohydrates with good-quality protein for example, brown basmati rice with organic chicken, whole wheat pasta with wild salmon, or rye toast with scrambled eggs.
Fiber plays a starring role, too, because a food's fiber content lowers its glycemic load. So you'll find plenty of high-fiber choices, from beans to brown rice. Last, when you eat is very important. Unlike most diets, which are snackless deserts, mine will encourage you to eat two snacks a day along with your three meals.
Essential fatty acids (or EFAs) may be a bit of a buzzword these days, but they thoroughly deserve their celebrity status. These are the "good fats" I've talked about for years, and, although it may seem counterintuitive, there's evidence that eating them can actually help you to lose weight.
The reason is very simple. Your body and brain depend on omega-3 and omega-6 EFAs. In fact, excluding water, one quarter of your brain is made up of omega-3s. So almost nothing works well without them. Your brain can't function, so omega-3 deficiency leads to lower IQ, poor memory, and a tendency to depression. Your hormones go up the creek, possibly leading to mood swings, PMS, sugar cravings, and weight gain. Your skin shrivels, and your heart and arteries suffer.
This is why these fats are called essential. And, since we can't manufacture them ourselves, it's as if our body and brain are designed to seek them out. We literally have an instinct to eat fat. We are instinctively drawn toward the creamy texture of fats, sauces, cheese, and cream, and not only this: the body's "fat sensors" are in your mouth, there to tell you when you've hit nutritional gold. Think about it. If the body needs anything (water, air, essential fats, vitamins) there's always an instinct that makes you crave it. That's why fat-free diets are such a titanic struggle for most of us.
But our need for fats has also spawned a legion of "bad" fats fried fat, processed fat in junk food, saturated fats, even "fake" fats. When you eat EFAs, your body's fat sensors tell the brain that your essential fat needs are satisfied. But when you eat bad fats, your fat sensors are not satisfied, even though your eyes and taste buds may have been fooled into believing you've eaten the fats that you need. The sensors respond much more strongly to essential fats than to processed or saturated fats. So, if you've packed away a burger and chips or several doughnuts, you'll find yourself craving fats the next day because your body hasn't received what it needed. And you'll keep on craving them until it has.
The Holford Diet gives you exactly the right kind and amount of essential fats, not only to help you stay healthy and glowing (and cellulite free!), but also to reduce your desire to eat unhealthy fatty foods. But that's not all. The essential fats also tune up your metabolism and help you burn unwanted fat. So it's not true to say that a calorie of any fat has the same effect on weight gain. You'll hear the whole story and the latest research in Chapter 8.
We are all unique. Think about your friends. Their appearances may be wildly different. Some will be night owls, others skylarks. They'll have different blood types. A number may be natural carnivores, others natural vegetarians. And most of us have different intolerances or allergies to certain foods, but very few even know it. Weight gain, however, is a common reaction to foods to which we're intolerant.
It follows, then, that eliminating the food to which you are unknowingly allergic can lead to highly dramatic weight loss. Lisa M., for instance, lost 5 inches off her waist in three days and 42 pounds in three months by discovering and avoiding allergens.
Rebecca S. also lost 42 pounds simply by avoiding her food allergies. In her twenties Rebecca had a stable weight, and used to exercise three or four times a week. But in her thirties she started to pile on the pounds. Over three years her weight drifted from 140 pounds up to 182 pounds and her dress size went up to 16. "I started feeling tired and lethargic and generally unwell," she said. "I didn't have the energy to go to the gym anymore. But it seemed the foods I ate were blowing me up, which was why I thought I could have a food allergy." She decided to test herself for a food allergy, which you can do with a home test kit, involving a pinprick of blood. The results showed that she was reacting to milk, egg white, and gluten the protein found in wheat. Within a week of excluding these foods her skin and mood improved and the weight started to fall away.
Don't think that all allergies are for life. After three months strictly avoiding the foods she'd become allergic to, Lisa reintroduced egg whites and then milk to see if there was a reaction. Now she's fine on both foods, but still reacts to wheat. "I can't tell you how much better I feel. I'm 100 percent," she said. "Eliminating my food allergies has transformed my health. I just wish I'd done it sooner." Why did she lose so much weight? Because water retention, bloating, and puffiness are all common allergic reactions, and they make you feel and look fatter.
This is great news because, once you've singled out and eliminated the "bad" foods, you can see really dramatic changes very fast. It's not unusual to lose up to 7 pounds within three or four days.
Aside from weight gain and bloating, food allergies also cause many other niggling problems aches and pains, headaches, fatigue, mood swings, annoying skin and digestive conditions. These also go when you identify and avoid what you are allergic to. You'll find out how to pinpoint the "baddies" lurking in your larder in Chapter 9.
It's reassuring to know that, as in Rebecca's case, most food allergies aren't for life. You can often "unlearn" your intolerances in as little as three months, which means you can reintroduce previously "bad" foods into your diet.
By now you're probably realizing that calorie intake and weight loss are not all that firmly linked. In fact, one of the biggest lies in nutrition today is "You can lose weight only by eating fewer calories."
The other is "You can get all the vitamins and minerals you need from a well-balanced diet." This is untrue. You simply can't guarantee that the nutrients you need are in your food.
Take vitamin C, which not only protects against degenerative diseases such as cancer, but also helps stabilize your blood sugar and speeds your fatburning. At ION, we've examined more than 500 studies including the "gold standard" type, which are randomized, double-blind, and placebo-controlled that have led us to conclude that the optimal intake of vitamin C is 1,000 milligrams a day. This is what our jungle-dwelling, fruit-eating ancestors could have gotten from leaves, berries, and fruits.
But how much vitamin C is there in a supermarket orange? As much as 116 milligrams and as little as zero. Yes, the "average" orange contains 60 milligrams of the precious vitamin, but some contain virtually none of it! And even if your supermarket orange contains 60 milligrams, you'd need to eat 22 of them to achieve 1,000 milligrams.
So I recommend that you supplement 1,000 milligrams of C a day, along with eating vitamin C-rich foods such as strawberries. You can eat strawberries till the cows come home and never gain weight. (Not all fruits are this useful for fatburning or general health, however, as we'll see.)
There are some 30 vitamins and minerals that are essential for health, and along with vitamin C a number will help you burn fat, too. Essentially, they boost your metabolism, reprogramming your body to turn food into energy rather than fat. For example, the mineral chromium helps to even out appetite and energy dips by stabilizing your blood sugar. It's so effective that it's given to diabetics, with amazing results. There are also amino acids and herbs that really can give you an edge when it comes to losing weight. Hydroxy-citric acid, or HCA, is a herbal extract from the tamarind plant, which makes it harder for your body to turn glucose into fat. There's another herbal extract from a bean called Griffonia, which is naturally high in an amino acid called 5-hydroxytryptophan. Known as 5-HTP, this amino acid has an extraordinary capability to ease excessive appetite and sugar cravings.
These aren't drugs. They're nutrients, and they will help fine-tune your metabolism.
If you exercise just to burn calories, quite frankly you might as well just not eat that piece of toast. The real value of exercise is that it helps stabilize your blood sugar levels and reduce your appetite. And the great news is that you don't have to do much to achieve this result just 15 minutes a day, in fact.
It has been found that people who don't exercise eat more than people who do a little exercise or just have active jobs. The human body, it seems, needs physical activity to work properly in the way that it needs water or vitamins. Certain kinds of exercise boost the rate at which you burn fat for up to 15 hours afterward.
That's the immediate effect, but there's a long-term effect, too. With the right kind of exercise, you'll put on more muscle and lose fat, and a pound of muscle burns many more calories a day than a pound of fat. So every pound of fat you lose and every pound of muscle you gain increases your body's long-term ability to burn fat.
To kick-start this process, you'll do 15 minutes a day, or 21 minutes five times a week, or 35 minutes three times a week, of the right kind of muscle-building and fatburning exercise. And, fortunately, the fatter and less fit you are right now, the easier it will be to get the same benefits! For example, if you are overweight and underfit, jogging half a mile slowly can burn 300 calories, while if you are fitter and lighter you'd need to jog a mile.
Following these five principles is easy and enjoyable yet they'll revolutionize the way you live, simply because of the way you'll feel and look, day by day. And, if you feel and look great, that's the best motivation for making it a diet for life.
Meanwhile, the dieting industry continues to make money from you by selling quick fixes that are destined to fail. That's what keeps you coming back for more. How many diets have you been on, and how many have worked? I want to make sure that the Holford Diet is the last diet you'll ever go on.
Copyright © 2005 by Patrick Holford
Patrick Holford is founder of the Institute for Optimum Nutrition in London. He is Britain's top nutritionist and author of more than twenty health books, including The New Optimum Nutrition Bible, which has sold more than 1 million copies in thirty countries.
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Here are links to presentations and other web matters, which may be relevant for those, who like to improve their knowledge or search for something about tree breeding, forest genetics and seed orchards. This is Dag Lindgren´s web. Dag Lindgren (firstname.lastname@example.com ) is retired since 2009, but still maintains this web sometime.
* An environmental page "naturvårdssida" (in Swenglish). De viktigaste bidragen är en beräkning av det observerade utdöendet av de mest hotade arterna i "rödlistan" mellan 2000 och 2015, samt en analys av den (låga) utdöenderisken för skogsarter.
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* A compilation
about knowledge relevant mainly relevant for production by the Forest Authority
issued February 2016 http://shop.skogsstyrelsen.se/sv/publikationer/meddelanden/kunskapsplattform-for-skogsproduktion-tillstandet-i-skogen-probl.html
* Forest tree breeding in Scandinavia and Finland http://www.skogforsk.se/contentassets/9d9c6eeaef374a2283b2716edd8d552e/the-status-of-tree-breeding-low.pdf
* A general actual description of Swedish Forestry which may be a good entry for foreigners http://www.ksla.se/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Forests-and-Forestry-in-Sweden_2015.pdf
* Information about Dag Lindgren seed orchard (at Brån near Vännäs by) and lecture hall (at Vännfors, forest genetic demonstration area)
* CFOP publicerar minnesanteckningar som är
informativa för de som är intresserade av skogsträdsförädling. http://www.skogsstyrelsen.se/Myndigheten/Om-oss/Var-verksamhet/Radgivande-grupper/Centrala-fro--och-plantradet/Dokumentation/
Universiteten representeras inte längre av någon skogsgenetik närstående, så
SLU-genetiken fjärmas från Skogsstyrelsen.
* Nebi Bilir was appointed as full Professor of Forest Genetics in division of Silviculture at Forestry Faculty, Suleyman Demirel University, Turkey. Applaud and wishes about for a successful and fruitful carrier!
* Analys av lövträdsförädling http://www.skogforsk.se/contentassets/d27e0681165b4f83ac0a18bf5efe51b0/lovtrad.pdf Some inspiration from Lindgren&Wei gene resource stands while low input breeding acknowledged.
* For a while I took an interest in wolf , as it seemed to be a campaign against the parliament decision, I felt a need to defend the Parliament. But I will not involve much again, if the situation seems reasonable under control in spring 2016.
* A study about
the advantages of different breeding methods http://www.skogforsk.se/contentassets/42acda01f83843bf925f690bd0a6ed37/best-practice-hela-low.pdf
* Gösta Eriksson and others have been productive in producing books after Göstas retirement, the latest appeared early 2014 Genetics applied to forestry. The books and texts can be downloaded from http://www.slu.se/en/departments/plant-biology-forest-genetics/education/forest-genetics-online/ But two years later it was not the last book!!!!! (see above)
* A book on forestry was published 2014 (Fenning editor) including a chapter by me: http://www.springer.com/life+sciences/forestry/book/978-94-007-7075-1 __
* Skogsstyrelsen har skrivit en rapport om klonskogsbruk.
* Global warming. Some comments, lectures and links are found here!
I think it is very regrettable that the survival time of links is so low and does not increase. That is the reason it is very difficult to inform about interesting information by links. That indicates it is something wrong with our society.
Seed orchards_ Many entries also in Swedish, I believe seed orchards are very important
The seed orchard Västerhus web place got the information updated because planned visits, many results and intensive reporting on its plastic isolation tent. Västerhus can be seen as the most advanced seed orchard in Sweden in full production and it is the most recently researched Swedish seed orchard today .
About "family forestry" thus mainly the use of offspring of a few plustrees for deployment to forestry, mainly by amplification through vegetative propagation. Mainly in Swedish, the first page is Swedish, but there are relevant English links:
"Familjeskogsbruk"(for Swedish forestry) and a little wider variety of link selections
IUFRO Seed Orchard Working Party I manage this very unofficially for the working party. However the future of the seed orchard WP seem uncertain and I will stop updating this site before end of 2015.
A report to FAO about Swedish Forest genetic resources has been prepared: http://shop.skogsstyrelsen.se/shop/9098/art74/14648674-c3c5ce-1851.pdf
Seminars and presentations by Dag Lindgren in English __
Seminarier, presentationer och inlägg av Dag Lindgren på svenska. __
Publications by Dag Lindgren Thesis since 1999 with Dag Lindgren as main supervisor
Documents and documentations__
Reflections __
_Tree Breeding Tools (TBT), programs for analyzing and optimizing tree breeding
__ Introduction (to TBT, but relevant for other parts of this web-site). Many of these tools do not work well now, but the EXCEL-sheets generally works.
Links I have found useful.
presentations I made or contributed to since my retirement 091001
Networks with forest genetic field trials. Warzawa 2010.__
Breeding Cycler Orleans 2009 __
Seed orchards in a warm Future. Hangzhou and Seoul 2010,__
__ Relatives in seed orchards and clonal mixtures Seoul 2010 __
Skogforsk issued a report to the government April 2010 in Swedish which is instructive about forest tree breeding. Dag Lindgren har utarbetat en del (bilaga 5 Genetisk variation) som jag gett en egen hemsida. Kanske detta avsnitt kommer att bearbetas ytterligare
Links to meetings Dag Lindgren participated in and offer some information about: Nordic cooperation ; China02 (Eucalypts), Iceland 03,__ Charleston 04,__ Komi 05 (Breeding Strategies),__ Antalya 06 (Low input Breeding), Poland 07 (Norway spruce), Umeå 07 (Seed orchards), Madrid 2008,(adaptation) Finland 2008 (Vegetative propagation), Hann Munden 2009 (zone delineation), Korea 2009 (Seed orchards) own contributions, Seoul 2010 (IUFRO World Congress), Opening lecture at the Turkey 2012 seed orchard conference.; _Turkey 2012 seed orchards; Prague 2014 forest tree breeding ;
En länk för CFOP inlägg/föredragningar __
Dag Lindgren's personal homepage __
__ Glosseries (lexikon) _
Remaining interesting links and pages __ Old sides and newsletters __
En publiceringsanalys av internationell publicering om tall
Jag tänkte en del över frötäkt och så småningom ledde detta till att frötäkt är tillåtet nästan överallt i Sverige! Frötäkt - bakgrund och tankar;
Getting old.
I retired 090930. I started to collect things happening when I got old, some were quite good for me! I started a page with directions for these different "memorials". __
I got the best possible retirement present a professor can dream about! That is to successfully mentor and collaborate with students resulting in good doctoral research. My student Finnvid Prescher will get the International Union of Forest Research "Outstanding Doctoral Research Award" at its world congress in Seoul 2010. At the word conferences 2005 and 2000 my students also got "Outstanding Doctoral Research Award!". It seems I have had the most gifted Forest Genetics students in the World for the past fifteen years! It also seems that the path of research I chosen has been the right in the opinion of the international research community.
After retirement I also took up other fields like dead following Tjernobyl, wolf http://vargdag.wordpress.com/ and the declining future http://downto2100.blogspot.se/ I also have a family blog with some links to forest genetics at http://www.allt2.se/Lindgren/
IT, webs etc.
Comments: IT is dynamic, rules, program, webmasters ideas, security constraints, links, administrative factors, and my own ideas are not constant over time and both IT-environments and I make mistakes sometimes. Thus, do not be surprised if things do not work. If something worked before it may still be at this web, try browsing. Do not hesitate to get in touch with me if in trouble. It is likely that I maintain this web and my email some time ahead; the University seems to agree a few years more.
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On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 07:54:10PM -0400, Stas Bekman wrote: > As discussed back in June enum names in the apr_filetype_e entry are > polluting the APR_ defines namespace and it's hard to grok what APR_REG > means when it's used in the code. I've finally started to work on these as > I'm finishing the perl glue manpage for the apr_finfo interface. > > So any objecttions to the s/APR_/APR_FILETYPE_/ rename? > > In order to support older versions one will need to also provide a compat > layer: > > #ifndef APR_FILETYPE_NOFILE > #define APR_FILETYPE_NOFILE APR_NOFILE > #endif I think you have that backwards. Shouldn't it be: #define APR_NOFILE APR_FILETYPE_NOFILE i.e. the APR_FILETYPE_* macros are canonical and you're grandfathering the other macros And the #ifndef wrappers are not needed. Just define the old names in terms of the new. >... > From what I understood, this should be applied only to the HEAD. Is that > correct? Yes. wrowe commented on the versioning implications of this. To be precise: 1) the new symbolic constants would appear in 1.1 2) httpd 2.2 (and 2.1) is planned to be built against 1.0 3) if mod_perl uses the new names, it needs to be built against 1.1 4) httpd 2.2 (and 2.1) will be able to work just fine with 1.1 without any recompilation being needed, but you may be fighting a battle against people distribution a 2.2/1.0 combo. 5) httpd 2.0 uses APR 0.9 (though it might be buildable against 1.0) Choose your path for mod_perl, but point #4 seems like it will pose trouble for your users. Cheers, -g -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-4003?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] Eli Collins updated HDFS-4003: ------------------------------ Resolution: Fixed Fix Version/s: 3.0.0 Target Version/s: (was: 2.0.3-alpha) Hadoop Flags: Reviewed Status: Resolved (was: Patch Available) I've committed this. Thanks Colin. > test-patch should build the common native libs before running hdfs tests > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HDFS-4003 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-4003 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: Bug > Components: build > Affects Versions: 2.0.3-alpha > Reporter: Eli Collins > Assignee: Colin Patrick McCabe > Fix For: 3.0.0 > > Attachments: HDFS-4003.002.patch, HDFS-4003.003.patch > > > HDFS-3753 added a dependency on common's native build, let's modify test-patch to run the common native build before running Hdfs tests so Hdfs tests can depend on libhadoop (eg TestHdfsNativeCodeLoader). -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
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Sue Stone is current chair and exhibiting member of the 62 Group of Textile Artists and Fellow of the Society of Designer Craftsmen. She studied Fashion at St Martins School of Art and Embroidery at Goldsmiths College.
Sue Stone is current chair and exhibiting member of the 62 Group of Textile Artists and Fellow of the Society of Designer Craftsmen. She studied Fashion at St Martins School of Art and Embroidery at Goldsmiths College.
Sue makes work about what she has experienced and how it has affected her, her relationships, her life observations and her environment. Her recent work is mainly figurative, it's personal, but not sentimental, and sometimes tackles serious issues. She uses images from the family album as a device to tell her tales. These images from the past connect with those from the present to create a partial narrative. Built in layers, the mixed media compositions connect people, place and time and contrast the slow building of an image in hand stitch with the spontaneity of free machine stitch and paint.
Her fervent use of hand and machine stitch as a means of mark making and all its facets : line, colour, texture, tone is underpinned by a great belief in drawing - as a thought process, as a means of solving problems, and as a means of expression in its own right.
Qualifications and training
1975 - 1st class (hons) B A Textiles/Embroidery, Goldsmith's College, London
Solo exhibitions
2016 - Do You Remember Me? - Knitting & Stitching Shows invited gallery artist London, Dublin & Harrogate
2016 - People • Place • Time, Howden Park Centre, Scotland
2013 - Stuff and Nonsense, Gate Gallery, 12, Brighowgate, Grimsby, N E Lincs
2010 - Life on the Coast, Fishing Heritage Centre and Touring, Grimsby N E Lincs
2009 - Life on the Coast, Campden Gallery, Chipping Campden
2009 - Woman with a Fish, Gate Gallery, 12, Brighowgate, Grimsby
Group exhibitions
2017 January - The Thread Unraveled - Group Exhibition, VM Art gallery, Karachi, Pakistan
2017 August - Through Our Hands - A Portrait, Festival of Quilts, NEC & touring
2016 June -Sept - Making Space - 62 Group- Silk Museum, Macclesfield, UK
2016 June/July - Intoxicating Textiles - Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, Mass, USA
2015 Illustrative and Stitched Drawings - Customs House, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
2015 New Textiles Transformed - Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge , Massachusetts, USA
2015 Face The World, Sam Scorer Gallery, Lincoln, UK
2015 - Shifting Images, Muriel Barker Gallery, Grimsby,
2015 Festival of Quilts, NEC Birmingham, UK
2015 62 Group • NOW! - Upfront Gallery, Cumbria
2015 Designer Crafts at the Mall - Society of Designer Craftsmen
2014 - Ebb & Flow - 62 Group of textile Artists, Grimsby Minster & Fishing Heritage Centre
2014 - Contextile, Guimaeres, Portugal, Scythia 10, Kherson, Ukraine
2014 - Summer exhibition, The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle
2014 Beside the Sea, Bilston Craft gallery, Wolverhampton
2014 - SBD Art Fair, Temple Newsam, Leeds
2013 - The Last Picture Show, Gate Gallery, Grimsby
Splash, Bang, Wallop, Cupola Gallery, Sheffield
Pinpoint 13, One Church St Gallery, Great Missenden, Bucks, UK
9th Minitextiles Trienniel, Museum of Gdynia, Poland
2013 - Designer Crafts, Mall Galleries, London
2013 - Grimsby Open Art Competition, Fishing Heritage Centre, Grimsby 2013
Kilter Kelter, Cupola Gallery, Sheffield
2013 - Small Talk (62 Group), Constance Howard Gallery, London SE14 6NW
2012 - 62@50, Farfield Mill, Sedburgh, Garsdale Road, Sedbergh, Cumbria, LA10 5LW 2012 - 62@50, Holden Gallery, Manchester M15 6BR
2012 - Gate Group at Richmond Station, Richmond Station Gallery, Richmond, North Yorkshire
2012 - Interventions, Gallery of Costume, Platt Hall, Manchester
2012 - Package Tour - 62 Group, Knitting & Stitching Show 2012, Alexandra Palace, RDS, Dublin, Harrogate Exhibition Centre
2011 - At a Tangent, Gallery Oldham, Oldham OL1 1AL
2011 - Rijswijk Textile Biennial, Ryjswijk Museum, Netherlands
2010 - Afghanistan Inspiration, various, EU tour
2010 - Bending more Lines - 62 Group, Collins Gallery, Glasgow
2010 - Bending more Lines -62 Group, Museum Rijswijk, Netherlands 2010 - The Dartboard for Witches, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales
2008 - Art of the Stitch - International Open Exhibition, Birmingham Art Gallery, Deutsches Textilmuseum, Krefeld, Germany, Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest, Hungary, Knitting & Stitching shows, London & Harrogate , UK and Touring Europe
Curated projects
2011 - 7 Strands, Gate Gallery and Grimsby Minster, Grimsby, N E Lincolnshire
2010 - Life on the Coast, Fishing Heritage Centre and Cleethorpes Discovery Centre, Grimsby and Cleethorpes
Artist talks 2015 - Yorks & Humber Regional Day EG, N E EG regional Day,
Louth Textile Group,
Windsor & Maidenhead EG,
2014 - From Conception to Conclusion, Bristol Quilters, Bristol,
2014 Womanwith a Fish, Scunthorpe EG branch, N Lincolnshire,
2014 Stuff and Nonsence - East Kent EG branch, Caterbury,Kent,
2014 - Inspiration for Stitch, Leeds EG Yorkshire branch
2013 - Stuff and Nonsense, Contemporary Quilt AGM, American Church, Tottenham Court Road, London
2011 - Woman with a Fish, Bishop Grossteste College, Lincoln
2011 - Woman with a Fish, Darby and Joan Hall, Cottingham
Workshops 2015
Weekend workshop for Stitch Retreats
Weekend Summer School for NE EG
Needle and Thread workshops, Lincoln
Louth Textile Group,
2014 - one day - A Cast of Characters - Hand and Machine Stitch workshop - Needle and Thread Workshops, Lincoln.
2014 - Weekend workshop, Unlocking the family album - Embroidery 15, Durham
2010 - Life on the Coast, Church Farm Museum, Skegness, Lincolnshire
2010 - Life on the Coast, Fishing Heritage Centre and School Outreach, Grimsby
Competitions, prizes and awards
2015 - Textile Society - Professional Development Bursary
2015 - Elected Fellow of the Society of Designer Craftsmen
2013 - Go exhibition joint 2nd prize winner, Abbey Walk Gallery/Fishing Heritage Centre, Grimsby
2011 - 7 Strands - Arts Council award, Grimsby Minster, Gate Gallery, Grimsby, N E Lincolnshire
2009 - Arts Council Award - Life on the Coast, Touring Exhibition, Chipping Campen, Glos, Grimsby (2venues) and Cleethorpes, N E Lincs
2016 - Contemporary Stitch 1 - a Textileartist.org ebook, Embroidery Magazine Jan/Feb
2015 - Through Our Hands Portfolio Book, Homespun magazine, Australia, July, Through our Hands magazine May
2014 - Embroidery magazine - Ebb & Flow preview.
2013 - Fiber Arts Now magazine winter edition
2013 - From Sketch to Stitch • Stitch magazine no 83
2012 - Radical Thread, edited by Lesley Millar
2012 - Textiles: The Art of Mankind :Author Mary Schoeser : Published by Thames & Hudson
2010 - Machine Stitch Perspectives, Alice Kettle and Jane McKeating


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Tuesday August 6th, 2013 1:20am
News of longtime Lafayette coach Bill Lawson's death traveled quickly last weekend and left behind a wake of deep sadness. He was returning home from the Army Lacrosse Camp, where he'd been a mainstay for nearly four decades. Aside from his long and wildly varied career leading the Leopards (in addition to lacrosse, Lawson coached tennis and swimming), it was his time at the well-known Army Camp — with its impressive list of alumni — that introduced Lawson to so many in the lacrosse community.
In that vein, IL reached out to a handful of Lawson's friends and colleagues at the Army Camp for a picture of who the lacrosse world recently lost.
I met Billy, we started camp at West Point in 1980, and he worked with me until I stopped in 2001. We worked together for 21 years, and that was the beginning of our relationship. He's as nice a man as I've ever met. I talked to his widow Peggy the other day; she knows he was a good husband and a good father, but he was also a special friend. I miss him. He was a good guy, a wonderful guy. I miss him. I hope when I'm gone, not tomorrow but whenever that might be, that people think about me the way I think about Bill Lawson.
Any way I could contribute to enhancing what people think of Bill Lawson is a good thing. Bill was a friend and good competitor when we were at the U.S. Military Academy. But more than that, Bill was a good guy — I don't think I ever heard him say a bad or negative thing about anyone. When he retired from Lafayette, he kept helping out other high school programs in the Easton area, he taught young folks who had trouble reading to learn how to read. We've all lost a really good friend with his passing.
He never called attention to himself, that's the kind of guy he was. He loved the association with the military (Editor's note: Lawson served in the Navy before attending Springfield College) and came back and worked the Army Lacrosse Camp for 37 years. Bill was pretty incredible because at one time, we had three weeks of camp and three sessions a day, and even at his advanced age, he was working on the field two hours a day and three sessions a day — at 79 years old. Most of us couldn't have done that. He enjoyed being around the kids, teaching them, making them a little bit better. He's not a guy that's got a lot of recognition for the wins and losses, but people will remember him for the important things.
When you think of Coach Lawson, you think of such a good man. As long as I've known him, I've never heard him say a negative thing about another person. I don't know anyone else like that. He worked every Army Camp since 1977, from Dick Edell to Jack Emmer to mine. He was revered at our Camp. One little silver lining is I know he had an awesome time at our camp because he always does. He enjoyed being on the field, the nighttime activities, the banter; he was always in the middle of it. He would always give me a call after he retired after a win or a tough loss. There are very few people like that. His passing is very sad, though it was a full life at 79 years, if you witnessed him at the Army Camp for two straight weeks, you'd say 79 is too short because he still had so much more to give, that's what's so sad. That's sad for everyone, but anyone who ever knew him is better for having done so.
Where to begin? When I was at UNH when we were still DI, we lost [to Lafayette] in Florida my junior year, around 1995. That was my first introduction to Coach all those years ago. Where I got to know him well, he was a lifer at Army Lacrosse Camp and he was a great friend of Coach Emmer's. They were together at the start of the Patriot League with Lafayette and Army. He was one of those guys that was different, like a grandfather, he cared about you. I remember getting married five years ago, he knew my wife from athletic training at Camp and he was always interested in things like wedding plans, then when we had our son he'd always ask about him. He always used to ask me, "Michael, how's everything going?"
There's nobody like him out there anymore. We're all trying to find the next Peter Baum or Rob Pannell, and our relationships are going by the wayside. Guys have some coaches that they're close with, but there's no one like Bill Lawson. His heart was as big as his body.
My most endearing memory was this past year, he wasn't helping out at Lafayette anymore, but he still lived two miles from campus. He saw our bus, he stopped and wouldn't let the bus leave until we had a chance to say hello and he had a chance to talk to me about how my season was going. Before he left, he gave me this big hug — and I'll always remember that. He was such a great guy. That's what I'll always remember. He was just such a great guy.


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Learning how to make refrigerator magnets out of polymer clay is doggone simple! Follow this polymer clay tutorial, and you'll create a family of these lovable companions. These dog-inspired polymer clay crafts are cute on their own, but you can also craft a doghouse for them. Becky Meverden shows you how to make name tags for Daddy Dog, Mommy Dog, Sister Dog, and Brother Dog. This set of Dog House Clay Magnets makes a great gift for any animal lover, especially ones who have their own furry families. You can personalize the name tags to match their pups' monikers.
- Needle-nose pliers
- Kato Nublade or knife
- Kato Nuflex blade
- Round toothpick
- 5" x 8" index cards
- Scissors
- E-6000 adhesive
- Black fine-tip permanent marker
Circle template, optional
Dog House
- Kato Polyclay: red, ultra blue, gold, beige
- Three 1/2" round magnets
- Kato Repel Gel
- Pasta machine or acrylic roller
Shade-Tex Architexture Rubbing Plates: stone
Daddy Dog
- Kato Polyclay: brown, black, white, red, beige
Pink clay: 1/4" ball of white plus 13/64" ball of red
Mommy Dog
- Same materials as Daddy Dog
- Kato Polyclay: violet, yellow, orange, white
- Lavender clay: 3/8" ball of white plus 9/32" ball of purple
- 3/16" Kemper flower cutter
Brother Dog
- Same materials as Daddy Dog
- Kato Polyclay: turquoise
Sister Dog
- Same materials as Daddy Dog
Kato Polyclay: magenta
For Each Dog
- 1/2" round magnet
- eye pin
- 7mm jump ring
Condition clay according to manufacturer's instructions.
To make the house pattern, fold a 5" x 8"index card in half the widest way. Use scissors to cut 1-5/8 inch, parallel to the fold, 1-1/2 inch from the open end. Angle towards the fold and cut approximately 2-1/2 inches.
For the door, cut 1 inch from the fold and up 1-1/2 inch and then curve around to the fold. Open and you will have a house pattern.
To make the house: Flatten a sheet of red through the pasta machine at a #1 setting (1/8 inch). Rub the sheet with Kato Repel Gel to keep the sheet from sticking to the rubbing plate. Set the rubbing plate against the sheet and carefully run both through the pasta machine. Lay the pattern on top of the sheet and use the Nublade to cut out house.
Roll a 1/4-inch-diameter log of both ultra blue and gold. Twist together and curl one end. Press around upper edge of house and cut off 1 inch beyond end and curl.
Roll a 1/8-inch-diameter ultra blue 12-inch-long log. Fold log in half and twist both ends. Press around door opening and cut off excess.
Flatten a sheet of beige through the pasta machine at a #4 setting (3/64 inch). Curve Nuflex blade and slice sheet. Curve blade again and slice 3/8 inch from previous slice. Cut a sign that is 1-5/8 inch long. Set aside rest of beige sheet to be used for name tags for the dogs.
Daddy Dog: Roll a 5/8-inch ball of brown into an egg shape. Use toothpick to draw center line 1/4 inch from the top to the bottom. Draw a half circle at the top of the line.
Flatten two 5/16-inch balls of brown and attach to the bottom of the body.
Flatten a 7/16-inch ball of brown into an egg shape. For the eyes, flatten two 7/64-inch balls of white into egg shapes. Press narrow ends together and press onto head. For pupils, roll two 5/64-inch balls of black and press onto each eye. For the snout, flatten a 5/16-inch ball of beige into an oval. Press onto the head under the eyes. For the nose, flatten a 3/32-inch ball of black into an oval and press onto the snout. For the mouth and tongue, use the toothpick to indent bottom of snout. Flatten a 1/8-inch ball of pink into a teardrop and use toothpick to press onto snout and to indent tongue.
Roll two 7/16-inch balls of brown into 1-1/4-inch-long tapered logs and flatten. Curl under the narrowest end and curl out the widest end of each ear. Press onto both sides of the head. Press head onto top of the body.
Mommy Dog: Repeat steps 8-11. To make the hat, flatten a 1/4-inch ball of lavender. Roll a 1/4-inch ball of lavender into a 5/8-inch-long log. Flatten and pleat using your fingers. Press onto the top of the head. Press the hat on top of the brim. Flatten a small sheet of yellow through the pasta machine at a #5 setting (1/32 inch). Use the flower cutter to cut out a flower. Roll a 1/16-inch ball of orange and press onto the center of the flower. Press flower onto the hat.
Brother and Sister Dogs: Repeat steps 8-11, using the following ball sizes: body: 7/16 inch, feet: 9/32 inch, head: 3/8 inch, eyes: 3/32 inch, pupils: 1/16 inch, snout: 9/32 inch, nose: 5/64 inch, tongue: 3/32 inch, and ears: 3/8 inch.
Brother Dog's Kerchief: flatten a small sheet of turquoise through the pasta machine at a #5 setting (1/32 inch). Use Nublade to cut a triangle wide enough to fit around the neck, 3/4 inch long on its longest side, 1/2 inch long on the other two sides. Place around the neck of the dog.
Sister Dog's Bow: flatten two 5/32-inch balls of magenta into triangles. Use toothpick to press a like into each triangle. Press together slightly. Roll a 7/64-inch ball of magenta and press into the center. Press bow onto the top of the head.
Press an eye pin into the bottom of each dog.
For the name tags, use the beige sheet from the house sign above. Use the Nublade to cut rectangles, 3/8" x 3/4". Use a toothpick to make a hole in the center top of each tag. Make one for each dog.
Bake house, house sign, dogs, and name tags according the clay manufacturer's instructions.
When everything has cooled, use black permanent marker to write the family name on the dog house sign and individual names on each name tag. Glue dog house sign over door.
Use the needle-nose pliers to attach a jump ring to the eye pin of each dog. Add name tag to each dog. Close each jump ring.
- Glue three magnets to the back of the house, one near the top and the remaining two near both bottoms. Glue a magnet to the back of each dog.
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Termite infestations can cause major damage to buildings and furniture. Most termite infestations are well established before outward signs become visible, but becoming familiar with termite infestation signs may help you identify an infestation and get prompt treatment.
1Watch for winged termites swarming from inside a building, which indicates a termite infestation.
2Place a winged termite in a vial or small jar with rubbing alcohol. If you don't have those supplies available, scoop the termite into a small, sealable plastic bag. Take the sample to an exterminator or a government or university extension office that can identify whether or not you found a termite.
3Look for dirt tubes underground in the foundation or exterior walls. Subterranean termites construct mud tubes to provide themselves with a safe environment while traveling from their underground colonies to their food sources. They may also be found in support piers and floor joists for tubes. Dirt tubes are brown and generally the diameter of a pencil or pen, though some may be larger.
4Cut open any dirt tubes you find. Look for termites. Generally you will find worker termites, which have small, whitish translucent bodies. If you don't see termites, they may have abandoned that particular tube and you may still have an infestation.
5Take note of any damaged wood. Cracks in veneer or maze like tunneling can indicate a drywood termite wood infestation. Subterranean termites hollow out wood along the grain and you will find dried mud or soil inside.
6Check for sunken or rippled wall coverings. Sometimes depressions will occur due to termites burrowing underneath the wall coverings.
7Search for small holes on drywall or plaster walls. Holes caused by termite infestations will have dirt around the edges.
8Inspect any areas that appear to have water damage. Termite damage can be similar in appearance and include swollen floors or ceilings and buckling boards or windowsills. Termite infestations may also give of a mold or mildew scent.
9Look for fecal pellets. Drywood termites, which usually live within walls or furniture, form colonies within wood. They create holes to force out their waste and leave piles of fecal pellets near the holes. Check furniture or walls for small holes. The holes will usually be discolored and sealed from the inside. See if there are small piles of fecal pellets near the holes. Drywood termite fecal pellets are usually dry, smooth and powdery looking and can be many different colors.
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Do they fly in the spring?wikiHow ContributorSwarmers are the offspring of an established colony, and are attempting to become kings and queens themselves. They shed their wings and attempt to mate. Most termites, workers and soldiers are sterile, and although they have wing buds, they cannot fly. Swarmers typically happen in late spring to early summer.
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"The security authorities claim that the terrorists made these cassettes to show their violence. But you can also see how it's an excellent way for the authorities to impress the people who are the conduit for information - that is, the journalists. I have spoken to some who have seen these cassettes - and after that, when you use the expression `political dialogue', they think you are a monster."
Talking to Ms Ghezali is both an inspiring and deeply depressing. Inspiring because of her bravery, depressing because of her pessimism and because there are not many Salima Ghezalis in Algeria.
The winner of three international press awards, including the International Press Club's prize awarded to her in Spain in July this year, her paper was temporarily closed by the government a year ago. "We told our readers that the circumstances for holding the presidential elections [which gave the presidency to General Liamine Zeroual] were not right. We said nothing would change. So they shut us down for two weeks. Unfortunately, we were right."
Last March, the government closed La Nation again, this time for an article on Algerian human-rights violations. "The whole issue was seized. Two weeks later, we were banned again because of an article about the `self-defence' militias, even though Amnesty International had said the same thing. The only news that the regime lets through is news that's in its favour. We can get scoops but we can't print them. That's why we decided to publish analysis instead ... but everything that's outside the system has already been swept away, and if a newspaper like La Nation can continue to exist, it's because we are prepared as well to work within the system."
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Appearance White Paste
Tack Free Time ≤10 (min)
Extrudability 5~11 (g/s, 25℃)
Cure Time 3~7(d)
After the curing
Relative Density 1.40~1.45 (g/cm3)
Tensile Strength ≥2.5 (MPa)
Break Elongation ≥500 (%)
Shear Strength ≥2.0 (MPa)
Hardness 45~55 (Shore A)
The Temperature Range -60~200 (℃)
Volume Resistivity 2.6×1015 (Ω·CM)
Dielectric Strength 20 (kV/·mm)
Dielectric Constant 3.12
Flame Retardant Grade UL94 HB
Sample: 300mL / tube, 25tubes / box.
Company Contact:
- Phone: +86 13728414609
- Address: Room 1206, Science Avenue 97, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- Email:
- Website: http://www.usilicone.com
Published date: July 2, 2016 -
- Business Description: Our company has abundant experiences about R&D, especially we have advantage in clothing leather/ daily chemical/ paper making/ food and beverage/ medical treatment/ kitchen/ car accessory/ intellectual product and so on
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