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Managing innovative learning on adaptive forest management to climate change
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Training module for managing innovative learning on adaptive forest management to climate changeAs part of the EU financed project Increasing the resilience of forest ecosystems against climate change in the Southern Caucasus through forest transformation a training module for forestry professionals and administrating bodies has been developed.
The training module shall give a first insight of the topic to forestry professionals and administrating bodies by addressing a theoretical background on climate change, transfer to the adaption in other countries with case studies and a final debating part developing commonly local-specific next steps for the South Caucasus region.
The module illustrates the environmental and social risks for the forest sector in Southern Caucasus region. It will enable to analyse and develop mechanism to adapt to future challenges due to climate change for the forest sector.
The objective of the trainin module itself is to deliver adequate tools for adaptive forest management planning and forest transformation on the one – and decisional assistance on the other hand.
The training module contains five main topics, such as: a) Introduction; b) Global Situation; c) European Response; d) Current Caucasian Situation; and e) Implementation options in Caucasus.
These topics are divided into the following four key parts:
• The training shall be initiated with sensitising questions reflecting the opinion of the audience towards climate change. This is followed by a brief description of the scope of climate change worldwide, in Europe – and finally specifically in the Caucasus region and especially its impact on forestry.
• Training exercises. This is the core part of the workshop. Participants are taught to identify potential environmental and socio-economical dangers due to the ongoing climate change in their local region. This should aim at very precise cases in their forest management areas.
• Presentation of a European case study. Participants are provided with an insider view to how other countries such as Germany have already developed policies and standard procedures to combat this risk-category, presented with examples of good practice and conducting of case studies.
• Outlook and closing debate. At this closing stage of the training participants are invited to brainstorm of what they consider to be needed in future. Next steps shall be developed commonly in order introduce or improve forestry risk management systems.
This training module shall enable the professional foresters to be aware of the challenge of climate change and especially its impact on the Southern Caucasus Region. They shall be empowered to adapt their everyday business to the upcoming consequence of climate change such as storms, fires, etc. as well as to transform the Caucasian forest ecosystems towards more resilienced forests. The shown example of other countries shall encourage them how foresters elsewhere act and give the possibility to establish a network with the other Caucasian countries in order to establish tailor-made tools like e.g. a common open-source calamity-database.
The module was produced by an internataional consultant Dirk Frankenhauser (firstname.lastname@example.com), PanForestal, Berlin.
For more details please download full vesrion of the Training Module Document from this web-page.
Malkhaz Dzneladze
Regional Coordinator
EU financed project Increasing the resilience of forest ecosystems against
climate change in the Southern Caucasus through forest transformation
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April 9, 2010 -A Vet Center is a place where Veterans who served in combat, or experienced trauma/harassment, can come for service. Family members of deceased service members can also receive bereavement counseling at Vet Centers.
There are 232 community based Vet Centers located in all fifty states, District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.
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The first thing you notice is how friendly and welcoming everyone is.
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These are the people in the VA who welcome home war veterans with honor by providing quality readjustment counseling in a caring manner. Team Leader Alice Ford, an Army Veteran, sets the positive tone that permeates the entire office with her quick smile and Alabama graciousness. "I love my job."
The Alexandria Vet Center is one street away from the main highway.
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As Alice Ford puts it, "The Veterans gave so much. They deserve our help. It's an honor to assist them in every way I can."
A lot of people, and too many Veterans, don't know about Vet Centers or what they do.
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The Vet Center Program was established by Congress in 1979 out of the recognition that a significant number of Vietnam era vets were still experiencing readjustment problems. Vet Centers are community based and part of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
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Outreach Specialist Domonicque Tatum provides Vet Center brochures and information to a Veteran looking for assistance.
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He does a great deal of work with the Yellow Ribbon Program, TAPs (Transition Assistance Program, PDHRA (Post Deployment Health Reassessment), and various social networking and informational events at local universities.
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CHICAGO, Ill. (August 11, 2013) – The Chicago Fire defeated the Montreal Impact 2-1 in MLS Reserve League action Sunday morning at Toyota Park. The Impact went ahead in the 30th minute courtesy of a Blake Smith strike but a Quincy Amarikwa brace that included a 34th minute bicycle kick led the Fire to victory.
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Chicago Fire: Alec Kann; Michael Videira, Steven Kinney (Victor Pineda 58'), Yamith Cuesta**, Hunter Jumper; Corben Bone ©, Daniel Paladini (Yazid Atouba 46'), Wells Thompson, Maicon Santos (Jeff Farina* 82'), Shaun Francis; Quincy Amarikwa (Brendan King 70')
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Montreal Impact: Evan Bush©; Maxim Tissout, Wandrille Lefevre, Adrian Lopez, Karl Ouimette; Paolo Del Piccolo, Collen Warner (Amine Meftah* 69'), Felipe Martins (Victor Ndiaye* 46'), Andrea Pisanu, Zakaria Messoudi; Blake Smith
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CHI – Quincy Amarikwa (Michael Videira, Hunter Jumper) 34'
CHI – Quincy Amarikwa (Maicon Santos) 59'
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MTL – Andrea Pisanu (caution) 48'
MTL – Collen Warner (caution) 52'
CHI – Quincy Amarikwa (caution) 67'
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I know that it is not New Year's, but I am making a resolution for myself. I am going to blog at least once a week. I figure that if I write a little each day or each couple of days and then on the weekends I will post it. I have updated the look of my blog and now I am going to keep it updated, so look for a new post this week.
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Despite being a completely benign condition, much like wrinkles, cellulite is a major beauty concern of women worldwide. The corresponding myths and deceptions take the place of fact and reason, leading many to waste their money. The cosmetics industry and lots of doctors and estheticians want to sell you products or provide treatments to eliminate cellulite. But do they work?
In This Article:
- Myth Busting
- What We Do Know
- Lotions, Creams & Extracts Galore
- A Bevy of Anti-Cellulite Ingredients
- Mesotherapy
- Endermologie
- Non-Ablative Lasers & Light Systems
- Electrical Muscle Stimulators (EMS) & Lontophoresis Devices
- Body Wrapping
- Skin Patches
- Liposuction
Regrettably, most of us (women that is) have cellulite to one degree or another. According to statistics, and this is really shocking, cellulite shows up on the thighs of more than 85% of females past the age of eighteen regardless of ancestry, although it is more common for Caucasian and Asian women. To make matters worse, for women, cellulite represents stored, hard to metabolize fat that is interdependent on estrogen. Ironically, weight isn't part of the problem. Rather, any amount of fat (and we all need some of it in our bodies) can show up as cellulite on women's thighs.
Despite being a completely benign condition, much like wrinkles, cellulite is a major beauty concern of women worldwide with corresponding myths and deceptions taking the place of fact and reason. This means the cosmetics industry and lots of doctors and estheticians want to sell you products or provide treatments (particularly expensive ones) claiming to slim, trim, tone, and de-bump your thighs.
Everything from loofahs, miracle ingredients, special washcloths, herbal supplements, vitamins, minerals, bath liquids, rubberized pants, brushes, rollers, body wraps, and toning lotions to electrical muscle stimulation, vibrating machines, inflatable hip-high pressurized boots, hormone or enzyme injections, and massage have been claimed to be successful cellulite treatments. Yet, as the anti-cellulite market increases, research regarding efficacy remains at a bare minimum and is often obscured by self-serving studies from those who peddle these cures.
Sadly, the lure of these supposed remedies is hard to fend off because fighting cellulite is an uphill battle. For lots of women the mere hope or illusion that something may work is a powerful temptation, and that weakness is something the cosmetics industry counts on and exploits to the max.
Myth Busting
Trying to navigate and smooth out cellulite fact from fiction isn't easy but there is a small amount of good news: there are options that may make a difference. The bad news is that even the treatments that have some potential of working (and we say potential of working very carefully) rarely live up to the claims asserted, but improvement as opposed to merely wasting your money is definitely a turn for the better. A great way to start is to straighten out some popular myths about cellulite:
Men don't get cellulite: To some extent that's true. Physiologically, women are far more prone to accumulating fat on the thighs and hips while men gain weight in the abdominal area. Plus, for women, the connective tissue beneath the skin has more stretch and is vulnerable to disruption, which is the perfect environment for developing cellulite. Some men do get cellulite—just statistically not as much as women.
Drinking water helps: If water could change skin structure and reduce fat we assure you no one would have cellulite, or would be overweight for that matter! Drinking water is beneficial (although there is really no research showing how much is healthy versus unhealthy) but there's no research showing water consumption will impact fat anywhere on your body, let alone the dimples on your thighs.
Arguments for high water intake are generally based on the assumption that because our bodies consist mostly of water (50-70% of body weight, about forty-two liters) and our blood, muscles, brain, and bones are made up mainly of water (85%, 80%, 75%, and 25%, respectively), we therefore need at least eight 8-ounce glasses of water each day. But assumptions aren't science and this one is a non-sequitur; it is similar to arguing that since our cars run on gasoline, they always need a full tank to run efficiently.
Water retention causes cellulite: It's ironic that low water intake is considered a possible cause of cellulite, and the polar opposite—retaining too much water—is thought to be a factor as well. There's lots of speculation of how water retention can affect cellulite but there's no actual research supporting this notion. Further, fat cells actually contain only about 10% water, so claiming to eliminate excess water won't make a difference; any measurable result would be transient at best. It's true that water retention can make you look bloated and feel like you've gained weight, but water itself doesn't impact fat or the appearance of cellulite.
Eating a specialized diet can help: A healthy diet that encourages weight loss may help your entire body look better. However, because weight in and of itself is not a cause of cellulite, dieting won't help. It cannot change the skin structure of your thighs, which is what causes the dimpled contours to show. For some people cellulite is made worse by the accumulation of extra fat. In those cases, weight reduction may decrease the total area and depth of cellulite, but general weight loss isn't going to make much difference.
Cellulite is different from fat on the rest of the body: Theories abound about how cellulite differs from regular body fat. However, few studies show how cellulite clumps differently than other fat on your body. But overall, most researchers feel cellulite is just fat, plain and simple. Besides, even if cellulite is different in how it congregates, what you can and can't do about fat on any part of the body remains the same.
Exercise can help: Exercise helps almost every system in the human body, but it won't necessarily impact the appearance of cellulite. Exercise doesn't improve skin structure and it can't affect localized areas of fat.
Detoxifying the body reduces the appearance of cellulite: Detoxifying the body for consumers has taken on the meaning of purging it of pollutants or any other problem substances in the environment or in the foods we eat. In terms of the way this concept has been mass marketed, there is little research showing credible efficacy as to whether or not detoxification of the body is even possible. However, "detoxifying" the body as it is used in the scientific community describes the process of reducing cellular damage primarily by antioxidants or enzymes that prevent certain abnormal or undesirable cell functions from taking place. There's no doubt this is helpful for the body. Whether or not this reduces cellulite is completely unknown because skin structure and fat accumulation are not caused by toxins in the environment or in your body. Furthermore, there are no studies showing toxins of any kind prevent fat from being broken down.
What We Do Know
There are three leading theories about cellulite formation:
- Women have unique skin structure on their thighs, which causes cellulite to easily form.
- The connective tissue layers on the thigh are too weak or thin to maintain a smooth appearance—allowing fat contour to show through.
- Vascular changes and possible inflammatory conditions may be to blame.
Most cellulite products come in the form of lotions and creams with a vast array of either exotic-sounding or lab-synthesized ingredients. Beyond topical products there are devices such as endermologie and microdermabrasion, medical treatments such as lasers and mesotherapy (a procedure involving repeated injections, which is claimed to break down fat).
Lotions, Creams & Extracts Galore
As far as skincare products for the body are concerned, the litany of options is mesmerizing. Yet there is almost no uniformity between formulas. It would appear, if the claims are to be believed, a wide variety of unrelated plant extracts can deflate or break down fat and/or restructure skin. Looking at the research, however, most articles suggest there's little hope that anything rubbed on the skin can change fat deposits or radically improve the appearance of cellulite.
The hope that botanicals have the answer is odd because not one study points to what concentration of an ingredient needs to be in a formulation, what physiochemical characteristics particular to each active ingredient need to be present, or whether or not these ingredients retain any standardized properties between batches, not to mention how they can penetrate skin to affect the fat deposits deep within it.
A Bevy of Anti-Cellulite Ingredients
From aminophylline to Visnaga vera extract, cosmetics companies will claim that just about anything can treat cellulite! The Paula's Choice Cosmetic Ingredient Dictionary is a rich resource of research-driven ingredient definitions to help you understand if that fancy-sounding exotic ingredient can really do what the label claims.
Mesotherapy is a procedure which has been claimed to dissolve fat from the repeated injection (and we mean lots and lots of injections) of various substances into the fat layers of skin. Mesotherapy actually got its start 50 years ago in France through the work of a physician who was trying to find a cure for deafness. From there it gained notoriety in the United States after singer Roberta Flack appeared on ABC's 20/20 claiming mesotherapy helped her lose 40 pounds (although she said she also dieted and exercised, what stood out for lots of people was the part that didn't involve diet and exercise).
Some of the substances being injected are homeopathic and some are pharmaceutical. Strangely, there isn't necessarily any consistency, and the cocktail of ingredients can vary from practitioner to practitioner. The fact that the material being injected isn't consistent and not everyone discloses exactly what they are using makes this treatment very hard to evaluate. The most typically used substance in mesotherapy is phosphatidylcholine, but it can also be combined with deoxycholate. A handful of studies have shown that this can successfully reduce fat when injected into the skin, with one study demonstrating this for the undereye area. Theoretically, the reduction of subcutaneous fat may be caused by inflammatory-mediated cell death and resorption.
However, mesotherapy isn't without risk. One study explained, "Side effects included burning, erythema, and swelling at the injection site. At follow-up averaging 9 months, 50% of patients reported persistence of benefit, 20% experienced some fading, and 30% [received no benefit at all]." It also concluded that "Larger studies evaluating long-term safety and efficacy of phosphatidylcholine for cosmetic purposes are warranted." Another study states, "Until further studies are performed, patients considering mesotherapy for cellulite must be aware that the substances currently being injected to treat this cosmetically disturbing, but medically benign, condition have not been thoroughly evaluated for safety or efficacy."
Finding out if this would work for you isn't inexpensive. Mesotherapy costs $300-$500 for each treatment and about ten to fifteen sessions are recommended, so it ends up being more expensive than liposuction.
Searching on the Internet, you would think endermologie was nothing less than a cure for cellulite. Physicians, spas, salons, and just about anybody else with the money to buy one of these machines want you to believe in their exaggerated, over-the-top claims. Developed in France in the 1980s, the FDA approved this high-powered, handheld massage tool in 1998. It consists of two motorized rollers with a suction device that is moved over the skin, somewhat like a mix between an old-time, wet-clothes ringer and a vacuum cleaner. (By the way, European women are confounded by cellulite, too, even though they tend not to have the weight problems Americans do. But remember, weight and cellulite are not directly related.)
While claims abound, legally those advertising endermologie treatment are only permitted to promote it for "temporarily improving the appearance of cellulite." Of course, somehow the word "temporarily" never is seen in the ads or Web sites promoting this device. Finding out if this works is time consuming and pricey. Anywhere from ten to twenty treatments are recommended plus one or two maintenance visits per month are required to preserve any results. There is no typical cost, and depending on where you go, prices can range from $75 to $200 per session.
Attempting to portray endermologie as a serious effective treatment for cellulite, it's often presented as being FDA-approved as a Class 1 Medical Device and therefore approved by the FDA for its intended purpose. While endermologie machines are indeed Class 1 Medical Devices, this has no meaning in terms of efficacy. Class 1 status is a designation indicating there is "minimal potential for harm to the user." No other aspect of the machine is approved or sanctioned by the FDA. According to the FDA, "Class 1 Medical Devices are subject to the least regulatory control … Foreign establishments … are not [even] required to register their product with the FDA…. Examples of Class 1 devices include elastic bandages, examination gloves, and hand-held surgical instruments." The FDA attributes no efficacy value to endermologie machines. Whether or not these devices are harmful depends on how they are operated, meaning how aggressively they're used.
Despite the FDA's lack of recognition (and some warning letters admonishing those making false claims) you will often see lists of "studies" claiming to prove endermologie's effectiveness. Yet, some of these "studies" were neither published nor peer-reviewed. Rather, they were lectures presented worldwide at various medical conferences. These types of presentations are not studies. The information presented is one sided, and more often than not, paid for by the company that owns the device with the presenter receiving financial compensation for the endorsement. Such presentations are not held to the same scientific standard as published, peer-reviewed research. What you will certainly not see listed are the published studies indicating that endermologie doesn't work.
Regardless of conflicting evidence, endermologie and similar machines, such as ESC's Silhouette SilkLight Subdermal Tissue Massage System, are here to stay. It's an easy procedure to offer clients and, for the most part, it seems to make women happy. Whether or not this is psychological doesn't seem to matter. In the long run, complications are few and far between, so the only real downside is the potential waste of money, which doesn't stop those in the pursuit of perfection.
Non-Ablative Lasers & Light Systems
Lasers may very well be the next generation in the world of cellulite therapies, but a lot more research is needed before this evolving treatment proves itself to be effective and worth the money. Ever since the FDA approved TriActive Laserdermology (Cynosure Inc, Chelmsford, MA) as a Class 2 medical device that "temporarily reduces the appearance of cellulite," lots of companies have wanted in on the action. TriActive combines a diode laser (at a wavelength of 810 nanometers) with localized cooling, suction, and mechanical massage (sort of a cross between a laser and an endermologie machine).
Treatment protocol varies, but generally the process is three times a week for two weeks and then biweekly treatments for five weeks. A Class 2 medical device status indicates this laser can be sold and used without physician supervision, which means a growing number of salons and spas are advertising its success and changing the FDA classification of "temporarily reduces" to a more alluring "reduces" cellulite.
Another device approved by the FDA is the VelaSmooth system (Syneron Inc, Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada). It combines near infrared light at a wavelength of 700 nanometers, continuous wave radiofrequency, and mechanical suction. Twice-weekly treatments for a total of eight to ten sessions have been recommended. One of the only studies demonstrating this machine's efficacy included twenty women, and eighteen of the twenty personally thought they saw improvement. Yet the actual measurements only showed a 0.3-inch reduction in thigh circumference. Hardly sweeping results by any standard, making it clear that larger-scale studies are needed, especially before you decide to spend $1,000 or more to see if these kind of machines can get you what you want, namely smoother thighs, not a lighter wallet.
Electrical Muscle Stimulators (EMS) & Iontophoresis Devices
According to quackwatch.com, "Muscle stimulators are a legitimate medical device approved for certain conditions—to relax muscle spasms, increase blood circulation, prevent blood clots, and rehabilitate muscle function after a stroke. But many health spas and salons claim that muscle stimulators can remove wrinkles, perform face lifts, reduce breast size, reduce a 'beer belly,' and remove cellulite. Iontophoresis devices are prescription devices that use direct electric current to introduce ions of soluble salts (i.e., medications) into body tissues for therapeutic or diagnostic purposes. The FDA considers promotion of muscle stimulators or iontophoresis devices for any type of body shaping or contouring to be fraudulent."
Body Wrapping
Many salons and spas offer a cellulite/weight loss service where the body is tightly wrapped or dressed in special garments with or without a "specialty" cream or lotion applied first. Promising to take inches off your body, the cost for these treatments range from $65 to $500 depending on the salon or spa and if the clientele is elite enough to warrant the steep price. Scientific-sounding information makes this process seem legitimate, but in the long run all it's doing is temporarily compressing your skin (you could probably do this yourself with plastic wrap), which will then return to its original shape in a matter of time, how much time depends on your skin's response. Impressive results often are delivered after measuring several parts of the body and adding up small incremental changes, which in total, end up sounding far more impressive than it really is.
Infomercials, Internet sites, and some multilevel marketing companies sell at-home systems claiming to eliminate toxins and squeeze water-logged fatty tissue dry. You can't squeeze toxins out of a cell. While you may be able to squeeze water out of a cell that same pressure would concurrently injure other cells, which isn't good for your skin. Plus, the water content would return to whatever level is natural for the body fairly soon due to homeostasis. All in all, there's no research whatsoever showing that body wrapping does anything positive and it will not get rid of fat or cellulite.
Skin Patches
According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), it "…has continued its attack on bogus weight loss claims by suing a diet patch manufacturer and a retailer that marketed the patch directly to Spanish-speaking consumers. In two separate federal court actions, the FTC charged that the patch manufacturer, Transdermal Products International Marketing Corporation, and the retailer, SG Institute of Health & Education, Inc., falsely claimed that the skin patch causes substantial weight loss. The FTC complaints in both cases also challenged false claims that the patch or its main ingredient, sea kelp, has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The FTC further alleged that Transdermal Products provided retailers with deceptive marketing materials that could be used to mislead consumers."
The defendants in both cases allegedly used one or more of the seven bogus weight loss claims that are part of the FTC's 'Red Flag' education campaign announced in December 2003." The ongoing Red Flag campaign provides guidance to assist media outlets and others in spotting false claims in weight-loss ads. According to the FTC, one of the most common false weight loss claims is that diet patches, topical creams and gels, body wraps, and other products worn on the body or rubbed into the skin can cause substantial weight-loss.
Liposuction has been used to reshape and reduce the appearance of accumulated fat layers and cellulite. However, the primary function of this procedure is to remove fat in localized areas, not cellulite. In cases where liposuction involves the removal of large quantities of stored fat, it can sometimes worsen the appearance of cellulite by creating unsupported and slackened skin, which will allow any remaining fat (and some always remains) to show through.
Sources: Cosmetics & Toiletries magazine, October 2004, page 49; Dermatologic Surgery, July 2005, pages 866-872; Journal of Cosmetic Laser Therapy, December 2004, pages 181-185; Journal of Applied Physiology, April 2002, pages 1611–1618; and Skin Research and Technology, May 2, 2002, pages 118-124; Journal of Cosmetic Science, November 2005, pages 379-393; Journal of Cosmetic Science, March-April 2005, pages 105-120; CLINICAL Dermatology, July-August 2004, pages 303-309; http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/cellulite.html; British Journal of Plastic Surgery, April 2004, pages 222-227; Journal of Endotoxin Research, April 2005, pages 69-84 and Journal of Biochemistry; Journal of Cosmetic Laser Therapy, December 2005, pages 147-154; Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, November 2005, pages 1127-1130; http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/pdf3/k030876.pdf; Securities and Exchange Commission Information, http://www.secinfo.com/dsvRx.z4y6.htm; Journal of Cosmetic and Laser Therapy, June 2005, pages 81-85.


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Daily log, May 3
Tiffin reports
James F. Herring, 38, of Clyde, was charged with theft by deception Thursday evening. A caller from Walmart, 2801 W. SR 18, had reported a man switched a price tag and put the item in his cart.
Joseph B. Brown, 38, of Tiffin, was cited with driving under suspension Thursday night.
Brian S. Gilchrist, 40, of Tiffin, was charged with domestic violence Thursday night. A caller in the first block of Sycamore Street had reported a man assaulted a woman. The police canine was contacted to assist in finding Gilchrist. The man later was located passed out at a residence. According to the report, the victim's advocate was contacted.
Jesse B. King, 21, of Tiffin, was charged with domestic violence Thursday night.
Michael A. Pennington, 42, of Bucyrus, was cited with operating a vehicle while intoxicated and violating one-way traffic early Friday morning.
Allan S. Craig, 41, of Tiffin, was charged with barking dog early Friday morning.
A woman reported Friday morning her boyfriend grabbed her by the neck in the 100 block of Wentz Street.
County report
Timothy A. Pennycuff Jr., 30, of Tiffin, was charged with failure to register as a sex offender Friday.
Fostoria reports
A building in the 100 block of East North Street was reported Thursday evening to have had its door kicked in. Police found that tools and copper wire were missing.
A caller reported Thursday evening a vagrant who had a machete was sleeping at a business in the 500 block of East Lytle Street. The man left.
An employee of Dollar General, 166 E. Lytle St., reported Friday morning two women and a man walked out of the store with bags full of unpurchased items.
A man was arrested Friday morning after a 400-block West Crocker Street caller reported a man had his girlfriend locked in a bathroom.
A woman went to the station Friday afternoon to report her debit card had been stolen.
Tiffin accidents
Christopher J. Agerter, 28, of Tiffin, was cited with failure to control following a one-vehicle accident Thursday morning at Brookwood Park and Sycamore Street.
Angel D. Hoffman, 36, of Tiffin, was cited with improper right turn following a non-injury accident Thursday afternoon in the 100 block of East Market Street.
A driver was cited with failure to obey a truck route Friday morning after a semi-truck became stuck under the Washington Street viaduct.
AVR fire and Attica EMS were called to North CR 27 Thursday night for a car fire. AVR firefighters were called to SR 4 and TR 58 Friday morning for a truck leaking fuel.
Tiffin EMS had one squad run Thursday afternoon and one squad run Thursday morning.
AVR fire and Attica EMS had a squad run early Friday morning.
Old Fort fire, Republic EMS and the Echo unit had a squad run Friday morning.
Green Springs fire had a squad run Friday morning.
Sycamore fire and Tiffin EMS had a squad run Friday afternoon.


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Logan County Literacy Coalition
Sterling Public Library
Hospice of the Plains
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Eastern Colorado Services Logan Industries
City of Sterling
Banner Medical Group
Daughters of the American Revolution
Busy Bees Homemakers
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There are a number of sports themed trees in Sterling Public Library's Parade of trees, including a Denver Broncos tree and a Detroit Red Wings tree.
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Colorado Rockies, and a Detroit Lions tree decorated by Scott Ketchum
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Alana Singer
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Northeast Colorado Cance Resource
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Sterling Early Learning Center's tree in Sterling Public Library's Parade of Trees is filled with handcrafted snowman ornaments.
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Are novelty condoms less effective than regular ones?
Not necessarily -- as long as a condom's label indicates that it can be used for disease prevention, then by law it has passed FDA-mandated tests. But some condoms you'll find in sex shops don't carry the disease prevention claim and may even be labeled "for novelty use only," meaning they may not meet FDA standards. Also, many gag love gloves are made out of materials other than latex, such as polyurethane, "but latex condoms are the most effective against STDs, including HIV," says Rebecca Wind, a spokesperson for the Alan Guttmacher Institute. The bottom line: Read the directions prior to doing the deed.


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Drivers will get a boost for the seventh day of practice for the Indianapolis 500 Mile Race as they transition from race setup evaluation to mostly qualifying simulations.
"I'm excited for it," rookie Carlos Munoz said of the 40 horsepower addition to the Chevrolet and Honda engines for "Fast Friday" on May 17, Pole Day qualifications May 18 and Bump Day qualifications May 19.
For the second time, Munoz was atop the speed chart in the No. 26 Unistraw car for Andretti Autosport with a lap of 225.163 mph (39.9711 seconds), which topped the previous best of the month by teammate Marco Andretti (225.100 mph). Andretti, driving the No. 25 RC Cola car, was third on the day (224.882 mph) as Andretti Autosport swept the top three. Reigning IZOD IndyCar Series champion Ryan Hunter-Reay was second (225.006) in the No. 1 DHL car.
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"I felt really comfortable each time I went to run behind people and run race simulations," said Munoz, the Firestone Indy Lights championship points leader who also will compete in the Firestone Freedom 100 on May 24. "We're improving the car a little bit. From the beginning to now we are really strong."
Day 6 of on-track activity also featured 33 drivers for the first time as 1996 Indianapolis 500 champion Buddy Lazier made his maiden appearance in the No. 91 Lazier Partners Racing car. He contributed three laps for a systems check to the 2,227 total logged during the humid six-hour session. Lazier will participate in a refresher course before the track opens for practice at noon (ET) May 17.
Rookie Conor Daly brought out the yellow flag for the first incident of the month when the No. 41 ABC Supply car for A.J. Foyt Racing made contact with the SAFER Barrier exiting Turn 1 midway through the session. He was checked at the infield care center and cleared to drive.
"We had just made a change on the springs in the rear," Daly said. "I was just trying to experience a little bit more with the car and there was a car in front of me. The wind, it feels like it's been gusting more, and the rear was leaning hard on the outside tire. It just kind of folded over on itself. I just lost it."
As with the 2012 race, the boost level will be upped from 130 kPa to 140 kPa for "Fast Friday" as drivers/teams focus on qualifying setups and the two days of qualifications. The boost level to the 2.2-liter, turbocharged V-6 engines will return to 130 kPa for the one-hour final practice May 24 and Race Day on May 26.
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text: Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums :: View topic - Some words about Imperialism Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Some words about Imperialism Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Current News View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message ad-miralJoined: 01 Sep 2006Posts: 1488 Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 5:12 am Post subject: Some words about Imperialism If the task is to defend the Iraq-war, then Hitler is the "mother of all arguments". "How can you stop a dictator with a peace movement! Hitler could only be stopped because the Allies defeated them." I'm trying to invalidate this argument from the German point of view. "No more facism, no more war!" That's the motto of the German antifacists in 1945. Communists, Democrats, Jews, Christs. A lot of them wouldn't be alive today, if the Allies hadn't win. So why do the 80-, 90- old guys go on streets and protest aginst an attack, a war of aggression, which their saviour at that time fight against Iraq dictators? It's because- war will kill innocent people. Do you know the british Coventry, against which a nazi air raid startet at 1940? "To coventrisize" had been a German vocabulary, for the bombardment of civil aims. At that time it was: "You kill our civilians, we kill yours." The difference: The allies supposedly wanted to free Germany, while the Nazis were just the Nazis. Nearly half a million of German civillians didn't survive their liberation. In Iraq it must be many thousands now. During the 2nd world war, 62000 British civilians died, in France it were 470000 civilians, in Sovjet Union 7 million civilians, in Germany 500000 civilians. Let's forget "liberation." 1945 it was because of revenge, in Iraq it is because of oil, and what will it be in Syria? In Iran? In North Korea? Early in 1945, in Haigerloch, Germany, Hitler wanted to produce A-bombs. "Germany could have A-bombs" was the reason of the American A-bomb research. It was called the "Manhattan Project" Summer 1945, the first A-bomb has been "tested" in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Later, America found out that the German A-bomb was in very early stages and not ripe enough. They found documents in Straßburg, called Alsons, which said, that Germany would only have A-bombs after many years, if ever. This Alsons document should never get into the hands of French people or (for God's sake!) Russian people. Why does America have this extreme fear that ellies could know about the German research? And, second question, why is the "Manhattan project" NOT cancled after the discovery of non-existant German bombs? Why do they finish the Manhattan project on the other hand, and test it in Japan? The only reason: America wanted the only A-bomb in the world. It was never the aim to delete all threats of mass destruction weapons, it was the aim to monopolize this thread. (We are in Iraq again) Hiroshima was a shock for Russian, so they fastly made an own nuclear program- the birthday of the cold war. So at the end: Can we compare Hitler to Saddam? (The reason of the Iraq war) Can we compare Taliban with Hitler? What about the northkorean dictator Kin Jong II? None of them excelled themselfs. In this aspect, Bush is more similar to Hitler, than Saddam did. (Ok, I don't wanna compare Bush with Hitler, because America is not facist, and Bush wouldn't massacre 7 million jews because of racism.) In the second world war the Alliets tried to stop a Imperialist who said: "Today Germany and tomorrow the whole world." Saddam never had such intentions. Now they threaten Syria with the same argument: Mass-destruction-weapons. Is it a wonder that Putin is angry? Is it a wonder that China tries to build space weaons today? Will it be a new cold war, because of the non existent nuclear bombs in Iraq? Back to top [email protected]@Joined: 10 Jan 2007Posts: 49Location: Germany Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 11:31 am Post subject: nothing left to say. you already said everything. Back to top beancurdturtleJoined: 23 Aug 2006Posts: 1041Location: Southern California Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 2:49 pm Post subject: Wow ad-miral. I might not agree with everything you said, or agree 100% with your conclusions. However, you did a great job at expressing your opinion, and your thoughts and interpretation of fact that support your opinion. I'd like to see more posts like this. But... You know. The "My country is wonderful. We have beautiful countryside and delicious food. What do you think?" are fun too. But then I want to go everywhere and eat everything. Anyway. Well written and well said sir._________________Daniel �Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.� --Dr. Seuss Back to top pugachevVJoined: 16 Jan 2003Posts: 2295 Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 4:35 am Post subject: You forgot to mention Ahmedinejad in Iran, who has said he wants to wipe Israel off the map and who does intend to have nuclear weapons and whose army goosesteps like the old time nazis. Back to top k.m.mJoined: 23 Jul 2006Posts: 121Location: Riyadh Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 11:27 pm Post subject: [email protected]@ wrote: nothing left to say. you already said everything. REALLY NOTHING LEFT TO SAY ... if you dont mind I will keep your post in my" Favorites". KMM Back to top ad-miralJoined: 01 Sep 2006Posts: 1488 Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 11:58 pm Post subject: thanks! 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Press Releases
November 2015
FIZ Karlsruhe and Thomson Reuters Advance Chemical Structure Patent Search
August 2015
New STN® Breaks Ground with Markush Structure Search and Enhanced Content for Intellectual Property Exploration and Research
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T. Stengel, A. Barth, H. Kraut, P. Löw in Nachrichten aus der Chemie, Juni 2016
New STN – Remaking a Classic While Keeping the Classic
Online Searcher Magazine,
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First Look - New STN - Big Data Creates Chemistry Without Limits
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STN Version One: New Searching Platform Under Development
Information Today, Inc., January 24, 2013
New STN in 5 minutes
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(Specific and generic) Structure Searching for β2 Adrenergic Receptor Agonists
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With the release of DWPIM at the end of 2015, the Derwent Markush Resource from Clarivate Analytics and MARPAT® from CAS are now together on a single platform, making new STN the first and only unified Markush solution available.
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In the January 2015 release, new STN has added the premier biomedical databases MEDLINE, BIOSIS and EMBASE to deliver essential scientific content and broaden the scope of search activities. All three databases are equipped with well-known thesauri which help finding relevant terms. Their auto suggest feature fills in terms that are actually in the thesaurus when being typed in by the user. A best practice search example for literature about Ebola in Africa explains how to make use of the most important tools and features when searching in biomedical databases on new STN.
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The recently added new STN option of creating Term Lists delivers versatile possibilities for conducting sophisticated and on multiple files based searches. This video explains how to make use of the new tool when, e.g. transferring results from one file to another or when extracting lists of chemical names to be searched for in a value-added database. All new functionalities are presented using the example of polyisocyanurates (PIR).
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The Extended Patent Family Feature of new STN gives patent searchers a clear overview of the global patent protection of a specific invention and adds valuable database specific information. This new STN video tutorial exemplifies this feature and highlights key aspects, based on an initial patent assignee/technology search.
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Structure searching for natural products with common frameworks like ß-lactam antibiotics can be easily conducted in the new STN platform. New STN provides the value-added databases CAplus and Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI), and their corresponding resources for chemical names and structures, REGISTRY and the Derwent Chemistry Resource (DCR). This short session uses a structure search example to demonstrate the content and advantages of CAplus, DWPI, REGISTRY and DCR within new STN. Both the REFX and SUBX operators are reviewed, showing how to retrieve all references for a certain chemical substance, and vice versa. This session also covers the features and benefits of Filters to help refine search results, and the Term Explorer to efficiently identify and search thesaurus keywords and synonyms from the CAS Lexicon.


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Pegatron Corp (和碩), an assembler of Apple Inc's iPhone and iPad products, yesterday reported its second-quarter net profit dropped quarter-on-quarter and year-on-year due to structural changes in the PC market.
During the April-to-June period, net profit contracted 27.2 percent to NT$2.51 billion (US$83.94 million) from NT$3.45 billion in the previous three months and 12.7 percent lower than the NT$2.88 billion during the same period of last year.
Earnings per share were NT$0.61 last quarter, compared with NT$1.62 the previous quarter.
Operating margin fell to 1.3 percent last quarter from 2.2 percent in the January-to-March period because of product mix adjustments and bigger spending on production relocation in China.
"We saw sales and net profit fall last quarter on a quarterly basis because of a decrease in sales of consumer electronics," Pegatron Pegatron chief financial officer Charles Lin (林秋炭) told an investors' conference.
"However, due to better-than-expected volume demand from clients, sales of both computing and communications products achieved quarter-on-quarter growth last quarter," he added.
In line with the company's previous guidance, Lin said sales of consumer electronics dropped 27 percent quarter-on-quarter last quarter due to decreased market demand ahead of clients' new product launches.
However, due to better-than-expected demand for notebooks and communications products, sales of computing devices increased 12 percent quarter-on-quarter, with 10 percent growth in sales of communications products.
On an annual basis, due to strong demand for tablets, sales of consumer electronics grew 95 percent, while those of computing products fell 14 percent and those of communications products dropped 15 percent, he said.
Over the past year, Pegatron has seen sales contribution from consumer electronics increase to 27 percent of the company's total sales last quarter from 14 percent a year ago, while that of computing products dropped to 46 percent and those of communications products fell to 27 percent.
"Overall, the company's sales performance during the second half is certain to improve from the first half," Pegatron chief executive officer Jason Cheng (程建中) said.
In the first six months of this year, cumulative profit expanded 61.9 percent to NT$5.96 billion from NT$3.68 billion a year earlier, while total revenue grew 9.9 percent to NT$429.81 billion from NT$391.26 billion over the same period.
"As demand for consumer electronics remains robust and as the July-to-December period is the peak season for PC markets, there is a likelihood that Pegatron's sales during the second half of the year will receive a boost, mainly from consumer electronics," he added.
For this quarter, Pegatron forecast sales of non-computing products would grow by between 40 percent and 50 percent quarter-on-quarter.
However, the company forecast notebook shipments would decline by between 5 percent and 10 percent quarter-on-quarter, while its motherboard and desktop shipments would shrink by between 10 percent and 15 percent.
"While we foresee no significant change to the company's product mix during this and next year, we will watch computing products' sales more closely and may take orders for new products to optimize our product portfolio," Cheng said.


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"The following story is based on a picture from the front page of the New York Times on August 8, 2007. The caption reads: Israel riot police met resistance yesterday as they removed Jewish settlers from illegal residences in the West bank city of Hebron. As one settler was carried off near the market, an officer rushed to pick up the man's glasses from the ground."Go read it here.
Thursday, August 09, 2007
Brothers in Hevron: The Maggid's Tale
5 comments:
- Ben Bayit said...
Sap. Pure unadulterated sap. The cops that come to evacuate are thugs. But they are thugs at all protests and evacuations, Beitar Jerusalem matches and rock concerts as well. however, many of them are goyim and sadists and take perverse pleasure at beating up settlers.
The rabbis who brainwash their followers to believe these people are our brothers are naive and misguided. However, they are also morally wrong for not protesting police violence against Arabs. We should have been the first people out protesting against police violence against Arabs but we accepted it. Just like we naively believed that somehow the Revisionist and Likud opportunists such as Sharon were with us. now we pay for our sins.
- 5:40 PM, August 09, 2007
- Jameel @ The Muqata said...
Ben Bayit: While all the Yasamnikim, without exception ARE thugs...not every single last person involved in the expulsion is.
We should have been the first people out protesting against police violence against Arabs but we accepted it.
I agree 100% -- we never realized how bad the police actually were (and still are).
Sappy or not -- there still are a few policemen (and many more soldiers) who are still on the brother list.
Here's an important story from today on A7:
IDF Eviction Refusal More Widespread Than Reported
by Ezra HaLevi
The bus driver of the Duchifat Battalion soldiers who were sent to Hevron after some of their comrades refused told the story of the group's growing ire at the situation.
The unreported story emerged Wednesday of the fate of the rest of the Duchifat Brigade who did not refuse orders and boarded the bus to Hevron to provide security for the eviction.
The bus, having been blocked by parents and activists both in the Jordan Valley and in Gush Etzion, was once again blocked by activists and residents at the entrance to Kiryat Arba. They stood in the road and refused to move. Border Police Commander Raphael Ben David, stationed in Shechem but in Hevron by chance, stopped his vehicle and, together with his driver, tried to disperse the protesters by force.
When he saw that he was not succeeding, the officer boarded the bus of Duchifat soldiers and asked that the soldiers and officers disembark and assist him. "Instead of complying, nearly all the soldiers on the bus began to yell at him that they had no intention of helping him because they are not taking part in the evacuation, and that he has no right to disperse the demonstrators on his own and they refuse to help him," the bus driver later told Chaim Cohen, part of a group of activists from Givatayim who came to oppose the eviction.
"They soon threw the Border Police officer off of the bus. He exited, clearly humiliated, and once again began struggling with the demonstrators – this time using clear violence. Bystanders said he grabbed the wrist of a mother-of-12 and flipped her over. She landed on her shoulder and was badly bruised."
Meanwhile, bystanders reported that the soldiers on the bus made makeshift signs expressing support, displaying them through the bus's side windows.
Cohen, part of a group of activists calling themselves the "Givatayim Settlers" (Givatayim is a notoriously leftist suburb of Tel Aviv), said the bus driver approached him later in the day and asked where he could find a tour of Hevron, as he had never been there before. Cohen obliged and relayed the story that the driver, who was clearly impressed, told him.
Maariv: Public Refuser Only Tip of the Iceburg
The Maariv daily, in its front-page story Wednesday, reported that "hundreds of soldiers refused and were reassigned to washing dishes, cleaning tents or helping in the mess hall by their commanders - out of the sites of the cameras." The report stated that the soldier who objected to taking part in the Hevron eviction were not just religious hesder students, but many others as well.
Posters, Leaflets Praise Soldiers' Refusal
The Committee For Saving the Nation and the Land, a Chabad-run activist group, has posted fliers across the country and will distribute them in synagogues this Sabbath proclaiming: "'That excel in strength, that do his commandments' [Psalms 103:20] These soldiers are worthy of being written up in gold in the history of the people of Israel as heroes of Israel. With your actions you shall save the Jewish community in Judea and Samaria and save the people of Israel from all who seek to destroy it."
The group is planning a large rally in support of the soldiers.
Campaign of SMS Support
Supporters of the refusers have published the names and phone numbers of some of the soldiers, encouraging supporters to send them text messages letting them know that there are people who believe they did the right thing. All numbers can be dialed from outside Israel by dropping the first zero and replacing it with 011 972:
* Chaim Cohen, Duchifat commander from Gush Katif: 054 568 4882
* Maor Cohen, Duchifat commander from Ofakim: 052 470 3670
* Netanel [supporters wrote: "secular fighter," indicating that contrary to media reports, the soldiers were not all yeshiva students obeying the dictates of their rabbis –ed]: 0547-669.399
* Meir Buzaglo: 050 859 2905
* Nati Abugani: 054 766 4399
* Sgt. David Sayad: 052 536 0636
- 5:55 PM, August 09, 2007
- Ben Bayit said...
I was at an "illegal" demonstration during the Oslo heydey. I saw a cop beating a fellow with a big knitted kippa and long peyot who kept on saying "my brother, you are my brother, even though you beat me, you are my brother". silliness like this is why the broad campaign (and it must be broad for it to work) of civil disobedience never took off.
BTW, I don't believe that civil disobedience has to be non-violent. That is just one opinion - largely based on the theory of John Rawls - but there are other opinions
- 6:43 PM, August 09, 2007
I would say the story is more hopeful than historically accurate.
It is true that the policeman picked up the glasses for the settler. The rest is meant to suggest that we are all brothers, often with similar backgrounds, if you step back a generation.
I have no regrets if my mishtara officer is not the typical one. I'm sure there are such individuals, and as the story points out, there are all kinds. There are rock throwing demonstrators and baton wielding police. Still, a note of hopefulness is only good.
Maybe it can start a trend of tolerance...
Either way, the picture in the Times inspired me. The picture is true. The rest is conjecture.
The Maggid
- 7:14 PM, August 09, 2007
- rbtzn said...
thanks for the link jameel.
the image btw can be found here http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/08/08/world/08mideast.600.jpg
- 9:20 PM, August 09, 2007


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It's hats off to the Duchess of Cambridge.
With a staggering 91 percent of total votes, the royal has been named 'Hat Person of the Year'.
She beat Rachel Zoe, Justin Timberlake and Bruno Mars to win the online honour from The Headwear Association, a California-based organisation.
Kate often sports fabulous headgear for her public appearances, including church services, weddings and Royal Ascot.
And since her engagement in November 2010, the 30-year-old's impact on the millinery industry has been enormous.
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Hat heroine: Kate's rules for carrying off headgear
It's hats off to the Duchess of Cambridge.


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Teppy wrote a great post yesterday about "demand feeding," which is a really terrible name for "eating what you want when you're hungry and stopping when you're full."
That's something I recommend frequently, as it's a key component of the Health at Every Size strategy. The problem with it, as Teppy points out, is a whole lot of people don't know when they're hungry, what they feel like eating, or when they're full. Ex-dieters, especially, are so used to categorizing foods as "good" and "bad," and having specific foods and portions dictated to us, the thought of really eating whatever we want — as opposed to the diet version of "eating whatever you want," which means allowing yourself one bite of ice cream SO YOU DON'T FEEL DEPRIVED (oy) — can be overwhelming and frankly frightening.
This rang a really big bell with me:
I've always had this fear, which has been encouraged and strengthened by the many diets I've been on, that if I ate what I actually wanted, then I would devour the WORLD. Well, I already wrote about this. But to really embrace demand feeding, I have to face that fear. I know, intellectually, that my fear is unfounded. I cannot possibly eat my own weight in Little Debbie oatmeal cream pies. I *know* it, but I still don't *believe* it.
That's an important point not only because many of us trying to learn what healthful eating really means have to overcome that fear, but because I think the same misconception drives a lot of fat hatred. I really think a whole lot of thin people who eat restrictively — whether in a diagnosably disordered way or merely an "I AM GOOD! I EAT CELERY!" way — believe deep down that they are just barely keeping a lid on their own desire to devour the world. And they assume all fat people have just failed to keep a lid on the same desire — so if we go unpunished for that, we're getting away with a "crime" they believe they work very hard not to commit.
Teppy points out that the marketing schtick for so many diet programs boils down to, "You can eat what you want! You won't feel deprived!" Of course that's a complete load of crap — either you can "eat whatever you want" except for certain foods (Atkins, South Beach), or you can "eat whatever you want" in gerbil-sized, pre-packaged portions (Jenny Craig), or you can "eat whatever you want" and then spend an extra hour at the gym and not eat anything else for the rest of the day in order to stay on your plan (Weight Watchers). But regardless, "We will give you permission — in some limited way — to eat 'bad' foods!" is a tremendously effective marketing strategy.
And that's because so many of us really believe somebody needs to give us permission; simply choosing to eat fatty, sugary food because you feel like it is absolutely not an option. And then somebody also needs to put a limit on that permission, so we won't go and devour the world. In this culture, most of us never learn to trust our bodies when it comes to eating, and we certainly never learn to trust our desires. Choosing what to eat is a daily battle between good and evil.
I mean, think about it for two seconds. People are selling plans that allow you to "eat what you want," to the tune of billions. That's lunacy. Because I love you, I shall offer you the Kate Harding Lifetime Diet Plan — which permits you to eat whatever you want — absolutely free! It goes like this:
Eat whatever you want. It's your body. You're allowed.
Repeat Day 1.
The problem with the Kate Harding Lifetime Diet Plan is exactly what Teppy talks about — figuring out what you're hungry for and how hungry you are after a lifetime of being told you are always too hungry for the wrong foods. I still struggle with staying on my own plan, for exactly the reasons Teppy and her commenters describe. I have a major fear of deprivation when it comes to food, plus a whole lot of baggage about "good" and "bad" foods, so trying to listen to my body instead of the voices in my head involves a lot of conscious effort — which is exactly what you're trying to drop by, you know, listening to your body.
But it does get easier all the time. Fillyjonk and I were talking yesterday about how, after being forbidden to eat sugared cereal as kids, we both made a beeline for the Lucky Charms in the college caf. But then we both got really fucking sick of Lucky Charms pretty quickly and realized we sincerely preferred Colon Blow. That was my first experience of learning that if I remove the prohibition on certain foods, I might just find out I don't even want them. Or at least, I don't want them every minute of every day, like I used to think I did.
Similarly, once I was out on my own, every time I'd go to a restaurant, I would end up ordering The Thing I Kind of Wanted that Came with Fries, even if what really sounded good to me was pasta or salad or even something that came with mashed potatoes, which I love. I got mashed potatoes at home when I was a kid. But fries? Were the rarest of treats, the whole goddamned point of going to a restaurant, if you asked me. And once my mother no longer controlled my food intake, I was on a mission to eat EVERY FRY IN THE GODDAMNED WORLD.
But you know what? I didn't eat every fry in the goddamned world. And these days, I don't have the same internal battle anymore — I order fries when I feel like it, and the Thing I Really Want That Doesn't Come with Fries when I feel like that — because I've now spent enough years eating at enough restaurants that I no longer feel as if there's a worldwide fry shortage looming, and I need to act now!
So it makes a lot of sense that maybe the best way to stop feeling as if you're going to devour the WORLD is to actually go ahead and try to devour the world. Because the first thing you'll realize is that you can't. And the next thing you'll realize is that you don't really want to. And once you get to that point, you might actually have a prayer of understanding your own internal hunger cues.
But for anyone who's grown up in this culture, really — let alone those who have dieted, struggled with eating disorders, and/or been shamed for being fat their whole lives — taking that first step of "legalizing" all foods and eating without guilt, so you can actually pay attention to how your body feels when you eat, is incredibly fucking daunting. I've come a long way with that, but the conscious effort is still necessary, and the voices in my head are still there, trying their damnedest to drown out what my stomach is telling me.
Yesterday, I decided I really wanted an Italian sausage sandwich for lunch. I got one at Giordano's, and of course it was HUGE. I ate about half of it and started to feel full to the point of sickness.
Then I ate a few more bites because this is really good and I've only eaten half and no one can see me and WHAT IF I NEVER HAVE ANOTHER ITALIAN SAUSAGE SANDWICH IN MY WHOLE LIFE?
And only after those extra deprivation-mode bites did I go, "Wait a minute. You are so full you FEEL SICK. Why are you HURTING YOURSELF over a goddamned sandwich? You can go to Giordano's and get a dozen Italian sausage sandwiches any time you want! You can walk away from this particular one without necessarily diminishing your lifetime Italian sausage intake! You will not be thinking about the second half of this sandwich on your deathbed!"
That's the kind of conscious intervention I'm talking about. It's ludicrous, but it's necessary.
So the bad news is, I ate myself sick yesterday. The good news is, a few years ago, I would have eaten that whole sandwich and a plate of fries before I even noticed I felt sick — and then let the resulting nausea serve as appropriate punishment for my gluttony. Then only eaten "good" food for two days to atone. Yesterday, I only ate myself a little sick, relatively speaking, and I wound up feeling proud of myself for stopping to ask the obvious question: Why are you hurting yourself over a goddamned sandwich?
And then, when I got hungry for dinner, what I really wanted was a big bowl of yogurt and berries, so that's what I ate until I was full. I didn't make that choice because it would balance out my earlier indiscretion; I made it because I opened the fridge and went, "I've got yogurt and berries! Hot damn!"
So sometimes it's easy and sometimes it's not. But the one thing I know for sure is that the more I eat what I want and just let it go, instead of moralizing about it — even if what I want is a gigantic Italian sausage sandwich or a plate of onion rings or a bag of Cheetos — the less I fear I am on the brink of devouring the WORLD. And the less I eat myself sick. And the more I eat nutrient-rich food because I crave it. And the more I can truly distinguish feelings of hunger from feelings of deprivation.
And the better I feel.


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Hedge funds that gambled on how much money would be recovered from the bankrupt carcass of Lehman Brothers are set to make hundreds of millions of pounds from a full payout to creditors of the European arm.
Five years on from the collapse, payouts to Lehman's creditors in Europe are on course to top 100 percent some time next year, following a recovery of assets by administrators and legal victories over other parts of the former US investment bank.
"We were reasonably confident there would be some significant funds, but never in our wildest dreams would we have thought it would be 100 pence in the pound," said Tony Lomas, joint administrator for Lehman Brothers International Europe (LBIE) and partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).
The collapse of Lehman Brothers on Sept. 15, 2008, plunged the global financial system into chaos. Its European arm, headquartered in London, was the largest and most complex part of the group because it was a hub for trading and investments, spanning asset classes and dozens of countries.
Closing down the business and trying to recover assets for creditors has involved unwinding thousands of derivatives contracts and share trades and figuring out who owns what, making it the most complex bankruptcy of a single entity ever.
Creditors' claims now trade between 120 and 135 percent in a secondary or "gray" market for their value, compared with as low as 10 percent in the weeks after the collapse, reflecting an expectation that a premium will be paid.
After creditors are fully paid, LBIE should also have cash left over to pay interest to unsecured creditors — who can get 8 percent a year under UK law — or subordinated bondholders.
However, original creditors, including hedge funds that had Lehman as their prime broker, banks and trade suppliers, such as a photocopying or legal firms, may not all be winners.
"A lot [of original creditors] have sold their claims, particularly as pricing improved and got towards 100 percent," said Alyson Lockett, partner at UK law firm Simmons and Simmons, who has advised more than 100 original creditors and also worked for distressed debt investors trading the claims.
The list of hedge funds that bought Lehman paper after the bank's demise reads like a who's who of so-called "distressed debt" funds, and includes Baupost Group, Elliott Management, King Street Capital and Paulson & Co, industry sources said.
The sources said it was hard to quantify how many of the claims were held by distressed debt specialists, but it could be half or more.
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The bankruptcy has turned into one of most lucrative trades since the financial crisis for these largely New York-based funds, which pride themselves on snapping up debt when panicked sellers have rushed for the exit.
Paulson, which led an investor group pushing for a better payout for creditors, started buying Lehman bonds the day it filed for bankruptcy, paying as little as US$0.75 on the dollar in late 2008, according to news reports citing US court papers.
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"It was a big bankruptcy and if you had the patience and did the work, it was a great trade," one fund executive said.


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ASSATEAGUE – The ongoing emergency repair effort by the
state and private contractors to restore the network of dunes along Assateague
Island battered by a series of winter storms neared it conclusion this week
with the finishing touches put on the replenishment project.
The convoy of trucks carrying tons and tons of sand day in
and day out down Route 611 in West Ocean City to Assateague Island have neared
the end of their mission as the effort to restore the barrier island's dune
system devastated by winter storms is coming to a close this week. The dune
restoration project began in January and is practically finished, for all
intents and purposes, about a month ahead of schedule.
The joint project sponsored by the state's Department of
Natural Resources and the Department of General Services, and carried out by
the private remediation company Marcor, was necessitated by the erosion of the
vast dune system on Assateague caused by a series of winter storms as well as
some man-made contributing factors.
According to MDGS area supervisor John Arford, the
expanded dune restoration project that began in January went far beyond the
normal maintenance projects for the barrier island.
"We do beach replenishment about every five years, but the
recent winter storms caused a lot of devastation to this area," he said.
The project included moving and reconfiguring sand that
migrated naturally to Assateague, but much of the restoration material was
trucked in from other sources around Delmarva. For example, about 30,000 cubic
yards of sand was trucked in from a borrow pit in Millsboro, Del., some 30
miles away. Finding material suitable for deposit on Assateague was no easy
task, according to Marcor project manager Dwayne Austin.
"The sand we are bringing in must meet certain
specifications," he said. "We had to locate sand pits throughout the region
that could possibly provide enough for this project. We ended up testing nine
pits of sand for the right texture and consistency and ended up finding only
three that were acceptable."
Tons and tons of sand from the three pits around Delmarva
were trucked to Assateague by a convoy of trucks traveling back and forth on
Route 611 in the last few months with sometimes as many as 100 trips a day.
Once deposited at Assateague, Marcor crews used a large excavator and two
bulldozers every day to move the delivered sand into protective dunes located
farther from the shoreline than they were previously.
Initially, the existing dunes sat directly at the water
line at high tide and about 50 feet back from the waterline at extreme low
tides. With the emergency restoration effort, the new dune system sits about 50
feet back from the water line at high tide and around 100 feet back from the
shoreline at low tide.
All in all, the cooperative effort by the DNR and Marcor
restored about 5,000 linear feet of dune line on Assateague to protect the
island and its bustling ecosystem. Without the emergency repairs, the barrier
island was at risk of being overrun by extreme high tides, which could have
threatened the fragile flora and fauna including the famous ponies, the vast
sika deer population and several other threatened or endangered species.
The newly refurbished dunes average about 16 feet high at
their peaks and are about 85 feet wide at their bases, which is a far cry from
their condition following the devastation caused by storms and other factors
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found dunes you could walk up to the peak, but once there, the other side of
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People concerned about the risks of eating nonorganic produce, will be happy to hear that they can eliminate cancer from their concerns. Researchers teamed up to compare the cancer prevention effects of fruits and vegetables and the potential increased cancer risk from pesticide exposure from these foods, and the findings published in Food and Chemical Toxicology report that the benefits of eating produce far outweigh potential cancer risk caused by conventionally grown fruits and vegetables.
The researchers used an analysis done by The World Cancer Research Fund and American Institute of Cancer Research in 2007 to estimate the number of cancer cases that could be prevented every year if half of the people in the United States ate 80 grams (one serving) more of fruits and vegetables each per day. They also used information from the USDA Pesticide Data Program to estimate the number of cancer cases from pesticide exposure that could be attributed to eating this much more produce.
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- Smoking and other tobacco use increases the chances of developing cancer of the lung, larynx, mouth, esophagus, bladder, kidney, throat, stomach, pancreas, and cervix.
- Obesity/overweight increases the risk of breast, colon, kidney, esophagus, and uterine cancer.
- Alcohol increases the risk of developing mouth, throat, esophagus, larynx, liver, and breast cancer.
- Sunlight and other sources of ultraviolet light increase the risk of several forms of skins cancer.
- Certain hormones, like those used to treat menopausal symptoms in women may increase the chance of breast, uterine, and ovarian cancer.
The take-home message? Don't use tobacco products, maintain a healthy weight, eat plenty of fruits and vegetables, use alcohol in moderation (no more than a couple of drinks per week), use sunscreen and protective clothing especially during prime sunburn hours, and explore other options for managing menopausal symptoms.