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What we're about
Hello! This successful international culture group in Washington DC, Maryland & Virginia (& Korea!), founded in 2006, has over 4,000 members.
Join a group that includes its own stars... our members! And yes, we do have stars at some of our events... sometimes announced, sometimes...not.
...you are joining the largest Korean-focused meetup groupin the USA,
and the 3rd-largest in the world.
We've been featured in newspapers, radio, and on Korean TV.
Thanks for stopping by!
And also join up... we are open to members who fit into our group, and respect our group's community.
What is being a member of our group like? It is wonderful and more. We focus on quality events, sharing food, language, and more. Many members are actively learning Korean - and English - and we welcome help from native speakers. 도와주시겠어요? Native Korean language speakers welcome.
It is easy to join in and enjoy your experiences with our group. Most of our events are "in English" and do not require Korean language ability. ESL (English-as-a-Second Language) learners are welcome here.
Our older 2012 video is packed with years of fun meetup activities...
...the video needs to be 3 times longer to fit it all of what we've done together! Check out the highlights from Tamara Kim farther down on this page.
Join this group if you are interested in learning Korean, or if you are Korean and want to share the culture & language with others (& perhaps enjoy English conversation). Meet with others in the area who are also interested in aspects of Korean culture, music, language, & food. All levels of proficiency are welcome! Our members share their own cultures... American, Asian (Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai, others), European (French, Spanish, others), African, Middle Eastern, and some day even Antarctican ;-) !
The meetups are fun events, and many friendships continue to be formed every month. This group gets together to explore & share lots of common interests, & help learn as well. The group is open to adult members from anywhere, and has meetings in the Washington DC Metro Area (North, South, East, West). The members can attend, and also volunteer to help organize events and other activities... a non-profit community-powered group.
We have expanded resources on our Meetup Group Pages:
EVENTS: Our next get-togethers are posted in the calendar section, in DC, Virginia & Maryland, and emails go out to members for updates. See the Calendar for more details, or take a look at the photos -> [url= http://korean.meetup.com/141/photos]. Post ideas for events here: https://www.meetup.com/koreans/calendar/suggest/
Some of our events have also been in the news. You can read (and see) more here: https://www.meetup.com/koreans/pages/Korean_Waves_In_The_News/
* Korean Alphabet - Hangul: https://www.meetup.com/koreans/pages/Korean_Language_-_Alp...
* Korean Language - Learning: https://www.meetup.com/koreans/pages/Korean_Language_-_Lea...
* Korean Language Videos - https://www.meetup.com/koreans/pages/Korean_Language_-_Vid...
Previous words of the week: Earthquake = jijin. Charity = jajen.
Semi-permanent word of the week is noraebang - "song room" or private karaoke room.
Previous Words of the Week are posted here: http://korean.meetup.com/141/messages/boards/view/viewthr...
Our page of prior event locations and resources for local places to find Korean food: https://www.meetup.com/koreans/pages/Korean_Food_and_Resta...
Travel to South Korea: (more coming soon) https://www.meetup.com/koreans/calendar/10435110/
Korean Reference & News sites: (video) Korean Waves In The News
Korean Adoption/Adoptees - https://www.meetup.com/koreans/pages/Korean_Adoption_and_A...
ESL - English as a Second Language: https://www.meetup.com/koreans/pages/ESL_-_English_As_A_Se...
Note: Activities of this group include cultural and related discussion, and sometimes networking and some marketing, yet it is not a group for network marketing (MLM). Marketing can be fine, and ask first before posting if you have any questions, especially if the products or services are not ones you actually make or provide personally. Marketing a business you own or are starting as the owner can occur during normal flow of event discussions and conversations, via comments about the capabilities offered by the business that are related to this group.
See you at an event!
If you are interested in promoting your Korean-related organization or any business, let us know (don't spam the members). If we don't get back to you right away, try again. And the video below is from one of our many free Korean cooking meetup events:
Korean Waves ™ in 2012 & 2013 went GANGNAM STYLE (강남스타일) in DC, VA, & MD! The Korean cultural sensation - Korean singer Psy - and now international star inspired many of us with his hit song (oppan) Gangnam Style. In 2014 we continued to grow to over 2,000 members, and over 1,000 events. We hope 2017 will be a continued year of growth of the exchange and understanding of Korean culture in the USA.
We often have karaoke (noraebang) events to get the chance to sing like (or with) the stars. Join us and attend the kind of events you like, and also suggest the ones you want!


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Microsoft has released Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1, which allows developers to customize their apps for cheaper Windows Phones with less memory, and also run the development kit on Windows 8 machines, the company said in a blog post on Monday.
Initially, all Windows Phone devices had 512MB of RAM. The first to ship with just 256MB will be Nokia's Lumia 610, which will cost €189 (US$252) and be available in the second quarter, Nokia said when the phone was announced at Mobile World Congress in February.
But the downgrade comes with a cost as well as a saving: Microsoft has identified that 5 percent of existing applications will not run properly on devices with 256MB of RAM, it said in February.
To see how applications perform, the new SDK has two emulators: one for phones with 512MB of memory and one for phones with 256MB of memory, according to Microsoft.
Microsoft has also blogged about what to think about when developing apps for the phones.
Developers that don't want their application made available on phones with 256MB of memory can indicate this in the manifest file describing the app's properties, Microsoft said. The company has already blocked the apps it determined wouldn't run well on low-memory phones.
The Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1 can also run on the Windows 8 Consumer Preview release. That will allow them to develop mobile apps using the Windows Phone SDK and Windows 8 apps using Visual Studio 11, with both development environments running side by side on the same PC.
Visual Studio 11 is also under development, and Microsoft released a beta version in February.
While the SDK runs on the consumer preview of Windows 8, it won't be officially supported until the final version of the operating system is released, Microsoft said. It also warned that developers are likely to see a performance degradation in the emulator if they have enabled Hyper-V.
Officially, Microsoft isn't commenting on when Windows 8 will arrive, but the operating system is expected to be released this year.
The development kit is available for download now from Microsoft's Download Center. Developers can choose between 10 languages including English, Spanish, Chinese (both traditional and simplified) and Russian.
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The Wall Street Journal
written by By Joanna Sugden
Tuesday October 15, 2013
A high tolerance for crowds and crowded spaces in India means major events in the country are vulnerable to stampedes, according to an international expert on crowd management.
Teresa Moore, of the International Centre for Crowd Management and Security Studies in the U.K., said that different cultures have varying degrees of forbearance for crowds.
"The higher tolerance for crowded spaces in India allows for people to get closer, because they don't feel uncomfortable until it is very packed," said Ms. Moore director of education and training at the center, which is part of Bucks New University in Buckinghamshire. At that point the crowd is dangerously large, she added.
"People panic and react. Couple that with a rumor, which can come out of that feeling of panic, that's when you can get a surge or a problem," Ms. Moore said.
On Sunday, 115 people were killed in Madhya Pradesh when those crossing a crowded bridge to a Hindu temple thought it was collapsing.
"There will have been a moment on that bridge when people felt that it was too close, too packed," Ms. Moore said of Sunday's stampede. In countries with a higher tolerance for crowds she added, "the tipping point between what people can manage and what they feel is dangerous is very fine."
The death toll, which continues to mount, is among the worst since a stampede in 1954 killed 500 during the Kumbh Mela festival in Uttar Pradesh on the banks of the River Ganges.
But deaths from stampedes are relatively frequent at religious events and major gatherings in India. A report by the Press Trust of India in 2011 said that over 1,000 people had lost their lives by being crushed underfoot during temple stampedes in the previous decade.
More mundane events too can turn deadly. Six were killed in 1969 as they rushed for tickets to a cricket game in what was then Calcutta. Three women died in a scramble for free food and cooking utensils in a promotion by Jindal Aluminium Ltd. in Bangalore in 1992.
To be sure, India is not alone in suffering casualties in crowd surges at such events. A Wal-Mart employee in the U.S. was trampled to death during a sale event at one of the companies stores in November 2008.
Almost every year in India, sometimes more than once, during festivals, pilgrimages, and election rallies there are reports of people being trampled to death. And a look at the timeline of these tragedies shows that the number of dead and injured is growing.
Madhya Pradesh has had a number of such incidents. In 1991, 37 died and 40 were injured when 200,000 people gathered at the Mahakaleshawar temple, in the town of Ujjain.
In July 1993, at least 20 people were killed and 100 injured in a stampede at a Hindu festival also in Madhya Pradesh.
In 1994, around 117 people, 75 of them women, died when a police baton charge aimed at quelling a protest, triggered a crowd surge in the city of Nagpur in Maharashtra in November of that year. In 1995, around 400 people died in a fire at a school north of Delhi, many in the charge to get out of the burning building.
Seventeen people were electrocuted and then trampled to death at a music concert in Calcutta in 1996.
More recently in August 2008, up to 145 pilgrims were killed in a stampede during a religious festival in the northern state of Himachal Pradesh after a railing collapsed under the weight of pilgrims.
At least 168 people were killed and 100 injured when thousands of pilgrims stampeded at a Hindu temple in the town of Jodhpur in western India in September of that same year.
In March 2010, 65 people were killed in a stamped at the Ram Janki temple in Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh as crowds pushed to get a free meal.
In January 2011, more than 100 people were killed and 25 injured in a stampede of pilgrims at a Hindu festival in Kochi, Kerala.
Earlier this year in February, at the Kumbh Mela which was this year one of the largest ever religious gatherings on earth, at least 36 people were killed in a stampede at the nearby railway station as they headed to the festival site.
"Crowd management is not particularly established as a discipline in India," Ms. Moore said, adding that the professionalization of managing crowds is a relatively new concept worldwide and has developed as a response to disasters at events around the world.
In Australia, for instance, after the death of a young woman crushed in a mosh pit at a Big Day Out music festival 12 years ago, new rules were brought in governing the structure of audience areas at gigs. In Victoria, a state in south eastern Australia, the government has passed a Major Events (Crowd Management) Act, setting out legal requirements for big gatherings.
Professor Simon Darcy, a member of the Australian Centre for Event Management at the University of Technology in Sydney, said "legislation is only as good as the way that it is policed and the diligence of those managers involved."
"If there's not back up and compliance checking these things will continue to happen," he added.
So how else to prevent stampedes?
Planning is the key, according to Ms. Moore from the Centre for Crowd Management. "You need to know the size of the crowd, the capacity of the event, not just the size of the area, the capacity to manage that crowd," she said.
Crowd stewards, monitoring potential changes in crowd behavior, and having sufficient entry and exit points are all crucial to maintaining a safe event, Ms. Moore said.
"A bridge like the one in this event in Madhya Pradesh, we would expect to look at the capacity on that bridge, the flow rates, how many people can get across safely, and how to manage that," she said.
Worldwide, no crowded event is immune from these tragedies, she said. "You need the wrong combination of events and people not really focusing on planning and it can happen anywhere," she said.
If you are part of a crowd and things take a turn for the worse, there is little you can do. "If you are caught up in the middle of something you almost have no physical control over your own body your feet are lifted up. The best thing is to be very vigilant about what you're getting into and do your own risk assessment," Ms. Moore said.


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A collection of grain-free cookbooks can be found on the GF Books page.
The Body Ecology Diet: Recovering Your Health and Rebuilding Your Immunity by Donna Gates and Linda Schatz has a new way of combining and cooking foods. No more sugar, wheat, dairy, or alcohol. Includes raw fermented vegetables. The book is an easy read, but lacks new information that is not readily available in other books or on the internet. The author favor certain foods and products, such as coconut water kefir, yet fails to thoroughly justify her preference for them. However, she does offer an excellent guide on making the coconut water kefir. Throughout the book she refers you to her website, which promotes a myriad of products that are touted as miracle cures to everything from Attention Deficit Disorder and Autism to Sexual Dysfunction. It is made relevant by the numerous times that the book refers readers to it, instructing them to purchase some product that is necessary if you want to follow her diet. In other words, don't expect to be able to follow Gates' version of the Candida diet without purchasing items from her storefront, a well-stocked health food store, or Amazon (see link in Products section below).
The Yeast Connection: A Medical Breakthrough by William G. Crook, first published in 1984, is the classic for diet, which includes fresh vegetables, fruits, homemade breads with flours from the health food stores, that are buckwheat, rice, etc. that have no wheat gluten or yeast in them.
Chronic Candidiasis: Your Natural Guide to Healing with Diet, Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs, Exercise, and Other Natural Methods by Michael T. Murray. Contains very comprehensive, easy to understand information. The author is very thorough without going into overwhelming detail. A good book for the newly diagnosed to start with.
The Candida Cure: Yeast, Fungus & Your Health: The 90-Day Program to Beat Candida & Restore Vibrant Health by Ann Boroch. The book is the most current and concise book on this subject. This practical and revealing work describes what candida is and how it can become out of balance as a result of using antibiotics, steroids, hormone replacement therapy, and chemotherapy as well as unmanaged stress levels and diets filled with sugar (white flour, dairy, refined sugar, and alcohol). The first three chapters describe what candida is, how disease starts in the gastrointestinal tract, and how poor nutrition adversely affects candida overgrowth. It also includes a candida health questionnaire. The remaining chapters lay out a 90-day program for beating candida and restoring vibrant health. Diet, detoxification, and supplementation are covered in detail. User-friendly charts, recipes, meal ideas, and sample menus are included to make the program simple and effective. [Kindle edition available.]
Complete Candida Yeast Guidebook, Revised 2nd Edition: Everything You Need to Know About Prevention, Treatment & Diet by Jeanne Marie Martin and Zoltan P. Rona M.D. explains what Candida is, its possible causes, symptoms of Candida and related health problems, how to treat it naturally as well as through traditional medicine, and Candida diet recipes.
The Candida Albican Yeast-Free Cookbook: How Good Nutrition Can Help Fight the Epidemic of Yeast-Related Diseases by Pat Connolly is the complete, authoritative guide that shows how nutrition can fight the epidemic of yeast- and fungus-related diseases and disorders including asthma, bronchitis, depression, fatigue, and memory loss. [Kindle edition available.]
The Bible Cure for Candida and Yeast Infections (Bible Cure Series) by Don Colbert shares his insight on yeast infections and suggests cures to prevent them from weakening the immune system. Included are scriptures and prayers. It has a flawless 5 rating at Amazon. [Kindle edition available.]
Leaky Gut Syndrome by Elizabeth Lipski offers a comprehensive overview of the causes, symptoms and health recommendations of leaky gut syndrome and other digestive problems. Has self-diagnosis chart. Recommends treatments that are the standard throughout the alternative world for this problem.
Feast Without Yeast: 4 Stages to Better Health: A Complete Guide to Implementing Yeast Free, Wheat (Gluten) Free and Milk (Casein) Free Living by Bruce Semon was designed to be a 'family friendly' cookbook for people who are sensitive to yeast, as well as to wheat and milk. All recipes are completely free of yeast and fermented foods, and mostly free of milk, wheat, eggs and other common food allergens such as corn, soy, rye, nuts and peanuts. All of the recipes are kosher; all are sugar free, and most are cholesterol free and vegetarian.
The Yeast Connection Cookbook: A Guide to Good Nutrition and Better Health by William G. Crook and Marjorie Jones is a companion to his Yeast Connection. In addition to 225 family and kitchen-tested recipes, the book discusses food contaminants and provides suggestions for obtaining safe foods. It also gives detailed instructions for detecting and overcoming food allergies. [Kindle edition available.]
Fungus Link: An Introduction to Fungal Disease Including the Initial Phase Diet by Doug Kaufmann. The book explains how fungal toxins disrupt and injure the body, and how to eliminate them. The diet has you abstain from sugar, cheese, most grains and white flour products. Most reviews rave about the book.
The Yeast Connection and Women's Health by William G. Crook. This update of Dr. William Crook's classic The Yeast Connection and the Woman includes a new section on how yeast overgrowth can make you fat -- in addition to causing chronic illness. The 10-step Yeast Fighting Plan described in the book will help you get rid of yeast and be on your way to better health fast. Lots of reviews at Amazon, and they are mixed.
The Bible Cure Recipes for Overcoming Candida (Bible Cure (Siloam)) by Don Colbert. Easy to read and understand. Has easy to make recipes. [Kindle edition available.]
The Candida Control Cookbook: What You Should Know and What You Should Eat to Manage Yeast Infections (New Revised & Updated Edition) by Gail Burton severely restricts many of the foods that make life pleasurable - all sugars, most fresh fruits, milk and milk products, white rice, barley, wheat, most cheeses, all alcohol and fizzy drinks, mushrooms, coffee and most flours. She wrote the book to help fellow sufferers reintroduce variety and taste into their otherwise bland diets - without sacrificing their health.
Dr. Jensen's Guide to Diet and Detoxification: Healthy Secrets from Around the World by Bernard Jensen argues you should be proactive in taking good care of your digestive track. The book has an 11 day detoxification program. His knowledge of iridology is unsurpassed.
The Yeast Connection Handbook by William G. Crook. The book is comprehensive, not only discussing a wide range of health disorders, but also addressing a wide range of sufferers, including men, women, and children. The book provides a step-by-step program that relieves health problems through dietary changes, nutritional supplements, medication, and simple lifestyle changes. [Kindle edition available.]
Power Healing: Use the New Integrated Medicine to Cure Yourself by Leo Galland. Dr. Galland believes that one's diet, exercise, habits, emotional life, physical environment, as well as one's intrinsic makeup and history (even one's developmental history in the womb!) should all be factored into any diagnosis, to interpret symptoms and suggest treatment. This he calls "patient-centered" diagnosis, to distinguish is from current practice, which might be called "disease-centered" diagnosis. He believes that many problems that are today attacked with a variety of over-the-counter and prescription drugs, or, more radically, with surgery, are really the result of imbalances in a person's life. Some of these, such as diet, are rather easily correctable, and simple changes in eating habits, perhaps with a course of diet supplements, can reverse the course of what had been tenacious maladies. Other problems, such as stress or loneliness, can impair immune function, but may sometimes be difficult to correct, intertwined as they are with a person's entire way of life. This book has many case studies that bring home the reality of all these issues, and form an entertaining narrative backbone to the discussion. [excerpt of review by James R. McCall]
The Candida Directory & Cookbook: The Comprehensive Guidebook to Yeast-Free Living by Helen Gustafson and Maureen O'Shea has a three stage diet, which is easily explained with common sense and science. There are many columns and lists of foods that are either good or bad.
The Yeast Syndrome: How to Help Your Doctor Identify & Treat the Real Cause of Your Yeast-Related Illness by John P. Trowbridge and Morton Walker. This book is actually a therapeutic step-by-step self-treatment manual and reference book for people who suffer from yeast overgrowth. Includes questionnaire. Many glowing anecdotes in the Amazon reviews.
Conquering Yeast Infections The Non Drug Solution For Men And Women by S. Colet Lahoz examines causes and symptoms of Candidiasis (systemic fungal infection) and provides a means for treating this complex problem. It provides a self-assessment questionnaire and presents relevant case studies.
Allergy and Candida Cooking: Understanding and Implementing Plans for Healing by Sondra Kay Lewis is a comprehensive, user-friendly cookbook and healing guide. It provides a Healing Action Plan for both yeast overgrowth and food allergies. A 4-Stage Candida-Control Food Plan and a 4-Day Rotational Food Plan are included with ample assistance for personalizing the plans to meet your needs. Over 375 recipes and menus support the food plans and include helpful hints for preparing appetizing meals and snacks that are free of common allergens and free of foods that contribute to yeast overgrowth.
A Primitive Diet: A Book of Recipes free from Wheat/Gluten, Dairy Products, Yeast and Sugar: For people with Candidiasis, Coeliac Disease, Irritable Bowel ... and those just wanting to become healthy by Beverley Southam. The book has recipes free from gluten, yeast, sugar, dairy products, large amounts of meat and grain, and processed foods. What did Primitive Man eat? He gathered fruits, berries, nuts, greens and roots from the soil. Herbs were his medicine. He caught small animals, fish or birds, and found bird's eggs. Recipes include Fresh Tomato Soup, Ceviche (a Mexican dish), Salsas, Marinated Fresh Fruit, Feast on Fish in Banana Leaves, Raw Apple Pie complemented with fresh drinks: Strawberry Crush, Iced Pineapple Tea, Orange and Avocado Smoothie. Recipes are from around the world. Included for those who miss their bread and cakes, there are recipes of dampers, pizza bases, cakes and cookies. This is an Australian book. Published August 28, 2008. Amazon stocks.
The Yeast-Free Kitchen: Recipes to Help You Achieve Victory over the Yeast-Beast, Candida Albicans by Jane Remington. This is a yeast-free recipe book with lots of tidbits and information. It has a flawless 5 rating at Amazon. [Kindle edition available.]
Missing Diagnosis by C. Orian Truss MD. This is the 1985 edition, which outsells the second edition.
Conquer Candida and Restore Your Immune System: A Guide to the Naturopathic Science of Healing by Dr. Jack Tips has clinical research that shows you the three steps to a healthy immune system.
The Candida Albicans Yeast-Free Cookbook (Keats Good Health Guides) by Pat Connolly has recipes that are designed to be sugar-free, and simple, tasty and healthy. Covers the Rainbow Meal Plan. Each meal "includes small portions of seven food groups: complete protein; grain or legume; root vegetable; yellow or white vegetable; green vegetable; red, orange, or purple vegetable; and leafy green vegetable." The portions are all the same size. Individuals may eat as many meals a day as they like, but each meal must contain equal-sized portions of each of the seven food groups. This is out-of-print, but many are available cheaply.
Candida Albicans: Could Yeast Be Your Problem? by Leon Chaitow D.O. N.D. shows how to detect the effect of Candida Albicans and provides a comprehensive, drug-free program for its control. The book is an easily understood tool to present candida albicans to people who have never heard of it.
Missing Diagnosis II by C. Orian Truss MD. This is the sequel to his original book published in 1983. This book presents Dr. Truss' observations over the last 25 years on the diagnosis and treatment of chronic yeast infections. Symptoms of chronic yeast illness are mistakenly attributed to stress, including fatigue, muscle and joint aches, depression, menstrual and libido problems, partial loss of short-term memory and concentration, and an intolerance to chemical odors (e.g. perfumes). The diet used by Dr. Truss, both for diagnosis and treatment, is published here for the first time. Diet is a highly important element in the diagnosis and treatment of chronic illness related to the overgrowth of the fungus, Candida albicans, as described in the Missing Diagnosis II. This book was written especially for the patient and is easy to understand.
Allergy & Candida Cooking Made Easy by Sondra K. Lewis, et al. The book explains Candida and gives a list of possible symptoms, and then a list of what a Candida sufferer should and should not eat, and information on ingredients that it uses in the recipes (free of sugar, yeast, wheat, corn, dairy and egg). It explains the connection between allergies and Candida.
In Allergies and Candida by Professor Steven Rochlitz one learns how 80-90% of "Candida" is really protozoan parasitosis. And how parasites and viruses make the body PERMEABLE causing food and chemical allergies and all the subsequent symptoms. Can also buy at the author's site.
10 Natural Treatments You Haven't Heard of Until Now by William Wong and Bruce Stephen Holms. I included this book as Systemic Yeast Infections is one of the conditions that the author's approach aids in the recovery. The authors help people regain their strength and ability. The book includes charts and drawings to better explain Dr. Wong's treatment plans. Included in the book is a Brain Improving Recipe. This new edition adds four bonus treatments. There is also an older edition. The couple reviews give it 5 stars.
Natures Own Candida Cure (Natural Health Guide) by William Crook explains the relationship of candida to chronic illness and ways to control candida and regain lost health. Includes lifestyle changes, dietary guidelines, and recipes illustrated by color photos.
How to Detoxify & Renew Your Body From Within by Valerie Saxion. This is a 63-page pamphlet that is not worth the price. Much of it is general information you might already know. If you are interested in this subject instead buy "How To Feel Great All The Time" by the same author.
Candida-Related Complex: What Your Doctor Might Be Missing by Christine Winderlin extensively covers Candida-Related Complex (CRC), a condition that occurs when Candida albicans, an organism found in all humans, multiplies out of control. A section on treatment covers the basics of recovery: a limited carbohydrate diet, prescribed antifungal medications, probiotics (i.e., "friendly" bacteria), and substances that naturally boost the immune system, such as vitamins A, C, and E.
The Candida-Yeast Syndrome by Ray C. Wunderlich Jr. A fast read (48 pages) and informative on diagnosing and treating yeast infections.
Candida: A Natural Approach by Karen Brody A guide to natural methods for curing a troublesome ailment. There are case histories and recipes. This is out-of-print, but there are decent used ones for a reasonable price.
At Amazon you can do a search on Candida. Now thousands of books will be found, all ranked by Amazon. You can also search on yeast and even more, some extraneous, will be found.
The Probiotics Revolution: The Definitive Guide to Safe, Natural Health Solutions Using Probiotic and Prebiotic Foods and Supplements by Gary B. Huffnagle. This may be the best book on probiotics. The book is organized in 3 sections: The Promise of Probiotics, Preventing and Treating Disease, and Promoting Microbial Balance: What You Can Do. There are not many recipes. [Kindle edition available.]
Enzymes: What the Experts Know by Tom Bohager. This book throughly describes the role of Enzymes Therapy in restoring, promoting and maintaing optimal health. The topics covered in depth are as follows; Definition of what an Enzyme is, the 4 types, the history of enzyme therapy, animal vs plant-based enzyme therapy, the digestive system, the use of therapeutic enzymes, specific enzymes in therapy, determining enzyme potency, proper pH, the microlflora (bacteria) connection, the immune system, physical fitness, choosing the correct supplement, enzyme deficiency testing, proteases and their effect on probiotics and a discussion of glucoreductase. The Amazon ratings average to about 4.5.
The Wonder of Probiotics: A 30-Day Plan to Boost Energy, Enhance Weight Loss, Heal GI Problems, Prevent Disease, and Slow Aging (Lynn Sonberg Books) by John R. Taylor N.D. and Deborah Mitchell reveals how taking the right probiotics-in the form of food and supplements-as part of a daily revitalizing program for overall health or for specific health conditions -- can restore a healthy balance between friendly and "bad" bacteria in the intestinal tract. Much more is in the product description. It gets a perfect 5 star rating at Amazon.
Bacteria for Breakfast: Probiotics for Good Health by Kelly Dowhower Karpa, PhD, RPh. This resource explains, to laymen and physicians, how probiotics support immune function, prevent urogenital infections, and maintain good gastrintestinal health. It has a flawless 5 rating at Amazon. [Kindle edition available.]
Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes: A Simple Guide to Using Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis by Tom Bohager. Bohager's quick course explains how to use enzymes for general good health and to treat specific ailments. For readers interested in improving digestion, strengthening the immune system, restoring energy levels, slowing the aging process, or treating common maladies. The couple of Amazon reviews are 5s.
Probiotic and Prebiotic Recipes for Health: 100 Recipes that Battle Colitis, Candidiasis, Food Allergies, and Other Digestive Disorders by Tracy Olgeaty Gensler. Foods that nourish these "good" bacteria are called prebiotics. This cookbook is organized by prebiotic and probiotic food recipes. Each of the 100 tasty recipes include instructions for properly cooking and storing food to preserve optimal levels of good bacteria.
Gluten-free, Sugar-free Cooking: Over 200 Delicious Recipes to Help You Live a Healthier, Allergy-Free Life by Susan O'Brien covers everything from breakfast to dessert. Free of gluten, sugar, and usually dairy, these tasty dishes are also invaluable for people living with medical conditions such as candida, fibromyalgia, Crohn's disease, diabetes, autism, and ADHD, who must avoid certain foods to better control their symptoms. Complete with product sourcing information, substitute ingredients, dining out advice, and online resources. No compromises on ingredients, all of which can be found at the local health food store. There are lots of raving reviews at Amazon. [Kindle edition available.]
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Allergy-Free Cookbook: No Eggs, No Dairy, No Nuts, No Gluten by Alice Sherwood. Most recipes eliminate only one or at most two of the allergens listed on the cover, and nearly all are built around plain everyday ingredients like milk, wheat, and eggs. Each recipe contains a sidebar with suggestings for eliminating other ingredients. A baking recipe calling for milk and eggs, for example, has a sidebar saying to avoid eggs by using commercial egg replacer, to replace milk with a non-dairy substitute, etc. However, if you make all the substitutions the result is not very good.
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Global average temperatures are now higher than they have been for about 75% of the past 11,300 years, a study suggests. And if climate models are any indication, by the end of this century they will be the highest ever since the end of the most recent ice age.
Instrumental records of climate extend back to only the late nineteenth century. Beyond that, scientists depend on analyses of natural chronicles such as tree rings and isotope ratios in cave formations.
But even these archives have their limits: many detailed reconstructions of climate, particularly of temperature, apply to only limited regions or extend back at most a couple of millennia, says Shaun Marcott, a climate scientist at Oregon State University in Corvallis.
Marcott and his colleagues set about reconstructing global climate trends all the way back to 11,300 years ago, when the Northern Hemisphere was emerging from the most recent ice age. To do so, they collected and analyzed data gathered by other teams. The 73 overlapping climate records that they considered included sediment cores drilled from lake bottoms and sea floors around the world, along with a handful of ice cores collected in Antarctica and Greenland.
Each of these chronicles spanned at least 6,500 years, and each included a millennium-long baseline period beginning in the middle of the post-ice-age period at 3550 BC.
For some records, the researchers inferred past temperatures from the ratio of magnesium and calcium ions in the shells of microscopic creatures that had died and dropped to the ocean floor; for others, they measured the lengths of long-chain organic molecules called alkenones that were trapped in the sediments.
After the ice age, they found, global average temperatures rose until they reached a plateau between 7550 and 3550 BC. Then a long-term cooling trend set in, reaching its lowest temperature extreme between ad 1450 and 1850.
Since then, temperatures have been increasing at a dramatic clip: from the first decade of the twentieth century to now, global average temperatures rose from near their coldest point since the ice age to nearly their warmest, Marcott and his team report today in Science.
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The temperature trends that the team identified for the past 2,000 years are statistically indistinguishable from results obtained by other researchers in a previous study, says Marcott. "That gives us confidence that the rest of our record is right too," he adds.
Marcott and his colleagues "have put together a pretty impressive set of climate proxies", says Gavin Schmidt, a climate scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York. "The overall climate picture has been clear for a long time, mostly from the Northern Hemisphere, but this compilation really puts the rest of the world in context," he adds.
"Prior to this study, researchers could only guess whether global temperatures had exceeded the warmest part of the present interglacial period," says Darrell Kaufman, a geologist at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. The latest findings show that the recent high temperatures are not necessarily the warmest, but they are unusually high, he notes.
The temperature trends during most of the post-ice-age period match those expected from natural factors such as the long-term variation in the tilt of Earth's axis, says Marcott. But in the past century and a half, industrial emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide have increased — which helps to explain why global temperatures have risen so quickly in recent decades, he suggests.
Climate models from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change suggest that by the end of this century, regardless of future carbon dioxide emissions, temperatures will be at their highest since the end of the most recent ice age, the researchers say.
This article is reproduced with permission from the magazine Nature. The article was first published on March 7, 2013.


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We asked you if you had questions for Dr. Audrey Cook about diabetes. Here are her responses.
Editors' note: In our April issue as an accompaniment to the article "Identifying the reasons behind difficult-to-control diabetes in dogs" by Dr. Audrey Cook, we asked you if you had questions for Dr. Cook about diabetes. Here are her responses.
Dr. Audrey Cook
Q. Now that Vetsulin (Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health) is difficult to obtain, what is the best way to transition dogs from Vetsulin to NPH? How will transition differ between regulated and not yet regulated dogs? How easy is it to transition them?
A. The safest way to switch an established diabetic dog from Vetsulin to NPH is to start NPH at 0.25 U/kg given subcutaneously twice daily and then adjust the dose based on the response. I would plan to do a blood glucose curve (with a measurement every two hours) the day I first give the new insulin, as I am always worried about causing hypoglycemia when I make a switch. If the glucose concentration goes below 100 mg/dl, I would decrease the insulin dose by 25%. If the nadir was > 150 mg/dl, I would increase the dose by 10% to 20%. (I'd start at 10% but may have to increase the dose a bit depending on the number of units.)
For a new diabetic, I'd start the NPH at the same dose, but the rules about the target nadir are different. In a new diabetic, I want my lowest measured glucose concentration on that first day's curve to stay above 150 mg/dl because most dogs become more responsive to insulin after the first week or so as the metabolic effects of untreated diabetes are reversed. If I was starting NPH in a very poorly regulated dog, I would treat it like a new diabetic, as those dogs also suffer substantial metabolic derangements from inadequately managed diabetes. After the first week, I'd recheck the dog or have the owner do a glucose curve at home and then adjust the insulin doses as necessary based on the nadir, average blood glucose concentration, and duration of effect.
Q. If you have a personal preference between PZI and glargine, I would like to hear it. We are leaning more toward glargine because it is a human product and easy to obtain. Any hints on transitioning cats?
A. Now that there is a newly FDA-approved PZI U40 product for cats (ProZinc—Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica), availability of PZI should not be a concern. I think that choosing glargine or PZI is a matter of personal preference and experience. I still reach for glargine in a newly diagnosed diabetic cat because I am comfortable with this insulin and have had good success with it. For both insulins, I start at 0.25 U/kg of lean body weight twice daily, which is usually 1 U/cat. If the cat is truly large (and not just fat), I would start at 2 U twice daily.
Again, I would try to do a glucose curve to identify hypoglycemia after the first dose and also encourage the owner to start checking blood glucose concentrations at home. On that first day, I do not want to see the glucose concentration go below 150 mg/dl. Because many cats undergo diabetic remission, I want to be vigilant for hypoglycemia so that I can promptly decrease the insulin dose as necessary. I am very cautious about increasing the insulin dose in a cat during the first month of therapy, as weight loss, dietary changes, and the management of insulin resistance will often improve insulin sensitivity dramatically.
If I had a feline patient that was receiving Vetsulin, I would start with the same dose of 0.25 U/kg of lean body weight when I switched to glargine or PZI.
Q. I have a patient named Sandy who is a 10-year-old spayed female terrier mix. She was diagnosed with diabetes mellitus in November 2009. At the time, she was a slightly obese dog (BCS 6.5/9), but she is now 25 lb (BCS 5/9) and receiving 8 U NPH twice a day.
I have been monitoring her glucose concentrations (every seven to 10 days the first two times and then every three to four weeks), usually five to six hours after the morning insulin dose. According to the owner, Sandy does not have polyuria, polydipsia, or polyphagia; does not have an urgency to urinate during the night; and is doing well in general. The last glucose concentration was 333 mg/dl, which, again, was measured five to six hours after the last insulin dose. Unfortunately, she is a very aggressive patient.
A glucose concentration of 333 mg/dl is still high, but I am hesitant to change the dose because of the owner's good subjective opinion about signs of glucose control and the dog's stable physical examination findings. Should I increase the insulin dose until the glucose concentration decreases, regardless of the clinical signs? Measuring a fructosamine concentration is not an option because of financial limitations. And I think performing a glucose curve in the clinic is not an option either. If I do not increase the insulin dose, will the dog have significant complications from having a glucose concentration higher than ideal?
A. I would not feel comfortable increasing an insulin dose based on a single glucose measurement. The reason for this is that you do not know what the true nadir (true lowest value) was, and there is a real risk of an overdose. In addition, it is always important to look at the whole patient for signs of good regulation or poor regulation. If the owner reports minimal clinical signs, and body weight is holding on target, then I would certainly not increase the insulin dose based on this one reading. This dog may be a good candidate for at-home monitoring, and it would be an inexpensive way to get a lot more information. Your client can review several great Web resources.
Q. I have a feline patient with a glucose concentration of 409 mg/dl (measurement obtained four to six hours after the morning insulin dose) that is doing well according to the owner. Since this is a high concentration, should I increase the insulin dose?
A. With feline patients, glucose concentrations measured in the hospital are often a poor representation of glucose concentrations in the home. Stress can trigger massive sustained hyperglycemia in cats, so it is always important to look at the whole picture. Again, checking glucose concentrations at home is often a great option. Otherwise, I would look at clinical signs (including weight) and consider measuring a fructosamine concentration. If this is on target, you have good evidence of acceptable glycemic control.
Audrey Cook, BVM&S, MRCVS, DACVIM, DECVIM-CA
Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences
College of Veterinary Medicine
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843


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A spoonful of Tanzania's Coconut Potato Soup garnished with moons of buttery avocado will transport you to the windswept slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro. Never fear: The howl you'll hear as you chow down won't be the wind on your face, or some dangerous beast – but rather the horn of the Wakonyingo, calling for help. Wakonyingo: Fact or fiction? More than a hiker's haven, Mount Kilimanjaro is a wellspring of legends involving the Wakonyingo pygmies. The stories fall somewhere between history and fairy tale. History reports that the Wakonyingo were an early tribe inhabiting Kilimanjaro, driven out or absorbed by invading tribes. The fairy tales report a far more interesting story – that the Wakonyingo fled beneath the mountain, where they remain today. Legends claim they are still down there, hidden from sight in a network of tunnels and caves, living a life any gnome would love. They keep their cattle with them and even grow banana trees in their earthen lairs. Ladders from their caves are said to reach the heavens. Turns out this underground lifestyle isn't so far-fetched. The Chagga people (also Chaga), who've …Read More


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Friends, I sometimes suffer from aspirational food cooking. Do you know what that is? It's actually a thing. Oprah says so. It's when you make foods that you hope will turn you into someone you're not. Anyway, one such aspiration is that I will learn how to cook foods from a variety of countries and flavors, and it will be delicious, and my Southern born-and-raised spouse and I will absolutely love it. So I tried veggie laksa soup, which is a coconut based noodle concoction.
In hindsight, I realize that the coconut-based part should have given me pause. That actually sounds sort of revolting to me even now. But I wanted to be zen and worldly, and maybe even eat that shit with chopsticks.
So I made some.
Probably the first problem was that I could not find anything in the grocery store labeled Singapore noodles, so I got something that looked sort of like Ramen noodles except without the flavor packet, and figured it was close enough. Probably the second problem was that I did not have laksa paste. Or Thai curry paste. But I did have Indian curry paste. And, again, I figured it was close enough.
I'm not going to tell you that this soup was the worst thing I ever ate. It was not. It was actually edible, for the first few bites. But it was very, very sweet. I mean, like, picture Elf spaghetti.
And so, after a few bites, both my spouse and I abandoned our soupy syrup noodles in favor of just eating the noodles without anything on them. (We looked just like Hugh Jackman and Ashley Judd. Promise.)
So, this is not so much a recipe fail as an aspiration fail. I will probably never be the kind of person who appreciates flavors from all over the world and gets all zen about noodles with ice cream on them.
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A high school student reared in a Christian home turns to drugs and alcohol. A woman tries to stop criticizing others—for ten years. A father knows he needs more patience with his children, but his efforts seem in vain. // What do these people have in common? They are all in desperate need of further renovation of the heart, of transformation of the spirit. But just what is this transformation? Author Dallas Willard explains that its ideal end is when "all of the essential parts of the human self are effectively organized around God, as they are restored and sustained by Him. Spiritual transformation in Christ is the process leading to that ideal end, and its result is love of God with all of the heart, soul, mind, and strength, and of the neighbor as oneself." // Although you may acknowledge this as the ideal, you may still wonder how to get there? Renovation of the Heart helps to answer that inquiry. It lays a foundation for understanding the ruin and restoration of humanity by discussing human nature and its components, how they operate, and how they are renewed. It describes common misunderstandings about our human nature and the discipleship process. Most important, it outlines the general pattern of personal transformation—not as a formula, but as a systematic process that we have the responsibility to undertake as intentional apprentices of Jesus. Only then will our transformation be accomplished, through interaction with the grace of God in Christ, the presence of the Holy Spirit, and spiritual treasures stored in the body of Christ. //We aren't born again to stay the way we are. But how many times have we looked around us in dismay at the lack of spiritual maturity in fellow believers? There's good news. You can experience significant growth in your Christian walk, shed sinful habits, and increasingly take on the character of Christ. Willard calls this "the transformation of the spirit"—a divine process that "brings every element in our being, working from inside out, into harmony with the will of God or the kingdom of God."


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We have been to London a few times before so we don't have to do all the typical tourist stuff but this is my very first time on the Emerald Isle.
Would love to know your tips/must visit spots/ baby friendly hot spots. Please share!
I don't know how family friendly this is, but you MUST go to Liberty's of London while you are there. It is amazing. My favorite pubs in London are Ye Old Cheshire Cheese on Fleet Street and Cittie of Yorke is a beautiful bar with snugs and coal fired stoves to keep you warm! The Tower Bridge is a nifty tourist attraction.ReplyDelete
So funny you mention this because I was just reading an article about Liberty's and wondered how I missed it on all my prior visits. Its exactly the kind of place I can spend all day in. (One of the benefits of having hit all the big tourist spots before, I can now do whatever I like without the pressure of seeing it all on one trip)Delete
Kensington Gardens is so beautiful and I saw many children there during my last visit. Bring a picnic or eat at the café attached to the museum or at the Orangery for a sit-down lunch.ReplyDelete
Do you follow the blog Aspiring Kennedy? If not, definitely check it out. She and her husband and bebe live in London and travel quite a bit. She does posts on the cities she visits.ReplyDelete
We live in London and I agree that Liberty is a lovely place to spend an afternoon. They are welcoming of little ones in the tea room as well. The museums are always worth a visit - the V&A has a good cafe and welcomes littles, as does the Tate Modern and Tate Britain.
Where will you be staying when you are in London? The tube/underground is manageable with a buggy but some tube stations have a lot of stairs without an escalator or lift, so worth watching out for.
There are lots of nice cafes and shops around Shoreditch/Commercial St/Redchurch Street/Brick Lane, such as Labout & Wait (traditional household products) etc, lots of places to stop for coffee, brunch etc, if you fancy hipster style London.
Sadly never been to Ireland so can't give you much help on that front.
I will have a think then, your little one is about 1 isn't she? mine is 17 months old, and we are out and about in London frequently at weekends (we live in Muswell Hill, North London).ReplyDelete
She will be about 10 months when we go so she doesn't need any direct entertainment per se (she is too young to appreciate a kids show or musuem) but I don't want to bring her someplace where its not apporpriate. Also would love to know where the best changing tables can be found. A reader suggested department stores in Germany which worked out perfectly but not sure if London stores are as welcoming.Delete
I've changed Pip as a baby in Selfridges and Liberty. John Lewis at Oxford Circus has dedicated room for baby with changing mats and feeding room and is handily on the same floor as baby equipment and a cafe with good access next to lifts. Most stores are pretty welcoming I would say, although not all have loos.Delete
St. Stephen's Green is a great park in Dublin for a picnic if the weather is cooperating. There are also a handful of museums that are geared toward children and families, while still giving adults information. I think the Viking one is one of them.
Dingle in Ireland is one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen. We had read that it was just as beautiful but not as touristy as the Ring of Kerry, so we went there and it did not disappoint. The town of Dingle is small but cute, lots of Gaelic spoken in that area, Gaelic music in pubs, Gaelic on the radio. But the drive is really what makes it.ReplyDelete
My husband used to live in Dublin before we got married. There is buckets of stuff to do in Dublin! If you are only there for a short trip then don't venture too far because you just wont have the time. I will tell you some of the places we liked to spend time.Phoenix Park and Stephen's Green are lovely outdoor spots to relax in, as are the Iveagh Gardens. Dublin Zoo is a great attraction that your little one might enjoy. Then you have Howth pier and Dun Laoighre pier, both lovely for walks and some nice food. You can get to both on public transport very easily. In the city centre you have lots of shopping in and around Grafton St or travel further out of the city to Dundrum Shopping Centre. You could spend the majority of the day there if you liked. I would keep away from Templebar. It's very touristy but not in a good way and is full of pubs and bad restaurants. It can get very rowdy at night. There are lots of great art galleries-National Gallery of Ireland and the Museum of Modern Art, The National History Museum. Trinity College is worth a visit-they have original manuscripts from medieval monasteries on display in the library. County Wicklow is close by and worth a visit if you have the time. It's known as the Garden of Ireland and there are some beautiful walks. Glendalough is a fabulous spot for example but you may need a car to do that. Bray is a nice seaside spot too with good transport links from the city. Our weather has been pretty mild so far with temperatures of around 15°C but its going to get a lot colder soon. Plan for cold weather but wear layers that you can add or take off. The weather here can change several times in a day. And remember to bring or buy an umbrella-there's a reason we're called the Emerald Isle! Although Dublin tends to be dryer than other parts of the country. Enjoy your trip!ReplyDelete
One thing I love to do in Dublin that would be easy with a baby is to take the commuter train (DART) to Sandymount and walk on the strand. If the weather isn't too dreary, that is. Loads of locals walk on the beach there. When the tide is out, there are miles of damp sand with a view of the old power plant. It's cool and I'm sure a baby would like to play and toddle around there. And as Aoife already mentioned, Irish weather can be bright and sunny one minute, torrential downpours the next, and everything in between. Take a rain jacket and be prepared with layers and an umbrella. I've never seen as many kinds of rain as they have in Ireland! Have a backup plan for indoor activities if you get rained out. Also have tea at Bewley's on Grafton St. It may be touristy, but it's a tradition.ReplyDelete
I was going to suggest sandymount strand myself as that's where my husband used to live! There are nice coffee shops around there too. It's a nice village. Poet Seamus Heaney used to live right on the strand front.Delete
Thank you both. So should I assume by this suggestion that you don't think there is enough to do in Dublin center?Delete
I'm in England right now. We just finished a walking tour in the Cotswolds and are headed back to London tomorrow. (I'll go to Paris from there, and the hubs is off to India for business. A great thing to do in London is the market in Notting Hill on the week-ends. Also, try a visit to Kensington Palace. Both places should entertain both the adults and the baby.ReplyDelete
Dublin: Kilmainham Hospital and Gaol, both museums now. Avoca, where you can grab a nice lunch. Gallery of Photography in Temple Bar, which is a decent area to walk around and shop vintage.
Take some Echinacea with you. That damp chill gets me every time.
What a fun trip with your daughter! I'm actually headed to London in a couple of weeks myself.ReplyDelete
In Dublin, for me, the must see is the Book of Kells and the library at Trinity College. They are both amazing. Dublin is a great city to wander through. It is fascinating how life changes as you cross from one side of the Liffey to the other. Have fun!ReplyDelete
No. There's lots to do in city centre as well. There are bus tours that take you around to the main sites and you can hop on and hop off at the different stops. Lots of historical landmarks and cultural landmarks as well, the Four Courts, the Dáil where parliament sits. I think you can also get a boat tour of the city on the river Liffey. Plenty to do in the city. Sometimes it can be nice to move outside the city though. Gives you a feel for less touristy spots.ReplyDelete
We just moved from Seattle to Dublin this summer with four kids ages 18mo to 8 years old. We have found Dublin to be a friendly and family-friendly city. It's Georgian buildings are not always baby stroller friendly and there is often not a lot of room to maneuver stroller in small shops and restaurants and up and down narrow stairs. If you have a baby carrier, it can be easier. Department stores like Marks and Spenders, Dunnes, and Arnots and shopping center malls like Jervis and St Stephens Green shopping center are your best bet for bathrooms with changing tables. They would also have escalators and lifts if you need them. Tesco (a grocer chain) is your best place for diapers, wipes, baby food, and formula if you need it. There is a large one on the north side of the Liffy in the Jervis shopping center. The small convenience stores like Spar and Centra are all over and will have some small selection of baby items. Keep in mind that the shopping centers, shops, cafes and many restaurants close at around 6pm usually. So, plan ahead because you will not be able to run out to buy diapers or medicine in the evening. If you only have a couple of days in Dublin, I would see Trinity College and the Book of Kells (they have a stairs but there is a hidden lift that will take you from the book display room to the Long room if you need it for a stroller), and then go walk along Grafton Street which is always interesting and usually has lots of street performers. Then walk in St Stephen's Green. (It's all in the same general area). If you have more time in that area, you can check out Kilkenny, a shop feature Irish designers like Orla Kiely, that is located across the street from Trinity College on the south side. Avoca is a lovely shop and has many beautiful things and a lovely cafe and is also off Grafton. Then, if you have second day, walk along the LIffey and check out Temple Bar during the day and then visit Dublinia and Christchurch Cathedral for some Dublin History (there are stairs here too but we did it with a stroller). Then take the Red Luas to the Guinness Brewery for the tour....because it's Guinness and Dublin. There are lots of stairs (7 flights), but I think there is a lift. We found it difficult to dine out in the evening as most of the child friendly cafes and restaurants close at 5-6 and only there are only a few child-friendly restaurants (like TGIFridays) in the tourist areas are open. It can start to get very rowdy near the pubs especially in the Temple Bar and Grafton areas after 6pm. Good luck and have fun!ReplyDelete
I forgot to mention that the Dublin Luas trains (light rail for the city) and the Dublin buses are all very easy to use and stroller/child friendly. The baby rides free! And there are stroller/wheel chair spaces so you can sit next to the stroller.ReplyDelete
I agree w/ Aoife and Scruples, there's tons to do in Dublin in the city center. It's a very walkable city. The parks, museums and shopping areas they've recommended are all great. But I always like to get away from the touristy places at least once on a trip, and go do what the locals do. Sandymount strand is my reco for that.ReplyDelete
I just returned from London so check out my most recent post in particular the Columbia Street flower market. I will be posting about more London goodness over the next few days but I highly recommend a stroll through Borough's Market which is where Jamie Oliver buys his veggies, it is amazing. May be I'll post about that soon so you can get an idea. I would also suggest a visit to the Tate Modern Museum to see the Picassco, Gerhardts, Miros, Twombly's and more. You can have high tea on the upper floor. There is so much to do and see and with Baby in tow. Feel free to ask me questions if you want. I have 4 of my own so I know how it is to travel with kids even though I didn't have any with me this trip.ReplyDelete
Thanks Lisa. I'm very familiar with Borough Market - I go every time I visit - although its super crowded so I'm not sure how well we will get on with a stroller but I'll be giving it a try none the less (my husbands favorite sandwich in the world is there so there is zero chance we wont be visiting!)
I don't think I've been to Columbia Road yet (we did try to visit a flower market once but there weren't many flowers so I can't recall which one it was). I just love flower markets! I'll go check out your post to read all about it.
You'll need to make an early start for Columbia Road Flower market - it's only open on Sundays and you need to be there at 8/9am - bear in mind that it gets VERY crowded. I went there the day before I gave birth and found the crowds intimidating - it is possible with a buggy but your little one might not enjoy it much. That said, the flowers are nice and the shops lovely.Delete
We just did London with our little one and had a ball using all the forms of transport. Double deckers were a must - at the front, up top, meant we could do sightseeing without all the walking (dawdling) and we LOVED the boatride on the Thames to Greenwich. Again, taking in the sights with a happy child enjoying the ride.
Greenwich was a huge surprise with it's indoor craft and food market, famous pie and mash shop, awesome playground near the observatory and street food market near the pier with the Cutty Sark museum and a fountain the kids play in. You can ride the DLR home from Greenwich and have another fun transport outing.
thinking about it, if you can manage it, a baby sling might be better than a buggy for a lot of these places in London if your little one is still small enough to comfortably cart around in a sling/carrier. A buggy is perfectly manageable but you might find it easier?ReplyDelete
Dublin is a brilliant city, I lived there my whole life but emigrated 6weeks ago, so I still know all the best places!
There's so much to do: I'd recommend Avoca Cafe and shop for lunch and lovely clothes and home furnishings (the rugs/blankets are so good for winter nights and picnics). Then maybe a walk around Trinity college, I don't know if I'd bother going into the book of kells (long queues and it's hard to see closely). The viking splash tour is really fun, and gives a good overview.
I'd definitely get the DART or number1 bus (about 15 mins) to Sandymount though, the strand is great to walk on, with a bag of chipper chips from the village (Borzas are one of the best chippers in Dublin, you have to try them!) There are also plenty of restaurants and cafes there (brownes is good and so is Dunne and Crescenzis) as well as charming shops, it's truly a lovely village, well worth a visit. There's so much to do in the city, but this is a really nice visit!
For toilets, I'd recommend Brown Thomas on Gratfton Street, very fancy and clean with lots of space.
For dinners and lunches; lemon cafe does great crepes, metro cafe on south william street for coffees and cake (and people watching!), Queen of Tarts is so tasty. For a more formal dinner, Jo Burger is good, green 19 on camden street, Dunne and Crescensi on South Frederick street and maybe the Winding Stair on the quays.
Some people have said that restaurants close at 6, that's not true, coffee shops and sandwich bars would but you'll have no problems in terms of getting dinners! And generally grocery shops stay open till around 8pm- 10pm. I would go to Temple Bar to soak up the atmosphere, there are lots of independent shops and street performers, but the early evening is the latest I would go with a baby (if you won't be going to the pubs!)
It's a really great city, you'll have a good time! I can't wait to see the pictures!! I hope this helps
Have a great trip! I'm a Dubliner and have a 2.5 year old.. Dublin is a pretty easy city to be in with a baby- all department stores, galleries/museums, and most large shops have changing tables. Some have feeding areas too- the nicest one of these in the city centre is in the basement of Brown Thomas on Grafton st- nice comfy glider chair to chill out in for a bit. All restaurants have high chairs, and there's no problem bringing small ones to restaurants here- I've eaten happily in Michelin star places with my tot in tow.
The only thing I found a real pain was getting on a bus with a stroller- it's no problem, but in theory most buses only have space for one (although this is slowly changing) so it means that if there's a buggy already on the bus that they won't let you on. You can fold the buggy and bring it on obviously, but I often found a sling a bit easier. Overall though Dublin is a pretty tiny, and very walkable city- even with a buggy- and other transport, Luas (the tram) and the DART are buggy friendly. Fallon & Byrne (deli/food market/ wine bar) has restaurant on first floor which is nice relaxed place for lunch or dinner and pretty welcoming of babies too.
I would say make time for a nice long relaxing tea in London and when you are in Dublin, definitely go to the Trinity College long room (library). It is in the same little tour with the Book of Kells (which was pretty but not mind blowing for me). The long room took my breath away. Of course I love books and libraries so that may be why. :) Go still. Dublin offers free entry to lots of museums and despite the fact that I was there in the summer, it was not overly crowded anywhere we went. I am sure you know London better than I do. I would also check out Aspiring Kennedy for suggestions in London. If you are a Harry Potter fan, going on the studio tour is an absolute must see. It is amazing!!! So cool I literally cried. It just opened a few years ago and is not so well known to us Americans yet. But it takes over 4 hours so it depends on how many other things you want to do. :) Have fun! I love love loved both places and the people there are lovely.ReplyDelete


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Architects: A-Lab
- Area: 28000 m²
- Year: 2009
Photographs:Terje Løchen, Løchen Media Web, Luis Fonseca
Manufacturers: Alucobond, Naturstein Montering AS
- Client: IT-Fornebu Eiendom
- Ventilation: Norconsult
- Budget: 500 mill NOK
- Partners In Charge: Odd Klev, Geir Haaversen, Adnan Harambasic
- Design Team: Jan Petter Seim, Tonje Løvdahl, Tor Inge Hjemdal, Jarand Midtgaard, Inger Totland
- City: Høvik
- Country: Norway
Text description provided by the architects. The building is located in Fornebu, the former Oslo Airport, Norway. The new Portal building is an extension to the old Airport Terminal building housing the Business and incubation centre for information technology companies; IT-Fornebu. The Fornebu area is experiencing a surge in development, transforming a previously Airport into a new city-wide destination for business. The IT-Fornebu Portal building consists of approximately 28000 m2, was developed by the IT-Fornebu Eiendom and designed by A-lab architects.
A-Lab was commissioned to develop the building, after winning the competition in 2004.
In 1998 the Old Fornebu airport closed after 60 years of function. A platform of possibilities was left open for new fields of investment. The new Business centre for information technology was created then by the IT Fornebu AS group responsible for administering and developing the IT Fornebu vision. Therefore it was required that the design of Portalbuilding would combine the vision of the new Fornebu Business centre and establish an efficient and flexible cluster of offices in the area.
In the design A-lab prioritised people. The design criteria's were to reduce volume and waste, provide an effective, efficient and healthy workplace, enhance communications and give a flexible layout. We believe that successful organizations are made of people who are connected and inspired, who learn through collaboration, share ideas and are motivated towards excellence. We imagined a place where people are present and engaged in mind and body.
The building supports the development and transmission of knowledge, skills, values and ideas, as well as the opportunity for companies to express their own identity.
How to make a speculative office building respond to ultimate typological efficiency? How can a building be flexible in order to adapt to several plan typologies? How can an office plan be adjusted to different organization criteria's, from the smallest office unit to large corporate companies? How to reconcile both the developer's economic requirements for a spec office with the architects vision?
The main concept was to strip and divide the program into independent architectonic elements, clearly defined by function, in order to gain maximal flexibility and distinct architectural identity. A continuous base resolves the height difference of the terrain between the main street and the existing Terminal building, and forms a multifunctional floor for the Portal building. The project consists of four glazed office blocks, where light, views and acoustics are optimal, four stone clad supply towers and the public Hub covered in "mandarin red" aluminum composite panels, lifted over the main entrance.
The four office blocks have a rectangular and rational form and are relieved of all the internal cores and vertical structure allowing an efficient and flexible internal organisation, based on a flexible open floor, a tabula rasa plan, where different users can define and design their special necessities, with a variety of possibilities. Each office block has 5 floors with a total area of 3,750 sqm.
The structure is put outside the exterior façade. It is shaped as a diagonal steel structure around the block and is attached every 4,8 meters with a steel joint through the façade to the floor beams.
All shared functions such as vertical communication, technical services and wet cores are placed in intermediate towers, detached from the working areas. The towers are designed as closed massive monoliths, where the program that does not need daylight or views is located.
The free-form orange Hub is an exception and has a clear identity, it acts as a strategic element that glues all the activities, highlights the synergy between the existing terminal Building and the new It-Fornebu Portalbuilding.


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Like the exploding piano on its cover, Jamie Cullum's long-awaited new Verve album The Pursuit blows away audience and artist preconceptions leaving 14 smoldering tracks that seamlessly run the gamut from swinging standards and yearning singer-songwriter confessionals to 125 BPM house dance tracks and resurrected Broadway ballads.
"It was the right time for me to take myself out of my comfort zone, and to push myself to be bolder," Cullum says of the album "I wanted to build on the things I've already done, but I also wanted to reinvent myself."
The Pursuit - the English singer/songwriter/pianist/multi-instrumentalist's third Verve album, and his first in four years - is an expansive labor of love that embraces the full range of the artist's diverse talents and far-flung musical passions. While it covers more stylistic ground than anything he's done previously, The Pursuit's unifying threads are the same musical fluency, emotional commitment and lyrical wit that helped to make Cullum's prior releases Twentysomething and Catching Tales international crossover smashes selling more than 4 million combined copies worldwide.
"I like that this album journeys from a big-band track at the start to a proggy house/dance track at the end, because it's all me" Cullum notes. "But if the only thing that people notice is that this album is stylistically all over the place, then I will feel I have failed in some way."
The Pursuit features nine Cullum originals and five cover songs that showcase the Grammy® and Golden Globe nominated entertainer's unique voice and iconoclastic interpretive skills. The self-penned gems include the buoyant first single "I'm All Over It," the cheerfully apocalyptic "Wheels," the animated swing of "You and Me Are Gone," Cullum's love song to music "Mixtape" and his love song to love "Love Ain't Gonna Let You Down." Elsewhere on the album, Cullum reinvents 1930s jazz standards (Cole Porter's "Just One Of Those Things" and "Love For Sale"), brings the dance floor into the bedroom (Rihanna's "Don't Stop The Music") and cleans the pancake off the Great White Way (Leslie Bricusse's "If I Ruled the World" and Stephen Sondheim's "Not While I'm Around").
Having spent two years touring in support of Catching Tales, Cullum retreated from the spotlight and spent much of the next two years recharging his creative batteries through a variety of musical and non-musical endeavors. Cullum and his older brother, and frequent collaborator, Ben joined forces for a dance music project "BC vs. JC" that found the brothers creating melodic dance music in clubs across England; Cullum also contributed to albums for artists as varied as Pharrell Williams, the Count Basie Orchestra, Japan's Soil & Pimp Sessions, Norway's Beady Belle and France's Camille; as well as spending time as a Goodwill Ambassador to Ethiopia for Unicef.
Cullum's highest profile "side projects" were via his ever growing courtship with Hollywood; beginning with 2007's animated Disney feature Meet The Robinsons in which Jamie was the singing voice of Frankie The Frog, continuing with his vocal on the Golden Globe-nominated "Best Original Song" from the John Cusack film Grace Is Gone, and culminating in his co-writing and performing with Clint Eastwood the Golden Globe-nominated "Best Original Song" from 2008's Gran Torino.
Inspired by the creative breadth of projects he was a part of since Catching Tales, and having liberated himself from the usual recording constraints of schedule, equipment and instruments when he built his own aptly-named Terrified Studios in London (a nod to his admitted intimidation in the face of technology), Cullum approached The Pursuit with a loose, experimental atmosphere that was only hinted at in his earlier albums. With recordings in hand from his new studio and his home kitchen (where he has dozens of keyboards so he can write & record when finding inspiration from two of his other great passions – cooking and eating), Cullum moved the project to Los Angeles for three months, recording the bulk of the album with veteran producer/musician Greg Wells (whose extensive resume includes work with Katy Perry, One Republic, Mika and Rufus Wainwright) and a stellar assortment of musicians, including members of Beck's band and the horn section that played on Michael Jackson's Thriller.
"It was intentional to work with a new producer and new musicians, and to record in a city that I didn't know that well," Cullum states. "I needed to frighten myself. Being in unfamiliar territory forced me to do things differently, and to operate on a hyper-sensitive, hyper-alert level. Having turned 30, I just felt like I needed to do something different."
Cullum's risk-taking approach to the recording sessions paid off, fostering an anything-goes vibe that yielded some of the most inventive arrangements and compelling performances of his career. "It was a very positive atmosphere," says Cullum, who plays piano, guitar, bass and organ on the album. "A lot of the tracks were just me and Greg Wells and an engineer. That continued to give it a homemade feel, and gave us the feeling that we could try anything."
Cullum's willingness to defy convention has served him well during his lifelong pursuit of musical fulfillment. He began playing piano and guitar at the age of eight; in his mid teens, Cullum was in & out of rock bands playing guitar, drums and piano; he was also the drummer in a hip-hop combo, eventually finding his way back to jazz through the samples used in his favorite hip-hop recordings; and Cullum spent the end of his teen years living in Paris, where he honed his skills performing in local jazz clubs before going on to become the biggest-selling British jazz artist of all time. Cullum has won an enviable reputation as a magnetic live performer, playing freewheeling concerts that emphasize spontaneity and improvisation—and which rarely employ a set list.
The restless artistic spirit that animates The Pursuit is encapsulated by the album's title, which was inspired by Nancy Mitford's classic novel The Pursuit of Love. "It's my fiancé's favorite book, and the line in 'Love Ain't Gonna Let You Down' that says 'The pursuit of love consumes us all' is a reference to that," Cullum explains. "The reason I made it the album title was that I've come to realize that life is one long pursuit. Being a musician is not about any obvious goal; it's about appreciating the journey as opposed to the destination.
"The artists I most admire," Cullum concludes, "are people like Miles Davis and Tom Waits, who make all kinds of different records, and change and evolve over the years, but still remain themselves. That's what I aspire to. I'm only about five per cent of the way there, but I've got time."


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Pierce steps up as Celtics defeat Lakers 92-86
Rondo and Garnett each played solid games as well. Rondo's steal in the 4th all but sealed the game. Garnett was terrific on the boards with 10 rebounds. The bench, which was so huge in Game 4, didn't do much outside of Nate Robinson playing another inspired performance. Could Nate's performance from Game 6 of the Magic series on be one of the top 5 most surprising things to ever happen in the NBA playoffs? You could make a case for it.
We all knew Kobe would have a game like he had tonight at some point in the series. The fact that he did it and the Celtics were able to come out with a win was absolutely huge. He put on a show in the 3rd quarter but none of his teammates showed up. Garnett played some great defense on Gasol holding him to just 12 points. The fact that Gasol only gets 12 shots in a game is just bad coaching on Phil Jackson's part. Speaking of Phil Jackson, why would you say the Celtics have blown more 4th quarter leads than anyone? Sure, that was probably true in the regular season, but I think it's clear at this point that the regular season means nothing in the NBA. Sucks for season ticket holders but that is just the way it is. Anyway, shut up Phil Jackson and win a title without the best player int he league for once.
Ron Artest continues to be the best player on the Celtics. Yes, you heard that right., The guy reminds me of all the players in Space Jam that lost their talent. I actually get upset when he commits a foul because I want to see him in the game longer. That flop he had when Rondo got the technical was comedic genius. That is all Ron Artest is anymore though, a joke.
What a huge win for Boston. Now they have two shots to finish it in L.A which they are more than capable of doing. Howver, like I said in the Cleveland series, you don't want to get into a game 7 with a marquee superstar, though I'd still put money on the Celtics winning it. The great news for Celtics fans is we still haven't had all our big 4 have great games offensively at the same time. Sure, they had 75 points combined, but Ray and Rondo can play better offensively. That, coupled with Kobe's huge second half are huge positives to take out of this. I said Celtics in 6 starting out this series and am sticking to it. Beat L.A!


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Under Armour will be looking for gold beneath the Golden Dome.
The sports apparel maker announced Tuesday that it has reached a 10-year contract as the exclusive outfitter of the University of Notre Dame's 26 varsity teams.
Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick refused to say how much the deal was worth, but claimed it was "the largest financial commitment ever made by a brand to a university."
This is Under Armour (UA)'s 13th deal with a Division I university, the company's founder and CEO Kevin Plank said. Its stock rose after the deal was announced and ended the day up about 3.4%.
The contract begins on July 1 and uniforms will be ready for athletes starting in the fall. The university's current supplier is Adidas (ADDDF), and rival Nike (NKE) also boasts an impressive roster of D1 schools.
Under Armour has been criticized for its football uniforms at some schools, including what appeared to be a bloodied American flag pattern on a line of uniforms for Northwestern University. Those uniforms were designed for a single game supporting the Wounded Warrior Project. A 2011 design for the University of Maryland -- Plank's alma mater -- also received criticism. This fall, the Terrapins were suited up in new uniforms dubbed Maryland Pride 2.0.
Related: Should the NCAA pay college players?
Notre Dame's distinctive gold and navy blue look -- and, sometimes, green -- won't be radically changed, Plank said.
"We're not anticipating doing anything unusual, crazy," he told reporters. "We need to honor and respect the history of the university."
Plank noted Under Armour also has a contract with the Naval Academy.
"Somebody sent me an e-mail the other night and said, 'Congratulations on being able to cover both God and country,'" he recalled. "I think I echo that sentiment, and I'm pretty excited about that, too."