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In the Beginning
Almost two hundred years ago, the methodology for investigating the occurrence and movement of infectious diseases in populations was born. It happened in London during the cholera epidemic of 1836 with the work of the English physician John Snow (1, p.246). It was an era in which epidemics of infectious diseases caused by yet unidentified "things" were decimating populations throughout Europe.
Dr. Snow studied the eating and living habits of patients who had cholera and neighboring townspeople who did not have cholera for the purpose of identifying the similarities and differences between the groups. It is noteworthy that Dr. Snow examined people who did not get cholera as well as those who did. As a result of the current disregard in medical research of this practice of looking at both sick and non-sick people, important lessons available from subjects who are resistant to disease remain unrecognized.
Dr. Snow ultimately found a strong association between cases of cholera and a public well into which sewage was found to be draining. Dr. Snow requested that the pump handle of the offending well be removed. The immediate cessation of new cases of cholera was his proof that sewage-contaminated water was a cause of cholera.
Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases
Dr. Snow's success stimulated the search for associations of every variety in the study of epidemics and led to the procedure that came to be known as epidemiology (from epidemic-ology). Within a few decades of Dr. Snow's discovery, it became common knowledge that the "things" that caused infectious diseases were microscopic organisms called germs. Thus the science of microbiology expanded, and epidemiology flourished as a major tool in investigations of infectious diseases.
First Signs of Trouble
It soon became apparent in the early days of microbiology that epidemiology frequently failed to produce reliable results when matching infectious organisms with their respective diseases. All varieties of infections were being attributed to weird kinds of exposures. Obviously, the newly found practice of epidemiology was as dreadfully misunderstood and misused in its early days as it has been in the recent decades of research in the nutritional science that formed the basis for the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA).
The obvious conclusion from the failures of epidemiology throughout its history is that epidemiology has been regarded from its inception by novice practitioners as merely a simple matter of biostatistical maneuvering. They forgot or neglected to do the most important part of epidemiology that was demonstrated by Dr. Snow; they forgot to "remove the pump handle!"
The Koch Solution
Fortunately, the early epidemiologists recognized that a major problem was assuming that association equaled cause and thereby neglecting to prove the cause with applicable hard science. It was decided that they had to adopt a standard procedure for confirming causality of associations they found. To this end, Robert Koch, a German Physician framed Koch's Postulates in the late 1800s. The postulates were as follows (2, p.195):
- The organism responsible for the disease must be present in every case of the disease.
- The organism must be able to be isolated from the patients and grown in pure culture.
- The cultured organism must be able to cause the disease by exposure of a healthy host.
- The organism must be recovered from the experimentally infected host.
Koch's postulates served well with few exceptions until advancements in microbiological science revealed some incompatibilities with the wording. Through the years, the postulates were appropriately modified. With today's modern microbiological techniques, they are not routinely used or required. However, the postulates' historical importance and theoretical significance for proving causality are still acknowledged and honored.
Nutritional Science Discovers Epidemiology
It must be recalled that epidemiology was born of a need to understand epidemics of infectious diseases. Well before its discovery by nutritional scientists, epidemiology had developed as a well-matured discipline of inestimable value in the study and causation of infectious diseases. However, Koch's rules for proving that an association is causal cannot be applied directly to effects of environmental chemicals, noninfectious agents, or nutrients because of the differences between microorganisms and all other chemical substances in how they cause disease (2, p. 195ff). Epidemiology was neither designed for study of noninfectious diseases nor was it ever considered to be useful for study of nutritional diseases. In fact, the concept of "nutritional disease" itself was nonexistent. How did nutritional science find epidemiology?
The Role of Pellagra
It was not until the great pellagra pandemic, circa 1908, that the medical community and general public were finally forced to accept the fact that serious or even lethal disease could be caused by a nutritional deficiency (1, p.250). Although pellagra was known to be associated with high consumption of maize (corn), a staple food in poor countries, it was declared to be an infectious disease because Southern pride was offended by the suggestion that the disease was associated with poverty and malnutrition.
Over its course, the pellagra epidemic produced more than 3 million cases and caused 100,000 deaths in 15 southern states. By 1914, the epidemiological and clinical studies of Dr. Joseph Goldberger, an officer in the Public Health Service, showed that the disease could be reversed and prevented by dietary means. However, it was not until the 1940s, when it finally became accepted that pellagra was caused by a deficiency of niacin, that the outbreak was finally controlled. The fascinating story of the social and political forces that seriously interfered with medical research and with the investigation of the epidemic were finally published in 1992 (3).
Application of Epidemiology to Nutritional Science
The spectacular success of epidemiology in the instance of the nutritional disease pellagra suggested it for application in investigation of noninfectious diseases. In the absence of information to the contrary, it can be assumed that the newly popular epidemiology was well employed and accepted in the mid- to late-20th Century, which happened to be an active period of vitamin discovery and research.
This quiet but scientifically productive period provided a friendly environment for both the research community and epidemiology. The research community was given time to familiarize itself with this relatively new tool for research and popularize its applications; epidemiology was presented with the opportunity to serve a new area of research interest, namely nutritional science. Fortunately for epidemiology, the field of nutritional science it served was the relatively simple one related to vitamin requirements and deficiencies.
Epidemiology's good fortune was due to the fact that the diseases that resulted from vitamin deficiencies had very much in common with those of infectious origin; they dealt primarily with single agents. When a disease is caused by a single agent such as a vitamin or microorganism, an association of the agent with the disease is easier to detect because it not confounded by the presence or absence of other variables. Thus, epidemiology faced few problems in investigations of beneficial and detrimental effects of individual vitamins.
Origin of Flawed Nutritional Science
After the end of WWII, Ancel Keys, an American multidiscipline scientist (4), entered the scene. He authored the lipid hypothesis, the label for the diet-heart connection, and suddenly nutritional science was recognized to be tremendously more complicated. In hindsight, Ancel keys with his lipid hypothesis can now be identified as the ultimate architect of flawed nutritional science.
In 1953, Keys published an analysis of data from six countries that showed a direct, correlation between mortality from coronary heart disease (CHD) and percentage of calories from dietary fat. He did not, however, include data from all 22 countries that were available to him at the time. If data from all 22 countries had been used, there would have been no straight line, and no reasonable correlation would have been possible. Keys also ignored a well-established epidemiologic principle by claiming that his straight- line association between CHD and dietary fat proved a causal relationship (5).
Keys' lipid hypothesis study soon became known in professional epidemiology circles as a textbook example of how not to conduct an epidemiological study: it did not include all available pertinent data; it selected data that supported its thesis; and it claimed a cause-effect relationship where there was only a mere association (6). Despite the many exceptions that existed to his hypothesis and the criticisms of his epidemiology, Keys persisted and made validating the lipid hypothesis his life's work.
Despite Keys' blatant misapplication of epidemiology, his peers supported him wholeheartedly. The research of Ancel Keys and colleagues became widely publicized and popular. The nutrition community enthusiastically adopted the lipid hypothesis. By the early 1970s, the lipid hypothesis was fully accepted as fact by the nutrition community. Keys' colleagues shored up Keys' arguments with innumerable studies using equally flawed epidemiology. Only a few scientists called attention to his misuse of accepted epidemiologic methods.
Little by little, the lipid hypothesis was reworked and refined to eventually produce an ultimately-proven-to-be-faulty nutritional program that was designed to prevent cardiovascular diseases. It became known as the heart-healthy diet and specified to be low in fat, high in carbohydrates, and restricted in animal products. In less than two decades, the heart-healthy diet became national policy.
The Politicization of Nutritional Science
Official sanction was given to the heart-healthy diet with the entry of politics into the field of nutrition in 1977. It occurred with the publication of Dietary Goals for the United States (1, p. 14ff). It is of extreme yet unappreciated significance that government control shifted the focus of nutritional science from choosing food components that contained healthful nutrients to avoiding intakes of food components linked to chronic disease. Personal eating preferences and habits had never before in recorded history been the subject of governmental action.
The Backlash
After a decade or two of bureaucratic central planning, it became obvious that the long and gradual change in the diet composition created by the bureaucracy was accompanied by a strikingly steady climb in the incidence of obesity and cardiovascular diseases that the heart-healthy diet was enacted to prevent. With time, the inventory of nutritional diseases began to expand and the numbers continued up the path to epidemic levels. The fact that there was a strong association between the diet and disease was not lost to members of the scientific community.
Fortunately, a prominent science writer by the name of Gary Taubes became personally concerned about the diet-disease connection and wrote a magnificent, superbly documented volume describing the history of actors and events that led to the public health disaster created by the Dietary Goals for Americans (DGA). Taubes' book, Good Calories, Bad Calories (GCBC) published in 2007 (7), is now a classic; it is a book that still should be required reading for all members of the medical and nutrition communities.
Taubes revelations in GCBC confirmed the beliefs of many in public and private life that there is more than ample material in America's almost century-long history of nutritional research, regulation, and manipulation to write expository volumes reflecting on the what, how, and why of a half century-long flagrant fraud and deception conducted by agencies, institutions, and even a few respected officials charged with setting official nutrition policy. It was little known at the time that another such exposition was already in preparation.
Nina Teicholz, a reporter, journalist, wife, and mother, was busy searching for all the evidence she could find relating to the pros and cons of the DGA low-fat diet. After eight years, Nina's disturbing and incredible findings were introduced, with little ceremony, to the reading public as The Big Fat Surprise (BFS) (8). Within two years, it received a number of Best Book and Best Seller awards. BFS promises to be, like GCBC, a superbly documented, powerful, and significant document that will become a classic in years to come. More importantly, Nina's pretty, poised, and very well-informed self has become a popular, charming, and influential talk-show guest.
The future of the DGA is unpredictable at the present time, but we do know from their contributions to the drama before us that Gary Taubes set the stage and Nina Teicholz raised the curtain.
What Went Wrong
The sad state of affairs for epidemiological science today is that, through no fault of its own, it has become the whipping boy for the disastrous health outcomes foisted on the American public by the government-sponsored Dietary Guidelines for Americans. A recent opinion commentary in the Wall Street Journal (9) candidly described the distressing travesty of the government's most recent release of the 2015-2020 DGA as a "failure for 35 years to check the rise of obesity and diabetes."
What has brought nutritional science professionals to disparage the venerable discipline of epidemiology that has been and still is a major procedure in their research endeavors and to dismiss its product as "weak science?" It is time to set the record straight and show that epidemiology has not failed nutritional science; nutritional science has failed epidemiology
An in-depth review of the body of literature on which the government-supported diet/heart hypothesis was founded reveals many scientific missteps. The fact that nutritional science was in its infancy fifty years ago may excuse some of the errors apparent in many of the earlier research papers, but such a defense cannot be used today for the scientific missteps that are still occurring in research involving the relationship between diet and disease.
Use of Inappropriate Methodology
There can be little doubt that epidemiology is not an appropriate tool (or at best, an extremely difficult one) for use in nutritional research. The number of macro- and micronutrient variables that exist and the complexity of their interrelationships make for challenging selection of appropriate variables. Are the difficulties worth the time and effort of an outcome that can only tell strength of association?
A provocative but unanswered question is why did the nutrition establishment persist for so many decades in using epidemiological methodology that actually produced few or no results predictive of clinical outcomes? The WSJ opinion commentary (9), for example, reported that an analysis of "several dozen highly cited studies concluded that subsequent clinical trials could reproduce only about 20% of observational findings." More egregious was the fact that of 52 claims made by prospective epidemiology in nutritional studies, "none – 0% – withstood the scrutiny of subsequent clinical trials."
The poor performance of epidemiology in nutritional research throughout the decades suggests either epidemiologic incompetence or deliberate misuse of the method. In either event, the conclusions from both are the same but their objectives are vastly different. Deliberate misuse of epidemiology presents very serious ethical issues that are beyond the scope of this discussion, but they may be surmised from the revelations in GCBC and BFS. The means of altering results by varying different elements of the process will be described in the next section.
Methods of Misuse, Manipulation
The benefit from altering epidemiological information is basically twofold: It provides a means for tailor-making the results of research; and it helps cover neglect of proving causation.
The most common flaws found in nutritional studies appear to be incompetent selection of variables, assumption of faulty premises, and confusion between cause and effect. These are described at greater length elsewhere (6), and may be inadvertent or deliberate. Regardless of intent, they can significantly alter the impact of a study.
In recent years, a new technique has been developed for the apparent purpose of deceiving the public into believing that the association in question is strong enough to be accepted as causal. This technique substitutes the traditional word "association" with one that conveys the image of a closer tie. The first such word we noted was "link."
"Link" was soon followed by the more provocative concept of "risk." This method for reporting statistical associations no longer expresses the findings as probability of the existence of an association but rather as the risk of the potential event caused by the association actually happening. It is a perfectly acceptable epidemiologic method for comparing the potential for harm among several associations. However, it carries the caveat that the associations must first be shown to be causal.
This new epidemiology (10) absolves epidemiologists from conducting the final epidemiological step of proving that the association is a causal one, which is expensive, time consuming, and requires competence in the appropriate scientific disciplines. Despite the deception it creates, the new epidemiology is employed by eminent scientists whose papers are published in outstanding scientific journals. Thus we have influential scientific papers that report possibilities as probabilities:
… 9.3% of deaths in men and 7.6% in women in these cohorts could be prevented at the end of follow-up if all the individuals consumed fewer than 0.5 servings per day (approx. 42 g/d) of red meat. Conclusions: Red meat consumption is associated with an increased risk of total, CVD, and cancer mortality. Substitution of other healthy protein sources for red meat is associated with a lower mortality risk (11).
The careful inclusion of "associated" does not lessen the impact of "risk" in the public mind. The reporting of the risk of mortality and CVD from consuming red meat when there is no scientific proof of a cause/effect relationship is irresponsible and immoral.
A Solution?
The outstanding leadership of Nina Teicholz in the latest campaign to right the wrongs of the DGA promised for the first time in the history of the DGA that right would prevail. The Secretaries of Agriculture (Ag) and Health and Human Services (HHS), the overseers of the DGA, were forced to the table and directed to produce a 2015-2020 edition of the DGA based on valid science. They gave their promise to Congress that they would do so.
Ag and HHS returned to the table a couple of months later with the final revision that was essentially unchanged from the 2010 DGA claiming that it now was based on valid science. Case closed! Congress was satisfied – a distressing end to a brilliant campaign!
Requirements for Assuring Quality of Guidelines?
The idea of preparing a set of Koch's postulates for application to the study of noninfectious chemicals was considered several decades ago when toxicity of pesticides first became a matter of concern. The thought was soon abandoned when the difficulties of such an approach were evaluated postulate by postulate (2, p. 195ff).
Although the concept of specific rules governing legitimacy of research findings would be antithetical to the nature of scientific inquiry, an independent review of the DGA by the National Academy of Medicine, as authorized by Congress in response to Nina's campaign, would be most appropriate. Scientists know when research is honest. However, any effort to condone use of the incompetent epidemiology must be acknowledged as unacceptable.
Let's Throw the Bums Out
In a very informative post on the history of the DGA (12), Michael Eades prophetically predicted the outcome:
Before we get started, for whatever it's worth, I don't think the government should be in the nutrition business, but it is. And barring some sort of revolution, the government will doubtless continue to be in the nutrition business (as well as countless other endeavors they have no business in) for the foreseeable future.
In Comment 50 of the same post, there appears the following paragraph:
Despite it all, there appears to be scant hope that there will be much pure science in the new DGA. For one thing, there is no way that pseudoscience can be rehabilitated to become pure science. And two, is it reasonable to expect authors who are wedded to their own nutritional beliefs (aka believable untruths) to be capable of objectivity?
The comment concludes, "In summary, let us revive in jargon a few well-worn clichés: You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, plus a leopard cannot change its spots, so let's throw the bums out."
What if There Were No Guidelines?
This thought-provoking, audacious question was asked by one lone voice a little over a year ago (13). It received little or no recognition at the time and is now forgotten. It was written by Adele Hite, an MS/RD, cofounder and director of the Healthy Nation Coalition (14), wife, and mother who is currently enrolled in a doctoral program.
Adele is an unsung heroine in the fight to bring accuracy and integrity into the field of nutritional science. Now is the time not to just revisit Adele's words, but to memorialize them in a Declaration of Independence for nutritional science as a directive for public action.
It is crucial to note that wholesale adoption of bogus epidemiology by the public is the linchpin of the DGA. If public demand for sound nutritional science is not able to dislodge the linchpin, the massive human feeding experiment foisted on the American public decades ago will continue to take its terrible toll. Let us retire nutritional epidemiology and the DGA committee. Let nutritional science reside in the province of Science.
- Ottoboni A, Ottoboni F. The Modern Nutritional Diseases and How to Prevent Them. Fernley, NV: Vincente Books.
- Frank P, Ottoboni MA. The Dose Makes the Poison: A Plain-Language Guide to Toxicology, 3rd Edition. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 2011.
- Bollet AJ. Politics and pellagra: The epidemic of pellagra in the U.S. in the early 20th The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine. 1992; 65: 211-221
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancel_Keys
- http://www.jpands.org/vol9no4/ottoboni.pdf
- http://ketopia.com/epidemiology-misunderstood-misused/
- Taubes G. Good Calories, Bad Calories. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.
- Importance of Dietary Animal Fat, The Big Fat Surpise
- http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-food-pyramid-scheme-1454022514
- New Epidemiology
- Pan A et al. Red Meat Consumption and Mortality. Archives of Internal Medicine. 2012; 172(7): 555. URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22412075
- https://proteinpower.com/drmike/2015/12/05/dietary-guidelines-for-americans/
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In 2013, Erin received the prestigious Rising Scholar Writing Competition Award from the American Bar Association's Forum on Franchising. Her article, "No Fair! Finding an Equitable Balance in Enforcement of Disclaimer Provisions in Franchise Agreements and Franchise Disclosure Documents," was selected as the best entry among lawyers less than four years out of law school, and was published in the Winter 2014 issue of the Franchise Law Journal.
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Cider: What the Fed?, with Elliot Ginsburg, Minnesota Grape Growers Association Cold Climate Conference, 2016
Beneath the Surface: Three Areas New Brewers Need to Approach with Caution, with Elliot Ginsburg and Evan Sallee, Midwest Craft Brewers Conference, 2015
"No Fair! Finding an Equitable Balance in Enforcement of Disclaimer Provisions in Franchise Agreements and Franchise Disclosure Documents", Franchise Law Journal, Winter, 2014
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Need a creative, outside-the-box costume idea? How about Disney's Toy Story green army men costume? You can be sure that not everyone will dress in a toy green army man costume, and that's not a bad thing at all! But here's a warning, you may need to paint your face green for a more believable and cool army men costume. Now that that's out of the way, you need to get a full on green army getup. You need a green army helmet, and plastic-looking green army shirt and pants (military camouflage shirt and pants won't be too good – you won't look like you're a toy at all, and isn't that the whole point to the costume?). And finally, you probably need a big shoe pad that goes outside and under your army boots to make it look like you're on a stand. So, are you ready to walk like the plastic green army men, and take charge as Sarge the plastic commander did in Toy Story? And you should cheer for these army men in the upcoming 2010 3D Toy Story 3 film – they're the unsung heroes!


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I'm getting ready to go on a long plane flight in a few weeks. I was thinking of taking some sewing or crocheting with me in my carry on. Does anyone know if needles or crochet hooks are prohibited? Can't really tell on TSA's website.
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I'm getting ready to go on a long plane flight in a few weeks. I was thinking of taking some sewing or crocheting with me in my carry on. Does anyone know if needles or crochet hooks are prohibited? Can't really tell on TSA's website.
I would call and ask. My friend just flew to Peru and back and they took her knitting needles, then she saw a flight attendant knitting! Go figure.
Here is the list of prohibited items. Check the day before your flight too, if the security level changes this list can too :wink: If they aren't on the list as prohibited, you should be able to put them in your carryon. I took my scissors out and put them in the open along with my liquids in the baggy :D
I took my 3 1/2" scissors, needles, no problem. I seen plastic knitting needles and crochet hooks on the flights too.
International flights may be different from domestic too.
Oh yeah.... It an international flight....
They are allowed. I take my redwork on the plane because it doesn't take up much room in my bag. I have a ribbon to put around my neck tied to a small pair of scissors and put the floss on a card attached to the ribbon. That way they can't get lost.
You may want to contact your carrier then. Different countries/different rules.
You can also sign up on TSA's site for updates, if the rules change :D:D:D
I think I'm just gonna pack it and listen to audio books or something instead. Seems simpler....
Right after the bombing in Okalahoma City -- Good old Timothy, may he burn in hell, my next trip was a bit more strutured. But I was always to take my tatting shuttles and threads with me. I also hd a very pretty pendant and within the scollops there were tiny blades. The worse damage you do was to possible draw barely a drop of blood and then only if you actually forced it on someone's skin. So I was able to take those items with me. Managed to get some stuff done and ended up giving lessons to two women on the flight. That was fun. Fortunately I was only carrying my super inexpensive shuttles and not the ones that were made for me, so I was able to let each lady take a small ball of thread and a shuttle with her. And then took their addresses and mailed them copies of the beginners book on Tatting. Heard from each of them a couple of times, but then it drifted off, which was fine. I just thought it was sweet that they were interested enough to want to learn.
needles and crochet hooks are fine.
Just flew internationally to New Zealand via Fiji last June. I checked the TSA website and in one section it said you could take craft supplies such as crochet hooks, and knitting needles. Didn't even mention sewing needles and the airlines were no help, just referred me to the TSA site. I took 1 needle in carry on and my English paper piecing and had no problem. Also took a dental floss container. There is a little cutter thing inside that can cut thread easily. At the time, somewhere I read you couldn't take the pendant type cutters, but don't know if I could have or not. There cost $5-7 and didn't want to waste my money if it were taken away.
Enjoy your trip.
This isn't about what sewing things you can take but if you're flying internationally and are on any prescription medicines PLEASE check ahead of time and make sure that they are legal in the countries that you are going to. A friend of mine went to Lithuania a few years ago and had to change 3 of her meds before she went because the drugs she was on could have gotten her arrested and jailed there.
I was also told to make sure I took the meds in the originalOriginally Posted by raptureready
prescription bottles and take copies of the scripts. Did so, but had no problem in Fiji or NZ. I am sure that it is different in different countries.
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(Cassius Kamarampi) Since we've been sprayed in this decade, and since we've been unwilling subjects of other chemical and biological warfare experiments as Americans and other people from the 1950's until now, it has become relevant to understand the exact individuals and entities responsible for geoengineering.
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by Cassius Kamarampi, January 2017
Recently, the US government, Carnegie Institutions, Harvard scientists and other prestigious groups and figures have been voraciously calling for the skies to be sprayed to block out the sun and combat an overly hyped climate change.
If we allowed them to spray in the open, imagine how much worse it will be than now. They claim "chemtrails" are a lewd conspiracy theory while openly proposing the skies be sprayed in the exact same manner.
If we don't protest their proposal to spray the skies now, in 20 years we'll be living in an aluminum poisoned nightmare where questioning the health of geoengineering the weather, hazing out the sun to combat climate change, will be as taboo as being critical of vaccines.
We cannot allow geoengineering to become normalized in the public consciousness: and the only thing necessary to prevent that is the simple truth.
It's not a good idea to spray the skies, to poison our environment with aluminum and other material. It turns us into subjects and grants even more control to a power structure over our lives.
It will also make any other chemical or biological material sprayed on us indistinguishable from the geoengineering spray if we allow this precedent to be set.
We must fight geoengineering, and target the exact players involved: such as the Carnegie Council.
Related US Law Allowing 'Chemtrailing' passed in 1997 | PUBLIC LAW 105—85—NOV. 18, 1997: Use of Human Subjects for Testing of Chemical and Biological Agents
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Yes, all of this sounds very heavy on sim aspects, but NHL 2K3 still contains some brutal checks, fast action, turbo boost, and fighting. Despite the need to think more than most NHL games, gameplay is so fast, quick, and fun, that it never feels like its relying too heavy on its sim aspects like NBA 2K3 and NFL 2K3. Perhaps it's because NHL 2K3 was developed by Treyarch and not directly by Visual Concepts. The fun hasn't been drained from this game, and that's what keeps me coming back for more.
No hockey game would be complete without some fisticuffs and NHL 2K3 offers some rather basic button-mashing slugfests. There's only three things to worry about in a fight -- grab, punch, and duck. It's simple and a fun distraction, but even when you kick the fighting slider to the max, fights are still a rare sight. Come now, if I push the fighting slider to the max it means I want lots of fights, so why deny me my own desire?
So far so good, hmm? Well, not everything is honkey-dorey in paradise. NHL 2K3 fails in the same spot every other Sega Sports game stumbles. The presentation has problems. Sega always seems to get the game right in the arena, but there's always a slew of minor annoyances that hold their games back. NHL 2K3 is no exception. First and foremost, NHL 2K3 doesn't feature the new graphical inputs that NBA and NFL 2K3 added. Franchise mode has no general managers office, it's just a text menu. It seems like a foregone conclusion that all Sega Sports games from NFl 2K3 on would feature the new look, but NHL 2K3 misses the boat and (though new to Xbox), makes it seems like last year's model.
Beyond this, there's a ton of minor, nagging annoyances. One of the worst is some of the default options. Home and away team strategy changes default to manual rather than automatic. No biggie, right? Only problem is, this counts for AI controlled teams as well. That means an AI team cannot change their strategy. You have to know (somehow) to set their strategy to automatic, otherwise the computer won't perform even the most basic of strategy changes, like pulling a goalie when down by one goal with only a minute left to play. That's sloppy. And then the other problem is that even when enabled, teams rarely ever pull their goalies. When you're down a goal with almost no time left, you pull your goalie. It's that simple.
Another good example comes when winning the Stanley Cup. The winning team skates the ice, hoisting the cup in celebration. That's great. However, the announcers then say things like "And the Sharks are one step closer to drinking from Lord Stanley's Cup." That's right, they don't shout about how the Sharks just won, they act as if the Sharks only won their third game of the playoffs. Granted, the announcers offer playoff specific commentary, which is great, but if you go down a particular road you have to see it all the way through. Otherwise, don't even bother. Nothing is worse than seeing celebratory animation only to then hear a commentator say something utterly out of place. How can you think to add a Stanley Cup celebration but no voice additions for that celebration?
On the plus side, NHL 2K3 offers a slew of important player stats which track over a players career. There are also fifteen awards handed out each year and every award is archived for ten years. Not bad. But it would be nice to see Sega offer a complete presentation package instead of a mixture of good and bad.
NHL 2K2 didn't have a franchise mode, but 2K3 rectifies this. The franchise mode is pretty standard with each team having a budget and the ability to list players as dressed, scratched, or in the minors. But the franchise mode isn't as deep as any of the other Sega games, which is a bit of a let down. However, one nice note is that through a dozen seasons there were no peculiarities. No real bad trades (in fact, not many trades at all) and good teams tended to win and bad teams tended to lose. That's the main thing you ask from a franchise mode -- a dose of reality. And for that, NHL 2K3 does just fine.
Xbox gets the only online hockey game this year and NHL 2K3 is a great online game. Though there are some occasional spots of lag, NHL 2K3 offers a fantastic experience. Featuring the Xbox Live staples of quick match and optimatch options, NHL 2K3 lets you search for your freinds or set up your own game. One gripe is with the optimatch. While you have the ability to search for games with various settings like penalties and difficulty, there's no "any" options. What if I want a rookie game but I don't care how high or low the fight settings are? Too bad. Beyond this, though, NHL 2K3 online is like playing with your buddies only your buddies are sitting on a couch on the other side of the country. No downloadable content is a bit of a let down, but online gives an extra level of replay to NHL 2K3.
Visually, NHL 2K3 has two things going for it -- good animations and great replays. Players look realistic and lifelike, the ice gets scratched up by skates as you play, and a vicious crosscheck looks sufficiently painful. But NHL 2K3 doesn't push any graphical limits. The rink reflects some objects in the environment, but players have no reflection, just weak shadows.
The replays are great and done perfectly. You'll always get accurate replays of goals and replays showing every single penalty when they occur. This far outdoes EA's hockey game, which shows mostly scripted replays that have nothing to do with the actual action on the ice. You get a chase camera which tracks a player in the replay and also the excellent net cam which gives a great view of goals and saves.
With jaggies and a lot of bland faces which don't appear very unique, NHL 2K3 doesn't offer the visual punch of other Sega Sports games. Also the default camera is quite pulled back and the players look a bit too small for the size of the rink. That's likely a perceptual thing, but it's still a bit of a nuissance. A decent-looking game, but not quite the quality Sega typically produces.Continues


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Emo LifeMy entire life has been emo. I suppose I should feel lucky, I came out decent looking, got to play both sides of the gender spectrum, dated every possible thing, and found people who I consider to be true friends. However, I don't feel lucky.
On a day to day basis, nobody would look at me and say "Wow that person has a weird life," but if only they stepped inside my head for 1 minute they would know that my life is beyond bizarre. Honestly, I stay happy a lot now, which is a lot more than I could say this time 5 years ago, or 10 years ago. Still, I wake up every morning in an identity crisis that will not go away... and I know there is no cure for it.
Here's what's up:
I was born very different from my peers, and I knew this from the first moments I could remember. I didn't want to be a girl, I didn't want to be a boy... I simply wanted to have no gender. As a kid I would take things on a day by day basis... sometimes I played with dolls, sometimes I played with trucks, and sometimes I just sat there thinking. I remember being 5 or 6 and lying in my bed every night thinking what the **** is wrong with me, why can't I just be normal?
Well, puberty seemed to be anything but normal for me. I developed an unbelievably androgynous face and build. I was pencil thin, often accused of being anorexic, I never smiled, I never wore colors, and I hated that my body was choosing a gender. So, I decided to supplement myself with hormones, as desperate attempt to cure my gender ambivalence. At first I started taking testosterone, I hated it... so I quit. Then I began estrogen... I hated it, so I stopped. And that's been the pattern of my life now, swapping hormones over and over. Currently, my body has estrogen, which means I am presenting as female... This is the longest I've stayed as a consistent gender since I can remember. I went almost 2 entire years as female (new record =P), before swapping to male for a month, back to female for 5 months, male for a month, and female for the last 4 months. Most days I am fine with this, but on days like today... I long so bad to be a boy. I sat upstairs in my bedroom this morning, putting together outfits that looked boyish, trying to make myself look like a male. Outfit after outfit I started to realize that I am becoming stuck as female... this greatly bothers me.
To the people that know me, work with me and are associated with... I am just a normal girl. They have no idea that I have this secret desire to be a man at times. However, they also don't know that as a man I had a secret desire to be a girl. Had they known me a few years ago, in a different town, by a different name... they would have thought that I was just a normal boy.
I've switched my gender too many times to count... I've changed my name 3 times, and I've built relationships with people around each gender without them ever knowing what I really am. I've dated men, women, gay boys, lesbians and everything in between. I've gotten to be the super skinny, short haired, dressed in all black emo boy, and I've gotten to be the super skinny, long haired, crazy tights and makeup emo girl. I've been a male model, a female model and an androgynous model. I've been a college boy and a business woman, and traveled the country as both genders. In a sense you could say I've done it all... but in my mind I feel like nothing has been accomplished. I still sit here today, at my office, in my business woman attire... wishing so bad to live as male again. I know from experience, a few months as male, and I'll be right back where I am today. I don't think there is any solution for this.
I am her... or him... whichever gender you interpret this as =) From a recent photo shoot I did.
I didn't mean to depress anyone, but this has been my life... and it's getting a little annoying. It's hard to set goals when you don't know what gender you will be when you get out of bed the next morning. So, to lighten the mood, I will list some of my likes, dislikes, and differences between genders.
1. I ******* hate the women's bathroom. PLEASE don't talk to me when I'm in there, I'm not there to socialize =)
2. The worst part about being a male is the social restrictions in regards to emotion and cloths... especially cloths.
3. The worst part about being a girl is feeling vulnerable all the time. Too many times to count I have been scared to leave my house with the thoughts of "I sure hope I don't get raped, or kidnapped, or harassed by some horny loser guy today."
4. The best thing about being a girl is the ability to do anything, anywhere and it's deemed as cute, and funny.
5. The best thing about being a guy is not caring... you just wake up and go, it's such a blessing.
6. I like testosterone better than estrogen. Estrogen makes me emotional, insecure and needy. Testosterone makes me strive to be the best, emotionless and not care about anything... but it also makes me arrogant and an *******.
7. Both genders have their advantages and disadvantages... but after all my years of swapping genders, being the girl next door, and the cool popular guy that everyone loves, I can honestly say... boys have it easier in life.

You have an amazing perspective you know something everyone is interested in, to some degree; "what it's like to be the other sex". You should definitely write a book, I think it would be huge.LOL

While sexual characteristics tend to be black and white (the clear majority of people are born with completely male or female genitalia), gender itself is not so simple. Gender is an entire spectrum to look at. I don't think there is anything wrong with you for feeling as if you are neither one gender or another.

I was born male and live my life as a male, but I also spent a large percentage of time as a child and teenager being a girl. I considered HRT and transitioning and decided not to do it. Even so, I have had both male and female partners sexually.

Do I want to be one gender or the other? Sometimes I'm not sure. As for hormones, I have room to play with my hormones as well--medications I was taking killed my testosterone production several years ago and I showed allergic reactions to every form used for replacement: patches left red welts on my skin that took over a month to heal, gel had me break out in hives, and injections eventually left me with horrendous pain in my testicles to the point they were removed two years ago.

So I don't have testicles anymore to give me large testosterone production. Regular injections of testosterone leave me more horny than when I was 18, to the point it interferes with regular life. So I've taken to bouncing between testosterone and estrogen, mainly so I can keep my energy levels up.

Having played both sides of the fence as well, I can understand that each side has its advantages and disadvantages. Some times, I think someone like you is the lucky one who is able to bounce between the two sides.
Feeling strange with it would be something I would expect. After all, you want to present one gender yet everyone treats you as the other. A lot of the problem comes from the fact that guys are expected to be bigger and more muscular with the 'butch' look everywhere. They are not expected to be petite and slim and have any feminine characteristics. On the other hand, women can dress in clothes that are masculine and push that gender boundary without being out of place. As such, it is hard for people to wrap their minds around a guy who could be petite and feminine looking as opposed to a woman who was doing a 'butch' or 'tomboy' look.
Very interesting comparison of the two genders. You are lucky to be able experience both. I don't really think boys have it easier, except when you are the "cool popular guy that everyone loves". Sure, girls are more vulnerable, but they will be worshiped by men, unless they are absolutely hideous.

By the way, have you regretted FFS?
well my first thought was .... you want a bi-sexual guy... and then.. ofcourse u might not want to remain stuck with a guy. so...maybe u need like a bi-couple?? that'd be hot right?
Not in as much dwtail as i would have liked... ;)
I had no idea that anyone could have such a struggle of gender identity in life. I'd heard many times about transgender, about starting out as one gender but having the overwhelming sense that it's wrong and beckons the need to be the other gender. But to be stuck in between? Wow.

I'm not looking at you as if you were some strange thing to be curious about. I empathize with your struggle. One can face a struggle of being in between and not knowing where to go. It can be in many different contexts. I have been in one myself. Do I live as a single person, or do I cross the bridge to living with someone else and starting a family? Do I practice one profession and become a master at it, or do I switch to something else... and keep switching, never mastering anything but being familiar with a wide spectrum?

There is the Yin/Yang of emotion and sexuality in all human beings. Some people are heavily fixated on one side, while others are able to appreciate both sides. As a man, I enjoy the strength of being the protector, of giving a safety net to the woman I'm with. And yet, I also enjoy being vulnerable with a woman, letting her take the lead, being the aggressive one while I submit.

It's truly amazing how each gender has its own advantages in society. The line is becoming more diffused in recent times, which is a good thing. In some respects, women have some enormous advantages these days, far far greater than in the past. The facilitation of social freedom is unparalleled, especially if you are a woman that is attractive inwardly as well as outwardly. Being male has long had its advantages, and yet although there are still some terrific aspects to being a man, he can never have some things that a woman has. First and foremost, the incredibly unique ability to bring a baby into the world. It's such a special bond. Secondly, the amazing resilience of the female body, that is so powerfully strong in some respects and so incredibly beautiful in others. Sexually speaking, to have a long flowing undulation of multiple *******, time and time again until one collapses into sheer exhaustion, is something a man will never experience. There are tantric techniques one can learn, whereby a man can have multiple *******, but I have to believe it's only a fraction of the kind of thing women experience.

What you need is to find an open minded man that is able to let you be male or female when you feel like it. Once you have that kind of unconditional love, you'll be able to truly embrace your nature. You do not realize what an incredible advantage you have had so far in life. To be so deep inside the life of both genders, and everything in between. Very few people get to experience that. Recognize the things that are worth appreciating in your circumstances, and your self esteem will rise considerably.
I just recently found this string, and find your situation to be very interesting.
I sympathize with you, regarding your lack of the ability to present as male when you would like, but like you I would like to be more able to present female and sadly cannot.
Just one thought has crossed my mind, and that is if you were to keep a selection of male clothes on hand that you could "rotate into " whenever the desire arises. (similar to us cross-dressers) then perhaps you will find a level of balance.
I know that sounds a little simple minded given the complexity of your situation........just a thought.
You're welcome. :-) Why are there only two choices? Well, there are only two physical genders, dictated by sex organs. But society has opened up quite a bit these days. There is the recognition of how people can have different sexual preferences, independent of their gender.
But what society has come to expect is that you are either one thing or another, that you have a sexual signature that others can recognize and come to know. Sometimes one changes... a guy who lived heterosexually reaches a point where he realizes he truly isn't and was just denying his homosexuality. It can have serious ramifications if he went so far as to have a wife and family. But what is most important is for him to do what he needs to do to be happy.
But then there's the ambiguous zone of bisexuality. I can understand how one person can be curious about the other sex, whether it be a woman who prefers men but loves to explore women occasionally, or a guy who is hetero but feels the need to dabble with a man sometimes. But to be split down the middle, where one can go either way... I don't really understand it. I once had a friend who was bisexual and struggled with this very thing. He professed that he is drawn more to men, but then he would still find himself sexually attracted to women.
Now, mix in the additional complexity of being cross gendered (a man living as a woman), it makes it even more confusing. When you're with a man, do you feel like you're a woman or a gay submissive man? When you're with woman, do you really feel like a man or like a lesbian? Only you can answer those questions, but then, maybe you can't really answer them?
This is the most incredible story I have read here, I hope everything works out for you


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So… I got a new job, blogged about getting said new job, and then promptly got so busy at said new job that I haven't blogged anything in over two months. Whoops.
Ultimately, while I'm bummed that my blogging has slid by the wayside, I think it's probably okay. I really want to build this short term fellowship opportunity with the Injury Center at the CDC into a full time job and a life-long career in public health, so disappearing down a hole to really focus on my work for a bit is exactly where my primary focus SHOULD be right now. For those who are curious, it has been going well. My project is really starting to take off and I continue to really enjoy both the type of tasks I've been assigned (and in some cases voluntarily taken on) and the type of thinking required to complete them. It's been a challenge, but one that I've found very motivating. And I L-O-V-E being a part of the CDC community!
I should also point out that while I haven't been blogging, I haven't completely given up my breast cancer activism either. Back in January, I spent a somewhat delirious week and a half absolutely buried in Komen Atlanta Community Grant applications, followed by a fascinating evening listening to really smart, engaged women discuss the merits of the various grantees. It was a great experience throughout and even though the final grantee list for 2013-2014 hasn't been posted yet, I'm already looking forward to doing it again next year. I've also been attending committee chair meetings for the Komen Atlanta Race for the Cure that is fast approaching (May 11th – have you registered yet?). My committee work has been basically non-existant thus far (as Safety Chair, there isn't much to do until closer to the race date), although that will change this month when my responsibilities really kick in. However, it's been eye-opening to sit in and listen to the behind-the-scenes chatter of how all of the pieces come together for race day.
The other thing that has been eating up my time in early 2013 has been running. I have been running my butt off this winter. I've already notched two PRs and came dang close to a third one, all the while training for my first half marathon that will take place just 12 days from now (EEEK!). I've spent a little bit of time over on my Kristen Runs pages updating my race results thus far and I'm in the process of updating my 2013 race schedule as well. You can be sure that I'll post a quick update once that's all set, hopefully by next weekend.
All of which brings us nicely to what I HAVEN'T been doing and how I am about to rectify that, starting tonight. And that thing is FUNDRAISING.
Back in January, I had big plans for a post about New Year's Resolutions and my personal training and fundraising goals for 2013. And then one thing (work deadline!) led to another (grant reviews are due!) led to another (I need to update the race results from last year first… ) led to another (business travel? what's business travel?) led to another (the dog ate the furniture!)…. and it just never happened, despite having actually set my goals for 2013 weeks and months ago. I wasn't honestly sure I was going to even dedicate a blog post to my goals this year, but then tonight I saw that no less than Dean Karnazes wrote on Runner's World that for fitness goals and resolutions, March is the new January, so I'm taking it as a sign. Plus, I clearly need some public accountability since I've been slow to get off the ground with some of these. So, without any further fanfare, here are my 2013 goals for (1) Running, (2) Fundraising and (3) Advocacy:
Running Goals
- Sub-30 minutes 5K – Not to spoil the ending, but I've already done this TWICE this year after never breaking this barrier before!
- 10K PR – Because I'm SICK of getting slower at the Peachtree every year.
- Complete two half-marathons – I'm definitely running the Publix Georgia Half Marathon on March 17th (my birthday weekend!) and I'm planning on running the AllState 13.1 Half Marathon in October on Mike's birthday weekend as well.
- Complete eight Atlanta Track Club Grand Prix races – I really want that sweet end of the season shirt. We've completed two already!
- Volunteer ten times for the Atlanta Track Club – This isn't a random number; there are end of the year gifts for volunteering ten or more times and I'm annoyed that I didn't know that last year.
- Total annual mileage of > 750 miles – This is notch up from the 600 something miles I ran last year. With my half marathon training, I'm well on pace to hit this goal!
Fundraising Goals
- Publix GA Half Marathon: Raise at least $1000 for the Upstate Medical University Capital Campaign by March 31st.
- Race for the Cure: Raise at least $500 for Komen Atlanta between April 1st and May 31st.
- Peachtree Road Race: Raise at least $1000 for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation between June 1st and July 31st.
- Allstate 13.1 Half Marathon: Raise at least $1000 for the American Cancer Society between September 1st and October 31st.
Advocacy Goals
- Weekly fundraising updates and monthly training updates here on my blog
- At least two blog posts per month not related to my races or fundraising to continue to spread the word about the need for more cancer research funding and how everyone can get involved.
- Volunteer with Komen Atlanta or other local cancer not-for-profits at least six times this year (beyond my Race for the Cure and Community Grants commitments). In particular, I'd really love to get more involved with the American Cancer Society.
So those are my goals. Out there for everyone to see and read. I have always been a very goal-oriented person. When I set goals, I intend to do everything in my power to achieve them, even when things get tough and the world seems to be working against me. I WILL reach each of these goals, even those I'm already behind on.
Speaking of which… if you just read my goals, you hopefully just said to yourself, "Wait, if you're trying to raise $1000 for this Capital Campaign thing by the end of March, why haven't I heard anything about it???" Well, the reason you haven't heard anything about it is because it took longer than I anticipated to get everything for that fundraiser up and running. But the good news is, I'm finally ready to kick off that fundraiser, which I'm calling "Run for the ROC". And I'm doing it TONIGHT, in my very next blog post!
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Taylor in shock as Walsh to quit Irish boxing
Katie Taylor is "shocked" that former Irish boxing head coach Billy Walsh could be in the opposite corner at the Rio Olympics.
The Bray boxer was reacting to his bombshell decision to resign as head coach of Ireland's High Performance Unit and move to a new role with USA Boxing, which could see him training opponents of Ireland's boxers at the 2016 Olympics.
Boxing sources said Walsh knows Taylor's boxing style "inside out" and wouldn't "have to do much homework" to prepare a contender against the World and Olympic champion.
Taylor last night said she was saddened by the news. "I genuinely thought it would be resolved. He was so important to me early in my career. I'm shocked to think he could be in the opposite corner in Rio," Taylor said, as Electric Ireland was revealed as the sponsors of the team for Rio.
Walsh made the decision after eight months of negotiations with the Irish Amateur Boxing Association (IABA). He said the IABA had "not made it possible" for him to continue in his role.
"Mentally, it's been very, very stressful... it has taken its toll in some ways," he admitted.
"I spent a lot of time crying this morning around this decision, but I think for the best of my health, for my future, it's the best way for me to move on."
However, the IABA said everything was done to keep the respected coach. "The IABA has been in discussions with Billy following his approach to the organisation to seek improved terms and conditions after he stated that he has received an offer from USA Boxing," it said.
"For the avoidance of any doubt, the IABA has done its utmost to retain Billy Walsh as Head Coach.
"However, Billy himself has made the decision to resign and take up a position with USA Boxing, and we wish him every success with this."
Taoiseach Enda Kenny said if there is still a chance of keeping Walsh, then boxing authorities here "need to sort it out". "Billy Walsh is somebody that I admire greatly," Mr Kenny said last night. "I don't know the difficulties that there are with the IABA, but to think that we could lose somebody of the calibre and the outstanding qualities of Billy Walsh... is unthinkable, given that we are just 12 months from the Rio de Janeiro Olympics. If this is an internal matter (between) the IABA and Billy Walsh, they need to sort that out.
"If the contract is not signed, perhaps there is still an opportunity to retain the services of somebody who has been a brilliant servant of Irish boxing."
Sports minister Michael Ring said he was disappointed with Walsh's decision. "I'm making myself available tomorrow, the next day, to talk to him, if anything can be done over the next 24 or 48 hours.
"I'm asking Billy Walsh to consider his position. I want Billy Walsh to stay," he added.
But Irish Sports Council chief executive John Treacy believes nothing can be done to bring Walsh back on board. "I don't think it's possible at this stage," Mr Treacy said.
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Three Myths About Approaching Women and Dating
When I first started really wanting to improve my life with women and dating, I was really nervous and worried. But, I soon started to realize that most of these fears were completely illogical. I would talk with my friends, and they would tell me all these myths about women and dating that didn't really match up with my experiences with women and dating. So, that's why I'm writing this article debunking 3 of the most popular myths about approaching women and dating them.
Approaching Women Myth #1: Approaching Women Isn't Fun
Many guys seem to think that approaching women isn't fun or that it is scary or something along these lines. This is simply not the case. While everyone gets that nervous heart fluttering feeling, this isn't something to be afraid of. It's a signal that you should be approaching.
Approaching Women Myth #2: Getting Rejected Sucks
This myth is partly true, but it's more false than it is true. Getting rejected can be horrible, but for the most part it's not that bad at all. Women don't want to make a scene as much as you don't want them to make a scene. Just remember this. Also, the times I wanted to say something to a woman, but didn't, made me feel worse than if I actually had said something in the first place.
Approaching Women Myth #3: You Won't Have Anything To Say
Sometimes it can be hard to find stuff to say, but really, you won't ever "not know" what to say to a women. When you go approach, as I've always said, just talk about the current moment and you will be fine. You will figure out the normal ebb and flows to conversation with practice. Also, once you get past the opening minutes of the conversation, often times the women will do most of the talking so there really is nothing to worry about.
Think about it logically, if approaching women and dating them was really "that" bad, then you probably wouldn't even have been born. Everything you need to get a date with women and succeed you already have. All you have to do is bring it out.
So there you have it. The three myths about approaching women and dating. For more advice about women and dating, click here.
John Michael II gives dating advice to guys who want to get better with women and dating, and gain more confidence. Now, he is revealing how to tell when as women is ready to be kissed, where to take women on dates, and more. Click here for more information.
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Dale Cox
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BIOGRAPHY: Chief Dale Cox assumed the position Chief of Police for the Lakeshore Regional Police Service on March 1st 2009 after a distinguished policing career spanning more than three decades with the RCMP. Chief Cox is responsible for overseeing the building of this new First Nation Police Service supplying all policing services for the five First Nations that make up the Lesser Slave Lake Indian Regional Council.
Chief Cox's policing career began when he joined the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 1979 and was posted to several locations across Saskatchewan. When serving in his home Province of Alberta, Chief Cox was placed in charge of the Peace River Sub-Division General Investigation Section responsible for the investigation of all major crime in North Western Alberta. Chief Cox postings in Saskatchewan and Alberta consisted of Provincial and Municipal postings as well as providing policing services to First Nation communities. He gained extensive operational and administrational experience through postings in various policing units, which include: General Duties, Traffic Enforcement, Drug Enforcement, General Investigation Section, Major Crimes, and District Management. His duties in undercover work also took him to the Provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Ontario.
Chief Cox was promoted to the rank of Staff Sergeant and assumed duties as a member of the Western Alberta District management team as a District Advisory N.C.O. responsible for the oversight of nine Detachments where he remained until his retirement from the RCMP in 2009. Chief Cox has received the following honors and awards in his policing career: 20 year RCMP Long service Medal, 25 year RCMP Long service Medal Bronze Clasp, Alberta Centennial Medal, Certificate of Appreciation for Community Centered Policing, and Commanding Officer RCMP "K" Division Certificate of Appreciation.
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Chief Kambeitz spent 12 years as President of the Camrose Police Association, 8 years as Vice President of the Alberta Federation of Police Associations, and is now honored to serve in this capacity for the Alberta Association of Chiefs of Police.
The Camrose Police Service is dedicated trained professionals who are committed to developing and implementing policing strategies and initiatives to ensure Camrose is a safe and secure community.
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BIOGRAPHY: Roger Chaffin joined the Calgary Police Service in 1986 and assumed the role of Chief Constable on October 19, 2015.
As a Senior Officer with the Service, he has held the positions of Duty Inspector as well as the Inspector in charge of the Chief Crowfoot Learning Center. Following his promotion to the rank of Superintendent, he was first assigned to the Office of the Chief in charge of areas such as Professional Standards, FOIP, Legal Services and Strategic Communications. In his second year, he was assigned to the Criminal Operations Division. In 2010, he was promoted to Deputy Chief in charge of the Bureau of Organizational Support, which consists of the Employee Services Division, Information and Technology Division, as well as the Infrastructure Services Division.
In addition to being a member of the Service's Executive Committee, Chief Constable Chaffin is the provincial representative on the National Police Information System Advisory Board and is the senior police representative on the Governance Committee for the Alberta First Responders Radio Committee. He also sits on the Board of Directors for the Canadian Police Knowledge Network, chairs the Civil Criminal Records Checks Provincial Committee, and co-chairs the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police Ethics Committee.
In 2015, Chief Constable Chaffin was appointed to the Order of Merit for Police Forces, one of the country's most important honours. This achievement recognized the many years of service and leadership he has dedicated to the Calgary Police Service on behalf of the citizens of Calgary. He has also received the Queens Diamond Jubilee Medal, Federal Exemplary Service Medal, Alberta Law Enforcement Long Service Medal, Calgary Police Service Distinguished Service Medal and Calgary Police Service Chief's Award of Excellence.
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When do you produce your best work? When you are alert and passionate about what you are doing. However, stresses are inevitable which affect your focus and ability to produce what you need to. So when you need to get stuff done, make sure you are relaxed. Daily motivator, Ralph Marston talks about how relaxation and focus are teammates:
Focus intently on whatever you're doing, but not in a way that makes you uptight. Keep yourself relaxed about what you're doing, but not in a way that makes you careless.
Staying focused and staying relaxed do not have to oppose each other. In fact, they work extremely well together.
You can pay very close attention to what you do, while at the same time not letting it get you all wound up. You can truly relax and enjoy the task while also giving your very best to it.
Don't think of being focused and highly effective as being something you must fight and strive to attain. Think of it as an extremely fulfilling, natural state, because that's precisely what it is.
Give yourself permission to enjoy and to relax into a powerful, authentic focus. Feel how great it feels to calmly perform at your highest level.
Choose to stay highly focused and peacefully relaxed. And enjoy the experience of being your very best.
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Big Banks Should Up Capital Reserves, Global Watchdog Says
In a report addressing the global risks associated with too-big-to-fail banks, the international financial regulatory body said it found that some have not used the right models to assess their capital risk. Those institutions must increase capital as a hedge against high-cost,...
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A 5MW AC ground-mounted photovoltaic solar farm providing energy back to the grid in Duplin County.
Project Location: Kenansville, NC
Project Role: Engineering & Design
Project Highlights
- Over 19,000 solar photovoltaic modules.
- Mid-project shift from 4.5MW to 5MW size created a site with both central inverters for the initial 4.5MW and string inverters for the 500kW addition.
- Portrait-oriented, fix-tilt, ground-mounted racking system.
- Three 1,500kW central inverters and eighteen 30kW string inverters supply 5,000kW of power back to the electrical grid.
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How to learn Swedish quickly and painlessly?
First, fall in love with a Swede. (You know what they say about pillow talk.)
If this sort of immersion is out of the question (if you do not encounter any Swedes in your routine errands, your quick jaunts to the gym or coffee shop), not to worry.
Plan B?
Fall in love with an addictive Swedish television series, for example Wallander.
Do not succumb to the urge to watch the British version… At least not yet. While excellent, you will be struggling with the assortment of UK accents (if American like moi). Might as well watch the original which is exceptional, and offers the benefits of an oddly soft and simultaneously jarring set of sounds that will rapidly intrigue you.
Be sure to stick with investigator Wallander (ja – Netflix) until you're bleary-eyed but wanting more. Enjoy the added pleasure of a cast that includes characters in their 20s, 30s, 40s, and yes – quel chic – their 50s!
Use subtitles to pick out words like "he" (hi and bye), "tag" (pronounced like tak), and something that sounds like bra (really!), meaning good. Once you have mastered these three words, seek out flatbread and meatballs for the cliche version of Swedish snacking or better yet, set aside language altogether as you find yourself enthralled in both mystery plots and character development.
Now progress to Google Translate and have some linguistic fun moving back and forth between Swedish and English.
Why not? There are 9 million Swedes in this fascinating country with its rich history, folklore, and stunning landscape – you will note meadows, forest, as well as beach in this series.
However, having consumed some 10 episodes, there had yet to be a sauna siting… But yes, there are blondes.
All cultural mythology aside, Wallander is a terrific show. And the subtlety with which mature faces and bodies express their fullness and beauty is rare viewing pleasure indeed.
Learning a bit of this unusual tongue? A bonus.
Once you have used Wallander to master Swedish 101, peek at the Kenneth Branagh version. Thoroughly enjoyable.
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The Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has launched what World Bulletin characterized as a "satirical public awareness campaign to challenge growing Islamophobia in America."
CAIR explains: "Prompted at least in part by anti-Muslim rhetoric employed by public figures like Donald Trump and other GOP candidates we decided to launch Islamophobin. With Islamophobin, we hope to dispel a serious problem with a witty and humorous manner. Buy and distribute Islamophobin to help us dispel Islamophobia."
CAIR is congratulating itself on its "witty and humorous" idea, but it isn't even original to the group. Back in July 2010, while speaking in Sweden, I was handed a box of "Islamofobil" pills that promised to cure "Islamophobia" and promote "multiculturalism" and "open-mindedness." Is CAIR paying a royalty to the people who marketed "Islamofobil" pills?
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Always been a fan of the Law & Order series here in the US. These are my can't miss TV shows each year. By accident a few weeks ago I was scanning the TV screen guide and saw Law & Order:UK on the BBCA Channel. Out of curiosity I watched and now I love it. I admit I have to pay a lot closer attention to the UK series since the British accent to an American Southern Accent ear takes getting use to. To all the fans of L&O in the US, you should take a look at the UK series. It is well written and great actors.
yes just totally unrealistic description of the role of the cps and the police
I did some research for the UK show and see they started the series with story lines from the US version. They should make it more UK story lines.
possibly- but the cps lawyer would never undertake the semi ..investigative role that they often in...
Michael,I found the show the same way. My husband and I like it better than L&O Los Angeles.
I like it lots better than L&O LA. Also there is another show on BBCA called "Luther." It is good also.
I saw the UK version on the TV listing and thought "What the crap?" I will definitely check it out now that it's gotten such praise.I LOVE L&O :0)
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If you have ever been curious about bald eagles or falcons or any birds of a feather,
then keep Eagles Et Cetera ( Jan. 27-29) on your radar.
It is the largest festival of its kind in the state, and visitors can expect many opportunities to see eagles in their natural habitat.
becoming a popular pastime for nature lovers across the country.
Wintering eagles favor the Ouachitas and Ozarks due to their favorable habitat.
On Jan. 28 Rusty Scarborough, falconer, hosts Live Falconry, where he introduces people to the world of falconry, an art rooted in conservation and largely responsible for the abundance of falcons worldwide. Also that day join certified raptor rehabilitator Rodney Paul for Raptor Rehab, a demonstration of live rehabilitated birds, as he gives a glimpse into the challenges of healing injured raptors before they are released into the wild. Lodging and camping are available. Call 501-865-5810 beginning Jan. 23 for ticket prices and reservations for eagle watching lake tours. Please dress for the weatherfor outdoor activities. Visit www.degray.com for more information.


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Kerberos SPN Command Calculator
I know you guys are tired of hearing me go on and on about Kerberos but I think you'll like this.
Don't forget to set SPNs for your each of your hosts and for each of the various host headers used in your alternative access mappings. This means if you set an SPN for http://portal, you'll also need one for http://portal.MyFirm for your intranet host and you'll need http://portal.MyFirm.Com for internet.
Since all those SetSPN.exe commands are so complicated, I built the SPN Command Calculator, an excel spreadsheet where you enter your host names and your service accounts and it calculates the command strings you need to set the SPNs. You can thank the guys at SharePoint blogs for hosting it and letting you download it.
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The Folkways Omnibus of Children's Games
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PA: Stackpole, 1970. Near Fine. First edition. Near fine/hardcover. No dustwrapper Pages clean and tight. Edges of spine very lightly bumped. Otherwise nice condition. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information. (Inventory #: 235860)


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Trekmates Trail Lite
The Trail Lites bring anti-shock to the £40 price range and it actually works rather well – although it can be easily switched on and off accidentally, which is a nuisance. They are long poles that can be extended to over 135cm at a push, but this does give them a rather lengthy pack-down size of 69cm. The grips feel good in the hand and extend down the shaft slightly, which can be useful on steep traverses; and the straps are well-padded too. Contenders in the value for money stakes.
Materials: EVA grip
Sections: 3
Min/max walking length: 69cm/135cm
Weight (pair): 590g
Anti-shock: Yes
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