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A risk factor is something that increases your likelihood of getting a disease or condition. It is possible to develop osteoporosis with or without the risk factors listed below. However, the more risk factors you have, the greater your likelihood of developing osteoporosis. If you have a number of risk factors, ask your doctor what you can do to reduce your risk.
Risk Factors for Women
Women are at greater risk of developing osteoporosis than men. This is because they have less bone tissue than men and have a sudden drop in hormones—especially estrogen—at menopause.
Estrogen deficiencies occur as a result of:
- Menopause—Natural or surgical menopause increases your risk of osteoporosis. The risk of fracture increases significantly after menopause.
- Amenorrhea (cessation of menstruation before menopause)—Your risk of osteoporosis increases if you miss menstrual periods for 3 months or longer. Amenorrhea may occur with eating disorders, such as anorexia and bulimia, or with excessive or intensive exercise, such as long distance running.
Risk Factors for Men
Men have a higher bone density and lose calcium at a slower rate than women. However, after age 50, bone loss gradually increases. Risk factors for bone loss in men include:
In men, deficiencies of testosterone and, to a much minor extent, estrogen play a role in the development of osteoporosis. This may be related to:
- Advanced age
- Treatment for prostate cancer, which lowers testosterone levels
- Hypogonadism, a severe deficiency in the male sex hormone
Risk Factors in Both Sexes
The risk of osteoporosis increases with age. Bone loss increases, while bone building decreases.
Having a family history of osteoporosis, especially hip fracture, puts you at a higher risk. Genetic diseases, such as cystic fibrosis, glycogen storage diseases, or homocystinuria also play a role in higher osteoporosis risk.
Your risk of developing osteoporosis increases if you have a restrictive diet, such as not getting enough calories, calcium or vitamin D. An excess of phosphorous in your diet, usually from colas, may increase your risk if your calcium and/or vitamin D intakes are low. Excessive alcohol use, coffee, or tea may also increase your risk of osteoporosis.
Regular exercise, especially weight-bearing and resistance exercise, helps strengthen bones. Therefore, if you do not exercise on a regular basis, you may increase your risk of developing osteoporosis. Individuals who do not exercise regularly also tend to have weaker muscles and poorer balance, which can lead to falls and fractures.
Smoking impairs bone, muscle, and joint health. If you smoke, you have a higher risk of developing osteoporosis.
Small-boned women and underweight people of both sexes have an increased risk of osteoporosis.
The effect of sun on the skin is a primary source of vitamin D, which aids bone formation. If you get very little sun exposure and have a low dietary intake of vitamin D, you may be at increased risk of osteoporosis.
Caucasian, Asian, and Hispanic women are more likely to develop osteoporosis than those of other ethnic groups. Though most ethnic studies have focused on women, it is believed that men in these ethnic groups carry a parallel but lower risk.
The long-term use of certain medications increases your risk of osteoporosis. Examples include:
- Corticosteroids
- Medications to suppress the immune system
- Chemotherapy
- Gonadotropin-releasing hormone
- Antidepressants
- Antiseizure medications
- Medications containing aluminum, such as antacids
- Proton pump inhibitors
- Long-term heparin therapy
- Glitazones, medications to treat diabetes
Talk to your doctor before stopping or reducing your medications.
Certain chronic conditions may increase your risk for developing osteoporosis.
Gastrointestinal conditions include:
- Liver disease, such as cirrhosis
- Celiac disease
- Ulcerative colitis
- Crohn's disease
- Gastric bypass surgery
- Eating disorders, such as anorexia , or bulimia
Endocrine or hormonal conditions include:
- Diabetes type 1 and type 2
- Hyperthyroidism
- Hyperparathyroidism
Other disorders include:
- Asthma
- Kidney disease
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Sarcoidosis
- Scurvy , a vitamin C deficiency
- Alcohol use disorder
- Depression
- Female athlete triad
- Some blood cancers, such as lymphoma or leukemia
- Some cancer treatments, such as chemotherapy , or radiation therapy
- Organ transplant
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Morris looking for final-ballot bounce into Hall of Fame
World Series hero fell short a year ago despite finishing second among candidates
Jack Morris is a candidate on the National Baseball Hall of Fame ballot for the 15th and final year. The Class of 2014 will be announced on Jan. 8. You can watch the announcement live at 2 p.m. ET on an MLB Network simulcast on MLB.com.
Jack Morris has been through all this before -- 14 times, to be exact.
Morris wonders if the results of this vote -- the last with his name on the ballot submitted each year by the Baseball Writers' Association of America -- is going to be the same as all the others.
"In my mind, the Hall of Fame is supposed to be a snapshot of every generation," Morris recently told MLB.com. "In my generation, I only won 40 more games than anybody else. I don't know what that means, but apparently it doesn't mean enough."
The right-hander, who won the World Series with Detroit, Minnesota and Toronto, and had 254 victories during his 18-year big league career, remembers all the anguish and the disappointment. So this year he said he may not be home hanging next to the phone with anticipation at the witching hour as he waits to learn whether his long personal nightmare will end.
"I don't know," Morris said. "If something comes up I just might go on vacation."
Perhaps this time he'll be elected. Beginning five years after their retirement, every candidate can remain on the BBWAA ballot for 15 years provided he maintains at least five percent of the vote each year. Like all elections for the Hall of Fame, Morris needs 75 percent of the vote for induction. Earlier this year, he finished second in the voting by appearing on 67.7 percent of the ballots, but the writers didn't vote any players into the Class of 2013.
If he doesn't make it this year, Morris will be eligible for the Expansion Era Committee's ballot when it comes around again in three years.
For now, he's on the ballot with several fellow great pitchers, including newly eligible former stars Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine and Mike Mussina, plus holdovers Roger Clemens and Curt Schilling.
Morris knows he's up again against a lot of stiff competition at his position.
"That's what I have to keep reminding myself -- it's just tough," Morris said. "Seventy-five percent is not an easy thing, especially when the numbers of writers and candidates keep growing. Many of those writers are sabermetricians, who don't really have knowledgeable eyes. And plus I'm getting more and more removed from this current generation. They didn't see me. They didn't know what I was about."
Two years ago, Morris was a long shot as Reds shortstop Barry Larkin was the sole player elected to the Class of 2012. His vote total leapt to 66.7 percent from 53.5 percent in 2011. But that figure remained static earlier this year, as Morris finished second behind Houston's Craig Biggio, whose 3,060 career hits were good enough for him to garner only 68.2 percent of the vote.
In terms of hard numbers, Morris' name turned up on 385 of the 569 ballots cast. Players had to have 427 votes in the most recent balloting to get in. So in this year of even stiffer competition, he must makeup 42 votes. The ballot has remained fairly static. In 2012, Morris needed to be named on 430 of the ballots cast.
"And that's the hard part," said Morris, who is now an in-season analyst for MLB.com. "I'm grateful for the guys who have hung in there with me or I would have been gone a long time ago. And for a couple of years now I think the whole steroids thing has put a twist in it. A bunch of us guys have been thrown under the bus because they didn't know what to do with the other pile. That's unfortunate. It is what it is and I'm not going to fix it. I'm not out there soliciting votes because I don't think I have to."
The good news is that Larkin had 62.1 percent of the vote in 2011 and soared right past the 430 mark to garner 86.4 percent in '12. He made it, but in only his third year on the ballot.
It should also be noted that Gil Hodges is the only player since Hall of Fame voting began in 1936 to amass better than 60 percent of the vote from the BBWAA and ultimately fail to make the Hall.
Here are some more recent positive examples for Morris:
Bert Blyleven, Morris' good friend, was elected in his 14th year of eligibility in 2011, when he was inducted along with second baseman Roberto Alomar. Blyleven was finally named on 60 percent of the ballots in '08.
Jim Rice, elected in his 15th year of eligibility in 2009, didn't hit 60 percent until his 12th. Bruce Sutter, elected in '06 in his 13th year of eligibility, crossed the 60-percent threshold the year prior to his election.
Like Rice, who was one of the American League's most prolific hitters during the 1980s, Morris was far and away the winningest pitcher in the AL of that decade. Nobody else was even close. Morris won 162 games from 1980-89. The runner-up was Blue Jays ace Dave Stieb, with 140.
"What I did should stand for itself," Morris said. "I'm proud of it. Pretty much every Hall of Famer comes up to me and reminds me of that."
In addition, Morris was 7-4 with a 3.80 ERA in 13 postseason starts and 4-2 with a 2.96 ERA in seven World Series starts. He won twice against the Padres in 1984 when the Tigers prevailed in five games, and he lost twice to the Braves when the Blue Jays won the '92 World Series in six games.
But Morris' signature performance came for the Twins in Game 7 of the 1991 World Series against the Braves at the Metrodome. He tossed 10 scoreless innings to outduel John Smoltz, winning the game, 1-0, to clinch the Series. Morris made three starts and gave up three runs over 23 innings in that Series, and he posted a 2.23 ERA for the full postseason.
"I don't think that will happen again," Morris said about the epic game played on Oct. 27, 1991. "I used to think, 'Oh, it will happen again. Somebody will do it.' But, heck, they won't even let one guy start three games in the World Series anymore.
"I can't understand that. For 80 years it was fine. The ace would pitch Games 1, 4 and 7. And now, it's, 'We can't overwork these guys.' It's different. It's definitely a different way of playing the game. There's less and less glory in it, I can tell you that."
For Game 7 of 1991 World Series alone, Morris has earned his way into the history books. And perhaps on Jan. 8 the phone will ring with good news about the Hall of Fame when he least expects it -- wherever he may be.
Barry M. Bloom is a national reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog, Boomskie on Baseball. Follow @boomskie on Twitter.

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TORONTO — Israelis who yearn for a kind of "normalcy" in which Israel is freed from "existential angst" are labouring under a "sweet illusion," says Israeli journalist and author Yossi Klein Halevi.
In an analysis of the outcome of Israel's recent general election, Klein Halevi said a growing number of Israelis, particularly younger ones, long to focus on everyday domestic concerns rather than on life-and-death security issues.
But because they live on "the edge of a volcano" in a politically unstable and volatile region, their longing for normality is unlikely to be fulfilled any time soon, he told an estimated 800 listeners in a keynote speech to the closing event of the UJA campaign at the Sheraton Centre last week.
It was announced that the campaign has raised $54 million so far from 16,700 gifts. A UJA spokersperson said a dollar goal for the campaign was not set, but that it's running $2 million ahead of last year at this time, and more donations are expected.
Last year's drive raised just over $57 million.
Klein Halevi, a senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem who made aliyah from the United States in 1982, said last month's election opened up a "new divide" between Israelis concerned mainly by socio-economic issues and Israelis preoccupied by an external agenda relating to the Arab-Israeli conflict.
As proof of his argument that security issues trump internal ones, he cited a widely reported incident on Jan. 30 in which the Israeli Air Force bombed a convoy in Syria trucking Russian-made surface-to-surface missiles to Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Klein Halevi suggested that 2013 could well be the "year of decision" when Israel decides whether or not to use military means to stop Iran from building a militarized nuclear arsenal.
Yet Israel is also concerned by other unfolding developments in the Middle East, he noted.
Syria is imploding in a vicious civil war that already has claimed the lives of 60,000 Syrians and internally displaced two million Syrian citizens.
Egypt has been convulsed by instability since the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak's regime and its replacement by a Muslim Brotherhood government.
In a sombre reference to the increasingly tense period before the Six Day War, when Israel was suspended in a state of anxiety and uncertainty, Klein Halevi said Israelis face a similar moment of reckoning today.
Returning to Israel's election, he argued that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was the sole candidate who placed emphasis on foreign policy during the campaign.
He said Netanyahu has shifted toward the centre in an attempt to transform the Likud party into a pragmatic rather than an ideological right-wing party, but Likud hardliners have resisted his moves, placing the party out of step with the centre in Israel.
Klein Halevi said the political centre was generally reinvigorated by the election and now represents a majority of Israelis.
Although the middle-of-the-road Kadima party was crushed, winning only two Knesset seats as opposed to 28 in the 2009 election, Yair Lapid's Yesh Atid centrist party picked up a resounding 19 seats, making it the second-biggest parliamentary faction.
Yesh Atid's electoral success is significant, he observed. Israelis sent a message for change and signalled a desire for balance, realism and moderation from their political leaders.
They also seek an end to cultural wars and schisms, said Klein Halevi, who writes for the New Republic and whose first book, Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist, was an account of his disillusionment with Jewish militancy.
Declaring that Israel can no longer afford to maintain its current relationship with the haredi community, Klein Halevi said that haredi separatism from Israeli society is untenable.
Turning to the perennial Palestinian issue, he said that centrists such as himself are conflicted, knowing that a Palestinian state is both an existential need for Israel and a threat to its long-term security.
"We need to free ourselves from the moral burden of the occupation," he said, referring to Israel's 45-year presence in the West Bank, populated mainly by Palestinian Arabs.
The looming demographic imperative, in which a minority of Jews may rule over a majority of Arabs in Israel and the West Bank one day, is one more reason why Israel should conclude its occupation, he said.
Most Israelis are prepared to make painful territorial concessions to achieve a two-state solution, Klein Halevi said.
They also think that government spending in West Bank settlements should be cut substantially and that a building freeze should be imposed in settlements outside major settlement blocs Israel intends to keep, he said.
Centrist Israelis, however, fear that concessions won't yield a real peace dividend, nor do they believe there is a Palestinian partner willing to engage Israel in a genuine peace process, he added.
Israeli centrists want to be doves, but reality forces them to be hawks, he lamented.
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Sure, the band's name was a brilliant way to drive traffic to their gigs, but more importantly, Free Beer's onstage antics never fell short of delivering the goods, which made this band an integral part to San Francisco's underground punk scene. Free Beer included teenaged skateboarder/musician brothers Tony and Tommy Guerrero who were just a part of the short list of founding fathers of a musical -&- cultural movement known as Skate-Rock. Punk Rockers that rode skateboards and played music because 'Nothing else mattered.'
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Over 60 I'm in UR... pictures and a few other great kitten pictures all harvested from Google Images.
Click for biggery.
Here are two more 1, 2 made by reader HelenR with pictures of her own cats. Thanks Helen. :)
Gotta love krazy kats.
Goddammit, it's "YOUR"!!! Not "UR". Stupid idiots!
sweet kitties...funny stuff...I like.
I love kittens...... taste great with ketchup
roflmao!!! genius!! what more can I say?
UR is internet slang jack off...........funny as hell man awsome stuff.
now that is funny stuff i live the girl friend stealer and the sniper cat :D
titties! i see kitties & titties!
Aren't most of these taken right off of the somethingawful.com forums?
Holy shit. I never expected cat memes to be here.
I still thought they were funny, though. lol.
At this point, screw grammar. The cats are so adorable!
Here is a lesson about the internet. Nothing. Not one thing, NOT ONE SINGLE THING is right off the somethingawful forum because EVERYTHING on the somethingawful forums is from something else. In this case, 4chan's /b/
zomfgxlyrtmofg! applegrapesorangespiespearsmoregrapes! This is teh freeking awsom
to those of you who said the grammar is really bad
that's the damn point
AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!! They're so cute... and suicidal.... but still cute!
lol Yay emo cat! and Ninja cat! :3 So cute~! Oh, and people who are insulting the grammar, it is "internet speak" though I never type like that myself. Plus, they are cats with bad grammar. It is cute.
im in your shower, what can i do...
i like that the most.
Dude....are people really whining that CATS can't spell properly?
dude, cats cnt spell, its impossible unless dey hav bin very highly advancedly trained. so stop yellin @ da peple for yellin @ da cats.
www.poolsclosed.com, the forums of 4chan, 7chan,etc..
Dear grammar Nazis,
That's the point. They're cats. They're using chatspeak. It's funny.
Article explaining the origins of such leet speak:
Article explaining the origins of such "leet speak":
ok, whoever said that those kitties "taste good with ketchup" is a freak. you are just sick. btw, the internet slang bothered me and my ADDness.
calm down, they're cats.... kitty is funny like monkey.
The grammar sucks because it's supposed to. I'M IN UR BEVERAGEZ STEELIN' YOUR FIZZ
LOL. Seriously. I'm actually laughing. =D
Some of you are seriously stupid. "UR" in this context is taking the piss. Yeah? :|
dude i love trashcat! lol
trashcat is not amused >_<
FUCKIN HILARIOUS! For lack of better words...Awesome. Love it. Sell it on Ebay.
"I Ar Serious Cat."
Dear god, I'm going to be laughing for months on end.
"Trashcat is not amused..." xD
aww it looks like they hurt emo cat, were any of these cats harmed?
yes, many were kicked in the face, in order to beautyfy them.
The kitties are adorable! Does the grammar really matter?
wow that is fuckin funny/hilarious!!!!!
god i love it i couldnt stop lol
realy funny but the grammar is crap
It's hillarious the people are too dumb to understand that the bad grammar and spelling are intentional.... especially "Allstar's Reggae Band" who seems to get especially upset about it.
Great pics!
Dude, they are cats! They aren't supposed to be able to spell! The bad grammar and spelling are quite deliberate, and what makes the whole thing funny. Otherwise, most of these would just be photos of random kittycats - cute, but not hysterically funny. :)
Bad grammar? Puh-lease. Lighten up and get the stick out of your @$$. Of course it's bad grammar, that's why it's so damn funny.
im in ur grammer crushin ur pedentry
The "I'm in ur..." whatnot started as part of conversation in an online game and is now a 'net meme. See here: http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/I_am_in_your_base_killing_your_d00ds
Someone help me think of a caption for my cat on a DDR dancemat: http://myspace-036.vo.llnwd.net/00723/63/03/723313036_l.jpg
Fucking Hilarious!! and for all you NOOBS saying the grammer is horrbile! get a life, its internet grammer, maybe if you knew something, you would know that. ever heard of a forum? go look at one, tell me if you dont see a shitload of things like ur, btw, lol, brb, its all shortcuts to typing!! GOD DAMN UR Retarded if you dont know that!!
But in the end man! GREAT FUCKING PICS!!! HILARIOUS!!! I SHOWED FRIENDS... WELL BE LAUGHING FOR WEEKS!!
I cried laughing at that one.
Lol brilliant pics, they'll have me laughing for ages.
you mofo's can stop blabering about the fact that some people got irritated by the grammar by now, i think they got the point ;)
hillarious pics btw ^^
dat chick wit da cat in her tits is hot
the photo "i'm in ur bed...catchin' ur zzz's" is my photo of my cat stacks! haha funny to come across this photo randomly online. good stuff
i thought the grammar was impeccable! for some reason the way it was all spelled made me imagine the cats with fruity french accents *laughs*
Reading these make me laugh so hard, I start to cry. xD
"I'm in your thread.
Posting in a grammaticly correct manner."
like you could really spell any better lame ass all star kook!!! an yo mama is dressin u funny so beat it!
Im in ur coupons, Stealing ur dealz =3
I love 'em. And for everyone who's saying things like, "LYK< OMGZZ, C@TS CANTS SPELL,!!!!1111!!!" No Duh, people wrote that to make people laugh. Lighten up a litte bit ;D
"Im in ur moniterz
stealin ur bandwith!!!"
That's not in here but I saw that once and thought it was pretty funny.
i love the go cry emo kid that sfunny
patrickr why you say sfunny
Where is zippocat?
Very funny and amazing cat picture..
well everybod eles posed something so i am that was so funny i love little kittinsssss they ro so cute!!!!


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Puppy Linux Internet Relay ChatIRC is a form of instant messaging over the Internet. It is intended for group (many-to-many) communication in discussion forums called channels, but also allows one-to-one communication.
The easiest way to join our chatroom when you are using Puppy is to click on the Chat icon on the desktop
Using IRC ProgramsIf you have an IRC-enabled browser (e.g. Opera or SeaMonkey/Firefox with ChatZilla installed), go to irc://irc.freenode.net/puppylinux in your browser and then pick your nickname. If that doesn't work then with other IRC-capable programs like attym, Pidgin/Gaim, X-Chat, irrsi, etc. enter irc.freenode.net as the chat server and #puppylinux as the channel in the appropriate places.
Accessing the Puppy Linux Chat Without an IRC Program InstalledIf you have no IRC program installed or prefer not to you may use the Freenode Web Access site and any browser. You may either enter any nickname you wish but to use a Freenode registered nickname then check the box for "Auth to services" and also enter your username and password.
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The Torah says over and over that we must embrace the stranger because he is the most vulnerable among us. Within our own ranks, Ashkenazi Jews in Israel and the Diaspora treated Sephardi Jews like second-class citizens when they first arrived because they were easy to kick around and to blame, as they were unaware of their rights and not connected to the land and the culture.
We create a despicable mythology about the stranger or "the other," as Christians did with us throughout the centuries. We were penny pinchers, kikes and liars. We murdered their saviour, planned a world takeover and had ample time to steal Christian babies and use their blood to make matzah. These lies were rolled down a hill of ignorance by the cracked and soiled hands of psychopathic religionists and politicians. Much work went into reminding "the other" about his insignificance.
But then we established Eretz Yisrael and rooted ourselves in the land. We stopped wandering and reclaimed authorship over our narrative, over our lives. While Egyptian leaders today still say that "Jews are born of pigs, underserving of Israel," we are anchored and able to defend ourselves from the slings and arrows of bogus folklore and fibs meant to deny us our rights and perhaps our lives. Let them talk.
That is not the fortune, however, of the Roma, the Gypsies. They continue to roam the earth, unable to slough off the mendacities invented about them and the despicable actions that result from such falsehoods.
Medieval Christians accused the Roma of creating the nails used to crucify Jesus, and of stealing Christian babies and eating them. The Gypsy population of Moldavia and Wallachia (now Romania) was enslaved for 500 years, until abolition in 1864. In the 1600s, laws in Germany, Finland and England made "Gypsy hunts" legal. Hundreds of Gypsies were brought to trial in Hungary in the 18th century for cannibalism. Some 200 were executed and then the alleged victims were found alive.
Today, the Roma are the European Union's biggest minority group. There are 12 million Roma scattered across a dozen countries. Their men are labelled "child traffickers." The women are called prostitutes, and their young are considered pickpockets. Gypsies are harassed by neo-Nazi groups. They, just as we were, are dying for safety and security. They, as we were, are begging for the truth.
With all of this, Canadian Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney has said most Roma travel to Canada to exploit social programs, including welfare, subsidized public housing and health care, and then return to their place of origin. He calls their claims bogus. Recently, a "safe country list" was released by Kenney. Hungary is on that list. Roma and Jews applying for refugee status from that country have 30 days to prepare for a hearing instead of the several months they once had. The mythology machine continues to grind and we clutch our wallets, convinced we'll be pickpocketed by these desperate people.
In early January, we sadly discovered in parshat Shmot that the Jewish People were enslaved in Egypt. We were being beaten and humiliated by Egyptian taskmasters who look upon us as "the other." The good news is that Moses will arrive soon to liberate us.
Let us work toward the same for the Roma today. Contact the Roma Community Centre 416-546-2524 to donate and help. Speak to your shul's social action committee to become involved.
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"Milk"—Not Just From Cows
The next time you ask someone if they "got milk," the answer may surprise you. "Sure, we have soy, rice, almond, multigrain, oat, and potato. Would you like vanilla, carob, chocolate, strawberry, or plain?"
Milk sure has changed. And for many people, that change is welcome news. According to an article published in American Family Physician, up to 100% of Asians and American Indians, 80% of blacks and Latinos, and 15% of people of northern European descent have trouble digesting lactose.
Lactose, a milk sugar found in dairy products, is digested in the intestines by an enzyme called lactase. If someone does not produce enough lactase, the result is a decreased ability to digest lactose, or lactose intolerance, which can result in bloating, gas, diarrhea, and stomach cramps. There are different degrees of lactose intolerance—some people may be able to handle moderate amounts of milk before feeling the effects of too little lactase, while others may only be able to handle a very small amount, or none at all.
Saying No to Milk
Not everyone who shuns cow's milk is lactose intolerant. In its whole state, milk has both saturated fat and cholesterol that some people try to avoid. Other people may be concerned about the environmental impact and animal abuse associated with milk production. While there are those that have religious convictions or other personal reasons for avoiding cow's milk.
Fortunately, nondairy milks are abundant and now found in many supermarkets. Not only can you buy milk made from soybeans, rice, nuts, oats, potato, and combinations thereof, you also can pick your favorite flavor, fat content, and various levels of nutrient fortification. And with such a great selection, it is important to read the ingredient and nutrition information to help you select the best products for your needs.
Oh Boy, Soy!
Soy milk is the most common of the nondairy milk beverages. Each soy milk on the market has its own texture, taste, and consistency, and in general, is thicker and creamier than other nondairy milks.
Soybeans are the main ingredient in soy milk, followed by soy protein isolate—a concentrated soybean protein. Some soy milks contain tofu, but most soy milks are made from organic soybeans, although not all are free of genetically engineered beans. Soy milk is available in both liquid and powder forms.
Oatmeal in a Glass
Oat milk is made from oat kernels and filtered water. It may also include other grains, like barley or brown rice. The result is a neutral tasting, slightly sweet, highly stable beverage that is also an excellent substitute for cow's milk in cooking and baking. Oat milk contains vitamin E and folic acid and is low in fat and contains amino acids, vitamins, trace elements, and minerals. The extraction process allows much of the natural fiber to remain in the final product, which makes oat milk "oatmeal in a glass."
Rice, Nuts, Spuds, and Combos
Rice milk is lighter and sweeter than soy milk. Some people say it tastes closer to cow's milk than the other nondairy choices. Almond milk is the number one nut milk, although people who make their own often use walnuts, hazelnuts, or cashews, along with almonds. Potato milk is the newest addition, and it is available in both liquid and powder form, although distribution is still limited. Combination beverages often contain oats, barley, soybeans, and brown rice.
Cow Versus Plant-Based Milk
Will you get enough calcium and other nutrients from nondairy milk? Yes, if you buy fortified products. The most common nutrients added to nondairy milks are the same ones either added to or found in cow's milk: calcium, riboflavin, and vitamins C, D, and B12. Buy brands that contain 20% to 30% of the US Recommended Daily Allowances (USRDA) for calcium, riboflavin, and vitamin B12, which makes them nutritionally similar to cow's milk. If for some reason you lack exposure to the sun, buy products fortified with vitamin D. Not all nondairy beverages are fortified, so check the labels. You can also get the calcium and nutrients you need from other food sources such as vegetables.
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Nondairy milks are great in shakes and on cereal, but can you cook or bake with them?
Of course! The results will depend on the fat content, flavor, and consistency of the milk substitute you are using. Try different types of non-dairy milk and keep in mind that you may need to modify your recipe by adding or taking away other ingredients to get the same result.
Rice and nut milks are sweeter and lighter than soy milk, which makes them good for desserts and curries, but less suited for gravies and most entrees. Oat and potato milks are more neutral and complement soups and main dishes. Be aware that soy-based beverages or those containing a high amount of calcium carbonate can curdle at high temperatures, especially if the recipe uses acidic foods such as oranges or tomatoes.
Buying and Using Nondairy Beverages
Remember these guidelines when shopping for nondairy milk:
- Consider why you are buying the product: as a beverage, to use on cereal, or in recipes. You may need several types.
- Read the labels to make sure that is meets your nutrient needs.
- Most nondairy beverages come in packages which generally last 6 months or longer unopened. Once opened, they must be refrigerated and used within 7 to 10 days.
- Not all brands taste the same. Experiment until you find the one you like. Taste them heated and chilled to detect any differences in flavor.
- Powdered forms are usually less expensive and allow you to vary the consistency.
- Nondairy beverages are not suitable for infants. There are specially designed soy-based infant formulas available.
- More than 30 brands of nondairy beverages are on the market. You can even make some kinds of nondairy beverages at home.
- In addition to nut allergen with almond milk, watch out for potential hidden allergens, such as gluten, xanthan gum, or barley malt.
- Most brands have less sugar than cow's milk and are considered heart healthy because they contain no trans fat, saturated fat, or cholesterol.
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American Academy of Family Physicians. Lactose intolerance: what you should know. Am Fam Physician. 2006;74(11):1927-1928.
Dietary guidelines for Americans 2015-2020. Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion website. Available at: https://health.gov/dietaryguidelines/2015/guidelines. Updated December 2015. Accessed July 10, 2017.
Genkinger JM, Hunter DJ, Spiegelman D, et al. Dairy products and ovarian cancer: a pooled analysis of 12 coholrt studies. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2006;15(2):364-372.
Goldberg JP, Folta SC, Must A. Milk: can a "good" food be so bad? Pediatrics. 2002;110(4):826-832.
How to substitute dairy milk. Go Dairy Free website. Available at: http://www.godairyfree.org/dairy-substitutes/how-to-substitute-milk-skim-low-fat-whole. Updated July 2, 2012. Accessed July 10, 2017.
Lactose intolerance. National Institute of Diabetes, and Digestive, and Kidney Diseases website. Available at: https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/digestive-diseases/lactose-intolerance. Updated June 2014. Accessed July 10, 2017.
Lactose intolerance in adults. EBSCO DynaMed Plus website. Available at: http://www.dynamed.com/topics/dmp~AN~T115565/Lactose-intolerance-in-adults. Updated November 17, 2016. Accessed July 10, 2017.
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San Francisco's annual Kristi Yamaguchi's Children's Day Festival took place indoors today, but that didn't spoil the fun.
Here's what it looked outdoors last year, without the rain.
The gymnasium at the Japanese Cultural & Community Center of Northern California on Sutter was a lively scene today:
Date: Saturday, May 2, 2009
Time: 11:00am – 4:00pm
Location: Japantown Peace Plaza
Street: Post and Buchanan Streets
City/Town: San Francisco, CA
In recognition of Japan's national holiday celebrating children, the Japanese Cultural & Community Center of Northern California is presenting its annual Children's Day Festival. There will be entertainment, food, games, and hands-on arts & crafts activities for youngsters. Bring your family and friends and enjoy the fun! Admission is free.
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NYC Opera needs to raise $7M by end of September
09/09/2013 4:04amThe New York City Opera says it may have to shut down the rest of its productions this season if it can't raise $7 million by the end of September.
Naomi Campbell energizes runway at DVF show
09/09/2013 5:40amAfter four days of runway shows, it takes something special to get the New York Fashion Week crowd excited, and apparently Naomi Campbell is it.
A flexible, healthy soup that packs porky flavor
09/09/2013 7:42amThis soup is a stick-to-your ribs flexitarian special. Make it with chicken broth and prosciutto and you end up with a carnivore's delight. Make it with vegetable stock and no prosciutto and you've got a vegetarian's delight. Either way, it's plenty hearty. The potatoes give it body and creaminess. The spinach and kale give it earthiness and a bright green color.
Novel offers vision of hunting trip gone awry
09/09/2013 7:55am"Goat Mountain" (Harper), by David Vann
In Jamaica, a twist on wine tours for pot lovers
09/09/2013 8:14amNapa and Sonoma have their wine tours, and travelers flock to Scotland to sample the fine single malt whiskies. But in Jamaica, farmers are offering a different kind of trip for a different type of connoisseur.
Review: Billy Crystal looks back on his life
09/09/2013 8:50am"Still Foolin' `Em: Where I've Been, Where I'm Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys?" (Henry Holt and Company), by Billy Crystal
Designers defy matchy-matchy wisdom for the mix
09/09/2013 10:18amMost people are taught from a young age that they want their outfits to match.
Elton John to perform Liberace tribute at Emmys
09/09/2013 10:37amElton John is about to do something he's never done: Perform live at the Emmy Awards.
Review: Keith Urban switches it up, finds success
09/09/2013 10:40amKeith Urban, "Fuse" (Hit Red/Capitol)
George Strait sets dates for last run on the road
09/09/2013 10:47amGeorge Strait will finish off his two-year farewell tour in the biggest house in his home state of Texas _ the Dallas Cowboys' AT&T Stadium.
Review: Arctic Monkeys endure American love affair
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Review: Hymns populate posthumous Jones album
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Review: Jimmy Webb spins another unique album
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Miley Cyrus to be host, musical guest on 'SNL'
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Costume National returns to Milan runways
09/09/2013 11:36amThe Milan Fashion Chamber has claimed a victory in its efforts to reinvigorate fashion week, with Costume National's decision to preview its next women's collection in Milan after two decades in Paris.
German ex-rapper reportedly injured in Syria
09/09/2013 12:01pmA German rapper who embraced militant Islam and joined jihadists fighting in Syria has reportedly been injured in an airstrike.
An American family, disillusioned with America
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Guru's convictions in sweat lodge case will stand
09/09/2013 12:12pmA jury's decision to convict a self-help author in the deaths of three people following an Arizona sweat lodge ceremony will stand.
Turturro lands an unlikely co-star: Woody Allen
09/09/2013 12:27pmNot since the forgettable 2000 comedy "Picking up the Pieces" has Woody Allen starred in a film he didn't direct. But John Turturro managed to coax Allen back into acting for "Fading Gigolo" with an enticing role: an elderly but novice pimp.
Clarification: Music Review-The 1975 story
09/09/2013 12:53pmIn a music review Sept. 5, The Associated Press identified the record label for the new self-titled release from The 1975 as Dirty Hit Records/Polydor Ltd. That was the act's British label, but the album was released in the U.S. by Vagrant Records/Interscope Records.
Band of Outsiders brings LA vibe to NYC
09/09/2013 12:56pmLos Angeles-based designer Scott Sternberg, creative director of Band of Outsiders, really, really likes "The House of the Rising Sun." The song played many times both before and during his runway show.
Correction: Dancing With the Stars story
09/09/2013 1:00pmIn a Sept. 4 story about ABC's announcement of a new "Dancing With the Stars" cast, The Associated Press misidentified the network where Valerie Harper's reunion with "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" cast was aired. It was TV Land, not Nick at Nite.
Hilfiger plants boardwalk empire on NY pier
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Harvey Fierstein plots a return to Broadway
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New season at daytime talk-alikes
09/09/2013 2:01pmBalloons and fans chanting her name greeted Jenny McCarthy on her first day on "The View" on Monday, opening a transition season for Barbara Walters' daytime show at the same time a program modeled after it, "The Talk," is gaining momentum.
Lovato signs multi-book deal, including memoir
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Olivia Wilde calls fiancé 'brilliant' in video
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Scientists help farmers create greener dairies
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007 'submarine car' sells for $865,000
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Geodes and salt crystals at Phillip Lim show
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Settlement reached in Marvel 'Ghost Rider' lawsuit
09/09/2013 3:59pmA writer has reached a settlement with comic book publisher Marvel Entertainment over claims he owns the rights to the Ghost Rider character.
Zappos.com moving into old Las Vegas city hall
09/09/2013 4:28pmOnline shoe retailer Zappos.com on Monday began stepping into a new downtown Las Vegas corporate headquarters, after a multimillion-dollar makeover of the former Las Vegas city hall building.
Long-lost painting by Van Gogh is identified
09/09/2013 5:35pmA painting that sat for six decades in a Norwegian industrialist's attic after he was told it was a fake Van Gogh was pronounced the real thing Monday, making it the first full-size canvas by the tortured Dutch artist to be discovered since 1928.
Karan's runway leads from NYC to India
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Celebrities turn low key at NY Fashion Week
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Victoria Beckham offers customers a personal touch
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Uncanny X-Men 136 was written by Chris Claremont, with John Byrne on cover and interior art. It is the 8th book of the Dark Phoenix Saga, and deals with the after math of Jean Grey, under the influence of Dark Phoenix destroying a solar system in issue 135 and ultimately, her death in issue 137. The Dark Phoenix Saga is one of the most beloved story arcs in comics history. It has influenced the X-Men movies of the present day.
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- King's surviving daughter giving flurry of interviews as march anniversary nears
- Bernice King is candid about some of the controversial episodes in her life
- "People don't know me," she says. "People don't know my heart"
There is a secret about Bernice King that not everyone close to her wants you to know.
"She has a shoe fetish," says Angela Farris-Watkins, a cousin. "She has shoes to go with every outfit. She likes all kinds of shoes: sandals, heels, open-toed and different colors. She buys shoes like bread."
It's not surprising that the youngest child of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. would care so much about what she puts on her feet. She has been walking in the footsteps of one of history's greatest moral leaders all of her life.
With the nation poised to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, the daughter of the dreamer seems to be stepping out of his shadow.
A guarded woman who once contemplated suicide, the Rev. Bernice King is openly confronting some of the painful and controversial episodes in her life. She is engaging in a flurry of interviews with journalists to mark the commemoration of her father's most famous speech. Now 50, she was born just months before her father told the world, "I have a dream."
She also is lowering some of the walls that she admits she erected over the years to protect herself from stinging criticism directed at her and her family.
"People just don't know me, period," she says. "The first tendency is to make a judgment. Part of that has to do with people feeling like I'm stoic, standoffish. Some people feel like I'm arrogant. It's unfortunate because people don't know my heart.''
For some, she is freeze-framed as the bewildered girl who rested her head on her mother's lap at her father's funeral in 1968. For others, she is one of the King children, accused of aggressively seeking to profit off their father's legacy while embroiled in legal feuds with each other. Still others see her as the daughter who invoked her father's legacy while marching against same-sex marriage.
In one of her most candid interviews, King talked with CNN about all of those episodes in her life.
It couldn't have been easy for her. She sighed loudly at times at some questions and once flashed a hint of exasperation. To be so publicly vulnerable is not easy for a woman who carefully plans everything, even if it's just walking to her mailbox, friends and family say.
"If you're out among the people, and everybody thinks you belong to them and you've never met them, you, too, would walk a little quieter," says another cousin, the Rev. Alveda King.
'I have walls for a reason'
On a recent afternoon, King is walking into the spiritual birthplace of her family, Ebenezer Baptist Church. She is running 40 minutes late, and a crowd of photographers and onlookers -- including several Buddhist monks -- gather to watch.
Before she poses for photographs, King asks about the type of pictures that will be taken and mentions some earlier photos of her that she didn't like.
Farris-Watkins, a psychology professor at Spelman College in Atlanta, says King is a "Type-A person" who is not comfortable with spontaneity.
"You can say, 'Let's go and do so and so' on the spur of the moment, and she will rarely answer yes," Farris-Watkins says. "She would rather have planned that."
Even small gestures have to be planned, Farris-Watkins says.
"I don't care if she's just going to the mailbox," she says, "she won't come out unless she is in makeup and dressed."
Unplanned moments have not been kind to King's family. Sudden bursts of tragedy are part of her history. It goes beyond her father. Nestled in the basement of Ebenezer is a picture of her grandmother, Alberta Williams King. She was shot and killed by a gunman in 1974 while sitting at the church's organ one Sunday. Bernice King's uncle, the Rev. A.D. King, was found dead in his swimming pool a year after her father's assassination.
There have been more recent losses. In 2006, her mother, Coretta Scott King, died from ovarian cancer. And only a year later, her only sister, Yolanda, a warm and vivacious woman who some say held the King children together, died suddenly of a heart attack at 52.
"I have walls for a reason," she says. "When you grow up with the kind of tragedy we've grown up with, you're cautious. I was 5 when he was assassinated. Some of the distrust and walls come up automatically. It's kind of comes second nature. That probably bothers me the most.
King has had to assume a resolute public face in the face of all these tragedies, says W. Imara Canady, a longtime friend and Atlanta regional office area director for the United Negro College Fund.
"Most of us get the opportunity to deal with tragedy privately," Canady says. "I don't know if she's even had the space to grieve."
Beyond the upcoming march commemoration, King is assuming a more public role for another reason: She was appointed chief executive officer of the King Center last year. She sees the King Center as an educational institution that teaches nonviolence, not an activist group that protests the burning issues of the day.
Still, she speaks bluntly about issues such as economic inequality and racial justice. She criticized the recent U.S. Supreme Court voting rights decision. The court voted 5-4 to essentially gut the mechanism in the 1965 Voting Rights Act that forced certain states to "pre-clear" or get prior approval from the federal government for any changes in voting procedures.
The Voting Rights Act was originally passed because of a bloody civil rights campaign that culminated in a march led by her father in Selma, Alabama, in 1965.
She says the court's decision was a reminder that certain freedoms cannot be taken for granted.
"My mother used to say that struggle is a never-ending process," she says. "You earn it and win it in every generation."
Making money off the legacy
The upcoming commemoration of the March on Washington is a mixed bag for the King children. They have been criticized for demanding a licensing fee from the group that led the successful campaign to build a monument of their father on the Washington Mall.
Critics say they should not have charged any fee for those who wanted to honor their father's legacy. Their point: Are the ancestors of Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln demanding money for their monuments?
"But Lincoln has been gone for 150 years," she says. "We're first generation who lost our parents, not our great, great, great, great grandfather."
She has heard such criticism for years. People have complained that the King children are more concerned about making money off their father's legacy than extending it.
If her family doesn't actively protect her father's image and likeness in the marketplace, she says, they will lose the ability to do so. She says the King family charged a licensing fee for the monument, but the huge sums bandied about are not true.
Then she turns the question back on those who would challenge the King family.
"Why does that matter? Why does it matter to you, whatever it is? We were deprived of our father. Had he been here, this wouldn't be an issue. Our father gave a lot to America.''
Feuding with her brothers
Her relationship with her brothers, Dexter King and Martin Luther King III, has also been criticized. Over the years, the siblings have sued and counter-sued one another over their parents' legacy.
When asked if she still talks to her brothers, she says, "Every now and then. We're family."
When asked to describe their current relationship, she says: "It's OK."
The tension among the King children is unfathomable to some. How can siblings who shared such a singular tragedy barely talk? She points to the children of South African leader Nelson Mandela, whose squabbling over their father's legacy makes headlines overseas.
"My question would be for the people that can't understand it is to look at their (own) families," King says. "Every family -- think about the Mandela family right now -- every family has its challenges. We're not immune. We're not superhuman."
She says some of the tension with her brothers may be rooted in gender.
"I'm the only female left in the family," King says. "I was closer to my mother and sister. ... Women and men are different."
When asked if she thinks she will ever become closer to her brothers, she says: "I don't know. I would hope so."
The 'mistake' march
Her father made history with marches, but one of Bernice King's most controversial public episodes came when she helped lead a march herself.
It was 2004, and she and Bishop Eddie Long -- senior pastor of an Atlanta megachurch -- were leading a march against same-sex marriage. Long, who once said that blacks have to "forget" racism because they have already reached the Promised Land, carried a torch during the march. It had been lit at an eternal flame at Martin Luther King Jr.'s grave.
The march was widely criticized by followers of her father. They pointed out that King's marches were about inclusion -- not excluding a group of people. They noted that one of his closest aides was Bayard Rustin, a gay man who was instrumental in planning the March on Washington.
Bernice King, who was an elder in Long's church at the time, later left the congregation after Long settled out of court with four young men who had accused him of coercing them into sexual relationships.
King sighed loudly when asked about the march.
"If I had to make the choice today," she says, "it would be different."
She says she participated because the march revolved around several issues -- strengthening the black family; black youth trapped in the justice system -- that were not highlighted by the media.
When asked how she feels about same-sex marriage, she says, "I wouldn't say I'm against same-sex marriage. I believe in freedom and equality for all people. I believe that when it comes to gay marriage, that's a political and legal issue that has to be dealt with in that arena. I have privately held beliefs, but when it comes to that, it's properly placed in the political and legal arena."
Running from a calling
King doesn't belong to a church now. She visits and still accepts preaching engagements. When asked which contemporary pastors she admires, she mentions three whose ministries are very different from that of her father: Bishop T.D. Jakes, Andy Stanley and Joel Osteen.
All three are megachurch pastors who are not known for being "prophetic" like her father. Their ministries are more focused on personal growth and powerful messages than speaking truth to power.
The Rev. Timothy McDonald III, who was Bernice King's youth pastor at Ebenezer, says it makes sense that she would admire them.
"She was angry at one point in her ministry that her father was killed fighting for social justice and feeling that his death had been unappreciated," he says.
"They're the antithesis of Dr. King, and for her psychologically, that's safe," he says.
There's no doubt about her favorite pastor, though.
"My favorite preacher is not with me anymore," she says, "and that's my father."
McDonald says he could imagine when Bernice King was a teenager that she would follow her father into the ministry. She had that rare ability to electrify audiences when she spoke. She connected with youth.
"She ran away from it for a while," he says. "We did a play one year and she played the part of the preacher," he says. "She may have been 17. I said, 'Oh yeah, we'll see where this goes.'"
She eventually was ordained at Ebenezer.
But when she was a teenager, she was still dealing with the loss of her father, he says. Once, the church youth group took a trip to a camp, where they watched a documentary on her father, he says.
"She broke down," McDonald says. "She cried for I don't know how long. Everybody was trying to comfort her. Later she said that was the first time she had really grieved about her father."
Becoming her own person
Outside the pulpit, friends and family say, Bernice King is different from the solemn figure portrayed in the media.
Hints of that warmth came through in the photo session at Ebenezer. She was playful and warm. She displayed a radiant smile and a hearty laugh. (Her father had a beautiful rumbling baritone of a laugh and a mischievous sense of humor in private).
Her cousin Alveda King says she wishes more people could see Bernice King throw her head back and laugh. She and others describe King as someone who loves gospel music, can dance, and sends birthday cards and encouraging notes to people.
They say King lights up when she's around young girls, such as during her visits to the Coretta Scott King Young Women's Leadership Academy, an Atlanta school established in honor of her mother.
When King visits, the girls don't see her as a remote stoic figure, her cousin says.
"Those girls, they cluster around her, they rub her hair and lean all over her and get in those pictures," Alveda King says.
Canady, of the UNCF, says King has a rollicking sense of humor.
"One night for her birthday we ended up at a family's friend's house and we were playing Taboo all night long and laughing and joking," he says. "She has this way of telling stories that will crack you up, and remembering things that you have forgotten that will have you in stitches.
"She had really learned in life not to take herself too seriously."
Canady says people have written rules for Bernice King that they're not willing to follow themselves: She's not allowed to make mistakes; she's not allowed to be different from her parents.
"She is not Martin or Coretta Scott King. She is her own person," says Canady.
In her 1997 book, "Hard Questions, Heart Answers," King wrote:
"I remember someone telling me when I was a teenager, 'It's better to be alone and be yourself than to be in a crowd and be someone else.'"
As she assumes a more public role, Bernice King seems to be finding a way to be herself, even when she is surrounded by a crowd.
Maybe now she is finally hitting her stride.


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Wealthy investors' biggest fear is political dysfunction, UBS found in its first-quarter Investor Watch for 2013. Concerns over political issues outweigh even retirement fears, with more than three-quarters of respondents saying the political environment worries them most.
UBS polled more than 2,000 respondents with at least $250,000 who use a professional advisor in early January. About one-fifth of the respondents were UBS clients.
Just 37% of respondents said they were satisfied with the fiscal cliff deal announced on Jan. 1. Ninety percent of respondents said that while the agreement may have avoided the cliff, it didn't do enough to address the debt problem. In fact, nearly a third of respondents expressed doubt that the government would make any serious progress on cutting debt this year.
The lack of faith in the government's ability to address those long-term issues resulted in a drop in investors' mid- to long-term outlook, according to the UBS poll. However, despite the widely felt concern over political issues, over half of respondents said they were confident about their own financial situation, up from 44% in September.
UBS noted in the report detailing the poll findings that today's investors are "adaptive creatures." According to the report, "Neither euphoric nor despondent, [investors] are more pragmatic and reasonable, with tempered return expectations and less optimism about the long-term economic outlook—while acknowledging that participating in the markets is necessary to grow their wealth."
To that end, just 23% of respondents said they were attempting to beat the market; the majority were just trying to track it. One-quarter said they would be OK with underperformance in up-markets if it meant they wouldn't lose anything in down-markets.
While retirement remains an important consideration for investors, the poll found other long-term concerns like health care have gained in significance. Nearly three-quarters of respondents said their top priority was staying healthy and fit. Maintaining their quality of life and enjoying life were rated as the second and third priorities. Just 26% of respondents said retiring "how and when" they want was their top priority.
The importance of a financial plan and a good advisor is not lost on investors. UBS found that respondents who follow a financial plan were significantly more confident both in their financial situations and confidence in achieving their goals. Just 31% of respondents who don't follow a consistent plan said they felt very good about their financial situation compared with 73% of those who did have a plan. When asked how confident they were about achieving their goals, the gap was even wider: 21% of those without a consistent plan said they were very confident, compared with 68% of those who did follow their plan.
Furthermore, 68% of respondents said getting good advice to help make smart decisions was an important step in achieving their goals. Half of respondents spoke with their advisors about the fiscal cliff deal, according to the report, and those investors were twice as likely to take some kind of action. Twenty-two percent shifted to more conservative investments or sold investments for capital gains prior to any potential increases in the tax rate. Just 8% of those who didn't speak with their advisor moved to more conservative investments, and just 5% made adjustments based on capital gains taxes.
One surprise in the report is that investors between 25 and 49 were more likely to be concerned with long-term care issues than older investors. "This may be because this age group is beginning to see the potential effects as their parents and older loved ones age," the report theorized. One-third of respondents between ages 25 and 49 said they were very worried about being able to afford health care, compared with 18% of respondents over 60. Twenty-two percent of the younger respondents said they were worried about having a caretaker in their old age, compared with 13% of the older group.


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Gritty Grossman might develop some power
This is a wonderful time to be a prospect in the Houston Astros organization.
The club continues to be in transition. The impetus for the change began with new ownership. Houston's division, uniforms, front-office staff and the culture of the organization is in transition. Veterans were traded to stock the club with prospects that will compete for spots on the 25-man roster. Opportunities await. It's a fresh start.
This is a wonderful time to be a prospect in the Houston Astros organization.
The club continues to be in transition. The impetus for the change began with new ownership. Houston's division, uniforms, front-office staff and the culture of the organization is in transition. Veterans were traded to stock the club with prospects that will compete for spots on the 25-man roster. Opportunities await. It's a fresh start.
A foundation is being built that may take time to bear fruit, but a plan is in place. Once again, patience may well be the operative mantra. It's exciting. And challenging.
In July, veteran pitcher Wandy Rodriguez was traded to the Pirates for young prospects. Left-handed pitchers Colton Cain and Rudy Owens and switch-hitting outfielder Robbie Grossman were obtained by the Astros.
Grossman is a sturdy 6-foot, 205-pound 23-year-old from Cypress-Fairbanks High School in Texas. The Pirates selected Grossman out of high school with their sixth-round pick in the 2008 First-Year Player Draft. Had teams not been concerned that he was going to attend the University of Texas, Grossman may have been selected sooner in the Draft.
Instead of attending college, Grossman signed a contract and began his career with the Pirates' Rookie League team. He played five games in 2008 and went to the plate 21 times. Grossman hit only .188, but it was impossible to reach conclusions with such a small sample size. Beginning the following season, Grossman showed a very good eye at the plate. His ability as a switch-hitter with excellent speed and a very quick first step out of the batter's box provided a hint that he could be a valuable leadoff-type hitter.
Grossman has completed parts of five Minor League seasons. Last year, he hit .267 when he finished his season with Houston's Double-A Corpus Christi team in the Texas League. It's no coincidence that Grossman's career Minor League batting average is .267, covering 2,311 plate appearances. He has been extremely consistent.
I watched Grossman play in the 2011 Arizona Fall League. His appearance in the desert followed the best year of his career. Repeating a season at Class A Bradenton, Grossman put together a 2011 campaign that included a .294 batting average, 13 home runs and 56 RBIs. He also stole 24 bases and was caught stealing 10 times.
Like many scouts, I look at patience at the plate and an ability to take pitches as a sign of maturity. In 2011, Grossman walked 104 times in 616 plate appearances. However, he showed he could make the proper adjustments and be selective at the plate.
In the AFL, Grossman really made scouts take notice. Not only did he show an ability to get on base by working a walk, he flashed some interesting power. Grossman hit .375 with seven home runs, five doubles and 22 RBIs in 104 at-bats. He also walked 20 times.
Grossman played with high energy. He made things happen. Grossman was among the league leaders in several categories. Every time I looked up, it seemed he was on base, and that's not surprising considering his .472 on-base percentage. Grossman played 22 games in right field and one in left. He made only one error in 41 chances. Late in the AFL season, Grossman broke his right hamate bone.
Based upon the strength of his regular season and his outstanding performance in the AFL, expectations for Grossman's 2012 season escalated. However, his hand injury may have impacted his year.
Grossman was assigned to Double-A Altoona by the Pirates and moved to Corpus Christi after the trade. He walked 27 fewer times in 39 fewer plate appearances compared to 2011. Grossman's strikeouts increased. But he had jumped a level to Double-A.
Other than his good plate discipline, speed, energy and emerging power, there is an intangible to Grossman that is intriguing: He plays with grit. He gets his uniform dirty. Grossman reminds me of former big league outfielder Brian Giles. Maybe a Giles "light" edition.
Giles played at 5-foot-11, 195 pounds. Unlike the switch-hitting Grossman, Giles was strictly a left-handed hitter. His power increased during his career, as he hit 16 home runs in 1998 with the Indians and 39 in '99 with the Pirates. Giles could also steal bases. I believe Grossman can have a similar type of career path and skill refinement as Giles.
Grossman is a natural right-handed hitter. But when I saw him in the AFL, he hit all seven home runs left-handed. Grossman's batting average against lefties was .357. Against right-handed pitching, he hit .382.
Defensively, Grossman is a good enough athlete and has enough raw speed to play anywhere in the outfield. However, I like him best as a left fielder. Grossman has average arm strength with good accuracy. He still needs some work seeing the ball off the bat and reacting at a quicker speed.
Grossman might profile for some as a fourth outfielder. I think he can play every day. I think Grossman is a Major League-average hitter with raw power that will translate to pure power as he matures. His speed will win some games. His effort and intensity will open some eyes.
Grossman is a player who just might sneak his way onto the Astros' roster at some point this season. If not this year, soon.
Bernie Pleskoff has served as a professional scout for the Houston Astros and Seattle Mariners. Follow @BerniePleskoff on Twitter.


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30 years ago America's prisons burned. Here's how, why, and what
happened. Who were the Attica Brothers? Why did they seize control of
the prison? And who was George Jackson? And why was he murdered by
the prison administration? And what do these forgotten histories tell
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Now, through archive audio, music and interviews, the voices of the
Attica Brothers, Jonathan Jackson Jr., Angela Davis, Amiri Baraka,
James Baldwin, Harry Belafonte, former Black Panther Chief Of Staff
David Hilliard and more, introduce and grapple with this legacy.
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The Freedom Archives contain over 5000 hours of audiotape recordings,
documenting, as it happened, the most turbulent times, events, and
movements, from the early 60s to the mid-1990s. From People's Park to
Attica. Vietnam to Puerto Rico. Wounded Knee to Mumia Abu-Jamal. Paul
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Anthology Contributors:
Frank 'Big Black' Smith, Charles Barkley, Elizabeth Fink and Michael
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James Baldwin, Jonathan Jackson Jr, Georgia Jackson, etc
Notes Of Interest :
End of 2001 was the 30th year anniversary both of Attica and the
murder of George Jackson...
This is all original audio material, a lot of it heard for the first time.
Anti-prison movement is at an all time high, with incarceration rates
soaring, and a general acceptance now that prisons and the "War
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