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Cumin-Scented French Lentil Salad Recipe
Recipe adapted with modifications from Jeanne Lemlin's Quick Vegetarian Pleasures.
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- Yield:Serves 4
- Active time: 30 minutes
- Total time:30 minutes
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- 1 cup French lentilles du Puy
- 3 cups chicken stock
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 large carrot, finely diced
- 2 ribs celery, finely diced
- 1/2 cup finely diced red onions (about 1/2 a small onion)
- 1 teaspoon finely chopped fresh thyme (or 1/2 teaspoon dried)
- 3 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1/2 teaspoon salt, plus more to taste
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 3 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice, from one large lemon
- 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil, best quality
- 1 teaspoon honey
Combine lentils, chicken stock and bay leaf in a medium saucepan. Bring to a boil, then turn heat down and simmer until lentils are just tender, about 25 minutes (or about 20 minutes for common lentils). Strain and let cool.
In a large bowl, combine all remaining ingredients. Add cooled lentils and toss to combine. Taste and adjust seasoning if necessary. Refrigerate until ready to serve.
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"TERRA: The Nature of our World" gets Webby NominationPosted: April 25, 2007 Filed under: conferences/events, webdev Leave a comment
For the second time in as many months, "TERRA: The Nature of our World" (http://lifeonterra.com) has been noticed by the web critics. This time it's for the Webbys which have been called "the Oscars of the Internet" and with judges like Beck and David Bowie it's definitely got some celeb street cred. (The full MSU news story is available at http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=4822.)
Once again, anyone has the opportunity to vote. TERRA's nomination can be found in the student category of the Online Film and Video section at http://pv.webbyawards.com. Votes will be accepted through Friday, April 27 and winners announced May 1.
But the voting is not really the point of the post… I love that digital library initiatives was a cornerstone in this effort. There's an opportunity here for all diginit folk. Find your niche as a content manager and provider. My "in" was metadata, creating XML for syndication, relational database design, a little PHP magic, and creating a search backend. The key was answering the need for a content manager and developing relationships towards that end. Think about what could be your "in".

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We were there and I said I would upload them somewhere. Sure a Tumblr would make more sense but so would taking a ton of pics. Here are the few I took. Click on the pic for a larger version and visit the official Glitchon website over here: http://glitchcon.com/


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The Your Turn Photo Contest gives a chance for aspiring photographers to share their photo creations in return for recognition of their efforts and to win photo related prizes. Last month we offered an opportunity for these photographers to upload their best images for the theme "Ultimate Jib." We received several entries and narrowed it down to these 16. By the look of the images collected, photographers and riders worked diligently and pulled off some creative jibbing.
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Musings on food and life from Beth Bader, the co-author of The Cleaner Plate Club. Ingredients: original recipes, food policy insights, parenting fun, and a dash of humor.
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Is It Just Me?
And then I changed.
Then I got involved in the Eat Local Challenge. I was writing about food, but there were so many issues. As I looked deeper into real food, I found myself taking a hard look at some truths about the health of our food supply and our environment. I started researching issues, checking different sources. The same names kept coming up in the "bad guy" column. Over and over. My food got all tangled up in politics.
It always was, I was just to busy to care. I needed to change.
The lies, the manipulation, the unethical and the shocking. All centered on our food. Our sustenance. Our health. All with a blatant disregard for our safety and our environment. By the people that make our food and the people who make our laws.
And nothing changes.
People have died. A friend who used to work with me just had a liver transplant as a result of E. coli contamination. Two kids under the age of five, siblings in a family we know, have matching dialysis scars from a bout with E. coli. Can you imagine the weeks their parents spent at the hospital with both of their children in critical condition? I saw the look in their eyes, living in hell with a parent's worst fear. Thank God the kids made it.
And nothing changes.
Kids at school lunch have been served potentially dangerous meat — and a company that knew the meat could be dangerous and knew it would be fed to children, but opted to just make a few extra bucks, 'cause who's gonna know and hey, the other guys are doing it too, why shouldn't we? And then we, the people, DID find out, and we do know.
But nothing changes, not quickly enough, perhaps not ever.
My spouse says, when I am venting and ranting, "Where's the outrage?" Even though, he lives with me and sees me wrestle with it every day. He means in general, by "normal" people. Not me. He's right, there is not nearly enough honest, activist outrage these days. It's our food, people, it's our food.
Something must change.
Or, maybe, I'm just crazy. Or a bit tired. Or both.
This was selected for a March Just Post.
5 comments:
- jen said...
get tired, and then keep going. there needs to be more speaking out about this. I'm taking this for the just posts next month.
- Her Grace said...
I'm with Jen. I hang on your every word when you write about food. People need to know the truth, they need to understand the direction we're taking.
- The Expatriate Chef said...
Thanks, both of you. I've been feeling like a conspiracy theorist lately! I'm not crazy, I'm not crazy!
- MamaBird said...
You're not crazy... it's maddening how out of the mainstream GM and other food issues are. Love what you are writing, and hope that eating and cooking some local delicacies will help you maintain an even keel...
- Gauntlets said...
Hi. I just found your blog and I like it.
I'm outraged. I'm really, really mad. You're absolutely right and I agree with you.
I grow more and more frustrated with every trip to the grocery store. It's just too shiny and boxed to be FOOD. Where's the SMELL of food? And how did they get those asparagus to look so good when they were born weeks ago in Iguanastan?
It's all too myth-like to last, you know? I don't want to play their cute little game anymore. My kids are at stake.
Thanks for your words. :) Make more.


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Every year, headlines are made when Men's Fitness magazine publishes its list of Fittest and Fattest Cities. The list is compiled by the staff that takes into account different factors ranging from number of homes with televisions to air quality to amount of open or green space. Of course, also included on the list of equally weighted factors was the amount of overweight and sedentary people, the amount of available junk food and the number of fitness facilities.
This year, the Club Industry editorial staff decided to find out what local clubs in some of the fattest cities thought about the rankings and what they may be doing to help change the status — granted they may not have much control over air quality, commute or the climate, but they can do their part to get people active and moving.
To do this, we scientifically put the cities from the Top 25 list in a hat and randomly drew them out; then we hit the road and visited some clubs to get the real story on the fitness scene in some of America's fattest cities.
Detroit No. 1
Being named the fattest city in America is one "honor" any city would prefer to live without, but it's an "honor" that Men's Fitness magazine has bestowed on Detroit, which came in third on the list last year.
To improve its citizens' health (and possibly reverse its climb on the list), Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick unveiled a program called Movement for Life, a yearlong initiative with four areas of focus — preventive health care, physical activity, nutrition and sleep. The program will bring together many health and fitness initiatives under one umbrella, says Tyliha Stewart, project manager at the City of Detroit.
The Detroit mayor spearheaded and participated in a walk in April to make people aware of the need to exercise. He and his wife are on an exercise program, too.
However, the city isn't partnering with any health clubs on the initiative, which may not be surprising considering there are so few health clubs within the city's limits. The city is even doing without a YMCA since the old one was torn down to make room for a ballpark. A new Y will open in 2005. Most of the health club facilities in the downtown area are corporate facilities for downtown workers (most of whom actually live in the suburbs). It's no wonder Detroit found itself sitting on top of an unenviable list.
Bill Soens, general manager at Fitness Works in downtown Detroit, isn't sure if Detroit's status as fattest city is deserved, although he acknowledges that the city does have a large population of overweight people.
"A lot of it is the socioeconomic situation in Detroit," says Soens. "A lot of it is lack of education, which can lead back to socioeconomic."
Lack of funding has caused budget cuts at the city's two activity centers for adults and children. Detroit's lack of quality grocery stores with availability of fresh fruits and vegetables contributes to the problem, he says. In fact, one of the dietitians from the health care facility visited schools to talk about nutrition and found that some of the children had never seen some of the vegetables she brought with her — not even commonplace vegetables such as broccoli.
"We're typical of most cities where you have a population within the city that are elderly, fixed income, unemployed who don't have the access or aren't motivated to get up and start moving," says Soens. "Most corporations, such as GM, have a suburban workforce — they leave, go home, have more access to different facilities outside Detroit. That's a problem. All of those things combined have led to where we are."
But even in the suburbs getting out and exercising can be an effort. The city is not conducive to walking, says Julie Levinson, a yoga instructor at Franklin Athletic Club in Southfield, MI, a suburb of Detroit. Harsh winters exacerbate the problem.
"In the winter months, people work hard, it's dark and they want to go home and put on their bathrobes and be done for the day," says Levinson.
Still the two health clubs are doing what they can to educate the deconditioned about exercise. The 42,000-square-foot Fitness Works is situated in a 70,000-square-foot building owned by Henry Ford Health Services. When opened in 1996, the fitness center, which is managed by TCA, was for Henry Ford Health Services employees who worked in the doctors' offices and clinical parts of the building. Today, 35 percent of the 3,000 members still are employees of the health care provider, but now the facility is also open to employees of about 300 companies in the downtown area.
Soens is working with Henry Ford on a weight management task force that the company is developing for its employees, 65 percent of which the company estimates are overweight to obese.
"As a whole, the health system is a very fat business," says Soens. "Although they are working with people who are sick and they see these diseases, they don't practice the same things they preach."
Fitness Works is also working with Henry Ford's nutrition program, an extension of the healthcare provider's cardio rehabilitation program. The fitness center will try to pull those participants into the club for the activity portion of the program. The club previously had a weight management program of its own that involved nutrition and fitness education and exercise, including a half hour a week with a personal trainer. However, the cost was a little steep for many members so the club is reworking the program in hopes of revitalizing it soon, says Soens.
Franklin Athletic Club also offers a nutrition program. The club emphasizes the importance of exercise and healthy eating habits, especially since the climb in obesity rates partially stems from a busy society where both parents work more than 40 hours a week and need quick meals for their families, says Lana Phelps-Coxton, who is a nutritional counselor at the club. Phelps-Coxton also leads a six-week circuit-training program that involves nutrition education.
Efforts to reach out to the deconditioned include involving doctors and nurses, according to Soens. Fitness Works is working on initiatives with the doctors and nurses in the Henry Ford system to teach them about exercise.
"Most of them are schooled to treat illnesses and that's the way they think," says Soens. "To get them to think above and beyond that is kind of hard. But, especially the younger doctors and nurses, they really embrace what we are trying to do."
The club has given doctors at the facility a mock prescription pad on which they can prescribe exercise to patients. And Fitness Works hopes those prescriptions will lead the patients to the fitness center.
"We've seen a fair amount of people come in here because a physician says you have to do something," says Soens. Often, it takes the urging of a doctor to get someone through the door of a gym for the first time — or another life event such as a heart attack, a class reunion, or a wedding, he says.
Not only is it difficult to get people to consider joining a gym, but once they decide to do so, competition for members can be fierce, particularly in the suburbs. Franklin Athletic Club is a multipurpose, family-oriented club that's been around since 1969 and now has 5,000 memberships. The club offers a full-service restaurant that serves lunch and dinner, 13 tennis courts, a Pilates studio, seven racquetball courts, a North American double squash court, steam room, sauna, whirlpool, showers and outdoor pool.
The club targets the family market — median age of 43-44 with kids, says Kelley Verbeerst, director of sales and marketing for Franklin Athletic Club. To reach the family market, the club offers everything from aqua aerobics classes for seniors to summer camps and yoga classes for children. The summer camps are one way to attract nonmembers and a way to expose children to exercise early.
Despite everything Franklin Athletic Club has to offer, Verbeerst acknowledges that many overweight and obese people find it intimidating to walk into any health club for the first time. That's why once they've taken that first step and joined, making them feel welcome is key to retaining them, says Verbeerst, which is why the club offers a thorough orientation, encouragement to talk to a personal trainer and a follow-up call in the first week.
"If they feel comfortable within the first three months of membership, you can check back in five years and they will still be members," says Verbeerst.
Perhaps through efforts such as these — and more intense efforts in the future — health clubs in Detroit will be able to persuade residents to trade in the comfort of a warm house on long winter nights for the warmth of a health club where they feel welcome.
Houston No. 2
After spending a couple of years atop the Fattest City list, Houston has shaped up and gotten lean. Ok, it is just the start as the city slimmed down to the No. 2 spot on the list — now trailing only Detroit — but with Houstonians eating out more than residents of any other city and indulging in one of the more than 11,000 restaurants ranging from award-winning and upscale to deli shops, that drop is no small feat.
Combine that with an intricate highway system, little in the way of sidewalks and maybe even less green space, the slim-down is all the more impressive, even with the 181 health clubs and gyms that show up in a Superpages.com search of the city.
Part of the city's move toward getting lean is attributed to the Get Lean Houston initiative. Put in place last year by Mayor Lee Brown and headed by the city's fitness czar, Lee Labrada, Get Lean Houston was a multifaceted campaign to take care of some of the problems that helped land Houston the fat cat position on the annual list.
"We launched the Get Lean Houston program in June of 2002 as an 18-month program. Mayor Lee Brown and myself launched it partly as a response to Houston's place on the top of the "Fattest Cities" list in Men's Fitness," Labrada tells Club Industry during a visit at his nutrition company headquarters. "But it was also a way to address the issue of obesity in the city of Houston. We wanted to do what we could here on the local level to raise awareness and educate people on how to get into shape."
Among the many components of the campaign was a grassroots and all-out media blitz to increase the awareness of the need to exercise and eat properly, according to Labrada.
"I have always contended that obesity is not one city's problem but it is America's problem. We wanted to do what we could here on the local level to raise awareness and educate people on how to get into shape," Labrada says. "We even worked with McDonald's and the Houston Restaurant Owners Association, where several restaurants included lower-calorie and lower-fat items on their menus."
Additionally, Labrada says local health clubs were instrumental in helping move the program along.
"Health clubs did get involved as well, such as the Houstonian whose president sits on our advisory board. We have a 17-member fitness council consisting of nutritionists, dietitians and medical doctors," Labrada explains. "24 Hour Fitness was active with a program called the Great Houston Melt-down. A lot of mom-and-pops jumped in as well. I think everyone took that title as the fattest city pretty seriously."
While the Get Lean Houston program received a lot of publicity for the city's shape-up, Vicki Williams, assistant general manager for Houston's Memorial Athletic Club and Aquatic Center (MAC) believes the city's ranking had just as big of an impact.
"When we were rated the fattest city the first time there was very little notice," she says. "But the second time Houston ranked first, there was a lot of media attention. We saw a spike after that and I think that helped drive a lot of people into the club. More so than some of the other efforts."
Another thing that Williams says is luring more people into the clubs — the MAC's two clubs claim about 4,800 members — are the educational efforts put forth — especially to the aging population.
"We also do lots of seminars and outreach stuff to get to the people of Houston that may not be coming to a club. We try to band together with a lot of clubs around here and work together and help each other get the fitness message out to the city," she says. "We find that the more educated people are the better they understand how to get to the next step. That is the real way to keep members involved in the club — give them the education to reach their goals.'
But Williams feels that despite the best effort of the clubs, the city rankings are hurt due to some of the other criteria.
"There are so many health clubs around here. I think a lot of why we rank so poorly is because we have no sidewalks and not a lot of green space. We really just get in our cars and drive everywhere," Williams laments. "There are plenty of health clubs for people to join to get fit, we just need to keep getting them in."
In addition to getting them in — which is no easy task anywhere, but especially in a city that ranks second on a magazine's Fattest City list — is keeping them once they are in.
"We are in a great business. We provide a product that really helps people. I want people to use the club every day. I want them to feel great, look great and rave about it to their friends," says Greg Nielson of the Houstonian. "People join clubs to get a result — whatever it may be. Those results only come about from using the club over and over again, and spend time while they are here."
Nestled on an 18-acre wooded campus that includes the Houstonian Hotel, Neilson admits that the Houstonian has an advantage over other clubs when it comes to providing what he calls the wow factor to perspective and current members — even though the opulent Houstonian draws from a smaller segment of the community. But, he feels that if other clubs would pay attention to the members, Houston and the nation may see gaudier membership numbers and dropping levels of obesity.
"We are a niche club because of our pricing structure and the way we are set up. We are drawing from a smaller section of the pie, which is why it is important for us to be very tight with our service. We aren't drawing from the mass market. Like a Mercedes Benz customer our members expect a special experience," he says. "There is a whole spectrum of things that aren't costly that can make a difference. The way the staff handles members is key — we have staff that will go change a tire if needed. You need to do a real good, hard check on character when someone comes in. You have pockets of inspiration and pockets of desperation — the goal is to reduce those pockets of desperation for your members and your staff can go a long way toward that end."
He feels this is important whether your club is ornate or not.
"It is all about people. You don't always remember things but you remember people that you interact with. The things from design to equipment are all just enhancers; it's the people that make the impression," he says. "When we walk into a place we have all kinds of questions firing through our subconscious from do they like me? Are they friendly? Is it comfortable? And if the answer to too many of them is no, then you're going to lose that person."
While not every aspect of Houston's ranking can be affected by the Get Lean Houston program or clubs working individually or together, to educate, acquire and retain members, the city is on the right track and may be able to set an example — along with Philadelphia — on how to move down the list.
"Clubs in general across the country could potentially be in a leadership position if they approach this thing from the bigger picture," says Labrada. "Those clubs that are running to truly help people and not just sell memberships and doing the membership mill are going to be the winners in this. [Clubs] are in the position to take a leadership role and provide people the education and the means to fight this obesity problem we are facing."
New Orleans No. 22
For a city known best for Fat Tuesday, Po-boys and Hurricanes on Bourbon Street, the fact that New Orleans ranks at No. 22 on Men's Fitness' Fattest City list is impressive. The fact that it is 11 spots better than last year is down right amazing.
Much of the credit for the improvement goes to air quality and access to health care, according to the magazine. But, although health club and exercise/sports participation are ranked dismally by the magazine (D- and F, respectively), there is hope that these aspects will pick up speed in the Big Easy. (After all, the magazine did say that the city has the highest participation in high-impact aerobics, although four out of 10 people didn't exercise in the past month.)
"I think New Orleans residents are getting a little more aware of the need for fitness and improving the quality of their health," says Tony Rodriguez, general manager of the St. Charles Avenue Athletic Club. "New Orleans and the state of Louisiana are always 10 years behind the country's trends and when it comes to fitness we are probably 20 years behind."
Perhaps that explains the high rate of high-impact aerobic participants?
But Rodriguez and the St. Charles' new owner — who purchased the club after losing 100 pounds under Rodriguez' tutelage — realize there is a long way to go to get their club and all of the city up to speed.
"We have traveled around the country to see what is working out there and bring it to New Orleans and improve on what we have here, not just continue copying what hasn't really worked in the past," Rodriguez says. "We already know what the guy down the street is doing so it is a question of what can we do differently and better than they are."
The hope is to bring more of the metropolitan area's 1.4 million residents (484,674 within the city limits) into the clubs on a regular basis. And Rodriguez is starting to see a positive trend in this once hardcore bodybuilding gym in the city's Garden District and plays host to about 800 members.
"On the East and West Coasts you see people in the gym on the weekends. Here the gyms are empty as members are nursing hangovers and still out partying," says Rodriguez. "We have extended the hours and people are starting to come in more often than our usual crowds. Now we just have to keep it up and spread the word."
Just outside the city — about a 40-minute drive north — in Slidell, LA, Crossgates Athletic Club has managed to pull in about 12,000 members between its two clubs in town.
Crossgates owner, Larry Welch, believes that the New Orleans area is not alone in having to improve the health of its community and attract more people into clubs.
"There are plenty of non-conditioned prospects in every city. We have plenty of prospects out there," says Welch. "It is just how good each of us do our job of attracting them. We have a gym full of regular people made up of people from all health, age and economic levels — we even have a scholarship program for people who can't afford a private club. We try to reach the whole spectrum."
Unlike Houston and others, New Orleans area clubs are left to combat the obesity problems alone, often while competing against the emotional lure of the city's eat, drink and be merry message.
To help combat this, Crossgates has made its pitch an emotional one as well.
"We are hitting people when they come by selling them on emotions. That is what is being sold, not equipment. Ten pounds of weights is 10 pounds in every club, so we need to sell what is different about us," says Dion Grossnickle, general manager of the 22-year-old club. "The people that run this industry are healthy and we take that for granted, but there are a lot of people out there that can't do some of those simple things. We had a member who had been there for about two months and told us how thankful he was that he could do his grocery shopping without using one of the carts and actually walk the whole store — that is what we are selling."
But getting them in is only half the battle for clubs around the county not just in the New Orleans area; keeping them is another thing.
"We have kept our attrition at 30 percent, which includes all cancelled memberships; it would be in the low 20s if we eliminated people that have moved, etc.," says Grossnickle. "In other industries the attrition rates that health clubs have would be horrible and unacceptable. Imagine if restaurants lost 100 diners for every 100 they added because the food was bad."
To help keep attrition rates as low as possible Crossgates uses a multipronged approach to keep the members active and motivated, with staff being the lynchpin.
"We have completely focused our departments on keeping our members happy and keeping them coming back," says Stephanie Howell program director.
Additionally, the club has focused its energy on attracting families that are moving to the suburbs from New Orleans.
"We have people transferring out of New Orleans to the suburbs so we have to appeal to families and get them to either keep up their workouts or start," says Grossnickle. "If moms and dads can bring their kids to the club for activities like Tae Kwon Do it allows us to not only keep their parents involved, it builds the next generation of members."
And maybe help that next generation move New Orleans further down the Men's Fitness Fattest City list.
Cleveland No. 9
Cleveland, home of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, has become famous for something less fashionable — being fat. Dropping from sixth to ninth on the Fattest Cities list, the city has efforts in place to mitigate the "weighty" problem.
The Kaiser Foundation gave the city a grant to do workplace wellness for its 6,000 plus city employees, all of whom must live within the city limits, says Wendy Johnson, medical director of the Health Department in Cleveland.
The city is also partnering with two initiatives: Active Living by Design and Clevelanders in Motion. Active Living was developed by one neighborhood with the goal of making the urban environment as conducive as possible for physical activity. Clevelanders in Motion involves a 120-person think tank that draws broadly from the community but doesn't have any health club representatives on board. However, Barb Clint, head of the group, hopes to approach some Curves about participating since the club has moved into two neighborhoods in the program's targeted areas. In the urban population where there are serious obesity issues in play, the Curves clubs have struck a chord with women while men seem to be drawn to the city recreation centers that offer organized sports leagues, she says.
Clevelanders in Motion will perform assessments at participating recreation centers, YMCAs and health clubs to show individuals their baseline and how much they can improve if they do a certain amount of exercise and eat right.
Despite these city efforts, many health clubs in Cleveland aren't involved with the efforts. However, Doug Cohen, general manager at Tower City Fitness — a corporate facility in an office park downtown — made the most of the city's ranking last year by printing VIP cards that pointed out the ranking and suggested that Tower City Fitness was the card holder's solution to this problem. While some people were insulted when he handed the cards to them, others took it in stride.
Cohen says that Cleveland does have a weight problem.
"When you look around, it's noticeable," says Cohen, pointing through a glass wall to the lunchroom of a business across the hall. "They always have cake day, brownie day. They are always eating over there. When you see their people in the halls, you can tell. That's the same with a lot of the corporations."
He says that companies need to be more proactive in making getting in shape a part of the corporate culture.
"In the long run, it decreases their health care costs, but all they see is the upfront costs and it's almost pushed aside," Cohen says. Companies that approach Tower City Fitness for a wellness program often don't budget enough or any money for the wellness programs making it difficult for them to succeed.
Brad Calabrese, GM at HFC Athletic Club in downtown Cleveland, agrees.
"If every employee in America has something available to them, then this obesity epidemic has nowhere to go but down," says Calabrese, whose 45,000-square-foot, 900-member club is also a corporate facility.
"It's just getting out there — doing outreach, maybe going to the home level or even going to an empty meeting room and doing a quick session with therabands," says Calabrese. "You aren't going to turn average Joe into Hercules by tomorrow, but you can at least take baby steps and say if you apply these to your everyday life, then you are going to take care of this epidemic."
However, fear grips many of the deconditioned. To calm their fears, clubs are doing more hand holding, says Calabrese. The HFC fitness specialists work with new members to familiarize them with the club and to establish a relationship.
Calabrese says the majority of new members at HFC are average to moderately overweight. Cohen estimates that 60 percent to 70 percent of those who come into Tower City Fitness are at least 20 pounds overweight. When he spends time on the floor, he specifically looks to help the overweight members.
"Being overweight and losing weight is 99 percent mental and the rest is coming in and working out," says Cohen. "So we try to make those people feel as comfortable as possible and make sure they stick with their programs."
Visuals and prizes seem to help keep some people motivated. Tower City Fitness displays a board of before and after pictures to motivate members. Fitworks Fitness and Sport, another corporate facility in downtown Cleveland, does the same. However, Fitworks also rewards its 1,600 members for working out. The more a member uses the gym, the more points that member accumulates. The points can be turned in for different prize levels ranging from a t-shirt to a Sony CD player. The club picks a daily winner from someone who used the club the day before. The winner is listed on the board and receives a prize. Every winner is then entered into a drawing for a cruise.
"We let them know that their health is not a matter of chance; it's a matter of choice," says Chas Comparato, general manager at the 18,000-square-foot Fitworks. "The main thing we get across is that Fitworks is dedicated to helping members achieve their desired results and with the right support, education and motivation, everyone can live a healthier and more fulfilling life."
New members get two free sessions with Body of Change, the company that provides the personal training for Fitworks members. It's up to each individual to decide whether to continue at a fee. During the first session, members receive a fitness evaluation to determine their baseline. Then, the personal trainer talks to them about the different aspects of a total fitness program — cardio, nutrition, weight training and resistance — and how those work together.
Results from workshops and fitness days have been spotty. Tower City Fitness has hosted fitness days for some of the businesses in the building in which it is situated, but so far, attendance has been lacking. Fitworks tried a nutrition workshop in March and drew about six people.
"You do what you grew up doing and were taught," Drew Koler, manager of Body of Change at Fitworks, says about diet and exercise. Most health club members were involved in athletics in junior high and high school, but there is a large segment of the population that has never been introduced to that or never got excited about doing it. The sooner children are involved with exercise, the more likely they will stick with it, he says.
"If they don't find out about it (exercise) until later in life or until there's already a problem and they're already obese, that's a lot harder issue to deal with," says Koler. After all, as the saying goes, the boy is the father of the man, and the girl is the mother of the woman.
Considering Cleveland's ranking and city budget cuts to physical education classes, that may not speak too well of the future here in the city with an affection for the past.


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MasterCard's CEO says it's critical for the payments industry to adopt safer technologies in the U.S. Without those changes, he added, more data breaches will happen.
CEO Ajay Banga called for banks, merchants and payment processors to work together to move the industry toward chip technology and tokenization, two technologies that are considered more secure. That's key to helping customers feel safe in the wake of hacker attacks at retailers like Target Corp. and Neiman Marcus, Banga said.
"We've got to get ahead of this as we go forward," the CEO said on a call with analysts Friday to discuss fourth-quarter earnings. "Otherwise, you're going to have this keep coming. The more often it happens, the worse it feels."
Earlier this month, MasterCard Inc.'s president of North American markets, Chris McWilton, sent a letter to banks, merchants and other customers reminding them of a "liability shift" that will happen next year – which basically means that whichever player hasn't upgraded to safer new technology by then will be on the hook when fraud occurs.
"It\'s not about finger-pointing, and it\'s not about 'I said this and they said that,'" Banga said. "I really want to get past all that nonsense to the real stuff, which is we need to get EMV in place."
Cards with EMV chips, sometimes called "chip and PIN" or "chip technology," are supposed to be harder to copy than cards with only magnetic stripes.
Banga's comments echo those of Visa Inc. CEO Charlie Scharf.
MasterCard CEO Banga said he's seen "a large number of the big merchants" commit to chip technology, and "a number of the banks" are issuing chip cards already.
"Everyone needs to be on the bandwagon," Banga said. "Banks need to be there, merchants need to be there, governments are clearly there. We need to get the networks there and the acquirers there, and I think there\'s a lot of progress on that front."
In markets where chip technology was installed, MasterCard said, it saw a 60% to 80% decrease in counterfeit fraud.
Banga cautioned that chip technology would not prevent a data breach, which appears to be the cause of problems at Target. The retailer has recently clamped down on access to some of its computer systems, including a human resources website and a database for suppliers.
But, Banga said, chip technology would make stolen data "much, much, much less valuable to a fraudster, because it\'s tough to counterfeit the card, and it\'s almost impossible to duplicate all the unique data that flows for that transaction to get approved."
MasterCard is also embracing a safeguard called "tokenization," which lets customers shop online without entering their account numbers because they're replaced by other identifiers, or "tokens."
In October, MasterCard, along with Visa and American Express Co., proposed new guidelines to move the industry toward tokenization.
–Christina Rexrode
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The special moon mission in the Destiny beta is now over, but here's a gameplay video from the lunar mission to show us what it looked like for those who missed it.
It's a nit pick but I found it funny that you move at the same speed and gravitational feel on the Moon as you do on Earth. Different planets that have different gravity levels should play slightly different. Could add a new dynamic to going to new environments imo.


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Grigoryevka was a Mennonite village in the Ukraine on the southern railway, in the Ezum district of the province of Kharkov; the post office and railway station was Gavrilovka five miles (eight km) distant. It was founded in 1889 by Mennonites from the leased villages of the Fürstenland Mennonite settlement and had an area of about 8,000 acres, on which 41 farms were set up. The land was very fertile and the settlement prospered economically as well as culturally. In 1904 a community steam mill was built and from 1906 to 1925 a secondary school in addition to the primary school was maintained. The settlement had 52 farms with 567 inhabitants in 1925. In 1918 Grigoryevka was the scene of fighting between the German and Russian armies. In 1918-1920 it was overrun by robber bands, finally by Makhno's bands. Under the Soviet government many emigrated to other parts of Russia, and some reached Canada. By 1927 Grigoryevka had ceased to exist as a Mennonite settlement.
Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon, 4 vols. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe; Schneider, 1913-1967: v. II, 175.
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Funk, Heinrich. (1956). Grigoryevka (Kharkivs'ka oblast', Ukraine). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 23 April 2019, from http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Grigoryevka_(Kharkivs%E2%80%99ka_oblast%E2%80%99,_Ukraine)&oldid=64647.
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Next week they turned around and killed my nigga Tick
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So fucked up about it I couldn't call Buck back
On my 100 blunt feeling like a lunatic
Please lord tell me why they killed my nigga Tick
Cash filled stand up never lay down
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Brasília is not a place for foodies, but here is my list of restaurants
- Ethnic or International: Despite all the embassies, the demographics is pretty homogeneous, so ethnic and international restaurants - in general - should be avoided. Palace Long Fu(Chinese) at Academia de Tênis is OK. Pretty much the same thing that you can find at an average restaurant in China. Servus is an Austrian restaurant in the countryside. The restaurant, almost hidden, is located about 40 minute away from the center of Brasilia near Tororó Falls. The owner speaks English and can give instructions. Opens on Saturdays and Sundays. Reservations are strongly recommended (Phone 3339-6180).
- Brazilian Barbecue: Porcão and Fogo de Chão. The branches in Brasília offer the same top quality as everywhere else.
- Regional (Northeast) food : Mangai is the one that everybody knows and recommends. It is pretty good, but my choice is Macambira (SCRLN 714 bloco F loja 22). The place is tiny, not well located and opens just for lunch. It is not as good as Mocotó (in São Paulo), but the idea is quite the same.Tia Zélia, Lula's favourite (people say), is just fine (Opens for lunch on Mondays to Fridays).
- I've never been to Aquavit (Scandinavian). The prices are comparable to two-star restaurants in France. I will wait for the next Brazilian currency crisis to visit the place.:-)
- Places to avoid: Beirute for its bad food, and Zuu , overpriced.


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"For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver."— Martin Luther.
In January, the bankers and corporate executives at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, presented a plan to create $100 trillion US dollars (about €700 billion or ¥7 trillion) in new international debt. During the last decade, world debt nearly doubled from $57 trillion to $109 trillion. Banks created 'toxic assets', 'mortgage derivatives' and 'default swaps' without substantial collateral to back them up. These schemes made bankers very rich, but helped collapse the world financial system 18 months ago. Public taxpayers have since bailed these bankers out with about $11 trillion in new debt. Now the financiers want more.As some economies slightly recovered, energy prices rose to trigger inflation, slowing real recovery. Thus, the WEF bankers published 'More Credit, Fewer Crises', proposing that the world double its debt once again to $210 trillion by 2020. This debt would be over three times the entire world annual economy. This debt, the printing of new money based on nothing substantial, has profound impacts on society and nature through resource inflation, the rising costs of food and energy, conflict, fraud and ecological destruction.
These bankers are not proposing to loan their money to the world. Rather, they propose creating new money out of thin air, likely through International Monetary Fund (IMF) 'Special Drawing Rights', a synthetic currency beyond the control of any sovereign nation. By loaning currency rights to national treasuries, the bankers create $100 trillion with a few computer keyboard strokes. Then, they loan the fabricated money, collect interest payments and demand the principal back in real money from the debtors. It's a lucrative scheme if you're on the inside. What bankers call 'Credit' the rest of world experiences as 'Debt' owed to the bankers. Interest payments alone on $100 trillion debt (at a modest 5% annual rate) comes to $400 billion a month. However, as the 'Drawing Rights' pass down the chain of international, national and local banks to become money in the hands of enterprising citizens, the total interest and fees to banks will be higher, perhaps 9 or 10%. Furthermore, banks expect the principal back. To retire these debts over the next 20 years, the world's borrowing enterprises would have to pay the bankers about $1 trillion a month. At the end of 20 years, bankers would have received about $140 trillion in interest payments and fees, plus the $100 trillion principal that they originally created out of thin air: $240 trillion profit (€175 trillion Euro, ¥1.5 quadrillion) for creating money out of nothing.The authors of the WEF debt proposal are executives from JP Morgan, Credit Suisse, Rothschild & Cie, Deutsche Bank, Morocco's Attijariwafa Bank, Russia's Sberbank, China's International Capital Corp., Shell Oil, Takeda Pharmaceuticals, BNP Paribas and other international bankers, corporate capital funds and national sovereign funds. These firms naturally stand to profit from the plan. Even if some loans pass through the gauntlet of fraud and corruption to reach enterprising citizens, who create useful products and services for their communities, a harsh social and biophysical impact remains for communities and environments around the world. The quarter-quadrillion dollars that would be paid back to the banks becomes an endless debt burden for every project and every nation. In the end, this debt-creation represents a massive transfer of wealth from global citizens to the world's richest people. However, there is more.
Forty years ago, Greenpeace was founded to campaign for peace and ecology. Today, Greenpeace continues those campaigns while working with communities around the world to retain civil rights and local autonomy. Massive debt undermines each of these social values:1. Inflation Since this money is illusory, created from nothing, it dilutes all world currency and makes all citizens poorer through inflation. We have seen this in the last few months, as food and energy inflation has soared, caused by the last $11 trillion of debt imposed on the world to save the banks from economic collapse. The proposed $100 trillion of new money would have ten times the inflation impact. Debt causes inflation, inflation acts as a tax on the poor and this leads to civil unrest. The Commodity Research Bureau food price index rose 44% this year and 22% in the last two months. In December, food prices in India rose 16% in three days. In Indonesia, rice prices rose 30% last year. In relatively rich Western Europe and North America families spend 12 to 15% of their income on food. In Egypt last year, families spent 40% of their income on food. The civil uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt began as food inflation crises. Eastern Europe, China, Jordan and Sudan face similar food-inflation unrest. Inflation, linked to the creation of un-backed money and debt, taxes the poor most severely. We will discover that debt also leads to the depletion of resources, soil erosion, water shortages and other environmental impacts that further advance inflation and the debt cycle.2. Ecological destruction Nations must account for both private and public debt because during economic crisis, companies often default and private debt becomes public. Many countries now possess public and private debt three to four times their annual gross economy. The UK debt is six times its gross economy and Iceland 12 times. Massive debts put pressure on countries to expand their economies, but they are caught in a vicious cycle. Debt depresses growth, so nations relax environmental laws to increase industrial projects, corporate profits and tax revenues to pay off the debt.Debt pressure drives nations deeper into the ocean for oil and gas and deeper into wilderness for minerals. Desperate nations bulldoze forests for cash crops, dam rivers and burn coal for energy, open parks to mining and logging and obliterate national treasures to create cash to pay interest on debts. In Canada, where I live, our public and private debt stands at about two-and-a-half times our annual economic production. To grow our economy at all costs, our government opened the boreal plains to tar sands production, reduced environmental standards and created one of the world's most ecologically destructive industries. The tar sands project devastates local indigenous communities, drains aquifers, pollutes groundwater, destroys rare habitats, fills lakes with black sludge and heats the atmosphere with low-net-energy hydrocarbons. Environmental destruction makes the debt cycle ever more vicious, as depleted environments provide less economic potential and rob indigenous and rural communities of self sufficiency. Governments may then find it expedient to suppress angry citizens who have lost their local economic base.3. Human rightsA large portion of international debt goes to corrupt dictators, who restrain public resistance by suppressing human rights. In Odius Debt, Patricia Adams documents the human rights impact of debt. One third of World Bank loans over 65 years ended up in the private hands of dictators and corrupt officials through bid-rigging, bribes, kickbacks and outright theft. Over the last 50 years, 20 to 30% of all developing nation debt has gone to dictators such as Zaire's Mobutu Seko, the Philippines' Ferdinand Marcos, Indonesia's Suharto, Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah and Turkmenistan's Saparmurat Niyazov. The banks often justify loans to tyrants because they are 'allies' of rich western nations. Mobutu stole billions of dollars loaned to Zaire; he jailed, tortured and killed political opposition and enslaved his own citizens. When International Monetary Fund (IMF) agent Edwin Blumenthal reported the loan theft and 'sordid and pernicious corruption', the IMF ignored him and awarded Zaire the largest African loan in history. Patricia Adams estimates that Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos pocketed one third of all loans to the Philippines during their regime. Once these dictators fall, the banks expect their victims to repay the loans. Loans to corrupt dictators will likely get worse with the new SDR credits, set to be awarded by the IMF without even basic safeguards. The Wall Street Journal warns that 'all governments qualify, including those that lock political dissidents in dungeons and steal from their own people'. Cephas Lumina with the UN Human Rights Council, reports that private 'vulture funds' buy the defaulted debts of poor nations 'at deeply discounted prices' and then seek 'repayment of the full value through litigation, seizure of assets and political pressure'. In the last 10 years, 12 nations designated as Heavily Indebted Poor Countries have been served with 54 lawsuits by such debt profiteers. Some African nations spend 40% of government budgets on debt service, draining money from much needed health and education, which average about 14% of budgets. Debt breeds poverty. 4. WarWe can see that the current structure of international debt creates inflation, poverty, fraud, oppression and environmental destruction. Finally, through currency and resource crises, debt fuels war. The world, while increasing debt, spends over $2 trillion each year on military and warfare, exacerbating the vicious debt cycle.Sudan dictator Omar Al-Bashir, for example, received loans from the World Bank, China and others, helping finance Sudan's 20-year civil war, causing 2 million deaths and creating 4 million refugees. Meanwhile, Al-Bashir's army bombed innocent villages, tortured and massacred opposition and kidnapped citizens, particularly in the rich oil-producing regions of Sudan. The US meanwhile spends about $12 billion each month to wage war in Iraq and Afghanistan, to secure oil fields and pipeline routes. European nations, Russia, China and others have waged war to 'protect national interests', particularly dwindling resources. These large countries also arm the dictators that hold their debt, enabling more war and bloodshed.
Into this powder keg of corruption, violence, war, oppression, fraud and ecological devastation, a few wealthy bankers want to inject another $100 trillion of debt burden on the world. Their scheme would not create 'less crisis' as they claim, but more crisis, more financial bubbles, more corruption, more dictators, more war, more ecological destruction, inflation and poverty. Alternatives exist. The poor nations of the world indeed need and deserve support to help develop their economies that have been wracked by colonialism, war and resource plunder. The UN should manage international debt, base all money on real assets and return profits to the human community. Loans can be designed to support local enterprise, solutions that benefit local communities, sustainable farming that protects soil and localised self-sufficiency. The current international banking schemes undermine these community values. Good economics will be good for everyone, not just enrich the wealthiest people on Earth.
-Rex Weyler
You can respond to "Deep Green" columns at my Ecolog, where I post portions of this column and dialogue with readers.
Deep Green is Rex Weyler's monthly column, reflecting on the roots of activism, environmentalism, and Greenpeace's past, present, and future. The opinions here are his own.
Rex Weyler was a director of the original Greenpeace Foundation, the editor of the organisation's first newsletter, and a co-founder of Greenpeace International in 1979.
Deep Green is Rex's column, reflecting on the roots of activism, environmentalism, and Greenpeace's past, present, and future. The opinions here are his own.
(Unregistered) Atticus
Well written and thought out post, IMO.
You ought to take a look at my 28th amendment proposal. There are a series of posts beginning he...
Well written and thought out post, IMO.
You ought to take a look at my 28th amendment proposal. There are a series of posts beginning here:
Basically, it's about 1) canceling current debt; and 2) restoring sound money (i.e., a gold standard) that is not debt, so that the banksters can't play games to the same extent.
There are also some musings about the gold standard and the law that might interest you here:
16 February, 2011 at 17:35
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(Unregistered) strennerts
For poor individuals like me, the best would be to get "inside" or adapt ourselves to the system. Or ignore it at all!
17 February, 2011 at 20:25
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(Unregistered) El-Ronus
or we could all just tell the bankers to stuff their debts, seeing as they're illusory anyway.
if everybody did it (wishful thinking, i ...
or we could all just tell the bankers to stuff their debts, seeing as they're illusory anyway.
if everybody did it (wishful thinking, i know, but you gotta have an ideal), they'd be f***ed, and they know it.
18 February, 2011 at 0:07
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(Unregistered) freedplanet
A Canadian original on several accounts, John Turmel, is proposing UNILETS, a worldwide interest-free LETS. He has the authority to propose this, for ...
A Canadian original on several accounts, John Turmel, is proposing UNILETS, a worldwide interest-free LETS. He has the authority to propose this, for instance he financed the original software for LETS with profits of his casino win system. Unilets would be the missing link to the local initiatives of time-based currencies.
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(Unregistered) HempKing
Heres my bailout for the world, its free of charge and there are no strings attached. Its guaranteed to work and will bring debt relief as well as spi...
Heres my bailout for the world, its free of charge and there are no strings attached. Its guaranteed to work and will bring debt relief as well as spiritual salvation, which is sorely needed to avoid a very severe slap from Mother Nature.
Get ready for it, it will provide soil renewal, nutritious food, oil for transport or human consumption, a source of fuel for homes and an industrial resource that is worth trillions.
Drum roll (To clear whatever is between everyones ears)
25 February, 2011 at 19:42
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(Unregistered) Phil
Rex, You're quite right, the "give it more rope and hope that fixes it" solution is certain to fail for financial bubble systems. To me the produc...
Rex, You're quite right, the "give it more rope and hope that fixes it" solution is certain to fail for financial bubble systems. To me the productive question is asking, despite this very same "fix" for unbalanced finances having been tried and failed over and over, why do people not learn from that experience and keep trying it again and again.
I think something makes the mad scheme plausible, in the view of a great many of the finest minds around. As I trace the causes and effects an arrive at the certainty that it will fail, there are numerous places where I need to decide how the environment, behaving as a living market system, will need to respond.
I don't think that subject is ever taught. I think there aren't any courses any university department where how to do that is studied. Would you agree? The insight of how to anticipate the market responses of natural systems seems to either be a gift that individuals develop for themselves, or a deep source of ignorance about nature widely shared. In professional circles if being ignorant of nature is necessary to advance in influence, then the whole expert community develops complete ignorance of it.
Take my Systems Energy Assessment (SEA) study, (www.synapse9.com/SEA). That shows that the world's consensus economic accounting method (LCA) under-counts the energy demands of business by nominally 80%. The error is overlooking the energy demands of the parts of businesses that are self-managing. Western culture then, would appear as a rule to be acting as if unaware of environmental systems that manage themselves, that in reality act as much as if wild beasts being attacked by our intrusions. They have very powerful influences and responses of which our society is blithely unaware. That would kind of explain many of the symptoms we see, wouldn't it?
So I think the reason we try the same failed solution for infinite betting games over and over again, is that we have yet to understand that 80%+ of how nature works is naturally hidden from view, inside all the self-managing parts of nature. That would make the problem that nature keeps tricking us by keeping how she works hidden from us by organizing things to work from the inside. Modern science as much defines how things work from the inside as non-existent, representing our the world works with equations that relate what's observable. That's as if a statement that "nothing is hidden", when in reality the physical workings of things are all out of sight.
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(Unregistered) ian
very good analysis -at the end of the day -its down to conversion to green sustainable practices across the spectrum of life. You wil never stop those...
very good analysis -at the end of the day -its down to conversion to green sustainable practices across the spectrum of life. You wil never stop those greedy bankers or their cronies unless they are educated at an early age on ecology,sustainability,or other environmental pathy ways in education-- in other words -ying or yang education,bad karma or good karma. Here in Ireland the boom -bust sceanario and the level of borrowing from ECB, and IMF ETC, means we now have to sell of our assets such as our state owned Coillte Woodlands and lands.Should there be not a write -off of these debts in exchange for this land as set aside for National Parks -or 'debt for nature' swap scheme. instead. It applied to Africa 20 years ago - why not Ireland as we are but a third worl economy.
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(Unregistered) karim
I think that the alternatives you highlighted wont be enough to drive us out of this global crisis, I would argue that the economical model should be ...
I think that the alternatives you highlighted wont be enough to drive us out of this global crisis, I would argue that the economical model should be pointed out, green economy/sustainable development are fakes, good intention and practices under their umbrella will not stop this crisis; we should move on to a new paradigm emphasizing on new governance (public participation at local, regional and international levels) equity, less consumerism, degrowth etc.
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Travel from Aalten (Netherlands) to La Massana (Andorra) by train (1111 km): schedule and information to the train connection. Compare fares and buy your ticket.
To travel by train from Aalten in the Netherlands to La Massana in Andorra, you first travel by train via Paris to L'Hospitalet-près-l'Andorre (France). There you change to the bus for the last part.
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Moving on from Vanity Fair, we're now visiting the 1950s archives of Playboy magazine. Playboy is very much an aspirational magazine, of course, filled with articles promoting the bachelor lifestyle. As such, ads for beer, wine, and spirits fit right in. The magazine, which premiered in the waning days of 1953, was published almost entirely in black-and-white for its first few years, so the ads here will feature a mix of color and black-and-white.
I'm going to change the focus here a little in presenting these vintage booze ads. I have collected so many by now that to feature only one a week would provide me enough material for several years! So instead, I'll be grouping them by interesting themes, brands, or … well, whatever suits my fancy. This will allow me to write up a little about the ads, too, and do a bit of Internet research.
Among the early slate of illustrators and cartoonists for the magazine was Jack Cole, creator of the zany superhero Plastic Man. Cole had spent years enhancing his comics income by drawing single-panel "good girl" cartoons for magazines, so moving to Playboy was a natural fit. For the rabbit, Cole produced both line art and watercolors.
"Plastic Man", left; Playboy, right
One popular Cole feature was a series called "Females," a set of gag cartoons. Writing in their Cole bio Jack Cole and Plastic Man, Art Spiegelman and Chip Kidd describe "Females" as "breezy black-and-white brush impressions of women's psychological states."
A set of cocktail napkins, reproducing Cole's "Females" gags, became the second Playboy merchandise introduced (after the iconic cuff links featuring the rabbit logo), and the following advertisement appeared in the July 1956 issue.
A couple of years later, Playboy expanded this product line, introducing sets of double old fashioned and highball glasses, as seen in this September 1958 ad:
I don't know about you, but I think these are excellent collectibles and would be a great addition to any retro home bar.


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