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So I came out of the closet some time ago last year and told all my closest friends that I am an atheist. One of my friends is very into her faith and I knew of all my friends her reaction would be the one of most concern. Wasn't as bad as my other friends thought it would be because they thought that I shouldn't tell her at all. However, I really couldn't lie about who I was much less lie to a friend. So over a year has passed since they all found out now and to my knowledge they all love and care for me the same.
Last week, in a late class I have, I get a call which I ignored and a then a text from the one friend mentioned above. She said she was wondering if we could get together and hang out just the two of us because she had something important she wanted to tell me. So instantly my heart skips a beat and starts to speed up because I'm wondering if it's something bad. The way she said it made her sound rather dour. So needless to say I panicked necessarily so a bit, but we decided to meet up after my class. Now she's a good little roman catholic, but I will admit that the first thought was 'Pregnant'!
We made small talk and caught up about everything and anything until I inquired about what it was she had to tell me. At this she became embarrassed and said "you'll probably think this is stupid." I did the friend thing and said no I wouldn't unless it was severely so to which I'd explain why I thought it was ridiculous. So she's looking at me and I can see that she's getting pretty emotional (eyes tearing up, red face) and she say's that she prays for me. Right off I told her that it wasn't stupid.
However, I don't know if where I took it next was the best way I could have handled this. This is because I remembered an e-mail I got from someone once telling me if I ever need to talk blah blah blah... And I always had a nasty comeback in my head of "I understand your concern, but it is NOT appreciated." This was because I didn't want their petty sorry's and bullshit.
Thing is I said this exact same thing to my friend. That while I think I understood why she prayed for me, I could not honestly say that I appreciated them. This is by no means said with the snark of the first time, but I couldn't really lie to her and say "well thank you maybe your prayers will save my immortal soul." Just wouldn't happen ... So could I have handled this differently/better??
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It's not so much that I was affronted by her saying that she's been praying for me. Also I have no idea what she's been praying about be it "save my friends soul" or just "make her happy" or any other bull people could think of. I personally feel neutral about it because in my mind she's just doing it because it makes her feel like she's doing something and because I'm sure it makes her feel good.
However, I worry that she may have taken my comment as a snarky "well I don't need your damn prayers!" When really I was just trying to tell her in the most honest way I could that I really don't care if she prays for me. Just don't expect me to be grateful or whatever was going on in her head.
Never show or voice contempt for a friend that wants to pray for you. It's a fruitless act. If you don't want to be friends with that person, say what you want. Tell them about their ridiculous beliefs but otherwise just tell them that it's unnecessary but that they can do as they please. The prayer is truly for them. Atheism isn't about making enemies of friends. If anything, you hang around and discuss things if it is possible. Some are so hopelessly brainwashed that it doesn't do any good but talking always ends up showing the truths involved. We should be just as considerate and understanding as they are supposed to be. True friends are hard to come by and sometimes you have to bite the bullet on issues you disagree about. It's no different than a relationship. At what point your religious disagreements actually destroy your relationship is up to you but if someone wants to pray for you or your soul, whatever. Being insulted by it is kind of dumb. Remember, it's not for you, it's for them.
Well said.
Someone praying for you is not at all similar to someone proselytizing to you. The anger is atheism needs to go. We made it out. We are above the b.s. No need to gloat about it or be insulted about our fellow man's ignorance to what we already know to be true. No need for us to ram our disbelief down their throats. It makes us no better than them. I've been there and it serves to counteract what we should be doing
I expect I would just say "thank you." Your friend thinks it's the right thing to do, and she cares enough about you to do it.
Christians have some funny ideas about prayer. I asked some students recently if all their prayers are answered because Jesus promised they would be. They said a prayer might be answered later, even years later, and that you don't always get what you want, but you get what you need. Weird.
Wishful thinking? Perverse rationalization? In this situation, what is true is what you want to be true.
I was working with a few people in Michigan, who were very involved in their church. We were traveling together and ate all our meals together.
The first few meals, they asked if I minded if they prayed....I told them that if it gave them comfort to pray...then I had no problem with it. This was before I was comfortable with my own belief system.
At one point they asked if I would like to "lead" the prayer. I told them no....that my religious thoughts were personal to me and I was not comfortable being fully open.
They took this the wrong way....thinking I was not proud of being xtian....
I genuinely like and respect the people I was working with, so.....I said nothing when they would mention me in the meal time prayer....they would pray that I would "take pride and ownership of my beliefs".....
If they only knew their "prayers" were answered.....just not the way they expected.
They made me understand and commit to what I knew I believed all along.
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The Ides of March brings the year's best fishing
It was just the slightest bit of resistance.
I was working my minnow-tipped Tony spoon deep across a wide section of the Upper Choptank when that hint of hesitation made me lift my rod tip. With the feeling of yet more resistance, I set the hook and was rewarded by a heavy surge at the end of the line on my ultra-light spinning rod.
Yellow perch runs are winding down, though they will continue at an ever-slower rate at least through the rest of March. The whites have had a jump start with the warm weather, and good catches are now being made in all the traditional places, in some cases along with yellow perch. Red Bridges, the Tuckahoe, Hillsboro, Millington, all along the Choptank and the Wye are good bets. On the Western side the Patuxent has caught fire along with Black Walnut, the Magothy and the upper stretches of the Severn.
Eventually working it to the side of the boat, I was happy to see the stubborn devil staying deep, the sure sign of a good fish. Then a flash of gold stabbed up through the murky water. That color meant a yellow perch. My friend Mike E. grabbed the net, and as I finally eased the fish to the surface, he scooped the big fellow into the boat. It was my first keeper of the season and a tremendous feeling.
Within a minute, Mike's rod was bent hard over. As soon as I got my rig back in the water, another yellow ned smashed my bait. We had been just missing the big runs of these fish on trip after trip. Now the waiting was over. Though March, fishing can be just as trying as it is rewarding. At last, we were reaping the rewards.
The Ides of March, March 15, is noted for two reasons. The first is the notoriety the day, achieved when a Roman soothsayer spoke the words Beware the Ides of March and foretold to Julius Caesar his assassination on that day back in 44 BC.
The Ides on the Tidewater, however, is known for another reason. It marks the apogee of our spring perch fishing, the fullness of the yellow perch run melding into the first surge of white perch action. It is a good time to be alive on the Chesapeake.
And it will only get better. The Susquehanna Flats Catch-and-Release Season opened March 1. As water temperatures rapidly achieve the magic 50-degree mark, our big stripers will readily take artificial lures. A 30-pounder on a surface lure can be a fish of a lifetime.
A less well-known catch-and-release fishery for stripers has been growing in popularity. Bloodworms and cut bait on circle hooks on bottom rigs at Sandy Point State Park on the Western Shore and at Matapeake State Park on the Eastern Shore. The bite is hottest during nighttime hours, but there can be action in daylight.
We are also just weeks away from the Trophy Rockfish Season, scheduled to open April 21. That season has opened the last few years on April 15, but Department of Natural Resources has pushed it back a week because too many roe-bearing fish were being caught. The season's timing is intended to target post-spawn stripers only, but cold-water releases of snow-pack melt from the Conowingo Dam over the last few years consistently delayed the spawn into the catch-and-kill season.
This year, of course, we experienced an unusually warm winter and early spring, and there is virtually no snow pack up into Pennsylvania. This could translate into an extra-early spawn. We can only wait and see how the rockfish react to the turn of events.
On the good news side of the equation, I would anticipate that there will be very few roe-laden fish caught. But on the downside, the number of really large migratory stripers boated may drop.
Then there is the freshwater side of the equation. Largemouth bass on the spawning beds translate into big aggressive fish smashing anything that comes near them. The fireworks on the upper reaches of our tributaries and in the shallows of the impoundments can be memorable for the sweet-water angler.
The same goes for big bull bluegills, and there is nothing I love more than tangling with these banty roosters with a small popping bug and a light fly rod. That is definitely the antidote that clears the last of winter's cobwebs out of my foggy head.
Hurray for an early spring. The mid-point of March sure goes better for us anglers on the Tidewater than it did for Julius Caesar.

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Digital Storm Unveils Slimmest Gaming PC, Bolt
Digital Storm Unveils Slimmest Gaming PC, Bolt
Digital Storm has unleashed Bolt, its slimmest custom designed gaming desktop ever. Built meticulously from scratch, the Bolt boasts a slim yet aggressive profile that's only about 91mm (4mm thinner than its closest competitor, the Alienware X51) wide and 355mm tall. Supporting up to 3 hard drives (2 SSDs and 1 mechanical) for storage flexbility, its chassis is designed to effectively dissipate heat, allowing it to accommodate the latest and fastest components on the market. With five copper heat pipes, the high performance CPU cooling solution allows even more gaming performance with processor overclocks of up to 4.6GHz with Intel's i7-3770K CPU.
Here's how the Bolt (which comes with 4 different configurations) stacks up against the Alienware X51:-
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|Dell Alienware X51
Intel Core i3-2100
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|Intel Core i3-2120
Intel Core i5-3450 (Ivy Bridge)
Intel Core i7-3770 (Ivy Bridge)
|8GB DDR3 1333MHz
|8GB DDR3 1600MHz
|16GB DDR3 1600MHz
|Up to 4GB DDR3 SDRAM 1333MHz / Up to 8GB DDR3 SDRAM 1600Mhz
|NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB
|NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 2GB
|NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti 2GB
|NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2GB
|NVIDIA GeForce GT 545 / GTX 555 1GB GDDR5
|1TB 7200rpm
|60GB SSD & 1TB 7200rpm
|120GB SSD & 1TB 7200rpm
|Up to 1000GB SATA hard drive
|Optical Drive
|Slim 8X DVD-RW
|Slot-Loading Dual Layer DVD Burner (DVD+-RW, CD-RW) (Standard) / Slot-Loading Dual Layer Blu-ray Reader (BR-ROM, DVD+-RW, CD-RW)
|Windows 7 Home Premium
|Windows 7 Home Premium
|Starting from S$1,328 for the Intel Core i5 processor option
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Custom designed chassis provides thin form factor and future upgradability; while a 4.6GHz overclocked CPU delivers furious performance
FREMONT, Calif. - – Digital Storm proudly introduces its slimmest custom designed gaming computer ever - Bolt. With Bolt, Digital Storm gives gamers exactly what they've craved: a powerful and affordable gaming PC without the need of a bulky desktop tower.
When conceptualizing the Bolt, Digital Storm engineers found no chassis on the market that met their design criteria, so they designed their own brand new chassis from the ground up. Every aspect of the Bolt from: cooling, performance, and upgradability were ingeniously designed to the highest possible standards. The Bolt boasts a slim yet aggressive profile that is only 3.6" wide and 14" tall. The Bolt's thin chassis is designed to effectively dissipate heat allowing it to house the latest and fastest components on the market, bucking the trend of sacrificing performance for a smaller footprint.
No other thin form factor tower houses as much power as Bolt because no other system can handle the type of bleeding edge hardware and overclocking that Bolt does. Bolt's high performance CPU cooling solution, with five copper heat pipes, unlocks even more gaming performance with processor overclocks of up to 4.6 GHz with Intel's i7 3770K CPU. Bolt also supports up to 3 hard drives: 2 SSDs and 1 mechanical for incredible storage flexibility.
"Gaming PCs have always been housed in massive towers, but we've seen that more and more consumers are moving towards smaller and more efficient machines," said Rajeev Kuruppu, Digital Storm's Director of Product Development. "We wanted to develop a slim affordable gaming PC that could play the latest titles, while still being a powerful desktop PC that kept future upgradability in mind."
Prior to shipping to the customer, each Digital Storm system undergoes a rigorous 72-Hour Stress-Test. Digital Storm technicians stress-test and benchmark the system via industry standard testing software coupled with a proprietary testing process that detects components which can be prone to future failure.


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Donald7 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 200 diseños de 32 diseñadores freelance.
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Kaleidoscope Event Lighting is a lighting services company. We provide lighting for weddings, parties, and special events. We're not talking florescent lightbulbs here, we create a one of a kind looks. (see our attachments to get a better idea)
Brand Promise: To transform ordinary events into extraordinary with lighting.
Brand Personality: Creative, Emotional, Confident, Sophisticated
Tagline: Your Vision. Our Passion.
We want this logo to appeal to anyone who is planning an event. We want the logo to instill a sense of confidence in our professionalism and abilities.
We are looking for a refresh, not an entirely new design creation. We currently use a backwards K as part of our current logo (see attachments). I would like for this to be refreshed to make it look more creative, sophisticated and cutting edge.
#1 The font of the K needs to be very similar to our current font (the exact same would be ideal). This is EXTREMELY important if you expect us to choose your design.
#2 The K needs to be the focal point of the design. I do not want a logo that looks like the K was just stamped on there.
#3 We are looking for a professional logo rather than a fun logo.
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#5 Tagline "Your Vision. Our Passion." must be included.
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This season of Kids activities will kick off May 2nd, and will continue every MWF from 9am - 1pm through July 29th. This fun-filled free activity takes place in the Commons at North Hills, on the grassy lawn between Starbucks and Ben & Jerry's. North Hills brings out their large, colorful foam blocks for kids to build with, climb on and play with.
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Q At 42, I've spent 17 years in finance and consulting. I'm on a sabbatical to revalidate my personal and career goals in an effort to rediscover my sense of purpose. I'm closing in on my direction and have several possibilities in mind. Other than engaging a career counselor, can you suggest resources that may help me during this period of transition? — R.Y.
A Your letter reminds me of a few poignant lines by novelist Barry Gifford in his book "Wild at Heart." He wrote: "Men past 40 get up nights, look out over city lights, and wonder where they went wrong ..."
Since you already have several possibilities in mind, you're ready to do informational interviews, a useful career exploration and job-hunting tool. In these, you ask interviewees prepared questions, such as "How do people break into this field?" or "Where would you try to get a job?"
You could bust your chops to line up informational interviews for free by using your contacts. That approach is probably more easily accomplished by beginners than by seasoned workers.
But when you're willing to invest money in your next career, be aware of a promising new turnkey service that markets the ultimate informational interview: PivotPlanet (PivotPlanet.com). It is the first online destination that matches people pivoting and exploring careers with experts in hundreds of professions via live video or phone. In-person mentorship sessions are also available.
PivotPlanet underscores the point that its advisers are not career counselors or coaches. They are individuals who work in the same career you're exploring. "They've been there and done that, offering you a reality check that is hard to get anywhere else," says Brian Kurth, the company's CEO.
The cost of the for-fee service ranges from $50 to $360 per hour for digital appointments. In-person advising starts at $250 per day. The higher hourly rates apply to individuals you'd be hard pressed to directly reach yourself — TV script writers and filmmakers, for instance. You know the cost going in — no surprises. And you are not locked into a contract specifying a minimum number of appointments.
PivotPlanet's services aren't free but come at a relatively low cost when looking at the big picture. I've heard enough life stories from men and women who get up nights wondering where they went wrong in their career choices to think that if you can afford to give the ultimate informational interview service a try, you could be getting a lifetime bargain.
Q I'm employed and starting a stealth job search, so I'll ask that interviewers not contact my current employer. Is it possible to bump up my current annual salary by $5,000 without getting caught? — F.F.
A Forget that idea. A potential employer may verify your salary statement by requiring you to provide a recent pay stub or a W-2, or by checking with your present employer AFTER you've accepted the new job offer and withdraw it after you've already quit your job. Instead, find out market rate for your job and practice your negotiation skills.
For free salary negotiation webinars, jump on a website maintained by Jack Chapman and Steve Frederick: lucrativecareersinc.com.
Q In filling out a job application online, I was asked for my Social Security number. Do I have to give it up or be disqualified? — B. B.
A No, you don't, and no, I wouldn't. Write "Will discuss at interview." Take this potential bait for identity theft as a wake-up call to view a new, free four-minute film presented by the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse. Search for "Data Breaches: Know Your Rights, YouTube."
"Data Breaches" is one of a growing number of short films by the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse that you'll find on YouTube — all are worth watching.
Email career questions for possible use in this column to Joyce Lain Kennedy at email@example.com; use "Reader Question" for subject line. Or mail her at Box 368, Cardiff, CA 92007.


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You can see our past MOOCasts here. Our next MOOCast is schedule for Aug. 3 at 1400 UTC global times . We use a Google+ Hangout to host the conversation. All are welcome to participate. Let us know your gmail address in the chat room below and we will bring you in.
- You'll need to use a headset. Even if you think you sound great without one, the echo created by one person not using one can significantly degrade audio quality.
- Before joining the hangout, make sure to STOP OR MUTE THE USTREAM. If you don't do this, you'll be getting the Ustream audio and the Hangout audio - it will be confusing and we might break the internet :)
- We can probably handle up to 10 people in the Hangout at one time, although depending on participant audio quality and bandwidth, it might be less. If we get a crowd, we'll rotate people in and out of the call.
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Many of our clients were once members of EY who have maintained the relationships they formed during their time with us. After all, they know what our people can do – and helped build our success.
Similarly, we regularly welcome back former team members who choose to rejoin EY, bringing with them valuable experience and perspectives that enrich our organization.
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Nov. 27, 2006
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - In its first Northeast Fencing Conference (NFC) competition of the season, the MIT men's fencing team defeated Boston University (27-0), Tufts University (24-3), UMass-Amherst (15-12), and the University of New Hampshire (20-7). Trevor Chang recorded the best individual effort for the Engineers as he won all 12 of his epee bouts.
The sabre squad notched the best ledger of the day, sweeping BU and Tufts en route to a 31-5 finish. Igor Kopylov paced Tech with a 10-1 mark which was followed by Rangarajan Nadadur's total of 10-2. Namit Setia and Raymond Wu rounded out the squad with records of 6-1 and 5-1, respectively.
Chang's 12-0 mark helped lead the epee team to a 29-7 overall ledger. Gabriel Chan went 10-2 on the day while Matt Gethers finished at 4-2. Lukas Schmitt won three of his six pairings for MIT.
Spencer Sugimoto and Jason Chen had the best performances for the foil team. Sugimoto totaled a 9-2 record while Chen posted an 8-1 mark. Benjamin Switala (5-4), Sebastian Castro (2-2), and Michael Yee (2-1) rounded out the squad's 26-10 ledger.


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Checking in on… the OVCPosted by Brian Goodman on November 29th, 2010
Greg Waddell is the RTC correspondent or the Ohio Valley Conference. [ed note: this post was written prior to the weekend games of Nov. 26-28]
A Look Back
- Kenneth Faried proved why he's the Number 1 player in the OVC and probably an NBA lottery pick over a two-game Morehead State road trip. Facing off against two Top 10 teams in Florida and Ohio State, Faried put on a clinic as the 6'8 forward notched 20 points and pulled down 18 rebounds against the Gators and recorded 15 points and 12 rebounds against the Buckeyes on 5-7 shooting from the field. Faried is the real deal and OVC fans should enjoy him while he's here.
- Murray State has stumbled out of the gates, struggling to find an identity while trying to mesh a talented backcourt with an inexperienced frontcourt. The lack of production in the post has put a burden on the Racer guards thus far as teams have been able to pressure the perimeter and force Murray State to shoot the three. If the Racers hope to have success this season, Ivan Aska and Jeffrey McClain must step up their game in the post and high flying wing Ed Daniel must begin to assert himself in the scorebooks. All in all the Racers have the talent to repeat their success of a season ago but continue to be their own worst enemy. The game against Morehead State will get a whole lot juicier if Billy Kennedy can't find a way to right the ship before December 4.
Power Rankings
- Murray State (3-1): Things haven't gone quite as Billy Kennedy expected this early in the season but that's okay with the Racers' head man as his team heads west for the 76 Classic. Yet, they were able to notch a 55-52 win against Stanford in a semi-road environment. Still reigning as the class of the conference, things are looking up in Murray, Kentucky, as guard play has been the backbone of the team again this season. One cause for concern, though, is the lack of inside presence the Racers have shown thus far. The inability of the big men to establish themselves has hampered the backcourt slightly. There's too much talent waiting in the wings though to dent their momentum too much though as sophomore sensation Isaiah Canaan leads the charge for the team this season, notching 11.7 points per game while senior Isacc Miles has been on the mend with a bum knee.
- Morehead State (2-3): The boys in blue put on a show for OVC fans in their last two games provided a chance for Morehead golden boy Kenneth Faried to put on a show against perennial powers Ohio State and Florida is back to back contests. The Eagles has a little more success against the No. 10 Gators, pushing Billy Donovan's squad to the wire before falling 61-55 as Faried notched 20 points and 18 boards. Faried found a fan in Donovan who gushed about the forward's potential. "That's Dennis Rodman all over again," Donovan said. "If I was an NBA general manager I'd be taking him with my pick. That's what a next-level guy looks like." Faried is averaging 17.2 points per game on the season and adding 12.8 boards per game.
- Austin Peay (2-3): Although their record is not quite as good as No. 4 Eastern Kentucky, the Govs have played a tougher schedule to this point, knocking off quality opponents in St. Louis and Chattanooga and narrowly falling to Lipscomb and Southern Illinois. The only glaring blight comes from a 87-65 beatdown at the hands of Purdue, but the Boilermakers are the No. 8 team in the country so that can't be held too much against Austin Peay. Transfer Tyshawn Edmonson from St. Johns has been a bright spot, averaging 17. 4 points and 4.2 rebounds per game for his hometown team while John Terry and Anthony Campbell average 12.8 and 12 points, respectively.
- Eastern Kentucky (3-3): Despite sporting a .500 record, the Colonels could have fallen further in the power rankings as they have yet to play anyone worth mentioning. They do however have some depth to brag about as four players average more than 10 points a game with Preseason All –OVC player Justin Stommes just behind at nine a contest. Had Stommes been available in all the team's games (he did not play in the first three) EKU could be 5-1. Spencer Perrin averages 11.3 points per game with Willie Cruz closely behind at 10. 8
- Tennessee Tech (0-2): The Golden Eagles could have ranked higher with their two losses coming against potential tournament teams in NC State and East Tennessee State, but with no wins it's hard to know how good Tennessee Tech can be at this point. Alfred Jones leads the way with 10.5 points and five boards per game with Kevin Murphy chipping in 10 and 6.5. UGA transfer Zac Swansey has been a pleasant surprise, averaging 9.5 points and 5.5 assists per game, including a 13 point performance against the Wolfpack in the season opener.
- Eastern Illinois (1-3): The Panthers pose the same problem as most of their OVC contemporaries as little competitive basketball has been played to this point. With three bad losses, it's hard to rank Eastern Illinois any higher but the talent to go deep in the conference still remains. Tyler Laser is the bright spot for EIU again tossing in 13 points per game while Jeremy Granger adds 12.6 points and 3.6 assists per game.
- Jacksonville State (1-3): Same story, different team. Plagued by a lack of star power, the Gamecocks continue to toil at the bottom of the OVC standings with little hope of climbing out of the cellar as little help looms on the horizon. One bright spot has been Nick Murphy whose 18 points and seven boards a game pace JSU. The Gamecock's lone win of the year comes against West Alabama. Enough said.
- UT-Martin (2-3): A surprising start to the season has helped the Skyhawks as they rank in the top half of the league at this point in wins, but a lack of talent keeps them muddled in the cellar of the conference. Reuben Clayton has been a big time player for Martin this season, averaging 19.8 points and nearly seven rebounds a game. Mike Liabo is adding 12.2 points and 3.2 boards a game for team whose biggest claims to fame come in losses against LSU and No. 15 Memphis.
- Tennessee State (1-4): Notching only one win this season, against small Fisk University at that, the Tigers have little to celebrate at this point. The bright spot for TSU comes in the form of a trio of talented scorers in Kenny Moore, Patrick Miller, and Robert Covington. Moore is averaging 14.8 points a game while Miller and Covington check in right behind him at 13.4 and 12.8 respectively. The Tigers can lay claim to a loss to a quality teams in Mississippi State (75-65) but a slaughter at the hands of St. Louis (78-50) shows inconsistency in the early going.
- Southeast Missouri State (0-4): You know things are bad when all you have to brag about are losses but the Redhawks did play SEC foe Arkansas tough when they pushed John Pelphrey's squad to the wire in a 66-56 thriller. Leon Powell and Nick Niemczyk are the only bright spots for SEMO – Powell checks in averaging 16 points and 8 rebounds while Niemczyk has posted 13.8 points per game.
- SIU-Edwardsville (1-3): The bad got worse for the Cougars when the team's leading scorer from last season, Mark Yelovich, went down in the team's opening game, and will miss the rest of the season. The team has rebounded somewhat though as two players in Corey Wickware and Nikola Bundalo are averaging 14. 8 and 14.4 points a game, respectively.
A Look Ahead
Holiday tournaments are underway and the OVC teams are getting their fair share, with participants in the 76 Classic, Chicago Invitational and Global Sports Roundball Classic. The biggest chances for some national attention come against the Big Ten. Friday, SIU-Edwardsville will face struggling Iowa, and on Sunday, Tennessee Tech squares off against Michigan State. The OVC gets to conference play in a hurry — Morehead State and UT-Martin meet in Morehead on December 2.


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This page has an interesting video of beads 'syphoning' out of a glass beaker:
The host has a few explanations for the effect, but none of them sound plausible to me. The beads are in 'perpetual motion'? 'Shock wave'? What could cause an entire bead chain to syphon out of a beaker like water does out of a syphon? It certainly does not look to me that there was enough initial investment in energy to move the chain as is done. On the other hand, considering that only a small portion of the chain is moving at any one moment in time, the whole system could be considered to be moving very slowly thus meeting the initial energy investment requirement (very low velocity).


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The Illusion of Reforming Islam
http://www.faithfreedom.org/2009/04/19/ ... ing-islam/
Let us put some resources on that subject in this thread. There are many people well educated people Muslims & non_Muslims who strongly believe that it is possible to reform Islam. We had plenty of discussions on this subject in FFI. It is good to have all in one thread. Before I joined FFI .. that was 7 years back.. I used collect books and articles on this subject And Without knowing much of History of Islam and not reading religious books such as Q'uran.. bible ..in detail. I used to think 20th and 21st century writers will be able to completely rewrite .. re-translate re-codify Q'uran, hadith, Prophet Muhammad ..etc so that Political Islam could be de-fanged.
But clearly I was wrong. After participating in different forums and reading of 100s of articles on this subject and watching/reading many people.. just to mention few soft spoken hard hitting folks like. Anwar Shaikh, Humayun Azad, Ibn Warraq, Younus Shaikh, Walid Shoebat, on one side and this present bunch a cold blooded KILLERS of Mr. Muhammad's Islam who are very out spoken against Islam such as Ayaan Hirsi Ali , Wafa Sultan, Salman Rushdie, -Taslima Nasrin , Nonie Darwish, Parvin Darabi- Maryam Namazie and off course our own Ali Sina & many friends at FFI + other anti Islamic web sites on one side and the rulers of Islamic countries and Communist governments and western apologists of Islam on other side.,
It is difficult to see how the former group who are questioning Islam and would like root it out from the face of the earth will win in 21 st century.. These people have NO POLITICAL SUPPORT and no oil money to educate Muslim and non Muslim world about Mr. Muhammad's Islam. The only weapon they have is 21st century internet. So it is hard to imagine that these Stall warts born in Islam fighting against Islam will win in next 50 years or so..
So In his article, Ali mentions some names of people and some organizations that are trying (or at least acts as if they are trying)to reform Islam. Let me put those names along with some selective statements from Ali's article here to discuss them later in this thread..
Muhammad ibn Abdul Wahhab, (1703–1792)
ibn Taymiyyah (1263 – 1328)
Abu Sa'd Abd al-Kareem al-Sama'n
Dr. Ingrid Mattson,
Islamic Society of North America (ISNA),
Maududi (1903 – 1979)
Sayyid Qutb, (1906-1966)
Ayatollah Khomeini
Bin Laden.
"Only truth can set us free. By sugarcoating Islam you cannot change its nature. You can purify any water. You can even purify your urine into drinking water. But can you purify gasoline enough to make it drinkable? The essence of Islam is evil. You cannot reform it enough to make it a humane faith. Can you reform Nazism? This whole notion is misguided and absurd."
CAIR does not say when it wants to Con Americans with Islamic Ruse. ." [/b][/i]
Here I would say CAIR should be redefined as Converting Americans to Islamic Rule ., That is indeed CAIR's agenda.
Please click to watch the Video.
and watch more of CAIR propaganda in America..
And.. finally, I would also argue with Ali on his Statement of
"But can you purify gasoline enough to make it drinkable?"
I would say Answer for that Question is "YES".. a Big Bold "YES"., I can convert gasoline in to water. Burn the "damn thing" in Oxygen.
But what is "Damn thing" here ?? ...
with best


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Vikings coach Leslie Frazier last week told the St. Paul Pioneer Press that signing Rice was "a high, high priority."
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This is the second year in a row that we have been to Moody Gardens in Galveston, Texas over Thanksgiving break and we love it there! This time around we got to take the kids with us and they enjoyed every second of it. My favorite thing about Moody Gardens is the Ice Land that they do every year. This year it was all about the rainforest and in 2016 it was under the sea. You can check out my review of last year on According 2 Mandy.
The entire Ice Land is done up in ice and they even have an ice slide! We loved seeing the butterflies, birds and more made of ice. The kids went down the ice slide so many times that we had to drag them away from it. There is also a bar inside and a place to buy hot chocolate at the end. I love that they give you a parka to wear as you freeze your way through the Ice Land.
While at Moody Gardens, we also checked out a 4D movie. This was so much fun as we sat in chairs where snow fell on ice, things blew at our feet and you felt just like you were in the movie.
Our daughters had a blast going through the aquarium and also the rainforest. We got the chance to see penguins swimming, bats hanging out and more. They also enjoyed the ropes course. The zip line has been shut down since the hurricane, but hopefully, they can get it fixed soon. One other thing we did was go ice skating, which was new this year. This was a lot of fun, but this was not near as easy as I thought it would be.
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Balancing Wine Bottle Holder-Sketchup
During this Sketchup show I go through a balancing wine bottle holder. This has my most recent measurements that I use and also a link for my actual "How to make a wine bottle holder" video. That video was my first ever on YouTube. Check out the Sketchup video HERE.


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Jul 09, 2013 | ISBN 9781607744344
"Margaret Wittenberg has compiled an astonishingly thorough and comprehensive guide to help you be a wise consumer of the great variety of food now available—from grains, beans, and nuts to produce, oils, sweeteners, dairy products, meat, and fish. She gives very practical tips for identifying, buying, storing, and preparing the foods that are both most satisfying and most nutritious. I will keep a copy of this book in my kitchen."
—Andrew Weil, MD, founder and director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine and author of True Food
"What I love about Margaret Wittenberg's The Essential Good Food Guide
is that it's a great read, as well as a great resource. Her in-depth experience
in the world of natural foods gives her the credibility to share her knowledge of every imaginable ingredient, including how it is processed and its nutritional values. This book is an outstanding tool for any home cook or chef with an interest in making healthy food."
—Nell Newman, cofounder and president of Newman's Own Organics
"From amaranth to olive oil, quinoa to wakame and wild rice (and everything in between), The Essential Good Food Guide is the Larousse Gastronomique of natural foods—ingredients, insight, and inspiration in one definitive volume."
—Heidi Swanson, author of Super Natural Every Day
"At last we have Margaret Wittenberg to answer our most basic questions about any food we see: 'What is it?' and 'What do I do with it?' The Essential Good Food Guide is an extraordinarily comprehensive guide to foods, ingredients, and their handling. Sophisticated cooks as well as beginners
will be grateful to have this indispensable book at hand."
—Marion Nestle, professor of nutrition, food studies, and public health at New York University, and author of What to Eat
"Margaret Wittenberg has been at the leading edge of the healthy eating movement in this country since it hovered at the fringe of public awareness. I can't think of anyone I would trust more to write this book — the sustainable seafood section alone is worth the price. The Essential Good Food Guide will likely become a cornerstone of every good cook's library."
—Mollie Katzen, author of The New Moosewood Cookbook
Fruits and Vegetables
Grains, Flour, and Bread
Pasta and Noodles
Beans, Peas, Lentils, and Soy Products
Nuts and Seeds
Meat and Poultry
Dairy Products and Eggs
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Joined: 03 Nov 2006
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Location: UK
Posted: Fri 14 Dec 2007, 13:44
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Dingo 4 alpha3 Bugs/probs
Dingo 4.00 alpha3
- bugs/problems
Full hd install- Test
1: Gparted does not do a complete survey of hd and active ports, had to use another disc to setup HD.
2: System refuses to shutdown from CD and after apparant installation.
3:Puppy Universal installer will not recognise my hd as IDE - every other puppy does!!!
Had to use sata, which seemed to work.
4:First boot from HD install. VFS Cannot open root device "sda1" or unknown-block (8,1).
kernel panic not syncing: Unable to mount rootfs on unknown-block(8,1)
5: With hda1, my flash ram stick in USB port is usually reported as sda1 so helping me diferentiate the folders for copying and saving but with everything sda or sr for cd`s this is now confusing.
6:No filesystem could mount root, tried reiserfs , ext3,ext2 , minix, msdos,vfat,iso9660.
7: Gparted running from pup301 CD (pfix=ram) reports:-
hard drive /dev/hda1 ext2
/dev/hda2 linux-swap
rather than sda1 & sda2 as Dingo made it.
8: Changed boot menu 1st from sda1 to hda1 to reflect my usual boot scheme.
9:Rebooted and got VFS cannot open drive "hda1" or unknown-block (0,0)
Please append correct "root=" boot option
available partitions
0800 39022680 sda driver: sd
0801 38547936 sda1
0802 1048575 sr0 driver :sr
kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block (0,0)
So no go on Full hard drive install.
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Posted: Fri 14 Dec 2007, 14:10
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In Gparted, every action on my sda - remove partition, format, add boot flag - the application exited.
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Posted: Fri 14 Dec 2007, 16:24
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Hi Firefox, if you check the developer blog you will see that all drives are now treated as SATA due to a Kernel change (I suppose unification of drivers or something)
Hope this helps
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Posted: Fri 14 Dec 2007, 17:41
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Lots of things now working but on reboot cannot connect to the internet even though it says DHCP okay. (Using manual Frugall Install)
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Location: Perth, Western Australia
Posted: Fri 14 Dec 2007, 17:49
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Firefox, yes, most of your comments show that you ave not properly read the Developer Blog first, which is absolutely essential when testing an 'alpha' release.
Your 'hda' drive is now 'sda' and all references to 'hda' are no longer valid, including anything in the GRUB 'menu.lst' file.
Regarding it being "confusing" not having 'hda', that's the way it is. The major distros have gone over to this system and eventually all will, except for those stuck on the 2.4 kernel.
It actually has advantages, being the uniformity of naming the internal drives -- what is really confusing is mixed IDE and SATA drives and the different hd and sd names can cause problems, for example with GRUB.
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Posts: 785
Location: Connecticut USA
Posted: Fri 14 Dec 2007, 17:54
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Subject description: Compact Flash Install Problem; VFAT format
Universal Installer did not install "ldlinux.sys". This causes a boot error. This appears to be caused by the lack of "mcopy" which causes a broken pipe. The workaround is to use Puppy 3.01 to first install a copy of itself. After completing the Puppy 3.01 installation, just delete the Puppy 3.01 files and copy , vmlinuz, intrid.gz, pup_393.sfs, and zdriv_393.sfs to the device. Alternately, one can find ldlinux.sys in another install and copy it to the device, without doing a complete installed. Device boot and Dingo alpha 3 started.
My wireless drive module is RT73 is missing. I sure this will be fixed with time.
At startup, it was reported the file system was uncheck and need e2fsck to be used. This is similar to problem reported for Puppy 3.01.
Enjoy life, Just Greg
Live Well, Laugh Often, Love Much
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Posts: 71
Location: France
Posted: Fri 14 Dec 2007, 18:28
Post subject:
Hi everyone,
Here's my small contribution to the status of Dingo 4 alpha 3 (This is my first boot and I have not yet tried to save the context or make an install) :
- I'm very happy to say that wifi with the chipset bcm43xxx works well. I'm currently writing from there.
- The resolution found "out of the box" for my laptop (xorg) is 1024x748 instead of 1480x800 as it should be.
- Concerning PCMCIA, the SDCard in my card reader is still not found.
- Local swf games are very fluid.
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Location: Brussels IBM Thinkpad R40, 256MB, 20GB, WiFi ipw2100. Frugal Lin'N'Win
Posted: Fri 14 Dec 2007, 20:09
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Subject description: Can't connect to internet with WEP and ipw2100
I have a ipw2100 wireless device
Setting up via Network wizard
The correct driver loads.
I scan and my AP is found.
Gave the WEP key.
Tested the interface
msg: no live network is found.
I scan again and select an unprotected AP
Tested the interface ok.
Got a IP
Can connect to internet.
Same problem as with alpha 2 (392)
BTW: nice the SeaMonkey at 1.1.6 with the spell checking. (need it
Time savers:
Find packages in a snap and install using Puppy Package Manager (Menu).
Consult Wikka
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Posts: 215
Location: Wellington New Zealand
Posted: Fri 14 Dec 2007, 21:12
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Hi Barry,
tested latest Dingo on old and new hardware:
my old Toshiba laptop needed it's usual xorg tweaks (no surprise).
Also it's sound module wasn't loaded so had to modprobe snd_es1968 but after that sound works. PCMCIA network card works (after loading 8139too driver, same as for previous Puppies). Gxine gui is hanging after it's wizard closes on this laptop so have to issue a killall gxine from terminal.
New Laptop (HP nc6400) has a better report with everything working pretty much straight away. I notice on both laptops gxine wizard can't find the cdrom even though the link to /dev/sr0 is already set.
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Location: Fort Worth, TX
Posted: Sat 15 Dec 2007, 00:36
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Ran it in VirtualBox on my work machine (Core 2 Duo 2.13 GHz, 2 GB). When I typed "cat /proc/cpuinfo" in the console, I only saw one core listed.
Also, after using the JWM configuration tool to change the theme, the Menu button and some tray items remain yellow. This happened in 3.92 as well.
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Already reported all this on blog. The new nomenclature can be made to work in other distros. Thanks for the tip Greg, but this one is just too broken to test further and have deleted till next time.
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Location: Manila
Posted: Sat 15 Dec 2007, 04:02
Post subject: responsive printing
Testing on AMD PC (Pentium 4 grade) with HP 1300N printer:
- very responsive printing! first time I've experienced this quick response: click the print button and the printer hums almost immediately.
- consumes only about 80MB RAM (it must have detected less than 128 MB RAM and mounted the CD), despite the large swap partition in the PC, that is.
- pmount's mounting/unmounting USB drive can take ages - I tried 2 USB drives and in the second USB mounting, pmount virtually disappeared and the CPU usage steadily climbed, so I had to killall pmount. Later, I restarted pmount and was able to unmount one USB after the another; pmount disappeared for about 3 minutes, then reappeared.
- volume control box would not disappear when opened.
- freememapplet would not enable viewing of partitions when clicked (OK, just a wish that it works the usual way
Puppy user since Oct 2004. Want FreeOffice?
Get the sfs (English only)
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Location: Agoura Hills, California
Posted: Sat 15 Dec 2007, 04:21
Post subject: Crash on serial detect line -- solved
I was the one who reported with Puppy 3.01 that I froze on one computer during cd bootup on the long serialdetect line.
With Dingo, I don't crash! In fact, this is the first time I've had puppy running on this Fry's crummy amd 64-bit clone which is my main desktop computer, running Linux Mint and lately the marvelous but inconsistent Geubuntu. (I joined the Puppy cult just as 3.01 was released, so I am unknown to most of you.) I normally run Puppy on a Compaq Presario laptop and a Dell D800 Latitude, both with Windows XP as their main operating system but mostly running Linux on a CD or USB Flash thing these days.
I never got my official beta tester's membership card, but I am a compulsive tester and installer.
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Posted: Sat 15 Dec 2007, 06:08
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ArnaudN wrote:
The resolution found "out of the box" for my laptop (xorg) is 1024x748 instead of 1480x800 as it should be.
Do you have a seperate Graphics card (especially an ATi)? If so it probably needs a special driver to cater for "odd" resolutions. It happens to me every time until the (usually proprietory) driver has been compiled and a .pet assembled - usually by Kirk or one of the other specialists. Until then it's 1024 x 768 whatever xorg.conf says!
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Subject description: Can't connect to internet with WEP and ipw2100
Béèm wrote:
I have a ipw2100 wireless device
thats interesting, my ipw2200 is now working with wep. What do you get for lsmod | grep ieee, heres mine
# lsmod | grep ieee
ieee80211_crypt_wep 5760 1
ieee80211 35016 1 ipw2200
ieee80211_crypt 6528 2 ieee80211_crypt_wep,ieee80211
if it isn't loaded already are you able to
modprobe ieee80211_crypt_wep
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Raw Integrity Project
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January 24th, 2011
Falling in Love
Tasting my first cacao bean was Love at First Bite in a love affair clearly destined to last a lifetime. I encountered that first cacao bean while studying at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, in New York. I learned that all chocolate comes from the beans within the fruit pod of an ancient species of tree called Theobroma Cacao. David Wolfe spoke of cacao as a superfood - a food whose extraordinary nutritional content has been used medicinally for millenia. I became intrigued by its mystery and magic and plunged into a study of its historical use and medicinal and psychological benefits.
Chocolate and Diet: Partners in Health
By including large amounts of raw, fresh, high nutrient foods in one's diet, an exclusion of empty calorie, highly processed, less fresh foods naturally occurs. In my own diet - and those of my clients and colleagues - increasing consumption of raw food has been the simplest and most sustainable way to establish equilibrium with regards to bioindividual nutritional needs. Even for short periods of time, adding a minimum of 70% of fresh produce and foods processed under 118 degrees to one's diet can help identify proper portion size, balance weight issues and hormones, identify underlying food allergies, decode and curb cravings, and most importantly, help a person learn to listen to their body and how their energy levels respond to certain foods.
The experiential knowledge of how it feels to eat a diet with no refined sugar, dairy, cholesterol, gluten, or soy is helpful even if an individual decides that the raw food diet is not appropriate for them long-term. I have seen that, after experiencing this new way of eating, people who begin to reintroduce cooked food into their diet do so with much greater consciousness of the quality and quantity of what they are eating, as well as how the food makes them feel. They are also able to adjust their own diet more intuitively to maximize energy without the assistance of a health counselor. Especially after eating a diet high in wheat, refined sugar, meat, and dairy, a dramatic change in diet to high nutrient, minimally processed foods helps to re-establish what is frequently a long-lost connection between food and the body. The consequence can be a feeling of greater health and the desire to work towards wellness in all areas of their life.
Why I Make Chocolate
As a Certified Holistic Health Counselor, my passion is helping people to enjoy the process of becoming healthier and living deeply fulfilling lives. In my practice, I have found that chocolate, as an extremely nourishing food on its own and as a carrier of added herbs and superfoods, can be a highly effective tool for improving health.
I started making chocolate to replace my clients' unhealthy sweet indulgences with the most nourishing chocolate bar I could create. Not only did the chocolate replace their less healthy sugary foods, but it also catalyzed other changes in their diets. When a person realizes that a commitment to health doesn't need to mean sacrificing their favorite food, eating broccoli and avoiding a muffin becomes a lot more do-able, because s/he can still indulge in healthy chocolate. And that ability to indulge in something decadent while fortifying their health inspired passion for the added herbs and super foods - catalyzing further supplementation and diet modification. My clients began to request that the chocolate be sold in stores, and our growth has been 100% through word of mouth.
An Ongoing Journey
Even after personally harvesting pods from trees; dehydrating, winnowing, grinding, and conching the beans; making tens of thousands of bars by hand; reading, researching, studying, attending seminars and conferences, and consulting with industry leaders, I am aware that so much remains to be learned. And making, packaging, and shipping a final product in environmentally sustainable, socially responsible ways is a constantly evolving process that I shall elaborate on in future Gnosis Project posts.
But in the center of this all, I find the Simplicity of 2 Truths: First, that cacao is a delicious medicine for the mind, body, and spirit. And, second, that by conducting all operations of my company with total integrity, our product will deliver our message to a community far beyond our direct customers. By choosing suppliers based not on price but on alignment with our values and standards, Gnosis means to support a larger movement towards higher quality food, a more sustainable model for food production, and a more conscious model for business. These truths are embedded deep in my heart.
A New Sector
Though fresh produce is obviously not new on the market, and so many of the superfoods which make up the raw food industry have been eaten for thousands of years by indigenous cultures, packaged raw foods are a very new and increasingly visible phenomena. Whole Foods Market, for example, has created raw food sections in every region and has incorporated superfoods into their Whole Body department. Restaurants, cafes, and health food stores offering exclusively raw food items are opening throughout the US and internationally, and many other restaurants and markets are beginning to offer raw items in addition to their conventionally cooked lines. Online raw food retailers are growing in number, visibility, and diversity. There are a multitude of raw crackers, cookies, nut cheeses, trail mixes, superfoods, drink mixes, and chocolates.
New companies and products are appearing by the dozens. When I first started eating a raw food diet in 2006 I could not find any raw chocolate bars or truffles in New York City; now, there are four NYC based companies. With over 30 companies in the US - and more abroad - focusing exclusively on raw chocolate products, raw chocolate is now becoming a permanent niche in the multi-billion dollar global chocolate industry.
Raw Foods and our Future
The dramatic growth of the number and availability of prepared raw food products is a powerful and encouraging indication of the future of food. Instead of only searching for a remedy to our current health crisis, people who choose raw foods are looking beyond symptoms to the root cause of illnesses in an effort to both treat and prevent them. There are hundreds of health clinics, retreat centers, and holistic counseling practices in the US alone, that are dedicated to helping individuals include more raw foods in their diet.
Their existence is proof of the increasing understanding of the fundamental role that diet plays in the treatment and prevention of such major diseases as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity, depression, gastrointestinal diseases, and so many more. Even the quickest of internet searches will identify hundreds of success stories written of lives that have been dramatically improved - in some cases saved - by eating a raw food diet.
There are also clear benefits to raw foods beyond improving diet. Raw foods are minimally processed (certainly less processed than a product's conventionally cooked counterpart) which results in less energy used, by-products, packaging and other wastes. There also appears to be a strong connection between raw foodists seeking food closer to its natural state and a concern for our planet's soil, water, and air. Raw food enthusiasts are frequently, more aware of environmental concerns as they are on the lookout for local, organic, and biodynamic foods, and are more likely to reuse, recycle, and use alternative methods of energy.
The health and environmental crises will only be solved when our collective individual efforts, including voting with our dollars, force the food industry and regulatory agencies to educate consumers about preventative strategies, raise standards for what is considered safe for consumption; and fill shelves with products that prioritize health, well-being, and sustainability over sweetness and low price. I really believe it is a partnership between farmers, manufacturers, suppliers, and consumers that will ultimately lead to a healthier society and planet.
Recently, a distributor of chocolate products labeled "Raw" discovered that its supplier had been selling conventionally processed cocoa to them as raw cacao. This distributor, Essential Living Foods, is committed to transparency and honesty, and therefore brought this to the public's attention. As a result, the issue of "How can we know this is raw?" is coming under increased scrutiny.
The Organic Movement: Establishing the Path to Integrity
The issue at hand carries a powerful - and positive - message: the raw movement is now so substantial that it has begun to parallel the developmental path taken by the organic movement almost a century ago. During the early years of organic farming, most products were consumed locally; consumers were in direct contact with growers, or had confidence in retailers who purchased products directly from growers they trusted. Freshness and direct supply, along with no chemicals, characterized organic production. In the 1970s, the supply chain lengthened as demand for organic products grew; products passed through more hands and traveled more miles. As a result, consumers wanted guarantees that the products they bought were truly organic, and growers needed a way of proving they were. This is where the raw food movement is now.
The solution was to implement a third-party certification of organic products' integrity, and, by the late 1980s, a number of private and state-run certifying bodies were active. However, inconsistent certification standards and well-publicized instances of fraud led the organic community to pursue federal legislation. The result was the Organic Foods Production Act of 1990, which mandated the creation of the National Organic Program (NOP) and the passage of uniform organic standards. These standards are now incorporated in the National Organic Program Regulations, which can be found on the NOP Web site. Implementation of the Regulations began on April 21, 2001. Through accreditation, the NOP implements its regulations through certifying agentswho use the National Standard. (Source: Kuepper, George (2002) "Organic Farm Certification & the National Organic Program." National Sustainable Agricultural Information Service.)
There are still many important issues to be addressed by the NOP: foods are excluded that grow in the wild and on farms that lack the funds to become certified. The current certification dynamic puts organic farmers and manufacturers at a disadvantage because organic farming is inherently more expensive - it requires more labor intensive methods of pest control, for example, and the yield of an organic crop is lower than that of a conventionally grown one. A very important question must be addressed : whether it is the farmers whose costs are already increased who should to pay for certification, or whether the farms using chemicals to reduce cost should be the ones in need of certification with organic farms required only to send in samples for analysis.
Systems must evolve with the processes they facilitate, and the responsibility is shared by everyone - on both the industry and consumer side.
The Raw Movement: Evolving in the Same Direction
Consumers of organic products in the 1970s voiced the same concern that consumers of raw products are voicing today: "How can we be sure these products are truly raw?" As was the case with organic produce at this stage, there is currently no certification for the processing temperatures, nor is there a known testing method such as pesticide residue to ascertain processing temperature from the final product. Thus it is easy for an item which has been subjected to high heat to pass on the market as "Raw."
Keeping low temperatures is not only out of normal production routine, but is also more labor intensive, time-consuming, and thus more expensive. In this context, we can easily understand why specifications were not followed in the case of Essential Living Food's Ecuadorian supplier: there was no one on site directly overseeing the operation who was committed to Raw. It would be so amazing to just trust that we can distinguish amongst the companies and products, but even with the best of intentions a company may unknowingly mislead their customers unless they have the motivation and resources to perform due diligence - performing such extra research and, most importantly - physically visiting farms and facilities.
What does Gnosis Chocolate do to ensure our ingredients are Raw, Organic, and of the highest quality? When I began making chocolate, I grilled my suppliers and peers with questions and made my raw, vegan, organic, specifications crystal clear. As my knowledge of ingredients and processes grows, I regularly return to my suppliers with increasingly in-depth questions, and I continue to work with industry leaders to develop new and ever more effective ways to assure raw integrity. All distributors from whom I have purchased cacao (in the form of paste, butter, or powder) in the last year-and-a-half have confirmed in writing that none have been heated past 118 degrees.
In April of 2009, I decided to do my own analysis. Together with an internationally-recognized chocolate expert, I analyzed the appearance and flavor profile of all the raw cacao paste, powder, and butter that was currently available to determine which were - or were not - Raw; I continued using only those which were not in the least questionable. But so many any factors influence flavor, color and smell of cacao that there is no real way to judge the processing temperature from the final product - so I decided to travel to the heart of the matter.
The following October, after the Salon du Chocolat Professionel in Paris, I commissioned a chocolate factory near Lyons to produce paste that I could personally certify was raw, since I would participate with my hands and eyes in every step. This factory is owned and operated by a third-generation family business that produces some of the world's highest quality chocolate. My intense personal involvement made it possible to compare what I was making with what other sources were supplying, to determine the variety, quality, and origin of the beans used, and to watch the temperature guages.
Although I had produced chocolate from the bean on small scale machinery, it was important for me to turn cacao bean to paste on large scale equipment. Since my sources are more likely to use such larger equipment, this would elimate the only remaining variable. I chose cacao beans that were certified organic: fermented and dried under 118 degrees. Then I personally dehydrated the beans in a conventional chocolate roaster and charted the temperature every sixty seconds to verify raw integrity. A winnower then cracked the beans into little pieces (nibs) without heat. We then put the nibs into a conventional chocolate grinder and watched the thermostat to confirm that it never reached 118 degrees. The result was a paste that I can personally attest has Raw Integrity. These beans are featured in our Grenada bar - part of our OrigiNib Collection which are now available! I will continue to share my experiences and collaboration with Mott at RawGrenadaProject.com
In December 2009, I traveled to Mott Green's Grenada Chocolate Company (GCC), where organic cacao beans are grown, processed, and made into chocolate - all on the same small island. The purpose of this visit was to experience first hand the entire process starting from the farm. I worked side-by-side with the farmhands as we picked cacao pods from the trees, removed the fresh beans from the pods, carted them up and down hills, and dried and fermented the beans. It's at that point that the beams are ready to be processed into bars.
Since Mott's GCC is a model of transparency and integrity, I also had the opportunity to learn about the struggles and triumphs of organic farming; operating a company as a cooperative of farmers that ensures social responsible treatment; and running a chocolate factory on solar energy. We repeated the same process of low heat dehydrating with Mott's beans and machines and I personally measured the temperature of the beans the whole time they were in the roaster to ensure that raw temperature standards were maintained. These beans are featured in our Madagascar bar - part of our OrigiNib Collection which are now available!
It would appear ideal for every chocolate maker to own his or her own farm and bean to bar processing machinery. But it would also be a massive waste of resources. If there are trusted sources who are able to verify their raw integrity, operate with consciousness of environmental sustainability, and who are able to customize the process for their customers' specifications, then incredible amounts of shipping damages to the environment, obscene financial investment, and extraneous work can be saved by having these sources focus their efforts on the perfection of this process while chocolate makers focus on bringing chocolate to the shelf. As always, the responsibility is shared in demanding high quality and standards, and doing due diligence to ensure those standards are not only maintained, but that they evolve with improvements to what is possible and changes in what is needed.
I will continue to visit farms and facilities and bend every effort to verify that my specifications are followed to the letter because nutritional and environmental integrity is the foundation of Gnosis. I would never put a product on a shelf that didn't embody these core values or mislead the reader of my labeling.
Misrepresenting facts is never a cause for celebration, but the intensity of the raw community's reaction to these recent events most certainly is. It communicates the strong demand for pure, healthy food, and a concern for honesty in labeling. We should, therefore, understand this reaction as an indicator of the raw food movement's dramatic growth and even greater potential.
This reaction parallels that of the organic community decades ago when similar challenges arose. The consumer activism that developed resulted in legislation and procedures designed to the enactment of measures (described above) to increase integrity and transparency. And, thanks to our organic predecessors, we have a blueprint for action.
We are most fortunate that there are those among us who will follow the organic pioneers' example and undertake the task of getting legislation drafted, passed, and enforced. They'll need our active and steady support as they work to: 1) Develop an auditable third-party world certification structure to ensure raw processing integrity and product traceability; 2) Maintain quality, vibrancy, and integrity in the raw food supply chain as demand for raw food increases; 3) Explore and research the specifics of raw food production and the associated temperature benefits of each food type (for example, the maximum temperature that one should subject lettuce to might be much lower than that of nuts, and; 4) Develop further testing on the nutritional benefits of raw vs. cooked food.
The Higher Path: Faith in the Process
As we follow purity-related developments, let's remember that the developmental process of all things is an unending cycle of growth, challenge, increased consciousness, and renewed growth. We see this in ourselves; it's the bumps and challenges that frequently stimulate our most beneficial growth. We also see this process in the world, and accept the recall of cars, dolls, electronics, foods, and more as a matter of course. And we are thankful that someone is watching out for us. Let's understand this process, therefore, from the same perspective that allows us to travel in cars, planes, boats, and bicycles made by unseen hands - the perspective of faith. It is faith - frequently unconscious - that permits us to trust our homes will not collapse on us, the sidewalks and streets will not give way, and our clothes will not suddenly disappear.
Here is an opportunity, then, to extend the faith and perspectives we apply automatically to all areas of our life...to include raw foods. Let's have the same trust that the challenges we're discussing are actually opportunities for our movement to grow and become finer. Let's embrace our responsibility as consumers to voice our concerns to merchants, suppliers, and their sources, and to insist that standards and legislation be created that will create that growth and refinement.
Thank you very much for your time, consideration, and action!
Yours in Health,
Vanessa Barg
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Paulie's No Willie
Yes, Malignaggi did "talk the talk" but he couldn't "walk the walk" because he just does not have the talent
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Paulie "The Magic Man" Malignaggi retained his IBF Junior-Welterweight Title against Herman Ngoujdo last night in Bally's City Hotel Casino in Atlantic City by a unanimous decision. In reality there were many who felt that a "draw" was proper, while others felt that a "split decision" was better. There were even people who said that an upset split decision victory for Ndougjo was justified. Who "woulda-thunk it," fans rooting against The Magic Man, but that's the way it was last night, including some boos.
Yes, Malignaggi did "talk the talk" but he couldn't "walk the walk" because he just does not have the talent to be successful at the same competitive level of all of those other 140 pounders like Ricky Hatton and Juan Urango.
Malignaggi did start Round 1 through Round 4 like his look-a-like predecessor, Willie Pep. Then, Ngoujdo started punishing Paulie's body and staggering Malignaggi with vicious over-hand right hand jabs to the point of almost knocking him down and out.
Despite exhaustion and a severely cut left eye, gutsy Malignaggi weathered the Ngoujdo "glove storm." He wisely listened to his trainer Buddy McGirt and rallied back with a blistering jabbing attack and occasional upper-cut which confused Ngoujdo and held back Ndougjo's aggression until the end of the fight.
The look of defeat was evident in Malignaggi's face until the end of the fight wherein the Decision was announced in Malignaggi's favor. His relief was obvious. In my opinion, Paulie is really a beaten but brave fighter who was "allowed" to keep his World Title to defend another day.
"Now, I want to go after the big money fights with anybody in my weight class even if it's a rematch with Ndougjo who claims he won. I know that I won," said Malignaggi in the post fight interview. "I know that I was a little slow tonight but that is because I have been off for almost seven months and I was a little rusty. So, I have to keep busy to look my best," he stated.
What's next for Paulie Malignaggi? The 140 pound field is wide open but he has to develop a better defense and more punching power because speed alone is not the answer when he comes up against boxer-punchers who can also punish your body.
Although, there is a facial resemblance and similar fighting style between Willie and Paulie, there is only "one" Willie Pep. Pep had a record of 230-11-1 draw, with 65 KO's, while winning 63 straight victories which included Chalky Wright's Featherweight title, before losing to Sammy Angott.
However, he went on to win another 73 straight fights before losing to the great Sandy Saddler. So as I stated previously, although Pep and Malignaggi do look alike and come from the same hometown in Sicily, Paulie Malignaggi is no Willie Pep.
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