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The Old Manassas Courthouse
Manassas, VA
Museum/Gallery, Historic/Landmark Building, Event Center, Vintage/Rustic
Starting from $2,273 to $3,773 for 50 guests
Step back in time with a wedding at the Old Manassas Courthouse, located within minutes of Old Town Manassas, VA. Located at the end of a peaceful lane lined with lush green grass and trees, bright blue and cheerful skies, covered, occasionally, with fluffy white clouds, step over the threshold into...
Gala Cuisine at Foxchase Manor
Manassas, VA
Mansion, Event Center, Ballrooms, Outdoor
Starting from $12,084 to $15,938 for 100 guests
Foxchase Manor is your one stop shop. The venue's seasoned team of event professionals ensures that a function of any size, whether it's for company training, team building, breakout sessions, sales meeting, company holiday party, a formal business meeting or a low-key day of team building, is flaw...
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The Founders Inn and Spa
Virginia Beach, VA
Park/Garden, Hotel/Resort, Ballrooms, Outdoor
Starting from $8,233 to $9,774 for 50 guests
The Founders Inn and Spa's name comes from the Founding Fathers who drafted the Constitution. The resort, located in Virginia Beach, features captivating Grand Georgian architecture and renowned art and antiques including noteworthy period furnishings. Celebrate life's most special occasions here wh...
Briar Patch Bed and Breakfast Inn
Middleburg, VA
Barn/Farm/Ranch, Historic/Landmark Building, Bed & Breakfast/Inn, Mountain, Vintage/Rustic, Outdoor
Starting from $7,950 to $12,800 for 50 guests
Nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains near the Shenandoah Valley, is Briar Patch Bed & Breakfast Inn, offering charm and hospitality to match its historic location. The Inn is a historic farm, circa 1805, on 47 rolling acres with majestic mountain views. Whether you envision a small g...
Sandbridge Realty
Virginia Beach, VA
Ocean/Waterfront View, Beach, Outdoor, Modern
A nautical wedding adventure awaits with Sandbridge Realty, where there are multiple properties located on the beach in Sandbridge, the southern part of Virginia Beach. With homes having the capacity to host dozens of guests each, you can keep your families and wedding parties together. The beach is...
Heritage Hunt Golf & Country Club
Gainesville, VA
Private Club, Ballrooms
Starting from $5,425 to $7,260 for 50 guests
Nestling in Gainesville, Virginia's Heritage Hunt community, the Heritage Hunt Golf & Country Club offers over 750 acres of lush land and a variety of different settings for your big day. Enjoy an enchanting lawn ceremony right in front of the grand Colonial-style clubhouse, creating a classic plant...
Potomac Point Winery
Stafford, VA
Winery/Vineyard/Brewery, Event Center, Park/Garden, Ballrooms, Vintage/Rustic, Outdoor
Starting from $15,361 to $25,403 for 50 guests
Potomac Point Winery is a Tuscan styled venue, nestled in the heart of Northern Virginia, just outside Washington, DC. Imagine your winery wedding with a panoramic view of rolling vineyards followed by a beautiful reception in our romantic venue. Potomac Point Winery is a Washingtonian Weddings Ma...
Boones Mill, VA
Private Estate, Outdoor
Starting from $9,425 to $15,353 for 50 guests
This beautiful, historic white clapboard home was built by Gus Boone in the late 1800's. Situated at the foot of Cahas Mountain, the terraced private gardens feature old stone walls adorned with more than 175 English boxwoods and many flowering plants. The property is set apart by many mature trees,...
Historic Rosemont
Berryville, VA
Mansion, Historic/Landmark Building, Event Center, Barn/Farm/Ranch, Bed & Breakfast/Inn, Outdoor
Now Open - Historic Rosemont Springs This Amish-built barn features a Virginia bluestone fireplace, garden terrace, crystal chandeliers and 10-foot waterfall, providing a gorgeous setting for your ceremony and reception. This venue can accommodate up to 400 guests and includes indoor bathrooms and ...
La Villa
Hamilton, VA
Vintage/Rustic, Historic/Landmark Building, Event Center, Park/Garden, Outdoor
Starting from $7,877 to $9,268 for 50 guests
Celebrate your special day at La Villa, a gorgeous venue located in the picturesque countryside of Hamilton, Virginia. Featuring over 90 acres of private land with sprawling lawns, impeccably landscaped gardens, and forests, this grand estate provides a stunning backdrop for outdoor wedding ceremoni...
The Tides Inn
Irvington, VA
Ocean/Waterfront View, Hotel/Resort, Event Center, Bed & Breakfast/Inn, Outdoor
Starting from $12,151 to $14,415 for 50 guests
Set on its own lush peninsula with the Potomac River to the north, the Rappahannock River to the south, and historic Chesapeake Bay to the east, the Tides Inn provides a Virginia luxury setting perfect for an unforgettable wedding ceremony and reception. Imagine walking down a grassy aisle surrounde...
Hunt Club Farm
Virginia Beach, VA
Barn/Farm/Ranch, Event Center, Park/Garden, Plantation, Vintage/Rustic, Outdoor
Starting from $4,294 to $7,086 for 50 guests
Hunt Club Farm is the picture perfect place to celebrate your special day with family and friends. We offer Vintage Barn Receptions that are second to none in the Tidewater area. Our Greenhouse Pavilion and it's beautiful grounds make a prefect back drop for receptions with a garden party touch. We ...
The Tower Club Tysons Corner
Tysons, VA
Event Center, City/Skyline View, Ballrooms, Modern
Starting from $7,203 to $9,660 for 50 guests
Newly renovated, Tower Club Tysons sits in the heart of Northern Virginia on the 17th floor with sweeping views of the city skyline that blends with the facility's sleek and contemporary furnishings for the perfect backdrop to your big day. Luxurious and convenient, Tower Club is only 30 minutes fro...
The John Marshall Ballrooms
Richmond, VA
Historic/Landmark Building, Event Center, Ballrooms
Starting from $6,533 to $10,613 for 50 guests
The Hotel John Marshall opened in 1929 as the largest hotel in Virginia. Its rooms welcomed Elizabeth Taylor, Mary Tyler Moore, and Elvis Presley along with political figures such as Presidents Nixon, Ford, and Carter. After sitting vacant for over 20 years the building recently underwent a total r...
Montfair Resort Farm
Crozet, VA
Barn/Farm/Ranch, Outdoor
Starting from $5,898 to $9,247 for 50 guests
Located on 129 private acres and just 30 minutes from Charlottesville, VA, Montfair Resort Farm is a charming, one of a kind venue to share your special celebration with family and friends. Our relaxed atmosphere and flexible indoor/outdoor ceremony and reception spaces feature dramatic mountain and...
Top of the Town
Arlington, VA
Outdoor, Event Center, City/Skyline View, Ballrooms
Starting from $6,243 to $12,039 for 50 guests
Offering an unrivaled view of the Nation's Capital, as well as spectacular architecture that is sure to impress guests, Top of the Town is one of the premier event spaces in Washington D.C. You and your guests will be greeted by a grand marble foyer and hallway, making a distinct impression as soon ...
Dover Hall
Manakin-Sabot, VA
Mansion, Historic/Landmark Building, Private Estate, Park/Garden, Ballrooms, Outdoor
Starting from $13,599 to $25,478 for 50 guests
Dover Hall, a private estate located in the rolling hills of Manakin-Sabot, Virginia, is the perfect space for your elegant and luxurious wedding ceremony and reception. This English Tudor estate and its grounds are more than just a stunning setting—the hall was built to be the perfect place for yo...
House Mountain Inn
Lexington, VA
Private Estate, Hotel/Resort, Bed & Breakfast/Inn, Mountain, Vintage/Rustic, Outdoor
Starting from $6,382 to $11,326 for 50 guests
A premier wedding destination tucked into 1,000 private acres of an Mountain preserve, House Mountain Inn is located in the Shenandoah Valley and offers the balance of coziness and majestic elegance. The rustic log cabin flaunts 15,000 square feet of space with lavish exterior gardens, picturesque f...
Hilton Garden Inn Virginia Beach Oceanfr...
Virginia Beach, VA
Ocean/Waterfront View, Banquet Hall/Restaurant, Hotel/Resort, Beach, Ballrooms, Modern
Starting from $3,783 to $7,783 for 50 guests
Say "I do," to a romantic Virginia beach wedding. Celebrate your nuptials in a modern Virginia Beach Boardwalk hotel at The Hilton Garden Inn Virginia Beach Oceanfront. Our Sun Deck Ceremony space is the perfect setting for an outdoor ceremony area at the beach but not on the beach. As you capture ...
Barboursville Vineyards
Barboursville, VA
Winery/Vineyard/Brewery, Banquet Hall/Restaurant, Historic/Landmark Building, Plantation, Bed & Brea...
Starting from $9,720 to $12,674 for 50 guests
Nestled on a 900-acre plantation framed by the magnificent Southwest Mountains, Barboursville Vineyards offers a singular venue rich in both natural beauty and historic charm. Envision you and your beloved exchanging your most sacred vows in a beautifully manicured meadow with the Palladian ruins o...
High View Farm
Nellysford, VA
Barn/Farm/Ranch, Vintage/Rustic, Outdoor
Starting from $4,544 to $7,097 for 50 guests
Set among 27 picturesque acres of rolling meadows and wooded hills in the Blue Ridge Mountains, High View Farm offers a beautiful setting for your once in a lifetime event. This bucolic venue, located in Virginia's Nelson County, features several stunning spaces where you can hold your ceremony or r...
Bowling Green Country Club
Front Royal, VA
Vintage/Rustic, Banquet Hall/Restaurant, Golf Course, Ballrooms, Mountain, Outdoor
Starting from $2,552 to $8,244 for 50 guests
Nestled in the northern neck of the Shenandoah Valley, against the backdrop of the striking Blue Ridge Mountains and landscape dotted by historic 19th century farmhouses, lies picturesque Bowling Green Country Club. For over 20 years, the club has matured amidst the beautiful foliage, scenic vistas,...
Eagleview Event Center
Elk Creek, VA
Barn/Farm/Ranch, Event Center, Mountain, Vintage/Rustic, Outdoor
Starting from $3,434 to $5,474 for 50 guests
Rustic Elegant Wedding Barn and Small Event Center located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Our wedding barn can comfortably accommodate 225 people for a reception and ceremony, featuring grand crystal chandeliers, a 3,000 square foot deck with stunning views of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Fo...
Heartstone Lodge and Retreat Center
Lexington, VA
Barn/Farm/Ranch, Event Center, Mountain, Vintage/Rustic, Outdoor
Starting from $6,176 to $7,891 for 50 guests
Make it a relaxing getaway for everyone when you host your wedding at Heartstone Lodge and Retreat Center. Nestled in the rolling farmlands at the southern end of the Shenandoah Valley, Heartstone Lodge and Retreat Center exudes a country chic ambiance that is unparalleled in the area. Only 4 miles ...
The Woodlands at Algonkian
Sterling, VA
Golf Course, Event Center, Park/Garden, Outdoor
Starting from $7,562 to $12,777 for 50 guests
The Woodlands at Algonkian provides a beautifully natural setting for a picturesque wedding on 850 acres of parkland in Northern Virginia. Nestled by the wooded banks of the Potomac River, this unique wedding venue offers you plentiful space for a ceremony and reception. If you choose to have an out...
Blue Mountain Lodge
Linden, VA
Mountain, Outdoor
Starting from $3,796 to $8,126 for 50 guests
Situated on a cliff overlooking the Shenandoah Valley, Blue Mountain Lodge is a distinct venue, ideal for your wedding celebration. Host a romantic ceremony on one of the surrounding scenic overlooks. Look deep into the eyes of your beloved as you declare your love with the sky above you and loved o...
Taubman Museum of Art
Roanoke, VA
Museum/Gallery, Historic/Landmark Building, City/Skyline View, Mountain, Modern
Starting from $3,280 to $10,672 for 50 guests
The striking architecture of the Taubman Museum of Art combined with magnificent views of the Blue Ridge Mountains and the vibrancy of Downtown Roanoke guarantee your wedding will be an unforgettable, one-of-a-kind experience. The Taubman boasts stunning, flexible spaces that can be arranged accordi...
Wolftrap Farm
Gordonsville, VA
Private Estate, Barn/Farm/Ranch, Mountain, Vintage/Rustic, Outdoor
Starting from $5,758 to $9,943 for 50 guests
Simple, beautiful, private and affordable. Wolf Trap Farm offers a stunning site for outdoor weddings, with accommodations for close to 60 guests in the Manor House and six luxurious cottages on site. Our two Barn/Pavilions offer you a beautiful, rustic, indoor/outdoor reception facility, with lovel...
Rust Manor House
Leesburg, VA
Private Estate, Historic/Landmark Building, Outdoor
Rust Manor House in Leesburg, Virginia is a venue with true style and grace. This elegant home provides your wedding with a touch of history and glamour. The venue is situated amongst 68-acres of woods and meadows and is filled with picturesque sites to capture your special day. The interior of the ...
The Atrium at Meadowlark
Vienna, VA
Park/Garden, Event Center, Outdoor, Modern
Starting from $9,425 to $17,184 for 50 guests
Perfectly nestled within the Meadowlark Botanical Gardens, the Atrium at Meadowlark offers a unique venue for soon-to-be-wed couples. Whether you're hosting a ceremony or reception, you can channel the ambiance of the outdoors at any time of year! The building, boasting three walls of glass and towe...
Prince William County Historic Preservat...
Dumfries, VA
Museum/Gallery, Historic/Landmark Building, Ballrooms, Vintage/Rustic, Outdoor
Starting from $4,271 to $6,932 for 50 guests
Prince William County Historic Preservation Division has three beautiful historic properties where you can host an unforgettable wedding celebration for an affordable price. Its largest venue is the Rippon Lodge Historic Site. Built in 1747, this beautiful home will provide the perfect backdrop for ...
The Bellevue Conference & Event Center
Chantilly, VA
Banquet Hall/Restaurant, Event Center, Ballrooms
Have the upscale ballroom wedding of your dreams with the help of The Bellevue Conference & Event Center! Located in Chantilly, Virginia, The Bellevue Conference & Event Center features four luxurious ballrooms for you to choose. With each boasting a magnificent crystal chandelier, high ceilings and...
Middleburg United Methodist Church
Middleburg, VA
Church/Temple, Event Center
Starting from $2,060 to $4,892 for 50 guests
Middleburg United Methodist Church is an historic town church, built in 1856. Enjoy ministry in a beautiful small community while looking for and participating in ways to reach out to others in the region and throughout the world. The church offers much to those who seek to learn and grow in faith w...
Hilton Springfield
Springfield, VA
Starting from $6,114 to $9,864 for 50 guests
Your "Happily Ever After" begins at the Hilton Springfield, where personalized service and a beautiful location will create a charming backdrop for your special day. Conveniently located just outside the District, the contemporary Hilton Springfield features modern decor paired with elements of a wa...
Warwick Yacht & Country Club
Newport News, VA
Ocean/Waterfront View, Private Club
Starting from $8,621 to $11,311 for 50 guests
Since 1960, the Warwick Yacht and Country Club has been a beacon in the Newport News community of boaters and like-minded individuals who enjoy getting together and have a good time. Situated on Deep Creek at the junction of the James and Warwick River, the Clubhouse features a dining room, bar, and...


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Thursday we left for ETSU, it wasn't a bad bus ride. We stopped for dinner at Perkins, which is where we always go when we go through East Tennessee. After dinner we were on our way to the hotel. Mackie and I got to share a room this weekend, we were in the business suite. We didn't have to be up too early so we read our Nicholas Sparks books, watched a little bit of "Man vs. Wild" and Jersey Shore.
Woke up for breakfast at 9:30 then had some more down time before we left at 12:30 for lunch. Mackie went back to sleep and I watched some TV and killed some time. We got Jason's Deli for lunch and of course ice cream, it's a must when we go there.
Then we headed to the field to take on ETSU. The first game we ended the game in the fifth inning with a 9-0 score, we were on our A-game. The second game went well too J.J. came out and pitched well and we won that game 9-2. After the game we headed to Chili's for dinner, since we swept we got to get chips and queso. Yes, our team is easily bribed with food. Dessert is the most common form of bribery for us. After dinner we went back, showered up and went to sleep.
We were all super excited to play USC Upstate Saturday, unfortunately because of the rain the game got pushed back to Sunday. We headed for lunch at McAlister's on Saturday, after it was confirmed that we weren't going to get to play we needed to stop at Walmart for candy and some other things. Mollie and Haybale bought the "game of things". That was so fun. You get a topic and write up your own answer and someone has to guess who wrote that answer. There was a lot of laughter coming from our room that afternoon. After we played Mackie and I went back to our room and lounged around until dinner. We ate at Olive Garden that night and after the meal Myers stole my chocolate mints. Luckily the waiter gave me two more. After trying to bite her hand to get my chocolate back she gave me one so we each had three.
Sunday we woke up and were ready to take on Upstate. We started the day off right and ate lunch at Panera. After lunch we headed to the field. It was freezing there, the wind chill was bad. When the first pitch was thrown by Morgan Childers there was no doubt who wanted the game more. Every single one of us was on the fence ready to go. The first game ended with a score of 7-3.
The second game they threw a freshman against us, our goal was to make them bring Childers back in the game. We got what we wanted. She came back in to pitch in the fourth inning. It was a battle in the beginning. There was a lot of fight back and forth. Going into the seventh inning we were winning 7-6. We knew we needed more runs though. Mollie hit a three-run homer and then Caroline came up right after her and hit a solo shot. We won that game 11-6.
We have a mid-week doubleheader Tuesday against Western Kentucky then jump right back into conference play again with Campbell on Friday.
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MetroPCS is stepping up their game in the smartphone department. They've now added the BlackBerry Curve 8530 to their list of smartphones. They are offering the the Curve 8530 with a low flat-rate $60 a month plan which includes Unlimited Talk, Text, Web, Data, Email and GPS. I had MetroPCS for a while previously to owning my AT&T Curve 8520 and I will admit, if you live in a south eastern state, then it is a great and reliable service.
I've been hoping for a while that all of the big companies would stop penny pinching and do exactly as MetroPCS, Cricket, and Virgin Mobile do which is offer their plans as a flat-rate fee with true unlimited services. However, I do think if people continue to pay for the services they offer now, they won't have any reason to drop their rates; It's business.


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(Special to The Root) — "To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships."
Those were the words of W.E.B. Du Bois in 1903, six years before he co-founded the NAACP to ensure the "political, educational, social and economic equality of all citizens." For more than a century, the NAACP has made economic justice central to the struggle for civil rights.
In his latest piece on The Root, Jamal Simmons critiqued the NAACP for our upcoming national convention title, "We Shall Not Be Moved," a perceived lack of focus on economic issues and lack of vision and ingenuity in addressing these issues in the 21st century. As director of the NAACP Economic Department, I believe a brief review of the NAACP's long history and present efforts in fighting for economic justice is in order.
The NAACP has fought tirelessly for more than a century for economic equality. In the 1940s through the 1960s, the NAACP successfully fought against employment discrimination in the federal government. And in 1963 we co-organized the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, an event that had economic justice at its core, though this is often not remembered.
In the latter 20th century, the NAACP was holding corporations accountable for their diversity in hiring and procurement. And we have continued this legacy in the 21st century with our recent relaunch of the NAACP's economic report cards on corporate diversity and inclusion. The first report card, released last year, graded the top hotels on their diversity practices and made recommendations for how the industry can create more jobs and wealth-building opportunities in communities of color.
The NAACP has also taken a leadership role in dealing with predatory lending and the foreclosure crisis. We were among the first organizations to sue the national major banks for predatory lending in our communities and have developed fair-lending mortgage principles, which Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Citibank and Chase Bank have all signed on to, and which we monitor through home-mortgage disclosure data.
Financial education is also at the center of the NAACP's contemporary economic work. We have hosted hundreds of economic workshops and webinars around money management, diversity and inclusion, wealth building, fair lending and entrepreneurship at the national, state and local levels. We connect thousands to Job Fairs and Financial Advocacy and Community Tours (which connect folks to local economic resources) nationwide. And just recently, we hosted the Good Jobs Green Jobs Preconference to discuss connecting people of color to the green economy.
I publish weekly financial education columns for BET.com and appear monthly on national and local radio and television discussing economic fairness and opportunity. And updates on our department's ongoing work are featured in our bimonthly newsletter, the Angle.
We recognize coalitions as fundamental to economically strengthening all Americans and partner with various economic organizations and communities. The NAACP helped coordinate the One Nation Working Together rally in Washington, D.C.; NAACP North Carolina was recently a leading force in the fifth annual HK on J march in North Carolina; and the NAACP was a co-convener of the We Are One conference in Phoenix. At We Are One, we convened African-American and Latino leaders nationwide to discuss a progressive economic agenda that strengthens bonds between black and brown communities.
This year the NAACP commemorates the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Since the historic march, considerable gains have been made, but we cannot ignore the erosions in these gains: Racial economic inequality is at its highest in decades, with high black and brown unemployment, low homeownership rates and low wealth (pdf).
And similar to both the National Action Network and the Urban League, we have placed these economic challenges at the forefront of our work, approaching them with pragmatism and also innovative solutions. But unfortunately, our contributions were not recognized in Jamal Simmons' article.
So while Simmons and others are certainly entitled to their preferences regarding the title of our national convention, "We Shall Not be Moved," I personally believe that at this particular point in time, the NAACP's commitment to economic justice and greater racial inclusion has never been stronger.
Dedrick Muhammad is the senior director of the NAACP Economic Department.
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Every gamer worth their salt has done something irrefutably dumb during a game. Chalk it up to the effects of a 10 hour-long marathon session, child-like naivete, or good old-fashioned ignorance, but these mistakes define us as gamers. Just as our parents' generation asked the question, "Where were you when JFK was assassinated?" our generation will pose a similarly important query: Where were you when you discovered you could shoot food in Gauntlet?
Here are some of the stupidest things gamers have done since the dawn of videogames, along with a handy stupidity index rating. Remember, there is no such thing as stupid people, just stupid moments in gaming.
The Stupid Moment: Running out of ammo and then saving the game before the final boss
The Game: Resident Evil
The original Resident Evil's focus on horror was executed by pitting gamers against hordes of monsters with limited ammo; what's scarier than wondering if you'll have enough bullets to kill the next monstrosity? I'll tell you what: saving the game before the last boss only to realize you don't have enough ammo to take him down.
This frustration is exacerbated by the fact that you have to fight the final boss not once, but twice in quick succession. Sure, the Tyrant is a bit sluggish in the first battle after his test-tube nap is rudely interrupted, but on the helipad he can dash around and skewer you. Even if you manage to take him out the first time with nothing but a knife, chances are you'll perish waiting for Chicken Heart Brad to drop the rocket launcher. So, time to man up and start the game from scratch, learning a valuable lesson: Don't kill zombies with your bazooka, Rambo.
The Stupid Moment: Destroying health-restoring items
The Game: Gauntlet
Sure, the original coin-op classic let the kids with the richest parents basically pump in buckets of tokens for unending health, but every credit counted for those of us who had only $5 to spend before leaving the hallowed neon ground of the arcade. It was all the more horrifying, then, to discover that the health-restoring food found amidst the game's keys and hordes of ghosts could be shot and destroyed. Then insult was added to injury when the booming voice that accompanied the turkey-trashing taunted us for our poor aim.
Most arcade rats remember accidentally shooting the food during the oft-hectic battles that raged during each level. Collateral damage in Gauntlet could be measured not by civilian body count, but by the number of whole turkeys decimated during the rush to a level's conspicuously marked "Exit."
Then there were those douchebags who would shoot the food to spite you, knowing full well you were running low on health (and tokens). All you could hope for was the jerk to mistakenly insert his tokens into your character's assigned coin slot, netting you health and the chance to repay the favor. Wizard needs food badly? Too f'n bad.
The Stupid Moment: Throwing away important information included with the game
The Game: StarTropics
Before Al Gore invented the Internet, we had just three ways to glean game secrets: friends, magazines, and strategy guides. Either we called up a pal to learn the trick to beating a tough boss, waited for our monthly subscription to Nintendo Power to arrive, or blew two weeks of allowance on a strategy guide. One game in particular came with not only a unique method of endowing gamers with vital knowledge, but also the possibility of screwing them over.
A password required to progress in the game StarTropics was included with the instructions, written on a letter from protagonist Mike Jones' uncle. And if you think that was savvy, the only way to make the numerical code appear was to douse the map with water. Back then, it seemed like everything could be made cooler simply by spritzing it with water and making it change: winter gloves, T-shirts, and yes, even secret maps for NES tapes.
The downside to this was when your mom would tear through your room "cleaning" and ended up tossing the secret map in the trash before you had a chance to write it down or use it. Even worse, you might not have pieced this together at all, despite the game's clues. Sorry Mike Jones, but your submarine ain't going anywhere no matter how hard you hit the robot pilot with your strangely powerful yo-yo.
The Stupid Moment: Copying down the wrong password after hours of playing
The Game: Mega Man
Modern gamers are spoiled by memory cards, save states and ridiculously large hard drives where the only possible reason to own one is to store hundreds of gigs of porn. Old-school gamers were stuck using passwords. If you wanted to pick up where you last died? You broke out a pen and paper and copied down long strings of alphanumeric sequences that make Wii Friend Codes look reasonable.
Capcom, ever the industry innovator, decided those number- and letter-based passwords just weren't good enough. It implemented a convoluted system that required gamers to draw a five-by-five tic-tac-toe board on scratch paper and color in specific squares with red orbs. This led to widespread facepalming as kids, eagerly anticipating a showdown with Dr. Wily, discovered that they had misplaced a red orb (or three) and had to face off with all his robot masters again. Plus, never having a working red marker for art class made for pathetic drawings of Mario that your teacher assumed was an actual plumber or an unflattering picture of your dad.


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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (June 30, 2011) – The ETSU baseball team continued to pile on the post-season accolades as both juniors Bo Reeder (Cookeville, Tenn.) and Dylan Pratt (Johnson City, Tenn.) received American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA)/Rawlings All-South Region First Team honors. Reeder was also selected as an ABCA/Rawlings Second Team All-American utility player.
The All-South Region selections are only the third in the program's history. Reeder was tabbed a First Team relief pitcher ahead of Matt Price from the 2011 National Champion South Carolina Gamecocks, while Dylan Pratt was taken as a First Team designated hitter.
Reeder also became only the second Buccaneer to earn ABCA/Rawlings All-American honors joining Caleb Moore who was selected as a Second Team utility player in 2005.
The junior right-hander led the country in saves for most of the season finishing with an Atlantic Sun single season record of 18. Reeder also had a strong season at the plate hitting .316 with 16 doubles, 15 home runs and a team-best 59 RBI.
Pratt also had an outstanding season offensively finishing second on the squad with 57 runs batted in while posting a .311 average and 15 home runs. The junior will head to Omaha, Neb. this weekend to compete in the 2nd Annual TD AMERITRADE College Home Run Derby at TD AMERITRADE Park.
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|Watch President Liebowitz's talk to alumni about recent developments at the College.
Hundreds of alumni returned to campus during Homecoming 2013 to participate in events, enjoy a thrilling Middlebury football game, and reconnect with the College on a cool and breezy autumn weekend.
Among the festivities were receptions for alumni and guests; planning sessions for reunion classes; an open house at 118 South Main Street where creativity and innovation, community engagement, social entrepreneurship, and MiddCORE are at the fore; an arts discussion between Professor Jay Parini and PBS journalist Jeffrey Brown; and student and alumni panel discussions.
On Saturday morning President Ron Liebowitz updated alumni about how Middlebury is defining a liberal arts education for the 21st century. There were alumni leadership workshops, film screenings, a new storytelling event called "Cocoon," and open houses at the Organic Farm and 2011 Solar Decathlon House. Also in abundance was music — jazz, a capella, and chamber music performances all weekend-long, capped off by dancing into the wee hours at the Black Pearl Ball in Coltrane Lounge.
At the opening reception for the new Squash Center, President Liebowitz said the spectacular, nine-court facility – and the new Field House under construction – are the first buildings in the history of the College to be fully funded by donors. "We started this project and said it would not go forward until we had commitments in hand — $46 million for the field house and squash center combined — so thank you to all the donors. We did that without financing, without loans, and we're very proud of that."
With an audience of about 150 people on hand for Squash Center reception, the president also thanked the parents of current and former squash players for coming to the event. "It's wonderful to see this building completed," he said enthusiastically, "and it is exciting to conceive of how it will be used in the future."
Homecoming would not be complete without a football game, and the 2013 contest against Trinity College did not disappoint. Under partly cloudy skies with nearly 2,000 fans in Alumni Stadium, the lead exchanged hands six times before Middlebury went out in front, 27-24, with a minute left to play. Trinity threated to score again, but the Panther "D" held firm, thus ending the visitors' 14-game winning streak and giving Middlebury (5-1) a share of first place in the conference.
Sunday's activities included brunch at Carr Hall, an open house at the Snow Bowl, and a Halloween family event at the Mahaney Center for the Arts, as Middlebury bid adieu to its alumni and friends.
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Allyson Reneau has spent the last couple of decades majoring in being a mom, but the mother of 11 from Oklahoma is resuming her academic career in style - at Harvard.
Reneau dropped out of the University of Oklahoma in 1981 to get married and raise a family, but the now-50-year-old Oklahoma City woman will begin graduate classes at Harvard on Monday. She'll fly to Massachusetts once a week to do her classwork. Her major: International Relations.
"Sometimes those dreams, you bury them," Reneau told The Associated Press. "You get so busy raising your family that you forget your identity."
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Reneau, whose children range in age from 6 to 29, was a stay-at-home mom for 20 years. When she went back to finish her bachelor's degree, she juggled work and kids, going straight from classes at OU to work. When she got home in the evenings, she would feed her family and spend time with them before starting homework.
An unidentified benefactor is paying for her flights, leaving on Monday mornings, attending class on Monday nights and flying back home on Tuesdays.
The first time Reneau applied for graduate school at Harvard, she was rejected. She had nearly given up hope in April, but a friend encouraged her to keep trying. She applied for a different master's degree program, this one in international relations, and was accepted.


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Pregnancy is a beautiful journey that brings a new life, or lives, into this world. But, that doesn't mean every aspect of this journey is pretty, or wonderful, or easy. New mom to be, Line Severinsen, hilariously sketched many of the oddities she encountered while pregnant with her first child. Her visual diary of pregnancy is so relatable to any woman who has been pregnant. Keep clicking through. Laugh and share!
This first photo depicts many of the comments a woman hears while pregnant. Obviously people are not trying to be mean, or rude, yet they make us stop and think "what do I resond to this?!". Oh, the joys!
The shoe struggle is so real for many pregnant woment! "I started this cartoon as a personal diary," the Norwegian mom-of-two told BuzzFeed Life. "I was feeling sick and tired all through my first trimester while all I saw online and in magazines were these picture perfect, happy, pregnant super-women."
So many women were not warned about how inconvinient pregnancy could be! A simple thing like bending down to pick up something dropped, will now become a high indurance activity! An activity, we should add, with a pretty low success rate for many women. We will get frustrated, often. Haha
Why is that so many random strangers want to touch our bellies?! This is such an odd thing to get used to. Imagine, you are walking through a grocery store and a stranger comes up to you and asks you if they can touch your belly. Sometimes people won't even ask, they will just reach out! Unbelievable, I know. During your pregnancy you will likely encounter these situations. Get ready!
Your awkward encounters won't stop with stranges, you will also have many awkward moments with your own body! Shaving will become nearly impossible, and many women felt unperpaird for that. Line thought to her self; "I knew there had to be other women out there who felt as not-perfect as I did."
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Obviously during pregnancy your body will change. But the extent to which it changes was shocking for a lot of women. Obviously larger shirts and pants was a known thing. But so many women didn't expect to not have their shoes fit or event their rings. Pregnancy should focus on getting as comfortable as you can with your ever changing body. So proudly rock whatever outfit you throw together each day, mommies.
Oh and don't think these changes to your body will just be physical. There will be many emotional changes, too! We think Line Severinsen is nailing the whole pregnancy experience pretty perfectly. What about you? Can you relate with any or all of these comics? If so, make sure to check out more of her work on her Instagram page, as well as her Facebook page!


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News stories gave some good news about Caltrain and other area public transit agencies.
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Minnesota coach Jerry Kill returned to the sideline one week after suffering a seizure against Western Illinois and his team welcomed him back by rising to the occasion against San Jose State.
Freshman quarterback Mitch Leidner ran for 151 yards and four touchdowns as the cooly efficient Gophers pounded the Spartans, 43-24.
For all the talk about Kill's health, he's showing that he — and his team — can handle it. Minnesota piled up 353 rushing yards on offense while its defense held the Spartans to just one of nine on third down conversions. The Gophers didn't turn the ball over once and held the ball for 41 minutes..
Kill has to be encouraged by the play of Leidner. The 6-foot-4, 233-pounder is a tough, grind-it-out type of runner, in the mold of Collin Klein, whose improvement as a passer should pay huge dividends down the road.
Minnesota is now 4-0 for the second-straight season and looks like a good bet to get back to a bowl. Hopefully Kill can continued to manage his health and be there to see all his hard work pay off.


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Parliament formerly dissolved and local elections done with results coming in. May trying to make it the Brexit election (or went to the polls becuase polling has her between a 16-20 lead on Labour), looks like Corbyn and May will both avoid the TV debates.
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Sat 23 May 2020
Castle Howard Traction Engine Rally returns in 2020 on the 23rd-25th May 2020.
Malton Food Lovers Festival
Sat 23 May 2020
Set across the streets of Yorkshire's Food Capital, Malton Food Lovers Festival is a celebration of the finest Yorkshire produce and cooking.
Bay Folk Weekend
Fri 5 Jun 2020
Robin Hood's Bay - Folk Weekend Friday, Saturday & Sunday 5th - 6th - 7th June 2020
Yorkshire CCC v Lancashire CCC
Sun 14 - Wed 17 Jun 2020
Yorkshire v Lancashire - Specsavers County Championship
Armed Forces Day National Event
Sat 27 Jun 2020
Scarborough will host The National Armed Forces Day on the 27th June 2020.
Fri 17 - Sun 19 Jul 2020
Celebrate Seafest the annual maritime festival in South Bay Scarborough.
Whitby Steampunk Weekend
Fri 24 - Sun 26 Jul 2020
Whitby Steampunk Weekend is extremely pleased to announce that this biannual festival will be held every February half term and the last week in July.
Staithes and Runswick RNLI Lifeboat Weekend
Fri 31 Jul 2020
Staithes and Runswick RNLI lifeboat team hold a fundraising weekend in August each year to raise money for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.
Whitby Traction Engine Rally
Fri 31 Jul 2020
The venue, for Whitby Traction Engine Rally, is located next to Whitby Abbey, approximately 5 minutes walk from the centre of the popular tourist town of Whitby.
Whitby Regatta 2020
Sat 15 - Mon 17 Aug 2020
The Whitby Regatta presents to you a full weekend of entertainment, embracing yacht racing, rowing races and various free forms of entertainment as published in the official programme, finishing with a prize presentation and spectacular fir
Scarborough Golf Week
Sun 6 - Fri 11 Sep 2020
Scarborough Golf Week has been established since 1921 and has been attracting golfers to the picturesque North Yorkshire coast year after year, held annually on the first full week in September.
Trackrod Rally - Yorkshire 2020
Fri 25 Sep 2020
Trackrod Rally Yorkshire are pleased to announce that the 2020 event will return to Filey on the 25th-26th September 2020.
NYMR - Railway in Wartime
Fri 9 - Sun 11 Oct 2020
The centrepiece of the Pickering events calendar is the ever-popular Wartime Weekend, which is held every October, and includes a full programme of WWII and 1940s themed entertainment and events.


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Chain Reaction finds and plugs security hole that led to fraud
Bike site gets back on track
Popular UK-based biking site ChainReactionCycles.com has confirmed that a security breach on its systems led to fraud against its customers.
Some of the cyclists who shopped with the site earlier this month noticed fraud against their credit cards days later, normally fraudulent purchases of mobile phone top-ups costing around £30. The common factor behind these fraudulent transactions quickly emerged, largely via discussions on bike enthusiast forums, as recent purchases at the North Ireland-based cycle outfit.
Chain Reaction Cycles (CRC) responded to the reports by calling in outside help and launching an investigation. Security experts have since identified a problem on CRC's systems that is likely to have resulted in the security breach and subsequent fraud.
CRC has plugged the hole and tightened up its systems. In an email to two-wheel enthusiasts, forwarded to El Reg, CRC apologised for the snafu and offered a goodwill gesture of a free £30 voucher to affected customers.
The independent forensic investigation has shown that our infrastructure was the target of a sophisticated attack which resulted in the theft of card details relating to a number of our customers.
Details were being stolen 'real time' and only a small proportion of recent CRC customers were affected. The access point of the theft has been identified and permanently closed off so we are confident that we have fully addressed any weakness in our infrastructure.
Banking regulations in the UK mean that victims should be able to reclaim fraudulently charged purchases, although this may involve a degree of inconvenience and short-term hassle, possibly involving the replacement of compromised cards and a wait until funds are returned. CRC deserves credit for responding quickly to reports of problems, bringing in experts to initiate an investigation, and keeping customers updated about what was happening throughout. Other firms responding to similar instances of fraud have been far less open and professional. ®
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Multivitamins fail to prevent heart problems
- Study is the largest to examine vitamins and heart disease
- Same study found daily multivitamins reduced cancer risk
- Some people take vitamins but ignore lifestyle changes, doctors say
Dashing the hopes of those who hope to pop a pill to prevent heart disease, doctors announced Monday that daily multivitamins don't stave off cardiovascular problems, such as heart attacks, stroke or death.
The findings, published in The Journal of the American Medical Association and presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions in Los Angeles, come from the only large-scale, long-term trial of its kind, called the Physicians' Health Study II.
"Vitamin supplements will never be a substitute for a healthy diet," says study co-author JoAnn Manson, chief of preventive medicine at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital and a professor at Harvard Medical School. "While some people may need supplementation, it's not necessary for most of the population."
STORY:Multivitamins may lower cancer risk in men
The new study, which followed 14,661 male doctors for more than 11 years, had slightly more positive results for cancer. That part of the study, published last month, found that men who took multivitamins lowered their risk of cancer by 8%.
Vitamins are increasingly popular. About 39% of Americans took a multivitamin in 2003-06, up from 30% in 1988-94, according to an accompanying editorial. More than half of adults take at least one dietary supplement and 10% take more than five.
As an industry, dietary supplements have grown from $4 billion a year in 1994 to nearly $24 billion in 2008, according to the editorial. Because regulation of dietary supplements is less strict than for other drugs, makers of these pills are often able to make exaggerated claims about their benefits, with little to no evidence to back them up, writes the editorial's author, Eva Lonn, of McMaster University in Ontario, Canada.
Recent studies have largely failed to find much benefit from dietary supplements, however, whether taken as a single vitamin or multivitamin. High doses of vitamin E, vitamin C, betacarotene, selenium and B vitamins all failed to prevent cancer, according to carefully done studies. Studies of high-dose vitamin E have found that it actually increased the risk of stroke and prostate cancer.
Those results have frustrated and confused many consumers, partly because earlier studies suggested so many benefits for vitamins.
Studies like the one published today show the importance of conducting rigorous tests in which patients are randomly assigned to one health intervention or another, with neither patients nor their doctors knowing which group they're in, says Christopher Cannon, also a Harvard professor of medicine and a cardiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital.
These randomized, controlled trials — considered the gold standard of medical evidence — often disprove trends suggested by "observational" studies, in which researchers merely follow patients over time, says Cannon, who wasn't involved in the new study.
"We're not surprised by these results, but they don't discount the many other benefits that multivitamins provide, including filling nutrient gaps, helping prevent neural-tube birth defects, and serving in combination with other healthy habits as a basic and affordable insurance policy for overall wellness," says Duffy MacKay, vice president for scientific affairs at the Council for Responsible Nutrition, an industry group.
McKay says the findings may not apply to everyone. That's because the doctors in the study were extremely healthy to begin with. So a modest improvement in health from vitamins might not be noticeable. "Unfortunately, this study population is not representative of your average American," McKay says.
Studies show that most people who take vitamins are leaner and more physically active than other people, McKay says.
Cardiologist Suzanne Steinbaum, director of women and heart disease at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York, says she hopes the study will remind people of the importance of the essentials, such as eating sensibly, exercising and avoiding tobacco, even if these changes are difficult for many Americans to make.
"Every single time, the most compelling prevention trials are in lifestyle management," says Steinbaum, who wasn't involved in the new study.
Steinbaum points to the well-known Lyon Heart Study, published in 1999, which found that heart attack survivors assigned to eat a Mediterranean diet reduced their risk of another heart attack or death by 70% in just two years. The Mediterranean diet includes lots of lean protein such as fish and beans, as well as whole grains, vegetables and healthier fats.
"We've never seen anything like that" from a pill, Steinbaum says, whether it's a statin or a supplement.


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In fear of the SEO Gods
Fellow Web Professionals,
Sometimes I wonder why we focus so much on White Hat SEO when I see that my competition uses Black Hat tactics and is not penalised by Google or Bing.
Does an algorithm that is so awesome and complicated but at the same time is fair and just, really even exist or is it all about marketing?!?! Is it all about "the fear" of the algorithm, just as once people lived in fear of the wrath of the gods? Have the SEO Gods managed to make as believe that we will be penalised if we don't behave when in truth we will not? How can this be real when I see with my own eyes others that get great results by defying them?! Read More…


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So, I was inspired to write about the issue of control by some comments on The Fantasy of Being Thin thread, where people explicitly said things like, "My weight/eating feels like something I can control, even when I can't control anything else."
Oh, I have so many things to say about that. My first thought is, as you might have guessed, that the desire to control something is a classic explanation for disordered eating behavior.
My second thought is, "Man, we really need to get it through our heads that we're all going to die."
That might seem like a bit of a leap, but consider the hardcore calorie restriction folks — not mere dieters, but people who have chosen a lifestyle (CRON, or Calorie Restriction with Optimal Nutrition) that puts a minimal food intake front and center, based on research (mostly on vermin) that suggests it might substantially increase our life spans. In his New York Magazine article about this phenomenon (linked above), Julian Dibbell writes about having a dinner party with some members of the Calorie Restriction Society, where the conversation inevitably made its way here:
"Kurzweil thinks we will reach actuarial escape velocity pretty soon," says Don. "What do you think, Michael?"
Michael pauses to collect his thoughts, and while he does, let's fill in a blank or two. Ray Kurzweil is an occasionally best-selling futurist, given to flamboyant but well-researched predictions about the "transhumanist" century ahead of us, in which hyperbrainy artificial intelligence, fiendishly intricate nanorobotry, genome-twiddling Frankentech, and other incipient techno-marvels combine to reinvent humanity in the image of the machine. Swirling in the midst of it all is the key concept of "actuarial escape velocity," a transhumanist term for that moment in the acceleration of biomedical progress when, for every year you live, technology adds another year or more to your maximum life span. It's a tipping point that, theoretically at least, never stops tipping.
In other words, these people — and there are more than a few of them — sincerely believe that severely restricting their calories could lead to immortality. If calorie restriction can expand their life spans long enough for them to see "actuarial escape velocity" come about, they're home free.
That's not even quite as batshit as it sounds. There is a lot of research, if almost none on human subjects, suggesting the possibility of increased life span through extreme calorie restriction. And the thought that medical technology could eventually improve at a fast enough rate to keep people living well past what we ever imagined possible for human beings is… well, not completely insane.
Any discussion of "actuarial escape velocity" is incomplete without an acknowledgment that, just as vampires have stakes and sunlight and werewolves have silver bullets, human beings have and will always have accidents and violence. Lessons of the Futurama movie aside, it seems highly unlikely that technology will ever produce a cure for decapitation, for instance. Or for a knife or bullet or metal car part right through the heart. I mean, maybe, but… seriously? I'm not holding my breath. Or restricting my calories.
'Cause if we're only talking about an increased average life span — which is happening anyway — not bona fide immortality, then we need to talk about quality of life. Now, according to Dibbell, the CR folks will tell you their quality of life is awesome — they have better sex, the occasional hunger-induced bout of euphoria, improved vision, and a greater appreciation for food than those of us who aren't fucking desperate for it have. But they also literally have to build their lives around their diets. They have to plan and weigh all their meals to a degree that would make someone who did Weight Watchers in the '70s blanch. They have to be hyperaware of the caloric content of half a strawberry. They can't go to parties and merely alternate wine with Perrier or strategize about which appetizers will best fit in with their program and how many hours in the gym it will take to burn them off; they can't eat or drink booze they didn't plan for at all, lest they fuck up their project and, you know, not live forever.
And still, the really sick part is how familiar it all sounds, isn't it? The line between gung-ho dieting and immortality-seeking fringe behavior is a lot finer than you might expect.
Because of that, I know there's no way in hell I could ever put myself through that, even if it really did mean living 25 years longer than I would have otherwise — let alone forever. I know what it's like to be chronically hungry and obsessed with food, and Jesus, if you told me I had to do that for the rest of my life? Then the thought of an extra 25 years would just be fucking depressing. And the thought of immortality would have me hoping they never find a cure for decapitation, so at least there'd always be an out.
Oh, but wait — there are people telling me that's what I, and all fat people, are supposed to do for the rest of our lives. Remember Robert Haddocks, who firmly believes "most people are overweight by choice," and if you have the bad luck to be genetically predisposed to fatness, the obvious solution is to eat as little as it takes to be thin?
Never mind that for some fat people, there is no line between the calorie consumption required to be thin and out-and-out starvation. Reality check: when Dibbell decided to experiment with living an extreme calorie-restricted life, that meant 1800 calories a day — which is higher than where both Jenny Craig and Weight Watchers started me (1700 calories a day), let alone where they had me once I'd lost some weight (1200 a day). And one of the points he includes to make the CR people look less nutty is that they worried about him losing weight too fast and being too hungry — April Smith, the apparent queen of the CR movement, insisted he eat extra dessert after he stuck his finger in a bowl to rescue the last available molecules of ricotta.
Dibbell started out at 5'11" and "an almost officially overweight 178 pounds." I started out at 5'2″ and somewhere between 180 and 190 lbs., depending on which diet we're talking about. On my second major diet, I naturally plateaued while still in the "officially overweight" category, on 1200 calories a day. Just so we're clear.
The Calorie Restriction movement is not about weight loss. I'll give them that. But it is ultimately about exactly the same thing as dieting "for your health," and the endless campaign to make fat people quit being so goddamned fat, so as not to clog up the hospitals and hike up the good thin folks' insurance premiums: it's about a fantasy of control that goes as far — whether you consciously acknowledge it or not — as believing that if you eat a certain way, you will not get sick and die.
The CR Society fascinates me because they're actually honest about it. And yet, those are the people we look at and say, "Are you FUCKING KIDDING ME?" Not the people telling us weight loss is, for every human being, a simple matter of calories in/calories out. Not the people telling us that losing weight has massive health benefits for all but the underweight. Not the people telling us that fat people are, without a doubt, a burden on the health care system (whether that health care system is government-subsidized or not). Not the people telling us that getting sick is almost always our own damn fault. Not the people telling us that the solution to all of the above, and myriad other problems, is to consume fewer calories.
All of those people are sane and rational and just telling a hard truth that fatties don't want to acknowledge. But people who think extreme calorie restriction will extend their lives, maybe indefinitely? Cuh-RAZY!
I'm not saying they're not crazy, mind you. I'm just saying all those other people are, too. They've bought into an equally insidious fantasy in which self-control leads directly to extraordinary good health — and we never call that crazy. (Well, we do, but most people don't.) As far as I can tell, the main difference between someone practicing "Calorie Restriction with Optimal Nutrition" and someone on Jenny Craig is that the former will say flat out they're doing it because they don't want to die, ever, whereas the latter will just make some noise about wanting to live to see her kids grow up — as if no fat person in history ever did that.
Also, the person practicing CRON might be eating more. There's that.
Today's Trib has an essay by Jim Sollisch about coming to the stunning realization that, according to BMI, he is damn near "obese." My first thought about that was, "Must be nice to be a guy" — is there a middle-class, western woman alive who doesn't know her BMI off the top of her head? My second thought was, man, this article is so close to being right on the money — Sollisch talks about how, by every measure of health other than BMI, he's in peak condition, so it's absolutely ridiculous to claim his weight, which hasn't gone down despite his healthy diet and more than adequate exercise, puts him at extra risk of disease. Bingo! Except wait.
The last thing I want to be is an apologist for obesity. Obesity is a killer, a huge risk factor for diabetes, high blood pressure, heart attacks and a life of misery.
Bingo! The other kind.
The guy has just written an entire fucking article about how he is borderline "obese," despite not appearing fat to his friends and having "a cholesterol score a vegan would covet and the blood pressure of a marathon runner" — and yet, he still repeats uncritically the assertion that weight is, in itself, a "huge risk factor" for everything up to and including "a life of misery." IT'S SCIENCE!
The key is, of course, that there are actually fat people, who are clearly at risk, and then there are those "suffering invisibly" like him, who aren't. Good fatties and bad fatties — you might have heard of them.
Any clues on how to tell those two groups apart, there, Jim? You really think it's just a matter of who looks fat and who doesn't, by your standards? 'Cause, um, it's not. Also, with regard to your standards, I guarantee you that if you put your photo in the BMI Flickr stream (I imagine you'd look something like a shorter, older Angelos), there would be plenty of trolls lined up to tell you the "overweight and nearly obese" designation is PERFECTLY ACCURATE UR JUST IN DENIAL FATTY. Trust me on that one. So how is it we're supposed to tell the difference between "healthy, not-really-fat fat" and "ZOMG going-to-die fat" again? Who gets to judge? You? Me? People who think this woman really looks overweight? And what's the penalty for flunking?
I mean, that's the thing — if being fat really is the express train to early death, shouldn't that be penalty enough? Shouldn't all those good, disciplined people whose "healthy lifestyles" are clearly going to keep them chugging along to 120 show us a little mercy, since they'll get to enjoy so many extra years that we won't? Not to mention, shouldn't they be thinking about how much social security they're going to suck, living decades beyond the average life expectancy, and maybe keep their mouths shut about how fatties affect their health insurance premiums?
You'd think so, wouldn't you? Which means the only explanation for those people freaking out about obesity is that they really do know, down deep, they're eventually going to die. And if they die at 80 after a lifetime of abstemiousness, and a fat person dies at 80 after a lifetime of (supposed) self-indulgence, IT'S NOT FAIR! And you know what's really, really not fair? When thin people get cancer and die at 50. Or have heart attacks and die at 60. Or get in car accidents and die at 40. IT IS NOT SUPPOSED TO WORK THAT WAY! IT'S NOT SCIENTIFIC!
Hey, here's a scientific fact: We are all going to die. And in the meantime, we all make decisions about the kinds of lives we want to live. Some people eat as little as possible in the explicit hope of outliving this silly, primitive limitation known as mortality. Other people eat less than they want to in hopes of living a little longer than people who "indulge themselves." And other people eat what they fucking feel like eating, because to them, chronic restrained eating would — unlike obesity — indeed be a "huge risk factor for… a life of misery."
And in those last two categories, at least? There are people of all sizes. People who are unequivocally fat despite consistently eating less than they want to, and thin people who seem to have the proverbial hollow leg. There are even, horror of horrors, fat people who eat whatever they want. Because they're grown-ups, and they're allowed. What a concept.
But wait, let me make sure I've got this straight. The CRON people — the ones who think that restricting calories will lead to immortality — are whackjobs no one should take seriously. But the rest of the world — the ones who think that restricting calories somewhat will stave off virtually every known disease and increase the average lifespan, whereas "eating whatever you want" will inevitably lead to obesity, which we all know is "a killer, a huge risk factor for diabetes, high blood pressure, heart attacks and a life of misery" — are perfectly sane and rational about food?
And it makes sense to sneer at the former group but nod vigorously at the latter, even when the latter is saying, "I am borderline obese, according to the metric on which all the scaremongering about obesity is based, and I happen to be perfectly healthy — but I know that excess weight remains deadly because of, um, statistics based on that aforementioned metric that claims I should not be healthy at this weight."
I'm sorry, but which one is the obviously batshit crazy group and which is the obviously rational one again? I mean, at least the CRON people have some fucking rat research on their side.
Y'all, I hate to be the first one to break this to the internet, but you are going to die, and you cannot control it. Everyone you love is going to die, and you cannot control it. You and everyone you love are going to get sick at some point in your lives, and you cannot control it. You or they might be in a terrible accident someday, and you cannot control it.
You certainly cannot magically control any of the above by fucking dieting.
There are things in this life you just can't control, period. And it's okay. Really.


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Today I got a sudden craving for Finnish whipped lingonberry porridge. This has been my favourite for as long as I can remember and it certainly is one of the first things I make (or ask my mum to make) whenever I visit Finland. Unfortunately I don't have access to lingonberries here in Australia, and the lingonberry cordial sold here does not come even close to the flavour that real berries give to this dish. So I've substituted lingonberries with a selection of frozen berries (blueberries, raspberries and blackberries) and instead of using the more popular semolina, I've made this with rye flour. You can use either, semolina gives a much sweeter porridge, but I can certainly recommend using rye flour as well, especially if you want to make this dish even healthier.
The result is a very thick porridge, so if you prefer it runnier you can add the amount of water to 1 litre. Whipping makes the porridge lighter and gives it the most amazing, almost foamy texture. This whipped berry rye porridge makes a perfect breakfast, but I could enjoy it wholeheartedly at any time of the day, even as a dessert, especially if using semolina. I love this warm or cold, and often I have it with a splash of cold milk.
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700ml water
1 tbs raw honey
about 220g frozen berries of your choice
100g rye flour
In a medium saucepan bring water, honey and berries to boil. Add the rye flour whisking vigorously. Turn the heat to low and let simmer for about 10 minutes stirring often. Once done, place the saucepan in a sink filled with some cold water (water should reach about half way through the outer edges of the saucepan), and leave to cool for a few minutes. Using electric beaters, whip the porridge for 3-4 minutes or until clearly lighter in colour. Serve warm or cold with milk.


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Recipes archive
I use pesto for spreads, dips, sauces and marinades making it my go-to ingredient in my kitchen over the years. I always make sure there is at least one jar of it in the pantry. Through experimenting, I created this easy 10-minute recipe that always tastes great. Go ahead and give it a try and don't be afraid to make it your own.
Fluffy pancakes are every cook's weekend dream. For breakfast or brunch, you'll have this batter ready in no time. There are so many things that you can put on top but my family loves them the traditional way. Maple syrup and fruit. We call the big stack the pancake cake and try to make it at least once a month.
This delicious creamy soup is perfect for spring and summer dinners and super easy to make. You will only need a few basic ingredients and fresh asparagus. Make sure that you are buying locally grown produce and support local farmers. Garnish with croutons, fresh herbs or a dollop of whipped cream and you are in for a treat.
Spicy pumpkin soup works as a perfect pick-me-up on cold and rainy fall days. Its orange color will make you smile and its rich flavor will make you fall in love. I like combining it with different types of cheeses, herbs and spices. What works best is fresh sage and dried thyme. A garnish of roasted pumpkin seeds is simply a must.


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