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Arctic Monkeys' show in two days, yesterday they've played a private show in front of a selected audience of 200 people at the Album de la semaine.
Contact: irockinparis((@))yahoo(dot)frArctic Monkeys + Concrete Knives @ Cigale
Updated June 17 with links to MORE videos
Updated June 17 with links to MORE videos
Once again we were a bit disappointed by their shitty attitude as if they didn't give a fuck.
First we have French electro-pop-rock band Concrete Knives: they're sounding very 80's, this is not our cup of tea but they were entertaining. The singer did a bit of crowd-surfing on the last song.
Steppenwolf , the sound is loud and clear, there is a powerful white lighting on Alex Turner for most of the gig.
The atmosphere is hot, lots of pretty girls down the front screaming their lungs out.
Songs are rocking, Josh Homme is probably responsible for turning them into a more American band with heavy guitars and that's the shit that we love @ Rockerparis.
Almost a "stoner" band.
Yesterday was more orientated on the new album tonight it's more of a best of (we'll get the setlist soon).
We have a bit of everything fast (the old ones) and slower songs (the recent ones), once again the first single is terrific live, probably the best song on the new album
1) Library Pics 2) Brainstorm 3) This house is a circus 4) Still take you home 5) Don't sit down... 6) Pretty visitors 7) Teddy Picker 8) Crying Lightning 9) Brick by Brick 10) Reckless serenade 11) Cornerstone 12) The view from the afternoon 13) I bet you look good... 14) She's Thunderstorms 15) If you were there beware 16) Do me a favour 17) That's where you're wrong 18) Whe the sun goes down Encore 19) Shalala 20) Fluorescent Ado 21) 505
GREAT gig !
Pas sheet & Merchandising
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Christmas Shoebox Appeal 2015 – Update
We want to say a massive thank you to all those who donated to our Shoebox Appeal this year. We loaded 972 shoeboxes onto the container, which means we will be able to give a small gift to even more children and their families this year.
We couldn't do this without your kindness and generosity!

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These photos were taken on yet another coffee run (in front of my neighbour's house, who apparently has no interest in taking down his Christmas decorations, despite it now being March). Or, more precisely, a tea latte run. Now that David's Tea has opened in my area, I've been slightly more inclined to brave the cold to walk and get my tea fix. Thank goodness Santa put so many David's Tea gift cards in my stocking this Christmas, or my wallet would be suffering. My favourite right now? Red Velvet Cake.
Wearing: Boohoo Jacket (similar jackets here and here), Joe Fresh t-shirt (similar here), Wilfred Free sweatpants (similar pairs here and here), Suede boots from Hudson's Bay (similar here), Wilfred beanie. x E


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MADISON, N.J. — The Keuka College Field Hockey team won a shootout against Drew University 1-0 to earn their first win of the 2018 season on Saturday.
Shelby Lamb scored the lone goal for either team in the shootout. Kassidy Valentine made five saves in the game and then stopped all five shootout attempts for the shutout, giving Keuka College (1-2) the win.
Keuka College 1 at Drew University 0 – Keuka won shootout 1-0
Both teams fought for possession early in the game on Saturday morning. Both sides would get an offensive opportunity with a corner in the half. Drew University was the only side to register shots on goal in the half, but goalie Kassidy Valentine was up to the task, making a pair of saves as the game went to halftime scoreless.
The Wolves registered their first shot early in the second half, but again, neither team were able to generate scoring chances. Keuka had two shots in the half and held the Rangers to just one. Despite a combined eight penalty corners, the game would go to overtime tied 0-0.
Drew had four penalty corners and three shots on goal in the first overtime period. Valentine was up to the task, however, making three saves. In the second overtime period, the game opened up with each team registering four shots in the 10-minute frame. Neither would score and the game would go to a shootout.
After Valentine made a save, Shelby Lamb was the first to attempt a shot for Keuka in the shootout. The junior moved to the right side and then cut back to her left, letting a sweep shot go past the keeper for the early advantage. Kassidy Valentine did the rest. The junior went a perfect 5-5 in goal to guide Keuka to the victory.
KC Notes:
- The Wolves improved to 2-1 all-time against Drew University
- Keuka College defeated Drew in overtime last season
- It was the second game in school history to go to a shootout. Keuka lost the 2017 season-opener to Brockport last time
- Valentine has stopped 12 of 14 shootout attempts against her. She is also the first player in program history to record two shutouts in her career
- The win was the first of Head Coach Erika Profenno's career
Up Next for Keuka College: The Wolves return home on Wednesday to face Keystone College at the Jephson Community Athletic Center. It will be the first ever meeting between the Wolves and the Giants on the field hockey field.


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Newton's Law
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Newton's Law
Posted on July 8, 2015.
Game file size of 9.41 MB.
Save the citizens of a mall from the robot invasion that has taken place and turned off the gravity of the entire mall. Use your gun to move from room to room by propelling yourself through by shooting the walls and roof. Eliminate all enemy robots that you see in order to move to the next room. Save any citizens along the way and be sure to upgrade your gun for better damage and range. Newton's Law is presented to you by SolidGames.com and is sponsored by DoJo. This action game has been played 2,956 times by our visitors and currently has a rating of after 17 votes.
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Our Facility
The Peaceful Ridge Recovery facility is a state of the art building that is built to create a safe and peaceful recovery center for those seeking help with drug or alcohol addiction and their families. Our main center is a contemporary, inviting property with warm rooms, comfortable seating and lots of open space to facilitate the relationship between us and our clients and between those in recovery with those affected by addiction. Our team also utilizes additional spaces for specialty therapies. We strive to create spaces where our clients have an opportunity to feel comfortable and motivated.


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Joel's Speaking Topics:
- CAN WE FEED THE WORLD? This is hands down the most frequently asked question to Joel or anyone else who promotes localized, solar-driven, carbon-fertilized systems. Even most foodies and environmentalists have a deep-seated assumption that were it not for the petroleum-based fertilizer boom-the green revolution-we could not feed ourselves. Those massive Kansas wheat field and California almond groves, for most people, represent efficiency and abundance. Nothing could be further from the truth. Backyard gardens and multi-speciation are far more productive per acre. Modern scientific aerobic composting was not invented until 1943-about the same time as chemical fertilizer became widely used. In this performance, Joel will give you the tools to articulate a credible "feed the world" argument.
- HOW CAN WE AFFORD IT? This was always the second question Joel was asked after finishing a performance, so he decided to turn the answer into a full production. Sprinkled with satire poking fun at what Americans love to buy, Joel challenges the very assumptions of a cheap food policy. The answer to the question, of course, is a resounding yes. Joel examines the issue from many angles to arrive at this conclusion. Buying unprocessed to prepare, package, and preserve at home are one of the key answers to eating royalty food without the cost. Processed food is expensive. Cutting out frivolous stuff, from lottery tickets to Starbucks to $100 designer jeans with holes already in the knees releases precious dollars to patronize higher quality food. Joel blasts externalized unrecognized undocumented costs of industrial food and the unfair playing field created by subsidy programs. And what about the single mom with four children living in the middle of an urban food desert? You'll have to hear the speech to get the answer.
- REDEEMING THE EARTH As the self-described Christian libertarian environmentalist capitalist lunatic, Joel is finally being asked by more and more people in the faith community to articulate his down-to-earth understanding of how a Judeo-Christian belief system affects earth stewardship. Unlike a cerebral theological academic lecture, this performance explains the visceral function and appearance of a farm and ecosystem that acts as a visceral object lesson illustrating God's attributes. Joel sprinkles Biblical precepts throughout to make the connection between the physical and spiritual. For example, the multi-speciated symbiosis used at Polyface Farm is a direct expression of how a diversity of gifts and talents should operate in a church setting. Building immune systems and water retentive capacity are physical manifestations of human stewardship. What are we here for? Among other things, we humans are here to massage God's creation with our cleverness to stimulate more biomass generation from solar energy. Honoring the pigness of the pig creates a sacredness to the sacrifice necessary for life to spring from death. This presentation is as appropriate in a Sunday morning worship service as it is for a college ethics class.
- Folks, This Ain't Normal Based on his book by the same title, this whimsical performance is filled with history, satire, and prophecy. While most Americans seem to think our techno-glitzy disconnected celebrity-worshipping culture will be the first to sail off into a Star Trek future unencumbered by ecological umbilicals, Salatin bets that the future will instead incorporate more tried and true realities from the past.
Ours is the first culture with no chores for children, cheap energy, heavy mechanization, computers, supermarkets, TV dinners and unpronounceable food. Although he doesn't believe that we will return to horses and buggies, wash boards, and hoop skirts, Salatin believes we will go back in order to go forward, using technology to re-establish historical normalcy.That normalcy will include edible landscapes, domestic larders, pastured livestock, solar driven carbon cycling for fertility, and a visceral relationship with life's fundamentals: food, energy, water, air, soil, fabric, shelter. We may as well get started enthusiastically than be dragged reluctantly into this more normal existence. Rather than being an abstract, cerebral, academic look at ecology, food systems, and soil development, this talk is based firmly on a lifetime spent communing with ecology, economics, and emotion in their full reality, as a farmer.
Both sobering and inspiring, this performance empowers people to tackle the seemingly impossibly large tasks that confront our generation. Historical contexts create jump-off points for the future-a future as bright as our imagination and as sure as the past.
- The Sheer Ecstasy Of Being A Lunatic Farmer The expression that birthed Joel's book by the same title, this performance describes, with hilarious stories and drama, the difference between Polyface and today's average farm. If you've ever wondered how a local, pasture-based, relationally oriented farm differs from industrial commodity-based machine-driven farms, this presentation takes away the mystery. A wide ranging discussion, this performance ranges from ponds to people to politics. You'll never think about food and farming the same way. You'll be challenged, encouraged, and entertained on your way to learning from this self-described lunatic farmer.
- Ballet In The Pasture Polyface Farm's choreographed plant-animal symbiosis heals the landscape, the community, and the eater. A theatrical performance mixing humor and bomb-shell food system analysis, Salatin's stemwinder educates, entertains, and encourages. First rate pictures let the audience take a virtual tour around this grass-based multi-species livestock farm. Salatin's passionate explanations offer up a veritable epiphany on food and farming. Life-changing and ultimately memorable, Ballet in the Pasture is Salatin's signature performance.
- Food Emancipation Why can't you buy raw milk, ice cream with eggs in it, or home-made sausage? America's food system, enslaved by a global corporate bureaucratic fraternity, offers less choice amid the perception of abundance. The only reason the framers of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights did not guarantee citizens freedom of food choice was because they could not have conceived of a day when private treaty neighbor-to-neighbor food commerce would be demonized and criminalized. In this call to grass roots food activism, Salatin seeks a Food Emancipation Proclamation, freeing citizens to opt out of the industrial food fraternity.
- Dancing With Dinner Industrial food is aesthetically and aromatically unpleasant from production to supermarket. Although eating is arguably the most intimate thing humans do-next to the act of marriage-during the last few decades Americans have lost their dinner dance partner. Culinary skills and local food connections have been replaced with "No Trespassing" signs, bureaucratic paperwork, unpronounceable labels, bar codes, and beeping cash registers. The soul-satisfying act of eating is now a sterile, manufactured to-do item snarfed up on the run. Amidst this frenetic lifestyle, the neglected dinner dance partner beckons to return . . . at the farm, at farmers' markets, Community Supported Agriculture drop points, and in the kitchen. In this eclectic presentation,Salatin links culture, agriculture, and a romantic dinner dance partner.
- Relationship Marketing For nearly half a century, Polyface Farm's patron base has morphed and expanded with the culture and new food awareness. As a 10-year-old with a backyard flock of laying hens, Salatin pedaled eggs around his rural neighborhood in the basket of his bicycle. Mixing humorous stories with passionate "aha's", this presentation draws from a host of marketing venues to educate and entertain. Currently, Polyface supplies some 400 families from an on-farm store, 1,600 families in Metropolitan Buying Clubs, 30 restaurants, and 10 retail venues. Each has assets and liabilities, and Salatin freely discusses all the nuances. Heavy on hilarious stories, this talk empowers otherwise reluctant marketers to go for it.
- Holy Cows And Hog Heaven From field to fork, food carries a sacred dimension. The USDA mantra to grow it faster, fatter, bigger, cheaper views pigs as inanimate piles of protoplasmic structure to be manipulated however cleverly the egocentric human mind can conceive. Such disrespect and dishonor carries over toward people and other cultures. A moral, ethical thread connects the field to the plate, a soul-satisfying thread that connects both farmers and eaters in nobility and sacredness.
- Local Food To The Rescue Biosecurity, food borne pathogens, energy, integrity, humane husbandry: local food can correct it all. But to really be a credible percentage of the global food system, it must develop six integrated components: production, processing, marketing, accounting, distribution, and patrons. Building a local food system that works requires aromatic and aesthetic production models that reimbed the butcher, baker, and candlestick maker into the community. Economies of scale in collaborative foodshed distribution compete with corporate volume. And patrons must rediscover their kitchens, eating seasonally and relearning domestic culinary arts.
- Working With Your Kids So They Will Want To Work With You Most farms and family businesses lose continuity because parent and child never cultivated rewarding emotional and economic relationships. Centered around 10 commandments to make the kids love working with mom and dad, this challenging and far-reaching presentation offers techniques to eliminate dawdling, cultivate persistence, and stimulate innovation. It also includes structuring and scaling the farm to make room for the next generation.
- Going Full Time With Your Part-Time Farm Too many wannabee farmers feel tapped in a farmer's body paying bills with off-farm incomes. Scaling up with emotional, economic, and environmental integrity requires specific techniques like stacking, value adding, divesifying, and building multiple use infrastructures. You don't need to own land to farm; all the infrastructure and customers are portable. Capital payback leases and other techniques can propel your farm to a white collar salary.
- Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal Despite all the hype about local or green food, the single biggest impediment to wider adoption is not research, programs, organizations, or networking. It is the demonizing and criminalizing of virtually all indigenous and heritage-based food practices. From zoning to labor to food safety to insurance, local food systems dailyi face a phalanx of regulatory hurdles designed and implemented to police industrial food models but which prejudicially wipe out the antidote: appropriate scaled local food systems. A call for guerrilla marketing, food choice freedom legislation, and empirical pathogen thresholds offers solutions to these bureaucratic hurdles.
- Pastured Poultry Profits Perhaps the most doable pastured-based livestock enterprise is poultry. The reasons are numerous: lowest up-front investment, quick cash turnaround, marketability, easily differentiated, child friendly, simple and portable infrastructure, and on-farm processing. In this mature Polyface model, Salatin walks you through broilers, egg layers, and turkeys. They all have distinctive needs for diet, shelter, marketing, and processing. This talk is hard core how-to, going into the intricate details from brooding to processing. This is still the centerpiece enterprise at Polyface Farm.
- Salad Bar Beef This is the term Salatin coined to describe his pasture-finished cattle: fresh daily paddocks and lots of forage species variety. A hard core how-to talk, this one walks the audience though electric fencing, water systems, breeding, movement logistics, forage growth and rest cycles, stockpiling for dormant seasons, and processing. A permutation on the theme is mob stocking herbivorous solar conversion lignified carbon sequestration fertilization. Whew! And it's all here to see.
- Forgiveness Farming The ultimate responsibility of land stewards is to build resiliency into their farms and ranches. Like it or not, nature is not always a gentle spirit. Floods, droughts, disease, winds, sickness, low prices: these and more will strike at some time or another. Preparing for these crises requires that farm businesses insulate themselves from commodity price fluctuations. It means increasing animal and plant immunity, reducing population concentrations, and storing water. This talk ranges broadly into the many vulnerabilities farms experience but offers ways to make those crises less threatening.
- WE'RE THE ANTIDOTE FOR CULTURAL MALADIES In this broad cultural presentation, Salatin challenges the integrity farming movement to model principles for a floundering culture. Starting with the principle of healing soil and immune systems, this talk moves systematically through humility derived from children's gardens, family businesses to leverage eldership, and concludes with beautiful landscapes from pasture-based farms. A total of ten cultural antidotes derive from a fundamentally different farm and foodscape paradigm. With national hand-wringing at a fever pitch, the antidote is practical and elegantly simple.
- YOUR SACRED CALLING: RESPECT, RESILIENCE, RECOMPENSE Some of Salatin's best presentations develop by using conference themes as the title. This is one of those. Building off this three-part theme, the talk starts with how to respect plants and animals, eaters/consumers, and producers/farmers. It juxtaposes the way mechanical/industrial systems views these with a more respectful integrity approach. Then the talk moves into the resilience section, the ability of a foodscape to absorb shocks if it is not being assaulted with a Conquistador mentality. Finally, recompense is about valuing food and farmers. Good farmers leave this presentation knowing their vocation is noble and sacred.
- SCIENCE IS SUBJECTIVE Originally dubbed "The Limitations of Science," Salatin changed the title to raise more eyebrows. Based on the two scientific pillars of observation and duplication, this talk uses true stories to illustrate how scientists manipulate data or refuse to account for things outside their paradigms. Science is not in agreement on a host of topics, from genetic modification to food safety to fertilizer. Ultimately, our belief systems-perhaps even faith systems-determine how we set up experiments and what our science determines. This presentation seeks to create a balance between philosophy (liberal arts) and hard science, realizing that none of us can see what our hearts cannot imagine seeing.
- EXPANDING YOUR MARKET The audience for this talk is primarily farmers interested in direct marketing but either afraid or unclear about how to reach more customers. Based on Polyface experience, Salatin encourages farmers to embrace additional team players, electronic technology, symbiotic production, and value adding. But lest this seem too hard, the whole tenor of the presentation is a gentle refrain: "all the gifts necessary to expand your market don't grow on one pair of legs. You don't have to do it all; all you need to do is realize what needs to be done." This performance is ultimately encouraging for discouraged farm marketers.
- THOMAS JEFFERSON'S PROBLEMS . . . AND SOLUTIONS Developed for the annual Heritage Harvest Festival held every year at Jefferson's Monticello, this presentation begins with the question: "Would Jefferson build a Tyson chicken house?" The answer: "Yes." For all of his attributes, Jefferson illustrated the very pillars of today's industrial farming system: exports, annuals (tillage), out-sourced fertility, and cheap labor. After challenging the audience with such a critical look at their beloved icon, Salatin turns to lighter and inspiring fare. Using Jefferson's Farm Book as a reference, the rest of the talk centers around those colonial-era frustrations, from fertility to fencing, transportation to water, portability to seasonality to energy, and shows how today's technological advances have answered each one. In light-hearted refrains, Salatin says: "TJ, let me show you this." From one struggling farmer to another struggling farmer, this talk leaves the audience appreciative of Jefferson's practical problems and enthusiastic about today's possibilities.
- WHAT DOES AN ECOLOGICAL ENERGY SYSTEM LOOK LIKE? Developed for the Modern Energy Forum, Salatin stretches his natural template of movement/action/life to combustion/decomposition/digestion, noting that fundamentally energy must be an integrated cycle of life and death, inhaling and exhaling. From this, he draws numerous conclusions. Nature keeps these procedures localized, integrated, highly participatory. Nature generates no waste, is based on perennials and uses real time energy. Nature is dynamic, decentralized, diversified, and loves human massage. The talk concludes with the observation that the most powerful energy in the world is human creativity.
- WHAT CAN LOCAL GOVERNMENTS DO? The national and to a lesser extent state governmental food, farming, energy, housing policy morass often seems insurmountable. Local leaders often feel helpless in the face of such large-scale insanity. In this extremely creative and practical policy brainstorm, Salatin offers can-do options for local officials who want to transition to a more earth-friendly, diversified, decentralized, community-empowered culture. Zoning, tax policy, school funding, edible horticulture for green spaces-it's all here to stimulate creative juices.
- URBAN MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT FARMING Farms have not always been stinky, ugly nuisances that destroy the landscape. The "not in my backyard" mentality toward farms is counterproductive and unnecessary . . . IF farming practices are beautiful to see and smell. This presentation, given first at a local foods conference on Long Island, New York, is directed toward urbanites who think farming is inherently incompatible with progressive municipal living. From economics to ecology to emotion, this talk takes every urban anti-farming assumption and shows why it is not inherently true. What is does not have to be. And what can be, what should be, is far more luxuriant than what is.
- CREATING A GARDEN-MIMICRY FOOD SYSTEM Although this talk was designed originally for the Virginia annual garden club consortium, it is applicable to any garden-centric group interested in a garden-type food and farming system. An even dozen points grow out of garden-as-model. Gardeners smile and nod throughout as the principles they work with every day become an epiphany for integrity food. Often hard hitting toward current U.S. food and farm policy, this talk helps gardeners see what a beautiful and productive food system needs to look like. And it's not Monsanto or Cargill. It's not fewer farmers and factory pigs. It's roseness of roses, vibrant color, carbon cycling, transparent and unprocessed.
- BUILDING AN ECOLOGICAL ECONOMY Too often people assume that in order to have a thriving economy we must sacrifice the ecology, or to have a thriving ecology, we must sacrifice the economy. Nothing could be further from the truth. To have both, we must start with ecological patterns, which are always more productive and efficient than anything else. A vibrant regenerative economy inherently grows out of massaging those ecological patterns. Whether it's feeding ourselves, housing ourselves with local lumber and re-imbedding the butcher, baker, and candlestick maker, how nature works is the best template for how economies work. And for the record, nature is not just bipartisan; it's multi-partisan.
- BUILDING A HEALTHY SOCIETY With the refrain "No society can be . . ." this hard-hitting presentation looks at six components necessary for vibrant societies. Soil, ecology, freedom, responsibility, transparency, and resource use-it's all here in practical and do-able explanations. Currently, western nations like the U.S. measure societal health by gross domestic product and the Dow Jones Industrial Average. But are those things more important than earthworms, water cycles, and health? What if the national health care policy were focused on keeping people well instead of treating people sickened by subsidized and concessionized public policy? In this broad-ranging presentation, Salatin flips almost everything worshipped in Washington on its head and dares to imagine a society of alternate values.
- THE SELF-CONTAINED HOME Generally our homes require massive infusions of cash to maintain, energize, feed, and hydrate. What if instead of being familial economic drains our homes became economic engines? What if our homes produced more than they cost? Developed originally for home school audiences, this presentation has broad appeal for audiences wishing to become more self-reliant in their domestic living. Solariums, kitchen chickens, roof-top honey bees, grey water systems, cisterns-you name it; we can do a lot to wean ourselves from corporate and municipal dependency.
- CHILD FRIENDLY FOOD PRODUCTION From backyard chickens to vermi-composting and vegetable production, children can produce copious amounts of food for the family. Small animals and garden beds offer appropriate-sized production models where children can learn and thrive. Re-connecting to our ecological umbilical cultivates a respect and awe for creation. A passion for earthworms is certainly as valuable as a passion for soccer. This presentation addresses how to set up clear boundaries, incentives, and development for child-friendly domestic food production.
- HEALING THE PLANET ONE PLATE AT A TIME In seven broad points, Salatin addresses the link between what we eat and the landscape legacy we bequeath to our unborn children. Soil, people, energy, economics, plants and animals, soul, and scalability are the seven discussion topics. Rather than a paranoid discussion of scarcity and universal deprivation, this talk leaves folks grateful, hopeful, and feeling abundant. Though it seems simplistic to think that a bite of food can have such a big effect on the future, the fact is that we are where we are because of the kinds of food bites people have been taking for a long time. We can change our trajectory only when we appreciate the launch pad-our plates.
- PALEOING OUR FOODSCAPE: Beavers, Fire, and Predators According to food analysts, 1 percent of the U.S. population is following the paleo diet and cross-fitness program. Based on historical normalcy, practicing paleos testify to increasing health and vibrancy. That's all well and good, but what does a farming system based on the paleo idea look like? To close the loop both practically and philosophically, food should come from paleo-centric agricultural systems. Can we produce food in such a way? Salatin answers with a resounding yes, and shows in extremely practical terms what such a farmscape would look like. It won't look like national parks. It won't look like protected wetlands. It won't look like culverts in the valley under a road cut. Challenging engineers and environmentalists, this talk is both an expose and an epiphany.
- CREATING A BIO-MIMICRY FOOD SYSTEM In the first part of this talk, Salatin explains why our current food system is anti-biological. Not only is it fundamentally mechanical, it is foundationally pathogen-encouraging, sickness-inducing, nutrient-diminishing and animal abusive. That's a pretty heavy indictment. In the second half, he tackles the opposite side of the argument: a bio-mimicry system. It is integrated, participatory, and encourages investment and a commitment to domestic culinary arts.
- DON'T BE SCARED; BE STRANGE Timeless and true, hilarious and hard-hitting, this presentation keynoted the Mother Earth News fairs during 2013. Salatin popped the question: "What is holding you back? What do you fear? Why can't you turn your homestead into a full-time business?" Seven fears followed by seven solutions form the framework for this performance that received a standing ovation after each delivery. "One of the best talks I ever put together," he said. Ultimately inspiring and empowering, it addresses the fear of not having enough knowledge, acquiring land, having enough money, having enough labor, developing a market, developing a business, and finally, the fear of being optimistic. "We're supposed to believe everything is going to the pits. Pessimism is fun," Salatin quips. Faith eventually trumps fear.
- WHAT WE KNOW THAT JUST AIN'T SO With apologies to Mark Twain's original similar ditty, Salatin uses the humorist's idea to drive home encouraging truths. The first point: eating meat is bad for the environment. The second point: safe food requires government regulation. Third point: nature is best when left alone. Fourth point: we can't afford local high quality food. Fifth point: the U.S. needs to feed the world. Sixth point: science is objective. Seventh point: government is more trustworthy than private business. Eighth point: ain't no money in farming. Clearly, this talk takes on some of the biggest, most imbedded truisms of our day. With characteristic wit and practical experience, Salatin takes on this laundry list of axioms and leaves the audience not only laughing at our culture and ourselves, but ready to view things differently.
- THE FOOD INQUISITION Many Americans don't realize that we are in the center of a massive food inquisition, pitting government/industrial orthodoxy against heritage heretics. Delivered with evangelistic fervor, this presentation takes on the orthodoxy of our age and explains, simply and practically, why the heretics know the truth. Every time someone asks for governmental remedies, whether it be food safety, environmentally damaging farms, chemical usage or genetically modified organisms, the orthodoxy rears its ugly head and creates a strong inquisition. Ultimately about food freedom, this talk wakes people up like none other because it exposes the underlying paradigms of today's power brokers. It isn't pretty. But knowing the enemy is the first step to winning. Folks will exit this talk ready to engage and win.
- YOU CAN FARM Most aspiring farmers face a litany of objections from well-meaning family and friends. From "it's demeaning" to "it's impossible," naysayers rule. Based on his iconic book by the same title, Salatin rebuffs the naysayers with practical advice and a can-do spirit. Not only can you farm, many people are doing it. Using his own Polyface Farm story as an example, he takes the audience through a journey of principle, character, discovery, and relationship that yields success on the other end.
- FIELDS OF FARMERS The actuarials are in: the average farmer is nearly 60 years old; half of America's farmland will change hands in the next 20 years; medium-sized farms are being squeezed out faster than either small or large farms. Abandoned farmland now accounts for more converted acreage than developed farmland. All of this reflects a basic principle: when impediments to entry in any economic sector keep young people from entering-if young people can't get in-then old people can't get out. And yet we see a tsunami of interest in local food, young people ready to farm. How do we transition with working cross-generational successional farming enterprises? Bearing the same title as his 2013 book, in this talk Salatin bears his soul in practical and heart-felt stories to provide templates of success.
- SUSTAINABLE ABUNDANCE Many people in our culture fear the future's resource scarcity and political intransigence. Veering off this orthodox paranoia, Salatin offers a different possibility with a visceral template that is both attractive and pragmatic. A fundamentally solar-driven, participatory, historically-normal localized, integrated foodscape can bless the whole world with sustainable abundance. The earth is not a reluctant partner that must be wrestled into production, but a benevolent friend rewarding humble human massage. After this performance, you'll never look at farmland or policy solutions the same way. In fact, you'll look at the future with inspiration and faith, healing the land one bite at a time.
- POLYFACE MASTERCLASS-Using Ballet in the Pasture as a jumping off point, this seminar typically takes two days but can be compressed to one day or extended to three days. Using power point pictures from the farm, Salatin takes students through the farm enterprises in as much detail as time allows. After the pictures, he presents a Relationship Marketing session that gives the principles of farm direct marketing, from collaborations to distribution. Finally, this seminar concludes with partnerships through memorandums of understanding, apprentices, interns, and family business dynamics. Ultimately empowering, this is the seminar that has inspired countless would-be farmers around the world to be successful.
Corporate Presentations by Joel Salatin:
- Scaling Up Without Selling Your Soul Using Polyface Farm as an object lesson, this presentation offers a passionate values-based business alternative to the Wall-Streetified numerical growth, growth, growth objective. Daring to take on the very foundations of western business icons like market goals, no IPOs, and incentivized work forces. Many successful entrepreneurial start-ups morph into mercenary empires that lose their distinctives. Intuitively we all know that the most valuable things in life never get put on a balance sheet or business plan: healthy salamanders, dancing earthworms, adoring spouses. First given at the Innovation Immersion conference in 2008, this talk focuses on an alternative business philosophy that preserves the nobility of business.
- Worthy Work: Meet Me In The Pasture Using beautiful pictures of Polyface Farm in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, this evangelical-style motivational talk seeks to empower and elevate every person in the organization to a new state of sacredness. The alliterated outline includes 7 major points:
- Discover Your Parameters
- Determine Your Protocol
- Develop Your Partners
- Define Your Product
- Diversify Your Portfolio
- Demand Your Performance
- Demonstrate Your Priorities
A totally unique motivational approach, Salatin's agrarian background coupled with his dynamic theatrical style bring fresh insight and perspectives to corporate gatherings. Guaranteed to be a presentation your people will talk about for many days. His many days working alone with land and livestock brings an integrity and salt-of-the-earth strength to any audience.
- Watch Where You Step This hilariously entertaining dramatic presentation pokes whimsical fun at communication and language confusion. All work environments suffer from technical jargon, generational misunderstandings, and assumed knowledge. Light hearted but smattered with communication insights, this presentation is great fun for any gathering. Playing off the many miscommunications in a family farming enterprise, Salatin both entertains and instructs. The simple instruction "Check pigs" doesn't mean slow down to 40 miles an hour as you go sailing by the pasture. A great talk for after dinner or anytime you want laughs with a point.
- THE RHETORIC OF INTEGRITY FOODS Using the classical logos (logic), ethos (emotion), and pathos (credibility) template for Aristotelian rhetoric, Salatin explains how to market the local food imperative from an ancient perspective. Classical thought bolsters the integrity food movement. At the same time, the global/industrial food paradigm doesn't fit. For conservatives, this can be quite a revelation, and Salatin's debate style brings to life a broad modern application of these classical thought processes.
- MY FARM TEACHER First delivered at a commencement for Sterling College, this whimsical address challenges and entertains. It's not dry like most, but full of personal farm stories and realities that teach life lessons of humility, balance, forgiveness, relationships, patience and other success requirements. It concludes the principles with opportunity, illustrated by the number of acorns that sprout, but how few capitalize on their place and grow into dominant oaks. As a farmer, Salatin sees his mandate to create opportunity for productivity from the plants and animals. The farm is an object lesson of principles for life success.
- WEATHERED HANDS, WEALTHY MINDS Especially for schools with a farm program, Salatin created this talk as an inspiration and tribute to Camino de Paz school in New Mexico, a middle school that uses food and farming as the basis of its curriculum. Hand work and hand craft create wonderful life lessons in humility, self-worth, visceral ecological connections, self-reliance, regeneration cycle, unconditional love, respect, gratitude, integration, and curiosity. This presentation applauds a less institutional, computer-based, academics-only education and explains why ultimately incorporating production and kitchen-based craft actually leverages cerebral development.
- YOUR GARDEN LEGACY Many private college-prep schools grew out of yester-year's boarding schools in which the students grew their own food on campus. With today's sophistication-oriented society and condescension toward farming, these schools generally segregate their land and farm, leasing it out to neighbors, and contracting their food services to large institutional providers who buy from industrial food sources. Salatin developed this talk for just such a setting, using a garden as the object lesson. Beautifully alliterated to encourage students: purpose, place, plan, preparation, planting, persistence, picking, preserving, primal, perpetual.


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There are several marketing issues in the vegetable and fruit sector in Sri Lanka due to unavailability of good market information dissemination methods. One farmer can sell his production to market easily and earn better income while another farmer facing marketing issues (Example: low farm gate price, less profit, huge postharvest loss) and end up with a financial loss. Similarly, one customer pays a higher price for vegetable and fruit while another pays comparatively a low price for the same at the same time. One person may purchase vegetable and fruit from a distance place with high transport cost due to unavailability of information about nearest selling stalls. These issues are common for the fish market as well. One fish farmer can sell his products at a good price while another end up with both financial loss and wastage of his products due to not having a proper market. The proposed app can solve all these marketing issues in vegetable, fruit and fish sectors by linking different stakeholders and creating a good information dissemination method.
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M Crowd Alert: Lonyea Tackles the Baby Blue Smoky EyeMay 18, 2018
Presenting… a video by the M Crowd — the wildly talented group of makeup influencers who create exclusive content just for Makeup.com. Here, Lonyea shares how to rock a wearable glittery eye with a blinding highlight to match.
In case you missed it, makeup has started to take a natural, dewy turn. Instagram brows are giving way to a bushier look, and the term no-makeup makeup is buzzier than ever. Even so, we're still suckers for a full face glam, and so is our insanely talented M Crowd babe, Lonyea. Watch her tackle a holographic, baby blue, glitter smoky eye in the tutorial ahead (now say that three times fast):
Step 1: Start by priming the eye using a concealer — we recommend a concealer pot or formula with a thicker consistency to really get the product to stick.
Step 2: Using the NYX Professional Makeup Matte Translucent Setting Powder, set your concealer to lock in your base.
Step 3: Take a warm brown eyeshadow shade, and blend it into your crease. This will be your transition color so it should be fairly neutral. Then, take a champagne-gold shade and place it underneath the brow bone to highlight.
Step 4: Next, take a medium-toned brown shade and apply to the outer corner of the eye and blend into the crease. Deepen the look by adding a deeper brown shade into the outer corner and blending inward toward the crease.
Step 5: Apply a pastel blue shadow to the center of the lid and bring it out halfway across the lid — we recommend the palest blue shade in the NYX Love You So Mochi Electric Pastels Palette for this look!
Step 6: Next, grab the NYX Glitter Primer and apply on top of your pastel blue shade. Once applied, use the NYX Metallic Glitter in Lumi Lite and apply it to the center of the lid.
Step 7: To finish off the eye look, apply a winged liner and lashes to make your eyes really pop.
Step 8: For the face, prime with La Roche-Posay Anthelios Daily Primer. This is great for filling in your pores and getting a flawless base.
Step 9: Then apply Dermablend Flawless Creator and blend.
Step 10: Next, use Maybelline Age Rewind Concealer to highlight the high points of your face where light tends to hit your skin.
Step 11: Set your makeup using Dermablend Setting Powder, and use a deeper shade to contour your features.
Step 12: Warm up the skin using a berry-toned blush like Maybelline Fit Me Blush in Wine.
Step 13: To turn up the glow, apply L'Oréal Crushed Foil Highlighter to the tops of your cheekbones, forehead and cupid's bow.
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text: American technology giant Microsoft Corporation will set up a development center in Kenya. Speaking at a meeting hosted by President Uhuru Kenyatta at State House, Nairobi, on Monday, the firm's top executives led by Vice President for Gaming Phil Spencer said the Africa Development Centre will serve the East African region. The technology center, the seventh globally, will not only be Microsoft's gateway to the region but will carry huge potential for jobs and business opportunities for tech-savvy Kenyan youth. Mr. Spencer said the firm will absorb 100 local engineers. President Kenyatta welcomed the initiative and assured Microsoft of his full support. "You can count on my 100 percent support. I want this to be a transparent partnership that benefits Microsoft and Kenyans. We want you to make Kenya your African home," President Kenyatta said. The President said Kenya is the best place to host the new development site. "You will not find another country with the same capacity as Kenya," he said. According to Microsoft, the Africa Development Centre will be a premier hub of engineering for the US technology company and its affiliates. The center will leverage the diversity of the regional landscape to build world-class talent capable of creating innovative solutions for global impact. Further, the center is expected to establish a collaborative engineering springboard for new technology investments in Kenya. Besides Nairobi, Microsoft has earmarked Nigeria as the other beneficiary of a similar facility on the continent to serve West Africa. He said the new development sites carry great potential for job creation, talent development, and technology transfer among Africa's youth especially in countries with good ICT literacy ratings such as Kenya. President Kenyatta said the new initiatives by Microsoft is in line with the government's Big 4 development agenda. The Head of State called for openness in the partnership and challenged Microsoft to ensure intellectual property rights of Kenyans involved in their projects are adequately protected. Further details can be found on OUR FORUM.


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Alev Sarc is four times show jumping champion of Turkey, first one in 1986 in juniors, than 2 victories in 1988 (ladies and young horses category) and finally in 1989 again young horses category. She holds a degree in applied economics sciences from university of Istanbul. After her studies she spent one year at Julie Ulrich's farm in Virginia (dressage and show-jumping Grand-Prix rider) as a working student. She participated to the HITS (Horse Show In The Sun) circuit with Julies' horses in Florida. During her stay she also had the chance to ride with Karl Mikolka (http://karlmikolka.com/) chief rider in the Spanish Riding School of Vienna and Jack Le Goff, national eventing coach of the USA.
At the invitation of her Belgian coach Philippe de Cunchy she arrived in Belgium. After one month of training with François Mathy ( http://www.francoismathy.com/ ) she moved to Brussels and started to work for a Turkish company who eventually sponsored Alev and bought Amité IV. This four years old gelding (son of Ibrahim) trained by Alev up to 6 years old won Grand Prix of New York and Palm Beach and participated to Aachen Grand-Prix under the saddle of Mc Lain Ward.
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The word 'grazing' might lead you to think of little morsels, nibbles and impossibly twee amuse-bouche. Maybe.
Well forget that idea, the 'grazing by night' menu of this rather fantastic bistro in York's foodiest street is anything but the light option. The seven courses on offer are rather more substantial than a morsel but no less fun for it.
Everything has the sort of attention to detail that you'd expected from a Michelin-starred chef and the little twists which make really good food soar.
We attempted to pace ourselves, taking care not to dive too deeply into the generous helpings of bread but, in the end, resistance was futile, this menu is designed for the long haul.
Each of the courses has left a memorable impact – and one proved just too challenging but left me with a timely reminder about trying new things which I'm pleased to have been pushed on.
The vodka infused and thickly cut smoked salmon was sweet with a silver spoon of oyster and caviar bringing the aroma of the sea straight into the darkened city eatery.
The Redcar smokies served with a corn chowder were exquisitely light, with a level of flavour which kept all the elements of the dish separate yet combined – they'd be worth going back for as a meal on their own.
The platter of duck's liver, quails egg and blood sausage bonbon was a step too offally for my tastes but gusto a plenty over the table before the piece de resistance of Shorthorn beef with spinach and a delicately encased duck egg.
Sweet lovers don't miss out either with a chocolaty take on one of my all time favourites, piping hot rice pudding which came with 'chocolate air'! The 'air'was a lighter-than-light mousse and a sudden surprise with the chill of some ice-cream.
Some cheese? Well if you can, and we did, there was a quality selection of regional cheese including local offerings from the Thirsk-based Shepherd's Purse.
And it doesn't end there with a selection of truffles which were handily provided as a takeout when that really did prove to be one treat too far.
All-in-all a remarkable feast with a lovely laid back service, completely unhurried and wonderfully intimate.
It seems I'm not alone in my admiration, checking the list of those who've also eaten there is like a who's who of foodies.
Of those, I think Jay Rayner summed things up pretty neatly:
"If there were more places like this in Britain's towns and cities, there would be a skip in my step and a song on my lips and a killer scar on my chest from where they'd gone in to perform the heart bypass on account of my overindulgent eating habits."
I'm already looking forward to finding an excuse for a repeat visit.
* The grazing menu costs £39.50 per person. J Baker's is at 7 Fossgate, York. 01904 622688.


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Greetings, New Mexico craft beer lovers. Stoutmeister here with the Metro Edition of The Week Ahead in Beer. This column covers all the breweries in Bernalillo and Sandoval counties, giving you a list of their current beers on tap as well as any special events going on in Albuquerque, Rio Rancho, and Bernalillo. Look for the State Edition, which will include everywhere from Taos and Santa Fe up north to Las Cruces and Silver City down south, this Thursday.
We must be nearing autumn because Marble is starting to crank out the beers and events and other fun things they like to do every fall. First up, today (Wednesday) they are having a special beer release party. Red Light Lager is back and they are releasing it as a collaboration beer this year with the Audubon Society. It kicks off at 5 p.m. and $1 from every pint sold will benefit Audubon. The band Science! will perform on the stage from 6 to 9 p.m. as well. You can also pair up the beer with Focaccia slices from the good guys over at Bosque Baking Co. (Not to be confused with Bosque Brewing Co., but don't you all think they need to collaborate on something soon?) Following that event, Marble has "something hatching" this Friday. The rumors/buzz is that Marble's beer bottles and cans will be going through a major re-branding. They'll still be called Marble, and the beers will still taste the same, but the outside appearance will change. We're not sure exactly how much else will be impacted by these changes; it's been pretty hush-hush over there, but we're damn curious to see what's up. They're having a party on the patio to celebrate it all. And if all that wasn't enough, Marble is bringing back Septemberfest on Saturday, Sept. 6. Just $20 gets you in for 10 four-ounce samples of beers from around the state, plus a pint of your favorite, and you get to listen to great music, eat awesome food, and hang out with lots of cool fellow beer drinkers. Maybe even those oddball bearded metal heads in the black shirts with the red logos on them. Tickets are for sale at all three Marble locations and online at HoldMyTicket.com.
Also, if you scroll down this week you'll see a new brewery entry! Lizard Tail Brewing had their soft opening last Friday and will have a grand opening this Friday. They already have a number of beers on tap, which we have listed below. We'll do our best to make sure the grand opening is covered this week. Welcome to the ABQ Area Brewing Community!
The breweries are back to cranking out their seasonals, with some old favorites coming back to tap as well. Bosque smooths out with Bosque Lager. Chama River has gone to class with the Nutty Professor, a Pecan brown ale. Il Vicino has brought back its powerful American Stock Ale, plus the Vienna Lager and the Hefeweizen. La Cumbre will release Father Nelson this coming Monday both on tap and in bombers. Marble also has Brau, a German Sticke Alt, on tap. Nexus is preparing to release Blackberry Hefeweizen and will bring back Altbier this week.
Continue reading for all the news that is fit to blog for the week of August 18.
To break down each "capsule," I listed the brewery (with Web page linked), its phone number and hours of operation. Under "Beers" are the new or seasonal beers on tap for this week.
ABQ Brew Pub — (505) 884-1116
(Mon–Thurs 11 a.m.–midnight, Fri–Sat 11 a.m.–2 a.m., Sunday 10 a.m.–midnight)
Beers: Petrus Aged Ale, Petrus Aged Red. Petrus Aged Ale and Red are high alcohol barrel-aged sours from a family-owned brewery in Flanders. Several times a year, ABP serves up the latest creation by local brewing hero and winner of the Samuel Adams Longshot competition, Ben Miller, or seasonal releases by Monks Brewing.
Back Alley Draft House — (505) 766-8590
(Hours 4 p.m.-11 p.m. daily)
Beers: Soroche IPA, Pale Ale, Kolsch, California Commons, Berliner Weiss, Ladron's Peak. Berliner Weiss and Ladron's Peak are the most recent additions to the lineup. The Ladron's debuted at the Beer Premier earlier this summer and was a huge hit. It's one of the most unique beers you will ever taste (and thusly hard to describe). Can't wait to head over, order some grub from NY Pizza Dept. next door and enjoy a pint or two.
Bosque Brewing Company — (505) 750-7596
(Mon–Thurs 11 a.m.–10 p.m., Fri–Sat 11 a.m.-11 p.m., Sun noon-8 p.m.)
Beers: Farmhouse Pale Ale, Kick the Can IPA, Pathfinder Pils, Bosque Lager. The Lager (4.8% ABV, 20 IBU) is the newest addition to the lineup. Pathfinder Pils (5.9% ABV, 35 IBU), a Bohemian style, is now on tap as well to help beat the last of the summer heat. It's a delicious, malty-sweet beer. But if you need a good dose of hops, Kick the Can (7.2% ABV, 100 IBU) has you covered.
News: Construction has begun on Bosque's new taproom, the Bosque Public House, located on Girard just south of Central.
Bosque has a happy hour running from 4-6 p.m. Monday through Thursday and all day on Sunday. Look for a revamped menu and get $1 off your favorite pints.
Scale Tipper: Batch 4 has been brewed and will be on tap in the near future. The next entry in Bosque's big IPA series will be taking the trip to Denver in October for the Great American Beer Festival. Also keep an eye out for the Blackberry Sour, which is due on tap quite soon. Other beers in the more distant future will include a pumpkin ale, Oktoberfest, and a barley wine. Plus, Bosque will be aging its Scotia Scotch Ales in rum barrels, and they just received a shipment of casks to start doing that as well. We're a bit excited.
Boxing Bear Brewing Company — (505) 897-2327
(Sun-Thurs 11 a.m.-10 p.m., Fri-Sat 11 a.m.-11 p.m.)
Beers: Paw Swipe Pale Ale, Hairy Mit Hefe, Black Bear Stout, Uppercut IPA, Sun Bear Summer Ale, Red Panda Session Red. The newest additions to the lineup are the Sun Bear (4.8% ABV, 30 IBU) and Red Panda (4.6% ABV, 65 IBU). Sadly, the popular Bear Knuckle DIPA has run out for now, while both the Paw Swipe and Black Bear were out temporarily as of Sunday but should be back soon. The Uppercut IPA (7.6% ABV, 100 IBU) certainly packs a punch, but has a nice malt backbone to balance itself out.
Broken Bottle Brewery — (505) 890-8777
(Mon–Weds 4-11 p.m., Thurs-Fri 4 p.m.–midnight, Sat noon–midnight, Sun noon–10 p.m.)
Beers: Stinky Pinky, DADU Honey Wheat Ale, Triad IPA, Barely Legal Bourbon Oak Stout, 12 Step Apricot Ale, Wise Ass Watermelon Wheat, Atomic Rye Red. Both the Apricot and Watermelon went on tap recently, while the Atomic Rye Red is the newest beer listed via BBB's Facebook page. The Stinky Pinky (5.3% ABV) is a hefeweizen infused with grapefruit. The DADU (8.2% ABV) is almost like a beer/mead hybrid. The Triad (6.6% ABV) uses a mix of three hops for a bigger, bolder flavor, plus additional dry hopping has given it a stronger aroma.
Events: B3 has $3 beers every Tuesday from open to close. On Wednesday, B3 will be hosting their open mic from 8-10 p.m., with signups starting at 7:30 p.m. Check out B3's karaoke night every Thursday starting at 8 p.m.
Cazuela's Seafood & Mexican Grill — (505) 994-9364
(Open daily 8 a.m.-10 p.m.)
Beers: Papacabra (Double IPA), Panama Red, Acapulco Gold (Mexican Lager), Hefeweizen, Chupacabra IPA, Piedra del Fuego Stoned Cream Ale, Beer for My Horses (Oatmeal Stout), Inebriator (Doppelbock). E-Rock and I had a chance to sample the Piedra del Fuego (5% ABV), which we both recommend. According to Cazuela's menu: "This cream ale uses red-hot stones to super caramelize the sugars, creating a nutty, toffee-like flavor." The Inebriator (8% ABV) and the Papacabra (9.7% ABV) are the biggest beers in the lineup.
Events: Cazuela's now features a live guitarist every Friday.
News: Cazuela's Beer for My Horses won a bronze medal in the oatmeal stout category at the World Beer Cup in Denver.
Chama River Brewing Company — (505) 342-1800
(Sun–Thurs 11 a.m.–11 p.m., Fri–Sat 11 a.m.–midnight)
Beers: Chamahawk Pale Ale, Double Rainbow, Nutty Professor, Hefe Nice Day! New to taps this week is the Nutty Professor, a Pecan brown ale. Another recent addition is the Chamahawk (6.7% ABV, 60 IBU), a burly pale ale. The Double Rainbow (4.8% ABV, 20 IBU) is a blackberry beer. The Hefe Nice Day! (4.5% ABV, 15 IBU) won the Brew Crew's recent Hefeweizen Challenge.
News: Head brewer Zach Guilmette has revamped the recipe for Chama's Jackalope IPA to give it a stronger kick and tastier palate. Franz Solo and I also highly recommend you try the revamped Sleeping Dog Stout. It's creamy and burly and sweet and roasted … it's a damn contradiction of a beer, but it's wonderful.
When the Sun Dog Kolsch does run out, the Pecan Brown (5.8% ABV, 25 IBU) will take its place.
Il Vicino Brewing Canteen — (505) 881-2737
(Sun–Thurs noon–10 p.m., Fri–Sat noon–midnight)
Beers: Aztec Lager, Irish Red, Fest Beer, Vienna Lager, American Stock Ale, Hefeweizen, Sessa's Wet Hop Cascade Pale Ale, Galaxy IPA, Citra C-Hop Shop IPA. Sadly, Hop Kwondo run its course at the Canteen. The C-Hop Shop IPA was the first of the IPAs to kick, followed by Exodus. There are still plenty of hoppy beers on tap, plus the Aztec, Irish, Fest, Vienna, Hefe, and the Stock Ale — back after a short break — will have you covered if you prefer malt-forward beers.
News: Il Vicino posted some pics on Facebook of the beers they are currently barrel-aging in the back. They've got Double IPA in tequila barrels, American Stock Ale in rum barrels, Belgian Strong Golden in wine barrels, and Panama Joe Coffee Stout in bourbon barrels.
Kaktus Brewing — (505) 379-5072
(Hours Mon-Thu 11:30-8 p.m., Fri-Sun 11:30-10 p.m.)
Beers: Amber Ale, Cream Stout, Banty Rooster (Hefe IPA), London Porter, Choice ESB, Solstice Pilsner, Banaweizen, Jabberwocky IPA. The Amber is the newest kid on the menu, replacing the Lil Red Wagon. The Solstice is another recent addition, brewed with two types of Belgian malts and German hops. It's sweet and refreshing on a hot day. Located at 471 South Hill Road in Bernalillo, Kaktus is one of the state's newest breweries. It is a small, casual place, similar to Blue Heron in appearance and comfort factor. Kaktus owner Dana Koller said fans can expect the nanobrewery to go through its most popular styles quickly, though they will always have something new and exciting available as a replacement.
Events: Kaktus has several new weekday specials including $3 pints on Monday, $9 growlers on Tuesday, $6 bison nachos on Wednesday, and $8 Frito pie and beer on Thursday.
There will be lots of live music at Kaktus this week. Thursday will feature Latin music from a live guitarist from 6 to 8 p.m. Guitarist Jimmy Phiefer will perform Friday from 6 to 8 p.m.
The Town of Bernalillo will have its official wine poster signing at Kaktus on Saturday starting at 4 p.m.
The Desert Darlings belly dancers will perform from 6 to 8 p.m. on Sunday. If you've never seen the Desert Darlings in person, you're missing out.
La Cumbre Brewing — (505) 872-0225
(Open every day at noon)
Beers: Saison d'Hommel, Fievre d'Abricot, Old Hop, New Hop. The newest beer on tap is Old Hop, New Hop (5.4% ABV, 41 IBU), an American pale ale that uses Centennial (old) and Simcoe (new) hops. The Saison (7.5% ABV, 35 IBU) and the Fievre (7.8% ABV, 25 IBU) are also available for sale in bombers.
News: We congratulate La Cumbre Brewing Co. for becoming this year's National IPA Champion. Project Dank scored the win by edging out 127 other IPAs from around the country, including the likes of the venerable Fat Head's IBUsive.
Monday will mark the release party for another big old hop bomb of a beer. Full Nelson, a powerful IPA, will return both on tap at the brewery and for sale in bombers.
Lizard Tail Brewing — (505) 717-1301
(Hours TBA)
Beers: German Blonde Ale, Honey Pale Ale, IPA, Amber, Oatmeal Brown, India Black Ale, Rye Stout. The initial lineup from Lizard Tail, located in the shopping center on the southeast corner of Eubank and Montgomery, looks quite promising. I or one of the other Crew members will try to attend their grand opening party (see above). The biggest beer on the menu is the IPA (6.8% ABV, 70 IBU), while the India Black Ale (6.6% ABV, 70 IBU) can match it for hoppiness. Lizard Tail is more of a malt-forward brewery, so we're looking forward to trying the Rye Stout (5.5% ABV, 35 IBU) and Oatmeal Brown (4.2% ABV, 25 IBU).
News: Two more beers are on the way in the Berliner Weisse (4.3% ABV, 8 IBU) and the Belgian Abbey (6.6% ABV, 25 IBU).
Marble Brewery — (505) 243-2739
(Mon–Sat 1 p.m.–midnight, Sun 1 p.m.–10:30 p.m.)
Beers: Red Light Lager, Brau, Double White, Iron Horse Extra IPA, Extra Special Bitter, Saisonette, India Pale Lager. Brau (7.1% ABV) is a new German-style Sticke Altbier. One of the newer beers on tap is the IPL (5% ABV, 62 IBU). It's the first beer brewed by Andrew, a member of the Marble brewery team. The Iron Horse (8.0% ABV) uses a blend of experimental hops for a one-of-a-kind taste. In addition, $1 from every pint sold of Iron Horse goes to the Ales for ALS campaign. Pints cost $5.50, add $6 extra for a growler. The ESB (4.7% ABV) uses West Yorkshire yeast and English malts for a, well, very English beer. The Saisonette (4.2% ABV) is one of the lower alcohol beers we've seen this summer.
Cask: Check out Marble's cask (a.k.a. "real" ale) selection on tap every Friday at the Downtown Pub.
News: In April, Marble was presented the gold medal at the World Beer Cup for their Pilsner.
Events: Brewery tours occur at the Downtown Pub every Thursday at 5:30 p.m.
As noted above, Marble will have a special release party for the Red Light Lager today (Wednesday) at 5 p.m.
Nexus Brewery — (505) 242-4100
(Sun–Thurs 11 a.m.–10 p.m., Fri–Sat 11 a.m.–midnight)
Beers: Rye Pale Ale, Blackberry Hefeweizen, Altbier. Brewer Kaylynn McKnight is cranking out one new seasonal coming out later this week in the Blackberry Hefeweizen, while her popular Altbier is also returning. The RPA (5.9% ABV) has somewhat muted rye flavor, while the sweeter malts tend to dominate this beer. It's a good summer beer, perfect for sipping slowly on a hot afternoon.
Events: Nexus serves up Happy Hour All Day on Tuesday featuring $3 pints. Also on Tuesday, Nexus will be hosting their comedy open mic, Young Dumb and Full of Comedy, starting at 7:30 p.m. in the Sun Room.
Pi Brewing at Nicky V's Neighborhood Pizzeria — (505) 890-9463
(Sun–Thurs 11 a.m.–9 p.m., Fri–Sat 11 a.m.–10 p.m.)
Beers: Unchallenged IPA, First IPA, West Coast Red. While Pi Brewing is not open to the public yet, they are able to brew and serve their beers next door at Nicky V's. You can try the last of the First IPA (75 IBU), or go for the bigger Unchallenged IPA (100 IBU). The West Coast Red is a hoppier red. We'll keep tabs on when Pi itself opens. For now, grab a pint and some tasty Italian food.
News: Lost Grain English Summer Ale was supposed to be on tap last Friday. This week, Pi IPA was supposed to hit taps along with a fresh batch of Vanilla Bourbon Porter.
Sandia Chile Grill — (505) 798-1970
(Mon–Sat 8 a.m.–8 p.m., Sun 8 a.m.–6 p.m.)
Beers: Irish Red, American IPA. The American IPA was a new version of the Rattlesnake IPA brewed especially for the 4th of July. The Irish Red was also back on tap.
The Stumbling Steer — (505) 792-7805
(Sunday-Wednesday 11 a.m.-midnight, Thursday-Saturday 11 a.m.-2 a.m.)
Beers: Blonde, Pale, IPA, Red, Brown, Double IPA, Imperial Stout. While the brewery is being built in the back of the Steer, all of their house beers are being brewed off-site, but still using brewer Kirk Roberts' recipes. The DIPA and the Stout are limited to two per customer, due to their high alcohol content (10% and 9.5% ABV, respectively). The Crew has already made two separate visits to the Steer to review the beer and food. We enjoyed it all.
Tractor Brewing Company — (505) 433-5654 (Nob Hill Tap Room), TBA (Wells Park)
(Nob Hill is open Monday-Wednesday 3 p.m. to midnight, Thursday 3 p.m. to 2 a.m., Friday-Saturday 1 p.m. to 2 a.m., Sunday 1 p.m. to midnight; Wells Park is open Monday-Thursday 3 p.m. to close, Friday-Sunday 1 p.m. to midnight. Last call 30 minutes before close. No package after midnight. Brewery tours Saturday at 1 p.m.)
Beers at Nob Hill: Apple Cider, Javi Light Lager, Pilsner Roja, Berry Cider, Berliner Weisse Sour, C+C IPA.
Beers at Wells Park only: L4 IPL, Maibock Lager, Trekker Red Belgian Ale, Barley Wine, Juniper Xtra Pale Ale, Scotch Ale, Milk Mustachio Stout, F.Y.F.A. IPA, La Llorona Dry Hop Amber, Otter IPA. All of the Nob Hill seasonals are also at Wells Park, which has 24 total taps (Tractor's five regular beers have two taps apiece). The Pilsner Roja is a crisp, Marzen-style beer that tastes good in the hot summer months. If you need a hop punch to the face, the F.Y.F.A. (F— Yeah Friday Ale) is a much more hop-forward IPA than what Tractor usually creates. The Berliner Weisse Sour takes a traditional German-style weiss beer and twists it into a sour. It's an acquired taste. The most recent additions to the lineups are the La Llorona Dry Hop Amber and Otter IPA.
Events: On Wednesday, Tractor will be hosting another Cards Against Humanity night at Wells Park. This is a free event starting at 7 p.m. Food will by served by Nomad's BBQ.
Geeks Who Drink is now setting up shop at the Wells Park Tap Room every Monday at 8 p.m. Bar cash for winners and bonus questions all night. Wanna see what GWD at Tractor has been up to? Check out the blog! Food will be served by Mystique.
Tractor's Thirsty Thursday music series at Wells Park continues with Seth Hoffman performing at 8 p.m. Kimo's will provide the food.
Club Cultura will kick off Friday night at 9 p.m. at Wells Park.
Tractor is introducing a new series called In the Mix: DJs on the Wells Park Patio. DJ Halcyon will perform Saturday at 9 p.m. Kimo's will provide all your culinary needs once again.
Sunday will feature not one but two events. First up is the latest I'll Drink to That at 7 p.m., with TED Before BED kicking off shortly thereafter at 7:30.
Turtle Mountain Brewing Company — (505) 994-9497
(Kitchen hours: Mon–Tues 11 a.m.-8:30 p.m., Wed–Thurs 11 a.m.-9 p.m., Fri–Sat 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m., Sun 10:30 a.m.-8:30 p.m. Reminder: TMBC closes early when business dictates. Please call.)
Beers: (House) McDay's Cream Ale, Oku Amber, Parasol White IPA, Hopshell IPA, Piedra Lisa Porter. (Seasonal/specialty) Monochrome Milk Stout, Berry Cherry Wheat, Pork 'n' Brew Brown Ale, Dog Daze Summer Lager. To help us out for now and the future, brewer Tim Woodward broke down what will be the regular beers on tap (under House) and the current list of seasonals. That's a pretty solid regular lineup. I personally really enjoyed the Porter and Amber, the latter of which trumps most of its genre in terms of flavor. The newest beer on tap is the Monochrome Milk Stout. I got to enjoy this decadently smooth beer from a guest tap at Boxing Bear.
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1 cup peach chunks (fresh, frozen, or canned)
3 ounces tequila
3 ounces peach schnapps
1 ounce triple sec
1 ounce sugar
1 ounce sweetened lime juice
3 cups ice (adjust to personal preference)
lime slices (garnish)
Add ingredients to blender (except garnish). Blend together until mixture becomes a thick slush (add more ice if necessary).
Pour into margarita glasses and garnish with a lime slice! Serve and enjoy!
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The Epic Film Challenge II
#129 – Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Dir. Billy Wilder
Starring: Gloria Swanson, William Holden, Eric von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, Fred Clark, Lloyd Gough, Jack Webb, Cecil B. DeMille, Buster Keaton
The one hundred and twenty-ninth installment of the Epic Film Challenge II, Billy Wilder's portrait of a faded silent film star trying to recapture her former glory, Sunset Boulevard.
Recorded in December 2016.
Oscar Wins: Best Screenplay (Charles Brackett, D. M. Marshman Jr., Billy Wilder), Best Black-and-White Art Direction (Hans Dreier, John Meehan, Samuel M. Comer, Ray Moyer), Best Score (Franz Waxman)
Is it a film you must see before you die?
Luke: Definitely, a true Hollywood classic, I loved this.


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Recorded live by the BBC, issued by Collins and reappearing, phoenix-like, in the composer's 80th year thanks to the enterprising NMC label, Birtwistle's blistering score here comes vividly across especially when all concerned throw themselves into it so wholeheartedly.
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Nissan LEAF makes inroads as zero emission taxi
Taxis are perhaps the last word in real world automotive testing as their owner and drivers demand reliability, economy and longevity in equal measure. So it's always interesting to see how a newcomer fares when it muscles into this tough but potentially lucrative market.
And according to Nissan, cities across Europe are going through a quiet revolution as taxi companies start to shift from conventional diesel-powered cabs to zero-emission – and near-silent – Nissan LEAF taxis.
The world's best-selling electric vehicle (EV) is attractive to taxi drivers thanks to lower running costs and by the desire of civic authorities to reduce airborne pollution in city centres which can also translate into savings for the hard-pressed cabbie.
Two years after the ground-breaking EV went on sale in Europe, Nissan LEAF taxis are now operating in Holland, Switzerland, Germany, Portugal, Spain and the UK. And more are on the way!
One of the strongest advocates of the Nissan LEAF as a taxi is Amsterdam-based Taxi-E company. With a fleet of 13 Nissan LEAF's, the firms' drivers have covered over 700,000 kms – that's further than the distance of the earth to the moon.
The cars are quick-charged two or three times a day using 100 per cent green energy, meaning they're always ready for passengers.
One of the entrepreneurs behind Taxi-E, Ruud Zandvliet, said: "Amsterdam has some 3,000 taxis, so while our fleet is helping to reduce emissions, there is obviously room to reduce these even further."
Switzerland's largest city, Zurich, will soon have a fleet of pure electric Nissan LEAF taxis moving people around the city. Later this year, ten Nissan LEAFs will hit the road supported by a network of city-wide fast chargers as part of Zurich city's plans to make 15 per cent of its taxi fleet electric by 2015. Capable of replenishing a battery to 80% in just 30 minutes, with many customers arriving with partially full batteries, the average stay is just 15 minutes.
The Nissan LEAF is also a hit with European taxi owner-drivers where running costs, fuel bills and maintenance down time are critical to their success. These road warriors are fast-becoming EV advocates showing colleagues the benefits of making the switch from diesel to electric.
In the UK, Phoenix Taxis runs a Nissan LEAF as part of its fleet and has installed three EV charging points at its headquarters in Blyth, Northumberland. Managing Director Alexander Hurst said: "The main cost to any taxi driver is fuel. With prices rocketing on a monthly basis, EVs are becoming the more sensible fleet vehicle cost."
"LEAF is incredibly luxurious and taxi drivers – notoriously unhappy with change – love the way LEAF drives. The gadgets available via the steering wheel also help make drivers' lives easier. With real-time savings of £5,000 (€5,900) a year in fuel, we're expanding our fleet and will have 15 LEAFs on the road by summer 2014."
Globally, Nissan LEAF-based taxis are helping to cut pollution on the streets of New York, Rio de Janeiro and many cities in Japan.
Jean-Pierre Diernaz, Director Electric Vehicles Europe, said: "There is little doubt that the Nissan LEAF is an ideal vehicle for taxi operators. It's cheap to run and easy to maintain. It's good to drive and passengers like the space and comfort.
"From a driver's point of view, LEAF's brisk acceleration allows it to easily keep with the traffic flow and the growth in quick-charging networks provides easier access to rapid 'refuelling'. With zero-emissions and whisper-quiet running, just one Nissan LEAF can make a difference to life in the city."


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If I had to choose between the beach or the pool, it would always be the pool. I don't know what it is about beaches, but they aren't really my thing (Judging from the photographs above you wouldn't think so).
Anyway, so on one of our first days in Barca, we headed out to Barceloneta beach, which was conveniently a stones throw from our hotel. The beach was quite packed with people, but we paid our 8 euros for an umbrella and sat our bums on our beach blankets. Prior to this, my friend Bisola bought champagne, fruits, and ice cream for us to indulge in whilst we watched the tides come and go. I must say, that that is a major benefit of chilling on the beach is the tranquility that comes with it. There's really nothing like the sounds of waves washing up continuously. (I actually have an app that includes all types of water sounds, be it rain drops or thunder storms. The rain drops and wave sounds especially send me off to sleep.)
P.S You would think I was sponsored by Coca Cola (I wish), by how proudly I wore this swim suit, however I wasn't, I just absolutely love it. It's from Primark incase you were wondering and it fits perfectly. So tell me, are you guys/girls more beach blanket or sun bed? Let me know in the comments below, and if you have a particular reason why.


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If you don't want to pre-order, mark November 17th as the day you will buy this third volume of Precipice, the literary anthology of Write On Edge.
If you want to have a physical, dead-tree, paperback copy because you think your e-book reading device is eating your brain, your date is December 1st.
If you just want a paperback copy as a companion for your other paperbacks, that's good too. Your date is still December 1st.
Precipice 2014 will make an ideal Christma-solsti-hanu-kwanz-akkah gift for those of you who participate in the gift-giving festivities of December.
It'll make an even better "I just had to get this for you because I love you that much" present for any of the other days of the year.
The point, honored guests, that I am trying to make is that you don't want to miss adding this volume to your Precipice collection.
And if you're a Shelton Keys Dunning fan, you'll want to add this volume to your collection of Shelton Keys Dunning works, because, yes this is a shameless plug, I AM IN THIS BOOK!
If you're tired of all things Shelton Keys Dunning, Precipice 2014 is your chance to check out amazing authors from the talented Write On Edge community. There is something in this volume for everyone!
This is an immoral imperative. This is mandatory fun.
This is a basic human necessity.
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(Okay, while we're talking Big Boy Room, let's be honest: he's four. Definitely not a baby, and certainly not Big…yet. He keeps growing, so odds are he'll be walking a Big Boy swagger by the time he hits the Kindergarten classroom later this year.)
That our son does not totally identify with some cartoon character and try to shape his daily life to mirror that of some work of fiction, I am very grateful for.
When trying to think of a theme to work from on a style for his Big Boy room, I reflected on what he has enjoyed so far in his life:
- Trains
- Building bridges
- Reading
- Writing
- Cooking
- Being outside
And, of course, the color purple.
Okay, then!
I am not one of those persons who likes to decorate a room to a total theme that makes the occupant believe they're not really in a bedroom but in a giant spaceship, or camping near the Grand Canyon, or sailing the wide open seas. Maybe it was some subliminal trauma from seeing commercials for the "FantaSuites" hotel concept. Anyone remember those?
Probably for the best.
There were three realities that would ground any sort of design idea:
- The house we live in was built in the 19th century.
- Most of the furniture that is in our house was made in the 20th century.
- The occupant of this particular room lives in the 21st century.
Three centuries. One room. One outdoorsy/studious/sometimes shy/train-loving/bridge-building client. And purple. This could be a hot mess, or kind of neat. The paint colors we had settled on. And the carpet wasn't changing. We also knew a few things that would come into this room from the "baby room" that could help inform the look:
Our "client" decided that he would like to take his bedroom furniture with him. That's no biggie – swapping furniture between the rooms would be easy enough to do. I knew there wouldn't be any need to make any furniture purchases for the new room. The antique age of the majority of the pieces connects to the house nicely, too.
Then, it hit me: he's always loved the outdoors. from the time he was a newborn. The mission became one of finding some timeless-yet-young interpretations of outdoor living that did not involve shopping at Pottery Barn Kids. (Apologies to anyone offended by that remark. Nothing against the store – and they can inspire some neat ideas – but much of what they make is already out there. and cheaper, too.) I knew there would be other ways to do this that would not only be enjoyed by the occupant but also stand the test of the next 10 years or so. That includes:
This stencil is not traditional. But it communicates a little outdoorsy-ness and brings an element of youth into the room to offset some of the antique furniture.
Thinking of preppy boys' rooms, some trophies on a mantle might be found. And, if he follows the family hunting tradition, he may be adding his own trophy to his room years from now. But something cardboard in nature that he can help assemble is a friendly midpoint in this part of his life's story.
Now, this isn't implying that we hope our child will grow up to trade goods with a sovereign nation. But the Hudson's Bay trading blanket is one of those instantly identifiable symbols of exploration, innovation, and not, we hope, hoodwinking others. Besides, look at those colors! What kid wouldn't love those colors?
Things were coming together. Time to slap some color on the walls and get this done.


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On June 25, 2013 came The Immaculate Enchantress, a short EP of love song stories. It brings about feelings of joy, love, wonder, and appreciation. An acoustic set, The Immaculate Enchantress pushes the boundaries of acoustic portrayal.
A second solo EP, The Immaculate Enchantress is a record of love, wonder, and mystic journeys. More information on the record is located on the Biography page.


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Will a Multivitamin Reduce the Risk of Deficiency?
By: Julia Bird, Senior Associate Scientist, Human Nutrition and Health, DSM
Multivitamins may help decrease the risk of vitamin deficiency.
- Even in high income-countries, studies report that the diets of many are lacking in essential micronutrients
- Research supports the use of supplementation with multivitamins to help decrease the risk of deficiency
One of the reasons why I chose to study nutrition science was so that I could understand a subject that would have a direct impact on my own life. Having a healthy diet is important to me, and it has been fascinating to learn about what goes into a healthy diet and the reasoning behind the dietary recommendations. An important lesson for me has been that there are many dietary patterns associated with good health. Even so, it seems like everyone has an opinion about nutrition.
One controversial aspect of nutrition is whether dietary supplements are worthwhile. On the one hand, scientists and the media have published critical commentary over the inappropriate use of dietary supplements. On the other, there are many people who suffer from malnutrition worldwide. Even in high-income countries such as the U.S., comprehensive studies report that the diets of many people are poor and dietary supplements can help people attain adequacy. For example, less than 10% of U.S. adults meet fruit and vegetable recommendations and 45% had a diet considered to be "poor" when compared to dietary guidelines1. Intakes of calcium, magnesium, and vitamins D, A, C, E, and K were low for a "considerable percentage" of U.S. adults, and supplements can help make up the micronutrient gap.2 Adding to the confusion, more than half of adults use dietary supplements3, and the dietary supplement industry is large and still expanding. I realized that there were several questions that I wanted to ask that did not seem to be answered in the current literature:
- What is the risk that someone has any nutrient deficiency?
- Who is at risk of any deficiency?
- Does dietary supplementation reduce the risk of deficiency?
- How do dietary supplements affect deficiency risk in people with a poor diet compared to those with a largely adequate diet?
The Centers of Disease Control and Prevention in the U.S. has provided an excellent resource for nutrition researchers by surveying the health and nutritional status of the population for many years with the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), the data from which is publicly available. Using the survey years 2003-2006, which contains the broadest range of biochemical markers of nutrient status, my colleagues and I drew up a research plan to answer these questions, then set about crunching the numbers.
We found that almost one in three people living in the U.S. are at risk of deficiency, and the most common deficiencies are for vitamins B6, B12, C and D. When looking at age and gender groups, women aged 19-50 years old are at greatest risk (41%), as are people of lower socio-economic status, non-Hispanic Blacks, and underweight or obese adults. We found that using a dietary supplement reduced risk of deficiency, particularly multivitamins that contain a wide range of different vitamins and minerals. Specifically, 44% of people not taking a dietary supplement were at risk of deficiency, compared to 16% taking a multivitamin, or 40% taking any other dietary supplement. When we looked at diet, it's clear that meeting the dietary recommendations helps to reduce risk of deficiency. People who met the EAR for all the vitamins and minerals in our analysis had a risk of deficiency of only 16%, compared to people with the poorest diets, who had a risk of deficiency of 58%. Also here, dietary supplements could reduce risk of deficiency. Using a multivitamin could reduce risk of deficiency from 70% to 30% in people with the poorest diets, when compared to people not taking a dietary supplement. In people with adequate diets, risk of deficiency was reduced from 28% to 5% when comparing dietary non-users with multivitamin users. It seems that the risk of any deficiency is quite common in the U.S., and particular groups in the U.S. are at greater risk of deficiency. Having a good diet helps reduce risk of deficiency, as does taking a multivitamin, and in combination, the risk of deficiency is the lowest.
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1. Guallar E, Stranges S, Mulrow C, Appel LJ, Miller ER 3rd. Enough is enough: Stop wasting money on vitamin and mineral supplements. Ann Intern Med. 2013 Dec 17;159(12):850-1. http://annals.org/aim/article/1789253/enough-enough-stop-wasting-money-vitamin-mineral-supplements
2. Fulgoni VL 3rd1, Keast DR, Bailey RL, Dwyer J. Foods, fortificants, and supplements: Where do Americans get their nutrients? J Nutr. 2011 Oct;141(10):1847-54. doi: 10.3945/jn.111.142257. Epub 2011 Aug 24. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21865568
3. Bailey RL, Gahche JJ, Miller PE, Thomas PR, Dwyer JT. Why US adults use dietary supplements. JAMA Intern Med. 2013 Mar 11;173(5):355-61. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.2299. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23381623
4. Belluz, Julia. Stop wasting your money on dietary supplements. Published in Vox, March 10, 2016. https://www.vox.com/2016/3/10/11179842/dietary-supplements-medical-evidence
5. Bird J, Murphy R, Ciappio E, McBurney M. Risk of Deficiency in Multiple Concurrent Micronutrients in Children and Adults in the United States. Nutrients 2017;9(7):655. http://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/9/7/655
6. Marra MV, Boyar AP. Position of the American Dietetic Association: nutrient supplementation. J Am Diet Assoc. 2009 Dec;109(12):2073-85. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19957415
7. Rehm CD, Peñalvo JL, Afshin A, Mozaffarian D. Dietary Intake Among US Adults, 1999-2012. JAMA. 2016 Jun 21;315(23):2542-53. doi: 10.1001/jama.2016.7491. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27327801
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