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PRIVATE TOUR: Natural wonders of the Borneo kind. From Orangutans to hornbills, to mountains and marine parks, discover some of the world's richest and most diverse eco-systems and traditional peoples, Borneo's wilderness is a destination for all types of nature lover. Whatever your passion, this one won't disappoint!
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Welcome to Borneo! Upon arrival, you will be met and transferred to our hotel.
Overnight: Kuching
Cat City
This morning explore and discover the charms of Kuching on a guided tour. Your tour is the perfect introduction to Sarawak's historic capital, including Kuching's Chinatown, the Cat Statue (Kuching means "Cat" in Malay), the colourful Tua Pek Kong Chinese Temple, the Civic Centre Viewing Platform and the world famous Sarawak Museum. Reputed to be one of the best in South East Asia, it has an excellent collection of Bornean ethnological and archaeological artefacts.
Return via the golden-domed City Mosque and passing through Old Kuching, crammed with spice dealers and textile shops. Pass by the heritage buildings of the White Rajah era, the Pavilion, the Square Tower, the Court House, the Charles Brooke Monument and the Post Office. View the Astana, the former residence of the White Rajahs from across the river at the Kuching Waterfront.
Overnight: Kuching | Breakfast
Bako National Park
Kuching - Bako NP - Kuching. Today travel by road and then a take a boat ride along the shoreline of the South China Sea to Bako National Park one of the best places in Sarawak to view wildlife in a natural setting. Bako's most famous residents are the bizarre proboscis monkeys, and it is also home to silvered langurs (leaf monkeys), long-tailed macaque monkeys, wild boar, flying squirrels and monitor lizards as well as hundreds of different bird species. Fascinating plant life includes mangroves, strangling figs, carnivorous pitcher plants and symbiotic ant plants. Unique geological features mark the coastline, whilst well-marked trails lead to rugged jungle-covered hilltops and secluded beaches. Walking within the park, you will experience this amazing wilderness with some trails leading to some good swimming beaches. After spending the day in the park we return to Kuching.
Overnight: Kuching | Breakfast, Lunch
Orangutans & Longhouses
Kuching - Batang Ai. After breakfast visit the Semenggoh Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre. Semenggoh is the best place in Sarawak to view semi-wild orangutans, who have been rescued from captivity and trained to survive in the surrounding forest reserve. The rehabilitated animals roam freely in the rainforest, and often return to the centre at feeding time (between 09-10am). Thanks to the successful breeding programme at Semenggoh, there is a good possibility of experiencing one of the most heart-warming sights in Borneo - an orangutan mother with a young baby. Note: As the orangutan in Semenggoh are semi-wild, sightings cannot be guaranteed.
After Semenggoh, continue your journey passing through lush green countryside dotted with paddy fields, pepper gardens and rubber plantations, flanked by rugged jungle-clad mountains. Along the way we stop off at the Serian farmer's market, visit a pepper garden and view carnivorous pitcher plants.
We stop for lunch at a roadside bazaar deep in Iban country. Arriving at Lemanak jetty mid-afternoon take a longboat ride up the Lemanak River, passing through typical Borneo countryside with a longhouse tucked behind almost every bend in the river.
Arrive at Serubah Longhouse or Kesit Longhouse and visit the "entire village under one roof." Watching the local Iban people at work making mat, baskets and handicrafts. Dinner, featuring delicious fresh jungle produce, is served in the simple guest-house. After dinner return to the longhouse for an evening's entertainment, including traditional dancing, music, games and a glass or two of tuak (rice wine) with the longhouse chief. The Iban are a fun-loving people and visitors are expected to join in! Spend the night in the guesthouse with very basic amenities (communal area for sleeping, with no air-conditioning and shared facilities). The accommodation is built by the longhouse people to help supplement their income for their livelihood and children's education.
Overnight: Serubah/Kesit Longhouse | Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Batang Ai Nature Walk
After breakfast we watch a blowpipe demonstration, before taking a guided nature walk through the pristine jungle where we learn about the medicinal plants used by the Iban and other shoots and roots used as food. We stop by the river beach for a tasty backwoods style picnic lunch where our food is cooked in bamboo. After lunch, we travel by longboat to the Batang Ai Longhouse Resort (managed Hilton) where we spend the night.
Overnight: Batang Ai Longhouse Resort | Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Return to Kuching
Batang Ai - Kuching. After breakfast take a ferry from the resort to the jetty, before driving back to Kuching, stopping for lunch en route.
Overnight: Kuching | Breakfast, Lunch
Semadang Kayaking
This morning drive to Bengoh village where you take to the water for an exciting river kayaking adventure, visiting mini waterfalls and caves en route and feeding river fish. We'll also take a village walk and enjoy lunch at Bidayuh Village. This afternoon return to Kuching.
Overnight: Kuching | Breakfast, Lunch
Kota Kinbalu
Kuching - Kota Kinbalu. Today you bid farewell to Sarawak and hello to Sabah! After breakfast transfer to Kuching Airport for your flight to Kota Kinabalu. After hotel check in the remainder of the day can be spent at leisure.
Please note: The flight from Kuching to Kota Kinabalu is not included in the cost of this tour. Airport transfers on day 8 will be included if you let us know your flight details.
Overnight: Kota Kinbalu | Breakfast
Mamutik Island
Kota Kinabalu - Mamutik Island - Kota Kinabalu. Just a 20 minute boat ride and you arrive at the beautiful coral islands of the Tunku Abdul Rahman Park. Offering pristine white beaches, clear water and coral reefs, this is perfect place for a day of relaxation and swimming. Snorkel in crystal clear water among coral reef and tropical fish or explore jungle trails before returning to Kota Kinabalu.
Overnight: Kota Kinabalu | Breakfast
Taun Gusi Homestay
Kota Kinabalu - Taun Gusi. Today travel north to Taun Gusi Village in Kota Belud, which is known as the rice bowl of Sabah. It's a scenic journey through paddy fields and rubber plantations, passing native houses with majestic Mount Kinabalu as the background. Upon arrival meet your host families and in the afternoon there's the opportunity to go horse riding, visit a place that makes swords (Bajau Parang Making) and bathe in the river. Spend the night at the home of our host families and gain a fascinating insight into village life.
Overnight: Taun Gusi Village Homestay | Breakfast, Dinner
Kinabalu National Park
Taun Gusi - Kundasang. Wake up to the calls of roosters and enjoy the tranquility of the village. Start the day by visiting the 'Valley of Paddy field" which is a vast low valley of lush paddy fields. Transfer to Kinabalu National Park where we visit the education centre and mountain garden, home to various species of the flowering Rhododendrons, carnivorous pitcher plants, orchids, ferns, and birds. If time and weather permits, take a guided trail walk.
Overnight: Kundasang | Breakfast
Kundasang – Sepilok. Start the day by discovering Sabah's WWII history with a visit the Kundasang memorial park, before heading to Poring, to explore tropical lowland jungle and rainforest some 1,500 ft above sea level. Take the jungle trail leading up to the treetop canopy walkways, suspended 41 meters above the forest floor across giant Mengaris trees. Next proceed by road to Sepilok, where this evening we experience the Sepilok Jungle Nightwalk.
Overnight: Sepilok Nature Resort | Breakfast
Sepilok Orangutans
Sepilok – Sukau. This morning visit the Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre, where orphaned and injured orangutans are reintroduced into the wild. We take a walk through the Tropical Lowland Dipterocarp Forest and visit the outdoor nursery where around 25 young orphaned orangutans are housed.
Depart Sepilok and take a scenic boat cruise up to the Lower Kinabatangan River Sanctuary to our lodge in Sukau, through the magnificent scenery of the Mangrove Forest. After lunch look out for nature from the boardwalk, such as wild orangutan and silver leaf monkeys. Later in the afternoon take another cruise in search of wildlife. After dinner experience the jungle at night from our nature boardwalk, searching for birds, snakes, insects and other wildlife with our nature guide.
Overnight: Abai Jungle Lodge | Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Sukau Rainforest
Wake up to the calls of nature. Early this morning take a river cruise to the Pitas oxbow lake to observe wildlife before returning to the lodge for breakfast. Then there's the opportunity to take part in a tree planting project with the locals before enjoying a simple lunch arranged by the villagers at Abai village.
After lunch cruise up river to Sukau village in search of primates especially the endemic Proboscis Monkeys, birds and other wildlife. After check-in at Kinabatangan Riverside Lodge and time to relax, we take another late afternoon cruise to Menanggul River, a small tributary of the Kinabatangan.
Overnight: Kinabatangan Riverside Lodge | Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Sukau - Sandakan. Early this morning after breakfast take a two hour boat cruise back to Sandakan with the opportunity to spot wildlife en route. Your tour ends with a transfer to Sandakan airport. Flights should be booked after 2pm.
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Prices shown are 'per person', based on a travelling party of at least 2 adults. The single supplement price needs to be added to the per person price if single rooms are required. If travelling solo, an additional '1-person' supplement will apply.
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We had three or four days with each of these men. They were all wonderful, knowledgeable and very helpful with local information and about Sarawak and Sabah in general. They made sure we were safe (I am overweight) and able to negotiate all activities and boat transfers without hassle. I thoroughly enjoyed my holiday and have no hesitation in recommending it to anyone who will listen. "


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MILAN (AP) - Instead of "Off with her head!," it's "Off with that bow!"
MILAN (AP) � Instead of "Off with her head!," it's "Off with that bow!"
Alice in Wonderland finally can ditch that blue dress and white smock once and for all. And that classic black hair ribbon is so pre-rabbit hole.
Tommaso Aquilano and Roberto Rimondi have created a whole grown-up wardrobe for Alice, who, according to the press notes, is "a woman able to dream and follow her dreams." She's less Lewis Carroll's young girl and more Tim Burton's edgier creation.
There's a lot of "muchness" in the looks, presented Saturday on the fourth day of winter 2014 preview shows.
Outfits were sculpted in inventive ways that incorporated playing card motifs, the designing duo's classic styles and stiff, masculine fabrics.
AquilanoRimondi's pencil-into-bubble dress had many variations, including innocent red plaid, belted, with short, puffed black velvet sleeves with golden hearts. Others shimmered fantastically with black sequins. The pair gave one nod to innocence, with a lace collar.
There also were flared skirts with voluminous folds, an homage to the 1950s, often in plaid or checked tweeds.
Hearts were one of the prevailing motifs, showing up as patterns on silken fabrics and in neat rows down the back of high-heeled shoes. They also formed large panels on the front of dresses that cleverly concealed pockets.
Velvet provided rich accents, for example, on the bodices of shoulder-baring sheath dresses. And golden embroidery enriched long coat and business suits, both belted, as one of the prevailing trends this season.
Shoes were stiletto pumps bearing playing card motifs down the back of the heel, or suede thigh-high boots so thin they almost appeared to be tights.
The updated Alice has her hair pulled up in a bun, and blue eye shadow helps capture the wonder in her eyes.

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Tomato is one of the most characteristic products of Santorini. The tomato pulp production together with the one of the wine were the basis of the island's economy from 1925 till the early 1970's. Initially the tomato pulp production took place in family manufactures. Later on, the tomato factories were built, which are a very interesting sample of industrial architecture of the time. Some of them in Monolithos, Vlychada and in AVIS beach have been preserved in pristine condition.
Source: "The tomato pulp factories of Santorini", by architect Anna Kotsovili from the book "Santorini, Thera, Therassia, Aspronisi, Volcanoes" by Ioannis M. Danezis/2001. Editor in chief Emm. A. Lignos.


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Top 10 Controversial Verses in the Qur'an
As the title suggests, this page lists the top 10 most controversial verses found within the Qur'an. This page is simply an overview, it does not deal with the apologetic objections that have been brought forth in recent times by a minority number of Western apologists. Articles dealing with any such objections are linked below their corresponding verses.
10. "Beat Them"
This verse advises men to beat their wives if they don't obey them:
See related: Wife Beating in Islam and Beat your Wives or "Separate from Them"? (Qur'an 4:34)
9. "Cut off their hands"
This verse orders an irreversible punishment for thieves, taking away their chance to rehabilitate, improve as human beings and become a productive member of society later on. As an example, Terrence Barkley was arrested on his 16th birthday for stealing cars, but that resulted in him getting out of gangs and into college to study criminal justice at the University of Central Missouri.[1] If Terrence's hands and feet had been cut off according to Islamic laws, none of this would have been possible.
Sura 5:33 orders the cutting off of the hands and feet of those who wage war against Allah and his Messenger.
See related: Amputation. For other punishments in Islam, see: Punishments
8. A man may marry four wives
This verse allows a man to marry up to four wives:
Polygamy is highly controversial and not socially accepted in most parts of the modern world. See related: Polygamy
7. A man can marry a girl who hasn't reached puberty
This highly controversial Qur'anic verse prescribes the waiting period of a female who has not yet reached puberty thereby permitting men to have sex with girls who have not reached puberty:
Read the detailed analysis of this verse in our article: Pedophilia in the Qur'an
6. A man can have sex with prisoners of war
This verse allows men to have sex with women who are prisoners of war:
See related: Rape in Islam
5. Turned into Apes
People who broke the Sabbath were turned into apes:
See related: Qur'an, Hadith and Scholars:Islamic Silliness and Islamic Antisemitism
4. A man may marry the wife of his adopted son
Muhammad married Zaynab, the wife of his adopted son. This verse suggests that the adopter may marry the wife of his adopted son and vice-versa:
See related: Concerns with Islam: Adoption
3. A woman's witness testimony is half of that of a man's
This verse says the witness testimony of one man is equivalent to the witness testimony of two women:
Related to this verse is Muhammad saying that women are deficient in intelligence
2. A woman inherits half of what a man inherits
This verse says that a woman inherits half of what a man inherits:
1. Fight non-Muslims
This widely known verse orders Muslims to fight non-Muslims simply because they do not believe in the same God that Muslims do:
This is just one of the verses in the Qur'an which is used to encourage Islamic terrorism today. This verse, together with verse 9:5 (the "Verse of the Sword"), has abrogated a large number of peaceful verses according to some classical scholars.[2] See related: Terrorism
See Also
- Top 10 Lists - A hub page that leads to other articles related to Top 10 Lists
- Numbers of Islam - Number-related facts about Islam
- A version of this page is also available in the following languages: Bulgarian, French, Uzbek. For additional languages, see the sidebar on the left.
- ↑ Teen Offenders Find A Future In Missouri - CNN, August 26, 2009
- ↑ An-Nasikh -wal- Mansukh, by Ibn Khuzyamh states 113 verses are abrogated by the Sword verse (9: 5), and 9 verses are abrogated by the Fighting verse (9: 29): "Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day." See also Abrogation


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University of St.Gallen cooperates with Pricewaterhousecoopers Ag and Tagetik
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Tagetik, a global provider of enterprise software solutions for Performance Management, Governance, Risk & Compliance and Business Intelligence which is represented in the German-speaking countries by pmOne AG, today announced the launch of its collaborative project with PwC Switzerland and the University of St.Gallen.
The joint project will provide students attending the Masters course 'Consolidated Accounting' – offered by the Institute of Accounting, Controlling and Auditing of the University of St.Gallen – an outstanding experience to handle the basics on financial consolidation as well as to apply the International Reporting and Accounting Standards (IFRS) to actual cases.
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Of Ballplayers, Fan Interaction, Social Networking…and an Orange Speedo??
It all started with an orange speedo…or rather the search for one, as in "Mike Napoli Orange Speedo." No, I wasn't the one looking for this, but I started getting search engine hits using this phrase and had to laugh. Initially, I assumed that the legends of Mike Napoli, man's man, ladies' man, man about town (gee, can you tell I've been watching Down with Love? 😉 ) were finding new inspiration in Texas. But eventually a hash tag clued me in to the fact that this was a Twitter thing. Apparently Naps has been ending most of tweets with #orangespeedo. Color me amused…and also clueless so, hey, if any Ranger fans in the know would like enlighten us, feel free. 🙂
Tracking down the story behind this goofy micro-trending topic got me thinking about Twitter in general and baseball players who tweet in particular. We've all heard the wonderful stories of the relaxed atmosphere fans enjoyed around the ballpark during baseball's Golden Age, how baseball players and fans used to casually interact more regularly. My grandfather and his friends used to shag balls for the minor league Angels during batting practice. My father-in-law remembers being among the random kids who were invited down onto the field to play catch with one another and some of the ballplayers before Hollywood Stars games. Now those were minor league teams, at the time the only baseball we had in Los Angeles, but I have heard similar stories about major league teams on the lucky-to-have-them east coast. The father of a friend and a few of his buddies were occasional Brooklyn Dodgers bat boys, not because they were anyone special. Quite the opposite in fact: because they were neighborhood kids who hung around Ebbets all the time.
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Sadly, just as insurance and safety concerns along with fans venturing to the ballpark in greater and greater numbers brought an end to the casual chats and games of catch of the Golden Age, easy Twitter access to ballplayers is bound to come to an end at some point. As more and more people get Twitter accounts and begin following their teams and others, instances of jokes or comments take out of context or just plain taken the wrong way will increase, the occasional truly inappropriate breach of clubhouse confidentiality will occur, or something else will happen (perhaps even an outright MLB rule requiring such 😦 ) that will lead to players keeping their public accounts very bland and public relations-ish indeed, or shutting them down altogether. So it's best to enjoy it while it lasts. Just think, eventually our grandchildren will listen to our glory days stories and exclaim in a mixture of awe and disbelief "You mean they really used to tease each other and crack jokes and post their favorite workout mixes and stuff right there on the Internet for everyone to see?! Wow, you were so lucky!" …you know, after we re-explain such quaint technologies as the Internet and Twitter to them for the 14th time.


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The David Ramsay Dissertation Revelation
August 18, 2014 12 Comments
on the MANNER OF ACQUIRING
of a CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES
by David Ramsay; Printed 1789
(a modernized and corrected version
with remarks by Adrien Nash Feb./ Aug. 2014)
David Ramsay Dissertation on Citizenship, redux PDF
The united States are a new nation, or political society, [right off the bat we encounter a different frame of reference from our own, with attention being paid, not to a central government or national name but to a country composed of separate nations united in a compact of close alliance.] formed at first by the DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, out of those British subjects in America who were thrown out of royal protection by act of Parliament, passed in December, 1775.
[That act in effect meant that the Americans were no longer considered British subjects like all others who were under the sovereign protection of the United Kingdom but instead, like rejected step-children, were still required to do their chores and support the household, via stiff taxes and oppressive regulation.]
A CITIZEN of the United States means a member of this new nation. ["a member", -as of a connected group, like a family, or clan or tribe of people with a common connection, typically by bloodline or common nativity.]
~Besides the principle of government being radically changed by the revolution, the political character of the people was also changed from subjects to CITIZENS. The difference is immense.
[Never having lived as subjects, we fail to comprehend how immense it is, especially in the colonists' case, after they were, in effect, disowned by Parliament as Englishmen and dispossessed of many of the rights of Englishmen. -Take note of reference to "the political character" having changed.
There is a big difference between the origin of nationality in the two different worlds. The original version was; "I'm an Englishman, -a subject of the Crown", being replaced by "I'm an American, a subject of no one. I do not 'have' citizenship. But like a British subject who is a subject, and doesn't "have" subject-ship, I similarly am a CITIZEN not because of what I "have" but because of what I am." In the U.S. "having" citizenship is a fundamentally flawed concept vis a vis natural citizenship. ~]
"Subject" is derived from the Latin words; sub and jacio, and means one who is under the power of another; but a CITIZEN is a unit of a mass of free people, who, together, possess the whole of SOVEREIGNTY.
Subjects look up to a MASTER, but citizens are so entirely equal, -that none have hereditary rights superior to others.
Each citizen of a free State contains, within himself, -by nature and the Constitution, as much of the common sovereignty as another.
[That speaks of the doctrine of CITIZENSHIP EQUALITY. Whether rich or poor, new or multi-generational, well educated or poorly educated, all citizens were identical members of the nation in the view of American Natural philosophy. Like a bee hive without a queen bee; everyone is identical. No classes of superior & inferior citizens.
That view is derived from humanity's common origin, -being descendant not of different races of Man but of only one race, all having the same original parents and thus all being equal. The British also embraced that view regarding the common subjects who were not nobles or royals. They were considered to have full equality no matter what the origin of their British citizenship was (subject-born, native-born, naturalized, or recognized by statute (the foreign-born). People were viewed as being in different social classes but not in different nationality classes since all were equal before the law no matter what their position in society was. ~]
In the eyes of Reason and Philosophy, the political condition of CITIZENS is more exalted than that of noblemen. Dukes and Earls are the creatures of Kings, and may be made by them at their pleasure: but citizens possess, in their own right, original SOVEREIGNTY.
There is also a great difference between citizens and inhabitants -or residents. Any person living within a country or state is an inhabitant of it, or resident in it.
Negroes are inhabitants but not citizens. [as were some citified Indians] Citizenship confers a right of voting at elections, and many other privileges not enjoyed by those who are no more than inhabitants.
The precise difference may be thus stated: The CITIZEN of a free State is so united to it as to possess an individual's proportion of the common sovereignty; but he who is only an inhabitant, or resident, has no further connection with the State in which he resides than its umbrella of security for his person and property in accord with its fixed laws, without any participation in its government. ~ ~ ~
[ ~That speaks of the positional status of immigrants and transient foreigners. Neither were under the duty of citizenship and had no mandatory connection to the nation. There was an across-the-board disqualification regarding the civic rights and duties of citizens, but not the protections.
That position of the nation continued onward until the Civil War when vast numbers of soldiers were needed, and the government turned to immigrants to help fill the ranks. They were members of American society and were thus obligated to defend their adopted nation in time of war.
That duty was never directly put into writing but it was adopted at that time as U.S. policy. Of course the immigrant male was free to leave the country, -but he would likely not be allowed back in after the war was over.
That was their right because they were still subjects of a foreign power even though that power could not be exercised over them in the U.S.
Socially, they were domiciled members of American society, but legally they were still aliens owing allegiance to a foreign king or government.
Out of necessity, the government chose to order their participation in the war based on their social membership, and ignore their political non-membership and foreign membership.
But in the citizenship case of Wong Kim Ark in 1898, the Supreme Court ruled against previous Supreme Court holdings, as well as the stated intent and meaning of the words of the 14th Amendment, written three decades earlier.
But those words were ambiguous enough that they could apply a different meaning to them, -to what it means to be subject to the sovereign jurisdiction of the American government.
It had always appeared, until the Civil War draft, that foreigners were either fully subject to American national authority after taking the oath of Allegiance & Renunciation to become citizens, or they were fully subject to the foreign nation in which they were still a member. But by drafting them into the war, a new middle-ground gray area was created based on the British doctrine of temporary allegiance to the authority of the land of one's domicile.
That temporary allegiance was an obligation in return for all of the benefits and protections of the laws and forces of their adopted new American residence.
That gray area in which they had serious obligations but no political rights resulted in a gift to such immigrant fathers when the Supreme Court ruled that their permanent residency came with an inference that they were subject to the full authority of Washington D.C., as the 14th Amendment requires, and therefore any child born to them in America was therefore deemed to be a 14th Amendment citizen.
Its opinion in 1898 resulted in citizenship for the native-born of alien fathers who were then, in effect, openly considered subject to the full authority of the United States government even though not by actual statute. But the court's opinion served as a substitute for an actual statute.
By deciding and overtly stating that alien-born children in America were U.S. Citizens, they were in effect, covertly also stating that it was because they met the two requirements of the 14th Amendment; namely birth in the U.S. and subjection to U.S. authority.
Since babies are not subject to governments, the vague and ambiguous language of the amendment had to be taken to be in reference to inherited subjection that one was born under, -via being born to a father who was fully subject.
If he was fully subject, then he certainly could be drafted, and his child should certainly be provided citizenship in the nation of its birth and probable up-bringing, -a nation for which the father may die in battle.
Who was not fully subject to that authority? Transient visitors & guests from abroad, as well a ambassadors, Native Americans, and vagabonds with no permanent domicile anywhere. So when the nation was founded, no foreigner was viewed as fully subject, including those described by Ramsay as having no connection to the citizenship responsibilities of American men, namely resident foreigners who were all free from shouldering the obligation to support the function and defense of the government and nation.
The government did not accept them as obligated, -nor as citizens because they were neither. That would require a willful choice to become an American. Many did not make that choice.
But after the Supreme Court declared their native-born children to be citizens, then they found that they had no choice when it came to the primal obligation to defend one's own home, territory, country, or nation (which one had adopted with, or without, citizenship). ~ ]
Ramsay continued:
Republics, both ancient and modern, have been possessive of the rights of citizenship. The new Constitution carries this matter so far as to require not only present citizenship in Representatives and Senators, but prior citizenship for the term of seven and nine years. [for Senate candidates for the first Congress, that meant they had to have become Americans by 1780]
The time and manner of acquiring the high character of a CITIZEN of the United States is therefore quite worthy of public discussion.
The following appear to be the only modes of acquiring this distinguishing privilege:
[It was definitely distinguishing because there were no other national citizens on Earth but U.S. citizens. All of humanity was subject to dictators & kings.]
1st. By being parties to the original compact, The Declaration of Independence.
2nd. By taking an OATH OF FIDELITY to some one of the united States according to law.
[Silently being party to the declaration was not enough. One was forced to take sides, openly before all. -"With us" or "against us". Now swear on your honor, before God & man, your allegiance, your dedication and fidelity to our State and its cause without limits. Liberty or death.]
3rd. By tacit consent and acquiescence.
[That describes one's uncontested acceptance of their new national character. Before victory, a minor who reached maturity during the war might not acquiesce to the rejection of his British subject status resulting from his father's pledge of allegiance to the revolution.]
4th. By birth or inheritance.
[somewhat "tacitly" uncontestable following the victory over the British. Those born after the victory were no longer capable of being born as or viewed as British subjects. They were born being a citizen of the sovereign State of their birth through their citizen-father whose character they inherited.]
5th. By adoption.
Of each of these in their order:
1st. By the Declaration of Independence Congress proclaimed to the world, that their constituents, "the People of the united colonies, were absolved from all allegiance to the Crown of England," and that the late colonies were "free and Independent States."
For the support of this bold measure, they confederated together, by pledging to each other "their LIVES, FORTUNES, and SACRED HONOR."
[They bound themselves to each other with chains of sworn undying loyalty, as blood brothers in the blood that would have to be shed. They put themselves on a one-way street, which held, up ahead, either Liberty or destruction, either defeat, imprisonment & death, -or Victory and Independence.
There were no side streets and no turning around. Surrender as an option could be a fate worse than death. It was either "Onward to Victory!" or forward to the gallows.]
~By this eventful declaration, "a nation was born in a day." Nearly three millions of people who had been subjects, became CITIZENS.
[That was something mankind had not seen since the Romans overthrew their Etruscan masters who had subjugated them for ages, -2,000 years earlier.]
~Their former political connection with George III was done away, [-like the cutting of an umbilical cord] and a new one was formed, not with another king, but among themselves, by which they became CO-EQUAL CITIZENS, and, collectively, assumed all the rights of SOVEREIGNTY.
[Under the monarch, the lines of connection to others was not direct, but through their direct connection of subjection to the king. He was like the hub of a wheel to which the individual spokes are attached.
With independence, there was no more hub. The lines of connection changed from being all centered on an all-important individual to being centered on only… the Constitution?
It was still unwritten and unimagined. Instead, their bonds of attachment were to each other directly because they all became co-responsible to defeat the British and achieve Independence for their allied sovereign States.
Also of major note is "all the rights of SOVEREIGNTY". One of those rights which only the sovereign (the king of Britain) possessed was the right of any children born abroad to him or his ambassadors to be recognized as members of the nation even though not born on its soil.
That right was then assumed by the Americans as their natural right. Thereafter it did not matter where the child of an American father was born, -it was automatically deemed a fellow natural citizen of the nation via its father's sovereign right to pass his national membership to his progeny. ~ ]
As this was done by the Representatives of the people of this country, and in their name, and on their behalf, all who had concurred in investing Congress with power, acquired citizenship, by being parties to this solemn act. [of severing ties] These original citizens were THE FOUNDERS OF THE UNITED STATES.
[We need to always bear in mind that there was no passivity possible for those who compacted together for liberty-or-death. They were the founders because they dared to defy an empire. They took democracy where it had never gone before. Their positive concurrence with the authority and final decision of those they choose to represent them bound them in a mutual liberation pact or mutual suicide pact. They would either fulfill it by emerging alive and free or they were not getting out alive or not punished to the maximum. ~ ]
CITIZENSHIP could not be acquired in this way by absentees from America for two reasons;
1st. They were not thrown out of British protection by the restraining act of Parliament, and therefore continued as British subjects, -under the obligations and in quiet possession of their presumed British allegiance.
And, such foreign residents could not be parties to the declaration of the Continental Congress. The members of that body were not their deputies or agents, and therefore could not bind them nor act for them.
2nd. To cement the people of America more firmly together, OATHS of FIDELITY to the STATES were administered soon after the DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE to all above a certain age.
By these oaths, a compact was established between the STATE and the individuals; and those who took them acquired or confirmed their CITIZENSHIP by their own personal act.
By swearing to do the DUTY of CITIZENS, they, by law, acquired a right to the privileges and protections of CITIZENS. Those who refused, were ordered to depart, as being persons unfriendly to the revolution. [some choose security, obedience, and subservience over danger, rebellion and liberty.]
3rd. As the war neared its end, the administration of oaths, being less necessary, was less frequent. Citizenship was then, and now is, daily acquired by tacit consent or acquiescence.
[Emmerich de Vattel (a major influence on the rebels) observed in The Law of Nations (1758): "The country of the fathers is therefore that of the children; and these become true citizens merely by their tacit consent. We shall soon see whether, on their coming to the years of discretion, they may renounce their right and what they owe to the society in which they were born. ("were raised" is preferable)
I say, that, in order to be of the country, it is necessary that a person be born of a father who is a citizen; for, if one is born there of a foreigner, it will be only the place of his birth, and not his country."
[The father determined his son's identity and nationality, -not the soil. Notice he ignores native birth in his mention of what is necessary for a person to be "of" a country. ~ ]
Minors who were not old enough to be parties to the DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, or to take the oath of FIDELITY to their State at the time they were imposed, became citizens as a result of their continuing to reside in the united States after they reached adulthood, especially if at the same time they claimed the protection and performed the duties of citizens.
[This statement is packed with significance that is easily overlook, -as I did initially. The first thing of significance is that if a minor emigrated to or moved back to Britain during or following the war, he was thereby recognized as being a British subject and not an American (unless, I assume, the move was only temporary to attend college).
One could not be both British and American because neither nation allowed dual-nationality. A second thing is that such minors were not actually citizens in any real sense until they reached the age of maturity. They were American subjects, via subjection to their father. Only adult men were fully CITIZENS.
Wives and children were attachments, not unlike property, making them U.S. Nationals, with women having civil rights (inheritance, due process, right to sue, etc. but not civic rights, (the right to vote or serve in public office and on juries).
Thirdly, there was no law that delineated the rules of national membership because there was no national government to write such a law. People were recognized as citizens (or not) based purely on the facts regarding them, or on State Constitutions and statutes. (No U.S. natural nationality law has ever been written).
Their children were citizens via fathers who became citizens by their solemn oath of allegiance to the revolution, and their renunciation of all loyalty and obedience to their foreign dictator. Those fathers, (-the founders) were citizens by solemn oath. Their children were citizens by inheritance, -by bloodline descent.
Citizenship did not attach to that first generation of American minors until either victory or their reaching adulthood and choosing to not emigrate to Britain with other loyalists who were not welcome to stay. Of those who stayed and assumed the role of citizen, it was "a given" that they were fellow citizens, -in the absence of any law making it so other than the law of fraternal unity. ~ ]
At twenty-one years of age, every freeman is at liberty to choose his country, his religion, and his allegiance. Those who continued after that age in the allegiance under which they have been educated, become, by tacit consent, either subjects or citizens, as the case may be.
[In the eyes of the British, they had no such right since by British doctrine subjects were born with a national character that they could not shed, making them subjects for life under the doctrine of perpetual allegiance. ~ ]
In this manner, young men are now daily acquiring citizenship, without the intervention of an oath.
[Note that young women are not included. That is because they carried the nationality of either their father or their husband (who was their head once they gave themselves to him and took his name via the marriage vow of obedience and fidelity). ~ ]
Note that in order for young men to acquire citizenship in this way, their residence following the revolution is indispensably necessary, -before the beginning of their citizenship. For no man can be said to accept by tacit consent the citizenship of a government under which he has never lived.
Citizenship, when acquired in this tacit way by an absentee at the time of the Declaration of Independence, can therefore only be dated from the time in which the claimant of that high privilege became a resident under the independent government of the State of which he claims to be a citizen.
[Wow! I never expected I'd ever read such words although I suspected they were reflective of the view at that time. "independent government of the State" speaks to the status quo of that founding era in which each nation-state was an independent sovereign nation although bound to others by a charter of alliance of some centralized powers, but mostly possessing horizontal, separate, independent rights.
"of which he claims to be a citizen" reveals that CITIZENSHIP was essentially and directly a State issue, a State allegiance, and that did not change until long after the Civil War. General Robert E. Lee and all Southerners felt their first and foremost allegiance was to their homeland, -the nation-State of their birth and upbringing.
Even though he was a graduate of West Point, and had fought valiantly in the Mexican-American War, his nation came second to his country, which was Virginia, -not the Union.
The office of President required one to be "a natural born citizen" of… their home State (which was where their citizenship was based).]
~4th. None can claim citizenship as a birth-right except those who have been born since the DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, for this obvious reason: no man can be born a citizen of a State or government which did not exist at the time of his birth.
CITIZENSHIP is the inheritance of the children of those who have taken a part in the late revolution; but this is confined exclusively to the children of those who were themselves citizens.
[Wow! That is not a smoking gun… like I've been searching for since 2010, but is an unmistakable firing gun! It is incontrovertible proof about the nature and origin of natural citizenship. It is not, as the "native-birth" proponents deceitfully proclaim, based solely on nativity. Instead it is solely a result of inheritance by descent from citizen fathers.
It also destroys the claim of their opposition that it is nativity plus descent that makes a natural born citizen. Rather, the fat lady has now sung and it is inescapably clear that national citizenship by natural membership is via nothing other than Natural Law. Nativity is not related to it. Nativity is strictly tangential, collateral, coincidental and proximal to it, but not causative nor integral.
The game is over. We can dismantle the tent and go home. The issue is settled. The "native-born = natural born" fools have not a foot of ground to stand on, -nor do the "native-born-plus-natural-born" crowd.
The "three legged stool" doctrine is defunct. Like humans, only two legs are needed. Have you ever seen a primate that needed three legs? Natural Law certainly has not. By it, one only needs two parents of the same nature in order to be what they are.
No off-spring needs to be born in a certain place in order to "inherit" its nature. That fallacy is pure foolishness no matter who promulgates it, (and there are plenty who do).
"But it just sounds too good to not be true", and so they embrace it as if it is true, -like a rational and idealistic religious doctrine. But nature doesn't care about anyone's doctrine. Its laws are what they are, immutable and unchanging. "Like" gives birth to like. Americans give birth to Americans. Citizens give birth to citizens… on Earth, -or on the Moon. It's "a given". It's a natural fact. ~ ]
Those who died before the Revolution could leave no political character to their children but that which they themselves possessed, -namely that of subjects . If they had lived, no one could be certain whether they would have adhered to the King or to Congress. Their children, therefore, may claim by inheritance the rights of British subjects, but not of AMERICAN CITIZENS.
5th. Persons born in any country may have acquired citizenship by legal adoption by legal means. The citizenship of such persons must be dated from the time of their adoption.
[In some countries, "naturalization" is akin to legal adoption, but not in the United States. Here it is akin to the genetic replacement that happens via a bone marrow transplant. Under the American doctrine of CITIZENSHIP EQUALITY, all national members (citizens) are natural members; –natural citizens, including the naturalized members.
Like the bone marrow recipient, all of their original bone marrow is killed (equivalent to taking the Oath of Allegiance and Renunciation) and then new marrow from a donor is seeded into the bones, resulting in a new and different type of bone marrow.
It's not so drastic with various other nations, such a Mexico, because they don't view their "naturalized" citizens as having lost their old original national membership. Consequently, Mexico does not allow them to serve in the military, as police, mayors, governors, legislators, judges or President.
They do not adhere to our philosophy of Citizenship Equality. They have two or more classes of citizens. We have only one. ~ ]
~From these observations, the following inferences result:
Citizenship is an adventitious character to every adult in the united States; and there was a certain period in the lives of the first generation of liberated Americans when they ceased to be subjects, and began to be citizens.
[There is no transition period where one is a citizen of two countries. Instead it is "BOOM", -one day you are what you've been all of your life, and the next that is vanished and you are something all together different.
Like an infant who one minute is ensconced in the womb, and the next is out and cut off from its only previous existence.
It, at that moment, officially becomes "a person". Or a bride and groom who are as single as they've always been until the binding vows are spoken. Then presto! They are husband & wife for life, -like the newly naturalized person becomes an American for life. ~ ]
The [U.S.] citizenship of no man could be previous to the Declaration of Independence, [only colony citizens & royal subjects preceded it] and, as a natural right, belongs to none but those who have been born of citizens since the 4th of July, 1776.
[~just for the sake of added emphasis: BORN OF CITIZENS!!! –not "born in America", ]
~But to proceed with inferences; From the premises already established, it may be further inferred that citizenship by inheritance, belongs to none but the children of those Americans, who having survived the War of Independence, acquired that adventitious character in their own right, and transmitted it to their offspring.
The children of those who died before the revolution, who were not citizens, must have acquired that privilege in their own right, and by their own personal act; that is, by joining their country at or since the revolution.
[Native-birth to colonists did not confirm citizenship because it was only transmitted via one's father; -inherited membership unrelated to nativity or geographical boundaries at birth. ~ ]
~Citizenship, acquired by passive consent, is exclusively confined to the cases of persons who have lived within the United States since the Declaration of Independence, and could not have begun before their actual residence under their new and independent governments. [plural]
From the whole it's clear that no private individual, tho' a native, who was absent from this country at the time independence was declared, could have acquired citizenship with the United States before his returning and actually joining his countrymen following the beginning of the revolution.
Dangerous consequences would follow from holding that before the Declaration of Independence birth and residence in the nation now called the United States, were sufficient to confer the rights of citizenship on persons who were absent during the late war, before they returned to their native country.
If this should be established, many persons hostile to our liberties and independence might put in their claim to be citizens.
All the children born in the interval between the peace of Paris, 1763, and the DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE in 1776, within the British posts on our north-western frontier now wrongfully held from us, would be citizens.
Our East-India trade would be laid open to many adventurers who have contributed nothing towards the establishment of our liberties: for the natives of this country, born before the revolution, who are now dispersed over the world, might, on that principle, fit out ships, make voyages to India, come here and sell their goods under the character of citizen, from the circumstance of their having been born among us thirty or forty years ago, and return with the net proceeds of their cargoes, to their present residence in foreign countries.
[ No devotion to native-birth citizenship existed because the rebellion demolished the birth-based unity of identity under the king. Once the rebellion was launched, one's American identity and belonging were determined by one's actions and one's oath. Native-birth as a unifying bond ended. Many natives were treasonous loyalist, and many foreigners were patriots, (-as was one of my ancestors).]
These, and many other consequences, injurious to the liberties and commerce of these States, would result from admitting the dangerous position that birth and residence in this country before the revolution, conferred citizenship on absentees, before their return after the revolution. ~FINIS~
His focus in all that he wrote regarding native-birth and citizenship was in the context of national citizenship, national membership as a citizen of The United States of America. But what he overlooked was citizenship within the sovereign States of America.
They each had their own citizenship, and laws regarding it. Most of them continued to support the age-old common law practice of ascribing citizenship to children of immigrants. Such citizenship was diametrically opposed to the national citizenship whose origin Ramsay explained. What he illuminated was the founding generation and the nationality of their children.
Their children were born as natural citizens, but the case that prompted Ramsay to write his Dissertation was not about national citizenship but State citizenship and its origin. By their on-going custom and law, the native-born colony subjects who were children of subjects became State citizens automatically unless they rejected allegiance to America and embraced loyalty to Britain.
Parents who died before the Declaration could do neither, so the question was in regard to the son of such deceased colonists, -a son who was absent from America while studying in Britain during the War.
Neither he nor his parents ever swore allegiance to the Revolution and were never under the authority of the independent government of their State. Thus neither were a party to what made one a citizen of the United States.
Ramsay argued that such a son could not be viewed as a citizen of the United States, while his opponents argued that by inheritance, he was a natural member of the society of his parents' colony and therefore could not be disenfranchised from his birth-right inclusion in the new nation-state which that colony turned into.
Thus, they were arguing in favor of his natural State citizenship while Ramsay was arguing against his natural national citizenship.
They were on two different pages and both were simultaneously correct because national sovereignty was one matter, while State sovereignty was another. Neither could trump the other because there was no authority to enforce superiority of one over the other.
That fact goes almost entirely unnoticed in all of the talk about citizenship, -failing to grasp that there were in fact two types of citizenship, State, and National. All State citizens were "Americans" but not all Americans were "citizens of The United States", even though they might be a citizen of "the united STATES of America".
All States had to recognize national citizenship, but the national government was not required to recognize all State citizenship. If a State naturalized foreigners or Blacks who did not meet the criteria of the national rule passed by Congress, then they would not be considered as Citizens of the United States and the other States were no compelled to recognize them either. No slave State was going to recognize an African or one of African descent as being a citizen of the State or nation. For most Americans, their State citizenship was all that mattered since that was where they lived.
by Adrien Nash Feb/ August 2014
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
David Ramsay, Historian (1749-1815)
President of the South Carolina Senate
In office 1792–1797
Alma mater Princeton University
University of Pennsylvania
Occupation Physician, Historian
David Ramsay was an American physician, public official, and historian from Charleston, South Carolina. He was one of the first major historians of the American Revolution.
During the American Revolutionary War he was, from 1776 to 1783, a member of the South Carolina legislature. When Charleston was threatened by the British in 1780, he served with the South Carolina militia as a field surgeon.
After the city was captured in 1780, Ramsay was imprisoned for nearly a year at St. Augustine, Florida, until he was exchanged.
From 1782 to 1786 he served in the Continental Congress. In the absence of John Hancock, Ramsay served as chairman of Congress, from November 23, 1785 to May 12, 1786.
In the 1790s he served three terms in the South Carolina State Senate, and was president of that body until retiring from public service. He was murdered in 1815 by a mentally ill man whom Ramsay had examined as a physician.
In his own day, Ramsay was better known as a historian and author than as a politician. He was one of the American Revolution's first major historians. Ramsay writes with the knowledge and insights acquired by being personally involved in the events of the American Revolution.
In 1785 he published in two volumes History of the Revolution of South Carolina (this was the first book to receive a copyright in the United States), in 1789 in two volumes History of the American Revolution, in 1807 a Life of Washington, and in 1809 in two volumes a History of South Carolina.
In 1789 he also wrote A Dissertation on the Manners of Acquiring the Character and Privileges of a Citizen. Ramsay was also the author of several minor works, including a memoir (1812) of his third wife Martha Laurens Ramsay, a well-educated woman who had served as a political hostess for her father, Henry Laurens, during the 1780s.
Ramsay's History of the United States in three volumes was published posthumously in 1816–1817, and forms the first three volumes of his Universal History Americanized, published in twelve volumes in 1819.


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Boulder High is in the market for new head coaches for both its boys and girls golf programs after girls coach Becky Clark resigned just before the holiday break.
BHS athletic director Melissa Warfield said Wednesday that the girls job will be posted until Jan. 16, and that she hopes to have it filled by the end of the month. Spring sports may begin practice on Feb. 25. With boys golf in the fall, that hiring might not be quite as urgent, though Warfield is taking applications.
Clark, who led the girls team for three years, left to become a club pro at Haystack Mountain Golf Course, adding that to her duties as co-owner of Leonard's Golf, an indoor instruction facility in Erie. She said Wednesday that she hopes to stay involved with the Panthers when timing allows.
Former boys coach Jim Kozlowski was placed on administrative leave in August just before the season began and pled guilty in December to an indecent exposure charge, a deal that prohibits him from working with children for two years. BHS baseball coach Steve Disbrow led the boys team on an interim basis in the fall, guiding the Panthers to their first team state tournament berth in 17 years.
Candidates for both positions should contact Warfield at 720-561-5315 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Follow Josh on Twitter: @JoshLindenstein


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It's Friday, everyone! And that means another Primal Blueprint Real Life Story [1] from a Mark's Daily Apple reader. If you have your own success story and would like to share it with me and the Mark's Daily Apple community please contact me here [2]. I'll continue to publish these each Friday as long as they keep coming in. Thank you for reading!
I hesitated to share my story since before I started The Primal Blueprint [3] (PB), I was already a fairly healthy 22-year-old, so my transformation simply cannot compare to those that have lost weight in the triple digits and literally cured diabetes. However, I decided to write out this story after some encouragement from my friends, and I do believe that my transformation is incredible in its own right: particularly, the results materialized so quickly. I'm writing this after less than 4 months of following PB. Moreover, I don't see many success stories [1] involving my ethnic group, Asians, probably because of the importance of rice in our culture. One of the most common critiques that I hear is "look at all those skinny Asians who gobble down rice." I wanted to show that there exist substantial benefits to toning down the consumption of rice.
My story starts in my senior year of college. After four years of college, I had put on 20 pounds, reaching 160, which was slightly overweight considering my height of 5′ 5″. Furthermore, the acne that I assumed would disappear with time still persisted from my high school years. You can see me as a college senior.
When I graduated, I decided to make my health a priority and threw myself fervently into the Conventional Wisdom (CW) approach. For 5-6 days every week, I would exercise splitting my time about 50-50 between cardio (in the form of running) and strength training (mainly pull-ups, squats, and bench press). As for diet, I ate my whole grains, lean protein, low-fat dairy, and upped my fruits and veggies. The results were slow, but over the course of about 3 months, I managed to lose 10 pounds. Suddenly, progress stopped. I stayed the course with this regimen for 2 months, and my weight remained unchanged. In addition, I doubted my ability to sustain this volume of exercise: I constantly felt tired. You can see the results of CW.
Around this time, I stumbled upon Mark's Daily Apple when looking for ways to increase my ankle mobility [4] (I was having trouble squatting low, which I have also since remedied). I began to dig deeper into this concept of "Primal Living," and I found much of it, particularly the bits about insulin and cholesterol, aligned with what I had learned in my college Biochemistry class. Suddenly, I began to look through the lens of evolution, connected the dots, and realized that something has gone awry with how humans interact with our environment. For instance, I discovered that high-carbohydrate diets have been linked to myopia. In terms of evolution, it makes no sense that I was wearing glasses by the time I was 7, and myopia among Asians is the norm. Perhaps, we don't store fat the way Westerners do, but I sincerely doubt our carbohydrate-rich diet is harmless.
Frustrated with the CW approach and being young with not much to lose, I figured that I would give PB a try. Rather than ease in to the PB, I dove all-in, dropping grains immediately. When I got the low-carb flu [5], I doubled down and ate more fat. I had an awful case of the flu that lasted nearly 3 weeks, which indicates that I was very insulin-resistant at the start. After 6 weeks, I decided to check my progress, and I couldn't believe the results. I had already reached my goal weight of 140! That was my weight back in high school when I played tennis and soccer, but I found myself even leaner then than my former 18-year-old self. I've managed to stay the course, adding in things like organ meats and intermittent fasting (which for me tends to mean simply skipping breakfast), and have made even more progress as you can see.
The ease of PB has surprised me the most. Fat tastes delicious, so I eat better-tasting food. I don't go hungry because I simply eat until I'm full instead of counting calories. I work out even less than before: most weeks I lift 3 days and sprint 1 day. If weather permits, on the weekend, I may run 3-4 miles, but this happens maybe only once a month in Boston during the winter. I'd say that the only difficult thing was learning how to cook, but I view it as a fun challenge and a chance to experiment. Furthermore, the 80/20 rule allows me ample chances to deviate without feeling guilty.
Like many, I started PB for weight-loss reasons and have discovered other numerous benefits. Not only have I lost weight, but also I have gotten stronger as measured by my weight room gains, I recover faster from hard workouts, and my skin is much better as one can see. Most importantly, though, my energy levels are more stable, which has made me more productive at the office. Not being a slave to eating three square meals per day and having too much energy to sit still and watch TV has afforded me the time to do things I enjoy like reading, cooking, and mathematics.
All in all, through this experience, I have become convinced that "Primal Living" is the right way to live. If my example can even inspire one person to convert, I'll feel that I have spent my time well writing this.
Thank you Mark!


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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney remain essentially tied in the race for the White House with razor thin margins in four key swing states, according to a Reuters/Ipsos daily tracking poll released on Saturday.
Three days before the November 6 election, both men are neck and neck in Ohio, Florida, Virginia and Colorado, the poll showed.
Nationally, the electorate is divided. Of likely voters polled, 47 percent said they would back Obama, the Democratic incumbent, while 46 percent said they would back Romney, the former Massachusetts governor.
The results fall within the polls' credibility interval, a tool used to account for statistical variation in Internet-based polls.
The two men have been locked in a tight race for weeks. Both are doing final campaign swings over the weekend, trying to sway a small group of remaining undecided voters and to encourage their supporters to get to the polls.
A handful of states that traditionally swing between voting for Republican and Democratic presidential candidates will determine who wins the White House. All of them are close.
In one of the biggest prizes of the election - Ohio - Obama has a very slight lead over Romney with 46 percent compared to 45 percent support among likely voters, the poll showed.
In Florida, another big prize, they are tied at 47 percent.
In Virginia, Obama leads Romney 48 percent to 45 percent among likely voters. In Colorado, Romney leads Obama 47 percent to 45 percent.
"It's really going to come down to the wire," said Ipsos pollster Julia Clark, adding that Obama still had a better likelihood of winning the 270 state electoral votes needed to secure victory.
But with the data tight in the swing states for both candidates, she added: "I don't think we can count any of them in the bag yet."
"The electoral map does favor Obama," Clark said. "It's just so on a razor's edge."
The precision of the Reuters/Ipsos online polls is measured using a credibility interval, which in the case of the national poll is plus or minus 3.4 percentage points for likely voters.


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Missouri Whips Tennessee 31-3
COLUMBIA (AP) - Maty Mauk threw three touchdown passes and ran for another, leading No. 9 Missouri's dominant and resilient effort in a 31-3 victory over Tennessee Saturday night.
The Tigers (8-1, 4-1 SEC) responded smartly a week after squandering a 17-point cushion in the fourth quarter of a double-overtime loss to South Carolina. Andrew Baggett banged another chip-shot field goal attempt off the left goalpost, eerily similar to his game-ending misfire a week earlier, but instead of heartbreak they still took a 24-3 cushion into halftime.
Missouri forced three turnovers and committed none in Mauk's best game in three starts in place of injured James Franklin. Mauk had 114 yards on 13 carries, and threw touchdown passes to Dorial Green-Beckham, L'Damian Washington and Marcus Lucas in the first half. Franklin (shoulder sprain) warmed up before the game.
Tennessee (4-5, 1-4) is 0-4 on the road, all but one of them blowouts.


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Pull up a chair, Cap and Gee will do the standup
With John "Cap" Caponera and David Gee at Harveys Improv this week, expect your comedy to be about foibles that happen when one is a parent. Headliner Cap taps his Italian roots, and nobody is more Italian than Caponera. In fact, he was part of the successful "Godfathers of Comedy" show that aired on Showtime last year, with a tour that accompanied the premium cable special. He's also been on "The Good Life," hosted Comedy Central's "Jocks" and ESPN's "Talk II." He guest-starred on NBC's long-running hospital drama "ER," in addition to "Love & War," "Blossom" and one of my favorite cable shows "Tales From The Crypt" on HBO. His sports-oriented material is one reason we secure him a slot up here for the annual American Century Golf Championship. In addition to his standup and acting skills, John does very good voice impressions. My favorite voices find their way into his act nightly and include some of this country's greatest sports commentators. Because of his Chicago roots, John tosses in one of the greatest ever: Chicago Cubs announcer Harry Caray. But Cap goes beyond just impersonating him. He slots him into these crazy situations as if he were broadcasting the game while telling the listeners what happened to him the night before. You have to see it to really appreciate the bit. My other favorite voice he does is that of Vin Scully, longtime Dodgers voice. John has a lot of great press and, more importantly, great press from his own back yard. Howell J. Malham Jr. of the Chicago Tribune wrote, "Every so often the kingdom of comedy is graced with a gifted, naturally refined performer who can effectively demonstrate the transcendental powers of the medium while making it look deceptively easy." John is a Chicago native and always will be, even though he now resides in southern California. Michael Paskevich of the Las Vegas Review-Journal: "Unafraid of letting a room grow quiet, Caponera sets his own intentionally erratic pace, pausing to perfection to complement his oddly timed but rewarding comic insights. The jokes are further bolstered by his talent for facial gestures that range from goofy to arrogant, making Caponera arguably the hottest club headliner going at present."With Cap, it's not just jokes but more stories that the audience can easily relate to. That's the best kind of comedy, where you can plug yourself into just about any of his situations because what John finds funny we all find funny, too. It's a great ride.
David Gee is a personal favorite because he was my mentor. Gee hosts the majority of comedy shows at our Las Vegas location, and because of his skills there, has been asked to host numerous charity functions, be it for golf tournaments or television shows like one for "Entertainment Tonight." He will compose witty poems tailor-made for each event. Gee received a huge national bump last year when he was showcased on comedienne Rita Rudner's Showtime special, "Rita Rudner And 3 Potential Ex-Husbands." He was one of her ex-husbands and comedy-wise (I say) was the strongest. Gee (who dropped the "k" for professional reasons) also does incredible voice impressions of famous sports announcers but more with an L.A. slant, since he's from Santa Monica. Although a Dodgers fan (he hasn't spoken to me since my Giants won the World Series), Gee is ecstatic that the San Francisco 49ers are Super Bowl bound. OK, he's ecstatic up here in northern California country and not down south, but he appreciates our team nonetheless. In addition to his comedy and Showtime special, David has appeared on "The Tonight Show," was a semi-finalist on ABC's "The Next Best Thing," "Access Hollywood," "Entertainment Tonight" and, as mentioned earlier, is always asked to be the host for numerous fundraisers. Gee has opened (and written) for some pretty impressive entertainers, but saves the really good stuff for his own stage work. We both love movies and another standout in his standup routine includes actors from different eras and what their classic movie lines would be if they had shot those movies in the present day? Once again, you have to see it to really believe it. Brilliant.
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