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YANKEES: Curtis Granderson breaks knuckle in win over Rays
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Another injury marred a New York Yankees' victory.
Outfielder Curtis Granderson broke the knuckle on his left pinky finger in the Yankees' 9-4 win over the Tampa Bay Rays on Friday night.
Yankees manager Joe Girardi had no official timeline for how long Granderson will be out, but indicated it could be a minimum of four weeks.
"It is what it is," said Granderson, who will see a hand specialist in New York on Monday. "You can't change it right now, you've got to move forward."
Granderson broke the knuckle getting hit by Cesar Ramos' pitch in the fifth. After later scoring, he was replaced defensively by Ichiro Suzuki in the bottom of the inning.
Granderson missed the first 38 games this season with a broken right forearm, the result of a hit by pitch in his first at-bat at spring training.
"Another bump in the road," Granderson said.
Granderson said at this point he was told surgery will not be required.
"It's sad," Yankees second baseman Robinson Cano said. "It's really tough. He's one of those guys you're going to miss. Hopefully he gets back soon."
David Phelps (3-2), who retired his first 13 batters before James Loney hit a one-out double in the fifth, allowed four runs and six hits in 7 2-3 innings. He left in the eighth after he was hit on the right forearm by a drive up the middle by Ben Zobrist.
X-rays were negative, and Phelps did not rule out making his next start.
"It's a little sore," Phelps said. "See how that feels tomorrow morning will be a bigger thing. I'll be fine."
The Yankees have been hit hard by injuries this season. Derek Jeter, Alex Rodriguez, Andy Pettitte, Mark Teixeira and Kevin Youkilis are among the players on the disabled list.
"I'm happy that we won the game, but you lost a really good player," Girardi said. "That's never a good thing."
Brett Gardner, Lyle Overbay and Jayson Nix each drove in two runs for the Yankees.
Gardner made it 5-0 with a two-run homer off Roberto Hernandez (2-5) during the fourth. The Yankees took a 3-0 lead in the second on Overbay's two-run double and an RBI single by Nix.
Tampa Bay slugger Evan Longoria went 0 for 4 and had his career-best 16-game hitting streak end.
Nix walked with the bases loaded, Chris Stewart had a run-scoring single and Cano picked up an RBI when he was hit by Ramos' pitch as the Yankees went ahead 8-0 in the fifth.
Matt Joyce had an RBI double during the Rays' three-run sixth.
Nix tripled and scored to put the Yankees up 9-3 on a wild pitch in the seventh.
After falling behind 3-0 in the third, the Rays intentionally walked Cano with runners on first and second and two outs. The move proved successful when Hernandez got an infield pop fly from Vernon Wells.
Hernandez gave up five runs, six hits and three walks in four innings. He was coming off a start last Saturday against Baltimore where he allowed five runs and eight hits over two innings.
"Pitching won the game for them and not for us," Rays manager Joe Maddon said. "I thought we had some good at-bats, but they did beat us on the mound. We have to pitch better to win."
Tampa Bay's Matt Moore will look Saturday to become the fifth-youngest pitcher since 1916 to start a season 9-0 exclusively as a starter. The 23-year old left-hander will go against Vidal Nuno (1-1).
According to the Rays, if Moore gets the win Saturday, only Ken Holtzman (1967), Livan Hernandez (1997), Roger Clemens (1986) and Jered Weaver (2006) will have accomplished the feat at a younger age.
NOTES: Maddon said AL Cy Young Award winner David Price, who went on the 15-day disabled list May 16 with a left triceps strain, is getting well. "I don't have any kind of finish line there yet," Maddon said. ... The Yankees are 11-5 since May 8.


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It all started when I saw a local eBay auction for a guy selling a newish Mesa Boogie Express amp in Brisbane.
I can't remember why I was drawn to that particular amp, but most guitarists in Australia know that Mesa Boogie put a big premium on the price of their amps down under.
The amp didn't sell during the auction, so I decided to make an offer by email to see if he'd accept it. Short of $100 he turned it down. I thought $2100 for a 50w combo amp was more than a reasonable price to pay.
Anyway, I did manage to try the lower wattage version in Shibuya on Saturday and I have to say I was pretty impressed. It made an overdriven strat sound very nice. One thing I noticed about my rig back home, was that my strat sounds better clean than overdriven. It just takes a bit more work to drive those single coils.
It was funny watching a Japanese metal guy test driving a Marshall double stack standing right up close in front of the amp. You had to be there. Anyway..
After trying out some amp sim software on my Mac, I have to say valve sound just FEELS better and smoother. I really miss my old JCM 800! What got me to sell it was how I hated carting around that stuff in a little hatchback. A combo is more my style these days (or a rack).
Next option, Yahoo Auctions Japan!
For bigger purchases over 5,000 yen, you have to be registered for Yahoo Premium which is 346 yen a month service. If you have a foreign credit card you just can't do it. Another Japanese wall to bang my head against. That's where a J gf comes in handy.
My only win previously was an old Zaxxon LCD game. It was easy, just a "buy it now" option. When a bidding war happens here, Japanese are tough nuts to bid against.
I bidded against only another person for a Mesa Boogie F-50, but it made the initial 50,000 yen go up to 56,000 yen. After a lot of cursing he finally let me have it, the SOB! Including courier shipping, I have to pay 57,690 yen.
The F-50 is the previous model to the one I tried for from Australia. The price in Australian dollars is currently only $920, so I think I made a good deal. The amp's in Shizuoka prefecture, ironically only streets away from the gf's hometown high school.
It's had some great reviews, so here's hoping it sounds as good as they say. Bringing it back to Australia will be interesting. Looks like I'll have to ship some of my junk over by post. I'll have to get a step down transformer for the different voltage too.
Stay tuned for pics and more info in a few days. Come to Daddy..
Tuesday, 3 March 2009
My Second Win(d)
It all started when I saw a local eBay auction for a guy selling a newish Mesa Boogie Express amp in Brisbane.
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Police: Bodies of 4 adults found at Detroit house
Detroit police say they've found the bodies of four adults who were apparently shot at a house on the city's east side.
In an email, police Sgt. Eren Stephens says the bodies of one woman and three men, all in their 20s, were found about 9:15 p.m. Tuesday. Stephens says "the circumstances pertaining to this incident are unknown at this time."
No suspect information has been released.
Resident Carla Collins says she recently helped start a neighborhood watch group due to the rise in suspicious activity in the area.
The deaths come after Detroit authorities reported that killings are on the rise, with the city eclipsing last year's murder total in less than 11 months. Later Wednesday, Detroit Mayor Dave Bing plans to announce a major public safety initiative.


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And we're back with more films added to the list! Not much else to say in terms of what's been added, since there hasn't been a substantial increase or a milestone beaten like the last couple of updates. Still, for all those interested, here's the list of films added to the list:
. Ferdinand the Bull (1938), dir. Dick Rickard -- ILDC
. Donald Duck: Donald's Crime (1945), dir. Jack King -- JM
. The Story of a Crime/Istoriya odnogo prestupleniya (1962), dir. Fyodor Khitruk -- JM
. Winnie-the-Pooh and a Day of Concerns/Винни-Пух и день забот (1972), dir. Fyodor Khitruk & G. Sokolsky -- JM
. Roger Rabbit: Tummy Trouble (1989), dir. Rob Minkoff, Frank Marshall (live-action) -- ILDC
. Roger Rabbit: Rollercoaster Rabbit (1990), dir. Rob Minkoff, Frank Marshall (live-action) -- ILDC
. Roger Rabbit: Trail Mix-Up (1993), dir. Barry Cook -- ILDC
. Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2000), dir. Yoshiaki Kawajiri -- JM
. Monsters, Inc. (2001), dir. Pete Docter -- ILDC
. Finding Nemo (2003), dir. Andrew Stanton -- ILDC
. Robots (2005), dir. Chris Wedge -- ILDC
. Dōbutsu no Mori (2006), dir. Jōji Shimura -- ILDC
. Little Boat (2011), dir. Nelson Boles -- JM
. Kagemono: The Shadow Folk (2012), dir. Sabrina Cotugno -- JM
. Maggie Simpson in "The Longest Daycare" (2012), dir. David Silverman -- ILDC
. Tumbleweed Tango (2013), dir. Samuel Stephens & Chris Wolfgang Mauch -- JM
. Mickey Mouse: Croissant de Triomphe (2013), dir. Paul Rudish -- ILDC
. Motorbike (2014), dir. Ari Gibson & Jason Pamment -- JM
. Blackford Manor (2014), dir. Jiwook Kim -- ILDC
. GTA V is BORING (2014), dir. CatFat -- JM
. A Single Life (2014), dir. Marieke Blaauw, Joris Oprins, Job Roggeveen -- ILDC
. Piper (2016), dir. Alan Barillaro -- ILDC
Now, onto clearing up the matter of whether or not puppet movies (in the style of Jim Henson, for instance) should be included onto the list. I've asked a few people on the subject, and there was an article I stumbled across that went pretty deep into the subject: Puppetry is Not Animation. On thinking about it, a bigger part of me feels that these kind of puppet movies count as live-action than they count as animation, simply because I feel that the puppets are being moved about in real time compared to being photographed frame-by-frame.
That might be a cheap justification for it, though I suppose there's the idea of changing the name of the project to 1001 Animated and Puppetry Films You Should Watch. I'm open to the idea of coming back to this topic and reevaluating it somewhere down the line, but for now, I'm not going to count them. Sorry to the guy who kept suggesting them. Now, for this update's film I'm uncertain about:
Shenmue: The Movie (2001), dir. Yu Suzuki (presumably)
This is perhaps one of the strangest films I've come across. Back in 2001, presumably in an attempt to catch people up to speed for the upcoming sequel and also make some money back on this expensive project, SEGA decided take their Dreamcast cult classic Shenmue and turn it into a movie. Literally. They filmed a playthrough of the game and edited major cutscenes, gameplay sections and whatnot into a semi-coherent 90 minute film summing up the plot of the original. You may remember this was included as a bonus disk with the Xbox version of Shenmue II.
The existence of this film fascinates me to no end. Yes, it's pretty much the same as those cutscene compilations you can find of most games on YouTube these days, but I'm staggered at how someone at SEGA went to the effort of recording gameplay, removing HUD elements, and trying their damnedest to make this come off as its own movie. I kinda want to include it simply for how bewildering this movie is, but I happily admit that it is a tarted up collection of gameplay and cutscenes that SEGA put into Japanese theatres for cash(!). I won't blame anyone who says this shouldn't get in, but I thought I'd ask for y'all thoughts on the topic anyway and see where this goes.
Thanks for reading, follow this topic if you wanna keep up with events, keep contributing with suggestions and feedback, and have a great day!
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I'm assuming that most people are too hungover to post, but I just want to say what a brilliant Mokfest that was!!
A huge parade on Saturday, hundreds of people lining the streets to watch, perfect weather, so many visitors to the town, fantastic music throughout
Many thanks to all the organisers for a first class event - didn't have an opportunity to attend any evening event, but by all accounts they were amazing!!


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Web Service Security Cheat Sheet
Last revision (mm/dd/yy): 09/11/2017
This article is focused on providing guidance to securing web services and preventing web services related attacks. Please notice that due to the difference of implementation between different frameworks, this cheat sheet is kept at a high level.
Transport Confidentiality
Transport confidentiality protects against eavesdropping and man-in-the-middle attacks against web service communications to/from the server.
Rule - All communication with and between web services containing sensitive features, an authenticated session, or transfer of sensitive data must be encrypted using well configured TLS. This is recommended even if the messages themselves are encrypted because TLS provides numerous benefits beyond traffic confidentiality including integrity protection, replay defenses, and server authentication. For more information on how to do this properly see the Transport Layer Protection Cheat Sheet.
Server Authentication
Rule - TLS must be used to authenticate the service provider to the service consumer. The service consumer should verify the server certificate is issued by a trusted provider, is not expired, is not revoked, matches the domain name of the service, and that the server has proven that it has the private key associated with the public key certificate (by properly signing something or successfully decrypting something encrypted with the associated public key).
User Authentication
User authentication verifies the identity of the user or the system trying to connect to the service. Such authentication is usually a function of the container of the web service.
Rule - If used, Basic Authentication must be conducted over TLS, but Basic Authentication is not recommended.
Rule - Client Certificate Authentication using TLS is a strong form of authentication that is recommended.
Transport Encoding
SOAP encoding styles are meant to move data between software objects into XML format and back again.
Rule - Enforce the same encoding style between the client and the server.
Message Integrity
This is for data at rest. Integrity of data in transit can easily be provided by TLS.
When using public key cryptography, encryption does guarantee confidentiality but it does not guarantee integrity since the receiver's public key is public. For the same reason, encryption does not ensure the identity of the sender.
Rule - For XML data, use XML digital signatures to provide message integrity using the sender's private key. This signature can be validated by the recipient using the sender's digital certificate (public key).
Message Confidentiality
Data elements meant to be kept confidential must be encrypted using a strong encryption cipher with an adequate key length to deter brute forcing.
Rule - Messages containing sensitive data must be encrypted using a strong encryption cipher. This could be transport encryption or message encryption.
Rule - Messages containing sensitive data that must remain encrypted at rest after receipt must be encrypted with strong data encryption, not just transport encryption.
Web services need to authorize web service clients the same way web applications authorize users. A web service needs to make sure a web service client is authorized to: perform a certain action (coarse-grained); on the requested data (fine-grained).
Rule - A web service should authorize its clients whether they have access to the method in question. Following authentication, the web service should check the privileges of the requesting entity whether they have access to the requested resource. This should be done on every request.
Rule - Ensure access to administration and management functions within the Web Service Application is limited to web service administrators. Ideally, any administrative capabilities would be in an application that is completely separate from the web services being managed by these capabilities, thus completely separating normal users from these sensitive functions.
Schema Validation
Schema validation enforces constraints and syntax defined by the schema.
Rule - Web services must validate SOAP payloads against their associated XML schema definition (XSD).
Rule - The XSD defined for a SOAP web service should, at a minimum, define the maximum length and character set of every parameter allowed to pass into and out of the web service.
Rule - The XSD defined for a SOAP web service should define strong (ideally white list) validation patterns for all fixed format parameters (e.g., zip codes, phone numbers, list values, etc.).
Content Validation
Rule - Like any web application, web services need to validate input before consuming it. Content validation for XML input should include:
Output Encoding
Web services need to ensure that output sent to clients is encoded to be consumed as data and not as scripts. This gets pretty important when web service clients use the output to render HTML pages either directly or indirectly using AJAX objects.
Rule - All the rules of output encoding applies as per XSS (Cross Site Scripting) Prevention Cheat Sheet .
Virus Protection
SOAP provides the ability to attach files and document to SOAP messages. This gives the opportunity for hackers to attach viruses and malware to these SOAP messages.
Rule - Ensure Virus Scanning technology is installed and preferably inline so files and attachments could be checked before being saved on disk. Rule - Ensure Virus Scanning technology is regularly updated with the latest virus definitions / rules.
Message Size
Web services like web applications could be a target for DOS attacks by automatically sending the web services thousands of large size SOAP messages. This either cripples the application making it unable to respond to legitimate messages or it could take it down entirely.
Rule - SOAP Messages size should be limited to an appropriate size limit. Larger size limit (or no limit at all) increases the chances of a successful DoS attack.
Message Throughput
Throughput represents the number of web service requests served during a specific amount of time.
Rule - Configuration should be optimized for maximum message throughput to avoid running into DoS-like situations.
XML Denial of Service Protection
XML Denial of Service is probably the most serious attack against web services. So the web service must provide the following validation:
Rule - Validation against recursive payloads
Rule - Validation against oversized payloads
Rule - Protection against XML entity expansion
Rule - Validating against overlong element names. If you are working with SOAP-based Web Services, the element names are those SOAP Actions.
Endpoint Security Profile
Rule - Web services must be compliant with Web Services-Interoperability (WS-I) Basic Profile at minimum.
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Mercadillo de Calypso, Calahonda
Every Thursday in Calahonda next to Centro Comercial Valdepinos. Bags, sunglasses, jewelry, belts, toys, clothes, purses, shoes, art, hats, fruits, vegetables, candy, flowers etc. You'll find everything here.
Getting there
You can either take the bus that goes between Fuengirola and Marbella or go by car. The market is visible from the motorway.
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It's Like That (My Big Brother) Lyrics
Artist: Redman
Album: Muddy Waters
featuring K Solo
Due to technical dificulties beyond our control
Reggie Noble's stinkin ass will not be performing with us
(K Solo) Erick Sermon keep keep it on
Def Squad Erick Sermon Redman keep keep it on
K to M Keith Murray keep keep it on
Keep keep on ya don't stop
Keep keep it on and ya don't stop
Keep keep it on and ya don't stop
K Solo Redman ya don't stop
Erick Sermon Keith Murray ya don't stop
I X'd ya amateur, damage ya, have fools jumpin off
cliffs grabbin their ass cheeks yellin GERONIMO
It ain't a problem at all when K solve
Three-hundred and sixty degrees rhymes or boulevards
are charged, by my entourage, who put
the Ram in Dodge, bas cla in bumba claat
Maintain, few remain in the game
So I remain focused and pop's the main aim
Well it's the Funk Doctor Spock, the pon cock lyricist
My mentality's so def yo I ain't even hearin this shit
Biscuits be cockin back when I be comin
I guess they heard how I be takin MC's out by the hundreds
Wanted, for two million and a body alone
And use the microphone as my accomplice
Scientist, field-trippin, thinkin
What the fuck is this funky fungus that growed among us
Sprayed a few, shank a few, rap crews say they shamed too
But can't hang two, like we do
Fuck them, they better bow slow
This rhyme'll cold hit em, real quick cause I'm K-Solo
Battle any dude, this retifuge I'm in cruise
See what the better vet, could do, to you undouche
you three groups, four punkses at a time
I box two and knock em out at the drop of a dime
The long faced murderer
Servin over two billion motherfuckers a day like Mickey D's circular
Workin a, shifty hour like a burgular
My crew herbin ya, like we never even heard of ya
Odds are evens, that I'ma be the one creepin
My new niggaz check the flows of the major deacon
The bazaar, the rap non-superstar
When I step up I pump volume like rah
My afro blows in three-hundred sixty degrees
So this makes me, the light skinned Richard Roundtree
Vocabularies very, loquacious
And gregarious, pump that too, go grab the dictionary
Fly word that we flip on the M-I-K-E mike
My crew be like, this style's hype
Wrong's the opposite forget the bullshhhh
To rhyme like the K-Solo, you need more than a soul kid
Come closer, while I lock it down like I'm supposed ta
You battle me, you won? You might of, but then you woke up
My turbulence will make peanut butter chunk up
Call me tha Brick City, Stock Cock Broker
Y'all niggaz is fools, playin with hood moves
You couldn't total my amount if you sung I Missed You
Dissed you dismissed you yeah I fixed you
Let your girl suck on the shit that I piss through
Haha... haha
Keep keep it on (5X)
Yo what we doin son?
Knockin niggaz the fuck out!!
Redman Lyrics
Redman Muddy Waters Lyrics
More Redman Music Lyrics:
Redman - Boodah Session Lyrics
Redman - Da Ill Out Lyrics
Redman - Down Wit Us Lyrics
Redman - I Don't Kare Lyrics
Redman - I'm A Bad Lyrics
Redman - My Zone! Lyrics
Redman - The Stick Up (Skit) Lyrics
Redman - Tonight's Da Nite (Remix) Lyrics


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A man from southern Israel divorced his wife after she adopted 550 cats, according to a Times of Israel story.
In his divorce complaint, the man, who was not fond of cats, said the cats constantly covered the bed, blocked his access to the bathroom and prevented him from making meals in his kitchen, the story reported. He also claimed the cats stole his food when he tried to eat.
The court tried to get the couple to compromise about the cats, but the woman apparently was unable to part with her new pets. She decided instead to part with her husband.


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Tyne-Wear Derby: Northumbria Police will not escort Sunderland supporters to St James Park0
Police chiefs have announced plans to reduce policing in the Tyne-Wear derby between Newcastle United and Sunderland on Sunday.
The two sets off fans will be able to mix before the match after Northumbria Police have said that Sunderland supporters will not be escorted from Central Station.
The tense rivalry between the Toon army and their rivals has always meant there has been a heavy police presence when the two teams meet.
Police are encouraging Sunderland supporters to make use of the free coaches from the Stadium of Light, or to use designated trains.
Despite history between the two sets of fans, Chief Supt Neill told Chronicle Live: "My message to the fans is this – It's your derby. These are always fantastic occasions and it's going to be even more so this year.
"It is 21 December, people are going to be excited about Christmas, and people will be excited for the football match and I want that excitement to really come through on the day and for it to be a really positive experience for everyone, that's the ethos of the whole operation."
Relationships between Newcastle United and Sunderland fans seem to have improved after Sunderland supporters raised over £20,000 in memory of John Alder and Liam Sweeney, two Newcastle fans who were killed in the MH17 crash.
However, the 2013 Tyne-Wear derby will be remembered for the wrong reasons after a police horse was attacked by a Newcastle supporter when violence erupted outside St James' Park after a defeat to their rivals, Sunderland.
"The fans want the passion of the derby but some of the things that have happened in previous years now need to be consigned to history. The disorder of 2013 reflected badly on everybody concerned," said Chief Supt Neill.
"This is about two groups of passionate supporters coming together. Having the sheer number of such passionate football fans in such close proximity is a great thing to celebrate."
The two sides meet on 21 December 2014 in a 1:30pm kick off.


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Sony Launches The Xperia C3 For Selfies
Sony Mobile has introduced the Xperia C3, anew smartphone for selfies and social sharing thanks to Sony's digital imaging technology and interactive camera apps.
The smartphone produces perfect selfies with a 5 MP wide-angle front camera (25mm with 80 degree field of view) that allows you to capture more in the frame. With a soft flash, you can take photos day or night by double tapping the back cover or using Smile Shutter. Thanks to the front camera's Superior Auto mode, pictures are automatically adjusted for suitable lighting conditions and the auto scene recognition function, which works together with HDR and LED flash to offer great pictures and videos in any light.
The Xperia C3 also comes loaded with selfie camera apps. AR effect incorporates themes that let you add fun graphics and animations to your selfies and selfie videos. Portrait Retouch is another app that allows you to have a real-time makeover of up to two people from a combination of choices from 10 different beauty styles, 10 DECO frame options and magic beam for 6 eye reflection pattern changes.
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There's no simple trick to reaching 100 years old, although most experts say it's a mix of luck and taking good care of yourself. Plus, it really helps to have one of the nineteen "longevity" gene groups scientists just discovered.
The experiment considered the genomes of 1,055 centenarians and 1,267 younger controls.The team, led by Paola Sebastiani and Thomas T. Perls of Boston University, zeroed in on particular areas of the genome that varied between the experimental and control groups. They were able to build a genetic model that could predict with 77% accuracy which genomes belonged to the centenarians and which belonged to their younger counterparts. They built the model by locating about 150 cases where a difference in a particular nucleotide in the genetic sequence - known as a single-nucleotide polymorphism - correlated with exceptional longevity.
Sebastiani puts their success in context:
"Seventy-seven percent is very high accuracy for a genetic model. But 23 percent error rate also shows there us a lot that remains to be discovered."
Additionally, the team was able to put ninety percent of the centenarians into one of nineteen different genetic clusters of various combinations of genotypes. Some of the clusters promoted longer survival (naturally enough), while others delayed the onset of disease. Indeed, a surprise for Sebastiani and Perls was the discovery that the centenarians had all the same genes that lead to age-related illnesses as their younger counterparts; they just happened to also possess genes that canceled these diseases out.
Perls explains the significance of this find:
"We have noted in previous work that 90 percent of centenarians are disability-free at the average age of 93. We had long hypothesized that to get to 100 you have to have a relative lack of disease-associated variants. But in this case, we're finding that not to be the case."
As for the super-centenarians, those 110 years old or more, they found that forty percent of this group had three particular gene clusters in common. Even though that's less than half the group, such a correlation provides another useful hint as to which areas of the genome play the biggest role in increased longevity.
Ultimately, Perls advises caution in reading too much into these findings, at least at the moment:
"We're quite a ways away, still, in understanding what pathways are governed by these genes. I look at the complexity of this puzzle and feel very strongly that this will not lead to treatments that will get people to be centenarians.
That said, the 77 percent success rate of their genetic model is way ahead of anything that's been accomplished before, and the team hopes to push forward with further research. This particular study has been going on since 1995 and focused on Caucasians. Perls and Sebastiani say they want to next run similar tests on Japanese centenarians, as Japan is well-known for its unusually large elderly population.
[Science; also check out Gawker's post on this story]
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(Pocket-lint) - Not a compact, nor a digital SLR but a hybrid of the two, Panasonic was the first to bring such an interchangeable lens compact system camera to market - stealing an early lead on its Micro Four Thirds development partner Olympus - with 2008's original Lumix DMC-G1, quickly joined by the GH1, which added HD video capability.
Like its predecessors outwardly resembling a DSLR - but not technically one because of the removal of the mirror mechanism to bring lens and sensor closer together and enable smaller body and lens dimensions - the 12-megapixel Lumix DMC-G10, announced spring of this year in tandem with bigger brother the G2, hits the ground running.
Both the two new cameras now have HD video capture as standard with HDMI connectivity to flat panel tellies, but whereas the G2 features a dedicated button for its operation, on the G10 you need to select this feature from among the 13-strong options on its busy shooting mode dial.
Filming begins and ends with a press and then subsequent press of the main shutter release button. The G10 also offers the more widely accessible Motion JPEG video format, as opposed to the G2's adoption of the newer AVCHD. Both cameras feature the visually arresting film simulation plus My Colour digital effect filter modes that creatively give the Olympus Pen range with its Art Filters a run for its money.
Furthermore, whereas the G10's rear 3-inch high 430k-dot resolution LCD is fixed, the G2's screen is angle adjustable and features limited touch panel control. The G2 is heavier at 593g with lens, battery and card, to the G10's 558g with the same configuration (or 336g body only) - so the G10 is notionally more portable.
Like the G2, when gripped and with 14-42mm (28-84mm equivalent) standard lens attached, the cheaper G10 feels every inch like a consumer-level DSLR, and if you were none the wiser to the technology involved, that's what you'd technically believe it to be. Overall dimensions are a chunky yet manageable 124 x 83.6 x 74mm; but in truth this means that the camera with lens attached isn't actually that much smaller than an entry level DSLR with conventional APS-C sized chip.
The G10's body also features the same thin rubberised coating that aids grip whilst feeling silkily tactile to the touch - but unlike the G2 with its multi-coloured body options, this model is only available in studious black.
With both cameras looking otherwise outwardly identical, it's the above differences, convenient in the case of the G2 rather than essential, that means the G10 is the more affordable - one may argue, better value - option at £499 with 14-42mm lens. By contrast the G2 will set you back around £630 with the same.
So while our above brief appraisal outlines why you should, or shouldn't buy the G10 over the G2, how does the former fare on its own, and in comparison with the rest of the market?
For starters its design, look and handling is much more conventional than immediate rivals in the retro Olympus Pen series from Olympus, and so you feel Panasonic is, as with its original G1 and GH1, taking less of an obvious risk in terms of getting consumers to accept something "new". The heart may favour the romanticism of the Pen, but the head will say Panasonic.
Shot composition on the G10 is via its superbly clear 3-inch LCD panel or electronic viewfinder above; offering a lower resolution at 202k dots to the larger main screen's impressive 460k. Image formats are JPEG, RAW and, covering all bases, simultaneous JPEG + RAW. You really do feel in handling the G10 that you are getting your money's worth, which cannot always be said of a relatively new technology.
In comparison with its predecessors, the G10 offers a higher maximum light sensitivity setting over the original G1, at ISO 6400 rather than ISO 3200, plus there's built-in flash to fallback on, as well as vacant hotshoe for accessory illumination.
Like Panasonic's compact snapshots the G10 features a dedicated iA (or intelligent Auto) button just behind the shutter release on the top plate for user friendly point and shoot operation, should fledgling photographers want to steer clear of the more sophisticated alternatives of program, aperture priority, shutter priority and manual settings.
Like it sounds iA recognises common scenes and subjects and automatically adjusts in-camera settings to deliver theoretically the best result possible under the circumstances. We've always found this setting reliably accurate for novice users on its compacts, and so it proves again with the more grown up G10.
Like iA, the Q.Menu button to be found on the back plate adds ease of use as well as being an exercise in time saving. Press this and the operational icons displayed across the top of the screen become active, so by tabbing through them with the camera's cross key buttons, changes can be made without having to scroll through the comprehensive menu folders. Though some of the other features mentioned may frustrate more experienced users, such shortcuts are always worth having whatever your level of experience.
In terms of image quality, the provided kit lens plays as large a part as the camera's 17.3 x 13mm CMOS (or Live MOS) sensor. This suffers from some barrel distortion when shooting at maximum wide angle, but edge to edge sharpness is well maintained rather than softening toward the corners. Otherwise images are colour rich - particularly if selecting "Expressive" colour mode - and crisp to boot. Compared with your common or garden compact, and non-interchangeable lens bridge models costing roughly £100 less, quality is superb.
The Panasonic's double-digit model number is slightly misleading because the G10 is in fact a less showy version of the simultaneously released G2, with a resulting cheaper price tag. At £499 with lens it's currently the least expensive option for anyone wanting to buy into the Micro Four Thirds compact camera system, taking into account both Panasonic and Olympus ranges, and so inevitably steals some of the thunder from the latter's latest E-PL1 Pen.
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Hi Inzilbeth... do you have a preferred abbreviation for your name? Inzilbeth's a bit of a mouthful. What do you get up to in Edinburgh then? In case you haven't picked it up I'm a professional student and do lots of singing, as well as working part-time for Edinburgh University...


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Laying on that stainless steel table and getting these little lines drawn on me, I felt like a piece of beef. I felt like I had no control, when they were getting ready to do radiation. And the chemo. I went . . . to see the oncologist, and seeing the other people in the waiting room, [I wondered], 'Man, is that what I'm going to be looking like?' I mean, they didn't look well. They did not look healthy. . . . If I had done chemo and radiation, I know for a fact I wouldn't be sitting here and having energy with you right now.
The speaker, whom I shall call John, was a tall, thin, youthful macrobiotic convert in his late forties who said he used to run about four to five miles a day. He was driving me to the Kushi Institute in Becket, Massachusetts, to attend the Michio Kushi Seminar for Medical Professionals on June 20-25, 1989. John said his cancer had been diagnosed in November 1988. A week later, friends gave him two books whose authors said they had recovered from cancer while following a macrobiotic regimen. Two days later, after reading the books, John flew to Massachusetts for a consultation with Michio Kushi.
I asked what Kushi had done. John responded:
Basically, Oriental diagnosis is old . . . very old. . . . I don't know how to do it. . . . But he can look at your face. He can look at your hands, your feet, the meridians of the body. . . . You'll see some material evidence of the chakras. He'll take a little thing . . . like a nail clipper dangling [from a thread] . . . and when he puts it over this area of the body where there is a chakra, that thing will start to rotate. For men, it goes clockwise; for ladies, it goes counterclockwise.
(In traditional Chinese medicine, meridians are energy conduits regulating yin and yang. In Hindu philosophy, the chakras are the seven occult centers of the body.)
I also asked whether Kushi had performed a physical examination. "Just looking at the face, looking at the arms . . . he can tell how far it's advanced," John replied. "Before my cancer was diagnosed, I remember looking at my hand, and this area right here was just blue and green as hell. It looked like a bruise. . . ."
"You're pretty clean; you're clean" John assured me. "But mine was really blue and greenish, and that is one of the signs of cancer. . . . This area right here [between the thumb and forefinger] is the small intestine. That was so damn sore-in most people it is, from bad eating-that I couldn't press it like that. But everything in the body corresponds. Right now, looking at my hands, which one is the redder of the two? Obviously. The tumor's on this side. It's discharging through an extremity."
When I asked whether Kushi ever referred clients to health professionals, John answered, "No, no. . . . Well, he recommends that you stay in contact with your doctor for the blood tests, which I'm doing. I've got a homeopathic doctor." He also told me that Kushi looks at and comments on his lab reports.
John said he had not told his former primary physician, an endocrinologist, of his decision to turn to macrobiotics. "When I was getting ready to leave his office and he told me what the verdict was, he said, 'Be careful. There's all kinds of charlatans out there that will take your money.' In retrospect, I felt like saying, 'Like you? You took my money, and you didn't fix me.'"
John also spoke about Anthony Sattilaro, M.D., whose book, Recalled by Life (1982), had helped steer him toward macrobiotics. "Sattilaro got off the diet three years ago. His cancer got worse than probably ever. . . . He was eating very wide. . . . And I think when he got well, he kind of disassociated himself with Michio. . . . He always felt like he was being used to bring people in."
Dr. Sattilaro, whose struggle with prostate cancer was widely publicized, underwent conventional therapy but credited macrobiotics for his improvement. In Living Well Naturally (1984), he said that his doctors had pronounced him in a state of permanent remission. But he died of his disease last year.
A Brief History
Macrobiotics was founded by Yukikazu Sakurazawa (1893-1966)-better known as George Ohsawa. His first book in English, Zen Macrobiotics, was published in mimeographed form in 1960. Macrobiotic insider Ronald Kotzsch, Ph.D., who wrote Macrobiotics: Yesterday and Today, portrays Ohsawa as a quixotic Japanese nationalist who, while preaching the "Unique Principle" of yin and yang, smoked heavily and occasionally enjoyed cheesecake, doughnuts, Coca-Cola, coffee, Guinness Stout, and Scotch whiskey. In Kotzsch's words, "Ohsawa was a man who for forty years taught about health with a cigarette in his hand."
The earliest version of the diet, termed the "Zen macrobiotic diet," was claimed to enable individuals to overcome a wide range of illnesses that its proponents attributed to dietary excesses. This diet had ten progressively restrictive stages. The lowest stage consisted of 10% grains, 30% vegetables, 10% soup, 30% animal products, 15% fruits and salads, and 5% desserts. Each subsequent stage increased the percentage of grains by ten while reducing the percentages from other categories. The fourth stage eliminated fruits, the sixth stage eliminated all animal products, and the final stage eliminated everything but grains. In all stages, fluid intake was discouraged.
In 1967, the Journal of the American Medical Association presented a detailed report of a case of scurvy and malnutrition induced by fanatical adherence to a restrictive macrobiotic regimen. This article set the tone for orthodox medicine's view of macrobiotics. In 1971, the AMA Council on Foods and Nutrition said that followers of the diet, particularly the highest level, stood in "great danger" of malnutrition [JAMA 218:397, 1971].
Kotzsch's book describes how a young woman in New York who had followed the highest-level diet had died in 1965-apparently of malnutrition and dehydration. That same year, Ohsawa was sued for medical malpractice and the Ohsawa Foundation in New York was closed after a raid by the FDA. Boston then became the macrobiotic mecca. The Macrobiotic Center of New York was founded in 1984.
Macrobiotic figurehead Michio Kushi was a student of Ohsawa. Kushi was born in Japan in 1926 and studied political science and international law before coming to the United States in 1949. During the mid-1960s he settled in the Boston area and established Erewhon, a "natural" and macrobiotic foods distributor. During the 1970s, he established East West Journal (a monthly magazine), the East West Foundation, and the Kushi Institute. In 1982, the Kushi Foundation was established as the parent organization for the institute and magazine.
The Kushi Institute now has two locations in the United States, one in Becket (in the Berkshire mountains) and another in Brookline, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. In addition to holding lectures, seminars and conferences, the institute markets more than a hundred books, audiotapes and videotapes about macrobiotics and other topics consistent with its beliefs. There are affiliated institutes in London, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Barcelona, Florence and Lisbon, and about 600 independent macrobiotic "centers" located in many parts of the world. Institute publications state that more than 1,000 people worldwide have attended classes at Brookline and Beckett and graduated from leadership training programs.
East West Journal, which has a circulation of about 100,000, contains more than 100 pages per issue. Its news and feature articles cover health, nutrition, psychology, and environmental issues-from the macrobiotic viewpoint. Its editorial philosophy is antagonistic toward scientific medicine and certain public health measures, including fluoridation. Fringe systems, such as acupuncture, chiropractic, homeopathy, naturopathy, Christian Science, and past-life therapy, are promoted in uncritical articles. Full-page ads appear frequently for food supplements, herbs, "natural" cosmetics, subliminal tapes, and similar products. Classified ads involve such offerings as aromatherapy, biofeedback, meditation for cancer, a solution for hypoglycemia, vitamins, herbal formulas, "spiritual numerology," natural fibers, astrology, tarot readings, "psychic counselors," "mind expansion video," "karmic life reading," and correspondence courses in natural healing, iridology and Chinese medicine.
What is Macrobiotics?
"Macrobiotic" is derived from the Greek macrobiotos-long-lived. Webster's Dictionary defines macrobiotics as "the art of prolonging life." But descriptive definitions abound. A "short" one (five paragraphs long) appears in the December/January '89 Solstice, an independent macrobiotic magazine with a circulation of about 12,000. It states: "Macrobiotics is a way of living with respect for the physical, biological, emotional, mental, ecological and spiritual order of our daily lives." But it is "not a particular form of therapy or medicine," or a religion. Kotzsch says: "There is no explicit, generally accepted understanding of what it means to be 'macrobiotic.' Macrobiotics is many-faceted. It includes a diet, a system of medicine, a philosophy, a way of life, a community, and a broad social movement." Ohsawa offered a simple definition in Macrobiotics: An Invitation to Health and Happiness: "To live in perpetual ecstatic delight is Do-o-Raku. Those who do so are called Do-o-Raku-Mono. If you are Do-o-Raku-Mono, you are Macrobiotic, whatever you eat."
According to ancient Chinese theory, "yin" and "yang" are cosmic principles, complementary opposites. Nothing is completely yin or yang. A given object or condition is yin or yang only relative to another object or condition. Citing yin-yang theory, macrobiotics relates itself to everything in the universe, from world peace to sexual orientation.
In Zen Macrobiotics, Ohsawa gave cold and heat, expansion and contraction, outward and inward, up and down, purple and red, light and heavy, and water and fire as examples of yin and yang. As the "principal food," he chose whole grains, particularly brown rice, which he considered to be near the midpoint of yin and yang. Macrobiotics classifies foods according to: climate (hot yielding yin foods, cold yielding yang foods); pH (acid or alkaline); taste (sweet or salty); color (purple or red); and water content (perishable or dry). But an orange, despite its yang color, is yin because it is cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions, and is acidic, sweet, and juicy. Orange juice is more yin because of its greater water content. Both foods are undesirable from a macrobiotic standpoint, particularly for persons living in temperate or colder regions, because they are too yin relative to whole grains.
The relationship between macrobiotics and Chinese ying-yang theory is not clear-cut. While macrobiotics distinguishes according to structure, the Chinese theory-which includes acupuncture theory-distinguishes by function. For example, macrobiotics classifies the earth (compact) as yang and the heavens (diffuse) as yin, while yin-yang theory does the opposite. Thus, as Kotzsch notes, "while Ohsawa purports to present an ancient Oriental way of thinking, in practice his [system] does not correspond to the classical Chinese system."
In the March/April '89 Solstice, Kotzsch suggested that a shift in emphasis toward healing started in the early 70s: "I remember Michio saying that if macrobiotics demonstrated that it could cure cancer, it would attract attention and influence many people." Kushi predicted recently that in 50-70 years, "the modern scientific orientation will be reexamined and discarded as a new science, based on a dynamic understanding of natural order and the unifying principle of yin and yang, begins."
Yin-yang underpinnings, quasi-religious overtones, and a Japanese culinary bias make macrobiotics complicated. Indeed, it could be considered an antiscientific, metaphysical hodgepodge. But as far as diet is concerned, it boils down to the consumption of unprocessed or minimally processed foods, primarily whole grains and vegetables, which, ideally, should be grown "organically" in the region where the consumer lives and eaten in season. Health Foods Business estimates that total 1988 sales of macrobiotic foods through health food stores was $29.8 million.
The Seminar
Throughout the year, the Kushi Institute conducts residential seminars, ranging from weekend workshops to a 5-week program for leadership training. The seminar I attended cost $450, including tuition, room and board. However, upon registering, there was an additional charge of $30 for membership in Kushi's nonprofit organization, One Peaceful World, which is required for participation in all Kushi Institute programs.
Nineteen people, including myself, attended the seminar. Twelve were medical doctors, including one unkempt homeopath. There were also two registered nurses, an endodontist, an osteopath, a chiropractor, and a Ph.D. involved in nutrition research. Their past experience with macrobiotics ranged from dabbling (one M.D. with cancer) to ten years, but most of the attendees had been practicing macrobiotics for more than six months, and some had been practicing it for several years. They had come from as far as Michigan, Tennessee, and Ontario, Canada. Only two were visibly overfat. The diet provided during the seminar was monotonous but appeared to be nutritionally adequate except for vitamins B12 and D.
The Becket facility, located on 600 acres, has three main buildings: a rambling, multistory Main House which originally had been a hunting lodge and then Christian monastery; a dormitory; and a house that contained a library, a kitchen, a dining room, and what appeared to be a Buddhist temple (from which I heard chanting). Orientation took place in the library after dinner. A tall, thin, self-possessed man named Charles Millman presided. Millman introduced our program host, Jimmy, who appeared to be either in his late teens or early twenties. Jimmy had completed Level III of the Leadership Studies Program after emigrating from Yugoslavia with his family. Then his parents, who ran the kitchen, were introduced. In broken English, Jimmy's father told how his wife had recovered from ovarian cancer through macrobiotics. Three years earlier, he said, doctors had predicted she would survive only two to three months.
Next, Millman introduced the co-director of the Berkshire center and plugged her recently published book-length testimonial. She told us she had grown up with a deep appreciation for health professionals, because she had always been sick. But since 1982, her only health problem had been one headache. The last staff member introduced was John, who gave an abbreviated version of the story he had told me that afternoon.
Each of us received a packet containing information about the diet, macrobiotic seminars and publications, traditional Chinese methods of diagnosis, and the Kushis' natural food store (Aveline's, named after Michio's wife) and restaurant (Ghinga). Millman informed us that Michio and Aveline want to turn the Berkshire facility into the world's leading macrobiotic educational center-a One Peaceful World Center. "By creating biological peace, by giving people health, you can create peace in various families, in various societies, nations, and throughout the world, spreading our teachings, and helping people to live healthy, happy lives," Millman said. Later he asked us to wash our own dishes and silverware. "This is not part of slave labor," he assured us, but "simply part of standard macrobiotic lifestyle practice, keeping everything very orderly and very neat."
The next morning, at 7:00 A.M., we commenced our daily exercise class in the library. Our instructor, Michael Joutras, said the exercises affected the flow of energy ("ki" or "Ch'i") through body channels ("meridians"), sharing the same system on which acupuncture and shiatsu (finger pressure at acupuncture points) are based. He instructed us to rub our palms together. "Our hands are especially charged with energy," he said. "There's a meridian going through each finger. . . . Now hold your palms slightly apart. Can you feel any electrical sensation? If you can't, pull them slightly apart, then bring them in closer again. . . . If you can't feel it, that's okay."
Joutras said that while nutritional scientists focus mainly on the physical aspects of food-vitamins, nutrients, fat, and so forth-the Eastern view was broader: "Meat has a certain kind of energy. Sugar has a certain kind of energy. Dairy food has a certain kind of energy. And when we ingest these things, then that energy is going into our body, and being released through the process of digestion, and going through the whole body, carried through the meridian system. And so the underlying basis of sickness was always that energy is imbalanced." Later he stated, "The definition of matter is . . . nothing but energy, and waves, and vibration. . . . There is nothing but condensed vibration. . . . Everything is spirit."
Our daily cooking class began at 10:00 A.M. in the Main House. It was conducted by Wendy Esko, a predictably thin, barefaced, 40-year-old woman with long hair, who stumbled onto macrobiotics 19 years ago and has been practicing it ever since. The class topic was "Medicinal Use of Food." We were warned that Cuisinart-processed vegetables caused hyperactivity.
Next came Martha Cottrell, M.D., a feminist with a Southern accent, who described Kushi as "psychic." Cottrell had contributed to the pro-macrobiotic collection of essays, Doctors Look at Macrobiotics, edited by Wendy Esko's husband, Edward Esko.
"I've been macrobiotic pretty much for about ten years. I started when I turned fifty in 1978," Dr. Cottrell said. "Without any doubt, I feel that macrobiotics has given me at least ten years' additional life, and maybe more. And I want to use it well, and have fun doing it, too." Before turning to macrobiotics, she said, she had suffered from arthritis, gastrointestinal problems, psoriasis, and other skin conditions. But she noted that some macrobiotic counselors have not learned how to take care of themselves very well. "Michio is so driven by what he wants to do before he dies," she said. "I was in Florida with him not long ago, and he looked extremely tired. And he's still smoking."
Dr. Cottrell's presentation was followed by dinner-which most of the participants appeared to relish. One M.D. even remarked, "If we have any more food like we've had in the last twenty-four hours, you'll have to roll us all down the hill."
The next speaker was Edward Esko, who is tall, thin, and blond, and looked anemic despite a mild facial sunburn. "There's a lot of misconception about macrobiotics," he lamented. "Especially the whole Zen macrobiotics and brown rice diet. . . . Actually 25 years out of date and it's still on some people's minds." Then he told how a writer who had recently done a computerized literature search found 23 articles on macrobiotics. Twenty-one were negative. "I think what we need is 20 positive articles about the standard macrobiotic diet published in journals, medical journals, which will counteract that false impression that many people have." George Ohsawa chose the name "Zen" because of a rough connection with Buddhist vegetarian cooking, and because Zen philosophy was popular at that time in New York. "So it was kind of a marketing strategy," Esko said. While explaining yin-yang theory, Esko nonchalantly refuted Newton's Universal Law of Gravitation, stating that gravity simply doesn't exist.
Esko introduced us to a woman from Lima, Peru, who said she had pursued macrobiotics after having a brain tumor diagnosed with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). She was in her twenties and had beautiful, long hair-which had been temporarily lost as a result of therapy. One of the doctors asked whether she had had another MRI after turning to macrobiotics. She said she hadn't because her doctor had said it was expensive and needless.
Kushi's Presentation
Kushi did not appear until the afternoon of the seminar's third day, when he lectured on diagnostic principles. He is a thin, unremarkable-looking man with short, receded, salt-and-pepper hair and pronounced cheekbones. He wore a three-piece, pinstriped, navy blue suit. His broken English often made him unintelligible. Cameras flashed during his lecture.
"Modern medicine is physical, material way, analytical way," Kushi said, "therefore overlooking this universe's force coming in, and the earth force go up, coming in constantly, constantly, constantly."
To demonstrate this alleged force, Kushi produced nail clippers suspended from a dark thread. "This is no gimmick," he assured us. Then, dangling them over a supine M.D., he proceeded to give the chakra demonstration to which John had referred on our way to Becket. According to Kushi, the chakras caused the clippers to trace small circles over corresponding areas of the body. However, close observation revealed that the circling was caused by movements of Kushi's arm.
The methods espoused by Kushi do not correspond to scientific medical practice but are part of what he calls the "traditional arts of Oriental healing." They include pulse diagnosis, visual diagnosis, meridian diagnosis, voice diagnosis, astrological diagnosis, parental and ancestral diagnosis, aura and vibrational diagnosis, consciousness and thought diagnosis, and spiritual diagnosis-all of which were defined in the information packet we received.
Voice diagnosis supposedly identifies disorders of the glands, organs, and certain body systems. Kushi said, for example, that a "watery voice . . . means natural kidney-bladder is overworked. Also must be blood vessels expanded for too much water. . . . So when [you] hear a watery voice, then you should immediately know heartbeat overworked, and kidney overworked, and blood overworked."
Astrological diagnosis uses the time and place of birth and current astrological and astronomical conditions to "characterize the basic constitutional tendencies of the body and the mind as well as the potential destiny of the current and future life of the subject." After outlining nine Oriental "astrological types," Kushi summoned volunteers representing "opposite" types, compared their smiles, and commented that some were "idealistic, very romantic, uplifted" while their supposed opposites were "gentle" and "more reserved."
Behavior diagnosis supposedly reveals dietary imbalances related to psychological functions. For example, if you eat too much fish, the next day you will make fish-like movements, Kushi said, illustrating his point by sitting in a chair and moving his knees repeatedly apart and together.
Environmental diagnosis utilizes atmospheric conditions, including temperature, humidity, celestial influences, tidal motions, and other data to reveal the "environmental cause" of a person's physical and psychological disorders. To illustrate, Kushi said: "Your bed, whether you sleep head north, head south, also different. Which should it be? Head should be more north if you are living in northern hemisphere. If you are living in southern, opposite."
After supper, before the lecture resumed, two doctors tried to duplicate Kushi's demonstration with the nail clippers. When I pointed out to one that her arm was moving, she invited me to try. I did, holding my arm still, and when nothing happened, she responded, "Oh, my God, when somebody wants to, they can really botch this."
The next session opened not with Michio, but with his wife, Aveline, in traditional Japanese dress, discussing her recent translation of a Japanese fortuneteller's book on nutrition. Millman then "treated" us to an 9-minute sample of the translation. Later, Michio held the nail clippers over the head of a woman seated on the floor with her eyes closed and said, "Please just remain quiet, okay?. . . . Please, very quiet, please. . . . Now, start to think again. . . . Think of husband or boy friend. Or romance. Your partner. . . . Now, let's change the content of thinking. Think about war. Many of friends is hurt. . . . Towns and cities are burned and destroyed. Many thousand, thousand people are being killed, and we are burning. . . . You can see, huh? By thought, vibration change. . . . The chakra vibration change." I noted how slight movements of Kushi's arm caused the clippers to swing-this time circling the purported crown chakra-at progressive speeds alleged to reflect the intensity of the woman's mental activity.
Unfortunately, I had to leave the seminar before it ended. When I last saw Kushi, he was exhorting the physicians to fulfill their true role as teachers of the macrobiotic way of life. I think they will.
The Bottom Line?
Lawrence Lindner, executive editor of the Tufts Diet and Nutrition Letter, saw Edward Esko for a private consultation at the Kushi Institute as part of an assignment for American Health Magazine and reported his findings in the May 1988 issue. Lindner was told: (a) his heart was enlarged because he ate too much fruit; (b) his kidneys were weak; (c) he was slightly hypoglycemic; (d) deposits of fat and mucus were starting to build up in his intestines; (e) cold drinks could freeze the deposits and cause kidney stones; and (f) he should avoid chicken because it is linked with pancreatic cancer and melanoma. The consultation cost $200. He concluded: "The macrobiotic lectures, courses, books and tapes . . . besides running into hundreds or thousands of dollars, teach a philosophy of life, not nutrient interactions." In a recent interview, he added, "Some people are attracted to macrobiotics because, like a typical cult, it seems to offer simple solutions to a variety of life's problems."
Stripped of its philosophy and bizarre notions of body function and disease, does macrobiotic eating make any sense? Over the years, many reports have noted arrested growth and other forms of malnutrition among children eating a macrobiotic diet. Several lawsuits have claimed that cancer patients who relied upon macrobiotic methods instead of proven therapy met with disaster. (As far as I know, no such case has come to trial. They either are still pending or were settled out-of-court with an agreement not to disclose settlement terms.) Dr. Dwyer's article in the March/April Nutrition Forum points out how the diet poses significant risks for cancer patients who use it in addition to conventional methods.
Macrobiotic proponents respond to these criticisms in several ways. They state that deficiencies are the result of following the diet incorrectly-in an overly restrictive fashion. They claim that they do not try to lure cancer patients away from medical treatment with promises that the diet will cure them. And they point to research findings that macrobiotic adherents have lower blood pressure and very low cholesterol levels that protect them against coronary heart disease. (A study by William Castelli, M.D., for example, found that over 100 followers of the macrobiotic diet in the Boston area had an average blood cholesterol level of 125, while a control group of similar ages averaged 185.) However, they are not likely to add that other dietary approaches to disease prevention, such as the Pritikin diet or well balanced vegetarian diets, are nutritionally superior and much more palatable.
No long-range study has been attempted to measure whether macrobiotic devotees wind up, on balance, better off than their non-macrobiotic counterparts. Since macrobiotics has so many variables, such a study could be difficult to construct. To begin with, as Kotzsch has admitted, no one can say with certainty what it means to be "macrobiotic." And if the results of such a study showed that devotees fared better, the reasons for their success might be extremely difficult to identify.
Thus, although macrobiotic eating might improve the health of many American adults-it presents significant and unnecessary risks of nutritional deficiency. Nutrient supplementation, lab tests, and consultations with a qualified nutrition professional could minimize this risk. But macrobiotic philosophy discourages such safeguards.
Postscript 1/8/15: The Web site of the Kushi Institute states that its flagship Way to Health Program "has helped thousands of individuals and families prevent or relieve cancer, heart disease, arthritis, osteoporosis, anxiety, depression and other chronic conditions." However, Kushi and his first wife (Aveline) both died of cancer. Aveline succumbed in 2001 at the age of 78 following a 9-year battle. A family spokesperson said that Aveline underwent standard radiation therapy when the her was discovered, but when it spread to her bones and she was told there was no other conventional treatment available, she relied on acupuncture and other "Eastern" methods. Michio died of pancreatic cancer in 2014 at the age of 88.
This article was originally published in the May/June 1990 issue of Nutrition Forum. At that time, Mr. Raso was Assistant Chief Dietitian at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York and had taught nutrition courses at Pratt Institute and Long Island University. He later served as Director of Publications for the American Council on Science and Health and editor-in-chief of its Priorities For Health magazine.
This page was revised on January 8, 2015.


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Prospect Baez ready to show improved defense
MESA, Ariz. -- Javier Baez was one of the early birds in Cubs camp on Monday, arriving one day before position players have to report. The Cubs have said he'll open at Triple-A Iowa, and the highly touted shortstop isn't putting a timetable on when he's going to get to the big leagues.
"I'm still young and still learning how to play the game," Baez, ranked No. 7 on MLB.com's Top 100 Prospects, said. "I'm going to take my time."
Last spring, Baez batted .298 (14-for-47) and hit four home runs and drove in 10 runs in 17 Cactus League games, and hit two more homers in an exhibition game against Japan. Alfonso Soriano and Dioner Navarro led the Cubs in spring homers with five each.
For the regular season, Baez, 21, hit 37 home runs and 34 doubles and drove in 111 runs in 130 games for Class A Daytona and Double-A Tennessee, batting .282. He was named the Cubs' Minor League Player of the Year. If there's an area to concentrate on, it's his defense. Baez made 44 errors combined.
Could he make the big league team out of spring camp?
"I might make it, I might not," he said. "I'm going to take it day by day and see what's going on."
The Cubs may test Baez at second and third this spring as well as have him play short. After a winter of workouts in Jacksonville, Fla., with his former high-school team, he's ready to get going.
"I'm just going to do my job and try to do what I did last year and [reduce] my errors," he said.
Cubs manager Rick Renteria will talk to Baez about the possibility of playing some second base or third base this spring.
"You never want to remove a shortstop from shortstop," Renteria said. "So if we have the luxury of having Starlin [Castro] at the Major League level and [Baez] at Triple-A shortstop, why wouldn't we do that? [Baez] is a guy who has impressed everybody and he has some skill and we want him to continue to improve and mature and be the player we hope he will become in the end."