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Nov 19, carried on sovsport.ru, Shamil addressed something I'd wondered about. This is one of those things we never hear a word about in the Western sports press:
Andrey Golubev, Mikhail Kukushkin, Yuri Shchukin, Yaroslav Shvedova and Galina Voskoboeva. What does unite these players of the third echelon of Russian teams? By year-end all these tennis-players began to represent Kazakhstan. In this case Golubev reached the final of the tournament in Saint Petersburg, and Voskoboeva for the first time completed the year in the top 100 of WTA rating. Not alas what reaching, but nevertheless… Suppose that suddenly in a couple of years a number of these athletes will catch fire--new stars?
"This draining of our tennis-players into Kazakhstan (was a) forced measure. We simply cannot finance them! Here, for example, Golubev. The fellow for almost five years was trained in Italy, now at 21 years, he was full of forces and energy and… was ready to complete career. The same also with Kukushkin. They do not have money that is normal for training... a minimum of 200,000 Euros per year - to the trainers, the masseurs, the overflights and the stay! To earn such prize money, when located in second hundred of rankings, is unreal...
"Here we concluded: contract with Kazakhstan. There now they relate completely seriously to tennis. Even the President of the country, Nursultan Nazarbayev, is fascinated by it - I played with him recently. He's not a bad tennis-player, growing better technically…
"So there, for the development of tennis in the country, decent money is put aside--in 5 years they must construct 15 tennis centers - more than 100 covered courts! But the presence of stars, even not of the top rank, whip up the children's sport. And for the tennis-players themselves it will be more comfortable--it is not necessary to think about where to find money for the next airline ticket. But if suddenly they rise into the elite, they can return to Russia if they want. True, no earlier than in three years…" (presumably the contracted period.)
Well, so a couple of the Russian Kazakhstanis played tonight, and did pretty good!!! [H]
Thanks to this appropriated AOTV stream, I got to see Yaroslava Shvedova give Petrova a pretty good fight. Shvedova is a great-looking woman with legs that won't quit! I don't get to see her play often enough.
Ditto re Galina Voskoboeva, who beat Szavay 63 36 64. These girls are coming right along.
Britain's Elena Baltacha was powerless to prevent Kazakhstan's Yaroslava Shvedova from securing a place in the main draw of Roland Garros 2009. The 6-2 6-2 scoreline is further proof of a return to form for Shvedova, who was twice a junior finalist here in Paris and lived in the city for two years as a child.
Shvedova first qualified for the main draw in 2007 and the significance of her repeat performance was evident for all to see in her beaming post-match smile.
Steelier temperament
"I'm reproducing the form I've been showing in practice. Since I qualified for Rome I've been feeling just great and playing without pressure. To top it all, I'm learning to enjoy the clay," said the player who is currently ranked No96 in the world.
"She has changed her attitude along with her game. Provided she manages to keep on playing freely, she'll get there," commented Tomasz Iwanski, who has been her coach since last November. Iwanski doubles up as Kazakhstan's Fed Cup captain when not accompanying Shvedova on tour and describes his protegee as "ambitious". Such confidence is far from unfounded if today's performance is anything to go by...
Messages of support
"Ambitious" could also be used to describe Yaroslava's decision to change nationalities last August. "She wanted to play in a national team, and that would have been difficult in Russia," says Iwanski. "It was also the chance to play in the Olympic Games," adds Yaroslava, who shows her affection for her adopted nation by proudly wearing a green and yellow bracelet on her left wrist.
"I live in Moscow but I often go to Kazakhstan because I feel good there and the conditions are excellent. The people like me and I get lots of encouragement on Facebook. I've got many friends there, "she explains fondly.
Britain's Elena Baltacha was powerless to prevent Kazakhstan's Yaroslava Shvedova from securing a place in the main draw of Roland Garros 2009. The 6-2 6-2 scoreline...[/quote]
[:(] Poor Elena! I was upset she didn't qualify, but after seeing Shvedova today I can completely understand how she lost!!! Kazakhstan have a great player in Shvedova, I am sure she will be moving up the rankings soon.
We know when Italian channel SuperTennis has been showing Palermo. Play starts daily at 14:00 GMT, but the broadcast begins with the 2nd match on Centre Court Not Before 16:30 GMT. Palermo plays under the lights, so they show the 3rd match as well.
So, unless they begin early with a 14:00 broadcast, we may not get to see Shvedova on Friday. Glad I caught her Thursday.
fromsport has a Supertennis link http://www.fromsport.com/video-43112.html and atdhe http://www.atdhe.net/7921/watch-wta-palermo .
Friday, July 17, 2009
Centre Court (from 16.00hrs) (14:00 GMT)1. Errani vs. Shvedova
Yaroslava Shvedova easily defeated Shachar Pe'er at the NÜRNBERGER GASTEIN LADIES 09. roslava's confidence & consistency are way up. Though unseeded at Bad Gastein, she's essentially the favorite for the position ceded by second seed Schiavone (back injury before play began). I hope Shvedova may make the final there.
I also like her doubles combination with Senoglu of Turkey. While they haven't gone far yet, their play looks good. Hang together & they will win some tournaments. [H]
Shvedova will face Austrian wildcard Yvonne Meusburger in the quarters.
USO 2009: I'm bringing this one back up again as it continues the saga of Yaroslava Shvedova. Consider: I've all the sympathy in the world for JJ's loss, but a contradiction stands out. Today when Jesse Levine briefly got a leg up on Cilic & the commentators were ing what was wrong with the Croat, they concluded that it was what Levine's game was doing to him.
But here, it's turned into Jankovic's failure was solely about her family tragedy--Yaroslava's fine play had nothing to do with it? About all Bard Gilbert did was crack Borat jokes.
Typical commentariat bullsh!t.I taped & reviewed as much of the match as was broadcast. Yaroslava played excellent tennis. But according to the Western mouthpieces, she is a "late-bloomer" (25) who plays for that silly "Borat" country so you should dismiss her.
Screw them. I will keep on beating this drum as more & more Russian Kazakhstanis & the new Kazakh players rise. [H]
Agree with ya Paul. JJ was beaten coz she wasn't able to play better than Yaroslava . This girl is to be watched. I think she's the new threat to American young players including a certain Melanie. I'm not particularly fan of Russian or Kazakh (?) girls. I got one, that's enough. But I kinda feel US media has some kind of complex when they talk about those players!
The complex is rooted in the bowels of State. Look it over--any player from a country that doesn't toe DC's line (except China) is either ignored or subject to ridicule. All things Russia & her friends at the top of the sh!t-list.
Kazakhstan is a large nation with great resources. Historically, they are joined at the hip with Russia. The Muslim Kazakhs are a slight majority, but the state is secular & multi-ethnic with a huge Russian component. So the Russian Kazakhstani tennis players from Moscow are not at all unique. The President of the country is a sometimes tennis partner of Shamil Tarpischev.
The program is only about a year along now but it is bearing fruit both for Russian players like Yaroslava & for the Kazakhs.
A young Kazakh player named Zarina Diyas made a quite presentable debut at ECM Prague Open in July.
Zarina Diyas
I saw Shamil Tarpischev in the bleachers at the Tashkent semis, along with a clutch of the local honchos. There were a number of Russians & Belarusians in the tournament, as well as a couple of the Russian Kazakhstanis. And Shamil has personal background in Tashkent from his days as a Soviet player--he certainly has every reason to be there, but you gotta wonder if more business is in the works. The vozhd seems involved with tennis programs from the Black Sea to the Fargonna Valley. [H]
Kazakhstan has won the Asian Hopman Cup play-off in Astana. Twenty-four hours after its conclusion, one must go to Kazakhstani fans "on the ground", as it were, to get the results of an ITF FINAL! Bizarre. Do not even tell me this meet's play & results were not suppressed!
That aside, there are already a lotta quips about the Kazakhstan International Team as the "Russia B-team" & so forth. I understand that, but it's to ignore the fact that all this is setting up a profile, not just for Hopman Cup itself, but for Kazakhstan to appear as a major force in next year's Olympic Asiad (Nov in Guangzhou)-- where neither Russia nor Australia are involved.
Yaroslava Shvedova & Andrey Golubev
Anyway: Congrats, Kazakhstan!!! Looking forward to watching the Lenochka vs Yaroslava match in Perth on January 6th.
Samantha StosurLleyton Hewitt
Elena DementievaIgor Andreev
Great Britain
Laura RobsonAndy Murray
Maria Jose Martinez SanchezTommy Robredo
Sabine LisickiPhilipp Kohlschreiber
Sorana CirsteaVictor Hanescu
Melanie OudinJohn Isner
Yaroslava ShvedovaAndrey Golubev
FOUR DAYS after the Asian Hopman Cup final, Asian-based English media run an AFP release on the Kazakhstan victory & qualification for Perth!!! This "news" is the FIRST online report outside Kazakhstan other than in Chinese or other Asiatic script. (A couple of days earlier, the Hopman Cup site finally posted the Astana results without comment, news item, or any welcome to the Kazakhstani team.)
Suppression, much? [^o)] I rest my case.
Thursday November 19, 2009Kazakhstan beat Taiwan to make Hopman Cup debutPERTH: Kazakhstan will make their Hopman Cup debut next year, after winning the Asian Hopman Cup.
The Kazakh pairing of Andrey Golubev and Yaroslava Shvedova qualified for the unique mixed teams tournament from Jan 2-9 by beating defending Asian Hopman Cup champions Taiwan in Kazakhstan 2-1 on Sunday. (Wrong, the final was on Saturday.)
They complete the eight nations for the event, and will open their tournament against the British pairing of world number four Andy Murray and teenager Laura Robson on Jan 4.
The result capped a good couple of weeks for Gobulev, 22, who won an indoor tournament in his home country just days before the Asian Hopman Cup.
Gobulev is ranked 139th in the world, having reached a career high of 56 earlier this year, and reached two finals this year, with his best scalp top-20 player Radek Stepanek in Montreal.
Moscow-born Shvedova, also 22, is currently ranked 53rd, having broken into the top 50 for the first time this year.
Her polished doubles skills could come in handy in the mixed doubles here, and she reached the third round of the French Open and US Open this year, upsetting world number five Jelena Jankovic in the latter.
The rankings for the tournament were announced last month, with the home team pairing of Lleyton Hewitt and Samantha Stosur the top seeds. — AFP
Kazakhs qualify for Hopman CupAFP 18 November 2009, 01:33pmPERTH: Kazakhstan will make their Hopman Cup debut next year, after winning the Asian Hopman Cup.
The Kazakh pairing of Andrey Golubev and Yaroslava Shvedova qualified for the unique mixed teams tournament from January 2-9 by beating defending Asian Hopman Cup champions Taiwan in Kazakhstan 2-1 on Sunday. (Wrong, the final was on Saturday.)
They complete the eight nations for the event, and will open their tournament against the British pairing of world number four Andy Murray and teenager Laura Robson on January 4.
The result capped a good couple of weeks for Gobulev, 22, who won an indoor tournament in his home country just days before the Asian Hopman Cup.
Gobulev is ranked 139th in the world, having reached a career high of 56 earlier this year, and reached two finals this year, with his best scalp top-20 player Radek Stepanek in Montreal.
Moscow-born Shvedova, also 22, is currently ranked 53rd, having broken into the top 50 for the first time this year.
Her polished doubles skills could come in handy in the mixed doubles here, and she reached the third round of the French Open and US Open this year, upsetting world number five Jelena Jankovic in the latter.
The rankings for the tournament were announced last month, with the home team pairing of Lleyton Hewitt and Samantha Stosur the top seeds.
Russians Elena Dementieva and Igor Adreev are ranked second, followed by the British pair, Spain's Tommy Robredo and Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez, Germany's Philipp Kohlschreiber and Sabine Lisicki, Romania's Victor Hanescu and Sirena Cirstea, and United States duo John Isner and Melanie Oudin.
One is gratified to discover that Russian media were not limited by the Astana news blackout. [Y]
On Sunday the day after the Asian final, GoTennis.ru posted the story: Team of Kazakhstan in the composition of Shvedova/Golubev will play for the Goblet of Hopman GoTennis.ru | 15.11.2009
Interesting to note the text specifies: Об этом сообщают казахстанские СМИ. "Kazakhstan media outlets report about this." -- They took their copy direct from Kazakh sources while global sports media, incuding the HC site itself, delayed for days.
I'm'a thinkin' we may needs to add one to the sexy list... [8-|]
HEAT IS ON: Kazakhstan's Yaroslava Shvapova warms up at Burswood after escaping -30 weather in her homeland. Picture: Richard Hatherly Source: PerthNow
Kazakhstan's Yaroslava Shvedova, pictured, arrived in Australia on Christmas Day, fleeing a snow storm to prepare for the tournament ahead of the Australian Open.
"In Almaty (Kazakhstan's largest city), it was -10 but that's fine because in Astana, the capital, it was -30," Shvedova said.
"It's a little bit hard here. Today was my second practice - because of the travelling, the weather and the time difference my pulse was (racing).
"But I will practice hard; from Monday we will start."
Sportbox.ru 14:19 -- Korolev will represent Kazakhstan
Muscovite Eugene Korolev will from now on represent Kazakhstan.
As described by the President of the Russian tennis federation Shamil Tarpischev, the Kazakh federation proposed extremely advantageous financial conditions, which make it possible to conduct improved qualitative preparation to the 21- summer tennis-player.
"My reaction to this change is negative," says Tarpischev in "Sport-Express". "However, when to a player they propose a deal that our federation cannot, it is difficult for us to dispute.
Let us recall that earlier began to represent that the ex-Russians Andrey Golubev, Mikhail Kukushkin, Yaroslava Shvedova, Galina Voskoboeva, and also Sesil Karatancheva from Bulgaria. Golubev and Shvedova beating Igor Andreev and Elena Dementieva within the framework of the team tournament Hopman Cup.
(That was 2-1, Elena defeated Yaroslava in singles, but Golubev beat Andreev in singles & the Kazakhstanis won the mixed doubles.)
Yaroslava will play her second round match on Thursday.
Court 13 Not Before: 12.30hrs Thursday Melbourne = 01:30 GMT = 02:30 CET = 20:30 Wednesday eve EST.2. Women's Singles - 2nd RoundTathiana Garbin (ITA) v. Yaroslava Shvedova (KAZ)3. Men's Singles - 2nd RoundStefan Koubek (AUT) v. Ivan Dodig (CRO)4. Women's Doubles - 1st RoundChia-Jung Chuang (TPE)[12] v. Ipek Senoglu (TUR)Kveta Peschke (CZE)[12] Yaroslava Shvedova (KAZ)
Little chance, I suppose, they'll get a camera out there. Still, the media does kiss up to the Italians sometimes so maybe Garbin will draw them.
Her Hopman partner Golubev & recent Kazakhstani Korolev are still in the mix on the men's side.
Yaroslava has not done so well at the Asia/Oceania Zonal event.
Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan returns a shot to Chan Yung-jan of Taiwan during their tennis match at the Fed Cup Asia/Oceania zone in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010.
No doubt Chinese Taipei was still smarting from the loss at Asian Hopman Cup in Astana. This is Round Robin play so, if Kazakhstan pull out their matches with Uzbekistan tomorrow, I guess they're still in the running. Sesil Karatantcheva, the Bulgar who had some WADA trouble before she took the Kazakhstan Contract, is pulling her weight just fine. Zarina Diyas, Kazakh ingenue, hasn't yet gotten to play.
Chinese Taipei defeated Kazakhstan 2-1 in Malaysia R1 - S.KARATANTCHEVA (KAZ) def. K.CHANG (TPE) 6-4 6-3 R2 - Y.CHAN (TPE) def. Y.SHVEDOVA (KAZ) 6-3 6-4 R3 - C.CHUANG / S.HSIEH (TPE) def. Y.SHVEDOVA / G.VOSKOBOEVA (KAZ) 6-3 2-6 7-6(6)
Kazakhstan defeated Thailand 2-1 in Malaysia R1 - S.KARATANTCHEVA (KAZ) def. S.VIRATPRASERT (THA) 6-4 6-2 R2 - T.TANASUGARN (THA) def. Y.SHVEDOVA (KAZ) 6-3 6-3 R3 - Y.SHVEDOVA / G.VOSKOBOEVA (KAZ) def. T.TANASUGARN / V.WONGTEANCHAI (THA) 6-3 6-4
Yaroslava Shvedova & Sesil Karatantcheva have made the quarterfinals at Pattaya City.
Yaroslava will play either Chan Yung-Jan or Tatjana MalekSesil will play either Vera Dushevina or Katya Bychkova


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Friday, March 16, 2012
Times Educational Supplement "Academic Reputation Survey" measures academic stature in the international community
Tel Aviv University is now recognized as one of the top 90 universities around the world in the second international Academic Reputation Survey by media giant Thomson Reuters and the Times Educational Supplement, creator of the prestigious THE World University Rankings.
The rankings are based upon a detailed survey of 17,554 senior academic experts from more than 149 countries. Rank is determined according to an overall measure of esteem that combines data on the institutions' reputation for research and teaching.
Tel Aviv University is listed among the Top 81 to 90, reflecting the extraordinary trajectory of excellence at the university over its short 56-year existence, and recognizing the world-class quality of its research. The top 100 universities are listed, but only the top 50 are ranked serially, because, THE notes, "the differentials between institutions after the top 50 become very narrow." The second group of 50 institutions are listed in groups of 10, in alphabetical order.
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The ranking carries with it significant weight. In a competitive higher education market, a strong global reputation provides tangible, real-world benefits. It helps institutions attract and retain the best faculty, helps faculty locate the best universities for partnerships, and helps students in their quest to identify those elite universities whose names carry serious weight in the jobs market.
The survey is distributed to tens of thousands of experienced senior academics, using United Nations data to ensure that it is properly distributed to reflect the demographics of world scholarship. In terms of geographical spread, some 44 per cent of respondents in 2011 reside in the Americas, 28 per cent in Europe, 25 per cent in Asia Pacific and the Middle East, and 4 per cent in Africa (these numbers have been rounded).
There is a balanced spread across disciplines — about 20 per cent of respondents hail from the physical sciences, a figure matched by engineering and technology, with 19 per cent from the social sciences, 17 per cent from clinical subjects, 16 per cent from the life sciences and 7 per cent from the arts and humanities. Scholars are questioned at the level of their specific subject discipline.
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TAU is Israel's largest and most comprehensive center of higher learning, providing an education for 30,000 students, and one of Israel's most important research centers, engaged in more than 5,000 innovative projects in classic disciplines and in cutting-edge fields from bioinformatics to nanotechnology.
Prof. Joseph Klafter, a renowned physical chemist, has been president of Tel Aviv University since 2009.
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Common Core State Standards and the School Librarian
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A major focus of one of my School Media Studies classes this semester has been how the implementation of the Common Core State Standards will affect the role of the school librarian. As one of my classmates aptly pointed out, the Common Core State Standards are a way for school librarians to demonstrate their indispensable work in a school and to take on a leadership role in implementing these new standards. In other words, in a time when fewer and fewer school library positions exist, leading the charge when it comes the Common Core State Standards proves to our schools how important and necessary we are.
The Common Core State Standards are a movement to create the same set of standards for schools in every state across the United States. Previously, the standards that were taught in each school were dictated by the state where a student lived, with what students were being taught varying greatly from state to state. Ideally, having country-wide standards ensures that more students are held to high standards and graduate from school "college and career" ready. The Common Core State Standards also update how information literacy is taught in schools.
One of the biggest pushes of the Common Core State Standards is to use more non-fiction in classrooms. Teachers are expected to teach students how to analyze non-fiction books, make connections between different types of non-fiction information and understand how to locate and use non-fiction text features. This, of course, correlates strongly with what the school librarian's role already is- to teach students how to search for information and use resources. Because these standards connect so strongly to what a school librarian already does, school librarians can be a great resource for teachers in recommending non-fiction resources and sharing best practices. With librarians often at the forefront of using new technology, we are also instrumental in helping roll out the technology literacy aspects of the Common Core State Standards. The Common Core State Standards are more inquiry based than many previous standards, meaning learning is more student guided than teacher guided. (Less of what we think of as old school teaching with the teacher standing at the front of the room and lecturing to the class.) This reflects what is usually a librarian's belief in leading a user based approach to information discovery.
Most excitingly, some school librarians have taken on leadership roles by leading in-service or professional development seminars for teachers about information literacy and technology literacy in the Common Core State Standards. Sharing the knowledge that school librarians have about these topics puts a public face to the often anonymous work of what school librarians do and is a concrete example to administrators and teachers about how important we are, all in the framework of increasing rigor and expectations for students. Doing this is a great way to get the word out about what we do and what we've always done and why this is so important. I look forward to seeing all the amazing things school librarians are able to do in the huge task of implementing the new standards.
Here are some links ( found thanks to my professor and classmates) about the Common Core State Standards and school librarians:
Some school librarians have also put together book lists of books that connect with specific Common Core Standards on NoveList, that can be accessed if your graduate program has a subscription.
There are many others too. Please feel free to share!
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I was just reading through the book recommendations here last week. I love nonfiction for my own reading but I want to make sure the nonfiction in my library is reading level appropriate for students.
Thanks !! Supports my thinking – I like support!
This is really exciting to read about! I'd love it if something similar could be implemented in Canada. Anything to educate the world about what we do. :)
Celia, glad you liked the EdWeek piece on the Common Core & school librarians! I work in the library at EdWeek and was pretty excited to see both the article and the fantastic response it's gotten.
If anyone reading is curious about the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), wants some background or to keep up with developments, check out our Common Standards topic page here.
Curriculum Matters, one of EdWeek's mushrooming roster of blogs, also reports quite a bit on CCSS. I've linked to the blog landing page there, but the Standards category is also a good follow–it's mostly, though not exclusively, related to Common Core.
Obviously there are a ton of resources out there, but please feel free to get in touch (@awickner) with any questions! Reference for fellow librarians is my favorite.
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Doggy Dip: Pets to spend Labor Day at the pool
Dick Jeffers (left) and Donna Lewis (center) with their golden retrievers take a dip in Mineral Beach last year. The Finleyville pool as well as Dormont will again host an event where people can take their pets for a swim on Labor Day, Sept. 2.
Dog owners reserve Sept. 2. This Labor Day, dogs can swim at either Mineral Beach in Finleyville or Dormont Pool.
The Western Pennsylvania Humane Society will host its fifth annual Doggy Dip at Dormont Pool.
This end-of-summer event features swim sessions for your dog, games, raffles and more. Each participant will receive an event bag.
Sessions are planned for:
• 4-5 p.m. - small dogs (under 30 lbs.)
• 5:15-6:30 p.m. - all dogs (all sizes welcome)
• 6:45-8 p.m. - large dogs (over 60 lbs)
Advance registration at $20 per dog, per session by Aug. 29 at www.wpahumanesociety.org/specialevents.html, or contact Gretchen at 412-321-4625 ext. 248. After Aug. 29, fee is $25 per dog, per session. Same day registration per dog session starts at 3 p.m. (if not sold out, cash or credit card only).
One dog per human owner (will be enforced with no refunds). Each dog must have a separate registration form filled out. Dogs may be released from leashes upon entering pool deck area, but must remain under owner control at all times. Aggressive dogs will be asked to leave (no refund).
Proceeds will be split 50/50 between the Dormont Pool and the Western PA Humane Society.
Meanwhile, the Washington Area Humane Society hosts its second annual dog swim from 5-8 p.m. at Mineral Beach.
Dogs of all ages, shapes and sizes are invited to swim or sunbathe. Each dog will receive a doggie goodie bag.
Dogs and owners can swim together and dogs can enter a "best swimsuit contest." There will be activities for dogs and owners of all ages.
Fee if preregistered is $10 for the first dog, $5 each additional dog. Preregister at www.washingtonpashelter.org. Admission on event day is $15 for the first dog, $5 each additional dog.
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Mary Terrall has just published Catching Nature in the Act. (The University of Chicago Press, 2014)Natural history in the eighteenth century was many things to many people—diversion, obsession, medically or economically useful knowledge, spectacle, evidence for God's providence and wisdom, or even the foundation of all natural knowledge. Because natural history was pursued by such a variety of people around the globe, with practitioners sharing neither methods nor training, it has been characterized as a science of straightforward description, devoted to amassing observations as the raw material for classification and thus fundamentally distinct from experimental physical science. In Catching Nature in the Act, Mary Terrall revises this picture, revealing how eighteenth-century natural historians incorporated various experimental techniques and strategies into their practice.
Katsuya Hirano has just published The Politics of Dialogic Imagination. (The University of Chicago Press, 2014)In The Politics of Dialogic Imagination, Katsuya Hirano seeks to understand why, with its seemingly unrivaled power, the Tokugawa shogunate of early modern Japan tried so hard to regulate the ostensibly unimportant popular culture of Edo (present-day Tokyo)—including fashion, leisure activities, prints, and theater. He does so by examining the works of writers and artists who depicted and celebrated the culture of play and pleasure associated with Edo's street entertainers, vagrants, actors, and prostitutes, whom Tokugawa authorities condemned to be detrimental to public mores, social order, and political economy.
Hirano uncovers a logic of politics within Edo's cultural works that was extremely potent in exposing contradictions between the formal structure of the Tokugawa world and its rapidly changing realities. He goes on to look at the effects of this logic, examining policies enacted during the next era—the Meiji period—that mark a drastic reconfiguration of power and a new politics toward ordinary people under modernizing Japan. Deftly navigating Japan's history and culture, The Politics of Dialogic Imagination provides a sophisticated account of a country in the process of radical transformation—and of the intensely creative culture that came out of it.
Margaret Jacob has just published The First Knowledge Economy: Human Capital and the European Economy, 1750-1850. (Cambridge University Press, 2014)Ever since the Industrial Revolution, debate has raged about the sources of the new, sustained Western prosperity. Margaret Jacob here argues persuasively for the critical importance of knowledge in Europe's economic transformation during the period from 1750 to 1850, first in Britain and then in selected parts of Northern and Western Europe. This is a new history of economic development in which minds, books, lectures, and education become central. She shows how, armed with knowledge and know-how and inspired by the desire to get rich, entrepreneurs emerged within an industrial culture wedded to scientific knowledge and technology. She charts how, across a series of industries and nations, innovative engineers and entrepreneurs sought to make sense and a profit out of the world around them. Skilled hands matched minds steeped in the knowledge systems new to the eighteenth century to transform the economic destiny of Western Europe.
Edward Alpers has just published The Indian Ocean in World History. (Oxford University Press, 2013)
The Indian Ocean remains the least studied of the world's geographic regions. Yet there have been major cultural exchanges across its waters and around its shores from the third millennium B.C.E. to the present day. Historian Edward A. Alpers explores the complex issues involved in cultural exchange in the Indian Ocean Rim region over the course of this long period of time by combining a historical approach with the insights of anthropology, art history, ethnomusicology, and geography.
The Indian Ocean witnessed several significant diasporas during the past two millennia, including migrations of traders, indentured laborers, civil servants, sailors, and slaves throughout the entire basin. Persians and Arabs from the Gulf came to eastern Africa and Madagascar as traders and settlers, while Hadramis dispersed from south Yemen as traders and Muslim teachers to the Comoro Islands, Zanzibar, South India, and Indonesia. Southeast Asians migrated to Madagascar, and Chinese dispersed from Southeast Asia to the Mascarene Islands to South Africa.
Alpers also explores the cultural exchanges that diasporas cause, telling stories of identity and cultural transformation through language, popular religion, music, dance, art and architecture, and social organization. For example, architectural and decorative styles in eastern Africa, the Red Sea, the Hadramaut, the Persian Gulf, and western India reflect cultural interchanges in multiple directions. Similarly, the popular musical form of taarab in Zanzibar and coastal East Africa incorporates elements of Arab, Indian, and African musical traditions, while the characteristic frame drum (ravanne) of séga, the widespread Afro-Creole dance of the Mascarene and Seychelles Islands, probably owes its ultimate origins to Arabia by way of Mozambique.
The Indian Ocean in World History also discusses issues of trade and production that show the long history of exchange throughout the Indian Ocean world; politics and empire-building by both regional and European powers; and the role of religion and religious conversion, focusing mainly on Islam, but also mentioning Hinduism, Buddhism and Christianity. Using a broad geographic perspective, the book includes references to connections between the Indian Ocean world and the Americas. Moving into the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Alpers looks at issues including the new configuration of colonial territorial boundaries after World War I, and the search for oil reserves.
Joyce Appleby has just published Shores of Knowledge. (W. W. Norton & Company, 2013)
An engrossing history of the voyages of exploration that ignited curiosity about nature and gave birth to modern science.
When Columbus first returned to Spain from the Caribbean, he dazzled King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella with exotic parrots, tropical flowers, and bits of gold. Inspired by the promise of riches, countless seafarers poured out of the Iberian Peninsula and wider Europe in search of spices, treasure, and land. Many returned with strange tales of the New World.
Curiosity began to percolate through Europe as the New World's people, animals, and plants ruptured prior assumptions about the biblical description of creation. The Church, long fearful of challenges to its authority, could no longer suppress the mantra "Dare to know!"
Noblemen began collecting cabinets of curiosities; soon others went from collecting to examining natural objects with fresh eyes. Observation led to experiments; competing conclusions triggered debates. The foundations for the natural sciences were laid as questions became more multifaceted and answers became more complex. Carl Linneaus developed a classification system and sent students around the globe looking for specimens. Museums, botanical gardens, and philosophical societies turned their attention to nature. National governments undertook explorations of the Pacific.
Historian Joyce Appleby vividly recounts the explorers' triumphs and mishaps, including Magellan's violent death in the Philippines; the miserable trek of the "new Argonauts" across the Andes on their mission to determine the true shape of the earth; and how two brilliant scientists, Alexander Humboldt and Charles Darwin, traveled to the Americas for evidence to confirm their hypotheses about the earth and its inhabitants. Drawing on detailed eyewitness accounts, Appleby also tells of the turmoil created in the all societies touched by the explorations.
This sweeping, global story imbues the Age of Discovery with fresh meaning, elegantly charting its stimulation of the natural sciences, which ultimately propelled Western Europe toward modernity.
J. Arch Getty has just published Practicing Stalinism: Bolsheviks, Boyars, and the Persistence of Tradition. (Yale University Press, 2013)
In old Russia, patron/client relations, "clan" politics, and a variety of other informal practices spanned the centuries. Government was understood to be patrimonial and personal rather than legal, and office holding was far less important than proximity to patrons. Working from heretofore unused documents from the Communist archives, J. Arch Getty shows how these political practices and traditions from old Russia have persisted throughout the twentieth-century Soviet Union and down to the present day.
Getty examines a number of case studies of political practices in the Stalin era and after. These include cults of personality, the transformation of Old Bolsheviks into noble grandees, the Communist Party's personnel selection system, and the rise of political clans ("family circles") after the 1917 Revolutions. Stalin's conflicts with these clans, and his eventual destruction of them, were key elements of the Great Purges of the 1930s. But although Stalin could destroy the competing clans, he could not destroy the historically embedded patron-client relationship, as a final chapter on political practice under Putin shows.
Vinay Lal has just published The Oxford Anthology of the Modern Indian City: Making and Unmaking the City; Politics, Culture, and Life Forms (Oxford University Press, 2013)
The city of modern India is a web of identities, interests, and institutions. Perhaps the city everywhere gives the impression of being unfinished, as people come and go, talking of this and that, but in India the sense of a place on the make is overwhelming. Our colonial cities—Bombay, Calcutta, and Madras—helped redefine our very understanding of Indian culture; the villagers trooping into the city have further reshaped it in their image.
For all the beauty a city may hold, its character flows more from its street life and the intricate patterning of social networks. Some people claim the city as their own, and live as if they own it; some disown the city, and yet others are disowned by it. Violence appears to be present at every corner, and yet the city is the nexus of art, culture, and conviviality. The city is always full of surprises, having multiple selves, varying by day and by night. Together with its companion volume, The City in its Plenitude, this anthology— a collection of writings from across the genres of poetry, short stories, essays, and social commentaries drawn from English as well as the rich literature in Indian languages—is a tribute to the modern Indian city.
Vinay Lal has just published The Oxford Anthology of the Modern Indian City: The City in its Plenitude (Oxford University Press, 2013)
Banaras, Bangalore, Bombay, Calcutta, Delhi, Lucknow . . . cities all, sharing certain characteristics, and yet so unlike each other. Cities are like the people they hold—loved and unloved, likely to attract some and repel others. Each has a character of its own: some are laidback, others more vibrant; a few have witnessed and endured a lot, others appear to have had a relatively mundane existence.
The city has a long history in India—from the urban civilization of the Indus Valley in 2500 bce to the megalopolis found in contemporary India. Taking the reader through an alluring maze of streets, lanes, memories, and much more, the writings in this volume allow her to gaze at the mosaic and imaginary of the city, look back at the city in colonial India, and reflect on the city and its streets as a work of architecture. Together with its companion volume, Making and Unmaking the City: Politics, Culture, and Life Forms, this collection pays tribute to the modern Indian city.
Brenda Stevenson has just published The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins (Oxford University Press, 2013)
Helicopters thwopped low over the city, filming blocks of burning cars and buildings, mobs breaking into storefronts, and the vicious beating of truck driver Reginald Denny. For a week in April 1992, Los Angeles transformed into a cityscape of rage, purportedly due to the exoneration of four policemen who had beaten Rodney King. It should be no surprise that such intense anger erupted from something deeper than a single incident.
In The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins, Brenda Stevenson tells the dramatic story of an earlier trial, a turning point on the road to the 1992 riot. On March 16, 1991, fifteen-year-old Latasha Harlins, an African American who lived locally, entered the Empire Liquor Market at 9172 South Figueroa Street in South Central Los Angeles. Behind the counter was a Korean woman named Soon Ja Du. Latasha walked to the refrigerator cases in the back, took a bottle of orange juice, put it in her backpack, and approached the cash register with two dollar bills in her hand-the price of the juice. Moments later she was face-down on the floor with a bullet hole in the back of her head, shot dead by Du. Joyce Karlin, a Jewish Superior Court judge appointed by Republican Governor Pete Wilson, presided over the resulting manslaughter trial. A jury convicted Du, but Karlin sentenced her only to probation, community service, and a $500 fine. The author meticulously reconstructs these events and their aftermath, showing how they set the stage for the explosion in 1992.
An accomplished historian at UCLA, Stevenson explores the lives of each of these three women-Harlins, Du, and Karlin-and their very different worlds in rich detail. Through the three women, she not only reveals the human reality and social repercussions of this triangular collision, she also provides a deep history of immigration, ethnicity, and gender in modern America. Massively researched, deftly written, The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins will reshape our understanding of race, ethnicity, gender, and-above all-justice in modern America.
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Professor Saul Friedlander's stimulating book investigates some of the sources of Franz Kafka's personal anguish and its complex reflections in his imaginary world. In his query, Saul Friedländer probes major aspects of Kafka's life (family, Judaism, love and sex, writing, illness, and despair) that until now have been skewed by posthumous censorship. Contrary to Kafka's dying request that all his papers be burned, Max Brod, Kafka's closest friend and literary executor, edited and published the author's novels and other works soon after his death in 1924. Friedländer shows that, when reinserted in Kafka's letters and diaries, deleted segments lift the mask of "sainthood" frequently attached to the writer and thus restore previously hidden aspects of his individuality.
Published by Yale University press: http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300136616
Sanjay Subrahmanyam has just published Is Indian Civilization a Myth: Fictions and Histories? (Ranikhet: Permanent Black, 2013).
In the title essay of this enthralling collection, Sanjay Subrahmanyam sets a provocative ball rolling: At the heart of the matter , he says, is the notion that at some distant point in the past, say about AD 500, the concept of Indian civilization had already been perfected. Everything of any importance was in place: social structure, philosophy, the major literary works ... The central idea here is of India-as-civilization, and it very soon becomes the same as a notion of closed India. Demolishing some of the myths which sustain the notion of the wonder that was India , he shows us a region that was always more a crossroads, a rendezvous for concepts, cultures, and worldviews. Subrahmanyam s book is itself a meeting point for a dazzling variety of ideas. It provides the cosmopolitan perspective of a multilingual world scholar who, having begun life in New Delhi, has gone on to live in several thought-provoking cities, including Paris, Lisbon, and Oxford. He is witty, debunking, iconoclastic, and polemically entertaining in all that he anatomizes here Indian history and fiction, South Asian cultural forms, imperialism and imperialists, secularism and Hindu nationalism, travel writing, and the central conceits in Hemingway, Rushdie, Naipaul, and Marquez.
William Marotti has just published Money, Trains, and Guillotines: Art and Revolution in 1960s Japan (Duke University Press, 2013)
During the 1960s a group of young artists in Japan challenged official forms of politics and daily life through interventionist art practices. William Marotti situates this phenomenon in the historical and political contexts of Japan after the Second World War and the international activism of the 1960s. The Japanese government renewed its Cold War partnership with the United States in 1960, defeating protests against a new security treaty through parliamentary action and the use of riot police. Afterward, the government promoted a depoliticized everyday world of high growth and consumption, creating a sanitized national image to present in the Tokyo Olympics of 1964. Artists were first to challenge this new political mythology. Marotti examines their political art, and the state's aggressive response to it. He reveals the challenge mounted in projects such as Akasegawa Genpei's 1,000-yen prints, a group performance on the busy Yamanote train line, and a plan for a giant guillotine in the Imperial Plaza. Focusing on the annual Yomiuri Indépendant exhibition, he demonstrates how artists came together in a playful but powerful critical art, triggering judicial and police response. Money, Trains, and Guillotines expands our understanding of the role of art in the international 1960s, and of the dynamics of art and policing in Japan.
Ivan Berend has just published An Economic History of Nineteenth-Century Europe (Cambridge, 2013)
Why did some countries and regions of Europe reach high levels of economic advancement in the nineteenth century, while others were left behind? This new transnational survey of the continent's economic development highlights the role of regional differences in shaping each country's economic path and outcome. Presenting a clear and cogent explanation of the historical causes of advancement and backwardness, Ivan Berend integrates social, political, institutional and cultural factors as well as engaging in debates about the relative roles of knowledge, the state and institutions. Featuring boxed essays on key personalities including Adam Smith, Friedrich List, Gustave Eiffel and the Krupp family, as well as brief histories of innovations such as the steam engine, vaccinations and the co-operative system, the book helps to explain the theories and macro-economic trends that dominated the century and their impact on the subsequent development of the European economy right up to the present day.
Andrea S. Goldman has just published Opera and the City: The Politics of Culture in Beijing, 1770-1900 (Stanford University Press, 2012).
Opera and the City: The Politics of Culture in Beijing, 1770-1900 uses opera as a lens through which to examine urban cultural history. The study offers a new approach to Chinese opera history; it contributes to our understanding of Qing urban culture; and it employs gender as a critical category of analysis in examining state-society relations under Qing rule. Commercial opera in the Qing capital from circa 1770 to 1900 was poised at the intersection of state power and commercial interests; it refracted literati discontent and ethnic tensions; it blurred the lines between public and private life; and it offered a stage (literally and figuratively) upon which to act out gender and class transgressions. The urban opera theater thus reveals itself as vitally important to understanding state-society relations and the mechanisms by which ideas and values were shaped, shared, disseminated, and contested. Through an examination of the context and content of opera in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Beijing, Opera and the City illuminates relationships between culture and power in the Qing dynasty capital, offering insight into how the state and various urban constituencies (officials, scholars, merchants, and petty urbanites) partook of opera and the stories played out on stage and manipulated them to their own ends. The opera theater was a key site of public discourse in the Qing metropolis; and in fulfilling that role, Goldman argues, it was also a site of competition, conflict, and controversy.
Sanjay Subrahmanyam has published a new book, Courtly Encounters: Translating Courtliness and Violence in Early Modern Eurasia (Harvard University Press, 2012).
Cross-cultural encounters in Europe and Asia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries brought the potential for bafflement, hostility, and admiration. The court was the crucial site where expanding Eurasian states and empires met and were forced to make sense of one another. By looking at these interactions, Courtly Encounters provides a fresh cross-cultural perspective on the worlds of early modern Islam, Counter-Reformation Catholicism, Protestantism, and a newly emergent Hindu sphere.
Both individual agents and objects such as texts and paintings helped mediate encounters between courts, which possessed rules and conventions that required decipherment and translation, whether in words or in pictures. Sanjay Subrahmanyam gives special attention to the depiction of South Asian empires in European visual representations, finding a complex history of cultural exchange: the Mughal paintings that influenced Rembrandt and other seventeenth-century Dutch painters had themselves been earlier influenced by Dutch naturalism. Courtly Encounters provides a rich array of images from Europe, the Islamic world, India, and Southeast Asia as aids for understanding the reciprocal nature of cross-cultural exchanges. It also looks closely at how insults and strategic use of martyrdom figured in courtly encounters.
As he sifts through the historical record, Subrahmanyam finds little evidence for the cultural incommensurability many ethnohistorians have insisted on. Most often, he discovers negotiated ways of understanding one another that led to mutual improvisation, borrowing, and eventually change.
Robin Kelley has published a new book, Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times (Harvard University Press, 2012).
During the 1950s and early 1960s, the global map changed dramatically. The old European empires were crumbling and former colonies were becoming new nations. To much of the world, independent Africa held promise for a new future, a democratic, spiritual and decidedly post-Western modernity. An expression of this new modernity was music, notably jazz. Africa Speaks, America Answers examines how African independence shaped jazz and African American identities, how jazz influenced modern African identities, and how various musical convergences and crossings affected the political and cultural landscape on both continents. The story is told through the lives and works of four artists: Ghanaian-born drummer Guy Warren, pianist Randy Weston, bassist/oudist Ahmed Abdul-Malik (both U.S. born), and South African vocalist Sathima Bea Benjamin. Each artist was profoundly shaped by these "revolutionary times"—the moment inspired Weston's powerful musical tributes to the New African nations, Ahmed Abdul-Malik's dream to make sacred Arab music swing, Guy Warren's efforts to meld the hippest African rhythms with modern jazz, and Sathima Bea Benjamin's struggle to give beauty voice amid the ugliness of apartheid and the struggle for human dignity.
Professor Kelley talks about his book in this UCLA Newsroom article.
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Nile Green has published a new book, Making Space: Sufis and Settlers in Early Modern India (Oxford, 2012).
This volume provides a comprehensive view of the social transformation in early modern India between 1500 and 1750 by studying various Sufi movements. It covers a wide range of topics from Sufism and polity in the Afghan frontier to north Indian context and further to Deccan and the southernmost points of influence of the Mughals. Weaving together investigations of architecture with texts, migration of people, and the ethnographies and local histories, the author investigates community formation and inter-community contact. He reveals the tensions between mobility and locality through the ways Sufi Islam responded to demands of settlement by preserving the migrant bodies of blessed men and the shrines, texts and rituals that surrounded them. The book explores how Afghan, Mughal and Hindustani Muslims constructed new homelands while remembering distant places of origin. Central to this process were migrant Sufis and the hagiographical texts and architectural territories through which they preserved memory over time and anchored it to new spaces of settlement. The book offers bold new insights into Indian, Islamic and comparative early modern history.
This book will be an important reading for scholars, researchers, and students of early modern Indian history, Islamic studies, and religion particularly those interested in Sufism.
Nile Green has published a new book, Sufism: A Global History (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012).
Since their beginnings in the ninth century, the shrines, brotherhoods and doctrines of the Sufis held vast influence in almost every corner of the Muslim world. Offering the first truly global account of the history of Sufism, this illuminating book traces the gradual spread and influence of Sufi Islam through the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and ultimately into Europe and the United States.


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Monday, 24 June 2013
The temporary classroom at Rownham's St John's Church of England School in Rownhams, is to be replaced with two new classrooms in permanent accommodation for the Summer term next year (2014).
At Hampshire County Council's Children's Services Decision Day, Councillor Peter Edgar, Executive Member for Education agreed the £496,000 investment in the school's extension.
Commenting on the decision, Councillor Edgar said: "From the information I have considered, and a visit I have made personally to the school, I am satisfied that the existing temporary classroom situation at the school is unsatisfactory and not sustainable. Accommodating the pupils in permanent classrooms will provide a brighter and much more comfortable environment for them to be taught in, helping them to get the most out of their education.
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With the score 24-17, Jordan Ray hit a lofty spike that landed out of bounds. Several Addison players, clinging to their last hopes of being state champions, celebrated, but it took several seconds for everyone to notice the line judge called the ball a tip.
Half a second later, the realization hit the Lady Falcons and the celebration began.
"I just saw Corey (Phillis) hit the ground and I knew it was over," Ray said. "I just jumped on top of her."
Donoho's Thursday-morning win over Addison, 19-25, 27-25, 25-22, 25-21, was a repeat of last year's title match. However, finishing the season the same way this year was just as special.
"Oh my gosh, what a great win for us," said Donoho coach Janice Slay. "Anytime you play Addison you are playing quality, quality volleyball. We are very blessed and fortunate to be in this situation to begin with and I just cannot say enough about the determination of our team."
Donoho's run to the repeat didn't start off as such. Addison controlled most of the first set, leading by as many as six. Only leading once for one point, Donoho's jitters got the best of them.
"We beat ourselves with silly mistakes," Slay said. "Just being in this arena is enough. I think Addison knew what they wanted to do and we were a little bit hesitant. But I think we realized we could play with them, and when things started turning in the second game, right off the bat I think we got more confident in what we were doing."
Turning things around quickly and jumping out to an early 6-0 lead in the second set, the Lady Falcons showed they meant business. But as Donoho was still being plagued with errors and miscommunication, Addison got back in the game and eventually tied it at 22 before Donoho was able to win.
Between the second and third sets is when Slay said the tide turned in Donoho's favor.
"The second and third games were so crucial. Probably the third game was the most important because up until that point we were playing them point-to-point, and I'm not sure we really thought we could push through in that third game," she said. "We had just a little bit of a confidence-builder right there and I saw a little bit more relaxed play."
Down early in the third, Donoho slowly fought back, not taking the lead until the score was 22-21. However, the Lady Falcons had confidence and were able to close out the set, 25-22.
In the fourth set, with Addison's back against the wall, Phillis came through for Donoho. With points going back and forth, the junior began serving while trailing 21-17.
"It just so happens every game we play I have to serve last," Phillis joked. "It just always comes down to me, so I just knew I had to get my serve in."
Eight consecutive serves later, Ray hit one of her four kills, which happened to be the winner.
Phillis, who was named the tournament MVP, finished the match with 22 kills, four blocks and 10 digs. Peyton van Ekris added 15 kills, eight blocks, an ace and 21 digs. Adele Fink recorded 11 kills, two blocks and 24 digs. Rylee Segrest had 22 asssists, 16 digs and 12 kills, and Anna Turner had 16 assists and 14 digs.
"The thing our girls do before every match is they get in a circle, they put their hands together and they say the word 'focus,'" Slay said. "That's what we saw on the floor today was extreme focus. They knew what they wanted to do, they worked really hard to do it and the focus was all about staying together and being unified in our purpose. That's what we've been doing all year long."
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A Healthy Person's Guide to VitaminsA Healthy Person's Guide to VitaminsEven in healthy people, multivitamins and other supplements may help prevent vitamin and mineral deficienciesIdeally, daily nutritional needs should be met through healthy eating-but the typical diet does not always supply all the vitamins and minerals a body needs. So even in healthy people, multivitamins and other supplements may help prevent vitamin and mineral deficiencies and they can also provide more nutrients than diet alone, which may help to protect against or manage certain diseases. The following list gives the daily optimum amounts of nutrients that might benefit healthy people.
Folic acid (400 mcg)
- The FDA-required fortification of grain products may have reduced deficiency in the general US population, but some authorities believe it is not enough to optimally prevent diseases such as heart disease and neural tube defects.
- The body's need for folic acid doubles during pregnancy. Supplementation prior to, and shortly after, conception is adequate and effective.
Iodine (150 mcg)
- A common deficiency in developing countries, iodine is more abundant in Western diets. Most people get enough unless they avoid iodized salt, seafood, and sea vegetables.
- People with thyroid diseases should check with their doctor before using iodine supplements.
Vitamin A (5,000 IU; as natural beta-carotene for nonsmokers)
- The synthetic beta-carotene in most multivitamins clearly does not prevent cancer and may increase the risk of lung cancer in smokers. In contrast, however, natural beta-carotene and several other carotenoids may help prevent certain diseases, including some cancers, although its safety for smokers has not been demonstrated.
- Due to concerns about birth defects and bone loss, people should not take over 10,000 IU of supplemental vitamin A in the form of retinol without consulting a doctor.
B Vitamins
- The typical Western diet may provide thiamine (B1; 1.5 mg), riboflavin (B2; 1.7 mg), and niacin (B3; 20 mg) in adequate amounts as they are added to white flour products and other foods that have been depleted of those vitamins.
- Biotin (300 mcg): This vitamin is produced by intestinal bacteria in amounts that, along with the typical diet, provide enough to prevent deficiency in healthy people.
- Pyridoxine(B6; 10 mg): Some deficiency may exist in as many of 25% of people living in Western societies, and may be most common in the elderly.
- Pantothenic acid (B5; 10 mg): This vitamin appears to be in short supply in the typical diet though its role in disease prevention is unknown.
- Vitamin B12 (5-100 mcg): Vitamin B12-deficiency is more common among the elderly than in healthy young people, except for vegans (vegetarians who avoid dairy and eggs) and in people who take acid-blocking drugs or antacids for long periods of time.
- Some people claim to experience improved mood, energy, and/or overall well-being when taking higher-than-RDA amounts of vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin B3, and pantothenic acid, though this has not been demonstrated in research.
- Folic acid, B12, and pyridoxine help control homocysteine levels in the blood. Elevated homocysteine levels are associated with several diseases. Studies have shown that supplementing with one or more of these vitamins helps prevent or reverse hardening of the arteries (atherosclerosis) and may reduce bone fractures risk.
Vitamin C (100-200 mg)
- Severe deficiency is uncommon in people who consume Western diets, but mild insufficiency is found in 6% of healthy adults and larger numbers of college students and smokers. Some authorities have suggested that optimal intake for disease prevention may be at least 90 to 100 mg per day.
- Supplementation with over 200 mg per day of vitamin C by healthy people does not result in higher vitamin C concentrations in the body, and may be no more helpful for preventing disease than smaller amounts.
Vitamin D (400-800 IU)
- Vitamin D obtained from the diet and from sunlight exposure can be insufficient, especially in older people and vegans during the winter months. Vitamin D insufficiency is associated with bone loss and fractures in older people and other studies have shown supplementing may reduced bone loss and the risk of falls in older people
- Though toxic in very high amounts, up to 2,000 IU per day is considered safe.
Vitamin E (30-400 IU)
- Once widely thought to lower risk of heart disease, other trials have negated those findings and even found a small increase in the likelihood of all-cause mortality or heart failure. Therefore, some doctors advise people not to take large amounts of vitamin E (400 IU per day or more). On the other hand, circumstantial evidence suggests that "mixed tocopherols," as opposed to the more widely used alpha-tocopherol form, may be safer and more beneficial for heart-disease prevention.
- A reduced risk of prostate cancer in smokers was reported in a double-blind trial with 50 IU per day of vitamin E. However, similar studies have not found vitamin E supplements to protect against other cancers.
Vitamin K (80 mcg)
- Deficiency severe enough to cause bleeding problems is rare in healthy people. However, low vitamin K in the blood and in the diet has been associated with osteoporosis.
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