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A man was forced out of his car and ordered to lie down on the road while three suspects rummaged through his vehicle, stealing anything they could find.
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According to police, the robbery took place at 1:33 a.m. Thursday on the 2600 block of East Dale, located in the area of Circle and Platte in Colorado Springs. The victim was parked when two suspects, surrounding him on either side of the vehicle, pulled open the driver and passenger doors. The suspect on the driver's side ordered the victim out at gunpoint and forced him on the ground.
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LOCKPORT, NY - A defendant on trial for child sexual abuse charges left the Niagara County courthouse Wednesday afternoon and has not been seen since.
Paul Turley, 47 of Dunkirk, is accused of molesting two girls in a North Tonawanda case that dates back nearly to the 1990s.
The trial continues to proceed without him. The $50,000 bail posted on his behalf has been revoked.
While there are many questions surrounding this case, the judge has placed a gag order on it.
"The defense attorney is at an extreme disadvantage," said Andrew LoTempio, a former Buffalo judge and a current defense attorney. He says child abuse cases are traditionally tough to defend against and that the disappearance has created another problem. He adds that the prosecution's case will rely heavily on credible witnesses, if it doesn't have overwhelming evidence.
"It's going to boil down whether they believe these victims who may not be that young anymore, if they believe them, then it is a slam dunk," he said.
Thursday in court, jurors heard how relatives of the two accusers rallied behind them in Nov. 2011. Testimony showed that the alleged victims were preparing to come forward about what they say happened to them when they were girls. Loved ones say a family meeting was setup and both women revealed their stories to police.
The case is still being tried under what's known as Parker Warnings, which is an agreement that says trial will still continue even if the defendant is not there.
Defendants are asked to sign that agreement and Turley did.
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Testimony is expected to resume Friday morning with or without Turley.
Authorities are looking for him. If convicted, he could get nearly 40 years in prison.
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Looking Back on the Cheney Presidency
It was five days ago today that the Dick Cheney presidency ended, yet the event still remains firmly embedded in our collective memory. There are few among us who will ever forget where we were during those amazing two hours and fifteen minutes of Cheney's reign in the White House--and as we head into this historic fourth of July weekend, the time seems ripe for us all to look back and try to make some sense of those distant but compelling events of June 29, 2002.
Who among us will ever forget the stirring sensations of 7:08 a.m., when Cheney, as he glared out the Oval Office window in the direction of the Bethesda Naval Medical Center, shifted in his seat, snorted, and tugged at an irritating fold in the inseam of his trousers, as he awaited news of the administration of anesthesia to George Bush?
Or what about the electrifying drama of 7:16 a.m., when, after inexplicably sitting mute and with his mouth open for the first seven minutes of his presidency, Cheney suddenly lunged and pulled open the top drawer of Bush's desk, to see what was inside?
Most historians today agree that future generations will likely look beyond what is now considered the key event of the Cheney presidency -- the notorious "enormous dump" of minutes 47-62-- and find a deeper meaning to his rule. Many observers, like Michael McFaul of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, believe that Americans will eventually remember the Cheney era as a time of relative prosperity and optimism, particularly since it came at time when most of us were still asleep and, as it was still early in the morning, largely free of any immediate pressure to feign sexual interest in our wives.
The world was at peace during the Cheney era. Across the earth, men treated each other with kindness and decency as never before. In a restaurant in Kuala Lumpur, a German businessman asks for a check--and gets it. Sao Paolo, Brazil, 7:36 EST: a man catches a fish. Mexico City, the same time: two hookers brush their teeth. Ten minutes later, in Kyoto and Archangelsk, respectively: a bicycle goes unstolen and an icicle falls thirteen stories, striking only a cat.
Harmony was the order of the day in the Cheney era. Motorists everywhere stopped at intersections and then moved on again, seeing that the light had turned green. At Wimbledon, part of one-half of the fourth round of the men's draw played to near-completion. In France, a nation faced an afternoon. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness. We were all a little bit younger, and a little more gay. It was a time when the president of the United States could stare at a notepad for twenty minutes, convinced that he had spelled the word "containment" wrong; it was a time when a slug could crawl almost six feet.
We knew who we were during the Cheney era. When we woke up that morning, our wallet was still in our pants. There were still three beers left in the fridge--two Genesees and a Molson. It was still too early in our lives to sort out what had happened the night before, and how this fat girl with a mole had come to be sleeping in our bed, and wearing our Motley Crue T-shirt. It was time when there was still a chance to get her the hell out of there before our friends found out, a time when you could still hope to promise her breakfast at Le Metro, and instead push her out of the car in the parking lot at Jim's Steak-Out. The reality of 10:37 a.m. and 12:42 p.m., when she was still there and still flipping through your photo albums, had yet to set in. And the nightmare of Tuesday, July 2, when you yourself called her up late at night and asked her to come over, using the back entrance, was as yet a distant and seemingly unreal possibility.
Today, we now know that this golden age came cruelly to an end when endoscopist James Butler clicked off his head-lamp and pulled his scope out of the colon of George W. Bush. Twenty minutes after the procedure ended, our elected president awoke, and the Cheney era galloped off on its august steed, vanishing into the muddy prairie of history. How will we remember this time? What profound emotions will those memories set astir? We at the BEAST only wish we knew, and like the rest of you, we can only wait--and let time cast its vote.


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Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012
AUGUSTA, Ga. -- News 12 has just learned that a 22-year-old Fort Gordon soldier was killed in Afghanistan over the weekend.
PFC Josh Nelson died on Saturday, according to his father.
Nelson's father told WITN in North Carolina that he was notified on Sunday about his son's death. His father says this was his first deployment.
Nelson went to high school in Bethel, North Carolina.
He leaves behind his wife, 23-year-old Quamisha Nelson.
Fort Gordon released this information on Nelson:
"The Defense Department announced today that Specialist Joshua N. Nelson, 22, of Greenville, N.C., died Sept. 16th, in Zabul Province, Afghanistan. He was assigned to D Company, 297th Military Intelligence Battalion, 513th Military Intelligence Brigade, at Fort Gordon, Ga.
According to unit records, Nelson entered the Army in March 2011 and reported to Fort Jackson, S.C. for Army Basic Training. He received his Advance Individual Training, in MOS 35N (Signals Intelligence analyst) at Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas. He arrived at Fort Gordon in December 2011 and was assigned to the D Company, 202nd Military Intelligence Battalion, then later to D Company, 297th Military Intelligence Battalion. He deployed to Afghanistan in May. This was his first deployment.
His awards and decorations include the National Defense Service Medal, the Overseas Service Ribbon, the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, the NATO Medal and the Army Service Ribbon.
On behalf of the entire Fort Gordon military and civilian community, we extend our deepest sympathy to the family and friends of Specialist Nelson."
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Sexual violence, including rape, is preventable. Recognizing this, Congress passed the Violence Against Women Act in 1994. This landmark legislation established the Rape Prevention and Education (RPE) program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The goal of the RPE program is to strengthen sexual violence prevention efforts. It operates in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and six U.S. territories.
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The corporation is authorized to make arrangements with contributing sponsors and members of their controlled groups who are or may become liable under section 1362, 1363, or 1364 of this title for payment of their liability, including arrangements for deferred payment of amounts of liability to the corporation accruing as of the termination date on such terms and for such periods as the corporation deems equitable and appropriate.
Source(Pub. L. 93–406, title IV, § 4067,Sept. 2, 1974, 88 Stat. 1032; Pub. L. 99–272, title XI, § 11016(a)(6)(A),Apr. 7, 1986, 100 Stat. 271; Pub. L. 100–203, title IX, § 9313(b)(6),Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1330–366; Pub. L. 101–239, title VII, § 7893(g)(3),Dec. 19, 1989, 103 Stat. 2448.)
1989—Pub. L. 101–239amended directory language of Pub. L. 99–272, § 11016(a)(6)(A)(ii), see 1986 Amendment note below.
1987—Pub. L. 100–203inserted "or may become" after "who are".
1986—Pub. L. 99–272, § 11016(a)(6)(A)(i), (iii), substituted "of liability" for "of employer liability" in section catchline and inserted "of amounts of liability to the corporation accruing as of the termination date" in text.
Pub. L. 99–272, § 11016(a)(6)(A)(ii), as amended by Pub. L. 101–239, substituted "contributing sponsors and members of their controlled groups" for "employers".
Effective Date of 1989 Amendment
Amendment by Pub. L. 101–239effective as if included in the provision of the Single-Employer Pension Plan Amendments Act of 1986, Pub. L. 99–272, title XI, to which such amendment relates, see section 7893(h) ofPub. L. 101–239, set out as a note under section 1002 of this title.
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Effective Date of 1986 Amendment
Amendment by Pub. L. 99–272effective Jan. 1, 1986, with certain exceptions, see section 11019 ofPub. L. 99–272, set out as a note under section 1341 of this title.
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===Digital Publishing and the Web===
===Digital Publishing and the Web===

* Considering a series of workshops: ebooks, publishing workflow.
* Considering a series of workshops: ebooks, publishing workflow .
* Ivan Herman to organize. See if Markus Gyilling available.
* Ivan Herman to organize. See if Markus Gyilling available.
Revision as of 19:36, 8 October 2012
We encourage attendees to start brainstorming TPAC2012 session ideas in advance of the meeting. See the TPAC 2012 FAQ for more information.
- 1 Sessions You Volunteer to Do
- 1.1 Web and Broadcasting in The Time of Disaster: Lessons, Studies, and Future Actions
- 1.2 Authentication and Identity on the Web Using Unphishable Credentials
- 1.3 WebID and RWWeb
- 1.4 Test the Web Forward Recap & Future Planning
- 1.5 Linked Data: Helping Public Sector to Publish High Quality Data
- 1.6 Web Intents and Web Intents for local services
- 1.7 Client & Server JS APIs
- 1.8 Community Groups
- 1.9 Distributing Data now at dir.w3.org
- 1.10 WebPlatform.org
- 1.11 Making the multilingual web work
- 1.12 Building the Social Web: Best and Worst Practices
- 1.13 Digital marketing and the Web
- 1.14 Digital Publishing and the Web
- 1.15 Performance
- 2 Sessions You Volunteer to Do: "Chair Track"
- 3 Sessions You Volunteer to Do: "Editor Track"
- 4 Sessions You Want Someone Else to Organize
- 5 W3C staff notes on some suggestions
Sessions You Volunteer to Do
Please provide:
- session name (as a === subhead === )
- session proposer (optional: name a desired session leader, can be yourself)
- one sentence session summary
- 1+ paragraph session description
- type of session: (e.g.: talk, panel, open discussion, etc.)
- additional speakers/panelists
And feel free to simply add them here at the top.
Web and Broadcasting in The Time of Disaster: Lessons, Studies, and Future Actions
Proposer: Yosuke Funahashi
One topic that is gaining more and more attention from concerned stakeholders around the world involves lessons learned by media organizations during and after the Great East Japan Earthquake. To help clarify what needs to be done in the future, the media-related events below were held in Japan and organized by such stakeholders as IPTVF-J, W3C, the United Nations, the World Bank, Google and Twitter.
- Disaster Information and Media session in Symposium on Web and TV 2012 (IPTVF-J, W3C) [report]
- Big Tent Sendai: The Role of Technology in Disaster Preparedness and Relief (Google, the United Nations) [site]
- Sendai Dialogue (the World Bank) [site]
- Big Data Workshop on the Great East Japan Earthquake (Google, Twitter) [site]
I would like to present an executive summary of these events to give you an overview of the hot topics and follow that with a discussion on what the Web or web standards can do in this area.
- Executive Summary:
- Hot Topics on Disaster Information and Media Technologies (Web, Broadcasting, ...)
- Discussion:
- Potential topics are:
- What were the unexpected use cases?
- How the Web and broadcasting worked well together and how they can work more synergistically in the future.
- What kind of existing and new web standards will help?
- Can Semantic Web / Linked Open Data help?
- Potential topics are:
Authentication and Identity on the Web Using Unphishable Credentials
Proposer: Harry Halpin
- Discuss how Crypto API could be used http://www.w3.org/TR/WebCryptoAPI/
- Discuss related work in other bodies such as OpenID Foundation, Mozilla Personae, IETF future HTTPAuth WG, JOSE WG, NSTIC, and other W3C WGs such as WebRTC.
- Discuss what work the W3C should do in this space and time-scales.
People who have expressed interest:
WebID and RWWeb
Proposer: Henry Story
- Presentation:
- explanation of how distributed authentication with WebID works ( see video for an initial quick overview )
- how this ties in with WebAccessControl
- and the work from the Linked Data Profile WG (see editors draft spec )
- Hands on using tools the community has built
- Make a WebID profile and certificate for each person present
- build a group of all members present and publish using ldp
- give access to resources to members of the group to some resources, members and their friends to others, etc... ( by editing access control rules using ldp)
- build/demo an html+javascript client purely based on linked data using the above
- Discussion
- how can this be used at the W3C? Some ideas:
- improve over current access control at W3C
- increase flexibility for W3C Members to create policies of access
- services for authenticated robots - such as access to paying validation services, linked data robots, ...
- discussion of WG that may need to be created
- Compare and contrast with work done in other groups such as OpenID Foundation, Mozilla Personae, IETF future HTTPAuth WG, JOSE WG, NSTIC, and other W3C WGs such as WebRTC.
- how can this be used at the W3C? Some ideas:
People who have expressed interest: Alexandre Bertails (W3C), David Wood, Antoine Zimmermann, Melvin Carvalho, Sebastian Trueg (OpenLink SW), Pierre Maret
Test the Web Forward Recap & Future Planning
Proposers and leaders: Rebecca Hauck and Alan Stearns
- For those who were unable to attend any of the TTWF events in 2012, a recap of the events
- For those who did attend any of them, a post-mortem on what worked well and what improvements could be made
- Brainstorming & partnering with other W3C members to host more in the future
People who have expressed interest: Tobie Langel.
Linked Data: Helping Public Sector to Publish High Quality Data
Proposer and facilitator: Bernadette Hyland
- Please join us in a discussion of what can be done to better articulate the value proposition of Linked Data in a way that makes sense to public and private sector managers with budgets.
- What's working well with efforts to make the Web of Data indispensable?
- What can be improved?
- Discuss approaches to resolve the "Four Challenges of Open Data" as described by Jeni Tennison, see http://www.theodi.org/blog/four-challenges-open-data
- How can the W3C lend support in a way that also complements the W3C's goals?
- Plan to share (briefly) how you're publishing and/or consuming Linked Data, inside or outside the firewall.
People who have expressed interest: David Wood, Ivan Herman
Web Intents and Web Intents for local services
Proposer: Claes Nilsson (Sony Mobile) / Naoyuki Sato (Sony)
- General Web Intents presentation and a demo by Greg Billock (Google)
- Presentation of Web Intents Addendum for local service specification by Claes Nilsson (Sony Mobile)
- Web Intents Addendum demo by Kensaku Komatsu (NTT communications) / Naoyuki Sato (Sony)
- Questions and discussion
Client & Server JS APIs
Proposer: Alexandre Morgaut (4D)
A recommendations transversal work
- Defining W3C recommendation for Server-side JavaScript APIs
- Making Client-side JS APIs adaptable to the server context
- Remote debugging for Remote (Server) Workers
Community Groups
Proposer: Ian Jacobs
- Some data and stories about community groups
- Proposed small policy changes
- Review some upcoming UI improvements
- Review key survey results
People who have expressed interest: Bernadette Hyland
Distributing Data now at dir.w3.org
Proposer: David Wood
The W3C Community Directory at http://dir.w3.org is currently a central repository for community information. The service is built using Linked Data, but requires user accounts to be created and managed in order to provide or update information. A new (Open Source) software release allows for the distribution of directory information via RDFa in HTML pages on Member sites such that the community directory may be automatically updated without the need for user accounts. Anyone could (theoretically) provide a URL to a Web page to the site operators; the site could then automatically spider, collate and display the community directory information. This approach would allow for both a showcase of key W3C technologies and remove the current impediments to use associated with user accounts.
- Eating our own dog food: Embedding RDFa with directory information
- Encouraging Members and Invited Experts to provide directory information via RDFa
- Modifying dir.w3.org to collect, collate and display distributed directory information using the current platform
People who have expressed interest: Bernadette Hyland, Ivan Herman
- Placeholder for Doug (and Lea and Chris?) to talk about WebPlatform Docs
Making the multilingual web work
- Making the multilingual web work workshop. Felix has agreed to organize something (and will check with Richard Ishida).
Building the Social Web: Best and Worst Practices
- Wendy Seltzer will organize
Digital marketing and the Web
- Considering a series of Workshops in 2013 starting with the interoperability of digital marketing across OWP-supported devices. Karen Myers to organize.
- Karen notes we will want to avoid scheduling simultaneously Digital Publishing and Digital Marketing.
Digital Publishing and the Web
Organizer: Ivan Herman
The publishing industry at large is undergoing a major change as a result of the Internet and the Web. These shifts include changes on what is being published, how the published material is presented to the consumer, what support and what format the published information is produced on, what the new business models are, what is the role of search engines, libraries, electronic catalogs, electronic archives in a new, modern era of publishing, etc.
Answers to these challenges are are not yet settled by the industry and are subject of ongoing discussions. One general fact is, however, that the publishing industry has become one of the major users of the W3C standards, i.e., of the Open Web Platform, of a Web of Data, etc. But publishing is not only a consumer of W3C standards: it is also primary player on the Web and hence a major source of feedback on the technologies in terms of requirements.
W3C is considering playing a more active role in this area, in cooperation with all the other stakeholders, organizations, and of course commercial entities in this area.
- Considering a series of workshops: ebooks, publishing workflow for now; possibly journal/magazine publishing, scientific publishing, and metadata at some later stage.
- Ivan Herman to organize. See if Markus Gyilling available.
- In advance of Web Performance Workshop, organized by Tobie Langel and (we hope) Paul Bakaus.
- Include a piece on net-friendly applications (or perhaps a different session)?
Sessions You Volunteer to Do: "Chair Track"
We've invented this idea of a "Chair track". Not set in stone.
How to chair
I (chaals) volunteer to run a single session on effective ways to manage a meeting. This is an action item from the AB, anyway. Agenda:
- get volunteer co-chair
- brainstorm techniques
- review/select techniques
- review chairing process
Interested: Henry Story, Bernadette Hyland
Modern Guide
Proposer: Ian Jacobs
- We will review the progress of the task force that is revising the Chair Guidebook, and get your feedback on organization of updated documentation.
People who have expressed interest: Olivier Thereaux, Bernadette Hyland
Testing at W3C
- Tobie Langel, Philippe Le Hégaret, James Graham
People who have expressed interest: Matt Womer, Kaz Ashimura, Giuseppe Pascale, Mark Vickers, Yosuke Funahashi
Sessions You Volunteer to Do: "Editor Track"
We've invented this idea of a "Editor track". Not set in stone.
New TR styles
Proposer: Vincent Hardy
- Discuss current draft restyled document (e.g., https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/csswg/raw-file/23ead1dcdfb9/css3-regions/Overview.html)
- Discuss feedback received on the proposed style (http://wiki.csswg.org/ideas/spec-styling)
- Discuss improvements to specification boiler plate information: http://www.w3.org/wiki/SpecProd/Restyle
People who have expressed interest: Lea Verou, Divya Manian, Robin Berjon, Fantasai, Tantek Celik, Tobie Langel, Olivier Thereaux
Breakout session on ReSpec
Proposer and fearless leader: Robin Berjon
A lot of specs are now using ReSpec — I would find it helpful to put people in a room and chat.
Topics would include:
- User feedback
- Feature requests
- What's next
- Transition to v3
- Non-W3C documents (IETF has been mentioned many times, Opera uses it for internal documentation, etc.)
- Better UI
- Linting, obviating pubrules, validation, link checking
- How to contribute
- The shared bibref service
- Anything else people are interested in
My first thought would be a breakout session of the same kind we had last year, but I'm open to other formats as well.
People who have expressed interest: Tobie Langel, Olivier Thereaux, Bernadette Hyland, Ivan Herman
Moving W3C repositories to git
Proposer: Rebecca Hauck / James Graham
- Discussion of the advantages / disadvantages of using git+github for W3C-related work
- Working through the technical and social issues such a change would cause
People who have expressed interest: Tobie Langel.
People who think git is overkill for W3C needs: David Wood
The Future of Pubrules
Proposer: Philippe Le Hegaret / Ted Guild
- Discussion of the advantages / disadvantages of current pubrules
- Future of /TR
- "Automatic" publishing
Sessions You Want Someone Else to Organize
Please provide:
- session topic (as a === subhead === )
- your name
- one sentence session summary
- 1+ paragraph session description
- If you support this session idea and are not the original proponent, please put your name and any supporting rationale. (Or, if you think this is not a good idea, please explain why.)
Web and Automotive
- Web and Automotive Workshop, can we get Dave Raggett or a co-Chair to organize?
Do not track and beyond
- Workshop: Do Not Track and Beyond; can we get Thomas Roessler or Nick Doty or a WG co-Chair to organize?
Intro Day
- I would like to see an Intro Day at TPAC, How to be a WG Participant (Liam)
- Ian Jacobs: We are having a new rep breakfast on Tuesday
E-learning standards
- Lack of e-learning standards? (Marie-Claire)
- Topics of work would cover data exchange formats, emphasis on WAI and Internationalisation/multilingualism, use of HTML5. Evaluation of mobile learning too.
OWP Completeness
- What do we need to do to make the OWP more complete?
More Chair Track suggestions
- Profiles and modularity (HTML WG? CSS WG?) Paul Cotton? Tantek Celik?
- Web for All: Horizontal aspects of our work (Panel with Shawn Henry, Shadi Abou-Zahra, Richard Ishida, Security rep? Privacy rep?)
Process updates
- AB can give progress report. SteveZ to organize?
W3C staff notes on some suggestions
Just notes. Actual session proposals (that you want to do, or want someone to do) go above.
Chair face-to-face
- Part of a day. Suggested by TLR and with strong support of Membership (see May 2012 chairs thread).
- Some topics
- How do we find more quality editors?
- How much Process do we need to apply?
- How can we get things moving faster?
- What's the best place to have "Make It So, Team Contact" t-shirts printed?
- How do we make our work and documents more nimble?
- What parts of the Patent Policy are often ignored but particularly useful?
- Which of the gavel or bullwhip is most effective?
- Share your practical tricks (logistic, edito, document, great minutes ...) ?
- How to integrate the W3C transversal topics in deliverables(privacy, accessibility, ...) ?
- What about a standard WG dashboard for reporting our activities ?
Making Web Platform as good as Native
- Talk to PH, TBL
People who have expressed interest: Tobie Langel, Daniel Glazman (not willing to be on a panel though).


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Underground Blog Guest Blogger (UBGB) Jack Brown is "The Part-Time Martial Artist," offering a full-time fan's perspective on UFC and major MMA news, developments, or hypotheticals.
In his lastest Underground Blog, he details How to Cut 40 Pounds and Then Go 0-2 at NAGA (While Still Enjoying Olive Garden along the Way).
Since I dare to use the moniker of "The Part-Time Martial Artist," I thought that it would be time, now that I've written ten of these articles for the UG, to write something about my competing in martial arts. The perfect fodder for such an article occurred two weeks ago when, after nearly two years of training in submission grappling, I finally competed at the North American Grappling Association's (NAGA) 2012 Northeast Grappling Championship in Rhode Island. As you can tell from the title for this article, the experience was more rocky than "Rocky," but there were still some victories that weekend worth remembering. I share this with you because I think that a lot of you are like me. You love watching this sport, you like talking about this sport, and you wish you could do something involving this sport. This story proves that you still can.
I'm not exactly a young man anymore. I'm not exactly an athlete either. What I am is a 36-year-old, married man, with two sons, a good career in the public schools, and a house in a sleepy, little town outside of Boston. I'm a somewhat freakish 6'5" and I feel that I've only just recently grown into my body. I began martial arts when I was 22 and going to graduate school in Boston. After 6 years of Taekwon-do at Grand Master Jae Hun Kim's school in the city, I received my black belt. Life got busy a few years after that, my wife and I moved out of the city, and I took some time off from martial arts. After a while, I just had to kick something again, and I took 6 months of American Kempo Karate down the street from where I was living. That particular school wasn't for me, and I moved on for about 2 ½ years of Uechi-Ryu Karate at Sensei Bob Bethoney's school in Pembroke, MA. I really enjoyed my time there, and progressed to brown belt, but there was always something gnawing at me. I wanted to learn what to do once the fight hits the ground. I wanted to learn how to grapple.
Midway through my time doing Uechi-Ryu, I learned that Bob Bethoney's former student, Joe Pomfret, was Joe Lauzon's main coach at Lauzon MMA (formerly Reality Self Defense) in Bridgewater, MA. Joe Lauzon! I was already a UFC addict at that point, and Joe was one of my favorites. It took a while, but I finally worked up the nerve to call Joe Pomfret and ask if I could come in for a beginner's no-gi grappling class. Joe Pomfret is a great guy, a little older than me, who also works in the public schools, and he couldn't have been more accommodating. These last two years at Lauzon's have been amazing. I've had the good fortune to be trained by, and to have rolled with, Joe Pomfret, Joe Lauzon, and a host of other great instructors. I've also enjoyed training in the same place that UFC fighters like Dan Lauzon, Tom Lawlor, Joe Proctor, and Judo Olympian, Travis Stevens, are doing work. I tell people that it's like being a pro-basketball fan and getting to play pick-up games on the same court while the Celtics are practicing. It's really been an MMA fan's dream-come-true.
In the summer, and on Holidays and during vacation weeks, I'm actually able to attend some of the submission grappling classes that Joe Lauzon teaches at noon on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. As great of a fighter as Joe is, he is an even better instructor. He's clear and concise, enthusiastic yet patient, and he absolutely knows his stuff. Otherwise, the classes I normally take are on Tuesday and Thursday nights. Tuesday nights used to be beginner's submission grappling taught by Joe Pomfret, but for a while now they've been taught by a talented young guy, Mike Talbot. Thursday nights it's marathon grappling during which everyone does round after round for as long as they can. Joe Lauzon and all the other fighters from "Team Aggression" are usually there rolling with everyone else. Another pro fighter and great instructor, Joe Cushman, teaches a Monday night grappling class, but that's my wife's yoga night and marriage is all about compromise.
So one thing that I began hearing a lot about, once I began grappling at Lauzon's, was NAGA. You can go to nagafighter.com for more info, but basically NAGA holds several of the world's largest grappling tournaments, both here in the U.S. and abroad, every month. The tournaments are open to all types of competitors and have separate brackets based on gender, age, weight, level of experience, and gi or no-gi. I learned early on that for many of the people that train at Lauzon's, competing at NAGA is the goal that they're focusing on. There are only two or three tournaments in New England each year, and once before I came pretty close to competing, but for the past two years NAGA remained a specter that evoked both curiosity and fear for me.
Sometime in late August, I was made aware that the next NAGA would be on October 13, 2012, at the West Warwick Civic Center, in West Warwick, Rhode Island. Several of the guys that I trained with regularly, had competed at NAGA before, and planned on competing again in October. So throughout the month of September, as I continued my Tuesdays and Thursdays training, NAGA was often a topic of conversation. Two of my friends from class, Kevin and Rich, were really encouraging me to join them. And the reality was that I had no excuse. I just kept training, working my Americanas and Kimuras, and somehow I didn't get hurt, I didn't get sick, and I didn't get any ringworm, impetigo, or staph. So by the end of September it was becoming a reality. I was going to compete at NAGA.
At UFC 152, on September 22, 2012, when my brother, Bob, and I travelled to Toronto (see my UG article for more on that adventure), I weighed 225 pounds. That has been an average weight for me in recent years, but depending on how many cookies I'd been crushing, I'd weighed as much as 245. I knew that if I was serious about competing at NAGA, I would need to lose some weight. If I stayed at 225, I'd be in the 200-224.9, heavyweight division, and risk facing an even bigger guy who had cut down. So the challenge before me was to get down to 200 so that I could compete in the 190 to 199.9, cruiserweight division.
It was time to start eating clean. Thanks to the Joe Rogan Experience podcast (see another of my UG articles for more on that obsession of mine), I'd heard a lot of diet advice from some of his recent guests. The only problem was that what these guests advocated, ranging from the Paleo Diet to a vegan diet, didn't exactly jive. And I was not going to spend $500 on an industrial blender. So I took a little bit from each of them, and synthesized Mike Dolce, Robb Wolf, Mac Danzig, and Rich Roll's ideas about what to eat. For the three weeks in between UFC 152 and NAGA, I cut out dessert, most dairy, most pasta and breads, most processed foods, and eating late. Instead, each day I drank a ton of water and a bunch of V8, and I ate bananas, apples, grapes, salad, quinoa, chicken, and shrimp. In addition to going to Lauzon's, I also continued going to my local YMCA each day for an hour of cardio and Nautilus. With one week to go, I was down to 212 and feeling stronger, leaner, and healthy.
That being said, I still hadn't mentally committed to NAGA. It wasn't until Mike Talbot, the grappling instructor for Lauzon's Tuesday night classes, invited me to join him and the guys to cut weight together, that I locked it in. Mike said that we could cut weight at the YMCA sauna Friday afternoon, weigh in down in Rhode Island that night, and then hit an Olive Garden afterward to feast before Saturday's competition. All I could think of was breadsticks. I was in.
The Weight Cut
The Thursday night before NAGA I went to the Y for my hour workout and then I went to marathon grappling. I hadn't eaten much that day, but I was still feeling good. I spoke with Kevin, Rich, and Mike, to finalize our plans for the next day, and we all weighed in after class. I was down to 210, and they were all within 10 pounds of their targets too. Mike advised me to only drink a little bit of water after class and to have a spoonful of peanut butter to keep my metabolism going overnight. The next day, I wasn't supposed to eat or drink anything.
That Friday morning, I woke up and had half a cup of coffee, black. I didn't want to risk a caffeine headache. There was also a staff breakfast at work, and I was supposed to be part of the group hosting it. So on the way to work, I reluctantly stopped at Donut King and bought a dozen donuts. While I admired their beauty, I could see them for the poison that they were. And strangely, I wasn't hungry. In fact, it seemed like I had no stomach at all. So I entered my school, dropped the box of donuts off at the far end of the buffet table, and walked through the crowd, ignoring everything. That's how a lot of that day went. I felt like a ghost, barely haunting my life. Without any food or water, I just didn't feel real. The only highlights occurred every hour or so, when I visited the nurse's office, and stood on the scale to see if any pounds had disappeared. By the end of the school day, I was down to 206.
After work, I had another half cup of black coffee since an afternoon hit of caffeine was my regular routine. Then I joined Kevin, Rich, and Mike at the Y sauna around 3:45. They hadn't been in there long, but they all had a sweat going. I crawled up to a high perch on the upper wooden bench and wrapped a shirt around my head. We talked a bit, had some music going, and every now and then a stranger would pop in and ask what the hell we were doing. I was sweating a ton, but feeling lightheaded. So I eventually made my way down to the floor to escape some of the heat. After 45 minutes, we all stepped out and hung in the locker room for a little while. We wiped our sweat off, took turns using Joe Lauzon's special scale to check our weight, and then trudged back in for another 45 minutes. Mike was the first to reach his target, and I was next. I felt pure joy as I stood on the scale in my soaking wet underwear and saw the digital display give me that 200 even. Then I showered while Kevin and Rich continued their cut.
I think I made a mistake at that point. I had taken a cold shower, a very cold shower, and then afterward, since my neurons were barely firing, I just hung out in my towel and talked to Mike. Before I knew it, I was freezing cold. It was the kind of cold that seems to be in your blood. I hadn't felt that way since about 10 years earlier, when I went snorkeling alone, in shorts, for a couple of hours in the Atlantic Ocean, at Acadia National Park, in Maine. I remember that when I emerged from the water, and stood on the beach, everyone was staring at me. A few minutes later the cold hit me, from the inside out, and though it was the middle of the summer, I had to sit in my car with the heat turned all the way up. That's what it was like.
I slowly got dressed and got my act together while Kevin and Rich finished their cut, but I couldn't stop shivering. I was supposed to be the one driving us down to Rhode Island, but I couldn't stay still for a second. I tried to assure my friends that I was fine, but they knew better.
The Weigh-In
We left the Y around 6:30. The weigh-ins were only from 6-8, and we had an hour drive ahead of us. Mike drove, and due to my height, I got to sit shotgun. I was wearing a few layers and a fleece jacket with the hood up, but I was still freezing. Kevin gave me his jacket and I used it for a blanket as I rocked back and forth involuntarily. We stopped for gas, but more importantly, we stopped for gum. Rich hooked us up with a variety of flavors. Gum had never tasted more wondrous. I requested one piece after the other, desperate for some sort of satiation.
There was traffic, and we moved slowly along the highway. The ride was a blur, reminiscent of the two long nights that my wife had been in labor with each of our sons. I think that during our drive there was some sort of conversation about skydiving, about a video of two people having sex while they were skydiving, but I don't know if that really happened.
We arrived at the West Warwick Civic Center with less than 30 minutes left for weighing in. I was a zombie, filling in the paperwork desperately, paying my $80 cash, and then heading up the stairs to weigh in. I stripped down to just shorts and a t-shirt, and somehow, inexplicably, I weighed in at 185!
The other guys weighed in, and though they used the same scale as I did, they all still weighed what they had weighed on Lauzon's scale at the Y. When I told them that I was 185, they couldn't believe it. How much could my wet underwear have weighed? Did all my shivering burn off the rest of the weight? It made no sense.
Once we were all hydrated and dressed and we made our way back to Mike's car, the elation set in. In retrospect, everything had gone perfectly for us. We felt as though we had summited after a long journey. Now it was time to celebrate. Now it was time for the Olive Garden.
I hadn't been to an Olive Garden since I was fifteen and spending the summer in Columbus, Ohio. But I remembered the breadsticks, and I wanted some carbs. There was an Olive Garden within ten minutes of the Civic Center, and when we walked in and spent a few minutes waiting for a table, I felt 10 feet tall. Sure, my shirt was on inside out and we looked like skeletons, but we were there to feast.
Our waitress knew there was something up when we ordered a pitcher of water and four raspberry lemonades, but we promised her that we were hungry. She was game, and the service was on point. She got us our drinks and then brought us a basket of breadsticks and a big bowl of salad. We savored every sip and every bite and couldn't stop talking about it. Once we polished that off, she brought us another basket of breadsticks and another bowl of salad, and we went to work on that too. We all ordered pasta for our entrees, but by the time we dug into that, we were slowing down. Our shrunken stomachs were packed. You could tell that our waitress wanted to feed us some more, but we were done. When she brought us our check, we were all in a generous mood. Though the bill was only $70 something, we threw in more than $100. A few minutes after she picked up our payment, she returned to the table to say that we had made her night. The good karma seemed to be flowing.
The Competition
Saturday morning, I actually felt really good. I ate a solid breakfast, and before I headed back down to Rhode Island, I told my boys that I might be returning with a medal for them to share. I was still feeling positive as I drove down. It was a nice sunny day and I had the new MUSE album turned up loud to get me going. I got to the Civic Center a couple of hours before my division was scheduled to compete, and at that point the kids' divisions were still on the mats. I joined up with my crew from Lauzon's and as we stretched and warmed up, we went over some last minute things. Mike was asking me how I was feeling, and I told him that I felt great. He was encouraging me, but he also cautioned me to relax and take things slowly.
Before long, the kids were done and the women were too. Then the men's novices (less than 6 months of experience) competed. After that, around 2, it was the beginners' (6 months to 2 years of experience) turn. So the plan, since I had weighed in at 185, was supposed to be that I would be competing in the men's, no-gi, beginner's, light heavyweight (180 to 189.9), master's (age 30 -39) division. The problem, once they called for all the beginners to submit their cards, was that I was the only one in that division. No other 30-39 year olds were competing at my weight. It turned out that there were two competing at the weight that I should have been at, cruiserweight, but I wasn't offered a chance to join them. Instead, I was asked if I would mind joining the five other competitors in the men's, no-gi, beginner's, light heavyweight, adult (age 18-29), division. I said yes.
It was just a few minutes later that I was called to one of the mats and saw my competition. Besides being the oldest, I was definitely the tallest, and likely the heaviest (I didn't weigh myself at all that day), but these guys looked fit and experienced. I couldn't really concentrate on the other competitors as I watched the first two matches between the four other guys. I just tried to chat a little bit with Mike and another guy, Kenny, who trains at Lauzon's and is a wizard on the ground. Suddenly it was my turn and there I was, out on the mat, standing across from some guy. Mike and Kenny were sitting nearby to coach me while Kevin and Rich were off preparing for their matches in the intermediate (2 to 5 years of experience) division.
We slapped hands and the ref started us off. And what did I do? I didn't relax. The guy faked low and I immediately grabbed his neck for the guillotine. I locked onto it just right, but I stood straight up. He easily got the double leg and took me down. After that we each had some sweeps, and got in some scrambles, but neither of us got close to a submission. We were out of bounds at one point, and when the ref stopped us, and I went to stand up, my opponent pushed me back down. That kind of came out of nowhere, and the ref warned him, but that was one of the more memorable moments from the match. It went the full four minutes, and my opponent got his hand raised. I never thought to find out the score. I just sort of stumbled off and accepted my friends' consolation. I was still feeling great, a little tired and confused, but glad to have been out there.
After that, I got to go watch Kevin take second, and Rich take third, in their respective divisions. Standing there, feeling proud and rooting for my friends, I was surprised to hear my name called over the loudspeaker. I was being called back to the mat where I had competed. When I got there, I was told that I was next, and that I'd be competing for third place. I had to immediately go out and face a guy who had won his first match, but had lost his second. I was still trying to make sense of it in my head as we slapped hands.
I barely remember what happened. I think I actually went for the guillotine again, and I remember spending some time with my opponent locked up in my half guard. Eventually there was a scramble and I gave up my back. My opponent then locked up the rear naked choke. I could see the clock as I lay there belly up. There was a minute left. I tapped, and it seemed to take forever for the ref to halt the match and for my opponent to let go.
Again I stumbled off, stupefied that I hadn't known that there was going to be another match. I changed my shirt, but not into a Lauzon MMA shirt. I had worn that one into the event, but I had resolved to wear it out only if I had won. It was time for the expert (5 years of experience and above) division, and I went over to watch Mike compete with the lightweights.
Mike was a killer, submitting the first guy he faced with a brutal armbar, and then submitting the second guy with a triangle. After that second match, though, Mike had injured his neck and was clearly hurt as I spoke with him. Still, he went out for the championship match and had his opponent in trouble early with a triangle. His opponent survived and Mike got submitted (You can watch all of Mike's matches from that day on YouTube).
Mike was disappointed. He had won his division the last time he had competed, and he wasn't satisfied with second place. He had left it all out there on the mat though, and we both headed over to watch Kenny do his thing in the featherweight expert division championship. Kenny, the leglock ninja, won by submission and took home the championship belt (You can watch Kenny's championship match on YouTube).
The Aftermath
So I came home empty-handed, and though my boys still loved me, they really wanted a medal. The irony was that if I had competed at the weight that I had planned to, I would have been the third competitor in that division and would have brought home a medal win or lose. Still, I had no excuses. I train with mostly 18 to 30 year-olds and I was bigger than those guys. The reality was that no matter how good I thought I felt that day, I was nervous and rushed things. I also could have, and should have, trained a whole lot more.
Later that night, I enjoyed watching UFC 153, and I still felt positive about my first NAGA experience. Unfortunately, as I watched Silva finish Bonner, I developed a cough, and went to bed with a sore throat. The next day I had a fever, and the day after that I lost my voice. I had bronchitis for a week, and didn't train. Then last Tuesday, I made my return.
That Tuesday night I spoke with a lot of the guys that didn't compete at NAGA, but that had heard that I had. They offered their congratulations, but I was quick to let them know how badly I had sucked. They didn't care, they said, because they felt bad that they hadn't even competed. I thought about it, and I eventually accepted their congratulations, because I remembered what that had been like – to just wish that I had done it, win or lose.
So on January 26, 2013, my friends and I will be there, bellies full of Olive Garden, competing at NAGA when it returns to New England. Will you?
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Nobody in my school cuts more than 5 lbs for competitions. Also, you took off your school's shirt because you lost? That seems a bit callow.
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Damn what an experience! Great read, sir
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Great read, looks like you had a blast even in defeat!
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Very inspirational read. See ya at the next NAGA! :-)
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Great story. I didn't read it, but can appreciate the drive to wanna compete. Maybe you can summarize that in a paragraph or less for the rest of us later.
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See ya at the next NE naga!
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LOL@ cutting weight for NAGA
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T Bag - LOL@ cutting weight for NAGAY lol? Wouldn't you want to be the bigger stronger person in the weight division?
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aaronlynton -T Bag - LOL@ cutting weight for NAGAY lol? Wouldn't you want to be the bigger stronger person in the weight division?
100s of people cut weight for every NAGA. Why wouldn't you?
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Good read. Feels very similar to my first NAGA (I was 41). I went 0 - 4 that time and won gold the next time around.
Thanks for the story.
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T Bag - LOL@ cutting weight for NAGA
I'm gonna cut weight for the NAGA this weekend. Only 5 lbs tho. Most people cut at least a few pounds.
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iPhone link goes to fighters section on underground...hmmmm
Really want to learn about cutting weight for competition
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Cant see shit in the link
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that was a very enjoyable read
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good stuff. Damn it, I want to learn to grapple.
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Great read. I also enjoyed your piece on UFC 152 as well.
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Great read, major props for dieting and getting in shape. Give Abolene a shot next time and do some research on cutting weight, that probably had an impact on your matches.
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First, I am very proud of you for setting a goal and seeing it through to the end.
Second, with all due respect, WHAT THE HECK kind of weight-cutting and rehydration advise did you get!?!?!!
Certainly, you did not get that from any of my books!
"3 Weeks to Shredded" covers an exact weight-cutting process many UFC veterans have in their gym bags, which details my own 27.8lbs weight-cut in just three weeks. And, "Living Lean" details a life approach to meal planning that will keep you lean while eating amazing, filling and nutritious meals all year long.
I wish you had!!!!
My heart breaks every time I see, read or hear of a story just like yours. A story of sacrifice, discipline and courage while training for weeks on end to reach a dream all to be lost in the last few hours before competition due to a blown weight-cut and rehydration.
Olive Garden?!?!?!?! Didn't you say you eliminated pasta and breads weeks before competition?
As an athlete, your first goal should be health.
My athletes do not sauna, do not suffer, do not starve and do not dehydrate.
Johny Hendricks said it best, "For the first time in my career, as a fighter or a wrestler, I know the best version of myself will show up for competition after following The Dolce Diet." (I began working with Johny prior to his fight with Fitch.)
You don't have to follow my program but please hear my message.
In order to compete at the top of your potential, you must be HEALTHY!
All that said, Jack, send me your address via private message and I'll send you all my books to review.
Hope this helps for NAGA 2013!
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After recently dieting off 14 lbs with no cut in 4 weeks. It annoys me to see people write "cut 40 pounds"
No you stopped eating like shit and lost 25+ pounds of weight, and then cut 15+ in a sauna.
Mike dolce, just recently found out about you and have been altering my diet to fit some of your philosophys on eating/diet. You are a boss sir. Wish I would have found out about you sooner! Looking forward to picking up living lean atm!
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Some people might be tempted to discount the proposed rule because they feel no amount of gluten is acceptable in a food labeled as gluten-free. However, not adopting some set of criteria means that people with celiac disease will remain in the dark when trying to interpret food labels. Claims such as "made on equipment that shares processing with wheat" or ingredient names such as "wheat starch flour" are confusing and don't provide meaningful guidance.
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The Mayo Clinic Diet book keeps popping up when I look for gluten free information on their website. However, the book and all the comments, reviews, etc. do not say that it is a gluten free diet. I would think if the book is popping up next to all the info on gluten free products, that the diet is gluten free. Why not say it on the cover?? Is the May Clinic Diet a gluten free diet?????
Well it seems like common sense if it says gluten free it shoud be just that. Free of all gluten. Because of companies irresponsible labeling and a lack of standards across the board many people who are trying to do right for their bodies are being confused. This will lead to many long term problems causing additional strain on the medical system.
Carol, you could be getting gluten from other than food sources. Your skin is largest organ and if you have wheat in your skin care products you are possibly absorbing large amounts that reach your digestive system. glutenfreenaturalvitamins has info.
We have been GF for a short while. Only can recommend is for all people to read not only the front labels of all products; but, most importantly the ingredients label as there lies many items what is not covered on the front packaging. Red Mill people swear by has on its back of packaging that their may be traces of wheat in their products as grains at their plant are ground on the same machinery. Thank goodness for their truth and wish somehow it was known to more people to continually read all the package.
I was diagnosed with Celiac Disease in 9-11. Not knowing a great deal about it, I did a fair amount of research & decided, because I am pretty much a sugar addict, to not start the GF diet until after the holidays. I started on 12-31-11. I am very careful to not allow ANY gluten in my food at all. I am gradually checking all my meds. & I take many every day! I did find a list online that said all my meds were GF. However, since a few months before I started this diet & not being well educated yet, I began having more & more daily bouts of diarrhea - up to 10 X day. No anti-diarrhea med worked AT ALL! Finally on Monday, 2-20-12 I stopped eating all foods for 5 days. I only drank enough water to stay fairly hydrated. It took until Thursday PM to finally stop having diarrhea completely. I am truly housebound. On Friday, I saw my primary doctor & he strongly told me I HAD to resume eating. I limited myself to 1 generic Ensure & a small amount of fresh fruit or a few crackers and peanut butter. I was fairly fine but as the days went by, I began having more & more diarrhea. On 3-3 I again discontinued eating all food & only have had a bottle of Boost each day. It has more protein. I continue to have repeated bouts of diarrhea & I fear I have damaged so much of the villi that I can't digest any solid food I eat. I am at a loss & pretty depressed. Anyone out there have any ideas? I'm open for any that make sense! Am I the only one with this ong
I get a reaction to any amount of gluten in any product. I'm sure I'm not alone. For that reason, no product should be able to list that it is "gluten free" unless it is truly 100% free of gluten. For instance, Benefiber states right on the label that they are gluten free, but yet their product does contain wheat dextrin, which does contain gluten. On their website they state that they can say they gluten free because Benefiber "contains less than 20 ppm of gluten". They continue that "people who experience gluten intolerance should not consume any products, including Benefiber, that contain any level of gluten unless otherwise directed by their doctor". Why on earth do they state that they are gluten free then?? I tried it a few weeks back, and had a horrific reaction. Please, no gluten should mean no gluten!!
This is a big step as glutenous grains are a common food allergy in many people. It is the single most allergy producing food in children. With the industrialization of grains, including the processing and refining that takes place, along with the chemicals, sprays and pesticides that are used on conventional crops, actually poses serious health risks to millions of human beings. Glutenous diets have been shown to promote serious health issues in many people, especially in those with autoimmune or other chronic diseases such as cancer. Many medical doctors are unaware of the side effects of gluten, running test after test with no answers. Hopefully, these such issues will be addressed in the near future as well.
It is all or nothing. If I eat anything that is manufactured in a gluten & gluten-free plant, I get sick.
I have been urging the Canadian government to adopt particular labels for gluten since my diagnosis in 2003. I don't think they get it. I've argued with Members of Parliament, Ministers of Health and Health Department bureaucrats. I still don't think they get it.
im am a super senstive celiac, any traces what so ever and I have a volient attack of severe pain the same as pancretics which I had for ove a jear and half before they found celiac. So better label must be used. I got sick on gluten free before. I think that what richard said is right get a count of 5 , 10 20. and contiune rescreching for way to make gluten free gluten free. Im done getting sick. I only use the bread and noodles n gluten freee flour no boxed stuff for me. Help us.
Fresh is best . . . Celiacs need beware anything inside a package not made by nature.
I was biopsied in April 2004. I'm 87 years old. I have tried to be super-strict with my gluten-free diet and gluten-free medications. I even avoid licking the glue on envelopes etc. I'm still getting hidden Gluten from somewhere, because my Endoscopies continue to show damage to my Villi. I eat Gluten-Free foods but wonder if those 20ppm can be
responsible. Might it be possible to label foods with "Gluten(0)"
"Gluten(5)" "Gluten(20)" or some such quantitative value ?
I was born in 1943 and diagnosed with celiac disease within a few months. My symptoms were classic: diarrhea, bloating, failure to thrive, etc. and I spent 6 months in the hospital being fed intravenously through my ankles. When released I was placed on a banana diet, with gradual introduction of other foods. Sometimes celiac symptoms came back and other times not. I learned about the GF diet 18 years later, again with the advice to introduce new foods gradually. This diet made for social isolation and a miserable childhood and adolescence.By the time I learned from published research that the diet damaged the intestines even without symptoms, I had become one of the unusual men who have osteoporosis. Let's get this realistic label approved NOW, that nobody else has to go through this needlessly. Please!
Eating gluten-free is required for all those with Gluten Syndrome.....Celiac Disease is just one of over 300 conditions manifested by those unable to tolerate/digest gluten. Even though medical professionals receive minimal nutrition education, it is common sense that what people are eating could make them sick.
Gluten is flavoring, stabilizing or thickening agent. I excluded oats from my diet, Several grains and starch sources are considered acceptable for a gluten-free diet.Gluten is used in ice-creams and ketchups. You can not totally gluten in your diet because gluten is used in our food for different purposes. You can go for caralluma, if you want to lose weight fast.
does anyone know gluten cotent for scotch whisky,vitamin D capsul(prescripson),privacid capsul?
I have celiac and have been doing everything I know possible to eat gluten-free for four years with quite excellent results. Just recently I have begun having symptoms of a skin condition called DH which plagued my father who went undiagnosed for celiac until he was into his 80's. I have no idea where I must have picked up a trace of gluten to aggravate this condition. I would love to see a complete list of all trace ingredients which may contain hidden sources of gluten. Allergy information which only addresses wheat does not help me at all.
i think for the most part i am only going to be eating fresh fruits veggies chicken fish unbroiled, potatoes, and skip missing the breads and other junk that i was killing myself with -honestly i do not miss it. if you just shop natural foods fresh foods then you dont even have to look at any labels
I was diagnosed 3 years ago with celiac sprue and the diet has been a challenge. I agree with some others that eating out can be difficult. My husband was recently hospitilized, and I couldn't believe how little choice there is in the hospital cafeteria for gluten-free diets. I even called the dietician and she suggessted I bring my lunch!!!
Unfortunately, all of this costs companies money - both testing and cleaning in between product runs. So unless they are specifically targeting a gluten free audience to sell to, there really is no incentive for them to do this unless they are mandated to do so. Government mandates bring with them a whole host of issues and expenses that also increase cost and in many cases lower quality in the long run...sadly, it all comes down to money unless it is from a company with a mission to serve the gluten free community!
Why doesnt the FDA test prescription and over-the-counter medications and label them gluten free also? We have wasted money on prescriptions only to discover that they were not gluten-free.
My husband was diagnosed 1 1/2 years ago - what a change in life for us. But as we went along it actually becomes easier, and we live in northern Alberta , far from the easy to get at Gluten free foods. You can order most gluten free stuff over the phone or internet so go searching. We eat better than before and alot healthier. I LOVE the magazine" Living Without" It has been the best thing for recipes and how to adapt my old recipes. One lady who bakes bread in the USA somewhere says to take rice flour, put it in your food processor and beat it down finer - it makes better bread. So go get the magazine. Also this MAyo site is great for new info.
The use of the term "gluten free" seems to be an about face from the current labeling. I have yet to notice a "does not contain" notice on any food product. So, why the exception for gluten.
A more effective notice (for the celiac patient) would be "CONTAINS GLUTEN". Since the "Contains" clause is the standard for other ingrediants I suggest that would be the most appropriate and effective. iPerhaps the food industry does not want to discourage the consumption of Gluten.
I think Celiac disease is something that's not commonly known but needs to be put out there. I work with Chef's Diet, and we prepare meals daily that cater to specific people's diets (such as a gluten-free meal plan), and even deliver the meals to your door. I'm happy to see an article out such as this one, helping create more awareness around the subject. Thanks for posting, and if anyone is interested in what we do at Chef's Diet, please visit http://www.mychefsdiet.com. :)
I live in Vancouver Canada & have lots of GF products
available. It wasn't that way when I first started about
7 yrs. ago. I also have a soy allergy which is difficult as most GF foods I find have it added. I do alot of baking, creating my own recipies. Some work some not so much. I have managed a bread which is awsome.
As a vegetarian dating a vegan/Celiac's disease prone man, I agree wholeheartedly. This is a lifestyle change and I am very aware of ingrediants even more so now. It can be challenging. I've always enjoyed cooking, but baking is a new mission altogether. I hope the FDA will enforce better standards so the ones we love will not risk getting sick on accident.
Thank you for the great idea on how to make crackers and pizza crust. I will try this soon. I feel fortunate to live in Rochester where there are many places to get GF products. I just happened on your blog today. Thank you!
Why don't restaurants include/ indicate gluten free meals on their menus? Whenever I dine out there is usually only one item on the menu that I can have, and it's the same thing everytime. When I ask the waiter which dishes are gluten free they are unsure even when they check with the chef. Very frustrating.
Just to clear things up -- the gluten-free component of the allergen labeling law does not require companies to label their products "gluten free."' Use of the label will still be voluntary. What it will do is establish, for the first time in the US, specific rules about what can be labeled "gluten free." One of these rules proposes that foods have to have less than 20 ppm of gluten to be called "gluten free." Another proposed rule specifies that products be tested to prove they have less than 20 ppm of gluten, including gluten that might have unitentionally gotten into a product due to cross contamination.
Although it is voluntary, there's no doubt the definition will be helpful to those who follow the gluten-free diet, as well as companies interested in making products for them. Now it just has to be finalized.
Hi Susie - I agree, it can be very difficult to find gluten-free substitutes for bread/bread products. I recently found a way to make crackers and pizza crust that my (celiac) husband loves - friends & me too! Select a gluten-free dry mix for pizza crust (one that includes yeast). Mix according to package directions. Make a thin pizza crust: moisten your fingers with water and spread it very thinly (yes thin, not paper thin but very thin) on parchment paper. Lightly brush the crust with oil. Bake at 425 degrees - on the parchment paper only - not on a sheet pan - until almost golden for about 5 minutes. Bring it out of the oven and top with tomato sauce and other favorite gluten-free toppings. Put back into oven to warm the toppings through. NOTE: You can also make crackers - after brushing the crust with oil, sprinkle with herbs (rosemary), or pepper or parmesan cheese. Bake at 425 degrees a bit longer or until crisp/browned. Break apart for crackers. Usually the pizza mix makes lots of dough - I keep what I don't use in a covered bowl in the refrigerator and use it over several evenings.
I'm sure others people have some suggestions too?
I see a lot of cookbooks out there related to gluten free cooking, but I would really like some recipes for things like quick breads, pizza dough, regular bread, etc that actually taste good. I've tried a few gluten free mixes for things like cookies and they are ok, but not great. Help!
My husband has celiac and is dairy intolerant. It is very frustrating that so few products are actually gluten free. Are the gluten free products more available in the US than here in Canada?
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- We present an experimental and numerical investigation on the statistical properties of the surface elevation in crossing sea conditions. Experiments are performed in a very large wave basin (70 m x 50 m x 3 m) and numerical results are obtained using a higher order method for solving the Euler equations. Both experimental and numerical results indicate that the number of extreme events depends on the angle between the two interacting systems. This outcome is supported by recent theoretical investigations which have highlighted that the instability of wave packets may be triggered by the nonlinear interactions between coexisting, non-collinear wave systems.
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