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Major Conservation Project on 'Green Wall' in Brighton
Updated 11:00am Sunday 23rd February 2014 in News By Michael Davies, local government reporter
A MAJOR conservation project on one of the longest "green walls" in the country is under way.
Work has started on the Madeira Drive retaining wall on Brighton seafront to protect more than 90 different species of coastal plants, which spread 20 metres high and 1.2 kilometres a bug the 200-year-old structure.
Brighton and Hove City Council has been working with the help of Brighton and Hove Building Green and the Ecology Consultancy to prune back the foliage and enlarge the bed at the foot of the wall.
Workers will carry out general concrete repair work in the autumn to reserve the area as a habitat for plants and wildlife.
Last year the green wall – which is on the north side of Duke's Mound on Brighton seafront was designated as a local wildlife site by the city council.
Among the plants that will be protected by the works are the hoary stock, a coastal plant that is common on the south coast, cow parsley, which grows mostly through March and June, foxglove, which blooms in midsummer, and a fig tree and ferns.
One of the major features of the wall is a display of Japanese spindle, which was established in the 19th Century when the wall was first built, to help improve the appearance of the area.
It is believed to be among the oldest surviving species of that plant in the UK.
Work on the project, which will include health checks on the plants and repairing any damage to the concrete wall, got under way this week. It is hoped it will be com- pleted before the next bird nesting season, which runs from March 1 to July 31.
It is not currently known how much the repairs will cost.
James Farrell, from Brighton and Hove Building Green, said: "The green wall is over 150 years old, supports 90 plant species, and is now the only Site of Nature Conservation Importance of its kind in the UK.
"It forms a vital part of our natural and built heritage and has been under threat due to the deteriorating state of the East Cliff face.
"The work that has started this week west of Duke's Mound will safeguard the cliff face and green wall for the future."
Councillor Ian Davey, deputy leader of Brighton and Hove City Council, said: "The variety of plants grow- ing on the Madeira Drive retaining wall makes it one of the most important 'green walls' in the country.
"The plants and the wall are part of the seafront environment that we want to protect, providing a haven for wildlife and a source of enduring interest for people."
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11:14am Sun 23 Feb 14
scoobysnax says...
Very perceptive, there's a lot of "wildlife" on the Duke's Mound and it's not only the plants, too much hoary stock for my liking.
12:18pm Sun 23 Feb 14
clubrob6 says...
1:10pm Sun 23 Feb 14
Bob_The_Ferret says...
1:27pm Sun 23 Feb 14
Somethingsarejustwrong says...
Yet another example of the miscreant Marxist greens continuing to destroy our once great city by prioritising unimportant things over those that will make a positive difference
2:23pm Sun 23 Feb 14
tykemison says...
SomethingsarejustwroNo, no, no.How can preserving a unique, beautiful structure be destroying our city? Perhaps it's thoughtless atitudes like the one posted above which is why our city (and other's) are turning into dumps, you get what you deserve in this world and I for one applaud the work being carried out, , it's not only about people but how we treat the environment too!
ng wrote:
How can this be a priority when Brighton is falling apart?
Yet another example of the miscreant Marxist greens continuing to destroy our once great city by prioritising unimportant things over those that will make a positive difference
5:12pm Sun 23 Feb 14
Valerie Paynter says...
Contrary to popular belief, ivy covering intact walls provides a measure of insulation from both cold in winter, heat in summer as well as overwintering habitat for important insects and, of course, breeding and nesting sites.
No explanation has ever been given for this act of vandalism against nature.
6:30pm Sun 23 Feb 14
fredflintstone1 says...
Valerie Paynter wrote:Sorry, Valerie, but this Green council simply exploit nature when they can see a political and/or financial advantage so to do. It's as simple as that. The rest of the time, they'll destroy it.
This Green council cares so much about green walls that it stripped out the wall of mature climbing ivy on the front façade of Hove Town Hall which provided a hugely important garden birds refuge and nesting site.
Contrary to popular belief, ivy covering intact walls provides a measure of insulation from both cold in winter, heat in summer as well as overwintering habitat for important insects and, of course, breeding and nesting sites.
No explanation has ever been given for this act of vandalism against nature.
Consider this as further evidence of their committment to the cause. They put in a biosphere bid (at what cost - £250,000?), dispense with the post of professional ecologist and effectively replace him in his position with someone who the Forestry Commission was actively considering for prosecution for illegally felling a massive area of hundreds of old oaks, plus elms and a host of other trees at Wild Park.
The Council ended up having to plant a large area of young trees in Stanmer Park to resolve this fiasco - at what cost to council taxpayers? And now they promote the officer responsible, when on any reasonable assessment, he should have been sacked.
Meanwhile the son of the Grazing Officer at the Sussex Wildlife Trust is making money on this area of cleared public land by keeping sheep on it, excluding people who have walked there with their dogs for decades, while we are paying for all his sheep popping up on any patch of green space around the city!
The Council now starts this seafront project and is forced to admit that it don't know how much it is going to cost? Further evidence of why they are not fit to call for a increase in council tax, let alone run the city.
The Greens have managed to set back the cause of conservation in this city on a scale that defies belief. Foxgloves, cow parsley, and a fig tree - which endangered species are we talking about here, if these are the ones that they choose to highlight in this article?
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You might want to have your best buds along on that memorable trip to the ends of the earth.
But you probably wouldn't have wanted them hanging around outside your honeymoon cabin.
If you're planning a special trip this year and you're thinking it would be fun to have your best golf pal and his wife along, you might want to rethink before you turn a trip-of-a-lifetime into a disaster of epic proportions.
Our own personal vacation disaster had nothing to do with shabby lodging, awful food, stormy weather or, because we're seniors, the possibility that we're pickier than we used to be .
It had to do with thinking good friends back home always translate to BFFs on the road.
Let us explain.
A few years ago we visited close friends who had moved to Tucson. For nearly two decades we had shared precious vacation time as sailing companions, happily island hopping from summer sunrise to sunset until we had to go back home to work.
When they retired and moved to Arizona, we missed our good times together. So we flew to Tucson to pick up where we had left off.
We all drove out to the nearby Biosphere, an under-a-dome research project begun in 1984 to study how plants and humans might survive and thrive together in space or on other worlds. It was something of a failure in that effort but has evolved as a center for research and life-long learning about the Earth, its living systems, and its place in the universe. The public is welcome for daily tours.
We loved it. It held the promise of changing the world in ways we'd never thought of and we were quickly engrossed in the exhibits and demonstrations. We could have spent all day inside, absorbing every detail of that vision of the future.
Our friends didn't share our enthusiasm. They hung back with us for 15 or 20 minutes, then sped past the exhibits, bored senseless and ready for lunch and an afternoon of shopping for Southwestern knickknacks.
We felt guilty and quickened our pace to catch up.
We've felt ever since that we shortchanged ourselves.
And, while we still love those friends, we haven't tried to mix inquisition and acquisition with them since.
There are trips and then there are trips. And not all trips hold such a possibility for regret.
We had a wonderful time with other dear friends (we had been in each other's weddings) celebrating our 25th wedding anniversaries on a cruise to Mexico. The trip didn't star the ship or its destinations. It was just an opportunity for the four of us to get away from the day-to-day and focus on friendship. We'd meet for breakfast and reminisce until the waiters had to ask us to leave so they could set up for lunch.
Some trips — like that one — are perfect to share with others who are on the same page. And there are other examples. We've spent week-long trips to tennis tournaments with friends who love the sport as much as we do. And football fans would welcome like-minded company at the Super Bowl.
But it may not be as easy as it seems to decide whether you'd rather go it alone on your next trip. Here are a few tips that might help:
• Be selfish. You may never get back to that museum or that village halfway around the world again. If you've always wanted to spend hours with the treasures at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, think long and hard before inviting your golf buddy and his wife along. You may love his sense of humor on the course, but they may not share your love of art.
• Consider your own level of expertise or curiosity about a site or subject. We've always been fascinated by the history of famous art, but we don't know enough about the finer points of design and color to expect an art collector to enjoy going to the museum with us. Likewise, we can't expect a cricket devotee to enjoy spending a whole match explaining the game to us, even though we might love to see the game in its British homeland.
• If you're shy about exploring a foreign destination on your own, consider booking a tour. The others on a tour are as interested as you in the sites and activities, but you won't hurt anyone's feelings if you decide to break off on your own for dinner.
• If you want your trip to revolve around a special anniversary, by all means invite the people who would celebrate with you. But everyone might appreciate it if you carved out some time for folks to explore on their own.
Lots of people have told us that their trip-of-a-lifetime — a roots visit to the home of their ancestors, maybe, or a trip to Rome to absorb some culture — was lacking because their companions weren't on the same page.
We've learned our lesson.
Our good friends are our good friends in part because we understand we don't see everything in the same light — they stimulate us to see things from another perspective.
But while they may be wonderful companions on our home turf, it might be best to leave them behind come travel time. Especially since a trip-of-a-lifetime likely comes with no do-overs.
John and Sally Macdonald are freelance writers who live on a houseboat in Seattle.

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The Canadiens have struggled to score goals and that makes it much more difficult to score when you face the team that has allowed the fewest goals in the Western Conference in the St. Louis Blues, especially with Halak's chip on his shoulder -- which was the story of this game.
The Blues established the tone in Montreal physically, which, despite Randy Cunneyworth's emphasis on this aspect, stopped Montreal's push. Once the Habs were unable to take control of the game early on, Jason Arnott took the first strike in the second period to began the offensive output for the Blues. After Arnott's goal, two more goals from David Backes and Chris Stewart gave St. Louis the dagger for the victory. It also didn't help that Montreal gave up 21 giveaways, which the Blues took advantage of, especially on Stewart's goal:
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I was just wondering, is it possible to drink TOO much diet soda? I love my diet mt. dew, but i've been considering giving it up or at least drinking less of it and drinking more water. On the average here at school i drink 2-3 20oz bottles. Is that too much??
You shouldn't be drinking that much soda. Any soda is too much, really. Try to keep it to a minimum.
"The only easy day was yesterday."
If you really want to get serious about eating right as well as lifting I would recommend really really really cutting back on soda. Just because it's diet doesn't mean it's really better for you. I used to love soda....than I got into lifting.....havn't had a sip in a year, and I feel great. Just my opinion good luck though I know we all have our little temptations.
He's asking for you to give reasons.
I'd love to see them.
"We could put his leg in a vice-grip, but you & I together couldn't twist his ankle enough to sprain it"
- Jerry Glanville discussing Barry Sanders
diet soda contains aspartame... i would never touch that stuff ever...
There's nothing wrong with aspartame in normal amounts.
"The only easy day was yesterday."
Is there any evidence that diet soda negatively affects bodybuilding goals? It contains no calories and I love it. I would not give it up w/o evidence
Is there anything wrong with aspartame in large amounts? I know people 'think' there is, but anything that would convince a skeptic?
Another thing is that carbonation changes the ph, isn't that part of the reason why it's bad for your teeth even when diet (the caff too)? If so, that may not be good for you, but that isn't due to aspartame.
Go now, run along and tell your xerxes he faces free men here, not slaves
This isn't my words, this is cut / pasted from another forum (from someone who cut / pasted from yet another forum lol):
Jay McCombs debunks the myths about artificial sweeteners' dangers at AvantLabs (hope I didn't break any copyright laws here by copy pasting the entire article). At this moment I am with Jay 100%. What do other people here think?
BTW, we should have this same this discussion here about other similar issues, like controlling acidity to enhance health (i.e alkaline water), dangers of microwaving (or other types of radiation), maybe metabolic typing by blood type, for starters. There are at lot issues reprsented by some Imminst members as being somewhat "obvious", even though I don't see any science (or even rationale for that matter) backing up these claims.
Artificial Sweeteners
by Jay McCombs
Debunking the Myths
"Tonight at 10 on the local news, find out which ingredient in your diet Coke is going to give you cancer!" I don't even have to watch. I know they are talking about aspartame and that the horse has long since been dead, yet still they continue to beat it. So what is the truth? Saccharine-containing products contain warning labels about causing cancer in animals, but saccharine is now absent from many lists of carcinogens—why? Aspartame has been reported to cause brain tumors and nearly every other disease known to man, yet it's still an ingredient in nearly every "diet" food—why? What about the new guys like sucralose (Splenda)? Are they going to kill us? Well, I think the best place to start with every story is at the beginning.
Artificial sweeteners have been around since 1879, and for 90 years things were really, um, sweet. Then 1970 rolled around, and in the world of artificial sweeteners, the sky began to fall. Chicken Little reported the events and chaos ensued. To make a long story short, several countries (including the US) banned the use of cyclamate due to an article in Science that demonstrated rats fed the sweetener showed an increased risk of developing bladder cancer [1]. But wait, there's more! After the review of a long-term study on primates that showed cyclamate conveyed no risk of cancer, although there was much debate about the validity of the experiment due to small sample size, many countries, under the advice of the WHO, repealed their bans (actually every country other than the US) [2]. Cyclamate was the first on the chopping block, but many others would follow.
Perhaps one of the best known, and most falsely maligned, sweeteners is saccharine. There is copious research on this compound and to cover it all in this text would be impractical. Instead I am going to try and hit the high points and focus on the widely publicized bladder cancer controversy.
Saccharine seemed safe in rat studies at first; however, when the progeny of rats fed cyclamate was also fed saccharine, several studies showed that the saccharine-fed rats had an increased risk of cancer (there are many studies on this topic, only the largest has been sited) [3]. As it turns out, the problem wasn't so much with the saccharine as it was with the rats. Rats have higher osmolar urine, thus allowing for the formation of damaging crystals in the bladder [4]. Humans do not concentrate their urine as much and consequently do not have the same problem. There are, unfortunately, no direct studies on humans consuming saccharine and, therefore, I feel it is not worth mentioning the few descriptive studies that found saccharine benign.
Aspartame is another widely consumed first generation artificial sweetener. You can find it in everything from diet Coke to protein powders. There are lots of things people bring up about aspartame and the majority of them are not based on science. They are based on ideas that make some non-scientific assumptions. The best example is the brain tumor scare.
The trouble began on account of rats (again)—specifically, rats eating aspartame and subsequently developing brain tumors [5]. In addition, a study showed that nitrosated aspartame had mutagenic properties and it was possible that aspartame could be nitrosated in the gut (although there is no research to verify if this actually happens) [6]. Combine this with the rising rate of brain tumors since 1981 (the year aspartame was introduced) and you've got yourself a brain tumor scare [7]. Fact-twisting leaches, er, excuse me, the media, began to warn against the dangers of aspartame. Shortly thereafter my mom started calling me telling me how terrible aspartame was and Mercola recorded a gagillion hits to his website.
You want the truth? First the rats. Subsequent studies could not recreate and confirm the findings of the previous authors [8]. In the world of science, that means the study can't be used to definitely pin the blame on aspartame and could involve some other unknown source of error. Next, the ensuing backlash from the scientific community. Basically, an editorial written by Ross stated (please allow me to paraphrase) that the argument was completely asinine due to the tremendous amount of other common things that were introduced in and around 1981 that could also be said to contribute to brain tumors using the same logic: VCR's, computers, etc. [9]. And if editorial beat downs weren't sufficient, the completion of a controlled study evaluating the potential link between brain tumors and aspartame in children pretty much put this one to bed [10]. They found no link to brain tumors secondary to aspartame consumption by children or by their mothers during gestation or breast feeding.
If you feel like you've read enough about aspartame skip ahead because I am tired of this beast rearing its ugly head. A website that spawns "the world's most popular natural health newsletter" warns of the dangers of aspartame based on some pretty deceptive information (it would not be a stretch to say lies). First, the article creates the guise of being scientific using lots of esoteric words, scary medical conditions, and tactics such as putting numbers in parenthesis after particularly dramatic statements but failing to include a bibliography on the page. It makes it very, very difficult to verify the veracity of a work when the author doesn't provide the sources he has used (some might even call this plagiarism); fortunately, I was up to the task. Bellow I'm going to try and deal with many of the common anti-aspartame arguments that I see on the internet.
1) Most sites point out a shocking revelation that 75% of the adverse reactions to food additives reported to the FDA were due to aspartame. We aren't talking about death certificates after autopsy. We are talking about complaints to the FDA that anyone can make at anytime based on their own personal thoughts and experiences with no burden to prove them scientifically. In fact, a study that inspected people that claimed to have an allergy to aspartame found aspartame was no more likely than placebo to cause allergic reactions in said individuals [27].
I feel it important to mention something called the nocebo effect. Basically, when someone has negative expectations of a harmless substance they find themselves suffering from the negative symptoms they expected to experience, despite the innocuous nature of said substance. With the public media falsely reporting on the many dangers and side effects of aspartame, it is no wonder so many people feel they are suffering from its ill effects.
2) Aspartate and phenylalanine, amino acids, are two of the 3 components that aspartame is made from and completely broken down when ingested. The web critics try to paint this as something terrible, mentioning a disease called phenylketonuria (PKU) that causes permanent mental ******ation. They also mention the damaging effects of glutamate and tell you that aspartame will raise blood levels to dangerous levels. One article points to some editorial letters written by Olney in 1975 [11, 12]. A strong part of said article's argument seems to neglect current evidence that shows aspartame consumption has no dangerous effect on blood levels of aminos when taken alone or with meals, with MSG, after chronic consumption, and after abuse doses, even when looking at children and those heterozygous for the PKU gene defect or diabetics or people in liver failure [13-24].
Furthermore, research shows that aspartame consumption doesn't negatively affect brain receptor chemistry [25, 26] nor does it cause seizures—even in individuals who anecdotally relate that aspartame is a trigger for their seizures [28, 29]. To go one step further it has been shown that cognitive function after chronic and acute use of aspartame remains unaffected, even in people heterozygous for the PKU defect. [30-32].
3) There is also the lesser constituent of aspartame, methanol, or "wood poison" as one anti-aspartame author refers to it. Methanol poisoning is very serious; however, becoming poisoned by methanol from aspartame would be quite challenging since aspartame doesn't appreciably raise blood levels of methanol [20]. Not to mention many foods, like tomato juice, contain far more methanol than aspartame; however, some critics counter this with the argument that these foods also contain an "antidote," ethanol. This is laughable and demonstrates a poor understanding of how ethanol acts as an antidote. Methanol itself isn't toxic. It must be converted to a toxic substance, formestate, by alcohol dehydrogenase—an enzyme that also acts on ethanol. The way ethanol works as an antidote is by overwhelming the enzyme system with an alternative substrate. The medical dose of ethanol is 7.5 ml/kg. So unless you are drinking your glass of tomato juice with a fifth of vodka (Bloody Mary anyone?) you aren't getting the antidote effects of ethanol.
Finally we come to the new kids on the block. Unfortunately there is a paucity of information on sweeteners such as sucralose (Splenda), acesulfame-K, and neotame. There are several animal studies, but few directly examining their effects on humans beyond those tests needed to receive the generally-accepted-as-safe (GRAS) stamp from the FDA. These tests are quite rigorous and leave little question as to the safety of the new sweetener. However, if you still feel apprehensive and would like to review the data yourself it is all on file with the FDA.
Artificial sweeteners have received criticism far beyond what they deserve. They offer safe ways for diabetics to sweeten foods and for the general public to reduce calorie consumption. A can of Coke contains about 36g of obesity-epidemic-driving, insulin-resistance-promoting, non-Adkins-approved sugar. A diet Coke, on the other hand, sweetened with aspartame contains no sugar and zero calories. Perhaps the critics of sweeteners could do more good for the public if they focused their zeal and energy on some of the more important scourges of society rather than getting worked up about fringe outliers in esoteric epidemiology studies.
1. Wagner, MW. Cyclamate acceptance. Science. 1970 Jun 26;168(939):1605 (PMID: 5420548)
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3. Squire RA. Histopathological evaluation of rat urinary bladders from the IRDC two-generation bioassay of sodium saccharin. Food Chem Toxicol 1985; 23: 491–497. (PMID: 4040097)
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27. Geha R, Buckley CE, Greenberger P, Patterson R, Polmar S, Saxon A, Rohr A, Yang W, Drouin M. Aspartame is no more likely than placebo to cause urticaria/angioedema: results of a multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover study. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 1993 Oct;92(4):513-20. PMID: 8409113
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Well Diet Soda must not be to bad, since Wraith from animalpak.com adds it as part of his diet. Look at some of his pics and the JOURNEY he is on. I do agree that it should be taken in moderation though. I am a HUGE dt dr pepper fan.
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Well, one reason not to drink a lot of diet soda is because it'll rot and stain your teeth. That's partly why I stay away from the stuff
Well, I'll throw my $.02 in here as someone who sees a very good Nutritionist and a GI Doctor for intestinal problems. BOTH have told me that Diet soda is worse for you than regular soda; but neither are good and should be avoided. NOT just by me due to my diverticulosis, but everyone. Sure regular soda has more sugar, but the diet contains not only aspartame but phosphoric acid and Citric acid and other things that are really not good for you. Diet soda basically rots your teeth as well as your insides. I find it amusing that people who won't eat white bread or refined flour, sugar, etc. etc., will drink diet soda thinking that it's ok. Just read the ingredients, it ain't good. Just my input, not trying to be confrontational, just looking out.
Phosphoric acid: Phosphoric acid is prepared commercially by heating calcium phosphate rock with sulfuric acid; purer grades may be prepared by treating red phosphorus with nitric acid. It is used in pickling and rust-proofing metals, in acidifying jellies and beverages, and in preparing phosphate salts.
Citric Acid: Citric acid is used in soft drinks and in laxatives and cathartics. Its salts, the citrates, have many uses, e.g., ferric ammonium citrate is used in making blueprint paper. Sour salt, used in cooking, is citric acid.
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Do you mean Ascorbic acid, as in vitamin C? In any case, you're wrong.Originally Posted by HP666
Let the uneducated rambling of fear mongers commence.
Apartame is been tested, tested and retested and nobody can find any solid evidence that it is harmful. Many people have a hypothesis, but not a shred of evidence. Not to mention the largest experiement ever has been going on for 26 years since it's approval and still no one has found any link between anything and aspartame. Before someone states, "But it is converted to methanol in you gut!!!!" , a single glass of orange juice has more methanol. Is anyone out there condeming orange juice?
Is the acidic nature of pop/soda good for you? No it isn't. But you could do far, far worse.
That's a picture of Scarlett Johansson.
Critic acid bad for you? Hahahahahaha. Eaten a peice of fruit lately.Originally Posted by HP666
"Citric acid is a weak organic acid found in citrus fruits.
It is a natural preservative and is also used to add an acidic (sour) taste to foods and soft drinks. In biochemistry, it is important as an intermediate in the citric acid cycle and therefore occurs in the metabolism of almost all living things. It also serves as an environmentally benign cleaning agent and acts as an antioxidant.
Citric acid exists in a variety of fruits and vegetables, but it is most concentrated in lemons and limes, where it can comprise as much as 8% of the dry weight of the fruit.
Citric acid is recognized as safe for use in food by all major national and international food regulatory agencies. It is naturally present in almost all forms of life, and excess citric acid is readily metabolized and eliminated from the body."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citric_acid <--- read the horrors of citric acid
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I only drink soda when I'm cutting and thats just diet soda. The carbination fills me up and I like that it has not calories.
Other then that its total garbage. No nutritional value at all and a substance that doesnt belong in your body. Its just another fine product of junk that we've made to satisfy our sweet tooth. I'd rather have my calories better used in something more productive. Atleast more tasteful.
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Originally Posted by Vapour Trails
Sorry, I mispoke at first, I meant phosphoric acid. I edited my post 2 minutes later.
tomato juice has more lol.Originally Posted by Vapour Trails
I hate you vapour trails, ya beat me to citric acid. Not only is it in a bunch of the fruits you eat, things like citric acid, malic acid, etc are used for flavoring in soooooo many products it isn't even funny. Just saying *** acid sounds much scarier tho, i'll give him that.
HP666, can you please explain the problems phosphoric acid could pose, adn also assure us that the levels required for said problems are present in the product in question
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Originally Posted by Jordanbcool
I thought diet soda had no calories?
Great feedback. I too love my diet soda. I try to stick to the lighter colored drinks like mt. dew and sprite to keep my teeth from looking disgusting, but diet mt. dew can't be much better. SO..by reading all the replies diet soda is by no means good for you which we all know, but it's not going to kill a man either. Moderation is key. Drinking none at all is better. Correct?
it's not the coloring of the soda that causes the deterioration, but rather the acidity, which is still there in sprite/etc
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Diet Coke rules. No way I'll be giving that up anytime soon. It's 98% water anyway and the remaining ingredients are not harmful in the least degree unless you are a lab rat and eat 28 times your own bodywieght of the stuff every day of your life.
Life is too short to spend time worrying about diet sodas. I'd rather focus my attention and dedicate my energies toward saying no to that extra helping of apple pie a la mode on Sunday afternoon or passing on that platter of Nacho's on Friday night rather than worry about the big fat ZERO calories I might get from a Diet Coke.
But each to his own, eh?
That's something i wondered actually - could you actually be negating the aspartame worry by giving your body more fluid to expel more stuff from you? I'm not saying it changes acidity, as the fluid is acidic, but if you put in a little bit of aspartame, you also put in lots of water, how do we know that the water doesn't outweigh the aspartame? And even if the water didn't make much difference, and aspartame could cause problems, i still think that most everyone is fine with it. The body has amazing recuperative abilities (just look at these boards, where we count on and manipulate such things), and even if something is bad the body can deal with it. That is the reason that i have not been convinced to buy organic (yet anyways) - even if you can show me there is a small amount of pesticide residue, if it is a very small amount i don't doubt my body has much trouble processing it (just like it does with all the other toxins it takes in from everything, even the environment)Originally Posted by beatlesfreak
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Well, so far I have still seen no VALID reasons to not consume Diet soda other than the fact that it discolors your teeth.
HP666 says aspartame is bad... but the article posted here was very convincing and had references. Apparently there is no evidence supporting that the substance is very bad for you.
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Good point. The first rule of toxicology is: there is no such thing as a toxic substance, only a toxic dosage. Anything can be dangerous in large enough doses. Anything can be harmless in small enough doses. Water can kill you if you drink too much too quickly.Originally Posted by jdeity
The whole organic food craze seems like such a misguided urban yuppie fad. It makes no sense at all to me that it is largely so-called "environmentally conscious" people who are its biggest advocates. Organic growing takes far more land and far more man-hours to produce an equal amount of food--thereby increasing the risk for all sorts of undesireable events such as soil erosion and deforestation. If a person is worried about pesticides or other chemicals they should prolly be washing their foods before eating them instead of paying extra money for what is essentially the same dang thing only with an organic label stuck on it.
Besides, you have to wash organic foods too, to get the cow crap off.
The bulk of organic shoppers, in my opinion, are doing it out of elitist and/or fear reasons. Certainly there are people who actually look into what they're doing and make a well thought out decision. I'd bet the majority of the customers buying organics do not fall into that category. Kind of like hybrids lol, but we'll ignore that for now (I understand the saving gas money argument, but ... oh scrwe it nm)
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According to Jerry Palm its 40. ESPNInsider also has been using 40.
According to Realtime RPI its 38.
I guess the discrepancy is over how our game versus VCU was classified. The NCAA and KenPom say its neutral. Jerry Palm says its away. I don't know how important the RPI is, but the difference between 38 and 46 could mean the difference between IN and OUT.


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Wauwatosa police say a 38-year-old Milwaukee man was evading them - hopping fences, running through yards, ditching evidence and nearly getting away - until canine officer Addy got a hold of his right leg.
According to the Wauwatosa police report:
Employees of Sendik's, 8616 W. North Ave., called police about the man after they witnessed strange behavior on his part at 4:50 p.m. Jan. 6. The man was wearing a coat much too large for him, tried purchasing a bottle of distilled water and then said he didn't have the 99 cents to pay for it.
As soon as he left, the employees reviewed video surveillance footage that showed him spiriting off three bottles of liquor, a total value of $82.
A nearby officer was there in seconds. He spotted the man walking on the sidewalk, and asked him to answer some questions.
"I just saw the guy run that way. He was wearing a black trench coat," was the response from the 38-year-old. The officer asked him to stop and answer some questions. The man's walk broke into a run.
Multiple officers went to the scene, trying to catch him.
Eventually, an officer cornered him in an alley. The 38-year-old put his hand in his coat and started walking toward the officer. He did not comply when an officer ordered him to put his hands in the air.
Canine Addy was loosed upon the man. The dog sunk his teeth into his leg, causing him to fall to the ground.
The report goes on to say that the man admitted to the theft, as well as to having used alcohol, marijuana and cocaine that day, once at the police station. A background check revealed three felony drug offenses, armed robbery, felony eluding, two weapons offenses, 10 retail thefts and six resisting or obstructing arrests. He also had a credit card and ID, neither of which belonged to him.
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Alisha Perez, a four-year member of the Deer Park volleyball team, has seen her fair share of in her first three years. While not competing for a Great Northern League championship this fall, the Lady Stags have beaten teams that never gave them a second thought in year's past.
"At first, it was shocking," said Perez on this year's success, "but after a while yeah!"
Among those who fell this year was home-standing Cheney on Saturday.
The 5-foot-9 Perez, one of Deer Park's main weapons at the net, said the Lady Stags' win left some of the Blackhawks in tears.
The Deer Park volleyball team staged a pair of comebacks to defeat Medical Lake 25-15, 25-29, 25-23 in Great Northern League action on Tuesday.
The Lady Stags, who broke open a 10-10 tie to easily win the first game, fell behind early in the second game. An ace by the Cardinals Raquel Alsept game Medical Lake a 16-8 lead before the Lady Stags made their move.
Zoey Mohr's kill through a pair of Cardinal blockers gave Deer Park a 20-19 lead. An ace by Haley Wainwright gave the Lady Stags some breathing room at 22-20 and they cruised the rest of the way.
The East Valley Knights wasted little time delivering its best shot Friday against Deer Park with two first quarter touchdowns.
It, however, was the Stags who delivered the knockout punch with a pair of fourth quarter touchdowns to secure a 42-25 win.
The victory improved the Stags' Great Northern League record to 2-1 (5-1 overall), while East Valley fell to 1-1, 3-3.
"If we're going to win the league title, we had to win this game," said Stag head coach Keith Stamps, who saw his team lose a heartbreaker to Cheney the previous week.
The West Valley Eagles broke open a close game with a six-goal second half explosion to defeat Deer Park 8-2 in Great Northern League soccer action on Tuesday.
The win improved West Valley's GNL record to 4-2 while Deer Park fell to 1-5.
Trailing 3-0 midway through the second half, the Lady Stags got on the scoreboard with an Alison Ruygrok goal. The Eagles retaliated with a Brittni Marro, her second of the game.
Nikki Ball also scored for Deer Park at the 67-minute mark.
West Valley outshot Deer Park 27-12.
The Cheney Blackhawks, the last unbeaten volleyball team in the Great Northern League, defeated Deer Park 25-15, 25-22, 25-21 on Thursday.
In each game, the teams played even at the start only to have the Blackhawks surge to a commanding lead.
In the first game, a 5-5 deadlock quickly became a 16-5 lead behind the serving of Cheney's Sami Sheffels.
The Riverside Rams, who were pushed around for most of the game, shoved back at the most opportune time on Friday.
The Rams, who saw Lakeside run 49 plays in the first three quarters (as compared to 29 of their own), responded with a pair of fourth quarter touchdown to edge the Eagles 14-10 in Northeast A League action.
The win improved the Rams' NE-A record to 1-1 and 2-2 overall. It was the NE-A opener for the Eagles (1-3).
"We stopped them when we needed to," said Riverside interim head coach Mark Vannatter. "We made plays."
The Springdale Chargers couldn't wait for their second football game this season.
The Chargers, who were routed by Tekoa-Oaksdale in their season opener two weeks ago, scored the first time they touched the ball, a 58-yard punt return by Shane O'Malley in a 48-0 win over Liberty (0-3) on Friday.
Unfortunately, O'Malley's punt return was called back by a clipping penalty. It did not matter, since Mitch Peone legally scored a 45-yard run two plays later and the Chargers were in control the rest of the way.
Deer Park's special teams lived up to its name in the Stags' 37-19 win over Lakeside on Friday.
The unit was indeed special in contributing a kickoff return for a touchdown and a fumble recovery of a Lakeside kickoff return in the first half as well as bottling up the Lakeside attack in the second half. The Eagles (0-2) average start after Stag kickoffs in the second half was their own 16-yard line.
"It definitely controlled the field possession in the second half," said Stag head coach Keith Stamps, who saw his team improve to 2-0 this fall.
The Deer Park Lady Stags buried their Riverside counterparts 12-1 on Tuesday in the season opener for both schools.
The got the goal-scoring avalanche started at the 13-minute mark when Ashton Martinson beat Riverside goalkeeper Brittany Hoog. It was the first of four goals Martinson scored in the first half.
The Lady Rams' Ashley Uhlenkott scored Riverside's lone goal at the 32-minute mark. The Lady Stags responded with three more goals before intermission.
Leading 8-1 at halftime, the Lady Stag coaching staff used the reserves for the majority of the second half.
The Deer Park Stags rolled up 398 yards of total offense in their season opener on Friday but none were as important as the final 6 of them.
Wide receiver Caleb Guske covered those final precious 18 feet when he hauled in a touchdown pass from Colton Mead with 25 seconds remaining to secure a 37-33 win over Chewelah. It was Mead's fourth touchdown pass of the game.
"I meant to get him the ball," said Mead on the Stags' final offensive play of the game. "He's a good basketball player and he can leap."
Mead finished 19 of 28 for 270 yards.


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I took a look over the current SDK and it's really mature and much better than the beta version . However, I feel that some improvements or future features would really help. I'll list some of them here (and highlight with bold the ideas):
1) What about integrating OpenCV (or at least parts of it that don't overlap with the existing Imaging SDK) or make it compatible with the Imaging SDK? I know it's not so easy, but OpenCV already compiles (kinda) with WinRT and that's not so much different than WinPRT. With your guys from the Imaging department they could really nail it down faster/better than any of us (Unless we find some OpenCV dev which also uses/has interest in the WP platform).
With the new integration we could really enhance the possibilities of Imaging SDK to allow it even more scenarios. Probably it will clash with the already existing apps like SmartCam or others, but still, it would be an awesome addition provided that OpenCV is de facto in its area and we always can have new ideas.
2) Allow image (and/or) filter serialization. Yes, we can save manually the plain image or invent our custom serializer (e.g.: Run Length Encoding or what-not) for the images or filters..., but it's so much better if it's integrated in the SDK and done by you. You already know the internal format and you know how to benefit maximum from it. Just two simple methods: "Serialize(targetFile)" and "Deserialize(sourceFile)" should suffice. We don't care what's behind. The point is: we want to store the images (and/or filters) in the most optimum fashion locally, especially when keeping backups (e.g.: for apps that do image processing) from big images. Just imagine how much spaces does a 20+MP image take . Another scenario where this feature would be extremely useful is when transferring images over the network between apps that know/use the Imaging SDK. This way we can cut the transfer size lower.


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Interesting pumpy crux on the first pitch. It is one of those routes that once you lead it you remember it unlike so many other clip ups. I say that, but perhaps the battle was a good one for me and I won it and that is why I remember it. The second pitch is run out but easy. A cool way to finish it is to move right and finish on the upper part of Metro. There is also a direct start that is 12c or 12d. Rap down the back side of the tower doing two raps. Don't go past the anchors as they are behind you when rapping.
Right side of Punch and Judy Towers. Starts up a ramp and takes the right hand line of bolts.


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"Saturday Night Live," 11:29 p.m., NBC. Adam Levine has been making NBC his personal network - as a "Voice" judge and as a member of Maroon 5. Tonight's "SNL" (with Jeremy Renner as host) will be the group's third time as the music guest; Levine also showed up a couple other times when Kanye West was music guest. The NBC link works well. Before "Voice," Maroon 5 only had one single reach Billboard's top 10. This year, it's had two at No. 1 and one at No. 2; four albums (two of them old ones) made the top 10.
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Best of Offscreen at MelkwegFilm / Amsterdam
March 19-28 2014, Various times
As an extended part of the Offscreen Film Festival, Melkweg will be showing eight of the featured films in Amsterdam!
About the Offscreen Film Festival
Taking place annually in Brussels, the Offscreen Film Festival specialises in the work of independent filmmakers, cult classics and other off-beat or alternative genres of film.
Organised by association Marcel, Offscreen has emerged as an alternative platform for independent audio-visual artists and avant-garde cinema.
The event has built a loyal following and features an expertly curated programme of B-movies, camp, trash, exploitation and other forms of lesser known cinema.
Each year Melkweg screens a selection of these films in Amsterdam. This year, the guest of honour is erotica film maker Radley Metzger, whose 1970s masterpieces integrate erotic fantasy, drug-fuelled parties and other libertarian notions into compelling films.
Four of Metzger's films will be screened, among others including two classic animation films by Giasburo Sugii and the premiers of Computer Chess (a man versus machine showdown) and A Field in England (featuring magic mushrooms and the ensuing psychadelics).
Still from A Field in England, 2013, Ben Wheatley
Thumb: Still from Camille 2000, 1969, Metzger
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Films To Be Shown
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› Belladonna of Sadness (Animation)
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› The Opening of Misty Beethoven
› Night on the Galactic Railroad (Animation)
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Cathedral, Angouleme, France, 1903
- Image: "Cathedral, Angouleme, France, 1903", 1903. Vintage print, 5 x 7 in. Brooklyn Museum, Goodyear. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, S03i0767v01.jpg)
- Notes: I. Sept. 26. Angouleme Cathedral. Transepts from south to north. Shows widening but print is out of perpendicular. Note plumb line in centre and rectify. Surveyor's rod in angle left. Goodyear number: 309. Annotations: 25 x 35. Slide, but note plumb-line for perpendicular and not accordingly. Goerz. D 64. 30 minutes.
- Rights Statement: No known copyright restrictions
- Citation: Brooklyn Museum Archives. Goodyear Archival Collection
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This book is a photographic journal of my discovery of the beauty of the wildflowers that grow in the Texas Hill Country, especially those that grow unnoticed. Most people just step on them. I photograph them.
Wildflowers of Roaring Springs Ranch contains 100 original color photos that were taken by the author on location at Roaring Springs Ranch, Camp Wood, Real County, Texas. Information about each species is included along with its common and scientific names.


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Study: A protein called Erbin plays a role in abnormal heart enlargement, which is one side effect of a common drug to treat breast cancer.
Residents of the badly hit southern city tell ISRAEL21c how they managed to keep fear at bay through this long summer of sirens and missiles.
An Israeli graduate student devises anti-slime coating for boxes used to transport fruits and vegetables to market.
A flash mob in the emergency ward can get even the bedridden to tap their toes.A different way of going viral in Israeli hospitals
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IDF tributes to American Authors, Pharrell Williams
Israelis ante up ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
A special multimedia event at the Ramat Gan Safari turned the zoo into a sound and light experience for the whole family.Animal Magic at the Safari
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Books covered in brown paper, compass sets and tracing paper are just some of items once found in the average Israeli child's leather book-bag.Looking Back at Back-to-School
Tarpupu Time at Jerusalem's First Station
Culture Wars On the Supermarket Shelf
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This route ascends the West Face of the Pulpit, and passes a cave in the cliff at mid-height. I didn't find the cave to be too exciting, but apparently that is the main attraction to the Pulpit. This route would almost qualify as a waste of time, if not for the excellent 3rd pitch, which is very interesting on great rock, with just the right amount of gear.
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Slices a tomato so thin you can almost see through it! But wait! There's more! It also works great on Yakuza!
It's been a while since we had any Meiko Kaji on the site, so today we have four posters—two normal sized and two panel length—for 1971's Ginchô wataridori, aka Wandering Ginza Butterfly, and 1972's Ginchô nagaremono mesuneko bakuchi, aka Wandering Ginza: She-Cat Gambler. Haven't seen them? Well, in our opinion, part two is vastly better than the first installment, but neither is up to the standard of Lady Snowblood. Still though, there are Yakuza and she kills them. What more could you want? You also get Meg Flower in part one, and Sonny Chiba in part two—both good additions. Kaji is still going strong in show business, by the way, having appeared in nine episodes of the Japanese television series Kekkon Shinai in 2012. We have some extremely rare posters of hers we'll get to shortly.
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Feets of strength and balance.
Half Japanese-half Anglo actress Janet Hatta started her working career as a flight attendant, then was discovered by a modeling agent, which led to cinema. She appeared in eight Japanese movies between 1974 and 1977 before moving on to television. Her films include Doberman deka with Sonny Chiba, and Ningen no shômei with Yukiko Mishima. No date on this shot, but assume circa 1975.
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BATON ROUGE, La. — Craig Loston helped keep Mississippi State in Saturday night's SEC West battle when he lost coverage on a Bulldogs' touchdown in the third quarter.
With 1:13 to play, the LSU defensive back ripped away Mississippi State's last-gasp hope.
Loston intercepted Mississippi State quarterback Tyler Russell and returned it 100 yards for a touchdown, clinching No. 7 LSU's 37-17 win over the 21st-ranked Bulldogs in Tiger Stadium.
The Tigers let Mississippi State hang around for most of the first three quarters, a likely hangover from last week's pounding and emotional loss to Alabama.
LSU's hangover, however, wasn't nearly as bad as the one four-plus hours up the road in Tuscaloosa, Ala., where No. 1-ranked Alabama followed up its last-second win over the Tigers with a stunning five-point loss to Texas A&M.
A week after failing to finish against Alabama, the Tigers (8-3, 4-2 SEC) were able to do it against Mississippi State.
"I liked how we responded," LSU coach Les Miles said. "We could have been hang dog. We could have been miserable. Just all this and all that. But you know what, that's not how this team is."
And they did it with an efficient offense led by quarterback Zach Mettenberger, who is suddenly showing signs of the on-field leader the team hoped it was getting. The junior quarterback was 19 of 30 for a season-high 273 yards and two touchdowns.
It helped that Mettenberger found his go-to receiver in Jarvis Landry. The sophomore set career highs in catches with nine and yards with 109. He also scored the team's first touchdown of the game.
The Tigers were 9 of 15 on third down and gained 392 total yards, including 119 on the ground.
"I know his (Miles') confidence is definitely building with us making plays," Mettenberger said. "That's something that we should have been doing all year but at least it's finally happening and hopefully we keep it rolling."
Meanwhile, LSU's defense kept Mississippi State (7-3, 3-3) to only 351 total yards, nearly 30 below the Bulldogs' season average. The Tigers allowed Mississippi State to convert only 10 of 10 third downs and just 47 yards rushing.
Loston's interception return was the punctuation to a big night for the Tigers' defense.
"We felt some of their players were pretty good at rushing the passer, so we did some things to get the ball out quick and it was effective," said Mississippi State quarterback Tyler Russell, who finished 26 of 38 for 295 yards with one touchdown and the interception. "Unfortunately they made more plays than we did and all of our guys fought until the end. Sometimes you can fight as hard as you want and still not win the game."
Mississippi State struck first, driving 74 yards in 10 plays to take a 7-0 lead when quarterback Dak Prescott faked a handoff only to hit a wide open Marcus Green in the end zone for a 9-yard touchdown.
LSU appeared on its way to tie the game, marching into the red zone after Michael Ford 41-yard kickoff return and two straight third-down conversions. But the drive stalled at the Bulldogs' 12 and Drew Alleman booted a 28-yard field goal to cut into Mississippi State's lead 7-3 with just 11 seconds to play in the first quarter.
Alleman's second field goal, a 26-yarder, pulled the Tigers to within 7-6 midway through the second quarter.
On the ensuing Mississippi State series, LSU defensive end Barkevious Mingo gave the Tigers their biggest defensive play of the first half. He pushed the offensive lineman blocking him into the backfield, forcing a fumble on a pitch that Tigers' linebacker Lamin Barrow recovered at the Bulldogs' 21. Three plays later, Mettenberger hit Landry for a 19-yard touchdown and a 13-7 lead.
Mississippi State answered with a 47-yard Devon Bell field goal with 48 seconds to go before halftime, halving LSU's lead to 13-10.
LSU didn't take the foot off the gas as the first half came to a close, using the little time left on the clock to march 71 yards in four plays, capped by a Mettenberger to Spencer Ware 20-yard touchdown pass.
"We worked on it, worked on it, worked on it and I just think we're getting better," Miles said of the two-minute drill. "The time and effort that is being spent there is paying dividends and is fruitful."
Despite trailing in the first quarter, the Tigers owned a 20-10 halftime lead. Mettenberger had 174 yards and two touchdowns at the half, carrying over his play from a week earlier when he nearly led the Tigers to a win over Alabama.
But if the game appeared heading for a blowout, LSU mistakes in the opening three minutes of the third quarter kept it from being one.
Odell Beckham Jr. muffed a punt at the LSU 29, which Mississippi State recovered. One play later, defensive back Craig Loston was called for pass interference, and then he let Chad Bumpus behind him in the end zone, where Tyler Russell found him for a 14-yard touchdown. And just like that, LSU's lead was down to 20-17.
Alleman's third field goal of the night, this time from 41 yards, pushed LSU's lead to 23-17. Eight minutes later, fullback J.C. Copeland scored on a one-yard plunge, giving the Tigers a 30-17 lead and all but ending any Bulldogs upset bid.
"The question was whether this football team would come to play after playing an emotional game a week ago," Miles said. "There is not any question that they were. There is a fundamental feeling in this stadium and in our football building that we are just catching speed. We are just getting the pace that we need."


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There is a new video interview with actor Jason Isaacs (Lucius Malfoy) online today, taped last week with thelondonpaper.com while he was promoting the UK launch of his TV series "Brotherhood." Jason declined to discuss in detail the upcoming Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, saying he might get fired. He instead recommended the book, as he feels the film "won't vary too much from that." Towards the end of the interview, there is a funny part where Jason also reveals his ermm magical tricksy side...Watch here. :)
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On April 21, 2010, Shawn Danzie was working on a supply vessel just 50 miles from where the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded.
Since that day, the impact on the ecosystem, a community, and the family of the 11 workers who died have been enormous.
Danzie said his life changed too. Once an oil drilling moratorium went into place he couldn't find work. For more than a year he took out loans and scrounged up whatever money he could to feed his family.
"As far as my debt and lost wages, probably around $80,000 or so," Danzie said. "We went into a lot of debt."
Danzie, along with thousands of others, is suing BP for the financial strain the explosion caused his family. And he couldn't believe the $4.5 billion settlement with the U.S. government.
"I was thinking that could help a lot of people catch back up with some of the debt they fell into," Danzie said. "That obviously can't be a relief for people who lost a loved one, but at least it would be something to supplement what they were getting before to get their life back."
Since the explosion, Danzie said BP hasn't given him any relief, relief he feels that he is owed, along with thousands of other workers who were out of the job months after the spill was finally capped.
"I want to get back what I lost from a mistake that should have never happened," Danzie said. "As far as the spill, it did open a lot of eyes out there. The safety aspect of the job now is above and beyond. I believe the safety we are going through now, if it was this way before the spill, I believe it would have never happened."
After the initial explosion, Danzie said he saw the terror in the eyes of the survivors of Deepwater Horizon moments after they were plucked from the roaring waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
"It didn't really hit home to me, it was as bad as it was, until I saw the vessel pull up beside us with the guys coming off the rig," Danzie said. "The guys were just basically scared, shook up. You know, everybody's head was down trying to make sure nobody was missing."
For Danzie, along with his wife, Kim, and two kids, life is starting to get back to normal. But, it comes with a lot of time spent away from home to make up the losses from missed work.
"To try and get caught back up on my money, I am working six weeks on, two weeks off," Danzie said. "That's to try and catch back up with the debt I fell into."
The payout to the U.S. is the largest criminal penalty in U.S. history at $1.3 billion in criminal fines.
Kim Danzie said she still can't believe the federal government reached a settlement with BP before other families who lost everything.
"We lost a lot, we lost our home, we had to move, I had to quit my job to stay home with the kids because we couldn't afford daycare," Kim Danzie said. "They (BP) ought to be ashamed. They are paying out to all of these high businesses and there are families that are still struggling."
The Danzies hired a lawyer and are currently in the process of suing BP.
"From that $4.5 billion dollars, they get nothing," Kyle Koester said.
Koester works for Jonathan W. Johnson, LLC. He said the Danzie's story is one that encompasses thousands of other workers who still are struggling after the explosion.
"I tell BP, a mistake was made, but it is on you to do what's right," Koester said. "They got to make it right. They got to start paying these funds out of the Deepwater Horizon funds, they got to open the scope to other people and to these families."
Danzie said many of his co-workers moved to Alaska to get jobs working on offshore oil rigs. Lately, work has picked up, but not enough to get him back to where he was before the tragic explosion in 2010.
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