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How We Know
Gordon Moore was in the hardware business, making hardware components for electronic machines, and he stated his law as a law of growth for hardware. But the law applies also to the information that the hardware is designed to embody. The purpose of the hardware is to store and process information. The storage of information is called memory, and the processing of information is called computing. The consequence of Moore's Law for information is that the price of memory and computing decreases and the available amount of memory and computing increases by a factor of a hundred every decade. The flood of hardware becomes a flood of information.
In 1949, one year after Shannon published the rules of information theory, he drew up a table of the various stores of memory that then existed. The biggest memory in his table was the US Library of Congress, which he estimated to contain one hundred trillion bits of information. That was at the time a fair guess at the sum total of recorded human knowledge. Today a memory disc drive storing that amount of information weighs a few pounds and can be bought for about a thousand dollars. Information, otherwise known as data, pours into memories of that size or larger, in government and business offices and scientific laboratories all over the world. Gleick quotes the computer scientist Jaron Lanier describing the effect of the flood: "It's as if you kneel to plant the seed of a tree and it grows so fast that it swallows your whole town before you can even rise to your feet."
On December 8, 2010, Gleick published on the The New York Review's blog an illuminating essay, "The Information Palace." It was written too late to be included in his book. It describes the historical changes of meaning of the word "information," as recorded in the latest quarterly online revision of the Oxford English Dictionary. The word first appears in 1386 a parliamentary report with the meaning "denunciation." The history ends with the modern usage, "information fatigue," defined as "apathy, indifference or mental exhaustion arising from exposure to too much information."
The consequences of the information flood are not all bad. One of the creative enterprises made possible by the flood is Wikipedia, started ten years ago by Jimmy Wales. Among my friends and acquaintances, everybody distrusts Wikipedia and everybody uses it. Distrust and productive use are not incompatible. Wikipedia is the ultimate open source repository of information. Everyone is free to read it and everyone is free to write it. It contains articles in 262 languages written by several million authors. The information that it contains is totally unreliable and surprisingly accurate. It is often unreliable because many of the authors are ignorant or careless. It is often accurate because the articles are edited and corrected by readers who are better informed than the authors.
Jimmy Wales hoped when he started Wikipedia that the combination of enthusiastic volunteer writers with open source information technology would cause a revolution in human access to knowledge. The rate of growth of Wikipedia exceeded his wildest dreams. Within ten years it has become the biggest storehouse of information on the planet and the noisiest battleground of conflicting opinions. It illustrates Shannon's law of reliable communication. Shannon's law says that accurate transmission of information is possible in a communication system with a high level of noise. Even in the noisiest system, errors can be reliably corrected and accurate information transmitted, provided that the transmission is sufficiently redundant. That is, in a nutshell, how Wikipedia works.
The information flood has also brought enormous benefits to science. The public has a distorted view of science, because children are taught in school that science is a collection of firmly established truths. In fact, science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries. Wherever we go exploring in the world around us, we find mysteries. Our planet is covered by continents and oceans whose origin we cannot explain. Our atmosphere is constantly stirred by poorly understood disturbances that we call weather and climate. The visible matter in the universe is outweighed by a much larger quantity of dark invisible matter that we do not understand at all. The origin of life is a total mystery, and so is the existence of human consciousness. We have no clear idea how the electrical discharges occurring in nerve cells in our brains are connected with our feelings and desires and actions.
Even physics, the most exact and most firmly established branch of science, is still full of mysteries. We do not know how much of Shannon's theory of information will remain valid when quantum devices replace classical electric circuits as the carriers of information. Quantum devices may be made of single atoms or microscopic magnetic circuits. All that we know for sure is that they can theoretically do certain jobs that are beyond the reach of classical devices. Quantum computing is still an unexplored mystery on the frontier of information theory. Science is the sum total of a great multitude of mysteries. It is an unending argument between a great multitude of voices. It resembles Wikipedia much more than it resembles the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
The rapid growth of the flood of information in the last ten years made Wikipedia possible, and the same flood made twenty-first-century science possible. Twenty-first-century science is dominated by huge stores of information that we call databases. The information flood has made it easy and cheap to build databases. One example of a twenty-first-century database is the collection of genome sequences of living creatures belonging to various species from microbes to humans. Each genome contains the complete genetic information that shaped the creature to which it belongs. The genome data-base is rapidly growing and is available for scientists all over the world to explore. Its origin can be traced to the year 1939, when Shannon wrote his Ph.D. thesis with the title "An Algebra for Theoretical Genetics."
Shannon was then a graduate student in the mathematics department at MIT. He was only dimly aware of the possible physical embodiment of genetic information. The true physical embodiment of the genome is the double helix structure of DNA molecules, discovered by Francis Crick and James Watson fourteen years later. In 1939 Shannon understood that the basis of genetics must be information, and that the information must be coded in some abstract algebra independent of its physical embodiment. Without any knowledge of the double helix, he could not hope to guess the detailed structure of the genetic code. He could only imagine that in some distant future the genetic information would be decoded and collected in a giant database that would define the total diversity of living creatures. It took only sixty years for his dream to come true.
In the twentieth century, genomes of humans and other species were laboriously decoded and translated into sequences of letters in computer memories. The decoding and translation became cheaper and faster as time went on, the price decreasing and the speed increasing according to Moore's Law. The first human genome took fifteen years to decode and cost about a billion dollars. Now a human genome can be decoded in a few weeks and costs a few thousand dollars. Around the year 2000, a turning point was reached, when it became cheaper to produce genetic information than to understand it. Now we can pass a piece of human DNA through a machine and rapidly read out the genetic information, but we cannot read out the meaning of the information. We shall not fully understand the information until we understand in detail the processes of embryonic development that the DNA orchestrated to make us what we are.
A similar turning point was reached about the same time in the science of astronomy. Telescopes and spacecraft have evolved slowly, but cameras and optical data processors have evolved fast. Modern sky-survey projects collect data from huge areas of sky and produce databases with accurate information about billions of objects. Astronomers without access to large instruments can make discoveries by mining the databases instead of observing the sky. Big databases have caused similar revolutions in other sciences such as biochemistry and ecology.
The explosive growth of information in our human society is a part of the slower growth of ordered structures in the evolution of life as a whole. Life has for billions of years been evolving with organisms and ecosystems embodying increasing amounts of information. The evolution of life is a part of the evolution of the universe, which also evolves with increasing amounts of information embodied in ordered structures, galaxies and stars and planetary systems. In the living and in the nonliving world, we see a growth of order, starting from the featureless and uniform gas of the early universe and producing the magnificent diversity of weird objects that we see in the sky and in the rain forest. Everywhere around us, wherever we look, we see evidence of increasing order and increasing information. The technology arising from Shannon's discoveries is only a local acceleration of the natural growth of information.
The visible growth of ordered structures in the universe seemed paradoxical to nineteenth-century scientists and philosophers, who believed in a dismal doctrine called the heat death. Lord Kelvin, one of the leading physicists of that time, promoted the heat death dogma, predicting that the flow of heat from warmer to cooler objects will result in a decrease of temperature differences everywhere, until all temperatures ultimately become equal. Life needs temperature differences, to avoid being stifled by its waste heat. So life will disappear.
This dismal view of the future was in startling contrast to the ebullient growth of life that we see around us. Thanks to the discoveries of astronomers in the twentieth century, we now know that the heat death is a myth. The heat death can never happen, and there is no paradox. The best popular account of the disappearance of the paradox is a chapter, "How Order Was Born of Chaos," in the book Creation of the Universe, by Fang Lizhi and his wife Li Shuxian.2 Fang Lizhi is doubly famous as a leading Chinese astronomer and a leading political dissident. He is now pursuing his double career at the University of Arizona.
The belief in a heat death was based on an idea that I call the cooking rule. The cooking rule says that a piece of steak gets warmer when we put it on a hot grill. More generally, the rule says that any object gets warmer when it gains energy, and gets cooler when it loses energy. Humans have been cooking steaks for thousands of years, and nobody ever saw a steak get colder while cooking on a fire. The cooking rule is true for objects small enough for us to handle. If the cooking rule is always true, then Lord Kelvin's argument for the heat death is correct.
2 Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co., 1989. ↩
Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co., 1989. ↩


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Like with any piece of technology, discovering that something you rely on isn't going to work as expected can be maddening to say the least. And despite the many advancements seen on the webcam front, sometimes webcam drivers for Ubuntu can still present some problems. My own rule when using webcams, is just to stick with Logitech models. The reason being is that they're generally well supported thanks to solid driver solutions already rolled up with distros like Ubuntu.
Oddly though, I've run into some instances where even a known to work webcam can create some problems. At first, there was speculation around my home office that the problem might be a bug. But after doing some checking, it turns out that nothing could be further from the truth. See, the problem that I was experiencing also affected a number of Windows users as well. Apparently the problem was a webcam standby issue of some sort. But in order to realize this, I had to run the following commands to make sure nothing else was going on.
So what was the magic solution? Simple. All I needed to do was to unplug and re-plug my webcam with the computer turned on. Wild, huh? But the problem was that like some Windows users I found also experiencing this issue, I had to do this with each boot into my operating system. Clearly, this was a real problem even if it wasn't truly an issue with drivers for Ubuntu. The fix that worked best for me was to simply take the webcam off of the powered USB hub I was using, then plug it into my PC's frontal USB port. Bingo! From then on out, it worked like a charm!
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If you've tried the suggestion above and find your webcam is still giving you some problems, your issue may be Ubuntu driver related. If you're using an older webcam, odds are it's going to be relying on the old spca driver. Go ahead and run this code in a terminal window
sudo modprobe gspca
If this was correct, you'll see the next line appear in the terminal without any errors. If it's not detected, go ahead and run a sudo lsusb command to see if the webcam shows up there. If it's showing up there, then it's using a newer driver. Therefore try this option.
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Edward "Red" Gregory Nowak, 89, Stevens Point, died Monday, May 12, 2014, at his home while under the care of Ministry Home Hospice.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10 a.m. Friday, May 16, at St. Stanislaus Catholic Church, with the Rev. Thomas Lindner officiating. Private burial will be held at Guardian Angel Cemetery.
Visitation will be at the Shuda Funeral Chapel from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday, with a general rosary prayed at 7 p.m. and at the church from 9 to 9:45 a.m. Friday.
Condolences may be offered online at www.shudafuneral.com.
Mr. Nowak was born March 12, 1925, in Milwaukee, a son of the late Casmir and Josephine (Michalski) Nowak. The family moved to Edgar, and he graduated from Edgar High School.
He was married to Myrtle "Mertz" Grosskreutz Aug. 7, 1946, in the town of Cassel in Marathon County. She died in 1998.
The couple and extended family moved to Stevens Point in 1950 and opened Nowak's Bar & Grocery. The business was operated by the Nowak family until 1964 when he and his wife took sole ownership, expanded the bar and eliminated the grocery.
Together they owned and operated Nowak's Bar until their retirement in 1977. They hosted many polka parties over the years.
Survivors include five children, Jeffrey (Linda) Nowak, Chippewa Falls, Jerome (Sandie) Nowak, Colgate, Gregory (Robin) Nowak, New Richmond, Jennifer (John) Loehrke, Junction City, James (Lynn) Nowak, Stevens Point; one sister Betty Strong, Stevens Point; 13 grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren.


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It's probably easy to do but I have not yet figured it out. 2) Not sure if this is a bug or not and I hope I can describe it right but when I want to "go to" a new location (off road) I plug in where I want to go and hit "GO" I get a nice big fat pink line on the map going straight to the location… That's fine except that, that straight line stays there. Now as we all know in caching the shortest way to a cache is never a straight line. When I walk to the location and I move away from the original straight line it stays there. I still have a smaller line that always point directly to the "Go To" location no matter where I am but that big fat line is still there… I find it irritating. When I am close to the original fat line and I zoom in it can hide some features. How do I get rid of the big fat pink line??? I hope I explained the second point right. Is it a "Feature" if so can I turn it off. If it is a bug I will tell Garmin. 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Colonial Properties Trust (NYSE:CLP)
The Company owns, develops and operates multifamily, office and retail properties primarily in the Sunbelt region of the United States.
On June 18, 2009 at 5:34 PM, TigerPack (99.98) wrote:
3 to 5 Year, Long-Term Pick
Colonial Properties (CLP) is a medium-sized Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) based in Alabama. It has fallen hard from around $50 a share in 2007, with the real estate bust and deep recession in the U.S. Still, around $7 per share investors are buying solid annual cash flows of $1.50-$2.00 per share that are available to owners as dividends or reinvestment, even during an extremely slow spot for the economy and real estate markets. The company is slated to pay around $0.60 in dividends the next 12 months, which works out to better than an 8% yield for owners. The liquidation value of the company's properties is likely well north of $7 per share, with "older" holdings of real estate at cost providing a net book value of $20 a share currently.
For investors looking for a high margin of safety (Ben Graham followers), Colonial along with nearly every REIT in the U.S. provides a great risk-adjusted entry point today. I believe the actual bankruptcy or default risk of owning a long-standing REIT product is much smaller than the "implied" risk of holding this business group, as investor psychology is incredibly numb and bearish on the sector after a multi-year bust. Already many REITs have raised equity or closed new financing agreements (like CLP) during the first half of 2009 to provide extra capital to survive the next year or two of projected economic sluggishness.
I love stocks that have been beaten down in price over several years, especially from a variety of reasons that are not entirely company specific. They have turned into some of my best long-term buy and hold investments. Colonial has suffered four hits to its stock price and business health not completely under management's control, including a monster real estate bust, an evaporation in credit for commercial real estate loans, the worst bear stock market in modern history for all publicly-owned businesses, and slack demand for rents with the recession in economic activity.
Management has been heavy buyers in the stock the last six months, on dips in the price under $7 to as low as $3 per share, and "insiders" own a considerable amount of stock around 12% of the outstanding shares. [The company's board of directors scores highly on third-party corporate governance comparisons.] Another 30% of the company is held by REIT index mutual funds and ETFs that will not be selling shares any time soon. In fact, the index funds will be large net buyers in the future as all REITs see renewed investor interest in the coming years from rising rates of inflation. At last glance over 11% of the company was sold short, and this number will add short covering (buyers) to the stock in the future as the credit crunch dissipates, the stock market zig-zags higher, the economy improves somewhat and inflation returns in 2010-2011.
The catalysts for recovery in REIT stock pricing will occur in three phases. The first is already underway – reflation of the fractured banking and credit system. Since February real improvements in commercial real estate activity and loan rates have been taking place. The Federal Reserve and foreign central banks have finally provided enough liquidity to the financial system to encourage more confidence and a large rally in the general level of stock pricing globally. As a consequence of these improvements, REITs have now regained access to the equity and credit markets to raise capital and finance/refinance loans at somewhat normal rates of interest. With the reflation effort, REITs should rise (and have risen) in value off their close to bankruptcy valuations by Wall Street. The prospect of recovery in the overall economy should also reflate REIT stock prices, as rental income remains or grows instead of disappearing during the recession.
The second phase will start in 2010 as investors get serious about factoring in the rising rates of inflation that will surely result from all the money creation in 2008-2009. Investors will shift their investment focus from the conservation of capital in the bear market to taking on greater risk, and finding ways to hedge against inflation with their money. Why not own Colonial (or another REIT) that is levered to real estate assets, which will raise rents over time with the inflation, while their cost structure (debt payments) remain relatively stagnant? Getting a high dividend payment yearly, in addition to the potential of substantial capital gains in a rising real estate price environment provides a win-win investment decision few other sectors can match.
The third catalyst for REIT ownership revolves around the possibility of hyperinflation in the U.S., or dramatic rates of inflation after 2010. The odds of such a scenario seem to be growing in investor minds of late. I have argued the last several months, that out-of-favor, dirt cheap REITs will generate much better long-term, total returns for investors than the over-hyped, over-owned and over-priced precious metals investments of gold and silver currently. If I own a leveraged piece of real estate that doubles or triples in resale value quickly, that is using debt to equity of 2 to 1, 3 to 1 or greater BEFORE the increase in prices, my ownership equity stake will see outsized gains vs. the rise in general prices on goods and services. As an inflation hedge, REITs may be the BEST risk-adjusted game in town for investors looking to buy stocks, and Colonial (CLP) is in excellent shape to be one of the big winners in this sector the next 3-5 years.
I can not recommend you enough for this.
Good job.
However I feel that in a hyper inflationary scare rents are not going to be aligned with real estate prices.
Nevertheless a great buy, though still risky if inflation takes more time.
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American man builds one-off coffins for dead petrol heads
When it comes to coffins, you never really think about them much, till it becomes the job of someone else to sort out. But today you might because an American man has started a company that specialises in caskets for the dead petrol head rolling off to the big garage in the sky.
Danny Mendez's Crusin' Caskets offers fibreglass coffins with a hinged-top and upholstered interior and buyers can customise everything from the color to the type of rims.
Mendez's website only shows the Mercury-shaped casket but apparently other shapes can be custom ordered. Just imagine cruisin' to heaven in a '68 GTO or a '69 Mustang fastback. Doesn't sound too bad at all.


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Zach Parise named captain of U.S. hockey team
|FILE - In this Feb. 28, 2010, file photo, USA's Zach Parise (9) celebrates after scoring a goal in the third period of the men's gold medal ice hockey game against Canada at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia. Parise, of the Minnesota Wild, will be the captain of the U.S. men's hockey team at the Sochi Olympics. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)
Zach Parise of the Minnesota Wild will be the captain of the U.S. men's hockey team at the Sochi Olympics.
Minnesota defenseman Ryan Suter and center Dustin Brown of the Los Angeles Kings will be the alternate captains, U.S. general manager David Poile announced Friday.
The 29-year-old Parise was an alternate captain at the Vancouver Olympics four years ago, scoring the goal that sent the gold-medal game into overtime. He has experience on U.S. national teams going back to 2002, and he welcomed the chance to take a leadership role in his second Olympics.
"It's a special thing to be named captain of any team, but when it's a national team, an Olympic team, it's extra special," Parise said. "We've got a lot of players who are great leaders. I'm going to get a lot of help. I'm going to need a lot of help. It's very humbling."
U.S. coach Dan Bylsma said Parise's work ethic and no-nonsense playing style are exemplary of the attitude he wants for his team. The Americans aren't considered a gold-medal favorite, but a roster packed with NHL star power is expected to keep them in contention.
"We're a team that's got a blue-collar mentality, and Zach embodies that," said Bylsma, also the coach of the Pittsburgh Penguins. "Every time we play against Zach Parise, there has been a work ethic, a never-quit, a determination, an abrasiveness about a hard-to-play-against type of player. And it's every time regardless of the score (or) the situation our respective teams might be in. That is exactly how we want our team to play."
Parise's alternate captains have extensive leadership experience as well. Brown and Suter were both alternate captains to Jamie Langenbrunner on the U.S. team at the Vancouver Olympics.
Brown is the longtime captain of the Kings and an international veteran, while Suter and Parise are both alternate captains of the Wild. Suter's father, Bob, won a gold medal with the "Miracle on Ice" team in 1980.
"There's plenty of guys that wear letters with their own teams, so I don't think our team is going to be lacking in leadership at all," Parise said. "There are plenty of guys that are capable of doing that."
The American team will hold its first practice in Sochi late on Feb. 10. Most players won't arrive until a few hours earlier, after the NHL begins its schedule break.
Parise acknowledged the unique challenges of the Sochi Olympics, including the players' adjustment to a hefty time change in just a few days before their first game against Slovakia on Feb. 13. He also recognized security concerns around the Olympics, calling it "unfortunate" that security "has dominated a lot of the conversation."
"You have to put your trust in the Russian police and the security we're sending over there as well," Parise said. "We're going to be in good hands. We can just relax, focus and concentrate on playing hockey."
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More Words to the Wise: "Healthy" Foods That Aren't So Healthy
Amy Campbell
September 24, 2012
Last week I highlighted a few foods that traditionally have gotten a bad rap, including popcorn, eggs, and potatoes. These are foods that people, for one reason or another, often seem to think they need to avoid. Hopefully I helped to dispel some of that thinking.
This week, I'm going to mention a handful of foods that we often think of as being "good" for us, or, at the very least, not likely to wreak havoc. As I always say, everything in moderation. But it's important to be aware of foods that masquerade as being healthy when they're really just not that special (and are sometimes downright unhealthy).
Low-fat yogurt. I'm all for yogurt. Yogurt is one of those foods that seems to have everything going for it: protein, calcium, B vitamins, and potassium. Many yogurts contain probiotics, which are the good bacteria that keep your digestive tract healthy and fight off various diseases and ailments.
The catch with yogurt is that many brands in the supermarket are laden with sugar (and carbs). Now, low-fat yogurts are truly low in fat, in that they can't contain more than 3 grams of fat per serving (based on the official Food and Drug Administration definition of a low-fat food). Take Dannon Raspberry Fruit on the Bottom yogurt, for instance: a 6-ounce container has just 1.5 grams of total fat, so that's good. But if you eat the entire container you'll get 150 calories (not so bad) as well as 28 grams of carbohydrate.
Of those 28 grams of carbohydrate, 26 grams come from sugar. Now, because yogurt is made with milk, yogurt will always contain "natural" sugar from lactose (unless you're eating a nondairy yogurt). However, there's still a decent amount of sugar added to the yogurt to give it its fruity flavor. A glance at the ingredient list reveals the sugar sources: fructose syrup, sugar, and raspberries. Basically, you're getting what amounts to a few spoonfuls of jam in your yogurt.
The fruited Greek-style yogurts aren't necessarily that much better: while they contain more protein, they may also contain upwards of 20 grams of sugar. In the case of Chobani Non-Fat Cherry, the sugar sources are evaporated cane juice (that is to say, sugar), cherry juice concentrate, cherries, locust bean gum, and pectin. Perhaps these are healthier carbohydrate sources, but they'll still affect your blood glucose. The solution? Buy plain or vanilla yogurt and add your own fresh fruit.
Smoothies. Fruit smoothies are in. You'll find them sold at the mall, as well as in your favorite coffee shop. They look pretty and sound healthy. And when you're craving a midafternoon snack, smoothies can seem more virtuous than going for, say a chocolate milkshake or an Iced Caramel Macchiato from Starbucks. But don't be duped: A 16.25-ounce low-fat strawberry smoothie (with ginseng and B vitamins, mind you) at Panera Bread contains 260 calories and 59 grams of carbohydrate (53 of them grams of sugar). That's about as much carbohydrate as is in four slices of bread or 1 1/3 cups of pasta. And even though the smoothie contains "naturally milled organic sugar," it's still sugar.
Smoothies at other places may contain ingredients that aren't so healthy, too, like ice cream or whole milk. Is it possible to find a healthy smoothie? Probably. But be an educated consumer and check the ingredients and nutrition information (usually available on the store's Web site). Or make your own with low-fat milk (or soy milk) or plain yogurt, fresh fruit, ice, and perhaps some protein powder, like whey.
Energy bars. Where I shop for food, there's a whole section of an aisle devoted to various energy and protein bars. It's overwhelming to look at them all, and it's also hard to decide which one to buy: PowerBar? Clif Bar? Luna Bar? Lärabar? Do you even need energy bars to begin with?
Energy bars, like most foods, contain calories and therefore, provide energy. Nothing too special about that. Food manufacturers hype them up and have you believing that you need to eat these to build muscle and provide fuel for your workout sessions. Sure, they can be helpful, especially if you tend to not eat meals during the day, are training for a marathon, or are skiing Mount Washington. But do they really offer any benefits over eating, say an apple with peanut butter?
While these bars may contain healthful ingredients, like nuts, oats, and whey protein, they're also likely to contain sugar (sometimes in the form of high-fructose corn syrup). And brown rice syrup is still sugar. Furthermore, many of these bars don't provide any more "sustained energy" than eating some whole-grain crackers with reduced-fat cheese. A chocolate PowerBar Performance bar contains 240 calories and 45 grams of carbohydrate (three slices of bread's worth). A LemonZest Luna Bar has 180 calories and 27 grams of carbohydrate (from organic rice, cane, and oat syrups). Energy bars aren't necessarily bad choices. They're certainly convenient. But unless you're an endurance athlete, you likely won't derive any great nutritional benefit from them.
Gluten-free foods. If you have celiac disease, you need to be on a gluten-free diet. But it seems like going gluten-free is the latest craze, whether one has celiac or not. Thanks to this craze, a proliferation of gluten-free products has appeared on the market, including gluten-free breads, cake mixes, cookies, and more.
They're certainly helpful for people with celiac disease who would like to enjoy a sandwich or a cupcake. But these gluten-free foods are not necessarily any "healthier" than their regular counterparts. Many of these foods are high in calories, saturated fat, and sugar, as food manufacturers often have to compensate for the lack of gluten in the product. Again, the message here is "buyer beware." Read nutrition labels and ingredient lists. Don't buy into the latest diet fads, either.
In regards to the yogurt...are you saying that only fruited low-fat yogurts should be avoided, or all low-fat yogurts? I think that vanilla yogurt still has added sugar in them as well. I regularly buy plain low-fat yogurt just because I think plain yogurt tastes great. But I've also heard that milk-fat, like that found in full-fat yogurt, is healthy and shouldn't be avoided. Which plain yogurt would you recommend...non, low, or full-fat?
Posted by: Wayne | Sep 26, 2012 12:08 PM
Hi Wayne, Great questions. I highlighted fruited yogurts mostly because the "fruit" in them is often more like jam. But you're correct in that vanilla or lemon yogurt can be quite high in added sugar, as well. It's a matter of reading the label, as always. I'm not so sure if we can comfortably say at this point that full-fat milk or yogurt is actually healthy, so I think it makes sense to choose low fat or non-fat varieties until we learn more. That being said, I'm in favor of Greek-style plain nonfat yogurt: 1 cup contains only about 9 grams of carbohydrate and 20 grams of protein. Then, a person can add his own sweetness, if desired, with fruit, a drizzle of honey, or other sweetener of his choice.
Posted by: acampbell | Sep 26, 2012 03:12 PM
Hi, Once again, a balanced article. But I don't share your "fato-phobia". Read Udo Arasmus's book, "Fats that Heal, Fats that kill". The drift is that it isn't fats that are bad, but bad fats. I guess the only problem with fats, is if you don't do a fair amount of exercise, in which case they become excess calories. Kind regards, Rob
Posted by: rob mansell-ward | Oct 01, 2012 04:16 AM
Thanks, Rob. I'm actually not a "fat-o-phobe," though. As you mentioned, it's more the type of fat that's the issue. And, of course, too much of any fat does contribute excess calories.
Posted by: acampbell | Oct 01, 2012 12:23 PM
Amy has done great job highlighting the issues. Fats per sae are not necessarily bad as many vitamins are in fat based components as well as fats help slow the digestive process and stop nasty spikes - ie brown rice fried. No, one does not want to sludge up the blood system but some fats are helpful. The fat police fanatic argument is unhelpful and leads to correct criticsim of the high carb low fat diets for T2 as adding gasoline to the fire. Balance and mlderation suggested by Amy does put one in the correct quadrent for better control. Been there and done that and thank you kindly.
Posted by: jim snell | Oct 02, 2012 09:21 AM
Lots of good information in this article. I vote for eating 'real' food as much as possible.
Posted by: JohnC | Oct 27, 2012 10:10 PM
Yogurt all the way, I am eating it 2 - 3 times a week and also with protein bar for body building. But I am more taking a protein powder, you think it is safe and healthy for body as well?
Posted by: Ruby Tuesday Coupons | Nov 27, 2012 08:28 AM
Hi Ruby, It's hard to say — it depends on how much protein powder you are taking, as well as how much protein you are getting from the food that you eat. In general, bodybuilders need about 0.7 grams of protein per pound. This means that a 200 pound person would need 140 grams of protein per day. Consuming more protein than that doesn't offer any benefit, and too much protein contributes excess calories (that can be stored as fat), can lead to dehydration, and can strain the kidneys. Figure out how much protein is in your bar, your powder, and your food to get a sense of how much you're taking in every day.
Posted by: acampbell | Nov 30, 2012 06:35 PM
Hello Acampbell, Yes I carefully manage taking protein power or bar in proper way, but i would like to ask if its safe taking it for as long as like 5 years or more?
Posted by: Ruby Tuesday Coupons | Dec 06, 2012 08:59 PM
Hi Ruby, It's really hard for me to tell you if your protein intake is safe long-term or not because I don't know how much you are taking. It also depends on any other health factors that you may have, such as kidney issues. You might consider meeting with a dietitian to review your protein intake. He or she can provide you with more specific guidance.
Posted by: acampbell | Dec 10, 2012 10:33 AM
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Broken Angel or the Broken Angel house is a building located at 4/6 Downing Street in the Clinton Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, at the intersection of Downing and Quincy street. The house is a neighborhood institution and was featured prominently as a backdrop in the film Dave Chappelle's Block Party. Artists Arthur and Cynthia Wood built the top part of the structure in the twenty seven years that they were guardians of the building. Arthur had a camera obscura on the top area and a room that looked like it floated in the air. The inside was like a huge cathedral with gorgeous arches and colorful "stained glass windows" that were made from the remains of bottles and glass. As a result of a fire on October 10, 2006, Deputy Borough Commissioner Bryan Winter of the New York City Department of Buildings declared the building dangerous, telling Arthur and Cynthia that they had to go. A couple of days later police arrived, cordoned off Downing Street and had battering rams ready to strike down the door. When Arthur defied the vacate order by staying in the building, he was arrested. The police also arrested Cynthia who was outside with their dog Jack. Arthur and Cynthia were taken away in handcuffs and kept at the precinct for many hours.[1] Arthur and his wife and pets lived in a car outside their own building during the cold winter months that followed.
On January 11th, 2007[2][3] it was announced that Arthur Wood had partnered with local real estate developer Shahn Christian Andersen to renovate Broken Angel, build a new addition to its side, and convert the building to residential condominiums and artist space.
Despite the Woods' efforts the house is now a square box and the plans to renovate it under the direction of Shahn Christian Andersen were never completed. Faced with a foreclosure from Madison Realty Bank, and Cynthia being diagnosed with cancer, the Woods struggled to fight the foreclosure and get their house back. Cynthia Wood died at the age of 72.
Brooklyn artist Arthur Wood purchased the 4-story brick tenement building in 1979 for $2,000.[4] He lived in the house with his wife Cynthia and raised their son Christopher who is now a stone carver. The artist explored ideas about design and vernacular architecture with improvised construction to add new floors and rooms to the original building, to the point where the structure reaches 104 feet, or about 9 stories above the sidewalk. The site has been compared to Watts Towers in Los Angeles for the ad hoc construction and is acknowledged for its value as folk art and as part of the cultural heritage.[5]
- ^ The entire story is told by Arthur and Cynthia in an authorized taped interview soon to be released.
- ^ Pogrebin, Robin (January 11, 2007). "An Angel Is Pulled Closer to Earth". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-03-13.
- ^ Broken Angel to go condo?" The Real Deal article January 11, 2007[dead link]
- ^ Connolly, Chris (April 14, 2002). "A Broken Angel Lifts Its Eccentric Wings Over the Brooklyn Skyline". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-03-13.
- ^ Barry, Ellen (December 3, 2006). "`Broken Angel' has its wings clipped". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2010-03-13.
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Bollywood superstars Amitabh Bachchan and Hrithik Roshan, along veteran actors like Kamal Haasan, Rishi Kapoor, Anil Kapoor, Hema Malini, Kajol, Gulshan Grover and Anupam Kher marked their presence at the star-studded party hosted by business tycoon Anil Ambani and his wife Tina in honour of Hollywood filmmaker Steven Spielberg.
Spielberg arrived in India on Monday to celebrate the success of his film 'Lincoln', a co-production between his banner DreamWorks and Anil Ambani's Reliance Entertainment.
After delivering a masterclass for as many as 61 Indian directors, the Oscar winning filmmaker was present at a party organised at Anil Ambani's house on Tuesday night.
Others present at the party were – Shahrukh Khan's wife Gauri Khan, Karan Johar, Farhan Akhtar, Sridevi, Arjun Rampal, Kamal Haasan, Subhash Ghai, Riteish Deshmukh with wife Genelia D'Souza, Suniel Shetty and Boman Irani.
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RAJ: (March 13, 2013 at 6:03 pm)
Sad that No Khan was present there
But Their spouse were present
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RAJ: (March 13, 2013 at 6:06 pm)
Who is gonna be acting in steven's upcoming Bollywood venture
Heard the name of SRK,HR,AAMIR,ANUSHKA'S NAME,
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RAJ: (March 13, 2013 at 6:08 pm)
HR was present there,So his chances are high…
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rowdy 786: (March 13, 2013 at 7:09 pm)
Hrithik showed some of his movies to Spielberg and Spielberg said your a big copycat
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Selfish: (March 13, 2013 at 8:01 pm)
Steven spielberg after meeting all celebraties of bollywood he asked ambani where is the box office king of bollywood mr salman khan. . Ambani replied he is not chamcha like others who come to welcome you by cancelling thier shooting in favour of fame or 2 min role in any hollywood project. . .
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srk: (March 14, 2013 at 4:17 am)
hrithik is trying his best to have chance he will never get it because he is selfish actor. he care himself and doesnt care fans thats why he have too manny fans. krissh 3 will be kids movie with so so script. people talk about hr success but let me recall after his first movie sucess he three cosecutive flops i.e fiza, mission kashmir, yadein. than came K3G in which he was support actor and srk was lead. after that he got four cosecutive flops Aap Mujhe Achche Lagne Lage,Na Tum Jaano Na Hum, Mujhse Dosti Karoge!, Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon. when he was flopping, his dad came back to feed him success with koi mil gaya. after that he had another flop with Lakshya. the next would probaly be his best year in his entire lifetime and i believe it will never come again for him. he had two bb in krish and dhoom, his dad again and big banner yrf fed him success again. Jodhaa Akbar was only a hit. aferwards landmark year for him and he had biggest disasters of his career. kites and guzaarish were his landmark movies. he got lucky to be apart of znmd because farhan abhey outclassed him in acting department. agneepath was only good movie for which he deserves credit for. in total of 18 movies he had 10 flop and 8 successful and if we remove k3g because he was supporting actor, than he only has 7 hits movie people talk about his sucess which less than 50% ratio.
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velocity: (March 14, 2013 at 12:51 pm)
haters keep running ur mouths, coz u can't c hrithik get d spotlight wid a legend lyk steven speilberg, if d sem wud hav hpnd to salman or shahrukh den u all must hav said, ohh woww d khans r so grt, dey r d bst , dats y dey attended speilberg's party blah blah, bt if hrithik attended it, he is selfish ?? wow grt logic man, u all jst hypocrites , jealous, u cnt c hrithik havin d success !! bt honesty n hardwrk always bears sweet fruits !!
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sumeet: (March 14, 2013 at 12:52 pm)
@rowdy 786, go home kid, you're drunk !! you are just a pest.
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Ayanna: (March 14, 2013 at 12:55 pm)
when so many actors attended the party, then why you all have problem with hrithik only ?? because you know he will get the chance to hollywood which your stars will never get. only hrithik,aamir,srk are the true actors , so if anyone gets the chance, it would among these actors, akshay may get action roles. hollywood never accepts bakwaas actors who can't act.
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thnks IF fr this video.
KN u r luking beautiful in this video.
why so far only one video...we want to see more of thm...
thanks for this IF
please next time get Keerti and Sameer interview together
thanks IF for first video in Parichay...though after 3 months of start of show...never mind...better late than never...SiNal rock...
Please keep sharing Sameer Soni and Parichay segments !!!!!
Kunal and Siddhi rock!!!!! Sameer Soni and Keerti both are really good actors and their chemistry sizzles like no other!!! hoping to see more and more of well executed scenes between these two!
SINAL RoXxX!!
luv parichay best drama on tv right now. Luv Sinal best jodi on tv right now =]
Hey wow!! It's great to see Sameer acknowledging the comments on IF. Thanks for the interview and we certainly hope to see more such videos on IF.
great to see all Parichay tema...IF pls keep on giving this videos fequently
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|Thursday, May 15th, 2003
....Sometimes I fear I am becoming a very sick &fucked up little girl, &like any logical person, I blame music :)
Did a little remodeling of my journal...&I'm not sure if I like it. I kind of liked the simplicity of the plain black &white. Without a ton of graphics &a really nice layout, it pretty much forced you to have to read the text first. (Or at least that was the point.) but now it's all babydoll, barbie colours ¬hing goes together.
but what the hell. It's my journal, &if my journal looks as sckitzophrenic as my thoughts are, then things will work out nicely. I'll just let the layout represent my thoughts rather then my writing.
So, hmmpfff.
&dude, what is with this a$$hole trying to ban oreos?? I'm telling you, our country is in a sad, fucked up state when you can't even enjoy your double stuffed cookies without some beaurcratic jerk telling you not to. &seriously, if I were this laywer, I'd be fearing for my life right about now. If there is one thing you don't do, it's get between fat men &their oreos. They're going to form some sort of fat man brigade &gouge out his eyes. He better sleep with mace underneath his pillow tonight. Mace, &diet soda. Because diet soda is like, a natural fat man repellant.
..............yeah, I don't know what I'm talking about anymore, either.
Ughhh... but I just chewed on my nails.. after I just painted them... so now I've got that icky nail polish remover taste in my mouth.. ewww...
I remember when I was little &the girl next door had a lollypop in one hand, &a nail polish brush in the other. She got 'em mixed up, &ran the lollypop over her nails &licked the nail polish. Hehehe...
I swear, it's the weirdest damn things like that that I remember so prominently from my childhood.
Like when we'd go 'disco bowling', &we'd pretend to speak French.. except we didn't know french back then, so we'd just talk in all this incoherant made up babble, &people would give us strange looks.
I really miss my teenybopper days.
.....&you know that saying 'misery loves company'? It's true, &damnit, nobody wants to take part.
but, hey, if you forgive me for this random rambling, I'll forgive you for being everything I hate, I'll forgive you for being just another tattooed 666 in a wrecked heap of numbers. Deal?
Pardon me, but I have to be a teenager for a few minuites now &complain about my mummy. I promise, I won't do it again for awhile.
-deep breath-
Blasted mother. Blew me off when I tried to explain to her my theories of why I think our seperate governments are going to give way to a global government one day*.
Granted, she had just woke up, &was trying to watch Jerry Springer, &I was ever-so-rudely interupting &talking over the tv.... but still!!!
I hate it when she does that.
(*note: that theory being that as the world becomes more &more connected with things like the internet, world powers like us, the faboulous United States, gaining so damn much power, &earth just generally becoming so small, we're going to be able to just put all our combined efforts/money together, &solve problems like poverty &hunger.)
I think my overly opinionated-ness is starting to get on her nerves. Yet, I notice at dinner last Saterday I was the person she asked to explain my latest rant. Because, you'd be amazed at how little anyone around here has to say when I finally shut the hell up. So, I guess maybe I should reserve my opinions for when everyone else runs out of things to talk about.
..............................&I'm just gonna have to veer off into my next rant here without a segway, 'cause I can't think of a good connecting statement...
Does anyone else ever remind themselves of a combination of Pinky &The Brain (Go ahead, I know you remember that cartoon, &I know damn well you're humming it right now - "pinky and the brain, pinky and the brain, one is a genious, the other's insane..." -)? 'cause I do. That was a freakin' great cartoon, man.


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WASHINGTON - With the Affordable Health Care Act and University presidents both making a comeback this week, the other return to the forefront was of the traffic variety: All too familiar major delays at the Wilson Bridge. Whether you crossed the bridge from Maryland or Virginia, this week brought back memories of the agonizing days when the new bridge was fully under construction and the only way to get through it was to keep thinking about that time when the work would be over and the ride would be vastly improved.
As drivers tried to sort out new configurations and lane closures the question once again became: Is the end is in sight?
The short answer: Yes!
The delays experienced this week were part of the final phase of paving work on both loops.
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- The Inner Loop Thru lanes are in their final configuration, but there is still
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T.R. Knight Set to Appear on Ellen DeGeneres Show Tomorrowby Steve Marsi at . Comments
The Insider has learned that T.R. Knight, who plays Dr. George O'Malley, will be appearing on the Ellen DeGeneres Show tomorrow, January 17.
It will be interesting to see a sit-down interview with Knight, who is one of the Grey's Anatomy cast members about whom relatively little is known.
A stage actor before appearing on the hit series, and a man who maintains a low profile, the 33-year-old Minnesota native admitted he is gay last fall - stating that he hopes that isn't seen as the most important part of him. It's not, and this interview with Ellen will hopefully enable fans to find out a lot more about this talented performer.
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This is posted pretty late in the year. All I can say
is if Is was Washington aka Isaiah was called the nasty
word white people call African Amercians aka Black people, you better believe that
HE WOULDN'T leave it lay either, We stick up for our kind,
as they stick up for their kind. Its really sad! But its
part of our heritage. Live with it, deal with it. By the
Way TJ aka GEORGE, I love your acting and your personality
on the show. Keep up the good work.. Oh yeah, and if Washington did get canned. so be it.. Life goes on, maybe next time he will watch his mouth. Someone should of stuck
a bar of soap in it..
heyy tj knight u are the amazingist person in the whole movie and u are super hot
OK! PLEASE! get over it! you are loosing credibility quick! and by the way! I hope as you are throwing a tantrum over this comment you can look deep into yourself! and ask yourself!??? have you been perfect!? have you ever said horrible things about other people!???? could you have possibly hurt someones feelings?? BY using your rights as an american! FREEEDOM OF SPEECH! Just as you have the right to be gay! so does someone to not be gay! I actually have a sister who is gay! I am all for it! whatever makes you happy! BUT be very careful not to be a hippocrite! be very careful! are you mother teresa! and have never spoken an ill word! PROBABLY NOT! you are human also!
WHY dont you use this great needed media time to collect money for homeless? for aids victims? for abused children! my goodness! You have it pretty good! you are acting like a spoiled brat!!!!!! Imagine a penny for every second of this ridiculous story! and how the total of those pennies could actually help the world be a better place! NOt Isaiah going to therapy! that is insane! Your network and show need therapy! Maybe as a medical show for entertainment ! could raise money for the poor children that cannot get medical care! how about that tragedy! some on Rise up and grow up! You live in the wonderful FREE USA! you have a wonderful job! use your media time wiser!
They are both amazing actors. Once again, Isaiah did not deny using the word, he denied calling TR the word. TR may have heard incorrectly. This was something inappropriate, but not illegal. Firing someone over an inappropriate comment would be a horrible precedent to set in a country that prides itself on freedom of speech. I'm sorry that TR was offended by something that Isaiah said that was not even directed at him. But, be a man. Find out if it was even meant or just spouted off in anger. Let the person know that it offended you and expect an apology, and then when one is given for goodness sakes get over it.
ok. I know this is realy old news, but all I have to say is, "Why does he have to be gay! He's way to cute!" and on ellen, he was awesome! He's to sweet to be called a faggot. That's so mean. And then at the Golden Globes, Isaiah deny's that he said it. I don't know. Though it's old news, i think there should be SOMTHING done to Isaiah. Maybe not FIRED, though, that would be great, he does deserve it, but just somthing done. Because that's just an uncalled for thing to do. Well, before i get angry, TR is an amazing actor! Especially this season!
actually he said they weren't fighting because he was late.
You're right, I wasn't there but I did hear Knight speak of the incident today on the Ellen show. He said as he was arriving late to work he heard Washington call him that name. He even said that he had never been called that to his face and he didn't know what to say.
And you're also right, the media is very misleading and can change a story in an instant. But it is old news and I am not arguing if it happened or not, I am saying that it's quite unfortunate. Can't wait to get back to the show!
Wow Angie, I didn't say them. You're are quite defensive. I think it's very unfortunate that there are so many negative attitutes in this world, and the nasty words stop one word at a time! I'm just glad that T.R. didn't fight one negative with another one.
No one deserves to be called any nasty words but it happens everyday. Oh, and what exactly were those words? You were there, right, Lacey. Or is this a game of telephone. Can we grow up please. Since when did the media become trustworthy.
I did see T.R. on the Ellen show today, I am very proud of the way he handled the situation. He didn't have alot to say, but it made him look like a very big person. I would have a couple things to say about the issue, but he did take the higher road! I'm very proud of the way that he handled the unfortunate situation, I'm just sorry that he has to work w/Washington on a daily basis. T.R. seems like a very nice guy and no one deserves to be called those nasty words!


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The story of Reginald -- the world's slowest, weakest, most out-of-shape vampire -- continues in the fifth and penultimate installment of the FAT VAMPIRE series…
The new vampire president and his genocidal right-hand man have been playing a dangerous game with the humans over the past six months. In the public eye, the two races appear to be at peace... but the situation below the surface is hot enough to boil. And while the untrusting humans mass their defenses, vampire armies have been building to match them -- with plans to exterminate the planet's current inhabitants, saving only a handful of blood slaves.
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Fringe Benefits
Leave it to H&M to offer sumptuous, plush suede boots for less than $70. In elegant dove grey, they look amazing with creams and winter whites. (Pre-treat with a waterproofing spray before your first wear.)
To buy: H&M suede boots, $69.95 at hm.com
Desert Jewel
A mix of studs and crystals enhance these cute taupe ankle boots—like a pretty ankle bracelet you can wear anytime of year.
To buy: Maurices 'Bella' jeweled bootie, $44 at maurices.com
Gild the Lily
For the woman who covets Alexander Wang and Isabel Marant, these studded booties are a must-try. The gold hardware is not too much for day, and absolutely sizzling at night.
To buy: Forever 21 faux leather bootie, $42.80 at forever21.com
Fight for the Right
One of the grunge era's comfiest trends has made a major resurgence: combat boots in a full rainbow of colors, textures and patterns.
To buy: H&M suede boots, $34.95 at hm.com