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Perfect Health Diet - March
New thread for all of our PHD'ers to gather. :)
The PERFECT HEALTH Plan...
Dr. Jaminet's recommendations:
•About 3 pounds of plant foods per day, including: ◦About 1 pound of safe starches, such as white rice, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and taro;
◦About 1 pound of sugary in-ground vegetables (such as beets or carrots), fruits, and berries;
◦Low-calorie vegetables to taste, including fermented vegetables and green leafy vegetables.
•One-half to one pound per day of meat or fish, which should include organ meats, and should be drawn primarily from: ◦ruminants (beef, lamb, goat);
◦birds (especially duck and wild or naturally raised birds);
◦Shellfish and freshwater and marine fish.
•Low omega-6 fats and oils from animal or tropical plant sources, to taste. Good sources include: ◦butter, sour cream, beef tallow, duck fat;
◦coconut milk or oil
◦palm oil, palm kernel oil, olive oil, avocado oil, macadamia nut butter, almond butter, cashew butter
•Acids to taste, especially citric acid (lemon juice, lime juice, orange juice, grapefruit juice), lactic acid from fermented or pickled vegetables, vinegars, tannic acids from wine, and tomatoes.
•Broths or stocks made from animal bones and joints.
•Snacks or desserts from our pleasure foods: fruits and berries, nuts, alcohol, chocolate, cream, and fructose-free sweeteners like dextrose or rice syrup.
By weight, the diet works out to about 3/4 plant foods, 1/4 animal foods. By calories, it works out to about 600 carb calories, primarily from starches; around 300 protein calories; and fats supply a majority (50-60%) of daily calories.
In the shadow of the apple are foods forbidden because of their high toxin content. Notably:
•Do not eat cereal grains — wheat, barley, oats, corn — or foods made from them — bread, pasta, breakfast cereals, oatmeal. The exception is white rice, which we count among our "safe starches." Rice noodles, rice crackers, and the like are fine, as are gluten-free foods made from a mix of rice flour, potato starch, and tapioca starch.
•Do not eat calorie-rich legumes. Peas and green beans are fine. Soy and peanuts should be absolutely excluded. Beans might be acceptable with suitable preparation, but we recommend avoiding them.
•Do not eat foods with added sugar or high-fructose corn syrup. Do not drink anything that contains sugar: healthy drinks are water, tea, and coffee.
•Polyunsaturated fats should be a small fraction of the diet (~4% of total calories). To achieve this, do not eat seed oils such as soybean oil, corn oil, safflower oil, sunflower oil, canola oil, or the like.
We highly recommend certain foods for their micronutrients. These include liver, kidney, egg yolks, seaweeds, shellfish, fermented vegetables, and bone broths.
We also recommend augmenting the diet with certain supplements. These nutrients are deficient in modern diets due to removal of minerals from drinking water by treatment, depletion of minerals from soil by agriculture, or modern lifestyles that deprive us of vitamin D by indoor living.
We recommend tweaking the diet for certain diseases. Neurological disorders often benefit from a diet that is ketogenic; other conditions may benefit from lower carb diets. These variations are discussed in the book.
To answer your question, I slice the liverwurst up in several slices and then freeze. It comes in a log that is 1 lb and fully cooked, so I take out just enough for the week and it is lovely. :heart:
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huzzah! Thank you, Sunday! :)
Love it! Great question and I agree that it is very difficult to be concise when speaking of such indepth matter. :D
I know for fact that Domino's, Papa John's & BJ's has gluten free pizza. I have a fav that I pick up now and then in the organic section. Name is slipping my mind, but when I run home will post.
Thank you, Sunday! Yes, I have heard about Dominos. One of the issues is that many if not all of the gluten free pizzas that are frozen or already prepared ALSO come with seed oils. :stars: I transitioned her from her beloved frozen Ellios pizza (which has soybean oil, albeit a very small amount) to a fresh pizza that I make with no oils, but that pizza has wheat of course. I've tried a few gluten free home creations with no success so far. I know the answer is just whole foods, all the time, but it's a tricky proposition unless I really want to force the issue and say, "This is what we're eating." I don't know if a tough love approach will be forgotten in a week and lead to better days ahead or if it will just lead to the therapist's couch in the future. :hyst:
At any rate, he answered!!! YAY! I feel like I talked to a celebrity. :jumpjoy:
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Fantastic. :) Excellent answer. Seed oils are everywhere! :annoyed:
Yes, those seed oils are everywhere!! I have logged more man hours than I care to admit reading the labels at Whole Foods. Clearly the answer is eat things without labels, but we are a work in progress in this house right now. :)
My favorite gluten-free pizza that my daughter will also eat is "Against the Grain" frozen pizza. It's essentially tapioca starch + cheese, so the classic Brazilian bun dough that's on the PHD blog. They make baguettes and rolls too but each of them has a small amount of canola oil so not perfect. It's mind-boggling!
I am really struggling with getting my ratios right. For the time being, I am logging in the data on a nutritional calculator and I just can't hit the mark. I am trying for the ratio for weight loss that Joyce posted in the beginning thread. Post 23 maybe? Every time I add something to decrease the protein or increase the fat, it disturbs all the other ratios. I can see I was way overeating protein because 300 calories is not much at all for me when you see how many protein calories are also in veges like my spinach leaves and brussel sprouts. I know we can't hit a perfect mark, but logging this in the calculator points that in the past month of PHD I have been too high in both carbs and protein. :sad: I am trying to focus on all the positive changes I have made with fermented and cultured foods, bone broth, 16 hours of fasting, adjusting my supplements, no wheat, and a major decrease in seed oils. But still, no weight loss. I really really want to get that scale moving down!
Good to know about the BJ's pizza, Beverly!
And yes, it is nearly impossible to avoid seed oils when dining out. Even our favorite "seems to be PHD compliant" Chipotle rice bowl features meat cooked in soybean oil. I believe that the carnitas are the only ones not cooked in oil but I will need to double check that.
For my daughter, just as an example . . . I recently discovered that she really liked hash browns/tater tots for breakfast rather than her usual wheat-laden fare. BUT the tots she really likes from Whole Foods are set in canola oil. On the other hand, I can buy fresh bagels at Whole Foods that come from the Bronx and are made with NO OILS. Of course, they are wheat though! Same with some French brioche I buy there--it's made with butter, no Frankeningredients, but it has wheat. So I wonder, is it better to have those potatoes with a smidge of canola or the devil wheat with no oils? Obviously the correct answer is "neither" but tell that to Ms. Picky here!! :) I have recently started making her chips from fresh potatoes, fried in non-hydrogenated palm oil from Spectrum. All good oils and whole foods, but not cooked too gently. LOL Who the heck knows?
Also, I'm almost positive that SOMEWHERE I read that our macros might be nearly evenly split while we are in weight loss mode. I'm hoping I can find that again to prove I am not dreaming it! Mine end up falling around 50% or slightly less in fat with the protein and carbs about even. RARELY is my protein 15%.
My weight is kind of at a stand still here but I have been having more calories than I should. I think. I've also been reading the "Eat More 2 Weigh Less" site, which is about women increasing calories and doing strength training and really wondering if I've had my calories too low for too long or if, conversely, they are just too high. I have lost 60 lbs and have a good 30-40 I could stand to lose before I even approach vanity pounds. Hmmm.
Hang in there, ladies!!
Thank you for starting up the March thread!
I guess I'm lucky that I only have to cook and shop for myself (except for my elderly cat, who gets high carb/low protein prescription kibble to treat her kidney disease). Ms. Picky is just me, in my household, and anything that isn't cold potatoes tastes like manna to me these days.
I just received a copy of "Rich Food Poor Food" by Mira and Jayson Calton, William Davis, and Mark Sisson. It's a guide to some of the worst and best choices for particular foods (say, ketchup) in the grocery store. I look forward to reading it, and I think other people following this thread would find it helpful.
Joyce, I'm sure you have considered lots of pizza alternatives already, so forgive me if you've already tried this ... but would your daughter eat a meatza? That's a paleo approach to pizza, with the "crust/bottom" made of seasoned ground beef, topped with pizza sauce and then with lots of veggies (and cheese, if you like). OMGPaleo has a recipe, but so do a lot of other websites. I guess whether this appeals depends on what part of the pizza your daughter likes; for me, the whole point of the pizza was the cheese on top.
I'm hoping that continuing on with the potato hack will get me past my current setpoint, but I'm really uncertain about how many calories, macro mix, and eating window to pursue when my meals are no longer potatoes, potatoes, potatoes ... So I sympathize, Joyce. My stats on weight lost and still to lose are pretty much what you note, give or take 5 pounds.
I appreciate all of your wisdom Joyce and I agree about the fat being less, but I still have 50/30/20. Should I make it less than that? I know I am running a deficit on cals, but don't feel that I should eat when I am not hungry? I have never had such a good satiety as I have now.
just to let you guys know, my BTF mix makes a fantastic pizza. I have made it a couple of times now, and it is the best LC pizza ever.
For less active people, the Weight Loss Version of the Perfect Health Diet becomes similar to a lot of popular diets. Many diets recommend a roughly even calorie distribution, with 30-40% of carbs, protein, and fats. This is what a calorie-restricted version of the Perfect Health Diet should look like too.
Sunday, I want to lessen by calorie intake, but I am kind of afraid to with the possibility of not getting enough nutrients in and defeating the purpose of this. I thought he said not to take in less than 1300 calories. I did set mine for 1200, but feel unsure what to do. I figured I am getting sufficient nutrients at 1200-1300 if I do the other things he said, but I do wonder if I can go less sometimes.
What is the minimum calorie intake that meets all these nutrient considerations? Eggs, salmon, and beef have more fat than protein, so if youre aiming for 400 carb calories and 300 protein calories, youll probably eat at least 500 fat calories per day. So it would seem to be impossible to go below about 1200 calories per day while still being well nourished.
This may surprise many readers, since were fat-friendly, but there should be no reduction in carb or protein consumption on weight loss diets. Calorie restriction should come out of fat.
Diets low in choline strongly promote obesity. Therefore, anyone seeking to lose weight should be sure to eat a choline-rich diet.
The easiest way to do that is to eat 3 eggs a day and a ¼ pound beef liver once a week.
In addition, I would recommend that every person on a weight-loss diet take our full supplement regimen: a daily multivitamin, D, K2, C, magnesium, copper, chromium, iodine, and selenium. Also, I would suggest taking our optional B vitamins: thiamin, riboflavin, pantothenic acid, biotin, vitamin B6, vitamin B12, and choline (note the exclusion of niacin and folic acid).
Eating less than 600 combined carb+protein calories per day raises the specter of either protein deficiency (leading to hunger) or glucose deficiency (leading to zero-carb dangers).
:laugh: about the manna!! Guess what arrived in the mail for me today? "Rich Food, Poor Food" Great minds!!! :)
Thank you so much for your suggestions. We have tried the meatza and, sadly, for her it's the bread that is most appealing. I will keep plugging along though. I have solved some of our other problems with crafty workarounds and recipes so I know I will hit on it sooner or later! I want to try Cleochatra's (Lighter Side of Low Carb) meatza that featured ground chicken in the crust again (of course, omega 6s, LOL). Folks love it but when I tried it eons ago I think I messed it up.
I should put my stats back up. I started at 244, am now 185, and am shooting for 144 as a dream goal (5'7"). If I get to 160 and am no longer "overweight" I will be thrilled, though. Hang in there!!
For poultry based bone broth, my tracker listed one cup as 40 calories,
10 fat, 4 protein. You aren't doing up days, down days, right?
I've started reading Melanie Warner's book "Pandora's Lunchbox: How Processed Food Took over the American Diet." I highly recommend it.
I imagine that the people who follow this thread are in the top percentiles of the population in terms of cooking from scratch with real food, but it can be eye-opening to read about what is going into food that looks and tastes real when we take a shortcut from time to time. For example, I might have considered ordering a Subway sandwich when in a hurry, but just specified that I wanted the sandwich innards to go on top of a bowl of lettuce instead of on bread. I don't think I'll do that again, barring emergency circumstances. Instead, I'd eat a couple of tablespoons of coconut butter or a handful of nuts as my meal, or just wait longer to eat.
"Wheat Belly" convinced me to give up anything containing wheat (so far as I can tell).
"The End of Overeating" convinced me to not eat in chain restaurants anymore, even making supposedly healthy low carb choices.
"Pandora's Lunchbox" is going to help me follow the rule of "if I didn't make it from scratch, or couldn't have made it from scratch in my kitchen with the listed ingredients, I don't eat it."
I have a feeling Pandora's Lunchbox is going to depress heck out of me. Like you, more and more I prefer to fix my own meals...the things hidden in prepared foods and restaurant foods are just toooooo scarey.
FYI, I am still following the JUDDD rotations in that I eat somewhere below my online-calculated RMR one day and over the next. For me, my body really really likes DDs. If I try to eat approximately the same calories every day, I eat too little or too much and stop feeling so good and have trouble keeping my weight stable.
Actually, she blushed, I am concentrating on introducing new PHD foods in approximated proportions but I have not counted anything precisely in a long time. I bow in awe of the precision with which you guys are living.
Sunday THANK you for the March thread!!
Joyce, when I gave up wheat, pizza was my greatest loss:cry:!
Lately I've been having an occasional mini pizza made on top of my GF bread or a super thin one made from Teff wraps. After having gone so long without, these work just fine for me...although if I can get over to BJ's I'll definitely have one of theirs!
Thanks to all for the great info provided and as always the conversation is stimulating, informative (and funny, too).
I hear you, Blonde! My husband feels the same way.
"Against the Grain" is my favorite gluten-free option. You'll find it frozen at Whole Foods. Again, there is a smidge of canola oil but I don't think that there's much. I did some math wizardry last time we got it, estimating how much of the calories from fat came from the cheese and how much "leftover" might be canola oil and I can't imagine it was much. When I make pizza crust, recipes usually call for a tablespoon at most of oil in the crust, so I'm guessing that's the extent of the seed oil in that particular brand. Anyway . . . it's delicious!
Another "product" find that's unexpectedly wonderful are the Engine 2 Brown Rice tortillas. I thought to myself, "How to get tortillas without seed oils. Hmmm . . . I know! Buy the product from the fat free vegans who are afraid of ALL oils!" :hyst: And it worked! These I found in Whole Foods' frozen section and last night I made enchiladas with them and Frontera enchilada sauce. "Packaged" foods that were actually all PHD legal. Glory be!!!! So delicious.
Posting photos of the aforementioned goodies so they are easier to find. Don't want to link in case that's a violation?
Gluten-free, seed oil-free tortillas . . . have brown rice flour, almond meal, flax and chia, etc. Surprisingly tasty. I had one last night with enchilada sauce, 4 ounces of chicken, and 1 ounce of cheese and it was 400 calories or so and quite filling.
My favorite pizza (the search always continues, though--beware of some seed oil here):
Ingredients: Tapioca starch, mozzarella cheese, eggs, tomato paste (vine-ripened fresh tomatoes, and naturally-derived citric acid), parmesan cheese, canola oil, cheddar cheese, water.
Oh thank you Joyce!! I have whole foods about 35 minutes from me, I'll give it a look! ~ Blonde
No problem! Again, some people might not want these because of the small amount of seed oil, but I also figure at least it's canola. Bad that it's a seed oil, but a better Omega 6:3 ratio than the soybean oil or whatever is likely in other gluten-free pizzas!
Also, another product find I've had recently are Canyon Bakehouse breads. They are in some stores (frozen) but I ordered online. Are you ready for this? They are gluten free AND the oil they use is . . . drum roll please . . . olive oil. I felt like I found the holy grail. My picky daughter ate a grilled cheese on them and my husband loved the hamburger buns. I found the buns the best GF I've had by far but I still wasn't in love. But worth a try! :)
A lot of my entertainment with friends ends up being lunch or dinner at restaurants. I don't usually have the final say. I like to be a part of the group, but it is often quite a challenge to pick something that is okay. If available, most of the time I get a piece of grilled fish, some potatoes or rice, and vege. I have an app for gluten free restaurants on my phone and utilize that when I can as my main toxic poison I avoid is the wheat.
What I really want to find, for an occasional treat, is a potato chip that uses a good oil. I don't want them often and I don't feel like making them.
I had a really successful PHD yesterday!:jumpjoy: One day at a time.
I received my Ultimate Flora senior formula probiotic and I will report back on any results from that.
But yes, I have a chip recommendation for you and I believe you can purchase it online via the big A jungle superstore. Grandma Utz Potato Chips. Fried in lard. Huzzah!
Our FAVORITE was Gibbles, made locally and also fried in lard, but they seem to have disappeared in the last 3 months or so. :cry:
I tried "Honest Foods" chips (search online to order) and wanted to love them. Small company, organic potatoes, coconut oil. I found the heaviness of the oil etc overwhelming.
Can you tell I have a deep and abiding love for packaged foods? I just want them packaged with the right ingredients! :hyst:
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New gov't guidance on employee background checks
WASHINGTON Is an arrest in a barroom brawl 20 years ago a job disqualifier? Not necessarily, the government said Wednesday in new guidelines on how employers can avoid running afoul of laws prohibiting job discrimination.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's updated policy on criminal background checks is part of an effort to rein in practices that can limit job opportunities for minorities that have higher arrest and conviction rates than whites.
"The ability of African-Americans and Hispanics to gain employment after prison is one of the paramount civil justice issues of our time," said Stuart Ishimaru, one of three Democrats on the five-member commission.
But some employers say the new policy - approved in a 4-1 vote - could make it more cumbersome and expensive to conduct background checks. Companies see the checks as a way to keep workers and customers safe, weed out unsavory workers and prevent negligent hiring claims.
The new standard urges employers to give applicants a chance to explain a report of past criminal misconduct before they are rejected outright. An applicant might say the report is inaccurate or point out that the conviction was expunged. It may be completely unrelated to the job, or an ex-con may show he's been fully rehabilitated.
The EEOC also recommends that employers stop asking about past convictions on job applications. And it says an arrest without a conviction is not generally an acceptable reason to deny employment.
While the guidance does not have the force of regulations, it sets a higher bar in explaining how businesses can avoid violating the law.
"It's going to be much more burdensome," said Pamela Devata, a Chicago employment lawyer who has represented companies trying to comply with EEOC's requirements. "Logistically, it's going to be very difficult for employers who have a large amount of attrition to have an individual discussion with each and every applicant."
The guidelines are the first attempt since 1990 to update the commission's policy on criminal background checks. Current standards already require employers to consider the age and seriousness of an applicant's conviction and its relationship to specific job openings. And it is generally illegal for employers to have a blanket ban based on criminal history.
But the frequency of background checks has exploded over the past decade with the growth of online databases and dozens of search companies offering low-cost records searches.
About 73 percent of employers conduct criminal background checks on all job candidates, according to a 2010 survey by the Society for Human Resource Management. Another 19 percent of employers do so only for selected job candidates.
That data often can be inaccurate or incomplete, according to a report this month from the National Consumer Law Center. EEOC commissioners said the growing practice has grave implications for blacks and Hispanics, who are disproportionately represented in the criminal justice system and face high rates of unemployment.
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NEBRASKAland DAYS to Build Permanent Home
North Platte Community College Building Program Key Contributor
David Fudge, Executive Director of NEBRASKAland DAYS, announced that construction has begun on a new permanent operations offices and NLD headquarters to be located at on the west side of the Wild West Arena in the northern area of North Platte.
According to David, NEBRASKAland DAYS celebration officials have envisioned placing their offices at the Arena for decades. And now, thanks to a visionary NLD Board of Directors and a newly created partnership with North Platte Community College's Second Year Building Construction program, the new permanent office is projected to be completed in time for the 2015 Celebration. "Having our primary office functions out at the arena will really be a huge advantage from an operations standpoint," said Fudge. "The amount of time we spend driving back and forth from our current office to the arena is really mind boggling."
The 3000 foot structure will be placed to the West of the Pavilion, and should serve the needs of the Celebration for decades to come.
The project would not be possible without the contributions of North Platte Community College, which will provide the labor for the construction. According to Dr. Jody Tomanek, Area VP of Academic Affairs, the partnership came at a good time. "Our second year building construction students have already completed the construction of a house and they are excited to be building yet another structure," she said. "The college crew will basically build the walls and enclose the new office building. Then NLD's subs will do the all the rough in work. Then the students will come back and do the interior walls, and finish work. It will be a hands-on real-world experience working with a true client." It will be an excellent teaching and learning experience, she added.
According to David, construction footings, foundation, power, water and sewer systems have been placed and it's now time to get the structure built and enclosed before winter sets in. "The College's contribution to our facility is the reason we can make this project work," he said. "Without them we simply wouldn't be able to make this happen."
AMERICAN BUS ASSOCIATION NAMES NEBRASKAland DAYS
The American Bus Association (ABA) announced today that NEBRASKAland DAYS 2015, scheduled for June 17-27, 2015, has been designated as one of the Top 100 Events in North America for 2015 by an experienced
expert tourism industry selection committee. Inclusion in the Top 100 list, published as a supplement to the September/October issue of Destinations magazine, indicates that NEBRASKAland DAYS offers excellent entertainment
value to both tour groups and individual travelers from around the world, according to ABA.
With the release of the American Bus Association's 2015 Top 100 Events in North America, ABA celebrates 33 years of the program. What began as a way for motorcoach operators to incorporate new product into their itineraries has grown to one of the most sought-after lists by travel professionals, motorcoach operators and the general public. "The attractiveness of NEBRASKAland DAYS as a don't-miss entertainment value is only part of why its selection this
year is such a distinction for NEBRASKAland DAYS," said Peter J. Pantuso, CTIS, ABA's president and CEO. "The real news here is that NEBRASKAland DAYS has been recognized as a potential magnet for tourism dollars, at a time
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According to studies completed by researchers at Dunham and Associates, one overnight visit by a motorcoach group can leave up to $25,000 in a local destination's economy. Those dollars are spent on lodging, meals, admissions, fees, shopping, souvenirs, services and local taxes. "Tour groups spend more and stay longer," Pantuso said. "That's why NEBRASKAland DAYS is truly a local economic asset. There is no better way to jump-start tourism than to attract motorcoach groups to a great event and convince them to extend their stay."
ABA's 2015 Top 100 Events Selection Committee selected NEBRASKAland DAYS from hundreds of event nominations submitted by ABA members. Judges considered the event's broad appeal, its accessibility to motorcoaches and skill at handling large groups, and a variety of other relevant criteria.
Nebraska Tourism Wins Award with NLD Themed Ad
A print advertisement created for the Nebraska Tourism Commission has received a Professional Silver ADDY award from the American Advertising Federation – Nebraska. The ad, produced by advertising agency Bailey Lauerman, was designed to promote the 50th anniversary of NEBRASKAland Days June 18-28 in North Platte. The ad was strategically placed in collateral materials for the National Western Stock Show recently held in Denver.
"As a key sponsor of the National Western Stock Show we are provided opportunities to promote attractions and events that fit well within the targeted demographics of the NWSS," Nebraska Tourism's Executive Director Kathy McKillip said. "This year was a special opportunity to show and shine as we utilized additional efforts to enhance NEBRASKAland Days' 50th Anniversary, which is a uniquely special event for Nebraska."
McKillip presented a framed copy of the award winning ad today to NEBRASKAland Days board members and North Platte Convention and Visitors Bureau staff.
"We are just tickled that the creative partnership that we share and embrace with our Bailey Lauerman team resulted in receiving this award," McKillip said. "But more importantly, it brings attention to Nebraska Tourism and NEBRASKAland Days."
"We're very fortunate to have friends like the Nebraska Tourism Commission and the Lincoln County Visitors Bureau," said Executive Director David Fudge. "Both organizations have been exceptional as we reach our 50th Celebration. The National Western Ad was one of two that Nebraska Tourism has commissioned that highlight NEBRASKAland DAYS, and we're honored that they've chosen to do so." The other ad appeared in the January edition of Cowboy's and Indians Magazine.
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Catawba Valley Commmunity College's dream of winning an National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Div. II World Series is over.
After nearly a four-hour rain delay, the Bucs (38-17) fell to Heartland Community College on Tuesday, 7-2.
It was the second time CVCC lost to Heartland (53-7) in the tournament, including a 5-4 opening game defeat in the tournament on Saturday.
After leaving six runners in scoring position in the game and trailing 2-0 in the bottom of the ninth, Post 48 rallied.
A successful bunt by Nick Guarino forced an error that plated Tyler Pait and Logan Gray to tie the game.
Scoring in six-of-nine innings, the Hickory Crawdads picked up their second-straight win over the Delmarva Shorebirds in Maryland on Tuesday.
Catcher Kevin Torres and first baseman Jhonny Gomez led Hickory (25-25) with two RBIs each.
Zach Cone and Jeremy Williams also drove in an RBI each for the ŌĆśDads.
The Catawba Valley Community College baseball team (38-16) is competing right now against Heartland Community College (52-7) at the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Div. II World Series in Enid, Okla.
Heartland defeated Catawba Valley, 5-4, in the opening game of the tournament on Saturday.
The start times in the best-of-three series for the state 3A championship between Fred T. Foard and Charles B. Aycock have been released.
Foard (25-4) and Aycock (29-2), who play on Field 5 at the Walnut Creek Softball Complex in Raleigh, open their series Friday in game one at 8 p.m.
Coming off a playoff appearance at the state tournament last season, the Hickory American Legion Post 48 baseball team is in rebuilding mode.
Of the 21 players on this yearŌĆÖs team, four are rising sophomores, and six are rising juniors.
For the second-straight day, the CVCC baseball team scored 11 runs, most of them late.
The Bucs won another elimination game in the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Div. II World Series against the third-ranked Lackawanna (Pa.) Community College Falcons on Monday, 11-1.
Hickory Post 48's season opener on the road against Rutherford County Post 423 was rained out Monday.
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Elite: Dangerous by Frontier Developments — Kickstarter
A fully updated version of Elite by David Braben himself.
We'll just have to pretend Frontier didn't happen in order to maintain our excitement
(as taken from BBC News - Elite classic video games remake seeking backers)
It promises to be rather interesting with mmorpg elements and up-to-date graphics.
Perhaps he has been impressed by the popularity of Oolite, a free, community created version of the classic game that has tones of add-ons such as ships, missions, skins and other modding options: Oolite which, despite plenty of work, is still single player only (still great fun though).
I think I may well send £20 their way.
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I knew it. As I left the house this morning, my bank card was sat next to the PC. "Nah", I thought, "I won't need it".
Needless to say, the first thing I'm doing when I get home tonight is making a £20 pledge!
Here is the Kickstarter page: Elite: Dangerous by Frontier Developments — Kickstarter
Nice to see what you get for your £20 as well
Shame I don't have £5000 to blow on a star system! 2 People did though
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I think I'd rather he focused on the SP tbh; Eve has the MMO of Elite pretty well sorted now, and it's taken them a lot of years and a lot of people. If he focused on a better SP experience (where I think the only competition is X3) it'd be a lot more straightforward and a lot better, trying to do SP and MP is just going to dilute both :/
Eve is very much point and click....Elite gave you the feeling of flying your cobra between stations....running from the Fer-De-Lance!!
It will be an interesting concept.....Have been waiting for this since the mid-80's....and since Freelancer was completed!!
I don't think Eve is comparable. One of the most fun things about Elite was flying the ship yourself in real time. Something Eve doesn't let you do.
I'd say the defining feature of Elite, and what its reputation is really built on, was the simulation of the galactic economy; whilst I don't doubt Braben could design that superbly, I think the back-end technology needed is insane and a massive task to take on. You could simplify it with sharding but what works really well in Eve is the shared universe.
Maybe later, but for now, I'd rather a proper single player get done as well as can be, as otherwise I fear the boring background details of supporting MP will suck up an unduly large amount of money and take away from the game itself.
Do you still have to manually dock with the space station on your first flight?
Protip: Use an analog joystick that doesn't auto centre. You'll lose a lot less paintwork docking at Lave that way.
Dos_Box (6th November 2012)
Not quite a Protip: Leave space station....accelerate away....then stop. Turn around and face docking port.....accelerate towards station and press hyperspace.... Come out of hyperspace in dock of new station. Bounce around the galaxy until you have enough for docking computer!
That was a way that my 16 year old self found!!!
But shooting pirates gets you tons of money
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Why Roda?
There are already plenty of Ruby web frameworks. Why another one? Well, Roda has a very useful combination of features that make web development easy. It's designed to be fast, DRY, and correct. It's probably easiest to explain the advantages by comparing it with Sinatra, which it tries to emulate in many respects.
Differences with Sinatra
Routing Tree
The primary difference between Roda and Sinatra is that Roda uses a routing tree, while Sinatra uses a list of routes. At any point in the routing tree, Roda allows you to operate on the current request. If your URLs reflect your application architecture, this allows you to have DRYer code. Let's examine code examples for a very simple app, implemented in both Sinatra and Roda:
require 'roda'
class App < Roda
plugin :render
plugin :all_verbs
route do |r|
r.root do
view :index
r.is 'artist/:id' do |artist_id|
@artist = Artist[artist_id]
r.get do
view :artist
r.post do
r.delete do
r.redirect '/'
require 'sinatra/base'
class App < Sinatra::Base
get '/' do
erb :index
get '/artist/:id' do
@artist = Artist[params[:id]]
erb :artist
post '/artist/:id' do
@artist = Artist[params[:id]]
delete '/artist/:id' do
@artist = Artist[params[:id]]
redirect '/'
While the Roda code is slightly longer, it should be apparent that it is actually simpler. Instead of setting the @artist variable and checking that access is allowed in all three of the sinatra routes, the variables are set as soon as that branch of the tree is taken, and can be used in all routes under that branch. This is why Roda is called a routing tree web framework. This is a very simplified example, but if you see this type of duplication in a lot of the Sinatra code you write, your app could probably be made simpler by converting to Roda.
In addition to being more maintainable, Roda's approach is also faster in general. Sinatra routes requests by testing each of the stored routes against the current request, in order. With Roda, once one branch of the tree matches, only routes inside that branch are considered, not any routes after that branch. Roda also has support for a single route that dispatches to multiple branches via the multi_route plugin. For large applications, routing in Sinatra is roughly O(n), where n is the number of routes, while routing in Roda can be close to O(log n), depending on how you structure your routing tree. For small applications, because Roda is simpler internally, Roda is about 2.5 times faster than Sinatra.
Plugin System
Another difference between Roda and Sinatra is that Roda has a very small core, with a plugin system modeled on Sequel's. All parts of Roda (class/instance/request/response) can be overridden by plugins and call super to get the default behavior. This includes when plugins are applied to the Roda class itself (affecting all subclasses). The reason Roda is referred to as a toolkit is that by using different combinations of plugins, you can build the routing tree web framework that meets your needs.
Many features that are built into Sinatra are shipped as plugins in Roda. This way they can easily be used if needed, but if you don't use them you don't pay the cost for loading them. Near the top of the Roda example, you can see plugin :render, which adds support for template rendering, and plugin :all_verbs, which adds routing methods for all HTTP request methods.
Less Pollution
Finally, Roda is very concerned about pollution. In this case, pollution of the scope in which the route block operates. Roda purposely limits the instance variables, instance methods, and class namespaces available in the route block scope, so that it is very unlikely you will run into conflicts. If you've ever tried to use an instance variable named @request or a model named Response inside a Sinatra::Base subclass, you'll appreciate that Roda attempts to avoid polluting the scope.
Differences with Cuba
Roda started out as a fork of Cuba. Both share the idea of using a routing tree, but there are some important differences.
Response Bodies
Cuba takes a explicit approach for handling response bodies, where you must always call res.write "body" inside your routes. Roda assumes that if the block returns a string and the response body has not already been written to, that the block response should be used as the response body. This DRYs up a lot of code. Here's a simple example:
Roda.route do |r|
r.on 'foo' do
r.on 'bar' do
Cuba.define do
on 'foo' do
res.write '1'
on 'bar' do
res.write '2'
Canonical Routes
Roda has built in support for canonical routes, using r.is. Canonical, in this case, means no further entries are in the path. In Cuba, if you want a canonical route, you have to manually use a regexp or string ending with \z. Using this example:
Roda.route do |r|
r.is 'foo' do
Cuba.define do
on 'foo' do
res.write '1'
Cuba will return a response of 1 for /foo, /foo/bar, and /foo/bar/baz, where Roda will only return a response of 1 for /foo, not handling /foo/bar or /foo/bar/baz.
Less Pollution
Roda makes more of an effort to avoid polluting the scope, though compared to most other web frameworks, Cuba does a good job. With Cuba, all route matching methods are defined in the same scope, which has 23 additional methods over Object as opposed to the 6 additional methods in Roda. Roda is able to do this by moving the route matching methods into the request class, which is why in Roda you use r.on instead of on. Cuba does not prefix instance variables or classes in the scope, which makes namespace clashes more likely.
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While both Roda and Cuba have plugin systems, Roda's is based on Sequel's and is more flexible, allowing overriding of all Roda methods, even when plugins are used directly on the Roda class. Additionally, Roda ships with many plugins, and those plugins are tested in the same test suite as the core Roda code, ensuring that updates to Roda will not break any of the plugins.


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For anyone who definitely wants to invest in the Windows 8 ecosystem, the Zenbook Infinity is one of the most premium products you can pick up. It's pricey, but the incredibly slim and light frame makes this computer ideal for taking with you on the road.
The Zenbook Infinity is 0.6 inches thick, but it does that tapering thing toward the front to make it feel even thinner. Asus also managed to get the weight down to an astonishing 2.6 pounds. The 13.3-inch multitouch LCD is WQVGA 2560×1440, which isn't as high as the Samsung or Lenovo units, but it's still a fairly good pixel density.
While this is one of the lightest Windows ultrabooks you'll find, it does have one feature to be wary of. The aluminum lid is covered with a layer of hardened Gorilla Glass, like the screen on a smartphone. It shouldn't cause any issues even in the unlikely event it hits something hard enough to crack, but it's something to watch out for. This laptop is currently running about $1675 with 8GB of RAM and a 256GB hard drive. It's clear Asus wasn't targeting the low end of the market with this super-portable laptop.
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In the event portability is much more important than power, a Chromebook might be the right choice. The HP Chromebook 11 is a stylish little computer with great battery life and a universal microUSB adapter, which is handy when traveling. Because it's running Google's Chrome OS, you will have to make some sacrifices, but it can still be a great machine to take on the road.
The HP Chromebook 11 is 0.69 inches thick and weighs only 2.3 pounds, so you should have no trouble hauling it around. Instead of an x86 processor, the HP Chromebook 11 runs on a Samsung Exynos 5250 ARM chip. Even with the small, lightweight battery, this machine gets roughly six hours of active use. The 11.6-inch screen is only 1366×768.
With Chrome OS you won't have access to as much software. In fact, the Chromebook is of very little use when it's not connected. If you plan to do some computing where there isn't reliable internet access, a more conventional machine might be better. For only $279, it's hard to complain, though.
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Apple, Samsung, Google, HTC, Microsoft and others agree to voluntary anti-theft tool for smartphones
On Tuesday, Apple and Samsung joined with other companies like Google, HTC, Huawei, Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia, Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint. All of these firms have agreed to add an anti-theft tool to the phones they manufacture or sell to the U.S. public, starting in July 2015. The hope is that by allowing stolen phones to be remotely shut down, it will remove the incentive for thieves to steal them. Criminals profit from smartphone thefts by obtaining personal information, including financial passwords and PIN numbers, from the phone. In addition, a stolen smartphone could be sold in the black market. The anti-theft tool is expected to prevent both of these from happening.
According to the CTIA, the tool will allow users to remotely wipe their device in the event it is lost or stolen. Data that will be wiped include personal information that is added after the purchase of the phone. The tool will also allow the user to remotely make the phone impossible to use without a PIN or password, except for emergency 911 calls. Along these lines, a locked down phone could be set not to reactivate without the user's authorization. If the lost or stolen smartphone is recovered by the authorized user, personal data can be restored from the cloud.
The anti-theft tool will come out of the box on new phones sold starting in July 2015, or will be downloaded on these devices. In addition, the mobile carriers who agreed to participate, will allow customers to obtain this anti-theft tool and use it on phones purchased from them. Many believed that the manufacturers would never agree to such a tool because it might cost them some replacement sales. And it was also believed that the carriers would not agree to a "Kill Switch" since it might cost them the revenue from selling premium smartphone insurance, which covers stolen handsets. But both have come together to agree to this very important initiative, which could save the lives of some of their customers.
Not everyone was excited with the voluntary plan. California state Sen. Mark Leno, who has a mandatory "Kill Switch" bill proposed in Congress, says that by making the anti-theft tool voluntary, the plan announced on Tuesday "misses the mark if the ultimate goal is to combat street crime and violent thefts involving smartphones and tablets."
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1. sriuslywtf (Posts: 277; Member since: 09 Jul 2013)
Best news of the week!
2. express77 (unregistered)
this is great idea. better than kill switch. or is it the same?
11. Valdomero (Posts: 125; Member since: 13 Nov 2012)
It's more like an "Erase and Block" switch rather than a "Kill Switch", still, the idea is good tho. I believe there are services out there that already do this...
3. alexandrecastro (Posts: 21; Member since: 23 Feb 2014)
I wonder how they'll secure android recovery mode / adb / download mode ...
10. sprockkets (Posts: 1352; Member since: 16 Jan 2012)
Easy, lock the bootloader.
Look at moto. You won't get into their phones without unlocking it. Now, if unlocked, how will that play into the whole locking scheme? Well, the bootloader can be relocked, but there would have to be extra countermeasures in place for that to happen remotely.
4. Lt.Green (Posts: 396; Member since: 13 Mar 2014)
They should make a self-destruct mode ala Mission Impossible.
5. a_merryman (Posts: 718; Member since: 14 Dec 2011)
Thank god, so much better than that kill switch. That is the last things we need as consumers is the kill switch plan they were calling for. This method seems to keep the power solely in the consumers hands.
6. TechnoTechyes (Posts: 56; Member since: 24 Jan 2011)
This will hurt all those companies financially. Stolen phones = more new phone sales.
I'll bet this slows sales by 10%. - I'm not saying it is not a good thing to do, I'm just saying that I understand why the manufacturers were resistant.
9. Leo_MC (Posts: 599; Member since: 02 Dec 2011)
The one that buys a stolen phone today will buy a phone from a carrier/store tomorrow so I don't think you are right.
7. VZWuser76 (Posts: 1876; Member since: 04 Mar 2010)
Not much different than a blacklisted CDMA phone. You can call in and have it thrown on the blacklist and the IMIE number cannot be activated on any network.
8. htcforlife (Posts: 57; Member since: 15 Apr 2014)
only in the us? why not globally?
and what would happen if someone quickly rooted and flashed everything and sold it in another country?
apart from that i guess its good news


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An ongoing investigation by his university has so far revealed that Stapel fabricated the data for no fewer than 55 of his papers. This has led many prominent scientific journals, including Science, to issue retractions. Stapel has since publically apologized to his colleagues and students. He also published a memoir, Derailed, in which he recounted his personal descent into scientific misconduct. Fellow psychologists have characterized it as "priceless and revealing," especially its "unexpectedly beautiful" final chapter, though they also note that it is rife with plagiarized lines from the writings of Raymond Carver and James Joyce.
Before 1950 only about 10 percent of articles in social psychology journals involved deceptive methodology. By the 1970s it was over 50 percent.
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La Jolla's The Bishop's School Knights varsity basketball team played host to the West Lake Boys High School team from Auckland, New Zealand, on Saturday, Dec. 15, 2012. The team from down under was taller, bigger and stronger, but not faster — and did not play with near as much heart — but the visiting New Zealand team still they won the game 67-63.
As Bishop's Assistant Athletic Director Andy Kozan put it, "We are small, so everyone automatically thinks it's going to be a blood bath. Our kids dig in, play hard, they're fearless, and they play well as a team."
The game wasn't anything close to a blowout. It was a hotly contested, very close and exciting basketball game — all the way to the final buzzer.
Jamir Jones scored the first basket for Bishop's and led the Knights with 25 points. Bishop's jumped out to a 5-0 lead. With four minutes left in the first quarter, Bishop's held a lead 10-4. Jones made a great spin move to the basket that made the score 14-8 with two minutes remaining, followed by Wesley Fishburn's two free throws.
Then Fishburn followed with a great move to the basket, muscling his way to the hoop, adding two more points for Bishop's.
The quarter ended on a three-point play by West Lake. Bishop lead 17-13 at the beginning of the second quarter.West Lake scored the first and only points of the first two minutes of the second quarter from the three-point arc. Jones followed with a three.
Bishop's scored five straight to make it 23-16 Bishop's.
Five straight points by West Lake followed a three-point basket by Jones. The second quarter ended with West Lake hitting on a three with the score 33-32 in favor of the Knights.
The second half began with West Lake scoring the initial four points and taking the lead for the first time 36-33. This was followed by an New Zealand lay-in and three-pointer to make the score 41-33 West Lake.
Bishop's had yet to score in the third quarter with 4:23 remaining. Bishop's dug in and scrapped its way to a 12-5 run, cutting the West Lake lead to 46-45.
The quarter ended with Jamir Jones stealing the ball and converting the lay-in. Bishop's took the 49-45 lead into the fourth quarter.
A three-point basket by West Lake began the fourth. With six minutes left in the quarter, Jones made a great move to the basket and the score was 54-51 Knights. The infamous turning point immediately followed.
A Bishop's player was called for fouling a West Lake player while in the act of shooting.
A two-point opportunity for West Lake became a four-point opportunity when the referee teed-up a Bishop's player.
It seems the unlucky guy was walking toward the bench, saying, "There was nothing I could do. I didn't foul," intending it for the coach's ears. Unfortunately, the referee heard it and called a technical foul.
The two-point violation became a four-point nightmare and the winning margin.


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