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Diet and exercise are essential for blood sugar management and are subject of much frustration for the diabetic patient and the physician. With each visit to the physician's office, the patient has to anticipate the stern lecture about exercising, controlling his or her diet, abstaining from sweets, and testing his or her sugars regularly or face the multitude of complications from diabetes. In addition, physicians may also give a patient a handout with the recommendations from the American Diabetes Association.
But does this method work? King and Armstrong studied the effectiveness of this type of program and followed a cohort of chronic dieters who see a doctor and are told to lose weight. They found that half of all these patients actually gained weight. The conclusion of this study and years of experience was twofold: deprivation invites bingeing and diets don't work.
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Participants who made lifestyle changes reduced their risk of getting type 2 diabetes by 58 percent. A healthy diet and moderate exercise lower blood sugars and improve the body's use of insulin, and slow progression of the disease and its complications.
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Most mistakenly believe that a "diabetic diet" means restriction on sugar intake and the need to avoid sugar-containing items such as cakes, cookies and candies. The key words here are "well-balanced" diet. In reality, diabetics can eat anything a non-diabetic can eat as long as it is a well-balanced diet and the carbohydrate intake is spread out through the day. In addition, if the diabetic is taking insulin or oral medication, he or she will want to eat carbohydrates in such a way that the sugar from the meal peaks when the medication is working at its peak.
The Food Pyramid is the best example of a well-balanced diet for the average person as well as the diabetic. On average, Americans eat 40 to 45 percent of the recommended caloric intake of carbohydrates. Grains, beans and starchy vegetables have very little fat, saturated fat or cholesterol. They are also filled with vitamins, minerals and fiber. Vegetables are low calorie and full of vitamins and fiber. A minimum of three servings a day is required.
Fruits should be eaten at least twice a day when blood sugars are low. In addition, eating a whole orange with the pulp and fiber does not increase blood sugars as quickly as concentrated orange juice, enabling the diabetic to have more control over the glycemic response. Low fat options from the milk group will provide calcium to prevent osteoporosis without the saturated fat and cholesterol.
Patients with diabetes need as much protein as anyone else although cutting down on saturated fats and using leaner options will help decrease the diabetic's already high risk of heart disease. Moderate protein restriction has shown that diabetic patients have increased adiposity and decreased muscle strength.
Sweets should be taken in moderation. Although studies have shown that sugars do not raise blood glucose any higher than carbohydrates upon ingestion, sweets contain little nutritional value.


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Last week I got an e-mail from a friend who is in leadership in his local seminary. While some seminaries are theologically focus, this one is a pastor factory whose primary mission is to produce pastors. Years ago if you remember, I talked about a Personal MDiv and I was asked for some feedback. I didn't have that much to add to the conversation but I offered this up.
- An understanding of how communities work: The church can be a prophetic voice in a neighborhood or city but unless it is a big box mega church outside of town, it is often a neighbor and therefore has an impact on how that neighborhood interacts with it and each other. Some churches are amazing neighbors while others can be jerks. Each neighborhood has a different vibe and feel to it. I walk the 15 blocks to work quite a bit and just by walking through Mayfair, Caswell Hill, and Riversdale and I can feel the differences. Jane Jacobs may be the best pick to start with if you are talking about an urban context but there needs to be a framework for understanding the ebb and flow of a local neighborhood and community. I am not sure how we missed this but I imagine that for long the church was the centre of the neighborhood that we haven't adjusted to being ignored or looked down on by the neighborhood. As Darryl Dash wrote in Christian Week, at one time being near a church meant a higher property value. That isn't the case today.
- How to start something: After reading Michael Frost and Alan Hirsch, you realize that many of the missional examples are not churches but are businesses, NGO's, or non-profits. Believe me, nothing I learned in school taught me how to deal with funders, investors, or banks. How to write a decent business plan, bootstrap, when to go for angel investment or a loan, when to hire. Those are skills that need to be learned somewhere. I can imagine AKMA disagreeing that this should be a part of any seminary's curriculum and he may be right. If it isn't a part of a formal education, make it readily available to those that do need those skills. Guy Kawasaki and Garage used to do a Bootcamp for Startups. Perhaps something like that offered occasionally from a denominational perspective would be helpful.
- Ethics: A lot of church leaders I know of have odd ethics. Maybe it is just me that finds it odd but hiding money from the taxman, lying to avoid conflict or accountability, a love of money, or just going through the motions is considered okay. When I worked at Lakeview Church, we posted the full script transcripts of sermons there. Friday the site was busy but on Saturday it was even busier. Most of the traffic was from outside Saskatoon and it was all browsing and downloading sermons. A friend of mine used to joke that if you wanted him to preach better sermons, Max Lucado had to preach better sermons. It isn't just out of the way pulpits where this happens. I listened to one speaker who has written on leadership and integrity steal a litany from Len Sweet without credit. Although to his defense, he probably never wrote the talk himself or his books. My point is that ethics seems to have been lost along the way. Either that or we are doing a horrible job of vetting clergy.
- Cost: At what point do we have to find a new way of training clergy or accept the fact that only the wealthy or the heavily indebted will be able to enter pastoral ministry. Tom Sine has talked about this for years and he is right. The impact will be that only affluent congregations will be able to hire seminary educated clergy and smaller rural, inner city, missionary organizations will be priced out of the market.
- Common Sense: A friend of mine wanted to plant an inner city church yet decided to move into a middle upper class neighborhood. Does this strike anyone else as idiotic. He wanted to be their pastor but not live around them. (yeah, I just realize that I offended some of you) I hesitate to add this because
I am oversimplifying the issues quite a bit and these were real simple off the top of my head answers but I thought some of you may find them interesting.
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In a late August night at Seattle Center, Ravenna Woods was prepared to take the stage for one of KEXP's Music at the Mural events, an ongoing summer concert series that has featured some of the Northwest's best up-and-coming artists. The fading sunlight and the ambiance of summer's decay lingered, but this vibe was almost perfect for a group like Ravenna Woods. With lyrics that dark and angry, a diverse arrangement of instruments, and the unrelenting voice of lead singer Chris Cunningham, the group is slowly propelling its way up the ranks with other folk-inspired groups from the Seattle area.
In the last five years, the influence of Seattle's music scene has drastically taken a turn from what put it on the map 20 years ago. Once and forever known as the grunge capital of the world, the tone has settled down in the Pacific Northwest, and while hip-hop and electronic music is hard to miss, a more mellow sound predominates. Now a wide range of folk groups have gained national attention, from the masterful works of Fleet Foxes to the more mundane sounds of The Head and the Heart. Where Ravenna Woods lies is yet to be determined. The band's unusual sound has had some describe them as having an almost "folk-punk" sound: heavy vocals and lots of speed, all while relying on the acoustic sounds of folk.
Coming out of college, Chris Cunningham's path to forming Ravenna Woods was an unusual one. A University of Washington alumnus, Cunningham earned his B.A. in cultural anthropology, with a minor in American Indian studies. After an inspiring few years at the UW, Cunningham, who admits to still scanning through old course readings, had to decide where to go next. Upon leaving college, he played music and worked, but he grew restless while away from academic pursuits. He remembers being inspired by anthropology professor Holly Barker, who also served as a senior adviser to the ambassador of the Marshall Islands and spent time learning about nuclear testing issues in the country. Barker's teachings interested Cunningham in the subject during his time at the UW.
"I wanted to assist others in some way, somewhere far from the USA," Cunningham said. He contacted Barker, who got him in contact with the Marshall Islands Ministry of Education. There, he acquired a job as an independent contract teacher. The job required him to teach at a boarding school on the outer island of Jaluit where he taught subjects such as comparative governments, English comprehension, and music to kids aged 16 to 22. Cunningham brought an acoustic guitar, a drum machine, and a four-track recorder with him and ended up recording about 45 songs.
"The experience definitely changed my perspective on songwriting and sort of forced me to learn how to make more with less; musically and otherwise," he said.
After returning from the Marshall Islands in the summer of 2008, Cunningham stayed with his parents for a few months while searching for a secure job and a place to live. It was during that time he was introduced to future bandmate Brantley Duke through mutual friends.
"[Duke] ended up recording a band that I was playing with at the time, and through the process he and I became aware that we shared very similar musical ideas," Cunningham said.
The two started recording demos together, and those demos eventually made their way to a friend of a friend named Matt Badger. Badger, the group's drummer, was also a UW graduate who earned a degree in biology, yet he and Cunningham had never encountered one another before.
"[Matt] approached me at one of our shows. He loved the songs, and we got talking," Cunningham said. "By the end of the conversation, I invited him to play with us."
Since its formation in 2009, the band has put out two albums: 2010's "Demons and Lakes" and 2011's "Valley of the Headless Men." Both have been well-received by critics and local fans. As for 2012, Cunningham says the group's immediate plans are touring, but it will also start writing and recording their next full-length album.
"Along the way we plan to put out some music videos and play new songs at live shows to give audiences an idea of what direction we're heading in," he said.
That August night Ravenna Woods played a riveting set, and its unique sound felt like an introduction to the fall season. The lyrics that contained such topics of ghosts and graves haunted the diverse age group that watched from the grass. And yet, in between songs, Cunningham made a point to thank the audience for their support and even to come hang out with the band afterward. Just because Ravenna Woods has an intimidating sound doesn't mean they carry it off stage.
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'You speak of Lord Byron and me - There is this great
difference between us.
He describes what he sees - I describe what I imagine -
Mine is the hardest task.'
John Keats in
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September 1819
Byron on Keats - Information & Summary
The rivalry and dislike between George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron, and John Keats has been much discussed; in their own time, however, it was felt far more keenly by Keats. Byron was a flamboyant and handsome nobleman whose wit, charm and ancestral title accorded him entry into the most elite circles of English society. He was also an accomplished and celebrated poet. His first major work, 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage', was a great success and he enjoyed all the attendant benefits of celebrity. John Keats was a poor and struggling middle-class poet whose work was often savaged by the great critics of the age; he was advised that poetry was the provenance of nobleman such as Byron, and dismissed (by Byron, among others) as a 'Cockney' poet.
The animus between Byron and Keats is easy enough to explain. Byron was a snob, though he occasionally rose above such petty social concerns. He also revered the 18th century Augustan poets, particularly Alexander Pope, whose adherence to the classical tradition is echoed in his own early poetry. Keats's work was deeply at odds with the Augustans; also, his 'Sleep and Poetry', which Byron read, was critical of their work. Keats found inspiration in the extravagant and sensuous wordplay of the 16th century and also admired the works of Wordsworth and Coleridge. Those first generation Romantics poets had caused a literary revolution with their rejection of Augustan classicism. And so, quite simply, Byron disliked Keats's poetry on an aesthetic level. Keats felt likewise about Byron's work; he considered it overrated, slavish and unoriginal. It was a sort of reverse snobbery.
And there is also the simple envy Keats felt over Byron's success. As he was forever beset by financial concerns, his jealousy is understandable enough. It was exacerbated by his belief that Byron succeeded only because he was an aristocrat who catered to an undemanding audience ('You see what it is to be six foot tall and a lord!', Keats remarked to a friend upon reading a favorable review of Byron's work.)
But it is worth remembering that Byron came to recognize Keats's talent. He also scoffed at the notion that anyone would be so sensitive as to die because of bad reviews (he himself was savaged more than once.) In this respect, Byron had more insight into Keats's character than those who should have known him far better.Byron discussed Keats's death and poetry in a letter to Percy Shelley, dated April 26, 1821. Click here to read it at the Lord Byron website.
Letter from Byron to John Murray, 18 November 1820
'P.S. - of the praises of that little dirty blackguard KEATES in the Edinburgh - I shall observe as Johnson did when Sheridan the actor got a pension. 'What has he got a pension? then it is time that I should give up mine.' - Nobody could be prouder of the praises of the Edinburgh than I was - or more alive to their censure - as I showed in EB and SR - at present all the men they have ever praised are degraded by that insane article. - Why don't they review & praise 'Solomon's Guide to Health' it is better sense - and as much poetry as Johnny Keates.'
Letter from Byron to John Murray, 26 April 1821
Is it true - what Shelley writes me that poor John Keats died at Rome of the Quarterly Review? I am very sorry for it - though I think he took the wrong line as a poet - and was spoilt by Cockneyfying and Suburbing - and versifying Tooke's Pantheon and Lempriere's Dictionary. - I know by experience that a savage review is Hemlock to a sucking author - and the one on me - (which produced the English Bards &c.) knocked me down - but I got up again. - Instead of bursting a blood-vessel - I drank three bottles of claret - and began an answer - finding that there was nothing in the Article for which I could lawfully knock Jeffrey on the head in an honourable way. - However I would not be the person who wrote the homicidal article - for all the honour & glory in the world, - though I by no means approve of that School of Scribbling - which it treats upon. --
Letter from Byron to John Murray, 31 July 1821
'Are you aware that Shelley has written an elegy on Keats - and accuses the Quarterly of killing him? -
Who killed John Keats?
I, says the Quarterly
So savage & Tartarly
'Twas one of my feats -Who shot the arrow?
The poet-priest Milman
(So ready to kill man)
Or Southey or Barrow. -You know very well that I did not approve of Keats's poetry or principles of poetry - or of his abuse of Pope - but as he is dead - omit all that is said about him in any M.S.S. of mine - or publication. - His Hyperion is a fine monument & will keep his name - I do not envy the man - who wrote the article - your review people have no more right to kill than any other foot pads. - However - he who would die of an article in a review - would probably have died of something else equally trivial - the same thing nearly happened to Kirke White - who afterwards died of consumption.'
Letter from Byron to John Murray, 7 August 1821
'I have just been turning over the homicide review of J. Keats. - It is harsh certainly and contemptuous but not more so than what I recollect of the Edinburgh R of 'the Hours of Idleness' in 1808. The Reviewer allows him 'a degree of talent which deserves to be put in the right way' 'rays of fancy' 'gleams of Genius' and 'powers of language'. - It is harder on L. Hunt than upon Keats & professes fairly to review only one book of his poem. - Altogether - though very provoking it was hardly so bitter as to kill - unless there was a morbid feeling previously in his system. --'
Byron's 'Observations upon an Article in Blackwood's Magazine', 12 November 1821
'My indignation at Mr Keats's depreciation of Pope has hardly permitted me to do justice to his own genius, which, malgre all the fantastic fopperies of his style, was undoubtedly of great promise. His fragment of Hyperion seems actually inspired by the Titans, and is as sublime as Aeschylus. He is a loss to our literature; and the more so, as he himself, before his death, is said to have been persuaded that he had not taken the right line, and was re-forming his style upon the more classical models of language.'
After Leigh Hunt told Byron that Keats had admired his greatest work, 'Don Juan', Byron included a stanza about Keats; it alludes to the popular conception of his death via bad review. The last two lines of the stanza clearly show that Byron dismissed the idea. He also mentions Keats's lack of classical learning.
Incidentally, Keats did not like 'Don Juan'; in a letter to his brother George, he referred to it as 'Lord Byron's last flash poem' and Severn recorded Keats's disgust with the work during their voyage to Italy.Byron's 'Don Juan', stanza 60 of Canto XI
John Keats, who was killed off by one critique,
Just as he really promised something great,
If not intelligible, - without Greek
Contrived to talk about the Gods of late,
Much as they might have been supposed to speak.
Poor fellow! His was an untoward fate: -
'Tis strange the mind, that very fiery particle,
Should let itself be snuffed out by an Article.
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At 10:05 p.m. RJ placed a call to Virginia and spoke to his mother. They talked for 26 minutes before he received a call-waiting message. He put his mother on hold and came back less than a minute later. "'Gotta go, I got the girls coming over,'" she recollects him announcing. And then RJ said goodbye.
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Back at the loft, the artist who had given RJ the bottle of vodka awoke late on New Year's Day. That night he noticed all the lights were on in the loft down the hall. He could hear the air conditioner running as well. (The weather was unseasonably warm at that time, with highs in the 80s.) By the next day, "I started to smell death," he says, speaking to New Times on the condition of anonymity. Two days later, he awoke early in the morning and vomited from the stench emanating from the adjacent apartment. Stefan VonFouts arrived home from his trip a few hours later.
Coronas on the Counter Having gone from being the lively center of black culture in Miami to one of its most depressed neighborhoods, Overtown, especially the area immediately north of downtown, is now contested territory in a struggle between an artist community attracted to its wide-open warehouse spaces and a drug trade that refuses to go gently. But a slow gentrification is trickling down from the Design District and Wynwood, and the Rectangle Art Space -- its faded white paint a drab contrast to the pastel pinks and greens of the small homes adjacent to it on the west -- is one more sign that an economic change for the better may be on its way.
Stefan VonFouts returned home on the morning of January 4. Roommate Christian Webb, who had also been away for the holidays, would arrive later that day. As VonFouts climbed the stairs, he caught a whiff of a very foul odor. "I thought it was putrid gas or a dead animal," he says. The loft's front door was locked at the handle, which didn't surprise him; it was often set to lock automatically when it closed. He unlocked the door, entered the living area, and saw something on the floor. He was momentarily stupefied. "Disbelief, just horror," he recalls. "I didn't even recognize who he was. He had shaved his head. His face was black and bloated. I thought it was a stranger." Then he realized it was RJ.
His friend was dressed in a black shirt and lightweight black jacket, lying face-up on a black rug. It appeared to VonFouts that RJ had fallen backward. "The shooter was either at the doorway to my bedroom or at the kitchen counter," VonFouts theorized later, though at the time he didn't notice any blood or sign of violence. "It looked like RJ might have turned around and got surprised."


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Professor of Mediterranean History
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Subject groups/Research projects
- Ancient and Medieval History:
History of the Mediterranean countries in the later Middle Ages
Departments and Institutes
- Gonville & Caius College:
- Fellow
Research Interests
David Abulafia's interests embrace the economic, social and political history of the Mediterranean lands in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, especially southern Italy, the Italian 'despotisms' and the Italian islands (viewing Italian history from an unconventionally southern perspective); and also the trade and society of the Spanish lands of the Crown of Aragon.
More generally, he is interested in the interaction of the three religions in medieval Spain and Sicily, including the problem of Jewish (and Muslim) 'servitude'. A major interest is the opening of the eastern and western Atlantic in the fifteenth and early sixteenth century, with particular emphasis on the encounter of Europeans with native peoples, the subject of his book The Discovery of Mankind (2008). He has also written about the Levant trade, links between Italy and the lands across the Adriatic, and 19th and 20th century historiography of medieval Europe.
He has now written a history of the Mediterranean from 22,000 BC to AD 2010 for Penguin Books, entitled The Great Sea, published in 2011 (paperback edn., 2012; updated, 2014). Here he concentrates on those who moved back and forth across the sea, and the goods and ideas they brought with them, as well as the port cities they created and the islands on which they perched. This is a very different perspective to that of Fernand Braudel in his classic study of the Mediterranean, published over 60 years ago. In 2011 he received the Mountbatten Literary Award from the Maritime Foundation for this book; and in 2013 he was awarded a British Academy Medal 'for a landmark academic achievement' represented by the book.
His current work takes him beyond the Mediterranean, deep into the oceans.
Research Supervision
Topics of Ph.D. students currently supervised involve the Third Crusade, political authority in the thirteenth-century Italian city-republics, the Jews in the economy of Aragon-Catalonia, chivalry in fifteenth-century Spain, China in the late medieval imagination, the origins of the labour system in the Caribbean c1500. He also supervises students studying for the M.Phil.s in Historical Studies, in Medieval History and in Early Modern History.
The main undergraduate papers he lectures on are: in Part I, 'European History, 1200-1520'; and, in Part II, a third-year source based Special Subject on 'Chivalry, patronage and rulership: King René of Anjou in fifteenth-century Europe' and (with Dr Anna Sapir Abulafia), a Part II Specified Paper on 'The Jewish Presence in Medieval Society'.
Other Professional Activities
He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Member of the Academia Europaea.
Key Publications
- The Two Italies. Economic relations between the Norman Kingdom of Sicily and the northern communes 1977; Italian edn., 1991.
- Italy, Sicily and the Mediterranean, 1100-1400, 1987.
- Frederick II. A medieval emperor London and NY, 1988; third English edn., 2001; Italian edn., 1990; German edn., 1991.
- Spain and 1492: unity and uniformity under Ferdinand and Isabella, 1992.
- Commerce and Conquest in the Mediterranean, 1100-1500, 1993.
- A Mediterranean Emporium: the Catalan Kingdom of Majorca 1994; Spanish edn., 1996.
- The Western Mediterranean Kingdoms, 1200-1500. The Struggle for Dominion 1997; Italian edn., 1999.
- Mediterranean Encounters, Economic, Religious and Political, 1100-1550, 2000.
- The Discovery of Mankind: Atlantic Encounters in the Age of Columbus, 2008; Spanish edn., 2009; Italian edn., 2010.
- Il Duomo di Monreale: lo splendore dei mosaici with M. Naro, 2009; French edn. 2013.
- The Great Sea: a human history of the Mediterranean, UK and US edns., 2011; Dutch edn., 2011; Greek edn., 2013; Turkish edn., 2012; Korean edn., 2013; Spanish edn., 2013; German edition, 2013; Italian edition, 2013; Romanian edn., 2014; Brazilian edn. (Portuguese), 2014; other editions under contract. Updated Penguin paperback (UK), 2014.
Edited works
- (ed.) Church and City, 1000-1500. Studies in honour of Christopher Brooke ed. with M. Rubin and M. Franklin, 1992.
- (ed.) The French descent into Renaissance Italy, 1494-5. Antecedents and effects 1995. Italian edn., 2005.
- (ed.) En las costas del Mediterráneo occidental. Las ciudades de la Peninsula Ibérica y del reino de Mallorca y el comercio mediterráneo en la Edad Media ed. with B. Garí, Barcelona, 1997.
- (ed.) The New Cambridge Medieval History, vol. 5, c.1198-1300, 1999.
- (ed.) Medieval Frontiers: concepts and practices, ed. with N. Berend, 2002.
- (ed.) The Mediterranean in History [English, American, French, Spanish, German, Greek, Turkish editions], 2003.
- (ed.) Italy in the Central Middle Ages, 2004.


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Local Man Sentenced to 50 Months in Federal Prison on
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Montgomery, Alabama - Jeffery Alan Lunsford, age 52, was sentenced on August 19, 2010, by Senior United States District Judge W. Harold Albritton, III, to 50 months in federal prison and five years of supervised release for using counterfeit checks to obtain money and a motor home, U.S. Attorney Leura G. Canary announced today.
According to court records, on November 14, 2003, Lunsford opened a bank account using an alias at Peoples Bank & Trust (now BankTrust) in Millbrook, Alabama. Between November 14 and November 19, Lunsford deposited three counterfeit insurance company checks totaling approximately $6500 into this account. Lunsford withdrew approximately $6350 from the account.
On November 19, 2003, Lunsford purchased a new 2004 Monaco Diplomat motor home from Bankston Motor Homes in Montgomery Alabama. Lunsford bought the vehicle using a counterfeit insurance check payable to an alias (the same alias he had used at Peoples Bank) in the amount of $175,400.67, which Lunsford endorsed. Lunsford left Alabama with the vehicle, which was eventually recovered in Texas.
Lunsford was indicted on June 9, 2004. He was a fugitive until his arrest in Delta, Colorado, in December 2009.
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Deciphering High Fructose Corn Syrup
by Toby Amidor in Food News, February 25, 2009You've heard that high fructose corn syrup is bad for you. You know to scan food labels to make sure it's not there. And now some of the big beverage makers are nixing it from their products. So what's the deal with this sweetener?
What the heck is it?
High fructose corn syrup (HFCS) started making its name in the 1980s as a cheap alternative to sugar. Sugar is made from two subunits: glucose and fructose. HFCS is made from those same two subunits — just with some extra help from the lab. Basically put, HFCS starts out as cornstarch, which is made of glucose, and then some of that glucose is converted via chemical processes to fructose. So, you see, there's some manipulation that goes into making it.
Where is it found?
Everywhere. Yes, everywhere! Bread, cookies, soda, cold cereals, candy, ketchup, lunch meats, yogurts, soups, jams, chocolate syrup — you name it and it probably contains HFCS. On a recent supermarket trip, I spent 15 minutes in the bread aisle trying to find a loaf without this sweetener. It's become so mainstream in our food supply that it's sometimes difficult to completely eliminate it from your diet (though Dana has come pretty close).
What has sparked the controversy?
As the use of HFCS increased, so did American's waistlines. Once that news surfaced, the public went crazy and the HFCS backlash began. According to The American Medical Association, HFCS does not contribute more to obesity than sugar or other caloric sweeteners. The Corn Refiners Association launched an 18-month campaign full of commercials for HFCS. The movie King Corn also responded to this controversy.
According to nutritionist, author, professor and my mentor Marion Nestle, "Biochemically, high fructose corn syrup is about the same as table sugar (both have about the same amount of fructose and calories), but it is in everything and Americans eat a lot of it — nearly 60 pounds per capita in 2006, just a bit less than pounds of table sugar."
The Latest Issues
A study released in January revealed that almost half of the commercial food products tested that contained HFCS also contained mercury. Understandably, the media went wild because mercury is toxic and has been linked to neurological damage in humans. Not surprisingly, the Corn Refiners Association released a statement claiming that the study was flawed and failed to properly conduct their study.
The Bottom Line
HFCS is found in many packaged foods and hard to avoid. If possible, opt for products without the sweetener or ones that list HFCS lower down on the ingredients (the closer it is to the end of the list, the less it contains). Sticking to a whole diet with fresh fruits and veggies, nuts, grains and legumes can help minimize your consumption. And, as we always say, moderation is key.
Even better, the latest news is that popular soft drink makers (Pepsi, Snapple and Mountain Dew) are cutting high fructose corn syrup from their mixes. We're not huge soft drink fans, but every little step we take towards more wholesome and natural ingredients helps.
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HFCS is garbage and should be banned. Our house is HFCS-free!
Trying to eat sanely these days is becoming a nightmare. What is bad for you this month is okay two years down the line. The most sane method would be to eat as naturally as possible – fresh fruits, produce, etc. However, unless you buy organic "they" have you believing that all other produce is a toxic waste. And let's not forget the critters out there and how badly they are treated before they go out to slaughter or the tiny cages they are kept in while laying our eggs. I can't stand this anymore – eating used to be a pleasure – it is NOT anymore! I'm starting to feel guilty about everything I eat because it's reported to be bad for me or if I eat meat I'm causing the are torture animals. We are obese because we don't cook our own food, we eat out too much, we eat way too much and we don't exercise!
There are MANY contributing factors to obesity. While HFCS may play a role, it's not the only reason for a nationwide obesity epidemic. Decreased physical activity, increased high fat/high calorie/low nutrient dense food availability, etc. all contribute to obesity. Epidemiologic data (which shows only correlations, not cause and effect)supports the association between HFCS and the rise in obesity…but what else has happened in the last 50 years? Society is less active (more desk/service jobs vs. active factory/farming jobs), there has been a rise in convience foods and a fast paced lifestyle that promotes unhealthy eating, etc.
Extreme limitation of any food or food additive is usually unpractical, unneccessary, and costly. Moderation is key. By sticking to fresh or homemade foods in which the ingredients can be controlled, HFCS can be avoided–these are the basic tenants of a healthy diet anyway.
Food manufacturers will no doubt elimate HFCS from their foods (just like trans fats are disappearing), but american will still be obese without making OTHER lifestyle changes as well. -
The reason that the science telling use what's good or bad for use changes every six months is because they don't know what's good or what's bad. We live in a great nation that is failing in more ways than I care to count, but one truth is for the most part feed people are happy people and hungry people start revolutions. The only way to keep people feed in a country where they are getting poorer and poorer is to make food cheaper and cheaper. We do this by consolidating; we've taken one of the most productive agricultural nations in the world one that only 40 years ago produced a plethora of goods and produce, and reduced it to two things soy and corn.
This all started back in the Nixon days when his department of agriculture dropped the bottom out of the corn market buy getting rid of FDR's national grain bank putting a lot of small farmers out of business, and allowing there land to be bought out by the large conglomerates. Now forty years latter we are a nation with a lot of corn but not much else, and as cleaver as we are we have found a lot of ways to use it. HFCS is just the surface the truth is corn in one form or another is in every thing. It sweetens, emulsifies, and preserves the vast majority of are food even the "organic" stuff.
It brakes down to this if you think we can figure out 2 million years worth of evaluations effects on the human diet in 100 years of modern nutritional science then eat all the mac'ds and HFCS you want. But if not then do this. If you can yes start a garden it's good for you in so many ways, and for sure support you local farmers market, don't worry so much about eating healthy, and just eat natural. We don't all have to become farmers for this to work, but there was a time not so long ago when this country was held up on the backs of the small farm, and if you ask anyone over 60 they'll tell you that in a lot of ways it was a better time. -
I think high fructose corn syrup should be substituted for the sugar that comes from the stevia plant. That sugar has zero calories.
I think all the plants that make high fructose corn syrup should be turned into refineries and make gas for cars.
That would be better for our waistlines and more importantly better for Our Environment.
HFCS needs to be banned. My husband has diabetes, and each time he eats anything with HFCS his blood sugar sky rockets. We need to follow purity laws like Germany has, the food would taste like food again.
I've been a label reader for years and don't by anything that has HFCS or MSG. I too have spent more time checking for these ingredients than actually shopping. Even saltine crackers aren't safe from this stuff. My husband over the last couple of years has been checking labels for these and won't buy the product if they are included. Way to go to everyone out there that is shunning the processed food market! Fresh is the only way to go.
TASTE is paramount and is health.
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Thank you so much for posting this article. Since having a serious GI ailment since July of 2008, the doctors have put me on a fructose free diet, except for the natural kind, like fruits and vegetables. It never dawned on my how much of this stuff is in the products we eat. Even in the most seemingly healthy products, like yogurt. The only yogurt I can safely eat now is plain, non-fat. Truly amazing…all the more reason for us to go back to cooking like our grandparents…from scratch and only using the natural ingedients in their most whole form. Very interesting, thank you!
Dennis on Mar. 2nd: You may be a chemist, so yes you understand that calorically glucose and fructose give out the same amount of energy when burned. BUT biochemists and biologists know that the metabolic pathways used to process fructose are DIFFERENT than those used for glucose. Glucose gets stored as glycogen, which is released as more glucose when needed. But fructose gets sent right through the triglyceride formation pathway, and gets stored as fats. Those triglycerides floating around in the bloodstream waiting to be packed into fat storage also affect insulin signaling, disrupting endocrine balance and appetite as well as eventually leading to what they call "metabolic syndrome."
So, as a Ph.D. scientist and assistant professor in the biomedical sciences at a major research university, I would encourage you as a chemist to go study up on some endocrinology and biology. Then you'll understand that glucose and fructose ARE indeed different to the body.


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Microsoft updates Live Calendar with birthdays, holidays, iCal subscriptions
Live calendar gets birthday support and will get holidays and iCal subscriptions, Microsoft says.
Microsoft is adding birthday reminders and several other new features to its Windows Live Calendar service.
The online calendar, which still is in beta testing, also got a new user interface and some more options for printing, Microsoft said in a statement Wednesday. On tap in coming days are the ability to subscribe to online iCal-format calendars, support for holidays, and the ability to synchronize with Windows Live Hotmail e-mail.
Some things on Live need updating though. The contacts section of the calendar page told me to upgrade my Web browser to Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Safari; I'm using Firefox 3.0.
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Dicey, Edward. Six Months in the Federal States, Vol. II . London: MacMillan and Co., 1863. [format: book], [genre: travelogue]. Permission: Newberry Library
SOME four miles or so from Boston lies the university-town of New England the Cambridge of the New World. There are few places in the States of which I have carried away with me brighter memories. The kindness of new-made friends caused Cambridge to be a sort of home to me during my stay at Boston. But even without personal recollections, my impressions of the university town, and above all of its class-day, as the annual commemoration is called, would be very pleasant ones. Let me speak of it as I found it. It is by the street-railroads that you go to Cambridge U. S. The idea may not be academical, but the reality is wonderfully pleasant. If I had no other reason for not liking George Francis Train, I should find cause enough for my dislike in the fact that he has discredited the street-railway system in England. I know, indeed, of no pleasanter mode of travelling for a short distance; and of all American street-railroads, the Cambridge ones are the best. It is true that the cars are over-crowded at times. Nothing is perfect in this bad world of ours. It is true, too, that gentlemen are expected to leave their seats when ladies have no place to sit down in; but then so many of the Boston ladies are young and pretty, and always smile so pleasantly when you make room for them, that I wonder how Mr. Trollope found it in his heart to grumble at the custom. It is undeniable also, that if, as I trust my readers do, you drive your own mail-phaeton, you find the street-rails hinder the high-road from being as smooth as it would be otherwise. Still, even from the summit of a mail-phaeton you cannot help perceiving that the number of people who do not possess carriages of their own considerably exceeds the number of those who do; and, therefore, on the whole, street-railroads are a gain to the community at large. Putting aside these slight objections, your ride to Cambridge, especially on a summer evening, is all that you can desire. Your fare is only threepence: low as the fare is, a dirtily-dressed passenger is almost unknown; and even if you are sometimes crowded, it is pleasant to see coloured women and children sitting or standing among the other passengers on terms of perfect equality. You travel as smoothly as you would in the softest of spring carriages. You go as quick as you would in an Eastern-Counties express, and you pay as little as you would in a London omnibus. The road itself is a very pretty one. Up and down the old-fashioned hilly streets of Boston, with their quaint red-brick houses, then over a long wide bridge across the Charles River, or rather, across the sea creek into which the Charles River runs a creek famed in the annals of Boston for the fact that the tea was thrown into its waters in the days of the Revolution; then through the long straggling suburb of Cambridge Port, then through rows after rows of wooden villas, standing each in its own gardens, and so on into the little quiet town of Cambridge. Of town or streets there is but little; what there is, is grouped round Harvard College. Three low blocks of building, built two hundred years ago, looking for all the world as though the Pilgrim Fathers had transported them ready made from Trinity Hall or Emmanuel College, and called Hollis, Stoughton, and Massachusetts, form two sides of a college quad. On the third stands the college library, a cross in architectural fashion between King's Chapel and the brick church in Barnwell, with the same dumpy pinnacles on the roof, like the legs of a dinner-table turned upside down. The square is completed by a block of lecture-rooms, of the plainest structure. Hard by the college, there are a row or two of shops, university book-stalls, groceries, and the like; and round about, in every direction, there are pleasant shady streets, lined with trees and quickset hedges and old-fashioned country houses. Indeed, the whole place had, to my eyes, an academic air, for which I was not prepared. One of the professors told me, that after Arthur Clough had resided here a short time, he said that "he felt himself back in Oxford." Indeed, strolling through the grounds of that sleepy, quiet university, it seems hard to realize that you are in the country of New York and Chicago and the West. The students are quieter, apparently, than our English ones; or, at any rate, you see less of them about the streets. Once or twice in the evenings I heard snatches of noisy songs, as I passed the college buildings, which, coupled with the jingling of glasses, called back recollections of college supper-parties. Otherwise I saw or heard but little of the students, and those, I did meet with, had none of that air of being the owners, possessors, and masters of the university precincts, so peculiar to the undergraduates of Oxford and Cambridge. The age of the students is about the same as in our own universities. Twenty-one is, as with us, the average age at which students take their degree, or rather, close their college course, for taking one's degree is, at Harvard College, by no means the usual termination of the university career. There is no particular reason why students should take a degree; and, as a rule, when they have studied as many years as their finances or their inclinations will allow them, they leave the university without undergoing the formality of graduating. The fact that there are no fellowships to be obtained makes an academical degree of little comparative value. There is no distinctive dress worn now either by students or professors. The college discipline is very like our own, except that the students are treated more like men than schoolboys, and, I should gather, with success. The undergraduates may or may not live in the college rooms, according to their own choice. There are many more students than rooms; and, at the commencement of each year, the vacant rooms are distributed by lottery amongst the freshmen. If the lucky winners like to sell their privilege, they are at liberty to do so; and, practically, the poorer students generally make something by the sale of their right to rooms. Why men should wish to live in the smallest of old-fashioned college rooms instead of in comfortable lodgings in the town is a mystery that no man can comprehend after the age of one-and-twenty; but the wish prevails in Cambridge, U. S. as well as in Cambridge, England. Of late years, the system of "commons" has been given up, and the students take their meals in clubs, or at boarding-houses. The under-graduates are obliged to attend lectures and chapel in the morning. The prayers, which are very short, are worded so as to contain nothing offensive to the tenets of any Christian sect, and must, I fancy, in consequence be curious specimens of moral common-places. On Sundays, there is service held at college, according to the orthodox form, as the Calvinist faith is called in New England, and students who do not go to church elsewhere are expected to attend it. Parents, however, may fix what form of worship their sons shall frequent: and the majority of the undergraduates who come from near Boston pass their Sundays at home. In glancing over a list of the students, I saw that they belonged to some dozen different religious denominations, and that some three per cent. of the whole number avowed no preference for any particular form of religion. Of those who belonged nominally to the several sects, about a fifth or sixth were Church members. The average expense of the university course varied, as I was told, from £150 to £250 per annum; but, in many instances, I suspect, this latter estimate must be much exceeded. At the class-day I was present at, four students kept open house for all their friends, and I was told they had ordered refreshments to be provided for a thousand persons. Considering the style of the entertainment, it must have cost a dollar a head, at the very least; and a thousand dollars (£200) is rather a large sum, even for our own university swells, to spend on an entertainment. Though the outlay was talked of by the professors as absurd, it did not seem to me to be regarded as anything very unusual. But, at this rate, I shall never get to Cambridge class-day. It was a glorious hot summer day, hotter than we often have in England; and the chimes of Cambridge rang out merrily, and the little town was full of ladies with the brightest of bonnets and the prettiest of faces. Class-day is the last day of the Academic course, at least for the fourth-year students, or senior sophomores, as I think they are called; and on this day these students give a sort of farewell festival to the rest of the college, and to their friends. By the kindness of one of my friends Professor Lowell I was invited to be present at the ceremony. Under a broiling sun, on the twentieth of June last, we strolled, in the forenoon, across the college grounds, past Washington's elm, to the house of the President, or rather the acting President for at that time the office was vacant, owing to the death of Professor Felton. Washington's elm, I should add, is so called, because the Father of his Country signed the Declaration of Independence beneath its branches. I am not sure, by the way, that I am not confusing Washington with the Barons and Magna Charta. However, I know that Washington did something or other remarkable beneath this elm, and Whitfield, so tradition goes, preached under it, when the university authorities of Harvard refused him permission to use the pulpit of the college chapel. At the house of the acting President, the professors and the students were collected. It so happened that on that morning the news had reached America of the death of Mr. Clough; and it was pleasant to me, it would have been to any Englishman, who appreciated the high talents of that scholar-poet, to see how kindly and how highly his memory was cherished by his brother professors who had known and loved him. The fourth-year sophomores, who were the heroes of the day, were all assembled, arrayed in the glossiest of new black dress clothes and with the whitest of kid gloves. Evening dress somehow takes more kindly to American youths than to our own, and the students seemed to me a set of as good-looking gentlemanlike young men as it has been often my fortune to see. We formed a line, and marched two-and-two together through the grounds, with a band of music leading the way, and a sympathetic crowd of bystanders gazing at us, and following in our wake. I am afraid, as I think of it, that my friend and I must have rather marred the appearance of the procession, by being in coloured clothes. However, black is not a cool colour to wear in the dog-days, and so I hope we were pardoned. Our walk ended in the Unitarian church of Cambridge, which the University has a right to use for public ceremonies. Thanks to my being with the dons' party, I got a seat upon the raised platform at the end of the chapel, and sat there in glory and comparative coolness. The moment we were seated there was a rush of students through the doors, and a perfectly unnecessary fight was got up with the constables who guarded the entrance, which reminded me of wrestlings I had witnessed upon the staircase of the theatre at the Oxford Commemorations. In fact, the whole scene had an Oxford air about it. There were the ladies with bonnets of every colour, blue, white, and pink, fanning themselves in the crowded seats. There was a host of bright young faces, and the orations were strings of appropriate platitudes and decorous facetia of the mildest character, such as most of us have heard often times in college halls, and under no other circumstances. Of the speakers, I would only say, that they were two young men of six feet high and upwards one the stroke of the Harvard boat and as fine specimens of manhood as you would desire to see. We had a band, which played the overture to Martha, and other operatic music, with remarkable precision; a prayer full of the most apposite commonplaces; and an ode of a patriotic character. There were allusions to the war in plenty throughout the proceedings, but everything was too decorous for the exhibition of any ardent patriotism. Amongst the crowd, however, there was one poor lad, pale, worn, and limping upon crutches, who had lost his leg in the battle of Balls Bluff, and who had come to witness the gala day of the class which he had left to join the war. He was the hero of the day, and at every patriotic sentiment all eyes were turned towards him, as though he were the living embodiment of the country's struggle and defeats and victories. I have no doubt, according to the Yankee phrase, he had "a good time of it" that class-day at Cambridge, amongst his old friends and fellow-students; but I could not help feeling that there was a long hereafter before him, when the war is over, and the excitement has passed away; and when I, for my part, would sooner have both legs than have been a hero and be a cripple. Then, when the orations were over, we strolled through the old college rooms, where the students had prepared luncheons for their friends, and where every stranger, who came, was welcomed with that frank cordiality which seems to me so universal a characteristic of American hospitality. Then, having eaten as much ice-cream and raised pies and lobster salads as our digestions would permit of, we wandered off through the pleasant college grounds; and, in defiance of academical decorum, in full view of the public road, smoked cigars upon the lawn of a college Professor, who invited us to the act by his own example. Let me say, that of all academical dignitaries whom I have known and I have known a good number I should say that the Professors of Harvard College were, as a body, the pleasantest. They are all men of scholarly education, some of them of European repute, and yet, in one sense, they are also men of the world. There is nothing amongst them of that pedantry and that exaggerated notion of their own importance which is almost an invariable characteristic of our own University dons. Living near a great city, almost all of them married men, with moderate incomes, they form a sort of family of scholars, such as I never met elsewhere. Later in the afternoon there was dancing for the students and their friends in the College Hall, on whose walls there hung quaint pictures of old-fashioned Puritan benefactors, and in whose midst was suspended the famous six-oar outrigger boat of Harvard College, which beat the Hale boat a year ago, doing the distance in the shortest time ever known across the Atlantic. At any rate I was told so, and believe it accordingly. The dancing seemed to me very good, but the hall was overpoweringly hot, and for my part I preferred the open green, where there was music also, and where all the world was allowed to dance. The scene was in itself a curious instance of American freedom, and also of American good behaviour. The green is open to the high-road, and the whole of the Cambridge world, or of the Boston world for that matter, might have come and danced there. Probably everybody who cared to dance did come, but the dancers were as well-behaved, as quiet, and as orderly as they would have been in a London ball-room. I could not help asking myself, without a satisfactory reply, whether such a scene would be possible at the backs of the Cambridge Colleges, or in the Christchurch meadows; and whether, if it were possible, our young university students would dance as freely in the midst of any of the Oxford or Cambridge townspeople, who chose to come there accompanied by their sweethearts and sisters. The dancing was followed by a sort of farewell romp of the departing students round an old oak-tree, wherein the chief amusement seemed to consist in the destruction of each others' hats. Then in the evening there was a reception of the students and their friends at the President's house, and an exhibition of Chinese lanterns and rockets on the college green; where, judging from the look of the groups I met strolling about in the dim evening light, I should say that many flirtations of the day must have been ratified by declarations and vows of eternal fidelity. Chi lo sa? And after the guests, and relations, and ladies had gone home, I rather suspect the students made a might of it, over the débris of the cold collations. This, however, is mere suspicion. They may have gone to bed when I did, or have quenched their thirst with the lemonade they provided for the ladies, but I own I doubt it.
Dicey, Edward. Six Months in the Federal States, Vol. II . London: MacMillan and Co., 1863. [format: book], [genre: travelogue]. Permission: Newberry Library Persistent link to this document: http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/file.php?file=dicey2.html |


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With Marchs Bahrain Grand Prix just 30 days away, on-track preparations for the 2010 season step up this week, as the second official Formula One test of the year gets underway at Jerez on Wednesday. Ten teams are expected in action for the four-day session at the Spanish circuit.
Following its online launch on Tuesday, Force Indias new VJM03 will enjoy its maiden public run on Wednesday, with driver Vitantonio Liuzzi behind the wheel. Liuzzi will drive for two days before handing over the car to team mate Adrian Sutil, wholl be in action on Friday and Saturday.
Virgin Racings new VR-01 will also enjoy its first public outing, following a successful shakedown at Silverstone last week. Timo Glock and Lucas di Grassi are both scheduled to drive the Nick Wirth-designed car.
The third - and final - debutant on Wednesday will be the new Red Bull RB6. After skipping the first official test last week in Valencia, the team have spent an extra few days in the wind tunnel honing the Renault-powered car. As the successor to their 2009 championship contender, the RB6 is one of the most widely-anticipated of this years new cars. Red Bulls driver line up of Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber are both expected to drive over the four days.
McLaren, meanwhile, are due back in action at Jerez following the MP4-25s debut appearance at Valencia. Reigning world champion Jenson Button will be in charge of driving duties for two days from Wednesday, before handing the car over to team mate (and 2008 title holder) Lewis Hamilton on Friday.
Ferrari will also give their new F10 its second test outing at Jerez, with Fernando Alonso in action over the opening two days followed by team mate Felipe Massa from Friday. Former Ferrari driver Michael Schumacher, and team mate Nico Rosberg, will be hard at work too with Mercedes in the MGP W01.
Kamui Kobayashi and Pedro de la Rosa will once again get behind the wheel of the new BMW Sauber, no doubt hoping the Ferrari-powered C29 continues to show the same pace it enjoyed last week at Valencia. Renault, Williams and Toro Rosso will all be back in action too, as they continue to prepare their new cars.
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'For she had embodied the Great Perhaps - she had proved to me that it was worth it to leave behind my minor life for grander maybes, and now she was gone and with her my faith in perhaps.'
- Looking for Alaska, John Green.
I finished reading 'Looking for Alaska' today. Brilliant novel. Here's my attempt at a tribute.


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Consequence - Driving In Reverse Feat. Paula Campbell
Driving In Reverse Consequence Feat. Paula Campbell
Consequence releases "Driving In Reverse" the first cut in a series of tracks he'll be dropping every Tuesday.
Give Driving In Reverse a spin - it's a new offering from Consequence, featuring Paula Campbell. It was dropped on Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013. Consequence's rap artistry continues to improve with every release, something which is most definitely evidenced on Driving In Reverse. His ever-expanding catalogue is definitely better for it, and we're looking forward to the next piece of the puzzle - aren't you?
Hear more of Consequence on Scared Of Commitment, featuring Chuuwee & Killer Mike. If you dig this, visit Consequence's profile for the latest info, news, songs, and mixtapes.
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Posted: April 28, 2014
Four keys to continuity during crisis
Don't get caught flat-footed in the next flood
Shawn AdamsonFrom wild fires to floods, Colorado has seen its fair share of natural disasters in recent years.
Other parts of the country also have been affected by rockslides, storms, avalanches, tornados, hurricanes and mudslides. These natural disasters have in some cases devastated lives.
In addition, they've destroyed businesses, highlighting the importance of planning ahead. In fact, for businesses, evaluating and implementing disaster recovery and business continuity plans can make a world of difference; and can often mean the difference of whether a business continues to operate after the storm has passed
Business continuity and disaster recovery plans are IT processes that help organizations prepare for disruptive events, ranging from floods to wild fires, hurricanes to earthquakes, or even simple power outages caused by damage to power lines. Still, some businesses, particularly smaller ones, remain flat-footed when it comes to contingency planning.
Like it or not, unpredictable weather can be part of life here in Colorado – and so is preparing for it. While a natural disaster's impact on your business is virtually impossible to know in advance, the benefits of investing time and resources in business continuity and disaster recovery planning are indisputable.
The first and most important priority is ensuring that your business networks are well-supported. Businesses of all sizes rely on their Internet and telephone connections to drive and support their daily operations. Without a reliable network, business operations can come to a standstill, leading to millions lost in revenue.
Here are four critical steps your business should take:
- Back up all critical systems, applications, data, etc., to an off-site data center so that if your business is hit by a disaster such as a tornado, flood, fire, power outage etc. critical information can still be accessed from a remote data center that is ideally located a good distance away from your area.
- Select a service provider whose network provides redundancy, automatic failover and 24x7 technical supports. This will help to protect the integrity of your Internet service and maximize the "uptime" of your connection. If your business has more than one location, an ethernet service can be used to connect to a primary data center and to multiple company locations.
- Ensure you have the ability to do remote call forwarding. Businesses that can alert customers and receive phone calls from them are at an enormous advantage, allowing your business to continue even if your location doesn't have regular phone service.
- Partner with a colocation facility. This facility will provide your business with additional options to help protect your network-based operations during a major storm.
By having a solid business continuity/disaster recovery plan, businesses can differentiate themselves in the market. Being available to customers in a crisis, or when an outage occurs could be the difference between your business and your competitor's.
Shawn Adamson, the Vice President of Commercial Business Services for Comcast's Mile High Region, is responsible for developing and implementing Comcast's innovative commercial services offerings in the small, medium and enterprise business markets. She leads Comcast as it continues to deliver new technologies and services to its business customers, including the launch of Metro Ethernet. She has nearly 20 years of management experience in sales and operations. Shawn can be reached by email at firstname.lastname@example.com


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The Science Of Cool. Take a look at the two water bottles below.
The one on the left is pretty much your standard water bottle design: tall, clear, probably crinkly. The one on the right feels a bit less conventional, with its sleek aluminum shell shaped like an Erlenmeyer flask. TrendPolaroids. Culture spy : trendspotting discussion guide and lesson plan. TRENDSPOTTING DISCUSSION GUIDE AND LESSON PLAN [download the pdf] OBJECTIVE: This discussion guide and lesson plan are designed to introduce your students to the marketing practice known as "trendspotting" or "cool hunting."
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They spend their days sifting through reams of market research data. They conduct endless surveys and focus groups. They comb the streets, the schools, and the malls, hot on the trail of the "next big thing" that will snare the attention of their prey - a market segment worth an estimated $300 billion a year. They are the merchants of cool: the creators and sellers of popular culture, who have made teens the hottest consumer demographic in America. 15 Ways the Internet Changed Marketing. Of all the inventions in the last 50 years, few have changed the world as much as the Internet.
Destroying mail, books, television and dignity, life has changed much thanks to our electronic friend. Here are 15 ways, for better or for worse, the Internet has changed marketing. Write a great book and no one may read it. How The Internet Changed Marketing Forever an article by Jay Neuman. Annals of Style: THE COOLHUNT. ANNALS OF STYLE about fashion-trend coolhunters DeeDee Gordon and Baysie Wightman...
Baysie Wightman met DeeDee Gordon, appropriately enough, on a coolhunt. It was 1992. Baysie was a big shot for Converse, and DeeDee, who was barely twenty-one, was running a very cool boutique called Placid Planet, on Newbury Street in Boston. Baysie came in with a camera crew--one she often used whenever she was coolhunting--and said, "I've been watching your store, I've seen you, I've heard you know what's up," because it was Baysie's job at Converse to find people who knew what was up and she thought DeeDee was one of those people... Cool Hunting. Youthwatching '09 A Point of View: Embarrassing parents and the teenage truth.
10 June 2012Last updated at 00:06 GMT All parents are destined to be ridiculous, embarrassing or annoying, warns Adam Gopnik.
Recently in America, nothing has been argued about more, or more vociferously, than child-rearing methods. As though such a thing existed. One might as well talk about wolf-watching methods. They do it to you, you don't do it to them. Rookie. België. Trend Watching Tips for Upstart Coolhunters. Japan Subculture Research Center. Posted by jakeadelstein on August 22, 2012 · 7 Comments it's hard to ignore more than 20,000 anti-nuclear protesters at your front door.
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2002 Mystic Spray Tanning Booth
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Approximately 42" W x 90" H x 90" L (Blue)
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Alongside the unpaved road to Lori Ryker and Brett W. Nave's home and studio, alpacas and horses nibble placidly at the surrounding grassland. Dusty pickup trucks drive well under the posted speed limit of 35 miles per hour. The Livingston, Mont., compoun
Our judges gave Interface Studio kudos for the overall strength of this project, but what really impressed them was how the firm arranged the townhomes on a long city block.
Wyoming's rugged character tends to attract adventurous souls. Two of this intrepid breed found their way to Lori Ryker and Brett W. Nave, looking for a vacation house that's at once "aggressive and interesting" but re