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PR: What Not to Do: Manga as Coat of Paint
- Posted by Johanna on August 5, 2008 at 4:29 pm
- Category: Comic News
Bluewater Productions (whom you likely haven't heard of, because their best-known titles are 10th Muse and Legend of Isis) announced that they will be starting a manga line consisting of adaptations of their comics.
This idea — that by redrawing existing properties with big eyes, spiky hair, and pointy chins will magically make you hip with teens and increase your sales — is stupid. Even if, as they claim, they're using "some of the top manga artists in the industry." Why, then, are they not citing any Japanese names? The only artist attached so far is Bryan Golden, who is doing character redesigns. Other artists will be named later. (So this is obviously a publisher-driven, not creative-driven, idea.)
Even better, they're trying to talk customers into not waiting for the collection by releasing only the single-issue comics in color. Most manga readers prefer the usual format of thicker collected books in black-and-white anyway.
This whole thing feels like a lame attempt at relevance by people who don't seem to understand the characteristics of the hot term they're trying to co-opt. Manga is not a coat of paint that can freshen up properties that aren't selling under their own steam. The majority of the audience that buys it is very sensitive to issues of authenticity and only want the "real" translated books.
8 Responses to "PR: What Not to Do: Manga as Coat of Paint"
- Simon Jones Says:
August 5, 2008 at 10:46 PMThe irony is, based purely on the product page at their site, I'd say Bluewater already has a few titles that would *naturally* appeal to some manga readers, without having to resort to such shallow rebranding… just a slight advertising tweak and a redesign to a more palatable format would suffice.
I hate to rain on this kind of thing, though… someone out there might be getting a nice gig out of this.
- George Salire Says:
August 6, 2008 at 8:17 AMHilarious. They're actually going to do this? They will actually REDESIGN their characters into big eyes, spiky hair and big mouths to cater to the manga crowd?
I wouldn't call it lame, though. They're clearly going to great lengths to push through with this endeavor. Peculiar I'd call it.
- MangaBlog » Blog Archive » Rush looking for new publisher Says:
August 7, 2008 at 8:02 AM[…] Bluewater Comics is starting a global manga line based on its properties; Johanna Draper Carlson is not impressed. […]
- Lori Henderson Says:
August 7, 2008 at 9:57 AMIsn't this just the "Marvel Mangaverse" all over? And how well did that work for Marvel?
I think Blue Water should worry about getting books out on time and getting real artists (I'm sorry, but the art for Return to Mysterious Island was just atrocious) before they start new lines.
- John Chennavasin Says:
August 7, 2008 at 12:22 PMThis reminds me of Herb Trimpe's attempt to imitate Rob Liefeld's and Jim Lee's art styles in the 90s. The basic elements are there, but the end results somehow don't look right.
- Lori Henderson Says:
August 7, 2008 at 8:54 PMYou know, looking at the artwork above, if they did it like "10 Little Gal Force" or "SD Gundam" (the original), a parodied itself, then it might be good.
- Stupid Publisher Tricks: Not Naming What You're Promoting » Comics Worth Reading Says:
November 1, 2008 at 1:40 PM[…] I got a copy of Bluewater's latest press release, I thought that I've picked on them enough, that I wasn't going to point out how badly written their latest marketing attempt […]
- Why I Won't Cover Bluewater » Comics Worth Reading Says:
January 25, 2010 at 4:00 PM[…] them. After all, they've made stupid, entry-level mistakes when they weren't dementedly seizing at trends to get something, anything to sell. Their latest approach, rushing out tie-ins to whatever people […]


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On paper, Hillel has a much more stringent hiring policy. Ellen Goldstein, a Hillel spokeswoman, said that Hillel conducts criminal background checks on all employees — except those at several smaller private universities, where Hillel relies on the universities to conduct background checks themselves. Goldstein said that universities are all capable of conducting background checks, "and I believe that today, they all are."
Drew University, which employed Roth as an adjunct lecturer of Hebrew from 1999 until 2006, and where Roth was also the university chaplain and Hillel director, did not respond to repeated requests for clarification about whether it conducts background checks on employees today.
Drew would not comment on Roth's employment except to confirm the dates he worked at the university.
Daniel Swinton, senior executive vice president of The NCHERM Group, a law and consulting firm that advises schools and colleges on risk management, said that although background checks are best practice in higher education, they are often overlooked at smaller, private universities that do not want to commit the manpower or money to do the work.
Even if background checks reveal a past history of abuse, experts differ on how to use that information in the hiring process. Some say the recidivism rate for sex offences is so high — 90% or more — that it is not worth the risk. Others say such recidivism rates are wildly exaggerated and that in a controlled environment, someone with a record of sex offenses could work with young people.
Such experts point to studies showing that recidivism among sex offenders is reasonably low. One such recent study, part-funded by the U.S. Department of Justice, found that recidivism for sex offenders 10 years after conviction was just 10%.
Dr. Howard Zonana, who chaired the American Psychiatric Association's Task Force on Sexually Dangerous Offenders, said a child sex offender may not pose a risk to students over the age of 18 if the offender is attracted to only prepubescent boys, and if no direct force or violence was involved in previous offenses.
Zonana, a professor of psychiatry at Yale University, pointed out that students age 18 and older are "capable of being consenting adults." Although, he added, "most schools have prohibitions against faculty getting sexually involved with students" anyway.
Y.U. did not respond to a question about its policy on sexual relations between faculty and students.
Dr. Fred Berlin, director of the Sexual Behaviors Consultation Unit at Johns Hopkins Hospital, said that recidivism rates among sex offenders are as political as they are scientific, and that people often "select the number most compatible with the point they are wanting to make."
Berlin said that if an adult with a conviction for child sex offenses is to be employed, it must be done "thoughtfully and in a way that is not going to endanger others."
He said that he would not put such an offender into an unsupervised setting with children. But as long as college students are properly educated about reporting when "lines have been crossed" and know they should not be sexually involved with their teachers, employing an offender at university level is not "taking an unreasonable risk."
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Dietz, who also runs a company that advises organizations on how to prevent workplace violence, said that employers must build in safeguards "by not allowing the offender to be within the vicinity of his target group."
In the case of Yeshiva College, Roth was employed on the same Washington Heights campus as Y.U.'s boys high school and dormitory, which is one block away from the Furst Hall building in which he was teaching.
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Relax. Take a deep breath. It's really not that complicated to understand. A particular Asterisk (or OpenPBX) install can get pretty complex, but we don't care about that right now.
This document will not tell you how to set up a call center with branches in different countries. This document will not tell you how to forward your ex-girlfriends number to a mental health hotline. All I want to do here is show you the very, very basics. This is something that I think has been missing from the Asterisk community, and I don't really know why.
You may want to know who I am. I'm just this guy, you know? I've been a Linux user since Linus sent his message to usenet in '91 (I was a TA for a COBOL class at Purdue (CS 130) with a guy named Ian Murdock and we "discovered" Linux together.) I've been dabbling with Asterisk on and off for a few years. I've recently built my first "real" system and wanted to write some of this stuff down in the hopes that it'll help somebody. This whole paragraph was just for the name drop.
Also, as you advance past this document (think of this as a bootstrap) you'll learn that I've lied to you repeatedly. It's for your own good and you'll thank me later. Advanced users who spot the lies now: why are you reading this? Go away. :p
Preamble out of the way and delusions of grandeur properly squashed: let's get started.
I suppose the first thing you need to know is what Asterisk is. No history lesson here, folks, you know where it came from, that's the first thing in every tutorial. Mark Spencer, spirit of Linux, blah, blah, blah. Not to diminish the contribution, but we don't really care right now. We just want to get moving, right?
Here's the secret that seems to get lost in the noise: Asterisk connects telephones together. That's pretty much it. It can connect a telephone to an IVR (interactive voice response — think "press 1 to hear a monkey screech, press 2 to insult the President...) or it can connect a telephone to another telephone. It can connect a traditional copper line to a SIP phone over your LAN, or over the Internet. But the thing to keep in mind is that it connects telephones to telephones.
Another thing you need to know is that to connect to the "traditional" telco you're going to need hardware. You can use an Asterisk box to connect to a VoIP provider with no additional hardware at all, but if you want to interface with an analog phone line or digital lines on a T1, E1 or PRI you're going to need some hardware. I think this is the subject that most people are confused about, so I'm going to spend quite a bit of effort trying to explain this stuff. It's really not that hard, but most people are completely unfamiliar with it, which makes it pretty difficult since you have to start from scratch.
First, however, let's back up just a little bit. I'm going to simplify this as much as possible.
In a basic Asterisk install you have:
1) lines (such as analog phone lines)
2) an Asterisk box
3) extensions (such as a soft phone running on your laptop)
As you can see, very basic. Asterisk will listen for calls from the outside world and then connect them to an extension, or listen for calls from an extension and connect them to the outside world. Or connect from extension to extension and not involve the outside world at all.
No two situations are the same, but this is the very, very basic model for all setups. You may have to connect analog phone lines, or a T1 or PRI or VoIP or whatever, but this model takes all of that into account.
Because no two situations are the same, at this point we have to start splitting things up into bite sized manageable chunks. We'll work outside in, starting with "lines."
As mentioned briefly, "lines" are what connect your Asterisk machine to the outside world. To review, a line can be a VoIP trunk, one or more analog lines (also called "trunks") or digital multiplexed lines such as a T1 or PRI.
A VoIP line requires no hardware other than the Asterisk machine itself, a network card and an Internet connection. You'll set up the trunk in the Asterisk config files with the username and password assigned to you by your provider. Your extensions will then be able to use that line to call out. That's all I'm going to say about that, because there are already a million tutorials about how to hook Asterisk up to your Vonage account or whatever.
An analog line from the outside world is where things start to get confusing. You will need a card that will take the analog line and make it usable with Asterisk. Cards such as the Sangoma A200 (Remora) and the Digium TDM400P and TDM2400P series. You can also use devices called analog adapters which are usually SIP based and are probably a good solution for home users and hobbyists.
There are two "types" of lines when it comes to these analog cards. You will see "FXS" and "FXO" and, yes, I do believe that the telco engineers who came up with those terms were trying to be intentionally obtuse. Get used to that, 'cause it happens all over the telco industry. I digress.
FXS is "foreign exchange station." FXS lines are what you would use to connect an analog phone or other analog device to your Asterisk box. If you wanted to hook up a fax machine you'd need an FXS port. If you wanted to hook your existing house phones up you'd need at least one FXS port. (You can hook them all up to one FXS port and have them all ring at the same time like they do now, or you can have one extension per FSX port and ring the extensions separately.)
FXO is foreign exchange office. This is the part that provides "dial tone" to your Asterisk box. This is the part that will let you call the outside world. If you have one phone line you will need one FXO port. If you have two lines, two FXO ports. Anything over 8 analog lines and you should probably start looking at a PRI or fractional PRI. More on that later.
Let's talk for a bit about the commonly available cards you can use for analog connections.
You will be tempted to use an X100p. Don't.
Let's get this out of the way. Do not use an X100P for anything but testing. Buy one off ebay, don't spend more than $20. You'll soon learn that it's a piece of shit, but it's good enough to test with. The problems you'll have: 1) it will not hang up the line when the remote end hangs up. This means your line will be busy forever or until you hang it up yourself. 2) the quality is horrible. Pops, buzzes, echo, all kinds of garbage. 3) the reliability is bad. You will lose calls. All that being said, some people will read this and think "I bet it won't do that to me." It will. Don't. Use. It.
Digium TDM2400P Schematic Example
Amphenol Connectors
The Digium TDM2400P is a "high density" card, taking only one slot for up to 24 lines. It's also pretty expensive and out of the reach of most hobbyists. It has what's called an "Amphenol" connector on the back of it, you use that to break out into individual twisted pair lines. The 2400P, like the other Digium analog cards, is modular. Meaning you can mix and match FXO and FXS modules on the card to meet your needs. The 2400P uses 4 port modules, in contrast to the 400P that uses single line modules. As the name may suggest, you can have up to 24 lines total on the card, in any configuration of FXS and FXO you desire, as long as the numbers are multiples of four.
Use this card if you have a lot of analog devices such as fax machines, or if you want to hook up traditional analog phones in a lot of places. As mentioned previously, if you're stocking this with a bunch of FXO modules, please look into getting a PRI circuit. It may save you money and will be much more flexible. The 2400P has an echo cancellation option. Again, more on this later.
Digium TDM400P Schematic Example
The Digium TDM400P is a four port card that accepts individual modules. This is a good choice for a home user or very small business that only has a few lines. You can do any combination of FXO and FXS on this card you desire. I've never had more than one of these at a time, but I've heard some people say that multiples are fine and others say that multiples are horrible. Sorry, that's the nature of these things. As far as I know the 400P does not have an echo cancellation option.
Sangoma A200 Remora Schematic Example
The Sangoma A200 is another analog card. It can do up to 24 ports as well, but you need to have six slots available to do it because each four ports takes a slot. Note that only one actual PCI slot is used, but the extra ports still take up a slot on the back of the PC case. The A200 is modular too, but the modularity is kind of weird. The physical set up is you have four ports per card, each card has two two port modules and you can have up to six cards per "unit," giving you a total of 24 ports possible. I'm using this card in my production unit in an all FXS configuration with 8 total ports. This card is a good choice for a small business as well, but the amount of space it takes up is a drawback. The 2400P might be a better choice if you need to make more slots available. Hey Sangoma: make a breakout box.
Example setup: ATA with FXS and FXO Ports
Example setup: One ATA with an FXS port and another with an FXO port.
In addition to cards you physically install in a PC, you can also get what is known as an "ATA." ATA stands for "Analog Telephony Adapter." These are simply one or more FXO and/or FXS ports on a stand alone piece of network hardware that then presents that port as a SIP device that you can then hook up to your Asterisk box. A combo box such as (I just Googled this, it's not an endorsement) the Zoom 5801 ATA would probably work well for a simple home Asterisk install. It has both ports so you can plug your home line into the FXO port, your house wiring into the FXS port and you now have an Asterisk system. To that you can add one or two VoIP lines and some SIP extensions, but I'm getting ahead of myself.
The ATAs are available in many configurations, with single ports to multiple ports, combos and everything in between. They've come down in price quite a bit and second hand ones are available on ebay. If you Google some combination of "fxs fxo ata" you'll find quite a few things to take a look at.
Digital cards. This is where the fun stuff is. Digital cards connect your Asterisk box to a T1, E1, PRI or other digital line. Digium makes many models. The main differences being: echo cancellation, number of ports and slot voltage. You can get anywhere from 1 to 4 port cards. I can't help you with the slot voltage, I don't get why they'd make different cards when it's perfectly possible to auto-detect. I bought a Sangoma card because I wasn't sure what machine I was going to install the card into for the finished project, so I didn't want to back myself into a corner.
That being said, I'm sure their cards work just fine. Sangoma makes several cards too, but their echo cancellation offerings don't kick in until you get up to the A104D. So no EC if you want a one or two port Sangoma card.
The digital cards all work in pretty much the same way. You have so many "channels" per port that you can use however you want.
Quick primer on digital telephony:
Every time I say T1 you can read "T1 and E1" — they're very similar, the main difference being that the E1 carries more channels (32 instead of 24.) Seeing as I am a fat and lazy American I'll concentrate on the T1 bit.
A T1 is a carrier that can carry multiplexed data and voice. It can be configured in two ways, as what most people call a T1, 24 channels or as an ISDN PRI circuit, which is 23 b (or bearer) channels and a d (or data) channel.
There is always overhead with a channel. Things need to happen, like set up, tear down and the like. With a "T1" all this happens inside the channel, which is why it's known as "robbed bit signaling." The 64K channels will carry only 56K after the overhead is accounted for. It's also much less flexible than a PRI circuit.
A PRI reserves a channel to handle all the signaling, freeing the bearer channels to just do the work. That lets you do stuff like DID (also known as DDI) signaling and the like much easier than on a T1.
(An E1 PRI is very similar, but has the d channel in the "middle" and, again, carries more channels.)
What does this mean to you as a potential *-hole? Well, each channel will carry a conversation (we'll ignore the data for the purposes of this document.) They become the "lines" we talked about before.
You can have a whole 23 channel PRI (don't use a robbed bit T1, it's silly) or a fractionalized PRI with less. My company currently has 16 PRI channels. You can bundle PRIs together, so you can have one data channel take care of much more than 23 b channels.
PRI Example Configuration
TODO: expand section on digital telephony?
Finally, I wanted to write just a bit about extensions.
Extensions can be hardware SIP phones, software SIP phones, software IAX phones (I think there may even be hardware IAX phones now), and analog phones. I'm probably missing something, but I think you get the idea.
My suggestion would be to start out with one of the free IAX or SIP software phones while you're testing, then you can add hardware phones later if you want.
IDEFisk which uses IAX is one I've used, as is X-Lite which uses SIP.
That should be enough to get you started. There are many other tutorials you can read for more detail and that discuss more complex subjects. That's not what this was for. If you're still confused, or if you think there's something that could be addressed, feel free to drop me a line or edit this page. Try to keep the style consistent, and don't expand it too much, that would defeat the purpose. Clarity is key and dumb humor doesn't hurt.
Here are a couple Asterisk design examples, built using the knowledge we've gained above. If you don't understand these, that's OK, they're just here as examples. You'll eventually understand them.
A more complex example with a PRI circuit.
A more complex example with inbound analog lines.
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Diet 101: The Paleo Diet
by Toby Amidor in Diets & Weight Loss, June 3, 2010The Paleo diet (a.k.a. the Hunter-Gatherer or Caveman diet) has been around for 40 years and has recently resurfaced with a vengeance. But should we be reverting back to what caveman ate thousands of years ago? Here's the need-to-know about the oldest diet around.
The Paleo diet suggests eating like our early ancestors did during Paleolithic times — the period before the birth of modern agriculture (about 10,000 years ago). It doesn't advocate that men hunt for meat dressed in loin cloths; rather, the diet advocates eating fewer processed foods and loads of fruits and veggies.
The creators of the book (including the grandnephew of "godfather of fitness" Jack LaLanne) claim that by following this diet you'll get rid of acne, increase your athletic performance and become naturally lean. They also claim that increased fruit-and-veggie intake will improve symptoms of diseases like asthma, osteoporosis and high blood pressure.
The Plan
The Paleo diet encourages followers to eat lots of fresh fruits and veggies, lean meats and seafood — foods high in soluble fiber, antioxidants, phytochemicals, omega-3's and monounsaturated fats.
The diet identifies certain foods that contributing to weight gain, heart disease and diabetes and discourages dieters from eating them. These foods include refined sugars and grains (like high fructose corn syrup and white flour), saturated and trans fat, salt processed foods and yeast (like in baked goods and pickled foods). Dairy and grains (even whole grains) are also discouraged and should be replaced with fruits and veggies.
The diet gives you alternative suggestions to replace some of the discouraged foods:
- Salt: Replace it with spice combination made from ingredients such as powdered garlic, powdered onions, lime juice, salt-free lemon pepper, cayenne pepper, black pepper and oregano.
- Vinegar: Substitute with lemon or lime juice
- Butter and Fat: Instead of margarine, butter, shortening and lard, use oils such as olive, flaxseed, canola, walnut or avocado.
- Sugar: Use fruit purees flavored with lemon juice and spices (like cinnamon, ginger, vanilla) instead of any type of sweeteners. Agave nectar and honey are considered healthy substitutes, but should be eaten sparingly.
The Costs
You can pick up a copy of the Paleo Diet book for about $15. The accompanying Web site is not very helpful in creating a meal plan, and can overwhelm you with tons of scientific jargon. A free Paleo diet newsletter is also available on the site.
The real cost of this diet is the food. Although your shopping list will contain fewer processed foods, you'll need to visit the market frequently to stock up on fruits and veggies. If you're visiting a restaurant or flying out of town, you'll find it very challenging to find items on the menu that meet the criteria for this plan. You'll also have a tough time during parties and will probably have to bring your own food.
The Good
- The diet recommends fewer processed food and lots of fruits and veggies.
- It promotes eating lean meats.
- Exercise is a must with this diet plan.
The Not-So Good
- This is a tough diet to follow — avoiding all flours and refined sugars is a challenge.
- The elimination of entire groups of food (like grains, milk and legumes) also eliminates essential nutrients from the diet.
- This plan would be very tough to follow while traveling, eating out or socializing.
- Too much scientific jargon, much of which is controversial, such as the elimination of milk from the diet.
The Bottom Line: There are many other proven ways to lose weight that don't involve eliminating most of the foods found in your supermarket. Although this plan promotes lots of fruits and vegetables, other foods like whole grains, legumes and dairy should be part of a well-balanced diet. The impractical nature of trying to follow this diet will leave dieters stressed and impede their ability to follow this plan for the long haul.
TELL US: Have you tried the Paleo Diet?
Read up on other diets:
- The Biggest Loser
- The Cookie Diet
- Cleansing Diets
- The Master Cleanse
- The Blood Type Diet
- The Mediterranean Diet
- The American Heart Association Diet
- The Zone (a.k.a. 40-30-30)
- Weight Watchers
- Atkins
- TOPS Diet
- Jenny Craig
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I've been eating Paleo for over two years now for health, not weightloss, and find this article (and many of the comments) very misguiding when it comes to what the paleo diet is. It's not about "eating like a caveman" but studying our evolution to solve what it is we should be eating in the modern world to be healthiest. After struggling with my weight for many years and reading many of the major diet books Paleo came to my attention through my MIT network. I graduated from MIT and like to say that while most MIT grads don't have six-packs, all the one's that do eat paleo. If you study the diet most questions are finally answered with peer-reviewed biochemistry, or at least mainstream biochemistry theory and an archaeological explanation of what in our evolution led to these processes. True paleo also goes beyond what you eat, delving into how to sleep and work out for optimal health.
Critique (1) The diet doesn't encourage lots of fruit. It allows fruit but views it as candy and recommends lots of moderation the more fructose the fruit has. (2) It doesn't recommend foods high in soluble fiber directly. If you're eating paleo properly and cutting out non-paleo foods then fiber is not considered. Sure I eat plenty of vegetables high in fiber but I don't seek it because I'm not eating anything that makes my body NEED fiber. (3) Same critique with the statement regarding mono-unsaturated fats because it suggests you should stay clear of saturated fats (it doesn't) and doesn't address polyunsaturated fats beyond Omega-3 which is a major concern in Paleo nutrition. Paleo encourages a diet replete with saturated fats as long as they come from grass-fed animals and wild-caught fish. This extends to some dairy products like pastured butter and cream (two delicacies you can have very liberally in a paleo regimen). It discourages any fats/oils high in the polyunsaturated fatty Linoleic Acid (or Omega-6) because of it's highly inflammatory qualities. A great amount of modern paleo is avoiding this fat found in grain-fed animals/dairy, many nuts/seeds, and almost all vegetable/nut/seed/bean oils except for avocado, coconut, and olive oil. So again, it doesn't encourage "lean meats" if they are grass-fed or wild-caught. If you are eating grain-fed animals THEN you would want a leaner cut because you want to avoid their fats high in Omega-6. (4) It fails to tell you that innert gluten-free (and other anti-nutrient-free) starchy foods such as potato, yam, white rice, whole corn are considered acceptable to eat as long as you're not trying to lose stored fat due to their insulinogenic properties. (5) Salt and vinegar intake is not monitored closely as the system of an individual eating correctly and exercising will be good at managing these substances in the body. (6) THE MOST INCORRECT STATEMENT is under the "Butter and Fat" section where the writer rejects butter and advises canola and walnut oil. Canola oil is a substance shunned by the Paleo diet due to it's incredibly high concentration of Omega-6 and brings me to my major problem with this summary. The writer is clearly not approaching it from a scientific/chemical direction; if they were there would be no chance of this error occurring. There is no food as "butter" because it is a fat and grass-fed and grain-fed butter have very different chemical profiles. Grass-fed butter is a high in Omega-3 and CLA while low in Omega-6 which makes it THE ideal cooking fat (I know athletes that put it in their coffee instead of cream). Furthermore it recommends cooking at high heat with coconut oil because of it's high smoke-point and consuming olive oil raw because cooking with it degenerates the PUFAs causing them become inflammatory. (7) You don't need to buy anything to educate yourself about the diet. The brightest minds post all their knowledge for free on their websites such as Robb Wolf, Mark Sisson, and my personal favorite Dr. Kurt Harris. (8) Legumes aren't completely cut out, in paleo you understand WHY you're cutting something out. In legumes case it is the anti-nutrient lectin we are avoiding but recognizing that soaking many legumes in baking soda removes high amounts of the lectins form the legumes (~95% in lentils for example) it renders them innert and can be consumed like other innert starches (potato, corn, white rice).
It upsets me that the writer would in summary discourage readers from turning to this diet because they, who have obviously never followed it, think it sounds difficult – it is not if you're motivated and well-informed. Additionally, beyond weight-loss this is a diet about health that reduces to the greatest extent of any other diet the intake of dangerous trans-fats, inflammatory omega-6s, as well as gluten, lectin, and sugar/fructose, making you the healthiest version of yourself which in turn results in the leanest version of yourself. Finally the writer refers to other "proven" weight-loss diets but I would like to know to which she is referring as I don't know of any other diet that directly targets the elimination of insulinogenic foods, biochemically the specific way to stop your body from storing fat and encourages the natural production of progesterone through exercise, the central hormone for the biochemical process for depleting fat stores.
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This post is awesome. You have given a comprehensive list of paleo food items. This should guide me as I plan for my weekly meal, as well as in making my paleo shopping list. Shopping list are very useful, because aside from it being a time saver, it is above all a money saver. By listing only the foods that we need to buy, we avoid to go over budget . Impulsive buying will be curtailed with the use of your shopping list.
How could eating organic meat, veggies, fruit, and nuts be bad for you? Diabetics are supposed to avoid sugar, and many grains (grains aren't always healthy, thank you GMOs and Monsanto) so why such hate on the Paleo diet? Is it because most recipes on this website are not paleo friendly? Is it because if everyone ate this way, companies like Monsanto and pharmaceutical companies would take a nose dive? I've never felt as good as when I eat paleo. Sure it's hard kicking that sugar addiction and it takes a great deal of planning but the mental clarity, lack of bloating, energy, and overall good feeling that results is worth it. Since I replaced 70-80% of my diet with paleo food 2 years ago, I have only been sick 1 time-thank you norovirus. #worst48hoursever. I haven't even had a cold! I'll stick to what makes me feel good, not what "professionals" think, especially when many of them are being paid by companies lobbying against organic food. Conflict of interest much?
I think that everyone's forgetting the factors of exercise and time.
This diet is completely impractical in that you have to shop and cook constantly. Processed food costs way less than organic, natural-fed meat and produce. "Organic" is about as useless a word in nutrition as "holistic" or "wholesome." Organic meats and fruits are commonly mislabeled, can be hard to find, and perish right away.
Most people in America who are working to take care of a family do not have the time or money to spend on a diet like this. Cavemen didn't sit in a chair in an office 8-5, six days a week, so the whole "eat how we once ate" idea is nonsensical. I can't shop at Whole Foods or whatever organic whats-it, because I have rent and bills to pay first.
I don't want to spend all my time out of work making food. If you have a family to provide for, on top of working, this is expensive and a pain in the @$s and you're going to give it up quickly, like any other fad diet.
Also, socializing, traveling or eating out becomes nearly impossible. You can't eat anything anyone makes, and you become "that weird friend" that has to bring her own food, and then people assume you think you're real special, self-important, and rude. Sharing food is part of friendship and family bonding. If you refuse someone's food at a party, you become the center of attention, whether you want it or not (and not in a good way). You inconvenience everyone else as much as yourself, including your children; e.g., birthday parties. You'll have to make a bunch of paleo friends, I guess.
More veggies and fruit? Less processed crap? More exercise? Great, got it, but that's basic; everyone knows this. It's not a "diet plan," it's just being rational. It's a paradigm shift we need in this country, a shift in how we eat, and paradigm shifts take time. Paleo is far too drastic to be useful to the masses.
I don't buy anecdotes, I go by facts and practical applications. Anyone at the poverty line or below it (such as myself) is not going to go paleo. I'd rather have a bowl of Ramen for dinner than nothing at all, and that's often my only choice. I guess poor people just get the shaft then.
Besides, any diet whose proponents claim this much life-changing benefit without studies or proof should remain as suspect as something like Slim-Fast diets. Whatever floats your boat, I suppose.


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IMDB Confirms Roles Of CALLUM KEITH RENNIE And RYAN ROBBINS In WARCRAFT!
IMDB recently updated their page for the upcoming Warcraft Movie and they confirmed two new actors AND their roles in the film!
Thank you IMDB! Today, I was just surfing around the web and decided to check out the Warcraft IMDB page and I'm so glad I did! Two new actors were confirmed by IMDB with roles in the Warcraft Movie and I've never heard either name mentioned before in relation to the project! Along with the names, IMDB also confirmed the characters that they will be playing!
First up, is Callum Keith Rennie (Memento, Blade: Trinity). Callum Keith Rennie may sound like a strange name but, he has been acting in a ton of films and TV shows that you most certainly have seen. He's been in shows such as: 24, Californication, Battlestar Galactica, The Firm, The X-Files, and so many more! Not to mention his movie credits. I think he will be an awesome addition to the cast of Warcraft!
Not only did we find out that Rennie is in the movie – we also found out what character he will be playing too! Callum Keith Rennie will be playing Moroes, or was World of Warcraft fans know him…Moroes, The Last Guardian – the second boss in the Karazhan instance from The Burning Crusade expansion pack! Moroes is a servant of Medivh (who we now know is being played by Ben Foster) who wears horse blinders over his eyes to try and block the visions he sees within Medivh's tower.
Second, is Ryan Robbins (Apollo 18, Walking Tall). Ryan Robbins may also sound like an "unknown" name, but he has also been around in a ton TV shows you've surely seen. He's been seen shows such as: Falling Skies, Battlestar Galactica, Psych, Dark Angel, and so many others. Another awesome addition to the Warcraft Movie cast!
According to IMDB Ryan Robbins will be playing the role of Karos! Now, we're assuming this means he's playing Karos Razok. For you Horde folks out there, you may know him as the bat flight master in The Sepulcher – the main town in the Silverpine Forest zone of World of Warcraft. Again, this is really cool news! I'm very interested to see how they work the Horde flight masters into the story.
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Why PlayStation Move Could Give '3-D Games' a Whole New Meaning
Forget about 3-D graphics: With technology like Sony's PlayStation Move, your whole living room might become a videogame.
At first blush, Sony's new motion controller for PlayStation 3 seems like a straight-up rip-off of Nintendo's Wii remote. It's a one-handed controller with an accelerometer and a gyroscope that you can point and click at your TV screen or wave around like a tennis racket.
The major games that will launch with the peripheral later this month would seem to support that conclusion: Sony is bundling the $100 add-on with Sports Champions, a shameless riff on Wii Sports Resort.
Several other games just use the Move as a virtual firearm — you know, like half the games you've played on Wii for the last four years.
But the PlayStation Move does boast a distinctive feature that could be a serious game-changer. The controller is tracked by a camera, called PlayStation Eye, that sits atop your television set. The Eye tracks the position of the glowing sphere at the business end of the Move, and it does this so accurately that it can know the exact position of the controller in 3-D space.
This allows Move to do augmented reality, adding virtual upgrades to real-world images of you and whatever's in your living room. It also makes possible games that rely on players being able to precisely manipulate the 3-D space in front of them, something the Wii remote can't do with nearly enough accuracy.
Some of the Move games Wired.com has tried so far provide a brief glimpse at how pairing cameras with controllers could lead to compelling new ways to play — if designers can harness the power of the complementary technologies.
"When you look at the relationship between the controller and the PlayStation Eye camera, and how intrinsic that is to precision and to placing you in one-to-one movement with the character in the game, there's really nothing else like that," says PlayStation director of hardware marketing John Koller.
Inexpensive Virtual Reality
Virtual reality on the cheap isn't just a dream of Sony's. Earlier this year, during a visit to the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, I saw an impressive graduate project — a fully functioning virtual hand that used an off-the-shelf webcam and a specially colored Lycra glove.
As technical director at GAMBIT, Andrew Grant tried to find ways that the tech could be used to play games. He didn't come away especially impressed.
"It would be awesome to reach into a 3-D world and place things exactly where I want," he says, but even playing a virtual version of simple block-stacking game Jenga would require far more precision than current technology can provide.
"In Jenga, exactly where you put your hand matters to within millimeters," Grant says. "With the technologies we have now, inches would be the accuracy to what you're looking at."
These hurdles could be overcome, Grant says, with good software. With PlayStation Move likely to end up in millions of homes over the next few years, game developers probably will give it the old college try.
Motion control has been the watchword of the console game business ever since the launch of Wii in 2006. After the unassuming white console's surprise upset of its more powerful rivals, Sony's PlayStation and Microsoft's Xbox, it took Nintendo's competitors time to devise their own solutions. Both launch this fall: Move arrives Sept. 19 and Microsoft's hands-free camera controller Kinect follows Nov. 4.


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01. Intro (Prod. Beatology) (02'22)
02. 2000 We Shine Ft. Black Dillinger (Prod. El Nino) (03'26)
03. Anti-Xenophobia (Prod. El Nino) (05'07)
04. Better Tomorrow (Prod. Hipe) (04'20)
05. Bambelela Ft. Sugar (Prod. El Nino) (04'44)
06. iSilo (Skit) Ft. Bizzah and Siya (Prod. El Nino / Dplanet) (01'46)
07. Camagu (Prod. El Nino) (04'43)
08. Ivamna (Love Potion) (Prod. Planet Earth) (04'23)
09. Peep This (Skit) (Prod. Dplanet) (01'07)
10. iZtreets Zam (Prod. Hipe) (03'56)
11. Tsotsi (Prod. El Nino) (03'50)
12. Hip Hop SoulJahs Ft. Kanyi and Siya (Prod. Dplanet) (04'21)
13. Sphithiphithi (Prod. Planet Earth) (04'39)
14. Mama Ft. Siya (Prod. Hipe) (04'48)
15. I Miss Home (Prod. El Nino) (04'17)
16. I Will Make It Ft. Siya (Prod. Planet Earth) (04'52)
17. Bless Us Jah Ft. Siya (Prod. El Nino) (04'19)
18. Ngcosiz from Guguletu (Skit) (Prod. Dplanet) (01'13)
19. S'phum'eGugs Ft. Macho and Kanyi (Prod. Planet Earth) (05'41)
Release Date: 11th May 2009
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It has begun!
South African hip hop is about to change forever. An epic, earth-rending collision of two cultures coming together, Driemanskap embody the best socially conscious, cutting edge lyricsm of Cape Town, and the passion and deeply felt African pride of the Spaza movement. The result is a hip hop supernova, the shockwave of which will be felt across Mzanzi and beyond.
Hailing from Guguletu's notorious KYD hood, Driemanskap members Redondo, El Nino, Ma-B and Dla are 4 of the most distinctive, real, unique and talented voices ever to come from the ghettos of the Cape Flats.
Driemanskap cut their teeth at park jams, cyphers, battles and shows for more than 7 years, establishing the beginnings of a cult following in South Africa. In 2005 they took part in the Baobab Festival where they opened for the legendary New York hip hop crew Dead Prez. Anyone who was there that night will tell you that Driemanskap stole the show! They also took part in the 2006 Tri-Continental Festival, warming up the stage for one the New York's illest freestylers, Wordsworth, the UK's Jonzi D and Ben Sharpa. They drove the crowd wild at Back to the City in 2008.
Having claimed number 1 spot in the Hype magazine 'Unsigned Hype' chart, Driemanskap also received nominations for Best Hip Hop Crew, Best Song and Best Mixtape in the 2007 Hype Awards. Driemanskap have released 2 mixtapes, Battle of Gugulethu Vol 1 and Battle of Gugulethu Vol 2. Their street anthem Go and Ask (Hamb'ubuza) also features on Pioneer Unit's Planetary Assault compilation.
Like many ghetto youth, Driemanskap have been exposed to hardships and frustrations. Their unshakeable desire to prevail has turned adversity into success. Their debut album has been a long time coming and Driemanskap have used Igqabhukil' Inyongo to vent many years of pent-up frustration, passion, creativity and raw energy.
Translated literally from isiXhosa, Igqabhukil' Inyongo means 'the gall bladder bursts'. However, it is a common expression that loosely translates as, 'things are about to get crazy' and there's no false advertising here!
On Igqabhukil' Inyongo Driemanskap draw inspiration not only from street life in the ghettos of the Cape Flats, they also delve deep into traditional African culture. The album contains moving songs with universal themes of hope, love and the importance of home and family. It also addresses African unity, the determination to stay strong through adversity and Driemanskap's commitment to their art. The vocal dexterity, fearsome passion and street-hardened lyricism with which Driemanskap deliver each track paints a vivid and moving portrait of kasi life.
Musically, Igqabhukil' Inyongo is a Spaza masterpiece constructed around classic, rugged hip hop beats. Richly layered samples reference traditional South African music, reggae, soul and jazz. Diverse and well-rounded, the album contains inspirational, soulful melodies, visceral, powerful choruses and chants, and, of course, rugged street anthems.
On production is El Nino, Planet Earth, Hipe, Dplanet and Beatology. Between them, they have helped shape the hip hop landscape in South Africa and beyond, having produced classic material for Pro Kid, Zubz, Teargas, Ben Sharpa, Imbube, Black Lez, Proverb, Wordsworth (USA), Tumi, Nemza (Skwatta Kamp), Ready D, KONFAB, Young Nations and many more.
There are guest features by Kanyi (fresh from rocking the Cape Town Jazz Festival with Rus Nerwich), Black Dillinger (making waves in the international Reggae scene), Siya, Sugar, Macho and Bizzah. Guguletu is definitely in the house!
The gall bladder has burst – and things will never be the same.
"the cats tackle the issue with teeth-bared, bringing in an immediacy to it that goes beyond all the headlines and complacent media bullshit: the raps are insensitive where disgust is called for; angry where most opt for indifference; politically charged where most are ignorant – and yes, hopeful and optimistic where it seems hopeless."
– Billy Bluntz, Speakerbox
"That raw & relentless rebel-type-rap that wraps Flats slang, English and Xhosa into a nice neat package, before putting a razor to the rhyme and exploding it in a frenzy of unmistakeably unapologetic Kasi ferocity."
– Billy Bluntz, Speakerbox
"Driemanskap have released a solid album and we are certain that the huge market of fans they've won over the years will love it"
– Hype Magazine
"The album is possessive – it catches you from listening range and hauls you in, deeper, until it's shaking from inside your skull. Like it's meant to."
– Billy Bluntz, Speakerbox
"The delivery, flow, catchy hooks, machine gun spittin' raps and diversity of El Nino, Ma-B, Dla and Redondo does this body of work absolute justice"
– Hype Magazine
"You don't even have to understand Xhosa to know how dope this album is"
– Hype Magazine
"You must be deaf, dumb and blind not to be moved by this masterpiece"
– Hype Magazine
"The album is filled with bangers and exhibitions of platinum Xhosa lyrical skill."
– The UnderGround Angle
"Experience the sound that defines Cape Town Spaza rap for yourself."
– The UnderGround Angle
"El Nino, Ma-B, Dla and Redondo have once again made a classic contribution to South African hip hop."
– The UnderGround Angle
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Where to Buy
Look & Listen (across SA)
Reliable Music Warehouse (across SA)
Musica (across SA)
Ozmic's Ritual Store, Nr. Carfax, Newtown, Johannesburg
Munks Concept Store, 10 7th Street, Melville, Johannesburg
Mabu Vinyl, Rheede St., Cape Town. (021) 423 7635
Shelflife, 119 Loop St., Cape Town. (021) 422 3931
Hi-Five, 34 Kloof St., 5 Mooikloof Centre, Cape Town. (021) 422 5455/6
African Music Store, 134 Long St., Cape Town. (021) 426 0857
Where to Download
Our online store
iTunes (US, Australia, Canada, UK, EU, Japan)
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Marshall Daugherty's statue of John Wesley stands in the center of Reynolds Square near the place where Wesley's parish house once stood. Weekly meetings of the Christ Church congregation were hold in the small wooden house. According to Wesley, "The first rise of Methodism was in 1729 when four of us met together at Oxford. The second was at Savannah in 1736 when twenty or thirty persons met at my house."
Wesley got his start in Savannah as Oglethorpe's secretary, then as the rector of Christ Church. He and his brother were eventually sent back to England.
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For five bucks, download select highlights from the soundtrack of a hot film that's generating lots of attention. The selection of songs, "Les Miserables: Highlights From the Motion Picture Soundtrack," is featured on Amazon's website. Various artists Read More
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Backgammon Deluxe is an excellent version of one of the oldest two player dice board games. Players win by removing all of their pieces from the board. Although luck is involved and factors into the outcome, strategy plays a more important role in the long run. Play against the computer or with a friend.
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June 24, 2006
That WMD Story II
A few more thoughts are in order on the 500 chemical weapons that Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) and Congressman Peter Hoekstra, (R-MI-2) announced that we'd found in Iraq since the March 2003 invasion.
I checked CNN, Reuters, the BBC, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, and MSNBC this morning, and from what I can tell none of them are running any stories about it. It's been moved to the status of "old news".
When they did cover it, they dismissed it as "no news". A Washington Post story last week which declarered that "intelligence officials reaffirmed that the shells were old and were not the suspected weapons of mass destruction sought in Iraq after the 2003 invasion."
An AP story posted on Yahoo yesterday also downplayed the announcement:
Intelligence officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the subject's sensitive nature, said the weapons were produced before the 1991 Gulf War and there is no evidence to date of chemical munitions manufactured since then. They said an assessment of the weapons concluded they are so degraded that they couldn't now be used as designed.They probably would have been intended for chemical attacks during the
Iran-Iraq War, said David Kay, who headed the U.S. weapons-hunting team in Iraq from 2003 until early 2004.He said experts on Iraq's chemical weapons are in "almost 100 percent agreement" that sarin nerve agent produced from the 1980s would no longer be dangerous.
"It is less toxic than most things that Americans have under their kitchen sink at this point," Kay said.
And any of Iraq's 1980s-era mustard would produce burns, but it is unlikely to be lethal, Kay said.
Well, maybe. David Kay certainly is an expert. But Jim Geraghty asks the obvious question: "Okay, if it's so harmless, why don't you open the canister?"
Funny, but I suspect that those who so casually dismiss the weapons we found as harmless would find some excuse to be out of the room when the canister was opened.
Toxicity Time
So how long does the stuff last? For how long is it lethel?
Here's a letter from two United Nations weapons inspectors to the President of the Security Council from 1999 (hat tip Jim Gheraghty) . Money quote
550 Artillery shells filled with Mustard 33. Iraq declared that 550 shells filled with mustard had been "lost" shortly after the Gulf War. To date, no evidence of the missing munitions has been found. Iraq claimed that the chemical warfare agents filled into these weapons would be degraded a long time ago and, therefore, there would be no need for their accounting. However, a dozen mustard-filled shells were recovered at a former CW storage facility in the period 1997-1998. The chemical sampling of these munitions, in April 1998, revealed that the mustard was still of the highest quality. After seven years, the purity of mustard ranged between 94 and 97%. Thus, Iraq has to account for these munitions which would be ready for combat use. The resolution of this specific issue would also increase confidence in accepting Iraq's other declarations on losses of chemical weapons which it has not been possible to verify.
At 94% purity I'm not going to be in that room when the canister is opened, I'll tell you that much.
While searching myself, I found this story from 2001:
VIMY, France - Some 13,000 villagers were hastily evacuated Friday in northern France where explosives and lethal chemical weapons stockpiled in a weapons dump from World War I were suddenly found to be dangerous."There's a real and serious risk of a leak causing toxic gas to escape," said Remy Pautrat, the chief local government officer: "The gases ... are lethal."
...The dump contains 173 tonnes of munitions, among them some 16,000 British, German and French shells, nearly all containing highly toxic mustard gas or phosgene, the two chemicals most widely used in the war, local officials said.
So the French take old chemical weapons seriously, and they ought to know, because almost all of the World War I battles in which it was used was in their country. They've been finding stockpiles of it every since.
Moving the Goalposts
For the past three years we've endured critics say that "there were no weapons of mass desctruction in Iraq".
Now it's going to be "there weren't that many, and they were old and probably not in a condition to be lethel."
But how many is "not many"? Today we know about 500 shells. Jim Geraghty on NRO asks if 500 shells isn't enough for the critics, what amount is enough?
500 shells? Because that's what we're learning today. 700 shells? 1000?How many of these shells are required before a war opponent rethinks the conclusion that Iraq posed no threat? (Recall that about 15 were used in the massacre of the Kurds in Halabja in 1988.)
How many have to be found before the talking point "there were no WMDs in Iraq" gets retired? (I know, never. That will be repeated, and repeated, no matter how many shells get found.)
How much has to be found before a war opponent will say, "Okay, this clearly was a potential threat to the United States and its allies, and we did have to take some action"? I can see how some would say that 500 shells isn't enough. But some amount is enough, and I'd like the anti-war folks to give us a sense of how much is enough by their criteria. If they say that no amount of WMDs could justify the invasion, then we know where they stand.
Threat Analysis
Chemical weapons may be used in one of maybe three circumstances, by a regular military force on the battlefield, by insurgents against a regular military force, and by terrorists against civilian populations.
On the Battlefield
Now that Saddam Hussein's regime is no more, we do not have to worry much about our forces being exposed to chemical attack from other major army units. Even if we had to move against Syria, who has many such weapons, it is difficult to imagine them using them.
I don't have the links to prove it, but as I recall reading, World War I battlefield experience shows that once defenders know that an agressor will use chem/gas, they suit up and casualties are reduced to near 0. However, these suits also reduce effectiveness to a large degree. So, if American troops faced even probable attack by even possibly active chemical agents, whether from terrorists or regular army units, they would probably be forced to suit up. Imagine if our commanders said "oh the stuff is old and won't work", and then one soldier died? Or claimed later that exposure caused his cancer/headaches/etc? You know the result. So, ever-safety consious US commanders would be forced to order troops to suit up if faced with probable attack by even possibly active chem/gas agents. Thus our effectiveness is reduced, which evens the odds somewhat.
Use By Terrorists
Let's remind ourselves of something fundamental; that the purpose of terrorism is to terrorize.
Yes, this sounds obvious, but those who casually dismiss the weapons that we have found need to consider the implications if the terrorists find and bring any of this stuff to a western nation and attempt to release it. Why this has not happened yet I do not know, but it would undoubtably sow panic if it did. Attempts to reassure the public that it was old and " less toxic than most things that Americans have under their kitchen sink" would most likely bring angry responses.
We live in a day when people fret over sacarrine and aspartame in soft drinks, imagine the reaction to news that terrorists had released mustard or sarin.
Unpleasant, but they are things to think about.
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That WMD Story
Two days ago Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) and Congressman Peter Hoekstra, (R-MI-2) announced that since the start of OIF three years ago US and Coalition forces have found not-insignificant amounts of chemical weapons in Iraq. Prior to their announcement the only information available to the public were public news stories in 2004 that two old artillery shells had been found.
It is important to note, I think, that only a small part of a much larger document was declassified.
Santorum and Hoeksrta's announcement told of 500 weapons, mainly artillery shells, filled with either mustard gas or the sarin nerve agent. The weapons were produced prior to the 1991 Gulf War, and are in a "degraded" state, so it is not clear if they would work if used if, say, fired from an artillery piece. Neither is it clear how much of the gas or nerve agents remain in "useable" form.
What Does It Mean?
In no particular order, here are some of my thoughts on the matter.
First, this is not the "holy grail" of WMD. Let's face it; when we invaded in March of 2003 we expected to find a lot more, including stuff made after 1991. Those of us who supported OIF and continue to do so should not overemphasize this find.
Further, it does not necessarily prove that Saddam hid WMD. I saw a story yesterday whereby some US chemical weapons were found in a depot in Maryland that the US Army had forgotten about or lost track of. I don't have details handy, and later today or this weekend will try and find the link. The Iraqis produced so much of this stuff that they could have lost track of some of it.
But it also doesn't mean that the 500 shells is all we'll find. If nothing else has become clear about Saddam's Iraq, it is that he armed that country to the teeth. We have found warehouse upon warehouse with small arms, ammunition, mortars and mortar shells, RPGs, and raw explosives piled to the ceiling. They also hid a lot of it underground, even going so far as to bury fighter jets themselves.
Further, I recall reading (can't find the link) that the Iraqis were not good about putting special marks on their WMD shells, so that when mixed in with high-explosive types they were indistinguishable. The point is that the 500 shells may just be the tip of the iceberg.
It is also possible that Saddam did keep some WMD "just in case." To this day we don't know what happened to much of it. Tim Robbins, writing on NRO's The Corner Blog, noted that the Blix report stated that
"The [Iraqi weapons report] document indicates that 13,000 chemical bombs were dropped by the Iraqi air force between 1983 and 1998, while Iraq has declared that 19,500 bombs were consumed during this period. Thus, there is a discrepancy of 6,500 bombs. The amount of chemical agent in these bombs would be in the order of about 1,000 tons. In the absence of evidence to the contrary, we must assume that these quantities are now unaccounted for."
Under the terms of the 1991 cease-fire, and subsequent Security Council resolutions, Saddam was required to provide proof that he destroyed all of his WMD. He never did so. What happened to the 6,500 weapons cited above is a mystery to this day. Therefore, while it is possible that the Iraqis simply misplaced some weapons, the legal onus was on them to account for it.
The entire story also illustrates the Bush Administation's failure to make it's case about Iraq. Why it took Senator Santorum and Represenative Hoekstra to make this public is frustrating to those of us who support OIF. No these weapons are not all of what we expected to find. But neither are they insignificant. Between this and the Administration's failure to tell the story of Saddam's links to terrorist groups such as al-Qaeda, they have done a terrible job at justifying the invasion.
It isn't clear whether the insurgent terrorists know about or have found any of Saddam's WMD too, but of course they could sell it on the black market, or secret it into a Western country. It doesnt matter if the stuff is so degraded that if used it doesn't have much or any effect, because the purpose of terrorism is to terrorize. And no doubt if there are any incidents in which these weapons make it to a Western nation nad are used, we will all freak out for a long period of time.
More later, but for now see Richard Fernandez' post at The Belmont Club. Glenn Reynolds also has a good round-up at Instupundit.
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Hays High School girls' soccer coach Chris Michaelis went out to the soccer field about 2 to 2:30 p.m. on Monday to place the flags around the pitch. He had nice conditions with no wind and didn't need a coat for his work.
Shortly before the game started at 4 p.m., the temperature was around 58 to 59 degrees.
Then, a cold front blew in quickly and the temperature dropped roughly 20 degrees in 10 minutes. High winds quickly changed the game and eventually forced the cancellation of the junior varsity contest after the varsity. However, even with the strange weather pattern, the Indians collected a 4-0 win against Great Bend. Hays High tallied three second half goals at the south end.
The north wind was so strong HHS had possession virtually all second half, and Great Bend never had the ball past midfield.
"We did a really good job of controlling the ball," Michaelis said.
"Possessing the ball and playing the ball out wide like we wanted to. I told them at halftime, you can't get the ball up in the air. You get the ball up in the air going with the wind, it was just going to blow out of bounds. I thought our girls did a really good job of keeping the ball down on the ground."
Hays High improved to 9-2, 6-0 WAC with its second 4-0 victory against Great Bend in the last four days. The Indians had a 16-2 edge in shots on goal and a 13-1 advantage in corner kicks. HHS played nearly all the contest without senior April Johnson, who missed Friday's road win against Great Bend because of a hamstring injury.
Michaelis said Monday marked some of the worst conditions he had seen for a game.
However, last week, Hays High had similar conditions in a contest at Liberal.
"Warming up, there was about five seconds where you felt warm and you were sweating, and then all of a sudden, that cold front came through and you were freezing," senior Shelby Dinkel said. "You are like, 'I got to get some clothes on.' Once the game had started, it was really cold. The wind had picked up, and we are all just thinking, 'OK, we've all got to change our strategy now.' "
Dinkel had the game's first goal in the 24th minute when the ball deflected off a Great Bend player. HHS had a 7-2 lead in shots on goal at the half. During halftime, both teams put on pants and multiple layers. Many parents and fans watched the game from cars.
"Second half, the big thing was, stay patient and don't get mad at each other," Dinkel said. "We didn't. Once a certain body part got cold, you knew it wasn't going to go back to warm. Our legs especially hurt so bad. Bare skin with a ball coming at you Lord knows how fast. Keeping our legs warm was really hard. None of us were wearing tights in the first half, because we didn't expect weather like this."
In the second half, the wind was so strong a large, industrial-sized plastic bag blew the length of the field in seven seconds, never interfered with game action, and then stuck in the batting cage netting that was beyond the south goal. Many balls that went up in the air blew backwards.
"We went from, 'Oh, this is going to be a nice game,' to 'Oh, this is going to be a pretty cold and gross game,' and we've got to keep our composure as a team," Dinkel said. "I think that helped us quite a bit, because we are used to making drastic changes really quickly."
In the second half, Hays High moved the lead to 2-0 in the 50th minute when Lauren Murphy crossed the ball in front of the goal and senior Taylor Herman kicked it in. Great Bend had an own goal three minutes later, while Lacey Pfannenstiel scored the final goal in the 59th minute on a kick from about 10 yards out.
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Both Republicans and Democrats have a religion problem, and it has nothing to do with same-sex marriage, abortion, or religious liberty. Rather it is budgets, deficits, and debt ceiling deadlines that are their serious stumbling blocks. That's right, in a city deeply divided between the political right and left there is a growing consensus from religious leaders about getting our fiscal house in order and protecting low-income people at the same time. Together, many of us are saying that there is a fundamental religious principle missing in most of our political infighting: the protection of the ones about whom our scriptures say God is so concerned. Indeed, the phrase "a budget is a moral document" originated in the faith community, and has entered the debate. But those always in most jeopardy during Washington's debates and decisions are precisely the persons the Bible instructs us clearly to protect and care for — the poorest and most vulnerable. They have virtually none of the lobbyists that all the other players do in these hugely important discussions about how public resources will be allocated. For us, this is definitely not a partisan issue, but a spiritual and biblical one that resides at the very heart of our faith. It is the singular issue which has brought together the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, the National Association of Evangelicals, the Salvation Army, and the leaders of other church denominations, congregations, and faith-based organizations across the nation. Here is the missing principle still absent in our current debate: We must agree not to reduce deficits in ways that further increase poverty and economic inequality by placing the heaviest burdens on those who are already suffering the most. Religious leaders do believe that massive deficits are moral issues, and that we must not saddle future generations with crippling debt. But we believe that how we resolve deficits also is a moral issue. And our society must not take more from those who already have so much less than the rest of us. We understand the politics of this debate. We know that Republicans will resist reforming the private sector, because that is where their core constituencies and money lie. We understand that Democrats will resist reforming the public sector because that is where their key constituencies and money are. We also understand that neither party wants to risk actually examining bloated Pentagon spending out of political fears that they might appear unconcerned about national defense or our military personnel. During elections, both Republicans and Democrats are almost entirely focused on middle-class voters and wealthy donors, who all have special interests in the outcome of how government financing is determined. And then there are the pollsters who tell both parties that talking about "poor people" and "poverty" will not be popular. But we must agree with what a Catholic bishop told President Obama in a meeting we religious leaders had with him in the White House last year as the August debt crisis deal was being decided: "Mr. President, our scriptural mandate from Jesus does not say 'As you have done to the middle class, you have done to me.' It rather says, 'As you have done to the least of these, you have done to me.'" We have no choice as to what our position will be in these upcoming debates. We are telling the leaders and legislators of both parties that they must form "a circle of protection" around the most effective and vital programs that help the lowest-income American families survive in such difficult economic times. With one clear voice we also are telling lawmakers that the global efforts that literally mean life and death to the poorest around the world, who are assailed by preventable hunger and diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS, must be protected. Some cuts kill. Others will destroy the small opportunities families have to lift themselves out of poverty. We will be telling our legislators, for example — that if they really decide to take all of the proposed $36 billion in agricultural cuts from proven and successful nutritional "food stamp" programs, which go mostly to families with children, while taking nothing from the rice, corn, and sugar subsidies to rich agribusiness — they should expect to hear voices like Old Testament prophets standing outside their halls. Or — when they plan to cut poor children's health care or the chance for students from poor families to go to college for the first time, but block any increased revenue from the wealthiest and keep corporate welfare checks flowing — they should anticipate having to listen for the faith community's different priorities. And if they cut "meals on wheels" feeding programs to our most vulnerable senior citizens, but keep paying for the wheels on outdated and useless weapons systems, they should expect to hear some words from the scriptures. How faith community leaders protected low-income entitlements in the sequestered automatic cuts agreed to in the August 2011 debt ceiling deal is an untold story in much of the media. We will ask for those protections again. Both Republicans and Democrats could agree to the principle of protecting the most vulnerable people — as have many budget cutting processes have in the past — and the Simpson-Bowles recommendations do even now. Then the parties could have their private-public sector debates and reach the compromises necessary to find fiscal integrity. But both party's church leaders and pastors will be telling them to defend the ones for whom God commands us to give special care. Everything else may be on the table, but the fate of the poor and vulnerable should not be. Jim Wallis is the author of Rediscovering Values: A Guide for Economic and Moral Recovery, and CEO of Sojourners. Follow Jim on Twitter @JimWallis.
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