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John Andrew's Cottage is a 'turnkey' experience accommodating
two adults and children including:
-a cozy bedroom with its full size bed, which beckons you after a sun-filled day at the private beach (within walking distance) which overlooks Shelter Island.
-a complete kitchen and full bath
-a livingroom filled with antique wicker and an authentic farm table and additional sleeping space
-a private patio with a Weber Grill offers on-site barbeque options in preparing local seafood and vegetables
-on-site private parking for one car
-linens and towels
-Cable/Flat screen television/Blue Ray DVD
-New refrigerator, stove, microwave, coffee maker, dishes, glasses, flatware and food preparation utensils
This cottage is located in the heart of Southold village. The grounds surrounding the cottage create a quiet setting for the vacationer. The main house, also located on the property, was built in 1789 and has been restored.
We chose this property because of the historical significance of Southold and the North Fork. This location offers access to many activities including a private beach, seaports, 40+ wineries, shopping and antiquing.
My girlfriend and I stayed at John Andrews cottage for three nights. We found the owners to be polite, personable, and easy to deal with. The cottage was thoroughly clean upon our arrival and everything was in good working order. Our favourite part was the pebble patio at the back of the cottage. The area was quiet, private, and well-shaded; the perfect spot to enjoy your morning coffee or evening bbq. Although the address of the cottage is on Rte 25 in Southold, the cottage is located behind the main house on the property; plenty of privacy and peace and quiet. The owners provided us with a pass to their private beach, about a half mile away. The beach was family oriented, relaxed, quiet, and clean. We found that the location worked well for us, as it was fairly centrally located to the numerous wineries that we visited. All in all, it was a pleasant experience and I would stay there again as well as recommend it to a friend or family member.
We recently stayed at this property and certainly enjoyed visiting the area. We did feel strongly that we wanted to alert future booked or potential guests that the size of this cottage is not at all as it is presented in the vrbo listing. Listed at 700 square feet we were surprised and disappointed to discover after actually measuring this cottage it is approximately 420 square feet...quite a discrepancy and very misleading! In bringing this to the attention of the owners we were told that that was the size that their contractor had told them it was. To give you an example of the size of things, expect to have to sit sideways on the toilet if you don't want your knees to touch the shower. Equally a concern was that the smoke detector has been removed. If there was a carbon monoxide detector it was not obvious. We did express a concern about a propane smell and the owner informed us that the stove had been checked out twice before…thus validating that we were not the only ones that had smelled gas. Please be aware that in order to sleep four people in the cottage individuals would need to sleep on a blow-up mattress placed in an already very compact living area. The cottage was clean, all appliances are new and the gardens and patio in the back of the property are most inviting...but presenting the property accurately is important. This is the first time that we have encountered such an issue with VRBO properties.
My husband and I and our 5 month old daughter stayed here for a weekend.. The cottage was perfect for us.. Living area was large enough for our daughters portable crib, and an area on the floor where she could play... also having the TV and an area to sit and eat was a plus....everything was clean and comfortable. The owners were extremely helpful and waiting to show us around even though we arrived kind of late. They even emailed back and forth with me before our trip to tell me some good places to go with a 5 month old! The northfork is beautiful (any time of year) but especially at the beginning of fall... its a perfect location and puts you right near farms, wineries and nice little towns to explore as well as area beachs ( even got a beach pass to the owners private beach) Thank you so much to the owners and hope to return to the cottage sometime soon !!!!
Located in the heart of historic Southold, John Andrew's Cottage offers a place to unwind by kicking back with a glass of wine and enjoying fine dining, the sun and beach, exploring the Wine Trail and historic sites.
Transportation options:
-Walking distance to a private beach and to a highly recommended supermarket and farm stand
-Walking distance to the Hampton Jitney, a busline serving Metro New York and all major New York airports.
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Brevity might be the soul of wit (Shakespeare) and of lingerie (Dorothy Parker), but it has evolved to be ubiquitous and fashionable in a wordy kind of way… Twitter 140 stories and flash fiction and even one-sentence poems. However tantalizing some of these are, too much abbreviated word-play is a bit like feeding mind and heart a diet of literary French fries. (Haiku would be an exception to this.)
An appreciation for short snappy creative writing seems somehow inevitable though. While the world lauds mindfulness, it demands multitasking and the expectations for productivity are ever-expanding. We just don't have time for lengthy reads… and maybe we don't have patience anymore. In any given moment it seems a thousand things call for our attention.
No doubt we also owe some of the penchant for sound-bites to our explosion of mobile tech toys and social networking. I could certainly give them up, but I'd rather not. Nor do I want to give up the convenience and economy of my Kindle library, which is perfect for living in small spaces.
On Sundays like this though, with no errands or appointments, I remember just how much I value the luxury of a low-tech day. I love a day of lazy living inside lingering stories set in imagined worlds, painstakingly described. I love being wrapped in the warmth of a big armchair, perhaps a furry friend in attendance. And there is such quiet delight in a mug of hot chocolate to sip along with the tactile pleasures of a beautifully printed and bound book.
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DEBKAfile Exclusive Report March 15, 2015
This report inaugurates debkafile's new column which, under the heading The Cyber Dimension, will appear regularly and keep our readers abreast of novel events in this fast-developing field. The least appreciated potential cyber threat comes from toy drones in terrorist hands. No counter-measures have been developed against such UAV intrusions as those seen over the White House and Elysée.
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report February 12, 2015
Egypt has joined forces with Israel to fight the spreading Islamist terror which is escalating on three fronts from Libya to Sinai and from Suez to the Delta. Israel is contributing advanced military drones.
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report July 31, 2014
The Israeli Air Force destroyed 40 mosques converted into rocket and arms stores inside Gaza Tuesday night, July 20. Ending the rocket threat is deemed as important as the destruction of terror tunnels. Both projects continue apace as the IDF prepares for an order to terminate the ground stage of the Gaza operation. The air force brought forward the battlefield debut of the new Hermes 900 UAV, known as "Star," to take advantage of its exceptional ability to perform surveillance and communication work at high altitudes while carrying a heavy weapons load.
DEBKAfile Special Report June 9, 2014
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz's cryptic remark Monday, June 6 that "The Israeli Air Force will next month dramatically change its mode of operation," meant that a decision has been taken to start directing the IAF's fire power against 50,000 al Qaeda fighters, whom he calculates are forgathering in the Syrian and Iraqi arenas north of Israel. Gen. Gantz was referring not just to warplanes, but also Israel's long-range unmanned aerial vehicles and helicopters. For this kind of warfare, he said, the air force requires a different kind of intelligence support.
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report March 27, 2014
Israel has set up new IDF formations for combating potential terrorist incursions from three al Qaeda-ruled areas adjoining its borders, while also planning to use drones.
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report March 27, 2014
Saudi Arabia is the only Mid East country to be offered US Predator UAVs. With some delicate coordination, Israel, Saudi Arabia and Egypt can combine forces to battle al Qaeda using drones.
DEBKAfile Special Report March 23, 2014
When President Obama sent New Year greetings to the Iranian people on March 20, US satelliteswere recording a mockup of Iran's first aircraft carrier in mid-work at the Revolutionary Guards naval base of Bandar Abbas. It was modeled on a US Nimitz-class super-carrier, which is nuclear powered, 330 meters long and carries 3,000 naval and air crew and 85-90 fighter craft and helicopters. The Iranian mockup is still crude. But, says debkafile, Iran has surprised the world before by copying, developing and operating advanced surveillance drones and cyber war capabilities.
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report May 30, 2013
Iran has discovered the attractions of its new unmanned aerial vehicles and is using them for increasingly reckless missions over strategic Middle East sites, including US forces, oil sites, army bases and Israel.
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report February 22, 2013
If Russian personnel pushed the button of the anti-air missile that allegedly downed an Israeli done over the Lebanese Beqaa Valley, it carried a message from Moscow to Jerusalem to that Lebanon as well as Syria is under its protection.
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report December 17, 2012
debkafile Special: Last week, the Azerbaijani police picked up six Iranian secret agents looking for the air bases housing the drones their government purchased from Israel. The agents carried cash, fake passports, automatic pistols, advanced electronic equipment for tracking aircraft and electronic warfare devices for jamming them. Their capture foiled an Iranian plot to trap one of the UAVs as it flew over the Azerbaijani-Iranian Caspian Sea border. As the agents' clandestine handler, the Iranian culture attaché was barred form returning to Baku.
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report December 14, 2012
Tehran is set on capturing an Israel drone like the American UAVs it has downed. Iranian spies in Azerbaijan went looking for the bases where drones purchased from Israel were held – and were arrested.
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report December 6, 2012
If the US and Israeli are counting on swarms of drones to carry out an attack on Iranian nuclear sites, they had better think again.
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report November 30, 2012
A confidential report submitted to Ayatollah Khamenei advises a massive expansion of military spending focusing on earmarking more money and scientific resources for developing missile and sophisticated unmanned aerial vehicles. The technology and manufacturing plants for sophisticated drones should be transferred to Gaza and Sudan – not Lebanon. This process was underway in Gaza when Israel launched its air offensive against Hamas in mid-November.
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report October 29, 2012
Defense Minister Gen. Ahmad Vahidi warned Sunday, Oct. 28: "The drone was definitely not the latest Iranian technology." He was talking about the drone sent by Iran and Hizballah over Israel on Oct. 6 and implying it was not the last word in their armory - or even the last to reach Israel. debkafile: In mid-September, Tehran secretly shipped to Lebanon a batch of its most advanced Ababil-T UAVs for new missions, after developing a new stealth attack series with a range of 2,000 kilometers.
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report October 11, 2012
Iran's nuclear chief Abbasi is in charge of the conversion of the captured US Sentinel by Iran and the work of mixed Iranian-Russian-Chinese teams to transfer its secret systems to Iranian drones.
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report October 11, 2012
Iran is obsessed with making bigger and better military drones with stealth qualities and is ready to buy, steal, and dig out the secrets of the captured American RQ-170 top-secret UAV for technology to improve its own products.
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report February 3, 2012
US stealth drones stay out of Iranian skies since the RQ-170 was downed now that American intelligence knows that a Chinese cyber team was responsible. The Obama administration is avoiding a reckoning with Beijing because Washington needs the Chinese on America's side – especially in a presidential election year.
DEBKAfile Special Report December 8, 2011
Iran exhibited the top-secret US stealth drone RQ-170 Sentinel captured on Sunday, Dec. 4. Its almost perfect condition confirmed Tehran's claim that the UAV was downed by a cyber attack, meaning it was brought in undamaged by an electronic warfare ambush. This is a major debacle for the stealth technology the US uses in its warplanes and the drone technology developed by the US and Israel. It obliges both to revise their strike plans against Iran's nuclear program.
DEBKAfile DEBKA Weekly December 7, 2011
Complaints about the gaps in the Obama administration's knowledge of Israel's intentions to attack Iran's nuclear facilities were heard in Washington Wednesday, Dec. 7. In its latest issue out Friday, DEBKA-Net-Weekly revealed exclusively what the US administration asked of Israel in this regard, its response and their plans for a nuclear-armed Iran. Our experts examined how the arrival of the US stealth drone RQ-170 in Iranian hands affect a potential attack.
DEBKAfile Special Report December 6, 2011
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has placed the Revolutionary Guards on a war footing fearing an attack by the West and Israel on Iran's nuclear sites, the London Telegraph reports Dec. 6. They have redistributed the Shahab missiles to secret sites ready to launch retaliatory strikes; Guards units are scattered to preset defense lines and air force "rapid reaction units" are ready to respond to enemy air attack. By capturing the top-secret US RQ-170 spy drone, Iran gains a military edge before any overt strike begins.


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I have been a Nik Kershaw fan for a long, long time. My favorite song, of his, is "Wouldn't it Be Good", but I re-heard one of his tunes the other day that hit me between the ears.
If you haven't heard this one before, take the time to listen. This song exemplifies exactly how it feels, to me, to be suffering from the migraine malady. What hit me hardest was the fact that when the song played off the ipod in the car, my 15 year old daughter pointed out the obvious. "Dad, that song is about you!?" I couldn't keep the tears from my eyes. Here are the lyrics. It's dark in there and you're quite unaware That the cracks on the ceiling are mocking you Your airless bag, your dust in a shaft of light And you think you might Yeah you might stay there all day Heh heh Get up, get on your feet Get up, don't go back to sleep Get up, life is bitter sweet And it's all going on without you You're safe in there, no sharks anywhere Not a soul to get you doing what you don't want Go on pretend it's Sunday again, it's Sunday again It's so warm in there, feels like camembert All the things you'd do if only you had the energy You bargain for just ten minutes more of this When a prince's kiss Turns you into a swan Dream on Get up, get on your feet Get up, don't go back to sleep Get up, life is bitter sweet And it's all going on without you


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Organizers for Austin's massive annual music, film and technology festival, South by Southwest (which kicks off Friday), tapped Top Chef: Texas winner and former Uchiko executive chef Paul Qui to curate a selection of 16 food trucks for SouthBites, the event's first official food court. Qui currently operates three East Side King trucks, and last December he parlayed their success into a brick-and-mortar restaurant. When choosing businesses for the project, he looked for diversity beyond hot dogs and burgers, such as the famous Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams and South African local favorite Cazamance. Here, Qui reveals the secrets to operating a fantastic food truck and his picks for the best food at SouthBites.read more
At some restaurants, staff meals or "family meals" before service can be as simple as a pot of hastily thrown together chicken and rice, but at the unconventionally Japanese Uchi in Houston, Texas, they are a point of pride. To celebrate the new season of Top Chef Masters, which airs on Wednesdays at 10/9c, Bravo posted an exclusive look inside Uchi's enticing buffet-style staff meals. "We're a little bit spoiled," says Top Chef Season 9 winner Paul Qui in the short film by Christian Remde. Homemade bread, crispy pork katsu, freshly-fried churros, miso-glazed salmon collar and even a side of sushi-grade blue fin tuna have made the cut. Top Chef fans won't be surprised to find out that there is an element of rivalry among the team. "We had a gnocchi battle when everybody got to make different kinds of gnocchi," Qui says in the clip. Watch the video, and to find out where Qui eats out in Austin, check out his F&W Insider Travel Guide.
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The Royal Scots Club is managed overall by a group of Trustees who are responsible for keeping the Club going for time immemorial.
Chairman of Trustees is Major General Mark Strudwick CBE. Other trustees include Colonel Dick Mason, Lt. Colonel Robert Paterson, Robert White, Norman Soutar, Tony Jones, Iain Johnstone and John Lloyd.
Reporting to the Trustees, and responsible for the overall day to day operations of the Club is a Board of Directors. They are chaired by Shields Henderson. The other Directors are Lt Colonel Robert Paterson, Major John Dent, Robert White, Peter Taylor, Guy Richardson, James Anderson and Mrs Mhairi Blythe.Also reporting to the Trustees, and responsible for all aspects of membership of the club and for organising the members' social programme is the Club Committee. The Committee is chaired by John Lloyd and members of the committee are drawn from the Club membership. The current Committee is made up of the following: Maj J McClean, Ms Aline Ewan, Mrs Anne Ewing, Mr David Salton, Sqn Ldr Graeme Lyall and Mr Fred Lawson.
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The FSA is investigating Castlestone Management but is not detailing what it is looking for in its search of several premises connected to the group.
All the regulator will say on the matter is that it issued "search warrants on two premises in London and one in Chichester. The FSA's regulatory investigation is on-going."
The FSA says its issuance of search warrants may be infrequent but not uncommon and can involve anything from investigations into market abuse, insider dealing, regulatory breaches or simple fact-finding. It will not disclose what terms the warrants in the case cover or what it is looking for.
Castlestone runs a number of commodity-based funds, many of which feature direct commodity exposure as opposed to investing in the underlying equities. An investment committee of eight, headed by the firm's CEO Angus Murray, manages the portfolios.
The investment committee has seen several departures over the past two months, the most recent of which is commodities analyst Connor Noonan; Bradley Tim and Arrash Zafari left in May.
Earlier this month the firm's head of compliance, Ed Williamson, also parted ways with the group. Several other compliance and trading team members have also reportedly left the company since April.
Castlestone offers 15 funds, only four of which are structured as Ucits and distributed in the UK. The $4.17m Aliquot Precious Metals fund launched in June and offers exposure to gold, silver, platinum, copper and zinc via asset swaps. It has so far returned -1.15%, according to the group's own factsheet.
The $4.3m Intelligent Portfolio Asset Allocation fund is a multi-asset portfolio on offer since March 2010. Over one year the fund, the largest position of which is to the Canadian dollar, has fallen 5.96% in sterling terms.
The $34.7m Aliquot Commodity fund was launched in June 2008, uses index swaps as well as transferrable securities, and invests in precious metals, industrial metals as well as soft commodities, livestock and water.
Also launched in 2008 is the $19.64m Aliquot Agriculture portfolio, which likewise uses index swaps to gain exposure to soft commodities, livestock grains and alternative energy. Over one year this fund is up more than 44% in dollar terms.
All four Ucits funds are domiciled in Ireland. On 1 June the Central Bank of Ireland temporarily suspended subscriptions into the portfolios but this was lifted on 10 June.
Castlestone has released a statement confirming the FSA investigation is taking place. It said: "Castlestone Management Limited can confirm that its premises were visited by the FSA this morning as part of a regulatory investigation. The company is cooperating fully with that investigation. A further statement will be made by the company as soon as possible."
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A couple of finishes!
I seem to finally be out of my sewing funk! I put the pedal to the metal, my nose to the grindstone, and probably several other cliches this weekend and finished 2 of my 3 June goals.
I posted a picture of this top when I finished it. It's now complete! Will go to my guild for our challenge.
And this is another miniature, also for the guild for our quilt show. It's 12-1/2" square. It's a Carol Doak pattern called My Little Town.
And this title just cracks me up! Though you can see there are 4 smaller tree blocks in the corners. :)
Donna, you do such lovely work! Guess what... the center fabric in the bottom right block in the top picture with all the cats... I have the same stuff! I got it at a thrift shop a few years ago... I wasn't crazy about it (I need to see their faces and that doesn't have have faces) and still haven't found a use for it... but I had to buy it because it was cheap and had cats on it!
Your mini-quilts are always lovely, and you're about to inspire me to try them myself...
I admire your work too, I can work with some 1 inch squares in a quilt, but not as many as you have lol! Beautiful!
I have been in a kinda sorta quilting funk, I moved over to knitting and making few felt stockings.
But that hasn't stopped me from buying a new quilt book, and a quilt embroidery pattern lol!!!! Maybe after our stifling heat lets up I'll wander back to my sewing room. I need to clean it!!!
Thank you all for your nice comments! I enjoy making miniatures, but like Quilinhen said, it would take forever to use up my scrap stash! LOL
Bobby, when I read "guess what..." I thought you were going to say you saw something turned around the wrong way. :) This was a good use of at least a little of my cat fabrics...I have quite a few, but mostly one fat quarter or half yard of each, so there's not enough to really make anything with just those.


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Kudos to another Palo Alto water polo club for their outstanding performance at the 2013 JOs...Northern Elite, under the coaching leadership of Wesley Kading. Northern Elite and Stanford White were the only two 16U Bay Area boys teams to finish in the Silver division top fourteen.
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Ubisoft have released a video featuring some gameplay footage from the upcoming game Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.
All in all it looks pretty slick, not sure about collecting coins though! It seems as if you can morph into any of the turtles at any time you like. This could be put to good use if each turtle has unique abilities.
It's due for release at the end of March, and will be available on Wii, DS, Gamecube and GBA.
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Master Foot said:
They should have put TMNT 1 on VC since it seems to follow the "morphing" idea.
Chaos said:
This looks pretty impressive. I didn't have high hopes for this, but now I might just consider putting it in my collection.
Scooby Jew said:
Well it certainly is a large turn-around from the side-scroller, piece of crap arcade-style game. I hope they don't manage to somehow screw this game up, it has a lot more potential than previous TMNT games. 1) It's on the Wii and other famous Nintendo consoles. 2) It's NOT on the PS3. 3) It's 3D.
Ekaj185 said:
Platformers seem good on Wii, but they're not good for Nintendo trying to dispense their kiddie image. Although it does have mature games, the name Wii doesn't really help. Oh well. TMNT looks good.
Gonzo said:
That's hot, I'm getting this game. Imagine it with the wiimote.
poo said:
I'm not sure about this game. I'm afraid it will be a boring dungeon crawl type game. Oh well. It would be cool if they made a TMNT free roaming game.
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Michael Jordan said:
No they're making it from the movie ... Speed Racer: The Video Game
daveoneal said:
Thanks Rob. I had no idea this one was published. I'm very happy about it! Yes, Jonathan, it is hard as all get-out, ... Street Fighter 2010: The Final Fight review
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This was a very well-written review. Apparently Super Hexagon was developed by Terry Cavanagh (who made vvvvvv), so ... Cosmophony review
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:p p ... TMNT: Smash Up
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cool :p ... TMNT: Smash Up
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Read more: Big boost for ancestral family research as Irish archives go on line
Read more: 1901 Census records are truly historic, says Irish Minister for Culture
Newly digitized pre-Famine records have revealed fascinating information about President Obama's Irish roots, as well as information on other famous people such as Walt Disney and President John F. Kennedy.
The new information on Obama, Kennedy and Disney and authors Oscar Wilde and CS Lewis all feature in the new online collection of historical Irish records which date back to the 19th century. It is being released in time for St. Patrick's Day.
Disney's great-grandfather Arundel Elias Disney was born in Kilkenny in 1801 and emigrated to the U.S. in 1834, travelling with his brother Robert and their families from Liverpool to New York.
Three of Disney's other Irish ancestors are buried in Clonmelsh graveyard at Ballyloo, Co. Carlow.
The new online records show the tithes, comprised of more than 600,000 Irish land tax records, one of which reveals information on Obama's great great great grandfather who was living in Ballgurleen, Co. Tipperary in 1829.
Details of Obama's ancestors are also featured in Griffith's Valuation of Ireland which was dated from 1848-1864. The records feature more than 2.5 million names and addresses in land tax records.
The records have particular historical significance as they cover a period prior to the Great Famine.
The Griffith Valuation shows that Oscar Wilde's father William resided at Westland Row in Dublin, where the renowned author was born in 1854.
Speaking about the new online database, the website's international content director Dan Jones said, "The new collections will be hugely relevant to anyone with Irish ancestry as they may hold the earliest or final record of their ancestors' existence during these tragic yet nation-defining years in Ireland's history.
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Patchy Progress on Obesity Prevention – Time To Expand The Food and Activity Paradigm?
In last week's 2015 Lancet series on obesity, the majority of papers focus on policy interventions to address obesity. It suggests that a reframing of the obesity discussion, that avoids dichotomies (like nature vs. nurture debates) may provide a path forward – both in prevention and management.
The policy framework presented by Christina Roberto and colleagues in The Lancet, is based on the NOURISHING framework, proposed by the World Cancer Research Fund International to categorise and describe these actions.
Together, the actions in this framework address the food environment (e.g. food availability, taxation, restrictions on advertising, etc.), food systems (e.g. incentives and subsidies for production of healthier foods) and individual behaviour change (e.g through education and counselling).
This "food-centric" view of obesity is complemented by recognising that physical activity, much of which is dictated by the built environment and captivity of the population in largely sedentary jobs, also has a role to play.
On a positive note, the Christina and colleagues suggest that there may be reasons for careful optimism – apparently 89% of governments now report having units dedicated to the reduction of non-communicable diseases (including obesity), although the size and capacity of many of these units is unknown.
On the other hand, despite an increasing number of such efforts over the past decades, no country has yet reversed its epidemice (albeit there is a flattening of obesity growth rates in the lower BMI ranges in some developed countries – with continuing rise in more severe obesity).
Despite the potential role of government policies in reducing non-communicable diseases (including obesity) by "nudging" populations towards healthier diets and more physical activity, the authors also note that,
"…the reality is that many policy efforts have little support from voters and intended programme participants, and although the passage of policies is crucial, there is also a need to mobilise policy action from the bottom up."
Indeed, there is growing list of examples, where government policies to promote healthy eating have had to be reversed due to lack of acceptance by the public or were simply circumvented by industry and consumers.
Nevertheless, there is no doubt that policies in some form or fashion may well be required to improve population health – just how intrusive, costly and effective such measures will prove to be remains to be seen.
All of this may change little for people who already have the problem. As the article explains,
"There are also important biological barriers to losing excess weight, once gained. Changes in brain chemistry, metabolism, and hunger and satiety hormones, which occur during attempts to lose weight, make it difficult to definitively lose weight. This can prompt a vicious cycle of failed dieting attempts, perpetuated by strong biological resistance to rapid weight loss, the regaining of weight, and feelings of personal failure at the inability to sustain a weight-loss goal. This sense of failure makes people more susceptible to promises of quick results and minimally regulated claims of weight loss products."
Not discussed in the article is the emerging science that there may well be other important drivers of obesity active at a population level that go well beyond the food or activity environment – examples would include liberal use of antibiotics and disinfectants (especially in agriculture), decreased sleep (potentially addressable through later school start times and mandatory afternoon naps in childcare settings), increasing maternal age at pregnancy (addressable by better access to childcare), time pressures (e.g. policies to address time-killing commutes), etc.
Perhaps what is really needed is a reframing of obesity as a problem where healthy eating and physical activity are seen as only two of many potential areas where policies could be implemented to reduce non-communicable diseases (including obesity).
Some of these areas may well find much greater support among politicians and consumers.
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McKinsey on Obesity: Doing Something Beats Doing Nothing
Last week the McKinsey Global Institute, with much media fanfare, released a 120 page discussion paper titled, "Overcoming obesity: An initial economic analysis", which estimates that the economic cost of the global obesity epidemic is upwards of $2 trillion, a number similar to the economic cost of tobacco consumption or armed conflicts.
The report identifies 74 interventions in 18 areas (ranging from policy and population health to health care) deemed to be cost effective, which, if implemented, could lead to annual savings of $1.2 billion in the UK National Health Services alone.
However, when it comes to the actual impact of these 74 strategies, the report is far more sobering in that it notes that many of these interventions are far from proven:
"The evidence base on the clinical and behavioral interventions to reduce obesity is far from complete, and ongoing investment in research is imperative. However, in many cases this is proving a barrier to action. It need not be so. We should experiment with solutions and try them out rather than waiting for perfect proof of what works, especially in the many areas where interventions are low risk. We have enough knowledge to be taking more action than we currently are."
In other words, let's not wait to find out what works – let's just do something – anything (and keep our fingers crossed).
Thus, the report urges us to
"(1) deploy as many interventions as possible at scale and delivered effectively by the full range of sectors in society; (2) understand how to align incentives and build cooperation; and (3) do not focus unduly on prioritizing interventions because this can hamper constructive action."
I can see why politicians would welcome these recommendations, as they are essentially a carte blanche to either doing nothing (we don't have the evidence) or doing whatever they want (anything is better than nothing).
The fact that,
"Based on existing evidence, any single intervention is likely to have only a small overall impact on its own. A systemic, sustained portfolio of initiatives, delivered at scale, is needed to address the health burden."
means that when any measure fails, it is not because it was the wrong measure but because there was either not enough of it or it was not complemented by additional measures.
Again, a free pass for politicians, who can pass whatever measures they want (based on their political ideologies or populistic pressure from their constituencies), without having to demonstrate that what they did, had any effect at all.
Of course, no report on obesity would be complete without also stressing the importance of "personal responsibility", as if this was somehow more important for obesity than it is for diabetes, lung disease, heart disease, or any other disease I can think of.
Unfortunately, the report also includes rather nonsensical statements like,
"44 interventions bring 20% of overweight/obese Britons back to normal weight"
a sentence that defies the very chronic nature of obesity, where once established excess weight is vigorously "defended" by complex neuroendocrine responses that will counteract any change in energy balance to sustain excess body weight.
Thus, unfortunately, the authors fall into the common misconception about obesity simply being a matter of calories in and calories out, a balance that can be volitionally adjusted to achieve whatever body weight you wish to have.
Indeed, there is very little discussion in this "discussion paper" of the underlying biology of obesity, although it is acknowledged in passing:
"Even though there are important outstanding questions about diet composition, gut microbiome, and epigenetics, we are not walking blind with no sense of what to address. However, interventions to increase physical activity, reduce energy consumption, and address diet composition cannot just seek to reverse the historical trends that have left the population where it is today. For example, we cannot, nor would we wish to, reverse the invention of the Internet or the industrialization of agriculture. We need to assess what interventions make sense and are feasible in 2014."
Will this report move governments to action? Or, even more importantly, will this report bring us any closer to reversing the epidemic or providing better treatments to people who already have obesity?
Readers may appreciate that I am not holding my breath quite yet.
Edmonton, AB
Social Network Analysis of the Obesity Research Boot Camp
Regular readers may recall that for the past nine years, I have had the privilege and pleasure of serving as faculty of the Canadian Obesity Network's annual Obesity Research Summer Bootcamp.
The camp is open to a select group of graduate and post-graduate trainees from a wide range of disciplines with an interest in obesity research. Over nine days, the trainees are mentored and have a chance to learn about obesity research in areas ranging from basic science to epidemiology and childhood obesity to health policy.
Now, a formal network analysis of bootcamp attendees, published by Jenny Godley and colleagues in the Journal of Interdisciplinary Healthcare, documents the substantial impact that this camp has on the careers of the trainees.
As the analysis of trainees who attended this camp over its first 5 years of operation (2006-2010) shows, camp attendance had a profound positive impact on their career development, particularly in terms of establishing contacts and professional relationships.
Thus, both the quantitative and the qualitative results demonstrate the importance of interdisciplinary training and relationships for career development in obesity researcher (and possibly beyond).
Personally, participation at this camp has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my career and I look forward to continuing this annual exercise for years to come.
To apply for the 2015 Bootcamp, which is also open to international trainees – click here.
Toronto, ON
Godley J, Glenn NM, Sharma AM, & Spence JC (2014). Networks of trainees: examining the effects of attending an interdisciplinary research training camp on the careers of new obesity scholars. Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare, 7, 459-70 PMID: 25336965
Call For Abstracts: Canadian Obesity Summit, Toronto, April 28-May 2, 2015
Building on the resounding success of Kananaskis, Montreal and Vancouver, the biennial Canadian Obesity Summit is now setting its sights on Toronto.
If you have a professional interest in obesity, it's your #1 destination for learning, sharing and networking with experts from across Canada around the world.
In 2015, the Canadian Obesity Network (CON-RCO) and the Canadian Association of Bariatric Physicians and Surgeons (CABPS) are combining resources to hold their scientific meetings under one roof.
The 4th Canadian Obesity Summit (#COS2015) will provide the latest information on obesity research, prevention and management to scientists, health care practitioners, policy makers, partner organizations and industry stakeholders working to reduce the social, mental and physical burden of obesity on Canadians.
The COS 2015 program will include plenary presentations, original scientific oral and poster presentations, interactive workshops and a large exhibit hall. Most importantly, COS 2015 will provide ample opportunity for networking and knowledge exchange for anyone with a professional interest in this field.
Abstract submission is now open – click here
Key Dates
- Notification of abstract review: January 8, 2015
- Call for late breaking abstracts open: Jan 12-30, 2015
- Notification of late breaking abstracts and handouts and slides due : Feb 27, 2015
- Early registration deadline: March 3, 2015
For exhibitor and sponsorship information – click here
To join the Canadian Obesity Network – click here
I look forward to seeing you in Toronto next year!
Montreal, QC
4th Canadian Obesity student Meeting (COSM 2014)
Over the next three days, I will be in Waterloo, Ontario, attending the 4th biennial Canadian Obesity Student Meeting (COSM 2014), a rather unique capacity building event organised by the Canadian Obesity Network's Students and New Professionals (CON-SNP).
CON-SNP consist of an extensive network within CON, comprising of over 1000 trainees organised in about 30 chapters at universities and colleges across Canada.
Students and trainees in this network come from a wide range of backgrounds and span faculties and research interests as diverse as molecular genetics and public health, kinesiology and bariatric surgery, education and marketing, or energy metabolism and ingestive behaviour.
Over the past eight years, since the 1st COSM was hosted by laval university in Quebec, these meetings have been attended by over 600 students, most presenting their original research work, often for the first time to an audience of peers.
Indeed, it is the peer-led nature of this meeting that makes it so unique. COSM is entirely organised by CON-SNP – the students select the site, book the venues, review the abstracts, design the program, chair the sessions, and lead the discussions.
Although a few senior faculty are invited, they are largely observers, at best participating in discussions and giving the odd plenary lecture. But 85% of the program is delivered by the trainees themselves.
Apart from the sheer pleasure of sharing in the excitement of the participants, it has been particularly rewarding to follow the careers of many of the trainees who attended the first COSMs – many now themselves hold faculty positions and have trainees of their own.
As my readers are well aware, I regularly attend professional meetings around the world – none match the excitement and intensity of COSM.
I look forward to another succesful meeting as we continue to build the next generation of Canadian obesity researchers, health professionals and policy makers.
You can follow live tweets from this meeting at #COSM2014
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Does anyone out there in the real world have any feedback on the HP PhotoSmart printers? I'm considering buying one but wanted to know about quality, printer heads, ink usage. That sort of nonsense. Any help is greatly appreciated!
Go to the website noted below and read up on all of them.
Go to THIS WEBSITE and see if this answers your question.
HP makes a good printer, and they finally caught on to the idea of long-life inks. If you plan to print photos or other "art" that you intend to last a long time, research the quality of the ink offered by the manufacturer. Some inks will not last more than a few months before fading or changing color.
AFA ink usage, be aware that many HPs come from the factory with "starter" ink cartridges which are not anywhere near as full as the replacement cartridges you buy later. HP still includes print heads as part of the cartridge, however, so when you change out the cartridge, you change out the print head. HP carts are more expensive, as a result, but you don't end up dumping the printer because it needs an expensive print-head replacement.


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Hiv And Pancreatitis
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HIV and PancreatitisI have apparently had pancreatitis for a number of years, just recently diagnosed. Ths pain and frustration from this are worse than anything i have experienced with 28 years of being poz. This is actually the first time I've had a problem. I do...
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Stanford University, School of Medicine...It would be helpful to know what your doctors think is the cause of your pancreatitis. Is it from meds, stones, infection, alcohol consumption or something else. Some of the causes are reversible and some are not. Read more »
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Zerit...fatigue, abdominal pain or distension, nausea/vomiting, difficulty breathing or shortness of breath, and enlarged, fatty liver. Pancreatitis (inflammation of the pancreas) can be life-threatening and may cause pain in the stomach and back, along... Read more »
Videx EC...if not treated in time. It occurs more frequently when used with Zerit. Upset stomach, diarrhea, headache, and, more rarely, pancreatitis (inflammation of the pancreas) have also been reported. Pancreatitis can be life-threatening and may cause... Read more »
Didanosine (Videx, ddI)...cause a serious liver problem called portal hypertension. Other serious side effects of didanosine are peripheral neuropathy, pancreatitis, and lactic acidosis. Peripheral neuropathy is a form of nerve damage. It occurs in up to 20% of people... Read more »
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