text: I love Big East Basketball. It has arguably been the premier college basketball conference for many years. As of the date of this post, only 1 of its 15 current basketball members (South Florida) have never reached the NCAA Basketball Men's Final Four. No other Division I conference can boast a higher percentage of teams that have reached the Basketball's Final Four. Rivalries such as Georgetown-Syracuse, Syracuse-UConn, and Villanova-Georgetown have made the Big East a truly special conference. Unfortunately for the Big East, College Football not College Basketball is what dictates college sports at the Division I level. It's College Football that can bring the most revenue to schools. In order to increase revenue, many of the Big East Traditional basketball powers are leaving the Big East. Syracuse, Pittsburgh and Louisville are heading to the ACC. West Virginia has already left the Big East for the Big 12. A couple of more schools (Connecticut and Cincinnati) will leave if the "right" football conference includes them in their expansion plans. Heck, even Rutgers, though not a traditional basketball power, is heading to the Big 10. In order to maintain a football conference, the Big East will replace (or at least are scheduled to replace) the departing schools with Temple, Memphis, Central Florida, Houston SMU and Tulane in all sports and East Carolina, Navy, Boise State and San Diego State in football. Furthermore, with the Big East losing its automatic qualifying BCS bid in football, it's not entirely certain that Navy, Boise State and San Diego State will join the Big East. The Big East that many of us knew is gone, replaced by Conference USA-Big East "Frankenconference". Tulane vs. Villanova and Providence vs. Houston will now be considered Big East battles. DePaul-SMU will be a possible Big East tournament match-up at Madison Square Garden. There is a way to salvage the Big East as a strong basketball conference. However to achieve this goal, it will have to go to its roots. It has to once again become a conference of primarily basketball-centric private institutions, with a strong eastern presence. How? 1) The basketball-centric schools should divorce itself from the football-playing schools and form it's own conference. Hopefully it can carry the Big East moniker. The schools involved in this exodus would be the following: Providence, St. John's, Seton Hall, Villanova, Georgetown, Marquette and DePaul. 2) This new conference should immediately expand including a number of solid Atlantic 10 basketball programs that are generally private institutions in medium to large markets. The following schools that the new conference should include are the following: St. Joseph's, VCU (which just joined the A-10), Xavier, Dayton, Butler (which also just joined the A-10), St. Bonaventure and Duquesne. Some may be scratching their heads at the last two schools mentioned. We'll discuss this later. 3) Set up a two division format with "East" and "West" divisions. The divisions would be as follows... East Providence St. John's Seton Hall St. Joseph's Villanova Georgetown VCU West Marquette DePaul Butler Xavier Dayton Duquesne St. Bonaventure 4. Each team would play a 20 game in-conference schedule. Teams in the same division would play each other twice (home and away) and would play teams in the other division once, except for one team in the other division, where they would play each other twice. They would be a "married-pair". 5. There would be conference tournament at the end of the year in Madison Square Garden involving 12 of the 14 teams. The worst team in each division would not be invited to the tournament. As it is currently set up, the Big East has teams in the following markets: Providence, New York City, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Syracuse, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago, Milwaukee and Tampa Bay. Under this expansion plan, you would lose only Tampa Bay and Central NY. It would be replaced by Indianapolis (Butler) and Western NY (St. Bonaventure). WhyDuquesneandSt. Bonaventure? Duquesne is in Pittsburgh so the conference would maintain a presence in that sizeable market. Duquesne is not Pitt in terms of tradition, but is a private school fielding a basketball team in a medium-sized market. It has a basketball rivalry with Pitt and is a player in Pittsburgh's college basketball landscape. It has little aspiration of fielding a FBS football team so it fits the profile of a basketball-centric school. St. Bonaventure is located in Western New York. Western NY is a larger market than Central NY. It's traditionally centered around Buffalo though Rochester is another major city in the region. Bona is part of the Big 4, which is Western NY's version of Philadelphia's Big 5. While St. Bonaventure is no Syracuse in terms of tradition, it would help the conference maintain a presence in upstate NY. Like Duquesne, Bona is a private school that is a player on the college basketball landscape in a medium-sized market. It also has little aspirations of fielding a FBS football team. Finally adding these two schools would enable teams near the east coast to stay in the same division. A number of old Big East rivalries would continue to be played home-and-away. Conclusion In short, this would be the Big East 3.0. Big East 1.0 was the original conference centered solely on basketball. Big East 2.0 was the basketball conference that was attempting to become a major football conference. This version of the Big East would be a basketball-centric conference in Eastern and Midwestern markets. It would feature a number of private institutions in major markets that would be basketball-centric. The geographic footprint would be more manageable and compact. A number of traditional rivalries would be played more frequently. With St. Joe's in the conference, new rivalries may commence with a number of the original Big East schools. VCU which is only 100 miles south of DC may become a new rival of Georgetown. Games between Xavier, Dayton, Marquette, Butler and perhaps DePaul may become particularly intriguing battles.


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May 3: Foreigners Continue Net Buying on Both STC and HNX
Foreigners continued their position of net buyers on both STC and HNX on Thursday. Level of participation increased for the second day.
These players net bought VND37.55 billion worth of shares on STC after buying 5.03 million shares for VND126.7 billion and selling 3.30 million units for VND89.18 billion, accounting for 8.06 percent buying value and 5.67 percent selling value.
Of note, buying volume fell by 35 percent and selling volume almost unchanged from yesterday trading, resulting in a lower net buying value.
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On the Hanoi Stock Exchange, foreigners net bought VND8.10 billion worth of shares after buying 2.01 million shares for VND23.22 billion and selling 1.48 million units for VND15.12 billion, accounting for 2.47 percent buying value and 1.61 percent selling value.
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I am backing up a server with all local drives. Drives c:\ an d:\ get backed up but drive e:\ gives me status 13 error. I have attached the bpbkar log. It seems to be a file corruption error but the bpbkar log does not tell me which file. Is there any way to find out. The backups were fine for this server till today.
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Increasing client read timeout on Media server host properties to be more than 15 minutes solved this issue.
NetBackup backup jobs fails with Status Code 13 - "file read failed" and bpbrm logs reports an error "socket read failed: errno = 62 - Timer expired"
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Moriah Fire district consolidation is again an issue in the town of Moriah.
Increased worker compensation costs have led Moriah's fire districts to ask the town for more funding for 2014. That increase, about $12,000 for the Moriah Fire Department and the Mineville-Witherbee Fire Department each, has town officials revisiting possible consolidation.
"I'm not saying consolidation is the best scenario," Moriah Supervisor Tom Scozzafava said. "I'm saying it needs to be looked at. It could save taxpayers some money."
Moriah has three different fire taxing districts — the Moriah Fire District, the Mineville-Witherbee Fire District and a fire protection district for residents outside the Moriah and Mineville-Witherbee boundaries.
The Port Henry Fire Department is also in Moriah, but it is funded by the village of Port Henry.
"Workers comp for the fire districts used to be charged town-wide. That spread the costs out to all the taxpayers," Scozzafava said. "Now it has be paid by the specific fire districts. That means they need to increase their budgets to cover it. It's about $12,000 each."
The Moriah and Mineville-Witherbee fire districts received about $18,000 each in taxpayer funding this year, Scozzafava said.
Combining the Moriah, Mineville-Witherbee and fire protection districts into a single fire district was discussed — and rejected — in 2005. It's time to take another look, the supervisor said.
"Almost anytime there is a fire in the town all three departments (including Port Henry) respond," Scozzafava said. "It's almost like we have a town-wide fire district now, except for the funding."
Creating a town-wide fire district would expand the tax base for fire protection and bring equity to taxpayers, Scozzafava said.
Now, Moriah's three fire districts all pay different tax rates — Moriah $1.33 per $1,000 of assessed value, Mineville-Witherbee 95 cents and fire protection 88 cents. Using this year's budget, a combined fire district tax rate would be $1.14.
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"This is the first year for the Great Lakes Wine Festival, and I have no doubt that this is going to be a success. There are a number of festivals throughout the state, but not quite like this venue." Berger said.
"People will relate to the NASCAR races with the racetrack, but they also have a beautiful facility with several suites just opened," Berger said. "The Michigan Wine Foundation will conduct educational seminars where people can come in and learn about Michigan wine."
Dan Dubois, senior director of Great Lakes Wine Fest, has been working closely with Berger to organize this event.
"There won't be any racing during the wine festival, other than the pace car rides that will do laps around the track about 85 mph before the race — just to give the people a little feel of what the turns are like on the track." Dubois said
"In addition to the wineries, we're also having Michigan breweries. A lot of these have fans from Michigan, Indiana and especially Ohio. Instead of driving four hours to Traverse City to their favorite brewery, they can come right here to the track," DuBois said.
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"I know that Travel Michigan is very excited about the festival and they're going to be able to get the word out about it and I'm thankful to draw people from the metro areas close by like Ohio, Michigan and even over in Chicago," Berger said. "It's a centralized location, so we should be able to expose a lot of people to the great Michigan wines that we are producing here."
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She is sick. Look at her face and see she is WAY to dark.... Skin will be destroyed.
Never understood any hazing. And I am a Marine, that knows what pinning rank on really means....
If that was case the books printed back in the 50s would still be used........ They are not.... New teaching methods are learned and new materials every day ,every second. 1 computer can handle ALL those books and any others needed at the touch of a button. Saves paper, kids learn on things they will be using later in life, everything is electronic (like in real world).
Do you even know how much those books cost? The info in them is dated the second they print.
Computers are the way things will be done. But OL YEAH this is BAMA///////////
But agree no TAXES
A crooked car dealer, I dont believe it...
I knew this guy. I think we use to talk down in the pits at a local race track. Sad, he did not seem like a mean person at the time, but that was a long time ago..
Cops do show restraint. Just people dont show them respect sometimes. They are not going to get hurt fighting a crazed person. Pepper spray would have got him down, but not sure if Mobile still using it.
Why not take it father than that, till human hunger is gone .................................................................
Look at the pretty flowers................
Stick it to the man Mark.....
Really. Why not set free? He looks sorry.
No more taxes.........
Do you know that Baldwin County sends more than enough school money to Montgomery? If the state would stop the SPREAD it around funding. Baldwin county would have 5 story schools with 1 teacher to every 5 students. (Just Joking) But really Baldwin has a HUGE tax base and pays more than its fair share. Its the crap hole other counties that SUCK up all the funds. Cause they are crap holes and have no people.....
Then dont be making a cop shot ya... 1 less criminal. I would rather be hit with the taser than pepper spray..
Hey its still a free country. He did nothing wrong..
Yummy in my tummy............... Big reds taste bad......... But I am sure BP did it........ Wheres MY check I got a Emerald Tower to BUY>>>>>....................
I only have one account. But you I know you have others.. You are sad like that..........
Speak you a a sad little fat man,,,, Just saying like it is.
Meet you any time.
Those Killers were not sleeping when they heard noise.. The generator cut off and they was out putting gas in it....... Like I have done many times when I use to stay on a island next to gravine.
Those cowards were just scared... Then end. I will post no more about it... Criminal or not. If cops acted like those campers there would be bodies every where............
Speak, you have turned in to a sad fat man behind the computer........... So sad, why dont you swap over to your other screen names and let this one rest for a while............SAD
Yeah involved by killing someone......... I think I stick to calling police, let them do it.
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During the Days of Awe this year, I have been thinking a lot about how I continue to forgive my defiant 8-year-old for the same infractions, over and over again.
I made my first attempt at cooking brisket for our Rosh Hashanah dinner this year, aiming to create a recipe that would bind to my sons' memories of the holiday just like my late aunt's brisket is bound to my own.
This week, I got a triple dose of my youngest son's yetzer hara, the evil side of his impressive iron will.
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UT football: Youth, surprises highlight depth chart
AUSTIN — After keeping the finer points of his team's personnel pecking order largely a secret through the spring and preseason camp, Texas coach Mack Brown released a two-deep depth chart featuring 18 true or redshirt freshmen Monday. Although there is still time for some adjustments before the season opener against Rice on Saturday, these […] [Read More]
UT football: USC series set
AUSTIN — Near the end of the first decade of the 21st century, the Texas Longhorns were inundated with criticism about the strength of their football schedule. In the second decade, it looks like few will be able to question the level of UT's competition. The Longhorns on Thursday announced an agreement to play USC […] [Read More]
UT football: Higgins, Gold get scholarships
Two players expected to play significant roles on the field for Texas this fall now won't have to pay to attend classes off it. Senior punter John Gold and junior defensive tackle Tyrell Higgins both have been awarded scholarships by the Longhorns, UT coach Mack Brown announced Wednesday. [Read More]
UT football: Jobs up for grabs in last scrimmage
AUSTIN — Today is the first day of classes for the Texas Longhorns, but it's also many players' last chance to make a big impression. UT coaches are about to begin the process of putting together a depth chart for the season opener against Rice, and tonight's final scrimmage of preseason camp could help determine […] [Read More]
UT football: Longhorns fifth in AP poll
In the first Associated Press Top 25 poll of the season, the Texas Longhorns are near the top. This is not exactly an earth-shattering development. In checking in at No. 5 in the poll released Saturday morning, the Longhorns began the season in the Top 10 for the 10th time in 11 years. It is […] [Read More]
UT football: BYU series set, freshmen making moves
AUSTIN — Some news and notes as the Texas Longhorns hit the midway point of preseason training camp. BYU games added: The Longhorns, already scheduled to play BYU in 2011, announced Friday the addition of a separate home-and-home series with the Cougars. UT will play at Provo, Utah, in 2013 and host the Cougars in […] [Read More]
UT football: Malcolm Brown to the rescue
If Cibolo Steele running back Malcolm Brown, who committed to Texas on Wednesday, lives up to the hype, he could turn out to be one of the most important recruits the Longhorns have snagged in years. UT, of course, is no stranger to high-profile commitments. But Mack Brown hasn't had a game-breaking running back to […] [Read More]
UT football: Another tight end goes down
What is perhaps the most hazardous position in college football has claimed another victim. Another Texas tight end succumbed to injury Monday when freshman Trey Graham hurt his right knee during practice. He will require surgery and will miss the entire 2010 season, school officials said. In 2009, four Longhorns tight ends — Blaine Irby, […] [Read More]
UT football: Gilbert outshining backups so far
AUSTIN — Two open practices are hardly enough to make any sweeping judgments about a quarterback. But from the four hours of workouts the public was allowed to watch at Royal-Memorial Stadium this week, there doesn't seem to be a throw in the Texas playbook sophomore quarterback Garrett Gilbert can't complete. His backups, however, are […] [Read More]
UT football: Scott sets hard-hitting tone
AUSTIN — Last August, Christian Scott was the star of Texas' preseason training camp. Even after missing an entire regular season, Scott wasted little time in proving he's not exactly rusty. On the first play of 11-on-11 action at the Longhorns' first open practice of camp Wednesday night, Scott obliterated tight end Greg Smith, inciting […] [Read More]
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With fuel prices now well above $3.40 a gallon, many Americans are once again reminded how important it is to take steps to save a few dollars at the gas pumps. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, one of the easiest is to simply slow down, The EPA says motorists can improve their gas mileage by 15 percent by driving 55 mph rather than 65 mph.
And as we've said in this space many times before, Johnson City officials must do a better job of coordinating the timing of traffic lights throughout the city. Motorists should not be left idling at signalized intersections that don't seem to be in tune with the flow of traffic. It's frustrating for drivers to find themselves stopped at every traffic light in the city.
The National Transportation Operations Coalition says better coordination of traffic lights is one of the best means of reducing traffic congestion by as much as 10 percent, not to mention saving fuel and slashing pollution.
In recent years, Johnson City public works officials have assured us the synchronization of traffic lights is as good as it can be. We hear from drivers regularly who find that claim hard to believe. So do we.
Unquestionably, Johnson City's streets have become much more congested over the past decade. That's why now, more than ever, the city needs a sensible transportation strategy that quickly and safely moves traffic through the area.


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Michael Essien was today revelling in the "fantastic feeling" of qualifying for the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa™ after he scored one of two goals against Sudan to help Ghana seal a place at next year's showpiece event.
The Black Stars, who made their first FIFA World Cup appearance at the 2006 edition in Germany, became the first qualifier from the African Zone after a 2-0 scoreline in Accra. Milovan Rajevac's team had needed a win at the Ohene Djan Stadium and, in front of a capacity 45,000 spectators, they did not disappoint.
Inter Milan midfielder Sulley Muntari (13) broke the deadlock early on, before Chelsea star Essien (53) added a second to make it four wins from four for the west Africans in Group D. They now join hosts South Africa, Brazil, Holland, Japan, Australia, Korea Republic and Korea DPR as the eighth team to qualify.
The people of Ghana wanted us to win and we did not let them down. What
a fantastic feeling to be the first African country to qualify for the
first World Cup to be staged in Africa.
The 26-year-old said: "It was so important to win, regardless of how we achieved the result. It is still special for us professionals to return home and bring joy to the people of Ghana.
"Teamwork brought us success as in previous qualifiers. The side did not feel under pressure because we are used to playing in front of packed crowds like the one in Accra tonight. The people of Ghana wanted us to win and we did not let them down. What a fantastic feeling to be the first African country to qualify for the first World Cup to be staged in Africa."
Serbian Rajevac, who only took charge of Ghana in August last year, described the achievement as his greatest ever success.
He told kickoffghana.com: "Ghana has been there once and they understand that it is important to be there again. The second time is always significant and I am so happy for everyone who came out here today. This is my greatest success as a coach and I hope there will be more to come."


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As promised, Google+ is now available for Google Apps users. Administrators can enable the new service from the control panel, as explained here. Google+ requires that Picasa Web Albums and Google Talk are enabled and that the organization uses the new accounts infrastructure. If the two services are enabled and the option to automatically add new services is selected, Google+ is automatically enabled.
After the enabling the service, you need to wait a few minutes until you can use it. Obviously, users have to manually join Google+ by visiting plus.google.com. "Google Apps users will have access to the same set of features that are available to every Google+ user, and more. In addition to sharing publicly or with your circles, you'll also have the option to share with everyone in your organization, even if you haven't added all of those people to a circle," explains Google.
It's interesting that Google+ is available for higher education institutions, but not for other education institutions because users must be at least 18 years old to use Google+.
You probably noticed that Google+ evolves incredibly fast, faster than any other Google service. The support for Google Apps is not the only new feature: there's Hot on Google+ (a section that highlights popular posts), Ripples (a visualization tool for public shares and comments) and a Creative Kit for photo editing powered by Picnik.
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Come on, people, don't you know the Lizzie McGuire theme song when you hear it?!
Well, now that we've officially jogged your memory, let's get to the important part: Hilary Duff is 25!
Hilary Duff is returning to TV!
From her days as a tiny teen on the Disney screen to her current real-life role as a Hollywood mom, the blond beauty's been busy growing up right before our eyes.
Just last March, Hil and her hockey-star hubby Mike Comrie welcomed their baby boy, Luca Cruz, and we've since welcomed some adorable candid shots of Hilary and her bundle of joy.
Before Hilary and Mike tied the knot, girl was busy adding to her acting résumé with films like Cheaper by the Dozen and A Cinderella Story.
And before that? Well, you know you could find Hilary on the boob tube as the ever-adorable Lizzie McGuire—the role that really ignited her career.
But while Hilary's days of hair crimping, crazy pants and Miranda and Gordo love might be over, it's clear the actress and her star power are here to stay.
Congratulations, Hil! You've made it to 25 without any drug busts, DUIs or rehab stints (an impressive feat for any child star).
So, in honor of Hilary's big day, let's take a look back at the new mom's best moments throughout all of her years in the biz.


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By Jim GaramoneAmerican Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30, 2010 The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff today fully endorsed the report of the working group that assessed the impact of a possible repeal of the law that bans gay men and women from serving openly in the military.
During a Pentagon news conference with Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, Navy Adm. Mike Mullen praised the group's co-chairs, Army Gen. Carter F. Ham, commander of U.S. Army Europe, and Jeh C. Johnson, Defense Department general counsel.
Ham and Johnson led an unprecedented research effort looking at the attitudes of servicemembers and their families and the best way forward should Congress repeal the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" law.
"The working group surveyed our troops and their spouses, consulted proponents and opponents of repeal and examined military experience around the world," Mullen said. "They also spoke with serving gays and lesbians."
The chairman called the working group's recommendations "solid, defensible conclusions."
Mullen said he was gratified that the working group focused their findings and recommendations "rightly on those who would be most affected by a change in the law: our people."
The chairman recommended repeal of the law during testimony before Congress in February, and he called for research into how best to do this. "For the first time, the [service] chiefs and I have more than just anecdotal evidence and hearsay to inform the advice we give our civilian leaders," he said today.
Mullen said he and the Joint Chiefs will use the report to formulate the advice they give to Gates and President Barack Obama, and he commented on some of the working group's conclusions.
"I think it's noteworthy that the working group found strong leadership to be the single most important factor in implementing any repeal," he said. "That may sound fairly obvious, but it's a key point."
Repeal of the law is a complex social and cultural issue, Mullen said. "But at the end of the day, whatever the decision of our elected leaders may be, we in uniform have an obligation to follow orders," he said. "When those orders involve significant change, such as this would, we need to find ways to lead the way forward. Our troops and their families expect that from us, and I think the American people do, too."
Servicemembers expect leaders to maintain high standards of conduct and professionalism as the military moves forward, the chairman noted.
"We treat people with dignity and respect in the armed forces, or we don't last long in the armed forces: No special cases, no special treatment," Mullen said. "We're going to continue to comport ourselves with honor and hold ourselves accountable across the board to impeccably high standards, repeal or no repeal."
The chairman noted that while the report shows the overall risk may be low with respect to readiness, cohesion and retention if the law is repealed, the change still would pose challenges. He also reiterated the belief he and Gates share that if a change is to come, it should be by way of the legislative process.
"We can best address those challenges by having it within our power and our prerogative to manage the implementation process ourselves," Mullen said. "Should repeal occur, I share the secretary's desire that it come about through legislation -- through the same process with which the law was enacted, rather than precipitously through the courts."
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This is just another example of political correctness run amonk. This change will probably come about by people who have never had to live in a tent or share a water container with another person,much less give them mouth to mouth trying to keep them alive. Go ahead , let every military person now have to worry about AIDS and the other diveant behavior of these so called gays in addition to having there ass shot off. Call them what they are HomeSexuals. Gay means being happy,and is not related to sex. I do not believe that the majority of Americam military personnel are in favor of this. Put it to a VOTE of active duty military, and I believe you will get a complete different result from the B S you are trying to palm off on the American people.
- Willis G. Noel Msgt USAf ret., grand ridge,il
To the opponents of repealing DADT: What are you going to do when a gay soldier, sailor or pilot, living or dead, earns the Medal of Honor for bravery above and beyond the call of duty? How is that going to make you feel? If he lives to receive the medal, will you salute him as is required by military protocol. Or will you mount an ugly campaign against him to have him stripped of the medal?
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AMES — With bull sale season upon us, Iowa State University (ISU) beef extension staff will be prepping producers for the gamut of information headed their way in A.I. books and sale catalogs. Two meetings have been planned for producers wanting to learn more about genomic-enhanced EPDs, how to implement dollar value indexes into selection methods and estrus synchronization program options.
The first meeting is scheduled for Feb. 27 beginning at 5:30 p.m. at the Johnson County Fairgrounds in Iowa City. Admission is free, and dinner will be provided.
The second event will be at the McNay Research Farm near Chariton 7 p.m. March 6. Light refreshments will be provided, and there's no charge to attend.
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"Results from our fall listening sessions and heifer development series showed a consistent desire to know more about genetics, and these meetings are a direct response to that need," Gunn said.
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The most important album in Christian rap history (Lecrae's "Church Clothes") drops tomorrow – and its FREE
The more I think about it, the more I believe that Lecrae's upcoming "Church Clothes" mixtape may be the most important Christian hip hop album in history. The free album, which drops tomorrow Thursday, May 10, is vital for a handful of reasons. One, it's being hosted by DJ Don Cannon aka "The Number 1 […] [Read More]


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Harold Ross's "New Yorker":
Life as a Drawing-Room Comedy
A few years ago when the art critic for the New Yorker went abroad to report on current art activities in London, Paris, and other European centers, I began receiving regular telephone calls, often several a week, from a zealous young man in that magazine's Checking Department. I confess that the first time the fellow introduced himself, I thought the Checking Department must be something like the Accounting Office and I couldn't imagine why he wanted to talk to me. When he made it clear that he was a kind of researcher, I was, as I suppose many people are the first time around, rather flattered to think I could help out such an august body in its scrutiny of the facts, and I cheerfully volunteered a considerable amount of information on the question at hand, namely, the relationship of certain French critics to schools and styles of painting. In the course of the first week's telephone conversations, I found myself giving a little lecture on the ideological positions of some of the major critics on the Paris art scene. It was the kind of information which anyone following the international art scene with more than passing interest would pick up in the course of his reading and observation. I hadn't, at that date, even been to Paris myself.
Naturally, after this personal contribution to upholding the New Yorker's famous standard of accuracy, I was curious to see what the articles had to say. As they began appearing in the magazine, I was astonished to find myself reading the same old stuff one always found in the New Yorker wherever art was the subject under discussion. There were the same tired phrases and the same bored attitudes, as if the writer had only just managed to shake loose of his ennui long enough to take note here and there of what was going on. If one took the phrasing of the article literally, it seemed that the writer had only just happened to "drop in" to this or that exhibition, that he merely chanced to "catch" a certain artist's work or to note a certain critic's position. The phraseology fairly slouched in its attitude of repose, and no doubt acted as a balm to those readers who might be worried lest the subject get too serious.
Yet, behind this air of relaxation, one could not help detecting the terrifying relentlessness with which a serious subject—and a subject, moreover, in which the writer's vital personal response counts for a great deal—had been parodied, trimmed, ridiculed, and finally made boring and absurd by the author's attempt to make it seem completely effortless, utterly common-sensical, and open to the most easygoing attention. But I was struck all the more at the absurdity of this feigned ease when I realized that it wasn't the author's work—my conversations with the young man from the Checking Department made it clear that the author himself had sweated over his reports and, even at that, hadn't got matters quite straight—but that of the rewrite man. I marveled at the discrepancy between the pains taken to get the facts of the matter as accurate as possible, and the quite different effort that had gone into making the subject seem easy and almost inconsequential to the reader.
Anyone who ponders this discrepancy will sooner or later want to come up with some explanation of its necessity. For myself, I don't see how we can avoid concluding that the principal reason for the New Yorker's method is ignorance: the ignorance of writers first of all, and ultimately the ignorance of readers. In a society which could assume a certain level of education and sophistication in its writers and journalists—which could make the assumption because it shared in that education and sophistication—there would be more of a public faith that writers knew more or less what they are talking about. A few inaccuracies of fact here and there would be of little consequence, and indeed might even be welcome. (Half of the most enjoyable letters-to-the-editor in the English weeklies would never be written if that country's most cultivated journalists and men of letters were not always overstepping the bounds of factuality on some point or other.) Only where there is a deep-seated ignorance, abetted by a phony desire to appear completely knowledgeable, is factual error or some minor fault of usage an unforgivable sin.
The New Yorker's editorial method strikes me as a peculiarly American phenomenon, and it is instructive to compare it to the method of Time, which most New Yorker men regard with contempt and disdain (having graduated, many of them, from the Luce academy themselves). In some ways the method is remarkably similar. For just as Time aspires to turn every political story or book review into a middlebrow soap opera, the New Yorker attempts to make every encounter with culture and politics a drawingroom comedy. Where it succeeds in this endeavor, it commands the greatest loyalty from its readers. The cartoons, I suppose, are the most sustained example, but some of the magazine's celebrated writers have also become famous through this endeavor. The role of smug drawing-room comedian was the specialty of the late Wolcott Gibbs during his long tenure as drama critic, and it is still the special—one often thinks, the only—talent of the present incumbents in the movie, art, and music departments.
What I could not have realized before reading James Thurber's memoir of the late Harold Ross,1 the founder and first editor of the New Yorker, is the degree to which the New Yorker's method was the direct outgrowth of the ignorance of the man who founded it, a man who was in many ways such a key figure in the history of American journalism and manners for over a quarter of a century. Thurber provides a warm, affectionate, mildly humorous account of Ross. If, as a book, The Years with Ross is also prolix, sentimental, and filled with something dangerously close to self-love, it only resembles the kind of family reminiscences which have become a stock feature of the New Yorker itself. Since Thurber's connections with Ross and the New Yorker go back to the 20's, his memoir also has some of the elements of an informal company history—a company history written by a humorist who is placed in the difficult position of having to repeat many well-known company jokes. The Years with Ross is written with all the love, honesty, and inside information which one has a right to expect from an old friend and colleague, but to anyone who didn't know Ross personally—and for all I know, perhaps to many who did—the figure who emerges from its pages is not a very attractive man. He is ignorant and vain, often cruel and stupid, and in the grip of a dream which is always—in this country anyway—supposed to forgive all the sins which ignorance, vanity, and cruelty inspire: the dream of technical perfection.
Harold Ross was born in Aspen, Colorado, in 1892. He went to work as a reporter on the Salt Lake City Tribune when he was fourteen, and later worked for papers in California and in the South. During the First World War he was editor of the Stars and Strives in Paris. When he came to New York after the war, he worked for the American Legion Weekly and Judge, and began making plans for the weekly magazine that would become the New Yorker. The magazine was founded in 1925—"the outstanding flop of 1925," Thurber calls it. Its beginnings were slow and not very distinguished. Its initial printing was 15,000 copies, and its literary contributions were not, as Thurber admits, exactly brilliant. Gradually, the magazine gained momentum as it gathered around itself the journalists, humorists, and cartoonists who were eventually responsible for its success: Dorothy Parker, E. B. White, Wolcott Gibbs, Robert Benchley, Alexander Woollcott, Marc Connelly, Gluyas Williams, Helen Hokinson, Peter Arno, and of course, Thurber himself.
What these contributors brought to the magazine was an air of big-town sophistication. They aspired to a style which would be jovial, deadpan, and slightly bored. Above all, it was to be a style, which, for all its knowingness, was to be terribly, terribly innocent. Altogether, it was a concept of sophistication which at the very start was stilted and phony. It was to be sophistication without any talk of sex, politics, or religion—which is to say, sophistication with the guts removed. It had to rely on personalities in entertainment, business, and café society for its comic as well as its reportorial sustenance. In the original prospectus for the New Yorker, Ross indicated that "There will be a personal mention column—a jotting down in the small-town newspaper style of the comings, goings, and doings in the village of New York." This bizarre idea that the ultimate in sophistication was to regard New York as a "village" whose most trivial comings, goings, and doings had to be checked and rechecked by a staff of zealous researchers before the most ephemeral item of reportage could be committed to print, underscores the phoniness of the whole enterprise.
The New Yorker was in its beginnings very much a newspaperman's idea of a magazine, and a small-town newspaperman at that. One soon discovers in reading Thurber's memoir that most of the contributions which earn one's respect in the magazine nowadays—say, the occasional literary pieces by Edmund Wilson, the poems by Theodore Roethke, Howard Nemerov, and others, the architectural criticism of Lewis Mum-ford, and, this past year, the drama criticism of Kenneth Tynan—would have been beyond Ross's ken and outside his interest. He apparently regarded Clifton Fadiman, during his term as the New Yorker's book critic, as too much of a highbrow to be completely understood by himself. His opinion of Edmund Wilson, who succeeded Fadiman, is unreported.
Thurber does not refrain from reporting the celebrated examples of Ross's ignorance. He was a man on whom the most common literary reference was lost. Everyone will have his favorite story on this subject, but I think one of the most illuminating is Thurber's account of an evening spent with Ross, Mencken, and Nathan. Ross is often thought to be a kind of Menckenesque figure, and Thurber's anecdote shows how mistaken this view is:
. . . Mencken and I began talking about Willa Cather. We were still discussing 'the old girl' when Ross caught the name, turned it over in his mind a couple of times, and then said, 'Willa Cather. Willa Cather—did he write The Private Life of Helen of Troy?' I couldn't see Mencken's face, but I felt the puzzled quality of his silence, and hastily came to the rescue of a situation hopelessly snarled by Ross's incomprehensible confusion of Willa Cather and John Erskine. 'Ross hasn't read a novel since When Knighthood Was in Flower,' I said, 'or Riders of the Purple Sage. He doesn't read anything except what goes into his magazine.'
'I haven't got time to read novels,' Ross admitted.
Far from resembling Mencken, Ross was distinctly the kind of unlettered provincial who, had he held any position other than the one he did hold on the New Yorker, would have been the perfect target for Mencken's jibes about the ignorance of the American businessman.
Without a fuller and less sentimental history of the New Yorker's first decade, we cannot know to what degree Ross himself was actually responsible for its success. Reading between the lines in Thurber's book, one has a sense that E. B. White, Katharine Angell, Wolcott Gibbs, and Thurber himself gave the magazine its distinctive character. In any case, one thing is clear enough: Ross was primarily responsible for the fanatical devotion to clarity and accuracy which has come to characterize the New Yorker's editorial style. In a way, I suppose, only someone like Ross, unread and without curiosity on any literary or intellectual subject, could have brought the New Yorker's editorial method to such an advanced state of refinement. Only someone who could regard language as a purely technical medium, as open as any other technique to mechanical scrutiny, could have pushed this method to its final triumph over expression itself. A mind less barren would have been sidetracked by some distracting intellectual substance.
Yet it was not only its editorial method Ross perfected, but also the magazine's peculiar outlook on the world of sophisticated culture. The Irish critic Donat O'Donnell, writing about Thurber's book in the London Spectator, has recently given the best account of the nature of this outlook and Ross's role in it: "An important source of the New Yorker's financial strength today is that great class which thinks itself entitled not merely to appear but actually to feel cultured, without undergoing any dull and painful preparation, such as being educated. The conquest of this class was Ross's achievement."
By the time of Ross's death, in 1951, the task of keeping up the appearance of sophisticated culture was already far more complex than it had been in the early days, and for that reason there was already a great deal in the magazine which was beyond the interest or comprehension of Ross himself. Since his death, the task has grown even more complicated and the magazine itself rather less certain about its exact domain of interest.
Still, the divided, slightly schizophrenic outlook which has characterized the New Yorker all along, and which necessarily characterizes any publication or individual who feigns an interest in cultural matters without the curiosity or capacity to face them squarely on their own terms, continues to mark the tone and substance of the New Yorker today. That is Ross's legacy to his heirs. It turns up in many small ways, and occasionally in rather blunt and unequivocal terms. I think this is immediately evident if we consider what has happened to the drama criticism in the New Yorker since the death of Wolcott Gibbs.
Gibbs's successor has been not one man, but two—and a neater demonstration of the schizoid mentality of the New Yorker's present editorship would be hard to find. On the one hand, there is Kenneth Tynan, the brilliant and witty critic of the London Observer, who was invited over to cover the Broadway season. On the other hand, there is a young company man named Donald Malcolm, who was assigned to the off-Broadway theater. Now Tynan is not only a witty and literate critic with a talent for the stylish phrase; he is also hard-headed in matters of dramatic art, and he has recently demonstrated the kind of concern for the social and political significance of the theater which would have been extremely distasteful (if indeed comprehensible) to Harold Ross. Inevitably, perhaps, because of his interest in both the aesthetics of the theater and the social crisis of our time, Tynan has become something of a Brechtian in his critical views.2 A Brechtian writing about the Broadway theater for the New Yorker: what could be more unlikely? Yet, confined to Broadway, Tynan is not in a position to offend New Yorker taste. He can blast away, if he likes, against Broadway offerings, and his writing still falls into the category of critical snobbery that regular addicts of the magazine expect from Gibbs's successor.
The off-Broadway theater, however, is out of bounds to Tynan. The task of reporting on this sphere of dramatic art, where occasionally a play of some literary, avant-garde interest shows up, has been given to Mr. Malcolm, who must represent some kind of biological mutation in being an earnest, educated, articulate spokesman for all the philistine values so dearly beloved by Ross himself. His review last season of Chekhov's Ivanov made history (of a kind) even in the annals of a magazine noted for this kind of thing. Written as a colloquy between the critic and a cab driver and ostensibly a parody of the Chekhovian style, Malcolm's "review" managed very neatly to bypass the entire substance of the play. The editors are right in thinking they have a real "find" in this young man; his employment pays in full their debt to Ross's memory no matter how far they may have to go in offending it in other directions.
There are a lot of laughs as well as some tiresome and irrelevant anecdotes in Thurber's memoir, but there is one chapter which remains unassimilated to the neat image of Ross and his times. I found it memorable and shocking, but scarcely understandable in the bland terms of Thurber's prose. It is the chapter called "The Secret Life of Harold Winney," and in this case Thurber's glib reference to his own Walter Mitty story only serves to betray his incapacity to deal with a subject which, in truth, might have been a challenge to Dostoevsky.
Harold Winney was Ross's private secretary from 1935 to 1941. "In his years with Ross," Thurber writes, "the pallid, silent young man steadily swindled the editor out of a total of seventy-one thousand dollars." Thurber himself regarded Winney with extreme distaste: "I remember [him] mainly for his cold small voice, his pale nimble fingers, and his way of moving about the corridors and offices like a shadow." Apparently Ross did not take sufficient notice of him to have any feelings at all. "I do not believe that Harold Ross ever looked at the man closely enough to have been able to describe him accurately," Thurber writes. "He was what Ross once irritably described as a 'worm'—that is, an unimportant cog in the New Yorker wheel, a noncreative person."
Winney came to work for Ross at a time when the magazine was expanding and Ross's work was growing more burdensome. He delegated fantastic powers to his anonymous secretary, including complete control over his bank accounts and financial securities. During a trip to Europe in 1938, Ross gave Winney power of attorney over his financial holdings, and never revoked the privilege when he returned to New York. Moreover, what made it easy for Winney to draw more and more easily on Ross's fortune was his boss's gambling habits; Ross was a steady and heavy loser at cards, and Winney took advantage of the situation to make each loss greater than it actually was. After seventy-one thousand dollars had been swindled and the chaotic state of his financial affairs was finally brought to Ross's attention, Winney committed suicide.
"When investigators examined his apartment," Thurber writes, "they found, among other things, a hundred and three suits of clothes which he had bought with the money stolen from Ross." Winney had also carried on correspondence with a real estate firm in Tahiti, with a view to settling there on his small fortune, but the war prevented him from realizing this ambition. Meanwhile, Winney seems to have spent a good deal of the money at the race track, and on gifts to men friends of sports cars, skiing equipment, and other sundries of this order. He had given an election night champagne party at the Astor in November 1940.
For myself, I find something apposite and meaningful in Harold Winner's mulcting his boss on such a grand scale and for such seemingly trivial ends. He was clearly living out the fantasy life of ease and comfort—the life of sports cars, the race track, champagne parties, and expensive vacations—which the New Yorker works so hard to inspire in its readers. In his working hours he conformed to that hardworking demeanor, the whole laborious regimen, which Ross imposed on the magazine, and in his leisure hours he conformed to the life which the New Yorker advertisements and editorial departments have held up for a generation as an ideal: the life of languid, expensive, effete pleasures. Reading Thurber's bare and rather superior account of Harold Winney, it occurred to me that this wretched man was probably the only person who ever truly lived his life entirely in terms of the values espoused in the pages of the New Yorker. It seems more than just that he did so at the expense of the man who was most responsible for what remains, after all, an image of life that is provincial, adolescent, and at several removes from reality.
1 The Years with Ross. Atlantic-Little, Brown, 310 pp., $5.00.
2 In the last few years Brecht has become a sacred figure to the writers, intellectuals, and theater people whose views dominate the critical columns of the Observer, the New Statesman, and other London weeklies. In Tynan's case, one has the impression that the example of Brecht—not only as a playwright and theorist, but also as a practical man of the theater who was able to bring his political and artistic allegiances together in the productions of his Berliner Ensemble in East Berlin—figures as an important standard of value in his critical judgments.


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Northern Soul heads west
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A NIGHT of soul surfing comes to Sandsifter, Gwithian, on Saturday from 8pm as the beach venue plays host to DJ Emma Cox, a star name on the Northern Soul circuit for the past 25 years.
Emma will be spinning her special blend of Northern Soul stompers, the kind of which have made her famous at scooter rallies the world over from Newquay to Las Vegas.
Shoring up the soul with be DJs Indian Billy, Richie Venning and Sheppard (from Pondlife) who will be adding some funk and ska to the evening.
Indian Billy, pictured, and Richie Venning are veterans of the Penwith party scene with residencies at the former Bosuns Locker, while DJ Sheppard is well known for spinning the cool tunes before and after the now-defunct popular ska outfit Pondlife.
Overnight camping is available in designated areas. The evening starts at 9pm and ends at 2am, and tickets are £5.


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Here's how things worked in patch 2.2:
- I press a button to cast a spell or activate an ability.
- My computer says, "Hey! Realm server! David wants to cast Frostbolt!"
- The realm server says "Okay!" 300 milliseconds or so later (this round-trip communication time is your "latency").
- My computer then starts a 1.5 second global cooldown, and shows me the Frostbolt casting bar.
- I cannot use any other abilities from the time I press the button to the time my Frostbalt casting finishes, unless I manually cancel the spell (as with a /stopcasting macro), or unless the server tells my computer, "Okay the spell is finished already!" or "Whoops! That spell got interrupted!"
- Either way, without a manual interruption on my part, I'm waiting on the server to tell me the outcome of the first spell before I can tell it to start casting the second.
- I press a button to cast a spell or activate an ability.
- My computer says, "Hey! Realm server! David wants to cast Frostbolt!"
- My computer goes ahead and starts the global cooldown for me, assuming the Frostbolt will succeed.
- The realm says "Okay!" 300ms later, and the casting bar shows up.
- Alternately, if there's a problem, then the realm says "No way, silly! David isn't finished casting Fireball yet! Wait a moment to try again, and cancel that global cooldown while you're at it!"
- Either way, I can send my commands to the server whenever I want, as long as my global cooldown isn't currently active -- and if it gets activated too early, I just have to wait for the server to tell my computer to cancel it before casting another ability.
All this is great unless you're "mashing" your buttons, pressing them repeatedly over and over in the hopes that one of your button presses will go through. Before, this kind of mashing didn't make much difference, and it could even speed you up if you happened to be pressing the button right at the moment that your computer is told that previous spell finished or failed. But now, button-mashing will make your computer constantly commence the global cooldown, and you'll have to wait for it to be cancelled through a spell-failed message from the server for your next button press to go through.
Spells with a casting time longer than 1.5 seconds don't encourage this sort of mashing, except towards the end of an earlier cast, but rogues and other classes with mostly instant abilities have been in the mashing habit for a long time. This is especially true in situations like PvP, where even though your client thinks you're in range and behind your opponent, by the time your "Backstab" attack gets to the server, that opponent might have turned around or moved already and your attack may fail. Previously, rogues (and others like them) could just mash buttons and hope that their attack would go through without getting a lot of error messages; but now they keep getting the global cooldown thrown up in their face, and it seems as though none of their abilities are working.
Now here is where things get really unclear. As far as I can figure out from my research on this subject, the actual success and failure rate should be the same if everything is working correctly. Before, you had to wait for latency with any spell-cast of any sort, but now you only have to wait on the ones that are cast too early. If you constantly button-mash, of course, most of your spell-casts will be cast too early, so you'll have to wait more often than one who can time his or her spells more perfectly. But overall the system should be better in many cases, or at worst, the same as it was before.
People really are getting failures though, so clearly there is some sort of bug involved. Some have claimed that all you need to do is "stop mashing buttons" and "time your attacks right," but Nethaera has said that the devs are aware of some real problems here and are working on ways to solve them. Blizzard has also applied a hotfix in order to help prevent excessive error messages, and it seems to have helped some players, though other players say it hasn't helped them at all. In addition, as Tigerclaw says, there are "both server side changes (some of which have already shipped) as well as client side changes targeted for 2.3.2."
For my part, I'm finding this new system to be very good for my hunter main. With the global cooldown now entirely on my computer's side, I can send one instant attack, then another one a few moments later, even if I get an ugly latency spike of some kind. In situations with bad latency like this, I've seen several instant abilities seem to go off at once because my computer sent them all and only belatedly got the message back to me that they all worked okay. Of course, the enemy in PvE is usually standing still, and playing as a ranged class means I don't have to worry about my enemy being up close to me all the time.
How do you feel about this change? Do you like how this encourages you to time your attacks rather than mash your buttons? Is it fair to expect melee classes to time their attacks better when they already have to worry about range and positioning?


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"The reduction in the number of deer and antelope taken during those two seasons is in line with our management goals for both," said Corey Huxoll, a GFP biologist who leads the harvest survey effort. "We have reduced the number of licenses available for those seasons to help increase the herds."
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How to Prevent "AGEing"
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Our quest for the fountain of youth is never ending. Although we can't reverse aging, how can we slow down this process and maintain our energy, vitality and health as we approach our golden years? We all know that exercise and a healthy diet are key in preventing diseases and age-related complications, but in this blog post, I want to talk about a more specific chemical marker for aging known appropriately as "AGE."
AGE stands for Advanced Glycation End products. Glycation is the process by which sugar is added to proteins. So, in order to understand this interaction, you need to understand proteins first. Proteins are essential for life because the enzymes which drive important biochemical reactions in our body are made up of proteins. Proteins are also the building blocks for our muscles, blood vessels, organs, and also make up collagen which maintains our cartilage, bone and skin. When proteins start breaking down, we start looking older as our skin starts to wrinkle, feeling older as the cartilage wears away in our joints leading to arthritis, and we put all our vital organs at risk.
So, now enter sugar. When sugar, a.k.a. glucose, is in normal amounts in our bloodstream, it interacts harmlessly with these life-sustaining proteins. However, when sugar levels are excessive, glucose latches onto proteins and changes their structure and function, preventing them from carrying out their normal functions. So AGEs are basically dysfunctional glucose-protein complexes that result from too much sugar in your blood, which in turn, is a direct result of the foods you eat. What are the specific conditions linked to having AGEs?
- Cancer
- Heart disease and stroke
- Type II diabetes
- Alzheimer's disease
- Kidney disease
- Atherosclerosis
- High blood pressure
- Visual impairment
- Nerve damage
One important protein that glucose latches onto is hemoglobin – the protein that carries oxygen in our blood. In people with diabetes, we monitor glucose by measuring the glycohemoglobin, which tells us how much sugar is sticking to hemoglobin. The higher the number, the more sugar you have in your blood. Some experts state that the glycohemoglobin is an indicator of AGEs in your body, and even in non-diabetics, may indicate your future susceptibility to AGE-related conditions. You can think of diabetes as a condition of accelerated aging. I'm thinking of a 35-year-old South Asian diabetic patient who already has evidence of kidney disease, high blood pressure, and early evidence of damage to his eyes. We call these diabetic complications, but in fact, most diabetic complications are conditions that we would normally go on to develop much later in life. Did I also mention that makes a 35-year-old look like he's 45? Many of my diabetic and pre-diabetic patients truly look much older than their age. So, what I'm telling you is eating too much sugar and foods that raise glucose excessively can actually accelerate the aging process!
What foods put you at risk for accelerated aging due to AGEs?
- Beware of browning foods and brown foods: I know, you've been told brown foods are healthier, right? Not always the case. Many processed foods such as brown cookies, brown bread crust, and brown beans undergo a caramelization process when proteins and sugars are combined in the absence of water. It makes food more flavorful, but unfortunately increases AGEs. Cooking meats at high temperature like a broiled or well done piece of meat with that nice crust would have the same effect. Browning vegetables, grains and fruits would also increase AGEs. So eat fresh, unprocessed foods and cook low and slow with water whenever you can (steaming, boiling, Crockpot cooking, etc.)
- Avoid high fructose corn syrup: Read all food labels for this
- Avoid excess sugars, sweets and sodas
- Watch your total overall consumption of carbohydrates: Even consuming excessive amounts of "healthy carbs" in the form of oatmeal, grains and wheat can cause sugar to increase, which not only leads to increased AGEs, but also excess weight
- Exercise regularly: Exercise helps increase the metabolism of sugars and reduces AGEs
Unfortunately, as a result of the low-fat diet craze, we now have a food industry that has incorporated sugar into virtually every type of food we consume. Foods that are labeled as "healthy" and "low-fat" often have excessive amounts of hidden sugar that trigger the production of AGEs. As always, try to home prepare fresh foods with fresh ingredients, which is the best way to cut back on your intake of AGEs and slow down aging.
This blog post is contributed by Ronesh (Ron) Sinha, M.D., Palo Alto Medical Foundation Internal Medicine. Dr. Sinha works closely with the South Asian community to help reduce heart disease and diabetes risk, and provides corporate health lectures to promote wellness in the workplace. Dr. Sinha holds clinical faculty positions at UCLA; Stanford University School of Medicine; and the UCSF School of Medicine. He teaches Stanford and UCSF medical students.
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Hi. Thanks for the interesting article. I am confused by what you mean when you say brown beans and brown breads cause aging. Do you really mean that pinto or kidney beans are bad for you? Or whole wheat bread is bad?
Also, based on your article stir frying vegetables is not good for you as the temperature is quite high. Is that right.
I appreciate your clarification.
Hi Soroor,
Thanks for your questions. Beans come in many forms. Many canned beans such as baked beans are caramelized with sugar and sugar is in one of the top 3 ingredients. Better to prepare dried beans, but if you pick canned, read the ingredients and avoid those with sugar. I wasn"t implying whole wheat bread is bad, but just pointing out the crust is made through the caramelization process. You need to keep track of your cumulative intake of AGEs. You need to be careful not to eat too many of these types of foods on a daily basis. Vegetable stir fry not a problem….remember I said it is when you combine protein with sugar at high temperatures in the absence of water. Vegetables are not a huge protein source, and normally you don"t want to char them when stir-frying. Also stir-frying vegetables involves moisture which is good.
Dr. Sinha, I commend you for this excellent introduction to AGEs. I"ve been following this nutritional topic for some time, but hadn"t seen it summarized so clearly. Thanks!
Thank you Dave…so glad you are following this important topic!
Nice and useful information. Great article.
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39662-022: Prevention and Control of Avian Influenza in Asia and the Pacific.
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This RETA is part of a $38 million Regional Project, Prevention and Control of Avian Influenza in Asia and the Pacific approved by the ADB Board on 13 March 2006. A comprehensive description of the regional project can be found at http: www.adb.org Documents ADBBO RETA 39662022.ASP The Project aims to make significant contribution to reducing the prevalence of avian influenza among poultry and reducing the vulnerability of human population to influenza. This will be achieved through ... Read More
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Matt Cutts Speaks, Google Panda Update on Friday (15 March)
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Occupying the stage at Search Marketing Expo, Matt Cutts (head of web spam at Google) stated that his team would be rolling out a fresh Panda update on approaching Friday or Monday. The revelation kicked off heated discussions in web forums and comment sections about repercussions for businesses & website owners. While some shared their hard personal experiences, others reflected on the importance of Google's efforts to control spam.
Declaring doom for webmasters already suffering from ranking loss with past updates, Matt shared that plans are ahead for another round of Penguin before the year concludes.
Google certainly is not in the good books of parties who have suffered ranking and subsequent business loss. In a scenario when updates are coming more frequently, it is important to join hands with a professional SEO partner that believes in Google approved SE practices and thus promises immunity from such updates.
While breaking the news about the update, Matt also confided that Google has identified some large link networks and would be taking them down soon. This further reaffirms Google's commitment towards making search engines more useful for web users. While websites depending on shoddy tricks for SE dominance would surely be penalized, webmasters with clean SEO history need not fear Panda or any update for that matter.
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Ferdinand made the gesture in protest at a lack of action that he perceives from the association after his brother Anton was alleged to have been racially abused by John Terry last season.
Terry has since been given a ban by the FA for his actions, for which he has not appealed, although he maintains he did not insult Anton.
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Yes, this is Android blog, but this is something we, nobody can ignore. In less than 12 hours, Apple will most likely change the world of tablets with their new "Creation". Alot has been said, the most likely rumors, the linkups with Wall Street, New York Times but Engadget comes up with this bomber with what looks like a most likely prototype or the most convincing fake.
It looks like, as Engadget says, a very scaled up iPhone OS version. Typical apple style minimalist design with a button in the bottom. Whats particularly interesting is the "covering" in the last image. Looks like someone just risked their life to take those pics, all the more reason to believe it! But hey, only 10 hours to go right?
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The Trickle
by Odin Roark
But from a trickle
Streams of consciousness coalesce
Cascades enjoin seasoned rapids
Buffered by endless boundaries
Urged forward by more surging tributaries
Such adventurous energy
Wants only the oneness of here and now
The sustained awareness that perpetual peace is flux
A truth preparing for the next change
How lonely such a journey
The cumulative drip of awareness
This ethereal urgency at times made to pause
Knowing so few wish to aspire beyond
The "winning" limitation
Such is transcendence
Where gathering to its singularity
Accepts not of separation
Of predator and prey
Only the pinpoint known as nothingness
And everything
For every frozen hesitancy
There waits a child
A newborn
A biological energy in process
Anxious to understand how simple yet complex
This existence labeled life truly is
Trickle by trickle