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|PIAZZA SAN FELICE DA CANTALICE, 00172 ROMA, Italien
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1. This is a non smoking property;
2. Pets are not permitted in rental unit under any conditions;
3. All debris, rubbish and discards are placed in rubbish bin and discarded into designated public containers placed out in the street; soiled dishes are cleaned;
4. Do not flush anything other than toilet paper.
5. During your stay, put your food in the refrigerator (ants and other insects from the garden may be attracted!);
6. When you are not inside the bathroom, leave opened the bath door (no window in the bathroom, so let the air can circulate to avoid accumulation of moisture);
7. Before you go out, leave at least one window opened for the air circulation and make sure all the lights, air conditioners, gas and water equipments are off;
10. If you have any problems during your stay or need help, do not hesitate to talk; if I am not here, email, text or call me; I want to take care of your stay;
11. If I am not here at your checkout, leave the keys on the door's lock, you can open the exit gate by pushing the inside button in the wall in front of the gate
12. Do not slam the entrance gate when you get in and out!
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Studiet er virkelig sød, behagelig, og Mr. Francis gik ikke glip af noget.
Folk var venlige, hjælpsomme og meget diskret.
Il monolocale è davvero carino, confortevole e il Signor Francesco non ci ha fatto mancare proprio nulla.
Persona cordiale, disponibile e molto discreta.
meget indbydende vært Care for lejere
francesco forudså morgenmad
tres til at lytte til at løse en bekymring transport til lufthavnen
respons på transport strejke i Rom på afrejsedagen samt mulig løsning, hvis fly blev aflyst.
hote tres accueillant aux petits soins pour ses locataires
francesco avait prévu les petits dejeuners
tres à l écoute pour solutionner un souci de transport pour l aéroport
suite aux grève de transport à rome le jour du départ ainsi que l éventuelle solution si le vol était annulé.
Tak for din meget varm velkomst og alt det, du har stillet til rådighed for os under vores ophold.
snart måske
Jean-Daniel Rothen
Merci de votre accueil très sympathique et de tous ce que vous avez mis à notre disposition durant notre séjour.
a bientôt peut-être
Jean-Daniel rothen
Vi boede i Mr.Francesco 's lejlighed i en uge i september 2013. Det var en vidunderlig oplevelse. Mr.Francesco er en dejlig person, meget nyttigt, omsorgsfulde og justering. Lejligheden er på et meget rart sted lidt væk fra støj og uro i byen, men alligevel ganske tilgængelig form Termini station.The Køkkenet er veludstyret og supermarkedet er et stenkast afstand fra lejligheden. Efter vores mening Mr.Francesco 's lejlighed er et godt sted at bo og anbefales kraftigt.
We stayed in Mr.Francesco's Apartment for a week in September 2013. It was a wonderful experience. Mr.Francesco is a nice person, very helpful, caring and adjusting. The apartment is at a very nice location a bit away from the noise and commotion of the city, yet quite accessible form the termini station.The kitchen is well equipped and the supermarket is at a stone throw distance from the apartment. In our opinion Mr.Francesco's apartment is a great place to stay and is strongly recommended.
We had a good time at the appartment, the streets are calm at night, a supermarket is just around the corner, metro and tram run frequently to City. The communication with Francesco was wonderful, once immediately he helped us with a wifire-breakdown.
We were confident
Thank you Francesco we really enjoyed staying in your beautiful apartment and appreciated that you had provided a continental breakfast for us in the fridge.
The apartment is quite a way from the usual tourist attractions but once we had learned how to use the Rome metro all went well.
I was also nice to stay in an area that was not touristy-would recommend to other visitors to Rome.
Excellent accommodations. We were very pleased with the quality of the studio - air conditioning worked perfectly, washing machine was great and the services around the studio made life very easy and comfortable. Francesco was also very helpful and kind.
We strongly recommend this place.
A very beautyfull garden, nice appartment and exellent host - we loved the stay and would so certainly come back next time we go to Rome!
Easy to travel to and from Rome and from the AirPort to.
Thanks so much to Francesco for an exellent stay :-)
10 Stars from us.
Mr. Francesco was very hospitable, caring and thoughtful. He was non-interfering but at the same time ready to help us when we needed some help. The property has a beautiful garden and is clean with all the amenities. We would recommend it to anyone who wants to have a peaceful stay while visiting Rome.
Francesco is very friendly. He cared for everything and was responsive if we had any questions. The flat is comfortable and clean and there is everything what you need.
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Friday, November 20th, 2015
6:14 pm
On refugees
Well, I went off on one. Below are my thoughts responding to a couple of people in a college friend's Facebook entry, who were knee-jerking about Syrian refugees. Slightly edited for coherence.
For context, one person said "Assume 1% of these refugees has lepresee (sic) and we'll see a different response on whether they accept them without qualification into their own homes", while the other said " It doesn't say 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses,your suicide bombers '. ISIS has already stated the goal of infiltrating the refugees. How stupid are we?"
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Friday, September 4th, 2015
11:17 pm
Let's Rewrite Hitler! Or, Series 6 Re-Revisited
Okay, after a tangential discussion on Gallifrey Base, I've had people ask me to pull together my thoughts about how I would have liked to see the last half of
Doctor Who's
series 6 play out. Back in the day I wrote a couple of reviews talking about how
Let's Kill Hitler
The Wedding of River Song
unfolded, what left me unsatisfied, and
some of what I wish I'd seen instead
. But I figure it might be good to reconstruct all this in the form of one coherent essay...
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So. Does that give series 6 more of a satisfying shape? It's got a few advantages: easing the overcrowding on
, moving the emotional turning-points to the finale and putting them center-stage, putting the Doctor/River partnership explicitly at center stage, and bypassing the need for a Teselecta revelation by delaying their plan until later (meaning that he didn't plan it all along until
the fact.)
And it gives each episode a single clear dramatic focus. In short,
should be River choosing her proper parents over Kovarian and her programming;
should be her choosing life with the Doctor, and he with her.
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Monday, May 25th, 2015
9:35 pm
IT'S DONE IT'S DONE THE MANUSCRIPT IS OFF TO THE EDITOR AHAHAHAHAHAHA *clutches chest* *keels over*
This has been the single most hypercompressed rewrite period following the read-through for any of our books -- a casualty of the first draft coming out significantly longer than planned (and thus eating up a couple of extra weeks), followed by a week of rewriting
the read-through to deal with known issues. Fortunately, the book at the read-through was in much better shape than usual, so there was a lot less to do than on some of our previous works!
After nearly twenty years, I think we might finally have a decent grip on this writing thing. Or at least parts of it...
Anyway, the book is now off with the lovely folks at B7 Towers, who will inevitably come back to us with further things to fix. But as it stands? I have that quiet satisfied feeling that I think we've pulled it off.
Oh, and the final count? Just under 75,000 words.
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Saturday, May 23rd, 2015
9:40 pm
Mediasphere rewrites
Right. Chapter 8, at last you are mine!!
Have significantly improved the actual-plot-event-to-witty-banter ratio.
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Thursday, May 21st, 2015
9:41 pm
All this time that we've been grinding our way through the last push on the Blake's 7 novel... Kate's had a short story in progress that she's been itching to get back to.
I've just finished reading the latest version, and I am *humbled*.
It's an honor to be married to a properly powerful writer -- someone who can reach the sort of truth that I've never been able to articulate. But she's inspiring me to keep trying.
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Wednesday, May 20th, 2015
9:42 pm
Mediasphere rewrites
For those following along from previous Mediasphere updates: the tongue-tangle caused by having characters named Vila, Vargo, and Vidge has been resolved; Vargo is now named Garov. (The joys of Terry Nation names, they work in almost any order.) Sadly this means sacrificing the joke Peter Anghelides pointed me to, but the overall read is better for it.
And that lengthy Vila babble in Ch 2 which I wasn't sure whether it was brilliant characterization or a huge self-indulgent mess? Is now about 25% shorter, and much farther away from the self-indulgent end for it...
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Sunday, May 17th, 2015
9:44 pm
Mediasphere read-through cont'd
Mediasphere readthrough now finished -- with loads of delightful input from Dirk Schmitt, Jamie Boyd, Kyla Ward, Jacob Moriarty, and the incomparable Lizz Vernon! Only one significant plot issue unearthed -- a situation which, as Kyla aptly put it, it was clear in retrospect what must have happened and how the characters reacted to it, but we just hadn't bothered to write any of those scenes.
After a pub dinner out and Lizz's best film-crew war stories (one of which is going straight into the book), Kate and I were left dancing through the aisles of Woolworths to "Freeze-Frame". Such a weight off our minds!
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Saturday, May 16th, 2015
9:48 pm
Mediasphere read-through, Day 1
Day one of the Mediasphere read-through successfully concluded, with oodles of help from Dirk Schmitt, Kyla Ward, Jamie Boyd, and Drew Bowie. Only a few bits so far that need to be lightly spruced up, and nothing that's catastrophically wrong. The air resounds with the eternal triumphant cry of the writer: "My God, we've gotten away with it!!!"
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Friday, May 15th, 2015
9:50 pm
Dammit, this book is not getting any shorter.
But it's making significantly more sense...
(ETA: Read-through draft -- around 73,000 words.)
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Wednesday, May 13th, 2015
9:51 pm
I just did the worst possible thing for someone who's trying to rewrite their prose - I read a bit of Raymond Chandler immediately afterwards.
Reading out his pitch-perfect description of a similar setting to one I'd just tried to write prompted mournful cries of "FUCK YOU, CHANDLER!" from both co-authors...
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Wednesday, May 6th, 2015
9:54 pm
...that moment when you realise a sequence you'd written separately had never been pasted into your main file, and so your draft is 71,500 words long, not 68,000.
...Um, Xanna? What's the actual target length range again? It's gonna shrink in the rewrites, but even 65K seems like a distant memory now...
(ETA: They're not worried. Whew. No need to gut it. Still, this is a classic "Sorry about writing such a long book, we didn't have time time to write a short one" moment...)
Anyway, here's the plan at this point. Normally we finish the first draft, immediately have a read-through with some of our friends, and then spend a month rewriting to fix the inevitable problems which we find when viewing the book as a whole. But because getting the book up to this point took a couple of weeks more than originally planned -- partly because it came out significantly longer, partly because the day-job crunches took up more than their fair share of time -- we now have a bit less than
weeks till they want the finished manuscript. And because of peoples' availability (not least, mine), we've had to push the read-through off to
weekend, not this one. So we'll have a bit more than a week to fix whatever issues we can find on our own, and then about another week to fix anything our readers find. Ulp.
If it's any consolation, we know there enough things wrong with this draft that we'll have plenty to do before the read-through... hopefully we'll fix the big issues before anyone ever sees them!
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4:49 am
Mediasphere: Draft Zero
4:32 AM. Done.
All this time, I've known what the final line of the book would be.
But I just came up with a new one.
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Tuesday, May 5th, 2015
10:00 pm
About two months ago, I posted, "Chapter 4 will never ever ever ever ever ever ever end."
Tonight I finished it.
The last sequence I had to go back to fix was a scene between two Mediasphere denizens, which could very roughly be described as "Russell T Davies seduces Mary Whitehouse". This, as you can imagine, took some doing.
Looks like we're going to be around 67,000-68,000 words.
Only the last epilogue scene to go now...!
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Sunday, May 3rd, 2015
10:01 pm
Finished two out of the three epilogue scenes, while Kate's finishing the final actual chapter. I'm going to go back and spackle together the not-quite-finished scenes at the end of Ch 4 before I write the absolute very end of the book. I'm saving that last scene for dessert!
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Saturday, May 2nd, 2015
10:02 pm
Rewatching Blake's 7 for the first time in a couple months. We'd been putting off watching "Deathwatch" because we didn't want to shrivel with embarrassment at our inferiority. Now that I'm up to the epilogue, I figured it was safe... but I'm still humbled by the Boucher bitchery. The way in which Chris Boucher can string together a succession of punchlines with no fat between them still leaves me envious.
Kate and I sang a chorus of "Ohhh how I haaate this booook" over the the theme. It's OK, folks, we go through this phase on everything we write!
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Monday, April 27th, 2015
10:04 pm
Right. The last scenes left in Ch 10 are Kate's to tidy up. On to the grand finale! *grinds ever onward*
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Wednesday, April 22nd, 2015
10:07 pm
Mediasphere update
Ever seen the
episode with the Philharmonic Glee Club Rock'n'Roll Band, where our (erm) heroes can't agree on what style to play in, and so we end up with a rock version of "Land Of Hope And Glory" with Tim and a couple of girls hey-nonny-nonnying away in the background?
I can't shake the feeling that that's what "Mediasphere" is going to feel like. Kate's writing most of the grim serious parts of the plotline, and doing all the research on Orwell and North Korean cinema, while I'm dancing around merrily in the subplots strewing satirical bits in all directions.
Ah well -- one of the things which most defines
Blake's 7
is that melding of grit and camp; if we can catch both of them in novel form, hopefully the editors will love it!
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Monday, April 20th, 2015
10:10 pm
Okay, so I've just finished Chapter 8, and Kate's a gnat's breadth away from finishing Chapter 9. That leaves two chapters and the epilogue to wrap up.
You'd think it'd be getting simpler by this point! I guess we haven't killed off enough characters yet...
Word count is a bit theoretical at this point, till I get ahold of the Ch 9 file again.
Once this is finished, probably after release, I intend to go back through chapter-by-chapter and detail who wrote which bits. It's become an odd process of us handing files off to each other -- earmarking a couple of scenes in a chapter which we want to hold on to while letting our partner have free rein on the rest, and then reversing roles on another chapter. It's like stuff we've done before, but more of a juggling act. Does that mean the collab is getting easier?
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Friday, April 10th, 2015
3:15 am
Mediasphere update
50,200 words. By wordcount, we should be into the fourth and final part; instead we're still finishing off part three! We're now aiming for 65,000 words rather than 60,000, which means the first draft should be done in... three weeks? And then we have to go back and make sure the first parts adequately set up where the characters need to be for the end... the plot action to get them there basically works, but we need to make sure the emotional impact is enough to make what happens later seem justified.
Today we sat down and finally hashed out a scene-by-scene beat-by-beat breakdown of the last of the four parts of the book. This is the point where we need to nail down the gaps between what we
to do so far, and what we've actually
This is also the point where we start simplifying out various bits that are just cluttering the storyline. I'd like to say a few words over the fallen body of Tarrant's subplot, which is just not going to to fit into the climax the way I'd hoped! On the plus side, losing his involvement from the stuff that goes down towards the end of the book will allow us to keep the focus more on Dayna -- which is part of the brief.
Another plus side of the tightening is that it's guiding us to concentrate on, and strengthen, one of the elements which is supposed to be the throughline of the book -- Dayna's relationship with the artists formerly known as Blake's 7. We had the key events relating to that in the book, but hadn't really established what they
to her -- that'll be part of the rewriting Rethinking the climax puts her more at the center -- and ought to be a lot of fun too.
Last but not least? In pretty much every one of our books there's one or two set-piece chapters which I'm just proud of in their own right -- the flashbacks in
, "Numberless" in
Prisoner's Dilemma
, the TARDIS interlude in
Unnatural History
, Sam's reunion with the Doctor in
Seeing I
. A little piece which is just a moment unto itself -- and usually a joy to write, because everything just comes out in-focus.
Chapter 7 (well, it's Chapter 7
, the number will probably go up as we rewrite) is one of those moments. It's a little Vila-centered set-piece which I've been dying to write for ages. And given the annoyingly bitty, constantly-interrupted-by-day-job-work way we've been working on this novel, to have a whole chapter just come out
is both a relief and a joy!
(Note: this is the chapter I was complaining about
. All I can think is,
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Monday, April 6th, 2015
10:41 pm
Currently in the middle of writing a chapter which largely consists of scenes between characters named Vila, Vargo, and Vidge. I'm in trouble now...
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WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Representatives Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) and Paul Tonko (D-NY) led 12 of their colleagues in calling for the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) to stop using inaccurate data while making their case for future Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), including the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
"A clear understanding of the impact that NAFTA and other previous Free Trade Agreements have had on our trade balance is critical to informing our views on the potential economic impact of future FTAs, such as the TPP," they said in a letter to Ambassador Michael Froman. "As you know, massive trade deficits, such as those that have burdened the United States in the past several decades, equate to job loss and a significant weakening of the U.S. economy."
The USTR currently relies upon a set of export data from the Census Bureau that fails to reflect the reality that NAFTA as well as recent trade agreements have resulted in a loss of American jobs and negatively affected the U.S. trade balance. This data recognizes "re-exports", or goods that are imported from a foreign country then immediately exported to another, as an authentic American export. For example, a product made in Canada, sent to the U.S., and then shipped to Japan would be counted as a U.S. export.
The distorted trade data artificially inflates U.S. export levels and minimizes the nation's trade deficit. Labeling these products as exports downplays the harm that recent FTAs have done to the U.S. trade balance, and fails to present an argument to the public and their Representatives in Congress when debating the merits of future FTAs and the impact they will have on domestic jobs and the economy.
Many of the same representatives previously questioned USTR's claims suggesting that the United States enjoys a trade surplus with its North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) partners. The only response they received from the USTR's office came months later and provided no answers.
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July 10, 2014
The Honorable Michael Froman
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600 17th Street NW
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Dear Ambassador Froman:
We write to express our concerns about the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) presenting distorted trade data that artificially inflates U.S. export levels and minimizes our nation's trade deficit. Congress relies on USTR for accurate information regarding U.S. trade policies and data, meaning that when USTR provides our offices with inaccurate data, it becomes harder to do our jobs properly and communicate with our constituents. We ask that you cease using misleading trade data immediately, as such use raises serious questions about USTR's credibility in accurately portraying ongoing trade negotiations. In our view, the failure to correct this practice will make passage of Trade Promotion Authority and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) extremely difficult.
Recently, a number of Members of Congress have questioned USTR's claims suggesting that the United States enjoys a trade surplus with its North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) partners in general, and in agricultural and manufacturing trade in specific. On April 2, 2014, several members of the House of Representatives wrote to you seeking both the data to substantiate those NAFTA claims as well as the sources of such data. A clear understanding of the impact that NAFTA and other previous Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) have had on our trade balance is critical to informing our views on the potential economic impact of future FTAs, such as the TPP. As you know, massive trade deficits, such as those that have burdened the United States in the past several decades, equate to job loss and a significant weakening of the U.S. economy.
We were surprised to see that the response from your office relied on Census Bureau data to support the claims of a trade surplus with NAFTA partners with respect to goods trade. In particular, USTR claimed that Census Bureau data is the "most comprehensive measure of goods entering and leaving the United States." Indeed, as you know, the Census data is so comprehensive that it is in fact a raw accounting of both domestically-produced goods and foreign-produced goods that are transshipped through the United States. And, as you know, each month within days of the raw Census data being posted, the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) corrects the Census data to remove the transshipped foreign exports and publishes the official and accurate U.S. government data with respect to actual U.S.-made exports and imports. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) does the same for agricultural trade.
Given that corrected data is promptly and readily available, it is troubling that USTR is using the uncorrected Census Bureau data that includes "re-exports." Re-exports are goods that have been produced abroad, such as in China, which are then shipped through the United States en route to a final destination. In the case of USTR's NAFTA data misrepresentations, this means counting foreign-made goods that are shipped through the United States en route to Canada or Mexico; for instance, goods taken off a ship from China in a California port and then trucked to their final destination in northern Mexico would count as U.S. exports in this assessment, despite being produced overseas. Such transshipments have grown in the 20 years of NAFTA's existence. These foreign-made re-exports do not support U.S. production jobs and should not be conflated with U.S.-made exports.
Removal of re-exports presents a very different picture of U.S. trade data. The official, corrected U.S. government trade data provided by the USITC shows that the 2013 U.S. goods trade balance with NAFTA countries was a deficit of $177 billion. The combined U.S. goods and services trade deficit with Mexico and Canada rose (in real, inflation-adjusted terms) from $10 billion in 1993 to $132 billion in 2013. The inaccurate data that USTR relies upon inflates the actual U.S. export figures and deflates the true NAFTA trade deficit. The 2013 NAFTA goods deficit of $177 billion can be made to look less than half as large by counting re-exports.
USTR has claimed that the United States has surpluses with our NAFTA partners in manufacturing and agriculture, including recently indicating that the United States had a manufactured goods trade surplus with NAFTA countries in 2013 of $27 billion. However, the corrected USITC data that removes re-exports show that, in fact, the United States had a NAFTA manufactured goods trade deficit of $65 billion in 2013. Also repeated in the recent correspondence from USTR is data implying that the United States had an agricultural goods trade surplus with NAFTA countries in 2013 of $4 billion. But, in fact, after removing re-exports, the United States actually had a NAFTA agricultural goods trade balance of virtually zero (a $0.002 billion surplus), according to the corrected USDA data, which is also available from the USITC.
In sum, a review of the corrected data provided by the USITC clearly shows a large U.S. trade deficit with our NAFTA partners caused by a surge in imported goods that have outweighed any gains in U.S. exports. It is unacceptable for USTR to continue using data that misrepresent the reality of our trade deficit.
Have other claims, such as perceived improved trade flows with Korea under the U.S.-Korea FTA also relied on uncorrected Census Bureau raw data? This would be particularly troubling given that if one uses the official, corrected USITC data, growth of U.S. goods exports to countries with which we do not have FTAs has been 30 percent faster than to our FTA partners over the past decade.
We are concerned that incorrect data and misinformation might paint a rosier picture of the impact of free trade agreements than reality suggests. In order to rightly judge future FTAs, we must be clear-eyed and accurate in our assessment of similar previous agreements. In fact, 19 U.S.C. 3804(f) requires that the President "request the [USITC] to prepare and submit an assessment" for both the President and Congress of the potential impacts of impending trade agreements, including "the likely impact of the agreement on the United States economy as a whole and on specific industry sectors, including the impact the agreement will have on the gross domestic product, exports and imports, aggregate employment and employment opportunities, the production, employment, and competitive position of industries likely to be significantly affected by the agreement, and the interests of United States consumers." Therefore, it is not just a matter of common sense but also a matter of law that we are to evaluate the potential impacts of FTAs using the accurate USITC data.
Congress relies on USTR for accurate, transparent and timely information in order to fulfill our trade-related legislative responsibilities, so we believe that USTR must immediately begin better fulfilling that mission in order for us to work together constructively on a positive trade agenda. We urge you to instruct all USTR staff to begin using only the corrected goods trade data of the USITC immediately in its communications with Congress, the press and the public and provide us with a commitment that USTR will begin using the corrected, more accurate USITC trade data, so that we can continue to work together to create new opportunities and higher living standards for families, farmers, manufacturers, workers and consumers.
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Milwaukee music stalwarts join forces on 'Plays Well With Others'
Local electric guitar whiz Greg Koch called in a bunch of favors for the Greg Koch Band's latest album, "Plays Well With Others." Guest contributors range from New Orleans funk musician Jon Cleary to Paul Barrere from acclaimed genre-blending rock band Little Feat to Leonard Cohen's musical director, Roscoe Beck. There's also an appearance from blues guitarist and singer Joe Bonamassa, who is so popular he sold out the 2,500-seat Riverside Theater this year.
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The United States is pleased to announce an initial contribution of $125 million toward the 2009 operations of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
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Setting Aside a Foreclosure Sale
In rare circumstances, you can get the court to set aside (invalidate) a foreclosure sale. Learn when and how you can do this.
Sometimes homeowners are not aware that a foreclosure sale has been scheduled until after it has already been completed. Even if your home has been sold, there are some instances where you may be able to have the foreclosure sale invalidated, though this is uncommon. Read on to learn how to set aside a foreclosure sale and the circumstances that may warrant it.
(Learn more about foreclosure, options to avoid it, defenses to foreclosure, and more, in Nolo's Foreclosure topic area.)
Reasons a Foreclosure Sale May Be Set Aside
Generally, to set aside a foreclosure sale, the homeowner must show:
- irregularity in the foreclosure process that makes the sale void under state law
- noncompliance with the terms of the mortgage, or
- an inadequate sale price that shocks the conscience.
Irregularity in the Foreclosure Process
State statutes lay out the procedures for a foreclosure. If there are irregularities in the foreclosure process (meaning, the foreclosure is conducted in a manner not authorized by the statute), the sale can be invalidated.
Some examples of irregularities in the foreclosure process are:
- The loan servicer does not send notice to the borrower.
- A state statute requires notice by advertising the sale in a newspaper, but the servicer does not place the advertisement.
- The foreclosing lender did not get an assignment of the mortgage.
Learn more about regularities of sale.
Example. In U.S. Bank v. Ibanez, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court invalidated two foreclosure sales where the mortgages were assigned to the lender after the completion of the foreclosure sale. The court decided that the foreclosures were void because the lenders lacked legal authority to foreclose.
However, in some states, courts are reluctant to set aside a foreclosure sale based upon violations of foreclosure statutes unless the violation resulted in actual prejudice (harm) to the homeowner. For instance, the homeowner may have to show that the lender's failure to follow the statutory requirements chilled the bidding at the foreclosure sale.
Noncompliance With Terms of the Mortgage
If the lender or servicer fails to comply with the terms of the mortgage contract, this may constitute sufficient reason to set aside a foreclosure sale.
Example. Many mortgages and deeds of trust require that the lender or servicer send the borrowers a breach letter giving them 30 days to cure the default before starting a foreclosure. If the servicer doesn't send a breach letter, this may provide grounds for invalidating the foreclosure.
Inadequacy of Sale Price
Inadequacy of sale price may justify setting aside a foreclosure sale if the price is so low that it "shocks the conscience" of the court. It is often difficult to get a sale set aside on this basis. Usually to get a sale invalidated for inadequacy of sale price, you will also need additional circumstances that warrant voiding the sale.
For instance, courts are more likely to set aside a sale if there is an inadequate sales price combined with:
- some irregularity (such as if the sale was advertised to take place at 3:00 p.m., but was actually held at 11:00 a.m.), or
- unfairness (like if the lender re-sold the property for a much higher price right after the foreclosure sale, which demonstrates that it could have received a higher price at the foreclosure sale).
Though keep in mind that some courts might be hesitant to void the sale unless the violation resulted in actual prejudice to the homeowner.
How to Set Aside the Foreclosure Sale
The procedures to set aside a foreclosure sale depend on whether the sale was judicial (where the lender forecloses through the state court system) or nonjudicial (which means the lender does not have to go through state court to get one).
To learn more about the difference between judicial and nonjudicial foreclosure, and the procedures for each, see Will Your Foreclosure Take Place In or Out of Court?
Setting Aside a Sale in a Judicial Foreclosure
Attempting to invalidate the sale in a judicial foreclosure can be done in the following ways, depending on state law:
- If the foreclosure case stays open through completion of the sale process, then you can raise an objection to the legitimacy of the sale in that case.
- If the state judicial process terminates once the foreclosure judgment is entered (and not appealed), then you must either file a motion to reopen the case or file a separate action to void the sale.
The actual process is generally determined by statute, rule, or case law.
Setting Aside a Sale in a Nonjudicial Foreclosure
If the property was foreclosed nonjudicially, the homeowner will usually have to file a lawsuit in state court to void the sale. It may also be possible in some instances to file bankruptcy and ask that the sale be set aside as part of the bankruptcy case.
There are a few nonjudicial foreclosure states that require a court to confirm the sale. In those states, the homeowner can sometimes raise objections to the sale in the confirmation process. However, in some states the confirmation process is limited to determining whether or not the property sold for fair market value at the foreclosure sale and the court will not review other issues.
What Happens if the Sale Is Set Aside?
If the foreclosure sale is set aside as void, title to the property is typically returned to the homeowner while the mortgage and other liens generally are re-established. However, if the property has been resold to another party following an invalidated sale, some state statutes provide that the subsequent sale to a good faith purchaser eliminates the foreclosed homeowner's right to challenge the sale on procedural grounds. In these types of cases, the homeowner may be able to seek damages against the lender or servicer.
Hiring an Attorney
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Canyoning Jasper - 1 Day
The only adventure of its kind in western Canada, this full day trip includes: rappels, descents, waterfalls, pools, and an amazing canyon experience. Join us as our guides assist and teach you all the necessary skills for this incredible experience. Participants will not only experience one of the most unique experiences in Alberta they will also enjoy amazing sceneries overlooking the eastern boundary of Jasper National Park. We provide all the necessary technical equipment and instructions. Pools, drops, waterfalls, eight rappelled descents, and over 800 meters of beautiful canyon environment characterize this amazing experience.
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Price: $175 per person
Just on the Edge of Jasper National Park, in Brule AB
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On the day of the trip participants will meet their guide and the rest of the group at a predetermined time and meeting location approximately an hour from the town of Jasper, in Brule Alberta. All participants will be provided with the necessary equipment and then shutteled by van another approximate 8km to the mouth of the canyon. an approximate 30 - 45 minute hike brings us to the top of the canyon and the start of our adventure. Here particpants will start with a mandatory rope rappel/ascend clinic and safety instructions. The canyon itself will take approximately 4-5 hours to descend and participatns will return by early evening.
*Note: This trip may be subject to itinerary change or in an extreme case even possible cancellation due to unexpected water levels and/or weather conditions. We will try to accommodate trips accordingly.
What should participatns bring:
Particpants should bring a bathing suit, towel, lunch, and extra change of warm cloths. A small day pack, sturdy runners or light hiking boots are also recommended.
How to book your trip:
Depending on water levels our canyoning season usually runs betwen mid July and mid September. Bookings can be made through our website for regular booking dates (weekend departures), or by phone for any additional dates during the week. Please be ready to provide a credit card when booking by phone in order to confirm a trip and date. You can call us, and we are normally available between the hours of 8am - 6pm Mountain standard Time.
PH: 1-855-653-8877 (Toll free in Canada & U.S.A.)
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Do you have questions or are you looking for some more info:
If you have any questions or would like some more information please contact us anytime by email, phone or thru Facebook. We would love to help answer your questions or set up a trip for your or your group of friends.
Day 1
10:00 am: Meet and greet at the predetermined meeting location (we provide directions). You get to know your guids and other members of the group. After being provided with all the necessary equipment, participants with be shutteled by van an additional 8km by rough gravel road to the mouth of the canyon. An approximate 30-45 min hike brings us to the staging area of our adventure.
11:30 am: We gear up, and before we begin a mandatory safety briefing, rappel and ascend clinic. Your guides make sure everyone is prepared and ready for the canyon.
12:30am: Our first of seven rappels.
12:30am - 5:00pm: It takes approximately 4 - 5 hours to descend the entire length of the canyon.
4:00-5:00pm: Return to Vehicles and unpack and undress gear. Return trip home
*Please Note: The itinerary may change according to unforeseen events, ability level and speed of group.
Tour Details
Number of Days
1 days
Skill Level
Ending Place
Min. Group Size
2 people
What is included:
What is not included:
Personal gear to bring:
Weather conditions can change quickly in the outdoors therefore it is essential to have proper equipment and even prepare for extreme conditions to ensure your comfort and most importantly your safety. Try to avoid cotton fabrics as they provide very little insulating value when wet and are very slow drying. Rely mainly on fleece, wools and synthetics as these fabrics still provide substantial insulating value even when wet (which can frequently occur in the outdoors). In early and late summer it is not uncommon that 0 degress C or below freezing temperatures can occasionally occur, thus it is important to always bring enough warm clothing. When selecting equipment pay attention to quality as this may greatly enhance your enjoyment and comfort.
Do not bring external frame backpacks.
-Bathing suit
-Fleece jacket or fleece sweater
-Neoprene socks (optional but a good idea)
-Paddling gloves (optional but recommended)
-Rain gear (water proof Jacket and pants Gore-Tex or equivalent)
-Shorts (quick drying)
-Sturdy shoes
-Sun glasses
-Warm hat or touque against the cold
-Small towel
-Water bottle
-Dry change of cloths
Seasonal Availability
Planned Departures
Please contact us to select a date to book this tour for your group.
All prices are per person in Canadian dollars.
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Padres Draft Non-Baseball Playing Quarterback
The MLB worst Sand Diego Padres made some strides in hoping to become a contender in the future by drafting lefty Terrance Owens.
Problem is Owens hasn't played baseball since high school.
Owens is the starting quarterback for the Toledo Rockets and has been a decent one at that. He threw 18 touchdown passes to only three interceptions. However, the Rockets have a new head coach and might make a change at quarterback.
Owens was not considered a two-sport athlete in high school. He wasn't a stellar baseball player and he doesn't play for the Rockets baseball team, so its a real head scratcher as to why the Padres selected him.
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Here's a trick with the Hyperion EOS battery tester: it plugs directly onto the Life (or Lipo) battery pack balance connector. So then you turn your plane on with the tester connected and it reads out voltage under your plane's actual load.
Lots of good opinions on retriever operation, so I'll add mine. I don't use a glove, and never use my left hand. I'm a one hand kind of retriever guy. This way there can only be one operation going on at a time and there is no possibility of the left and right hands getting in each other's way.
My technique: pilot steps up to the line and hooks up. I ask to check for power on the airplane. On proper response I check to ensure the launch corridor is clear, then release the pilot to launch. As soon as I see pilot has released from the line and I hear no further power to the winch I grab the retriever line with right hand and place it around the hub. Then with same hand engage the power button to the retriever. Then watch the retrieve until the strap is about 25 feet from the hoop then disengage the button. Right hand back to the retrieve drum to stop the strap about 3' from the hoop. End of retrieve.
My pet peeve with launching pilots is those that feel they need to continue to power the winch after their plane has left the line without warning the retriever operator. I firmly believe that once the plane has released, the pilot should vacate the area immediately and not continue to power the 12V string cutter without the full knowledge and permission of the retriever operator. If, and only if, the retriever operator requires that slack be pulled in by the winch, the retriever operator should request the added help. In no case should the pilot continue to power the winch by his decision alone.
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Knowledge transfer
Great safety knowledge and topic sharing so far. I know more posts are coming but I'd like to pose a question: with all this highly valuable injury-preventing safety advice floating around in the heads of our more experienced members, what is the best way to benefit from it?
Take the winch operator advice rendered in these posts. One dirt simple thing we could do is direct club members via an email to read the posts (referenced by post #'s) before the start of the season. Incrementally better, we could assemble the "best of" from this thread into a single text that gets posted as a sticky thread in this forum.
Other ideas?
Chris B.
Before any plane goes up one of our club winches, we need to verify the pilots' AMA membership, that the pilot is familiar with the equipment, and that the plane and TX have gone through basic checking for flight worthiness. A sign on the winches should inform visitors of this process and the operator can point visitors towards someone to talk to.
I just posted a "post mortem" on our first TD contest of 2013 here. The reason I'm referencing it in the Club Safety Thread is that I highlighted two safety issues I saw and directly experienced.
To summarize the concluding point in that post, it's very important each contest participant keep conditions safe based on their common sense, experience, and points brought up here and in live discussions.
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Crabs and lobsters are drawn to a totally synthetic bait, which could reduce the large take of live baitfish from the sea
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Companies are partnering with environmental groups to aid the red apes, but results are elusive
Hundreds of hydroelectric dams planned for rivers across the Balkans would provide green energy—at a big cost
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Cellulosic ethanol continues to struggle to use inedible crop waste to match ethanol from corn—and fossil fuels
The virus was a tiny, barely known annoyance. Scientists now think environmental changes made Zika explode into a global crisis
Now personalized genetic medicine offers tests to avoid dangerous drug reactions—yet doctors are reluctant to use them
Two dozen forensic scientists will analyze DNA from a wreck just exhumed from the Mediterranean seafloor
Your battery-powered vehicle is only as green as your electricity supplier
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I began this conversation I called, See Me, Feel Me, Touch Me, Heal Me as a challenge to the colonial Western Church to be more inclusive of ethnic minorities at all levels. Here are titles of the prior post:Intro to SeriesSee MeFeel MeTouch MeThis series has taken quite a turn of events and has spread to voices well heard and seldom herd, representing both dominant and minority ethnic cultures. Feelings have been hurt and misunderstandings have occurred. In spite of all the … [Read more...]
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:: By Pete Zimmerman:I am hoping that in about a year I will help be a part of a new spiritual collective. One of the core values of this group will be a conscious counter-affirmation against what I believe to be the functional atheism of some churches and ecclesiologies.Let me elaborate.It is written in John 14:26 that Jesus said, "But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to y … [Read more...]
Jesus-like living in the midst of other religions
Many have seen the movie " The Kingdom of Heaven " the fictional drama of the interfaith tension in Jerusalem during the crusades. But, the reality was, there was some real interfaith conversation and radical fellowship happening in the midst of the violence of the crusades. Read the following true story with the reality of war torn places in the world like Iraq, Afghanistan,Gaza and Congo in the back of your mind. One can not wonder what possibilities of redemptive imagination and … [Read more...]
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Prayer, is it just wishful thinking?
On my show today I talked with Tony Jones about the work he is doing on a new book, Why Pray?Our fun and flowing conversation takes on many topics and some disagreements.Catch the show live Wednesday's from 10-11:30am (except this coming week when I will be live with Phyllis Tickle on Tuesday, Sept 11 from 11:30-1pm from Memphis). … [Read more...]
Life beyond the belief meter…
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I am told, that Jesus only directly answers 3 of the 183 questions that he himself is asked in the four Gospels! This is totally surprising to me who has grown up assuming that the very job description of religion is to give people answers and to resolve people's dilemmas. Apparently this is not Jesus' understanding of the function of religion because he operates very differently.Jesus' questions are to re-position you, make you own your unconscious biases, break you out of your dualistic mi … [Read more...]
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Happy Easter
"It's difficult to tell the truth, since there is only one truth, but that truth is alive and therefore has a lively, changing face."
—Kafka, Letters to Milena
"It's difficult to tell the truth, since there is only one truth, but that truth is alive and therefore has a lively, changing face."
—Kafka, Letters to Milena
I was going to write a sort of love poem to Los Angeles. I'm leaving soon and getting sentimental. The other day I was walking on Fourth Street and I shot this image. There were two men sleeping on the sidewalk behind me. Not sleeping yet, but arranging their cardboard and blankets, settling in for the night. I got on the Red Line at Pershing Square and jotted down a few bad lines of goodbye about how you—and by you I mean L.A.—have no soul and no mercy and you break my heart again and again and you are mainly very ugly except at night but I love you most when the sun is highest. I didn't finish it. I'm glad about that. This evening I drove up Micheltorena and over the hill and back again. On an errand, not for fun, but the sun was setting on my way over and it had set by the time I was on my way back and suddenly off to my left I could see downtown spread out beneath me in the purple half light and all those corporate towers were sparkling with their lights on and I couldn't breathe for a second it was so beautiful. And I don't know how to hold onto that awe at the cruel and utter gorgeousness of this place while knowing every breathing second that it is beyond fucked up. Sometimes the finer adjectives won't do. I drove down Micheltorena to Sunset and then turned to the east, KDAY on the radio, speeding towards the next red light, falling into that easy L.A. traffic-samadi groove. I parked in Chinatown, on a side street. Just before I got out of the car I saw a flash. A red-shirted security guard in the employ of the local Business Improvement District was snapping photos of an elderly man sitting on a bench, his possessions in a cart beside him. I made sure my phone's the flash was turned on, got out of the car and took his picture. He didn't like it. Words ensued. I won't elaborate except to say that the high point was when I said something like "You're harassing this man" and the red-shirt said something like "I'm not harassing him. Sir, am I harassing you?" and the old man said something like, "Yes, he's harassing me. Motherfucker." I thought of posting the photos here but they're blurry and not nice to look at and I don't see the point of shaming someone with a shit job who already knows that what he does is beyond fucked up. So no sweet goodbye, L.A. You know how fucked up you are. When I got back to my car a few hours later the old man was still there on the bench, sitting up, asleep.
I took this photo in San Francisco, at Lee's Sandwiches in the Tenderloin. It was raining. The rain had just started falling, but it would last all day and most of last night. On the drive up from L.A. everything was parched. The hills, which should be bright and green this time of year, were already the color of ash. The sky was hazy all the way up.
Somewhere in almost every house in Nabi Saleh there is a sort of shrine, a small table or a shelf or a corner of a shelf arrayed with an assortment of the shell casings and spent munitions that litter the streets and olive groves and hillsides of the village—hard black rubber tear gas grenades, the shiny metal tear gas canisters fired in volleys of seven or more from launchers fixed to the roofs of Jeeps, the blue or black-tipped high-velocity canisters so lethal that the IDF briefly banned them, ugly little marbles of steel wrapped in hard black plastic and the dull green cartridges from which they spray, ordinary brass bullet casings in a variety of calibers. Last night a large contingent of soldiers raided the village. They went house by house, banging on doors, entering homes, taking photos, waking children in their beds. In the video above, shot by Bilal Tamimi, you can see them in his home, confiscating the empty shells, taking back their gifts to the community. They took four men and one teenaged boy with them when they left. I don't know if the link will work (it's to a private facebook page), but this video shows a young man who works as a pastry chef in Ramallah kissing his mother goodbye before the soldiers pull him away.
"Evidently the business of writing is one from whose clutches it is by no means easy to extricate oneself, even when the action itself has come to seem loathesome or even impossible. From the writer's point of view, there is almost nothing to be said in its defense, so little does it have to offer by way of gratification."
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The hosts were 43 for one heading into the third session with Vusi Sibanda (21) and Hamilton Masakadza (nought) at the crease, requiring 358 for victory.
Zimbabwe were looking comfortable in their second innings before Shakib Al Hasan bowled Chakabva for 22 with tea looming.
Pakistan registered the highest fourth-innings run chase of 192 on this ground in 1998, a statistic which only emphasises how tough a task the home side face.
Earlier in the day, Mushfiqur Rahim fell seven runs short of a century as he sought to put Bangladesh in a strong position. The captain began the day 50 not out and was making steady progress before he and Ziaur Rahman both fell in the space of three balls to halt the visitors' momentum.
Mushfiqur and Nasir Hossain made virtually untroubled progress in the morning as they built a partnership of 84 but the skipper fell in the 21st over of the day.
Sibanda claimed a stunning catch as Mushfiqur got a thick edge to a Masakadza delivery and the Zimbabwe opener dived to his left to take a two-handed claim.
And three balls later Rahman was gone for a duck, stumped by Richmond Mutumbami after misjudging the flight of a Graeme Cremer delivery.
That brought Sohag Gazi to the crease and he hammered Masakadza for a six three overs before the break.Hossain was 37 not out at lunch with Gazi in 11.
Bangladesh declared on 291 for four. Hossain finished unbeaten on 67 for the visitors, while Gazi went for 21 caught by Elton Chigumbura off Cremer, before the same bowler had Sajidul Islam caught behind by wicketkeeper Mutumbami for a duck.
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a1 Universitat de Barcelona, Departament de Física Aplicada i Òptica, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain
Titanium targets with a bias voltage ranging from −500 to +500 V were submitted to multipulse high repetition rate Nd:yttrium aluminum garnet (YAG; λ = 1.064 μm, τ ∼ 300 ns, ν = 30 kHz) laser irradiations in nitrogen at intensity values below the single-pulse melting threshold. The morphology of the TiN structures formed under the cumulative action of the laser pulses on the surface of the unbiased and biased targets was investigated by profilometry and scanning electron microscopy. Under these irradiation conditions, a specific columnar surface microrelief developed. The height of the microcolumns reached about 10–15 μm, and their diameter about 1–2 μm. The development of TiN microcolumns was enhanced by the applied bias voltage. The enhancement in the negative biased samples was stronger than that in the positive biased ones.
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Canada is dealing with an obesity challenge. At the moment, one in four adults and one in ten children are defined as being obese. One might believe the answer to obesity is simply to eat less and exercise more. Yet, over the last few decades, researchers have learned this condition is far more complex than initially believed.
They're coming first for your devilish Coca-Cola and Pepsi. But they aren't stopping there. They also want taxes on sugary fruit juice (you sinister Sun-Rype suckers!), and anything else that tastes slightly better than water. It won't end -- because big government types truly believe higher taxes can solve every problem -- there's no evidence it will work.
When it comes to treating weight problems, even experts believe that similar methods can be applied almost universally: Put your patients on a diet, have them engage in regular exercise, and, if all else fails, recommend some surgical procedure. What gets rarely looked at are the differences between overweight individuals that may have led to their unhealthy weight gain in the first place.
The question whether obesity is solely caused by diet and lifestyle choices or whether a person's genetic make-up plays a role as well has long been debated among scientists without producing conclusive answers. One recently completed study tried to shed more light on this issue by following entire families over several generations.
Obesity is one of the leading causes of heart disease and metabolic syndromes. It leads to a deterioration in the quality of our life and often the length, too. Some experts have gone as far as saying childhood obesity is such an epidemic that this current generation of youngsters will have a shorter life expectancy than that of their parents!
As we age, our bodies are less responsive to the typical caloric equation of weight loss; i.e. less calories in and more calories out. Indeed, new science is revealing that age-related weight gain has very little to do with caloric balance and much more to do with the altered physiology of the aging body and adverse environmental and lifestyle factors.
Stop me if this sounds familiar. Wake up in the morning, late. Grab a coffee and a bagel (they're healthy, right?). Run out the door, get to work. Surprise meeting at 11:30, work through lunch. Decide a salad is the healthy option, but it's a Cesar salad. You had intended to be active during lunch, but because of the meeting, you won't be...
With obesity the die is usually cast early. The results of a major study in the US have established that a third of children overweight in kindergarten are obese by the eighth grade. Almost every child who was very obese stayed that way as they grew older. An individual should not be easily blamed for conditions that result from their childhood when they have little control over their well-being.
That we have a widespread anti-fat bias and discrimination out there is no secret. But when this comes from the very people who should be there to provide help and support to those struggling with excess weight, I guess we really have a problem. I asked readers to share the stupidest remarks they have ever heard from a health professional about their weight -- the response was overwhelming.
I'm fairly health conscious. Oatmeal for breakfast, whole grain breads, salad, chicken, tuna, salmon. I know what to do. It's not the bad food that trips me up. It's the good desserts. What's incomprehensible to me is the idea of having a fantastic dinner without dessert. It finalizes the whole process.
After studying about three million cases, the authors of a new study found that for people who are older than 60, having a body-mass index (BMI) that ranks you as overweight may reduce your mortality risk. And while obese people had a greater mortality risk over all, those at the lowest level of obesity were not more likely to die during a given period than people of normal weight. The reception to this data has not been kind.
Weight bias is one area of bullying that is not only condoned but also seemingly tolerated. Even though most school systems include some type of bullying awareness program in their curriculum, more times than not, overweight children are left out of these programs. Weight bias remains the one area of bullying that receives little or no attention and is not even listed as a factor in many definitions of bullying.
Prejudices against the overweight seem to develop early. One study found that children as young as three years of age believed fat people were "mean, stupid, ugly, and had few friends." People suffering from emotional distress in connection with weight problems are much less likely to succeed in their efforts to improve their health. For our society in general, a shift in attitude would help.