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RING and WBC light heavyweight champion Adonis "Superman" Stevenson weighed in at 173.5 pounds compared to 174.5 for Andrzej Fonfara, against whom he will defend his titles at Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec on Showtime.
The 5-foot-11 Stevenson (23-1, 20 knockouts), 36, takes a run of 13-1, with 13 knockouts in his past 14 fights against Fonfara (25-2, 15 KOs), 26, having stopped 10 consecutive opponents since being knocked out by Darnell Boone in April 2010.
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Fonfara brings a run of 15 straight victories, 12 by knockout, into the clash and was last in action during December's second-round knockout of Samuel Miller that followed a ninth-round stoppage of ex-beltholder Gabriel Campillo in August.
Fonfara last suffered defeat against Derrick Findley by second-round stoppage in July 2008 but did not blink during Friday's nose-to-nose post-weigh staredown with Stevenson, whom he vowed will get knocked out for the second time in his career.
"This is not the first time that people come here and say the same thing. But it will be the same thing for me, a knockout. [Late Hall of Fame trainer] Emanuel Steward always said that knockouts sell and that's what I'm going to bring," said Stevenson.
"It will be another exciting fight and aother exciting knockout. It will be an exciting fight and I will win again by knockout. It will be my first time on Showtime, so Showtime will see my 'Superman' punch."
In victory over Fonfara, Stevenson hopes to set up a potential showdown with 49-year-old Bernard Hopkins, who was in action last month with a majority decision victory over Beibut Shumenov, adding the WBA belt to Hopkins' IBF title.
"I'm not overlooking Fonfara. I'm focused on Fonfara," said Stevenson. "I'm not talking about Bernard Hopkins because now, it's fight time on Showtime and that will be against Fonfara. I'm thinking only of Andrzej Fonfara, so don't go and drink a beer because it will be quick."
Fonfara also promised a quick fight but with himself being the victor.
"I have a lot of fans and supporters here. A lot of my fans have come here to Montreal to support me. Tomorrow night, I'm going to fight for them and win for them. I think that Adonis is focused on the fight tomorrow and it will be a great show," said Fonfara.
"For sure, it will be a fight with heavy punches. Stevenson has a good punch and I think that you will see a knockout for sure. I can use that if I feel pressure and I'm motivated, then I will show everybody tomorrow that I will be the new champion."
For the co-main event, 25-year-old middleweight David Lemieux (31-2, 29 KOs) weighed 159.5 to 159 for Fernando Guerrero (26-2, 19 KOs).
"Fernando better be ready for the biggest fight of his life. I'm coming in strong and I'm at my strongest of my abilities. I've never been so strong in my entire career. I feel great, especially now that the weigh-in is done," said Lemieux, who is riding a six-fight winning streak that includes five knockouts.
"I always feel that the weigh-in is the hardest part of the camp. Now that the weigh-in is done, here comes the fun part. May 24 is going to be an awesome night and I can't wait to box. I can't say anything in the perspective about how Guerrero will come at me but I know one thing: once I land my shots, Guerrero will not take my shots."
Guerrero is a 27-year-old whose unanimous decision over Raymond Gatica in November helped him rebound from being dropped four times during his seventh-round stoppage loss to WBO middleweight titleholder Peter Quillin in April of last year.
"Fernando Guerrero is going to win. We've trained hard. This is the best camp that I've ever had in my life. We always train hard but every time, we've gotten better," said Guerrero, whose loss to Quillin ended a streak of four straight wins, three by knockout.
"We're smarter, better, stronger and we're going to use all of that. Not just one thing, we're going to use everything. I think Lemieux is a great fighter but he's going against me, so I'm a better fighter. I think that I know that I have a lot of knockout power and I'm willing to take it as much as I give it, so I'm willing to do both. I can take it and I can give it."
For their junior middleweight bout, Jermell Charlo (23-0, 11 KOs) and Charlie Ota (24-1-1, 16 KOs) weighed 153.75 and 153, respectively.
"The thing about being elite is that you have to step into the ring whenever you have to and that's no matter who [you're against]," said Charlo. "If you want to make it to the top, you've got to be willing to fight anybody and that's the way that I feel right now. I expect an excellent performance. I'm going for a grade 'A.' We talked about that before."
Adonis Stevenson-Andrzej Fonfara
Referee: Frank Garza, Jr.
Judges: Richard De Carufel (Canada), John McKaie (New York), John Woodburn, Canada.
David Lemieux-Fernando Guerrero
Referee: Michael Griffin
Judges: Nicolas Esnault (Canada), Ester Lopez (New Mexico), Pasqualie Procopio (Canada)
Jermell Charlo-Charlie Ota
Referee: Jean-Guy Brousseau.
Judges: Larry Hazzard Jr. (New Jersey), Jean LaPointe (Canada), Robert Paolino (Rhode Island),


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Movie Power Rankings: 'Iron Man 2' gets ready to blast into the record books
There was little doubt "Iron Man 2" was going to top this week's power rankings. Fans have been clamoring or a sequel since "Iron Man's" opening weekend two years ago. Marvel Studios made it happen -- and quickly -- which might be why the final result is a little less polished and a little less fresh, but it's certainly going to satisfy the masses. And for many, it will satisfy them more than once.
Where Tony Stark (aka Robert Downey, Jr.) goes next seems to be "The Avengers." Marvel's president Kevin Feige won't confirm reports Joss Whedon is on board to direct the ensemble superhero movie, but the studio is sticking by it's May 4, 2012 release date for now. So, can fans wait another two years for their third Iron Man fix? We're guessing with a couple of rumored cameos in "Thor" and "Captain America: The First Avenger" they'll be primed for an "Iron Man 3" in say, 2014?
As for this week's rankings, we've got lots of familiar faces in new places.
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
1. "Iron Man 2" (last week no. 2)
Reviews? Who needs those? The closer opening day gets the more intense the hype on just how big it can open becomes.
2. "The Twilight Saga" (last week no. 1)
Bill Condon is confirmed as the director of "Breaking Dawn," Condon sends an open letter to the fans, two new photos of "Eclipse" hit the web and did anyone notice the franchise has 5.6 million friends on Facebook?
3. "X-Men: First Class" (not ranked)
Matthew Vaughn may have made this a legit movie to watch out for. If he's directing it, which may or may not be the case. Biggest question: will he get final cut?
4. J.J. Abrams/Steven Spielberg Secret Project (not ranked)
Wait, a secret project from J.J. Abrams? No way! Say it isn't so. How he does it in this digital age is beyond this pundit. He must have the best NDA ever.
5. "Batman 3" (not ranked)
We have a release date of July 20, 2012, but is there a finished script?
6. "Anchorman 2" (not ranked)
Paramount is balking at making a sequel to the beloved comedy for more than $40 million. Meanwhile, they'll jump on a "Footloose" remake directed by Craig Brewer. O.K., then.
7. "Thor" (not ranked)
Your first look of the God of Thunder deserves a sincere "wow."
8. "Superman" (not ranked)
IMAX and Warner Bros. say a new Christopher Nolan produced Man of Steel adventure is coming. Of course, it's not like we've haven't heard that before...
9. Lionsgate (not ranked)
Court battles, poison pills and takeover threats make this one Carl Ichan drama that seemingly never ends.
10. "How To Train Your Dragon" (last week no. 6.)
It's really the Energizer dragon! It keeps going and going and going...
11. "Robin Hood" (same)
A $45-50 million opening would be superb for a Russell Crowe movie in 2010...if it wasn't rumored to cost $200 million.
12. "Sex and the City 2" (same)
There has to be some explanation for this final poster of Carrie and Co. right? It won't matter. Tickets are still selling briskly.
13. "A Nightmare on Elm Street" (last week no. 7)
How do you drop in the power rankings after opening at the top of the box office? You make less than "Freddy vs. Jason" which opened almost seven years ago.
14. "Inception" (last week no. 10)
New poster embedded below continues Nolan's bizarre track record of disappointing key art. For a man whose films are so purposely designed, why such an uninspired image?
15. "Avatar" (last week no. 3)
It's broken records on DVD and Blu-ray and Fox is still running commercials. I mean, when you're that much in profit, why not?
Dropping like a rock...
The 2010 Tribeca Film Festival
*When a promotional partner like IndieWire starts ripping your film slate and everyone forgets the festival is even up and running after opening night, you've got big problems.
"Furry Vengeance"
*I mean, what is there to say really?
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Gene Tierney Began Her Trip Back from Madness on a Ledge 14 Floors Above the Street
Self-Portrait—Gene Tierney
That horrifying flirtation with death occurred 21 years ago, and today Gene Tierney can speak of it with almost analytic detachment. One of Hollywood's reigning beauties when the star system was supreme, Tierney should have had the world on a string. Instead she was hounded by failure and tragedy: an on-again-off-again marriage that finally failed, a first child born retarded, betrayal by a once-beloved father. Despair drove her first into shock therapy and later to that ledge of her mother's New York apartment, 14 floors above the sidewalk. It was a mild spring day. "I must have stood there for 20 minutes," Tierney recalls. "I was totally without fear, and I thought, 'What's the point of living?' " What saved her, she says, "was vanity. I thought of what I'd look like when I hit the ground—like a scrambled egg. That didn't appeal to me. If I was going to die, I wanted to be in one piece."
Such candor and brutal self-revelation are the hallmarks of Tierney's Self-Portrait, her recently released autobiography, written in collaboration with professional ghost Mickey Herskowitz. In person as well as in print, she speaks frankly about her struggle to repair a broken mind. At 58, those seemingly endless bouts with depression are past, but her mental balance is agonizingly tenuous. Occasionally, she says, she lapses into delusions, shutting out the world around her, imagining she is the victim of Communist plots. She still has nightmares about her confinement in a sanitarium cell and sometimes sleepwalks through her home in Houston, Texas, opening doors and windows. Since that day on the window ledge, she has developed an understandable fear of heights.
Tierney doubts she will ever conquer her illness but refuses to be defeated by it. "Depression is only a temporary thing," she says now. "I've often thought that if people who committed suicide could wake up the next morning they'd ask themselves, 'Now why in the world did I do that?' "
By the Hollywood standards of her time, Gene Eliza Tierney represented high society—a touch of class. Born in Brooklyn, she was brought up expensively in Fairfield County, Conn. Her appearance-conscious father, Howard Tierney, was an insurance broker who saw to it that Gene attended the right private schools in the U.S. and Switzerland and that she trod the carefully chosen path of the debutante.
Gene, however, was "discovered," as Hollywood used to say, while on a guided tour of the Warner Bros, lot in 1938. (She swears that director Anatole Litvak took one look at her and actually uttered the words, "Young woman, you ought to be in pictures.") Despite her striking beauty (her contract stipulated that her distinctive, slightly protruding front teeth were not to be tampered with), studio moguls seemed befuddled by the problem of casting their 18-year-old ingenue. Her early Hollywood years required her to do little more than lean fetchingly against pieces of scenery. Even that was enough to catch the eye of starlet-fancier Howard Hughes, who became a mysterious presence in her life for several years. "The problem was," she writes, "I don't think Howard could have loved anything that did not have a motor in it."
In 1941 Gene eloped to Las Vegas with dress designer Oleg Cassini. It was hardly a politic choice. Though descended from Russian nobility, Cassini was disdained in parochial Hollywood as a "foreigner." Gene's parents, too, bitterly opposed the marriage. Crushed by their reaction, she was shocked to discover soon afterward that her father, whom she idolized, was divorcing her mother to marry a family friend. Until then Gene's salary had been paid to a corporation controlled by Howard Tierney. A harrowing legal battle between father and daughter followed, during which Gene discovered that he had spent her $50,000 in savings in desperation after business reverses. Hurt and angry, Gene saw her father only once before his death in 1963.
Soon disaster followed disappointment. She caught the German measles during a World War II USO tour, and because she was pregnant at the time the consequences were devastating. Gene carries permanently the scars of the day, more than four years later, when she placed her daughter Daria in a school for the mentally retarded. "The emptiness inside me was like a cave," she says. "She was a sweet little girl, with golden curls and soft skin. Physically she looked just like any other 4-year-old. I cried for Daria and I cried for me until I didn't know where the tears came from." Now 35, Daria still has the mind of an infant and is confined to an institution in New Jersey. (More than a year after the little girl was born, Gene was approached at a party by a former woman Marine who said they had met at a USO canteen two years earlier. The woman added that she had been quarantined at the time with the measles but had sneaked out to see Tierney anyway. "I just had to go," the woman gushed innocently. "You were always my favorite." Stunned, the actress said nothing.)
While filming Dragonwyck Gene met Jack Kennedy, back from the war and gaunt from months in naval hospitals. He understood her anguish; he had a retarded sister himself. Gene's marriage to Cassini had been reduced by then to a mere "entanglement," she says, and soon she and Kennedy became lovers. But he was a Catholic, politically ambitious and bluntly pragmatic. "You know, Gene, I can never marry you," he told her one day. "Bye, bye, Jack," she whispered, and walked out.
Reconciliation with Cassini brought Gene a second daughter, Tina (now 30 and living in Paris with her husband and three children). But the marriage ended in divorce in 1952. She responded by plunging deeper into her work, her mood swinging erratically between euphoria one day, high anxiety the next. She dated the leading men who played opposite her: Spencer Tracy, Clark Gable, Tyrone Power. She danced, laughed and sailed across Europe with Prince Aly Khan. She found him cultured and charming, "a playboy with twinges of conscience." With him, she enjoyed distraction, if not happiness. But time passed, the adventure palled, and her money began running out. Unhappy, she returned to America.
When Humphrey Bogart played opposite Gene in The Left Hand of God in 1955, he realized his co-star was desperately ill. He warned Fox studio executives, but they shrugged it off and told him, "Gene is a trouper." She was, and she finished the movie, but by then she was nearly helpless off-screen. "As long as I was playing someone else, everything was fine," she recalls. "It was when I had to be myself that the problems began." She was unable to make the simplest decisions and would begin sobbing with no provocation. She didn't recognize old friends and forgot conversations as soon as they ended. She was convinced people were staring at her cross-eyed.
At the urging of her brother, Gene entered a sanitarium in New York City. "And there, to my eternal regret," she says, "I received my first electric shock therapy." At the time doctors saw great promise in the technique; it seemed almost a cure-all for some mental problems. But relief was only temporary. At a second mental institution in Connecticut, she received additional treatments. "It was the most degrading time of my life," she recalls. "I felt like a lab rat." Once, pinioned by restraints, she remembers hoping that a young doctor would happen by and, smitten by her looks, release her. Each confinement brought fleeting relief, periods when she was completely lucid—but they were followed by agonizing relapses. Inexorably, she was bound for the window ledge. There, poised to end her life, Gene now believes she took the first real step toward saving herself.
"I was cleaning the windows," she blithely explained to police, who arrived in a wail of sirens. But Gene's horrified family was not so easily fooled. This time they tried the famed Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kans. There would be no more electric shock treatments, only rest, talk therapy and, finally, a $40-a-week job in a local dress shop. On the mend, Gene met Houston oilman W. Howard Lee while vacationing in Aspen, Colo. He was in the process of divorcing Hedy Lamarr and acquiescing to a settlement that left him merely a millionaire. "Oh no," he cried when friends suggested he take out Gene, "not another actress!"
Their courtship flourished, however, even after she readmitted herself to Menninger's a few months later. Warned that Gene's illness would doubtless recur and that he should think carefully about any romantic involvement, Lee, now 70, responded with unswerving affection and understanding. The couple was married in 1960. Gene fulfilled her obligations in Hollywood, played a few roles on TV and went into quiet retirement. The Lees spend most of the year in Houston and the rest at their new condominium in Delray Beach, Fla. "Howard likes to take care of people he cares for," says Gene appreciatively. "The only time I was really happy was in my childhood—and now."
Though doctors have found no explanation for her periodic relapses, Gene believes the cause is genetic. "They do know," she says, "that there are changes in the blood of a person who has what I do. They say maybe if I hadn't had the stresses I had, it might never have surfaced. But I'm not blaming anyone for my problems." Sometimes, when ill, she stuffs herself with candy and fattening foods, convinced that she is pregnant and "eating for two." Once Howard had to bring her home in the middle of the night after she began pounding on a neighbor's door and calling for Daria. Invariably, her hallucinations disappear as suddenly as they begin. "It's like lifting a curtain," Gene says. "I'll turn to Howard and say, 'Howard, have I been sick?' and he'll say, 'Oh, boy, have you ever,' and we'll laugh about it."
No one, at this point, knows Gene's problems as well as she does herself. "The doctors told me, 'If you break an arm or a leg it takes months for it to really heal, and years for it to be the same again. So you can imagine the problems with a broken mind,' " she says. "Of course, knowing the trouble is going to come back isn't easy, but I just have to face that fact and know I'll muddle through. Everybody's pulling for me," she adds quietly. "I'm as happy as I can be. Even the voices that I hear are sweet."
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En route for Milan. It's that time of the year; the Milan furniture salon is just round the corner and the design world is in pandemonium. To give you an idea of the countless events throughout the city we have compiled a list of what we consider to be the most promising among them.
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by Thomas WagnerIt could well be the sensation at Orgatec: For Wilkhahn the designer Stefan Diez has designed a stackable chair featuring technology from the automobile industry that cuts a fine figure not only in the office.
On the silver screen and at Orgatec, office environments are depicted as having a life of their own. What kind of image of reality do they convey? A rummage through the film archives and walkabout in the trade fair halls.
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Milan in four bags or: Design, theatrical, practical, feudal and universal
by Thomas WagnerPerhaps everything on show in Milan at the exhibition center in Rho, in the booths of Superstudio Più, in showrooms and back-yard workshops ultimately fits into four bags. Let's see if it does. What would we write on the movable containers if we were to put in them the things we noticed among all the abundance?
With "Chassis" by Stefan Diez, office furniture specialist Wilkhahn is presenting a chair at the Salone del Mobile in Milan that is more than just a chair and can do more than simply shine in an office or conference room. For "Chassis" is now also available with various fabric covers and interchangeable seat shells, Thomas Wagner spoke to Jochen Hahne, Burkhard Remmers and Stefan Diez about the "Chassis" system.


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Jepara Carving, Indonesia
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One image that has been so entrenched in Jepara is a predicate as the "City of Carving". Wood carving has become an idiom Maya Raden Kartini's hometown, Jepara, and even yet there are other cities that deserve to be called commensurate with industry to craft furniture from Jepara carving. But for this, Jepara has tread a very long journey. Since the golden age of Hindu countries in Central Java, Jepara has been known as a port north coast of Java, which also serves the communication gateway between the Javanese kingdom of China and India premises.
Similarly, when the first Islamic kingdom in Demak, Jepara has been made as well as the northern port and trading center of the war fleet base. In the spread of Islam, Jepara also used as the "devotion" Sunan Kalijaga who developed a wide range of art including sculpture.
Another factor for the background ofthe development of the Jepara wood carving are immigrants from China who later settled. In the record of the history of wood carving also can not be removed from the role of Queen Kalinyamat. During her reign she had a vizier named "Sungging Badarduwung" which comes from the State Campa Patih chisel proved an expert who volunteered to teach his skill to the community surrounding. The evidence can still be seen from the reign of Queen Kalinyamat sculpture. This is the carving stone ornament in the Mantingan Mosque.
In addition, the role of Maya Raden Kartini in developing the art of carving is also very big. Maya Raden Kartini who see the lives of the craftsmen was also moved from poverty, inner piqued, so she determined to raise the life of the craftsmen. He called several craftsmen from rear mount (now become Mulyoharjo village) under the leadership of Singowiryo, to jointly make the carving on the back of regency. By Maya Raden Kartini, they were asked to make various types of carving, such as chest seam, ketch table, picture frames, cigarette, place jewelry and other souvenir items. The goods were then sold by Raden Kartini Maya to Semarang and Batavia (now Jakarta), so it was found that Jepara carving is very famous.
After many orders were coming, the result of increased production of the craftsmen Jepara type bridal chairs, wind archery equipment, and the bridal bed room divider as well as various types of guest chairs and dining chairs. Maya Raden Kartini also begun to introduce Jepara carving out of the country. Raden Kartini Maya gave souvenirs to her friend abroad. Consequently carving continues to grow and orders kept coming. All sales of goods, after deducting of cost production and postage, the money handed over intact to the craftsmen.
To support the development of Jepara carving that has been initiated by Maya Raden Kartini, in 1929 arose the idea of some of the natives to establish a vocational school. Right at the date of July 1, 1929, majoring in carpentry school furniture and sculpture opened in the name of "Openbare Ambachtsschool" which later evolved into the State Technical School and then became Middle School Craft Industry Affairs.
Given these vocational schools, crafts and carving broaden in society and the more children entered the carving school in order to gain proficiency in the field of furniture and sculpture. Inside this school to be taught a variety of designs and decorative Indonesia carved motifs which was originally not known by the people of Jepara. The characters who have contributed in the development of educational institutions through this motif is Raden Ngabehi Projo Sukemi which develops motifs of Majapahit and Pajajaran and Raden Ngabehi Wignjopangukir developed Pajajaran and Balinese motifs.
Increasing numbers of motifs carved controlled by the craftsmen of Jepara, Jepara carving furniture increasingly in demand. The traders began to exploit this opportunity, to get new goods to meet consumer demand, both located in the overseas.
Jepara community capacity in the field of wood carving is also tinged with a legend. Narrated, in ancient times there is an artist named Ki Adi Sungging Luwih who lives in a kingdom. The fame of these artists are heard by the king who then ordered the empress picture. Long story short, Ki Sungging successfully complete the order properly. But when he would add a black color on the hair, black ink had splashed at groin section of the empress image so it looks like a mole. This image was later handed over to the king who was very impressed on the work of Ki Sungging.
But the king also suspicious because he saw a mole at the base of thigh. Ki Sungging had been expected to see naked empress. Therefore, the king intends to punish Ki Sungging by making sculpture in the air with the kite. At the appointed time ki Sungging on the kite with the completion of a chisel to make a statue of the empress.
But because the wind was blowing hard, semi-finished statue was eventually carried by wind and crashed on the island of Bali. This thing was eventually found by the people of Bali, so that local communities now known as the experts make a sculpture. While the sculpting tools are falling behind the mountain and the supposedly from Jepara carving this region began to flourish.
Typical characteristics of Jepara Carving Motif
Apart from legend and history, Jepara carving now been able to evolve and even is one part of the "breath of life and the pulse of the economy" of Jepara community. Jepara carving takes the form of leaves. Some say it is the leaves of plants wuni. Wuni clay is a type of grass that grow in Jepara. Plants that have small pieces that favored birds. Wuni plant form is processed into beautiful shapes.
Characteristic of the inscription, illustrated leaves arching gracefully curved. As if there is rhythm. Leaves pointed ends. Small fruits carved gather. Sometimes, added carvings of birds who want to peck the fruit.
And the other hallmark is the color. Jepara carving uses more natural color (the color of the wood). The tradition that maintains the authenticity of the color of wood is not separated from Jepara area that is not bound by the palace as the central control because it is relatively far away, so the symbolism of color in kejawen (java culture) not so apparent in Jepara carving style.
Some examples of Jepara carving style that still uses the natural forces present in door carvings on the thunder and pole marquee of Demak Mosque. Carving motifs used in general possess a naturalists such as those found in Jepara carving style.
But in today's developments, color engraving is more widely used as decorative elements. In addition to present the impression of color that have been aged long items, such as blue green, red, yellow gold, or dark colors a bit dull.
Jepara carving style is used a lot of engravings on wooden crates. Desk chairs are also available. But, now rare engravings on the furniture anymore.
Typical Identity For Carving Cultural References
After experiencing the change to craft industry, especially when viewed in terms of socio-economic, Jepara wood carving proceeded rapidly, so get the title as the city of carving otherwise known as The World of Jepara Carving Center. Having managed to master the national market. However, due to the dynamic development of economy, national markets are not a guarantee, because outside it's share of the market is still wide open. Therefore we need specific tips to be able to break through the international market.
To do this Jepara carving industries go to any market expansion through the exhibitions, but also made arrangements in the area. These steps taken by the effort to improve the quality of Jepara carving muebel, production management and marketing management. In addition, developed "The spirit of Jepara Incorporated", union of employers Jepara in entering the export market, which demands proper preparation because of competition is so tight.
To improve the quality of human resources for example, carried out through secondary school education of Handicraft Industry Affairs and Technology Academy Timber and non-formal education through courses and exercises. With increase of human resources quality is expected to spur not only quality products, but at also boost the capability of the artisans and entrepreneurs in reading Jepara market opportunities with all its demands.
Improved product quality and quality control has became an obsession in entering international markets, which aims to increase the confidence of foreign industrial products from Jepara. Therefore quality control with reference to the international standard system is crucial. This business is conducted through the guidance of producers in order to maintain product quality in order to guarantee quality of service as where required in ISO 9000.
In addition, the expansion and intensification of the market continues to be done in order to increase exports as well as broadening the international market with products that have variety potential, as well as increased transport market intelligence to gain foreign markets. Thus employers can accurately and quickly anticipate opportunities and challenges of international market. Conceptual steps are performed continuously and success has been its impact felt by society in Jepara, in the form of increased welfare. From the existing statictic data can be used as a mirror of the success of carved furniture sector in the last five years.
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- jepara wood doors
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That's a beautiful motif on the wood carving work at the picture.
hi this is dr.ali from antique world company interested to purchase some wood carving work hope you can send pictures of your work with deferent kind work of all you have and will work to gother to achive good business if you interested to do work with me and i have long experiance with jebara work so please reply my e-mail soonest you receive.


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Fine Mineral Fibers
Hazard Summary-Created in April 1992; Revised in January 2000
Fine mineral fibers include glasswool, rockwool, slagwool, glass filaments,
and ceramic fibers. There is no information available on the acute
(short-term) effects of fine mineral fibers in humans. Glasswool,
rockwool, and slagwool administered by inhalation produced little pulmonary
fibrosis in animals. Two epidemiological studies did not show a
relationship between occupational exposure to glass mineral fibers and
adverse clinical signs or mortality. Studies in humans have shown
mixed results regarding exposure to glasswool, glass filaments, rockwool,
and slagwool and an increase in cancer. Animal studies have not
shown an increase in lung or respiratory tract tumors from exposure to
glasswool, rockwool, or slagwool by inhalation, while animal studies have
shown mixed results from exposure to ceramic fibers. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has classified glass fibers and ceramic fibers as Group 2B, possibly carcinogenic to humans, and glass filaments, glass wool, rock wool, and slag wool as Group 3, not classifiable as to their carcinogenicity to humans.
Please Note: The main sources of information for this fact sheet are IARC's Monograph on the Evaluation of the Carcinogenic Risk of Chemicals to Man: Man-Made Mineral Fibres and the State of California's Toxic Air Contaminant List Summary on Fine Mineral Fibers.
- Most glasswool, rockwool, and slagwool is used for thermal and acoustical insulation in the construction industry. (2)
- Glass filaments are used mainly as textiles and as reinforcement materials in plastics. (2)
- Ceramic fibers are being produced in increasingly large amounts for high-temperature insulation and in specialty products; they are a significant replacement for asbestos. (2)
Sources and Potential Exposure
- Emissions of fine mineral fibers have been reported in industries including crude petroleum and natural gas extraction, manufacture of aircraft and parts, and electrical services industries. (1)
- Fine mineral fibers are generally not used in home, commercial, and industrial insulation products used in the U.S. (1)
- The primary route of human exposure to fine mineral fibers is by inhalation, mainly during their manufacture, formulation, and use. (2)
Assessing Personal Exposure
- No information is available on assessing personal exposure to fine mineral fibers.
Health Hazard InformationAcute Effects:
- There is no information available on the acute effects of fine mineral fibers in humans.
- Glasswool, rockwool, and slagwool administered by inhalation produced little pulmonary fibrosis in animals. (2)
- Two epidemiological studies have shown no relationship between occupational exposure to glass mineral fibers and adverse clinical signs or mortality, although the prevalence of small opacities in the lungs of exposed workers was increased in one study. (1)
- EPA has not established a Reference Concentration (RfC) or a Reference Dose (RfD) for fine mineral fibers.
- No studies are available regarding the reproductive or developmental effects of fine mineral fibers in humans or animals.
Glass filaments:
- A study of glasswool workers in the U.S. showed a slight increase in mortality from respiratory cancer, however, this increase was not statistically significant. (2)
- A European study showed no overall excess mortality from lung cancer related to glasswool exposure in humans. (2)
- A study of Canadian glasswool workers showed a substantially increased mortality from lung cancer, which was statistically significant, but was not related to time since first exposure or to duration of exposure. (2)
- In inhalation studies in rats, there was no significant increase in lung tumors from exposure to glasswool, however a few respiratory tract tumors occurred. (2)
- EPA has not classified glasswool for carcinogenicity.
- IARC has classified glasswool as Group 3, not classifiable as to their carcinogenicity to humans. (2)
Rockwool and Slagwool:
- There was no increase in respiratory cancer among glass filament workers in the U.S. and no increase in lung cancer in the European workers. (2)
- No statistically increase in tumor incidence were seen in experiments in which glass filaments of relatively large diameter (>3 µm) were administered intraperitoneally to rats. (2)
- EPA has not classified glass filaments for carcinogenicity.
- IARC has classified glass filaments as Group 3, not classifiable as to their carcinogenicity to humans. (2)
Ceramic fibers:
- A study of rockwool/slagwool workers in the U.S. indicated a statistically significant increase in mortality from respiratory cancer. (2)
- In a study of European workers, there was an overall, statistically nonsignificant increase in lung cancer among rockwool/slagwool workers. (2)
- In two studies in which rats were exposed to rockwool by inhalation, no statistically significant increase in lung tumor incidence was seen. (2)
- In an inhalation study of slagwool in rats and hamsters, no increase in the incidence of respiratory tract tumors was reported. (2)
- EPA has not classified rockwool or slagwool for carcinogenicity.
- IARC has classified rockwool and slagwool as Group 3, not classifiable as to their carcinogenicity to humans. (2)
- A statistically significant increase in lung tumors were seen in rats exposed to ceramic fibers by inhalation. (2)
- Two additional studies showed no increased tumor incidence in rats and hamsters exposed to ceramic fibers by inhalation. (2)
- EPA has not classified ceramic fibers for carcinogenicity.
- IARC has classified ceramic fibers as Group 2B, possible carcinogenic to humans. (2)
Physical Properties
- Fine mineral fibers include mineral fiber emissions from facilities manufacturing glass, rock, or slag fibers (or other mineral derived fibers) of average diameter 1 micrometer (µm) or less. (1)
- Glasswool is the major type of fiber found in manufacturing facilities using fibers less than 1 µm. (1)
- Rockwool, slagwool, glass filaments,and ceramic fibers are other types of fine mineral fibers. (2)
- Fine mineral fibers have high tensile strength, dimensional stability, high heat resistance, resistance to chemical attack and flame resistance. (1)
- They are composed mainly of borosilicate, but can also contain other mineral oxides. (1)
- Most ceramic fibers are white to cream in color and tend to be polycrystallines or polycrystalline metal oxides. (3)
Health Data from Inhalation Exposure
NIOSH REL--NIOSH's recommended exposure limit; NIOSH-recommended exposure limit for an 8- or 10-h time-weighted-average exposure and/or ceiling.
OSHA PEL--Occupational Safety and Health Administration's permissible exposure limit expressed as a time-weighted average; the concentration of a substance to which most workers can be exposed without adverse effect averaged over a normal 8-h workday or a 40-h workweek.
The health and regulatory values cited in this factsheet were obtained
in December 1999.
a Health numbers are toxicological numbers from animal testing or risk assessment values developed by EPA.
b Regulatory numbers are values that have been incorporated in Government regulations, while advisory numbers are nonregulatory values provided by the Government or other groups as advice. OSHA numbers are regulatory, whereas NIOSH and ACGIH numbers are advisory.
c PEL for general industry: inert or nuisance dust, shipyard (fibrous glass, mineral wool): total dust.
d PEL for general industry: inert or nuisance dust, shipyard (fibrous glass, mineral wool): respirable fraction.
e TLV for continuous filament glass fibers, fibers longer than 5 µm.
f REL for fibrous glass dust: total dust.
- California Environmental Protection Agency. Toxic Air Contaminant Identification List Summary for Fine Mineral Fibers. ARB/SSB/SES, Berkeley, CA. 1997.
- International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). IARC Monographs on the Evaluation of the Carcinogenic Risk of Chemicals to Man: Man-Made Mineral Fibres. Volume 43. World Health Organization, Lyon. 1988.
- National Toxicology Program. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service. 8th Report on Carcinogens. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Research Triangle Park, NC. 1998.
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). Occupational Safety and Health Standards, Toxic and Hazardous Substances. Code of Federal Regulations. 29 CFR 1910.1000. 1998.
- American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH). 1999 TLVs and BEIs. Threshold Limit Values for Chemical Substances and Physical Agents. Biological Exposure Indices. Cincinnati, OH. 1999.
- National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Cincinnati, OH. 1997.


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Cookies and Cream Cupcakes with Milk Chocolate Frosting.
Fluffy and easy vanilla cupcakes stuffed with crushed Oreos and topped with a creamy milk chocolate frosting. If you love chocolate, you have to try these. So unbelievably delicious!
What's black and white and milk chocolate all over? Vanilla cookies & cream cupcakes with fluffy milk chocolate frosting, that's what. Topped with more cookies & cream crumbles, of course.
I recently made Very Vanilla Cupcakes. A strikingly white cupcake full of delicate vanilla flavor. The cupcake batter is spiked with real vanilla bean. They truly are wonderful! Today's cookies & cream version does not use vanilla bean in the batter. I simply spruce up the cupcake batter with vanilla extract and a whole lotta crushed Oreos.
I love how the black Oreo chunks look inside the cupcakes. Like dalmatian spots. 😉
I considered topping the cupcakes with vanilla frosting. However, a chocolate craving hit and I just had to go with it. The milk chocolate frosting used should be familiar to you. I used it to frost my Triple Chocolate Layer Cake not too long ago.
The milk chocolate frosting is the fluffiest, smoothest frosting I've ever had. My one friend said it almost tastes silky. It is, hands down, one of my favorite frosting recipes. And luckily – it's so easy to make! Would you expect anything less on my website? I favor effortless recipes. Especially recipes tasting like you slaved in the kitchen all day.
The cupcakes come from a simple batter, with easily available ingredients. They are ready in about 30 minutes and the frosting takes about 6 minutes total. You can have a freshly baked cupcake in no time!
I have a lot of readers ask me – how do your cupcake liners stay grease-free? Well, this particular cupcake recipe makes about 15 cupcakes and the batter calls for only 1 stick of butter for the entire batch. There's not too much grease in the to start with.
But I have another secret. I often use greaseproof liners! My friends over at Sweets & Treats Boutique make a line of over 40 different patterned liners, all using their unique Colorblock greaseproof material. They also sell party bags, fun paper straws (I just bought several!), and other treat supplies.
I love the pretty back & white chevron pattern of my liners – it matches the Oreo cookie crumbles on top.
This is a new favorite cupcake. The creamy chocolate frosting, the crushed cookies, the moist and soft vanilla Oreo cupcake hiding underneath, and the designer cupcake liner – these cupcakes truly feel like a real treat when you're eating one. Fancy little mini cakes, all to yourself. That's one of the reasons I love cupcakes so much. It's your own individual cake.
If you love cookies & cream flavored anything, these cupcakes are for you! You can frost them with today's milk chocolate frosting or my easy vanilla buttercream. The crushed Oreo decoration on top is completely necessary though. 😉
Follow me on Instagram and tag #sallysbakingaddiction so I can see all the SBA recipes you make. ♥
Cookies 'n' Cream Cupcakes
Yield: 15 cupcakes
Fluffy and easy vanilla cupcakes stuffed with crushed Oreos and topped with a creamy milk chocolate frosting. If you love chocolate, you have to try these. So unbelievably delicious.
- 1 and 2/3 cups (210g) all-purpose flour (measured correctly)
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup (200g) granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup (115g) unsalted butter, melted
- 2 egg whites
- 1/4 cup (60g) vanilla greek yogurt (or plain; or regular yogurt; or even sour cream)
- 3/4 cup (180ml) milk (cow's milk, soy milk, or almond milk)
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 and 1/2 cups chopped Oreo pieces (about 14-15 Oreos)
Milk Chocolate Frosting
- 1 cup (230g) unsalted butter, softened to room temperature
- 3 and 1/2 cups (420g) confections' sugar
- 1/2 cup (45g) unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 3 Tablespoons (45ml) heavy cream*
- 4-5 crumbled Oreos, optional
- Preheat oven to 350F degrees. Line a 12-count muffin pan with liners. This recipe yields about 15 cupcakes, so you'll have a 2nd batch with only 3. Set aside.
- To make the cupcakes: In a large bowl, mix the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt together until combined. Set aside. In a medium microwave-safe bowl, melt the butter. Whisk in the granulated sugar. Mixture will be thick. Vigorously whisk in the egg whites, yogurt, milk, and vanilla until combined and uniform in texture. Slowly whisk the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients until no lumps remain. Gently fold in the Oreos.
- Fill cupcake liners 2/3 full and bake for 20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Bake for 10 minutes if making mini cupcakes. Allow to cool.
- To make the frosting: Using a handheld or stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, beat the butter on high speed until smooth and creamy - about 2 minutes. This creates a creamy base for the frosting. Turn speed to LOW and slowly add 3 cups of confectioners' sugar, the cocoa powder, and salt. Beat until sugar/cocoa are absorbed into the butter, about 2 minutes. Turn mixer to medium speed and add the vanilla and cream. Once added, turn the mixer to high speed and beat for 1 minute. Add the last 1/2 cup of confectioners' sugar if you'd like to increase the frosting's thickness. Pipe or spread the frosting onto the cooled cupcakes. Top with Oreo crumbles.
- Store cupcakes in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 3 days and in the refrigerator up to 5.
Additional Notes:
*I strongly urge readers to use heavy cream. You may use milk or half-and-half, but heavy cream will give the frosting a thicker texture. I recommend it.
© Sally's Baking Addiction. All images & content are copyright protected. Please do not use my images without prior permission. If you want to republish this recipe, please re-write the recipe in your own words, or link back to this post for the recipe.
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i follow you on pinterest & pinned a recipe http://pinterest.com/pin/40180621648077371/
Hi Sally! Thank you so much for this recipe! I've finally found the perfect Milk Chocolate Buttercream frosting! I've tried to add melted chocolate chips to buttercream before – disaster!! It was not even pipeable, and it began to crumble! I know for sure that this won't happen with this frosting! I'll be glad when I have the chance to try this delectable frosting!
Ok so I recently made these and the fresh strawberry cupcakes for my birthday… And I had such high hopes for them!! I followed the recipes exactly…. And sadly they didn't turn out very good. The frostings were both great! But the cupcake part…. It was like way too dense…. Kind of chewy. My sister in law is the cupcake expert in our family and she says she always uses a mixer in the batter to fluff it up and keep it from getting dense. But I read that you don't do that. Also I should note… I did bake the strawberry ones a bit longer than 20 mins because I kept putting a toothpick in and it didn't come out clean. I think maybe I put in too much puree and that messed with the texture? And maybe too much oreos in this batter? I dunno. Was kind of bummed.
hi sally,
I can't wait to make this for my son's birthday on saturday! can I use heavy whipping cream instead of heavy cream for the frosting? what is the difference? thank you for any advice 🙂
I will also be making the funetti cookies for his class party.
awesome blog..thanks for yummy adorable ideas.
Oh. My. God! These are the most delicious cupcakes I've ever tasted. I haven't even started the icing yet and they're halfway gone.
I've also made your soft cranberry and white chocolate chips cookies twice, they're so delicious! , and tomorrow I'll make the xxl death by chocolate mega cookie that just looks unbelievable delicious. I'm definitely going to put on on a lot of weight… Lol
Thank you!
This is a wonderful recipe, thanks so much for sharing!! I found that keeping an egg yolk in the mix, using cake flour, and cooking on 325 at 23 minutes helped. This enhanced the softness and moisture as well as kept the cream-look ( in cookies and cream). Of course you may want to consider that I was baking in a 90 degree kitchen with a small (half-size gas-lit oven).
I made these fabulous cupcakes today!!!!!!…. Goodness, I could not stop eating the batter!!!!, they're so good. My little sister ate here without the frosting. The frosting is off the chain!!…its milk chocolate flavor is to die for!!!, you are a great influence and an inspiration for me!!. I also made the chewy choc chip cookies today!!, you should win a Nobel Peace Prize!!!!!!!
These look fabulous! I love that you switched it up and have the frosting chocolate and a vanilla cupcake base – so creative! Check out my blog if you get a chance. 🙂
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Hi, for the crushed oreos do you crush both the cookies and the filling or just the cookies? And "Slowly whisk the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients until no lumps remain", does that means the wet goes to the dry?
Sorry for the stupid questions LOL just need some clarification. I'm planning on making these for New Year's Eve Party with whip cream and mini oreos on top.
Thanks 🙂
Sally, I concur with one of the comments above! I've tried several of your cupcake recipes and by far the best successes were the lemon ones and the peanut butter. The vanilla cupcake didn't work for me bc it's too dense :< I have a suspicion that it's bc there's no mixer/creaming thingy going. Could you give us a video of exactly how much elbow grease you put in the whisking/mixing process? I'm constantly worrying when I'm not using mixers bc I'm scared of over mixing. With mixers you have a 3-2 minutes guide which I find helpful..
I made this into a layer cake for my 15 year old stepdaughter's birthday doubled the recipe as you suggested to another reader and used the frosting recipe from your marble cake to ensure I would have enough frosting. I used dark non stick cake pans, so I think I should have lowered the oven temp to 325.. I think I may have over mixed it too, my husband noticed it was a little dense. none of those things took away from the taste though it was delicious, everyone inhaled it. and even my non chocolate loving husband loved your frosting. my stepdaughter loves chocolate and Oreos so this was the best of both worlds in her eyes. Thank you again for another recipe that has helped me stay away from boxed cake mixes. Homemade is truly so much better. 🙂


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Aussie rules on the volleyball court
It's not the first time the RDC volleyball Kings had a setter from Australia.
The Kings had Nick Bell on their roster two years ago, so when head coach Aaron Schulha contacted Sam Brisbane about coming to Canada this season he had a good idea of the calibre of athlete he was getting.
And he hasn't been disappointed.
Brisbane, a native of Melbourne, has taken over the starting role on the Kings who are No. 1 in Canada, in the rankings which came out Tuesday.
The 19-year-old knew coming out of high school he would have to leave his home country to play college ball.
"There's no real college sports there, so to go on I had to look overseas," he explained. "I looked at colleges in Canada and Aaron got back to me about a scholarship and from all I learned about the college it seemed like a good fit in terms of education as well as athletics. It's a good school with a good history and a good approach."
After contacting Schulha, Brisbane started looking more into the Kings.
"I looked up everything I could and what I saw online looked very good with the eight national championships in a row, and everything else."
So far he's enjoying his time at RDC and in Red Deer.
"I like the snow, but not the cold," he said with a laugh. "But I'm enjoying it here. The skill level across the board is very good. In Australia you'll have a high level of athlete and it drops down. Here it's overall higher."
Brisbane didn't know Bell, but knew his brother, who plays professionally. Bell spent just one year at RDC while Brisbane will be back next year.
"I want to finish my degree (commerce), which takes five years, so I plan on being here two and then move on," he said.
Brisbane didn't have the Kings starting position handed to him as he battled third-year Hunting Hills grad Travis Czainski for the job. At six-foot-three he does have height over the six-foot Czainski. He's also strong at the net when it comes to blocking the other team's power hitters.
"I hate it when guys hit the ball off my hands, I find it a challenge to block the hitters," said Brisbane, who is also working on other aspects of his game.
"I still need work on being more consistent," he said. "That's why I like playing teams that challenge us. I like it when I'm challenged defensively and I'm involved in the digs. When you're good at that everything else flows from there."
The Kings sport an 8-0 record, although they've been challenged more than once. Twice they've lost their first two sets in a match before coming back to win.
The last time was Saturday when they downed the University of Alberta, Augustana Vikings 3-2.
Schulha planned on working in practice on being more consistent, something Brisbane knows they'll need as they move along.
"We still need work in a couple of areas and one is consistency," he said.
Where the Kings stand in that area will show this week as they face NAIT in a home-and-home series — Friday at RDC and Saturday in Edmonton.
The women get underway at 6 p.m. with the men to follow.
The Queens, 6-2, will have their hands full with the Ooks, who are seventh in Canada and sport an 8-0 record.
• The basketball squads, including the No. 1 ranked Kings, face SAIT Thursday in Calgary and Saturday at RDC. Once again the women tip off at 6 p.m. with the men to follow.
The Kings have also been holding their second annual Christmas tree fund raiser.
Anyone can get a tree by going to www.rdc.ab.ca/christmastree. Pick up and delivery are available with free delivery on all trees prepaided by Dec. 1. They offer premium quality Balsam Firs with the sale going to Dec. 17.
• The hockey Queens return to action after two weeks off as they face Grant MacEwan Griffins Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Arena and Friday in Edmonton,.
• Two members of the cross-country team — Devin Woodland and Keiran McDonald — along with coach Jodi Sanguin and several high school runners, will compete in the Athletics Canada junior and senior championships Saturday in Vancouver.
• Volleyball dominated the Boston Pizza RDC athlete of the week voting.
Tim Finnigan, who had 33 kills, an ace, 16 digs and two blocks in a weekend sweep of the Vikings, took the top male award.
The women's award went to Amber Adolf, who had 26 kills, an ace, 18 digs and three blocks in a two-match sweep of Augustana.
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Reference ranges for each test would be helpful.
so I had my diabetes check up today and doc is, naturally, concerned about increased cholesterol. I told her about Paleo/Primal, and she encouraged me to eat more lean cuts. Which makes sense. I've been eating a lot of fat from non-grass fed critters. Any further insight from you guys would be great (especially if you can see anything that would help encourage weight loss). Doc suggested that going back on glucophage would help with the weight loss. Blah!
a1c- 5.8 (flag 4.5 - 6.0)
sodium- 138 (135-148)
potassium- 4.4 (3.5-5.5)
chloride- 106 (96-109)
bicorbonate- 128 (20-32)
glucose- 128 (65-109)
blood urea nitrogen- 23 (5-26)
serum creatinine- 0.9 (.5 -1.5)
serum calcium- 9.1 (8.5 - 10.6)
alanine aminotransferase- 23 (0 - 40)
asparate aminotransferase- 18 (0-40)
albumin- 4.2 (3.5 - 4.8)
alkaline phosphatase- 49 (25-160)
bilirubin- 0.4 (0.1 -1.2)
protein- 7.8 (6.0 - 8.5)
bun/creat ratio- 25.6 (3-40)
globulin- 3.6 (2-4)
a/g ration (calc)- 1.2 (1.1 -2.4)
anion gap - 8 (5-14)
GRF Female- 79.2 (59- )
cholesterol- 254 (100-199)
triglyceride- 191 (48-149)
hdl cholesterol- 49 (40-59)
cholesterol/hdl ratio- 5.2 (0-3.1)
ldl (calc)-167 (0-130)
ldl/hdl ratio- 3.4 ( - )
VLDL (calc)- 38 (0-50)
tsh- 1.85 (.23-3.07)
free t4- .98 (.58-1.64)
microalbumin- <0.5 (0 - 1.8)
urine creatinine random- 82.3 (-)
so, experienced friends/eyes, give me the low down on what that all means. See anything unusual?
Did not get results for total inflammation, LP(a), Vap, b/c doc said my insurance doesn't cover it.
She agreed to let me escape statin rx this time, b/c I promised I'd "work on it" over the summer. Have been meaning to cut back to leaner cuts of all critter, and also cook my way through Everyday Paleo in June. I think going fairly strict paleo for a month or two will be good for me.
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--Trish (Bork)
FOOD PORN BLOG! http://theprimaljunkfoodie.blogspot.com
Reference ranges for each test would be helpful.
Oh, sorry, lemme see if I can edit that real quick
EDIT: Fixed!
P.S. Started PB Jan 16, 2011. 5'5.5", 28F, 177 lbs as of this morninggg
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--Trish (Bork)
FOOD PORN BLOG! http://theprimaljunkfoodie.blogspot.com
Looking at it from a traditional perspective, your A1C and glucose levels would indicate excellent control.
However, if you are following a primal diet, I would question why your numbers are so high.
Type 2 diabetes (which is what I assume we are talking about) means that your insulin is less effective at lowering your blood sugar. But, to be ineffective at lowering blood sugar, your blood sugar would have to rise, which should really happen eating carbs or sugars. Other foods would have very little effect on your blood sugar levels.
I have type 2, and I almost never see my blood sugar rise above 100. It is usually happily hovering around 90... even after meals.
Your trigs are also higher than what I would expect from a primal diet.
I think that your doctors recomendation for glucophage (metformin) is a good one. Do you have any baselines as to what your numbers were looking like while you were previously on it?
They were only slightly lower on it. My fasting sugars are creeping up slowly. I've been limiting my carbs to 50g a day or less. Fasting sugar this morning in the doctors office at 11:30 was in the high 130s. My last meal had been at 7p the night before. My hA1c since Nov has been 5.5 (off of insulin), 5.7 (off of glucophage 1 mo), and 5.8 (off of glucophage nearly 6 mos)
--Trish (Bork)
FOOD PORN BLOG! http://theprimaljunkfoodie.blogspot.com
do you know for sure that you are type 2 and not type 1.5?
My doc believes I'm 1.5. I was diagnosed at 20. My mom's whole family is T2, Dad gave himself T2, too. WTG, Dad!
--Trish (Bork)
FOOD PORN BLOG! http://theprimaljunkfoodie.blogspot.com
If your doctor thinks you are 1.5, has he done a C-peptide test? That would measure the function of the beta cells, and tell you if they are weakening. You could also try Dr. Bernstein's approach to eating: 6g carb for breakfast, 12g for lunch, 12g for dinner. 30g total. Then add however much protein it takes to make you stay full til the next meal (with fat added for more calories). I find a heavier lunch and a lighter dinner (less protein) keeps me from having really high fasting blood sugar, but it's not normal blood sugar, either...
The fact that your fasting blood sugar is slowly climbing makes me wonder if your beta cells are getting burned out. I hope not! I'm crossing my fingers for you!
Type 1 Diabetic. Controlling blood sugar through primal life.
2012 Goals:
Maintain A1c of 6.0 or lower
More dietary fat, less carbs, moderate protein
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Fasting blood glucose is high, as are trigs, LDL, and total cholesterol for how much HDL you have. Don't know about the other markers. High glucose is explained by the diabetes, of course. You should get tested for 1.5 if your doctor thinks it's likely, the fact that your blood sugars have been creeping up despite a Primal diet is not a good sign; aside from insulin resistance it could mean pancreatic beta cell failure which would be bad news. Since high glucose is toxic you might want to consider insulin until you can control it with diet, this will spare your beta cells if you're 1.5.
What is your diet right now, and what was it before PB? Typical consumption of animals, plants, and "other" is enough (and type, please). Assuming you're 80% compliant with the Primal diet lipid markers could indicate export of triglycerides from your liver (curing fatty liver) as well as taking care of accumulated inflammation/damage, but the truth is that what's really important is the trend. If these numbers trend in the direction they're supposed to (trigs and LDL down, HDL flat or up) that's what you want to see but again if the trend is in the wrong direction that means something's not being controlled.
BTW, congratulations on being normal
Jan 2011 I switched to PB, re-unleashed my inner carnivore who was exceptionally happy about it, and started enjoying high fat, conventional beef (which I think might be culprit, since grass fed fat I guess is supposed to have less impact on LDL? Something along those lines, right? Which is why I'm okay with scaling back to leaner cuts until we can afford grass fed)
Breakfast is usually IF, or-- if I'm hungry-- bacon & eggs. Lunch is either leftovers or whatever I'm in the mood for (tuna fish has been an easy go to lately), and dinner varies every night but is usually meat & veggies. There's fruit in the house, but lately I've been trying to keep it to varieties that are not my favorite so they're easier to resist. Tonight we had broccoli salad with bacon, grapes, and apple, no dressing.
We eat a lot of beef, chicken, and some seafood & pork. I told my doc our week is pretty well balanced between the 4. 2-3 nights of beef, 2-3 nights of chicken, fill in the random rest with pork & seafood.
--Trish (Bork)


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Georgia Golfer to Receive Honda Sports Award
Marta Silva Zamora, a junior at the University of Georgia, has won the 2011 Honda Sports Award in golf, designating her as the nation's top collegiate female athlete in that sport. The honor was based on the results of national balloting among 1,000 NCAA member schools as part of The Collegiate Women Sports Awards program, now in its 35th year. Silva Zamora is the fourth University of Georgia athlete to receive the Honda Sports Award for golf, following Terri Moody (1981), Cindy Schreyer (1983) and Vicki Goetze (1992).
The Honda Sports Award is given annually to the top women athletes in 12 NCAA-sanctioned sports, along with automatic eligibility to become a "Top Three" finalist for Collegiate Female Athlete of the Year. Silva Zamora was voted over three other nominees for the 2011 award: freshman Austin Ernst of Louisiana State University, senior Lizette Salas of the University of Southern California and senior Kelli Shean of the University of Arkansas. The nominees were selected by finish at the NCAA Championships and rankings.
Noted Zamora, "I'm extremely proud to be named the Honda Sports Award winner for women's golf. I had a very consistent season from start to finish and I believe that was a big factor in winning. This award is an honor not only for me but for many others who helped and supported me...my coaches, my teammates, my family. It's exciting to add my name to the other golfers from Georgia who have won this prestigious award, and it's also neat to be included in the group of great athletes from other sports nominated for the overall Honda-Broderick Cup."
A native of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Silva Zamora was ranked No. 1 most of the spring and shattered the University of Georgia stroke average, finishing at 71.51 and bettering former Bulldog and current LPGA Tour member Taylor Leon's mark of 72.63 established in 2006-07.
She recorded 22 par-or-better tallies in 33 rounds played this season, finishing a cumulative 15-under par. She collected her third - and Georgia's 44th - All-America certificate from the National Golf Coaches Association (NGCA). She was named the PING National Player of the Year this spring by the NGCA, and was selected as first-team All-America by the NGCA. She also received the Golfstat Cup as the nation's leading golfer statistically.
Notably, Silva Zamora now holds first-, third- and 10th-best season averages in Bulldog history. She also led her team this year in virtually every statistical category including stroke average (71.52), counting rounds (100 percent), par-or-better rounds (22), top-10s (9), top-20s (10) and birdies (109). She finished her junior season in fourth-place at the NCAA Championships, her sixth top-five finish in 10 tournaments completed during 2010-11.
A standout student, Silva Zamora is majoring in Speech Communications and compiled a 2.97 GPA in 2010-11. She was the recipient of the Georgia Women's Golf Scholarship for 2009-10 and the Mary B. Dinos Scholarship for 2010-11.
Previously announced Honda Sports Award recipients include Kayla Hoffman from the University of Alabama for gymnastics, Maya Moore from the University of Connecticut for basketball, Katinka Hosszu from the University of Southern California for swimming & diving, Sheila Reid from Villanova University for cross-country, Katie O'Donnell from the University of Maryland for field hockey, Melissa Henderson from Notre Dame for soccer, and Blair Brown of Penn State University for volleyball. Honda Award winners in lacrosse, softball, tennis, and track & field will be announced in the coming weeks.
The Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year will be determined by separate balloting involving all NCAA-member institutions. On June 27, 2011, the winner will receive the Honda-Broderick Cup at a ceremony in New York, at which the top three finalists are scheduled to attend.
For more information about the Collegiate Women Sports Awards, visit www.collegiatewomensportsawards.com.
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2009 Corvette ZR-1620 horsepower make the ZR-1 the fastest Corvette ever. Get a first look from the 2008 Detroit auto show.
[ Music ] ^M00:00:07 >> Okay, so your Z06 isn't fast enough, huh? Alright rock star, this is gonna do it for you, the ZR-1. The new king of the Vettes. The first production Vette that will have a posted top speed of 200 plus. How do you get there? With the 6.2-liter LS9V8, puts out 620 horsepower, about 595 on the foot pounds. What do you do with that power? You put it out through a 6-speed manual, but you've got to use a Dual Disc clutch to get it all contained. It's an amazing amount of power and of course they do a lot of things with technical trickery to make this thing go fast. Super charging is part of the picture. How do I know? That's easy. It's right there under the clear window in the hood. When that power gets to the road it does so, on some big all wheels and tires, nineteen's on the front, twenties in the back. Those kinds of sizes were auto-customized or stuff a couple of years ago. Now, on the factory HotRod, bringing it down to a stop, that's also a big job, so that's why you'll find carbon ceramic combination rudders on the breaks. Rambo's of course do clamp on to him. Technology, you've got magnetic ride control in this car, which is the sort of thing that allows it to electronically change the viscosity of the fluid in the dampers to take care of any imperfections on the road in milliseconds. We've also got the heads-up display that is stocks seen that on the Z06 like it, it's got that cool accelerator meter for when you're cornering. If you get the luxury package you add some more toys. Navigation system, Bluetooth hands-free, but this car isn't really about the high-touch high-tech. It's about the high-tech go-fast. And it will probably eat cars costing three times its price. It's gonna be about a hundred grand when it hits the road later in 2008. ^M00:01:40 [ Music ]


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March 27, 2008, 06:12 AM
I have been watching the ever increasing cost of surplus ammo and shaking my head. Like many of you I have heard the rumor that the US govenment was buying up surplus ammo for the war effort. Here is a VERY interesting article about how and where our tax dollars are going...enjoy!


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Tag Team Championship
Current Reigning
NWA Western States
Titleholder Since:
July 29, 2016
The Vendetta Pro Tag Team title has been defended all over California, including in All Pro Wrestling as one-half of the "Unified" Tag Team Championships–along with the APW Tag Team title. In 2014, the Vendetta Pro Tag Championship became once again independent of any other promotions, with Vendetta Pro originals Creepshow beating the top-ranked teams in Vendetta Pro to claim the titles.
Upon joining the National Wrestling Alliance on July 15, 2014, the Vendetta Pro Wrestling Tag Team title is recognized as the de facto NWA Western States Tag Team Championship.
|Dos Perfectos
(Greg Hernandez & Jesse Jimenez)
|July 16, 2011
|Atascadero, California
|Defeated Aaron Solo & Kimo Kanaloa to become the first Vendetta Pro Wrestling Tag-Team Champions.
|Championship Unification
|All Pro Wrestling begins recognizing the Vendetta Pro Wrestling Tag-Team titles on December 14, 2011, and sets up a match between Dos Perfectos and The Sons of Texas (Dalton Frost & Jody Kristofferson) for January 14, 2012. Dos Perfectos win the match, becoming the first-ever "Unified" Tag-Team Champions.
(Sunami & Kadin Anthony)
|May 11, 2012
|Santa Maria, California
|The Ballard Brothers
(Shane & Shannon Ballard)
|October, 27 2012
|Santa Maria, California
|Won the Unified Tag-Team titles in an extremely controversial "Canadian Rules" match, where a competitor must be pinned for a count of five up until five minutes have elapsed, submissions do not count until ten minutes have elapsed, and a ring countout is 20 seconds. All three "rules" came into play.
|The Suburban Commandos
(D-Unit & T-Rent)
|January 5, 2013
|Hayward, California
|Defeated the teams of Sunami & Kadin Anthony as well as defending Champions Shane & Shannon Ballard in a Triangle Tag-Team match. Becomes the first team to win the Unified Championships at an All Pro Wrestling event.
|Pink Mink, Inc
(Matt Carlos & Rik Luxury)
|April 13, 2013
|Hayward, California
|On May 18, 2013, The Suburban Commandos defeated Pink Mink Inc for the Tag titles, along with three other teams. However, the match was not sanctioned by All Pro Wrestling (as the match has to be sanctioned by both organizations), because it was originally signed as a standard Tag-Team match. Neither Pink Mink, Inc nor All Pro Wrestling had not been notified about the other two teams participating, thus voiding the original contract and therefore, the match was ruled to be "non-title". Thus, Pink Mink, Inc retained the Unified Tag-Team Championships, and their reign as Champions continued officially as uninterrupted.
|Boyce LeGrande & Mustafa Saed
|October 26, 2013
|Hayward, California
|January 1, 2014
|Title vacated by Vendetta Pro Wrestling Commissioner Joseph Duncan. LeGrande & Saed retain the APW Tag-Team Championship.
(J.D. Horror & Sledge)
|January 18. 2014
|Santa Maria, California
|Defeated the team of Mike Menace and Buddy Royal, The Ballard Brothers, and SU/KA in a Four-Way Tag-Team Elimination match for the vacant titles. First Vendetta Pro Wrestling Tag-Team Champions since the Unified Tag titles were split.
|The Ballard Brothers
(Shane & Shannon Ballard)
|March 1, 2014
|Simi Valley, California
|As of July 15, 2014 with Vendetta Pro joining the National Wrestling Alliance, the Vendetta Pro Tag Team title is recognized as the de facto NWA Western States Tag Team Championship.
(Sunami & Kadin Anthony)
|August 2, 2014
|Santa Maria, California
|Defeated The Ballard Brothers in a Steel Cage Match
|September 12, 2014
|Santa Maria, California
|Championships stripped from SU/KA by Commissioner Joseph Duncan due to Kadin Anthony being unable to meet contractual obligations.
|Parental Discretion
(Mike Menace, Mario Banks
& Mike Rayne)
|September 12, 2014
|Santa Maria, California
|Already scheduled to face The Ballard Brothers in a #1 Contendership match, the match was made to be for the vacant Tag titles. Parental Discretion have elected to use the "Freebird Rule", allowing any two members of the team to defend the titles.
On May 16, 2015 in Lompoc, California; The Ballard Brothers won a four-way Tag Team match to become the interim NWA Western States Tag Team Champions, while Parental Discretion would continue to hold the Vendetta Pro Wrestling Tag Team title.
|The Ballard Brothers
(Shane & Shannon Ballard)
|May 16, 2015
June 12, 2015
|Lompoc, California
Santa Maria, California
|As Interim NWA Western States Tag Team Champions, defeated Mike Menace & Mike Rayne of Parental Discretion for the Vendetta Pro Wrestling Tag Team title, making Shane & Shannon Ballard the Undisputed NWA Western States Tag Team Champions.
|The Classic Connection
(Levi Shapiro & Buddy Royal)
|August 8, 2015
|Santa Maria, California
|Won the NWA Western States Tag Team title along with the Apex Pro Tag Team title in a Tag Team Triangle Tag match, defeating The Ballards and The Von Dooms. They put up their APW Universal Tag Team title, PCW Tag Team title, and FCW-LA Tag Team title, retaining all three.
|The Von Dooms
(Cyanide & Vintage Dragon)
|January 8, 2016
|Santa Maria, California
|Defeated The Classic Connection, The Ballard Brothers and The Midnight Delight to win the title.
|Alexander G. Bernard
& Jimi Mayhem
|July 29, 2016
|Santa Maria, California
|Defeated Holidead & Thunder Rosa, Shane & Shannon Ballard, and Champions Vintage Dragon & Espiritu. Espiritu filled in for Cyanide Von Doom.


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2012.05.07 | Belarus' government seeking investor for Grodno AzotThe Government of Belarus has confirmed that the investor they are currently seeking for OJSC Grodno Azot is expected to supply the company with natural gas at an affordable price.
A statement to that extent is made in Belarus' industrial development programme for 2012-2020.
One of the key priorities indicated in the programme is that the government is "looking for investors that have access to raw materials".
As previously reported, Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko approached Russia's Gazprom with a business proposal to retool Belarusian chemical company Grodno Azot or create a similar enterprise.
"I approached him Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller with a proposal to come to grips with Grodno Azot, retool and upgrade the company, a build a new enterprise like that", Lukashenko told reporters.
"It would come to around $1.5-2 billion and Gazprom can afford the price", Lukashenko said.
The Belarusian government considered the prospects of Russia's OJSC Sibur Mineral Fertilizer (a Gazprom affiliate) buying a stake in Grodno Azot to implement a fertilizer production consolidation project within the CIS framework.
OJSC Grodno Azot is a Belarusian mineral fertilizer producer under the umbrella of state-owned Belneftekhim petrochemical industries concern. Belarus' government currently holds a 99.97% stake in Grodno Azot, which uses natural gas as a basic raw material.


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Open House Group Photo!!
This is the proposed agenda for the Open House scheduled on the 31st of August 2012 – see venue details here and also RSVP please! (Heartfelt thanks to NSE for the awesome venue!)
Time: 5:30 - 8:00pm
Venue – NSE Auditorium, Bandra Kurla Complex – Mumbai
Admission – Free, no obligation, come and go as you like. No qualifications required – no criteria, no knowledge, no conversation, no Rodinhood Membership, no stress, no gyaan.
5:30–5:45 pm
Welcome address by Alok (Founder) and presentation of Agenda by Akancha
5:45 - 6:00 pm
Special presentation by Alok titled, 'How to sell concepts'.
Presentation highlights will include examples of how Alok introduced unknown concepts such as contests2win, mobile2win and games2win to clients, audiences and VCs while starting up.
6:00 - 6:30 pm
Guest speaker Nithya Shanti to speak on "Taking the Big Leap: How I left my job and followed my calling of being a forest monk."
Nithya Shanti is an internationally respected spiritual teacher, seminar leader, writer and educator, committed to sharing practical wisdom teachings for happiness and enlightenment with people in a joyful and transformational way.
Nithya completed an MBA from XLRI, Jamshedpur and then worked in the corporate sector. Despite having a promising career, he was drawn to pursue his spiritual quest further. In 2002, he ordained as a Buddhist Monk. After six years of living in forest meditation monasteries in Thailand, Sri Lanka and also various parts of India and the US, he was guided to live, learn and serve in broader ways than the traditional role of a monk permitted. With the blessings of his teachers he stepped out of the robes in early 2008 and now shares joyful teachings in happiness joyshops, youth programs, corporate trainings and meditation retreats around the world.
6:30 - 7.45 pm
The '5x5x5x5 Show, Tell & Ask' session.
5 Rodinhooders get 5 Minutes to present 5 Slides about what they do. 5 members of the audience then get to ask 5 questions about what they saw.
Hence the '5x5x5X5 Show, Tell & Ask' session
Akancha (firstname.lastname@example.com) will be timing the presenters and they will be asked to stop sharp after 5 minutes.
Format of the PPT to be presented is THIS – please download this and send it to Asha the Editor - email@example.com before the 24th of August to get a chance to present.
The 5 best PPTs will be chosen as agreed between Asha and Alok.
Repeat - Link of PPT to be downloaded, filled in and submitted - http://bit.ly/trh-5x5x5
Chit Chat, group photo, gang photos, mingling and connecting. If someone wants to say something, he or she can just grab the mike!
PS – Alok will be distributing 50 free copies of the Autobiography of Yogi for those who don't have a copy and want to read the book!
Still wondering? Then, check out the last Open House Round Up!
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Asha : we can add twitter hash tag #rodinhoods #rodinhood @rodinhood for live tweets during entire open house & specially @ 10x10x10 Show and Tell' Presentation
vishal: just do it baba - that's your portfolio!!!!!
#therodinhoods is a better idea
Hi Vishal !! Lets connect to plan the Virtual Connect Platform for the Rodinhooders who are staying out of Mumbai and for one or the other reason won't be able to come to Mumbai for each Open House. I have worked on a couple of options. Kindly share your contact coordinates so that we can connect and work on this. You can reach me at +91 98908 17339 or me(at)mandarjoshi.com or mandy.joshi (Skype)
i am in for the virtual connect - bhaviksparmar (skype), bhaviksparmar(at)gmail.com, 9923112603, Pune
I would suggest if there could be small tea break or that kind of a thing so that people can also interact with each other and exchange their business cards (if they have the cards :P).
My point on suggesting it is that It would help people knowing other people of their interest and who knows some may find co-founders | mentors | advisers in the social gathering. :)
rohit... the last part is for mingling & networking :)
Will not miss it this time !
This sounds like FUN! Will be mailing in my PPT as well! :)
see you guys 27th July!
Cheers, Pranay
pranay... haven't heard from you yet... hope you haven't changed your mind!
Amazing. Sounds like a litmus test of ideas. Do the presenters get any quick feedback (a minute or two) from Alok after their presentations?
Great !! nice to see the meet up evolving and getting better with every instance.