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It's inevitable that the dead will rise and humanity will fall, we just don't know when exactly it's going to happen. It could be tomorrow, December 21st, or a hundred years from now. For the sake of a MiddleEasy Halloween special, we are going to say 'sometime this week' and take a hypothetical journey into the post-apocalyptic landscape with MMA stars in tow. What you see here is a simple but open to interpretation top ten list that breaks down who would be the best additions to a crack team of survivors if they were all somehow to find each other in the madness. There are plenty of names left off that deserve to be there, but can't because of the whole 'ten' thing. Feel free to add your own entries in the comment section as long as you use the template: Profile, Main Weapon, Estimated Zombie Kills Per Day and Group Role. Happy Halloween!
: It's arguable he's half zombie already, which is a plus, but the thought of going into the undead apocalypse without the booze-drinking cigarette-smoking leader of Laughter 7 would just seem wrong. Sakuraba is probably the only human on earth that could recover from a zombie bite. All he would need to do is wrap his wound in some athletic tape and continue with the ransacking of liquor stores for 'supplies.' Sakuraba's main dynamic in the group besides his almost uncanny ability to track down a fresh pack of smokes on every run (which he disperses to the perimeter watch with a smile and nod), would be that of point man. Since Sakuraba is virtually indestructible, he would be taking the brunt of all zed damage of the front lines.
: Rampage may be a goof, but when it comes to the apocalypse we all know he will be standing atop one his gigantic zombie-crushing truck with a chain around his neck howling. And that's exactly the type of man we want on the team. Crazy is good sometimes, that element works well for the group dynamic. It's that kind of insanity/bravery that we would need from Rampage, the driver for the group. Not only does he have the gigantic wheels in his garage ready to go when the dead begin to rise, but he has the machismo to pull off the daring maneuvers needed for a good supply run or rescue mission. Bonus points to Quinton for being able to defend the vehicle while the ground team does their work. Too many drivers are helpless when not behind the wheel. Granted, he does have Dan Hardy watching his back.
: Every good driver needs a solid gunner, and Dan Hardy is just that. Imagine The Outlaw atop Rampage's truck manning a .50 cal machinegun, the fire from the giant gun reflecting in his eye, behind his kerchief a maniacal smile. Blowing zeds in half while traveling at high speeds is the ultimate thrill and Hardy embraces it. He pounds his fist on the roof of Rampage's mammoth truck and always tells Quinton to crank it and go for the big jumps on the way to town. The vehicle team of Rampage and Hardy is near unstoppable, with countless lives saved and supplies gathered by the duo.
: The farmer Matt Hughes would bring a needed expertise in agriculture and hunting, helping the survivors live off the land and expanding their sustenance beyond the rapidly deteriorating canned food and and processed products in whatever is left of the cities. The awkward feelings between Matt and Dan Hardy would be confronted early on by the group leader, just to make sure it's nipped in the bud. No drama, the group doesn't need it. So Matt goes about his day hunting and putting random members of the group to work in his makeshift crop fields. It's only a bonus that Hughes can take care of himself and knows how to wield a gun.
: Nate owns multiple AK-47's and knows how to use them, so he's the long range Diaz. His older brother Nick is the close range worker, implementing his expertise at throwing knives and nunchucks to take out the zombies at close range. The Diaz brothers are star members of the purely offensive strike team whose only job is to head into towns and other undead infested areas purely to clean them out. That's their only responsibility, and let it be known: they only go when they want to. They do know the gravity of the situation though, so when it's game time they throw their hoodies up over their heads and do work. Their secondary job is maintaining a small crop of marijuana plants adjacent to Matt Hughes' crop 100 yards past the old tree. They use the herb medicinally and the hemp for a great number of things.
: Brock brings his massive frame in as the human mule and tank. Being the large man that he is, Brock could lift up to 3-5 humans and 1 dog out of a nasty situation and into Rampage's truck if it was necessary. He can also carry hundreds of pounds worth of supplies and can carry back a well butchered animal shot and killed by Brock himself or Matt Hughes. Brock really is an all purpose member of the team. For offensive town-clearing missions and even rescue missions he suits up in a huge outfit made of haphazard armor. Side by side with Sakuraba, Brock can knock back entire schools of zombies of their rotted feet and into position for the Diaz's to clean them up.
: The brains behind the operation and the guy who could be considered the squad leader on the ground, Yves along with Chael and Tim Kennedy plot out almost every venture into zed territory with great forethought and tactical consideration. Yves is both a leader and a joker on the battlefield, relieving post-apocalyptic stresses with a quirky observation and winning smile. He rides shotgun in Rampage's truck (while wielding one as well) and is in the navigator role for most missions. He makes sure everything gets done and is always good for a few gruesome head-exploding shotgun blasts followed by a good one-liner.
: The voice of the group and negotiator. When approaching bandit encampments and other cities with living beings inside, it's Chael on the back of Rampage's truck with a megaphone to his mouth. A born speaker, Chael has both diffused and escalated situations quickly. If the scenario goes sour, Chael is ready and willing to throw down with heavy machine gun fire. Chael is the second in charge on the ground, behind Yves, but he sometimes leads a secondary squad into unfriendly territory if the situation demands it. He's also a humanitarian and is quick to give an inspiring pre-invasion speech to the troops.
: Sniper and overall leader of the group from a military perspective. Kennedy trains all new members of the survivors the ways of post-apocalyptic living. Need to know how to kill a zombie? Ask Tim about any scenario and he will explain in detail what you need to do. When not running the day to day operations of the base he is the group's long range attack. He scopes out all bandit towns and infected areas for any tactical advantages. All intelligence is then brought back to the group where the best gameplan is laid out. Beyond scouting, he is also the marksman for the survivors. This does limit his kill count sometimes, as ammo is precious.
: William Makepeace Thackery and The Crow said: Mother is the word of God on the hearts and lips of all little children. This is never so true than in the zombie apocalypse. Ronda Rousey will not only be a badass close encounter warrior clad in chainmail to stave off bites, but when she's so inclined she will be one of the mothers of the renewed human race. With the Rousey genes an indomitable race of humans will rise like a phoenix from the ashes of the undead. No piece is more important than hers in the puzzle. She will teach zombie takedowns in the courtyard in her off-time and when on missions she will fight back to back with Nick, clearing out the hordes while Nate and Tim pick them off.
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I'll have to check with the cheese guy at my Whole Foods to determine why the difference.
It takes 6 - 8 hours before the enzymes can release the primary amount of sugars from the flour's starches. So by the end of a day, it is understandable that we can get some good crusts over this time period. I prefer delayed fermentation for reasons stated earlier. As for Italian flours, for very good reasons that you point out, Italians can expect it in just 2 or so hours.
What did you find in the texture of your Italian 00 flour when you cooked it in the right time frame, without the use of sugar/oils, compared to your other normal processing with American flours?
I think this topic should be formed under a 00 forum-- it's unlikely to be sought under mozzarella.
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I'll answer here and maybe Steve can move the topic over to a more suitable location.
To the best of my knowledge, enzymatic performance and the concomitant production of carbon dioxide and dough expansion commence long before 6-8 hours. You know this when you see a kneaded dough ball start to rise. The longer version of this explanation, if you will bear with me, is as follows: certain starch-hydrolyzing enzymes in flour, called alpha-amylase, attack starch molecules or granules in the flour that are ruptured, or "damaged" during routine milling to produce dextrin, a translucent gummy substance. Then, a second class of starch-hydrolyzing enzymes, called beta-amylase, attack the dextrin to produce maltose, a form of sugar. The maltose, in turn, feeds the yeast (with about a 15-20 minute lag time as the yeast acclimates to its environment) to produce carbon dioxide. The carbon dioxide presses against the millions of cell walls of the dough and is trapped by the cells, forming gas pockets and forcing the cell walls to stretch, or extend, without breaking, thereby causing the dough to rise into a honeycomb-like structure. As all of this activity takes place, other naturally occurring enzymes in the flour, called protease, attack the gluten (following kneading) to soften it further, gradually reducing the elasticity of the dough as it rises. This facilitates shaping of the dough at a later stage without exhibiting excessive springback. Simple, no?
It make take hours or days for the process to be fully completed, but it starts fairly shortly after the dough had been kneaded. The rate of the activity can be accelerated or slowed down depending on the amount of yeast used, fermentation temperature, water temperature, retardation temperature, any added sweeteners, the amount of salt used (which acts as a regulator and keeps the yeast from growing out of control) and, quite likely, other factors. All other things being equal, I suspect that a higher gluten flour will rise more slowly than a lower-gluten flour, such as 00, because of its greater density.
A dough properly made from 00 flour will be markedly different from a dough made with higher gluten flours, and their respective crusts will also be different. In answer to your specific question about the nature of a crust properly made with the 00 flour, the crust will be thin in the center, with a slightly puffy rim (which the Italians call the cornicione, or cornice), chewy, tender, with some crispiness on the bottom, and very flexible. This flexibility is highly characteristic of a Neapolitan pizza, and it is said that to qualify as a Neapolitan pizza one has to be able to fold a slice in half at least once without cracking, a process referred to as "a libretto", or like a "book", or "portafoglio", or like a "wallet". The crust will also have an almost white color or light-tan color when baked. This is partly because no sweetener or oil (except perhaps to lightly oil a bowl) is used and also because of the lower protein content of the 00 flour, which results in less browning during baking than crusts made from flours with much higher protein content. The browning that will occur will, to a significant degree, be due to the so-called "Maillard" reactions, which are reactions during baking between protein and any reducing sugars (mainly glucose, fructose and lactose) in the dough.
The 00 crust of the pizza I made recently satisfied all of the above characteristics. The only way I might have improved it to any significant degree would have been to bake the pizza in a wood-fired oven or coal-fired oven with bake temperatures in excess of 700 degrees F. This would have produced a charring effect, through carbonization, that is characteristic of Neapolitan pizzas baked in a high temperature oven.
By contrast, a dough made with a higher gluten flour, including bread flour, will generally yield a crust that is somewhat heavier, puffier and with a coarser crust and texture (due to the coagulation of gluten and gelatinization of the starch molecules during baking), with small crunchy bubbles (and sometimes large bubbles), a slightly charred rim, chewier and with a somewhat tougher texture than most crusts, and with a somewhat more "bready" flavor. The color will be darker, because of the more intensive Maillard reactions, and especially if oils are used (which contribute to color through oxidation) and added sweeteners are used (which add to color because of caramelization). Of course, there will be some variations depending on the style of pizza dough made and formula variations.
Doughs made with 00 flour and high-gluten flours are on the opposite ends of the protein spectrum, and it is primarily the gluten content that will dictate the fundamental characteristics of the final product. Along with chemistry and physics and a healthy dose of art.
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Mr. Speaker, on behalf of my constituents of Don Valley East, I rise in this House to pay tribute to the extraordinary life of Pope John Paul II.
The Pope reached out and touched the lives of millions of people, not only as the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church for 26 years but as a simple human being who lived through remarkable times. In his youth, the Pope challenged Nazi fascism during the occupation of his beloved homeland of Poland, and later he played a key role in the fall of communism in that country with his support for the Solidarity movement.
In Toronto the Pope inspired the ecumenical work of the Scarborough Mission to reach out to people of all faiths and cultures. As one of those involved in the ecumenical work of the mission, I can attest to the fact that these efforts of the Pope have been quite successful locally.
I am certain that all members of the House, along with all Canadians, wish to extend our condolences to the Vatican, to Catholics and to people all over the world.
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Mr. Speaker, at a time when Parliament should be looking at ways to get people off drugs and crack down on drug dealers and drug producers, the government is pushing ahead with legislation that will lead to more drug use and an increase in drug related crime.
I am referring to the Liberal government's Bill C-17 to decriminalize the possession of up to 30 grams of marijuana or roughly 45 to 60 joints. The intent of this legislation obviously is to decriminalize the occasional use of marijuana. I do not know what the government is smoking but 30 grams of marijuana is a little more than occasional use.
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Mr. Speaker, today I would like to tell the House about a young man from my riding of Tobique—Mactaquac, a young man who overcame tremendous odds to represent his country at the sport he loves.
Two years ago, Eric Watson of Debec was in a horrific snowmobile accident late at night. He spent that night, one of the coldest of the year, outdoors, and suffered severe frostbite and hypothermia as a result.
Doctors questioned whether he would survive. He did not just survive, he thrived.
The road to survival was not easy. Mr. Watson, an avid hockey player, had to have his right leg amputated at 10 inches below the knee. Even as he recovered in the hospital, he told doctors he would play hockey again.
He is not just playing hockey, he is excelling at hockey. Mr. Watson recently earned a spot on Canada's National Amputee men's hockey team and will travel with Team Canada to Italy for the World Amputee Olympic Games in 2006.
I want to congratulate Eric Watson for turning a tragic event into a great achievement for himself and our country.
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André Bellavance Richmond—Arthabaska, QC
Mr. Speaker, the community of Warwick and the Bois-Francs region was immensely saddened to learn of the passing of Yvon Paré, a man who was very involved in his community.
During nearly 30 years, he worked for the sports service at the CEGEP in Victoriaville. This former football player with a heart of gold was an icon on the local sports scene.
He was committed to the development of young people and wanted as many student athletes as possible to be able to pursue their sports dreams.
Mr. Paré was also active in the union of non teaching professionals at the Victoriaville CEGEP.
Retired for a mere 18 months, he had continued his community involvement with many groups, including the Vulkins and Vicas football teams, the Warwick golf club, the recreation issue table of the Arthabaska RCM and the sports and recreation regional unit for the Centre-du-Québec region, to name but a few.
The Bloc Québécois extends its deepest sympathies to the family and friends of Yvon Paré. Goodbye and thank you, Yvon.
Qarmartalik School
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Nancy Karetak-Lindell Nunavut, NU
Mr. Speaker, yesterday, Tuesday, April 5, I had the pleasure of meeting with a group of students from Qarmartalik School of Resolute Bay who were down here on an exchange trip with Akwesasne Reserve students.
These students from my riding of Nunavut travelled thousands of miles from above the Arctic Circle to visit southern Canada.
The students from both communities were thrilled by the Parliament Hill tour, and I appreciated the opportunity to showcase to them the wonderful building and institution in which I have the honour to work.
Student exchange programs are important tools for students to learn about Canada and about each other's culture. We northerners love to share the beautiful part of the country in which we live.
The students of Akwesasne will soon go up to Resolute Bay to learn first-hand about Inuit and a chance to be in the Land of the Midnight Sun.
This exchange is an experience of a lifetime for both groups and I know they will treasure the memories for the rest of their lives.
Canadian Real Estate Association
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Dick Harris Cariboo—Prince George, BC
Mr. Speaker, he entered the real estate business in 1977 in northern British Columbia. In 1979 he became a director of the Northwest B.C. Real Estate Board. In 1992 he became the director of the Cariboo Real Estate Association and president in 1995. He became president of the B.C. Real Estate Association in 1998 and honoured as Realtor of the Year in the year 2000.
I am talking about my constituent and friend, Gerry Thiessen of Vanderhoof, B.C., a small town of just 4,000 people in the riding of Cariboo—Prince George.
On Saturday, April 9, Gerry Thiessen will become the new president of the Canadian Real Estate Association.
Congratulations, Gerry. His hard work, honesty, dedication and integrity has been recognized by his peers and I know he will serve them very well in his new role as president of the Canadian Real Estate Association.
Canada-Israel Interparliamentary Friendship Group
Statements By Members
2:10 p.m.
Marlene Jennings Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Lachine, QC
Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to announce that the Canada-Israel Interparliamentary Friendship Group recently elected a new executive, including the members from Thornhill, Nanaimo—Alberni and Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles as vice-chairs and myself as chair.
This unique forum allows parliamentarians of all parties to join together in their common support for Israel, a fellow democracy and the strongest Canadian ally in the region.
Our purpose is to foster better relations between Canada and Israel by focussing on our shared values, our common interests and the undeniable benefits gained from sharing and cooperating together.
We are working together as a group to build an exciting agenda for this coming year, and I invite all members of the House and the other House to participate in our activities. I welcome all members to join this non-partisan group, the Canada-Israel Interparliamentary Friendship Group.
Quebec Adult Learners Week
Statements By Members
2:10 p.m.
France Bonsant Compton—Stanstead, QC
Mr. Speaker, this week has been designated Adult Learners Week in Quebec. This is the third edition of this event designed to instill in Quebeckers a love for lifelong learning and to develop learning opportunities for them.
Extensive activities are scheduled as part of this week of recognition, the success of which will be ensured by 17 regional issue tables bringing together hundreds of partners.
In Quebec, 1.5 million adults are striving to pursue continuous training or working on furthering their education. The importance of the Quebec Adult Learners Week rests in acknowledging their efforts.
In the current context of plant closures, manpower retraining is paramount, and Quebec wants the emphasis to be on continuous training.
Let us now hope that the federal government willfollow suit by moving forward with the transfer to the provinces for manpower training.
Lazare Gionet
Statements By Members
2:10 p.m.
David McGuinty Ottawa South, ON
Mr. Speaker, it is an honour to pay tribute in the House today to Lazare Gionet, who passed away last Friday, just four months short of his 109th birthday.
Mr. Gionet was born in St. Paul, Middle Caraquet, New Brunswick. He followed in his father's footsteps, farming and fishing until he joined the army at the age of 20. After the war, Mr. Gionet married Lauza Hébert, with whom he had nine children. One of them, Armand, was killed during the second world war.
Remembrance Day was always extremely important to Mr. Gionet, who attended the ceremonies each November 11 until he turned 101. In 1998, he also took part in a trip to mark the 80th anniversary of the war to end all wars.
On behalf of all the hon. members and all Canadians, I extend my sincere condolences, in this Year of the Veteran, to the family and friends of Mr. Gionet. He will not be forgotten.
Statements By Members
2:10 p.m.
Helena Guergis Simcoe—Grey, ON
Mr. Speaker, on March 9 a team of 11 people from the Collingwood Church of God went to a small village in Paraguay to put the finishing touches on an orphanage that they helped build over the past year.
The team leader, Dan Miller, has led a number of these trips to help those in need in very impoverished areas. The team of five adults and six teenage girls raised the funds for their trip and were very involved in all aspects of the construction.
In addition to helping to build the orphanage, the team helped replace the roof on a local church and ran a one day youth camp for the local children.
While their trip lasted 14 days, the efforts made in Paraguay will have a lasting impression on the orphans for the rest of their lives.
It is with great pride that I recognize Dan Miller, Jason and Sarah Burt, Nathan and Amanda Westendorp, Alexandra Foster, Erica Jones, Jillian Grant, Amanda Cramer, Erin Wiley and Laura McGill for making such a tremendous difference.
It is incredible to see our youth with such a healthy approach to serving the community both locally and globally.
Forum for Young Canadians
Statements By Members
2:15 p.m.
Lloyd St. Amand Brant, ON
Mr. Speaker, I rise in the House today to acknowledge five exceptional students from my riding of Brant.
Throughout March and April, high school students from across Canada will participate in the Forum for Young Canadians. It is with admiration that I acknowledge those selected from Brant.
The event, which takes place on Parliament Hill, is an excellent opportunity for senior high school students from across Canada to study firsthand the roles and processes of government in Canada. The event is also an outstanding opportunity for younger Canadians to socialize with their peers and gain knowledge of the unique and varied aspects of Canada.
I would like to ask all hon. members to join me in congratulating all those involved in this educational and meaningful event.
World Health Day
Statements By Members
April 6th, 2005 / 2:15 p.m.
Ed Broadbent Ottawa Centre, ON
Mr. Speaker, tomorrow is World Health Day. The theme this year is "Make Every Mother and Child Count".
The global reality for women and children is that issues concerning their health are a low priority and Canada's Liberal government is no exception.
In a recent UNICEF report on child poverty, Canada ranked a shameful 19 out of 26. This confirmed what we already know; that the government has completely failed to live up to its 15-year-old commitment to eliminate child poverty.
Another report by the United Nations reveals that in the past decade the number of women living in poverty continues to increase.
Poverty is the number one determinate of ill health. If mothers are living in poverty then their children are living in poverty. It is that simple.
We call on the Liberal government to bring forward progressive legislation that will make a real difference in the lives of the thousands of mothers and their children who are now living in poverty. Let us get on with it.
International Aid
Statements By Members
2:15 p.m.
Belinda Stronach Newmarket—Aurora, ON
Mr. Speaker, this afternoon, Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University and John McArthur of the United Nations will share their views on eliminating global poverty with the foreign affairs committee.
This is a timely opportunity to remind the government of the commitment made over 25 years ago to achieving the level of 0.7% of Canada's gross national income on development assistance.
Canadians proved once again that they are ahead of government when responding to the tsunami crisis both in compassion and in generosity. Canadians would want their government to be showing moral global leadership in the face of 1.1 billion fellow human beings living in extreme poverty.
Tony Blair has shown that leadership pressed by the British people. Germany is expected to announce soon a commitment to reach 0.7%.
The government wastes enough money in its operations to be able to afford this and development assistance has now evolved to be very effective and accountable.
The government should honour its commitment to 0.7% now with a set timetable.
Daffodil Month
Statements By Members
2:15 p.m.
Réal Ménard Hochelaga, QC
Mr. Speaker, over the years, the daffodil has become the symbol of the Canadian Cancer Society's cancer awareness campaign. This flower, symbolizing life and hope, will be on sale during the month of April to raise funds to fight cancer.
In addition to helping fund cancer prevention activities, the money raised will help fund important research for all types of cancer, provide comprehensive information about cancer care and treatment, support people living with cancer and their families, provide training and education for volunteers and promote healthy lifestyles and strategies for preventing this terrible disease.
If we all work together, cancer can be beaten.


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The world is facing an acute food and nutrition crisis. Malnutrition is responsible for the deaths of more than 3.5 million children globally each year, and it is a contributing factor in more than 1/3 of all deaths among children under five. Even when children survive, chronic malnutrition can disrupt mental and physical development, often with permanent consequences. Malnourished children are less likely to attend school, and when they do, they are less likely to succeed. Studies suggest that, in the future, these children are likely to earn less than their peers and will die earlier.
Gardens for Health International (GHI) works to make growing and eating food a part of the clinical treatment of malnutrition. They work with the primary caregivers of children diagnosed with malnutrition, to design and plant home gardens that provide both dietary diversity and crop biodiversity—improving not only the health of families but also the health of the land they farm. They are also providing agricultural training with small animals to teach the families about livestock.
At the same time, they understand that seeds alone cannot resolve the complex and inter-related issues that contribute to the high prevalence of malnutrition. Their health curriculum, which is developed and delivered by members of the communities they work in, is designed to address topics (such as hygiene, family planning and mental health) that make it harder for families to feed their children.
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Gardens for Health International (GHI) continues to provide long-term agricultural solutions to chronic malnutrition. Nyiraruhango Marguerite's story is a perfect example of how this program can help break the cycle of malnutrition. Marguerite lives in Murandi, Musanze, Rwanda with her family. A GHI program graduate, Marguerite maintains a home vegetable garden and also earn extra income. Through this enterprise, Marguerite earns about $5 USD each week in supplementary income in the rainy season, and even earns additional revenue during the dry season. Using an average program partner weekly income of $3.00 USD per week, this means that during peak season, Marguerite's garden doubles the amount of income available to her family. Marguerite uses this profit to meet household needs such as health insurance and school fees.
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Skip to comments.Green tea, coffee may reduce stroke risk by 20 percent
Posted on 03/16/2013 9:54:26 PM PDT by Innovative
Coffee or green tea drinker? Don't put that cup down: Those beverages may lower your stroke risk if they're a regular part of your daily diet.
Researchers discovered that people who drank at least one cup of coffee a day lowered their stroke risk by about 20 percent compared to those who drank it rarely.
Compared to those who rarely drank either beverage, those who drank at least one cup of coffee or two cups of green tea a day had a 32 percent lower chance of having an intracerebral hemorrhage, a type of stroke that occurs when a blood vessel bursts and bleeds inside the brain. Intracerebral hemorrhages account for 13 percent of strokes.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
Next week there will be a story about how coffee and tea will kill you.
A cup of coffee makes me feel like i was just charged with rape and murder......Meaning VERY nervous.
I hate that because i realllllly like coffee......
"...The study shows that men who donate blood every six months or so may reduce their risk of having a heart attack by up to 88 percent, and their risk of having a stroke by 33 percent..."
Maybe you can find the right strength — possibly mixing regular coffee with decaf, so you can enjoy the taste, without the negative side effects...
This is very interesting, I haven't heard of this.
Thanks for posting it.
Fresh cells. I donate four times a year.
I still think exercise and diet matter more.
"Next week there will be a story about how coffee and tea will kill you."
Yeah, but the cause of death will be different. It's like all the "Ambulance Chasing Shyster Lawyer" commercials on the tube. This drug you are taking to fix this or stop that, causes you other problems or kills you. I really like it when they essentially list all the problems for which you can sue, including death, and then they say "call us." Just wonder how they are collecting from the dead people who call for assistance?
I think I'd have a stroke if the coffee ran out.
Eh....I rather just avoid it nowadays.
One cup of coffee can ruin my entire day.
I don't even drink Coke anymore.
Flavored Seltzer is my bev of choice nowadays....and beer.
it's good but still kinda sucks.... :)
teat drinker at v20% vs the guy that drinks 8 double jack and cokes a night?
I wants them to spend a few weeks and see who wins.
Paging Dark.
Please pick up the red courtesy phone.
That's good. I'm a coffee and green tea drinker who's danger of stroke goes up 20% every time I see or hear Obama.
Few people who would benefit — older people — would find their blood accepted (due to medications they take). Your statistics are based mostly on younger people who have very few heart attacks and strokes anyway.
Beer never put me in a hospital.
Neither did Gin & Tonics.
Neither did Diet cokes or Tea.
But coffee put me in hospital with stomach issues.
IMHO the best way to fight strokes is exercise.
Exercise helps clean out sludge buildup in arteries and
strengthens arterial walls. Side benefit is better resistance to heart attacks.
May be donating blood is like changing the dirty oil in your car? Get rid of some of the cholesterol & other bad stuff in your blood, and the body will produce replacement new blood which is cleaner and fresher!
I used to have cluster migraines years ago. These things are caused, basically, by tiny veins in your head and fluctuating blood pressure. No painkiller will even make a dent in them.
But if I could drink a small cup of coffee - and keep it down - that would be it. A couple of hours, and poof! Gone!
Sweet! I do both!
You sound like you need a pot of coffee (which is what I use instead of a cup)...
Gets rid of iron. Unfortunately, if you lived in England for more than 6 months, you can't give blood.
Coffee is like Viagra. It keeps you up all night.
"Next week there will be a story about how coffee and tea will kill you."
The older I get, the more I think, WTF, we all have an expiration date. I always marveled at interviews of persons who reached the age of 100 or greater. When asked what their secret is, the response was often, Jack Daniels and Cigarettes.
Between you and Joe it's a "push"!
There is research that says it is due to reducing total iron load in the body. Men and post-menopausal women are at higher risk than pre-menopausal women (studies corrected for age). What the iron actually effects.....?????
What's the effect of yerba mate (cuppa Jorge)?
As an ACE certified fitness trainer, I agree with you.
Right back at ya! Here is a piece on green tea from Sloan-Kittering:
Herb-Drug Interactions of green tea
Adenosine: The caffeine content in green tea may inhibit the hemodynamic effects of adenosine (18).
Anticoagulants / Antiplatelets: Theoretically, consumption of large amounts of green tea (.5-1 gallon/day) may provide enough vitamin K to antagonize the effects of anticoagulants and antiplatelet agents, though this effect has not been reported in humans (29) (34).
Atropine: The tannin content in green tea may reduce the absorption of atropine.
Iron supplements: The tannin content in green tea may reduce the bioavailability of iron. Green tea should be taken either 2 hours before or 4 hours following iron administration.
Codeine: The tannin content in green tea may reduce the absorption of codeine (18).
Bortezomib: EGCG and other polyphenols in green tea can inhibit the therapeutic effect of bortezomib (Velcade®) and other boronic acid based proteasome inhibitors (37).
Tamoxifen: EGCG was shown to increase the oral bioavailability of tamoxifen, increasing the potential for their interactions (38).
Verapamil: The bioavailability of Verapamil increased significantly in the presence of EGCG, thought to be due to P-glycoprotein inhibition by EGCG (39).
Irinotecan: A study found EGCG to inhibit transport of irinotecan and its metabolite SN-38 into biliary elimination, resulting in their prolonged half-life which can increase toxicity (40).
Cytochrome P450 3A4 substrates: Green tea extract inhibits CYP 3A4 enzyme and can affect the intracellular concentration of drugs metabolized by this enzyme (43) (44).
UGT (Uridine 5'-diphospho-glucuronosyltransferase) substrates: Green tea modulates UGT enzymes in vitro and can increase the side effects of drugs metabolized by them (51).
Acetaminophen: Green tea was shown to increase acetaminophen-induced hepatotoxicity in mice when administered following acetaminophen (53).
Interesting picture, it must be from the forties or earlier based on the fact that all three people are rail thin. I was born in 1944 and I remember when most people were really skinny, very few are now.
Actually I recall reading a report decades ago that was based on interviews with people who made it to 100 and the standout line was that most were, "HEAVY coffee drinkers and MODERATE alcohol drinkers".
Artist Edward Hopper
Year 1942
Type Oil on canvas
AHA, two years before my birth, my instincts are still good.
As keeper of the worlds worst coffee, I have to say that I have yet to hear of it inducing a stroke.
That coffee is spying on you Joe.
That's exactly what I said to my wife when she told me about this article. For every study that says x is good for you there is another that says x will kill you. I just don't pay attention any more.
Now I do happen to drink a couple of cups of coffee every morning and a couple of cups of green tea in the afternoon (which is why my wife was so excited), but not because of any perceived health benefits. I just like my coffee and my green tea.
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There is an estimated 150 million children worldwide living with a disability. For many of these children in the U.S., physical therapy is provided as an intervention mechanism to support the child's academic, developmental, and functional goals from birth and beyond. With the recent advances in robotics, therapeutic intervention protocols using robots is now ideally positioned to make an impact in this domain. There are numerous challenges though that still must be addressed to enable successful interaction between patients, clinicians, and robots - developing interfaces for clinicians to communicate rehabilitation objectives to the robot; developing methods for the robot to interact with the child to enable adherence to the therapy protocol; and ensuring that the robot can provide feedback to the clinician on patient improvement and compliance. Designing human-interaction methodologies that can tackle these issues may enable a new era of progress in healthcare robotics for children. In this talk, I will discuss the role of robotics and related technologies for pediatric therapy and highlight methods that bring us closer to this goal. I will present approaches in which these technologies can also address real-life therapy needs of children with upper-arm mobility impairments.
Please note: The speaker has requested that this talk not be webcast or captured. It will not be available on videotape
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Host: David Wettergreen
Ayanna Howard is the Motorola Foundation Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She received her B.S. from Brown University, her M.S.E.E. from the University of Southern California, and her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California in 1999. Her area of research is centered around the concept of humanized intelligence, the process of embedding human cognitive capability into the control path of autonomous systems. This work, which addresses issues of autonomous control as well as aspects of interaction with humans and the surrounding environment, has resulted in over 130 peer-reviewed publications in a number of projects – from scientific rover navigation in glacier environments to assistive robots for the home. To date, her unique accomplishments have been highlighted through a number of awards and articles, including highlights in USA Today, Upscale, and TIME Magazine, as well as being named a MIT Technology Review top young innovator of 2003, recognized as NSBE Educator of the Year in 2009, and receiving the Georgia-Tech Outstanding Interdisciplinary Activities Award in 2013. From 1993-2005, Dr. Howard was at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. Following this, she joined Georgia Tech in July 2005 and founded the Human-Automation Systems Lab. She also serves as Chair of the multidisciplinary Robotics Ph.D. program at Georgia Tech.


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Budget cuts will hit N.D.
Niles Eastman, Fargo
This letter is in response to the Minot Daily News article "Sequester cuts and the view" (March 26th, 2013).
It is easy, at this point, to look at the sequester and underestimate its impacts. The average American heard all the doom and gloom warnings for months, and then woke up on March 1 to business as usual. Similarly, it is easy to view the early impacts, such as loss of services at national parks, and think that the whole thing was overblown.
But we haven't started feeling the biggest effects yet.
It is a lot harder to look at the 200 North Dakota children who will no longer have funded access to Head Start and Early Head Start and tell them that the sequester really isn't so bad. It is likewise more problematic to tell the 2,600 North Dakota workers that are taking an effective 20 percent pay cut that we can afford sequester impacts. Certainly, all the kids in schools that are losing $7 million in federal funding (School districts that receive significant Title 1 and Impact Aid funding, like Minot and Grand Forks, will be affected the most.)
However, times are hard, and sacrifices will have to be made to reduce the deficit. The bottom line is that we, as a nation, cannot afford to fund the education of a thousand kids and compensation for the work of more than 2,000 workers at the same time we are giving $429 million dollars in tax 'refunds' to Facebook, a company that already made more than a billion dollars in profit.
So if when your kid complains about the crowded classrooms, or your neighbor complains about being unable to make ends meet, tell them to stop being so selfish. Think of Mark Zuckerberg's poor, underprivileged stock options!


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Issue Brief #3655 on Labor
July 6, 2012
July 6, 2012 | Issue Brief on Labor
The June employment report released this morning by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) shows a labor market treading water. Employment and the labor force grew only in line with population growth at 80,000, and unemployment remained at 8.2 percent. In short, another month passed without a significant reduction in the number of unemployed Americans.
Job growth and losses were modest across sectors. The duration of unemployment also remained essentially unchanged. The labor market shows no signs of improving—a marked slowdown from the steady growth in the first quarter. Labor market improvement will be made more difficult by the onslaught of higher taxes on investment and work due to hit on January 1, 2013—the so-called Taxmageddon.
June Employment Report
The BLS found[1] that the labor market improved little between May and June. The household survey reports that unemployment remained unchanged at 8.2 percent. Employment rose along with the population: Both the labor force participation rate (63.8 percent) and the employment–population ratio (58.6 percent) also remained unchanged.
The BLS also found little change in the time the jobless spend out of work. Even revisions to the previous two months were essentially flat, with losses of 9,000 for April and gains of 8,000 for May. The average duration of unemployment rose 0.2 weeks, while the median duration of unemployment fell by 0.3 weeks.
The establishment survey also reported little growth in the economy. Employers added just 80,000 net new jobs, with modest growth or losses across sectors. Temporary help services posted the largest job gains (+25,000), followed by professional and technical services (+18,000) and accommodation and food services (+14,000). Both manufacturing (+11,000) and health care (+13,000) also posted net employment gains.
Conversely, employment contracted in information services (–8,000), retail trade (–5,000), and government (–4,000). Seasonally adjusted construction employment did not change. Average hourly earnings rose six cents, while average weekly hours rose by 0.1.
Second Quarter Slowdown: Possible Seasonal Adjustment Factors
In the first quarter, monthly payroll growth averaged 226,000 jobs. Job growth has slowed sharply since then, with net payroll employment increasing just 75,000 jobs per month in the second quarter. This follows the same pattern as 2010 and 2011, where payrolls grew sharply at the beginning of the year only to stall in the spring and summer. This suggests problems with the seasonal adjustment factors.
In the latter parts of 2008 and 2009, the economy contracted rapidly. The BLS's seasonal adjustment factors may be conflating part of that contraction with seasonal variation. If that is the case, the "seasonal adjustment" in the winter would artificially compensate for part of the 2008 collapse—boosting the reported growth in those months. Year-on-year employment growth (which removes seasonal variation) has remained fairly constant for the past year. The first quarter growth may have been a statistical mirage.
Here Comes the Taxman
Many of the headlines on the Supreme Court Obamacare decision focused on the Court's finding that the individual mandate penalty is a "tax." Overlooked is the fact that Obamacare has billions of real tax increases that are scheduled to take effect in January 2013. The most harmful is a new 3.8 percent tax on capital gains and dividend income.
This is only one of the new taxes on investment scheduled for 2013. With the expiration of the 2001 and 2003 tax laws, the new top capital gains tax rate will be 23.8 percent, over 50 percent higher than the current level. Things are even worse for the rate on dividends, which will almost triple from 15 percent to over 43 percent.
These are taxes on investment, which means that businesses have to take them into account when planning for the future. More and more survey evidence shows that these tax hikes and Taxmageddon are becoming a paramount concern for businesses. The National Federation of Independent Business's June survey of small and independent businesses shows that taxes are the number one concern of small businessmen—even above poor sales.[2] The Federal Reserve Board found real estate, construction, and manufacturing citing uncertainty over the government's fiscal policy (such as tax increases) as their top concern.[3]
President Obama should make clear that he wants to sign into a law a bill that would prevent the 2013 tax hikes. The President has been absent on this issue, other than calling for tax increases on high-income taxpayers. Congress needs to vote to prevent Taxmageddon this summer in order to increase business confidence.
Stave Off Taxmageddon
The labor market is in a holding pattern. It is a bit better off than last summer, but it is simply anemic compared to previous recoveries. Job growth should be much more robust, considering the depths of the last recession. One of the reasons for the stall is the looming threat of higher taxes. With economic headwinds from Europe, it makes sense for businesses to put on hold some investments until they see what Congress does with Taxmageddon. Near-term, rapid economic growth hardly is likely given the increasing probability of higher taxes next year coupled with the troubles in Europe.
However, it is rapid economic growth that the millions of unemployed Americans need. Today's jobs report is yet another reason for the President to exercise bold leadership and lead the U.S. economy away from Taxmageddon.
Rea S. Hederman Jr. is Assistant Director and Research Fellow, and James Sherk is Senior Policy Analyst in Labor Economics, in the Center for Data Analysis at The Heritage Foundation.
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[1]On the first Friday of each month, the BLS releases an employment report compiling information from two labor market surveys: the household survey and the establishment survey. The household survey interviews individuals and asks respondents about whether they have jobs or are looking for work. It is the source of the official unemployment rate. The establishment survey separately interviews businesses and asks how many employees they have on their payrolls. It is the primary source for net job creation figures.
[2]William Dunkelberg and Holly Wade, "NFIB Small Business and Economic Trends: June 2012," July 6, 2012, http://www.nfib.com/Portals/0/PDF/sbet/sbet201206.pdf (accessed July 6, 2012).
[3]Federal Reserve Board, "Current Economic Conditions: May 2012," June 6, 2012, at http://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/beigebook/files/Beigebook_20120606.pdf (accessed July 6, 2012).


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MS Horticulture, Iowa State University
BS Public Horticulture, Purdue University
My primary role is to advocate for and soundly guide the development and enhancement of this amazing collection of temperate woody species. We are constantly adding new germplasm to this legendary collection, and I consider it a true privilege to direct the Arboretum's plant acquisition activities. I also work very closely with the rest of the Living Collections Management team to steward this dynamic landscape comprising some 15,000 accessioned plants. You may find me with our Manager of Horticulture placing stakes in the ground to design new planting areas, or reviewing the latest crop of new accessions in the nursery with our Manager of Plant Production. We do not curate objects (the plants), we curate associations of objects and information. Thus, to ensure these and other documentation needs are met at the highest of standards, I oversee a talented team of curatorial staff who are engaged in field checking, mapping, records management, researcher engagement, taxonomic reviews, voucher collection and preparation, and of course, good old-fashioned sleuthing.
I enjoy a number of scholarly activities that focus on the curation of living plant collections. One of my objectives in the Curatorial Department is to explore new strategies and tactics that improve collections management in botanical gardens and arboreta, as well as other natural history collections. Recent and on-going efforts include initiating new systems for assessing and developing living collections; trialing novel fieldchecking and inventory protocols; improving the management of conservation-status taxa; enhancing access to archival and contemporary documentation; and conducting post hoc analyses to improve germplasm collecting expeditions. Additionally, I participate in floristic efforts through domestic and foreign plant exploration that in turn add to the Arboretum's living collections.
A few interesting and selected publications
- Dosmann, M.S. 2015. A history of minimum temperatures at the Arnold Arboretum: Variation in time and space. Arnoldia 72(4):2-11. [pdf]
- Dosmann, M.S., and L.E. Pearson. 2014. Charles Faxon: Botanical draftsman and interpreter of trees. The Botanical Artist 20(3): 32-33. [pdf]
- Dosmann, M.S., and A.S. Aiello. 2013. The quest for the hardy southern live oak. Arnoldia 70(3):12-24. [pdf]
- Dosmann, M. 2012. Climate Change & Collections: Preparing now will give our living collections the best fighting chance. The Public Garden 27(2):28-29. [pdf]
- Dosmann, M. and A. Groover. 2012. The importance of living botanical collections for plant biology and the "next generation" of evo-devo research. Frontiers in Plant Science 3:137. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2012.00137. [pdf]
- Dosmann, M. 2012. Banking on the future of Fraxinus. Silva (spring/summer):2-3. [pdf]
- Kramer, A., A. Hird, K. Shaw, M. Dosmann, and R. Mims. 2011. Conserving North America's threatened plants: Progress report on Target 8 of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation. Botanic Gardens Conservation International U.S. [pdf]
- Aiello, A.S. and M.S. Dosmann. 2010. By the numbers: Twenty years of NACPEC collections. Arnoldia 68(2):20–35. [pdf]
- Hird, A. and M. Dosmann. 2010. Getting the most out of your BGCI Plant Upload. BGjournal 7(1):18–21. [pdf]
- Dosmann, M. 2009. Sustaining our collections: Are we? The Public Garden 23(3/4):7–9. [pdf]
- Dosmann, M.S. 2009. Malus at the Arnold Arboretum: An ongoing legacy. Arnoldia 67(2):14–21. [pdf]
- Dosmann, M.S. 2008. Curatorial notes: An updated Living Collections Policy at the Arnold Arboretum. Arnoldia 66(1):10–21. [pdf]
- Dosmann, M., P. Del Tredici, and E. Hsu. 2007. The Arnold Arboretum Sextet: NAPCC Collection Profile. The Public Garden 21(2):40–43. [pdf]
- Dosmann, M.S. 2007. The Arnold Arboretum's Living Collections: A Repository for Research. Arnoldia 65(2):30–39. [pdf]
- Dosmann, M.S. 2006. Research in the garden: Averting the collections crisis. Botanical Review 72(3):207–234. [pdf]
- Radford, E., M. Dosmann, and D. Rae. 2003. The management of 'ad hoc' ex situ conservation status species at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh: A review of options. Sibbaldia 1:43–80.
- Dosmann, M.S. and P. Del Tredici. 2003. Plant introduction, distribution and survival: a case study of the 1980 Sino-American Botanical Expedition. BioScience 53:588–597. [pdf]
Recent and on-going projects and collaborations of note
- Consulting for and starring in a three-part documentary on botanist Ernest Henry Wilson for CCTV-9, the Central China TV Documentary Channel
- Botanical exploration of the Ouachita and Ozark Mountains of Arkansas, with the Polly Hill Arboretum, Morris Arboretum, and Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission
- Biodiversity audit and conservation review of Acer griseum, with the Morton Arboretum, and Morris Arboretum
- "The North American Collections Assessment" to document ex situ conservation collections in North America to address Target 8 of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity), with Abby Hird and Andrea Kramer (BGCI-North America), and Ray Mims (US Botanic Garden)


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This is a topic that has been on my mind for some time now.
Sacramento in Northern California gets a range of weather throughout the year. Winter is great for tea drinking ... it is often windy, wet and COLD. However, in summer months, especially this year with the heat wave and droughts, the weather can be very, very hot (it feels like it has been mid to high 90s and above for months now).
So the question I pose is what is the weather like where you reside? If it is not conducive to tea drinking (even if for several months out of the year), how do you get by?


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Recipients of the memorial scholarship must be Sterling residents who are recent graduates entering an undergraduate post-secondary educational program in a medically related field. Applicants must be graduates (or soon-to-be graduates) of an accredited high school, possess a GED or have taken the Massachusetts test of competency for home schooled/ alternatively schooled individuals. Students can pick up an application form at the Sterling Fire Department, Conant Public Library and Butterick Municipal Building in Sterling, as well as guidance offices at several local high schools.
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Each year under Perkins IV, Congress appropriates more than $1.1 billion dollars in state formula grant funds under Title I (Basic State Grants) for the development and implementation of career and technical education programs.
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A prominent member of the Tampa Bay sports scene for the past three decades, Rick Nafe was named vice president, operations/facilities for the Rays in October 1996.
In his 33 years of facility management, Rick is one of only two facility managers in history to have hosted a Super Bowl (two), the NCAA Final Four and the World Series.
Nafe joined the Rays from the Tampa Sports Authority (TSA) where he served as executive director since 1992. He joined TSA as director of operations and Stadium Director for Tampa Stadium in 1980.
During his tenure as executive director, Nafe coordinated efforts with Tampa and Hillsborough County to build Legends Field for the New York Yankees spring training, and the Tampa Bay Times Forum as a home to the Tampa Bay Lightning. The TSA, under his leadership, also secured funding and designed the new Raymond James Stadium for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and USF Bulls.
Nafe served as venue host and committee chairman for Tampa's Super Bowl XVIII and XXV. He also was a member of the National Football League's operations staff for nine other Super Bowls. Nafe is a longtime board of director member for the Outback Bowl of Tampa Bay and also sat on the board of the National Alumni Association for Florida State University. After 12 years of serving as president of the Stadium Managers Association, he now holds the position of chairman and in 2010 was honored with the association's Lifetime Achievement Award. He also serves on the board for the MacDonald Training Center, the Department of Sports Management at Saint Leo University, Visit Tampa Bay, the Tampa Bay Sports Commission and the Florida Sports Foundation.
Nafe is a native of Miami and a 1975 graduate of Florida State University. He and his wife, Ellen, have three children: Travis, Parker and Katie.


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Does anyone have any interest in playing college fantasy basketball?
A few of my friends and I played last year through a basic website I made. We were thinking of trying to expand to using all of the power conference, but it was so much work last year that I doubt I'll do it again unless we got at least 60 teams or so. We only did the ACC last year. It was fun but updating the scores every morning manually got old.
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Founder Michael Dell and a group of investors, including private-equity firm Silver Lake, announced a $24.4 billion bid for the PC maker in February. Friday marked the end of a 45-day period that Dell's board set to allow for offers that might top that deal to take the company private.
Icahn has offered $15 a share for 58% of Dell, while Blackstone has proposed paying more than $14.25 a share, a source told Reuters. Michael Dell and the Silver Lake group had agreed to buy all of Dell for $13.65 a share.
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BUFFALO – First Niagara Financial Group, Inc. has promoted Gary Pacos to senior vice president, compliance and operational risk.
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Prior to joining First Niagara, Pacos served as vice president, deputy compliance officer and compliance testing manager for M&T Bank. He was also vice president, compliance testing manager for HSBC. Pacos is founder and chairperson of the Compliance Testing Manager's Forum, a national symposium for compliance testing in the banking industry. He also is currently serving on the American Bankers Association National Compliance School advisory board and faculty.
Pacos has served our country as a major/senior Army aviator in the U.S. Army/New York Army National Guard. He earned his bachelor's degree from the State University of New York, College at Fredonia. He also has an associate of arts degree from Jamestown Community College, and attended the U.S. Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) with both institutions. He is a 1984 graduate of Fredonia High School.
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Tom, I gotta finally say it! Please stop wasting these fantastic beers, some of which I cannot get. Send them to me so that I can drink them! I understand your intentions, but please just go buy a 10 dollar 12 pack of shiner bock or something and use that for your dough. The beers you are cooking with belong in the what are you drinking thread not this one.... Thanks/sorry -Marc
Tom,Each set of your pizza's keep getting better and better. I really liked that mushroom pie on the 15th and now this pepper strips an black olive pie looks real killer too. Have you ever tried any garlic powder along with your beer in a dough? Great work man! Bob
Those pies look great Tom. Using beer in my dough is definitely on my experimentation list.Pliney the Elder is 8% ABV and the Widmer Brrrbon is 9.4% ABV. As the alcohol gets higher do you have to compensate by adding more yeast? I would think that the alcohol would kill some of the yeast cells. Or is that not high enough?


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French Ta · per (noun): To pull an all-nighter crewing the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc before running the World Long Distance Mountain Running Challenge
Gina Lucrezi (left) and the author scope the final miles of the Jungfrau Marathon course before race day. Photo by Chris Hunter.
When I lined up at the 20th Anniversary Jungfrau Marathon in Interlaken, Switzerland, I felt the non-linear construct of time: I was simultaneously back in my kitchen in Carbondale, Colorado, on a cool spring afternoon watching the Jungfrau course video with my roommate, Gina Lucrezi, and also on the start line, jumping up and down, shaking out my legs, expelling nervous energy amid hundreds of runners.
As always before race starts, we took countless runs to the Porta Potties, to the nearby grass and, when there was no time at all, a few racers took a final pee on the start line. I felt as expected: An avocado-pit of nervousness churned in my gut and I felt as though I could puke, cry or both. And, yet, I was smiling. After days of dreary rain and fog, the sky had cleared to crystal blue and the jagged Jungfrau, the third-highest peak in the Bernese Alps, jutted into the sky.
The Jungfrau Marathon is one of the most scenic marathons in the world. It starts in the center of Interlaken directly in front of the incongruous American Hooter's restaurant. The course first makes a loop through downtown's mixture of ethnic restaurants, shaded streets and touristy boutiques and along the aquamarine Aare River that divides the town.
The route then passes tidy neighborhoods of gingerbread houses overflowing with window flower boxes and perfectly manicured front stoops—perhaps it's the cleanest marathon course, too. Then it goes along relatively flat paved paths, roads and crushed gravel trails for close to 10 miles before tilting sharply upward to finish on the Kleine Sheidegg—the mountain pass that sits below the towering peaks of the Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau—at 6762 feet.
This September, for the second year in a row, the race served as the World Long Distance (LD) Mountain Running Challenge—meaning that teams from countries around the world would be competing for both team and individual titles.
Unlike the World Mountain Running Championships, which take place on a "short course" (typically between five and eight miles), the LD Mountain Running Challenge is usually a marathon (42K) but must not exceed 45 kilometers, must have more than 1600 meters of elevation gain and the men's course must take between 1 hour 45 minutes and 4 hours to complete.
The first-ever LD Mountain Running Challenge was held here at Jungfrau in 2004. I felt fortunate to be lining up in Switzerland where it had all started, as part of Team USA with four other women: Kim Dobson, Brandy Erholtz, Melody Fairchild and Gina.
Melody and Brandy were members of the 2012 U.S. Women's Mountain Running Team, which won Gold the weekend before in Italy on the short uphill course. Lean and powerful, Melody sports long, chestnut-blonde braids and a warm face with the first hint of smile lines. She speaks articulately and evenly, displaying a quiet, collected energy. The 39-year-old from Boulder, Colorado, was the first high-school girl in U.S. history to run a sub-10-minute two-mile. She has qualified for the Olympic Trials in both the 10,000 meters (1996) and the marathon (2000) and was a member of the 1997 U.S. World Track and Field Championships team for the 5000 meters, claiming a 15:30 PR in that event.
Twice named Female Mountain Runner of the Year by USA Track and Field (2008 and 2009), Brandy, 35, has been a member of the U.S. Mountain Running team for five consecutive years. She transitioned to the mountain-running scene after winning the Northeast's iconic Mount Washington Road Race in 2008 and 2009. The Evergreen, Colorado, resident talks like she runs uphill—fast. At the start, her short dark blonde hair was pulled back in braids, and muscular calves and quads revealed her proclivity for uphill terrain.
Kim, a rail-thin, standout uphiller who lives in Grand Junction, Colorado, had, this year alone, clenched an impressive win at Mount Washington, where she posted the second-fastest women's time ever. Then, with $8000 on the line, she obliterated Colorado's Pikes Peak Ascent women's record by 8 minutes 32 seconds—a record set in 1981.
Having trained together at least once a week for much of the summer, I knew Kim was in the kind of shape it took to win the race, but you'd never know it by talking to her.
"After running such a strong race at Pikes, I didn't feel any pressure for Jungfrau," said Kim. "I just wanted to run a smart race and enjoy being part of a team."
Gina, who is practically my sister and also the advertising manager at Trail Runner, was focussed, staring at the ground. She wore giant pearl earrings (I've never seen her without them), and her dark hair was pulled back in a tight, bobbing ponytail.
Earlier this summer, Gina had finished third in the La Sportiva Mountain Cup. She holds a mean 5K PR (16:40), and was a standout miler in college, posting a 4:32 1500-meter best and winning an NCAA Division III Championship in 2004. This was her first year focusing on longer distances, and the Jungfrau was her first marathon.
Stevie Kremer, 28, of Crested Butte, Colorado, was also on the line after making a last-minute decision to race—though not as part of this U.S. team—since she was living in Europe for the summer teaching.
"I don't know what I'm doing here," she murmured shaking her head while prancing around on her tiny, muscular frame. Like Gina, she has dark-brown hair and wears giant pearl earrings that look almost too heavy for her ears. Stevie displayed a nervous pessimism that could just as easily be read as sandbagging. "I am not fast on the road. I don't belong here," she continued.
Stevie said the same thing moments before crushing the Loon Mountain Race, the U.S. Mountain Championships earlier this summer where she slid her way to a fourth-place finish, earning the final spot on the team.
As for myself, I didn't know what to expect. I had spent the last week in France indulging in too much of everything, including running more uphill terrain than I had any week this summer. I'd had a mid-season slump that meant I'd spent the last month feeling sluggish, burned out and depressed. I was confident in my climbing, although it was the 15 miles of road that scared me.
And, then, we were racing. The field took off aggressively. Spectators lined the streets, screaming encouragement in French, Italian, German and Spanish. Rows of flags and banners lined the course.
"The excitement was contagious," Gina said later. "The fans were enthusiastic and compassionate about the race and the runners."
Stevie took off in the lead pack with Kim trailing a few steps back in the chase. Melody, Gina, Brandy and I settled farther back into a comfortable 6:30ish-per-mile pace, chatting and laughing occasionally as we clicked off the road miles.
We hit a narrow gravel path and jockeyed with spandex-clad runners. I spent a frustrating 15 minutes bouncing back and forth with a tall, sweat-soaked man who smelled of a locker room and who was trying too hard to prevent me from passing. He eventually fell back, and that was that.
The four of us pushed the pace then backed off a little as we maneuvered short climbs and bridges, through tunnels of cowbell-ringing, flag-waving and shaker-shaking spectators.
"It was like I was out on a beautiful Sunday long run with friends," Brandy said later.
The race became a dance, all of us sinking into rhythms just hard enough that we felt slight discomfort, a comfortable discomfort. I shook out my arms and my neck, anticipating the climb ahead and let my mind drift from the race until I was somewhere else entirely.