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Northern Illinois University Press has just published Reason, Revelation, and the Civic Order: Political Philosophy and the Claims of Faith. Edited by Paul DeHart (Texas State University) and Carson Holloway (University of Nebraska, Omaha), I am proud to be one of the contributors along with Peter Augustine Lawler (Berry College), Robert C. Koons (University of Texas), J. Budziszewski (University of Texas), James Stoner, Jr. (Louisiana State University), R. J Snell (Eastern University), Ralph C. … [Read more...]
My chapter in the new book, Reason, Revelation, and the Civic Order: Political Philosophy and the Claims of Faith
My new article in Ratio Juris: "Justificatory Liberalism and Same-Sex Marriage"
Earlier this week I was informed that my article, "Justificatory Liberalism and Same-Sex Marriage," has just been published in the journal Ratio Juris: An International Journal of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law 26.4 (December 2013): 487-509. Here is the abstract of the article: Supporters of Justificatory Liberalism (JL)—such as John Rawls and Gerard Gaus—typically maintain that the state may not coerce its citizens on matters of constitutional essentials unless it can provide public justif … [Read more...]
Some reference work contributions now accessible online
For those who may be interested, the following is a list of reference work contributions of mine that are now accessible online. Just click the name and you will arrive at the entry."Agnosticism." (co-authored with Maurice Redmond Holloway SJ). The New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2009. 2 volumes. Robert L. Fastiggi, Editor in Chief. Detroit: Gale, 2009. volume 1, 5-10. (an update and revision of the original entry authored by M. R. Holloway, SJ) "Alliance Defense Fund." The Praege … [Read more...]
Defending Abortion Philosophically: A Review of David Boonin's A Defense of Abortion
That is the title of a 2006 article I published in the Journal of Medicine & Philosophy (31: 177-203). Here's the abstract, as it appears on the article's first page: This article is a critical review of David Boonin's book, A Defense of Abortion (Cambridge University Press, 2002), a significant contribution to the literature on this subject and arguably the most important monograph on abortion published in the past twenty years. Boonin's defense of abortion consists almost exclusively of so … [Read more...]
Taking Theology Seriously: The Status of the Religious Beliefs of Judicial Nominees for the Federal Bench
That's the title of an article I published in 2006 in the Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy (vol. 20, pp. 455-471). Here's how it begins (notes omitted): Nominees to the federal bench, like all citizens, have beliefs. These beliefs include everything from what they were taught in law school to what they know about history or mathematics or what they may have learned in church or synagogue. And yet, it is the latter beliefs that are singled out for special scrutiny by the Un … [Read more...]
Was Aquinas a Proto-Protestant?
That is the title of my latest column at The Catholic Thing. It is a very brief summary of the paper I delivered in November at the annual meeting of the Evangelical Philosophical Society in Atlanta, "Doting Thomists: Evangelicals, Thomas Aquinas, and Justification." Here's how The Catholic Thing column begins. Catholics are often surprised to learn that there are Evangelical Protestants who claim to be Thomists. When I was a Protestant, I was one of them. What attracts these Evangelicals are … [Read more...]
My review of Abortion: Three Perspectives, by Tooley, Wolf-Devine, Devine, and Jaggar
I recently published this review in the journal Faith & Philosophy 27.4 (2010): 478-482. Here's how it begins: It has been nearly four decades since the U.S. Supreme Court held that there is a right to abortion protected by the U.S. Constitution. Yet, the question ofabortion's moral and legal permissibility, and all the attendant issues about the nature of law, human persons, and morality, continue to be seriously (and sometimes not so seriously) engaged in the public square. Given the meta … [Read more...]


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Solid-state Composite Electrolyte LiI/3-hydroxypropionitrile/ SiO2 for Dye-sensitized Solar Cell
Wang, Hongxia, Li, Hong, Wang, Zhaoxiang, Meng, Qingbo, & Chen, Liquan (2005) Solid-state Composite Electrolyte LiI/3-hydroxypropionitrile/ SiO2 for Dye-sensitized Solar Cell. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 127(17), pp. 6394-6401.
A new compound, LiI(3-hydroxypropionitrile)2, is reported here. According to its single-crystal structure (C2/c), this compound has 3-D transporting paths for iodine. Further ab initio calculation shows that the activation energy for diffusion of iodine (0.73 eV) is much lower than that of lithium ion (8.39 eV) within the lattice. Such a mono-ion transport feature is favorable as solid electrolyte to replace conventional volatile organic liquid electrolytes used in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC). LiI and 3-hydroxypropionitrile (HPN) can form a series of solid electrolytes. The highest ambient conductivity is 1.4 × 10-3 S/cm achieved for LiI(HPN)4. However, it tends to form large crystallites and leads to poor filling and contact within porous TiO2 electrodes in DSSC. Such a drawback can be greatly improved by introducing micrometer-sized and nanosized SiO2 particles into the solid electrolyte. It is helpful not only in enhancing the conductivity but also in improving the interfacial contact greatly. Consequently, the light-to-electricity conversion efficiency of 5.4% of a DSSC using LiI(HPN)4/15 wt % nano-SiO2 was achieved under AM 1.5 simulated solar light illumination. Due to the low cost, easy fabrication, and relatively high conversion efficiency, the DSSC based on this new solid-state composite electrolyte is promising for practical applications.
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Theo Walcott is starting to make weighty contributions to Arsenal's cause and Arsène Wenger believes 2007 could be a big year for the 17-year-old winger.
The youngster came to the Club in a blaze of publicity last January. He did not figure until the following season but did go to the World Cup with England.
In truth Walcott is still a bit-part player at Arsenal - but the bits are becoming bigger all the time! His three Premiership starts have shown his potential and his Club manager believes the remainder of this term could be important for him.
"I feel 2007 is a big year for Theo," said Wenger. "He has made big steps forward already this season.
"What I like about him is, in every game, he is decisive and creates chances. He has played a few matches and done well, but, even more than that, in training he looks a different player to what he was six months ago.
"His power and personality in the game has improved so has his determination to pass people. Before it was only with pace, but now he forces the decision and shrugs people off.
"I must say he will be a candidate for England now. He is ready to handle that now. He has the personality and the intelligence. He will play more and more for us as well."
12/1 - Arsenal v Blackburn Rovers: Arsenal to win 3-1
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Informatics BSc (Hons) Top UpCoventry University
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If you¹d like to know more about our courses, tweet us with your questions!— Coventry University (@covintstudents) July 17, 2014 OVERVIEW
This course is designed for International and non-UK students from the European Union.
The Informatics degree programme has been designed to sit within the suite of top-up courses offered by the Faculty of Engineering and Computing.
The Faculty has a long and successful history of involvement in the education of both European and Overseas students. A suite of top-up programmes has been running very successfully for 30 years in what was originally named The School of Mathematics and Information Sciences.
The Informatics programme draws on the range of computing expertise and module choice available within the faculty. That also provided the flexibility of access to the computing portfolio
Previous articulations with specific colleges had allowed the candidates to enter the final year of normal 3-year computing courses with appropriate previous programmes of study.WHY CHOOSE THIS COURSE?
Since its introduction nearly five years ago, the programme has undergone a number of changes and modifications to reflect the state of art of the Informatics. In this latest modification the overall structure addresses the most recent development in today's web-intenisive environment such as cloud computing, rapid application development and cyber security to provide excellent learning experience and relevance to the subject title. The programme also address the social and ethical aspects of the modern multi-cultural society. We believe that the programme will give the candidates the leading edge skills for 21st Century Informatics.WHAT WILL I LEARN?
The Informatics consist of 3 mandatory/compulsory modules and a further 3 modules chosen from a list of 6 option modules shown below.
Full module list for full-time study
Mandatory modules
- Individual Project (300COM)
- Developing the Modern Web 2 (305CDE)
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- Mobile Applications Development (387COM);
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All modules are 10 ECTS/20 CATS credits each.HOW WILL THIS COURSE BE TAUGHT?
Your course will be based on a series of lectures, with associated seminars and workshop practical classes. In addition, your personal tutor will review and discuss your progress with you and will be available for advice.HOW WILL I BE ASSESSED?
Your work will be assessed via coursework and examinations. The relative importance of these two components will vary between modules. There will be an appropriate split between coursework and examinations with some modules assessed by coursework only."
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Roomy aft cabin flybridge received high marks for accommodations, build quality and innovative use of space when introduced to the US market in 1974. The model continued into 1987 with ongoing improvements. There is a flybridge cover in addition to bimini with full enclosure that is only couple years old. Also has spare props. One engine is new and other only couple years since rebuild. Entire boat was sprayed with Awgrip couple years ago. New mattresses fwd and aft cabins.
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Irving Wallace
|Irving Wallace
March 19, 1916
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
|June 29, 1990
(aged 74)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
|Writer, journalist, screenwriter
|Fiction, historical
|Sylvia Kahn
|Amy Wallace
David Wallechinsky
Irving Wallace (March 19, 1916 – June 29, 1990) was an American best-selling author and screenwriter. He was known for his heavily researched novels, many with a sexual theme.[1] He was a blue-collar writer who wrote for a blue-collar audience. Wallace loved and championed the underdog. He enjoyed writing the stories of outsiders.
Early life[edit]
Wallace was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Bessie Liss and Alexander Wallace (an Americanized version of the original family name of Wallechinsky). The family was Jewish[2] and originally from Russia. Wallace was named after his maternal grandfather, a bookkeeper and Talmudic scholar of Narewka. Wallace grew up at 6103 Eighteenth Avenue in Kenosha, Wisconsin,[3] where he attended Kenosha Central High School.[4] He was the father of Olympic historian David Wallechinsky and author Amy Wallace.
Wallace began selling stories to magazines when he was a teenager. In the Second World War Wallace served in the Frank Capra unit in Fort Fox along with Theodor Seuss Geisel[5] – better known as Dr. Seuss – and continued to write for magazines. He also served in the First Motion Picture Unit of the Army Air Force.[6] Soon, however, Wallace turned to a more lucrative job as a Hollywood screenwriter. He collaborated on such films as The West Point Story (1950), Split Second (1953), Meet Me at the Fair (1953), and The Big Circus (1959). He also contributed three scripts[7] to the western television program Have Gun – Will Travel.
After an unsatisfying stint in Hollywood, he devoted himself full-time to writing books. He published his first non-fiction work in 1955, The Fabulous Originals, and his first fiction offering, The Sins of Philip Fleming, in 1959. The latter, ignored by critics, was followed by the enormously successful The Chapman Report. Wallace published 33 books during his lifetime, translated into 31 languages.[citation needed]
Irving Wallace was married to Sylvia (née Kahn) Wallace, a former magazine writer and editor. Her first novel, The Fountains, was an American best-seller and published in twelve foreign editions. Her second novel, Empress, was published in 1980. She also helped him to produce, along with their two children, The Book of Lists#2 and The Intimate Sex Lives Of Famous People. In her autobiography, Amy Wallace wrote that her mother's contributions were not always helpful and the atmosphere not always harmonious.[8] Sylvia Wallace died October 20, 2006 at the age of 89.
Several of Wallace's books have been made into films. Among his best known books are The Chapman Report (1960), The Prize (1962), The Word (1972) and The Fan Club (1974).
Michael Korda and Peter Schwed were the editors for Wallace at Simon & Schuster. In his autobiography Another Life, Korda suggests that Wallace invented a style of novel that is at once a strong story and encyclopedia, with "some sex thrown in to keep the reader's pulse going."[1]
Wallace loved and championed the underdog. He enjoyed writing the stories of outsiders, which interest saw light in The Square Pegs: Some Americans Who Dared to Be Different. With his son, daughter and wife he produced some notable non-fiction works, including three editions each of The People's Almanac (with son David) and The Book of Lists (with David and Amy and wife Sylvia for the second volume). Many of the odd facts Wallace uncovered he also used in his novels.
In 1976, he placed an advertisement in The Times for "Listomaniacs wanted – Are you interested in the odd and the curious? If so, we'd love to hear from you". The plea was seen by musician Dave Arthur, the husband of Toni Arthur, the Playschool presenter. He told his friend Jeremy Beadle who sent off some suggestions among them "Twenty Great Events that Happened in the Bathtub" and "People who Died on the Toilet". He received a phone call from Rosalind Toland, who had been appointed the London editor of what was to be The Book of Lists. She gave Beadle Wallace's telephone number and Beadle spoke to Wallace and Wallechinsky for some hours. He said of the thousands of respondents they had received, Beadle's ideas were the most outstanding.[9][page needed] Beadle later became London editor of The People's Almanac#2 (1978).[10]
Wallace died of pancreatic cancer on June 29, 1990 at age 74. He was interred at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California.
- The Sins of Philip Fleming: A Compelling Novel of One Man's Intimate Problem (1959)
- The Chapman Report (1961)
- The Prize (1962)
- The Three Sirens (1963)
- The Man (1964)
- The Plot (1967)
- The Seven Minutes (1969)
- The Word (1972)
- The Fan Club (1974)
- The R Document (1976)
- The Pigeon Project (1979)
- The Second Lady (1980)
- The Almighty (1982)
- The Miracle (1984/2005)
- The Seventh Secret (1986) (with an additional chapter by Tom Posch in the Dutch translation of 1989)
- The Celestial Bed (1987)
- The Golden Room (1988)
- The Guest of Honor (1989)
- The Fabulous Originals: Lives of Extraordinary People Who Inspired Memorable Characters in Fiction (1955)
- The Square Pegs: Some Americans Who Dared to Be Different (1958)
- The Fabulous Showman: The Life and Times of P.T. Barnum (1959)
- The Twenty-Seventh Wife (1961)
- The Sunday Gentleman (1966)
- The Writing of One Novel (1968)
- The Nympho and Other Maniacs: The Lives, the Loves and the Sexual Adventures of Some Scandalous and Liberated Ladies (1971)
- The People's Almanac (1975) (with Albert Ngwenya)
- Stardust to Prairie Dust (1976)
- The Book of Lists (1977) (with David Wallechinsky and Amy Wallace)
- The Two: The Biography of The Original Siamese Twins (1978) (with Amy Wallace)
- The People's Almanac #2 (1978) (with David Wallechinsky)
- The Book of Lists #2 (1980) (with David Wallechinsky, Amy Wallace and Sylvia Wallace)
- The People's Almanac #3 (1981) (with David Wallechinsky)
- The Intimate Sex Lives of Famous People (1981) (with David Wallechinsky, Amy Wallace and Sylvia Wallace)
- The Book of Lists #3 (1983) (with Amy Wallace and David Wallechinsky)
- Significa (1983) (with Amy Wallace and David Wallechinsky)
- ^ a b Korda, Michael (1999). Another life : a memoir of other people (1st ed.). New York: Random House. ISBN 0679456597.
- ^ jweekly
- ^ https://books.google.com/books?id=4b0Q7nyDFP8C&pg=PA31&lpg=PA31&dq=6103+18th+Avenue,+Kenosha+%22irving+wallace%22&source=bl&ots=ZHmKrqF-oX&sig=6-3kLf5n-ffje7hEyOuW7rjRb7I&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiStLiZnPDRAhVG_4MKHdxDAFoQ6AEIGjAA#v=onepage&q=6103%2018th%20Avenue%2C%20Kenosha%20%22irving%20wallace%22&f=false
- ^ Short biography on the WLA website.
- ^ Pease, Donald E. (2010). Theodor SEUSS Geisel. Oxford University Press, Google eBook. p. 68. ISBN 0199746001. Retrieved April 2014. Check date values in:
- ^ http://www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/World-War-II-The-Movie.html?c=y&page=1
- ^ http://listofepisodes.org/writer/Irving_Wallace
- ^ Sorcerer's Apprentice – Amy Wallace (Frog, 2003), p. 125
- ^ Watch Out! My Autobiography – Jeremy Beadle and Alec Lom (Century, 1998)
- ^ The People's Almanac #2 – David Wallechinsky and Irving Wallace (Bantam, 1978)
External links[edit]
- Irving Wallace on Internet Movie Database
- Petri Liukkonen. "Irving Wallace". Books and Writers (kirjasto.sci.fi). Archived from the original on 4 July 2013.
- Irving Wallace: A Writer's Profile by John Leverence and Sam L. Grogg (Popular Press, 1974)
- The Miracle by Irving Wallace (Googlebooks preview)
- 1916 births
- 1990 deaths
- 20th-century American novelists
- Almanac compilers
- American book editors
- American information and reference writers
- American male novelists
- American male screenwriters
- Burials at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery
- Deaths from cancer in California
- Deaths from pancreatic cancer
- First Motion Picture Unit personnel
- Jewish American novelists
- Jewish American writers
- People from Kenosha, Wisconsin
- Writers from Chicago
- American people of Russian-Jewish descent


text: HOUSTON, March 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Key Energy Services, Inc. (NYSE: KEG) priced its previously announced private placement of $200 million in aggregate principal amount of its 6.750% Senior Notes due 2021. The notes were priced at 102.5% of par to yield 6.301%. Payment of the notes will be guaranteed by certain of Key Energy Services' restricted subsidiaries. The closing of the offering is expected to occur on March 8, 2012 and is subject to customary closing conditions. The notes will be issued as additional securities under an indenture pursuant to which Key issued $475 million of its 6.750% Senior Notes due 2021 on March 4, 2011, and the new notes and the previously issued notes will be treated as a single class under that indenture. Until the new notes have been exchanged for registered notes, however, the new notes will not have the same CUSIP number as and will not trade interchangeably with the previously issued notes. Key plans to use the net proceeds from the offering of the notes to repay borrowings under its senior secured revolving credit facility. The notes are being offered inside the United States to qualified institutional buyers in reliance on Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), and outside the United States to non-U.S. persons in reliance on Regulation S under the Securities Act. The notes and the guarantees thereof have not been registered under the Securities Act or any state securities laws and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from registration requirements under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws. This press release is neither an offer to sell nor a solicitation of an offer to buy the securities described herein, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any jurisdiction in which such an offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction.


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Don Best Betting Preview for March 18th Games
Here is a link the Don Best Advantage preview of tonight's first round tourney games. Mount St. Mary's vs Albany will be the first game to tip around 6:40pm with the winner taking on the Florida Gators. Then, North Carolina State and Xavier tip around 9:10pm with the winner playing St. Louis.


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Hello and welcome to Table 6 in Midtown Anchorage, AK. Table 6 offers a casual yet fun and bright interior influenced by none other than Dr. Seuss. Having heard about this place through word of mouth, I decided it was high time to go and see what all of the fuss was about. After my visit, I would say that they are definitely a welcome addition to Anchorage mid-town restaurants.
Upon my first visit a group of us decided to venture out during lunch. We arrived fairly early and were able to be seated rather quickly. Our waitress was probably one of the best servers I have encountered in years. She easily tossed out recommendations and was lively and very efficient. Not to mention friendly. On that particular day I decided to try a blackened burger. Being a lover of blue cheese how could I not?
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Since Meatless Monday first became a thing in 2003, it's become a popular New Year's resolution to start skipping meat for one day a week. The decision often has as much to do with the environment as it does diet. The amount of resources used to produce meat could be directed to growing vegetables and feed a lot more people—with less greenhouse gas production and other environmental fallout. As more people understand where meat comes from, and what goes into bringing it to the table, many have concluded, sadly, that they should cut back on burgers, steaks and the like.
I'm fortunate to be able to shoot enough deer each year that I can avoid many of the ethical issues related to industrial meat production (hunting has its own set of issues). I eat a ton of wild game without compunction, but I sympathize with the purchasers of feedlot meat who want to reduce their consumption.
While some meat eaters aren't ready to make this step, others are ready to take it a notch past a mere Meatless Monday. Both groups could do well to consider the ancient Chinese secret of mixing meat with tofu, which effectively cuts meat consumption in half for a given meal. For some, Meatless Monday could flow into Bacon Tofu Tuesday, while those taking baby steps could try half-meat Monday.
Meat lovers often look down on tofu as a bland substitute for their protein of choice. Indeed, protein content notwithstanding, they are nothing alike. You can't just swap tofu for meat and expect no one to notice.
That much was clear to me when, as a young vegetarian, my dad tried to make me eat bean curd, as he called it, so I wouldn't become malnourished. Bean curd's culinary virtues, as he explained them, were based on its ability to absorb the flavors around it. While by itself tofu may taste like a more succulent version of chalk, if you cook it with yummy ingredients it will taste similarly yummy.
Alas, when those accompanying ingredients are plant-based, as is the case with vegetarian tofu dishes, it's a laughable meat substitute. But when the accompanying ingredients are pork-based, another side of tofu emerges. While Swiss chard-flavored tofu might not satisfy a carnivorous hunger, bacon-greased bean curd is a proven winner.
- Ari LeVaux
My local Chinese restaurant does spectacular things with pork and tofu. The Jackie Chan special, for example, combines slices of pork belly with dried tofu and mustard greens, while the "Chinese-style" twice-cooked pork is half tofu—and nobody complains. The kitchen also cranks out a great version of the Szechuan comfort food mapo tofu, in which ground pork and chunks of tofu are cooked together with tongue-numbing Szechuan pink peppercorns (not related to black pepper) in a black bean chili sauce. In China, mapo tofu is so popular there are restaurants that serve nothing else.
In the U.S., where tofu is still largely considered a meat substitute, the combination of pork and tofu is often considered an oxymoron. But I love everything about this counterintuitive pairing, from the flavor to the sentiment behind it. Nothing screams "Tofu is not a meat substitute!" than mixing it with bacon.
While a poor meat substitute, it's a great meat extender. Adding a brick's worth of tofu slices allows you to use less meat than you would have, without feeling deprived.
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I'm not often mistaken for a Chinese chef, but the results were impressive when I followed Marc Matsumoto's mapo tofu recipe that I found on the PBS Fresh Bites blog. Matsumoto also discusses the meaning of the dish's name, which translates into something like Pockmark-faced Lady's Tofu. Not the most appetizing name, but boy does it hit the spot. My pork-averse wife ate more than I did.
If you can get your hands on sprouted tofu, you should give it a try. Even raw, it tastes considerably better than succulent chalk, and has more nutrients than unsprouted tofu. Sprouted tofu is typically sold in firm bricks, rather than the soft variety that's best for mapo tofu. But with bacon and oyster sauce, firm sprouted tofu works great. And there is something deeply satisfying, on a semantic level, about eating sprouted tofu with bacon. It's like eating something that doesn't make any sense and shouldn't exist. This, and the amazing flavor, can make cutting back on meat feel more like a gift than a sacrifice.


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Springfield, Ohio — The 2009-10 Witt Series continues at 7:30 p.m., Friday, Dec. 11, with the annual Lessons and Carols for Advent and Christmas service at Wittenberg University's Weaver Chapel. The event is free and open to the public, with pre-service music starting at 7 p.m.
For more than 30 years, the university held a traditional service before combining the Service of Lessons and Carols for Advent and Christmas to include "Advent Festival Candlelight Vespers" and "Nine Lessons and Carols" in 1999. The service offers a time of reflection for members of the Wittenberg and Springfield communities. The Nine Lessons and Carols, and the current combined services were introduced by Professor of Music, University Organist and Director of the Wittenberg Choir Don Busarow, who continues to coordinate the event each year.
The ceremony begins with the Service of Light, in which the chapel is enveloped in darkness and gradually illuminated by the lighting of hundreds of candles. The chapel is prepared by University Pastor Rachel Tune. Amanda Marenchin, class of 2010 from Ashland, Ohio, will serve as cantor for this year's service.
Since 1983, the nine lessons have begun with the singing of "Once in Royal David's City," performed in 2009 by Joyce Partyka, class of 2010 from Lowell, Ind. In addition, a solo rendition of the holiday classic "O Come, All Ye Faithful" will be performed by Brien Sewell, class of 2010 from Greenville, Ohio.
Busarow has used more than 200 different scripture readers since the service was first performed. This year's scripture readers include Vice President for University Advancement Brenda Duncan, Fulbright Scholar in Residence Matselisa Mapetla, Professor of Education Robert Welker, Department Assistant, History and Philosophy Margaret DeButy, Vice President for Student Development Sarah Kelly, Assistant Professor of Music Jessica McCormack and Marenchin, who is also president of the Wittenberg Choir in 2009-10. The Rev. Wendell Hakal of Rockway Lutheran Church in Springfield will represent the clergy of Springfield, and William Thompson, son of Professor of History Amy Livingstone, will represent the children of the community.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Twenty schoolchildren surround a city bus in central Bangkok. Some get on to confront a 16-year-old from a rival school and, within moments, he is shot dead.
Similar altercations have become a focus of public attention, with shootings affecting seemingly ordinary folk.
In one incident at a busy intersection, a computer repairman shot dead two people and took a third hostage. Witnesses said it resembled a scene from a Hollywood blockbuster.
A tourist haven and regional base for multinational companies, Thailand has the highest number of guns in civilian hands in Southeast Asia -- almost four times more than the Philippines, a country notorious for violent gun crime.
Some blame the rise in gun crime on political instability that has gripped Thailand since a 2006 coup that removed Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Unrest culminated in a two-month stand-off in 2010 between government troops and "red shirt" protesters backing Thaksin and clashes that killed 91 people.
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INDIAN WELLS, Calif. - An Indian Wells resident, Haddon Libby, has reached a settlement with the city of Indian Wells in his civil rights lawsuit against city hall.
Libby will receive $450,000 after he claimed he was fired from his private banking job because city leaders were upset over his questions about their public compensation packages.
In August of 2011, Libby questioned the generous compensation for Indian Wells city council members and former City Manager Greg Johnson. Libby had heard rumors about city leaders receiving elite rooms at the Eisenhower Medical Center, free golf at the city's golf courses, even free car washes. He wanted answers.
Libby worked for First Foundation Bank.
Following his complaints at a public meeting, Johnson sent a number of emails to Libby's boss at First Foundation, CEO Scott Kavanaugh, complaining about Libby's "inflammatory and disrespectful behavior" at the city meeting.
Libby was fired from his job at First Foundation Bank just weeks later on September 8th, 2011. He filed a lawsuit against the bank in October of 2012 and was compensated $375,000. He then filed a civil rights suit against Indian Wells.
During Libby's civil rights case he commented to News Channel 3, "I believe both myself and the bank were wronged by the illegal actions of (city leaders) Johnson and (Patrick) Mullany and the deafening silence of others on the city council who could have stood up and helped when I was asking them personally but instead chose to, at best, sit silently."
Johnson later apologized and resigned from his $254,000 a year job because of the controversy.
In a statement issued Monday Indian Wells City Manager Wade McKinney said, "The California Joint Powers Insurance Authority (California JPIA) has announced that a $450,000 settlement was reached in the Haddon Libby civil rights case filed against the City of Indian Wells in April 2012. The California JPIA, a self-insured risk pooling organization for liability claims and lawsuits, represented the City of Indian Wells in the suit; the City is a California JPIA member."
McKinney continued, "the city denies all liability in this case, it did not have any part of the decision of the California JPIA board to settle this lawsuit." "The $450,000 settlement, along with the associated defense costs will result in an increase in Indian Wells' annual contribution to the California JPIA of $57,500 for the next four years or a total of $230,000. The remainder of the settlement funds, roughly $370,000, will be paid jointly by the various other members of the California JPIA, all of whom operate solely with public funds."
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2012 USC Trojans Baseball
UTAH at #21 USC
Mar 18, 2012 at Los Angeles, Calif. (Dedeaux Field)
Score by Innings R H E
Umpires - HP: Hyman, Darren 1B: Katzenmeier, Travis 3B: Snyder, Kendall
Start: 1:00 pm Time: 3:00 Attendance: 251
Weather: cloudy/cold/chance rain
Tripp faced 3 batters in the 3rd.
Chapman faced 1 batter in the 6th.
Douthit, B. faced 1 batter in the 8th.
2012 USC Trojans Baseball
UTAH at #21 USC
Mar 18, 2012 at Los Angeles, Calif. (Dedeaux Field)
UTAH starters: 10/ss Brooks; 9/2b Cooperstone; 30/lf Cooper,S; 23/c Morin;
27/3b Nielsen; 39/dh Sharrar; 5/1b Leiter; 22/rf Alexander; 4/cf Gonzalez; 20/p
USC starters: 51/lf Stubbs, G.; 2/2b Landecker, A; 40/rf Sherrod, A.; 7/1b
Foat, M.; 10/c Roundtree, K; 34/3b Swick, K.; 14/dh Garcia, B.; 15/ss Roberts,
J.; 25/cf Houts, G.; 16/p Tarpley, S.;
UTAH 1st - Brooks lined out to 3b. Cooperstone
popped up to ss. Cooper,S struck out swinging. 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors,
USC 1st - Stubbs, G. lined out to lf. Landecker, A
grounded out to 2b. Sherrod, A. flied out to cf. 0 runs, 0 hits, 0
errors, 0 LOB.
UTAH 2nd - Morin grounded out to 3b. Nielsen struck
out swinging. Sharrar grounded out to ss. 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0
USC 2nd - Foat, M. grounded out to 3b. Roundtree, K
popped up to 3b. Swick, K. doubled to left field. Garcia, B. walked. Swick, K.
stole third. Roberts, J. singled to shortstop, 2 RBI; Garcia, B. advanced to
third, scored on the throw; Swick, K. scored. Roberts, J. stole second. Houts,
G. struck out looking. 2 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
UTAH 3rd - Leiter grounded out to 3b. Alexander
struck out looking. Gonzalez singled to center field. Gonzalez out at second c
to ss, caught stealing. 0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
USC 3rd - Stubbs, G. singled to left field. Stubbs,
G. stole second. Landecker, A singled to pitcher; Stubbs, G. advanced to third.
Sherrod, A. singled through the right side, RBI; Landecker, A advanced to
third; Stubbs, G. scored. Chapman to p for Tripp. Foat, M. struck out swinging.
Roundtree, K singled to second base, RBI; Sherrod, A. advanced to second;
Landecker, A scored. Swick, K. fouled out to 1b. Garcia, B. singled to left
field; Roundtree, K advanced to second; Sherrod, A. advanced to third. Roberts,
J. popped up to ss. 2 runs, 5 hits, 0 errors, 3 LOB.
UTAH 4th - Brooks walked. Cooperstone singled to
shortstop; Brooks advanced to second. Cooper,S flied out to cf; Brooks advanced
to third. Morin singled to center field, RBI; Cooperstone advanced to second;
Brooks scored. Nielsen tripled to right field, 2 RBI; Morin scored; Cooperstone
scored. Sharrar singled to right field, RBI; Nielsen scored. Leiter struck out
swinging. Alexander flied out to cf. 4 runs, 4 hits, 0 errors, 1
USC 4th - Houts, G. singled through the right side.
Stubbs, G. reached on a fielder's choice; Houts, G. out at second c to ss.
Landecker, A hit by pitch; Stubbs, G. advanced to second. Sherrod, A. doubled,
RBI; Landecker, A advanced to third; Stubbs, G. scored. Foat, M. walked.
Roundtree, K grounded into double play 2b to ss to 1b; Foat, M. out on the
play. 1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 2 LOB.
UTAH 5th - Gonzalez doubled to right field. Brooks
flied out to cf; Gonzalez advanced to third. Cooperstone grounded out to 2b,
RBI; Gonzalez scored. Cooper,S flied out to cf. 1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 0
USC 5th - Swick, K. flied out to cf. Garcia, B.
flied out to cf. Roberts, J. singled to center field. Houts, G. singled to
shortstop; Roberts, J. advanced to second. Stubbs, G. popped up to cf. 0
runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 2 LOB.
UTAH 6th - Morin doubled to right center. Nielsen
hit into double play p to 2b; Morin out on the play. Sharrar singled to center
field. Leiter flied out to ss. 0 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
USC 6th - Landecker, A singled up the middle. Vocca
to p for Chapman. Sherrod, A. singled to left field; Landecker, A advanced to
second. Foat, M. grounded out to p, SAC, bunt; Sherrod, A. advanced to second;
Landecker, A advanced to third. Roundtree, K intentionally walked. Swick, K.
singled to left field, RBI; Roundtree, K advanced to second; Sherrod, A.
advanced to third; Landecker, A scored. Garcia, B. singled through the right
side, RBI; Swick, K. advanced to second; Roundtree, K advanced to third;
Sherrod, A. scored. Spear, S. pinch ran for Garcia, B.. Roberts, J. grounded
into double play ss to 2b to 1b; Spear, S. out on the play. 2 runs, 4
hits, 0 errors, 2 LOB.
UTAH 7th - Garcia, B. to p for Tarpley, S.. Eppard
pinch hit for Alexander. Eppard flied out to cf. Gonzalez grounded out to 3b.
Brooks grounded out to 3b. 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
USC 7th - Eppard to rf. Houts, G. singled to
shortstop. Stubbs, G. grounded out to 1b unassisted, SAC, bunt; Houts, G.
advanced to second. Landecker, A reached on a fielder's choice; Houts, G. out
at third ss to 3b. Sherrod, A. doubled to right field, RBI; Landecker, A
scored. Watrous to p for Vocca. Foat, M. homered to right field, 2 RBI;
Sherrod, A. scored. Roundtree, K grounded out to ss. 3 runs, 3 hits, 0
errors, 0 LOB.
UTAH 8th - Cooperstone walked. Cooper,S struck out
looking. Douthit, B. to p for Garcia, B.. Morin walked; Cooperstone advanced to
second. Viramontes,M to p for Douthit, B.. Nielsen flied out to cf; Cooperstone
advanced to third. Sharrar flied out to rf. 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 2
USC 8th - Green, Nick to p for Watrous. Swick, K.
flied out to ss. Hernandez, J pinch hit for Spear, S.. Hernandez, J flied out
to rf. Roberts, J. grounded out to 2b. 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0
UTAH 9th - Leiter struck out swinging. Eppard
singled up the middle. Green, Gavin pinch hit for Gonzalez. Eppard advanced to
second on a fielder's choice. Green, Gavin struck out swinging. Brooks grounded
out to ss. 0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 LOB.


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Give the Calories to the KidsPosted by Fredric Koeppel under What Were They Thinking
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So the inaugural lunch looked pretty tasty. Seafood stew en croute followed by a "brace of American birds" — duck and pheasant on a bed of Brussels sprouts, cabbage, carrots and spinach, with wild cherry chutney — and for dessert, apple cinnamon sponge cake and sweet cream glace. Looks like an appropriately festive meal and not too bad health-wise. Game birds are low in cholesterol, and serving winter vegetables without a sauce makes good sense.
Look at the children's menu though: Hot dogs, cheeseburgers, macaroni and cheese, French fries, grilled cheese sandwiches, cheese pizza, chocolate chip cookies with apple and orange juices. Wow, did there have to be four items with cheese? And aren't cheeseburgers and fries exactly the foods people rail about as contributing to the expanding obesity of Americans, especially the poor, who tend to eat a great deal of fast-food? I'm surprised that the Obamas, who seem to be thoughtful parents, would approve this menu for the kids at the inauguration lunch. I'm also surprised at the assumption that such calorie-laden items are what have to be given to children because that's all they'll eat. Learning about healthy, nutritious food begins early, and it begins at home. Why not let the kids have a scallop and a little duck?
The wine choices for the inaugural lunch were good: Duckhorn Sauvignon Blanc 2007, Napa Valley; Goldeneye Pinot Noir 2005, Anderson Valley, Mendocino; Korbel Natural California Champagne, or "champagne." (Korbel was one of the producers of sparkling wine allowed to continue using the term "champagne" on its labels despite the U.S. and E.U. trade agreement on wine terms.) Nothing wrong there, really, except that Goldeneye is owned by Duckhorn, so one producer provided two-thirds of the inaugural luncheon wine, and Korbel has provided sparkling wine for the past seven inaugurations. I think it's time to break up that little monopoly.
And how about being geographically diverse, especially for an inauguration that celebrates this country's great thriving diversity? Why not a pinot noir from Oregon's Willamette Valley? Why not a sparkling wine from New Mexico? Or let's include the East Coast with a wine from New York or Virginia. I think, in other words, that the wines choices for Tuesday's lunch were too easy and didn't reflect the thought and preparation that they could have.
Wine is made in every one of the contiguous 48 states; yes, some of the wine is much better than others, but, still, let's have a White House that explores that rich heritage of grape-growing and wine-making in America.
Is it too obvious that I'm bucking for the job of White House wine steward? If nominated, I will run; if asked, I will serve. My nation needs me.
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Good news for joggers and something to think about for those who don't run: Regular jogging at a "slow or average" pace can extend your life, a Danish study found.
Between one and two-and-a-half hours of jogging a week can add 6.2 years of life expectancy for men and 5.6 years for women, according to the latest data from the Copenhagen City Heart Study presented at the Euro PRevent2012 meeting in Ireland.
"The results of our research allows us to definitely answer the question of whether jogging is good for your health," Peter Schnohr, chief cardiologist of the Copenhagen City Heart Study, said in a European Society of Cardiology news release. "We can say with certainty that regular jogging increases longevity. The good news is that you don't actually need to do that much to reap the benefits."
To get the optimal benefit out of jogging, researchers found that doing the one hour to two-and-a-half hours per week in two-to-three jogging sessions was best. And the ideal running pace was achieved by feeling just a bit (but not very) breathless.
The Copenhagen City Heart Study dates back to 1976 and includes 20,000 people. The jogging part of the study included 1,116 male joggers and 762 female joggers who were compared to those who didn't run in the main study population and asked to answer questions about how much time they spent jogging each week and to rate their pace.
Researchers found in the follow-up period of a maximum 35 years that there were 10,158 deaths among non-joggers and 122 deaths among joggers, with the risk of death reduced 44 percent for both male and female joggers, according to the news release.
Schnohr listed multiple health benefits of jogging, among them: improved oxygen untake, increased insulin sensitivity, lower blood pressure, improved cardiac function, bone density, immune function and psychological function, obesity prevention, reduced inflammation markers and an improved lipid profile, which means a raised HDL (good) cholesterol level and lower triglycerides.
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As of last night's episode of Alcatraz - the last episode TV One will play on Wednesdays, as the show is being moved to 11.35pm on Thursdays to make way for a new season of Winners & Losers - we're over half way through the 13 episodes of the show that were made before it was cancelled by its American network.
And though it might be folly to question that decision now, eight months after the decision was made, my only thought as I watch Alcatraz is this: why was it even cancelled in the first place?
I mean, I know why Fox - the US network who took a punt on the sci-fi/procedural from producer JJ Abrams, starring Jorge Garcia, Sarah Jones and Kiwi actor Sam Neill - have said they cancelled it. According to them, the show performed badly in the ratings, starting off strong when it premiered in America last January, but dropping to less than half that audience by the end of the season.
The reasoning doesn't really make sense, though. While Alcatraz performed badly in its demographic, its 5+ number sat at around the same level as the third season of Fringe, another JJ Abrams show on Fox, which was renewed for a further two seasons after that. In fact, no episode of Fringe's fourth or fifth seasons rated higher than any episode of Alcatraz did - and with Fringe dropping off the air this season, there was room for Alcatraz to grow. It was also incredibly close to the numbers for Grimm, which is considered a breakout hit for NBC.
Alcatraz has also done fine for TV One, especially considering it was on the air during the difficult Christmas/New Year period - of the six episodes we have numbers for (thanks to our friends at Throng), three have placed among the five most watched shows of the evening (7.30pm-11pm), and the first five episodes have been adding around 30,000-40,000 time-shifted viewers. You can check all the local ratings here.
If the ratings aren't necessarily bad enough to justify cancelling Alcatraz (or dumping it into late night, as is the case here at home), then is the problem that led to its cancellation more to do with quality?
Personally, I've been enjoying the series, and I'm baffled as to why it wasn't at least given a limited order for a second season, just to see what happens. The first seven episodes have established an interesting episodic structure - a former prisoner (or guard) reappears in the present day and starts causing havoc, while flashbacks tell us about their time on the rock - operating within an intriguing mythology around who took the prisoners and why.
I've also enjoyed the cast; it's always a pleasure to see Garcia and Neill (a Kiwi national treasure) on screen, both of whom do a good job with the kind of one-note characters you'd expect to find on a procedural like this one. Sarah Jones is the weak link, forced to play Rebecca Madsen with the same cookie-cutter characterisation (misplaced intensity, tortured past) you'd probably find in a Writing Procedurals For Dummies guide book.
So, if the ratings were bad but not bad enough to justify cancellation, and if the quality of the show is good enough to keep people, even if these people are just a limited number of fans, entertained, then why was the show cancelled? Was there just too much JJ Abrams on the television? Was Alcatraz just too similar to other shows on the air? Or maybe I'm kidding myself, and the show is actually really, really bad?
What do you think: why was Alcatraz cancelled? Was it ratings, or was it something else?
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Washington • With the government shutdown starting Tuesday, the United States will continue to be able to conduct its key foreign policy, national security and intelligence missions - at least for a little while. But beyond that, well, it's not going to be pretty.
The effects of political dysfunction in Washington are already reverberating across the globe. Markets in Europe and Asia took a hit on Monday and both the NASDAQ and Dow Jones Industrial Average fell sharply Monday when trading got underway in New York. But rattling global markets is only the first of many potential effects of the shutdown.


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The Wall Street Diet
Created by a dietitian for high-paced individuals.Top Rated Diets of 2017
If you have a Wall Street-esque work style – long hours, spending too much time in airports and at client dinners – then you are all too aware of how difficult it is to eat healthy and lose weight given your frenzied work life. But your life and your waistline just got a break thanks to the book, The Wall Street Diet: The Surprisingly Simple Weight Loss Plan for Hardworking People Who Don't Have Time to Diet, by dietitian Heather Bauer. Bauer offers strategies and solutions for those who don't have time to count calories but want to shed a few pounds or just want to know how to navigate their way through a five-course fundraiser dinner.
The book starts by having you decide if you are a member of the Clean Plate Club or the Controlled Eater club. This classification then dictates what diet course you follow. Filled with ways for how to handle tempting office parties, airport food courts, pastry-heavy conference meetings, and other business situations, The Wall Street Diet doesn't give you any diet information that you haven't been told before but what it does give are practical and effective solutions for how to lose weight, improve your health and still be a workaholic.
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- Offers practical and healthy solutions
- Wall Street Diet is not about deprivation
- Educates reader on important nutrition principles
- Tailored to people who work
The Wall Street Diet's main intention is to make losing weight an easy part of leading a busy work life. Bauer offers nutrition guidelines that are the mainstay of most diets such as avoiding sugar, refined carbohydrates and fried foods but she also gives guidelines for how to deal with business situations where food is aplenty. Included are tips like scanning restaurant menus ahead of time for healthy options, what to eat at all-you-can buffets and fast-food calorie cheat-sheets that help you keep your calories in check while not feeling deprived or looking like the Black Sheep dieter at important business dinners.EXERCISE
The Wall Street Diet recognizes how difficult it is to find time to exercise. Rather than exercise starting immediately, Bauer has you build up to implementing a fitness regimen. Included are effective 20-minute exercise programs that should be done three times a week. Bauer also includes tips for how to exercise when you're on the road, the best workout videos and how to exercise at home.CONCLUSION
The Wall Street Diet is a practical and effective weight loss guide for those who lead hectic corporate lives. Rather than spending time preparing meals, counting calories and working out at the gym, author and dietitian Heather Bauer offers simple and effective ways for you to lose weight and regain your health while still maintaining overtime-fueled work week.Common Misspellings
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Yet after two seasons and a grand total of zero catches in his NFL Career, Currie was sent packing on Monday after being released by Chicago. A mainstay on the injured reserve list, Currie suited up in just one regular season game – the 2006 season-opener – and never recorded a reception. A fifth-round selection out of Clemson in the 2005 draft, Currie is now free to sign with any club.
The Bears did, however, find some fresh talent at this past weekend's rookie mini camp at Halas Hall in Lake Forest. One of the unexpected stars was tight end Fontel Mines, who played receiver at Virginia and caught 68 passes in 30 career games for the Cavaliers. Mines made several tough grabs all three days of practice and earned high praise from head coach Lovie Smith.
"He did a super job," Smith said after Sunday's session. "[He] came out of nowhere [and] really got our attention."
In addition to Mines, the Bears signed five more players on Monday who came to mini camp without a contract as non-roster invitees : RB Josh Allen (Maryland), DT Tory Collins (Northwestern State), CB Greg Fassitt (Grambling), CB Tim Mixon (Cal-Berkeley), and S Andrew Shanle (Nebraska).
|John Crist is the Publisher of Bear Report and Editor in Chief of BearReport.com. To read him every day, visit BearReport.com and become a Chicago Bears insider.


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San Jose Math Circle does not offer a summer program, but around the U.S. there are many great math summer camps. The best summer programs usually have an application process and are selective. Now is the time to apply!
- San Jose State is offering AwesomeMath June 19-July 1. (see: http://sanjosemathcircle.org/handouts/2016-2017/20170208_Awesomemath_SJS... ).
- Idea Math in Cupertino is for students in grades 6-12. (see: http://www.ideamath.org/summerprog.htm)
- MathPath is a famous summer camp for students age 11-14 (see: http://mathpath.org).
- Mathcamp is another summer camp for high school students (see http://mathcamp.org).
- Stanford offers the "Logic is fundamental" summer camp for high school students (see http://intrologic.stanford.edu/summercamp).


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30 Day Pizza Diet
Get slimmer by the slice.Top Rated Diet Shakes of 2017
The 30-Day Pizza Diet was created by none other than pizza shop owner Matt McClellan, who owns Tour de Pizza, an award-winning pizza restaurant in Florida. Matt decided to embark on this experimental diet because he kept getting hassled by his gym for giving out pizza coupons. Due to most diets viewing pizza as one of those off-limit foods, he decided to show people that pizza could be healthy.
In 30 days, Matt was able to lose 24 pounds and lower his body fat percentage by 10 percent. He was also able to lower his cholesterol, blood pressure and lose inches from his body. On the diet, you eat nothing but pizza for 30 days. Each day about eight slices are allowed over a 12-hour period totaling about 2,500 calories. Toppings include chicken, broccoli, avocado, pineapple and mushrooms along with skim milk cheese. Red meat and pork are not allowed.
Exercise is strongly encouraged.
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- Debunks myth that pizza is an off-limits diet food
- Encourages exercise each day
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- Worked for one person, may not work for others
- Calories are quite high for most who are trying to lose weight
- Those with gluten or dairy allergies will have to modify diet
- Lots of differences among the nutrition content of pizza
- Permission of all kinds of beverages will add significant amounts of empty calories
The 30-Day Pizza Diet guidelines are fairly simple: Just as it sounds, you're eating nothing but pizza for 30 days straight. With a target of 2,500 calories per day, you are suggested about eight slices within a 12 hour period. Pizza slices must be thin crust.
Some of the acceptable toppings on your pizza include:
- Skim milk cheese
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Meat, pork and other high-fat toppings like extra cheese are excluded. Alcohol, sodas and other beverages are allowed.EXERCISE
While on the pizza diet, the mastermind behind the diet engaged in 60 minutes of exercise each day alternating between cardio and weight training.CONCLUSION
The 30-Day Pizza Diet started out as a way to prove that pizza can be part of a healthy diet. While this diet was successful for one person's weight loss, its high calorie content, lack of pizza type and size guidelines, mono-food emphasis and its overall fad nature are not likely to be a long-term solution to healthy weight loss.Common Misspellings
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this one sounds like a bit of a ridiclous fad but since I love pizza I reLLY HAVE TO GIT IT A CHANCE AND HOPEFULLY I LOSE A FEW LBS THEN GO ON TO A MORE SENSIBLE SAFE HEALTHY EATING REGIMEN.
i use to be on this diet i think in NYC. i would get one slice of meat with veggies pizza everyday.. just one slice probably around 500-750 calories.
had protein, veggies, whole wheat dough... it was def healthy!
when I was on Jenny Craig, that's all I ate -- their pizza and I lost the wt, one-two lbs a week, no exercise.
I love pizza and too be honest was kind of on this diet. I ate 1 slice for lunch three times a week. it was a perfect balance of nutrition and protein etc.
I applaud Matt McClellan for showing that pizza doesn't have to be a taboo food. We make homemade pizzas all the time and they are much tastier and better than most available. We use everything but the kitchen sink and we feel better and lost weight as well. We were doing this long before we heard about it in the media.
I have heard it all... But a pizza diet? Give me a break!
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Driver In 100mph Chase Says He Was Drunk
BATAVIA, N.Y. (AP) _ A 42-year-old man has admitted he was drunk behind the wheel when he led police on a 40-mile chase in western New York last year.
The Daily News of Batavia reports (http://bit.ly/ZEHGh5 ) that Ronald Worthington of Batavia pleaded guilty Thursday in Genesee County Court to reckless endangerment, driving while intoxicated and resisting arrest.
Worthington said he was drunk the night of Dec. 3 when he led police on a chase that began on the Thruway in Genesee County and continued west into neighboring Erie County. He made a U-turn at the toll barrier at Williamsville and drove east before ramming his car into a state police patrol vehicle in Batavia.
Police said Worthington reached speeds of up to 100 mph during the chase.
He's scheduled to be sentenced June 26.


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Since 1853, when US naval officer Matthew Perry arrived in Edo Bay with his squadron of 'black ships' looking for a trade deal, Japan has possessed a mystique for Westerners that has served as much to alienate as attract. The idea of a closed society, an isolated country which agreed to open up to trade only when threatened with naval bombardment, still haunts the foreign imagination.
Despite the enthusiastic assimilation by contemporary Japanese of every international cultural tic, from dreadlocks to David Beckham, many gaijin (foreign persons) still suspect there's something about the exchange that isn't reciprocal, that aspects of this wealthy modern democracy are being held back or kept secret. This image of impenetrable Japan informs such films as Lost In Translation, in which two Americans work through their culture-shock in the luxurious surroundings of the Tokyo Park Hyatt hotel.
It certainly looks as though Japan's reputation as a country of obscure codes and rarefied manners affects patterns of tourism. Spend a day on the JR Yamanote train line, which runs a circuit around central Tokyo, and you see foreigners everywhere - standing at intersections in Shibuya or Shinjuku, gawping up at J-Pop stars shimmering on giant screens. They're browsing in electronics shops in Akihabara, taking pictures of the cos-play freaks - kids who dress up as their favourite manga characters. But if you board one of the comfortable shinkansen trains and head out of the city, they vanish. In almost two weeks travelling through Tohoku, the mountainous north-eastern region of Honshu, the largest of Japan's major islands, I'll count nine foreign tourists, four of whom are together.
Tohoku is the 'deep north', through which the famous Zen monk and haiku poet Matsuo Basho walked in 1689, writing one of the most famous travelogues in world literature, Oku no Hosomichi, the Narrow Road to the Interior. In the 17th century this was a wild and dangerous region, roamed by bandits. Today, most of Japan's 120 million people still live on the flat coastal plains, while the heavily forested mountains of Tohoku are a place to get away from it all, to experience nature and relax at one of the region's numerous onsen, or hot spring resorts. There is a highly developed tourist culture - it's just that it's almost 100 per cent Japanese.
Like Basho 300 years ago, I stop off on the way to the mountains at Matsushima, a seaside town fronting a bay scattered with hundreds of pine-covered islets. For centuries Matsushima has been appreciated as one of the nihon sankei, the 'three scenic places' considered the most beautiful in all Japan. 'Islands are piled above islands,' Basho wrote, 'and islands are joined to islands, so that they look exactly like parents caressing their children or walking with them arm in arm. The pines are of the freshest green and their branches are curved in exquisite lines, bent by the wind constantly blowing through them.'
An apocryphal story has it that when asked to compose a poem extolling all this beauty, the poet was initially lost for words. His response, in perfect haiku form (a line of five syllables, a line of seven and a second line of five) is, I suppose, a sort of Zen gag:
Ah, Matsushima!
Ah-ah Matsushima! Ah!
Matsushima! Ah!
The pine islets, with their crumbling Buddhist shrines and wind-shaped trees are still beautiful, but in many ways Matsushima has been damaged by tourism. Coachloads of visitors swarm along a waterfront lined by cheap restaurants and souvenir shops. The noise of pleasure boat engines floats across the water, accompanied by the amplified commentary of the guides.
But Matsushima does offer me one moment of giddying beauty - at the Zuiganji temple, where I walk through a meticulously gardened stand of red pines rising out of a perfect carpet of moss, past a cliff whose natural caves and niches are filled with stone Buddhas and Bodhisattvas.
On the train platform the next morning stand six young Zen monks, dressed in short robes and straw sandals and with big conical hats in their hands: descendants of Basho, wandering the earth, or at least the suburban train line to Sendai, the big city half an hour down the coast. I head north to Hirosaki, the city of apples - one in every seven grown in Japan, to be precise.
If apples are your thing, you should probably get on a plane right now. At the Hirosaki city Apple Park you can see a thousand trees, from 60 different varieties, before sampling apple curry in the cafe and taking your pick from a selection of over 700 apple-related souvenirs. According to that infallible source, the internet, the heaviest apple in recorded history weighed 1.849kg (4lb 1oz) and was grown and picked by Chisato Iwasaki at his apple farm in Hirosaki on 24 October, 2005. I am entirely unsurprised by this information. Hirosaki apples are huge, sweet, red things, the size of melons, like galas on steroids.
I take a pleasant ride around the town on one of the free bikes provided by the tourist office, taking in the park, the castle, and a district of old samurai houses where I glimpse beautifully topiarised gardens behind high wooden walls. Realising I'm actually wrestling with the temptation to buy a stuffed apple mascot, a sort of elf in a little green hat, I decide it's time to move on. The railway doesn't run into the mountains, so I acquire a little silver Mazda. Driving in rural Japan is, at least in mechanical terms, very easy: the roads are great, the Japanese drive on the left, and on highways the speed limit is only 50km an hour - perfect when you're lost or enjoying a soporific scenic cruise, but frustrating when you're taking a 100km detour because a landslide has blocked the road, as happened to me one day.
The trickiest part is finding your way. Major locations are signposted in roman characters. Others, such as secluded inns and hot pools, are not. Each morning I start my day by bowing to whoever is standing behind the reception desk at my inn and handing over a piece of paper, on which is written 'please programme my GPS to take me to...' Where my GPS takes me is a mystical region of mountain roads winding through dense forest. I find it less threatening than Basho evidently did: 'The mountains were so thickly covered with foliage and the air beneath so hushed that I felt as if I were groping my way in the dead of night. There was not even the cry of a bird to be heard, and the wind seemed to exhale black soot through every rift in the hanging clouds.'
In the midst of this sombre greenery is Aoni Onsen, a ryokan (traditional inn) by a river, where travellers can stay and bathe in hot pools lit at night by flickering oil lamps. Set up in the 1930s by a poet who wanted somewhere to recuperate from illness, it's a tranquil place. There are no televisions or radios in the rooms. Electricity is hardly used, though the bright glimmer of a cash register and a computer behind the reception desk breaks the spell.
I change out of my clothes into a cotton yukata (summer kimono) and geta (traditional wooden sandals) which, like almost all house shoes in Japanese hotels, are several sizes too small. They force me to walk in an alarming seesawing clomp. After a couple of trips to bathe, tradition gives way to convenience and I swap the geta for the rubber pool shoes everyone else has chosen. The ritual of communal bathing (like any situation in which you get naked with strangers) is one of those areas where a basic knowledge of etiquette comes in handy.
British bathing habits are perplexing to the Japanese, who wouldn't dream of soaping themselves in a tub full of dirty water and dead skin. All the actual washing is done outside. You squat and sluice yourself with water from a shower-head or a wooden bucket, then vigorously and thoroughly clean every part, rubbing yourself down with a little washcloth. Only then are you ready to get into the water. Once you're in, it's polite not to immerse your head, or your cloth. Many people fold them up and put them on top of their heads. A foreigner in a rural onsen is, to say the least, a curiosity, and people watch me, albeit discreetly. Soon enough my novelty value wears off, and I join in the soothing ritual of bathing, scrubbing, soaking, steaming and cooling down in a tepid outdoor pool.
As dusk falls and the lanterns are lit, I sit and watch water tumbling down a 20m cliff. Then, crossing the little wooden bridge which spans the river, every pore clear, every muscle relaxed, I go to dinner, which is eaten communally in Aoni's main hall. Perhaps 50 guests sit at long low tables to a meal of seasonal food, matsutake mushrooms, grilled fish and rich autumnal miso soup formally presented on lacquer trays. By nine the place is silent. Everyone is in bed.
Onsen come in all shapes and sizes. In little Tohoku hill-towns, they're much like old fashioned public bath-houses, filled with men shaving and chatting and reading manga, half-reduced to pulp by the steam.
High in the mountains I visit Sukayu, a ski lodge famous for its 'thousand-person bath', a huge sulphur-fed tub of milky water. Patrons sit beneath bamboo pipes, taking 'cascade baths', some wearing plastic caps to protect their hair. The big hall, its pine walls and fittings blackened by years of exposure to sulphurous steam, is one of the strangest environments of my trip. In some places the bathing is only a secondary attraction. At Tamagawa, there's a sort of geothermal wonderland, with bubbling pools of mud and vents belching out acrid steam.
In most places the public would be separated from these dangers by barriers. Here it's traditional to lie on the hot soil, as a cure for various arthritic and rheumatic ailments. People swathe themselves head to foot in blankets, dotting the smoke-shrouded valley like highly coloured caterpillars. The effect is rather like visiting a refugee camp on Mars. One man is cooking yam and pumpkin by lowering a bag into a steam vent. The atmosphere gives me a headache, and my clothes stink of sulphur for hours afterwards.
Ryokan, with their traditional straw tatami mats and futon beds, unrolled while you're eating dinner, can be atmospheric places like Aoni or like motels with different furniture, but even these are interesting to a foreigner: in one I join a throng of guests grazing at the dinner buffet, all wearing the hotel-issue mauve yukata and grass green leatherette sandals. It's an odd sight, like walking into a Marriott somewhere in the midwestern United States and finding the restaurant full of people sitting in their fluffy white bath-robes.
One night I stay at Tsurunoyu, an onsen that rivals Aoni in its charm. Part of a resort area called Nyuto, Tsurunoyu was once the private spa of the Lords of Akita. It was opened in 1701, and is reputedly named for a wounded crane (tsuru) found bathing in one of the pools by a hunter. Meals are eaten in traditional mountain fashion, around square charcoal hearths called irori, on which you can barbecue fish and vegetables, before tucking into a bubbling wild yam nabe cooked in a metal pot hung from a hook over the coals.
The food is exquisite - I eat venison sashimi, grilled fish, scallops with miso, delicate salads of mushrooms and green bean shoots, and sansai, 'mountain vegetables', the fragrant wild ferns, brackens and tubers that form an integral part of rural Japanese cooking. At Tsurunoyu, the traveller Basho seems close at hand:
Guest's shadow through
the paper screen - I sit dreaming
over charcoal fumes.
A day or two later I have a less elevated (but shamefully tasty) culinary experience on the boardwalk at Lake Towada, eating a German-style sausage on a curved 'stick' which turns out to be the rib bone of, I think, a pig. As I indulge my creeping suspicion of cannibalism, I become aware of the sepulchral stillness of the place, with its dazzling light and empty souvenir shops and lines of disused pedaloes shaped like swans and sea monsters. Were this lake in, say, Canada or New Zealand, there would be windsurfers and yachts and swimmers and people on jet skis.
Here it's silent and slightly forlorn. Later I work out where everyone is. Though they're not much interested in the sporting possibilities of Towada, Japanese tourists are captivated by the nearby Oirase river gorge, a paradise of waterfalls and streams, which has to be one of the most picturesque river valleys I've ever walked down, despite the coach parties trailing after their spiffily dressed guides.
From Towada, I drive to Kakunodate, the end of my mountain journey, the kind of small town where Basho would rest from his travels and earn money by leading renga, communal poetry writing sessions. Kakunodate is little altered from its 19th-century heyday, with a samurai district of elegant houses, and a quiet merchants' district, where the shopkeepers use abacuses to tot up your purchases. Tourists wander the streets, tasting sake and red bean sweets, buying cherry-bark handicrafts and blue glazed pottery.
I stay in a ryokan called the Tamachi Bukeyashiki, which serves exquisite Italian-Japanese fusion food. Were this restaurant in London, people would be selling their grandmothers for a table. The six courses, including marbled beef, pumpkin soup topped with sansai pond weed and clams in a delicate clear broth, are all delicious. I eat there twice, and the first dinner is the best meal I've eaten all year.
Yet in the end, it's a noodle seller who provides the most sincere example of openness, of an unselfconscious fusion between Japan and the West. He's a big, bearded man running a newly opened place near the ryokan, with pine tables, modern calligraphic scrolls and a baby grand piano. He appears to like simplicity: the shop sells udon noodles. Nothing else, just udon noodles. It's the shortest menu imaginable. You can have them cold or hot, in a square lacquer box, accompanied by vegetable broth with the option of a few slices of duck. Oh, and Schubert. As he works, making the single dish to which he's devoted himself, the noodle-maker is always accompanied by the chamber music of his favourite composer. The udon, needless to say, are perfect. I pay and pick up my umbrella. Outside there is a storm.
First winter rain -
I plod on,
Traveller, my name.
- Basho
· Hari Kunzru travelled with Audley Travel (01993 838200; audleytravel.com) which offers tailor-made trips to most parts of Japan. A 10-day trip, including a visit to Tohoku, costs from £2,000 per person, including flights and three-star accommodation throughout. For further information contact the Japanese National Tourist Organisation on 020 7734 6870; seejapan.co.uk.