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You and two of your friends are working part-time for your father in his construction business. Your job is to assist the brick masons while they finish the front of a new office building. They are working from a scaffold which often has to be moved. Your job is to secure the bracing on the scaffold each time it is moved so that it is sturdy. This job gets boring and pretty soon you are thinking of plans for the evening and the shopping you will do with your paycheck. Suddenly it's time for lunch and the brickmasons have just finished moving the scaffold over again. They ask you to secure the bracing before you leave for lunch. Your friends are yelling at you to hurry up, and you have the bracing on one side already secured. You leave without getting the rear bracing and plan to do that as soon as you return from lunch.
How would dependability be important to the outcome?
-Dependability is the trait of being reliable and worthy of reliance or trust. It would be very important to this outcome because if you were dependable, you would secure both bracing before going to lunch. Thus creating a safer work environment.
Does my response answer the question? And if there are any suggestions regarding my answer, don't hesitate to reply.
Thank you very much.
You're right, but I suggest you go into more detail. What could be a tragic result of this irresponsiblity?


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The Building Controls Professional Assessment (BCPA) is designed to assess practical ability and professional knowledge. It is a two day test which has both practical and written elements.
Before taking the BCPA, it is important that candidates complete the BCPA Candidate Self Assessment Checklist. (Please print out and complete). This should be done by the candidate and signed off by their employer. The checklist identifies areas for extra training before taking the Assessment. You will not be permitted to take the BCPA without a signed Checklist.
- Designed by the BCIA membership and National Electrotechnical Training (NET) on behalf of the building controls industry. The BCIA worked with NET because this is the organisation that oversees the electricians' assessment, the AM2, which has achieved an outstanding reputation as a method for assessing practical knowledge.
- BCIA members worked on a voluntary basis to put the assessment together.
- Equipment for the new test bays has been donated by several member companies, including Western Automation, Trend, Siemens Building Technologies, and Belimo.
- The BCPA is an assessment of knowledge and competence in the installation, commissioning and testing of building controls and BEMS, and is based on competencies developed during the BEMS NVQ Diploma.
- It is a two day assessment which covers three main areas: installation and commissioning; fault-finding; and a multiple choice test which assesses knowledge of BEMS-related areas such as legislation and energy efficiency issues.
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County Judge Candidate Once Sued in Federal Court Over Harassment Allegations
Frank Bocanegra, an attorney and former Miami-Dade Police officer, is running for county court judge on the November 4 ballot based largely on his three-decade career in law enforcement and his role as a former city manager of Miami Lakes. "I... truly believe that hard work and unrelenting professionalism are the foundation to ensuring a fair and impartial judiciary," he tells voters.
But there's at least one person from Bocanegra's past who thinks the candidate shouldn't be anywhere near a courtroom.
"This guy does not know the meaning of justice," says Gus Abella, a Miami Lakes resident who spent years fighting Bocanegra in court over allegations he'd used his police powers to retaliate against him and his family.
In February 2007, when Bocanegra was a major on the county police department, Abella spoke at a Miami Lakes council meeting to argue against a mundane ordinance, proposed by Councilwoman Nancy Simon, concerning residents' posting of signs along suburban streets. In the back of his truck, Abella also had his own sign: "Councilmember Nancy Simon wants to pollute Miami Lakes with signs."
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After leaving the meeting, Abella says, he was intimidated in the parking lot by police officers who didn't like what he'd said. And then, he says, he was systematically harassed over months: He says that police stopped him and threatened to issue a citation if he didn't remove the sign from the back of his truck, and that on several occasions other officers gave him bogus parking tickets and citations for ostensible violations like blocking handicapped parking spaces. Major Bocanegra, Abella alleges, used his officers to "make our life a living hell."
Abella went to federal court, claiming he had been intimidated as retaliation for expressing his First Amendment rights. He named numerous defendants, including Bocanegra, Simon, and several officers, and the legal wrangling went on for years. Finally, earlier this year, the case was settled for around $21,000, says Dennis Kerbel, who represented the county.
A spokesman from Bocanegra's campaign office referred comment about Abella's allegations to Kerbel, who says the claims of harassment were frivolous.
The county finally settled only to save taxpayer money that would have been spent on a trial, Kerbel claims. He says it wouldn't be fair to measure the prospective judge based on the harassment claims and eventual settlement.
"I don't believe his claims have any merit," Kerbel says of Abella.
But Abella says the incident should cast doubt on Bocanegra's credentials. "We were harassed by police," he says.
Update: It should also be noted that the Miami Herald endorsed Bocanegra and withdrew its recommendation of Bocanegra's opponent, the incumbent Miami-Dade County Judge Jacqueline Schwartz, after an incident that the newspaper said "raises sufficient questions about the judge's demeanor." The Herald reported that an owner of a Coconut Grove convenience store said that earlier this summer Schwartz demanded he remove an opponent's campaign sign, then cursed at the man after he refused and apparently later called code enforcement to have the sign taken down.
And in July, in response to a question about judicial underrepresentation at a meet-and-greet event broadcast on Island TV, Schwartz also made questionable comments about minorities in the judicial system. "If we're talking about black judges or people in the court system, I think there's been..studies that suggest that there's not a problem with underrepresentation," she said. "As far as black judges, I think the appointment process really helps a lot with that."
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A/N: Welcome to the project that has been consuming my life for about two years now! For those of you who have been following this project from the beginning, my first two attempts at prologues just weren't getting the job done at all, and I needed something that was better suited to the story. So I wrote this.
For those of you who have not read this yet, here are all the warnings, disclaimers, and summaries you'll ever need. Welcome to my world. You'll probably be insane by the time you leave (evil smirk).
The Passion of Angels and Demons -- This is a story set in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer universe, and it is a crossover with the X-Men's Dark Phoenix Saga by Chris Claremont. There are no characters from X-Men in this story, just my own version of the DPS adapted to Buffy.
Warnings: This is a SLASH story - it contains sometimes graphic sex between two men. If such things offend you, this is not the story for you. With that out of the way: 1 This is a Xander/Angel(us) romance (at least primarily), so if you do not like that pairing, this isn't for you. 2 This story is rated M because it deals with sex and a lot of gore - the fight scenes get pretty descriptive. This story isn't really for the weak-stomached (and yes, there is some straight sex in this too). That should be about it.
Disclaimer: Buffy the Vampire Slayer was created by Joss Whedon (who is an unparalleled genius), and is owned by FOX and by Mutant Enemy. I make no money. Also, the Dark Phoenix Saga (the best comic book story arc EVER) was written by Chris Claremont, and is owned by Marvel. I make no money, I'm just having fun. Lawyers will be shot. Survivors will be shot again.
PS -- Joss Whedon is finally returning to TV!! With Eliza Dushku!! They're on a show called Dollhouse which is looking something like a Whedonverse version of Alias, but better. It's gonna be on FOX this winter after 24 finally comes back -- watch it!
Okay, on to the story.
the Passion of Angels and Demons
Once upon a Time…
In the second age,
When the darkest of angels is at reign,
A true warrior will rise
A Slayer like no other before or after
And in her hands will be the Key to the Door
Though she will know it not
And the world will rest on her choice
Between her duty and her heart
-- The prophet Airindorick (date unknown)
And the Doorway will open
And Hell will pour out
From the mouth it will belch
Like sulfurous magma
And there will be many who fight to close the Door
Champions of mighty heart joined with demons of purest dark
But ultimately the power that affects those of both worlds
Will be the Key to close the Door.
--from the Byrondirk Codex (kept in the library of the Watcher's Council Headquarters in London)
From the ashes of saints and the fires of Hell
One will be borne of purest Dark and purest Light
And he will be the Doorway
And he will have to choose between the two
For only one born with a foot in both worlds
Will have the strength to bear the Child of Light
The Phoenix will rise
And the Doorway will choose which world to burn.
--A Seer, from her vision, given to a seeker, 1997.
Alexander Harris was six years old when the 'incident' happened. He was a child, and as such he had no idea that what had happened would have any import on the rest of his life. He actually later forgot that it was so important: he was so used to seeing strange things by then that it didn't seem particularly interesting. He'd always seen strange things, always heard things that no one else could and in fact most people insisted that he hadn't actually seen or heard anything.
He'd been in and out of councilors' offices for the last three years, ever since he'd started pointing things out to his parents. He was too young to understand the looks on their faces when he started speaking to things that they couldn't see. His mother tended to get a very strange look on her face, almost like she wanted to start sobbing, as if there was something particularly painful about him when he didn't act like all the other kids. His father, on the other hand, had started drinking. He'd also been demoted at work for it, and had started to yell at Xander and his mother more and more. Xander didn't like to think about that, though, so he'd started spending more time with Willow and Jesse. Tony Harris didn't usually drink in front of the other kids, so it was nicer like that.
The incident happened one day in September, about two or three days after Tony's strange cousin had come for a family visit. Jack was his name, and he was a tall, skinny man who had lots of weird tattoos and dressed funny. He was twitchy, and Xander used to think it was funny to look at the guy when he started fiddling with his fingers or tapping his feet because he couldn't sit still for very long. Other than that, Xander tended to avoid him because he stared at him funny.
Xander knew that he didn't look like other kids; he was taller than most of the kids in his class, and also very pale, no matter how much time he spent outside. He 'unnerved' people, whatever that meant, as his kindergarten teacher had told Jessica, Xander's mom, one afternoon. She said it was unusual to see a child so adult-like, so prepossessed. But she was more wigged about Xander's flashes of anger. She had reprimanded him once when a boy had taken Xander's toy. Xander hadn't had many compunctions about taking the toy back and whacking the other boy around the head a couple of times to teach him a lesson. Xander himself hadn't been able to understand why Miss Murlow had been so put out with him; how would the other boy know that taking things was wrong unless he got hit for it?
"Xander has authority issues," Miss Murlow had droned on to Jessica, who was sitting very nervously in the class listening to the teacher. Xander had gotten bored and walked away. "He does not like being told what to do and has no understanding that talking is a good way to teach someone - it's like he expects me to beat lessons into other children when they don't get it. I just don't understand, Jessica: he's so polite around you, and yet at times he is the holy terror of this class!"
So Xander was home from school for Jack's visit. He told his mom that Jack's eyes glowed strange when he was around Xander, and Jessica had lost it. She went very still, then crouched next to him and took his wrist hard enough to hurt. "Listen to me very closely, Xander, because this is important," she said urgently, staring into his eyes until he was cowed enough to pay attention. "You can't talk about these…things that you see to anyone but me, you understand? Especially not to strangers, alright? Promise me." Her eyes were shining, and she felt like she was bruising his wrist. Xander had nodded quickly.
So he didn't say how uncomfortable Jack made him feel, and on the third day of his visit, Jack had told Xander's parents that he'd be okay watching Xander when they went grocery shopping. Tony had said okay, even though Jessica had tried to bring Xander with them. Xander had a sense that Tony had hustled her out without him, and feeling angry and bereft, he'd stomped outside and started kicking a tree stump. The wind picked up around him and the sky darkened overhead as his mood grew darker to match.
That was when Jack came out of the house and said "Hey, Xan, got somethin' to show ya." He'd taken Xander's hand before Xander could protest and led him toward the stretch of trees outside Xander's house.
"I don't wanna go in there," Xander had protested as he was dragged along. It didn't feel good when Jack squeezed his hurt wrist and dragged him hard enough for his shoulder to feel sore. "Stop!" But Jack wouldn't listen, and just kept dragging him, shushing him and pulling him into the woods.
When they reached the little creek, Jack had turned to him and started touching him. Xander didn't like it; it felt dirty and wrong. So he'd wriggled away and told Jack to stop it. Jack told him to shut up and slapped him, hard. Xander had fallen to the ground, stunned. For all his father's drinking and shouting, he'd never really been hit before. He'd been shocked enough to fall down, and he stared up at Jack, shocked, as the freaky guy started reaching for his belt.
"Leave me alone!" Xander shouted, backing up. He felt like his head was spinning, and the whole forest around him was starting to blur in his vision, become sharper and then hazier, like it was disappearing behind a red film of rage. The babbling of the creek felt like drums in his head, and he felt rage and fear and darkness from inside that part of him that made him act like a bad kid.
The wind picked up, making birds shriek as they were blown down to the ground. Spooked, Jack jerked away, yelling "What the fuck?!" But it was too late for that. Xander's rage was finding an outlet, and the sky turned black as night overhead. Thunder rumbled like loud gunshots, and as Xander screamed and passed out, he didn't see the lightning slam down from the clouds like God's fist and strike the ground, right where Jack was standing.
The blast set about three trees on fire and threw Xander's unconscious body like a rag doll about twenty feet, back toward his house. When the Harrises returned home they saw a small fire and Tony had run to call the cops while Jessica ran out screaming for Xander. When she grabbed him, and saw the handprint on his face, she had freaked out and grabbed him, running for home. Of Jack there was no sign. She never bothered to look.
One year later, the Harris parents were sitting in the living room, anxiously awaiting their guests to arrive. Tony knocked down a shot of whiskey, enjoying the burn, building up his fortitude for the visit. Jessica sighed as she gazed out the window toward the still-blackened patch of woods where the charred beyond recognition remains of Jack Harris' body had been found. Just thinking of Jack filled Jessica with a bitter sort of rage – it was after he died, whatever the Hell had happened, that had made Xander so much more…different than he'd already been. She glanced at the stairs, wondering what Xander was doing now. Tony followed her glance.
"What the hell are we doing this for, anyway?" he asked irritably. She stared at him incredulously. The question, he supposed, didn't really need answering. Since what had happened with Jack - and he never really stopped to think about that, because the thought that someone in his family had been some freaky pedophile was too much for him to handle - whatever was wrong with Xander had just gotten worse.
The way that he acted – as if he were some God…it was creepy. He regarded everyone around him with a cool detachment, as if their lives were like a movie that he watched, vaguely interested but detached. Save for those strange moments where his temper would just fly…
Tony shuddered slightly, and took another swig from the bottle of whiskey. He savored the false strength that he picked up from the alcohol. The money that he and Jessica had saved up in the hope of a vacation to Hawaii had been spent on psychologists and doctors, experts and specialists. None of them had been able to help their son. So now they were broke and he was drunk and he and Jessica were fighting all the time…
After the incident, as they called it, he'd been so different, like another person – the looks that were distinctly non-Harris had intensified. If he hadn't been so pissed at the idea of Jessica cheating on him, a small part of him would almost have been relieved at the idea that this freaky version of Xander wasn't really his son.
The knock at the door startled them both.
Jenny Calendar was very nervous. She stared up at the two people in the front seat of the car that they had rented from the agency on the outskirts of Sunnydale. It was hard to decide which one scared her more – the woman in the passenger seat, or the man driving.
In the passenger seat was a beautiful blonde Frenchwoman named Marie-Claire Christiene. She was a High Priestess of the Moon Coven in Avalon – often cited as the most powerful Coven in Europe, if not the world. She had been cold and distant since Jenny had met her, two weeks beforehand.
Now, she sat like an incarnation of the Goddess herself, her eyes straight ahead and unseeing, as if she were searching the currents of the future. It would have been a smart idea, Jenny had to admit. From what she'd managed to gather about the trip they were making, there was a potential threat they were facing that posed a danger to…well, Jenny wasn't sure. All she knew was that the Moon Coven was afraid. And what they feared was a general cause of concern to the world.
In the driver's seat sat Tomas Calendar, Jenny's great-uncle, an Elder of the Calderash Gypsy Tribe. The Calderash Gypsies had business in California, so they had been on hand when the magic alert was put by a subsidiary of the Moon Coven. The Calderash had allied themselves with the great Coven years ago.
Tomas was gripping the steering wheel very hard, as he always did when he was irritated. He was irritated by a lot of things, her uncle Tomas. One of them was the fact that not everyone saw the world in the black-and-white of his ancestors – if it were up to him, Marie-Claire wouldn't even be here.
Jenny stared uneasily out the window. Sunnydale was a quaint, beautiful and sunny Southern California town, but there was something in the air, a faint sort of evil miasma that set her senses to trembling. She'd asked her uncle about it earlier, and he'd told her that it was a dark town, and not to worry about it. He hadn't elaborated, and she knew enough by then to not ask.
"We're here," Marie-Claire said suddenly, jerking out of her private reverie. Tomas sent her an annoyed look, as he was already gliding into the driveway of the Harris residence. He parked the car with short, angry movements. Marie-Claire never spared him a second glance. Tomas knew better than to really piss off a member of the Moon Coven, so he kept the major part of his irritation to himself.
Jenny quickly got out, surveying the neighborhood around them for threats, as she'd been taught. What she felt rocked her backward; there was a force in the house that they'd come to whose power…she'd never felt anything like it. Her uncle cast her an arch look; she flushed. She had been taught at an early age to hide her emotions, but she'd never been very good at it.
"I still don't know why we're here," Tomas said suddenly, his pique getting the best of him. Marie-Claire deigned to turn to him, an eyebrow cocked in annoyed question. "Couldn't you just make his parents say 'yes,' and have done with it?" he clarified.
She shot him a shocked look. Jenny wasn't surprised; Wiccans were taught that to inflict their will upon someone in such a manner was irreverent, horrifying, and forbidden. Gypsies, on the other hand, had no such qualms about using their magicks to get what they wanted.
"You should know my views on the abuse of power," she said shortly, stalking toward the house.
"Ah, yes," her uncle said, apparently unwilling to let the issue drop. This didn't surprise Jenny either; her uncle was as stubborn as a donkey. "Power corrupts, and all of that. When will you people stop lecturing me?" he snapped, his voice dripping acid.
"When you start listening?" Marie-Claire returned with a poisonously sweet smile. Her uncle ground his teeth together in annoyance, but she regally ignored him. "Besides, can't you feel it?" she said suddenly. "This is different."
Tomas could say nothing to that. She nodded as if to accept the victory, and then raised up her hand and firmly knocked on the door three times.
Xander lay up in his room, a pillow over his head. It was more quiet like this, and the seven year old cherished the dark and the silence more than anything as he tried to block out the pain in his head. He didn't understand what the word 'migraine' meant, but the shrink that his parents kept making him go to said that he had stress headaches.
It just hurt, was all he knew, all he could think with a whimper of pain. He just got so damn angry, lately, and then weird things would happen and his mom would get angry and his dad would yell and drink and he'd get a headache that made him feel like puking his guts up, like when he tried to make the weirdness stop happening he was forcing something dark back inside of him that wanted out.
His parents had been real quiet lately, ever since they got something in the mail. He knew it was about him because his dad was drinking more and his mom was chewing her lip, a nervous habit that was weird because sometimes she'd bleed. His mom loved lemonade, the more bitter the better, and so you could always tell when she'd been chewing because whenever she drank the stuff and left stinging blood bright as rubies on the glass it meant that the acidy drink had cut her back open.
He heard his parents get up to answer the door, and he smothered his face deeper into the pillow, praying that the pain would stop. He heard a roll of thunder in the distance at his thought, and he curled in on himself. He hoped his mom wouldn't come up and hit him again. Thunder shouldn't show up on a perfectly clear day.
"So, the place looks nice!" Jessica Harris said, too loudly, too brightly. She sounded as if she were trying to break the stony silence that had settled as soon as Tony and Tomas had laid eyes on each other. Jenny had chosen a creaky rocking chair near a window, farther back from Marie-Claire, who had taken point on the chair closest to the Harrises. Tomas was standing in a corner, watching the proceedings.
"Yeah, nice enough to cost whatever the rest of the fuckin' shrinks have cost," Tony grumbled quietly. "You never actually explained in your letter how you found out about Xander," he continued aloud, ignoring the glares that Jessica was shooting him frantically from his other side. "What do you want with him anyway?"
"We have received recommendations from Xander's elementary school," Marie-Claire lied smoothly. "Alexander appears a perfect candidate for our program - and, if money is an object, you should know that we are a non-profit organization dedicated to the education of special children. This won't cost you a cent, should you agree." She kept her tone smooth and even, sounding like a teacher herself instead of the power that she was. Jenny thought that this was a good tactic; Marie-Claire was an imposing, regal presence and she had a feeling that Tony Harris would instinctively lash out against it.
"Non-profit?" Tony asked with a sneer, clearly thinking of something recent. "What, you some kinda pedo shit?"
Marie-Claire looked like she had just been punched in the face; Jenny gasped slightly, feeling sick at the thought. Tomas' lip curled to the point that it might have been hurting his face, and opened his mouth to blast the man. It wasn't necessary; at the question, Jessica Harris turned and soundly punched her husband in the back of the head.
"What the fuck, woman?" he demanded with a small cry of pain.
"Shut up, Tone - we need this," she whispered, glaring at him with that special glare. Sometimes, his wife freaked him out with that glare. Sometimes, there was something about Jessica almost as different as Xander - like they were both a part of something that he could only guess at if he wanted to, which he didn't.
Everyone in the living room froze and as one regarded the small figure by the stairs. Jenny stared.
The boy looked nothing like either one of his parents, was her first impression. In fact, he looked nothing like the pictures of him on the wall. There was something alien, different…demonic, she thought with a bit of a recoil. The boy was pale as snow with unnaturally red lips, like the vampires of common mythology. His hair was an ebony dark that was unusual without dyes. He held himself with an uncanny grace, a poise that belied both his age and his appearance. It was eerie - but his eyes…they were a strange dark color, with a darkness in their depths that burned with some smoldering power. They were doll's eyes, and they made Jenny want to walk out of the room.
"Xander, honey, what are you doing down here?" Jessica asked quietly. She wasn't quite looking at her son - she's afraid of him, Jenny realized. The boy rubbed his head with a grimace of pain, and said "My head is hurting again."
I can't penetrate his mind, a voice whispered in Jenny's consciousness. She jumped slightly, but thankfully no one seemed to notice. She looked at Marie-Claire, wondering what the woman meant. There is some kind of force field, like an electric current, around his mind. It hurts when you try to read him, the woman elaborated.
The High Priestess of the Holy Isle couldn't read the thoughts of a seven year old boy? Jenny stared even more uneasily at the child. His eyes suddenly met hers. It wasn't what she was prepared for. Yes, the darkness was there. But Jenny had a sense that it wasn't only darkness in the boy's eyes. For underneath the almost alien coldness in Xander's gaze, there was a sweet light and a childish innocence and naïveté still struggling to the surface. She had a strong urge to hug the child, and to push him away all at once.
"Who are they?" the boy asked, pointing to the strangers. He went towards his mother.
"They're here to talk to us about a school," Mrs. Harris said gently, but still not quite looking Xander in the eye. Jenny winced at the obvious avoidance tactics the woman was employing. Clearly the boy had picked up on it, too.
"I already go to school," he said, his voice somehow managing a mix of confusion, hurt, and surly anger all at once.
"Well, this is a different school," Tony Harris snapped, not even trying to be subtle about not looking at his only son.
"So now you're trying to send me away?" Xander snarled back, his eyes lighting up with the anger of an animal who has been hurt and was ready to lash back. "I didn't do anything wrong!"
"It's not like that, Alexander," Marie-Claire tried to explain in a gentle voice.
"I didn't ask you," Xander snapped icily, cutting her off with a hot glare.
"Xander!" Jessica gasped, annoyed and opened her mouth to continue when Marie-Claire cut her off.
"It would perhaps be better if we were permitted to speak to Xander alone," she suggested. The tone of her voice brooked absolutely no argument, and Jenny saw Xander's eyes widen slightly when his parents complied rather readily, getting up to leave. Xander flicked his gaze back to Marie-Claire, a new appraisal in his eyes.
"Who are you?" he asked finally, some of the icy regality leaking from his demeanor. He looked a little scared, a little confused as he sagged into the couch. Looking closer, Jenny was surprised to note that the dark of his eyes was lightening to a lovely chocolaty color. Marie-Claire obviously noticed it too, for she leaned closer, conspiratorially smiling in Xander's direction.
"Xander, I'd like to take you to a place for special people, just like you," she said gently.
"I'm special?" the boy asked, as if only now considering the idea. He smiled at the idea. "I always knew there was something different about me. That's what makes my mom so angry," he continued with the bluntness of a child. Jenny was noticing more and more that as the child that he was emerged, the strange, alien presence he had exuded when he'd first walked in was dissipating.
"Yes -- but you see, we can teach you about that. We can help you," Marie-Claire elaborated.
"Help me?" Xander asked, his eyes suddenly darkening. "I'm not a freak, you know! I'm a kid and I don't need any more of my mom's stupid shrinks!" It was at this moment that Xander's temper seemed to flair in a curious way. As his voice rose, the sky darkened with angry black clouds. Jenny watched, transfixed, as thunder boomed in time with the boy's voice.
"That's enough of that now," Marie-Claire said flatly, and suddenly the storm began to break up. Xander froze, staring out the window with wonder in his eyes.
"How'd you do that?" he demanded.
"You'll know when you come with us," Marie-Claire said with a smirk. Xander slowly smiled, but not like any of them thought. He'd go with them, sure. A part of him had known that as soon as they'd walked in the door. He would learn from them -- but just so that he could make this freaky crap stop. He'd not be like his father or his mother. He'd be better. He'd show them that he could stand on his own two feet, free from anyone's control.


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According to the support forums, this is due to a VPS template issue regarding Parallels. Login attempts are actually being logged, just not in the right place due to a missing slash in the /etc/syslog.conf file.
To fix the problem, edit the syslog.conf file:
You'll notice a number of places where the log file location is missing a slash between log and the filename. This causes a path like /var/log/auth.log to become /var/logauth.log.
See below:
To fix, simply insert a slash (/) after the log part of the path in each entry that starts with /var/log but does not have a slash after /var/log part.
So an entry that looked like -/var/logauth.log becomes -/var/log/auth.log
There should be more stuffed entries lower down into the file, you may as well fix them too.
After saving the changes, restart the logging daemon with the following command:
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Friday, July 15, 2011
SHAVING LEGS...What's The Appropriate Age For Little Girls To Start?
9 comments:
- Amanda said...
I was 12. I think around middle school age is a good time or maybe around the time they start their menstrual cycle, depending on when that is. I want to keep my little girl young forever, and hope I can hold of the shaving until about 13. You could always explain, it's okay for girls to have hairy legs, but when you become a lady, you need to shave your legs. I use lady as away to explain menstrual cycle..Maybe that is not the right word;) ..Although some children do get it, at 9, I do think that is more of a rare occurrence than a norm.
- July 15, 2011 at 6:50 AM
- Mrs.Smitty said...
When you are old enough to deal with menses, you're old enough to shave. That's how my parents decided to handle my first shaving experience and it worked well for me as a preteen.
I plan on doing the same timeline for my daughters. It could be anywhere from 9-12 years of age, if my family's and my husband's family's experience is an indication. If either of our girls haven't had a period by 12, they can start shaving then.
It may be a bit early for us to think about things like this, but we as parents like to discuss and decide early so we're on the same page when the subject arises. I know it's a huge 'rite of passage' but I don't want my baby girls to grow up! Maybe I'll be more prepared for it in 8 years lol.
- July 15, 2011 at 6:50 AM
My parents let me use an electric razor at 8 and a regular at about 11 or 12. I was self conscious about it and they knew that. Electric will prevent the cuts but gets the job done well enough for a younger girl!
- July 15, 2011 at 8:05 AM
I guess the question is why do we as women shave our legs ? My opinion it is 'to sexualize our bodies'. Our children are already over sexualized thanks to media and peers.
My daughter is 8 and does NOT wear bikinis or sexualized clothin. It is one of the reasons I pulled my kids from public school and into a uniformed private school.
She won't be shaving her legs until she is 13 whether she's started her monthly period of not.
- July 15, 2011 at 8:53 AM
- Frugal Tumbleweed Acres said...
I believe 13 is young enough to begin shaving their legs.
- July 15, 2011 at 10:05 AM
My mother is Polish and would not let her half Italian daughter shave her legs until I wa 16! And I needed to shave them, so I was sneaking around for literally years because I was so embarrassed. Her (and my fahter) had this ideaology the earlier you start the darker it will grow, sceince and the medical community has proven this wrong. 13 is the perfect age unless you can prevent it longer.
- July 15, 2011 at 4:15 PM
- ewffan said...
When my daughter was nearing the end of her elementary school years, it wasn't her legs she wanted to shave but her arms (not underarms)! She got teased cause she did have long hair on her arms. It wasn't until she got into junior high (age 12/13) that I let her shave her legs and we removed her arm hair also.
- July 15, 2011 at 9:25 PM
- rbailey1958 said...
Age would vary on this due to how hairy a tween is: Our granddaughter is 10 1/2, she has become quite hairy. Her mom is going to buy her a cordless shaver 2 start shaving. She goes back 2 school Mon., & will B in the 5th grade. Your peers can become quite cruel at this age, & from here on. They will start making fun & nitpicking on kids for their grooming habits which is quite important 2 start shaving when tweens are as hairy as my granddaughter.I would say when a parent believes there daughter is old enough to start shaving is up to them.
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- July 27, 2011 at 5:47 AM
Reading these comments have made me feel less alone in making the right decision for my 10 1/2 year old daughter. She will be starting the 5th gr soon and has become so self-conscious about wearing skirts/shorts. I need to make her feel more self- confident so she can focus on her studies.
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Get to know your neighbors with a neighborhood Christmas brunch!
The Bible commands us to "love your neighbor as yourself." But do you even know your neighbor?
It's easy to get distracted with busyness and simply forget to meet neighbors. But it's important to know who's living close to you.
It can be as simple as introducing yourself when you're getting the mail or taking the garbage out. It might mean taking over a loaf of bread or plate of cookies when you notice a moving truck in the neighborhood.
It could mean stepping out on a limb and inviting your neighbors to an ice cream social or cookout during the summer. Or a Christmas brunch in December.
Why host a neighborhood Christmas brunch?
I first heard about a neighborhood Christmas brunch as a creative Christian outreach when I was in college. Liking the idea, I tucked it away as something I could do when I finally owned a home.
Ten years later my husband and I moved in to our first neighborhood and I got to plan my first neighborhood Christmas gathering. At the time, I knew only a couple of my neighbors. I had no idea who would come and what they would think – but I went ahead and made plans.
Three women came – and once they got settled in to a seat in my living room, one boldly asked:
"OK, Hilary. So why do you have us here today? What do you want?"
Surprised that anyone would think I would want something out of the get together, I answered that I simply wanted to get to know my neighbors. My neighbors relaxed, and we talked over cookies, punch, and appetizers for a couple hours.
Christmas brunch failure … and success
When I moved into my current neighborhood a few years ago, I knew I wanted to bless my neighbor women with a Christmas gathering. I sent out invitations for a Christmas tea, cleaned my house … and failed to prepare far in advance.
Foolishly, I thought I could whip up all the food in a couple hours. After church on a Sunday. With two toddlers in my house.
I didn't have nearly enough time to make everything I had hoped, and I remember running as fast as I could to clean my bathroom, wash my dishes, and try to get as much food prepared as possible. Since most of my neighbors are retired and have time to keep immaculate homes, I was beyond frazzled – especially when they all were quite punctual.
I ended up not having enough room around our table, and halfway through the gathering noticed I served a cheese plate, cheese dip, cheese spread, Christmas cookies … and coffee. Some kind of a Christmas tea! My sweet neighbors were very gracious, appreciative, and still seemed to enjoy getting to see each other before Christmas.
The next year, I made a mental note of everything I did wrong – and tried to correct my mistakes. Instead of choosing a tea, I decided to host my favorite kind of meal – a brunch.
Breakfast food is so good, and by managing my time right, I could prepare my house the night before the brunch – after my young children were asleep.
Brunch was a success! I was thankful for making better plans – and loved my menu choices of quiche, French toast casserole, fresh fruit, granola, yogurt, coffee, and juice.
My favorite neighbor brunch
This December marked my fourth year of hosting a Christmas brunch in my neighborhood, and I absolutely loved it.
This year, my neighbors gathered for my brunch of quiche (spinach and mozzerella, and ham and cheddar) broccoli salad (I skipped the onions, sunflower seeds and raisins), strawberry pretzel salad, gingerbread scones, cranberry orange tea bread, hot drinks, and punch – and they stayed for two hours, visiting the entire time.
It was, by far, my favorite gathering because we all ended up sharing how we met our husbands. All of my neighbors have been married anywhere from 47 to 59 years, and I absolutely loved hearing the stories of when they were young women. Even though we live on the same street and work outside in our yards and gardens in the summertime, we so rarely get to visit as a large group.
Not every woman in our neighborhood comes to my Christmas brunches, but most do. I'm thankful that I'm getting to cultivate relationships with those who do come. I'm thankful that my family has gotten the chance to know and love our neighbors. And I'm thankful that God has blessed us with the neighbors we have.
How have you gotten to know your neighbors? If you've ever hosted or attended a neighborhood Christmas brunch, what do enjoy the most?
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I can see the summit…..
My first phase of Infusionsoft is almost complete; I can see the summit. I reckon I can go live within the next few days. But, as close as I am to the summit, I find a final crevice out to suck me into the depths of despair. The Sherpa's offer much support but their offer of a ladder too short just does not help. We cannot leap the gap yet we cannot go back.
Every process is now mapped but, the order process is too US centric with terminology and lack of configuration so our customers will either:
- Get confused OR,
- Think it's pants!
We are having to do the best we can and mackle (it's a technical term!) together the best solution we can in the short term and hope that IF will recognise the weakness of the system. This is always the case with US software vendors and I know better; yet even with all my experience I still fall foul to something.
See, I'm not perfect!
It will be interesting to see how we take our final steps upwards towards go live but, the real danger is always on the way down. Going live will be a relief, there will be some celebrations, but we have to then get safely down from the top back to base camp. The first few orders will test both us and the customer but we will find a solution somehow. So close but so far!
I will let you know when we hit the summit; you can watch and see if we fall 🙂
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I like Snape. He is my favorite character and I strongly believe that he has a good side to him and my stories will reflect that. So if you disagree, oh well. Snape is good and he and Harry will come to an understanding. So ha!
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Wed Sep 15 2010 (Updated 10/01/10)Ellsberg, Former Gov't Officials Kick Off Campaign to Free Bradley Manning
Wed Sep 15 2010 (Updated 10/01/10)Benefit for PFC Manning, Accused of Leaking Thousands of Documents and Combat Video
On September 16th, Daniel Ellsberg, US Army Col. and diplomat Ann Wright (ret.), senior CIA analyst Ray McGovern (ret.), and KPFA morning host Aimee Allison spoke in Oakland to kick off a nationwide campaign to free alleged whistleblower Bradley Manning, accused of leaking thousands of documents and combat video showing the gunning down of Iraqi civilians and journalists. The event started at 7pm in Oakland's Humanist Hall, and was broadcast live on Indybay as well as Michael Moore's website.
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Courage to Resist and other organizations also led a march and rally to free Bradley Manning in San Francisco on Saturday, September 18th, starting at 2pm in front of the SF War Memorial Building and ending at 4pm in Union Square.
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Daniel Ellsberg, who helped end the war in Vietnam when he leaked the Pentagon Papers to the press in 1970, says "Soldiers' sworn oath is to defend and support the Constitution. Bradley Manning has been defending and supporting our Constitution."
Former senior CIA analyst McGovern, who prepared daily security briefings for both President's Reagan and George H.W. Bush, says combat video of civilians being machine-gunned should be released: "And it is that video that Private Manning is accused of giving to Wikileaks." In contrast he says, "Our Secretary of Defense had not one word of regret about the dozen human beings, including two employees of Reuters, murdered on that fateful day in July 2007—or about the now-fatherless children who were seriously wounded."
The combat videos and other documents released by Wikileaks and available at collateralmurder.com led to the arrest of Manning, now being held in Quantico, Virginia. If convicted, he faces up to 52 years in prison and is currently being held in solitary confinement.
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A2 Economics – The Laffer Curve
New to the A2 syllabus last year was the Laffer Curve. PBS Economics correspondent Paul Solman explores the question of just how high U.S. tax rates should or shouldn't be and examines the relationship between economic activity and tax rates. There is a good explanation of the Laffer Curve which is the relationship between economic activity and tax rates.
In between, a smooth curve representing Laffer's pretty simple idea: Somewhere above zero percent and below 100 percent, there is a tax rate where government will collect the most revenue in any given year. Now, the Laffer Curve applies to everyone, but the top so-called marginal rate is only relevant to the rich. It's now 35 percent on all taxable income in excess of about $380,000 a year. Does that 35 percent rate maximize total tax revenue for the government?
Trump's tax cuts likely to have limited impact on growth
Donald Trump has indicated that the US economy needs a big tax cut to stimulate some growth and aggregate demand – C+I+G+(X-M). His rationale is that with consumers having greater income they will spend consume more (C) and businesses keeping more of their profits will invest more (I). He is even so confident that the tax cuts won't put a dent in the overall tax revenue of the government. However economists are suggesting that the US economy is already growing as fast as it can and in order to improve its growth rate it needs to investment in productivity.
Nevertheless, US tax cuts in the 1980's under Ronald Reagan proved to be very effective in stimulating aggregate demand but the economic environment then was different to that of today. The 1980's was an era of stagflation with the US experiencing 10% unemployment and inflation reaching 15%. Since the GFC in 2007 growth has been positive and unlike the 1980's unemployment has been falling – from 10% in Oct 2009 to 4.4% in April 20178. Tax cuts are all very well when you have high unemployment but with the rate falling to under 5% companies may find it difficult to respond to the greater demand for goods and services by taking on workers to increase supply. Tax cuts would then lead to an increase in inflationary pressure (see graph) which is turn would prompt the US Fed to increase interest rates.
Trump's plan would also increase the Federal deficit and borrowing from the government. This would put upward pressure on interest rates for the private sector which reduces the potential for further growth. As noted earlier the area that needs to be addressed is productivity, with a shift of the LRAS curve to the right – see graph.
The Doughnut Model of Economics
A recent book entitled "Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist" by Kate Raworth of Oxford University's Environmental Change Institute, offers an alternative to the all too familiar policy of economic growth to solve the issues of poverty, inequality, unemployment in the global economy. Simon Kuznets, who normalised the measurement of economic growth, stated that national income cannot be a accurate measure of total welfare in an economy as it only measures annual flows of money and not stocks of wealth and their distribution. Raworth states that the current model of endless economic growth using up the finite resources of the planet is not the way forward. Most textbooks refer to the circular flow as the model of the economic system – households, firms, banks, overseas markets and the government which bears little relationship to reality today. Instead Raworth goes beyond this simple circular flow model and includes social and environmental issues – energy, the environment, raw materials, water pollution etc.
The Doughnut
Raworth's circular flow consists of two rings – see graphic below.
Inner Ring – this consists of the social foundation and those things we need for a good life – food, water, health, education, peace and justice etc. People living within this ring in the hole in the middle are in a state of deprivation.
Outer Ring – this consists of the earth environmental limits – climate change, ozone depletion, water pollution, loss of species etc.
The area between the two rings is the "ecologically safe and socially just space" in which humanity should strive to live. As stated in The Guardian review, the purpose of economics should be to help us enter that space and stay there. As the graphic shows we breach both rings as billions of people live below the poverty line and climate conditions, biodiversity loss, land conversion etc are at concerning levels. The video below is a useful explanation.
Will there be a recovery in global dairy prices?
Dairy prices fell dramatically in 2014 and 2015, prompting the RBNZ to reverse 2014 OCR increases in 2015. Average prices on the GlobalDairyTrade auction fell by 38% in 2014/2015 and 20% in the 2015/2016 to mid-March.
Inconsistent Chinese demand and increased European/US dairy supply causing the perfect storm of plummeting whole milk powder prices. Thankfully, for dairy farmers and the NZ economy dairy prices recovered in late 2016 but can it be maintained into 2017? Here are some reasons why prices may recover:
- EU production is slowing down
- New Zealand production is also likely to fall
- Demand from China is likely to increase
- ASB rural economist Nathan Penny noted three things that would impact the price of milk. One as the fact that milk production was held back before the removal of annual quotas at the end of March 2015 as countries avoided paying penalties associated with producing above quota. Two, after the April removal of quotas, production surged in the EU with April production rising over 3% on a month-by-month basis. Three that post-quota surge has now passed, with production growth slowing, particularly since July, as farmers have struggled with low milk prices.
Once supply is more aligned to demand, global prices are expected to rise again. Europe collectively is the world's largest dairy exporter, accounting for nearly a third of global export sales. EU exports increased by 6% in milk equivalent last year.
Sources: National Business Review and PWC
A2 Economics – Keynesians vs Monetarists
Just been going through this part of the course with my A2 class and came across a table from some old A Level notes produced by Russell Tillson (ex Epsom College Economics and Politics Department) to help them understand the principal differences.
Options for taking on Trump – the Japanese Model.
A colleague alerted me to a Terrie Lloyd a New Zealand businessman in Japan who writes a weekly newsletter. With the election of Donald Trump his recent writing looked at bullies and ways in which you deal with them. Shinzo Abe, the Japanese prime minister, has been proactive in getting to know Trump and his team and how the two countries can work together.
Research on bullies
Lloyd suggests that there are generally three ways to deal with a bully.
Run – UK seem to be taking this option
Fight – Chinese will do this
Suffer and appease – Japan, having a bullying culture already, will go for appeasement
Abe will be meeting with Trump on 10th February for a second time in as many months and will want to convince him that Japan is one of the good guys and if he has to pick on someone in the area he should pick on China. For this to work Abe also needs to feed Trump's ego publicly
Lloyd looks at the work of Dacher Keltner who has written about appeasement and related
human emotion and social practice. He looks at two general classes of appeasement.
1) reactive – the person provides appropriate responses after incidents and these responses are usually public displays of embarrassment and shame.
2) anticipatory appeasement where a person is proactive and engages in certain strategies to avoid conflict. Polite modesty and shyness are also considered anticipatory appeasement.
Japanese Model for dealing with bullies
With Japan taking the latter option, Keltner is suggesting that Abe must appease Trump with gifts of value and that they are seen publicly to assist Trumps power and reputation. Last month the Japanese gave access to US car manufacturers but will that be enough to keep Trump happy? At the meeting on 10th February Abe will propose a package that could generate 700,000 U.S. jobs and help create a $450-billion market. It includes the building of infrastructure projects such as high-speed trains in the northeastern United States, and the states of Texas and California, and renovating subway and train cars. It also includes cooperation in global infrastructure investment, joint development of robots and artificial intelligence, and cooperation in cybersecurity and space exploration, among others.
Toyota the car manufacturer has also been taking the appeasement option after the Trump administration criticised their building of a second car assembly plant in Mexico and also threatened to impose a 20% tariff on Japanese automobile and auto parts makers with plants in Mexico. Toyota quickly announced it would invest $10 billion in its U.S. operations over the next five years.
Abe has definitely been massaging the ego of Trump not only being the first international leader to visit Washington after his election but also telling Trump that he "hopes the United States will become a greater country through (your) leadership," adding Japan wants to "fulfill our role as your ally." It will be interesting to see what happens after their meeting on Friday 10th February.
Sources: Terrie Lloyd, The Japan Times
Do we need another measure of economic prosperity?
I have written on this blog about the limitations of GDP as a measure of the standard of living in a country and would recommend reading Diane Coyle's book 'GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History'. Edoardo Campanella wrote a piece for Project Syndicate about abandoning GDP and how people have concerns with the pace of growth and how it is defined. He mentions two specific reasons for this:
1. Growth in the developed world has brought little benefit to the vast majority of citizens – the recovery in 2010 say the top 1% earn 93% of income growth.
2. Growth doesn't actually take into consideration a lot of those things that contribute to human wellbeing. There is nothing about environmental conditions, the benefits of communities, the stability of individual and group identities etc
However today GDP determines a country's status and access to clubs such as the OECD, G8, G20 thereby affecting the balance of global power.
Limits of GDP
GDP is a measure of the market value of all final goods and services produced in a year however it leaves out things that make us richer as people. For instance:
GDP declines if energy-efficient products reduce electricity consumption but rises with polluting activities that deplete the stock of natural resources. Also if we invest in anti-smoking campaigns or fight global terrorism, GDP will increase, without creating any wealth.
GDP is fixated on more not better – a car with air conditioning and a state of the art stereo system and GPS may be the same as one with no gadgets, regardless of differences in users' experience. How do we measure the success of medical advancements especially in heart surgery that lead to greater life expectancy and a much better quality of life. One of the aspects that GDP misses are those things that are free in society, most notably the services provided on the Internet whether it be Wikipedia, Facebook, Twitter etc. But some have argued that innovation actually reduces GDP even though it may increase the welfare of individuals. Today you can book accommodation, flights, buy products etc online and at a cheaper price than before as the middle person is now excluded from the process. Another example is the price of a smartphone is lower than the prices of its components that used to be sold separately.
Adjusting the numbers
In an effort to update their methodologies, countries add new activities to its calculations. Most recently drugs, prostitution, and other undercover activities have been included in the calculation. However as Edoardo Campanella points out these changes can distort the value of GDP across time. In 2010 Ghana announced a 60% increase in GDP after updating its data-reporting methodology but the the standard of living for Ghanaians hadn't changed. Likewise the changes in the tax domicile of some multinationals in Ireland resulted in an increase in GDP by 16% but no one felt any richer.
Cross Country Comparisons using GDP – China v USA
There are problems in the cross-country GDP comparisons. 2014 saw the overall GDP of China surpass that of the USA. But a more accurate indicator would be GDP per person and China's per person income amounts to only 27% of the USA. See figures below:
Source: IMF
Are we any happier with more growth?
Countries maximize their output through technology, free trade (with comparative advantage) with the belief that greater GDP improves the well-bing of its population. Herek Bok of Harvard observed that "people are essentially n happier today than they were 50 years ago, despite a doubling or quadrupling of average per capita income".
Another area that GDP does not consider is the distribution of income – two countries may be equal in overall GDP figures but differ greatly when you consider individual welfare. The elite have been rewarded disproportionately while many have been made worse off – the income of the top 1% has doubled since the late 1970's at approximately 22% of GDP.
The way forward
As Edoardo Campanella suggests, rather than getting rid of GDP it should be refined and include socioeconomic indicators including GNH*. GDP cannot measure much of what people would consider crucial for a 'good' life – community, relationships, security etc.
*GNH – Bhutan is famous for its Gross National Happiness indicator which revolves around four pillars:
1. Sustainable Development
2. Preservation and promotion of cultural values
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Almost half of the adult population in the United States takes nutritional supplements. Most people are familiar with multivitamin pills. However, both vitamin and mineral supplements now take the form of everything from pills to powders, gummies to bars, and widely popular drinks. In addition, multivitamins are only one form of dietary supplement. Products are widely available which single out an individual supplement such as Vitamin C, or paired supplements like Calcium plus Vitamin D.
People often take nutritional supplements for two main reasons: to increase health if they are already healthy or to help slow or prevent an existing disease. But is there any evidence that supplements are beneficial to either? Many studies have been performed on whether vitamin and mineral supplements have any effect on disease. There haven't been any significant findings so the jury is still out on whether or not taking a multivitamin should be recommended for everyone.
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If you take a supplement to prevent disease there is some important information you should know. Since cardiovascular disease (which includes heart disease and stroke) and cancer are the leading causes of illness and death in The United States, The U.S. Preventative Services Task Force made a final recommendation on taking vitamin and mineral supplements for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease and cancer. They did not find that there was enough evidence that taking a multivitamin, single vitamin or mineral supplement, or paired vitamin and mineral supplements will help prevent cardiovascular disease (CVD) or cancer.
It's what they did find that is more troubling. "[T]he Task Force did find enough evidence to make a recommendation against using two specific vitamin supplements: beta-carotene and vitamin E. The Task Force found that:
- Vitamin E supplements do not help or prevent CVD or cancer.
- Beta-carotene supplements do not help or prevent CVD or cancer. They also can increase the chance of getting lung cancer in people who are already at risk for lung cancer, such as current smokers."
In addition, according to Harvard Health Publications, "a 2008 study in the Archives of Internal Medicine that tracked nearly 162,000 participants in the Women's Health Initiative found that multivitamins have no effect whatsoever in 10 health-related categories including cancer, heart attack, and stroke. Supplement takers didn't live any longer either."
Don't Vitamin and Mineral Supplements Help Me Stay Healthy?
Supplement manufacturers would like you to believe that. The vitamin and supplement industry is regulated by the FDA. However, Harvard Health Publications notes that "in 1994, the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act sharply restricted the FDA's ability to regulate products marked as 'dietary supplements,' even though most people buy them for health and not nutrition. Manufacturers can sell these products without submitting evidence of their purity, potency, safety, or efficacy."
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Harvard Men's Health Watch states that in 2010, over $28 billion dollars was spent on vitamin and mineral supplements. Prices for supplements can range from a few dollars to around $100 for more specialized or "designer" formulations. If people have a desire for good health, they are more likely to adopt healthier habits, which often includes adding nutritional supplements to their diets in varying degrees.
However, when it comes to nutritional supplements, the evidence does not support the health benefit claims. And even the claims must be followed by the disclaimer, "These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease." So why do we keep buying them?
Dr. William Kormos, Editor in Chief of Harvard Men's Health Watch and a primary care physician at Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital says, "If people ask me if they should take a multivitamin, I usually ask, 'Why do you think you need one?' They say, well, I don't eat this, I don't eat that. But a multivitamin is not going to replace the things missing from your diet. Whatever money you are spending on your multivitamin, it's probably better to spend it at the farmer's market or the grocery store on healthy foods."
Whether buying and preparing healthy foods is too confusing, too labor intensive, or just too much for most people to grasp, popping a pill, drinking a shake, or munching on a bar that is marketed to help improve our health seems like a quick and easy fix. But buyer beware. Is it really fixing anything? Studies haven't found clear evidence of that yet.
Supplements: a scorecard – Harvard Health. (2012, April). Retrieved from http://health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/supplements-a-scorecard
Fortmann, Stephen P., author. (2013). Vitamin, mineral, and multivitamin supplements for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease and cancer: A systematic evidence review for the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force.
Demystifying nutrition: the value of food, vitamins, and supplements. (2013, March 5). Retrieved from: https://hms.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/assets/Sites/Longwood_Seminars/Nutrition_3_5_13.pdf


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