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A future Hall of Fame quarterback and a neophyte tight end connected not once, but twice to put the Broncos in the AFC Championship Game. Just don't expect Peyton to start taking it easy on (bleeping) Julius anytime soon
DENVER — As it goes with most Peyton Manning feats, true appreciation lies in the details.
On Sunday, the Broncos quarterback needed a pair of first downs to keep the clock running late in the fourth quarter and advance to the AFC Championship Game for the first time since 2009. So which receiver did he turn to after the Chargers had scored 10 points in less than two minutes to make it a one-score game with 3:53 left to play?
Manning didn't go to former All-Pro Wes Welker, nor did he find Demaryius Thomas, Manning's favorite target since the QB arrived in the Mile High City a year ago. For the two biggest throws of Denver's 2013 season, Manning turned to tight end Julius Thomas, a first-year starter, a former college basketball player, the guy who learned how to catch a football just four years ago ... the same 25-year-old whose false start in the third quarter prompted Manning to yell "f------ Julius!" loud enough to be heard on the TV broadcast.
That transgression was forgiven on 3rd-and-17 with three minutes left to play, as the Broncos clung to a 24-17 lead from their own 20-yard line. Manning took the shotgun snap, surveyed the field, felt early pressure from Chargers linebacker Melvin Ingram, and then fired the ball to Thomas, who dragged the tip of his right foot just inside the right sideline for a 21-yard reception.
Was Thomas the first option? Denver receivers know it's useless and potentially distracting to pay attention to QB progressions and primary receivers. "We don't really do it like that," Thomas says. "Everybody's a viable option with Peyton. It just happened to come to me that time. You never know if he's looking people away, but he came to me and I was able to make a play."
There was another still yet to be made.
Three plays later, Denver faced 3rd-and-6 at its own 45, just 12 seconds away from the two-minute warning. Offensive coordinator Adam Gase ran a familiar play: trips left, with Demaryius Thomas, Welker and Eric Decker lined up to the left side. Decker, tightest to the formation, cut to the sideline on a short out; Welker, in the slot, ran a skinny post; and Demaryius Thomas, split wide, streaked down the field. It's a staple of the Broncos offense, but the ball never goes to Julius Thomas, who lined up on the right side by himself and ran a hook.
Never, that is, until it happened on Sunday night.
"That's the first time I've caught that route on that play all season," said Julius Thomas, who held onto the ball as two linebackers closed down on him like a vice. "I had never even been thrown to before on that play. That's what Peyton does. He fits the ball in a tight spot, and I was able to make a play."
Four plays later, Manning took a knee in victory formation. Game over.
Bring on New England. Bring on Tom Brady.
"Man, it's been a wild ride for me," says Thomas, a fourth-round draft pick in 2011 who only played one year of football at Portland State. "Sometimes it surprises even me."
The extraordinary dichotomy between Thomas, a neophyte who spent his first two NFL seasons catching passes from Kyle Orton and Tim Tebow, and Manning, the son and older brother of an NFL quarterback, was typified by their fathers.
Archie Manning, slim and grey-haired, football royalty in New Orleans and beyond, quietly strolled through Denver's postgame locker room with Peyton's young son in tow; both were dressed in slacks and collared shirts. In the hallway outside stood Greg Thomas, a 6-foot-6 high school principal from California with bulging cheeks and a booming voice. He wore an authentic No. 80 orange jersey, signed by No. 80 himself. He was part of an entourage that included family, friends and a pair of unlikely guests—a young boy and a woman whom he met, respectively, at the airport and at a restaurant. They'd been lucky enough to run into Papa Thomas and get invited to the divisional playoff to meet a Pro Bowl tight end.
But why include strangers?
"To make a kid's day," Greg said.
Afterward, the 37-year-old Peyton Manning sounded like a kid who was thrilled to meet Thomas.
"Julius was huge all game. He's been huge all season," Manning said. "Those were two huge plays. Julius and I have spent a lot of time working on those particular routes, after practice, in practice ... to me, that's one of the most rewarding parts of football. You put that work in off to the side, after practice. It pays off in a game, and it really makes you feel like it was worth it."
Manning and Brady will battle head-to-head next weekend in Denver for the 15th time—Brady has a 10-4 advantage, including a 2-1 record in the postseason—but on Sunday night Manning said he was looking no further down the road than to the next Bud Light he could get his hands on. He gave credit to the "big-time" play-calling by Gase, but it was Manning who bailed out the Broncos' defense, which got burnt by Chargers rookie wideout Keenan Allen for 142 receiving yards and two touchdowns in the second half. Denver's superb Cover 2 execution and man coverage broke down as Denver's pass rush fatigued and cornerback Quentin Jammer found himself on the losing end of Allen's biggest plays.
"It was a lack of discipline on our part," said safety Duke Ihenacho. "Everybody was trying to make a play and be the hero who won the game."
But of course, it would've been Manning who stumbled yet again in the playoffs had the Broncos lost. Few would have overlooked his interception at the end of the second quarter, a pass that bounced off Decker's chest in the end zone. The billing on this divisional matchup was a classic Western shootout, and just two touchdowns and 230 passing yards from Manning wouldn't have been good enough. But he's heard that before, having played with middling to poor defenses his whole career—hence Brady's 10-4 record against him, not to mention Brady's five Super Bowl appearances to Manning's two.
Maybe that's why Manning loses his cool over false starts and why he spends so much extra time bringing along young players like Julius Thomas. If no lead is safe, you might feel as though you're always playing from behind.


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With concerns about the status of injured running back James Starks, the Packers have gone back to their past to replace him.
According to Jason Wilde of ESPNMilwaukee.com, the Packers have agreed to a deal with running back Ryan Grant, who will sign today. The source on this one is solid — Grant himself.
Grant had a short stint with the Redskins this year, but didn't have as much market as many expected after leaving the Packers last year.
At this point in the season, being a known commodity has a value.

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Given that the electorate is largely pro-dog, Democrats are eager to remind voters this fall about Mitt Romney's innovative canine transportation methods of the 1980s.
If you recall, the presumptive Republican presidential candidate used to put the family Irish setter Seamus in a crate attached the roof of his car while going on vacations. "Kinder" than the kennel, Ann Romney says.
But it's a dog-story-eat-dog-story world. So when the Republicans were reminded by the Daily Caller of a quote from Barack Obama's own book, "Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance," a Twitter feeding frenzy ensued.
In the passage, Obama is recalling meals he had in Indonesia, where he lived between the ages of 6 and 10:
"With Lolo, I learned how to eat small green chill peppers raw with dinner (plenty of rice), and, away from the dinner table, I was introduced to dog meat (tough), snake meat (tougher), and roasted grasshopper (crunchy). Like many Indonesians, Lolo followed a brand of Islam that could make room for the remnants of more ancient animist and Hindu faiths. He explained that a man took on the powers of whatever he ate: One day soon, he promised, he would bring home a piece of tiger meat for us to share."
It didn't take long for Romney strategist Eric Fehrstrom to turn tables on Obama strategist David Axelrod with a zinging retweet (above) of an earlier Axelrod message referring to Seamus.
Meanwhile, the hashtag #ObamaDogRecipes has gone viral with wisecracks. Here are a few examples of the canine cuisine wit:
Nothing like a good dog story from the '60s or '80s to take your mind off of a $15 trillion deficit that neither candidate seems serious about denting.


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A "Hobson's Choice" is an old English term which means you only have one option, take it or leave it. While the Victorian-style Hobson's Choice Bar has a bevy of beverages on the menu, there's really only one option: fantastic drinks.A Hobson's Choice is thinking you have options, when you really only have one. The term dates way back to an English stable owner who, in order to rotate the use of his horses, would offer riders the horse in the stall near the door, or nothing at all. At Victorian punch house Hobson's Choice, in the Haight, there a ton of drink options on the menu, including a gargantuan shareable punch bowl that could quench a horse's thirst (and get him really wasted). But even though it might seem like Hobson's Choice is offering you a bevy of beverage options, they've slyly provided you with one main choice, no matter what you select, and that's guaranteed lip-smacking, rum-based cocktails.
The sign on the window says "Victorian," but one foot through the door and you'll get a sense of the general theme on your own. The red chairs and small, round wooden tables (about the size of a punch bowl, you might say) give Hobson's Choice an old timey, parlory, saloon feel, almost to the point that you expect to see a boa-wrapped lady of the evening posted up near a piano that's cranking out some Charlie Chaplin-esque music. The cocktail list here has an undeniable tropical vibe thanks to ingredients like Cruzan coconut and banana rums, pineapple and lime juice and blue Curaçao. Drinks like the Barbados Punch, made with Bacardi spiced rum, Cruzan orange rum, lime and pineapple juice and Cruzan pineapple rum and the June Bug, Midori, Cruzan coconut and banana rums, pineapple juice and sweet and sour are a nice taste of what Hobson's has to offer, but when else can you get a Prom-worthy punch bowl filled with your choice of three different kinds of punch? Yes, people, the punch bowls are where it's at.
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Windows 10 promises to be the most widely adopted operating system ever, and Microsoft hopes that on the desktop, it will hit one billion computers.
Expectations are high because Windows 10 represents a major departure from Windows 8, which was not well-received by businesses. Microsoft learned from its mistakes. The new operating system is user-friendly, and offers cross-device familiarity and universal apps. This increases the presence of Windows tablets and phones within organizations, which is key for today's increasingly mobile workforce. In addition, Windows 10 enables enterprise apps to be built "once" and deployed/optimized on all devices.
Most significantly, Cortana, Windows 10's voice-activated assistant, can be a change agent for how users interact with the desktop PC. Voice-enabled commands will likely change a user's behavior more than touch screens did. Because while touch is good for tablets, phones, and even laptops, it is not for desktops -- voice makes the difference. Voice recognition and machine learning will enable new and innovative scenarios.
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The Theatre Program at Adams State University is known across the country as an outstanding program that prepares actors, directors, designers, and technicians for graduate schools, teaching, and for the profession itself. The program is housed in one of the premier facilities in the region: a state-of-the-art building, which opened in 2001. This intensive program offers classroom instruction allowing students to engage in all areas of study. A rigorous production schedule, which includes many student-directed productions, allows students to achieve complete performance training throughout their college careers. The program has won numerous awards at the Rocky Mountain Theatre Festival. One of the greatest points of the program is its small class size and personal attention that each student receives.
The minor in theatre arts is offered for those who wish to be more effective in communicating the knowledge of their major. The minor is highly relevant and practical in combination with other majors such as business, government, sociology, English, guidance and counseling, music, journalism, education, speech correction, health, physical education and recreation, and all pre-professional studies. Courses are to be selected in consultation with the program chair.


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Where can a serial killer feel safe?
While that isn't a question I would normally ask, seeing as serial killers such as Dexter have proven themselves capable of handling any surprises that come their way, the question arises tonight.
Out comes Dexter's more sensitive side, or you could say, his human side.
And who would have thought that Hannah, a fellow serial killer, would bring it out. She is kidnapped by Isaac, looking to extract a favor out of Dexter before either of them wins their deadly battle.
The Ukrainian mob, tiring of Isaac's obsession with Dexter, sends two hitmen to kill him. Turns out the enemy of my enemy is still the enemy though, as Dexter goes after the two hitmen in exchange for Hannah's life.
After killing the first hitman at a very public gun range with zero plastic wrapping, Dexter goes to Isaac for proof that Hannah is still alive. Snapping a picture while they are video chatting (oh technology, I hope one day you'll be able to save my life as easily), Dexter tracks down the locale where Hannah is stashed.
Dexter is interrupted by his day job. An arsonist has been at work in Miami. While the first attack just seemed like self-incineration, the second establishes a pattern. The arson investigator's explanation of how the second man died was creepier than Dexter has ever been.
Dexter also takes the moment to confront Deb about her declaration of love, saying he understands because love is endurance. Maybe if it was an endurance contest of eating delicious chocolate, but certainly not a running a marathon. Regardless, Dexter needs to work on his smoothness or Hannah will walk away laughing too.
Meanwhile, Quinn, who had been ignoring George's calls, stops by the club to check on Nadia. It is then that he learns of the consequence to his earlier rude behavior toward George. Nadia was forced to sleep with him, although George says that falls under her job description.
Very appropriately, Quinn immediately punches him. Of questionable reasonableness is Quinn's decision to continue to beat on George and then leave the club with Nadia, hopefully for good.
Dexter had been followed from the second arson scene by the second hitman, and under instructions from Isaac, Dexter leads the assassin toward the port. Isaac shoots the second assassin.
Strangely enough, Isaac and Dexter, after both tossing their weapons overboard, seem to come to a sort of peace. Dexter really must be destined to be alone, however, as Isaac is shot not a minute later by George, who randomly shows up badly beaten.
I would have gone for a bag of frozen peas or a bowl of chocolate ice cream after losing a fight so badly, but obviously that was incentive to George to finally win one.
Isaac's wound is fatal, but Dexter takes him out on his boat to the spot where he dumped Viktor overboard, to really what got them to the point they are now.
Isaac, in a no-longer-surprising show of depth, pushes Dexter to be honest about his feelings for Hannah. Obviously, with death, things become clearer. But Dexter is surrounded by death and is still muddling through life.
Unaware of Dexter's blossoming friendship with Isaac and his completion of Isaac's requests, Hannah attempts to gain her freedom. She cleverly feeds Isaac's bodyguard fried green tomatoes with an extra helping of pepper (because what other use for fried green tomatoes is there?). But in the ensuing fight, Hannah kills her captor, but not before he stabs her in the stomach.
As fate would have it (or the very clever episode writers), Deb is the one that comes to Hannah's rescue. After following up on leads Dexter had given her, she finds Hannah bloody and unconscious. Although it is clear Deb wants to walk away, she does her duty and calls for an ambulance.
Not willing to let Hannah off completely free, Deb confronts Hannah in the hospital. Deb insists that she knows about Hannah's past, but also that her decision to save Hannah indicates Deb's loyalty to herself, and not to Dexter. Although I'm interested in how far this "loyalty" will extend and how much of her relationship with Dexter she will throw away under the guise of becoming true with herself.
In the background, LaGuerta meets with the former Captain, Tom, about information on the Bay Harbor Butcher. He responds that he'll help her with her list of potential suspects in return for her support for his reinstatement. He insists that he needs the pension bump to pay for his boat, but with his record, it's more likely prostitutes, so I really wouldn't mind if LaGuerta screwed him over on this exchange.
After what seems like a record amount of blood in this episode (four bloody deaths, two burned bodies, and Hannah's almost death) the episode closes after an intense conversation between Hannah and Dexter. Dexter finally tells her how he really feels, that she is where he feels safe, and doesn't that just say it all.


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New year, new babies! And as the clock struck midnight, ringing in 2014, brand new kids with brand new names were born.
According to Name Candy (and reported by Live Science), there were a lot of names with a "in"/"yn" sound, continuing 2013's trend of names like Jayden. For instance:
- Gwineth was born in Alabama
- Naythyn was born in Oregon
- Adilyn was born in Nebraska
- Brooklyns were born in Colorado and Maryland
There were "in"/"yn"/"an"/"en" sounds in names that didn't have Ys — also born right on or after midnight were Evan, Declan, Rowan, Korbin, Logan, Easton, Devin, Watson, Brandon and Mason.
But the letter Y is still popular! The new year also brought Lily, Maya, Layla, Emery, May Shelly and Rylee.
But the most unique name on this list of new year babies is Prantison, who was born at 12:47 A.M. in Hawaii. Pretty sure he'll be the only one in his class with that name — a feeling I know well.
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College Board Approves Calling Bond Election
During the regular meeting of the Panola College Board, the trustees, in a unanimous vote, approved calling for a bond election to be held on May 11, 2013.
If approved by the voters, the bonds will be used to finance the construction of the following education facilities:
- New Science and Health Sciences Building
- New Student Life Center
- Complete renovation of the Roy Monk Building
- Complete renovation of the Raymond Rhea Building
- Partial demolition, renovation, and repurposing of the Phoebe Sue Perlman Building
- Partial demolition, renovation, and repurposing of the Fitness Center
- Renovation of the Arthur Johnson Gymnasium
- Additional parking
The total cost of the Long Range Facility Improvement Master Plan is $35 million. If approved by voters, the tax rate required to finance the projects will be between 4.5¢ and 6.5¢, depending on changes in the assessed values in Panola County over time. Using the current assessed values, the average Panola County homeowner can expect to pay approximately $2.53 more in taxes per month. Based on information provided by the Panola County Appraisal District, the average home value is approximately $63,191.
The Long Range Facility Improvement Master Plan was developed over the past four years to address issues pertaining to aging infrastructure and an increasing student population. The College has been able to implement several of the initial items in the Long Range Facility Improvement Master Plan, including energy management projects, renovation and repurposing of the Merle Glass residence hall, expansion and renovation of the M. P. Baker Library, and most recently, expansion of on-campus housing for the growing student population. All these projects were accomplished within the operating budget. Given the need to maintain a solid general fund operation, including the ability to attract and keep talented teaching professionals, it is now necessary for Panola County voters to decide on the financing of the remainder of the plan through a separate Bond Fund.
Since 2000 enrollment has grown by more than 81 percent. This translates into an additional 1,160 students per semester. Today, approximately 2,600 credit students and 800 Workforce and Continuing Education students are enrolled in one of 56 programs of study offered through Panola College.
Early voting from April 29 to May 7 will be available at the Martha Miller Administration Building from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Extended early voting hours, from 7 a.m. – 7 p.m., will also be available on April 29 and May 7 in the Martha Miller Administration Building.
Election Day voting will be held on May 11 from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. in the Phoebe Sue Perlman Student Center Ballroom. Additional information will be available on the Panola College website at www.panola.edu, or by calling 903-693-1142.


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Janklow Records to Date Back to Rosebud Days
MITCHELL - Efforts to preserve records from the late Gov. Bill Janklow's career will date back to his days as a public defender on the Rosebud Indian Reservation.
University of South Dakota interim dean of libraries Daniel Daily says the archives also will include information from Judge Jeff Davis, who witnessed the American Indian Movement trials in the 1970s.
The Daily Republic reports that Janklow worked as a prosecutor for the South Dakota Attorney General's Office and Davis worked as a law clerk during the AIM trials. Davis says he will donate his papers and be interviewed.
Former Janklow chief of staff, Dave Knudson, and his wife, De Knudson, also have donated papers to the project.
The collection will include digital newspaper archives and restored video recordings of Janklow speeches.
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Tea with GT
Before I met GT Inc. on Friday I had a scout around their website in preparation. The 'Love Needs Distance' project that is featured on there was so powerful it actually made me cry – I knew this was going to be an interesting meeting!
I met with Naoki Ito, Creative Director, and his assistant Takayuki Rokutan. They describe GT Inc. as a 360° Agency – working across all types of Advertising media – interactive, video, ambient, outdoors and good old-fashioned print. The entirely independent company is 3 yrs old and made up of a core team of six.
They took me through some of their showcase projects. Firstly they had to explain the strange figures (above) that were in the meeting room with us – an Out of Home campaign for a Japanese mobile game called "Hange" which translates as "Half". They created these enigmatic 'half' people and dotted them around key spots in Tokyo – using FeliCa software (previously referenced in an earlier post) a passerby could touch their phone to the quirky creatures to download the game for themselves.
They then took me on a fantastic journey from the sublime – a beautiful piece of print for the Japan Interactive Advertising Annual, based on the layout of a blog, in which they re-inforced the concept of 360° thinking by designing a 4-way mirrored typeface (this took a lot of explaining as my knowledge of Katakana isn't exactly brilliant!) – to the ridiculous with the hilarious viral ad for Coffee Max (canned coffee that features heavily in my drinks machines study!). This features a 'Human Car Race' so inline with our western perception of crazy Japanese gameshows one might almost think it was a real event!
But of course I was most taken with the blind-branded entertainment project that they created for Sagami Original and the "World's Thinnest Condom" (0.2 mm to be precise). GT were charged with creating a condom "power brand", something that didn't exist in Japan, and for this Naoki felt they had to move away from crude ideas around Sex to abstract, gentler universal themes of Love. Tying into concepts of distance (0.2 mm?), safety, restraint and passion he came up with the concept of "Love Needs Distance".
Tapping into the Japanese passion for reality TV (although, I should add 'Big Brother' has not made it here!) they selected a real couple in a long-distance relationship willing to run for 24 days (1 Billion millimeters!) to meet each other in Tokyo, not only that but prepared to make all communication in that time – sms, video calls, faxes (yes, apparently the Japanese still have an attachment to the fax machine – a nostalgia for a simpler time, perhaps?) available to the world.
What I found most interesting about this advertising narrative was not only that they ran a 'blind' campaign for a month drawing people in to the human and romantic tale of two lovers running to see each other, but that once the reveal had been made the campaign had a second, perhaps even more powerful, life as a 'making-of' piece. Everything was up for grabs and interest was totally sustained, rather than the audience feeling in any way duped.
The project was PR'd with data research on long distance relationships – it emerged that 50% of Japanese people had experienced a long distance relationship in their lives and of them 50% of couples in this situation had cheated. This research was seeded and linked to the 'event' on Japan's answer to Facebook, Mixi.
Naoki worked for ADK (the third largest Japanese Ad agency) before joining GT and covered in all areas of the business – Sales Promotion, Account Planning, Interactive Production and PR before crossing over into the creative realm. This experience feeds his holistic approach to campaigns and strategy – he strongly believes in creating a core concept and then working to cleverly integrate this idea into all areas of design, content and publicity – something he is exceptionally good at. He talked energetically about moving into Chinese markets where the work is less domestic, and of constantly breaking new ground in all media. Having seen the work, met the man and been totally inspired by his approach, I have no doubt.


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Comment on the "Sensation Cocktail" from The Conceirge regarding the never ending "Aviation Debate".
I see from your link that you credit Gary Regan with the 2oz gin, 1/2 each of Maraschino and lemon juice recipe for Aviation. To my taste, even with Luxardo, Gary Regan does a fine job with this recipe (leaving aside any nomenclature debates). When you make aviations with 1/2oz of Luxardo Maraschino, are you using 2oz of Gin? If so, perhaps your fancy lemons are not as sour as the ones from the Concrete Jungle. :)
I don't know who initially re-jiggered the Aviation, but Gary seems like a tough guy who can take a little lively discussion without taking it too personally.
Let's take a look at the original Aviation Recipe, from Hugo Ensslin's "Recipes for Mixed Drinks":
Aviation Cocktail
1/3 Lemon Juice
2/3 El Bart Gin
2 dashes Maraschino
2 dashes Creme de Violette
Shake well in a mixing glass with cracked ice, strain and serve.
I'm sorry but I don't think completely changing the ratio of a drink and leaving out an ingredient is a "nomenclature" issue.
The Ensslin Aviation recipe is 2 parts Gin, 1 part Lemon, and (generously) 1/8 part Maraschino Liqueur and 1/8 part Creme de Violette (Not Yvette!).
Changing the Aviation to 4 parts gin, 1 part lemon, and 1 part Maraschino isn't "nomenclature", it's disrespecting the person who created the recipe.
I will say I think part of the problem is size.
An Ensslin Aviation made with a 2 oz (total) pour, chilled to perfection, is a bracing tonic, something to get your appetite and saliva going when you feel a bit down.
An Ensslin Aviation made with a 3 oz pour gets warm, catches in your throat, and is basically undrinkable half way before you are done.
As pour sizes have increased, many of these "tonic" drinks have had to be re-jiggered with more liqueur and simple syrup to allow them to be drinkable for people who like to linger over their (sadly warm and disgusting) cocktails.


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There is a growing push to revive the Leeville community by branding it as a fishing village.
There is a growing push to revive the Leeville community by branding it as a fishing village.
The small community south of the levees between Golden Meadow and Fourchon has received conditional approval to become a Cultural District through the state Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism.
There is also a bill traversing the state legislature that would create a commission to promote the community.
"First and foremost, it gives Leeville some recognition. We are trying to breathe some fresh air into this community," said Janet Rhodus, founder of Launch Leeville, a nonprofit promoting the area.
The area will be named a cultural district in July. The certification brings with it various tax incentives for businesses in the district.
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Rhodus lives in Baton Rouge but owns a home in Golden Meadow and has been fishing in Leeville since 1991. Her background is in commercial real estate, and her organization has received no money from the parish.
There are 63 areas with the designation, including the nearby Grand Isle and Grand Cheniere Caminada Cultural District. Terrebonne Parish has the Houma Cultural District as well.
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Aside from exposure and branding, Rhodus said the tax credits available for rehabilitation will help attract more investment in the area, which she sees as a prime spot for a fishing and outdoors tourism center.
"There are some big plots of property that could be developed," Rhodus said. "If these creative things come to pass, we could have some really nice development in Leeville."
The area could receive another boost from a bill pushed by state Sen. Norby Chabert, R-Houma, that would create a commission to promote tourism for the "Leeville Fishing Village."
The commission could raise money and acquire, lease or sell land. The commission would be appointed from Ward 10 property owners by local government leaders.
"We want it to focus on tourist and preservation efforts to enhance Leeville," Rhodus said.
The cultural designation and hopeful passage of the commission is two in a series of victories for the area, Rhodus said.
The parish received final permitting for a public boat launch in the area earlier this year. Construction should begin before the end of the year, said Councilman Daniel Lorraine.
The area also recently hosted its largest kayak fishing tournament, which drew about 400 people, Rhodus said.
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While rival Mercedes and Ferrari-powered teams have managed to collect dozens upon dozens of early pre-season laps, the tally amassed by Sebastian Vettel and Daniel Ricciardo in the troubled RB10 numbers unlucky 13.
"Adrian has gone back to the drawing board, definitely," team newcomer Daniel Ricciardo, on duty on Thursday, said.
Red Bull had initially pointed the finger at engine supplier Renault, and the French marque duly admitted it has had problems with all of its customer teams, including Toro Rosso and Caterham.
But Marko confessed before departing on Thursday that the latest problems are also Red Bull's making. Paddock rumours suggest Newey has pushed his famously tight packaging too close to the limit in a new era where cooling is a major hurdle.
"I guess now there's only so much he (Newey) can do at the track and I think he's pretty happy working at his office in Milton Keynes," added Ricciardo.
Red Bull is expected to try to get the RB10 running on Friday, the final day of the Jerez test, but the real attention will be ensuring the car is in working order for the crucial final two tests, in Bahrain.
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Undoubtedly, Ricciardo is putting his characteristically-smiling tilt on serious trouble for Red Bull.
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Call it "must-wait TV."
More viewers are recording shows or watching them on video on demand instead of watching live TV. The good news for the networks is that it means the shows are getting bigger audiences than traditional ratings would suggest.
The bad news is that not all advertisers are paying for those viewers who watch TV on their own schedule, but the networks are slowly getting some advertisers to pony up for those eyeballs too.
On Monday, Nielsen released delayed-viewing numbers for the entire 2013-14 season. In some cases, hit shows got bigger.
The top-line example is "The Big Bang Theory," the most popular series on television, which averages a huge rating of 5.0 in the key 18-to-49 demographic, just counting viewership on the day-of-air for each episode.
When counting people who watch within seven days of the original broadcast, its 18-to-49 rating rises 2.5 points, or 50%, to 7.5.
That should make for some star-struck advertisers, but in terms of percentage gains, it's not even close to the biggest.
For the entire fall season, "Modern Family" gained 60% from delayed viewing over seven days, a measurement known as "L+7" in industry jargon. NBC's rookie James Spader drama "The Blacklist" and Fox's Ichabod Crane re-imagining "Sleepy Hollow," no slouches in same-day ratings, both posted 69% lifts.
These numbers may have seemed theoretical in the old days when advertisers would only pay broadcasters for viewers who watched their commercials during an episode's original airing, and they only recently started paying for viewers coming in within three days.
But at this year's "upfront" presentations, ad companies and broadcasters are making some deals to pay for those viewers coming in up to a week late.
Some trends solidified in the final full-season Nielsen ratings.
CBS series such as "NCIS" and "2 Broke Girls" trended toward live viewing.
Even fans of the network's hit comedy "How I Met Your Mother" didn't heed Barney's call to "wait for it," boosting the show's final season by a comparatively small average of 38%. But "HIMYM" was still the fourth-highest-rated network show of the season in the 18-to-49 category.
No surprise, reality TV tended to rely on its live audience, especially shows like "American Idol" and "The Voice" that announce results on the air and are considered mostly DVR-proof, boost their ratings by just 23% and 20%, respectively.
Genre and cultish fare pulled big tardy audiences each week, besides the quirky aforementioned "Sleepy Hollow." "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." rose an average of 67%, "The Following" rose 76%, and if you're recording "Elementary," join the club; it climbed 82%.
The next tipping point: The eventual show that doubles its rating in L+7. Now that's something to wait for.


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Monday, 30 March 2015
Here is the Project Fear film about my new route on Cima Ovest last September. Truth be told, I was incredibly lucky that myself and Alan Cassidy were able to get the route climbed given the very poor weather in the Dolomites last season. Of course, to a certain extent we made our own luck as you see in the film, my cleaning and preparing the route through the poor weather rather than just sitting waiting.
However, the two sunny days we had were a crucial ingredient and I was desperate to make them count. I'm sure you'll understand that my favourite part of the film are the parts playing with Freida at home in Glen Nevis. But this it is also a great memory of the adventures on that massive roof. It gets me psyched for summer's big wall expedition will be rather bigger in scale.
A special thanks to Mountain Equipment for supporting our trip and the film idea, Karl for exploring the roof with me and dodging the blocks I knocked off, Alan for coming with me on the route and the Coldhouse guys for being great craic and teaching me a lot.
Sunday, 29 March 2015
Zeki Basan
Here is a short film we made about Zeki Basan, a great young character from over in the Gorms. Zeki won the Scottish youth award for mountain culture at this year's Fort William Mountain Festival. He is the inaugural winner of the youth award and joins a formidable list of winners of the 'adult' award; Hamish McInnes, Jimmy Marshall, Richard Else, Myrtle Simpson, Ian 'Spike' Sykes, Andy Nisbet and Robin Campbell. We also made the film about Robin Campbell for his award this year and I'll post that up as soon as it's live.
I'm certainly used to meeting enthusiastic and smart young folk involved in all manner of mountain sports, but it was great to learn more about Zeki's passion for bushcraft when we travelled over to speak to him for this film.
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Friday, 20 March 2015
It's foot-off time
Post surgery day 2. Anaesthetic drip disconnected, time for the training to start again.
I've been getting really motivated for training lately. Which is just as well, because I'm about to have a 6 week solid block of it during the spring. The reason? Ankle surgery.
Yes, more ankle surgery. Readers of this blog will know that I've had surgery on both ankles in the past two years. In both cases this was for damage to the edge of the cartilage surface of my ankle joints. By far the worst injury was happened in this accident when I was lowered off the end of a rope. The microfracture surgery I had did work to an extent, but the nature of doing tons of walking on mountains has meant the lesion, although small, has not remained stable and has got a little worse. Knowing what I know now, I also suspect that some of the advice I was given for the post operative period was, well, sub standard and could well have contributed to it not working as well as it could have.
So I've tried to put my money where my mouth is and follow my own advice in my book, seeking the opinion of the best ankle surgeons in the world to see if there was anything else that could be done to protect my ankles from getting any worse. And there is. After speaking to surgeons based in Cambridge, Malaysia, Newcastle and then Munich, I've established that a newly developed procedure has a good probability of making the ankle feel better and protecting its health in the longer term.
All of this has taken 6 months to organise and considerable research and legwork on my part, not to mention working to meet the costs of the treatment. But now I approach the start line and I am in Munich and had my surgery yesterday. It all seemed to go fine and I feel ready to hit the fingerboard today. Nothing is certain in sports medicine and I know there is always a chance it won't make much difference. But I still feel I ought to do the best I can now to keep myself well serviced so I am still in good form in the years and decades to come.
The sacrifice in the short term is that I have to do foot-off bouldering only for 6 weeks. Not too much of a sacrifice really. Foot off bouldering has always helped me feel really strong. So now I have a chance to have a good uninterrupted spell of it. During the recovery from my last surgeries, I thought it was good to place my focus onto writing my book. This time, I will have ample time to complete organised daily training as well as draw dinosaurs with Freida. It is kind of ridiculous that it takes leg surgery to make me train properly, but I just like going climbing too much. So let's see what I can do with this opportunity.
As I'm sure you can tell, I've set out a plan to make this a positive step in both the short and long term. There is really no reason why I shouldn't be stronger and fitter for my rock projects by the start of May than I would otherwise be if I'd just been going out winter and rock climbing based on the weather.
The process of organising this treatment was at times demoralising. Having actually arrived at the treatment stage feels like I've already come through a tough challenge in many areas. Just trying to get my MRI scans from the NHS was a bureaucratic shambles. Then even in the private sector things although good, were still frustratingly slow. The hardest part however has been finding sources of encouragement.
Training 24 Feb 2015 from Dave MacLeod on Vimeo.
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Thursday, 19 March 2015
Pink Panther
On Pink Panther VI,6 Ben Nevis. Photo: Paul Diffley/Hot Aches
Natalie led through up the easy snow to the top and we were rewarded with lovely sunshine and views on top. This was Ben Nevis at its most friendly and it was a nice relaxing day in contrast to the challenging new routing the day before.
That great weekend will be my last of the winter season. It's all change for me now, with 6 weeks of solid training for the rock season. More on that shortly.
We were accompanied by Paul Diffley and Chris Prescott from Hot Aches, who took some of these nice photos.
Aye it wasn't a bad afternoon on the plateau
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Labels: Ben Nevis, winter climbing
Tuesday, 17 March 2015
Leading the steep crack at the start of Tripod VII,7 on Ben Nevis. Photo Helen Rennard.
The walls on the left side of Tower Ridge is a part of Ben Nevis I've visited quite a lot over the years and really like. Obviously, my interest in this area started with Echo Wall some years ago. Since then I've done a couple of winter routes around here too. In winter it can provide good shelter from a westerly storm and also remains in condition for mixed quite late in the season. The other week Helen and myself climbed Red Dragon on the wall right of Echo Wall. On Saturday we needed to go higher to find good conditions and walked up to the wall up and left of Echo Wall, near Tower Scoop.
The other year we did a good new VII,8 here which I called Angry Chair. The name came from a huge detached block which I sat and belayed on, looking for a way to finish the route with overhanging blankness above. It reminded me of the song Angry Chair by a band I grew up listening to called Alice in Chains. The song starts:
"Sitting on the Angry Chair. Angry Walls that steal the air..."
Angry Chair followed the first pitch of Clefthanger (summer HVS, winter VI,6) before heading up a groove on the right. On Saturday I started up a steep crack just left of this which would lead into the iced up upper section of Clefthanger. The crack looked VI,6 from below, but turned out to be a good VII,7 with fiddly gear and poor footholds for quite a long way. It was excellent though and I continued all the way to the top in one 68m pitch.
I thought it might be nice to keep going with the Alice in Chains theme for names. I have always liked the grim lyrics and style and so we could call this one Tripod, after their rather darkly illustrated album. It kind of feels relevant to how I'm going to be climbing for the coming couple of months! The area right of Tower Scoop now has 4 good mixed routes between VI and VIII. Tripod starts up the short flow of ice at the base, into the cracks and then the big left leaning ice ramps.
Helen finishing the pitch on great ice.
Tripod starts up the short flow of ice at the base, into the cracks and then the big left leaning ice ramps.
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Sunday, 8 March 2015
After the rain
Never tire of this outlook back towards the Glenfinnan hills
Today I had a great day in the Arisaig Cave which was completely bone dry despite the 20cm of rain which has doused Lochaber over the past three days. What a great venue it is. Last year I didn't do much bouldering really, I spent most of the time on Dolomitic big walls and lately I've been getting back into mixed climbing a bit.
Today was a nice reminder just how great it is - so relaxing to head off late morning and feel warm March sunshine in your face as you stroll across a deserted beach to the cave to work on a nice project.
I haven't been to the cave for not far off two years. Last time I was there I managed, just, to do all the moves on the last remaining big straight up project. It might be as hard as 8B and a great piece of technical and burly climbing up a big diagonal flange. Today I re-worked it and did the moves again. Crucially, I got a good sequence dialled for the upper half of the problem and linked the last 5 moves to the top. I noticed myself getting tired on it quite quickly because of the very physical moves with compression and undercutting. I'll definitely be back on this soon.
The flange project. training motivation. It's definitely possible for me!
My tick marks from two years ago still there like it was yesterday. Can't believe how rainproof the cave is. The ultimate boulder venue really!
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Labels: Scottish bouldering
Friday, 6 March 2015
High Pressure Crack
Starting up pitch 3 of High Pressure Crack VIII,9 Ben Nevis. Photo: Masa Sakano
Last year myself, Helen Rennard and Harry Holmes repeated Nick Bullock and Matt Heliker's VII,8 'Rutless' here. The crux pitch climbs the first few metres of a soaring overhanging crack and headwall, but quickly scuttles left along ledges and escapes via a corner. Something going right up that wall would be mega!
Approaching the hardest climbing on pitch 3, and starting to feel the pump. Photo: Masa Sakano
Masa led up the icy chimney of Gutless to the ledge below the wall. Watching him, I could see the headwall on the overhanging 3rd pitch. It looked like the crack went diagonally left across a smooth wall covered in a layer of ice and I worried a bit about how I might protect it if I could get there, although I figured the ice might be useful.
When I followed to the ledge, I launched up the overhanging wall without any hesitation so as to get worried. Although the crack was too icy to take more than a couple of cams, good wires spurred on my progress and I pressed on, getting gradually more pumped. Above the lip of the overhang I made a couple of committing pulls to a rest. I was struggling a bit to get gear. Everything was choked in ice. I dug out a big hex placement behind a couple of loose blocks. It was wobbly, so I packed the loose blocks back on top of it with lots of snow to keep it where it was.
The final part of the pitch up the headwall was fantastic on steep cracks on the exposed headwall. The best bit however, was remembering that I'd packed some sweets in the pocket of my Gore-Tex jacket for the belay. Masa led a 62 metre pitch on easier terrain to the top of the Douglas boulder and we headed down into gathering black clouds and eventually rain - it looks like winter is gone for a little while in Scotland.
Masa following pitch 1
Masa in the fun chimney of Gutless.
Masa heading off on the long final pitch
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Tuesday, 3 March 2015
Red Dragon
Approaching the crux on the first ascent of Red Dragon VIII,9, Ben Nevis. Photo: Helen Rennard
Helen Rennard and myself were getting a bit fed up with waiting for a break in the stormy weather on the mountains, so we went up Ben Nevis on a blustery morning. There had been a very brief overnight thaw which we hoped would firm up the dangerous approach slopes. But as it got light it appeared to have stripped our possible new route objective. I also fell through a snowbridge on the path and went up to my knees in water. So we sat in the CIC hut for a while drying my boots and figuring out where to go.
We opted for the steep walls right of Echo Wall which have few routes and we thought it might be relatively sheltered from the heavy snow shower rattling in from the west. On the way up Observatory Gully we passed a string of goggled-up climbers descending from their route objectives in the blizzard. They optimistically wished us luck as we hid in our hoods and pressed on.
Helen and myself heading up Observatory Gully towards Echo Wall (in cloud). Photo: Blair Fyffe
At the foot of the wall there was relative shelter and and we uncoiled the ropes below an overhanging crack feature soaring up the walls above. Helen had been here previously, but her partner had got very pumped and fallen from the first few metres, with a projected grade of 9 for this section.
I managed to get over this first overhanging section without taking too much time, mainly because I didn't want to hang about with poor gear in the extremely verglassed crack. On the following section I carried on with care, in the hope I'd get at least one solid runner, but I couldn't seem to get that. Eventually I arrived at an uncomfortable overhung slot below a very steep bulge in the crack above. I spent a very long time here.
I fiddled for ages, going up and down with some fear, trying in vain to get a good runner. Eventually, two very good hooks in the overhang persuaded me to move higher and I got a Spectre in. After a retreat to the slot, this runner provided the security to push a bit higher. A second Spectre went in and I now had enough protection to probe upwards with more commitment. Unfortunately I was by now getting pretty tired and was aware that Helen had been suffering the blizzard for some time without moving. She must have been freezing. On the other hand, I'd put in a fair bit of work and seemed to be only a few moves away from unlocking the pitch. So I committed upwards with a few heart pumping moments and burning forearms to an uncomfortable rest standing on one foot on the lip of the overhang.
I limped onwards to the belay, rather mentally exhausted and went through some savage hot aches before constructing a belay. Helen did a fine job of following the pitch from what must have been a very cold start. Understandably, she asked if I would lead on. The main problem on the final pitch was warming my freezing hands. It seems to me that your brain must shut out the memory of how bad hot aches can be. After descending Tower Ridge, we still had to don the goggles to walk down the Allt a Mhuillin!
We thought it would only be VIII,9 if the crack wasn't verglassed and would accept cams. It was a fine winter adventure - it does sometime pay off nicely if you press on through all the hurdles that Ben Nevis throws at you. But only with your wits about you at all times.
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Wrestler CM Punk: 'I Don't Think Chris Brown Has Paid for What He's Done'
Remember Chris Brown's Twitter feud with pro wrestler CM Punk? It just got deeper. CM Punk just released a TwitVid slamming Brown.
"I'm not here to start controversy, or to gain publicity, or anything like that," pro wrestler CM Punk said in the clip (could've fooled us). "And now that he's thrown accusations my way of using steroids, I feel the need to reply." And reply he did.
Some background: On Sunday night (Feb. 19), CM Punk tweeted, "I would like @chrisbrown fight somebody that can defend themselves. Me curb stomping that turd would be a #wrestlemania moment."
When Brown saw the tweet he lashed out. Though the message has since been deleted, Brown wrote, "@CMpunk needs more followers. He's such a leader! Not to mention the roids hes on has made it utterly impossible for him pleasure a women [sic]." This is the part that ticked CM Punk off.
"I'm a lifelong, proud, drug-free straight edge individual," CM Punk said, "so Chris and I come from two completely different worlds." What are you implying, CM Punk?
"I don't hit women." Oh boy. "You just don't hit women, period," CM Punk said. "In my world, women are to be revered and respected. I firmly believe that in this life there are consequences and repercussions for people's actions," he ranted on. "I don't think Chris has paid for what he's done."
"Picking up trash on the side of a highway does not make amends for repeatedly striking a woman in the face and sending her to a hospital," he said, growing visibly heated. "So Chris wants to throw stones my way now? I say, that's fine. But put some gloves on and get in the ring."
"I will make you feel as weak and as powerless and as scared and alone as any woman who has had the misfortune of knowing such a scared, cowardly little boy such as yourself." Them's fightin' words! "All proceeds can go to a women's shelter of my choosing, if you want to pick up more trash on the side of a highway to make some amends, that's fine. Maybe you should donate some more time, telling kids that exactly what you did isn't right."
CM Punk recognizes that this may all be a pipe dream, however. "I'm also a realist," he grumbled, "and I know none of these things will happen because Chris Brown isn't a man. And that's fine." Daaaaaaaayum!
"But I know that someday, somehow, somewhere, somebody will put Chris Brown exactly where he belongs, and it honestly doesn't have to be me," CM Punk said, calming down. "I would just really like it to be."
As righteous as CM Punk's arguments are, his timing is awfully convenient for someone who claims to not want publicity. Here's hoping Breezy takes the extremely high road here and doesn't fight CM Punk. Either way he'll get a nose bleed, but one will come with a lot better PR.
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Part one in a series on how South Shore residents are coping in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. This week, we begin in Bellmore-Merrick. In subsequent weeks we plan to spotlight recovery efforts in other communities.
John Giammarino's one-level house stood near the intersection of Bellmore Avenue and Clubhouse Road for 30 years. But only three years after the south Bellmore resident began renting the waterfront home, his landlord sent crews to rip out what was left of the walls.
Paint chips and a fish tank were all that remained in Giammarino's living room on Nov. 2. Everything else was on the front lawn. Clothing, a microwave, lamps, dishware and other possessions were piled on couches and shelves that his friends helped him move outside. A stained New York Post front page featuring the Kentucky Derby-winning horse, Funny Cide, lay on the grass, its ink bleeding, evidence of the flooding that occurred in the house during Hurricane Sandy. Watermarks on the soaked beams holding what was left of the structure together were several feet high.
Giammarino shook his head when pointing out the water line, stamping out a cigarette while looking toward the canal bordering his backyard.
"After this, I don't want to be near the water again," he said. "I'm not coming back to this home."
Giammarino was one of thousands across Long Island and the Northeast left suffering after the storm tore through homes with high winds and a 10-foot tidal surge. In Bellmore-Merrick, residents south of Sunrise Highway near canals suffered extensive damage, as waterways flooded into streets. When the storm cleared out of the area, locals began surveying millions of dollars in damage in the Bellmore-Merrick area alone.
Joe Palmese said he has been busy tending to his North Road home since the storm hit. Last week he used another powerless morning to move his furniture to the curb. Next door, a neighbor was shaking out carpets while throwing other ruined items into a trash pile. A few doors down, another house was quiet. It had been abandoned since Hurricane Irene caused flooding and damage more than a year earlier.


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Paleontologists long have debated whether the Tyrannosaurus rex was a vicious killing machine or a scavenger.
But now David Burnham of the University of Kansas says new evidence shows the dinosaur is "the monster of our dreams." The new evidence is a T. rex tooth lodged in the fossilized spine of a hadrosaur. The plant-eater seems to have survived the attack. And because the T. rex regularly shed teeth, the hunter would have simply grown a new one.
The university said in a news release that Burnham was part of a team that analyzed graduate student Robert DePalma's fossil discovery from the Hell Creek Formation of South Dakota. The team describes the find in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.


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- The Best Fats to Get Lean
- Fire Up Your Results!
- P90X® on Capitol Hill
- 4 Facts about Fat
- Understanding Fats
- Recipe: Dreamy Avocado Dressing
I don't mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money.
The Best Fats to Get LeanBy Whitney Provost
You might think that to lose weight, you need to cut the fat out of your meals. After all, fat is higher in calories than protein and carbs, and low-fat diets have been popular since the Senate Nutrition Committee first recommended them in the late 1970s. But research shows that a moderate-fat diet (with about 35 percent of calories consumed coming from fat) will help you drop pounds permanently, feel full longer, and avoid bingeing. The trick is to eat the right kind of fat to increase satisfaction and boost weight loss. Here's why it's important to eat fat—and we offer five of the best fat sources to add to your diet.
How eating fat will help you lose fat.
In 2008, researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel found that people who followed low-fat diets lost less weight than people who followed low-carb or moderate-fat diets. The low-fat group lost an average of 6.5 pounds over 2 years, but the low-carb and moderate-fat groups lost about 10 pounds. Women did especially well on the moderate-fat diet, losing an average of 13 pounds during the study.
Fat is an important element in weight loss for several reasons:
- Fat helps your body control blood sugar and insulin spikes after eating carbohydrates. Better sugar metabolism means less fat storage.
- Fat slows down digestion and aids nutrient absorption. You'll stay fuller longer and get more health benefits from the food you eat.
- Essential fatty acids (like omega-3s) may boost your metabolic rate and increase fat burning.
- Fat tastes good. It also provides a "mouthfeel" that is satisfying, which can help you be happy with less food.
Eating more fat may also help you stick to your diet longer. In a study conducted by Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, participants got either 20 percent of their calories from fat or 35 percent of their calories from fat. After 6 months, both groups had lost weight. But after 18 months, only 20 percent of the people in the low-fat group were still following the diet, compared with 54 percent of the people in the moderate-fat group. Likewise, the subjects in the moderate-fat group had maintained their weight loss, while the low-fat group participants had gained most of the weight back.
If you reach for a box of low-fat or fat-free crackers or cookies because you want to lose weight, you may actually be sabotaging your diet. Manufacturers frequently replace fat with sugar in packaged food items to make them taste better. You think you're making a good decision by eating fat-free products, but the excess sugar and refined flour can lead to fatigue, cravings, mood swings, and weight gain caused by the overproduction of insulin—the fat-storage hormone. As a snack, a sliced apple with some peanut butter or a salad with oil and vinegar dressing would be a better weight loss choice. The complex carbs and healthy fats will maintain your blood sugar levels, boost your energy, and keep you satisfied longer.
What kind of fat should you eat?
To get lean, you need to eat the right kind of fat. Avoid saturated and trans fats (which are found in red meat, full-fat dairy products, and many packaged foods), and instead choose monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats. Here are some of the best sources of fat to help you reach your weight goal.
- Fish. Fish like salmon, albacore tuna, herring, mackerel, and sardines contains beneficial amounts of omega-3 fatty acids. Most experts agree that eating two servings of fatty fish per week is safe for people who are worried about mercury or other toxins. (Pregnant women should consult with their doctors about consuming fish.) If you don't like fish, a quality supplement like Beachbody's Core Omega-3™ will give you the benefits without the fishy taste.
- Olive oil. Heart-healthy oils like olive, canola, and peanut oil are excellent sources of fat for dieters. They have also been shown to lower bad cholesterol and reduce the risk of heart disease. Use them sparingly when sautéing, or drizzle them over your favorite salad or vegetables with a little vinegar and some herbs to maximize the absorption of nutrients. Moderation is important: You really only need about a teaspoon of oil to get all its benefits. Using more will add significant calories.
- Avocados. Eat a spinach and carrot salad with a little avocado, and you'll not only get a dose of good fat, but you'll also absorb more phytonutrients like lutein and beta-carotene. Scientists at Ohio State University in Columbus found that more antioxidants were absorbed when people ate a salad containing avocados than when they ate a salad without this tasty fruit. One-quarter of an avocado will add flavor while only adding about 75 calories.
- Nuts. Almonds, walnuts, pecans, and peanuts are powerhouses of good nutrition—full of antioxidants, minerals, and monounsaturated fat. The Nurses Health Study, where more than 86,000 nurses were followed for 14 years, found that those who ate nuts regularly (about an ounce per day) tended to weigh less than those who didn't. The protein, fat, and fiber make nuts more filling, which helps dieters stay on track. Plus, there's a psychological bonus to eating nuts: Because they're rich and satisfying, you probably won't feel like you're on a diet.
- Flaxseeds. Packing the triple wallop of fat, protein, and fiber, flaxseeds are a delicious and healthful addition to any diet. You can grind them up and add them to oatmeal, yogurt, salads, or vegetables, or pretty much anywhere you want a nutty crunch. They're a plant source of omega-3 fatty acids, making them a good choice for vegetarians or the aforementioned non-fish-loving folks. Ground flaxseeds also have 3 grams of fiber per tablespoon, which helps slow digestion and keep your blood sugar stable.
Making room for fat.
Certain fats might be considered necessary for health, but that's not a cue to overindulge. At 9 calories per gram, fat is a more concentrated energy source than either protein or carbohydrates (each has 4 calories per gram). You need to be mindful of your overall caloric intake if you want to eat more fat and lose weight. But when you feel full and satisfied after eating the right kinds of fat, you'll probably find it a bit easier to manage your calories.
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If you'd like to ask a question or comment on this newsletter article, click here to add a comment in the newsletter review section or you can email us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Check out our Fitness Advisor's responses to your comments in Steve Edwards' Mailbag on the Message Boards. If you'd like to receive Steve Edwards' Mailbag by email, click here to subscribe to Steve's Health and Fitness Newsletter. And if you'd like to know more about Steve's views on fitness, nutrition, and outdoor sports, read his blog, The Straight Dope, recently named one of the Top 50 blogs covering the sports industry by the Masters in Sports Administration.
P90X® on Capitol Hill
It's not just budgets that are getting cut on Capitol Hill. In a rare act of bipartisanship, Congress members from both sides of the aisle are Bringing It with P90X. Tony Horton recently made the front page of The Wall Street Journal with the story. Read more...
4 Facts about FatBy Joe Wilkes
We always talk about how we want to lose weight. But that's not really what we mean. When we talk about losing weight, we're really talking about losing fat, getting rid of the spare tire, turning the keg into a six-pack. It's about more than getting ready for swimsuit season or squeezing back into your "skinny" jeans, though. More importantly, it's about having a healthy amount of body fat so we don't put ourselves at risk for myriad diseases. After all, our bodies need some fat. Fat is responsible for regulating our body temperature. It insulates our vital organs. It stores energy our bodies draw on to function. Not to mention everyone wants a few strategically placed curves, and you can't get them with just bone and muscle. So what exactly is a healthy amount of body fat?
- What is body fat percentage? It's simple enough. It's the amount of adipose tissue (body fat) we carry compared to our weight. A 160-pound person who is carrying 32 pounds of fat would be said to have 20 percent body fat. We all want to be working toward an ideal body fat percentage, staying within a range where we carry enough fat to feel and look healthy, but not so much that we develop the health issues associated with obesity, including hypertension, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and cancer. So what are the ideal ranges, and what are the best ways to get rid of unwanted excess adipose tissue, aka body fat?
Most organizations classify a healthy body fat percentage as 20 to 25 percent for women and 8 to 15 percent for men. Women who have more than 30 percent body fat and men with more than 25 percent are generally classified as obese. There can be some variations that are still considered healthy. Athletes will tend to have less body fat, for example; however, below a certain point, low body fat can be as dangerous as high body fat.
There are various ways to calculate body fat percentage, with varying degrees of accuracy and expense. Many clinics offer what they describe as the only, truly accurate readings, derived from water displacement, ultrasonic, or X-ray tests. Much simpler than that are many home body fat scales. While simple, they are fairly inaccurate. The best home device is an inexpensive and simple test using skinfold calipers. These calipers measure folds of skin at various parts of the body and provide an estimate of body fat percentage based on those measurements.
Inaccurate or not, most trainers recommend using some sort of body fat calculation in addition to being weighed on a scale. For most of us, though, true accuracy isn't that important, just as long as we're sure our body fat percentages are going down. We can starve ourselves and lose weight to reach that goal, but a lot of that loss will be muscle loss and won't give us the healthy look or feeling most of us seek.
- Muscle burns fat. One reason we want to be cognizant of our body fat loss, as opposed to mere weight loss, is because muscles burn calories, and if we lose muscle, it will make burning calories—and, by extension, fat—much more difficult. Because the more muscle you have, the more calories you will burn—even when you're resting! So it's important to follow an exercise program that combines resistance activities, like weight lifting, that build muscle with aerobic cardio activities that burn calories. This combination is key to the success of Beachbody's programs, including Chalene Johnson's ChaLEAN Extreme®.
The really good news is that when you exercise, your body begins turning stored fat into glucose for fuel before it begins breaking down muscle for fuel. This is why high-level athletes can eat so much and still stay sleek. Take Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps' 12,000-calorie-a-day training diet, for example. Because he has such a low percentage of body fat, he has to provide his body with enough fuel or his body will begin breaking down the proteins in his muscle, since it's pretty much out of body fat to use for fuel. During newsletter chats and on the Message Boards, P90X graduates often complain of an ammonia-like smell after working out. That smell is indicative of the protein breakdown that occurs when their elite new low-fat bodies have begun tapping into muscle for fuel. It generally means they need to start eating more to make it through the workouts—a problem most of us would love to have! Most of us aren't dealing with the problems of elite athletes trying to get enough fuel, though; we're just trying to get our bodies to approach that kind of shape.
One popular exercise myth is that if we're trying to lose body fat, we should just do lots of cardio and sweat and burn fat, then build muscle later. That's a sort of "lose weight now, get in shape later" approach. There's some truth there. The more we exercise, the more calories we expend and the sooner our bodies tap into our fat stores for energy. But by building up muscle, in addition to doing cardio activity, we can burn a lot more calories, even while we're at rest, and maximize the calorie burn during cardio. Plus, when the stored fat begins to melt off, there will be lean, sexy muscle in its place.
- How diet affects body-fat composition. Something we've discussed before is the myth that dietary fat contributes to body fat. This is only half true. The fact is that body fat, or adipose tissue, comes from stored calories. Your body fat doesn't care whether the calories come from fat, protein, or carbs. Don't believe me? Try drinking a six-pack of fat-free beer every day—you'll have a pony keg under your shirt in no time. The "beer belly" comes by its name honestly, and beer doesn't have a gram of fat in it. Neither does soda, and it's one of the main culprits behind the obesity crisis.
Fat does have more calories per gram than either carbohydrates or protein do, so it's wise to monitor the amount of fat in your diet, but if it's healthy fat, like the kind found in avocados, olive oil, fish, or nuts, there's no reason to exclude it from your diet. It's wise to avoid saturated and trans fats, but that has more to do with lipids in your blood, not the composition of adipose tissue.
- Can you target areas where you want to burn body fat? There's a French proverb that says that sooner or later, every woman must choose between her face and her bottom. What this means is that it's a myth that you can target one area of your body over another for fat loss. While we may mainly want to get rid of our guts or slim down our thighs, our bodies are largely democratic about where they take stored fat from—they take it from all over.
If you've seen Madonna lately, you can see the results of her latest workout regimen. She has incredibly low body fat, but her face has lost its fat as well, making her bone structure appear more prominent, with a more sunken appearance (although it looks like some cosmetic procedures may have helped her fill it out somewhat). So if you ever see advertising for any product that claims to burn fat off one part of your body and not others, it's over-promising. You can target specific muscle groups with exercise, but fat burning is a more generalized proposition.
Any activity will go a long way toward reducing body fat percentage. And health professionals advise that even a modest decrease in body fat percentage will have extraordinary health benefits. So even if achieving that ideal "supermodel" weight seems impossible, you can really enhance your quality of life by making a few minor changes in your activity level and diet. Engaging in a comprehensive program like ChaLEAN Extreme, which encompasses resistance training and aerobic exercise as well as a healthy diet, is a great place to start. Here's to seeing less of us!
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If you'd like to ask a question or comment on this newsletter article, click here to add a comment in the newsletter review section or you can email us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Check out our Fitness Advisor's responses to your comments in Steve Edwards' Mailbag on the Message Boards. If you'd like to receive Steve Edwards' Mailbag by email, click here to subscribe to Steve's Health and Fitness Newsletter. And if you'd like to know more about Steve's views on fitness, nutrition, and outdoor sports, read his blog, The Straight Dope, recently named one of the Top 50 blogs covering the sports industry by the Masters in Sports Administration.
Understanding Fats
Although the word "fat" can set off warning signals for many people trying to achieve or maintain a healthy body weight, it's important to know that certain types of fat are good—even necessary—in a healthy diet. Here, Danny Teeson shows you which fats you need and which ones to steer clear of.
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Recipe: Dreamy Avocado Dressing
Here's a terrific way to dress up a salad and really make it sing! Follow quantities as written for a thicker dressing that also makes a terrific dip. Add more yogurt for a creamier texture that makes it a little easier to toss. Either way, it's outstanding!
- 1 ripe avocado, cubed
- 1/2 cup plain nonfat yogurt
- 1 clove garlic
- 1 Tbsp. minced red onion
- 1 Tbsp. lemon juice
- 2 Tbsp. finely chopped fresh parsley
Place all ingredients in a blender or food processor and mix until smooth. Chill, and then toss with chosen salad ingredients just before serving. Makes 4 servings.
Preparation Time: 10 minutes
|Nutritional Information (per serving)
|Fat Total
|Saturated Fat
|4 grams
|3 grams
|9 grams
|6 grams
|<1 gram
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The MMP Review came out of the 2011 Referendum on the Voting System, when the majority of voters chose to keep MMP as our voting system. This triggered an independent review of MMP conducted by the Electoral Commission.
The Results of the MMP ReviewRead more
The Electoral Commission conducted a review of MMP in 2012 and from this and advice received presented a Final Report with recommendations for change to the Minister of Justice on 29 October 2012.
The MMP Review IssuesRead more
The Commission was required to review a number of issues but was able to consider other issues as long as they related directly to MMP.
What people said on the MMP ReviewRead more
The Commission undertook two rounds of public consultation. The first asked for comment on changes to MMP and the second for comments on the Commission's proposed changes.
MMP Review ResourcesRead more
A number of resources the Electoral Commission produced about the review are available on this page


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Shopify is a Canadian e-commerce company headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, that develops computer software for online stores and retail point-of-sale systems. Shopify is an ideal solution for SME merchants that want to start their business and scale with their success. Until now it was not possible to integrate local payment methods or credit card payments with 3D Secure via the off-site integration. Signup Now
With the off-site integration your customer will be redirected to our fully customizable payment page. The payment data is then sent to Adyen, where the payment will be processed. On top of that, you are able to accept payments less expensive and more securely as the 3-D Secure payments shift the liability and the acceptance is generally cheaper. Have a look at our video to see how the integration looks like.
The off-site integration makes it possible to accept PayPal payments, iDEAL, SOFORT, Konbini, and credit cards including 3-D Secure and many more. A complete list can be viewed in the Adyen Processor Overview.
If you are missing the PDF feature for your orders in Shopify and would like to receive a printed invoice or packing slip, you can either use one of the costly PDF generators in the app store of Shopify or you can start using the Documents of wallee to create your customized printouts for your customers.
In case you installed the wallee app in your shop, activities that you perform in wallee like capturing of payments are synchronized automatically into your store. The wallee app can be installed easily with a click directly from the wallee application backend. You can also refund transactions from Shopify that will be synced automatically.
With the reconciliation integration you will soon be able to also sync the transaction directly into your accounting software.
Do you want to sell recurring products? Have a look at our Shopify Subscription Integration that allows you to sell recurring products alongside standard product. The application integrates natively into your Shopify Checkout.
The integration is highly customizable. Below you find a screencast that shows you how the integration in your store might look like.
In order to use the Shopify Integration, you need to make sure that you fulfill the following requirements:
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New Movies: 'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire,' 'Delivery Man'
So, have you heard of this 'Hunger Games' thing? No? In that case, welcome to Earth! There's also this Vince Vaughn movie about a sperm donor, but no one really cares. This weekend, it's all about Katniss.
'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire'
The sequel to the 2012 blockbuster, 'Catching Fire' follows Katniss as she tours all the districts of Panem and discovers that there's a great deal of unrest among the population, possibly enough for a rebellion?
Directed by Francis Lawrence
Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Elizabeth Banks
'Delivery Man'
When David Wozniak discovers that he is the biological father of more than 500 kids (he donated sperm anonymously 20 years earlier), he decides to come forward make a difference in their lives.
Directed by Ken Scott
Starring Vince Vaughn, Cobie Smulders, Chris Pratt, Bobby Moynihan