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1. Where is Elsinore in Act 1, Scene 1?
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The build went well and I used the excellent Hyper-V Installation and Configuration Guide book along with this blog post on Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Best Practices (In Easy Checklist Form) to double and then triple check all was deployed to best practice recommendations.
After we P2V'd a number of the customers physical machines and configured the DPM 2012 SP1 backup application to perform host-level backups (i.e. backing up the entire virtual machine while it's still running using the agent deployed to a Hyper-V host), we started seeing problems with performance on the cluster nodes and then ultimately inside each virtual machine running on the cluster.
Leaving the cluster in this state resulted in both hosts becoming unresponsive and everything grinding to a halt. We had to power cycle down the SAN (FC connected HP) and both hosts to get everything back online - not cool :(
So, after a small bit of searching for an answer we came across the following two recently released Hotfixes from Microsoft that needed to be applied to the Hyper-V hosts:
- Update improves cluster resiliency in Windows Server 2012 (KB2848344)
- Can't access a resource that is hosted on a Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012-based failover cluster (KB2838043)
When I spoke with some of my MVP buddies about this particular issue, I was pointed in the direction of this excellent script from Hans Vredevoort over at Hyper-V.nu:
Updated: Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V and Cluster Hotfixes and Updates
This script can be run against your Windows Server 2012 hosts to report on any missing hotfixes or updates that should be applied. Although we thought we had deployed all the relevant updates to our customers cluster, once we ran the script it was apparent that there were a few more that still needed to be added in.
Edit: Microsoft's Cristian Edwards has mentioned in his comment below that there are some additional and updated scripts that you can also use to ensure you keep your Hyper-V hosts up to date. Check out his updated blog post here:
If you're running a Hyper-V 2012 cluster and are using ANY backup application (not just specifically DPM 2012 SP1) that performs host-level backups of virtual machines located on Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV's), then I'd highly recommend you install the above two hotfixes at least and then also run Hans' script to see what else you need to get deployed.
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Today I have guest blogger Jordan K. Rose. I met Jordan through my Twitter party thrown by Brinda Berry and had to check out her book, Perpetual Light. Right away I was caught by the premise. If you would like to see the killer trailer, click HERE to go to the post where I shared Jordan's trailer. It rocks! And don't forget to leave a comment for Jordan and enter into her drawing for an e-copy of Perpetual Light.
Exploring the Ins and Outs of Character Development
Hi Jessica. Thanks so much for having me on today. I thought we'd talk about character development. There is one thing I know for certain: I am a character-driven writer.
I don't profess to be a master of any part of writing. I've only just begun my writing career. Every day I continue to grow in my skills as a writer. I learn more and more with every draft I write, class, conference or meeting I attend. Each book I read gives me an opportunity to hone my own skills. Though, I'll admit when my mind is "stuck" in writing mode, reading is not as pleasurable.
When I read, I like to fall into the story, completely submerge myself in the characters' world. I want to wonder why they've decided to do something or what will happen because of that decision. I want to be in the action with the characters.
I don't want my "writer mind" to pull me away from the story because I'm not "in the character." But this does happen, when I'm not experiencing the action with the character, when the story is being told to me instead of shown.
I don't need to be told the heroine is frightened or the hero is angry. I need to feel their emotions so that I can empathize with them, worry with them, want or need vengeance, too. I want to love the hero and experience his love for the heroine just like she does.
How do we do this? How do we make a reader feel these very points? It's not just simply by describing the feeling of love at first sight- quickened heart rate, flushed cheeks, hitched breaths. It's knowing how your characters will react in every situation.
Simply understanding the body's autonomic responses in fight or flight situations is not enough. We as writers must clearly know how each specific character would react to each situation. That's what makes the difference. Then, we must know how they grow as people throughout their journeys.
I admit I struggle on the growth piece. It's why I'm very, very happy to have a critique partner. Kat points out where my characters need to mature in themselves otherwise they become stale or worse, annoying.
Right now I'm working on two different storylines for two completely different characters. Eva Prim and Lucia DiComano. These are two women who could not be more different. Eva is a vampire. Lucia is a slayer, albeit one who's not entirely happy with her lot in life. Eva wants friends and will do, has done and is doing some bizarre things to acquire them. Lucia has plenty of friends, is trusted, well-liked and respected.
Both women lack confidence in certain areas of their lives, just as you and I do. But there are very few moments when either would react in the same manner. Eva is headstrong and will charge fearlessly and blindly into any situation without concern for the outcome. She, as she's been told, has no ability to be strategic or foresee a realistic outcome.
Lucia plans, is hesitant, wants to know what might happen and how and what could go wrong and why. She does not plunge into anything for which she has not prepared. She is actually skittish about things. She worries and avoids things, if she can. She's spent the last three hundred fifty years avoiding her destiny. She might be considered a procrastinator.
Now, knowing what you know about these two women can you see how they'd respond completely differently in any given situation? Eva is prone to act first, think later or rather explain and hope someone bails her out. Lucia will over-think to the point of putting herself in dire straights.
It's crucial that we as writers understand each nuance of our characters. That's not to say we don't learn as we go. I learn new things about each character as their stories develop, but I know without a question in my mind what response or reaction would be completely out of character for any of them.
Just a few weeks ago I learned that the man I thought was the antagonist of Eva's story is not that at all. In fact, he's a good guy. Shocked. That's how I felt. But even with this new information he still behaves in exactly the same way as before. He's still strong and centered, an alpha in his own right. His personality comes across very clearly in the book because I know who he is deep inside.
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After more than three hundred years of running, Lucia Dicomano must make a choice.
Forced to take her place as a Pharo of Redemption, the divine slayer needs to master her forgotten powers. Lucia turns to Vittorio, the one vampire she's failed to deliver from eternal damnation. But overcoming smoldering remnants of love, lust and anger aren't their only obstacles.
Samuel, who may know Lucia better than she knows herself, hunts her with a fervor stoked by a thousand years of vengeful hatred. His plan—capture and enslave the weakened Pharo then take control of her elusive power.
Can Lucia trust Vittorio long enough to reclaim her powers? Or will she have no choice but to kill him and battle Samuel alone?
BIO: After trying her hand at many, many things- from crafting and art classes to cooking and sewing classes to running her own handbag business, Jordan finally figured out how to channel her creativity. With an active imagination and a little encouragement from her husband she sat down and began to write, each night clicking away at the keys with her black Labrador, Dino curled up under the desk. A few short years later she's entered the publishing arena with no plans to ever turn back.
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BERLIN (Reuters) – German industrial orders plunged due to weak demand from domestic and euro zone clients in April, posting their fourth straight drop on the month, as growing uncertainty about a global trade war led companies to scale back investment plans.
The weaker-than-expected data, published by the Federal Statistics Office on Thursday, suggested that the upswing in Europe's largest economy could further lose momentum after its quarterly growth rate halved at the beginning of the year.
Contracts for goods 'Made in Germany' fell by 2.5 percent on the month in April after a downwardly revised drop of 1.1 percent the previous month, the data showed.
The reading significantly undershot a Reuters poll of analysts, who had predicted a 0.8 percent rise. It was the first time since the financial crisis in 2008 that German industrial orders have fallen for four months in a row.
VP Bank economist Thomas Gitzel pointed to rising uncertainty sparked by U.S. President Donald Trump's decision in March to impose hefty tariffs on steel and aluminium imports.
"This has probably unsettled companies in the euro zone and with it slowed demand for capital goods," Gitzel added.
German Economy Minister Peter Altmaier warned against the growing tide of protectionism, saying that tariffs and trade barriers helped nobody. But he remained bullish on the prospects for Europe's powerhouse.
"There is no rule that says this upswing has to be over soon," he told a conference in Berlin on Thursday. If the current boom continues into next year, it will be Germany's longest upturn in more than half a century.
Investors fear the U.S. could impose tariffs of up to 25 percent on the same "national security" grounds used to impose the steel and aluminium duties – a move that would particularly hit Germany's important automobile industry.
A sector breakdown of the industrial orders data showed demand for capital and consumer goods fell the most in April, driven by especially weak orders from other euro zone countries.
Overall, orders from domestic clients were down 4.8 percent while foreign demand edged down 0.8 percent, the data showed.
DIHK economist Sophia Krietenbrink said the unexpected drop in orders could signal a loss of economic momentum despite the fact that order backlogs were still high.
"Trade conflicts, in particular, are causing considerable uncertainty from outside," she said.
The release followed a string of strong economic data that included retail sales posting a bigger-than-expected jump in April, unemployment reaching a record low in May and business morale steadying despite the threat of a global trade war.
Germany's VDMA industry association said on Wednesday that engineering orders had jumped 12 percent in April compared to a year before, with surging domestic demand offsetting a drop in contracts from euro zone partners.
The German economy grew 0.3 percent on the quarter in the first three months of the year after 0.6 percent at the end of 2017. So far, economists had predicted up to 0.5 percent growth in the second quarter.
But Commerzbank analyst Ralph Solveen said the weak orders data now pointed to the Germany economy growing only at a moderate pace also in the April-June period.
For 2018 as a whole, the government forecasts 2.3 percent growth.
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Dhanaraj, G and Bhat, HL (1994) X-ray diffraction and second harmonic generation studies on $KTiOPO_4$. In: Solid State Communications, 91 (9). pp. 757-759.
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X-ray diffraction and powder second harmonic generation (SHG) studies were carried out on $KTiOPO_4$ (KTP) synthesized under different conditions. Diffraction intensities of the doublet 2 2 1 and 0 2 2 and SHG signal variations in different KTP samples were studied and correlated to oxygen content in the samples. It is found that KTP sample synthesized in oxygen atmosphere shows stronger SHG signal.
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Eternal life can seem like an eternity. Ask any vampire. The continuous march of sun ups, sun downs, transformations of form, seductions, cape fittings and exsanguinations… eventually it all just becomes an endless, tired routine. It all seems so exciting and so sexy to those of us who operate knowing we have limited time. But ask any vampire about the downside of eternal life, and you won't be surprised to hear tales of binge eating garlic bread just to feel the hurt…or of the occasional dangling of a wooden stake just over the center of the rib cage.
Electric Six knows all about eternal life. Electric Six has been around forever and it can never die. That's lovely…but it's also very tiring. You are witnessing Electric Six come at you with its twelfth studio album in as many years, and you are seeing some very tired vampires, Jack. But Electric Six still smells blood…and that blood …is you. And it is you…who will give us new life. Fresh Blood For Tired Vampyres is the latest release by Electric Six on Metropolis Records. One listen and you will immediately understand that the sexiest vampires are urban vampires. Where E6 has dabbled in dance, hip-hop and R&B here and there in the past, Fresh Blood is the whole enchilada. It's thirteen songs designed to make the listener interested in smooth and nasty fuckin', the way they do it in the city.
"It feels great to sign to Equal Vision Records," explains Northern Faces' Bryan Shortell. "We've been working hard for a very long time, and there's a huge feeling of validation when you sign to a label as awesome as EVR. Knowing that there is a team of people that believe in our music enough to invest their blood, sweat and tears into forwarding our career is humbling and something we'll never take for granted."


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Apple ended last year with a bang.
In a short period it put out the iPhone 5, iPad Mini, and new iMacs.
We thought there was a chance it released all that stuff as a way to clear the deck for something big coming in the Spring.
Now that we're closer to Spring, it's looking less likely we get something.
Jefferies analyst Peter Misek has a roadmap for Apple's product launches. We've included it here. It doesn't look like much is on its way until June.


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My father was a note taker. The habit started when he was a teen and survived a traumatic brain injury that affected his short term memory. He would study each morning, take notes and eventually was valedictorian of his graduating class. Twenty years later, when he went to work for American Airlines, he kept a notebook with daily tasks to be certain he accomplished them all. One of the last things he used in 2000 was a small old notebook where he wrote down the jobs he had, from picking cotton to American Airlines Security, followed by retirement. I picked up some of his habit.
I take notes. From these notes come almost all I write here, though some catch my attention on the 'net. I keep sermon notes – usually three times a week, sometimes more, sometimes less, but always there are reminders of scriptures and references of things I think are important. My current notebook begins December 3, 2015 when we were studying Proverbs chapter 18. I noted several verses, but marked:
He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him. (Proverbs 18:13 KJV)
When reading a commentary on this verse I found a reference:
Many mighty men have been greatly disgraced; and the honourable delivered into other men's hands. Blame not before thou hast examined the truth: understand first, and then rebuke. Answer not before thou hast heard the cause: neither interrupt men in the midst of their talk. Ecclesiasticus 11:8Along with an explanatory note about the Apocrypha in the original 1611 King James Bible, removed in 1885. And, there was a note in the commentary – originally in Latin, but I found a translation:
The one who decides in any case, without hearing the other side of the question, though he might determine justly, is not therefore just (Seneca)Research takes multiple paths and keeping notes on those paths (the reason for taking them, the results of taking them, and the changes caused/not caused) are important. I know that from my genealogy research but particularly for my Bible study and research.
Another example is in older GPS instructions for finding the First Baptist Church of Cottondale. The earliest online mapping apparently thought the street address being in Paradise also placed this church in Paradise. As John Wayne used to say, "Not hardly." Taking someone else's word, no matter how technologically/scientifically advanced, sometimes sends us in the wrong direction.
Jesus gave us some specific travel advice:
Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. (Matthew 7:13-14 KJV)
"Strait" does not mean "straight." It means "… limited spatial capacity; narrow or cramped." Sort of the same as narrow "… limited in extent, amount, or scope; restricted."That could be why followers of Christ are often called narrow-minded. We do decline to accept the widened view of "anything goes," or as the Bible puts it:
Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes. (Deuteronomy 12:8 KJV)
Yet, they did:
In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes. (Judges 17:6 KJV)
Until even Solomon notes:
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise. (Proverbs 12:15 KJV)
Do be cautious about that counsel. We can find people that agree with us – just ask the question on FB or Twitter and thousands will agree that the moon is made of green cheese. Seek wise counsel for wise counseling. Especially as it refers to God:
Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. (Matthew 7:15-17 KJV)
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Business case: How can the end user change his password?
(in reply to Dennis question in the APEX forum)
Prerequisite: APEX_AUTHENTICATION (default) = APEX_USER created in the workspace
The documention is straight forward:
The procedure example code is:
BEGIN APEX_UTIL.CHANGE_CURRENT_USER_PW ('secret99'); END;Step by step:
1. create a new page - type "blank" - let's say: Page 9
2. create a region named: Password change region
3. create an item named: P9_NEW_PWD of type "text field"
4. create a button named: "change Password"
5. in Page Processing - Processing - create a procedure named "change_password" of type pl/sql
6. in "PL/SQL Code" enter the above PL/SQL code
7. replace 'secret99' by :P9_NEW_PWD so it looks:
BEGIN APEX_UTIL.CHANGE_CURRENT_USER_PW (:P9_NEW_PWD); END;8. and last steps:
- the PL/SQL procedure "change_password" selected
- right hand in region "Success message" enter in: "Password changed successfully (:-)"
- in region "error message" key in "nothing done - error"
- in region "Server side condition" and "When Button pressed" select: "change Password"
SAVE everything - Test
That's it.
What does the procedure do?
It just uses your username (:APP_USER or &APP_USER. ) and replaces the corresponding password with the new Password.
I hope that helps.
BTW: there es another procedure to change the password:
There, the user must key in his present password and can enter a new password.
The example code of the procedure:
apex_util.reset_password ( p_old_password => :P111_OLD_PASSWORD, p_new_password => :P111_NEW_PASSWORD );


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corinthianlasvegas.com is the real-life website for the Corinthian Casino, a Las Vegas casino owned by the Linderman Group in the Heroes Evolutions ARG.
- 1 Heroes Evolutions
- 1.1 The Invitation...
- 1.2 The Site...
- 1.3 Joining the Titan Club...
- 1.4 Linderman's Archives...
- 1.5 Update 1
- 1.6 Update 2
- 1.7 Update 3
- 1.8 Update 4
- 1.9 Update 5
- 1.10 Update 6
- 1.11 Messages from Hana
- 2 Fantastic Four
- 3 Daniel Linderman
- 4 Rebel's Tips
- 5 Notes
Heroes Evolutions
The Invitation...
Via text message
The following text message was sent to Type 2 players:
The Linderman Group wants u 2 b the first 2 knowabout our new website launching soon. Includes a tour of the famous Archive for select individuals
On February 19, the following message was sent to all players regarding the "Corinthian Casino":
The Linderman Group?is pleased 2send U?this exclusive invitation 2 b the 1st 2 re-discover Vegas @ the new Corinthian Casino website www.corinthianlasvegas.com
Via email
On February 19, ARG players received the following email from the "Corinthian Casino":
From: Corinthian Casino <email@example.com>
Subject: Corinthian Casino
The Linderman Group exclusively invites you to be the first to re-discover Vegas at the new Corinthian Casino website (www.corinthianlasvegas.com).
The Site...
The Corinthian Casino website consist of a Main page, an About page, a Gaming page, an Entertainment page, a Rooms page, a Dining page, a Shops page, and a page for the Titan Club.
The Gaming page features three playable Flash games, and includes a mention of "The Titan Club", with the text, "To join the Titan Club, simply start playing our FREE online games to accrue casino points."
The games all remember users' current winnings when leaving and returning later. A zero score resets them.
Joining the Titan Club...
Achieving a balance of greater than $325,000 on the online games brings up the Titan Club membership form.
Alternately, any of the three "cookies" associated with the games--"pokercash" "BJcash" and "slotscash"--can be manually edited using a cookie editor. When the Content value is set to a sufficient amount, the next visit will trigger the invitation to join.
Linderman's Archives...
On February 23, players who attained membership in the Titan Club and signed up for text messages received the following message:
Take a peak at the exclusive benefits of Titan Club membership on your mobile phone here: www.corinthian.mobi
Following the link brings up a page with the following text:
Welcome to the Corinthian Casino, Las Vegas's top destination resort for the traveler who appreciates both substance and style.
We hope that you'll take the time to visit us at our newly redesigned home on the web at:
And as a special bonus for mobile visitors like you, we'd like to extend an unprecedented invitation to take a virtual tour of Mr. Linderman's world-famous archive of antiquities and modern art.
To visit the archive, type the following URL into your web browser: www.corinthianlasvegas.com/vip_admittance.shtml
When prompted, enter "sword" as your password.
Following the link and entering sword as the password brings up a preview of the Linderman Archives, featuring photos of Takezo Kensei's sword and the tapestry of Kensei from the exhibit, as well as five of Isaac's paintings (four of them previously unseen).
The site consists only of the seven images. The various links and icons are all inactive. In the upper right corner, a security code (NH095-0198) is displayed.
Entering sword brings up the archives and a photograph of Takezo Kensei's sword.
Also included is a photo of the tapestry on display at the Museum of Natural History. The panels of the tapestry are sequenced differently than the version on display in the museum.
This painting of Claire Bennet's autopsy is labeled "Girl on Autopsy Table"
This painting of a man who looks a good deal like Nathan Petrelli in the Oval Office is labeled "The President Stands Alone" (and is dated 2007).
This painting of Niki and Jessica Sanders's split reflection is labeled "The Mirror Has Two Faces".
The painting of Hiro Nakamura and Ando Masahashi from the Homecoming Series is labeled "Tourists".
This painting of Mr. Bennet is labeled "Unknown Man" (and dated 2007).
Update 1
On March 16, 2007, players received the following message from the "Corinthian Casino":
Via Text Message:
Visit corinthianlasvegas.com and try your luck @ our online gaming site. Play well 2 gain access 2 our updated image gallery.
Via Email:
From: Corinthian Casino <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Subject: New Archive Images
Mr. Linderman has released additional artwork to his online archive. But due to recent events, you will have to visit http://www.corinthianlasvegas.com and play the Corinthian Casino's FREE games to gain access to these new images. Thank you for your understanding, and we hope you will visit us the next time you are in Las Vegas.
Players who have previously joined the Titan Club will need to start from scratch. Achieving a balance somewhere between $350,000 and $400,000 will once again bring up the registration form. This time, completing the registration form will supply the password "Vietnam" and take the player directly to the archives log-in page.
Three new paintings by Isaac Mendez have been added to the archive. One of them is previously unseen. The new paintings are not dated.
This painting of The Symbol is labeled "Godsend".
This painting is labeled "Uluru".
This painting of Simone Deveaux is labeled "Silhouette with Briefcase".
Update 2
On March 26, 2007, players received the following email from the "Corinthian Casino":
From: Corinthian Casino <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Subject: New Art
Mr. Linderman has chosen new art to share from his Archive collection. Play @ http://www.corinthianlasvegas.com to gain access or use your Titan Club member password.
Accessing the log-in page and using the current password ("Vietnam") reveals four new paintings in the archive, all of which have appeared in the episodes. All four paintings are still in Isaac's studio as of at least Godsend and one of them (the unfinished Sylar painting) no longer even exists in the form shown in the archive.
This painting of Claire Bennet is labeled "Cheerleader on Staircase".
This painting of Sylar is labeled "A Long Shadow".
This painting of Claire Bennet is labeled "Cheerleader Reaching Out".
This painting of Peter Petrelli is labeled "A Hero in Trouble".
Update 3
On April 2, 2007, players received another message from the "Corinthian Casino":
Via Text Message:
Mr. Linderman has chosen more new art to share from his Archive collection. Play @ corinthianlasvegas.com to gain access or use your Titan Club member password.
Via Email:
From: Corinthian Casino <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Subject: More New Art
Mr. Linderman has chosen more new art to share from his Archive collection. Play at http://www.corinthianlasvegas.com to gain access or use your Titan Club member password.
More of Isaac's paintings were added to the archives. This batch of six paintings all previously appeared in Distractions and Unexpected. Most are from the Isaac's Invisibility Series:
Update 4
On April 9, 2007, more of Isaac's paintings were added to the archives. Three new paintings, previously seen in the episodes, appeared:
This painting of Mohinder Suresh is labeled "Saying Goodbye".
This painting of Charlie Andrews is labeled "A Waitress with Spunk".
Update 5
On April 23, five more of Isaac's paintings, all from the Isaac Dead Series, were added to the archives:
Update 6
On May 14, five more of Isaac's paintings were added to the archives:
Messages from Hana
October 1, 2007
On October 1, 2007, Hana Gitelman left clues on her blog which led to the corinthianlasvegas.com. The site was hacked and the following conversation was posted:
IM Micah Sanders / Hana Gitleman
Micah: I want 2b Takezo Kensei when I grow up.
Hana: So u saw the documentary?
Micah: Yeah.
Hana: Cool, huh?
Micah: He's like a superhero, only historical. Next time I hav 2 do a report at school I kno who I'm doing it on.
Hana: I'm sure you'll get an 'A'.
Micah: U think he had special powers too, don't you?
Hana: I think it's certainly a possibility.
Micah: I was trying to figure out how he could defeat a whole army by himself. Wonder what power he must have had..
Hana: And what about that other video?
Micah: Spooky.
Hana: Sorry, I'm not trying to give you nightmares.
Micah: Hard to beat the ones going on in my life.
Hana: Well I hope you don't find this place scary.
Micah: I like it.
Hana: It's like an abandoned building.
Micah: Our very own secret hideout.
Hana: We could decorate it if you want to.
Micah: Like cyber graffitti.
Hana: Exactly.
Micah: Count me in.
Hana: 4 now this will be our place to meet.
Micah: And get away.
Hana: Yep. And get away.
October 8, 2007
On October 8, 2007, Hana continued her conversation with Micah on the Gaming page of corinthianlasvegas.com:
Hana: Losing a parent can be tough. You okay?
Micah: Not really.
Hana: I'm sorry. I know how you must feel.
Micah: Why does everybody say they kno how u feel when they clearly don't?
Hana: I lost my mom to a suicide bomber when I was around your age.
Micah: I didn't know.
Hana: How would you?
Micah: I'll make sure to ask next time before jumping to conclusions.
Hana: It's okay. I just carried the pain for too many years and I don't want you to suffer like that.
Micah: Thanks for looking out for me.
Hana: That's what club mates are for.
Micah: Club mates?
Hana: Yeah, this is our clubhouse, right?
Micah: Oh, yeah.
Hana: You like it?
Micah: The decorations are coming along nicely. I like the personal touches AND that you can still play the games.
Hana: Thought you'd get a kick out of that.
Micah: I've added a few of my own. See if you can find them.
Hana: You're on. This is our place, might as well make it feel like home.
Micah: Where I'm going I won't have my own room.
Hana: Here we have our own building!
Micah: Now that my dad is gone I've been wanting to learn more about where he came from.
Hana: Feeling like shaking hands with the family tree?
Micah: Yeah, I think it's interesting that both my parents have powers.
Hana: Maybe it's hereditary?
Micah: I think so. I bet you have a relative with abilities too!
Hana: I should look into that. Hey guess, what?
Micah: What?
Hana: They're demolishing the Casino next week. I'm going to tap into the video feed so you can see it from New Orleans. How's that sound?
Micah: That sounds awesome!
Hana: Great! I'll send you an e-mail with the time and date.
Micah: Already looking forward to it. Thanks, Hana.
Hana: My pleasure, Micah. Till then.
October 15, 2007
On October 15, 2007, Hana hacked into the main page of corinthianlasvegas.com with the message "I have something to show you!" Clicking on the message reveals a video depicting the destruction of the casino. (Hana also linked to the video from her website and through a text message.)
Following the video, another message from Hana appears asking, "What do you think?" Clicking on this message leads to a third chat with Micah.
Micah: Wow. Never seen a building implode before. Or explode.
Hana: I guess that's a good thing.
Micah: Pretty cool though, huh?
Hana: Yup. I have to admit it's intriguing. And not just because it was Linderman's play palace.
Micah: That guy caused a lot of trouble for a lot of people.
Hana: Constantly manipulating and making people live by his rules. Now it's our turn.
Micah: We can make up our own rules.
Hana: We're taking over this place, Linderman's is now our playground. You like it over here?
Micah: Lots of rooms to explore. Hey, do you think they destroyed the casino for a reason?
Hana: You mean to get rid of evidence?
Micah: Yeah, maybe.
Hana: Once you destroy a place no one thinks to pick through the rubble.
Micah: Hmm. Makes me want to poke around.
Hana: You're a curious one, aren't you?
Micah: Everybody is always trying to hide information from me, I learned to get my own answers.
Hana: I wished I'd learned that at your age. I did look into my family history, though.
Micah: Any luck?
Hana: The usual family tree stuff, no powers that I can tell.
Micah: My mom said Linderman knew more about us than we knew about ourselves. Perhaps you should start there.
Hana: Here?
Micah: In the rubble. No one is looking.
Hana: Where to begin?
Micah: I'll poke around if you want.
Hana: Nosy.
Micah: I prefer curious. I'll let you know what I find.
Hana: Happy hunting.
October 22, 2007
Text and email messages from Hana point on October 22, 2007, point readers to a fourth chat between herself and Micah:
Micah: I did some digging around in the rubble like you suggested.
Hana: And?
Micah: I think I found some real important information regarding your family tree.
Hana: Really?
Micah: Yeah, click here to find more.
After Micah's link to Linderman's archives, the conversation continues:
Hana: You wouldn't happen to know the code, would you?.
Micah: Twelfth.
After entering the password (the previous code "Vietnam" will also work), the conversation continues:
Hana: Thanks, I'm in.
Micah: Good.
Hana: Now what?
Micah: Last week you said you did some looking around, you didn't search very hard, did you?
Hana: Busted. I guess not.
Micah: Hey, it's your family tree.
Hana: I can see the net but I can't talk to machines like you. What to do next?
Micah: Enter "Gitelman family tree".
Searching for "Gitelman family tree" returns Hana's genealogy:
October 23, 2007On October 23, 2007, Linderman's archive page with the Gitelman family tree was updated to include a small Post-It note which says, "Refer to RD monastery in manuscripts". Meanwhile, Micah leaves a message:
Still wondering who the question marks belong to? I just found out. Follow the note."
One version of the translated text from the manuscript follows:
Monastery of the Cross
Our holy sanctuary, the Monastery of the Cross, is dedicated to defending the human right to survive. a basic right of every blessed son of the world. This document declares that Don Rucker, who was left orphaned in Germany and found surviving in the forest, has received refuge under our roof. Dr. Rucker is officially a son of Seville, and of our beloved Monastery of the Cross, but he was sent to Buenos Aires, Argentina for his safety. Eternal is the love and protection from us. He has not left me.
Note that NO8DO is the logo and motto of the "Ayuntamiento of Sevilla", the Seville City Council, and that it reads: NO-MADEJA-DO, pronounced "No me ha dejado", which translates to "He has not left me" (which is also the last line in the message).
October 24, 2007
On October 24, 2007, a new Post-It note was added, reading, "Refer to SA Diaspora in Contemporary Art". Clicking on the "Contemporary Art" icon and searching for "SA Diaspora" reveals a page with three drawings, each with a collection of symbols:
Also, another Post-It note says, "still snooping".
October 25, 2007
Another Post-It note reads "Refer to 'Democratize Knowledge' in Contemporary Art". Clicking on the "Contemporary Art" icon and searching for "Democratize Knowledge" leads to a poster entitled "¡Libertad!" ("Liberty!") with a hand holding the book Nuestro Futuro (or, Our Future).
October 26, 2007
A new Post-It note reads "Refer to 'digifuture' in Asian". Clicking on the "Asian" icon and searching for "digifuture" leads to a map of India.
At the top of the map, "Democratize Survival!--1977" is written in red. Bhutan is circled, and there is a handwritten note pointing to China which reads, "Manufacturing--build infrastructure". Tape and arrows point out Hyderabad, Bangalore, and Chennai, with a handwritten note pointing to all three which reads, "Knowledge workers--support education". Additionally, the map has a note which reads, "Himalayas are natural barrier for low frequency zone."
October 29, 2007
A new Post-it appeared on the "digifuture" page, with the writings:
Using these information, users can log into Richard Drucker's assignment file on primatechpaper.com.
December 26, 2007
On December 26, 2007, Hana's blog linked to a fifth conversation between Hana and Micah which appears to be interrupted midway:
Hana: He's talking in riddles.
Micah: Are you sure it's him?
Hana: It's him.
Micah: It's like he wants to be found but doesn't.
Hana: There's a lot of anger in him.
Micah: How can you tell?
Hana: Runs in the family.
Micah: lol
Hana: I'm not joking. The Meisners... The Gittelmans... we've had our problems. You don't make rank in IDF for being friendly.
Micah: I don't understand.
Hana: Sometimes it's best to keep the animal caged.
Micah: I guess that depends on the animal.
Hana: Good point
Micah: I still say its...
At this point in the conversation, the screen begins to flash, and loud noises are heard, effectively interrupting the dialogue between Micah and Hana.
Micah: What the...
Micah: What was that?
Hana: Someone must have found us.
Micah: Who?
Hana: Probably some hacker. I'm sure it's nothing.
Micah: It didn't sound like nothing.
Hana: Maybe it's time we found a new home.
Micah: But I like it here.
Hana: It's not worth the risk.
Micah: I'm sick of finding new homes.
Hana: I know how you feel, but Micah... In some ways, we are all lost souls looking for a home.
Micah: Even Richard Drucker?
Hana: Especially Richard Drucker.
Micah: We'll talk again, right?
Hana: I'll find you.
Micah: You better.
Hana: Bye, Micah.
Micah: Bye.
On December 28, 2007, Hana retrieved the audio file of the interruption and posted it on her blog. Adjusting the speakers so only the left audio is heard reveals a message from a male voice:
You're making me angry Hana, and I've spent a lifetime taming my anger. You don't know what can happen when emotion takes the place of sanity.
Fantastic Four
Around the release of Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer the ads on NBC.com were changed to say that "Las Vegas's best casino just got more 'fantastic.'", the site was updated with Fantastic Four cards and slots, and a link to a preview video was added to the Deluxe Rooms page.
corinthianlasvegas.com advertises Marvel's Fantastic Four on NBC.com.
Daniel Linderman
On September 26, 2007, the main page was update with the following message:
The workers and staff of the Corinthian Hotel are deeply saddened by the loss of our founder, Mr. Daniel Linderman. The historic hotel, located on the famed Las Vegas strip, is now closed and set for destruction later this year.
Rebel's Tips
On March 27, 2009, Rebel sent out a message to users pointing them to a page of tips at corinthianlasvegas.com. Rebel said that the page was filled with tips that had been forwarded to him, and that he would be sending his friends to check them out. The page says:
Tell REBEL: Help. This is the guy your people codenamed Waterbreak. I found two men in suits in my apartment yesterday. They were looking inside the Box. I killed one. I'm staying in a motel. I know I'm not supposed to say where, but you aren't replying on the websites; if I give you an address anyway, you can leave me a message on my TV or something, right? Tell me what I'm supposed to do.
This is for rebel. tell him my co-worker seems 2 b taking notes about me again. Can you check his computer again? This is Alex btw. I promise, this will be the last time! Post at yamagato if it's still OK.
FOR REBEL: You were supposed to tell me how to get in touch with Ellen but I haven't seen any messages on Corinthian. Are you okay? Please be okay. Oh god.
Rebel: I've been hiding in this warehouse for a week. You said two days and then you'd post the next step at lasvegasnikki. What's the story?!!!
For rebel: i was told to contact you by friends at the Skunk ... i left you messages at all the places that they said but i can't find any responses on your websites ... i need your help ... i don't want this ability ... it's cost me everything ... half my town was hit ... you saw it on the news? ... all the buildings ... i'm a freak ... there were federal investigators ... they had guns .... that didn't seem right ... just leave me a message please ... tell me who can make it stop...
REBEL. Please meet at the Skunk Bar on Monday night. It is urgent. Lives are at stake. Come alone. I will do the same. Thank you.
Please tell Rebel that I had to cancel my cell phone, his guy at the phone company says that "someone" was looking up my messages. For now, Rebel can email me at email@example.com with proof that it's him. --K
Tell REBEL that LAWR got me out and that E is sending me "over the line." REBEL will know what that means. And pass on my thanks. I owe REBEL my life.
REBEL. Please meet at the former Pinehearst site on Monday night. It is urgent. Lives are at stake. Come alone. I will do the same. Thank you.
- The website was designed by Brian. (On the Lam)
- A billboard in New York, NY behind the RGS nightclub advertises corinthianlasvegas.com. (The Death of Hana Gitelman, Part 1)
- Quentin Frady creates a board that has the corinthianlasvegas.com logo. The board also includes the same picture of the Kensei sword that was found on corithianlasvegas.com. (Dark Matters, Part 5)
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Jens Lenge wrote:
> Hello world,
> I want to use a PNG graphic with transparent regions on my website.
> However, Internet Explorer (latest version from WinXP SP2) displays
> transparent regions kind of bluish instead of using the background color.
> As I am quite new to HTML, do I have to set special options for PNG to
> work?
> Jens
Only two days I had the exact same problem! Mozilla and Konqeror can display
a full-colour PNG with transparency. Window$ (I tested IE5 and 6) wants a
bloody indexed pallete. Unless you ignore Window$ users, you are forced to
reduce the quality of your graphics.
...don't get me started on the way IE renders tables. It drove me nuts
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Hi! I am in a process of making a website (which might receive substantial amounts of traffic), and am considering options for the backend. I discarded PHP and other similar server-side scripting languages, due to performance problems (I suspect that PHP and similar could not scale well, unless I implemented complex caching techniques). I plan to use OCaml to generate static .html documents from the content from the database. Since the content will probably change not as often as it will be accessed, I believe this is the better way (as opposed to accessing the database every time a user wants to load the page). So, OCaml programs will only be run seldomly to access the database and generate HTML files, using the data fetched from the DB. However, I am still worried whether this would cause too much performance impact. I heard that OCaml is particularly slow (and probably memory-inefficient) when it comes to string manipulation. What is the preferred way in handling strings (building long strings from short parts - something StringBuilder would be used in Java)? Does anybody have any experience concerning this kind of applications? What about the startup time and memory usage of the program? Could these affect the stability and efficiency of the web server? (Hope someone will be able to decipher my language and care to answer :P ) - Tom


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Tonight the LSU Tigers have their season opener against Wisconsin (one hopes that Uncle Chuckie is not misusing his psionics helmet from the Cosimanian Orthodox Vatican in Milwaukee). In honor of the return of SEC football, I present to you a Fox Sports commentary sent to me by a friend and Auburn graduate: Why Alabama Has The Dumbest Fan Base In America. Excerpts:
When news broke that authorities had arrested a man for poisoning the trees at Auburn, millions of Alabama fans secretly thought to themselves, "God, I hope it's not Uncle Ray."
That's because Harvey Updyke could have easily been in many Bama families.
The Alabama fan base is a fractious mix of two distinct groups who can't really stand each other.
At the top of the list is the 10-15% of the fan base that could actually be admitted to Alabama or attended the school.
This group hates most of the rest of the Alabama fan base with a passionate fury.
Right now they are reading this column and silently nodding.
The other 85% of Bama fans are incapable of coherent thought and have a deep-seated insecurity about all things in life. Alabama football comprises, and this is not an exaggeration, 99% of their self esteem.
This group of Alabama fans resents those who actually attended the school and calls them, "elitists." (To be an "elitist" in Alabama you have to graduate high school, avoid having kids until you're 22, and shop at Target instead of Wal-Mart. Seriously, that's an Alabama elitist.). Auburn fans, a distinct minority in the state, are really nothing like Alabama fans. That's because by and large Auburn fans are associated in some way with Auburn. 95% of the idiots in Alabama root for the Crimson Tide.
What's the dumbest stereotypical Bama fan like in his element?
He's a 38 year old grandfather and he owns fourteen shirts, thirteen of which have to do with Alabama football's mythical national titles.
An important aspect of his life is that everyone must know that Alabama is his favorite team at every moment of his life. His truck, his trailer, his clothing, his animals, his arm, his parole papers — all of them must include a reference to his Alabama fandom.
To not do this would be unacceptable.
Read the whole thing, especially if you are a Southerner who is not an Alabama fan. That means you, Tiger Nation.
Y'all been to Hank's House Of Houndstooth yet?
One more thing, then I'm out. It's really impossible to watch this too often:
But you know, much as I am obligated to hate Alabama and Nick Saban and all his pomps and works, if Alabama plays for the national championship against a non-SEC team, it's "Bama Up" for me.


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As his journey continues through the luxury model ranges, we find ourselves taking a look at the 2014 Audi A4. As a brand, Audi has always been known for introducing 4-wheel drive to cars as they won World Rally Championships by being the first company with the technology. Along with the 4-wheel technology, Audi has … Continue reading 2014 Audi A4 Premium Plus
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Hello everyone! Let me start by thanking every single one of you who was at the event, and who made it special and fantastic! I really couldn't have wished for it to go better… To those who couldn't make it, worry not for I will upload pictures of all the details 😀
While I'm uploading the pics on Facebook first, I'll start by adding a series of 11 posters that I designed for the event, to animate the room, and entertain the people waiting for their copy to be signed. As I promised you (since many of you were too lazy to photograph them), I am adding them here! Enjoy 🙂
Photos tomorrow! 🙂 Have a great day!
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Supermarket Power in Australia - A Public Symposium 2013
Why a Symposium on Supermarket Power in Australia?
The commercial strategies being pursued by the major supermarket chains relating to acquisitions, private labels, diversification, pricing, supply chain management, advertising and packaging, attract comment and a divergence of opinion amongst the Australian community. The issues raised by such strategies are wide-ranging. They are economic, social, environmental, regulatory and political in nature and have both short-term and long-term implications for consumers, businesses, workers and communities. At the heart of these issues, however, is the notion that the major supermarket chains wield considerable power over the ways in which food is produced, distributed and consumed.
About the Symposium
This Symposium was held on 1st August 2013 at Treasury Theatre in Melbourne. It was a joint initiative of CLEN and Monash University's Centre for Regulatory Studies and was co-convened by Professor Caron Beaton-Wells, the Director of CLEN and Professor Christine Parker, of the Monash Centre.
The Symposium aimed to provide a picture of and facilitate an informed discourse about the power of supermarkets in Australian society. The first half of the Symposium focussed on the market power of the major supermarket chains, the implications for competition and consumer welfare and recent proposals for reform, drawing on related developments (a code of conduct governing retailier-supplier relations, in particular) in the United Kingdom. The second half of the Symposium focussed on the role of supermarkets as social and political actors in communities. The discussion focussed on the role and effectiveness of government in regulating supermarket behaviour and posed the question as to whether there is emerging in Australia a content between the State, the major supermarket chains and civil society for regulatory power over the food supply chain.
The Symposium sought to provide an open forum and promote a balanced and rigorous discussion, capturing a wide range of perspectives on the issues raised for debate. Speakers were assembled from industry, academia, the legal profession and government. They Symposium was attended by 260 delegates (the maximum the venue could accomodate), representing a wide and diverse range of stakeholders and interested parties.
Click to view the Supermarket Symposium programme and the Supermarket Symposium Media Release. The Symposium was covered extensively by the TV, radio and print media. The ABC Radio National Law Report's coverage of the Symposium, including interviews with several speakers is accessible here. To view the set of papers distributed to the delegates on the day click here.


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|Fifth grade Destination Imagination team at work
Recently, a group of our fifth grade students competed in the regional Destination Imagination tournament. They placed second and won the right to advance to the state tournament. Amy Carpenter is one of their team leaders. She offers this unique viewpoint on how a Friends' education helped make this moment such a success. Amy is the parent of current and alumni students and also serves as a trustee of the school. Thank you, Amy, for this guest blog:
As a parent you may sometimes wonder if a Friends' School education does make a difference in our children's growth. How does it help our children? Do they learn unique skills? Do they develop the skills needed to become successful teenagers and adults?
|Guest writer Amy Carpenter
Two weeks ago I witnessed one remarkable way how Friends' School shapes our kids. It was amazing to watch.
I was a co-team leader for the 5th grade Destination Imagination Team. The Destination Imagination program fosters the skills of creative and critical thinking, teamwork, problem solving, risk taking and self confidence through science-based challenges that kids have to solve and present at a tournament. These are many of the same skills Friends' School fosters in our children.
There can be no parent involvement in the creation of the solution. This is 100% student driven. And these are not easy challenges - often stumping us parents. A large part of the team's score is based on how the students demonstrate the skills listed above. In addition to presenting their main challenge that they have developed over several weeks, teams also have to solve an "instant" challenge - one in which they have a time limit of 5-7 minutes to complete after they hear the directions.
|The team: Teddy, Finn, Mark, Sam, Charlotte, Ian & Finn
Our Friends' School team worked hard for a few months trying to solve the team challenge and practicing for the instant challenge. To be honest, in the few days leading up to the tournament my co-leader and I were seriously wondering if the group would be able to pull off their solution. Since we can have no input we had to gently guide them and let them succeed or fail on their own.
On the day of the tournament, they pulled it off and had huge success!
What was amazing to see is that the skills that our students used to succeed are so ingrained in them. I believe this is largely due to their education at Friends' School. They demonstrated an ease with team work and respect for each other. They are comfortable talking to adults and presenting in front of an audience of strangers. They have incredible stage presence. They are playful and natural leaders. They are kind and graceful to each other under pressure.
We have all seen the staff take time to work with our children on these incredibly important life skills. Whether it is an AOE presentation, a conflict with a classmate, theatrical and musical productions, learning a new skill in gym, our teachers work hard to foster our children's abilities and confidence.
In the moment of the Destination Imagination presentation I realized how thankful, and how lucky, we are as a family to be part of the Friends' School community. What happens here is special, unique, and it does make a difference for our children.
Thank you to Kim Millison, Amy's co-leader, for supporting the team and for the photographs.
To learn more about Destination Imagination https://www.destinationimagination.org/


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One thing that scares people away from a vegan diet is the worry that something is missing nutritionally. Protein gets most of the attention, but that's been debunked time and time again—vegan sources of protein are awesome and plentiful. Yet I've noticed many friends and acquaintances, even after feeling assured about protein, are still skeptical. It's so ingrained in us that meat and animal products are essential to our diet that it just seems unbelievable to think that's not true. The only thing that should be in-grained in us is that many important nutrients can be found in grains. (Get it? In-grained? Sorry.)
Indeed, many critics of the vegan diet say their fear comes not from concerns over protein, but from concerns that vegan foods are not good sources of certain vitamins and minerals. That's got to be why meat is essential, right?
But here's the thing: meat eaters need to be concerned about these same nutrients. Meat in animal products, especially the most common ones, are not strong sources of certain vitamins and minerals. Meaning most of your meat-eating friends get their vitamins and minerals from the same place vegans do: vegan foods and supplements.
Vegans should admit and take seriously the fact that there are about six nutrients that they need to put in extra effort to get. I'm talking about Vitamin B12, and to a somewhat lesser degree, Vitamin D, calcium, iron, zinc, and omega 3s. Yet many meat eaters you know should admit the exact same thing!
As a matter of fact, the USDA has identified Vitamin D, calcium, iron and B12 as "nutrients of concern" because many Americans are consistently not getting enough of them—regardless of whether they are vegan or not.
If you look at the nutrition profiles of many of the most popularly eaten animal products, those foods are low in many of the same nutrients of concern. And that makes this fear about vegan nutrient deficiencies misguided. Vegans certainly do need to do a little extra homework to make sure they're on top of their health. But it's not difficult, and it's also not too far off from the extra work our meat-eating friends need to do.
That Thing Got Heme Iron? A Look at What's in Meat
I decided to look at six key nutrients (B12, D, zinc, iron, calcium and omega-3s) and see how much of each of these nutrients are in common animal products (eggs, milk, yogurt, chicken breast, turkey breast, pork, and beef). I partly based this list of foods off of the USDA's "healthy eating" sample menus. When Americans eat meat and dairy, those are the foods we are talking about.
And there are certainly animal products out there that are good sources of these tough-to-obtain vitamins and minerals. I found that, generally speaking, internal organs and fluids (like liver and blood) and certain types of seafood are high in several of these nutrients.
But think about what your meat- and dairy-eating friends regularly consume each day. Internal organ meats like blood and liver? Probably not too often.
Of course you're bound to run into a paleo, Atkins or keto-type who rave that they've downed a pig blood smoothie and unsalted cow liver jerky all before lunch time. They might be getting most of their tough-to-find nutrients from animal parts. Tough to debate that.
Even the foods that people do eat that offer good sources of key nutrients carry some pretty heavy baggage.
Seafood? A good source of omega-3s. But it's usually not an everyday thing for most people. Half of Americans eat seafood only occasionally or never at all. One-third of Americans eat fish just once each week. The concerns about mercury and other pollutants have caused the FDA and EPA to jointly issue advisories warning certain people to limit their seafood meals to two or three meals each week, but that's more than what the vast majority of Americans seem to consume.
Milk and dairy? A good source of calcium, and Greek yogurt is all the rage right now. But overall, milk consumption is plummeting. Dairy-free diets like the vegan diet and paleo diet (yup, paleos usually don't consume milk or cheese) are on the up and up. And some people, in an effort to be more health conscious, are avoiding milk products in their otherwise standard diets. That's probably why we see commercials for Silk Almondmilk nowadays. (Way to plug vanilla almondmilk, Silk–that stuff is like crack).
Beef and red meat? A good source of zinc and B-12. But beef and red meat consumption in the United States continues to drop, supposedly due to health concerns and cost. From 1999 to 2004, people ate the equivalent of four ounces of beef, three days a week (or 1.7 ounces per day). That number has likely dropped somewhat in the last decade, given the rising costs of beef as well as the studies and recommendations urging people to "limit," "reduce," and "avoid" red meat. (American Heart Association, Harvard Medical School, American Cancer Association.) There are a lot of Atkins, paleo and keto-types doing their best to repair red meat's image, but they've got their work cut out for them.
What you're about to see is that these animal products are weak sources of most, if not all, of the above-mentioned nutrients. (Don't worry, I'm including dairy, red meat, and two popular types of seafood.) Chances are your concerned meat-eating friends are getting these nutrients from the same places vegans do (vegan sources and supplements), or they aren't getting enough of them all together.
All the percentages you see here are the FDA's recommended Daily Values—the same numbers you see on the Nutrition Facts box on your food packaging. And I'm using big portions of these foods—in some cases even bigger than the amounts listed on the USDA's sample menus. I want to include the people who ask for double meat when they go to Chipotle, or anyone else with a big appetite. So I'm not shortcutting these foods—I'm using the vitamin and mineral amounts of portions that are often larger than the recommended serving amounts of these foods.
• "Eggs" = two large eggs. (twice as many as USDA sample menu)
• "Milk" = one cup of milk. (same as USDA sample menu)
• "Yogurt" = one cup of yogurt. (same as USDA sample menu)
• "Turkey" = 4 ounces (112g) of turkey breast (about twice as much as the USDA sample menu; this is the same amount as two-thirds of a package of sliced organic turkey breast.
• "Chicken" = 5 ounces (140g) of chicken breast. (which is almost twice as much as the USDA sample menu).
• "Pork" = 3 ounces (85g) or pork, a bit larger than the size of a whole pork chop, (the only pig product USDA uses in its sample menu is a single slice of bacon, which is 0.25 of an ounce).
• "Tuna" = 5.5 ounces of tuna (154g); this is a full can of tuna (USDA uses 2 ounces of tuna).
• "Salmon" = 5.5 ounces (154g) (USDA uses 4 ounces of salmon).
• "Beef" = 4 ounces—the USDA sample menu uses between 2 and 4 ounces in its meals, including ground beef and steak. Ground beef makes up 60% of all beef consumed in the U.S., so that's the type I'm using. Maybe I'm being generous using ground beef, because steak appears to have lower nutritional values for many nutrients–ribeye has 37% less iron and 41% less zinc compared with ground beef.
The assumption here is that most people eat some combination of these things, usually three or four times, over the course of a day. Again, I'm basing this off of the USDA's sample menu for a 2,000 calorie diet and I've usually erred on the side of more animal product.
Here we go.
• Eggs: Only 6% iron for two large eggs. Not to mention eggs contain a compound that inhibits iron absorption.
• Milk: 0%. Milk also inhibits iron absorption.
• Yogurt: 1%. But, it's made of milk, which inhibits iron absorption.
• Turkey: 9%
• Chicken: 8%
• Pork: 4%
• Tuna: 13%
• Salmon: 9%
• Beef: 19%
Pretty underwhelming, right? Say you had two eggs for breakfast. Yogurt for a snack. A turkey sandwich for lunch. And salmon for dinner. Your daily non-vegan food items would give you a whopping 27% of your daily iron needs, not taking into account the fact your eggs and yogurt inhibit some of that iron absorption. So don't rip on vegan foods and supplements, because they're pretty clearly supplying you with most of your iron.
According to the NIH, the following are solid sources of iron: cereals, oysters, beans, dark chocolate, beef liver, lentils and tofu. There aren't too many of you out there eating beef liver every day, so hopefully you are eating plenty of beans and grains!
Good vegan options (based on NIH and veganhealth.org): Beans, lentils, peas, peanuts, fortified cereal, dark chocolate, tofu. During meals eat plenty of Vitamin C, which increases absorption. And don't drink coffee or tea with meals, because those decrease absorption.
• Eggs: 8%
• Milk: 7%
• Yogurt: 15%
• Turkey: 15%
• Chicken: 10%
• Pork: 19%
• Tuna: 8%
• Salmon: 8%
• Beef: 50% (but steak seems to be much lower–only 21% for four ounces of ribeye)
Let's again imagine your animal product intake for the day was two eggs, a cup of yogurt, and a bunch of turkey and salmon. Your zinc intake from animals would be 46%. Where does most of your zinc come from then? Not from thin air, but rather vegan sources and supplements!
The NIH mentions cereal, oysters, beef and crab as good sources of zinc.
Good vegan options (based on NIH and veganhealth.org): Beans, nuts, seeds, oatmeal, bread, tempeh, miso, fortified cereal, vitamin supplement.
Vitamin D
• Eggs: 20% (only found in yolk, so forget the egg whites)
• Milk: 0% (but 30% is supplemented)
• Yogurt: 0% (but 20% is supplemented)
• Turkey: unclear — "You can't rely on beef, pork or poultry to supply impressive amounts of vitamin D."
• Chicken: unclear — "You can't rely on beef, pork or poultry to supply impressive amounts of vitamin D."
• Pork: unclear — "You can't rely on beef, pork or poultry to supply impressive amounts of vitamin D."
• Tuna: at least 40%
• Salmon: sockeye variety has at least 112%
• Beef: unclear — "You can't rely on beef, pork or poultry to supply impressive amounts of vitamin D."
Vitamin D is a weird one. It's tough to find a lot of information on whether meat has any significant amounts of Vitamin D in it at all. Vitamin D is found in things like animal organs, certain types of mushrooms and certain types of seafood. Also, our bodies make it when we are exposed to sunlight, but there are a ton of variables that can affect that, like pollution, clouds, windows, and sunscreen.
Despite popular belief, milk and dairy don't have any significant amounts of Vitamin D! It's supplemented. In the 1930s people were getting a disease called rickets because they weren't getting vitamin D reliably, so milk producers began supplementing their milk products with it. Seriously, check the ingredients of your milk—even your organic milk and kefir. Indeed, according to the NIH, most people get their Vitamin D from supplements, including fortified foods like milk. This makes sense when you consider the NIH's list of other good sources of Vitamin D: cereal, fatty fish, and liver. Ain't nobody got time for liver.
So let's say it's one of the five days of the week where you don't eat fish, and your meals involve two eggs, yogurt, chicken and turkey, then that gives you 40% of your vitamin D. Again, vegan sources and supplements (other than fortified milk and cheese products) to the rescue.
Good vegan options (based on NIH and veganhealth.org): sunlight exposure, non-dairy milks, fortified orange juice, fortified cereal, UV-exposed mushrooms (it'll say on the label if they are), vitamin supplements.
Vitamin B-12
• Eggs: 18% (but this is poorly absorbed)
• Milk: 18%
• Yogurt: 23%
• Turkey: 7%
• Chicken: 7%
• Pork: 12%
• Tuna: 77%
• Salmon: 78%
• Beef: 46%
Seafood and beef are starting to pull their weight here. But as mentioned above, many people don't eat seafood on a daily basis, usually to avoid mercury or simply because they aren't crazy about seafood.
The NIH lists clams, beef liver, cereal and fish as good sources of B12. Assuming you aren't loading up on beef liver and seafood regularly, the meal plan of two eggs, cup of yogurt, turkey sandwich and chicken, gives you 55% of your daily B12 (and probably less because the B12 in eggs isn't very absorbable). That's it for animal products so the rest should come from vegan sources and supplements.
Good vegan options (based on NIH and veganhealth.org): fortified cereal, fortified nutritional yeast, vitamin supplement. But seriously, just take a B-12 vitamin every couple of days. They are cheap, usually taste good, and your body just pees out whatever you don't use.
Another thought on B-12: Some non-vegans might criticize the vegan diet for being "unnatural" because B-12 isn't found in reliable sources outside of vitamin supplements and fortified foods. Similarly, there are vegans out there who criticize B-12 supplements as "unnatural," and urge vegans to either not worry about B-12, or to consume a "vegan source" of B-12. Other than fortified foods or B-12 supplements, there are no scientifically proven sources of vegan B-12, so don't risk it. On the internet, there's a ton of misinformation about how you can get B-12 from seaweed, fermented foods, kombucha, algae, local and organic produce and even dirt. None of these are proven to be reliable sources of B12, and some vegans, especially the raw food types who long for a "natural" source of B12, allow themselves to believe the myths. Hopefully one day one or some of these foods will be proven to be a reliable source of B-12, but that hasn't happened. And as I've explained, don't be ashamed that your B-12 comes from a supplement. Meat eaters aren't ashamed that they have to take Vitamin D supplements in their milk and dairy products.
After all, one of the most detrimental things I can think of to the vegan cause is a vegan ignoring their health and contributing to the fear that a vegan diet is lacking in something. Meat eaters don't have worry about sabotaging such a heavily diet-based cause when they suffer from nutrient deficiencies. Those stories don't grab the headlines like stories about vegans do. Vitamin B-12 is added to many cereals, nutritional yeast and many non-dairy milks. A jar of hundreds of dissolvable tablets costs anywhere from $4 to $12 dollars. Take a lozenge. It's that simple.
And by the way, "natural" (however you define that word) is a not a compelling term to use in an argument, whether you're a meat eater or a vegan. It has almost no definition (people tend to define it to include whatever fits their argument). And it's a fallacy to assume that things that are natural are good, simply because they are what you define as "natural." Poison ivy, arsenic and tornadoes are natural yet they aren't recommended. Likewise, it's a fallacy to assume things that are "unnatural" are bad. There are countless human inventions, many of which we consume, that aren't found in nature. Including cooked meat, which plenty of meat eaters would argue is natural. After all, who cares what is natural when meat eaters almost definitely get a bunch of their vitamins and minerals from supplements and fortified foods? Now back to your regularly scheduled blog post.
• Eggs: 4%
• Milk: 29%
• Yogurt: 45%
• Turkey: 2%
• Chicken: 2%
• Pork: 2%
• Tuna: 2%
• Salmon: 2%
• Beef: 1%
This is milk's time to shine—milk and yogurt both have decent amounts. Although, as mentioned above, milk consumption is plummeting largely due to health concerns, and with people testing out vegan and paleo diets.
The NIH lists cereal, milk, sardines, tofu, kale and soymilk as good sources. If someone has a cup of yogurt with 45% calcium, and isn't much of a sardine eater, where do they get the rest? Vegan sources and supplements! (By the way, a cup of Chobani-brand Greek yogurt has only 15% daily value of calcium. FAGE brand has 20% daily value. Not very impressive.)
Good vegan options (based on NIH and veganhealth.org): non-dairy milks (like almond milk, coconut milk, soymilk and rice milk–they are all usually fortified), calcium-set tofu, fortified cereal, kale, mustard greens, bok choy, turnip greens, collards, watercress and vitamin supplements.
According to the Institute of Medicine, women should get 1,100 mg of omega 3s and men should get 1,600 mg of omega 3s. For this post, I'm going to (unscientifically) take the average of that (1,350 mg) and use that to come up with rough daily value target percentages.
• Eggs: 2.8% (39 mg)
• Milk: 0.7% (9.8 mg)
• Yogurt: 2.3% (31.9 mg)
• Turkey: 11% (157 mg)
• Chicken: 11% (154 mg)
• Pork: 4% (59.5 mg)
• Tuna: 32% (433 mg)
• Salmon: 294% (3982 mg)
• Beef: 3.4% (46.4 mg)
The general thinking behind fat consumption is that people consume too many omega-6 fatty acids (corn, sesame, safflower, sunflower and soy oil) and not enough omega-3 fatty acids. So where do omega-3s come from? You can see that salmon is a good source. Possibly too good, though? Jack Norris of veganhealth.org warns that too much omega-3 can result in bleeding and bruising.
So, like many other nutrients I've looked at so far, omega-3s are found in large amounts in fish and animal organs. Imagine it's a typical day without fish. Two eggs, yogurt, turkey and chicken would amount to about 27% of your recommended omega-3 levels. Heck, if you replace your turkey sandwich lunch with a tuna sandwich, you would still be below 50% of your recommended omega-3 levels. Where does the rest come from? Vegan sources and supplements, yet again.
Good vegan options (based on NIH and veganhealth.org): leafy greens, nuts (especially walnuts), flaxseed oil, and omega-3 supplements (some of which are made with algae oil). And avoid eating omega-6 oils like corn oil and soy oil.
What Does It All Mean?
Obviously these common animal-based foods aren't completely devoid of nutrients. Far from it. They all have a ton of protein, of course. And, as I've shown, some of them do well in a couple of categories—dairy products have calcium, beef has zinc and B-12, fish has B-12 and omega 3s. Of course, as I mention above, these happen to be categories of food that are in the news because it's recommended we limit their consumption due to health concerns. There are other forms of meat that are less common, but their nutritional stats are very similar to animals already included–duck (similar to poultry's stats), lamb and goat (similar to beef's stats, but with much lower zinc), bison (similar to beef's stats), rabbit (high in B-12, otherwise similar to poultry's stats), venison (similar to beef's stats).
As for internal organs like liver and blood–apparently for reasons of taste, availability or health, I found no evidence that they are eaten in significant amounts or by a significant portion of the American public. I only care about the animal products that people are actually eating. This can be frustrating, because the mere existence of uncommonly eaten animal products with high amounts of hard-to-obtain nutrients (like animal blood and liver) gives a false comfort to meat eaters who will almost never eat these foods.
Here are couple of key takeaways from all of this:
First, people worry about vegan foods not being good sources of certain vitamins and minerals. But it's clear that many of the common animal products people eat are also not very good sources of those vitamins and minerals. And in reality, vegan foods and supplements provide much, if not the vast majority, of many of these nutrients in the diets of meat eaters.
Second, people criticize vegans because it might be advisable to take a supplement, especially for Vitamin B12. But it's rare for meat eaters not to rely on supplements for various vitamins and minerals. Again, you'll always run into a committed liver and pig blood eater who makes sure to get all of their nutrients from animal products. Yet virtually everyone else is relying on supplements for one, if not two, three, four or five key nutrients.
The biggest "gotchya!" to critics of supplementing in the vegan diet is Vitamin D. Almost all Vitamin D, for most people, comes from supplements.
When foods like milk or cereal or grains have vitamins added or "supplemented" to their ingredients, it's it's more technically correct to say the products are "fortified." I haven't been strict with the terminology, but "fortified" is just food industry speak for a vitamin or mineral that's supplemented with that nutrient. It's still a supplement.
It's amazing how many foods we commonly eat are supplemented (or "fortified") with these nutrients. Breads, cereals, pastas, flours and grains are frequently supplemented with iron. About half of the iron intake in the U.S. comes from such grain products. Cereals, fruit juices and other drinks are often supplemented with calcium. Cereals also frequently supplement zinc and B12.
Half the country eats cereal every day.
Most of the popular brands are fortified. (Occasionally some of the health food stores sell brands that don't, for some reason). Frosted Flakes have 25% B12, 10% Vitamin D, and 25% iron. Cheerios have even more—45% iron and 25% zinc and 10% calcium. Honey Bunches of Oats has 60% iron. And that's all in a single serving. Who has just has a measly cup of cereal?
Nearly 40% of adults take an omega-3 fish oil pill. Algae oil capsules are available and provide the same amount of omega-3s. The numbers are similar for people who take multivitamins.
Not to mention all of the protein powders, energy bars and energy drinks that have invaded supermarkets, convenience stores and pantries everywhere. They are routinely supplemented with a cocktail of vitamins and minerals.
So, don't feel ashamed to take a B12 lozenge. And the next time a vegan detractor questions where you get your Vitamin B-12, ask them where they get their Vitamin D. It might make for a pretty lame conversation, but hopefully they'll see, they've probably been supplementing their entire lives.


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In The News: Lopez Says…
People magazine happily plunked down $6 million to feature Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony's twins on its cover.
As ridiculous as that may sound, Jennifer's comments on breastfeeding left me even more puzzled:
"My mom didn't breast feed and I think that was the thing for me. You read and figure out what's the best thing for them."
Can a baby be healthy and grow adequately without breastfeeding? Absolutely. I certainly do not side with breastfeeding fanatics who equate bottle feeding with bad parenting or negligence.
I also understand that not every woman can — or wants to — breastfeed. Women have every right to choose, and I find it obnoxious when people criticize this very personal choice.
What I have a problem with is Jennifer Lopez's notion that she chose bottle feeding based on "what is best for her babies." While bottle feeding is certainly not detrimental to a growing baby, it is inaccurate to claim it is identical to breastfeeding.
Some studies have concluded that breastfed babies have stronger immune systems, decreased risks of developing ear infections and diarrhea, lower infant mortality rates, enhanced neurological development, better oral health (due to a different suckling motion than drinking from a bottle).
Breast milk is not only tailored to fully meet a baby's nutritional needs for the first six months, it also contains naturally tranquilizing hormones.
Some studies are less enthusiastic about health benefits from breastfeeding, but that does not take away that breastmilk is always clean and at the right temperature.
The American Academy of Pediatrics' official position is that breast milk is the best source of nutrition for all babies.
They recommend it as the sole source of food for the first six months of a baby's life, and as a complementary source from six to twelve months of age.
They are not alone.
The World Health Organization, UNICEF, and The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists are just some of the organizations that hold the same position.
Formula is okay, but undoubtedly second best.
Part of the problem is that most hospitals in the United States do not really support breastfeeding.
Many do not have lactation specialists on staff, and they immediately bombard mothers with baskets of formula.
Once a woman feeds her baby formula, it is very hard to get her to commence breastfeeding.
Breastfeeding is a technique and skill that needs to be learned. It is not innate.
This is why it is crucial to have trained specialists on staff who can teach new mothers the right positions for breastfeeding and how to handle common problems like mastitis (inflammation of the breast) and sore nipples.
In 1991, WHO and UNICEF launched the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative.
The ten steps hospitals must follow to be an official baby-friendly one can be viewed here.
Here's a shockingly low figure – of the 5,810 hospitals in the United States, only 63 are baby-friendly.
The full list can be viewed here. I was very shocked to discover that New York City doesn't have any!
Another huge barrier to low breastfeeding rates in the country? The ridiculous and undeserved taboo!
Last April, ABC News reported that an astounding 57 percent of people in this country believe women do not have a right to breastfeed in public.
What is so wrong about a woman feeding her baby in a natural and healthy way?
Has our culture's common practice of hypersexualizing women's bodies completely screwed with our heads?
Here's an even more astounding figure – 72 percent of people surveyed believe it is "inappropriate" to show a woman nursing on television!
So Jerry Springer (well, now his former security chief Steve Wilkos, who took over the show) can show people verbally and physically attacking each other before noon, and it's considered perfectly okay to see someone get shot or stabbed on primetime television, but people choose to tear their hair in some ridiculous "moral" outrage over something as harmless as breastfeeding?
Color me confused — and pretty disgusted.
If anything, breastfeeding needs to stop being relegated to the "naughty" corner. It needs to be talked about, discussed, and out in the open.