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As I mentioned back in my New Year's post [1], Primal Blueprint Publishing [2] has launched, and my team and I are on a mission to change lives, one book at a time!
Last month, we released Mira and Jayson Calton's Rich Food, Poor Food [3], and early reader feedback has been incredibly positive. With ten more books either nearing release or in development and with many of you emailing me asking for details, I thought I'd take a moment to share with you what I have in the pipeline. Whether you're just starting or are a Primal veteran, I think there's something here for everyone.
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First up, a look at the books with 2013 release dates:
The Hidden Plague [4], by Tara Grant [5]. This book is for sufferers of Hidradenitis supprativa, a painful skin condition that is poorly understood by the mainstream medical community and strongly associated with the Standard American Diet. Tara suffered for decades before taking matters into her own hands, modifying her diet, and curing herself. There are an estimated 12 million sufferers of this condition in the USA, with many of them unaware of their condition. Tara provides a field guide to managing and overcoming this disease using evolutionary health principles.
Primal Cravings [6], by Megan and Brandon Keatley [7]. Well the title says it all here! Welcome back all the comfort foods that you've disciplined yourself to avoid in pursuit of Primal/paleo dietary principles. This creative, beautifully photographed book is the work of Brandon and Megan Keatley, Crossfit trainers in South Carolina who have dabbled and experimented and reclaimed some of the most indulgent foods you can imagine as Primal/paleo approved! See for yourself, starting with the delicious burger on the cover!
Paleo Primer [8]. This book from the British couple Keris Marsden and Matt Whitmore [9] sets forth the Primal/paleo living principles in a fun, simple manner, making it a great book to introduce newcomers to the movement. It's filled with creative and delicious recipes, and memorable, humorous cartoons that capture the essence of Primal/paleo living at a glance.
Upcoming Projects
Here's a look at some exciting projects in development for 2014 release:
Death by Food Pyramid, by Denise Minger. Denise has done numerous guests posts on MDA (Will Eating Whole Grains Help You Live Longer? [10], Will Eating Red Meat Kill You? [11]), and has her own avid following at her Raw Food SOS blog. [12] Denise has been hard at work for a great many months now on an exquisitely researched expose on how "Shoddy Science, Sketchy Politics, and Shady Special Interest Groups Have Conspired to Ruin the Health of America", and what you can do to avoid succumbing to such bad influences. She absolutely skewers the bestseller The China Study [13] for their flawed data collection and distorted conclusions, and generally goes to great lengths to set the record straight about the flawed conventional wisdom we have been fed our entire lives.
The South Asian Solution, by Dr. Ronesh Sinha. Dr. Ron, an internal medicine specialist in Los Altos, CA, is doing some great stuff in the Bay Area, treating high risk South Asian patients and Silicon Valley employees with unique solutions that respect the evolutionary health model. South Asians, who are mostly Asian Indians, are one of the most insulin resistant ethnic groups on the planet, with rampant diabetes and early heart disease. His approach has successfully engaged and motivated South Asians to improve their health and reduce their risk while still respecting their cultural lifestyle preferences.
Primal Pregnancy, by Michele Blackwell, MD: This respected Ob/Gyn from Webster, Texas provides a detailed manual for a healthy and successfully pregnancy and childbirth, with a focus on integrating modern medical advice while still adhering to Primal living principles. Dr. Michele will cover a wide range of topics, including fertility, successful conception, all the trimesters, a healthy birth, nursing, and recovering your old self by the time the little one's first steps are taken.
The Primal Prescription. In this hard-hitting expose on America's dysfunctional health care system, Dr. Doug McGuff [14], fitness author and emergency physician from Seneca, South Carolina details how we came to spend over 7 trillion dollars per year on health care, yet rank 49th world wide for health outcomes and life expectancy. Dr. McGuff uses the concept of "signal disruption" to demonstrate how top-down controls have created an unholy alliance between the Government, Big Pharma, Big Agra, and Medical providers to create the ultimate "sick care system". You will see how government intervention allows Big Agra to create the diseases that Big Pharma produces drugs for, so that doctors can "manage" your illness, so that you can stay just well enough to remain addicted to what made you sick in the first place. Having detailed the road to health care serfdom, Doug will show you the way out. By focusing on yourself and applying Primal lifestyle, dietary and exercise principles you will learn how to extract yourself from the belly of the beast, and enjoy the vibrant health that is your birthright.
Primal Woman, by Carrie Sisson. As I hinted at in a recent post [15], Carrie is shaping a story that touches on subjects of her particular interest and expertise: aging gracefully, dealing with empty nest syndrome, sorting through misinformation about menopause and hormones that women are subjected to, and fine-tuning the Primal living style from a female perspective. Carrie has a degree in Spiritual Psychology and injects a mystical, spiritual element to some of the everyday topics at hand. I can't wait to read this! (Nope, I'm not even allowed a peek just yet…).
Perfect Balance, a Primal Approach to Overcoming Negativity with Food, Dieting, and Body Image, by Emily Deans, MD [16]. Dr. Deans is a Massachusetts psychiatrist who explores the causes behind out modern obsession with and, for many, dysfunctional relationship with food. By hormonally, psychologically, and metabolically disengaging from processed food dependency, those who struggle with food issues have a better chance to heal from the psychological factors that contribute to their condition. Perfect Balance helps the reader eat and enjoy great, wholesome, natural foods without trending into a neurotic need to adhere to a Primal or paleo-style diet.
Primal Endurance, by Mark Sisson. Yep, I'm going back to my roots, this time to tell enthusiasts who insist on pursuing extreme endurance goals how to do it right! First and foremost is how to "go long" in training and racing without being a carb addict. Yep, it's possible to be a high-functioning endurance machine when you become truly fat and keto-adapted. This refreshing concept is raising interest in the staid endurance community, as folks like Ben Greenfield [17], Dr.'s Phinney and Volek in The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Performance [18], and even the world's foremost endurance exercise physiologist, Dr. Timothy Noakes [19]of South Africa, are out on the cutting edge spreading the word.
Author Services
I've partnered with my old friend Matthew Bennett [20] to provide support to both aspiring authors who want to bring their dream and their story to life, as well as authors who have their manuscript and want to market and sell it effectively. Matthew is a respected coach and lecturer for authors, and a master of creative marketing methods that identify niche volume buyers for your work. Matthew and I are in development with author support products right now, but we want to hear from you in order to present the services and materials that are of most interest. If you are an aspiring author, or have a manuscript that you wish to sell and promote, please take some time to complete the comment form at this Author Services link [21].
My team and I are always on the lookout for detailed book proposals or completed manuscripts that promote well being from an evolutionary health perspective. Visit this page [22] for details on how to engage with us about your masterpiece.


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BEIJING, China – Loss-making French carmaker PSA Peugeot Citroen is getting a 3 billion-euro ($4.1 billion) lifeline backed by Chinese investors and the French taxpayers in a deal that will see the company's founding family hand over control after more than two centuries at the helm.
Chinese automaker Dongfeng and the French government are each investing 800 million euros ($1.1 billion) in Peugeot, bailing out the struggling French auto brand and possibly expanding its global presence.
Plans call for Dongfeng Motor Co., the French government and the Peugeot family each to own equal 14 per cent stakes in PSA Peugeot Citroen and to have equal voting rights, Dongfeng said in a statement Wednesday. More cash will come from a share offering, in which stakeholders will be able to buy three new shares for each 10 they own.
Outgoing Chief Executive Philippe Varin called the change in Peugeot's ownership "a new page in the history of the company." It's one that could hardly have been predicted a few short years ago, when the proudly independent Peugeot family resisted a previous government bailout that was quickly snapped up by rival Renault, itself partly government owned.
Investors welcomed the operation, bidding up Peugeot shares 2.6 per cent by midday in trading on the Paris stock exchange.
Varin is being replaced at the end of March by Carlos Tavares, a former top executive at Renault. At a news conference, Tavares thanked Varin "for creating the conditions for our rebound," which partly depends on plans to position Peugeot and Citroen as more upmarket brands.
Squaring that ambition with the simultaneous arrival of new Chinese owners will be one of the new CEO's principal challenges.
The deal reflects an increasingly popular strategy among Chinese companies, which are buying stakes in established foreign brands to improve their competitive edge in their fast-growing home market.
China's auto market is the world's biggest by number of vehicles sold but is crowded and competitive, with every global brand and two dozen indigenous automakers jostling for sales.
Dongfeng said it and Peugeot will expand co-operation in technology, research and development, manufacturing and overseas distribution. They will sign a formal agreement in March and continue work on their strategic partnership.
Wednesday's brief announcement gave no additional details, including about how the owners will manage a potentially unwieldy structure with ties to both the French and Chinese governments.
While it is clear Peugeot gains much-needed capital, "from the Dongfeng side, the objective still is a little bit vague," said industry analyst Yale Zhang of AutoForesight in Shanghai. "We don't know if there are clear terms about transfer of technology."
Peugeot, which manufactured its first gasoline-powered automobile in 1890, is France's biggest automaker and Europe's second-biggest after Volkswagen AG, but has little presence in the United States or East Asia. It has developed models for China, including its 408 sedan, and has a joint venture with Dongfeng, but barely ranks among the country's top 10 brands in sales.
Dongfeng, on the other hand, is one of China's biggest producers of cars and trucks but is largely unknown abroad. Founded in 1969 and headquartered in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, it currently has a small joint venture with Peugeot and assembles vehicles for Japan's Nissan Motor Co. and Honda Motor Co.
Illustrating its need for help, Peugeot's earnings figures — which were also released Wednesday — showed a net loss of 2.3 billion euros in 2013, following a record 5 billion-euro loss in 2012.
Earnings were hammered by new restructuring costs and impairment charges to account for the diminishing value of Peugeot Citroen's assets.
The automotive division posted a 4.8 per cent drop in revenue, as the sales of new Peugeot and Citroen badged cars and light trucks slumped nearly 5 per cent.
Peugeot says it expects the European auto market to expand about 2 per cent this year and about 10 per cent in China.
Sales by the Dongfeng Peugeot Citroen joint venture rose 25 per cent last year to 554,000 vehicles, for a 3.5 per cent share of the market, according to LMC Automotive Ltd., a research firm. By comparison, VW and its main Chinese partner had a 9.9 per cent market share last year and GM and its main partner had 9.8 per cent.
Total auto sales in China rose last year by 15.7 per cent despite a steady decline in growth in recent years. Growth is expected to fall further this year to 8 to 10 per cent, still well above levels forecast for the United States, Europe and Japan.
The Dongfeng statement's reference to co-operation with Peugeot in overseas distribution raises the possibility their joint venture might export vehicles, an unusual step in China.
Global automakers that want government permission to manufacture in China are required to work through local partners. Such ventures usually focus on China's domestic market and avoid exports that would compete with the global brands' operations abroad. The only major exception is a venture by GM and its main Chinese partner in India to sell cars developed in China.
The Dongfeng-Peugeot ownership ties might help clear the way to exports by reducing potential financial conflict with the French partner's factories abroad, said Zhang.
"Once their shareholding is closer, they can share profits because they are one big family," he said.
Associated Press writer Greg Keller in Paris contributed to this article.
Dongfeng Motor: www.dfmc.com.cn
Peugeot: www.psa-peugeot-citroen.com/en


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Port-au-Prince – Little Paul's fledgling career as an international aid worker was flourishing until he got arrested for allegedly kidnapping a 15-month-old baby and selling his organs to a witch doctor.
He'd done time before, but this wasn't some cushy Massachusetts military prison. This was the Pénitencier national of Haiti, home to 2,000 desperate residents in the middle of Port-au-Prince in December 2010. The inmates, apparently unswayed by his good Samaritanism, set upon him "before the cell door had even closed," one going for his left pocket, one going for his right, the other swinging for his head. Bodies were being dragged out almost daily in the midst of a cholera outbreak, and LP had a bad case of diarrhea, a full bucket for a toilet and guards more inclined to tell the one they called "baby-killer" he was a dead man than accompany him to the restroom.
In Haitian prisons, inmates can decay for years before they even see a judge.
LP would get out in 18 days with the aid of numerous supporters in the United States and Haiti, Montreal's Nanci Murdock and tens of thousands of dollars in "legal fees." He went back to the U.S. till the legal issues were sorted out, but returned to Haiti as soon as he could last April to continue his volunteer relief work.
Which begs the question: Why? Why give up a successful contracting business working on million-dollar homes owned by people named Kennedy and Schwarzenegger to help Haitians for a year for no money, get thrown in prison on false charges, and still return? There are thousands of volunteers in Haiti, but most come for a week or two to do something that feels like it matters, then go home. Relief workers who stay longer tend to be paid or devoutly religious, living in the well-guarded compounds of their large aid organizations.
Little Paul and his partner, Big Paul, were living outside the safety net in chaotic Port-au-Prince for almost a year, sleeping in tents, driving through the darkened city, moving infectious cholera patients, saving lives.
Growing up poor in a variety of trailer parks in Florida, Little Paul remembers driving around the state during hurricane seasons, stopping to help out when he'd see "some old man trying to pick up the wall of his house." He couldn't get away from work to help out when Hurricane Katrina hit, but the economy was slower in January 2010. So when the earthquake happened, "it was a no-brainer," he said. He planned to stay for five weeks.
Paul Waggoner (Little Paul), 32, a general contractor working in the wealthy enclaves of Hyannis and Nantucket, Mass., and Paul Sebring (Big Paul), 34, a fashion photographer from Tempe, Ariz., and former paramedic, contacted the Red Cross and other aid organizations to volunteer after the quake hit. Both were told: "You can give us money, but if you come to Haiti, you'd just be a burden." The snub rankled then. It still rankles now. They made their own way to the battered country 10 days after the earthquake via the Dominican Republic. They met in Port-au-Prince, volunteering at a hospital.
Big Paul found out the Red Cross was in a sense correct – there were more nurses, doctors and paramedics than fleas on a dog. But he noticed two glaring deficiencies in the mayhem of the relief effort – medical equipment and medicine coming in by the planeload was piled in mounds in fields and warehouses. And while there were dozens of aid organizations, most were too busy, territorial, or bound by bureaucracy to share resources. At the Haiti Community Hospital, the Pauls corralled dozens of volunteers to build shelves and organize 20,000 kilograms of meds and medical supplies. The time needed for finding meds and equipment went from 30 minutes to one. The Pauls had become useful fleas.
They became known as the guys to call if you needed anything – blood, oxygen, IV tubes, morphine, a patient transfer in their pickup in the middle of the night, an orthopedic surgeon. Unhampered by bureaucracy, they were the guys "that got shit done," an attribute that resonated with many who wondered just what those massive aid organizations were doing with all that money they donated.
There is a frustration in the international community and Haiti at the slow pace of reconstruction and aid distribution, at the fact that 18 months after the earthquake, nearly half of the 1.5 million initially rendered homeless are still living in tent camps.
Part of the problem is the sheer enormity of the devastation in a country that couldn't meet its needs at the best of times. The other is the fact that of $4.58 billion pledged by 55 donors in March 2010 to be used for rebuilding the country in 2010 and 2011, only 38 per cent of that money had been disbursed as of June, the World Bank reported.
That they worked well together was surprising. Big Paul: nearly 300 pounds, brash and outgoing, head shaved into a mini-mohawk, more focused on emergency medical services. Little Paul: low-key and wiry, intense and camera shy, taught by experience to be leery of cops and journalists. He preferred keeping his head down and getting the work done, had a soft spot for kids, wanted to work with orphanages.
Still, it worked. They started the non-profit MMRC Global (Materials Management Relief Corps). An article in Men's Journal magazine describing them as "Extreme Humanitarians" brought fame and donations. Garden Fresh Gourmet CEO Jack Aronson adopted them as one of his main charities and gave thousands, putting an end to their money problems. Nanci Murdock of Montreal, a former business development analyst, volunteered hundreds of hours to improve their website and raise donations.
They were an ambulance service, driving like Haitians, which is to say, too fast and too close to other Haitians. Nurses and volunteers would call to find out where they could be of help, and stay at their compound.
Most importantly to Little Paul, they took on dozens of young Haitian volunteers till they settled on about 10 who were serious about working and learning. They found them places to live, put them in school. They became family.
They were doing something that felt like it mattered.
"We were amazingly effective," Little Paul said. "I was never a burden on anyone. Until December."
One month after Little Paul arrived in Haiti, 15-month-old Kevans Philistin was brought to the Haiti Community Hospital on Feb. 23, feverish and suffering from malnutrition and dehydration. He died overnight. Little Paul, who was volunteering at the hospital, brought the father to see his dead child. The father waited several minutes for Kevans to start breathing. A U.S. doctor re-confirmed the death, but the father was unconvinced. There was, LP said, something not right about the father.
In March, the father would bring charges against Little Paul, saying he had kidnapped his child. He would later claim LP turned his son into a zombie, to be used as a slave servant, as his voodoo priest suggested. He would also charge that LP killed the boy so his organs could be sold to a witch doctor. LP thought the potential for extortion might be at play.
Little Paul fled to the U.S., but returned in eight days, told by his Haitian lawyer the matter had been resolved. Ten months later, the father spotted him in a restaurant, and Little Paul was imprisoned. The radio stations broadcast a press conference by a Haitian police commissioner telling the populace: "We found the baby killer."
"That," said Murdock, "is when we knew we were in trouble."
It was a bad time. Prisoners set upon him right away. Little Paul fought back, and met someone he knew inside, a respected boxer, who helped. He was moved out of the general population and into a cell with four other inmates.
It came out that Little Paul had a record in the U.S. for assault and battery for striking an employee with an axe in 2007, and served 109 days when his bail was refused. (He received an 18-month suspended sentence and two years probation after pleading guilty to assault). Little Paul said the man was a registered sex offender who threatened his girlfriend, and he struck him in self-defence.
"I took it further than it should have gone," LP admits. "I should have been punished. But I'm not Hannibal Lecter."
Little Paul's friends stood by him. A Free Little Paul Facebook page gathered 1,000 members and helped raise $20,000 for his defence. He received hundreds of messages a day, printed out and delivered to him in jail. A local police officer, moved by the Pauls' work for his people, visited daily to make sure he was safe.
Friends, Haitians and non-Haitian, brought him food in prison, which he shared with his cellmates "and the schizo guy screaming himself to death out in the hallway." Friends smuggled in a cellphone and an iPod, hidden in the food.
"But no hacksaw," LP joked.
Big Paul and Murdock worked tirelessly to get LP out. It took more than $40,000 in "legal fees" to free him, much of it given by Aronson, the CEO of Garden Fresh Gourmet. They suspect most of the money was spent coercing authorities to let him out sooner. All charges were dropped, but there was a possibility they could be reinstated within three months, so LP went to the U.S. As soon as he could, he returned.
"It was two corrupt cops who convinced a judge to charge me with these bogus crimes," Little Paul said. "I can't blame the whole country for that."
It was too much for Big Paul, however. Burnt out and disheartened, he went to Ecuador to work with children deformed by cleaved palates. That mission dried up a few months ago for lack of funds. On his MMRC Global blog, Big Paul said he is returning to do photography work in the U.S., then find somewhere else in the world that needs help.
It's dinnertime at LP's two-bedroom house in Port-au-Prince on a sultry evening in mid-June. After nine-months of helping out via the Internet, Murdock is there to see Haiti first-hand. She's accompanying LP and nurses to orphanages, doing a lot of "holding babies and crying."
Laura Brown, a 33-year-old critical care nurse from Seattle, is one of three American nurses staying with LP that week. She's been to Haiti eight times since the earthquake, coming for anywhere from a week to two-and-a-half months at a time. Her husband Rodney is with her, on his third visit. "It's the only way I get to see my wife," he jokes. Brown often works with U.S. aid organization Medishare, but likes to volunteer with MMRC because they work outside of Port-au-Prince, and because "LP gets the most done with the least amount of money."
She and Rodney have taken on education costs for 14-year-old Ely, a bright, hardworking kid who asked Little Paul to put him in an orphanage because his mother can't care for him. ("You've seen what a lot of the orphanages here are like," Rodney said. "They're not nice places.") They found him better housing, and pay so he can go to school. It's not a lot, Rodney said. They've spent $1,500 on his education since October. There's also two more American nurses and one pharmacist, PJ Pitts. She's lived and worked in Haiti for a year.
Five of LP's Haitian workers – Junior, Nelson, Eddie, Ely and Billy, who used to live on Pie IX Blvd. in Montreal, also join us for dinner. (At the end of her two weeks in Haiti, Murdock decides to sponsor the education costs for Nelson, 21, and Eddie, 15.)
Wilson, 20, another part-time volunteer who visited LP in prison despite the risk, and was briefly incarcerated himself for his loyalty, is absent that night. He would die a month later, stepping backward to avoid a moto-taxi in Port-au-Prince and falling into an open manhole cover.
LP and the nurses swap war stories about cleaning "cholera" out of the truck (a euphemism for the feces of cholera patients), hauling corpses who have turned to soup, and emergency drives in the middle of the night.
It is slightly insane, but it's better, they say, than dealing with patients back home who complain about a lack of cable channels on the hospital TV, or have surgery because they're overweight from eating too much. When they leave after their week or two stint, they hand over their remaining money to LP. It's the volunteers who seem to be keeping MMRC afloat these days, as donations have shrunk.
Driving through the dark streets of Port-au-Prince at 11 p.m., I ask LP how he feels about BP leaving. He pauses for a few seconds, thinks about the answer, a rarity for LP, an enthusiastic storyteller.
He's okay with it, he tells me. They were going different ways, and LP always had a longer-term vision than Big Paul. Others tell me there was always friction, which got worse once BP left and there's a disagreement over who gets to keep the organization's name. BP ends up with MMRC Global, LP takes MMRC Haiti.
LP never mentions any of this.
At midnight, LP gets an emergency transfer call for a pregnant woman in distress. He picks her up and drives her to four hospitals in less than an hour before he can find one that will take her. She is fine. The hospitals never pay LP for these ambulance service trips. But they never turn him away when he brings in one of his orphans.
It's 34C in the sun and we're standing on the packed earth of the Orphelinat Bon Samaritan, a miserable place half an hour outside of Port-au-Prince. Two green army tents with 14 beds serve as home for 75 orphans. Only the girls get the tents – the boys sleep outdoors. Little Paul and his crew are planning to build a concrete shower so the kids can keep clean. They run to us as we arrive, clamouring for hugs, nothing else. One 4-year-old boy is in a dirty shirt with the words "Daddy's Little Hero." The nurses examine the kids, and start medical charts for them. Murdock goes out to buy 75 mangoes. U.S. religious backed aid groups provide the orphanage with food and water.
"Getting supplies isn't difficult," said Morgan Wienberg, a waif-thin 18-year-old from the Yukon who has been living there for almost eight months. "Making sure those supplies go to the children can be difficult."
A little while later, an adult worker at the orphanage will make off with most of the mangoes.
Little Paul tries to conscript local kids to help with the building to make them take ownership, but enthusiasm fizzles quickly, so LP's Haitian workers take over most of the shovelling. The sand truck he has booked doesn't show up.
I ask Paul again. Why? Why do this? He pauses.
Growing up poor in Tallahassee, Fla., LP lived in trailer parks and projects, slept in cars sometimes, running the heater to stay warm. His father died when he was 13, and his mother hooked up with "some loser-ass crack addict who abused her." When he was 19, his mother died of an aneurysm. His little sister was growing up through "the same garbage" he had, so he took over raising her.
If he had stayed in Tallahassee, he'd be like many of his friends, he says – in prison for life, or worse. His cousin was shot to death over a "penny-ante $6.35 robbery."
He went back recently. Nothing's changed.
"I made it through that. I was able to do it.
"It wasn't as bad as this," he says, gesturing to the nothingness around us. "But it was pretty bad. If I could do it, so can these kids.
"There's a purpose for me here."
People ask when he is going to come home, settle down, have kids.
"I've got about 1,000," he says, an easy smile breaking out. "I'm good with that. I'm straight with that."
On LP's left shoulder is a tattoo of the back side of a Haitian tap-tap bus, decorated with the symbol of Haiti called Neg Mawon, a runaway slave blowing a concha shell to rally his comrades to freedom. The licence plate reads PNH 12126, LP's prison ID number.
The tattoo on his right shoulder shows the front of the tap-tap. It's being driven by a zombie baby.
The baby looks happy.
To visit MMRC Haiti's website, go to mmrchaiti.org


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An installment in John T. Edge's Points South column, Local Fare.
Time at Helen's raises questions, small and large. Other than great barbecue, and my respect and affection for the woman who owns the restaurant, what calls me to Brownsville? And, more broadly, what drives middle-class Southerners to seek pleasure and solace in places often referred to as joints and shacks?


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While I started the week with some positive thoughts on the direction of library/info lit games (link), but with the stories coming out of ACRL about the troubles Cincinnati and GW are having; I am not surprised if your spirits are dampened about successfully using.
Librarians can use and create games that create educational experiences... at least with help.
There's not an easy answer. Some who I respect from the University of Iowa asked during my presention, "Is there something out there were we can jump in and create a game." I wish there was. As Cincinnati and GW are showing, gaming projects take time. Matthew Weise, designer of the educational game Revolution, said it took a group of 6-10 students at MIT over 3 semesters to build a game. Time is a major factor, but it shouldn't deter us. Yes, it's too bad the tech isn't there yet for an easy drop and play game. But the technology is there to Mod games and the resources are there as well... we work on campuses full of students who are doing modding and dabbling in game design on a regular basis. We can and should reach out to these communities to help create educational games. It's a win-win for both educators and students.
But I can't overlook the small successes. Incorporating video game strategies into our traditional instruction is beneficial and improves our teaching. While I'm starting to discuss and play around with developing and modding, I'm currently working on converting the content from a traditional power point slideshow into an open ended, branching path review.
Video game strategies work to engage our students in educational experiences both in the long term and the short term. As an educator, we can start big or small. But the reactions from those who are discouraged after starting big, suggest that small successes will be more successful in building the political capital required for the bigger gaming projects in our libraries.
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Saint Romanos the Melodist
- Glykophonos
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- Melodist
- Psaitis Dhikeosinis
- Righteous Chanter
- Romanus the Melode
- Sweet Singer
Convert to Orthodox Christianity from Judaism. Deacon, serving at the Church of the Resurection in Beirut, Lebanon, and at Constantinople. Wrote hundreds of hymns in simple language, appealing to the hearts of the faithful. Of the thousand or so that he wrote, only 60 to 80 survive – but they are still sung today.
- c.556 of natural causes
- "Saint Romanos the Melodist". CatholicSaints.Info. 5 January 2020. Web. 5 December 2020. <>


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Daily Study
"Study to show thyself approved" it is written. How best to do this?
Bible study is an opportunity daily to draw closer to our God and to one another. Many would rather not study thus leaving their relationship with God as whatever they are able otherwise to make of it. Certainly, those of us that do study daily, we often approach study rather in a manner that becomes just head knowledge minus the connections to life and a loving godliness. There is always the danger of this very thing if not combined with much prayer and devotion. Knowledge that cannot be applied, knowledge that is missing that should have been applied, knowledge that has not been reproved and corrected, these are things that are of no benefit to oneself nor with others; yet so often all we have left ourselves to apply.
Note: More and more of late, I have taken to the study of matters as presented by a thorough devotional reading of the scriptures; this with the intent of strengthening all areas of knowledge rather than just areas of particular interest. My best suggestion is that we begin our quest with any one of the reading devotions currently hosted here MyDevotions or elsewhere. The pBiblx2 Field Wise System lends itself well to study within each daily passage and provides facilities for journaling and note taking as well.
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It makes sense that Chliean helmer Alicia Scherson would be attracted to the work of the late novelist Roberto Bolano, a former compatriot now considered one of Latin America's finest writers. Indeed, it makes more sense than her surreal, inventively lensed third feature, "The Future," a moody head-scratcher adapted from Bolano's not-yet-translated-into-English novel "Una novelita lumpen." Narrated from the future, the dreamlike drama focuses on a pair of teenage orphans in Rome mixed up in an odd plot hatched by two genially thuggish bodybuilders. Fest travel and foreign arthouse play can be expected.
After siblings Bianca (Manuela Martelli) and Tomas (Luigi Ciardo) lose their parents in a car accident, they stay on in the family apartment, trying to make do financially while waiting for some vaguely promised governmental assistance. In the meantime, Bianca takes a menial job at a hair salon (the fact that no one will ever let her cut their hair becomes a running joke), while Tomas does some gofer work at a local gym.
Things become more complicated when two well-muscled drifters (Nicolas Vaporidis, Alessandro Giallocosta) from Tomas' gym move in and insinuate themselves into the siblings' lives. Although they look rather menacing, the duo (identified only in the credits as "the Libyan" and "the Bolognese," respectively) turn out to be neatniks, who in short order clean and organize the apartment, as well as wholesome chefs who replace Bianca and Tomas's erstwhile pizza boxes with home-cooked meals. Both men also have sex with Bianca; meanwhile, Tomas watches porn movies in preparation for eventually losing his virginity.
Eventually, the two bodybuilders propose a plan they claim would secure the futures of their foursome, but which would require the most effort from Bianca. She is to provide sexual favors to the isolated Mr. Bruno (Rutger Hauer), a blind former Mr. Universe and B-movie star, and, by gaining his trust, discover where he keeps his rumored fortune.
The film takes on a "Beauty and the Beast" mood (Cocteau rather than Disney) when Bianca enters Mr. Bruno's crumbling manse. A former movie Maciste (Hercules) who starred in titles such as "Maciste in Hell" and "Maciste vs. the Living Dead," the disheveled but surefooted Mr. Bruno is now as much of a ruin as Rome's most famous sights. But by spending long nights in Mr. Bruno's embrace, Bianca gains the confidence to break free of the torpor that has engulfed her since the accident.
Throughout, Scherson cleverly pays tribute to various film genres of the past. Bianca's opening narration, "I'm now a mother and also a married woman, but not that long ago I was a criminal," sets a film-noir tone, as do the opening orchestral score and title graphics. A little later, when Bianca sees an unexplained light, the film recalls 1950s sci-fi. And after meeting Mr. Bruno, she tours the epic sets of film studio Cinecitta and rents old Maciste films.
Like Bolano's postmodern narrative, Scherson's screenplay is not concerned with realism. The story she relates is bizarre and twisted, yet contemporary. Even though mood trumps character psychology, the entire cast provides mesmerizing, evocative performances.
The tech package features typically strong contributions from her key collaborators from "Play" and "Tourist," including the eerie lensing of Ricardo de Angelis and the air of unease stemming from Soledad Salfate and Ana Alvarez Ossorio's cutting. The enthralling score by Caroline Chaspoul and Eduardo Henriquez sweeps viewers into the even the most improbable action.


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Nadal beats Gojowczyk to reach Qatar Open final
DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Rafael Nadal reached the final of the Qatar Open on Friday by coming from behind to beat German qualifier Peter Gojowczyk 4-6, 6-2, 6-3.
Nadal is looking for his first title in Doha and will face Gael Monfils of France, who only needed 55 minutes to dispatch Florian Mayer of Germany 6-3, 6-2 in the other semifinal.
"I'm in the final," Nadal said. "That (will) probably give me a little bit more confidence, a little bit more rhythm."
Nadal lost the first three games against the 162nd-ranked Gojowczyk but came back to level the first set before losing serve again in the 10th game.
The top-ranked Spaniard then raced to a 4-1 lead in the second and broke Gojowczyk's in the third game of the decider after two forehand errors by the German.
"We'll see if I am able to make (changes) tomorrow to play a little bit better," Nadal said.
The 31st-ranked Monfils hasn't dropped a set all week but has only won twice against Nadal in 10 previous meetings. However, both those victories came here in Doha — in the 2009 quarterfinals and the 2012 semifinals.
This will be Monfils' third appearance in the Doha final — he lost to Roger Federer in 2006 and to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in 2012.
"It means a lot to be in the final again," Monfils said. "I have one match to go. I'll be ready for it."
Gojowczyk had only won one career tour-level match — at the 2013 U.S. Open — before this tournament, but still managed to bother Nadal in the first set. Nadal's forehand improved in the second, however, and his opponent couldn't keep up after that.
"I tried to change a little bit and tried to be positive for the rest of the match, because the tennis was not there today," Nadal said of his mindset after losing the first set. "Even if he was playing great, when the opponent is playing too comfortable (it) is because I'm doing something bad. ... Without playing my best, I was able to find solution."


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7 Ways to Use Herbs to Freshen Your House
Our sense of smell is one of the strongest ways we connect to our memories. Pine needles conjure up the holiday season, this-or-that soap takes you right back to Grandma's house, wet earth suggests spring, and pumpkin spice means autumn; it goes on and on.
Surrounding ourselves with pleasing scents is an easy, effective way to produce feelings of comfort and calm. Commercial air fresheners exist, but they're chock full of chemicals – some potentially carcinogenic, some certainly toxic, and many that are known allergens. Using fresh or dried herbs instead is a natural way to fill your space with the scents that you love the most. Here are 7 simple ways to get your groovy fragrance on:
Spices such as cinnamon sticks, whole cloves, cardamom pods, fennel seeds, etc., can be boiled in a pot on the stove. They'll fill every nook and cranny with a warm, spicy, autumn-y aroma. To shake it up a bit, throw some orange slices in there.
During the winter, you can use pine cones, dried rosemary branches, and cinnamon sticks as kindling in your fire place. These awesome little fire starters will leave the whole place smelling quintessentially seasonal.
Aromatic plants like jasmine, honeysuckle, and tuberoses can all be grown indoors. Herbs such as rosemary and mint are also easy houseplants, though they're less fragrant then their flowery alternatives.
A beautiful bowl of potpourri is perhaps the most straightforward solution to scenting up your abode. The mix can be made from any number of flowers (think roses, lavender, and chamomile) or herbs (think lemon balm, peppermint, cinnamon sticks, and rosemary). You can also add fruits, such as lemon or orange peel. Make sure all the ingredients are completely dried before mixing and setting out.
A sachet is just a small bag filled with dried, freshly crumbled herbs. Lavender, sage, or spearmint are all lovely choices. Sachets can be thrown in the dryer to freshen up your laundry, or they're great for drawers, chests, and other small spaces that hold clothing or linens. Many herbs, like lavender, have natural pest control properties.
Carpet Dust
To freshen up your carpet or rug, combine 6 parts baking soda, 3 parts dried ground lavender, and 1 part corn starch, then set aside the mixture for a few days. Once it's fully steeped, sprinkle the concoction over your carpet, allow it to penetrate for at least an hour, and then vacuum it up.
Sleeping Dust
Mix 1 part dried, freshly ground herbs (use a blender or mortar and pestle) with 1 part baking soda. Sprinkle a bit of the powder mixture directly onto your mattress each time you change the sheets. You'll notice a lovely, subtle smell that permeates your resting place.


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KettwigeFrau and Emma's Expat Adventures) it got me a bit behind schedule in launching into the Christmas season. The second weekend of Advent was my youngest son's 10th birthday, so not much Christmas prep happened then, either. It was the third weekend before I had some cookies baked, the house decorated, and the tree selected (once again with our lovely friends Rebecca and Sam and their three darling children). It was still several more days before we actually had the tree erected and decorated. That happened just in time for our annual Feuerzangenbowle party, the last weekend of Advent.
The in-laws visited for the holiday we sort of merged German and American celebrations by opening family gifts after our Christmas Eve raclette and then the Santa gifts on Christmas morning.
Flic Flac Circus in Dortmund. It was a fun afternoon outing, with a great performance, despite the scary fall of one of the performers. I do hope he's OK. So now three of the kids have returned to Hamburg with the in-laws and we'll catch up with them there on New Year's Day.
I regret not getting out any Christmas cards this season - for the first time in over 20 years. I bought the cards and the stamps and even drafted a Christmas letter for distant friends and relatives, but the evening I sat down by the fire with a glass of wine, prepared to write them, I saw the news of Sandy Hook and dissolved into tears over the senseless violent deaths of so many people not far from my home town, and was too grief-struck to send cheerful Christmas greetings. Instead I was glued to the news for several days, as were millions of others, I'm sure. I suppose I should try to send some out this week, but I fear that just isn't going to happen. I do promise to be back on the bandwagon next year (the first of my New Year's resolutions!) and will send out holiday greetings at the very least to those who kept me on their Christmas list!
I hope you've all had a wonderful Christmas holiday and wish you a New Year with good health and deep happiness!
Below is a little recipe I'll share in lieu of sending Christmas cards :)
Smoked Salmon Christmas Canapés
This year I experimented with some new party recipes and came up with cute Christmas Canapés that were fairly popular. The recipe is super simple:
- Start with prepared miniature tart shells (I found a pack of 24 at the grocery store)
- Add to each a spoonful of softened cream cheese.
I started with about 1 cup of Philadelphia-brand sweet chili cream cheese into which I blended a tablespoon of prepared horseradish. (Chose your favorite flavor of cream cheese and zest it up any way you like - the onion & chive cheese would be good, too).
- Fold a small sliver of smoked wild salmon over the layer of cheese.
- Add a dollop of guacamole on one half of each tart.
I made a small batch of homemade guacamole - using half a large avocado, some lime juice (lemon would be fine too), fresh pressed garlic, and some salt & pepper.
- Press a small slice cherry tomato next to the guac, round side up. I cut the tomatoes into sixths.
- Cut slivers of chive and insert then into the guac for added dimension and a darker pop of green color.
The result are lovely bite-sized green & red morsels that take about 30 minutes to prepare and can be chilled until you are ready to serve. I lined a platter with a bright red napkin for a pretty display.
If you have suggestions for other twists to this basic recipe, please share!


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A concept in progress by Jeremy Walton 2008.
GlobalMade Local is a proposal presented at the SE 2008 Exhibition in Copenhagen. The ideology while generally considered as too ideological in 2008 is still in progress, slowly, Maybe one day, i'll pick it up again.
If you like the idea of it, or would like to be a part of it, get in touch for further information.
What is GlobalMadeLocal?
GlobalMadeLocal is a proposal for a global furniture collection that is made locally. It is a community of cabinetmakers (and designers) that share design knowledge to form a global collection of furniture pieces. The GlobalMadeLocal Collection stems from the collaboration of designers and cabinetmakers from all over the world. The final production of each piece is made locally to the customer who is commissioning the piece, irrespective of where the piece was originally developed.
The GlobalMadeLocal idea came about through the 2008 theme for SE (The Danish Cabinetmakers Autumn exhibition). The theme for the 2008 exhibition was to partner designers together with producers from the outset. This was done by drawing names out of a hat. The exhibition theme was named 50/50, exactly how the members of SE interpreted the theme was up to each pair.
PP Møbler and Jeremy Walton were paired together. The result is not a single piece of furniture, but a common ground, a combination of both parties, 50/50. The result GlobalMadeLocal.
I worked together with PP Møbler the previous year and have for a long time greatly admired their world renowned 'collection of unavailable furniture' built up over half a century. Having already worked on a forward thinking and responsible armchair, (see Danse floor for the homed) that has since been added to PP's 'Collection of unavailable furniture', this year I didn't feel the need to repeat the accomplishment.
PP Møbler has always given time to exploration. In my view these explorations are not only about quality of materials and craftsmanship, but also the ideas of the different artists in relation to the period of time. So it was no surprise to find PP Møbler being positive about looking at the whole process, the way both the cabinetmakers and designers work together, before thinking about an end result. Today there is more creativity and ideas than there is need or opportunity to tool up and put single ideas in to large scale production.
How can so many ideas become 'ACollection of Available Furniture' in the future?
The basis of GlobalMadeLocal is to design furniture that does not need to be selective and reliant on tooling investment. Furniture that can be picked up and made one for one. In that sense why does it need to be restricted to being made in the same place and reserved and protected by one producer?
It is hoped that the concept can work, expand and develop. Yet for the time being GlobalMadeLocal is just a proposal, a response to the theme for the purpose of the SE exhibition taking place in November 2008. It is an example of a different set of parameters and some examples of inspiration created through a response to the new parameters.
If it goes further beyond the exhibition, that will be dependant upon further funding, interest and the commitment of other designers and cabinetmakers to adopt the parameters and the willingness to share.
Development of design Knowledge.
Members, both designers and cabinetmakers work together to develop the design knowledge. There after, the cabinetmakers share the production knowledge so that each cabinetmaker can market a large global collection of furniture and supply it direct to their locality.
It connects people and increases awareness of local cabinetmakers. It offers an alternative way of thinking and a challenge for designers and cabinetmakers. It frees designers of the selective production process, creating an open creative opportunity and more choice for customers. The customers choose what is made. It also avoids the transportation of furniture around the globe and more importantly helps prevent cabinetmakers from getting tennis elbow.
Registration of authenticity.
Each commissioned piece is registered and given an authenticity number that is attached to the piece. The individual authenticity number can be used to reference the information of the individual piece, who originally developed it, where it was commissioned and who commissioned it and when.
The registration of each piece of furniture includes a payment contribution that tracts back to the original developers of the piece. There is a fee structure of G = Grand, L = Large and M = Medium. Both Medium and Large are fixed prices while Grand is variable. The registration fee is additional to the price of commissioning the piece and is paid by the cabinetmaker.
The first tags 01 to 50 use seqeuntial numbers printing on ear tags, commonly used for the registration of cattle. The type of tags used might change periodically but the number sequence will continue.
To become a member one must develop at least one piece for inclusion in the collection. All members can make any of the pieces in the collection. The collection is an open book and is not subject to any limitations or selection panel. Members decide their own criteria for each piece. GlobalmadeLocal aims to encourage and celebrate diversity rather than similarity.
While the creative person may be professional or amateur, the cabinetmaker needs to show suitable qualification as a cabinetmaker to be approved as a member. The creative person just needs to convince a cabinetmaker to work with them. Which is easier said than done.
Active Cabinetmakers.
Cabinetmakers are responsible for how active they are in promoting the collection in their own locality (posters in libraries and articles in local newspapers, etc). Downloadable pdf promotion packs and support is all part of the on going discussion within the GlobalMadeLocal community. Some cabinetmakers such as larger factories may not wish to be so active in taking commissions, but still be interested in developing pieces for the collection. All sale and service takes place between the person commissioning the piece and their local cabinetmaker.
The Collection.
The expanding collection stands as an inspiring assemblage of the freedom of creativity, skill and craftsmanship. All of which can be commissioned should a piece demand it.
The Gallery.
Showcasing and presenting furniture based on themes or projects. Highlighting exhibitions and events in relation to the GlobalMadeLocal way of sharing.
The Community.
Information mainly aimed at members for debate and discussion about the workings of GlobalMadeLocal, cabinetmaking and wood etc.
Representative of Designers. Jeremy Walton
In the summer of 2008 through fate and a chance meeting with PP Møbler, JW began his march across the globe, spreading his teachings and recruiting members as he commenced his journey around the globe in 80 chairs.
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ANAHEIM -- A deep, talented pitching staff almost always masks an underperforming offense, and in Oakland's case, that's been especially true during the season's first three and a half months. The A's sit 13th in the American League in team batting average, yet they're two games up in the West.
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The offensive famine continued Saturday night in Anaheim with a punchless 2-0 loss to the Angels, as Dan Straily's superb effort on the mound went to waste.
"When you're not scoring runs, everybody in the lineup puts a little bit more pressure on themselves to do more than they're capable of doing, or to do more than they're going to be able to do," A's first baseman Brandon Moss said. "I see us all doing that right now because we want to win."
Halos left-hander C.J. Wilson dazzled, holding the A's to three hits in 8 1/3 innings. Following a seeing-eye single by Nate Freiman to lead off the second, Wilson retired 18 consecutive batters, and the A's were held without a run for just the seventh time this season.
Straily, meanwhile, was very sharp for the A's, allowing just two runs in seven efficient innings. He surrendered an early run, but stifled the Angels until the seventh, when Alberto Callaspo homered to double the Halos' lead.
"Tonight's ballgame was a matter of needing to throw up two more zeros than I did," said Straily, who had his personal five-game winning streak snapped. "[Wilson] was on tonight, kept our hitters off balance, but just two more zeros and we're still playing ball."
That's a bit of a harsh self-evaluation, given how well Straily pitched. The right-hander made only one glaring mistake -- the middle-in, belt-high changeup that Callaspo crushed into the right-field seats on the first pitch of the bottom of the seventh.
The way the A's bats have performed recently (they've mustered just 13 runs in the last eight games), that two-run lead seemed nearly insurmountable -- though Oakland did put two runners on base in both the eighth and ninth innings.
"We're grinding, we're just not getting any results, and right now just not hitting enough balls hard enough to even consider -- with what we're doing right now -- getting into a rally," manager Bob Melvin said. "But that happens over the course of the season, too."
The Angels jumped out in front in the bottom of the first inning, when Mike Trout scored on Josh Hamilton's sacrifice fly. Trout reached base when he was hit by a 1-2 fastball from Straily and advanced to third on an Albert Pujols single.
Shortstop Jed Lowrie laced a double to right in the top of the frame, but the A's wouldn't put another runner in scoring position until the eighth against Wilson.
"Tonight I just had more pitches in the mix," Wilson said. "I had the changeup, the split, cutter, all in the strike zone. This whole year I've been relying mostly on fastball slider and occasional curveball, but I had the most strikes tonight."
The A's two left-handed hitters looked especially foolish against Wilson. Hitting seventh and eighth in the lineup, respectively, Josh Reddick and Moss went a combined 0-for-5 with five K's. Wilson used his slider -- which was devastating on Saturday night -- as the put-away pitch in all five at-bats.
"He was throwing strikes," Moss said. "He sometimes gets in trouble -- He's got good stuff, but he'll nibble a little bit. ... Then he has to come at guys. Obviously if you have to come at guys too often, you're going to give up hits and runs. But tonight he threw strikes."
So, too, did Straily, who has been back and forth between the big league club and Triple-A all season. The right-hander praised the A's front office for always communicating their plans to him, so he's constantly ready when called upon.
On Saturday, Straily pounded the zone all night, throwing 71 of his 97 pitches for strikes. In his three starts this month, he has allowed just three runs on 11 hits in 20 1/3 innings.
"My ability to command my pitches has just gotten better and better," Straily said. "It's just one of those things I feel like just comes with time. I've been able to keep the ball down a lot more than in the past."
On Sunday afternoon, the A's will look to avoid being swept at Angel Stadium for the first time since September 2010.
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